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The Bookshop
Welcome to our online antiquarian bookshop where you can begin your rare book search. Here you will find antiquarian books, rare books, works on paper, and first edition books for sale, all selected by our book specialists who have over 200 years of experience between them.
You can buy rare books, many of them signed, on a variety of subjects, including Travel & Voyages, Literature, Rare Children’s books, Natural History, Illustrated books, Hebraica & Judaica, books of Russian interest and Guidebooks. We have books from a variety of famous authors available at our rare bookstore.
If you're in possession of a rare book to sell, please contact us for more information.
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Stud bound, in burgundy boards, Bawden design on cream paper to both boards printed in black. Full page illustrated title page by Bawden, vignettes and borders throughout. A very good copy.
£650 -
First edition, 3 works in one vol., 8vo; woodcut printer's device to titles, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, each work with errata at end, some browning mostly confined to margins, occasional spotting, bookplate and ownership markings to front pastedown, old ink initials to first title; 18th century calf, edge wear, spine rubbed, upper cover detached; collates as complete.
£450 -
8vo, 89 pp., various blank leaves, 12 pp notes at end, contemporary sheep, worn, joints weak.
£650 -
Tenth edition; 8vo; 3 folding engraved plates, two with offsetting from folding, a few recent and older marginal repairs, numerous old pencil annotations. Rebound in twentieth century half black calf, marbled paper boards. Contents a little marked and toned, spine slightly faded, a very nice copy.
£675 -
First London edition; 8vo; 8 lithographed plates, some foxing and oxidising, armorial bookplate to front pastedown; contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving contemporary spine, edge wear.
£275 -
8vo., xxiii, 416pp., engraved portrait frontispiece and seven engraved plates by Bertall, illustrated title-page vignette, numerous wood-engravings in the text, occasional light foxing throughout. Fine French-style calf, spine richly gilt with label, a.e.g.
£525 -
Issues No1 - 12, all published, octavo (24 x 17 cm), with portrait of Alexander Chuprov and tables. Publishers wrappers, unopened.
£4,500 -
Part one of three, first edition. Dedication, title, 202 ll.; occasional spotting, drawings in pencil on endpapers, contemporary inscription to upper fly leaf. Contemporary calf, title blind-stamped to spine; worn, some worming.
£1,500 -
Octavo (24 x 15.5 cm). Title, 465, II pp.; stamp of the Odessa State Research Library on title, p. 17 and last page, stamp of the library of the Imperial New Russia University to verso of title, foxing and occasional spotting. Contemporary calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering and traces of library shelf mark to spine; spine neatly repaired.
£1,250 -
4to (23.3 x 20 cm). [9] pp, 53 lith. ill., presentation inscription from Rafael Rubinstein to tile. Publisher's pictorial boards; worn.
£375