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The White Continent: The Story of Antarctica

HENRY, THOMAS R · 1950 · Bookshop Baltimore

$38.00 (€34.48 | £28.76 | ¥6,068)

William Sloane Associates, 1950. Hardcover. Illustrated by Rafael Palacios, Map Drawing. SIGNED / inscribed by the author on the blank endpaper to Mr ... With sincere regards, Thomas R. Henry. 257 pages. Clean, good binding. The author's personal experience in the Antarctic in19…

A Manual of Marine Zoology for the British Isles. Part I-II

Gosse, Philip Henry · 1855 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Van Voorst London xi, 203, (5), 16*; iv, 239, (4), 16*, 335 + 339 woodcuts. . HB. 2 vols, sm. 8vo, orig. cloth, rubbed, minor wear, small chip to foot of one spine, hinges cracked but firm. Occasional light foxing. Vg. bookplate of William Scurfield Grey to both volumes.. 'The f…

Observations on the Plan and Progress of the Catalogue of the Library of the British Museum. By a Bookseller.

[BOHN (Henry George)] · 1855 · Forest Books

£134.38 (€161.08 | $177.53 | ¥28,350)

London: Printed by William Stevens, 1855. First edition, 28pp., anonymous but known to be by Bohn and the title bears an inscription from him or a member of the Bohn family to the Rev. W. H. Gunner, disbound. “Bohn, Henry George (1796–1884), bookseller and publisher. The infor…

TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST

DANA, Richard Henry · 1947 · Charles Agvent

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,959)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full ship's canvas over boards with a gold-stamped blue leather label on the spine. Introduction by William McFee; designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #124 of 1500 copies illustrated by Hans Alexander Mueller with …

The Electricity Supply of London (Paper No. 3110) (extract from the Minutes of Proceedings of Institute of Civil Engineers, Vol. CXXXIV, Session 1897-98, Part IV)

PREECE Arthur Henry · 1898 · Inch's Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Institute of Civil Engineers 1898 pp 121-206 (inclusive), 11 figures, fold-out colour map showing the different electricity companies supplying areas of London 22x14, rebound in burgundy cloth, glt txt. Very good indeed; the rare map is an excellent condition, with a fe…

The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Joshua Reynolds; Edmond Malone; Joseph Farington · 1819 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1819 . Leather. A beautifully bound example of the three volume fifth edition of the collected literary works of artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, with an account of his life. The fifth edition, complete in three volumes.  Illustrated with a frontispi…

A Record of the Expeditions Against the North-West Frontier Tribes Since the Annexation of the Punjab

Lieutenant-Colonel W.H. Paget; Lieutenant A.H. Mason · 1884 · Rooke Books

£5,900.00 (€7,072.08 | $7,794.72 | ¥1,244,717)

London, Whiting & Co, 1884. Cloth. A very scarce contemporary account of frontier skirmishes and expeditions taking place in British-ruled India following the annexation of the Punjab. Initially published a decade prior in Calcutta, this edition has been expanded up to the year …

A review of the remarks on Mr. Chandler's Introduction to the history of the inquisition: in which his answer to the said remarks is consider'd; His Misrepresentations of Fact [ and 9 Other Works, Bound in One Volume ]

Berriman William · 1733 · George Jeffery Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Printed for T. Ward and E. Wicksteed, in the Inner Temple Lane, and sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-lance.. First work. A review of the remarks on Mr. Chandler's Introduction to the history of the inquisition: in which his answer to the said remarks is consider'd; His Misrepresent…

Who Was Benjamin Franklin?" Reprinted from the American Scholar, Vol. 32, No. 4, Autumn 1963

Ward, John William · 1961 · Wittenborn Art Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Kansas City, MO: University of Kansas City, [1961]. REPRINT. 4to. 541-553 pp. Stapled Section, Very Good. Signed dedication to Dr. Henry Nash Smith by the author on cover. .

