PRINTED BOOKS & MAPS HISTORICAl AUTOgRAPHS & DOCUMENTS SCIENCE & NATURAl HISTORy 5/6 OCTOBER 2011
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lot 917 Covers: lot 220
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PRINTED BOOKS & MAPS TRAVEL & BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY AUTOGRAPHS, DOCUMENTS & EPHEMERA HISTORICAL & LITERARY ASSOCIATION ITEMS
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CONTENTS DAY ONE Travel & Exploration Polar Exploration Canals & Shipping British Topography Natural History Maps Prints & Engravings Periodicals Historical Documents & Ephemera Literary & Historical Autographs Samuel Johnson Antiquarian Science & Cookery Art Reference & Bibliography Furniture General Cartons Quantity
1-63 64-78 79-87 88-133 134-153 154-226 227-328 329-336 337-410 411-433 434-440 441-539 540-563 564-586 587-592 593-624 625-662 663-699
DAY TWO Sporting & Wildlife Paintings Sporting & Botanical Prints Falconry Books & Pictures Fishing Books, Pictures & Tackle Fossils & Minerals Ceramic Egg Displays Display Cabinets Natural History, Sporting & Botanical Books Geology, Natural Philosophy, Science & Medicine
700-724 725-781 782-796 797-822 823-886 887-895 896-897 898-962 963-1101
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Euclid, Elementorum Libri XV, Pisa, 1572 Estimate £1000-1500
Folio Missal, Venice, 1598 In a Pugin designed crimson velvet binding of circa 1844, with gilt decorated dentelles and finely chased clasps. Estimate £1500-2000
Dutch Prayer Book, Antwerp, 1533 Estimate £2000-3000
FORTHCOMING SALES IN 2011 November 9th
Printed Books & Maps, Autographs & Ephemera A Private Collection of African Travel & Exploration
November 10th
Vintage & Contemporary Photography Early Printed Books & Theology from Ramsgate Abbey
November 16th
The Collectors Sale: Aviation, Motoring, Railways & Other Transport
November 17th
Medals, Uniforms & Weapons A Private Collection of Crystal Palace Memorabilia
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TRAVEL & EXPLORATION To commence at 11am
Lot 1
1 Abel (Clarke). Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of a Voyage to and from that Country in the Years 1816 and 1817, pub. Longman, 1818, eight hand-col. aquatint plts. (inc. frontis.) and ten uncol. aquatint plts., four eng. maps (inc. 3 folding), occasional wood eng. illusts. to text, errata slip present, occ. spotting & light offsetting, contemp. half calf gilt, gilt armorial crest to upper panel, joints cracked, 4to See Abbey Travel 537. (1)
£500-800
2 [Alexander, William]. Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians, printed by James Goodwin, n.d., c. 1829, sixty-four hand-col. plts. (complete), six plts. with some juvenile pencil marks, contemp. half morocco with orig. paper label to upper cover, some wear to extrems., 4to (1)
£300-500
3 Anacharsis. Recueil de Cartes Geographiques, Plans, Vues et Medailles de l’Ancienne Grece, relatifs au Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis, 2nd ed., Paris, 1789, thirty-one eng. maps and plans, etc., many double-page/folding, some hand-coloured in outline, correct as list, final plt. with short worm trail in upper blank margin, a few minor marks, contemp. armorial bookplate on front pastedown, sprinkled edges, contemp. sprinkled calf gilt, contrasting morocco spine labels, rubbed and sl. wear to extrems., with minor loss at spine ends and upper joint cracked, 4to (1)
£100-150
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Lot 6 4 Arrowsmith (Aaron). Nouvel Atlas Universel Portatif de Geographie Anciennes & Moderne...., 4th ed., Paris, 1826, title page dust soiled, stained and frayed, one b & w engraved plate of armilliary spheres and thirty-eight engraved maps with orig. outline col. (complete as list), some dust soiling and spotting throughout, disbound, 4to (1)
9 Blomfield (E.). A General View of the World, Geographical, Historical and Philosophical, 2 vols., 1st ed., Bungay, 1807, twentyone engraved maps, including three folding (World, West Indies & Russia), thirty-six engraved plates, eng. frontis. to first vol., lacks printed title, one folding table, occ. spotting and browning, some minor marginal stains and several leaves towards rear of first vol. affected by damp and ahering to each other, contemp. half calf, rubbed and some wear, with joints cracked, thick 4to
£100-150
5 Barthelemy (Jean Jacques). Travels of Ancharsis, [5th ed.], Atlas only, 5th ed., 1817, eng. port. frontis., thirty-eight eng. plts. and maps (some double-page or folding), a couple of maps hand-col. in outline, one map with handling tear, occ. minor spotting, contemp. half calf, upper joint cracked, bookplate to upper cover, rubbed and wear to extrems., 4to (1)
Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (2)
10 Blunt (Wilfrid & Stearn, William T.). Captain Cook’s Florilegium, A selection of the engravings from the drawings of plants collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook’s first voyage to the islands of the Pacific, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1973, title printed in red and black, thirty fine b&w eng. plts., list of subscribers, disbound, contents loose (original unbound proof sheets prior to binding), folio
£100-150
6 Beaufort (Francis). Karamania, Or a Brief Description of the South Coast of Asia Minor and of the Remains of Antiquity. with Plans, Views, &c. Collected During a Survey of that Coast, Under the Orders of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, in the Years 1811 & 1812, 1st ed., 1817, seven engraved maps and plates, one folding, illustrations, one map close-trimmed, some spotting, bookplate and presentation label to Mary Gough, contemporary half calf, upper joint splitting, rubbed, 8vo
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£100-150
12 Cook (Henry). Recollections of a Tour in the Ionian Islands, Greece, and Constantinople, pub. Thomas M’Lean, 1853, printed title, lithographed dedication leaf, thirty tinted lithographed plates, some scattered spotting, two plates (The Painted Portico or Stoa of Hadrian & The Temple of the Winds and Town of Athens) with some marginal soiling and fraying to lower edge, with one or two short closed tears, a few leaves loose, orig. yellow chalk-glazed endpapers, orig. cloth lettered in gilt to upper cover, rubbed and frayed to extrems., atlas folio (68.5 x 50.5cm, 27 x 20ins)
7 Black (Adam & Charles, publishers). Black’s General Atlas: A Series of Fifty-Four Maps, From the Latest and Most Authentic Sources, by Sydney Hall, pub. Edinburgh, 1841, fifty-four eng. maps (complete as list), hand-col. in outline, some occ. spotting, a.e.g., contemp. half calf, spine lacking with covers detached, wear to extrems., folio £100-150
Rare. Not in Abbey or Blackmer. Only two UK copies located (British Library and SOAS). The few copies that have appeared at auction have all been incomplete, except for the copy sold at Sotheby’s on 4th November 2010, which had been hand-coloured at a later date. A scarce account of a tour by Henry Cook (1819-c.1890), Chevalier of the Order of SS. Maurizio e Lazaro, undertaken with the Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, Sir Henry Ward (1797-1860). Cook studied painting at the Royal Academy and in Rome, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1840 to 1855, where he showed his picture entitled ‘Temple of Jupiter Olympus’, presumably the original of one of the two plates so titled in the present work. The work contains views of Corfu, Cephalonia, Corinth, Athens, The Parthenon, The Erectheum, Mycenae, Scutari, Constantinople and the Golden Horn, and elsewhere. (1) £15000-20000
8 Black (Adam & Charles, publishers). General Atlas of the World ..., new ed., Edinburgh, 1856, sixty eng. maps by Sidney Hall, William Hughes, and others (some hand col.), eight addn. eng. plts., some plts. stained to margins, upper hinge detached, contemp. half morocco gilt, worn, folio Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1)
£500-800
11 Bryant (William Cullen, editor). Picturesque America; Or, the Land we Live in. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil..., 2 vols., New York: Appleton & Co., c.1870’s, forty-nine steel eng. plts. (inc. addn. eng. titles), numerous wood engs., a.e.g., orig. publisher’s half morocco, gilt dec. spines, large 4to
“In 1810 Beaufort was appointed senior officer at Smyrna in command of the Frederickssteen; in August 1811 he began the survey of the south coast of Turkey, the first attempt at a description of this area...” (Blackmer 103). (1) £500-800
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£150-200
£100-150
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15 Dalzel (Archibald). The History of Dahomy, An Inland Kingdom of Africa; compiled from Authentic Memoirs, with an introduction and notes, 1st ed., printed for the editor, by T. Spilsbury... , 1793, lacking the folding engraved map, list of subscribers, six single-page engraved plates (one or two sl. trimmed to lower margin), some minor marks to margins and light spotting, water stain to foot of inner margins, early 19th c. half calf, somewhat worn with joints partly cracked, 4to (1)
£120-180
13 Craven (Elizabeth, Lady). A Journey Through the Crimea to Constantinople. In a Series of Letters... to His Serene Highness The Margrave of Brandebourg, Anspach, and Bareith. Written in the Year 1776, 1st ed., 1779, half title, folding engraved map, six engraved plates, occasional spotting, modern calf-backed boards, 4to Provenance: Bernard, Lord Coleridge, bookplate to front endpaper and ink inscription of J.T. Coleridge: “From the sale of the books of S.L. Knapp, Lower Master of Eton College. March 3rd, 1834”. J.T. Coleridge (1790-1876) was a judge and Privy Councillor and nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1) £200-300
16 Damer (The Hon. Mrs. G.L. Dawson). Diary of a Tour in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and the Holy Land, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1842, 13 lithographed plates, a few leaves lightly browned, a few spots, bookplates, a.e.g., near contemporary blue full calf by Westertons, spines with red labels and gilt decoration, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo Blackmer 445 (first edition). (2)
£300-500
17 Dapper (Olfert). Naukeurige Beschryving van gantsch Syrie, en Palestyn of Heilige Lant; behelsende de Gewesten van Fenicie, Celesyrie, Kommagene, Pierie, Cyrestika, Seleucis, Kassiotis, Chalibonitis, Chalcis ... beneffens de landen van Perea of OverJordaen, Galilea, buizonder Palestijn, Judea en Idumea ..., 1st ed., Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1677-78, two parts bound in one, with printed title to each, dated 1677, engraved frontis. to first part, dated 1678, first title printed in red and black, thirty-nine copper engraved plates, mostly double-page or folding, including eight maps, large folding view of Jerusalem, double-page views of Damascus, Tripoli, Aleppo, Jaffa, Jerusalem, and elsewhere, some occ. minor light browning, one or two plates loose, contemp. vellum, worn with backstrip deficient, thick folio Atabey 324. This edition not in Blackmer (the first German edition of 1681 is listed as item 449). (1) £2000-3000
18 Denham (Major Dixon, and Clapperton, Capt. Hugh). Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823 and 1824, 1st ed., 1826, engraved frontispiece, folding map and 36 engraved plates and plans, one hand-coloured, illustrations, one or two repairs, some spotting and offsetting, modern burgundy half calf, paper label to spine, 4to (1)
19 Doughty (Charles M.). Travels in Arabia Deserta, with an Introduction by T.E. Lawrence, 2 vols., new & definitive ed., 1936, b & w illusts., folding maps and plans etc., edges untrimmed, modern green half morocco, gilt dec. spines, 4to
14 [D’Avigdor, Elim H.]. Notes on the Caucasus, by Wanderer, 1883, inkstamp to title, p.1 and p.280, some spotting, orig. cloth gilt, classification no. to base of spine, slight rubbing, 8vo (1)
£150-200
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£200-300
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£100-150
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20 Earle (Augustus). Sketches Illustrative of the Native Inhabitants and Islands of New Zealand, from original Drawings, pub. Robert Martin & Co., 1838, ten tinted litho. plts. with tissue-guards to each, and single-page Description of the Plates at front, some light dust soiling to extreme margins (generally in very good condition), orig. cloth-backed buff wrappers, with printed title and vign. to upper wrapper, some dustsoiling to both wrappers and one or two short closed marginal tears to upper wrapper, oblong folio (37.5 x 56cm, 14.75 x 22ins) Abbey, Travel, 587. Rare. A good copy, in the publisher’s original wrappers, here without hand-colouring, of Earle’s Sketches of New Zealand, which were based on paintings and watercolours executed by the artist during his six month stay in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, from October 1827 to April 1828. Earle worked alongside Charles Darwin on the Beagle Voyage of 1831, but was forced by ill-health to go ashore at Montevideo, and his position was taken by Conrad Martens. (1) £6000-8000
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21 Forbes (Rosita). The Secret of The Sahara: Kufara, 1st ed., Cassell, 1921, b&w plts. after photos, some scattered spotting, orig. cloth, rubbed and some marks, together with El Raisuni, The Sultan of the Mountains, 1st ed., 1924, b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth, rubbed and some soiling, short closed tear to head of spine, plus From Red Sea to Blue Nile, Abyssinian Adventures, 1st ed., 1925, b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth, sl. rubbed, and other African travel and related, including Brigadier-General R. E. H. Dyer, The Raiders of the Sarhad, 1st ed., 1921, Richard Oakley, Treks & Palavers, [1938], Stella Court Treatt, Cape To Cairo, The Record of a Historic Motor Journey, 1st ed., 1927, A. M. Hassanein Bey, The Lost Oases, 1st ed., 1925 (author’s signed presentation copy), etc., all 8vo (11)
23 The Glasgow Geography, Containing a Physical, Political and Statistical View of the Various Empires, Kingdoms, States in the Known World... by Several Literary Gentlemen, 5 vols., Glasgow, 1822-25, additional engraved title to vol. I, 67 engraved maps and plates, some folding, occasional light soiling, waterstain at end of vol. V, contemporary calf, rebacked, 8vo (5)
24 Gordon (Patrick). Geography Anatomized: or, the Geographical Grammar..., 8th rev. and enlarged ed., 1719, half-title with imprimatur to verso, title printed in red and black, sixteen folding eng. maps by Robert Morden, lower outer corner to leaf P5 torn with sl. loss of text to verso, a little spotting and dust-soiling, contemp. panelled calf, sl. wear to extremities, 8vo
£100-150
22 Gall & Inglis (publishers). The Edinburgh Imperial Atlas, Ancient and Modern, Revised and Corrected to the Present Time, from the Best Authorities, n.d., c. 1850, forty-seven double-page hand-col. litho. maps (inc. five of the Americas), maps 22 & 23 (England & Scotland) torn with loss, several others torn and frayed, some dust soiling, disbound, tall folio, together with Chambers (William and Robert, publishers), Atlas of Modern and Ancient Geography. For Use in Schools, and for General Reference. Constructed from the Most Authentic Sources, 1859, thirty-three eng. maps (hand col. in outline), worm holes to first few maps, single worm hole running throughout remainder, orig. cloth gilt, spine lacking, some wear, 4to (2)
£150-200
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£200-300
25 Griffiths (Julius). Travels in Europe, Asia Minor, and Arabia, 1st ed., 1805, half title, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map, four engraved plates, some folds strengthened, some spotting and browning, presentation label to Mary Gough tipped-in, endpapers renewed, contemporary half calf, rebacked retaining original spine, lightly rubbed, 4to “Griffiths travelled disguised as a Greek in order to collect ‘accurate and unbiased’ information. He began his journey in 1785 and describes mainly Constantinople, Chios, Mitylene and the coast of Asia Minor. He includes much discussion of a political nature and is both anti-Turk and anti-French. Griffiths travelled with Jeremy Bentham from Genoa to Constantinople.” (Blackmer 755). (1) £300-400
£200-300
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26 Grimeston (Edward). A Generall Historie of the Netherlands: with the Genealogie and Memorable acts of the Earls of Holland, Zeeland, and West-Friseland, from Thierry of Aquitaine the first Earle, Successively unto Philip the Third King of Spaine: Continued unto this Present Yeare of our Lord 1608, out of the Best Authors that have Written of that subject..., 1st ed., London: printed by A. Islip & G. Eld, 1608, eng. title with contemp. ink inscription to upper margin ‘John Lamott Honeywood his Booke Garway Anno 1616’ (archival tissue lining to recto & lined to verso), numerous eng. portrait illustrations, few woodcut dec. initials, head & tailpieces, lacks first & last blanks, final leaf of table torn to lower outer corner (not affecting text), recent endpapers, contemp. calf with gilt arabesque to centre of each board, rebacked and corners repaired, lacks ties, folio STC 12374. Largely a translation of: Le Petit, Jean Francois. La grande chronique. In this edition Grimeston includes a translation of Le Petit’s preface from “La grande chronique” and mentions in the translator’s preface that the continuation of the history is derived from “Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis” by Emmanuel van Meteren. (1) £300-500
27 Grinnell (George Bird, ed.). American Big Game in its Haunts, The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club, 1st ed., New York, 1904, port. frontis., b & w plts., orig. cloth front cover bound-in at rear, modern burgundy full morocco gilt, 8vo (1)
£100-150
28 Hall (Sydney). Black’s General Atlas: A Series of Fifty-four Maps from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources, pub. Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1840, title page with slight finger soiling, fifty-four engraved maps and plans with original outline colouring (including nine double page), each with tissue guard, some dust and finger soiling throughout, one map (England and Wales) frayed and worn along central fold, contemp. manuscript owners signature and date to first end paper, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed and worn, folio (1)
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£150-200
29 Hedin (Sven). Through Asia, 2 vols., 1st English ed., 1898, port. frontis. to each, num. b&w plts. and illusts., two folding maps, some spotting, occ. lib. inkstamp (not affecting plts.), t.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, slight surface loss to spine of vol. 1, 8vo, together with Overland to India, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1910, col. frontis. to each, num. b&w plts., some spotting, occ. lib. inkstamp (not affecting plts.), orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo (4)
£150-200
30 Henderson (Ebenezer). Iceland; Or the Journal of a Residence in that Island, During the Years 1814 and 1815, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1818, half titles, folding map, 16 engraved plates, some spotting and browning, modern morocco-backed boards, 8vo (2)
£100-150
31 Kelly (R. Talbot). Egypt Painted and Described, pub. Adam & Charles Black, 1902, seventy-five col. plts., incl. frontis., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. decorated cloth gilt with bevelled edges, very slightly rubbed, 4to, limited deluxe ed. 434/500, signed by the artist, together with Tyndale (Walter), An Artist in Egypt, pub. Hodder & Stoughton, [1912], twenty-seven tipped-in colour plates, including frontis., t.e.g., orig. gilt dec. red cloth, lightly faded to spine, and a few marks, 4to, plus An Artist in Italy, pub. Hodder & Stoughton, [1913], & An Artist in The Riviera, pub. Hutchinson, [1914], colour plates to each, the second vol. t.e.g., both orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 4to (4)
£100-150
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34 Leake (William Martin). Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor, with Comparative Remarks on the Ancient and Modern Geography of that Country, 1st ed., 1824, folding engraved map, two single leaf engraved maps, engraved plate, illustrations, a few spots and light offsetting, presentation label to Mary Gough from the Council of the British Institute of Archaeology, Ankara, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed and faded, 8vo
32 Layard (Sir Henry). Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia. Including a Residence among the Bakhtiyari and Other Wild Tribes before the Discovery of Nineveh, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1887, chromo. frontispiece to vol. I, three folding maps, three b & w plates, front endpaper to vol. I repaired, one leaf with marginal tear, one or two spots, original patterned cloth, spine ends a trifle rubbed, 8vo Provenance: Henry H. Gibbs, ownership inscription and bookplates of Aldenham House, Herts. with a 2pp. signed autograph letter to Henry Gibbs from the author, dated August 1889, discussing a catalogue of his books. Henry Gibbs (1819-1907), 1st Baron Aldenham was a director of the Bank of England and renowned bibliophile, and Layard refers here in the letter to Gibbs’ own book catalogue. (2) £400-600
“His account is the first complete and systematic description of the geography of Asia Minor. All of his work is equally precise as regards geography, antiquities and philogy” (Blackmer 972). (1) £400-600
33 Le Blond (Mrs. Aubrey). Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight Sun, 1st ed., 1908, b&w plts. after photos, orig. dec. green cloth gilt, a little rubbed and a surface mark towards top margin of upper cover, 8vo, together with Jackson (A. V. Williams), From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam, Travels in Transcaucasia and Northern Persia for Historic and Literary Research, 1st ed., New York, 1911, colour frontis., b&w plts. after photos, some spotting and discolouration to frontis. and title, and occ. light spotting elsewhere, folding coloured map loose at front of vol., inner hinges cracked, orig. olive green cloth gilt, with mounted colour illusts. to upper cover, rubbed and one or two minor marks, hinges loosened, both 8vo (2)
£150-200
35 Lefroy (J.H.). Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1877-79, folding map, b & w plates, partly unopened, a few light spots, hinges a little tender, original green cloth gilt, tears at spine ends, small splits along joints, 8vo (2)
£400-600
36 Linton (William). Sketches in Italy, Drawn on Stone by W. Linton, as Facsimiles of His Sketches Made During His Tour in the Years 1828 and 1829, the Subjects Being Selected From Upwards of Five Hundred of the Most Striking and Picturesque Scenes in Various Parts of Piedmont; The Milanese; Venetian, and Roman States; Tuscany; and the Kingdom of Naples..., part IX only (of 12), 1832, twelve uncol. lithographs on india paper, some with marginal soiling, fraying and staining (four plts. badly affected with some tears and marks touching image area, one with loss), orig. printed wrappers, detached with some soiling and fraying, folio (1)
Lot 34
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£100-150
38 Mackenzie (Sir George Steuart). Travels in the Island of Iceland, During the Summer of the Year MDCCCX, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1811, half title, two engraved maps (one folding, close-trimmed and loose), 15 engraved plates of which 8 hand-coloured and mounted, illustrations, folding tables, occasional light spotting, 20th c. half calf, spine and edges slightly rubbed, 4to (1)
37 MacFarlane (Charles). Constantinople in 1828. A Residence of Sixteen Months in the Turkish Capital and Provinces: with an Account of the Present State of the Naval and Military Power, and of the Resources of the Ottoman Empire, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1829, hand-coloured aquatinted frontispiece to each, tinted double-page lithographed plate, uncoloured folding plate, some spots, bookplates of Sir William Geary (1810-1877, 3rd Baronet and Tory MP), front hinges of vol. I broken, contemporary blue full calf, spines with two red labels and gilt decoration, lightly rubbed, 8vo Abbey Travel 393. (2)
£200-300
39 Mackenzie (Sir George Steuart). Travels in the Island of Iceland, During the Summer of the Year MDCCCX, 2nd ed., 1812, 15 engraved plates, of which 8 hand-coloured, two maps, one folding, illustrations, folding tables, small marginal hole in one text leaf, perforated library stamps and numbers, contemporary half calf, lightly rubbed, 4to, together with Iceland: Its Volcanoes, Geysers and Glaciers, by Charles S. Forbes, 1st ed., 1860, folding map, b & w illustrations, one or two minor tears, a few spots, prize label, a.e.g., contemporary purple morocco gilt, spine faded, edges rubbed, 8vo, with two others: Samuel Kneeland’s An American in Iceland, 1875 and Journal of an Expedition to the Feroe and Westman Islands and Iceland 1833, by George Clayton Atkinson, 1989, limited edition, 83/875 signed by the editor
£300-500
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£150-200
40 Mediaeval Towns series, pub. J.M. Dent & Son, 54 vols., mixed eds. (inc. some 1st eds.), pub. J. M. Dent & Sons, 1899-1933, b&w plts., illusts. & plans, some vols. t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. uniform gilt dec. cloth, some vols. dulled to spines, two vols. in d.j.s, all 8vo Includes the scarce Lucca volume (1912) in worn dust jacket. (54)
£150-200
41 Miller (Linus W.). Notes of An Exile to Van Dieman’s Land, comprising incidents of the Canadian Rebellion in 1838, trial of the author in Canada ... and transportation to Van Dieman’s Land, also, an account of the horrible sufferings endured by 90 political prisoners, 1st ed., Fredonia, New York, 1846, heavy spotting and old damp staining throughout, old sheep with leather spine label, heavily rubbed and a little wear, 8vo Ferguson 4347; Sabin 49037. (1)
£400-600
42 Northleigh (John). Topographical Descriptions: with HistoricoPolitical, and Medico-Physical Observations: Made in Two Several Voyages Through Most Parts of Europe, 1st ed., 1702, engraved plate, title laid down on to old engraving with manuscript dedication of the Duke of Beaufort following, some other ink annotation, a.e.g., occasional soiling, contemporary calf gilt, lightly rubbed, 8vo (1)
£100-150
43 Olearius (Adam). Viaggi di Moscovia de gli anni 1633. 1634. 1635. e 1636. Libri tre Cavati dal Tedesco..., pub. Viterbo, Italy, 1658, professional paper repair to lower-right corner of title with some loss of imprint text, page 75-78 missing and supplied in facsimile on old paper, five engraved plates only (of seven), lacking the map of the Baltic and the plan of Moscow which are supplied in fasimile on old paper, contemp. vellum, a little fraying to spine, 4to An imperfect but well restored copy of the very scarce Italian edition of this important work. Sold with all faults. (1) £70-100
Lot 44 45 Ozanne (Nicolas Marie). Recueil de Combats et d’Expeditions Maritimes, contenant des vues perspectives et pittoresques de ces combats les plans particuliers des continens, isles et ports à la vue desquels ils ont eu lieu ..., Paris, Dequevauviller, 1797, thirty-nine fine copper engravings, mostly naval battle scenes and including thirteen engraved plans, plate thirteen with scuff mark to right hand margin, touching image, generally in clean condition, with wide margins, marbled endpapers, 19th century brown half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, large folio
44 Ongania (Ferd., editor). Raccolta Delle Vere da Pozzo in Venezia, 2 vols., Venice, 1889, 260 half-tone and b & w plates, mounted to recto and verso of numbered sheets, captioned in red to rectos, some light spotting and marginal soiling, loose as issued in original cloth folios, some tears and dampstains, folio Limited edition, 89/100. (2)
£400-600
(1)
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£1000-1500
46 Petermann (Augustus & Rev. Thomas Milner). The Library Atlas of Physical and Political Geography..., 1854, addn.eng. title, fifteen physical maps and fifty-one political maps (complete as list), spotting to title, contemp. half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, folio (1)
£150-200
50 Slade (Adolphus). Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece &c. And of a Cruize in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830 and 1831, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1832, hand-coloured aquatinted frontispiece to each, folding engraved map (trimmed affecting imprint), lithographed plate, lacking facsimile of Greek Patriarch’s letter, light spotting, bookplates, contemporary half calf, joints splitting, some wear to spines, 8vo Abbey Travel 378. (2)
£150-200
51 Smith (A. Donaldson). Through Unknown African Countries. The First Expedition from Somaliland to Lake Rudolf, 1st ed., 1897, halftitle present, photogravure port. frontis., numerous b & w illusts. from photos and drawings, six folding maps at rear, minor marginal damp stains to fore-edges, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and a little soiled, 8vo (1)
£150-200
47 Roosevelt (Theodore and Heller, Edmund). Life-Histories of African Game Animals, 2 vols., 1st ed., New York, 1914, photogravure frontis. to each, b & w plts. from photos. and drawings, forty b & w maps, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, modern morocco with gilt dec. spines and gilt signature applied to upper boards, large 8vo (2)
£200-300
48 S.D.U.K. The Family Atlas of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, pub. Chapman & Hall, 2 vols. (only), c.1845, lacking title pages and index, approx. 145 engraved maps with original outline colouring (including North America and Australasia), two maps with closed tears, several maps detached with frayed margins, some spotting, contemp. half sheep, boards detached, lacking one board and spines, rubbed worn and frayed, folio Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (2)
£200-300
52 Stanfield (Clarkson). Sketches on the Moselle, The Rhine & The Meuse, 1st ed., pub. Hodgson & Graves, 1838, tinted litho. title, dedication leaf, with list of subjects to verso, and twenty-nine tinted litho. views on twenty-five plates (complete as list), pubs. advert leaf at end, occ. light scattered spotting, orig. morocco-backed moré cloth gilt, rubbed and scuffed to joints, some marks, with slight fading to board edges, large folio
49 Scott (Captain R.F.). Scott’s Last Expedition, 2 vols., 4th ed., 1914, port. frontis to each vol., num. col. and b & w plts., folding maps, occ. spotting, front free endpapers with presentation inscriptions to & from Dr. Mary E. Phillips dated 1914 & 1955, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, upper board of vol. 1 marked and worn, spines & extrems. rubbed, 8vo The inscription to each volume reads “Presented to Dr. Mary E. Phillips with all good wishes by her colleagues on her resignation from the Honorary Medical staff of the Leeds Maternity Hospital..., April, 1914’ and ‘Given by me to Alan Powell on Nov 14th 1955 on Dr. Fuchs’ departure for the Antarctic, Mary Epynt Phillips’. Dr. Mary Elizabeth Epynt Phillips of Brecon (born c.1875), was one of the first women to be awarded Doctor of Medicine in the United Kingdom and served Anglo-Serbian Hospital in the Berry Mission during the First World War. (2) £100-150
Abbey, Travel, 32. (1)
£400-600
53 Stigand (Captain C.H.). The Game of British East Africa, 1st ed., 1909, b & w illustrations, adverts. at end (with marginal waterstain), some spotting, original green ‘crocodile-skin’ effect cloth, rebacked retaining original spine, lightly rubbed, 4to (1)
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£100-150
54 Storrs (Ronald). Orientations, 1st ed., 1937, b&w port. frontis., fourteen b&w plts., and four maps (including two printed on endpapers), boldly signed by the author in ink to front blank, and dated 21 X 37, orig. dark blue cloth gilt, very sl. rubbed, 8vo (1)
£100-150
55 Stuart (Lt.-Col.). Journal of a Residence in Northern Persia and the Adjacent Provinces of Turkey, 1st ed., 1854, a few spots and light dampstains, pencil signature of Chisholme to title, bookplate of Chisholme of Stirches (Scottish Borders family), previous owner signature to front endpaper, original cloth, splits at head of joints, some fading and dampstains, 8vo (1)
£700-1000
56 Sykes (Lieut. Col. P.M.). A History of Persia, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1915, five folding maps in text, two folding maps backed onto later linen contained in rear pockets, illustrations, some light toning and spotting, previous owner signature, t.e.g., original cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo (2)
£200-300
Lot 54
57 Symes (Thomas). An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, Sent by the Governor-General of India, in the Year 1795, 1st ed., 1800, two folding engraved maps (one with short tear and repair), 26 copper-engraved plates, some waterstains and spotting, presentation inscription to front endpaper, modern half calf over old marbled boards, a little rubbed, 4to Inscribed to half title: “From the author to Ed Paul Pilcher. 12 Narch 1805”. The 1797 List of Officers records an Edward Paul Pilcher as a Captain in the Fremington and Westdown volunteers. (1) £400-600
Lot 55
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58 Symington (Andrew James). Pen and Pencil Sketches of Faroe and Iceland, 1st ed., 1862, wood-engraved illustrations, single leaf advert. at end, original green cloth, joints slightly rubbed, 8vo Inscribed to fep: “with A.J. Symington’s compliments”. (1)
£100-150
59 Thomson (Sir C. Wyville). The Voyage of the ‘Challenger.’ The Atlantic, A Preliminary Account of the General Results of the Exploring Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ During the Year 1873 and the Early Part of the Year 1876, 2 vols., 1st ed., Macmillan, 1877, halftitles with early ms. ownership name, contemp. ms. name at head of titles, eng. port. frontis., numerous plts., incl. folding maps and tables, wood-engs. to text, hinges split, and vol. 2 with rear free endpaper detached, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. gilt dec. green cloth, extrems. rubbed, vol. 2 with small nick in upper joint, 8vo (2)
£70-100
60 Whymper (Edward). Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 2 vols. including Supplement (1891), 2nd ed., 1892, maps and plates, folding map contained in vol. I rear pocket, dampstain to vol. I, tear to rear endpaper, a few spots, original green cloth gilt, spines a little rubbed and faded, 8vo Presentation copy, inscribed on tipped-in Allan Line Royal Mail Steamer notepaper and dated June 1901: “To John Ennis Esq., with the compliments of the author, Edward Whymper”. (2) £200-300
61 Willyams (Rev. Cooper). A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty’s Ship the Swiftsure, one of the Squadron under the Command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson... with a Description of the Battle of the Nile on the first of August 1798, pub. 1802, engraved dedication, folding uncol. aquatint map, forty-one aquatint plates (complete), some dampstaining and offsetting, contemp. calf gilt, upper board detached and lower joint cracked, spine cracked with slight loss of leather, extrems. worn, 4to Abbey Travel 196. Willyams served as chaplain aboard The Swiftsure during the Battle of the Nile, and provides an eyewitness account of the battle. (1) £300-500
Lot 58
62 Wolff (Joseph). Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843-1845, to Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, 4th ed., 1846, portrait frontispiece, a few light spots, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo Presentation copy, inscribed to half title: “John Browne Esq from his humble servant Joseph Wolff”, with other inscriptions beneath in Arabic, Hebrew and English. (1) £100-150
63 Wyndham (Richard). The Gentle Savage, A Sudenese Journey in the Provence of Bahr-el-Ghazal, commonly called ‘The Bog’, 1st ed., 1936, col. frontis., b&w illusts. after photos, orig. cloth gilt in bright condition with d.j. and glassine overwrapper, sl. frayed to extreme edge (generally VG), together with Bodley (Ronald and Hearst, Lorna), Gertrude Bell, 1st US ed., New York, 1940, orig. cloth in rubbed and sl. chipped d.j., author’s presentation copy, inscribed to dedication leaf ‘To Anne Sligh, in memory of a most pleasant meeting, during trying times ... Ronny Bodley May 1941’, plus Danvers (F. C.), The Portuguese in India, being a History of the Rise and Decline of The Eastern Empire, 2 vols., Frank Cass reprint, 1936, b&w plts. including some folding, orig. blue cloth in glassine d.j.s, and Roberts of Kandahar (Field Marshal Earl), Forty-One Years in India, 1905, b&w plts. and maps, including some folding, a.e.g., contemp. school prize binding in full plum morocco, plus others on the Middle East, all 20th c. pubs., including H. A. R. Gibbs & J. H. Kramers, Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1953, Sir Arnold Wilson, The Suez Canal, 2nd ed., 1939, A. Rawlinson, Adventures in the Near East 1918-1922, 3rd ed., 1924, Alastair Hamilton, Europe and the Arab World, pub. Arcadian Group, 1994, Horace St. John, The Indian Archiapeligo: Its History and Present State, 2 vols., 1853 (rebound), R. L. Kennion, Diversions of an Indian Political, 1st ed., 1932, etc., mostly 8vo Lot 61
(approx. 60)
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£150-200
POLAR EXPLORATION 65* Dumont d’Urville (Jules Sebastien Cesar). Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie, Paris, c. 1850, a group of four uncol. litho. plts. only from the Atlas Pittoresque, plt. nos. 27, 28, 178 and 179, images each approx. 28 x 45cm, a little browning or spotting and one closed marginal split The plates are of Elephant Island; discovery of the Louis Philippe land (overall toning); the Basattique Isle in the Bay of Sarah’s Bosom (Auckland Islands, New Zealand); and a grotto on Enderby Island. (4) £300-400
64* Byrd (Rear-Admiral Richard E.). with Byrd at the South Pole, a Narrative of Polar Flight By Floyd Gibbons, released 13th April 1931, promotional double-sided poster printed in monotone brown and white, a little creasing and a few marks to ‘outer covers’, folded as issued, 63 x 51cm, together with two other similar promotional posters for the same film, both damp damaged, plus a small quantity of mostly modern polar ephemera (a folder)
£100-150
66* Evans (Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell, 1881-1957). Typed letter signed ‘Edward R.G.R. Evans’, HMS Viking, 11th March 1915, to Gerald Christie [lecture agent], ‘Yes, I know Samson, and will certainly do all in my power to help fix him for a lecture tour after the war. As to myself I will lecture if you wish after the war too, do you mean on the war on the BAE? The little novel is going ahead like smoke, Percy Lewis has seen more than half and he says: “Now for the book, I have read it over carefully and with sheer delight. It exudes Teddy Evans throughout, think out the finish carefully, and keep it as it is, as you said, quite healthy, but it will require balancing and smoothing out in revision”.You ought also to decide early whether you will publish it under your own name or not. For example your detailed description of Polar work betrays originality, in fact first hand knowledge, etc., etc., - “It is all thoroughly good” ...’, with a couple of manuscript corrections and a brief postscript, pinholes upper left, minor marks, one page, 4to, together with a vintage gelatin silver print head and shoulders photo of Evans in naval uniform, signed and dated 1939 in lower dark part of image, 13.5 x 8.5cm
Lot 65
Evans served as second officer of the Morning, the relief vessel of Scott’s first Antarctic Expedition in 1901-1904. Scott offered Evans a position for his second Expedition of 1910-1913, and he assumed the command after the death of Captain Scott. (2) £200-300
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67* Mustard Tin. A Barringer & Company of Mansfield mustard tin, commemorating the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Sir George Strong Nares, with chromolithograph illustration to lid and sides, some wear to extrems., 85 x 120 x 40mm (width x length x height) (1)
£100-150
68 National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904. Farewell dinner to the Captains and Officers of “Discovery” and “Morning”, Coker’s Hotel, Christchurch, New Zealand, 3rd June 1904, folded printed menu card, decorative border to upper board, menu details to centrefold and thirty-five pencil autographs to lower board, including R. F. Scott, Edward A. Wilson, G. S. Doorly, Charles Royds, Reginald Skelton, L. C. Bernacchi, Reginald Koetlittz, A. Carrick, J.V. Hodgson, G.A. Davidson, Arthur Appleby, Isaac Gibbs, Albert Armitage, et al, a little soiling, 152 x 101mm The Discovery Expedition was now firmly at an end. Shackleton was already back in England and Scott was to return to find massive public interest and promotion. Wilson records the occasion of this big farewell dinner in his Diary, noting that everyone had to speak. Sadly, Coker's Hotel, which opened in 1879, is currently awaiting demolition following the damage caused by the great earthquake of 4 September 2010 and ensuing aftershocks. (1) £2000-3000
Lot 67
Lot 68
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70* Ross (James Clark, 1800-62). Autograph letter signed from Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier to Captain Ross, n.p., n.d., probably early 1840s, ‘My dear Ross, I am glad to find our Pilot agrees with yours he had been telling me he thought it would be better to hold on til after Mid: but if you wished to go there were plenty of places to bring up - the measured distance from Paint to water edge 109.8 inches’, a manuscript subtraction (taking away 4.8 inches to give approx. 105 feet) written lower left [in James Clarke Ross’s holograph], a little soiling, 1 p. 8vo, together with an autograph letter signed from Ross’s son James C. Ross, Wadworth Hall, Donacster, 8th October 1889, to Mrs. Howell, ‘I have succeeded in routing out two autograph letters of my father’s - one of 1840 addressed to General Sabine - & one to myself in 1858 - also one to him from Captain Crozier (Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier) who commanded the “Terror” with him as senior in “the Erebus” - in the Antarctic Seas. Franklin (Sir John) was lost in the “Erebus” & with him Crozier in the “Terror” - in the Arctic regions ...’, with a postscript ‘The subtraction on Crozier’s note is in my father’s writing’, 2 pp. on the first and third page of a bifolium, 8vo Crozier (1796-1848?) first joined James Clarke Ross as second-in-command of Cove in 1835 to help search for twelve British whale ships lost in the Arctic. As the letter refers to two ships it seems more likely that this letter refers to the Ross Expedition (1839-43) when Crozier again joined Ross to explore the Antarctic Continent in the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. In 1845 Crozier joined Sir John Franklin on the Northwest Passage Expedition as Captain of HMS Terror once more. After Franklin’s death in June 1847, he took command of the Expedition, and his fate and that of the other Expedition members remained a mystery until McClintock’s Expedition of 1859. (1) £200-300
69* Polar prints. A group of eleven prints of polar interest, late 19th and early 20th c., including a Baxter print (no. 342) for the Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1850, somewhat faded, 155 x 205mm, framed and glazed, plus a Vanity Fair Spy print of Captain Scott, four col. plts. of the Antarctic, 1900, Punch cartoons, etc. (11)
£100-150
Lot 70
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71* Scott (Captain Robert Falcon, 1868-1912). Autograph of Captain Scott contained in a visitor’s book for ‘Notable Guests at the Works and West Lea’, a total of eighty-two autographs on seven leaves with the year date aligned left, beginning with J. Ruskin (1878), Prince Albert Victor (1885), Arthur James Balfour (1892), The Duke and Duchess of York, the future King George V and Queen Mary (11th May 1895), Captain Scott, signed ‘Rob. F. Scott, “Discovery”‘ (1904), A. Bonar Law (1908), Charles Beresford (1910), plus various other British and overseas dignitaries and nobility, a few autographs all signed neatly in black pen on unlined paper to both sides of each leaf, unlined paper, the whole tipped into a contemp. blank visitors book, contemp. morocco, worn, oblong small folio The visitors’ book relates to the Sheffield Plate Works of Sir John Edward Bingham (1839-1915). (1) £250-300
72* Scott (Captain Robert Falcon, 1868-1912). “Discovery” Antarctic Exhibition, from Bruton Galleries, 13 Bruton Street, Bond Street, [London], 1904, 76 pp., b&w illusts. and ads., first leaf a little dust soiled, orig. staples, somewhat rusted, orig. pict. blue wrappers, printed in blue, silver and black, partly rubbed and faded, a few marginal nicks and minor corner wear, tall slim 8vo
Lot 71
The catalogue illustrates the achievements of the Expedition, the officers and crew with brief biographical details, and gives details of over 500 items on display in exhibition. Very rare. (1) £500-700
73* Scott (Robert Falcon, 1868-1912). Three-quarter length portrait in the full dress uniform of a naval captain, [1912], photogravure by Maull & Fox, printed facsimile signature and title captions beneath, image 33 x 24cm, mount sl. damp spotted and toned, framed and glazed (1)
£100-150
74* Shackleton’s Last Antarctic Expedition. Southwood in the “Quest”, Kinemette, c. 1922, comprising a cardboard viewer and eleven (of 12) mounted 35mm film clips, in maker’s box with orig. printed labels, soiling and some wear, together with six late 19th c. hand-col. Arctic lantern slides Lot 72
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£100-150
76* Shackleton (Ernest Henry, 1874-1922). Autograph letter signed ‘Ernest Shackleton’, British Antarctic Expedition 1907, 9 Regent Street, London, SW, 30th August 1910, to Lord Balfour of Burleigh, ‘Very many thanks for all the trouble you have taken in [?] and writing about my lecture. I am indeed sorry that you cannot take the chair. Thank you for your kind invitation but my wife will not be with me and I think I ought to stay at at hotel in order to be in touch with the arrangements’, 2 pp. on letterhead with integral blank, minor old album adhesion marks and soiling, 8vo (1)
£400-600
75* Shackleton’s Last Antarctic Expedition. Southward in the “Quest”, Kinemette, c. 1922, comprising a cardboard viewer and twelve mounted 35mm film clips, in maker’s box with printed paper labels to lid, rubbed and sl. edge wear Some of the photographs in the series were tinted and additional scenes were available at 6 pence per packet of twelve. The photographs in these two lots are not identical. This set includes three photographs showing Shackleton with Frank Wild and sponsor John Quiller-Rowett, plus the Quest, etc. (1) £150-200
77* Shackleton (Ernest H.). The Imperial Trans-Arctic Expedition, [Prospectus, 1914], tipped in map and diag. of the ‘Endurance’, printed in red and black, pp. 21-30 (Tributes from the Press) missing and supplied in loose photocopies, contents loose in orig. wrappers lacking printed paper label to upper cover, signed by S.A. Shackleton, a little creased and soiled, slim 4to, together with three Frank Hurley vintage press photos of the marooned ship and crew (negative nos. 21205, 212291 and 212297), wetstamps and printed captions to versos (two being modern photocopies), sellotape repair to verso of lower right corner of third photo without loss of image, each approx. 18 x 22cm or the reverse, plus two later related books (The Polar Regions by J.M. Scott/Shackleton’s Boat Journey by F.A. Worsley, paperback) and a copy of the typed second draft of Colin Wellan’s play titled ‘Shackleton’, December 1989, orig. limp plastic binder of Enigma Productions Ltd., minor marks, folio (7)
£200-300
78* SS Discovery. Endorsed photograph of the painting by Gerald M. Burn, 1902, showing the “Discovery” leaving Cowes, with signed presentation inscription from Sir Clements Markham to W.H. Boar ‘In recognition of his valuable services to the Antarctic Expedition’, dated May 1902 and inscribed above and beneath image, old mount (sl. chipped at upper outer corner), image 23 x 39cm (1)
Lot 76
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£100-150
CANALS & SHIPPING 81 Kemp (Dixon). Yacht Designing: A Treatise on the Practical Application of the Scientific Principles upon which is Based the Art of Designing Yachts, 1st ed., 1876, 39 folding diagramatic plates, adverts. at end, some frayed foredges and light spotting, a few tears, bookplate of William Herbert Pike, original blue cloth gilt, rebacked retaining original spine, lightly rubbed with stains, 4to, with a 4pp. letter from Camper & Nicholson, (Gosport shipbuilders), to William Pike of the Allan Line, Liverpool, dated July 1887, quoting him a price of 750 to build a high class sea-going equiped vessel, plus an inventory of the ship “Adventuress”, for sale at £2300, rejected by Pike as unsuitable in the above letter (3)
£200-300
82 Kemp (Dixon). Dixon Kemp’s Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing, 10th ed., ed. Brooke Heckstall-Smith, 1904, numerous plates and illustrations, some frayed foredges and loose leaves, hinges breaking, original cloth, upper joint splitting, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with plate vol. only of the 8th ed. (worn binding) 79 Canals. London and Cambridge Junction Canal. Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before a Committee of the House of Commons, 1812, folding hand-coloured map, a few spots, contemporary sprinkled calf, small number labels to spine, a little rubbed and chipped, 8vo, together with Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Practicability of a Ship-Canal Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by the Way of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, by Robert W. Shufeldt, Washington, 1872, 11 lithographed plates, some tinted, 20 folding maps, some repairs and tears, one or two leaves loose, library blindstamps, original cloth, rebacked, some fading, 4to, with four others including Fourth International Congress on Inland Navigation to be Held in Manchester on July 28th, 1890 and David Tew’s The Oakham Canal, 1968 (6)
Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return. (2)
£100-150
£150-200
80 Floquet (Jean Andre). Canal de Provence, ou Canal D’Aix et Marseille, Paris, 1750, half title, folding engraved map, one or two spots, contemporary mottled calf, jopints cracking, edges rubbed, 8vo, together with Traite des Rivieres et des Torrens, par le R.P. Frisi, Paris, 1774, two folding maps and plans, folding table, light waterstain, library stamp to title, contemporary mottled calf, a little rubbed and repaired, 4to, with others related including Claude Deschamps Recherches et Considerations sur les Canaux et les Rivieres en General, 1834 and Carte D’Etude pour le Trace et le Profil du Canal de Nicaragua, par M. Thome de Gamond, 1858 (7)
£200-300
83 Lesseps (Ferdinand de, engineer). Percement de L’Isthme de Suez. Expose et Documents Officiels, 1st ed., Paris, 1855, two folding maps at end, with the “Edinburgh Review” and the Suez canal by Memnon, Reprinted from the Times, 1876 bound-in at end, some spotting, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 8vo De Lesseps here sets out his proposal and method for constructing the canal and after securing the support of Napoleon III and raising two hundred million francs, the canal was completed in 1869. PMM 339. (1) £200-300
