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Signed First Edition. A book undertaken at the request of the Royal Canadian Air Force with the intention of providing airmen, military as well as civilian, with the most accurate and up to date photographic reference for flying over the Canadian Arctic. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Very good copy in original blue, gilt-blocked cloth. Very minor shelf wear… Read more…

A major historical work written by Admiral Sir H W Richmond with the signature of a twentieth century member of the SuffRen family and lovingly annotated by the same in reference to the French Admiral’s exploits. The book provides a study of the policy governing the naval forces in India and the operations conducted in the wars between 1763 and 178… Read more…

A very uncommon First Edition containing L.S. Lowry’s only bookform illustrations aside from a few dust wrapper designs. In very good condition. 8vo. Russet cloth covered boards lettered in gold to the spine. Very slight bump to spine tip. Endpapers clean and unmarked. Illustrated with a frontispiece and containing eleven b/w drawings by L.S.Lowry.… Read more…

Catalogue number eight produced in June 1974 by RA Gilbert, 26 Maudlin St, Bristol, England. Contains a list of 32 books on the occult printed before 1850 and 201 printed after 1850 including many printed in America. Subjects include Magic, Witchcraft, Astrology, Folklore, Herbals, Mythology, Spiritualism, Mysticism, Egyptology, Oriental Religions… Read more…

First Edition. Bright blue paper covered boards in excellent condition, titled in dark blue to spine panel. Original dust jacket in fair condition, nicked to edges, shelf worn to spine panel tip and tail, browned to folds and edges, a little spotted. Possibly an ex-library copy with a pocket on the rear endpaper. Front pastedown stamped March 1960… Read more…

First Edition. Described as ‘a major literary event’ on its publication and signed by F.R. Scott, author, teacher, editor, professor of law and political activist. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Blue cloth boards lettered in silver gilt to spine in excellent condition. A very small nick visible to spine tail. Original dust jacket in good condition showing sl… Read more…

British novelist Charles Kingsley’s annotated copy of Fisher’s essays about the political consequences for slavery of the admission to the Union of Kansas and Nebraska as potentially free - that is non-slaveholding - states. Broadly in favour of abolition but attached to the Southern cause by ties of family and birth - Kingsley’s grandparents were… Read more…

One of the overlooked gems of Europe pictured in an artist’s tour journal of his exploration of Belgium and Holland in 1850. Robert Taylor Pritchett (1828-1907) would later become a favourite artist of Queen Victoria and illustrate Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle but in these images we accompany the young traveller from Dover (seen looking up from th… Read more…

An appealing contemporary vellum binding by Edwards of Halifax, executed for a client in the 1770s who bore the initials ‘MA’ - will she ever be found? Contemporary vellum, covers with a gilt metope and pentaglyph roll border on a blue wash background enclosing a gilt vine-leaf border, upper cover drawing beneath the vellum of a young woman in clas… Read more…

A gift given in the midst of Bletchley Park’s war-winning code-breaking work to a young woman working on the site, inscribed anonymously ‘from all at Bletchley Feb. 1942’. Given the date of February 1942 this seems likely to be either a birthday present or, perhaps, taking into account the phrase ‘all at Bletchley’, possibly a leaving gift for some… Read more…

Avowedly private journal of an English aristocrat, recent Cambridge graduate, Mayfair-resident, avid ball and theatre-goer and, paradoxically, future husband of the socialist and suffragist Ruth St Maur from whose union sprang the 8th and 9th Dukes of Portland. Known by his third given name, Frederick - William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck (… Read more…

‘The Daredevil Aeronaut’, Vincent Lunardi’s account of his first balloon flights made in Scotland’s capital, Edinburgh in a collection of pamphlets which was owned by a leading Newcastle attorney and Clerk of the Peace, Thomas Davidson, who seems likely to have acquired this book in connection with Lunardi’s disastrous subsequent balloon ascent out… Read more…

