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Lugduni, Sumptibus Horatii Boissat & Georgii Remeus, 1662.. 2 works by ALVAREZ bound together in 1 volume, both from the same publisher in Lyons, Ludex Perfectus being a first edition, De Privilegiis a second, 1662 & 1663. Latin text, folio, approximately 360 x 225 mm, 14 x 8¾ inches. Title pages printed red and black with beautiful large engraved printer's device of a ship and 2 angels, repeated on final page of Ludex Perfectus, some decorative head- and tailpieces and initials, half-title to each work, text printed in double column, each work with an index at rear. LUDEX PERFECTUS: pages: [20], 1-324, [56]. 1 small printer's ink stain to 1 lower margin corner, otherwise clean. Treatise on the subject of judges, Roman and Canon law. DE PRIVILEGIIS PAUPERUM: subtitle: cod. quando imperator inter pupillos, & viduas, aliasqe miserabiles personas cognoscat : tractatus in duas partes distributus, juris studiosos, & in foro versantibus omnino necessarius, bonarum literarum sectatoribus accommodatissimus.… Leer más

Article in Life International Magazine November 15 1965.. 1965, pages 36-54, many black and white photos of the actress and her husband Roald Dahl. Very slightly worn on spine and corners. Very good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Stanley Paul, 1925.. FIRST DE LUXE EDITION 1925, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES SIGNED BY MILNE, THIS BEING No.257. 4to, 325 x 260 mm, 12¾ x 10¼ inches, cream cloth, bevelled boards, gilt lettered and gilt illustrated upper cover and spine, top edges gilt, 105 pages. Coloured title vignette and 12 enchanting mounted colour plates of young children, each with a pastel frame and coloured border. Covers very bright, endpapers faintly browned and very lightly marked, slight pale margin foxing to early pages, few small pale splashes in lower margin of 2 facing pages maximum 10 mm (½") (see image 4). Near Fine copy, no inscriptions. This is the first UK edition of these stories which were commissioned by the U.S. publisher David McKay to go with the illustrations by Willebeek Le Mair. Milne lost thousands on the deal as he foolishly accepted a lump sum payment of £200. The book was a huge success and when McKay suggested to Milne another project with Shepard for which he would receive a royalty, Milne… Leer más

London, John Russell Smith, 1855.. FIRST EDITION OF THE FACSIMILE EDITION 1855 (date at foot of last page, May 1st 1855), Vincent Figgins's facsimile edition of the 1482 Westminster Caxton edition. Reproduced from a copy in the British Museum. With a Few Remarks on Caxton's Typographical Productions. The Type has been catefully imitated, and the cuts traced from the British Museum copy. The paper has also been made as near as possible to the original. Large 8vo, approximately 290 x 210 mm, 11½ x 8½ inches, 24 half page woodcuts in the text, title page in red and black (a note at the foot of the page states that there was no title page in the original), 167 unnumbered pages of the original Caxton edition, followed by 13 pages of Remarks and a list of Caxton's works, 1 page of Synopsis of Characters and Combinations used in "The Game of Chess", 1 page of A Tribute to the Memory of William Caxton plus 1 page advert for Almshouses. Bound in publisher's morocco, with strapwork effect in relief and with… Leer más

London, Chatto, Oliver & Boyd, 1969.. FIRST EDITION 1969, 8vo, red boards, vignette to upper cover, 64 pages. Black and white illustrations by Gareth Floyd. Very narrow strip of fading along top edges, neat name on front endpaper. Near Fine in near Fine DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, lightly browned on spine). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Longmans, Green and Co., and New York, 1892.. FIRST EDITION 1892, 8vo, approximately 220 x 140 mm, 8½ x 5 inches, 11 mounted albumen photographs including portrait of the author, plus a further 7 plates (3 with colour) and numerous illustrations in the text, pages: iv, 1-366, [2], bound in the original publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt lettering and gilt portrait of Queen Hatasu on upper cover, gilt vignette to lower cover, captioned Ludus Latrunculorum, gilt rules and lettering to spine with tiny gilt vignette, original black endpapers, loose advert still present. Slight rubbing to binding, foot of spine bumped, slight lean, small patch of pale browning to blank endpapers, small pale brown spot underneath the portrait and preceding page, fore-edge and lower edge foxed, no inscriptions. A very good bright, tight clean copy in the original gilt decorated cloth. Games described include those of the ancient Egyptians and Romans, Chaturanga, Indian chess, including forms of the game of chess… Leer más

