[Camden, S.C.]: John Culler & Sons, 1994. Edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 255); 8vo, pp. [12], v-xii, 285, [3]; facsimile of the original edition of 1899, with 66 reproductions of drawings by the author, photographs, and a map of the route; original full blue leather stamped in gilt..... More

London: Offices of ''Engineering'', 1905. First edition, 4to, pp. xv, [1], 380; 52 plates bound at the back, illustrations throughout the text; ex-library copy with usual markings, pages slightly browned, signature starting, else very good in later brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Bessemer is best known for his inventions..... More

Philadelphia: published and sold by David Hogan, no. 249, Market-street, 1810. First American edition,12mo, pp. 180; engraved frontispiece showing 3 figures; contemporary full sheep, red morocco label on spine; text toned and lightly spotted, occasional stains, extremities rubbed and worn but the binding is sound. Ownership signature of Miss Harriet..... More

London: printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1792. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 283, [1], [16] Stockdale ads; original pink paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper label on upper cover; the whole rather rubbed and worn at the edges, the spine with small pieces out at the top and bottom..... More

London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1815. 10 volumes, 8vo, original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spine; corners bumped, light wear at the extremities, labels darkened, else very good and sound. Four pages of Longman ads at the back of volume I, and 2..... More

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 367; [6], 350, [2], 19 (ads), [1]; original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on upper covers and spine; minor rubbing, very good. Sadlier 391; Wolff, 923. More

Alipore, Bengal: Bengal Government Press, 1939. 12mo, pp. x, [2], 184; 3 folding facsimiles constituting Chapter XVII are tipped in al the back; original green cloth printed in black on upper cover and spine; the spine sunned and with a small snag, otherwise very good, clean, and sound. First published..... More

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887. First edition, 4to, x, [2], 287, [1]; heliogravure frontispiece, vignette title page, gravure portrait on dedication page, 23 gravure portraits of the pioneers, plus a number of illustrations in the text (several full-page); original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover..... More

London: H. Hills, in Black-fryars, near the Water-side, 1709. Small 8vo, pp. 16; type-flowers at head of p. 5; disbound; late 19th-century wrappers with relevant and orderly manuscript notes on upper cover; a few soil spots, else very good and sound. The author's well-known poem in which he describes the..... More

[London]: Reprinted from Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1940. 8vo, pp. [2], 165-188; original tan printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, No. 957, vol. 174, February 1940. More

London: W. Collins, 1946. 8vo, pp. [6], 7-47, [1]; 8 colored illustrations on rectos and versos of 4 plates; additional illustrations and photographs throughout; original blue paper-covered boards; edges scuffed; otherwise very good. Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1880-1957) was a Royal Navy officer and Antarctic..... More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., n.d., [1914]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [4], 379, [1]; 8 photogravure plates showing 10 illustrations; very good, sound and clean copy in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Inscribed "Charles W. Ames and Lady / from Lesley..... More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 310; portrait frontispiece; original blue cloth, gilt lettering on cover and spine; light wear, small stain on lower cover, gift inscription on front free end paper. Part of the Cambridge Biological Series. More