Search results for: 'RAY, Man'
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RAY, Man. Man Ray.London : 1969
First edition, sole printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the artist on the half-title, "For Jean-Yves, gratefully, Man Ray, 1969". This exhibition catalogue, with an essay by Man Ray written in 1948, was published to coincide with his exhibition at the Hanover Gallery in January 1969.
Jean-Yves Mock worked at the Hanover Gallery from 1956 until... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 120880
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![The Comic Almanack, For 1839 [1840]: an ephemeris in jest and earnest, containing "all things fitting for such a work."](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/4/3/43845.jpg)
CRUIKSHANK, George (illus.); [THACKERAY, William Makepeace.] The Comic Almanack, For 1839 [1840]: an ephemeris in jest and earnest, containing "all things fitting for such a work."London : 1839 & 1840
First editions. These are the only two annual volumes of Cruikshank's Comic Almanack for which William Makepeace Thackeray supplied stories: "Stubbs's Calendar; or, the Fatal Boots" in 1839, and "Barber Cox, and the Cutting of his Comb" in 1840. In each case, this is the first publication of the story. Founded in 1835, Cruikshank's comic annual went... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 43845
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CERVANTES, Miguel de; Jacob Campo Weyerman (trans.) De voornaamste Gevallen van den wonderlyken Don Quichot,The Hague : 1746
An extraordinary example of one of the most significant illustrated Cervantes editions of the 18th century; a fine, large paper copy of the lavish 1746 Hague edition of Don Quixote, each of the 31 copperplates here beautifully illuminated by a contemporary hand and heightened with gold, presented in an elaborately worked Dutch binding.
The grand... Learn More£65,000.00Stock Code: 137295
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GRAY, John Henry. Walks in the City of Canton.Victoria, Hong Kong, : 1875
First edition, extremely uncommon, COPAC locates just 5 copies - BL, V & A, Cambridge, Durham and Leeds, SOAS has only the 1974 reprint. Gray presents a guide-book offering seven detailed itineraries for walks taking in sights around the city, with references linking back to the substantial text providing the historical, social and "ethnographical"... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 90820
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GRAY, Thomas. Designs for Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray.London : 1765
Fourth edition overall, expanded from the three editions of 1753 with further Odes, of this large, elaborately illustrated publication of the best-known works of the poet Gray, including the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. A presentation copy of H. A. J. Munro's translation of the Elegy into Latin (c. 1873) is tipped-in at the rear endpapers.
"This... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 142136
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BRAY, John Francis. Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy;Leeds : 1839
First edition of Bray's major contribution to socialist political economy. Bray, who based this book on a series of lectures which he delivered to the Leeds Working Men's Association in 1837, is often considered to be "the most effective of the English pre-Marxians" (Gray, p. 288). "In Labour's Wrongs Bray traced the impoverishment of the labouring-classes... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 118738
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RAY, John. Catalogus plantarum Angliæ,London : 1670
First edition. "It is now a fairly uncommon book, though this may be partly explained by one of its main purposes, that is, to be used by botanists in the field, so that many copies would probably have been used up and destroyed" (Keynes). John Ray (1627-1705), "the son of a blacksmith, became one of England's greatest naturalists. He was pre-eminently... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 125417
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(BRADBURY, Ray, intro.) SKEETERS, Paul W. Sidney H. Sime, Master of Fantasy.Pasadena, CA : 1978
First edition, number 73 of 200 copies signed by Bradbury and Skeeters, additionally number 16 of 50 copies with a copy of Arthur Machen's drawing for Sime's "The Hill of Dreams" loosely inserted, and a dust jacket reproducing "A Beast" by Sime, both numbered in manuscript. This is the definitive work on the artist noted for illustrating the stories... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 139783
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LABORDE, Léon Emmanuel Simon Joseph, marquis de. Journey Through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai,London : 1836
First edition in English of this "important work" (Blackmer), attractively illustrated with lithographs after Laborde and wood-engravings by Samuel Williams; it was originally published in folio in 1830 (Paris: Giard).
In 1826 the 17-year-old de Laborde (1809-1869) travelled with his father across Asia Minor and Syria to Cairo, where he met the... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 139301
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BETJEMAN, John. Continual Dew.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, of Betjeman's second volume of poetry, printed on pale blue paper. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 115883
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BETJEMAN, John. Continual Dew.London : 1937
First edition, one of only three copies specially bound in blue velvet. This copy has a typed letter signed from the publisher (John "Jock" Murray VI 1909-1993) dated 1942 gifting the book to the novelist and bibliophile Michael Sadleir, enclosing the present copy as a "swop" for "the splendid Amandiana", and clarifying the limitation, noting that there... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 102445
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GRAY, Simon. Remarks on the Production of Wealth,London : 1820
First edition, extracted from The Pamphleteer, volume XVII, no XXXIV. In 1815 Simon Gray had published his treatise on population, The Happiness of States, as an open rejection of many of Malthus's principles. Previously Malthus's theories has been broadly accepted without major opposition, but Gray's attack was rapidly followed by other critiques,... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 127189
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GRAY, Thomas. The Works.London : 1814
First edition edited by Thomas James Mathias (1753-1835). "Mathias derived considerable knowledge of Thomas Gray from the Revd Norton Nicholls, on whose death in 1807 Mathias composed a letter of eulogy. Mathias was a beneficiary of Nicholls's will. In 1814 he published an edition of The Works of Thomas Gray in two quarto volumes, with substantial prose... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 135310
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GRAY, John. A Treatise of Gunnery.London : 1731
First edition, presentation copy to Admiral Edward Vernon (1684-1757), the victor of Porto Bello in 1739, the inscription reading: "To the Honourable Edward Vernon Esq, Vice Admiral of the Blue and Commander in chief of all his Majesty's Sea Forces in Jamaica this Treatise is presented with the utmost respect By The Author".
Gray's treatise aimed... Learn More£2,200.00Stock Code: 137600
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MANNING, Frederic. Scenes & Portraits.London : 1909
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Eva Fowler, to whom he had been introduced the previous year, on the front free endpaper: "To Mrs Alfred Fowler, from the author. 17.5.1909" and with the bookplate of the recipient's husband to both front pastedown and front free endpaper. Eva Fowler (1872-1921) was a minor... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 94483
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THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The History of Pendennis.London : 1849-50
First edition of Thackeray's second major work, published serially in 23 parts between 1848 and 1850. The work was interrupted for three months at the end of 1849 because of Thackeray's "nearly fatal illness (most probably cholera or typhoid)" (ODNB). Arthur Pendennis was used as the narrator of many of Thackeray's subsequent books, and is "an admitted... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 121289
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BETJEMAN, John. High and Low.London : 1966
First edition, first impression. Signed by Betjeman on the title page. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 105693
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(TOLKIEN, J. R. R.) BRAY, Olive (ed. and trans.) The Elder or Poetic Edda,London : 1908
First edition, first impression, of this uncommon English translation that influenced J. R. R. Tolkien, this copy with a nice literary association: from the library of Gladys Huntington (18871959), author of the anonymously-published novel Madame Solario (1956), with her bookplate and ownership inscription, dated 19 May 1917, to the front endpaper.... Learn More£1,800.00Stock Code: 142356
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BETJEMAN, John. Continual Dew.London : 1937
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, with an autograph Christmas card signed by Betjeman in English and Gaelic loosely inserted. A lovely association copy owned by the Irish architectural historian, writer and poet Maurice Craig (1919-2011), with his bookplate to the front pastedown and ownership inscription,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 123743
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GRAY, Milner. Four papers on packaging and industrial design from the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts.London, : 1939-59
Attractively bound volume comprising four articles by Gray extracted from the journal of the RSA over a twenty year period. Inscribed by the author to his wife on the front free endpaper, "To Gnade with all my love, Milner 1959". The papers are; "The History and Development of Packaging"(26 pages with illustrations, 5 May, 1939); "The Industrial Designer... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 81478
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GRAY, Simon. Remarks on the Production of Wealth,London : 1820
First edition, extracted from The Pamphleteer, volume XVII, no XXXIV. In 1815 Simon Gray had published his treatise on population, The Happiness of States, as an open rejection of many of Malthus's principles. Previously Malthus's theories has been broadly accepted without major opposition, but Gray's attack was rapidly followed by other critiques,... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 140851
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MANNING, Frederic. Poems.London : 1910
First edition, first impression. Collection of 39 poems, of which only three had previously appeared in different magazines. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 91367
