Search Results: Titles starting with F from Henry Sotheran Ltd.

1926. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Large 8vo., cream-backed brown publisher's boards lettered in gilt to spine; housed in the rather scarce printed dust jacket; with 11 wood engravings by Celia M. Fiennes; pp. [viii], iii-v, [i]; 94, [vi]; almost entirely unopened, spine tips lightly bumped; previous bookseller sticker to lower paste-down, else a near-fine example, the jacket good to very good only, but seldom found at all, lightly spotted, browned along spine and to folds, chipped to extremities with some closed tears along spine. Scarce thus. Provenance: bookplate of Alma Ruth Levenson to the front paste-down. Limited to just 350 copies, this no. 268. Text reprinted from the 1692 edition of the Fables. L'Estrange originally published his version of the fables in 1692, and the translation is now thought to be one of the most popular. His edition of Aesop was commissioned by a group of booksellers and appeared two years after Locke first recommended Aesop as… Read More

1964. Los Angeles. Dawson's Bookshop. 1964. Folio, original wrappers preserved in marbled slipcase. A near fine copy. Limited edition of 125 copies. This leaf book includes the plate and text for "La Discorde" fron Fable 20. Printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press.

1987. Collins, 1987 & Ebury Press, 1998. 4to, original boards, in price-clipped dust-jacket; illustrated throughout with black and white photographs; a little chipping to wrapper, ink inscription, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Somehow linking Cardinal Hume, Bob Geldof, Margaret Thatcher, Alan Sugar, Michael Grade, Michael Gambon, Toyah Wilcox and many others, this collection of Levine's famous portraits is a glimpse of the rich, famous and (self-) important of a legendary decade. This copy is signed by 34 of the sitters. The signatories are as varied as the portraits themselves: Jeffery Archer Ben Kingsley Bob Geldof Richard Branson Michael Grade Tim Rice Bernard Levin Frank Bruno Robin Day Jeremy Irons Penelope Keith Samantha Fox Geoffrey Howe Jimmy Young David Frost Morissey Elaine Page Alan Bates Bobby Robson Bob Hoskins Melvyn Bragg Terry Wogan Nigel Hawthorne Jasper Carrott Helena Bonham Carter David Owen Michael Parkinson Fiona Shaw Anthony Sher John Mortimer Miriam… Read More

1905. The Hague and London , Van Stockum and Luzac & Co., 1900. 8vo. Original green gilt-stamped pictorial cloth; pp. [viii], 266; frontispiece and plates after photographs; upper hinge with one little repair, browning to endpapers, inscription to front fly-leaf; otherwise very good. A very rare richly-illustrated account of Java by the anglophone Dutch writer Augusta de Wit (1864-1939), who was born in Sumatra, and educated in both Holland and England. The present work is based upon a series of articles which de Wit wrote in English for the Singapore Straits Times, which were collected under the title Facts and Fancies about Java, and published in Singapore by the Straits Times Press in 1898. This revised second edition, published in The Hague and London, appeared in 1900 (interestingly, no copy of the first edition is recorded in UK libraries by COPAC, so presumably the print-run was small), and was followed by two subsequent editions (1905 and 1912, equally rare). As a contemporary reviewer… Read More

1852. J. Churchill. 1852. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt lettering to front; pp. v + [ii] + 8-72 + iv, text illustrations; spine a little tender, very good. First edition. A scarce work on physiotherapy and the use of corsets to treat spinal deformities in children.

[Kuwait, The National Council for Culture, Arts & Letters and Hasan Jassim Ashkanani, [2018]. Small oblong 4to. Original illustrated card wrappers; pp. 153, [3], highly illustrated throughout, bilingual; new. Very rare first edition of this archaeological and pictorial documentation of the importance of the island just outside Kuwait City. The name of the island seems to be derived from the Greek word fylakio, outpost. About 5000 years ago Failaka was part of the Dilmun civilization; during and after Alexander it was Hellenized. - 1000 copies were produced, 800 were kept by the Emir's Office, 80 copies were for the author, 120 for the General Secretary of the National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters. This particular copy is inscribed by the author, an eminent Kuwaiti anthropologist, archaeologist, collector and historian.

2001. Vancouver, B.C.; Published by The Fairy Press. 2001. 8vo. Original dark green pictorial card wrappers over red card covers prettily decorated in gilt and green surrounding an onlaid pictorial paper label to upper cover; pp. [8]; with elaborately decorated pictorial title page and two other fine plates featuring small etched drawings printed in monochrome colour surrounded by extravagant floral borders in green and gilt; the text printed on laid, and folded, paper with 3 other illustrations printed in black; a fine copy; scarce. First edition, signed in ink by van Sandwyk. One of Charles van Sandwyk's sought-after Christmas books.

