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[Ackermann (Rudolph)] A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. R. Ackermann. 1814, half-titles present, aquatinted frontispieces and 62 plates, 17 line and stipple plates of University costume, all handcoloured, uncoloured stipple-engraved portrait, some minor offsetting of plates to text (as usual), pp.xiv+xxv+[i] (blank)+275+[1] (blank)+[6] (Index); [iv]+262+[6] (Index)+[2], 4to., modern highly polished red stained calf, small crack at head of upper hinge of vol. i, backstrips with raised bands between gilt rules, second compartments gilt lettered direct, remainder with repeated radiating gilt volutes; sides panelled with inner and outer borders consisting of gilt tulip head roll within double gilt fillet, modern light green endpapers, rough trimmed, very good (Abbey ‘Scenery’ 280: Cordeaux and Merry ‘University’ 25: Tooley 5: Prideaux pp. 125-126) £3,750.00 Ackermann’s reputation was secured after the publication in 1808 of The Microcosm of London which featured 104 large, folio, hand-coloured aquatints. A series of fine, topographical books followed which included Westminster Abbey (1811–12), Oxford (1813–14), Cambridge (1814–15), and The Public Schools (1816). The plates in the present work are in the first state, with the exception of numbers 39, 74, 78, 84 and 94. As is very often the case, this copy was issued without the portraits of the founders. The author of the accompanying text is William Combe. These two books are among the finest ever executed. A. Pugin, F. Nash, F. Mackenzie and W. Westall were associated in the drawings, which are worthy even of the splendid architectural monuments they commemorate, while the engraving was carried out by such masters of aquatint as J. Bluck, J.C. Stadler, F.C. Lewis, D. Havell, and others of like reputation. The result was the production of plates of unequalled merit in their particular line” (Prideaux, pp. 125-126).
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(Anon.) The Eccentric Traveller. In four volumes. With forty-four engravings. Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, [et al.] 1826, SOLE EDITION(?), 4 wood engraved frontispieces and 36 plates, four vignettes framing vol. numbers on title-pages, by [Richard] Austin and André Masson, slightly dusty, pp.ix+[i] (blank)+323; ix+[i] (blank)+311; x+311; x+324, 12mo., orig. half black roan, lower side vol.iv lightly flecked with white paint, smooth backstrips, gilt lettered morocco labels at head, gilt volume numerals within gilt tooled border, marbled sides, blue speckled edges, good £590.00 Scarce. COPAC lists only the Cambridge University Library copy, although there are in fact copies in the British Library and Bodleian. RLG gives five North American locations. The action in this picaresque novel is set in Portugal and Spain and revolves around a younger son of an English family long settled in Portugal.
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(Anon.) Picturesque views in the Isle of Man. George Philip & Son. c.1860, folding plate (with short tear in guard) and 23 vignette plates, all colour tinted wood engravings, each with accompanying leaf of text, ff.[ii]+24 (plates)+24, (200x125mm.), oblong 8vo., orig. fine diagonal grain red cloth; sides with blind fillet borders and black printed corner-pieces, gilt arms and title in centre of upper side, pale cream chalked endpapers, bookseller’s blind stamp on upper pastedown, very good £80.00 No copies located by COPAC or OCLC. Plates include views of Douglas Bay, Snaefell, Castle Mona, Laxey Village & Glen, and numerous other scenes.
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(Anon.) The curiosities of London and Westminster described. In four volumes. Embellished with elegant copper plates ... F. Newbery. 1770, FIRST EDITION (see note), 4 frontispieces (with early gift inscription on versos) and 20 plates (the 6 plates in vol.ii all short, but printed area untouched), 2 full-page woodcut illustrations in vol.ii, title-pages to vols.i and ii cancelled, pp.[ii]+125+[3]; [ii]+125+[3]; [ii]+124+[3]; [ii]+125+[3], 16mo. in 8’s, orig. Dutch floral boards, upper free endpapers discarded, Roscoe bibliography entry (reduced) laid-down on upper pastedown to vol.i, contained in modern green cloth slipcase, very good (Roscoe J88: ESTC T118396 ) £2,450.00 Only three copies located worldwide by COPAC/OCLC. This scarce 1770 edition, according to Roscoe, is the ‘earliest traced, and probably the first ...’ In fact, the four volume set for 1770, and the set for 1771, were the only uniform and complete sets he found. ‘Other sets have been made up from vols. of different years, and it seems quite possible that complete sets were not issued after 1771, but that new individual vols. were put out as and when required.’ (Roscoe)
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(Anon.) The curiosities of London; containing a descriptive and entertaining sketch of the British metropolis, for the amusement of youth. Ornamented with numerous superb engravings. Thomas Tegg. [c.1814,] wood engraved frontispiece and 5 other full-page cuts, all on the letterpress, 4 tail-pieces, pp.35, (85x136mm.), orig. blue card wrappers, lightly rubbed, small etched view mounted on each side, as issued, very good (Osborne p.802) £135.00 Osbourne states a publication date of 1820, the British Library 1810; OCLC mentions a very similar work as a combination of The curiosities of London and A New picture of London for 1814 by H.J. Sarrett. 2nd ed., both of which were also published separately.
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(Anon.) The Traveller; or, an Entertaining Journey round the Habitable Globe; being a novel and easy method of studying geography. Illustrated with forty-two plates, consisting of views of the principal capital cities of the world, and the costume of its various inhabitants. [Second edition] Printed for J. Harris and Son. [c.1821], halftitle present, 24 leaves of plates (comprising frontispiece, 17 views and 4 of costume each with 2 illustrations, and 2 further plates of maps), woodcut vignette on titlepage, pp.viii+204, 12mo. in 6s, orig. red roan-backed pictorial yellow boards (very lightly rubbed) with woodcut vignette of the world seen from the heavens (repeated from title-page) on front board, backstrip divided by gilt single rules, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, contemp. ink name on front free endpaper, blue speckled edges, good (Moon 907[2]: Gumuchian 5615: Osborne p.192) £225.00 Uncommon. Moon’s description of the first issue of 1820 refers only to coloured engravings within the text. The second edition of 1821 appeared in two formats, one with hand coloured plates priced 7s.6d., the half-bound uncoloured issue priced at 6s. This second issue copy retains the uncoloured, finely executed engravings showing views of continental capitals and major cities such as Naples, Paris, Dresden and Buda, extending further afield to Washington and Peking. Many of the plates are dated July 20th 1820 or Dec. 10th 1820.
From left to right: Item 10, Item 66, Item 122, Item 29, Item 8, Item 22, Item 40, Item 97, foreground Item 3
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(Anon.) Illustrations of Stratford upon Avon, with historical and descriptive notices of the town, church, Shakespeare’s house, and other remarkable buildings... Stratford upon Avon: J. Ward. 1827, 6 lithographed plates, foxed, pp.32+[2], 8vo., modern seed-grain dark grey cloth, smooth backstrip longitudinally gilt lettered direct, rough trimmed, orig. engraved and lithographed wrappers bound in (foxed), good £120.00
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(Anon.) Microcosm of Oxford Whittock and Hyde. [c.1830], ornate title-page and 31 views of Oxford Colleges, on continuous folding strip, each view wood-engraved within decorative frame (except for one mounted steel engraved vignette), each view 120x95mm., pasted inside lower cover of orig. horizontally-ribbed red cloth folder, with blind stamped volute border on sides, gilt titled in centre of upper side ‘A Present from Oxford’ within a cartouche, very good £250.00 Rare. Not traced in Cordeaux and Merry, Clary, or the Claremont Colleges collection online. COPAC locates one copy in UK institutions, whilst OCLC reveals only one more copy in US libraries. The suggestion made by Online Computer Library Centre is that the present work was published in 1830. Other sources state that the item is an 1860s reworking of Nathaniel Whittock’s slightly larger thirtynine plate work (of c.1830) of the same title. The conclusion drawn from all of this is that there were probably two issues in 1830, each of a slightly different format.
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US Battleships (Anon.) The Panama Canal: the world’s greatest engineering feat. Panama City: I. L. Maduro, Jr. [c.1915], four pages of text in English and Spanish printed in double columns on cream paper, 24 mounted colour offset lithographed plates, fore edge rough cut, ff. [2]+[24], (24x30 cm.), orig. cream card wrappers (lightly rubbed and soiled), yellow string binding, front wrapper lettered in dark green with centrally mounted, colour-tinted plate (bordered in gold) bracketed by illustrations in green (each highlighted in gold), good £65.00 OCLC locates only six copies in US institutions. Presumably issued to coincide with the opening of the canal in 1914; Maduro produced a wealth of similar pamphlets and panoramic views. This collection depicts numerous U.S. Navy battleships and cruisers passing through the various locks. Many of Maduro’s photographs from this period are now housed at the University of Texas, Austin.
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Baines (Edward) The history of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. ... A new, revised, and improved edition. George Routledge & Sons. 1868-70, folding map of the county of Lancaster (hand-coloured in parts), woodcut illustrations in the text (some hand-coloured), xvi+690; xii+729, 4to., contemp. tan tree calf, backstrip divided by gilt raised bands between gilt rules into six compartments,
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gilt lettered and decorated morocco labels (red and green) in second and third compartments (with red morocco label at foot), remainder with central gilt floral stamp and foliate cornerpieces, joints of upper boards expertly repaired, sides with alternating fish and fleur-de-lis design in gilt as border (repeated on turn-ins), marbled endpapers (front free endpaper of vol.ii replaced to match), a.e.g., very good £300.00 Edward Baines’ newspaper, the “Leeds Mercury” (of which he was owner and editor), was a thriving and radical publication. It became a mouthpiece for the many outspoken views of its writers on parliamentary reform, the abolition of the slave trade, Catholic emancipation etc. Baines found time to publish a lengthy history of the wars of the French Revolution in 1815; he then issued a “History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York” between 1822-3, a format he repeated for the Gazetteer of Lancaster, published the following year. He expanded the Lancaster volume to produce the first version of the present work (in four volumes) in 1836. This was revised and edited by John Harland, whose work was completed for vol. ii by Brooke Herford, for the 1868 edition. It remains an invaluable reference work for any historian of the region. 11.
Barlow (Percival) The general history of Europe; and entertaining traveller. Comprising an historical and geographical account of all the kingdoms, empires, &c. in Europe ... from their first establishment to the end of the present year ... also a faithful account of The War of the Russians and Austrians with the Turks and Swedes; displaying likewise the particulars of the late glorious Revolution in France ... 2 Vols. W & J Stratford. [c.1791], SOLE EDITION, 70 exceptionally bright copperplate engravings by Bowen, Grignion, Sparrow and others, comprising frontispieces, 19 folding maps, 51 plates, printers subscription list at end of second volume, pp. [viii]+ii+[1]-406; [ii]+407-825+[5], folio, half tan calf, smooth backstrips divided into seven compartments by gilt rolls, gilt lettered crimson morocco label in second, black morocco label with ornate gilt floral devices and volume numeral in fourth, remainder empty, marbled sides, slight cracking of joints (but firm), bookplate of Sir Henry Bedingfield of Oxburgh, Bart, library’s small stamp on pastedown, good. £2,200.00 Dedicated to Frederick, Duke of York, Barlow’s extensive study comprehensively covers most European states of the late eighteenth century. Barlow was “assisted by several gentlemen who have made the tour of Europe, and furnished him with the most valuable amd authentic information ...” Vol. i deals principally with Britain, and offers a county by county listing of major towns and cities. Copper-plate engravings show scenes of British and Continental towns, people, points of architectural interest, and rural landscapes including Bohemia, Prussia and Turkey. The folding maps (of a particularly high quality) are by Thomas Bowen and the book retains its “complete set of whole sheet maps of all the kingdoms” as well as a full quota of engravings. Rare in its unbroken state.
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Steel Engraved Views of Italy Batty (Miss [Elizabeth Frances]) Italian scenery. From drawings made in 1817. Rodwell & Martin. 1820, SOLE EDITION, large paper, engraved vignette title-page and 16 plates, fly-title discarded, foxed, pp.[vi]+195+[1], imp.8vo. [Bound with] Cockburn (Major [James]) Swiss scenery from drawings ... Rodwell & Martin. 1820, LARGE PAPER COPY, engraved vignette title-page and 60 plates, foxed, pp.vii+[i]+200, imp.8vo. [and] Batty (Captain [Robert] European scenery from drawings made in 1819 ... Rodwell & Martin. 1822, LARGE PAPER COPY, engraved title-page (foxed) and 64 plates, 1 other vignette (browned), occasional foxing, pp.[viii]+[plates each with leaf of text], imp.8vo. [and] Light (Major [Henry]) Sicilian scenery from drawings by P. De Wint. The original sketches by Major Light. Rodwell & Martin. [1822,] LARGE PAPER, engraved vignette title-page and 60, 1 other vignette, light foxing, offsetting, pp.[iv]+[plates each with leaf of text], imp.8vo. [and] Batty (Captain [Robert]) German scenery. From drawings made in 1820 ... Rodwell & Martin. 1823, LARGE PAPER COPY, engraved vignette title-page and 60 plates, 1 other vignette, light foxing, pp.[viii]+[plates each with leaf of text], imp.8vo. 5 vols. uniformly bound in contemp. russia, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked in lighter calf, backstrips with raised bands between gilt rules, gilt lettered direct; sides with wide gilt roll outer border, inner panel with blind fillet border and gilt corner pieces, marbled endpapers and edges, bookplates of Sir Thomas Baring, Bart., sound (Universal Catalogue of Books on Art, vol.I, p.76) £3,500.00 A total of 260 highly accomplished plates depicting Italian scenes. Elizabeth Frances Batty (active from ca. 1809) was the brother of army officer and artist Robert Batty (1788-1848, see next item). Though, like her sibling, she was a member of the Royal Academy, little is known of her from a biography point of view. M.Bryan, in his Biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers, 2 vols.(1816) states that she enjoyed a reputation for ‘eminent ... topographical taste’, and it is known that she married one Philip Martineau (1791-1860).
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Batty (Robert) Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery. Robert Jennings. 1829, FIRST EDITION, engraved vignette title-page, frontispiece and engraved dedication leaf; 60 plates, each with leaf of explanation with wood-engraved vignette view (English text on recto; French on verso), tissue-guards and half-title present, pp[ii]+[120] (text leaves)+[4] (plate list), 4to., contemp. half. dark red morocco, extremities rubbed, backstrip faded, with flattened gilt decorated wide raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second compartment (and at foot), remainder gilt panelled; sides with sand-grain green cloth (lower side slightly faded), returns and corner pieces gilt and blind panelled, large gilt lettered leather label in centre of upper side, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., very good
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Bellicard (Mr. [Jérôme Charles]) [and Cochin (Charles Nicholas)] Observations upon the antiquities of the town of Herculaneum, discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. With some reflections on the painting and sculpture of the ancients ... D. Wilson and T. Durham. 1753, FIRST EDITION, 42 plates (3 folding), pp.vii+236+[4], 8vo., orig. sprinkled calf, joints and corners rubbed, backstrip with raised bands between double gilt rules, gilt lettered red morocco label in second compartment, remainder with gilt lozenge tool at centre; board edges blind hatched, polished edges, good (Cox I p.132: Lowndes p.151) £675.00 ‘Herculaneum and Pompeii came to the notice of the curious in 1738 and 1748 respectively, though it was not until 1763 that excavations were begun at the latter place.’ (Cox). Described by Lowndes as ‘an ingenious work’.
