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(TOMPKINS, Charles Brown.) ENGINEERING RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC. High-Speed Computing Devices.New York : 1950
First edition, first printing, of the first treatise on how to build an electronic digital computer. An important contribution to computing literature in its own right, it also provided some of the most complete bibliographies available on the subject at the time. Charles Brown Tompkins, a pioneering academic in the fields of numerical analysis and... Learn More£825.00Stock Code: 118811
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(TOMPKINS, Charles Brown.) ENGINEERING RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC. High-Speed Computing Devices.New York : 1950
First edition, first printing, of the first treatise on how to build an electronic digital computer. An important contribution to computing literature in its own right, it also provided some of the most complete bibliographies available on the subject at the time. Charles Brown Tompkins, a pioneering academic in the fields of numerical analysis and... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 132836
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LABILLARDIÈRE, Jacques Julien Houton de. Voyage in Search of La Pérouse …London : 1800
First edition in English, same year as the French, this in the favoured, and less common, single-volume quarto edition. Labillardière was the botanist and doctor on the d'Entrecasteaux Pérouse search expedition, and was entrusted with the task of writing the official account following the death of the commander from scurvy. "Although unsuccessful... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 79886
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LIVINGSTONE, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa;London : 1857
First edition, Bradlow's variant 7: the frontispiece and plates facing pages 66 and 225 are wood-engravings by Whymper; the extra leaf after page 8 is absent. Gaston Renard called this variant the third issue, but as many as 11 variants of the first edition are known and a reliable order of precedence has never been established: it is now accepted that... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 119257
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WELLS, H. G. The Research Magnificent.London : 1915
First edition, first impression. Scarce in the dust jacket. The Research Magnificent was written during Wells's affair with Rebecca West, and some of its themes may have been attempts to address that troubled relationship. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 87347
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DARWIN, Charles. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and GeologyLondon : 1860
Second edition, and the final definitive text. The Journal of Researches was first published as volume III of Fitzroy's Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle in 1839, and also issued as an independent volume at the same time. The second edition, extensively revised and reduced from about 224,000 words to 213,000,... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 123893
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MACPHERSON, Duncan. Antiquities of Kertch and Researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus.London : 1857
First and only edition, uncommon. "An example of the degree of technical virtuosity reached by this time in lithography, giving plates brilliant in effect, the equivalent of modern four-colour process work from photographs. It is very difficult to tell whether, or to what extent, the plates are touched by hand The inks are excellent, with some strong... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 109135
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LAKATOS, Imre. II- Criticism and the Methodology of scientific research programmes.London : 1968.
Original offprint of Lakatos's paper on the methodology of scientific research programmes, "an extract from a much longer manuscript of the same title which I read in spring 1967 in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Toronto and at Brandeis, and which was at that time circulated among my friends. The extract is poorer in content but richer in polemic than the original;... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 133824
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LIVINGSTONE, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa;London : 1857
First edition, Bradlow's variant 2: the frontispiece and plates facing pages 66 and 225 are all tinted lithographs by T. Picken, and the extra leaf after page 8 is absent. Frank R. Thorold called this the first issue, and Gaston Renard believed it to be the second, but as many as 11 variants of the first edition are known and a reliable order of precedence... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 119267
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MACPHERSON, Duncan. Antiquities of Kertch and Researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus.London : 1857
First and only edition, uncommon. "An example of the degree of technical virtuosity reached by this time in lithography, giving plates brilliant in effect, the equivalent of modern four-colour process work from photographs. It is very difficult to tell whether, or to what extent, the plates are touched by hand The inks are excellent, with some strong... Learn More£2,875.00Stock Code: 71516
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(EUGENICS & CRIME.) Research Studies of Crime as related to Heredity.1925
First edition of this collection of papers emphasising the eugenic aspects of crime: Harry Olson's presidential address, "Crime and Heredity," to the 1923 Annual Meeting of the Eugenic Research Association, 1923 - Olson was Chief Justice of the Municipal Court; the 1925 presidential address, "Crime from the Psychiatrist's Point of View," Charles W.... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 63619
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DARWIN, Charles. Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural HistoryLondon : 1873
