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Wien: Verlag von Julius Springer. 1935 [1934].First edition. 8vo, 218x143mm. pp. vi, 248, [2]. In the original wrappers, small tear to foot of spine and to joint with lower cover and a crease to the bottom right corner of the upper cover and the first six leaves but otherwise in very good condition throughout. Popper's Logik der Forschung (translated in 1959 as The Logic of Scientific Discovery) was published in 1934 (although given a 1935 imprint) and is regarded as one of the twentieth-century's most important contributions to scientific and philosophical method.

A Register of two thousand names. A record written in black and white, but more in white than black. With a European Roll. "It is nothing, if it is not truth".Lovedale: South Africa. Printed at the Mission Press.. 1887.First edition. 210x135mm. pp. xxiii [ibl], [5]- 642. Register 3L is missing 3M has been printed in duplicate - clearly a printer's error. Light brown cloth, lettered in black. Edges and corner worn, spine and boards marked. Head and foot of spine bumped and joints rubbed.

Philadephia: Printed and Sold by James Humphreys. 1802.First American edition printed from the London Second edition. Two volumes in one. 12mo. in 6s. 160x100mm. pp. xxii, 1-5, [6], [13]-159 [1bl]; 170. Lacking final leaf of notes in volume two. Later half calf, marbled paper covered boards, spine with four raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt, maroon morocco label lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Front pastedown with book label of Christopher Clark Geest. At the head of the first poem in volume one is inscribed "Maria Breaton".

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1932.Inscribed by the author to Dennis Wheatley.Inscribed to Dennis Wheatley and with Wheatley's bookplate. First edition. 195x120mm. pp. 607 [1bl]. Black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Original dust jacket, lettered in black and with removable red band indicating "The Book Society's "first" recommendation for January". Some minor chipping to head of spine of dust jacket and some creasing and a closed tear to top edge and spine a little faded. Internally very good with slight foxing to fore-edges. Overall an excellent copy in the rare dust-jacket and the even rarer band.

[Prague] Galerie Dila Usti nad Labem. 1972.First edition. Exhibition catalogue for a show of sculptures by Stanislav Hanzik in Prague in 1972. 230x165mm. pp. 28. 14 pp of text and 16 (unpaginated) pp of photographs and 1 page of list of sculptures at the exhibition, final page blank. Text in Czech. Original brown card wrappers with Hanzik's signature printed in red on upper cover, all in excellent condition. Sudek began life as a bookbinder but after losing an arm in WWI, became a photographer and was the great 20th century chronicler of Prague.

London: Methuen & Co Ltd.. 1962.First UK edition, published the same year as the first printing in America. 200x130mm. pp. [6], 250. Blue cloth, illustrated and lettered on spine. Original illustrated dustjacket. Slight creasing to edges of jacket and light soiling to lower cover but overall very good and internally fine.

Verona: Officina Bodoni.. 1968.First Bodoni edition, one of ten copies for presentation, this copy with the printed presentation: "This copy has been printed for David Earl of Crawford", and with an autograph card from the printed Giovanni Mardersteig "for David from GM. Verona, September 1969" and a pencillled presentation note to the front free endpaper. A further 180 numbered copies were also issued. Folio, 310x225mm. pp. xxxviii, 155 leaves of upright Roman and Italic typefaces and 28 leaves of Greek; xli-iii index, colophon.

Birmngham: W.H.Haseler Ltd. 1905.Unrecorded trade catalogue. Designed by Archibald Knox, manufactured by William Haseler, sold by Liberty & Co. Twenty seven leaves illustrated (on the recto only) with designs for gold and silver jewellery, rose bowls, cigarette cases, toilet ware (i.e. hairbrushes, scent bottles and the like), pewter clocks and more. Each leaf is protected by a tissue sheet on which the name and price are printed so that, when the tissue lies on the illustrated leaf, the text details match up with the picture. Bound in pale blue/grey card wrappers tied at the left edge with blue cord.

n.p. n.d [mid-late 18th century].An album of hand-drawn maps with handwritten notes in an attractive italic. 230x180mm. Unpaginated, 137 pages of maps (84 maps) and text: pp. 89, 24bl, 48 (including 4 blank pages), 14bl. The maps are beautifully drawn in pen and ink with borders in coloured ink and watercolour. Tan half calf, rebacked and corners repaired, eighteenth-century marbled paper covered boards. Raised bands, burgundy morocco label lettered in gilt "Maps J:R". Some scuffing and staining to the boards. A repair tear to the first page of text but otherwise in very good condition throughout.

Berlin: Oswald Arnold. 1941.A portfolio of photographs from the Atelier Manasse in Vienna run by Aderjan and Olga von Wlassics. They were the leading photographers of nude and mildly erotic studies in the 1920s and 1930s. Bound in a beige card cover with blue tasselled string. Some slight creasing and scuffing to the cover. The contents are a two page introduction on the beauty of the female body and its influence on artists. Loosely inserted is a facsimile handwritten letter from Aderjan Wlassics.

London: Henry Roberts. 1742.Engraved, hand-coloured portrait of Margaret Finch after a 1739 drawing by John Straeho. Print measures 270x215mm. Mounted and framed in a Victorian decorated frame (380x313mm). The portrait shows Margaret Finch sitting on the ground, her legs drawn up to her chest and her chin resting on her knees. She is accompanied by her dogs and is smoking two pipes. Beneath the image is printed a brief biography of "this remarkable person". Margaret Finch was born at Sutton, south London in about 1640 and spent a life “Traveling ye Kingdom, as Queen of ye Gypsie Tribe”.