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Belloc (Hilaire) The Highway and its Vehicles. Edited by Geoffrey Holme. The Studio. 1926, FIRST EDITION, 325/1,250 COPIES, 25 colourprinted plates tipped to framed cream backing card, captioned tissue-guards, 71 other plates, title printed in red, initial page of letterpress lightly browned, pp.xvi+40, lge.4to., orig. pale green bevel-edged buckram, lightly faded backstrip and upper cover gilt lettered, illustrated endpapers, t.e.g., good (Cahill 91) £135.00
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Belloc (Hilaire) The Old Road. [Second Edition, i.e.] First Octavo Edition. Constable. 1910, frontispiece (small hole in tissue-guard where it has adhered to title-page) and 16 plates, numerous diagrams throughout the text portraying sections of the route, folding-map at end, pp.xii+296, 8vo., orig. mid brown cloth, backstrip and upper cover gilt lettered, oblong block of a map stamped in black on the front cover, t.,e.g., others untrimmed, good (Cahill 18) £50.00
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Bennet (J.F., publisher) Up and down the river. Bennet’s map & ABC guide to the River Thames from Oxford to Gravesend with useful notes for boating and angling. Bennet. [c.1900,] colour lithographed folding schematic panorama map, 190x770mm. (100x148mm. folded), orig. red printed red printed pale green cloth folder, faded, vignette of boat with title on sail on upper side, 20pp. guide book in printed stiffened wrappers pasted to upper endpaper (as issued), sound (Cohen p.194) £85.00
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Boemus (Johann) Orbis terrarum epitome in qua mores, leges, ritus omnium gentium, per Ioannem Boemum Aubanum Teutonicum ex multis clarissimis scriptoribus collecti continentur, vna cum Henrici Farnesij Eburonis I.C. & artis orationiae Regij interpretis. Castigatione, & censura: reumq[ue] admirabilium additamentis: Hùc item eius accedit. Elogium ad illustrissimum Didacum Salazar supremum concellarium. Quaestiones de sui cognitione, siue de homine, symbolis tamquam allegoricis legibus solutae. Pavia: Apud Andream Vianum. 1596, woodcut printer’s device on title-page (title leaf expertly repaired using old paper at gutter), woodcut initials and tailpieces, some faint staining within pageblock, minor repair work to corner tips of final leaves, large woodcut printer’s colophon on final leaf, pp.[22]+390[i.e. 380]+[20], 8vo., modern limp vellum, smooth backstrip and sides, green tinted edges, good (Adams 2273) £275.00 A late edition of Orbis terrarum epitome. A COPAC search reveals only two copies in U.K. libraries. Follows a Vianum-published edition of the previous year (1595); both title and colophon are dated 1596. Boemus published this work as early as 1520 in Augsburg; it was translated into English as The fardle of façions in 1555, and later as The manners, laws, and customs of all nations. Collected out of the best writers (1611). The revised and expanded Latin edition appeared in 1536; 23 editions followed in five languages. Boemus pursues a variety of ethnographic issues, and explains migration as ‘a consequence of Original Sin, comparing the paradoxical state, where man had lived in humble frugality and peaceful contentment at the place where God had put him, with the inane desire to settle and inhabit distant lands’ (Donecker).
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Botero’s best known work Botero (Giovanni) Le Relationi Universali ... Divise in Quattro Parti. Nella Prima Parte si contiene la Descrittione dell’Europa, dell’Asia, e dell’Africa ... Nella Seconda, si da contezza de’ maggiori Prencipi del Mondo ... Nella Terza, si tratta ancora de’ Popoli d’ogni credenza ... Nella Quarta, si tratta delle superstitioni ... Nuovamentge Aggiuntavi la Descrittione del Mare. Et le Figure in Rame Venice: Appresso Agostino Angelieri. 1608, publisher’s woodcut vignettes on title-pages, woodcut head, tailpieces, and initial letters, 4 copper-engraved folding maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, minor worming affecting upper title-page margin (and leaves a1-b3) but no text, pp.[xxxii]+256+80; 80; [xx]+152; 183+[9]; [xvi]+79, 8vo., old (possibly mid-eighteenth-century) vellum, gilt lettered red morocco label on backstrip, minimal area of loss at head of backstrip, sides with blind ruled borders and unidentified, blindstamped, centrally placed coat of arms, blue speckled edges (top edge dust-dimmed), good £1,500.00 OCLC locates only one copy of this edition. Not in the British Library printed catalogue (or COPAC). See also Sabin for various other editions. The first Italian edition was published in Rome in 1591; there followed two more parts to the work up to 1593. A second edition in four parts (Rome, 1595) was superceded by yet another expanded edition, again in four parts (Venice 1596). This edition contains special titlepages for parts ii-iv, and for Le Relationi del Mare, with woodcut title vignettes.
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As can be seen the work ran through several editions, and the earlier editions, though not this, were suppressed because of a passage in the chapter entitled ‘Regno di Francia...’ in the passage headed ‘Forze’. The passage was corrected in the Turin edition of 1601. The Relazioni had a total of 17 editions in 10 years, three translations in Latin and many other translations in various European languages. A fifth part was not published until 1895, in Turin, by C. Gioda. An English translation was entitled Relations of the most famous kingdoms and common-weales thorough the world: Discoursing of their scituations, manners, customes, strengthes and pollicies. 20.
Bouguer (Jean) Traité Complet de la Navigation contenant... contenant les propositions & pratiques de geometrie, un traité de la sphere & d’astronomie, les tables ephemerides du mouvement du soleil, celles de sa declinaison, de son ascension droite, de son lever & coucher, de son amplitude, & plusieurs autres necessaires en navigation... Paris: et se vend à Nantes: Chez P. De Heuqueville ... 1706, FIRST EDITION, engraved title-page (rough cut at fore edge), head, tailpieces, and initials on letterpress, 11 plates (10 folding), navigational charts (on letterpress), ink trials of the name Chavagnac repeated sporadically throughout lightly browned and foxed page block, pp.[viii]+252+[2], 4to., contemp. tan mottled calf (pitted over time, as often), corners bumped, backstrip cracked at head with gilt morocco
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label beneath near contemp. paper label (perhaps a protective measure?) in second compartment, others decorated gilt with central fleuron surrounded by ornate gilt decoration between gilt raised bands, sides with blind fillet border, front board with a former owner’s name: ‘De Chavagnac’ in gilt, pastedowns a little darkened at edges, red polished edges, good (Not in Graesse, Brunet; COPAC locates only three copies in UK libraries) £685.00 Bouguer was one of the finest hydrographers of his time, attaining the position of regius professor of hydrography and navigation at the Royal School of Hydrography at Croisic, in lower Brittany. Prior to achieving this position, Bouguer had been in the service of the French navy gaining the ten years of knowledge and experience he would later utilize for his treaty. He was seriously wounded in action during a skirmish with the Irish at the battle of Bantry in 1689, resulting in the amputation of a leg. For this reason he was obliged to give up active service and thus gained the position at Croisic. An earlier edition of this work exists (published by Guignard of Paris, in 1698) but this required major revision and the work described here was reissued in the first of two separate editions in 1706. The treaty is prefaced by a dedication to Louis Phélypeaux, Comte de Pontchartrain, French Minister of the Marine, chancellor of France and minister of finance during the reign of France’s “Sun King,” Louis XIV. (The US state of Louisiana is named after this king, and the famous Lake Pontchartrain - so devastating to New Orleans - is named after Minister Phélypeaux). The book contains a number of intriguing fold-out charts and diagrams on the sun’s “movement” as well as a detailed chart of the French coastline, and remains in presentable condition given the conditions at sea in which it might have been used.
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Bowen (Eman[nuel].) An accurate Map of the County of Sussex. Divided into its rapes, deanries and hundreds ... Printed for R. Wilkinson, Laurie and Whittle ..., and Bowles & Carter ... [c.1787], coloured in outline, 2 prospects, town plans of Lewes (very faint) and Chichester, cartouches containing title (cartouche very faint) and dedication, sectioned and mounted on linen, 700x500mm. (folding to 135x145mm.), orig. grey card case, very rubbed, with Bowles and Carter’s printed title label on upper side, and printed advertising label on lower, sound £180.00 From The Large English Atlas, but a late reprint - one of the rococo cartouches and one of the town plans are very faint.
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Box (John) Chronicles of the Castle of Amelroy, or Ammerzode ... Illustrated by photographic views and portraits from original paintings by Albert Dürer, Van Theulden, and others ... Sampson Low ... 1870, SOLE EDITION, 26 mounted photographs (including the frontispiece), pp.xiv+59+[1], 4to., orig. morocco-grain green cloth, backstrip somewhat darkened, gilt lettered direct; bevelled sides, triple black fillet border, gilt, silver, blue, red and black blocked coat of arms on upper side, chocolate chalked endpapers, minor split to upper endpaper hinge, but firm, good £175.00
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OCLC locates only four copies in UK institutions. Ammersoyen Castle (also known as Kasteel Ammerzoden or Amelroy) stands on the banks of the Meuse river in the Dutch province of Gelderland. Since the fourteenth century the castle has withstood siege, war, fire, and the ravages of time. In the winter of 1868 the last Lord of Ammersoyen, Baron Arthur de Woelmont, entertained Englishman John Box (civil engineer and amateur historian). Box made an exhaustive photographic record of the interior of the castle, and none too soon either, for the Baron completely emptied the castle of its contents and sold up to the Roman Catholic Church of Ammerzoden in 1873, a few short years after publication of this book. The castle saw more action during the twentieth century, particularly during the first months of 1945 when retreating German troops were shelled by the advancing Allies and the castle suffered significant damage. This scarce book contains illustrations of original paintings by Albert Dürer, Van Theulden, and others; with facsimiles of several curious ancient documents. 23. Brassey (Mrs. [Anne, later Baroness]) Sunshine and storm in the east, cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople ... Longmans, Green. 1880, FIRST EDITION, wood engraved frontispiece, titlepage illustration and 8 plates (all with tissue guards), numerous woodcuts on letterpress, 2 colour lithographed folding maps (one very slightly frayed on extreme edge, and misfolded), stitching slightly shaken, pp.xx+[ii]+448, 8vo., orig. fine diagonal-grain green cloth, extremities lightly rubbed, blocked with wrap round design of gilt edged red scroll and black clouds, supported by sea sprites, with gilt illustrations of Constantinople and Cyprus, title gilt blocked on backstrip, lower, and upper side, gilt sunburst on upper side, chalked green endpapers, upper hinge split but firm, good £225.00 Lady Annie Brassey (1839-1887) exemplifies the keen eye for human interest and narrative detail that propelled her to international fame as a travel writer. The work consists of a daily diary of two voyages to Constantinople on board the family yacht, Sunbeam. Brassey travelled to such countries as Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Greece, and Turkey and offers a snapshot of life abroad during the mid-1870s. This first edition is a fascinating example of the nineteenth-century European fascination with the ‘Orient’ as a place of exotic customs and evocative sensuality. 24.
Buhl (Hermann) Nanga Parbat pilgrimage. Translated by Hugh Merrick. Hodder and Stoughton. 1956, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp.360, 8vo., orig. green linson, spine black lettered, endpapers a little browned, dustwrapper price clipped and slightly rubbed, very good (Neate B120) £110.00 Buhl’s solo climb of Nanga Parbat ranks as one of the most spectacular in the history of mountaineering. 11
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Burton (Sir Richard Francis) The Memorial Edition of the Works ... 7 Vols. Tylston and Edwards. 1893/94, colour lithographed and wood engraved plates, 8vo., orig, black cloth, backstrips gilt lettered direct, occasional slight rubbing to heads, gilt blocked vignette of Arab figure and short Koranic inscription on upper boards, black chalked endpapers, t.e.r., good £1,950.00 Four works, all that were published, are included in this edition. They are: Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah (2 vols.); A mission to Gelele King of Dahome (2 vols.); Vikram and the Vampire; and First footsteps in East Africa (2 vols.).
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Chandler (Richard) Travels in Asia Minor: and Greece. ... [2 vols.] To which is added an introductory Account of the Author by Ralph Churton. ... With corrections and Remarks by Nicholas Revett. New edition. Oxford: printed at the Clarendon Press. 1775, 1825, 6 engraved folding maps, minor offsetting, pp.xxxvi+352+[8]; [2]+xiii+370+[10], 8vo., contemp. calf, the spine panelled in gilt within raised bands, red morocco labels, neatly rebacked preserving original spines, bookplate of Stoneleigh Abbey, good (Blackmer 321: Lowndes p.408: Cox I/p.232) £1,150.00 This posthumously published collected edition is the first to contain notes by Revett. Chandler was commissioned in 1764 by the Society of Dilettanti to undertake a tour of exploration at its expense in Asia Minor and Greece. He was already known for his Marmora Oxoniensia. Nicholas Revett, the architect who had worked with ‘Athenian’ Stuart on his Ruins of Athens, accompanied him. Chandler and Revett were instructed to make Smyrna their headquarters and from there to make excursions in the neighbourhood to make plans and accurate drawings of the basreliefs, ornaments, and inscriptions, and to keep diaries. The final advertisement announces that ‘Speedily will be published’ the second part of Chandler’s tour, the Travels in Greece. A classic of Antarctic literature 27. Cherry-Garrard (Apsley) The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913. With panoramas, maps, and illustrations by the late Doctor Edward A. Wilson and other member of the expedition. 2 Vols. Constable. [1922,] FIRST EDITION, 2 colour frontispieces, 4 colour plates, tissue guards, 43 full page photographic and other illustrations, 14 fold-out panoramas and maps, half-titles present, newspaper cutting tipped to verso of vol.i title-page, pp.xv+[i]+300+[4]; viii+300-585, 8vo., modern half dark blue morocco, backstrips with three raised bands, gilt panelled compartments, gilt lettered direct in small first, second larger compartment with vertical gilt dot roll with ornaments at either end, natural linen sides, pale cream endpapers, roughtrimmed, very good (Taurus 84: Rosove 71.A1) £1,200.00
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Cherry-Garrard was a novice explorer when he joined Captain Scott’s second and final Antarctic expedition as an “assistant zoologist” in June 1910. The popular team member would prove himself a remarkable “sledger”, and was warmly commended by Scott himself. Garrard established the expedition newsletter South Polar Times, which was later reproduced in facsimile. Dr. Edward Wilson, whose illustrations appeared in the Times, accompanied Scott on the fateful mission to the pole in 1912. Cherry-Garrard had accompanied the party as far as the Beardmore Glacier, but was sent back on account of his youth. Eight months later, the young explorer was part of the search party that found the bodies of Scott, Wilson, and Bowers who had died a mere eleven miles from basecamp. Cherry-Garrard’s account of Scott’s failed mission remains one of the best. ‘The best written and most enduring account of exploits in the Antarctic.’ (Taurus) ‘It was perhaps the only real stroke of luck in Scott’s ill fated [Terra Nova] expedition that Cherry-Garrard, the one survivor of the winter journey, happened to be able to describe it so effectively.’ (G.B. Shaw) 28.
Church (Alfred J.) Isis and Thamesis. Hours on the River from Oxford to Henley. Seeley. 1886, etched vignette title-page and 12 plates, wood-engraved vignettes on letterpress, occasional slight dustsoiling, very slightly shaken, half-title present, pp.[iv]+65+[1] (blank)+[2], 4to., orig. sand-grain dark green cloth, extremities lightly rubbed, longitudinally gilt lettered direct on spine, sides blind panelled, upper side gilt blocked with author, title, and vignette of swans, reeds, and heads representing the rivers, chalked yellow endpapers, a.e.g., good (Cohen p.133) £200.00 Alfred John Church (1829-1912) was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford and became a classical scholar of some repute during the latter half of the nineteenth century; many of his works remain in print to this day. Besides translations of Tacitus, and edited editions of Pliny’s letters, Church produced numerous adapted classical tales and legends for children. This charming account of river life contains striking engravings by Dawson and others. An appealing book.
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Clark (William George) Peloponnesus: Notes on Study and Travel. John W. Parker. 1858, FIRST (AND ONLY) EDITION, 5 maps and plans, one folding, a little offsetting from and a few foxmarks to the first map, pp.xiv+[2]+344, 8vo., original blue cloth, spine divided by blind-ruled bands, gitl lettering, sides with blind stamped ruled borders, headbands knocked, 8vo., £850.00 Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to: “The Rev. the Master of Trinity College with the author’s kind regards.” An important association copy since it was with W.H. Thompson, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, that Clark made his tour to gather information for this study of the Peleponnese in 1856. Clark was determined to view what he saw afresh without following the conclusion of authorities. “He has produced an interesting work, intermingling his ideas concerning the cultural and religious history of the Greeks with archaelogical observations and comments on modern Greek life.” (Navari)
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Inscribed by the author Coke (The Honorable Henry John) Tracks of a rolling stone Smith, Elder, & Co. 1905, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait (with tissue guard), inscribed in the author’s hand on verso of a preliminary blank “ ‘Dort’ from this ‘Rolling Stone’ a souvenir of summer days in winter.”, and signed beneath frontispiece portrait “yours very truly Henry Coke” pp.349, 8vo., contemp. olive-green crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, backstrip divided into six compartments by gilt low raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and third compartments, gilt dated at foot, gilt floral scrollwork on turn-ins, dark green linen-covered pastedowns and endpapers, a.e.g, good £300.00 Coke had published an account of a journey over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California as early as 1852. In the present work, his autobiography, he recalls this memorable journey in some detail and also recounts conversations with various notable indivduals down the years.
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[Coppinger (R.W.) et al., editors] Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert’ 1881-2. Printed by Order of the Trustees [of the Biritish Museum]. 1884, 54 lithographed plates (2 with some colour, 8 folding), library’s unobtrusive blind embossed stamp on title-page, pp.xxiii+[i]+684, 8vo., orig. morocco-grain navy blue cloth, backstrip slightly frayed at head, gilt lettered direct, blind stamped triple line border on sides, library bookplate, good £750.00 ‘With the exception of the ‘Challenger’ Expedition, none of the recent voyages has contributed so much to our knowledge of the Littoral Invertebrate Fauna of the Indo-Pacific Ocean as that of the ‘Alert.’ Irrespective of a number of specimens set aside as duplicates, not less than 3700, referable to 1300 species, were incorporated in the National Collection ...’ (Preface) Richard Coppinger, an Irishman, and a naval surgeon and considerable naturalist, was appointed surgeon to Alert in 1875 when she left on a voyage of exploration to the Arctic. He served with her again on her four year voyage exploring Patagonian, Polynesian, and Mascarene waters between 1878 and 1882. This report stands as testimony to his knowledge and skill. Every aspect of preserving, labelling, cataloguing, and packing the specimens was his work, and, as Albert Gunther, the Keeper of the Department of Zoology, observed, ‘done in the leisure hours which Dr. Coppinger could spare from his strictly official duties.’
