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The National Liberation Movement of Yugoslavia. 1944
£125
First and only edition. “The purpose of this Handbook is to provide a summary of all information on the Yugoslav Partisan Movement received down to and including March...
Octavo. Original printed light card wraps. Wraps a little browned, marginally, spine slightly chipped, but overall very good. Read more
YOUNGHUSBAND, Sir Francis.
India and Tibet. 1910
£375
Second Impression in the same month as the First. An intriguing character, protégé of Lord Curzon, soldier, explorer, and Forward Policy exponent of the Great Game, whose...
Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt. top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece of the Dalai Lama and 25 other plates, 2 folding coloured maps at the rear. Light browning... Read more
[WYLLIE, W. L.]
Extracts from Captain Scott’s Diary and Last Message to the Nation. [c.1912]
£1,850
Uncommon and highly attractive memorial broadside. A superb natural draughtsman, Wyllie became one of the great marine illustrators of the late 19th century. He joined the Royal...
Folio, etched singlesheet (502 × 306 mm), mounted on board. Three vignettes: Terra Nova in the ice, the men hauling supplies, the final camp. Light browning,... Read more
WRIGHT, M. J.
Three years in Cachar with a short account of the Manipur Massacre. [1895]
£75
First edition. Account of the life of a female missionary in Assam, including a brief narrative of the events of 1890-91 when a punitive expedition was sent to Manipur in response to...
Octavo, original aqua cloth, title gilt to spine and in gilt and black to the upper board. Frontispiece and 7 other plates, title-page vignette and numerous... Read more
WORTLEY, Lady Emmeline Stuart.
Travels in the United States, etc. 1851
£750
First Edition. A prolific poet, friend of Mary Shelley, Richard Monckton Milnes, and Tennyson, and prodigious traveller. Following the death of her husband and youngest son in 1844...
3 volumes, octavo. Some browning, particularly to the title pages, small ink stamps of the NSW Parliamentary Library to the title pages, but in all other respects a... Read more
WOOLEY, C. Leonard & LAWRENCE, T.E.
The Wilderness of Zin. 1936
£200
First American Edition.
Quarto. Folding plan and 40 plates, plans and diagrams to the text. Endpapers slightly browned, particularly at the gutter through paste-action, but overall very... Read more
WOODYATT (Maj.-Gen. Nigel G.) & (Brig. C. N.) BARCLAY (eds.)
The Regimental History of The 3rd Queen Alexandria's Own Gurkha Rifles from April 1815 to December 1927. 1929 & 1953
£475
First Editions. Woodyatt “A useful source, strongest in its coverage of C19th campaigns... The Appendices are very good, and include details of each officer’s career.”...
2 volumes large octavo. Original rifle green cloth with titles gilt to spines and Regimental crest to the upper boards. Portrait frontispiece and 4 other plates, 7... Read more
WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. 1796
£2,000
First edition. Her lover Gilbert Imlay had suffered the theft of a valuable cargo by the Norwegian captain of his ship, and in 1794 suggested to Wollstonecraft that she travel there...
Octavo. Contemporary tree calf, smooth spine with gilt urns in compartments, red morocco label. With the final advert leaf listing Wollstonecraft’s books from... Read more
WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. 1796
£1,250
First edition. Her lover Gilbert Imlay had suffered the theft of a valuable cargo by the Norwegian captain of his ship, and in 1794 suggested to Wollstonecraft that she travel there...
Octavo. Recent half calf to style, black morocco label, marbled sides, old blue sprinkled edges. With the final advert leaf listing Wollstonecraft’s books from... Read more
WOLFE, James.
General Wolfe’s Instructions to Young Officers: 1768
£4,275
First edition. Uncommon, just three copies at auction in the last thirty years. A “a compilation of Wolfe's regimental orders from this period [1748-1759] would be posthumously...
Duodecimo (150 × 95 mm), recently attractively bound to style in sprinkled calf, red morocco label to the spine, raised bands, compartments with double gilt rules... Read more
WINSOR, Justin (ed.)
Narrative and Critical History of America. 1889
£1,750
One of 550 copies thus, a handsome work published in large paper format.
8 volumes bound in 16, large quarto (323 × 228 mm). Original brown half morocco, spines gilt, raised bands, brown cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt,... Read more
WILSON, Woodrow.
A History of The American People. 1902
£1,250
First edition.
5 volumes, octavo. Bound in recent full red morocco, two black title labels to each spine gilt, infilled box design gilt, raised bands, decorative border to boards... Read more
WILSON, A. H., Captain.
A British Borderland. Service and Sport in Equatoria. 1913
£500
First edition. “An officer in the King's African Rifles, Wilson mixed military activities with sport. En route to an assignment on the Nile, he bagged his first elephant. Along...
