Culture de la Grosse Asperge, dite de Hollande, La plus precoce, la plus hative, la plus feconde et la plus durable que l'on connoisse. Traite qui presente les moyens de la cultiver avec succes en toutes sortes de terres. Nouvelle edition, revue et corigee, 12mo, 18cm, pp.[iv],152, A Paris, Chez Mequignon l'aine, Libraire de la Faculte de Medicine, 1809.

Handsomely printed on good quality paper. Woodcut vignette. Original blue paper wrappers (slight loss), stab-sewn. A very good bright copy.

A classic treatise on the art of asparagus cultivation.

Libri quatuor Strategematicon cum notis integris Francisci Modii... [et al.] his accedunt, cum P. Scriverii, tum aliorum doctorum ineditae observationes ; curante Francisco Oudendorpio. Qui & suas adnotationes, variasque mstorum lectiones adjecit. 8vo, [72], 512 [126]p ; 19cm., Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: S. Luchtmans 1731

With [128] final pages of indexes. - Illustrations: frontispiece depicts coins. Full stiff vellum over thongs, spine titled by hand, boards elaborately blocked in gold with a double-headed eagle and gilt-stamped ARNHEM. A very good bright copy.

Notes by Sir Robert Heron, Baronet. Second edition, 8vo, 22cm, Title,344p, Grantham London : S. Ridge ; Groombridge & sons 1851.
Maroon half morocco with gilt spine titling, marbled paper sides and matching endpapers. Extremities rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Charles Hebbert. A very good copy.
Heron first published his Notes in 1850, three years after he had retired from public life. For contemporary readers looking for scurrilous observations on the political elite, there was plenty to satisfy, though Heron’s political commentary was unfortunately punctuated by rather prosaic observations on his ‘menagerie’ of exotic animals kept on his Stubton estate, near Grantham. John Wilson Croker, whom Heron had described as ‘one of the most determined jobbers’, savaged the work in the Quarterly Review, describing it as a ‘farrago of nonsense and libel’ written by a ‘crazy simpleton’. More wryly, the historian Thomas Macaulay merely hoped that Heron was ‘a better zoologist than politician’. Heron’s Notes are a splendid  resource for political historians (and perhaps anyone interested in exotic animals). Try Heron, you will like him.

The Roads of England and Wales: An itinerary for cyclists, tourists, and travellers ... Particularly adapted to the use of bicyclists and tricyclists ... Also a list of hotels and inns in each town, suitable for cyclists. By George Howard. Fifth edition, 12mo, pp.xv[1],423, London: George Gill and Sons, 1895.
Blindstamped red cloth, titled in gilt on the spine and upper cover. Spine soewhat faded, some wear to edges, endpapers a little soiled. A good copy.

The Trial of John Peltier, Esq., for a libel against Napoleon Buonaparte. First Consul of the French Republic, At the Court of King's-Bench, Middlesex, on Monday the 21st of February, 1803. Taken in Short-Hand by Mr. Adams, and the Defence revised by Mr. Mackintosh. 8vo, 2 p., [vii]-xxxii, 312, cliip ; 23 cm., London: Printed by Cox, Son, and Baylis for M. Peltier, 1803.
Contemporary half calf with marbled paper-covered sides, gilt morocco spine label. Upper board detached, generally some wear externally, but a nice clean copy.
First edition. Peltier was sentenced to pay a small fine.

HE SHE IT - Egyptian Court Chronicle B.C. 1302. A Veracious and Truthful Version Preserved and Transcribed for General Use by the Peerless Poet Laureate of His Late Majesty Rhamp Sinnit III. Memphis, Pyramid Row No. 36 Fifth Floor. 4to, 27cm, (Published by F. Rangette & Soehne, Dusseldorf, Germany), nd (c.1883).

English text on imitation payrus, decorated with hieroglyphics and illustrated throughout. Sack-cloth binding with thongs and an Egyptian earthenware seal on the front cover. Deliberately aged in the making, a very good copy.

London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century Illustrated by a Series of Views [WITH:] Metropolitan Improvements of London in the Nineteenth Century: Being a Series of Views of the New and Most Interesting Objects in the british Metropolis & its Vicinity. [Text by James Elmes.] Two volumes, 4to, Title + 160p, + iii[1], plates, pp.[vi] + 172 + plates, London: Published November 1st, 1829, by Jones & Co., Temple of the Muses.

338 engravings on 155 leaves, the first volume depicting London's 'antiquities' the second 'modern improvements'. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper sides, spines elaborately gilt. Slight wear to bindings, some foxing to engraved titles. A very good set.

An Odd Bibliography: Being a list of all the publications of Ye Sette of Odd Volumes from 1878 to 1924. Compiled from various odd sources by Bro. Ralph Straus, sometime President of Ye Sette, Secretary on four occasions, and Scribbler since his election. 12mo, xi, [1], 244p. ; 14.5cm. London : Printed at the Chiswick Press and to be had of no booksellers, 1925.
Number 139 of 199 copies imprynted for private circulation only; printed paper covers a little soiled. A very good copy.
Opusculum LXXXVI.

John Tallis's London Street Views, 1838-1840: Together with the Revised and Enlarged Views of 1847 introduced and with a biographical essay by Peter Jackson. Oblong 4to, 19.5cm, pp.301, Nattali & Maurice in association with the London Topographiical Society, 1969.
Scarlet buckram, gilt spine titling. Dust-jacket just slightly chipped. A near fine copy.

The Spelling [Bee] written by H.G. Verne ; composed by Charles Coote jun. [Other title: New disease has broken out A B C D likewise E F G.] 1 score (5 p.) : ill. ; 36 cm. London: J.T. Wood & Co. Publishers, Music at Hopwood & Crew's, 1876.
Lithographic decoration of a bee by T. Packer; wood-type title. Some chipping to extremities. A very good copy.
RARE. Song for voice and piano.
First line: A new disease ha broken out. First line of chorus: A B C D likewise E F G.