First Attempts, First Edition (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Includes many b/w photographs. viii, 154pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 125 pp. ; 8vo; original blue cloth stamped in gilt; numerous photographs, 3 facsimile color plates; reproductions; maps. Light wear to extremities; fading to cloth rear cover with a small spot.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition Thus. 1972. First edition thus. [v], vii, 24, 56pp., 68pp., iv, pp. 3 to 69, and a 2-page catalogue. This is a volume in the publisher's 'British Labour Struggles: Contemporary Pamphlets 1727-1850' series. It contains facsimile reprints of the following pamphlets: Proceedings of the first general meeting of the British and Foreign Philanthropic Society for the permanent relief of the labouring classes, first published 1822; The religious creed of the new system, by A. Combe, first published 1824; and The sphere for joint-stock companies: or, the way to increase the value of land, capital, and labour, by A. Combe, first published 1825. The book is bound in the original light purplish brown cloth covered boards with a dark brown cloth covered spine and gold titling on the spine. The book is in excellent condition and the contents are tight and clean with no inscription.

Soft Copy. Condition: NF+. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Signed & short inscribed 2012 by author on half-title page. Clean purple and gold cover with b/w photo of Bertram Ogilvie's second biplane tethered at the top of the launching ramp at Riverbend Road, Napier. Very faint and just a few thin small scratches to cover. Immaculate content. Sepia toned illustrations and drawings. Binding is As New. 184p. By Author & Inscribed.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 184p Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine Signed by the author, with illustrations, the early days of experimentation in air flight in New Zealand, including ballooning and early aeroplanes, and an interview with Richard Pearse. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 184p Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine Signed by the author, with illustrations, the early days of experimentation in air flight in New Zealand, including ballooning and early aeroplanes, and an interview with Richard Pearse. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback in a fine unclipped dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Thick Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1928 FIRST EDITION. Ooriginal stiff white card covers, pages printed on quality rag paper, decorated EPs, title block front cover in pale olive green with black lettering. This has printed presentation page (as bound by publisher) with line for name and line for numbering (both still blank for this example). The book measures 258mm tall x 164mm, not paginated [32 pages counting title page and presentation page], two woodblock illustrations, several marginal illustrations, title illustration for part II. Prospectus for Byrd's first Antarctic expedition in two parts: 1) Byrd's mission statement. 2) Russell Owen's description of "Byrd's Base Ship and his Antarctic Village." No indication of total number published. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 2 volumes. Small 4tos. Patterned thick card covers. pp 74 & 40. Poetry. Contributors include George Papoulias, Zografakis, Andrew Loucas, A. Boulahanis, M. Calvocoressi, Nicholas Ephessios, Carless Jones, John Pispiris, R. S. Darbishire. Endpapers slightly browned, covers very slightly rubbed; sound about VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp xxxiii, [7], 480. Bound in publisher's full brown leather, lettered by-hand at the spine. Bookplate on the front pastedown of the female bibliophile, Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861). Front and rear board almost loose but just holding otherwise very good minus.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. Full-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 480 pages, original English panel style blindstamped decorated leather. Front cover detached. Covers have usual expected wear. Spine in good condition, has raised bands and title label, with wear at top and bottom of spine. Binding is tight, contents are clean and in good condition. Richard Cumberland, English philosopher and bishop of Peterborough, wrote this anti-Hobbesian tract that was well received in its day. First edition.

