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Printed Books & Maps
27 JANUARY 2016
Dominic Winter
SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS
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Dominic Winter
SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS
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of all lots, except those lots asterisked, in which case the buyer’s premium is 23.40%
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PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS & PRINTS
TRAVEL, ATLASES & EXPLORATION
NATURAL HISTORY & SCIENCE
AUTOGRAPHS & DOCUMENTS
Wednesday 27 January 2016
To commence at 10am
With a further 200 lots of antiquarian and general books to be sold on
Wednesday 3rd February
(see auction website for further details)
Viewing: Tuesday 26 January (9am-7pm) and morning of sale from 9am
Payment may be made while the sale is in progress: please see the cashier in the auction office.
Customers are asked to pay cash or establish a credit reference with the Auctioneers prior to the sale.
Please ensure that all commission bids reach us by 10am on the morning of sale.
Telephone bids only accepted for lots with estimated value greater than £300
and should reach us by 9am on morning of sale
Results will be posted on our website immediately after the sale.
Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQ
Tel: 01285 860006
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Fax: 01285 862461
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
For directions on how to find us, please refer to map at rear of this catalogue
Cover illustrations:
Front cover: lot 325 • Back cover: lot 124
Inside front cover: lot 365 • Inside back cover: lot 157
German Heraldic Document. Illuminated manuscript with royal armorial, signed Christian Ludwig von Schaumberg
and Johann Georg Sattler, Wurtemberg, 1st May 1800. Estimate £200-300
FORTHCOMING SALES IN 2016
Wednesday 3 February
Unreserved Book Stock Sale:
Travel, Natural History, Literature, Antiquarian & Art
Wednesday 2 March
Printed Books, Maps & Documents
Important Early Printed Books, Bibles,
Illuminated & Historical Manuscripts
A Regency Library: The Property of a Lady
The M. R. James – James McBryde Archive of Letters and Drawings
Thursday 3 March
Old Master Paintings & Prints, Traditional Watercolours
Modern Art & Artist’s Books
Antique Furniture, Ceramics & Glass
Fine Silver, Jewellery & Objets d’Art
Wednesday 6 April
Printed Books & Maps, Documents & Royal Memorabilia
Natural History & Fishing, Sporting & Wildlife Art and Books
Music, Opera & Theatre, The Ridgewell Collection of Classical LPs
Thursday 7 April
The Art of the Print: 19th & 20th Century Fine Prints
Photography 1850-2000
Islamic, Indian & Oriental Art
Entries are invited for the above sales: please contact one of our specialist staff for further advice
Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQ
Tel: 01285 860006
Fax: 01285 862461
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
CONTENTS
Travel & Exploration
Australia
British Topography
Natural History
Maps
Decorative Prints & Original Art
Periodicals
Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera
Edward Elgar
Antiquarian
Science & Medicine
Seismology
Architecture
Art Reference
General Literature
Cartons & Quantity
1-116
117-156
157-176
177-214
215-290
291-372
373-375
376-421
422-444
445-513
514-527
528-538
539-574
575-592
593-645
646-704
Unreserved Book Stock Sale
Wednesday 3 February 2016 at 11am
Viewing: Tuesday 2 February 9.30-5.30 & morning of the sale from 9am
Catalogues will be available online and from the auction offices
Travel, Natural History, Science & Medicine
Literature, History & Biographies
Antiquarian, Periodicals & Library Sets
Art & Photobooks
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
To commence at 10am
4 Astley (Thomas). A New General Collection of Voyages and
Travels, consisting of the most Esteemed Relations which have
been hitherto published in any Language, comprehending every
thing remarkable in its kind in Europe, Asia, Africa and America....,
4 volumes, printed for Thomas Astley, 1745-47, engraved frontispiece
to each volume (frontispiece to volume four misbound in textblock),
two hundred and fourteen engraved plates, charts, maps and plans
(including some folding), some overall toning, occasional spotting or
light offsetting, partially removed library stamps to titles,
contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, boards detached, boards of
volume two recovered with modern leather-effect tape, 4to
(4)
£200-300
1 Albrizzi (Giovanni Battista). L’Etranger Plainement Instruit des
Choses les Plus Rares et Curieuses, Anciennes et Modernes de la
Ville de Venise et des Isles A l’Entour, avec la description de ses
Eglises, Monasteres, Hopitaux, Tresor de S. Marc, Arsenal, &
Batimens publiques: ainsi que des Tableaux les plus excellens, des
Moeurs, des Arts & des Sciences, du Commerce..., 1st French
edition, Venice, 1771, engraved frontispiece, folding map, and fortyone engraved plates, some folding and with two views, three(?)
plates lacking, V1 with short tear in lower blank margin, a clean copy,
sprinkled edges, contemporary vellum, gilt titled on spine, with
some early manuscript below, 8vo
According to the list of plates, there are three lacking: 11/12 - Tour de l’Horloge
dans la Place/Eglise de S. Jeminien; 40/41 S. Marie de Nazeret des Carmes
dechausses/S. Jeremie y joint le Palais Labia; 68/69 Isle de Burano/Isle de
Mazorbo. However, only the first of these has the remains of the stub inside
the volume, suggesting that the other two may never have been present in
this copy. It would appear that other copies of this work also vary slightly in
the number of plates.
£200-300
(1)
2 Arrowsmith (Aaron). A New General Atlas... , Edinburgh, 1817,
engraved title, index and 53 uncoloured maps, some spotting
throughout, several tissue-guards no longer present, ink spot to
Scotland, contemporary half calf, covers detached and backstrip
deficient, 4to, together with Leigh’s New Atlas of England and
Wales, no date, circa 1840, 55 engraved county maps, lacks general
map, preliminary leaves and index incomplete, some spotting, later
cloth, rubbed, 12mo
5 Baedeker (Karl). Madeira, Canary Islands, Azores, Western
Morocco, 1st ed., 1939, 23 maps and plans, original cloth-backed
pictorial boards, slight dust-soiling, 8vo
£200-300
One of the rarest Baedeker guides and the only edition in English, published
just before the outbreak of World War II.
(1)
£300-500
3 Arrowsmith (Aaron). Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Noti Descriptio.
A Comparative Atlas of Ancient and Modern Geography from
Original Authorities and upon a New Plan, for the use of Eton School,
published E.P. Williams, 1828, engraved calligraphic title with
contemporary ownership signature, dated ownership signature
repeated on verso of front endpaper, fifty-three engraved maps with
contemporary outline colouring, some offsetting throughout, upper
hinge weak, contemporary half morocco gilt, bumped and worn at
extremities, 4to
6 Baedeker (Karl). Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking,
1st ed., Leipzig, 1914, 40 maps and 78 plans, one or two light stains,
contemporary previous owner inscription to half title, original red
cloth, slight fading to spine, 8vo, together with Egypt and the Sudan,
8th ed., 1929, numerous maps and plans, original red cloth, spine a
little faded, 8vo, with four other guides including The Mediterranean
Seaports and Sea Routes Including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the
Coast of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, 1911 and Spain and Portugal,
4th ed., 1913
(1)
(6)
(2)
£120-180
5
£300-400
9 Bellew (Captain Francis John). Views in India, published for the
author, 1833, lithographed title vignette, 30 uncoloured lithographed
views (complete), first leaf of errata cropped at foot, bound without
the list of subscribers, a few letterpress versos printed upside down,
some scattered spotting, oblong 4to, 20.5 x 27cm (8 x 10.75 ins),
bound with at front, incomplete portions of various British
topographical works including Virtues’s Picturesque Beauties of
Great Britain in a Series of Views... by G. Shepherd, H. Gastineau,
&c, [1829-30], Bath and Bristol... from Original Drawings by Thos.
H. Shepherd..., 1829, Ireland Illustrated, by G.N. Wright, 1829,
Devonshire Illustrated, by J. Britton & E.W. Brayley, 1829, The Land
of Burns, by John Wilson, pub. Blackie & Son, Glasgow, [1840?],
numerous engraved plates, some spotting & toning, contemporary
half calf gilt, extremities lightly rubbed, 4to
7 Barthelemy (Jean Jacques). Travels of Anacharsis the Younger
in Greece. During the Middle of the Fourth Century Before the
Christian Era, 5 volumes (including Atlas), mixed editions, Dublin &
London, 1795-1796, half titles to first four volumes, thirty-one folding
engraved maps and plates, a few light spots, first four volumes
contemporary tree calf, spines with contrasting labels and gilt
decoration, edges lightly rubbed, atlas volume in later half calf with
matching spine labels, 8vo
(5)
£100-150
The first title listed (Views in India) is scarce. It is sometimes attributed to
Captain Henry Walter Bellew (1803-1842), brother of Francis John Bellew
(1799-1867). Francis John Bellew served in the Bengal Army, retiring as a
Captain in 1832 (later publishing Memoirs of a Griffin in 1845) whilst Henry
Walter Bellew was killed in 1842 during the First Afghan War (1839-1842).
£300-400
(1)
10 Bent (J. Theodore). The Cyclades, or Life among the Insular
Greeks, 1st edition, Longmans, Green & Co., 1885, half-title, folding
map, 18pp. publisher’s adverts to rear, some pages unopened,
ownership inscription of Kirk Nuttal to title, a little light spotting to
first few leaves, hinges cracked, original publisher’s cloth gilt, slightly
rubbed and a little bumped at extremities, 8vo
Blackmer 123: ‘A very interesting account of the author’s stay on each of the
19 islands of the Cyclades with descriptions of customs, beliefs and
superstitions of the peoples’.
£200-300
(1)
8 Bayot (Adolphe, Ciceri Eugene & A.L. Morel Fatio). Nos
Souvenirs de Kil-Bouroun Pendant l’Hiver Passé dans le Liman du
Dnieper. 1855-1856. Les Officiers, Officiers Mariniers et Marins de
la Division Navale de Kil-Bouroun..., published Arthus-Bertrand, Paris,
circa 1860, decorative lithographic title, lithographic map and fifteen
tinted lithographic plates (complete), each with tissue guard, some
worming to gutter but not affecting image, last plate with repaired
closed tear but not affecting image, publisher’s advertisement to
front pastedown, contemporary quarter morocco with gilt label to
upper siding, a little worn at extremities, slim folio
11 Bischoff (James). Sketch of the History of Van Diemen’s Land,
illustrated by a map of the island, and an account of the Van
Diemen’s Land Company, 1st edition, John Richardson, 1832, two
black and white engraved plates, including frontispiece, large folding
engraved map by Arrowsmith, hand-coloured in outline, library
stamp to title verso (partly erased), occasional oval library inkstamp
to top margins, original cloth-backed boards, with paper label to
spine, rubbed and some soiling, with early library printed label to
upper cover of the Undercliff Free Library, Ventnor and Bonchurch
Literary and Scientific Institution to upper cover, 8vo
An uncommon volume commemorating the Battle of Kinburn (Kil-Bouroun)
on the south bank of the Dnieper River during the Crimean war. Only two
copies found on Copac.
(1)
£600-900
Ferguson 1517.
(1)
£100-150
12 Black (A. & C., publishers). Fitzgerald (Sybil), Naples, 1st edition,
1904, additional half title, eighty colour plates (complete) after
Augustine Fitzgerald, each with tissue guard with printed title, slight
spotting to endpapers, library stamp to front endpaper, t.e.g., partially
uncut, publishers’s decorative cloth gilt, spine a little browned, slight
wear at head and foot of spine, 4to, limited De-Luxe edition 164/250,
signed by artist, together with, Menpes (Mortimer), Japan. A
Record in Colour..., transcribed by Dorothy Menpes, 1st edition,
published A & C Black, 1901, additional half title, 100 colour plates
after Mortimer Menpes (complete), each with tissue guard with
printed title, lacking front endpaper, t.e.g., remainder uncut,
publisher’s decorative cloth gilt, spine a little faded, 4to, limited DeLuxe edition 336/600, signed by Mortimer Menpes, with, Kelly (R.
Talbot), Egypt. Painted and Described, 1st edition, published A & C
Black, 1902, additional half title, seventy-five colour plates (complete)
after R.Talbot Kelly, each with tissue guard with printed title, slight
spotting, t.e.g., remainder uncut, publisher’s decrative cloth gilt,
spine a little faded, 4to, limited De-Luxe edition 158/500, signed by
author
(3)
Lot 9
6
£200-300
Lot 14
13 Boron (Vittorio, illustrator). Malta, by Frederick W. Ryan, 1st
edition, 1910, 20 colour illustrations, plus folding map to rear,
bookplate to front pastedown, inscription to title page, some light
spotting, original gilt decorated green cloth, 4to, together with
Summerville (Frankfort), The Spirit of Paris, 1st edition, 1913, 20
colour illustrations, inscription to front endpaper, original gilt
decorated brown cloth, 4to, and Compton (E. Harrison), The
Dolomites, King Laurin’s Garden by Reginald Farrer, 1st edition,
1913, 20 colour illustrations plus folding map to rear, some minor
spotting, original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine slightly rubbed to
head and foot, 4to, plus 29 further A&C Black publications, including
The Cape Peninsular by W. Westhofen, 1st edition, 1910, Nuremburg
by Mrs Bell, 1905, all original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(33)
16 Campbell (Thomas). Letters From the South, 2 vols., 1st
edition, 1837, folding engraved plan, ten uncoloured aquatinted
plates (including 3 folding), toning throughout and occasional
spotting, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines, joints slightly
cracked and extremities rubbed, 8vo
Abbey Travel 306. The volume comprises an account of Scottish poet Thomas
Campbell’s visit to Algiers after the French conquest.
£80-120
(2)
17 Catlin (George). Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs,
and Condition of the North American Indians, 1st edition, 2 vols.,
1841, three maps including one folding, numerous line engraved
plates, errata slip not present, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed,
recent green buckram gilt, tall 8vo
£100-150
Sabin 11536. With error “Frederick” on page 104, line 26 of volume 1
corrected to “Zedekiah”.
£150-200
(2)
14 Burchell (William J.). Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa,
2 vols., 1st ed., 1822-24, 20 hand-coloured aquatint and engraved
plates, some folding, large engraved folding map at end of vol. I (torn
without loss), illustrations, errata slip to vol. I, bound without half
titles, occasional light offsetting and spotting, bookplates,
contemporary half calf, spines with black labels (vol. I spine with
chip and closed tear), a little rubbed and scuffed, 4to
18 Cesnola (Alexander Palma di). Salaminia (Cyprus), The History,
Treasures, & Antiquities of Salamis in the Island of Cyprus, 2nd ed.,
1884, wood-engraved half-title, colour lithograph frontispiece, singlepage map, numerous black and white illustrations, single
advertisement leaf to rear, ex library copy with usual stamps,
including perforated stamp to half-title, occasional offsetting,
contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, large 8vo
Abbey Travel 327; Mendelssohn I, p.224; Tooley 116. “The most valuable and
accurate work on South Africa published up to the first quarter of the
nineteenth century.” (Mendelssohn).
(2)
£1200-1800
(2)
15 Burton (Richard F.). Ultima Thule; or, a Summer in Iceland, 2
vols., 1st ed., 1875, half titles, four tinted lithographed plates, two
folding colour maps, wood-engraved illustrations, some scattered
spotting, contemporary black half morocco, spines titled in gilt with
‘Margary Memorial’ stamped at foot, 8vo
Penzer p.91.
(2)
£200-300
7
£150-200
21 Colebrooke (Robert Hyde). Twelve Views of Places in the
Kingdom of Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan, from drawings
taken on the spot. To which are annexed, concise descriptions of
the places drawn, with a brief detail of part of the operations of the
army under the Marquis of Cornwallis, during the late war, and a few
other particulars, 1st edition, 1793, printed title, dedication leaf, 12
uncoloured aquatint plates by J.W. Edy after R.H. Colebrooke, each
with accompanying leaf of letterpress description, single-sheet list
of subscribers at rear, title with some light soiling and marginal
fraying, relined, with central horizontal repaired tear, and lower outer
blank corner missing, short closed tear repair to centre of foremargin
of dedication leaf and first two text leaves and plates (not affecting
image), a few minor marginal marks and small marginal repairs
towards rear of volume, final plate with light central vertical crease,
list of subscribers, with one or two marginal closed tears (repaired),
late 19th or early 20th-century cloth gilt, with printed label of the
Royal United Service Institution to front pastedown, rubbed and
some marks and soiling, spine partly defective, large oblong folio
(550 x 705mm)
Abbey, Travel 419. Tooley 149. First edition of these scenic views of the
southern kingdom of Mysore in India, etched in aquatint by the engraver John
William Edy after drawings by the surveyor Robert Hyde Colebrooke (17621808), produced in the aftermath of the Third Mysore War, following which
Tippoo Sultan handed over parts of the region, various forts, and a significant
financial settlement to the East India Company. The prints are titled: East View
of Bangalore, The Lake of Mooty Tallaow near Seringapatam, Prospect of the
Country near Mooty Tallaow, Pagodas at Maugry with a distant View of
Sewandroog, N.W. View of Nandydroog, North View of Sewandroog shewing
the Attack in Decr. 1791, South View of Sewandroog, S.W. View of OotraDurgum, West View of Ramgherry, The Mausoleum of Hyder Aly Khan at
Laulbaug, East View of Seringapatam & N.W. View of Seringapatam.
£700-1000
(1)
19 Chandler (Richard). Travels in Greece: Or an Account of a Tour
made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti, 1st ed., Oxford,
1776, seven engraved maps and plans by Thomas Kitchin, including
two folding (repairs to verso), some offsetting and a few spots, three
contents leaves with top corners excised, Kansas City Public Library
perforated stamp and manuscript presentation inscription at head
of title, modern calf-backed boards, 4to
Blackmer 319. A continuation of Chandler’s Travels in Asia Minor (1775). The
first half of the book is devoted to Athens, the second half is an account of
his journey to classical sites such as Sunium, Prasiae, Marathon, Attica,
Eleusis, Megara, Corinth, Salamis, Delphi, Mount Parnassus and Olympia.
£400-600
(1)
20 Clark (F.). The East-India Register and Army List, for 1857, 2nd
edition; corrected to the 6th May, Wm. H. Allen, 1857, cix + 300 +
184 + 131 pp., with additional list of proprietors of East-India stock,
adverts and 12-page publisher’s list (dated May 20 1857) at rear, all
edges gilt, marbled endpapers, with bookplate of Rev. Titus Edward
Laurie to front pastedown, contemporary signature of C.W. Fletcher,
dated May 1857 to verso of front endpaper, contemporary straightgrained red full morocco gilt, very slightly rubbed (generally in very
good condition), 8vo
(1)
£100-150
Lot 20
8
Lot 21
9
23 Cook (Captain James). Captain Cook’s Voyages Round the
World... Including Captain Furneaux’s Journal, 3 vols., Glasgow,
1807-09, engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I, folding maps,
eighteen engraved plates (complete), some offsetting and spotting,
bookplates of James McBryde, contemporary calf gilt, edges a little
rubbed, 8vo
(3)
22 Conway (William Martin). Climbing and Exploration in the
Karakoram-Himalayas, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1894, half-titles,
photogravure portrait frontispiece to first volume, numerous
monochrome plates and illustrations by A.D. McCormick, with
duplicate proofs of the plates printed on Japan tissue, with tissue
guards captioned in gold, single advertisement leaf at rear of second
volume, top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original cloth with
morocco labels to spines, a little rubbed and some marks, 8vo
£150-200
24 Coronelli (Vincenzo Maria). An Historical and Geographical
Account of the Morea, Negropont, and the Maritime places, as far
as Thessalonica..., Englished by R. W. Gent, printed for Matthew
Gillyflower, 1687, forty-two engraved maps, views and plans
(Forteresse de Zante replaced and Isle de Zante repaired with
facsimiles), advertisment leaf bound at rear, occasional minor
marginal tear or small hole, few paper repairs to margins,
contemporary calf, worn and rubbed with a little loss to spine, 12mo
Neate C103. Limited edition 73/150 (of which 125 only are for sale), signed
by the author. Without the two supplementary volumes of maps and
scientific reports.
(2)
£300-400
Atabey 286-8; Blackmer 408; Wing C6342. First edition in English.
(1)
£400-600
10
25 D’Anville (Jean Baptiste Bourguignon). A Complete Body of
Ancient Geography, published James Whittle and Richard Holmes
Laurie, 1816, printed title and thirteen engraved maps including 12
double page, (complete as list), all with contemporary outline
colouring, slight dust and finger soiling largely confined to margins,
contemporary half calf, marbled sidings, some wear and fraying to
boards, bumped and worn at extremities, slim folio
(1)
30 Forbes (James D.). The Tour of Mont Blanc and of Monte Rosa
being a personal narrative, abridged from the author’s travels in the
Alps of Savoy, Edinburgh, 1855, folding map frontispiece, folding
map at rear (closed tear without loss), publisher’s catalogue bound
in at end, original gilt-decorated cloth, a little rubbed and some
marks, with slight fraying to extreme head of spine, small 8vo,
together with Tyndall (John), The Glaciers of the Alps. Being a
narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and
phenomena of glaciers, and expedition of the physical principles to
which they are related, 1st edition, John Murray, 1860, monochrome
illustrations, original blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed and sunned to
spine and upper margins of boards, 8vo, plus Whymper (Edward),
Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69, 2nd edition, John
Murray, 1871, numerous wood engraved illustrations, original green
cloth, gilt decorated spine, very slightly rubbed (generally in good
condition), large 8vo, and Umlauft (Professor F.), The Alps,
translated by Louisa Brough, 1st English edition, 1889, numerous
wood engraved plates and illustrations, maps, etc., original pictorial
cloth gilt, rubbed and some soiling, large 8vo, plus other alpine and
mountaineering interest, Switzerland, etc., including James D.
Forbes, Travels through the Alps, new edition, revised and annotated
by W.A.B. Coolidge, 1900, W.A.B. Coolidge, Swiss Travel and Swiss
Guide-books, 1st edition, 1989, W.M. Conway, The Alps from End
to End, 1895, A.W. Moore, The Alps in 1864, a private journal, 1902,
John Ball, Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, First Series, 3rd edition, 1889
& Third Series, 1932, F. Barham Zincke, A Walk in the Grisons, 1875,
Leslie Stephen, The Playground of Europe, 1871, etc.
£150-250
26 Dix (John Adams). A Winter in Madeira. And a Summer in Spain
and Florence, 1st ed., New York, 1850, wood-engraved illustrations,
publisher’s list at end, original green blindstamped cloth, spine ends
a trifle rubbed, 8vo, a good copy, together with Driver (John),
Letters from Madeira in MDCCCXXXIV; With an Appendix,
Illustrative of the History of the Island, Climate, Wines, and Other
Information up Year 1838, 2nd ed., 1838, a few light spots, original
green cloth, spine faded, one or two light stains, 12mo, plus others
related including W.H. Koebel’s Madeira: Old and New, 1909, Ellen
Taylor’s Madeira, Its Scenery and How to See it, 2nd ed., 1889 and
C.A. le P. Power’s Tourist’s Guide to the Island of Madeira, 1914
(11)
£200-300
27 Dutens (Louis, translated by John Highmore). Journal of
Travels made through the Principal Cities of Europe, wherein the
time employed in going from Post to Post in marked in Hourse and
Minutes, the Distances in English Miles measured by means of a
Perambulator fastened to the chaise....,J. Wallis, 1782, half-title,
scattered spotting, disbound, 8vo, together with Brown (Robert),
An Impartial Journal of a Detachment from the Brigade of Foot
Guards, commencing 25th February 1793 and ending 9th May 1795,
John Stockdale, 1795, engraved map lacking, scattered spotting,
disbound, 8vo
(2)
(18)
31 Fuchs (Sir Vivian, and Hillary, Sir Edmund). The Crossing of
Antarctica. The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58,
1st edition, Cassell, 1958, coloured and black & white photographic
illustrations, half-title signed by Vivian Fuchs, 1958 and Ken Blaiklock,
Advance Party Leader, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, together
with Scott (Peter), The Eye of the Wind, 1st edition, 1961, black &
white and colour plates, title signed by the author, original cloth in
dust jacket, 8vo, with Hunt (John), The Ascent of Everest, 1st
edition, 1953, colour and black & white plates, original cloth in frayed
dust jacket, 8vo, plus other similar exploration related etc.
£100-150
28 Emerson (James, Count Pecchio, and W.H. Humphreys). A
Picture of Greece in 1825; as Exhibited in the Personal Narratives of
James Emerson, Esq., Count Pecchio, and W.H. Humphreys, Esq.,
Compirising a Detailed Account of the Events of the Late Campaign,
and Sketches of the Principal Military, Naval, and Political Chiefs, 2
volumes (bound as one) 1st American edition, New York: Carvil, Bliss
et al, 1826, some scattered spotting, partly unopened, edges
untrimmed, modern half calf, 8vo
(10)
£100-150
32 Georgirenes (Joseph). A Description of the Present State of
Samos, Nicaria, Patmos and Mount Athos, sold by Moses Pitt, 1678,
armorial bookplate of Peter Thompson to verso of title, A2 & 3
(Greek dedication) supplied in facsimile (often lacking, as one of the
Atabey copies, and the Macclesfield copy), a little dust soiling, few
minor marks, one or two small marginal paper repairs, later half calf,
rebacked with spine relaid, small 8vo
See Blackmer 548. Not in Atabey. Printed in Jamaica by Sleigh & Tucker.
£100-150
(1)
29 Fitzgerald (Percy). The Great Canal at Suez, its Political,
Engineering, and Financial History, with an account of the struggles
of its projector, Ferdinand de Lesseps, 2 volumes, 1876, photolithograph frontispiece to each volume, slight scattered spotting,
bookplate & ownership ink stamp of F. Cyril Parker to pastedowns,
hinges cracked, original publisher’s decorative cloth, a little rubbed
and scuffed, 8vo
(2)
£150-200
Atabey 489; Blackmer 672.
(1)
£70-100
11
£400-600
35 Guthrie (William). Untitled atlas volume, published C.Dilly &
G.Robinson, 1785, folding hemispheral map of the world and a
folding Mercator’s projection map of the world and twenty-two
double page engraved maps (including three folding) all with
contemporary outline colouring, near contemporary manuscript
titles to verso of maps, slight spotting largely confined to endpapers
and pastedowns, pencil drawing of Stonehenge to verso of rear
endpaper, hinges and joints weak, contemporary half calf, rubbed,
worn and frayed, slim folio
Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.
(1)
36 Hall (Captain Basil). Extracts from a Journal, Written on the
Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 2
vols. in one, 2nd ed., Edinburgh, 1824, folding engraved map
(repaired to verso), some offsetting and light spotting, modern calfbacked boards, 8vo, together with Kidder (Daniel P.), Sketches of
Residence and Travels in Brazil, Embracing Historical and
Geographical Notices of the Empire and its Several Provinces, 2
vols., 1st US ed., Philadelphia, 1845, plates and illustrations, vol. II
frontispiece detached, some spotting, previous owner inscriptions,
original green cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Stephens (John
Lloyd), Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan,
Revised from the Latest American Edition with Additions, by
Frederick Catherwood, 1854, map, wood-engraved illustrations,
some offsetting and light toning, presentation inscription, armorial
bookplate of Lord Avebury, original blue cloth gilt, rebacked, a little
rubbed, 8vo, with other South America travel including Captain F.B.
Head’s Rough Notes Taken During some Rapid Journeys across the
Pampas and among the Andes, 2nd ed., Charles A. Washburn’s The
History of Paraguay, Boston, 1871, Thomas Sutcliffe’s Sixteen Year
in Chili and Peru from 1822 to 1839, 1841 (lacking frontispiece),
Colonel J.P. Hamilton’s Travels through the Interior Provinces of
Columbia, 2 vols. in one, 1826 (lacking one plate), and W. Parker
Snow’s A Two Years’ Cruise off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands,
Patagonia, and in the River Plate, 2 vols., 1857 (lacking one plate),
and South American Handbook. The South American Handbook,
1924-1960, a run, commencing with the forerunner Anglo-South
American Handbook for 1921, ed., W.H. Koebel, duplicates of 1928
and 1936, and another three volumes (for 1965, 1971 & 1984, plus
two others related), colour maps and advertisements, occasional
light spotting, toning and waterstains, one or two ex-libris with
ownership inscriptions, original cloth, occasional fading and one or
two tears, some in 2/6 or 3/6 d.j.s (some tears and losses), 8vo
33 Gilles (Pierre). The Antiquities of Constantinople. With a
Description of its Situation, the Conveniences of its Port, its Publick
Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and Other
Curiosities of that City... Now Translated into English... by John Ball,
1729, engraved frontispiece and title, eleven engraved plates and
plans (including some folding), occasional spotting or browning,
contemporary calf, rebacked with original gilt spine relaid, 8vo
Atabey 498; Blackmer 688.
(1)
£300-500
34 Gruisen (N.L. van). A Holiday in Iceland, 1st ed., 1879, five
mounted photographs, a few light thumbmarks, endpapers a little
toned, original cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Shepherd
(C.W.), The North-West Peninsula of Iceland. Being the Journal of a
Tour in Iceland in the Spring and Summer of 1862, 1st ed., 1867,
folding map, two colour plates, a few spots, original green cloth,
spine a little darkened, 8vo, plus Visit to Iceland and the
Scandinavian North. Translated from the German of Madame Ida
Pfeiffer, 1st English ed., 1852, additional tinted title and seven tinted
plates, scattered spotting, original green cloth, spine a little faded,
8vo, with others related including Pliny Miles’ Nordurfari or Rambles
in Iceland, 1854, Charles Forbes’ Iceland; Its Volcanoes, Geysers and
Glaciers, 1860 and Sabine Baring-Gould’s Iceland: Its Scenes and
Sagas, 1863
(23)
£300-500
£200-300
The series commenced with the Anglo-South American Handbook for 1921
(another was published for 1921-22), no volume published in 1923 owing to
the death of editor W.H. Koebel, before recommencing as The South
American Handbook in 1924, and still published today.
£300-500
(93)
12
37 Harrison (General Sir Richard). Recollections of a Life in the
British Army during the latter half of the 19th century, Smith, Elder
& Co., 1908, half-title, portrait frontispiece, black and white plates,
facsmile letter, 6pp. publisher’s advertisments to rear, minor
scattered spotting, presentation inscription from the author to his
grandson to initial blank, original publisher’s cloth, gilt titled to spine
and upper board, a little rubbed and lightly scuffed, 8vo
42 Henniker (Sir Frederick). Notes, During a Visit to Egypt, Nubia,
The Oasis, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem, London: John Murray, 1823,
folding tinted aquatint frontispiece (with old oval ink stamp to upper
left, creased & frayed to fore-edge margin), uncoloured aquatint
vignette title, two uncoloured aquatint plates (one folding, ink stamp
to outer corner of each), occasional light spotting and minor dustsoiling, modern half calf gilt, 8vo
(1)
(1)
£100-150
£150-200
38 Hawkesworth (John, ed.). An Account of the Voyages
Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making
Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere. And Successively
Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret,
and Captain Cook, 4 vols., 3rd ed., 1785, two folding engraved maps
(first map loose), nine folding engraved plates, some scattered
spotting and few minor marks, library inkstamps to initial blank and
verso of titles, contemporary calf rubbed and worn, rebacked, one
or two boards detached, 8vo
(4)
£200-300
39 Hedin (Sven). Central Asia and Tibet Towards the Holy City of
Lassa, 2 vols., 1st English ed., 1903, four folding maps, illustrations,
scattered spotting, vol. II front hinge a little tender, top edge gilt,
original red cloth gilt, spines and extremities faded, a few light
stains, 8vo, together with Stanley (Henry M.), In Darkest Africa or
the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria, 2
vols., 1st ed., 1890, four folding maps (vol. I map detached and torn
in two without loss), illustrations, some spotting, original red pictorial
cloth gilt, a few dampstains, 8vo, with others including J.G. Millais’
Newfoundland and its Untrodden Ways, 1907 and Wanderings and
Memories, 1919
(13)
£150-200
40 Helps (Arthur). The Spanish Conquest in America and its
Relation to the History of Slavery and to the Government of
Colonies, 5 vols., 1st ed., 1855-61, half titles to vols. I-II & IV only,
two folding maps, maps in text, some light spotting and toning,
previous owner stamp, bookplates, contemporary mottled calf,
covers stamped with gilt arms, spines with red and green labels and
gilt decoration, a little rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, together with Squier
(E. George), Peru. Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of
the Incas, 1st ed., 1877, half title, folding map, illustrations, a few
spots, t.e.g., modern black half calf, Mudie’s Select Library label to
upper cover, 8vo, with others leather bound, including Edward
Whymper’s Travels Amongst the Great Andse of the Equator, 2nd
ed., 1892 and William H. Prescott’s History of the Conquest of
Peru/Conquest of Mexico, new eds., 1878
(10)
£150-200
43 Heylyn (Peter). Cosmographie, in Four Books. Containing the
Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, and all the Principal
Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof, 4th edition, published
P. Chetwind, 1677, engraved frontispiece, general title printed in red
& black with later manuscript ownership signature, four uncoloured
double-page engraved maps, maps frayed and trimmed with slight
loss, three maps with long closed tears affecting image, partially
disbound with loose text pages, upper hinge and joints broken,
original boards covered in later cloth, torn, worn and frayed, folio
41 Henderson (Ebenezer). Iceland; or the Journal of a Residence
in that Island, During the Years 1814 and 1815. Containing
Observations on the Natural Phenomena, History, Literature and
Antiquities of the Island; and the Religion, Character, Manners, and
Customs of its Inhabitants, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1818, folding engraved
map (torn in half), 16 engraved plates, occasional spotting and
waterstains, modern speckled calf, 8vo
(2)
£100-150
(1)
13
£200-300
Lot 44
Lot 46
44 Heylyn (Peter). Cosmographie, in Four Books. Containing the
Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, and all the Principal
Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof, 5th edition, published
P. Chetwind and A. Seile, 1677, additional engraved decorative title
torn with slight loss and re-lined, letterpress title printed in red &
black and four titles to each part, four engraved folding maps of
Europe, Asia, Africa & America by Robert Vaughan, maps cropped
at head and foot with slight loss to neatline, upper hinge cracked,
later endpapers, 20th century half calf with contrasting morocco
label to spine, folio
(1)
46 Hooker (William Jackson). Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the
Summer of 1809, 1st ed., 1st issue, printed by J. Keymer ‘Not
Published’, Yarmouth, 1811, hand-coloured frontispiece, three
engraved plates (two folding), illustrations, bound without half title,
a little light offsetting and spotting, small manuscript inscription to
front endpaper, bookplates, hinges reinforced, contemporary half
calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 8vo
Privately printed edition of 500 copies. Encouraged by Joseph Banks, Hooker
visited Iceland in 1809, where he collected natural history and other material,
but these and most of his journals were destroyed in a fire aboard the ship
on his return journey and the book was written largely from memory.
£300-400
(1)
£400-600
45 Hobhouse (John Cam, Baron Broughton). A Journey Through
Albania, and Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to
Constantinople During the Year 1809 and 1810, 2nd ed., 1813,
engraved uncoloured frontispiece, two folding engraved maps,
engraved plan, two facsimile letters, engraved plate of Greek music,
16 hand-coloured aquatint plates only (of 17, lacking plate 13, View
of Tophana), scattered light spotting, one or two frayed foredges,
recent green half morocco by Maltbys, 4to
47 Howard-Bury (Lieutenant-Colonel C.K.). Mount Everest. The
Reconnaissance, 1921, 1st edition, 1922, together with Bruce
(Brigadier-General Hon. C.G.), The Assault on Mount Everest,
1922, 1st edition, 1923, plus Norton (Lieutenant-Colonel E.F.), The
Fight for Everest: 1924, 1st edition, 1925, monochrome photogravure
and half-tone plates, several in colour, folding maps, etc., all original
cloth gilt, some minor marks (generally in good condition), large 8vo
Neate H120, B196 & N31.
(3)
Abbey Travel 202; Blackmer 821. The second edition, second issue with the
continuous pagination in one volume. A famous account of the author’s tour
of Greece with Lord Byron in 1809 and 1810, which additionally provides
much information on the court of Ali Pasha.
£600-800
(1)
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£200-300
48 Howitt (Alfred William). The Native Tribes of South-East
Australia, 1st edition, 1904, nine folding coloured maps (as called
for, one detached), one table, illustrations to text, errata slip bound
in, occasional spotting, original cloth gilt, a little rubbed and slightly
darkened on spine, together with Spencer (Walter Baldwin), The
Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia, 1st edition, 1914,
photographic plates, folding coloured map, illustrations to text,
publisher’s advert leaf at rear, hinges slightly cracked, original cloth
gilt, rubbed and spine slightly faded, plus The Northern Tribes of
Central Australia, 1st edition, 1904, folding map, two colour folding
plates and two folding tables, black and white illustrations to text,
some heavy spotting, bookplate removed from front pastedown,
hinges cracked, original cloth gilt, some fraying and wear, spine
faded, plus Frazer (James George), The Belief in Immortality and
the Worship of the Dead, 3 volumes, 1st editions (volume 1 2nd
impression, volumes 2 & 3 1st impression), 1913-22-24, uncut and
largely unopened, original cloth gilt, a little rubbed and minor fraying
at foot of volume 2, all 8vo
(6)
£150-200
Lot 51
49 India. Gantz (John), a collection of ten (of 20) hand-coloured
lithographs from Indian Microcosm, Madras, 1827, each laid onto card
mount, letterpress title to verso, 25 x 32cm (10 x 12.5ins) overall
Abbey Travel 445. Plates present; 5-13 & 17.
(10)
£400-600
50 Isfahani (Abu al-Faraj). Mukhtar al-aghani fi 'l-akhbar wa'ltahani, 8 volumes, 1965, title and text in Arabic, few black and
white plates, later cloth-backed boards, 8vo, together with other
Arabic literature and language resources, including University of
Michigan Contemporary Arabic Readers, 3 volumes, Arabic Bible,
Alexandria circa 1917, and other similar
(30)
£200-300
52 Juan (Jorge & Ulloa, Antonio de). A Voyage to South-America:
Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces, &c. on
that Extensive Continent. Interspersed throughout with Reflections
on the Genius, Customs, Manners, and Trade of the Inhabitants;
Together with the Natural History of the Country. And an Account
of their Gold and Silver Mines, 2 vols., 1st English ed., 1758, seven
engraved maps and plates, including six folding (backed and repaired
with archival tissue paper), publisher’s list at end of vol. I, one or two
words of text crossed-through, some light offsetting and spotting,
previous owner inscriptions, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little
rubbed and stained, 8vo
51 Java. Batavia in Deszelfs Gelegenheid, Opkomst, Voortreffelyke,
Gebouwen, Hooge en Laage Regeering, Geschiedenissen,
Kerkzaaken, Koop-handel, Zeden, Luchtgesteldheid, Ziekten, Dieren
en Gewassen, 4 volumes (bound as one), Amsterdam: Smit &
Holtrop, 1799, vignette to each title, two engraved folding maps,
large engraved folding plan of Batavia, eight engraved folding plates,
light damp stain to third volume, partially removed library stamps to
titles, slightly later boards, crudely rebacked, 4to
Re-edition of “Batavia, de Hoofdstad van Neerlands O. Indien”, published in
1782-83, with a new preface and with the same plates. Landwehr, VOC, 499;
Bastin/Brommer, 23.
£300-500
(1)
Sabin 36813.
(2)
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£200-300
53 Kitching (Rev. A.L.). On the Backwaters of the Nile. Studies of
Some Child Races of Central Africa, 1st edition, 1912, half-title
present, black & white plates from photographs, folding map at rear,
occasional spotting, top edge gilt, original gilt decorated cloth, a little
rubbed at head & foot, thick 8vo, together with Wingate (Major F.R.),
Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan..., 1st edition, 1891, numerous
pland and maps (some folding), folding map in rear pocket, edges
untrimmed, bookplate removed from upper pastedown, hinges
cracked, original cloth gilt, slightly frayed at head & foot of spine, 8vo,
with Wason (J. Cathcart), East Africa and Uganda, or Our Last Land,
1st edition, 1905, numerous plates from photographs, top edge gilt,
remainder untrimmed, 8vo, plus Harrison (J. W.), A.M. Mackay,
Pioneer Missionary of the Church Missionary Society to Uganda, by
his sister, 1st edition, 1890, etched portrait frontispiece, upper hinge
cracked, original cloth gilt, 8vo
(4)
58 Leake (William Martin). Travels in the Morea, 3 vols., 1st ed.,
1830, together with Peloponnesiaca: A Supplement to Travels in the
Morea, 1st ed., 1846, together 4 vols., two large folding maps and
twenty-eight engraved maps, plans and plates, some folding,
uniform contemporary brown half calf, gilt decorated spines with
contrasting labels, raised bands with Greek vase motif in
compartments, slight shelf wear to extremities, 8vo
Blackmer 974 (without the Supplement). Atabey 691 & 693. A highly
important set including the scarce Supplement, giving a fascinating account
of journeys carried out from February to May 1805 and February to May 1806.
Leake was a member of the Society of Dilettanti, a Fellow of the Royal
Society and of the Royal Geographical Society, and was Vice-President of the
Royal Society of Literature. The binding of this set matches the Eton prize
binding illustrated on page 357 in Atabey.
£2000-3000
(4)
£200-250
59 Lepsius (Dr. Richard). Discoveries in Egypt, Ethiopia, and the
Peninsular of Sinai, in the Years 1842-1845, during the Mission sent
out by His Majesty Frederick William IV of Prussia, edited, with
notes, by Kenneth R.H. Mackenzie, 2nd edition, with additions &
corrections, 1853, half-title, tinted lithograph frontispiece, folding
map and single-plate of inscriptions, some spotting and toning,
original blindstamped cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo
54 Lane (Edward William). An Arabic-English Lexicon, derived
from the Best and most Copious Eastern Sources..., 8 parts (bound
in 4 volumes), Williams and Norgate, 1863-93, text in triple column,
blindstamp to titles, bookplate of Rev. Philemon Moore to upper
pastedowns, contemporary half morocco, rubbed and scuffed to
extremities, large 4to
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(1)
£70-100
£150-200
55 Le Bon (Gustav). La Civilisation des Arabes, 1st edition, Paris,
1884, four maps, eleven chromolithographs, including frontispiece,
wood engraved illustrations throughout including some full page,
some toning to initial and final leaves, hinges broken, near
contemporary quarter morocco, spine rubbed and scuffed, large 8vo
(1)
£150-200
56 Le Vaillant (Francois). Second Voyage dans l’Intérieur de
l’Afrique..., 2 volumes, Paris: Jansen, [1796], half-titles, twenty-one
engraved plates (including five folding), all with contemporary handcolouring, most with original guard sheet, occasional minor mark,
partially removed library ink stamps to half-titles and titles,
contemporary marbled calf, gilt, spines later varnished, rubbed and
scuffed to joints and corners, shelf mark to foot of spines (removed),
4to
No presidence has been established between the present work (being the
publisher’s deluxe 4to) and the 8vo edition issued in three volumes. A folding
map was issued separately at a later date.
(2)
£300-500
57 Le Vaillant (Francois). Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa,
by the way of the Cape of Good Hope in the years 1780, 81, 82, 83,
84 and 85, printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1790, eleven
engraved plates (of twelve) only (lacking plate of Hottentot Woman
from volume two, as often), occasional minor spotting or light
offsetting to text, 20th century ownership inscription to front free
endpaper, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, boards detached of
volume one, 8vo
(2)
£100-150
Lot 56
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Lot 58
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61 Lock (William George). Askja, Iceland’s Largest Volcano: With
a Description of the Great Lava Desert in the Interior: And a Chapter
on the Genesis of the Island, 1st ed., published by the author,
Charlton, Kent, 1881, folding colour map, advertisements at end,
one or two spots, previous owner inscription to half title, original
brown cloth, 8vo
60 Lizars (W.H.). A Modern and Ancient General Atlas Comprehending
all the Empires, Kingdoms, States &c. in the World. Constructed from
the most correct Authorities and containing all the recent Discoveries
of Parry, Ross, Franklin &c. &c. published Whittaker, Treacher & Co.,
1831, calligraphic title with near contemporary manuscript signature
partially deleted, title page detached, torn, frayed and spotted, thirty-six
(complete as list) engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring,
comprising of thirty-three ‘modern’ maps and three ancient historical
maps, each map with a contemporary manuscript title on verso and
pencil marginalia and occasional pencil annotations to maps, some
finger and dust soiling to margins, index bound at rear, contemporary
half calf, lacking upper board and spine, heavily worn and rubbed, 4to
A good copy. The author describes the great eruption of Askja in 1875 and
argues that it is Iceland’s largest volcano rather than Hekla.
(1)
£150-200
62 Malcolm (Sir John). The History of Persia, Pahlavi Reprint
Series, 2 volumes 1976, facsimile edition, original publisher’s giltdecorated boards, 4to, together with twelve other titles in the
Pahlavi Reprint series, including Drouville, Voyage en Perse,
Eastwick, Journal of a Diplomat’s Three Years Residence in Persia
and others related, plus thirteen volumes from the Classics of
Exploration series
An uncommon atlas. Only two institutional copies recorded and no copy
appearing in auction for thirty years.
(1)
£200-300
(27)
£150-200
63 Mandelslo (Johann Albrecht von). Voyages Celebres & remarquables, faits de Perse aux Indes Orientales ... contenant une Description
nouvelle & tres-curieuse de l’Indostan, de l’Empire du Grand-Mogol, des Iles & Presqu’iles de l’Orient, des Royaumes de Siam, du Japon, de
la Chine, du Congo, &c., nouvelle edition revue & corrigée exactement, augmentée considerablement ... & surpassant en bonté & en beauté
les précedentes editions, trans. A. de Wicquefort, 2 volumes, Amsterdam: Michel Charles le Cène, 1727, half-titles, printed titles in red and
black, engraved portrait of the author, folding panoramic engraved view of Yedo (Tokyo), fourteen further engraved folding plates, thirteen
engraved plates (on seven pages), twenty engraved maps (including fourteen folding), plus some engraved plates and maps to text, carefully
removed library stamps to half-titles and printed titles, catalogue numbers in ink to verso of titles and front free endpapers, overall toning
throughout, contemporary marbled calf, spine varnished, joints and extremities rubbed and worn, library labels and shelf mark to spines, folio
Brunet IV, 178; Cordier, Japonica pp.367-8.
(2)
£800-1200
18
64 Maundrell (Henry). A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter,
A.D. 1697, 5th edition, to which is now added an Account of the
Author’s Journey to the Banks of Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country
of Mesopotamia, Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1732, engraved
vignette to title, fifteen engraved plates (nine folding), contemporary
panelled calf, upper joint split and lower joint cracked, 8vo
(1)
£100-150
65 Miers (John). Travels in Chile and La Plata, including Accounts
Respecting the Geography, Geology, Statistics, Government,
Finances, Agriculture, Manners and Customs, of the Mining
Operations in Chile, 1st edition, 2 volumes, printed for Baldwin,
Cradock and Joy, 1826, three folding maps, three engraved plans,
sixteen uncoloured lithograph plates (including some folding), all
correct as list, some spotting, toning and few minor marks,
contemporary inscription to upper pastedowns ‘John Nova Scotia’,
contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines, rubbed and scuffed with
repair to upper board of volume one, 8vo
Abbey Travel 701.
(2)
£100-150
Lot 68
66 Moeller (Bernard). Two Years at the Front with Mounted
Infantry, 1903, portrait frontispiece, numerous maps (some folding),
some toning, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, 8vo, together
with Jackson (Murray Cosby), A Soldier’s Diary South Africa 18991901, published 1913, black & white frontispiece & illustrations,
original cloth gilt, 8vo, with Hofmeyer (Adrian), The Story of my
Captivity During the Transvaal War, 1899-1900, published 1900,
portrait frontispiece, original cloth, spine faded, 8vo, and Ralph
(Julian), War’s Brighter Side..., 1901, black & white frontispiece,
some spotting, clipped author’s signature to upper pastedown, top
edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, 8vo, plus five others
(9)
£150-250
67 Barton (G.B. & Britton, Alexander). History of New South Wales
from the Records, 2 volumes, Sydney, 1889/1894, folding maps,
monochrome illustrations, etc., original dark blue cloth gilt, rubbed
and some marks, together with Historical Records of New South
Wales, 7 volumes bound in 8, Sydney, 1893-1901, folding maps, plans,
illustrations, etc., original quarter dark blue morocco gilt, first 4
volumes heavily rubbed and scuffed to spines, with some wear, and
upper cover to first volume detached, remaining volumes rubbed with
some marks, thick 8vo, plus a separately issued album of facsimiles
of charts to accompany volume I, part 1, Sydney, 1893, in 4to
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69 Olafsson (Eggert & Bjarni Palsson). Travels in Iceland:
Performed by Order of his Danish Majesty. Containing Observations
on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, a Description of
the Lakes, Rivers, Glaciers, Hot-Springs, and Volcanoes; of the
Various Kinds of Earths, Stones, Fossils and Petrifications; as well
as of the Animals, Insects, Fishes &c. Translated from the Danish,
1st English ed., 1805, folding engraved map, six engraved plates
including a duplicate plate of Mount Heela and a hand-coloured Birds
Eye View of a Volcano in the Island of Bourbon (taken from Bory de
St. Vincent’s work on Mauritius and the Isle of Bourbon), a few light
spots, bookplates and presentation inscription, all edges gilt, later
reverse calf, covers with armorial crest stamped in gilt, spine with
green labels, some slight fading to margins, 8vo
£200-300
68 Ogilby (John). Asia, The First Part [all published] being an
Accurate Description of Persia and the Several Provinces therof. The
Vast Empire of the Great Mogul and other parts of India and their
Several Kingdoms and Regions..., 1st edition, 1673, letterpress title
printed in red & black with near contemporary ownership signature,
engraved allegorical frontispiece, first few leaves disbound, p.8 torn
without loss to text, four double page maps but lacking the folding
map of Asia, twenty-six of twenty-eight) uncoloured engraved plates,
including ten double page, numerous engravings to text throughout,
occasional creasing and marginal closed tears, maps and several
plates with library blind stamp affecting margins, library label to front
pastedown, hinges and joints weak and cracked, near contemporary
reverse calf, boards near detached, rubbed, worn and frayed, folio
Sold as a collection of maps and prints, not subject to return.
(1)
(1)
£500-800
19
£100-150
Lot 70
20
70 [Parker, Mary Ann]. A Voyage Round the World in the Gorgon Man
of War, Captain John Parker, Performed and Written by his Widow, for
the Advantage of a Numerous Family, 1st edition, printed by John
Nichols, 1795, list of subscribers, 2 pp. publisher’s advertisements to
rear, scattered spotting, presentation inscription ‘from the authoress
to Henry Madden, 10th January 1799’ to title, contemporary half calf,
lacking upper cover and front free endpaper, 8vo
Ferguson 229; Hill (2004) 1303; Mendelssohn (1979) III, p.629. The first
private traveller’s account of the new colony, and the first by a woman.
Captain Parker sailed with the Gorgon as part of the Third Fleet, carrying Philip
King, the new Lieutenant Governor of Norfolk Island and his family. While at
Port Jackson, Captain Parker attended conferences to discuss the
establishment of a whaling fishery on the coast of New Holland. His minutes
of these discussions were published by his widow in the present work,
alongside the author’s informal observations on the personalities in the
settlement. The Gorgon left Australia in December 1791 taking with her
Watkin Tench and other marines who had sailed with the First Fleet in 1788.
£3000-5000
(1)
71 Patton (Emily S.). Japanese Topsyturveydom, Tokyo: T.
Hasegawa, 1896, colour woodblock printed throughout on crepe
paper, original silk ties, 4to
One of the largest crepe paper books produced by Hasegawa, this volume is
noted for the depiction of bonsai plants on p. 6.
(1)
£70-100
72 Picturesque Europe. 5 vols., Cassell, c. 1870, additional titles
to each, steel-engraved plates, illustrations, scattered light spotting,
contemporary green half calf, spines with red labels and gilt
decoration, light edge wear, 4to, together with vols. 1-4 only (of 5)
of the same work
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£100-150
74 Qur’an. Arabic Qur’an with interlinear translation in Urdu and
Persian, Dhaka, Bangladesh, circa 1850-70, lithograph printed
throughout, Arabic text highlighted in orange wash, interlinear
translations in Urdu and Persian, printed commentary to margins,
one or two manuscript annotations (possibly in the hand of Rev.
Bevan Jones), marginal paper repair to first few leaves, later
patterned endpapers, 20th century green cloth envelope-style
binding, folio 32 x 24cm (12.5 x 9.5ins)
Rare. From the collection of Rev. Lewis Bevan Jones, Baptist missionary in
India (biography of Bevan Jones loosely inserted).
£300-500
(1)
73 Prichard (James Cowles). The Natural History of Man;
Comprising Inquiries into the Modifying Influence of Physical and
Moral Agencies on the Different Tribes of the Human Family, 1st ed.,
1843, thirty-eight steel-engraved plates (including thirty-four handcoloured), wood-engraved illustrations to text, occasional minor
mark, bookplate of Thomas Hodgkin to upper pastedown,
contemporary calf, a little worn to joints, 8vo
(1)
£300-400
21
75 Rainsford (Marcus). An Historical Account of the Black Empire
of Hayti: Comprehending a view of the Principal Transactions in the
Revolution of Saint Domingo; with its Antient and Modern State,
1805, half-title discarded, engraved frontispiece, two engraved
folding maps and plans, eight engraved plates and a 3 page facsimile
letter, all complete as listed, some spotting & few marks, toning, dust
& finger-soiling, near contemporary gilt blind decorated morocco,
rebacked preserving original spine, lacking spine labels, 4to
(1)
£250-350
76 Rennell (James). A Bengal Atlas: Containing Maps of the
Theatre of War and Commerce on that side of Hindoostan, 2nd
edition, 1781, title page, contents list with errata printed to verso,
advertisment, map of inland navigation, tables of routes and
distances, key map to Bengal and Bahar, nineteen double page
engraved maps and one single page map, engraved panorama of
Oudanulla and Chunargur (on one sheet), the first ten maps with
contemporary outline colouring, lacking the battle of Buxur plan,
slight water staining, a.e.g., contemporary mottled calf with
elaborate decorated borders to boards, worn and rubbed at
extremities, folio
(1)
£500-800
Lot 75
Lot 76
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77 Riley (James). Loss of the American Brig Commerce, Wrecked
on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Month of August, 1815. With
an Account of Tombuctoo, and of the Hitherto Undiscovered Great
City of Wassanah, 1st ed., 1817, folding, linen-backed engraved map,
scattered spotting and dust-soiling, modern half morocco, 4to
(1)
£150-200
79 Ross (John). Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a NorthWest Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the
Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, Including the Reports of
Commander, Now Captain James Clark Ross, and the Discovery of
the Northern Magnetic Pole, 1st ed., 1835, 31 engraved and
lithographed plates, charts and maps, some coloured, frontispiece
slightly splitting along lower plate mark, some offsetting and
scattered spotting, later black half morocco, edges a little rubbed,
4to
Abbey Travel 636; Sabin 73381.
(1)
78 Rome. Vedute Antiche e Moderne le Pui Interessanti della Citta
di Roma, V. Monaldini & S. Piale, c. 1790, engraved title, 100
engraved views on 50 sheets, text in French, some scattered
spotting, bookplates, gilt gauffered edges, contemporary full calf,
upper cover lettered in gilt, spine faded, edges rubbed, sheet size
27 x 190cm, small 4to
(1)
£300-400
80 Routledge (Mrs. Scoresby). The Mystery of Easter Island. The
Story of an Expedition, 2nd ed., printed for the author, [1920],
numerous photogravure and half-tone maps and illustrations, some
folding, advertisement leaf at end, endpapers renewed, top edge
gilt, original green cloth gilt, neatly rebacked with original spine
relaid, slipcase, 8vo
£150-200
(1)
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£100-150
81 Royal Asiatic Society. Transactions of the Royal
Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1st
edition, 3 volumes, Parbury, Allen & Co., 1827, halftitles to volumes one and two (not called for in
volume three), eighty one engraved and lithograph
plates (two with contemporary colouring), including
views of antiquities, sculptures, facsimiles of asian
scripts etc. (some folding) errata slip to first volume,
contemporary half calf, Signet Library gilt stamp to
upper board of each volume, very slightly rubbed, 4to
A surprisingly rare publication, the contributors to which
include John Francis Davis, Henry Colebrooke, Sir John
Malcolm, James Tod, R.M. Grindlay, William Marsden, and
many others. The subjects include marriage ceremonies of
the Hindus, white elephants, the wild dog of the Western
Ghats, the cave temples of Ellora, the sheep-eater of
Hindustan, the Purik sheep of Ladakh, the Sutlej Valley, and
others.
£800-1200
(3)
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86 Shore (Frederick John). Notes on Indian Affairs, 2 volumes,
John Parker, 1837, occasional pencil marginalia, contemporary
ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers, contemporary half
calf, rubbed to joints, spine labels to volume one lacking, 8vo,
together with Napier (Charles James), Defects Civil and Military
of the Indian Government, Charles Westerton, 1853, occasional
pencil marginalia, bookplate of Archibald Trotter to upper pastedown,
original cloth, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, plus Arnold (Edwin), The
Marquis of Dalhousie’s Administration of British India, 2 volumes,
Saunders, Otley & Co., 1862-65, original publisher’s cloth, spines
faded, a little rubbed and slightly scuffed, 8vo, plus three other titles
relating to India
(10)
£150-200
82 Ruttledge (Hugh). Everest 1933, 1st edition, 1934, sepia plates
after photographs, including a portrait of F.S. Smythe, signed by
Smythe in blue ink, original cloth gilt, in good condition, together
with Everest: The Unfinished Adventure, 1st edition, 1937, numerous
plates after photographs, folding maps, etc., original blue cloth gilt,
spine lettering rubbed, large 8vo
Neate R99 & R100. The first volume being an author’s presentation copy,
inscribed to the front endpaper ‘Everest was worth trying for, and we will try
again. Hugh Ruttledge. December, 1934.’
(2)
£150-200
83 Savary (Claude Etienne). Letters on Greece; being a Sequel to
Letters on Egypt, and containing Travels through Rhodes, Crete, and
other islands of the Archipelago, 1st English edition, Dublin: L.
White, et al, 1788, half-title, occasional minor mark, bookplate of
Robert Montgomery, Convoy, Eire, to upper pastedown,
contemporary marbled calf, joints cracked, 8vo
(1)
£100-150
87 Sieber (Franz Wilhelm). Travels in the Island of Crete, in the
Year 1817, 1st English ed., 1823, folding frontispiece, two engraved
plates, light offsetting, bookplate, modern buff boards, black
morocco label to spine, 8vo
84 Savary (Claude Etienne). Lettres sur l’Egypte, ou l’on offre le
parrallele des moeurs anciennes et modernes des habitans..., 3
volumes & Lettres sur la Grece, pour Servir de Suite Celles sur l’Egypte,
Nouvelle Edition, Paris, 1798, together four volumes, half-titles, four
folding maps and two folding plates, occasional minor dust-soiling or
light spotting, contemporary uniform marbled calf gilt, 8vo
Blackmer 1492 & 1493.
(4)
Blackmer 1542. First published in Vienna in 1820. “Sieber spent two years in
the Levant, one in Crete collecting botanical specimens and the other
travelling in Egypt and the Holy Land.”