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Cordiner (James) A description of Ceylon, containing an account of the country, inhabitants, and natural productions; with narratives of a tour round the island in 1800, the campaign in Candy in 1803, and a journey to Ramisseram in 1804. 2 Vols. Longman. 1807, FIRST EDITION, 25 plates, of which 2 folding, tissue-guards, (revised?) preface tipped in, pp.xii+446+[2] (adverts.); vi+360+[8] (Publisher’s 16 page unfolded list), 4to., orig. pale blue boards lightly soiled, loss at head of backstrip on vol.i, paper labels (rubbed) on backstrips, contemp. signature of ‘Edw. Rogers’ on front pastedowns, untrimmed, good (Cox I, p.310: Abbey. ‘Travel’ 409) £850.00
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A description is given by Abbey on the plates: ‘Numbers 2,3,4,14, uncoloured line, or line and stipple engravings; number 9, uncoloured line tinted by hand with a sepia wash; all others, aquatints, similarly tinted.’ The handsome engravings were all taken from Cordiner’s own drawings. A chaplain to the garrison of Colombo, Cordiner was at the time the only English clergyman in Sri Lanka. His ‘description’ deals with the island in the first years of British occupation and includes his observation of an elephant hunt, pearl fishing, and cinnamon cultivation. 33.
Craven (The Hon. Richard Keppel) A tour through the southern provinces of the Kingdom of Naples... To which is subjoined a sketch of the immediate circumstances attending the late revolution. Rodwell and Martin. 1821, FIRST EDITION, 14 engraved plates (which include the sketch map), some foxing, pp.xi+[i]+449+[1], 4to., expertly rebound in modern half sprinkled brown calf, backstrip with wide raised bands gilt decorated with rules, dot rolls, and fleurons, between narrow rolls, gilt lettered red leather label in second compartment, remainder with blind fleurons, marbled sides, cream endpapers, bookplate of Earl of Sheffield, red sprinkled and polished edges, good (Pine-Coffin 818.2) £600.00 In 1820 Craven annonymously produced a minor work entitled A sketch of the late revolution at Naples by an eye-witness based on his experiences in the region during 1818-1820. The present work, issued the following year, was favourably reviewed in the press of the time and contains plates taken from sketches by the author. Craven went on to publish Italian Scenes in 1825, followed by another two-volume work on Naples and the Abruzzi region in 1838.
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Croker (Thomas Crofton) A walk from London to Fulham. Special copy with additonal illustrations. N.p. 1882 [ms. title-page], text and illustrations all window mounted, 104 extra illustrations (93 plates and portraits, 3 playbills, 6 autograph letters [see note]), 2 autographs (see note), pp.[iv]+327, sm.8vo. (see note), contemp. crushed and polished brown morocco, extremities faintly rubbed, backstrip a little sunned, with raised bands and gilt lettered direct, sides blind panelled with single fillets, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., good £575.00 The letterpress sheets used for this extra illustrated concoction seem to be from Kegan Paul (printed by Ballantyne, Hanson), but they did not publish an edition until 1896, some fourteen years after the ostensible date of the present edition. The extra illustrations have a distinct theatrical bias, and include many portraits of actors and managers, and the three playbills. The ms. letters are from S.C.Hall, John Braham (the tenor), Francois Guizot, Crofton Croker himself, Adelina Patti, and Sir Joseph Bazalgette. The autographs are those of Sir Roderick Murchison and William Holman Hunt.
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Dibdin (Charles) The professional life of Mr. Dibdin ... writer, composer, and performer; with the addition of six hundred songs, and sixty plates, from their subjects. Second edition ... In four volumes [bound in at end is a fragment of ‘Britons strike home’]. Printed by James Cundee ... published by the author ... 1804, engraved portrait frontispiece vol.i, 3 other frontispieces and 57 plates (all sepia aquatints), half-titles discarded, pp.vii+[i]+229+[1]+[ii] +303+[1]+[7]; [ii]+387+[1]+[7]; [ii]+iv+328+[8]; [ii]+17-60, 8vo., four vols. bound in three, contemp. sprinkled calf, rebacked, with smooth backstrips divided into compartments by double gilt rules, orig. gilt lettered red leather labels in second, gilt numbered leather oval vol. labels in fourth, blind fleurons in remainder, marbled boards, bookplates of John Wilson Pedder, very good (Arnott and Robinson 2679) £750.00 According to Arnott and Robinson, ‘Britons strike home’ was added as an appendix to this edition. In fact the addition seems only to have been randomly included. In this copy only the second part is present (cf. the Arnott and Robinson copy which lacked all of the supplement).
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Dickens (Charles) Pictures from Italy. The Vignette Illustrations on Wood by Samuel Palmer. Second Edition. Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans. 1846, half-title present, 4 letterpress wood engravings, including that on titlepage, cocked, pp.[vii]+269+[1]+[2] (publisher’s advertisements), 8vo., orig. fine vertically-ribbed blue cloth, lightly soiled, backstrip frayed at head and foot, divided by blind-ruled bands, gilt lettered in second and fourth compartments, remainder with blind wreath, sides with blind stamped border and central oval ornament, yellow chalked endpapers, hinges split but firm, contemp. bookseller’s ticket on front pastedown, good (Gimbel A98) £110.00 Published in the same year as the first edition.
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Duff (Roger) The moa-hunter period of Maori culture. With a foreword by H.D. Skinner ... Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs. 1950, FIRST EDITION, 19 plates (1 folding) containing 38 illustrations, pp.[xviii]+405+[3], 8vo., orig. buff cloth, faded on backstrip where dustwrapper is torn, printed paper label, inscribed on upper free endpaper, dustwrapper somewhat chipped, good £20.00 Inscribed ‘To Norman Kemp, with best wishes, Roger Duff 31/1/51.’ “Roger Shepherd Duff was born in Invercargill on 11 July 1912, the son of Jessie Barclay and her husband, Oliver Duff, a schoolteacher who later became well known as a journalist and first editor of the New Zealand Listener. Roger was educated at Christchurch Boys’ High School, where he was dux in 1930, and the University of Otago and Canterbury University College, completing a BA (1935) and an MA with
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first-class honours in education in 1936. At Otago he studied anthropology under H. D. Skinner, who was to become both mentor and colleague. It was not possible to take anthropology to an advanced level and Duff therefore majored in education, the only social science subject available. His MA thesis, on the sociology of Tuahiwi Maori, reflected his early interest in Maori culture.” (from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography) 38.
Eyre (Lieut. Vincent) The Military Operations at Cabul, which ended in the Retreat and Destruction of the British Army, January 1842. With a Journal of Imprisonment in Affghanistan. [Edited by Edward Eyre.] John Murray. 1843, FIRST EDITION, one folding map with short closed handling tear, pp.xx+328, 8vo., orig. green cotton, backstrip faded, stitching shaken, divided into compartments, by blind bands, gilt lettered direct in second and fourth, sides with blind stamped with arabesque corner pieces, gilt vignette of three Afghanis on crag on upper side, pale cream endpapers, good £200.00 Vincent Eyre (1811-1881) was a career soldier in the East India Company. Appointed commisary for ordnance to the Kabul field force in 1839, he was taken hostage after an Afghan uprising led by Akbar Khan resulted in the British-Indian garrison becoming besieged in January 1842. Eyre and his family were held prisoner for nine months; during this time he kept a diary which was later smuggled to a friend in India who then arranged to have the book published in Britain. This scarce volume is the first of five British editions of the book published during 1843. An interesting point about the binding is that there is a joint in the cloth coinciding with the lower joint. Viewed from the back it might appear that the volume has been rebacked, but it is clear that the entire binding is original, so the join presumably represents the point at which the binder ran out of cloth for the run, and had to start with the next bolt.
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[Fawcett (William), et al.,] By his majesty’s command. Rules and Regulations, for the formations, field-exercise, and movements of His Majesty’s Forces. Parts I. II and, abstract, part III. War Office, printed and sold by J.Walter. 1801, engraved folding plate as frontispiece, marginal notes, some pages remain uncut at top and foredges, pp.xvi+103, 8vo., orig. pale blue paper boards, minor loss to the very lightly worn paper backstrip, leaves saddle stitched, very good £205.00 COPAC locates just three copies in UK institutions. Contains prefatory material by Adjutant Generals William Fawcett and Harry Calvert. This “smaller publication” was issued by law for “the use of non-commisioned officers of cavalry and infantry only”, and is mainly concerned with drill and minor tactics. A larger handbook of regulations had been issued for cavalry troops in 1795.
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...a pleasing little work. Fosbroke (Thomas Dudley) The Wye tour, with additions; and the companion to the tour: Comprising interesting illustrations of the Man of Ross. Third edition much enlarged. Ross-on-Wye: W. Farror. [1826], engraved frontispiece portrait of John Kyrle, the Man of Ross, additional engraved frontispiece of a view of Symonds Yat, newspaper clipping laid in (causing minor light offsetting), pp.vi+xviii+167+[1], 8vo., [Bound with] Ariconensia, or, archaeological sketches of Ross and Archenfield : illustrative of the campaigns of Caractacus, the station Ariconium, &c, with other matters never before published. pp.[2]+ix+[1]+195, 8vo., tan calf, expertly rebacked to match and divided into six compartments by blindstamped floral rolls, gilt lettered maroon leather label in second, remainder with central blindstamped foliate device, sides (recornered) with blindstamped border, grey endpapers (newspaper clipping affixed to verso rear free endpaper), red speckled edges, very good £165.00 The antiquary and archaeologist Thomas Dudley Fosbroke was born in Southwark in 1770. Following an education at Pembroke College, Oxford, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1792. His early major work on the manners and customs of monks and nuns was published to some acclaim in 1802. The present books (two bound in a single volume) mark something of a change in direction from theoligical subject matter; among others Fosbroke produced works on the history of Gloucester prior to first publication of “The Wye Tour” in 1818. In an anonymous, (rather gushing) obituary in the Gentleman’s Magazine of February 1842 the book is referred to as “a pleasing little work.” It saw several editions, reaching a sixth by 1841.
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Frazer (Sir James George) Anthologia Anthropologica. The native races of Australasia including Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, New Guinea and Indonesia. A copious selection of passages for the study of social anthropology from the manuscript notebooks ... Arranged and edited from the mss. by Robert Angus Downie. Lund Humphries. 1939, FIRST EDITION, 4 maps, printed in doublecolumn, pp.vi+[ii]+390+[1] (blank)+[1], 4to., orig. pale blue cloth, spine gilt lettered direct, t.e. foxed, dustjacket with short tear, very good £150.00 The Scottish anthropologist, historian of religion, and classical scholar, ( best-known for his study The Golden Bough) was a prolific writer. This was the last work to be published during the author’s lifetime.
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Gell (Sir William) Narrative of a Journey in the Morea. Longman [et al.] 1823, FIRST EDITION, lithographed frontispiece and 8 plates (imprints of four cropped or bound in), by Hullmandel, wood-engravings on letterpress, one or two corners touched by damp, tears to blank margins of first few leaves repaired, pp.ix+[i]+411+[1], 8vo., contemp. calf, later gilt, spine with 5 raised bands, black morocco label, gilt lettering, spine slightly dry, sound £1,500.00
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Scarce. A2 is signed A3 as usual. Gathering A consists of six leaves. Navari thought it possible that the work should have a half-title but she examined six copies (to which should now be added the present copy) and none did. The travels were undertaken in 1805-6, but Gell only decided to publish them, in 1823, to counter ‘the growing philhellenic sentimentality about Greece and the Greeks.’ (Op.cit.) In the preface Gell wrote that ‘those who have never witnessed the effects of habit, on person educated in a state of political slavery, are apt to be too certain that their own feelings are echoed by the sentiments of such victims as those who are now engaged in the struggle.’ 43.
Death among satin and flowers Godwin (George) Another blow for life ... Assisted by Mr. John Brown. Wm H. Allen. 1864, SOLE EDITION, wood engraved frontispiece and numerous vignette illustrations, all on letterpress, half-title present (stained), pp.xii+129+[1](blank)+ [2], sm.4to., orig. green cloth, extremities rubbed, longitudinally gilt lettered direct on smooth backstrip, sides bevelled, triple gilt fillet border on upper side, with title within ornaments in centre, blind fillet border and central fleuron on lower side, chocolate chalked endpapers, hinges split and a little fragile, r.e., sound £350.00 A scarce book. Godwin was an architect with many publications to his credit. He became editor of the ‘Builder’ in 1844, and transformed it into a periodical of considerable influence. He worked hard to improve sanitary conditions for the poor in the area of social housing. In ‘London shadows’ (1854), ‘Town swamps and social bridges’ (1859), and the present work, he tackled sanitation and social defects. ‘Lately, the people of Great Britain have been so violently excited by death in the workroom, amongst satin and flowers, death in the mother’s arms, and death in the dank cellar; by death in Regent Street, death in Clerkenwell, and death in Bethnal Green, all premature and unnecessary, that they can scarcely require many more violent impulses to lead them to take any steps that may be more necessary to prevent the repetition of such horrors, - to stop the involuntary suicide and unintentional murder now daily and hourly committed in the very centers of civilization.’ (‘Preliminary’)
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[Grant (Anne)] Memoirs of an American lady: with sketches of manners and scenery in America, as they existed previous to the Revolution. By the author of “Letters from the mountains,” &c. &c. In two volumes. Longman [et al.]; and Mrs. H. Cook ... 1808, FIRST EDITION, ‘Ballygarth House’ in ms. at head of B1 in each vol., pp.xii+322+[2]; ii (i.e. vii)+[i]+344, 12mo., orig. fawn paper backed blue boards, labels indecipherable, unpressed and untrimmed, good £295.00 ‘The ‘American Lady’ means Mrs. Schuyler. Mrs. Grant passed many years of her youth in the family of General Schuyler, of Albany. Her book ‘is a most delightful picture’ (Sabin) of provincial life.
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Hall (Captain Basil, R.N.) Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828. Edinburgh: Cadell ... 1829, FIRST EDITION, folding hand-coloured frontispiece map (short closed handling tear at gutter margin), 20 plates (each with 2 images) with accompanying letterpress leaf printed on one side of leaf only, describing plates, ff.[iii+20]+(plates), 4to., contemp. half dark calf, rebacked, corners lightly worn, smooth backstrip longitudinally gilt lettered direct, marbled sides, endpaper hinges strengthened, bookplate of R. La Touche junr., good (Sabin 29721) £350.00 Hall is best remembered for his “Fragments of Voyages and Travels”, a three-volume work which was also concerned with the author’s explorations of North America, and also contains numerous interesting accounts of the state of the British navy in the first half of the nineteenth century. The present work precedes “Fragments ...” by some two years, and was perhaps issued to measure the public interest in works on this subject. Hall also wrote a number of other books and papers; the latter printed in leading scientific publications. As well as his fellowship of the Royal Society, he was a fellow of the Royal Astronomical, Royal Geographical, and Geological societies.
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‘the most beautiful ...’ Hardy (Joseph) A picturesque and descriptive tour in the mountains of the High Pyrenees: comprising twenty-four views of the most interesting scenes, from original drawings taken on the spot; with some account of the bathing establishments in that department of France. R. Ackermann. 1825, SOLE EDITION, map frontispiece, hand coloured aquatint plates, laid down on pale straw coloured paper (as issued), tissue guards, pp.[viii]+84, 8vo., orig. green cotton cloth, upper joint and head and foot of backstrip with minimal expert repair, printed paper back label, midnineteenth century presentation inscription on upper pastedown, very good (Abbey ‘Travel’ 210: Brunet Vol.III, p.42: Prideaux pp.229, 339, 378: Tooley 245) £940.00 As is often the case with colour, its concentration within a small area produces a disproportionately rich effect. This could hardly be better demonstrated than by the plates of Hardy’s ‘Picturesque tour in the mountains of the High Pyrenees’. Its coloured aquatints have the appearance of small jewel-like paintings which seem as fresh as when they were published. Prideaux thought them ‘among the most beautiful to be found in aquatint engraving’, and Abbey, while not disagreeing, thought that ‘part of their charm is certainly in their small size.’
