BIOGRAPHY
ALMON, JOHN: Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Honourable
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. In Three Volumes. The
Fifth Edition.
London: L.B. Seeley, 1796.
Three volumes. 8vo, contemporary full tan calf with lettering
pieces; bindings rubbed, one headband pulled, one upper joint
cracked and held on cords. With the engraved armorial bookplate of
Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart (1774-1844).
Quote Item No. 7931
Price: £35.00
ANON:
The Life of the late Victorious and Illustrious Prince, John Duke of
Marlborough, and Pr. of Mindelheim: Containing an Account of
all His Battles, Sieges, and Publick Negotiations............
By an Impartial Hand.
London: Printed for Theodore Sanders, 1723.
Title in red & black. 8vo, pp.(4):xvi:144:171-320:22,
contemporary full speckled panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments
with lettering piece. Spine very rubbed, cracks to joints but
very firm. Some spotting and browning but generally good.
Corner of one leaf of text creased where at one time turned over.
With the contemporary signature of Tho. Eden on title. Text
continuous despite pagination. Rare.
Quote Item No. 8034
Price: £150.00
ARCHER, THOMAS: Our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria: Her Life
and Jubilee. Illustrated by a Series of Highly-Finished Etchings.
London: Blackie & Son, 1888.
Four volumes bound as two. 4to, pp.viii:272:viii:272 &
viii:272:viii:272, contemporary half calf with double lettering
pieces. Some foxing, upper joint of one volume cracked but
firm, headbands chipped.
Quote Item No. 3461
Price: £25.00
BANCKS,
JOHN: The History of John Duke of Marlborough Prince of
Mindelheim Captain General and Commander in Chief of the Armies of
Her Britannick Majesty and the States of the United Provinces.
London: for James Hodges, 1741.
First edition. Engraved portrait and engraved folding map.
8vo, pp.371:(10, index and errata), contemporary full blindstamped
calf, headband a little chipped, binding edge rubbed but very sound,
lacking lettering piece. With the engraved armorial bookplate
of Sir John Eden Bart (1740-1812).
Quote Item No. 7901
Price: £125.00
BERVILLE ET BARRIER, MM: Memoires du Marquis de Bouille,
Lieutenant-General des Armees du Roi, Chevalier de ses ordres,
Gouverneur de Douai ... avec une notice sur sa vie ... troisieme
edition.
Paris: Baudouin Freres, 1825.
In the series "Collection des Memoires relatifs a la Revolution
Francaise". 8vo, pp.xx:440, handsomely bound contemporary tan
calf backed marbled boards, the spine gilt extra with crimson
lettering piece; a most attractive binding in fine condition.
Quote Item No. 4995
Price: £40.00
BEAUMELLE,
LAURENT ANGLIVIEL DE LA: The Life of Madam de Maintenon.
Translated from the French.
London: for J. Robinson, G. Woodfall, & Lockyer Davis,
1753.
First edition. Part 1 only (Part 2 was published in
1760). Small large 12mo, pp.xi:263, contemporary full tan
calf; rubbed, base of spine chipped, joints cracked but boards held
on cords, several old paint (?) splash marks to upper cover.
Two pages of advertisements precede the title. Contemporary engraved
armorial bookplate. Adapted from the 'Memoires' of Laurent
Angliviel de la Beaumelle. Also attributed to Louis Antoine de
Caraccioli.
Quote Item No. 7938
Price: £45.00
BICKNELL, ALEXANDER: The
History of Edward Prince of Wales, Commonly Termed the Black Prince,
Eldest Son of King Edward the Third with a Short View of the Reigns
of Edward I, Edward II, Edward III, and A Summary Account of the
Institution of the Order of the Garter.
London: for J. Bew, 1776.
Engraved portrait frontispiece. 8vo, pp.xvi:352, contemporary
full calf with lettering piece. Heavy foxing. Upper
cover detached having been attached at some stage with sellotape,
this leaving the usual residue both to the binding and endpapers and
to the inner margin of the recto of the portrait with some slight
show through on blank inner margin of verso. Very old auction
lot number label on upper cover. Anonymous.
Quote Item No. 10184
Price: £75.00
BOSWELL, JAMES: The Life of Samuel Johnson.
Oxford: William Pickering, 1826.
Four volumes. 8vo, original cloth; backstrips chipped, several
boards detached.
With autograph letter, signed W. Wellesley and dated Oxford 1862 to
"My dear Sir" - "With the greatest pleasure I forward to you this
day, by Great Western Railway, Mrs Piozzi's own Bozzy. May he
afford you all the amusement you expect and deserve. Make
whatever use of him you please...."
These four volumes contain numerous manuscript annotations in ink
and bears the pencilled note on front free endpaper, "The
annotations are from Mrs. Piozzi's copy of Boswell - see annexed
letter"
Quote Item No. 3148
Price: £200.00
BOSWELL, JAMES: The Life of Samuel Johnson, including a
Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. New Edition with numerous
additions and Notes, by John Wilson Croker. To which are
added, two suppplementary volumes of Johnsoniana, by Hawkins,
Piozzi, Murphy.......
London: John Murray, 1839.