(1)
£100-150
£150-200
88 Smith (Thornley). South Africa Delineated; or, Sketches,
Historical and Descriptive, of its Tribes and Missions, and of the
British Colonies of the Cape and Port-Natal, 1st edition, 1850, six
engraved plates (including frontispiece), publisher’s advertisements
at rear, occasional spotting, original cloth gilt, spine torn, 8vo,
together with Ellis (William), Three Visits to Madagascar during the
Years 1853 - 1854 - 1856, Including a Journey to the Capital. With
Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present
Civilisation of the People, 1858, wood engraved folding frontispiece,
plates and illustrations, single-page engraved map, signature to
upper margin of title, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf,
rubbed, 8vo, plus 4 others, Chips from Tunis: A Glimpse of Arab Life,
by Madame Barbe Patteson, [1885], The New Playground or
Wanderings in Algeria, by Alexander A. Knox, 1881, The Martyr
Church: A Narrative of the Introduction, Progress, and Triumph of
Christianity in Madagascar, by William Ellis, 1870, and The Drama of
Madagascar, by Sonia E. Howe, 1938, all original cloth, 8vo
85 Scott (C. Rochfort). Rambles in Egypt and Candia, with Details
of the Military Power and Resources of those Countries, and
Observations on the Government, Policy, and Commercial System
of Mohammed Ali, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1837, five lithographed plates,
and folding plan of Karnak, some light toning, modern brown half
calf gilt, contrasting morocco labels to spines, 8vo
Abbey Travel 269; Blackmer 1514.
(2)
£100-150
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£150-200
89 Smyth (Lieutenant William and Frederick Lowe). Narrative of
a Journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the
Amazon: Undertaken with a View of Acertaining the Practicability of
a Navigable Communication with the Atlantic, by the Rivers
Pachitea, Ucayali, and Amazon, 1st ed., 1836, ten lithographed and
wood-engraved plates, three maps (two folding), publisher’s list at
end, some light offsetting and spotting, endpapers renewed, original
brown cloth, paper label to spine, some fading and stains, 8vo
Sabin 85346.
(1)
£150-200
Lot 92
90 Stanford (Edward, publisher). Stanford’s Family Atlas of
General Geography Exhibiting the Various Physical and Political
Divisions of the Chief Countries of the World, 1894, additional half
title, fifty colour lithographic maps, including forty-eight double page
(complete), occasional marginal finger soiling, index bound at rear,
all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco with gilt title to spine and
upper siding, a little worn at extremities, large folio
(1)
£70-100
91 Stephanopoli (Dimo and Nicolo). Voyage de Dimo et Nicolo
Stephanopoli en Grece, pendant les années V et VI..., d’apres deux
missions, dont l’une du Gouvernmement Francais, et l’autre du
générale en chef Buonaparte, 2 volumes (bound in one), 1st edition,
2nd impression, Paris, [1800], title to each volume, eight engraved
plates (including two folding), a little dust soiling, ink stamp to title
of first part, recent half calf gilt, 8vo
Blackmer 1606.
(1)
£200-300
92 Swiss costume. Collection des costumes de la Suisse et de
ses pays limitrophes, Zurich: Keller et Fussli, circa 1820, decorative
hand-coloured aquatint title within garland, 24 hand-coloured
aquatint plates of Swiss costumes, one tissue guard with short tear,
all edges gilt, original cloth backed blue boards gilt, 16mo in 4s (11
x 9.5cm)
Colas 660.
(1)
£200-300
93 Swiss costume. Collection de Costumes Suisses, [cover title],
Basel: Birman & Fils, circa 1820s, [cover-title], fifty-seven fine handcoloured lithograph plates, each approximately 21.5 x 15.5cm (a
few watermarked Oser or Whatman, 1821 & 1822), loosely
contained together in original marbled porfolio with lithograph title
to upper board, slight wear with broken ties, portfolio
approximately 22.7 x 17cm
(1)
Lot 93
£400-600
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96 Tozer (Henry Fanshawe). The Islands of the Aegean, 1st
edition, Oxford, 1890, folding map, single advertisement leaf at rear,
original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo
Blackmer 1670.
(2)
94 Thevenot (Jean de). The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into
the Levant. In Three Parts, viz. Into I. Turkey. II. Persia. III. The EastIndies, 1st English ed., 1687, portrait frontispiece (supplied in
facsimile), three engraved plates, occasional light spotting, a few
waterstains, contemporary presentation inscription to and signature
of Charles Dormer (probably the 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, 1632-1709)
to title, contemporary mottled calf, a few neat repairs, later gilt title
to spine, folio
£150-200
Atabey 1217; Blackmer 1650: “Thevenot began his travels in the Levant in
1655, returning to Paris in 1659 to prepare the first part of his travels for
publication, which describes Constantinople, the Archipelago, Asia Minor and
Egypt. He left Paris in October, 1663 and travelled through Syria and Persia
to India; Thevenot died near Tabriz in 1667. The second and third parts of his
voyages were published posthumously by Petis de la Croix and the Sieur de
Luisandre.”
£500-700
(1)
97 Troil (Uno von). Letters on Iceland: Containing Observations on
the Civil, Literary, Ecclesiastical, and Natural History; Antiquities,
Volcanos, Basaltes, Hot Springs; Customs, Dress, Manners of
Inhabitants, &c. made, During a Voyage undertaken in the Year 1772,
by Joseph Banks, Esq. P.R.S. Assisted by Dr. Solander, F.R.S. Dr. J.
Lind, F.R.S. Dr. Uno von Troil, and several other Literary and Ingenious
Gentlemen..., 1st ed., 1780, engraved frontispiece of a geyser,
folding engraved map (small repair to verso), final leaf repaired,
manuscript scoring to one or two leaves, manuscript note to
frontispiece verso, near contemporary tan calf, spine a little faded, a
few marks, 8vo
95 Time-Life Books. Classics of Exploration, 19 works bound in 20
volumes, 1983-86, some colour and numerous monochrome plates
and illustrations, all edges gilt, original uniform full brown leather
gilt, 8vo, VG
First English edition, translated from the German edition of 1779. Joseph
Banks and Daniel Solander had been preparing to join Captain James Cook
on his second voyage, but forced to withdraw and instead led an expedition
to Iceland in 1772, the work is the first extensive description of Iceland to be
published in English.
£200-300
(1)
(20)
£100-150
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98 Trollope (Anthony). How the “Mastiffs” Went to Iceland, 1st
ed. 1878, half title, colour map, two mounted albumen prints, 14
uncoloured lithographed plates by Mrs. Hugh Blackburn, one or two
light spots, top edge gilt, later crimson half morocco by Sangorski
& Sutcliffe, 4to
100 Tuckett (Francis Fox). A Pioneer in the High Alps, Apline
Diaries and Letters of F. F. Tuckett, 1856-1874, Edward Arnold, 1920,
photogravure portrait frontispiece with original tissue guard, seven
black and white plates, light scattered spotting, presentation
inscription ‘Lucy and Violet Hodgkin from Alice Tuckett, Xmas 1920’
and ownership inscription of Robin A. Hodgkin to upper pastedown,
original brown cloth, spine slightly faded, 8vo, together with
[Tuckett, Elizabeth], Pictures in Tyrol and Elsewhere, from a family
Sketch-book, 2nd edition, Longmans, Green & Co., 1869, numerous
black and white plates, original publisher’s cloth, rebacked with
original spine relaid, scuffed, 8vo, plus Whymper (Edward),
Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69, 5th edition, John
Murrary, 1900, numerous black and white plates, plans, maps and
illustrations to text, some light scattered spotting, original blue cloth,
8vo
Privately printed account of a trip to Iceland by Trollope and others as guests
of Mr and Mrs John Burns, aboard their yacht the “Mastiff” in June and July
of 1878.
£150-200
(1)
First work Neate T69. From the collection of Robin Hodgkin (1916-2003), the
eminent mountaineer and educationalist. Alice Tuckett married Francis in
1896.
£150-200
(3)
101 Tully (Miss.). Letters Written during a Ten Years’ Residence at
the Court of Tripoli; Published from the Originals in the Possession
of the Family of the Late Richard Tully..., comprising Authentic
Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Reigning Bashaw..., also, an Account
of the Domestic Manners of the Moors, Arabs and Turks, 2 vols.,
3rd edition, 1819, seven hand-coloured aquatint plates and one
folding engraved map, some offsetting to text, recent endpapers,
contemporary half calf, rebacked retaining morocco title labels, 8vo
Abbey Travel 299.
(2)
102 Turner (J.M.W., illust.). Wanderings by the Loire, by Leitch
Richie, 1st ed., 1833, 21 engraved plates, including additional title,
some light spotting and toning, all edges gilt, contemporary black
morocco gilt, edges a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Wanderings
by the Seine, from Rouen to the Source, 1st ed., 1835, additional
engraved title, 19 engraved plates, a few spots, bookplate, all edges
gilt, contemporary morocco gilt, a trifle rubbed, 8vo, plus The
Danube, its History, Scenery and Topography... from Sketches taken
on the spot by Abresch, and Drawn by W.H. Bartlett... ed. William
Beattie, 1844, additional engraverd title, numerous steel-engraved
plates, illustrations, scattered spotting, contemporary plum half
morocco gilt, a little rubbed and scuffed, 4to, with four others
including Joseph Snowe’s The Rhine, Legends, Traditions, History,
from Cologne to Mainz, 2 vols., 1839
99 Trollope (Anthony). South Africa, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1878, half
titles, folding map to vol. I (with tear and repair to verso), scattered
spotting, small inkstamps, previous owner signature to half titles, top
edge gilt, contemporary burgundy half morocco by Sotheran, a little
rubbed, 8vo, together with North America, 2 vols., 3rd ed., 1862,
folding map to vol. I (with closed tears), one or two light spots, top
edge gilt, later red half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 8vo, plus
The West Indies and the Spanish Main, 3rd ed., 1860, similarly bound
(5)
£200-300
(8)
£150-200
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£100-150
103 Vancouver (George). A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World: in which the Coast
of North-West America has been carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty’s Command,
Principally with a view to Ascertain the Existence of any Navigable Communication between the North Pacific and North
Atlantic Oceans; and Performed in the Years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery Sloop of War, and
Armed Tender Chatham, Under the Command of Captain George Vancouver, 3 vols., 1st edition, London: G.G. &
J. Robinson and J. Edwards, 1798, seventeen engraved plates after W. Alexander by J. Landseer, J. Fittler and others,
and one single-page engraved map of Hergest’s Islands, upper blank margin of titles with ownership signature of William
FitzRoy Decr. 1799 in pencil (overwritten in ink to vol. 1), with occasional pencil annotations to margins in the same hand,
occasional scattered spotting and marks, some dampstaining mostly to margins of few leaves & plates, bookplates
removed, 19th century half calf, gilt and blind decorated spines with morocco labels, extremities slightly rubbed, 4to
Howes V-23, Sabin 98443, Hill 1753. George Vancouver (1757-1798) who had travelled with Cook on his second and third voyages,
commanded HMS Discovery on the expedition to secure lands for Britain in the Pacific Northwest. He was also charged to explore the
coastline between 30 and 60 degrees latitude with the intention of discovering the Northwest Passage connecting the Pacific and Atlantic
Oceans. The expedition commenced in England, proceeding around the Cape of Good Hope, continuing to New Zealand, King George’s
Sound (discovered and named by Vancouver), Tahiti, the Hawaiian Islands, San Diego, Monterey, and San Francisco etc., progressing up
the Northwest coast to Nootka Sound and Vancouver island which was named after him. Rear Admiral Lord William FitzRoy KCB (17821857), was the third son of Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton. He entered the Navy on 21 April 1794 and was later promoted to
post-captain in 1804, taking command of the frigate Aeolus. He was present at the battle of Cape Ortegal on 4 November 1805, and at
the invasion of Martinique in February 1809. In June 1810 he commissioned the frigate Macedonian to serve on the Lisbon station. On 7
April 1811 FitzRoy was dismissed from the Navy after a court-martial found him guilty of “False Expense of Stores” and “Tyranny &
Oppression”. FitzRoy was charged with falsifying the ship store report and selling the surplus for personal profit. He had sentenced a
seaman to 48 lashes for drunkenness, four times the legal maximum. FitzRoy was declared incapable of serving again as an officer, but
his former rank was restored to him by the Prince Regent the following August. He received the promotion of rear admiral in 1837, but
received no further employment in the Navy. In addition to his career in the Navy he was elected Member of Parliament for Thetford in
1806, but did not actually sit in Parliament until 1810.
£2000-3000
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104 View Books. [Views in Switzerland], circa 1865, forty-six
uncoloured lithographs, contemporary ink ownership signatures to
front pastedown and front endpaper, some juvenile pencilling to rear
pastedown, contemporary half calf gilt, a little worn at extremities,
small 8vo, together with, [Views in Germany], circa 1865, seventyeight uncoloured lithographs, contemporary ink ownership signature
to front pastedown and front endpaper, one plate with juvenile
pencilling to verso, contemporary half calf gilt, a little worn at
extremities, small 8vo, with, Ritchie (Leitch), Heath’s Picturesque
Annual for 1833, 1834, 1835 & 1836, 4 volmes, Travelling Sketches
on the Rhine and in Belgium and Holland, Travelling Sketches on the
Sea-Coasts of France, Scott and Scotland [and] A Journey to St.
Petersburg and Moscow through Courland and Livonia, 1833 - 36,
additional decorative titles, numerous uncoloured engraved plates ,
some spotting, a.e.g., publisher’s cloth gilt, a little worn and frayed,
one volume with spine partially detached, 8vo, with two other
volumes similar
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£150-200
Lot 106
105 Waller (John Augustine). A Voyage in the West Indies:
Containing Various Observations made during a Residence in
Barbadoes, and Several of the Leeward Islands; with some Notices
and Illustrations Relative to the City of Paramarabo, in Surinam, 1st
ed., 1820, engraved map, six aquatint plates, some light offsetting,
waterstains, modern olive panelled calf, 8vo
Sabin 101114.
(1)
£150-200
106 Wansleben (Johann Michael). The Present State of Egypt;
Or, A new Relation of a Late Voyage into that Kingdom. Performed
in the Years 1672 and 1673 by F. Vansleb, R.D., Wherein you have an
exact and true Account of many Rare and Wonderful Particulars of
that Ancient Kingdom. Englished by M.D. B.D., London: Printed by
R[obert]. E[veringham]. for John Starkey, at the Miter in Fleet-street,
near Temple-Bar, 1678, [6], 253, [11]pp., preliminary license to print
not present, ink stain to text leaf B3 and verso of final leaf S4
(bookseller’s advertisement), repair to fore-edge blank margin of B7,
some close-trimming at head and foot occasionally affecting few
running titles, catchwords & signatures, 19th century calf, hinges
repaired, spine rebacked, rubbed to extremities, 8vo
107 Ward (H.G.). Mexico in 1827. By H.G. Ward, Esq. His Majesty’s
Charge D’Affaires in that Country During the Years 1825, 1826, and
part of 1827, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1828, half titles, 13 hand-coloured
lithographed and aquatint plates, some folding (one or two folds
reinforced and repaired to verso), two folding linen-backed maps,
occasional underlining and annotation, some offsetting and spotting,
presentation labels at front to Senor Don Jose P. Bustamante from
George W, Bryant, contemporary half calf, some worming and a few
dampstains, 8vo
Wing W711, ESTC R38063, Blackmer 1770. This volume is a translation of
Nouvelle relation en forme de journal, dun voyage fait en Egypte, published
in 1677. This was Wansleben’s second journey into Egypt (April 1672 to
October 1673), and he travelled further south into Egypt than any other
traveller up to that time. He accumulated a considerable collection of oriental
manuscripts which were deposited in the French royal collection. He travelled
further south into Egypt than any other traveller up to that time.
(1)
£300-500
Abbey Travel 668; Sabin 101302.
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£300-500
110 Werner (Carlo). Vedute Dell’ Assedio di Roma del 1849, Views
of the Seige of Rome in 1849, published Rome, circa 1850, twelve
(complete) uncoloured engraved plates by Da Domenico Amici,
slight spotting, contemporary dated ownership signature to inside
rear cover, contemporary paper wrappers with printed title and
publisher in Italian and English to upper & rear siding, lacking spine,
covers a little soiled and worn, oblong 4to
(1)
111 Whymper (Edward). Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the
Equator, 2nd edition, John Murray, 1892, wood engraved plates and
illustrations, folding map in pocket at rear, untrimmed, original giltdecorated light brown cloth, spine sunned (generally in bright
condition), together with Fitz Gerald (E.A.), The Highest Andes, a
record of the first ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina,
and the exploration of the surrounding valleys, 1st edition, Methuen,
1899, monochrome plates after photographs, folding maps at rear,
some spotting to first few leaves, original red cloth gilt, spine
somewhat dulled, plus Ponting (Herbert G.), The Great White
South, being an account of experiences with Captain Scott’s South
Pole Expedition, and of the nature life of the Antarctic, 1st edition,
Duckworth, 1921, monochrome plates after photographs, original
blue cloth gilt, spine sunned, short closed tear to head of spine, and
Amundsen (Roald and Ellsworth, Lincoln), The First Flight across
the Polar Sea, 1st edition, [1927], monochrome plates after
photographs, some spotting to first few leaves and outer edges,
original blue cloth gilt in bright condition, all 8vo
108 Waring (Edward Scott). A Tour to Sheeraz by the route of
Kazroon and Feerozabad, with various Remarks on the Manners,
Customs, Laws, Language, and Literature of the Persians..., printed
for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807, engraved frontispiece, one
engraved plate, letterpress Persian text in places, some overall
browning, modern half calf, 4to
The first edition of this work was published in Bombay in 1804. This London
edition has a greatly expanded section on the language and poetry of Persia
and was “an important book in its day as it constitutes one of the first
attempts to introduce Persian poetry to the West. Byron’s reference to Persia
poets, especially Hafez, in his English Bards comes from Waring” (Ghani).
(1)
£400-600
(4)
£100-150
112 Willis (N.P.). American Scenery; or Land, Lake and River,
Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature, from Drawings by W.H. Bartlett,
volumes 1 & 3 only (of 3), published George Virtue, 1838, additional
decorative titles to each volume, portrait to volume 3, engraved map
and seventy-eight (only) uncoloured engraved topographical views,
some dust soiling and slight spotting throughout, hinges and joints
broken and cracked, a.e.g., publisher’s decorative cloth gilt, worn,
frayed and stained, 4to
109 Watts (William Lord). Snioland; or, Iceland, its Lokulls and
Fjalls, 1st ed., 1875, folding map, 12 mounted photographs,
scattered light spotting, contemporary presentation inscription,
library number stamp, bookplates, hinges a little tender, original
cloth, small chip at head of spine, 8vo
(1)
£100-150
£100-150
Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
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£70-100
115 Wright (Thomas). The Universal Pronouncing Dictionary and
General Expositor of the English Language...., 3 volumes (only), circa
1850, additional decorative half title, forty-five uncoloured engraved
plates and forty-one (only) uncoloured engraved maps by J.Rapkin,
all with contemporary outline colouring, a few maps trimmed with
slight loss, very occasional slight staining and dust soiling,
contemporary half calf, some boards detached, spines partially
lacking, worn, rubbed and frayed, 4to
113 Winterbotham (William). An Historical, Geographical,
Commercial and Philosophical View of the American United States
and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies,
4 volumes, 1st edition, printed for the Editor, J. Ridgway, 1795,
twenty-six engraved plates and plans, including two with handcolouring (tobacco plant and Baltimore oriole), without maps (as
usual), five tables on three folding sheets, contemporary manuscript
annotation in brown ink to the section on the religious houses of
Pennsylvania correcting the ommision of the African Church and
describing the inscription above the entrance ‘The people that walk
in darkness have seen a great light’ (vol 2. p.417), occasional minor
dust-soiling or very light spotting, bookplate of William Wycliffe
Barlow to upper pastedown of volume one, contemporary half calf,
corners rubbed, one or two boards loose, 8vo
Howes W-581; Sabin 104832.
(4)
Sold as a collection of maps and prints, not subject to return. The maps
comprise of:- Africa, North Africa, West Africa, Western Hemisphere, North
America, South America, British America, Asia, Arabia, Asia Minor, British
Isles, Brazil, Belgium, Part of South Australia, Australia, Channel Islands,
Ceylon, Cape Colony, Western Canada, Canada & New Bruswick, Cabool,
Chile & La Plata, China, Denmark, Falkland Islands, Europe, England & Wales,
Egypt, Germany, France, Greece, British Guayana, Nova Scotia, Natal,
Isthmus of Panama, Modern Palestine, Ancient Palestine, Persia, Peru &
Bolivia, Polynesia [and] Plymouth & Devonport.
£400-600
(3)
£300-400
114 Wordsworth (Christopher). Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and
Historical, 1st ed., 1840, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved
title and twenty-six steel engraved plates, including two maps
(complete as list), wood engraved illustrations to text, occasional
spotting, green calf gilt, neatly rebacked with original spine relaid,
large 8vo
(2)
£200-300
116 Wyld (James). A General Atlas, Containing Maps Illustrating
some Important Periods in Ancient History and distinct Maps of the
Several Empires, Kingdoms and States in the World, published
Edinburgh for John Thomson & Co. for Baldwin, Craddock & Joy,
London & John Cumming, Dublin, 1819, frontispiece of a
comparison plate of the heights of the principal mountains of the
world, decorative calligraphic title, one further comparison plate of
the principal rivers of the world and forty-one (complete as list)
engraved maps (including one double page), all with contemporary
outline colouring, very slight spotting to margins, index bound at
rear, later endpapers, modern sheep with contrasting morocco
labels to spine, a little rubbed at extremities, 4to
(1)
Lot 115
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£300-500
A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF AUSTRALIAN TRAVEL
117 Australia. Historical Records of Australia, 33 volumes (Series I,
volumes I-XXVI, Series III, volumes I-VI, & Series IV, volume I),
Sydney, Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, 19141922, rebound in modern good-quality blue cloth gilt, thick 8vo
(33)
122 Bougainville (Louis de). A Voyage Round the World.
Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years
1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769, Translated from the French by John
Reinhold Forster, 1st Dublin ed., 1772, folding engraved chart (with
a couple of closed tears), engraved plate of Tahitian canoes (closetrimmed at outer margin), some light toning, library inkstamps,
recent black half calf, 8vo
£300-500
Sabin 6869. Printed in the same year as the first London edition.
(1)
£150-200
123 Britton (Alexander & Bladen, F.M., editors). Historical
Records of New South Wales, 7 volumes, bound in 8, Facsimile
Edition, Sydney, 1978-80, numerous maps and plates, including
many folding and some in colour, original brown cloth gilt in dust
jackets, spines lightly faded, 8vo
(8)
£100-150
118 Backhouse (James). A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian
Colonies, 1st ed., 1843, 15 etched plates, including one folding,
three folding maps at end (torn without loss), scattered light
spotting, original green blindstamped cloth, rebacked with original
spine relaid (faded), corners and edges a little bumped, 8vo
Ferguson 3558. Leading the first Quaker mission to Australia, Backhouse,
along with George Washington Walker investigated and reported to the
authorities the condition of penal colonies and treatment of Aborigines.
(1)
£150-200
119 Beaglehole (J. C., ed.). The Journals of Captain James Cook
on his Voyages of Discovery, 4 vols. plus portfolio, CUP for the
Hakluyt Society, 1955-69, colour and black and white illustrations,
scattered light spotting, bookplates, portfolio containing folding
charts, original blue cloth gilt, d.j.s to text vols. (small tears and
stains), 8vo & folio
(5)
124 Collins (Lieutenant-Colonel David). An Account of the English
Colony in New South Wales, from its First Settlement in January
1788, to August 1801: With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs,
Manners &c. of the Native Inhabitants of that Country. To which are
Added, some Particulars of New Zealand, Compiled, by Permission,
from the MSS. of Lieutenant-Governor King: And an Account of a
Voyage Performed by Captain Flinders and Mr. Bass; by which the
Existence of a Strait Separating Van Diemen’s Land from the
Continent of New Holland was Ascertained. Abstracted from the
Journal of Mr. Bass, 2nd ed., 1804, engraved portrait frontispiece,
25 engraved plates and charts (a few close-trimmed), eight text
engravings, including one hand-coloured, advertisement leaf at end,
one or two closed tears, some offsetting and spotting, waterstains
at front and rear gutters, previous owner signature, contemporary
half-calf, modern calf reback, 4to
£150-200
120 Bischoff (James). Sketch of the History of Van Diemen’s Land,
Illustrated with a Map of the Island, and an Account of the Van
Diemen’s Land Company, 1st ed., 1832, large folding hand-coloured
map by Arrowsmith (as frontispiece), two uncoloured engraved
plates, some light offsetting and spotting, modern half calf, spine a
little rubbed, 8vo
Ferguson 1517.
(1)
£150-200
121 Bonwick (James). The Last of the Tasmanians; or, the Black
War of Van Diemen’s Land, 1st ed., 1870, folding map, three colour
plates, illustrations, a few spots, bookplate and library stamps of St.
Augustine’s College Canterbury, recent green half morocco, 8vo,
together with Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians, 1st ed., 1870,
colour frontispiece, folding map, illustrations, publisher’s list at end,
light spots, ex-libris and rebound as above, 8vo
(2)
Ferguson 390. Contains detailed accounts of the First Fleet expedition and
life in the colony. It is noted for the realistic illustrations of an Aboriginal
initiation ceremony, from drawings by convict artist Thomas Watling ‘he no
longer uses the enobling poses of antique sculpture’ (Smith, European Vision
and the South Pacific). The second part contains the only account of Bass’s
journal, which was never recovered, and record for the first time the
existence of the koala, wombat and lyrebird.
£600-800
(1)
£100-150
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Lot 125
125 Cook (Captain James). A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean;
Undertaken by Command of his Majesty, for Making Discoveries in
the Northern Hemisphere: Performed under the Direction of
Caprains Cook, Clerke and Gore, in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779
and 1780. Being a Copious, Comprehenisve and Satisfactory
Abridgement of the Voyage, 1st octavo ed., 4 vols., 1784, half titles
to vols. II-IV, engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I, folding chart
(with repaired tear), 49 copper-engraved plates and charts, including
folding plate of the Death of Captain Cook, some scattered spotting,
marginal dampstains and offsetting, contemporary previous owner
signatures to front endpapers, modern half calf, spines with red
labels, 8vo
(4)
126 Cook (Captain James). The Charts & Coastal Views of Captain
Cook’s Voyages, 3 vols., Hakluyt Society, 1988, colour portrait
frontispiece to each, numerous colour and black and white
illustrations, original blue cloth gilt, d.j.s, folio
(3)
£800-1200
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£150-200
127 Cunningham (Peter). Two Years in New South Wales;
Comprising Sketches of the Actual State of Society in that Colony;
of its Peculiar Advantages to Emigrants; of its Topography, Natural
History &c., 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1827, half titles, folding map (laid down
and repaired), some spotting and toning, later burgundy half calf, a
few small mottled dampstains, 8vo, together with Grey (George),
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and
Western Australia, During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, under the
Authority of Her Majesty’s Government. Describing Many Newly
Discovered, Important and Fertile Districts, with Observations on
the Moral and Physical Condition of the Aboriginal Inhabitants, 2
vols., 1st ed., 1841, 22 lithographed plates, including six handcoloured, two folding maps contained in later rear pockets and pp.
101-117 volume II supplied in facsimile, library blindstamps, some
light soiling, contemporary cloth-backed boards, vol. I upper cover
detached, upper joint split, some edgewear, 8vo, with two others:
William Henry Breton’s Excursions in New South Wales, Western
Australia and Van Diemen’s Land, During the Years 1830, 1831, 1832
and 1833, 2nd ed., 1834 and James Bonwick’s Discovery and
Settlement of Port Phillip, Melbourne, 1856
(6)
130 Evans (George William). A Geographical, Historical, and
Topographical Description of Van Diemen’s Land, with Important
Hints to Emigrants, and Useful Information Respecting the
Application for Grants of Land; Together with a List of the most
Necessary Articles for Persons to take out, 1st ed., 1822, folding
engraved view of Hobart (repaired to verso), without the Chart of
Van Diemen’s Land mentioned in the title as usual (separately
issued), scattered spotting and soiling, previous owner inscription,
contemporary half calf, spine and edges rubbed, 8vo
Ferguson 861.
(1)
£200-300
128 Davis (John). Tracks of McKinlay and Party Across Australia.
Edited from Mr. Davis’s Manuscript Journal; with an Introductory
View of the Recent Australian Explorations of the McDougall Stuart,
Burke and Willis, Landsborough, etc., by William Westgarth, 1st ed.,
1863, half title, folding map (repaired), 14 tinted lithographed plates
(one or two margins a little frayed), a few light spots, later half calf,
spine faded, label renewed, 8vo
Ferguson 9005.
(1)
131 Eyre (Edward John). Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into
Central Australia, and Overland from Adelaide to King George’s
Sound, in the Years 1840-1; Sent by the Colonists of South Australia,
with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an
Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the
State of their Relations with Europeans, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1845, 22
engraved and lithographed plates, one folding colour map by
Arrowsmith at end of vol. II only (of two, repaired to verso), bound
without advertisements, p. 143 in vol. II lower corner torn away,
circular library inkstamps, some light spotting and offsetting, modern
green half morocco, 8vo
£300-400
129 Ellis (M.H.). Francis Greenaway. His Life and Times, Shepherd
Press, Sydney, 1949, colour and black and white illustrations,
pictorial endpapers, original brick red full morocco gilt, 4to, limited
de luxe edition, 7/350 signed by the author, together with Lachlan
Macquarie. His Life, Adventures and Times, with Reference Notes
and Bibliography, 1st ed., Sydney, 1947, illustrations, map endpapers,
original cloth, 4to
(2)
£150-200
Ferguson 4031: “This account of Eyre’s explorations contains also much
valuable information about the aborigines.”
(2)
£300-400
132 Ferguson (John Alexander). Bibliography of Australia, 8
volumes (including Addenda), Facsimile Edition, Canberra, 1986,
some monochrome plates, original blue cloth gilt in dust jackets,
spines lightly faded, together with Pike (Douglas, editor), Australian
Dictionary of Biography, 6 volumes (1788-1850, 2 volumes & 18511890, 4 volumes), Melbourne Unversity Press, 1966-76, plus another
copy of the first 2 volumes, reprinted with corrections, 1983, plus
Chisholm (Alec H., editor), The Australian Encyclopaedia, 10
volumes, Sydney, Grolier Society of Australia, 1965, numerous
monochrome plates and illustrations, original red cloth gilt, large 8vo
£100-150
(26)
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£150-200
136 Irwin (Frederick Chidley). The State and Position of Western
Australia; Commonly Callled the Swan-River Settlement, 1st ed., 2nd
issue, 1835, 143 pp., one advertisement leaf (of 2?) at end, errata
slip, scattered spotting, original cloth, rebacked with original spine
relaid, rubbed with some stains, 8vo
Ferguson 1973. Second issue, with Ferguson calling for two advertisement
leaves, of this early account of the Swan River settlement in Western
Australia.
£200-300
(1)
137 Jack (Robert Logan). Northmost Australia. Three Centuries of
Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in and Around the Cape York
Peninsula, Queensland, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1921, 17 folding maps
contained in rear pockets, portrait illustrations, some scattered
spotting, endpapers toned, original green cloth gilt, edges a little
bumped, 8vo
(2)
133 Field (Barron, ed.). Geographical Memoirs on New South
Wales; by Various Hands: Containing an Account of the Surveyor
General’s Late Expedition to Two New Ports; the Discovery of
Moreton Bay River, with the Adventures for Seven Months there of
two Shipwrecked Men; a Route from Bathurst to Liverpool Plains;
Together with Other Papers on the Aborigines, the Geology, the
Botany, the Timber, the Astronomy, and the Meteorology of New
South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, 1st ed., 1825, uncoloured
aquatint frontispiece, four folding maps, two botanical plates, some
light marginal waterstains, occasional light soiling and crease marks,
untrimmed, modern half calf, slight fading and small indentation to
upper cover, 8vo
£100-150
138 Joppien (Rudiger & Bernard Smith). The Art of Captain
Cook’s Voyages, 3 vols. in 4, mixed eds., 1985-88, numerous colour
and black and white illustrations, original cloth, d.j.s, 4to
(4)
£100-150
Ferguson 1009. Contains early accounts of explorations and expeditions in
Eastern Australia, including Oxley’s expedition to Port Curtis and Moreton
Bay, and the only published account of Allan Cunningham’s exploration from
Bathurst to the Liverpool Plains.
£300-500
(1)
134 Hakluyt Society publications, 28 volumes (Second Series,
numbers 152-155, 163-166, 168 & 183 and Third Series, volumes 68 & 10-24), 1982-2011, numerous monochrome illustrations, all
original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, VG
(28)
£150-200
135 Hunter (John). An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port
Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries which have been
made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the
Publication of Phillip’s Voyage, Compiled from the Official Papers,
Including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut.
Ball; and the Voyages from the first Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to
the return of that Ship’s Company to England in 1792, 1st ed., John
Stockdale, 1793, stipple engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title
with vignette (marginal repair and close-trimmed at foot just
affecting imprint), five engraved maps and charts, including two
folding, ten engraved plates (including the Aboriginal family plate by
William Blake), a few tears and repairs, occasional light offsetting,
some spotting, top edge gilt, contemporary half calf, rebacked with
original spine relaid, a little rubbed, 4to
Ferguson 152.
(1)
£1000-1500
Lot 135
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141 Mitchell (Thomas Livingstone). Three Expeditions into the
Interior of Eatern Australia; with Descriptions of the Recently
Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New
South Wales, 2 vols., 2nd ed. carefully revised, 1839, title with
wood-engraved vignettes, 50 lithographed plates and charts,
including seven coloured (one or two close-trimmed affecting
imprint), large folding map (neat repairs), single-page colour map, a
few minor spots, blindstamps to titles, modern olive half sprinkled
calf, spines with red labels, slightly faded, 8vo
Ferguson 2811. Account of Surveyor-General Mitchell’s three expeditions to
determine the courses of the large rivers in Southern Australia and is of
ethnographic value with its detailed descriptions of Aboriginal life, as well as
geology, topography and natural history.
£300-500
(2)
139 Labillardiere (Jacques Julien Houten de). Voyage in Search
of La Perouse, Performed by Order of the Constituent Assembly,
During the Years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794, Translated from the
French, 1st ed., 1800, folding map, 45 engraved plates,
advertisement leaf at end, some offsetting and scattered spotting,
later brown half morocco, 4to
Ferguson 309. Account of the search for the La Perouse expedition, by two
French ships in 1791, which sailed via the Cape of Good Hope to Tasmania,
then on to New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, the Admiralty Islands, Tonga,
New Britain, New Zealand and southwest coast of Australia, making new
discoveries.
(1)
£500-800
140 Landsborough (William). Journal of Landsborough Expedition
from Carpentaria, in Search of Burke and Willis, 1st ed., Melbourne,
1862, lithographed portrait frontispiece (with light waterstains),
folding map (repaired) contained in rear pocket, light toning, modern
tan half calf, 8vo
Ferguson 11329.
(1)
142 Mitchell (Lieutenant Colonel Sir T.L.). Journal of an Expedition
into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from
Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria, 1st ed., 1848, 11 tinted
lithographed plates, wood-engraved plate, seven maps, publisher’s
list at end, previous owner signatures to dedication leaf, a little light
spotting, top edge gilt, later green morocco, spine with red labels
and gilt decoration, one or two light stains, 8vo
£100-150
Ferguson 4828.
(1)
£200-300
143 Ogle (Nathaniel). The Colony of Western Australia: A Manual
for Emigrants to that Settlement or its Dependencies: Comprising
its Discovery, Settlement, Aborigines, Land-Regulations, Principles
of Colonial Emigration; Statistical, Financial, and Agricultural Reports;
Also Instructions and Hints to Settlers..., with an Appendix, 1st ed.,
1839, folding linen-backed colour map by Arrowsmith (closetrimmed with stains), four outline plates (two folding), four folding
tables, lacking last Appendix leaf? (last leaf paginated xvi),
blindstamps (including Parliament of Victoria), some spotting and
toning, later tan half calf, a little rubbed and faded, 8vo, inscribed by
the author to Thomas George Margary to title (trimmed at head),
dated 1839, 8vo, together with Stoney (Captain H. Butler), Victoria:
with a Description of its Principal Cities Melbourne and Geelong:
And Remarks on the Present State of the Colony: Including and
Account of the Ballaarat Disturbances, and of the Death of Captain
Wise, 40th Regiment, 1st ed., 1856, folding map, wood-engraved
illustrations, publisher’s catalogue at end, a few spots. closed tear
to half title, contemporary presentation inscription, original cloth,
morocco reback, marginal fading, 8vo
Ferguson 2819 & 16296 respectively.
(2)
Lot 141
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£200-300
144 Oxley (John). Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales,
Undertaken by Order of the British Government in the Years 1817-18, 1st ed., John Murray,
1820, three folding engraved charts, six etched or aquatint plates, including two handcoloured, two folding tables, occasional light offsetting and spotting, bookplate of George
Bennett M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, all edges gilt, later russet full morocco
by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, one or two small stains, 4to
Abbey Travel 568; Ferguson 796. Account of two expeditions to determine the course of the Lachlan
and Macquarie Rivers, the earliest published journals of inland exploration of Australia. Although
unsuccessful in their primary quest, Oxley and second-in-command George Evans discovered new rich
pastures and rivers and the journals describe the interior of New South Wales. One of 500 copies
printed.
£1500-2000
(1)
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145 Phillip (Arthur). The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson &
Norfolk Island; Compiled from Authentic Papers, which have been Obtained from the Several Departments to which are Added the Journals
of Lieu.ts Shortland, Watts, Ball & Capt. Marshall, with an Account of their Discoveries, 1st ed., John Stockdale, 1789, engraved portrait
frontispiece, engraved title with vignette, subscribers list, 52 engraved plates and charts only (of 53, lacking plate 30, ‘Skeleton of the Head
of the Kanguroo and Vulpine Opossum’), portrait and dedication leaves laid down, a few charts close-trimmed, a couple of closed tears, some
offsetting, spotting and marginal waterstains, hinges reinforced, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with original spine relaid, label renewed,
a little rubbed, 4to
Ferguson 47: “This was the first authentic and official account of the expedition to New South Wales and of the foundation of the settlement.”
(1)
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£700-1000
146 Scrap album. A scrap album belonging to Sarah Jarrolo Ray,
early-mid 19th century, approximately 100 leaves, with numerous
manuscript writings and original artwork, including eighteen
stencilled paintings of flowers, butterflies, and birds, some on rice
paper, and eight pencil or watercolour drawings, including one of
Roxton Chapel (Bedfordshire), portraits, landscapes, etc., dated in
several places 1820s-1850s, and mentioning various places,
including Bungay, Ipswich, Sudbury, Manningtree, Knaresborough,
several leaves of mounted dried seaweed specimens loosely
inserted at rear, hinges split, calligraphic ownership name and
various inscriptions on premininary blank, all edges gilt, original blind
and gilt decorated olive green calf, rubbed, 4to
(1)
149 Strzelecki (Count Paul E. de). Physical Description of New
South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, 1st ed., 1845, hand-coloured
folding geological map, lithographed portrait frontispiece, 21
engraved and lithographed plates, 32pp. publisher’s list at end, small
library stamps, occasional light spotting, previous owner inscription
to title, endpapers renewed, original brown blindstamped cloth,
rebacked with original spine relaid, some fading and stains, 8vo
Ferguson 4168. Account of Polish geologist Pawel Strzelecki’s exploration of
Eastern Australia, containing the first geological and palaeontological
descriptions of the region.
(1)
£200-300
150 Stuart (John McDouall). Explorations in Australia. The Journals
of John McDouall Stuart During the Years 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861,
& 1862, when he Fixed the Centre of the Continent and
Successfully Crossed it from Sea to Sea, ed. William Hardman, 1st
ed., 1864, half title, mounted oval albumen portrait frontispiece,
sketch map, folding engraved map (with repaired tear), 12 woodengraved illustrations, scattered spotting, hinges reinforced,
contemporary calf, neat reback, edges rubbed, 8vo
£150-200
147 [Stoney, H. Butler, Captain]. A Year in Tasmania: Including
some Months’ Residence in the Capital; with a Descriptive Tour
through the Island, from Macquarie Harbour to Circular Head; and a
Short Notice of the Colony in 1853, 1st ed., William Fletcher, Hobart,
1854, map frontispiece of Van Diemens Land, pp. 239-244 with
some tears and loss of text, occasional spotting and soiling, modern
green morocco gilt, 8vo
Ferguson 16381.
(1)
Ferguson 16294: “Contains very interesting accounts of the penal settlements.”
(1)
£200-300
£200-300
151 Stuart (John McDouall). J. McDouall Stuart’s Explorations
across the Continent of Australia. 1861-62, 1st ed., Melbourne,
1863, large folding map (with closed tears), advertisements front
and rear, some spotting, toning and waterstains, original clothbacked waterstained pink boards, 8vo
Ferguson 16380. Account of Stuart’s successful sixth expedition, crossing
the continent from south to north, discovering Daly Waters (named after the
new Governor) and reaching Chambers Bay, near Darwin.
£150-200
(1)
148 Stoney (H. Butler, Captain). A Residence in Tasmania: With a
Descriptive Tour through the Island, from Macquarie Harbour to
Circular Head, 1st ed., 1856, double-page map, eight tinted
lithographed plates, 16 pp. publisher’s catalogue at end, a few leaves
loosening, scattered light spotting, previous owner signature erased
from front endpaper, hinges a little tender, original green
blindstamped cloth, small tears at head of spine, edges a little
bumped, 8vo
Ferguson 16295.
(1)
£200-300
152 Sturt (Captain Charles). Narrative of an Expedition into Central
Australia, Performed under the Authority of Her Majesty’s
Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6. Together with a Notice
of the Province of South Australia in 1847, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1849,
folding map with outline colour, 20 plates (including 4 colour
lithographed plates after John Gould), a few plates trimmed affecting
imprint, bound without the advertisements, some light offsetting,
spotting and waterstains, contemporary burgundy half morocco,
spines faded with a few spots, 8vo
Ferguson 5202. Sturt’s final expedition into the heart of the continent, where
he confirmed the non-existence of an inland sea and discovered Cooper’s
Creek, the Stony Desert and the Simpson Desert.
(2)
£300-500
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153 Sydney. The Handbook to Sydney and Suburbs, with a Plan of
the City, and Map of the Colony, S.T. Leigh, Sydney [1867], folding
plan at front, folding map at rear (repaired), two mounted albumen
prints, colour plate of signal flags, four tinted lithographs, numerous
advertisements, including small Australian Mutual Provident Society
booklet, one or two closed tears, some light offsetting and spotting,
original brown blindstamped cloth gilt, spine and extremities faded,
8vo
Ferguson 11569.
(1)
£200-300
154 Trollope (Anthony). Australia and New Zealand, 2 vols., 1st
ed., 1873, eight colour maps, most folding (some tears and repairs),
some offsetting and spotting, previous owner inkstamps, later tan
half calf by Mudie, spines with red labels and gilt decoration, a little
rubbed with light stains, 8vo
Ferguson 17333.
(2)
£100-150
155 Wentworth (William Charles). A Statistical Account of the
British Settlements in Australia; Including the Colonies of New South
Wales and Van Diemen’s Land..., 2 vols., 3rd ed., with an Appendix,
1824, engraved view of Sydney, two folding engraved maps (one
with repair to verso), some spotting, offsetting and waterstains,
bookplates, modern half calf, some light marks, 8vo
Ferguson 990.
(2)
£150-200
156 West (John). The History of Tasmania, 2 vols., 1st ed.,
Launceston, Tasmania, 1852, some light toning and spotting,
bookplates, vol. I hinges reinforced, original brown blindstamped
cloth, vol. I rebacked with original spine relaid, a little rubbed and
stained, 8vo
Ferguson 18351: “An interesting and valuable history of the early period in
Tasmania. The work is now scarce.”
£150-200
(2)
Lot 153
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BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY
157 Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher). A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, 2 volumes, 1814, 115
aquatint plates, 114 finely hand-coloured, complete, with thirty-three Founders plates present (two with horizontal crease), some offsetting
of plates to text, one of the costume plates (Batchelor of Arts) printed on thin paper (spotted) and tipped-in onto mount with engraved title
and imprint, half-titles and subscribers list present, title-page to volume 2 with small piece missing from blank fore-edge, marbled endpapers,
top edges gilt, recent red half morocco gilt over contemporary marbled sidings (latter rubbed), large 4to
Abbey Scenery 278; Tooley 5.
(2)
£1000-1500
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158 Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher). A History of the University of Cambridge, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, 2 volumes, 1815,
ninety-six aquatint plates, ninety-five finely hand-coloured, complete, with sixteen Founders plates present, frontispiece to first volume frayed
at gutter and re-guarded (and with text slightly offset from title), some offsetting of plates to text, half-titles and subscribers list present, M3
in volume 2 with short tear in blank fore-margin, contemporary brown half morocco, rubbed, rebacked preserving original gilt decorated
spines, large 4to
Abbey Scenery 79; Tooley 4.
(2)
£1500-2000
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159 Badeslade (Thomas). The History of the Ancient and Present
State of the Navigation of the Port of King’s-Lynn and of Cambridge,
and the rest of the Trading Towns in those parts..., with the Method
proposed for draining the said Fens and amending the Harbour of Lyn:
By Col. John Armstrong, Chief Engineer of England, published
L. Davis, C. Reymers and B. White, 1766, frontispiece of a large
uncoloured folding engraved plan of Kings Lynn, title page and preface,
plus seven engraved maps & plans, including two hand-coloured and
four folding), additional tipped in weather chart for 21st June 1874
(p.138), some ink marginalia to p.138, slight spotting, later endpapers,
early 20th century half calf, slightly rubbed at extremities, folio
Upcott p.1000.
(1)
Lot 161
£300-500
160 Black (A. & C., publishers). Oxford, Painted by John Fulleylove,
Described by Edward Thomas, 1st edition, published A & C Black
1903, additional half title, sixty colour plates (complete) each with
tissue guard with printed title, slight spotting, upper hinge cracked,
t.e.g., remainder uncut, publisher’s decorative cloth gilt, spine a little
browned, a little worn and bumped at extremities, 4to, limited
De-Luxe edition 227/300, signed by A & C Black, together with,
Norman (Philip), London Vanished & Vanishing, 1st edition,
published A & C Black, 1905, additional half title, seventy-five colour
plates (complete), each with tissue guard with printed title, slight
spotting to endpapers, t.e.g., remainder uncut, publisher’s cloth gilt,
slight staining, 4to, limited De-Luxe edition 114/250, signed by author
(2)
£150-200
161 Buck (Samuel & Nathaniel). A collection of topographical views
from the ‘Antiquities’ series, 1724 and later, forty-six uncoloured
engraved views of castles, abbeys and priories in England and Wales,
two plates disbound, each approximately 195 x 370mm, 19th century
half calf gilt, rubbed and worn at extremities, oblong folio
(1)
£200-300
162 Buck (Samuel & Nathaniel). To the Noble and Generous
Encouragers of this Work by Subscription This Ninth Collection of
Twenty four views..., is most gratefully inscrid’d..., 1734, bound with
the sixth collection, published 1731, engraved titles with list of
subscribers, thirty-nine (only) uncoloured engraved propsects of
castles, abbeys, priories and towns, a few images torn with loss to
margins, occasional marginal closed tears, each approximately 200 x
380mm, bound with, The South West Prospect of the City of
Peterborough in Northamptonshire, 1731, uncoloured engraved city
panorama, long closed tear affecting image, crudely repaired on verso,
old folds, some creasing, 300 x 790mm, contemporary half calf,
boards detached, lacking spine, heavily worn and frayed, oblong folio
(1)
Lot 162
£150-250
44
163 Carew (Richard). The Survey of Cornwall and an Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue, Samuel Chapman et al,
1723, 1p. advertisement bound facing title, title printed in red and black, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, later spine label, a little
rubbed and scuffed, especially to lower joint, 4to
(1)
£200-300
164 Cary (John). Cary’s New Itinerary: or an Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads, both Direct and Cross throughout England and Wales,
7th edition, 1817, five folding engraved maps at rear (one creased and slightly edge-frayed), lacking two maps, including the large map of England
& Wales, extra-illustrated with five folding engraved ribbon maps, engraved title-page and dedication leaf, 4pp. publisher’s advertisements,
generally toned, modern half calf gilt, 8vo in 4s, together with Hazlitt (William), A View of the English Stage; or, A Series of Dramatic Criticisms,
1st edition, 1818, preliminary blank leaves water-stained, marbled endpapers, hinges repaired, bookplate (designed by Keith Vaughan) of actor
and director Michael Redgrave on front pastedown, contemporary sprinkled calf, somewhat stained and rubbed, rebacked, 8vo in 4s, plus
Black (Adam and Charles), New Zealand, Painted by F. and W. Wright, Described by Hon. William Pember Reeves, 1st edition, 1908, numerous
colour plates, folding map and publisher’s advertisement leaf at rear, faint contemporary inscription to preliminary blank, hinges split, edges
spotted, original decorative brown cloth, some minor rubbing to extremities, 4to, plus forty-nine others leather-bound, mostly 19th century,
some odd volumes and incomplete sets
(52)
£100-150
165 Cary (John). Cary’s New and Correct English Atlas Being a New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys. Exhibiting all the Direct &
Principal Cross Roads, Cities, Towns and most considerable Villages, Parks, Rivers, Navigable Canals &c..., 1st edition, 1787, advertisement,
printed title, dedication and list of subscribers, forty-seven (complete as list) engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, each with
a tissue guard and a page of descriptive text, slight water staining, bookplate of John Colles, upper hinge weak, contemporary calf gilt, rear
siding a little scuffed, worn at extremities, 4to
Chubb CCLX.
(1)
£300-500
45
166 Greenwood (C. & J., publishers). Atlas of the Counties of England from Actual Surveys made from the Years 1817
to 1833, published 1834, calligraphic title with hand coloured map of England & Wales, forty-six (complete) engraved
maps with contemporary hand colouring, map of Berkshire with repaired closed tear, maps of Lancashire and Lincolnshire
with slight fraying to lower margins, very slight dust soiling, lacking half of marbled front endpaper, contemporary half
morocco gilt with morocco label to upper siding, worn at extremities, large oblong folio
Chubb CCCCLVIII (b). A good example with unfolded maps in bright condition.
(1)
46
£1000-1500
167 Jones (& Co., publishers). Views of the Seats, Mansions,
Castles, &c. of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales,
Scotland, & Ireland; with other Picturesque Scenery..., parts 4-42, 4558, 60-71, 73-75, published 1829, numerous engraved plates on india
paper, original printed wrappers, light wear, slim 4to, together with
Shepherd (Thomas, illust.), Modern Athens! or Views in Edinburgh,
parts 2-31 & 42-43, published 1829, numerous engraved plates on
india paper, original printed wrappers, some worn, slim 4to, with
Jones’ Views of the Cities of Bath and Bristol, with other Picturesque
and Architectural Illustrations of the Counties of Somerset and
Gloucester, parts 1-27, 30-34, 36-43, published 1829, numerous
engraved plates on india paper, original printed wrappers, some light
wear, slim 4to, plus [Storer, James], The Antiquarian Itinerary,
Comprising Specimens of Architecture, Monastic, Castellated, and
Domestic..., 7 vols., 1815-[18], numerous engraved plates, edges
untrimmed, original cloth backed marbled boards, printed title labels
to spines, small 8vo, plus four volumes of Britton’s Beauties of
England and Wales for North Wales, South Wales (ten copies of each)
172 Shepherd (Thomas H.). London and the Environs in the
Nineteenth Century, Illustrated in a Series of Views, 1829, engraved
title, 192 engraved plates on 80 sheets, some spotting and
offsetting, contemporry green half calf, a little rubbed, 4to, together
with The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland,
Illustrated by Robert William Billings and William Burn, 4 vols., 1848[?52], additional titles to vols. II-IV, steel-engraved plates,
illustrations, some spotting and light toning, previous owner
signature, all edges gilt, contemporary burgundy morocco gilt, joints
and edges rubbed, 4to, with two others
(small carton)
174 Victoria County Histories. A History of Wiltshire, vols. 2, 3, 5,
9, 11, 12 (2 copies), 13 (4 copies), & 15, pub. 1955-95, black & white
plates, plans and illustrations, original cloth (spine to vol. 9 split &
frayed to joints), all volumes except 2, 5 & 9 in original d.j.s., folio,
together with Wiltshire Notes & Queries, vols. 1-7 (of 8), pub.
1893-1914, black & white plates, non-matching cloth, 8vo, plus
fourteen odd volumes of The Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine
(7)
173 Somerset & Dorset. Notes & Queries for Somerset and
Dorset, vols. 1-33, Sherborne, 1890-1996, black & white plates &
illustrations, contemporary matched half calf gilt, volumes 28 & 29
in blue buckram, few earlier volumes rubbed to spines, 8vo
(33)
£200-300
168 Lewis (Hardwicke). An Excursion to Margate in the Month of
June, 1786, interspersed with a Variety of Anecdotes of well-known
Characters, third edition, J. French, 1787, engraved double-page map
frontispiece, half-title, publisher’s advert to verso of half title, occasional
slight spotting, bookplate of Charles Parr Burney to front pastedown,
contemporary half calf, rubbed and worn, upper board loose, small 8vo
All ex-library with usual bookplates and ink stamps etc.
(37)
Charles Parr Burney (1785-1864) was the nephew of the authoress Fanny
Burney, and the grandson of the composer and music historian Charles Burney.
£70-100
(1)
(7)
£200-300
£150-200
171 Moule (Thomas). The English Counties Delineated; or a
Topographical Description of England..., 2 volumes, published
George Virtue, 1837, additional decorative title, portrait frontispiece
of William IV, folding decorative engraved map of England & Wales,
trimmed with slight loss, four sheet map of England & Wales, a
‘comparison’ plate, one engraved plate of Canterbury Cathedral and
forty-nine decorative engraved maps only (appears to lack the town
plans fo Oxford, Cambridge and Bath), several maps trimmed with
slight loss, slight spotting throughout, page 229 with small area of
text neatly excised, near contemporary half calf, re-backed but
retaining original spines, marbled sidings a little rubbed, 4to,
together with, Aikin (John), England Delineated; or a Geographical
Description of every County in England and Wales..., 3rd edition,
1795, folding engraved map of England & Wales and forty-two
uncoloured engraved county maps, occasional pencil annotations to
text, some staining to rear of atlas affecting maps and text, modern
half calf gilt, 8vo
(3)
£70-100
£100-150
176 Winchester. The History and Antiquities of Winchester, setting
forth its original constitution, government, manufactories, trade,
commerce and navigation..., 2 volumes, Winchester, 1773, engraved
frontispiece to each volume, 11 engraved plates, including some
folding, contemporary calf, both volumes lacking upper cover,
rubbed and some wear to joints and edges, 8vo, together with
Picturesque Memorials of Winchester, published by E. Wheeler,
circa 1830, 12 engraved plates, original blindstamped blue cloth gilt,
a little rubbed and minor fraying to extremities, slim large 8vo, plus
Lowth (Robert), The Life of William of Wykeham, Bishop of
Winchester, 1st edition, printed for A. Millar, 1758, some marks and
light spotting, contemporary calf, rubbed and somewhat worn, with
upper cover near detached, 8vo, and others on Winchester and
Hampshire, including Philip Brannon, The Coast Scenery of Dorset,
Part I only, containing 8 engraved vignette views, A.R. Bramston and
A.C. Leroy, A City of Memories, etchings and illustrations by W.B.
Roberts, 1893, School-Life at Winchester College; or, The
Reiminiscences of a Winchester Junior, 1866, H.C. Adams,
Wykehamica. A History of Winchester College and Commoners,
1878, Beauties of England and Wales, volume 6 only (Hampshire &
Herefordshire), (2 copies), J.S. Furley, Quarter Sessions Government
in Hampshire in the 17th Century, Winchester, circa 1920, etc.,
mostly original cloth, including some booklets, mainly 8vo
170 Morris (F.O.). A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the
Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, 6 vols., c.
1880, numerous chromolithographed plates, additional titles, a little
light spotting, vol. VI hinges tender, original cloth gilt, edges lightly
rubbed, one or two light stains, 4to
(6)
£100-150
175 Whitaker (John). The History of Manchester in Four Books, 2
volumes (all published), 1st edition, 1771-75, Principal Corrections
to the first book bound at the end of volume one, ten engraved
plates, illustrations to text, bookplates to upper pastedowns,
contemporary calf, boards detached, 4to, together with Memoirs of
the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, 2 volumes,
plus A New and Accurate Description of all the Direct and Principal
Cross Roads in England and Wales by Daniel Paterson, 10th edition,
plus Edward Baines History, Directory & Gazeteer of the County of
York, 2 volumes
169 Lysons (Daniel). The Environs of London: being an Historical
Account of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, within Twelve Miles of
that Capital: Interspersed with Biographical Anecdotes, 2 vols. in
four, 1796, together with An Historical Account of those Parishes in
the County of Middlesex, which are not Described in the Environs
of London, 1800, comprising three engraved titles, and sixty-two
engraved plates (one hand-coloured and several double-page or
folding), occasional light spotting, uniform contemporary marbled
calf, all volumes rebacked, three with original spine relaid, one or
two boards loose, large 4to
(5)
£100-150
(32)
£200-300
47
£150-200
NATURAL HISTORY
180 Blackwall (John). A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and
Ireland, parts 1 & 2, London: Published for Ray Society by Robert
Hardwicke, 1861-64, twenty-nine hand-coloured engraved plates,
part one with excised & erased ink stamp to half-title, title & preface,
(with consequent damp & ink stain), ink erased stamp to front
pastedown, original brown half morocco gilt, head & foot of spine
rubbed, folio
(1)
£100-150
181 Blanco (Antonio). Tratado Elemental de Botanica TeoricoPractico, 2 volumes bound in one, Valencia, Jaime Martinez, 1834,
half-title and printed title to each volume, two wood engraved tailpieces, contemporary full tree calf gilt, rubbed to spine, 8vo
Author’s presentation copy, signed and inscribed to head of title ‘Al Sor. D.F.
Jabier de Quinto’.
