Natural History/The Sciences, includng social and political.
AUDEN. W. H. Selects and Introduces.
KIERKEGAARD.
Cassell and Company Ltd. London. 1955. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. A fine and bright copy in a bright, clean near fine price clipped dustwrappper with just a hint of darkening to the spine. A selection of the writings of Soren Kierkegaard with an introductory essay by Auden. Item #9820
Price: £125.00
BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF LOCOMOTIVES. M. Baird & Co., Philadelphia. -- Matthew Baird, George Burnham, Charles T. Parry, Edward H. Williams, William P. Henszey, Edward Longstreth.
Press of J. B. Lippincott. Philadelphia. USA. circa 1872. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (11 X 7.9 inches). 134pp. Illustrated with engraved frontis and several smaller wood engraved illustrations throughout the text, plus 16 albumen photographic prints of Locomotives, each mounted onto a card page with the technical details for that engine... Item #8854
Price: £1,450.00
BERKELEY PEERAGE.
A NARRATIVE OF THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE RESPECTING THE CLAIM TO THE BERKELEY PEERAGE, As taken before the committee of priviliges in 1811. Together with the entire evidence of the persons principally concernedTo which are added facsimiles of the banns
Sherwood, Neely and Jones.London.,1811. FIRST EDITION. xv,276pp. Two pages of facsimiles. Previous owners name written in ink on small slip of paper stuck to top of title page. Some light foxing but overall very good in contemporary half red sheep. Spine lettered and ruled and decorated with floral stamps in... Item #1997
Price: £200.00
BORN. MAX.
THE RESTLESS UNIVERSE. Translated by Winifred M. Deans.
Blackie & Son Limied. London.,1935. FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Large 8vo (8.8 x 7 inches). A very good copy in publishers blue cloth, lettered in yellow.In the rare original dustwrapper which has a couple of repaired tears and some creasing to the edges but is overall in very good condition... Item #5338
Price: £150.00
BOWLEY. ARTHUR. L.; Professor of Statistics at the University of London.
ELEMENTS OF STATISTICS.
P. S. King & Staples. Ltd. London. ND.,1937. Sixth (Fourth) Edition. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.9 inches). Definitive edition. The original edition was first published in 1901, and is based on lectures delivered at the London School of Economics in the five years after it was founded in 1895. This edition... Item #7929
Price: £275.00
BROWNE. THOMAS.
RELIGIO MEDICI. Letter to a friend &c. and Christian Morals. Edited by W. A. Greenhill, M.D. Oxon.
Macmillan & Co. Ltd. London. 1926. REPRINT of 1881 edition. 8vo.(6.2 x 4.2 inches). Some light foxing to the first few leaves otherwise a fine, clean copy in an attractive leather binding by Riviere of Bath. Full dark red mottled calf. The spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping... Item #9650
Price: £200.00
BUCKLAND.A.C.; .
LETTERS ON THE IMPORTANCE, DUTY AND ADVANTAGES OF EARLY RISING. Addresses to Heads of Families, the Man of Business, the Lover of Nature, the Student, and the Christian.
Taylor & Hessey.London.,1819. Second edition.First few leaves are a little foxed but overall a clean copy.Fore and lower edges uncut.Original publisher's brown paper covered boards with printed label to spine.The paper label is complete but the lettering has faded .Joints cracked but holding.Published anonymously,Buckland is listed as the author in... Item #5065
Price: £75.00
CANETTI.ELIAS.; .
CROWDS AND POWER. Translated from the German by Carol Stewart.
Victor Gollancz Ltd.London.,1962. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION.Some light spotting to the fore-edge otherwise a very good bright copy in a near fine,price clipped,dustwrapper.:wph. Item #6694
Price: £110.00
CHANNING. WILLIAM E(llery).
SLAVERY. From the Boston (U.S.) second edition, revised by the Author.
