British Isles
Drafts and Fragments of Verse. Edited from the Manuscripts by J.S. Cunningham
Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1956. With the contemporary ink ownership signature of anthropologist Graeme Pretty. William Collins (1721-1759), 'pre-Romantic English poet whose lyrical odes adhered to Neoclassical forms but were Romantic in theme and feeling' ('Encyclopaedia Britannica'). More
The Con Camp Chronicle. Published by Permission of Lt. Col. H.L.W. Norrington DSO RAMC. Editors: Rev. H.F.S. Collier ... [and] Pte. William Farrow AIF. September, 9 1917, No 10 ... 1 Penny weekly [drop-title]
Rouen, The Editors, September 1917. Melbourne-born William Farrow described himself as a 'Black & White Artist' on his enlistment form in March 1916. He was in the 3rd Division Cyclists' Corps, before transferring to the 2nd Battalion and going to France in September 1916. His service records indicate that for..... More
The Confectioner's Receipt Book and Pastrycook's and Housewife's Guide. Containing Receipts for Confectionery, Cakes, Custards, Creams, Jellies, Preserves, Puddings, Pies, Cordials, Liqueurs, Essences, Wines, Pickles, &c
London, John Heywood, 1889 ('New and Revised Edition')/ [1886]. More
Being a Scot
London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008. The black front free endpaper, printed with a small portrait of a young Able Seaman Connery, is inscribed in silver ink 'For Robert | all best wishes | from Sean'. His co-author has added his first-name signature and an appealing doodle, captioned 'Slainte!'. The recipient..... More
The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. Volume One, 1861-1897. Edited by Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983. The first of an eight-volume set. More
Shakespeare. The Theatre of Our World
London, Head of Zeus, 2018. An Apollo Book. More
Annual Report of the Agricultural Department, Privy Council Office, on the Contagious Diseases Inspection and Transit of Animals for the Year 1888, with an Appendix
London, HMSO, 1889. British Parliamentary Paper C. 5679 of 1889. The highly detailed and impressive plates illustrate the sections on swine fever, anthrax, tubercular mammitis and actinomycosis bovis ('lumpy jaw'). Reading these reports suggests the rise of vegetarianism in Victorian England was not without good cause. This paper is contained..... More
Aconcagua and Tierra Del Fuego. A Book of Climbing, Travel and Exploration
London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1902 (first edition). 'William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (1856-1937), known between 1895 and 1931 as Sir Martin Conway, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, who made expeditions in Europe as well as in South America and Asia.... In 1892..... More
Incunabula in the Westminster Abbey and Westminster School Libraries
London, The Bibliographical Society, 2013. More
The Battle Honours of the British and Indian Armies, 1662 - 1982
London, Leo Cooper, 1987. Number 310 of 750 copies signed by the author on a limitation label mounted on the front flyleaf. Definitive. More
Liners & Cruise Ships 2. Some more notable smaller vessels
London, Carmania Press, 2000. Not least, the 'Esperia'. More
A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household, made in Divers Reigns. From King Edward III, to King William and Queen Mary. Also Receipts in Ancient Cookery
London, Printed for the Society of Antiquaries by John Nichols, 1790. Pages 423-476 are 'Ancient Cookery. From a ms. in the Library of the Royal Society', and the prefatory note is worth quoting at length: 'The ms. from which the following pages are transcribed, is without title or date, or..... More
Farnborough. 100 Years of British Aviation
Hinckley, Midland/ Ian Allen, 2006. A detailed history of the UK's premier air testing airfield; superb illustrations ideal for the modeller. More
Marine Painting in England, 1700-1900
London, Studio Vista, 1974. More
Journal of My Service in India
London, The Folio Society, 1966 [first thus]. Edited, and with an 11-page introduction, by Michael Edwards. More
Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound. Selected Writings of ... with some Letters of Frances Cornford. Edited by Jonathan Galassi
Manchester, Carcanet, 1976 [first edition]. More
Sharpe's Company. Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812
London, Collins, 1982 (first edition). The third in the series of Richard Sharpe's adventures at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More
Sharpe's Gold. Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, August 1810
London, Collins, 1981 (first edition). The second in the series of Richard Sharpe's adventures at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More
Sharpe's Gold. Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, August 1810
London, Collins, 1981 (first edition). The second in the series of Richard Sharpe's adventures at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More
In His Own Image
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1901 [first Colonial edition]. One of only 500 copies of the Lane's Indian and Colonial Library edition, using sheets printed in the USA for the first American edition. More
Second Play Parade
London, William Heineman, September 1939 (second impression)/ April 1939. Comprises four comedies: 'This Year of Grace', 'Words and Music', 'Operette' and 'Conversation Piece'. More
The Genus Roscoea
Kew, The Royal Botanic Gardens, 2007. A Botanical Magazine Monograph. More
Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England. Volume 2: Assaults
London, Cambridge University Press, 1985. More
The House of Longman. With a Record of their Bicentenary Celebrations
London, Longmans, Green and Co., 'Printed for private circulation', 1925. More