The Shaking of the Olive-Tree. The Remaining Works Of that Incomparable Prelate. With some specialities of divine providence in his life. Noted by his own hand. Together with his Hard Measure: Written also by himself
HALL, Joseph First edition, small 4to, (xvi), 64, 112, 121-168, 179-195, 188-189, 198-199, 192-193, 202-209, 230-438 pp, with considerable mispagination as called for. Lacking the portrait frontispiece. Contemporary calf, rebacked with red and green labels, corners restored. Hall was Bishop of Norwich as well as a popular writer, writing satirical verse while at Cambridge, religious polemics throughout his career and two short pieces of autobiography, the second of which, "Hard Measure", appeared here for the first time, covering some of the events leading up to the civil war. His plain style inspired Thomas Fuller to call him "our English Seneca." Wing H416.- $765
- $765
Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Illustrated by Harry Clarke
(CLARKE, Harry). POE, Edgar Allan 4to. 412, (4) pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt to the spine and with a black, white and gold illustration mounted to the upper cover. Frontispiece and 7 colour plates plus another 24 in black and white. Mild spine crease, else very good. Similar in format to the slightly earlier UK Folio Society edition but with the benefit of having some of the plates in colour and more illustrations overall.- $57
- $57
The Hawk in the Rain
HUGHES, Ted Second impression. 8vo. 59, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, yellow lettered to the spine, dust jacket, price clipped. Tanning to the jacket spine, a little light foxing and edge wear, some browning and foxing to the endpapers, else very good. First published in 1957.- $76
- $76
Celebrated Mechanics and Their Achievements. Stories of lighthouses and their builders, harbours and breakwaters, diving and divers, canals, the steam-hammer, wonders of water power
HOLMES, F.M. 8vo, 160 pp. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations, marbled endpapers and edges, prize label of Gresham's School to the paste down, dated 1916. Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine and school device, slight sunning to the spine otherwise an attractive copy.- $57
- $57
A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex. Including the Rapes of Chichester, Arundel, and Bramber
DALLAWAY, James & CARTWRIGHT, Edmund Four volumes, 4to. First two volumes (Chichester and Bramber) first edition, third volume (Arundel) "New Edition", plus the very rare first edition of the Arundel volume, large 4to. 83 plates - two double page and four in colour, 19 maps and plans - 15 double page or folding and including two geological maps in the Bramber volume. Marbled endpapers and edges, bookplates of Charles and Mary Lacaita of Selham. Contemporary calf with gilt decorated borders and the arms of George Leveson-Gower, Duke of Sutherland, to the covers, rebacked to style with brown and black labels. A very scarce set due to a fire at the printers in 1819 which destroyed 300 (of 500) copies of the Chichester volume and almost the entire run of the original Arundel volume, with only 30 copies surviving. Only 200 copies of the new edition of Arundel and Bramber were published.- $2,868
- $2,868
A Christmas Carol. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
(RACKHAM). DICKENS, Charles First trade edition. 8vo. x, (ii), 147, (1) pp. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt lettered and decorated to the upper cover, illustrated endpapers, top edge purple. 12 coloured plates with printed tissues, 20 black and white illustrations in the text. Spine faded to brown and worn with a small closed split to the upper joint, a little light spotting to the front and rear leaves and the fore edge, else a decent copy.- $229
- $229
A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye. [bound with] The Cure of Strabismus by Surgical Operation
MACKENZIE, William Two works bound in one. 8vo. 1. Third edition. (iii)-xxxiv, 923, (1), bound without the half title; 2. Sole edition. 30 pp. Contemporary brown half calf over marbled boards, spine rebacked to style in a close matching leather with raised bands and a gilt lettered label. Frontispiece, another plate and illustrations in the text to the first work, just one illustration to the second. Some wear to the boards and the edges of the endpapers, else very good.- $446
- $446