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CARROLL, Lewis. Mischmasch.Oxford : November 1882
Mischmasch, a wordplay game for two players, was first published in The Monthly Packet in June 1881 (pp. 491-2). This is a revised anonymous reprint of that article, with some minor revisions. The article was originally credited to Lewis Carroll, rules 5 and 6 were transposed, and a note requesting comments and criticism was appended. The game requires... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 108889
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CAGE, John. Electronic Music - featuring Cage's Fontana Mix - signed LP record.1967
Original 1967 LP of electronic music by groundbreaking composers John Cage, Luciano Berio, and Ilhan Mimaroglu, featuring a realisation of Cage's Fontana Mix for magnetic tape, Berio's Visage for magnetic tape, based on the voice of Cathy Berberian and other sounds, and Mimaroglu's Agony. Signed on the cover in silver Sharpie by Cage. Composed in 1958... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 117989
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(SIKH WARS.) Facts and Reflections by a Subaltern of the Indian ArmyLondon : 1849
First and only edition of this scarce and acidulous eye-witness account of military service in India and the First Sikh War, written by a disaffected officer of the 50th (Queen's Own) Foot, who remarks in his brief preface "if the result of his labours should deter one individual from venturing in to Company's Service under the impression that talent... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 127423
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DESMOND, Olga. Rhythmographik (Tanznotenschrift)Leipzig : 1919
First edition, number 72 of 150 deluxe copies on handmade paper, this copy signed by Desmond after the preface. Berlin dancer and model Olga Desmond (1890-1964) shot to fame when she took her Schönheitsabende ("Beauty-Evenings"), in which she and her troupe struck classical poses in the nude or wearing only bodypaint, to the Russian stage in St Petersburg.... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 124929
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JACKSON, John. Journey from India, towards England, in the year 1797;London : 1799
First edition of the intriguing and elusive narrative. Jackson (d. 1807) "was evidently a man of substance" (ODNB) and went to India on private business - his book is dedicated to the East India Company - visiting Ceylon and Malabar. On the way home he took a country ship from Bombay for Basrah. "Jackson's narrative of his journey is straightforward... Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 140756
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COLQUHOUN, Patrick. A Treatise on Indigence;London : 1806
First edition of Colquhoun's major work on the question of poverty and pauperism, its relationship to crime and disorder and the need for a new comprehensive system of police. This valuable work contains plans for a board of education, national savings bank with state guarantee to depositors, a system of reproductive work for the unemployed, a national... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 119913
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MARQUAND, Allan. A New Logical Machine.Boston : 1886
Original offprint of Allan Marquand's presentation of his new logical machine to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in November, 1885. A student of Charles Sanders Peirce, Marquand (1853-1924) graduated from Princeton in 1874 and obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1880 from Johns Hopkins University, returning to Princeton in 1881 to teach Latin... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 100212
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea.New York : 1952
First edition, first printing, in the first issue jacket, with the flaps printed in brown and no mention of Hemingway's Pulitzer or Nobel Prize to the rear panel. Previously, much has been made of the colour tint on the rear panel portrait by Lee Samuels. Grissom, however, refutes Hanneman's earlier assertion that the blue tinted photograph on the rear... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 134756
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(JAZZ) Cotton Club, Aristocrat of Harlem - minimum charge card.New York : 1933
Notification of the minimum charge policy in the club "Where Hospitality is a Habit": "It is essential that we require a minimum check for wines, liquors, beverages and food of 2.50 person on week nights and 3.00 on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays". From the Charlie Parker & Jazz Memorabilia collection of Norman Saks. Although this item is not listed,... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 114319
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BENTLEY, Nicolas. "Would you require something for sleep, madam, or cross-Channel purposes?"c. 1959
Christopher Cockerell's hovercraft, which resembled a mattress, made its first successful crossing of the English Channel on 25 July 1959. The cartoons and illustrations of Nicolas Bentley (1907-1978) were part of the warp and weft of English popular culture in the 1950s and 60s. Never savage, though often waspishly accurate and exuding an urbane air... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 67001
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MEADE, James Edward. The Economic Basis of a Durable Peace.London : 1940
First edition, first impression. "Believing that a satisfactory peace settlement would require the existence of an international organization, he considered the economic role that such an organization would need to play in the post-war world. He favoured an international bank with the power to issue an international currency against which individual... Learn More£45.00Stock Code: 129416
