Recent Additions

Oeuvres de Maistre François Villon
1969, full leather, with illustrations by Émile Bernard. Printed with ink mixed with gold powder.
Francois Villon, illustrated by Émile Bernard
Jean de Bonnot, Paris, 1969
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus | Illustrated

Voyages en Amérique, en Italie, au Mont Blanc
c1920, Chateaubriand travels in America and the Ruins of Ohio etc, with the bookplate of K T Butler of Girton College
François-René de Chateaubriand
Garnier Freres, Paris, 1920
£40.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Bookplate

Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem
c1920, Chateaubriand travels from Paris to Jerusalem, with the bookplate of K T Butler of Girton College
François-René de Chateaubriand
Garnier Freres, Paris, 1920
£40.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Bookplate

East of Suez: Ceylon, India, China and Japan (1907, first edition)
With the bookplate of Herbert G Squiers, and rebound in half-leather by Henry Sotheran of London
Frederic Courtland Penfield
The Century Co, London, 1907
£50.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate

Present-Day Egypt (1903)
With the bookplate of Herbert G Squiers, and rebound in half-leather by Henry Sotheran of London
Frederic Courtland Penfield, illustrated by Paul Philippoteaux and R Talbot Kelly
The Century Co, New York, 1903
£50.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Bookplate

The Haunted Realm (1986, first edition)
Simon Marsden's photographs and visits to haunted houses and supernatural sites
Simon Marsden, introduction by Colin Wilson
Webb & Bower, London, 1986
£15.00
Paranormal, Supernatural & Occult | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper

La Vie de Jésus-Christ (Volumes 1 & 3)
1741, De Montereul's harmonization of the Gospels
Bernardin de Montereul, revised by Jean Brignon
Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, Paris, 1741
£40.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound

Histoire des Révolutions arrivées dans le Gouvernement de la République Romaine
1727, volume one of L’Abbé de Vertot's history of the political shifts of Rome
L’Abbé de Vertot
Chez Barois, Paris, 1727
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound

Le Tribunal Révolutionnaire (1793–1795)
Lenotre's history of the French Revolution court, and this copy with D Y Cameron's engraved bookplate for W D S Catalani
G Lenotre, pseudonym of Théodore Gosselin
Librairie Académique Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1912
£35.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate

La Hollande Pittoresque: Voyage aux Villes Mortes du Zuiderzée
1875, second edition, Henry Havard's travels to the Dead Cities of the Zuiderzee
Henry Havard, illustrations by the author and van Heemskerck van Beest
E Plon & Cie, Paris, 1875
£60.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated

Irish Folk-Tales Collected by Jeremiah Curtin
1944, edited with notes by folklorist Séamus Ó Duilearga
Seamus O Duilearga, editor
Folklore of Ireland Society / Talbot Press, Dublin and Cork, 1944
£18.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover

The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonne
Volume Two: The American Years 1941–1973
Alan G Wilkinson
Thames and Hudson, London, 2000
£50.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated

Epitome Rerum Germanicarum ab Anno MDCXVII ad XLIII Gestarum
1644, vellum, A Summary of German Affairs, regarding the events from the year 1617 to 1643, including the Thirty Years War
Leonhard Pappus
Not stated, [Lugdunum Batavorum, Leiden], 1644
£200.00
History | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings

Destroyer from America (Signed first edition)
1942, signed by John Fernald, and based on his wartime escort duties
John Fernald, illustrated by John Worsley
Jonathan Cape, London, 1942
£25.00
Military & War | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated

Commissioning Contemporary Art (Signed first edition)
Signed by Louisa Buck. A Handbook for Curators, Collectors and Artists
Louisa Buck, and Daniel McClean
Thames and Hudson, London, 2012
£35.00
Art | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions

Ian McCulloch, Camden Arts Centre exhibition
A slim brochure which opens to be the exhibition poster
Ian McCulloch
Camden Arts Centre, London, 1986
£12.00
Art | Soft Cover

The Curse of Khatra (1947, first edition)
One of T C H Jacobs' Superintendent John Bellamy crime classics
T C H Jacobs
Stanley Paul, London, 1947
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions

Two Invitations from Squadron Leader Damodar Madhao Oka
1951, from the Indian Air Force pilot to a British RPAF officer
Damodar Madhao Oka
Indian Air Force, Karachi, 1951
£15.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover

Treatises on Architecture and Building (1832)
William Hosking's text from the Encyclopaedia Britannia, with 27 plates
William Hosking
Adam Black, Edinburgh, 1832
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Illustrated

Expert Cigarette Magic (1932, first edition)
With Demon's Head bookseller ticket from L Davenport
D Deveen, with a foreword by Oswald Williams
Edward Bagshawe, London, 1932
£15.00
Magic | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated

Alexander Pushkin, Selected Works: Poetry and Prose
2 volumes, from Moscow's Progress Publishers (1979)
Alexander Pushkin, and various translators
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1979
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper

The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume LXIV, January to June 1794
with 18 plates, all present
Sylvanus Urban, pseud. Edward Cave
John Nichols, London, 1794
£80.00
Journals, Periodicals and Reviews | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated

Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism (1752)
Bolingbroke's political essays, including "on the Idea of a Patriot King: and on the State of Parties at the Accession of King George the First"
Henry St John, Lord Viscount Bolingb
A Millar, London, 1752
£60.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Hard Cover | Leather Bound

Original secret telegram Royal Pakistan Air Force 1951
"Ops Imm" from the RPAF Staging Post in Mauripur
Royal Pakistan Air Force
Royal Pakistan Air Force, Mauripur, 1951
£25.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Handwritten

Royal Auxiliary Air Force Officers' Coronation Ball 1953
Original invitation and menu from The Savoy, signed by aircraft designer Sir Roy Hardy Dobson
Royal Auxiliary Air Force
Royal Auxiliary Air Force, London, 1953
£30.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies