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BETJEMAN, John. A Nip in the Air.London : 1974
First edition, signed limited edition. Number 130 of 175 copies signed by the author. From the library of Anthony Hobson (1921-2014), the scholar, esteemed bibliophile, and expert on Rensaissance bindings, who was President of the Internationale de Bibliophilie between 1985 and 1999, with his bookplate. Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 102440
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BETJEMAN, John. Selected Poems.London : 1948
First edition, signed limited issue. Number 8 of 18 copies, signed by the author and specially bound and printed on fine japon vellum. From the libraries of the publisher, bibliographer and novelist Michael Sadleir (1888-1957) and, latterly, the scholar and auctioneer Anthony Hobson (1921-2014), with their bookplates to the front pastedown. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 102444
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BETJEMAN, John. High and Low.London : 1966
First edition, signed limited edition. Number 31 of 100 copies specially bound and signed by the author. Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 103910
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MANNING, Frederic. The Vigil of Brunhild.London : 1907
First edition, first impression of the author's first book, a verse monologue which, when published, was "well received by a small, discriminating readership" (ODNB). Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 90859
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BETJEMAN, John. A Nip in the Air.London : 1974
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 175 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 77364
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BETJEMAN, John. A Nip in the Air.London : 1974
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 175 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 65283
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CAREY, Peter. The Fat Man in History.London : 1980
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author "For Philip Murray, with my best wishes, Peter Carey, Sydney 22/8/88" on the title page. The Fat Man in History and Other Stories was Carey's first book to be published outside Australia, and collects stories from his earlier collections, The Fat Man in History (1974) and War Crimes (1979). Dr... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 114044
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TARLETON, Priscilla Susan Bertie. Manuscript volume of poetry with numerous pen, ink, and pencil vignettes.London : 1796-1821
A superbly presented and deeply personal manuscript volume of largely unpublished poetry and drawings by Priscilla Susan Bertie Tarleton (1778-1864), wife of the notorious army officer and rakehell Sir Banastre Tarleton. The manuscript was produced between the years 1796, when the author was only 18 years old, and 1821, when she was 43. It contains... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 94720
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ANDERSON, James. Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of National Industry; chiefly intended to promote the Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries, of Scotland.Edinburgh : 1777
First edition, in a fine Scott of Edinburgh binding, presentation copy, inscribed from the author on a preliminary blank to William Murray, first earl of Mansfield, whose celebrated library was largely destroyed by fire during the Gordon Riots.
The Scottish agriculturalist and political economist James Anderson (1739-1808) wrote several influential... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 127839
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BRADBURY, Ray. Original autograph manuscript poem, [published as "Why Viking Lander, Why the Planet Mars?"]Hollywood, CA : [c. 19] June 1976
A wonderful original manuscript poem by Ray Bradbury, showing one of the great imaginations of American science fiction engaging directly and in real time with a major event in space exploration.
In mid-June 1976, Ray Bradbury, author of the Martian Chronicles (1950), was invited to the Disney projection room in Hollywood to witness the... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 139775
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BRADBURY, Ray. Two manuscript poems, inscribed: "So Run the Sands Back up the Glass" and "The East is Up".[Los Angeles : 1961 & 1980]
Presentation copies of two original manuscripts, both inscribed by the author to his old friend Douglas Menville, the science fiction and fantasy writer.
"So Run the Sands Back Up the Glass" is a corrected typescript dated 1961, and apparently unpublished, inscribed by the author on the recto, "For Doug, with my friendliest wishes - this original... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 127474
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FARRELL, J. G. A Man From Elsewhere.London : 1963
First edition, first impression, of the author's scarce first book. From the library of Dr Philip Murray, Irish book collector and author of The Adventures of a Book Collector (2011), though unmarked as such. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 113590
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DARWIN, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.London : 1872
First edition, Freeman's first issue, with "that", rather than the second-issue misspelling "htat" on the first line of p. 208. This copy has the plates lettered with Roman numerals, with another state in Arabic numerals, without priority of issue; Freeman believes that the Arabic plates were printed first, but notes that "the two states seem to occur... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 139478
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DARWIN, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Mammals.London : 1873
First edition, second issue, variant. Ruse noted Freeman's copy as being a "later variant bind-up with 1878 advertisements", the present copy's advertisements are dated January 1885. The first edition, first issue, was published the previous year.