Second edition, later issue, "twelfth thousand", and the final definitive text. The Journal of Researches was first published as volume III of Fitzroy's Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle in 1839, and also issued as an independent volume at the same time. The second edition, extensively revised and reduced... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 139482
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CARTLAND, Barbara. I Search for Rainbows.London : 1967
First edition, first impression of Cartland's autobiography. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author "To darling Denise - the most glamorous writer in the world - with love from her ever admiring Barbara, 1967" on the front free endpaper. The recipient was Cartland's friend and rival romantic novelist Denise Robins. Cartland was the dedicatee of... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 106956
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GREENE, Graham. In Search of a Character.London : 1961
First edition, first impression. From the library of Irish bibliophile Dr Philip Murray, author of Adventures of a Book Collector (2011), though not marked as such. Learn More£85.00Stock Code: 114040
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(BAIRNSFATHER, Bruce.) HOLT, Tonie & Valmai. In Search of the Better 'Ole.1985
First edition, first impression. Learn More£45.00Stock Code: 69406
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MILOSZ, Czeslaw. Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition.New York : 1968
First edition in English, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed the author on the front free endpaper "To Karl Shapiro, from his first translator into Polish, twenty years ago. Cordially Czeslaw Milosz, Berkeley, Jan. 13, 1969". A nice literary association - Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, while Shapiro held the position... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 132590
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SHAW, Bernard. The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search for God.London : 1932
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the half-title "To Geoffrey Mahoney from Bernard Shaw, 31st Dec. 1932", with Mahoney's ownership inscription to the first blank. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 63372
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SHAW, Bernard. The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search for God.London : 1932
First edition, first impression. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 91977
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SHAW, Bernard. The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God.London : 1932
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title to the female missionary who inspired the book, nine days after its publication, "Dear Miss Shaw, on the eve of a voyage round the world on which I am taking your latest proofsheets to read I send you this story, for which you are really responsible,... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 103294
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KANE, Elisha Kent. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55.Philadelphia : 1856
First edition. "In a brief life of thirty-six years, mostly in ill health, Elisha Kent participated in two Arctic expeditions and by the time of his death in 1857 was regarded as a true American hero and one of the nation's most popular authors Little went right in the second expedition but there were many notable achievements The discoveries of... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 128896
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DARWIN, Charles. Journal of ResearchesLondon : 1839
First separate edition, printed from the same sheets as Volume III of Fitzroy's Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, but with prelims i-iv cancelled and v-vi discarded. "His first published book is undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to On the Origin of Species as the most often printed.... Learn More£20,000.00Stock Code: 130580
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AINSWORTH, William Francis. Researches in Assyria, Babylonia, and Chaldea;London : 1838
First edition. "Ainsworth was one of the founding members of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1835 he was appointed surgeon and geologist to the Euphrates expedition. This account of the geological work of the expedition is dedicated to Francis Chesney head of the expedition. Ainsworth produced this work very quickly, long before Chesney's own account... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 95148
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HOENICH, P. K. Robot Art. Research No. AR10 of the Faculty of Architecture.Haifa : 1962
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Paul Konrad Hoenich "To Alto Meyer - with friendship - P. K. Hoenich, Haifa, 31. I. 63." One of the earliest publications on computer art. Prof. Emeritus Paul Konrad Hoenich (1907-1997), nicknamed PeKA, was born in Austria-Hungary and died in Haifa. PeKA studied at the Academies of Vienna, Florence and Paris.... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 46774
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BALLARD, J. G. Re/Search No. 8/9.San Francisco : 1984
First edition thus, first printing. Learn More£45.00Stock Code: 110108
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(JOULE, James Prescott.) GRAHAM, Thomas. Chemical and Physical Researches.Edinburgh : 1876
First edition, presentation copy to James Prescott Joule, with the printed presentation on the half-title "From James Young and R. Angus Smith" continued by hand "to Dr Joule FRS &c&c". The book later passed to the Chemical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge and then into the library of Churchill College, Cambridge, with their marks. Graham (1805-1869)... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 130394
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) MORLEY, Christopher. Where the Blue Begins.London : [1925]
First Rackham edition of Morley's whimsical tale of a dog's search for the meaning of life. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 15401
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BOOTHE, Clare. Kiss the Boys Good-bye.New York : 1939