£150-200
(1)
182 Buffon (Georges-Louis Le Clerc, Comte de). Natural History,
General and Particular..., translated into English, illustrated with
Above Three Hundred Copper-Plates, and Occasional Notes and
Observations by William Smellie, 9 volumes, 2nd edition, 1785,
engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, two folding maps and
305 copper engraved plates, contemporary uniform tree calf, gilt
decorated spines with contrasting red and green morocco labels
(one title label missing to 5th volume), rubbed and some wear to
joints, with 6th volume partly split on spine, 8vo
177 Alken (Henry). The National Sports of Great Britain..., with
Descriptions in English and French, A New Edition, published
Methuen and Co., 1903, additional half title and decorative title page,
title page repeated in French, forty-nine (of fifty) colour lithographic
plates (lacking ‘Badger catching’), each with tissue guard and
descriptive text in English and French, contemporary half morocco
gilt, worn and frayed at head and foot of spine, extremities rubbed,
sidings stained, folio
(1)
(9)
183 Buffon (Georges-Louis Le Clerc, Comte de). Natural History,
General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon, Translated into
English [by William Smellie], and Occasional Notes and
Observations by the Translator, 9 vols., 1781-85, engraved portrait
frontispiece to vol. I, 301 copper-engraved maps and plates, a few
folding, a few small marginal wormtracks and holes to vol. VI,
occasional minor spotting and marginal waterstains, armorial
bookplates of John Cayley with inscription beneath, contemporary
calf, a few splits to joints, a little rubbed, 8vo
178 Bannerman (David Armitage). The Birds of Tropical West
Africa. With Special Reference to Those of the Gambia, Sierra Leone,
the Gold Coast and Nigeria, 8 volumes, 1930 - 51, additional half
titles, numerous chromolithographic plates, some spotting
throughout, t.e.g., some hinges and joints weak and cracked,
publisher’s cloth gilt, spotted and stained and worn at extremities,
4to, together with, Butler (Arthur G.), Birds of Great Britain and
Ireland, 2 volumes, published Brumby & Clarke Limited, circa 1908,
numerous chromolithographic plates by Gronvold and Frohawk, each
with tissue guard, t.e.g., publisher’s gilt cloth , some staining and
scuffing, bumped and worn at extremities, 4to, with, Horwood
(A.R.), A New British Flora, British Wild Flowers in their Natural
Haunts, 6 volumes, 1919, additional half titles, numerous colour and
black and white illustrations and maps throughout, publisher’s cloth
gilt, worn at head and foot of spines, 4to
(16)
(9)
£200-300
184 Darwin (Charles). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle,
4 vols., 1840-42, facsimile edition, 1994, numerous colour and black
and white plates, original gilt-decorated quarter morocco, 4to,
contained in purpose-made pine book box, with hinged reading
slope
Limited edition 961/1000 copies, signed by John Hemmings of the Royal
Geographical Society.
(4)
£150-200
£100-150
179 Bewick (Thomas). A History of British Birds (Land/Water), 2
vols., Newcastle, 1847, numerous wood-engravings, a little light
spotting, bookplates, contemporary green half morocco, a little
rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, together with A General History of
Quadrupeds, 4th ed., Newcastle, 1800, numerous wood-engravings,
a few minor spots, contemporary half calf, spine a little rubbed and
faded, 8vo, plus A New Family Herbal: Or Popular Account of the
Natures and Properties of the Various Plants used in Medicine, Diet,
and the Arts, by Robert John Thornton, 1st ed., 1810, woodengravings by Thomas Bewick, scattered spotting, previous owner
inscription, contemporary half calf, spine faded, 8vo, with three others
including A History of British Birds, 2 vols., 1826 (with repairs)
(7)
£200-300
£100-150
£100-150
48
185 Elwes (Henry John and Henry, Augustine). The Trees of Great
Britain & Ireland, 7 volumes. in the original 15 parts, 1st ed.,
Edinburgh, 1906-13, additional half titles, colour frontispiece and title
to volumes. 1-5, some spotting and staining to frontispiece and
colour pictorial titles, coloured titles to volumes 6 & 7, portrait to
volume 7 and 413 plates, mostly photogravures, list of subscribers,
printed title, errata and addenda in Index volume, original pictorial
grey wrappers printed in blue, upper wrapper to volume 7 detached,
uncut, all slightly rubbed and a little frayed, folio
Nissen BBI 595.
(15)
£200-300
186
Equestrian Thoroughbreds. Die Stamm-Mutter des
Englischen Vollblutpferdes..., Nebst Vorvort, Siegerlisten und
Alphbetischem Register, nach Officiellen Quellen Bearbeitet von
Herman Goos, 2nd edition, Hamburg: Hof-Buchdruckerei F.W.
Rademacher, 1891, bound with at front a precise English manuscript
translation of the work, written on fifty-five leaves (to one side only),
supplemented at rear of volume with related newpaper and
periodical reports, contemporary dark brown half morocco gilt, joint
lightly rubbed, folio
A highly unusual and incredibly well written English translation of the ‘Original
Dams of the English thoroughbred’.
(1)
£200-300
187 Evelyn (John & Hunter, A.). Silva: or, a Discourse of ForestTrees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty’s Dominions;
as it was Delivered in the Royal Society, on the 15th of October
1662, together with an Historical Account of the Sacredness and
use of Standing Groves, 3rd edition, revised, corrected, and
considerably enlarged. To which is added the Terra: a Philosophical
Discourse of Earth, 2 vols., York, 1801, engraved portrait
frontispiece, 45 engraved plates (including 2 folding), edges
untrimmed, original publisher’s boards, printed title labels to spine,
joints cracked and some wear, 4to
Lot 185
(2)
£100-150
188 Harrison (Joseph). The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist’s
Magazine, 15 volumes, a broken run, volumes 1 - 7, 11 - 16, 19 and
one un-numbered volume, 1833 - 48, additional decorative titles,
numerous engraved plates with contemporary hand colouring,
mixed bindings, various condition, 8vo
(15)
£150-200
189 Hibberd (Shirley, ed.). The Floral World and Garden Guide, 8
vols., 1873-78, duplicates of 1874 & 1877, numerous
chromolithographed plates, scattered spotting, contemporary half
calf and original cloth, rubbed, 8vo, together with The Florist’s
Journal for the Year 1841, and The Florist and Garden Miscellany, 2
vols., 1849 & 1850
(11)
Lot 186
49
£100-150
Lot 190
50
193 Kirby (W.F.). European Butterflies and Moths, 1882, 61 handcoloured lithographed plates, one uncoloured plate, scattered light
spotting, previous owner inscription, all edges gilt, original pictorial
cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, a little rubbed with light
dampstains to lower cover, 4to
190 Hogg (Robert & Henry Graves Bull). The Herefordshire
Pomona, Containing Original Fugures and Descriptions of the Most
Esteemed Kinds of Apples and Pears, 2 vols., 1876-85, 77
chromolithographed plates by Alice Ellis & Edith Bull four engraved
plates, illustrations, errata slip to vol. I, scattered light spotting,
mainly to text, titles with erased inscriptions, contemporary previous
owner inscription to front endpapers, bookplates, all edges gilt, later
green half morocco gilt, upper joints lettered in gilt: “Presented to
the South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, Kent, by the Worshipful
Company of Fruiterers - March, 1910”, edges a little rubbed, 4to
(1)
£150-200
Nissen 294. “One of the finest fruit books ever issued.” (Great Flower Books
p.59).
(2)
£2000-3000
191 Howitt (Samuel). A New Work of Animals: Principally
Designed from the Fables of Aesop, Gay, and Phaedrus, Edward
Orme, 1818, 100 etched plates, some scattered spotting, bookplate,
all edges gilt, contemporary burgundy straight-grained morocco gilt,
spine and edges rubbed, 4to
Nissen 2018.
(1)
£200-300
194 Kirby (W.F.). European Butterflies and Moths, 2 vols., 1889, 61
hand-coloured lithographed plates, one uncoloured plate, a few
spots to text vol., contemporary red half morocco, joints and edges
a little rubbed, 4to
192 Jonstonus (Johannes). Notitia Regni Vegetabilis seu
Plantarum a veteribus observatarum, cum Synonymis Graecis &
Latinis, obscurioribusq; differentiis in suas classes redacta series,
[Leipzig]: Jacobi Trescheri, 1661, title in red and black, browning and
spotting throughout, some dampstaining mostly to margins, 19th
century calf, rubbed & scuffed with loss to leather surface, 12mo
(1)
(2)
£100-150
51
£150-200
198 Morris (F.O.). A History of British Birds, 6 vols., 1863-64, 358
hand-coloured lithographed plates (complete), some light spotting,
original green cloth gilt, joints splitting with a few chips and tears to
spines, 8vo
195 Kirby (William and Spence, William). An Introduction to
Entomology: or Elements of the Natural History of Insects: with
plates, 1st edition (except first volume 5th edition), 1817-28, 5 handcoloured plates, engraved portraits, etc., contemporary uniform dark
green half calf gilt, very slightly rubbed to extremities (generally in
good condition), 8vo, together with Sowerby (John E. & Johnson,
Charles), The Grasses of Great Britain, 1st edition, 1861, numerous
hand-coloured lithograph plates, some scattered spotting to first and
last few leaves only, ownership signature of Delaval Loftus Astley, and
Hastings coat-of-arms bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary
half-calf gilt, very slightly rubbed (generally in very good condition),
large 8vo, plus Wilson (Alexander), American Ornithology; or, The
Natural History of the Birds of the United States, with a continuation
by Charles Lucian Bonaparte, 3 volumes, 1832, numerous handcoloured plates, occasional marks and light soiling, first volume with
some scattered wormholes and short tracks throughout, third volume
with title page restrengthened to fore-margin, one or two plates
somewhat loose, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed and marked
with some wear to joints and third volume detached along upper inner
hinge, 8vo, with gilt presentation label to James Kirk from Sir William
Jardine to front pastedown of each volume, and signature of James
Kirk to title of each volume, 8vo, and other 19th century natural
history, including 8 volumes from the Library of Entertaining
Knowledge, Pennant’s British Zoology, volumes 1-2 & 4 only, 1776-77,
Edward Newman, A History of British Ferns, 1854, The Cyclopaedia
of Botany... forming a complete book of herbs and family herbal,
published by F. Farrah, circa 1820s, Hulme, Familiar Wild Flowers, 6
volumes bound in 3, circa 1890s, The Museum of Natural History,
published by William Mackenzie, circa 1860s, etc., including some
odd volumes, mostly leather bound, mainly 8vo
(40)
(6)
£200-300
199 Morris (F.O.). A History of British Butterflies, 1st ed., 1853, 71
hand-coloured plates, a few misnumbered at end, one uncoloured
double-page plate, some light spotting, presentation inscription,
contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with A History
of British Butterflies, 7th ed., 1893, 79 hand-coloured plates, one
uncoloured double-page plate, one or two light spots, bookplate,
original green cloth gilt, a little rubbed with light dampstains, 8vo, plus
A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 vols., mixed
eds., 1854-59 (defective, 225 chromolithographed plates only, of 232)
(5)
£150-200
200 Muller (Adolf & Karl). Waidmanns Freud im Wald und auf der
Haid, Darmstadt: Carl Rohler, [c.1876], additional chromolithographed pictorial title after August Friz, twenty-three mounted
chromolithographed plates after C.F. Deiker, final 2 leaves of text
loose, short tear to one text leaf, light stain to one plate, occasional
marks, some dust & finger soiling, all edges gilt, recent endpapers,
publisher’s green decorative cloth, upper cover with gilt-blocked
corner roundels depicting a fox, hare, boar, and deer, rebacked
preserving original spine, olbong 4to
(1)
£150-200
201 Murchison (Charles). Palaeontological Memoirs and Notes of
the late High Falconer..., 2 volumes, Robert Hardwicke, 1868,
seventy-two plates, including two folding, ex library with usual
stamps and labels, recent quarter sheep, 8vo
£200-300
196 Miles (Henry Downes). The Book of Field Sports, and Library
of Veterinary Knowledge, 2 vols., [London]: Henry Lea & Co., [186063], 6 hand-coloured lithograph plates and 66 engraved & lithograph
plates (few torn to blank margins), engraved illustrations to text, two
leaves of text in volume 1 cropped to margins, some dust-soiling
mostly to margins, hinges cracked, contemporary half calf gilt,
extremities slightly rubbed, 4to
(2)
£70-100
Includes uncoloured lithograph plates of Cricketing at Lord’s and the tennis
court at Lord’s.
£200-300
(2)
197 Morris (F.O.). A Natural History of British Moths, 4 volumes,
1st edition, 1871, 132 hand-coloured lithograph plates, original
uniform publisher’s green blindstamped cloth gilt, a little rubbed and
dulled to spines, 4th volume with some light surface damp marking
to upper cover, large 8vo, togteher with Sowerby (John E. &
Johnson, C. Pierpont), British Wildflowers, re-issue: to which is
added a supplement... by John W. Salter and John E. Sowerby, 1894,
numerous hand-coloured lithograph plates, some light scattered
spotting to preliminary leaves, all edges gilt, original green cloth gilt,
generally in bright condition, large 8vo, plus Wood (Reverend J.G.),
The Illustrated Natural History, 5 volumes, George Routledge, circa
1860s, numerous wood engraved illustrations to text, some light
spotting to preliminary leaves, marbled edges, original uniform giltdecorated dark green cloth in bright condition, large thick 8vo, and
other 19th century natural history, including R. Bowdler Sharpe,
Birds in Nature, 1888, E.J. Lowe, Ferns: British and Exotic, 8
volumes, 1st edition, 1856-60, numerous colour printed plates,
original uniform blindstamped green cloth gilt, rubbed and some
marks, spines darkened and with some wear to head and foot, large
8vo, E.J. Lowe, A Natural History of British Grasses, 1858 / A Natural
History of New and Rare Ferns, 1864 / A Natural History of British
Grasses, 3rd edition, 1891, Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library, 10 volumes
only, etc., all bound in original cloth, mainly 8vo
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202 Museum du D’Histoire Naturelle Memoires du Museum
D’Histoire Naturelle, 20 vols., Paris, 1815-32, numerous engraved
and lithographed plates, some folding, scattered spotting
(occasionally heavy) contemporary half calf, rubbed and worn, with
many covers detached, 4to
Complete set of this scarce French natural history journal with contributions
by Cuvier, Faujas Sainte-Fond, Lamarck, Laugier, Brongniart, Chevreul,
Jussieu and others.
(20)
£300-500
£300-400
52
203 New Naturalist Series. Volumes 1-104, a complete run, plus vol. 110, 1946-2009, comprising 1st edition numbers 2-3, 5-6, 8-11, 13,
16-21, 23, 26, 28, 30-59, 61-81, 83-104 & 110, the others duplicates, reprints and later editions, colour and black and white illustrations,
a few light spots and previous owner signatures, original cloth, d.j.s, some early numbers price-clipped with a few chips and tears, some
other spines faded, 8vo, plus twelve New Naturalist Monographs, 1950-71, mostly 1st eds. in d.j.s, and two paperbacks
(122)
£2000-3000
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206 Robinson (William). Flora and Sylva. A Monthly Review for
Lovers of Garden, Woodland, Tree or Flower, 3 vols., 1903-05, 65
chromolithograph plates with tissue guards, numerous wood
engraved illustrations and few from photographs, occasional
scattered spotting, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original
cloth gilt, minor wear to upper joint of volume 1, large 4to
(3)
£100-150
207 Roemer (Johann Jakob ). Genera Insectorum Linnaei et
Fabricii iconibus illustrata, Winterthur: H. Steiner, 1789, handcoloured engraved vignette to title, engraved plate to letterpress
(page 37), thirty-seven engraved plates, all but one with
contemporary hand-colouring, 20th century quarter morocco, earlier
spine label relaid, 4to
Horn & Schenkling 18262; Nissen ZBI 3462. One of the great achievements
of Swiss entolomology. The beautiful plates in the volume were drawn and
engraved by the artist Johann Rudolf Schellenberg (1740-1806), himself a
noted entomologist, and are remarkable for their colouring and lifelike detail.
£500-800
(1)
208 Selous (Edmund). Bird Watching, published J.M. Dent & Co.,
1901, title page printed in red & black, edited for The Haddon Hall
Library by the Marquess of Granby and Mr George A.B. Dewar,
fourteen gravure plates (complete as list) and numerous wood
engraved vignettes to text throughout, with an additional colour
gravure of the frontispiece loosely inserted at rear, endpapers,
chapter headings and tailpieces designed by Arthur Rackham, book
plate of Alan Francis Brooke, untrimmed, publisher’s vellum gilt,
slight soiling, 8vo
Limited edition 43/150.
(1)
209 Sporting & Natural History. Payne (Charles Johnson, pseud.
‘Snaffles’), ‘Osses and Obstacles, 1st edition published Collins, 1934,
additional half title, presentation inscription to front endpaper,
numerous illustrations throught, slight spotting, d.j., publisher’s cloth,
4to, together with, Edwards (Lionel), My Hunting Sketch Book, 2nd
edition, published Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1928, additional half title,
presentation inscription to front endpaper, numerous mounted colour
plates, publisher’s cloth, a little worn and stained, 4to, with, Aldin
(Cecil), Scarlet to M.F.H., 1st edition, published Eyre & Spottiswoode,
1933, additional half title, numerous colour and black & white
illustrations throughout, publisher’s cloth gilt, spine faded, 4to, plus,
Thorburn (Archibald), A Naturalist’s Sketch Book, 1st edition,
published Longmans, Green & Co., 1919, additional half title,
presentation inscription to front endpaper, numerous colour and
black & white illustrations throughout, publisher’s cloth gilt, faded
and worn, 4to, and, Armour (G.D.), A Hunting Alphabet, 1st edition,
published Country Life Ltd, 1929, decorative title and twenty-six
mounted colour plates, stitching loose, publisher’s cloth with
mounted paper title to upper siding, faded and worn 4to, together
with another twenty-two volumes similar including examples by
Munnings, Edwards, Aldin, Kirkman & Jourdain, Beckford,
Hutchinson and Ribblesdale, various sizes and condition
204 Nicol (W. successor to W.Bulmer & Co., publishers).
Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London, volume 5 (only),
1824, decorative title, ten aquatint plates with contemporary hand
colouring (including two folding) and twelve uncoloured engraved plates,
a little spotting and staining throughout, contemporary half calf gilt,
rubbed and worn at extremities, 4to, together with, Sinclair (George),
Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis: or an Account of the Results of
Experiments on the Produce and Nutritive Qualities of Different Grasses
and other Plants..., 3rd edition, published James Ridgway, 1826,
additional half title with near contemporary manuscript ownership
signature, sixty engraved plates with contemporary hand colouring,
uncut, near contemporary half morocco gilt, 8vo, with, Thunberg (Carl
Peter), Dissertatio Botanica de Morea..., published Uppsala, circa 1750,
bound with D.D. Ixia, Dissertatio Botanica de Hermannia, Dissertatio
Botanica de Acere, ....De Protea, ....De Gardenia [and] de Oxalide,
numerous folding uncoloured engraved plates, modern endpapers, 20th
century quarter calf gilt with marbled sidings, small 8vo
(3)
£100-150
205 Payne (Charles Johnson, “Snaffles”). A Half Century of
Memories, 1st edition, published Collins, 1949, additional half title,
numerous black and white illustrations and five tipped-in colour plates,
ownership signature to front endpaper, inserted compliment slip from
the publishers, publisher’s cloth, dust jacket a little frayed and torn,
4to, together with, More Bandobast, 1st edition published Collins,
1936, additional half title, numerous black and white illustrations and
twelve tipped-in colour plates, ownership signature to front endpaper,
publisher’s cloth with dust jacket, with, My Sketch Book in the Shiny,
2nd edition, published Gale & Polden Ltd., circa 1930, additional half
title, numerous black and white and tinted plates, ownership signature
to front endpaper, publisher’s cloth with pig sticking print mounted
on upper siding, dust jacket a little frayed and torn, 4to
(3)
£70-100
(27)
£120-180
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£200-300
Lot 207
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210 Trimen (Henry, J.G. Baker, James Britten & others, eds.).
The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, new series, vols. II-IX,
XIX, XX-LXXVII, a broken run, 1873-1939, numerous lithographed
and half-tone plates and illustrations, some scattered spotting, exlibris with usual stamps and labels, contemporary half calf and
original cloth, a few vols. rubbed, 8vo
(66)
£150-200
211 Wallace (Alfred Russel). Island Life: Or, the Phenomena and
Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and
Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates, 1st
edition, 1880, three coloured maps and further maps and
illustrations in text, final leaf of index and advert leaf uncut and
unopened, hinges cracked and front free endpaper detached,
original cloth gilt, rubbed, some corner wear and a little frayed at
head and foot of spine, upper board with vertical crease mark,
together with Tropical Nature, and Other Essays, 1st edition, 1878,
publisher’s advert leaf at rear, contemporary ownership signature to
front pastedown, hinges cracked, original cloth gilt, rubbed, both 8vo
(2)
£200-300
212
Watkins-Pitchford (Denys James, pseud. “BB” ).
Recollections of a ‘Longshore Gunner, 1st edition, published Boydell
Press, Ipswich, 1976, additional half title, numerous illustrations
throughout, publisher’s cloth gilt, d.j., 8vo, together with, Ramblings
of a Sportsman-Naturalist, 1st edition, published Michael Joseph,
1979, additional half title, numerous illustrations throughout,
publisher’s cloth gilt, d.j. price-clipped, 8vo, with, The Child Alone,
1st edition, published Michael Joseph, 1978, additional half title,
numerous illustrations throughout, publisher’s cloth gilt, d.j., 8vo,
plus, The Badgers of Bearshanks, 1st edition, published Ernest Benn
Limited, 1961, additional half title, numerous illustrations
throughout, ownership signature to front endpaper, publisher’s cloth
gilt, d.j., 8vo, and The Naturalist’s Bedside Book, 1st edition,
published Michael Joseph, 1980, additional half title, numerous
illustrations throughout, publisher’s cloth gilt, d.j., 8vo, with another
ten books by ‘BB’ including ‘The Quiet Fields’, ‘The Countryman’s
Bedside Book’, ‘The Idle Countryman’, ‘The Wayfaring Tree’ and ‘Wild
Lone’, various editions, some with dust jackets, various condition
(15)
214 Zarpas (J.N.). Game fishing in Lagos, published C.M.S. Press,
Lagos, (Nigeria), April, 1949, twelve black & white plates from
photographs (including portrait frontispiece), verso of title inscribed
by the author to Mr. Lionel Snazelle, Oct 1950, original cloth, slim 4to
£150-200
213 Wright (Lewis). The Illustrated Book of Poultry. With Practical
Schedules for Judging, Constructed from Actual Analysis of the Best
Modern Decisions, pu b. Cassell Petter & Galpin, [1873], forty-two
chromolithograph plates only (of 50, one plate trimmed to margin
with loss of plate number), numerous wood engraved illustrations
to text, few plates & leaves with faint central vertical fold or light
crease, occasional minor spotting or marginal dampstaining to few
leaves, contemporary straight grain sheep gilt by W.D. Hayward of
Croydon, light wear to boards, 4to
(1)
Scarce. Only one UK institutional location found (King’s College, London).
(1)
£150-200
£150-250
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MAPS
All lots unframed unless otherwise stated
215* Aden. Braun (Georg & Hogenberg Frans), Aden, Arabiae
foelicis emporium celerrimi nominis quo ex India, Aethiopia..., [on
sheet with Mombaza, Quilo & Cefala], circa 1580, four uncoloured
engraved town plans on one sheet (as published), slight creasing,
340 x 475mm, mounted, framed and double glazed, Latin text on
verso
(1)
217 Anglesey. Speed (John), Anglesey Antiently called Mona,
Described, published Roger Rea, [1662], uncoloured engraved map,
inset town plan of Beaumaris, large strapwork cartouche and
mileage scale, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, small
library blindstamp to margin, slight fraying to margins, central fold
partially strengthened on verso, 390 x 510mm, English text on verso
£80-120
(1)
£120-180
218 Atlases. A mixed collection of seventeen part atlases, 17th 19th century, with examples by Blaeu, Goos, Johnston, Greenville
Collins, Arrowsmith, S.D.U.K., Chatelain and Pine, all atlases lacking
some plates and maps but many retained, mixed contemporary
bindings, various sizes and condition
(17)
£300-500
216 Americas. Arrowsmith (Aaron), Map of America, 1804, large
engraved wall map with contemporary outline colouring, on four
conjoined sheets and laid on linen, stained and spotted at base,
lower margin a little frayed with slight loss, mounted on a near
contemporary ‘spring loaded’ roller, 1190 x 1450mm
(1)
£300-500
219 Australia. Wyld (James), Map of South Australia, New South
Wales, Van Diemens Land and Settled parts of Australia,
Respectfully dedicated to Major T.K.Mitchell..., Surveyor General of
New South Wales, published Jas. Wyld, circa 1850, engraved map
with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen,
inset maps of Sydney, Adelaide and Van Diemens Land, some splits
along old folds, slight staining, 620 x 965mm
(1)
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£100-200
220 Austria. Visscher (Nicolas), Austriae Archiducatus pars
Superior..., published Amsterdam, circa 1700, engraved map with
contemporary hand colouring, slight worming to margins and central
fold, repaired on verso, 475 x 575mm, together with, Homann
(Johann Baptist, heirs), Der Oesterreichische Kreis..., published
Nuremberg, 1788, engraved map with contemporary hand
colouring, slight creasing, 475 x 595mm, with, Mercator (Gerard),
Austria Archiducatus, circa 1610, engraved map with contemporary
outline colouring, trimmed to neatline on vertical margins, borders
replaced, 325 x 490mm, Latin text on verso, plus, Pinkerton (John,
publisher), Austrian Dominions, 1810, engraved map by Neele with
contemporary hand colouring, 510 x 700mm
(4)
222 Braun (Georg, and Hogenberg, Franz). Civitates Orbis
Terrarum ‘The Towns of the World’ 1572 - 1618, six parts in 3
volumes (as published) with an Introduction by R.A.Skelton,
facsimile edition, published The World Publishing Company,
Cleveland & New York 1966, numerous uncoloured double page and
folding town and city plans, six folding colour plans in rear pocket of
volume 1, publisher’s cloth and sliver gilt, very slight wear at
extremities, d.j.’s a little frayed and worn, folio
(3)
223
Braun (Georg, and Hogenberg, Franz). Misena
Hermundurorum Urbs, circa 1580, engraved city panorama with
contemporary hand colouring, some browning, laid on later card,
one marginal closed tear, 335 x 490mm, together with, Sneecha
vulgo Sneeck Frisiae Occidentalis Oppidum [on sheet with] Sloten,
Doccum [and] Ylsta, circa 1580, four engraved Dutch cities on one
sheet (as published), contemporary hand colouring, 350 x 415mm,
German text on verso, with, Bolzvardia vetus in Frisia Foederis Anzae
teurinicae Op. [on sheet with] Stavria, vulgo Stavere ... [and] Harlinga
[and] Hindelop, circa 1590, four engraved Dutch cities on one sheet
(as published), contemporary hand colouring, 355 x 445mm,
German text on verso, with, Jansson (Jan), Aurelia Franciae Civitas
ad Ligeri Flu: Sita, circa 1660, hand coloured engraved town
prospect, a later impression of Braun & Hogenberg’s original, 350 x
435mm, Latin text on verso, with one other similar
£150-200
221 Belgium & Holland. Senex (John), The VII United Provinces
Corrected from the Observations communicated to the Royal
Society at London and ye Royal Academy at Paris, 1709, engraved
map with contemporary outline colouring, old folds strengthened
and repaired on verso, 645 x 935, together with, Mercator (Gerard
& Hondius J.), Leodiensis Dioecesis Typus, circa 1605, engraved
map with contemporary hand colouring, vertical margins partially
strengthened on verso, 335 x 485mm, Latin text on verso, with,
Laurie (Robert & Whittle James), A New Map of the Seat of the
War in the Netherlands from the best Authorities, 1794, hand
coloured engraved map, 490 x 655mm, plus, Homann (Johann
Baptist), Arena Martis in Belgio qua Provinciae X Catholicae
Inferioris Germaniae..., published Nuremberg, circa 1730, engraved
map with contemporary outline colouring, central fold partially
strengthened on verso 490 x 565mm, with another three maps
similar including examples by Sanson, Homann’s heirs and Coronelli,
various sizes and condition
(7)
£100-150
(5)
£150-200
224 Brecknockshire. Speed (John), Breknoke both Shyre and
Towne described, published Roger Rea. [1662], uncoloured
engraved map, inset town plan of Brecknock, large strapwork
cartouche, small library blindstamp to margin, 385 x 510mm, English
text on verso
£150-200
(1)
£70-100
225 British county maps. Blaeu (Johannes), Glocestria Ducatus
vulgo Glocestershire, circa 1645, engraved map with contemporary
hand colouring, some browning, 410 x 495mm, Latin text on verso,
together with, Allard (Carel), Regni Angliae et Walliae Principatus
Tabula, divisa in LII Regiones-Anglice Shire dictas prae coeteris
correcta et edita..., published Amsterdam, circa 1695, engraved map
with contemporary hand colouring, central fold split and repaired on
verso, large repaired closed tear, slight staining and dust soiling, 505
x 595mm, with, Blome (Richard), A Mapp of the County of
Somerset with the Hundreds, circa 1693, engraved map with
contemporary outline colouring and some later enhancement,
trimmed to neat line with slight loss on vertical margins, 245 x
330mm, with another six maps of the British, Isles, regions and
counties, with examples by Conder, Mercator, Laurie & Whittle,
Sayer and Homann, various sizes and condition
(9)
£150-200
226 British Islands. Speed (John), Holy Iland, Garnsey, Farne [and]
Jarsey, published Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, circa 1676,
four uncoloured engraved maps on one sheet (as published), slight
staining, slight browning to central fold, 385 x 515mm, English text
on verso, together with, Huntington. Both Shire and Shire Towne
with the Ancient Citie Ely Described, 1st edition, published George
Humble, [1611], uncoloured engraved map, inset town plans of
Huntingdon and Ely, some worming to image, repaired on verso,
slight staining to central fold, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso
(2)
Lot 222
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£100-150
227 British Isles. A mixed collection of eleven maps, 17th - 19th
century, engraved maps of the British Isles, sea charts and British
counties, with examples by Greenwood, Mercator/Hondius,
Greenville Collins, Speed, Bowen, Teesdale, Smith, Moll and
Thomson, various sizes and condition
(11)
231 Crimean War. Elphinstone (Capt. R.E.), Plan of the Seige of
Sevastopol by the Allied Armies in 1854 - 5, published The War
Department, circa 1858, folding lthographic map, 650 x 980mm,
together with another eleven (only) folding lithographic maps
(including one coloured) showing plans of trenches, batteries, troop
positions, redoubts and earth works of British and Russian forces
during this period of the Crimean War, various sizes and condition,
contained in a later cloth book box, broken and damaged, together
with, Forsell (Carl Gustaf A.F.), Karta öfver Södra Delen af Sverige
och Norrige eller det fordna så kallade Skandinavien på hans Majt.
Konungens allernådigste befallning..., published Stockholm 18151826, large engraved map sectionalised and laid on linen on four
sheets (only of eight), each sheet approximately 590 x 820mm,
contained in contemporary marbled card slip case, rubbed and worn
at extremities
£200-300
(13)
£150-200
228 British Isles. Speed (John), The Kingdome of Great Britaine and
Ireland, 1st edition, published John Sudbury & George Humble, [1611],
hand coloured engraved map, inset views of London and Edinburgh,
thread margins, two margins strengthened on verso, central fold split,
repaired and strengthened on verso, occasional marginal closed tears,
slight creasing, 385 x 515mm, English text on verso
R.W.Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477 -1650, no.316.
(1)
£300-500
229 Caernarvonshire. Speed (John), Caernarvon both Shyre and
Shire-towne with the ancient Citie Bangor described, published Roger
Rea, [1662], uncoloured engraved map, inset town plans of
Caernarvon and Bangor, small library blindstamp to margin, slight
creasing, one margin trimmed to neatline, 385 x 510mm, English text
on verso, together with, Caermarden both Shyre and Towne
described, published Roger Rea, [1662], uncoloured engraved map,
inset town plan of Carmarthan, large strapwork cartouche, mileage
scale and compass rose, slight creasing, small library blindstamp to
margin, repaired closed tear affecting image, small hole affecting
image, crudely repaired on verso, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso
(2)
232 Egypt and Middle East. Michalet (Estienne), Les Deserts
D’Egypte de Thebaide D’Arabie De Sirie &c: ou sout exactement
Marques les Lieux Habitez par les Saincts Peres des Deserts,
published Paris, 1693, engraved map with sparse contemporary
outline colouring, some oxidisation to old watercolour causing some
splitting, central fold partially split and strengthened on verso, one
small hole to image, slight creasing, 565 x 775mm
(1)
£100-150
230 Cardiganshire. Speed (John), Cardigan Shyre Described with
the due forme of the Shiretown as it was surveyed..., published
Roger Rea, [1662], uncoloured engraved map, inset town plan of
Cardigan, large strapwork cartouche, closed repaired tear affecting
image, central fold partially split and strengthened on verso, small
library blindstamp in margin, 385 x 505mm, English text on verso,
together with, Montgomery Shire, published Roger Rea, [1662],
uncoloured engraved map, inset town plan of Montgomery, small
library blind stamp to margin, two small rust marks at base of central
fold, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso
(2)
£100-150
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£100-150
234 England & Wales. Visscher (Nicolas), A New Mapp of the
Kingdome of England, Representing the Princedome of Wales and
other Provinces, Cities, Market Towns, with the Roads from Town
to Town and the Number of Reputed Miles between them, are given
by Inspection without Scale or Compass, published John Overton,
circa 1694, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, large
decorative cartouche, 575 x 500mm, together with, Angliae Regnum
Tam in Septem Antiqua Anglo-Saxonum Regna quam in omnes
Hodiernas Regiones accuratissime distinctum..., circa 1690,
engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, large decorative
cartouche, slight worming to central fold, skillfully repaired on verso,
565 x 495mm, with, Schenk (Peiter), Novissima prae caeteris aliis
accuratissima Regnorum Angliae Scotiae Hiberniae..., published
Amsterdam, circa 1706, engraved map with contemporary hand
colouring, inset map of the Shetland, Orkney and Faroe islands.
decorative cartouche with later hand colouring, one small hole to
image, 575 x 490mm
233 England & Wales. Moll (Herman), The South Part of Great
Britain called England and Wales.., published D.Midwinter, T.Bowles
and Philip Overton, [1715], engraved map on two conjoined sheets
with contemporary hand colouring, some creasing, some marginal
fraying, old folds, very slight staining, 620 x 965mm, with another
copy similar with contemporary outline colouring, with, The North
Part of Great Britain called Scotland, published D.Midwinter and
T.Bowles, circa 1715, engraved map on two conjoined sheets with
contemporary hand colouring, inset map of the Orkney and Shetland
islands, twelve engraved views of principal towns to the vertical
margins, some creasing, long closed repaired tear affecting image,
repaired splits to old folds, slight browning, 600 x 1010mm
R.W.Shirley. Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650 - 1750. Visscher 2 state 4.
Visscher 3. unrecorded state with a dedication to George III and Schenk 1.
state 2.
£200-300
(3)
The first map described. R.W.Shirley. Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650
- 1750. Moll 6 state 3.
£200-300
(3)
235 England, Wales & Ireland. Speed (John), The Invasions of
England and Ireland with al their Civill Wars since the Conquest,
published Roger Rea, [1662], uncoloured engraved map, engraved
by Cornelius Danckerts, decorative cartouche, compass rose and
numerous rhumb lines, slight fraying and dust soiling to margins,
short split at base of central fold, strengthened on verso, one small
hole to image, small library blind stamp in margin, 385 x 520mm,
English text on verso
Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477 - 1650, no.397.
(1)
£500-800
236 Folding maps. A mixed collection of nineteen folding maps,
mostly 19th century, British county maps, overseas and geological
maps, including examples by Cary, Arrowsmith, Faden, Smith,
Cruchley, Hall, Betts, Scott, Philip, Ainslie and Stanford, many with
contemporary boards and/or slipcases, various sizes and condition
(19)
Lot 234
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£200-300
237 France. A good mixed collection of eleven regional maps, 17th
& 18th century, engraved regional maps, many with contemporary
hand colouring including some heightened with gold, with examples
by Visscher, Ortelius, Blaeu, Jaillot, Jansson, Homann and Valk,
(11)
£300-500
239 Greece, Turkey & Eastern Europe. Bowen (Emanuel), Turkey
in Europe Corrected from the Newest and most Exact Observations,
made and sold by G.Willdey, 1715, large engraved map on two
conjoined sheets, contemporary outline colouring, decorative
cartouche and mileage scale and an inset cartouche advertising
items sold in George Willdey’s shop, one small repaired marginal
closed tear, old folds, slight browning to one fold, thread margins,
925 x 630mm
(1)
238 Glamorganshire. Speed (John), Glamorgan Shyre with the
Sittuations of the cheife Towne Cardyff and ancient Landaffe
decribed, published Roger Rea, 1662, uncoloured engraved map,
inset town plans of Cardiff and Llandaff, small library blind stamp to
margin, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso
(1)
£120-180
240 Greece. Jaillot (Alexis-Hubert), La Morée et les Isles de Zante,
Cefalonie, Ste Maure, Cerigo &c. published Paris, 1696, large
engraved map of the Peloponnese after N.Sanson, contemporary
outline colouring, slight creasing, 565 x 845mm, together with,
D’Anville (Jean Baptiste Bourguignon), Les Côtes de la Gréce et
L’Archipel, published Paris, 1756, large uncoloured engraved map,
some staining, torn with slight loss to upper margin, small ink library
stamp, 540 x 710mm
£150-250
(2)
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£100-150
241 Herefordshire. Speed (John), Hereford-Shire described with
the true plot of the Citie Hereford as also the Armes of thos Nobles
that have bene intituled with that Dignitye, published Thomas
Bassett & Richard Chiswell, circa 1676, uncoloured engraved map,
inset town plan of Hereford, some staining, 385 x 510mm, English
text on verso, together with, Rutlandshire with Oukham and
Stanford her bordering Neighbour Newely described, 1st edition,
published John Sudbury & George Humble, [1611], uncoloured
engraved map, inset town plans of Oakham and Stamford, some
worming to image, repaired on verso, slight staining to central fold,
385 x 510mm, English text on verso
(2)
£100-150
244 Ireland. Speed (John), The Countie of Leinster with the Citie
Dublin Described, published Roger Rea, [1662], uncoloured
engraved map, inset town plan of Dublin, large compass rose,
strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, small library blindstamp to
margin, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso
(1)
£200-300
242 Ireland. Speed (John), The Kingdome of Irland Devided into
Severall Provinces and then againe devided into Counties Newly
described, published Roger Rea, [1662], uncoloured engraved map,
six engraved costumed figures, ornate cartouche, mileage scale and
compass rose, small library blinstamp to margin, central fold partially
split, strengthened on verso, 390 x 510mm, English text on verso
(1)
£400-600
245 Ireland. Speed (John), The Province of Connaugh with the Citie
of Galwaye Described, published Roger Rea, [1662], uncoloured
engraved map, inset town plan of Galway, large ornate cartouche,
mileage scale and compass rose, small library blindstamp to margin,
some creasing, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso
(1)
243 Ireland. Speed (John), The Province of Mounster, published
Roger Rea, [1662], uncoloured engraved map, inset town plans of
Limerick and Cork, small library blind stamp to margin, occasional
marginal closed tears, 390 x 510mm, English text on verso
(1)
£200-300
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£200-300
246 Ireland. Speed (John), The Province Ulster described, published
Roger Rea, [1662], uncoloured engraved map, inset view of Enis
Kelling Fort, small library blindstamp to margin, slight creasing, very
slight spotting to margin, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso
(1)
249 London. A True and Exact Draught of the Tower Liberties
survey’d in the Year 1597 by Gulielmus Haiward and J.Gascoyne,
published Society of Antiquaries, 1742, uncoloured engraved map
of the Tower of London and its environs, slight dust soiling, central
fold with short split, occasional marginal closed tears, 415 x 545mm
£200-300
First produced in 1597 after a riot which developed after a dispute over
bounderies between the Tower authorities and the City of London. The riot
was considered rebellion and serious enough for Queen Elizbeth I to place
the city under martial law and subsequently five of the rioters were hung
drawn and quartered on Tower hill.
£100-150
(1)
247 Ireland. Speed (John), The Kingdome of Irland Devided into
severall Provinces and then againe devided into Counties Newly
described, published Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676],
hand coloured engraved map, six engraved costumed figures,
ornate cartouche, mileage scale and compass rose, occasional
marginal repaired closed tears, central fold partially strengthened on
verso, one margin trimmed to neat line and extended, 390 x
510mm, English text on verso
(1)
250 London. Fraser (James), Fraser’s Panoramic Plan of London,
published James Fraser, 1831, engraved map by James Neele,
sectionalised and laid on linen with contemporary outline
colouring, eighteen uncoloured vignette views to margins, slight
dust soiling, 405 x 560mm, Estate agents advertisement and map
to front pastedown, contemporary cloth boards with printed label
to upper siding
£400-600
248 Italy. A mixed collection of nine maps, mostly 18th century,
engraved regional and country maps, including several with
contemporary hand colouring, with examples by D’Anville, Jaillot,
Homann and De Wit, various sizes and condition
(9)
Howgego 332. State 2.
(1)
£150-250
63
£200-300
251 London. Banks (John Henry & Co., publishers), A Balloon View of London (as seen from Hampstead) published Banks & Co. May 1st.
1851, uncoloured engraved aerial plan of London (clearly showing the ‘new’ Crystal Palace in Hyde Park), old folds, very slight spotting to
margins, occasional repaired closed tears and slight fraying to old folds, laid on later hardboard, 680 x 1070mm
(1)
£500-800
253 Maps. A mixed collection of thirty-two maps and charts, 17th
- 19th century, engraved maps and sea charts, several with
contemporary hand colouring, with examples by Jansson, Visscher,
Wyld, D’Anville, Mercator/Hondius, Blaeu, Moll, Ortelius, Hall,
Pinkerton, Mortier, Laurie & Whittle. Lizars, Bowen and Thomson,
(32)
£200-300
254 Maps. A mixed collection of thirty-one foreign maps, 17th 19th century, engraved maps, many with contemporary hand
colouring, with examples by Allard, Cary, Visscher, D’Anville, Blaeu,
Kirkwood, Thomson, Seutter, Homann, Laurie & Whittle, Mortier,
De L’Isle and Van den Keere, various sizes and condition
(31)
255 Maps. A mixed collection of twenty-five maps, 17th - 19th
century, engraved maps and plans, many with contemporary hand
colouring including Africa, Europe, Persia, Greece, Azores and South
America, with examples by Basire, Wells, D’Anville, Homann,
Bowen, Faden, Blaeu, D’Lisle, Gibson, Thomson and Hondius,
252 Malta. Dapper (Olfert), Valetta Civitas nova Maltae olim Millitae,
published Amsterdam, circa 1680, uncoloured engraved birds-eye
view of Valletta, cartouche with a key plan identifying forty-six
locations, occasional marginal repaired closed tears, slight spotting,
largely confined to margins, central fold strengthened on verso at
base, 285 x 370mm
(1)
£200-300
(25)
£150-200
64
£300-500
259 Morden (Robert). A collection of thirteen maps, [1695 or later],
thirteen uncoloured double page engraved maps, some spotting and
staining, each approximately 365 x 430mm
The maps consist of:- The Smaller British Islands, Northamptonshire,
Worcestershire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire,
Monmouthshire, South Wales, North Wales, North Riding of Yorkshire,
Rutland, Bedfordshire [and] Herefordshire.
£100-150
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260 No lot
261* Ogilby (John). The Road from Bristol co. Glouc. to Banbury
co. Oxo., circa 1680, hand coloured strip road map, a little toned,
330 x 445mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with, Bayly
(J.), Gloucestreshire Accurately laid down in the Year 1779, hand
coloured engraved map, inset vignette of The Cotham Stone, old
folds, 380 x 335mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with Rhodes
(Marion, 1907-1988), Bibury, 1937, etching of Arlington Row in the
Cotswold village of Bibury, captioned & signed in pencil to lower
margin, plate size 17.5 x 22.3cm (7 x 8.75ins), sheet size 22.5 x 27cm
(8.75 x 10.5ins), together with Rome, 1937,etching of the obelisk at
Piazza del Popolo with St. Peter’s Basilica in the distance, captioned,
signed & dated in pencil to lower margin, plate size 21.3 x 15cm (6
x 8.25ins), sheet size 26.5 x 19.5cm (10.5 x 7.75ins), plus an etched
view by Rhodes of a woodland in Buckinghamshire, plus Bolton
Abbey, Wharfedale, North Yorkshire, original pen, ink & watercolour
on wove (laid on card), captioned and signed to lower margin, 25.2
x 35.3cm (10 x 14ins)
256 Mediterranean. Sanson (Nicolas), A New Mapp of the
Mediterranean Sea Divided into its Principal Parts or Seas...,
Rendered into English, Printed and Sold by Hen; Overton..., circa
1680, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, on two
conjoined sheets, slight oxidisation to old watercolour causing slight
cracking and splitting, repaired on verso, 485 x 840mm
Uncommon.
(1)
£200-300
257
Merioneth. Speed (John), Merionethshire Described,
published Roger Rea, [1662], uncoloured engraved map, inset view
of Harlech, some creasing, library blind stamp to margin, slight
staining, 385 x 505mm, English text on verso, together with,
Denbighshire, published Roger Rea, [1662], uncoloured engraved
map, some creasing, small library blind stamp to margin, slight
staining, 385 x 505mm, English text on verso, with, Flint-Shire,
published Roger Rea, [1662], uncoloured engraved map, inset town
plans of Flint and St. Asaph, some creasing, torn with slight loss at
base of central fold, repaired on verso, marginal repaired closed
tears, two small holes to image, 390 x 515mm, English text on verso
(3)
(6)
262 Owen (John and Bowen, Emmanuel). Britannia Depicta or
Ogilby Improved..., 1731 title page and approximately 450
uncoloured engraved strip road maps, some duplicates, lacking all
county maps and several leaves, each map approximately 190 x
120mm, disbound
(approx.450)
£100-150
£100-150
263 Paris. Deharme (Louis-Francois), Plan de la Ville et Fauxbourgs
de Paris. Divisée en 20 Quartiers dont la plus grande partie...,
published Desnos, Paris, 1788, decorative engraved title with later
manuscript ownership signature to margin, folding key plate and a
folding map of the environs of Paris and thirty four double page
engraved maps (lacking plate 5 but it is not called for) and fourteen
double page index tables bound at rear, later endpapers, 20th
century cloth gilt, 4to
258 Monmouthshire. Speed (John), The Countye of Monmouth
with the Sittuation of the Shire Towne Described, published Roger
Rea, [1662], uncoloured engraved map, inset town plan of
Monmouth, large strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, small
library blindstamp to margin, slight fraying to margins, 385 x
510mm, English text to verso
(1)
£100-150
(1)
£120-180
65
£300-500
266 Radnorshire. Speed (John), The Countie of Radnor Described
and the Shyretownes sittuatione, published Roger Rea, [1662],
uncoloured engraved map, strapwork cartouche, mileage scale and
compass rose, inset town plan of Radnor, slight creasing, small
library blindstamp to margin, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso
(1)
267 Reference. Kershaw (Kenneth A.), Early Printed Maps of
Canada, 4 volumes, 1993 - 1998, numerous black & white
illustrations throughout, publisher’s cloth gilt, d.j.s, 4to, together
with, Van der Heijden (H.A.M.), Old Maps of the Netherlands, 2
volumes, 1998, titles and text printed in Dutch and English,
numerous uncoloured illustrations throughout, d.j.s, publisher’s cloth
gilt, folio, with, Clayton (Timothy), The English Print 1688 - 1802,
published for The Paul Mellon Centre by Yale University Press, 1997,
additional half title, numerous colour and black and white
illustrations throughout, publisher’s cloth gilt, d.j., folio, plus,
Landwehr (John), Studies in Dutch Books with Coloured Plates,
Published 1662 - 1875, published The Hague, 1976, additional half
title, colour and black and white illustrations throughout, publisher’s
cloth gilt, d.j., 4to, with, Meyer (Susan E.), A Treasury of the Great
Children’s Book Illustrators, published Harry N. Abrams, 1997,
additional half title, numerous colour and black & white illustrations
throughout, colour printed card binding, 4to, with another five
reference books similar
264 Pembrokeshire. Speed (John), Penbrokshyre described and
the Sittuations both of Penbroke and St. Davids shewed in due form
as they were taken..., published Roger Rea, [1662], uncoloured
engraved map, inset town plans of Pembroke and St. Davids, small
library blind stamp to margin, one ‘printer’s crease’ affecting image,
occasional marginal closed tears, 385 x 515mm, English text on
verso
(1)
£70-100
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£120-180
£100-150
268 Scandinavia. Moll (Herman), A New Map of Denmark and
Sweden According to the Newest and most Exact Observations,
published D.Midwinter, T.Bowles & Philip Overton, circa 1720,
engraved map on two conjoined sheets, contemporary hand
colouring, inset map of the North Cape and Spitsbergen, five
engraved scenes of life in Lapland, some creasing, central fold split
and strengthened on verso, slight fraying to margins, 610 x 1010mm,
together with, A New and Exact Map of the United Provinces or
Netherlands, published D.Midwinter & T.Bowles, circa 1720,
engraved map on two conjoined sheets, contemporary hand
colouring, inset map of the North Sea, seven inset town panoramas
and plans, some creasing, slight fraying to margins, old folds
strengthened on verso, 620 x 1020mm
(2)
£200-300
269* Scotland. Ortelius (Abraham), Scotiae Tabula, [1584],
engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, central fold
partially split, repaired on verso, slight staining and toning, 355 x
480mm, Latin text on verso, framed and double glazed
Marcel van den Broecke. Ortelius Atlas Maps no.18.
(1)
270* Scotland. Blaeu (Johannes & Pont Timothy), Coila Provincia.
The Province of Kyle, circa 1665, engraved map with contemporary
hand colouring, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, slight
creasing, 455 x 565mm, Dutch text on verso, mounted, framed and
double glazed, together with, Morden (Robert), A New Map of the
South Part of Scotland [1722], hand coloured engraved reticulated
map, 355 x 440mm, mounted, framed and glazed
265 Poland. Schenk (Pieter), Friderico Augusto vere Augusto Polan.
Lithuan. Boris. Pomer Regi Duci Principi..., 1705, engraved map with
contemporary outline colouring, inset map of Saxony, large ornate
cartouche, slight oxidisation to old watercolour causing slight
cracking, 490 x 580mm, together with, Homann (Johann Baptist,
heirs), Comitatus Glaciensis Tabula Geogr..., 1747, engraved map
with contemporary hand colouring, some spotting and staining, one
smal repaired marginal closed tear, 480 x 550mm
(2)
£150-200
(2)
£150-200
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£100-150
Lot 268
271 Sea charts. Jaillot (A.H. & Bellin J.N.), Carte de l’Entrée de la
Tamise avec les Bancs, Passes, Isles et Costes comprises entre
Sandwich et Clay, published Patis, circa 1750, hand coloured
engraved sea chart orientated to the right, inset map of the Thames
estuary, compass roses and numerous rhumb lines, slight creasing,
460 x 890mm, together with another uncoloured copy
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272 South America. Moll (Herman), To the Right Honourable Charles
Earl of Sunderland and Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, One of Her
Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State &c. This Map of South
America..., published D.Midwinter, T.Bowles and Philip Overton, circa
1720, engraved map on two conjoined sheets, contemporary hand
colouring, inset view of Potosi, old folds with some browning to folds,
slight creasing, 590 x 965mm, together with, A New & Exact Map of
the Electorate of Brunswick-Lunenburg and ye rest of ye Kings
Dominions in Germany..., published Philip Overton, circa 1710, engraved
map on two conjoined sheets with contemporary hand colouring, two
inset maps of the North Sea and The Duchy of Lauwenburg, old folds,
slight creasing, slight fraying to margins, 625 x 1010mm, with, Les
Provinces des Pays-Bas Catholiques ou A Most Exact Map of Flanders
or Austrian Netherlands &c., circa 1720, hand coloured engraved map
on two conjoined sheets, inset maps of Luxembourg, Northern France
and a plan of fortifications, old folds, 605 x 980mm
£150-200
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£150-200
273 South America. Brué (Adrien Hubert), Nouvell Carte de
L’Amerique Meridionale et des Iles qui en Dépendent..., published
Paris, 1834, large engraved map with contemporary outline
colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, on two sections, seven
inset maps of islands, table of explanation, 1800 x 1230mm,
publisher’s label to each section, marbled chemise
(1)
275 Spain. Jansson (Jan, Mercator Gerard & Hondius Henricus),
Andaluzia continens Sevillam et Cordubam, [1636], engraved map
with contemporary outline colouring, slight soiling to margins, 355
x 500mm, English text on verso, together with, Blaeu (Johannes),
Navarra Regnum, published Amsterdam, circa 1650, engraved map
with contemporary hand colouring, some oxidisation to old
watercolour, 420 x 500mm, no text on verso, with, Jansson (Jan),
Valentia Regnum Cotestani. Ptol. Edentani. Plin. circa 1650,
engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, some oxidisation
to old watercolour causing slight cracking and splitting to cartouche,
350 x 475mm, no text on verso, plus, Blaeu (Johannes), Biscaia
Alava et Guipuscoa Cantabriae Veteris partes, circa 1650, engraved
map with contemporary hand colouring, heightened with gold, slight
creasing, 385 x 495mm, no text on verso
£120-180
(4)
276 Suffolk. Hodskinson (Joseph), The County of Suffolk...,
engraved and published by William Faden, 1783, large engraved map
with contemporary outline colouring on three conjoined sheets, inset
town plan of Ipswich, inset triangulation diagram, engraved vignette
of the Abbey Gate at Bury St. Edmunds, laid on near contemporary
linen and displayed on a spring roller with a contemporary wooden
batten to lower margin (partially detached), some staining, spotting
and dust soiling, some fraying to lower margin just affecting image,
1210 x 1635mm, together with, Donald (Thomas & Milne Thomas),
A Topographical Map of the County of Norfolk, Surveyed and
Measured in the Years 1790, 91, 92, 93 and 94..., published William
Faden, 1797, large engraved map with contemporary outline
colouring on three conjoined sheets, laid on contemporary linen and
displayed on a spring roller with a contemporary wooden batten to
lower margin (partially detached), inset maps of King’s Lynn,
Swaffham and Great Yarmouth, some dust soiling, toning to lower
half of map, some fraying and creasing to lower margin, 1220 x
1810mm, with, Mudge (Lt. Col.), Part the First of the General Survey
of England and Wales containing the whole of Essex and a Portion
of the Adjoining Counties..., 1805, large uncoloured engraved map
on four conjoined sheets, displayed on a spring roller with a
contemporary wooden batten to lower margin, some overall dust
soiling, spotting and staining, frayed along lower margin with slight
loss, 1210 x 1815mm, plus, Rocque (John), A Topographical Map of
the County of Surrey in which is Expressed all the Roads, Lanes,
Churches, Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Seats &c. &c..., Completed
and Engraved by Peter Andrews, published Mary Ann Rocque, circa
1787, large engraved map with sparse contemporary outline
colouring, large uncoloured decorative cartouche, some staining and
dust soiling, frayed with some loss to image, lower margin attached
to wooden batten, 1630 x 2030mm, with two others similar
274 Spain & Portugal. Moll (Herman), A New and Exact Map of
Spain & Portugal Divided into its Kingdoms and Principalities &c...,
published D.Midwinter, P.Overton and T.Bowles, 1711, engraved map
with contemporary outline colouring, large uncoloured cartouche,
slight creasing, old folds, one long closed repaired tear affecting
image, some fraying with slight loss to one old fold, slight browning
to central fold, 610 x 980mm, together with, A New Map of Italy
Distinguishing all the Sovereignties in it, whether States, Kingdoms,
Dutchies, Principalities, Republicks &c..., published D.Midwinter,
T.Bowles and Philip Overton, circa 1720, engraved map on two
conjoined sheets with contemporary hand colouring, three inset
views of Mount Etna, Mount Vesuvius and Mount Aeolius, some
creasing, old folds, some fraying and browning to old folds with
slight loss, slight staining, repaired closed tears, 605 x 980mm, with,
The Turkish Empire in Europe, Asia and Africa..., published
D.Midwinter & T.Bowles, circa 1720, engraved map on two
conjoined sheets, contemporary hand colouring, inset views of
Constantinople and Smirna, three views of the Holy Sepulchre and
a panorama of Jerusalem, slight creasing, some splits along old
folds, slight fraying to margins, one long, closed repaired tear
affecting image, slight fraying to margins, 615 x 1010mm, with one
other similar
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£150-200
£200-300
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£300-500
Lot 278
277 Sussex. Greenwood (C. & J.), Map of the County of Sussex
from an actual Survey made in the Years 1823 & 1824..., Greenwood
Pringle & Co., 1825, large uncoloured engraved map, sectionalised
and laid on linen, in three sections, calligraphic title, engraved
vignette of Chichester Cathedral and table of reference to the
hundreds, slight staining, 1250 x 2020mm, marbled endpapers,
contained in contemporary cloth slipcase with bookplate of William
Houston to upper siding, worn and frayed
(1)
£200-300
278 Switzerland. Wyher (Ludwig Pfyffer von), Panorama oder ZirhelAussicht vom Rigi Berg..., published Lucerne, 1820, engraved circular
map with contemporary hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on
linen, an oval vignette view to each corner, map edged in later blue
tape, 530 x 530mm, contemporary marbled card slipcase with
publisher’s labels to verso and recto, rubbed and worn at extremities
279 Tallis (John, publisher). Eighteen maps, circa 1850, eighteen
decorative engraved maps by J.Rapkin, contemporary outline
colouring, occasional slight staining, each approximately 360 x
255mm
The maps consist of :- British Possessions in the Mediterranean, Peru &
Bolivia, Chili and La Plata, British Guayana, Venezuela New Granada Equador
and the Guayanas, Central America, Northern Africa, Natal and Kaffraria,
Western Africa, Egypt and Arabia, Northern India, Independent Tartary, Thibet
Mongolia and Mandchouria, Jamaica, Overland Route to India, Japan & Corea,
Polynesia [and] Islands in the Indian Ocean.
£200-300
(18)
A circular ‘birds-eye’ view of Mount Rigi in central Switzerland. Probably
published to satisfy a demand from a newly emerging tourist and alpinist
market.
£200-300
(1)
69
280 Tallis (John, publisher). Eighteen maps, circa 1850, eighteen
decorative engraved maps by J.Rapkin, contemporary outline
colouring, occasional slight staining, each approximately 360 x
255mm
The maps consist of :- Islands in the Atlantic, East Canada and New
Brunswick, West Canada, Brussels, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, Belgium,
Hungary, Turkey in Asia, Turkey in Europe, Asia Minor, Prussia, Switzerland,
Holland, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Russia in Asia [and] France.
