The Last of the Mohicans. by J. F. Cooper - 1831

Tan leather spine with red and green title plates, gilt banding and lettering on the spine. Blue marbled boards.

Brown calf spine and corners with tan cloth boards. Gilt lettering and tooling. Dimensions are for one volume. The First Gentlemen of Europe. Volumes I and II.
A quite subjective view of the time Lewis Saul Benjamin, (pen name, Lewis Melville) (1874–1932) was an English author, born into a Jewish family in London, England and educated privately in England and Germany. From 1896 to 1901 he was known as an actor, though part of his time even then was devoted to literature. His publications include:

In the World of Mimes: A Theatrical Novel(1902)
The Thackeray Country(1905)
Victorian Novelists(1906)
Bath under Beau Nash(1907)
The Beau of the Regency(1908)
William Makepeace Thackeray: A Biography(1909)
The Life and Letters of Laurence Sterne(two volumes, 1911; American edition, 1912)
The Life and Letters of William Cobbett(two volumes, 1912; American edition, 1913)
An edition of Thackeray's works (twenty volumes, 1901–07)

Tan leather spine, tan and black marbled boards. Gilt banding and title.Volumes I, II and III. Dimensions are for one volume.

Faded red leather spine and corners, Red brown marbled boards. Dimensions are for one volume.

Full leather binding black title plate. Gilt floral design on the spine.
The Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi (English: Natural History, General and Particular, with a Description of the King's Cabinet) is an encyclopaedic collection of 36 large (quarto) volumes written between 1749–1804, initially by the Comte de Buffon, and continued in eight more volumes after his death by his colleagues, led by Bernard Germain de Lacépède. The books cover what was known of the "natural sciences" at the time, including what would now be called material science, physics, chemistry and technology as well as the natural history of animals.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste. His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including two prominent French scientists Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Buffon published thirty-six… Read More

In the original dustsheet. Navy cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.
This classic volume in the renowned Oxford History of England series examines the birth of a nation-state from the death throes of the Middle Ages in North-West Europe. John D. Mackie describes the establishment of a stable monarchy by the very competent Henry VII, examines the means employed by him, and considers how far his monarchy can be described as "new." He also discusses the machinery by which the royal power was exercised and traces the effect of the concentration of lay and ecclesiastical authority in the person of Wolsey, whose soaring ambition helped make possible the Caesar-like Papalism of Henry VIII.

Navy cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and gilt microscope on the front board.
This is the definite 19th century guide.
A popular, well-illustrated and technically comprehensive guide to microscopy.

Facsimile edition of Tractatus de Herbis from the manuscript Egerton MS 747 in the British Library. Bound in green goatskin with gold lettering. Embossed black briar leaves with red berries applied on the surface.
This is copy 258 of 1000 copies for members of the Folio Society.
Now in a replacement box. (Originally would have been in a fitted box with an accompanying commentary booklet).

Tan leather spine with maroon title plate, gilt title and banding. Maroon cloth boards. Recently professionally rebound.
A magnificent rebound edition bringing this edition into a better than new condition. An ideal present for all that need this important & rare resource.

Green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and gilt Yorkshire Naturalists' Union emblem on the front board.
Leeds, The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, 1900-1901. 8vo. 239 pp. Contemporary green, blind stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine and gilt vignette on the front board. Black endpapers. An excellent monograph on a local fauna yet including several new taxa. Published in the Union's Botanical Transactions, but these are finely bound offprints. Rare in this superior condition. The work was issued in four parts. Cancelled stamp on half-title, title, and rear endpaper recto. A fine copy.