Search Results: Authors starting with A from Voewood Rare Books

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge n.d. [1897], 1897. First edition. 170x115mm. pp. 92, 4 (publications of the SPCK). Original black cloth illustrated with two ghostly white figures - a woman mourning over a prostrate dead man. Some creasing to the cloth. Internally very good with some light soiling in places. Front free endpaper has a Sunday School prize inscription dated October 10th 1897. Attractive head and tail pieces. A very good copy of a rare book telling of the Christmas-time haunting of the White Room at Colston Grange.

London: Printed for the Author; and sold by W.Owen et. al., 1764. Fourth Edition, Enlarged. Third edition of the Compleat Appraiser. Tall 12mo in 4s. (198x75mm). pp. xxv, [1], 170, [2], iv, 46, 46a-h, 47-74. Twentieth-century quarter brown morocco with small arts and crafts style decorative motifs on the joints, brown cloth covered boards. Slight rubbing to the joints and mild bumping to the corners. Overall in very good condition. Internally very good, some browning to edges of title page and final leaf. Gathering Gg has been repaired affecting the text but not legibility. Modern endpapers and blank preliminaries stamped "Birmingham Assay Office Library". ESTC locates three copies of this edition in UK institutions and four in the US. This book (first published in 1757 and running to three editions in its first three years) is dedicated to "Cabinet-Makers, Brokers, and Appraisers and also to other dealers in Plate-Glass". It tells us almost everything we could possibly want to know about the… Read More

Paris: [A Vignola] 1905, 1905. The first eighteen issues of Mes Modeles from 30th April to 20th October 1905. 275x195mm. Unpaginated but each issue is twelve pages and with a single leaf supplement with a full page nude. Each has a short one page introductory text on some aspect of nude photography ("Le Moral et la Physique", "Modes esthetiques", "Du bon gout") followed by a series of black and white photographs illustrating the theme. The eighteen issues are bound together in grey-green paper wrappers decorated in gold and lettered in dark blue. Bound in are two leaves of advertisements for risque publications, a preface by Vignola and a remarkably detailed index which allows the reader to search models by age, nationality, style and pose. Amédée Vignola edited three journals in which he sought to place the academic artistic treatment of the nude female model in the context of photography. Mes Modeles was aimed at artists, allowing them to train their… Read More

Bedford: Printed and Sold by W.Smith 1798, 1798. First edition. 8vo in 4s. 223x130mm. pp. xii, 351, [9]. Six contemporary hand-coloured engravings. Green buckram, maroon morocco label, lettered in gilt. Some marking and rubbing and a split to the cloth (c45mm) at joint with lower board. Some slight foxing in places but otherwise very good internally with the charming plates in particularly good condition. It is rare to find these coloured. One of the front preliminary leaves has two pages of neat manuscript notes listing plants from Abbot's book that are found in the "best natural pastures". Title page has ownership inscription of a "Mrs Jones". Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of F. Kuhlicke who was senior modern languages master at Bedford Modern School and an authority on Bedfordshire history. Flora Bedfordiensis has been described as a "model of a county flora", listing 1325 flowering plants and providing descriptions and details of where they grow. It is an early example of the genre; only… Read More

n.p. n.d. [c1780], 1780. Two volumes, being volumes III and IV of a four volume Political History of Europe. Manuscript on thick laid paper. 285x210mm. Paginated on verso with even numbers only. The text is on the recto of each leaf with occasional notes and references set out opposite. Vol. III: Germany [1] - 142; Switzerland: [143]-[215], 216-220 bl; Italy: [221]-372, [373]-376 bl; Turky (sic) [377]-[415]. Error in pagination at pp 114/115 but text is continuous and complete. Vol. IV. Title [1]-2; Russia: [3]-[39], 40-44 bl; Poland: [45]-[73], 74-78 bl; Sweden: [79]-[101], 102-108 bl; Denmark: [109]-[121], 122-126 bl; Holland: [127]-[159], 160-164 bl; England, [165]-[189], 190-196 bl; General Recapitulation: [197]-[205] Volume III, contemporary half calf, marbled paper covered boards, recently rebacked, spine lettered in gilt. Volume IV, contemporary quarter calf, marbled paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, rubbing and wear to corners and edges, cracking to joint with upper cover and… Read More