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EDWARDS, George. An Attempt to Rectify Public Affairs, and Promote Private Prosperity, as Present Exigencies Require;London : 1802
First edition of this proposal for radical reform of the British government, economy, and social organisation. The political writer George Edwards (1752-1823) "was an untiring propounder of political and social schemes, with a particular enthusiasm for reform of the constitution, of agricultural practice, of tax laws, and of the army. But his rhetoric... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 128933
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CLARKE, Hewson. An Impartial History of the Naval Military and Political Events in Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Entrance of the Allies in Paris,Bungay : 1815
First edition. A truly remarkable survival, a full set of this compendious popular history retaining throughout the flimsy wraps from the original part issue. The work covers the period from the decay and collapse of the Ancien Régime to the Fall of Bonaparte, well-illustrated with portraits from drawings by the skilled copyist Matthew Shepperson and... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 130348
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TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace.London : 1886
First English edition of War and Peace, rare in commerce, published in October 1886 in the first flush of enthusiasm for previously disregarded Russian novelists. Russomania was first detectable in France, where Vizetelly had spent 12 years of his working life. After his return to England in 1878, the output of his new firm, Vizetelly & Co., consisted... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 137493
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DE CLEYRE, Voltairine. Anarchism and American Traditions.Chicago : 1932
First edition thus, a posthumous printing of Voltairine de Cleyre's most often cited essay, with an additional hagiographic introduction. De Cleyre's influential essay was first published in fellow activist Emma Goldman's anarchist journal Mother Earth in 1909; de Cleyre was a regular contributor to the journal from its foundation in 1905.... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 135133
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(BURNES, Alexander.) Central Asia comprising Bokhara, Cabool, Persia, the River Indus, & Countries Eastward of it.London : 1834
Important, highly detailed 1:4,435,200 map of Central Asia "constructed from numerous authentic documents but principally from the original MS. surveys of Lieut. Alex. Burnes", and showing Burnes's route across Asia, intended to accompany, and cash in on, his Travels into Bokhara, which, rather rushed out, was not provided with a map. Burnes had sailed... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 129689
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HOUSMAN, A. E. Autograph letters to Professor Donald Robertson.Cambridge : 1920-36
An exceptional collection of autograph letters signed from poet and classicist A. E. Housman (1859-1936) to Donald Struan Robertson (1885-1961 - a stellar Greek scholar attached to Trinity College, Cambridge, from his undergraduate days until his death) and his wife. He was particularly respected for his work on Apuleius, and was Regius Professor of... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 119798
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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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WILLIAMS, Helen Maria. Letters on the events which have passed in France since the Restoration in 1815.London : 1819
First edition of the celebrated bluestocking's evaluation of the Bourbon Restoration, her last completed book on current French conditions. Williams (1759-1827) was both much admired and much maligned by her contemporaries: her works were favoured by Wordsworth and her literary salon in Paris was attended by the likes of Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft,... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 130544
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CLARE, John. The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems.London : 1821
First edition of Clare's second book of poetry, with no frontispiece to the second volume as required for the first issue. A farm labourer's son, John Clare (1793-1864) had published his first work, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, the previous year. It became something of a publishing sensation, with the 1,000 copies of the first edition... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 126172
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(SOUTH SEA COMPANY.) The Particulars and Inventories of the Estates of the late Sub-Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Directors of the South-Sea Company:London : 1721
A scarce collection of over 30 very detailed estate inventories produced during the intense scrutiny of the South Sea Company and its employees in the aftermath of the Bubble. Printed by order of the House of Commons, each inventory has a separate title leaf, pagination, and register, printing in exhaustive details the particulars of the accounts of... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 125826
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DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son.London : 1848
First edition in book form, following publication in serial form from September 1846 to March 1848, of the novel "now recognized as one of the greatest of all his works... It is also the first one to have an explicitly contemporary setting" (ODNB).
