Rare books from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

Credo Company, 1975 Rare first edition of the Yeager Tarot, complete in original box. The cards are 3 & 2/16 x 4 7 1/2 inches with original, unedited full colour illustrations on black backgrounds, with simple circle and dot reverse designs on a white background. Complete with original 32 page booklet. The glossy gold box has a simple black motif reading "The Tarot" and is in very good condition apart from a short crease on the upper right hand side. The whole boxed pack retains its plain Kraft card packing box, with owner's added neat inscription "The Tarot of Meditation. Marty Yeager 1975".. 1st Edition. No Binding. Fine/No Jacket.

Baphomet Publishing, 1977 Limited to 499 copies of which this is number 218, signed by Augustus Donelly on the back of the partly coloured, illustrated card cover. The complete major arcanas are beautifully hand coloured by the original owner. They are 8 & 7/10 x 6 & 2/10 inches on matt white card, with original colouring instructions in author's script with a few neat owner's ink additions. This set was issued in black and white for owners to colour, and this one is coloured to a very professional standard. It is a rare set now. The cover has some slight damage to a small uncoloured portion of the design on the middle left hand side, that barely detracts from the overall very good condition.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket.

Rem Koolhaas/Office for Metropolitan Architecture, 1995 282 x220. 36 unnumbered pages, plus eight large folding plans. Diagrams and images throughout. Original buff covers, spiral bound with orange lettered label torn to open access to the inside. Edition of 35, this is copy number 26. Several minor pencil corrections to text errors. This is the Rem Koolhaas/OMA final proposal to convert Bankside power station into Tate Modern. In July 1994 an international competition launched to find an architect to redesign the Bankside Power Station into a gallery of modern art for the Tate. By November, 148 entrants had been reduced to a shortlist of 6: David Chipperfield; OMA/Rem Koolhaas; Renzo Piano; Tadao Ando; Herzog & de Meuron and Jose Rafael Moneo. In January 1995, Herzog & de Meuron won the competition. OMA probably supplied a copy of this to each of their 7 partners, to 13 more individuals listed in the credits at the back, Davis Langdon & Everest (3 partners) and Richard Gluckman… Read More

chez David Fils,, A Paris, 1743 8vo. xl, 305, [5] printed pages. With numerous mathematical vignette diagrams on wood and an allegorical vignette in copper on the title page. Sporadic light foxing. Leaf I8 is repeated, the second version includes the words "au poids de" replacing "a"- so it is a corrigenda leaf. Small, marginal, red ink library stamp on title page and page 19. "7414" and "BV" unobtrusively stamped in margins of title page and page iii. 15 x 22 cm. Contemporary full vellum. Light green leather label with gilt lettering & tooling on spine. Later paper library shelf label below. In very good condition. Fore edge and lower edge uncut. Provenance: sold by Collegio Universitario Antonianum - Padova to Antiquariato Librario Bado e Mart s.a.s. and then to a private UK collector (copy of 2015 Italian antique export license enclosed). Established in 1222, the University of Padua (Padova in Italian) is the second oldest university in Italy, after… Read More

Hogarth Press, 1922 1922 second impression, one of 2,000 copies. With this book (her 6th), the decision was taken to establish the Hogarth Press as a business concern & in future to publish all Virginia Woolf s works. Inscribed in ink on front free endpaper "Gabriel Atkin from S.S. [Siegfried Sassoon] June 1923 Antibes". Page 154 "Children ran across the road" underlined in pencil, with marginal annotation "At 10pm" [unknown contemporary hand]. Light foxing throughout. 14 x 19.5 cm. Original crocus-yellow cloth boards (handling marks and a few creases). Top edges trimmed, others partially trimmed. Cream printed label at head of spine (slightly browned and rubbed). Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) poet and novelist, best known for antiwar poetry, such as The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918). Sassoon conveyed the brutality of war with shocking realism. Twice wounded, he received the Military Cross for bravery, but he wrote of hurling it into the River Mersey. He underwent psychiatric treatment… Read More

Lauenburg [Germany] gedruckt in der Berenbergschen Buchdruckerey, 1798 [32], 264, 34, [16] printed pages. All edges gilt. New endpapers with offsetting from first and last printed pages. Bright and clean copy, free from obvious defects. 11 x 18 cm. Contemporary German or English binding of silver-wire, satin thread and silk embroidered binding, rebacked preserving contemporary front and back boards. Upper board with central Royal cypher of George iii, with four sequin and silver star corners and scrolling silk border with leaves in alternating light and darker greens and berries on stems, all on rubbed and slightly worn horizontal silver satin thread ground. Back board with vignette of silver thread and silk woven basket with foliage of different green leaves surrounding brilliant pink flower and overflowing with trail of daisies, all resting lopsidedly on leafy flourishing branch above vibrant and verdant background. Similar to the front board, with four sequin and silver star corners and scrolling… Read More