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84 Marine Society. The Bye-Laws and Regulations of the Marine Society, Incorporated in MDCCLXXII. with the Several Instructions, Forms of Indentures, and Other Instruments Used by it, 4th ed., 1792, half title, engraved frontispiece (offset on to title), light waterstain, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with A Practical Treatise on Naval Book-Keeping, in all its Branches, Connected with a Clerk’s Duty; To Which is Added, Hints for the Safe Custody, Shipment, Transhipment and Final Disposal of Treasure Received on Board His Majesty’s Ships..., by Edward Lawes, 1827, top section of title excised, blank endpapers at end, some spotting, previous owners signatures, contemporary half calf, lightly rubbed, 8vo (2)
BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY
£150-200
85 Railway & Canal Act. The Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888..., Hearing of Objections to Revised Classifications of Merchandise Traffic and Schedules of Maximum Rates and Charges Proposed by the Various Railway Companies, Minutes of Proceedings before Lord Balfour of Burleigh and Courtenay Boyle, pub. HMSO, 1890, pp.2351-3310, some browning, modern cloth with leather labels to spines, folio (1)
88 Ackermann (R., publisher). The History of Christ’s Hospital [1816], five aquatint plts. by Stadler and Havell (complete), all with bright original hand colouring, very slight spotting and offsetting throughout, contemp. qtr, calf gilt, rubbed and frayed at extrems. and spine, slim 4to
£80-120
86 Rankine (W.J. Macquorn). Shipbuilding. Theoretical and Practical, 1866, 44 engraved plates only (of 45, lacking E1), most folding, a few minor tears and spots, Institute of Naval Architects bookplate, contemporary red half morocco, a little rubbed and scuffed, 4to, with another copy lacking plates (2)
Abbey Scenery 438. (1)
£200-300
89 Barclay (Rev. James). A Complete and Universal Dictionary of the English Language, New edition, n.d., c, 1848, portrait frontis, addn. dec. half title, twenty-one engraved world maps with original outline colouring, twelve uncoloured portraits and historical engravings and forty-eight b & w dec. eng. British county maps by Thomas Moule, occ. spotting throughout, contemp. gilt marbled calf with dec. gilt spine, boards detached and spine near detached, rubbed and worn at extrems. 4to
£150-200
Unusually the Moule maps have good margins and are not trimmed. (1) £300-400
87 Williams (Charles Wye). Observations on the Inland Navigation of Ireland and the Want of Employment for its Population, with a Description of the River Shannon, 2nd ed., 1833, folding map at end, one or two spots, original moire cloth, a little rubbed and stained, 8vo, together with First Report from the Committee on Inland Navigation, in Ireland, 11 May 1813, four folding engraved maps, a few spots, modern cloth, folio, plus Report From the Committee on Petition of Royal Canal Company, 14 June 1811 (bound with other Royal Canal Company reports) (3)
90 Beeverell (James). Les Delices de la Grand Bretagne & de L’Irlande, vols. 1, 2 & 6 (only), pub. Pierre Van Der Aa, 1707, addn. dec. folding half title, title pages printed in red & black, seventy b & w engraved folding topographical views, one torn with loss and four uncoloured engraved folding maps, occ. toning, contemp. calf with contrasting morocco gilt labels to spine, 12mo
£400-600
Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (3)
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Lot 91 91 Borlase (William). Observations on the Ancient and Present State 96 Dugdale (Sir William). The History of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, in of the Islands of Scilly, and their Importance to the Trade of GreatLondon, from its Foundation..., with a Continuation and Additions, Britain. In a Letter to the Reverend Charles Lyttelton, LL.D. Dean of including the Republication of Sir William Dugdale’s Life from his Exeter, and F.R.S., 1st ed., Oxford, 1756, four folding engraved plates, own Manuscript; by Henry Eliis, 1818, half-title, eng. portrait frontis. engraved illustration, short tear along one fold, a few light spots, library (after Wenceslaus Hollar), sixty-six eng. plts. (including nine folding), stamp to title, contemporary boards, joints and edges rubbed, 4to slight thinning of paper to small area of title (possibly where ink (1) £200-300 stamp removed?), occ. spotting and offsetting, endpapers renewed, a.e.g., modern qtr. sheep gilt, folio 92 Bradney (Joseph Alfred). A History of Monmouthshire. From (1) £100-150 the Coming of the Normans into Wales Down to the Present Time, 4 vols. in 12, 1904-33, numerous maps and illustrations, a few spots, 97 Fenton (Richard). A Historical Tour Through Pembrokeshire, original cloth-backed printed boards, folio 1811, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title, folding map, 30 engraved plates, one or two repaired tears, some spotting and (12) £300-400 offsetting, 20th c. calf gilt, some fading, 4to 93 Clark (J.H.). Hand Book to Monmouthshire & South Wales; or a (1) £150-200 Descriptive and Historical Tour from Gloucester to Milford, pub. London & Halifax, [1861], eng. vignette frontis., six eng. plts., pubs. ads. at rear, 98 [Gough, Richard]. British Topography. Or, an Historical Account occ. minor spotting, orig. printed boards, rebacked, small 8vo, together of what has been done for Illustrating the Topographical Antiquities with A Description of Caerphilly Castle Coch, Crumlin Viaduct, and of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 vols., 1780, eng. vignette to titles (with Viaduct at Hengoed Junction, pub. Usk, c.1860s, eng. frontis. & two few repaired closed-tears & ink library stamps, armorial bookplate plts., orig. slightly worn printed wrappers, small 8vo, with Hillman of Jeremiah Milles to verso of each), nine eng. folding maps & plans (Alfred), Hillman’s Illustrated Historical Handbook for Tourists to (one with ink library stamp to recto), final leaf of vol. 1 lined to verso Chepstow, Windcliff, Tintern Abbey..., and other Places of Interest on & with ink stamp to verso, ink stamp to rear endpaper of vol. 2, and about the Wye, pub. Chepstow, c.1780s, eng. frontis., three eng. modern half morocco, gilt dec. spines with contrasting morocco title plts., ads. at front and rear, orig. printed wrappers, ownership signature labels, gilt library numbers to upper board of each, 4to to upper wrapper, spine worn, small 8vo, plus six others similar (2) £100-150 (6)
£100-150
94 Clark (J.H.). Guide to Monmouthshire and South Wales. No. 1. Trip from Gloucester to Milford..., pub. Usk, c.1860s, eng. frontis., five eng. plts., orig. printed wrappers, worn at head & foot of spine, small 8vo, together with Peacock (W.F.), Coles’s Tourist’s Guide Book. What I Saw in the Golden Valley; being a Trip to Monmouthshire, through the Counties of Salop and Hereford..., also “The Tour of the Wye”, 5th ed., pub. Manchester, c.1870s, orig. printed wrappers, slightly rubbed to extrems., small 8vo, with Hillman (A., Publisher), Hillman’s Illustrated Historical Handbook for Tourists to Chepstow, Windcliff, Tintern Abbey, Monmouth, Raglan..., new ed., Chepstow, c.1880s, wood eng. frontis. and illusts., double-page map, orig. printed wrappers, small 8vo, plus one other similar
99 Heath (Charles). Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Ragland Castle..., to which are added... Brief Notices of Wonastow, Tree-Owen, Dingatstow, and other Objects in the Road to Ragland, pub. Monmouth, [1797], slightly torn & frayed orig. wrappers bound-in, edges untrimmed, orig. 20th c. cloth gilt, spine faded and frayed at head & foot, slim 8vo, together with Descriptive Accounts of Persfield and Chepstow, including Caerwent, and the Passages; also, the Road to Bristol and Gloucester..., 1st ed., pub. Monmouth, 1793, slight dust-soiling, edges untrimmed, orig. wrappers bound-in (repaired & lined to verso), 20th c. half morocco gilt, 8vo, (Upcott p.941.), with Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Tintern Abbey, with a Variety of Other Particulars..., 10th ed., Monmouth, [1823], 19th c. half calf, extrems. slightly rubbed, 8vo
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95 Dublin. Dublin Delineated in Twenty-Six Views of the Principal Public Buildings, Accompanied by Concise Descriptions of Each; with an Itinerary, Pointing out the Leading Streets, and Principal Objects of Attraction, Dublin, Printed for G. Tyrrell, c. 1830’s, 28 engraved views (including two extra plates at end), folding map (loose), rear endpaper torn with loss, a few light spots, hinges weak, original green cloth, paper label to upper cover, splits at head and foot of spine, 8vo (1)
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100 Heath (Charles). Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of the Town of Monmouth, including a Variety of Particulars Deserving the Stranger’s Notice, Relating to the Borough and its Neighbourhood..., 1st ed., Monmouth, 1804, occ. scattered spotting and slight marginal browning, modern half morocco gilt, 4to, together with Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Ragland Castle, Including a Variety of other Particulars, Deserving the Stranger’s Notice..., pub. Monmouth, 1806, occ. scattered spotting, modern cloth, 8vo Upcott p.939 and p.940. 26 (2)
£200-300
101 Heath (Charles). Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Tintern Abbey, with a Variety of Other Particulars, Deserving the Stranger’s Notice..., 10th ed., Monmouth, [1823], three addn. eng. plts. (inc. frontis. & one folding, two trimmed to image & mounted), bound with Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of the Town and Castle of Chepstow, including the Pleasurable Regions of Persfield..., 7th ed., Monmouth, 1821, addn. eng. frontis. and two plts. (inc. one aquatint & one double-page), bound with Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Ragland Castle..., 10th ed., Monmouth, 1825, addn. eng. frontis. and three eng. plts. (inc. one double-page), some browning and occ. spotting, few paper repairs to margins, a.e.g., contemp. calf, gilt dec. spine, gilt ownership ‘John Loraine Baldwin’ to upper board & ‘Tintern Chepstow Ragland’ to lower board, title label defective to spine, foot of spine worn, upper joint cracked and extrems. slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with The Excursion Down the Wye from Ross to Monmouth: including Memoirs and Anecdotes of John Kyrle..., 6th ed., Monmouth, [1815], occ. scattered spotting, late 19th/early 20th c. maroon halfcalf gilt, 8vo (2)
£150-250
105 Hoare (Sir Richard Colt). A Collection of Forty-Eight Views of Noblemen’s and Gentlemen’s Seats, Towns, Castles, Churches, Monasteries, and Romantic Places, in North and South Wales, pub. John and Josiah Boydell, n.d., c. 1806, forty-eight eng. views, large horizontal tear to first plt., repaired with tape to verso, offsetting to text, 20th. c. cloth, rubbed and some fading, oblong 4to
102 Heath (Charles). Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of the Town and Castle of Chepstow, including the Pleasurable Regions of Persfield..., 6th ed., Monmouth, [1813], occ. spotting, ad. leaf at rear, edges untrimmed, orig. printed wrappers bound-in (relined to verso), 20th c. green half morocco gilt, 8vo, together with Descriptive Accounts of Tintern Abbey..., [Chepstow]: Sold at the Abbey; also by Mr. Rogers, and by Mr. Walter George, Chepstow, 1799, ink library stamp to title (recto & verso) and few other leaves, first & last leaves strengthened to inner margins, modern cloth, 8vo, with A Small Specimen of the Many Mistakes in Sir William Dugdale’s Baronage. Exhibited in some Remarks on About Half a Page of that Voluminous Work..., Monmouth: printed & sold by Charles Heath, 1801, 64pp., ink librart stamp to title and few other leaves, modern half calf, 8vo, plus Shoolbred (W.A.), The Flora of Chepstow, 1920, modern cloth, 8vo (4)
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106 Hughes (H.). The Beauties of Cambria; Consisting of Sixty Views of Sublime and Picturesque Scenery in the Twelve Counties of the Principality, 6 orig. parts, 1819-23, fifty-five (of 60) wood eng. views, occ. spotting, all orig. printed wrappers, some splitting to spines, rubbed and some marks, oblong 8vo The missing plates comprise, Aberystwyth Castle, Brecon Castle, Brynllys Castle, Cilgarran Castle & St. Dogmael’s Priory. (6) £300-400
£150-200
103 Heath (Charles). The Excursion Don the Wye from Ross to Monmouth, Comprehending, Historical and Descriptive Accounts of Wilton and Goodrich Castles..., Monmouth: [1803], occ. scattered spotting, modern green half morocco gilt, 8vo, together with Thomas (W.H.), Tinterne and its Vicinity, London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1839, eng. vignette title and occasional illusts. to text, author’s presentation inscription to verso of half-title, endpapers renewed, orig. cloth with printed title label to upper board, recent reback, 8vo (2)
107 Hughes (H.). The Beauties of Cambria; Consisting of Sixty Views, in North and South Wales; Each View Accompanied by a Page of Letter-Press, 1823, sixty wood eng. plts., scattered spotting throughout, contemp. half morocco, head of spine torn/missing, upper cover detached, wear to extrems., oblong 8vo (1)
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£150-200
104 Heath (Charles). The Excursion Down the Wye from Ross to Monmouth, Comprehending, Historical and Descriptive Accounts of Wilton and Goodrich Castles..., Monmouth: Printed and sold by him..., sold also by Mr. Roberts, Ross; Mrs. Kirby, Chepstow; and at all the inns in the County, [1803?], bound with Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Tintern Abbey..., Monmouth, 1803, bound with Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Chepstow Castle: including Perfield..., pub. Monmouth, [1801], bound with Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Ragland Castle..., pub. Monmouth, 1801, contents of volume unpaginated throughout, edges untrimmed, contemp. boards, later crude cloth spine strip, board edges worn, 8vo (1)
£150-200
108 Ireland. The Gentleman’s and Citizen’s Almanack, compiled by Samuel Watson, Bookseller, For the Year of our Lord, 1791, pub. Dublin, 1791, bound with The English Registry and Wilson’s Dublin Directory, folding plan of Dublin (with short tear), a.e.g., contemp. crimson morocco gilt, fraying at head and foot of spine, 12mo (1)
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110 Jones & Co (publishers). Wales Illustrated in a Series of Views, Comprising the Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Castles, Seats of Nobility & Gentry, Antiquities, &c..., nos. 1-56 (complete), c. 1829, eng. title to first and last issues, 222 eng. views (of 224) on 111 leaves, occ. spotting, all orig. printed wrappers, some wrappers torn and frayed with pencil marks, 4to, together with approx. 100 duplicates of the same title (156)
£200-300
111 King (Edward). Munimenta Antiqua: Or, Observations on Antient Castles. Including Remarks on the Whole Progress of Architecture, Ecclesiastical as Well as Military, in Great Britain..., 4 vols., 1799-1805, 167 engraved plates, some aquatinted, two handcoloured, frontispiece and front endpapers loose in vol. I, some waterstaining, spotting and browning, bookplates, contemporary diced calf, vol. I covers detached, joints splitting, some stains, folio (4)
£300-400
112 Leech (John, illust.). A Little Tour in Ireland. Being a Visit to Dublin, Galway, Connamara, Athlone, Limerick, Killarney, Glengarriff, Cork, etc..., by An Oxonian, 1859, col. folding frontis., eng. illusts. to text, a.e, g., late 19th/early 20th c. crushed green morocco gilt, bound by Birdsall, Northhampton, spine faded, some rubbing, 8vo
109 [Jones, Edmund]. A Relation of Apparitions of Spirits, in the Principality of Wales; to which is added the Remarkable Account of the Apparition in Sunderland, with other Notable Relations from England; together with Observations about them, and Instructions from them: Designed to Confute and to Prevent the Infidelity of Denying the being and Apparition of Spirits; which tends to Irreligion and Atheism, 1st ed., [Trefocca?], 1780, pp.[viii], 134, [2], occ. minor spotting, includes two tipped-in theological manuscript portions (4pp. & 3pp.) written in the author’s hand (the 3pp. manuscript in torn & frayed condition), 19th c. half calf gilt, 8vo, together with Philips (Edgar), Edmund Jones “The Old Prophet”, 1st ed., 1959, b & w frontis., author’s signature to front free endpaper, some spotting mostly to page edges, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, with Jones (Edmund), A relation of Apparitions of Spirits..., Newport, Monmouthshire, 1813, facsimile edition, Cowbridge & Bridgend, 1988, orig. boards in d.j., 8vo, (limited ed. of 500 copies), plus A Geographical, Historical, and Religious Account of the Parish of Aberystruth..., Trevecka, 1779, facsimile edition, Cowbridge & Brigend, 1988, orig. boards in d.j., 8vo, (limited ed. of 500 copies)
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113 Lysons (Samuel). An Account of Roman Antiquities Discovered at Woodchester in the County of Gloucester, 1st ed., 1797, handcoloured aquatinted title, 40 aquatinted plates, most hand-coloured, some double-page, illustrations, text in English and French, lacking dedication leaf, one text leaf with repaired tear, occasional light spotting, contemporary calf-backed boards, some wear to spine, rubbed, folio (1)
£2000-3000
114 Lysons (Rev. Daniel). The Environs of London: Being an Historical Account of the towns, Villages, and Hamlets, within Twelve Miles of the Capital..., vol. 1 only, (County of Surrey), 1792, eng. map frontis., eng. title and dedication leaf, Extra Illustrated with a total of sixty-two engs. on fifty-six plts., (some trimmed to image & mounted), recent marbled endpapers, contemp. diced calf, rebacked with gilt dec. spine, 4to
Only three UK institutional locations of the first title found (Cambridge, National Library of Scotland & British Library), ESTC T130273. Edmund Jones (1702-1793) was a Calvinist Independent Minister, born in the parish of Aberystruth, Monmouthshire. He wrote several works on doctrine, as well as three collections of material on apparitions. He was known locally as yr Hen Broffwyd (the Old Prophet). His powers of prediction were well known and he was aware of the presence of spirits, angels, ghosts, and fairies in the world around him. (1) £300-400
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116 Matthews (John Hobson). Cardiff Records, Being Materials for a History of the County Borough from the Earliest Times, 6 vols., 1898-1911, folding map to vol. 1, b&w plts. and illusts., occ. spotting, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. qtr. morocco gilt, rebacked preserving orig. spines, 4to Limited edition 120/400. (6)
£100-150
117 [Maudet de Penhou, Armand Louis Bon]. Letters Describing a Tour Through Part of South Wales, by a Pedestrian Traveller, 1797, eng. frontis., thirty eng. plts., a few plts. with some staining to upper margin, subscribers list with some loss and crudely repaired with tape, recent cloth gilt, some rubbing, 4to, together with Wigstead (Henry), Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales, pub. 1800, addn. eng. title, twenty-one (of 22) eng. plts., contemp. half morocco, rubbed, 8vo, plus Grose (Francis), The Antiquities of England and Wales, vol. 7 only, new ed., 1797, vign. title, folding eng. map and seventy-one eng. plts., occ. spotting, lib. stamp to verso of title, contemp calf, rebacked, some wear to extrems., 4to (3)
£300-400
118 Ormerod (George). Strigulensia. Archaeological Memoirs relating to the District Adjacent to the Confluence of the Severn and the Wye, 1st ed., [not published], 1861, mounted albumen photo frontis., eleven plts.(inc. 4 litho) and two pedigrees, some folding, some spotting, orig. cloth gilt, rebacked preserving orig. spine, 8vo, together with Cobb (G. Wheatly), The Story of Caldicot Castle Told at Caldicot School, 21st November, 1895, Privately Printed, 1931, b & w frontis. and eleven plts. from photos, inscription to verso of front free endpaper, edges untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, 4to, contained in orig. slipcase, with Wood (James G.), The Lordship, Castle & Town of Chepstow, otherwise Striguil..., pub. Newport, Monmouthshire, 1910, b & w frontis. and five plts. from photos, tipped-in paper slip with author’s inscription and A.L.S loosely inserted, orig. cloth, extrems. slightly rubbed, 4to, and Wood (James G.), The Manor and Mansion of Moyne’s Court Monmouthshire..., pub. Newport, Monmouthshire, 1914, author’s inscription to front free endpaper, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, plus two others similar
115 Manuscript journal. A journal of a picturesque tour in Wales and Ireland, 1812, approx. 150pp. manuscript, describing a tour through parts of Wales and Ireland, of a young gentleman and his friend Maximillian, beginning with the journey from London, and describing the countryside and many places passed through, incl: Witney (the houses ‘wretchedly bad’); Gloucester Cathedral; Tewkesbury and boating down the Wye; the ruins of Goodrich Castle; Monmouth; Tintern Abbey; Chepstow Castle (‘our guide was a miserable, drunken, prosing, surly, old woman’); Ragland Castle; Abergavenny (‘a fashionable resort for Valetudinaries who came to drink goats whey’); Breckonshire (‘the Welch tongue was universally spoke’), Llandovery (‘assemblage of wretched hovels’); Cardigan (it appears not to possess ‘any inhabitants of more exalted rank than the Parson, Apothecary, and attorney’); Aberystwith and the Devils’ Bridge cataract; Bedgellert (where they feasted to “the strains of a Welch harper”; Snowdon; Caernarvon Castle; Holyhead (‘a town more wretched than any we had yet seen’); Dublin; Cork; Ross Castle, etc., marbled edges, orig. reversed calf, 8vo
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119 Owenson (Sydney, afterwards Lady Morgan). Patriotic Sketches of Ireland, Written in Connaught, 2 vols. in one, 1st ed., 1807, half titles, pubs. list at end, occasional dampstains at gutter, some spots, title and firts few leaves with ink annotation, t.e.g., near contemporary red half calf, edges rubbed, 8vo
An informative and entertaining account of a tour in the picturesque tradition, with many accounts of beautiful scenery, as well as descriptions of the poor, for example: ‘The various Islands on the [Lower and Muckross] Lake [are] covered with verdant shrubs, and noble trees complete the beauty of the scene, and the strange legends which relate to it are particularly adapted to its romantic character’. There are several descriptions of legends, such as the legend of St. Keivin’s bed in the ancient city of Glendalough, and the legend of the giant Idris at Dolgelly.
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120 Pennant (Thomas). The History and Antiquities of London, 2 vols., new ed., with an Appendix and Index, 1814, eng. port. frontis. to vol. 1, Extra-Illustrated containing a total of 105 eng. plts. and portraits etc. (some trimmed to image & mounted, few pasted backto-back, with evidence of some plts. removed), occ. spotting, a.e.g., contemp. calf, rebacked and corners repaired, 4to
There are also descriptions of various factories, notably the pin manufactory at Gloucester (‘the machinery is very curious’, the pins ‘are then handed over to those who have the tedious task of fixing on their heads’), the quarry and stone pipe society works (‘the whole is set in motion by a steam engine, and the stones being mollified by water constantly falling on them, are hollowed by means of boring rollers’), and the Waterford glass blowing factory. The author also describes the inns at which the pair stay, the food they eat (‘a convivial bowl of bishop’), their concern at a previous robbery on the road which they travel (they having only a sword and no pistols), and the ‘handsome damsels’ which occasionally wait upon them, as well as local dress (‘every Welch female peasant wears a man’s hat over an old fashioned mob cap’). Of further interest are stories of local customs, such as the distribution of bread and cheese to the poor on Whitsun at St. Briarvils, and the singing of psalms under a spreading oak tree during funeral processions at Penalt. (1) £300-500
Sold as seen, not subject to return. (2)
£150-200
121 Abraham (George & Ashley). Rock-Climbing in North Wales, 1st ed., pub. Keswick, 1906, num. plts. and illusts., t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, 8vo Neate A08. The second part of the classic trilogy. (1)
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122 Rock-Climbing. Two photograph albums containing approx. 150 b&w photographs of Ireland, the Lake District, Harrogate, etc., c. 1890, incl. some rock-climbing interest, one album with ms. ink captions below each photo, some fading and spotting, contemp. cloth gilt/contemp. half-morocco gilt, oblong 8vo (2)
£100-150
123 Rutter (John). Delineations of the North Western Division of the County of Somerset, and of its Antediluvian Bone Caverns, with a Geological Sketch of the District, pub. Shaftesbury & London, 1829, half-title, eng. frontis., six litho plts. and five eng. plts., one folding hand-col. litho map, wood eng. vignette illusts., remnants of contemp. half calf binding, only lower board present (detached), 8vo, together with Webb (W.W.), A Copmplete Account of the Origin and Progress of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Over the River Avon..., Bristol: J. Wright & Co., 1864, 62pp., two wood eng. plts., orig. printed wrappers, slight wear at foot of spine, small 8vo (2)
£100-150
124 Scott (Walter). The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland; Comprising Specimens of Architecture and Sculpture, and Other Vestiges of Former Ages..., 2 vols., 1st ed., 1814, eng. frontis. and addn. eng. title to each, ninety eng. plts., occn. light spotting, front pastedowns with armorial bookplate of Saml. C. King, with printed quotation mounted above, a.e.g., contemp. maroon straight grain morocco, elaborately gilt dec., rubbed and a little scuffed, spines lightly faded, 4to
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£200-300
125 Shepherd (Thomas H.). The World’s Metropolis or Mighty London, Illustrated by a Series of Views beautifully Engraved on Steel. Of its Palaces, Public Buildings, Monuments & Streets, from Original Drawings... to which is added A Comprehensive History from the earliest Period to the Present Day, c.1850s, eng. title-page, large folding eng. map (with handling tear), two eng. ports., and eighty eng. plts., extra-illustrated with two addn. eng plts., plts. generally water-stained and dust-soiled, and many detached with consequent fraying and some tears, contemp. half morocco, worn, with spine lacking and cover detached, 4to Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1)
£150-200
126 Tattersall (W.M., ed.). Glamorgan County History, vols. I, III-V only, Cardiff, reprinted 1971-1980, maps and illustrations, original cloth, d.j.s, slight edge wear, 4to, together with Sir Joseph Bradney’s A History of Monmouthshire, vol. 3, parts 1 & 2, vol. 4, parts 1 & 2, and vol. 5 (two copies), facsimile eds., 1993 (10)
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£100-150
129 Victoria County Histories. A History of Wiltshire, vols. 1-11 in twelve, 1953-1980, b & w plts. and plans, bookplates to front endpapers, orig. cloth gilt (few vols. with small paper label at foot of spines), last vol. in d.j., folio, together with a duplicate of vol. 9, plus Elyard (S. John, illust.), Some Old Wiltshire Homes, 1894, numerous b & w plts., t.e.g., hinges neatly repaired, orig. cloth gilt, spine discretely strengthened, folio (14)
£150-200
130 View Books. Views of Ross and the Wye, pub. Rock & Co., c.1850s, twelve eng. vignette views on six plts., orig. printed & blind embossed wrappers, slightly dust-soiled, slim 8vo, together with Stratford-Upon-Avon, The Home of William Shakspeare, Pictorially Illustrated, pub. Rock, Brothers, & Payne, 1864, twenty-four eng. vignettes on twelve plts. (inc. frontis.), orig. cloth gilt, slim 8vo, with Twelve Views of Hereford, pub. Newman & Co., c.1850s, twelve eng. vignette plts., orig. cloth, some dampsoiling, oblong 8vo, and Six Views on the Wye, pub. J. Newman, c.1840s, six eng. plts., orig. printed wrappers, spine split, oblong 8vo, plus two others similar (6)
131 [Willett, Mark]. An Excursion from the Source of the Wye, Descriptive of the Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of that Interesting River; including a Pocket Guide to the Antiquities of Ross, Monmouth, Tintern Abbey, Piercefield, and Chepstow: with a Tour from the Banks of the Wye to Aberystwith , Chptow: printed & sold by M. Willett, [1820?], 108, [2]pp., wood eng. frontis., bound with A Guide to the Following Watering and Sea-bathing Places; Namely, Blackpool, Bridlington, Buxton, Cotham, Gilsland, Hartlepool, Matlock, Redcar, Scarborough, and Seaton-Carrowe. with the Immediate Routes, from Harrogate, to each., pub. Hargrove & Sons, Knaresbrough, 1813, half-title present, few wood eng. vignettes, index & ad. leaf bound-in at rear, fore-edge close-trimmed slightly affecting few leaves at rear, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spine, red morocco title label, small 8vo
127 Turnor (Edmund). Collections for the History of the Town and Soke of Grantham. Containing Authentic Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton, Now First Published From the Original Mss. in the Possession of the Earl of Portsmouth, 1806, hand-coloured map frontispiece, eight engraved plates, a few minor spots, contemporary half calf, rebacked retaining most of original spine, lightly rubbed, 4to Large paper copy with the additional six plates. (1)
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£100-150
132 Williams (William). Oxonia Depicta sive Collegiorum et Aularum in Inclyta Academia Oxoniensi..., [Oxford, 1732-33], eng. title, eng. dedication leaf, sixty-three eng. plts. (inc. double-page and one folding), eng. subscribers list at rear of volume, eng. title and folding plt. creased, occasional light worming to margins of few plts., some plts. with light dust-soiling and minor dampstaining, contemp. qtr. sheep, joints cracked, binding worn, folio
£200-300
128 Twamley (Louisa Anne). The Annual of British Landscape Scenery. An Autumn Ramble on the Wye, [1839], half-title with ownership inscription, addn. eng. frontis., seventeen eng. plts. and two single-page litho maps, occ. minor spotting, a.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, together with [Heath, Charles], An Account of the Presentation of Colours to the Monmouth Volunteers: or, Townsmen of King Henry the Fifth, on Monday, August the Nineteenth, 1799..., pub. Monmouth, [1799], [42pp], lacks title page, modern half morocco gilt, 8vo, with White (John), Guide to the Town and Neighbourhood of Abergavenny, pub. Abergavenny, 1845, orig. cloth, marked & slight wear to extrems., 8vo, and Mitchell (Col. Thomas), History of the Volunteer Movement in Monmouthshire, pub. Newport, Monmouthshire, 1913, b & w port. frontis., orig. cloth gilt, spine faded, small 8vo, plus three others including a Booth’s New Map of the Environs of London; with the Railroads and Stations Corrected to 1845 (7)
£100-150
Upcott pp.1107-1109. (1)
£2000-3000
133 Wood (Anthony). Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis Duobus Voluminibus Comprehensae, Oxford, 1674, addn. eng. title, eng. illust to letterpress title, double-page eng. plan (close-trimmed), few eng. dec. initials & headpieces etc., letterpress title & following leaf torn to fore-edge margin, leaf F2 torn with slight loss, slight worming to inner margin of few leaves, contemp. calf, later title label to spine, slight loss of leather to spine and lower outer corner of upper board, spine and joints cracked, folio (1)
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NATURAL HISTORY 134 Bannerman (David Armitage & Lodge, George E.). The Birds of the British Isles, 12 vols., 1st ed., 1953-63, colour illustrations, original cloth, d.j.s, minor chips and stains, 4to (12)
137 Estienne (Charles and Jean Liebault). Maison Rustique, Or the Countrey Farme. Compyled in the French Tongue by Charles Stevens and John Liebault, Doctors of Physicke. And Translated into English by Richard Surflet, Practioner in Physicke. Now Newly Reviewed, Corrected and Augmented... And the Husbandrie of France, Italie and Spaine, Reconciled and Made to Agree with Ours here in England, by Gervais Markham, [3rd ed. in English], Printed by Adam Islip for John Bill, 1616, title with engraved vignette, woodcut headpieces and initials, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, lacking front blank, some waterstains and light spots, contemporary previous owner signatures to title and annotation to front and rear endpapers, some tears, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, folio
£150-200
135 Bard (Samuel). A Guide for Young Shepherds; or Facts and Observations on the Character and Value of Merino Sheep: with Rules and Precepts for their Management, and the Treatment of their Diseaes, as well as of Sheep in General, New York: printed and sold by Collins & Co, 1811, 112pp., two eng. plts. (dampstained and spotted), few wood eng. illusts. to text, occ. spotting mostly at front and rear, upper pastedown and lower free endpaper torn, contemp. half sheep, spine and joints slightly cracked, slim 12mo Scarce. British Library only UK location (microfilm). (1)
STC 10549. (1)
138 Fothergill (George A.). The National Stud. A Gift to the State, 1916, eighteen tipped-in col. plts. and three b&w plts. (complete as list), orig. gilt dec. cloth, rebacked preserving orig. spine, rubbed and some marks, folio
136 Earl (Maud). The Power of the Dog, Described by A. Croxton Smith, [1911], twenty tipped in col. plts., orig. half vellum gilt, rubbed, 4to, together with [Walsh, John Henry], The Dogs of the British Islands, Being a Series of Articles and Letters..., edited by “Stonehenge”, 1867, num. eng. plts., a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed and some wear, 4to, plus [Perry, Joseph Franklin], Kennel Secrets, How to Breed, Exhibit and Manage Dogs, by “Ashmont”, pub. Boston, 1893, num. plts. from photos, onew plt. torn and frayed, orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed and some wear, 4to, plus sixteen other dog related (19)
£500-800
£150-200
Limited edition of 300 copies. (1)
£100-150
139 Goldsmith (Oliver). A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 2 vols., c.1860, eng. port. frontis., addn. hand-col. eng. title and plts., occ. scattered spotting, contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spines, joints & extrems. rubbed and slightly worn, large 8vo, together with Hulme (F. Edward), Familar Wild Flowers, vols. 1-5, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., c.1880, numerous chromo plts. and wood eng. illusts. to text, contemp. uniform green half calf gilt, 8vo, plus other natural history related, (many lacking plts.)
£150-200
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£100-150
140 Goldsmith (Oliver). A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 4 vols. in 2, c. 1822, additional hand-coloured engraved title, two handcoloured engraved frontispieces, 33 hand-coloured engraved plates, some light spotting and offsetting, contemporary calf, vol. I upper cover detaching, rubbed, 8vo, together with A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, 4 vols. in 2, c. 1826, engraved portrait frontispiece, 41 hand-coloured engraved plates, light waterstains and spots, contemporary green half morocco, a little rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (4)
£100-150
141 Grimble (Augustus). Deer-Stalking, 1st ed., 1888, b & w illustrations, a few spots, a.e.g., contemporary green half morocco, a little rubbed, 4to Limited edition, one of 250. (1)
£100-150
142 Harrison (Joseph). The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florist’s Magazine, vols. 1-3 in two, 1833-35, addn. eng. title to vol. 2, forty hand-col. eng. plts., vol. 1 title & leaf 2L deatached torn & frayed, some plts. close-trimmed, occ. minor spotting, contemp. uniform half calf, worn, 8vo (2)
£100-150
143 Kennedy (John). A Treatise Upon Planting, Gardening, and the Management of the Hot-House, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1777, one or two spots, bookplates, contemporary calf, a little rubbed and stained, 8vo, together with The Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, by Jethro Tull, to Which is Prefixed an Introduction... by William Cobbett, 1829, engraved plate, some spots, bookplate of Lord Crofton, contemporary half calf, lightly rubbed and faded, 8vo, presentation inscription “from Lord Frankfort to Lord Crofton, 1823” to title
Lot 137
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£200-300
144 Kent (Nathaniel). Hints to Gentlemen of Landed Property, 2nd ed., 1776, ten folding engraved plates, occasional light spotting and browning, recent half calf, 8vo (1)
£150-200
145 Lange (John, ed.). Icones Plantarum Sponte Nascentium in Ewgno Daniae et in Ducatibus Slesvici, Holsatiae et Lauenburgiae, ad Illustrandum opus de Iisdem Plantis, Regio Jussu Exarandum, Florae Danicae, Nomine Inscriptum, pub. Hauniae, 1871, 171 eng. plts., a few with slight fraying to margins, loose in recent book box, folio (1)
£200-300
146 Markham (Gervase). [Markham’s Maister-Peece ...], The Second Booke: containing all cures chyrurgicall, or such infirmities as being onely outward, crave the use of surgery, and are called in horse-leach craft, Horses Sorrances. Newly imprinted, corrected, and enlarged with many notable, and most certaine approved medicines, printed by Nicholas Oakes, 1615, printed title with woodcut device, text numbered 231-565, b&w woodcut illusts., some marks and minor marginal stains, final leaf close-trimmed to upper margin, with partial loss of running title, contemp. panelled calf, heavily rubbed (refurbished to spine and edges), small 4to Second edition of the second part of Markham’s Maister-Peece, first published in 1610. (1) £100-150
147 Morris (Rev. F.O.). A History of British Birds, 8 vols., Cabinet Edition, Groombridge, [1888], 357 (of 358) hand-col. plts., occ. spotting, gutta-percha perished to vol. 8, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt (laminated), spines faded, rubbed, 8vo (8)
£100-150
151 Wright (Lewis). The Illustrated Book of Poultry. with Practical Schedules for Judging, Constructed from Actual Analysis of the Best Modern Decisions, pub. Cassell Petter & Galpin, [1873], forty-nine (of 50) col. plts., num. wood eng. illusts. to text, sewing weak with some pages loose and consequent minor fraying to edges, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, spine detached to rear joint, wear to extrems., 4to
148 Morris (F.O.). A History of British Birds, 6 vols., 1st ed., 185157, 358 hand-coloured engraved plates, some light spotting and browning, one or two leaves with frayed foredges, endpapers renewed, original cloth gilt, rebacked, rubbed with stains, 8vo (6)
£200-300
149 National Sporting Trophies Exhibition in Aid of “The Docklands Settlements” Held at Shell Mex House, Strand, London WC2, April 24th to May 20th, 1933, photographic plts. of various trophies incl. The Ashes, The Schneider Trophy, Davis Cup, etc., orig. blue cloth gilt, folio, together with Corbould (Alfred Chantrey), The Corbould Sporting Alphabet, n.d., c. 1900, twenty-eight hand-col. plts., a few with slight fraying to margins, title worn with slight loss to extrems., recent cloth-backed boards with orig. pict. covers relaid, oblong 4to, plus The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, A High-Class Weekly Journal of Sport, Art, Literature, Music, and the Drama, vol. 19, Mar-Sep 1883, num. eng. plts. and illusts., recent cloth, folio (3)
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152 Wright (John). The Fruit Grower’s Guide, vols. 1 & 3 only (of 3), n.d., c.1890, addn. chromo. title to each, twenty-eight chromos., b&w illusts. to text, weakening to hinges of vol. 1, a.e.g., orig. dec. cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, 4to, together with Nicholson (George, ed.), The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture for Gardeners and Botanists, 8 divisions, n.d., c. 1890, col. plts., num. eng. illusts. to text, a.e.g., orig. dec. cloth gilt, some fading to covers and spines, rubbed, 4to (10)
£300-400
£100-150
153 Yonge (Charlotte Mary). The Instructive Picture Book or Lessons from the Vegetable World, 3rd ed. carefully revised, pub. Edinburgh, 1863, thirty-one double-page hand-col. plts. (complete), slight staining to last few plts., occ. spotting, recent red cloth, bound with orig. pict. upper board (chipped), 4to
150 Olney Peter (J. S.). The Wildfowl Paintings of Henry Jones, 1987, fine mounted col. plts. after watercolours by Jones, orig. blue half morocco gilt, boxed, oblong folio Limited edition 64/350, signed by the author. (1)
£300-500
£150-200
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£100-150
MAPS All lots unframed unless otherwise stated 154 Africa. Valk (Gerard & Leonard), Africa - Mauro Percussa Oceano Niloque admota tepenti, c.1710, engraved map with bright original hand colouring, decorative cartouche, 495 x 605mm (1)
£500-800
155 Americas. Valk (Gerard & Leonard), America Aurea Pars Altera Mundi Auctoribus, c.1710, engraved map with original hand colouring, decorative cartouche, insular California, very slight spotting, 495 x 605mm (1)
£800-1200
156 Asia. Delisle (Guillaume), Theatrum Historicum ad annum Christi Quadringentesimmum..., c.1780, hand coloured engraved map of the Middle East with inset map of the Western Hemisphere, 49 x 63cm, plus another copy of the same map with fold tears, together with Chatelain (Henri Abraham), Carte de l’Asie selon les Auteurs Anciens enrichie de Remarques Historiques sur les Changemens qui y sont Arrivez, c.1730s, uncoloured engraved map of Asia surrounded by descriptive text, plate dimensions 38 x 49cm, and other maps of Asia, Africa and Oceania by Johnstone, Levasseur, SDUK, etc. (approx. 39)
Lot 154
Lot 155 36
£150-200
160 British county maps. A mixed collection of approx. 190 maps, mostly 18th & 19th century, engraved and lithographic maps and town plans, several with original outline colouring, including examples by Moule, Senex, Gardiner, Lewis, Bartholomew, Moll, Pigot, Cole & Roper, Conder, Kitchin and Greenwood, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.190)
£120-180
157 Asia. Valk (Gerard & Leonard), Asia Qua nulla beatior Ora; Tractus in Eoos vergens Mundique teporem Auctoribus, Amsterdam, c.1700, engraving with original hand colouring, decorative cartouche and compass rose, 495 x 595mm R.V.Tooley, The Mapping of Australia, no. 1275. (1)
£400-600
161 British Isles. Homann (Johann Baptist), Magna Britannia complectens Angliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae Regna...., Nuremberg, [1707 but slightly later], engraved map with original hand colouring, elaborate cartouche, 490 x 575mm R.W.Shirley, Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650 - 1750, Homann.2 state 2, with the portrait of Queen Anne replaced by that of George II. (1) £150-250
162 Buckinghamshire. Speed (John), Buckingham Both Shyre and Shire towne describ., 1st. ed., pub. G.Humbell, c.1611, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plans of Buckingham and Reading, central fold strengthened on verso, occ. marginal closed tears, one repaired closed tear affecting image, some overall spotting and staining, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso (1)
158* Atlantic Ocean. Ortelius (Abraham), Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip, [1570 or later], engraved map with early hand colouring, trimmed inside margins, 355 x 480mm, mounted, framed and glazed
163 Canada. Pub. Gentleman’s Magazine, A New Chart of the Coast of New England, Nova Scotia, New France or Canada with the Islands of Newfoundld. Cape Breton, St. John’s &c, ... by Mons. N.Bellin, [1746], uncoloured engraved map by Thomas Jefferys, three inset maps of the City of Quebec, City and Port of Louisbourg and the Atlantic Ocean, decorative cartouche and half compass rose, old folds, trimmed to neat line on binding margin, 350 x 470mm
Marcel van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps, no.160. Not examined out of frame. (1) £150-200
159 Belgium. Ortelius (Abraham), Namurcum Comitatus, [1612], engraved map with early hand colouring, elaborate strapwork cartouche, 395 x 515mm, Latin text on verso Marcel van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps, no.68. (1)
£70-100
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£70-100
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£100-150
164 Cartographic curiosity. Weigel (Christopher), Discus Chronologicus, Nuremberg, c.1730, engraved chart with original hand colouring, cherubs support a curtain title, complete with animated volvelle, German text at base, 515 x 484mm An Ingenious chart with a moveable pointer, which shows the chronology of the Holy Roman Emperors, the Kings and Queens of Europe, noblemen and Popes. (1) £200-300
166 Celestial Charts. Homann (Johann Baptist), Systema Solare et Planetarium [and] System Mundi Tychonicum, Nuremberg, c.1720, pair of engraved charts after Doppelmayr, both with original hand colouring, each approx. 495 x 575mm A pair of Copernican solar and astrological charts with vignettes of a solar eclipse, allegorical scenes and a terrestial hemisphere including an insular California. (2) £400-600
165 Celestial Charts. Homann (Johann Baptist), Hemisphaerium Coeli Boreale [and] Hemisphaerium Coeli Australe, Nuremberg, n.d., c.1730, pair of celestial charts after Doppelmayer, each with original hand colouring, four vignettes of observatories in the corners of each map, each approx. 500 x 590mm (2)
£800-1200
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167 Cook’s Voyages. A mixed collection of thirteen maps, c.1774, including maps of New Zealand, the Queen Charlotte Islands, New Guinea and the Society Islands, folding engraved maps, several with hand colouring, various sizes and condition (13)
169 East Indies. Valk (G. & Schenk P.), Insularum Indiae Orientalis Nova Descriptio, Amsterdam, [1700 or later], engraved map with original hand colouring, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, compass roses and numerous rhumb lines, 385 x 495mm, mounted
£120-180
A later re-issue of the Jan Jansson plate. (1)
£200-300
168 Cornwall. Speed (John), Cornwall, pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell [1676], hand coloured engraved map, inset view of Launceston and four engravings of ‘antiquities’, elaborate strapwork cartouche, mileage scale and compass rose, central fold strengthened on verso, occ. repaired marginal closed tears, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso, together with a damaged and stained John Speed map of Shropshire (2)
£300-500
170 England & Wales. Homann (Johann Baptiste), Magnae Britanniae Pars Meridionalis in qua Regnum Angliae Tam in Septem Antiqua Anglo-Saxonum Regna....., an Archetypo Vischeriano, Nuremberg, c.1715, engraved map with bright original hand colouring, elaborate cartouche and inset vignette, 575 x 495mm R.W.Shirley, Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650 - 1750. Homann 3. State 1. (1) £150-250
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171 English county maps. Tunnicliffe (William), A New Map of Devonshire, 1791, hand coloured engraved map, a few short edge tears, 59 x 56cm, together with Morden (Robert), Shropshire, [1695 or later], uncol. engraved map, close trimmed at side edges, stain at lower-right corner, 37 x 42cm, and Blome (Richard), A Mapp of Bedford, [1673 or later], uncol. engraved map, 32 x 25cm, plus approx. 42 other maps of Somerset, Sussex, Kent, Cornwall, Shropshire, Bucks & Westmoreland by various map-makers incl. Mercator, Jansson, Cary, Pigot, etc., many with faults, together with approx. 70 engraved 18th & 19th century geographical diagrams (approx. 115)
175 Folding maps. A large collection of approx. 240 maps, mostly 19th & 20th century, including regional, town and cycling maps by Bartholomew, Ordnance Survey, Cruchley, Gall & Inglis, Bacon and Philips, together with folding county maps of Dorset, Cornwall, Hampshire and Northumberland by Walker and Hall, with Smith (C.), A New map of the County of Devon Divided into Hundreds, 2nd. ed., 1808, engraved map with original hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, 455 x 495mm, with Bowen (Emanuel), An Accurate Map of Northampton Shire Divided into Hundreds..., pub. Robt. Sayer & T.Bowles, c.1765, eng. map with orig. outline colouring, decorative b & w cartouche, sectionalised and laid on linen, 720 x 540mm, contained in contemp. marbled slip case, worn, with An Accurate map of the County of Suffolk Divided into its Hundreds, pub. J.Tinney, 1753, engraved map with orig. outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, 535 x 715mm, contained in contemp. marbled slip case, worn, plus Kitchin (Thomas), A New Improved Map of Hartfordshire from the best Surveys & Intelligence, Divided into its Hundreds..., pub. Robt. Sayer & John Bowles, c.1765, engraved map with orig. outline colouring, decorative cartouche, sectionalised and laid on linen, 540 x 660mm, contained in contemp. marbled slip case, worn, and A New Improved Map of Hampshire from the best Surveys and Intelligences Divided into its Hundreds...., pub. Robt. Sayer, Carington Bowles and R.Wilkinson, n.d., c.1765, engraved map with orig. outline colouring, decorative cartouche, sectionalised and laid on linen, 530 x 695mm, contained in contemp. marbled slip case, worn
£200-300
172 Europe. Wells (Edward), A New Map of Present Spain & Portugal..., [1700], hand col. engraved map, repairs to central fold, 38 x 49cm, together with Van Keulen (Johannes), Pas-caart van de Middellandsche Zee, early 18th century, hand col. engraved chart of the western Mediterranean, relaid, 27 x 58cm, and Jefferys (Thomas), The Kingdom of Bohemia with the Duchy of Silesia..., 1794, engraved map with orig. outline colouring, 47 x 55cm, plus Sanson (Nicolas), Europa Vetus, pub. Mariette, 1668, engraved map of ancient Europe, paper repair to lower-right corner, 42 x 56cm, plus other maps of Europe or parts of Europe by D’Anville, Homann, Cary, SDUK, etc., many with faults (approx. 50)
£150-200
(approx.240)
£200-300
176 France and Belgium. Sanson (Nicolas), La Saintonge vers le Midy: Auecq Le Brouageais Terre d’Arvert &c., c.1690, engraved map with original hand colouring, 450 x 565mm, German text on verso, together with Blaeu (Johannes), Leodiensis Dioecesis, Amsterdam, c.1640, engraved map with original hand colouring, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 380 x 495mm, French text on verso (2)
£70-100
177 France. Moll (Herman), France Divided into all its Provinces..., [1725], engraved map, hand col. in outline, 19.5 x 26cm, together with another uncol. copy of the same map and Rapkin (J.), France, c.1851, engraved map with vignette views, orig. outline hand colouring, 26 x 31cm, plus Wyld (James), Francem in Departments, pub. John Thomson, c.1810, vignette view of Versailles, hand col. in outline, 22.5 x 29cm, and other maps of France or parts of France by Bayly, Hondius, Walker, Cary, etc. (approx. 47)
173 Europe. Valk (Gerard & Leonard), Europa Pars tenet Haec Mundi reliquas Celeberrima Partes Auctoribus, n.d., c.1700, engraved map with original hand colouring, decorative cartouche, 495 x 595mm (1)
178 France. Janvier (Robert), La France divisee par provinces ou Gouvernmens Militaires, c.1760s, engraved map with title cartouche and inset table of provinces, hand col. in outline, neat folds and some light stains, 46.5 x 65cm, together with Dezauche (J.), Carte de France suivant sa Nouvelle Divison..., c.1800, engraved map with orig. outline colouring, creasing and split to central fold, 49 x 62cm, and Bellin (Jacques Nicolas), I. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Normandie..., c.1750s, engraved Depot de la Marine chart of the Normandy coast with some hand colouring, 60 x 86cm, plus other maps of France incl. city plans, various map-makers incl. Tardieu, J.B. Nolin, Seale maps from Rapin’s History of England, etc.
