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My Recollections

Princess Catherine Radziwill
1904
pp 346 The recollections of Princess Catherine Radziwill (1858-1941), a Polish aristocrat and noteable author of two dozen books on European royalty and the Russian court. Very good in fresh grey cloth with gilt titles, top edge gilt, edges dusty and some spotting to the preliminaries. The book was written in London and is an interesting memoir of… Read more…
#6887

£60.00

Official Report of the Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention, Chicago 1944

George F Willison, J Berger [editors]
1944
pp399 Mrs Henry Goddard Leach's copy of the Official Report of the Democratic National Convention, her name embossed in gilt to front cover. Fine in blue cloth with gilt titles, the book appears to be in unread condition. This book comes from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt collection of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr, 1910 - 2001, the son of Ellen Walte… Read more…
#6897

£70.00

Shakspere's England: or Sketches of our Social History in the Reign of Elizabeth [Eton leaving gift]

G W Thornbury
1856
pp 416 and pp 424. Two volumes of social history in an attractive binding of polished calf, pretty gilt spine decoration within raised bands, marbled edges and end papers. Volume I is inscribed "Mr Charles Fitzwilliam from Cecil James Littleton on his leaving Eton Xmas 1864". Very good, the leather is clean but worn to edges, corners and in small p… Read more…
#6904

£95.00

On Forsyte 'Change (Alexander Korda's copy)

John Galsworthy
1930
pp 285 A volume of apocryphal Forsyte tales which "come between the Saga and the Comedy, for without the Saga they would not be understood, and they are over before the Comedy begins". This volume belonged to British film producer Alexander Korda, whose bookplate appears to front pastedown. Very good in purple cloth, spine sunned, covers very light… Read more…
#6908

£60.00

Speak to the Earth: Wanderings and Reflections among Elephants and Mountains

Vivienne de Watteville, Edith Wharton
1935
pp335. Memoirs of British naturalist and travel writer Vivienne de Watteville who was a friend of Edith Wharton who provided the preface. The book is in two parts, the first 'Among the Elephants' recounts her solitary camp in the Maasai Game Reserve on the border of Tanganyika in 1928-29. Part II 'The Mountain' is a record of her two month stay at… Read more…
#6918

£100.00

Sterndale Bennett and Sheffield, comprising Part I an account of The Bennett Family (Derbyshire, Cambridge and Sheffield), and Part II Sir William Sterndale Bennett and Associations with his Native City

W T Freemantle
1919
[x]pp170 A well illustrated local history study published to celebrate the centenary of English composer, conductor and Cambridge Professor of Music Sir William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875). Very good in printed card wrappers, spotted and tanned to the creased spine, the binding is firm, lightly spotted throughout. This was a Sterndale Bennett fam… Read more…
#6919

£55.00

City of Bradford Technical College Certificate of Apprenticeship, Engineering Pattern Shop

Bradford Technical College
1950
pp 4, 5 photographic plates. A Certificate of Apprenticeship issued by Bradford Technical College, which is attractively produced with the college coats of arms embossed to the front covers, marbled end papers and edges, and includes five photographic plates mounted on card showing the college engineering workshop, pattern shop, junior drawing offi… Read more…
#6923

£75.00

Past Events: An Everyday Register of Events of Local and General Public Interest which occurred during the year 1880

Fred Gosman
1881
pp196 A record of events of public interest which took place in the vicinity of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the north east of England in the year 1880, the most notable of which were an explosion at Seaham Colliery in September which resulted in over 160 deaths and a "Gale in October which proved so disastrous to life and shipping". The volume has been… Read more…
#6925

£120.00

Pleyell's German Hymn, the Laura and Lenza Waltz, The Saxe Cobourg Waltz, Royal Galopades, Popular Duets for Juvenile Performers [E A and M Richardson] A large collection of early 19th century engraved music bound in one volume

Mozart, Rossini, Beethoven, G Kiallmark, Pleyell, M Holst, J Monro, D Bruguier
1835
Sheet music, large folio: a collection of engraved music dating from the first half of the 19th century, bound together in one volume. Bound in half leather over marbled boards, the condition is very good; the covers are rubbed, the leather nicked and worn with one small hole to the spine; the binding is firm, the pages are bright with only occasio… Read more…
#6933

£125.00

Harvey's Midgets

Brown, Barnes and Bell
1884
(10.5x6.5cm) Souvenir photograph of 'Miss Jennie Worgen The Midget Housewife. 19 Years of Age. 25 inches in height. Permanent Photograph.' The albumen photograph is mounted on card; slight abrasion to the surface of the image. Jennie Worgen is seen wearing a full length dark dress and bustle, standing before a painted backdrop of carved columns wit… Read more…
#6959

£95.00

Gallipot Eyes: A Wiltshire Diary

Elspeth Huxley; Valerie Ryshworth-Hill
1976
Extensively extra-illustrated with Huxleyan ephemera and letters. Three letters from Elspeth Huxley to Valerie Ryshworth Hill in Portugal are mounted on early pages, dating from 1977, the first of which describes the recent death of Huxley's mother, Nellie Grant at a great age. The third letter acknowledges the gift of a bookplate designed by Ryshw… Read more…
#6964

£125.00

Inaugural Address Delivered at the Academia of the Catholic Religion

Cardinal Henry E Manning
1876
Presentation copy inscribed on the cover, 'Henry Bellingham from H.E. Cardinal Manning March 14th. 1876', probably in a secretarial hand. Bound in printed blue card wrappers, worn to edges and along spine fold where the upper and lower covers are partly separated. Internally very good, a couple of spots only. Sir Alan Henry Bellingham was Private C… Read more…
#6966