Film poster for Maury Dexter's 1968 film "Mary Jane" which sets out to expose the "shocking facts behind the marijuana controversy". Two moody boys look into each other's eyes while one rests his hand on the other's shoulder. A girl in round dark glasses dances in that "groovy" late sixties style. Perhaps her name is Mary Jane.

Paris: Chez J-J Blaise, Chez Pichard. 1813.8vo. pp. 203, [1bl]. Engraved frontispiece portrait of La Rochefoucauld by Pierre-Philippe Choffard after Jean Petitot. Folding facsimile letter by La Rochefoucauld. Beautifully bound in contemporary green straight-grained Morocco, elaborately decorated in gilt and blind. Upper and lower covers with a triple fillet border framing an acanthas leaf motif inside which is a panel in blind with a leaf motif in gilt in the corners of the inner panel. Spine with four double raised bands, compartments elaborately decorated in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt.

London: Richard Bentley. 1844.First edition. 8vo. 200x120mm. pp. [4], 330. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in red half morocco, marbled paper covered boards. Spine with five raised bands, compartments lavishly decorated in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some rubbing and wear to edges and corners and scratches to the boards. Internally very good but with some foxing and toning. Frontispiece portrait of Munden has part of the margin missing but this does not affect the image.

London: Printed for and sold by the Author.. n.d. [1791].First edition. 8vo. 220x140mm. pp.Xxxii, 343. Uncut in the original marbled paper covered boards. Protected by a brown buckram wrapper with a red morocco label lettered in gilt and housed in a brown slipcase. A lovely copy – as authentic a relic of the eighteenth-century book trade as one could wish to find - of the epistolary memoirs of the first recognisably modern bookseller.

Lovedale, South Africa: Lovedale Press.. [1930].The first novel in English by a black South African. In the rare dust jacket.First edition. 8vo. 185x120mm. pp. [12], 225 [1bl]. Green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine. Original illustrated dustjacked, chipped and a little torn along top and bottom edges but overall very good and rare in any condition. Internally there is some foxing.

London: Thames and Hudson. 1995.Description:Signed first edition. 250x222mm. pp112. Colour illustrated card cover. In excellent condition with only a little shelf wear. Illustrated throughout with 78 colour illustrations from various countries and war-zones where Page had worked. The text is a mixture of autobiographical essay and commentary on the images. Signed by Page, "Manchester, April '95".

London and New York: The Studio Ltd. and William Edwin Rudge (New York). 1932.First edition. 252x321mm. pp12 with twelve plates on card protected by tissue paper on which the details of the etching are printed. Original blue papered boards with label in centre of upper cover. Original and rare cream coloured illustrated dust jacket lettered in red. Very slight chipping to the dust jacket but overall in very good condition. The book itself is in fine condition throughout and the plates are superb.

n.p. . [1925].Typescript novel with extensive manuscript corrections and alterations. ff. [2], 117, [2], 118-276. Text on recto only, tied with string through two punched holes in the left margin and tied into a cover fashioned from heavy card apparently salvaged from packing material for a French retailer of sheet music and musical instruments. Housed in a custom made cloth wrapper and slipcase.

London: Richard Hodgkinsonne. 1655.First edition. Volume one (first part). Folio in 4s. 332x210mm. [ff.23], pp.1- 608. Ends on 4G4 after the survey of the Benedictine foundations and before the Cluniac. Engraved title page and fifty-one engraved full page (and some folding) plates, many by Wenceslaus Hollar, and with engraved illustrations in the text. The folding map of Thanet is present. In an extraordinary binding of eighteenth century red morocco with triple fillet borders.

London. c1870.A mezzotint showing a mourning scene in a churchyard. A mother and child are weeping at the foot of an octagonal tomb on which is a ruined Doric column with ivy twisted around it. In the background is the church and on either side are looming leaning trees which frame the scene and appear to weep with the mourners. On the tomb have been stuck two unbearably moving mourning cards. The first is for Isabella Rowlandson who died aged 26 on 31st July 1875.

London John Murray. 1948.First edition. Signed by the author. 263x185mm. pp (iibl) xii, 132, (iiibl). Publisher's red cloth with white and black lettering to spine and front cover, printing to front cover. Original dust jacket. Slight bumping to head and foot of spine; slight chipping to head of dust jacket. Internally very good; overall in very good condition. Inscription reads "Kay Francis from John Betjeman 1957", surrounded with decorative flourishes.The last of Betjeman and Piper's British travel guides to be published by Betjeman's own publisher, John Murray.

London: W H Allen. 1986. The son writes the father's wrongs. Presentation copy. 240x150mm. pp. [25],414,[6] Publisher's original black cloth. Lettered in gilt on spine. Near fine save for some rubbing at head and foot of spine. Original illustrated dust jacket near fine with just some minor creasing at head of cover. Internally fine. Inscribed by the author on half title page "For Mr. Brian Harrison with best regards from the author W R Hess, May 1986"Written by his son, this biography of Rudolph Hess recounts his infamous solo flight to Scotland on a dubiously conceived peace mission.

n.p. C. Johnson. [1793].Portrait of Wybrand Lolkes and his wife, full length, the husband directed to the right, and the wife in frontal view but looking left. Scene set in an interior. Etching on paper. Mounted on white card, 255x197mm. (mount measures 330x270). Crease to top edge of mount but print is in excellent condition. This illustration to The Wonderful Magazine (London, 1822). Lolkes was a celebrated dwarf (he was 27 inches high and weighed 56lbs) who, in the manner of the time was exhibited as something of a curiosity.