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[Heath (William) et al., illustrators] The Martial Achivements of Great Britain and her allies, from 1799 to 1815. Printed for Js. Jenkins ... by L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh. [1814/15,] early issue (see note), uncoloured engraved title-page, hand-coloured aquatinted vignette additional title-page and 51 plates, soiled in plate margins (very occasionally affecting printed area), repair to head of gutter margin verso of 2 plates, letterpress leaves un-numbered (1 or 2 per plate), pp.[iv]+ii+[122] , folio, contemp. red morocco, rubbed, backstrip with wide flattened gilt decorated raised bands,
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Hobhouse (J[ohn]. C[am].) A Journey through Albania and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810. James Cawthorn. 1813, FIRST EDITION, first issue(?), engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 17 hand-coloured aquatinted plates (of which 7 are folding doublepage), plate of facsimile handwriting, 2 Greek music plates (browned), some illustrations on letterpress, Ff3 and 4 top outer corners misfolded before binding, internally excellent, large margins, pp.xx+1,152, 4to., contemp. diced russia, rebacked, orig. backstrip relaid, with double gilt rope roll decorated raised bands between double gilt rules, second and fourth compartments gilt lettered direct, remainder with diamond-shaped tool between gilt and blind fleurons; sides with border of gilt fillet, blind ‘Greek-key’ roll, and wide blind fleuron roll, edges gilt hatched at corners, double gilt fillet on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, early twentieth century bookplate of Philip H. Ashworth, polished yellow edges, good (Blackmer 821: see also Abbey ‘Travel’ 202 [second edition]) £3,200.00 This single volume edition is probably the first issue. The other issue of the first edition is two volumes. The second edition, which appeared in the same year, was also issued in the two formats. Abbey had only the second edition in two volumes. The plates in this present edition and in second editions, such as Sadleir’s, are identical. Hobhouse was an intimate friend of Lord Byron, with whom he made the journey described in this book. Two of the plates are taken from the illustrations to Mahmoud Raif’s work on the Nizam-jedid, while the costume plates are reminiscent of Mouradja d’Ohsson.
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Hofland (Mrs. [Barbara Wreaks, née Hoole]) The Young Cadet: or Henry Delamere’s voyage to India, his travels in Hindostan, his account of the Burmese War, and the wonders of Elora. John Harris. [1827], FIRST HARRIS EDITION, engraved frontispiece (dated Dec. 1827) and five engravings (2 per page), pp.xi+[1]+232, 12mo in 6s, contemp. qtr. burgundy roan, backstrip gilt lettered
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direct with gilt rules, pale blue boards (faintly rubbed and soiled), vignette of man seated on carpet smoking huqqa on front board, lower board with Harris publisher device, fore corners lightly worn, free endpapers replaced using contemp. paper, good (Gumuchian 3061: Moon 376: CEBL 3.734) £115.00 Not traced in the Bodleian Library. CEBL notes an earlier edition published in 1821 (probably the H. J. Anners-published Philadelphia edition of 1820). The book follows the form of a diary and describes Indian manners, habits, places, etc., perhaps in order to justify the continued British presence in India. ‘Delamere’ describes numerous ports-of-call en route to India such as Madeira, St. Helena and the Cape. On arrival in Madras he goes on to describe his experiences in India during the First Burmese War of 1823-1826. Some sources state Hofland borrowed heavily from Emma Roberts’ Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan. As well as editions published in the US, the book went through several revisons in Britain, a final issue appearing as late as the 1850s. COPAC locates only two copies in UK libraries. 50.
Hogan (J. Sheridan) Le Canada. Essai auquel le premier prix a été adjugé par le Comité Canadien de l’Exposition de Paris ... Montreal: John Lovell. 1855, 2 large folding lithographed maps, minor foxing, pp.[i]-iv+[5]-106, 8vo., early twentieth century qtr. calf, backstrip divided by double gilt rule-decorated flattened bands between triple rules, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, paste-paper sides, marbled endpapers, good (Sabin 32422; Staton & Tremaine 3557; see also Lande S1076 [English]) £150.00 Dublin-born John Sheridan Hogan (1815-1859) arrived in Canada around 1827. Able to turn his hand to practically any craft, he pursued various careers as a journalist, lawyer, and latterly a significant figure in Canadian nineteenth-century politics. In 1855 he was awarded first prize by the Paris Exhibition Comittee for the present work and was subsequently elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. In December 1859, Hogan disappeared; sixteeen months later his body was found floating in the Don River... ‘Some copies of this and subsequent editions were issued with maps.’ (Staton and Tremaine).
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Horne (Henry) Essays concerning iron and steel: the first, containing observations on American sand-iron: the second, observations, founded on experiments, on common iron-ore ... And an appendix, discovering a more perfect method of charring pit-coal ... T. Cadell. 1773, FIRST EDITION, title-page faintly stained by turn-ins of previous binding, leaf edges slightly browned, pp.iii+[i]+223, 12mo., modern wrappers using contemp. marbled paper, top outer corner missing from non-integral contemp. preliminary blank, inscribed (see note), later pencilled financial calculations on binder’s final blank, good (Goldsmiths’ 10981: Higgs 5669: Sabin 33031) £450.00
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The preliminary blank is inscribed ‘Wortley Iron Works’ in what appears to be a late nineteenth or early twentieth century hand. Iron was forged on this site in Yorkshire at least from the early seventeenth century, and probably from the monastic period onwards. Horne was an American metallurgist who among other things in this work describes the difficulty of smelting ironsand in a bloomery. The Goldsmiths’ copy of this work, incidentally, has a ms. note following Horne’s name recording him as ‘Manufacturer of Steel in White Cross Alley’. 52.
Ruined Castles of the Border Howitt (William) The Ruined Abbeys of the Border: ... extracted from “The Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain” ... with photographic illustrations by Wilson and Thompson. Alfred W. Bennett. 1865, FIRST EDITION, all text within letterpress border, wood engraved text illustrations, five lightly browned albumen photographs tipped to versos only, pp.[4]+70+[2](ads.), orig. net-grain dark green cloth, backstrip unlettered, front board with circular albumen photograph mounted in central recess within gilt lettered panel with blindstamped floral decorations at corners, a.e.g., yellow chalked endpapers (lacks front free endpaper), good £65.00 William Howitt (1789-1879) had a long and varied career as a writer and poet. This small volume followed the relative success of a London-issued quarto “Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain” which Howitt produced with his wife Mary in 1862 (see next item). By this time he had already published a great deal of work ranging from articles on rural English life, his own 11⁄2 d. weekly Howitt’s Journal, an 1841 book The Student Life of Germany under the psuedonym Dr. Cornelius, along with a number of books on the Australian outback! It seems he tackled all sorts of subjects, and this guide displays something of his characteristic, rather caustic humour. The finely crafted photographs are by the renowned Scottish topographical and portrait photographer George Washington Wilson (1823-1893) who famously photographed Queen Victoria in 1855. Wilson understood the potential of photography for providing ever-increasing numbers of tourists with high quality souvenirs of their travels. He was assisted by the little-known English topographical photographer Stephen Thompson, in the production of images for Howitt’s earlier 1862 work on which this is based.
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Howitt (William and Mary) Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain. The photographic illustrations by Bedford, Sedgefield, Wilson, Fenton, and others. A.W.Bennett. 1862, FIRST EDITION, first series, 27 albumen prints mounted on letterpress, in good state, first and last gatherings heavily foxed, scattered foxing elsewhere, pp.[viii]+228, sm.4to., contemp. half green calf, backstrip with gilt ruled raised bands between double rules, gilt lettered dark blue leather label in second compartment, remainder gilt panelled and tooled with fleuron corner pieces,
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semé roundels, and vine leaf central tools, marbled sides, endpapers, and edges, good (Truthful Lens 89 [both series]: Arts Council ‘Masterpieces of Victorian Photography’ No.435 Gernsheim 214) £175.00 Preface states “The Publisher has availed himself of the accuracy of Photography to present to the reader the precise aspect of the places which, at the same time, are commended to his notice by the pen.” 54.
Hughes (Rev. T[homas]. S[mart].) Travels in Greece and Albania. In two volumes. Second edition: with considerable additions. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. 1830, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece in vol.i, 3 folding maps and plans, 8 engraved plates (6 folding), 2 uncoloured aquatints, soft-ground etching, wood engraved vignette illustrations in the text, half-title to vol.ii (all called for), some offsetting, pp.xvi+511; xii+512, 8vo., contemp. calf, the sides with three gilt crests, one indicating that of an Earl, at centres, outer gilt fillet borders, rebacked, spines ruled in gilt, with five raised bands and gilt lettering, a.e.g., good (Blackmer 844: Abbey Travel 203) £550.00 The first edition was published in quarto (see Abbey ‘Travel’ 203). This second edition was quite considerably augmented, particularly with additional material on the Greek revolution, and an account of Ali Pasha. The uncoloured engraving ‘View of the Faro of Messina’ of the first edition has been substituted by a coloured aquatint of ‘Sultan Mahmoud’. ‘Hughes travelled in the Mediterranean and Greece in 1813-14 as tutor to Richard Townley Parker. They visited Spain, Italy, Sicily, Greece and Albania ... they were joined on their Albanian tour by C.R. Cockerell, who spent about two months with them. Most of the book in fact is devoted to a description of this part of their travels, and 10 of the 12 engravings are after drawings by Cockerell illustrating sites in Epirus. This work is one of the major sources of information about Ali Pasha.’ (Blackmer 842)
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Ingram (James) Memorials of Oxford. The Engravings by John Le Keux, from drawings by F. Mackenzie. 3 Vols. Oxford: John Henry Parker; H. Slatter, and W. Graham ... 1837, 3 general views of Oxford as frontispieces, modern tissueguards, folding-plan in vol.iii, and 97 plates, all steel-engraved, wood-engraved title-page vignettes and numerous text illustrations, each college section separately paginated, 8vo. mid-twentieth century pale brown crushed and polished morocco, by Winstanley of Salisbury, backstrips with gilt dot roll decorated raised bands between double gilt rules, gilt lettered green leather labels in second compartments, vol. numbers lettered direct in fourth, remainder with blind fleuron tool, single blind fillet border on sides, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., good (Cordeaux & Merry ‘University’ 26: Clary 6: Holloway 73) £520.00
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Ireland (Samuel) Picturesque views on the River Wye, from its source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its junction with the Severn at Chepstow ... R. Faulder ... and T. Egerton. 1797, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, map, copper-engraved portrait, and 30 sepia toned aquatint plates (1 laid down), half-title present, some foxing, pp.xii+159, 4to., contemp. vellum binding, smooth backstrip divided into compartments by a lozenge and double ball roll between narrow rope and foliate rolls, gilt lettered on a pale green stained panel in second compartment, remaining compartments filled with honeycomb pattern; sides with wide gilt border consisting of very large Greekkey derived roll between narrow open twist and rope rolls on green stained ground (which has proved fugitive), sunburst corner pieces, inner border consisting of double fillet within which is a honeysuckle flower and foliate scrolling roll; ball and line roll on board edges, zig-zag and roundel roll on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., good £1,850.00 The scrolling roll which forms the inner border of the panels on the sides is particularly distinctive but resolutely defies our attempt to identify it. This is a binding of fine quality, certainly in the manner of Edwards of Halifax, but the combination of the severity of the large Greek-key roll and the relative freedom of the delicacy of the scrolling roll mentioned above is also to be found in the work of Staggemeier and Welcher (see Miriam Foot. ‘Henry Davis Gift,’ II, 198)
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Jaffray (James) Graphic Illustrations of Warwickshire. Birmingham: Thos. Underwood. 1862, FIRST JAFFRAY EDITED EDITION, wood engraved frontispiece, 31 woodcut engraved plates protected by tissue guards, 13 woodcut vignettes in text, page block foxed in places, tissue-protected colour lithograph advertisement at rear, pp.119, 4to., contemp. half blue cloth, lightly rubbed gilt lettered roan label on smooth backstrip, marbled sides, red speckled edges, good £215.00 Printers Beilby, Knott, and Beilby of Birmingham first published a version of this work (in seven parts) from 1823-1829. The wood engravings are by the noted engraver William Radclyffe (1783-1855) after sketches made by D. Cox, J.V. Barber, P. DeWint, and others. They are reissued in this edition; Dr. Blair’s earlier descriptive text was edited and updated by Jaffray.
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Jefferson (Samuel) The history and antiquities of Allerdale Ward, above Derwent, in the county of Cumberland: with biographical notices and memoirs. ... Illustrated with numerous plates and engravings. Carlisle: S. Jefferson 1842, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece engraving (somewhat spotted), errata notice, eight steel-engraved plates, woodcut-engraved pictorial initial letters, preliminary and final leaves foxed, two-page advertisement at rear, xiii+[9]+462+[2], 8vo., modern half dark morocco, backstrip in six compartments divided by low raised bands between blind rules, gilt lettered in second and fourth compartments, remainder with gilt roundel device, marbled sides, modern cream endpapers, rough-cut edges, good £110.00
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Jefferson intended to publish a multi-volume work on the history of Cumberland (this was the second volume), but financial problems prevented this. He was, however, able to enlist the services of the acclaimed Scottish engraver William Home Lizars. Scenes include a view of Whitehaven Castle, Muncaster Church, Calder Abbey, Lowther Street in Whitehaven, the priory of St. Bees, and numerous others. 59.
White Star Line Kerr (Rose) The Cruise of the “Adriatic” March 29th to April 15th, 1934 (Foreword and Epilogue by R.S.S. Baden-Powell). Girl Guides Association. [1934], FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 16 double-sided plates of photographs, pp.88, 4to., orig. mid blue canvas, backstrip and front cover lettered in silver, head of front cover faintly dampstained, endpaper map, dustjacket torn and a little defective, good £100.00 By the time R.M.S. Adriatic set sail on her voyage to the mediterranean, owners White Star Line were in serious financial difficulties. By May 1934, the company had merged with rival Cunard who then ruthlessly streamlined White Star’s ageing fleet. Adriatic (launched 1907) was deemed old-fashioned and out-of-date; she left Liverpool for the last time in December 1934, and was scrapped in Japan the following year. This book recounts the experiences of 540 Scout and Guide leaders who embarked upon one of the Adriatic’s final cruises. The intention of the Girl Guide Movement on this trip was to help foster the principles of brotherhood among the peoples of the countries bordering the mediterranean. The work contains a ‘Full List and Ranks of the Party’ on the final 12 pages, and numerous black & white photographs.
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Author’s first novel Kingston (William H.G.) The Circassian Chief. A romance of Russia. In three volumes. Richard Bentley. 1843, FIRST EDITION, half-titles discarded, pp.vi+340; [iv]+300;[iv]+280, 12mo., contemp. caramel diced russia, backstrips with wide gilt decorated flattened bands, gilt lettered maroon morocco label in second and fourth compartments, remainder gilt panelled with double gilt rules, and filled with gilt volutes, fleurons and draw handles; sides panelled with triple gilt fillet, small rosettes at corners, gilt decorated board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, purple silk markers, a.e.g, very good (Wolff II, p.309) £1,100.00 The review in Ainsworth’s Magazine (1843) shows that themes of travel and adventure were important in his work even in this, his first novel: ‘the writer is more than the lively and sparkling narrator of a noble struggle for independence; more than the bold and easy painter of manners and customs not familiar to the majority; more than the describer of general character and the retailer of romantic events, dark crimes, and chivalrous aspirations; -he has added another exquisite example to the list of masterly delineations of feminine fortitude, constancy and devotion.’
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Kinloch (Alexander A.A.) Large game shooting in Thibet and the north west. Illustrated by photographs taken by Arthur Lucas, of Wigmore Street. [First series.] Harrison. 1869, FIRST EDITION, 12 mounted photographs (2 on double sided mount) of trophies, folding wood engraved plate of travelling equipment, folding lithographed map, with some colour, errata slip, small area of worming at foot of gutter margin gatherings D-F, pp.viii+68, 4to., orig. sand-grain dark green cloth, backstrip gilt lettered direct; bevelled sides with blind fillet border, 5 small holes in cloth on upper side (peppered with shot?), chocolate chalked endpapers, bookplate of Sir Victor Brooke Bt., Colebrooke, good (Gernsheim 479: Yakushi K88.a [both series]) £250.00 The present work contains photographs of the mounted heads of animals from Tibet and the North West of India; the images remain bright and strong in tone. The front pastedown bears the bookplate of Sir Victor Alexander Brooke (1843-1891); Brooke was a noted naturalist, sportsman, and big game hunter. He was also the father of Field Marshall Alan Brooke, (Viscount Alanbrooke) who was Chief of the Imperial General Staff during WWII (and one of seven children). A second volume was published in 1876.
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[Kippis (Andrew)] A narrative of Captain Cook’s voyages round the world; with an appendix detailing the progress of the voyage after the death of Captain Cook. Richardson. [c.1859,] steel engraved portrait frontispiece and additional titlepage, foxed, pp.320, 16mo, orig. blind-stamped morocco-grain green cloth, lower endpaper hinge split, but firm, gilt lettered on backstrip, contemp. dated gift inscription on upper pastedown, sound £40.00 Scarce. COPAC locates only one copy in UK institutions; not found by OCLC. This edition not in Osbourne.