8 volumes only (of 10), lacking volumes 7 & 9. Engraved
portraits & plates. Small 8vo, original cloth blocked in
blind. Spines uniformly faded. Some foxing but generally
very good. Contemporary signature on endpapers.
Quote Item No. 9795
Price: £40.00
BLUNT, WILFRID: Married to a Single Life. An
Autobiography 1901-1938. TOGETHER WITH: Slow on
the Feather. Further Autobiography 1938-1959.
Wilton, Salisbury: Michael Russell, 1983 and 1986.
First editions. Illustrated in black & white. Two
volumes. 8vo, pp.xiii:306 and pp.xviii:270, original cloth in
dustwrappers (Volume 2 price-clipped); dustwrapper
to Volume 2 slightly bumped with some slight surface damage to front
edge; ink ownership inscription on f.f.e. of Volume 1;
ink inscription on verso of title-page; despite all, very good
copies.
Quote Item No. 7281
Price: £20.00
BRISTOL,
ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH, COUNTESS OF [calling herself Duchess of
Kingston]: Authentic particulars of the life of the late
Duchess of Kingston, during her connection with the Duke, her
residence at Dresden, Vienna, St. Petersburgh, Paris, and several
other courts of Europe; also, a faithful copy of her singular
Will.
London: for J. Barker n.d. (ca. 1790).
A New Edition, with considerable Additions. 12mo, pp.(4):252,
contemporary full tan calf, decorative gilt rule to sides, spine
gilt. Lower joint cracked, upper cover detached, chip to base
of spine, some foxing. Publisher's new address, St. Clement's
Archway, Strand, printed and pasted to lower title over the imprint.
With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart
(1774-1844).
Quote Item No. 7969
Price: £140.00
BROWN, JOHN: Rab and His Friends.
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1877.
Frontispiece, title vignette, plates. 8vo, pp.32, original
cloth backed pictorial boards; some foxing but generally very
good.
Quote Item No. 3001
Price: £12.00
BUCKINGHAM,
JOHN SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF. Edited by Alexander Pope: The
Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normamby, and
Duke of Buckingham. In Two Volumes. The Second Edition
Corrected.
London: Aaron Ward ( & 5 others), 1729.
Engraved folding portrait, engraved folding plate (this torn without
loss), engraved headpieces and intial letters. Two volumes.
8vo, pp.xvi:400 & iv:272:(xliv - the censored sections, the
fly-title reading, "The Castrations" and comprising "Some Account of
the Revolution" & A Feast of the Gods). Contemporary
full panelled tan calf, spines with raised bands; spine of Volume 2
darkened, joints of volume one cracked, upper board almost detached.
With the half-title/license leaf to Volume 1.
Quote Item No. 7940
Price: £150.00
BUDGELL,
E: Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Illustrious
Family of the Boyles; particularly of the Late Eminently
Learned Charles Earl of Orrery.
London: Olive Payne, 1737.
Engraved portrait, title in red and black 8vo, pp.xl:258:34,
contemporary full speckled calf, lower joint cracked, upper cover
detached, rubbed, some browning and dustmarking. Contemporary
signature on title.
Quote Item No. 7957
Price: £50.00
BURNS, ROBERT
(DE LANCEY FERGUSON, J. [Editor]): The Letters of Robert
Burns. Edited
from the original manuscripts.
Oxford: At the
Clarendon Press, 1931.
Two volumes. Portrait
frontispiece to each volume.
Large 8vo, pp.xlix:382 and [8]:413, original burgundy cloth
headbands and corners slightly bumped and rubbed; edges slightly
dusty and browned; internally, a bookplate on front-pastedown to
Volume 1 only, else both very good.
Quote Item No. 1770
Price: £25.00
CARLYLE, ALEXANDER: Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander
Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk containing Memorials of the Men and
Events of His Time. Second edition.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1860.
Engraved portrait. Large 8vo, pp.x:576, contemporary half crimson
morocco, spine gilt extra within raised bands, marbled boards;
corners and hinges rubbed but still a most attractive binding in
very sound condition.
Quote Item No. 8283
Price: £38.00
CHURCHILL, WINSTON S: Marlborough, His Life and Times.
Four volumes, de-luxe bindings.
London: Harrap, 1934-1938.
Volumes 1 and 2 reprints, Volumes 3 and 4 First Editions. Four
volumes. Publisher's half blue morocco, spines gilt, top edges
gilt. Marginal browning to half-titles, endpapers a little
spotted. Cloth sides a trifle marked. Gift inscription
on front free endpaper of Volume 1. The spine of Volume 1
sunned to green thus not uniform. Generally a handsome set.
Quote Item No. 8164
Price: £165.00
COOPER,
COURTNEY RYLEY: Annie Oakley, Woman at Arms, a biography.
London: Hurst & Blacket, n.d., [1920's?].
First English edition. Introduction by Will Rogers.
Portrait and plates. Royal 8vo, pp.255, original cloth in
dustwrapper; binding very bright with very slightly rubbed
headbands; dustwrapper poor, spine and edges browned, with many
tears (some loss) and some punctures and rubbing, repaired on the
inside with white tape along the edges; page edges browned;
internally, very good.
Quote Item No. 1390
Price: £18.00
London: Everett & Co., 1907.
First edition. 8vo, pp.42, original glazed cloth
lettered in gilt no dustwrapper; small dark mark to back
cover; endpapers and page edges browned; generally an attractive
copy.
Quote Item No. 1724
Price: £10.00
CURLI,
DE: The Life and Amours of Owen Tideric Prince of Wales:
otherwise Owen Tudor, Who married Catharine Princess of France, and
Widow of our great King Henry V; from which Marriage descended
Henry VII. Henry VIII. Edward VI. Queen Mary, .... and Queen
Elizabeth, all of whom had from him the Surname of Tudor; and
from him likewise are descended, by the eldest Daughter of Henry
VII. the present Royal Family of Great Britain, France, and Ireland.
First wrote in French, and published many years since at Paris, and
now translated into English.
London: for William Owen at Homer's Head, near Temple Bar,
1751.
Large 12mo, pp.xv:147:(2, publisher's advertisements), contemporary
full calf; very rubbed, joints cracked but firm, short edge tear to
two leaves without loss, some browning. With the half-title.
Rare.
Quote Item No. 8030
Price: £150.00
EDWARDES, S.M: Kharshedji Rustamji Cama, 1831 - 1909, a
Memoir.
Printed at the Oxford University Press, 1923.
First edition. Portrait. 8vo, pp.156, original green
cloth; a little light foxing else very good. Very rare.
Quote Item No. 4296
Price: £40.00
EHRMAN, JOHN: The Younger
Pitt. The Years of Acclaim. The Reluctant Transition. The Consuming
Struggle. Three volumes, all First Editions in dustwrappers.
With interesting autograph letters from the author.
London: Constable, 1969.
Three volumes. Volume 1: The Years of Acclaim. 1st edition,
1969. Plates. Large 8vo, pp.xv:710, original cloth;
very good in edge worn dustwrapper. Volume 2: The Reluctant
Transition. 1st edition, 1983. Plates. Large 8vo,
pp.xiv:689, original cloth; fine in dustwrapper. Volume 3: The
Consuming Struggle. First edition, 1996. Large 8vo, pp.xv:911,
original cloth; slight smudge to edge of text block else fine
in dustwrapper. This volume inscribed and signed by the author on
title.
With three autograph letters from the
author. The first, 2-sides 8vo, dated 20th October 1969, thanking
the recipient for his comments on Volume 1 and commenting on the
proposed Volume 2: "You may well ask what I shall call
vol. ii, I have no idea. I hate subtitles, & we had in fact
agreed not to have one ... until the publisher's salesmen, those
curious men, insisted that we must ..... I'm looking forward to
vol.ii - it is
really the book I wanted to tackle in the first place,
before I decided to try my hand at a complete life .........."
etc.
The second letter 3-sides 8vo, dated 20th April 1984:
"... You are kind to write as you did about my Vol.ii, I am not
entirely pleased with it myself; but iii, with any luck should be
easier to write in many ways despite the mass of material for the
final decade. More, a good deal more, about Pitt's domestic
life .... I didn't escape Plumb's attentions in point of fact, far
from it, or those of a couple of his associates ....."
etc. Together with a retained copy of the original letter from
the recipient to Ehrman which prompted this response.
The third letter 1½ sides 8vo, is dated 16th Dec.
1996: "...... Completing & seeing through Pitt into print
was a tiring process & it is rather pleasant to relax ...... Pitt
goes along surprisingly well - I fear that a good many of those who
have bought vol.iii will find they have bitten off rather more than
they may have expected ......." etc.
A good set of the first editions of this monumental
biography, almost 30 years in the writing. With these three
interesting autograph letters commenting on the writing of each.
Quote Item No. 9062
Price: £285.00
ELLIS, M.H: Lachlan Macquarie, his life, adventures and
times.
Sydney: Dymock's, 1947.
First edition. Portrait and plates. 4to, pp.xi:697,
original cloth, no dustwrapper; headbands and corners bumped; cloth
to base of spine torn and frayed; generally very good in all other
respects.
Quote Item No. 663
Price: £20.00
EUGENE, PRINCE, OF SAVOY: Memoirs of Prince Eugene of
Savoy; Written by Himself. Translated ...by Frederic Shoberl.
London: Henry Colburn, 1811.
Engraved portrait. 8vo, pp.xiv:247, disbound. Portrait
foxed and browned, contemporary signature on upper margin of title.
Quote Item No. 7904
Price: £25.00
FANSHAWE,
ANN, LADY: Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard
Fanshawe, Bart. Written by Herself. With Extracts from the
Correspondence of Sir Richard Fanshawe.
London: Henry Colburn, 1829.
First edition. Engraved portrait. 8vo, pp.lxiii:395:(1,
advertisements), contemporary full tan calf. Rubbed, lacking
lettering piece, upper compartment of backstrip lacking, joints
cracking but firm. Some offsetting of portrait to title.
Generally internally excellent.
Quote Item No. 8000
Price: £45.00
FIELDING, DAPHNE: The Nearest Way Home.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970.