£250-350
174 Folding maps. Phillips (M.), The Grand Southern Tour of England, including a principal part of the East, West, & Inland Counties, 1st January, 1824, engraved map of southeast England on four separate folding sections, sectionalised onto linen and with orig. wash colour, the whole 103 x 180cm, contained in worn card slipcase, plus Bartholomew’s Plan of London, 1908, large folding map sectionalised onto linen, some fold tears, 111 x 152cm, plus three other folding maps of London by Bacon, Stanford and Letts (5)
£150-200
(approx. 24)
£100-150
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£150-200
181 France. Ortelius (Abraham), Gallia Narbonens, Sabaudiae Ducut [and] Venuxini Comitatus nova Descr. n.d., c.1598, three uncoloured engraved maps on one sheet (as published), some overall toning, margins strengthened on verso, 355 x 465mm, French text on verso, together with Valk (Gerard & Leonard), Praefectura Generalis Languedoc..., c.1720, engraved map with original hand colouring, slight mount staining, 495 x 595mm, with Zatta (Antonio), Li Governi di Linguadoca di Foix e di Rossiglione con il Rouergue, Venice, 1777, engraved map with original outline colouring, 420 x 340mm, mounted, framed and glazed, plus De L’Isle (Guillaume), Carte du Diocese de Narbonne...., pub. J.Covens & C.Mortier, Amsterdam, c.1770, reticulated engraved map with orig. outline colouring, inset map of the town of Narbonne, slight overall toning, 500 x 600mm, framed and glazed, with one other similar (5)
£200-300
182 Germany. Valk (Gerhard & Leonardus), Germania divisa in decem Circulos, Austriam, Bavarium, Franconium, Sueviam, Burgundiam, Rhenanum..., c.1715, hand coloured engraved map, approx. 49 x 60cm, together with Homann (heirs of), Ducatus Juliaci & Bergensis, c.1780s, hand col. engraved map, 57 x 48cm, plus Sanson (Nicolas), Partie Orientale du Palatinat et Eslector du Rhein, 1696, engraved map withoutline colouring, 42 x 55cm, some staining and repairs, plus other maps of Germany and Central Europe by James Wyld, SDUK, etc. (approx. 33)
183 Germany. Ortelius (Abraham), Mansfeldiae Comitatus Descriptio auctore Tilemanno Stella sig., [1575], hand coloured engraved map, occ. marginal closed tears, slight splitting to central fold, 375 x 435mm, Latin text on verso, together with Van Der Aa (Pieter), L’Allemagne Suivant les Nouvelles Observations, n.d., c.1720, uncoloured engraved map with large ‘picture frame’ borders, 345 x 420mm, with Cary (John), A New Map of the Kingdom of Prussia with its Divisions into Provinces and Governments from the Latest Authorities, 1799, engraved map with original hand colouring, 490 x 545mm, with one other similar
179 France. Fremin (A.R.), Nouvelle Carte Routiere des Empre. de France, de Belgique, de Sardaine et de la Suisse...., Paris, n.d., c.1850, engraved map with original outline colouring, inset maps of ‘Routes des Environs de Paris’ and ‘Fortifications de Paris’, the map surrounded by thirty b & w lithographic views of the city, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight splitting along old folds, 810 x 1150mm (1)
£100-150
£100-150
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£150-250
184* Glamorganshire. Blaeu (Johannes), Glamorganensis Comitatus Vulgo Glamorgan Shire, n.d., c.1645, engraved map with original hand colouring, slight toning to central fold, occ. marginal closed tears, repaired on verso, 390 x 510mm, Latin text on verso, framed and double glazed (1)
£70-100
185 Greece & Turkey. Ortelius (Abraham), Opakh. Thraciae Veteris Typus, c.1650, engraved map of part of Turkey incl. Constantinople and the Sea of Marmara, browning and a little peeling to central fold, 36 x 48cm, together with Wyld (James), Map of the Ottoman Dominions in Asia, 1824, engraved map with orig. hand colouring, some offsetting, 51 x 69cm, plus other maps of Turkey and Greece by map-makers incl. d’Anville, SDUK, Pinkerton, etc. (approx. 23)
£100-150
186 Guiana. Blaeu (Johannes), Guiana sive Amazonum Regio, Amsterdam, c.1650, engraved map with original hand colouring, elaborate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, 375 x 495mm, Latin text on verso, together with another copy with sparse outline colouring and French text on verso
180* France. Ortelius (Abraham), Burgundiae Inferioris Quae Ducatus Nomine Censetur.., [1584 or later], engraved map with early hand colouring, heightened with gold, elaborate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 375 x 450mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with De Lisle (Guillaume), Carte du Duche de Bourgogne et des Comtez en Dependans....., Paris, 1709, hand coloured engraved map, decorative cartouche, 490 x 660mm, mounted, framed and glazed
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First item described. Marcel van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps, no. 54. Not examined out of frames. (2) £150-200
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£100-150
187 India. Jefferys (Thomas), The East Indies, with the Roads, 2nd ed., pub. Robert Sayer, 3 April 1768, large engraved map with orig. wash colouring, some creasing and short fold tears, 110 x 136cm, together with Delisle (Guillaume), Carte des Indes et de la Chine dressee sur plus ieurs..., 1705, engraved map, hand col. in outline, some fold tears, 63 x 66cm, and Jefferys (Thomas), A Map of the Kingdom of Madura with the South Coast of Malabar..., c.1760s, uncol. engraved map, a little edge fraying, 44 x 53cm, plus other 19th century maps of India and southeast Asia by Walker, SDUK, etc. (approx. 50)
£100-150
188* Ireland. Speed (John), The Province of Mounster, pub. John Sudbury and George Humble, n.d., c.1627, uncoloured engraved map, inset town plans of Cork and Limerick, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, thread margins, 385 x 515mm, framed and double glazed, English text on verso (1)
£200-300
190 Ireland. Valk (Gerard & Leonard), Regnum Hiberniae divisum in Provincias...., c.1710, engraved map with original hand colouring, 585 x 500mm (1)
£250-350
191 Italy. Cary (John), A New Map of Italy..., 1811, hand coloured engraved map, 46 x 52cm, together with Delisle (Guillaume), l’Italie dressee sur les Observations..., 1788, engraved map, orig. outline colouring, 50 x 63cm, and Basire (I.), Cony, a strong City of Piedmont in the States of Savoy, c.1750, uncoloured engraved plan of Cuneo, 39 x 47cm, plus Moll (Herman), Italy Distinguishing all the Sovereignties..., c.1725, engraved map withoutline hand colouring, 19.5 x 26cm, plus other maps of Italy by Walker, SDUK, Moll, Delisle, etc., plus twelve regional maps by Tardieu including battle plans, many with stains, tears or other faults (approx. 45)
£100-150
192* Italy. Ortelius (Abraham), Thusciae Descriptio Auctore Heronymo Bellarmato, [1570 or later], hand coloured engraved map, elaborate strapwork cartouche, 320 x 500mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Wells (Edward), A New Map of Present Italy together with the Adjoyning Islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, shewing their Principal Divisions, Cities, Towns, Rivers, Mountains &c., c.1700, hand coloured engraved map, ‘curtain’ cartouche, mileage scale and dividers, 370 x 500mm, mounted, framed and glazed Not examined out of frames. (2)
193 Laurie (Robert and James Whittle). Laurie & Whittle’s New Traveller’s Companion Exhibiting a Complete and Correct Survey of all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England Wales and Scotland; as far North as Edinburgh and Glasgow...., 5th. ed., 1810, title page soiled, frayed and stained, advertisement, index and table of explanation all present, general map of England & Wales and twenty (of 25) engraved road maps, all with original hand colouring, some spotting, staining and slight marginal fraying, one map with juvenile crayon to image, disbound, large 8vo
189* Ireland. Mercator (Gerard), Irlandiae Regum, n.d. [1595 or later], hand coloured engraved map on two sheets (as published), strapwork cartouche, each sheet approx. 345 x 475mm, framed and glazed Not examined out of frames. (2)
£250-350
£200-300
Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (1)
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£100-150
Lot 194 194 London. Homann (Johann Baptist), Accurater Prospect und Grundris der Konigl: Gros - Britanisch: Haupt und Residentz stadt London..., Nurenberg, [1700 or slightly later], engraved map with inset views of Whitehall and the Royal Exchange, above a panorama of the River Thames, bright original hand colouring, very slight staining to image, 500 x 590mm
196 Map reference. A mixed collection of nineteen map reference books, 20th century, includingSkelton (R.A.), County Atlases of the British Isles, 1579 - 1703, pub. Carta Press, 1970, numerous b & w illusts. throughout, orig. pub. cloth gilt, d.j., 4to, together with Booth (John), Looking at old Maps, pub. Cambridge House Books, Westbury, 1979, umerous b & w illusts. throughout, orig. pub. cloth gilt, d.j., 4to, with Barber (Peter ed.), The Map Book, pub. Ted Smart [2005], numerous colour and b & w illusts. throughout, orig. pubs. dec. printed boards, d.j., large 4to, plus Goss (John), Braun & Hogenberg’s The City Maps of Europe, pub. Studio Editions Ltd., 1991, sixty colour printed double page plans, orig. pubs. cloth gilt, d.j., folio, and Tooley (R.V.), Maps and Map Makers, pub. B.T. Batsford Ltd, 2nd. ed., 1952, numerous b & w illusts. throughout, orig. pubs. cloth gilt, d.j. price clipped, 4to, together with another fourteen similar
James Howgego, Printed Maps of London, 1553 - 1850, no.51b. (1) £700-1000
195* London. Cole (B.), Cheap Ward with its Divisions into Parishes according to a new Survey [and] Baynards Castle Ward and Faringdon Ward within their Divisions into Parishes according to a new Survey, c.1770, two hand coloured engraved ward plans, old folds, some overall toning, each approx. 365 x 465mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with one other similar, plus Hogarth (William) A Representation of the March of the Guards towards Scotland in the Year 1745, pub. 1750 [or later], uncoloured engraving by Luke Sullivan, occ. marginal closed tears, 435 x 555mm, mounted, framed and glazed, andSenex (John), A collection of thirty-four maps, [1719 or later], thirty-four uncoloured strip road maps printed back to back, some dust soiling, staining and marginal fraying, each approx. 160 x 205mm (38)
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£150-200
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£100-150
201 North Pole. Mercator (Gerard), Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio, [1595 or later], hand coloured engraved map, central fold repaired on verso, slight overall toning, 375 x 400mm, Latin text on verso
197 Maps. A mixed collection of approx. seventy maps, mostly 18th & 19th century, including maps of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Huntingdonshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Rutland, with examples by Owen & Bowen, Seller/Grose, Archer, Lewis, Cary, Moule, Weller, Kitchin, Saxton/Kip, Dower and J & C Walker, various sizes and condition (approx.70)
This map maintains the erroneous theory of a north west passage and of the four mythical islands surrounding the pole. (1) £500-800
£70-100
198 Maps. A large mixed collection of approx. 640 British and foreign maps, mostly 18th & 19th century, including British county and regional maps, town plans, continents and countries, with examples by Cary, Morden, Jansson, Rapkin, Saxton/Kip, Lewis, Hall and Archer, various sizes and condition (approx.640)
£200-300
199 Netherlands. Jaillot (Alexis Hubert), Le Duche de Brabant qui comprend les Quartiers de Louvain, Brusselles, Anvers, et Bosleduc, 1692, engraved map, orig. outline colouring, 50 x 80cm, together with Bowen (Emanuel), A New & Correct Map of the Netherlands or Low Countries, c.1760s, uncol. engraved map, some repairs to verso, 35 x 42.5cm, and Moll (Herman), Les Provinces des PaysBas Catholiques ou A Most Exact Map of Flanders or Austrian Netherlands &c., c.1710, engraved map, hand coloured in outline, several edge tears, 61 x 101cm, and Delisle (Guillaume), Carte des Provinces Unies des Pays Bas, 1702, engraved map with title cartouche, hand col. in outline, some spotting and edge fraying, 48 x 62cm, plus other maps of the low countries by map-makers incl. Moll, James Wyld, Arrowsmith, Sanson, Delisle, Vaugondy, etc. (approx. 28)
£150-200
202 North Pole. Homann (Johann Baptist), Geographische Universal - Zeig und Schlag-Uhr...., c.1720, engraved north polar projection of the world displayed on a clock face with explanatory German text in the vertical margins, original hand colouring, 495 x 580mm
200 North Africa. De L’Isle (Guillaume), In Notitiam Ecclesiasticam Africae Tabula Geographica, pub. Amsterdam, Covens & Mortier, c.1765, engraved map with original outline colouring, elaborate uncoloured cartouche and mileage scale, 395 x 545mmThe map includes Spain and Portugal and the Western Mediterranean. (1)
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£70-100
£300-500
203 Oceania. A mixed collection of ten maps, mostly 19th century, including examples by Johnston, Tallis, Arrowsmith, Debuissons and Tardieu, together with a Mercator projection map of the World by Findlay and a small wood engraved map of the Fiji islands, all hand coloured, various sizes and condition (12)
£150-200
204 Ogilby (John). The Road from London to Montgomery, North Wales, [1675 or later], hand coloured engraved strip road map, occ. marginal closed tears, slight overall toning, 330 x 460mm, together with The Road from St. Davids com. Penbroke to Holywell com. Flint, The Road from Welshpool com. Montgomery to Carnarvan in North Wales [and] The Road from Chester to Cardiff com. Glamorgan, three hand coloured engraved strip road maps, each with some overall toning, each laid on card each approx. 330 x 440mm (4)
£100-150
205* Oxfordshire. Kitchin (Thomas), A New Improved Map of Oxfordshire from the best Surveys and Intelligences, Divided into its Hundreds, pub. R.Wilkinson, Laurie & Whittle and Bowles & Carver, n.d., c.1787, engraved map with original outline colouring, decorative b & w cartouche, very slight toning, narrow margins, 710 x 525mm, framed and glazed Lot 201
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£70-100
206* Scandinavia. Seutter (George Matthaus), Magni Ducatus Finlandiae, Russiae partim, partim Sueciae subjecti Sinus item Bothnici ac Finnici nova et accurata delineatio...., c.1750, engraved map with original hand colouring, decorative b & w cartouche, 505 x 590mm, together with Stackhouse (T. pub.), Denmark, June 1st. 1790, hand coloured engraved map by S.J.Neale, slight toning, 385 x 380mm, mounted framed and glazed, plus Valk (Gerard & Leonard), Hungaria Universalis divisa in proprie dictam....., n.d., c.1720, engraved map with original hand colouring, 500 x 605mm, framed and glazed Not examined out of frames. (3)
208 Scotland. Blaeu (Johannes), Sterlinensis Praefestura SterlinShyr Auct. Timoth Pont, n.d., c.1667, engraved map with original hand colouring, elaborate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 415 x 525mm, Latin text on verso (1)
£150-200
209 Scotland. Cowley (John), A New Map of North Britain with the islands thereunto belonging, done from some late surveys of part of the East and West Coasts and from Modern Accounts of the Country....., 1734, uncoloured engraved map, inset map of the Shetland islands, old folds, 500 x 375mm, together with A Display of the Coasting Lines of six several Maps of North Britain shewing the Disagreement among Geographers in their Representations of the Extent and Situation of the Country...., 1734, engraved map with sparse original outline colouring, old folds, repaired and strengthened on verso, 630 x 515mm, with A Map of the Improved Moss and Improveable Bay of Kintra drawn from a Plan of the Survey of Ardnamorchan, 1734, uncoloured engraved map, old folds strengthened on verso, 415 x 630mm, plus A Plan & Perspective view of the Improved Land of Mingary with the Improveable Bay of Kitchoan....., [1734], uncoloured engraved map, inset view of Mingary Castle, old folds, repaired on verso, 445 x 600mm
£100-150
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£250-350
210 Scrap album. A late 19th century album, containing approx. 32 chromolithographic caricatures originally published in ‘Vanity Fair’, colour printed portraits and social scenes from ‘The Illustrated London News’, ‘The World’ and ‘The Sketch’, engraved portraits, photographs, topographical views, cuttings and maps, including a collection of maps of The Isle of Man with examples by Rocque, Bowles, Osbourne, Seller, Blome, Kitchin, Hollar and Lodge, and thirty-five b & w strip road maps from ‘The Universal Magazine’, various sizes and condition, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, boards detached, spine partially lacking, rubbed, frayed and worn, oblong folio
207 Scotland. Morden (Robert), A Mapp of Scotland made by R.Gordon, Author of Bleau’s Atlas of Scotland, Corrected and Improved by Robert Morden....., pub. Rob. Walton, n.d., c.1687, engraved map with early outline colouring, decorative cartouche supported by winged putti, list of Scottish counties below map, two panels of place names attached to vertical margins (as published), some professional restoration on verso, overall size 490 x 570mm
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Royal Scottish Geographical Society pubs., The Early Maps of Scotland, vol. 1, p.174. Scarce. (1) £150-200
£150-200
211 Sea charts. A mixed collection of approx. 100 Admiralty charts, 19th century, uncoloured engraved and lithographic sea charts of England, Scotland Ireland and Northern Europe, several double page, many with a Liverpool Chart Office correction stamp, various sizes and condition, contained in a folio case with gilt letters ‘“Aideen” R.M.Y.C. Charts’, large folio The collection appears to have been compiled for the use on board this yacht. (approx.100) £300-500
212 South America. Cary (John), A New Map of South America, 1807, engraved map on two sheets with orig. hand colouring, each sheet 45 x 53cm, together with another copy of the same map dated 1824, both maps with some damp staining, together with Moll (Herman), Chili Magellans-Land and Terra del Fuego & c., c.1701, uncoloured engraved map, damp stained, 16 x 19cm, plus other maps of South America or parts of South America by Thomson, Sidney Hall, Arrowsmith, etc., many with damp staining (approx. 42)
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£100-150
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213 Title pages. A collection of five title pages, mostly 17th century, including examples by Speed, Visscher and Mortier, the Visscher with original hand colouring, various sizes and condition (5)
£250-350
214 Title pages. A collection of five title pages, mostly 17th century, including examples by Hondius, Blaeu, Valk, Sanson and Braun & Hogenberg, the Sanson, Valk and Blaeu with original hand colouring, various sizes and condition (5)
£250-350
215 Title pages. A collection of five title pages, mostly 17th century, including examples by Blaeu, Hondius and Sanson, the Bleau with original hand colouring, various sizes and condition (5)
£200-300
216 Title pages. A collection of seven title pages, mostly 17th 19th century, including examples by Ogilby, Hondius, Mercator, Moll, Martin, Blaeu and Mortier, the Blaeu and Hondius with original hand colouring, various sizes and condition (7)
£300-500
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217* Warwickshire. Speed (John), The Counti of Warwick, The Shire Towne and Citie of Coventre described, pub. John Sudbury & George Humble, c.1627, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plans of Warwick and Coventry, elaborate strapwork title and mileage scale, toned overall, repairs to image, 385 x 510mm, mounted, framed and glazed Not examined out of frame. (1)
£80-120
218 West Africa. Camberledge (J.A.), To Capt. H.E.R. Barker of H.M.S.Jupiter and Commodore of the E - J fleet, This Chart of a new Passage thro’ which he conducted the Fleet in August 1807 is a proof of his Anxiety for its quick arrival in India and is a mark of the esteem of his most obediant, faithful, humble servt. [1807], manuscript sea chart, very slight worming and staining, slight marginal dust soiling, 420 x 545mm The chart is drawn on a page from a crew list pay-book. On the verso are red ink columns with columns for the entry of a sailors name, various deductions, remittances and slops, through to his grade and date of discharge. (1) £150-200
219 World. Harrison (J.), A New Map of the World with the Latest Discoveries, 1788, engraved twin-hemisphere map, hand coloured, 31 x 51cm, together with Bowen (Emanuel), A New & Accurate Chart of the World, c.1750s, uncol. engraved map, relaid with some repairs, 37 x 45cm, and Thomson (John), Chart of North Atlantic Ocean, 1815, hand col. engraved map, overall browning, 53 x 64cm, plus other 18th & 19th century World maps and maps of parts of North America, incl. some large World hemisphere maps, many with faults (approx. 70)
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£200-300
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220 World. Ruysch (Johann), Universalior Cogniti Orbis Tabula Ex Recentibus Confecta Observationibus, Rome, [1507-08], uncoloured engraved map on two sheets (as published), slight staining to corners of lower margins, slight strengthening on verso, 405 x 535mm As a geographer and cartographer very little is known about Ruysch. However, his map of the world is a major cartographic milestone in that he draws from both Portuguese and Spanish discoveries and updates dramatically the Contarini-Rosselli map of the world. The map first came to prominence in the 1507 edition of Ptolemy’s ‘Geography’; some copies contained a revolutionary new world map compiled by Ruysch. In the following year the title-page announced the inclusion of a new world map that displayed the new discoveries of the European navigators. Marcus Beneventanus, an Italian monk, wrote a description of the map which was based on a conversation with Ruysch, who claimed he had sailed from Bristol to fifty-three degrees north latitude and then due west. It is not thought that Ruysch had been with John Cabot who reached North America before 1500, but it is widely accepted that he reached the great fishing banks of Newfoundland. The Spanish, Portuguese and the English had all reached North America and the place name derivation usually indicates the nationality of the explorer. Ruysch’s map outline is based on Contarini, however Ruysch closes the Northwest passage and maps the shape of the West Indies and South America very differently. Ruysch also includes written observations about the manners and customs of the natives as well as the indigenous fauna and alleged mineral deposits. He mentions cannibalism, wild beasts, pearls and gold. One inscription tells us that Portuguese navigators had sailed as far as fifty degrees south without finding the end of the continent. He states that ‘as far as this, Spanish navigators have come, and they have called this land on account of its greatness, the New World. in so much as they have not wholly explored it..... further than the present termination, it must remain thus imperfectly delineated until it is known in what direction it extends’. Ruysch also omits Cipango (Japan) because he finds that the Spanish discoveries and those of Marco Polo clash and therefore he regards the information as unreliable. Ruysch also includes four fictitious islands in the Arctic Ocean, a conceit that was perpetuated sixty years later by Gerard Mercator. The influence of Ruysch’s map cannot be understated. Only two other printed maps showed America at this date: The Contarini and the Waldseemuller maps. Ruysch’s map, widely circulated because of its inclusion in a Ptolemaic atlas, was hugely significant and it is perfectly fair to argue that most Europeans had their first sight and comprehension of the vastness of the Americas thanks to Ruysch’s fan-shaped ‘Tabula’. This example is state five with the ‘Pelagus Bone Speranze’ legend added below the Cape of Good Hope. Shirley, The Mapping of the World, no. 25; Kenneth Nebenzahl, Atlas of Columbus and the Great Discoveries, pp. 50-51. (1) £80000-120000 49
Lot 221 221 World. Speed (John), A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne according to ye truest Descriptions latest Discoveries & best Observations yt have beene made by English or Strangers, pub. Thos. Bassett and Ric. Chiswell [1676], uncoloured engraved hemispheral map of the world, two inset circular celestial maps, decorated with vignettes of the elements, portraits of explorers, eclipses and spheres, some fraying to margins, very slight loss to lower corners, 400 x 530mm, mounted
224 World. Homann (Johann Baptiste), Basis Geographiae Recentioris Astronomica...., Nuremberg, c.1740, engraved hemispheral world map after Doppelmayer, original hand colouring, insular California, 490 x 580mm (1)
£250-350
£5000-8000
225 World. Homann (Johann Baptist), Sphaera Mundi, Nuremberg, c, 1740, engraved map after J.G.Doppelmayr, original hand colouring, slight staining and worming affecting image, 500 x 590mm
222 World. Coronelli (Vicenzo Maria), Primi Elemento o Introdutione Al Corso Geografico, Venice, c.1690, engraved map with original hand colouring, trimmed to neat line, laid on later paper and with overlaid margins, some worming to lower margin but not affecting image, 455 x 605mm
An unusual comparative view of the world projected on a variety of angles showing the equator and the various meridians which bisect the earth. The whole depicting the various observations and theories of 18th century astronomer. Decorated with armilliary spheres, celestial and terrestrial globes. (1) £120-180
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An unusual hemispheral map showing the climate zones of the world and lines of longitude and latitude but showing none of the world’s land masses. (1) £70-100
226 World. Homann (Johann Baptist), Planiglobii Terrestris cum Utroq Hemisphaerio Caelesti Generalis Exhibitio...., Nuremberg, [1716 or slightly later], engraved hemispheral map with two additional celestial hemispheres, bright original hand colouring, 500 x 570mm
223 World. Homann (Johann Baptist), Sphaerarum Artificialium Typica Repraesentatio, Nuremberg, c.1720, engraving with bright original hand colouring of an armilliary sphere, a terrestrial and celestial globe, slight worming to lower margin just affecting image, 495 x 585mm, together with De Fer (Nicolas), La Sphere Artificielle ou Armilaire Oblique, Paris, 1716engraved armilliary sphere surrounded by several astronomical diagrams, engraved by P.Starckman, original hand colouring, slight worming to lower margin not affecting image, 400 x 425mm (2)
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£400-600
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£1500-2500
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DECORATIVE PRINTS & ORIGINAL ART All lots unframed unless otherwise stated 227* Aldin (Cecil). A group of 23 mounted lithographs of dogs, unsigned, together with approx. 200 loose Aldin prints from various works, plus a few prints of dogs by other artists (approx. 225)
£100-150
228* Birds. A collection of approx. 85 lithos. from Henry Mayer’s ‘Illustrations of British Birds’, each with original hand colouring, sheet size approx. 36 x 27cm, all mounted (approx. 85)
£100-150
229* Birds. A collection of approx. 400 prints & engravings, 18th & 19th century, many hand coloured, incl. engravings from Wilkes’ Encyclopaedia Londinensis, engravings from George Edwards’ Natural History of Birds, colour lithos. after Thorburn, etc., some mounted (approx. 400)
£200-300
Lot 228
230* Birds. Two hand coloured engravings from John Frederick Miller’s ‘Cinelia Physica’, 1796, comprising ‘Oriolus Gularis’ (Oriole) and ‘Alceda Formosa’ (Kingfisher), each 40 x 27cm, together with four other large format engravings of birds, mounted (6)
Lot 229
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£100-150
231* Birds. A mixed collection of twenty prints, photographs, watercolours and engravings, mostly 19th & 20th century including Richardson (K.), Reed Bunting, 1985, watercolour, signed and dated in pencil by artist, 210 x 160mm, mounted, framed and glazed, plus a small unsigned watercolour of a Stork, 200 x 130mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with two photogravure prints after Archibald Thorburn, a watercolour drawing of a hooded hawk, plus Peters (Margaret), A Young Tawny Owl, late 20th century, pastel, signed and titled by artist in lower left, 340 x 270mm, clip framed, and a b & w photograph of a falcon, together with a taxidermy specimen of a Barn owl’s wing, presented in a box frame, plus a mixed collection of maps, photographs, portraits, sporting and topographical engravings, all framed and glazed, various sizes and condition (20)
£80-120
232* Birds. A mixed collection of approx. 160 prints and engravings, mostly 18th & 19th century, including examples by Buffon, Grandidier, Gould, Greene, Albin and Lizars, various sizes and condition (approx.160)
£150-250
233* Birmingham. Buck (Samuel & Nathanial), The East Prospect of Birmingham in the County of Warwick [and] The South West Prospect of Birmingham in the County of Warwick, 1731 [or a little later], two hand coloured engraved panoramas, the east prospect trimmed to plate mark with slight loss to text at lower margin, the west prospect with one closed tear affecting image, each approx. 295 x 795mm (2)
£200-300
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234* Board game. Fe Fer (Nicolas), Le Jeu des Nations Principales, Paris, 1705, uncoloured engraved game, forty three panels with the title supported by the two hemispheres of the world, laid on the original board with marbled paper borders, 435 x 565mm Henry Rene D’Allemagne’s study of early board games lists this game but gives an earlier version dated 1662. The British Museum holds a copy of this earlier state. Each of the compartments which comprise the game show an allegorical depiction of a country, with a man and a woman in national costume and a brief description below the image. The game commences with North America and naturally culimates with France. Rare. (1) £700-1000
235* Bolswert (Schelte Adams, 1586-1659). Pastoral landscape with a shepherd and his flock, etching after Rubens, 31.5 x 44.5cm, framed and glazed, together with Hollar (Wenceslaus), The ant and the grasshopper, fine engraving from Ogilby’s Aesopics, published 1668, 25 x 19.5cm (Pennington 400) and two other engravings by Hollar including a plan and a view of the crypt of St. Paul’s Cathedral before the fire (Pennington 1029 & 1030), and others including an etching from Strutt’s Sylva Britannica, a stipple engraving printed in colours of the nativity, most framed and glazed (8)
£100-150
236* Bone (Muirhead). War Drawings, Parts I, II, IV & V, pub. Country Life, 1917-18, printed titles and forty colour lithographs, each signed in pencil, with small circular blindstamp to lower margin of each, loose in orig. printed wrappers, rubbed and some marks, spines re-strengthened with adhesive tape, slim folio (54 x 42.5cm) The edition de luxe was limited to fifty copies, printed in six parts, with a total of sixty lithographic proofs, each signed by the artist in pencil, and with his embossed monogram. Muirhead Bone was commissioned in 1916 to make a record of the Great War, and arrived in August at the height of the Somme Offensive. His quickly-recorded views vividly capture the frenetic activity and devastation on and near the front line. (4) £700-1000
Lot 240
237* Bonnard (Pierre, 1867-1947). Le Parc Monceau, 1937, etching on laid paper, with full margins, plate size 33.5 x 26cm (13.25 x 10.25ins), (Bouvet 114), together with Vlaminck (Maurice de, 18761958), Rue de la Glaciere, etching, printed on MBM Ingres d’Arches laid paper, with full margins, plate size 33 x 25.5cm (13 x 10ins), (Walterskirchen 146) (2)
£150-200
238* Botany. A collection of approx. 160 loose engraved plates from William Curtis’ Flora Londiniensis, c.1770s, all with original hand colouring, each print with corresponding sheet of descriptive letterpress text, sheet size 47 x 28cm, also includes title page dated 1777 and five preliminary leaves (approx. 160)
£200-300
239* Botany. Botanical prints & engravings, 18th & 19th century, incl. hand col. engravings from Sowerby, Curtis, Anne Pratt, etc., various sizes, some mounted (approx. 400)
£100-150
240* Botany. A collection of approx. 300 prints, 18th & 19th century, incl. hand coloured engravings from Bonelli’s ‘Hortus Romanus’, uncol. fruit engravings after Volckamer, hand coloured fruit engravings from ‘Pomologie de la France’, hand col. plates from Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, etc., many mounted (approx. 300)
£200-300
241* Botany. Curtis (William), A mixed collection of approx. 270 engravings, mostly 18th & 19th century, engravings with original hand colouring, occ. off setting, each approx. 205 x 120mm (approx.270)
Lot 241
£300-500
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242* Brangwyn (Frank, 1867-1956 ). On the Staircase, 1927, lithograph with hand colouring, 34 x 43cms (13.5 x 17 inches), mounted, framed and glazed Originally published in ‘The Brangwyn Portfolio’. (1)
£100-150
243* British topographical views. A mixed collection of approx. 800 engravings, mostly 18th & 19th century, including examples by Buck, Whittock, Shepherd, Bartlett, Greig, Storer, Gastineau, Dugdale, Fielding, Daniell, Campbell and Cole, various sizes and condition (approx.800)
Lot 244
£200-300
244* Caricatures. Approx. 65 lithographic political cartoons by John Doyle, plus approx. 50 satirical litographs from ‘The Hornet’, plus some others incl. seven hand coloured etchings by William Heath (approx. 125)
£100-150
245* Caricatures. Heath (William), Master Fang the Parish Beadle, pub. S.Gans, 1829, etching with original hand colouring, slight staining to margin, 365 x 255mm, together with Cruikshank (Isaac), The Longitude and Latitude of Warley Camp in the Summer of 1795, pub. H.Humphrey, 1802, etching with original hand colouring, 240 x 280mm, with Humphrey (William pub.), The Warley Heroes or the Light Infantry on Full March, n.d., c.1778, uncoloured etching, 240 x 355mm, plus Heath (W., attrib.), [The R _ L Lover, or the Admiral on a Lee Shore, c.1812, etching with original hand colouring, trimmed to image and lacking title and letters, 150 x 225mm, and an unattributed etching, Essex Calve_lry for Internal Defence, pub. as the act Directs, May 12th 1794, etching with original hand colouring, trimmed and laid on later card, 240 x 345mm (5)
£100-150
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246* Chimot (Edouard Jules, 1880-1959). Femme nu Allonge, aquatint etching printed in colour and finished by hand, with etched signature to lower left corner, 19 x 14cm (7.5 x 5.5 inches), framed and glazed (1)
£70-100
247* Chinese School. Chrysanthemum and Bamboo, 17th Century, Chinese brush drawing on paper, with inscriptions in Chinese, 151 x 41.5cm (59.5 x 16.25ins), mounted on silk, with bone-handled baton Provenance: Formerly in the Aalderink Collection. (1)
£300-500
248* Chinese School. Bamboo on a rocky outcrop, 17th Centry, Chinese brush drawing on paper, with inscription in Chinese and artist’s seals, some light creases, large vertical tear from top margin (without loss), with baton and silk blank margin torn and detached, 180 x 95cm (71 x 37.5ins) Provenance: Previously sold at Christie’s, London, June 24th 1983, lot 757. Sold with all faults. (1) £300-500
250 Cooper (Alfred Heaton, 1864-1929). A lake surrounded by mountains, with sheep at the waters edge, watercolour, signed and dated 1902, 38 x 55cm (15 x 21.75 inches), mounted, framed and glazed
249* Commelin (Jan & Caspar). A collection of sixteen botanical engravings, [1697 - 1701], hand coloured engravings, each approx. 365 x 225mm Originally published in ‘Horti Medici Amstelodamensis’. (16)
(1)
£100-150
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£300-500
251* Corbellini (Luigi (1901-1968)). Boat moored at quayside, oil on canvas (backed on board), signed to lower left corner, 36 x 48.5cm (14.25 x 19.25 inches), framed (1)
Lot 254
£100-150
252* Costume. A mixed collection of approx. 350 prints, mostly 19th century, engravings and lithographs, many with original hand colouring, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.350)
£80-120
253* Dutton (Thomas Goldsworth). The “America” Schooner Yacht, To John C Stevens Esq. Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, pub. Ackermann & Co., Sept. 5th. 1851, lithograph after O.W.Brierly, original hand colouring, 360 x 470mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£250-350
254* Dutton (Thomas Goldsworth). The Iron Cutter Yacht Mosquito, 50 tons, R.T.Y.C., pub. Rudolph Ackermann Nov. 6th. 1852, lithograph with orig. hand colouring, 380 x 465mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
256 Fashion. La Derniere Toilette, Maison A. Bulteau, E. Lecomte & Cie. (Manufacturiers), n.d., c. 1890, twelve fine hand-col. litho. plts., some heightened with gold or silver, some minor finger soiling to foremargins, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and a little stained, slim folio
£250-350
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255* English school. Portrait of a Gentleman, 1806, original halflength oval portrait in chalk & pastels on board, showing a white haired gentleman wearing a black coat, dated to lower right edge, framed & glazed, back board with ‘lot 242, 25.2.82’ written in white chalk to verso, approx. 590 x 500mm (1)
£70-100
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£150-200
257* Field Sports. A collection of approx. 400 prints & engravings, mostly 19th century, incl. hand col. prints after Henry Alken, numerous uncol. engravings from Samuel Howitt’s ‘The British Sportsman’, stipple engravings after Henry Bunbury, hand coloured John Leech plates, three large signed colour prints by Lionel Edwards, etc. (approx. 400)
£150-200
258 Film set designs. A collection of four designs for film sets, c.1930s, black charcoal drawings on thin paper, in the style of Andre Andrejew, one interior scene, and three exterior scenes, with figures, torn and frayed at edges (with some minor loss), approx. 530 x 690mm (21 x 27ins) (4)
£70-100
261* Flint (Sir William Russell, 1880-1969). Balance, pub. Medici Society, 1965, colour print with blindstamp, signed in pencil, 40 x 57cm, framed and glazed Gardner & Clark 84. (1)
£70-100
259* Flint (Sir William Russell, 1880-1969). Interlude, pub. Frost & Reed, 1967, colour print with blindstamp, signed in pencil, 30 x 55cm, framed and glazed Gardner & Clark 94. (1)
£70-100
262* Flint (Sir William Russell, 1880-1969). Group of Idlers, pub. Medici Society, 1967, sepia print with blindstamp, signed in pencil, 49 x 67cm, framed and glazed Gardner & Clark 90. (1)
260* Flint (Sir William Russell, 1880-1969). Sara, pub. Medici Society, 1965, colour print with blindstamp, signed in pencil, 39.5 x 63cm, framed and glazed Gardner & Clark 83. (1)
£100-150
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£100-150
266* Foreign topography. A large collection of approx. 2200 engravings, 19th century, uncoloured wood engravings from ‘The Illustrated London News’, including views in India, Russia, United States, Canada, Hong Kong, China, Macao, Malta and the British Isles, various sizes and condition (2 cartons)
£200-300
267* Fores (S.W. pubs.). A collection of seventeen etchings, c.1795, seventeen uncoloured etchings with several vignette images to each sheet, after Pyne and Howitt, including sporting, genre, social and topographical scenes, some fraying and staining largely confined to margins, occ. worming just affecting image, each approx. 380 x 280mm (17)
£50-80
268* Foxhunting. A mixed collection of nineteen engravings, mostly 19th century, large scale engravings, lithographs, mezzotints and aquatints, including examples by Alland, Lupton, Scott, Paton, and Hester, various sizes and condition, together with , Snelgrove (Dudley), British Sporting and Animal Prints, 1658 - 1874, The Paul Mellon Collection, pub. The Tate Gallery 1981, numerous colour and b & w illusts. throughout, orig. pubs. gilt cloth, d.j., 4to (11)
£100-150
269* Foxhunting. A mixed collection of nine engravings, mostly 18th & 19th century, large scale mezzotints, aquatints and engravings, including examples by Drake, Clark & Dubourg, Hunt and Sartorius, various sizes and condition (9)
£100-150
263* Flint (Sir William Russell, 1880-1969). Victorian Diversion, pub. Medici Society, 1951, colour print, signed in pencil, 56 x 42cm, framed and glazed Gardner & Clark 37. (1)
£70-100
264* Flint (Sir William Russell, 1880-1969). ‘Snow’, colour reproduction print, limited edition 374/850, pub. Henry Donn, 1980, with pubs. blindstamp, image size 247 x 358mm (9.75 x 13.25ins), together with ‘Market Hall, Cordes’, colour reproduction print, pub. Medici Society, 1963, in a limited edition of 756, signed in pencil by the artist, and with publisher’s blindstamp, image size 420 x 570mm (16.5 x 22.5ins), both framed and glazed Gardner Russell Flint unsigned Catalogue Raisonné, page 36. Gardner & Clark, Russell Flint Signed Prints, 78. (2) £70-100
265* Foreign topography and maps. A mixed collection of approx. 500 maps and prints, mostly 18th & 19th century, including views in France, Germany, Holy Land and Italy, with maps of France, North America, The World, India and Africa with examples by Tegg, S.P.U.K., Bowen, Rollos, Rapkin and Thomson, various sizes and condition, plus , Butler (Samuel), An Atlas of Ancient Geography, 1827, twenty-one (complete) engraved maps with original outline colouring, some staining and off setting, some juvenile marginalia on verso of maps, contemp. half morocco with printed label to upper board, upper board detached, rear board near detached, rubbed, frayed and worn, 8vo (approx.500)
£100-150
270* Fruit. A mixed collection of approx. 100 prints, lithographs and engravings, mostly 19th century, including examples by Wolter, Taillant, Poiteau and Wendal, various sizes and condition (approx.100)
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£200-300
273 Habert-Dys (Jules Auguste). Algues et Poissons, & Oiseaux, [Paris, 1900], eight fine double-page chromo. plts., and seven (of 8) fine chromo. plts. respec., the second work lacking plt. II, all heightened with gold, both orig. printed wrappers, stitched as issued, rubbed and some light soiling, chipped with minor loss to edges and spines strengthened with sellotape, slim 8vo (2)
£150-200
274* Havell (Daniel). The Town of Dixan in Abyssinia [and] Mucculla in Abyssinia, pub. William Miller, May 1st. 1809, pair of aquatint engravings after Henry Salt, original hand colouring, each approx. 480 x 650mm, slight spotting, largely confined to margins, mounted, framed and glazed Originally published in ‘Twenty-four Views in St. Helena, The Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt’. Abbey Travel II, 515 nos. 17 & 18. (2) £200-300
271* Gessner (Johann Conrad, 1764-1826). Fighting Cavalry Scenes, pub. R. Ackermann, 1797-98, together nine uncoloured aquatint plates, by C. Ziegler, after Gessner, with margins, one or two closed marginal tears, and minor fraying to extreme edges, plate size 31.5 x 44cm, and similar (8)
£100-150
272* Goodman (Maude, c.1860-1938). A young girl seated with a basket of roses, watercolour, of a young girl resting on a stone step in a sunlit cobbled alleyway with cottages, signed lower right, 23 x 16cm (9 x 6.25ins), mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£200-300
275* Hughes (Ted). Original limited edition linocut by Gavin Robbins illustrating a poem by Hughes, signed by Hughes and Robbins in pencil, dated 1969 and with limitation 59/75, sheet size 57 x 44cm, framed and glazed (1)
£70-100
276* Hunt (Charles). Cheltenham Annual Grand Steeple Chase Coming In, published I.W. Laird, 1841 [but later restrike], aquatint etching, hand coloured, 46 x 61cm, framed and glazed (1)
£50-80
277* Kip (Johannes). Cleeve Hill the seat of William Player Esq., c.1712, hand coloured engraved aerial prospect, 345 x 420mm, mounted, framed and glazed Originally published in Sir Robert Atkyns’ ‘The Ancient and Present State of Glocestershire’. (1) £70-100
Lot 273
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278* Kunisada (Utagawa, 1786-1864). Kabuki Actor, & Woman with sculptor and wooden stork, together two colour woodblock prints, 33.5 24cm (13.25 x 9.5ins), mounted, together with three colour woodblock landscapes by Hiroshige, probably early 20thcentury (5)
283* Mitchell (Ernest Gabriel, 1859-1928). White Carnations in a blue cylindrical bowl with wicker surround, 1886, watercolour on paper, signed and dated lower left, 33 x 48cm (13 x 19ins), framed and glazed, together with a circular hand-coloured engraving, late 18th or early 19th century engraving in the manner of Bartolozzi, of putti building a fire, framed and glazed
£80-120
(2)
£100-150
284* Natural history. A collection of prints & engravings, 19th century, incl. eight mounted colour lithos. of fish from Houghton, wood engravings of fish published by the SPCK, engravings of cattle and livestock, etc. (approx. 70)
285* Natural history. A mixed collection of approx. 450 engravings and lithographs, 18th & 19th century, including mammels, dogs, reptiles and domestic animals, with examples by Buffon, Grandidier, Hankart, Edwards and Choubard, various sizes and condition
279* Lancaster. Buck (Samuel & Nathanial), The North East Prospect of Lancaster, 1728 [or possibly later], uncoloured engraved panorama, 250 x 710mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£70-100
(approx.450)
£120-180
£100-150
280* London. Panorama of the River Thames in 1845, pub. Illustrated London news, 1845, two uncoloured engraved panoramas on one sheet (as published), one repaired closed tear affecting image, 800 x 1200mm, supplied with original key plate and explanation (1)
£100-150
281* London. London in 1842, taken from the summit of the Duke of York’s column, pub. Illustrated London News, 1842, two uncoloured engraved panoramas on one sheet (as published), slight overall toning, 900 x 1200mm, supplied with original key plate and explanation, together with three uncoloured double page panoramas from ‘The Illustrated London News’ (1)
£120-180
282* London. Pub. The Illustrated London News, Sketches in London, 1851, uncoloured engraved folding panorama of London surrounded by eight vignettes depicting topographical and industrial scenes, old folds, frayed and worn along old folds, laid on later linen, 710 x 950mm, together with Paris, 1848, uncoloured engraved panorama, old folds, frayed and worn along lower margin, slight spotting and dust soiling, 460 x 980mm, with Edinburgh, 1848, uncoloured engraved panorama, old folds, very slight spotting and offsetting, 460 x 950mm (3)
£120-180
286* Pearce (Faye, 20th c.). Spanish lady, 1944, oil on panel, signed and dated upper right, 30.5 x 24cm (12 x 9.5ins), framed (1)
Lot 283
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£70-100
287* Perry (George). A collection of fifty two engravings of shells, [1811], fifty-two aquatint engravings with bright original hand colouring, occ. images with slight toning and mount staining, each approx. 320 x 230mm, two images mounted
Lot 289
Originally published in ‘Conchology or the Natural History of Shells: Containing a new arrangement of the Genera and Species’. The first book on shells to be illustrated with aquatint plates. The book was originally met with derision and ridiculed for its eccentric taxonomy and vibrant colour. However Perry was proved correct and his shell names remain in use today. (52) £800-1200
288* Pochoir print. Fine original print of butterflies from E.A. Seguy’s ‘Papillons’, pub. Paris, 1925, 38 x 30cm, framed and glazed (1)
£70-100
289* Political posters. A group of eight original posters printed before the 1906 United Kingdom general election, most depicting Arthur Balfour and/or Henry Campbell-Bannerman on issues such as tariff reform, the licensing act, etc., four posters supporting the Liberals and four the Conservatives, some names and dates added in ink, sizes vary from the largest at 75 x 55cm to the smallest at 38 x 50cm (8)
£200-300
290* Political posters. Six original large format lithographic posters printed before the 1906 United Kingdom general election, many showing Arthur Balfour and Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the largest measuring 100 x 148cm, the smallest 74 x 106cm, some dates and names added in ink, all with some edge fraying and tears (6)
Lot 290
£200-300
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295* Prints & engravings. A large and varied collection of over 1000 prints, mostly 19th century, incl. many topographical prints after Dugdale, Bartlett, etc., plus natural history, decorative arts, portraits, etc. (approx. 1000+)
£70-100
296* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approx. 140 prints and engravings, mostly 19th century, etchings, engravings, watercolours and pencil drawings, including topography, portraits, sporting, natural history, genre and classical, various sizes and condition (approx.140)
£100-150
297* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of nine prints, mostly 19th & 20th century, includingHunt (Geoff), Victory races Temeraire for the enemy line, Trafalgar, 21st. October 1805 [and] Victory and Squadron in Light Airs, c.1999, two colour prints, signed by the artist in pencil below image, both limited edition of 188/850, each approx. 470 x 595mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Duncan (E.), To Edward Griffith Colpoys Esqr. Vice Admiral of the White, This plate of H.M.S.Winchester is respectfully dedicated by Captain C.F.Austen and the officers of that Ship, pub. W.J.Huggins, Jan. 1st. 1830 [but later impression], hand coloured aquatint after W.J.Huggins, toned overall, 330 x 480mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with a hand coloured panorama of Rochester, an oil painting of a horse, a hunting scene and an uncoloured late 18th century political caricature, plus two others similar, various sizes and condition, all framed and glazed (9)
£100-150
298* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approx. 330 prints and engravings, mostly 18th & 19th century, engravings and lithographs including heraldry, sporting, genre, topography, portraits, maritime and historical, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition 291* Prints & engravings. A varied collection, mostly 19th century, incl. approx. 400 uncoloured mid 19th century engravings of romantic subjects and women, approx. 100 engravings of Shakespeare scenes, plus approx. 25 prints of costumes and trades (approx. 500)
(approx.330)
299* Prints & engravings. A collection of approx. sixty engravings, mostly 19th century, engravings, etchings and lithographs, mostly large scale, including genre, caricatures, natural history, sporting and classical, with examples by Woollet, Strange, Bartoli, Mcland, Turner, Gillray, Jukes, John Dean Paul, Appleton, Simon, Hogarth and Davy, various sizes and condition
£100-150
292* Prints & engravings. A large and varied collection of approx. 800 prints, 19th & 20th century, incl. 100 archictectural plates incl. some from Vitruvius Britannicus, 19th century engraved portraits, topographical views, historical scenes, chromos. of decorative arts, etc. (approx. 800)
(approx.60)
(approx.450)
£200-300
£200-300
301* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approx. 500 engravings and prints, mostly 18th & 19th century, including ‘Punch cartoons’, wood engravings from ‘The Illustrated London News’, coins, travel, natural history and urns and vases, various sizes and condition
294 Prints & engravings. A collection of approx. 1000 prints, mostly 19th century, incl. approx. 250 prints of London views incl. numerous churches from Stow’s survey plus 19th century steel engs., and approx. 300 other British Isle topographical engravings after Bartlett, Harding, etc., together with engraved portraits and some natural history prints, together with an attractive four volume set of Lambert’s ‘The History and Survey of London’ (1806) bound in full tree calf but without the folding plan, and a similarly defective copy of Thomas Pennant’s ‘Of London’ (1790) bound in full calf (approx. 1000)
£200-300
300* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approx. 450 prints and engravings, mostly 18th & 19th century, including portraits, bird engravings with original hand colouring, chromolithographic plts. from ‘The Grammer of Ornament’, folding b & w topographical views published in ‘The Illustrated London News’, together with genre, topography, military, classical and genre
£100-150
293* Prints & engravings. A varied collection of approx. 750 prints, mostly 19th century, subjects incl. costume, fencing, Hogarth, encylopeadia plates, Victorian genre and sentimental subjects from the Art Journal, Dr Syntax aquatints by Rowlandson, etc. (approx. 750)
£120-180
(approx.500)
£150-200
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£100-150
302* Prints and engravings. A mixed collection of approx. 150 prints, lithographs and engravings mostly 18th & 19th century, including ‘Vue D’Optiques’, mezzotint ‘drolls’, British and foreign topography, music covers and genre, various sizes and condition, together with a damaged copy of Bacon’s Portable Atlas of London & Suburbs, a guide to Cambridge and an incomplete copy of ‘The Times Atlas (approx.150)
308* Railways. Dolby (E.I.), Defford Bridge. Designed to carry The Birmingham & Gloucester Railway over the River Avon, Worcestershire 1839, pub. A.Sprigg, n.d., c.1840, lithograph with original hand colouring, slight toning, some folds and repaired closed tears below image, some spotting and staining to mount, 280 x 415mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£100-150
£120-180
303* Prints & maps. A mixed collection of approx. sixty-five engravings and maps, mostly 19th century, including topography, portraits, maritime, biblical and genre, with examples by Moule, Daniell, Armytage, Bartlett and Barber, various sizes and condition (approx.65)
£70-100
304* Prints. A group of thirteen prints originally published in the influential German art magazine ‘Pan’, c.1895-1915, incl. a coloured woodcut portrait of Jacob Burckhardt by Albert Kruger (1885-1965) and works by Otto Fischer, Emil Orlik, Felix Hollenberg, Peter Halm, Bernhard Pankok, etc., plus others similar, all mounted (25)
£150-200
305* Prints. A large collection of 3000 coloured and uncoloured reproduction prints of coaching scenes, hunting, and maritime subjects, mid/late 20th century, after James Pollard, Robert Havell, George Morland, Brooking, Henry Alken, etc., approx. 50% printed in colour, the maritime prints and the Henry Alken fox hunting scenes with engraved plate mark, various sizes (sheet size 44.5 x 66cm and smaller) (3000)
£100-200
309* Railways. Dolby (Edwin Thomas attrib.), View of the Shakespeare Viaduct and Eastern Entrance of the Shakespeare Tunnel on the Dover Railway, pub. Clerk & Co., n.d., c.1840, hand coloured lithograph, slight wear to margins, 295 x 400mm, mounted, framed and glazed
£100-200
(1)
306* A similar lot (3000)
£200-300
307* Railways. Hawkins (G.), The Iron bridge over the River Trent near Sawley on the Line of the Midland counties Railway, pub. John Weale, 1840, lithograph with original hand colouring, 310 x 445mm, mounted, framed and glazedScarce early railway print.
310* Railways. Nibbs (Richard Henry), Viaduct of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Brighton. The Village of Preston in the Foreground, pub. W.Lane, Brighton, Nov. 18th. 1846, lithograph with original hand colouring, some spotting largely confined to margins, 250 x 365mm, mounted, frayed and glazed
(1)
(1)
£250-350
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£120-180
316 Ship building plans. This book was presented to Thomas J. Dodd by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty as a mark of their approbation of his uniform good conduct and progress in his studies at School during the year 1864, nine uncoloured engraved folding plans, elevations and cross sections of wooden warships, upper board detached, contemp. gilt dec. calf, lacking spine, rubbed, and worn, slim folio
311* Railways. Haghe (Louis), Great Western Railway. Kelston Bridge near Bath, pub. Lavars & Ackland, Bristol, n.d., c.1840, lithograph with original hand colouring, very slight spotting, 215 x 285mm, mounted, framed and glazed Scarce. (1)
£150-200
312* Reading. Buck (Samuel & Nathanial), The South Prospect of Reading in the County of Berks, 1734 [possibly a little later], uncoloured engraved panorama, toned overall, 300 x 790mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
(1)
£150-250
£80-120
313 [Rowlandson, Thomas]. A collection of twenty-one plts. by Thomas Rowlandson from Boswell’s Tour of the Hebrides, pub. E. Jackson, 1786, one plt. torn and crudely repaired, some scattered spotting, contemp. half calf, some wear, oblong 4to (1)
£100-150
314* Severn (Walter). Boulders and Trap dykes, Arran, 1877, original watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, titled, signed and dated lower left, some surface marks and pale discolouration, 61 x 96cm (24 x 37.75ins), contemp. gilt frame, glazed (1)
£200-300
317* SIMPSON (William). A collection of twelve lithographs from ‘The Seat of the War in the East’, pub. Paul & Dominic Colnaghi, 1855, twelve lithographs, slight spotting on four plts. each approx. 340 x 460mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with eight chromlithographs of Victoria Cross winners, each approx. 130 x 160mm, mounted and framed in two sets of four, plus a large early 20th century untitled etching on vellum after Messonier of Napoleon Bonaparte, heavily creased and wrinkled, 570 x 700mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with two others similar (17)
£200-300
318* Stained glass window design. Original design for a stained glass window depicting “The Prioress and the Wife of Bath”, early 20th c., pen and ink with pencil, showing two women on horseback, and two hounds, titled in calligraphy as part of image, lightly foxed and marked, 31 x 25.5cm (12.25 x 10ins), mounted, framed and glazed, together with four others unrelated
315* Sherwood (G.S., 20th century). Thirteen original humorous cartoons as printed in Punch magazine, 1934-36, pen & ink on artist’s drawing board, signed and captioned, sheet size 26.7 x 38cm, together with related magazine clippings G.S. Sherwood produced humourous cartoons for Punch, The Humorist and many other publications. The cartoons offered here were all published in Punch magazine and each is dated to the verso. (13) £70-100
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£80-120
319* Strube (Sidney, 1891-1956). An original humourous drawing depicting Winston Churchill and the French Prime Minister Edouard Herriot (1872-1957), pen and ink on Whatman drawing board, signed Strube, dated 5 Feb 1925 to verso, sheet size 26.5 x 38cmStrube was the long serving cartoonist for the Daily Express in which this cartoon was almost certainly published. (1)
£100-150
320* Topographical prints & engravings. A large collection of approx. 1000 prints and engravings, mostly 19th century, engravings and lithographs of British topographical views, together with a small collection of title pages, various sizes and condition (approx.1000)
£70-100
321* Vanity Fair cartoons. A mixed collection of approx. 400 caricatures, [1869 - 1910], colour lithographs and photlithographic caricatures, including foxhunters, jockeys, military, artists, musicians, aviators, politicians, lawyers and doctors, occ. duplicates, each approx. 370 x 220mm, various condition
Lot 319
(approx.400)
£200-300
322* Vanity Fair. A collection of approx. 300 Vanity Fair caricatures, mostly 1890s, colour litho., most in excellent condition with accompanying text leaf (approx. 300)
£200-300
323* Varley (Charles Smith, 1811-1888). River scene with boats and figures on the bank, watercolour, signed and dated 1886, some minor spotting to picture and mount, 21 x 48cm (8.25 x 19 inches), mounted, framed and glazed, together with Vernet (Antoine Charles Horace, 1758-1836), La Promenade de Longchamp 1802, pub. Paris, [1803], hand-col. etching, 28 x 55cm (11 x 21.75 inches), mounted, framed and glazed (2)
£100-150
324* Vue d’Optiques. A collection of twelve vue d’optiques of Paris, mid-18th century, together twelve hand-coloured engraved views of Paris, published by Basset or Chereau, some soiling and fraying to outer margins, one or two short marginal tears, one engraving with portion to left margin detached, stitched as issued, without covers, sheet size approx. 35.5 x 53.5cm (14 x 21ins), and sl. smaller
Lot 321
Includes views of the Pont Neuf, The Pont des Arts, The Palais de Luxembourg, Place de Louis XV, Cascades de Saint Cloud, Interieur de Notre Dame, Place de l’Hotel de Ville et du Phare a Calais, The Cabinet d’Histoire Naturelle au Jardin des Plantes, Cour de la Sorbonne, & Place Vendome Interieur de l’Eglise des Invalides. (12) £300-500
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325* Warwickshire. Sandby (Paul), Part of Warwick Castle from the S.E., The Entrance of Warwick Castle from the Lower Court [and] Warwick Castle from the Lodge Hill, pub. J. Boydell. Jany. 1776, three fine aquatints with bright original hand colouring, trimmed to plate mark, each approx. 340 x 475mm, together with nine lithographs and engravings of views in Warwickshire including examples by Westall, Everett, Hulme, Radclyffe, Brandard, Rider and Barnard and a small mixed collection of approx. thity-six maps, sporting scenes, topography, genre and portraits, various sizes and condition (approx.48)
327* Wilkinson (Henry 1921 - 2011). Curling, dry-point etching with hand colouring, signed and limited in pencil below image by artist, 255 x 355mm Limited edition of 48/100. (1)
328* Zulu wars. A mixed collection of eleven folding panoramas, pub. ‘The Illustrated London News’, c.1885, uncoloured engraved folding panoramas including four relating to the Zulu wars, together with others relating to the Crimea, naval battles and reviews, old folds, occ. duplicates, each approx. 380 x 1000mm, various condition
£300-500
326* Weinmann (Jean Guillaume). A collection of twenty-five engravings [1737 - 45], mixed method engravings with original hand colouring, each approx. 330 x 220mm (25)
£70-100
(11)
£200-300
Lot 328
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£120-180
PERIODICALS 329 Art Journal. 4 vols., 1881, 1882, 1883 & 1893, num. full-page eng. and etched plts. after old master and contemp. artists, engs. of sculpture and numerous wood engs., three vols with gutta percha perished and with contents shaken and loose, a.e.g., contemp. gilt dec. cloth, worn at extrems., folio, together with another fourteen loose b & w eng. plts. orig. pub. in ‘The Art Journal’, each approx. 210 x 260mm Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return. (4)
£100-150
330 The Graphic, vols. 45-52, Jan 1892-Dec 1895, together 8 vols., col. and b&w plts., num. eng. illusts. to text, occ. page excised, contemp. half calf gilt, with contrasting morocco labels to each, rubbed and some wear to extrems., folio, together with Illustrated London News, vol. 100, Jan-Jun 1892, num. b&w plts. and illusts., occ. page excised, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and some wear, folio (9)
£200-300
331 The Graphic, vols. 21, 22 & 24-26 Jan 1880-Dec 1882, together 5 vols., col. and b&w plts., num. eng. illusts., orig. cloth gilt, loss to a couple of spines, some dampstaining with one cover detached, wear to extrems., folio (5)
£100-150
332 Illustrated London News. A collection of 17 half yearly vols., c. 1890-1951, num. col. and b&w plts. and illusts., orig./contemp. cloth, several vols. worn and broken Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (17)
Lot 334
£100-150
333 Illustrated London News, vols. 4, 5, 8, 12-15 & 56 bound in 5, Jan 1844-Jun 1870, together 5 vols., folding panorama of Paris 1848 to vol. 12 (some tears and tape repairs), folding panorama of Edinburgh to vol. 13 (torn), num. eng. plts. & illusts., occ. inkstamp, recent cloth gilt, folio (5)
£150-200
334 La Vie Parisienne. Fifty-two issues, Paris, 1921, a complete volume, colour and b&w illusts. and ads., orig. colour pictorial wrappers preserved throughout, a little damp staining to upper margins, sl. worsening towards rear with a little damp fraying and light adhesion damage, orig. volume prelims. and printed wrappers (frayed), folio (1)
£400-600
335 La Vie Parisienne. Fifty-two issues, Paris, 1927, a complete year, colour and b&w illusts. and ads., orig. colour pict. wrappers, scattered minor soiling and marginal splits and nicks, first issue defective, folio (52)
£400-600
336 Vanity Fair Album, vols. 1 & 2, 4th ed. & 1st ed. respectively, c. 1870s, 101 chromo. caricatures (complete), a.e.g., gutta-percha perished, both orig. gilt dec. bevel-edged green cloth, rubbed to extrems., folio (2)
Lor 335
£200-300
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HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, AUTOGRAPHS & EPHEMERA
339* Autograph free fronts. Three Victorian albums compiled by M. Attwood (probably Matthias Attwood, 1779-1851, MP for Whitehaven 1832-47), a total of over 3000 autographed free fronts on approx. 500 pages, mounted as multiples of six to eight to a page with neat biographical manuscript captions beneath, partly alphabetical in sections, with additional autograph letters, autograph specimens and seals tipped in, the free front autographs largely comprising politicians, nobility and clergy, the autograph letters including Agnes Strickland, Robert Wilberforce, Sir W. Edward Parry, De la Warr, Lord Braybrooke, Charles Waterton, James Campbell, Samuel Wilberforce and a few others including many in the third person, the autograph specimens including Charles Dickens, William Gell, C.L. Eastlake, James Clark, and others including a number of signed admittance tickets to the Royal Botanic Society of London, some correspondence addressed to Sir John Coxe Hippisley, but otherwise to a wide variety of recipients, pasted on to a total of approx. 250 leaves and usually back to back, eng. armorial bookplate of Attwood to each pastedown, contemp. green half morocco gilt, numbered on spines, rubbed, folio
337 Allingham (Helen & Huish, Marcus B.). Happy England, 1st ed., pub. A and C Black, 1903, portrait frontispiece, 80 colour plates, light spotting to endpapers, t.e.g., original decorative cloth, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper; “His Excellency The Governor of South Australia, from Tennyson, with all best Xmas wishes. Xmas. 1903”. Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson (1852-1928) was the eldest son of Alfed Lord Tennyson, and Governor of South Australia from 1899. He was appointed 2nd Governor-General of Australia in 1903, for one year. The book is a gift to his replacement as Governor of South Australia (Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte). (1) £150-200
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£1000-1500
340* British Navy. Manuscript journal of Thomas Pritchard, Seaman on board H.M.S. Argus, 1875-79, approx. 70 leaves of a journal handwritten in ink by Thomas Pritchard, with mounted portrait photograph of the author at front, some contemporary newscuttings (including several leaves with newscuttings pasted over the manuscript text), occ. marginal marks and light soiling, a few leaves loosened and sl. frayed, contemp. cloth-backed boards, rubbed and some wear, small 4to (20.5 x 15.5cm, 8 x 6ins) A first-hand account of a seaman’s experiences on board HMS Argus from 1872 to 1889, including details of his early training, one or two shipwrecks, Madeira, St. Vincent, Cape Coast, West Africa, his transfer from the Argus to HMS Dromedary and back, Lagos, Ascension, Bermuda, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Barbados, Demerara, South America, Newport and Providence, Rhode Island, and back to the West Indies, including Barbados and Jamaica, Havana, Nassau, Tobago, and Bermuda, the St. Lawrence River and Quebec in Canada (1876), a return to England and Portsmouth in late 1877, ending with related newscuttings of the day. The account includes interesting information on the involvement of HMS Argus in disturbances which occurred in Barbados and Tobago during April and May 1876, including technical details of flags and signalling : ‘Saturday arrived at Barbados April 29th, having gone over 11000 miles against the wind in six days 12 hours average over 7 knots a hour. Landed the troops, there have been an insurrection here the rebels have burnt and destroyed a lot of property mostly sugar plantations, and killing the cattle, several lives lost and lots of prisoners.’ and ‘Saturday May 6th, 1876. HMS Argus arrived at the island of Tobago ... there is a row on here the same as Barbadoes, the rebels threatening the town of Scarborough. Sunday May 6th took on board the Governor and others, and steamed full speed to another part of the islands, arrived in the full noon, rig of the day, blew working rig white capcovers. Monday our boats brought off several prisoners, one woman, charged with murder. This is a very pretty little place, houses among the trees. Sick. This is the island from which tobacco was first brought into England ... Tuesday 9th took on board nine prisoners taken on shore, and landed twenty armed men, eight blue jackets and the gunners mate, and ten marines, and a seargent, in charge of our first lieutenant and left them on shore ...’. (1) £150-200
338* Attenborough (Richard, b. 1923). A group of five signed b & w photos, c. 1950, each showing Attenborough and his wife Sheila Sim, two with their newborn child Michael (b. 1950), all inscribed to Margaret and signed by both (except one signed ‘Dickie’ only), press agency stamps to versos, approx. 14 x 20.5cm, together with a similar photo of Sheila and newborn son signed by Sheila Sim only, plus a smaller snapshot of Richard Attenborough signed and inscribed to Margaret, plus four unsigned Attenborough photographs (all with his wife and including three with Michael), plus twelve signed b & w photos of Michael Wilding (all but one signed simply ‘Michael’), two additionally signed by Anne Neagle, press stamps to versos, approx. 15 x 20cm (23)
£80-120
Lot 339
70
Lot 343 341* British Navy. Autograph letter signed from C. Drawbridge to his brother at the Navy Office, London, dated Spithead, July 9th, 1809, large folded sheet (watermarked 1804), handwritten in ink to three sides with address to remaining side, postmarked Portsmouth, July 10 1809, giving extensive details of going on board HMS Orion, conditions on the ship ‘I believe I have got my wish respecting the light brigade as I understand that my company is attached to 6 field pieces and we shall have the honour of landing first to cover the infantry, the marines on board are ordered to be in readiness to land, together with a party of seamen’, and later ‘we expect to sail tomorrow if so we shall soon be at the scene of action as it is not many days sail from this. We have nothing but light field guns (I mean belonging to the artillery) on board, & a great many horses ...’