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L’Abbé Chappe d’Auteroche M. [(Jean-Baptiste)] A journey into Siberia, made by order of the King of France. ... Containing an account of the manners and customs of the Russians, the present state of their empire; with the natural history, and geographical description of their country, and level of the road from Paris to Tobolsky. Illustrated with cuts. Translated from the French, with a preface by the translator. T. Jeffereys, Geographer to the King. 1770, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, hand-coloured engraved folding map of the Russian Empire (minor handling tear), 9 engraved plates of Russian costume, etc., preliminary and final binder’s blanks foxed with sporadic foxing of page block, errata leaf pp.xiii+[7]+395+[1], 4to. half tan calf, expertly rebacked to match, backstrip divided into six compartments by raised bands between gilt rules, gilt lettered red morocco lable in second compartment, remainder empty, marbled sides (rubbed), corner tips somewhat worn, bookplates of Lætitiæ Houblon and W. Webb (1831), red speckled edges, good (Lowndes I, p.594: ESTC T70180 ) £885.00 27
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Born in Auvergne, France in 1732, d’Auteroche began adult life as a clergyman. However, his true calling was science, in particular, astronomy, and it is in this field (and that of travel) that he is chiefly remembered. Though he was still under the age of thirty, d’Auteroche became a member of France’s famed Academy of Sciences. In 1761, at the request of Czarina Elisabeth, an expedition was mounted to travel deep into the interior of Siberia, its purpose: to observe the transit of Venus across the sun in June of that year; d’Auteroche was chosen as a key member of the party. The author recalls an arduous, harrowing journey by horse-drawn sled across the ice-ravaged steppes of this largely uncharted region. On his return, he published “Voyage en Siberie” (Paris, 1768), which some commented was rather unflattering towards the Russians; Lowndes too notes that “this work on its first publication was severely criticised by the directions of Catherine II. of Russia”, the scathing words of d’Auteroche’s travelogue certainly make entertaining reading. In 1769, the author was sent on one of the earliest scientific expeditions to California to observe another Venus transit, but he succumbed to a mysterious disease and died there on 1st August, just days after the event. His notes were published posthumously in 1771. 64.
As used by the East India Company Laurie (Robert) and J. Whittle, publishers. The continent and islands of Asia; With all the latest discoveries. Delineated by Jno. Purdy ... To the Honourable the Court of Directors of the united East India Company this map is respectfully dedicated ... 1809, engraved folding map, hand-coloured in outline, some foxing and offsetting,
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splits in 2 folds, others weak, 2 dark blue roan backed sections forming covers when folded, one cover later titled in white, entire map dissected and mounted on linen, edged in dark blue cotton (missing in places), 1460x1180mm. (folding to 155x245mm.) , in orig. dark blue roan map case, with fold over flap, bottom of case with tidy (but workmanlike) black linen-backed tape repair, lacks flap retainer, titled in gilt on flap (dulled) but overprinted with later title in white, sound (Tooley 854 [1794 issue]). £800.00 65.
Lord Lilford’s copy Lear (Edward) Journal of a landscape painter in Corsica ... Robert John Bush. 1870, FIRST EDITION, 40 full-page wood engraved plates, map, numerous wood engraved vignettes on the letterpress, half-title and final leaves (index) foxed, ink ownershipowner’s name on half-title, pp.xvi+272, lge.8vo., orig. sand-grain brown cloth, by W. Bone, with his ticket on lower pastedown, extremities lightly rubbed at head of joints, fore-edges foxed, backstrip gilt lettered direct, chalked green endpapers, good £290.00 The last in a series of albums that included works on Greece, Calabria (see previous item), Albania, and the Ionian Islands. This copy bears the ownership inscription of Thomas Littleton Powys, the 4th Baron Lilford (1833-1896), on the verso of the front free endpaper. Like Lear, Lilford was a keen ornithologist and naturalist who travelled widely in the Mediterranean. His inscription is dated 1869 (the year before official publication of the book). Is it possible that Lear presented Lilford with this copy?
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Lear (Edward) Journals of a landscape painter in southern Calabria, &c. R ichard Bentley. 1852, FIRST EDITION, 2 maps, 20 tinted lithographs (5 somewhat foxed, remainder with foxing to edges), half title present, preliminary and final leaves foxed, pp.xx+[iv]+284+[4], lge.8vo., orig. morocco-grain blue cloth by Edmonds & Remnants (ticket on rear pastedown), expertly repaired at head and foot of backstrip, backstrip gilt blocked, titled, and decorated, sides blind-panelled, yellow chalked endpapers, hinges strengthened, inscription on upper free endpaper (see note), light ms. annotation on rear pastedown, very good £900.00 Inscribed to the historian ‘George Macaulay Trevelyan from Thomas Abbey, February 17th, 1910’ on upper free endpaper. A short letter is also loosely inserted addressed to ‘Dear George [presumably Trevelyan]’ thanking him for the loan of the book, from H.F.Newall. Lear produced a number of similar albums from the 1850s onwards, the item here described being the second in a series that included works on Greece, Corsica, Albania, and the Ionian Islands, the last issued in 1870. The albums were sold on a subscription basis, but though his style seems marvellously fresh and expressive by anyone’s standards, Lear could not make a livelihood from his art. He graduated to oils (with the encouragement of Holman Hunt) but subsequently moved on to other projects. An attractive and collectable book. 29
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Leigh Fermor (Patrick) Between the Woods and the Water. Murray. 1986, FIRST EDITION, title-vignette, double-page map printed in black on green paper, pp.248, 8vo., orig. mid blue boards, backstrip lettering and front cover design all gilt blocked, dustjacket, fine £50.00 Signed by the author on the title-page.Leigh Fermor has been described as “Britain’s greatest living travel writer.” This work picks up from the author’s first journey undertaken in the 1930s, and recounted in A Time of Gifts , which took him from Rotterdam as far as Hungary. A horseback trip across the Hungarian Plain, beyond the Romanian border and into Transylvania now follows in this second installment of the trilogy. As of March 2007, now aged 92, Leigh Fermor is famously still hard at work, completing the concluding part of his trilogy.
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Leigh Fermor (Patrick) Mani. Travels in the Southern Peloponnese. Murray. 1958, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and dustjacket designs by John Craxton, numerous other plates (from photographs) throughout, full-page map, pp.xv+320, 8vo., orig. scarlet boards, lettering on backstrip and design on front cover all gilt blocked, backstrip with small area of partial vertical creasing, lightly soiled publisher’s priceclipped dustjacket, good £70.00
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Leigh Fermor (Patrick) Roumeli. Travels in Northern Greece. Murray. 1966, FIRST EDITION, 20 plates from photographs, double-page map on pale blue-grey card, pp.viii+248, 8vo., orig. mid blue boards, backstrip and front cover gilt blocked, dustjacket (as new), fine £75.00
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Leigh Fermor (Patrick) Three Letters from the Andes. Murray. 1991, FIRST EDITION, 2 line-drawings and a full-page map by John craxton, pp., cr.8vo., orig. mid blue boards, backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket, fine £70.00 Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper ‘For Joyce Winholt Lewis. (with a salute to Walsham le Willows) Patrick Leigh Fermor’ and with a note presumably in Winholt Lewis’ hand on the dedication-page ‘See letter of Ann Fermor p.402 re: practice walk for the Andes’.
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Leigh Fermor (Patrick) Words of Mercury. Edited by Artermis Cooper. Murray. 2003, FIRST EDITION, reproduction of a photographic portrait, pp.x+274, 8vo., orig. dark blue boards, backstrip lettered in silver, dustjacket, fine £60.00 Signed by the author on a bookplate placed on the title-page.
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Lipscomb (George) The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham. J. & W. Robins. 1847, 9 maps (1 folding), 13 engraved plates (1 folding), 25 lithographs (1 tinted), title-pages printed in black and red pp.[xvi](title-page, preface, etc.) +xxxii+616; [ii]+600; [ii]+660; [vi]+620+[56] (general index), 4to., modern half calf, backstrip with raised bands between gilt rules, gilt lettered direct in second and third compartments, patterned paper sides and endpapers, good (Lowndes II/p.1367) £725.00 Lipscomb’s fine work was issued in eight parts, the first appearing in 1831 and the last in 1847. The title-pages issued for use in binding up the parts are all dated 1847. The work was chiefly based on Lipscomb’s own collection of materials and a collection bequeathed to him by Edward Cooke.
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Livingstone (David) Missionary travels and researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years’ residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the west coast; thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. John Murray. 1857, FIRST EDITION, first issue (see note), tinted lithographed folding frontispiece of the Victoria Falls, 1 other tinted and 1 monochrome lithographed plates, folding section, 20 wood engraved plates by J.W. Whymper, steel engraved portrait of Livingstone and 2 folding maps (one in rear endpaper pocket), 20 text illustrations, 8 page publisher’s catalogue dated November 1st 1857 following the text, pp.ix+[i]+687+[1], med.8vo., orig. midbrown, blind-stamped cloth, rebacked, orig. gilt lettered backstrip laid down, new endpapers, good (Abbey ‘Travel’ 347: Mendelssohn I/pp.908-10: PMM 341) £365.00 The major work of the most famous of African explorers. Primacy of issue is a matter of contention. The Abbey copy contains tinted lithographs of four of the plates, and the British Library copy two, as here. Abbey’s cataloguer argues that the British Library copy (and consequently this copy), although with fewer plates in the lithographed state, is likely to precede the Abbey copy on two grounds. The first is that one ‘would expect improved plates to be later’. This is at least contentious. The second ground suggested by the Abbey cataloguer is that since the British Museum Library received their copy in 1857, it is likely to be the copyright copy, and therefore likely to be the first issue. This seems a safer argument, but perhaps naive in its assumption that publishers have the copyright libraries uppermost in their minds when arranging the distribution of their books. Regardless of issue points, the fact remains that this is a good copy - and internally excellent - of a book normally found in poor state. It is also the most useful issue. Apart from the amendments contained in the three page 8s (i.e. 8, 8*, and 8 ), it is the first to contain an index.
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One of the earliest travel guides to Britain Llywd (Humphrey) Commentarioli Britannicae descriptionis fragmentum. Auctore Humfredo Lhuyd, Denbyghiense, Cambro Britanno ... Cologne: Ioannem Birkmannum. 1572, FIRST EDITION, title-page printer’s device, woodcut initials, ff.[8]+[79](78), 8vo., later pale blue paper wrappers (lightly worn), sunned spine panel, edges darkened, ink trial on final leaves (lightly offset), binders blank leaf at rear a little darkened, good (Adams L1378: Brunet 1048: Graesse L194: Ebert 936) £650.00 Leaf 78 incorrectly numbered. Humphrey Llwyd (1527-1568), an antiquary and map-maker, was born in Denbigh in 1527. After graduation from Oxford in 1548, Llywd pursued his literary and cartographic interests and by the mid 1550s had published a number of works with such diverse titles as An Almanacke and Kalender, conteynynge, the daye houre, and mynute of the change of the Moone for ever ... and a translation of Agostino Nifo’s De auguriis into English. No copies of these early works survive, but a book on medieval Welsh historiography was issued in greater numbers and was published to acclaim in 1559. At the time of his death in 1568, Llwyd had made arrangements to publish his Commentarioli Brittannicae ... and the short, historical volume (which contained geograhical points of interest to the traveller) was first issued under the Cologne imprint of Joannes Birkmann in 1572. The book had first been sent in the form of a manuscript letter to Abraham Ortelius (generally recognised as the creator of the modern atlas) in 1568, and a dated dedication by Llwyd to Ortelius, in Latin, precedes the main body of the text (also in Latin). This small work is important, as it can be regarded one of the earliest ‘travel guides to Britain’, in the modern sense of the phrase. It was made more available in an English translation by the physician and writer Thomas Twyne, in 1573. The title: The Breviary of Britayne ... was published by Richard Johnes in London, and stands as perhaps the first attempt to compile a chorographia of Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) as a whole.
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[Maning (Frederick Edward)] Old New Zealand; a tale of the good old times. By a Pakeha Maori ... Second edition. Auckland: Robert J. Creighton & Alfred Scales. 1863, browned, half title present, early owner’s signature on preliminary blank, pp.xiv+[ii] (blank)+329[i.e.239], 8vo., later nineteenth century straight moroccograin green cloth, extremities lightly rubbed, smooth backstrip gilt lettered direct, modern endpapers, early owners’ signatures on preliminary blank, good (Hocken p.224) £100.00 Maning came to Hokianga in 1833 as a trader, and lived among the Maori. He absorbed their culture, and married a daughter of a chief of the Ngapuhi. “Old New Zealand” is recognised as a classic of New Zealand literature.
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Marani (Fosco) Karakoram. The ascent of Gasherbrum IV. Translated from the Italian by James Cadell. Hutchinson. 1961, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, halftitle present, title printed in blue and black, photographic plates in monochrome and colour, pp.319+[1], 8vo., orig. fawn cloth, backstrip gilt lettered within blue coloured panel, imprint blue lettered at foot, dustwrapper with trivial wear, very good (Neate M47) £60.00 Illustrated by his stunning black & white (and colour) photographs, Maraini’s book describes the Italian Alpine Club’s 1958 ascent of the previously unclimbed Gasherbrum IV (also known as K3), a climb which is considered by informed opinion to be extreme. The author (who died in 2004) was an accomplished photographer and ethnographer. Neate notes that Maraini’s works “rank highly for the quality of the writing and illustrations.”
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[Maurice (Thomas)] The History of Hindostan, its Arts, and its Science, as connected with the history of the other great empires of asia, during the most ancient periods of the world. With numerous illustrative engravings. By the Author of Indian Antiquities. The Second Edition. In Two Volumes. Printed by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol ... and sold by F.C. and J. Rivington. 1820, 1819 (see note), 2 frontispieces (offset, that in vol.i with small stain at fore-edge), 14 other plates (2 folding), half titles vol.i (all called for), some light offsetting and browning, pp.[viii]+[ii]+[5]522; [ii]+[v]-xx+[21]-303+[1]+ [iv]+[i]-iv+[5]-337+[1], 4to., orig. glazed cotton backed blue boards, rebacked with cream paper, modern printed paper back labels, unpressed and untrimmed, very good £400.00 Thomas Maurice, oriental scholar, poet, and librarian, was born at Hertford in 1754. After graduation from University College, Oxford, Maurice became curate of Woodford, Essex. It was here he began work on his History of Hindostan in 1783. Progress on this vast work was interupted in 1792 by the publication of the more polemical Indian Antiquities. The first two volumes of the first edition of the History... were published 1795 and 1798. A third volume followed in 1799, shortly after its author had been appointed assistant keeper of manuscripts in the British Museum. When the second edition was published, first edition sheets of the 1799 third volume were bound with the second volume to form a two volume set. Maurice died in 1824.
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Mitford (William) The history of Greece. A new edition, with numerous additions and corrections. To which is prefixed a brief memoir of the author, by his brother, Lord Redesdale. [In eight volumes] Cadell. 1829, printed marginalia, occasional foxing, pp.xlviii+511; viii+522; viii+494; vii+456; xi+482; ix+477; ix+554; vii+587, 8vo., contemp. half calf, sides lightly shelf-worn, smooth backstrips with blind ruled flat bands, second and fourth compartments gilt lettered direct, marbled paper sides and endpapers, bookplates of Philip Lyttelton Cell, purple silk marker to each volume, a.e.g., good £300.00
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Mitford published the first volume of his History of Greece in 1784. He was to publish a further four volumes, the final being issued in 1819 ending with the death of Alexander the Great in 322 BC. An attractive set. 79.
M’Kenney (Thomas L.) Memoirs, official and personal: with sketches of travels among the northern and southern indians; embracing a war excursion, and descriptions of scenes along the western borders ... Two volumes in One. Second edition. New York: Paine and Burgess. 1846, lithographed portrait frontispiece vol. i, colour lithographed frontispiec vol.ii, facsimile letter, 11 wood engraved plates (i.e. 1 extra to plate list) and 1 full-page illustration on letterpress (included in plate list), foxed, pp.[i]-xi+[i] (blank)+[i]+[i] (blank)+[15]-340; [i]-ix+[i] (blank)+ [9]-136, 8vo., mid-twentieth century half black morocco, backstrip with dot roll decorated raised bands, gilt panelled compartments, lettered direct in second and third compartments, and at foot, grey cloth sides, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., good (Sabin 43403) £350.00 Appointed by James Madison in 1816, Thomas Lorraine McKenney was an influential architect of America’s early Indian policy, and served the U.S government as Superintendant of Indian Trade. After abolition of this program in 1822, McKenney turned his attention to a zealous support for John C. Calhoun’s presidential bid of 1824. When Calhoun dropped out of the race in return for the vice-presidency, McKenney was rewarded with a position as the nation’s first Superintendent of Indian Affairs. This autobiographical work recalls the author’s time in office, as well a series of travels throughout America undertaken during his Superintendencies. Of particular note is a journey made in September 1827, during which McKenney conferred with numerous indigenous American Indian tribes with regard to their emigration to the West. (Not in Wagner-Camp.)
