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History & Culture
Windows into worlds gone by, a vast store of history. Both the iconic and the less well-known is here. Together with forgotten byways and things not found anywhere else. Here is also Americana, Crime, Feminism, Occultism,Archaeology, and Ethnography.
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1955 The Mint: A Day-Book of the R. A. F. Depot Between August and December 1922London: 1955An exceptional limited edition example of the first edition of T. E. Lawrence's memoirs of his time enlisted in the Royal Air Force. -
1783-1790 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireLondon: 1783-1790The very scarce complete first octavo edition of Gibbons's 'Decline and Fall', tracing Western civilization from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium in the 15th century. -
1827 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireOxford: 1827An impressive eight volume edition of Gibbon's magnum opus, handsomely bound in half calf, tracing Western civilization from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium in the 15th century. -
1796-1815 Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With Memoirs of the Life and Writings: Volume I and IIILondon: 1796-1815The first edition of volume I and volume III of Lord Sheffield's important collection of the works of Edward Gibbon, including a memoir by Gibbon himself. -
1816 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireLondon: 1816Edward Gibbon's monumental historical account of the fall of the Roman Empire, smartly bound in a uniform straight grain morocco binding. -
1955 The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922London: 1955A smart first edition of T. E. Lawrence's insightful memoirs of his time as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force. -
1932 GibbonLondon: 1932Artist Rex Whistler's personal copy of the first edition of this biography of historian Edward Gibbon, signed to the title page by Whistler and with a small illustration in his hand. -
1868-1901 The Works of Francis BaconLondon: 1868-1901A fine fourteen volume collection of the works of Sir Francis Bacon, uniformly bound in half morocco, and from the library of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. -
1811 Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England, Scotland and IrelandWestminster: 1811An attractively bound collection of significant historical tales pertaining to various British counties, with woodcut illustrations throughout. -
1955 The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922London: 1955A smart first edition of T. E. Lawrence's insightful memoirs of his time as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force. -
1955 The MintLondon: 1955T. E. Lawrence's memoirs of his time in the Royal Air Force, the first trade edition of this volume in its unclipped dust wrapper. -
1873 The Lands of CazembeLondon: 1873A fascinating work on Portuguese travels to remote Africa, including the original large folding map of the voyage. -
1955 The MintLondon: 1955The first edition of T. E. Lawrence's memoirs of his time enlisted in the Royal Air Force. -
1955 The MintLondon: 1955The first edition in original dustwrapper of T. E. Lawrence's memoirs of his time as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force. -
1903 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireLondon: 1903-1925A bright, smartly bound set of Edward Gibbon's seminal work 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'.