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BIKO, Steve.
I Write What I Like. 1978
£35
First edition, first impression of the first representative collection of writings by the young anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who founded the Black Consciousness Movement and...
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket. Read more
BIRD, Henry, Capt.
Letters from the Crimea c.1890
£125
No other copy traced, "These letters were written from the Crimea by Capt. H. Bird (the spelling of the name was afterwards changed to Byrde. Capt. Bird resigned his commission a few...
Octavo. Wire-stitched in the original textured paper wraps, lettered on the upper panel. 20-page pamphlet. Wraps slightly rubbed and discoloured on the lower panel,... Read more
BIRD, W.D., Major-General.
A Chapter of Misfortunes. 1923
£200
First edition. "The official history of the campaign in Mesopotamia is long and costly. Those who are interested in the early and perhaps most dramatic part, that is, up to the siege...
Octavo. Original red cloth, title in gilt to the spine and in black to the upper board, decorative panelling in black. 2 folding maps. Spine slightly sunned, cloth... Read more
(BLACK, A. & C.)
Black's General Atlas of the World. 1882
£550
This title first issued in 1840. A nice late nineteenth-century atlas.
Folio (440 × 323 mm). Publisher's red half morocco on pebble-grained boards, title gilt to spine and upper board, all edge gilt. Coloured frontispiece of Flags... Read more
BLANFORD, William Thomas.
Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia, 1870
£950
First edition. Educated at the Royal School of Mines and the Bergakademie in Freiberg, Blanford joined the Geological Survey of India in 1854. "Late in 1867 he was attached to the...
Octavo. Original green sand-grained cloth, title gilt to the spine, blind panels to the boards, invisible green surface-paper endpapers. Folding tinted lithographic... Read more
BLIGH, Lieutenant William.
A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; 1790
£12,500
First edition of Bligh's personal account of "one of the most remarkable incidents in the whole of maritime history", published two years before his full official version of the...
Quarto (288 × 230 mm) Later speckled calf, black morocco labels, panel of French fillet gilt to the boards, spine gilt in compartments with repeated wavy line... Read more
BLIGH, William.
A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, 1792
£10,000
First edition of Bligh's own full account of his voyage which led to the most famous mutiny in the history of the sea. In mid-1787 Bligh received the command of the Bounty, then...
Quarto (271 × 219 mm). Near-contemporary half calf (perhaps Irish), skilfully rebacked with original spine laid down, red morocco label, spine decorated in gilt... Read more
BLOMFIELD, Sir Reginald.
Byways. Leaves from an Architect's Note-book. 1929
£75
First edition. Continental architectural observations by the noted architect, responsible for the memorial at the Menin Gate.
Octavo. White cloth-backed dun paper-covered boards, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Collotype frontispiece from a pencil sketch by the author, and 13... Read more
BLOOD, Sir Bindon.
Four Score Years and Ten. Sir Bindon Blood's Reminiscences. 1933
£250
First edition, uncommon, especially in the jacket. "Service of an Engineers Officer from 1871 in India, the Zulu War, Egypt, 1882, and the South African War" (Bruce). Blood was chief...
Octavo, red cloth remainder binding, title in black to spine, and the Blood family arms in black to the upper board. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 7 other... Read more
BLOUNT, Henry.
A Voyage into the Levant. 1636
£1,750
Second edition, in the same year as the first. Blount graduated from Trinity College in 1618, and in 1620 was admitted to Gray's Inn. According to Aubrey he "was pretty wild when...
Small quarto (178 × 134 mm) Lightly streaked sheep to style, red morocco label to the spine, blind panelling with arabesque corner-pieces to the boards. Engraved... Read more
BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen.
The Land War in Ireland. 1912
£750
First Edition, presentation copy. "The present volume, though it is issued as the fourth of the series of my Egyptian Memoirs, will be found found to contain little about Egypt......
Octavo. Fine etched portrait frontispiece of the author by Leopold Lowenstam. With the author's presentation inscription on the front free endpaper, "To Professor... Read more
[BLYTH, Stephen Cleveland]
History of the War between the United States and Tripoli, and other Barbary Powers. 1806
£1,250
First edition, uncommon; the first book published in America on the conflict with the Barbary states. The first section sets the social and religious context of the Barbary coast,...
Duodecimo (168 × 99 mm). Contemporary (perhaps publisher's) sheep-backed grey paper covered thin wooden boards. Housed in a black flat back cloth solander box.... Read more
BOCK, Carl.
The Head Hunters of Borneo: 1881
£950
First edition. "Dutch Borneo … was heavily trampled by government officials, explorers, romantics, and scientists … In 1878 Carl Bock … Norwegian naturalist and...
Large octavo. Original teal decorative cloth, title gilt to upper board and spine, brown surface-paper endpapers. Folding coloured map frontispiece and 30... Read more
BONVALOT, Gabriel.