First edition. Black & white plates. 8vo, pp.x:275,
original yellow cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper; two
indents to binding; dustwrapper slightly edge-rubbed;
inscribed by the author on the f.f.e. and signed and dated by the
author on the title-page.
Quote Item No. 6824
Price: £10.00
FINER, S.E.: The Life
and Times of Sir Edwin Chadwick.
London: Methuen & Co.,
1952.
First edition. Portrait
frontispiece. 8vo, pp.
xi:555, original green cloth in dustwrapper;
binding slightly faded and browned around edges;
dustwrapper extremely poor, with three large pieces missing
(two at top and bottom of spine) creased, torn and rubbed;
internally very good.
Quote Item No. 8695
Price: £25.00
FORREST, D.W: Francis Galton. The Life and Work of a
Victorian Genius.
London: Paul Elek, 1974.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.x:340, original cloth;
slightly edge-spotted else very good in like d.w.
Quote Item No. 4012
Price: £15.00
FORSTER, JOHN: The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith.
Fourth edition with forty woodcuts, after designs by C.Stanfield,
D.Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle....
London: Chapman & Hall, 1863.
8vo, pp.xl:472, contemporary full prize calf gilt with lettering
piece; binding unevenly sunned but attractive nonetheless.
Quote Item No. 2356
Price: £25.00
FULLERTON, W.Y: J.W.C. Fegan, a Tribute.
London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, n.d. ca. 1920's.
Portrait and plates. 8vo, pp.128, original blue cloth in foxed
and chipped d.w. The founder of "Mr Fegan's Homes" for
orphaned boys.
Quote Item No. 6169
Price: £25.00
GEORGE, ANITA: Memoirs of the Queens of Spain. Edited, with an
Introduction and Notes, by Miss Julia Pardoe.
London: Richard Bentley, 1850.
Two volumes. Frontispiece to Volume 1. 8vo, pp.xxxvi:381
and pp.vi:318, original blindstamped grained blue cloth. Nick
in headband of Volume 1, headband of Volume 2 chipped. Light
crease to frontispiece, prelims. of Vol. 1 foxed. Circulating
library stamps of J. Brassington, Kensington, on endpapers.
Quote Item No. 9605
Price: £40.00
GILL, ERIC: Letters. Edited by Walter Shewring.
London: Cape, 1947.
First edition. Frontispiece. 8vo, pp.480, original red
cloth; head of spine a little creased but generally good.
Quote Item No. 3240
Price: £10.00
GRAY, THOMAS: Correspondence of Thomas Gray. Edited by the late
Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley. Three volumes.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1935.
Portraits, plates, folding facsimile, maps. Three volumes.
8vo, original maroon cloth. Upper inner joint cracked in Volume 1,
bindings unattractively damp-marked, one leaf of text tape-marked.
A sound reference/reading copy only.
Quote Item No. 7602
Price: £35.00
HARRIS, FRANCES: A Passion
for Government.
The Life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1991.
First edition. Black &
white plates. Large 8vo,
pp.x:421, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding very good;
dustwrapper bumped at ends of spine;
internally excellent.
Quote Item No. 9179
Price: £28.00
HATTON, RAGNHILD: Karl XII av Sverige. (Original title
Charles XII of Sweden).
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969.
Swedish text. Plates. Large 8vo, pp. 704, original cloth; very good
in edge rubbed dustwrapper. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed
by the author. With a letter dated 1995 announcing her death.
Quote Item No. 9268
Price: £45.00
HAYLEY,
WILLIAM: The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper
Esqr. A New and Enlarged Edition.
Chichester: Printed by J. Seagrave for J. Johnson, 1806.
Engraved portrait. 4 volumes. 8vo, contemporary
full mottled calf, spines gilt with lettering and numbering pieces
(lacking part of numbering piece on Volume1). Edges and
corners rubbed, joints rubbed, a few short cracks but hinges firm.
Puncture to blank margin of title to Volume 4, some foxing.
With the engraved armorial bookplate of Robert Johnson Eden
(1774-1844).
Quote Item No. 8021
Price: £60.00
HERRIOT, EDOUARD: Madame Recamier. From the French of
Edouard Herriot by Alys Hallard. Two Volumes.
London: Willliam Heinemann, 1906.
First edition. Black & white plates. Two volumes.
Large 8vo, pp.xviii:326 and pp.ix:447, original dark blue
cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, top edge gilt;
headbands and corners bumped and rubbed; some foxing.
Quote Item No. 7476
Price: £20.00
HUNT, GILES
[Editor]: Mehitabel Canning.
A Redoubtable Woman.
Family Letters.
Royston: Rooster Books,
2001.
First edition. Portrait
frontispiece. 8vo,
pp.viii:347, original green cloth lettered in gilt, no dustwrapper;
generally excellent.
Signed by the editor on the title-page.
Quote Item No. 9088
Price: £25.00
KIMBER, ISAAC: The Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the
Common-Wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Impartially
collected from the best historians, and several original
manuscripts.
London : printed for J. Brotherton, and T. Cox, 1725.
