Cairo: for Middle East Publications, by Al-Hilal, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945. Original printings. Large format wartime periodicals for the troops (16.5x11ins / 42x28cms). 20pp each (special issues 32pp), with articles of general and entertainment interest as well as sidelines on the war, all richly illustrated in monochrome, with film..... More
Paris: Baudouin Freres, Pollet, Barba, et al, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832. Hardcover. Around 50 plays by various authors of the period, and issued by several publishers, collected into very pretty and well-preserved volumes, numbered 1 to 12. Contents have a fair amount of foxing, generally minor. 16mo, 12x8cms, in..... More
Lynn Regis [Norfolk], Printed for and Published by C. Dinmore, 1822. First edition. Hardcover. [ii], iv, 108pp, plus the guarded foldout woodcut frontis, 'Don't I look spruce on my Neddy?', and includes ten pages listing the voters and how they voted taken from the Poll Book. Furious mudslinging and some..... More
London: Joseph Mawman, 1814. First edition. Hardcover. xii, 451, (1), 91. A wonderful conspectus, packed with tables and argument. Contents clean, with occasional minor foxing. Large quarto, 12.5 x 10 ins, a hitherto unbound copy, all edges uncut, and now in a new quarter binding of light blue paper-covered boards..... More
London: for the Author, 1745. First edition. Hardcover. xii, 340, [16]; [vi], 389, [13]; illustrated with 'heads of divers illustrious persons', and each book with an index. Contents in very good order, with minimal toning of paper. In contemporary bindings of full calf, boards ruled in gilt, spines with five..... More
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London: printed by H.Parker for A.Bettesworth, 1728. Third edition. Hardcover. xii, 276pp, with the 12 folding plates, all in good order, a few with minor repairs. [Stub of leaf torn away between pages 80 and 81 unexplained as plates all present.] Head- and tail-piece decorations. Pages slightly toned but otherwise..... More
London: Printed by J. Bettenham, 1724. Hardcover. First English Edition. Large paper copy in recent fine binding. (24), 552, (40), plus the frontis portraits of both brothers. Frontis and title slightly browned, upper corner of title patched, with library stamps at its base and on the verso. Small stamps also..... More
London: Printed for W.Rogers... and J Pemberton, 1710. First edition. Hardcover. [4], xxvi, [2], lxxv, [1], 324. Pages very clean and fresh, with a faint tide mark to the title and dedication pages, and to a few leaves of the preface. Neatly written in an early hand are also a...... More
Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden): Apud Franciscum Hackium, 1651. First edition. Hardcover. [xiv], 576, [13]; with additional engraved title, a portrait, and 74 anatomical plates (all called for), of which 6 are folding. Latin text. Professional tissue repairs to top edges of first five leaves, and to some of the foldout plates..... More
