Recent Arrivals from Martin Frost

Professionally rebound in brown antique calf with back title plate, gilt banding and title on the spine. Embossed 'cambridge' panel on both boards. First edition of the author's magnum opus. These volumes are beautifully rebound into one book by Mr. Brian Cole. The interiors are clean and appear to have been printed yesterday. Without doubt this is the undisputed most magnificent… Read more about this item

Blue cloth binding. Navy title on front board. A historic example of this famous methodology Pitman shorthand is a system of shorthand for the English language developed by Englishman Sir Isaac Pitman (1813–1897), who first presented it in 1837. Like most systems of shorthand, it is a phonetic system; the symbols do not represent letters, but rather sounds, and words are, for… Read more about this item

Full brown leather binding with red title plate, raised banding, gilt decoration and lettering on the spine. gilt decorative line edging on theboards and Elleray School emblem on the front board. John George Wood, or Rev J. G. Wood, (21 July 1827 – 3 March 1889), was an English writer who popularised natural history with his writings. Wood was a… Read more about this item

Green grained leatherette binding with gilt title on the front Board. The Divining-rod: Its History, Truthfulness and Practical Utility. by MULLINS, JOHN & SONS Original edition was published in [1894]

In the original dustsheet. Grey board binding with black title on the spine. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence is a 2018 book by Michael Pollan. It became a No. 1 New York Times best-seller. How to Change Your Mind chronicles the long and… Read more about this item

Ochre cloth spine with black title. Green boards with black title on the front board.

Green cloth and board binding. White title plate with black lettering on the spine Magnacopia – Latin for Big Supply Magnacopia : a chemico-pharmaceutical library of useful and profitable information for the practitioner, chemist and druggist, surgeon-dentist, &c. &c. ; containing several hundred new forms, with comments and annotations on the pharmacopoeia, together with a variety of other information (1839)

Blue cloth binding

Green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine. First Edition with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) plates & illustrations: original green diced cloth boards ruled in blind gilt back dark green endpapers - a remarkably bright crisp copy. 'FICTION, "like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaves not a wrack behind," because it has no foundation in fact. Stories that are… Read more about this item

slight damage on the spine. Tan cloth binding with gilt title on the front board. Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A smart illustrated edition of this account of the author's experiences in Danby in Cleveland. Illustrated, originally published April 1891. With chapters on the folklore of the area, antiquarian features, manners and customs, geological commentary, and historical records. Written by Reverend… Read more about this item

Blue card binding with black and white title on the front board. Set in 1914: This highly detailed programme for a Bass brewery outing by train to Scarborough, dated Friday July 24th 1914. The programme's 40 pages describe in detail the transportation arrangements, places of interest and amusements on offer in Scarborough and attractions to which free or discounted entry was… Read more about this item

Brown cloth binding with gilt title on the spine. Embossed gatehouse image on the front board. Folding map, six plates, wood engravings in the text. Publisher's cloth, embossed and gilt. A very good copy. Theakston's Guide to Scarborough : comprising a brief sketch of the antiquities, natural productions, and romantic scenery, of the town and neighbourhood. Theakston's Guide to Scarborough is a book… Read more about this item

slight marks on the binding. Red cloth binding with black title and harbour photo on the front board. A very rare Scarborough songbook. "Scarborough Fair" is a traditional English ballad. The song lists a number of impossible tasks given to a former lover… Read more about this item

Navy cloth binding with gilt title on the spine. Embossed gilt gatehouse on the front board. 5th Edition Folding map, six plates, wood engravings in the text. Publisher's cloth, embossed and gilt. A very good copy. Theakston's Guide to Scarborough : comprising a brief sketch of the antiquities, natural productions, and romantic scenery, of the town and neighbourhood. Theakston's Guide to Scarborough is a… Read more about this item

Maroon calf spine with gilt title. Maroon cloth boards. First Edition of this very rare book. A book in lovely fine tight condition with (as is seen in the photographs) maps, and illustrations. Regrettably, there is little demand for this unique book: hence the price. Osgoldcross was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It included the parishes of… Read more about this item

Brown calf binding with tan title plate, gilt banding. decoration and title on the spine . Gilt decorative edging on the boards. Believed to be one of earliest renditions of this most famous book, published after 1761. Condition: Very Good. An engraved frontispiece depicting the town and its gibbet, some uniform light browning to the paper throughout, Title page to… Read more about this item

Softback.Navy title on view of Yorkshire Hills. Yorkshire is a testament to the enduring power of stone. From the imposing walls of Skipton Castle to the ruins of Whitby Abbey, the inhabitants of England's largest county have evidently found both beauty and practicality in the use of stone for thousands of years. But amidst these well-known and relatively recent historic sites… Read more about this item

In the original dustsheet. Grey cloth binding with gilt title on the spine A lovely picturesque book of 'God's Country. Yorkshire is a historic county in Northern England and the largest by area size in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other English counties, functions have been undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been… Read more about this item

In the original dustsheet. Red cloth binding with gilt title on the spine. The Map that Changed the World is a 2001 book by Simon Winchester about English geologist William Smith and his great achievement, the first geological map of England, Wales and southern Scotland. Smith's was the first national-scale geological map, and by far the most accurate of its time.… Read more about this item

Brown pigskin spine with tan title plate and gilt title. Brown marbled boards. Dimensions are for one volume. A quality 1785 edition of the original 1736 book. Full Title: "Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York From its Original to the Present Time Together with the History of the Cathedral Church and the Lives of the… Read more about this item