The second edition, with additions. Engraved portrait. 8vo,
pp.[8]:xvi:415:[1], contemporary full tan panelled calf, spine with
raised bands and crimson gilt lettering piece; hinges cracked but
very firm, an attractive binding. A very nice crisp copy.
Anonymous. By Isaac Kimber but sometimes also attributed to Edmund
Gibson, and Sir Thomas Pengelly.
Quote Item No. 5226
Price: £135.00
LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON: the History of Napoleon
Buonaparte. Reprinted from the Family Library and Illustrated by
George Cruikshank. With an Appendix.
London: William Tegg, 1866.
Frontispiece, engraved extra title with vignette portrait of
Napoleon, plates. 8vo, pp.xxii:655, contemporary full crimson
prize calf, sides ruled in gilt, spine gilt extra with lettering
piece; in excellent condition.
With the prize label of "The Limes" Bromley, Principal Mr. Septimus
Ellis, on front pastedown, awarding this volume to Edward M. Blyth
for Diligence & Conduct, Xmas 1861.
Quote Item No. 8680
Price: £60.00
MACAULAY, LORD - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: Two biographies by Macaulay,
of Francis Bacon & Warren Hastings, bound with Franklin's
autobiography.
London: Cassell's National Library, 1886, 1887, and 1886.
Three works bound in one volume. Small 8vo, pp.192:191:192,
contemporary pretty half blue calf, spine gilt in compartments,
crimson lettering piece.
Quote Item No. 2262
Price: £21.00
MAYLUNAS, ANDREI and MIRONENKO, SERGEI: A Lifelong Passion.
Nicholas and Alexandra, Their Own Story.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996.
First edition in English. Coloured portraits. Large
thick 8vo, pp.667, original cloth. An excellent copy in like
unclipped d.w.
Quote Item No. 6143
Price: £12.00
MEREDITH, GEORGE & MEYNELL, ALICE: The Letters of George
Meredith to Alice Meynell with annotations thereto 1896 - 1907.
London: Nonesuch Press, 1923.
No. 462 of a limited edition of 850 copies on Ingres paper.
Tall 8vo, pp.104, original cloth-backed boards, uncut. Binding
faded and marked.
Quote Item No. 5223
Price: £12.00
MIRECOURT, EUGENE DE: Plessy-Arnould.
Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1858.
In the series "Les Contemporains". First edition.
Portrait, one facsimile autograph. 12mo, pp.91:4, original yellow
wrappers; stitching broken, damp-marking and foxing. Collector's
stamps on half-title. A biography of the French singer Jeanne-Sylvanie
Arnould-Plessy.
Quote Item No. 6074
Price: £10.00
MISSY,
JEAN ROUSSET DE: The History of Cardinal Alberoni: Chief
Favorite of Their Catholic Majesties and Universal Minister of the
Spanish Monarchy from his Birth to the Year 1719. To which is
added Considerations upon the Present State of the Spanish Monarchy.
London: for Sam. Illidge (& others), 1719.
First edition in English. Engraved portrait. 8vo,
pp.264, contemporary full speckled calf, rebacked at an early date,
gilt ruled within raised bands, lettering piece. Upper joint cracked
but firm, some chipping along upper joint, corners rubbed.
Contemporary signature, Edward Hopkins, on title. With the
engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart
(1774-1844).
Quote Item No. 8003
Price: £90.00
MURRAY, JOHN MIDDLETON: Son of Woman. The Story of D. H.
Lawrence.
London: Cape, 1931.
First edition. Portrait. 8vo, pp.397, original black
cloth; nick to headband, spine faded, name on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 6290
Price: £10.00
NICOLSON, HAROLD: Autobiography, Complete in Five Volumes.
London: Hogarth Press, 1974 to 1967.
Volume 1 Fifth Impression, Volume 3 Third Impression, remaining
Volumes First Editions. Five volumes. 8vo, original blue
cloth; Volume 3 ex-library with usual stamps and marking;
lacking dustwrappers apart from Volume 3, this worn.
Quote Item No. 6422
Price: £35.00
NICOLSON, HAROLD: The Development of English Biography.
London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1933.
Second impression. 8vo, pp. 158, original cloth; very good in
dusty and slightly torn d.w. Bookplate.
Quote Item No. 3243
Price: £10.00
NOBLE,
MARK: Memoirs of the Illustrious House of Medici from Giovanni
the Founder of Their Greatness Who Died in the Year 1428 to the
Death of Giovanni-Gaston the Last Grand-Duke of Tuscany in 1737.
London: T. Cadell, 1797.
First edition. Six genealogical charts, 5 folding. 8vo,
pp.viii:456, contemporary full tan polished calf, spine ruled on
raised bands, lettering piece faded and slightly chipped.
Upper joint cracked but held on cords. Some light foxing.
With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart
(1774-1844).
Quote Item No. 7947
Price: £90.00
PEPYS,
SAMUEL: Everybody's Pepys. The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660 - 1669.
Edited by O. F. Morshead.
With 60 Illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard.
London: G. Bell, 1935.
Reprint. Deluxe issue. 8vo, pp.xxiv:570. Publisher's full
pebble-grained blue leather, upper cover blocked in blind, spine
blocked in gilt, top edge gilt; short nick in headband else a very
nice copy indeed and free from inscriptions.
