William Reeves. London. No date. Circa 1925, 1925. CRAFT BINDING. 4to. (11.8 x 8.3 inches). 8pp of text in German. 173 full page mono plates illustrating people playing musical instruments through the ages, most of them women. Neat presentaion inscription on the front free endpaper presenting the book to William..... More

Christophers, London 1934, 1934. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.2 inches). Illustrated with line drawings throughout the text. Publishers yellow cloth with black lettering to the spine and black illustration to the front board. In the scarce original dustwrapper with a design by Ruth Wood, printed in red and black..... More

Bell and Daldy. London. 1872, 1872. SECOND EDITION, Revised and corrected. 4to. (10.3 x 7.3 inches). Illustrated with one thousand three hundred engravings. Some foxing to the first and last couple of pages otherwise a clean copy throughout. One small tear to the bottom margin of the frontispiece, not affecting..... More

Printed for William Thurlbourn. Cambridge. 1739, 1739. THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED. 8vo. (8.1 x 5.2 inches). A clean and fresh copy in an attractive contemporary full panelled calf binding. Spine with five raised bands. Title label ruled and lettered in gilt. Blind tooling around the lighter tan panels on both boards..... More

Longman, Rees, Cadell and Davies. London. 1803, 1803. SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.5 inches). iii-xxvii, 523pp. Bound without half title but otherwise complete, with 13 engraved plates, all but two folding. A clean copy finely bound in recent half burgundy morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands..... More

Kerby and Endean. London. 1879, 1879. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (10 x 7.7 inches). 80pp. Frontis and 27 full page illustrations, all within decorative border, by Catherine Ellis. A clean fresh copy. Publishers dark blue cloth with gilt and black lettering and full illustration to the front board. Spine lettered in..... More

Printed by A. Strahan for J. Butterworth and Son. London. 1814, 1814. THREE VOLUMES. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.5 inches). Vol.1; xlviii,566pp,8pp ads; Vol.2; xxiv,622pp; Vol.3; xvi,374pp. Minor hole to prelim pages of volume one otherwise a clean tight set in contemporary brown calf bindings with ruled lines & numbering, and..... More

J. Stratford. London. 1807, 1807. FOURTEENTH EDITION, corrected, revised and considerably improved by Jacob Christopher Schnebbelie. 8vo. (8.3 x 5.6 inches). 12 copper engravings, including two fold outs that are a bit rubbed and creased but complete. Pages generally clean and free from marks. Contemporary tree calf boards with new..... More

Thornton Butterworth Ltd. London. 1939, 1939. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.8 inches). Two maps, one folding. Two pages with very small tears to the bottom of the page, one with a small amount of loss, but well away from the text, otherwise a very good bright copy in the..... More

Printed for G. Walker, J. Akerman, E. Edwards; Thomas Tegg....... London. 1822, 1822. THREE VOLUMES. 8vo. (9.3 x 6 inches). Tall, wide margined copy with the pages untrimmed. Half titles present in all three volumes. Two leaves duplicated and incorrectly inserted into the end of volume two, namely 2 pages..... More

Thornton Butterworth Limited. Macmillan & Co, Ltd. London. 1923-31, 1923. EARLY REPRINT SET. 6 volumes, complete. Large 8vo (9.3 x 6.3 inches). Contains several maps, plans and facsimiles of letters and documents, many folding. Some foxing to the fore-edge and first and last few leaves of the first volume otherwise..... More