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London Edward Arnold & Co 1932, 1932. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. 167pp. Folding map at front from "Conamen Mappae generalis Medicamen-torum Simplicium," by C.C. Wurtz. Argentorati (1778). A selection of some of the oldest publications on the chemistry of tannins written in English, German and French. Includes work by Galla (1485); J.B. Porta (1589); O. Tachenius (1666); G. Piepenbring (1786); C.W. Scheele (1787); C.L. Kunsemuller (1787); G. Biggin (1799); Sir Humphrey Davy (1803); E.T.P. Bouillon-Lagrange (1805); C.H. Pfaff (1808). Original brown blind-stamped boards. Spine, corners, and edges rubbed, front hinge split, chipped at foot of spine, otherwise a very good copy of a scarce book.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] apud Samuelem Luchtmans 1715, 1715. Folio, in 4s. pp, [20], 1000, [55, 1bl]. Additional engraved title page (with date 1716), lacking half title. One double folding engraved plate. Parallel text in Greek and Latin. Contemporary calf, spine with six raised bands. Six compartments decorated in gilt with French Royal arms of fleur-de-lys surrounded by a garland and surmounted by a crown. Brown morocco label to second compartment, lettered in gilt. Edges of boards decorated in gilt. All edges sprinkled red. In excellent condition with only very slight marking to the boards. Internally fine, beautifully crisp and fresh. Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of Thomas Hall and front free endpaper has ownership inscription "T.Hall C.C.C. Oxon. 1744". An immaculate copy of Luchtmans's handsomely printed Herodotus in the edition by the German scholar Johann Gronovius who was professor of Greek at Leiden where he was also the University Librarian.

Paris: Librairie Archeologique de Victor Didron. � 1857, 1857. First edition. 4to. 272x225mm. pp. 58 [2, advertisements]. Three leaves of engraved plates and a plan of the layout of the capitals of the Doge's Palace. Original brown paper wrappers, worn and chipped at extremities, tears to spine with some loss, staining to covers. Internally, there is foxing and spotting but overall it is in very good condition. Some pages unopened. �� This is the first published book by William Burges, one of the most inventive architects and designers of the nineteenth century. The son of a rich engineer, Burges trained with Edward Blore (the surveyor to Westminster Abbey) and Matthew Wyatt who was Special Commissioner to the 1851 Great Exhibition. Burges worked closely with Wyatt in assessing designs and entries for the Exhibition, particularly for Pugin's hugely influential Medieval Court. This was to determine the course of Burges's career: from the early 1850s he travelled widely throughout Europe… Leer más

Roma: Tesi di Laurea in Lingue e Letterature straniere 1957, 1957. Presentation copy: 'To George H.W. Rylands with my best gratitude Rodolfo Colapaoli 10th. 7. '57.' 4to. pp. 678. Purple type-written text, recto only. The author's business card inscribed with 'Many greetings from yours sincerely' followed by his printed name with the Dott. crossed out and a new telephone number written below the crossed out printed one. Three 8pp. pamphlets with the same title as the book are loosely inserted with underlining in blue where there are references to George H.W. Rylands who was otherwise known as Dadie Rylands. He directed the Marlowe Dramatic Society's productions between 1929 and the 1960s, acting himself in numerous productions. It was with the Marlowe Society that he did his most notable productions and influenced greatly the speaking of Shakespearian verse in English theatre. The author, an Italian researcher, presents his thesis which is a history of the Marlowe Society.… Leer más

North Hollywood, California Essex House 1968, 1968. First edition. 170x108mm. pp. 255. Original paperback, pictorial card cover with postscript by Theodore Sturgeon. Very good condition with a little light rubbing to covers. Internally fine. Described on the front cover as a "remarkable adult novel", The Image of the Beast is an extraordinary book combining the surreal, the erotic, and the grotesque to create a genre described as "biosexopsychic science-fiction".