Quote Item No. 9524
Price: £30.00
PEPYS, SAMUEL: The
Diary of Samuel Pepys.
A New and Complete Transcription Edited by
Robert Latham and William Matthews.
Eleven Volumes Including Companion and
Index, complete.
London:
G. Bell & Sons, 1970.
First editions, eleven volumes published over a period from 1970 to
1985. Black & white
frontispieces, plates and maps.
8vo, uniformly bound in cloth in dustwrappers;
the dustwrappers to five volumes with tears to edges
especially at spines (with some loss);
however, in other respects an excellent set.
With an autograph letter signed from the editor, Robert
Latham, loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 9263
Price: £250.00
PEPYS, SAMUEL (Edited
Henry B. Wheatley): The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Clerk of the Acts and
Secretary to the Admiralty. With Lord Braybrooke's Notes. Ten
volumes, complete.
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1928.
Nine volumes plus the 10th supplementary volume "Pepysiana". 8vo,
original blue cloth, spines gilt. Volumes 1 & 2 have what
appears to be varnish marks on the upper covers; otherwise a very
good clean set in very good condition and attractive on the shelf.
Quote Item No. 9485
Price: £75.00
POLIAKOFF, NICOLAI: Coco the Clown by Himself.
With Nineteen Photographs.
London: J.M. Dent &
Sons, 1940.
First edition. Black &
white photographic plates.
8vo, pp.vii:243, original red cloth in price-clipped
dustwrapper; binding
very good; dustwrapper
poor, edge-rubbed, creased and torn along edges with a piece missing
from top of spine and repaired in places with cellotape; internally very good.
Quote Item No. 8706
Price: £90.00
QUEEN HORTENSE: The Memoirs of Queen Hortense. Edited
by Prince Napoleon. Two Volumes.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1928.
First edition. Black & white plates. Two volumes.
Tall 8vo, pp.283 and pp.285, original green cloth lettered in gilt
on spines and upper covers; headbands bumped; some
foxing and browning; inner joints cracked; bookplate to
Volume 2 front pastedown; despite all, very good.
Quote Item No. 7496
Price: £38.00
REYNOLDS, FREDERICK: The
Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds written by himself. In
two volumes.
London: Henry Colburn, 1826.
First edition. Engraved portrait. Two volumes, 8vo,
pp.xxiv:373 pp.422, contemporary half calf with lettering pieces.
Portrait detached, some
foxing. Binding very rubbed, one headband pulled.
Quote Item No. 9451
Price: £70.00
ROBERTS, S.C.:
Adventures with Authors.
Cambridge: At the
University Press, 1966.
First edition. 8vo,
pp.vii:275, original grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine, in
dustwrapper; a
couple of small chips to surface of dustwrapper;
bookplate pasted to front pastedown;
in all other respects,
excellent. With the
author's signature pasted to front free-endpaper, loose on a small
piece of paper and with a signed autograph letter loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 8982
Price: £20.00
London: for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773.
The second edition, corrected. 4to, pp.lxxii:216, contemporary
full grained black morocco, a.e.g. The binding rubbed and
backstrip chipped.
Quote Item No. 405
Price: £45.00
RUSSELL, W. CLARK: William Dampier.
London: Macmillan, 1889.
First edition. Portrait. 8vo, pp.vi:192:(2), original
red cloth; binding faded, spine darkened.
Quote Item No. 2897
Price: £15.00
SACKVILLE-WEST, V: Saint Joan of Arc.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1936.
First edition. Plates and maps. 8vo, pp.xiii:436,
original orange cloth; some foxing but generally a very good
copy in d.w. The d.w. chipped, torn, and with pieces missing
at rear and headband.
Quote Item No. 3652
Price: £15.00
SADE,
JACQUES FRANCOIS PAUL ALDONCE DE - DOBSON, SUSANNA (Translator):
The Life of Petrarch. Collected from Memoires pour la Vie de
Petrarch.
London: James Buckland, 1775.
First edition thus. Engraved frontispiece. Two volumes.
8vo, pp.xxxii:544 & 560, contemporary full mottled calf, spines gilt
with crimson and green lettering pieces; backstrips rubbed,
chipped dry and brittle, joints cracked. Prelims and end
leaves browned, spotted and marked. Front free endpaper of
Volume 1 partly detached. With the engraved armorial
bookplates of Sir John Eden Bart (1740-1812).
Quote Item No. 7911
Price: £100.00
SCOTT,
GEORGE: The Memoirs of Sir James Melvil Of Halhill: Containing
An impartial Account of the most remarkable Affairs of State during
the Sixteenth Century, not mentioned by other Historians: More
particularly relating to the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, under
the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, and King James.
In most of which Transactions the Author was Personally and
Publickly concerned. The Third Edition, Corrected.
London: for D. Wilson, 1752.
8vo, pp.xx:408:(20, index):(2, An Alphabetical Interpretation of all
the Scottish Words and Phrases):(2, blanks):(8, Instructions to the
Earl of Bedford). Contemporary full tan calf, spine with
raised bands and crimson lettering piece. Headband a little
chipped, joints cracked but very firm. Extremities rubbed.
