Archive for January, 2009

Dr. Underwood’s Treatise on the Diseases of Children with Directions for the Management of Infants.

Stamp on endpaper reading: Gordon Medical Library

Distribuicao Etnica Da Provincia De Angola

Limp covers. worn on edges. Folding map in sleeve. In Portugese.

Die Reitkunst Im Bilde Text Und Illustrationen Von Maler Ludwig Koch

c. 1928. Minor foxing throughout, also affecting cover. Tan cloth cover has picture in brown of man on horse on front.

Dictionary of the Holy Bible Containing an Historical, Geographical, Critical and Systematical description of Every Subject mentioned In the Old and New Testement.

Leather bound. Cover detached. Bookplate to end papers. Foxing throughout.

Desperate Voyage

Victor Gollancz 1950. No dust jacket.Cover is worn sunned on spine. Some foxing throughout.

Curiosities of Clocks and Watches from the Earliest Times

Previous owner’s name on free endpaper. Original cover (pasted on new casing) is marked and worn.

Chelsea and Other English Porcelain Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection

Fraying corners.

By Covert, Filed and Marsh

Herbert Jenkins. First printing . No dust cover . Cover is slightly worn at edges. Some foxing throughout.

Bechuana Fireside Tales

Dust jacket, with full colour illustration is worn on edges. Minor foxing to endpapers and fore-edge.

Ancient Bingley or Bingley, Its History and Scenery

Frayed head and tail of spine. Bumped corners teacup stain on front cover, with two lines of staining . Pencil marginalia, and foxing

An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank

Falling apart, fraying and tearing.

A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art

Spine missing, covers are unattached.

A Glossary of the Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex

Fishmothing to cover. Sunned spine. Some foxing.

A Coronation Exhibition of Royal, Historical, Political and Social Glasses Commemorating 18th and 19th Century Events in English History

Nameplate reading: Alfred Bordon Brown Art Library Wynberg South Africa on front paste down endpaper. Stamp bearing the same name on front free endpaper. Foxing to endpapers. B/w photoplates.

A Collector’s History of English Pottery

Price clipped. Dust jacket in very good condition.

A History of Sport in Southern Rhodesia

With shelf wear to top and bottom of spine and corners bumped. Previous owners name on fep and on paste down fep. Binding slightly shaken.

Over to You


Good-Bye Dolly Gray, History of the Boer War


Heath Robinson’s Book of Goblins

A good tightly bound copy with the usual age toning. Pencil inscription on fep. seven colour illustrations and numerous black and white ones.

A Hero of Lucknow

Some foxing on pages. Includes six illustrations. Corners bumped. Ink inscription dated 1904 to fep.