James Hedderwick & Son. Glasgow. 1836. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. 8vo. (7.1 x 4.4 inches). 172pp, i (publishers advert). A very good, uncut copy in the publishers brown morocco grained cloth with printed paper label to the spine. Several gatherings unopened. A little chipping to the label but overall a very... Item #9162
Price: £150.00
CHAPLIN. CHARLIE.; .
MY WONDERFUL VISIT.
Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. London. No Date.,1922. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.1 inches). Illustrated with 2 line drawings plus 8 full page mono photographic plates, including Chaplin meeting H. G. Wells and the Mayor of Southampton, among others. The page edges browned, as usual with this cheaply made book... Item #8182
Price: £175.00
CHURCHILL. WINSTON L. SPENCER.
THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE. An episode of Frontier War.
Longmans, Green, and Co.London. 1898. First Edition, First Issue of Churchill's rare first book. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.1 inches). Frontispiece portrait and 6 maps. Finely bound, without the publishers adverts, in full burgundy morocco by Bayntun (Riviere) of Bath, UK. Spine with five raised bands, each with 3 gilt circles... Item #9486
Price: £2,250.00
CHURCHILL. WINSTON S. ; COSWAY STYLE BINDING.
MY EARLY LIFE. A Roving Commission.
Thornton Butterworth Limited. London. 1930. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 1st state, with 11 titles by Churchill listed on the half title. Illustrated throughout with maps and portraits. A small amount of very light spotting to a few leaves but overall this is a clean and bright copy. Finely bound in the... Item #9111
Price: £3,000.00
CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.
THE COLLECTED WORKS. And COLLECTED ESSAYS. The Story of the Malakand Field Force; The River War; London to Ladysmith; Ian Hamilton's March; Savrola; Lord Randolph Churchill; My African Journey; Liberalism and the Social Problem; The World Crisis; My Early Life; Thoughts and Adventures; Marlborough; Great Contemporaries; Arms and the Covenant; Step by Step; War Speeches: (Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches); Post-War Speeches: (The Sinews of Peace; Europe Unite; In the Balance; Stemming the Tide; The Unwritten Alliance); Maxims and Reflections; The Second World War: (The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph & Tragedy); A History of the English Speaking Peoples: (The New World, The Great Democracies, The Age of Revolution, The Birth of Britain); The Collected Essays.
Library of Imperial History, in association with the Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd. 1973. Complete in 38 volumes. Large 8vo. (9.4 x 6.3 inches). The Centenary Edition. Limited Edition of 3000 sets. This set is one of those without the limitation labels affixed to the flyleaves. Includes the 4 supplement volumes... Item #9287
Price: £3,250.00
CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.
A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES. The New World.; The Age of Revolution.; The Great Democracies.; The Birth of Britain.
McClelland & Stewart. Ltd. Toronto, Canada. 1956-58. LIMITED EDITION SET. Four volumes. First Canadian Editions. 8vo. --- Each volume one of 350 presentation copies signed by the Publisher, John McClelland, on a bound in sheet at the start of each volume and presented to the same recipient, who worked at... Item #8820
Price: £1,250.00
CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.
A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES. Volume I: The Birth of Britain. Volume II: The New World. Volume III: The Age of Revolution. Volume IV: The Great Democracies.
Cassell and Company Ltd. London. 1956-58. FIRST EDITIONS. Four Volumes. Complete. 8vo. (9.8 x 6.4 inches). Finely bound in recent full red morocco. Spines with raised bands, the compartments ruled lettered and decorated with Rampant lion device, all in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. All edges gilt. A.... Item #9859
Price: £1,250.00
CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.
IAN HAMILTON`S MARCH. Together with extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant H. Frankland. A Prisoner of war at Pretoria.
Longmans, Green, and Co. London. 1900. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.3 inches). Portrait frontis. Ten maps and plans (one folding). 32pp of publishers adverts dated 7/00 at end of book. Previous owners neat ink name written on the blank front free endpaper and some browning to the blank endpapers... Item #9853
Price: £1,000.00
CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.
