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London: Everett, 1901. First edition.. Pictorial stiff wrappers in the yellowback style. The spine has perished, covers and the first leaf are detached, quite loose, basically very good otherwise. A graphic of a hypodermic needle graces the front cover. A humorous and satirical work about horse racing. Very scarce.

London: Amalgamated Press, 1911 - 1914.. Two large bound volumes of Amalgamated Press comics and story papers. Old quarter-calf, unlettered. Floral end papers. Discoloration to upper covers, some light chipping, very good condition. The contents quite browned, with a few small flaws, but generally quite nice. Printed on very fragile paper. The first volume is comics, containing: Illustrated… Read more about this item

London: Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1898 [1900]. First edition.. Green cloth lettered in gilt. Light green end papers bearing publisher's ads. A bright, very good copy. Photographic frontispiece, some inserted plates, many illustrations within the text. Two publisher's catalogues at the rear, one dated 1900. A nice copy of an uncommon book.

NY: Scribners / Toronto: Presbyterian News Company, 1890. Advance Salesman's copy of the first American edition.. Brown morocco, covers ruled in black, front cover lettered in gilt. Marbled end papes. All edges gilt. Rubbing to the spine, and some moderate discoloration to covers, a nice clean copy in very good condition. The corner of one leaf has been clipped,… Read more about this item

London: Burroughes & Watts, [c.1920]. Revised Edition.. Slate pictorial cloth, designed in black and white. 72pp. Six photographic plates on three double-sided leaves. A nice clean copy. Ad for billiard balls on inner front cover. Ad leaf for chalk at the rear. Printed at The Arden Press. An uncommon title.

London: William Smith, 1847.. 4to. Original green cloth, spine and front cover designed in gilt. Yellow coated end papers. Sixty hand-coloured lithographic plates, most with the tissue guards intact. The binding is rough, with old repairs to the outer front hinge, as well as the inner hinges; tape residue on the inner front hinge, back cover dampstruck. Plates are… Read more about this item

Edinburgh and London: Chambers, 1856. First edition.. Half-calf, spine titled in gilt on a burgundy panel. Green coated end papers. Frontispiece plus ten maps and plates in colour, and many illustrations in the text. Tear in blank leaf at the front, some wear to the leather spine and tips, a very good copy, internally clean. Armorial bookplate on inner… Read more about this item

Pretoria: Government Printing and Stationery Office, 1905.. Original red cloth, front cover lettered in gilt. Some repair to the spine, old staining to the lower edge, generally a very good copy. Large folding map of The Transvaal Colony (Revised, August 1904) is present at the front, some light wear to edges. An additional map of Africa is laid in.… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Paterson, 1907. Second Edition.. Original tan cloth, designed and lettered in red and black. Frontispiece and seven inserted plates. Notes on the front flyleaf by a prior owner, also a page of holograph notes pasted in at page 154. One marginal tear at page 233, small mark to binding along front hinge, a very good copy. Laid in… Read more about this item

London: For the Author by Darton and Co., [1856]. . Blue pictorial cloth, stamped in blind, designed and lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover. Engraved second title page, eight mounted plates with onion skins, many engraved illustrations within the text. A remarkable work, dealing with all aspects of corsets, contractors, and other similar constructions. The final… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1878. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged.. Two volumes, large thick octavo, Publisher's original terra-cotta cloth, front panels stamped in blind and gold, spine panels lettered and decorated in gold, rear panels stamped in blind, dark green coated endpapers. Pp [i-v], vi-cxxviii; [1], 2-501; [502-504]; [i-v], vi-xv, [blank], [1], 2-579, [580]. Frontispieces [that of Vol… Read more about this item

Venice: Bortoli, 1764. Fifth Edition.. Original plain porous wrappers, stitched. Extensively illustrated with engraved music. Woodcut device on title. [88]pp. A very fresh, very good copy, uncut, in the original binding. An ancient, light stain to the outside of the upper spine. First published in 1708. Gasparini (1661-1727) was at one time one of the leading composers in Venice.… Read more about this item

Original Manuscript dated 1774.. A notebook of about 36 leaves, pictorial wrappers, hand-lettered title label on upper cover. 6.75 x 8.25 inches. Some chipping to spine, scattered foxing mostly to preliminary and final leaves. Very good condition. This is a German-language manuscript cookbook containing 77 recipies, with a numbered table of contents at the rear. There are an additional… Read more about this item

Boston: The Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1844 & 1847.. Two bound volumes of this periodical. 1844: Volume 1, Numbers 1 - 53. 1847: Volume IV, Numbers 1-52. Two complete years, with alphabetical indices at the rear. 4to. Illustrated. Bound in marbled boards with leather spines. Some wear to the joints, chipping to the spine of the 1847 volume, scattered… Read more about this item

NY: Dion Thomas, 1871. First edition.. Original green diced cloth, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Dark brown coated end papers. 224pp. A very bright, attractive copy. Several signatures are loose in the centre of the book, suggesting that some binding threads have broken. A facsimile reprint of the 1871 edition, with an introduction by noted bookseller Madeleine Stern,… Read more about this item

Stuttgart, Hofmann'sche, 1844.. Small 4to. Original green textured cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Gray end papers. 268pp. of text, and 36 plates of beetles, all but two are hand-colored. Some wear to cloth at tips and hinges, name on title, a very good copy. Text is entirely in German. The beetle plates are finely printed, and handsomely… Read more about this item

Valencia: Joseph Garcia, 1751. First edition.. Small 4to. Contemporary vellum, lettered on the spine in the Spanish style. Remains of original ties. Some wear to first (title) and final leaf; holograph table of contents at rear. Discoloration of vellum, generally a very good copy. One leaf (57/58) is torn at the bottom with slight loss to one catchword. A… Read more about this item

NY: Harcourt, Brace & World / The Hague: Mouton, 1968. First edition.. Quarter-calf, blue cloth, slipcased. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Twenty-two plates, plus two color plates printed in pochoir by Daniel Jacomet, Paris. Three maps and a folding chart, and illustrations within the text. 680 copies were printed; this is number 115 of 678 numbered copies.… Read more about this item

London: Boone, 1855. First edition in English.. Original blue cloth stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Yellow coated end papers. 456pp. 12-page publisher's catalogue at rear. Old library labels on inner covers, some wear to edges, a very good copy. An ownership signature on the title is improbably dated 1837. Beamish published a number of translations from the… Read more about this item

Boston, Mass.: Mitchell Woodbury, (1924).. Decorative wrappers. 383pp. Old stain to the top edge of the last 15 leaves, a bit of edge wear, generally quite clean and very good. A copy of the company stationery is pasted onto the catalogue's title page. Fully illustrated with all manner of dishes, cutlery, china, kitchen and restaurant equipment. A large trade… Read more about this item