London: William Clowes and Sons, Limited, 1884. 8vo (162 x 102 mm). vii (i.e., viii), 52 pp., text illustrations, 9 plates and maps (of which 4 folding). Original publisher's reg cloth, front boards gilt lettered (minor dust soiling, front board somewhat stained and spotted). Text and plates crisp and clean..... More
London: Printed for John Taylor . . . and S. Holford, 1692. 12mo (148 x 85 mm). [4], 138, [2] pp. Advert leaf G10 bound at end. Signatures: [A]2 B-F12 G10. Contemporary calf, spine blind-ruled and gilt lettered and with two shelf mark paper stickers (old rebacking, some wear to..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. Two volumes. 12mo (177 x 117 mm). vii [1], 351 [1]; v [2], 7-324, 8, 4 pp., including publisher's advertisement bound at end of second volume. Pages untrimmed. Bound in original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, front covers display pictorial..... More
London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1805. Entire volume, parts I + II offered. 4to (295 x 235 mm). vi, [2], 1-175 [1], 27 [1]; iv, 177-353 [1], [6] pp., part titles, index bound at end, and 9 engraved plates (2 folding). Original blue simple paper wrappers, pages untrimmed and unopened..... More
Amsterdam: Joan Janssonius van Waesberghe, 1667. Folio (376 x 246 mm). [14], 237, [11] pp. Including engraved allegorical frontispiece title-page, letterpress title-page with printer's woodcut vignette, engraved portrait of the author, 2 folding maps (of China and South-East-Asia), 23 engraved plates (2 folding, 1 double-page), 61 engraved vignettes, several engraved..... More
Coblenz: J. Hoelscher, 1839. Two parts in two volumes. Coblenz: J. Hoelscher, 1839-41. 4to (348 x 268 mm). xvi, 653 [3]; xxii, [2] , 687 [1] pp. Bound with the text and protected by tissue paper are 33 aquatint plates ("vignettes") after Karl Bodmer (numbered vig. I- vig. XXXIII except..... More
London: Printed for Edward Jeffreys, 1792. Large folio (430 x 266 mm). Engraved portrait of the author by Martin Teuscher, letterpress title leaf, engraved allegorical scene bound after title, and 159 engraved copper plates (numbered I-CLIX) on 157 sheets, plus five unnumbered engraved plates bound at intervals (making 164 total..... More
Exeter: Printed by S. Farley, for Philip Bishop and Edward Score, 1704. 8vo (184 x 110 mm). [16], 183 [i.e. 184] pp. Signatures: A-M8 N4. Title within double-line border, pages 182-184 misnumbered 181-183, a few mispaginations elsewhere. Bound in contemporary calf, spine with raised bands and recent gilt lettering piece..... More
1845. 160 x 175 mm. Salt print from calotype negative, mounted on card, verso with unrelated pencil note in Calvert Jones' hand [Schaaf no. 326]. Condition: some fading to image as usual.
Henry Fox Talbot set up a photographic studio in Reading in 1844 (the 'Reading Establishment'), and many of..... More
