Search results for: 'the works'
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NOLHAC, Pierre de, and others. James I and VI; Queen Anne; Marie Antoinette; Empress Josephine; Queen Victoria.Paris : 1897-1906
First editions and first editions in English. A handsomely bound set of these lavishly produced biographies, published by Goupil & Cie, the leading art dealership in 19th-century France. James I and Queen Anne are number 420 and 93 respectively from a limited edition of 800 copies on fine paper. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 111444
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NORTON, Mary. The Borrowers.London : 1952
First edition, first impression. Winner of the 1952 Carnegie Medal, on the 70th anniversary celebration of the medal in 2007, The Borrowers was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works. Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 127494
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NAPIER, Sir William. History of General Sir Charles Napier's Administration of Scinde, and Campaign in the Cutchee Hills.London : 1851
First edition. William Napier was the brother of Charles Napier, who had conquered and administered Sindh and been a leading figure in British India prior to his resignation over his disagreements with Governor-General Lord Dalhousie. William Napier published both an account of the conquest of Sindh and the present volume, a praising account of Charles... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 122301
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NOVIK, Naomi. Temeraire; The Throne of Jade; Black Powder War; Empire of Ivory.London : 2006 & 2007
First UK editions, signed limited editions of 100 copies each, with limitation blind stamps on the title pages. The first four novels in the ongoing Temeraire series, first published in the US the same year, set amid an alternate version of the Napoleonic Wars, which includes squadrons of dragons. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 87253
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NAVAL. Report of the Committee on the Inflexible. With Appendix.London : 1878
First and only edition, extremely uncommon. Inflexible was built to counter the Mediterranean threat of the Italian battleships Duilio and Dandolo, huge ironclad platforms carrying two pairs of 15-inch Armstrong guns each. Inflexible mounted more ordnance than any previous British ship, and her 24-inch thick plate meant that she certainly lived up to... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 94263
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NIELSEN, Kay. Original watercolour: "List, ah list to the zephyr in the grove."1913
An original watercolour, signed and dated "Kay Nielsen 1913" in the lower left corner, for In Powder and Crinoline, a collection of seven fairy tales chosen by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. This watercolour illustrates the story "Felicia or The Pot of Pinks" and appears at p. 52: "Nielsen shows in his development a fancy so delicate and an outlook so original... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 111943
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NICHOLSON, William. The Pirate Twins.London : [1929]
Signed limited edition, 9 of 60 copies signed by the artist in pale green ink on the front pastedown. Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson (1872-1949) was a painter and illustrator whose "natural sympathy with children produced work of great charm such as The Pirate Twins" (ODNB). He is perhaps best remembered as the illustrator of the Velveteen Rabbit.
Maurice... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 122807
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![Po gornoi Bukharie. putevye ocherki [In the mountains of Bukhara. Travel Stories].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/110611.jpg)
NECHAYEV, Alexay Vasilievich. Po gornoi Bukharie. putevye ocherki [In the mountains of Bukhara. Travel Stories].St Petersburg : 1914
First edition. In 1906 Alexksay Vasilievich Nechayev (1864-1915), a paleontologist and geologist from Kazan, made a trip into the Bukhara for the purposes of a scientific survey. However, the present work is his account of the everyday life and traditions of the local people in this isolated locale. The expedition extended into the mountainous areas... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 110611
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NAPIER, Charles James, & William Francis Patrick Napier (ed.) Defects, Civil and Military, of the Indian Government.London : 1853
First edition, family association copy. Ownership inscription of George Thomas Napier, brother of both Charles James Napier and his editor William Francis Patrick Napier. Charles James Napier had been Commander in Chief in India, and had resigned after a disagreement with Lord Dalhousie, the governor-general; the book is a vindication of his actions,... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 122130
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NAVAL. The Tenth Report of the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry.[London] : 1805
First edition of the report produced by the commission of inquiry appointed in 1802 to review the financial management of the Admiralty, of which Dundas had been treasurer between 1782 and 1800, and which, on the initiative of Samuel Whitbread, resulted in Dundas's impeachment in 1806 for the misappropriation of public money.
Henry Dundas, first... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 133498
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NAVAL. The Cruise; a Poetical sketch, in Eight Cantos. By a Naval Officer.London : 1808
First edition of this extremely uncommon poetical account of a two-month "shakedown" cruise with a new ship's company on a British man-of-war, this an attractively presented tall copy.
The work was begun as a pastime during a "regimen on shore recruiting an extremely exhausted constitution". Finding his "Sketches of Scenes which had occurred... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 67173
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NANSEN, Fridtjof. Farthest North.London : 1898
Second UK edition, issued the year after the first. This edition is the first to be bound in the distinctive, elaborately decorated, cloth, here found in notably bright condition. This is the official account of the first Fram expedition of 1893-1896, "a remarkable achievement in Polar exploration" (PMM).
The expedition was undertaken "with the... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 142160
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NANSEN, Fridtjof. Farthest North.London : 1898
Second UK edition, issued the year after the first. This edition is the first to be bound in the distinctive, elaborately decorated, cloth, here found in notably bright condition. This is the official account of the first Fram expedition of 1893-1896, "a remarkable achievement in Polar exploration" (PMM).
The expedition was undertaken "with the... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 144275
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NAPIER, Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers. The Linesman;London : 1856
First and only edition of this three-decker, giving a fictionalized account of life in the British Army in the first half of the 19th century, including campaigning and cantonment life in India and the First Burma War.