£150-200
(18)
282 Venice. Homann (Johann Baptist, heirs of), Iconografica
Rappresentatione della inclita Citta di Venetia..., circa 1745, engraved
map with contemporary hand colouring, coloured prospect of Venice
below map, 475 x 550mm
(1)
£400-600
283 Wales. Speed (John), Denbigh Shire, 1st edition, published
John Sudbury & George Humble, [1611], uncoloured engraved map,
inset town plan of Denbigh, a few worm holes affecting image,
repaired on verso, narrow margins, 385 x 515mm, English text on
verso, together with, Caermarden Both Shyre and Towne described,
1st edition, published John Sudbury & George Humble, [1611],
uncoloured engraved map, inset town plan of Carmarthen, some
worming to image, repaired on verso, slight staining to base of
central fold, 385 x 505mm, English text on verso, with, The Countie
of Radnor described and the Shyre Townes sittuatione, 1st edition,
published John Sudbury & George Humble, [1611], uncoloured
engraved map, inset town plan of Radnor, some worming to image,
repaired on verso, slight staining at base of central fold, 385 x
510mm, English text on verso
(3)
284 Wales. Speed (John), Montgomery Shire, 1st edition, published
John Sudbury & George Humble, [1611], uncoloured engraved map,
inset town plan of Montgomery, slight worming to image, repaired
on verso, central fold strengthened on verso, vertical margins
trimmed with slight loss, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso,
together with, Denbighshire, published Thomas Bassett & Richard
Chiswell, cira 1676, uncoloured engraved map, inset town plan of
Denbigh, slight creasing, central fold partially split, strengthened on
verso, some staining, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso, with,
Caermarden Both Shyre and Towne described, published Thomas
Bassett & Richard Chiswell, circa 1676, uncoloured engraved map,
inset town plan of Carmarden, some staining, 385 x 510mm, English
text on verso
281 Title pages. A good mixed collection of thirty-four title pages,
mostly 17th & 18th century, engraved title pages, several with hand
colouring,
including
examples
by Visscher,
Ortelius,
Mercator/Hondius, Mercator, Blaeu, Speed, Jansson, Greenvile
Collins, Jaillot, Braun & Hogenberg, Homann, Covens & Mortier,
Schenk & Valk and De Wit, occasional duplicates, various sizes and
condition
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£150-200
£300-500
(3)
70
£150-200
Lot 285
286 West Indies. Homann (Johann Baptist, heirs of), Dominia
Anglorum in Praecipuis Insulis Americae..., circa 1740, five engraved
maps on one sheet (St. Kitts, Antigua, Bermuda, Barbados and
Jamaica), contemporary outline colouring, title repeated in German,
495 x 565mm, together with, Jefferys (Thomas), Jamaica from the
Latest Surveys; Improved and Engraved, published Laurie & Whittle,
1794, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, inset
maps of the Harbour of Bluefields and the Harbours of Kingston &
Port Royal, slight offsetting, 480 x 630mm, with, Mariette (Pierre),
Carte de l’Isle de Sainct Christophle Scituée a 17 Degrez 30 Minutes
de Lat Septentrionale, circa 1650, engraved map by A. Peyrounin,
contemporary outline colouring, slight staining, strengthened on
verso, 315 x 435mm, with one other similar
285 West Indies. Moll (Herman), A Map of the West-Indies or the
Islands of America in the North Sea with ye adjacent Coutries,
explaining what belongs to Spain, England, France, Holland &c. also
ye Trade Winds and ye Several Tracts made by ye Galeons and Flota
from Place to Place, circa 1730, large engraved map on two
conjoined sheets, contemporary hand colouring, inset maps of St.
Augustine, Havana, Cartagena, Porto Bello and Vera Cruz, inset view
of Mexico City, old folds, slight creasing, old folds strengthened on
verso, slight browning to one fold, 590 x 1010mm
(1)
£300-500
(4)
£200-300
287
Worcestershire & Warwickshire. Blaeu (Johannes),
Wigorniensis Comitatus et Comitatus Warwicensis nec non
Coventrae Libertas. Worcester, Warwick Shire and the Liberty of
Coventre, published Amsterdam, circa 1648, engraved map with
contemporary hand colouring, slight spotting, confined to margins,
415 x 500mm, Dutch text on verso
(1)
£80-120
288 Worcestershire. Speed (John), Worcestershire Described,
published Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, circa 1676, hand
coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Worcester, central fold
strengthened on verso, some closed tears with slight loss, skillfully
repaired in facsimile on verso, re-margined, 385 x 515mm, English
text on verso, together with, The Countie of Nottingham described,
The Shire Townes situation and the Earls ther of observed, published
Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, circa 1676, hand coloured
engraved map, torn with loss to lower left corner, repaired on verso,
390 x 520mm, English text on verso
Lot 286
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£70-100
Lot 289
289* World. Seutter (George Matthaus), Diversi Globi Terr-Aquei,
Statione Variante et Visu Intercendente, per Coluros Tropicorum, per
Ambos Polos, et Particul. Sphaerae Zenith in Planum Delineati
Orthographici Propectus, published Augsburg, circa 1730, engraved
hemispheral map with contemporary hand colouring, eight additional
circular projections of the world from different perspectives, all
surrounded by numerous windheads, insular California, one printer’s
fold, 490 x 570mm, mounted, framed and glazed
R.W.Shirley. The Mapping of the World, no.578.
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£600-900
290 Wyld (James). [Untitled Atlas], circa 1830, lacking all titles and
preliminaries, twenty-five (only) engraved maps with contemporary
outline colouring, including twenty double page or folding and two
uncoloured comparison tables, including maps by Hall, Cary, De La
Rochette and Poirson, a few maps trimmed with slight loss to titles,
occasional marginal soiling and creasing, disbound but retaining
spine, folio
Sold as a collection of maps not subject to return. The maps are attributed to
the following cartographers. Wyld:- Eastern Hemisphere, Western
Hemisphere, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Europe, United
Kingdom, England & Wales, Netherlands, France Divided into Provinces,
French Empire, Kingdom of France, Portugal, Germanic Confederate States,
Sweden & Norway, West Coast of Africa, Mexico & Guatemala, South
America part 1 [and] Columbia Prima or South America. Hall:- England &
Wales, Spain & Portugal, China [and] Peru. Poirson:- L’Empire de Russie.
Cary:- China and De La Rochette:- Lower Egypt.
(1)
£200-300
Lot 290
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DECORATIVE PRINTS & ORIGINAL ART
All lots unframed unless otherwise stated
291* America. Galle (Theodore), Americen Americus retexit, Semel
vocauit inde semper excitam, circa 1630, uncoloured engraving after
Johannes Stradanus showing Amerigo Vespucci awakening a
sleeping America, trimmed to neatline with thread margins, laid on
to modern paper, 185 x 270mm, together with, Sadeler (Raphael),
Francia, Hispania, Italia [and] Germania, published Antwerp, circa
1600, four uncoloured allegorical representations of European
countries, each trimmed to neatline and laid on modern paper, each
approximately 220 x 260mm
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£300-500
293* Architectural Details. Revett (Nicholas), A collection of fortyeight engravings, circa 1790, uncoloured engravings of architectural
reliefs and elevations, capitals, statues and plans, all mounted in
good ‘lined’ mounts, various sizes and condition
Originally published in ‘The Antiquities of Athens’ (1762 - 1816).
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294* Basire (James). Inside View of the East End of Merton
College Chapel, [1802], copper engraving by James Basire after
William Turner, trimmed and laid down on later card, image size 320
x 445mm (12.5 x 17.5 ins), sheet size 360 x 482mm (14.2 x 19 ins),
together with Skelton (Joseph), Merton College Chapel from The
Grove, 1820, copper engraving by Joseph Skelton after F. Mackenzie,
image size 320 x 450mm (12.5 x 17.7 ins), sheet size 350 x 465mm
(13.75 x 18.25 ins), plus 3 other topographical engravings, including
a South West View of the new Royal Exchange by Thomas Higham
after G. B. Moore, a copper engraved view of Magdalen Bridge and
Tower with Oxford beyond (toned and trimmed to image)
292*
Amsterdam. Commelin (Caspar), Beschryvinge van
Amsterdam, Zynde een Naukeurige verhandlinge van desselfs
eerste Oorspronck uyt den Hyse der Heeren van Amstel, en
Amstellant, Haar Vergrooting, Rykdom, en Wyze van Regeeringe,
published Amsterdam, 2nd edition, 1691- 93, two title pages printed
in red and black, thirty-eight double page engraved views including
thirteen with hand colouring, several duplicates, disbound, each
Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return.
(40)
£200-300
(5)
£200-300
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£100-150
Lot 295
295* Birche (Henry). Labourers [and] Game Keepers, published
B.B. Evans, 1790, pair of uncoloured mezzotint engravings after
George Stubbs, titles in open letters, trimmed to plate mark on one
margin, laid on later card, slight staining, each approximately 435 x
660mm, framed and glazed
Christopher Lennox-Boyd, Rob Dixon, Tim Clayton. George Stubbs, The
Complete Engraved Works. Nos. 87 & 88 state 2.
£500-800
(2)
296* Botanical Watercolours. A collection of six fine watercolours
of flowers and fruit, Dutch, circa 1720s-30s, together six
watercolours with traces of pencil on laid paper, one with a full-page
drawing, the others with two or more studies to the leaf, including
lilies, roses, tulips, daffodils and narcissi, apples, cherries, irises, and
anemones, one with the addition of a butterfly, another with a fly,
each study and each leaf with numeral in contemporary manuscript,
slightly toned and dusty, with one or two minor marks, sheet size
31 x 19.5cm (12.25 x 7.75ins)
Each with a large coat-of-arms watermark with initials ‘KP’ (similar to
Heawood 415 or Churchill 68).
£700-1000
(6)
297* Botany. Plenck (Joseph Jacob), A collection of nineteen
coloured engravings, published Vienna [1788 - 1803], nineteen hand
coloured engravings, each approximately 440 x 290mm
Originally published in ‘Icones plantarum medicinalium’.
(19)
£200-300
Lot 297
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Lot 296
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298* Bristol. Buck (Samuel & Nathaniel), The North West Prospect
of the City of Bristol [and] The South East Prospect of the City of
Bristol, [1734 or later], pair of uncoloured engraved city panoramas,
slight creasing, repaired closed tears, slight loss, margins trimmed
and extended, each approximately 305 x 790mm
(2)
£150-250
301* Cherrington (K.). Hounds moving off from the Lygon Arms
Broadway, 20th century, watercolour, signed by the artist to lower
left, 38 x 59cms (15 x 23 inches), mounted, framed and glazed
(1)
302* Chester. Buck (Samuel & Nathaniel), The South-West Prospect
of the City of Chester, 1728, uncoloured engraved panorama,
trimmed to plate mark on three margins, one short closed tear just
affecting title, 250 x 700mm, together with, The South-West
Prospect of Manchester in the County Palatine of Lancaster, 1728,
uncoloured engraved panorama, two margins trimmed and
extended, one long repaired closed tear affecting image, 250 x
700mm, with, The North-East Prospect of Lancaster, 1728,
uncoloured engraved panorama, trimmed to plate mark on two
margins, 250 x 700mm
299* Bristol. Kip (Johannes), The City of Bristol, 1717, large
uncoloured prospect of Bristtol, old folds, 550 x 895mm
Originally published in ‘Theatre de la Grand Bretagne’.
(1)
£100-150
£150-250
(3)
£150-250
303* Classical engravings. A mixed collection of twenty-three
engravings, mostly 18th century, engraved plates of deities, statues,
reliefs and portraits, including twenty-two with hand colouring,
various size and condition
(23)
300* Carlisle. Buck (Samuel & Nathaniel), The South-West Prospect
of the City of Carlisle, 1745, uncoloured engraved panorama,
trimmed to plate mark, slight offsetting to title, 310 x 785mm,
together with, The East Prospect of Derby, 1728, uncoloured
engraved panorama, trimmed to plate mark on three margins, one
repaired closed tear affecting image, 250 x 705mm
(2)
£150-200
304* Cormack (Mrs Minnie). Lord Nelson, published Paul &
Dominic Colnaghi & Co., 1894, uncoloured mezzotint on India wove
after John Hoppner, printseller’s blindstamp in margin to lower right,
slight dust soiling and spotting to margins, 690 x 490mm
(1)
£100-150
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£100-150
305* Decimalisation. A collection of artwork, circa 1971, together
sixteen gouache paintings on paper, each a cartoon relating to the
process of decimalisation, e.g. a shopping ledger, a digger shovelling
coins over a cliff, a robber with coins in his hand, a seal balancing
coins on its nose, men’s suits displaying price tickets, petrol pumps
and cash tills, a judge and a barrister with numerical features, each
approximately 25 x 36.5cm (9.75 x 14.5ins), each mounted
(16)
£70-100
Lot 303
306* Descourtilz (Jean Theodore). Psittacus Cyanocaster..., [and]
Falco Sparverius..., [1856], two large lithographs with contemporary
hand colouring, Psittacus Cyanocaster with later pencil annotations
after title, Falco Sparverius with near contemporary printed paper
label laid over old title with later pencil annotations after title,
repaired ‘ring binder’ holes to left hand margin, both laid on later
card, each approximately 540 x 380mm
Originally published in ‘Ornithologie Brésilienne, ou Histoire des Oiseaux du
Brésil’.
£150-200
(2)
Lot 304
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307* Elliot (Daniel Giraud). American Turkey, originally published
in ‘The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North
America’, [1869], lithograph with contemporary hand colouring, after
J.Wolf, trimmed with loss of title, pencil marginalia, old ‘punch holes’
to left hand margin, 510 x 380mm, together with, Levaillant
(Francois), le Jacamar jeune, originally published in ‘Histoire
Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis’, [1799 - 1806], mixed method
engraving after Baraband, contemporary hand colouring, slight
spotting largely confined to margins, old ‘punch holes’ to left hand
margin, 500 x 310mm
(2)
309* Fashion. A collection of forty-five fashion plates, published
Milan, circa 1880, engravings with contemporary hand colouring, a
little dust soiling and spotting, a few prints with old folds, each
approximately 340 x 240mm, with another five engravings with
contemporary hand colouring originally published in ‘La Belle
Assemblée’, each approximately 215 x 115mm, circa 1810
£100-150
(50)
308* Embroidered Pictures. Oval embroidered picture of 17th
century figures, early 19th century, showing an interior scene with a
gentleman seated beside a table, a lady and two young boys
standing beside, and a group of soldiers with pikes in an archway on
the left, worked in silk threads on silk, in long and short stitch, a few
threads coming loose, and with heads, hands, and sky hand-painted,
41 x 49cm (16.25 x 19.25ins), mounted, framed and glazed, with
engraved label on backing paper ‘W. & I. Staveley, Carvers, Gilders
& Frame Makers, Stonegate, York’, together with two other large
embroidered framed pictures similar, one of The Hind of Ceryneia,
and the other of the Adoration of the Magi, latter with verre eglomise
mount, both with contemporary manufacturer’s labels on reverse
£120-180
310* Gloucestershire. Arlington Row, Bibury, & Fairford, by Tom
MacDonald, together two watercolours over pencil, signed and
titled, 34 x 44.5cm (13.5 x 17.5ins) and 34.5 x 52cm (13.5 x 20.5ins)
mount aperture, respectively, both framed and glazed
(2)
Provenance: from the collection of the late Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
£100-150
(3)
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£70-100
311* Gould (John and Richter H.C. & Wolf J.). Phasianus Revesii
[and] Catreus Wallichi, [1850 - 83], two lithographs with
contemporary hand colouring, slight dust soiling and staining, laid
on later card, each approximately 360 x 550mm
Originally published in ‘Birds of Asia’.
(2)
£150-200
313* Gould (John and Hart W.). Pomarea Castaneiventris,
Pomarea Rufocastanea, Myiagra Fulviventris, Rhipidura Hyperythra,
Criniger Chloris, Geocichla Schistacea [and] Pomarea Ugiensis,
originally published in ‘The Birds of New Guinea’ [1875 - 88], seven
lithographs with contemporary hand colouring and heightened with
gum arabic, each with a page of contemporary descriptive text, old
‘punch holes’ to left hand margins, one print with dust soiling and
fraying to right hand margin, not affecting image, each approximately
520 x 320mm
(7)
£200-300
312* Gould (John and Hart W.). Peltops Blainvillii, Monarcha
Korensis, Piezorhynchus Axillaris, Piezorhynchus Medius,
Piezorhynchus Squamulatus, Heteranax Mundus [and] Myiagra
Ferrocyanea, originally published in ‘The Birds of New Guinea’, [1875
- 88], seven lithographs of Flycatchers with contemporary hand
colouring, heightened with gum arabic, six with a contemporary
sheet of descriptive text, each with old ‘punch holes’ to left hand
margin, each approximately 500 x 330mm
(7)
£200-300
314* Gould (John and Hart W.). Halcyon Leucopygia, Psitteuteles
Wilhelminae, Eos Fuscata [and] Nesocentor Milo, originally
published in ‘The Birds of New Guinea’, [1875 - 88], four lithographs
of a Kingfisher, two parrots and a Cuckoo, each heightened with
gum arabic, each with old ‘punch holes’ to one margin, each
(4)
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£200-300
317* Gould (J. & E.). Turtle Dove, Rock Dove, Stock Dove,
American Cuckoo [and] Wood Lark, originally published in ‘The Birds
of Europe’, [1832 - 37], five lithographs with contemporary hand
colouring, old ‘punch holes’ to left hand margin, one print (turtle
dove) with slight overall toning and slight fraying to lower margin,
each approximately 500 x 310mm
(5)
£120-180
315* Gould (J. & E.). Grey Headed Wagtail, Yellow Headed Wagtail,
Grey Wagtail, Red-Throated Pipit, Tree Pipit, Meadow Pipit, Richard’s
Pipit, Tawny Pipit [and] Rock or Shore Pipit, originally published in
‘The Birds of Europe’, [1832 - 37], nine lithographs with
contemporary hand colouring, old ‘punch holes’ to left hand margin,
each approximately 500 x 330mm
(9)
£200-300
318* Gould (J. & E.). Rufous Swallow, Chimney Swallow, Rock
Martin, Martin [and] Swift [on sheet with] White-Bellied Swift,
originally published in ‘The Birds of Europe’, [1832 - 37], five
lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, old ‘punch holes’ to
left hand margin, each approximately 500 x 310mm
(5)
£150-250
319* Gruner (Lewis). A collection of thirty-two lithographs,
originally published in ‘Specimens of Ornamental Art Selected from
the Best Models’, published Thomas McLean, 1850, black & white
title page and thirty-two chromolithographs and monotone
lithographic plates, each with a library blind stamp, slight dust and
finger soiling, each approximately 600 x 480mm
(32)
£70-100
320* Gruner (Ludwig publisher). A collection of approximately
sixty-five lithographs, circa 1850, chromolithographs and lithographs
of architectural reliefs, designs and prospects, some plates with
some spotting, occasional duplicates, each approximately 520 x
440mm
(approx.65)
321* Hampshire. A large collection of 18th & 19th-century prints,
including The Cathedral of Winchester by I. Smith, Exeter, 45 x
57.5cm, two copies of Inside View of Magdalen Chapel, near
Winchester from the West by J. Basire after J. Schnebbelie 1788,
34 x 46.5cm, various smaller prints including approximately 80
framed items, bookplates, 12 x 17cm, including Netley Abbey,
Southampton, Environs Maps of Winchester, Petersfield and
Southampton, Isle of Wight, Hampshire and Wiltshire
316* Gould (J. & E.). Green Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted
Woodpecker, Wry Neck, Three Toed Woodpecker [and] Black and
White Woodpecker, originally published in ‘The Birds of Europe’,
[1832 - 37], five lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, one
print with later pencil marginalia below title, old ‘punch holes’ to left
hand margin, each approximately 500 x 340mm
(5)
£200-300
(approx. 300)
£150-250
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£150-200
322* Havell (Robert). View of the Royal Artillery Barracks
Woolwich, [1816], aquatint after Major Cockburn, contemporary
hand colouring, slight overall toning, thread margins, 340 x 495mm,
mounted, framed and glazed
(1)
£120-180
Lot 324
323* Heraldry. A collection of thirteen heraldry engravings, circa
1700, hand coloured engravings, each approximately 375 x 295mm
(13)
£120-180
324* Hold-To-Light. A mixed collection of approximately thirty
‘hold-to-light’ engravings, mostly 19th century, mezzotints and
engravings of portraits, historical, genre, religous and topographical
scenes, many with excised portions replaced with tissue paper and
colouring to verso, various sizes and condition
(approx.30)
£150-200
325* Italy. Chapuy (Jean-Baptiste), Eruption du Mont Etna de 1766,
published Paris, circa 1770, mezzotint on laid after Alexandre Anna,
contemporary hand colouring, slight creasing, one repaired hole to
image, occasional repaired marginal closed tears, slight spotting and
staining largely confined to margins, 720 x 510mm
(1)
£200-300
Lot 325
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326* Jones (Inigo). Of His Britannick Majesty’s Palace of White
Hall The Charing Cross Side, The Water Side, Of His Britannick
Majesty’d Palace of White Hall The Westminster Side [and] Of His
Britannick Majesty’s Palace of White Hall The Park Side, 1749,
together four large uncoloured engravings by D.M. Muller, ‘The
Charing Cross Side’ with some creasing, the remainder with slight
dust soiling and very occasional spotting and staining, occasional
short closed marginal tears, each approximately 610 x 930mm
(4)
£200-300
328* Lear (Edward). Pteroglossus Bailloni, Pteroglossus Azara
[and] Pteroglossus Maculirostris, originally published in ‘Monograph
of Ramphastidae’, [1833 - 35], lithographs with contemporary hand
colouring, heightened with gum arabic, (two after Edward Lear and
one after J & E Gould), later pencil title added below image, old
‘punch holes’ to left hand margin, each approximately 510 x 320mm
(3)
£400-600
329 London. Leigh (Samuel, publisher), Panorama of the Thames
from London to Richmond, circa 1824, uncoloured aquatint
panorama showing both banks of the River Thames, in two sections
on multiple conjoined sheets, some fraying and dust soiling to
margins, old folds, 210 x 19200mm (approximately), contemporary
cloth boards with gilt title to upper siding, lacking spine, a little worn
at extremities, oblong 8vo
Abbey Life 494.
(1)
327 Kip (Johannes). Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne...,
two volumes bound in one (only), published David Mortier, 1715,
two title pages with armorial device, printed in red & black with
small ink library stamp and slight staining, nine (only) engraved aerial
prospects of houses by Kip after Knyff, five uncoloured folding
engraved plates of St. Pauls and six double page engraved plates of
cathedrals and churches, a folding engraved plate of Charles II in
classical costume and five folding genealogical tables, some with
engraved portraits partially excised, partially disbound, contemporary
mottled calf gilt, rubbed, worn and frayed, folio
(1)
£400-600
330* Mayer (Luigi). A collection of thirty-five engravings, originally
published in ‘Views in Palastine’ and ‘Views in the Ottoman Empire’,
circa 1805, aquatint engravings with contemporary hand colouring,
each approximately 245 x 325mm, mounted
(35)
£400-600
331 Mazois (Francois). Les Ruines de Pompei dessinées et
mesurées par F. Mazois pendant les années MDCCCIX, MDCCCX,
MDCCCXI, first & second parts only (of four only), Paris, 1812-[1815],
half-title, fine engraved title by G.B. Cipriani after Mazois, engraved
head- and tail-pieces, 70 copper engraved plates, including title to
second part by Cipriani, Ruga, Balzar, Parboni, etc., occasional light
spotting and offsetting, minor dampstain to extreme lower margins,
contemporary green half morocco gilt, rubbed and some marks,
large folio
£200-300
RIBA 2092 ‘the first publication to discuss the archaeological remains of the
site in full neo-classical detail’. The whole work was published in four parts
between 1812 and 1815, with a total of 201 plates.
£150-200
(1)
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335* Military Portraits. Hunt (C.), A collection of ten watercolours
of senior staff officers, 1918, watercolour caricatures, signed and
dated by artist to lower right, each approximately 320 x 220mm,
mounted, together with ‘Sidelights by Sacré’, published Constable
& Co. Ltd., circa 1918, sixteen (complete) colour lithographic
caricatures of senior staff officers tipped on to contemporary paper,
each approximately 300 x 200mm, retaining upper paper wrapper,
worn, torn and frayed
The watercolours are copies of the lithographs.
(26)
£100-150
332* McMurtry (Stanley, ‘Mac’, 1936-). “I hear Saddam Hussein
is being allowed to sell his oil again...” pen & ink, with blue
watercolour wash, on artist’s board, showing Red Adair oil fire
fighters in Kuwait, captioned in pencil to lower margin below image,
sheet size 38 x 56.5cm (15 x 22.25ins), framed and glazed
(1)
£100-200
336*
Miller (William, pub.). A collection of twenty-nine
engravings, originally published in ‘The Costume of China’, circa
1800, twenty-nine aquatints by J.Dadley, with contemporary hand
colouring, each approximately 320 x 230mm, mounted with
contemporary descriptive text to verso of mount
(29)
£200-300
333* Mezzotint drolls. Spring Summer [and] Autumn Winter,
published P.Barnaschina, 1799, pair of allegorical mezzotints with
contemporary hand colouring, trimmed to image, each
approximately 245 x 345mm, mounted, framed and glazed
(2)
£100-150
334* Mezzotint portraits. A collection of ten engravings, mostly
18th century, including, Daws (P.), The Letter Woman, published
Robt. Sayer, circa 1780, uncoloured mezzotint after H.Morland, 350
x 250mm, framed and glazed, together with, Smith (John), Mr
Grinlin Gibbons, circa 1780, uncoloured mezzotint after G.Kneller,
trimmed to plate mark, slight spotting, laid on later card, 345 x
260mm, framed and glazed, with, Faber (John), Charles Newby
Esq., 1744, uncoloured mezzotint after Charles Philips, laid on later
card, 350 x 250mm, framed and glazed, plus, Williams (R.), Mr
Grevil Verney, circa 1790, uncoloured mezzotint after M.Dahall, laid
on later card, 345 x 250mm, framed and glazed, and, Bleeck (Pieter
van),Rembrant Van Ryn, 1747, uncoloured mezzotint after
Rembrandt Van Ryn, trimmed to image, 345 x 245mm, framed and
glazed, with another five similar, all framed and glazed, various sizes
and condition
(10)
337* Natural history. A mixed collection of approximately 180
prints and engravings, mostly 18th & 19th century, including
engravings and cromolithographs of shells, moths & butterflies,
birds, insects and beetles, fruit and geological specimens, with
examples by Lizars, Benard, Severeyns and Lauche, various sizes
and condition
£200-300
(approx.180)
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£200-300
342* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approximately 180
prints and engravings, mostly 18th & 19th century, engravings and
lithographs of heraldry, chandeliers, sporting, allegorical, portraits,
religion and French decorative prints, various sizes and condition
(approx.180)
£150-200
338* Peterborough. Buck (Samuel & Nathaniel), The South West
Prospect of the City of Peterborough in Northampton, 1731,
uncoloured engraved panorama, central fold partially split,
strengthened on verso, 295 x 790mm
(1)
£100-150
343* Prints & engravings. Seven engravings, 19th century, seven
large scale engravings, lithographs and gravures, including marine,
historical, genre and sporting scenes, with examples by Duncan,
Thielley and Harris, various sizes an condition
(7)
£100-150
344* Prints & ephemera. A mixed collection of prints and epehmera,
18th - 20th century, including mezzotint and stipple engraved portraits,
large engravings of churches and cathedrals by J.Kip and J.Harris with
other topographical engravings, menus, Acts of Parliament and
facsimile atlases and maps, various sizes and condition
(approx.80)
345* Prints & maps. A mixed collection of approximately sixty
maps, prints and engravings, mostly 19th century, including maps
by Mallet, title pages and portraits of cartographers, caricatures by
Sayer, Gillray, Hunt and Paul Pry, topographical etchings from the
‘Picturesque Old Bristol’ series, portraits, foreign topographical
views, ‘Hogarth’ and ephemera, including a collection of caricatures,
menus and drawings all relating to The Press Club, plus volume 2
(only) of Sir C. Wyville Thomson’s ‘Report on the Scientific Results
of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger’, 1881, containing thirty
lithographic plates with contemporary hand colouring of birds
339* Portraits. A mixed collection of approximately 150 engravings,
mostly 18th & 19th century, mezzotints, stipple and line engravings
including eighty engravings from Edmund Lodge’s ‘Portraits of
Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII’, together with
examples by Turner, Dunkarten, Bill, Cooper, Earlom, Lombart and
Hollar, various sizes and condition
(approx.150)
£200-300
340* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approximately
sixty prints and engravings, 18th - 20th century, including mezzotint
portraits, marine, classical, topography, ‘Hogarth’ and genre scenes,
(approx.60)
(approx.60)
£200-300
346* Prints & Watercolours. A mixed collection of approximately fifty
prints, engravings and watercolours, mostly 19th and early 20th
century, prints, engravings, watercolours, pencil drawings and
paintings, including portraits, genre, natural history, topographical views,
fashion and classical, various sizes and condition, all framed and glazed
£80-120
341* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approximately 500
prints and engravings, mostly 18th - 20th century, including
approximately forty-five mezzotint portraits by J.R. Smith, several
duplicates, various sizes and condition, together with etchings,
lithographs and engravings of British & foreign topographical views,
portraits, genre, marine, classical, historical scenes and a small
collection of pith paintings, including examples by Paton, Atkinson,
Radclyffe, Hogarth and Redman, various sizes and conditon
From the collection of the late Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
(approx.500)
£70-100
(approx.50)
£200-300
347* Prints. A mixed collection of approximately 375 prints and
engravings, mostly late 19th & early 20th century, colour prints,
originally published in The Graphic, The Illustrated London News,
L’Illustration, Pen & Pencil and others similar, including many
‘Christmas Numbers’, some duplicates, mostly full page, various
condition
(approx.375)
£300-500
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£200-300
Lot 349
349* Richmond. Buck (Samuel & Nathaniel), The North East
Prospect of Richmond in the County of York [and] The South West
Prospect of Richmond in the County of York [1774], pair of
uncoloured engraved panoramas, each approximately 315 x 810mm
(2)
£200-300
350* Roberts (David). A mixed collection of prints, maps and title
pages, circa 1845, one tinted lithograph of ‘Cape Blanco’, slight
spotting, 390 x 520mm, with one other similar, together with
twenty-seven ‘half page’ lithographs with text below and on verso
of image, each approximately 310 x 370mm, occasional duplicates,
with seven decorative lithographic title pages and five uncoloured
engraved maps, some duplicates, each approximately 560 x
400mm, various condition
(approximately 30)
£200-300
Lot 348
348* Railways. Duncan (Edward), View of the London and Croydon
Railway. From the Deep Cutting made through the Hill at New Cross,
Looking Towards the Greenwich Railway, published Day & Haghe,
1838, lithograph with contemporary hand colouring, slight dust
soiling, some creasing, occasional marginal closed tears, slight
mount staining, laid on later paper, 330 x 500mm, together with,
Papprill (Henry), This view of the Successful Attack of Her
Majesty’s combined Forces under Vice Admiral Sir WIlliam Parker
G.C.B. and Lieut.t General Sir Hugh Gough G.C.B. upon the Heights
of Chusan on the 1st October 1841..., published Ackermann & Co.,
1843, hand coloured aquatint after W.Joy, some marginal closed
tears, some dust soiling, creasing and slight abrasion to margins,
330 x 580mm, with, Needham (Joseph), H.M.S.Driver and Yachts
Gondola and Esmeralda off Cronstadt June 27th 1854, published
Day & Son, 1854, hand coloured lithograph after O.W. Brierly, some
marginal closed tears, some creasing and repaired closed tears
affecting image, slight staining, laid on later paper, 435 x 600mm,
plus, Robertson (J.), Sidney Carton, Mrs Gamp, Little Dorrit, Alfred
Jingle [and] Bill Sikes, circa 1890, five uncoloured lithographs after
F.Barnard of characters from the novels of Charles Dickens, some
staining and spotting, one image laid on later card, one image
mounted, each approximately 570 x 400mm
(8)
351* Roberts (David). Descent upon the Valley of the Jordan and
Ras-al Abiad Coast of Syria, circa 1849, two hand coloured lithographs,
each approximately 340 x 495mm, mounted, together with, Vue de
Naplouse [and] Jerusalem vu de la Montagne des Oliviers, circa 1845,
two hand coloured lithographs from a French edition of David
Roberts’s views, each approximately 295 x 420mm, mounted
(4)
£150-250
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£120-180
353* Rome. A collection of approximately sixty-five engravings,
18th & 19th century, uncoloured engravings of coins, busts,
topographical scenes and ruins, statues and antiquities, with
examples by Muller, Mugeot, Barbault, Montagu and Lacour, various
sizes and condition, mounted
(approx.65)
£200-300
354* Rossi (Matteo Gregorio, active circa 1668-circa 1696).
Disegno delle Tre Principala Colonne Antiche che si vedono in Roma
cioe Traiana Antonina e Liberiana o di S. Maria Maggiore,
nuovamente date in luce dalle Stampe di Matteo Gregorio Rossi
Romano in Piazzo all’insegna della Stampa di Rame l’Anno 1689,
copper engraving on paper, trimmed to margins, mounted
(1)
£70-100
352* Roberts (David). Chapel of the Annunciation Nazareth, [1842
- 49], lithograph with contemporary hand colouring, tipped on to
contemporary card (as published), very slight spotting, image size
350 x 505mm, together with, Interior of the Greek Church of the
Holy Sepulchre, 1842 - 49], lithograph with title in gilt below image,
slight spotting to margins, 330 x 490mm, with, Fountain of Job...,
[and] Shrine of the Nativity, [1842 - 49], two hand coloured ‘half
plate’ lithographs, Fountain of Job laid on later card, image size 250
x 335mm, Shrine of the Nativity with text below and on verso,
image size 245 x 340mm, with one other similar
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£120-180
355* Sampler. A linen sampler, by Elizabeth Coumbs, 1847, crossstitch sampler, with trees, butterflies, and flowering bushes, worked
in wool, in shades of pink, green, and yellow, with a verse above
worked in black cotton ‘A Patient Wife a Tender Mother Deer/A
Faithful Friend Lies Buried Here/In Love She Lived In Peace She
Died/Her Life Was Craved But God Denied/Then Cease Deer Friends
And Weep No/More She Is Not Lost But Gone Before’, and worked
below in black cotton ‘Elizabeth Coumbs Her Work November 3
1847’, 43 x 43cm (17 x 17ins), contemporary rosewood frame,
glazed, together with a pair of late 18th century pinprick and
watercolour pictures, one showing a boy crossing a bridge to go
fishing, the other showing a young maiden fishing, toned, each 21.5
x 17cm (8.5 x 6.75ins), matching frames, glazed
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£70-100
356* Scissor Cut Pictures. A collection of six framed scissor cut
pictures, possibly mid to late 19th century, six black paper
silhouettes, showing various scenes, including a child holding a
jumping jack toy, a dancing master instructing a small girl, a small
child with an umbrella, and two figures cooking over a camp fire,
8.5 x 12cm (3.5 x 4.75ins) and smaller, all in ebonised frames, some
oval or circular, glazed, one with biro inscription on the verso ‘cut
out from 1830 album’
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£150-200
358* Snaffles (pseud. Charles Johnson Payne.). “Ubique Means - “,
published circa 1941, colour photolithograph, snaffle bit blind stamp
to lower right, signed by artist in pencil to lower left, overall size 400
x 375mm, framed and glazed
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£150-250
359* Snow White. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, circa 1910,
large hand-coloured lithograph, showing Snow White at the stable
door of the dwarfs’ cottage, waving a handkerchief as they shoulder
pick axes and take their leave through the forest, a little creased in
places, 58 x 48cm (23 x 19ins), framed and glazed
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360* Stevengraphs. A mixed collection of sixteen embroidered
silk Stevengraphs, late 19th century, including two book marks, five
portraits consisting of Gladstone, Fred Archer, Vice-Admiral Lord
Charles Beresford, General Sir Redevers Buller and General Roberts,
with two martial scenes, one showing the meeting between
Wellington and Blucher after Waterloo and The Death of Lord Nelson,
two horse racing scenes and two fox hunting scenes and one of a
horse drawn fire engine, all framed and glazed, together with
another two unframed portraits of H.M.King Edward VII and
H.M.Queen Alexandra, mounted but unframed, some examples
with original captioned mounts removed, remounted and with titles
added in manuscript, various condition
357* Snaffles (pseud. Charles Johnson Payne.). ‘West of Gib and
North Across the Bay’. “Blimey! What a life!”, circa 1940, colour
photolithograph, uncoloured remarque of a destroyer to lower right,
signed by artist in pencil, with snaffle bit blindstamp to lower left,
overall size 490 x 690mm, framed and glazed
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£70-100
£200-300
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£100-150
361* Turkish Costume. A collection of four original watercolours
of Turkish figures, mid 19th century, watercolour on paper, showing
janissary officers, soldiers and court officials, some toning to paper,
21 x 11cm (8 x 4.5ins) and similar, each framed and glazed
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£150-200
362* Turkish Costume. Marchand Arabe, Marchand Caramaniens,
Emaum, Predicateur Arabe & Le Bostangi-Bachi, Intendant des
Jardins du Grand Seigneur [from Recueil des differents costumes
des principaux Officiers et Magistrats de la Porte; et des peuples
sujets de l’Empire othoman..., Paris, Onfroy, 1775], 4 hand-coloured
engraved plates of costume on laid paper, in watercolour and
gouache, 30.5 x 19cm (12 x 7.5 ins) mount aperture, modern gilt
frames, glazed
See Blackmer 1399 and Colas 2501.
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£150-200
Lot 361
363* Van Spaendonck (Gerard). Rose a cent Feuilles [and] Digitale
pourprée, circa 1800, two uncoloured stipple engravings by Le
Grand, some repaired marginal closed tears, some dust soiling and
staining, each approximately 505 x 385mm, together with,
Thornton (Dr. publisher), The Egg Plant, 1803, uncoloured stipple
engraving by Warner, slight water staining, dust soiling and slight
creasing, 450 x 315mm
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Lot 362
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£300-500
364* Vue d’Optiques. A collection of twenty-three views in France,
mostly late 18th century, engraved views with contemporary hand
colouring, including scenes in Paris, Versailles, Bordeaux and
Marseille, various sizes and condition, mounted
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367* Vue d’Optiques. A mixed collection of eighteen engravings,
late 18th century, engraved topographical views, military and naval
battles, all with contemporary hand colouring, each approximately
305 x 410mm, mounted
£300-500
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£200-300
365* Vue d’Optiques. A collection of five views of Tripoli,
Barcelona, Vincennes, Jerusalem and Marseille, published Paris,
circa 1780, five large engraved vue d’optiques with contemporary
hand colouring, each approximately 345 x 515mm, mounted
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£150-250
368* Vue d’Optiques. A mixed collection of seventeen engravings,
late 18th century, engravings with contemporary hand colouring of
buildings and cities, including Rome, Hamburg, Seville, Genoa and
Verseilles, each approximately 205 x 300mm, mounted
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369* Watercolours & Drawings. A collection of approximately
forty original drawings and watercolours, 19th and 20th century,
including portraits, costume studies, landscapes, caricatures and
cartoons, figure and animal studies, etc., some signed/dated, e.g. a
pen & ink caricature of a boy smoking a cigar, signed A. Alexander,
1934, a watercolour of The Old Mill - Rye, by W.H. Longhurst, 1939,
a gouache painting of a British mounted Hussar officer, a
watercolour of the Pier at Aberystwyth dated 1871 and indistinctly
initialled, mostly small-scale (sheet size 36.5 x 25.5cm/14.25 x 10ins,
and smaller), some mounted, and one framed, together with one or
two prints
366* Vue d’Optiques. A mixed collection of fifteen views, late 18th
century, engraved views and propsects with contemporary hand
colouring, including scenes in London, Rome, Leiden, Turin, Venice,
Vienna, Madrid, Hamburg and Constantinople, each approximately
310 x 400mm, various condition, mounted
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£150-250
(approx. 40)
£200-300
90
£150-200
371*
Wolf (Joseph & Smit J.). Euplocamus Pyronotus,
Euplocamus Erythropthalmus, meleagris Gallopavo, Meleagris
Mexicana, Numida Mitrata [and] Numida Coronata, originally
published in Daniel Giraud Elliot’s ‘Monograph of the Phasianidae’,
[1870 - 72], six lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, one
margin on each print with old ‘ring binder’ holes, each approximately
550 x 420mm
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£300-500
370* Whessell (John). Fisherman Going out [and] Fisherman’s
Return, circa 1806, pair of coloured stipple engravings after Serres,
each with later verre eglomisé glass with the titles in gilt, slight
creasing, image size 450 x 555mm, framed and glazed
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£150-200
372* Folio Stand. A well-made Brazilian mahogany folio stand, the
X-frame construction with brass plates and chain, cabinet makers
stamp and dated 1985, 106cm high x 85cm wide
A specially commissioned piece crafted by S.R. Smallwood of Bath for Louise
Ross & Co, August 1985.
£200-300
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Lot 371
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PERIODICALS
Lot 375
373 Illustrated London News. A broken run, 14 volumes, 1886 91 and 1893, numerous black & white and colour plates, including
some folding, a few pages excised, uniform half morocco gilt,
rubbed and worn at extremities, 1 volume with rear board near
detached and lacking marbled paper, folio
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375 Vanity Fair. A Weekly Show of Political, Social and Literary
Wares, 6 volumes, 1881 - 83, 161 chromolithograph caricatues by
‘Spy’, ‘T’, ‘Chartran’ and others, bound with text, including politicians,
artists, military and naval, lawyers, clergmen, royalty, jockeys
(including Fred Archer and George Fordham), cricketers (Lord Harris),
fox hunters, musicians, ladies and doctors, occasional slight dust
soiling, occasional creasing, later cloth gilt, a little worn and rubbed,
two volumes with damp affecting the fore-edge of the sidings, folio
£500-800
374 The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, thirty-five
volumes, a run, 1875 - 92, numerous wood engravings including
numerous folding and double page with several ‘special issues’ and
Christmas supplements printed in colour, includes the 1878 volume
on Cyprus and the 1879 volumes on the Zulu wars, with the folding
panorama of Cairo (1882) but appears to lack other panoramas,
uniform contemporary quarter red morocco gilt, a little worn at
extremities, folio
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£800-1200
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£300-500
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, AUTOGRAPHS & EPHEMERA
377* Babbage (Charles, 1792-1871). Autograph letter signed, ‘C.
Babbage’, Dorset Street, Manchester Square, 24 July 1854, to
Grove, ‘I suppose my letter refers to an enclosure of an extract from
F. Baily’s Life of Flamsteed in which I decyphered a short hand letter
of Abraham Sharp’s. I sent you a copy in case it should be wanted
to prove that short hand also might be decyphered. I suppose your
clerk sent the extr. to Thessiger’, 1 page with integral blank, some
toning to first page and dust-soiling to final page, 8vo
Francis Baily and others had failed to decipher the shorthand of Flamsteed’s
correspondent Abraham Sharp. Baily then turned to Charles Babbage for help,
and eventually Babbage succeeded in decoding Sharp’s text. This was
published in Baily’s ‘Account of the Revd John Flamsteed, the first
Astronomer-Royal’, 1835, page 348. Grove is presumably William Robert
Grove (1811-1896, Welsh judge and physical scientist).
£300-500
(1)
376 Album. A mid 19th century album of calligraphy and
watercolours, approximately 100pp., rectos and some versos with
verses in a neat calligraphic hand, many relating to ‘Flowers and
Heraldry’, embellished with pen, ink, and watercolour armorials
(including two double-page spreads), floral decorations, and borders,
also including Biblical verses, ‘Negro Song’, an acrostic, etc., plus
three mounted watercolours of Lake Constance, ten mounted oval
pencil and watercolour illustrations, four of the Seasons, and the
others of wildlife, with verse or caption on verso, and four mounted
watercolours of British views, two showing bathing machines, all
edges gilt, original gilt decorated burgundy morocco, rubbed and
scuffed, spine faded, small 4to
An attractive album by an accomplished hand.
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£150-200
378* British Lobby Cards. A collection of approximately 170 sets
and part-sets of British lobby cards, circa 1940s/1980s, film titles
include Don’t Look Now, The Man who Haunted Himself, Extreme
Prejudice, Year of the Dragon, Fletch, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Aliens,
The Woman in Red, The Sentinel, 48 Hrs., Death Wish 3, The
Professionals, The Honorary Consul, The Mosquito Coast, 3 on a
Couch, Tightrope, The Young and the Guilty, War Arrow, etc., all with
Derek and Pat East Collection ink stamps to versos, bagged by film
(a carton)
£200-300
379* Broadsheets and Chapbooks. A group of 13 printed
broadsheets, adverts, etc. relating to Alnwick, 1797-1888, including a
broadsheet with printed date heading 24th May 1797, concerning a
hand-bill reflecting on the character and conduct of his Grace the Duke
of Northumberland, 22 x 18.5cm, a little spotted and soiled, creased
where folded, plus a broadsheet with printed heading ‘Dialogue of
the living between Molach Graspall, Esq; and John Holdfast, Yeoman’,
circa 1790, 26 x 20.5cm, a third broadsheet relating to a Register Bill
and signed ‘A Northumbrian’, 37.5 x 25cm, slightly torn to right margin
and some browning at edges, the others mostly relating to Alnwick
Library and W. Davison, an Alnwick bookseller, mostly single sheets,
various sizes, together with 2 theatre broadsides for Theatre Royal,
Haymarket, 1790, both somewhat spotted, a broadside poem ‘The
Poor Tradesmen’s Hymn’, printed by T. & W. Plant, Nottingham and 3
19th-century chapbooks and 1 unrelated
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Lot 377
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£150-200
Lot 384
380* Cheshire - Assignment of a Pew. Assignment ‘For making
the Chapelry of Nether Knutsford, in the Parish of Rosthern and
County of Chester, a separate and distinct Parish’, to Joseph Royle
of Over Knutsford, shoemaker, of a Pew in the Church of Nether
Knutsford numbered 31, 7 August 1744, printed deed on vellum with
a decorated initial W, manuscript insertions, signed by 8 of the
commissioners, with seals, endorsements on dorse include receipt
for the three pounds specified in the deed to be paid by Royle, a
little spotting and dust-soiling, 38 x 34cm
381 Churchill Toby Jug. The original manuscript subscribers’ book
for the Churchill Toby Jug [by Leonard Jarvis, circa 1947], neatly
drawn cells for autographs, numbered to 260 on 9 thick paper
leaves, many of the boxes with pencil name of subscriber written in
a clerical hand, and 50 of these with autograph of the subscriber,
including Mackintosh of Halifax, Electra W. Bostwick, H.A. Pitkin,
Nicholas Layzen, Frank Partridge, W.W. Listor, Lt. Cdr. D. Wallace
Jones, boxes for Winston Churchill (1) and Mrs Churchill (21)
unsigned, additional autograph boxes for King George V, Queen
Mary and HRH The Duke of Windsor left unnumbered and blank to
front free endpaper, original stiff wrappers with gilt marker, upper
cover illuminated in gilt, red, blue and black, slim 4to, 3 black and
white photo reproductions of the jug loosely inserted
Being specifically related to one parish there are unlikely to have been a large
number of these deeds issued. The conditions include no burial under the
pew, no alteration in height or uniformity of the wainscot, etc.
(1)
£150-200
Leonard Jarvis was commissioned by Lord Mackintosh of Halifax in 1947, and
a limited edition of 350 Toby jugs was produced.
(1)
£100-150
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principle than that of our being party to the revolt... ', giving details
of the trial, the disclosure of Mr Smith's journal to everyone in court,
etc., 'The causes of the revolt are, I think too plain to be
misunderstood. The slaves were most greviously oppressed, but it
was the opposition they met with on account of their religion, that
was to them the most vexatious... ', some tears to fore-margin in
following section with loss of words at end of lines, telling that her
husband is innocent of every charge and hoping for assistance,
telling that a letter of instruction has also been sent to Mr Dance
with Mr Elliot on the brig Oscar which left on 22nd December, finally
asking that a reply should not be addressed to her but sent 'under
cover to William Arrindell', [a barrister in Georgetown who assisted
in John Smith’s defence at his trial], a total of some 1800 words, 3
pages with integral address panel (some damage with loss as
previously noted), 'Ship letter Plymouth' stamp and indistinct circular
stamp 'G 5 Fe[b] 1824', heavily browned, folio
382* Cranfield (Lionel, 1575-1645, 1st Earl of Middlesex). A grant
by the Court of Wards and Liveries, on behalf of King James I, to Sir
George Keyre (or Keere) of the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields,
Middlesex, dated 25 January 1622, for 40 shillings, of lands of
William Greene, Esquire, deceased, in the County of Essex, Moiety
of the Manor of Great Samford, Manor of Little Samford and
Avowson of Church of Little Samford, tenaments called Fowlkes and
Dykes &c, Manor of Bleyes alias Bloys, Manor of Grossalls &c, being
in the King’s hands by the minority of Edward Greene, cousin and
next heir of William Greene, to Keere during the minority of the heir,
paying the Receiver General of the Court of Wards 0 annually, and 2
shillings yearly paid for the Auditor’s clerk engrossing the accounts,
Keere also obsverving conditions laid down in detail re repairs,
keeping courts of manors, etc., subscribed ‘L Cranfeild’, note of
examination by ‘Hu:Audeley’, seal of court of wards now missing,
endorsed with note of enrollment before the auditor of the court,
easter term, 1622, subscribed by John Tooke and Francis Curll,
auditors, some dust-soiling not affecting legibility, 34 x 60cm, seal
tag appended with a wax seal missing
An important and substantial letter giving first-hand evidence concerning the
arrest and trial of missionary John Smith (1792?-1824).
The Demerara rebellion of 18 August 1823 was an uprising involving more
than10,000 slaves that took place in the Crown colony of DemeraraEssequibo (now part of Guyana). In part the slaves were reacting to poor
treatment and a desire for freedom; in addition, there was a widespread,
mistaken belief that Parliament had passed a law for emancipation, but it was
being withheld by the colonial rulers. Instigated chiefly by Jack Gladstone, a
slave at 'Success' plantation, the two-day rebellion also involved his father,
Quamina, and other senior members of their church group. Its English pastor,
John Smith, was implicated.
The largely non-violent rebellion was brutally crushed by the colonists under
governor John Murray. They killed many slaves with estimates of the toll from
fighting ranging from 100 to 250. After the insurrection was put down, the
government sentenced another 45 men to death, and 27 were executed. The
executed slaves' bodies were displayed in public for months afterwards as a
deterrent to others.
John Smith was arraigned in court-martial before Lt. Col. Goodman on 13
October, charged with four offences: 'promoting discontent and
dissatisfaction in the minds of the Negro Slaves towards their Lawful
Masters, Overseers and Managers, inciting rebellion; advising, consulting
and corresponding with Quamina, and further aiding and abetting Quamina
in the revolt; failure to make known the planned rebellion to the proper
authorities; did not use his best endeavours to suppress, detain and restrain
Quamina once the rebellion was under way.'
Smith's trial concluded one month later when he was found guilty of the
principal charges, and was given the death sentence. Pending an appeal,
Smith was transferred from Colony House to prison, where he died of
'consumption' in the early hours of 6 February 1824 (one day after this letter
was postmarked on arrival at Plymouth). To minimise the risk of stirring up
slave sentiment, the colonists interred him at 4 am. The Royal reprieve arrived
on 30 March. News of Smith's death was published in British newspapers
and provoked enormous outrage. The case garnered 200 petitions to
Parliament and galvanised the abolitionist movement in Britain.
See also Emilia Viotti da Costa, ‘Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The
Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823’ (OUP, 1994), especially chapter 4 “A True
Lover of Man”.
£500-800
(1)
Lionel Cranfield (1575-1645), Knight 1613, Baron Cranfield 1621, Earl of
Middlesex 1622. Cranfield signs this deed as Master of the Court of Wards,
which office he held 1619-1624; he was Lord Treasurer 1621-24 and held
many other public offices, until impeached for corruption in 1624, having fallen
out with Buckingham. A good signature of an important public figure.
£200-250
(1)
383* Deeds & Documents. A collection of solicitors’ deeds and
documents, 18th and 19th century, including approximately 40
folding vellum deeds including mortgages and assignments, etc.,
plus letters, etc., many relating to properties and families in
Lancashire
(a carton)
£150-200
384* Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823. A long and important
letter from Jane Smith, wife of the missionary John Smith,
Demerara, [late] December 1823, to Peter Jackson [publisher] at Mr
Fisher's Booksellers, 38 Newgate Street, London, giving a full
account of the circumstances that led to their current 'present
distressing situation', and hoping for his assistance, beginning with
some details of the events as seen by them on 18th August when
'the slaves in the district in which our chapel is situated, broke out
in open rebellion. The revolt was general, and extended along a
thickly inhabited coast about eighteen, or, twenty miles. With
respect to the proceedings of the revolted negroes I know but little,
having been myself a prisoner in close confinement for thirteen, or
fourteen weeks. Thus much however is certain, that their object was
not blood nor devastation. While the negroes belonging to the
plantation on which we resided were in the act of rising Mr Smith
was among them persuading them to desist from their wicked
purpose. They brandishing their cutlasses in his face told him to go
home for they were not going to hurt anyone. Seeing me much
alarmed they begged of us not to be frightened, that they wanted
nothing but the guns and their rights. I enquired why they wanted
the guns. They said to keep their manager from shooting them. The
guns soon obtained, and after discharging their contents into the air,
they withdrew, leaving the estate uninjured and quiet... ', continuing
to give details of Mr Smith's arrest a few days later for 'aiding and
assisting the rebels', the arresting officer acting on behalf of Captain
McTurk, telling how they were forcibly taken away 'under a
pretence, first that Mr S had disobeyed the orders of Captain
McTurk in refusing to enrol himself in the militia; and then directly
afterwards another pretence was alleged, namely, that our
remaining in our house could not be accounted for any other
385* Doyle (Arthur Conan, 1859-1930). Autograph note signed ‘A.
Conan Doyle’, envelope postmarked Davos-Platz, Switzerland, 13
January 1894, to Hugh Verner Dobson, a three-line note on lined
paper with integral blank, ‘My sister and I hope to come along in the
morning after all and have a shot with the ski. Don’t wait for us’, a
little spotted and marked with minor creasing, 8vo, envelope cover
only with old album leaf backing, together with autograph letters
signed from Hallam Tennyson, R. Chenevix Trench, Coventry
Patmore, F.D. Maurice, Alfred Austin (x2), plus cut signatures of
Rudyard Kipling (signed sentiment), R.D. Blackmore, H.A.
Macdonald, Mary Braddon and Mrs Humphrey Ward
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£150-200
387 German Poetry. Gedichte [and] Erinnerungen von Friedrich
Althaus [1829-1897], 2 manuscript volumes, both largely in Althaus’s
hand, the first volume of original poetry, including poems originally
written between 1846 and 1864 and written up later, mostly to rectos
only of approximately 70 leaves, and including some poems written
up in a neater unidentified hand and one published poem from 1848
tipped in with tape, the volume of memoirs of his life written up circa
1895 in London and also including a life of his father [Friedrich
Althaus, general superintendent of Lippe-Detmold] and also his work
on the portrait collection at Buckingham Palace between 1856 and
1864, approximately 130 pages written in a small and very difficult
hand, typed contents leaf at front, plus a third typescript volume of
Friedrich Althaus’s poetry compiled the year after his death in 1898,
title, contents, index and 80 leaves of text, neatly typed to rectos
only, a few minor manuscript corrections, all top edge gilt, uniform
contemporary half morocco, all with some wear and cracked on
joints, final volume with covers detached and spine deficient, 4to
Friedrich Althaus was a German writer and historian who moved to London
after finished his doctoral thesis in History at the University of Berlin in 1852.
He taught German at Woolwich Academy, later taking up the post of
Professor of German at University College, London, in 1874, a post he held
until his death in 1897. His publications include ‘Englische Charakterbilder’
(1869), ‘On the Personal Relations between Goethe and Byron’ (1888) and
‘Erinnerungen an Thomas Carlyle’ (1881), an account of the writing of
biography and of the meetings between the two men.
£200-300
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386* Film Stills and British Lobby Cards. A large collection of
approximately 5,000 items, circa 1950s/1980s, largely organised into
folders by actor’s name, including Ernest Borgnine, Tim Robbins,
Cliff Robertson, Rachel Roberts, Debbie Reynolds, Hannah Neagle,
Ralph Richardson, Kenneth More, Edward G. Robinson, Susan St.
James, Winona Ryder, Theresa Russell, Alan Arkin, Peter Baldwin,
Robert Shaw, Ellen Burstyn, Raymond Burr, Susan Sarandon, Maria
Schneider, Paul Schofield, Greta Scacchi, Burt Reynolds, etc., some
colour but mostly black and white, many with credit captions and
occasional markings to verso, but including many modern copy
prints, all with ink stamp of Derek and Pat East Collection to versos,
approximately 25 x 20cm and similar
(approx. 5000)
£200-300
388* Gielgud (John, 1904-2000). Autograph letter signed, Midland
Hotel, Birmingham, 19 May 1942, to Mrs Ffolkes, thanking her for
writing with news of her son David [David Ffolkes, 1912-1966, set
designer; Japanese prisoner of war in Burma, building a railway], ‘I
cannot tell you how greatly I admire his courage and enthusiasm,
and how enormously I was struck by the way he seems to mature
and strengthen through the work he was doing with so much excess.
He is one of the very few friends I knew who really seems to have
made the very best of the war... ‘, 1 page on printed letterhead, 8vo,
together with a second letter from Gielgud to David Ffolkes, 16
Cowley Street, 14 October 1945, telling how delighted he was to get
his cable and letters but that he will miss his return, talking of friends
and colleagues and David’s mother, and looking forward to seeing
him again to ‘have a real good gossip’, with a postscript ‘One can’t
say what one feels about the time you have had and your deliverance
from it - but you can imagine I feel a little of what it must have been
like and what it must have meant to have survived it’, signed ‘John’,
1 page, oblong 4to, together with an autograph letter signed from
the actress Fanny Campbell, 1841, signed ‘Fanny Butler’, 1 page,
8vo, an autograph letter in the third person from her husband Charles
Campbell, 1829, presenting his compliments to Miss Cottin, 1 page,
4to, an autograph letter signed from Eugen Sandow [music hall
strongman], plus sundry theatrical autographs of Charles Wyndham,
Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Paul Dornhurst
Lot 387
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£100-150
389* Great Western Railway. A good and well-presented archive of
Great Western Railway ephemera, mostly circa 1840s-1900, including
approximately 20 letters, memoranda and other manuscript items,
among these an autograph letter signed from Daniel Gooch on Great
Western Railway letterhead, 29 March 1849, beginning ‘I think with
regard to the piloting at Bristol after next month we should charge the
Exeter Co. 1/3 per hour which is the half of the cost of keeping our
engines standing, and if she goes out to find or look for their trains we
should charge 1/- per mile run... ‘, 2 pp. with integral blank, 8vo, also a
Union Bank of London cheque made out for six hundred pounds, 24
July 1855, and signed by Daniel Gooch, plus 7 items of railway postal
services history including covers and stamps, 1860s/1870s, 5
extracted Acts of Parliament relating to railways including ‘An Act to
Amend and Enlarge the Powers and Provisions of the Acts Relating to
the Bristol and Exeter Railway [19th May 1840]’, 11 printed pamphlets,
timetables and other multi-page items relating to railways including ‘A
Letter to the Shareholders of the Bristol & Exeter Railway’ by W.
Gravatt, 1841, plus approximately 65 printed documents, broadsheets,
extracts and deeds including some completed in manuscript and some
with postage stamps and cancellations, plus approximately 40
photographs, postcards and reproductions of engines, in total
approximately 150 items, all neatly corner-mounted on black backing
paper and back to back, arranged in poly sleeves in two modern ring
binders, 4to, plus one related item, framed and glazed
392* Ireland. An autograph letter signed from James Low [17401807], Sally Park, Charleville, [Cork/Limerick borders], 19 July 1797,
to the Earl of Shannon at Castlemartyr, co Cork, in response to the
Earl’s advertisement for chief constables, Low offers himself ‘for the
Barony of Orrary and Kilmore. I live very near the Center of it, midway
between Churchtown and Liscarol, and am very much interested for
the Peace and good order of the Countery, and in particular this
Barony, as I am extensive in the line of farming, this Neighbourhodd
wants one who know them all, and would be active to suppress their
Tumultuous riseings, which I flatter me self, if your Lordship commits
that trust to me, I will execute it with such care as will give your
Lordship pleasure and serve the Countery... ‘, one page with integral
address leaf, seal tear, Charleville town stamp, 4to
Written during the run up to the Irish Rebellion of 1798 when ‘Tumultuous
riseings’ became very significant. When the rebellion broke out, County Cork
was little affected.