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Bucky - with deep admiration, Love Clare". The recipient was Buckminster Fuller, the engineer, with whom Boothe was rumoured to have had an affair in the early 1930s. This is Boothe's second book, a satire of Hollywood's search for an unknown actress... Learn More£625.00Stock Code: 118410
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DICK, Philip K. Galactic Pot-Healer.London : 1971
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US in 1969. The novel deals with a number of philosophical and political issues such as repressive societies, fatalism, and the search for meaning in life. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 107067
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KIEFER, Anselm. Himmelspaläste.Munich : 2010
First edition, first impression. This copy signed across the opening spread in fuchsia purple crayon. Catalogue for Kiefer's installation at the brickworks at Höpfingen, Odenwald, with photography and an essay, in German and English, by Heiner Bastian. "I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 139628
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BUTLER, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Illustrated with wood engravings by John Farleigh.1934
A fine binding for this attractive edition of Butler's major novel, first published posthumously in 1902, a powerful autobiographical work recording his pained and satirical dissent from patriarchal Victorian hypocrisy. Farleigh was one of the best wood-engravers of the pre-War era, achieving his greatest success with the illustrations to George Bernard... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 43801
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FREEMAN, R. Austin. The Mystery of Angelina Frood.London : [1924]
Second edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Colonel W. Lawrence Gadd, with cordial greetings from his old friend, the author, R. Austin Freeman, 11th December 1939". Gadd was a Dickensian scholar and one of the authors of A Dickens Dictionary. He was quoted in the early Freeman biography In Search of Dr. Thorndyke.... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 86495
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STARK, Freya. The Southern Gates of Arabia.London : 1936
First edition, first impression. Scarce in the jacket. "In 1935 Stark went to Hadhramaut, southern Arabia, in search of an ancient trade route. After she became ill the RAF airlifted her to a hospital in Aden She returned a celebrity, and The Southern Gates of Arabia, awarded the Mungo Park medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, is often... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 140374
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CUVIER, Georges, & Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon. La Voliere de la Jeunesse,Paris : 1817
First and only edition of this charming juvenile guide to the world's birds, based on the work of Cuvier and Buffon, attractively illustrated with a suite of lively and well-executed, if unsophisticated, plates. Uncommon, with just four sets located in an online search of institutional holdings: no copies traced in the UK, just one in the US. This copy... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 136054
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MORRIS, William. The Earthly Paradise.London : 1896
An attractively bound set of Morris's epic poem The Earthly Paradise. "The poem that made Morris famous" was first published from 1868 to 1870 and tells the story of a band of 14th-century Norsemen who flee the Black Death in search of the reputed utopian "earthly paradise 'where none grow old'" (ODNB). The first Kelmscott Press edition was... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 139927
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(FISHER-ROWE, Edward Rowe). MOIR, Kenneth Macrae & Berthold Wolpe. Adventures of a Cornet of Horse in the Crimean War;London : 1939
First and only edition of 177 numbered copies signed by the author, this 169, published as number XCIX of the Sette's "Opuscula", inevitably uncommon just 4 copies located in a search of institutional holdings on line, all in the UK. Attractive little private publication recounting the Crimean experiences of Cornet Fisher, "in Hodge's regiment from... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 136476
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MAIZEROY, Paul-Gédéon Joly de. Mémoire sur les Opinions qui partagent les Militaires,1773
First Edition thus. Maizeroy was, despite the claims of Guichard, the most important expert of his time on the art of war in antiquity. He pursued the "scholarly study of Greek and Roman warfare, which he compared with, and brought to bear on, modern warfare... Throughout history... war conveyed clear lessons, provided it was seriously studied. "The... Learn More£695.00Stock Code: 40758
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ALVORD, Clarence Walworth. The Mississippi Valley in British Politics.Cleveland, OH : 1917
First edition of this important study, which received the Loubat Prize for 1918 and was reviewed favourably on publication by O. G. Libby, who considered Alvord "completely successful in maintaining his thesis that the Mississippi valley at a critical period in our history was again and again a determining factor in British politics. The part played... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 114851
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PIRANDELLO, Luigi. Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore.Firenze : 1921
First edition, first printing, very scarce especially in this condition, of the Nobel Prize winner's ground-breaking piece of absurdist metatheatre (known in English as Six Characters in Search of an Author). The play was published as volume 3 of the playwright's "Maschere Nude" sequence. The debut performance in Milan was greeted with shouts... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 133932
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WELLCOME, Sir Henry. Catalogue of the Twenty-Seventh Auction Sale of the Series, comprising : Prehistoric and Ethnological SpecimensLondon : 1939