Oxford: H.Hall. Impensis Ric: Davis, 1663. First edition thus in the Arabic edition and Latin translation by Edward Pococke. 4to. 203x155mm. pp. [12], 368, [90], 66, [5bl], 565, [2]. The final part (565, [2]) in Arabic paginates from the rear of the book. The two blanks are present. Three parts in one volume (i.e. the Latin translation, the Supplementum and the Arabic edition), each with its own title page. Bound in twentieth century brown full calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, lettered in gilt to spine. Contemporary manuscript title to fore-edge. Some light fading to the spine, slight toning to edges of first and last leaves and a small hole to foot of the final leaf (not affecting the text) but overall in very good condition throughout. Front pastedown has the bookplate of the Middle East scholar R.M.Burrell. His important library of books on the Middle East was sold by Sotheby's in 1999 (this was lot 319). On 17th October 1630, Edward Pococke (1604-1691) arrived in Aleppo as Chaplain of the Levant… Read More

Cambridge: at the University Press 1900 1896, 1896. 2 vols. 4to. pp. liv, [4] facsimile, 502; xxxii, 646. Portrait frontispiece in vol. 1. 6 folding maps in vol. 2. Numerous mathematical examples and tables in the text. A very good unopened copy. Original blue cloth. Spines dulled and nicked at head and foot. Vol. 1. Lower cover sunned. Vol. 2. Lower cover rubbed. Book-plates of Keele University Library. Presented by C. W. Turner, 1968. A very good copy. FIRST EDITION. Vol. 1. consists of 50 Astronomical Papers that had previously been published in the Memoirs or Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and 11 Papers on Pure Mathematics. Edited by William Grylls Adams. With a Memoir by J. W. L. Glaisher. Vol. II. Part 1. Extracts from Unpublished Manuscripts. Edited by Ralph Allen Sampson. Part II. Terrestrial Magnetism. Edited by Willian Grylls Adams.

[Buenos Aries] Ahora Periodico Illustrado. 1941. Oblong. 210x278mm. 32 leaves, with 31 black and white photographs pasted in. Each photograph has printed captions (text in Spanish) pasted onto the bottom edge. The first leaf has the title details, printed on white paper, pasted in. Each photograph has a glassine protective sheet. Contemporary string bound album covered in maroon cloth and stamped with the name of the owner "Mervyn F. Ryan" on the upper cover with "Ahora Periodico Illustrado" stamped at bottom right corner. Some slight rubbing to extremities and wear to corners but otherwise very good and in excellent condition internally with the photographs especially well preserved. This album (or anything like) seems to be unrecorded and we have found nothing similar in the auction records. This fascinating collection of is a rare photographic record of the signing of the Atlantic Charter by Roosevelt and Churchill. It was produced by the Argentinian illustrated periodical Ahora. This was a news… Read More

George H Doran, New York and Chapman and Hall, London 1919, 1919. 8vo, pp xi, 274, single bound-in advertising leaf to rear, frontis & 11 further plates. Some light toning throughout and rear internal hinge starting but intact. In oatmeal cloth with laid-on white, black & red title label to spine. In the original clay-coloured DJ (in protective wraps) with the frontis illustration reproduced to the top cover, some light chipping to the front fold and the top of the spine. Identical to the Britiah first edition this is a scarce work in any condition, let alone with the original jacket. Alec Waugh, the brother of Evelyn, was held as a POW in the First World War and served with distinction with Tito's forces in Yugoslavia (as a member of the embryonic SAS) in the Second. Illustrations by Captain R.T.Roussel (P.O.W. Mainz).

Prague Torst 2003, 2003. First edition of this selection of 83 photographs by Chochola's with an introductory essay by Ales Kunes. 160mmx180mm. Inscribed "To Mr John Morris, Blaha and Vaclav CHOCHOLA, Prague, 6.4.2004. Fine copy of this nicely produced volume.

