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Gems from the poets

Gems from the poets

Illustration: Several full pp. colored prints; all tissue guards have been torn, sl. foxing to pl., frontis, and title pp.
Condition: Poor+
Binding: 10×7”, pp.61; orig. Green morocco with 5 raised bands to sp., gilt title to sp., black dec. to cover, spine and cover worn, inner dentelles, last 2-3 pp. seem to be missing, occasional fingerprints, aeg. 

Universal Classic’s Library

Universal Classic’s Library

Universal Classic’s Library

Illustration: Illustrated with photogravures on Japan vellum hand painted reproductions and full-page portraits, printed tissue guards.

Condition: Average+

Binding: 23.7×16.4cm, orig. brown cl. with paper label to sp., edges sl. thumbed, teg, untrimmed, water- stains to some covers.

SIGNED B THE MG EDITOR ROBERT ARNOK

The Lady of the Lake

The Lady of the Lake

57 woodcut engravings, full pp. and vignettes, title pp., frontis., pp. sl. yellowed, else fine.

Condition: Good

Binding: 8.5×5.5”, pp. [7], 375; orig. blue buckram with elaborate gilt dec. to both front and back covers, engraved title, dec. to sp. with gilt title, blue ribbon bookmark, beveled edges, aeg, rebound, pp. yellowed.

Letters of the Empress Frederick

Letters of the Empress Frederick

Illustrations: 4 full pp. sepia toned photogravures with tissue guards, pp. brittle.

Condition: Average

Binding: 9×6”, pp. xxiii,493, [2]; orig. blue cl. with gilt dec. to cover depicting an eagle, gilt title to sp., pp. brittle, teg, edges thumbed.

Anna Karenina DAMAGED SPINE SEVERED

Anna Karenina

Illustrations: Several full pp. sepia toned watercolor prints, occasional pinholes.

Condition: Average, Spine Damaged

Binding: 8x 5.25”, pp. 769,glossary [4], adverts[16]; full brown buckram with gilt title and border to cover, gilt title to sp., pinholes, binding loose with pp. loose and separate, teg.

Illustrated Travels a record of Discovery, Geography and Adventure

Illustrated Travels a record of Discovery, Geography and Adventure

Illustrated Travels a record of Discovery, Geography and Adventure

with engravings from original Drawings by Celebrated artists

Illustration: Throughout with a large number of wood engravings, both full pp. and vignettes.

Binding: 12.4×9.4”, half buckram, orig. sp. rebacked, 5 raised bands to sp. with gilt title, marbled epps., all edges marbled, text in double columns, pp. sl. yellowed.

Condition: Average/Spine frayed and chipping due to ageing

Medicinal Plants 4 Vol Set

Medicinal Plants : Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal Plants …and Products of Medicinal Value – 4 Vol Set

 

Illustration: 306 hand clrd. full pp. plates, each accompanied with text, pp. brittle, else fine.

Illustration Condition: Average

Binding: 24x17cm, orig. green morocco, 4 raised bands to sp. with gilt title, marbled epps., cover and sp. frayed, few covers loose, pp. brittle, teg, sl. foxing.

Binding Condition: Average

 

THIS TITLE IS NON-EXPORTABLE FROM INDIA 

 

Eastern LoveOut of stock

Eastern Love

Eastern Love

English Versions by E. Powys Mathers. Copper plate engravings by Hester Sainsbury and printed and hand colored by Messrs. A. Alexander and Sons, Ltd.

Illustration: Numerous hand colored line drawings, frontis, tissue guards.

Condition: Very Good

Binding: 9.2×6”, half peach cl. over black cl. with gilt figure to cover, gilt title to sp, teg, untrimmed, sp. and edges sl. frayed.

Russia Theophile Gautier and others

Russia Theophile Gautier and others

Russia Theophile Gautier and others

Theophile Gautier and others. Translated from the French with an additional chapter upon the struggle for supremacy in the Far East by Florence Macintyre Tyson

Illustration: A large number of sepia and b/w photogravures with printed tissue guards.

Condition : Good+

Binding: 20.6×13.4cm, pp.Vol 1: viii, 483, Vol 2:viii, 461; full red cl. with elaborate gilt eagle to cover, gilt title to sp., sp. ends sl. frayed, teg, binding sl. loose.

The Tabaqat-I-Akbari of Khwajah Nizammudin Ahmad

The Tabaqat-I-Akbari of Khwajah Nizammudin Ahmad.

The Tabaqat-I-Akbari of Khwajah Nizammudin Ahmad.

A History of India from the Early Musalman Invasions to the Thirty-Eighth year of the Reign of Akbar.

Volumes: Three. Vol 2,3 available

Binding: 25×15.5cm, pp. vii, 840; new leather binding, all edges marbled, pp. getting brittle, few pinholes, ribbon bookmark.

Condition: Average

The Natural Philosophy of Love

The Natural Philosophy of Love

The Natural Philosophy of Love

Binding: 10.5×7.5”; pp.x, 182; full light blue boards with half blue cl. sp., top cover sl. separate from sp., pp. sl. yellowed, untrimmed.
Condition: Average

The Popular History of England, Civil, Military, and Religious, from the earliest times to the reform bill of 1884

The Popular History of England, Civil, Military, and Religious, from the earliest times to the reform bill of 1884

The Popular History of England, Civil, Military, and Religious, from the earliest times to the reform bill of 1884

Illustration: A large number of tinted, clrd. pl., maps with clrd. outlines.
Condition: Good
Binding: 27.5x19cm, half calf over purple buckram, gilt title to new red label to spine, all edges marbled, text in double columns, covers of few vols. Separate, sp. sl. frayed.