First and only edition, inevitably uncommon, just a single copy- at the Swiss Musée d'Ethnographie - located in a search of online institutional listings. The material was sold by Wellcome's trustees "as surplus to the requirements of the Wellcome Historical Meical Museum". The majority of the sale comprised of "the greater part" of the renowned Rosehill... Learn More£85.00Stock Code: 134894
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SHEPHERD, J. W. A Personal Narrative of the Outbreak and Massacre at Cawnpore,Lucknow : 1894
Fourth edition of a popular Mutiny memoir by one of the few survivors of the Cawnpore massacre, originally published in the Calcutta and London Papers in 1857 under the title "Brief account of the Outbreak at Cawnpore", and in book form in a small edition of 500 copies in 1862. Shepherd was a Eurasian clerk of the Commissariat Department and Sorksy... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 140823
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WOOSNAM MILLS, H. The Tirah Campaign,Lahore : 1898
First and sole edition of this remarkably scarce account of the Tirah campaign (1897-98), a punitive expedition against the Afridi of the North-West Frontier; an online search of institutional libraries citing six locations only, at the British Library, at Bateman's (Kipling's Sussex home, a presentation copy from the author), Oxford, Leiden, Minnesota,... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 140722
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(ROYAL EXCHANGE.) Series of three hand-painted lantern slides.[c.1850s/60s]
A series of three magic lantern slides depicting the Royal Exchange, Britain's first specialist commercial building, before, during, and after the fire of 10 January 1838. The Royal Exchange pictured in the first slide, designed by Edward Jerman and opened in 1669, was the second iteration of the building: the original structure, built for the Exchange's... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 135445
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THOMSETT, Richard Gillham. With the Peshawar Column, Tirah Expeditionary Force.London : 1899
First and sole edition of this colourful and conspicuously scarce eye-witness account of the Tirah campaign (1897-98). Thomsett (b. 1857) was a lieutenant-colonel with the RAMC, had served in Afghanistan in 1878-80 and was later in Egypt (1882) and South Africa (1902). The Peshawar Column, under Brig.-Gen. A. G. Hammond VC, acted as one of the flanking... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 140707
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ZEILAU, Theodor. Fox-Expeditionen i Aaret 1860Copenhagen : 1861
First and only edition; an important and attractively illustrated work on the British survey of the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland in conjunction with the laying of the North Atlantic telegraph cable. The steam yacht Fox, purchased and fitted out by Lady Franklin, had most famously been used during McClintock's search for the Franklin expedition... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 127072
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(NELSON.) PAGE, John (ed.) The Burial Service, Chant, Evening Service, Dirge & Anthems, Appointed to be Performed at the Funeral of Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronti [sic.], at St Pauls Cathedral,London : 1806
First and only edition, of this record of the musical component of perhaps the most emotive and dramatic state funeral ever held in Britain. "The huge congregation - estimated at 10,000 - in the cathedral included two future Kings of England in addition to their five royal brothers. The scene in the stately sanctuary is described in the Times as 'too... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 137775
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HUSSERL, Edmund. Philosophie der Arithmetik.Halle-Saale : 1891
First edition of Husserl's first book, the initial volume of his Philosophie der Arithmetik. Husserl (18591938) began his career as a mathematician, and it was in search of complete clarity respecting fundamental mathematical concepts that, with the encouragement of Franz Brentano, to whom this work is dedicated, he turned to the philosophy of mathematics.... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 131952
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(ARCUSSIA, Charles d'.) LOFT, John, trans. D'Arcussia's Falconry.Louth, Lincolnshire : 2003
First and only edition of the first English translation of d'Arcussia's La Fauconnerie, first published in 1599, Loft's translation from the 1643 edition; signed and dated by the translator on the half-title. Uncommon: a search of online institutional holdings produces just five locations: BL, Oxford, Cambridge, McGill and the US Air Force Academy.... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 136151
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(INDIA; TREATIES.) A Collection of Treaties, Engagements and SanadsCalcutta : 1931
Fifth iteration of this important collection of treaties and sanads or deeds granted to the rulers of princely states confirming them in their role, in return for their allegiance to Britain; inevitably scarce, the printer's code shows that 665 copies were printed. As a competition wallah Aitchison (1832-1896) went out to India in September 1856, narrowly... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 140885
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BAKER, Josephine, & Piet Worm (illus.) La Tribu arc-en-ciel; The Rainbow Children.Amsterdam : [1957]
First edition and first edition in English, first printings, signed on the verso of each front free endpaper "Maman Josephine Baker" for the French, and "Mama Josephine Baker" for the English. The Rainbow Children tells of the adventures of a one-eyed black hen named Kott-Kott who travels the world in search of her lost eye and finally finds... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 138681
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MACPHERSON, John. Critical dissertations on the origin, antiquities, language, government, manners, and religion, of the ancient Caledonians, their posterity the Picts, and the British and Irish Scots.London : 1768
First edition of the author's most important work, his posthumously published response to the Ossian controversy, written in part as a defence of the Ossianic poems but also to encourage wider appreciation of Scottish culture and literature.
