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London, printed for A. Bettesworth, and C. Hitch at the Red Lyon; J. Osborn at the Golden Ball; J. Hodges; J. Clark, no date, circa 1735.. Made out in several witty and ingenious dialogues; I. Between Mr. Wilmot, a west-country clothier, at Credition in Devonshire, and a gentlewoman of a good fortune in Exeter, and honest Humphrey the clothier's man; with the intrigues of their courtship. II. Between the clothier, his mistress, her mother, and cousin, &c. about furnishing the house, and celebrating the wedding. III. Between the clothier, his wife, mother, and nurse; with what pass'd at her lying-in, christning the child, and gossiping. IV. Between the clothier, his man Humphry, and his creditors; he being now grown poor. V. Between the clothier, his man Humphry, two bailiffs, and the goaler. The whole discovering how extravagant wives consume their husband's estates, and bring them to ruin and destruction. EDITION UNKNOWN EDITION, circa 1735. 12mo, approximately 135 x 75 mm, 5½ x 3¼ inches, woodcut… Leer más

GENÈVE, Paul Barde, 1784.. FIRST EDITION 1784. 4to, approximately 245 x 190 mm, 9½ x 7 inches, 7 folding engraved plates, 52 pages, last page blank, bound in speckled boards, gilt lettered leather label to spine, pale blue endpapers. Slight rubbing to spine, all text pages have shallow creases (see attached images), tips of lower inner corners of plates clipped, not near illustrations (see images), pale browning to blank side of plates and a few margins, otherwise a very good copy. Jean Huber (1721 in Geneva – 1786 in Lausanne) was a Swiss painter, silhouettiste, soldier and author. Huber started painting without any training. He was a talented observer, and his first works were of horses and scenes of hunting, of birds in particular. In 1783 he published in the "Mercure de France" a "Note on the Way of Steering Balloons, based on the Flight of Birds of Prey", then in 1784, "Observations on the Flight of Birds of Prey" (Geneva 1784) with 7 plates designed by him. He was working on a "History of… Leer más

London, John Harding, 1812.. FIRST EDITION 1812. Large 4to, approximately 385 x 280 mm, 15 x 11 inches, printed on good heavy stock, 38 engraved plates (title page calls for 40 plates, there is a publisher's note on this discrepancy at the end of the plate list), 10 tissue guarded hand coloured aquatints, including frontispiece, panorama with 3 images and 1 plate with 2 images, making a total of 13 images, 3 are large folding plates, plus 1 large folding in black and white, pages: [6] 9-16, 19-60, 59-105, collation: A-G5, H-M4 (1) including half-title, pagination slightly erratic but complete, pages 59 and 60 are duplicated but there is no duplication of text. Handsomely rebound in half dark blue crushed morocco, matching cloth covers divided by gilt decoration, contrasting gilt lettered labels to spine, gilt date at foot, gilt decoration and urns between raised bands, edges untrimmed, housed in a plain blue cloth slipcase. The folding plates each have a small tear on central fold, all repairedon the… Leer más

London, printed by Thomas Ratcliffe, and are to be sold by Robert Pawlet at the Bible in Chancery-lane, 1667.. Title continued: Also an essay touching the easterly-winde. VVritten by way of narrative, for satisfaction of the present and future ages. Pamphlet 1667, small stab holes to inner margins. Slim 4to, approximately 180 x 135 mm, 7 x 5¼ inches, pages: [4], 1-36; signatures: A², B-E4, F². Bound in full crushed wine coloured morocco, gilt title and decoration to spine, gilt rule to outer edges of covers, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, new endpapers, bookplate of Fox Pointe Collection, (Dr & Mrs H. R. Knohl) to first pastedown. Slight rubbing to spine, light scratch to upper cover, 2 lower margins have small paper fault, not near text, a very nice clean copy. ESTC 1890. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Paris, Le Boucher, 1784.. TITLE CONTINUED: Pour servir de Supplement a son Dictionnaire raisonne de Physique. Contenant: L'idée d'un Aérostat; Rapport fait à l'Académie des Sciences sur la MACHINE AEROSTATIQUE inventée par MM. DE MONGOLFIER; Moyens de diriger les Ballons. FIRST EDITION 1784. 4to, approximately 260 x 195 mm, 10 x 7½ inches, woodcut vignette to title page, large floral headpiece to first page, pages: [2], 1-34, rebound in quarter calf with gilt lettered label and gilt decoration to spine over paper boards, vellum tips to corners, new endpapers, edges stained red. Pale age-browning throughout, last page has brown stained corners (see image), occasional small brown spot. Very good copy with attractive spine. See: Gaston Tissandier, Bibliographie Aeronautique, page 15, listing the smaller 8vo edition only. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, printed for J. Harding, 1808.. TITLE CONTINUED: And Preserving The Health Of Sheep, With Hints For Management Of Sheep after Shearing: An inquiry into the structure, growth, and formation of wool and hair, and remarks on the means by which the Spanish breed of sheep may be made to preserve the best qualitites of its fleece unchanged in different climates. FIRST EDITION 1808, EX LIBRARY COPY FROM THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, with their ink stamp to blank side of title page and last page under Finish, these are the only library markings. 8vo, approximately 220 x 130 mm, 8½ x 5¼ inches, pages: ix, [1 - errata], [1]-157, pages *111 & *112 are extra pages added making the page count 159 (see image ), rebound in maroon buckram, gilt title to spine, new endpapers, Royal Society Bookplate to first pastedown. Occasional pale foxing, a few pages have a small pale brown stain to margins, a few pages at beginning slightly dusty to top corners, otherwise a very good copy. Robert Bakewell (1725-1795)… Leer más

