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Cassell & Co. ltd. London. 1948-54, 1948. SIX VOLUMES. FIRST EDITIONS, 1st impressions. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.8 inches). Illustrated throughout with maps and plans, many folding. A near fine, bright set of books. Publishers black cloth with gilt lettering to the spines. Top edges dyed deep red, which is faded..... More
Baynard Press. London. 1940, 1940. FIRST EDITION. Printed stapled wraps. 16pp. (9.5 x 6 inches). Some minor creasing otherwise this is a very near fine, bright, crisp and clean copy throughout. Overall a much better copy than is usually found of this fragile pamphlet. ---- Housed in a felt lined..... More
Longmans, Green, and Co. London. 1872 - 74, 1872. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.8 inches). Previous owner armorial bookplate (Isaac Holden, politician and inventor of a wool-combing machine, who received a Baronetcy in 1893) and also ink name and address stamped to the front blank free endpapers..... More
Cassell & Co. ltd. London. 1948-54, 1948. SIX VOLUMES. FIRST EDITIONS, 1st impressions. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.8 inches). Illustrated throughout with maps and plans, many folding. A near fine, bright set of books with some neat annotation to a handful of pages in volume one. Publishers black cloth with gilt..... More
John Stockdale. London. 1794 + 1801, 1794. FIRST EDITION OF VOLUME THREE AND SECOND EDITION OF VOLUMES 1 AND 2.--- Three volumes. 4to. All 3 bound without the half titles, otherwise complete. Illustrated with 22 engraved maps and plates, four of these are large folding plates, including the general map..... More
Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston. USA. 1979, 1979. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8vo. (9.1 x 6.2 inches). Illustrated with 58 mono photos. A fine and clean copy in a fine leather binding of full dark blue morocco. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, including a previous owner's..... More
Printed by W. Nicol, late Bulmer & Co. London. 1822, 1822. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9.3 x 6.1 inches). Illustrated title, 56pp, 7 full page engravings, each with a plain tissue guard. Aside from some light spotting to the tissue guards this is a bright and clean copy throughout. Finely bound..... More
Heinemann. London. 1977, 1977. FIRST EDITION. 3 large 8vo volumes. (9.2 x 6.3 inches). Publishers red cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Fine bright copies in original dustwrappers which have sun fading to the lettering on the spines, as often found with these volumes, making the lettering barely readable, and..... More
Cambridge University Press. 1950. THREE VOLUMES. Large 8vo. (9.8 x 7 inches). Reprint of the second Edition, originally published in 1925 (Volume 1) and 1927 (volumes 2 and 3). ---- Volume 1. xlvi, 674pp. - Volume 2. xxxi, 742pp. - Volume 3. viii, 491pp. A very clean and fresh set..... More
A Cologne, Chez Pierre du Marteau, --- but a fictitious imprint; apparently from the press of Daniel Elzevier. Amsterdam. 1666, 1666. Two volumes. 12mo. (5.6 x 3.2 inches). [24], 644, [50] p.; [8], 482, [26] pp. Lacking the portrait frontis. Finely bound in early nineteenth century full red straight grained..... More
Cassell and Company. London. 1942-46, 1942. FIRST EDITIONS of volumes two through to seven. First volume is the tenth edition, published 1943. 7 VOLUMES. Complete set of the war speeches. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CHURCHILL IN VOLUME ONE (Into Battle), with a V for Victory. ----’Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill..... More