London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1930?]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. 320; blue cloth covered boards with black embossed lettering, illustrated dust wrapper. Head, tail and edges lightly rubbed with a few small patches of wear; corners gently bruised; mild wear towards spine on front board and along..... More
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1958. First Edition. Octavo (19.5 x 12.5cm), pp. [6], 186; green cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on the spine, dust wrapper illustrated by Victor Reinganum. Spine a touch faded; slight contact with water has led to colour loss (10-20mm patch) at base of spine..... More
Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1856. First Edition. Complete in two volumes, both octavo (22 x 14cm), Vol 1: pp. iii-xiv, 460 (first title page and publishers page have been excised, otherwise complete), Vol.2: pp. [4], 446; brown calf with contrasting red and black labels, gilt lettering, borders, detailing and edges..... More
Philadelphia and Sydney: W.B. Saunders Company, 1989. First Edition. [PRESENTATION COPY] Hardcover (28.5 x 21.8cm), pp. (xviii), 344, [6, blank]; beige cloth with black and bronze embossed lettering, illustration and detailing, white endpapers, richly illustrated with drawings and photographs; inscribed by the author and with a letter of thanks from..... More
Bristol: John Wright and Sons LTD., 1923. Third English Edition translated from the Eighth French Edition. Translated by William S. Dickie F.R.C.S. and Ernest Ward M.A., M.D., F.R.C.S. Octavo (26.5 x 17cm), pp. xiv, [2], 808, richly illustrated with 20 full-page black and white plates and 1086 black and white..... More
Sydney: Churchill Livingstone, Imprint of Elsevier, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover (28.3 x 22cm), pp. (xvi), 227, [1, blank] + DVD; blue and white boards with photographs, blue endpapers, book presented as token of respect from a colleague, note loosely inserted. Head, tail and corners gently bruised; a few very shallow dings..... More
London: Printed by J. F. Dove, St. John’s Square; for William Baynes , Paternoster-Row; and R. Priestley, Holborn, 1819. Third Edition. Complete in two volumes, both 4mo (21.7 x 13.5cm), Vol 1: pp. (xxii), 555 [1, blank] + fold out biographical chart; Vol 2: pp. 577, [1] ; brown calf..... More
New York: Cheval Books, Distributed by Random House, 1969. Stated first printing. Hardcover (22 x 14cm), pp. [10] (1-3) 4 – 107 [7]; yellow boards with poet’s initial blind embossed on top board, blue cloth spine with gilt lettering, dark red endpapers, top edge dye (red), illustrated dust wrapper. Dustwrapper a...... More
Hardcover MS Diary (17.5 x 10.5cm), “My Trip” gilt lettered on top board which is diamond patterned in green on speckled cream with a gilt-ruled border, un-paginated line ruled pages. Typed itinerary for first trip tipped in near the front on page titled ‘Itinerary’. Three overseas trips recorded... More
London, New York, Toronto: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1948, 1949, 1952. Reprint. Complete in three volumes protected in custom made box. Three quarter polished calf over matching boards (18.5 x 12cm), five raised bands with gilt lettering in title panel and decorations to the other panels, t.e.g., marbled endpapers..... More
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London: Air Ministry, April 1945 - March 1946. First Edition. Twelve consecutive staple-bound paper covered pamphlets in the Tee Emm series, 316pp in all. No. 1: pp. 1 - 32; No. 2: pp. 33 – 56; No. 3: pp. 57 – 80; No. 4: pp. 81 – 104; No. 5..... More
London: Printed by Unwin Brothers for Private Circulation, 1873. First Edition. Quarto (22 x 17.5cm); [6], x, 11-284pp; portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature and tissue guard; brown boards with bevelled edges, black embossed borders and floral detail, gilt lettering, bands and floral detail, black endpapers. Repaired horizontal tear to spine joining..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1875. First British Edition. Hardcover octavo (19 x 14cm), pp. vii, 310, [2, blank] + 40 pages of advertising with illustrated frontispiece and plates; 50 illustrations; later binding, red morocco with gilt spine. Spine darkened and brittle with use; head and tail faintly rubbed..... More
Millers Point: Murdoch Books, 2009. Revised Reprint of the 1981 Edition. Hardcover, large format (32 x 25.5cm), pp 280, richly illustrated with colour reproductions of Fairweather’s work including fold out plates; brown cloth with cream lettering, grey enpapers in dust wrapper. Tail has a shallow dimple; bottom corners a little tender;..... More
London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Limited, 1923. First Edition, Second Printing. Octavo (220 x 140 mm). (xxiv), 418 + 4 black and white plates, [2]. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped and worn; edges worn; covers scuffed with small patches of wear; back cover bumped near spine with faint..... More
Brisbane: The Meanjin Press, 1942. Staplebound pamphlet, soft card covers, 40pp. Cover design by P. Stanhope Hobday. Covers foxed and edgeworn with rust marks around the staples and three small horizontal tears (1mm - 5mm) along the fore edge of the top cover. Interior mostly clean, an occasional fox mark..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1956. First Edition. Octavo, pp (viii), 214, (ii). light blue boards with lettering in gilt on the spine, illustrated paper jacket. Corners are lightly bumped and with light foxing to the edges of the leaves. The jacket is price clipped, a little edgeworn and with a 1cm..... More
Munich Berlin London New York: Prestel, 2003. Hardcover, large format (32 x 39cm), pp. [6] 11- 181 [1], richly illustrated with 131 full colour illustrations; blue cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on the spine, illustrated endpapers, illustrated dust wrapper. Small (2mm) nibble mark on top edge of top..... More
Taiwan: National Palace Museum, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover (31 x 22cm), pp. [22] + 364 + [1], richly illustrated with colour and black and white images, text in English and Chinese; midnight blue ribbed cloth covered boards lettered in gilt and red on top board and spine, bright..... More
Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover (31.5 x 25cm), pp. 239 [240, Sources of illustrations], Introduction, 50 full page Plates, Catalogue, Bibliography, Exhibitions, Index of Works, General Index; green cloth covered boards with lettering in white on spine, embossed statue on top board, photo illustrated endpapers (part of..... More
London: Quiller Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover (30 x 21.5cm), pp. x + 193 [194, one page advert for Marshall products], maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illustrated endpapers, richly illustrated throughout (more than 320 illustrations), illustrated unclipped dust wrapper. Corners ever so slightly bumped, top edge with..... More
London: Printed for J. Tonson, and sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-noster-row, 1712. Reissue of 1709 Edition. Octavo (198 x 125mm). [12], 1-174, 179-235, 238-482pp (text is continuous even though pagination is not), six plates including frontispiece (lacking one plate). Bound in brown calf, banded with contrasting..... More
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1976. Deluxe Limited Edition. Octavo, 200 x 153mm. [8], 35, [5] pp. Bound in maroon calf, banded spine with gilt lettering, gilt decoration to front board, gilt internal borders in a matching maroon cloth slipcase. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt and deckled edges. Numbered and signed..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. First Edition. Super octavo ( 26 x 17.7 cm), pp., xxii + 1,433 pages, black and white photographs, black and white line and tone illustrations throughout text, Part 1: Defining and Revising the Structure of Evolutionary Theory; The History..... More
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1973. Fourth Edition. Super octavo (25.2 x 19.7 cm), xi + 400 pp, illustrated throughout in line and tone. General Preface, Contents, Illustrations, Abbreviations, Prose Works (Pseudo-Martyr, Conclave Ignati, Sermons, Devotions, Juvenilia, Biathanatos, Essays in Divinity, Letters); Poetical Works (Occasional Pieces, Anniversaries, Collected Poems, Selected Poems..... More