Generally a very good copy. With the engraved armorial
bookplate of Sir Robert Eden Bart (1717-1755).
Quote Item No. 7956
Price: £140.00
SHACKLETON, ROBERT:
Montesquieu.
A Critical Biography.
Oxford University Press, 1963.
Black & white portrait frontispiece.
8vo, pp.xv:432, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding good despite small pale patch of mottling;
dustwrapper browned with
a number of tears (with some loss) along edges;
internally excellent.
Quote Item No. 9200
Price: £38.00
SHORE, W. TEIGNMOUTH: D'Orsay or The Complete Dandy.
London: John Long, 1911.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.324, original blue cloth;
binding rubbed, some foxing.
Quote Item No. 6294
Price: £10.00
SPIELMANN, M.H.
and
JERROLD, WALTER: Hugh Thomson.
His Art, His Letters, His Humour and His
Charm.
London: A. & C. Black,
1931.
First edition. Coloured
plates, black & white plates and illustrations in the text.
4to, pp.xx:269, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding headbands bumped, else very good;
dustwrapper poor, spine browned and with multiple tears (with
loss) and creasing to top and bottom edges;
foxing to page edges, prelimns, title page and some leaves of
text; internally, joints
cracked but stitching still firm, ink inscription to front
paste-down and a picture (perhaps the front of a card?) pasted to
second page.
Quote Item No. 9208
Price: £20.00
STRAUBENZEE FAMILY: A Typescript compiled by A.W. van
Straubenzee in 1942 under various headings, e.g. "Philpus Willem
Casimir (1723-1765) the First English Straubenzee"; "The Third and
Fourth Generations in Holland (1718-1838)" etc. Together with
several appendices, e.g. "The Families of van Straubenzee, Schoncken
and Vermaesen compiled by Colonel Storm de Grave".
4to, pp.87, ring-bound old wrappers rather worn and chipped,
marked "duplicate". Illustrated by the insertion of
photographs of family portraits.
Together with another, roneo'd, memoir of another member of the
Straubenzee family, 4to, pp.67, wrappers.
Quote Item No. 364
Price: £60.00
STRICKLAND, AGNES:
Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Complete
in Six Volumes.
London: George Bell, 1892.
Engraved portraits. Six volumes, complete. 8vo, contemporary half
crimson calf, marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments within
raised bands with green lettering pieces; some rubbing to joints and
extremities, puncture to one compartment of Volume 5. Apart from the
puncture to Volume 5 this is a very pretty well bound set in good
strong condition.
Quote Item No. 10209
Price: £115.00
SUETONIUS: Lives of
the Twelve Caesars. Newly Translated with an Introduction by
H.M. Bird. Illustrated by Frank C. Pape.
U.S.A.: Argus Books, 1930.
First edition thus. Decorative title, plates with tissue
guards. Large 8vo, pp.viii:391, original black cloth blocked
in gilt. A very good copy in the original, edge-worn,
slipcase.
Quote Item No. 8637
Price: £40.00
SULLY, MAXIMILIAN DE BETHUNE, DUKE OF: The Memoirs of the Duke
of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great. Translated from
the French of Charlotte Lennox. A New Edition, Revised and
Corrected.
London: Printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer, 1810.
Portraits. Five volumes. 8vo, contemporary full marbled
calf, decorative gilt rules to sides, spines blocked in gilt with
military trophies, black lettering and numbering pieces. Some
foxing, a number of joints cracked, headbands chipped.
An image is available upon request.
Quote Item No.3487
Price: £120.00
THOROGOOD, JULIA: Margery Allingham. A Biography.
London: Heinemann, 1991.
First edition. Black & white plates. 8vo, pp.xxii:423,
original cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper; extremely slight
crease to top edge of dustwrapper, else an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 6424
Price: £25.00
TORCY,
JEAN-BAPTISTE COLBERT, MARQUIS DE: Memoirs of the Marquis of
Torcy, Secretary of State to Lewis XIV. Containing the History
of the Negotiations from the Treaty of Ryswic to the Peace of
Utrecht. Translated from the French.
London: P. Vaillant, 1757.
First English edition. Two volumes. 8vo, pp.xii:407 and
pp.377, contemporary full tan speckled calf, spines with raised
bands and burgundy lettering pieces; spines darkened, a little
rubbed, one joint cracked but very firm, titles foxed or browned.
With the engraved armorial bookplates of Sir John Eden Bart
(1740-1812).
Quote Item No. 7958
Price: £75.00
TREVELYAN, SIR GEORGE OTTO: The Life and Letters of Lord
Macaulay. New Edition.
London: Longmans, Green, 1888.
8vo, pp.xiv:695, contemporary full tan prize calf, gilt arms of
Marlborough College on upper cover, spine gilt in compartments with
lettering piece, all edges marbled. Prize insciption on front
fly. Some foxing. Generally very good and attractive.
Quote Item No. 9594
Price: £45.00
VICTORIA, QUEEN: Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the
Highlands, from 1848 to 1861. To which are prefixed ....
an Account of Earlier Visits to Scotland, and Tours in England and
Ireland, and Yachting Excursions. Edited by Arthur Helps.