Great Western Stories: A Western Story Omnibus

Targ, William, ed · 1947 · Parigi Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

New York, Penguin Books, Inc, 1947. First Edition. Paperback. Penguin Books 654. Collects eleven stories by Frank Gruber, E. B. Mann, Bret Harte, O. Henry, and others. Wear to covers. A very good copy. ; Small octavo. .

Diary of John Evelyn Esq. , F.R. S. To Which Are Added a Selection from His Familiar Letters and the Private Correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas and between Sir Edward Hyde (Afterwards Earl of Clarendon) and Sir Richard Browne

John Evelyn; William Bray [ed.]; Henry B. Wheatley · 1906 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

London, Bickers and Son, 1906. Vellum. A complete new edition of John Evelyn's diaries and correspondence, specially bound here in quarter vellum and chemises by Eric Sweet. A new edition. Complete in four volumes. In a handsome rebinding of quarter vellum, with marbled boa…

Cartouche for a New Map of North America Shewing Its Principal Divisions, Chief Cities, Townes... &C. Dedicated to His Highness William Duke of Glocester [Gloucester]

Wells, Edward (1667-1727) · 1701 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Oxford: 1701. Engraved cartouche only. 12 x 13 cm. Wells produced a lavish school atlas on the occasion of William Duke of Glouchester's schooling at Oxford. As such, this map rarely appears in early color. This wonderful and curious example of the map has no centerfold and may …

Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and some Miscellaneous Pieces. Edited from the Author's MS by Henry Nelson Coleridge. [Second and Best Edition]. THE PICKERING 'CONFESSIONS' IN FULL CALF

COLERIDGE Samuel Taylor · 1849 · Island Books

£184.00 (€220.55 | $243.09 | ¥38,818)

William Pickering, 1849. 16mo., Second Edition, very neat lengthy contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, title and facing leaf lightly spotted; tastefully bound in contemporary full grained calf, sides with frame border in blind, back with five bands, second compartmen…

Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the River Tweed. Illustrated by Sir David Wilkie, Sir Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, William Simson and Edward Cooke. [?Third Edition]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

SCROPE William · 1885 · Island Books

£158.00 (€189.39 | $208.74 | ¥33,333)

Hamilton Adams, 1885. 8vo., ?Third Edition, with a lithographed frontispiece (original tissue guard present), engraved and printed titles, 11 lithographed plates (one depicting flies; all original tissue guards present) and 10 woodcut illustrations in the text, frontispiece and …

Head First

MARSHALL, WILLIAM · 1986 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York: Henry Holt An Company, 1986. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0436273292. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust ja…

Reign in Hell

DIEHL, WILLIAM · 1997 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York: Ballantine Books, 1997. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0345411447. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is one tiny nick to the bottom spine end of the book cov…

English Book Collectors

William Younger Fletcher · 1969 · Wittenborn Art Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

New York: Burt Franklin, 1969. 8vo. 448 pp. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Pages fine. Some B&W plates. Accounts of 100 famous English book collectors from all periods, from Henry, Prince of Wales to Frederick Locker-Lampson. .

Alice-for-Short

MORGAN, WILLIAM DE · 1907 · Peter Austern & Co. / Brooklyn Books

$44.99 (€40.82 | £34.05 | ¥7,184)

New York, Henry Holt & Co. 1907. One Quarter Leather. Book, 8vo.1/4 brown calf/gilt. Marbled bd's & e.p's. Top edge gilt VG. Author associated with the pre- Raphaelite circle of artists and craftsmen fiction/binding. Very Good/No Jacket.

A Collection of Letters of Thackeray

Thackeray, William Makepeace · 1888 · Brookline Village Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. Hardcover. ix, 243 p. : ill. 18 cm. Very good condition Letters chiefly to William Henry Brookfield and his wife. Bookplate of Eda Adams Woolson.

The New Far West and the Old Far East

W. Henry Barneby · 1889 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

London , Edward Stanford, 1889. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, signed copy of this interesting travel account, with illustrations throughout. A first edition copy of this work that is signed by the author, dated 1895. A fascinating travel account of William Henry Barneb…