The cloth is a secondary binding - for all the Dickens titles the publishers retained first... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 138244
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(NOTT, Sir William.) STOCQUELER, J. H., ed. Memoirs and Correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott.London : 1854
First edition of this uncommon memoir, which remains the standard life, and an important source for the First Afghan War. Nott was commissioned as ensign in the East India Company's army in 1800, and posted to the 20th Bengal Native Infantry, serving with them in the expedition to the west coast of Sumatra in 1805. From 1811 until 1825 he served as... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 139223
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(FALKLAND ISLANDS.) Gazetteer of the Falkland Islands and the Falkland Islands Dependencies.[London] : 28 April 1982
Second and corrected edition of this operational gazetteer, printed only three weeks after the first, which was rushed out after the Argentine invasion of 2 April 1982. It contains over 3,000 entries for places and topographical features in the Falkland Islands and 1,000 for its dependencies, which then included South Georgia and the South Sandwich... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 122808
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LAUREL, Stan (Arthur Stanley Jefferson.) A collection of original Laurel and Hardy scenarios and scripts from the files of the Hal Roach studio.[Los Angeles] : 1927-35
A superb collection of original script material from the golden age of the most successful comic partnership in film history. In 1926, under contract to Hal Roach Studios for the third time, the English-born comedian Stan Laurel (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) reworked an old sketch of his father's into a two-reel comedy, Home from the Honeymoon, featuring... Learn More£45,000.00Stock Code: 65988
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GOLDSMID, Sir Frederic John. Eastern Persia. An Account Of The Journeys Of The Persian Boundary Commission 1870-71-72.London : 1876
First edition of this highly important account of the region compiled from the records kept by the members of the Commission sent to establish the delimitation of the disputed border between Persia and Baluchistan.
Goldsmid, the commissioner, had established a reputation for himself as an officer of considerable intelligence and resource. While... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 78611
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NAVARI, Leonora. Greece and The Levant. The Catalogue of The Henry Myron Blackmer Collection of Books.London : 1989
First edition, one of 300 copies of this important bibliographical reference detailing the Henry M. Blackmer Collection, the finest collection on Modern Greece and Levantine studies at the time of its sale in October 1989. Blackmer was an American banker who settled in Athens and formed this remarkable collection as a tribute to his adopted country,... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 107507
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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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NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Notes on Nursing: what it is, and what it is not.London : [1860]
First edition, second issue, this copy with an autograph letter signed from the author tipped in at the rear to Gaetano Meo, dated January 1887. Meo (18501925) was a painter, mosaic artist, and an artist's model associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Meo left his home in southern Italy at the age of 14, taking only his harp as a means of earning.... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 122640
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BLUNT, Lady Anne. A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race.London : 1881
First edition of the classic account of Lady Blunt's trip with her husband Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in Northern Arabia and the Nejd, "the highlands sacred to all Syrian Bedouins as their ancestral homeland" (Howgego). In Lady Blunt's copious journals "her scientific interests are manifest in the mass of aneroid readings, barometric pressures, and compass... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 138761
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BAUDEAU, abbé Nicolas. Première Introduction à la philosophie économique; ou analyse des Etats policés. Par un disciple de l'Ami des Hommes.Paris : 1771: Carlsruhe and Paris: Lacombe, 1772.