343* Burney (Charles, 1726-1814). Two autograph notes initialled, n.d., one to Lady Rushout concerning his collection of prints, etc., the second in response to a ‘flattering letter’ and referencing Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, both written on small scraps of paper with tear and a little resultant loss to a few words of second letter, plus a scrap note in Burney’s hand making mention of Indian musical instruments, one leaf with notes from a 1799 diary, also in a small neat hand, together with an autograph letter signed from Eva Maria Garrick (1724-1822, wife of David Garrick), addressed to Dr. Burney, regretting she cannot visit the following Monday and concluding ‘I remain in the ninety fourth year of age’, 1 p. with integral address panel and old mounting marks, plus other miscellaneous autograph letters signed by Caroline Norton, Frederick Leighton, Jenny Lind (Goldschmidt), Lord Palmerston (second page with signature), Lily Hanbury and Marie Tempest, plus signatures of George III, Isabelle Burton, T. H. Huxley, William IV, Queen Charlotte and a few others
HMS Orion was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, and was launched in 1787. She took part in the Battle of Trafalgar under Codrington, and was finally broken up in 1814. Drawbridge was attached to the Royal Naval Artillery, and refers in his letter to the Commander, Sir Archibald Dixon, and remarks ‘I cannot sufficiently praise the Officers of the Navy & Marines who are on board for their extreme politeness & endeavours to accommodate us by every means in their power. I assure you they have greatly increased my pride in belonging to the Rl Nl Arty whom I have found respected everywhere. We have as good a mess on board the Orion as at Woolwich & as for wine we cannot drink enough for them ...’. (1) £150-200
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£200-300
344* Civil Service, Clergy, etc. A collection of approx. 170 autographs, 19th & 20th c., including legal, ecclesiastical, academic, foreign diplomat and civil service, a variety of cut signatures, free fronts, signed documents and letters, etc., autographs include 1st Earl Canning, 1st Marquis Curzon, 1st Viscount Rothermere, Sir George Harrison, Lord Howesbury, Lord Hailsham, Lord Denning, Lord Cairns, Archbishop Archibald Tait, Cardinal Henry Manning, Dean William Inge, Bishop Barrington, et al, largely corner-mounted on A4 sheets with printed captions and biographical details above and below, contained in plastic sleeves in four modern ring binders, together with a Victorian autograph album compiled by George McRobert, a total of approx. seventy leaves crammed with cut signatures, cuttings, snapshots, etc., the autographs largely ecclesiastical, academic and political, including prime ministers the 5th Earl of Rosebery and the 4th Earl of Aberdeen, partial manuscript list loosely inserted, contemp. half calf, joints cracked, 4to
342* British Navy. Autograph letter signed from George Rose Sartorius (1790-1885) to Mrs Norman, dated 9th November [c. 1820s], single folded sheet, handwritten on two sides, declining an invitation ‘As the ship will be reported ready for sea on Friday ... obliges us to excuse ourselves from accepting your kind invitation for the 17th, with best wishes to Mr. Norman and the young ladies ...’ Sir George Rose Sartorius (1790-1885) was a distinguished Royal Navy Officer who eventually became Admiral of the Fleet. (1) £70-100
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£200-300
345* Civil War - Kent Inventory, 1643. Copy inventory of the possessions of Thomas Austen of Little Hardres in Kent, valued by Henry Francklyn, Christopher Wood and Edmund Bigden, 14 December 1643, in English in a neat hand on a long vellum strip, detailing items and values, in part: Livestock, including animals pastured on Mr Shipton’s land and Mr Gavin’s land, and 159 sheep at home, 4 wagons, 3 ploughs, 2 carts and a harrow, poultry about the house, wheat in the barn £70 12s 4d, ... , parlour: press, safe, 3 joined chairs, 1 chair, 11 joined stools, 3 cushions, 1 carpet, 2 window-curtains, 2 curtain-rods; 2 horsemen’s pistols and a sword; silver cup and 6 silver spoons; hall: 1 joined table and a stool; cradle, bolster, flock-bolster and a box; 5 spits; jack, toasting iron, the weights, 2 dripping-pans, corselet, pike and sword, quarto bible, 3 cobirons, 2 creepers, 1 hearth-iron, 1 firepan, 2 pairs of pothangers, 1 spitrack; the old buttery: includes half a hide of white leather, 2 linen wheels, 1 woollen wheel, a pair of stock cards, a pair of hand cards, a budget of wedges, 1 old safe, 2 bushels of brown salt, 1 table and 1 iron bucket; in the cellar: 11 hogsheads, 1 bunn, 1 little barrel, 2 keelers, 1 safe, 1 tunnel; in the entry chamber: includes 1 side-saddle, 2 road-saddles; in the milkhouse: includes £4 10s 0d of cheese and 5 crocks of butter, 1 pair of butter-scales, 1 table, 1 brine-stock; in the kitchen: includes 2 furnaces, more brewing-vessels; in the milkhouse loft: ashen hoops, quarter of 100 of hops, coarse wool and hemp-seed, a cheesepress and things belonging to it; in his lodging-chamber: includes his purse and girdle, ready money in his chest £16 8s 0d, wearing apparel, 1 chest and a court cupboard, a carpet, a great wicker chair and 2 forest bills, apples, 16 pairs of sheets; a load of tiles and 3 stock of bees, owing on bond £35 6s 3d; owing for timber £1 5s 0d, owing to him for beasts £32, 18 pairs of sheets given to his wife and two daughters, Sum total thus far £171 9s 2d, a musket and soldier’s coat, winchropes and would-ropes, the jack in the kitchen, ... , the ink still largely strong and clear, sm. tear to right-hand border not affecting text, 12 x 69cm, framed and glazed
Lot 345
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£200-300
346* Cornwall - Tin Revenues. Manuscript draft of an intended petition of one William Atmer to Prince Charles, as Duke of Cornwall, c. 1617, probably a fair copy in a neat hand, containing additionally several pages of relevant information, concerning a dispute with Richard Connock (1567-1620), Auditor of the Duchy of Cornwall, over monies which Atmer claimed were due to him for rendering services to Connock and the Duchy over a number of years in cases involving revenues from tin, old manuscript folio numbers beginning with 10 and modern pencil numbers marked 2-6, a total of five disbound leaves with old stitching holes to gutter margins, sl. soiled, browned and chipped, slim folio (1)
£100-150
347* Documents. A large metal solicitor’s deed box containing a wealth of old documents, 18th to early 20th c., including agreements, abstracts, numerous large sheet vellum indentures, insurance policies, marriage settlements, bill heads, sales particulars, plans, copies of probates & wills, absolute surrenders, declarations, mortgages, etc. (a deed box)
£200-300
348* Documents. A large metal solicitor’s deed box containing a wealth of old documents, 18th to early 20th c., including agreements, abstracts, numerous large sheet vellum indentures, insurance policies, letters, marriage settlements, bargain & sales, copies of probates & wills, burial & death certificates, sales particulars, inventories, etc. (a deed box)
Lot 346
72
£200-300
350 Dublin Gazette. A collection of twenty-two separate issues for June to December 1795, containing numerous printed proclamations including transportation to America, quarantine of ships, rewards for the capture of highwaymen, murderers, etc., bounties for seamen with listing of various bounties offered, armed attacks in Dublin and rewards for the capture of criminals, etc., some soiling and occ. fraying, orig. newspaper duty stamps, disbound, together with two Victorian issues, stitched as issued, all slim folio
349* Dollond (Peter, 1731-1820). Autograph letter signed ‘P. Dollond’, Stamford Street, n.d., to Mr Mouchett, ‘On account of the death of my wife which happened on Sunday morning last at Bath Mr Grignion set off this morning in the Bath Coach for that place. He has desired me to send you the black leather case which contains some papers of your concerns. He desires you will have the goodness to give the master of the School what money he may occasion for... ‘, some toning, dust soiling, and creasing, one page, 8vo, together with Ware (James, 1756-1815), Autograph letter signed, ‘James Ware’, New Bridge Street, 1st May 1813, to Mr Towsey, ‘I am very glad to hear that the discharge from the eyes of Mrs J Barbe’s infant has decreased, & hope that the Corneas are not injured though you do not mention them... ‘, one page with integral address leaf, postmarks and original seal tear, prescription to page 3, light browning and vertical fold split to both leaves, 4to
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£300-500
Peter Dollond was trained as a silk weaver and assisted in the family business but in 1750 he set up as an optician. By 1752 the opticians business was sufficiently successful for his father John to abandon weaving and to go into partnership with him. The name survives today as part of the company Dollond and Aitchison Limited. (See lot 439.) (2) £100-150
351* Elizabeth II (Queen of Great Britain). Partly printed document signed ‘Elizabeth R’ as Queen, Our Court at St. James’s, 24th June 1980, ‘To the Governor of Our Prison at Exeter... Whereas Edwin Peter Broome at Winchester Crown Court on the thirteenth day of November 1979 and the twelfth day of December 1979 was convicted of buggery, three offences of indecent assault on a girl, and three offences of indecent assault on a male and was sentenced on the twelth day of December 1979 to a total of eight years’ imprisonment: Now know ye that We in consideration of some circumstances humbly represented unto Us, are Graciously pleased to extend Our Grace and Mercy unto the said Edwin Peter Broome and to pardon and remit unto him sixty-three days of the sentences imposed upon him as aforesaid’, wax wafer seal and monarch’s signature at upper margin, 2 pp., a few minor marks, horizontal folds as issued, 33 x 20.5cm (1)
Lot 350
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£300-400
352 Essex - Accounts Ledger. A manuscript accounts ledger relating to Sir James Rushout (1644-98), of Maylards, Hornchurch, Essex and Northwick Park, Blockley, Worcestershire, 1665-78, a total of ninety-five pages written in a neat single professional hand with dated page headings, names and amounts paid, including rents for the manor of Maylards, the farmhouses of Weybridge, Havering, Harrow, etc., names mentioned in the ledger include William Penn, (‘To Wm. Penn lent him upon interest inter alia 800 pounds’ and on the 29th May 1678 receipt from William Penn of 1105 pounds 17 shillings including 105 pounds 17 shillings interest), Francis, Lord Willoughby, Montague, Earl of Lindsey, Sir Henry Pickering, Sir William Waller, Sir George Crooke, Sir Hugh Stewkeley, Sir Alan Apsley, Lady Katherine Maynard, Lionel, Earl of Middlesex, Sir Richard Maulever, Sir James Woodhouse, Robert Pierpont, Lady Frances Russell, and Sir Robert Clayton, institutions noted include Christchurch, Oxford, the East India Company, Goldsmith’s and John Bathurst and Company, blank leaves at rear, some old damp staining and archival repairs to foremargins of early leaves without loss of text, second half of ledger blank, old vellum, partly rubbed and stained with cloth ties renewed, folio (42 x 29cm) (1)
£300-500
353* Exclusion Crisis. Three autograph letters signed from Joseph Gordon to his father, Sir Lodovick Gordon of Gordonstoune (at Elgin), 22nd January to 25th March 1679, the first two letters giving interesting but typical details of Joseph’s movements on the Continent and money problems, but the third detailing informed commentary from London concerning the Exclusion crisis, with reference to the Duke of York, his daughter in Holland, conflicts between Charles I and parliament, the attack on Danby, the popish plot and other anti-papist activity, the activities of France, etc., a total of 4 pp., each with integral address leaf or panel, minor seal tears, 4to, together with an autograph letter signed from Patrick Murray, Lord Elibank, Edinburgh, 16 November 1768, to John Johnstone at Kensington Gore, London, concerning the debts of Sir James Johnstone (1697-1772), 2 pp. plus integral address leaf, 4to
Lot 352
Patrick Murray (1703-1778), 5th Lord Elibank, had an early military career and later in the 1750s acquired an important place in Scottish cultural life, being included with Lord Kames and David Hume as ‘a literary triumvirate’. Sir James Johnstone married Patrick Murray’s sister Barbara, and the letter is therefore written to a nephew. (4) £250-300
354* Film & Entertainment. A group of thirteen autographed photographs of actors and showbiz personalities, with certificates of authenticity from Fraser’s, c. 2006-2010, mostly colour photographs and all but two of women, signers including Courtney Love, Ingrid Pitt, Elisha Cuthbert, Kristin Davis, Eva Mendes, Gemma Arterton, David Suchet and George Lazenby (as James Bond), all 10 x 8ins, plus three other autograph items with certificates of authenticity from Fraser’s, plus twenty other modern autograph items, all but five signed 10 x 8ins publicity photographs including Kate Moss, Demi Moore, Sandra Bullock, Sharon Stone, Cameron Diaz, Elle Macpherson, Liv Tyler, Uma Thurman, etc. (36)
Lot 353
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£200-300
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Lot 356
355* Great Seal - King James I. Grant of special livery (letters patent); 6 June 1610, The crown to Andrew Asheley, kt, and his wife Lady Alice Asheley, John Mabbe, gent, and his wife Ann Mabbe, and William Wiseman, esq, and his wife Ursula Wiseman in the right of their wives, the daughters of John Danyell, esq, deceased, lands and tenements [unspecified] which Danyell held in chief of Queen Elizabeth endorsed: enrolled before the auditors of the court of Wards and Liveries in Trinity term 1610, examined by W[illiam] Curll and John Tooke, auditors, enrolled in the memoranda of the Exchequer among the recorda of Trinity term 1610, large vellum deed in Latin in a neat hand, two large decorative initials ‘J’ and ‘O’, some light soiling, 57 x 72cm, seal-tag with remains of Great Seal still showing the full-length figure of King James I upon his throne (1)
£300-400
356 Illuminated Testimonial. A fine illuminated and leather-bound testimonial for Sir Charles Herries K.C.B., retiring Chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue, November 1881, seven illuminated leaves with floral borders in blue, pink, green, white, and gold, each 30 x 20cm and laid into stiff card leaves at the front of the volume, followed by 114 vellum leaves comprising several thousand signatures of tax officers and related civil servants in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, all in double columns with red rules and titled office headings, versos blank throughout, a.e.g., moire silk endpapers, orig. gilt relief-panelled red full morocco with gilt monogram and family crest centrepieces laid onto oval green calf, the whole executed by De La Rue & Co., folio (38 x 28cm)
357* Literature & Art. A group of approx. ninety autographs, mostly 19th and 20th c., a variety of cut signatures, signed letters, etc., mostly corner-mounted on to A4 sheets with printed captions and biographical details above and below, signatures include William Archer, Hilaire Belloc, John Betjeman, Barbara Cartland, Aubrey De Vere, Margaret Gatty, Edmund Gosse, George Grote, H. Rider Haggard (signed sentiment), Compton Mackenzie, George Bernard Shaw (signed sentiment), William Wordsworth (1770-1843, cut signature), Charlotte Yonge, Edwin Landseer, Laura Knight, Joseph Paxton (ALS), and John Tenniel (two signed sentiments), the collection includes approx. thirty signatures on three sheets, all contained in plastic sleeves in a modern ring binder
A fine and handsome production. Sir John Charles Herries (1815-1883), financier, was the eldest son of the politician John Charles Herries (1778-1855). ‘In November 1842 Sir Robert Peel made him a commissioner of excise. In 1856 he was appointed by Sir George Cornewall Lewis as deputy chair of the Board of Inland Revenue, and in August 1877 Disraeli promoted him to the chairmanship. In 1871 he was made CB, and in October 1880 (on Gladstone’s recommendation) KCB. He retired in November 1881. His public services were acknowledged in a Treasury minute of 2 December 1881, which was subsequently presented to parliament’ (DNB). Herries’ correspondence and papers are held by the British Library. (1) £400-600
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£150-200
358 London Gazette Extraordinary. A group of twenty-two orig. issues, 1801-18, including Supplement to the London Gazette Extraordinary, the earliest dated 23rd August 1801 followed by 1st November 1807, some spotting and soiling, mostly with orig. ink duty stamps, disbound, plus twenty later 19th-century issues (1812/65) and five 20th-century issues (1931/44), all slim folio (47)
361 London Gazette. A group of sixty-one individual issues from the period of the American Revolution, 1777/81, with one issue only from 1777 and 1778, the remainder being from 1781, some spotting and soiling and occ. fraying, ink tax duty stamps, disbound, slim folio The issue for 23rd June 1781 includes ‘Extract of Brigadier-General Arnold’s letter to Henry Clinton, Petersburgh, May 16, 1781’ and the issue of 10 July 1781 includes ‘Copy of an intercepted letter from General Washington to General Sullivan, dated head quarters, New Windsor, May 29, 1781’. (61) £200-300
£150-200
359 London Gazette. A group of 101 issues, 1804-06, including 5 x 1804, 15 x 1805, and 81 x 1806, some spotting and soiling, occ. fraying, orig. ink duty stamps, disbound, slim folio Issue no. 15862 for the 12th-16th November 1805 includes Colingwood’s information concerning the officers killed and wounded during the Battle of Trafalgar. (101) £300-500
362 London Gazette. A group of twenty-two early issues, 1666/1723, the earliest issue dated 21 May 1666 (no. 55), some browning, soiling and fraying, some with ink tax duty stamps, disbound, slim folio
360 London Gazette. A group of thirty-two individual issues, 1789/97, including nineteen issues from 1789, 12 x 1794, and 1 x 1797, some spotting and soiling, ink tax duty stamps, disbound, slim folio (32)
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£100-150
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£150-200
364* Medieval Deed - Essex. Quitclaim, 27 September 1438, Philip Engelfeld to Richard Saman his right in the lands and tenements in the hamlet of Marden Ash (Marden) in High Ongar in Essex which formerly belonged to John Marden, vellum deed in Latin, a little soiling, 9.5 x 29.5cm, tag with seal (1)
363* Marlborough (Sarah Churchill, Duchess of, 1660-1744). Cut signature ‘S: Marlborough’ taken from a document dated 30th May 1724, and additionally signed by (Francis Earl) Godolphin, William Clayton and John Hanbury, probably taken from a document in connection with the parties acting as executors of the will of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 10 x 15cm, together with nine other antiquarian autograph items including a warrant for the payment of monies owed to servants, 14th June 1647, signed by 10th Earl of Northumberland, H. Cary, F. Rous, Tho: Hoyle, a printed order dated 26th March 1708 with manuscript insertions demanding £1,000 and signed by Lord Treasurer Godolphin and Henry Boyle, part of a document signed by George Carew, c. 1620, another signed ‘Fra: Godolphin’, both browned and laid down, a manuscript order of 11th March 1682, signed by the Earl of Rochester, Sir John Ernle and Sir Edward Dering (torn with loss of lower stroke of last letter), part of a document signed by Torrington, George Baillie and Thomas Micklethwaite, dated 28th February 1717, etc. (10)
£150-200
365* Medieval Deed - Essex. Feoffment, at Ongar, 17 July 1399 (Thursday after the translation of St Swithin 23 Richard 2), Thomas Herde otherwise Cobere to John Passelewe of Ongar (Aungre ad Castrum), William atte Bregge of Stanford Rivers, Nicholas atte Style of Doddinghurst and Richard Barne of Kelvedon, all the lands and tenements in the hamlet of Marden Ash (Marden) in High Ongar which Thomas Herde had by the gift and feoffment of John Marden and his wife Joan in reversion after their deaths, witnesses: Stephen Parker, Henry Symme, Robert Taylour, Robert Muskham, John Smyth, vellum deed in Latin, some creasing, 11.5 x 23.5cm, tag with remains of seal (1)
£150-200
366* Medieval Deed - France. [?Draft] act of the abbess and chapter of St Mary de Rozoy-le-Jeune (Commune of Chevry-enSereine, Dept Seine-et-Marne, France), September 1267, Sister Joan, abbess of the monastery, with the consent of the convent, establishes an annual distribution to the nuns of ten shillings on the day of the anniversary of Master John de Verneio [?Verneille], clerk deceased, to be taken from their tolls at Calmas; after her death there shall likewise be distributed to the nuns on her anniversary sixty shillings to be taken from their tolls which they receive at Masum on Sunday after St Denis each year, small vellum deed in Latin in a neat hand, some browning not affectng legibility, docketed, 8.5 x 17.5cm, one seal tag (of two)
£150-200
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£80-120
367* Medieval Deed - France. Act of the official of the [diocesan] court of Sens recording the compromise of a dispute between abbess and chapter of St Mary de Rozoy-le-Jeune (Commune of Chevry-enSereine, Dept Seine-et-Marne, France), and Gaubert, curate of the church of Chevry [en-Sereine], over his claim to a moiety of the small tithes belonging to their grange of the town of Villechasson (Chacon), the offerings within the chapel of St Mary within the grange and to a dinner on St Julian’s day (27 January); counterclaim by the nuns to the payment of a goose and a quarter of wine worth sixpence on the same day; Friday after St Vincent, 23 Jan 1265, made in the presence of Jean, curate of the church de Vallibus [?Vaux-sur-Lunain, south of Chevry] and Jean de Vilardo, clerk, vellum deed in Latin, docketed, some creasing and browning, tear or rodent damage to right margin affecting three lines, 21.5 x 40cm, one seal tag (1)
370* Medieval Deed - Suffolk. Feoffment, at Hawstead, 30 January 1447, William Couper and Ralph Couper of Hawstead to Gilbert Mylde, clerk, John Clopton, esq, John Denston, esq and John Camvyle of Denston (Denardeston), a messuage, garden and croft lying together, a piece of land called Hallecroft in the field called Grenemerefeld in Hawstead, witnesses: John Bokenham, esq, William Wyffyn, Andrew Smyth, Thomas Reede, John Hamond, endorsed, c. 1700, vellum deed in Latin, endorsed, two seal-tags with fragment and remains of seals
£70-100
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371* Miscellaneous Documents, mostly 19th and some 20th century, including Agreements, Insurance Policies, letters, marriage settlements, copies of Probates and Wills, sales particulars, etc., contained in three small metal solicitor’s deed boxes
368* Medieval Deed - France. Order of the General Council at Paris for the taxes ordained for the war to Jean Loton receiver of such taxes at Dieppe, to repay to Guillaume Darrabloy 22½ golden francs expended by him, as it appears by letters of Jean Gentian, bourgois of Paris, to be paid in equal instalments at the ends of the months of April, May, June and July, signed Laumoy, Paris, 24 March 1371, vellum deed in Latin, light stains and soiling, some creasing and sm. holes to margins away from lettering, remains of two red wax seals, 10.5 x 33cm (1)
£200-250
(3 tin trunks)
£200-300
372* Miscellaneous Documents, 18th to early 20th c., including gaol and prison reports, old newspapers, printed acts, early cheques, bus and tram tickets, engraved insurance policies for 1770, 1821 and 1823, printed Gloucester broadsheet “Doctor and the Devil”, large collection of obligation bonds and vellum indentures from the 18th and early 19th c., all indentures being large skin types with original wax seals, etc.
£100-150
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£150-180
373* Miscellaneous Ephemera, mostly 19th & 20th c., including prints, documents, journals and extracts, albums etc. (2 cartons)
374* Munnings (Sir Alfred James, 1878-1959). Three autograph letters signed, to Sybil Harker, dated January 6th 1948, October 7th 1950, & July 30th 1957, each on letter headed notepaper discussing paintings and horses, the first begins ‘Curiously enough, I was wondering if those awful fools had sent you your pictures only the other day. I’m glad you have them.’, the third beginning ‘Dear Sybil, I wonder where you are - at home or away - anyhow I’m writing to ask you if you know of a quick 14-2-3 Hack - Brown or Bay or grey, not chestnut. ...’, together with a set of Munnings’ Autobiography in three volumes, 1st eds. (except first vol. 3rd ed.), 1951-52, each signed and inscribed to half-title or title by Munnings to Sybil Harker, all orig. red cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo (the first volume slightly shorter)
369* Medieval Deed - Suffolk. Feoffment, at Hawstead, 12 November 1454, Ralph Couper of Hawstead (Hausted) and William Couper of Hawstead to Thomas Cok of Great Welnetham, Roger Drury of Hawstead, esq, Nicholas Helpston of Rushbrooke, John Smyth of Stansfield, Robert Coket of Bury St Edmunds and Geoffrey Gyppes of Hawstead, messuage with a piece of pasture (6 acres) at Hawstead Green, an acre of arable in Jelyons Field, witnesses: Thomas Rede, Alan Legate, William Wyffyn, John Makeroo, John Spark, John Medwe, vellum deed in Latin in a neat hand, sm. brown stain to left-hand centrefold without loss of legibility, 13.5 x 30cm, two seal-tags with wax seals with good impressions (some loss to top of right seal) (1)
£100-150
Sybil Harker was Master of Stag Hounds for the Norwich Hunt, and is the subject of a famous painting by Sir Alfred Munnings, entitled Sybil Harker on Saxa, sold by Christie’s New York in 2000. (6) £200-300
£200-300
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377 Newspapers. A group of twenty-five early newspapers, 1681/1905, including The Observator (21st May & 18th August 1681), The London Chronicle (3 issues: 1758, 1762, & 1769), Mist’s Weekly Journal (29 April 1727) and 19 issues of Edinburgh Gazette (1804-1905), scattered soiling and fraying, some with ink duty stamps, all disbound, folio, plus three Acts of Parliament, 2 x ILN census extracts (1843 & 1844) and a broadside ‘To the Electors of Lindsey’ from Thomas George Corbett, 10th January 1835, all slim folio (50)
£150-200
378* Obligation Bonds. A collection of fifty obligation bonds, 18th & 19th century, manuscript and partly printed examples completed in manuscript, scattered soiling and fold splits, but generally in very good condition, retaining their original wax seals and pack stamps, mostly one to three pages, folio (50)
£150-200
379* Obligation Bonds. A collection of fifty obligation bonds, 18th & 19th century, manuscript and partly printed examples completed in manuscript, scattered soiling and fold splits, but generally in very good condition, retaining their original wax seals and pack stamps, mostly one to three pages, folio (50)
£150-200
375* Music. A group of fifty-six autographs of composers, musicians and performers, 19th and 20th c., a variety of autographs, musical quotations signed, autograph sentiments, signed letters, autographs include Madame Albani, Adrian Boult (TLS), Eric Coates, Percy Grainger, Benjamin Godard, Thomas Dunhill, Maurice Besly (all AMusQS), Jascha Heifitz, Jan Kubelik, Joe Loss (TLS), John Parry, Alfred Reynolds (on a sheet with nine other autographs), etc., mostly neatly corner-mounted on to A4 sheets with printed headings and biographical captions and contained alphabetically in plastic sleeves in a modern ring binder (1)
£100-150
376 Netsukes. The Animal in Far Eastern Art and Especially in The Art of the Japanese Netsuke, with references to Chinese Origins, Traditions, Legends and Art, by Dr. Thomas Volker, 1947, original typed copy with manuscript corrections and index, related letters bound at front, orig. wrappers with typed label to upper cover, together with Casal (U. A.), Japanese Art Lacquers ..., 1955, orig. typescript of an introductory lecture, 15 pp., sixteen b&w photos, and a thirty-one page index of the collection, autograph letter signed from the author to Mr. Perkins dated 27th February 1941 bound at front, orig. limp wrappers folder, some wear, both 4to Volker’s book was published by E. J. Brill in 1950 and reprinted with corrections in 1975. A slightly expanded version of Casal’s work was published by Sophia University, Tokyo, in 1961. (2) £150-200
380* Obligation Bonds. A collection of forty-nine obligation bonds, all 18th century, manuscript and partly printed examples completed in manuscript, scattered soiling and fold splits, but generally in very good condition, retaining their original wax seals and pack stamps, mostly one to three pages, folio (49)
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£150-200
383* Perpetual Motion. An autograph letter unsigned in the third person from Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope (1753-1816, politician and inventor), Chevening House, near Sevenoaks, Kent, 15th October 1815, to Mr. Cullum in reply to his letter of the 10th October requesting information on perpetual motion, thereafter explaining the difference between physical and mechanical motions, ‘... The second sort, or the mechanical, has been repeatedly demonstrated to be impossible, and for the following reason. The second sort is founded on the power of Gravity; but the Law respecting it, and which no Man can alter or modify, is this. No machine has any tendency to move by Gravity, but so long as the Common Center of Gravity, of all the moving parts of the machine, descends... ‘, giving yet more detail and an example, 4 pp., minor dust soiling and remains of old album guard to left margin of first page, 4 pp., 4to (1)
£80-120
381* Oxford College Dramatic Society. A group of nineteen albumen print photos on seven album leaves, relating to a performance of ‘As You Like It’, c. 1900, six of the photographs featuring A.P. Boissier as Touchstone, one photo featuring C. Pirie Gordon playing Charles and one showing W.H.J. (Wilfred) Curwen playing Coren, the two largest photos approx. 20 x 25cm (both with Boissier), the remainder approx. 14 x 10cm, ink captions to chipped mounts, three related cuttings pasted in to blank areas of mounts A.P. Boissier, in addition to his acting activities, played first class cricket for Derbyshire against MCC, and also for Oxfordshire. He became headmaster of Harrow School in 1939. Wilfred Curwen also played first class cricket and FA football before he died in the First World War. C. Pirie Gordon worked as an ‘archaeologist’ while spying for Britain in the Levant. (7) £70-100
384 Police Gazette. A group of approx. fifty issues, 1831/1923, including two issues for 1831, slim 4to, four issues for 1895, broadsheet folio, plus a group of over forty issues from 1923 including various supplements and confidential extras, scattered dampstaining and damp fraying to a handful of the later issues, disbound, slim 4to
382* Pattrick (George, 1746-1800). Autograph letter signed ‘G. Pattrick’, Lee, Blackheath, Kent, 18th October 1787, to Richard Gifford at Duffield, Derbyshire, recounting an unsuccessful and painful courtship, ‘...at length death put an end to her sufferings & my expectations’, then detailing his hearing of the death of the chaplain of Morden College in Blackheath, ‘and I was hastend up to town... to canvass the trustees of the College for the vacant chaplainship these labours were attended with success - and I am now going from Essex to Kent for a dwelling... ‘, 2 pp. with integral address leaf with free frank of Lord Dacre, 4to
(approx. 50)
Oxford DNB notes only diaries in private hands for archival material of the evangelical clergyman George Pattrick. Richard Gifford (1724/5-1807) was a clergyman and writer, who was presented to the vicarage of Duffield near Derby in 1759. (1) £100-150
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£100-150
386* Postcards. Two Edwardian period postcard albums containing approx. 430 cards, including topographical views, several of Swindon and surrounding areas (Regent Street with trams, Bath Road, Victoria Road, Wroughton Village, Purton Station, Proclamation of King George V at Malmesbury 1910, 92nd & 95th Training Reserve Camp at Chiseldon), a few seaside views including trams at Ramsgate, electric railway at Kemp Town, Brighton, one good shop front (H.G. Smith), one Titanic card ‘Among the icebergs’ (unused), one GWR railway accident with manuscript caption ‘Train smash at Tirphil near Bargoed January 3rd 1925’, numerous real-photo portraits of WWI soldiers and sailors in uniform, several army groups (A Coy. 6 Wilts), Bamforths, two silks, good humorous cards incl. Tom R., Donald McGill and Cynicus, greetings cards (including two or three Father Christmas cards), portraits of actresses, etc., many postally used, mixed conditions, orig. bindings, worn, 4to
385* Politicians. A large collection of approx. 700 autographs, mostly 19th and 20th c., the majority cut signatures, signed sentiments and signed free fronts, plus some occ. full letters, some dups., the majority corner-mounted on to A4 sheets with printed captions and biographical details above and below, autographs include Aneurin Bevan, Ernest Bevin, Lord Randolph Churchill, Clementine Churchill, George Grey, Charles Greville, Joseph Hume, Edward Cust, George Byng, 2nd, 3rd and 5th Earls Spencer, John Monck, Admiral Meynell, Frederick Ponsonby, etc., all contained in plastic sleeves in six modern ring binders (6)
(2)
£200-300
£200-300
387* Sampler. An embroidered linen sampler, 1772, finely stitched with three alphabets (all without the letter ‘J’), and a pair of birds flanking a flower, above a bowl of pears, with other floral designs (stylised tulip, carnation, and roses), a peacock, a cockerel, and two crowns, with the date ‘1772’ and initials ‘A S W’ in the centre, and ‘by SS’ to lower margin, the whole enclosed within a zig-zag border, all worked in coloured threads, predominantly green, blue, yellow, and cream, with touches of black, in cross-stitch and eyelet embroidery, toned, 32.5 x 35cm (12.75 x 13.75ins), gilt frame, glazed (1)
£150-200
388* Scientists & Inventors. A group of twenty autographs, 19th and 20th c., including an autograph letter signed from Isambard Kingdom Brunel dated 11th July 1833 and referring to Sir John Hawkshaw (1811-91), 2 pp., 8vo, James Caleb Anderson, Thomas Drummond, John Heathcote, George Birkbeck, William Carpenter (ALS), William Gull (ALS), Lord Kelvin (signed sentiment), Lyon Playfair, Malcolm Watson, etc., mostly cut signatures, free fronts, etc., corner-mounted on to A4 sheets with printed captions and biographical details above and below, contained in plastic sleeves (approx. 20)
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£200-300
392* Slavery. Autograph letter signed by Alexander Cooper, St. Croix, [Virgin Islands], dated July 10, 1754, to the Honorable Ralph Payne Esqr., Nevis, manuscript letter written on two sides of a folded sheet, with address, signed ‘Alexander Cooper’, overall size 23 x 37cm (9 x 14.5ins), an interesting and detailed letter on the subject of slaves, beginning with a reference to ‘The Negro fellow you sent down for sale - The Highest offer made me for him was £40, which I thought we might venture to give ourselves if his Owner would accept it. He has not run away yet and is pretty constant to his work’. The writer then describes in detail the management of the estate, including building work, sugar crops and rum. The letter continues ‘Of these two incorrigible Runaways I sent to the Northwood I have had accounts that Pero died a few days after his landing there, & Joe the other sold for only £13 Sterling ... On Sunday last died the most valuable Negro we owned. I bought him last year from Mr. Shipton & drew on you to pay £65 for him, but I would not have taken double that money for him he was so faithfull & usefull a Negro. He insisted to his dying hour that Moco Jack had poisoned him with a Tannio he gave him of which he did not eat but a little, finding it disagreeable to his taste. I examined all I could into the matter but did not find sufficient grounds to believe it, & what made me disbelieve it most was that neither in his eight days illness nor when he was dead did he swell in the least or any Blots appear in his Skin which are usuall in Cases of Poison; However to be further satisified I had him opened & examined by two Doctors, but they could discover no sign of it. If after all our Enquiry the Villain should be conscious he occasioned his Death, with what Security will he not play such Tricks for the future. I should think myself happy to have new Negros to the Value of him & Tom ‘his sworn Companion in all Mischief’ in their Room, for I have still some doubt that he is guilty’. The letter ends with reference to the need for a delivery of barrels of beef and a Firkin of Butter, finishing ‘I should be glad to know if you have any Prospect of increasing our Gang so as that we may attempt the Mountain Settlement again. They are only a dead Charge on us in the present Condition.’