London: Henry Colburn 1826, 1826. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xvi, 512; xii, 632. + 4pp. publisher's adverts. One leaf torn, with no loss, small ink mark in margin, otherwise a very good clean copy. Original green morocco cloth, paper labels. Spines nicked at head, spine and covers dulled at edges, Vol. 1. scuffed on upper cover, paper labels discoloured and chipped with minor loss. A good copy. Book-plates of Herbert S. Leon. Book-plates of George Rylands. A good copy.SECOND EDITION; corrected and enlarged. The second edition of Vols. 1 & 2 of the original series, these first two volumes were first published in 1824. Vol. 3. was first published in 1828 and Vols. 4 & 5 in 1829.

Cape Town: The Gallery Press. 1982. First trade edition. Signed by David Goldblatt. Oblong quarto. 285x292mm. Unpaginated. Seventy-one black and white photographs. Two page introduction by Goldblatt at the beginning of the book and at the end is the four page Declaration of Group Areas at Boksburg designating certain areas in the Boksburg district to be reserved "for occupation and ownership by members of the White group". Original black cloth boards lettered in white. Black dustjacket letter in white, protected by a transparent plastic wrapper. Some rubbing to corners and head and foot of spine and slight rubbing to top and bottom edge of the dustjacket. Internally in excellent condition. Overall this is a near fine signed copy of Goldblatt's most important and celebrated book. In Boksburg is a photographic account of life in a small, white community during 1979 and 1980. As Goldblatt explains in his introduction, "Literally for days on end, I stood rivetted to street corners, parking lots and… Leer más

Lugano and Como: Published by the editors 1985:, 1985. Limited edition, number four of one hundred. Signed by Carlo Chiesa and Ernesto Guffanti. Issued to mark the death of Gianni Mantero in 1985. Housed in a beige linen covered wooden folder with a cardboard pouch to hold the contents. Gianni Mantero's signature is printed in black on the upper cover. The contents are a booklet and collection of Ex Libris bookplates. The booklet is formed of eighteen leaves of cream paper folded in two and tied with a silk and wool thread. The text is printed on the recto of each folded sheet. Three leaves have book plates pasted onto them, one of which is a self portrait by Gianni Mantero himself. The text includes a brief note on about Mantero's life and brief recollections from seven of the artists who made bookplates for this In Memoriam collection. There is a list of the artists represented. Issued with a portfolio of sixty Ex Libris bookplates designed by sixty artists and printed in memory of Gianni… Leer más

London: Chapman and Hall 1915. First edition. Presentation copy. 8vo. 190x125mm. pp. [2], 142. Original green cloth lettered in black to the upper cover and spine in a typeface designed by Voysey. Inscribed by Voysey on the front free endpaper: "Presented to the Arts Club with fear and trembling by the author April 13th 1915". The front pastedown has the Arts Club's bookplate, designed by Voysey.Slight wear to corners and foot and head of spine and some minor marking to lower cover. Light splash mark to the blank page 60 but otherwise a very good copy of a rare and important book with a nice link to the Arts Club of which Voysey was an enthusiastic member. Library Hub locates eight copies in the UK with Worldcat adding a further nine worldwide. And scarce commercially, with only two copies appearing in the auction records. This is Voysey's only book (the 1906 Reason as a Basis of Art is really a short pamphlet) and represents the most significant statement of his beliefs, both social and aesthetic,… Leer más

London and New York: George Routledge & Co. 1854, 1854. First edition. 8vo. 159x95mm. pp. xx, 172. Blue-green bubble grained cloth, tan calf backstrip lettered in gilt with a gilt double fillet border. Backstrip damaged with loss of 40mm. Slight bumping to corners. Internally very good save for staining on pp62-63. Library label of The Institution of Civil Engineers on front pastedown and front free endpaper has inscription "Science Museum" in blue biro. Library stamp on the verso of the title page and on the final page. Rare in commerce. This book is the result of the tour of the United States made by Joseph Whitworth and George Wallis in 1853. They had been appointed British Commissioners for the New York International Exhibition and were also instructed to investigate the development of industry, manufacturing and the applied arts in America. They covered 5000 miles visiting factories and schools of design. The book contains chapters on the production of all types of everything from wheels for… Leer más