Ajanta, The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes based on Photography….4 Volume Set

Ajanta, The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes based on Photography….4 Volume Set

Ajanta, The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes based on Photography….4 Volume Set

With explanatory text by G. Yazdani, M.A., Intro by Laurence Binyon Colour pl. by Henry Stone & son, banbury & F. Bruckmann, Munich. Text and collotypes by John Johnson, Oxford.

Published under the special authority of his exalted highness the Nizam, Oxford University Press, London, 1930 –55

Part 1: 16 Colour and 24 monochrome Plates of Cave 1
Part 2: 18 Colour and 31 Monochrome Plates of Cave 2
Part 3: 17 Colour and 37 Monochrome Plates pf Caves 6,7.9.10.11.12.15.16 & 17
Part4: 17 Colour and 65 Monochrome Plates of Caves 17-27
full pp. plates , several clrd., collotypes. , loose portfolio containing loose sheets. Condition: Good+. Binding: 32x25cm, some of the text vols. with sl. foxing, teg of text vols., Condition: Text vols.- Good

A History of the Indian Mutiny and of the disturbances, which accompanied it among the civil population.Out of stock

A History of the Indian Mutiny and of the disturbances, which accompanied it among the civil population.

A History of the Indian Mutiny and of the disturbances, which accompanied it among the civil population.

Illustration: 2 double folding printed maps (clrd & b/w) and 6 printed plans, pp. sl. Yellowed else fine.

Condition: Good+

Binding: 19x12cm, pp. xx, 582; full brown leather cover and sp., cover and sp. rebacked very well, 5 raised bands to sp. With gilt title to red leather label and gilt dec., inner dentelles, marbled epps., all edges marbled, edges sl. Thumbed.

Indian AntiquitiesOut of stock

Indian Antiquities

Indian Antiquities: or dissertations, relative to the ancient geographical divisions, the pure system of primeval theology, the grand code of civil laws, the original form of government, the widely extended commerce and the various and profound literature of Hindostan: compared throughout with the religion, laws, government, and literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the whole intended as introductory to the history of Hindostan, upon a comprehensive scale.

 

Vol. I: Printed by C & W Galabin and sold by John White, London, 1806

Vol. II: Printed by C & W Galabin and sold by John White, London, 1806

Vol. III: Printed by W. Bulmer and sold by John White, London, 1806.

Vol. IV: Printed by H.L. Galabin and sold by R. Faulder, London, 1800.

Vol. V: Printed by C & W Galabin and sold by W. Richardson, London, 1800.

Vol. VI: Printed for the author and sold by John White, London, 1812.

Vol. VII: Printed by W Bulmer and sold by John White, London, 1806.

Hakluyt's Voyages Vol.1-8Out of stock

Hakluyt’s Voyages Vol.1-8

Hakluyt’s Voyages Vol.1-8: Introduction by John Masefield Vol. 9-10:Introduction by Ernest Rhys

Vol.1-8: The Principal Navigations Voyages traffiques and discoveries of the English Nation, made by sea or overland to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compass of these 1600 years

Vol. 9-10: The voyages traffiques and discoveries of foreign voyagers with other matters relating there to contained in the “navigations”.

Condition: Good +

Courtiers and favorites of RoyaltyOut of stock

Courtiers and favorites of Royalty

Courtiers and favorites of Royalty (Total no of volumes Not known. 10 vols. Available)

Illustration: Every volume has a frontis portrait with printed tissue guard, pp. Yellowed else fine.

Condition: Good

Binding: 23x15cm, orig. purple morocco with gilt dec. border to cover, gilt title to sp. with dec., untrimmed, pp. becoming brittle, title pp. In red and black, text clean and fresh.

The Comprehensive History of England 12 Vol Set

The Comprehensive History of England 12 Vol Set

The Comprehensive History of England 12 Vol Set

The Comprehensive History of England; Civil and military, Religious, Intellectual, and Social. From The earliest period to the close of the Russian War.

Illustration: Over 1000 woodcut engravings, several vignettes, sl. foxing.

Condition: Average+.

Binding: 26×17.5cm., full blue cl. with gilt dec. and title to cover and spine, self embossed cover, text in double columns, sl. foxing throughout.

Cochin Murals – Collotype Reproductions of the Mural Paintings of Cochin, Based on photography

Cochin Murals – Collotype Reproductions of the Mural Paintings of Cochin, Based on Photography

 

Volumes: Two volumes plus additional “TEXT” volume

Text Volume: Published under the special authority of His Highness the Maharajah of Cochin – Devi Press, Madras, 1940

Edition: 500 copies of this edition have been printed, of which 100 copies have already been distributed, and the remaining 400 copies only, are now offered for sale to the public, of which this set is #051

Publication: Vol 1 & 2: Published Under the special authority of His highness the Maharajah of Cochin – New Book Co., Bombay, India.

Text Volume: Published Under the special authority of His highness the Maharajah of Cochin – Devi Press, Madras, 1940

Printed in Collotype by Benrido, Takeya-Cho Minami, Shinmachi Dori, Kyoto, Japan

Illustration: Vol 1: Comprising 20 collotype plates dealing with Hindu Mythology.

Vol 2: Comprising of 20 collotype plates depicting important scenes of the Ramayana.

Illustration Condition: Good

Binding: Vol 1&2: 20×15”, Text volume-10.5×8”, loose plates in paper folders with ribbon ties, pp. yellowed

Binding Condition: Good

THIS TITLE IS NON-EXPORTABLE FROM INDIA