T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1937 First edition in English of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. xiii, 120 printed pages. No ownership marks nor inscriptions. Pages evenly toned; some offsetting on facing, preliminary blank leaves and rear free endpaper. 14 x 21 cm. Original tan paper covers (not price clipped), with black lettering on the spine and upper cover. Spine creased and torn at the foot of the spine (revealing original sewn and glued gatherings). Some light handling marks and very slight fading. No repairs. First editions are rare. Martin Buber's I and Thou [Ich und Du] was to have served as a prolegomenon to his five-volume project, (a project Buber abandoned) & has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged it as a landmark influence on their work. Buber tried to make religious belief and practice perspicacious in light of a general philosophical anthropology. ("The close association of the relation to God with… Read More

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869 Two volumes; (vol. 1) xx, 332 pp.; (vol. 2) xiv, [ii], 272 printed pages. with the 30-page publisher's catalogue at the end of vol. 2, 2 folding maps [identical, as is correct]; 11 plates, illustrations in text (Vol. 1: 37 engraved illustrations, including frontispiece portrait, 5 plates, and 31 illustrations in text; one lithographic folding map by James Wyld. Vol. 2: 12 engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, 4 plates, and 7 illustrations in text; one lithographic folding map by James Wyld). Contemporary owner's signature and inscriptions on front paste-down endpapers, verso of front free endpaper and on half-title of vol. 2. (Charles Payton, 3 Crompton Road, Vechells, Birmingham. January 1882). Light foxing on preliminary and final leaves and occasionally throughout. 22 x 15 cm. Original publisher's pictorial purple cloth gilt, dark green endpapers. Spines slightly faded and rubbed with a little light historic staining; wear to head and tail of spines; corners… Read More

London: For Edward Jeffery by B. McMillan., 1814 Second quarto edition, preceded by another quarto edition- an exceptionally rare one in folio- and one in octavo. Limited issue, 1 of 175 copies (also published in folio in an edition of 25). vi, 381 printed pages (page v/vi bound back to front. Many leaves mainly marginally lightly stained). Profusely illustrated with 34 copper and wood engravings and lithographed plates, including John Dunstall's etchings "Lambeth House", "St Marie Ouers in Southwark", "Entrance of Westminster Hall", "St Paul's, Covent Garden" -John Seller-, "Monument", "St Paul's Cathedral", Customs House c.1690 and a contemporary view of the Cathedral Church of St Paul as it was before ye fire of LONDON [from 'A Book of the Prospects of the Remarkable Places in and about the City of London', c.1700 (engraving) by Robert Morden (fl.1682-1703) - 31 unnumbered plates with no text.No copy in BL. Only 3… Read More

xii, 411 printed pages (slight age-toning and somedges very slightly smoke darkened), 22 pages publisher's adverts at back. Frontispiece & 20 tinted lithographic plates (including 3 of Hawaii). Extra illustrated with 4 original initialled pen and ink sketches by Robert Elwes (1819-78) bound in (Brazilian jungle, Kilauea -Hawaii, Manilla and Shanghai junks). All edges gilt. Some sporadic foxing. Title page, preliminaries and some plates slightly thumbed. 17 x 24.5 cm. Rebound in contemporary style half calf with raised bands, black morocco gilt lettered label & gilt tooling. 17 x 24.5 cm. Rebound in contemporary style half calf with raised bands, black morocco gilt lettered label & gilt tooling. Elwes, aged 28, left England on 20 March 1848 on board Eclipse on a voyage around the world that took two years and three months, on 10 different ships, sketching many scenes on his way. He arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from Tenerife in 30 days. He explored Brazil then sailed to Buenos Aires, Argentina. He… Read More

Printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer and Co., 1814 TWO VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE. Title page, viii, 64 unnumbered leaves of text, 64 hand-coloured aquatint plates of the Russians. xv, 50 unnumbered leaves of text, 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates of the Austrians. All in beautiful, crisp & bright condition with wide margins. All edges gilt. 16.5 x 24 cm. Contemporary half straight-grained green morocco. Spine in five compartments with broad, hand-tooled, gilt, raised bands. Head and tail of spine & hinges rubbed. Boards with double gilt fillets & salmon paper covered boards (with gentle handling patination). Corners bumped and slightly worn. Alexander was a first-rate draughtsman and excellent engraver who had gone out as junior draughtsman with Lord Macartney's embassy & who also served as the British Museum's first keeper of prints and drawings; he produced similar volumes on the dress of the Turks, Chinese and his own English. The fine Russian plates are almost identical with… Read More

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828 FIRST EDITION. xxiii, 182 pages, 1, 68 pages (Appendix), frontispiece aquatint plate (an illustration of an armoured paddle-steamer "James Watt, Steam Packet, Propelling against a storm."). 31 text figures including engraved full-page plate. List of authors on the subject of steam: p. 174. Errata inserted after page xxiii. Somewhat foxed on frontispiece and tissue guard, otherwise exceptionally clean. Marbled edges and marbled endpapers. 23 x 28 cm. 4to. Contemporary calf bound by Henington, Ingram Court, Fenchurch St. [London] with original rose binder's label on front paste-down endpaper. Boards with gilt hand-tooled borders (light wear to spine and edges). Spine with black lettering-piece and with gilt hand-tooled decoration (rebacked sympathetically). Provenance: neat ownership inscription in ink of R.T. Creighton, dated April 1844 on title page. Also gift inscription from Lady Rivett-Carnac, 1st April 1844 (James Rivett-Carnac had… Read More

Paris, de l Imprimerie Royale, 1740 2 volumes 4to: 1/ xvi, [12], 643 pages, 88 diagrams on [21] folded leaves of copper plate engravings :vignette text illustrations; 2/ xiv pp., [3]. Large engraved title page vignette, engraved head- & tailpieces, initials. 2, 120 pp., 222 pp. of astronomical tables, [1, unnumbered]. Illustrated with 5 folded leaves of copper plate engravings by Simmoneau. Total of 26 plates. All edges red. Wide margins. Some contemporary manuscript corrections to text. Contemporary hand-written shelf labels & new printed ex libris from Maraldiana library on front paste-down endpapers. Some old wormholes in margins not affecting text. Some leaves age toned & spotted. 21 x 26 cm. Full contemporary spotted calf, double blind-stamped fillet borders on covers. Spines with gilt tooled raised bands. Contrasting red and brown morocco lettering labels. Second volume with rubbed, faded contemporary shelf label. Compartments elaborately gilt tooled with curved pointille cornerpieces, 10 or 8… Read More

LYON: ANTOINE BESSON,, 1683 12mo. Collation: a6, A G6. [10], 84 printed pages. Complete with one folding engraved plate, & woodcut diagrams in the text. Ownership signatures on all four endpapers (front & back). Very small marginal stain from title page to the folding plate, another on pages 19-34 & a small marginal stain on the last few leaves. 8.5 x 15 cm. Contemporary speckled calf, red edges, spine in six compartments with raised bands (slightly worn at head and tail); binding very slightly stained & worn at extremities. This pockrt sized volume is devoted mainly to the conversion, by arithmetic and geometric means, between various types of French measurements used in surveying and construction. The major French measure, the toise, was about two meters (six feet) in length but varied from city to city. Additional conversions of shorter lengths (equivalent to about a foot) are also considered, and the work contains small tables equating various measures. There is a figure of a… Read More

16mo. 256 printed pages in Latin and French. Fleur-de-Lys and scrolling foliate head and tail pieces. Two decorated initials, the rest capitalized. 18 lines to each page. 7 point (smallest readable size). Linen and cotton rag laid paper as used in the 17th century. Earliest Houghton Heures de Cour is from 1682. Welsh, 3440, lists the earliest known copy as 1678. The earliest in WorldCat is a single copy dated 1677 (University of Virginia). This unrecorded copy predates all editions I can find. Very few small spots of browning. Some corners slightly creased. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt (rather worn away). Two near contemporary inscriptions on front paste-down & recto of blank preliminary facing page. Provenance: "M. St. H. H. [St. Helens or St. Helier family, possibly]" and "Samuel Salter [Master of Charterhouse, (1710-1778)], Alumnus Suttonianus Dono dedit Richardus Clarke eiusdem Scholae Alumnus 1729". A gift from Clarke to Salter, both men went to London Charterhouse (formerly owned by Thomas… Read More