London, Ernest Nister, No. 876, printed in Bavaria, (1897).. FIRST EDITION circa 1897 (date from Bodleian Library), 4to, 235 x 180 mm, 9¼ x 7 inches, pretty chromolithograph frontispiece showing children playing Blind Man's Buff, numerous black and white illustrations, some full page, a small one of cats by Louis Wain, some by William Foster, many by Evelyn Stuart Hardy, some signed A.D. and many unsigned. Victorian children's pastimes: indoor games, tricks and puzzles, outdoor games, occupations, collections, and the care of pets. In the original publisher's dark green cloth lettered gilt on upper cover and spine, bevelled edges, large coloured illustration to upper cover of a girl playing Blind Man's Buff, a gold chain and pendant round her neck, all edges gilt, 192 pages. Gilt faded on spine, spine slightly wrinkled, slightly rubbed at head and tail of spine with minute nicks, corners very slightly rubbed, no inscriptions, contents very clean. A very good plus copy. Reissued in 1906 as an 8vo.… Leer más

Dublin, printed by J. Exshaw, 1767.. Title continued: With a LIST of SEEDS, ROOTS, directing the MANNER and SEASON of Sowing them. To which is added AN APPENDIX CONTAINING The Manner of keeping BEES in HIVES, as well as in BOXES, with PLATES shewing the section of the BEE-HOUSE and BOXES, laid down on proper PRINCIPLES for constructing them, and communicated from actual PRACTICE. By a LOVER of IMPROVEMENT. ALSO A COLLECTION of LETTERS on AGRICULTURE, Laid before the SOCIETY for the Encouragement of ARTS in LONDON; AND Communicated by them to the DUBLIN SOCIETY. Now first Published by their ORDER. 3 works have separate title pages: Practical Observations on the Culture of Lucerne etc., communicated by Letters to Dr. Templeman; An Account of the Culture of Carrots, And their great use in Feeding and Fattening Cattle, by Robert Billing; Appendix Containing the Advantages of the Drilling and Horse-hoeing Tillage above the Broad-cast tillage. FIRST EDITION 1767. Small 8vo, approximately 175 x 100 mm, 7 x 4… Leer más

London, printed by Jane Bell, and are to be sold at the east-end of Christ-Church, 1652 [i.e. 1651].. Title continued: For sowing, planting, and setting all manner of roots, herbs, and flowers, both for the use of the kitchin garden, and a garden of pleasure, with the right ordering of all delectable and rare flowers, and fine roots; as the like hath not been heretofore published by any. Likewise here is set forth divers knots for the beautifying of any garden for delight. Lastly, here is set down the physical benefit of each herbe, with the commodities of the waters distilled out of them, for the use and benefit of all. Collected from the best approved authors, besides forty years experience in the art of gardning: by D.M. Newly Corrected and enlarged 1652, in 2 parts. The second part has separate divisional title page dated 1651 and pagination; register is continuous. Small 4to, approximately 180 x 135 mm, 7 x 5½ inches, 11 woodcut illustrations in the text, pages: [8], 1-29, 32-90, 1-173, [13],… Leer más

