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  • First edition of Wilkins's Reconnoitring in Abyssinia, containing ten attractive lithographs. The copy of Major-General Sir Elliot Wood, who served in Abyssinia under Wilkins and would go on to command the Royal Engineers in the Boer War.
    First edition of Wilkins's Reconnoitring in Abyssinia, containing ten attractive lithographs. The copy of Major-General Sir Elliot Wood, who served in Abyssinia under Wilkins and would go on to command the Royal Engineers in the Boer War.

    WILKINS, H. St Clair.
    Reconnoitring in Abyssinia: 1870.
    £1,500.00

  • A handsome set of Jane Austen's six publshed novels, togetheer with her abandoned work The Watsons and her juvenalis Love and Friendship
    A handsome set of Jane Austen's six publshed novels, togetheer with her abandoned work The Watsons and her juvenalis Love and Friendship

    AUSTEN, Jane.
    The Novels. 1948.
    £2,250.00

  • First English language edition of The Primeval Atom, Georges Lemaitre's popular account of his big bang theory. An unusually attractive copy in the uncommon dust jacket.
    First English language edition of The Primeval Atom, Georges Lemaitre's popular account of his big bang theory. An unusually attractive copy in the uncommon dust jacket.

    LEMAÎTRE, Georges.
    The Primeval Atom. An Essay on Cosmogony. 1950.
    First English language edition of The Primeval Atom, Georges Lemaitre's popular account of his big bang theory. An unusually attractive copy in the uncommon dust jacket.
    £1,250.00

  • An attractive set of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, the fifth thousand with revisions and errata corrected
    An attractive set of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, the fifth thousand with revisions and errata corrected

    DARWIN, Charles & DARWIN, Francis (editor).
    The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 1887.
    An attractive set of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, the fifth thousand with revisions and errata corrected
    £950.00

  • Portico Temple of Gerf Hossayn, Nubia.

    FRITH, Francis.
    Portico Temple of Gerf Hossayn, Nubia. 1857.
    £125.00

  • An attrtactive copy of this classic work of hsitorical fiction, Under Drake's Flag, by George Alfred Henty
    An attrtactive copy of this classic work of hsitorical fiction, Under Drake's Flag, by George Alfred Henty

    HENTY, George Alfred.
    Under Drake's Flag. [c.1895].
    £150.00

  • Captain Harris, the British envoy to King Sahla of Shawa, landed at Tjurah in 1841 and remained in the country until 1843
    Captain Harris, the British envoy to King Sahla of Shawa, landed at Tjurah in 1841 and remained in the country until 1843

    HARRIS, Major William Cornwallis.
    The Highlands of Aethiopia. 1844.
    £1,500.00

  • A lovely copy of Lady Brassey's A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months, her famous account of her circumnavigation of the globe in the late nineteenth century.
    A lovely copy of Lady Brassey's A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months, her famous account of her circumnavigation of the globe in the late nineteenth century.

    BRASSEY, Lady Anna.
    A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months. 1913.
    A lovely copy of Lady Brassey's A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months, her famous account of her circumnavigation of the globe in the late nineteenth century.
    £200.00

  • The third edition, printed the same year as the first of this attack by Jeremy Collier on the Immorality and Profaness of the English Stage
    The third edition, printed the same year as the first of this attack by Jeremy Collier on the Immorality and Profaness of the English Stage

    COLLIER, Jeremy.
    A Short View of the Immorality and Profaness of the English Stage: 1698.
    £450.00

  • First edition copy of Rudyard Kipling's Traffics and Discoveries a collection of short stories in the publisher's original red cloth with a gilt-blocked medallion to upper panel
    First edition copy of Rudyard Kipling's Traffics and Discoveries a collection of short stories in the publisher's original red cloth with a gilt-blocked medallion to upper panel

    KIPLING, Rudyard.
    Traffics and Discoveries. 1904,
    £125.00

  • First edition of The Hoofmarks of the Faun by Arthur Ransome, with the dustjacket, from the library of Roger Senhouse.
    First edition of The Hoofmarks of the Faun by Arthur Ransome, with the dustjacket, from the library of Roger Senhouse.

