The Speeches

8 Volumes. Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Bound in full tan calf with the covers displaying a floral border and a central crest, both gilt-to...

1 volume. Illustrated. Bound in 3/4 brown Morocco, cloth boards, top edges gilt, raised bands, gilt spines. Published: New York: The Viking Press, 1937. First Edition.   Mea...

1 volume. Folio. Bound in full green Morocco by Birdsall, with all edges gilt and ornate gilt on covers & spine, as well as a hand-colored frontispiece. Printed on fine paper. Profus...

1 Volume. Aeschylus, The Tragedies. First Edition. Bound in full brown calf with the covers displaying a modern Cambridge-style paneled design, toned and s...

1 Volume. Adolphus William Ward, The Electress Sophia and the Hanover Succession. Bound in full dark green morocco. Decorative gilt letter "S" and gilt tooling on covers. Raised band...

2 Volumes. Madame Campan, The Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette. Limited Edition. Bound in 3/4 blue morocco and linen boards double bordered in gilt-tooling. The spines displa...

Antique map Friesland titled 'Summaria descriptio Fresiae Universae (..)'. Old map of Friesland, the Netherlands. Depicts the general delineation of Friesland during its widest sprea...

A beautifully and colourfully illustrated copy of Richard Wagner's epic four epic opera dramas, illustrated throughout by Arthur Rackham with tipped-in colour plates, scarce to see i...

The Story Of The Lamp and the Candle by F. W. Robins. Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1939. Blue cloth binding, many black and white illustrations, shelf wear, exlib,...

A very nice set of books in a very good clamshell box which were privately published with the support of Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin. Volume 1 - The Collect...

A fine, limited edition set of Pope's translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey with excellent provenance. Limited edition, With Homer numbered 1051 and The Iliad numbered 1196. With text in both Latin and Greek. The Nonesuch Press specialised in limited edition and private press. They were founded by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel and their friend David Garnett. Their aspiration was for their publications to be aligned with the same aesthetic standards as the private press movement. They were unusual as they used a small Albion press...

Antique map titled 'Tabula Ducatus Brabantiae.' - Detailed map of the southern part of The Netherlands and the northern part of Belgium with Antwerp and Brussels. In the corner top l...