1974. New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1974. Folio, brown leather boards embossed with title to lower right hand corner; matching slipcase lettered in gilt; unpaginated; full colour glossy photographs throughout; two small ink markings to ffep; else fine; slipcase only marginally rubbed to corners. First edition, first printing, limited to 350 copies, this no. 227 signed by Norman Mailer, Mervyn Kurlansky and Jon Narr, the latter two documenting, with Mailer providing the supporting text. The hundreds of featured graffiti artists featured are listed on the endpapers. A classic, definitive look at the birth of graffiti as an art form, with photographs by internationally acclaimed photographers Kurlansky and Narr, and an accompanying essay from the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Naked and the Dead and The Executioner’s Song. “Do we learn then whether we are angels seeking to articulate the aesthetic of a great god, or demonic cave-painters looking to kill the abominable… Read More

London, John Murray, [1912]. 8vo. Original cloth; pp. xii, 271, [4, advertisements], large folding map; cloth a littlen marked and darkened; foxing initially and at the end; an acceptable copy of an otherwise unobtainable book. First edition, very rare. Sidney James Owen (1827-) was lecturer in Indian history at Oxford University. This book, based on many lectures and Indian historical sources describes the period from 1657 to 1761, and puts the disintegration of the Mughal Empire down to increasing ethnic and religious divisions, fostered and exploited by various rulers and warring factions.

A fine original pen, ink, and watercolour illustration by Harold Jones, image size circa 12.5 x 15.5cm, with black hand-ruled border by the artist, signed in full "Harold Jones" in ink within the image, painted on white stock affixed to greyish laid paper, neatly presented in a hand-cut acid-free cream mount, mount size circa 41 x 30.5cm; in fresh and very attractive condition with one tiny 3mm raised blister laid to the surface as an apparent artist's correction.

1897. Westminster, Constable and Company, 1897. 8vo, 2 volumes. Original green cloth gilt, upper board lettered in gilt, vol. I blocked in gilt with design of the Fram, vol. II blocked in gilt with design of dogs, sledge and driver, spines lettered in gilt; pp. xiii, [3], 510, [2]; xiii, [3 (blank], 671; etched portrait frontispiece in vol. I and photogravure frontispiece in vol. II, both retaining tissue guards, 16 colour-printed lithographic plates by McLagan & Cumming, 111 half-tone, lithographic and photogravure plates after J. Nordhagen, H. Egidius, Otto Sinding, et al., 4 folding colour-printed lithographic maps by John Bartholomew & Co, illustrations, diagrams and charts in the text, some full-page, titles printed in red and black; lower outer corners with slight bumps, the binding otherwise very sharp and clean, occasional light spotting internally, far less than usually encountered, a little offsetting from endpapers, a very good set in the original cloth with contemporary bookplates… Read More

1898. London, George Newnes, 1898. 8vo, two volumes. Original green cloth over bevelled boards, upper boards blocked in gilt, silver and red, with vignettes depicting Fram icebound, spines blocked in gilt and silver with titles and vignettes, patterned endpapers, all edges speckled in red; pp. [xv, 480; viii, 456; portrait frontispiece in volume I and monochrome frontispiece in II, 64 monochrome plates, one colour-printed plate (all in pagination), one colour-printed folding map by John Bartholomew & Co., monochrome illustrations and diagrams, 46 full-page, one full-page map, and letterpress tables in the text; large folding map with old repaired tear and a little spotted, otherwise a rather attractive set. Second English edition, the issue without half-title in volume one and patterned (not yellow) endpapers. First published in Norway under the title Fram over polhavet, den norske polarfaerd 1893-1896 (Oslo: 1896-1897), the first English edition with a less evocative binding was published in… Read More

1897. Westminster, Constable and Company, 1897. 8vo, 2 volumes. Original green cloth gilt, upper board lettered in gilt, vol. I blocked in gilt with design of the Fram, vol. II blocked in gilt with design of dogs, sledge and driver, spines lettered in gilt; pp. xiii, [3], 510, [2]; xiii, [3 (blank], 671; etched portrait frontispiece in vol. I and photogravure frontispiece in vol. II, both retaining tissue guards, 16 colour-printed lithographic plates by McLagan & Cumming, 111 half-tone, lithographic and photogravure plates after J. Nordhagen, H. Egidius, Otto Sinding, et al., 4 folding colour-printed lithographic maps by John Bartholomew & Co, illustrations, diagrams and charts in the text, some full-page, titles printed in red and black; apart from light spotting to the beginning and end of each volume, a near-fine set with contemporary bookplates Houston House, Renfrewshire inside front covers and the author's obituary pasted onto front fly-leaf of volume one. First English edition. First… Read More