A Scottish minister and a recognized Celtic authority on antiquities, Macpherson had met James Macpherson... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 140867
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(INDIA; PUNJAB.) The Board of Economic Enquiry, Punjab. Pamphlet No. 1.Lahore : 1936
First edition, rare, with no copies traced from an online search of institutional libraries. This rather vulnerable publication was clearly produced in very small numbers and was published in the wake of the Sterling Crisis of 1931, when Britain unilaterally abandoned the gold standard. In his preface, E. D. Lucas, acting secretary to the Board, writes,... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 140922
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. The Travel Diaries.Cambridge : 1966
First edition, first impression. "In the first edition of his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), Malthus confined himself to theory. Subsequently, in 1799, Malthus traveled to Scandinavia in search of the necessary empirical evidence to support his theory. His journey took him from Hamburg in the south to Trondheim in the north, and included... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 125297
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EDWARDS, William. Personal Adventures during the Indian Rebellion in Rohilcund, Futtehghur, and Oude.London : 1858
Third edition, published in the same year as the first edition. The third edition is revised and therefore often preferred. Edwards was Collector and Magistrate of Buduan, a small field station in Rohilcund; "The following Narrative, drawn up as opportunity offered, under circumstances of great personal danger and considerable anxiety, was transmitted... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 119339
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CRUM, Frederick Maurice. Memoirs of a Rifleman Scout. Parts I to IV.Stirling : 1950
First and only edition of this uncommon privately published memoir, an online search of institutional libraries showing just six locations: Scotland, Oxford, Plas Newydd, Calgary, Guelph, and National Library of South Africa.
Memoirs of a Rifleman Scout opens with Crum's service in the Second Boer War with the 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 140220
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GUBBAY, Lucien. Origins.London : 1989
First and sole edition, number 85 of an unspecified but presumably very small edition; presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Geoffrey Gubbay, with best wishes, Lucien, 7.11.90". An online search of institutional libraries locates one copy only, at University of California.
"Origins traces the history over... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 140918
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MOORE, Thomas. The Life of Lord Byron.London : 1844
Moore's biography was first published in 1830 as Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, a title "distracting attention from the skill with which Moore constructed his portrait" (ODNB). "Byron had given his manuscript memoirs to Moore in the expectation that his friend might profit from them should he survive him. Moore later sold the manuscript to Murray... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 113992
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ARCHER, Edward Caulfield. Tours in Upper India, and in Parts of the Himalaya Mountains;London : 1833
First edition. Late in 1827 Stapleton Cotton, Lord Combermere, the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, undertook an extensive tour of Northern India on which Archer, a major in the 16th Lancers, accompanied him as aide de camp. "Archer's journal describes the detailed ceremonies of official visits to the King of Oudh, the Rajah of Bharatpur and the... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 107000
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FORSTER, Johann Reinhold. History of the Voyages and Discoveries made in the North.London : 1786
First edition in English, originally published in German in 1784. A comprehensive overview of northern explorations from ancient to modern times, including accounts of the English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish and Russian voyages in search of the Northwest and Northeast Passages from the earliest recorded explorations to 1780, including... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 132399
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BEECHEY, F. W. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's [sic]Strait,London : 1831
First octavo edition, same year as the Admiralty edition in quarto, of "one of the most valuable of modern voyages"(Hill). Beechey's expedition went to the Bering Strait "As a relief expedition to await the separate expeditions of Captains Franklin and Parry". Beechey heard at Kamchatka that Parry had turned back, but he waited at Kotzebue Sound for... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 60152
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MOSELEY, Sydney A. Haunts of the Gay East.London : 1921
First and sole edition, scarce, of this lively book on the dissipated underworld of the early 20th-century Middle East. Moseley spent several years as a journalist in Cairo in the 1910s and he drew on his experiences there to compose this collection of stories about the night life of the East, infused with a fascination for picturesque vice and debauchery.... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 140897