First Edition. Good copy in contemporary full leather, with blind-tooled decoration to the boards, raised spine bands, and a gilt-blocked red leather label (now with minor loss to label margins). Board edges rubbed; spine showing wear at joints and endbands. Preliminary and final leaves lightly foxed, with interior remaining notably tight, bright and clean throughout. A well-preserved example overall. Physical description; xxxiii, [7], 480, [8] pages ; 20 cm. Notes; Title page within double-ruled border. Referenced by: ESTC T129071 ; Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers 1042. Some tracts in Latin. Subjects; History, Ancient. Bible History of contemporary events. World history Early works to 1800. Egypt Antiquities. Greece Antiquities. Rome Antiquities. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Good copy in contemporary full leather, with blind-tooled decoration to the boards, raised spine bands, and a gilt-blocked red leather label (now with minor loss to label margins). Board edges rubbed; spine showing wear at joints and endbands. Preliminary and final leaves lightly foxed, with interior remaining notably tight, bright and clean throughout. A well-preserved example overall. Physical description; xxxiii, [7], 480, [8] pages ; 20 cm. Notes; Title page within double-ruled border. Referenced by: ESTC T129071 ; Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers 1042. Some tracts in Latin. Subjects; History, Ancient. Bible History of contemporary events. World history Early works to 1800. Egypt Antiquities. Greece Antiquities. Rome Antiquities. 1 Kg.

First edition; 8vo (20 x 13 cm); armorial bookplate to front pastedown, ownership blindstamp to first few ff., woodcut initials, head and tailpieces; contemporary calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece, lightly rubbed, upper joint slightly cracked, otherwise very good; xxxiii, [7], 480, [8]pp. A posthumously published compilation of 'loose tracts' by Richard Cumberland (1632-1718), the bishop of Peterborough, tracing the origins of mankind 'into the remotest Antiquity' (Preface). The work is illustrated with 'A Chronological Table for the Ages succeeding the Flood', dated by the author to 2348 BC, with cross-comparisons of biblical, Assyrian, Egyptian and Greek historical events. Thus, the Tower of Babel is built at the time of Prometheus; Isaac is born as the Phoenicians enter Europe; and Moses dies when Thyosimares sits on the throne of Thebes. ESTC T129071; Bowyer Ledgers 1042.

First editions of the True Interest and Apology, second of the Letter & Remonstrance: together a lavishly illustrated work advocating a system of canals and reservoirs across Scotland, written some 20 years before the great age of British canals. Alexander Murray (c. 1684-1743) reports on the condensed network he had constructed in his own lands, emphasizing the benefits for irrigation and transportation. At Ardnamurchan, he devised a series of canals to channel water from the higher lands, and drained the lower lands in preparation: much of this work can still be seen today. Several of the plates depict similar techniques for managing water at high altitude. Murray had been a fervent supporter of Scottish independence and the Jacobite cause; after the failure of the 1715 rebellion, in which he fought, he diverted his energies into schemes for the economic development of his home country. The only entry for the True Interest listed on ESTC records that it was issued bound with copies of the Letter & Remonstrance and the Apology, as here. The Apology appears to have also been issued as a standalone pamphlet in 1741, while the Letter & Remonstrance was originally published with a 1739 imprint. ESTC T102909; Kress 4515 (True Interest), 4514 (Letter & Remonstrance); Sabin 51483; Scott 426. 3 parts bound in 1 vol., folio (372 x 232 mm), pp. viii, 52; [ii], 20; 8. With 11 engraved plates (10 folding, 2 hand-coloured), 2 folding engraved tables, wood-engraved device to title page and wood-engraved tailpiece (Letter), tables in the text. Contemporary marbled boards with vellum tips, recently rebacked in calf with earlier black calf label, edges uncut. Early 19th-century engraved library ticket of the Lords Minto, possibly Gilbert Elliot-Murray Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto (1751-1814). Light bumping and wear, infrequent minor foxing, closed tears to lower margins of 3rd, 4th, 8th, and 11th plate, all touching text, and several other short closed tears at inner margins: a very good copy.

