Search Results: Titles starting with G from Antiquates Ltd

[Hamilton, New Zealand]: Printed for Private Circulation [The Waikato Times], [1945]. 17pp, [2]. Original publisher's printed blue paper wrappers. Extremities a trifle dust-soiled. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inscribed to head of title-page; 'E. M. Sladden / from F. A. de la Mare / 6th August 1957'. A privately printed tribute to 'G. B. Lancaster' the pseudonym of Australasian author Edith Joan Lyttleton (1873-1945). One of New Zealand's most acclaimed writers, Lyttleton's primary themes were colonial identity and the legacy of imperialism. Her 1933 novel Pageant was undoubtedly her most successful work, topping the American best-seller list for six months. COPAC records only a single copy (BL). . First edition. 8vo.

London: Arthur Humphreys, 1907. vi, 330pp. With half-title. Title in red and black. Uncut and unopened in original publisher's cream cloth backed blue paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Some browning and dust-soiling to extremities. Internally clean and crisp but for the occasional spot of foxing. From The Royal Library Historical Series. A life of Duchess of Beaufort and Verneuil, Marchioness of Monceaux, Gabrielle d'Estrees (1573-1599), mistress of Henry IV of France (1553-1610). . First English edition. 8vo.

London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1927]. [6], 292pp, [1]. Original publisher's turquoise cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed, dustwrapper worn, browned, and spotted, closed tear to upper panel, loss to head, with paper repairs to verso. Internally clean and crisp. Bookplate of American bibliophile Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr. (1910-2001), director of the Pierpont Morgan Library between 1948-1969, to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to half-title from the author to his sister, and a loosely inserted manuscript note in the same hand. The first edition of Henry Major Tomlinson's (1873-1958) literary crime novel. . First edition. 8vo.

London: William Heinemann, [1916]. vii, [1], 173pp, [1]. With a half-title. Bound by Hatchards of London in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Early inked gift inscription to FFEP, scattered spotting. A handsomely bound copy of Adela Florence Nicolson's [pseud. Laurence Hope] (1865-1904) popular collection of verse, first published in 1901. The 1914 Christmas edition of the Bookman reviewed the work favourably: 'An eastern splendour of imagery, the mysticism, the sensuousness, the esoteric vision of the east shine and breathe and brood through all the poems in the book'. . New impression. 8vo.

Warwick: Printed for the author, by E. Foden, 1825. x, 180, 16, 7pp, [1]. With engraved frontispiece, two further engraved plates, and four leaves of terminal advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's blue paper boards, recently rebacked in contrasting paper, with manuscript lettering-piece to spine. Some spotting, frontispiece torn and neatly repaired. A unusual work of illustrated naval celebration, with an extensive list nautical terminology explained in an 18 page dictionary. Henry Barnet Gascoigne, sometime Lieut. Royal Marines who was invalided on Active Service and placed on Half-Pay in 1808, composed several slight works of a naval nature as well as others on poverty, many of which are included in the 7pp list of advertisements to the end of this title. No copies of the first edition appear extant, and this second edition is rare; COPAC locates only BL, NMM and Oxford. OCLC adds 12 locations elsewhere. Not in Jackson. Johnson 360.. Second edition. 8vo.

Braunschweig [i.e. Brunswick]: Druck und verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1857. x, 305pp, [3]. With a half-title, a terminal errata leaf, and numerous woodcuts in the text. Contemporary half-cloth, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities worn and marked, joints split, spine sunned. Hinges exposed, ink library stamps and shelf-marks to half-title and title page, scattered foxing. The first edition of German chemist Robert Bunsen's (1811-1899) pioneering work of analytical chemistry, documenting the revolutionary techniques he developed in his study of the chemical composition of gases. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. ix, [3], 152pp, [16]. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled.Paper repair to FFEP, else internally clean and crisp. The sole edition of Trinity College, Dublin undergraduate James Augustus Page's (1821-1880) second published collection of poetry. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. xxv, [3], 390, [2], 32pp. With a portrait frontispiece, a further 16 plates, a folding map, and a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Later endpapers. A trifle rubbed and marked, remnants of printed Edinburgh reading club label to upper board. The first edition of Indian Civil Servant Thomas Henry Thornton's (1832-1913) biography of Sir Richard John Meade (1821-1894), British Indian Army officer and sometime Chief Commissioner of Mysore. . First edition. 8vo.

