Browse by Date—1900–1949

1911, the War Office's guide with fold-out maps and plans

HMSO, London, 1911

The Fundamental Theorems Demonstrated without Mathematics. And the Influence on the Length of Day Discussed.

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1901

First edition, published in Hamburg in 1945

Privately printed, Hamburg, 1945

In an attractive binding

Walter Scott, London, 1900

A selection of wonderful images of 1915 Bombay (Mumbai)

Thacker & Co, Bombay, 1915

c1923, a rare early printing of F Scott Fitzgerald's first novel

Collins, London, 1923

A 1903 rare collection of Armenian songs, collected by Archag Tchobanian

Paul Ollendorff, Paris, 1903

A Study of the Declining Birth-Rate in Acquisitive Societies

Secker & Warburg, London, 1942

Speeches from the 1910 Public Morals Conference

Cassell, London, 1910

A study of infant mortality

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1943

1939, programme for the national meeting of the British Battalion in the Spanish Civil War

Marston Publicity, London, 1939

A 1935 first edition, and a classic text of econometrics

P S King & Son, London, 1935

with 24 colour plates by Byam Shaw

T C & E C Jack, London, 1910

Based on the Douglas Fairbanks film

Hutchinson, London, 1925

Volume 16 in The Sportsman's Library (1936)

Philip Allan, London, 1936

William Bliss' classic about canoeing the inland waterways and rivers of England

Methuen, London, 1934

Behind the scenes memoirs from the Royal Opera House

Stanley Paul, London, 1936

A long fold-out map from the Thames' source to London Bridge

Edward Stanford, London, 1927

A WW2 memoir of boatwomen on the Inland Waterways

Ernest Benn, London, 1947

A classic Wapping murder story

Longmans, London, 1947

A Canoeing Chronicle by River and Canal

H F & G Witherby, London, 1933

Emma Smith wartime memoir of working on the Grand Union Canal

MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1949

A romance from the creator of the Provincial Lady

Macmillan, London, 1928

1943–1945, on British institutions and ideals

Craig and Wilson, Glasgow, 1943

from the founder of the Society of Herbalists

Chatto & Windus, London, 1936