Rare books from Don Wood Bookseller

Richard Griffin and Company, London and Glasgow, 1854, Third edition, Fair Hardcover / no dustjacket, 230 pages, 5" x 7.5", text block complete except for last 2 pages of index and rep, edgewear on boards. The Encyclopædia Metropolitana was an encyclopedic work published in London, from 1817 to 1845, in all it came to 30 volumes. Nassau William Senior (1790 - 1864), was an English lawyer known as an economist. He was also a government adviser over several decades in the areas of economic and social policy, on which he wrote extensively.

J.M. Dent & Sons, London / E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1913, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 12 Volumes, 4.25" x 7" x 13" of Shelf required, leather spines with some damage, see images, binding all tight, text all clean, no foxing, no water damage.

Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1962, 391 pages, 7" x 9.75", Near Fine Hardcover / no dustjacket. Text in German. Volume 1 only

Carswell Co., Toronto, 1913, Near Fine Hardcover, recent rebinding in half bound leather, 898 pages, 6.5" x 9"x 3". This is not a reprint, 1913 edition.

British Insulated Callender's Limited, London, September 1956, Serial No: 41, Fine Hardcover / no dustjacket, 52 page, 8.5" x 11.25". Plus 16 page booklet produced by B.C. Electric Company, "120,000 kilowatts under the sea", Fine Softcover, 8.25" x 10.25". The details of linking Vancouver Island with the mainland power grid with a 17 mile submarine cable.

People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 2003, Two Volumes, Fine Hardcovers / Fine Dustjackets, 422 pages, 8.5" x 11.5". Chinese Text.

Clarkson Potter Publishers, New York, 1999, Near Fine Hardcover / Very Good Dustjacket, 200 pages, 10.25" x 11.25", slight edgewear and one closed tear on dustjacket, otherwise clean and tight. Curzio Malaparte (1898 – 1957) was an Italian writer, film-maker, war correspondent and diplomat. Casa Malaparte, a house built on the Isle of Capri with the architect Adalberto Libera 1938 to 1941

Rosemary Bandini, London, 1999, Fine Hardcover / Near Fine Dustjacket, 174 pages, 8.75" x 11.25", slight edgewear on dustjacket, otherwise clean and tight. Collector Harriet Szechenyi concentrated on collecting "netsuke" of animals and mythical beings.

Image West, Vancouver, 2015, Very Good Hardcover / Fine Dustjacket, 110 pages, 8.75" x 11.25", ffep removed, otherwise clean and tight.

Self Published, 2008, Fine Hardcover / Very Good Dustjacket, 136 pages, 8.75" x 12", edgewear on slightly rubbed dustjacket. otherwise clean and tight.

The Theosophical Publishing Society, Madras, London, 1910, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 521 pages, 5.5" x 7.75", ownership sticker on fep, ffep carefully removed, otherwise clean and tight.

Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 1998, Revised Edition, Fine Hardcover / Very Good Dustjacket, 352 pages, 8" x 10.75", dustjacket damaged with one small hole and several dents which impact the front board, otherwise clean and tight.

The Vanguard Press, New York, 1941, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 319 pages, 5.75" x 8.25", spine faded, bumped corners, otherwise clean and tight.

Self Published, London, 1936, Very Good Hardcover / Good Dustjacket, TEG, leather bound, 344 pages, 6" x 8.75", edgewear on boards and spine, otherwise clean and tight. A world travel diary, January 1933 to December 1934. Sir Montague Maurice Burton (1885 – 1952) was the founder of Burton Menswear, one of Britain's largest chains of clothes shops.

Cedric Chivers Ltd., Bath, 1965 Reprint of the 1892 edition published by Richard Bentley & Son, London, Fine Hardcovers / Near Fine Dustjackets in mylar jackets, a total of 956 pages, complete in 3 volumes, 5.25" x 7.5".