Dublin, printed for John Beatty, No.32, Skinner-Row, M,DCC,LXXXII, (1782).. DUBLIN EDITION 1782, third edition corrected and enlarged. 12mo, approximately 175 x 105 mm, 6¾ x 4 inches, 4 small text illustrations, pages, [12], 1-336, bound in full contemporary calf. Binding slightly rubbed and stained, first 12 pages have a pale stain to lower margins, small closed tear to lower margin neatly repaired, not affecting text, occasional small stain or spot otherwise a very good tight clean copy. ESTC 18193 lists 2 copies in the USA, no copies in UK or Ireland, ESTC list an earlier Irish editon of 1777, 1 copy only in the library of Miami University USA. Neither edition listed in Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature or Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, Catalogue of Botanical Books, and no copies listed of the Irish edition in Library Hub Discover. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Oxford University Press, 1974.. FIRST EDITION 1974, 8vo, blue boards, gilt lettered spine, 134 pages. Black and white illustrations by Firmin Rocker. A children's novel about the visionary poet and artist William Blake set in London in 1796. No inscriptions, slight corner crease to front endpaper, otherwise a Fine clean crisp copy in Fine DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped but with publisher's small new price label affixed, still in publisher's clear plastic protection which was sealed on reverse at top and bottom edge, as issued). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London & Toronto, Dent, printed in USA, (1928).. FIRST UK EDITION (1928), 8vo, black cloth illustrated blue, gilt titled spine, pictorial blue and black endpapers, 197 pages. Striking black and white illustrations, 4 double page including frontispiece and title. Life of carrier pigeon owned by young boy in Calcutta, including work in the First World War, set in India, the Himalayas and France. Slightest wear at head of spine, minute chip from lower edge of prelim page preceding page 1 of text, no inscriptions. Near Fine (lacking dustwrapper). First published in the US in 1927 and winner of the Newbery Medal for that year. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Lugduni Batavorum, Ex Typographia Elzeviriana, 1627.. First part of title transliterated from Syriac. FIRST EDITION of Syriac Revelations of St. John the Divine, 1627. Small 4to, 185 x 140 mm, 7¼ x 5½ inches, title page printed red and black within architectural border, printer's device on final colophon page: palm-tree with the device "Assurgo pressa", text printed in Syriac, Syriac in Hebrew characters, Latin and Greek, paged from right to left, pages: (20), 211, (1), bound in old full calf, double ruled gilt border to covers, raised bands and gilt decorated and lettered spine, edges and endpapers marbled. Spine worn, 15 mm (½ inch) missing at tail, upper hinge cracked but holding on the cords, covers rubbed and marked, small piece of leather missing at lower inner corner of upper cover, outer corners worn, small chip to lower margin of title page neatly repaired, upper margins cropped, just shaving the running title in a few places, 1 small closed margin tear, repaired neatly, pages clean and… Leer más