London: Winchester and Varnham 1821, 1821. First edition. Large quarto. 268x210mm. pp. [iii]-xv [1], viii, 164. Lacking half title. Blind stamp of the Royal United Services Institute Library at head of title page. Half calf, marbled paper covered boards, rebacked and corners repaired. Red morocco label to spine, lettered in gilt. Upper cover a little scuffed and edges rubbed. Front pastedown has presentation bookplate of RUSI with disposal stamp. Slightly foxed but overall a very good copy of an important book which resulted in the election of Knowles to be a Fellow of the Royal Society. Knowles's work is a detailed study of the use and preservation of timber in ships. As he says in the preface, "the state and condition of the navy is a subject that cannot be too deeply studied, or too carefully attended to in this country; for whatever may be our political situation or connexion with the several Powers on the Continent of Europe, England should always recollect, that shops are her surest… Leer más

London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly 1775, 1775. First (and seemingly only) edition. 8vo (172x100mm). pp. vi, [2], 141, [1 bl]. Quarter calf, marbled paper covered boards. Some rubbing to corners and joints but a very nice copy and internally excellent. Sir Robert Strange (1721-1792) was a Scottish engraver. Well connected, although with a tendency to fall out with potential patrons, he was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists. A dispute in the Society led to the founding of the Royal Academy from which printers were excluded, save as associate members, an invitation declined by Strange and his engraver colleagues. The present book is the platform for Strange's grievances. He then abandoned England for a spell in France. However, Strange's exclusion from the RA seems to have done him little harm professionally. On his return to England in 1780, he gained access to the Royal Collection, producing celebrated engravings of two works by van Dyck and Benjamin West's The Apotheosis of… Leer más

Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann 1929, 1929. 29.3 x 23 cm. pp. viii, 100 plates, recto only. Dark green cloth, black labels with gilt lines and titling to upper cover and spine. Illustrated dust-jacket, marked in places, tear and chip to lower spine. Slipcase, cream label with black lettering, some staining but intact. Some foxing to edges, otherwise a very good + copy in a good dust-jacket and slipcase. A heavy item: please ask shipping costs before ordering, particularly to locations outside Europe.

Paris: Ch. Massin et Cie. n.d. [c. 1930], 1930. First edition. 295x230mm. pp. xxii, 80 colour plates on recto only. Introductory essay in French by A. Feulner. Dark green cloth, black labels with gilt lines and titling to upper cover and spine. Illustrated dust-jacket, with some very minor marking but overall in very good condition. Slipcase, cream label with black lettering, some slight marking and scuffing on the back but otherwise very good. Internally near fine with the colour plates in particularly fresh and good condition. The plates show typical interiors in a French style from German Houses of the periods of the 18th and 19th Centuries.

Leningrad: Gidrometeoizdat 1987, 1987. First edition. 8vo. 207x156mm. pp400. Inscribed to Paul Weitz. Original blue cloth, black spine, lettered in silver. The upper cover has a minimalist design with a small raised silver roundel about 1cm diameter shown floating above a curved dark blue line. Original illustrated dustjacket. Slight rubbing to extremities of the dustjacket and a small tear to the bottom front corner. Overall in excellent condition and internally it is pristine. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Text in Russian. The book has been inscribed to Paul Weitz on his historic visit to Star City in 1990. It is signed, with a dedication, by Vladimir Kovalyonok. The half title bears Weitz's signature and states "from my library". Vladimir Kovalyonok flew one failed (Soyuz 25) and two successful missions with Salyut-6 (Soyuz 29 and Soyuz T-4) and logged over 5000 hours in space. Paul Weitz flew onboard Sylab-2 as pilot and on STS-6, the maiden flight of Challenger as Spacecraft Commander.

Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press 1988, 1988. Schles's own inscribed copy. First edition. Limited to 2000 copies. Unpaginated. 233x176mm. Midnight blue cloth, blind stamped to upper cover and spine. Dust jacket is a photocopy as explained in the inscription by Ken Schles on the title page. The inscription reads: "For years I held this copy and showed it until the dust jacket disintegrated - I'm sorry - I had to put this xerox copy on the cover but it's a good book, no? This [the photograph on the title page] is in my apartment on Mott many years ago. LA 2009". In addition to the inscription, Schles has signed the title page "K.S." Tiny closed tear to the top edge of the upper cover of the dustjacket but otherwise in fine condition throughout. The photographs are printed in five inks using a special screen to reproduce the look of the original photogravure. Three pages of "Notes" which are excerpts from Lewis Mumford, Borges, Kafka, Orwell and Baudrillard. These… Leer más

