Rare Books under £500

First edition. 2 vols., limited to 3000 copies, 8vo, xviii, 244; x, 240 pp., 22 coloured plates by Gronvold, original grey buckram-backed green cloth gilt, covers with gilt pictorial roundel, original dust-wrappers lettered in brown (light edge wear), an excellent copy.

25th printing; 8vo; presentation copy inscribed by the author; publisher's sage cloth, title to upper board and spine in red, dust-jacket, a little frayed and faded, price-clipped, otherwise very good.

Third edition. l, 476 pp, 19 maps, 32 plans, stamps on title-page; publisher's red cloth gilt, slightly worn and faded; overall a very good copy.

Third revised edition. ccxvi, 293 pp, 14 maps, 33 plans, 7 views, and 76 vignettes, some pencilling and blue crayon markings inside throughout, ink signature, a few pages detached; publisher's red cloth gilt, slightly marked and spotted; a very good copy.

First edition, number 54 of 175 copies on handmade paper, signed by the author; 8vo, (23.5 x 15 cm); painted pictorial endpapers, slight offsetting to endpapers, otherwise unmarked internally; rebound with a whimsical onlay and painted calf binding, top edge gilt, others uncut, spine slightly faded, some marks to boards, overall a very good copy; [viii], 62pp.

First edition. 8vo, xxii, 342 pp., frontispiece and numerous illustrations, original blue cloth gilt, light foxing to title and occasionally elsewhere, a very good copy.

First edition, first impression, one of 100 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author; 8vo; publisher's full black morocco, eclipse motif to boards and titles to spine in red, matching cloth slipcase, fine.

4 vols, 12mo., engraved portrait frontispiece, early nineteenth century polished blue half calf gilt, gilt lettered direct, marbled boards, extra-illustrated with engraved portraits, cuttings, contemporary annotations,a very attractive set.

4to (35 x 26 cm); 309pp, profusely illustrated throughout with colour and monochrome illustrations, many full page; bound in red cloth gilt, cream dust-wrapper lettered in red and black. NEW.

First edition, small 8vo (19 x 14.5 cm); 8pp., text and black and white illustrations after Zhenya Kovarskaya; original printed wrappers, illustrated by E. Vasil'eva, slight rusting to staple otherwise a fine copy.