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ELLAM, W. H.
Trafalgar. [1891]
£275
First Edition.Uncommon, COPAC has BL only, not on OCLC. Highly attractive toy-book, shaped around the cover design of a trophy of Union flags, swords, pikes and cannons with a...
12mo. (123 × 110 mm). 6ll. 5 chromolithographically printed illustration, one of them double-page. Very good in the original chromolithographic card wraps,... Read more
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Traffics and Discoveries. 1904
£45
First edition. A handsomely bound copy.
Octavo (187 × 124 mm). Bound by Hatchards in red half calf, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, matching cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.... Read more
SOPHOCLES.
Tragaediae septem cum commentariis. 1502
£17,500
Editio princeps. One of the most important of Aldus's Greek editions both textually and typographically, this remained the best available edition of Sophocles' text until the 19th...
Aldine octavo (153 × 94 mm). Eighteenth-century English red morocco, spine gilt in compartments between raised bands, green morocco label, sides ruled in gilt... Read more
GOODEN, Arthur Henry.
Trails Into Danger. 1962
£150
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For James M. [ ], a good doctor. from his former patient and friend Arthur Henry Gooden."
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Very minor spotting to top edge and endpapers and knock to headcap. A very good copy in... Read more
HUYGENS, Christiaan.
Traité de la Lumière. 1690
£22,500
First edition of Huygens's path breaking exposition of his wave or pulse theory of light. Huygens had developed his theory in 1676 and 1677, and completed his Traité in 1678. He...
Small quarto (189 × 157 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked to style with red morocco label. General title printed in red and black, second part... Read more
[ISNARD, Achylle Nicolas]
Traité des Richesses, 1781
£8,750
First edition, scarce. "His book is remarkable for its mathematical treatment of production, capital, money and the theory of exchange" (Blaug). Although influenced by Physiocratic...
2 volumes, octavo (192 × 117 mm). Contemporary cat's-paw sheep, flat spines gilt in compartments, richly gilt with floral and foliage decorations, red morocco... Read more
ALLINGHAM, Margery.
Traitor's Purse. 1941
£2,750
First edition, first impression. A fabulous piece of book design and exceedingly scarce in the dust jacket.
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Annotation to list of titles opposite title page, but an exceptional copy in the... Read more
[CARLETON, William]
Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry. 1834
£200
First American Edition of this classic account of Irish mores, first published in book form in 1830, many of the stories having first appeared in the Christian Examiner from April...
2 volumes, octavo. Original pink cloth-backed beige paper boards, without lettering or labels as usual, edges uncut. Contemporary pencilled inscriptions of Walter... Read more
DALI, Salvador.
Trajan in Romania. 1973
£1,500
Edition of 210. Signed by Dali lower left, numbered lower right. One of eleven prints from the 'Ten Recipes of Immortality' portfolio.
Sheet size: 39.2 x 46 cm. Etching and lithograph on Auvergne Vélin Narcisse Richard de Bas cotton. Fine condition. Presented in a lime wax frame with UV glass. Read more
DUCHAMP, Marcel.
Transition. Number Twenty-Six. 1937
£275
Number twenty-six of the literary magazine, featuring a Marcel Duchamp readymade on the upper wrapper and the opening pages of Part II, Section III of Finnegan's Wake.
Octavo. Original illustrated grey and white wrappers. Wrappers rubbed at the extremities, some toning and faint spots to spine. An excellent copy. Read more
LEWIS, C. S.
Transposition. And other Addresses. 1949
£45
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original paper wrappers, titles to upper cover in white, titles to spine in red. With the dust jacket. Minor rubbing, dust jacket chipped to head and foot of... Read more
HARRINGTON, Peter.
Travel & Exploration: 2011
£10
Peter Harrington catalogue no. 79. Peter Harrington special subject catalogues describe a range of significant books in particular subject areas. Filled with lavish full colour...
Quarto (27 × 21 cm). Gloss laminated card wrappers. 223 items offered for sale. Fully illustrated in colour. New. Read more
PORTER, Robert Ker.
Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808. 1813
£2,000
Second edition, first published 1809. An artistic prodigy, admitted to the Academy at the age of fifteen, Porter made his reputation as a painter of spectacular battle scenes and...
2 volumes quarto (287 × 229 mm). Contemporary half diced russia, drab boards, title gilt direct to spine, gilt rules forming compartments which are blind-tooled.... Read more
ISAACS, Nathaniel.
Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa, 1836
£1,875
First edition. Born in Canterbury into the flourishing Jewish mercantile community in Kent, in 1822 Nathaniel Isaacs was sent to join his uncle, Solomon Isaacs the "merchant king of...
