London: Longman, Green and Roberts, 1863. Octavo. In two volumes, half-titles and color frontispieces, 469 and 539pp, with folded maps and numerous chromolithographs on wood. Alcock was Britain's first diplomatic ambassador to Japan. In these volumes he gives an account of his three years' residence in Japan and of his..... More
London: Art Journal Office, 1885. Paper Monograph. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 32p. Profusely illustrated with full page engravings, history of author, includes many of his famous engravings in full page such as the Beefeater; North West Passage; and others. Good. More
London: Cassell and Co., 1889. Octavo. frontispiece, 551pp., Illustrated in color and in black and white. In 1874 the position of Royal Astronomer of Ireland and Professor of Astronomy in Trinity College Dublin became vacant. Ball applied and was appointed Royal Astronomer of Ireland and to the Andrews Chair of..... More
London: For Benjamin Tooke, 1684. First Edition. Small Folio. The three tryals (trials) are bound together in a single volume since their lives were intertangled. Each with their own title page; 34pp, 78pp. and 56pp. In the development of English law, the Crown successfuly accused Sir Samuel Bardardiston of writing..... More
New Hyde Park: University Books, 1968. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 336 pp. 12 plates and 62 illustrations. Reprint of original 1926 edition. More
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judges-Head Near the Inner Temple-gate in Fleetstreet, 1699. 64 pages. Blackmore was both a poet and physician to King William. Many felt that the English throne was on slippery grounds since William's health was precarious. Dryden wrote about this. Blackmore has written a...... More
Devonport, Nd(ca.1927): Swiss and Co. Thick Quarto. Half-title, color frontispiece, xxii, (1) pp. 492pp., with an index and a chronological index, illustrations and plans, 7 folding maps in rear pocket. The introduction explains why the text was set up in 9 parts and appendices which includes the casualties, services of..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press, 1923. Octavo. Volume 2. cxi, 351 pages. Illustrated with 73 plates. Budge's summarized introduction shows that practically every nation from China to Ireland and from Mongolia to Abyssinia had loved to read the stories, credible, semi-mythical, and fabulous, which have sprung up round the name of..... More
London; (1928): Religious Tract Society. First Edition. Octavo. ). Frontispiece, xvi, 335 pages, with 16 plates and 6 illustrations within the text. Sir Wallis Budge on the Mongols and Nestorians, based on both Syriac and European sources. An important study on Eastern Christianity in the Far East. Bound in blue..... More
London, Boston: Medici Society, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, viii, 359 pages, Sixty-four full page black and white plates. This is the companion volume to the Legends of Our Lady Mary the Perpetual Virgin which was published in November, 1922. A collection of one hundred and ten tales of miracles..... More
London; (September,1925): The Religious Tract Society. Octavo. 2nd edition rewritten throughout and enlarged. Frontispiece, 296pp.which includes an appendix, bibliography, and index, illustrated with 11 plates and 22 illustrations in the text. The reason this edition is considered the 2nd edition, rewritten and enlarged is during WWI the government requisitioned all..... More
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1927. First Edition. Octavo. Half-title, frontispiece. Translated from the Syriac text of the British Museum MS. ADD. 25875, xvi, 319 pp., including the index, with 16 plates and 8 illustrations within the text. While an earlier German translation was made from an eclectic text constructed..... More
London; (1929): The Religious Tract Society. First Edition. Octavo. (cont….) The Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphic Text of the Decree Inscribed on the Rosetta Stone Conferring Additional Honors on Ptolemy V Epiphanes (203-181 B.C.) with English Translations and a Short History of the Decipherment of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs, and an Appendix..... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. Small Octavo. In two volumes. 326 and 327pp., Library edition. The author was best known for The Last Days of Pompeii.. He also coined the phrases "the pen is mightier than the sword", and "the almighty dollar" and others. He had been read more..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1854. Octavo. xxiv, 471 pages. with maps. Sir Henry Banbury's work is both brilliant and perceptive (Piers Makesy in Army Historical Research, 2001). The two narratives are of both the North Holland expedition of 1799 and the Egyptian Campaign of 1801 which he had been briefed by..... More
Baltimore; (1962): Genealogical Book Co. (distributors). Octavo. Facsimile of the 1883 edition. 642pp. Text. Numerous black and white plates of heraldic crests. With peerages, dormant, extinct, forfeited, and abeyant, arranged alphabetically according to the surname of each peer, an addenda, Baronage of Ireland with an index of peerages arranged alphabetically..... More
London: H.S. Nichols, 1897. Large Octavo. The translation by Sir. R.F. Burton, with seventy-one original illustrations which are from the original oils painted by Albert Letchford. Housed in the original casket with the Arabic title gilt-stamped [Alf Laylah wa Laylah, English transliteration which translates: Thousand Nights and a Night], measuring..... More
London: Edward Arnold, 1903. First Edition. Octavo. 288 pp. Errata slip. Numerous charts. The first thirteen chapters are based upon a series of three articles which appeared in the February, March and April numbers of the National Review. The three appendices examines domestic benefits, policy, changes in the empire over..... More
London: The Argonaut Press, 1927. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 975 copies on Japon Vellum. The present copy is number 544. xxx, with an introduction by Brig.-General Sir Percy Sykes. [1]-287pp., illustrated, Vignette title page printed in black and accented in blue. This is a reprint of the two volume..... More
np(1910): The Bobbs-Merrill Co. Quarto. no pagination. Beautifully illustrated in color and in black and white by Howard Chandler Christy set to Scott's beautiful and unforgetable poem. Bound in a signed (B.S.:Bertha Stuart) designed binding of green cloth decorated with yellow flowers and green stems, lettering gilt within gilt frame..... More
London: Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., 1904. First Edition. Octavo. xi, 378 pp. (2) pp. publisher's ads. illustrated from drawings, photographs and maps by J. G. Bartholomew. S. The author covers the earliest expeditions and discoveries offering a detailed narrative of the challenges and triumphs faced by explorers in this region..... More
London: Sifton, Praed & Co, 1912. First Edition. Octavo. 51 pages, color frontispiece of a trooper in the 2nd Life Guards 1814, folding map present in fine condition. Herbert Maxwell has written the introduction noting that it is a more vivid account than found in other sources covering the forced..... More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1881. Small Octavo. 94pp., 24pp. publisher's catalog. Illustrated with 24 hand-colored illustrations designed and engraved by George Cruikshank, accompanied by the dialogue of the puppet-show, an account of its origin, and of puppet plays in England. A handsome copy bound in blue pictorial gilt cloth..... More
Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). 1443 pp. index at end of volume II. More
London: Doherty& Co. 1910. Orginal Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No Edition Stated. 72 pp. Cover missing, title page loose. Drama in blank verse. More