Antiquarian & Collectors' Books

KINGSLEY, Charles. The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for Land-Baby. London & Cambridge: Macmillan, 1863. First edition, first issue, 8vo (190 x 134mm...

VINE PRESS. - Victor NEUBURG. Songs of the Groves: Records of the Ancient World. Sussex, Steyning: Vine Press, 1921. Limited edition, being number...

MITFORD, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945. First edition, first impression, 8vo (184 x 118mm.) (Spotting to pastedowns, b...

[ABBOTT, Edwin A.] 'A Square'. Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1907. 8vo (173 x 112mm.) Half-title, illustr...

MILNE, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. First edition deluxe, first impression, 8vo (183 x 120mm.) Numerous illustrations b...

MILNE, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. First edition, first impression, 8vo (189 x 119mm.) Numerous illustrations by E.H. ...

MILNE, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. First edition, deluxe issue, 8vo (183 x 115mm.) Illustrations by E.H. Shep...

Robinson, Charles (illustrator). - Frances Hodgson BURNETT. The Secret Garden. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition, 8vo (204 x 147mm.) ...

[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] 'Lewis Carroll'. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First edition, signed and inscribed by ...

FORE-EDGE PAINTING. - John REEVE and Lodowicke MUGGLETON. A Volume of Spiritual Epistles: Being the Copies of Several Letters written by the Last ...

DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING. - Robert POLLOCK. The Course of Time: A Poem, in Ten Books. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and T. Cadell, 1829...

FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS. - Robert SOUTHEY. Joan of Arc. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. 2 vols., fifth edition, 8vo (164 x 96mm.)...

WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being Ernest. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. First edition, unnumbered copy from an edition of 1000 only,...

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902. First edition, 8vo (183 x 114mm.) 4 plates. (Lacking 12 ...

[BRONTE, Emily and Anne.] 'Ellis Bell' and 'Acton Bell'. Wuthering Heights… and Agnes Grey… with a Preface, and Memoir of Both Authors, by Currer ...

DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. The House of the Dead… from the Russian by Constance Garnett. London: William Heinemann, 1915. First U.K. edition, 8vo (188 x ...

LUDECKE, Kurt G.W. I Knew Hitler, the Story of a Nazi Who Escaped the Blood Purge. London: Jarrolds, 1938. First U.K. edition, 8vo (212 x 129mm.) ...

BINDING. - Elizabeth DAVID. French Provincial Cooking. London: Michael Joseph, 1960. First edition, 8vo (226 x 145mm.) Illustrations by Juliet Ren...

BINDING. - Ayn RAND. The Fountainhead. New York and Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. First edition, early printing, 8vo (200 x 134mm...

BINDINGS. - Jane AUSTEN. The Novels… the Text Based on the Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. London & New York: Oxford University P...

GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Miscellaneous Works. Perth: R. Morison Junior, 1792. 7 vols., 8vo (175 x 103mm.) 10 engraved plates, including 2 folding. (...

THACKERAY, William Makepeace. [The Works.] London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1889-1894. 26 vols., 8vo (186 x 123mm.) (Toning, light spotting to first a...

DICKENS, Charles. [The Christmas Books.] A Christmas Carol, in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1860. Fourteenth...

FERGUSON, James (prefaces). The British Essayists. With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical, and Critical. London: J. Richardson & Co., 1822-1823. ...

GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: T. Cadell, 1820. 12 vols., new edition, 8vo (213 x 126mm.) 2 larg...

BOTANY. - William CURTIS. The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed. London: Fry and Couchman, 1787-1827. 54 vols. in 29. 8vo (228 x 134...

SURGERY. - François THEVENIN. Les Oeuvres… Contenant un Traité des Operations de Chirurgie, un Traité des Tumeurs, & un Dictionaire Etymologique d...

SOCIETY OF PHYSICIANS. Medical Observations and Inquiries. London: William Johnston, 1762. Vol. 2 (only), 8vo (205 x 122mm.) 4 folding engraved pl...

[DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.] The London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer. For January, 1776. London: R. Baldwin, 1776. 20 engrave...

BOYSON, V.F. The Falkland Islands… with Notes of the Natural History by Rupert Vallentin. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1924. First edition, 8vo...

TRINIDAD. - Walter RALEIGH. The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana… edited… by Robert H. Schomburg. London: for the Hakl...

AFRICA. - John Reynell MORRELL. Algeria: The Topography and History, Political, Social, and Natural, of French Africa. London: Nathaniel Cooke, 18...

