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The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation; being The Life and Teaching of Gautama.
Philadelphia: McKay, 1932. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. 182 pages. Tall 8vo, silver-stamped black cloth, pictorial label inlaid on front cover; a touch faded at spine ends. Philaelphia: David McKay, (1932). Small faint gift inscription on fly-leaf, still near fine. More
The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation; being The Life and Teaching of Gautama.
Philadelphia: McKay, 1932. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. 182 pages. Tall 8vo, silver-stamped black cloth, light rubbing and neat repairs at spine ends. Philaelphia: David McKay, (1932). A very good(+) copy. More
Two typed letters signed to a Royal family assistant
London: 1927. Two letters addressed to Henry Klein at the time he handled special events for the Royal family. The first: 1 page, 7 x 5.25 inches, 5 Cadogan Gardens, London, October 21, 1927, in part: "...Lady Askwith says that she will be pleased to distribute the prizes at the Annual Festival on November the 26th, and I will accompany her to take the Chair although I am not at all an expert on musical matters..." The second: 2 pages..... More
The Essays or Councils, Civil and Moral
London: E. Holt, 1701. (vi), 167 pages + 2 page table. BOUND WITH: "Of the Colours of Good and Evil; A Fragment, 114 pages. 8vo, contemporary brown leather with blind-stamped border designs on covers; neatly re-cased with similar leather spine and label. London: E. Hoit, 1701. A very good(+) copy. More
The Essays, or Councils, Civil and Moral, With a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil. And a Discourse of the Wisdom of he Ancients.; To Which is added in this Edition the Character of Queen Elizabeth.
London: Clark, 1706. 101 pages with Advertisement on final leaf. Small 8vo, calf-backed marbled boards, leather spine label. London: H. Clark, 1706. A clean, solid copy, the external joints rubbed and starting. More
Explorations of The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia. The Sources, Supply, and Overflow of the Nile; The Country, People, Customs, etc.
Hartford: Case, 1868. 2 maps, one folding, 15 black-and-white plates. xx + 608pp., 8vo, pebbled cloth; scattered foxing, covers rubbed and worn. Harford: O. D. Case & Co, 1868. A rubbed, lightly worn but sound and very good copy. More
The Golden Calm: An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi.; Reminiscences by Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, and by her Father, Sir Thomas Metcalfe.
New York: Viking, 1980. Illustrated. 217pp. Slim 4to, decorative red boards, d.w. New York: The Viking Press. (1980). A very good (+) copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
Interfacial Forces and Phenomena in Physiology, being the Herter Lectures in New York in March 1922.
London: Methuen, 1923. Illustrated with 7 diagrams. Small 8vo, original blue cloth. London: Methuen, 1923. Very good (+). More
London in the Eighteenth Century
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1902. Frontispiece, plus nearly one hundred illustrations. xvii + 667 pages. Very thick 4to, burgundy cloth with decorative spine; some scattered light foxing, corners and spine ends worn. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1902 A very good copy. More
The Golden Galley: The Story of the Second Punjab Regiment 1761-1947
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956. B/w illustrations with several folding b/w maps. 330 pages. 8vo, green cloth with gilt lettering and cover graphic (endpapers lightly foxed), pictorial d.w. (foot chipped, scuffed). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
Etruria-Celtica: Etruscan Literature and Antiquities Investigated; or, The Language of That Ancient and Illustrious People Compared and Identified with the Iberno-Celtic, and Both Shown to be Phoenician -
Dublin: Philip Dixon Hardy, 1842. 2 volumes, black & white illustrations, some folding, 8vo, 3/4 blue calf, ornately gilt spines (worn but sound and reasonably attractive), marbled boards and edges. Dublin: Philip Dixon Hardy, 1842. First Edition. Scarce. More
5000 Nights at the Opera: The Memoirs of Sir Rudolf Bing
Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. Photographs in b/w. 360 pages. 8vo, red cloth, pictorial d.w. (lightly edge worn, price-clipped). Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
Signed Photograph
1926. Very scarce sepia signed photograph "John Bland Sutton - 1926", 5.75" x 8.25", adhered to a larger matte, 7.5" x 10", a waist-up image of the surgeon attired in a suit and top coat. *Embossed with photographer William Surrey's studio signature aback-stamp. Very minor surface striations to the left of Bland-Sutton's image - otherwise in Fine condition. British pioneering surgeon who became the first to identify the thyroid gland and the pathology associated with it - and to then..... More
The Surgical and Ophthalmological Papers of... a few text illus.