Through the Heart of Asia over the Pamïr to India 1889
£765
First edition in English, originally published in French the previous year. "The author's second journey with A. Pépin and G. Capus in Central Asia in the years 1886-87. From...
2 volumes, octavo, original blue/green cloth, title gilt to spines, onlaid illustration on cloth to upper boards within a wide gilt panel. Numerous illustrations,... Read more
BOOKWALTER, John W.
Siberia and Central Asia. 1899
£350
First edition of this excellent account of an extraordinary trip across Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway and then into Central Asia, Georgia, Caucasia, Turkmenistan, Bokhara and...
Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine, gilt block of a troika to the upper board, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and numerous others illustrations, many of... Read more
BOOTH, John L.C.
Trouble in the Balkans. 1905
£250
First edition. Surprisingly uncommon - just 7 copies on OCLC - attractively produced journalistic account of the 1903-4 disturbances in Bulgaria and Macedonia. Booth served as...
Octavo. Original mid-blue pictorial cloth, title gilt to the spine, largely flaked as often, title in red to the upper board together with illustration of a charging... Read more
BOTERO, Giovanni.
Relationi Universali... 1640
£2,750
First published in 1592. Giovanni Botero (1533–1617) was Secretary to the Duke of Savoy when he compiled his Relationi Universali; "this political and geographical description...
Quarto (212 × 160 mm). Late eighteenth-century Italian mottled sheep, smooth spine richly gilt in compartments, tan morocco label, patterned endpapers, red edges.... Read more
BOTTIGELLA, Giovanni Matteo; & Roberto Sanseverino.
Viaggio in Terra Santa. 1459
£500,000
EXCEPTIONALLY IMPORTANT ITALIAN/LOMBARD LANGUAGE MANUSCRIPT of a little-known pilgrimage to the Holy Land made from Venice to Jaffa by sea in 1458-9, containing "the most...
Quarto (220 × 155 mm), 133 unnumbered leaves written in a professional scribal hand in ink, about 29 lines per page on lined vellum, with contemporary annotations... Read more
BOXER, C. R.
Salvador de Sá and the Struggle for Brazil and Angola 1602-1686. 1952
£125
First edition. Life of one of the greatest of Portuguese colonial administrators of the seventeenth century, describing the development of Portugal's domination of Brazil, and of...
Octavo. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. With the typographical dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 9 plates, 7 full-page maps at the rear.... Read more
BOXER, C.R.
The Dutch in Brazil 1624-1654. 1957
£175
First edition. Authoritative account of the protracted and fierce struggle between the Dutch and Portuguese over the Brazillian sugar trade.
Octavo. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, in dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait of Johan Maurits of Nassau, 4 full page sketch maps at rear. An... Read more
BOYLE, Patrick, & Jon Musgrave-Wood.
Jungle, Jungle, little Chindit. [1946]
£125
First edition. This copy signed by Boyle on the half-title, and inscribed verso of the front free endpaper; "To Anne from Pat, with half the author's compliments. Fri. xiii - ix-...
Quarto. Original ecru cloth, title in blue to the spine and small illustration to the upper board. With the dust jacket. Numerous illustrations to the text, maps to... Read more
BRADFORD, John Service.
Atlantic Coast Pilot - Eastport to Boston. 1879
£350
A revised and corrected edition, following the first of 1871. Founded by an act of 1807 "to provide for surveying the coasts of the United States," the Office of Coast Survey is the...
Quarto (295 × 193 mm). Original half skiver on marbled boards, title gilt to the spine, marbled edges and endpapers. 24 folding harbour charts and 31 folding... Read more
BRANDENBURG-ANSPACH-BAYREUTH, Elizabeth, Margravine of.
Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach. Written by herself. 1826
£125
First edition. "Spirited, frank, and self-aggrandizing Memoirs, which caused a stir on their publication" (ODNB) Anspach was a society hostess, and the author of a number of "light...
2 volumes, octavo (219 × 138 mm). Later green half crushed morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, title gilt direct to the spine, top edge gilt, others uncut.... Read more
BRAUN, Dietrich E.
A Twenty Years Struggle in South Africa. A Souvenir. [c. 1918]
£125
Inscribed by the author on the title page "To Mrs. Walter Meyer from the author Dietrich E. Braun, 1953".
Oblong quarto. Original brown side-stitched wrappers printed in black and blue. Illustrations from photos throughout. Some light markings to edges, an excellent copy. Read more
BRAYLEY, Edward Wedlake.
A Topographical History of Surrey. 1850
£1,200
5 volumes, octavo. Finely bound in half brown morocco, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, tan cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, bookplate to front...
5 volumes, octavo. Finely bound in half brown morocco, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, tan cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt,... Read more
