Rare books from Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills

Librairie Ethnographique, Paris, 1848. Book. Good. hardback. half calf, two volumes, large 8vo, spines with elaborate gilt decoration, gilt titles on red morocco labels, top corners of boardsof volume two bumped, corner pieces rubbed with some loss, tears to leather on lower side strip of volume two, all edges gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, 117 hand-coloured plates of religious figures in costume - mostly very good, some few with light discolouration or spotting, minor foxing to pre-lims, iv, 299 & 220, 68pp. Additional images supplied on request:.

T Payne (London), D Prince & J Cooke (Oxford) Mr Lacy (Northampton), 1791. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, two volumes complete, first and only edition, folio, 18" x 11", bound in polished green half-morocco, raised bands to spines with central gilt straps, lettered gilt to spines, top edges gilt, remaining edges rough-trimmed, contemporaneous marbled boards and endpapers. Rubbed to extremities of boards with knocks to leading corners, one of two surface abrasions to the leather, trace of a worm hole to the upper joint of volume one adjacent to the top raised band. The bindings are tight and the stitching very good, bookplates of a previous owner on pastedowns have been effaced and part removed, small address label of a later owner has been applied upside down to the pastedown of volume two. The plate list calls for the inclusion of thirty-six plates, all of which are present and two of which are double-page, at the foot of the Plate List is mounted an additional… Read More

1997: John Nichols and Son, 1822. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, five parts in two volumes published between 1822 and 1841, folios measuring 19 2/5" x 11", contemporary half-calf with marbled boards, sometime re-backed with original backstrip laid down, rubbed heavily to corners of boards and les so to remaining extremities, six raised bands to spine, of the compartments two with gilt titles on deepest blue morocco, others with part faded gilt tooling, stitching remains tight. Volume I with an 1822 title page but a duplicate title page the third part inserted before page 540, volume II, as is common, bound without a title page. Sporadic foxing to the text, heavy in one or two gatherings of volume I, heavy to pp173-194 of volume II, some offsetting to the text from the etched and engraved illustrations which are present in addition to the thirty-nine uncoloured plates. The plates are erratically distributed, with a frontis and ten to volume II, many remain tissue guarded,… Read More

Geo Witchell, 1764. Map. Fair. No Binding. large engraved map of the 1764 eclipse of the sun, published by George Witchell and inscribed to Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal. The map is surrounded with explanatory embellishments, together with an explanation at the foot. Measuring 21" x 16", this is an unframed copy showing four folds. Unfortunately it lacks the top left corner and would need to be completed at that point with a facsimile. Four very small holes to the left margin, the dotted border between England and Wales has been coloured pink and two lines linking London with the North have been inked in. On the rear a caricature has been drawn in ink..

Paris chez le citoyen Lamarche, 1795. Book. Good. Hardcover. hardback, third edition, text and Tables in French, octavo, comprising thirty double page b&w maps, ix [1] + 47 pages text, the maps all tab mounted for binding. The binding quarter cloth with paper covered sides is in a very poor state with much of the spine perished and the boards detached. The front free endpaper is detached but the text block and the maps are all tightly bound, there is marginal browning to the maps and some mild scattered foxing although this primarily is to the verso. With rebinding this would present a very good copy. .

Linden Press, 1957. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, small octavo, purple cloth lettered gilt, a tightly bound copy, distributor blind embossed stamp to the foot of the title page, the body of the text is clean and unmarked, The age-toned dust jacket is complete and is unclipped but has a water stain to the front panel and is thus good only, the water stain shows through to about a half square inch on the upper board, 44pp. Scarce. The first book of poems by Dillon, inspired by the teachings of Gurdjieff and drawing on his encounters with theosophy. Called 'the first trans man', Michael Dillon was born Maud Dillon & was the first person to undergo phalloplasty. His birth certificate was amended as such in 1944. Spending years at sea, he later became a physician and went onto to inherit the family baronetcy..