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[SURTEES, R. S.]
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour; Handley Cross; Ask Mamma; Plain or Ringlets?; Mr. Romford's Hounds; Hawbuck Grange; Hillingdon Hall. n.d.
£1,200
7 volumes, octavo. Bound in early 20th century tan half-calf, with gilt titles and raised bands on spines, gilt rules to boards, top edges gilt. With many hand-colour illustrations....
7 volumes, octavo. Bound in early 20th century tan half-calf, with gilt titles and raised bands on spines, gilt rules to boards, top edges gilt. With many hand-colour... Read more
SUTHERLAND, William.
Britain's Glory: or Ship-Building Unvail'd. 1729 & 1717
£3,500
Second "edition" of the first, & first of the second part. Sutherland had worked for many years as a master carpenter and then inspector and overseer of shipwrights in the naval...
Folio (336 × 203 mm). Two parts bound in one, the second with a separate title page, The Prices of the Labour in Ship-Building Adjusted: or, the Mystery of... Read more
SUTHERLAND, William.
Britain's Glory: or Ship-Building Unvail'd. 1717
£6,500
First editions of both parts. Sutherland had worked for many years as a master carpenter and then inspector and overseer of shipwrights in the naval dockyards at Portsmouth and...
Folio (333 × 215 mm). Two parts bound in one, the second with a separate title page, The Prices of the Labour in Ship-Building Adjusted: or, the Mystery of... Read more
SUTHERLAND, William.
The Ship-Builder's Assistant; 1755
£650
First published in 1711, numerous changes were made to the various later editions of this popular work, the last of which appeared in 1840. Interestingly, however, the 1840 edition...
Small quarto (199 × 146 mm). Nineteenth-century half calf on marbled boards, red morocco label to the spine, yellow edge-stain. 8 folding plates, tables to the... Read more
SUZUKI, Daisetz Teitaro.
Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist. 1957
£95
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and upper board in white and black. With the dust jacket. Head of spine frayed, spine and edges a little tanned, contents... Read more
SUZUKI, Daisetz Teitaro.
Studies in Zen. 1955
£225
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Partial tanning to endpapers.... Read more
SVEVO, Italo.
The Hoax. Translated from the Italian, with an Introduction by Beryl de Zoete. 1929
£1,250
First edition, the translator's own copy, with her inscription on the half-title, "Beryl de Zoete given by Leonard Woolf his last remaining copy". Loosely inserted are an autograph...
Small octavo. Original red marbled cloth, white paper spine label lettered in red; in the yellow dust jacket lettered in red. A fine copy in the chipped jacket with... Read more
SVEVO, Italo.
The Nice Old Man and The Pretty Girl And Other Stories. 1930
£100
First edition in English, first impression, published November 1930; 1,012 copies printed.
Octavo. Original orange boards, titles to spine gilt. With the printed dust jacket lettered in red. Light partial toning to endpapers, spine and boards faded, a very... Read more
SÉVIGNÉ, Madame de.
Lettres Inédites a Madame de Grignan sa Fille. 1876
£450
A nicely bound library set.
16 volumes, octavo (225 × 135 mm). Contemporary maroon quarter morocco, titles to spine gilt, 5 raised bands, marbled sides and endpapers. Bindings lightly... Read more
SWEDENBORG, Emanuel.
The Brain. Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically. 1882-7
£900
First edition, translated directly from the Stockholm Manuscript which had lain untouched in the Archives of the Swedish Academy of Sciences for close to 140 years. Swedenborg...
2 volumes, octavo. Original mid-brown cloth, title gilt to spines, portrait bust in roundel gilt to the upper boards, Swedenborg's arms in gilt to the lower boards.... Read more
SWIFT, Graham.
Waterland. 1983
£200
First Edition. First Impression. Inscribed to 'J. A. S. Parry with all best wishes Graham Swift.' Together with an autograph card signed.'
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine lightly bumped, dust jacket near fine. Read more
SWIFT, Jonathan.
Gulliver's Travels. 1926
£250
First edition thus.
Octavo. Bound in full recent dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.... Read more
SWIFT, Jonathan.