    RANSOME, Arthur.
    The Hoofmarks of the Faun. 1911.
    £1,500.00

  • In 1805, the famous British essayist and then would-be poet Charles Lamb wrote a children's poem, known as 'The King and Queen of Hearts'.
    In 1805, the famous British essayist and then would-be poet Charles Lamb wrote a children's poem, known as 'The King and Queen of Hearts'.

    [LAMB, Charles].
    The King and Queen of Hearts. 1805 [1902].
    £185.00

  • A lovely copy of Kate Greenaway's Book of Games in very good condition with bright, colourful illustrations.
    A lovely copy of Kate Greenaway's Book of Games in very good condition with bright, colourful illustrations.

    GREENAWAY, Kate.
    Kate Greenaway's Book of Games. [c.1889].
    £195.00

  • A very good first edition, two volume set of Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson by John Cordy Jeaffreson. <br /><br />With excellent provenance from the New South Wales Library of Parliament.
    A very good first edition, two volume set of Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson by John Cordy Jeaffreson. <br /><br />With excellent provenance from the New South Wales Library of Parliament.

    JEAFFRESON, John Cordy.
    Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson. 1888.
    A very good first edition, two volume set of Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson by John Cordy Jeaffreson. With excellent provenance from the New South Wales Library of Parliament.
    £150.00

  • John Gould is widely considered the grearest and most ambitious of all Victorian ornithologists.

    GOULD, John; Elizabeth Gould.
    Pteroglossus Derbianus [Toucan]. 1833-5.
    £550.00

  • Jump to Glory Jane is a poem by George Meredith that sees a widow turn to jumping as a form of worship.
    Jump to Glory Jane is a poem by George Meredith that sees a widow turn to jumping as a form of worship.

    MEREDITH, George; HOUSMAN, Lawrence (illustrator).
    Jump to Glory Jane. 1892.
    £175.00

  • A wonderfully illustrated copy of Nancy Mitford's account of the life of Louis XIV at Versailles, the French palace he called home.
    A wonderfully illustrated copy of Nancy Mitford's account of the life of Louis XIV at Versailles, the French palace he called home.

    MITFORD, Nancy.
    The Sun King: Louis XIV at Versailles. 1966.
    £350.00

  • Prirva [The Precipice].
    Prirva [The Precipice].

    DUDKO, Fedir.
    Prirva [The Precipice]. 1931.
    £1,750.00

  • First edition of Picturesque Views of the Principal Monuments in the Cemetery of Pere La Chaise by John Thomas Serres, with 10 hand-coloured lithograph plates.
    First edition of Picturesque Views of the Principal Monuments in the Cemetery of Pere La Chaise by John Thomas Serres, with 10 hand-coloured lithograph plates.

    SERRES, John Thomas (illustrator).
    Picturesque Views of the Principal Monuments in the Cemetery of Pere La Chaise, 1825.
    £1,250.00

  • This revised edition from 1891 was bound for the Bedford Modern School and features their armorial and bookplate.
    This revised edition from 1891 was bound for the Bedford Modern School and features their armorial and bookplate.

    GLEIG, George.
    The Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington. 1891.
    £175.00

  • A Prisoner of the Khaleefa by Charles Neufeld, his account of twelve years captivity by the Mahdist forces in Sudan before being liberated by the British in 1898.
    A Prisoner of the Khaleefa by Charles Neufeld, his account of twelve years captivity by the Mahdist forces in Sudan before being liberated by the British in 1898.

    NEUFELD, Charles.
    A Prisoner of the Khaleefa. 1899.
    £325.00

  • First editions of two articles relating to the Endurance expedition from April and May of 1916.
    First editions of two articles relating to the Endurance expedition from April and May of 1916.

    [ENDURANCE]; MILL, Hugh Robert.
    The Position of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Expedition; 1916.
    £250.00

  • A parody of Henry James' The Sacred Fount, by the poet & Professor of English Owen Seaman.
    A parody of Henry James' The Sacred Fount, by the poet & Professor of English Owen Seaman.

    SEAMAN, Owen.
    Borrowed Plumes. 1902.
    £150.00

  • First edition of Enderby Outside by Anthony Burgess.
    First edition of Enderby Outside by Anthony Burgess.

    BURGESS, Anthony.
    Enderby Outside. 1968.
    £95.00

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