Inscribed copy. Inscribed on front free end-paper: for Vie / who, more than anyone / is likely to understand / whatever meaning there is / in this ...

Influenced Adam Smith's Moral Sentiments. An early edition in English of this important essay on ethics and aesthetics in the tradition of Shaftesb...

A comprehensive history of winemaking with chapters on the vineyards of Portugal, Spain, France, Germany & Switzerland, Italy, Austria-Hungary...

The first edition, first impression of these essays by C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) on literary theory, adapted from lectures given by him at the Univer...

A handsome copy of Southey's Life of Nelson, illustrated with twelve woodburytype plates and bound in contemporary tree-calf for Wellington Colleg...

A handsome copy in a contemporary tree calf prize-binding of Thomas Carlyle's (1795-1881) classic account of the French Revolution.8vo (22 x 14.5 ...

A popular English dispensatory, which ran to twelve editions by 1749, containing a complete account of the materia medica and therapeutics.Quincy ...

A popular English dispensatory, which ran to twelve editions by 1749, containing a complete account of the materia medica and therapeutics.Quincy ...

An indispensable guide to the Persian Gulf in the mid-nineteenth century. First published in 1856, the original edition is virtually unobtainable....

Handsome prize binding. Sixth edition of one of the most influential books by astronomer John Herschel, in a handsome calf prize binding. This copy...

Not always to be found in official publications'. Rare. Library Hub (formerly COPAC) records no copies of the first edition; one copy of the second...

Scarce. Second edition and a lovely copy from the library of banker and politician Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942). Both the first and second edit...

Skeat (1856-1953), a Cambridge anthropologist, joined the civil service in the Straits Settlements (modern day Malaysia). He made various expediti...

Apparently unrecorded. A lovely example of this apparently unrecorded history of England from its pre-Saxon origins to Queen Victoria's reign, well...

An attractive copy of John Robert Seeley's history of Napoleon Bonaparte, in a contemporary prize-binding for The Edinburgh Angus Club. The work i...

Bound by Lewis & Harris. A beautiful copy of Darwin's first published book, in half-green morocco by Lewis & Harris, bookbinders of Bath. J...

One of Churchill's more important collections of essays. The foresight of these speeches, dating from 1928 - 1938, given by Winston Churchill, is ...

A charming edition, illustrated by the well-known illustrator Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938).First Brock edition; 8vo; colour frontispiece, colo...

An attractive little volume, featuring some of Arnold's most popular works, such as 'Dover Beach', 'The Scholar Gypsy' and 'Thyrsis'.Later edition...

A scarce tourist guide including plans of Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, etc.First edition; 4to, 122pp.; folding coloured map, colour plates &a...

Limited edition on large paper. The limited edition of Horace Hutchinson's work on Golf, number 28 of 250 copies printed on large paper. Published ...

A sweet copy of Keats' lyrical poems, edited with an introduction by the writer Ernest Rhys (1859-1946).12mo (15.5 x 10 cm); portrait frontispiece...

Prize-binding for The Law Society. An excellent example in a presentation binding for The Law Society of the F.W. Maitland's historical account of ...

Prize-binding for The Law Society. An excellent example in a presentation binding for The Law Society of the leading Victorian work on the English ...