Gulliver's Travels. Into Several Remote Nations of the World. c.1890
£175
A handsomely bound copy of Gulliver's Travels.
Quarto (255 × 187 mm). Contemporary brown half calf, black morocco label, decoration to spine gilt and in blind, raised bands, marbled boards, plain coated... Read more
SWIFT, Jonathan.
The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, 1755
£3,500
First Hawkesworth edition, which "for a long period supplanted Faulkner's Dublin edition (1735) as the authoritative text of Swift … The life of Swift prefixed to the first...
6 volumes, quarto (280 × 216 mm), each in 2 parts. Attractively bound about 1800 in full diced russia; spine divided into six compartments by double raised bands... Read more
SWIFT, Jonathan.
The Works. 1883-84
£1,800
Second Scott Edition Limited to 750 numbered copies of which this is number 320.
19 volumes, octavo. Contemporary half burgundy morocco, titles to spines gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait. The lightest of... Read more
SWIFT, Jonathan.
The Works. 1824
£2,000
Second Scott edition. First published in 1814, Scott's text was based primarily upon the John Nichols edition of 1808, but with the addition of Scott's extensive discursive...
19 volumes, octavo. Contemporary full crimson calf, titles and elaborate tooling to spines gilt, three morocco title labels green and brown, raised bands, twin rule to... Read more
SWIFT, Jonathan.
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. 1726
£5,000
Teerink's "B" edition, with the portrait of Gulliver in second state, as usual. The first three editions of Gulliver's Travels are all octavos published by Benjamin Motte dated 1726...
2 volumes, octavo (178 × 115 mm). Contemporary calf, red and green morocco labels, red speckled edges. Frontispiece portrait, 5 maps, and 1 diagram. Ownership... Read more
SWINBORNE, Frederick Pfander.
Gustavus Adolphus. 1884
£60
First Edition.
Octavo. Contemporary full burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, twin rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With black... Read more
SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles.
Atalanta in Calydon. 1865
£350
First Edition. With p. 84/5 canelled and the misnumbering of p. xiv. This famous and beautifully designed book was the subject of one of Wise's less troubling fictions - he held...
Quarto. Original cream cloth, roundels to upper board - designed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti - gilt, titles to spine gilt, edges untrimmed. Some browning to endpapers... Read more
SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles.
Poems and Ballads. 1866
£1,250
First edition, rare first issue (with Moxon imprint), of the most sensationally controversial book of English poetry of its century, its contents a heady mix of sadomasochism,...
Octavo (166 × 105 mm). Bound by Zaehnsdorf in pale tan polished calf, spine gilt in compartments, double green morocco labels, red morocco date label at foot,... Read more
SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles.
Selections from the Poetical Works. 1892
£750
Fourth Edition of this selection. With the author's signed presentation inscription on the first blank, "With all good wishes from A.C. Swinburne. / June 1893".
Small octavo. Bound by Ramage in early 20th century full blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Spine very slightly... Read more
SWINBURNE, Henry.
Travels in the Two Sicilies … in the years 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. 1783-5
£3,000
First edition. Scion of an old Catholic family, Swinburne was educated "at the monastic seminary at Lacelle, France, the University of Paris, Bordeaux, and finally the Royal Academy...
2 volumes, quarto (294 × 234 mm). Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, rebacked with the original spines laid down, title direct to the spines, ruled... Read more
SWIRE, J[oseph]
Albania. The rise of a kingdom. 1929
£250
First edition. Swire was a philologist and journalist who spent 5 years in Albania researching the origins of the Albanian nation. He here gives a history of the half century from...
Octavo, original rust cloth, title gilt to spine, double-headed eagle in blind to the upper board, red top-stain. In the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 7 other plates,... Read more
SYKES, Christopher.
Character and Situation. 1949
£50
First Edition, First Impression. Signed by the author on the title page.
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the price-clipped dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown, spine a little faded in the lightly chipped and... Read more
SYKES, Christopher.
Stranger Wonders: Tales of Travel. Illustrated by the author. 1937
£125
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original yellow boards, titles to spine in red, top edge stained red. With the price-clipped dust jacket. With black and white illustrations. Bookplates to... Read more
