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An Autograph Letter Signed (ALS) by King Charles III (then Prince Charles, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales), expressing thanks for a birthday gift received from Dudley Poplak (1930-2005), his good friend and interior designer.
4pp. on 2 folded sheets of Kensington Palace headed notepaper with blue royal cypher, dated December 1st 1992, a single fold to the paper; near fine, accompanied with the original white envelope with blue royal cypher, addressed in hand by the King; very good.
Personal letters by King Charles III to individuals within his inner circle are very rare to encounter.
The letter reads as follows:
"Dear Dudley,
Bless you for so kindly thinking of me on my birthday and for your wonderfully generous present of that splendid commode. You have been so marvellous over the past 11 years with your birthday presents & I can't tell you how touched I have been by them - and none more so than that exquisite Edward Lear you gave me. It is one of my most treasured possessions, particularly as it… Read More

An Autograph Letter Signed (ALS) by King Charles III (then Prince Charles, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales), expressing thanks for a birthday gift received from Dudley Poplak (1930-2005), his good friend and interior designer.
2pp. on 1 folded sheet of Highgrove House headed notepaper with blue royal cypher, dated November 17th 1990, a single fold to the paper; near fine, accompanied with the original white envelope with blue royal cypher, addressed in hand by the King and postmarked Buckingham Palace 19 Nov 1990; very good.
Personal letters by King Charles III to individuals in his inner circle are very rare to encounter.
The letter reads as follows:
"Dear Dudley,
You really are an incredibly kind & thoughtful person to remember my birthday and to send such a splendid present! Thank you so much for that magnificent & highly original inkwell? I don't know how you manage to find these things with feathers on? Is there anything which hasn't got feathers on?!
I was so touched that you managed to ensure your… Read More

1806. Original First Edition. London, Printed for T. Egerton at the Military Library, 1806. Octavo. XXIV, Errata Leaves [1], 98, 6 unnumbered pages (including Explanation of Plates and Index). With 14 (of 16) Fold-out-Plates and one which is missing a small strip (Plate 2). Also including the two additional Music - Plates with Four Pages of: 1.and 2.: Barrack Sounds / 3. Field Sounds [for the Trumpeter] as well as 4. Quick and Slow Marches [Buglers Trumpet Call / Setting the Watch / Shoulder Arms / Order Arms / Cease Firing / Incline to the Right / Form Indian Files / On Discovering the Enemy / The Enemy is Infantry & Cavalry / Call in the Advanced Guard / Call in the Skirmishers / etc. Hardcover / Original 19th century full leather Spine cracked but holding. Interior in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All the plates in very good condition with one missing. This is the very rare original edition and NOT a reproduction. The plates include: Plate I: Shews the Company in extended… Read More

new oversize pb, SIGNED BY SONIA SHERIDAN, expedited shipping not available

Berlin: Siegfried Alweiss, 1926. First Edition . Decorative Original Boards. Near Fine. small 8vo. 16 unnumbered pages. Printed on Van gelder Zonen, Haarlem paper. Very fine printing. With a written inscription on title page ; " HERRN ERICH GOTTGETREU MIT BESTEN GRUSSEN. HEINZ STROH , BERLIN SOMMER 1926. A VERY GOOD , CLEAN AND FRESH COPY. Very rare. Nearly unseen on the market.

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London: Printed by W. Wilson for George Sawbridge 1664. 8vo. [Eighth edition]. [viii], 80, 73-188 pp. Full recent brown calf with blind-stamped decorative borders to boards; raised bands and red leather author and title labels, with gilt lettering and ruling to spine; brown cloth slipcase with gilt-lettered red leather label to its spine. Minimal scratching to calf. The odd small closed tear or chipping to edges of leaves and a small hole at each of pages 61 and 160. Light spotting, though quite clean overall. This work was a bestseller and was published many times during the 17th century, providing recipes for medicines and more everyday fare. The British Library notes that although the title implies a female audience, only around 10% of women were literate at the time of publication and so most of this work's readers were clergymen or men of the gentry. Wing M633; ESTC R221468 . Near Fine. Blind-stamped Full Calf. Eighth Edition. 1664.