MAPS. - S.T. BLOOMFIELD (editor). The History of Thucydides. Newly Translated into English, and Illustrated with Very Copious Annotations, Exegeti...

CUBA. - [John GIBSON.] The Universal Museum; or, Gentleman's & Ladies Polite Magazine of History, Politicks and Literature for 1762. London: 1762,...

BINDINGS. - Honoré de BALZAC. Oeuvres Complètes… Paris: Alexandre Houssiaux, 1855-1874. 20 vols., 8vo (208 x 123mm.) Lithographed plates. (Spottin...

INDIA. - Godfrey Charles MUNDY. Pen and Pencil Sketches, Being the Journal of a Tour in India. London: John Murray, 1833. 2 vols., second edition,...

STRAUSS, Richard and Hugo von HOFMANNSTHAL. Elektra. London, New York, Sydney etc.: Boosey & Hawkes, 1943. Signed and inscribed by Richard Strauss...

LULLY, Jean-Baptiste. - [Philippe QUINAULT]. Alceste ou Le Triomphe D' Alcide Tragedie. Represente'e par L'Academie Royale de Musique. Paris: René...

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - [Charles Lutwidge DODGSON.] 'Lewis Carroll'. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland… With a Proem by Austin Dobson. Lon...

CHILDREN'S BOOKS. - Florence K. and Bertha UPTON. The Golliwogg in War! London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899. Oblong folio (214 x 273mm.) Title, 31...

[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] 'Lewis Carroll'. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. 'People's Edition', small 8vo (18...

NISTER, Ernest and E.P. DUTTON (publishers). Peeps into Fairy Land, a Panorama Picture Book of Fairy Stories. London and New York: Ernest Nister a...

GROLIER SOCIETY, The (publisher). Beaux and Belles of England. London: The Grolier Society, [1900.] 29 vols., 'Edition de Luxe' limited to 1000 co...

MARSH & MILLER (publisher). The Zoological Keepsake; or, Zoology, and The Garden and Museum of the Zoological Society for the Year 1830. London: M...

DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman and Hall, 1860. First edition in book form, early issue. 16 plates by Hablot K. Browne wit...

BURTON, Robert F. (translator). The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night… reprinted from the original edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers...

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Geoffrey CHAUCER. The Canterbury Tales. London: Folio Society, 2010. Limited facsimile edition, this being number 821...

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - John LE CARRÉ. [The Karla Trilogy.] London: Folio Society, 2009-2010. 3 vols., 8vo (233 x 151.) Illustrations by Tim ...

FOLIO SOCIETY. - Alfred Russel WALLACE. The Malay Archipelago. London: Folio Society, 2017. 2 vols., 8vo (233 x 152mm.) Numerous colour plates. Or...

FOLIO SOCIETY. - Dante ALIGHIERI. Paradiso… translated by Henry Francis Cary. London: Folio Society, 2009. Large 8vo (320 x 218mm.) Numerous colou...

BEWICK, Thomas (engraver). - James COOK. [Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World. Newcastle: M. Brown, 1790?] 1 vol. only (of 2), 8vo (262 x 212mm...

AFRICA. - Albert R. COOK. Uganda Memories (1897-1940). Kampala: The Uganda Society, 1945. First edition, limited to 750 copies only, 4to (247 x 18...

SUSSEX. 'Brightonian' Cartoons of Local Celebrities and Local Events. [Brighton: 1883-1884.] Folio (367 x 245mm.) 76 black and white lithographed ...

BENSON, A.C. and Lawrence WEAVER and E.V. LUCAS (editors). The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House. London: Methuen & Co., 1924. 2 vols., limited to ...

ALDIN, Cecil (illustrator). - Charles DICKENS. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman & Hall and Lawrence & Jellicoe, 1910. 2...

JOSEPHINE BAKER. La Revue des Folies Bergère. Paris: Art Editions, 1923-1931. 4to (306 x 235mm.) 9 souvenir programmes with original card wrappers...

DETMOLD, Edward J. (illustrator). - Maurice MAETERLINCK. The Life of the Bee… translated by Alfred Sutro. London: George Allen & Co. Ltd., 1912. 4...

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - J.M. BARRIE. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, [1912.] New edition, 4to (283 x...

MUSIC-HALL. - Harry Gabriel PELISSIER and Arthur DAVENPORT. The Follies Picture Book. London: Morton & Burt Ltd., [1910.] Oblong 4to (258 x 361mm....

CHESS. - Francois-Andre DANICAN. Analysis of the Game of Chess. London: P. Elmsley, 1790. New edition, 2 vols. in 1, 8vo (225 x 135mm.) (Lacking p...