Recent Additions

A selection of items from recently added stock.

AN OFFICER OF THE INDIAN POLICE: The "Walking Stick Method of Self-Defence. By an Officer of the Indian Police.

Plates from photographs throughout. 8vo 7 1/4 x 5 inches. Original red cloth; unevenly faded, tear in one blank margin. With the ragged front panel of the dust jacket only from which we learn that "The Daintiest Lady carrying a walking cane is a Match for the Burliest Hooligan".

£180.00

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ANON: My Mother's picture book: containing, My mother, The dogs' dinner-party, The white cat, Little dog Trusty, with twenty-four pages of illustrations.

Routledge, London [1870]. 23 chromolitho (coloured) plates as called for [one being a double-page]. 4to (10 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches), original green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt and colours. Headbands rubbed, inner joints cracked. Two blank leaves torn and with early repair with cloth tape. 1877 gift inscription on front free endpaper. A very nice copy indeed. Very rare.

£275.00

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ARNOLD, MATTHEW: New Poems. Inscribed.

Macmillan and Co. 1868. Second edition. (1st was 1867). 8vo ( 7 1/4 x 5 inches), pages: 246:(1, Works by Matthew Arnold, M.A.) original green cloth, sides ruled in gilt, by Burn & Co. with their ticket on rear pastedown. Slight bubbling of cloth to upper cover else very good. Inscribed "From the Author" on verso of front free endpaper. Inscribed " J [?] Exon" on front pastedown. Rare. seemingly more so than the first edition of 1867 of which 20 copies are cited by Jisc wheras only 6 copies cited for the second edition!

£750.00

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BAUR, ERWIN; FISCHER, EUGEN; & LENZ, FRITZ. (Translated by Eden & Cedar Paul): Human Heredity. With 172 illustrations in the text and 9 plates.

George Allen & Unwin, 1931. First English edition. 9vo ( 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), 734-pages. Original blue-grained cloth in the dust jacket. The dust jacket now browned and edge worn but it has done a wonderful job in preserving the cloth binding which remains very good indeed; also very good internally.

£495.00

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CATLEEN, ELLEN: Peking Studies.

Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai, 1934. Photographs by Catleen and sketches by F.H. Schife throughout. Folio (15 x 10 5/8 inchen), 87-pages. Original 2-tone cloth with pictorial inset as issued. Binding dustmarked and spotted at base of upper cover, some spotting and marking elsewhere but overall very good and internally excellent. In the rare dust jacket which has edge wear and with chipped loss and foxing.

£425.00

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT: The World as I see it. Translated by Allan Harris.

John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1935. First British edition. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), pages 214:(6, publisher's list), original purple cloth lettered in white. Spine faded and with bruising and tiny nick in headband; overall good and very clean internally.

£175.00

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HOLY BIBLE & BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER: The Pictorial Bible; being the Old and New Testaments according to the Authorized version: illustrated with many hundred wood-cuts, representing the historical events, after celebrated pictures; the landscape scenes, from original drawings, or from authentic engravings; and the subjects of natural history, costume, and antiquities, from the best sources. To which are added, original notes, chiefly explanatory of the engravings, and of such passages connected with the history, geography, natural history, and antiquities of the Sacred Scriptures as require observation.

Charles Knight, London. 1836. Three volumes large 8vo (10 1/2 x 7 inches) pages 680; 829; & 542. Together with the companion Pictorial Edition of the Book of Common Prayer illustrated with many hundred woodcuts, this uniform in size with the above bible, and 711-pages. Engraved pictorial titles. Uniformly bound full purple grained calf, gilt rules to sides, spine decoratively in blind and gilt and gilt lettered direct, gilt decoratio to edge of boards, all edges gilt. With purple leather gilt presentation labels on front pastedown, "Robert Dunnell the Gift of his Affectionate Parents, 1840". And with biblical inscriptions on front free endpapers. Some scuffing, rubbing to the foot of the spine of the Common Prayer, but overall very handsome and in very good condition.

£400.00

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LEWIN, W: The Papilios of Great Britain: systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature: with the natural history of each species, from a close application to the subject, and observations made in different counties of this kingdom, as well as from breeding numbers from the egg, or caterpillar, during the last thirty years, the figures engraved from the subjects themselves, by the author, W. Lewin ... and painted under his immediate direction.

Printed for J. Johnson, London, 1795. First edition, second issue. (Previously issued the same year as Volume 1 of "The insects of Great Britain"; of which this was the only volume published). 46 fine hand-coloured copper engraved plates. Titles and text both in English & French. 4to (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), pages: 97:(3, index). Contemporary full dark blue straight grained calf, wide decorative floral gilt border to sides, spine with sunburst gilt decoration and gilt lettered direct, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. The tissue guards to the plates foxed, the plates themselves very clean and unblemished. The binding very good, handsome and attractive. Contemporary inscription, "Thos. Kinder Esq. St. Albans" on front fly.

£2000.00

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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM: The Works of Shakespeare. The text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a selection of modern readings. Edited by Herbert Farjeon.

Nonesuch Press, 1929. Published 1929-1933. Number 574 of a limited edition of 1050 for sale in Great Britain and Ireland, a further 550 sets were printed for sale in the United State of America. Seven volumes large 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), publisher's full tan morroco, sides ruled in gilt, spines with wide raised bands and gilt lettered direct, top edges gilt, others uncut. Spines a little sunned apart from Volume 6. Small scuff to lower compartment of Volume 3. Internally excellent.

£700.00

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SOWERBY, JAMES & SMITH, JAMES EDWARD: English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth. To which will be added occasional remarks by James Edward Smith. Volumes 1 - 22.

for the Author, 1790 - Published 1790-1806. First edition of the first 22 volumes. With 1,584 fine engraved plates with original hand colouring. 8vo (9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), contemporary full tan marbled calf; joints cracked, backstrips verry rubbed and chipped & lacking lettering pieces, plate 1254 corner creased, Volume 6 split in two. Tanning to some of the plates in Volumes 8 & 13 but overall remarkably very good, fresh, and clean. Contemporary signature on titles.

£2400.00

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