Photograph (187x254mm) of the cast of the 1970 film MASH signed by Robert Altman, Donald Sutherland, Elliot Gould, Sally Kellerman, Ring Lardner Jr, Michael Murphy, Tom Skerritt, Rene Auberjunois, John Schuck. On the verso is the label of Jerry Ohlinger's Movie Material Store. In very good condition. A nice momento of a great, and very funny, film.

London: Printed for John Noon 1755, 1755. First edition. 8vo. 210x125mm. pp. xxxi, [9], 464, 469-527 [1, adverts]. Collates complete. Contemporary calf, rebacked, dark green morocco label to spine, lettered in gilt. Gilt double fillet and blind tooling to borders of covers. Rubbing and wear to corners and edges of covers. Some damp-staining internally with but overall a very good copy. A contemporary owner has inscribed four pages of excerpts from a review notice in the Monthly Review (volume 13, dated 1755). There are some additional notes in the same hand. This book was originally issued (also in 1755) as "Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain" and both title pages are present. It is hard to think of a book where the main title and the sub-titles appear to have so little to connect them. Anyone picking up this book hoping for some good biographical yarns will be disappointed. The title is "clickbait" suggesting lots of juicy tales but mainly offering obscure theological obsessions (albeit… Read More

London: Printed by T.Cope and published by the author 1816, 1816. Second edition. Ten volumes. 4to. 269x208mm. Letterpress title page is present in volume one only, as usual and the engraved half title is present in all volumes. 664 plates, printed in colour with some hand colouring. The plates are in superb condition, the colours bright and fresh. Many, particularly in the last four volumes are folding. There is some foxing to the text leaves but overall the condition is excellent. Bound in contemporary brown half calf with marbled paper covered boards. Spine decorated and lettered in gilt, the head of the spines and the top compartment of some of the volumes have been neatly repaired. A very handsome set of one of the nineteenth century's most important botanical works. Henry Cranke Andrews (1758/9 - 1835) published his first botanical prints in 1794 and between 1797 and 1814, he issued The Botanists' Repository for New and Rare Plants in monthly parts. It was then reissued in 1816 in ten… Read More

n.p. n.p. n.d. c1830, 1830. An unpublished manuscript literary magazine in twelve numbers. 178x120mm. pp. [2], 256, [2]. Brown half calf notebook with marbled paper covered boards. Joints a little worn and split at the foot of the spine at the lower cover. Chipping to head and foot of spine. Paper label to spine printed with the title "The Companion". Hinges are worn and splitting in places and there is some slight soiling but overall it is in good condition. The text is very clear and although it appears to have been written by more than one hand, the exceptionally neat italic style is uniform throughout. The contributors are referred to only by their initials (R, E, J.D. and V, although one is called "Theta"). On the title page is the epigraph "The first quality in a Companion is Truth" - Sir William Temple. This is printed on a small piece of paper and pasted onto the leaf. It has almost certainly been cut out of a copy of Leigh Hunt's literary journal, also… Read More

n.p n.p c1820s, 1820. A set of six hand-coloured lithographs on card showing the hand signals made to communicate from a distance when game shooting. Mounted on linen with two backed with marbled card so that these form the covers when folded. The folded set is housed in a marbled paper covered card slip-case. Each card measures 66x132mm and unfolded the whole is 200x265mm. The prints are in superb condition, with the colours particularly fresh and bright. They are undated but the clothes are clearly of the Regency period and much is made of the newly fashionable top hat which was the headwear of choice for the sporting gentleman for most of the nineteenth century. In part they are instructional, showing how to signal when a dog is required or when you want someone to "bring the powder and shot" but there is a gently humorous element as well particularly in the last card showing our hero holding his gun aloft. Balancing on the end of the barrels is his top hat. This elaborate manoeuvre means, we are… Read More