London: Sherwood, Neely & Jones (and Sherwood and Co) 1817 , 1817. Nine volumes. Volumes I-III: The Itinerant; or, Memoirs of an Actor, Second edition. In three volumes. 1817. 12mo. 185x110mm. pp. 323, [1, advert for Vols iv-vi "just published"]; [4], 320; [4], 380. Engraved portrait frontispiece in volume one. Volumes IV-VI: The Itinerant; or, Memoirs of an Actor, Second Series, first edition, 1816-1817. 12mo in 6s. 185x110mm. pp. [6], 155, [1bl], 162; [4], 371, [1]; [4], 446. Volumes VII-IX: The Itinerant, in Scotland. Third Series, first edition, 1827. 12mo in 6s. [8], iv, 336; [2], 322; [2], 322. Half titles in third series only. Attractively bound in slightly later red half morocco, marbled paper covered boards. Spine compartments decorated in gilt borders and gilt floral motif. Lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some minor wearing to edges of boards but otherwise a very handsome binding. Internally very good with some browning in third series and some light foxing elsewhere.… Leer más

London: Art Yard Limited 2019 , 2019. Signed limited, lettered Edition (one of twenty six copies) with a set of four giclée prints. 280x220mm. pp. 344. Illustrated throughout with 306 photographs. Printed on 150gsm Garda Matt Ultra FSC (Italian paper stock). Pale blue cloth hardback with metal foiling and laminate print to both covers, lettered in gilt to spine. Lower cover has a poem from Sun Ra printed in gilt. With publisher's belly band. Housed in a printed cardboard box. Unopened, new and in immaculate condition. The giclée prints, measuring 270x210mm are titled "A Certain Darkness Is Needed To See The Stars". They feature the actress Jodie Turner-Smith. The images are all by the photographer Gerald Jenkins and the text includes work from Sun Ra, Darius James (the author of Negrophobia), Little Annie Bandez (Annie Anxiety), the poet Norman Douglas and the handwritten lyrics by Kain The Poet (Gylan Kain) to his seminal work Black Satin Amazon Fire Engine Cry Baby.… Leer más

London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. 1896. 8vo. 182x140mm. pp. [iv], 381, [1], [2pp adverts]. Bound by Bayntun in black half morocco, pale blue linen covered boards, spine decorated and letter in gilt. Top edge gilt. The original navy blue cloth cover with gilt vignette has been pasted to the front pastedown. The binding is in excellent condition. Internally fine but with some slight staining to the fore-edge caused by the gilding to the top-edge. Illustrated by du Maurier who, before becoming a novelist was a successful cartoonist for Punch. His cartoon "True Humility" gives us the expression "Curate's Egg" although du Maurier plagiarised this from another magazine ("Judy") which run a similar cartoon with the same joke six months earlier. Whether du Maurier's novels are plagiarised we cannot say. Whether they are "curate's eggs" is another matter. du Maurier's three novels published in this uniform edition are offered here as a set of three, not sold individually.

[London] n.p. 18 March, 14 James I [i.e.1617]. One vellum sheet (210x332mm), twenty-one lines in Latin written in black ink in small gothic court hand. The capital "J" and the "b" of the first word "Jacobus" are decorated with elaborate strapwork. At the bottom right corner is the round wax seal of the Court of Chancery in amber wax pendant. On the verso is the endorsement "Per dominum custodem magni sigilli Anglia" below which, in a fine cursive hand, is Bacon's signature "Fr. B", followed by the initials "C.S." (Custos sigilli) denoting his office as Keeper of the Seal. Above this is written, in a later hand, "Stapleton". Housed in a later red morocco box lettered in gilt on the front. On the inside of the lid of the box is the label of the great collectors, Donald and Mary Hyde. This document is among the earliest to be signed by Bacon as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal: he had been appointed only eleven days previously, succeeding Lord Ellesmere on 7th March 1617, after four years as King James's… Leer más