1834. Whittaker & Co. 1834. 8vo. 2 vols. Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with gilt crest of owner added to front of vol I; pp. xxvi + 379, 391 + [8, ads], 2 colour title page vignettes by George Baxter, 19 handcoloured plates (not chromoxylographed as stated in Nissen), text illustrations; volume I with new endpapers, a little occasional spotting to edges, browning to title pages as usual, otherwise very good indeed. Provenance: front pastedown of vol I with bookplate of James Dearden 1798 - 1862). Justice of the Peace and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; front pastedown of vol II with bookplate of Horatio Noble Pym (1844-1896), book collector and editor; ffep of vol II with bookplate of Hugh Fattorini (1934-2005), the noted natural history book collector and dealer. First edition. Robert Mudie was a prolific writer and this was the first instalment in his series of books on natural history subjects, each of which combined attractive and authoritative text with charming… Read More

1866. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. 8vo., 3 vols; original brick red publisher's cloth, embossed in blind to boards, lettered and decorated in gilt to spines; pale yellow endpapers; pp. [v], 2-303, [i]; [v], 2-290; [v], 2-283, [i], [iv, ads]; slight lean to all three volumes, with some rubbing to edges and extremities, and dustiness to the upper edge; bookseller sticker to front paste-down of Vol I; previous ownership name in ink to prelims of Vols I and II, with light purple ink stamps to ffep of Vol II; internally, save for the odd spot, very clean, with occasional light corner creasing; hinges expertly strengthened; p. 26 to 27 of vol iii roughly opened. A very good set in the original publisher's cloth, with half titles present in all three volumes and the four page publisher's ads present to the rear of Vol III. First edition, in Carter's binding B. Felix Holt was Eliot's fourth novel and is, essentially, a love story set against the backdrop of political upheaval.… Read More

1913. London & Counties Press Association. 1913. 4to. Original publisher's full brown morocco, gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; pp. xii + 413; photogravure frontispiece and 60 plates, 7 in colour, title-page printed in red and black, large initial letters printed in red; a little sunning to spine, prelims spotted, but a very nice copy of this handsome volume. Numer 572 of 750 numbered copies. In his Preface the editor claims that "heretofore no attempt has been made on a similar scale to provide in a single work information about fishing in all parts of the world." As well as the editor himself, contributors to the volume are Theodore Gordon, E.T.D. Chambers, Nigel Bourke, R.B. Marston, H.S. Thomas, C.E. Lucas, and F.G. Aflalo.

1860. Baily Brothers.1860. 12mo. Original green cloth with gilt block on upper board.; pp. viii + 88 + [8, ads]; a very good copy. First edition. An account of various different fishing techniques.

1848. London, Henry Colburn, 1848. Two volumes, 8vo. Modern tan half-calf over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces; pp. xi, 306, 24 (advertisements); vii, 352, 1 (advertiesements), two frontispieces in lithography, one lithographic map; light offsetting from frontispieces; otherwise only lightly and evenly toned; a very good set; provenance: stamp of the Sons of England Patriotic & Benevolent Society. Historical Research Committee in upper margin of p. iii in volume one. First edition of a rather uncommon title. 'An account of the War of the Axe written by the wife of an officer with the 91st Regiment' (Mendelssohn). The Wards, Harriet and John, travelled out on the Abercrombie Robinson, surviving her wreck in Algoa Bay. In his History of South Africa Since September 1795 Theal remarks of this book that 'The leading events of that war are faithfully described, and a correct view is given of the occurrences that led to it. Much… Read More

London, Murray, 1855. Two volumes, 8vo. Original orange ribbed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, front covers with architectural detail stamped in gilt, turquoise endpapers; pp. x, [2], 395; vi, 372, wood-engraved frontispiece, folding plan, wood-engraved illustrations to text, large steel-engraved folding map of the region (from personal survey by the author), outline-coloured and with the author's itinerary in red; apart from light rubbing, near fine. Very rare first edition, an exceptionally bright copy in the publisher's binding. The author, an Irish Presbyterian missionary points out in the preface, that 'the following work is not a book of travels, penned during a "summer's ramble" or a "winter's residence." It is the result of researches over a period of five years' (p. iii). 'In 1849 Porter was sent to Damascus as a missionary to the Jews by the board of missions of the Irish Presbyterian church. He reached Syria in December 1849, and remained there for ten years. While… Read More

2020. Haslemere: Creel Press. 2020. 8vo. Original green morocco-backed cloth boards, gilt border to sides, spine with gilt raised bands and lettering, in matching slipcase; pp. 111, illustrated in colour throughout, with Mottram fly tied by John Smith mounted in recess to front pastedown; new. No. 27 of limited edition of 30, this one of 15 copies of Collector's edition, with facsimile signature of the author and signature of his wife Christina to title page. This fascinating survey of the work of the visionary fly-tier J.C. Mottram was the last work, published posthumously, of Tim Benn, publisher, angler, founder of the Creel Press and longtime friend of Sotheran's. It is a typically lavish and stylish production, while the text has the authority and enthusiasm that distinguished its writer. He argues that Mottram (1879-1945) was a man so far ahead of his time that he was not sufficiently understood by his peers, and that his flies, which at the time seemed wild and eccentric, prophesied the… Read More