![Item #BB2700 [Dinosaur] [Natural History] [Binding] The Geology of the South-East of England....](/pictures/thumb/BB2700.jpeg?v=1657392842)
London: Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833. Morocco. First Edition of this fundamental work of British Geology, announcing Hylaeosaurus, only the third dinosaur specimen to be unearthed and the first known example of Ankylosauria. Demy 8vo (218 x 130mm): xix,415pp, with frontispiece, five lithographic plates of..... more
Cambridge & London: Macmillan, 1861. First Edition. Original Cloth. Scarce First Impression of this spectacularly successful anthology, collecting the best-loved English poems from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries (from Shakespeare to Shelley, with a heavy dose of the Romantics), establishing a canon of the "best" poems in English..... more
![Item #BB2799 [Original Cloth] Thesaurus of English words : so classified and arranged as to...](/pictures/thumb/BB2799.jpeg?v=1679251873)
Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 59 Washington Street, 1854. Original Cloth. First expurgated American edition of this essential reference, revised more than 25 times during Roget's life and continually in print since 1852. Crown 8vo (192 x 110mm): 468,[12]pp. Original brown cloth elaborately stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, pale..... more
London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent [through 1881], 1875. Leatherette. First Editions (excepting Santa Croce, which is a second edition, with preface folios in Roman numerals), complete in six parts, of this great classic on Renaissance art. Crown 8vo (172 x 115mm): iv,23,[1]; [4],25-52; [4],57-95,[1]; [4],97-120; [4],121-151,[1]; [4],153-187,[1]pp. Original red..... more
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 65 Cornhill, Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New-Street-Square [through 1853], 1851. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Three First Impressions, complete in the publisher's original matched bindings, of Ruskin's exhaustive examination of Venetian architecture of the Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance periods. Royal 8vo (257 x 164mm): xvi,413,[1],16[catalogue dated June..... more
![Item #BB1968 Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile [Original Cloth]. John Hanning SPEKE](/pictures/thumb/BB1968.jpeg?v=1660739502)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. Original Cloth. First American Edition of this controversial account, but an "absolutely vital source of evidence on the history of east Africa in the nineteenth century." (ODNB) Thick demy 8vo (233 x 140mm): xxx,31-590,[6]pp. with tissue-guarded photogravure portraits of Speke (frontispiece) and James Grant..... more
![Item #BB2651 [Bermuda] [Jamaica] [Barbados] The West Indies and the Spanish Main. Anthony TROLLOPE](/pictures/thumb/BB2651.jpeg?v=1650630182)
London: Chapman & Hall, 1860. Decorative Cloth. Fourth Edition (in format identical to the first) of this chronicle of Trollope's travels through Barbados, the Bermudas, Cuba, Jamaica, New Granada, St. Thomas, and Trinidad, written while he was on post office business in the West Indies. Crown 8vo (196 x 118mm)..... more
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1858. First Edition. Three-Quarter Morocco. First Printings, complete in three volumes, one of only 1,000 sets. 8vo's: iv,340; iv,322; iv,334pp. Three-quarter blue morocco over French blue cloth, spines in six compartments paneled in gilt (four with central gilt ornament, two lettered directly in gilt)..... more
London: Macmillan [from 1869], 1902. Decorative Cloth. Early reprint of "one of the finest scientific travel books ever written" (DSB) and Wallace's magnum opus, chronicling his eight-year sojourn through the Malay Archipelago. 8vo (196 x 129mm): xvii,[3],515,[1]pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece, title-page vignette, 10 unnumbered maps (2 folding), and 51 full-..... more