Recent Additions

A study of infant mortality

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1943

Two volumes, 1896, 2nd edition. The design, management and construction of rivers and canals.

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1896

Signed by the editor, Leonee Ormond

J M Dent, London, 1997

Signed by the editor, Leonee Ormond

J M Dent, London, 1999

Rebound in plain blue cloth

William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1848

Clarke's Harmer, 1808, volume 3 only, on honouring the dead, Judea and Egypt

J Johnson, London, 1808

This copy belonged to Victorian artist Lawrence Alma Tadema, with his signature to the title page

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1819

1844, S J Van Butchell's treatments and cases

H Renshaw, London, 1844

Signed by Eric Linklater and Allan C Fraser, poems in the Scottish dialect

Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1949

Yokel and Detective at Musselburgh Races in Days Gone Bye (c1890)

Thomas Adams and Sons, Edinburgh, 1890

A rarity of 19th century Scottish verse, this copy inscribed by the author to literary critic Sir Francis Jeffrey

James Hedderwick & Co, Glasgow, 1812

Being a Collection of Thomas Churchyard's Pieces Relative to that Country; with Historical Notices, and a Life of the Author.

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1817

Signed by Spanish artist Gregorio Prieto

Medici Society, London, 1923

1891, two volumes in a nice half-leather binding

David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1891

The workings of the Russian secret police in the late 1930s

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1938

1883, Les Trente-deux Recits du Trone (Batris-Sinhasan / Singhasan Battisi)

Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1883

1881, a collection of Greek folk tales

Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1881

Eight centuries of French poetry, in a fine leather binding from Hatchette of London

Payot et Cie, Paris, 1927

Paul Caludel's poetry in an attractive leather binding from Hatchette

Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paris, 1920

A 1914 edition of Claudel's play, The Tidings Brought to Mary

Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paris, 1914

Edward Thompson's first Indian novel

Alfred A Knopf, London, 1927

Austin Clarke's play based on the Irish satire Aislinge Mac Conglinne

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1927

A thriller from the German Edgar Wallace...

Hutchinson, London, 1937

Four stories from Julien Green, including Les Clefs de la Mort, Christine and Leviathan

Libraire Plon, Paris, 1930

bound with A Visit to the Western Coast of Norway

Charles Knight, London, 1846