The reader's ink notes on p. 121 are about their "old Collie Dog" who would "laugh (partly opening the... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 138917
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SHEIL, Mary Leonora, Lady. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia.London : 1856
First and only contemporary edition of the "first travel book on Persia by a woman" (Nash, Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger, p. 114), with additional strategic comment from her husband. Mary Anne Leonora Woulfe (1825-69) married Capt. Justin Sheil (18031871), an Indian Army officer in 1847. Her husband had had a distinguished... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 139756
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GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire.London : 1903
A very attractive set of Gibbon's great history. First published between 1776 and 1788, "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless works which... maintain their hold upon the layman and continue to stimulate the scholar... The Decline and Fall is the only historical narrative prior to Macaulay which... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 140457
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LIVINGSTONE, David. A portion of the original manuscript of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa,London : 1857
A remarkable fragment, the only portion of the original manuscript of Missionary Travels known to remain in private hands. We understand that all other manuscript material is held in the John Murray Archive at the National Library of Scotland. Together with an autograph letter signed from Livingstone's sister, sending the manuscript fragment, and a... Learn More£65,000.00Stock Code: 139047
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RIBEMONT-DESSAIGNES, Georges (ed.) Bifur.Paris : 1929-31
First editions, limited issue. A complete set of the Surrealist-inflected, avant-garde Parisian art and literary journal, issued between 25 May 1929 and 10 June 1931. Each volume is numbered: the first four volumes were printed in an edition of 3,000 copies, volumes 5 to 7 one of 2,000 copies, and volume 8 was one of 1,700 copies. Established by Pierre... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 107785
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MASCLET, Daniel. Nus: La Beauté de la Femme.Paris : 1933
First edition, first printing. This album was produced from the first International Salon of Nude Photography, Paris 1933. Contributing photographers include Jean Moral, Carlo Leonetti, Drtikol, Dr. J. Schuwerack, Andreas Feininger, Gilchrist, Denes Ronay, Manasse, Dr. Peter Weller, Christian Aegerter, Ewald Hoinkis, Ludwig Harren, Bruno Schultz, Dr.... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 122407
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NICHOLS, Bev, as "Cindy Ray". The Story of... A Tattooed Girl.Ivanhoe, Victoria : 1965
Rare complete set of all of legendary tattoo artist Cindy Ray's books, the copy of her practical manual inscribed inside the front panel of the wraps, "To Lowell J. Tuckwiller, Best wishes & kind regards, Cindy", with Tuckwiller's circus collection ink stamp above. Ray became an icon of tattoo culture in the early 1960s after responding to an ad for... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 125093
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[ADDISON, Joseph; Richard Steele; & others.] The Spectator.London : 1744
Appealing set of the great Augustan periodical, presented here in an unadulterated contemporary trade binding and "improved" at an early date by the addition of the delightful frontispieces from the 1747 edition, the designs of which are by Francis Hayman, "the most proficient English illustrator of his time" (Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 136182
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FORD, Charles Henri (ed.) View.New York : 1940-7
A complete set, one volume inscribed by Ford, of first printings of the remarkable American literary and art magazine published by artist and writer Charles Henri Ford and writer and film critic Parker Tyler. View covered the contemporary avant-garde and Surrealist scene, and was published quarterly as finances permitted. The roster of prestigious contributors,... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 109741
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NOYES, Alfred. The Last Man.London : 1940
First edition, first impression. Rare, particularly in the dust jacket, this is one of the earliest novels to incorporate a doomsday device. It was critically well-received, with George Orwell writing that the book "raises a real problem decay in the belief in absolute good and evil". Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 79253
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VERNEUIL, Adélaïde & Maurice Pillard. The original artwork for Kaléidoscope: ornements abstraits …Paris : [1923-6]
The original, highly finished artwork for the complete suite of pochoirs for the Verneuils' Kaléidoscope, "a masterwork of Art Deco design" (V & A website "The Kaleidoscopic Wonder of Art Deco Prints"). A visually spectacular document of what is widely recognised as one of the most brilliant of the art deco pattern books - a genre which Ray considered... Learn More£87,500.00Stock Code: 132529
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BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time.Santa Barbara : 1984
First and limited edition, one of "126 numbered copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, each with an original painting by Charles Bukowski" - this copy not numbered but inscribed "Presentation Copy" and signed by Bukowski. In addition, this copy is inscribed (in characteristic marker pen) on the blank facing the title page: "For Arthur Applebaum -... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 120437
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ORTON, I. R. The Dreamer and the Sheaves,London : 1955
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author to the title page, "To Alan Guest, best wishes from I. R. Orton". Loosely inserted in this copy are two letters to the editor of Stand magazine and poet Jon Silkin, one in manuscript, dated 27 November 1954; the second typed and signed in manuscript. Alongside the letters Orton has sent... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 136259
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(STARK, Freya) KER, William Paton. The Art of Poetry.Oxford : 1923
First Edition. Freya Stark's personal copy of Professor William Ker's lectures delivered as Professor of Poetry in Oxford between 1920 and 1922, which was given to Stark by Ker's sister just a few weeks after Ker's death on 17th July and bears is inscribed to her, "Freya Stark. 6th August 1923. Love P.M.K Penelope M. Ker". An elegant Reynolds Stone... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 127606
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ROBERTS, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia.London : 1842-5
First edition, with the plates in the proof state, of "one of the most important and elaborate ventures of 19th-century publishing... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey Travel); no publication before this astonishing work had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the region.
