Search Results: Titles starting with T from Antiquates Ltd

London: Jonathan Cape, [1948]. [2], 491pp, [1]. With nine maps. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in silver, printed paper dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper marked and lightly creased, short closed tear to foot of front panel, tear to fold of front flap (tape repair to verso). Internally clean and crisp. The second edition, ninth printing, of Liddell Hart's authorised biography of Lawrence of Arabia. O'Brien E059.. Second edition, ninth printing. 8vo.

Hampshire: Castle Hill Press, 2000. 219pp. Original publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt, with the tan dustwrapper lettered in black. Single tear to bottom rear panel, with a light crease. Internally bright and clean save annotation on page 44 in red pen, initialled AW, further corrections in red p179. With a frontispiece sketch of Williamson by Powys Evans, and 16 photographs of correspondence and drafts. From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed. Henry Williamson's family copy of the T. E. Lawrence Letters series, volume ix, in which Williamson and Lawrence's correspondences are collected. With a prologue and epilogue by Anne Williamson. Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war… Read More

New York: Arrow Editions [The Spiral Press], [1938]. [2], 95pp, [1]. With half-title. Original publisher's canvas-backed blue-black paper boards, lettered in black, glassine wrapper, housed in original publisher's brown card slipcase. A very fine copy. Slipcase a trifle marked and sunned, some splitting to joints, loss to foot. . First edition, limited to 500 copies. 8vo.

[Malibu]: [Pepperdine University], [1988]. 176pp. Original publisher's plastic snap binding, card covers. Light shelf-wear. A clean and crisp copy. A collection of the presentations made at the T. E. Lawrence Symposium, held May 20th-21st, 1988, at the Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The selection includes Jeffrey Myers on 'T. E. Lawrence in his Letters' and O'Brien on 'Lawrence Bibliography'. . First edition. Quarto.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. [12], 894pp. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper a trifle creased, scoring to spine panel. Internally clean and crisp. The revised and greatly expanded edition of Philip M. O'Brien's authoritative and monumental bibliography of works by and about T. E. Lawrence. . Second edition, revised and expanded. Quarto.

Honesdale, Pennsylvania: [s.n.], 1990-92 Volumes I - III. [83]ff. Contemporary black leatherette ring binder, each leaf held in plastic punched pocket. The first three volumes of a monthly periodical devoted to T. E. Lawrence, issued between August 1990 and September 1992, containing articles from contributors including Lawrence's official biography Jeremy Wilson, and bibliographer Philip O'Brien. This display copy was intended for use of members of the T. E. Lawrence Society at a symposium. O'Brien G1964.. Quarto.

London: National Portrait Gallery Publications, 1989. 248pp. Original publisher's illustrated gloss card wraps. Minor shelf-wear, internally bright and clean. From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed, without indication of such. The full colour illustrated National Portrait Gallery catalogue for the 1989 exhibit. Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing naturalistic novels very much in the romantic tradition. . First edition. Quarto.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1937. 596pp. With eight photographic plates tipped in. Original publisher's red cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the cream dust wrapper lettered in black. Bottom edge uncut. Boards slightly edgeworn, dustwrapper heavily worn with loss and marking. From the family library of Henry Williamson, who has contribution in this title. Compiled by his youngest brother and literary executor Arnold Walter Lawrence, this publication gathers a series of essays and musings on T. E. Lawrence by his friends and contemporaries. Including a contribution by Henry Williamson, from whose family library this copy hails. Henry Williamson (1895-1977), novelist and writer on natural history and the English countryside, is predominantly remembered as the author of Tarka the Otter (1927) for which he won the Hawthornden Prize. His wartime experiences on the Western Front having altered his life inexorably, he spent the remainder of his post-war life in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk, writing… Read More

Glasguae [i.e. Glasgow]: In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1762. In four volumes. Parallel Greek and Latin text. First seven words of the title transliterated from the Greek. Contemporary vellum, contrasting brown calf lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Rubbed, a trifle marked and discoloured, loss, cracking, and chipping to spines/lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers, worm-track to front endpapers of Vol. I, else internally clean and crisp. Later inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to front blank fly-leaf of Vol. I. An esteemed edition of the works of Xenophon, with the text in Greek and Latin, finely printed by Foulis of Glasgow; containing the texts of Hellenica, from the 1690 edition with commentary by Church of England clergyman and educationist Edward Wells (1667-1721), and classical scholar Thomas Hutchinson's (bap. 1698, d. 1769) highly regarded edition of the Cyropaedia (1727). Another edition, entirely in Greek, appeared in the same year. John Taylor… Read More

New York: Works Projects Administration, 1942. [2], xxvi, 169pp, [5]. Original publisher's tan cloth boards, lettered in black. A trifle rubbed, corner's bumped. Internally immaculate. The first edition of a comprehensive inverse trigonometric table published by the Mathematical Tables Project of the Work Projects Administration - an organisation founded during the Depression era with the sole remit of creating mathematical tables. Tomash L 137.. First edition. Quarto.

London: Asprey & Co., [s.d., c. 1910] 407pp, [1]. Original publisher's gilt-tooled brown morocco, A.E.G. Minor shelf-wear. Internally clean and crisp. William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British writer and painter, primarily remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism and widely considered one of the foremost critics and essayists of the English language. . 8vo.

