Printed for Samuel Leigh, 18 Strand, London. 1817. FIRST EDITION. Small oblong format with the gatherings in sixes and fours. (5.4 x 3.5 inches). viii, 232pp. Dual French and English text on each page. Original Publishers binding of half black sheep with marbled paper on boards. Printed blue paper label..... More

S.P.C.K. London,1884. FIRST EDITION. Contains essays about Babbage, Watt, Stephenson, Nasmyth and others as well as a chapter on the first steam engine. A few leaves affected by light foxing but overall a very good bright copy in early fine leather binding by Relfe Brothers of London. Full tan calf..... More

Jacob Tonson. London. 1718. FIRST ROWE EDITION. Folio. (16 x 10.3 inches). xxv, (5), 446, 55, (1) pp. Complete. Engraved frontis, large folding map and several engraved vignettes throughout. Small area cut from the title page, possibly to remove a previous owner's name, and some minor browning to some leaves..... More

A.Wilson. London.,1813. 6mo.(5.6 x 3.6 inches). Previous owners name,and date 1857, on front free endpaper. Bound,without half title, in contemporary half red sheep. Spine with gilt ruling, piping, lettering and decorations. Marbled paper on boards. A very good copy in a lovely early binding.:. More

Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1907. Reprint of the revised 1891 edition. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.1 inches). Some foxing to the blank endpapers and to a lesser extent on the first and last couple of pages of text, otherwise clean throughout. Fine attractive early twentieth century binding of full dark..... More

Verlag von Otto Meissner. Hamburg. 1872. SECOND EDITION. 8vo. (8 x 5.7 inches). Title page, 830pp. A fine clean copy throughout, in a fine leather binding with chemise and clamshell box, by Karl-Heinz Neumann, created circa 1970. Full dark brown Buffalo binding with 5 raised bands to the spine. Compartments..... More

William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1928. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.2 inches). Some minor spotting to a few pages but generally a very good copy in recent binding of full dark blue morocco. Spine with raised bands, compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. --- Stott A37a..... More

William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1951. FIRST EDITION. 3 VOLUMES. 8vo. (8 x 5.6 inches). A little foxing to the first couple of pages of volume three otherwise a near fine set in recent leather bindings of full red morocco, spines with five raised bands, the compartments ruled, lettered and decorated..... More

Maclehose, Jackson & Co. Glasgow.,1924. FIRST EDITION. Inscribed with a poem in Latin and English by the Author to a descendant of Walter Scott. Mounted into the back of the book is an envelope containing a hand written note from the Author to Mr Scott, on Abbotsford headed notepaper, dated..... More

Methuen Children's books Ltd. London. 1978. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY CHRISTOPHER MILNE. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.2 inches). One of only 300 copies, numbered and signed by Christopher Milne, and hand bound by Zaehnsdorf of London, published on 11th October 1978 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the book's original publication..... More

William Pickering. London. 1839. THREE VOLUMES. 8vo. (6.5 x 4.2 inches). Portrait frontis in volume one. Printed by Charles Whittingham, London. Attractively bound in contemporary half black calf with gilt ruling, decoration and lettering to spines. Dark green title labels, gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Some foxing to blank endpapers..... More

Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1939, 1939. EARLY EDITION. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.8 inches). Some offsetting to the blank free endpapers and neat previous owner name, dated 1939 to front free endpaper otherwise a very good clean copy in the publishers original delux leather binding of full purple roan leather..... More

Cassell & Company, Limited. 1892. Reprint. (Twenty-eighth thousand). 8vo. (7.3 x 4.9 inches). viii, 1104pp. Some light foxing to the last few pages of the index otherwise a very good bright copy in a fine decorative leather binding. Full tan mottled calf. Spine with raised bands, ruled in gilt. Red..... More