#Paris, Le Boucher, 1784.. Pour servir de Supplement a son Dictionnaire raisonne de Physique. Contenant: L'idée d'un Aérostat; Rapport fait à l'Académie des Sciences sur la MACHINE AEROSTATIQUE inventée par MM. DE MONGOLFIER; Moyens de diriger les Ballons. FIRST EDITION 1784. 4to, approximately 260 x 195 mm, 10 x 7½ inches, woodcut vignette to title page, large floral headpiece to first page, pages: [2], 1-34, rebound in quarter calf with gilt lettered label and gilt decoration to spine over paper boards, vellum tips to corners, new endpapers, edges stained red. Pale age-browning throughout, last page has brown stained corners (see attached image), occasional small brown spot. Very good copy with attractive spine. See: Gaston Tissandier, Bibliographie Aeronautique, page 15, listing the smaller 8vo edition only. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Gollancz, 1978.. FIRST EDITION 1978, small 4to, 235 x 180 mm, 9¼ x 7 inches, shiny colour illustrated boards, pink endpapers, 32 unnumbered pages, large coloured illustrations throughout, text beneath. Charming story about an old man and a little bird. Inscribed on the front endpaper by the author in 1991 with a drawing by Philippe Dumas (see image). No previous owner inscription, a Fine crisp unread copy, issued without dustwrapper. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, G.G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, (1908).. No. 18 in the Sesame Booklets series, edition unknown (1908), SMALL format, 98 x 72 mm, 3¼ x 2¾ inches, photographic portrait as frontispiece, decorated red and white title page, 78 pages, bound in dark brown leather, gilt panels and all over gilt and green decoration plus gilt title to upper cover, gilt title to spine, top edges gilt, plain grey endpapers. Minute bump to top corner of upper cover, neat name on front pastedown, neat inscription dated 1924 to the same person on front endpaper, otherwise a very good plus clean copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Hamilton, 1998.. FIRST EDITION 1998, first issue, 8vo, maroon boards, silver lettered spine, 154 pages. Set in 2040, Tom manages to get to the Outside where there is no television and people still enjoy being in families. No inscriptions, a Fine crisp clean copy in Fine DUSTWRAPPER, not price clipped, a touch of fading to spine. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, 1951.. XIV OLYMPIAD LONDON 1948. SIGNED BY CHARLES C. WILCOTT LISTED IN THE INDEX AS TAKING PART IN RAPID SHOOTING. Thick 4to, approximately 290 x 220 mm, 11½ x 8½ inches, 580 pages, portrait frontispiece of King George VI, many action photographic illustrations, original publisher's dark green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering and picture to upper cover. Slight rubbing to cloth binding, gilt lettering faded on spine, pale foxing to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. Charles C. Wilcott's ink signature on endpaper and title page. Heavy book which may require extra shipping costs. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Castell Brothers Ltd, printed in Bavaria, (1905).. FIRST EDITION (1905), 8vo, 170 x 120 mm, 6¾ x 4½ inches, colour illustrated card covers, silk cord ties, (28) pages. 14 lovely bright colour plates illustrating a day in the life of the accident-prone little girl who owns the Dutch dolls in the well known series of little books by Ainslie. Each plate faces 'handwritten' simple text. Spine slightly rubbed, very small light crease to upper corner of upper cover, showing slightly on pages within, lower cover lightly browned next to spine and at top edge, silk ties faded, contents very clean and bright, not foxed. A very good plus copy. Ainslie is known to have produced about 25 titles for Castell, the earliest, Catharine Susan and Me circa 1903. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Bodley Head, 1972.. FIRST EDITION 1972, small 4to, 240 x 170 mm, 9¼ x 6¾ inches, colour illustrated boards, 28 pages. Excellent colour and black and white illustrations throughout, alternate openings. The text is a ballad version based on a chapbook of 1640. A Fine crisp clean copy in very good plus DUSTWRAPPER (dw: price clipped, a touch of wear to head of spine, a 10 mm (½") closed tear to top of lower hinge, neatly repaired with archival tape on reverse, bright and clean). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Hutchinson, 1993.. FIRST EDITION 1993, small 8vo, 165 x 130 mm, 6½ x 5¼ inches, colour illustrated shiny white boards, no pagination. Small coloured illustrations throughout. A Fine clean crisp unused copy. Issued without dustwrapper. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Utrecht, W. de Haan, (1920).. FIRST EDITION circa 1920, 280 x 230 mm, 11 x 9 inches, cream card covers lettered and decorated GILT, an extra round colour plate mounted on upper and lower cover, lacking silk ribbon to spine, (16) pages. Half-title and title page GILT lettered, pages on heavy cream paper, 8 pretty oval colour plates (150 mm, 5½" wide) mounted in a gilt frame above the verses, facing the music, all pages with decorative GILT border. The songs, in English, are not for children, but tell of unrequited love and unfaithful lovers. Covers slightly dusty and faintly foxed, 5 mm (¼") scrape to edge of plate on upper cover, small pale water stain to lower corner of upper cover, 60 x 15 mm deep, (2" x ¾") maximum, 4 minute pink stains, corners very slightly scuffed, tiny crease at top edge of upper cover, repeated at top of pages. Bookseller's tiny stamp in lower corner of title page, occasional slight faint foxing. A very good clean bright copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL… Leer más