£100-150
(1)
A diverse and thoughtful collection of ephemera relating to the early decades
of the Great Western Railway.
(3)
£200-300
390* Hunt (William Holman, 1827-1910). Autograph letter signed,
‘W. Holman Hunt’, Draycott Lodge, Fulham, 13 January 1896, to Mr
Middlemore, ‘Your letter of the 11th inst. is all that can be deserid
[sic] in expressing the terms of the bargain for the two pictures of
The Triumph of the Innocents, and The Christ among the Doctors. I
have further to thank you for generous provisions beyond the terms
I demanded’, continuing that he will write to his carver and gilder
concerning the frame, etc., 4 pp., evidence of old album adhesion
marks to lower inner margin, 8vo, together with original postmarked
envelope, plus autograph letters signed from D.S. MacColl and Alfred
East, plus cut autographs of Frederick Leighton, Randolph Caldecott,
W.P. Frith, L. Alma Tadema, Philip Burne-Jones, Hiram Powers and a
cover, possibly signed by the architect Thomas Rickman
(10)
393* Leicestershire Manuscript Survey. A manuscript survey
entitled ‘An Exact and Perfect Survey of the Lordship of Bringhurst
in the County of Leicester, being taken and admeasured by the Purch
of 16. 1/2. foot, according to the Statute. De Terris mensurandis, by
Vincent Wing Supervisor, Octob: 1658’, ink on paper, 11 leaves (halftitle, title, text, final 2 leaves blank), half-title torn with loss and laid
down, large tear to title affecting blank areas and border only, several
text leaves torn across without loss and leaves strengthened on
foremargins, stitched and rolled in a contemporary vellum sheet with
original ties intact, contemporary manuscript surveying notes to
vellum inner surface, 4to (text leaves 20 x 15cm unrolled)
£100-150
391* Insurance documents. A collection of approximately 150
insurance policy documents and related, early 20th century,
companies include Union Assurance Society (made out to Lady
Younghusband), London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company,
Economic Insurance Company (for HH Princess Jean Sapieha), Royal
Exchange Assurance, Railway Passengers Assurance Company,
National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Ltd, Scottish Widows’
Fund, etc., mostly folding printed documents with manuscript or
typed insertion and some enclosures, contained in a small
contemporary leather trunk, together with Abstract of the Title of
Sir William Mordaunt Milner, Baronet, to Property in the Aire and
Calder Navigation in the County of York, 56 leaves, last item dated
1805, together with related copy abstract attached, 6 pages, all
neatly written to rectos on paper, folded, slightly soiled, the main
document with additional docketed note, ‘Mr Walker is requested
to peruse this abstract on behalf of Peter Rhodes Esq who has
purchased part of the Navigation Shares; and if he sho. approve of
the Title he will be pleased to draw the necessary Conveyance’
(a small trunk)
Vincent Wing (1619-1668), English astrologer, astronomer and land surveyor.
Born in North Luffenham, Rutland, he was a highly accomplished
mathematician and by the age of 20 he was already a professional land
surveyor, almanac-maker and astrologer. He is now chiefly remembered as
an astronomer and was notable as a champion of the new astronomical
systems of Copernicus and Tycho Brahe. However, it was mostly through his
work as a land surveyor that he made his living and, in 1664, he published
‘The Art of Surveying’. This manuscript survey gives a rare insight into his
practices and presentation of his work. It refers to an open plan field system
with the strips of land held by various tenants; a mixture of freehold and
copyhold, as the land in Bringhurst was not enclosed until 1804. Tenant
names include Sir John Norwich (freehold land) and Richard Green (freehold
and copyhold land). Although a few of his maps are known to have survived,
no other of his land surveys have been located.
£500-800
(1)
£100-150
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396* Lunatic Asylums. A group of approximately 30 asylum and
committal certificates and related letters, circa 1830s, certificates
issued by justices of the peace in the parishes of St Mary-le-bone,
Paddington, Islington, Westminster, Whitechapel, etc., mostly
printed documents with manuscript insertion, signatures of
physicians and JPs, mostly committing to Hanwell Asylum in
Middlesex, names of those committed, include Elizabeth
Buchannon, John Gill, Benjamin Moore, James Watson, William
Thomas Oliver, James Hughes, Lazarus McKenzie, Francis Dillon,
Charles Arrowsmith, etc., some occasional soiling, browning and
fraying, folio and smaller
394 Lingen Estates - Manor Rentals & Surveys, 1598. A set of
court rolls relating to numerous manors along the Welsh Borders
and in several counties, 1590s, 59 vellum leaves with pages
numbered 64-181, 7 blank leaves at rear, occasional browning and
some soiling but ink still legible throughout, sheet size 285 x
215mm, sundry related 20th-century manuscript and typed notes
loosely inserted at rear, late 19th-century cloth, frayed and worn,
spine defective and covers near detached, 4to
Provenance: Pencil note that this came from the library of Mr. Prentiss.
Included among the sundry papers are two neatly typed index lists of names
and places for the rolls. The name index comprises over 250 family names
including Sir John Lingen, Queen Elizabeth I, William Hawkins, Jane Shelley,
Richard Whittington and Richard Wynter. The majority of manors fall into the
counties of Radnor, Shropshire and Herefordshire, with a few in Warwickshire
and Worcestershire.
£500-800
(1)
Hanwell was the first purpose-build asylum in England and Wales, opening
in 1831. Some of the original buildings are now part of the headquarters for
the West London Mental Health (NHS) Trust.
£200-300
(approx. 30)
397* Manuscript Ephemera. An assorted collection of manuscript
ephemera, 18th and 19th century, including 6 leaves of accounts for
the Royal Laboratory at the Woolwich Arsenal, 1776, 2 19th-century
receipt books, 3 expense ledgers kept by Thomas Alexander, 1829,
late 19th-century coachbuilding ephemera, 2 disbound sermons,
18th century, manuscript notes on chemistry and logic, both 18th
century, 3 artist’s sketchbooks, 20th century, assorted letters and 3
printed volumes
395* Literary Letters. A collection of 12 autograph letters, mostly
to Lady Ottoline Morrell and her husband Philip, circa 1870/1939,
including one from Lord Salisbury, 18 September 1870, offering
Frederick Parker Morrell the registrarship of the Vice-Chancellors
Court, 5 letters to Lady Ottoline Morrell, from Margot, Lady Howard
de Walden, 1915, asking her to be godmother to her daughter
Elizabeth, Arnold Bax, circa 1920, inviting her to a concert of his
music, Sir Peter Quennell, circa 1924, about being sent down from
Oxford, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle and Raquel Meller, both in French,
4 letters to Julian Goodman from Hope Mirlees, Frances Hackett,
Robert Gathorne-Hardy and Lord David Cecil, plus 2 letters to Philip
Morrell from Logan Pearsall Smith and Kenneth Clarke (typed),
several concerning Ottoline Morrell’s and related subjects, mostly 1
or 2 pages, 4to/8vo
(12)
(a carton)
£200-300
398* Miscellaneous ephemera, imostly 19th & 20th century,
including printed and manuscript material, scrap albums,
documents, photographs, etc.
(a carton)
£100-150
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£150-200
400* Oldroyd Family. A bundle of letters and manuscript
ephemera relating to the Oldroyd family of London and Kent, 18th
& 19th century, including 35 letters, mostly addressed to Charles
Oldroyd at Mr Viner’s boarding school, Wye, also Hampstead,
Canterbury and environs, late 18th and early 19th century, mostly
from family members and relating to family news, business and
legal transactions, etc., folded letters with an occasional postmark
visible, together with 13 receipts including some itemised with
prices, many mid-18th century and relating to an earlier generation
of Oldroyds, items including furniture and household goods, etc.,
some fraying, various sizes
(approx. 50)
399 Naval Scrapbooks. A group of 3 naval scrapbooks compiled
by Edward C. Carre, circa 1902-10, containing original photographs,
postcards, magazine illustrations, news cuttings, sundry documents
and ephemera, begun while Carre was a cadet on Britannia and
midshipman of HMS King Edward VII, including information on
training of naval cadets, movement of Russian ships, naval battle of
Port Arthur, reorganisation of British naval forces, photographs of
battleships, naval personalities, submarines, etc., pasted and neatly
arranged to rectos and versos throughout, a total of approximately
120 stiff card leaves, non-matching quarter leather bindings, all
somewhat worn, 4to, together with a partially completed unrelated
photograph album containing approximately 100 gelatin silver print
snapshots, circa 1910, including naval interest, various sizes,
mounted as multiples to rectos of 12 stiff card leaves only,
uncaptioned, some leaves detached, contemporary two-tone cloth,
upper cover titled ‘HMS Cornwall’, heavily soiled and worn, oblong
folio
£200-300
401* Owen (Richard, 1804-1892). Autograph letter signed ‘Rd.
Owen’, 1 November 1858, to [William] Whewell, ‘Your time will be
much better bestowed than in criticisng the accompanying “idyllium”:
but if you know of any idle “fellow” given that way, his comments, a
la Bentley, and as sharp as the old Masters’, would be a great favor, if
retained, with a copy of my friend’s effusion, at the critic’s perfect
leisure’, 2 pages, a little creased, together with Sedgwick (Adam,
1785-1873), Autograph letter signed ‘A. Sedgwick’, Trinity College, 27
November 1865, to Mrs Pryme, ‘I mean this letter for your Brother
Charles as much as for yourself and my dear God daughter... ‘, sending
his love and saying that he had started Charles’s book “Life of Christ:
An Eclectic Gospel” but put it aside and never went back, discussing
his health and his failing eyesight, etc., 4 pages, 8vo, plus an
autograph note in the third person from Sedgwick to Mr Brunskill,
Norwich, 5 January 1862, thanking him for the photograph of Mr
Evans, a little creased, small 8vo, plus an autograph postscript from
the end of a letter by Robert Stephenson (1803-1859), ‘Weallans will
now of course proceed vigorously with the alteration of the Bridge...
‘, initialled ‘R.S.’ and identified as Robert Stephenson in a slightly later
hand beneath, red pencil date 12 August 1852 at head, 1 page, minor
creases and marks, 8vo, plus autograph letters from Douglas Galton
(1822-1899, engineer), Dr John Conolly (1794-1866, psychiatrist), plus
specimen autographs of David Brewster (1781-1868), Michael Faraday
(1791-1867) and Francis Galton (1822-1911)
Lieutenant Edward Cambridge Carre was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant
on 30 March 1910. He was appointed in command of the submarine C22 on
20 August 1913. He died on 20 August 1917, or some time shortly before
when his command, E47 went missing. Provenance: from the family, by
descent.
£200-300
(4)
(9)
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£150-200
408* Scrap album. An Edwardian scrap album, containing
miscellaneous news cuttings, postcards, illustrations, autographs,
etc., mostly pasted as multiples on to rectos and versos of 35 stiff
card leaves, autographs include Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Madge
Kendall, Nellie Melba, Alma Tadema, Edward German, Tito Mattei,
etc., mostly cut from letters and pasted into album, all edges gilt,
contemporary padded morocco with gilt clasp, a little wear at head
and foot of joints, folio, contained in original morocco book box,
worn, together with a quantity of mostly Victorian and Edwardian
sheet music, some with pictorial covers
402* Political Autographs. A group of mostly Victorian political
autographs, including autograph letters signed from W.E. Gladstone
(postcard), George Kenyon, Henry Melville, Colonel Long, W.
Madocks, Benjamin Bathurst, Joseph Hume, Warren Hastings, plus
3 others, plus autograph specimens of Castlereagh, Ellenborough,
Melbourne, Erskine, George Canning, William Pitt (all freefront
covers), plus a few other political autographs including Herbert
Kitchener (pencil) and Austin Chamberlain
(15)
£100-150
(a carton)
£100-150
409 Scrap album. A very large scrap album, mostly compiled circa
1900, containing several hundred illustrations including
chromolithographs, colour lithographs, chromo scraps, postcards,
colour and black and white magazine illustrations, news cuttings,
photographs, greetings cards, souvenirs (crepe paper souvenir in
commemoration of HRH The Prince of Wales visit to Eastbourne, 30
June 1931; Silver leaves from Table Mountain, South Africa, 1902,
etc.), various sizes but including folio and double-page illustrations,
pasted on to rectos and versos of 84 rag linen leaves, a few leaves
blank and a few items removed, several large chromolithographs
and similar loosely inserted at front and rear, contemporary half
morocco, heavily worn, large folio (60 x 23cm)
(1)
£250-350
403* Postcards. An assorted collection of approximately 1,000
postcards, Edwardian and later, including saucy seaside and other
humour, actors, children, forces and sweetheart cards, greetings
cards, trains, animals, etc., some postally used, the majority cornermounted in 9 albums old and new
(a carton)
£150-200
404* Postcards. An assorted collection of approximately 600
postcards, Edwardian and later, many topographical including United
Kingdom, plus some Far East and other subjects, some postally
used, all corner-mounted in 5 non-matching albums
(approx. 600)
£150-200
405* Postcards. An assorted collection of approximately 700
postcards, Edwardian and later, including topography, humour,
assorted subjects, some postally used, many loosely contained in a
modern album
(a carton)
£150-200
406* Postcards. An assorted collection of approximately 1,500
postcards, Edwardian and later, mostly British topographical views
and many in black and white, but including transport, humour,
overseas views, etc., many postally used, partially sorted
(approx. 1500)
£100-200
407* Royalty. Victoria (Queen of England, 1819-1901), two cut
signatures ‘Victoria RI’, both on plain paper, plus a third autograph torn
from a document with wafer seal present, heavily spotted, plus a cut
autograph of King George III ‘George R’, an unstamped cover
addressed to the Duke of Wellington and signed by Prince Albert lower
left, plus 2 autograph specimens of George, Duke of Cambridge, plus
1 each of Edward, Duke of Clarence and George, Duke of York
(together on HMS Britannia letterhead), Arthur, Duke of Connaught,
plus a small clipped signature of General Gordon ‘C.E. Gordon’
(12)
£100-150
Lot 410
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410* Share certificates. A large collection of approximately 6,000
share certificates, some Victorian but mostly 20th century, including
2 x Russian, some South American, many North American
companies, etc., mostly decorative designs with vignettes, some
with coupons attached, various sizes, companies include General
Plywood Corporation, Minas del Centenillo, American Tobacco
Company, Arro Expansion Bolt Company, Ronson Corporation, Little
Miami Railroad Company, Baker International Corporation, Cane
Springs Oil & Minerals Corp., etc., some with manuscript insertions
and signatures
(tin trunk & box)
£400-600
411* Suffragettes. Souvenir of the Women’s Suffrage March and
Mass Meeting at the Albert Hall, Saturday June 13, printed and
published by Mrs S. Burgess, [1908], wood-engraved crepe paper
handkerchief with colour-printed border of roses and flags, with
central vignette portrait of Lady Henry Somerset(?), slight toning but
otherwise very good, 36 x 38cm
Rare.
(1)
£100-150
412* Suffragettes. Two original pen and ink and watercolour
cartoons by Edouard Covillot, circa 1910, both showing a Cupid figure,
the first about to knock on a door with caption ‘What luck this time!’,
the second having been rejected with caption ‘Confound it! Another
Suffragette’, both signed ‘Ed. Covillot’ lower right, 20 x 12.5cm,
together with a double-page colour lithographic print after Bernard
Partridge titled Mr Punch’s Russian Ballet (taken from Punch’s
Almanack for 1913), including vignette cartoon studies and one of
Prime Minister Asquith as a ballet dancer and ‘Votes for Women!’
banner being harangued by a chorus of Suffragettes, 28 x 43.5cm
(3)
£70-100
413* Theatre. An autograph letter signed from George Bartley
[?1782-1858], ‘Geo Bartley’, 27 Manchester Street, 12 July 1818, to
Francis Freeling about his forthcoming visit to USA, a lengthy letter
largely concerning a hope for introductions and related matters, and
referring to ‘the deranged state of the Drury Lane concern has
induced me to listen to repeated invitations to visit the United States
of America for an indefinite period...’, 5 pp., integral address leaf with
two stamped (one unpaid) and wax seal, a little soiling, 4to, together
with a letter from Henry Gaulburn [1784-1856, Statesman], to the
same recipient, Betchworth House, 4 September 1835, concerning
the delivery of his letters and their forwarding to this address rather
than to Portman Square, his residence, 4 pp., 8vo, plus a pre-printed
returned letter ‘envelope’ with printed signature of Francis Freeling
[1764-1836], manuscript insertion giving the date as 8 November 1831
and returning a letter from Jessie Tankard to Mr William Craven, 4to
414* Valentines. A group of 35 Victorian valentines, mostly paper
lace and including 4 sachets, including figures of cherubs, children,
floral designs, etc., various sizes
(35)
£150-200
415* Victorian Letters. A group of 12 mostly Victorian letters,
including a folded letter from Baron Anderson concerning the laws
of privilege, 1840, autograph letters signed from Henry Tickell,
Edward Hall Alderson, John Britton, General Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers,
Henry Leslie, Lord Hawke (x2, both 1907), plus approximately 15 cut
signatures including Sir Joseph Savory, Nelson & Bronte (cover,
brother of Lord Nelson), Eugen Sandow, and a few others
Bartley, a comic stage actor who played Falstaff at Drury Lane, left London
with his actress wife Sarah Smith for a successful American trip in 1818. He
returned to play roles at the Covent Garden Theatre and the Lyceum.
£100-150
(3)
(a folder)
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£100-150
417* Voyage to India. A highly descriptive autograph letter, written
on board ship Duke of Bedford, Port Louis Roads, Isle of France, 8
July 1824, going via Madeira, Cape Verde Islands, Trinidad Island,
Martin Vas Islands, Cape of Good Hope, Tristan Da Cunha, Isle de
France [Mauritius], the young writer, James Sinclair, describes a
mutiny by the crew, a huge Waterspout, Trinidad Island, a terrific storm
off the Cape which drives the ship to Tristan Da Cunha, an attempt to
harpoon a whale and a duel between the ship’s doctor and a
passenger, etc., 4 pages, written in a close but legible hand, 4to, VG
In fine condition and with a full printed transcript provided with the letter.
£70-100
(1)
416 Visitors’ Book. A visitors’ book kept at Clifton Down Hotel,
[Bristol], 1883-1913, containing several hundred autographs and
inscriptions by guests at the hotel, names including Minnie Palmer,
Sir Daniel and Lady Gooch, Mr & Mrs John Sims Reeves, Lillie
Langtry, Barry Sullivan, Dame Emma Albani Gye, Charles Santley,
Adelina Patti, Henry Morton Stanley (with five-line recommendation,
dated 5 June 1891), Henry Irving, Sarah Bernhardt, Herbert and
Maud Beerbohm Tree, Jan Paderewski, W.H. & Madge Kendal,
Johannes Wolff, James Forbes-Robertson, Sir Frederick & Lady
Wills, Mrs Patrick Campbell, Charles Wyndham, A.C. Maclaren, Sir
Squire and Lady Bancroft, Fred Terry, Julia Neilson, Sir Henry Wood,
Pablo de Sarasate, Seymour Hicks, Wilkie Bard, Fritz Kreisler,
Wilhelm Backhaus, Jo Elvin, Captain Robert Falcon Scott (‘R. Scott,
16-18.4.10’) and beneath his autograph that of Pauline Chase with
hotel date stamp 1 May 1910 adjacent, Anna Pavlova, C. Aubrey
Smith, etc., mostly inscribed in black ink on unlined paper with
several autographs to each page, inscribed to rectos and many
versos of first 120 leaves, remaining leaves blank, contemporary
corner-mounted black and white postcard of the hotel at front, all
edges gilt, contemporary gilt-decorated morocco, rubbed, modern
gilt-titled leather reback, 4to
418* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke, 1769-1852).
Autograph letter in the third person, London, 29 April 1839, to Mr
Slatter, ‘In order to avoid having his name made the deposit of all
the mud that is published the Duke has been under the necessity
of ordering the work should not be received without his directions...
‘, 1 page with integral blank, minor dust-soiling, 8vo, together with
an initialled letter from the Duke of Wellington, 11 October, 1839,
‘Orders to be sent to the proprietor of the Waggon; to take care and
keep room in his waggon and bring down from London to Stratfield
Saye on Friday two stoves which are to be put up in the
conservatory’, 1 page, a little spotted, 8vo, plus initialled small
envelope, plus an album leaf with 11 further cut specimens of
Wellington’s handwriting including one signature and one initialled
Now converted into 18 luxury apartments, the Clifton Down Hotel, was
completed in 1865, shortly after the opening of Brunel’s Clifton Suspension
Bridge, over which it looks. An interesting collection of names, many of
whom stayed and signed more than once (eg. Sir Daniel and Lady Gooch,
Henry Irving and Jan Paderewski). Most intriguing is the close coupling of
the autographs of Captain Scott and Pauline Chase. Captain Scott is believed
to had a mild affair with the Peter Pan actress before his marriage several
years earlier. Captain Scott has signed and dated his three night stay just two
months before he set sail from Cardiff on the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition
from which he would never return. Pauline Chase’s autograph beneath, with
the hotel date stamp of just two weeks later, is an intriguing coincidence.
Certainly, Pauline Chase is believed to have been playing in the role of Peter
Pan at the Prince’s Theatre in Bristol in the 1909-10 season and the
juxtaposition of their autographs may simply be happy coincidence. Either
way, Pauline Chase certainly knew whose name she was signing underneath
and has boldly signed and underlined to leave no room for further autographs
on this page.
£300-500
(1)
(3)
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£150-200
420* Zola (Emile, 1840-1902). Autograph cover, posted Paris, 7
June 1878, the address in black ink in Zola’s hand, ‘Mademoiselle
Guilleau, Marchande de curiosites, 68 rue de Rennes, E.V.’, stamp
and two postmarks, identified in purple ink and upper margin with
related note to verso, a little spotting, 7.5 x 11cm
Mademoiselle Guilleau and her shop are referred to by Zola in two of his
letters. See ‘Emile Zola: Correspondance, III, 1877-1880’ (University of
Montreal Presses), 1978, pp. 105-106 & 119.
£100-150
(1)
419* Wiltshire. Broadsides relating to the Tottenham Park
Association, for the Protection of Persons and Property, and for the
Prosecution of Felons and Other Offenders. Extending over the
Parishes of Burbage, Collingbourn Kingston, Collingbourn Ducis,
Great Bedwin, Little Bedwin, Shalbourn, Easton, Preshute and
Mildenhall, and over Savernake Forest and Park, in the County of
Wilts. A collection of printed broadside notices relating to rewards,
misdemeanors and felonies, & dates of association meetings etc.,
1820-30’s, comprising approximately sixty broadsides (including
many duplicates), including Five Pounds Reward. Stolen, on Sunday
Night, the 25th of August, 1822, The Curtains from a Marquee
Belonging to Mr. Halcomb, at the High Trees Farm, in Savernake
Forest..., A Reward of Five Pounds from the Solicitor to the
Tottenham Park Association; Five Pounds Reward. Stolen, in the
Night of Sunday the 22nd of December, 1822, or early in the
Morning of the following Day, a Large Quantity of Beef, from a Barn
belonging to Mr. Halcomb, at the High Trees Farm, in Savernake
Forest..., Reward to be paid by the Solicitor of the Tottenham Park
Association, 27th December, 1822; Gipsies and Other Vagrants. By
the Rules of the Tottenham Park Association, a Reward of Five
Shillings is payable to any Person who shall remove any Camp or
Company of Gipsies out of any of the Parishes within the Limits of
the said Association...., June 12th, 1824; Felony. Twenty Five Pounds
Reward. Whereas the Granary of Mr Anthony Kingston, of
Shalbourn... was on the Night of Tuesday the 11th, or of Wednesday
the 12th of this instant January, broken open and a large quantity of
Wool stolen therfrom..., also a further Reward of Five POunds
allowed by the Tottenham Park Association for the Prosecution of
Felons..., Shalbourn, January 13th, 1820, plus numerous Tottenham
Park Association broadside meeting notices for 1819, 1821-23, 182628, 1830, 1832 & 1835 (including many duplicates), all folded, plus
approximately 20 late 18th & early 19th century Wiltshire enclosure
acts etc.
(a small carton)
421* Queen Victoria. A pair of handkerchiefs commemorating
Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, 1897, two black printed white
cotton handkerchiefs, each with a circular portrait of Queen Victoria
surrounded by vignettes and titled ‘The Longest Reign in History’,
one showing the young Victoria and the date 1837, the other
showing the elderly Queen and the date 1897, some light spotting,
each approximately 33 x 33cm (13 x 13ins)
Scarce pair of commemorative handkerchiefs summarising in their imagery
the many remarkable industrial and territorial conquests made during Queen
Victoria’s reign, including the printing machine that could make 50,000 copies
per hour; advances in machine loom weaving; the ability to send telegrams
at 100 miles per minute; production of the maxim gun, allowing 600 shots
per minute; the West Coast railway’s corridor train which travelled 60 miles
per hour; and the ability to travel across the Atlantic in just 5½ days.
£70-100
(2)
£150-250
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EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934)
Letters to his publisher Novello & Co., 1894-1897
422* Elgar (Edward, 1857-1934). Autograph letter signed, ‘Edward
Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 4 March 1894, to Novello & Co., ‘Enclosed I
beg to send a M.S. part-song which I trust you will find suitable for
publication in one of your series. It is not so difficult as the other
part-songs of mine which you publish: I think therefore it might help
to bring those forward as the present one, on account of its greater
simplicity may become more widley known than its predecessors’,
publisher’s date and acknowledgement note to top and bottom, thick
blue pencil note to margin, ‘offer .3.0’, staple holes to upper margin,
2 pages, 8vo
Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 24 March 1894, to Novello & Co., ‘I write to
accept, with many thanks, your offer of three guineas for the
copyright of my part-song “O happy eyes”. I presume you will not
object to sending me, as before, 2 doz copies free, not for sale but
to send to conductors &c.’, N[ovello], E[wer] & Co. date stamp to
verso, 1 page, 8vo
Elgar’s four-part song ‘O Happy Eyes’ was composed in late 1889 and
submitted for publication early in 1890, but the publisher Novello rejected it.
It was revised and re-submitted in 1893, and, though this time accepted by
Novello, the song was not published until 1896, in spite of a plea Elgar made
to the firm in 1895. Its first appearance in print was in the Musical Times in
1896. The words were written by Elgar’s future wife, Alice, in February 1888,
before her engagement to Elgar.
£200-300
(1)
The part-song referred to was ‘O Happy Eyes’; see following lot.
£200-300
(1)
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426* Elgar (Edward, 1857-1934). Autograph letter signed ‘Edward
Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 16 March 1895, to Novello & Co., thanking them
for the specimen proofs of two pages of the part-songs and
continuing, ‘The vocal score is admirable but I do not like the style of
the separate violin-part. Would it not be better to engrave the violin
parts folio and put a note on the 8vo scores that the violin parts are to
be had price -?’, continuing to voice his concerns affecting the cost
implications and possible sales and noting that, besides, the two violin
parts should be printed separately, also noting ‘turning over’ difficulties
and with a PS giving one further concern, 4 pages, publisher’s receipt
date note and stamp to upper margin of first page and pencil notes
for reply at foot of final page, light vertical crease, 8vo
(1)
Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 21 March 1895, to Novello & Co., ‘in answer
to your enquiry I do not think much is gained in the way of facility to
the players in printing the two violin parts together as in the
specimen (now returned). If, in setting out the pages, the engraver
can leave sufficient “rest” for turning over it might be a slight
advantage to print together: however, the “turning over” is of vital
importance... ‘, concluding with thanks for their courtesy in referring
these points to him, 3 pages, publisher’s receipt stamp at head of
first page, 8vo
Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 3 February 1895, to Novello & Co., thanking
them for their letter, ‘in accordance with your suggestions I have
removed the ad lib. part from the part-songs and have revised the
remaining accompts. removing the difficulties: they are now quite
easy. I send the M.S. by this post. You are kind enough to ask what
my terms would be: I have no basis to go upon except the amount
you hve paid me before: taking into consideration the length and
scope of the works, as compared with the former compositions, I
should think twelve guineas for the two [amount underlined in pencil
by the publisher’; but if you should not think this amount right and
fair I am quite willing to leave the question of remuneration to you
as you have always been so kind hitherto’, with a P.S., ‘I should be
so glad if the part song [‘O Happy Eyes’] you took for the Musical
Times last year might appear very soon: could you tell me when it
is likely to come out?’, publisher’s date stamp at head of first page,
3 pages, 8vo
See note to previous lot.
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(1)
£200-300
Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 16 April 1895, to Novello & Co., returning
proofs of the two part-songs for ladies’ voices, asking for a footnote
on the first page of each of them ‘to the effect that the violin
accompaniments are procurable separately’, giving a further
suggestion for a printed note with a view to assisting the sales of
extra violin copies, indicating that he has made a note on the proofs
relating to the turn-overs and where best that the music on pages 2
and 3 should begin and end, with a small diagram, hoping that the
works will be ready in early May ‘so that I can introduce them for
use during the next school term’, and referring to an enclosure [no
longer present] giving a list of affiliated schools, 4 pages, publisher’s
ink acknowledgement mark and date stamp at head of first page
and blue pencil line to final page, light vertical crease, 8vo
£200-300
Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 17 February 1895, to Novello & Co., ‘Can you
tell me when you propose to publish the part-song for ladies’ voices
- that is the date on which copies would be on sale to the general
public’, and continuing to give his reason, namely that he has been
asked by the committee of the Worcestershire Musical Union who
are interested to perform them at their next concert, saying that it
would be a nice introduction for the part-song but fearing there may
not be enough time to rehearse them, and concluding, ‘As the
members of the Society buy their own music it would not be
practicable to use “proof” copies as you have kindly managed in
other cases’, 3 pages, publisher’s receipt note to upper corner of
first page and ink stamp to final page, 8vo
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£200-300
(1)
£200-300
Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 10 April 1895, to Novello & Co., ‘By this post
(registered) I send you No. 6 of the set of six part-songs for Chorus
and Orchestra completing the set Mr Tours kindly took charge of
Nos. 1-5 which I left with him when I called at your establishment
ten days ago. The collective title ‘From the Bavarian Highlands’ is
intended to go on each number - there are subsidiary titles also... ‘,
telling that his idea is that they should be published in book form
and also procurable separately, suggesting that numbers 1, 3 and 6
would ‘make a very useful suite for orchestra alone, or for piano duet
or solo’, saying that he submits the music with confidence and
concluding with a PS that while the words are partially arranged
from Volkslieder, ‘the music is my own’, 3 pages, publisher’s
acknowledgement note at head of first page and ink date receipt
stamp to final blank, original pencil note at head of first page
carelessly erased with some resultant creasing, pin holes to lower
half of page, 8vo
£200-300
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£200-300
Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 14 February 1897, ‘Tomorrow I send the final
portion of the p.f. score of “St George” completing the work. I
suggested to Mr Manns that he shd form the Imperial March at his
own (benefit) Concert... ‘, giving his view that the March should be
played at the opening of the exhibition and asking how he should
proceed with Mr Manns and that he would then send him the proof
copy to let him orchestrate from, finally asking for the note to prefix
“St George” ‘at once’, 4 pages, publisher’s ink date stamp at head
of first page, 8vo
Elgar’, Malvern, 19 February [1897], to Novello & Co., saying that by
this post he is returning the full score and 8vo copy of “St John’s
Eve”, ‘I have made a note of the direction in the full-sc:- an asterisk
appears to be omitted in the 3rd & 4th Horns... in St George I think
I must make the Cornets (or at least one) obbligato - the quasimilitary character of the work demands this’, with a concluding note
and postscript, 3 pages, publisher’s acknowledgement mark at head
of first page and ink date receipt stamp to final blank, light vertical
crease, 8vo
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Novello had sent Elgar the score of ‘St John’s Eve’ by Frederick Cowen (18521934) as a model.
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£200-300
£200-300
Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 13 May 1895, to Novello & Co., ‘I thank you
for including the Spanish Serenade in the Musical Times for this
month: I am much satisfied at your issuing it in this form and trust
it may lead to many performances of it: should you print the
orchestral parts at any time I should be glad to revise the Score in
some small particulars’, hoping to receive a few copies of the
partsongs for Ladies’ Voices as soon as possible, asking for a quick
decision concerning the set of six Volkslieder and trusting that they
will accept them and asking if he should send again his piece
“Sursum corda [Op. 11]” (for Strings, bass and organ) for
reconsideration, ‘it has been performed again in the cathedral and
made a great impression and I think would be worth publishing’, 3
pages, publisher’s ink notes and date to first page, blue pencil
underscoring and note to second page and ink date receipt stamp
to final blank, registered post certificate of posting tipped on to final
blank, pin holes to blank area of second leaf, 8vo
(1)
Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 26 February [1897], [to Novello & Co.],
‘Enclosed I send proofs corrected: I see in the M.S. pp. 124-5 a
query “How play?” - The passage does not appear to me to present
any difficulty but the arrangement can easily be altered if necy... ‘, 3
pages, 8vo
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Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 4 July 1897, to Novello & Co., ‘I am feeling
rather anxious as to the arrival of the Te Deum and Benedictus and
shall be much obliged if you can get it sufficiently advanced for the
chorus to have proof copies as soon as possible: there is probably a
occasion in August so that the opportunity for chorus rehearsal
become less as time goes on’, 2 pages, publisher’s ink date note at
head of first page and stamp at foot of second page, 8vo
£200-300
(1)
Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 15 June 1897, to Novello & Co., saying that by
this post he is sending the manuscript vocal score of the “Te Deum
and Benedictus” [Op. 34] ‘which I have written for the Hereford
festival’, apologising for not having sent it earlier as he has been
unwell, saying that Mr Sinclair has played through the manuscript
on the organ ‘and finds it most effective in the present form’, 2
pages, acknowledgement mark at upper margin of first page, paper
partially toned, 8vo
(1)
(1)
£200-300
£150-200
(1)
£150-200
Elgar’, Malvern, 3 October 1897, to Novello & Co., a brief note,
‘Enclosed I send the assignment of the “Te Deum &c” duly
executed’, 1 page with integral blank, publisher’s ink receipt stamp
at head of first page, light vertical crease, 8vo, together with two
letters from the music copiers Alex Bles to Novello’s, 7 & 9 August
1897, concerning engraving for the same work, both 1 page, one
partly toned, oblong 8vo
£70-100
Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 22 January 1897, to Novello & Co., a brief note,
‘Enclosed I send pp. 1-24 [voc: score & p.f.] of St George’, 1 page,
publisher’s ink date receipt stamp to verso, 8vo
(1)
£150-200
Elgar’, Garmisch, 29 August [1897], to Novello & Co., regretting that
the proofs eventually arrived during his absence and that he hastens
‘to send them corrected as far as I can without actually comparing
them with the score. It will be unnecessary to delay printing
sufficient copies for the festival but I suppose you will, as usual, defer
printing for sale until after the performance and further corrections,
if needful, may be made’, saying he hopes to arrive in London on the
5th when he could check the wind parts with the full score, noting
that the rehearsals in London are on the 8th and 9th, 3 pages,
publisher’s ink date receipt stamp at foot of third page, large 8vo
434* Elgar (Edward, 1857-1934). Autograph notecard signed ‘Ed.
Elgar’, Malvern, 9 July 1897, to Novello & Co., ‘Please address until
after first proof Tuesday next at The Rectory, Wolverhampton’,
postmark and publisher’s ink date receipt stamp to address side (in
Elgar’s hand), small oblong 8vo
(1)
£150-200
Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 2nd August 1897, to Novello & Co., telling him
that he has sent by registered parcel post that day the full
manuscript of ‘Te Deum and Benedictus’ for Hereford festival,
asking for word when it had arrived safely and looking forward to
receiving anything for correction as early as possible, 2 pages,
publisher’s ink date receipt stamp at foot of second page, 8vo
Elgar’, Malvern, 26 June 1897, to Novello & Co., accepting and
thanking the publishers for the terms for the Hereford “Te Deum
and Benedictus”, ‘I shall be extremely obliged if you will let me have
proofs as early as possible as time is short for the Chorus
rehearsals’, and asking for two copies of the proofs as usual, 2
pages, first page lightly toned, publisher’s ink date receipt stamp to
verso, 8vo
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£150-200
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£100-150
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Lot 441
Elgar’, Forli, Malvern, 23 November 1897, to Novello & Co., ‘As to
the title of the little Violin Solo, do you think “Vesper” better than
Evensong? I do, Chanson de Nuit was best but I dislike a French
title. Vesper, n. (see Webster’s Dicty) still exists in the sing[ular] is a
pretty word to describe this piece. I have recd. the Cello arrgt. which
I retain until the revise of Violin arrgt. comes back to me’, 3 pages,
publisher’s ink receipt date at head of first page and ink date receipt
stamp at foot of third page, small ink smudge to first page, 8vo
Elgar’, Malvern, 5th December 1897, to Novello & Co., ‘Enclosed I
return proof of title-page: it, i.e. the inside cover looks rather a
mixture: I have suggested on the proof that the name Chanson de
Nuit shd. be divided from the rest of the matter which might
possibly be in English: if this will not do please follow your usual
plan. I am sorry to have been so dull over the title of this piece but
I had hoped we might have kept to English’, 2 pages, light vertical
crease, 8vo
(1)
(1)
£150-200
Elgar’, Malvern, 26 November 1897, to Novello & Co., ‘Enclosed I
send revise Vn. and piano and 1st proof Cello part all corrected. As
to the title I forget if I said that if the piece is called “Evensong” or
“Vesper” people would play it in church at the many organ recitals
with violin solos interspersed now given: if it is called “Chanson de
nuit” they might think it profane. Please put whatever you think
best’, 2 pages with integral blank, publisher’s ink date receipt stamp
at head of first page and vertical pencil note to margin, 8vo
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£150-200
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£150-200
ANTIQUARIAN
445 Andrewes (Lancelot, Bishop of Winchester). Preces Privatae
Graecè & Latinè, Oxford, 1675, engraved portrait frontispiece (torn
at gutter), engraved vignette to title, inscriptions to blank at front Ra.
Bridcoake debit Anthonio Henley 1680 & Henrici Cotes Julii 6th 1787,
wood engraved bookplate by Thomas Bewick of Rev. H. Cotes vicar
of Bedlington 1802 to upper pastedown, bookplate of the historian
Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913) to front blank, & bookplate of Lucy
Violet Hodgkin to rear blank, free marbled endpapers discarded, all
edges gilt, contemporary gilt panelled morocco, extremities rubbed,
12mo, together with Digby (Sir Kenelm), A Treatise of Adhering to
God; written by Albert the Great, Bishop of Ratisbon. Put into
English by Sir Kenelme Digby, Kt. Also a Conference with a Lady
about Choyce of Religion, 2 parts in one, 1st edition, Henry
Herringman, 1654, title close-trimmed at fore-edge, upper hinge
cracked, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt panelled and decorated
morocco, spine worn mostly at head & foot, 12mo, with New
Testament (Greek & Latin), Novum Testamentum, cum Versione
Latina Ariae Montani..., Auctore Johanne Leusden, Professore,
Amsterdam: ex officina Wetsteniana, 1717, engraved frontispiece,
title in red & black, folding engraved map, ownership signatures of
John Hodgkin 1787 & T. Hodgkin to front blanks, endpapers
renewed, contemporary sheep, rebacked, 12mo, plus A Plain
Sermon to a Countrey-Parish in the Diocese of Norwich. Preached
August 1st, 1725, Norwich: Printed by W. Chase, [1725], lacking C4
(blank?), modern marbled wrappers, slim 8vo
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£200-300
446 Aveline (E. L.). The Mother’s Fables in verse, printed for
Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1812, engraved frontispiece with
contemporary hand colouring, 4pp. publisher’s advertisements to
rear, owernship inscription to front free endpaper, original moroccobacked boards, joints cracked, 12mo, together with other small
format works, mostly 19th century, including Pleadings in Scotland,
Maine’s Ancient Law, and others
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£100-150
447 Bible [English]. The Bible, Translated according to the Ebrew
and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers
Languages..., Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher
Barker, 1594, general title and New Testament title within decorative
woodcut borders (both dated 1594, with 18th century inscription to
margins of general title), Apocrypha present (with early manuscript
to verso of final leaf), double-column black letter text throughout,
some neat underscoring throughout, close-trimmed at head
touching some running titles, bound with a torn & incomplete
Psalms at front and incomplete Book of Psalms at rear, corners of
pages throughout volume dog-eared and frayed, some dust-soiling
and few marks, sewing weak at front and rear, disbound 4to
Herbert 221. With Genesis i.3 ‘Then God saide...’.
Sold with all faults, not subject to return.
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£150-200
Lot 448
108
448 Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old
Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall
Tongues and with the former Translations diligently compared and
revised, by his Maiesties speciall Commandement. Appointed to be
read in Churches. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1613,11],
Old Testament & Apocrypha portions only (ending at II Maccabees
chapter 15, verse 39), lacking general title, double column black letter
text, with 59 lines to full column, numerous woodcut decorative
intials, ten preliminary leaves only of 18 (comprising Kalendar,
lessons for Holy days & list of Books), first leaf of Genesis repaired
to margins, bound with Genealogies by John Speed before book of
Genesis with woodcut of Adam & Eve (without map), first and last
few leaves frayed to margins, initial leaves creased, some
dampstaining etc. mostly to leaves at front & rear, large decorative
ownership inscription to front blank ‘Simon Ruddle his book, given
him by his Grandmother Ruddle 1764’ and other 18th & 19th century
entries to front endpaper (one blank detached), sewing a little weak
and some gatherings sprung, late 17th/early 18th century panelled
sheep, some wear, folio, leaf size 39 x 26cm
449 Bible [English]. The Bible: That is, the Holy Scriptures contained
in the Old and New Testament. Translated According to the Hewbrew
and Greek, and conferred with the best Translatins in divers
Languages..., Amsterdam: Printed by Thomas Stafford, 1644, general
title strengthened to verso at fore-edge, New Testament title present
with imprint dated 1640, two full-page engraved illustrations and few
woodcut maps to text, lacking blank before general title, and two
other preliminary leaves ‘Of the incomparable treasure’ and ‘list of
books’ also lacking, two leaves entitled ‘An Amonition to the Christian
Reader Concerning the Apocrypha -Books’ bound in at rear (torn with
loss of text and final leaf partially relined to verso, light fraying to
margins of first & last few leaves, occasional light dust-soiling, few
marks and light marginal dampstaining to few leaves, contemporary
signature & date ‘Edward Fenner 1648 November’ to front free
endpaper, and with his signature appearing ocassionally to few other
leaves within volume, 18th century genealogical entries of the
Magnus family in manuscript to verso of front free endpaper, armorial
bookplate of R.B.AE. Macleod of Cadboll, Invergordon Castle, 1877
to upper pastedown, hinges repaired, contemporary calf over
bevelled wooden boards, embossed brass corner pieces and central
bosses, lacking clasps, folio
Herbert 319, Darlow & Moule 246. Commonly known as the ‘Great She Bible’
with Ruth iii.15 ‘she went into the city’.
£700-1000
(1)
Herbert 579, Darlow & Moule 449. Geneva, Thomson, Junius version. A close
reprint of the folio of 1640. Probably the latest 17th century issue of the
Geneva Bible. The Apocryphal books are omitted in this publication, except
for the Prayer of Manasses.
£700-1000
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Lot 449
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450 Bible [English]. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament
and the New, Newly translated out of the Original Tongues...,
Cambridge: Printed by John Field Printer to the Universitie, 1663,
general title engraved by John Chantry, letterpress New Testament
title, Apocrypha present, double-column text, title and borders to
text red ruled throughout, bound with The Book of Common Prayer
and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and
Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the Church of
England; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as
they are to be Sung or Said in Churches, Cambridge: Printed by John
Field, Printer to the University, 1663, title and text borders ruled in
red, title with ownership inscription D. of Grafton 1779 (in an
unknown contemporary hand), title and following nine leaves neatly
remargined, and slight dampstaining to inner margins of few leaves,
bound with The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English
metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred
with the Hebrew..., Cambridge: Printed by John Field, Printer to the
Universitie of Cambridge, 1663, title and text borders red ruled, final
two leaves discreetly repaired to margins, occasional minor spotting
and light marginal dampstains to few leaves, pasted-in 19th century
notes to verso of front free endpaper, ‘This Bible I have given to
Isabella Blachford, April 1839’ and ‘The above was written by my
dear mother, the late Lady Augusta Tavel, on occasion of her
presenting it to her sister the late Lady Isabella Blachford, at whose
decease Decr. 1866, it was given to me by her daughter Isabella. It
originally belonged to my Grandfather, Augustus Henry, D. of
Grafton.- At my death I wish it to be given to my cousin Francis
Horatio FitzRoy. - A.L.M Gartshore, Dec. 1867’, amorial bookplate of
Almeric W. Fitzroy to upper pastedown, later marbled endpapers
with watermark dated 1861, upper hinge slight cracked, all edges
gilt with fore-edge painting within heart shape with the words ‘Give
Attendance to reading, Tim Chap 4 Ver 13, surrounded by foliage and
red flowers, contemporary dark brown morocco with elaborate gilt
decoration over red & brown onlays, old reback preserving original
spine (lifting), corners repaired, extremities rubbed, joints and head
& foot of spine worn, 4to
Herbert 684.
Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton KG PC (1735-1811), became
Prime Minister in 1768 at the age of 33, leading the supporters of William
Pitt. He was the youngest person to have held the office until the
appointment of William Pitt the Younger 15 years later. Grafton was the first
British Prime Minister, before Sir Anthony Eden, to be divorced and the
second, after Sir Robert Walpole, to marry while in office. Lady Augusta Tavel
(née FitzRoy, 1779-1839) and Lady Isabella Blachford (née FitzRoy, d.1866)
were both daughters of Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton by his
second marriage. Augusta Louisa Murray Gartshore (1812-1915) was the
grandaughter of the 3rd Duke of Grafton.
£500-800
(1)
Lot 450
110
452 Bindings. Punch, or The London Charivari, 78 volumes, an
incomplete run, volumes 12-93, 96-181 (1847-87, 1889-1931),
numerous black and white illustrations, uniform contemporary giltdecorated red half morocco, some spines slightly rubbed to head
and foot, (generally in excellent condition), 4to
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£500-700
451 Binding. Seneca’s Morals by way of Abstract. Of Benefits, [part
I. only], by R. L’Estrange, 1678, engraved portrait frontispiece, title
excised to upper blank margin and letterpress ‘part I.’ also excised and
repaired, lacking two leaves before chapter 1 (d7 & d8), armorial
bookplate of A.A. Tilley to upper pastedown, all edges gilt,
contemporary dark brown morocco, elaborate gilt panelled boards with
armorial of William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (1617-1693) to
centre of each, gilt decorated spine, lightly cracked to joints, 8vo
453 Booker (Luke). The Hop-Garden, A Didactic Poem, 1st edition,
Newport: printed by H.P. Silvester, [1799], title within green printed
decorative oval border of hops, all edges gilt, mid 19th century
scarlet morocco, extremities rubbed, raised bands, compartments
filled with volute, star, and roundel tools, covers with gilt border of
hop leaves and tendrils within gilt double fillets, upper cover gilt
lettered in centre, seedhead roll on turn-ins, small 4to
Part II. entitled ‘Seneca’s morals of a happy life; of anger and clemency’.
(1)
£150-200
Scarce.
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Lot 452
111
£150-200
457 Calmet (Augustin). An Historical, Critical, Geographical,
Chronological, and Etymological Dictionary of the Holy Bible..., 3
vols., 1732, titles in red & black, 150 engraved plates, plans & maps
(including 55 double-page plates & 6 double-page & folding engraved
maps), contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines (rubbed), joints
cracked, boards and head & foot of spine worn, folio
(2)
£300-500
458 Camden (William). Annals, or, the Historie of the most
Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth, Late Queen of
England..., 3rd edition, 1635, engraved portrait frontispiece and
additional title (both lined to verso, dust-soiled and browned), ink
stamps to letterpress title (& marginallia) and to following leaf,
general toning, dust-soiling and light spotting, early 19th century calf,
spine with gilt armorial of Trinity House to upper & lower
compartments with motto ‘Trinitas in Unitate’ beneath, lightly
rubbed & marked, small folio in 6s
(1)
459 Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Tn Dinos Rmaikn historin eikositria
biblia. Dionis Romanarum historiarum libri XXIII, á XXXVI ad LVIII
vsque. Ex Bibliotheca Regia, Paris: Rob. Stephani, 1548, initial six
words of title transliterated from the Greek, woodcut device to title
and printer’s device to verso of final leaf, decorative initial and few
headpieces, text in Greek throughout with Latin notes at rear, repaired
hole at foot of title, all edges gilt, front endpaper with bookplate of
Cecily Mary Severne and drypoint etched bookplate of Arthur Kay by
his wife Katherine Cameron (1874-1965) incorporating three bees,
marbled endpapers with repaired hinges, late 17th/early 18th century
gilt panelled red morocco, rebacked and corners repaired, preserving
original gilt decorated spine (rubbed & worn), folio
454 Braybrooke (Richard, Lord). Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, 2
volumes, Henry Colburn, 1825, bound without half-titles, thirteen
engraved plates (including one double-page), light scattered spotting,
plates offset to text (especially frontispieces), marbled edges, half
green morocco, bound for George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of
Pembroke with his cypher gilt to spines, lightly scuffed, 4to
(2)
£200-300
Adams D503.
(1)
£300-400
460 Commines (Philippe de). Les Memoires de Messire Ph. de
Commines, Chevalier Seigneur d’Argenton, sur les principaux faicts
& gestes de Louys XI. & de Charles VIII. son fils, rois de France. En
ceste derniere edition ont esté corrigees plusieurs fautes notables,
& queleques obmissions..., Paris, Pierre Le-Mur, 1615, title with
engraved coat-of-arms, woodcut initials, etc., light waterstain
towards front of volume, contemporary full vellum, worn with a little
loss, mainly to spine and upper cover, folio
£500-800
455 Bruni (Leonardo, known as Leonardo Aretini). De Bello
Italico aduersus Gothos gesto historia, Paris: S. Colinaeum, 1534,
two woodcut decorative initials, occasional maringal paper flaw,
minor scattered spotting, ownership inscriptions to pastedowns,
bookplate of Thomas Hodgkin to upper pastedown, early 19th
century morocco-backed boards, 20th century title label to length
of spine, small 8vo
(1)
£100-150
456 Byron (Lord George Gordon Noel). Marino Faliero, Doge of
Venice. An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts. With Notes. The Prophecy
of Dante, a Poem, 1st edition, 1st issue, John Murray, 1821, first
issue with Doge’s speech in five and a half lines on p.151, half-title
present, without terminal advertisement leaf, early ownership name
at head of title-page, first and final leaves spotted, red sprinkled
edges, contemporary brown calf, rubbed, gilt decorated spine with
loss at head, 8vo, together with The Siege of Corinth. A Poem.
Parisina. A Poem, 2nd edition, John Murray, 1816, first and final
leaves a little spotted and dusty, marbled endpapers, sprinkled
edges, contemporary marbled calf gilt, spine rubbed and with
contrasting labels chipped, 8vo, uniformly bound with Manfred, 2nd
edition, 1817, and The Giaour, 13th edition, 1815, plus two others
related, comprising Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of
Childe Harold... by John Hobhouse, 2nd edition, revised and
corrected, 1818, and The Complete Works of Lord Byron, reprinted
from the last London edition..., Paris, 1837
461 Cruikshank (George, illust.). George Cruikshank’s Omnibus,
Illustrated with One Hundred Engravings on Steel and Wood, edited
by Laman Blanchard, 1st edition, Tilt and Bogue, 1842, twenty-one
etched plates, including frontispiece, numerous letterpress vignettes,
some spotting, half-title and front free endpaper detached, book ticket
of John Lewis on front pastedown, rough-trimmed, original gilt and
blind decorated green cloth, a little marked and rubbed, spine a trifle
faded, 8vo, together with Mornings at Bow Street/More Mornings at
Bow Street, by John Wight, 1st editions, 1824/1827, together two
volumes, half-titles present, each with etched plates and letterpress
illustrations, some spotting or browning, each with book ticket of John
Lewis on front pastedown, second volume with inscription on front
free endpaper ‘Richard Price Esq with the Author’s Compliments’,
each in original cloth-backed boards, faded spines with printed labels,
first volume rubbed and soiled, and with joints split, 8vo, plus eleven
other volumes with illustrations by George Cruikshank, and ten
leather-bound 19th and early 20th century volumes, including A
Memoir of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, by G. Steinman Steinman,
printed for Private Circulation, 1871, inscribed by the author and with
two autograph letters signed by the author bound in
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(25)
Adams A1555.
(1)
£150-200
£150-200
112
£200-300
Lot 463
462 Danet (Pierre). A Complete Dictionary of the Greek and Roman
Antiquities; Explaining the Obscure Places in Classic Authors, and
Ancient Historians, Relating to the Religion, Mythology, History,
Geography and Chronology of the Ancient Greeks and Romans...,
Compiled Originally in French..., made English, with the Addition of
very useful mapps, London: John Nicholson, 1700, license leaf at
front, three folding engraved maps (including plan of Rome),
contemporary panelled calf, gilt decorated spine, joints slightly
cracked, 4to
463 Dante Alighieri. [Comedia del divino poeta Danthe Alighieri, con
la dotta & leggiadra spositione di Christophoro Landino..., ad instantia
di M. Gioanni Giolitto da Trino], Venice: Bernardino Stagnino, 1536,
woodcut illustrations to text including one full-page to A1v, guide letters,
colophon to final leaf recto, scattered minor spotting and soiling, paper
thinning and resultant holes at start of register and old ownership name
at foot of final leaf recto, lacks first signature (12 leaves) including title
and contents/index(?), the first leaf present presumed [AA1] being a
half-title ‘Cantica del Divina Poeta Danthe Alighieri Fiorentino’, cardinal’s
armorial bookplate to front pastedown with later library label of Louis
Thompson Rowe pasted beneath, later quarter mottle calf with raised
bands over marbled boards, rubbed, 4to in 8s
Ex libris Peter King (1725-1733), lawyer and politician, who became Lord
Chancellor of England. With the armorial bookplate of the Earl of Lovelace
and related ink stamp of Ben Damph Forest to front endpaper.
(1)
£100-150
Adams D93.
While the Aldine-style Dantes saturated the bourgeois and courtly vernacular
literary market, the more austere and demanding academic circles still
required their Dante with commentary. Bernardino Stagnino sought to satisfy
this sector of the reading public with three editions of the poem (1512, 1520
and 1536) incorporating Landino’s commentary.
£700-1000
(1)
464 Davies (John). A Collection of the Most Important Cases
respecting Patents of Invention and the Rights of Patentees..., printed
for W. Reed, 1816, half-title, ownership inscription of John Masterman
MP (1781-1862) to title, few minor marks, contemporary calf, rubbed
and scuffed, boards detached, contained within modern slipcase, 8vo
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£200-300
465 [Defoe, Daniel]. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,
of York, Mariner. Who lived eight and twenty years alone in an
uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the
Great River Oroonoque..., [with The Life of Daniel Defoe, by George
Chalmers], 2 vols., London: John Stockdale, 1790, engraved
frontispiece & titles, thirteen engraved plates, tissue guards,
contemporary marbled calf gilt, 8vo
470 Erasmus (Desiderius). Lingua, sive, de linguae usu atque
abusu liber utilissimus, & Encomium Moriae, sive Declamatio in
laudem stultitiae & Consultatio de Bello Turcis inferendo, Leiden: J.
Maire, 1641-43, three works bound as one, engraved vignette to
each title, extensive contemporary annotations some in red ink,
contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine and upper board,
dust-soiled, 12mo
(2)
(1)
£150-200
466 Dickens (Charles). The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1st edition
in six original parts, Chapman & Hall, 1870, engraved portrait and
additional title, and twelve wood-engraved plates, numerous
advertisments (without the rarely found Cork Hats advertisement at
rear of part II), some light spotting, original printed blue wrappers,
generally torn and edge-frayed (with some loss to spines), part V
with rear cover detached, slim 8vo
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471 Fashion & Costume. La Belle Assemblee, being Bell’s Court
and Fashionable Magazine, 6 odd volumes, 1810-21, folding map,
ninety-eight engraved plates (including some folding), fifty-four
coloured fashion plates, small holes where previously sewn,
contemporary half calf, rubbed and worn, boards detached, 8vo,
together with a volume of plates from the West End Gazette
(7)
£100-150
£300-500
468
Drake (Nathan). The British Classics [with:] Essays,
Biographical, Critical and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler,
Spectator and Guardian, 24 volumes plus 3 volumes, 1804-15, first
set with engraved title and frontispiece to each volume (except last
volume with engraved title only), second set with engraved
frontispiece to first 2 volumes only, some spotting, contemporary
uniform red half straight-grain morocco gilt over marbled boards, a
little rubbed and chipped, head-piece to volume 13 slightly snagged,
spines partly darkened, small 8vo
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£200-300
469 Elzevir Press. Les Memoires de Messire Philippe de
Commines, Sr. d’Argenton, Derniere edition, Leiden: chez les
Elzeviers, 1648, engraved title, armorial bookplate of George Trevor
Spencer to upper pastedown, contemporary sheep, gilt decorated
spine, gilt crest of George Spencer to upper board, joints cracked,
rubbed & worn, 12mo, (Willems 634), together with [Allestree,
Richard], The New Whole Duty of Man..., with Devotions Proper for
Several Occasions. Embellished with a Curious Set of Cuts, 2 parts
in one, London: printed only for John Hinton, at the King’s-Arms, in
Newgate Street, [1778], engraved frontispiece, title & nine plates,
one full-page engraved illustration, title to second part 23rd edition
with imprint dated 1778, all edge gilt, contemporary gilt decorated
red morocco, worn at head & foot of spine and to board corners,
8vo, with Exercises, Instructive & Entertaining, in False English,
Written with a view to Perfect Youth in their Mother Tongue, as well
as to Enlarge their Ideas in General, and give them a Relish for what
is Ornamental, useful, and Good, 14th edition, Leeds: John Heaton,
1811, contemporary sheep, joints cracked and some wear, 12mo in
6s, and Binding, Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Count A.