Octavo, original red cloth, title gilt to spine and to upper board with gilt decorative block, top edge gilt. In the dust jacket. 16 plates, folding map. Light... Read more
WILMOT, Alexander.
History of the Zulu War. 1880
£575
First Edition. Wilmot was born in Scotland and studied law at Edinburgh and Glasgow. He emigrated to the Cape in 1853 at the age of seventeen and entered the Civil Service, retiring...
Octavo. Original blue embossed cloth, title and portrait of Cetewayo gilt to the spine. Mounted photographic portrait frontispiece of the Prince Imperial, folding... Read more
WILLIS, N. P.
Canadian Scenery. 1842
£750
2 volumes, octavo. Finely bound in recent half mottled calf, with red and green labels, gilt title and in filled box design to spine, raised bands, marble boards, with gilt rules,...
2 volumes, octavo. Finely bound in recent half mottled calf, with red and green labels, gilt title and in filled box design to spine, raised bands, marble boards, with... Read more
WILLIAMS, Joseph J.
Hebrewisms of West Africa from Nile to Niger with the Jews. 1930
£150
First edition, first impression. very scare in dust jacket.
Large octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Map frontispiece and four others, 2 illustrative plates. Onwership inscription to front... Read more
WILKINSON, Sir J. Gardner, & Samuel Birch.
The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. 1878
£950
The best edition of this keystone work of British Egyptology. The Quarterly Review referred to the 1837 first edition of Wilkinson's minutely detailed and superbly illustrated work...
3 vols., octavo, original dark green, sand-grain cloth, titles, Egyptian floral device and Horus falcon to the spine, large block of a funerary boat to the upper... Read more
WILKES, Charles.
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, 1845
£1,200
Third Edition overall. In smaller format than the imperial octavo edition of the same year, this edition was reprinted from stereos of that edition but without the plates or...
5 volumes, medium octavo. Original publisher's brown vertical fine-ribbed cloth, American arms in gilt on front cover and in blind on rear cover, spines blindstamped,... Read more
WILKES, Charles.
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, 1845
£975
Third Edition overall. In smaller format than the imperial octavo edition of the same year, this edition was reprinted from stereos of that edition but without the plates or...
5 volumes, medium octavo. Original publisher's brown vertical fine-ribbed cloth, American arms in gilt on front cover and in blind on rear cover, spines blindstamped,... Read more
WHYMPER, Edward.
Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. 1892
£300
First Edition of what is often considered Whymper's magnum opus. Whymper "travelled in 1879–80 to Ecuador with his former Matterhorn rival J. A. Carrel and the latter's cousin...
Quarto. Original green cloth, bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt, gilt decorative borders at top and bottom of front cover running onto spine and in blind on rear... Read more
WHITE, John.
Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales 1790
£3,750
First Edition. White, chief surgeon to the settlement at New South Wales, was also an accomplished naturalist. The ornithological and other natural history plates are most attractive...
Quarto (295 × 235 mm). Recently bound in period-style full mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with old black morocco title label, boards with double gilt... Read more
(WHALING) CHURCH, Albert Cook.
Whale Ships and Whaling. 1938
£85
First Edition, First Printing. Superbly illustrated.
Quarto. Original photolithographic pictorial cloth, titles to spine in white, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. With more than 200 photographic illustrations.... Read more
WELLESLEY, Marquess.
The despatches and correspondence of the Marquess Wellesley, K.G. 1838
£625
First edition. "Wellesley, once despot of 150 million people, like Warren Hastings before him and George Curzon after, proved a difficult, indeed embarrassing, figure to fit back...
Octavo, original boards with paper label to the spine. Armorial bookplate of Worcestershire county historian John William Willis Bund to the front pastedown. Boards... Read more
[WEBER, Friedrich Christian.]
Das veränderte Russland, 1739-40
£3,000
First enlarged edition, comprising the second edition of the first part and the first editions of the second and third parts. First issued in 1721. One of the most important accounts...
3 volumes bound in one, quarto (208 x 169 mm). Contemporary vellum, titles to spine gilt, green edges. Engraved frontispiece to each part, 6 folding maps, 8 plates, 4... Read more
(WEBBER, John) WAGNER, Sigmund.
Siebenzehntes Neujahrstuck, herausgegeben von der Künstler-Gesellschaft in Zurich auf das Jahr 1821. 1821
£6,250
First Edition. John Webber was born in London in about 1750, the son of the Swiss sculpter Abraham Wäber. He studied in Berne and Paris, and entered the R.A. Schools in 1775. In...
Small quarto. 13pp. Original printed light card wraps. Housed in half sheep on yellow paper board clamshell box, tan morocco label, spine gilt in compartments.... Read more