I: First edition of Baudeau's finest economic work, "a compendious statement of Quesnay's views which, for clearness as well as for certain touches of originality, is far superior to anything from the pen of Mirabeau, Du Pont de Nemours, or Le Mercier de la Rivière" (Cossa). Baudeau here brilliantly refutes the Abbé Galiani, whose Dialogues sur le... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 84015
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PARETO, Vilfredo. Cours d'Économie Politique. Professé a l'Université de Lausanne.Lausanne : 1896-97
First edition of Pareto's first major work, inscribed by the author; "A Mr, le Dr Sülzer, Hommage amical, Vilfredo Pareto" to the title of each volume (see below).
"Pareto's aim in the Cours was 'to provide an outline of economic science considered as a natural science based exclusively on facts'" (IESS). The main economic contribution of the work... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 84058
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ADYE, John. The Defence of Cawnpore.London : 1858
First edition. "Gives a detailed account of three days of battle during which Cawnpore was defended, preventing the creation of an enemy outpost in General Havelock's rear. Author defends General Windham's actions. Includes dispatches" (Ladendorf). A long-serving artillery officer, first commissioned out of RMA, Woolwich, at the head of his class in... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 133264
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(WORLD WAR II; US ARMY.) [Official reports concerning the United States Army during World War Two.]Washington : 1943-45-46
Superbly provenanced complete set of the original handsomely-produced official US Army wartime reports, the personal copies of General Brehon Burke Somervell (1892-1955), George Marshall's commander of Services of Supply, the first two being presentation copies from Marshall, the cover of each volume gilt lettered with Somervell's name and rank. Services... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 133868
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SCHUMPETER, Joseph Alois. Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung.Leipzig : 1912
First edition, scarce, of the first statement of what was to become known as the "Schumpeterian system". In this work Schumpeter "replaced Marx's greedy, bloodsucking capitalist by the dynamic innovating entrepreneur as the linchpin of the capitalist system, responsible not just for technical progress but the very existence of a positive rate of profit... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 109215
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COTTON, Sir Sydney. Nine Years on the North-West Frontier of India,London : 1868
First edition, this in some sort of prize issue, with a school prize inscription to the front free endpaper, elaborated cloth decorations, gilt edges, and the addition of an entirely irrelevant frontispiece.
Cotton arrived in India as a cornet without purchase in the 22nd Light Dragoons, becoming lieutenant in 1812. On the disbandment of the regiment... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 91534
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. [The Second World War, Brazilian] A Segunda Guerra Mundial.São Paulo : 1948-54
First Brazilian editions, eight of the ten volumes signed or inscribed by Winston Churchill.
In fact what is here is: "Volumes I to IV in 6 parts, Volumes III and IV are in two parts each, and volume VI which is in two parts, a total of 8 parts. So we are lacking Volume V, presumed to be in two parts. There are also unsigned duplicates of Volumes... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 33676
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Savrola.New York : 1900
First edition in book form, first printing, of Churchill's only novel, his third published book, but the first he undertook to write, and the second he completed. Churchill's melodramatic tale of liberal revolution in an autocratic Mediterranean state was originally serialised in Macmillan's Magazine between May and December 1899. This edition, published... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 119574
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WILKINS, H[enry] St Clair. Reconnoitring in Abyssinia.London : 1870
First and only edition, uncommon: nine copies traced in UK libraries, just five other complete copies traced in commerce in the last 50 years, this a remarkably clean and fresh copy from the celebrated travel library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching, with his pencilled initials to the front free endpaper. Wilkins "commanded the Royal Engineers throughout... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 119294
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DICKENS, Charles. Autograph letter signed.1842