2 volumes octavo (191 × 117 mm) Contemporary tan calf, red and green morocco labels, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with French fillet panels gilt,... Read more
BUTLER, John.
Travels and Adventures in the Province of Assam, during a Residence of Fourteen Years. 1855
£625
First edition. Butler was a major in the Company's 55th Bengal Native Infantry and served as the Principal Assistant to the Governor General on the North East Frontier of Assam. His...
Octavo, original green slub-grained embossed cloth, title gilt to spine. Tinted lithographic frontispiece and 7 other similar plates, large folding route map with... Read more
BRUCE, James.
Travels Between the Years 1765 and 1773, Through Part of Africa 1812
£225
An attractively bound early edition of the travels of James Bruce.
Octavo (214 × 127 mm). Contemporary brown half calf, spine gilt in compartments, black calf label, marbled sides, red endpapers, red speckled edges. Engraved... Read more
ALEXANDER, James Edward.
Travels from India to England; 1827
£2,000
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the first blank "with the Author's respectful compliments", the recipient's name effectively erased. Educated at Edinburgh, Glasgow and...
Quarto (263 × 203 mm). Recent calf to style, green morocco label, flat bands with gilt foliate roll, lozenge devices gilt to the compartments, double gilt fillet... Read more
BELL, John.
Travels From St. Petersburg in Russia to Diverse Parts of Asia. 1763
£3,750
First edition of the account of the author's "remarkable journey" from St. Petersburg through Siberia and into China on behalf of the Russian tsar. Bell's narrative includes detailed...
2 volumes, octavo (239 × 181 mm). ?publisher's calf-backed marbled boards, contrast labels, edges sprinkled red. Folding map frontispiece to volume I, shows the... Read more
DOUGHTY, Charles M.
Travels in Arabia Deserta. 1921
£3,500
First published in 1888, this is the second edition, the first with Doughty's new preface, and Lawrence's introduction, one of 500 copies only. "Travels in Arabia Deserta, on which...
2 volumes octavo (219 × 140 mm). Handsomely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green full morocco, title gilt to the spines, raised bands with dotted roll,... Read more
(LAWRENCE, T. E.) DOUGHTY, Charles M.
Travels in Arabia Deserta. 1936
£2,250
New and definitive edition, first impression. First published in 1886, this reissue with a new preface by Doughty and an introduction by T. E. Lawrence found a new generation of...
2 volumes, large octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in tan morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, rules to turn-ins,... Read more
DOUGHTY, Charles M.
Travels in Arabia Deserta. 1936
£650
New and definitive edition, first impression of this edition. "Lawrence's wish to make Travels in Arabia Deserta available to a wider public at affordable prices was realized through...
2 volumes, quarto. Original brown buckram, titles to spines gilt, chestnut top-stain, other edges uncut. Portrait frontispiece to Volume I and 8 other plates, 2 of... Read more
DOUGHTY, Charles M.
Travels in Arabia Deserta. 1936
£375
New and definitive edition, first impression of this edition. "Lawrence's wish to make Travels in Arabia Deserta available to a wider public at affordable prices was realized through...
2 volumes, quarto. Original brown buckram, titles to spines gilt, chestnut top-stain, other edges uncut. Portrait frontispiece to Volume I and 8 other plates, 2 of... Read more
(LAWRENCE, T. E.) DOUGHTY, Charles M.
Travels in Arabia Deserta. 1936
£200
New and definitive edition, first impression. First published in 1886, this reissue with a new preface by Doughty and an introduction by T. E. Lawrence found a new generation of...
2 volumes, quarto. Original brown cloth, title gilt to spines, dark brown top-stain. Frontispiece to volume I together with 8 plates, folding maps to each,... Read more
WELLSTED, James Raymond.
Travels in Arabia; 1838
£3,250
First edition. James Raymond Wellsted (1805–1842) was an East India Company naval officer who made detailed surveys of the Gulf of 'Aqabah and the northern part of the Red Sea,...
2 volumes octavo (207 × 127 mm). Modern dark green half morocco on black cloth boards, title gilt direct to the spines, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers.... Read more
(MURRAY’S GUIDE) STARKE, Mariana.
Travels in Europe for the Use of Travellers on the Continent, 1839
£750
First published by Murray in 1820. Mariana Starke (1761/2-1838) was born in India, the daughter of the governor of Fort St. George. She spent seven years in Italy in 1792-8 caring...
Small octavo. Original brown finely diapered cloth, title gilt to upper board and spine, blind panelling to the boards, edges sprinkled brown, cream surface-paper... Read more