Hamilton, Translated from the French, 2 vols., new edition, 1828,
numerous engraved portrait plates, some spotting and offsetting, all
edges gilt, contemporary gilt and blind decorated green morocco,
slightly rubbed to extremities, 8vo, plus two others
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£150-200
472 Games and pastimes. Youthful Sports, a new edition, Wm.
Darton and Josh. Harvey, July 11th, 1804, vignette title-page, and
thirty engravings on letterpress, some light spotting and toning, two
facing pages with some juvenile colouring, disbound and loosely
inserted into later marbled wrappers, 12 x 8cm (4.75 x 3ins),
together with Hack (Maria), Winter Evenings; or, Tales of Travellers,
4 volumes, 3rd edition, printed for Harvey and Darton, 1823,
engraved frontispiece to each (that to first volume slightly frayed to
fore-edge, just clipping head-line), some spotting and toning, D5 in
volume 3 with lower corner torn away (with loss of a few letters),
contemporary ownership name on front free endpapers, volumes 1
and 4 lacking rear free endpaper, original red roan-backed marbled
boards gilt, extremities rubbed, spines faded and with some minor
loss at ends, 12mo in 6s, housed together in a modern card slipcase,
plus [Strickland, Agnes], The Moss-House: in which many of the
Works of Nature are Rendered a Source of Amusement to Children,
1st edition, William Darton, 1822, six engraved plates, including
frontispiece, lightly offset to text, front hinge splitting, early
manuscript name on front free endpaper, blue sprinkled edges,
original roan-backed marbled boards, extremities a little rubbed in
places, 12mo in 6s, plus other antiquarian children’s books similar
467 Donato (Alessandro). Roma vetus ac recens utriusque
aedificiis... expositis,tertio edita, Rome: Fratrum de Rubeis, 1725,
engraved frontispiece, four folding engraved maps or plans, engraved
illustrations to text, old dampstain to upper outer corners affecting text
and plates, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper
and later ownership names to endpapers and title, contemporary
vellum with leather labels to spine, rubbed and soiled, 4to
(1)
£100-150
Provenance: from the library of a descendant of the publisher William Darton.
Darton G1074(3): the first edition of ‘Youthful Sports’ was published in 1801,
and all editions are rare. It contains descriptions of such games as: Battledore
and Shuttlecock; Quoits; Blindman’s Buff; Flying the Kite; Bow and Arrow;
Stilts; Marbles, Peg Top; Trap Ball; Air Balloons, Dressing Dolls; Bird Nesting;
Whip Top; and Badger the Bull, or Bait the Bear.
£200-300
(19)
473 Goldsmith (Oliver). The History of Greece from the Earliest
State to the Death of Alexander the Great, 2 volumes, printed for
Richardson & Co. et al, 1821, half-titles, presentation inscription to
title of volume two, some scattered light spotting, bookplate of Don
Antionio Canovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain, to upper
pastedowns, original boards, rubbed and worn with loss to spine,
8vo, together with Manley (Delarivier), Secret Memoirs and
Manners of several Persons of Quality of both Sexes from the New
Atalantis an Island in the Mediteranean, 2nd edition, John Morphew,
1709, some scattered toning and light spotting, owenership
inscriptions in ink to upper pastedown, contemporary panelled calf,
rubbed and scuffed, upper board detached, 8vo, plus other 18th and
19th century titles, including Levizac’s Lettres Choisies de
Mesdames de Sevigne, Franz von Sales’ Philothea, Tagliches handbuch, published in Philadelphia, 1812 (rebound), Johann Baptist Say’s
Darstellung der Nationalokonomie oder der Staatswirthscahft...,
Narrations d’Omai, insulaire de la Mer du Sud... (volume two only),
and others including some German language, mostly 8vo
£150-200
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£200-300
474 Great Britain Record Commission. Introduction to the
Authentic Collection of the Statues of the Realm, Official Copy for
the use of His Majesty’s Commissioners on the Public Records of
the Realm, Not Published, 1810, minor scattered spotting, bookplate
for James Whatman Esq., Vinters, Kent to upper pastedown,
contemporary inscription ‘from J. G. Tomlins... Only 50 copies
printed’ to upper pastedown, original boards, slightly rubbed and
scuffed, head of spine torn with some loss, 4to
478 Longus. Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé...,
Double Traduction du Grec en Francois, de Mr. Amiot en d’un
Anonime, Mises en Paralelle, Et ornées des Estampes originales du
fameux B. Audran, gravées aux depens du seu Duc d’Orleans,
Régent de France..., Paris: Imprimées pour les curieux, 1757,
engraved frontispiece, title in red & black, twenty-nine engraved
plates, numerous engraved head & tailpieces, typographic
decorative borders to text, engraved erotic bookplate to upper
pastedown ‘from the Daphnis & Chloe Collection of J.L. Wilson’ by
Mark Severin dated 1974, marbled endpapers with hinges neatly
repaired, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked with red leather title
label, 4to
Colophon at end of index ‘printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan...
1811’. James Whatman (1741-1798) was, like his father, one of the most
important paper makers. The paper works were located at Turkey Mill to the
south of the Vinters estate. Interestingly, the present work is printed on paper
watermarked H. Smith.
£100-150
(1)
(1)
475 H.(N.). The Pleasant Art of Money-Catching, Newly and Fully
Discover’d. Being the Second and Last Part of that very Useful Book,
Intituled the Compleat Tradesman, Comprehending the Following
Pleasant and Necessary Heads... , Composed by N.H., Printed for J.
Dunton, 168[4], title foremargin shaved with loss of double rule and
a few letters at line endings, leaf F10 torn with loss, some spotting
and marginal fraying, contemporary sheep, some wear, 12mo
Signatures: A-F12. Wing H100.
(1)
479 [Manley, Mary de la Riviere]. Histoire Secrette de la Reine
Zarah, ou la Duchesse de Marlborough démasquée, Traduite de
l’Original Anglois, 1st edition in French, Oxford: Alexandre le
Vertueux, 1711, marbled endpapers, marbled edges gilt, 19th
century red morocco by Duru, with his ink stamp ‘Duru 1846’, some
light marks and rubbing, spine a little darkened, raised bands with
blind rule, gilt lettered direct in second and third compartments,
remainder with florid gilt ‘M’, covers with a ducal coat-of-arms in
gilt, gilt fillet on edges, gilt decorated turn-ins, 12mo
£150-200
476 Jewel (John). Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, 6th edition in
Latin, George Bishop, 1606, printer’s device to title and final leaf,
lacking initial blank, contemporary vellum, dust-soiled, manuscript
title to spine, 12mo
(1)
£200-300
A clean copy of a scarce book in an attractive French binding by Duru.
£150-200
(1)
£100-150
480 [Mayo, Elizabeth]. Preceptive Illustrations of the Bible; A New
Series of Fifty-two Coloured Prints, Designed to aid Scriptural
Instruction in Schools, and as a Help to Home Education. Selected
in Part by the Author of “Lessons on Objects.” The Original Designs
for these Prints were made Expressly for this Work, London: Varty
& Owen, circa 1850, title in red & black, 52 fine hand-coloured
lithograph linen-backed plates by Siegfried Bendixen, occasional
spotting, contemporary dark green half morocco gilt, cloth to boards
lifting, rubbed and worn, folio
477 Lister (Martin). An genius proposal for a new sort of Maps of
Countrys together with Tables of Sands and Clays, such chiefly as
are found in the North parts of England, contained in Philosophical
Transactions, no. 164, October 20, 1684, pages 735-58, single
engraved plate, light waterstain to extreme top margins, untrimmed,
stitch marks where previously bound, slim 4to
An important contribution by the zoologist Martin Lister (1638-1712) on how
to make a geological map. This issue also contains contributions by Turbervile,
letters to John Flamsteed on the solar eclipse and Bartholinus.
(1)
£200-300
(1)
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£100-150
481 [Napoleon]. A suite of 142 engraved portraits of military and
expedition personnel engraved by Andre Dutertre, [published circa
1830], 142 head-and-shoulders vignettes, all with engraved captions
and name of artist (first one by Denon), scattered spotting and a few
leaves browned, water staining to extremities of early leaves, many
with later pencil notes of rank or profession neatly inscribed
beneath, near-contemporary ownership signature of Mollett of
Hanover Park to front free endpaper, contemporary half calf over
marbled boards, slightly rubbed and some corner wear, 8vo
This collection represents the majority of portraits by Dutertre that were
published in Louis Reybaud et al, ‘Histoire scientifique et militaire de
l’expedition Francais en Egypte’, 10 volumes, Paris, 1830-36.
£100-150
(1)
482 Palazzi (Giovanni). I discorsi di M. Gio. Andrea Palazzi, sopra
l’Imprese recitati..., 1st edition, Bologne: Alessandro Benacci, 1575,
vignette title, near contemporary limp wrappers, upper cover
lacking, small 8vo, together with Montecalvi (Onorato), Trium
barbarorum philosophorum vite, Abaris Hyperborie, Anacharsis
Schythe, Asclepii Imarus, Cesena: Joseph Nerii, 1631, engraved title,
decorative initials, imprint from colophon, later paper-covered
boards, spine mostly deficient, 12mo
(2)
£200-300
483 Pamphlets. A collection of 33 pamphlets, bound in 2 volumes,
1817-89, including What would be the legal steps towards a
Republic, Pernicious Literature, Debate in the House of Commons,
Trial and Conviction for the sale of Zola’s Novels, The Farmers and
the Tory Party, The Trials of William Hone (three parts), and others
similar, late 19th century cloth, one volume disbound, 8vo
Sold not subject to return due to difficulties of collation.
(2)
485 Polybius. Polybi Historiographi Historiarum libri quinque,
Nicolao Perotto interprete, Lyon: Seb. Gryphium, 1542, printer’s
woodcut device to title and final leaf, early faint signatures to title
and marginalia and underscoring throughout, bound with Solinus
(C. Julius), Polyhistor, Lyon: Seb. Gryphium, 1538, printer’s woodcut
device to title, red ruled borders throughout both works, all edges
gilt, later endpapers with bookplate of the historian Thomas Hodgkin
(1831-1913), contemporary gilt & blind panelled calf, gilt arabesque
to centre of each board and ‘Joannes ab Assendelft’ in gilt to upper
board and ‘anno 1546’ in gilt to lower board, rebacked, leather to
board edges worn through and boards showing, (board laminations
lifting & separating), 8vo
£100-150
(1)
£200-300
486 [Portugal, Foreign relations]. The Privileges of an Englishman
in the Kingdoms and Dominions of Portugal. Contain’d in the Treaty
of Peace Concluded by Oliver Cromwell; and Various Laws, Decrees,
&c. at sundry times, and on divers Occasions, made by the Kings
of Portugal, in Favour of the English Nation..., to which is added, the
King of Portugal’s New Law, concerning the Diamonds found in the
Brasils. Done in Portugueze and English, London: Printed for the
Translator, 1736, titles and text in English and Portugese, some light
toning mostly to margins of first few leaves, contemporary calf,
slight wear to spine, 8vo
(1)
£300-400
484 Perrault (Charles). Histoires ou contes du tems [sic] passé,
avec des moralitez, new revised edition, Amsterdam: Jaques
Desbordes, 1729, engraved frontispiece (old pencilling to facial
features and hands), title printed in red and black, 7 engraved
illustrations, lacks A1 (pp. 1-2 including illustration), lower outer
corner of D5 torn with loss affecting text to verso, spotting and
browning throughout, a few marginal splits and scattered fraying,
contemporary sheep, upper cover detached, spine damaged, lower
board deficient, 12mo
487 [Povey, Charles]. The Visions of the Heister Ryley: With other
Entertainments, Consisting of Two Hundred Discourses and Letters
Representing, by way of Image and Description, the Characters of
Vertue, Beauty, Affectation, Love and Passion... , volume 1,
numbers. 1-80 [all published], printed for the author, [1711], old worm
tracing to upper margins of preliminary leaves not affecting text,
spotting and browning throughout, early 20th-century neat pen and
pencil notes to front endpapers, 19th-century half calf, rubbed and
slight wear to extremities, small 4to
(1)
(1)
£300-500
116
£100-150
488 Priestley (Joseph). Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever. Part
I. Containing an Examination of the principal Objections to the
Doctrines of Natural Religion, and especially those contained in the
Writings of Mr. Hume, 1st edition, Bath, 1780, & Letters to a
Philosophical Unbeliever. Part II. Containing a State of the Evidence
of revealed Religion, with Animadversions on the two last Chapters
of the first Volume of Mr. Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire, 1st edition, Birmingham, 1787, xxviii, errata leaf,
212 pp., with 4 page publisher’s list at end; xxiv, 231 pp., plus 7 page
publisher’s catalogue at end, some marks to title of first part, and
with early ownership signature at head erased, page xxiii of the
preface to first part with lower outer corner torn away (still present),
title to second part detached and a little frayed to inner and upper
edges, bound with Two Discourses; I. On Habitual Devotion, II. On
The Duty of Not Living to Ourselves; Both Preached to Assemblies
of Protestant Dissenting Ministers, and Published at their Request,
1st edition, Birmingham, 1782, ix, 85 pp., with 7 page publisher’s
catalogue of works by Priestley at end, title with upper blank margin
torn away and replaced, final leaf somewhat marked and with closed
tears (without loss), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards,
rubbed and some wear, with a little loss to head of spine, 8vo
(1)
490 Prynne (William). The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and
Kingdomes: Divided into Foure Parts. Together with an Appendix...,
parts 1-4 & Appendix in one, London: Michael Sparke Senior, 1643,
decorative typographic border to title of each part, final leaf of first
part with repaired closed tear, short closed tear and marginal fraying
to title of second part, bound with Romes Master-Peece. Or, The
Grand Conspiracy of the Pope and his Iesuited Instruments, to
extirpate the Protestant Religion, re-establish Popery, subvert Lawes,
Liberties, Peace, Parliaments, by kindling a Civill War in Scotland, and
all his Majesties Realmes, and to poyson the King himselfe in case
he comply not with them in these their execrable designes. Revealed
out of [c]onscience to Andreas ab Habernfeld, by an Agent sent from
Rome into England, by Cardinal Barbarino..., 1st edition, London:
Michael Sparke senior, 1643, bound with The Opening of the Great
Seale of England. Containing certain Brief Historicall and Legall
Observations, touching the Originall, Antiquity, Progresse, Use,
Necessity of the Great Seal of the Kings and Kingdoms of England...,
Lodon [sic]: Michael Spark senior, 1643, bound with An Humble
Remonstrance Against the Tax of Ship-money Lately Imposed: Laying
Open the Illegality, Injustice, Abuses, and Inconveniences thereof...,
London: Printed for Michael Sparke senior, 1643, decorative
typographic border to title of each work, few woodcut decorative
initials, occasional minor toning, contemporary and later manuscript
notes to two blank leaves at front (neatly repaired to frayed margins),
endpapers renewed, near contemporary speckled calf, neatly
rebacked and corners repaired, red morocco title label to spine, 4to
£150-200
489 Priestley (Joseph). A Harmony of the Evangelists in English
with Critical Dissertations an Occasional Paraphrase and notes for
the Use of the Unlearned, J. Johnson, 1780, folding engraved map,
scattered spotting throughout, bookplate of Foster L. Coore to upper
pastedown, contemporary marbled calf, rubbed and worn, boards
detached, 4to
(1)
Wing P4087A, P4089, P4103, P3962, P4055, P4026 and P3982 respectively.
£500-800
(1)
491 Psalms and Hymns. A Selection of Psalms and Hymns,
Transcribed in Short Hand by John Banister, AD 1822, calligraphic
title, 97 numbered pages written in a neat hand, titles and indexes
in longhand, a little dust-soiling, author’s pencil name and address
inscription (Blackburn, Lancashire) dated 1822 to front free
endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grain calf, rubbed and
joints slightly cracked, 8vo
£100-150
(1)
£70-100
492 Quillinan (Edward). The Sacrifice of Isabel: A Poem, 1st
edition, printed by Bensley and Son, 1816, vignette title-page
(slighlty soiled at gutter), publisher’s advertisement leaf at rear,
some early pencilled marginalia, corrections, and underlining, lightly
spotted and a few corners creased, The Leys Library bookticket on
front pastedown, red sprinkled edges, contemporary brown half calf,
gilt decorated spine faded, extremities rubbed, 12mo
Scarce early poem by Edward Quillinan, whose first wife was the daughter
of Sir Egerton Brydges, proprietor of the Lee Priory Press (publisher of a
number of Quillinan’s works), and whose second wife was Dora Wordsworth,
daughter of William.
£100-150
(1)
493 Raffald (Elizabeth). The Experienced English Housekeeper, for
the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. Wrote
Purely from Practice, and Dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth
Warburton, Whom the Author Lately Served as House-Keeper:
Consisting of near Eight Hundred Original Receipts, Most of Which
Never Appeared in Print..., 2nd edition, 1771, signed by the author
on p.1, three folding engraved plates, including one of a stove, and
two of table settings (one with large closed tear), final index leaf and
advertisement leaf at rear (latter detached), some spotting and
marks, one or two marginal tears, rear free endpaper detached and
with adhesive tape at gutter, contemporary sheep, worn, with lower
cover detached, 8vo, together with a third edition of The Female
Economist, by Mrs. Smith, 1810 (frontispiece and covers detached)
Maclean, p.121. One of the scarcer editions, and seemingly one of the few
not to have a frontispiece portrait of the author.
£100-150
(2)
Lot 490
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494 Raleigh (Sir Walter). The History of the World. In Five Books,
[London: Printed by William Jaggard for Walter Burre], additional
engraved title dated 1614, engraved portrait to letterpress title,
Minde of the Front bound after letterpress title, six double-page
engraved maps and one double-page battle plan only (of two),
imprint from colophon, initial nine leaves detached and following
gathering loose, occasional stains mostly to margins, few leaves
torn or frayed to margins (particularly two leaves of tables at rear),
contemporary calf, upper board detached and lower board loose,
spine leather torn with loss, worn, folio
STC 20639. Sold with all faults, not subject to return.
(1)
£200-300
495 Reresby (John). The Travels and Memoirs of Sir John Reresby,
Bart., printed for Edward Jeffery, 1813, thirty-nine engraved plates
(of 40) only (as often), including many with hand-colouring, some
light scattered spotting, offsetting and toning, armorial bookplate of
William Burnyeat, Millgrove, to upper pastedown, all edges gilt,
contemporary calf (by Morrell), gilt decorated spine, (generally in
very good condition), 8vo, together with Wilson (H. W.), Ironclads
in Action, a Sketch of Naval Warfare from 1855 to 1895, 6th
impression, 2 volumes, Sampson Low, 1898, maps, plans and
illustrations, occasional spotting, presentation bookplate of The
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to upper pastedown,
contemporaary calf, scuffed and a little rubbed, 8vo, plus other 19th
century literature, including, The Badminton Library, Yachting I & II,
Racing and Steeple-chasing and Hunting (4 volumes, uniformly
bound in half morocco), White’s Naval Architecture, The Full Report
of the Trial of Queen Caroline, (2 volumes), Jane Marcet’s
Conversations on Natural Philosophy, 1819, Mr Hoyle’s Games (12th
edition), Edward MacLysaght’s Poems (limited edition), plus others
similar, mostly 8vo, mainly contemporary leather
(50)
Lot 497
£200-300
498 [Russel, John]. Letters from a Young Painter Abroad to his
Friends in England, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, W. Russel, 1750, twelve
engraved plates, including some folding, minor scattered spotting,
bookplate of Lord Wenman to upper pastedown of volume two,
contemporary calf, rubbed, worn and scuffed, lacking upper board
of volume one, 8vo
496 Rochefort (J. de). Le passe-tems agreable, ou Nouveau choix
de bons-mots, de pensees ingenieuses, et de rencontres plaisantes,
enrichi d’une elite des plus vives gasconnades, qui ne sont point
dans le Gasconniana..., Rotterdam: Jean Hofhout, 1709, title printed
in red and black, some scattered spotting and toning, contemporary
vellum, stained and soiled, small 8vo, together with Le Clerc (Jean),
Joannis Clerici ars critica in qua ad studia linguarum Latinae, Graecae
et Hebraicae via munitur, 3 volumes (bound as one), Amsterdam:
Henricum Schelte, 1712, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional
engraved title, titles printed in red and black, occasional light
spotting, contemporary vellum, rubbed and worn with some loss to
extremities, thick 8vo, plus two other vellum bound volumes,
including Johann Friedrich Polack’s Mathesis Forensis
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(1)
499 Sacheverell (Henry). An Impartial Account of What pass’d most
Remarkable in the Last Session of Parliament, relating to the Case of
Dr. Henry Sacheverell, 1710, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece,
bound with The Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell before the House of
Peers for High Crimes and Misdemeanors..., Jacob Tomson, 1710,
bound with The Bishop of Salisbury’s and the Bishop of Oxford’s
Speeches in the House of Lords on the First Article of Impeachment
of Dr. Henry Sacheverell..., John Morphew, 1710, 11pp., bound with,
The Bishop of Lincoln’s and the Bishop of Norwich’s Speeches in the
House of Lords..., John Morphew, 1710, 12pp., The Proceedings of
the House of Peers from Tuesday March the 14th to Tuesday the
Twenty First..., J. Baker, 1710, 8pp., all with scattered spotting
throughout, bookplate of William Garnett to upper pastedown,
contemporary panelled calf, a little rubbed and scuffed, folio
£100-150
497 Rowlandson (Thomas, illust.). The English Dance of Death,
From the Designs of Thomas Rowlandson, With Metrical Illustrations
by the Author of “Doctor Syntax” [by William Combe], 2 vols, 181516, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and additional title,
hand-coloured aquatint plates, some scattered spotting and
offsetting, together with The Dance of Life, A Poem..., 1st ed., 1817,
additional hand-coloured aquatint title, hand-coloured aquatint
plates,some light spotting and offsetting, uniform tree calf, gilt
decorated spines, morocco spine labels, a little rubbed to joints and
corners, free endpapers partly adhered to pastedowns
(consequently fragile when opening), 8vo
Abbey Life, 163 & 264.
(3)
£100-150
(1)
£100-150
500 Scapula (Johann). Joannis Scapulae Lexicon Graeco-Latinum,
e probatis auctoribus locupletatum, cum indicibus auctis et correctis,
Oxford: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1830, title in red & black,
marbled endpapers replaced with cloth hinges, contemporary diced
calf, elaborate gilt decoration with arabesque to centre of each
board, rebacked preserving original spine, joints and extremities
rubbed, folio
£200-300
(1)
118
£100-150
505 Smart (Christopher). On the Eternity of the Supreme Being,
2nd edition; On the Immensity of the Supreme Being, 2nd edition;
On the Omniscience of the Supreme Being, 1st edition; On the
Power of the Supreme Being, 1st edition; On the Goodness of the
Supreme Being, 1st edition, 5 parts in one, Cambridge: J. Bentham,
1752-1756, each part with title-page and separate pagination/
collation, bound with Gray (Thomas), An Elegy Written in a Country
Church Yard, 9th edition, printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1754,
occasional light finger-soiling, front free endpaper with early
ownership signature ‘Robt Ralston his Book 1787’, contemporary
sprinkled calf gilt, rubbed, with some loss to head of spine and
surface of upper cover, 4to
Complete set of Christopher Smart’s famous Seatonian Prize Poems, which
have often been described as the peak of his achievement. An annual award
was set up at Cambridge University with the bequest of clergyman Thomas
Seaton, for the best poem on the subject of the supreme being. Christopher
Smart entered five times between 1750 and 1756 and carried the prize off
each time.
£150-200
(1)
506 Spence (Rev. Joseph). Polymetis: or an Enquiry concerning the
Agreement between Works of the Roman Poets and the Remains of
the Antient Artists..., published R. Dodsley, 1747, engraved portrait
frontispiece, forty-one engraved plates (including 3 double-page &
one folding), engraved illustrations, front free endpaper with Ben
Damph Forest library ink stamp (seat of the Earl of Lovelace),
contemporary speckled calf, joint split and some wear, folio
(1)
£150-200
501 Scheffer (Johannes). De Re Vehiculari Veterum libri duo, 1st
ed., Frankfurt, 1671, additional engraved title by H. Roos (old circular
library stamp to lower outer corner), 4 engraved illustrations, and 38
woodcut illustrations to text, some (generally light), scattered
spotting, later 19th century book label of the Bibliothek des ReichsPostamts to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, title to spine
in manuscript, rubbed, small 4to
507 Spencer (John). Kaina kai palaia [Greek letters]. Things New
and Old, Or, A Store-House of Similies, Sentences, Allegories,
Apophthegms, Adagies, Apologues, Divine, Morall, Politicall, &c,
with their Severall Applications... , [edited by T. Fuller], 1st edition,
1658, title-page printed in red and black, spotting throughout,
heaviest to early leaves, contemporary ownership name of John
Mawman to title and later ownership name in the same family,
institutional book labels to front endpapers, contemporary calf with
leather label to spine, worn and joints weak, folio
Brunet 29030. First edition of Scheffer’s study of transportation in antiquity.
£200-300
(1)
Wing S4960.
(1)
502 Scott (Walter). Waverley Novels, volumes 1-48 (complete),
Edinburgh & London, 1829, black and white engraved frontispiece
and half-title to each volume, bookplates to front pastedowns, some
minor toning, uniform later gilt-decorated blue half morocco bound
by E.A. Weeks, spines slightly faded and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo
508 Surtees (Robert Smith). Handley Cross; or Mr Jorrocks’s Hunt,
1854, 17 hand-coloured engravings, numerous black and white
illustrations by John Leech, some light spotting, gilt-decorated red
half morocco bound by Bayntun, minor rubbing to front hinge, 8vo,
together with Groves (S.J., [illustrator]), The Arabian Nights’
Entertainments, new edition, 1873, numerous black and white
illustrations, contemporary gilt-decorated morocco, front board
slightly rubbed with minor loss, 8vo, and Strickland (Agnes), The
Queens of England: A Series of Portraits of distinguished female
sovereigns, new edition, 1852, 27 black and white engraved plates,
some minor offsetting and spotting, contemporary gilt-decorated
red morocco, boards slightly marked, 8vo, plus Cervantes (Miguel),
Don Quixote De La Mancha, volumes 1-3 (complete), 1837,
numerous black and white illustrations, some light toning and
spotting, uniform contemporary gilt-decorated red half morocco,
boards and spines slightly rubbed, 8vo
(48)
£200-300
503 Scott (Walter). Marion; A Tale of Flodden Field, London: A.W.
Bennett, 1866, fifteen mounted albumen photographs by Thomas
Annan, including one to title-page, tissue guards, all edges gilt, original
gilt blocked red cloth, slight fraying at head of spine, small 4to
(1)
£100-150
504 Shakespeare (William). The History of King Lear, revived with
Alterations by N[ahum] Tate, Cork, 1761, contemporary ownership
inscriptions in ink to title, includes cast list, bound with Othello, the
Moor of Venice, a Tragedy, London [really Dublin?]: Halhed Garland,
[circa 1764], bound withHamlet, Prince of Denmark, a Tragedy, Dublin:
W. and W. Smith, J. Exshaw and A. Ewing, 1755, bound with The
Tragedy of Macbeth, Cork: printed by Eugene Swiney, 1761, 3pp.
publisher’s advertisments to rear, bound with Julius Caesar, a
Tragedy, as it was acted at the Theatre-Royal in Smock-Alley, Dublin:
printed by Cusack Greene, 1762, contemporary calf, gilt decorated
spine, red moroco spine label, rubbed and scuffed, joints broken, 8vo
(1)
(6)
£200-300
119
£200-300
£150-200
509 Swift (Jonathan). The Works..., Accurately revised in Six
Volumes... with Some Account of the Author’s Life, and Notes
Historical and Explanatory by John Hawkesworth, 6 vols., 1755, each
volume paginated in two parts with main title to each volume printed
in red and black, twenty-six engraved plates, 4pp. engraved music,
some light browning & spotting, armorial bookplate of Charles
Brandling, hinges repaired, contemporary mottled calf, with gilt crest
of Charles Brandling to centre of upper boards, neatly rebacked with
gilt decorated spines and morocco labels, board corners worn, 4to
SCIENCE & MEDICINE
514 Bacon (Francis, Viscount Verulam). Novum Organum
Scientiarum, Leiden: Adriani Wyngaerden, 1650, engraved title with
excised signature at head (with loss to image), bound with Historia
Naturalis & Experimentalis de Ventis &c, Leiden: Franciscum
Hackium, 1648, engraved title, early ownership to blank leaf at front
and manuscript notes blank leaf at rear, bookplate of Historian
Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913), all edges gilt, late 19th century calf,
gilt decorated spine, scratch to upper board, 12mo
Teerink 87. This is the first Hawesworth quarto edition and not to be confused
with the 12 volume octavo edition of the same year.
£200-300
(6)
(1)
515
Bauhinus
(Caspar).
De
hermaphroditorum
monstromsorumque partuum natura... , Oppenheim, 1614, portrait
frontispiece (offset), title and cartouche (dated 1610) within engraved
decorative border, title re-hinged and partly detached with small loss
to lower margin, folding table, five full-page engravings (space for
another engraving left blank), errata leaf at end, some browning
throughout, occasionally heavy, lacks second blank before
illustrations at rear, modern vellum, rubbed and soiled, small 8vo
510 Tasso (Torquato). La Gerusalemme Liberata..., con la Vita del
medesimo, Allegoria del Poema, Argomenti incisine Rami del
Tempesta..., Urbino: Girolamo Mainardi, 1735, half-title, title in red
and black and with engraved vignette, 20 full page engraved plates
& illustrations, worm trail to upper outer corners of L4 to 2G
(reducing in size to a small hole), affecting a few letters or engraved
images, occasional spotting, few marks and dampstaining,
contemporary vellum, upper joint split, head & foot of spine and
board edges worn, folio
Gamba 948.
(1)
Lacks the folded plate found in some copies.
(1)
£200-300
£100-150
512 Turner (Sharon). The History of England, 11 volumes, 182836, contemporary uniform polished full calf gilt, slightly rubbed, and
one or two marks, 8vo, together with Buffon (Georges Le Clerc
Comte de), Buffon’s Natural History of the Globe, and of Man;
Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects, corrected and enlarged
by John Wright, 4 volumes, new edition, 1833, wood engraved
illustrations to text, contemporary uniform dark blue calf, gilt
decorated spines, very slightly rubbed, small 8vo, plus other 19th
century leather bindings, including Cassell’s Popular Natural History,
4 volumes bound in 2, circa 1870s, The Treasury of Botany, edited
by John Lindley and Thomas Moore, 2 volumes, 1866, etc., generally
in good condition, mainly 8vo (including some larger format)
(33)
£100-150
516 Benson (William). Principles of the Science of Colour concisely
stated to Aid and Promote their Useful Application in the Decorative
Arts, Chapman & Hall, 1868, six lithographed plates, five plates with
handcoloured dots, occasional minor spotting, presentation
inscription from the author to Charles Benson (the author’s son)
dated 1896 to front free endpaper, gutta-percha perished, contents
slightly shaken, original blind decorated cloth, gilt titled to upper
board and spine, a little rubbed with slight loss to extremities, 4to,
together with Cole (Timothy), Old Spanish Masters, New York: The
Century Co., 1907, black and white engraved frontispiece with
original captioned tissue guard, thirty black and white engravings,
printed on hand-made paper, numbered 56 from an edition of 100
and signed by the illustrator, uncut, original half-vellum, few minor
marks, folio, plus The Sculptor and Art Student’s Guide to the
Proportions of the Human Form, 1883
511 Thackeray (William Makepeace). Works, 22 volumes, 1869,
numerous black and white illustrations, bookplates to front
pastedowns, some light spotting, uniform contemporary giltdecorated red half morocco, boards and spines slightly rubbed, 8vo
(22)
£200-300
(3)
£100-150
517 Bernard (Claude and Huette, Charles). A Text Book of
Operative Surgery and Surgical Anatomy, Translated and Edited by
Arthur Trehern Norton, 2 volumes (Text/Plates), 1878, 88 colourlithographed plates loosely contained in separate matching slipcase,
some spotting, contemporary blue calf gilt with leather labels to
spines, rubbed, 8vo, together with Mead (Richard), A Discourse on
the Plague, 9th corrected and enlarged edition, 1744, contemporary
mottled calf, rubbed, plus Huxham (John), Observationes de aere
et morbis epidemicis... , Venice, 1764, half-title, 2 parts with separate
paginations, some spotting throughout, contemporary quarter calf
gilt, rubbed, all 8vo, plus 1 other medical in 2 volumes
£200-300
513 Welsh Mormonism. John Davis, Ffordd y Bywyd Tragywyddol,
a Ddarlunir yn yr Ysgrythyrau Santaidd, 1st edition, Merthr-Tydfil,
1850, 12 pp., disbound without covers, slim 12mo
Dennis, Welsh Mormon Writings 38. John Davis, an early convert to the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, succeeded to Captain Dan Jones
as Chief Spokesman for the Religion in Wales. Rare.
(1)
£200-300
(6)
£70-100
518 Briggs (William). Ophthalmo-Graphia, sive Oculi ejusque
partium descriptio anatomica, nec non, Ejusdem nova visionis
theoria, Regiae Societati Londinensi proposita, 2 parts in one,
Leiden: Petrum Vander Aa, 1686, additional engraved title (with faint
ink stamp to verso), three folding engraved plates, front free
endpaper renewed, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine,
upper joint slightly cracked, extremities rubbed, 12mo
The volume contains two of William Brigg’s important texts, the anatomy of
the eye and the first description of retinal function, which was first published
in 1675 and 1682 respectively.
(1)
£250-350
120
519 Canepari (Petro Maria). De Atramentis Cujuscunque Generis.
Opus sane novum, Hactenus a nemine promulgatum, In sex
Descriptiones digestum, London: Excudebat J.M. Impensis Jo.
Martin, Ja. Alestry, Tho. Dicas 1660, browning and spotting
throughout, contemporary vellum, 4to
Wing C425B.
(1)
524 Morgagni (Joannis Baptistae). Joannis Baptistae Morgagni
Foroliviensis, in Patavino Gymnasio Primarii Anatomes Professoris,
et Praesides, Adversaria Anatomica Omnia. (Quorum tria posteriora
nunc primum prodeunt), Novis pluribus aereis Tabulis, & universali
accuratissimo Indice ornata..., 6 parts in one, Leiden: Johannem
Arnoldum Langerak, 1723, half-title, engraved frontispiece, title in
red & black with engraved vignette, eleven engraved plates (one
folding), contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated spine, joints
cracked and some wear to extremities, 4to
£100-150
520 Carnap (Rudolf). Abriss der Logistik, mit besonderer
Berucksichtigung der Relationstheorie und ihrer Anwendungen, 1st
edition, Vienna, 1929, old tape repairs to full foremargins of pp. 8994, contempory quarter morocco, heavily rubbed on spine, sticky
back plastic covering, 8vo, together with Foundations of Logic and
Mathematics, 1st edition, University of Chicago, [1939], original
printed blue wrappers, upper outer corner of front cover torn with
loss, manuscript title to spine and with some loss at foot, sticky back
plastic covering and encapsulating a rear wrapper of a later edition
of the same work, slim large 8vo, together with other mathematical
works by Arthur Cayley, Andrew Russell Forsyth, Adolph Mayer,
Giulio Vivanti, etc., various languages, mostly with bookplate of Ivor
Grattan-Guinness, various bindings, some in poor condition
(33)
(1)
£200-300
£100-150
521 Cavallo (Tiberius). A Treatise on the Nature and Properties of
Air, 1st ed., printed for the author, 1781, folding table, three folding
plts. at rear, occasional spotting & light browning, some marginal
browning to first and last leaves, contemporary calf, rebacked,
corners worn, 4to
(1)
£200-300
522
Le Dran (Henry-Francois). Observations in Surgery:
Containing One Hundred and Fifteen Different Cases, with Remarks
on each, for the Improvement of Young Students, Translated by J.S.
(John Sparrow), 2nd ed., 1740, half title, two folding engraved plates,
publisher’s advert bound facing title, a little light spotting, previous
owner signature to title, contemporary sheep, rebacked, 8vo,
together with Baynton (Thomas), An Account of a Succesful
Method of Treating Diseases of the Spine with Observations and
Cases in Illustration, printed in Bristol by E. Bryan for Longman,
Hurst, et al, 1813, library stamps for Royal College of Surgeons in
Ireland, slight offsetting, bound with a related work in French,
contemporary half calf, a little rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, plus
Spender (J. C.), Observations on the Causes and Treatment of
Ulcerous Diseases of the Leg, Longman, Rees et al, 1835, library
stamps for Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, occasional spotting,
contemporary half calf, rubbed and a little scuffed, 8vo, plus other
surgery titles, mostly early 19th century
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£200-300
525 Scheiner (Christoph). Oculus hoc est: Fundamentum
Opticum, in quo ex Accurata Oculi Anatome, Abstrusarum
Experientiarum Sedula pervestigatione, ex invisis specierum
visibilium tam everso quam erecto situ spectaculis, nec non solidis
rationum momentis radius visualis eruitur; sua visioni in oculo sedes
decernitur; anguli visorii ingenium aperitur..., London: Excudebat J.
Flesher, & prostant apud Williel. Morden, Cambridge, 1652, [xii],
254pp., diagrams to text, Includes Monimentum aeternae famae
R.P. Christophoro Scheinero ... erectum a Casparo Pansa (in verse
at rear), lacking first leaf *1 (blank), contemporary calf, neatly
rebacked, preserving original spine, 4to
523 Macrobius (Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius). In Somnium
Scipionis, Lib. II, Saturnaliorum, Lib. VII, Lyon: , apud haered. Seb.
Gryphii, 1560, title with printer’s woodcut device, few woodcut
diagrams to text, lacking blanks Hh6-8 at rear, some toning and
occasional spotting, bookplates of the Rev. Mr. Pat. St. Clair and the
historian Thomas Hodgkin Historian (1831-1913), endpapers torn,
upper hinge broken, contemporary limp vellum, short tear to upper
panel of spine, 16mo
Adams M70.
(1)
£200-300
Wing S858.
This important work on the eye and its anatomy was originally published in
Innsbruck in 1619. This 1652 edition (together with a variant of the same year)
are the only of Scheiner’s works to be printed in England.
(1)
£500-800
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526 Smith (George, of Kendal, Westmorland). The Nature of
Fermentation Explain’d; with the Method of Opening the Body of
any Grain or Vegetable Subject, so as to obtain from it a Spirituous
Liquor: Exemplified by the Process of preparing Rum, as ‘tis
manag’d in the West-Indies..., To which is added, a Collection of
several Compound Cordial Waters, with the Art of preparing some
Articial Wines, not hitherto publish’d. By way of Appendix to the
Compleat Body of Distilling, 1st edition, London: Bernard Lintot,
1729, bound with The Practical Distiller, Or, a Brief Treatise of
Practical Distillation. In which the Doctrine of Fermentation is
Methodically Explain’d... With the Description of a New EngineStill..., To which is added, by way of Appendix, a Treatise of making
Artificial Wines from several Fruits of the British Production..., 1st
edition, London: B. Lintot, 1734, engraved frontispiece, few ink
marks and dust-soiling mostly to title, bound with at front Smith
(George, of Kendal, Westmorland), A Compleat Body of Distilling,
Explaining the Mysteries of that Science..., Containing an Exact and
accurate Method of making all the Compound Cordial-Waters now
in use, with a particular Account of their several Virtues..., 2 parts in
one, 2nd edition, London: Henry Lintot, 1731, engraved frontispiece
and publisher’s book list at front (both leaves frayed & torn at head),
dampstaining and some toning & occasional marks throughout
volume, contemporary sheep, boards detached and worn, 8vo
527 Thenard (Louis Jacques). Traite de chimie elementaire,
theorique et pratique, suivi d’un essai sur la philosophie chimique
et d’un precis sur l’analyse, 5 vols., 6th edition, Paris, 1834,
numerous engraved plates, some spotting, lacking free endpapers,
later cloth backed paste-paper covered boards, 8vo, together with
Trousseau (Armand), Clinique médicale de l’Hotel-Dieu de Paris, 3
vols., 3rd edition, Paris, 1868, engraved portrait frontispiece to
volume 1, some spotting, contemporary green quarter sheep gilt,
8vo, with Traite de Therapeutique et de Matiere Medicale, new
edition, Brussels, 1843, ink stamp to title, some browning,
contemporary quarter sheep, extremities rubbed, large 8vo, plus
Silberstein (Ludwik), The Theory of Relativity, 2nd edition, enlarged,
1924, original cloth gilt, 8vo
(10)
£150-200
Cagle 999 (first title) & Cagle 998 (third title, for 1st edition of 1725).
(1)
£200-300
THE NICHOLAS AMBRASEYS SEISMOLOGY COLLECTION
Nicholas Neocles Ambraseys (1929-2012) was one of the leading figures of engineering seismology. Amongst his most enduring
contributions is the advancement in the understanding of seismic slope stability, together with his rigorous collection of new data and
interpretation of historical data. He was appointed Professor of Engineering Seismology at Imperial College London in 1974, having earned
his PhD there in 1958. For many years Ambraseys was considered the absolute authority in earthquake engineering and seismology.
528 Ballore (D. de Montessus). Les Tremblements de Terre,
Geographie Seismologique, Paris: Armand Colin, 1906, three folding
plates, black and white illustrations to text, library ink stamps to title,
contemporary half morocco, rubbed and worn with slight loss to
spine, 8vo, together with Funk (Franz Ernst Theodor), Versuch
einer aug Theorie und Erfahrung gegrundeten Darstellung der
wichtigsten Lehren der Hydrotechnik, Berlin: August Petsch, 1820,
folding map, slight scattered spotting, ownership inscription in red
ink to title, contemporary paper-covered boards, 4to, plus other
seismology titles, mainly French and German
(9)
530 Japan. The Great Earthquake of 1923 in Japan & Companion
Maps and Diagrams, 2 volumes, The Bureau of Social Affairs, Home
Offfice, Japan, 1926, 88 plates, 91 illustrations in text, 7 diagrams,
11 folding maps, original publisher’s cloth, damp affected and
stained, 8vo, together with a broken run of the Transactions of the
Seismological Society of Japan, volumes 1-11, 15-16, 1880-92, plus
four odd volumes of the Journal of the College of Science Imperial
University, Japan, 1887-1895
(11)
£200-300
£150-200
529 Davison (Charles). The Hereford Earthquake of December 17,
1896, Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1899, black and white
illustrations to text, partly uncut, ownership inscription ‘N.
Ambraseys’ to half-title, original publisher’s cloth, 8vo, together with
Milne (David), Notices of Earthquake-shocks felt in Great Britain,
and Especially in Scotland, with inferences suggested by these
notices as to the cuases of such shocks, Edinburgh: printed by Neill
& Co., 1841, ownership inscription to title, presentation inscription
to Sir William Marjoribanks from the author, modern cloth, 8vo, plus
Davison (Charles), A History of British Earthquakes, Cambridge:
University Press, 1924, half-title, black and white illustrations to text,
owernship inscription to front free endpaper, original publisher’s
cloth, few minor marks, 8vo, plus another title relating to the East
Anglian Earthquake of 1884
(4)
£200-300
Lot 531
122
Lot 532
531 [Lozano, Pedro]. A True and Particular Relation of the
Dreadful Earthquake which happen’d at Lima, the Capital of Peru
and the neighbouring Port of Callao, on the 28th of October,
1726..., T. Osborne, 1748, folding, engraved map frontispiece,
eight further folding engraved plates, plans and maps, ownership
inscription of Professor N. Ambraseys to title, contemporary calf,
a little scuffed, 8vo
Sabin 42593.
(1)
535 Palmieri (Luigi). The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872..., with notes
and an Introductory Sketch... by Robert Mallett, Asher & Co., 1873,
few black and white plates (including one or two folding), original
publisher’s decorative cloth, boards detached, rubbed and worn,
8vo, together with Robert Mallet’s Report on the Facts of
Earthquake Phaenomena
(2)
£300-500
536 Pigonati (Cavaliere Andrea). Memoria del Riaprimento del
Porto di Brindisi sotto il Regno di Ferdinando IV, Naples: Michele
Morelli, 1781, vignette title, engraved plate of spiders to letterpress,
folding engraved plan of Brindisi, lacking folding engraved prospect,
library inkstamp to verso of title, bound with [Monticelli, Giovanni],
Difesa della Citta’ e Porti di Brindisi, Naples, 1831, library ink stamp
to title, bound with [Monticelli, Francescantonio], Dimostrazione
Teoretica e Pratica della necessita ed utilita di ristaurare tra Monopoli
e Brindisi..., Naples, 1834, 36pp., bound with Terza Memoria in
difesa della Citta’ e de’ Porti di Brindisi, Naples, 1833, lacking folding
plan, 19th century quarter morocco, a little rubbed to joints, 4to
532 Mallet (Robert). Great Neopolitan Earthquake of 1857, the First
Principles of Observational Seismology, 2 volumes, Chapman and
Hall, 1862, folding colour lithograph frontispiece, numerous colour
lithograph plates, black and white illustrations to text, large folding
maps to pocket, ownership inscription N. Ambraseys to front free
endpaper and title, publisher’s adverts bound at rear of volume two,
modern cloth, 8vo
(2)
£300-500
533 Michelotti (Francesco Domenico). Sperimenti Idraulici.
Principalmente Diretti a Confermare la Teorica, e Facilitare la Pratica
del Misurare le Acque Correnti, 1st edition, Turin, 1767, folding
engraved portrait frontispiece, titles with engraved vignettes, nine
(of eleven) folding engraved plates, seven double-page tables,
modern cloth, 4to
(1)
£150-200
537 Switzer (Stephen). An Introduction to a General System of
Hydrostaticks and Hydraulicks, Philosophical and Practical, wherein
the most reasonable and advantages Methods of raising and
conducint water for the watering Noblemens and Gentlemens
Seats, Buildings, Gardens etc..., 2 volumes (bound as one), printed
for T. Astley et al, 1729, engraved frontispiece, nine (of sixty)
engraved folding plates only, damp-staining to first few signatures,
modern cloth, 4to
Francesco Domenico Michelotti (1710-1787) was professor of mathematics
at the University of Turin and a pioneering topographic and hydraulics
engineer.
£150-200
(1)
(1)
534 Milne (John and Burton, W.K.). The Great Earthquake in
Japan, 1891, plates by Kazumasa Ogawa, 1st ed., Yokahama, [1891],
twenty-nine photogravure plates (22.5 x 28cm) and line map,
scattered minor marginal spotting, original cloth gilt, a little rubbed
with little loss to foot of spine, oblong folio
(1)
£150-200
£150-200
538 Tunis Earthquake. Relaçam do Terremoto que ove na Cidade
de Tunes, capital daquelle reyno, esseitos que causau nos Barbaros
aquello ruina supersticiosas deprecaçoês que fizerao, parte segunda
e fim da Historia escrita por Hum Curioso..., Lisbon: Manuel Alvares,
[1753], 8pp. (b1-4), 19th century ownership inscription of Manuel
Bernardes Branco (1832-1900) to title, modern paper wrappers, 8vo
£150-200
We have not been able to trace any institutional copies in the UK.
£150-200
(1)
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MODERN ARCHITECTURE
The remaining portion of the Robert Hornung library
541 Berlage (Hendrick P.). Dr H.P. Berlage Bouwmeester 230
Afbeeldingen van Zijn Wek met een Inleiding door Ir Jan Gratama,
Rotterdam, W.L. & J. Brusse’s Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1925,
numerous monochrome illustrations from photographs, original
cloth backed boards with paper label to spine and upper cover, large
8vo, together with three other works by Berlage: De Ontwikkeling
der Moderne Bouwkunst in Holland, Amsterdam, 1925 (with title
page design by Berlage), original green cloth gilt, small 8vo,
Grundlagen & Entwicklung der Architektur, Berlin, 1908, original
cloth & Inleiding tot de kennis van de ontwikkeling der toegepaste
kunst, Rotterdam, 1923, original printed wrappers, a little rubbed and
spine somewhat darkened, 8vo
539 Adam (Peter). Eileen Gray, Architect/Designer, A Biography,
1st edition, Thames and Hudson, 2000, together with Bedoire
(Fredric), The Jewish Contribution to Modern Architecture 18301930, 1st edition, KTAV, 2004, numerous monochrome illustrations
after photographs, original blue cloth gilt in dust jacket, large 8vo,
VG, plus Isaacs (Reginald), Gropius, An illustrated biography of the
creator of the Bauhaus, 1st English edition, 1991, numerous
monochrome illustrations, mostly after photographs, original black
quarter cloth, lettered in red, in dust jacket, 4to, VG, and other
modern architecture history and reference, including catalogues, and
paperback editions, 8vo/4to, generally VG
(approx. 150)
£150-200
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£200-300
540 Bennett (T.P.). Architectural Design in Concrete, 1st edition,
Ernest Benn, 1927, monochrome illustrations after photographs by
F.R. Yerbury, original red cloth gilt in dust jacket, restrengthened to
head and foot of spine to verso, 4to, together with Mieras (J.P. &
Yerbury, F.R.), Dutch Architecture of the XXth Century, 1st edition,
Ernest Benn, 1926, numerous monochrome plates after photographs,
original orange cloth in dust jacket, rubbed and marked, 4to, plus
Ahlberg (Hakon), Swedish Architecture of the Twentieth Century,
with a preface by F.R. Yerbury, 1st edition, Ernest Benn, 1925,
monochrome plates and illustrations, original blue cloth gilt, a little
rubbed and some marks, thick 8vo, and other similar monographs on
modern architecture, published by Benn, Batsford, Studio, etc.,
including Recent English Domestic Architecture, 6 volumes, published
by Technical Journals, 1908-[1922], Lloyd, A History of English
Brickwork, 1925, 4 volumes of The Builder, 1901-03, etc.
542 Betjeman (John). Ghastly Good Taste or, a Depressing Story
of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1933,
folding panorama at end, errata slip, spare label tipped-in at end,
original cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed with marginal fading,
8vo, together with First and Last Loves, 1st ed., 1952, black and
white illustrations, original cloth, d.j. by John Piper, slight fading to
spine, 8vo, plus Of the Atmosphere of a Church, by J.N. Comper,
Sheldon Press, 1947, illustrations, original wrappers, slight marginal
soiling, 8vo, inscribed to upper wrapper: “You must certainly read
this. J. Betjeman XVII. XI. MCMXLVII”, with others including Image.
A Quarterly of the Visual Arts, vols. 1-8 [all published], 1949-52,
Murray’s Architectural Guides for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire &
Lancashire, 1948-55 and John O’ Connor’s Canals, Barges and
People, 1950
(45)
(18)
£200-300
£150-200
543 Collins (Peter). Concrete, The Vision of a New Architecture,
1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1959, & Changing Ideals in Modern
Architecture 1750-1950, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1965,
monochrome illustrations, both original cloth in dust jackets, very
slightly rubbed, large 8vo, together with Blake (Peter), The Master
Builders, 1st edition, 1960, monochrome plates after photographs,
original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, VG, plus Hope (Alice), Town
Houses, 1st edition, Batsford, 1963, numerous illustrations after
photographs, original cloth in dust jacket, very slightly rubbed to
extremities, small 4to, and others on British modern architecture
and architectural history
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£100-150
544 Design & Industries Association. The D.I.A. Quarterly, The
Journal of the Design and Industries Association, New Series,
numbers 1-14, September 1927-January 1931, monochrome plates
and illustrations, advertisements, etc., contemporary blue cloth gilt,
a little rubbed, 8vo, together with A New Body with New Aims,
Design & Industries Association July 1915, 39 pp. of text, original
plain wrappers, with paper label to upper cover, stitched as issued,
small slim 8vo, plus Thorpe (Joseph), An Aesthetic Conversion,
being independent notes by Joseph Thorpe, Heal & Son, circa 1930,
monochrome illustrations, original plain wrappers with paper label
to upper cover, small slim 8vo, and other 1920s and 1930s design
pamphlets, catalogues and related booklets, including Frank Pick,
An Edinburgh Address on Design & Industry, 1917, International
Exhibition of Modern Commerical Architecture, R.I.B.A. Galleries,
1929, Vernon Sommerfield, London Transport, A Record and A
Survey, 1934, etc.
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Lot 541
124
£150-200
Lot 544
Lot 545
545 Deutsche Werkbund. Jarhbuch des Deutschen Werkbundes, 5
volumes (Die Durchgeistigung der Deutschen Arbeit, Die Kunst in
Industrie und Handel, Der Verkehr, Deutsche Form im Kriegsjahr - Die
Ausstellung Koln 1914 & Kriegergraber im Felde und Daheim),
Jena/Munich, 1912-1915 & 1917, numerous monochrome illustrations
after photographs, all original printed boards (except final volume
bound in contemporary quarter cloth), rubbed and some marks, final
volume with original dust jacket (some marks and soiling and a little
frayed to upper and lower margins of upper cover), small 4to
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547 Gordon Russell Limited. The Furnishing of Hotels and
Restaurants, & The Furnishing of Schools & Public Buildings, circa
1950, 2 trade catalogues, each with numerous illustrations after
photographs, original printed wrappers, stitched as issued, slim 4to,
together with Race (Ernest), Race Furniture, March 1952,
illustrations after photographs, original black printed wrappers,
stitched as issued, some marks to edges, small oblong 4to, plus
other furniture trade catalogues and related, including Henry Hope
& Sons, Leadwork, 1927, Heal & Son, Chairs, Settees and Furnishing
Fabrics, A Book of Bedroom Furniture & Dining Room and Living
Room Furniture, 1933-35, etc.
£300-500
546 Brussels Exposition Universelle 1910. Deutschland’s
Raumkunst und Kunstgewerbe auf der Weltausstellung zu Brussel,
1910, Stuttgart, Verlag Julius Hoffmann, 1910, several colour plates,
numerous monochrome illustrations after photographs, original
printed advertisement for this publication loosely inserted at front,
original boards gilt, spine faded (generally a very good copy), 4to,
together with Die Form ohne Ornament, Werkbundausstellung,
1924 (Bucher der Form, Erster Band), Stuttgart, 1924, numerous
monochrome illustrations of household goods and furnishings,
signature of Ilse and Max Wolf to front endpaper, and with their
bookplate to front pastedown, original printed boards, large 8vo
(16)
The first work contains examples of the work of Behrens, Bruno Paul,
Worpswede, Rosenthal, Riemershmid and others.
(2)
£200-300
125
£100-150
550 Graf (Otto Antonia). Otto Wagner, Das Werk des Architekten,
1860-1902 & 1903-1918, 2 volumes, Vienna, Hermann Bohlaus,
1985, numerous monochrome illustrations, original red cloth gilt in
dust jackets, folio, VG, together with Junghanns (Kurt), Bruno Taut
1880-1938, Berlin, 2nd revised edition, 1983, numerous
monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, some marks
to edges, square 4to, plus Junghanns (Kurt), Der Deutsche
Werkbund, Sein erstes, Jahrzehnt, Berlin, 1982, colour and
monochrome plates, original cloth in dust jacket, a little frayed to
extremities, 4to, and others on early 20th century German
architecture and design, including Huter, Architecktur in Berlin 19001933, 1st edition, 1988, Dominikus Bohm, Munich, 1962, Hoepfner
& Neumeyer, Das Haus Wiegand von Peter Behrens in BerlinDahlem, Mainz, 1979, etc., many in dust jackets, but including
paperback editions, mostly 4to/8vo
(32)
£150-200
548 Dieckmann (Erich). Mobelbau in Holz, Rohr und Stahl (Die
Baubucher Band 11), Stuttgart, Julius Hoffmann, 1931, numerous
monochrome illustrations, mostly after photographs, original printed
wrappers, a little frayed to extremities, 4to, together with Schneck
(Adolf G.), Der Stuhl (Das Mobel als Gebrauchsgegenstand),
Stuttgart, Julius Hoffmann, 1937, numerous monochrome
illustrations, including many after photographs, original printed
wrappers, rubbed and chipped to spine and upper margins, 4to, plus
others on German architecture and design, including Camillo Sitte,
Der Stadtebau, 4th edition, Vienna, 1909, Haenel und Tscharmann,
Das Einzelwohnhaus der Neuzeit, 2 volumes, Das Mietwohnhaus
der Neuzeit, Die Wohnung der Neuzeit & Das Kleinwohnhaus der
Neuzeit, Die Wohnung fur das Existenzminimum, 3rd edition, 1933
(with contributions by Le Corbusier, Giedion, Gropius, Ernst May and
others), Joseph Popp, Bruno Paul, Munich, circa 1910, Fritz
Breuhaus, Landhauser und Innenraume, Dusseldorf, 1911, Albert
Speer, Die Neue Reichskanzlei, 4th edition, Munich, circa 1936, etc.
(40)
£250-350
551 Gropius (Walter). Neue Arbeiten der Bauhauswerkstatten
(Bauhausbucher 7), 1st edition, Munich, Albert Langen, 1925, 4
colour plates, monochrome illustrations, including many after
photographs, original yellow cloth, printed in red, some very light
marks (generally in clean condition), 8vo, together with Oud (J.J.P.).
Holländische Architektur (Bauhausbucher 10), 1st edition, Munich,
Albert Langen, 1926, monochrome illustrations, mostly after
photographs, typography designed by Moholy-Nagy, original yellow
cloth printed in red, slightly rubbed, contained in modern yellow
cloth drop-over book box, 8vo
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£200-300
549 Frank (Joseph). Werkbundsiedlung Internationale Ausstellung
Wien 1932, 70 Eingerichtete Hauser, Vienna, 1932, numerous
monochrome illustrations, mostly after photographs, adverts at rear,
original printed wrappers, a little rubbed to edges, oblong 8vo
Produced as a manifesto of the new housing, the 1932 Werkbundsiedlung
was the largest construction exhibition in Europe. The project was managed
by Joseph Frank with 30 architects from across the world including Gerrit
Rietveld designing 70 homes in Lainz on the outskirts of Vienna.
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£150-200
Lot 552
126
552 Breslauer (Alfred). Ausgefuhrte Bauten 1897-1927, mit einer
einleitung von Wilhelm von Bodes unter mitarbeit von Hermann
Schmitz, 1st edition, Berlin, 1927, tipped-in colour plates,
monochrome photogravure plates, original brown cloth gilt, morocco
label to spine, a little faded to spine and a little fraying to joints, 4to
556 Koch (Alexander). Academy Architecture and Architectural
Review, 20 volumes, a run, numbers 11-40, 1897-1911, numerous
monochrome illustrations, the first 10 volumes bound in
contemporary half plum cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, the remaining 10
volumes in original publisher’s blue cloth, very slightly rubbed, small
4to, together with Die Kunst, Monatshefte fur freie und
angewandte kunst, volumes 27, 44, 56, & 58, 1912-13, 1920-1921,
1926-1927 & 1927-1928, colour and monochrome plates and
illustrations, all original publisher’s cloth gilt, a little rubbed and first
volume very slightly faded to spine, together with Deutsche Kunst
und Dekoration, edited by Alexander Koch, volumes 61 & 62,
October 1927-September 1928, numerous colour and monochrome
plates and illustrations, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, rubbed and
some fraying to joints, plus Stadtebau Monatshefte fur
Stadtbaukunst, 2 volumes, 1926-1927, numerous monochrome
plates, original printed wrappers bound in, contemporary cloth with
paper label to spine of each volume, 4to
Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Alfred Breslauer in ink to front
endpaper to Lotte Salinger, dated 3rd July 1927. Lotte or Charlotte Salinger
was the daughter of Paul Salinger (1865-1942), the brother-in-law of Alfred
Breslauer and his architectural partner between 1901 and 1934.
