London: For G. Kearsley and R. Faulder, 1780. 12mo in Sixes. Third edition. [2], viii, [2], [1]-300, (A-2C6.) "Based on the narrative of James Hackman's murder of Miss Martha Ray. Subsequently published as: The love-letters of Mr. H. & Miss R. "A considerable portion of this fictitious correspondence relates to..... 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
1640: Leon Lichfield (printer) for Rob Young and Ed Forrest. First Edition. Quarto. First edition in English of the expanded edition, second issue with the colophon dated 1640. Copper engraved portrait frontispiece and title page both by William Marshall, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials. "Bacon develops his influential view 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
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: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1962. Rebacked. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 642pp. Text. Numerous plates of heraldic crests.(black and white because this is a photolithographic copy). In black cloth, with gold letters. 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: 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
London, 1868, 1870 and 1871. Quarto. Three of his articles are from The Lancet: "A Lecture on Lithonomy" (Vol. I no. 1) January 4, 1868; "Observations on Swallowing Indigestible Substances" (Vol. I, no, 11), March 12, 1870; and "The Hunterian Oration" Vol. I, no. 17); also two off-prints from the..... More
London: Cassell, 1947. First Edition. [12] 38 plates, three of which are colored. The cloth cover of St. Paul's through the ruins of Bow Church Windows which are all that survived in that raid. The drawings include the destruction of the such buildings as the Royal College of Surgeons, St..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1859. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, half-title, 609pp. (2)pp publisher's ad for Life of Duke of Wellington. Besides his 140 letters written during the Peninsular Campaign, there were 40 written during his time at Waterloo. In addition, there are three maps of Portugal, St. Sebastian..... More
London: Jennings and Chaplin, 1832. Octavo. In two volumes. Portrait frontispiece, engraved title page and regular title page, illustrated xxiv, 198pp., and 207pp. with portrait of the author and 82 other full page plates of which 2 are hand colored and 30 vignettes on India paper mounted and other textual..... More
New York; (1893): Tait Sons and Co. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to only 300 copies signed by Irving. 201p. The frontispiece of Irving is by Whistler. He was the first actor to be knighted and he was a close friend of Bram Stoker (who based Dracula on some of his..... More
London: T. And W. Boone, 1830. Octavo. xvi, 351pp., (1)pp. errata. One of the most careful details of the Peninsular War, His description takes the reader in and out of billets, bivouacs, barns, and battle, as historians have noted he missed nothing. He deals with the skirmishing line of the..... More
London, (1853 and 1854): Samuel Highley. Octavo. . Volume I: 316pp. and Vol. II: 302pp.. Index. Illustrated in color and in black and white with full page and textual illustrations. Sir Edwin Lankester was known for his remarkable researches in comparative anatomy and his work on the role of the..... More