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More (Hannah) [Short autograph letter.] Cowslip Green. Septer. 29, 1795, single sheet, folded once (although there is evidence of two previous folds), written in brown ink, small paper repair on verso, 180x175mm., good £180.00
‘Sir/ I am sorry that I have not a proper stamp by me to write a receipt [short indecipherable word] I think it best however not to let the Post go out without writing to say that I acknowledge to have received this day Septr. 29 - 1795 One hundred pounds being the balance of the Account between/ I am Sir Your very Obedt. Humble Svt, Hannah More [postscript] I will send at some time a proper receipt -’. At this time Hannah More was involved with the ‘Clapham Sect’ and much of her time was devoted to the cause of the abolition of slavery, and producing a large number of tracts for the Cheap Repository which she and her sisters had founded. They produced pamphlets at the rate of three a month. In November of 1795 her most famous poem on the subject of slavery, ‘The Sorrows of Yamba’, was published.
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Cowslip Green, near Wrington in Somerset, had been intended to be a place of retirement for More. She had moved there in 1786 but it was not long before the condition of the rural poor moved her to become committed to their education, supposedly at the instigation of William Wilberforce. By 1800 she had founded some dozen schools in the Mendip villages. There is no indication of the identity of the recipient of the present letter, possibly a publisher, or perhaps a contributor to one of her causes. 81.
Morris (Rev. F[rancis]. O[rpen].) A Series of Picturesque Views of seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress. 6 Vols. William Mackenzie. [1880,] colour lithographed additional title-pages (each with small view) and 234 plates, pp. iv+91; iv+80; iv+82; iv+82; iv+80; iv+80, 4to., orig. sand-grain brown cloth, backstrips gilt blocked with decorative panels and title, sides bevelled, upper sides with elaborate black and gilt blocked strapwork and title, the design repeated in blind on lower, cream chalked endpapers, a.e.g., good £450.00 Published in parts between 1864 and 1880. The plates were drawn by Alexander Francis Lydon, and printed using Baxter’s process by a Baxter licensee, Benjamin Fawcett. Each plate was printed in an average of eight colours. A seventh volume was issued containing facsimiles of the signatures of the house owners.
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A Collection of Eighteenth Century Newspapers (Newspapers.) The Oxford Gazette and Reading Mercury. This paper, though put to press every Saturday Night, will contain not only the whole Sunday’s Post, but also many articles of intelligence, which cannot be inserted even in the London papers, ‘til the week following; as experience will testify. Reading: J. Carnan, and Co. 1763, 1765. 1770, three newspapers on handmade rag paper, pp.[4], folio [with] The Oxford Gazette, and Reading Mercury (Number 178) [and] The Reading Mercury and Oxford Gazette ... distributed, with the utmost expedition, through Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Surry, Sussex, and part of Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, and Middlesex. Number 461. Expert repairs to closed tears using Japan paper, rough cut fore and bottom edges, top edge trimmed, halfpenny tax stamp in red ink at foot of preliminary pages, good (Cordeaux & Merry ‘Oxfordshire’ 1373) £210.00 The newspaper was founded as the Reading Mercury by William Carnan in 1723. In 1730, Carnan employed the young John Newbery (who would later find fame as a publisher of children’s books). Newbery had been promoted to printer’s assistant at the time of Carnan’s death in 1737, at which point Newbery inherited half of the printing business, sharing the company with Carnan’s brother Charles. The Mercury
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thrived under their supervision; by 1743 it was sold in nearly 50 markets and was one of the top provincial papers of the day. Ownership and editorship passed in 1744 to William Carnan’s eldest son John, in whose hands the venture remained until the late eighteenth century, the period during which these newspapers were issued. The three newspapers in the collection contain reviews of recently published books, local announcements, and news on an international level gleaned from the larger London papers. The 1763 issue carries an installment of a history of the Seven Years’ War (1754 and 1756-1763) on its front page. 83.
Palmer (William) Egyptian chronicles with a harmony of sacred and Egyptian chronology, and an appendix on Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities. In two volumes. Longman [et al.] 1861, SOLE EDITION, 2 colour lithographed frontispieces, tissue guards, pp.lxxiv+[1]-428+24; viii+[417]-1053+[2] orig. bubblegrain dark pink cloth, backstrips and upper sides of both vols. faded, backstrips gilt lettered direct, blind stamped border on sides, green chalked endpapers, printed ‘From the Author’ ticket vol.i , library’s small ‘withdrawn stamp’ on upper pastedowns, good £110.00 The two volumes continuously paginated. The duplication of numbers at the beginning of volume two reflects the fact that the text in volume one finished at p.417 (pp.418-428 being occupied by ‘Notes and Corrections’).
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Phillips (Harold) Most up-to-date Sydney Panoramic Views. Katoomba, N.S.W: Phillips. [c.1910,] FIRST EDITION, 22 sepia photographic plates, pp.[22], stapled oblong leaves (213⁄4” x 81⁄2”) , pale turquoise stapled card wrappers (lightly foxed), central vertical fold to covers and contents of the book, short closed tears along wrapper edges, decorative titles blocked in blue and white on upper wrapper, good £150.00 Phillips (1873-1944) produced a number of similar pamphlets from c.1900 up to the start of WWII. The captioned panoramic views depict Sydney Harbour (with improved wharfage accommodation in the course of construction), Hyde Park and City from St Mary’s Cathedral, Circular Quay (showing several ocean liners and tenders), a view of Elizabeth and Market Streets (complete with early motor vehicles), and numerous other Sydney locations.
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Pocock of Gravesend [Pocock (Robert)] Memorials of the family of Tufton, Earls of Thanet; deduced from various sources of authentic information. Gravesend: R. Pocock ... 1800, SOLE EDITION, frontispiece, title-page vignette, 1 plate (with tissue guard present), halftitle present, modest dust-soiling, pp.[ii]+x+156, 8vo., orig. grey boards, sometime rebacked with tan paper (light shelf-soil), edges a touch worn, later owner’s signature on upper free endpaper, unpressed and untrimmed, a sound copy £95.00
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In the mid-1780s Robert Pocock (1760-1830) founded the first circulating library and printing office in Gravesend. He is seen by some as a vitally important cog in the development of England’s educational system after he published the pioneering aid to juvenile study: Reading made most easy, in the early 1780s (copies are so scarce we are unsure of an exact date). In an era when copyright law was only loosely adhered to, the format was immediately immitated by numerous publishers, whilst Pocock found himself over-burdened with other commitments. A notable Banbury publisher, John Golby Rusher, ran the work to over one hundred editions. Pocock produced a veritable raft of sadly little-known works on aspects of education, local history, travel, sport, topography, as well as children’s books, from his publishing house-cum-bookshop in High Street, Gravesend, before he ran into financial difficulties in around 1811. A prolific diarist, and wholly intriguing figure, Pocock was also the first chairman of the Kent Natural History Society. 86.
Powys (Llewelyn) Somerset and Dorset Essays. Foreword J.C. Powys. Macdonald. 1957, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 32 plates of photographs, pp.255, cr.8vo., orig. mid green cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, free endpapers faintly browned in part, dustjacket, fine (Thomas B34) £20.00
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Powys (Llewelyn) Swiss Essays. Bodley Head. 1947, FIRST EDITION, 32 plates of photographs, pp.165, 8vo., orig. pink cloth, gilt lettered backstrip and design to front cover, dustjacket a trifle frayed, chip to head of rear panel, very good £20.00
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Prince (John) Danmonii orientales illustres: or, the worthies of Devon. A work wherein lies the lives and fortunes of the most famous divines, statesmen [etc. etc.] Exeter: printed by Sam. Farley ... 1701, title-page within double line border, woodcuts of shields on letterpress, pp.[ii]+[xvi]+600, folio, contemp. ‘Cambridgepane’, rebacked, corners repaired, backstrip with raised bands, gilt lettered red leather label in second compartment, remainder blind panelled with fleurons at corners and centres; panelled sides, good (Lowndes p.1794: Upcott p.168) £400.00 The present work can safely be described as the Reverend John Prince’s Magnum Opus. As suggested by the title, it deals with the county’s many notable figures and also offers glimpses of rural life in seventeenth-century Devonshire. Prince was the subject of public scandal after he was caught in flagrante with a local parishioner in 1699. Suddenly publication of his Danmonii orientales ... was under threat and Prince fought to restore his reputation. He eventually triumphed and was reinstated as vicar of Berry Pomeroy; publication resumed. In his final years he worked on a second volume of the work which sadly never saw publication.
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[Prior (John), Butler of Brasenose College, Oxford] Brasenose Ale. A collection of poems presented annually by the butler of Brasenose College on Shrove Tuesday ... Oxford: printed for private circulation, by J. Vincent. 1857, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, half-title discarded, lightly foxed, errata slip tipped-in at end, pp.vii+[i](blank)+140, 8vo., orig. straight morocco-grain red cloth, by Westley, with his white lozenge ticket on lower pastedown, rebacked, backstrip longitudinally gilt lettered direct, sides with blind stamped fillet and foliage border, title lettered in gilt on upper side, chalked green endpapers, with new hinges, later owner’s signature on verso of upper free endpaper, a.e.g., good (Cordeaux and Merry ‘University’ 6921) £300.00 This edition not in Clary. The collection covers the period 1811-1857. Brasenose Ale is a mulled ale served in Brasenose after dinner on Shrove Tuesday. This custom, the origin of which, like so many customs, seems not to have been recorded, certainly dates from the time when the College brewed its own beer and an undergraduate would write verses in its praise. The verses usually contain topical references to current events and members of the College and they were read by the Butler when he presented a brew of warmed beer containing spices and apples. The custom came to an end when the College brewhouse was demolished in 1889, but was revived in 1909, although the beer was no longer home made. The oldest surviving verses date from the early 1700s and the sequence is almost complete from 1815. No attempt seems to have been made to collect the verses before the present very uncommon volume. Some survive as separately printed verses (see Cordeaux and Merry ‘University’ 6920).
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Rigby (Edward) Framingham, its agriculture, &c. Including the economy of a small farm ... Norwich: printed by Burks and Kinnebrook, for R. Hunter ... 1820, SOLE EDITION, folding plate of the farm buildings layout, authorial inscription on preliminary blank, pp.[vi]+[ii]+107+[1], 8vo., modern fawn wrappers, modern blanks at beginning and end, good (Fussell III, p.113: Perkins 1448) £300.00 Inscribed on a preliminary blank leaf to ‘Mr. W. Shairk, from the author.’ The pamphlet describes Rigby’s experimental farm five miles south east of Norwich. He was friendly with ‘Coke of Norfolk’ and had described the future Earl of Leicester’s farming methods in ‘Holkham, its agriculture &c.’ published in 1817.
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Robinson (Abraham) Manuscript application for land. [1787,] single sheet, watermarked ‘C& H Ionic’, folded three times, short splits on folds, written on one side only, 230x280mm., edges lightly browned, good £85.00 A contemporary copy(?) of an application for land ‘Abraham Robinson applies for 400 acres of land situate in Northampton County Lower Smithfield township on Bushkill Creek joining lands of his own and others, to which are added the names
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of Hugh Lenox (400), James Chevalier (who applies for three lots of 400 acres each), and Jacob Hug (400). The brief document notes that Jacob Wood appeared before ‘us ... two of the Members of the Executive Council of the State of Pennsylvania’ to declare on oath that the ‘described tracts of Land are not improved.’ Signed by ‘Robt. Traill and Saml. Dean on 8th November 1787. 92.
Rudge (Rev. Thomas) The history of the county of Gloucester; compressed, and brought down to the year 1803. In two volumes. Gloucester: Printed for the author, by G. F. Harris. 1803, FIRST EDITION, half titles, engraved folding map (old paper repair to small handling tear), one engraved plate per volume, pp.cxx+402; 409, 8vo., mid-nineteenth century tan half calf, backstrips divided into six compartments by triple gilt rules, gilt lettered leather labels in second, gilt volume numeral in fourth, joints cracked but holding, marbled sides (scuff mark on upper board of vol.ii), red speckled and polished edges, sound (Hyett: Bibliographer’s manual of Gloucestershire literature, 1803) £185.00 The set contains slight errors in pagination (as is usual). Hyett states that the aim of this work was “to compress the matter of Sir Robert Atkyns into a narrower compass.” “The appendices ... were presented to the subscribers ... after the work was published, and are rarely met with.” Rudge prepared a third volume, on the city of Gloucester, which was not published until 1811 as a separate title: “The History and Antiquities of Gloucester.”
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Rycke (Josse de) Iusti Rycqui de capitolio Romano commentarius. In quo, illustria eius olim ædificia, sacra, & profana... Ghent: apud Cornelium Marium. 1617, FIRST EDITION, printer’s engraved device on title-page, 2 half-page engraved plates (1 of she-wolf with Romulus and Remus), full-page woodcut of a plan of Temple of Concord by Palladio, woodcuts of coins in the text, all on letterpress, pp.[xvi]+179+[12], 4to., contemp. vellum, warped, spine darkened and worn at head and foot, lacks ties, overlapping fore-edges, unlettered, good £800.00 COPAC locates just two copies in the UK, whilst OCLC reveals a further 2 copies in US institutions. The work is a description of Rome and its antique architecture. It includes a detailed plan of a classical temple drawn by Palladio (illustrated on p. 156). A second edition appeared in 1669 in Leiden with Daniel Abr. & Andr. van Gaasbeeck; a third in 1696, also in Leiden with Joan. du Vivié. Rycke was a Belgian poet who travelled to Italy in 1606. In about 1614, he returned to Louvain, and some years later he was appointed Canon of the Cathedral at Ghent. He returned to Italy and in 1624 was appointed professor eloquentiae at Bologna.
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Salmon (N.) Antiquities of Surrey, collected from the most antient records. With some account of the present state and natural history of the county ... Printed for the author. 1736, FIRST EDITION, pp.[viii]+204+[4], 8vo., contemp. (possibly orig.) dark calf, sometime rebacked and recornered, backstrip with raised bands between double gilt rules, gilt lettered red leather label, blind fillet border on sides, lacks upper endpaper, lower endpaper renewed, book ticket of Emery Walker, and modern owner, on bare front board, bookplate (by R.A. Bell) of London County Council Library on upper free endpaper, sound (Lowndes p.2719: Upcott p.1209) £165.00 The upper endpaper clearly disappeared some time ago, and later owners have put their ownership marks on the bare board. We decided to keep the book in this state, rather than renew the endpaper.
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Shackleton (Ernest Henry) The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. With an introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc. An account of the first journey to the south magnetic pole by Professor T.W.Edgeworth David, F.R.S. 2 vols. William Heinemann. 1909, FIRST EDITION, 2 frontispieces and 12 colour plates (with printed tissue guards), 194 plates, diagrams on letterpress, 3 maps and 2 panoramas in pocket at end of vol.ii, errata slip vol. ii, pp.xlviii+371+[1]; xv+[i]+418+[1], roy.8vo., handsomely bound in modern half dark blue morocco, backstrips with raised bands between blind rules, gilt rules at head and foot, gilt lettered white vellum label in second compartments, vol. numbers lettered direct in third compartments, blue canvas sides, hand-made endpapers, t.e.g., remainder rough trimmed, very good £1,120.00 Although Shackleton had contributed articles and papers to numerous periodicals since his early expeditions around the turn-of-the-century, The Heart of the Antarctic was his first book. Shackelton’s attempt to reach the south pole is often eclipsed by Scott’s 1912 expedition, but his four-man shore party did reach the south magnetic pole, and got to within 97 nautical miles of the true pole. Other achievements included the world’s first ascent of Mount Erebus (12,448 ft) on Ross Island. Throughout the expedition, team members had produced copies of Aurora Australis (a printing press had been shipped from England) An exceedingly rare book, the first to be printed on the continent of Antarctica, it was bound in the boards from packing cases and contained accounts of Antarctic life, short stories, and humorous essays. On his journey home from New Zealand by ocean liner, Shackleton was able to draw on Aurora Australis , and, with the help of literary assistant Edward Saunders, had made ready for publication his own two-volume account of events. The Heart of the Antarctic went to press in October 1909 and was immediately praised by its many readers. A classic of the genre. “No person who has not spent a period of his life in those ‘stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole’ will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man.”