(1)
£200-300
553 Holme (Charles, ed.). Arts & Crafts, A review of the work
executed by students in the leading art schools of Great Britain and
Ireland, The Studio, 1916, colour plates, monochrome plates and
illustrations, original blue cloth gilt, some marks, 4to, together with
Howarth (Thomas), Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Modern
Movement, 1st edition, 1952, monochrome plates at rear, original
cloth in dust jacket, 4to, plus others on the Arts & Crafts movement,
mostly modern publications, including Alan Crawford, C.R. Ashbee,
Architect, Designer & Romantic Socalist, Yale University Press, 1985,
Susan Weber Soros, E.W. Godwin, Aesthetic Movement Architect
and Designer, Yale University Press, 1999, John W. Waterer, Leather
in Life, Art and Industry, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1946, R.
Goodwin Smith, English Domestic Metalwork, 1st edition, F. Lewis,
1937, James D. Kornwolf, M.H. Baillie Scott and the Arts & Craft
Movement, 1st edition, 1972, etc., many in dust jackets, and
including many paperback editions and booklets, 8vo/4to
(approx. 100)
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557 Lethaby (William Richard). Form in Civilization, collected
papers on Art & Labour, Oxford University Press, 1922, half-title,
library ink stamp to title, original boards, a little dust-soiled, small
8vo, together with Art and Life, and the Building and Decoration of
Cities, a Series of Lectures by Members of the Arts and Crafts
Exhibition Society, delivered at the Fifth Exhibition of the Society in
1896, Rivington, Percival & Co., 1897, including essays by CobdenSanderson, Lethaby, Walter Crane and others, original cloth-backed
boards, few minor marks, 8vo, plus Scrip’s and Scraps by W. R.
Lethaby, gatehred and introduced by Alfred H. Powell, Cirencester:
Earle & Ludlow, black and white portrait frontispiece, plus others
relating to William Lethaby, including Town Theory and Practice,
edited by C. B. Purdom (with a contribution on Garden Cities by
Lethaby), and others
£200-300
554 Internationale Stadtebau Ausstellung 1926. Internationale
Stadtebau Ausstellung, Vienna, 1926, monochrome illustrations
after photographs, text in German and English, numerous adverts
at rear, folding colour map in pocket to inside rear cover, original
printed wrappers, lightly soiled (generally in good condition), 8vo,
together with Bittner (Josef), Neubauten der Stadt Wien (Die
Quelle, Mappe XIV), 2 volumes, Vienna, 1926, monochrome plates
after photographs, loosely contained in 2 cloth portfolios, with ties,
first volume rubbed and some surface soiling, and frayed to joints,
the second volume generally in good condition, plus others on
modern Viennese architecture and design, including Rochowanski,
Josef Hoffmann, 1950, Boltenstern, Wiener Mobel (Die Baubucher
Band 16), 1935, etc., mainly 4to
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(10)
£200-300
558 Nash (Paul). Room and Book, 1st ed., Soncino Press, 1932,
colour and black and white illustrations, one or two light spots,
partial toning to endpapers, original cloth, d.j., spine a little darkened,
with small tears, 8vo
(1)
£100-150
£100-150
559 Perks (Sydney). Residential Flats of All Classes including
Artisans’ Dwellings, 1st edition, Batsford, 1905, folding plans,
monochrome plates after photographs, etc., some light spotting to
endpapers, top edge gilt, original maroon cloth gilt in bright
condition, 4to, together with Dan (Horace and Willmott, E.C.
Morgan), English Shop-fronts Old and New, 1st edition, Batsford,
1907, monochrome photogravure plates, top edge gilt, original red
cloth gilt in bright condition, 8vo, plus Edwards (A. Trystan), The
Architecture of Shops, 1st edition, 1933, monochrome plates after
photographs, etc., original cloth in dust jacket, rubbed and some
light soiling, large 8vo, and others related, mostly early 20th century,
including Lawrence Weaver, Memorials and Monuments, Country
Life, 1915, Christopher Hussey, The Picturesque, Studies in a Point
of View, 1st edition, 1927 (with dust jacket), Joseph Crouch &
Edmund Butler, Churches, Mission Halls and Schools for
Nonconformists, Birmingham, 1901, Thomas Mawson, An Imperial
Obligation, Industrial Villages for Partially Disabled Soldiers & Sailors,
1917, 3 volumes Transactions of the National Association for the
Advancement of Art and Its Application to Industry, Liverpool, 1888,
Edinburgh, 1889 and Birmingham, 1890, etc., all original cloth,
mostly 8vo
555 Kahn (Moritz). The Design & Construction of Industrial
Buildings, 1st edition, Technical Journals, 1917, monochrome
illustrations after photographs of factories and related buildings,
original vellum-backed printed boards, a little rubbed, 8vo, together
with Gloag (John, editor), Design in Every Day Life & Things, The
Year Book of the Design & Industries Association 1926/27,
monochrome plates after photographs, original cloth, rubbed, 8vo,
plus Weaver (Sir Lawrence), Tradition & Modernity in Plasterwork,
1st edition, 1928, Gas Fires and Their Settings, 1st edition, Fanfare
Press, 1929 & Laminated Board and Its Uses, a study of modern
furniture and decoration, 1st edition, Fanfare Press, 1930, colour
frontispiece to second title, monochrome illustrations to each volume,
original vellum-backed boards/original boards, the second title with
printed dust jacket, rubbed and marked, third title with some wear to
spine, slim 4to, and others similar, including Joseph Crouch &
Edmund Butler, The Apartments of the House, their arrangement,
furnishing and decoration, 1900, James Hole, The Homes of the
Working Classes, with suggestions for their improvement, 1866, John
Birch, Examples of Labourers’ Cottages, 1871, Budgett Meakin,
Model Factories and Villages, 1905, H.P. Creswell, The Honeywood
File/The Honeywood Settlement, 1929-30 (with autograph letter from
Percy Hastings to Sir William Bull tipped in to first volume, dated 8th
January 1930), Who’s Who in Architecture, 1914, 1923 & 1926, etc.
(40)
£200-300
(22)
£150-250
127
£200-300
560 Pevsner (Nikolaus). An Enquiry into Industrial Art in England, 1st edition,
Cambridge University Press, 1937, monochrome plates after photographs, oriignal
cloth gilt, large 8vo, together with Academies of Art Past & Present, 1st edition,
Cambridge University Press, 1940, monochrome plates, original cloth gilt in dust
jacket, a little rubbed and chipped to head of spine, large 8vo, plus Williams-Ellis
(Clough), Britain and the Beast, 1st edition, 1937, monochrome plates and
illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and others related, including Clough
Williams-Ellis, C.H. Reilly, etc.
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Lot 561
£100-150
561 Piper (John). Buildings and Prospects, 1st edition, Architectural Press, 1948,
lithograph title and frontispiece, black & white plates and illustrations, original cloth in
dust-jacket, together with Gorman (Maurice & Dunnett, H. McG.), Inside the Pub, 1st
edition, Architectural Press, 1950, black & white plates & illustrations, colour illustrations
by Gordon Cullen, original cloth in dust-jacket, with Jones (Barbara), The Unsophisticated
Arts, 1st edition, Architectural Press, 1951, black & white plates and illustrations, original
cloth in dust-jacket, and Richards (J.M.), The Functional Tradition in Early Industrial
Buildings, 1st edition, Architectural Press, 1958, black & white plates and illustrations,
original cloth in dust-jacket, plus fourteen other Architectural Press publications including
Gardens in the Modern Landscape, by Christopher Tunnard, 1938, High Victorian Design
a study of the exhibits of 1851, by Nikolaus Pevsner, 1951, Lettering on Buildings by
Nicolete Gray, 1960, New Houses collected and described by Penelope Whiting, ARIBA,
1964, and Exhibition Design, edited by Misha Black, new edition, 1951, all original cloth
in dust-jackets, few with light fraying to edges, all 4to, G/VG
(18)
£200-300
562 Plan. Architectural Students Association Journal, numbers 1-9, 1948-51,
numerous monochrome illustrations and adverts, etc., original printed wrappers,
spirally-bound, very slightly rubbed (generally in very good condition), 8vo
(9)
£150-200
563 Purdom (C.B.). The Building of Satellite Towns, a contribution to the study of
town development and regional planning, 1st edition, 1925, numerous monochrome
plates and illustrations after photographs, etc., original green cloth gilt in bright
condition, with dust jacket, a little rubbed and light soiling, large 8vo, together with
Unwin (Raymond), Town Planning in Practice, an introduction to the art of designing
cities and suburbs, 1st edition, 1909, monochrome plates and illustrations, some
occasional light spotting, top edge gilt, original green cloth gilt, rubbed, large 8vo,
plus Davison (T. Raffles), Port Sunlight, a record of its artistic & pictorial aspect, 1st
edition, Batsford, [1916], colour frontispiece, monochrome plates, original giltdecorated cloth, very slightly rubbed, large 8vo, and others on garden cities and town
planning, including W. Alexander Harvey, The Model Village and Its Cottages:
Bournville, Batsford, 1906, Raymond Unwin & M.H. Baillie Scott, Town Planning and
Modern Architecture at the Hampstead Garden Suburb, 1909, etc., including some
pamphlets, 8vo/4to
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Lot 562
£150-200
564 R.I.B.A. International Architecture 1924-1934, Catalogue to the Centenary
Exhibition of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1934, a few colour and many
monochrome illustrations, original pictorial wrappers with design by John Farleigh,
small 4to, VG, together with Reports on the Present Position and Tendencies of the
Industrial Arts, as indicated at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and
Industrial Arts, Paris, 1925, colour and monochrome plates, original cloth with label
to spine, rubbed and spine label somewhat worn, 4to, plus Illustrated Souvenir, The
Royal Academy Exhibition of British Art in Industry, 1935, numerous monochrome
illustrations, original printed wrappers, small 4to, and others similar, including W.
Aumonier, Modern Architectural Sculpture, 1st edition, Architectural Press, 1930,
Michel Roux-Spitz, Realisations, 2 volumes, [1932 & 1950], Siegvard Bernadotte &
Johs. Lehm-Laursen, Moderne Dansk Boligkunst, 2 volumes, 1946-47, Michael Farr,
Design in British Industry, a Mid-Century Survey, with a foreword and postscript by
Nikolas Pevsner, Cambridge University Press, 1955, etc.
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£150-200
Lot 564
128
566 Read (Herbert). Art and Industry, The Principles of Industrial
Design, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1934, numerous monochrome
illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, a little rubbed and chipped
to joints, together with Conran (Terence), Printed Textile Design,
The Studio How To Do It series 74, 1st edition, 1957, monochrome
illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, very slightly frayed to
extremities, 4to, plus Games (Abram), Over My Shoulder, 1st
edition, Studio Books, 1960, colour and monochrome illustrations,
original pictorial boards in bright condition, small 4to, and others
similar, including Organic Design In Home Furnishing by Eliot F.
Noyes, Museum of Modern Art, 1941, Art for All, the story of
London Transport posters, 1949, Ashley Havinden, Advertising and
the Artist, The Studio, 1956, Next Station, Railway Plans for the
Future, by Christian Barman, 1947, Modern Publicity, 3 volumes,
1935-6, 1936-7 and 1937-8, etc.
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567 Roux-Spitz (Michel). Realisations, 2 volumes (1924/1932 &
1932-1939), Paris, Editions Vincent Freal & Cie, [1932/1950],
numerous monochrome illustrations after photographs, original
cloth/original printed wrappers, 4to, together with Patout (P.),
L’Architecture Officielle et les Pavillons, Paris, Editions Ch. Moreau,
1925, monochrome plates after photographs, contents loosely
contained in original cloth-backed portfolio boards, rubbed and some
marks, and a little fraying to head and foot of spine, 4to, plus others
similar on modern architecture, printed in French, including Alberto
Sartoris, Encyclopedie de l’Architecture Nouvelle, 2 volumes, 2nd/1st
edition, Milan, 1957, Camillo Sitte, L’Art de batir les Villes, Geneva &
Paris, 1902, Marcel Chappey, Architecture Internationale, Paris,
Vincent Freal, circa 1925, etc.
565 Raymond (Antonin). Antonin Raymond His Work in Japan 19201935, edited by Katsuya Nakamura, Tokyo 1935, inscribed as a gift
from the architect to R. Lester Buffins Architect Chicago, Honolulu,
numerous illustrations from photographs, spiral-bound cloth binding,
together with Raymond (Antonin), Antonin Raymond Architectural
Details, Architectural Press, London and Kyobashi-Ku, Tokyo, 1938,
numerous illustrations from photographs, spiral-bound cloth, (one of
1000 copies), plus an autobiography of the architect, all 4to
(3)
£150-200
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£150-200
£200-300
568 Smithson (Alison & Peter). The Euston Arch and the Growth
of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, foreword by Nikolaus
Pevsner, 1st edition, Thames and Hudson, 1968, numerous
monochrome illustrations, original cloth backed pictorial boards,
oblong folio, together with Banham (Reyner), The New Brutalism,
Ethic or Aesthetic?, 1st edition, Architectural Press, 1966, numerous
monchrome illustrations after photographs, etc., original black cloth
gilt in dust jacket, very slightly rubbed to extremities, 4to, plus others
similar, including R. Myerscough-Walker, The Perspectivist, 1st
edition, Pitman, 1958, Reyner Banham, A Guide to Modern
Architecture, Architectural Press, 1962 & The Architecture of the
Well-Tempered Environment, Architectural Press, 1969, Architects’
Year Book, numbers 1 & 5, 1945/53, etc., mostly original cloth in
dust jackets, 4to
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Lot 566
129
£150-200
569 Taut (Bruno). Houses and People of Japan, 2nd edition, Tokyo,
Sanseido, 1958, numerous monochrome illustrations after
photographs, original cloth/original printed wrappers respectively,
4to, VG, together with other modern architecture monographs,
including Jose F. Rafols, Antonio Gaudi, Barcelona, 1929, J.L. Sert,
Can Our Cities Survive?, Harvard University Press, 1944, Richard P.
Lohse, Neue Ausstellungsgestaltung, 1953, Robert Winkler, Das
Haus des Architekten, 1955, mostly original cloth, many in dust
jackets, mainly 4to
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572 Trade Catalogues. Practical “Moderne” Houses by Wates,
Builders of Quality Homes, 98 London, Mitcham, Surrey, circa 1934,
numerous illustrations, original pictorial wrappers stapled as issued,
oblong 4to, together with other various architectural trade
catalogues, including John Laing & Son, 1937, Country Gentleman’s
Association, Artistic Country Buildings, 3 volumes, 1911, 1913-14 &
circa 1915, John P. White, Bedford, Garden Furniture and Ornament,
circa 1900, Daily Mail Designs for Ideal (Workers) Homes, 1919, The
Daily Mail Bungalow Book, 1922, Red Triangle Cement Organisation,
Ideal Houses, 1928, etc.
£200-300
(15)
570 Teige (Karel). MSA (Mezinárodní Soudobá Architektura)
volumes 1 & 3, Prague, 1929-31, numerous monochrome
illustrations throughout, advertisements to front and back, original
colour printed wrappers bound in, wrappers and adjacent pages
slightly dust soiled, modern cloth, 4to
£150-200
573 Wijdeveld (H. Th.). Kultuur en Kunst verzamelde opstellen
1917-1929, Amsterdam: De Speighel, 1929, presentation inscription
from the author in purple ink to initial blank, original publisher’s
decorative cloth, 8vo, typed letter signed from the author loosely
inserted, together with Bromberg (Paul), De Kleine Practishche
Woning, Amsterdam: Kosmos, 1937, colour frontispiece, black and
white illustrations throughout, original publisher’s cloth in d.j., jacket
a little creased and torn to spine, Het Hollandsche Interieur,
Amsterdam: Kosmos, moderne schoonheid series, black and white
plates to rear, some scattered spotting, bookplate for Edward
Leonard to upper pastedown, original publisher’s wrappers in
original overwrapper, 4to, plus Fokker (J. P.), Het Eigen Huis,
Amsterdam: Kosmos, 1938, moderne schoonheid series, black and
white illustrations throughout, original publisher’s wrappers in
original overwapper, a little rubbed and scuffed, 4to, plus other Dutch
titles, including six volumes of Nederlandsche Ambachts en
Nijverheidskunst
First and third volumes of this important Czech publication featuring
contributions from M. J. Ginsburg, Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe, Marcel
Bruer, Jaroslav Fragner, Walter Gropius, Ladovskij, G. Rietveld, Pavel Smetana
and others.
£200-300
(2)
571 Teige (Karel). Práce Jaromíra Krejcara, Prage: Václav Petr.,
1933, numerous monochrome illustrations throughout, one or two
colour illustrations, title printed in orange and black, original
publisher's cloth, rubbed with slight loss to head and foot of spine,
4to, together with Reiman (Viktor, editor), Bedrich Feuerstein,
Prague: S. V. U. Mánes, 1936, monochrome portrait frontispiece,
numerous further monochrome illustrations, modern cloth, 4to, plus
Grus (Josef, A. Heythum, H. Kucerova, Fr. Selenka and L. Zak,
editors), Byt, Sborník Svazu cesklovenského díla [Home, Yearbook
of the Union of Czechoslovak Industries and Design], Prague: Vaclav
Petr, 1934, 234 illustrations from photographs (including some by J.
Sudek), original printed wrappers, slight loss to spine (repaired),
joints rubbed, slightly frayed at edges, folio, plus other Czech
architecture and design, including Katalog Vystava mezinárodní nové
architektury, 1929, Architekt, B. Schwarz, 1938, Padesát let Státní
umeleckoprumyslovéskoly [Fifty years of the State School of Applied
Arts in Prague, 1935], Jan Kotera, Meine und Meiner Schuler
Arbeiten, and another related
574 R.I.B.A. Catalogue of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Library, 2 volumes, reprinted Dawsons, 1972, original grey cloth gilt,
thick 4to, together with Catalogue of The Drawings Collection of the
Royal Institute of British Architects (C.F.A. Voysey by Joanna
Symonds & Edwin Lutyens by Margaret Richardson), 1976/73,
Journal of The Royal Institute of British Architects, 11 volumes, a run,
volumes 56-66, 1949-59, and other architectural interest, including
Twentieth Century Architecture series, numerous journals,
booksellers’ catalogues, etc.
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(-)
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£200-300
Lot 572
130
£150-200
£100-200
ART REFERENCE
575 A-D Publishing Company. PM & A-D Magazine, An Intimate
Journal for Art Directors, vols. 6 & 7, New York, October 1939 September 1941, comprising 12 issues bound in two volumes,
numerous black & white and colour plates and illustrations, mounted
paper samples, contemporary blue cloth, 8vo
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578 Canova (Antonio and Ennio Quirino Visconti). A Letter from
the Chevalier Antonio Canova and Two Memoirs read to the Royal
Institute of France on the Sculptures in the Collection of the Earl of
Elgin by the Chevalier E.Q. Visconti... translated from the French and
Italian, John Murray, 1816, very slight spotting to first few leaves,
bookplates of Chrispher Tower and John Waldie to front endpapers,
contemporary green calf, a little rubbed, spine slightly faded, 8vo
£70-100
576 Amandry (Pierre). Collection Helene Stathatos: I. Les bijoux
antiques; II. Les objets byzantins et Post-byzantins; III. Objets
Antiques et byzantins, 3 volumes, University of Strasburg, 1953-63,
plates to each volume, minor marks to half-title of volume 3,
ownership inscriptions of J.L. Caskey to each front pastedown,
inscription from Helene Stathatos to Professor Mrs Caskey dated
June 1957 to half-title of volume 2, volumes 1 and 2 contemporary
half morocco gilt (upper compartment of volume 2 torn without
loss), volume 3 bound in contemporary matching burgundy cloth, all
a little rubbed with slight edge wear, upper joints to volume 1 a little
tender, folio
Blackmer 280.
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£70-100
579 Cartier-Bresson (Henri). China in Transition, a Moment in
History, Thames & Hudson, 1956, half-title, 144 black and white
illustrations from photographs, original publisher’s yellow cloth, a
little rubbed and scuffed, 4to
(1)
£200-300
580 Cotman (John Joseph, 1814-1878). Introduction to the Study
of the Anatomy of the Human Body; particularly designed for the
use of Painters, Sculptors, and Artists in General: translated from
the German of John Henry Lavater, 1st edition, Ackermann, 1824,
twenty-seven lithograph plates, near contemporary inscription on
front pastedown, pencil sketches on endpapers and the verso of
final two plates, original roan-backed boards, with printed label on
upper cover, worn, with spine lacking, and covers detached, 8vo
A fourth volume, ‘Bijoux et Petits Objets’, was published in 1971.
£150-200
(3)
Inscribed on the front pastedown: ‘Given to J.S. Cotman by his Father. June
28th 1834’. The pencil drawings, presumably by English landscape painter
John Joseph Cotman (son of John Sell Cotman), comprise mainly of figure
and animal studies.
£100-150
(1)
577 [Bisschop, Jan de]. Signorum veterum Icones per D.
Gerardum Reynst urbis Amsterlaedami Senatorem ac Scabinum
dum viveret Dignissiumum Collectae..., Amsterdamn; Nicolai
Visscher, [circa 1671], engraved titlepage by Gerard de Lairesse,
ninety-eight copper engraved plates of classical sculptures,
additional sequence of thirteen copper engraved plates, lettered AM bound at rear, occasional slight spotting (generally clean condition
with wide margins), later calf-backed marbled boards, gilt stamp of
the Signet Library to upper and lower covers, some wear with upper
cover detached and loss to spine, folio (42.5 x 26cm)
581 Foster (Myles Birket, 1825-99). Birket Foster’s Pictures of
English Landscape. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. India Proofs
[1863], 30 wood engravings on india paper, mounted on card, with
title page, some scattered spotting, mostly to margins, all edges gilt,
contemporary gilt-decorated brown crushed full morocco, inside gilt
dentelles, a little rubbed to edges (generally in very good condition),
atlas 4to (52.5 x 40.5cm)
A unique presentation copy from the engravers to the artist himself, inscribed
in brown ink to blank leaf before title ‘To Birket Foster Esq. with the kind
regards of The Brothers Dalziel, Apl 29th 1863’, with the artist’s bookplate to
front pastedown. Exceptionally fine engraver’s proof impressions after Birket
Foster’s landscape views, mostly of Surrey where the artist had moved in
that same year.
£200-400
(1)
An anthology of classical antiquities designed for the use of artists in 17th
century Holland.
(1)
£200-300
131
582 Goldman (Hetty, editor). Excavations at Gozlu Kule, Tarsus.
The Iron Age, volume 3 (Text/Plates), 2 volumes, Princeton
University Press, 1963, plates and plans, original cloth in dust
jackets, a little chipped and soiled and sunned on spines, together
with Iakovides (Spyridon), Perate. To Nekrotapheion [Greek letters],
3 volumes, Athens, 1969-70, some plates including 4 colour,
contemporary blue cloth, plus Brann (Eva T.H.), The Athenian Agora:
volume VIII, Late Geometric and Protoattic Pottery, mid 8th to late
7th Century BC, Princeton, New Jersey, 1962, black and white
plates, original cloth gilt, a little rubbed, all 4to, plus other largeformat archaeology in various languages
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£200-300
583 Gruel (Leon). Manuel Historique et Bibliographique de
L’Amateur de Reliures, 2 vols., Paris: Gruel & Engelmann, 1887-1905,
numerous tinted and colour plates, mostly heliogravures,
illustrations to text, original upper printed wrapper bound-in, top
edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, hinges cracked, contemporary half
morocco gilt, neatly rebacked preserving original spines, 4to
Limited editions 783/1000 & 357/1000 respectively.
(2)
£300-400
585 London Bulletin, edited by E.L.T. Mesens, nos. 18-20, June
1940, 2 colour woodcuts by S.W. Hayter and John Banting, colour
and monochrome illustrations, original printed wrappers, a little
rubbed and some fraying to spine, with a little loss, small 4to,
together with London Gallery. Catalogue of the Exhibition The
Cubist Spirit in its Time, 18 March-3 May 1947, organised by E.L.T.
Mesens, London Gallery Ltd., 1947, monochrome plates, original
printed light blue wrappers, a few marks and some light handling
marks, slim small 4to, plus Dalvit (Oskar, 1911-1975). 10 Tafeln nach
Originalen des Kunstlers, Berne, Marbach-Verlag, 1950, printed
introductory text, and 10 plates (including a colour woodcut, signed,
dated and numbered 43/1000 in pencil), all loosely contained in
original portfolio wrappers, bookplate of J.D.H. Catleugh to front
pastedown, dated 19 October 1950, some minor marks, small slim
4to, and other modern art catalogues and similar publications,
including Stedelijk Museum. Acht Argentijnse Abstracten, [1953],
Vitalita nell’Arte, Centro Internazionale delle arti e del Costume,
Venice, Palazzo Grassi, August-October 1959, Fourteen Americans,
edited by Dorothy C. Miller, with statements by the artists and
others, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946, Wolfgang Paalen,
Form and Sense (Problems of Contemporary Art, No. 1), New York,
Wittenborn and Company, 1945, Henry Focillon, The Life of Forms
in Art, 2nd English edition, enlarged, New York, 1948, Atelier 17.
Fourteenth Exhibition of Prints by members of the Atelier 17 Group,
Laurel Gallery, New York, March 14 to April 1st, 1949, etc.
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£150-200
584 Jones (Owen). The Grammar of Ornament, illustrated by
examples from various styles of ornament, Day and Son, [1865], 112
chromolithograph plates, tissue-guard to each, contents partially
loosened, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated maroon cloth, very
slighty rubbed (generally in good condition), folio (34.5 x 24cm)
(1)
£100-150
132
588 Smith (Joseph, publisher). Ecclesiarum Angliae et Valliae
Prospectus or Views of the Cathedrals in England and Wales of the
Collegiate Church of Westminster and South-well & of the Royal
Chapel of St. George at Windsor, Accurately Engrav’d on Copper
Plates by the best Artists and printed on Imperial paper, To which is
prefixed an Historical Account of each of them, printed for Joseph
Smith, 1719-[1724], engraved vignette title with text in English and
French, additional letterpress title printed in red and black (Nouveau
Theatre de la Grande Bretagne... tome troisieme), dated 1724,
24pp. double column letterpress text in English and French, twentyseven engraved plates only, by James Cole, H. Hulsbergh, William
Emmett, J. Harris, and I. Collins (of which twenty-two are doublepage or folding), including large folding plate showing the interior
of St Paul’s Cathedral, London (closed tear to fold without loss),
contents partly loose, bookplate of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana to
front pastedown, early 19th century half calf, rubbed and some
wear, folio (sheet size 517 x 309mm)
586 Motif. A Journal of the Visual Arts, edited by Ruari McLean,
nos. 1-11 (of 13), November 1958 - Winter 1964, colour and black &
white illustrations throughout, original printed boards (original
printed wrappers to last two issues, Motif 10 with wrap-around
band), occasional light rubbing to extremities, 4to
With cover designs by Charles Mozley, Laurence Scarfe, Robert Stewart,
Richard Guyatt, Hans Unger, Alan Davie, and others.
£100-150
(11)
See Cicognara 3997 & 4003.
Not in Harris, British Architectural Books. An incomplete copy of the third
volume of Kip’s Britannia Illustrata, being the 1724 reissue of Joseph Smith’s
Ecclesiarum Angliae et Valliae of 1719, containing fine views of the major
churches and cathedrals of England and Wales.
£200-300
(1)
587 Picasso (Pablo). Carnet de la Californie, introduction de
Georges Boudaille, Paris, Editions Cercle d’Art, 1959, colour
lithograph facsimile plates, original printed wrappers, spirally-bound,
together with a separately printed booklet of text, both contained
in original pictorial portfolio boards, a few minor marks, tall folio,
together with Verve. Derniers Ouvres de Matisse 1950-1954, Verve
nos. 35-36, Paris, 1958, colour and monochrome lithographs and
illustrations, contents loose, original pictorial boards with design by
Matisse, rubbed and spine missing, folio, (sold with all faults), plus
Theatre Sarah Bernhardt. Soirée de Ballets, Paris, June 1945,
monochrome illustrations, etc., original pictorial wrappers, a little
rubbed and some soiling, slim folio
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589 Spencer (Gilbert). The Ten Commandments, Drawings by Gilbert
Spencer, Stanford Dingley, The Mill House Press, 1934, 13 tipped-in
reproduction monochrome plates, with accompanying text, some light
dampstaining to inner margins, and rear endpapers, original cloth,
somewhat soiled and with some damp marking, large folio
Printed in an edition of 75 copies by Kyrle Leng and Robert Gathorne Hardy,
this copy unnumbered. Provenance: From the collection of Lady Ottoline
Morrell. Gilbert Spencer was a close family friend of the Morrells, and a
frequent resident at Garsington Manor. Robert Gathorne Hardy was Lady
Ottoline’s literary executor and editor of her memoirs.
£100-150
(1)
£150-200
590 Verneuil (Maurice Pillard). Images d’une Femme. Vingt-quatre
etudes de nu..., Paris, 1931, 24 collotype plates, minor marks to text
pages, loosely contained as issued in original boards with printed
paper label to upper cover, cloth backstrip deficient and cloth tie
frayed, a little rubbed, 4to
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£100-150
GENERAL LITERATURE
593 Amery (Leo). The Times History of the War in South Africa, 7
volumes, 1st edition, 1900-09, photographic portrait frontispieces
(the first detached), plates, folding colour map in front pocket to 3
volumes, some foxing, uncut and partially unopened, some hinges
cracked, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, spines
unevenly faded, a few chips and tears, 8vo
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£100-150
594 Bauer (Elvira). Trau Keinem Fuchs auf Gruner Haid, und
Keinem Jud bei Seinem Eid! Ein Bilderbuch Für Gross Und Klein,
7th printing, Nuremberg, Sturmer-Verlag, 1936, 21 colour lithograph
illustrations, original pictorial boards with cloth backstrip and foreedges, edges a little rubbed, oblong 8vo
A virulent anti-semitic book for children published by Julius Streicher, written
by an 18-year-old kindergarten assistant.
£300-500
(1)
595 Bell (Clive). The Legend of Monte della Sibilla, or le paradis de
la reine sibille, printed and published by Leonard and Virginia Woold
at the Hogarth Press, 1923, frontispiece and two illustrations by
Duncan Grant, original decorative boards, a little dust-soiled, 8vo,
together with Murray (Gilbert), The Story of Nefrekepta from a
Demotic papyrus, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911, colour frontispiece,
original boards, slim 8vo, plus Gray (Thomas), The Poems of Thomas
Gray, privately printed for Eaton College, Riccardi Press, 1937, original
vellum, slightly dust-soiled, 8vo, plus another similar
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£100-150
596 Blyton (Enid). Real Fairies, 1st edition, J. Saville, 1923, front
endpapers renewed, original brown cloth, spine neatly repaired at
head, rear cover with vertical crease, upper cover with cloth lifting
slightly to lower right corner, small 8vo, together with Noddy’s
Garage of Books, 1st edition, Sampson Low, [1953], five booklets
with black & white illustrations, each with colour pictorial wrappers,
housed together in original cardboard case with flaps, both sides
strengthened with adhesive tape, plus three Mary Mouse strip
books: Mary Mouse and Her Family, 1st edition, 1946; Here Comes
Mary Mouse Again, 1st edition, 1947; We Do Love Mary Mouse,
c.1951, first item with juvenile scribblings and soiled covers, plus a
1st edition of Happy Holiday Clicky, 1961, in good condition, and four
Old Thatch Series in original cloth wrappers: The Tale of Mr. Wumble,
1934; The Adventures of Bobs, 1939; Animals at Home, 1942; Peter
Rabbit and His Friends, 1945
591 Vinci (Leonardo da). Recueil de, Testes de caractere & de
Charges dessinées Par Leonard de Vinci Florentin & gravées par M.
le C. de C. [Anne Claude Philippe comte de Caylus], Paris: J. Mariette,
1730 tinted etched title, 24 pages of text (containing the lettre sur
Leonard by Mariette, and 2pp. Catalogue des pieces qui ont este
gravèes), 60 etched sepia portraits on thirty-one leaves (including the
final plate by Cigoli), one trimmed and remargined at head & foot),
occasional minor spotting and light toning, hinges cracked,
contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco title
label, joints cracked and some wear to extremities, 4to
‘Real Fairies’ is Enid Blyton’s second book of poetry for children, published
following the success of ‘Child Whispers’.
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£70-100
There is some confusion over what constitutes a complete copy of this work:
Brunet V, 1258 and Cohen-de-Ricci 212 call for 40 plates, while Cohen-deRicci 623 calls for 36. This is particularly curious in the light of the catalogue
of Leonardo designs which accompanies this work as leaf C4, which states
that there are 59 images, as here. The British Library copy also agrees with
the present copy, having 59 etchings on 31 leaves, plus a final plate by Cigoli.
£200-300
(1)
592 Wallpaper Sample Book. Wall Decorations, The Hall Mark of
Art, Season 1912, [cover-title], approximately 150 wallpaper and
border samples, some staining and tears, and some with portions
excised, including anaglypta, floral and striped papers, art nouveau
designs, each with price ink stamped on verso, printed preface to
front pastedown with loss of left-hand half, rear pastedown with
illustration of picture and dado rail mouldings, original printed cloth
with wooden carrying handle, worn and soiled, remains of leather
tie, 43 x 26cm (17 x 10.25ins)
597 Butler (Samuel). The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of
Samuel Butler, Edited by Henry Festing Jones and A.T. Bartholomew,
20 volumes, London & New York, 1923, titles in red and black,
photographic frontispieces, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, patterned
endpapers, original quarter vellum gilt over blue cloth, spine unevenly
spotted and yellowed with occasional dust-soiling, 8vo, (limited
edition, 387/750), together with Chodzko (Alexander), Specimens
of the Popular Poetry of Persia... , 1st edition, 1842, a few old neat
red pencil marks to early leaves, some spotting, large book label to
front pastedown, contemporary cloth, some soiling and wear, joints
cracked, plus Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine, volumes 74 & 75
bound as 1, Philadelphia, 1867, hand-coloured folding fashion plate
frontispiece to both volumes, engraved plates and illustrations,
contemporary half morocco, rubbed on joints, large thick 8vo, plus
cloth-bound sets of John Ruskin (6 volumes), Thomas Carlyle (38
volumes) and Charles Lamb (12 volumes)
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£200-300
134
£200-300
Lot 594
Lot 599
598 Charaire (Georges). Daphné, variations sur un theme &
Daphné, nouvelles variations sur un theme, Brouillards, 1950-52,
two volumes, each with five lithogoraphs, 2pp. manuscript poem
on final blanks of first work, some scattered spotting, loose as
issued, contained with original publisher’s chemise, house in original
publisher’s slipcase, small folio
Limited editions of 55 and 88 respectively.
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£100-150
599 Christie (Agatha). Ten Little Niggers, 4th impression, Collins
Crime Club, November 1942, contemporary ownership signature to
front free endpaper, original cloth (slightly rubbed and faded along
upper and lower edges) in original 4/6 dust jacket, minor dust-soiling
and a few short closed tears, a little chipped at head and foot of
spine, 8vo
A very good example of this rare dust jacket which differs from that of the
infamous first edition of 1939. This green and yellow dust jacket with
letterpress in black and white has no pictorial elements and lists other
detective novels up until ‘Evil Under the Sun’ on rear panel.
£300-500
(1)
600 Christie (Agatha). Ten Little Niggers, Collins Crime Club,
reprint, 1958, a few waterstains, mainly to pp. 102-106, clear tape
marks front and rear with previous owner signature and manuscript
numbers, original red cloth, d.j., small nicks at spine ends, clear tape
marks to flap margins, 8vo
Scarce reprint with the dust-jacket reproduced from the 1939 first edition.
The book was retitled ‘And Then There Were None’ for the US first edition of
1940 and later further retitled ‘Ten Little Indians’.
£70-100
(1)
601 Cresset Press. The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan, 2 vols.,
1928, wood-engavings by Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude
Hermes, a few minor spots, previous owner inscription to front
endpapers, top edge gilt, original stained vellum, a little rubbed with
some fading, folio
Limited edition, 37/195.
(2)
Lot 601
£200-300
135
602 Dickens (Charles). The Letters of Charles Dickens: in Twelve
Volumes, The Pilgrim Edition, edited Madeline House, Graham
Storey and Kathleen Tillotson, Oxford University Press, 1965-2002,
original cloth in dust jackets, thick 8vo
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604 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). Edmund Dulac’s Picture-Book for the
French Red Cross, [1915], 19 tipped-in colour plates, black and white
portrait of the artist at end, scattered light spotting, original yellow
cloth in bright condition, d.j., spine toned, inset illustration to front
panel with crease marks, chipped at spine ends, 4to, together with
A Sporting Garland, by Cecil Aldin, [1902], colour illustrations (two
detached with a couple of frayed edges), a few minor spots, original
cloth-backed boards, some edgewear and stains, oblong folio, with
others illustrated including Peter Rabbit’s Painting Book, c. 1911
(defective spine)
£200-300
603 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). Stories from Hans Andersen, 1st
edition, Hodder & Stoughton, 1911, twenty-eight tipped-in colour
plates, including frontispiece (with manuscript ownership name on
reverse), one plate with a few biro marks, patterned endpapers
(toned), original olive green cloth gilt, some minor marks and
rubbing, spine faded, 4to, together with a 2nd edition of Stories from
the Arabian Nights, illustrated by Dulac, 1907, original cloth, spotted
and some wear, and Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illustrated by
Pogany, 1930, original cloth, soiled
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£100-150
605 Dulac (Edmund, 1882-1953). Autograph letter signed, 72,
Ladbroke Road, Holland Park, April 12th 1919, to Mrs. McBryde on
printed letterhead, thanking her for a photograph, and saying “It is
strange you should ask me for a portrait of your charming little girl
as I have just finished one of a little boy”, suggesting she come to
London to view it, and stating his terms as 00, written in Dulac’s
meticulously neat hand and signed ‘Edmund Dulac’, one page,
folded twice, 23 x 18cm (9 x 7ins), with original postmarked
envelope, loosely inserted in a copy of Edmund Dulac’s Fairy Book,
Hodder & Stoughton, [1919], fifteen tipped-in colour plates,
scattered spotting, original blue and cream pictorial cloth, spine
toned and slightly frayed at ends, corners showing, 4to
£100-150
Gwendolyn McBryde was the widow of James McBryde, close friend and
illustrator of M.R. James. James McBryde died in 1904 and the author was
named legal guardian of his friend’s daughter, Jane, who was born six months
after her father’s death. M.R. James maintained a lifelong friendship with
Gwendolyn and Jane, who became a surrogate family for him.
£150-200
(2)
606 Fielding (Henry). The Complete Works... , with an Essay on
the Life, Genius and Achievement of the Author, by William Ernest
Henley, 16 volumes, Drury Lane edition, New York, 1902, additional
engraved titles, frontispieces, colour and black and white plates, top
edge gilt, remainder uncut, original burgundy cloth with printed
paper labels to spines, 8vo
Limited edition, 18/385 copies, signed and numbered by W.E. Henley.
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£150-200
607 Folio Society. 72 volumes, including The Natural History of
Selbourne by Gilbert White, 2009, Religion and the Decline of Magic
by Keith Thomas, 2 volumes, 2012, Travels in West Africa by Mary
Kingsley, 2007, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, translated by
Edward Maccurdy, 3 volumes, 2004, plus others similar, all original
cloth and slipcases, 4to/8vo, all VG
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£150-200
608 Folio Society. 95 volumes, including The Canterbury Tales by
Geoffrey Chaucer, 1998, The Baburnama by Zahiruddin Muhammed
Babur, 2013, The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes, 1998, plus other
similar, all our original cloth and slipcases, 8vo/4o, VG
(95)
£150-200
609 Folio Society. 93 volumes, including Legends of the Ring by
Elizabeth Magee, 2004, Legends of the Grill by Richard Barber, 2007,
Myths and Legends of Ancient Rome by Lawrence Norfolk, 2008,
Italian Journey 1786-1877 by J.W. Goethe, 2010, plus others similar,
all original cloth in slipcases, 8vo/4to, all VG
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£150-200
610 Folio Society. 89 volumes, including The Collected Stories by
Anton Chekhov, 4 volumes, 2010, City of God by Saint Augustine, 2
volumes, 2012, The Arabian Nights, illustrated by E.J. Detmold, 1999,
plus others similar, all original cloth in slipcases, 8vo/4to, all VG
Lot 605
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136
£150-200
611 Folio Society. The Folio Poets, John Donne, Tennyson,
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Kipling, John Keats, W.B. Yeats (8
volumes in total), 2001-08, The Wealth of Nations, volumes 1-3, by
Adam Smith, 2008, The Victorians, by A.N. Wilson, 2008, The
Gunpowder Plot, The Narrative of Oswald Tesimold alias Greenway,
edited by Francis Edwards, 2005, together with 58 further history
and fiction Folio Society publications, numerous colour illustrations,
all original cloth in slipcases, G/VG, 8vo/4to
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614 Frost (Robert, 1874-1963). A group of 10 poems printed as
Christmas greetings booklets, New York: The Spiral Press, 1944/62,
the first four inscribed by the author to titles (one signed and one
initialled), mostly with a few woodcuts or wood-engravings, original
stapled printed wrappers (some pictorial, first booklet stitched as
issued), spines to 1951 and 1959 booklets frayed, 1957 a little
browned on spine and minor marks to lower wrapper, 1959 browned
on spine, 1960 a little light browning at upper margins and to
wrappers, 1961 browned on spine and partly on wrappers with split
at foot, 1962 a little marked, all slim 8vo and smaller sizes
£150-200
612 Folio Society. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell, 2001,
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 2011, Lord of the Flies, by William
Golding, 2009, The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett, 2000, A
Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, 2014, On the Road, by Jack
Kerouac, 2010, together with 67 further modern fiction Folio Society
publications, including John Le Carre, John Steinbeck, Robert
Graves, Grahame Green, Mark Twain, Frank Herbert, Philip K. Dick,
numerous colour illustrations, all original cloth in slipcases, VG, 8vo
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This lot consists of: An Unstamped Letter in our Rural Letter Box, 1944
(inscribed ‘[from] your neighbor R.F.’); Holiday Greetings, 1949 (inscribed ‘For
the Turners that may not forget the old neighborhood’); A Cabin in the
Clearing, 1951 (inscribed ‘[a new poem] about your country [comes to you
with Holiday Greetings] the most patriotic [Robert Frost] your old friend and
neighbor round the corner from the Rudesel*’, and beneath ‘*slurring name
in our annals’); One More Brevity, 1953, (inscribed from ‘Your old friend and
neighbor Robert Frost’); Kitty Hawk, 1956’; My Objection to Being Stepped
On, 1957; A-Wishing Well, 1959; Accidentally On Purpose, 1960; The WoodPile, 1961; The Prophets Really Prophecy as Mystics, The Commentators
Merely by Statistics, 1962.
£400-600
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£200-300
613 Folio Society. The Duke’s Children, by Anthony Trollope, The
Folio Society, 2015, top edge gilt, original half goatskin gilt,
commentary volume, both contained within original publisher’s
slipcase, 8vo, numbered 24 from an edition of 1980, together with
Troilus & Criseyde, by Geoffrey Chaucer, illustrated by Eric Gill, The
Folio Society, 2011, facsimile of the Golden Cockrel Press edition,
five full-page illustrations, numerous illustrations to text, text printed
in black and red, original gilt blocked goatskin, with commentary
volume, both contained within original publisher’s solander box,
folio, numbered 417 from an edition of 1250
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615 Golden Cockerel Press. Glory of Life, by Llewelyn Powys, with
wood engravings by Robert Gibbings, 1934, letterpress wood
engravings, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, original quarter
vellum gilt, cream cloth covers, soiled, folio
(1)
£150-200
616 Graves (Robert) & Liddell Hart. T.E. Lawrence to his
Biographers, 2 vols., Doubleday, Doran, New York, 1938, portrait
frontispiece to each, original cloth, dust jackets (spines toned),
slipcase remnant (lacking one and a quarter sides), 8vo, limited
edition, 50/1000 signed by Robert Graves and Liddell Hart, together
with Lawrence and the Arabs, by Robert Graves, 1st edition, 1927,
plus Upward (Edward), Journey to the Border, 1st edition, 1938,
original cloth (edges a trifle rubbed), dust jacket, spine toned with
small chips, 8vo, and Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas, 1st
edition, 1954, light marginal water stains at front, original cloth (light
stains to boards), price-clipped dust jacket, closed tear, repair to
verso, 8vo, and DreamTigers, by Jorge Luis Borges, 1st UK edition,
1973, illustrations, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, with others by T.S.
Eliot, Edward Upward etc.
£150-200
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£100-150
617 Greenaway (Kate). Marigold Garden, 1st edition, Routledge,
[1885], colour illustrations throughout, lightly toned and occasional
spotting, brown endpapers, red edges, original brown cloth-backed
glazed pictorial boards, somewhat rubbed and soiled, 4to, together
with A Day in a Child’s Life, 1st edition, Routledge, [1881], colour
illustrations throughout, green endpapers and edges, original green
cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, rubbed and soiled, 4to, plus
four other children’s books, including three by Kate Greenaway (A
Apple Pie, Language of Flowers, Birthday Book for Children)
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Lot 614
137
£80-120
619 Gregynog Press. On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John
Milton, 1937, one wood engraved plate by Alison Mckenzie, edges
untrimmed, original printed wrappers, slim folio, (limited edition
75/250), together with League of Nations Union, Welsh National
Council Advisory Education Committee, An Order of Service to
be used at Gregynog, November 24, 1935, November 22, 1936 and
November 21, 1937, and In Memory of Gwendolone Elizabeth
Davies..., An Order of Service to be used at Gregynog on Friday 7
September 1951, together four Order of Service booklets, each in
original printed wrappers, slim folio, and Jones (T. Gwynn),
Detholiad o Ganiadau, Gregynog Press, 1926, black & white
illustrations, ink library stamps throughout, contemporary library
buckram with paper label and stamp, spine faded, 8vo, (limited
edition 490/500), plus Williams (William), Private Presses with
Special Reference to Wales, with Examples of Woodcuts Produced
by the Gregynog Press, London: London School of Printing, 1938,
wood engraved illustrations, original printed wrappers, slim folio
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£150-200
620 Hiemer (Ernst). Die Giftpilz, pub. Der Sturmer, Nurnberg, 1938,
17 coloured illustrations by Fips (Philipp Rupprecht), slight marginal
toning, original pictorial cloth boards, edges a little rubbed, one or
two small stains, 4to
“The Toadstool” or “The Poisonous Mushroom” was a notorious Nazi antiSemitic children’s book, telling in a series of stories how to distinguish Jews
from non-Jews.
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£300-500
618 Greenaway (Kate). Almanacks for 1884, 1885, 1886, 1889, &
1925 (2 copies), together six almanacks, all with colour illustrations
and original wrappers or boards, some minor rubbing/marks but
generally good copies, 133 x 92mm (5.25 x 3.5ins) and smaller,
together with Kate Greenaway’s Alphabet, original card wrappers
(spine slightly chipped), 68 x 60mm (2.75 x 3.25ins) and Kate
Greenaway’s Birthday Book for Children, unused, some spotting,
upper hinge split, original pictorial cloth, 97 x 97cm (4 x 4ins),
together with an undated early edition of Grannie’s Little Rhyme
Book, No. I of Old Nursery Rhymes, Illustrated by H. Willebeek Le
Mair, upper hinge split between front free endpaper and title-page,
original pictorial boards, extremities rubbed, small oblong 8vo
621 Jane (Fred T.). All the World’s Fighting Ships, [First Year], 1898,
numerous neat ink and pencil annotations throughout, half-title (with
numerous notes), frayed with marginal loss and relaid, library stamp
to final blank page before adverts, library label removed from front
pastedown, original cloth, rebacked with original spine relaid, some
soiling and wear, together with volumes for 1901, 1904, 1914 &
1918, illustrations and commercial adverts to each, a few leaves
detached, scattered minor annotations or marks, original cloth,
upper cover and first few leaves to 1914 detached, all with some
rubbing and wear, oblong folio
Schuster & Engen 4(2c), 5(3c), 6(4c), 9(7a), 18(16a), 18(16b), 23(1c), 39(1a).
£150-200
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(5)
£200-300
622 Le Mair (H. Willebeek, illust.). Our Old Nursery Rhymes, the
original tunes harmonized by Alfred Moffat, London & New York,
1911, colour illustrations throughout on versos, and musical notation
on rectos, contemporary pencilled ownership name at head of titlepage, endpapers toned, all edges gilt, original vellum, lettered in gilt,
oval pictorial panel mounted on upper cover, some minor soiling,
lacking ties, oblong 4to
Limited edition 59/450 copies, signed by the artist.
(1)
£200-300
623 Lecky (Halton Stirling). The King’s Ships... , in Six Volumes,
volumes 1-3 [all published], 1913-14, photogravure portrait
frontispiece to each, illustrations throughout, volume 1 original half
morocco gilt, rubbed and slightly scuffed at extremities, volume 2
original full morocco gilt with pictorial onlay to upper cover, a little
rubbed, volume 3 recent good quality half morocco gilt, together
with Gibbs (Frederick T.M.), The Illustrated Guide to the Royal Navy
and Foreign Navies, also Mercantile Marine Steamers Available as
Armed Cruisers and Transports, 2nd revised edition, 1896,
photogravure frontispiece, illustrations throughout including many
full page, commercial adverts printed in red and black at rear, original
gilt pictorial morocco, some rubbing and fading, refurbished and
rebacked, all 4to, plus Yonge (C.D.), The History of the British
Navy..., 3 volumes, 2nd edition, 1866, 9 folding plans as listed,
scattered pencil marginalia, light ink library stamps and printed labels
to front pastedowns, contemporary half calf, rubbed, some wear to
joints and extremities, covers and spine to volume 3 detached, 8vo
Lot 620
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138
£200-300
627 Milligan (Spike). Puckoon, 1st edition, 1963, original cloth in
dust jacket, a little wear to extremities, together with The Little Pot
Boiler, 1st edition, 1963, illustrations throughout, spotting to
endpapers and fore-edges, original cloth in dust jacket, minor
rubbing, plus A Book of Milliganimals, 1st edition, 1968, illustrations
throughout, original cloth in dust jacket, a little rubbed, plus Small
Dreams of a Scorpion, 1st edition, 1972, illustrations throughout,
original cloth in dust jacket, a little creased and small tear to rear
panel, all 8vo, plus others by Spike Milligan including some
paperbacks but mostly hardbacks in dust jackets, 4to/8vo
624 Leighton (Clare). The Farmer’s Year, a Calendar of English
Husbandry, 1st ed., 1933, twelve full-page wood engravings, seven
vignettes to text, decorative endpapers, green full crushed morocco,
inlaid gilt-decorated panel from original cloth, oblong folio
(1)
£150-200
625 Lodge (Oliver, 1851-1940). My Philosophy, Representing my
Views on the many Functions of the Ether of Space, 1st edition,
1933, some heavy spotting, author’s signed presentation inscription
to front free endpaper dated 29 January 1933, ‘For Sir James Jeans
[1877-1946] with profound respect with whom disagreement
causes me pain’, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, faded on spine,
large 8vo, together with Phantom Walls, 1st edition, 1929, a little
spotting, author’s initialled presentation inscription to Lady Jeans
dated 1 November 1929 to front free endpaper, original buckram,
spine cocked and browned, 8vo, plus Frazer (J.G.), The Golden
Bough, A Study in Magic and Religion, 3 volumes, 2nd revised and
enlarged edition, 1900, volume 1 with pencil name of J.H. Jeans to
front endpaper, volumes 2 & 3 signed in ink by Jeans with surname
only, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, plus Jowett (Benjamin), The
Dialogues of Plato, 5 volumes, 3rd revised edition, Oxford, 1892,
partly uncut and unopened, spotting at front and rear of each
volume, ownership signature of J.H. Jeans to half-title or front free
endpaper of all 5 volumes, original quarter burgundy morocco gilt,
spines heavily rubbed, plus two further unsigned Oliver Lodge titles
and one on Spinoza, all 8vo
An intriguing inscription from one famous physicist to another.
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£80-120
£100-150
628 Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, 1st edition, 2nd issue,
1924, contents leaf numbered ix, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, free
endpapers partially toned, top edges gilt, original blue cloth gilt, one
or two faint marks and spine ends a trifle rubbed, but generally a
bright copy, in later issue dustjacket (advertising Winnie-the-Pooh, 9th
edition Fourteen Songs, Teddy Bear and Other Songs, and 2nd edition
King’s Breakfast, all published 1926), some chipping and fraying to top
edge, spine darkened and with 2” facsimile repair at foot, 8vo
(1)
£400-600
629 Milne (A.A.). Teddy Bear and Other Songs from “When We
Were Very Young”... Music by H. Fraser-Simson, Decorations by E.H.
Shepard, 1926, black and white illustrations, some light dust-soiling,
original cloth-backed boards with paper label to upper cover, in d.j.,
board edges a little darkened, jacket dust-soiled and a little frayed,
repaired closed tear to upper cover, torn with some loss to lower
cover, large slim 4to
626 Luttrell Psalter. The Luttrell Psalter, Folio Society/Cambridge
University Press, 2006, numerous facsimile colour plates, all edges
gilt, original blue Nigerian goatskin by Smith Settle, with bevelled
edges, decorated gilt blocked border & central armorial to upper board
designed by David Eccles, morocco title label to spine, folio, VG
Limited edition 335/1480. Lacking both the companion commentary volume
by Michelle P. Brown and solander box. This Folio Society volume was the
first full facsimile edition of the Luttrell Psalter. The original held by the British
Library (MS 42130) was acquired for the nation in 1929, and was the highest
price ever paid for a manuscript at the time.
(1)
£200-300
(1)
139
£70-100
633 Nonesuch Press. Selected Poems of Coleridge, 1935, full-page
woodcuts on letterpress by Stefan Mrozewski, some light spotting
to first few leaves, withdrawn library label on preliminary blank,
patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original
orange limp vellum gilt, tall 8vo, (limited edition 159/500), together
with Cresset Press The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet
Publius Ovidius Naso, translated into English Verse by George
Turberville, with ten full-page illustrations by Hester Sainsbury...,
1928, ten plates, Curwen Press label on front pastedown, library
barcode label on rear pastedown, original quarter cloth, large 8vo,
plus Aldin (Cecil, illustrator), A Gay Dog, Heinemann, 1905,
twenty-four lithographed plates, first and final leaves spotted,
original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly bowed, a little marked
and edge-rubbed, large 4to, plus twenty-one others, mostly larger
format illustrated books, including A Hundred and Seventy Chinese
Poems, translated by Arthur Waley, 1918; X Sermons Preached by
that Late Learned and Rev. Divine John Donne, Nonesuch Press,
1923; The Man Who Died by D.H. Lawrence, illustrated by John
Farleigh, 1935; and Maufra Peintre et Graveur, by Victor-Emile
Michelet, 1908
630 Miniature books. A collection of miniature books, mostly earlymid 20th century, approximately 135 volumes, mostly English
literature, including Shakespeare, Dickens, Browning, Scott,
Wordsworth, Tennyson, Wilde, Keats, etc., but also joke books,
friendship books, almanacks, children’s storybooks, several 19th
century volumes, etc., and The Story of Queen Mary, by A.H. Millar,
published by David Bryce, with miniature bookplate of Alfred Lubran,
various bindings (reversed calf, tartan, etc.) and sizes
(a carton)
£100-150
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£200-300
631 Napoleon (Emperor of France). Napoleone, Documenti Tolti
dalla sua Segreteria da Edvige Santiné nella Notte dal 4 al 5 Maggio
1821 il Tutto di Proprio Pugno di Napoleone, o Scritto Sotto la sua
Dettatura, Waterloo, di Victor Hugo, Rome: Noi Editori, 1969,
numerous colour and black & white illustrations and plates, some
folding, blue moiré silk doublures, deckled edges, original blue
sheep-backed hammered silver metal boards, spine with raised
bands, lettered and decorated in gold, lightly rubbed at ends, upper
cover with impressed profile portrait of Napoleon, lower cover with
impressed medallion portrait of Napoleon and Josephine, blue silk
ribbon marker, folio (42.5 x 33cm/16.75 x 13ins), original blue moiré
silk slipcase, with perspex oval in upper side (some light soiling)
Limited edition, 503/1499 copies, ordered by Sergio Angelini.
(1)
£300-500
634 Parny (Evariste). Chansons Madécasses, Traduites en
Francais... avec trente vignettes gravées sur bois, en couleurs , par
J.E. Laboureur, Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1920,
colour wood engraved illustrations, edges rough-trimmed, original
printed wrappers, slim 8vo in 4s
632 Nielsen (Kay, illust.). Red Magic, A Collection of the World’s
Best Fairy Tales From All Countries, Edited & Arranged by Romer
Wilson, 1st edition, Jonathan Cape, 1930, eight coloured plates,
black & white illustrations to text, some occasional marginal finger
soiling, bookplate to front free endpaper, original cloth, spine a little
faded, 8vo
(1)
Limited edition of 412 copies printed, of which this is number VI of the initial
XII numbered in roman numerals. A book of songs collected by the translator
that portray society on the island of Madagascar.
£200-300
(1)
£200-300
140
635 Pogany (Willy, illustrator). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
in Seven Parts, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George G. Harrap,
[1910], twenty mounted colour plates, illustrations and decorations
throughout, occasional spotting and one or two short edge-tears,
untrimmed, original gilt decorated grey cloth, slight loss at foot of
spine, 4to, together with Robinson (W. Heath, illustrator),
Shakespeare’s Comedy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Constable,
1914, twelve tipped-in colour plates (one with crease), full-page
black and white illustrations, spotted, original pictorial cloth gilt,
lightly rubbed and soiled, spine ends a little frayed, 4to, plus The
Sensitive Plant, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Illustrations by Charles
Robinson, [1911], original gilt decorated limp morocco, rebacked,
preserving original spine
(3)
638 Shakespeare (William). The Bijou Shakespeare. The Complete
Works of William Shakespeare Illustrated. With Biographical
Introduction and an Essay on Shakespeare and Bacon by Sir Henry
Irving, 6 vols., William Collins, c. 1900, half-tone illustrations, all
edges gilt, attractively bound in contemporary green calf-backed
boards, spines with Art Nouveau floral decoration, contained in
original green cloth box (box label with previous owner inscription
and loss at lower corner, some tears and splits to box), 12mo
(6)
639 The Speaking Picture Book, A Special Book with Picture,
Rhyme and Sound for Little People, 15th edition, Germany, n.p.,
c.1890, eight full-page chromolithographs, with related poems, each
page with corresponding ‘pull’ to activate a sound effect (all
working), most of page block detached, and pages brittle (with some
chips and edge-tears), two fabric tape repairs at gutter, original
pictorial red cloth, crude repairs at spine ends, large 4to
£100-150
636 Rupert Bear. A collection of 57 Rupert Annuals, Daily Express,
1936-2000, a broken run, all copiously illustrated, original
boards/wrappers, together with a quantity of other items related,
including various duplicates and facsimiles, including collectors’
editions, ten volumes Little Bear Library, twelve issues Rupert and
Friends, 1990-1992, Rupert Diary 1993, one or two puzzle and
colouring books, Paul McCartney’s Rupert and the Frog Song vhs tape
in cardboard case, four badges, and a sliding tile puzzle, mostly in good
condition, but some rubbing and wear to the earlier annuals, 4to/8vo
(approx. 116)
The sounds produced are that of the cockeral, donkey, lamb, bird, cow,
cuckoo, goat, and Papa and Mama.
