A Tour in Wales. MDCCLXX [III]
[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798
PENNANT'S FIRST WELSH TOUR. 26 plates. VG, 1778. First edition, re-spined in calf over contemporary tree calf boards, decorative gilt edges, corners bumped. Spine, gilt tooling, gilt title to black morocco label. Internally, title with oval…
Manors and Royalties in the Principality of Wales. Address to the noblemen and gentlemen composing the council of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. With an appendix
[PRICE Mr. etc]
In contemporary red long grain morocco, decorative gilt edge tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, decorative gilt tooling & titles. Internally, half title, [5], 6-48 pp, printed by D.N. Shury, watermarked Ruse & Turner 1806, red marbled endpapers, gilt…
[CHOIROCHOROGRAPHIA: Sive], Hoglandiae descriptio
[RICHARD Thomas] 1688/9-1760
Disbound, [2], (iii-vi), 7-15 pp, [1] adverts, light browning, with a tiny circular wormhole in the bottom margin, forward tp edge trimmed affecting vignette. Uncommon! (177*110 mm). (ESTC T168176. Foxon, R197). Work is attributed to Thomas…
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
[SASSOON Siegfried] 1886-1967
First edition, in blue cloth, spine faded with gilt titles. In VG DW. Internally, half title, [4], 7-334 pp, [1], top edge reddened, fore edge uncut Very good in a Very Good DW. (185*130 mm). (Keynes A33. Fabes p69). Includes the battles of the…
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
[SASSOON Siegfried] 1886-1967
Signed by the author, and with his Wellington boot footnote and initial. Limited Edition, Signed and with drawing by Sassoon. In blue cloth, faded at spine, gilt titles. Internally, limitation leaf, half title, [6], 7-334 pp, [1], t.e.g, others…
Photographs [Photograph Album of North Wales]
[VALENTINE James] 1815-1879
In the publishers oblong, red bevelled, morocco cloth, gilt titles & tooling, corners worn, no title to spine. Internally, twelve B&W view of scenes in North Wales each identified by name, reference number and the initials J.V. [James Valentine],…
Cambria Depicta: BOUND With Illustrations of the Natural Scenery of the Snowdonian Mountains [grangerised]
A Native Artist [PUGH E.]; WITH JONES Harry Longueville 1806-1870
Depicta with hand coloured plates and with many Extra Illustrations Two volumes bound as One, first edition (both), large paper copy, quarto. Xvi, 476 pp. 71 hand coloured aquatint plates and extra illustrated with a double page hand coloured…
Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 Arvhitecture Drawing Book A Bibliographical Catalogues Art Collections Magazine Navy and Army Panoramas Etc
ABBEY J.R. [John Roland] 1896-1969
As new in maroon calf cloth, gilt spine titles. VG DJ, black ink titles. Internally, half title, frontis, [4], (v-xxi), [1], [2], 3-427 pp, [1], 633 entries, 83 plates & illustrations. (311*232 mm). An essential color plate book reference.
Lyrics and Unfinished Poems
ABERCROMBIE Lascelles 1881-1938
VG, Gregynog Press, Ltd ed of 175. In dark green quarter calf over green Cockerel marbled boards, gilt tooling, designed by George Fisher. Spine, gilt titles & tooling. Internally, half title, [4], (v-xii), [2], 3-82 pp, [1], top edge cut…
Kuwait-Iraq Boundary Dispute in British Archives
Al-A'DAMI WMS. Hamdi Dr.
First edition, two volumes in red cloth, gilt printed titles to green cloth on spines. In fine printed dust wrappers. Internally, Vol 1, [2], 7-550 pp. Vol 2, [4], 7-21, [1], 551-1050pp. (295*208 mm). In November 1994, Iraq formally accepted…
Morfa Rhuddlan: or, the Battle of Rhuddlan Marsh ; with an English version of Ieuan Glan Geirionydd's celebrated ode [entitled Cyflafan morfa Rhuddlan] and historical illustrations
ALFRED [i.e. RUSHTON William]
VG, c1860, in half morocco over red marbled boards, by Blackwell (stamped to verso fep), a few scratches, corners rubbed. Spine, gilt title. Internally, [3], 4-22 pp, [2] adverts, red marbled endpapers, bookplate to fpd (Henry Blackwell), remains…
Involuntary Thoughts
ALKEN Henry [Thomas] 1784-1851
First edition (first issue?), oblong quarto, letterpress title page and six hand coloured soft ground etchings by Alken depicting 18 thoughts, quarter red morocco over marbled boards, burgundy gilt morocco cover label. The plates have been sized to…
Symptoms of Being Amused
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851
Sporting, Domestic, and other humorous coloured sketches In oblong 4to, half red morocco over red cloth (by Riviere & Sons), gilt tooling, corners worn. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles, worn along extremities. Internally, lacks the…
Specimens Of Riding Near London, Drawn from Life
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851
With Eighteen Hand-Coloured Engraved Plates by Henry Alken Second edition (first published in 1821), oblong folio, letterpress title and eighteen hand coloured engraved plates (including frontispiece) by and after Henry Alken, plates…
The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, in Great Britain and Wales in a collection of Select Views. With Select views Bath & Bristol. With Collection of Views
ANGUS W. [William] 1752-1821; WITH WATTS W; WITH BOYDELL John and Josiah
VG, 3 volumes as one, 1st eds, 64 pls, 1787, 94 & 92 In oblong contemporary dark green straight grained morocco gilt, with the gilt cipher ''XS'' surmounted by a crown at the head of the spine, a.e.g., Internally, bound without the half title,…