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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First edition, one of 500 deluxe copies signed by the publisher and with an additional etching bound before half-title; 4to; additional etching, portrait frontispiece, colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations, scattered faint spotting; bound in full decorative green crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, small patch of discolouration to lower fore-corner of upper cover, but overall fine.
£595 -
Landscape folio (48.5 x 36.5 cm), 10 thick card sheets containing 67 chromolithographs of pots, tins, bottles, etc, black morocco lettered in gilt on upper cover, light wear to spine and corners.
£2,500 -
Folio (46 x 33.5 cm); half-title, title, 20 colour pochoir lithograph plates; loose as issued in publisher's blue cloth-backed portfolio with ties.
£5,000 -
First edition, 8vo., [i], 47pp., later half crimson calf gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, a little faded and scuffed but sound and internally fine.
£125 -
Folio (49.5 x 38 cm); title, 20 pochoir lithographs by J. Saudé after Benedictus; original cloth-backed black boards, pochoir plate to upper cover, original ties; rebacked, neat repairs to extremities.
£5,000 -
2 volumes folio (55 x 39 cm), 3 colour titles, register of plates and 196 lithograph plates of which 113 are in colour (some heightened with gold and silver) by Johann Haupt, Anton Hartinger, J. Lowy, Friedrich Jasper, Eduard Sieger, E. Beck, after designs by Anton Seder, original cloth-backed printed boards portfolios, original ties, a very good, clean set.
£7,500 -
New edition. 4to (32.5 x 23.9 cm), 463pp, over 685 colour illustrations, bound in black cloth, lettered in spine, publisher's pictorial dust jacket.
£42 -
First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's brown cloth, titles to spine in white and red, photographic endpapers, with the dust jacket. Small scuff to one corner but a very nice copy in the dust jacket.
£150 -
Number 22 of 100 copies signed by the author; narrow 8vo (c. 200 x 110 mm); printed on Japanese vellum, partly unopened, portrait frontispiece, plates, 6pp. advertisements, bookplate to front pastedown; publisher's vellum, gilt to upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut, slight splaying but overall very good.
£350