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Slatter (W.) Views of all the Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings in the University and City of Oxford; with Descriptions, which point out to strangers all the places and curiosities more particularly deserving of their notice. Oxford: Henry Slatter. [c.1834,] half-title present, 42 sepia toned aquatints, tissue guards (some watermarked 1834), pp.[x]+(plates), oblong 12mo., modern half calf, smooth backstrip with gilt lettered dark blue leather label, good (see Abbey Scenery 273: Clary 92: Cordeaux and Merry 314) £400.00 Rare ‘third’ edition. Issued without leaf of text for each plate. The plate list notes two new plates, 29* and 30* (‘The University New Printing Office’ and ‘New Inn Hall’), although in fact the former is numbered 15 and placed after the ‘Clarendon, or late University Printing Office’ plate. We are inclined to date this edition as 1834 because of the date in the watermark of the tissue guards, but it is always possible that it was bound up at a later date than the printing of the plates, with later tissue guards. It has, however, always been placed after 1827 when the New Printing Office was completed.
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[Smith (Charles, printer.)] A new map of the county of Hereford. Divided into hundreds, describing the boundaries of the boroughs, with polling places, &c. Printed for C. Smith, N.o 172 Strand. [1834], hand-coloured in outline (green, pink, yellow, brown, blue and red) shows boundaries, rivers, roads, woods and settlements, sectioned and mounted on linen, 19” by 21” (folding to 5” by 7”) , orig. green cloth-covered card case, with Smith’s printed title label on upper side, lower side blank, very good (Chubb CCCXVI) £180.00 No copy traced by COPAC; not in British Library, and therefore rare. Based on Smith’s New English Atlas of 1804, and very similar also to Cary’s Atlas of 1809. Consists of engraved ‘explanation’ with Greenwich meridian line of longitude indicated and relief shown by hachures. Thomas Chubb refers to ‘another edition’ published 1834; of the 43 maps then issued, many bear the line ‘corrected to 1832’ (the case with this map). However no. 16 (Hereford), is indicated as ‘missing’ in Chubb’s bibliography.
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Smith (Theophilus) Sheffield and its neighbourhood. Photographically illustrated ... A.W.Bennet. 1865, frontispiece and additional title-page, both lithographed with mounted images, 14 plates, consisting of images mounted within lithographed surrounds, all albumen prints, tissue guards, wood engraved vignettes on letterpress, foxed, pp.[viii]+132, sm.4to., orig. sand-grain brown cloth, smooth backstrip rubbed and snagged at head and tail, gilt blocked with title and stylised flowers; bevelled sides, corners rubbed, sides gilt blocked with Gothic quatrefoil frame (dulled), enclosing title on upper side, lower side blank, stitching strained, some gatherings starting, a.e.g. (Gernsheim 279: The Truthful Lens 150) £500.00
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The Rev. Theophilus Smith was one of the first to overcome the difficulty of photographing men at work in interiors, achieving notably the famous image of the great steam hammer at the Atlas Works in Sheffield in 1858. The present work, while mostly of conventional subjects, also includes photographs of ‘Hallamshire Forgeman’ and the armour plate works. The authors of the Grolier Club’s ‘The Truthful Lens’ speculated that the mounts might be photolithographic. 99.
Stanfield (Clarkson) Stanfield’s coast scenery. A series of views in the British Channel from original drawings taken expressly for the work ... Smith, Elder & Co. 1836, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, frontispiece, engraved additional title-page with vignette, and 40 plates, tissue guards, scattered unobtrusive foxing, pp.viii+128, 4to., orig. deep plum roan, extremities lightly rubbed, smooth backstrip blocked with ornate gilt titles in frame, painter’s easel, palette etc., sides with blind volute outer border, inner border of fillets with elaborate rococo corner-pieces, central panel with decorative border round a trident and wreath, cream endpapers, bookplate of John Curtis Wernher Eustace, good £385.00 Clarkson Stanfield was a prolific (and accomplished) watercolourist and painter, who produced a vast quantity of work for numerous famous authors of the Victorian period up until his death at the age of seventy-four in 1867. He was also especially well-known for his vast “moving dioramas”, mainly of land and seascapes, which attracted vast crowds during the 1820s. Coast Scenery follows on from a series of works on topographical subjects that included books on the Rhine, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the channel coast of France. The present work (scarce in its large paper format) is dedicated to King William IV in what was to be the final year of his reign.
A classic of outdoor literature 100. Stevenson (Robert Louis) Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes. Kegan, Paul. 1879, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece by Walter Crane, tissue-guard present, pp., f’cap.8vo., orig. dark green bevel-edged cloth, sunned backstrip gilt lettered and with designs by Crane gilt blocked on the backstrip and front cover, single broad black rule at head and double broad black rule at tail of covers, publisher’s device blocked in black at centre of rear cover, bookplate of Oliver Nowell Chadwyck-Healey, head edges roughtrimmed, good £650.00 In August 1878 a young Robert Louis Stevenson set out on his famous walking tour. Stevenson was in love with the American Fanny Osbourne and had spent most of the previous year in Paris with her. The author was no stranger to the Continent having published his first work An Inland Voyage (which recounts a canoeing trip in Belgium made in 1876) in May of the same year. He wanted to capitalise on the modest success of his first book and raise money to be with Fanny who had returned to America in August. Stevenson based the book on a travel diary which he kept during his 12-day, 120-mile solo journey through the wild Cévennes mountains in south-central France. His only companion during the trip was a stubborn donkey that went by the name of Modestine. 42
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With hand-coloured aquatints 101. Stothard (Mrs. Charles) Letters written during a tour through Normandy, Britanny, and other parts of France, in 1818: including local and historical descriptions; with remarks on the manners and character of the people. With numerous engravings, after drawings by Charles Stothard, F.S.A. Longman [et al.] 1820, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 21 aquatint plates (5 beautifully hand coloured), hand coloured line engraving, all after drawings by Charles Stothard, some offsetting and slight foxing to text, small internal hole in RR2, pp.[iv]+322, 4to., modern half tan calf, backstrip with raised bands between gilt rules, gilt lettered dark red leather label, brown cloth sides, new cream endpapers, bookplate of Reginald James Mure, good (Abbey ‘Travel’ 88: Prideaux p.353) £450.00 An attractive item. 102. Sutherland (Capt. [David]) A Tour up the Straits, from Gibraltar to Constantinople, with the leading events in the present war between the Austrians, Russians, and the Turks, to the Commencement of the Year 1789. Printed for the Author. 1790, FIRST EDITION, b1-3 corners dog-eared, some dust-soiling as result, otherwise internally very good, pp.xlvii+[i] (blank)+372, 8vo., contemp. straight-grain dark red morocco, extremities rubbed, smooth backstrip divided by gilt open twist, arabesque, and flower and lozenge rolls, author’s name lettered direct in second compartment, large ornaments in remainder, darkened; sides with wide swag roll border between double fillets, single fillet on board edges, open twist roll on turnins, marbled endpapers (rubbed), a.e.g. (dulled), very good (Blacker 1623: Cox Vol.I, p.236: Pine Coffin 787.4) £450.00 The author’s personal observations of the places and people encountered during the tour in letter form are the basis of this work. 103. Taylor (Rev. Isaac) Scenes in America, for the amusement and instruction of little tarry-at-home travellers. Harris and Son. 1821, FIRST EDITION, half-title present, handcoloured wood engraved folding map frontispiece, frayed at fore-edge and with short tear in blank fore-margin, woodcut vignette on title-page, and 84 handcoloured woodcuts (28 plates, each with 3 cuts to a page), F1 with short tear in fore-margin, stitching slightly strained, pp.viii+122+[2] (publisher’s advertisements), 12mo. in 6’s, orig. qtr. red roan, rubbed, and with some loss to head of backstrip and upper return, smooth backstrip divided by gilt single rules, small flower tool in each compartment, printed pictorial drab boards, corners worn, sound (Gumuchian 5535: Moon 865[1]: Osborne p.190: Sabin 94469) £115.00
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104. Taylor (Rev. Isaac) Scenes in Asia, for the amusement and instruction of little tarryat-home travellers. Second Edition. Harris and Son. 1821, half-title present, handcoloured folding map frontispiece (tear in crease at bottom), vignette title, and 84 hand-coloured woodcuts (28 plates, each with 3 cuts to a page), several gatherings starting, dusty, pp.vii+[i] (blank)+ 118+[2] (publisher’s advertisements), 12mo. in 6’s, orig. qtr. red roan, backstrip rubbed and with loss at head, divided by gilt single rules, gilt roundel and star tool in centre of each compartment, printed pictorial drab boards, corners a little worn, blue sprinkled edges, good (Gumuchian 5541: Moon 866[2]: Osborne p.813) £115.00 COPAC locates only three copies, but no copy of the first edition located. Also issued by Harris with uncoloured engravings. 105. Taylor (Rev. Isaac) Scenes in Europe, for the amusement and instruction of little tarry-at-home travellers. Third Edition. Harris and Son. 1820, half-title present, hand-coloured wood engraved folding map frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title-page, and 84 hand-coloured woodcuts (28 plates, each with 3 cuts to a page), stitching strained, pp.vii+[i] (blank)+93+[3] (publisher’s advertisements), 12mo. in 6’s, orig. qtr. green-blue roan, smooth backstrip rubbed, and worn at head and foot, divided by gilt single rules, small flower tool in each compartment, printed pictorial drab boards, corners a little worn, good (Moon 866[3]: Osborne p.813) £115.00 No edition earlier than the fifth (1821) listed in NUC, and that with only one location. Also issued by Harris with the illustrations uncoloured. 106. Thomas (Edward) The Icknield Way. With Illustrations by A.L. Collins. Constable. 1913, FIRST EDITION, 8 colour plates (including frontispiece), text illustrations, preliminary and final leaves foxed, pp.xv+[i]+320, 8vo., orig. ribbed green cloth, backstrip and upper cover blocked and lettered in gilt, t.e.g., good £45.00 107. Thompson (Pishey) The History and Antiquities of Boston, and the Villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake and Wrangle; comprising the Hundred of Skirbeck, in the County of Lincoln... Boston: John Noble, Jun..., 1856, SOLE EDITION, frontispiece, and 5 other plates, one folding, numerous wood engraved text illustrations, folding pedigree, frontispiece and titlepage foxed, pp.xxii+824+[2], roy.8vo., orig. embossed cloth, rebacked with orig. backstrip laid down, backstrip gilt lettered, new cream endpapers, good (Lowndes IV/p.2668) £260.00 Thompson’s intention “to publish such a work was announced in 1807” (DNB). The edition appeared in two forms, as a folio volume of 250 copies, and this present 8vo. volume. 44
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108. [Thornton (Edward Parry)] Illustrations of the history and practices of the Thugs. And notices of some of the proceedings of the government of India, for the suppression of the crime of Thuggee. Wm. H. Allen. 1837, FIRST EDITION, pp.[iv]+475+[1], 8vo., orig. glazed green cotton, faded and spotted, printed paper back label, yellow chalked endpapers, lightly spotted, good £490.00 Based in part on Major-General Sir William Henry Sleeman’s reports. 109. Thornton (Colonel Thomas) A Sporting Tour through Various Parts of France in the Year 1802: including a concise description of the sporting establishments, mode of hunting, and other field-amusements, as practised in that country. With general observations on the arts, sciences, agriculture, husbandry, and commerce ... 2 Vols. Longman, Hurst, Reese and Orme, and C. Chapple. 1806, FIRST EDITION, 2 engraved frontispieces and title pages, 55 uncoloured aquatint illustrations [eleven folding], engraved head and tail pieces, pp. lxvi+168+[6]; xii+260+[8], 4to., two vols bound together in a somewhat later half burgundy morocco, backstrip gilt lettered direct, gilt decorated raised bands, lightly rubbed marbled boards, light wear to head and tail, good. (Abbey Travel 84: Prideaux pp. 286-7: Schwerdt II, pp.259-61) £660.00 London-born sportsman, Colonel Thomas Thornton, made numerous journeys to the more remote parts of the British Isles (including the Scottish Highlands in 1786, which resulted in a ghostwritten volume on the subject). He also travelled extensively on the Continent at the turn-of-the-century; an expedition to France (on which the present work is based) resulted in a much-exaggerated meeting with Napoléon Bonaparte. Ever the eccentric, Thornton eventually purchased a dilapidated chateau and became a self-styled “marquis de Pont” and “Prince”, before his death in March 1823. 110. Tucker (Miss [Sarah]) The Southern Cross and Southern Crown; or, the gospel in New Zealand ... Fourth edition. James Nisbet. 1858, wood engraved frontispiece and five plates, folding map, early presentation inscription partially erased, pp.viii+263+[1], sm.8vo., orig. morocco-grain green cloth, by Edmonds and Remnant, with their ticket on lower pastedown, faded, smooth backstrip gilt lettered direct, blind stamped strapwork border and vignette of spears on both sides, cream endpapers, library stamp and number on upper free endpaper, good (Hocken p.182 [first edition]) £20.00 This edition unaltered from the first. Includes a list of missionaries and their stations and series of attractive wood engravings in the text.
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111. [Turner (J. M. W. ), et al.] The Gallery of Modern Artists; consisting of a series of engravings from works of the most eminent artists of the day, including Messrs Turner, Roberts, Harding, Clennel, Dewint, Austin, Messrs. Stanfield, Bonington, Prout, Cattermole, C. Fielding, Cox, &c. &c. Two vols. Simpkin and Marshall. 1835, engraved additional title-page, steel engraved plates (each with tissue guard), very light occasional foxing of plates and page block, pp. 68+(77 leaves of plates), 4to., contemp. straight-grain brown roan, faded and rubbed backstrip gilt lettered direct within gilt ruled bordered panel (gilt decoration at head and tail); sides with triple gilt fillet and blind palmete roll border, ornate blindstamped floral central panel, triple gilt fillet on turn-ins, pale yellow chalked endpapers, engraved bookplate of Dorothea Heathcote, silk ribbon marker (detached from headband), a.e.g., good (Universal Catalogue of Books on Art, F-K p.629) £110.00 A collection of engravings each of which are accompanied by a short text by an anonymous author. The engravings offer a representation of some of the finest engravers of the period (most are mentioned by Holloway) and include Le Petit, Henshall, Bentley, Topham, Hope and numerous others. Many of these plates are dated 1836, though the title-page is dated 1835. The Universal Catalogue refers to a series of issues of this publication and goes on to indicate the existence of a slightly earlier version of 1833. The plates show several British scenes, as well as numerous continental views of a mainly architectural nature. 112. Turner (William) Journal of a Tour in the Levant. John Murray. 1820, FIRST EDITION. 3 vols., 2 engraved folding maps and 22 plates, including 6 hand-coloured aquatints, some folding, lacks half-titles, with a repeat of the last leaf of the index and errata leaf from vol. 3 bound in after the title of vol. 1, occasional offsetting, bibliographic references in pen on the enpaper of vol.1, pp.xxii+480; vi+[2]+608; vi+[2]+546+[2], 8vo., contemp. polished deep plumcoloured calf, the sides with outer borders of scallops and small wreaths, and large inner panels of repeated decorative blind rules, the backstrips panelled in gilt with gilt lettering, repeated tools and four raised bands, the heads of the backstrips very skillfully (and near-invisibly) repaired, very good £2,800.00 The riches of the Levant through the eyes of an Englishman attached to the British Embassy in Constantinople. He travelled extensively and captured the spectacular views, antiquities, and customs of most parts of the Ottoman dominions as well as the mainland and islands of Greece, including views of Patmos, and Smyrna.
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All three volumes in first edition... 113. (Tutankhamun.) Carter (Howard) and A.C. Mace. The Tomb of Tut.Ankh.Amen. Discovered by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter. Cassell, 1923-33, FIRST EDITION, black & white frontispiece photograph (present in each vol.), 247 photgraphic plates, facsimile letter, sketch plan in letterpress, very modest foxing to preliminary and final leaves, pp.xxiii+[i]+231; xxxiv+277; xvi+248, 8vo., orig. fine-ribbed, olive-green cloth, smooth backstrips gilt lettered direct (minor shelf wear at head and tail, light staining to spine of vol.3), front boards lettered gilt with gilt scarab device on a gilt-bordered black ground, pictorial endpapers (bookplate residue and bookseller’s faint, inobtrusive stamp on free endpaper of vol 3), good £1,400.00 The account of what remains to this day one of the most compelling, and perennially popular, of archaeological excavations. Probably no single archaeological event did so much to stimulate popular interest in the subject, or indeed has the power that the story of the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb has to maintain that interest. As Carter himself said the tomb was ‘for all practical purposes intact’. It was indeed the first and may well be the last time that a royal burial was to be found in such a condition. (N.B. Arthur Cruttenden Mace was only contributed to vol. I ) 114. Tweddell (John) Remains ... being a selection of his letters written from various parts of the continent together with a republication of his Prolusiones Juveniles ... Prefixed is a brief biographical memoir by the editor the Rev. Robert Tweddell ... J. Mawman. 1815, silhouette portrait frontispiece, 8 plates (including 1 of a whirling dervish), 3 maps, pp.[iv]+479+ [1]+179+[1], 4to., mid-nineteenth century half dark calf, extremities rubbed, backstrip with raised bands between gilt and blind rules, gilt lettered black leather label, morocco-grain dark green cloth sides, grey endpapers, bookplate of Lincoln Cathedral Library (no other ex-library marks), good £300.00 The Cambridge scholar, John Tweddell, set out in 1795 with the object of studying the manners and institutions of European and Asiatic peoples. He visited Germany, Switzerland, Russia, and Poland before dying prematurely in Athens in 1799. These letters sent home during this period reveal his gift for observation, and give occasional glimpses of the knowledge that he was acquiring. His discoveries generally, however, were consigned to his Journals which mysteriously disappeared after his death. Robert Tweddell, John’s brother, who edited these letters, accused Lord Elgin of ‘misappropriating’ them. The accusation may be harsh and it is more likely that Elgin lost them through indifference. Byron and others were responsible for erecting a monument on Tweddell’s grave. They achieved this by using a block of marble they cut off the Parthenon, an action which is all the more remarkable when one recalls Byron’s diatribe The Curse of Minerva in which he made ‘the maimed and mourning Pallas Athena hurl her execrations on Elgin the spoiler.’