Autograph letter signed from Charles Dickens to Thomas C. Grattan (1792-1864), Irish novelist and British consul in Boston, upon Dickens's return from his first trip to America, in total around 200 words in his hand. A bitter Dickens reflects upon his trip, generally seen as unsuccessful following controversies over copyright, and has come back to find... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 137058
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(WOMEN'S EDUCATION.) The Association for Promoting the Education of Women in Oxford. A run of twenty-three issues of its Report.Oxford : 1894-1919
A set of important reports published by the pioneering Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women (AEW), containing a mass of historical information relating to the state of women's education in Oxford at the height of the suffragette agitation. The earliest is dated 1894-95, the latest 1918-19; each spans from October of one year to the... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 124133
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(NISTER, Ernest, publisher.) The Soldier Panorama Book.London : [1903]
First edition of this very attractive and decidedly uncommon Nister publication, featuring five plates of arresting pop-ups, showing infantry, cavalry and horse artillery in action (including the Royal Scots Fusiliers and a Sikh regiment). The illustrator was Evelyn Stuart Hardy (1866-1935), who both wrote and illustrated children's books, and specialised... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 133541
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KEYNES, John Maynard. How to Pay for the War.London : 1940
First edition, first impression, the uncorrected version, of Keynes's most successful essay in persuasion, the application of his General Theory to wartime economy. A corrected version, issued in orange printed boards, was published a few months later. "Apart from suggesting ways of adding greatly to the financial resources of the government, this inaugurated... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 140710
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EINSTEIN, Albert. A fine collection of eleven offprints, including two distinguished as some of his major works: Zur affinen Feldtheorie and Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität.Berlin : 1921-31
First separate editions, rare, comprising eleven of Einstein's papers written for the Prussian Academy of Sciences journal, Sitzungsberichte, including two distinguished as some of his major worksZur affinen Feldtheorie (1923) and Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität (1931), both asterisked in Weil and included in the Norman Librarythree... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 130099
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(WINE.) Report from the Secretary of the Treasury... in relation to grants of land made to French emigrants, to encourage the cultivation of the vine and olive.Washington : 1827
An important historical document regarding viticulture practices and the early wine industry in America. It concerns the progress of Alabama's Vine and Olive Colony, named thus after the land agreement made between the US Congress and refugee settlers in 1817 (some, but certainly not all, of whom were French). Attracted by the prospect of establishing... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 116911
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SAVIGNY, Friedrich Carl von. System des heutigen Römischen Rechts;Berlin : 1840-9, 1851
First edition of Savigny's massive workover 4000 pages longwhich demonstrated the great and living unity of much of the Roman law. His earlier writings, with their emphasis on the Volksgeist and their application of the historical method, had expressed his reaction, influenced by romanticism, against the natural law theories of the French Revolution... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 114911
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MAITLAND, James, eighth Earl of Lauderdale. Recherches sur la nature et l'origine de la richesse publique,Paris : 1808
First edition in French, published four years after the first edition in English. Lauderdale "has been hailed as a forerunner of Keynes, in as much as he argued that over-saving was a distinct possibility and that public spending was required to offset private thrift if stagnation was to be asserted" (Blaug). In the present work Lauderdale questioned... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 113498
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GORDON, Charles George. Remarkable lengthy autograph letter signed, with advice for Louis A. Lucas on the essential requirements for successful exploration in Africa.Labore : 1876
An unusually long letter, in which Gordon goes into great detail about the difficulties of African exploration, revealing his exasperation at Lucas's behaviour, and his frustration at Lucas's unwillingness to heed the advice of someone far more experienced in African travel.