The proof... Learn More£57,500.00Stock Code: 132530
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ROBERTS, David. Egypt & Nubia,London : 1846-49
First edition, in the preferred deluxe coloured format, of "one of the most important and elaborate ventures of 19th-century publishing, and it was the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey Travel). No publication before this had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the Near East. Representing... Learn More£175,000.00Stock Code: 67119
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IRANIAN, Mihran, & others. Photograph album documenting a cruise to North Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean on RMS Celtic.New York : 1902
Engrossing, wide-ranging and thoughtfully compiled Gilded Age photograph album assembled by a member of a tour party sailing from New York on a Mediterranean cruise aboard the White Star liner RMS Celtic. Perhaps most importantly it includes a handful of superb depictions of Istanbul by the celebrated Armenian photographer Mihran Iranian, whose work... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131724
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(CHINA.) Second Opium War.An enthralling and richly detailed journal of a decade at sea with the US Navy during the 1850s, recording back-to-back cruises on three sloops-of-war, seeing action in three different arenas: on the Cyane, which shelled Greytown, Nicaragua (1854), the Preble during the Paraguay Expedition (1858) - a flexing of muscle by the US Navy that concluded peaceably... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 127365
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McCULLOCH, John Ramsay. Memorandums on the proposed importation of foreign beef and live stock, addressed to Alexander Murray, Esq. M.P.London : 1842
First edition, uncommon, of this short but statistically detailed essay on the meat export trade in which McCulloch reassures domestic meat producers that meat imports can have no effect on the home trade. Prices would not be cheaper and, in any case, the meat itself - Holstein beef excepted - was judged to be "universally inferior to that of England;... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 126460
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(WOMEN'S EDUCATION.) Silver English charity school "Learn of Us" medal.[London] : 1885
A beautifully engraved award medal, the central beehive design very skilfully rendered and the whole in impressively crisp, clean condition, presented to the fourteen-year-old student Sarah Noble in 1885 by the Sir John Cass Charity School of Aldgate, London.
The English merchant and philanthropist Sir John Cass (1661-1718) founded a co-education... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 138670
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MALCOLM, Sir John. The Life of Robert, Lord Clive:1836
First edition of this important biography, the official life of Clive of India by Sir John Malcolm, another great Indian administrator. "By the time Malcolm wrote, no new material had appeared on Clive for more than forty years. The core of Malcolm's work was to be the large collection of manuscripts kept by Clive's son, the Earl of Powis" (Harrington,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 43835
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SENIOR, Nassau William. [Five pamphlets on political economy.]London : 1830-2
A collection of five pamphlets on political economy by Senior, whom Marx called "the bel-esprit of English economists, well-known, alike for his economical 'science' and for his beautiful style" (Kapital, B.1, section 3: Senior's "Last Hour"). The works, here in mixed editions, set forth his theories on wages, the Irish poverty problem, and population,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 122283
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ELIOT, George. Autograph letter signed ("M. E. Lewes") to Anne Thackeray.London : 1872
George Eliot invites William Makepeace Thackeray's eldest daughter to one of her famous literary "at homes". The short letter, dated 16 January 1872, reads: "My dear Miss Thackeray, I shall be at home at 4 o'clock on Thursday, & shall be delighted to see you, & Mrs Sartoris, whom I seem already to know a little 'in the spirit'. Yours always truly, M... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 139465
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LEYEL, Hilda Winifred Ivy, Mrs. C.F. Cold Savoury Meals.London : 1927
First edition, scarce in the delightful Kathleen Hale jacket. One of Leyel's cleverly targeted series of themed books on cooking and presentation, issued under the banner "The Lure of Cookery" - "most serviceable and attractive little books" Daily Telegraph - part of a 1930s renaissance of interest in English food.
"It taxes the ingenuity of... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 141556
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AUSTIN, Sarah. Autograph letter signed discussing the frustrations of publishing a periodical work for children.26 Park Road, Regent's Park : [no year, but likely c.1829-36]
Autograph letter signed to an unknown female recipient setting out Austin's thoughts regarding the establishment of a "periodical work for children". Despite the recipient's enthusiasm, her own, "and that of everyone, without a single exception, of my female friends and acquaintances I am forced to relinquish it from the difficulty of finding a publisher... Learn More£525.00Stock Code: 124627