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115. Von Gerning (Baron J.J.) A picturesque tour along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne: with illustrations of the scenes of remarkable events, and of popular traditions ... Embellished with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings, from the drawings of M. Schuetz; and accompanied by a map. Translated from the German by John Black. R. Ackermann ... 1820, LARGE PAPER COPY, handcoloured aquatints (minor offsetting to two plates, dust soiling to blank verso of frontispiece), folding map, pp.xiv+[ii]+178, folio, modern half dark calf in contemp. style, smooth backstrip gilt lettered direct between two panels, red cloth sides, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., good £5,400.00 Originally published in six monthly parts. The original unillustrated German edition was published in Wiesbaden in 1814. Abbey speculates that Ackermann may indeed have commissioned not only the illustrations but also the text. In fact the Abbey entry for this work is more informative even than usual, and is based on the extensive announcements Ackermann published in the Monthly Literary Advertiser, with a clear account of the mechanics of part issue. 116. Wakelin (Richard) History and politics. Containing the political recollections and leaves from the writings of a New Zealand journalist, 1851-1861-1862-1877. Wellington: Lyon and Blair ... 1877, printed in double-column, pp.[iv]+100, 8vo., contemp. half tan calf, rubbed, smooth backstrip unlettered, diagonal-grain glazed brown sides (faded and marked), gilt lettered on upper side, ex libris of W.H. de Luen, endpapers browned and foxed, sound (Hocken p.308) £70.00 The subject of a Hocken Library facsimile, this original edition is rare. Wakelin (1816-1881) was a journalist on the Wellington Independent , a leading newspaper of the 1850s. He later started the Wairarapa Standard which he ran until he gave up journalism. ‘History and Politics’ reflects his strong backing for Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand on two separate occasions. 117. Wallis (Edward) Brighton as it is, 1832. Exhibiting all the latest improvements in that fashionable watering place. (The Royal Edition, patronized by the Queen.) E. Wallis. [1832,] lithographed frontispiece and 3 plates, tissue guards, 2 maps (1 folding, with closed handling tear at gutter margin repaired on verso), pp.[iv]+79+[1], 12mo., orig. watered silk binding, small splits in joints, but firm, lacks (paper?) spine label, gilt lettered direct within cartouche on upper side, small circular ink stamp of Wright’s Library Brighton on upper pastedown, early owner’s signature on upper free endpaper, good £140.00
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Isaac Weld’s Copy 118. Weld (Isaac) Travels through the states of North America, and the provinces of upper and lower Canada, during the years 1795, 1796, and 1797 ... John Stockdale. 1799, FIRST EDITION, etched frontispiece, 2 maps (1 folding with outline hand colouring and short handling tear at gutter margin), 13 plates of views and plans (one trimmed close at fore-margin), tissue guards, errata leaf present, browned and foxed, pp.xxiv+[ii]+464, 4to., contemp. panelled calf, rebacked, with orig. backstrip laid down, with wavy gilt roll decorated double raised bands between narrow gilt foliate rolls, black leather label in second compartment, remainder with sunburst central ornament with smaller tools round; sides with gilt open twist outer roll and very narrow dot and scroll inner roll forming wide border, squares formed at corners stained black each with single small gilt flowerhead in centre, the longer panels between the corners marbled; within this border the centre panel is also stained black, and itself has a large oval marbled panel (defined by gilt leaf and blind rolls) in its centre, marbled endpapers possibly dating from the rebacking but using old paper, strengthened at hinge, bookplate of Isaac Weld, gilt silk marker, y.e., sound (Sabin 102541: Staton & Tremaine 708) £900.00 At a time of considerable uncertainty in Europe, Weld travelled to North America ‘for the purpose of examining with his own eyes into the truth of the various accounts which had been given of the flourishing and happy condition of the United States of America, and ascertaining whether, in case of future emergency, any part of those territories might be looked forward to as an eligible and agreeable place of abode’. He went, strongly disposed ‘in favour of the people and the country’, yet his response was one of disillusionment. He carried with him the English class system like a carapace and appears almost, it has been suggested, to have been threatened by the lack of outward distinction made between social classes, and offended by the lack of deference paid to him by those he clearly felt were his social inferiors. His opinion of Americans, as a result, became increasingly hostile. Weld had read and absorbed the opinions of the high priest of the picturesque movement, William Gilpin, and indeed invokes his name during the course of the book. He applied the aesthetic of the ‘picturesque’ to all he saw, and while he found much in Upper and Lower Canada to his taste, particularly the sublime spectacle of Niagara, the landscape of the United States he found wanting. He wrote that the Americans seemed ‘totally dead to the beauties of nature, and only admire a spot of ground as it appears to be more or less calculated to enrich the occupier by its produce.’ He classed Americans firmly among the vulgar who did not have the capacity for aesthetic pleasure. 119. Wheler (George) A Journey into Greece ... in Company of Dr. Spon of Lyons. In Six Books. Containing I. A Voyage from Venice to Constantinople. II. An Account of Constantinople and the Adjacent Places. III. A Voyage through the Lesser Asia. IV. A Voyage from Zant through the several Parts of Greece to Athens. V. An Account of Athens. VI. Several Journeys from Athens, into Attica, Corinth, Boetia, &c. With variety of Sculptures. Printed for William Cademan, Robert Kettlewell, and Awnsham Churchill ... 1682, FIRST EDITION, large folding map of Achaia, 7
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illustrations on 5 full-page plates (4 of coins), the first shaved at foot, 87 copperengravings of plans, natural history, etc., in the text, a little browning, to title and occasionally to text, dampstaining to some lower margins, and skillful small repairs to inner and occasionally outer, blank corners of the leaves, pp.[xiv]+483, folio, contemp. calf, rebacked preserving original spine, with later gilt lettering, neatly repaired at head and foot of spine and corners, sound (Wing W1607: Blackmer 178615:11:07 Cox I/p.212: Lowndes p.2888) £3,250.00 Sir George Wheler met his friend James Spon, physician of Lyons, in Venice in 1675. Together they travelled in Greece and the Levant in 1675-6. Spon published an account of this journey in Lyons in 1678 (Voyage d’Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grèce.). Wheler’s work was longer in preparation, so he was able to incorporate much of Spon’s narrative, adding his own observations, and a large number of engravings. Wheler was twenty-five when he undertook his journey to Greece. In fact it was an extension of his Grand Tour which he had started in company with a tutor after leaving Oxford. He had formed the intention to travel to the Levant, and this took him to Venice, where he and Spon joined the party of an ambassador who was going to Constantinople. Spon’s interest was in coins and antiquities and Wheler’s in botany. Between 180 and 200 plants are named in Wheler’s book, many of which he introduced to this country. A number of botanists, like Ray, Morison, and Plunket, who all had rare plants from Wheler, acknowledged their debt to him. The Journey was an immediate success, and is an important early description of Greece. It was the first antiquarian expedition to the area to keep careful records, and, unusually for travellers of this period, Wheler and Spon took particular notice of archaeological sites, devoting much space, for instance, to the ruins at Smyrna. Their seminal studies stimulated an interest in antiquities among the educated classes during the next century. All who had pretensions to cultivated taste knew and read Wheler.
Thomas Hesketh’s copy with his contemporary ownership signature on the title. Hesketh (1560-1613) was a notable botanist (explaining his ownership of the book), physician and correspondent of the herbalist Gerard. He cultivated a remarkable garden on the banks of the Calder and became the source of a great deal of the botanical information used in Gerard’s famous Herball (DNB) 120. [White (William) (?)] The Railway Traveller’s Walk through Cambridge ... a new edition with 75 illustrations. Cambridge: Printed by W. Metcalfe 1864, woodcut frontispiece, additional woodcut title-page (incorporating vignette), woodcuts in text, pp.[xvi] (ads.)+vi+124+[16] (ads.), small 8vo., orig. card wrappers, backstrip lightly browned, red blocked titles with blue woodcut illustration in central oval on a white ground surrouded by decorative scrollwork on upper wrapper, Cambridge map on lower wrapper, top edge a little dustsoiled, good £65.00
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Scarce. OCLC locates only one copy worldwide institutionally, of the preceding 1862 edition, and only 4 copies of this the ‘New Edition’ of 1864. Not held by any Cambridge University library. Not in Otley. William White was sub-Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is cited as the author of the later eighth edition of this work. 121. Wild (Charles) An illustration of the architecture and sculpture of the cathedral church of Worcester ... Printed by W. Nichol ... published by the Author ... 1823, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, 12 engraved plates on India paper, and mounted, occasional light foxing, pp.[vi]+30, folio, orig. grey boards, sometime rebacked with morocco-grain brown cloth, spine longitudinally gilt lettered direct, board edges rubbed, corners worn, orig.printed title label on upper sides, hinges strenthened, advertising flyer for book tipped to gutter margin of upper endpaper, sound £175.00 Part of a series of works on English cathedrals that included Canterbury, York, Chester, Lichfield, and Lincoln. Wild’s highly detailed engravings of architectural views are typical of the Gothic revival period. 122. Williams (George) The Holy City; or historical and topographical notices of Jerusalem; with some account of its antiquities and of its present condition. John W. Parker. 1845, FIRST EDITION, publisher’s advertisement, lithograph frontispiece (with tissue guard), woodcut vignette on title-page, ten lithographed plates, woodcut engravings in text, hand-tinted double-page plan of Jerusalem, large folding birdseye view of the city at rear, eight-page publisher’s catalogue, pp.xvi+512+8, 8vo., contemp. brown cloth by Westley’s & Clark (with their ticket on rear pastedown), corners and head of backstrip slightly rubbed, smooth backstrip with blind-stamped bands, second and fourth compartments gilt lettered direct; sides blind stamped with floral decoration at corners, upper side with gilt blocked shield at centre; chalked cream endpapers, edges rough trimmed, very good (Röhricht p.411) £120.00 Williams’ knowledge of the topography of Jerusalem was extensive, and in his lifetime, unsurpassed by any English writer. He brought out in 1845 a volume entitled The Holy City, with Illustrations from Sketches by the Rev. W. F. Witts. For this work he received from the king of Prussia a medal for literary merit. 123. [Wilson, Sarah (Atkins)] Fruits of Enterprize exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia; ... interspersed with the Observations of a Mother to her Children. By the author of “The India Cabinet.” Printed for Harris and Son. 1821, FIRST EDITION, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece (dated Nov.1st 1821) and 11 engravings (2 per page, with some offsetting to facing pages), woodcut vignette of the Head of Memnon on letterpress title-page with Latin quote, page block lightly foxed, pp.xii+250+[2] (adverts.), 8vo., contemp. gilt red roan spine (slightly sunned),
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gilt lettered direct in second compartment, others with gilt fleuron decoration and horizontal gilt rules, decorative vertical fillet at edge of roan on faded yellow pictorial front board (some wear at corner tips), publisher’s device on faintly rubbed lower board; inscribed on the front pastedown to a William Alfree in the month and year of publication “a very trifling present,” blue speckled edges, good (Moon 982; not in Osborne or Gummuchian) £130.00 Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson (1801-1863) produced a wealth of material for the Harris stable, and this study on the Italian explorer Giovanni Battista Belzoni is one of her earliest. It follows the form of a series of interractions between a mother and her children, and at times reads almost like a play. This scarce early copy has the complete set of hand-coloured engravings, with views of “Belzoni with two Arabs in a Mummy Cave”, “Belzoni viewing the Pyramid whilst his Companions enter it”, and numerous others by an accomplished engraver. The book went through nine editions under this publisher; later editions included “A Short Account of the Traveller’s death.” (Belzoni died in 1823). According to COPAC, only four U.K. libraries hold copies of this particular edition. 124. [Wilson (Lucy Sarah Atkins)] The juvenile rambler, or, Sketches and anecdotes of the people of various countries: with views of the principal cities of the world. John Harris, Printed by Samuel Bentley... 1838, FIRST EDITION, 20 woodcuts printed on heavier stock (including frontispiece), title-page with woodcut vignette, woodcuts in text, pp[4]+225+[17] (ads.), 8vo., orig. brown diaper grain cloth, smooth backstrip (lightly faded) lettered gilt, blindstamped ruling on sides (slight fading and small faint waterstain on front board), gilt titles within blindstamped foliate bordered panel on front board, contemp. ink name on front pastedown, red speckled edges, good (Moon 986: Osbourne I, 185) £75.00 Not traced in Bodleian. The text of this volume is a rearrangement of a version first published by Harris in c.1827. The engravings from the earlier book are used as text illustrations. COPAC locates only 2 copies of this edition in UK institutions. 125. Wood (Antony a) [et al.] Oxfordshire monumental inscriptions, from the mss. of Antony a Wood, Dr. Hutton, and Mr. Hinton. Evesham: [Middle Hill Press.] 1825, FIRST EDITION, [ONE OF 150 COPIES] , title-page in proof form as a singleton loosely inserted, pp.[ii]+[iv]+[3]-98, folio, orig. grey boards, joints cracked but firm, minimal loss of paper, slight wear to edges, good (Cordeaux and Merry ‘Oxfordshire’ 272: Holzenberg 216: Martin p.449: Horblit 216) £300.00 Scarce. Adderbury to Eynsham only. No more published. The title was printed later than the text and is customarily found loosely inserted, when, that is, it is found at all. The title-page is in fact something of a rarity. Horblit says ‘that the work is apparently found without the t.-p., and is referred to under the caption title in both Martin and in Lowndes.’ The text is preceded by two leaves of Oxfordshire pedigrees. 52
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126. Wordsworth (Christopher) Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical. with upwards of three hundred and fifty engravings on wood and twenty-eight on steel. Second edition ... William S. Orr, 1840, steel-engraved frontispiece, additional vignette title-page, 2 steel-engraved maps, and 24 plates, very numerous woodengravings on letterpress, occasional foxing (notably to additional title) and offsetting, contemporary ownership signature on title pp.xxvii+356, roy.8vo., contemp. red morocco, the sides with double gilt fillet enclosing blindstamped borders and an inner frame with voluté corners, spine panelled and ruled in gilt, black morocco label, a.e.g., sound £250.00 “We design to construct ... a view of the country itself, rather than to communicate an idea of the country from the contemplation of a map” (page 2) 127. Wyse (Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas K.C.B.) Impressions of Greece. With an Introduction by his niece, Miss Wyse, and letters from Greece to friends at home by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster. Hurst and Blackett. 1871, FIRST EDITION, pp.viii+332, 8vo., contemp. sand-grain maroon cloth, smooth backstrip gilt lettered direct, tail of backstrip rubbed, sides press stamped with black decorative border, dark blue chalked enpapers, edges lightly foxed, good (Blackmer 1848) £130.00 Miss Wyse, who lived with her uncle in Athens, includes an interesting discussion of the political situation in Greece in her introduction. The section on brigandage is of particular interest. 128. Young (Arthur) Travels, during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789. Undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the Kingdom of France. 2 vols. Bury St. Edmunds: J. Rackham ... 1792-94, FIRST EDITIONS , folding map frontispiece to vol.i (lightly foxed, old paper repair to handling tear on verso), 2 other folding maps (one hand coloured), occasional foxing in vol.ii, half-title in vol.ii (all called for), pp.viii+566+[4]; [iv]+336+[4], 4to., uniformly bound in contemp. sprinkled tan calf, vol.i rebacked to match, orig. title and vol. labels relaid, vol.ii joints cracked but holding (small piece missing from foot of upper joint), backstrips with raised bands, gilt lettered red leather title label in second compartments, small circular blue leather vol. label in fourth, bookplates of James Frampton, y.e., good (Fussell p.160: Goldsmiths’ 15095) £450.00 This edition not in Kress. It is very common for the first edition of volume one to be accompanied by the ‘second edition’ of volume two (as printed here). It is in fact the first edition, erroneously called the ‘second edition’, presumably because it was first published with the second edition of volume one. (Cf. British Library)
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