Memoirs of Maximillian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great. To Which is Added, The Tryal of Ravaillac for the Murder of Henry the Great. In Five Volumes. A New Edition by BETHUNE, Maximillian De; Translated from the FRENCH, by the Author of the Female Quixote ( Mrs. Charlotte Lennox) - 1788

London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1866 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. 14pp in a library binding, with the original paper cover mounted on the front. 100 COPIES PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. A letter from Quaritch to Gladstone addressing the Parliamentary Franchise as it ought to be exercised by the citizens of Great Britain and Ireland. The importance of a vote for every man in a free country, along with a voluntary military for foreign and home service. SCARCE.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Here is a full set of U.S. editions of Churchill's postwar speeches in the scarce dust jackets. These volumes span the period from immediately after the second World War, when Churchill was Leader of the Opposition, through the end of 1952, during his second Premiership. The events encompassed by these years are in many ways no less dramatic than those of the war years - the unraveling of the British Empire, the post-war recovery, the beginning of the Cold War, Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb and U.S. invention of the hydrogen bomb. The U.S. postwar speeches were published in very small numbers, making jacketed U.S. editions much rarer than their British counterparts. Collectors should note that the U.S. postwar speeches are only four volumes, as the fifth and final volume, The Unwritten Alliance, had no U.S. edition. All four volumes offered here are in fine condition - clean, tight, and square with unfaded bindings, and… Read More

London: Bennet Griffin, 1684. Near Fine. Printed for by Bennet Griffin, and sold by Christ. Wilkinson and by Sam. Keble. [8], 140, 12, [4] p., 1 double-leaf plate: genealogical tables, 1 map (Comitatus Rotelandiae Tabula Nova & Aucta), 19 in-text and full-age engraved illustrations of buildings, tombs, and monuments, 30 engraved coats of arms: 33 cm. Signatures: A-S4 (B1 missigned A1) T2 A6 V2. Simple attractive modern calf spine with seven spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled leather label in second compartment with title "Wright's Rutland." Light grey paper over boards. All page edges speckled red. Wing W-3696 & 3691. Bound with: Additions to The History and Antiquities of Rutlandshire (Colophon: London, printed for the author by Edw Jones, 1687). Index (The Table) is bound following Additions; Errata is at the foot of the last page of the index. The title page is not printed in red and black. Small oval armorial stamp on last page. In Near Fine Condition: light soiling… Read More

Printed by B Dewhirst for Robinson, Son, and Houldsworth, Leeds and John Hurst, Wakefield, Leeds; Wakefield, 1816. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Volume I. Loidis and Elmete: Or, An Attempt to Describe Districts Described in those Words by Bede; and Supposed to Embrace the Lower Portions of Aredale and Wharfdale Together with the Entire Vale of Calder in the County of York. Volume II. Ducatus Leodiensis: or, The Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes and Parts Adjacent, in the West-Riding of the County of York. With the Pedigrees of Many of the Nobility and Gentry, and Other Matters Relating to Those Parts; Extracted from Records, Original Evidences, and Manuscripts. To Which is Added, at the Request of Several Learned Persons, A Catalogue of His Museum, with the Curiosities Natural and Artificial, and the Antiquities, Particularly the Roman, British, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Scotch Coins, With Modern Medals. Also A Catalogue of… Read More

New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton (for George H. Doran Company), 1908. First U.S. edition, only printing, second state. Hardcover. This is the U.S. first edition, more humble in appearance than its British counterpart, but also far more scarce. My African Journey is Churchill's travelogue on Britain's possessions in East Africa, written while he was serving as Undersecretary of State for the Colonies. This book is notable, among other things, for being the only one of his many books to contain photographs ostensibly taken by the author. The first U.S. edition is far scarcer than the British first edition, with only 1400 copies sold (encompassing all three states), in contrast to more than 8000 copies of the more frequently seen British edition. The U.S. first edition was made from British first edition sheets bound in a plain coarse dark red cloth with the same gilt titles on the spine as used on the British. Unlike its British counterpart, the sheets were left untrimmed on the fore and… Read More