IAN HAMILTON`S MARCH. Together with extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant H. Frankland. A Prisoner of war at Pretoria.
Longmans, Green, and Co. London. 1900. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.3 inches). Portrait frontis. Ten maps and plans(one folding). 32pp of publishers adverts dated 10/99 at end of book. Some light spotting to front blank endpaper and half title otherwise this is a tight, bright copy. Black coated endpapers... Item #9854
Price: £750.00
CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.
THE RIVER WAR. An account of the reconquest of the Soudan.
Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1933. FIRST CHEAP EDITION. 8vo. (Actually the second cheap editon. An edition was published in 1915. This is the first printing of Churchill`s new introduction. The book is reprinted from the plates of the 1902 edition. See Woods A2(d).) Illustrated with 22 maps and plans. A.... Item #9724
Price: £300.00
CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.
THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
Cassell & Co. ltd. London. 1948-54. FIRST EDITION. Six 8vo volumes. Illustrated throughout with maps and plans, many folding. A fine, clean set, finely bound in recent full dark blue morocco leather, spines with raised bands, red title labels, gilt. Spine compartments ruled and decorated with gilt stamped rampant lion... Item #9756
Price: £1,750.00
CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.
THE SECOND WORLD WAR. The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.
Cassell & Co. ltd. London. 1948-54. FIRST EDITION. SIX VOLUMES. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.8 inches). Illustrated with maps and plans. Very good, bright set of books with light spotting to the fore edges in publishers original dustwrappers. Some minor rubbing to the edges but the spines lettering, including the red... Item #9917
Price: £650.00
CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.
THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES.
Thornton Butterworth Limited. London. 1932. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. A fine, clean copy internally in publishers original green cloth, the spine and front board lettered in gilt. Edges of boards a little rubbed and there is a very thin score mark to the front board but overall a very good copy... Item #9926
Price: £375.00
CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.
THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES. Churchill reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying and the Future. Edited with a new introduction by James W. Muller.
ISI Books. Wilmington Delaware. U. S. A. 2009. FIRST PRINTING of this new edition.Paperback. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches). Photo portrait frontis. Warmly inscribed by the Editor to Churchill's daughter, Mary Soames on the half title. A fine copy in illustrated paper covers. Churchill's second volume of Autobiographical writings, his... Item #9490
Price: £125.00
CULPEPPER. NICHOLAS.
THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN. Enlarged with Three Hundred, Sixty Nine Medicines, made of English Herbs that were not in any Impression until This. Being an Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation; containing a compleat Method of Physick, whereby a Man may preserve his Body in Health; or Cure himself, being Sick, for Three-Pence Charge, with such Things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English Bodies.
Printed for S. Ballard, R. Ware, S. Birt, C. Hitch .....etc London. 1741. Reprint. Twelvemo. (6.5 x 4.2 inches). xii, 396pp. Some minor spotting to many leaves but generally a very good copy in a recent leather binding of period-style half tan calf. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments ruled... Item #9554
Price: £250.00
CURZON. The Marquis Of Kedleston. K.G.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN INDIA. The story of the Viceroys and Government houses.
Cassell and Company Ltd.London.,1925. FIRST EDITION. TWO VOLS. Large 8vo. (29 cms x 23 cms). Mono plates throughout. Publisher blue cloth, gilt. Both volumes have a small indent to top of front board. Near fine, bright copies in the original dustwrappers. Both wrappers have loss to top of spines and... Item #3190
Price: £150.00
DE MORGAN.AUGUSTUS.; .
AN ESSAY ON PROBABILITIES. And on their application to life contingencies and insurance offices.
Longman,Orme,Brown,Green & Longmans.London.,1838. FIRST EDITION.12 pp of publishers adverts dated October 1838 at front.Spare title page bound in at rear.Extra illustrated title page stained at top otherwise very good in publishers brown cloth,remains of printed paper label on spine.Edges of boards a bit bumped and spine with tears at top... Item #5069
Price: £200.00
