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Inscribed to a fellow Yorkshireman, with ephemera from Geoffrey Platts who sought out the freedom of a simpler life and in the spirit of Henry David Thoreau began to live by himself in a secluded one room cabin in central Arizona from the early 1980s. An outspoken advocate for the environment, a public speaker and ‘desert laureate’, he consecrated… Read more…

The author’s own copy, with his verbal annotations in ink and pencil to the many the text pages, as well as his manuscript notes to the endpapers. These largely consist of corrections and several additions to the printed text, providing further information regarding the access and use of the records discussed, for example, “The British Directory fo… Read more…

Very uncommon in trade, the 1635 edition of this work on Athenian politics with the ownership signature of a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn. Contemporary vellum with yapp edges and external bands along the hinges of the book. Ownership signature on the first flyleaf of ‘Wm Alex. Aytoun 1872’. On the verso of the title page an earlier owners… Read more…

(11x15cm) Promotional publication for recording a baby's early months, pre-illustrated with tipped-in photographs, each with an advertising slogan printed below for 'Steedman's Soothing Powders'. Small oblong format tied through 3 holes in the fold with red silk cord. The first leaf records that the book was 'Printed in Bavaria' for Raphael Tuck an… Read more…

Sampson the cat and the Church Mice pursued - as depicted by Graham Oakley in this witty, quintessentially English story. The original artwork was executed for the illustration found in the published volume that accompanies it; the pen and water colour image is evocative of the 1970s with its chaotic high energy and visual humour as chaos descends… Read more…

The New Edition in good plus condition in a later and unusual quarter leather binding over cream cloth with handsome raised bands to the spine panel; the original green leather fading and shifting towards brown at the spine. A very sound and square copy. Front free reveals a 1932 ownership inscription, ‘H.H. Foxon’ and some written, most probably a… Read more…

First Edition in near very good condition in later half calf over cloth covered boards with a handsome 6 panelled spine titled in gilt over red ground. Corners rubbed; marbled endpapers very fresh; text block age toned as expected; a square and very sound volume. Several interesting previous ownership inscriptions in contemporary hands reveal thems… Read more…

Parts 1, 2 and 3 bound as one in a good sturdy half binding of calf over cloth boards embossed and titled in gilt over red ground to handsome 6 panelled spine with the second volume of The Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea. Vol I Corners bumped; remnants of a home repair along spine hinge on upper board. Cracking over gutters front and rear; endpapers cle… Read more…

Second edition entirely rewritten. Volume 1. Complete set of 5 plates. Publisher’s red cloth binding in fair plus condition, decoratively embossed to upper board and spine in gilt tooling. Spine panel cracking along hinge to lower board; text block a little shaken; just cracking over endpapers front and rear. Text block otherwise sound. Front free… Read more…

An uncommon pocket sized edition printed and bound by Nicholson & Sons Wakefield. Eye catching red roan boards decorated and titled in black with gilt to spine in very good condition; a little shelf worn to corners and spine ends. Binding entirely sound; a little spine slant evident. Endpapers clean front and rear. Inscription to front free reads ‘… Read more…

1911 edition in very good publisher’s blue cloth illustrated beautifully in green, red and black to upper and spine. Colours remain vibrant and boards show just minor shelf wear. A crest in gilt to the lower board is that of the Harvey Grammar School in Kent indicating once a probable school prize. Square and sound. Dark blue endpapers reveal an al… Read more…

The first volume of the first edition of Shakespeare’s works to appear after the four Folio Editions of the seventeenth century and the very first illustrated edition (lacking 5 of 9 original plates) which has been described by a recent scholar as an 'inaugurating moment'. The publisher Jacob Tonson and the book’s editor Nicholas Rowe achieve their… Read more…

Second edition, tenth thousand: memoirs of an Edinburgh book dealer. Bound including original illustrated wrappers within a later addition, very good, blue rexine boards and pale blue endpapers. A good plus volume, the binding square and firm with age toning to front wrapper and browning to text block edges. Portions of text underlined. 119 pp. col… Read more…