London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1866 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. 14pp in a library binding, with the original paper cover mounted on the front. 100 COPIES PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. A letter from Quaritch to Gladstone addressing the Parliamentary Franchise as it ought to be exercised by the citizens of Great Britain and Ireland. The importance of a vote for every man in a free country, along with a voluntary military for foreign and home service. SCARCE.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Here is a full set of U.S. editions of Churchill's postwar speeches in the scarce dust jackets. These volumes span the period from immediately after the second World War, when Churchill was Leader of the Opposition, through the end of 1952, during his second Premiership. The events encompassed by these years are in many ways no less dramatic than those of the war years - the unraveling of the British Empire, the post-war recovery, the beginning of the Cold War, Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb and U.S. invention of the hydrogen bomb. The U.S. postwar speeches were published in very small numbers, making jacketed U.S. editions much rarer than their British counterparts. Collectors should note that the U.S. postwar speeches are only four volumes, as the fifth and final volume, The Unwritten Alliance, had no U.S. edition. All four volumes offered here are in fine condition - clean, tight, and square with unfaded bindings, and… Read More

London: Bennet Griffin, 1684. Near Fine. Printed for by Bennet Griffin, and sold by Christ. Wilkinson and by Sam. Keble. [8], 140, 12, [4] p., 1 double-leaf plate: genealogical tables, 1 map (Comitatus Rotelandiae Tabula Nova & Aucta), 19 in-text and full-age engraved illustrations of buildings, tombs, and monuments, 30 engraved coats of arms: 33 cm. Signatures: A-S4 (B1 missigned A1) T2 A6 V2. Simple attractive modern calf spine with seven spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled leather label in second compartment with title "Wright's Rutland." Light grey paper over boards. All page edges speckled red. Wing W-3696 & 3691. Bound with: Additions to The History and Antiquities of Rutlandshire (Colophon: London, printed for the author by Edw Jones, 1687). Index (The Table) is bound following Additions; Errata is at the foot of the last page of the index. The title page is not printed in red and black. Small oval armorial stamp on last page. In Near Fine Condition: light soiling… Read More

Printed by B Dewhirst for Robinson, Son, and Houldsworth, Leeds and John Hurst, Wakefield, Leeds; Wakefield, 1816. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Volume I. Loidis and Elmete: Or, An Attempt to Describe Districts Described in those Words by Bede; and Supposed to Embrace the Lower Portions of Aredale and Wharfdale Together with the Entire Vale of Calder in the County of York. Volume II. Ducatus Leodiensis: or, The Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes and Parts Adjacent, in the West-Riding of the County of York. With the Pedigrees of Many of the Nobility and Gentry, and Other Matters Relating to Those Parts; Extracted from Records, Original Evidences, and Manuscripts. To Which is Added, at the Request of Several Learned Persons, A Catalogue of His Museum, with the Curiosities Natural and Artificial, and the Antiquities, Particularly the Roman, British, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Scotch Coins, With Modern Medals. Also A Catalogue of… Read More

New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton (for George H. Doran Company), 1908. First U.S. edition, only printing, second state. Hardcover. This is the U.S. first edition, more humble in appearance than its British counterpart, but also far more scarce. My African Journey is Churchill's travelogue on Britain's possessions in East Africa, written while he was serving as Undersecretary of State for the Colonies. This book is notable, among other things, for being the only one of his many books to contain photographs ostensibly taken by the author. The first U.S. edition is far scarcer than the British first edition, with only 1400 copies sold (encompassing all three states), in contrast to more than 8000 copies of the more frequently seen British edition. The U.S. first edition was made from British first edition sheets bound in a plain coarse dark red cloth with the same gilt titles on the spine as used on the British. Unlike its British counterpart, the sheets were left untrimmed on the fore and… Read More