389* Scott (Walter, 1771-1832). Final page of an autograph letter signed ‘Walter Scott’, Abbotsford, n.d., in part, ‘I think that your country is selling under such a state or will soon number (?) it equal to the most flourishing parts of the Empire ... the Nobility and Gentry seem to be returning to their country seats & giving employment to the people and I am much disposed to hope things are in a fine way of mending’, sending his respectful compliments to the Duke of Atholl and the Duchess ‘one of my earliest acquaintances in life’, some damp staining to upper corners, minor splits, laid down onto an old album leaf, one page, 4to (1)
£70-100
390* Sherrin (Edward George “Ned”, 1931-2007). A collection of approx. thirty mostly large folio (A3 size and smaller) leaves of manuscript, probably 1970s/80s, mostly drafts of songs with other word doodlings and notes in Sherrin’s holograph, a mixture of blue ballpoint pen, green felt tip and some pencil, together with a large folder of mostly A4 typescripts, copies, related correspondence and cuttings, many sketches and songs with Sherrin’s annotations Ned Sherrin was an English broadcaster, author and stage director, best known in the last two decades of his life for his presentation of BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends and Counterpoint. (a folder) £100-150
391* Shipping Lines. Edwardian and later, approx. 324 postcards and captioned photographic illustrations of interiors of various ships, mainly liners, typed index at front, some leaves a little browned and brittle, a few spots, corner-mounted in a cloth album, lacking spine, folio Includes interiors of ships from Cunard, Orient and White Star Lines. (1) £100-150
A fascinating and detailed report by Alexander Cooper to his employer Ralph Payne. Cooper was presumably an estate manager at St. Croix, in the Virgin Islands. Ralph Payne was a prominent St. Kitts planter, and Attorney-General for the Island. His son, also Ralph Payne (1739-1807), became Governor of the Leeward Islands in 1771, and later returned to England to become M.P. for Camelford, Plympton, and later New Woodstock. (1) £300-500
393 St. Helena. Being a Few Notes on the Historical, Geological and Zoological Aspects of the Island, together with An Account of the Characteristics and the Environment of Its People, by R. E. Heaton, and R. M. Titaire, c. 1944, an unpublished typescript, 55 pp. plus photo illustrations and a folding printed map frontis., prelims. detached, three sheets of pencil notes at rear, orig. boards with spine tie and pictorial upper cover, sl. rubbed and soiled, small 4to (1)
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£70-100
395* Theatre & Entertainment. A group of approx. 120 autographs, 19th & 20th c., various formats including cut signatures, letters and signed photographs, signatures include Alfred Hitchcock, Mrs Patrick Campbell, Maurice Chevalier, Harry H. Corbett (plus signed small photograph), Ronnie Corbett, W.S. Gilbert, Henry Irving (ALS), Julia Neilson, Bob Monkhouse, Marie Tempest, Ellen Terry, Jack Warner (x 3 including TLS and signed photo), approx. twenty signatures on three sheets, majority neatly corner-mounted on to A4 sheets with typed captions and biographical detail, contained alphabetically in plastic sleeves in a modern ring binder (1)
£150-200
396* Thorndike (Sybil, 1882-1976). Autograph letter of condolence signed from Sybil Thorndike to Mrs Marion Wyllie, undated, [1931], on letterheaded notepaper, creased where previously folded, with address of 6 Carlyle Square, S.W., beginning ‘Darling Mrs Wyllie. I must just write a word to say we are all thinking of you and sharing as much as such a sorrow can be shared - in your sorrow - we all loved him ...’ Marion Wyllie was the wife of the marine artist William Lionel Wyllie (1851-1931). (1) £70-100
397* Titanic. Autograph of Titanic survivor Hilda Slayter, 7th December 1911, signed along with Marjorie Slayter, also of Halifax, Nova Scotia, on a leaf of a visitor’s books for Prospect Park, Kilkenny, Hilda’s name is asterisked with a note in another hand of the time stating ‘This was the last lady placed in a ship’s boat in the Titanic disaster 1912’, attached sheet of earlier guest signatures and remarks, oblong small folio, together with three related Titanic items, original copies of Edmonton Journal, 16 April 1912, The Daily Graphic, 20th April 1912, both somewhat soiled and sl. frayed with a little loss, plus ‘In Memoriam. The Loss of the Titanic’, n.d., 3 pp., some soiling, 8vo
394* Staffordshire - Ice Skating Accident. A small group of approx. nine manuscript documents relating to an ice-skating accident which occurred in Mr Cruso’s Fishpond, Foxlow House, Leek, Staffordshire, 1868, containing information relating to the saving of two mens lives by the sixteen-year-old Francis James Milner on 10th January 1868, the documents including statements taken by the magistrate of Stafford, consisting of Alfred Bailey, ironmonger, whose life was saved, Francis Milner himself, Thomas Turner, gardener to Mr Cruso and Richard Smith, aged 15, whose life was saved, the latter giving a graphic account including the drowning of a Mr Gould, the documents also including a letter from Mr Lambton Young, secretary of the Royal Humane Society, asking for details, one further document listing subscribers and the amounts given for a gold watch as a presentation to Milner, a total of thirteen sheets, various sizes
Hilda Mary Slayter (1882-1965) embarked on the ill-fated Titanic voyage at Queenstown on 11th April 1912 as a second class passenger, sharing a cabin with Florence Kelly. Hilda survived the sinking, probably in lifeboat 13. She married Harry Reginald Dunbar Lacon of Otley on 1st June 1912, and she herself died at Norris Castle, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, on 12th April 1965. According to Hilda's recollections, 'the shipping firm cancelled her passage on one ship because of a coal shortage and traded it for a ticket on the Titanic while she was staying with friends in Ireland. According to author Alan Hutak's book, Titanic: The Canadian Story, she had packed into her luggage a $4,000 trousseau that included a satin opal-and-pearl wedding dress, satin slippers and silk stockings she had brought during a two-month shopping trip to England.' (4) £150-200
Milner was presented a vellum testimonial by the Royal Humane Society and a gold watch by local inhabitants, neither of which is included in the lot. (a folder) £100-150
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398* Travel & Sport. A group of approx. twenty autographs, 19th and 20th c., including Austen Henry Layard, Henry Morton Stanley, Malcolm Campbell, Henry Cooper (signed publicity postcard), Joe Davis, James Hunt (signed publicity postcard), Captain Matthew Webb, Chris Bonington and eight signatures from the 1948 Olympics, autographs including diving medallists Samuel Lee, Bruce Harlan, Victoria Draves, Catherine Gibson, Lloyd Labeach (track events), plus a swimming programme for 3rd August 1948 including signatures of Victoria Draves and Zoe Ann Olsen to back cover, all corner-mounted on to plain A4 sheets with printed captions and biographical details above and below, contained in plastic sleeves (approx. 20)
£150-200
401* Vellum Deed - Leicestershire. Release and quitclaim, 20 March 1556, William Wynlove and Richard Felde of London, gents, to John Reynolde of London, goldsmith, their right in the rectory of Thornton otherwise Great Thornton in Leicestershire, with the advowson of the vicarage of the church of Thornton, the buildings, glebelands, tithes, woods and underwoods, formerly belonging to the monastery of [St Mary] De Pratis, Leicester, recites grant of this and other property to Wynlove and Felde by letters patent of 17 July 1550, vellum document in Latin, ink sl. faded at centre without loss of legibility, 21 x 46.5cm, two seal-tags with good red wax seals, Wynlove’s with broken border but with impression of a man’s head in profile still clear and present, the second seal of Felde also showing less distinctly the profile of a man’s head (1)
£80-120
399* Vellum Deed - Cambridgeshire. Assignment of a lease for 60 years or lives; 31 October 1608, Thomas [Howard] Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Edward Carell of Shipley in Sussex, kt, and John Hollande of Wortwell in Norfolk, to Francis Folkes of Earl Soham in Suffolk, clerk, Robert Dickenson of Carlton in Yorkshire, yeoman, and John Mileson of Hadlesey in Yorkshire, yeoman the manor, rectory, advowson and tithes of Dullingham in Cambridgeshire, witnesses: Owen Shepperd, John Dyx otherwise Ramsey, Daniel Bulleyn, Robert Underwood, James Ellsmer, Francis Wyndesor, John Baseley and John Davye, large vellum deed in English, minor spotting and soiling, endorsed, 34 x 57cm, three seal-tags with signatures and fine armorial wax seal impressions for the Earl of Arundel and Edward Carrell, the remains of John Holland’s seal only (1)
£200-300
400* Vellum Deed - Essex. Feoffment, at Colchester, 1520, Nicholas Atkyn, John Patmer and John Atkyn, in accomplishment of the will of Thomas Wellys of Colchester, to Richard Casour, Thomas Flyngaunt, Robert Northon, clothmaker, Robert Northon of Mile End, Francis Jopson and Thomas Clere, son of Thomas Clere, clothmaker, to the use of Richard Casour, to hold according to the custom and liberty of the Borough of Colchester, grove called Barbores Grove with a pasture and an adjoining croft of arable in the suburbs of Colchester, witnesses to seisin: Thomas Clere the elder, Nicholas Atkyn, Robert Thursteyn of Mile End, Thomas Archer, William Hobert, Richard Spern, vellum deed in Latin, light creasing and soiling, docketed, 16 x 26.5cm, three seal-tags with one wax seal still present (1)
402* Vellum Deed - Lincolnshire. Quitclaim, 2 Mar 1536, Richard Bowde of Gosberton in Lincolnshire, husbandman, and his wife Elizabeth, formerly wife of Richard Cole, deceased, to Richard Burton of Surflete, John Pett of Surflete and John Algate of Suflete to the use of Cole’s daughter Emma Obrey, widow, cottage and three acres of land lying dispersed in Surflete, Lincolnshire, vellum deed in Latin, sl creased and soiled, docketed, 17 x 28cm, two seal tags remain (1)
£150-200
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£150-200
403* Vellum Deed - Suffolk. Feoffment, at Woolpit, 10 June 1498, John Baude the elder of Woolpit (Wolpyt) and William Thwaytes of Drinkstone (Drynkeston), gent, to Nicholas Kyng, chaplain, and Richard Neuman of Woolpit, a messuage with an adjoining croft in Woolpit, late Simon Hall, witnesses: John Wade, Richard Calfawe, Robert Kyng, James Turnour, William Gerveys of Woolpit; at Woolpit, vellum deed in Latin, decorative initial ‘S’, minor creasing and soiling, 13.5 x 29.5cm, one seal-tag remains (1)
408* Vellum Indentures. A collection of approx. sixty large sheet vellum indentures, 19th c., all in fine condition with original wax seals attached (approx. 60)
£200-300
£100-150
404* Vellum Deed - Suffolk. Feoffment, at Stowmarket, 4 Mar 1491, Charles Nowel, esq, and John Wellys of Woolpit, to John Wage, son of John Wage of Haughley, and John Wage the younger a piece of pasture in Stowmarket (between the field called Canonnesfeld on one side and the land formerly Robert Maunaunt and Pikkepredesfeld on the other; heading on the land of the manor of Haughley and on the processional way) which they had, with Roger Chamberlayn, kt, and William Terell, esq, now dead, by the feoffment of John Wage of Haughley, given at Stowmarket on 5 February 1456, witnesses: Thomas Bole, William Norwold, Charles Moor of Stowmarket, vellum deed in Latin, a few tiny wormholes to bottm horizontal fold not affecting text, 11.5 x 27.5cm, two tags with both monogrammed seals present (1)
£200-300
409* Wilberforce (William, 1759-1833). Autograph letter initialled ‘W.W.’, Highwood Hill, Middlesex, 5th January 1827, to Sir Thomas Baring, concerning a Mr. Simkin for whose family he is trying to raise some money, with a signed postscript referring to Mrs Baring, some spotting, 2 pp., 4to, together with approx. twenty-five other cut signatures, letters, etc., relating to reformers and women, including autographs of Nancy Astor, Elizabeth Fry (cut signature), Edward Cecil Guinness, Rowland Hill (two autograph notes signed), George Peabody (ALS), Samuel Plimsoll (ALS), 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (ALS plus two free fronts), etc., all corner-mounted on to A4 sheets with printed captions and biographical information above and below, contained in plastic sleeves
405* Vellum Deed - Surrey. Quitclaim, at Limpsfield, 31 March 1505, Richard Cowper, son and heir of John Cowper of Oxted in Surrey, tanner, deceased, to William Burwell, citizen and skinner of London, Philip Hardys of Limpsfield in Surrey and John Basset of Chylsham his right in two parcels of land called Croucheland and The Combe in Limpsfield, vellum deed in Latin, decorative initial ‘O’, light stain upper right, docketed, 12 x 34cm, seal tag with remains of seal (1)
£150-200
406* Vellum Indentures. An old wooden solicitor’s deed box contaning a collection of approx. twenty-eight large sheet vellum indentures, 18th c., all retaining original wax seals (approx. 28)
(approx. 25)
£150-200
410* Windmills. A fine collection of large sheet vellum indentures from the 19th c., relating to various ancient old windmills, all with original wax seals attached
407* Vellum Indentures. A collection of approx. sixty large sheet vellum indentures, 19th c., all in fine condition with original wax seals attached (approx. 60)
£200-300
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£200-300
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£100-150
IMPORTANT LITERARY & HISTORICAL AUTOGRAPHS
411* Beechey (Sir William, 1753-1839, Circle of). Portrait of Lady Frances Caroline Wedderburn Webster (1793-1837), oil on canvas half-length portrait of Lady Frances Webster seated, in a plum velvet dress with Gothic dentate trim, holding a letter in her left hand against a draped background, 91.5 x 71cm (36 x 28ins), giltmoulded frame Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster (née Annesley) was one of the celebrated beauties in Regency high society, whose amorous adventures were the subject of much gossip and speculation at the time. She was born in 1793, the daughter of the Earl of Mountnorris, and at the age of 17 married James Wedderburn Webster, one of Byron's circle of friends. She soon became disenchanted with her uninspiring and unfaithful husband and embarked on numerous love affairs. In 1813 she became involved in an intense relationship with Byron himself. They even discussed plans for eloping together and, at 2 o'clock one morning, in a corridor at Byron's ancestral home, Newstead Abbey, she offered to yield herself to him but, as Byron put it in a letter to Lady Melbourne, he "spared" her. In 1815 Lady Frances became involved with the Duke of Wellington, who paid assiduous attention to her and even wrote a hurried note from the field of Waterloo. In 1818 and 1819, Lady Frances entered into another intense romantic relationship, this time with one of Byron's close friends, Scrope Davies. However, Scrope fled abroad early in 1820 to escape his gambling debts. He never forgot the attractions of Lady Frances, and in 1828 wrote to a friend 'Did you ever see Lady Frances? She is the only person I ever beheld in whom was everything that the eye looks for in woman. She, and she alone, of whom I have ever seen, had that beauty over which the eye glides with giddy delight, incapable of fixing upon any particular claim.' Provenance: By family descent to the late Sir Peter Scarlett, former British ambassador to the Holy See in Rome, and subsequently to one of Scrope's great-great-great-nephews. Literature: T.A.J. Burnett, The Rise and Fall of a Regency Dandy, 1981, illustrated opposite page 116. John Stuart, Byron and the Websters, 2008, illustrated page 20. (1) £800-1200
412 Carlyle (Thomas, 1795-1881). Sartor Resartus, in three books, reprinted for friends from Fraser’s Magazine, 1834, 107 pp. with pubs. ads. to final page verso, title and final page somewhat dustsoiled, a few small holes and one short closed tear to title, affecting final letter of date in imprint only, the whole leaf relaid, author’s signed presentation inscription to title upper margin, ‘To my old and dear Friend Edward Irving, T. Carlyle’, lacks additional advert leaf at rear, later 19th-century half calf by M. Paterson of Edinburgh, rubbed, 8vo (215 x 135mm) One of only 58 privately printed copies (Dyer pp. 220-21). A fine association copy. Edward Irving (1792-1834) was a Scottish Clergyman and good friend of Thomas Carlyle. Irving was one time the tutor of Thomas Carlyle’s future wife Jane Welsh, the essayist and letter writer. Irving and Welsh had previously fallen in love with each other but Irving was unable to break off his engagement with Isabella Martin. Carlyle and Welsh met in 1821 and were married in 1826. Irving is the subject of the second and largest part of the first volume of Carlyle’s Reminiscences, ed. James Anthony Froude (1881): ‘Edward Irving died thirty-two years ago (December 1834) in the first month of our adventurous settlement here. The memory of him is still clear and vivid with me in all points: that of his first and only visit to us in this house, in this room, just before leaving for Glasgow (October 1834) which was the last we saw of him, is still as fresh as if it had been yesterday; and he has a solomn, massive, sad and even pitiable though not much blameable, when heart even blameable, and to me always dear and most friendly aspect, in those vacant kingdoms of the past. He was scornfully forgotten at the time of his death, having, indeed, sunk a good while before out of the notice of the more intelligent classes ...’, vol. 1, p. 69. (1) £1000-1500
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414* Gordon (Charles George, 1833-1885). Autograph letter signed ‘C. G. Gordon’, United Services Club, Pall Mall, Londres, 9th February 1880, ‘My dear Mr. Reinach, Merci de votre Brochure which I received. Kindly wait a few days say 10 days and I will write to you a very long letter. The Chief Mountebank, Lord Salisbury is ill. I am not looked on with pleasure by Foreign Office. I have given them my ideas, by writing, viz a viz la Belle France i.e. a thorough Entente cordiale or to break with her at [once?]. I hope your father is well. It would be very dull if there were no Mountebanks’, with a postscript, ‘Red Journal des Debates 31 Dec 79, to Feby 80’. They are hard on me. I will answer it. I hope Eve Madame Adam is well & has forgiven me’, some ink fading and a little soiling, closed tear, 2 pp. on centrefold of a bifolium, 8vo, laid flat, framed and glazed in a near-contemp. ornate gilt frame with some restoration and old Parisian label pasted onto modern backing card (1)
£200-300
413* Churchill (Sir Winston, 1874-1965). Portrait by Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002), [1941], vintage gelatin silver print, half-length, copyright stamp in the negative lower right, signed in pencil by the photographer lower left and in ink lower centre by the sitter ‘Winston S. Churchill’ with trademark flourish beneath, a little crackling to image borders, 21 x 17cm, framed and glazed, contemp. sticky label of Huber Art Co. at [124 W.] 7th St., [Cincinnati, Ohio] to backing A very rare double-signed vintage photograph of this most famous portrait of Churchill, one of the most reproduced portraits in photography. The photograph was taken by Karsh in 1941 just after Churchill had addressed the Canadian Parliament. Karsh recalls the event in his book ‘Faces of Our Time’ (1971): ‘He was in no mood for portraiture and two minutes were all he would allow me as he passed from the House of Commons Chamber to the anteroom. Two niggedly minutes in which I must try to put on film a man who had already written or inspired a library of books, baffled all his biographers, filled the world with his fame, and me, on this occasion, with dread.’ Churchill arrived in the room with a cigar stuck between his teeth and a scowling expression, ‘regarding my camera as he might the German enemy’. Noting the cigar’s seeming incompatibility with the occasion, Karsh removed the cigar. ‘At this the Churchillian scowl deepened, the head was thrust forward belligerently, and the hand placed on the hip in an attitude of anger’. The steadfast, defiant and unconquerable image was emblematic of Churchill and England at this time. Churchill later said to Karsh, ‘You can even make a roaring lion stand to be photographed’. (1) £5000-7000
415* Heaney (Seamus). Typewritten manuscript of a poem entitled Traditions, 1972, single sheet of lined paper, with punch-holes, with seven typewritten stanzas, each of four lines, inscribed in pen by Heaney at foot ‘For Eddie and Verena 21/22 February 1972 ‘Our poesy is as a gum which oozes/From whence ‘tis nourished.’ Slante!’, creased where previously folded, 30 x 21cm (11.75 x 8.25ins) An original poem by Seamus Heaney, which was written at the Bristol home of his fellow poet Eddie Wainwright in 1972, following a merry dinner and overnight stay. A short printed account of the occasion by Sonja Wainwright is included with this lot. (1) £150-200
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416* Hogarth (William, 1697-1764). Specimen signature ‘Wm: Hogarth’, n.d., written in brown ink on a cut piece of paper with red wax seal of a painter’s palette beside, paper somewhat browned with a few pin holes, 2 x 6.5cm, laid in to a frame under a printed pictorial receipt with manuscript insertions, indicating that 5 shillings had been paid by John Amos(?) for a quarto tract ‘Analysis of Beauty’, dated 30th November 1732, printed as the footer to an etching, brown stain to printed caption lower right, 19 x 20cm, the two items framed and glazed (1)
£700-1000
417 Housman (Alfred Edward, 1859-1936). Last Poems, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1922, spotting throughout, signed by author to title ‘A.E. Housman’ and with punctuation marks inserted at end of first two lines on p. 52, presumed in the author’s holograph, orig. cloth in d.j., somewhat soiled with several splits and nicks, 8vo When the publishers Grant Richards offered to insert an errata slip after the fastidious Housman spotted the punctuation errors on page 52 he replied, “No, don’t put in an errata slip. The blunder will probably enhance the value of the first edition in the eyes of the bibliophiles, an idiotic class”. (1) £150-200
418* Kemp-Welch (Lucy, 1869-1958). Two autograph letters signed by Lucy Kemp-Welch, to Evelyn Linton, dated March 17th [1906?] and September 8th 1912, each 4 pp., the first with blindstamped address of Kingsley, Bushey, Herts, giving details of her painting entitled Timber Hauling, including an illustration of the way in which tree trunks are loaded onto a wagon by horses, the second bearing the address Cocking Causeway, near Midhurst, Sussex, and referring to the local landscape, visits by Sir Hubert Herkomer, etc., plus a printed prospectus for the Bushey School of Painting, c. 1906, single printed sheet, folded as issued
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Timber Hauling in the New Forest by Lucy Kemp-Welch had been exhitibed at the Royal Academy in 1905 and was purchased by the Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery, where it now resides. The first letter describes in detail the artist’s research into her subject, which included two days of working with the timber cutters themselves in the New Forest. (3) £150-200
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Lot 420 419* Kennington (Eric, 1888-1960). Profile of the head of Robert Lindsay Rea(?), c. 1916, charcoal drawing on paper, signed in capitals to lower margin, two small pinholes to upper corners, 30 x 20.5cm, together with Symington (Johnson), The Topographical Anatomy of the Child, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1887, fourteen col. litho. plts., some spotting, author’s presentation inscription to Robert L. Rea at Queen’s University of Belfast, dated July 1910, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, folio, plus seven col. etchings of Arras and other First World War ruins by Paul Mansard and others, c. 1917-18, each pencil signed and captioned on the mount, Rea’s presentation inscription to an unknown recipient dated 1918 to margin of one etching, plus a copy of Rea’s book ‘Infections of the Eye in General Practice’, 1st ed., 1930, six plts. including three col., one detached, b & w illusts. to text, old inscription to front f.e.p., orig. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, 8vo
420 Kingsley (Charles, 1819-1875). A collection of forty-seven autograph manuscript sermons, c. 1842-72, most sermons between 20 and 40 pp., with one or two of greater length, many with corrections in the author's hand, most signed with initials to upper wrapper, dated and titled, mostly stitched with three bound in paper wrappers, small 4to, together with a drawing in pencil and orange chalk of Mrs Charles Kingsley, inscribed to verso 'Mrs Kingsley on the sofa reading the paper', somewhat soiled, 27.5 x 40 cm (10.75 x 15.75 ins), a pen and ink sketch on blue lined paper, depicting Mount Vesuvius erupting, with diagramatic section of the volcano, 28.5 x 21 cm (11.25 x 8 ins), a cabinet portrait photograph of Charles Kingsley by John Collier of Birmingham, inscribed by the author's daughter Rose Kingsley to verso, a partly handwritten inner invitation from Windsor Castle to Canon Kingsley, Saturday 30th November 1872, an engraved portrait of Kingsley by C. H. Jeeks, dated 1876, seven typescript lectures on the history of art by the author's daughter Rose G. Kingsley, and two related printed booklets
Robert Lindsay Rea (1881-1971) was an ophthalmic surgeon who served as a lieutenant in the First World War. He later set up the day hospital at Savernake Hospital in Wiltshire. Kennington was an official war artist during World War I and it is presumed that this portrait found loose inside the Symington book is of Rea himself. (10) £300-400
A substantial and important collection of original manuscript sermons by Charles Kingsley, the novelist, Christian Socialist, man of the cloth, amateur naturalist, best known for his children's story The Water Babies (first published in 1863). This unique collection of draft sermons by Kingsley span almost the entire period of his curacy of Eversley Church, Hampshire, from July 1842 onwards. Many of the sermons, written in a powerfully simple and direct way, and often taking their cue from a biblical quotation or phrase, draw comparisons between the Bible stories and Kingsley's abiding interests in the condition of working people, and the wonder of the natural world. (approx. 60) £3000-5000
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421* Lee (Robert E., 1807-1870). Signed photograph ‘R.E. Lee’, photograph taken by Mathew Brady, with studio copyright caption of 1865, albumen print carte de visite, head and shoulders portrait in civilian garb, head turned slightly to the left, scratchy signature in the blank area of the image lower right, printed border to card mount with Brady Studio copyright stamp at foot, somewhat spotted and a little soiled, 2.5 x 4 ins, framed and glazed A post American Civil War autographed portrait of the Confederate General and Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. (1) £1000-1500
422* Lewis (Clive Staples, 1898-1963 ). Autograph letter signed ‘C. S. Lewis’, The Kilns, Headington Quarry, Oxford, 20th January 1957, to Mr White [Terence Hanbury White, 1906-64], in full, ‘Derry wouldn’t mind [?] matters. They call a ferret a fart there (this greatly mystified a magistrate my father knew when he heard in court that a suspected poacher was found “carrying a fart in his pocket”). Dublin wd. be safer - though beer is a-typical of any low Irish pub. North or South: Those who couldn’t afford whisky wd. be drinking stout Gure [?] is alright. I think all you need do is to put off for av and the for de. Anyway only one reader in 10,000 will know - or care. I am rather pleased to meet anyone who is as good at these maddening little slips as I am! Even spelling ... I forgot to say that the dog in your book is a first class dog’, a few minor spots and marks, 2 pp., small 4to T. H. White was a great dog lover and especially close to his red setter Brownie. C. S. Lewis may be referring to the fictionalized Brownie who appears as the cook’s dog, Captain, in ‘Mistress Masham’s Repose’ (New York, 1946). White, who lived in Alderney in the Channel Islands, may have been working on his science-fiction adventure novel ‘The Master: An Adventure Story’ published in 1957. The opening chapter outlines a brief history of the exploration of Rockall and includes legends of St. Brendan and Atlantis. (1) £400-600
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423* Lewis (Clive Staples, 1898-1963 ). Autograph letter signed ‘C. S. Lewis’, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 25th January 1957, to Mr White [Terence Hanbury White, 1906-64], ‘... my story is not an allegory. The way everyone first assumes that it is, and then complains that the allegory is obscure, has driven me mad. It’s a romance. It’s all written so that one kind of reader can assume the supernatural parts to be Psyche’s [?] gradually accepted by Orual’s growing illusions ...’, continuing with further explanations of different kinds of readers relative to his last novel ‘Till We Have Faces’ (1956), a little spotting, 2 pp., 8vo, together with [T. H. White’s] first edition copy of the book, some spotting throughout, orig. cloth in d.j., sl. rubbed and rear panel damp spotted, 8vo, plus a typed letter signed from Anthony Cronin, literary editor of Time & Tide, 12th September 1956, asking T. H. White if he could provide an 800-word review of the book, ‘... if you think there is that much to be said about it. If you find you absolutely cannot bear it on the other hand I would much rather you did not do it at all as he is rather a friend of the paper ...’, 1 p., 4to (3)
£400-600
425* Piozzi (Hester Lynch Thrale, 1741-1821). Two autograph letters signed [addressed to Mrs Thrale], the first from Herbert Lawrence [fl. 1762-88, Surgeon and Apothecary], thanking her for her letter ‘I don’t know whether I should congratulate you or Dr. Warburton on your acquaintance with each other. Pray was not that the Doctor’s motive for going to Weymouth? I think it could never be to add salt to his satire, for the sea water is reckon’d good against the itch of every kind, and the itch of writing is a disease the Doctor does not wish to be cured of. Please do make my compliments to Mr Salusbury [Mrs Thrale’s father] and tell him that I said the civilest things I was master of for him to my brother, and requested that the same might be repaid (to speak in the merchant’s phrase) in the like currency’, integral blank, a few minor marks and fold splits, 4to, the second from John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), Admiralty, 6th December 1775, referring to one Christopher Speck and his patronage and her help, Speck now being promoted from a sloop to a fifth rate, 2 pp. and integral blank, plus a third unrelated autograph letter signed from John Meyrick FSA (1753-1805, Antiquary), to Diplomat and Art Collector Sir William Hamilton at Naples, 27th November 1791, beginning ‘If human perfection in the form of a life (?) can make a miserable sinner happy, I think you must be perfectly so’, then concerning some financial details, referring to Mr Greville, his tenant Stokes, the Turnpike Road from New Milford to Haverfordwest, etc., 2 pp., with integral address leaf and seal, minor marks and seal tear, all 4to
424* More (Hannah, 1745-1833). Autograph letter signed ‘H. More’, Adelphi, [London], 23 May, n.d., c. 1780, to [Frances] Reynolds, Dover Street, Piccadilly, regretting having had to leave London without seeing her through being too busy, and sending ‘an apology most necessary for not giving you an opportunity of finishing my picture, which you had the goodness to express a wish of doing, and which obliging intention I am mortified to disappoint ...’, telling that she is off to Oxford and always mindful of her kindness to her, ‘How grieved I was that day that I could not stay and dine with you! It would have been such a feast of reaon to have had you and Doctor Johnson all to myself! Pray remember me most respectfully to him when you see him’, concluding by wishing her good health and hoping that some day she might make it to Bristol to visit her, uniform brown toning, wax seal tear and two marginal splits without loss, 2 pp., plus integral address leaf, 4to
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Frances Reynolds (1729-1807), the younger sister of Sir Joshua Reynolds, lived in Dover Street, c. 1780 when she did paint an oil portrait of the writer and philanthropist Hannah More. The portrait now hangs in Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. A group of fifteen letters from Hannah More to Frances Reynolds are included in the Frances Reynolds papers at the Houghton Library, Harvard University. (1) £150-200
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427* Sir Joshua Reynolds and Valentine Green Dispute. Correspondence of Valentine Green with Sir Joshua Reynolds concerning the commission to engrave Reynolds’ painting of ‘Mrs Siddons in the Character of the Tragic Muse’, correspondence comprising Valentine Green’s autograph letter in the third person to Joshua Reynolds written to the verso of a note dated 6th May from Mr. Sheridan addressed to Valentine Green, ‘Mr Sheridan presents his Compliments to Mr Green. He will be very glad to oblige any Artist of Mr Green’s Merit, and he will speak further on the Subject with Sir Joshua Reynolds’, Green’s letter using this reference to win work, 2 pp., the following an autograph letter unsigned in the third person from Joshua Reynolds to Valentine Green in response to this letter, ‘If a choice of the Engraver depends on him [Sir Joshua Reynolds], he will certainly remember Mr Green’s first application - Her wish and the Ladies who were with her when she sat, appears to be for an Engraved print, not a Metzotinto, but the Picture is but just begun and in a state of uncertainty whether it will be a Picture worth making a Print from it or not’, 2 pp., with integral blank, the latter letter and four ensuing letters (two from Valentine Green, one from Joshua Reynolds and one from Mrs Siddons) copied up by Valentine Green on seven pages, signed at end of final letter by Valentine Green, some spotting, soiling, minor tears and repairs, etc. docketed to final blank where folded ‘Letters between Sir J. Reyn[ds] & VG about the Affair of Mrs Siddon’s portrait, 1783’, a total of six sheets, all window-mounted into old album mounts with a further window mount comprising the correspondence as submitted to the Literary Gazette by Valentine Green and published in 1823, plus a small engraved portrait of Valentine Green by James Fittler after L. F. Abbott
426* Shakespeare Homages. A Book of Homages to Shakespeare, ed. Israel Gollancz, OUP, 1916, port. frontis. and other b & w plts., signatures of approx. seventy contributors signed at the end of each of their respective essays or poems, etc., signatures include Rudyard Kipling, W.H. Davies, Austin Dobson, Laurence Binyon, Alice Meynell, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, J.M. Robertson, A.C. Bradley, I. Gollancz, Gonnoske Koma and with eight signatures tipped in on card including Rabindranath Tagore and Pavle Popovic, signature of Thomas Hardy to lower margin of page one seemingly excised and no longer present, some spotting, hinges cracked, t.e.g., remainder uncut, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled, sl. split along upper joint, 4to (one of 1250 copies), together with a group of fifteen signed letters from various contributors and others to Miss Wotton (presumably Mabel E. Wotton whose article ‘A MeetingPlace for Shakespeare and Drayton in the City of London’ appears as pp. 252-53 in the book), plus an unrelated group of autographs etc. sent to David Lewin, c. 1960s-80s, including typed letters signed from Anthony Hopkins, Katharine Hepburn and Michael Winner (approx. 40)
£200-300
Valentine Green was highly aggrieved that a commission he felt was rightfully his and given to him was in the end given to Francis Haward (1759-1797). The latter was a request of the actress and this decision infuriated Valentine Green who published this series of indignant letters in the Literary Gazette. The first Reynolds letter in the author’s holograph included in this lot and Valentine Green’s copy of the ensuing letter from Reynolds are published in ‘Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds’, Appendix III, Letters LXIX [6 May 1783] and LXX, 1st June 1783. These were noted as being kindly supplied by W. T. Whitley. (8) £500-700
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428* Thomas (Dylan, 1914-1953). Original publisher’s printed questionnaire, completed in ink by Dylan Thomas, relating to his forthcoming publication Twenty-Five Poems, [1936], single folded printed sheet on grey paper, issued by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., giving the author’s name and address in full, the book title, and a series of questions regarding biographical information, literary reputation, etc., to which Dylan Thomas has provided answers, in a neat handwritten script, a little soiled and lower half of centrefold split, slim 8vo (183 x 132mm)
429* Thomas (Dylan, 1914-1953). Original publisher’s printed questionnaire, completed by hand by Dylan Thomas, relating to his forthcoming volume of poetry entitled The Map of Love, [1939], single folded printed sheet, with handwritten responses by Dylan Thomas in ink, giving the artist’s full name and address, notes on previous publications, a short biographical note and suggested promotional contacts in Wales, some minor soiling, slim 8vo (183 x 133mm) A rare printed questionnaire, issued by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., prior to the publication of Dylan Thomas’s The Map of Love on 24th August 1939. Under biographical information, Thomas states baldly ‘Married, with a five months old son’. Included with this lot is a memorandum from Mr. Hoppé to Mr. Bozman and Mr. Martin Dent, dated 8th February 1955, relating to the use of a photograph of Dylan Thomas for the publication A Prospect of the Sea, plus a newscutting of the obituary for Dylan Thomas published in The Times on November 10th 1953. Due to its publication date of 24th August 1939, Dylan Thomas’s The Map of Love, a collection of poetry and prose, was overshadowed by the outbreak of the Second World War. Herbert Read was moved to comment “It contains the most absolute poetry that has ever been written in our time, and one can only pray that this poet will not be forced in any way to surrender the subtle course of his genius”. (3) £400-600
A rare first-hand self-assessment by Dylan Thomas, which gives interesting insight into his circumstances and literary interests. In response to a request for biographical information and special interests, the author writes ‘Live outside London as much as possible, like living in Wales most. Am interested in short-story writing. At the moment am writing a reversed Pilgrim’s Progress, the journey of Anti-Christian from Zion to Destruction. I try to lead conventional lives [sic]’. Dylan Thomas’s second book of poems after the publication of 18 poems in 1934, sold quickly, requiring a second impression in the year of publication, and a further impression in 1939. (1) £400-600
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431* Washington (George, 1732-99, 1st President of the United States of America). Autograph letter signed ‘Go. Washington’, Mount Vernon, 10th August [17]84, to Reverend William Gordon [1728-1807], in full, ‘Dear Sir, I have been favored with your letters of the 12th & 19th Ulto. and congratulate you on your safe return, and happy meeting with Mrs Gordon. The Boston paper has come regularly every week, and I thank you for sending them; but pray, that you may not let the continuance of it be attended with the least inconvenience to yourself, or the work you are engaged in. Your sensibility greatly overpays any civilities you may have met with at this place. What you are pleased to consider in the light of an obligation, we view as pleasure; & shall be happy if opportunities wd. enable us to repeat them. The same inducements which brought the celebrated Mrs McCauly (per Graham) & Mrs Hale[y] to Boston wi[ll] more than probably prompt them to se[e] other states of the U[ni]on; and if led so far Southwa[rdly] I should t[hink] [?your] self honored by their calling upon me. We have nothing new in this Quarter - My time is spent in the matter you were witness to. I am now indeed, repairing my pack saddles, and preparing for a journey to the Western Country; where it is necessary for me to pay some attention to the property I hold in it, or suffer, after having attained Patents (12 years ago) & encountering much expence, my land to be taken from me by occupants, who do not trouble their heads so much about the Right, as the convenience of the Land they are disposed to settle upon. Mrs Washington, and all around me, join in best wishes for you, & compliments to Mrs Gordon - we are all w[e]ll - Mrs L. Washington has not encreased her family yet. with gt. esteem & reg.’, 2 pp. with integral address panel addressed to the Reverend Doctor Gordon, Jamaica Place, Massachusetts Bay, signed ‘Go. Washington’ to lower left of address panel, docketed by the recipient with a note that the letter was answered August 30th, remains of wax seal, laid paper with watermark of Taylor, uniform browning and brittling, with chips and tears with minor lettering loss as indicated in the transcription, the largest loss being to lower right corner of page 1, pages 2 and 3 (blank) silked with archival tissue, the whole bifolium laid flat and encapsulated in a transparent archival polyester sleeve with old ink caption in a separate compartment lower right, whole sheet size 228 x 342mm (9 x 13.5ins)
430 Vaughan Williams (Ralph, 1872-1958). John Kemp’s Wager, a Ballad Opera by Robert Graves, 1st ed., Oxford, 1925, pencil notes in Vaughan Williams’ hand, e.g. ‘What tune?’, ‘Send copy’, and other brief notes concerning settings of music, author’s signed presentation inscription to half-title, ‘Dr. Vaughan Williams, with the sincere admiration of Robert Graves’, small hole to preceding series title-page touching lettering to verso, orig. dec. stiff wrappers, spine browned and sl. frayed at edges, slim 8vo, together with Rothenstein (William), Contemporaries, Portrait Drawings, 1st ed., 1937, [and] Twenty-Four Portraits, Second Series, 1923, b & w and sepia port. plts. to each, both signed presentation copies from the author to Vaughan Williams, orig. cloth/buckram-backed boards with printed paper labels, both somewhat rubbed and soiled, 8vo, plus five others given to Vaughan Williams by family and others, various (10)
£200-300
The existence of this letter is inferred through the existence of Gordon’s reply on 30th August: “Your obliging letter of the 10th instt was recd the last Thursday” - see ‘Papers of Washington Digital Edition’, vol. 2, p. 28. This letter is not included, its location unknown, though there are several other letters to Gordon transcribed. The letter written by Washington immediately preceeding this one is found in volume 27, addressed to John Ariss and dated 8th August 1784; the following letter, dated 11th August, is addressed to Tench Tilghman. The recipient of this letter was the Reverend William Gordon, a British Presbyterian Minister, who was an early supporter of the Colonists and emigrated to America in 1770. He became the Pastor of the Third Congregational Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and was later appointed Chaplain to both houses of the provincial Congress. Desiring to write a comprehensive history of the American Revolution he returned to London in 1786 for fear that he would not be able to publish an impartial account in the United States. He ran into similar difficulties in England and his heavily revised version was finally published as ‘The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America: including an Account of the Late War, and of the Thirteen Colonies, from their origin to that period’ in New York in 1788. Catharine Macaulay Graham (173191) was an English historian, whose ‘History of England’ was published in eight volumes between 1763 and 1783. (1) £7000-10000
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432* Williamson (Henry, 1895-1977 ). One autograph letter and two typed letters signed ‘Henry’, Stiffkey, Norfolk, (one with no place), undated, c. 1940, to Peggy, the hand-written letter in red ink begins ‘A swirl & mass of work - eleven hours a day on harvest ninety letters to reply to - claims for sleep run over - etc., etc., etc., - long journey back, & tired - so forgive absence of letter ... I’m also in a state of interior chaos ... the old old problem - an artist and a family can’t work together. I suppose I’ll settle down & submit ... well Peggy, my dear, it was nice with you in Ham, & we all loved seeing you, & the cider party was fun, wasn’t it ...’, continuing on the second page in blue pencil in a larger hand, ‘Tell Don Federico I’ve looked for the photographs of the Exmoor walk but they are mislaid ...’, a second letter with complaints about daily drudgery, ‘Here life is bloody dull. Nite after nite I sit in my little cottage, trying to work, hating it; but nothing else to do. no one to see; called a spy in the village; wife and I no longer on speaking terms. Not even mutual respect left. Too minds which cannot get on, or see anything in common; like, say, Chamberlain and Hitler; both men have an immense following, in their own countries. Both are much better than their opponents in opposite countries declare. Both speak the truth as they feel it; tho the standards of conduct are entirely different; they don’t touch anywhere. So here in this home - or the home down the street, where the kids live with their mother wherein father enters too often miserable and silent, or continually critical, why this undercooked yet again? or why this wasn’t cooked in our new electric oven, why send it out to a cottage to be cooked? Why 17 turkeys are allowed to die, because the lamp wasn’t turned up enough and they got cold? Why the hut wherein they shelter clotted with six weeks muck, etc?., etc., etc., etc., etc., Ad nauseum. I won’t bother you with the old stuff anymore. I think I know what you mean about interior chaos ..., I’m even glad you have lots of fun. I wish I could never do anything I didn’t want to! Entire life, save for rare moments, (one was that night when we drank the cider) is against the grain. So many mouths to feed and such poor material to do it with ! I assure you every sentence is a lifetime of anguish to get on paper. I’m not really an artist or a poet. I made myself do certain things, at a cost of normality. Like Hitler; and all may fall down on him. He tried to make a perfect country, and it was too much for everyone, and he had to keep on trying to cover up or what was not succeeding until in the end he has to break his whole principle of race and again, to comprise with his life-antagonism, Bolshevism. He tried to make his dreams come real; whereas dreams are dreams and men are men in the work a day world, and not all geniuses. (Genius is abnormality; men are normality). So, like many other Seers and prophets, Hitler will ...’, later referring again to their night together ‘In the old dark stables of Tompo and the scrumpy cider’, signed in blue pencil with postscript in red ink, remembering him to Peggy’s mother, each 2 pp., the third letter 5 pp. on three sheets, with manuscript corrections, largely of a political nature, beginning ‘No no no no no no no. “No matter what the cost”. Child, that is newspaper talk, and has no connexion with reality. It is, rather, money talk. International loans, banks. I know what I am talking about. How can you know, child, what the soldiers felt most of the time in the real world war? ...’, the final two pages largely taken up with a poem titled “The War for Civilisation”, all 4to, plus two related printed flyers and a newscutting (6)
Lot 432 433* Yonge (Charlotte Mary, 1823-1901). Autograph letter signed to Mary Bramston, dated October 28th [circa 1899], 8 pp., discussing various theological issues, including the Biblical Prophecies, and the opinions of various theological scholars, together with a copy of a letter sent from Mary Bramston to Charlotte Yonge dated October 26th (presumably of the same year), discussing Christianity and the Old Testament, 4 pp., plus nine various autograph letters to Mary Bramston, from John Murray the publisher, Hallam Murray, William Archibald Spooner, Arthur Blackett, S. R. Driver (2), W. A. Searon, C. Simmons, C. G. Lang (2), and a handwritten manuscript preface by E. Lyttelton, dated Haileybury, July 1899, all relating to publications by Mary Bramston, c. 1895-1901 Mary Bramston was, like Charlotte Yonge, a novelist, who sought to express her Christian beliefs through her fiction. Bramston was co-author with Charlotte Yonge of the novel Astray: A Tale of a Country Town, published in 1886. (13) £200-300
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SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Provenance: the property of the descendants of Sir George Radford, who was a member of the exclusive Johnson Club, the rules of which state (amongst other stipulations): ‘That the Club be restricted to 31 members, who bind themselves to sup together, if possible, at some eighteenth century tavern, on or about December 13, annually’. George Radford wrote at leas three papers for the club, and his large library contained at least thirty early editions by Boswell and Johnson. The family still owns a table containing Radford's original catalogue of some 2,000 hand-written index cards. 434 [Beckingham, Charles]. The Life of Mr. Richard Savage. Who was Condemn’d with Mr. James Gregory, in Decemb. last, for the Murder of Mr. James Sinclair, at Robinson’s Coffee-house at CharingCross; but since Discharg’d, upon giving Bail to plead His Majesty’s most gracious Pardon. with some very remarkable Circumstances, relating to the Birth and Education, of that Gentleman, which were never yet made publick, 3rd ed., printed for, and Sold by J. Roberts, 1728, pp.[ii]+29+[1](blank), half-title present, with circular embossed stamp of G.H. Radford and earlier ms. name above, woodcut headpiece and initial letter, generally toned, verso of final leaf with old adhesive number label, disbound, 8vo in 4s
435 Boswell (James). An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, Illustrated with a New and Accurate Map of Corsica, 1st ed., Glasgow: printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, London, 1768, pp.[iii]-xxi+[3]+[1]-382+[2], folding eng. map frontis. (lightly toned), vign. title, half-title discarded, but final blank present, interleaved throughout, with annotations in Boswell’s hand opposite pp.280, 313, 339, and 343, endpapers foxed, untrimmed, contemp. qtr. calf with vellum corners, rubbed, sl. loss to spine ends, and joints splitting, raised bands, gilt lettered red leather label in second compartment, 8vo
All editions are scarce. Attributed to Beckingham by Samuel Johnson, who wrote his own ‘Account of the Life of Richard Savage’, published in 1744. (1) £150-200
Pottle 24; Rothschild 442. Boswell’s own copy, with manuscript note on the front pastedown: ‘From the Auchinleck Library. Boswell’s own copy. The notes at pp. 280, 313, 339 and 343 are in Boswell’s handwriting. Bought of Tregaskis 3.VIII.93 George H. Radford’. Provenance: the property of the descendants of Sir George Heynes Radford (1852-1917), who was MP for Islington from 1906 until his death. The family still owns a table containing the original index cards of the Radford library catalogue. In total it contains around 2000 cards handwritten by Sir George, of which thirty of the entries detail first and early editions by Boswell and Johnson, including this copy of ‘Corsica’ with the note ‘Boswell’s own copy, interleaved and with some corrections in his handwriting.’ Radford’s note on the front pastedown indicates that he purchased the book from James Tregaskis, who was a second-hand bookseller in High Holborn. Both Radford and Tregaskis were members of the exclusive Johnson Club, which was limited to just thirty-one members who were particularly interested in Johnson and his contemporaries (see lot 440). Tregaskis bought several books on Corsica (lot 60) in the sale of Lord Auchinleck’s celebrated library in June 1893, which included important holdings of Boswell and Johnson. This copy of ‘Corsica’ has the following points as noted by Rothschild: 1) The Table of Contents follows the Preface; 2) D2r (p.51) present in both states, i.e. bound in is the leaf in first state with the words ‘John Home’ incorrectly placed, following the first quotation, and loosely inserted is the leaf in second state, with the words ‘John Home’ correctly placed, following the second quotation; 3) E2 (pp.67/8) is a cancellans (as in all recorded copies), and lines 11 and 12 on p.67 read ‘enjoying the noble fief of Istria; 4) Z3 is a cancellans (as usual) with ‘Mariana’ corrected to ‘Mariani’; 5) folding map precedes title and is without imprint or scale. Misprints are as recorded in Pottle, except for p.93 and p.296 which are corrected (as in Rothschild 442), with additional misprint on p.172 ‘tha the’, instead of the usual misprint ‘that the’. (1) £5000-7000
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437 Johnson (Samuel). Mr. Johnson’s Preface to his Edition of Shakespear’s Plays, 1st separate ed., printed for J. and R. Tonson et al, 1765, pp.[iii]-lxxii, title-page a trifle dusty and foxed, and with small piece missing from upper blank margin, half-title discarded, disbound and stitching lacking, 8vo
436 [Johnson, Samuel] & Dodd (William). The Convict’s Address to His Unhappy Brethren. Delivered in the Chapel of Newgate, on Friday, June 6, 1777, 1st ed., printed for G. Kearsly, 1777, pp.24, first and final leaf foxed and dusty, disbound, slim 8vo in 4s Chapman and Hazen, p.153; Rothschild 1260. Rare: Courtney and Smith record only a later edition of the same year (pp.128/9). Mostly, if not wholly, written by Johnson. (1) £1000-1500
Chapman & Hazen, p.148; Courtney and Smith, pp.103/4; Rothschild 1249. According to Chapman & Hazen: ‘The separate Preface seems to be scarce. It is possible that the publishers were reluctant to let people read Johnson’s preface without paying for his edition ... and while unable in decency to resist the public demand - or the author’s request - protected themselves by printing a small edition’. (1) £500-800
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Lot 439 438 Johnson (Samuel). Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. to which are added Some Poems never before printed. Published from the original mss. in her possession, by Hester Lynch Piozzi, 2 vols., printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1788, scattered foxing (especially to first and final leaves), prelim. blank to first vol. with circular embossed stamp of G.H. Radford, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, late 19th-c. half calf, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Birkbeck Hill (George, ed.), Boswell’s Life, 6 vols., 1887; Letters, 2 vols., 1892; Johnsonian Miscellanies, 2 vols., 1897, together 10 vols., plts., some folding, half-titles to Life with circular embossed stamp of G.H. Radford, uniformly bound in orig. green qtr. morocco, spines faded and rubbed, and frayed at ends, 8vo, plus Lives of the English Poets, by Samuel Johnson, LL.D., with a brief memoir of Dr. Birkbeck Hill, by his nephew Harold Spencer Scott..., 3 vols., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905, first and final leaves toned, orig. red cloth, 8vo, plus eleven others related (26)
439* Johnsoniana. A late eighteenth century shagreen cased drawing instrument set belonging to Dr. Samuel Johnson, made by Dollond, 59 St. Paul’s Church Yd., London, a silver mounted shagreen case of tapering form, with push button opener, the lid with silver label engraved ‘Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1780’, sl. surface loss on lid, the fitted interior containing a 4.5” ivory rule, a lignum vitae and brass parallel rule, and ten brass and steel instruments, incl. calipers, miniature shears, and compass pencil holder, probably some substitution of missing pieces, Dollond’s engraved label on inside of lid, 13.5 x 7 x 3cm (5.25 x 2.75 x 1.25ins) Peter Dollond was at 59 St. Paul’s Church Yard between 1766 and 1795. Provenance: the descendants of Sir George Heynes Radford (1852-1917), who was MP for Islington from 1906 until his death. Sir George’s diaries have several entries per year that mention his attendance at the Johnson Club, and he is listed as a member of the club in both ‘Johnson Club Papers by Various Hands’, published by T. Fisher Unwin, 1899, and ‘The Johnson Club 1884-1934’, printed at the Clarendon Press. The latter notes that membership of the club was limited to just thirty-one members, and that in the choice of candidates for membership preference should be given to those especially interested in Dr. Johnson and his contemporaries. George Radford wrote at least three papers for the club, and his large library contained thirty first and early editions of works by Johnson and Boswell, including Boswell’s own, annotated, copy of ‘Corsica’. (See lot 435). (1) £3000-5000
£200-300
Lot 439
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ANTIQUARIAN 441 Acts of Parliament. A collection of approx. 600 Acts of Parliament, late 18th & 19th c., including Public & Private Acts including some relating to enclosures, docks, harbours, ports, warehousing, coffee, paper, hats & gloves etc. (a carton)
440 Johnsoniana. A small archive of material relating to the Johnson Club, c.1890s, including papers read before the Johnson Club (e.g. Dr. Johnson’s Associations with the Law, the Lawyers, and Legal Haunts, by Arthur H. Spokes; Dr. Johnson as a Grecian, by J. Gennadius, 1898; Dr. Johnson’s Library, by Arthur W. Hutton, 1892; Johnson & Music, by John Sargeaunt, 1892), facsimile of the sale catalogue of Dr. Johnson’s Library, 2 vols. Johnson Club Papers by Various Hands (pub. T. Fisher Unwin, 1899 and 1920), printed lists of members and rules, menus for Johnson Club dinners, printed supper invitations (one with ms. invitation from George Radford to Harold Wright scribbled in top margin), a pencil portrait sketch by Harold Wright entitled ‘A Modern Johnson’ dated 1891, newspaper cuttings, and five letters written to George Radford from George Birkbeck Hill, one expressing his disappointment that ‘not a single member of the Johnson Club would buy my big book as it was too dear’, except for Radford whom he calls ‘one good fellow who has not been frightened by its price’, another saying ‘I have noted the references in my edition of Rasselas, and I am most obliged to you for them’, and a third enquiring about Radford’s abode ‘I do not know exactly where Surbiton lies - excuse the ignorance but the place is not mentioned in Boswell’, plus a few other ephemeral items relating to Samuel Johnson, 8vo and smaller, generally in good condition, mostly contained in board pamphlet case, labelled ‘Johnsoniana’ in ms. on spine
£150-200
442 [Alexander, William]. Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English, printed for John Murray, 1814, fifty fine hand-col. aquatint plts., some dust & finger-soiling, hinges repaired, recent half calf gilt preserving contemp. marbled boards, 4to
Provenance: the property of the descendants of Sir George Radford, who was a member of the exclusive Johnson Club. (a small folder) £200-300
Tooley 374. Large Paper copy. The title in this copy states ‘illustrated in sixtyfour coloured engravings’ however the plate list calls for fifty. (1) £400-600
100
445 Battely (John). Opera Posthuma. Viz. Antiquitates Rutupinae et Antiquitates S. Edmundi Burgi ad Annum 1272 Perductae, 2 vols. in 1, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1745, general title and eng. vignette title, four eng. maps (3 folding), twelve eng. plts. (4 folding), bookplate to front pastedown, contemp. calf, later reback with morocco label to spine, rubbed and some wear, 4to (1)
£200-300
446 Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues..., Oxford: Thomas Baskett, 1752, general and New Testament titles present, Apocrypha present, some manuscript genealogical entries, bound with the Concordances pub. London, 1745 at rear of volume, some dust-soiling and few marks, 19th c. calf, joints cracked and some wear, 4to, together with The Holy Bible..., with Illustrations by Gustave Dore, pub. Cassell & Company, c.1880s, eng. frontis. and full-page illusts., contemp. half morocco gilt, 4to, plus The National Comprehensive Family Bible..., Manchester: Peter Black, c.1900, addn. chromo title, chromo family register, col. and b & w plts., a.e.g., orig. morocco with recessed gilt title to upper board, brass embossed corners and clasps, 4to (3)
£150-200