London: Printed for John Morphew. 1713. First and only edition. 8vo in 4s. 180x115mm. pp. 23, [1]. In modern pink wrappers. Some slight foxing and staining to head of first gathering but overall a very good copy. Although published anonymously, this Tory response to Robert Hush's (i.e. Robert Walpole's) pamphlet The present state of fairy-land is recognised as the work of the doctor and satirist William Wagstaffe who moved in the same political and literary circles as Swift and John Arbuthnot. This 1713 exchange of pamphlets was a skirmish in the propaganda battle between Whigs and Tories over British involvement in the War of the Spanish Succession. Walpole had criticised the Tory attempt to secure a peace settlement with France (which he called Slave-onia). This reply is a splendidly eighteenth century mix of obscure circumlocution and low insult. ESTC: T99516

Album of photographs from South Africa dated 1900-01 taken by a British soldier during the Second Boer War (11 October 1899-31 May 1902). South Africa n.p 1900-01. Forty-seven black and white photographs (53x78mm) mounted back-to-back in thick card mounts (104x130mm) bound in a maroon morocco small oblong album (110x135mm). One photograph is missing. Sympathetically rebacked and in very good condition. The grey mounts are all inscribed in pencil with descriptions of the photographs and the occasional comment. Apart from a stain on the front pastedown and the first mount (not affecting the photograph) it is in excellent condition internally. A few of the photographs are showing some slight fading but are still visible. The front pastedown has the inscription "To my wife as a small Xmas present from the Sunny South December 1901". Whether the wife of our anonymous soldier appreciated this Christmas present we will never know but it is certainly a very good, personal record of life in South Africa during… Read More

n.d. n.p. n.d [mid-late 18th century], 1780. An album of hand-drawn maps with handwritten notes in an attractive italic. 230x180mm. Unpaginated, 137 pages of maps (84 maps) and text: pp. 89, 24bl, 48 (including 4 blank pages), 14bl. The maps are beautifully drawn in pen and ink with borders in coloured ink and watercolour. Tan half calf, rebacked and corners repaired, eighteenth-century marbled paper covered boards. Raised bands, burgundy morocco label lettered in gilt "Maps J:R". Some scuffing and staining to the boards. A repaired tear to the first page of text but otherwise in very good condition throughout. The author is unidentified and, possibly, unidentifiable but the main section on England is based on Thomas Badeslade's Chorographia Britannia of 1741 originally intended as a pocket atlas for George I. The maps are: forty county maps of England, one map of England showing all the counties and one showing the main coastal areas, two maps showing North and South Wales, seventeen… Read More

Cheltenham: Printed by S.Y.Griffith for Messrs Rivingtons 1824, 1824. First (and apparently only) edition. 8vo. 180x115mm. pp. xiv, [2], 304. Modern brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Internally very good with some toning to edges. Ex-library stamp on verso of title page. A nice copy of this collection of thirty-eight short essays on a variety of subjects including Materialism, Byron's Cain, A Mystery, Bulls, Fortune Telling, Sleep, Dreams, Atheism, Light, Sound, the Employment of Children in Churches, the Language of Birds and Nonentity of Matter. An odd book. We have been unable to trace the identity of the author. It appears in this one edition only. There is no obvious theme linking the thirty-eight essays (although the metaphysical, the mystical and the ethereal are pre-occupations) and it seems that the pieces were written purely for this collection as they exist nowhere else. We are not alone in being perplexed. The Monthly Review of September to December 1824 said of it: "There is a… Read More

London: Printed for G. & W.B.Whittaker 1823, 1823. 12mo. 180x105mm. pp. xv, [3], 144, [121]-142. This eccentric pagination is noted in the errata. Original grey paper covered boards, original label to spine. Tear to head of spine, rubbing to joints and corners of boards. Internally very good, a few pencil underlinings and marginal annotations and some pages unopened and overall a nice copy of a rare work located by Worldcat in seven UK libraries and none in the US. Henry Kirke White had ambitions to enter the sacred ministry and spent a year studying with a priest in Lincolnshire before entering Cambridge. Southey said of him that never was there a "devouter christian" and that "of his fervent piety, his letters, his prayers, and his hymns, will afford ample and interesting proofs". As will this curious little collection of pen portraits of historical figures and their differing attitudes to death. Kirke White divides the world into "Infidels" and… Read More