Recent Arrivals from Duck Cottage Books

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 887 8vo. Translated by Benjamin Bucknall. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt decoration to front board, gilt titles to spine, coloured frontispiece, many line drawing illustrations- full page plates, head and tail pieces and in run of text; 394 pages. Condition notes: Some bumping and wear… Read more about this item

London: University of London, 1930. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 803 8vo. Ex-library copy. With chapters on the British Museum Library, University Libraries, Scientific and Technical Libraries, Collections of Manuscripts and much more. Condition notes: Some bumping to boards, rather messy library remnants across front end papers and tidy library stamps to title page and one or two… Read more about this item

London: Sir Isaac Pitman. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 234 64vo. Preface dated 1920. Small octavo in size, grey-green cloth-covered boards, black titles to spine and front board, photographic illustration as frontispiece (Guernsey cow), illustrations (mostly of equipment) in run of text, 142 pages, advertisement preceding page listing illustrations, publisher's catalogue to rear. Condition notes: A clean,… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1914. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 984 8vo. Co-author (translator?) Charles C Turner. Many photographic illustrations, both of planes and from planes. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine and motif to front board, 341 pages. The last chapter is "Notes on the Medical Aspect of Aviation" (with suggestions for medical screening… Read more about this item

Franklin, PA: Major General Charles Miller, 1908. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 380 8vo. Half leather on brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, gilt motif and title to front board, decorative end papers, 207 pages. "Done into English by Mary Louise Hendee". Condition notes: Leather scuffed, otherwise clean and sound.

E Clarke and Son. 13th. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 406 8vo. Undated. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles and decoration to front board, gilt titles to spine, illustrated advertisement for cream separator to front paste down, more advertisements to rear (15 leaves plus end papers), black and white illustrations including full page portraits of different breeds of fowl. … Read more about this item

Beckenham, Kent: Croom Helm, 1987. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 768 4to. Octavo/quarto borderline in size. Pictorial dust jacket, red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 205 pages; illustrated from photographs, graphs, drawings etc- "it represents in maps, charts and statistics a thoughtful reinterpretation of the Nazi State" (from front flap). Condition notes: A previous seller… Read more about this item

London: The Boydell Press, 1998. 2nd. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 552 8vo. The French Text of the Rule of the Order of the Knights Templar. Pictorial dust jacket, dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 200 pages. Second printing. Condition notes: Dust jacket price-clipped, otherwise excellent.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 1217 . Sub title: The English Experience. Pictorial dust jacket in protective wrapper, black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 396 pages, illustrated. Condition notes: Significant wear along bottom edge of front board, otherwise excellent.

London: HMSO, 1970. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 1946 8vo. Co-editors Douglas Dakin and M E Lambert. From a private collection. Dust jacket with protective wrapper, usual buff-coloured, unclipped, black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 948 pages. Condition notes: Dust speckling to external edges of text block, otherwise excellent condition.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd, 1915. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 580 8vo. Landscape, black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 106 pages plus one page of publisher's publicity material. Condition notes: Foxing/tanning to text pages, illustrations in very good condition except for the two which face text pages- these are mottled. Boards rubbed and worn, front… Read more about this item

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1934. First edition. Hardback. Good/Good. 1077 8vo. From the front cover: "...a complete handbook to the religions of the world from the point of view of one who believes in the Incarnation.". Cream-coloured dust jacket, maroon cloth-covered boards, 698 pages including index. Condition notes: Dust jacket soiled and chipped, with foxing… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1909. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 684 8vo. Ex library (Dagenham Public Library). Translated from the French by Florence Simmonds. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine and front board, with decoration to front board, coloured frontispiece, title page red and black text, 439 pages. Condition notes: Boards very worn, external page edges… Read more about this item

London: HMSO, 1911. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 2256 Folio. Command Paper 5535. Light green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 730 pages. Purple stamp of Home Office Statistical Department to front end papers. Condition notes: Boards knocked, worn and grubby, text block sound and clean. Location label to back board.

London: G P Putnam's Sons, 1926. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 400 8vo. In the Whitehall series, brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 286 pages, previous owner's name dates 1938 to front free end paper. Condition notes: A clean, sound copy.

London: G P Putnam's Sons, 1926. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 393 8vo. In the Whitehall series, brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 299 pages, ex-library with Boots ending Library remnants to front board and occasional stamp of West Suffolk Education Committee to margins. Condition notes: Boards rubbed and bumped, binding pulling at rear hinge, note on… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1957. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 1096 8vo. Sub-title: A Study of Occupation Policies. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 695 pages. Condition notes: Some dust-speckling to external top edges of text block.

London: Macmillan, 1962. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 1150 8vo. Sub-title: A Military-Political History 1918-1941. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 889 pages. Condition notes: Spotting to title page and to external page edges, otherwise sound and clean.

London: G P Putnam's Sons, 1933. 2nd edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 402 8vo. Co-author Stephen Gaselee. In the Whitehall series, brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 335 pages, black and gold label of The Times Book Club to rear paste down. Previous owner's name dated 1938 to front free end paper. Condition notes: A clean,… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co, 1913. 2nd. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 557 8vo. Second edition, revised and enlarged green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 186 pages plus one leaf of publisher's advertisements. Condition notes: Boards sound but with some wear and bumping, previous owner's name to front free end paper, earlier bookplate (E W Edsall) to front paste… Read more about this item