£90.00

The Poetical Library with Morocco Case

William Shakespeare; Geoffrey Chaucer; Oliver Goldsmith; Falconer to Campbell; Longfellow; Peabody; Pierpont, Whittier
1838
Six volume set of English and American poetry contained in 'a Morocco [book]case with glass front' as described in The Gentlemen's Advertiser which originally offered the set at a guinea a piece in 1838. This set still boasts its original case (11.5x14cm) although the glass door has separated from its hinge leaving the original glass happily still… Read more…
#6972

£450.00

Undertones of War [Dustjacket Design]

Edmund Blunden
1965
Draft dustjacket design for the reissue of Blunden's classic account of battalion life on the Somme and in Flanders between 1915 and 1918. In this version the unnamed artist has laid out the montage, jotting a handwritten credit to the Imperial War Museum for the photograph of the stricken tank over a gouache backdrop of orange, red and crimson wit… Read more…
#6975

£95.00

The Adventure of Sir Launcelot Greaves - Henshall’s Pocket Library

Tobias Smollett
1800
Uncommon example of this Dublin imprint which formed part of Henshall’s Pocket Library. Full calf binding, cracking along outer hinges, morocco label to spine. Old ownership signature of ‘Caswell’ to first pastedown. Browning and soiling to early leaves, worm trail to last few leaves. Engraved frontispiece. Undated but around 1796. Read more…
#7431

£75.00

Graziella: Nouvelle Edition

M Alphonse de Lamartine
1854
Beautifully bound in straight grain red morocco with a black spine label and gilt decoration, all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and tiny oval green bookseller’s ticket of ‘P Rolande Foreign Bookseller...’ Browning to endpapers, otherwise near fine. A lovely copy. Read more…
#7434

£85.00

Liber Psalmorum

1887
Latin psalms in half pebbled black leather over blue textured cloth, lightly rubbed, top edge gilt. Pencil inscription to the flyleaf that seems to relate to Felsted school in Essex in the 1890s, noting that the book was rebound in 1908. Spotting to endpapers, browning to text; frontispiece of King David, text contained within red ruled boxes. Smal… Read more…
#7435

£95.00

Catulli Tibulli Propertii Carmina - The Poems of Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius

Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Maurice Hauptius
191885
Vellum bound edition with bevelled edges and black spine lettering, marbled endpapers with the bookplate of Hugh Scott-Charles, all edges gilt. Browning to frontispiece and title page. An excellent copy. Read more…
#7436

£60.00

Le Directeur Spirituel Pour Ceux Qui N’en Ont Point

Simon Michel Treuve
1699
An ‘Inner Library’ copy from the collection of the Catholic recusant Thomas Eyre of Hassop in Derbyshire with his posthumous bookplate: ‘Inner Library bequeathed by the Will of Thomas Eyre deceased, 1792’ to the front pastedown. Full English contemporary calf binding, faded gilt lettering and decoration to spine, speckled edges to the text block. E… Read more…
#7439

£195.00

Psalterium Hebraium in Usum Scholarum Edidit - The Psalter of Psalmes of David

Joachim Heinrich Raphael Biesenthal
1827
Pebbled deep red leather binding, a little rubbing to extremities; all edges gilt, pp 175. Interleaved for notes. An uncommon edition. The book’s editor was born into a Jewish family in Berlin in 1800 but became a convert to Christianity after meeting Wilhelm Vatke at Berlin University. Read more…
#7442

£95.00

Sacramental Exercises in Two Parts

Jabez Earle
1815
Full sheepskin binding; both covers cracked along outer hinges but attached by cords. Browning to text: pp140. Uncommon Scottish edition of this sermon written a century earlier by the English presbyterian minister. Read more…
#7443

£75.00

Methode Pour Converser avec Dieu

Michel Boutauld
1697
Incomplete but apparently unrecorded edition. Bound in worn calf, discoloured and cracked along hinges but still sound. Lacking preliminary blank endpapers, final blank endpapers and title page A1, consequently beginning with the ‘Avertissement du Libraire.’ Old inscription at head of page: ‘Bib: Theol: O. H...’ Manuscript casemark opposite. Librar… Read more…
#7444

£85.00

Sancho Panza’s Proverbs and others which occur in Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Ulick Ralph Burke
1892
Beautifully printed by the Chiswick Press, bound in blue cloth with a paper label, very good, top edge gilt, a little spine lean. Internally near fine, woodcut border to title page. A very nice copy of this interesting collection. Read more…
#7445

£85.00

A Sketch of the Denominations of the Christian World

John Evans
1808
Bound in the publisher’s printed boards with old paper repairs to spine. Early ownership signature of ‘Anna Machen’ to title page and similar to front pastedown. Frontispiece with tissue guard, some browning and spotting to text. xxxvi; pp287 [2] A pleasingly unsophisticated copy of this work, the best known by its Baptist author, published here in… Read more…
#7449

£175.00

The New Family Herbal Comprising A Description and the Medical Virtues of British and Foreign Plants

M Robinson
1865
Beautifully illustrated herbal, probably from the 1860s. Original printed cloth binding repaired with browned spine panel relaid over buckram, red edges to text block. New endpapers. Engraved title page and frontispiece precede letter press title page and 24 coloured plates of 130 herbs. 480 text pages, mostly arranged alphabetically with index. An… Read more…
#7451

£125.00