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19668vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Vividly-written account of London in the seventeenth century.
19778vo., First Edition, with plates; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lively and facsinating social history of Bethlem Royal Hospital, and the treatment of the insane. The building in Lambeth is now the home of the Imperial War Museum.
1945Sm. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Valuable selection of well-chosen 'before and after' photographs of buildings destroyed or badly damaged in the German air attacks of 1940-1944.
18962 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispieces and numerous engraved plates; original half brown morocco, green diced cloth boards blocked in gilt, gilt back, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the separately printed errata slip in first volume. Standard reference of one of the twelve great livery companies of London. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
193613 vols., 8vo., with numerous plates, maps and diagrams (a number folding), small personal name-stamp on front wrappers of most volumes; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean run. The run comprises: Scotland. The Tertiary Volcanic Districts, 1952; The South of Scotland, 1948; Scotland. The Northern Highlands, 1936; East Anglia and adjoining Areas, 1948; The Hampshire Basin, 1956; The Wealden District, 1951; South-West England, 1948; The Grampian Highlands, 1948; The Midland Valley of Scotland, 1953; North Wales, 1948; East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, 1951; London and Thames Valley, 1947; Northern England, 1953.
19022 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates (a number folding), and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19723 vols., roy. 8vo., with numerous illustrations and large folding map; blue cloth, gilt backs, silk markers, a near fine set in publisher's card slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 150 SETS. Much-needed facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1912.
19818vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and photographs in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19738vo., First Edition, with a large folding plan as frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges.
19182 vols., roy. 4to., First Edition, with frontispieces in photogravure (original tissue guards present) and 41 fine plates and facsimiles, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original red buckram, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, gilt tops, backstrips mildly sunned (but all gilt legible), coves very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. The standard reference; the author was honorary consulting surgeon to the institution. Scarce in this condition.
1889Roy. 8vo., with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette and 35 fine coloured plates; original red cloth boards, green roan back lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, primrose endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue at end. A lovely copy of the reissue of the sequel to 'Life in London' (1821).
19958vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map and numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
19558vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece and illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
19568vo., First Edition, with folding map as frontispiece, plates, illustrations ( a number full-page) in the text and 7 folding maps; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
19568vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
19996 vols., 8vo., First Edition; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine run. The run comprises No. 438 (Autumn 1999) to No. 443 (Spring 2002).
19028vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text,; original series binding of green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, joints faintly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy. With publisher's 4pp series catalogue bound in at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Spielmann & Jerrold 34 .
19288vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text, and several folding plans and charts on japon, free endpapers lightly browned; original yellow cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in brown, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-soiled and chipped at edges. An outstanding copy of one of the most important studies of London's Underground prior to WWII. Written by the Operating Manager of London's Undergound, it presents a comprehensive and highly detailed account, with valuable illustrations of early equipment, procedures and scenes. All contents and charts are in near fine state. RARE IN THIS CONDITION. Ottley 1026.
19586 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, some very light and occasional spotting; original green buckram, gilt backs, red tops, a very good, clean set. The set comprises Vol. I: The Comedies (I); Vol. II: The Comedies (II): Vol. III: The Histories (I); Vol. IV: The Histories (II), The Poems; Vol. V: The Tragedies (I); Vol. VI: The Tragedies (II). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE.
19483 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, with 3 portrait frontispieces, 13 plates, and front and rear endpaper maps in first and second volumes, neat contemporarey inscription on front free endpapers; original blue cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set. One of the outstanding biographies of the twentieth century, the trilogy was first published by Cambridge (1933-38) in plain typographical dustwrappers. When Collins secured the right to reprint, maps were produced for the second volume. NMML Catalogue II, Part 1, 1194-1196; Albion, p.215 (all recording the first edition).
19054to., Fifteenth Edition, with frontispiece, plates, illustrations and plans in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a well-preserved, bright, clean copy. The rear wrapper carries an advertisement for the Charing Cross Turkish Baths - a favourite haunt of Holmes and Watson!
1977Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with full-page illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
19118vo., First Edition, all leaves with punched filing holes; rebound in blue full roan, upper board lettered in gilt, the whole housed in custom-made blue cloth solander case with marbled edges and interior. Part II contains the fifteen detailed itineraries covering much of central London. Part I ( Guide) and Part III (Gazetteer) are not present with this copy.
1926Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 21 x 30 ins (approx. 53.0 x 76.0 cms) folding in 24 panels to 7.0 x 4.0 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.1 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, light wear to folds else a bright, clean copy. The famous Popular Edition One Inch series with striking 'cyclist' artwork by Ellis Martin was first issued in 1919. This is the 1926 revision. The covers are black with red sheet name and location map. Browne, 11.1.a
17548vo., First Edition, on laid paper; most attractively bound in contemporary speckled calf, sides with double Oxford frame in gilt, back with five raised bands, second compartment with red leather label framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments toole and ruled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, a remarakbly bright, clean, crisp copy. First edition of Sherlock's first collection of sermons, and forerunner of a well-known series of 'discourses' published across the late eighteenth century. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF THE 3rd MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY AND BEARS HIS FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. The bookplate shows the arms of Londonderry and those of his second wife Frances Anne Emily, daughter of Sir Henry Vane-Tempest. A small, neat, contemporary signature 'Henry Vane' appears on title. A PLEASING COPY WITH NOTABLE PROVENANCE.