Contemporary half calf over marbled boards containing 5 bound in pamphlets and texts. Front board attached but fragile over gutters. Lower board present but no longer attached. Spine panel good, titled ‘Pamphlets’ over red ground. Text block binding square and sound. Endpapers clean. Contents in good condition with expected age toning throughout. B… Read more…

Illustrated manuscript booklet with original photographs of the modernist sculptures shown at the pioneering outdoor sculpture park assembled by Sir William ‘Tony’ Keswick. Begun in the 1950s, Henry Moore directly credited the park for informing his own lifelong preference for placing his works in the natural outdoor environment. ‘A F Gray’ has ass… Read more…

A bound collection of circulars - 81 documents dated 1948/49 - which comprise the new guidance and policies which drove the transition towards and practical implementation NHS, setting out how the UK managed one of the most radical social reforms in its history. The collection appears to have been compiled by Brockhall Hospital in Langho, Blackburn… Read more…

A collection of English Rebellion narratives owned by one of George Washington’s fellow commanders in the French and Indian War, the Scots army officer and politician Archibald Montgomerie, who raised the 77th Foot Regiment of Highlanders and led them alongside Washington’s Virginia Regiment in the capture of Fort Duquesne in 1758. Going back anoth… Read more…

Inscribed by Janet and William Beveridge, a first edition hardback. Large octavo. viii, 193 pp. An ex libris bookplate in the name of ‘W H Beveridge’ is attached to front pastedown. Front free endpaper contains a pasted photograph of Janet and William Beveridge and a gift inscription in their hand ‘To Will Davis’ dated July 6, 1953. William Beverid… Read more…

A beautifully preserved set of rules and regulations and a golf score card from the Jharia Club Golf Club in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. The club, located in the coal mining heartland of India became a hub for British and European mining interests which began in the late 1890s and the golf course itself was developed in 1915 becoming a central part… Read more…

The first published description of Archaeopteryx, one of the most significant fossils ever discovered. This is Richard Owen's classic Philosophical Transactions paper, illustrated with an exceptional lithographic folding plate showing a life-sized image of the type specimen. The first glimpse of Archaeopteryx occurred in 1861, when a single feather… Read more…

Inscribed with drawings and doodles by the artistic super-couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera at the unveiling of Rivera’s newly completed masterpiece, the Detroit Industry Murals at the city’s Institute of Art, early in 1933. With these drawings into a child’s autograph album, made a few days before their departure for New York City, Kahlo and Riv… Read more…

Four collections of printed songs owned by the Glasgow bibliophile David Murray (1842-1928) much of whose collection went to Glasgow University. A handsome early 20th c binding in very good condition in half brown calf over marbled boards, titled in gilt over black ground to an attractively tooled spine; ‘Glasgow 1865’ in gilt to spine tail. The ex… Read more…

First edition folio, small folio in good condition bound in later red cloth, titled in gilt over black to spine. Later endpapers clean. Original front flyleaf records historical ownership information, ‘M Sanderson [Arundel Place] Whitby 1859’ and a pencil note reading ‘Sold by auction June 13th 1895’. Engraved frontispiece depicting a view very age… Read more…

Third edition with complete maps and illustrations. With provenance to Charles Whitmell of Harrogate, a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge who placed 1st in the 1st Class of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1872. A good copy rebound in a later addition dark green embossed cloth, titled in gilt to spine. Upper and lower boards a little scuffed; sq… Read more…

In good condition,8vo hardcover bound in publisher’s bright blue boards titled in gilt to upper. Spine sunned; age toned and a little scuffed overall. Text block unmarked throughout; age toned with a couple of small stains. ‘King’s Inns Library Dublin’ stamp to front title page recto and final leaf. Original Errata notice tipped into preliminaries.… Read more…