[London]: Printed for the Corps, by Bunney, thompson, and Co., 1797. vii, [1], 232, [5], 238-264, [8], 277-281pp, [1]. With six leaves (partially misbound), blank but comprehended in the pagination. Contemporary gilt-ruled dark green calf, A.E.G. Rubbed, marked, and bumped. Marbled endpapers, very occasional inked corrections to text. A scare late-eighteenth century edition of the standing orders of one of the most exclusive military organisations in Georgian England; the Light Horse Volunteers, or L.H.V. Revived in 1794, in response to a growing invasion threat from Revolutionary France, along with numerous Mounted (and infantry) Volunteer Corps across England, the L.H.V. was composed almost exclusively of wealthy and titled men of the capital. As this volume details, the corps were very well provisioned, and membership was secured by recommendation and election. Corps rules established that mounts were stabled at Worship St. or Gray's Inn Lane, and uniforms were to be secured from specified… Read More

London: Printed by T. Wright, 1794. 68pp. With a half-title. Stitched, as issued. Early ownership inscription of Duncan Grant Esq. to head of half-title, marginal damp-staining, scattered spotting. The first edition, in original state, of agricultural writer and land agent William Marshall's (bap. 1745, d. 1818) survey of husbandry in the Scottish Highlands, 'drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement.' ESTC T40609.. First edition. Quarto.

London: Seeley and Co., 1900. With a half-title, an engraved portrait frontispiece, and a further 25 plates. Original publisher's gilt-stamped burgundy cloth. Lightly rubbed, marked, and bumped. Early ink ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, very occasional light spotting. The first edition of journalist Alexander Innes Shand's (1832-1907) life of army officer in the East India Company John Jacob (1812-1858), veteran of the First Anglo-Afghan War and commander of cavalry regiment 'Jacob's Horse' during the First Anglo-Sikh War. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for James Weatherby...By Henry Reynell, 1808. l, [8], 516pp. [Bound with:] A supplement to the General stud-book, which was published in the year 1808. London. Printed for James Weatherby...By C. H. Reynell, 1814. xiv, [2], 288pp. 8vo. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, recently rebacked, preserving contemporary spine panel. Board heavily rubbed. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Lord Rossmmore to title page of first mentioned work, very occasional light spotting. This is generally quoted as the 'first edition' and subsequent editions are numbered from it. The earlier works of 1791 and 1803 are, however, spoken of, in the fifth edition of Vol. I., as being the true first and second editions. A second volume was issued in 1822 and subsequent volumes later, bringing the work down to date. Published, as a rule, every four years, with 'Supplements' intervening. Horse-races were wagered upon from the days of Queen Anne in the early 1700s, but it was not… Read More

[London]: [C. Roworth], [1804]. iv, vi, 133pp, [7]. With three folded leaves of blank forms for annual and other returns. Contemporary gilt-tooled diced calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece to upper board. Rubbed, joints starting, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, short tear to gutter of first form, else internally clean and crisp. An edition of the regulations of the British Army, published during the Napoleonic Wars, respecting, inter alia, the duties of officers and guards in garrison and in camp, regimental hospitals, instructions for coast duty, and regulations to be observed by troops embarked on board transports for service abroad. . 8vo.

London: Faber and Faber, 1941. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered in gilt, corners bumped, minor shelf-wear with several further marks. Internally crisp and clean, with fore and bottom edges uncut. From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed. The first edition of Henry Williamson's (1895-1977) memoir of his friendship between T. E. Lawrence. Williamson's book Tarka the Otter attracted the attention of Lawrence, whose letter of praise started a correspondence between the two. Indeed, Lawrence's fatal motorcycle crash in 1935 occurred as he was returning from a trip to the post office to send a telegram to Williamson. The Henry Williamson Society produced a facsimile reprint, limited to 500 copies, in 1988 to mark the centenary of Lawrence's birth. The ‘Shallonford’ misprint to the final leaf is uncorrected here. The proofs annotated by Williamson did not include the typo and no-one caught the error until after… Read More

