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London: Victor Gollancz, 1962. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. Crowds and Power, first English edition, Gollancz 1962 original boards, Title and verso of half title with offsetting from loose paper sheet (now removed), dust-jacket, spine lightly browned, spine ends minor crumple creasing, some light soiling to lower panel, not clipped and no ownership markings. 8vo.

Printed for John Fairburn, London, 1822. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition, 1822. Title with uncoloured vignette, 21 hand-coloured aquatint plates by George Cruikshank, including frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations (complete) Occasional trivial marks and odd few spots else internally clean bright and crisp. Bound from the parts withput the half-title and binder's leaf at rear, Attractive contemporary polished calf, blind-stamped borders and gilt titling to the spine. Slight rubbing, staining to upper margin of lower cover. Plates are exceptionally clean and bright. xxiv, [1]-489 [Tooley, 129.].

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First UK edition, first printing. Original laminated pictorial boards, issued without dustwrapper. Colour illustrations complete and excellent, small stains at foot of spine and rear cover, oblong 4to 1970.

London: Richard Phillips, 1805. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition. 1805 London: Richard Phillips. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, joints cracked but binding solid. Sound and crisp copy with all 11 aquatints and the double page plate of St Petersburg (neatly repaired folding tear) 27 x 22 cms xi, [1], 480 4to. Bound with half title. Provenance - Spetchley Park Library (without bookplates or shelf marks)

Heinemann . First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition UK first printing. Very minor light spotting to edges of textblock, else Fine in a price clipped but otherwise Fine Jacket. No ownership marks.

Giovanni de Rossi Militello 1617. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition of one of the scarcest early Italian chess manuals, and the first book printed in Militello, at the private press of Prince Francesco Branciforte. Woodcuts of chessboard on title and page 531; large woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Francesco Branciforte, Prince of Pietrapersia and Marquis of Militello, on title verso. 556 pp, [87] pages. 4to, 196 x 144 mm, small marginal tear with loss to kk7 (1cm). Bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments with raised bands (joints cracked), all edges marbled. Additional to the provenance noted below there are a few other ink or pencil names or references on the preliminaries. Generally in excellent condition. A rare and important early work on chess. Just 5 sold at auction since WW2 including the Christie's sale of this copy. Collates complete : 556 [i. e., 552], [87] pp. [Brunet I 1599]Provenance : Robert Blass (stamp on blank), Tetschner Bibliothek (stamp… Read More

Artists' Choice Editions, UK, 2016. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. First edition thus, 2016. One of 48 Special copies bound in quarter crimson morocco over pictorial boards. With an additional portfolio of four SIGNED and numbered aquatints all housed in a pictorial clamshell case. Fine copy. Signed by Author

Bologna, Giovanni Battista Ferroni, 1664.. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition, Bologna 1664, title with woodcut device, woodcut diagrams, initials, head- and tail-pieces, 4 folding engraved plates 2ff. errata at end, title with small paper overslip changing "Del Molto" to "Il Molto", occasional marginal water staining, small tear in pastedown with loss, occasional very neat repairs and restorations to extreme margins and corners (typically 5mm), later limp vellum, [Riccardi i, 271; Tomash & Williams C32], 4to, Bologna, Giovanni Battista Ferroni, 1664.Provenance: Grigorius Vivvarellus (early ink signature to title), and Erwin Tomash bookplate - (founder of the eponymous Library and bibliographer of Computer Science works)

Tate London 1989. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition, 1989 Fine copy in Fine Jacket. Not clipped no ownership markings.

Paris, Mourlot, 1979. First Edition. No Binding. Fine/No Jacket. Marc Chagall The Green Acrobat, a Fine rare proof for cover of 'Derrière le Miroir' No. 235, 4 lithographs, two printed in colours, 2 monochrome on one sheet of wove paper, the full sheet with registration mark, 780 x 590mm (30 3/4 x 23 1/4in), Paris , Mourlot, 1979. Unframed. Delivered rolled.

London & Edinburgh Sutherland & Hamilton Adams 1848. later edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Later edition 1848. Complete in 2 volumes in the original brown cloth with paper labels on spines. Very tidy and clean set.

Sophistocles Press and T Werner Laurie Ltd, London UK, 1929. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Fleurs du Mal in Pattern and Prose, limited edition 423 of 500 signed and numbered by Egan, colour frontispiece, illustrations (many full-page) by Egan and C. Bower Alcock, original paper-covered boards, some small paper loss to extremities, The Sophistocles Press, 1929 Signed by Author

London: John Murray, 1863. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition, 1863. two plates plus text woodcuts. PP: xii, 520+ 32 (Publishers catalogue dated Jan, 1863). Original cloth gilt. Covers little rubbed; bookplates to the pastedown and flyleaf. Aside from the minor bumping to corners, a Fine and notably well preserved copy.;

Printed by and for Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, John Murray, and Cradock and Joy, London 1809. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition 1809, in the original plain boards with paper title label to upper cover. Hinges strengthened with tape. Title with previous owner's name excised, and ink stamp of the Medical Officer of Aberdeen. Previous owner's ink name and repeat stamp to blank. Complete with all 8 colour plates which are in excellent condition, bright and clear. Collates complete in 8vo. iv (iv) [9]-204pp 8 plates. Includes directions to binder.

Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1900. later edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Second edition published one month after the first also in 1900 8vo, original red publisher's cloth gilt, slightly faded to spine, a few very light odd spots else a very good c25/09/2023opy.

Giuseppe Antonelli, Venice, 1858. later edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Second Edition 1858 complete in 2 volumes. 4 titles with engraved vignettes, 259 engraved plates, text in French and Italian on double column, some light spotting and foxing intermittently throughout, period quarter green calf gilt, cloth boards stained and slightly worn, elephant folio. Author note - Cicognara was President of the Accademia delle Belle Art at Venice

The Sceptre Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. Three Poems, Limited Edition, Number 36 of 50 Copies Signed by the Poet, original purple wrappers. The Sceptre Press, 1973 Signed by Author

John Nicholson, 1717. later edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. The Second Edition, with the Addition of Four Plates of Battles, and Two Sheets describing them, John Nicholson, 1717. Modern chestnut calf over burgundy cloth, marbled endpapers, retaining original end blanks. Complete with 3 folding maps, four folding plates and 83 portraits. Faint foxing to rear leaves including one plate else a very good bright and tidy copy. Scarce.

Henri Ernst, Paris, 1924. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition [1924] Paris. 38 excellent colour plates mounted on card, loose in original half cloth portfolio, paper label on upper cover, ties partly persihed, Henri Ernst, Paris. Folio.

Faber and Gwyer, London, 1926. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. First English edition Faber and Gwyer, London, 1926 A Fine copy in publisher's mustard cloth, paper label to spine.