First edition of Hakluyt's famous collection of exploration and travel narratives, the first English anthology of voyages and a showcase for the feats of English adventurers in the Elizabethan age. This copy is complete with the folding world map, based on Ortelius, and the six unpaginated leaves marking the first record in print of Sir Francis Drake's 1577-80 circumnavigation. "Hakluyt was a vigorous propagandist and empire-builder; his purpose was to further British maritime enterprise and to intensify British expansion overseas" (PMM). Although he never ventured further afield than France, he had dealings with many of the explorers, navigators, and cartographers of his day. His project enjoyed the support of Sir Francis Walsingham, who licensed the first edition and was its dedicatee. The first two parts deal with English adventurers in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Europe. The third part is devoted to America and provides detailed (and in some cases the first) accounts of voyages in search of a North West Passage, settlements in the Carolinas, Virginia, and at Roanoke, and exploits in Caribbean waters. It includes the narratives of Cabot, Hawkins, Gilbert, Frobisher, Lane, Hariot, and others. The Drake section includes his explorations of the California coast. Church distinguishes two issues by the account of Jerome Bowes's travels to Russia in the early 1580s. In the first issue, it is paginated 491-505, while here the pagination ends at 501. "In the first issue, the narrative is written in the first person, as if by Bowers himself; while in the second it is given entirely in the third person and was written by a member of his suite" (Church). Church 139A; ESTC S106735; Printing and the Mind of Man 105 (for the second edition); Sabin 29594; Shirley 167 (for Ortelius map); USTC 511259. Andrew Hadfield (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640, 2013. Folio (273 x 185 mm), pp. [xvi], 242, [2] (blank), 243-501, [1] (blank), 506-643, [12] ("The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake"), 644-825, [9] (index), [1] (colophon); bound without terminal blank 4F4. Some pages misnumbered. With folding world map (based on Ortelius map published in Antwerp in 1585). Decorative initials, head- and tailpieces, printer's device on colophon. Mid-18th-century French calf, rebacked in 20th century by Bernard Middleton, incorporating older spine label, compartments decoratively tooled in gilt, board edges milled in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled. Bookplate of Bartholomew Ruspini (1728-1813), a surgeon who lived in London from 1766 to his death; occasional old ink annotations. Corners repaired, board edges worn, 2Q2-5 slightly shorter and presumably supplied; foot of 2Y1 trimmed to signature and catchword, couple of closed tears in margins, 2X3 with closed tear affecting text, 2X2 and 3R3-4 worn at fore edge with loss to couple of letters, margin loss at top corner of 3X4, 4F3 rather soiled, otherwise text generally well preserved, map trimmed to neatline or slightly over in places, 210 mm closed tear repaired with tissue, old paper repair just touching foot of printed area, rubbing in places: very good.

1st Edition (Wing M2465). In 3 parts; each part has separate pagination, with Parts 1 and 3 have separately printed title pages. [8], 1 - 20, 25 - 28, 25 - 55, [1 (blank)]; 36; [4], 356, [10] pp. Last 10 pages - "An Alphabetical Table Of the most material Bills, Debates, and other Matters Contained in this Book." Folio. 12-1/4" x 7-5/8" Contents: 1. A true and exact account of the wars with Spain, in the reign of Q. Elizabeth, (of famous memory.) Being the particulars of what happened between the English and Spanish fleets, from the years 1585 to 1602. Shewing the expeditions, attempts, fights, designs, escapes, successes, errors, &c. on both sides . Written by Sir William Monson . -- 2. A true and plain declaration of the horrible treasons practised by William Parry against the Queens Majesty; and of his conviction and execution for the same, the 2d. of March 1584. according to the account of England. -- 3. Historical Collections: or, An exact account of the proceedings of the four last parliaments of Q. Elizabeth of famous memory. Wherein is contained the compleat journals both of the Lords & Commons, taken from the original records of their houses . Together with the most considerable passages of the history of those times. Faithfully and laboriously collected, by Heywood Townshend. Some modest extremity wear to binding. Bookplate of Lord Lilford to front paste-down. A respectable VG to VG+ copy of an uncommon work [e.g., at the time of cataloguing, we see no other copies on the market]. Period full brown calf binding with period title label to spine, with a later, though expert, rebacking. Marbled edges.