London: published by S. and J. Fuller, 34 Rathbone Place / privately printed [by Waterlow & Sons Limited] by the Author of "Hunting Hawking Shooting" 1930. First Edition thus. Card Covers. First Paperback Edition of Alken's most detailed work, the forerunner of Nimrod's The Life of a Sportsman. Oblong folio..... more

Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: apud H. Westenium, 1692 [roman numerals with apostrophus]. Early Reprint. Full Calf. So-called second edition of "by far the most critical edition of Florus that appeared in the seventeenth century." (Dibdin) Edited by the German classical scholar Johann Georg Graevius, with extensive notes by the French classical scholar..... more

Amsterdam: Marcus Doornick, 1675. Early Reprint. Vellum. Sammelband of key gardening and husbandry texts, complete with all plates showcasing seventeenth-century garden design. Three titles in one quarto volume, including Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier, the most influential horticultural manual from the golden age of Dutch garden design with an impressive collection of..... more

London: Longman and Co., Paternoster Row, and J. and C. Walker, 3, Burleigh Street, Strand, n.d. Later Printing. Decorative Cloth. Hand-colored engraved map (sectioned into 15 parts and mounted on linen) folded into pebbled green cloth wallet with decorative printed paper title label to upper cover. Covers measure 125 x...... more

Dresden und Leipzig: Arnoldische Buchhandlung, 1847. Quarter-Morocco. Scarce First Edition of this detailed account of a trip in search of the gigantic sea serpent, Zeuglodon. Text in German. Demy 8vo (225 x 145mm): [6],162pp, with frontispiece of dinosaur skeleton, hand-colored geological profile of the Gulf Coast, and advertisement leaf not..... more

London: William Heinemann [through 1959], 1932. Hardcover. Revised and reset (first published 1932) edition of Snow’s first novel, an ingenious detective story set on the Norfolk Broads—“a murderer making his murder look like a suicide arranged to look like a murder." 8vo: viii,255,[1]pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, spine gilt, pictorial dust..... more