London: HMSO, 1912. 1st ed., pp.xlv, 196, incl. Index, b&w plates, text dwgs, col. Fold map at end, ex-lib with usual stamps and white ink number to lower spine, chipping to earlier pages, browning to prelims, title page and rfep, half-leather, marbled bds., rubbed, worn, contents clean, good condn. Galloway.....
London: Plummer and Brewis for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1823. Three volumes (complete), full leather binding with gilt decoration to spine, b&w plates, pp xxx, 1-575, 2-120 (mis-pagination but continuous text and complete); 121-864; 1-648. Each volume with title page and engraved frontis portrait plate. Previous owner's bookplate. Boards.....
London: Joseph Clayton, 1837. 4to, ninenteenth-century library cloth binding. Seventeen original and complete issues of The Spectator. Cloth worn and marked, handwritten title to spine, some foxing and occasional marks throughout, fair condition. *Includes three folded sheets of the Maryborough & Dunolly Advertiser, printed in Victoria c. 1860, chipped and.....
USA: Halbert's Family Heritage, 1998. 2 volumes large 8vo, stiff paper wraps with coat of arms decoration, approximately 400 pages per volume, fine condition. History of the family name Cook, with introductory chapters of general geneaological and historical information (including chapter on Australia), then list of thousands of Cooks worldwide.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 2002. 2nd printing, large octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, colur plates, b&w illus, pp xxii, 516. Near-fine condn. Exploration of centuries of English cultural tradition.
Amsterdam: Henricum Schelte, 1703. Octavo, original vellum boards, two volumes bound as one. b&w frontis plate, 2 b&w plates, 1 folding plate. Includes engraved illustrated folding plate of the volcanic eruption of Mount Etna. Previous owner's inscription blank endpaper with another previous owner's earlier engraved bookplate (Stephen Louis Simeon) front.....
Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1992. 8vo, pp. xxviii, 447, Index, b/w photos, orig cl bds., nr fine, in like d.j. Collection international essays on the origin of the society, membership, activities, and influences.
London: R. Burrough and J. Baker, 1708. Two volumes, contemporary full leather boards, pp (xxiv), 202 plus index; 520. Boards rubbed, vol I lacks front free endpaper and has ink annotation and sketches (eighteenth or nineteenth century) to following page and final free endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate fep. Good condition.....
London: Macmillan, 1897. Large octavo, original half leather boards with gilt title to spine, marbled endpapers, two folding maps, many b&w plates and text illustrations, pp xxii, 528. Rubbed to backstrip and edges, good condition.
London: James Nisbet & Co, 1880. 1st ed., 8vo, pp. viii, 424, 16 adverts, b/w frontis, b/w plates, light foxing eps., small waterstain top edge frontis, professionally restored bds., orig cloth laid to front bd only. Story based upon Postmaster-Generals' Annual Reports and the authors investigation of the General Post-Office.....
London: George Virtue, 1836. Illus. W.H. Bartlett. Two volumes (complete), cloth boards, all edges gilt, large folding map, 106 engraved plates with tissue guards. Boards rubbed, light foxing throughout, good condition.
New York: Macmillan, (1912) 1913. In two volumes. Part I: The Establishment of the System 1660-1688. Volume I, pp xvi 381, small inscr., uncut edges, light foxing to front e.p hinges, or. cl. bds., sunned spine, sl. flecked at edges. Vol. II: pp vii 382, Index, (iv), uncut edges, many.....
London: T. Werner Laurie, 1944. 8vo, original pictorial cloth boards, b&w plates, b&w illus, pp 256. Boards rubbed, previous owner's signature ffep, some annotations. Reminiscences of social and sporting life.
Paris: Christophe David, 1758. Augusta Mary Leigh (née Byron). 2 vols., sm. octavo, pp.(vi), 558; (viii), 340, pages tanned, light foxing, edges stained red, professionally rebound in full gilt tooled ornate fine leather binding, new marbled eps, signed 'Augusta Mary Leigh' upper title page, a detailed hand-written biography of Augusta.....
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1924. 8vo, pp. xvi, 386, Index, map, edges prelims browned, light foxing map, few pages unopened, original cloth boards, spine lightly sunned, edges rubbed.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1983. 8vo., pp 320, b/w & col. ills., dec. e.ps., or. cl. bds., nr. fine in d.j.
Lond. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1968. 8vo., pp (iv) 79, light tanning to e.p hinges, or. bds., gilt crest, bumped cnrs., in sunned & worn d.j. A survey of the privately preserved papers of those statesmen who held the office of Prime Minister during the 19th century.
Lond. Collins & Eyre Spottiswoode, 1944. 8vo., pp xii 340, Index, uncut bottom edges, spotted top edge, or. bds., white spots to spine, in price-clipped, chipped, worn d.j.
London: Williams Innys ; Osborn and Longman; G. Strahan, 1728. 1st ed., three parts in one volume, octavo,pp i, viii, 580, title pages with engraved heading vignettes to each of the three parts. Original panel binding with blindstamped decoration and gilt monogram "M.T." to front and rear boards, rebacked with.....
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1954. 8vo., pp vii 528 incl. index, b/w text ills., pgs 109 to 114 taped at hinge, stain to top edge, foxing to title page and fronts., paper note taped to title pg., or. cl. bds., bumped, sl. marked at rear, no d.j.
London: Seeley Service & Co., 1976. Large 8vo, quarter-leather, decorated cloth, in slipcase, b&w illus (some double-page), illus endpapers, pp v, 170. Near-fine in very good slipcase. Number 156 of a limited edition of 250 copies. From the manuscript by William Morgan.
London: Contact Publications, 1947. pp 216, foxing to e.ps., or. cl. bds., sl. Sunned in torn, sunned, rubbed & marked d.j. Good in poor d.j., protected. Travel diary, post-war Yugoslavia.
Harrow School Book Shop, 1941. 8vo, original cloth boards, b&w plates, b&w text illus, pp 101. Boards faded, front free endpaper removed, good condn.
London: Cassell & Company, April 1980. Complete set, 4 vols, octavo, various editions with all volumes published April 1980, Vol I: pp. xxii, 416, Index; Vol II: pp. xii, 344, Index; Vol III: pp. xiv, 332, Index; Vol IV: (1958) pp. xii, 322, Index; b/w maps, scattered foxing mostly to.....
London: G. Kearsley, 1788. "The sixth, edition, with considerable improvements" (title-page). 12mo, half-leather binding with marbled sides, pp viii, 282, v, i. 38 copperplate engraved plates called for are present (Part I: 10 tables I to X with 10 plates A to K; Part II: plates 1 to 18, Table.....