London: T. Hookham, 1810. vii, [1], 147pp, [1]. With half-titles. Victorian tan half-calf, gilt, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, with loss to head of spine. Ink-dated author obituary clippings pasted to blank-fly, four small mount-holes cut to half title; combined with the indentation on the following leaves suggestive that this once held a Carte de Visite of the author. Some glue residue to gutter of title. Leaf C5 bound before C4. Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), English poet and novelist. Extended from an original composed during Peacock's time as secretary to Sir Home Riggs Popham aboard HMS Venerable in May 1808. Tracing the river from its Cotswold source, through Oxford by way of several stanzas, ending as the river flows to the North Sea, east of London. . First Edition. 8vo.

London: The Henry Williamson Society , 1988. 78pp. Printed peach card wraps. Edges sharp, internally fresh and bright. With the Shallonford misprint deliberately kept in. The proofs Williamson received did not include the typo and no-one caught the error until after printing was complete. In his own copy, he merely corrected it in pen, though it remains uncorrected in Faber's reprint and this 1988 facsimile edition. The last line of the book was intended as 'So he died; and is immortal with the shining of the sun upon plain men, his equals. Shallowford, 1936.' From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed. Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing… Read More

London: The Henry Williamson Society, 1988. 78pp. Printed peach card wraps. Edges sharp, internally fresh and bright. With the Shallonford misprint deliberately kept in. The proofs Williamson received did not include the typo and no-one caught the error until after printing was complete. In his own copy, he merely corrected it in pen, though it remains uncorrected in Faber's reprint and this 1988 facsimile edition. The last line of the book was intended as 'So he died; and is immortal with the shining of the sun upon plain men, his equals. Shallowford, 1936.' From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed. Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing… Read More

London: The Henry Williamson Society, 1988. 78pp. Printed peach card wraps. Edges sharp, internally fresh and bright. With the Shallonford misprint deliberately kept in. The proofs Williamson received did not include the typo and no-one caught the error until after printing was complete. In his own copy, he merely corrected it in pen, though it remains uncorrected in Faber's reprint and this 1988 facsimile edition. The last line of the book was intended as 'So he died; and is immortal with the shining of the sun upon plain men, his equals. Shallowford, 1936.' From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed. Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing… Read More

Dublin: Printed for Samuel Watson, [1785]. 135pp, [1]. ESTC T26616. [Bound with:] EXSHAW, John. The English Registry, For the Year of our Lord, 1785; (By John Exshaw, Bookseller,) or, A Collection of English Lists...Fitted to be bound with Watson's Almanack... Dublin. Printed by John Exshaw, [1785]. [4], 131pp, [1]. ESTC T26688. 8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, without lettering-piece. Light damp-staining to head of text-block. Two late eighteenth-century Dublin-printed almanacs designed to be issued together in order to give a complete account of 'the present state of both kingdoms'. The Gentleman's and Citizen's almanack was initially compiled by Irish bookseller John Watson and first printed in 1729. It was issued under his name until 1769; whereafter his successor, Samuel Watson, continued the run through to 1799, with the exception of years 1795 to 1798 when John Watson Stewart assumed responsibility, becoming the sole compiler… Read More

London: Printed for the Company of Stationers; and sold by Robert Horsfield, and George Greenhill, 1798. 48pp. Title and calendar in red and black. ESTC N30928. [Bound with:] [HUTTON, Charles]. The Ladies' Diary: or Woman's Almanack, For the Year of our Lord 1798... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers, And sold by Robert Horsfield and G. Greenhill. Ninety-fifth edition. 48pp. Title and calendar in red and black. ESTC N3194. [And:] MOORE, Francis. Vox stellarum: or, a loyal almanack For the Year of Human Redemption 1798... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers; and sold by Robert Horsfield and George Greenhill, 1798. 48pp. Title and calendar in red and black. ESTC T175494. [And:] PARTRIDGE, John. Merlinus Liberatus. Being an almanack For the Year of our Redemption, 1798... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers; and sold by Robert Horsfield and George Greenhill, 1798. 48pp. Title and calendar in red and black. ESTC T146021. [And:] [WINSTANLEY, William]. Old Poor… Read More