443 Antiphonal. A fine large manuscript antiphonal leaf on vellum, probably 16th or early 17th c., text and musical notation in black with staves in red to both sides of vellum leaf, with four large hand-col. decorative initials to each side, manuscript area approx. 38.5 x 27cm, sheet dimensions approx. 61 x 43cm (1)
£150-200
444 Ariosto (Lodovico). Orlando Furioso di Lodovico Ariosto, 4 vols., Birmingham: Baskerville Press, 1773, upper margins of titles with near contemp. ownership signature to each, occ. spotting, some sewing broken and text-block split, contemp. calf gilt, boards detached, spines split & cracked with some loss, old fabric repairs to spines & joints, worn, 8vo, (Gaskell 48), together with Neale (John Preston and Le Keux, John), Views of the Most Interesting Collegiate and Parochial Churches in Great Britain, including Screens, Fonts, Monuments, etc., 2 vols. in one, 1824-25, ninetysix eng. proof plts. on India paper (inc. frontis.), occ. spotting & dampstaining, contemp. diced calf, gothic ecclesiastical architectural gilt decoration to spine, joints cracked & board edges rubbed, large 4to, with Woolnoth (William), A Graphical Illustration of the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Canterbury..., 1816, addn. eng. title, eng. plan, seventeen eng. plts. & one eng. illust., occ. minor dampstaining, few ink library stamps, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, contemp. calf, lacks spine, folio, plus Maclaurin (Colin), An Account of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophical Discoveries, 2nd ed., 1750, six folding eng. diag. plts., adhesive tape repairs throughout (mostly to inner margins, with consequent browning), lacks title, sewing & textblock broken with detached pages throughout, contemp. calf, boards detached and lacks spine, worn, 8vo, plus a defective copy of Mathematical tracts of the late Bejamin Robbins..., vol. 1 only (of two), 1761, with broken text-block and contemp. calf binding, 8vo (8)
447 Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New; with the Apocrypha: Translated out of the Original Tongues, with Annotations, Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville, 1769, general and New Testament titles present, Apocrypha present, New Testament title dated 1771, bound without frontis. and plts., occasional dampstaining to few leaves, contemp. calf, morocco title label to spine, joints cracked, spine with loss of leather to one panel, rubbed & worn, folio Gaskell 35; Herbert 1210. (1)
£200-300
101
£200-300
449 Bible [English]. The Bible Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke, and Conferred with the Best Translations in Divers Languages..., Imprinted at London: By the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1597, New Testament title present within dec. woodcut border (imprint dated 1596, ink manuscript to both sides with some ink show-through), Apocrypha present, lacks general title, printed in black-letter text, four leaves of text frayed with some loss, some other marginal fraying and few closed-tears, some dust-soiling and few marks, edges close-trimmed slightly affecting some running titles and marginal notes etc., bound with a Concordance at rear with final leaf creased, free endpapers detached, early 19th c. reversed calf, boards detached and some wear, 4to
448 Bible [English] The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New: Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty’s Special Command, Cambridge: printed by John Baskerville, 1763, general & New Testament titles present, Apocrypha present, subscribers list at rear, initial leaves detached & slight fraying to edges, leaf 7D creased, rear free endpaper detached, occ. spotting, a.e.g., contemp. gilt dec. red morocco, boards detached, slight loss of leather to upper board, spine and boards rubbed & worn, large folio
Herbert 234. (1)
Gaskell 26 and Herbert 1146. This edition ‘has always been regarded as Baskerville’s magnum opus, and is his most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen’ (T.B. Reed, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries..., p.279). (1) £600-800
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£300-400
450 Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues..., Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1619/20, general and New Testament titles within dec. woodcut borders (NT title dated 1620 & with imprint names of Robert Barker & John Bill), Apocrypha present, printed in black letter text throughout, final leaf of New Testament with early ink ownership inscriptions of Nathaniel Grosthwaite and Mary Appleby dated 1669, leaves C4 & C5 trimmed to fore-edge margin with slight loss of printed notes, some fraying and worming mostly to margins (occasionally affecting letters of text), bound with the Genealogies at the front of volume (without map, some fraying with slight loss) and with an incomplete Concordance dated 1619 [i.e. 1620] at rear of volume lacking all after H8 (with some worming, close-trimmed affecting few letters of text), some minor dampstaining, dust-soiling and few marks throughout volume, lacks front free endpapers, near contemp. sheep, old reback, worn with some leather loss to board edges, 4to Herbert 374. (1)
451 Binding. Swallow. A New Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1677. Being the First after Bissextile, or Leap-Year. And from the Creation of the World 5681. Calculated for the Meridian of the Famous University and Town of Cambridge, Where the Pole is Elevated 52 Degrees, and 17 Minutes above the Horizon, by T. Swallow, 2 parts in one, Westminster: printed by George Larkin, for the Assigns of John Seymour, [1676], pp.[38], first part printed in red and black, toned throughout, title to second part with some pencil scribblings, bound with Apollo Anglicanus. 1677. The English Apollo: Fore-shewing the State of the Year, the Eclipses, Lunations, Moon’s Sign, and Age, and Change of Air... To which also is added An Account of all the Market-Towns in every County in England and Wales..., by Richard Saunders, Westminster: printed by George Larkin for the Assigns of John Seymour, 1677, [pp.48], first part printed in red and black, toned throughout, two leaves with lower outer corner torn away, with sl. loss of text, bound with three other almanacks similar, all defective, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., lacking front free endpaper, contemp. black morocco, rubbed, extrems. worn, spine divided by raised bands, compartments gilt panelled with roundel in centre surrounded by dots, and volute cornerpieces, covers with gilt dotted roll border, and all-over gilt design of drawerhandle tools, fleurons, and dotted-line four-petalled flower tools, on a semé dot and flower ground, gilt roll on edges, 8vo
£300-500
With the circular four-petalled flower tool reminiscent of Queens’ Binder B, as opposed to the elongated one used by Queens’ Binder A (cf. Howard Nixon, Five Centruies of English Bookbinding, 1979, p.100.) (1) £200-300
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452 Binding. The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith, with twenty-five coloured illustrations by C.E. Brock, J.M. Dent, 1904, half-title, col. frontis, title-page, and twenty-three col. plts., occn. foxing (mostly to first few leaves and fore-edges), t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, contemp. vellucent vellum by Cedric Chivers, Bath, signed on lower turn-in, the spine and upper cover painted and gilt tooled with an architectural design, upper cover featuring a niche with classical columns on either side enclosing ms. title within circular mosaic frame, with lunette and swag above, and an urn of fruit below, lower cover gilt panelled, gilt fillets on turn-ins, with Tudor rose tool at corners, 8vo (1)
£400-600
453 Binding. The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury Bishop of Durham Treasurer and Chancellor of Edward III, Edited and Translated by Ernest C. Thomas..., London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1888, b & w frontis., armorial bookplates to front endpaper, some browning to margins of free endpapers, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, contemp. gilt & blind dec. brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, board corners slightly rubbed, large 8vo Limited Large Paper Edition printed at the Chiswick Press, signed and numbered 46/50. (1) £100-150
Lot 452
454 Bindings. A mahogany box containing a collection of finelybound prize bindings for the Royal Dental Hospital of London, awarded to W.F. Flote, July 18th, 1900, together seven vols., marbled endpapers and edges, all but one vol. with presentation label on front pastedown, similarly bound in contemp. calf by Bickers & Son, gilt dec. spines (faded), upper covers with gilt device of the London School of Dental Surgery, 8vo, contained in a custom-made mahogany box, with glazed hinged door, with brass plaque on the front, 23 x 27.5 x 17.5cm (9 x 10.75 x 7ins) Titles as follows: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, by Charles Darwin, 1896; Self-Help, with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance, by Samuel Smiles, 1897; Duty with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, & Endurance, by Samuel Smiles, 1897; Thrift, by Samuel Smiles, 1897; The Use of Life, by Sir John Lubbock, 1899; The Pleasures of Life, by Sir John Lubbock, 1899; Character, by Samuel Smiles, 1900. (1) £300-500
Lot 453
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455 Bindings. Roget (Peter Mark), Animal and Vegetable Physiology, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, 2 vols., 1834, engs. to text, some spotting, contemp. half calf gilt, spine labels missing to vol. 2, some wear to extrems., 8vo, together with approx. fifty other 19th c. leather bindings, mostly 8vo (52)
459 Bindings. Celebrated Pictures Exhibited at the Manchester Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Fine Arts Section..., with Notes and Criticisms by Walter Armstrong, c. 1888, thirty eng. plts., orig. half morocco gilt, some wear to extrems., large folio (limited edition 36/300), together with Rhys (Ernest), Sir Frederic Leighton, Bart, P.R.A., An Illustrated Chronicle, 1895, b&w plts. throughout, inscribed in ms. to front blank ‘The Yates-Thompson Prize for Art. J.P. Chambers. July 1919’ with nine ms. signatures below, occ. spotting, contemp. blue half morocco, gilt dec. spine, rubbed, folio, plus Reid (Andrew T.), The Collection of Pictures Formed by Andrew T. Reid of Auchterarder, pub. Glasgow, 1933, eng. illusts. throughout, t.e.g., contemp. green crushed morocco gilt, some marks, 4to, plus ten other bindings, incl. Poesies, by Stephane Mallarme, pub. Paris, 1926; The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V., by William Robertson, 3 vols., 1827
£200-300
456 Bindings. A Chronicle of England B.C. 55-A.D. 1485 Written and Illustrated by James E. Doyle, 1864, numerous col. wood eng. illusts., hinges slightly cracked, a.e.g., contemp. gilt dec. straightgrain green morocco, 4to, together with Moore’s Irish Melodies Illustrated by D. Maclise, new ed., 1851, eng. frontis., addn. eng. title, eng. text with illusts. and dec. borders, occ. spotting, a.e.g., with gauffered edges, contemp. gilt dec. dark green morocco, rebacked preserving orig. spine, 4to (2)
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£150-250
460 Blackstone (William). Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 vols., 4th ed., Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1770, one folding pedigree, contemp. calf gilt, contrasting morocco labels to spines, some joints & headcaps neatly repaired, 4to
457 Bindings. Secret Court Memoirs, 20 vols., pub. Grolier Society, [1904], num. eng. ports., t.e.g., contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spines with contrasting labels to each (one label missing), rubbed and some wear, 8vo Limited edition of 1000 copies. (20)
(4)
£300-500
£70-100
461 Blackstone (William). Reports of Cases Determined in the Several Courts of Westminster-Hall, from 1746 to 1779, 2 vols., 1781, initial leaves in vol. 2 with short worm trail to lower margins, hinges cracked, contemp. calf, contrasting morocco labels to spines, joints and headcaps neatly repaired at head of spine, folio
458 Bindings. Repertoire General du Theatre Francais, Compose des Tragedies, Comedies et Drames..., 63 vols., Paris, 1822-25, comprising vols. 2-6, 8-18, 20-62, 64-67 only, occasional light spotting, near contemporary calf-backed boards, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, lightly rubbed, 12mo (63)
£100-150
Armorial bookplate of Thomas Fetherstone of Lincolns Inn. (2)
£300-500
Lot 458
105
£100-150
462 [Bolton, Edmund]. The Elements of Armories, 1st ed., George Eld, 1610, [16], 201, [15]pp., woodcut illust. to title (torn with loss & repaired), early ink manuscript annotations to title, numerous woodcut armorials (few hand-col., one armorial illust. without volvelle), final leaf torn and inner margin partly adhered to rear pastedown, some dampstaining, minor dust-soiling and few marks etc., 19th c. green qtr. morocco gilt, small 4to
465 Britton (John, Bishop of Hereford). Britton. [The treatise on English law, formerly attributed to John Britton, Bishop of Hereford. Based on H. de Bractons De legibus Angliae.], London: Imprynted by Robert Redman, [1540?], ff.[5], 287, [1], lacks title (provided in facsimile), printed in black letter text throughout, occasional woodcut initials, printers woodcut device to final leaf, few early marginal notes and occ. underscoring, initial leaves slightly frayed to outer corners, closed-tear to fore-edge margin of leaf M8, very light dampstaining to fore-edge margins mostly to initial leaves, modern antique style mottled blind panelled calf, small 8vo
STC 3220. The volume includes a section on pre-conquest armorials of Mexico and Peru (“America, that rude new found world, I am to tell you, affordes wonderfull stuffe to our purpose...”). (1) £100-150
STC 3803. Only four UK locations found. (1)
£600-800
463 Boswell (James). The Life of Samuel Johnson..., 4 vols., 1824, eng. port. frontis. (with spotting & offsetting to title), folding eng. plt., some occ. scattered spotting, contemp. half calf with gilt dec. spines, extrems. rubbed, 8vo (4)
£100-150
464 Bowen (Margaret). Original Poems, on Various Subjects, by Miss M. Bowen, Chepstow: printed and sold by S. Rogers, 1808, 98pp., half-title, eng. frontis., subscribers list present, unobtrusive blind library stamp to half-title and endpapers, edges untrimmed, orig. printed boards, crude fabric spine strip reback, 8vo in 4s, together with [James, Ashe Gabb], A Brief Memoir of James Davies, Master of the National School, on Devauden-Hill, Monmouthshire, by a Clergyman, 1832, 41pp., contemp. inscription to title, occ. scattered spotting, modern qtr. reversed calf, 12mo, with a fourth edition of the same work, plus Davies of Devauden, or, A Brief Memoir of James Davies..., 1841, litho port. frontis., orig. cloth, spine torn, 8vo The first title contains sixteen poems including “Lines addressed to a Piano Forte; To Miss..., in consequence of having given her a Black Eye, by Accident; On the Marriage of Mr. Snipe andMiss Frost; Lines written on a Window with French Chalk; A Burlesque Ode to Turnips, written in consequence of their having been recommended to a Lady as a Cure for the Heartburn”. Only three UK locations of this title found (British Library, Cardiff & Cambridge). (4) £150-200
466 Bronte (Charlotte, Emily & Anne). Life and Works of Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters, 7 vols., pub. Smith, Elder & Co., 1872-74, half-title, wood eng. frontis., and additional wood eng. vign. title to each vol., b&w wood eng. plts., marbled edges and endpapers, contemp. gilt morocco presentation label to front pastedown of each vol., stamped in gilt F.M.D. from E.C.D. Xmas 1876, contemp. uniform blue half morocco, gilt dec. spines, one or two minor marks to extrems. (generally in bright condition), 8vo (7)
£200-300
467 Brydall (John). Lex Spuriorum: or, the Law Relating to Bastardy. Collected from the Common, Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws, 1st ed., London: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires, for Thomas Osborne, 1703, [8], 127, [9]pp., title with early ownership signature ‘Willm. Rogers, 13th October 1731’, margins of title strengthened with archival tissue, some browning and spotting throughout volume (as often), endpapers renewed, contemp. calf, rebacked, 8vo ESTC T116601. (1)
£300-400
468 Burnet (Gilbert). An Exposition of the XXXIX Articles of the Church of England, 4th ed. corrected, 1737, woocut initials, some light foxing to endpapers, contemp. blind-stamped panelled calf, rubbed and scuffed, with a little wear to extremities, folio Ex-libris S.W. Warneford, University College Oxford, with his ink inscription to front pastedown. Samuel Wilson Warneford (1763-1855), was a rector of Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire from 1810 to 1855, and a philanthropist who made important donations to Heddington Hill Asylum, several hospitals, and churches. (1) £100-150
Lot 465
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469 Caulfield (James). Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters, of Remarkable Persons, from the Revolution in 1688 to the End of the Reign of George II, 4 vols., 1819-20, 150 (of 155) copper eng. and stipple eng. portrait plts., including some by George Cruikshank, some gathers detached in vol. 2, a.e.g., contemp. elaborately gilt decorated dark blue full morocco, spine torn at head of vol. 1, scuffed with wear to extrems., 4to (4)
£150-200
471 Cicero (Marcus Tullius). Officiorum Marci T.C. Libri tres, cum Comentariis Petri Marsi, Francisci Maturantii & Ascensii. Adiunctis Argumetis Desiderii Eras. Roterodami, Necnon Additametis Marginalibus Eiusdem, Lyon, 1538, title printed in red and black within woodcut border, woodcut initials, lacking all after M5, some tears and repairs to foremargins, occasional soiling and waterstains, some underlining and annotation, modern brown blindstamped calf, 8vo (1)
472 Civil War. The Speech or Confession of Sir Alexander Carew Baronet: Who was beheaded on Tower-hill on Munday Decemb. 23. 1644, printed for Tho. Bates at the Maiden-head on Snow-hill, neere the Conduit. And J.W.J. in the Old-baily, 1644, pp.8, woodcut headpiece and initial letter, browned throughout, small ink stain to upper outer corners, A4 recto with a few letters of printed marginalia shaved, unbound as issued, lacking stitching, sm. 4to
470 Caulfield (James). Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters, of Remarkable Persons, From the Revolution in 1688 to the End of the Reign of George II, 4 vols., 1819-20, 155 engraved plates, lacking Carstairs and Ellis (as often), some spotting, some crayon scribbling to vol.4, bookplates, a.e.g., contemporary blindstamped calf, spines with raised bands and gilt decoration, lightly rubbed, 8vo (4)
£200-300
Wing C543. (1)
£100-150
473 Civil War. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament; For and concerning one Tenth part more of Customes and Subsidies, to be paid according to this Ordinance; For the Defence of the Towns and Ports of Plymouth, the Isle of St. Nicholas, the Towns of Poole, and Lyme, and places adjacent..., printed for Edward Husbands, November 20. 1643, pp.7+[1](blank), title-page sl. dusty, disbound, sm. 4to
£100-150
Wing E1857. (1)
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£100-150
474 Civil War. The Copy of a Letter sent to an Honourable Lord, by Doctor Paske, Subdeane of Canterbury, London printed, September 9. 1642, pp.7+[1](blank), final blank page dust-soiled, later wrappers, sm. 4to Wing P646. (1)
£100-150
475 Civil War. A great and bloudy Fight at Colchester, and the storming of the Town by the Lord Generals Forces, with the manner how they were repulsed and beaten off, and forced to retreat from the Walls, and a great and terrible blow given at the said storm, by Granadoes and Gunpowder. Likewise their hanging out the Flag of Defiance, and their sallying out upon Tuesday last, all the chief Officers ingaging in the said Fight, and Sir Charles Lucas giving the first onset in the van, with the number killed and taken, and Sir Charles Lucas his Declaration..., London: Printed for G. Beal, 1648, [2], 6pp., woodcut illust. to title, disbound 4to, (Wing G1633), together with A Great Fight at Colchester Upon Tuesday night last, being the 25. of this instant July, and the advancing of General Lucas and his Forces to the very Guards of the Parliamenteers, with the particulars of the Fight, and the number that were killed and taken prisoners on both sides..., Likewise a Letter from Colchester concerning the marching of an Army to London, and a Message from Prince Charles to Gen. Lucas. And a bloudy Fight at Deal Castle in Kent, London: Printed for R. Woodus, 1648, [2], 6pp., woodcut illust. to title, disbound 4to, (Wing G1693), plus The Colchester Spie. Truly informing the Kingdome of the estate of that gallant Town, and the attempts of Fairfax against it: with some other remarkable passages from the English and Scots Army, also from Westminster & London, Printed in the Yeere, 1648, [8]pp., first leaf excised to upper margin, leaves close-trimmed at head slightly affecting text, disbound 4to (3)
£200-300
Lot 475
476 Clarendon (Edward Hyde, Earl of). The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland, with the True State and Condition of that Kingdom before the Year 1640; and the most Material Passages and Actions which since that Time have Contributed to the Calamities it hath Undergone, 1720, engraved portrait frontispiece (torn along gutter), light waterstains, library bookplate, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, together with [Curry, John], Historical Memoirs of the Irish Rebellion in the Year 1641; Extracted from Parliamentary, Journals, State-Acts, and the most Eminent Protestant Historians, 1758, previous owner signature to title, a few spots, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, rubbed, 8vo (2)
478 Cruikshank (George, illust.). Greenwich Hospital, A Series of Naval Sketches, Descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War’s Man, by an Old Sailor, 1st ed., 1826, title with wood eng. vign., twelve hand-col. etched plts., incl. frontis. (3.5” split at gutter), plts. offset to text, scattered foxing, two openings strengthened at gutter (incl. one plt.), endpapers renewed, contemp. half calf, rebacked, corners showing, 4to
£100-150
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477 Cobbett (William). Cobbett’s Penny Trash, nos. 1-3, [all pub.], Roake & Varty, 1831, each with 24pp., stitched as issued, some light dust-soiling, 12mo, together with Cobbett’s Poor Man’s Friend; or, a Defence of the Rights of those who do the Work and Fight the Battles, 3 parts in one, published by Wm. Cobbett, [c.1836], 72pp., ownership signature to upper margin of title, untrimmed, stitched as issued, 12mo, (a reissue of the 1830 new edition) with Cobbett (James Paul), A Ride of Eight Hundred Miles in France..., 1st ed., printed for the author, 1824, half-title repaired to inner margin, 4pp. pubs. ads. at rear, occ. spotting, untrimmed, modern boards, 12mo, plus Channing (William E.), Lectures on the Elevation of the Labouring Portion of the Community, Bristol & London, [1840], 48pp., stitched as issued, 12mo (6)
£100-150
479 Customs and Excise. General Orders, 1855, Index to the Board’s General Orders at front, includes papers relating to the seizure of Russian ship “Soglasie”, an alphabetical list of Russian Vessels and other papers relating to the Crimea, orders regarding importation of goods, agreements for trade routes, clearing certificates, other instructions and directives, some cancelled stamps and light spots, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached, spine defective, folio (1)
£150-250
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483 Edmonds (John W. & Dexter, George T.). Spiritualism..., with an Appendix, by Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, 2 vols., 10th ed., New York, 1854, eng. frontis. to vol. 1 and two eng. port. plts., front free endpapers inscribed by the author, occ. spotting, orig. cloth gilt, lower joint of vol. 1 split and some fraying to head & foot of spines, coreners rubbed, 8vo (2)
£80-120
484 Fea (Allan). Memoirs of the Martyr King, Being a Detailed Record of the Last Two Years of the Reign of His Most Sacred Majesty King Charles the First (1646-1648-9), pub. 1905, half-title with tape repair to inner margin, port. frontis., num. b&w illusts., 20th c. half morocco gilt, thick 4to Limited signed edition 379/400. (1)
£100-150
480 [Delolme, Jean Louis]. Memorials of Human Superstition; Being a Paraphrase and Commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbe Boileau, Doctor of Sorbonne, Canon of the Holy Chapel, &c..., 2nd ed., 1784, eng. vignette to title, two eng. plts. and one eng. illust. (trimmed to image at fore-edge), 19th c. speckled calf, rebacked, rubbed to joints and extrems., 8vo (1)
£100-150
481 Demosthenes. Orations of Domesthenes, Translated by the Rev. Mr. Francis, with Critical and Historical Notes, 2 vols., London: printed for A. Millar, 1757, folding eng. map frontis. to vol. 1, slight worming to lower outer corners of initial leaves in vol. 1, occ. scattered spotting, modern qtr. calf gilt, 4to (2)
£100-150
482 Dibdin (Thomas Frognall). Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance, in Six Parts, London: Printed for the Author, 2nd ed., 1811, woodcut illust. to verso of half-title, eng. vignette title, one eng. plt. and few eng. illusts., to text, some light offsetting, a.e.g., hinges cracked, contemp. morocco, gilt dec. spine, joints & extrems. rubbed, 8vo, together with The reminiscences of Thomas Dibdin, of the Theatres Royal, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, Haymarket..., 2 vols., 1827, eng. port. frontis. to vol. 1, t.e.g., early 20th c. half calf gilt, joints slightly worn, 8vo, with Reminiscences of a Literary Life, 2 vols., 1836, eng. frontis. to each and numerous eng. plts., near contemp. tree calf, rebacked preserving orig. gilt dec. spines, corners repaired, 8vo, plus four others (one defective)
485 Fiddes (Richard). The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, 1st ed., printed for John Barber, 1724, seven eng. ports. and plts. (correct as list, inc. frontis. & one folding plt.), occ. minor spotting, 18th c. armorial bookplate of the Earl of Rochford to verso of title and 19th c. armorial bookplate of Leonard L. Hartley to upper pastedown, a.e.g., 19th c. red morocco with elaborate gilt dec. spine, gilt crest of the Earl of Derby to centre of upper board, joints slightly rubbed, folio
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486 Fielding (Henry). A True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez, who suffered on account of the late riot in the Strand. In which the law regarding these offences, and the statute of George the First, commonly called the Riot Act, are fully considered, 1st ed., printed for A. Millar, 1749, printed title and 54 pp. of text, some light soiling to title, bound with [Cleland, John, attrib.], The Case of the Unfortunate Bosavern Penlez, printed for T. Clement, 1749, 55 pp., bound with Blandy (Mary). The Secret History of Miss Blandy, from her first appearance at Bath, to her execution at Oxford, April 6, 1752, Containing an account of her several lovers before her fatal engagements with Cranstoun ..., printed for Henry Williams, [1752], 100 pp., title and final leaf with one or two marks and light soiling, plus The Case of Miss Blandy: consider’d as a daughter, as a gentlewoman, and as a Christian, by an impartial hand, Oxford, printed for R. Baldwin, 1752, 26 pp., one or two marks and soiling to final leaf, and six other various pamphlets, contemp. qtr. calf, rubbed and some wear with joints partly cracked, 8vo
489 Fore-edge painting. The Poetical works of Reginald Heber, new ed., John Murray, 1861, eng. port. frontis., upper hinge slightly cracked, a.e.g., with double fore-edge paintings depicting scenes of a country house in a parkland setting with deer, contemp. gilt dec. plum morocco, upper joint cracked at foot, joints & extrems. rubbed, 8vo
The other titles are: John Milton, An Essay on Education, 1751, Abbe D’Ancourt, The Lady’s Preceptor. Or, A Letter to a Young Lady of Distinction Upon Politeness, 4th ed., 1752, [John Hill], Letters from the Inspector to a Lady, with the Genuine Answers, printed for M. Cooper, 1752, John Scheffer, The History of Lapland: Shewing the Original, Manners, Habits, Religion and Trade of That People, 1751, [Matthias Earbery], An Historical Account of the Advantages That Have Accru’d to England, by the Succession in the Illustrious House of Hanover, 1722, & [Matthew Maty], Ode sur la Rebellion de MDCCXLV en Ecosse, Amsterdam, 1746. Rothschild 852 for the work by Fielding. Bosavern Penlez was one of nine rioters committed to Newgate by Fielding. He was tried at the Old Bailey in August, and in spite of a petition for his reprieve from the jury who convicted him, he was hanged on 18 October. (1) £200-300
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490 Fore-edge painting. The Seasons, by James Thomson, pub. John Sharpe, 1818, addn. eng. title, five eng. plts., occ. scattered spotting, a.e.g., with fore-edge painting of the original London Bridge, contemp. straight-grain blind panelled morocco, with gilt & blind dec. spine, gilt lyre motif to centre of each board, joints & extrems. rubbed, 12mo
487 Fielding (Henry). Works, 10 vols., new ed., 1784, twelve engraved plates, some spotting and offsetting, contemporary calf, spines faded, lightly rubbed, 8vo (10)
£250-350
£150-200
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£200-300
491 Fore-edge painting. A Treatise on Self-Knowledge, by John Mason, A.M., pub. Edinburgh, 1810, half-title, front blank with ink inscription “The Gift of Mary Maslen, Wife of Harry Maslen to her Mother in Law.... Mary Maslen of Stratford Green, 1st October, 1815”, a.e.g., with fore-edge painting of Wilton House near Salisbury, Wiltshire, as viewed from the river Nadder with palladian bridge in the distance, contemp. gilt panelled calf, gilt dec. spine and blind decoration to panelled area of boards, upper joint cracked, rubbed at head & foot of spine and to board corners, small 8vo (1)
488 Fore-edge painting. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments..., Oxford: printed at the University Press by Samuel Collingwood & Co., c.1840, & The Book of Common Prayer, Cambridge: John Wm. Parker, c.1840, booksellers label of Russell of Guildford to upper pastedown of each, a.e.g., with fore-edge painting of a river scene with bridge and fisherman to Bible and foreedge painting to Book of Common Prayer depicting Stoke Poges Church & churchyard in Buckinghamshire where the poet Thomas Gray is buried, contemp. uniform gilt dec. plum morocco, 12mo, contained together in a plum morocco wallet style slipcase (1)
£200-300
492 Fore-edge painting. The Vicar of Wakefield, A Tale; by Oliver Goldsmith, pub. Willoughby & Co., 1841, eng. port. frontis., wood eng. illusts. to text, five eng. plts., hinges cracked, a.e.g., with foreedge painting of a river scene with bridge and fisherman, contemp. calf gilt, upper joint slightly cracked at head, extrems. slightly rubbed, 8vo
£250-350
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493 Fore-edge painting. Jerusalem Delivered; an Heroic Poem Translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoole, 2 vols. in one, new ed., 1807, two eng. frontis. pieces bound-in at front of volume, slight worming to upper outer corners of few leaves, gilt dec. dentelles, a.e.g., with fore-edge painting depicting a man fishing on the banks of the River Wye at Monsal Dale, contemp. gilt dec. bottle green straight-grain morocco, joints rubbed, large 12mo (1)
£200-300
497 Gibbon (Edward). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vols., 1st eds. (vol. 1, 3rd ed.), 1777-88, three folding eng. maps, lacking eng. port., occ. spotting, contemp. calf gilt, some cracking to joints, some wear, large 4to (6)
494 Fore-edge painting. The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, with Photographic Illustrations by Payne Jennings, pub. R. & A. Suttaby, c.1880, albumen print port. frontis. and illust. to title, five mounted albumen & platinum print plts., occ. scattered spotting, hinges cracked, a.e.g., with fore-edge painting of Blenheim Palace(?), orig. publisher’s dark green morocco gilt, joints and extrems. rubbed and slightly worn, 8vo (1)
498 [Godwin, William]. The Pantheon: or Ancient History of the Gods of Greece and Rome. For the use of Schools, and Young of Both Sexes, by Edward Baldwin, Esq., 6th ed., London: printed for M.J. Godwin & Co., at the French and English Juvenile and School Library, 1824, eng. frontis., eleven eng. plts., occ. minor spotting and light offsetting, hinges repaired, contemp. half calf with recent spine, 8vo, together with Fables Ancient and Modern Adapted for the use of Children, by Edward Baldwin, Esq., 10th ed., 1824, eng. vignette title and six eng. plts., occ. minor spotting, hinges repaired, contemp. marbled sheep, rebacked, slight loss of leather to lower board, 12mo
£150-200
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£150-200
(2)
496 Francklin (Richard, Bookseller). A Short State of the Case, with Relation to a Claim made by Richard Francklin, Bookseller, on David Mallet, Esq; On Account of some Copies which are inserted in the Works of the late Lord Bolingbroke, publish’d by Mr. Mallet, and which were originally printed by Richard Francklin, 1754, 6pp., ink line marks to title, bound with at front Remarks on the History of England, from the Minutes of Humphry Oldcastle, Esq; 3rd ed., R. Francklin, 1754, ink signature to title, few ink annotations and marks throughout, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spine with red morocco title label, joints cracked and slight wear to extrems., 8vo, together with Booksellers catalogue, Catalogue General des Livres Francais, Italiens, Espagnols, etc., Tant Anciens que Modernes, qui se Trouvent chez Barthes et Lowell, pub. 1857, contemp. qtr. morocco, rebacked preserving orig. spine, large 8vo, with Evans (Robert Harding), A Letter on the Expediency of a reform in Parliament, Addressed to the Right Hon. Lord Erskine, 1817, ink signature to title, recent plain paper wrappers, plus three others (6)
£200-300
499 Greek poetry. Poetae Graeci Veteres Tragici, Comici, Lyrici, Epigrammatarii, 2 vols., pub. de la Roviere, Cologne, 1614, title with woodcut device, woodcut headpieces and initials, text in Greek and Latin, final index leaf laid down, a few neat repairs and tears, some spotting and soiling, previous owner signature to title, 18th c. mottled calf, spines with red and green labels and gilt decoration, a little rubbed and chipped, folio
495 Fore-edge painting. The Book of the Thames from its Rise to its Fall, by Mr. and Mrs. S.C. Hall, new ed., c.1890, title printed in red & black, numerous wood eng. illusts. throughout, occ. minor spotting, a.e.g., with fore-edge painting with view of Abingdon on Thames, contemp. morocco gilt, large 8vo (1)
£300-500
£100-150
500 Greenwood (James). An Essay Towards a Practical English Grammar, Describing the Genius and Nature of the English Tongue..., 4th ed., 1740, 4pp. of pubs. ads at rear, contemp. speckled calf, spine lacks title label, upper board detached and lower joint cracked, 12mo in 6s (1)
£150-250
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501 Gurwood (Lieut. Colonel J.). Selections from the Dispatches and General Orders of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington, 1841, some light toning, tipped-in press cutting, rear endpaper renewed, bookplate of John Arthur Moore, a.e.g., contemporary calf gilt, rebacked retaining original spine, lightly rubbed, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to preface leaf: “To Major J.A. Moore, J. Gurwood, 31st July 1841”, with a tipped-in 1pp. autograph letter from Gurwood to Moore presenting the book to him, together with Relation Fidele et Detaillee de la Derniere Campagne de Buonaparte, Terminee par la Bataille de Mont-Saint-Jean, dite de Waterloo ou de la BelleAlliance, 2nd ed., Paris, 1815, half-title, folding engraved map of Waterloo, partly hand-coloured with manuscript note, occasional light browning and spotting, previous owner signature to title, contemporary half calf, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo, plus Sir Edward Creasy’s The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo, 1877, presented to Earl Haig from Arthur Lee Knight, 1935, with a loose 2pp. autograph letter (3)
£150-200
502 Hale (William). A Letter to Samuel Whitbread, containing observations on the distresses peculiar to the poor of Spitalfields, arising from their local situation, 2nd ed., 1807, title + 35 pp. of text, bound with Martin (Matthew), Substance of a Letter, dated Poets Corner, Westminster, 3d March 1803, to the Rt. Hon. Lord Pelham, on the state of Mendicity, in the Metropolis, printed for the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor, 1811, plus An Account of the Institution, Progress, and Present State of the Scots’ Corporation in London, 1812, 56 pp., and Laws, Rules, and Orders of the Queen’s Lying-in Hospital, under the patronage of Her Majesty, 1813, 52 pp., several contemp. ink corrections and additions, plus nine other pamphlets, similar, some minor foxing to fore-edges, contemp. half calf, worn with upper portion of spine deficient, 8vo The remaining pamphlets are: Resolutions, &c., Passed at a General Meeting of the Adult Institution, held at the Town Hall, Great Marlow, October 31, 1814, A Statement Respecting Adult Schools, Maidenhead, 1814 (2 copies), A Concise Account of the Charity School, for Maintaining and Educating 108 children of the Industrious Poor Parishoners of the Parish of St. Mary-le-Bone, 1815, A Brief Statement of the St. Mary-le-Bone Institution for Instruction and Industry United to the National Society, 1815, Substance of a Letter to Lord Viscount Melville, Written in May, 1815, with the Outlines of Plan to Raise British Seamen and to form their Minds to Volunteer the Naval Service when required; to do away with the evils of Impressment ..., 1815, An Appeal to Public Benevolence for the Relief of Beggars; with a View to a Plan for Suppression of Beggary, by Matthew Martin, 1812, A Letter to Wm. Wilberforce, on the Subject of Impressment ..., 1816, Report of the Provisional Committee of the Guardian Society, for the Preservation of Public Morals, by Providing Temporary Asylums for Prostitutes, Removed by the Operation of the Laws from the Public Street, 1816. (1) £200-300
503 Handel (George Frideric). Judas Macchabaeus. An Oratorio, in Score As it was Originally Perform’d. Composed by Mr. Handel with His Additional Alterations, printed for William Randall Successor to the late Mr. J. Walsh, 1st ed., [1769], fine part-folding eng. port. frontis. of Handel by Houbraken, eng. title and 208 pp. eng. full score, printed list of subscribers (2 pp.) and index (1 p.) after title, minor spotting and light browning to preliminary leaves, typed note dated June 1906 by F.G. Edwards concerning the publishing history of the score loosely inserted, orig. blind-panelled reversed calf with red leather label to spine, rubbed, upper joint sl. split, a little wear to head of spine and extremities, folio (325 x 215mm) As HWV 63; Smith Page 114 No. 4. First edition of the complete full score. The Oratorio was first performed on 1st April 1747, but Handel altered many parts until 1758, thus the partial first edition, published by Walsh in 1747, merely illustrates a work in progress. A good early copy of this printing with the Houbraken portrait in untouched condition. (1) £800-1200
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504 Hayley (William). Ode, Inscribed to John Howard, Esq. F.R.S. Author of “The State of English and Foreign Prisons”, London: printed for J. Dodsley, 1780, 19pp., half-title, eng. frontis., slightly frayed to extrems., stitched as issued, 4to (1)
£70-100
505 Hays (Mary). Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrations and Celebrated Women, of all Ages and Countries, 6 vols., 1803, contemp. half calf, lacking few spine labels, slightly rubbed to joints & extrems. worn, 12mo An early attempt at a comprehensive female biography, by the novelist and follower of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Hays tended Mary Wollstonecraft on her deathbed, and was the author of an obituary to her. (6) £200-300
509 Ivimey (Joseph). Memoir of William Fox, Esq., Founder of the Sunday-School Society, Comprising the History of the Origin and First Twenty Years of that Benevolent and Useful Institution, with correspondence on the Subject Between Wm. Fox, Esq., and Robert Raikes ..., 1st ed., 1831, eng. port. frontis., sl. offset to title, a little spotting throughout, eng. armorial bookplate of James Collins to front pastedown, upper hinge sl. cracked, orig. cloth with printed paper label to spine, sl. rubbed and soiled, spine faded with a little wear to extrems., 12mo
506 Hobbes (Thomas, of Malmesbury). Vita. Authore Seipso, 1st ed., 1679, pp.14, large woodcut on title-page, stained throughout, unbound and stitched as issued, sm. 4to Wing H2267. Later re-published as part of ‘Philosophi Vita’ in 1681, this first edition is rare. (1) £300-500
Rare, only three copies traced, at the University of Glasgow, St. Andrews and Cambridge. (1) £100-150
507 Hodson (Thomas). The Accomplished Tutor; Or, Complete System of Liberal Education, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1802, 26 folding engraved maps and plates, some spotting and light dampstains, one or two leaves loose, previous owner signatures, original boards, spines defective, some stains, contained in modern clamshell box, 8vo (2)
510 Jennings (James). Observations on Some of the Dialects in the West of England, Particularly Somersetshire: with a Glossary of Words, Now in Use There; and Poems and Other Pieces, Exemplifying the Dialect, 1825, large inscription to front blank adjacent to title, inscribed to Sarah Jennings from the Author (written in Somerset dialect), contemp. calf, sometime crudely rebacked in cloth, some wear, 12mo
£100-150
508 The Index Library, edited W.P.W. Phillimore [and others], vols. 1-30, 32-38, 40-54, issued by the British Record Society Ltd., 18881925, together 52 vols., ex-lib. copies with occ. oval ink stamp, all orig. plum cloth gilt (except vol. 51, bound in similar plum cloth), all a little dust soiled, 8vo (52)
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511 Lambard (William). The Dueties of Constables, Borsholders, Tythingmen, and such other lowe and Lay Ministers of the Peace. Whereunto be adioyned, the severall offices of Church Ministers and Churchwardens, and Overseers for the Poore, Surueighours of the highwayes, and distributors of the provision against noysome fowle and vermine. First collected by William Lambard of Lincolnes Inne Gent. And now enlarged in the yeare 1602, London: Thomas Wight, 1602, 80pp., discreet blind embossed library stamp to title and ink classification number to verso, some slight dampstaining mostly at rear of volume, small worm hole to lower outer corners of last few leaves, modern qtr. calf, printed paper label to upper board, slim 8vo STC 15154 and Goldsmith, 312. (1)
514 Machiavelli (Niccolo). The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written Originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully Translated into English, 1695, contemp. ink ownership signature to upper margin of general title, separate part titles, leaf 3B2 torn to lower outer corner (not affecting text), occ. spotting mostly to margins, slight dampstaining to lower margins of few leaves, endpapers renewed, 18th c. marbled calf, rebacked preserving orig. gilt dec. spine, corners repaired, extrems. rubbed, folio Wing M131. (1)
£200-300
£100-150
512 Lavater, Sue, & Co. Lavater’s looking-Glass; or, Essays on the Face of Animated Nature, from Man to Plants. Dedicated To Her Grace The Duchess Of Devonshire. By Lavater, Sue, & Co., 1800, addn. eng. frontis. and two eng. portraits (each lined to verso), title excised to upper margin, without half-title, occ. minor spotting, contemp. half calf gilt, extrems. rubbed, 8vo (1)
£100-150
515 Marcellinus (Ammianus). Rerum Gestarum qui de XXXI. Supersunt, Libri XVIII, pub. Dezallier, Paris, 1681, title with engraved vignette, engraved headpieces, woodcut initials, text ruled in red, Ss2 with repaired tear, one or two leaves at end cleaned, scattered light spotting, bookplate, a.e.g., contemporary mottled calf, covers gilt-stamped with continental armorial, upper cover detached, rubbed, folio Large paper copy. (1)
513 Macdonald (George). Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women, 1st ed., 1858, bound without pubs. ads. at end, a few leaves loosening, some light spots, presentation inscription to half title, original olive green blindstamped cloth, spine faded to brown, minor wear at spine ends, 8vo
£500-800
516 Montesquieu (Charles de Secondat, Baron de). Oeuvres de Monsieur de Montesquieu, 3 vols., new ed., 1767, eng. frontis. to vol. 1, two folding eng. maps, recent full morocco gilt, 4to
George Macdonald’s third book, much influencing C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Dodgson, Samuel Clemens and others. (1) £400-600
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518 [Naylor, Sir George]. A Collection of Coats of Arms Borne by the Nobility and Gentry of the County of Glocester, 1792, engraved title, 62 engraved plates, some waterstains and spotting, bookplate, hinges strengthened, contemporary half calf, rebacked, lightly rubbed, 4to (1)
517 More (Thomas). De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia, libri duo... , printed Hans Jacob Henne, pub. Peter Kopf, Hannover, 1613, printer’s woodcut device to title, a little occ. spotting, soiling, browning and marginal damp staining, endpapers defective, contemp. calf, rubbed, 12mo (PMM 47 - 1st ed., 1516), together with Waring (Robert), Amoris Effigies: sive, quid sit amor?, 1671, some spotting and soiling, hinges cracked, contemp. sheep, rubbed, 24mo, (Wing W864), plus Buchanan (George), Psalmorum Davidis par Aphrasis poetica... , 2 parts in one, 1640, woodcut device to title, lacks R4 (blank?) before second title, some spotting and soiling and occ. marginal fraying, contemp. sheep, worn, upper cover detached, 12mo, (STC 3988), plus a sl. defective copy of Seneca, 1613 (STC 22218) (4)
£150-200
519 New Testament. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Newly Translated out of the Originall Greeke..., Imprinted a London by Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1625, title within dec. woodcut border (close-trimmed to image at inner margin, frayed & torn to fore-edge margin & repaired to verso), colophon dated 1624, printed in black letter throughout, following six leaves frayed & torn to fore-edge margins with some loss (some paper & adhesive tape repairs), bound with Two Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances..., Collected by R.F.H., Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton, and John Bill, 1622, lacks all after F6 (last Psalm 137), last four leaves frayed & torn with some loss, pages closetrimmed at head, some browning and other minor fraying etc. thoughout volume, 19th c. half sheep, joints cracked and some wear, 4to
£200-300
The New Testament forms the second portion of The Holy Bible, published in 1625 comprising leaves 3E3-3R8. Herbert 395, Darlow & Moule 303. (1) £100-150
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520 Order of the Bath. Statutes of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 1st ed., 1725, title with woodcut device, a few spots, bookplate, a.e.g., contemporary crimson full morocco, covers with deep floral and bird gilt-tooled border, lacking ties, spine ends slightly rubbed, 4to
522 Pannier (Nicolas). The French Alphabet, or an Explanation of the Mechanism of the Organs in Motion in the Act of Pronouncing the French Letters, Preceded by a Preliminary Discourse, Containing some Observations on the Art of Teaching Languages..., c. 1815, three folding tables, single library bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary qtr. calf with vellum tips, rubbed and a little wear to joints, slim 8vo, together with Boyer (Abel), The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English: Being a Collection of the Wit, of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern; with corrections and improvements, for the use of French Schools, 1707, titles and text in English and French, 3 pp. pubs. list at end, some light toning, library bookplate to front endpaper, contemp. sheep, worn with backstrip def., plus [Le Roy, Charles]. Traité de L’Orthographe Francoise, en Forme de Dictionnaire, Poitiers, 1764, single library bookplate to front pastedown, contemp. calf, rubbed and somewhat worn, with joints partly cracked, 8vo, and others on French language and grammar, including John Perrin, The Practice of the French Pronunciation Alphabetically Exhibited, 3rd ed., 1777, Du Fresnoy, The Art of Pronouncing the French Language with Propriety, Ipswich, 1789, with list of subscribers, untrimmed, Vaugelas, Remarques sur la langue francoise, 2 vols. bound in one, Amsterdam, 1690, etc., mostly 8vo/12mo
Provenence: Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840, 3rd daughter of George III), signature to title. (1) £150-200
521 Pamphlets. An Account of the Burning of the City of London: As it was Publish’d by the Special Authority of King and Council in the Year, 1666. To which is added, the Opinion of Dr. Kennet... and that of Dr. Eachard ...From all which, it plainly appears, that the Papists had no Hand in that dreadful Conflagration, 3rd ed., 1721, 40 pp., disbound, together with Theobald (John), Every Man His Own Physician. Being a Complete Collection of Efficacious and Approved Remedies, for Every Disease Incident to the Human Body... , 4th ed., improved, 1764, 50 pp., untrimmed, sewn as issued, plus Bradberry (Robert), The Principles of Perspective, Explained in a Genuine Theory, and Applied in an Extensive Practice; with the Construction and Uses of all Such Instruments as are Subservient to the Purposes of this Science, Edinburgh, 1790, 83 pp., three eng. plts., disbound; More Money! Or, Odes of Instruction to Mr. Pitt: with a Variety of other Choice Matters, by Peter Pindar [John Walcot], Dublin: Printed by William Porter, 1792, 38 pp., disbound; West (Moses), A Treatise Concerning Marriage: Wherein the Unlawfulness of Mixt Marriages in laid open from the Scriptures. Recommended to the Youth of Both Sexes among the People Called Quakers, 5th ed., 1790, 46 pp., ad. leaf at rear, old marbled boards; Channing (W.E.), Remarks on the Slavery Question, in a Letter to Jonathan Phillips, 1839, 80 pp., orig. printed wrappers; Clarke (Adam), A Dissertation on the Use and Abuse of Tobacco. Wherein the Advantages and Disadvantages Attending the Consumption of that Entertaining Weed, are Particularly Considered... , New York, 1829, 34 pp., some browning, recent cloth, and a large collection of miscellaneous pamphlets, mostly 18th and 19th c. (some early 20th c.), including historical, political, economical and social interest, mostly disbound, 8vo (approx. 300)
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£200-300
523 Papier-maché binding. The Book of Common Prayer.... together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Oxford University Press, 1844, printed in red and black, prelim. blank re-attached at gutter with adhesive tape, and with mounted letter of presentation from William Gladstone dated 1850, marbled endpapers, gauffered edges, orig. black papier-maché binding, with a rounded papermaché spine, the sides incorporating the figure of Christ within an architectural and floral frame, 12mo With letter to Rev. W.M. Goalen from Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone: ‘My dear Cousin, My wife and I are desirous with your leave to present to our goldchild this little token of our interest in her future welfare...’, dated 1850. (1) £250-350
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527 Petrarca (Francesco). Le Rime del Petrarca Brevemente Esposte per Lodovico Castelvetro, Edizione Corretta Illustrata, ed Accresciuta, Siccome dalla seguente Prefazione apparisce, 2 vols., Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1756, titles printed in red & black with eng. illust. to each, eng. plts., eng. illusts. to text, bookplates to front pastedown of each, contemp. vellum, some rubbing, 4to
524 Papier-maché binding. The Good Shunnamite, Longmans et al, 1847, pp.xxi, illuminated chromo. lithos. throughout, lightly toned, gutter-percha perished and first few leaves detached, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., orig. black papier-maché binding, leather spine rubbed and sl. frayed at ends, sm. 8vo (1)
£150-200
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£300-500
525 Parsons (Robert). Leicester’s Common-Wealth. Conceived, Spoken and published with most earnest protestation of dutifull good-will and affection towards this realme..., Whereunto is Added Leicesters-Ghost, 1st ed., 1641, lacks eng. port. frontis., archival tissue repairs to margins of first & last few leaves, worm hole to lower outer corners of leaves E5-H5, some dust-soiling and some browning to margins, endpapers renewed, 20th c. brown morocco preserving contemp. calf leather to boards, small 8vo Wing L969. (1)
£100-150
526 Patoun (Archibald). A Compleat Treatise of Practical Navigation, Demonstrated from its First Principles; Together with all Necessary Tables. To which are added, the useful Theorems of Mensuration, Surveying, and Gauging; with their Application to Practice..., 1st ed., 1730, one folding eng. diag. with closed tears, diags. to text, some browning & spotting to margins, lacks free endpapers, contemp. calf, worn, 8vo (1)
£200-300
528 Playford (John). Vade Mecum, or the Necessary Companion: Containing, 1. Sir S. Morland’s Perpetual Almanack..., 3. Directions for Every Month in the Year, What is to be Done in the Orchard, Kitchin, and Flower Gardens, 4. The Reduction of Weights, Measures, and Coins, Wherein is a Table of the Assize of Bread, 5. A Table Wherein any Number of Farthings, Half-Pence, Pence, or Shillings, are Ready Cast Up; of Great Use to all Traders, 6. The Interest and Rebate of Money; the Forbearance, Discompt, and Purchase of Annuities..., 10. The Usual and Authorized Rates or Fares of Coachmen, Carmen, and Watermen, 3rd ed., much enlarged, 1683, [8], 207, [1pp.,], one folding leaf, contemp. ownership name to head of title ‘E Libris Ridi. Shoafe’, bookplate to front pastedown, contemp. gilt dec. calf, some loss to head of spine and upper corner of front cover, rubbed and some wear, tall 8vo in 4s (21 x 9cm) Lot 527
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£200-300
529 Political Pamphlets. A Detailed Exposure of the Apology put Forth by the Neapolitan Government, in Reply to the Charges of Mr. Gladstone..., 1852, 91pp., disbound 8vo, together with Russia, Germany, and the Eastern Question, by Gustav Diezel, Translated from the german by Frederica Rowan, 1854, 131pp., disbound 8vo, with Description of some of the Principal Harbours and Towns of the Krimea, Compiled from Various Authors, 3rd ed, with Additions, and a Preface by Montague Gore, 1854, 35pp., disbound 8vo, and Szadurski (G.M.B. Leon), An Epitome of the History of Poland, Glasgow: printed for the author, 1842, folding hand-col. eng. map frontis., a.e.g., orig. boards, worn, 8vo, plus fourteen other 19th c. disbound political pamphlets (18)
£150-200
530 Pope (Alexander). Mr. Pope’s Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years; From 1704 to 1734. Being a Collection of Letters, Which Passed Between him and Several Eminent Persons, 4 vols., 17356, engraved portrait frontispiece to each, five engraved portraits, pubs. list at end of vol. 4, one or two tears, some spotting and browning, contemporary calf, vol. I upper cover detached, one spine label peeling, rubbed, 8vo (4)
£100-150
531 Prynne (William). The Popish Royall Favourite: Or, a Full Discovery of his Majesties Extraordinary Favours to, and Protections of Notorious Papists, Priests, Jesuits, Against all Prosecutions and Penalities of the Laws Enacted Against them; Notwith standing his many Royall Proclamations, Declarations and Protestations to the Contrary... 1643, 76pp., title within woodcut border, woodcut headpiece and initials, some light browning, 20th c. half calf, slightly rubbed, small 4to (1)
£100-150
Lot 533
532 Rousseau (S. teacher of the Persian tongue). A Vocabulary of the Persian Language, London, printed for S. Bagster, 1803, pp. i-x, 10-483, errata/ad. leaf present at end, orig. boards, rebacked, 8vo (1)
£100-150
533 [Scott, Thomas, Minister at Utrecht]. The Second Part of Vox Populi, or Gondomar appearing in the likenes of Matchiavell in a Spanish Parliament, wherein are discovered his treacherous & subtile Practises To the ruine as well of England, as the Netherlandes, Faithfully Translated out of the Spanish Coppie by a well-willer to England and Holland, 2nd ed., Goricom: Ashuerus Janss [i.e. London], 1624, pp.[6], 60, eng. illust. to title with donkey-litter and motto ‘Simul Complectar omina’, two eng. illusts. to text, leaf D3v line one begins ‘of Buckinghams’, title close-trimmed with loss of imprint at foot and some close-trimming at head of few other leaves, disbound 4to, (refer to STC22103 to 22104), together with Taylor (Jeremy), Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life according to the Christian Institution..., three parts in one, 1649, eng. device to title, endpapers renewed, contemp. calf, rebacked, 4to, (Wing T342), with [Pikering, Benjamin], A Firebrand Pluckt out of the Burning. A Sermon Preached at Margarets Wesminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at their late solemn Fast, Novemb. 27, 1644., pub. 1645, pp.[8], 28, disbound 4to, (Wing P2150), and Elborow (John), Evodias and Syntyche: or the Female Zelots of the Church of Philippi..., Set forth in a Sermon at Brentwood in Essex; Febru. 28, 1636, pub. 1637, pp.[2], 24, disbound 4to, (STC 7551), plus six other 17th c. antiquarian, including four pamphlets (10)
£300-400
534 Shakespeare (William). The National Shakespeare, a Facsimile of the Text of the First Folio of 1623, illustrated by Sir J. Noel Paton, 3 vols., pub. William Mackenzie, [1888-89], b & w photogravure plts, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. publisher’s uniform blind and gilt dec. full morocco, folio (3)
Lot 534
£200-300
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Lot 535 535 Sterne (Laurence). Works, 10 vols. 1st collected edition, 1780, engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I, ten plates, a few after William Hogarth, some waterstains and light spots, 19th c. calf, spine with red and green labels, edges lightly rubbed, 8vo (10)
537 Thompson (Nathanael). The Tryal of Nathanael Thompson, John Farewell, William Pain, Before the Right Honourable Sir Fran. Pemberton Kt. Lord Chief Justice of England... at Guild-Hall, London, the Twentieth of June, 1682. For Writing, and Publishing, Scandalous Letters to Mr. Miles Prance, in Relation to the Death of Sir EdmundBury Godfrey, London: William Mason, 1682, 16pp., number written in ink to upper outer corner of title, disbound folio, together with The Lord Chief Baron Atkyns’s Speech to Sir William Ashhurst, LordMayor Elect, of the City of London..., Monday the Thirtieth of October, 1693, pub. 1693, 14pp., slight dust-soiling and fraying, manuscript number to upper outer corner of title, disbound folio, with James I, The Connexion: Being Choice Collections of some Principal Matters in King James his Reign: Which may serve to supply the Vacancy betwixt Mr. Townsend’s, and Mr. Rushworth’s Historical Collections, 1681, some browning and fraying, disbound 8vo, and Charles I, The Indictment, Arraignment, Tryal and Judgement, at large, of Twenty-nine Regicides, the Murtherers of... King Charles the First..., 1724, some dampstaining and dust-soiling, disbound 8vo, plus twelve others including eight late 17th c. disbound pamphlets, some defective
£300-400
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£150-250
538 Warner (Richard). Hampshire, extracted from Domes-Day book, with an accurate English translation... , to which is added a glossary, explanatory of the obscure and obsolete words, 1st ed., 1789, parallel text in Latin and English, 8 pp. glossary at rear, lacks half-title, minor spotting, two modern bookplates to front pastedown, contemp. half calf over plain boards, rubbed and soiled, rebacked with orig. spine relaid and corners restored, 4to ESTC 296068. (1)
£70-100
536 Terentius Afer (Publius). P. Terentii Afri Comoediae. Recensuit, Notasque Suas et Gabrielis Faerni Addidit Richardus Bentleius, Amsterdam, 1727, half title, two engraved frontispieces, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved portrait, a few spots and marginal wormholes, contemporary vellum, covers stamped with gilt armorial, lacking ties, slightly bowed, 4to
