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FRANKLIN, Benjamin.
Experiments and Observations on Electricity, 1774
£5,000
Fifth edition, the last to be published during Franklin's lifetime and the most complete. Described as "The most important scientific book of eighteenth-century America" (PMM), it...
Octavo (225 × 170 mm). Mid twentieth-century burgundy half morocco, spine gilt in compartment, marbled sides and endpapers, red speckled edges. In a red cloth... Read more
RUSCHENBERGER, William Samual Waithman.
A Voyage round the World; including an Embassy to Muscat and Siam, in 1835, 1836, and 1837. 1838 & 1837
£4,500
First editions. Individually uncommon, perhaps Ruschenberger the more so, and together here offering a very full record of important early American trade negotiations in the Middle...
2 volumes octavo (220 × 134 mm; 215 × 138 mm). Uniformly bound in black half morocco on marbled boards, title gilt to spine, flat bands sparingly tooled,... Read more
BEATSON, Robert.
Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, 1804
£2,250
Second edition, the first, published in 1790, was in three volumes, this continues the account down to the conclusion of the War of Independence, "Particularly useful for the army's...
6 volumes octavo (208 × 129 mm) Contemporary red morocco, title gilt direct to flat spines, compartments formed by greek key rolls containing foliate devices,... Read more
CATLIN, George.
North American Indians. 1926
£1,750
A young lawyer turned portraitist, Catlin set out in 1830 from his home in Pennsylvania to record on canvas the indigenous tribes of North America and their way of life. His eight...
2 volumes, large octavo. Original pictorial red cloth, with titles gilt to spine and upper cover, with pictorial decoration in gilt and black, top edge gilt, others... Read more
HENRY, Walter.
Events of a Military Life: 1843
£850
First UK edition, this, uncommon, lively and engaging autobiography was originally published in Canada as Trifles from my Portfolio in 1839. A native of Donegal, Henry studied...
2 volumes octavo (188 × 113 mm) Later nineteenth-century plum half morocco on marbled boards, title gilt to spine, double rules to compartments, spine and corner... Read more
COLUMBUS, Christopher.
The Spanish Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant' Angel 1891
£800
First edition, presentation copy to George Earle Buckle, inscribed on the blank facing the title: "Presented to the Editor of the Times by Bernard Quaritch, London, Feb. 14, 1891"....
Folio. Original quarter red roan, red cloth boards, unlettered, dark green endpapers, red morocco inner hinges, all as issued. Spine ends rubbed, rear morocco hinge... Read more
EISENHOWER, Dwight D.
The War in 3 Pages by Eisenhower. 1952
£750
First and only edition. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper by William M. McLean Jr. to Averell Harriman, Roosevelt's special envoy to Britain and the Soviet Union during...
Quarto. Original red cloth, title gilt to the upper board. Portrait and 3 pages of facsimiles. A little rubbed, gilt on upper board oxidized, but overall very good. Read more
JOHNSON, W. Fletcher.
Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman, Late Retired General, U.S.A. - a Publisher's Blad. 1891
£750
A salesman's sample for this highly successful biography. Mounted on the front pastedown is the upper board of the Autograph Edition - "in Extra English Cloth … in a chaste...
Octavo. Original yellow ochre cloth with decoration in black and gilt including a portrait in an oval cartouche on the upper board, green floral-sprigged endpapers.... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. 1956–8
£500
First editions, first impressions. Churchill's history of the two branches of the English-speaking nations – the British Empire and the United States – was begun during his...
4 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spines gilt, red top stain. With the dust jackets. All volumes illustrated with maps and genealogical tables.... Read more
ROOSEVELT, Theodore & George Bird Grinnell (eds.)
American Big-Game Hunting. 1893
£450
first UK edition from US sheets. "The present volume is devoted to big-game hunting and to questions of game preservation" (editors' introduction). Founded in 1887, the Boone and...
Octavo (212 ×142 mm) Contemporary brown half crushed morocco on tan linen boards, title gilt to the spine, raised bands with dotted roll, compartments with... Read more
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Engineer History - Fifth Army - Mediterranean Theater. [1945]
£375
First edition, designated "Confidential." Minutely detailed internal history of the US Army Engineers' operations in Italy; "No campaign in military history has presented more...
3 volumes, quarto. Volumes I and II, plus Appendices. Original pictorial card wraps. Numerous maps, some coloured, text profusely illustrated from photographs. Errata... Read more
STIEGLITZ, Alfred.
America & Alfred Stieglitz. A Collective Portrait. 1934
£275
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver, black top-stain. With the dust jacket. 31 plates of illustrations from photographs. Contents lightly tanned,... Read more
WOLCOTT, Oliver.
Revolutionary War Pay Warrant of the Connecticut Pay Table to reimburse Samuel Squier, Commissary. November 3, 1779
£250
Interesting piece of documentation from the American War of Independence, authorizing the reimbursement of £1400 to Samuel Squier by the State Pay Table of Connecticut, and...
Fully manuscript pay warrant (169 × 215 mm) Lightly toned, some slightly fraying at the edges, creases from old folds, one or two small splits on the folds,... Read more
MACLEISH, Archibald.
Land of the Free. 1938
£45
First edition, first printing of this "book of photographs illustrated by a poem". Macleish (1892–1982) was an important American modernist poet, Librarian of Congress, and...
Quarto. Original tan cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black, single line rule across boards and spine in blue. Illustrations throughout from photos.... Read more