Paris, Imprimées pour les curieux, 1757.. HAND COLOURED EDITION 1757. Small 4to, approximately 200 x 150 mm, 7¾ x 6 inches, title in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece by Benoit Audran after A. Coypel, 29 further engraved plates (28 by Audran after Phillippe, Duc d'Orléans, 1 unsigned plate after the Comte de Caylus), (including the plate of Les petits pieds at page162), each within decorative border by S. Focke, all engravings (including initials and 16 head- and tailpieces) HAND COLOURED, 20 heightened with gilt, parallel text. Pages: viii, 1-269, [1], bound in 19th century black morocco by Masson-Debonnelle (his name on first lower dentelle), gilt lettering and decoration to spine, covers with central gilt-blocked bird, quiver of arrows and torch motif, corners with rose device, triple fillet border, gilt decorated dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Spine professionally relaid, small brown stain to top inner margin of title page, most plates have pale foxing… Read More

London, printed by W. Wilson, for John Harison, ... to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, 1648.. TITLE CONTINUED: or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich orchard: particularly in the north, and generally for the whole kingdom of England, as in nature, reason, situation, and all probability, may and doth appear. With the country-houswifes garden for herbs of common use: their vertues, seasons, profits, ornaments, variety of knots, models for trees, and plots for the best ordering of grounds and walks. As also, the husbandry of bees, with their several uses and annoyances, all being the experience of fourty and eight yeers labour, and now the second time corrected and much enlarged, by William Lawson. Whereunto is newly added by Simon Harward A Most Profitable New Treatise, from approved experience of the Art of propagating Plants followed by The Husband Mans Fruitfull Orchard, 7th EDITION 1648. 8vo, approximately 190 x 140 mm, 7½ x 5½ inches,… Read More

London, printed for D. Henry, at St. Johns Gate, 1776.. BRITISH PRINTING OF THE AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, 1776. 8vo, 210 x 130 mm, 8½ x 5 inches, full year of 12 issues, January - December 1776, bound together, plus the Supplement, each month with its own title page with a woodcut of St. John's Gate at the top. Map of the South Pole, Map of the discoveries of Captain Cook, Folding Projection of the Western and Eastern Hemispheres, plus a folding plan of the City and University of Cambridge in the 16th century, Map of the Country round New York and Philadelphia, Map of Long Island, Map of Connecticut, Map of the Progress of His Majesty's Armies in New-York, 5 engraved plates,1 folding, plus a few small illustrations in the text, engraved plate at page 80 misplaced at page 248, pages: [4], 1-608, plus 16 pages of index, errata and list of plates. Bound in half calf, marbled boards, gilt title, volume number and date to spine, engraved bookplate to first pastedown. Marbled covers rubbed… Read More

London, John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1844 & 1845.. TWO VOLUMES BOTH FIRST EDTIONS FIRST PRINTINGS, 1844 and 1845. Both 8vo, approximately 210 x 125 mm, 8 x 5 inches, pages: vi, 1-390, including half-title; vii, 1-198, including half-title, followed by 8 pages of adverts, rebound in modern half calf, green gilt lettered labels and gilt rules to spines, marbled boards, brown endpapers. Occasional pale foxing and pale signs of handling to margins, otherwise very good copies. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH EXPOSITION OF AN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY IN ENGLISH. "This outspoken statement of a belief in evolution, published anonymously to protect Chambers's reputation as a publisher, anticipated Darwin's Origin by 16 years and generally prepared the public for the latter", Garrison and Morton, A Medical Bibliography, page 40 No. 218; Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Volume 3, page 192. "Chambers devoted about a quarter of the volume to geology and paleontology, considering each era or formation… Read More

London, Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1841.. FIRST EDITION IN 3 VOLUMES 1841. Lacking 2 original engraved portrait frontispieces, John Law and Count Cagliostro and all half titles. A 19th centuary engraving of John Law and a modern facsimile of Count Cagliostro have been inserted, the original frontispiece of James I has been laid down on matching paper and reinserted. 8vo, approximately 210 x 130 mm, 8 x 5 inches, 5 illustrations, 3 original engraved portraits (2 in Volume 3), plus an extra facsimile (not called for) of the author tipped in on the first pastedown of Volume 3. Pages: Volume 1: vi, 1-400; Volume 2: [4], 1-406; Volume 3: [4], 1-404, bound in green cloth, gilt lettered leather labels to spines, double gilt rules to head and tail of spines. Bindings lightly rubbed with slight shelf wear to edges and corners, lacks endpapers front and rear, title labels slightly rubbed, all title pages dusty with pale age toning, narrow strip of… Read More