539 Warren (Samuel). The Opium Question, 3rd ed., London: James Ridgway, 1840, 30pp., ink signature to upper margin of title, disbound 8vo, together with [Damer, George Lionel Dawson], Thoughts on the Question of the East, Suggested by a Tour in Turkey, Syria, and Egypt, during the Last Autumn and Winter, Not Printed for Publication, London: W. Clowes & Sons, 1840, 15pp., upper margin of title with author’s inscription to the Earl of Mau[?], disbound 8vo, with Laurie (Rev. Joseph), Observations on the Extension and Present Condition of the Scottish Church in India, and on the Mission of the Church of Scotland in that Country..., Edinburgh: John Johnstone, 1840, 55pp., disbound 8vo, plus three others similar
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£150-200
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£150-200
SCIENCE & COOKERY 542 Davis (David Daniel). The Principles and Practice of Obstetric Medicine, in a series of Systematic Dissertations on Midwifery, and on the Diseases of Women and Children, 2 vols., 1836, sixty-nine (of 70) litho. plts., some folding/double-page, foxed and some staining, recent qtr. cloth gilt with morocco labels to each, 4to (2)
£100-150
543 Ellis (George Viner & G.H. Ford). Illustrations of Dissections in a Series of Original Coloured Plates the Size of Life, Representing the Dissection of the Human Body, 2nd ed., 1876, fifty-eight col. litho. plts. (complete), last few plts. slightly stained, front endpaper neatly repaired, contemp. half-morocco gilt, large folio Sold without the accompanying octavo descriptive text volume. (1)
£150-200
544 Falcon (Jean). Remarques sur la Chirurgie de M. Guy de Chauliac, Lyon, 1649, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials and illustration, wormtracks, affecting some lettering, waterstains at front and rear, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine, tie remnants, marginal insect damamge to upper cover, some staining, 8vo Scarce commentary by Falcon on the work of Guy de Chauliac, considered the most eminent surgeon of his time. (1) £150-200
545 Haigh (James, late silk & muslin dyer, Leeds). The Dyer’s Assistant in the Art of Dying Wool and Woollen Goods ... Translated from the French, with Additions and Practical Experiments, [3rd ed.], pub. York, 1787, some toning and occ. light browning to margins of few leaves, lacking free endpapers, contemp. sheep, joints cracked, 12mo (1)
546 Handley (James). Mechanical Essays on the Animal Oeconomy: Wherein Not Only the Conduct of Nature, in Animal Secretion but Sensation and Human Generation are Distinctly Consider’d and Anatomically Explain’d, 1st ed., 1721, woodcut headpieces and initials, 1pp. advert at end, title with old signatures erased (washed?), occasional light soiling, front blank laid down, modern panelled calf, 8vo, together with Sydenham (Thomas), Works, 5th ed., 1712, 2pp. pubs. list at end, title laid down, some spotting, endpapers renewed, later panelled calf, rebacked, 8vo, with two others: Dr Sydenham’s Compleat Method of Curing Almost all Diseases, 4th ed., 1710 and William Buchan’s Domestic Medicine: Or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines, 18th ed., 1803
540 Brewster (David, ed.). The Edinburgh Journal of Science, vols. I-VI, nos. I-XII, July 1829-April 1832, 15 engraved plates, some waterstains, original wrappers, some soiling, 8vo Provenence: James Veitch (1792-1863, horticulturist), ownership signatures to upper wrapper. Includes scientific papers by or on John Brown, Charles Babbage, Sir Humphry Davy, Charles Lyell, John Dalton etc. (12) £300-400
541 Burggraeve (Adolphe Pierre). Monument a Edw. Jenner ou Histoire Generale de la Vaccine. A L’Occasion du Premier Centenaire de son Invention, Brussels, 1875, portrait frontispiece, one lithographed plate, five chromo. plates, a few tears and repairs, a few spots, free endpaper loose, a.e.g., original red morocco-backed boards, spine ends chipped, lightly rubbed, 4to (1)
£200-300
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£70-100
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£200-300
549 Mead (Richard). A Treatise Concerning the Influence of the Sun and Moon Upon Human Bodies, and the Diseases thereby Produced, Translated from the Latin by Thomas Stack, 1748, occasional light marginal browning, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked, lightly rubbed, 8vo (1)
£150-200
550 Newton (Isaac). Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia, Reprinted for Sir William Thomson and Hugh Blackburn, Glasgow, 1871, illustrations, bookplates of Faraday House and Hugh Erat Harrison, original cloth, paper label to spine, one or two small abrasions and stains, 4to Facsimile of Newton’s last edition of 1726. Hugh Erat Harrison (1859-1909) was the first principal of Faraday House. (1) £70-100
547 Le Clerc (Sebastien). Practical Geometry: Or, A New and Easy Method of Treating that Art. Whereby the Practice of it is render’d plain and familiar, and the Student is directed in the most easy manner thro’ the several Parts and progressions of it, 4th ed., 1742, title printed in red & black, numerous eng. diags. throughout, foreedge margin of leaf K5 torn, contemp. calf, neatly rebacked and corners repaired, small 8vo (1)
£150-200
548 Mead (Richard). A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays, 1st ed., 1702, folding engraved plate at end, occasional neat ink marginalia, light browning and spots, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo (1)
£100-150
551 [Winslow, Jacques Benigne]. The Uncertainty of the Signs of Death, and the Danger of Precipitate Interments and Dissections Demonstrated... 1st ed. in English, 1746, six copper-engraved plates, a couple of leaves with small marginal losses, some light spots, modern calf, 8vo (1)
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£150-200
Lot 552
552 Beeton (Mrs. Isabella). Beeton’s Book of Household Management, 1st ed., in the original 24 parts, S.O. Beeton, 18 Bouverie Street, [1859]-1861, chromo. frontis. and eleven (of 12) chromo. plts. (1st issue, without salmon coloured background), lacking the plt. to part II, numerous letterpress illusts., pagination and collation continuous, part I with front wrapper, addn. title, frontis., and first leaf of text all torn in two horizontally, with tape repair on verso of addn. title and some paper adhesion obscuring several words on first page of text, intermittent staining, 3G2 with lower outer corner excised (with sl. loss of text), 3U6 with horizontal closed tear, some parts with inserted ads. at front or rear, orig. printed wrappers, each with pencilled number in an early hand at head of upper cover, some wrappers detached from page block, and a few splitting or split along spine, with some edge-fraying, 8vo Cagle 560a. Rare first appearance of this classic work. (24)
ÂŁ1000-1500
553 Beeton (Mrs. Isabella). The Book of Household Management..., 1st ed., 1861, addn. eng. title, lacking tinted wood eng. frontis., eleven col. plts. only (lacking plt. for p.537), numerous wood engs. to text, lightly toned and a few marks, shaken, with some gatherings starting and sl. frayed, hinges split, early ms. name on front free endpaper, ms. recipes on rear free endpaper, orig. roan-backed cloth gilt, rubbed and extrems. worn, spine torn and with loss at head, 8vo, together with The Book of Household Management..., entirely new edition, revised and corrected, with new coloured engravings, two hundred and forty-first thousand, 2nd ed., c.1869, twelve col. plts., correct as list, frontis. frayed at edges with loss to image, title-page creased, lacking front free endpaper, contemp. half calf, defective, lacking spine, and with crude adhesive tape repairs, 8vo Cagle 561 for first edition. (2)
Lot 553 ÂŁ300-500
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555 Dods (Margaret). The Cook and Housewife’s Manual; Containing the most Approved Modern Receipts for making Soups, Gravies, Sauces, Ragouts..., Pies, Puddings, Pickles, and Preserves..., 2nd ed., 1827, 12pp. pubs. ads. bound-in at front, occ. scattered spotting throughout, edges untrimmed, recent endpapers (upper hinge partly split), modern qtr. calf gilt, 8vo (1)
£70-100
556 Garrett (Theodore Francis, ed.). The Encyclopaedia of Practical Cookery. A Complete Dictionary of all pertaining to the Art of Cookery and Table Service, 8 orig. divs., c.1895, col. and b & w plts. by Harry Furniss, George Cruikshank, and others, b & w illusts., a.e.g., orig. dec. cloth, 4to (8)
£150-200
557 Jennings (James). Two Thousand Five Hundred Practical Recipes in Family Cookery ... with an introduction on the duties of cooks and other servants; observations on the implements employed in cooking ..., pub. Henry G. Bohn, 1844, b&w eng. frontis., b&w wood eng. illusts. to text, occ. spotting, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed and frayed to head and foot of spine and upper joint (upper cover near-det.), 8vo Bitting 245. (1)
558 Manuscript cookery books. A manuscript recipe book, earlymid. 19th c., approx. 120pp. of recipes, in more than one hand, some with ms. signature of contributor, e.g. White Pig Puddings, For Pork Pie Paste, Gloucester Jelly, To make Bishop, Celery Sauce, Mock Turtle Soup, To preserve Siberian Crabs, Yellow Blancmange, To preserve Lettuce Stalks in imitation of Ginger, with a few late 19th c. recipes tipped-in, lacking free endpapers, orig. roan-backed marbled boards, crude fabric tape repair to spine, sm. 4to, with another early 19th c. manuscript recipe book, approx. 40pp. of recipes (book largely blank), in more than one hand, e.g. India Pickle, Sheep’s Head Soup, Carrot Plum Pudding, marbled endpapers and edges, lacking rear free endpaper, orig. sheep, rubbed and stained, brass clasp, 10 x 17cm (4 x 6.5ins), plus Account book, belonging to Augustus Leycester Barnell, 1828-1832, approx. 150pp. ms. accounts (plus a quantity of blank leaves), usually four pages per month, listing household items and expenses, such as sugar, cucumbers, beer, gin, a hogshead of cider, charcoal, green tea, black tea, coffee, fish, cheese, knife sharpener, a goose, washing bile, turnpikes, washerwoman, miller, etc., occn. mention of place, incl. Torrington, Bideford, Tavistock, and other Devon locations, one leaf with horizontal tear, marbled endpapers, contemp. reversed calf, with brass clasp, worn, with upper joint cracked and some showing to edges, owner’s name branded onto front cover, 8vo
554 Bradley (Richard). The Country Housewife and Lady’s Director, in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm. Containing Instructions for Managing the Brew-House, and Malt Liquors in the Cellar... Directions for the Dairy... 6th ed. with additions, 1736, bound with The Country Gentleman and Farmer’s Monthly Director. Containing Necessary Instructions for the Management and Improvement of a Farm, in Every Month of the Year... 6th ed. with additions, 1736, 2 vols. in one, two engraved frontispieces, occasional light soiling, bookplate, 20th panelled calf, 8vo Bitting p.55. (1)
£150-200
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£300-400
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£150-200
559 May (Robert). The Accomplisht Cook, or the Art & Mystery of Cookery... Expert and Readt Ways for the Dressing of all Sorts of Flesh, Fowl and Fish... An Exact Account of all Dishes for all Seasons of the Year, with Other A-la-Mode Curiosities, 5th ed., 1685, engraved portrait frontsipiece (trimmed to margin and window mounted on later paper), numerous woodcut illustrations, lacking four folding plates, four index leaves loose, wormtrack and light spotting, bookplate, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, spine with later label, a little rubbed and faded, 8vo Bitting p.318; Wing M1394. (1)
£300-400
560* Royal menus. Six manuscript menus, for dinners held by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle and Osborne House, 1883 & 1885, together six manuscript menus within illuminated chromo. borders, four relating to Windsor Castle and two relating to Osborne House, each with vign. of the appropriate royal residence, approx. 21 x 13cm (8.25 x 5.25ins), all mounted, framed and glazed (6)
£300-500
561 Moxon (Elizabeth). English Housewifery, Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts, giving Directions in most Parts of Cookery..., 2 parts in one, 12th ed., 1785, one folding table, eight Bills of Fare (six printed bak-to-back & two folding), some toning and light spotting, contemp. sheep, neatly rebacked, 12mo The appendix has a separate title-page and pagination, and is entitled “English Housewifery improved; or, a supplement to Moxon’s cookery... The fifth edition, Leeds, 1785”. No copy of this edition in the ESTC with the full collation of the appendix. Cagle, 888-892. (1) £150-200
562 [Philips, John]. Cyder. A Poem. In Two Books, 1st ed., 1708, engraved frontispiece, light waterstain, previous owner inscription and library bookplate, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, 8vo
Lot 559
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£100-150
563 [Rolleston, Samuel]. Oinos Krithinos. A Dissertation Concerning the Origin and Antiquity of Barley Wine, Oxford, 1750, half title, title with engraved vignette, 38pp., half title with contemporary ink inscription identifying the author, later plain wrapper, 4to
Lot 560
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£150-200
ART REFERENCE & BIBLIOGRAPHY
564 Armengaud (Jean). Les Galeries Royales, d’Angleterre Windsor, Buckingham, Osborne, pub. Paris, 1866-67, fifty eng plts. complete, one text leaf torn, blue edges with gilt maltese cross pattern, recent cloth, with orig. cloth covers and spine relaid, some wear, folio (1)
£100-150
565 Bowness (Alan, ed.). Ivon Hitchens, with an Introductory Essay by T.G. Rosenthal, pub. Lund Humphries, 1973, tipped-in colour plates, b & w illustrations, original cloth, d.j., a few chips and tears, 4to (1)
£70-100
566 Contet (F.). Documents de Ferronnerie Ancienne. Epoques Louis XV et Louis XVI, vols. 1 & 3-5, Paris, 1920-22, 166 half-tone plates loose as issued, titles browned, two library stamps of M & E (Mollo & Egan), original cloth-backed boards, cloth ties, vol. V spine split, lightly rubbed, folio, together with Les Vieux Hotels de Paris, vols. 2-4, 6-15, mixed editions, Paris, 1913-23, 594 half-tone plates, loose as issued in original cloth-backed boards, cloth ties, a little rubbed and faded, folio (17)
£200-300
567 Dreyfus (John). A History of the Nonesuch Press, 1981, b&w illusts. to text, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., some marks, tall 8vo (limited edition of 950 copies), together with Blake (William), William Blake’s Designs for Edward Young’s Night Thoughts, 2 vols., 1980, b&w illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt in d.j.s, spines torn at head, rubbed and some marks, folio, plus Aubrey (John), Monumenta Britannica or A Miscellany of British Antiquities, 1st American ed., 1981, b&w illusts. throughout, t.e.g., orig. cloth, spine faded, in slipcase, some marks, 4to (4)
£150-200
Lot 568 568 Dupezard (Emile). Les Grands Palais de France. Le Palais Royal de Paris, 1st & 2nd Series, Paris, c. 1912, 124 half-tone plates, loose as issued, oval bookplates of Mollo, original printed boards, cloth ties, lacking spines, a few stains, folio, together with Le Style Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI, par P. Planat & Rumler, 3 vols., (Louis XVI 3rd ed.), Paris c. 1912-14, numerous half-tone plates, illustrations, loose as issued, bookplates of Mollo, original cloth-backed boards, cloth ties, some soiling, folio, plus Le Chateau de Clagny a Versailles, by Charles Harlay, Versailles, c. 1913, b & w illustrations, loose as issued in original half cloth folio, cloth tie (lacking two), joints splitting, lightly rubbed, folio, (limited edition of 300 copies), with four vols. from Hector St. Sauveur’s Chateaux de France series, c. 1910 and five vols. from Les Anciens Chateaux de France series, c. 1913 (15)
569 Finiguerra (Maso). A Florentine Picture-Chonicle, Being a Series of Ninety-Nine Drawings Representing Scenes and Personages of Ancient History, Sacred and Profane, pub. Bernard Quaritch, 1898, num. b&w plts. and illusts., orig. dec. cloth, rebacked preserving orig. spine, rubbed and scuffed, folio, together with The Swallow Press, The Sonnets, by William Shakespeare, 1975, num. b&w illusts., t.e.g., orig. crushed morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed, in slipcase, large 4to, plus Dormer (Philip, Earl of Chesterfield), Letters of Philip Dormer, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield to His Godson and Successor..., 1890, eng. port. frontis., b&w plts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. half vellum gilt, 4to, plus three others, comprising, The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World to That to Come, by John Bunyan, c. 1900 (Limited signed edition 55/200); Bartolozzi and His Works, by Andrew W. Tuer, 2 vols., n.d., c. 1880
£300-400
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£100-150
570 Flint (Sir William Russell). Sir William Russell Flint 1880-1969. A Comparative Review of the Artist’s Signed Limited Edition Prints by Keith S. Gardner and Nigel D. Clark, Bristol, 1986, colour and b & w illustrations, original blue half morocco gilt, slipcase, folio, limited collector’s edition, 1159/1500, together with Sir William Russell Flint 1880-1969. A Catalogue Raisonne of the Unsigned Limited Edition Works, 1995, one of 1525 copies (2)
£100-150
571 Fougeres (Gustave). L’Acropole d’Athenes, part I only (Le Parthenon), 2 vols., Paris, Editions Albert Morance, 1910, 136 halftone plates, loose as issued in original cloth-backed printed boards, cloth ties, a little rubbed, together with Jequier (Gustave), L’Architecture et la Decoration dans L’Ancienne Egypte. Les Temples Ptolemaiques et Romains, 1924, 80 half-tone plates, loose as issued in original cloth-backed boards, spine splitting and rubbed, folio, plus Le Style Empire, vols. 1-5, 1930-34 and Louis Hautecoeur’s Le Louvre et les Tuileries, vols. 1 & 2, 1924
573 Gromort (Georges). Jardins D’Espagne, 2 vols., pub. Vincent, Paris, 1926, titles printed in red and black, 126 b & w plates, loose as issued in original cloth-backed marbled boards, cloth ties, lightly rubbed, folio
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574 Hamilton (Augustus). Maori Art, pub. Holland Press, 1972, colour and b & w illustrations, presentation inscription from the publisher, original cloth, d.j., spine slightly rubbed and faded, 4to
£200-300
£100-150
575 Hulme (F. Edward). Suggestions in Floral Design, [1878], addn. chromo title, forty-six chromo plts. (of 52), plt. 1 trimmed with upper quarter of plt. lacking, contents loose where gutta-percha perished, a.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, frayed at head & foot of spine and to board corners, 4to
572 Gardner (Keith S. and Clark, Nigel D.). Sir William Russell Flint 1880-1969, a Comparative Review of the Artist’s Signed Limited Edition Prints, pub. Bristol, 1986, numerous col. and b & w illusts., marbled endpapers, orig. gilt dec. half morocco, with slipcase, 4to Limited Collectors Edition, 1070/1500 copies. (1)
£150-200
£100-150
(1)
£80-120
576 John (W.D.). The Nantgarw Porcelain Album, pub. Ceramic Book Co., Newport, 1975, colour illustrations, t.e.g., original full green morocco gilt, Prince of Wales crest gilt-stamped to upper cover, 4to, together with Swansea Porcelain, 1958, colour and b & w illustrations, t.e.g, original blue cloth gilt, slight edge wear, 4to, with two others: Pontypool and Usk Japanned Wares, 1966 (signed by the author) and P.D. Gordon Pugh’s Naval Ceramics, 1971 (4)
126
£150-200
581 Palmer (Samuel). The Shorter Poems of John Milton, pub. Seeley & Co., 1889, 12 etched plates, minor scattered spotting, rough-trimmed edges, original blue cloth gilt, spine a little faded and chipped, folio, together with An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil, 2nd ed., 1884, 14 plates by Palmer, endpapers spotted, original green cloth gilt, tear at spine head, lower joint splitting, folio (2)
£200-300
582 Pocock (William Fuller). Architectural Designs for Rustic Cottages, Picturesque Dwellings, Villas, &c. with Appropriate Scenery, PLans, and Descriptions..., 1st ed., 1807, twenty-three uncoloured aquatint plts. and ten eng. plans, occ. scattered spotting mostly to plt. margins, edges untrimmed, endpapers renewed, orig. boards with recent paper spine strip and printed paper title label, 4to 577 John (W.D.). Nantgarw Porcelain, 1948, colour and b & w illustrations, Supplements nos. 1 & 2, 1956 & 1969 contained in rear pocket, original full burgundy calf gilt, 4to, together with The Nantgarw Porcelain Album, 1975, colour and b & w illustrations, t.e.g., original full russet morocco, Prince of Wales crest stamped in gilt to upper cover, 4to (2)
(1)
583 Tajima (Shiichi). Masterpieces Selected from the Korin School: with Biographical Sketches of the Artists of the School and some Critical Descriptions, vol. 3 only (of 5), Tokyo: Shimbi Shoin, 1905, numerous col. plts. (some printed on silk), a.e.g., orig. dec. cloth, folio, contained in orig. portfolio
£100-150
Limited edition 577/1000. (1)
578 Jones (Owen). The Grammar of Ornament, pub. Quaritch, 1868, 112 chromo-illuminated plts. incl. additional title, a few eng. illusts. to text, some finger soiling and light marginal damp staining, contemp. half morocco, rubbed, small folio (1)
£100-150
Lubbock titles comprise: The Down Easters; The Opium Clippers; The China Clippers; The Nitrate Clippers; The Arctic Whalers; The Western Ocean Packets; The Coolie Ships and Oil Sailers; The Log of the “Cutty Sark”; The Last of the Windjammers, 2 vols.; The Blackwall Frigates; The Colonial Clippers. (18) £150-200
£100-150
580 Mack (Gerstle & Gibson, Thomas). Architectural Details of Northern and Central Spain, 1st ed., New York, 1930, col. frontis., b & w plts. incl. some from photos, authors’ presentation inscription to F.R. Yerbury [Architectural Association Secretary and architectural photographer], dated December 1930, orig. cloth, spine sl. dulled and a little frayed at head and foot, folio (1)
£100-150
584 Underhill (Harold A.). Sailing Ship Rigs and Rigging, 6th ed., 1950; Masting and Rigging, The Clipper Ship & Ocean Carrier, 3rd ed., 1953; Deep-Water Sail, 2nd ed., 1955; Sail Training and Cadet Ships, 1st ed., 1956; Plank-on-Frame Models and Scale Masting and Rigging, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1958-60, together 6 vols., b&w illusts., orig. cloth in price clipped d.j.s, a few minor splits, rubbed, 4to, together with twelve related titles by Basil Lubbock
579 Landseer (Edwin). The Works on Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. ... with a History of His Art-Life by W. Cosmo Monkhouse, pub. Virtue and Company, n.d., c. 1870s, addn. eng. title and forty-four steel eng. plts., num. woodcuts, occ. minor spotting, slight staining to first few leaves, a.e.g., contemp. gilt dec. red morocco, some rubbing and scuffing, large thick folio (1)
£300-500
£100-150
127
585 Verve. An Artistic and Literary Quarterly, Numbers 3, 4, & 5-6, October-December 1938, January-March 1939 & July-October 1939, colour lithographs by Chagall, Miro, Rattner, and Klee to issue 3, colour lithographs by Matisse and Derain to issue 4 and colour lithgraphs by Braque, Rouault, Derain, Leger, Bonnard, Matisse and Klee to issue 5-6, colour and b&w illusts., orig. printed wrappers (with cover design by Bonnard, Rouault and Maillol respectively), rubbed and frayed, spines worn with some loss, folio (3)
£300-400
586 Wood (Henry). Designs for Furniture [so titled to spine], n.d., c. 1845, 118 lithographic plates, of furniture designs, including bedsteads, bookcases, chairs, sofas, mirrors, ottomans, screens, tables, wardrobes, washstands, window curtains, etc., no title page present, 2 pp. list of contents, giving the artist’s name and address of 24 Percy Street, Bedford Square, London, some scattered spotting, with additional original design for window curtains in pencil and sepia wash, loosely inserted at rear (possibly by the designer Henry Wood), titled in pencil at head ‘Design for Drawing room Cornice in Curved Wood & gilded), orig. blindstamped green cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, minor fraying to extrems., large 4to Rare. Henry Wood’s Series of Designs of Furniture & Decoration in the Styles of Louis XIVth, Francis Ist, Elizabeth, and Gothic was published by William Pickering around 1840 and contained twenty hand-coloured plates. (1) £300-400
FURNITURE Lot 585
587 A small early 20th c. bookcase, fitted three adjustable shelves enclosed by a pair of geometric tracery glazed panel doors, on short cabriole legs, height 45 ins, width 36 ins (114 x 91cm) (1)
£70-100
Lot 588 Lot 586
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588* A late 19th c. mahogany revolving bookcase, the top with circular inlay design and boxwood stringing, on quatraform base and metal castors, height 35 ins (89cm) (1)
GENERAL
£150-200
593 Aldin (Cecil). Just Among Friends, Pages from my Sketch Books, 1935, twenty-eight col. and b & w plts., orig. cloth, lower cover spotted, slim 4to, together with Sleeping Partners, A Series of Episodes, 2nd imp., January 1930, twenty duotone plts., endpapers renewed, orig. cloth, some rubbing and marks, rebacked preserving orig. spine, slim 4to, plus Forty Fine Ladies, by Patrick R. Chalmers, 1929, duotone and b & w illsusts. throughout, orig. beveledged cloth, upper cover with some light marks along fore-margin, slim 4to, plus fifteen others illustrated by Cecil Aldin
589* An Edwardian mahogany display cabinet, fitted three shelves with orig. fabric lining, enclosed by a pair of tracery glazed panel doors, on thin tapered legs and spade feet, height 66 ins, width 36ins (168 x 91cm) (1)
£120-150
(18)
£200-300
594 Aldin (Cecil & Hassall, John). The Happy Annual, 1st ed., Heinemann, 1907, col. and monochrome illusts. and ads. throughout, orig. pictorial wrappers, lightly toned and extrems. sl. rubbed (with spine partially split), one corner creased, slim folio A good copy of a rare Aldin & Hassall collaboration. (1)
£100-150
595 Aldin (Cecil, illust.). Berkshire Vale, Poems by Wilfred HoweNurse, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1927, full-page tinted illusts. throughout, endpapers lightly foxed, rough-trimmed, orig. cream cloth gilt, soiled, front cover with upper outer corner sl. frayed, remains of torn d.j. in several pieces, slim folio Limited edition, 71/250 copies, signed by the author and artist. (1)
596 Aldin (Cecil, illust.). Emanuel (Walter), The Dog who wasn’t what he thought he was, pub. Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. [1914], twenty-four colour lithographic plts. by Cecil Aldin (complete), text block a little loose, orig. dec. boards, slight rubbing, 4to, together with Chalmers (Patrick R.), Forty Fine Ladies, pub. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1929, numerous illusts. thoughout by Cecil Aldin, orig. pubs. cloth, slight staining, 4to, plus Masefield (John), Right Royal, pub. William Heinemann, 1922, four tipped in colour plts. after Cecil Aldin (complete as list), numerous b & w illusts. throughout, dec. end papers and paste downs with slight toning, orig. pubs. gilt dec. cloth, slight toning, 4to, and Aldin (Cecil), Old Inns, pub. William Heinemann, 1921, sixteen colour plts. and numerous b & w illusts. throughout, very slight spotting throughout, orig. pubs. gilt dec. cloth, bumped at extrems., 4to, with Fleuron (Svend), The Wild Horses of Iceland, pub. Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd, n.d., c.1933, fourteen b&w illusts. after Cecil Aldin (complete as list), orig. gilt cloth, 8vo, plus Aldin (Cecil), Dogs of Character, pub. Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd. 1928, numerous illusts. throughout, orig. pubs. cloth, slight fading at head of spine, 4to, together with another nine volumes by or illustrated by Cecil Aldin, various sizes and condition, plus five vols. of The Lonsdale Library, orig cloth gilt, 8vo
590* Encyclopaedia Britannica. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, 32 vols., 11th-13th ed., 1910-26, thin paper issue, numerous col. and b & w illusts. and maps, a few pages creased or frayed at edges, orig. olive green reversed calf, lettered in gilt, a few volumes a little worn at head and foot of spine, 4to, contained in contemp. polished oak cabinet (each volume shelved horizontally), enclosed by a pair of leaded glazed panel doors, 28 ins wide, 41 ins tall (71 x 104cm) (1)
£150-200
591* Library steps. A set of William IV style mahogany 3 step library steps, later 20th c., on cabriole supports with turned and reeded legs, 81cm high, 45cm wide (1)
(20)
£70-100
592* Library steps. A set of quarter turn spiral library steps, later 20th century, beech and pine, with four tooled leather inset steps, the turned tapering hand post 150cm high, top step 71cm high, 48cm wide (1)
£100-150
£50-80
129
£200-300
597 Binding. Darwin and the Beagle, by Alan Moorehead, The Arcadia Press, 1970, numerous col. and b & w illusts., some fullpage, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., orig. tan morocco by Zaehnsdorf, signed on front turn-in, raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and third compartments, upper cover with two amorphous onlays in orange and black, contained in orig. cream cloth solander box, with gilt lettered spine labels, 4to Limited edition, 122/265 copies, signed by the author. (1)
598 Binding. The Conquistadors, by Hammond Innes, The Arcadia Press, 1970, numerous col. and b & w plts., some full-page, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., orig. tan morocco by Zaehnsdorf, signed on front turn-in, raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and third compartments, upper cover with geometric onlays in black and blue contained within a double line circle, contained in orig. cream solander box, with gilt lettered leather spine labels, 4to Limited edition, 122/265 copies, signed by the author. (1)
ÂŁ200-300
130
ÂŁ200-300
599 Chandler (Raymond). The Long Good-Bye, 1st English ed., 1953, neat inscription to front endpaper, orig. cloth in price-clipped d.j., some rubbing to extrems., 8vo (1)
607 Francis (Dick). Odds Against, 1965; Forfeit, 1968, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j.s, tear and small chip to Odds Against, both inscribed by the author, together with 17 others by Dick Francis etc., a couple signed by the author
£100-150
(19)
600 Churchill (Winston S.). The World Crisis, vols. I, III-V only, 1st eds., 1923-29, maps and plates, a few spots, endpapers a little browned, original blue cloth, d.j.s, some chips, light browning, 8vo, together with A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 4 vols., 1st ed., 1956-58, maps, some spotting, previous owner inscriptions, original red cloth, d.j.s, one or two minor tears, 8vo, plus another 1st edition set of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (vol. II with cut facsimile signature of the author sellotaped in at front, with two photos of Chartwell), and others including The Second World War vols. II-VI only, 1949-54 and a wooden ‘Churchill’ cigar box containing 53 of 55 Winston Churchill cigarette cards, 1950’s (19)
608 Gilbert (Martin). Winston S. Churchill, vols. I-VI only (of 8), plus all 13 Companion vols., 1966-83, maps and illustrations, original cloth, one or two boards with light dampstains, d.j.s, a few chips, tears and repairs, 8vo (19)
£150-200
£100-150
(7)
602 Detmold (Edward J., illust.). The Fables of Aesop, pub. Hodder & Stoughton, 1909, twenty-five tipped-in col. plts., some dust-soiling, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, recent gilt dec. dark blue morocco, 4to, together with Lane (Edward William), The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, new translation from the Arabic, 3 vols., Charles Knight & Co., 1841, addn. eng. titles, eng. vignette illusts., contemp. uniform red half morocco, gilt dec. spines, joints & extrems. slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Miller (Captain E.D.), Modern Polo, 3rd ed., revised & enlarged, [1911], b & w frontis., plts. & illusts., modern maroon half morocco gilt, 8vo (5)
(1)
£200-300
611 Milne (A.A.). When I Was Very Young, New York, Fountain Press, 1930, b&w illusts. by E. H. Shepard, partly untrimmed, orig. patterned cloth with paper label to spine, in slipcase, with some marks, 8vo
£150-250
Limited signed edition 603/842. (1)
£100-150
612 Milne (A.A.). When we were Very Young, 16th ed., 1927, b & w illusts. by Ernest H. Shepard, few marks, contemp. inscription to half-title, t.e.g., orig. gilt dec. blue cloth, in torn & dirt soiled d.j., 8vo, together with Now We are Six, 4th ed., 1928, b & w illusts. by Ernest H. Shepard, few marks, contemp. inscription to half-title, t.e.g., orig. gilt dec. maroon cloth, in torn & dirt soiled d.j., 8vo, with The House at Pooh Corner, 1st ed., 1928, b & w illusts., few marks, contemp. inscription to half-title, t.e.g., orig. gilt dec. salmon pink cloth, slightly marked, 8vo, plus a worn fifth edition of Winnie-the-Pooh in slightly damp-soiled green cloth, 8vo
£200-300
604 Doyle (A. Conan). The Adventures of Sherlock, 1st ed., 1892, b&w illusts. to text, a.e.g., orig. blue cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear, 4to (1)
£150-200
610 Grahame (Kenneth, 1859-1932). The Wind in the Willows, 2nd ed., October 1908, b & w frontis., heavy spotting throughout and sl. damp staining to lower margins of centre leaves, ownership signature of Helen Grahame [the author’s sister?], dated 1908 to front f.e.p., t.e.g., remainder uncut, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, rubbed, 8vo
603 Doyle (Arthur Conan). Works, 12 vols., Author’s Edition, 1903, illustrations, a few leaves loose, some light spotting, a few hinges cracking, t.e.g., original red cloth, one or two joints and spines splitting, a few stains, 8vo Limited edition, 316/1000 signed by the author. (12)
£400-600
609 Golden Cockerel Press. Together and Alone, Two Short Novels, by Christopher Whitfield, 1945, engs. to text by John O’Connor, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. qtr. morocco gilt, 8vo (limited edition 67/500, signed by author and illustrator), together with Fleece Press, The Auto-biography of Luke Hansard, Written in 1817, 1991, engs. to text, print in pocket at rear signed by John Lawrence, orig. qtr. cloth, in slipcase, some rubbing, oblong 8vo (limited edition of 250 copies), plus Gill (Eric), A Book of Alphabets for Douglas Cleverdon, pub. Wellingborough, 1987, b&w illusts. throughout, orig. half morocco, with a set of printed alphabet leaves in a seperate wallet, both contained in orig. slipcase, large 8vo, (limited ‘Special’ edition 25/50, of an overall edition of 550. Signed by Douglas Cleverdon), plus four others, incl. A Thatched Roof, by Beverley Nichols, 1933 (signed presentation copy)
601 Crowley (Aleister). Magick in Theory and Practice by the Master Therion, Published for Subscribers Only, Paris: printed at the Lecram Press, 1929, slight browning to rear free endpaper, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, spine very slightly faded and few minor marks to boards, 4to, together with a loosely inserted 2pp. advertisement consisting of a b & w illustration of Crowley and text inviting interested individuals to contact him (1)
£100-150
£100-150
605 Folio Society, approx. 150 vols., including Tolkein, Carlyle, Trollope, Balzac, Greene, Forster et al, all orig. cloth with slipcase, G/VG
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(approx. 150)
613 Nicholson (William). An Almanac of Twelve Sports and London Types, Whittington Press, 1980, 35 woodblock prints, including titles, loose as issued, 16pp. booklet with introduction by Edward Craig, original solander box, barmaid illustration to upper cover, folio
£300-400
606 A similar lot (approx. 150)
£300-400
Limited edition, 47/150. (1)
131
£100-150
£100-150
614 Pushkin (Aleksandr Sergyeevich). Eugene Oneguine, a romance of Russian life in verse, translated from the Russian by Lt.Col. [Henry] Spalding, 1st English ed., 1881, a few scattered marginal pencil marks, two ownership signatures including pencil signature of Duncan Brown 1887 to half title, partly untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and bumped, 8vo Uncommon, first English translation of Pushkin’s masterpiece and still considered one of the finest translations. (1) £700-1000
615 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Peer Gynt, A Dramatic Poem, by Henrik Ibsen, 1st ed., 1936, twelve col. plts. (as list), orig. cloth gilt, slightly bowed, 4to, together with The King of the Golden River, 1939, col. frontis., untrimmed, orig. pict. wrappers, upper wrapper detached, lower wrapper torn with some loss, 8vo, plus Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, [1907], col. plts., b&w illusts. to text, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed to extrems., small 4to, plus two others (5)
£100-150
616 Ravilious (Eric). A Wedgwood ‘Travel’ pattern part dinner service designed by Eric Ravilious, c. 1954, together 16 pieces, comprising, tureen & lid (small chip), sauce boat & stand, 14.5 inch meat platter, 12.5 inch meat platter, six 9-inch soup bowls, three 10inch dinner plates, three 7-inch side plates, all decorated with boats and trains, overall excellent condition (16)
£500-700
617 Robinson (W. Heath, illust.). The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds & Sayings of Gargantua and his Sonne Pantagruel, 2 vols., 1904, b & w illustrations, some spotting, decorative endpapers, t.e.g., original cream cloth gilt, a few light stains, 4to
Lot 614
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Lot 616 132
£100-150
622 The Conveyancer, vols. 1-22 including Index, 1916-39, orig. buckram with contrasting gilt-titled red leather labels to spines, rubbed, together with vols. 1, 2, & 20-24 of the continuation series The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, orig. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed and soiled, all large 8vo, plus a few others unrelated (40)
£100-150
623 Tyndale (Walter). An Artist in Italy, pub. Hodder & Stoughton, [1913], 26 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue guards, a few spots, library stamp and bookplate, t.e.g., original vellum gilt, lacking ties, covers a little bowed and stained, 4to, limited edition, 132/250 signed by the artist, together with Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray, [1913], tipped-in colour plates by Lewis Baumer, light spotting, library bookplate, t.e.g., original cloth gilt, oval colour illustration inset to upper cover, 4to, with others including Andrew Tuer’s London Cries: with Six Charming Children, [1883], The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, illustrated by W. Russell Flint, 1928 and Walter de la Mare’s Down-ADown-Derry, 1922 (11)
£150-200
618 Robinson (William). Gravetye Manor or Twenty Years’ Work Round an Old Manor House, pub. John Murray, 1911, b & w plates and illustrations, a few minor spots, original cloth, edges slightly rubbed, a few marks, folio, together with A Book of Caricatures, by Max Beerbohm, 1907, colour frontispiece, 48 b & w plates, captioned tissue guards, loos, gutter percha perished, a few spots, original cloth-backed boards, rubbed, joints splitting, folio, with four others including Thomas Mawson’s The Art & Craft of Garden Making, 1907 (6)
£200-300
619 Rupert Bear. Annual Facsimiles, 17 vols., , 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939 (3 copies), 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 (2 copies), 1944 (3 copies), 1948 (2 copies), 1950, 1951 & 1953, pub. 1985-2004, col. and b&w illusts., inscriptions to 1936 vol., orig. col. pict. boards/wrappers, later vols. in slipcases (as issued), some chipping to 1936 d.j., 4to (19)
£150-200
620 Rupert Bear. Rupert Annuals, pub. Daily Express, 1945, 1946 (2 copies), 1947 (2 copies), 1948 & 1949, together 7 vols., col. illusts. throughout, all orig. col. pict. wrappers, several vols. with slight loss to spines, 1945 vol. worn, overall G/VG, 4to (7)
£150-200
624 Wilde (Oscar). A House of Pomegranates, 1st ed., 1891, illustrations by Charles Ricketts and C.H. Shannon, a few light spots, presentation inscription, decorative endpapers, original decorative cloth, lightly rubbed, waterstains to lower cover, small 4to
621 Shakespeare (William). Shakespeare’s Poems and Pericles, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905, no general title (title taken from spine), comprising five works printed in facsimile (Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, The Passionate Pilgrim, Sonnets, Pericles), separate title to each, edges untrimmed, orig. publisher’s reversed calf, with leather ties, 4to, contained in orig. worn cardboard box Limited edition 594/1000 signed by Sidney Lee. (1)
Mason 347. (1)
£100-150
133
£300-500
CARTONS 625 Akerman (J.Y.). A Descriptive Catalogue of Rare and Unedited Roman Coins, 2 vols., 1834, eng. plts., some minor scattered spotting, a.e.g., contemp. diced calf gilt, a little worn on spines, 8vo, together with Linton (W.J.), The Masters of Wood-Engraving, Issued to Subscribers Only, Connecticut & London, 1887, hand-col. frontis., facsimile wood-engs. and illusts. to text (many small engs. on india paper), orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and damp speckled, folio (limited edition 472/500 of this size, and 100 upon large paper, signed by the author), and other miscellaneous books, including antiquarian and illustrated works etc.
630 Barrington (Sir Jonah). Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation, [Paris: G.G. Bennis, 1833], addn. litho title only (lacks letterpress title), four litho plts. of portraits (some close-trimmed at foot), some spotting and few ink stamps, some fraying mostly to initial leaves, armorial bookplate of Pitt Earl of Chatham to rear pastedown, lacks front endpaper, later half morocco, spine lacks upper compartment, transparent self adhesive plastic covering to binding, 8vo, together with Phelan (William), The History of the Policy of the Church of Rome in Ireland..., Dublin, 1827, few minor marks, orig. boards with cloth spine-strip, worn, 8vo, plus other Ireland and Irish related
(3 cartons)
(a carton)
£200-300
£70-100
626 Amphlett (George Thomas). History of the Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd., 1862-1913, pub. Glasgow, 1914, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, minor wear to head and foot of spine, small 4to, together with King (Frank H.H., ed.), Eastern Banking. Essays in the History of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 1983, frontis., maps and diags., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, plus Keswick (Maggie, ed.), The Thistle and the Jade. A Celebration of 150 Years of Jardine, Matheson & Co., 1982, numerous col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j. and Oriental-style folder, 4to, and other bank and company histories, incl. some dups.
631 Besant (Annie). Autobiographical Sketches, 1885, photo port. frontis., orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, together with The Queen v. Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant. In the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, June 18th 1877. [Specially reported], [1877], photo port. frontis. and plt., hinges cracked, orig. cloth, 8vo, with Lovett (William), The Life and Struggles of William Lovett, in His Pursuit of Bread, Knowledge, and Freedom..., 1876, orig. cloth, 8vo, plus other socialism related, including pamphlets
(3 cartons)
632 Campbell (John). A Political Survey of Britain: Being a Series of Reflections on the Situation, Lands, Inhabitants, Revenues, Colonies and Commerce of this Island..., 2 vols., 1774, contemp. calf gilt, rubbed and some wear, 4to, together with Bone (Muirhead), The Western Front, 2 vols., 1917, num. col. and b&w illusts., old tape marks to endpapers, orig. cloth-backed boards, wear to extrems., 4to, plus twenty others, comprising, Old and New London..., by Walter Thornbury, 6 vols., c. 1880; The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, by John Marius Wilson, 6 vols., c. 1866; Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain..., by Edmund Lodge, 8 vols., Cabinet ed., c. 1860
(a carton)
£100-150
627 Art reference and related, mostly recent hardback publications, some in d.j. (3 cartons)
£70-100
628 Auction Catalogues. A collection of approx. 110 mostly Sotheby’s and Christie’s auction catalogues, c. 2000s, incl. The Robert Devereux Collection of Post-War British Art, 3 vols., 2010 (Sotheby’s); Chatsworth, The Attic Sale, 2010 (Sotheby’s); A Great British Collection, The Pictures Collected by Sir David and Lady Scott, 2008 (Sotheby’s); The Althorp Attic Sale..., 2010 (Christie’s), etc., col. illusts., all orig. col. pict. wrappers, 4to
Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (a carton)
£150-250
£150-200
629 Bailey (Nathan). Ovid’s Metamorphoses, in Fifteen Books: with the Arguments and Notes of John Minellius... for the Use of Schools, 5th ed., 1770, modern half morocco, 8vo, together with Le Sage (Alain Rene), The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, 2 vols., 1774, eng. plts., contemp. sheep, some wear to spine, 8vo, and other miscellaneous antiquarian, plus two original hand-col. aquatints, Hall of Trinity College/Colonade under Trinity Library, pub. Ackermann, 1815, both framed and glazed
633 Cattermole (Rev. Richard). The Great Civil War of the Times of Charles I and Cromwell, n.d., c. 1840s, twenty-nine steel-engs. after George Cattermole, a few pages loose, some minor scattered spotting, t.e.g., orig. blind-stamped and gilt-dec. cloth, worn on spine, 4to, together with [Dodd, George], A Pictorial History of the Russian War 1854-5-6, pub. W. & R. Chambers, Edinburgh & London, 1856, three tinted litho. plts., seven maps (correct as list), numerous wood-engs. to text, some minor scattered spotting, gutter margins of prelims. crudely repaired with tape, orig. blind-stamped gilt-dec. cloth, worn on spine (with loss), tall 8vo, with other miscellaneous military history and similar
(a carton)
(3 cartons)
(2 cartons)
£100-150
£70-100
134
£70-100
634* CDs. A collection of approx. 135 Classical CDs, including Prokofiev 24 Disc 50th Anniversary box set, Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms, all in original cases, condition G/VG From the estate of the late Hans Seelig. (approx. 135)
638 Crisp (Stephen). Scripture-Truths Demonstrated: In Thirty Two Sermons, or Declarations of Mr. Stephen Crisp, late of Colchester in Essex... as they were Delivered by Him at the Publick MeetingHouses of the People Called Quakers, in and about London, 3 vols. in one, 1707, some minor marginal damage, just touching letters, recent marbled boards, 12mo, together with Robertson (Alexander), The History and Martial Atchievements [sic] of the Robertson’s of Strowan... and the Poems, on Various Subjects and Occasions, by the Honorable Alexander Robertson of Strowan, Esq., Edinburgh, n.d., c. 1750, some scattered spotting and marginal soiling, later half calf gilt, rubbed, tall 12mo, plus Wilson (Lieut.-Col. R.T.), An Enquiry into the Present State of the Military Force of the British Empire, with a View to Its Re-Organisation. Addressed to the Right Hon. William Pitt, 1804, 106 pp., errata leaf at end, recent cloth, slim 8vo (ex-libris Liddell Hart, with his bookplate), and other miscellaneous antiquarian, etc.
£100-150
635 Cezanne und Seine Ahmen. Faksimiles nach Aquarellen federund Anderen Zeichnungen von Tintoretto, Greco, Poussin, Corot, Delacroix, Cezanne. Mit einer vorrede von J. Meier-Graefe, pub. Marees-Gesellschaft, Munich, 1921, twenty-one (of 22) windowmounted col. and b & w reproductions (lacks no. 22 ‘Stilleben mit Fruchten und Gefassen’, Galerie Hugo Perls) with separate 16 pp. letterpress introduction and list of contents, all loosely contained in orig. cardstock portfolio, elephant folio, together with 25 Jahre Hochofenwerk Lubeck Aktiengesellschaft 1905-1930, fourteen etched plts. by Dirk van Hees, mounted on card, signed in pencil by the artist, with 16 pp. letterpress booklet, all loosely contained in orig. half morocco folder, rubbed and scuffed at corners, large oblong folio, plus other large-format German art reference, etc. (a carton)
(2 cartons)
639 Darwin (Charles). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2nd ed., revised and augmented (15th thou.), 1882, wood-engs. to text, orig. green cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with The Book of Common Prayer, Cambridge, 1827, a.e.g., contemp. gilt-dec. crimson straight-grained morocco, a little rubbed at extremities, 8vo, plus Sassoon (Siegfried), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, 1931, col. and b & w illusts. by Barnett Freedman, t.e.g., later school prize blue half morocco gilt, 8vo, and other miscellaneous books, mostly leather bindings
£100-150
636 Cook (William). Synopsis of Chess Openings. A Tabulated Analysis, 4th ed., with Additions and Amendations, London & Birmingham, 1888, orig. cloth, soiled and some wear, together with Freeborough (E. and Ranken, Rev. C.E.), Chess Openings Ancient and Modern, Revised and Corrected up to the Present Time from the Best Authorities. with Numerous Original Variations and Suggestions by Geo. B. Fraser, Esq., Dundee, the Rev. W. Wayte, London, and other Eminent Players and Analysts, 2nd ed., Edited and Arranged by F. Freeborough, 1893, orig. cloth, worn on spine, both ex-Birmingham Chess Club, 8vo, with others of chess interest (a carton)
(2 cartons)
£150-200
640 Dore (Gustave & Jerrold, Blanchard ). London. A Pilgrimage, 1st ed., 1872, numerous full-page wood-engs. with tissue guards, some minor scattered spotting, a.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. cloth, worn and broken, large 4to, together with Harrison (J.E. and MacColl, D.S.), Greek Vase Paintings, 1894, col. frontis., numerous b & w illusts., orig. cloth, lettered and blocked in black, dust soiled and worn on spine, folio, and other miscellaneous antiquarian, 17th-19th c., mostly large format
£70-100
637 Cooper (William T.). The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds, 1st ed., 1977, col. and b&w illusts. throughout, orig. two-tone cloth in d.j., contained in orig. slipcase, folio, together with Herbert (George), The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, 1907, eng. port. frontis., untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. cloth, small 4to (limited ed. 348/350), plus The Series of English Idylls, Cranford, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, and, Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe, by Goeorge Eliot, 1904/1905 respectively, num. col. plts., t.e.g., both orig. gilt dec. cloth, 8vo, plus approx. fifty-five other mixed literature, some leather bound, incl. Russia, St. Petersburg, Moscow..., by J.G. Kohl, 1844 & Secret Memoirs of the Court of Petersburg, [by Masson, Charles François Philibert], 2 vols., 1800 (2 cartons)
£150-200
(2 cartons)
£150-200
641 Dukes (Thomas Farmer). Antiquities of Shropshire, From an Old Manuscript of Edward Lloyd, Esq. of Drenewydd; Revised and Enlarged from Private and Other Manuscripts, pub. Shrewsbury, 1844, wood-engs. to text, some pencil annotations, some spotting, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed, 4to, together with Poole (Benjamin and Taunton, W. Fred.), Coventry: Its History & Antiquities, London & Coventry, 1870, folding linen-backed town plan, two folding linen-backed plts., numerous wood-engs. and other illusts., all orig. printed wrappers retained in contemp. half morocco, worn, thick 4to, and other miscellaneous books, mostly large-format
£150-200
(2 cartons)
135
£200-300
642 Gatty (Mrs. Alfred). British Sea-Weeds, Drawn from Professor Harvey’s Phycologia Britannica... , 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1872, eighty col. plts., orig. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed and a little frayed at spine ends, together with Lowry (Delvalle), Conversations on Mineralogy, 1st American from the last London ed., Philadelphia, 1822, hand-col. eng. folding frontis. and ten folding eng. plts., heavy browning throughout, marginal chips with loss not affecting text or images to first few leaves, modern calf-backed marbled boards gilt, 8vo, plus Renooz (Celine), Les forces cosmiques, 3rd ed., Paris, n.d., c. 1900, some spotting, orig. printed wrappers, some rubbing and sl. wear to extremities, tall 8vo, plus other miscellaneous books including science and antiquarian in various languages
647 Joedicke (Jurgen). A History of Modern Architecture, trans. James C. Palmes, 1st English ed., Architectural Press, 1959, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., together with Cullen (Gordon), Townscape, 2nd imp., Architectural Press, 1962, b & w illusts. from photos and drawings, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., both 4to, with other architecture, town planning, trade catalogues, etc. (3 cartons)
£70-100
643 Hardie (Martin). The Etched Work of W. Lee-Hankey, R.E. from 1904 to 1920, [1921], num. etchings to text, rough-trimmed, orig. cloth gilt, some rubbing, 4to, together with Gaunt (W.), The Etchings of Frank Brangwyn, 1926, num. etchings to text, orig. qtr. japanese vellum gilt, tear to head of spine, rubbed and some marks, 4to, plus Sugden (Alan Victor & Edmondson, John Ludlam), A History of English Wallpaper 1509-1914, [1926], num. tipped-in col. plts., b&w illusts. text, orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed and some dampstaining, folio, plus twenty-two other art related, incl. seven vols. of Studio
648 Kinglake (Alexander William). The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan, vols. 1-5 only (of 8), 1874, two folding maps, num. col. and b&w plts. (many folding), contemp. half calf gilt, spines worn with some loss to vol. 3, rubbed, 8vo, together with Miege (M.), Histoire de Malte, 4 vols. in 2, Brussels, 1841, one folding plan & one folding map only, contemp. half morocco, spine loose and defective to first vol., some wear to extrems., 8vo, plus Sutherland (Alexander), The Achievements of the Knights of Malta, 2 vols., pub. Edinburgh, 1831, eng. frontis. to each, recent brown cloth, 8vo, plus twenty-two other travel and topography related, incl. London in Miniature Being a Concise and Comprehensive Description of the Cities of London and Westminster..., pub. C. Corbett, 1755; The Suffolk Traveller, by John Kirby, 2nd ed., 1764, etc.
(a carton)
(a carton)
(2 cartons)
£150-200
£150-200
649 Lang (Andrew, ed.). The Orange Fairy Book, 1st ed., 1906, col. and b & w illusts., a.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. cloth, a little rubbed and faded on spine, 8vo, together with Evans (J.T., ed.), The Church Plate of Gloucestershire, pub. Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1906, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, minor wear to head and foot of spine, tall 8vo, plus Fabre (Josep Palau i), Picasso. From the Ballets to Drama (1917-1926), pub. Konemann, 1999, numerous col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j. and slipcase, square 4to, and other miscellaneous books, including art and architecture, children’s and illustrated books, etc.
644 [Henry, David]. The Complete English Farmer, Or, a Practical System of Husbandry, Founded upon Natural, Certain, and Obvious Principles... by a Practical Farmer, and a Friend of the Late Mr. Jethro Tull, 1771, folding eng. plan, single eng. plt. at rear (Instruments of Husbandry Invented or Improved by the Author), contemp. sheep, rebacked, 8vo, together with Bewick (Thomas), A History of British Birds, 2 vols. (Land/Water Birds), Newcastle, 1832, numerous woodengs. to text, later boards, with other miscellaneous antiquarian (a carton)
£150-200
(3 cartons)
645 Hogg (Ian V.). The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Firearms, reprinted, 1986, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ammunition, 1988, numerous col. and b & w illusts., both orig. boards in d.j., folio, plus Bowman (Gerald), Jump For It! Stories of the Caterpillar Club, 1st ed., 1955, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in sl. frayed d.j., 8vo, plus others of military and aviation interest (3 cartons)
£80-120
650 Mayer (Barbara). In the Arts & Crafts Style, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1993, numerous col. illusts. from photos by Rob Grey, orig. boards in d.j., 4to, together with Gilded Wood. Conservation and History, Sound View Press, Connecticut, 1991, numerous illusts. from photos, some col., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., 4to, with other art reference and design, etc., mostly 20th-c. hardback publications, many in d.j.
£70-100
(3 cartons)
646 Hulme (F. Edward). Familiar Wild Flowers, 8 vols, c. 1905, colour plates, a few spots, original decorative cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with The National Portrait Gallery, series 1-4, and The International Portrait Gallery, series 1-2, together 6 vols., c. 1880, numerous colour lithographed portraits, one or two spots, a.e.g., original decorative cloth gilt, 4to, plus Modern Power Generators. Steam, Electric and Internal-Combustion and their Application to Present-Day Requirements, Prepared Under the Editorship of James Weir French, 2 vols., pub. Gresham, 1908, colour lithographed composite sectional models with overlays, b & w illustrations, some spotting and browning, original green cloth gilt, some dampstains, folio (a carton)
£150-200
£70-100
651 Meinertzhagen (Colonel R). Birds of Arabia, 1st ed., 1954, col. and b & w plts., maps, and letterpress illusts., folding map contained in rear pocket, orig. cloth, spine and part of covers faded, small nick in spine, 4to, together with other misc. books including Illustrated London News, vol. 88, Jan-June, 1886, and a mid-20th-c. album containing thirty-two orig. pencil and watercolour drawings of fishing boats and other sailing craft (possibly by H. Warrington Smyth?), orig. linen-backed boards, 4to (2 cartons)
£70-100
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£150-200
652 Miscellaneous books, including natural history, gardening, art reference, etc., mostly recent hardback publications, many in d.j., G/VG (5 cartons)
658 Sabin (Joseph). A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time, 29 vols. in 15, pub. Amsterdam, 1961-62, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, together with Mahan (Captain A.T.), The War in South Africa. A Narrative of the Anglo-Boer War from the Beginning of Hostilities to the Fall of Pretoria, pub. New York, 1900, col. and b&w illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, oblong 4to, plus Miles (Maj.-Gen. Nelson A.), Harper’s Pictorial History of the War with Spain, 1899, num. col. and b&w illusts., orig. pict. cloth, rubbed and some marks, folio, plus Wilcox (Marrion, ed.), Harper’s History of the War in the Philippines, 1900, num. col. and b&w illusts., a few leaves detached, orig. pict. cloth, spine ends split, some wear to extrems., plus twenty-seven other mostly bibliography and military related
£70-100
653 Morris (Rev. F.O.). A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, vols. 2, 3 & 5 only, c. 1880, 115 col. plts. only, orig. gilt cloth, rubbed, 4to, together with eighteen other defective travel, incl. Picturesque America. A Pictorial Delineation, vol. 2 only, c. 1880; Voyages and Travels or Scenes in Many Lands, ed. Leo de Colange, vol. 2 part 1 only, 1887, etc. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (2 cartons)
£70-100
(2 cartons)
654 Pepys (Samuel). The Diary of Samuel Pepys. A New and Complete Transcription, edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews, vols 1-9 & 11 (of 11), mixed eds., 1973-83, b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j.s (spine torn at head of vol. 9), some spines faded, rubbed, 8vo, together with Rosebery (Lord), Chatham, His Early Life and Connections, 1910, 20th c. full green morocco gilt, bound by Hatchards, Piccadilly, slight fading to spine, 4to, and other miscellaneous books (a carton)
£300-400
659 Strutt (John William, Lord Rayleigh). The Theory of Sound, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1877-78, a few spots, prize label, contemporary calf gilt, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo, together with Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition, by Charles Godfrey Leland, 1892, illustrations, some offsetting, marginal wormhole at end, front hinge weak, t.e.g, original pictorial cloth, upper joints splitting, some stains, 4to, with other antiquarian etc including William Meyrick’s The New Family Herbal, 1790 (lacking upper cover), George Farquhar’s The Inconstant: Or, the Way to Win him. A Comedy as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, 1763, and Cassell’s Book of Birds, vol. I only, c. 1870
£100-150
655 Picture Post, approx. 900 orig. issues, c. late 1930s to mid 1950s, illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. wrappers, some issues lacking wrappers, frayed, torn, etc. generally G/VG
(a carton)
(6 cartons)
660 Wade (Claude F.). Exmoor Streams. Notes and Jottings with Practical Hints for Anglers, 1st ed., London & Exeter, 1903, b & w illusts. from photos, single ad. leaf at rear, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo (limited edition of 500 copies), together with Gray (L.R.N.), Torridge Fishery, by ‘Lemon Grey’, with a Preface by Maurice Wiggin, 1st ed., 1957, b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. boards in sl. frayed d.j., 8vo, plus a defective copy of Devonshire & Cornwall Illustrated, 2 vols. in one, 1832, and a collection of mostly modern Devon-related books and booklets, maps and guides, etc.