Birmingham: Classics of Ophthalmology, 1984. 422pp. 4to, full tan leather, a.e.g. (Birmingham: Privately Printed for the Classics of Ophthalmology, 1984). Fine. Contains "Lectures on the parts concerned in the operations on the eye, and on the structure on the retina." "Bowman did more than any other man to advance opthalmic surgery in England. The above work is the first to include a sound description of the microscopical anatomy of the eye..." GM 1505. Facsimile of the Collected Papers of Sir..... More
Old Trades and New Knowledge: Six Lectures Delivered Before a "juvenile auditory" at the Royal Institution Christmas 1925.
London: Bell and Sons, 1926. Color frontispiece. 41 plates and many illustrations throughout the text. 266pp. Short 8vo, gilt stamped red cloth. London: Bell and Sons, 1926. Very good (+). More
First Aid Military Poster
1917. Poster mounted on linen. Original lithograph. 39 x 59 1/2 inches. Top and bottom margins trimmed, with chips to margins. Dynamic large WWI poster by Sir Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) was born in Belgium but based in London as an artist and illustrator. This image was used in Great-Britain Daily Mail & Evening News Red Cross War Fund Cinderella stamp set. Hard to find. More
Help Your Country Stop This: Enlist in the Navy
New York: American Lithographic Company, 1918. Poster. Lithograph mounted on linen (two sheets have been joined). Image measures 60" x 77". Dramatic wall sized World War I recruitment poster featuring a lifeboat of sailors crashing through the waves after a U-boat attack. Sir Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) was born in Belgium but based in London as an artist and illustrator. His loose and lively style lends itself well to such a riveting scene. One of two war posters Brangwyn made in..... More
The Stereoscope: Its History, Theory, and Construction
London: Morgan & Morgan, 1971. Introduction by Rudolf Ringslake. Illustrated in black and white. 235 pages, small 8vo, gilt stamped brown cloth, dust wrapper. London: Morgan & Morgan, 1971. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Facsimilie of the 1856 edition, published by John Murray. More
Traite des Maladies des Articulations.
Trad. par Leon Marchant. 248 pages. Thick 8vo, original plain blue wrappers with paper spine label, uncut edges. Spine paper worn but still quite solid. Paris, 1819. First Edition in French of "Brodie's Best Work." GM 4311. More
Pathological and Surgical Observations on the Diseases of the Joints
Washington: Duff Green, 1834. 131 pages. Slim 8vo, preserved an an older Gaylord Pamphlet Binding with patterned boards and gray cloth spine. Washington: Duff Green, 1834. Third edition, with alterations and additions. A good copy--with considerable foxing and some dog-eared pages;previous owner notes written in pen inside front cover. More
Religio Medici
Birmingham: Classics of Medicine, 1981. 388 pages. 12mo., ornately gilt-stamped black leather. Limited edition. Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, (1981). Near fine. More
Religio Medici and Other Essays
London: Chapman and Hall, 1911. 231 pages. 8vo, 3/4 blue leather over marbled boards with simple decorative gilding and raised bands, top edge gilt (spine evenly sunned, gilt edge lightly rubbed). London: Chapman and Hall, (no date, circa 1911). A fine press edition published for the Verulam Club. An attractive, near fine copy. More
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Religio Medici Christian Morals. A Letter to a Friend.
London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 6 volumes. Frontispieces, and two views of Sir Thomas Browne's skull, tissue guards. 8vo, printed on Kelmscott hand-made paper untrimmed, bound in full blue-dyed vellum with gilt devices on the upper covers, top edges gilt. London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd., 1928- 31. Very good (+). Number 169 of 210 sets numbered and signed by the editor. More