A document of the Irish diaspora: a physics manuscript, with strong Newtonian content, written by an Irishman obliged to attend university - the Irish College - in France in the 1770s. Bound in dyed Irish green vellum with the remnants of an inscription in black ink to the upper cover and an old spine label. Splitting along outer hinges does not af… Read more…

Unknown except for a single copy held by the De Morgan Foundation, this is a full length memoir written by the artist and writer Emilie Russell Barrington in which she recalls her decades-long friendship with the preeminent Arts and Crafts designer, potter and friend of William Morris, William de Morgan. In this memoir which she wrote in the final… Read more…

A volume of love poetry written by a young Liberal politician who had fallen head over heels with the glamorous, newly single opera singer, renowned for her performances in Gilbert and Sullivan operas. A note laid into the volume reveals that it featured on BBC Antiques Road Show in February 2007. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Beautiful, bespoke vellum bin… Read more…

Visually fascinating photographic diary written by an officer with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps who - against all rules - took a camera to the front which allowed him to record the Battle of El Alamein (1942) as well as the chaotic British evacuation from St Nazaire (1940) from where he offers an eye witness account of the sinking of HMS Lancastri… Read more…

Scarce cheap edition of Rochester’s poems with 9 crudely executed plates. Bound in contemporary sheepskin with wear to the head and tail of the spine; two volumes in one; two frontispieces and 7 further plates. Bottom 4cm of the first title page replaced with an old paper graft, losing the imprint which fortunately survives on the second title page… Read more…

Inscribed first edition of Well’s first non-scientific book which relates twelve topical conversations with an imaginary uncle. The subjects covered by the authorial stand-in called George and his uncle include fashion, the resemblance of ideals to interior decoration, the art of being photographed, the agony of having to listen to a near neighbour… Read more…

Mid-eighteenth century bound collection of 'Graveyard' poems including elegies and meditations such as the earliest publication by John Scott of Amwell (the first notable Quaker poet) and works by Thomas Gray, Edward Young, John Delap and Reginald Heber. Small quarto bound in eighteenth century speckled calf, the boards decorated with a border of c… Read more…

Friendship album compiled by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens' grandmother in the 1820s, mostly collected in Germany or featuring German ex-patriates in London. Handsome Parisian oblong quarto bound in straight grain red morocco wth gilt decorative border to boards and five gilt compartments to rounded spine. Rubbed to edges and extremities; slight… Read more…

A dozen 18th century imprints relating to Peerage Cases heard before the House of Lords concerning succession of the Scottish Earls of Sutherland and the Irish Earl of Anglesey. Items 1-8 relate to the counter claims of Robert Gordon, a descendant of the 1st Earl of Sutherland and Elizabeth Sutherland Leveson-Gower who won the case to become 19th C… Read more…

‘An undistinguished publication... but attractively printed’ and attractively bound, as it happens. This set was owned for 250 years by the Little family of Newbold Pacey Hall just a few miles from Shakespeare’s birthplace at Stratford upon Avon. Six volumes bound in half calf with vellum tips, two morocco spine labels to each volume which give the… Read more…

Order of Battle from 1792 of the Prince of Conde’s emigre army which was dedicated to over-throwing the French revolutionary government and restoring Louis XVI and the Bourbon monarchy. A single sheet of water-marked chain-lined paper (42x33 cm) bearing a diagrammatic hand-drawn, pen and ink outline of the disposition of the forces of the Prince of… Read more…

The author’s heavily annotated personal copy with corrections and emendations by the Manchester-based artist throughout. Bound in pictorial publisher’s cloth, a little rubbed to the extremities. Paton’s inscription appears on the half title ‘My Studio Copy Hugh Paton Oct/ 10’. The book is a lavish production which contains an original etched fronti… Read more…

R A Millikan announces his oil-drop experiment which defined the elementary electrical charge on an electron. Single journal article from Volume 19, No. 110 of the Philosophical Magazine (February 1910) which subsequently gained him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923. Bound together as Volume LXVII - Sixth Series, Volume 19 - for the period Januar… Read more…