£80-120
(1)
640 Trollope (Anthony). The Trollope Society Edition of the Novels
of Anthony Trollope, 48 volumes, 1989-1998, uniform publisher’s
brown cloth gilt, together with Travel & Other Works, 10 volumes,
Trollope Society, 1993-2003, uniform dark blue cloth gilt, all 8vo, VG,
plus 11 other Trollope Society publications, including The Complete
Short Stories, 5 volumes, The New Zealander, by Anthony Trollope,
Thackeray, by Anthony Trollope, The Penguin Companion to Trollope,
by Mullen & Monson, A Guide to Trollope by W.G. and J.T. Jerould,
and Barchester Pilgrimage, by Ronald Knox (2 copies), and others
on the life and works of Anthony Trollope, including The Letters of
Anthony Trollope, edited by N. John Hall, 2 volumes, 1983, Anthony
Trollope, A Victorian in His World, by Richard Mullen, 1990, Trollope,
A Bibliography, by Michael Sadleir, 1964, Anthony Trollope in
Australia by Marcie Muir, Adelaide, 1949, Anthony Trollope, A Pocket
Anthology & Anthony Trollope, A Collector’s Catalogue 1847-1990,
both published by The Trollope Society, 1992, Trollopiana, The Journal
of The Trollope Society, numbers 1-81, 1988-2008 (contained in 3
matching brown cloth slipcases), etc., mostly original cloth, many in
dust jackets, all 8vo
£200-300
637 Sassoon (Siegfried). Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, 1928, a
few minor spots, endpapers partially toned, contemporary previous
owner inscription, top edge gilt, original blue buckram, spine faded,
8vo, limited edition, 120/260 signed by the author, together with The
Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy:
by Brillat-Savarin, 1925, illustrations by Andrew Johnson, untrimmed,
original vellum-backed boards, light edgewear, tall 8vo, limited edition,
32/750, plus The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, by Charles
Dickens, 2 vols., 1910, colour and black and white illustrations by Cecil
Aldin, scattered spotting, contemporary burgundy half morocco,
some fading to spines, 4to, with others including John Masefield’s
South and East (limited signed eedition of 260), The Collected Poems
of Rupert Brooke, 1919 (limited edition of 1000), The Poetical Works
of John Milton. With Notes of Various Authors, by Rev. H.J. Todd, 6
vols., 3rd ed. 1826 and others Nonesuch Press etc
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£100-150
(approx. 180)
£200-300
Lot 638
141
£200-300
Lot 645
641 Verlaine (Paul). Chansons pour Elle et Odes en son Honneur,
Paris: Les Heures Claires, 1954, frontispiece and sixteen engraved
plates by P. E. Becat, ‘une suite en noir avec remarques’, original
publisher’s printed wrapper, contained within vellum-backed
chemise, house in original slipcase, 4to (Limited edition, one of 499,
this being number 80, one of eighty five copies on Rives paper with
a set of illustrations printed in black),together with Lemarie (Henry,
illustrator). Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra l’Ingenieux Hidalgo Don
Quichotte de la Manche, 4 volumes, Paris: Editions d’Art les Heures
Claires, [1960], ninety-two colour illustrations to text, ‘une suite en
noir avec remarques’, and ‘decomposition complete dune
illustration’, original publisher’s embossed wrappers contained
within gilt decorated chemise, each volume housed in publisher’s
decorated slipcase, 4to
643 Watson (Alfred E.T.). King Edward VII as a Sportsman,
Longmans, Green and Co., 1911, half-title, photogravure portrait
frontispiece, ten colour plates, further plates and illustrations in black
and white, title printed in red and black, edges rough trimmed,
original publisher’s vellum, gilt few minor marks, folio
(1)
644 Wilde (Oscar). The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Methuen & Co.,
1924, woodcut illustrations by Frans Masereel, partly unopened, a
few light spots, original cloth-backed boards (scattered light
spotting), d.j., a little rubbed with closed tears, 4to
Limited edition, 164/450.
(1)
Limited edition, one of 2,900, this being number 182, one of ninety sets
(numbered 111-200) which have three sets of illustrations.
(5)
£150-200
£100-150
645 Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack. John Wisden Cricketer’s
Almanack, a complete run, 1864-1973, 1864-1878 second facsimile
edition (Lowe & Brydone, 1974), photographic plates to each from
1889 (lacking in 1890 & 1906) to 1915, illustrations from 1918 (1879
& 1885 lacking advertisements at end), scattered light spotting and
occasional light toning, original wrappers for 1881, 1883-1884, 18861890, 1892-96, 1898-1902, 1905-1916, 1918-1937, 1938 onwards
original limp cloth upper wrapper only for 1942-45, 1947, 1949-54,
1958-59, 1970 & 1973 (1887 wrappers heavily rubbed, upper
wrapper only for 1890, 1912, 1934 & 1936-37), some general soiling,
mainly to early wrappers, (1904 with sellotape repair at front, 1912
with two advertisement leaves at end torn out, 1909 wrappers with
losses and repairs, 1913 upper wrapper repaired at gutter with a few
leaves detaching and trimmed with loss, 1915 upper wrapper with
closed tear, 1929 upper wrapper with lower corner torn away), some
leaves and wrappers trimmed, all bound-in modern uniform light
brown cloth, upper covers titled in gilt ‘Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack’
and each volume dated to spine, 8vo
642 Wallon (Henri Alexandre). Histoire de l’esclavage dans
l’antiquite, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, Paris, 1879, some spotting,
contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards with leather labels
to spines, rubbed, 8vo, together with Rogers (Benjamin Bickley,
editor and translator), The Comedies of Aristophanes, 6 volumes,
1st editions (except volume 4 2nd edition), 1906-19, bookplates and
inscriptions of R.K. Hack, 1921, original burgundy or green cloth,
rubbed and soiled, large 8vo, plus Boehringer (Robert), Homer,
Bildnisse und Nachweise Band I Rundwerke, Breslau, 1939, text and
plates loose as issued in original printed wrappers, contained in
original cloth chemise, 4to, plus others similar
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£100-150
£100-150
A GOOD COMPLETE SET OF WISDEN FROM 1864 TO 1973.
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£3000-5000
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CARTONS
646 Beardsley (Aubrey). The Uncollected Work of Aubrey
Beardsley, with an introduction by C. Lewis Hind, John Lane, 1925,
154 plates, numbered 82 from an edition of 110, edges roughly
trimmed, original publisher’s cloth gilt, a little scuffed and few minor
marks, large 4to, together with Grahame (Kenneth), The
Headswoman, illustrated by Maria Lane Foster, John Lane, 1921,
eight colour plates, light spotting, bookplate of Alex Bridge to upper
pastedown, numbered 4 from an edition of 75, original publisher’s
vellum, gilt and blocked, small 8vo, plus Morris (William), The
Aeneids of Virgil done into English Verse, Longmans, 1902, light
scattered spotting, original publisher’s boards, a little worn and lightly
scuffed, folio, plus others related including art books and modern
literature
(2)
649 Harrison (Alfred H.). In Search Of A Polar Continent, 19051907, 1st edition, 1908, 52 black and white illustrations including
frontispiece, colour folding map to the rear, ex-libris bookplate and
stuck down newspaper clipping to the front pastedown, some minor
spotting, original gilt-decorated red cloth, spine slightly faded, 8vo,
together with Yeo (John), Steam And The Marine Steam-Engine,
1st edition, 1894, numerous black and white illustrations including
frontispiece with tissue guard, bookplate to front pastedown, stamp
to the verso of title-page, some minor spotting, contemporary half
morocco, boards and spine slightly rubbed with slight loss to head
and foot, 8vo, and Bain (J. Arthur), Life and Explorations of Fridtjof
Nansen, new edition, 1898, 15 black and white illustrations including
a map, some minor spotting, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, spine
slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus other 19th and 20thcentury travel reference and related, G/VG, 8vo/folio
£200-300
647 Blackie (W.G.). The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the
World, 1884, colour wood engraved plates, double-page colour
maps, all edges gilt, original half brown morocco gilt, heavily rubbed,
large thick folio, together with A Description of England and Wales,
10 volumes, 1st edition (except first volume 2nd edition), 1769-75,
240 copper engraved plates, contemporary uniform full calf gilt,
rubbed and some minor wear to extremities, volume 8 crudely
rebacked with original spine laid down, small 8vo, plus Morris (F.O.),
A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and
Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, 6 volumes, William
Mackenzie, circa 1860s, numerous chromolithograph plates, all
edges gilt, original publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth, rubbed and some
wear, ex library copy with classification number in white ink to foot
of spine of all except first volume (contents unmarked), 4to, and
Rose (Thomas), Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham, and
Northumberland, Illustrated, from original drawings by Thomas
Allom, George Pickering, &c., 1832, 215 steel engraved views,
mostly 2 to a page, some with old colouring, some generally light
spotting, contemporary full calf, rubbed and some wear to
extremities, with upper cover detached, 4to, plus one other
(Aubreville, La Flore Forestiere de la Cote d’Ivoire, 3 volumes, Paris,
1936)
(a carton)
(2 cartons)
650 Hetley (Mrs. Charles). The Native Flowers of New Zealand,
Illustrated in Colours, 3 original parts (complete), 1st edition, 188788, 36 full-page chromolithograph plates with tissue guards, original
boards, wear and tear, especially to volume 1, with some loss, folio,
together with Parkinson (John), Paradisi In Sole Paradisus
Terrestris, faithfully reprinted from the edition of 1629, Methuen &
Co., 1904, numerous black and white illustrations, damp marks to
foot of front endpapers to page 1, contemporary boards with cloth
spine, boards and spine slightly marked and rubbed, folio, plus
Rigaud (Mons.), Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire, Laid out by
Mr. Bridgeman, reprint edition, 1987, 16 black and white plates,
original gilt-decorated half calf to marble boards in slipcase, large
folio, and other early 20th-century garden and horticulture reference,
all hardback publications, many large format, generally in good/very
good condition, 4to/folio
(4 cartons)
£200-300
651 Lockman (John). A History of the Cruel Sufferings of the
Protestants, and Others, by Popish Persecutions, in various
Countries..., Faithfully compiled from a great Number of Authors, in
different Languages..., 1760, lacking front free endpaper,
contemporary calf, extremities rubbed, 12mo, together with
Boucher de Perthes (Jacques) Rien ne Nait, Rien ne Meurt, la
forme seule est perissable, Paris: Derache et al, 1865, 18 pp. and
blanks, original printed wrappers, signed by the author to upper
cover, spine splitting, some slight rubbing, slim 8vo, with Small
(John William), Scottish Woodwork of the Sixteenth & Seventeenth
Centuries, Stirling & London: Eneas Mackay & Bernard Quaritch,
1878, numerous lithograph diagrams, original cloth gilt, folio,
(limiteded edition 478/500), plus other miscellaneous books
including Bill Wyman’s Blues Odyssey, 2001, signed by the author,
The Land Beyond Time, A Modern Exploration of Australia’s NorthWest Frontiers, by John Olsen & others, 1984, signed limited leather
bound edition 120/500, and The Struggle for Europe, by Chester
Wilmot, 1952, inscribed by the author
£150-200
648 Harrison (W.H.). The Tourist in Portugal, illustrated from
paintings by James Holland, Robert Jennings, 1839, engraved
frontispiece, additional engraved title, fifteen engraved plates, 2pp.
publisher’s advertisments to rear, original publisher’s cloth, boards
detached, spine lacking, 8vo, together with Virtue & Co., publisher,
The Turner Gallery, 6 volumes, numerous uncoloured engraved
plates, contents shaken and partly loose, all edges gilt, original
publisher’s gilt cloth, rubbed and worn, folio, plus two volumes
Picteresque Europe, and others
(a carton)
£70-100
£150-200
(a carton)
143
£150-250
652 Pevsner (Nikolaus). A collection The Buildings of England, 22
volumes, 1953-92, including Herfordshire, Northumberland,
Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and others, all but two in original publisher’s
cloth in d.j.s, all 8vo, together with a collection of Oxford Classical
Texts, plus other Classical texts including LOEB and Everyman
(2 cartons)
QUANTITY
656 Ray (John). Catalogus Plantarum Angliae, et insularum
Adjacentium: Tum Indigenas ... una cum Observationibus &
Experimentis Novis Medicis & Physicis, 1st edition, London: Typis
E.C. & A.C. Impensis J.Martyn, 1670, title & dedication ink ruled,
early manuscript signature to recto of title, detailed manuscript index
and lists to front blank, verso of title, verso of dedication, leaf Y3, final
leaf of text and front & rear endpapers, other occasional annotations
throughout, heavy dampstaining throughout, with some consequent
soiling, hinges repaired, modern calf, 8vo, (Wing R381), together with
Fermin (Philippe), Histoire Naturelle De La Hollande Equinoxiale: Ou
Description des animaux, plantes... dans la colonie de Surinam... ,
Amsterdam, 1765, black and white engraved frontispiece and title,
lacking pp. 111-112, some light spotting, modern rebinding, boards
and spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Hamburg (Daniel), Science
Papers, chiefly Pharmacological and Botanica, 1876, presentation
inscription ‘Charles E. Boucher B. Se. Lond. October 1890’ to front
endpaper, 60 black and white illustrations, some light spotting, all
edges gilt, contemporary gilt-decorated morocco, boards and spine
slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other 17th - 19t-century botanical and
historical reference and related, including Travels in Upper and Lower
Egypt... , by Vivant Renon, volumes 1 & 2, 2nd edition, 1803, The
Gardener’s Kalendar, by Philip Miller, 2 volumes (1734, 1769), mostly
leather bindings including some decorative, condition is generally
good/very good, 8vo/folio
£100-150
653 Smith (William). A New and Complete History of the County
of Warwick, 1829, engraved frontispiece, title and numerous plates
on india paper, some spotting and marginal dampstaining, original
quarter cloth, worn and covers near detached, 4to, together with
Barrett (William), The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol,
published Bristol, [1789], numerous engraved plates (some folding),
lacking folding map frontispiece, contemporary calf, boards
detached, old reback, worn, 4to, with Scarth (H.M.), Aquae Solis,
or Notices of Roman Bath, 1864, black & white plates, ink stamp to
title, occasional spotting, original cloth gilt, 4to, and Neale (J.P.),
Views or the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen..., vol. 4 only, 1821,
numerous engraved plates on india paper, occasional spotting,
contemporary half calf, lacking upper board, worn, 4to, plus others
similar, some odd & defective
(a carton)
£100-150
654 Webb (J.V.). The Abu Klea Medal Rolls, to which are added The
Rolls of the remaining Camel Corps Detachment... , 1st edition,
1981, original blue cloth, spine very slightly faded, 8vo, together with
Kirkland (Frederick, [editor]), Sometimes Forgotten, Being a record
of those of Australia’s military forces (RAN, Army, RAAF), who died
and those who were decorated in Vietnam, Malaya, Borneo... , 1st
edition, Australia, 1990, original boards, 8vo, plus Abela (A.E.), The
Order of St. Michael and St. George in Malta and Maltese Knights
of the British Realm, 1st edition, Malta, 1988, colour and black and
white illustrations, original blue faux morocco in dust jacket, covers
slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other modern medal and military history
reference, mostly hardback publications, many original cloth in dust
jackets, G/VG, 8vo
(a carton)
(3 shelves)
657 Crane (Florence Hedleston). Flowers And Folk-lore From Far
Korea, 1st edition, Japan, 1931, 45 tipped-in colour plates with tissue
guards, illustrated endpapers, inscription to front endpaper, some
light spotting, original gilt-decorated black cloth, spine slightly rubbed
to head and foot, large 4to, together with Shaw (Norman), Chinese
Forest Trees and Timber Supply, 1st edition, 1914, 33 black and white
illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guard plus folding map,
some slight spotting, original red cloth, spine slightly faded, 8vo, and
Beddome (R.H.), Handbook to the Ferns Of British India, Ceylon and
the Malay Peninsula, 1883, 300 black and white illustrations,
inscriptions to half-title, ex-library stamp to title, some light spotting,
original decorative brown cloth, boards and spine slightly rubbed,
8vo, plus other 19th and 20th-century India, China, Indonesia &
Australian botanical and historical reference and related, including
publications by Hakluyt Society, Antique Collectors’ Club, some odd
volumes, many original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
£70-100
655 Williams (Josiah). Life In The Soudan: adventures among the
tribes, and travels in Egypt, in 1881 and 1882, 1st edition, 1884, 7
black and white illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guard,
some light spotting, original decorated brown cloth, boards and
spine damp-marked and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with
Steevens (G.W.), from Capetown To Ladysmith, 3rd impression,
1900, 2 black and white folding maps, contemporary inscription to
front endpaper, some light spotting, original green cloth, spine
slightly toned and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and Beebe
(William), The Edge of the Jungle, 2nd impression, 1922, 6 black
and white illustrations including frontispiece, some light spotting,
original gilt-decorated green cloth, slight tear to head of spine, 8vo,
plus other 19th and 20th-century African travel and historical
reference, all hardback publications, some in dust jackets, G, 8vo/4to
(2 cartons)
£300-500
(3 shelves)
£200-300
658 Antiquarian. A large collection of 19th-century antiquarian
literature, historical and biographical reference and related, including
Biographie Universelle, Ancienne et Moderne, 39 volumes
(incomplete), circa 1810-20, mostly leather bindings, some gilt
decorated and some odd volumes, some French language, condition
is generally fair/good, 8vo/4to
£70-100
(6 shelves)
144
£150-200
659 Coggeshall (George). A History of American Privateers, and
Letters-of-Marque, 1856, monochrome illustrations including
frontispiece with tissue guard, contemporary inscription to front
endpaper, some light spotting, contemporary gilt-decorated brown
cloth, spine rubbed to head and foot with minor loss, 8vo, together
with Stephens (John L.), Incidents of Travel in Central America,
Chiapas, and Yucatas, volumes 1 & 2, new edition, 1842, folding map
to volume 1, numerous black and white illustrations, some spotting
and toning to margins, contemporary uniform gilt-decorated brown
cloth, boards and spine rubbed with minor loss, 8vo, and Roche
(Regina Maria), The Children of the Abbey, A Tale, volumes 1-3
bound in 1, W.A. Leary & Co., Philadelphia, circa 1840, some light
spotting, contemporary gilt-decorated red cloth, boards rubbed,
spine faded and rubbed with split to head, thick 8vo, plus other 19thcentury illustrated literature and historical reference including The
Works of Charles Dickens, 30 volumes, Illustrated Library Edition,
Angela Brazil, the Bronte sisters, H.B. Stowe, generally in good/very
good condition, 8vo/4to
(3 shelves)
663 Railway. A large collection of modern railway and locomotive
history and reference, including publications by P.S.L., Ian Allen,
David & Charles, Alan Sutton, Guild Publishing, mostly hardback
publications, many original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio,
together with an early 20th-century iron railway sign reading
‘Midland Railway. Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted By Order’
(5 shelves & a sign)
664 Ciceronis (M. Tullii). Opera, volumes 1-5 bound in 2, Paris,
1538, ex officina Roberti Stephani, 5 black and white woodcuts,
some worming, damp damage and spotting, later calf spine bound
to vellum boards, rubbed with marks and minor loss to spines and
hinges, folio, together with Hughson (David), London; being an
accurate history and description of the British Metropolis and its
Neighbourhood, to thirty miles extent, from an actual perambulation,
volumes 1-6 (complete), 1807-09, numerous hand-coloured and
black and white illustrations and maps, some minor toning, modern
uniform green morocco, boards rubbed with some loss, spines
faded and rubbed to head and foot with minor loss, 8vo, and
Boswell (James), Life of Samuel Johnson L.L.D., volumes 1-10,
1835, black and white frontispiece and half-titles with tissue guards,
bookplates to front pastedowns, some light spotting, original
decorated purple cloth, boards slightly marked, spines faded, 8vo,
plus other 19th and early 20th-century literature and miscellaneous
reference, including The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, 30
volumes, Skerryvale edition, 1925, The Popular History of England
by Charles Knight, volumes 1-8, circa 1870s, condition generally
G/VG, 8vo/folio
£150-200
660 Thomson (Anthony Todd). The Occult Sciences. The
Philosophy of Magic, Prodigies and Apparent Miracles, volumes 1
& 2, 1846, contemporary inscriptions to title-pages, some light
toning, contemporary uniform decorated black cloth, boards slightly
marked, spines rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with Colburn
(Zerah & Maw, William H.), The Waterworks of London, together
with a series of articles on various other waterworks, 1867, black
and white illustrations including 21 folding plates to rear,
contemporary maroon cloth, boards and spine lightly rubbed, 8vo,
and Anderson (John), A Defence of The Church-Government, Faith,
Worship & Spirit of the Presbyterians, 1714, some loss to top of the
title-page, water marks to title to ‘Dedication’, some toning
throughout, contemporary calf, boards detached and rubbed with
minor loss, 4to, plus other 19th-century literature and historical
reference including Charles Dickens, The History of Greece by
George Grote, volumes 1-10 (complete), 1872, The History of the
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, volumes
1-8 (complete), 1881, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in
England by Edward Earl of Clarendon, volumes 1-7 (complete), 1849,
mostly leather bindings, many gilt-decorated sets, condition is
generally good/very good, 8vo
(3 shelves)
(6 shelves & a carton)
£300-500
665
Faulkner (Thomas). An Historical and Topographical
Description of Chelsea and its Environs... , 1810, History and
Antiquities of Kensington... , 1820, numerous black and white
illustrations including frontispiece, some light spotting and
offsetting, contemporary half morocco and gilt-decorated calf
bindings respectively, spines slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo,
(2 volumes in total), together with Norman (Philip), London
vanished & Vanishing, deluxe edition, 1905, 227/250, signed by the
author to the limitation page, 75 colour illustrations with tissue
guards, some marginal toning and spotting, modern gilt-decorated
quarter calf, spine slightly rubbed, large 4to, and The Argonaut Press,
A Spanish Voyage to Vancouver and the North-West Coast of
America by Cecil Jane, 1930, limited edition 205/525, Voyages and
Discoveries by William Dampier, 1931, limited edition 5/975,
Ralegh’s Last Voyage by V.T. Harlow, 1932, limited edition 261/775,
black and white frontispiece, all original gilt-decorated quarter
vellum, spines slightly toned and rubbed to head and foot, 4to, (3
volumes in total), plus other 19th and early 20th-century literature
and London reference, including Theodore Dreiser, 18 volumes,
some leather bindings, condition generally G/VG, 8vo/folio
£200-300
661 Dabundo (Laura). Encylopedia of Romanticism, Culture in
Britain, 1780s-1830s, 1st edition, 1992, ex-libris sticker to front
pastedown, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, together with Baker
(William & Ross, John C.), George Eliot, A Bibliographical History,
1st edition, 2002, original blue cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and other
modern literary biography, history and criticism, including
publications by Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Routledge, all original cloth
in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo
(6 shelves)
£100-200
(6 shelves)
£200-300
£100-150
662 Modern Literature. A large collection of ultra modern and first
edition fiction, including H.G. Wells, David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro,
Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, Yann Martell, Agatha Christie, Kingsley
Amis, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, VG, 8vo
666 Naval & Aviation. A large collection of modern naval and
aviation reference and related, including publications by Airlife, Pen
& Sword, P.S.L., Naval Institute Press, Sutton, Arms & Armour Press,
mostly hardback publications, many original cloth in dust jackets,
G/VG, 8vo/4to
(6 shelves)
£100-150
145
£150-200
667 Autobiography. A large collection of modern literary biography
and historical reference, al original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo
(6 shelves)
671 Gothein (Marie Luise). A History of Garden Art, volumes 1 &
2 (complete), 1928, numerous black and white illustrations, some
minor spotting, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, boards and spines
slightly faded, large 8vo, together with Crisp (Frank), Mediaeval
Gardens ‘Flowery Medes’ and other arrangements of herbs, flowers
and shrubs grown in the middle ages... , volumes 1 & 2 (complete),
1924, numerous black and white illustrations, some light spotting,
original gilt-decorated cream cloth, spines slightly marked, large 4to,
(one of 1000 copies), plus Jekyll (Gertrude & Elgood, George S.),
Some English Gardens, Reissue, 1933, numerous colour illustrations
including frontispiece, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, boards and
spine slightly marked and rubbed, folio, and other late 19th and 20thcentury gardening and miscellaneous natural history reference,
mostly hardback publications, G/VG, 8vo/folio
£70-100
668 Heal (Antony S.). Sunbeam Racing Cars 1910-1930, 1st
edition, 1989, numerous black and white illustrations, all edges gilt,
original cream faux leather in dust jacket and slipcase, slightly
rubbed to head and foot, oblong 4to, together with Eyston
(George), Safety Last, 1975, limited edition 720/750, signed by the
author to the front endpaper, black and white illustrations, all edges
gilt, original gilt-decorated green morocco, 8vo, plus Jarrott
(Charles), Ten Years of Motors And Motor Racing, 3rd edition, 1928,
38 black and white illustrations including colour frontispiece, 8 black
and white maps, some light spotting, original illustrated red cloth,
spine slightly faded and rubbed, 8vo, plus other modern automobile
and motorsport reference, all hardback publications, many original
cloth in dust jackets, including publications by PSL, Foulis, Haynes,
Batsford, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(6 shelves)
672 History. A large collection of modern historical, biographical,
literature and art reference, all hardback publications, mostly original
cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio
£200-300
(6 shelves)
669 Wooster (David). Alpine Plants: figures and descriptions of
some of the most striking and beautiful of the Alpine flowers, 2
volumes in 1, 1872-74, 108 hand-coloured illustrations with tissue
guards, some minor spotting, rebound in modern green cloth, spine
slightly rubbed to head and foot, 4to, together with Turrill (W.B.),
The Plant-Life of The Balkan Peninsula, A Phytogeographical Study,
Oxford, 1929, signed by the author to title-page, 10 black and white
illustrations including frontispiece, 11 black and white maps including
folding map to rear, original blue cloth in price-clipped dust jacket,
covers slightly toned, 4to, plus Pratt (Anne), The Ferns of Great
Britain, and their allies the club-mosses, pepperworts, and
horsetails, circa 1870, 41 coloured illustrations, bookplate to front
pastedown, inscription to front endpaper, original gilt-decorated
green cloth, boards and spine slightly rubbed, plus other 19th and
20th-century UK, Alpine and European botanical reference and
related, mostly hardback publications, some original cloth in dust
jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(3 shelves)
£70-100
673 Bell (Keith). Stanley Spencer. A Complete Catalogue of the
Paintings, 1st edition, 1992, numerous colour illustrations, original
black cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, together with Gilbert
(Christopher), Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 17001840, 1st edition, 1996, numerous black and white illustrations,
original dark blue cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to head
and foot, large 8vo, plus Peltre (Christine), Orientalism in Art, 1st
UK edition, 1997, numerous colour illustrations, slight damp damage,
original blue cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus other modern art,
antique and architecture reference, including Pevsner, The Buildings
of England/Wales/Scotland, 12 volumes, and publications by Antique
Collectors’ Club, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio
(3 shelves)
£150-200
674 Antiquarian Literature. A large collection of 19th and early
20th-century antiquarian literature and poetry, including George
Eliot, John Masefield, Walter Scott, R.L. Stevenson, mostly hardback
publications, some leather and decorative cloth bindings, condition
is generally good/very good, 8vo/4to
£200-300
670 Stephens (John L.). Incidents of Travel In Central America,
Chiapas, and Yucatan, volumes 1 & 2, 1841, numerous black and
white engravings, black and white folding map to volume 1, map
torn along folds and repaired with tape, bookplate to front
pastedown of volume 1, some light spotting throughout, uniform
contemporary gilt-decorated cloth, spines faded and rubbed to head
and foot, 8vo, Incidents of Travel In Yucatan, volume 2 only, 1843,
numerous black and white illustrations including folding frontispiece,
light spotting throughout, contemporary gilt-decorated cloth, spine
slightly faded and rubbed, 8vo, together with Wiggins (Ira L. &
Thomas, John Hunter), A Flora of the Alaskan Arctic Slope, 1st
edition, Canada, 1962, colour frontispiece, stamp and bookplate to
front endpapers, original blue cloth in price-clipped dust jacket,
covers slightly rubbed with minor loss to head and foot, 8vo, and
other 20th-century South American and North American botanical
and travel reference, mostly hardback publications, many original
cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(3 shelves)
£150-200
(3 shelves)
£150-200
675 Adams (Richard). The Plague Dogs, 1st edition, 1977, The Girl
in a Swing, 1st edition, 1980, Maia, 1st edition, 1984, all original
cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo,
together with Du Maurier (Daphne), Mary Anne, 1st edition, 1954,
The Scapegoat, 1st edition, 1957, The Glass-Blowers, 1st edition,
1963, The Flight of the Falcon, 1st edition, 1965, all original red cloth
in dust jackets, covers slightly marked and rubbed, 8vo, plus Graves
(Robert), Poems 1938-1945, 1st edition, 1946, some minor spotting,
original green cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly faded, 8vo, plus
other modern literature and first editions, including Graham Greene,
Iris Murdoch, Anthony Powell, Dick Francis, C.P. Snow, Simenon,
Norman Mailer, mostly hardback publications, many original cloth in
dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo
(3 shelves)
£150-200
146
£100-150
676 Bolton (Arthur T.). The Architecture of Robert and James Adam
(1758-1794), 2 volumes, reprinted Antique Collectors’ Club, 1984,
numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth, some surface
waterstaining, in dust jackets (spines somewhat faded), 4to,
together with Hussey (Christopher), English Country Houses (early
Georgian, mid Georgian & late Georgian), 3 volumes, reprinted,
Antique Collectors’ Club, 1984 (limited edition 492/1200), plus
Nicolson (Benedict), Joseph Wright of Derby, Painter of Light, 2
volumes, Paul Mellon, Foundation for British Art, 1968, numerous
monochrome illustrations, etc., original cloth in dust jackets, with
card slipcase, large square 4to, and other architecture and art
reference, including Swarbrick, Robert Adam & His Brothers,
Batsford, 1915, Terry Friedman, James Gibbs, Yale University Press,
1984, John Martin Robinson and David Neave, Francis Johnson,
Architect, A Classical Statement, 2001, Christopher Brown,
Velazquez Painter and Courtier, 1986, Eva Schumann-Bacia, John
Soane and the Bank of England, 1991, etc., many in dust jackets,
mostly 4to, generally VG, (approximately 100 volumes)
(3 shelves)
680 Roberts (Lord of Kandahar). Forty-one Years in India, volumes
1 & 2 (complete), 28th edition, 1898, 40 black and white illustrations
with tissue guards, including frontispiece and 1 map, some light
spotting, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, spines slightly rubbed to
head, 8vo, together with Oldenberg (Hermann), Buddha: His Life,
His Doctrine, His Order, 1882, some light spotting, original giltdecorated cloth, boards and spine slightly rubbed to head and foot,
8vo, and Copleston (Reginald Stephen), Buddhism, primitive and
present in Magadha and in Ceylon, 1892, some slight spotting,
original blue cloth, spine slightly faded and rubbed with minor loss,
8vo, plus other late 19th and 20th-century India & Buddhism
historical reference and related, all hardback publications, some
original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo
(3 shelves)
681 Wornum (Ralph N.). Analysis of Ornament, the Characteristics
of styles, 9th edition, 1884, numerous black and white illustrations,
bookplate to front pastedown, original gilt-decorated cloth, boards
and spine slightly faded and rubbed with minor loss to head and
foot, 8vo, together with Karl (Frederick R.), Modern And
Modernism, The Sovereignty of the Artist 1885-1925, 1st edition,
1985, black and white illustrations, original black cloth in dust jacket,
8vo, and Boudaille (Georges), The Drawings of Picasso, 1988,
numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original green
cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly marked, large 4to, plus other late
19th and 20th-century art reference, mostly hardback publications,
many original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
£200-300
677 Craddock (Harry). The Savoy Cocktail Book, reprint edition,
1931, advertisements to front, illustrated endpapers, numerous
colour woodcuts, some slight offsetting, original Art Deco boards,
slightly rubbed, spine rubbed and partially detached, 8vo, together
with Johns (W.E.), Biggles Flies North, 1939, colour frontispiece
plus 6 black and white illustrations, some light spotting, original blue
cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, covers rubbed with minor loss to
head and foot, 8vo, plus Milne (A.A.), The House at Pooh Corner,
1st edition, 1928, decorated endpapers, numerous black and white
illustrations, previous owner’s inscription to front pastedown, hinges
cracked, some light marks, original gilt-decorated red boards, boards
and spine faded and marked, 8vo, plus other early 20th-century and
ultra modern literature and first editions, including John Le Carré,
Cormac McCarthy, P.D. James, G.M. Fraser, J.R.R. Tolkien, mostly
original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(3 shelves)
(3 shelves)
£100-150
£70-100
679 Lambourne (Lionel). Victorian Painting, 1st edition, 1999,
numerous colour illustrations, original black cloth in dust jacket, large
4to, together with Hartley (Keith, et al [editors]), The Romantic
Spirit in German Art 1790-1990, 1st edition, 1994, numerous colour
and black and white illustrations, original blue cloth in dust jacket,
large 4to, and Suh (H. Anna, [editor]), Leonardo’s Notebooks, 1st
edition, 2005, numerous colour and black and white illustrations,
original decorated boards in dust jacket, large 4to, plus other modern
art and architecture reference and related, mostly original cloth in
dust jackets, ex-libris labels to some front endpapers, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(3 shelves)
£100-150
682 Rogers (Samuel). Italy, A Poem, printed for T. Cadell, Strand,
1830, black and white illustrations, some light spotting, a.e.g.,
contemporary gilt-decorated green morocco, boards and spine
slightly rubbed with minor loss to head and foot, 8vo, together with
Bartlett (W.H., [illustrator]), The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland,
volumes 1 & 2 bound in 1, circa 1840, numerous black and white
illustrations with tissue guards, some light spotting, contemporary
gilt-decorated blue half morocco, hinges and spine slightly rubbed
with minor loss to head, large 4to, and Williams (S. Wells), The
Middle Kingdom; a survey of the geography, government, education,
social life, arts, religion, &c., of The Chinese Empire and its
inhabitants, volumes 1 & 2, 1848, numerous black and white
illustrations, black and white folding map to front of volume 1, some
light spotting, original green quarter morocco on yellow illustrated
boards, boards and spine slightly marked and rubbed, 8vo, plus 3
Anglo-Indian gouache on mica miniature paintings of domestic
scenes, some paint loss, mica cracked with some loss, and other
18th and 19th-century antiquarian literature and historical reference
including Lives of the Queens of England... by Agnes Strickland,
volumes 1-8 (complete), 1861, contemporary uniform gilt-decorated
calf, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4to
678 Military. A collection of modern military reference and related,
including publications by Arm & Armour Press, Pen & Sword,
Greenhill Books, Airlife, Sutton, H.M.S.O., mostly original cloth in
dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(3 shelves)
£100-150
(3 shelves)
£100-150
147
£300-500
683 Halle (Clifford). To Menelek In A Motor-Car, 1st edition, 1913,
72 black and white illustrations including frontispiece, black and
white map by B. Bentley, inscription and stamps to front endpapers
and title-page, some light toning, original blue cloth, 8vo, together
with Reeve (Henry Fenwick), The Gambia, Its History Ancient,
Mediaeval, and Modern... , 1st edition, 1912, 63 black and white
illustrations including frontispiece, 3 black and white maps, partially
removed bookplate to front pastedown, some light spotting, original
gilt-decorated maroon cloth, boards slightly rubbed, spine rubbed
with minor loss to head, 8vo, and Bartlett (E.J.), In The Land of
Sheba, 1st edition, 1934, 31 black and white illustrations including
2 maps, inscription to front endpaper, some minor spotting, original
red cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly faded and rubbed with loss
to foot of the front cover, 8vo, plus other 20th-century African travel
and botanical reference, mostly hardback publications, many original
cloth in dust jackets, some odd volumes, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(3 shelves)
689 History. A large collection of ultra modern history reference
and related, including London interest and publications by Oxford,
Sutton, Penguin, Harvard University Press, mostly original cloth in
dust jackets, some paperbacks, VG, 8vo/4to
(6 shelves)
690 Military. A large collection of modern military reference and
related, including publications by Airlife, Pen & Sword, P.S.L.,
Routledge, Arms & Armour Press, mostly hardback publications,
(6 shelves)
(6 shelves)
692 Fry (Maxwell). Fine Building, 1st edition, 1944, Art in the
Machine Age, 1st edition, 1969, numerous black and white
illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, ‘Fine Building’ worn and
torn with some loss to spine and front and rear covers, 8vo, together
with Davie (W. Galsworthy), Old Cottages & Farm-Houses in
Surrey, 1st edition, Batsford, 1908, numerous black and white
illustrations, frontispiece detached, bookplate to front pastedown,
some spotting, original gilt-decorated green cloth, boards slightly
marked, spine slightly faded, 4to, plus Bonnett (Denise, [editor]),
Contemporary Cabinet Design And Construction, 1st edition,
Batsford, 1956, bookplate to front pastedown, original red cloth in
dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus other
modern architecture and art reference, mostly hardback publications,
£150-200
£100-150
686 Wingfield (Colonel). Historical Record of The Shropshire
Yeomanry Cavalry, from its formation in 1795, up to the year 1887,
1888, 6 colour illustrations (lacking frontispiece), some light spotting,
later quarter morocco, boards and spine slightly rubbed with minor
loss, 8vo, together with Trotter (Lionel J.), The Bayard of India, A
Life of General Sir James Outram, Bart. G.C.B., etc. 1903, black and
white illustrations including portrait frontispiece with tissue guard,
contemporary inscription to front endpapers, ex-libris bookplate to
front pastedown, some light spotting, original red cloth, spine
slightly toned and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and other late 19th
and 20th-century military and war reference and related, including
publications by Pen & Sword, Schiffer Military History, Arms &
Armour Press, Airlife, H.M.S.O., mostly hardback publications, many
original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(6 shelves)
(6 shelves)
£150-200
£150-200
694 Hattendorf (John B., [editor]). The Oxford Encyclopedia of
Maritime History, volumes 1-4 (complete), OUP, 2007, original
decorated blue cloth, large 8vo, together with Hunt (Leigh), London
Journal, volumes 1 & 2 bound in 1, Arms Press Inc., New York, 1967,
original blue cloth, folio, and other ultra modern history reference,
including The Oxford History of England, 16 volumes, The Oxford
History of the United States, 4 volumes, mostly original cloth in dust
jackets, some paperbacks, VG, 8vo/folio
£100-150
688 History. A large collection of mid 20th century and modern
historical reference and related, including The Journal of Hellenic
Studies, volumes 22-53, 1902-1933, uniform blue cloth, 8vo (32
volumes in total), and publications by Oxford, Batsford, Cambridge,
mostly hardback publications, many original cloth in dust jackets,
8vo/folio
(6 shelves & 2 cartons)
£150-200
693 Johnson (Samuel). The Lives of the Poets, volumes 1-4
(complete), Oxford, 2006, original blue cloth in slipcase, 8vo,
together with Smith (Harriet Elinor [editor]), Autobiography of
Mark Twain, volumes 1 & 2 (of 3) only, 2010-13, numerous black and
white illustrations, original black cloth in dust jackets, large 8vo, and
other ultra modern biography and related, including publications by
Oxford, Sutton, Penguin, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some
paperbacks, VG, 8vo/4to
687 Starkie (Walter). The Road to Santiago, Pilgrims of St. James,
1st edition, 1957, original red cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly faded
and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with other modern travel
and historical reference and related, mostly hardback publications,
(6 shelves)
£100-150
£200-300
685 Paperbacks. A large collection of approximately 560 fiction and
non-fiction paperback books, including publications by Penguin,
Pelican, Oxford, Routledge, all original wrappers, G/VG, 8vo
(7 shelves)
£100-150
691 History. A large collection of modern historical and biographical
reference, all hardback publications, mostly original cloth in dust
jackets, G/VG, 8vo
684 Penguin Paperbacks. A large collection of approx. 601 Penguin
paperbacks, mostly orange fiction, some non-fiction, all original
wrappers, G/VG, 8vo
(7 shelves)
£100-150
(6 shelves)
£100-150
148
£100-150
695 Young (John P.). San Francisco, A History of the Pacific Coast
Metropolis, 2 volumes, circa 1912, numerous monochrome
illustrations after photographs, etc., top edge gilt, original threequarter dark brown morocco gilt, a little rubbed and scuffed to joints
and extremities, 4to, limited signed edition 482 of an unspecified
total, with additional limitation leaf bound in before title, together
with Sale (Lady), A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan 18411842, 2 volumes bound in one, Paris, Galignani, 1843, folding plan
and single-page plan, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus
Sleidan (Johann), De Quatuor Monarchiis libri tres cum notis H.
Meibomi et G. Horni, Leiden, 1669, engraved title, contemporary
vellum, rubbed and a little soiled, 12mo, and other mostly 19th
century science and travel interest, including Journal of the Asiatic
Society of Bengal, volumes XI-XII, January 1842-December 1843,
plus Index volume for volumes I-XIII, Report of the British
Association for the Advancement of Science, Ipswich 1851, Belfast
1852 & Liverpool 1854, Ebers, Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and
Picturesque, trans. Clara Bell, 2 volumes, Cassell, circa 1870s, The
Geographical Journal, 16 volumes, a broken, January 1923-June
1948, Murray’s Handbooks for Egypt, 1891, Asia Minor, 1895, and
the Mediterranean, 1882, etc.
698 Marder (Arthur J.). From the Dreadnought To Scapa Flow, The
Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, volumes 1-5, mixed editions, 1966-70,
volumes 1-3 signed by the author to title-pages, black and white
illustrations, previous owner’s inscription to front endpapers, all
original blue cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed to head and
foot with some minor loss, 8vo, together with other modern military
history, biography and reference, including publications by Airlife,
Oxford, Greenhill Books, Pen & Sword, Sutton, all original cloth in
dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
(6 shelves)
699 Cooke (Edward). A Voyage To The South Sea And Round The
World in The Years 1708 To 1711, volumes 1 & 2, Bibliotheca
Australiana, facsimile edition, 1969, black and white illustrations and
folding maps, 8vo, together with a large collection of ultra modern
biography reference and related, including publications by Yale,
Oxford, Penguin, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some
paperbacks, VG, 8vo/4to
(6 shelves)
£100-150
700 Taruskin (Richard). The Oxford History of Western Music,
volumes 1-6 (complete), 2005, numerous black and white
illustrations, original black cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, together with
Scott (Johnny), A Book of Britain, 2010, original publisher’s blocked
gilt-decorated morocco and decorative cloth, large 4to, and other
history reference and related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets,
some paperbacks, VG, 8vo/4to
Ex libris Sir Nicholas Ambraseys (1929-2012), the eminent seismologist.
(3 shelves)
£150-200
696 Chabot (J.-B.). Chronique de Michel Le Syrien, Patriarche
Jacobite d’Antioche (1166-1199), 4 volumes, Paris, 1899, Facsimile
Reprint, Brussels, 1963, contemporary uniform red cloth gilt, 4to,
together with Collie (Michael and Diemer, John, editors),
Murchison’s Wanderings in Russia, His Geological Exploration of
Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains, 1840 and 1841, British
Geological Survey, 2004, monochrome illustrations, folding plates in
pocket at rear, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, VG, plus Muller-Wiener
(Wolfgang), Bildlexikon zur Topographie Istanbuls, (Deutsches
Archaologisches Institut), Tubingen, 1977, numerous monochrome
illustrations after photographs, etc., original cloth in torn dust jacket,
4to, and other 20th century publications on travel, geology,
earthquakes, soil and engineering mechanics, etc., including U.S.
Department of Commerce, San Fernando, California, Earthquake of
February 9, 1971, edited by Leonard M. Murphy, 3 volumes, 1973,
Istoria de Fenomeni del Tremoto avvenuto nelle Calabrie, e nel
Valdemone nell’anno 1783, Atlante, facsimile edition, 1922, etc.
(6 shelves)
£150-200
701 Suarez (Michael F. & Woudhuysen, S.J. & H.R.). The Oxford
Companion to the Book, volumes 1 & 2 (complete), 2010, original
gilt-decorated quarter red morocco in slipcase, large 4to, together
with other literary reference and ultra modern and first edition
fiction, including Sebastian Faulks, William Golding, Umberto Eco,
Michael Crichton, Stieg Larsson, mostly original cloth in dust jackets,
some paperbacks, VG, 8vo/4to
(6 shelves)
£100-150
702 Wakeham (H.B.T.). Harlequin Story. The History of the
Harlequin Football Club, 1st edition, 1954, 33 black and white plates,
some light spotting, original green cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed
to head and foot with minor loss to bottom right corner of the front
cover, 8vo, together with Travers (B.H.), Let’s Talk Rugger, 1st
edition, 1950, 11 black and white plates, some light spotting to the
text block, original green cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed
to head and foot, 8vo, and other modern rugby, cricket, and other
sport reference and related, mostly hardback publications, many
original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo
Ex libris Sir Nicholas Ambraseys (1929-2012), the eminent seismologist.
(3 shelves)
£150-200
697 Wodehouse (P.G.). Barmy in Wonderland, 1st edition, 1952,
My Man Jeeves, 2nd printing, 1920, Psmith In The City, reprint
edition, 1923, Right Ho Jeeves, 1924, and 21 further mixed edition
titles, by the author, all with ‘ex-Libris George MacDonald Fraser’
bookplates to front pastedowns, all original cloth, some boards and
spines slightly rubbed, 8vo, (25 volumes in total), together with
Arnold (Edwin), Indian Poetry, 9th impression, 1909, contemporary
inscription to front endpaper, some light toning and spotting, original
gilt-decorated brown cloth, spine slightly rubbed, and Burgess
(Anthony), The Wanting Seed, 1st edition, 1962, some light spotting
to text block, original green cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly worn
to head and foot, 8vo, plus other modern and ultra-modern literature
and biography, all hardback publications, many original cloth in dust
jackets, G/VG, 8vo
(6 shelves)
£100-150
(6 shelves)
£100-150
703 Zeldin (Theodore). The Oxford History of Modern Europe,
France 1848-1945, volumes 1 & 2, 1973-77, previous owner’s
inscription to front endpaper, original black cloth in dust jackets,
covers slightly toned, 8vo, together with Roberts (Michael), A
History of Sweden, 4 volumes, Cambridge University Press, 196891, 3 volumes signed by the author to front endpapers, some minor
toning, all original cloth in dust jackets, covers and spines slightly
faded and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and other modern historical
and biographical reference and related, all original cloth in dust
jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to
£150-200
(6 shelves)
£100-150
704 Pelican Paperbacks. A large collection of approximately 585
Pelican paperbacks, all non-fiction, all original wrappers, some
covers rubbed, G/VG, 8vo
149
£100-150
OLD MASTER PAINTINGS & PRINTS
TRADITIONAL WATERCOLOURS
ANTIQUE FURNITURE, CERAMICS & GLASS
FINE SILVER, JEWELLERY & OBJETS D’ART
Thursday 3 March 2016
Louis Vuitton. Vintage briefcase, with brass catches, leather interior and brown leather strap.
Estimate £500-800
Further entries in all categories invited.
Please contact Henry Meadows
henry@dominicwinter.co.uk
150
THE ART OF THE PRINT:
19TH & 20TH CENTURY FINE PRINTS
Thursday 7 April 2016
C. R. W. Nevinson (1889-1946). Assembling Parts (from the series ‘The Great War: Britain’s Efforts and Ideals’) 1918.
One of one hundred unsigned impressions. Estimate £7,000-9,000.
Further entries are invited.
Please contact Nathan Winter
nathan@dominicwinter.co.uk
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INFORMATION FOR BUYERS
AFTER THE AUCTION
Online results
If you weren’t present or able to follow the auction live, you can find results for the sale on our website shortly after
the sale has ended.
Payment
The price you pay is the amount at which the auctioneer’s hammer falls (the hammer price), plus a buyer’s premium (a
percentage of the final hammer price) and vat where applicable. You will be issued with an invoice made out to the
name and address provided on your registration form.
Please note successful bids made via live bidding cannot be invoiced or paid for until the day after an auction.
A live bidding fee of 3% + vat will be added to your invoice.
METHODS OF PAYMENT
Cheque
Cheques will only be accepted on the day of the sale by prior arrangement (please contact our office for further
information). Cheques by post will be accepted but a period of 5 working days will be required for the cheque to clear
before purchases can be collected or posted.
Cash
Payments can be made at the Cashier’s Office, either during or after the sale.
Debit Card
There is no additional charge for purchases made with these cards. Debit cards drawn on an overseas bank, however,
will be subject to a 2% surcharge.
Credit Cards
Visa and Mastercard are accepted, a 2% surcharge will apply. It is a good idea to let your card provider know in advance
if you are intending to buy something. This can help cut down the time we need to seek authority when you come to pay.
Bank Transfer
All transfers must state the relevant invoice no. If transferring from a foreign currency, the amount we receive must be
the total due after the currency conversion and the deduction of any bank charges.
Collection/Postage/Delivery
If you attend the auction in person and are successful in your bid, you are free to collect your item once payment has
been made.
Successful commission or live bids will be invoiced to you the day after the sale. When it is possible for our in-house
packing department to send your purchase(s), a charge for postage/packing/insurance will be included in your invoice.
Where it is not possible for our in-house packing department to send your item you will be required to make your own
arrangements or to contact Mailboxes etc (tel: 01793 525009) who may be able to help.
We provide a monthly delivery service to Central London, usually on Wednesday of the week following an auction.
Payment must be received before this option can be requested. A charge will be added to your invoice for this service.
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Dominic Winter
SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS
Libraries & Archives
Nathan Winter & Chris Albury
Paintings & Prints
Nathan Winter
Antiques & Furniture
Henry Meadows
Medals & Militaria
Henry Meadows
Aviation & Transport Collections
Chris Albury & Henry Meadows
Atlases, Maps & Prints
John Trevers
Antiquarian Books
Colin Meays
Modern First Editions
Paul Rasti
Children's Books, Toys & Games
Susanna Winters
Oriental & Islamic Art
Matthew Farren
Sports Books & Memorabilia
Paul Rasti
Taxidermy, Fossils & Field Sports
John Trevers
Vintage Photography & Cinema
Chris Albury
Manuscripts, Autographs & Ephemera
Chris Albury
For free valuations without obligation,
please contact any of the above
specialists for further advice.
Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 5UQ
01285 860006 / firstname or info@dominicwinter.co.uk
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Conditions of Sale and Business
1. The Seller warrants to the Auctioneer and the buyer that he is the true owner or
is properly authorised to sell the property by the true owner and is able to
transfer good and marketable title to the property free from any third party
claims.
7. Any representation or statement by the Auctioneer in any catalogue,
brochure or advertisement of forthcoming sales as to authorship, attribution, genuineness, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or estimated
selling price is a statement of opinion only. Every person interested should
exercise and rely on his own judgement as to such matters and neither the
Auctioneer nor his servants or agents are responsible for the correctness
of such opinions. No warranty whatsoever is given by the Auctioneer or
the seller in respect of any lot and any express or implied warranties are
hereby excluded.
2. (a) The highest bidder to be the buyer. If during the auction the Auctioneer
considers that a dispute has arisen he has absolute authority to settle
it or re-offer the lot. The Auctioneer may at his sole discretion determine
the advance of bidding or refuse a bid, divide any lot, combine any two
or more lots or withdraw any lot without prior notice.
(b) Where goods are bought at auction by a buyer who has entered into
an agreement with another or others that the other or others (or some
of them) shall abstain from bidding for the goods and the buyer or other
party or one of the other parties is a dealer (as defined in the Auction
Biddings Agreement Act 1927) the buyer warrants that the goods are
bought bona fide on joint account.
8. (a) Notwithstanding any other terms of these conditions, if within fourteen
days of the sale the Auctioneer has received from the buyer of any lot
notice in writing that in his view the lot is a deliberate forgery and
within fourteen days after such notification the buyer returns the same
to the Auctioneer in the same condition as at the time of the sale and
satisfies the Auctioneer that considered in the light of the entry in the
catalogue the lot is a deliberate forgery then the sale of the lot will be
rescinded and the purchase price of the same refunded. "A deliberate
forgery" means a lot made with intention to deceive.
(b) A buyer's claim under this condition shall be limited to any amount paid
to the Auctioneer for the lot and for the purpose of this condition the
buyer shall be the person to whom the original invoice was made out
by the Auctioneer.
3. The buyer shall pay the price at which a lot is knocked down by the
Auctioneer to the buyer (“the hammer price”) together with a premium of
19.5% of the hammer price. Where the lot is marked by an asterisk the
premium will be subject to VAT at 23.40% which under the Auctioneer’s
Margin Scheme will form part of the buyer’s premium on our invoice and
will not be separately identified (the premium added to the hammer price
will hereafter collectively be referred to as “the total sum due”). By making
any bid the buyer acknowledges that his attention has been drawn to the
fact that on the sale of any lot the Auctioneer will receive from the seller
commission at its usual rates in addition to the said premium of 19.5% and
assents to the Auctioneer receiving the said commission.
9. Lots may be removed during the sale after full settlement in accordance
with 4(d) hereof.
10. All goods delivered to the Auctioneer's premises will be deemed to be
delivered for sale by auction unless otherwise stated in writing and will
be catalogued and sold at the Auctioneer's discretion and accepted by
the Auctioneer subject to all these conditions. In the case of miscellaneous books, the Auctioneer reserves the right to extract and dispose of
books that, in the opinion of the Auctioneer at his absolute discretion,
have no saleable value and, therefore, might detract from the saleability
of the rest of the lot and the Auctioneer shall incur no liability to the seller,
in respect of the books disposed of. By delivering the goods to the
Auctioneer for inclusion in his auction sales each seller acknowledges that
he/she accepts and agrees to all the conditions.
4. (a) The buyer shall forthwith upon the purchase give in his name and
permanent address and pay to the Auctioneer immediately after the
conclusion of the auction the total sum due.
(b) The buyer may be required to pay down during the course of the sale
the whole or any part of the total sum due, and if he fails to do so after
such request the lot or lots may at the Auctioneer's absolute discretion
be put up again and resold immediately.
(c) The buyer shall at his own expense take away any lot or lots purchased
no later than five working days after the auction day.
(d) The Auctioneer may at his own discretion agree credit terms with a
buyer and extend the time limits for collection in special cases but
otherwise payment shall be deemed to have been made only after the
Auctioneer has received cash or a sterling banker’s draft or the buyer's
cheque has been cleared.
11. (a) Unless otherwise instructed in writing all goods on the Auctioneer's
premises and in their custody will be held insured against the risks of
fire, burglary, water damage and accidental breakage or damage.
The value of the goods so covered will be the hammer price, or in the
case of unsold lots the best bid, or in the case of loss or damage prior
to the sale that which the specialised staff of the Auctioneer shall in
their absolute discretion estimate to be the auction value of such goods.
(b) The Auctioneer shall not be responsible for damage to or the loss, theft,
or destruction of any goods not so insured because of the owner’s
written instructions.
5. (a) If the buyer fails to pay for or take away any lot or lots pursuant to
clause 4 or breaches any other condition of that clause the Auctioneer
as agent for the seller shall be entitled after consultation with the seller
to exercise one or other of the following rights:
(i) Rescind the sale of that or any other lots sold to the buyer who defaults
and re-sell the lot or lots whereupon the defaulting buyer shall pay to
the Auctioneer any shortfall between the proceeds of that sale after
deduction of costs of re-sale and the total sum due. Any surplus shall
belong to the seller.
(ii) Proceed for damages for breach of contract.
(b) Without prejudice to the Auctioneer's rights hereunder if any lots or
lots are not collected within five days or such longer period as the
Auctioneer may have agreed otherwise, the Auctioneer may charge the
buyer a storage charge of £1.00 + VAT at the current rate per lot per day.
(c) Ownership of the lot purchased shall not pass to the buyer until he has
paid to the Auctioneer the total sum due.
12. The Auctioneer shall remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller thirty
days after the day of the auction provided that the Auctioneer has received
the total sum due from the buyer. In all other cases the Auctioneer will
remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller within seven days of the
receipt by the Auctioneer of the total sum due. The Auctioneer will not
be deemed to have received the total sum due until after any cheque
delivered by the buyer has been cleared. In the event of the Auctioneer
exercising his right to rescind the sale his obligation to the seller
hereunder lapses.
13. In the case of the seller withdrawing instructions to the Auctioneer to sell
any lot or lots, the Auctioneer may charge a fee of 12.5% of the Auctioneer's
middle estimate of the auction price of the lot withdrawn together with
Value Added Tax thereon and any expenses incurred in respect of the lot
or lots.
6. (a) The seller shall be entitled to place a reserve on any lot and the
Auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the seller for any lot
on which a reserve has been placed. A seller may not bid on any lot on
which a reserve has been placed.
(b) Where any lot fails to sell, the Auctioneer shall notify the seller
accordingly. The seller shall make arrangements either to re-offer the
lot for sale or to collect the lot and may be asked to pay a commission
not exceeding 50% of the selling commission and any special expenses incurred in cataloguing the lot.
(c) If such arrangements are not made within seven days of the notification
the Auctioneer is empowered to sell the lot by auction or by private
treaty at not less than the reserve price and to receive from the seller
the normal selling commission and special expenses.
14. The Auctioneer’s current standard notices and information (i.e. Collation
and Amendments) will apply to any contract with the Auctioneer as if
incorporated herein.
15. These conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
English Law.
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DOMINIC WINTER
SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS
Saleroom and Offices: Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQ
Tel: 01285 860006 Fax: 01285 862461
COMMISSION SLIP
Please Bid on my behalf at the sale on 27 January 2016 up to the amount shown.
I acknowledge that I will be required to pay a buyer's premium at the current rate.
Lot
£
Brief Description
______________________________________________________________________________________
Name:
Address
Telephone:
Email:
Fax:
Postage can be arranged for most purchases. For UK and European customers we use DPD (formerly Parceline) or
Royal Mail: a separate charge is added to the invoice (minimum £15) and parcels are despatched as soon as possible
after payment has been received. All framed and glazed items and all lots for overseas customers outside Europe
will be sent to Mail Boxes Etc. (tel: Swindon 01793 525009) or R.F. Shipping (tel: London 0845 873 6240). Both of
these companies will quote and invoice separately. Please note: DWBA invoices must be paid before consignments
are handed to third party shipping companies.
The nearest train station to the saleroom is Kemble (BR) which is on the London (Paddington) to Worcester Shrub Hill
line. Train journey times from London are on average 90 minutes whether direct or with one change, and run at about
one per hour from early until late. Several of the trains in each direction are direct and about half the services require a
brief change at Swindon. Customers are advised to check train times and book as early as possible for the best range of
ticket services and discounts.
National Rail Enquiries:
08457 484950
Telephone advance train ticket booking:
08457 000125 (First Great Western)
Online train timetables and online ticket bookings:
www.nationalrail.co.uk
Taxis from Kemble Station (5 miles/10 minutes)
Brian's Cabs
Cirencester Radio Cars
Cirencester Taxis
01285 655299 / 07980 579947
01285 650850
01285 642767
Taxis from Swindon Station (12 miles/25minutes)
V-Cars
01793 701701
Cirencester Visitor Information Centre
+44 (0)1285 654180
cirencestervic@cotswold.gov.uk
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