London: Smith, Elder, 1868.
First edition. Engraved frontispiece and one plate. 8vo,
pp.xv:(2):315, original green cloth gilt; some foxing to prelims and
edge of text block but an extremely bright copy.
Quote Item No. 8476
Price: £30.00
VICTORIA, QUEEN. ( Edited by Arthur Helps ): Leaves from the
Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861 (2nd edition)
&
More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in
the Highlands from 1862 to 1882 (3rd edition).
London: Smith, Elder, 1868.
The second volume published 1884. Engraved frontispiece to the
first volume, engraved portrait and plates to the second volume.
8vo, pp.xv:(2):315 and pp.x:(4):407, original bevelled green cloth
blocked in gilt; upper inner hinge of second volume cracked but
quite firm. The bindings in exceptional bright condition.
Contemporary inscriptions.
Quote Item No. 9598
Price: £35.00
VOLTAIRE
[FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE ]: The History of Charles XII, King
of Sweden. Translated from the French. The Second
Edition, Corrected.
London: for Alexander Lyon, 1732.
Engraved portrait, engraved folding map. 8vo, pp.xi:371:(1),
contemporary full tan calf, sides ruled in gilt, rubbed, head and
tail of spine chipped, hinges cracked but firm. Corner torn
from corner of front free endpaper. Internally a crisp copy.
With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir John Eden Bart
(1740-1812).
Quote Item No. 7900
Price: £150.00
WAINWRIGHT, A: Memoirs of a Fellwalker.
London: Michael Joseph, 1993.
Third impression before publication. Illustrations.
Large 8vo, pp.210, original cloth; an excellent copy in like
unclipped d.w. Small private "Ex Libris" label on front free
endpaper.
Quote Item No. 6140
Price: £10.00
WALLER, R.D.: The Rossetti Family
1824-1854.
Manchester University Press, 1932.
First edition. Black &
white plates. Large
8vo, pp.xii:324, original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, no
dustwrapper, pages untrimmed;
spine and lettering faded;
headbands and corners bumped and rubbed, some shelf wear;
page edges slightly browned;
ink inscription on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 8665
Price: £65.00
WILKINSON, MAJOR-GENERAL OSBORN and WILKINSON,
MAJOR-GENERAL JOHNSON: The Memoirs of the Gemini Generals.
Personal Anecdotes, Sporting Adventures, and Sketches of
Distinguished Officers.
London: A.D. Innes & Co. 1896. |
First edition. Large 8vo, pp.xii:441, original pebble-grained
cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; headbands and
corners slightly rubbed; some foxing; ink name on
half-title; internally extremely good.
Quote Item No. 7495
Price: £22.00
WILLIAMS, H. NOEL: The Women Bonapartes. The Mother and
Three Sisters of Napoleon I. With Thirty-six Illustrations.
Two volumes.
London: Methuen & Co., 1908.
First edition. Black & white plates. Two volumes.
Large 8vo, pp.xviii:376 and pp.xix:406:40 [publisher's catalogue],
original green cloth lettered and decoratively blocked in gilt on
spine and upper covers; headbands a little bumped; gilt
to spines slightly dulled; some foxing; ink inscription
on front free-endpaper. Generally very good.
Quote Item No. 7475
Price: £20.00
WOOLF, VIRGINA. Edited by Anne Oliver Bell: The Diary
of Virginia Woolf. Volume III: 1925-1930.
London: Hogarth Press, 1979.
Proof Copy. Map endpapers. 8vo, pp.353, original cream
printed wrappers with typescript label to spine. With index leaves
for this volume, corner stapled, loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 5955
Price: £35.00
WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Edited by Nigel Nicolson: Leave the
Letters Till We're Dead. The Letters of Virginia Woolf.
Volume VI: 1936-1941.
London: Hogarth Press, 1980.
Proof Copy. 8vo, pp.532, original pale blue printed wrappers
with typescript label to spine. Wrappers faded, short MS note
on rear endpaper.
Quote Item No. 5954
Price: £35.00
WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Edited by Nigel Nicolson: The Sickle
Side of the Moon. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Volume
V: 1932-1935.
London: Hogarth Press, 1979.
Proof Copy. 8vo, pp.456, original printed red wrappers with
typescript label to spine.
Quote Item No. 5957
Price: £35.00
WRAXALL, SIR N.W: Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time.
London: Richard Bentley, 1836.
Three volumes. Engraved portraits. 8vo, original brown
blindstamped pebble-grain cloth. Portraits foxed.
Lacking backstrip of Volume 1, some slight chipping to other
volumes. With the engraved armorial bookplates of Sir Robert
Johnson Eden Bart (1774-1844).
Quote Item No. 8022
Price: £18.00
YOUNG, RUTH: Mrs. Chapman's Portrait. A Beauty of Bath
of the 18th Century.
Bath: George Gregory, 1926.
Portraits. 8vo, pp.xii:158, original linen-backed boards, with
labels; binding browned. Inscription on front free
endpaper.
Quote Item No. 3317
Price: £10.00