In Venetia: per Nicolo de Bascarini ad instantia & requisitione & a proprie spese de Nicolo Tartaglia Autore, 1554.. SECOND EDITION 1554, imprint from colophon, Italian text, small 4to, approximately 220 x 150 mm, 8½ x 6 inches, large woodcut portrait of the author on the title page, 40 woodcut illustrations in the text plus an additional strip of paper bearing a repeat illustration pasted to fore-edge of leaf S3r as in all copies of the 1554 edition, numerous diagrams, 11 historiated initials, leaves: [4], 5-128 leaves, numbered on rectos only, making a total of 254 pages, signature H is duplicated i.e. pages 29-32, collated and guaranteed complete, bound in modern half leather over patterned paper boards, 3 raised bands, blind rules and gilt title to spine, new endpapers. Pale stain to margins throughout up to leaf 104, then slightly heavier stains with tide lines to leaf 125 which just touch the text, all still legible, also a smaller darker brown stain in the upper margins sometimes affecting… Read More

Imprinted at London, by Peter Short, dwelling at the signe of the Starre on Breadstreet hill, 1601.. SECOND EDITION 1601 (first edition published in 1600), divided into 8 chapters, the running title: The new found arte of setting corne. Small 4to, approximately 175 x 130 mm, 7 x 5 inches, woodcut vignette on title, headpiece and large initial to first page, 32 unnumbered pages, signatures: A-D4, padded out at rear with cream paper, rebound in full modern speckled calf, gilt lettered green label, gilt name, date and rules between raised bands to spine, black endpapers, speckled edges, printed at foot of last page: "H. Plat Esquire". Small pale stain to outer edge of title page and 2 tiny dark brown spots on illustration, small pale stains to outer edges of pages before signature D, darker stains to outer margins and pale age-browning to last 4 leaves not affecting text, quires A and C reset; on A2r line 1 of text ends "probablie", line 3 has "newe"; on C1r line 7 of text ends "cause", line 11 has… Read More

In Venetia, appresso F. Sansovino, et Compagni, 1561.. TITLE CONTINUED: Ne quali si contengono tutte le cose utrile, & appartenenti al bisogno della villa, tratte da gli antichi & da moderni scrittori. Con le figure delle biaue delle piante, de gli animali & delle herbe cosi medicinali, come comuni & da mangiare. SECOND EDITION 1561, divided into 5 parts, first published in 1560. Text in Italian. Small 4to, approximately 210 x 145 mm, 8 x 5½ inches, 240 small woodcuts in the text, mostly botanical apart from a few on pests in part 5, headpieces and decorated intials, printer's device to title page and colophon. 192 leaves numbered on rectos, (384 pages), [4],1-187, [1], bound in later full vellum, wine coloured gilt lettered label to spine, lacks first and last free endpapers. Binding slightly spotted, tiny hole to spine, edge of lower cover grazed with loss of vellum (80mm, 3 inches), title page lightly stained with 2 small neat repairs to blank side, crossed out small ink name and slight… Read More

Lutetiae (Paris), Ex officina Michaelis Vascosani, 1551.. FIRST PARIS PRINTING 1551 of the Aldine edition printed in the same year, Latin text, approximately 235 x 150 mm, 9¼ x 6 inches, large folding table dated 1539, LACKING A SECOND FOLDING TABLE, woodcut headpieces and initials, leaves: [20], 1-311, [1]; numbered on rectos only, making over 600 pages, collation: [fleuron]6 ([fleuron]6 blank), A-B4, C6 (C6 blank), A- C8, D-Z8, Aa-Qq8 (Qq8 blank), bound in full early calf, decorative gilt border to both covers, gilt raised bands, richly gilt in compartments, gilt lettered brown morocco label, all edges red. 1 or 2 minor marks to covers, armorial bookplate of William Constable, F.R.S., F.A.S., (1721-91), an 18th century naturalist and scientist, a few small brown smudges to title page, neat old ink signature at top, another larger in the middle, a few tiny pale ink splashes to margin of page 188, small piece torn off lower corner of Ccv and Mm7, no loss of text, many early small neat scholarly… Read More