Louis Arthur Lucas (1851-1876) was the only surviving son of Philip Lucas,... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 125725
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ERASMUS, Desiderius. The Praise of Folie.[London : 1569 [recte 1549]
First edition in English. "The Praise of Folly was written when Erasmus was staying in the house of Thomas More in the winter of 1509-10. Its title is a delicate and complimentary play on the name of his host: its subject matter is a brilliant, biting satire on the folly to be found in all walks of life Whenever tyranny or absolute power threatened,... Learn More£95,000.00Stock Code: 108395
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WELLS, H. G. Tales of Space and Time.London & New York : 1900
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author with one of his characteristic "picshuas", a caricature portrait on the first blank: "H. Hick from H. G. Wells", with a small sketch of a medicine bottle with label reading "To be taken as required" below. Dr Henry Hick came to know Wells through his old school friend George Gissing. When Wells... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 115293
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LE TROSNE, Guillaume-Francois. De l'administration provinciale, et de la réforme de l'impôt.Basle : 1779
First edition, very rare, especially complete with the additional 24 page note. A French lawyer and economist, Le Trosne studied natural law philosophy with Pothier, planning to become a magistrate. He joined the Physiocrats in 1764 by publishing a book defending the free trade in grain and articles in the Ephémérides du citoyen and other journals,... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 83936
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ADYE, John. The Defence of Cawnpore.London : 1858
First edition. "Gives a detailed account of three days of battle during which Cawnpore was defended, preventing the creation of an enemy outpost in General Havelock's rear. Author defends General Windham's actions. Includes dispatches" (Ladendorf). A long-serving artillery officer, first commissioned out of RMA, Woolwich, at the head of his class in... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 92657
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FAIRFAX-ROSS, Thomas. Well-compiled, and handsomely presented personal photograph and ephemera album covering service in World War I, at the Supreme War Council, Versailles, and at Chanak, 1922.1908-24
Fine narrative album recording the career, from school days to marriage, of Thomas Fairfax-Ross (1896-1960), with particular attention paid to his military career which took him from the Western Front to Chanak, via Versailles. The album opens, perhaps rather portentously, with a card embossed with the Royal arms, mounted recto on the front free endpaper... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 132252
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MONRO, Vere. A Summer Ramble in Syria, with a Tartar Trip from Aleppo to Stamboul.London : 1835
First edition of an uncommon and entertaining narrative, commended by the reviewer of The London & Westminster Review as of "more than ordinary merit"; Monro's "descriptions are spirited and graphic; his style is lively and idiomatic, devoid of stiffness or affectation" and "without making any pretensions to the higher qualities required of a traveller... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 139019
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WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.London : 1922
First edition in English, first issue, without the publisher's catalogue found in later issues. This also marked the first edition in book form, following initial publication in German the previous year in the journal Annalen der Naturphilosophie. That publication - under the title Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung - was plagued with... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 138733
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WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.London : 1922
First edition in English, and the first edition in book form, following initial publication in German the previous year in the journal Annalen der Naturphilosophie. That publication - under the title Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung - was plagued with errors, to the extent that Wittgenstein told a friend that he regarded it as a "pirated... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 139353
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EISENHOWER, Mamie Doud. Five-star Favorites.New York : 1974
First edition, limited issue, number 377 of 1000, of this fundraiser for the Eisenhower Medical Center, this copy inscribed on the front free endpaper; "For Dr. & Mrs. Harold Johnson from their friend Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 1978", together with loosely inserted greetings card signed by Mamie. Dr. Johnson was Ike's principle physician after his retirement... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 140863
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(JEDDAH WATER SUPPLY.) BALFOUR, David Ross. City of Jeddah Water Supply.Westminster [Jeddah] : 1947-8
Rare no other copies located or references found. These highly detailed planning documents would have been produced in extremely limited numbers for a small group of stakeholders. This copy with gilt presentation supralibros; "To A.A. / From D.R.B.": D.R.B. was David Ross Balfour, who led the project as a partner in his father's Westminster and Newcastle... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 138324
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Thoughts and Adventures.London : 1932
First edition, first impression. The second volume of Churchill's autobiographical writings, covering his early political career, the battle of Sidney Street, a near silence on Gallipoli, service on the Western Front, the negotiation of the Irish settlement, thoughts on the "Mass effects of modern life" and life "Fifty years hence". A collection of... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 109106
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EGAN, Pierce. Boxiana; or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism;London : 1812-24
First editions of the original four volumes as issued by Sherwood, Neely and Jones; Egan added further volumes in 1828 and 1829 but the publishers sought an injunction against him and he was required to bring them out as part of a "New Series". The plate volume was issued around 1840 and comprises "62 plates, these being made up by 57 plates from the... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 136135
