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A distinguished Centenary Edition, first published in 1934 by the Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London, and edited by G.D.H. Cole. This volume brings...

A distinguished Centenary Edition, first published in 1934 by the Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London, and edited by G.D.H. Cole. This volume brings...

The Phanseys of William Cavendish, Marquis of Newcastle, addressed to Margaret Lucas and her Letters in Reply was issued by the Nonesuch Press in 1...

Hilaire Belloc’s The Old Road (1904) is his celebrated account of the ancient Pilgrims’ Way from Winchester to Canterbury, tracing both the physica...

A full leather prize presentation copy of this work. William Whewell's Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology ...

An attractive Victorian prize binding, presented by The College School, Huyton. The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for Young Reade...

The Radcliffe Catalogue of 6317 Stars (Oxford, 1860) is a landmark nineteenth-century astronomical reference, recording the precise positions of ci...

A very rare sammelband of two scarce nineteenth-century astronomical works. Robert Goodacre, A Brief Explanation of the Principal Terms made use of...

This volume brings together two uncommon contemporary accounts of the Napoleonic wars. The first, The Campaigns of Paris in 1814 & 1815, is the...

Irene Iddesleigh is the infamous debut novel of Mrs. Amanda McKittrick Ros (Anna Margaret Ross, 1860–1939), celebrated for its extravagantly ornate...

E.L. Blanchard’s A Handy Book on Dinners; Dinners and Diners at Home and Abroad (1860) is a witty and wide-ranging guide to the Victorian dining ta...

The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby (the pseudonym of clergyman Richard Harris Barham) is one of the most popular colle...

The Art of the Old English Potter by L. M. Solon is a classic late-Victorian study of English ceramics, first published in 1883 in a numbered limit...

Two impressive folios from the British Museum’s celebrated Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles, a monumental series issued between 181...

A scholarly early 18th century Latin edition of the first six books of Euclid’s Elements, the foundation of classical geometry. Edited and correcte...

The Ladies Calling. Edinburgh: James Glen, 1675. First Scottish Edition. The Ladies Calling (first published London, 1673 and attributed to Richard...

Vathek: An Arabian Tale was written in French in 1782 by William Beckford (1760–1844), an English novelist, art collector, and eccentric. It is one...

Vathek: An Arabian Tale was written in French in 1782 by William Beckford (1760-1844), an English novelist, art collector, and eccentric. It is one...

The Golden Ass (also known as Metamorphoses) by Lucius Apuleius is the only complete surviving novel from ancient Rome. This picaresque tale chroni...

A scarce first edition of Nesbit’s practical instructional work on surveying, A Complete Treatise on Practical Land-Surveying, In Six Parts (York: ...

A handsome set of this beautifully presented Nonesuch Press edition of the The Holy Bible; The Authorized or King James Version of 1611 now repinte...

A handsome facsimile edition presenting two landmark voyages of the early 17th century bound as one: The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, Be...

A scarce first edition of Walter Anderson's monumental historical work. He offers a detailed and insightful account of late 16th‑ and early 17th‑ce...

A very smart first edition copy of the General circulation issue of this book (following the Private printing in 1926). T.E. Lawrence's autobiograp...