Paris et London: Colburn, 1813. 196pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, joints starting. Marbled endpapers, early inked ownership inscription and manuscript annotations to front blank fly-leaf, scattered foxing. The first edition of an account of the progress of French literature in the eighteenth century, with reference to numerous notable authors, including, inter alia, Fenelon, Fontenelle, and Voltaire. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed, and Sold by J. Brotherton, 1735. iv, 48, [2], 92pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf. A trifle rubbed. Title page lightly browned, later inked ownership inscription of Henry Lonsdall to recto of FFEP. Inked inscription to recto of p[1]: 'Examd. G. Morris'. The sole edition of the first published work of Gael Morris, of whom little is known; a ready-reckoner providing tables for computing interest the renewal and purchase of lease and annuities. Morris has only one other work to his name the (equally scarce) posthumously published Astronomical tables of the sun and moon... (London, 1775?). The presence of the author's inscription is clearly explained in the preface: 'The Tables of Simple Interest, I am of Opinion, will be found to be more exact than any hitherto published; but should they yet be imperfect...I will return the Money to any Person that shall shew me an Error of a Penny in any Book attested to be examined by me'. ESTC records copies at six… Read More

London: Published by R. B. Bate, 1849. viii, 48pp, [2]. Orignal publisher's blind-tooled cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed with some soiling, spine sunned. Ink stamp of K. Brounger to recto of FFEP, very light damp-staining to top margins throughout. Sir Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell (1814-1886), Admiral of the Royal Navy and Commander-in-Chief, China Station. During his time at the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, having already seen a deal of active service in the Mediterranean and off the coast of Syria, Shadwell devoted himself to the study of surveying and more especially nautical astronomy. Such was his talent for scholarship and his prolific output that he would, in later life, be made president of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich and a fellow of both the Royal Astronomical and Geographical societies. . First edition. Quarto.

London: Printed for the Author...by G. Smith, 1742. [6],14,[74];[152]pp. With a list of subscribers and an errata slip. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, gilt supralibros of the La Rochefoucauld family to both boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, all edges red. Rubbed and a trifle marked. Marbled endpapers, recent book-label of Erwin Tomash to FEP, ink-stamp of the Château de La Roche-Guyon to title page, inked inscription of the author to final page of preface. The first edition of land surveyor and mathematics tutor William Gardiner's (1710- c.1769) highly regarded, and remarkably accurate tables of logarithms. Although they contained some errors, they were used as the basis for many subsequent publications in the field - most notably those of Francois Callet (Paris, 1795). Gardiner himself discovered several errors and offered to correct them by hand should owners wish to send their copies to him. Additionally, he offered a reward of a quite staggering £50 for… Read More

Paris: Theophile Barrois, 1790. In three volumes. lxxix, [1], 550, [2]; [4], 485, [1]; [4], 477pp, [3]. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, speckled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines dulled. Marbled endpapers, early pen trials to verso of Vol. I errata leaf. A handsome late-eighteenth century edition of the surviving works of Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus, translated by Jean-Baptiste Dureau de la Malle (1742-1807). . 8vo.

Black Swan, 1986. 232pp. Privately printed for Christmas 1986, edited by Cynthia Reavell with an introduction by Susan Hill. Original publisher's Wickel-Silver Special paper quarter bound over grey Regent-linen, lettered silver to spine. Distinctive black swan design stamped in black to front board, with the motif repeated on the endpapers. Very minor scuffs to the delicate silver paper, and two small spots to the spine. Internally bright, fresh and clean, devoid of any toning or other marks. First printed in Hutchinson's Magazine in 1925, the eponymous tale was later added to Benson's third supernatural anthology - Spook Stories - in 1928. E. F. Benson (1867-1940) was an extremely prolific English writer, completing over fifty novels, four novel series, short stories, plays, biographies, and other non-fiction works on subjects as varied as golf and grave digging. His last work, his third autobiography, was delivered to his publisher just ten days before his death. Masters, 1991.… Read More

London: Rogerson and Tuxford, 1864. [8], 202pp. With half-title and an extra engraved title with hand-coloured vignette. Lacking frontispiece. Original publisher's black buckram, lettered in gilt. Very slight wear to extremities. Hinges cracked, very short closed tears to gutter margins of additional title and title, leaves toned with occasional foxing. A collection of articles, songs, and fictions upon the themes of horse racing, hunting, and gambling, which had previously appeared in various periodicals including All the Year Round and the Sporting Magazines. A scarce first edition, with COPAC recording only three copies; BL, Cambridge, NLS, Oxford. . First edition. 8vo.

London and Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, 1869. 224pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed. FFEP torn away, else internally clean and crisp. The sixth volume of short stories selected from Chamber's Journal, including Anna Maria Sargeant's 'The lie of expediency', Percy B. St John's 'The rifle: a tale of Arkansas', Camilla Toulmin's 'To slay or to save?', and several unattributed others such as 'Story of an Edinburgh sedan-carrier' and 'The work-girl'. . 8vo.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., [1939]. 127pp, [1]; 127pp, [1]. With 16 illustrated coloured plates by Herbert Cole and H. Granville Fell. Original publisher’s red cloth, lettered in black. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp. Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (c. 1476-1524), renowned French Knight, commonly known as Chevalier de Bayard. The epitome of chivalric virtue, Bayard was one of the most renowned military commanders of the sixteenth century Europe. He served with distinction under Charles VIII, securing numerous victories during the First Italian War. Under Louis XII he was the hero of many combats; on one occasion he is said to have single-handedly defended a bridge over the Garigliano against 200 Spanish troops, an exploit that brought him such renown that Pope Julius II sought unsuccessfully to entice him into the papal service. In 1508 he fought at the siege of Genoa and, later, at Padua. Despite being… Read More