London, George Harrap & Co., (1917).. FIRST EDITION (1917) dated from inscription and from British Library catalogue, 283 x 220 mm, 11 x 8 inches, blue cloth backed dark blue boards, lettered navy blue on spine, in cream on upper cover on large mounted colour plate showing 5 children singing, plain endpapers, 87 pages including illustrated half-title and title page. Coloured frontispiece of children dancing to Sur le Pont d'Avignon, title page printed blue and black, 7 further delightful colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations for 32 well known children's songs. Slightest rub to head and tail of spine, tiniest bump to top corner of upper cover, neat inscription dated December 1917 on front endpaper, tiny closed tear to top edge of 1 plate next to centre fold, half-title and verso of final page faintly browned, some inner joints cracked, but binding tight and firm. A very good plus clean bright copy, lacking dustwrapper. Later editions have the imprint "George Harrap & Co. Ltd" (Harrap… Leer más

London, George Harrap & Co., (1918).. Very early reprint circa 1918, 275 x 215 mm, 10¾ x 8¼ inches, blue cloth backed buff boards, lettered navy blue on spine, in cream on upper cover on large mounted colour plate showing 5 children singing, plain endpapers, 87 pages including illustrated half-title and title page. Coloured frontispiece of children dancing to Sur le Pont d'Avignon, title page printed blue and black, 7 further delightful colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations for 32 well known children's songs. Tiniest bump to top corner of lower cover, no inscriptions, no foxing or browning. A near Fine copy in good DUSTWRAPPER (dw: a bit tattered (see image), a small narrow triangular slit through part of lettering on upper panel, a 10 mm (½") chip to lower edge of the same, a few short closed edge tears, reverse has old paper repair to head of spine and several modern repairs with adhesive tape). This reprint has buff boards instead of dark blue and is very slightly smaller than… Leer más

London, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1870.. SECOND EDITION 1870, small 4to, 270 x 230 mm, 10½ x 9 inches, green cloth, gilt border to upper cover, composite gilt illustration (for the 4 stories) and gilt title to upper cover, gilt title and decoration to spine, 24 pages of colour plates printed by Kronheim, 6 per story each with a paper guard, some with several images. 6 pages of text per story, 1st and 2nd stories in verse: Robinson Crusoe, Queer Characters (animals dressed as humans), Aesop's Fables, and Cock Sparrow (How Cock Sparrow Kept Christmas). Head and tail of spine and corners slightly worn, lower cover with a few small stains and light damp fading to 1 corner, spine gilt slightly rubbed especially to ornament at head and tail, neat paper repair to front inner hinge, a few pages slightly creased, a few small closed edge tears and large closed tear to 1 guard, all repaired, 60 mm (2½") closed tear to edge of 1 colour plate, neatly repaired, virtually no loss, occasional slight fingermarks and… Leer más

London, Grant Richards, 1903.. FIRST EDITION 1903, 125 x 80 mm, 5 x 3 inches, green striped cloth, 60 pages. Coloured frontispiece and 11 jolly colour plates by J. R. Monsell. A silly story with a foolish old couple and a big red policeman. Spine just slightly darkened, endpapers faintly browned, old inscription on front pastedown, contents very nice and bright. A very good plus tight clean copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Grant Richards, 1903.. FIRST EDITION 1903, small 8vo, 125 x 80 mm, 5 x 3 inches, light green cloth striped and lettered dark green, pages: (6), 60. Coloured frontispiece and 11 jolly colour plates by J. R. Monsell. Plates printed 1 side only. A silly story with a foolish old couple and a big red policeman. Spine slightly darkened, new endpapers, no inscriptions, very pale stain to lower margin of page 11, otherwise contents clean and bright. A very good plus tight copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.