London, Collins Clear-Type Press, circa 1910.. Edition unknown circa 1910, SMALL format, 108 x 75 mm, 4¼ x 3 inches, coloured frontispiece and coloured pictorial title page, a few small decorative head- and tailpieces, 96 pages, bound in the original publisher's green suede, single blind ruled border to covers, gilt title to upper cover, all edges gilt, double page coloured pictorial endpapers. No inscriptions, spine slightly faded, very slight fading to lower margin of upper cover, a touch of rubbing to head and tail of spine. A near Fine clean copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London & Glasgow, Collins Clear-Type Press, (1910).. Circa 1910, SMALL format 100 x 72 mm, 4 x 2 7/8 inches, mounted coloured illustration as frontispiece, another of St George mounted on title page, 96 pages including half-title, bound in orginal publisher's white card with repeat of coloured title vignette, blue lettering to spine, all edges gilt, double page coloured scene to endpapers, different front and rear. No inscriptions, pale brown staining to lower cover (see image), otherwise a near Fine bright clean copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Ernest Nister; New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., (1908).. FIRST EDITION (1908), Nister No.1890, miniature book approximately 80 x 65 mm, 3¼ x 2½ inches, pale brown boards with cream leaf pattern and gilt title, bevelled edges, cream parchment spine, all edges gilt, red and black half-title and title page, coloured frontispiece and 8 colour plates on coated paper, (84) pages, every one printed red and black with a large decorated initial and red floral decorations (see images). Designed in England, printed in Bavaria. A couple of small mid brown stains to top of spine, a few tiny minor marks to lower cover, tiny corner cut from front endpaper, some very faint staining to front endpapers. A very good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, H. Woodfall, jun., 1742.. 2 volumes divided into 7 books, based on materials collected by John Perceval, Second Earl of Egmont, privately printed, revised edition with imprint H. Woodfall, jun. 1742. Volume 2 revised and partly written by William Whiston. A SPECIAL HAND COLOURED EDITION. This set was given to William Upcott, a well known librarian and bibliophile, who has written a note in ink on the first free endpaper with his signature stating that the books were given to him by the family of George Baker. This is confirmed in Dibdin's The Library Companion which states: "the copy of copies' is that in the possession of Mr Baker, of St Pauls Churchyard, belonging to his late brother". Many coats of arms throughout, all hand coloured and most heightened with gold and silver gilt. Small 4to, approximately 230 x 140 mm, 9 x 5½ inches, 19 portraits, 1 an engraved plate of Sir Philip Perceval Kt, the other 18 are in mezzotint by J. Faber, all with hand coloured coats of arms and all but one… Leer más

London, printed for the author by James Dixwell, 1783.. FIRST EDITION 1783, parallel text in English and French, 4to, approximately 270 x 210 mm, 10½ x 8½ inches, extra engraved pictorial title page with French text under half page engraving, 11 hand coloured engraved plates (several images on each) drawn from nature by James Barbut (Jaques Barbut), engraved title, printed title, pages: xx including list of subscribers, followed by 2 page Apology, 1-101 plus blank page unnumbered. Bound in full tree calf, rebacked in modern calf, maroon gilt lettered label and gilt decoration between raised bands to spine, gilt leaf scroll to edges of covers. Small hole page 87/88 repaired with archival tape, loss of a few words and letters, affecting the English text on recto and the French on verso, slightly affecting the legibility of 5 short lines, offsetting to printed title from engraved title, offsetting to text from colour plates, colour plates clean, some light age-browning, some shallow nicks to… Leer más

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961.. FIRST EDITION OF ARTIST'S FIRST BOOK 1961. 4to, 270 x 205 mm, 10½ x 8 inches, colour illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers, no pagination. Coloured illustration filling every page, some double page. Anti-war story for young children, about a famous general who found he loved flowers. No inscriptions, tail of spine and lower corners a touch rubbed, otherwise near Fine in very good DUSTWRAPPER (dw: price clipped, cream area lightly darkened, tiny chip at head of spine, tail of spine and corners slightly rubbed, very slight rubbing on upper hinge and along lower edges, 1 short closed tear at top edge of lower panel with adjacent creasing). Foreman's first picture book illustrated in The Telling Line page 191. The author was the first wife of Foreman, also an artist. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Valentine, (1910).. Circa 1910, 6 humorous coloured postcards 'From B. and W. Drawings', captioned in red beneath the illustrations. 'Trapping Whelks' is very slightly worn at corners and has 3 pinholes in the background, small piece of paper adhering to the back where removed from an album, tiny rub to top corners of 'Snaring Eaglets' and 'Spearing Wild Moth', the rest very nice. A very good set of rare Heath Robinson illustrations. They first appeared in black and white in the Sketch in 1906. See Great British Industries and Other Cartoons from the Sketch 1906-1914, edited by G. Beare, 1985, where 11 of the cartoons in the series are reproduced. Our titles are: Trapping Whelks on the Shores of the Caspian Sea; Spearing Wild Moth in the Canaries; Porpoise-Sticking in Pegwell Bay; Snaring Eaglets in the Highlands; Gathering Whiting in the Yarmouth Roads; Noosing Wild Cats by the Kyles of Bute. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.