"It has been justly remarked that no work of fiction can equal in point of interest, one composed of incidents derived from... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 75386
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NAPIER, Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers. The Linesman;London : 1856
First and only edition. Uncommon, Library Hub has BL, NLS, Oxford and Cambridge only, WorldCat adds 6 copies in the USA and one in South Africa. Three-decker, giving a fictionalised account of life in the British Army in the first half of the nineteenth century, including campaigning and cantonment life in India, and the First Burma War. "It has been... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 77542
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NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. A Genealogy of Morals;London : 1899
First edition in English of Nietzsche's demonstration of the relativity of morals, tracing the West's system of morality to the "slave morality" of early Christianity, and outlining the possibility of a new master morality. The Genealogy, a central work in Nietzsche's canon that influenced many authors, philosophers, and political movements, was first... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 145737
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NARAHARA, Ikko. A Collection of Stage Fantasy Photos. Tenjo Sajiki People.Tokyo : 1977
First edition, first impression. A photographic study of the Japanese independent theatre troupe co-founded by Shūji Terayama, Kujō Kyōko, Yutaka Higashi, Tadanori Yokoo, and Fumiko Takagi. The theatre was a major phenomenon on the Japanese underground scene in the 1970s, producing stage works marked by experimentalism, folklore influences, social... Learn More£825.00Stock Code: 35143
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NECKER, Jacques. Collection complette de tous les ouvrages …Utrecht : 1781
First edition of this collection of works by and about Jacques Necker, presenting a variety of contemporary opinions, both positive and negative, on his time and influence as finance minister for Louis XVI (1777-81). Despite proving to be a popular and capable reformer he had enemies at court who, led by Marie-Antoinette, plotted his dismissal in 1781.... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 126500
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NABOKOV, Vladimir, as Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin. Despair.London : 1937
First English edition, first impression, first issue in the black cloth. Nabokov's second English publication was put out by the small imprint John Long who specialized in unconventional, quirky books, especially mystery, fantasy, and crime novels. They had previously published Nabokov's Camera Obscura with very little success and fared no better with... Learn More£13,750.00Stock Code: 124322
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NERUDA, Pablo. "Argentina, escucha lo que mi patria te dice", typescript poem signed.[June 1944]
A scarce example of a signed carbon copy typescript poem by Pablo Neruda, with three small corrections in his hand. The 18-verse poem "Argentina, escucha lo que mi patria te dice" ("Argentina, hear what my country says to you") was written by the Chilean poet and diplomat on 4 June 1944 in response to the coup d'état of 1943 in Argentina. It was first... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 134176
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NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Gesammelte Werke.Munich : 1920-29
First complete collected edition of Nietzsche's works, in the original German, number 198 of 1,600 sets, this one of 185 special copies printed on rag paper and bound in full vellum. Arranged chronologically, with an introduction by Richardo Oehler, notes and indexes, this was the first edition to claim completeness, and has only been surpassed by the... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 144914
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NABOKOV, Vladimir, as Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin. Despair.London : 1937
First English edition, first impression, and Nabokov's first attempt at an extended piece of fiction in English. It had been preceded in 1935 by Camera Obscura, the first of Nabokov's works to be translated into English, which was also published by the hapless firm of John Long. Nabokov greatly disliked the translation and its poor quality "prompted... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 28191
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NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophirt.Leipzig : 1889 [but 1888]
First edition, first issue, of Nietzsche's last great work before his psychological collapse in January 1889, with an excellent association; the heavily annotated copy of Heinrich Köselitz, Nietzsche's amanuensis and most frequent correspondent, and the person responsible for the title of this work, with the surname of his pseudonym, "Gast" (a name... Learn More£32,500.00Stock Code: 126701
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NABOKOV, Vladimir, as Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin. Camera Obscura.London : 1935
First edition in English, first impression. Association copy, inscribed by Nabokov's agent, Otto Klement, on the front free endpaper, "To Margaret Annealthough not a book for children. O. Klement." Camera Obscura was the first of Nabokov's works to be translated into English and is one of two famously scarce books issued by the hapless firm of John... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 124244
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NICHOLS, Robert. Ardours and EndurancesNew York : [1918]
First US edition, first printing, fulsomely inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with an eight-line poetic quotation from "The Full Heart" (printed p. 65). From the library of Lois Walcott Kellogg (1894-1944), wealthy heiress to the Charles P. Kellogg manufacturing fortune through her mother Emma Lois Kellogg, and daughter of Supreme Court... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 117876
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NOVIK, Naomi. Temeraire: Book One, His Majesty's Dragons; Throne of Jade; Black Powder War.Burton, MI : 2008 & 2009
Signed limited editions of 52 lettered copies each. The 3 novels, the first in the Temeraire series, were first published in 2006. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 87256
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NASH, Paul. Paintings, Drawings and Illustrations.London : 1948
First edition, first impression. With a chronology of his life, a catalogue of exhibitions and works in Public Collections, Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 88898
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NECKER, Jacques. De l'administration des finances de la France.Paris : 1784
First edition, described by the great Scottish political economist John Ramsay McCulloch as "the only authentic account of the finances of France previously to the Revolution. Owing to the popularity of its author, and the peculiar circumstances of the country at the time when it was published, the Revolution having all but commenced, the demand for... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 109029
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NEVINSON, C. R. W. Modern War Paintings.London : 1917
First edition, first impression, signed by the author in pencil below the colour frontispiece. "Having gone to France with the Red Cross and been invalided home soon afterwards, he announced that he would be using 'Futurist technique' to express the reality of war in his new work. In subsequent paintings Nevinson confirmed that he saw the Great War... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 140292
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NUTTALL, Jeff. Mr Watkins got drunk and had to be carried home.[Finchley : 1964
First edition, first impression, one of approximately 50 copies hand-printed by the author. Jeff Nuttall performed his cut-up piece at a party at his home in north London on 1 February 1964, in front of an audience which included concrete poet Bob Cobbing and painter Islwyn Watkins, after whom the work takes its title. A bright copy of this scarce and... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 94454