Lugduni, Sumptibus Horatii Boissat & Georgii Remeus, 1662.. 2 works by ALVAREZ bound together in 1 volume, both from the same publisher in Lyons, Ludex Perfectus being a first edition, De Privilegiis a second, 1662 & 1663. Latin text, folio, approximately 360 x 225 mm, 14 x 8¾ inches. Title pages printed red and black with beautiful large engraved printer's device of a ship and 2 angels, repeated on final page of Ludex Perfectus, some decorative head- and tailpieces and initials, half-title to each work, text printed in double column, each work with an index at rear. LUDEX PERFECTUS: pages: [20], 1-324, [56]. 1 small printer's ink stain to 1 lower margin corner, otherwise clean. Treatise on the subject of judges, Roman and Canon law. DE PRIVILEGIIS PAUPERUM: subtitle: cod. quando imperator inter pupillos, & viduas, aliasque miserabiles personas cognoscat : tractatus in duas partes distributus, juris studiosos, & in foro versantibus omnino necessarius, bonarum literarum sectatoribus… Read More

London, printed by J.C. for Henry Brome, at the Gun at the west-end of St. Pauls, 1675.. TITLE CONTINUED: In two parts: ENGLAND'S IMPROVEMENTS & HOW THE NAVIGATION OF ENGLAND MAY BE ENCREASED. In the former is discoursed, how the kingdom of England may be improved, in strength, employment, wealth, trade. By encreasing the value of lands, the revenues of the crown and Church, peace and amity with forein nations, without any charge to the subject. In the latter is discoursed, how the navigation of England may be increased, and the soveraignty of the British seas more secured to the crown of England. Treatises III and IV, by Roger Coke. 1675. Possibly intended as a continuation of his "A treatise wherein is demonstrated that the Church and state of England are in equal danger with the trade of it", in 2 volumes. Small 4to, approximately 180 x 130 mm, 7 x 5 inches, pages: [20], 1-68, [12], 73-115, [1] - last page blank, pagination continuous, 10 leaves in the first part are folding with old ink notes… Read More

London, John Bysh, 52 Paternoster Row, (1820).. Circa 1820, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, 32mo, approximately 66 x 42 mm, 2½ x 1¾ inches, engraved frontispiece and 31 plates all nicely HAND COLOURED, in 2 parts, the second entitled: The Juvenile Testament, or History of the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, adapted to the capacity of children, pages: vi, 7-144 & 71, [1], publisher's notice on final unnumbered page, bound in the original publisher's black roan, single ruled gilt border to covers, gilt rules and 1 word title to spine. Minute scrape to lower cover, tiny rub to tail of spine, no inscriptions, 1 colour plate reinserted by pasting inner margin to inner margin of facing page (see image "Going to Jerusalem"). A very good complete copy of a rare miniature juvenile bible. Illustrations: The Creation -- Serpent tempting Eve -- Tower of Babel -- Joseph sold by his brothers -- Jacob and family's journey to Egypt -- Pharoah &c. drowned in the Red Sea -- Moses receiving the tables -- A… Read More

New York, T. and J. Swords, G & C & H Carvill, E. Bliss, Collins & Co., et al., 1830.. TITLE CONTINUED: With descriptions of above two hundred foreign and eighty American varieties; together with a complete dissertation on the establishment, culture, and management of vineyards. FIRST EDITION 1830, 8vo, approximately, 230 x 145 mm, 9 x 5½ inches, 1 lithograph plate at page 165, "Vitus labrusca." usually found as frontispiece. Pages: viii, 9-355, modern quarter speckled calf, gilt lettered green title label and gilt vines between raised bands on spine, marbled boards, marbled endpapers, untrimmed copy as issued, pale foxing throughout. A very good copy. See: James Gabler, Wine into Words, A History and Bibliography of Wine books in English, No. G33030, page, 213: "Compared to anything else on viticulture by American writers, the Treatise was a work of an entirely different and higher order. Prince was the 4th proprietor of the famous Prince Nursery and Linnaean Botanic Garden at Flushing, Long… Read More