£300-500
656 Rowland (Daniel). An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Noble Family of Nevill, Particularly of the House of Abergavenny..., 1830, litho port. frontis., few litho eng. eng. plts., occ. scattered spotting, contents loose, orig. cloth, worn and covers detached, folio, together with Brydges (Sir Samuel Egerton), Stemmata Illustria, Praecipue Regia, Paris, 1825[-26], nine litho plts. (inc. one doublepage), lacks frontis., occ. scattered spotting, 20th c. half cloth, folio, (one of 100 copies privately printed), with [Whatley, Stephen], England’s Gazetteer; or, an Accurate Description of all the Cities, Towns, and Villages, in England and Wales..., 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1778, unobtrusive blind stamps to titles & one half-title, armorial bookplate of Lord Berwick to upper pastedowns, contemp. calf gilt, vol. 1 lacks labels, joints cracked and some wear, 12mo, with Huguenot Society, The Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, vol.5, part 1-3, 1891-98, contemp. cloth, 4to, plus other misc. books (a carton)
(a carton)
£50-80
661 Wisden’s Cricketer’s Almanack, 1947, b & w illusts. from photos, ads. at front., orig. printed limp yellow cloth, some minor soiling, 8vo, together with Marshall (Rev. F., editor), Football. The Rugby Union Game, 1st ed., 1892, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus British Sports and Sportsmen Past & Present, Compiled and Edited by ‘The Sportsman’, 2 vols., 1908, numerous ports., some minor scattered spotting, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. two-tone cloth gilt, fore-edges a little damp stained, folio, and other sports and pastimes
£100-200
657 Royal Insurance Company, Fire & Life (Capital: Two Millions Sterling) Almanac, 1884 & 1886 (with Supplements), double-page col. litho. illust. to each (Royal Insurance Company Buildings), orig. chromo-illuminated printed wrappers for 1886 bound in at front, uniform contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed, thick 12mo, together with Ranjitsinhji (K.S.), The Jubilee Book of Cricket, 1897, photogravure port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos (two defaced), orig. cloth, rubbed and faded, worn on spine, thick 8vo, and other miscellaneous books, mostly antiquarian (a carton)
£100-150
(3 cartons)
£100-150
662 Witherby (H.F., and others). The Handbook of British Birds, 5 vols., 1st ed., 1938-41, colour and b & w illustrations, occasional light spotting, bookplates, original cloth, vol. II spine faded, 8vo, together with The Works of Lord Byron, Divisions I-VI, c. 1880, steelengraved plates, some browning and scribbling, original green cloth gilt, edges rubbed, 8vo, plus Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1st trade ed., 1935, maps and illustrations, one or two spots, original cloth, light marginal stains, price-clipped d.j., some losses and stains, 4to, with others including F.O. Morris’s A History of British Birds, c. 1900 (7 vols. only, lacking vol. V), and vols. 1-4 only (of 6) of F.O. Morris’s A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, c. 1870’s
£70-100
(a carton)
137
£150-200
QUANTITY
663 Macchiavelli (Nicolo). The Works of Nicholas Machiavel, illustrated with notes, annotations, dissertations, and several new plans on the art of war by Ellis Farneworth, 4 vols., 2nd ed., corrected, 1775, several folding eng. plts., contemp. calf, some wear with joints cracked and one or covers det., 8vo, together with Sterne (Laurence), Letters of the Late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne to his most intimate friends, 3 vols., 1775, eng. frontis. to first vol., contemp. calf, worn, with upper cover to first vol. missing, small 8vo, plus The Connoisseur, by Mr. Town, Critic and Sensor-General, 4 vols., printed for J. Parsons, 1793, b&w eng. plts., contemp. uniform tree calf, rubbed and a little wear, 12mo, and [Morgann, Maurice]. An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff, 1st ed., 1777, nearcontemp. half calf, some wear with joints cracked, 8vo, plus other antiquarian interest, mostly literature and history, 18th & 19th century, including Bevill Higgons, A Short View of the English History, 3rd ed., 1748, J. H. Campe, Pizarro; Or The Conquest of Peru. As related by a father to his children and designed for the instruction of youth, trans. Elizabeth Helme, new ed., 1811, etc., mostly leather bound, 8vo (3 shelves)
667 Carell (Paul). Hitler’s War on Russia. The Story of the German Defeat in the East, 2 vols., 1st English eds., 1964 & 1970, col. and b & w illusts. from photos, maps and plans, both orig. boards in s. frayed d.j., 8vo, together with Spears (Major-General Sir Edward), Assignment to Catastrophe, 2 vols. (Prelude to Dunkirk July 1939-May 1940/The Fall of France, June 1940), mixed eds., 1954-55, b & w illusts. from photos, folding maps and plans, map endpapers, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Lipscomb (Commander F.W.), The British Submarine, 1st ed., A. & C. Black, 1954, signed on flyleaf by the author, b & w illusts. from photos, including folding scale drawing of a ‘T’ class submarine, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., 8vo, and others of military interest (mostly WWII), all 20th-c. hardback publications, many in d.j. (6 shelves)
668 Eales (Nellie B.). The Cole Library of Early Medicine and Zoology. Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets, Part I, 1472 to 1800, Alden Press for University of Reading, 1969, ex-lib. copy with a few stamps, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and faded on spine, together with Shilling (Charles W. and Werts, Margaret F.), An Annotated Bibliography on Diving and Submarine Medicine, New York, London & Paris, 1971, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., plus Houzeau (J.C. and Lancaster, A.), General Bibliography of Astronomy to the Year 1880, vol. 1, Parts I & II, new edition, with Introduction and Author Index, by D.W. Dewhirst, Holland Press reprint, 1964, ex-lib. copy with a few stamps, orig. cloth gilt, remains of paper labels on spines, thick 8vo, with other science and medicine, including biographies etc. and 3 vols. Catalogue of the Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine, Christie’s, 1998
£200-300
664 Brown (Leslie and Amadon, Dean). Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of the World, 2 vols., 1st ed., Country Life Books, 1968, numerous col. illusts., orig. cloth gilt with slipcase, 4to, together with Wetherby (H.F.), A Practical Handbook of British Birds, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1920-24, numerous col. and b & w illusts., contemp. olive green half morocco gilt, a little faded and rubbed on spines, thick 8vo, plus Blaine (Delabere P.), An Encyclopaedia of Rural Sports, or Complete Account (Historical, Practical, and Descriptive) of Hunting, Shooting, Fishing, Racing, etc., new ed., revised and corrected, 1858, numerous wood-engs. to text, orig. quarter morocco gilt, worn on spine, thick 8vo, and other miscellaneous books, mostly ornithology and sporting interest (3 shelves)
(6 shelves)
£150-200
(6 shelves)
£100-200
670 Crime and thriller fiction, all 20th c., including Len Deighton, Colin Forbes, Jonathan Kellerman, Ed McBain, Evan Hunter, Ken Follett, Neville Shute, Nicholas Monsarrat and others, mostly orig. cloth in d.j., G/VG (6 shelves)
£100-150
671 Coxe (William). An Historical Tour in Monmouthshire, with a New Introduction by Jeremy K. Knight, 2 vols., Merton Priory Press, 1995, b & w illusts., orig. faux brown morocco gilt, 4to, together with Phillips (Sir Thomas), Wales: The Language, Social Condition, Moral Character, and Religious Opinions of the People, Considered in their Relation to Education, 1849, some minor spotting of prelims., orig. cloth gilt, spine sunned, 8vo, with other miscellaneous Welsh topography, history and related, including guides and softback publications, etc.
£150-200
666 Fraser (David). Persia and Turkey in Revolt, 1st ed., 1910, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. gilt-dec. cloth in bright condition, 8vo, together with Candler (Edmund), The Long Road to Baghdad, 2 vols., 4th imp., July, 1919, b & w illusts. from photos, folding maps and plans, orig. dec. cloth, sl. rubbed on spines, 8vo, plus Glubb (Brigadier John Bagot), The Story of the Arab Legion, 1st ed., 1948, b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. cloth in frayed d.j., 8vo, with others of Middle East interest (3 shelves)
£200-300
669 John (W.D., and others). Swansea Porcelain, pub. Ceramic Book Co., Newport, reprinted, 1978, col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, together with Pugh (Surgeon Captain P.D. Gordon), Naval Ceramics, 1st ed., Ceramic Book Co., Newport, 1971, col. and b & w illusts. from photos, both orig. cloth, 4to, with other art reference, bibliography and related, including dictionaries
665 [WWI]. Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine-Gun Squadron, printed and published for private circulation by J.M. Baxter & Co., [1920], folding map, five b & w illusts. from photos, numerous small b & w illusts. and decs. to text, orig. pict. cloth, a trifle rubbed, 8vo, together with Hart (Captain B.H. Liddell), The Tanks. The History of the Royal Tank Regiment and its Predecessors Heavy Branch Machine-Gun Corps, Tank Corps and Royal Tank Corps 1914-45, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1959, b & w illusts. from photos, numerous folding maps and plans, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j.s, 8vo, plus Montgomery (Major-General Sir Archibald), The Story of the Fourth Army in the Battles of the Hundred Days, August 8th to November 11th, 1918, 2 vols. (Text/Maps), 1919, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, folding maps, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, rubbed, darkened on spines and some wear to extremities, 4to, and others of WWI interest (3 shelves)
£150-250
(6 shelves)
£150-200
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£200-300
672 Jones (William Henry). Domesday for Wiltshire, Extracted from Accurate Copies of the Original Records, Accompanied with Translations, Illustrative Notes, Analysis of Contents, and General Introduction, pub. Bath, 1865, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, worn at head and foot of spine, inner joint cracked, 4to, together with The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, Edited J.H.F. Brabner, 6 vols., pub. William Mackenzie, n.d., c. 1890, maps and plans, photo-litho. plts., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and faded on spines, small folio, with other miscellaneous topography and related, including Highways & Byways series, Little Guides series, etc. (6 shelves)
677 Military history and related, mostly WWII period, mostly 20th-c. hardback publications, some in d.j. (3 shelves)
678 L'Estrange (Roger). Interest Mistaken: Or, The Holy Cheat: Proving from the Undeniable Practices & Positions of the Presbyterians, that the Design of that Party is to Enslave both King and People under the Masque of Religion, 4th imp., 1662, 160 pp., 19th c. polished calf, small 8vo, together with Cook (Thomas), The Genuine Graphic Works of William Hogarth, London: published to Thomas Tegg, 1812, numerous eng. plts., some minor spotting, mainly to margins, contemp. half calf, worn on spine, covers detached, 4to, plus Berry (William), Encyclopaedia Heraldica, or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, 3 vols., London, published for the author by Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, [1828-40], numerous eng. plts., some spotting and staining, contemp. calf, worn on spines, covers detached, 4to, and other miscellaneous antiquarian
£150-200
673 African travel and natural history, mostly 20th c. hardback publications, many in d.j. (6 shelves)
£100-200
674 Clarke (Rev. Edward Daniel). The Life and Remains of the Rev. Edward Daniel Clarke, Ll.D., Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge, 1824, port. frontis., a.e.g., contemp. giltdec. russia, hinges restored, 4to, together with Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de), The History of the War of Seventeen hundred and forty one, 1st English ed., 1756, contemp. mottled calf, rebacked, preserving orig. spine, 8vo, plus Cobbett (William), Advice to Young Men, and (Incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a ??, London: Printed by Mills, Jowett, and Mills, 1829, 20th c. cloth, 12mo, and other miscellaneous antiquarian, including politics, economics and education etc. (3 shelves)
(3 shelves)
£300-500
(6 shelves)
£200-300
680 White (Gwen). European and American Dolls and their Marks and Patents, 1st ed., Batsford, 1966, col. frontis., numerous b & w illusts., orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., folio, together with Hapgood (Marilyn Oliver), Wallpaper and the Artist from Durer to Warhol, Abbeville Press, New York, London & Paris, 1992, numerous col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, plus Pierre (Jose, and CorredorMatheos, Jose), Ceramiques de Miro et Artigas, Paris, 1973, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., square 4to, and other miscellaneous books including art and antiques reference, poetry and literature including Alexander Kent and Allan Mallinson, etc.
£300-500
676 Dickens (Charles). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 1st ed., early issue, 1837, illust. Seymour and Phiz, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, later plum calf, gilt-dec. spine, upper cover detached, 8vo, together with Beeton (Mrs. Isabella), The Book of Household Management, 1st ed., 1861, defective copy, lacking additional col. title and imperfect at end(?), contemp. half morocco, worn on spine, thick 8vo, with another early edition of Mrs Beeton’s Household Management, and other miscellaneous antiquarian (3 shelves)
£300-500
679 Maclise (Joseph). Comparative Osteology: Being Morphological Studies to Demonstrate the Archetype Skeleton of Vertebrated Animals, 1st ed., 1847, fifty-four uncol. litho. plts., with corresponding leaf of text, marginal browning, some scattered spotting, ex-lib. copy with ink stamp to verso of each plt., orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, spine restored (new endpapers), folio, together with Hart (D. Berry), Contributions to the Topographical and Sectional Anatomy of the Female Pelvis, Edinburgh & London, 1885, twelve eng. plts., orig. cloth gilt, minor wear to extremities, slim 4to, plus Cullen (William), First Lines of the Practice of Physic, 2 vols., new ed., with Supplementary Notes by Peter Reid, Edinburgh, 1802, port. frontis., some spotting and marginal browning, ex-lib. copy with inkstamp on titles, modern half morocco gilt, 8vo, and Solly (Samuel), The Human Brain, Its Configuration, Structure, Development, and Physiology; Illustrated by References to the Nervous System in the Lower Orders of Animals, 1st ed., 1836, twelve uncol. litho. plts. at rear, ex-lib. copy with ink stamp on title, recent cloth, 8vo, and other 19th and early 20th c. medicine and related, and The National Dictionary of Biography, 32 vols. (including Supplements), OUP, 1968-93, all orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo
675 [Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount]. Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism: On the Idea of a Patriot King: and on the State of Parties, at the Accession of King George the First, new ed., 1783, a.e.g., contemp. vellum, gilt dec. spine, a little soiled, 8vo, together with A Year of Revolution. From a Journal Kept in Paris in 1848, by the Marquis of Normandy, 2 vols., 1857, contemp. half calf gilt with contrasting labels, 8vo, plus Huish (Robert), Memoirs of Her Late Royal Highness Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales, etc. (from Infancy to the Period of Her Much Lamented Death, Funeral Rites, etc.) and of Her Illustrious Consort Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg Saalfeld... , 1818, port. frontis., additional eng. title, several eng. plts., contemp. tree calf gilt, joints cracked, thick 8vo, and Wade (John), Junius: Including Letters by the Same Writer under Other Signatures; to which are added His Confidential Correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and His Private Letters to Mr. H.S. Woodfall, 2 vols., London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850, contemp. gilt-dec. calf with large gilt armorial to each cover, 8vo, and other miscellaneous antiquarian, including politics, economics and education, etc. (3 shelves)
£100-150
(6 shelves)
£200-300
139
£150-200
681 Buchanan (Francis). A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar, for the Express Purpose of Investigating... the Dominions of the Rajah of Mysore, and the Countries Acquired by the Honorable East India Company in the Late and Former Wars, from Tippoo Sultan, vol. 2 only (of 3), 1807, several eng. plts., some minor scattered spotting, contemp. gilt-panelled calf, covers detached and backstrip deficient, together with An Account of the Constitution and Present State of Great Britain, together with a View of its Trade, Policy, and Interest, Respecting other Nations, and of the Principal Curiosities of Great Britain and Ireland, printed for J. Newbery, [1759], eng. frontis., eng. calligraphic title, several eng. plts., contemp. calf, upper cover detached, 12mo, plus Suckling (Sir John), The Works of Sir John Suckling, Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays, 1719, recent full calf gilt, 12mo, and other miscellaneous antiquarian
688 General literature, 19th & 20th c. authors, all 20th c. hardback publications, many in d.j.
(3 shelves)
691 Bindings. The Critical Review; Or Annals of Literature, Extended and Improved, by A Society of Gentlemen, 43 odd vols., 1793-1803, contemp. half calf, gilt-dec. spines, some wear, many labels missing, 8vo, together with Black & White. A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review, vols. 1-4, 1891-92, numerous woodengs. and ads., contemp. half calf gilt, dust soiled and some minor wear to extremities, thick 4to, with other miscellaneous antiquarian and bindings, mostly 19th c.
(4 shelves)
689 Paperbacks. A good mixed collection of approx. 300 modern paperbacks, condition G/VG (4 shelves)
(4 shelves)
£200-300
(4 shelves)
(6 shelves)
(6 shelves)
£100-200
£100-200
695 Paperbacks. A good collection of approx. 1000 modern paperbacks, both fiction and non-fiction, mostly G/VG
£100-200
(7 shelves & 3 cartons)
685 Military history and related, all 20th c. hardback publications, many in d.j., G/VG
696 A similar lot
(4 shelves)
(7 shelves & 3 cartons)
£100-200
686 Art reference and related, mostly 20th c. hardback publications, many in d.j., G/VG
£150-250
£150-250
697 Worswick (G.D.N. and Ady, P.H.). The British Economy, 194550/The British Economy in the Ninteen-Fifties, both 1st eds., Oxford, 1952 & 1962, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., together with Friedman (Milton, Schwartz, Anna Jacobson), A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960, 3rd printing, 1963, orig. cloth in torn d.j., plus Takekoshi (Yosoburo), The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilisation of Japan, 3 vols., Dawsons reprint, 1967, orig. cloth, a little rubbed, and Keynes (John Maynard), The Collected Writings, vols. 1-10 & 13-16, mixed eds., 1971, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j.s, and other economics and related, all 20th c. hardback publications, many in d.j., all 8vo
£100-200
687 Gilbert (Christopher). Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall. A Catalogue of the Leeds Collection, 2 vols., 1978, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j. and cardstock slipcase, 4to, together with Walton (Peter), Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House, Leeds. A Catalogue of the Leeds Collection, 1st ed., 1976, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., folio, and other art and antiques reference, including Sotheby's Mentmore Catalogue, 8 vols. and a run of Christie's Review of the Season, 1970s-90s, all G/VG (3 shelves)
£100-200
694 History, literature and biographies, including African interest, mostly 20th c. hardback publications, many in d.j, G/VG
£200-300
684 History and related, including Chinese political and cultural history, all 20th c. hardback publications, many in d.j., G/VG
(4 shelves)
£200-300
693 Miscellaneous books, including history, literature, cookery, etc., mostly 20th c. hardback publications
£200-300
(6 shelves)
(4 shelves)
£150-250
692 African travel and natural history, mostly 20th c. hardback publications, some in d.j.
683 History and related, including Middle East interest, all 20th c. hardback publications, many in d.j., G/VG (4 shelves)
£70-100
690 Prestwich (Joseph). Geology, Chemical, Physical, and Stratographical, 2 vols., 1st ed., Oxford, 1886, ex-lib. copy with occ. ink stamp, folding maps, wood-engs. to text, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, vol. 2 backstrip detached, 8vo, with other miscellaneous geology and earth science, including British regional geology booklets
682 Shakespeare (William). The Plays of William Shakespeare, Edited and Annotated by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, 3 vols. (Comedies, Tragedies, Historical Plays), n.d., pub. Cassell Petter & Galpin, c. 1870s, steel-eng. plts., a.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. and blindpanelled olive green morocco, rubbed and a little scuffed on spines, folio, together with Illustrated London News, vol. 87, July-December 1885, numerous wood-engs., contemp. plum half roan gilt, rubbed, folio, plus Larwood (Jacob), The Story of the London Parks, n.d., c. 1880, hand-col. frontis., b & w illusts. to text, orig. gilt-dec. green cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, 8vo, and other miscellaneous books including antiquarian, and an original pencil drawing, full-length portrait of Lieutenant General Lord Kitchener and a pithe helmet (similar to that worn by Lord Kitchener) (4 shelves)
£100-200
(6 shelves)
£200-300
698 Military history and related, including Boer War and WWII interest
£150-250
(6 shelves)
£200-300
699 Poetry, literature and biographies, mostly 20th c. hardback publications, some in d.j., G/VG, plus a quantity of paperbacks (6 shelves & a carton)
140
£100-200
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SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY PAINTINGS, WATERCOLOURS & PRINTS FOSSILS, MINERALS & BYGONE FISHING TACKLE NATURAL HISTORY & SPORTING BOOKS GEOLOGY, NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE & MEDICINE
Thursday 6 October 2011 Lots 700-1101 commencing at 11am
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CONTENTS Sporting & Wildlife Pictures
700-724
Sporting & Botanical Prints
725-781
Falconry Books & Pictures
782-796
Fishing Books, Pictures & Tackle
797-822
Fossils & Minerals
823-886
Ceramic Egg Displays
887-895
Display Cabinets
896-897
Natural History, Sporting & Botanical Books
898-962
Geology, Natural Philosophy, Science & Medicine
963-1101
SPORTING & WILDLIFE PAINTINGS & WATERCOLOURS To commence at 11am 700* Alken (Henry, 1785-1851, attrib.). Pair of Fox-Hunting scenes, two pencil and watercolour drawings, each approx. 12.5 x 19.5cms (5 x 7.75 inches), mounted, framed and glazed (2)
£300-500
701* Appleyard (Joseph, 1908-1960). The Bramham Moor Hunt going through Barwick-in-Elmet, watercolour and gouache on paper, signed, 28 x 37cm (11 x 14.5ins), framed and glazed The Yorkshire sporting painter Joseph Appleyard lived and worked in Headingley, Leeds, and specialised in hunting scenes, horse racing, and other rural life and animal subjects. (1) £100-150
Lot 700
702* Armstrong (Robin, 1947-). Resting Woodcock, watercolour, signed by artist in lower right corner, 26 x 38.5cms (10.25 x 15 inches), mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£80-120
703* Digby (R. David, 1936- ). Cock Pheasant in the snow, 1990, watercolour and gouache, 28 x 36.5cms (11 x 15 inches), mounted, framed and glazed (1)
Lot 701
£120-180
704* Donnithorne (Peter). Drawing through the Beech Wood, n.d., c.1970, oil on canvas, signed by artist in lower right corner, 610 x 915mm, on stretcher but lacking frame (1)
£250-350
Lot 704
143
Lot 705
Lot 706
144
Lot 708 705* Edwards (Lionel Dalhousie R., 1878-1966). The Blankney from Lulbrocks Gorse, 1935, original pencil, watercolour and gouache, titled and dated in pencil in lower left corner, initialed in pencil by artist in lower right, two further pencil inscriptions along upper margin, 235 x 340mm, mounted, framed and glazed The Blankney is a Lincolnshire based hunt whose country extends across the county border into Nottinghamshire. (1) £1200-1800
706* Edwards (Lionel Dalhousie R., 1878-1966). Fallow Deer, 1938, watercolour and gouache, signed and dated by artist in lower left coner, 485 x 745mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£2000-3000
707* Hoskyns (Ben). Woodcock study, [2004], watercolour, signed by artist in lower left of image, 280 x 340mm, mounted, framed and glazed This image was used as an illustration in ‘The Woodcock, The Artists’ Impressions’, pub. 2006. (1) £250-350
Lot 707
708* Lodge (George Edward, 1860-1954). A Wisp of Snipe, watercolour and gouache, signed by artist in lower right corner, 250 x 400mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£1500-2000
709* Milliken (Robert W., 1920-). Covey of Partridge in flight [and] Blackcock in flight, pair of watercolours, each signed by artist in lower right, each approx. 180m x 270mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with, Digby (R.David), Pheasants in a landscape, n.d., c.1960, watercolour, signed by artist in lower left, 165 x 270mm, mounted, framed and glazed (3)
£150-250
710* Milliken (Robert W., 1920-). Teal landing in the rushes, watercolour, signed by artist in lower right corner, 26.5 x 36.5cms (10.5 x 14.5 inches), mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£200-300
Lot 710
145
Lot 711
Lot 712
146
711* Monahan (Hugh, 1914-1970). Pintails, Evening Flight, oil on canvas, signed by artist in lower left corner, 500 x 750mm, framed Tryon Gallery label on verso. (1)
£700-1000
712* Monahan (Hugh, 1914-1970). Teal on a Lonely Pool in a Bog, oil on canvas, signed and dated in lower right corner, gallery label wth title on verso, 495 x 600mm, framed (1)
£500-800
Lot 714
713* Mosson (George). Portrait of a Hunter, 1915, oil on canvas, signed by artist in lower left, dated lower right, 815 x 545mm, framed (1)
£200-300
714* Ornithology. The Buzzard, The Numidian Crane, The Red Peruvian Hen, The Bustard & The Black Stork, c. 1840s-60s, together five ornithological watercolours with pen and ink on paper, each with handwritten title to margin, unsigned, 29.5 x 23.5cm (11.5 x 9.25ins), all except one mounted (5)
£100-150
715* Parker (W. Neave, 1910-1961). Original illustration for ‘Domini, the Golden Plover’, pub. 1940, pen & ink on scraperboard, depicting a fox barking at a ringed plover in flight, signed lower right, 22 x 14cm (8.75 x 5.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£80-120
716* Reichenbach (Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig, 1793-1879). Buteo Nolipennis, pencil and watercolour study of a pair of raptors, titled in ink below image, 210 x 135mm, mounted, framed and glazed with a Tryon Gallery label on verso of frame
717* Reichenbach (Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig, 1793-1879). Fratercula cornitulata [Puffin], pencil and watercolour drawing, manuscript title below image, 145 x 145mm, mounted, framed and glazed with Tryon Gallery label on verso of frame
Reichenbach was the Director of the Botanical Garden at Dresden. The drawning was executed for his ‘Vollstandigste Naturgeschichte der Vogel’ published in 1845-57. (1) £100-150
Reichenbach was the Director of the Botanical Garden at Dresden. This drawing was used in his ‘Vollstandigste Naturgeschichte der Vogel’ published in 1845-57. (1) £100-150
147
Lot 719
Lot 720 148
718* Reid-Henry (David, 1919-1977). Mekado Pheasant, gouache and watercolour, 230 x 360mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
Lot 722
£400-600
719* Scott (Peter, 1909-89). Mallard in Flight, 1957, oil on canvas, signed and dated by artist in lower left, 365 x 440mm, framed (1)
£500-800
720* Shackleton (Keith, 1923- ). Gannets in Flight, 1964, oil on board, signed and dated in lower left corner, 430 x 900mm, framed (1)
£1000-1500
Lot 723
721* Smith (Graham). Partridge Shooting, c.1950, watercolour, signed by artist in lower left corner, 365 x 530mm, mounted, framed and glazed with Frost & Reed Gallery label on verso of frame (1)
£120-180
722* Stonelake (Frank P. 1879 - 1929). ‘Taffy’, oil on board of a cob hunter in its stable, signed by artist in lower right, titled on mount, 290 x 390mm, framed and glazed in contemp. gilt frame, Frost and Reed Gallery label on verso of frame (1)
£150-250
723* Talbot-Kelly (Richard B. 1896 - 1971). Plovers on the foreshore [and] Snipe in a marsh, 20th century, two watercolours, both signed by artist, 365 x 555mm and 275 x 375mm respectively, mounted framed and glazed (2)
724* Talbot Kelly (Robert 1861 - 1934). Study of Egyptian Geese, watercolour, signed with monogram, 490 x 735mm, framed and glazed (1)
£300-500
149
£300-500
SPORTING & BOTANICAL PRINTS
Lot 725
725* Aldin (Cecil). The Derby. The Start [and] The Finish, pub. Richard Wyman and Co. Ltd, c.1924, pair of photolithographs, both signed below image by the artist in pencil, each approx. 335 x 510mm, mounted, framed and glazed
728* Aldin (Cecil, 1870-1935). The Fallowfield Hunt. ‘Breaking Cover’, pub. Lawrence & Bullen Ltd, c.1900, chromolithograph, slight spotting, 380 x 615mm, separate mount aperture for title, mounted, framed and glazed
‘The Start’ also benefits from an original coloured pencil remarque below the image. (2) £400-600
(1)
729* Aldin (Cecil, 1870-1935). The Fallowfield Hunt. ‘The Breakfast at the Three Pigeons’ & ‘The Hunt Supper’, c.1900, two chromolithographs with separate mount aperture for titles, each approx. 290 x 480mm, mounted, framed and glazed
726* Aldin (Cecil). The White Hart at Hook, pub. Lawrence and Bullen Ltd, 1903, photolithograph, signed in pencil by artist below image, printed remarque of a horse and groom below image, 350 x 610mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
(2)
£70-100
£150-200
730* Aldin (Cecil, 1870-1935). ‘The End of the Day’, pub. Lawrence and Jellicoe, 1908, chromolithograph, signed below image by artist in pencil, slight staining to image, a little faded, 430 x 630mm, mounted, framed and glazed
727* Aldin (Cecil). The New Inn, Gloucester [and] The Middle House, Mayfield, pub. Eyre & Spottiswoode, n.d. c.1920, two photolithographs, both signed in pencil by artist below image, both with Fine Art Guild blind stamps, each approx. 420 x 340mm, mounted, framed and glazed (2)
£120-180
A print from the set of six ‘The Harefield Harriers’. (1)
£100-150
150
£100-150
733* Aldin (Cecil, 1870-1935). The King’s Head at Chigwell [and] The Angel at Woolhampton, pub. Eyre & Spottiswoode, n.d., c.1910, two photolithographs, each signed in pencil by artist below image and with Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp, each approx. 380 x 300mm, framed and glazed (2)
734* Aldin (Cecil, 1870-1935). The Maypole [of ‘Barnaby Rudge’] now ‘The King’s Head’ Chigwell, pub. Eyre and Spottiswoode, c.1910, photolithograph, signed in pencil by artist below image, scratching and cut marks affecting image, image size 295 x 395mm, framed and glazed, together with, Moreton Old Hall, pub. Eyre & Spottiswoode, n.d., c.1910, photolithograph, signed in pencil by artist below image, image size 390 x 330mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with, The Bell at Walthan Saint Lawrence, pub. Eyre & Spottiswoode, n.d., c.1910, photolithograph, signed in pencil by artist below image, slight overall toning, image size 385 x 330mm, mounted, framed and glazed
731* Aldin (Cecil, 1870-1935). ‘A Check in the Road’, pub. Lawrence & Jellicoe, 1908, chromolithograph, signed by artist in pencil below image, 430 x 620mm, framed and glazed One of a set of six ‘The Harefield Harriers’. (1)
£100-150
(3)
£100-150
735* Aldin (Cecil, 1870-1935). The Talbot Inn, Chaddesley Corbett, pub. Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd, c.1910, photolithograph, signed in pencil by artist below image, blind stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild below image, 330 x 390mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with, The George Inn, Salisbury, pub. Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., n.d., c.1910, lithograph, signed in pencil below image by artist, blind stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild below image, toned overall, 385 x 330mm, mounted, framed and glazed
£100-150
(2)
£100-150
736* Aldin (Cecil Charles Windsor, 1870-1935). The Cottesbrook Hunt. ‘A Find in the Gorse’, pub. Lawrence and Jellicoe, c.1910, lithograph, image size 370 x 660mm, framed and glazed (1)
737* Aldin (Cecil Charles Windsor, 1870-1935). The Aldin Calender, 1921, four colour-printed lithographic panels depicting Fox hunting and Coaching scenes, titled ‘Jumping Powder’, ‘ A Parting Salute’, ‘The Guard’s Perquisite’ and ‘Run to Earth’, each approx. 190 x 320mm, displayed in a four aperture mount, framed and glazed
732* Aldin (Cecil, 1870-1935). ‘Huic Holloa! Huic Holloa’ [and] ‘Forrard Away! Forrard Away!’. pub. Laurence & Jellicoe Ltd, 1909, pair of lithographs with the title displayed in a separate mount aperture, each approx. 330 x 600mm, framed and glazed (2)
£100-150
Uncommon. (1)
£200-300
Lot 737 151
£150-200
Lot 738
Lot 739
738* Besler (Basilius). Teucrium Uerum, [3rd. ed. c.1750], hand coloured engraving, very slight text show through, Latin text on verso, 475 x 395mm Originally published in Besler’s monumental florigium ‘Hortus Eystettensis’. (1) £200-300
739* Besler (Basilius). Canna Indica rubra, [3rd ed. c.1750], hand coloured engraving. very slight text show through, strengthened on verso at base, 525 x 425mm Originally published in Besler’s monumental florigium ‘Hortus Eystettensis’. (1) £300-500
740* Besler (Basilius). Narcissus Orientalis medio croceus calice pleno, [3rd. ed. c.1750], hand coloured engraving, very slight text show through, latin text on verso, 490 x 415mm Originally published in Besler’s monumental florigium ‘Hortus Eystettensis’. (1) £400-600
Lot 740
152
Lot 741
Lot 742
741* Besler (Basilius). Lilium cruentum bulbiferum, c.1613, hand coloured engraving, slight text through, occ. repairs to margins on verso, Latin text on verso, 465 x 390mm Originally published in Besler’s monumental florigium ‘Hortus Eystettensis’. (1) £400-600
742* Besler (Basilius). Narcissus Polyanthos Orientalis calice medio luteus odoratus maximus, [3rd. ed., c.1750], hand coloured engraving, slight text show through, Latin text on verso, 485 x 395mm Originally published in Besler’s monumental florigium ‘Hortus Eystettensis’. (1) £400-600
743* Besler (Basilius). Hemerocallis Calcedonica polyanthos, [3rd ed. c.1750], hand coloured engraving, very slight text show through, Latin text on verso, slight mount staining, 495 x 405mm Originally published in Besler’s monumental florigium ‘Hortus Eystettensis’. (1) £400-600
Lot 743
153
744* Besler (Basilius). Hyacinthus Orientalis major [and] Hyacinthus Orientalis major flo:coeruleo, [3rd. ed., c.1750], hand coloured engraving, very slight text show through, Latin text on verso, 480 x 405mm Originally published in Besler’s monumental florigium ‘Hortus Eystettensis’. (1) £300-500
745* Besler (Basilius). Muscari obsoleto albo flore [3rd. ed., c.1750], hand coloured engraving, very slight text show through, Latin text on verso, 480 x 400mm Originally published in Besler’s monumental florigium ‘Hortus Eystettensis’. (1) £250-350
746* Black (G.B.). To the Lords and Gentlemen of the Jockey Club, This print of the principal Jockies of the South of England [and] The Jockies of the North of England, pub. Day & Haghe, n.d., c.1860, pair of lithographs after Anson. A. Martin, both with original hand colouring, ‘Jockies of the North of England’ with some splitting to margins and image, closed tears affecting image, some crude repairs to image, each image approx. 355 x 505mm, framed and glazed (2)
Lot 744
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£150-250
Lot 751
747* Caldwell (James). A Group of Carnations, pub. Dr. Thornton, April 2nd. 1803 [but slightly later impression], aquatint and mezzotint with bright original hand colouring on wove, after Peter Henderson, some re-working to sky, 530 x 400mm State III. (1)
£400-600
748* Coaching. Aldin (Cecil), The London to Plymouth [and] The Perth to Aberdeen Coaches, n.d., c.1900, pair of chromolithographs, slight spotting, each approx. 265 x 620mm, framed and glazed, together with, The Edinburgh Coach, pub. Lawrence & Jellicoe Ltd., n.d., c.1910, photolithograph, trimmed to image on three margins, some overall toning, 225 x 705mm, mounted, framed and glazed (3)
£100-150
749* Coaching. Aldin (Cecil), ‘Cheating the Toll’, pub. Louis Meyer, 1900, chromolithograph, slight creasing, one repaired closed tear just affecting image, 415 x 700mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£120-180
750* Coaching. Aldin (Cecil), ‘Going Well’ [and] ‘Trouble Ahead’, pub. Lawrence & Jellicoe, 1906, pair of chromolithographs, each approx. 420 x 530mm, mounted, framed and glazed (2)
£200-300
752* Earlom (Richard, 1743-1822). Tulips, pub. Dr. Thornton, May 1st. 1798 [but later impression] hand coloured mezzotint after Philip Reinagle, slight mount staining, 480 x 360mm
751* Coaching. Aldin (Cecil), ‘Trouble Ahead’ [and] ‘Going Well’, pub. Lawrence and Jellicoe, n.d., c.1910, pair of chromolithographs, each approx. 290 x 360mm, framed and glazed (2)
(1)
£200-300
155
£300-500
755* Educational Posters. Three early 20th c. natural history posters of mushroom and other fungi, colour-printed images showing numerous mushrooms and fungi in a wooded landscape, image size 27 x 62cm (10.5 x 24.25ins), card mounts and hardboard backing (3)
£100-150
753* Educational Posters. A pair of early 20th c. botanical posters, ‘Primula officinalis, Schlusselblume’, and ‘Helianthus annuus, Sonnenblume’, chromolithographs on black background showing flower heads, stamen and seed pods with cross sections, image size approx. 79 x 106cm (31 x 42ins), mounted on wooden rollers (2)
£120-180
756 Educational Poster. An early 20th c. natural history poster of a chimpanzee, ‘Troglodytes niger (Schimpanse-ChimpanzeChimpanzee-Chimpancé)’, a good large chromolithographic image showing a female chimpanzee and her baby in a jungle setting, monogrammed by the artist, image size 82 x 61cm (32.5 x 24ins), card mount and hardboard backing (1)
£70-100
754* Educational Posters. Three early 20th c. natural history posters of mushrooms and other fungi, chromolithographic images with cross sections and other details, image size 72 x 55cm (28.5 x 21.5ins), green card mounts and hardboard backing
757 Educational Posters. Two early 20th c. natural history posters, one showing a walrus and the other a seal, chromolithographic images after Th. Breidwiser, 41 x 56cm (16 x 22ins) and sl. smaller, card mounts
(3)
(2)
£100-150
156
£50-80
Lot 758
Lot 759 758* Edwards (Lionel), The York & Ainsty, pub. Eyre & Spottiswoode, c.1930, colour print, signed and titled by artist in pencil below image, some spotting to mount not affecting image, 350 x 490mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
759* Edwards (Lionel). Eight hand-coloured ceramic plates and one dish, Manufactured by W.T. Copeland & Sons, Solely for Soane & Smith Ltd. (Rd. No. 691240), c.1930s, eight ceramic plates (including two dups.) with hand-col. hunting scenes after designs by Lionel Edwards (9 ins/225mm diam.), together with one vegetable dish (approx. 355 x 505mm), all with wood-effect edge decoration, some very minor surface abrasion (no. 5 with rim chip)
£120-180
All items are individually numbered and titled thus: No. 1 Full Cry; No. 5 Off to Draw; No. 7 Homeward; No. 8 (2) Gone to Ground; No. 10 Drawing the Dingle; No. 12 (2) The Last Draw. The dish is No. 3 ‘Going to a Halloa’. (9) £200-300
157
Lot 760 760* Eliott (Harry, 1882-1959). Clement, Cycles & Automobiles, pub. E. Bougard. Paris, 1906, large lithographic advertisement showing bicycles within a fox hunting scene, laid on later linen, 1110 x 1560mm
763* Howitt (Samuel). Pheasant Shooting, Grouse Shooting, Duck Shooting, Snipe Shooting, Partridge Shooting [and] Woodcock Shooting, pub. Edward Orme, 1812, set of six hand coloured engravings, each approx. 155 x 200mm, mounted, framed and glazed
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£600-800
£70-100
761* Goody (Ros). ‘Home for a wee dram’ [and] Highland cattle, pub. The Jane Neville gallery, 1994, two colour printed photographic prints, each signed in pencil by the artist below image, one with pencil title, each with three printed b & w remarques to margins, overall size, 465 x 590mm (2)
£70-100
762* Gould (John and Richter, H.C.). Sterna Macrura [and] Puffinus Anglorum, [1862-73], two lithographs with original hand colouring, one image toned overall, each approx. 335 x 520mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with, Selby (John Prideaux), Common Tern [and] Gull Billed Tern, [1821-1834], two etchings with original hand colouring, each approx. 540 x 405mm, mounted, framed and glazed, plus Keulemans (J.G.), Casuarius Papuanus [and] Casuarius Bennetti, c. 1873, pair of lithographs with original hand colouring, each approx. 285 x 205, mounted, framed and glazed The two John Gould images were published in ‘The Birds of Great Britain’ and the two John Selby etchings in ‘Illustrations of British Ornithology’. The Keulemans images were published in ‘Transactions of the Zoological Society of London’. Not examined out of frames. (6) £100-150
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764* Marples (George 1869 - 1939). Wild Geese in Flight, c.1900, etching, signed in pencil below image by artist, 185 x 250mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£150-200
765* Muirhead Bone (David (attrib.)). The Racecourse - Ayr, n.d., c.1900, pencil drawing, titled in pencil by artist in lower right, 130 x 180mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£100-150
766* Paton (Frank). Partridge Shooting [and] Hare Shooting, pub. E.E.Laggat, 1889, two etchings printed in sepia after Charles Whymper, signed in pencil by artist and engraver below image, each approx. 180 x 250mm, mounted, framed and glazed (2)
£80-120
Lot 769
767* Payne (Charles Johnson, “Snaffles”, fl. 1915-23). ‘A Bonafide Fox Chaser’, photolithograph, printed remarques to upper and lower margins, signed in pencil by the artist, image size 25 x 30.5cm (9.75 x 12ins), framed and glazed (1)
£150-250
768* Photograph. A vintage sepia photograph of Steve Donoghue mounted on a racehorse, c. 1920s, large sepia period photograph, showing horse and jockey, with stable lad and owner, 47.5 x 62.5cm (18.75 x 24.5ins), period oak frame, glazed, together with a hand painted photographic portrait of Steve Donoghue, c. 1920, 38.5 x 30.5cm (15 x 12ins), period oak frame, glazed (2)
770* Stadler (Joseph Constantine). The Blue Egyptian Water-Lily, pub. Dr. Thornton, Sept. 11th. 1804, aquatint with original hand colouring on wove, after Peter Henderson, 515 x 400mm First and only state of this striking plate which shows the temple of Aboukir on the banks of the River Nile and the Egyptian Lily or ‘Blue Lotus’ in the foreground. (1) £500-800
£50-80
769* Scott (Peter, 1909-89). Widgeon over the Creek, pub. Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd., 1943, photolithograph, signed in pencil below image by artist, Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp, 355 x 530mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
771* Stock (C.R.). ‘The Find’, ‘The Meet’, ‘The Brook’, pub. Arthur Ackermann, 1884, three hand coloured engravings on one sheet (as published) after W.J.Shayer, overall size 330 x 830mm, framed and glazed
£100-150
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£100-150
Lot 772 773* Tunnicliffe (Charles Frederick, 1901-1979). Pintails, pub. The Tryon Gallery, 1976, colour photographic print, signed in pencil by artist below image, slight spotting to margins, image size 390 x 505mm, mounted
772* Stock (C.R.). Newmarket Scenes, ‘Waiting for the Trainer’, ‘The Morning Gallop’, ‘The Trial’ [and] ‘Returning Home’, pub. F.C. McQueen & Sons, 1891, set of four hand coloured aquatint engravings after Harrington Bird, each with an F.C. McQueen blindstamp below the title, 425 x 725mm, mounted, framed and glazed
Limited edition of 226/500. (1)
A very good set in clean and bright condition, framed in near contemporary stained oak frames. (4) £300-500
£70-100
774* Tunnicliffe (Charles Frederick, 1901-1979). Otter, pub. The Tryon Gallery, 1976, colour photographic print, signed by artist in pencil below image, image size 325 x 450mm Limited edition of 291/500. (1)
Lot 773
£70-100
Lot 774
160
777* Tunnicliffe (Charles Frederick, 1901-1979). ‘At Low tide’, pub. The Tryon Gallery, 1976, colour photographic print, signed by artist in pencil below image, slight spotting to one margin, image size 400 x 505mm
775* Tunnicliffe (Charles Frederick, 1901-1979). Smew, pub. The Tryon Gallery, 1976, colour photographic print, signed in pencil by artist below image, image size 400 x 510mm Limited edition of 287/500. (1)
Limited edition of 283/500. (1)
£70-100
776* Tunnicliffe (Charles Frederick, 1901-1979). Mallards, pub. The Tryon Gallery, 1976, colour photographic print, signed by artist in pencil below image, very slight spotting to one margin, image size 405 x 510mm Limited edition of 137/500. (1)
£70-100
778* Turner (Charles 1773-1857). ‘British Feather Game’, plts. 1 & 2, Partridges & Pheasants, pub. R.Ackermann, 1810, two fine mezzotint engravings after James Barenger, laid on later card, slight staining largely confined to margins, each approx. 380 x 435mm, framed and glazed
£70-100
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£200-300
779* Turner (Charles 1773-1857). ‘British Feather Game’, plts. 3 & 4, Snipes & Woodcocks, pub. R.Ackermann, 1810, two (of 14) fine mezzotint engravings with original hand colouring, slight staining and spotting, each approx. 380 x 435mm, framed and glazed (2)
780* Turner (Charles 1773-1857). ‘British Feather Game’, plts. 5, 12 & 13, ‘Wild Ducks’, ‘Teal’ & ‘Moor Hen’, c.1810, three (of fourteen) fine mezzotint engravings after James Barenger, orig. hand colouring, ‘Teal’ with trimmed and re-attached title, each approx. 380 x 435mm, framed and glazed
£150-250
Not examined out of frames. (3)
£150-250
781* Williams (Sheldon). A Day with the Fox Hounds, pub. J.McQueen, 1869, five aquatint engravings on one sheet (as published), early hand colouring, overall size 310 x 540mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£100-150
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FALCONRY BOOKS & PICTURES 782 Campbell (James). A Treatise on Modern Faulconry: To Which is Prefixed, From Authors not Generally Known, an Introduction, Shewing the Practice of Faulconry in Certain Remote Times and Countries, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1773, engraved plate (bound-in after Introduction), occasional annotation, a few light spots, endpapers renewed, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, edges rubbed, 8vo (1)
£300-400
783 Fisher (Major Charles Hawkins, of the Castle, Stroud, Gloucester). Reminiscences of a Falconer, 1st ed., 1901, seven photogravure plts. and six b & w ports., some spotting of prelims., t.e.g., orig. green cloth, rubbed and faded on spine, minor wear to extremities (1)
£70-100
784 Glasier (Phillip). Falconry and Hawking, 1st ed., Batsford, 1978, author’s presentation copy, inscribed on half-title, numerous col. and b & w illusts., orig. boards in d.j., 4to, together with Upton (Roger), O for a Falconer’s Voice. Memories of the Old Hawking Club, 1st ed., 1987, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in d.j., 4to, plus Ratcliffe (Derek), The Peregrine Falcon, 1st ed., Poyser, 1980, numerous col. and b & w illusts., orig. boards in sl. soiled d.j., 8vo, with twenty-five other falconry books plus sixteen orig. issues of The Falconer. The Journal of the British Falconers’ Club 1951-83, and a collection of related correspondence and other paperwork, catalogues, journals, photographs, etc. (2 cartons)
£200-300
Lot 782
785* Digby (R. David, 1936- ). Peregrine falcon and Redshank, gouache, signed by artist in lower left corner, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£200-300
786* Digby (R. David, 1936- ). Hobby falcon on a branch, watercolour and gouache, signed in lower left corner, 28 x 21.5cms (11 x 8.5 inches), mounted, framed and glazed (1)
Lot 783
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£150-200
789* Kelly (Chloe E.Talbot, 1927-). Intermewed Black Sparrowhawk, 1972, watercolour and gouache of a sparrowhawk on a falconer’s glove, signed and dated in lower right, 280 x 245mm, mounted, framed and glazed There is an inscription on the verso of the frame describing the bird and its owner. (1) £150-200
790 Mavrogordato (J.G.). A Hawk for the Bush. A Treatise on the Training of the Sparrow-hawk and other Short-winged Hawks, 1960, A Falcon in the Field. A Treatise on the Training and Flying of Falcons (Being a Companion Volume and Sequel to A Hawk for the Bush), 1966, both 1st eds., col. illusts. after G. Lodge and D.M. Henry, both orig. cloth in sl. soiled and frayed d.j., plus another copy of A Hawk for the Bush, revised and updated, 1973, orig. boards in d.j., all 4to, and Meinertzhagen (Colonel R.), Pirates and Predators. The Piratical and Predatory Habits of Birds, 1st ed., 1959, col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in sl. frayed and torn d.j., large 8vo, and Brown (Leslie and Amadon, Dean), Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of the World, 2 vols., 1st ed., Country Life Books, 1968, numerous col. illusts., orig. cloth gilt in frayed and creased glassine d.j. and slipcase, 4to
787* Falconry. A mixed collection of approx. seventy hand made leather hoods for falcons and hawks, 20th century, various sizes, including one containing the skull of a falcon, with various plaster moulds to aid the manufacture of hoods, together with a set of nine falconry buttons, four large buttons showing a hawk on a falconer’s glove and five smaller buttons decorated with a hood, plus a falconer’s leather bag with leather strap and brass buckle, with five falconer’s gauntlets, numerous jess clips and bells, and various related paperwork including templates for hoods (approx.85)
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791* Proud (Alistair 1954 -). Goshawk on Glove, watercolour, signed by artist in lower right corner, 51 x 38cms (20 x 15 inches), mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£200-300
792* Proud (Alistair 1954 -). Goshawk on bow perch, watercolour, signed by artist in lower right, 335 x 250mm, mounted, framed and glazed
£150-250
788* Kelly (Chloe E. Talbot, 1927-). Peregrine Falcon, 1971, watercolour and gouache, signed and dated by artist in lower right corner, 280 x 245mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£100-150
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£100-150
793* Reid-Henry (David, 1919-1977). Study of a Kestrel’s head [and] Study of a Goshawk’s head, two watercolours, each signed in lower right by artist and titled in lower left, 155 x 140mm and 125 x 190mm respectively, mounted, framed and glazed
£150-200
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Lot 789
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£200-300
Lot 791
Lot 793
795* Upton (Mark L.). Studies of Falcon heads, 1986, watercolour and gouache studies of nine hawks and falcons including two with hoods, signed and dated by artist, 500 x 360mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
794* Treleaven (R.B., 1920-2009). Peregrine on a sea cliff, oil on board, signed by artist in lower right, 610 x 515mm, framed, together withChina clay spoil hills, oil on board, signed by artist in lower left corner, 350 x 600mm, framed, plus a first edition copy of ‘In Pursuit of the Peregrine’ by R.B. Treleaven, 1998, inscribed on title by the author, orig. cloth in d.j., VG (3)
£150-250
796* Upton (Mark L.). Peregrine falcon study, 1896, two gouache and watercolour studies on a single sheet, one showing a bird with jesses and one with a hood and jesses, signed and dated by artist, 395 x 440mm, mounted, framed and glazed
£150-200
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£200-300
FISHING BOOKS, PICTURES & TACKLE 799 Fishing tackle catalogues, etc.. Hardy’s Anglers’ Guide, c. 1931, 382 pp. with tabulated foremargin, col. plts., numerous b & w illusts., orig. printed wrappers (rear wrapper deficient), worn and broken on spine, 8vo; Hardy’s Anglers’ Guide, 1955, 212 pp., col. plts., numerous b & w illusts., some damp staining, orig. printed wrappers, some soiling, 8vo; W.J. Cummins, Catalogue of Salmon and Trout Rods and High-Class Fishing Tackle for Home and Abroad, 26th ed., c. 1930s, 210 pp., col. plts., numerous b & w illusts., orig. printed wrappers, soiled and some wear to head and foot of spine, 4to, plus Percy Wadham’s Specialities Ltd., Newport, Isle of Wight, Catalogue of Fishing Rods and Tackle, 1938, 16 pp., col. and b & w illusts., orig. printed wrappers, a little soiled, split on spine, slim 4to, and P.D. Malloch, Catalogue of Fishing Rods and Tackle, c. 1930s, 148 pp., col. plts., numerous b & w illusts., orig. printed wrappers, some minor soiling, plus two Farlow’s Catalogues, and numerous others, mostly post-war, and a few fishing magazines, etc. (a carton)
£150-200
800 Pritt (T.E.). The Book of the Grayling: being a Description of the Fish, and the Art of Angling for Him, as practised chiefly in the Midlands and the North of England, 1st ed., Leeds: Goodall and Suddick, 1888, three chromo. plts., incl. frontis., tissue guards, small ownership ink stamp on dedication leaf (repeated on fore-edges), one or two light finger-marks, t.e.g., orig. bevel-edged maroon cloth gilt, some minor edge-rubbing and marks, but overall a good copy, 4to Large Paper copy. (1)
£400-600
801 Ronalds (Alfred). The Fly-Fisher’s Entomology, Illustrated by Coloured Representations of the Natural and Artificial Insect, and accompanied by a few Observations and Instructions relative to Trout-and-Grayling Fishing, 2nd ed., 1839, twenty hand-col. plts. incl. frontis., occ. spotting, a little marginal damp staining to first and last leaves, ownership bookplate of Hilda Sergison-Brooke to front pastedown, orig. cloth, sl. rubbed and soiled, 8vo (1)
£80-120
802 Shaw (Fred. G.). The Complete Science of Fly Fishing and Spinning, 1st ed., 1914, col. frontis., numerous b & w illusts. from photos, 30 pp. ads. at rear, t.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. cloth, rubbed and somewhat faded, large 8vo, together with Scrope (William), Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed, 1898, chromo. frontis., eng. plts. and other illusts., some minor scattered spotting, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. half parchment gilt, a little rubbed and soiled, small 4to, plus West (Leonard), The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation, 1st ed., Ravenhead, St. Helens, [1912, thirteen col. plts. and three plain, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and darkened on spine, slim 8vo, and others
797 The Angler’s Pocket-Book; Or, Compleat English Angler: Containing all that is Necessary to be Known in that Art. Also, Nobbs’s Celebrated Treatise on the Art of Trolling, 3rd ed., 1805, woodcut illustrations, bound with [Salter, Robert], The Modern Angler, Being a Practical Treatise on the Art of Fishing &c, in a Series of Letters to a Friend, 1st ed., Oswestry, c. 1801, engraved frontispiece of fish hooks, errata slip tipped in after title, occasional light toning, bookplate to front endpaper, contemporary calf, edges a little rubbed, 12mo Although the first work states ‘third edition’, no previous editions are recorded. The second work is a first edition and is scarce. Westwood & Satchell p.186. (1) £400-600
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£120-180
798 Falkus (Hugh). Sea Trout Fishing. A Guide to Success, 2nd ed., reprinted, 1979, author’s presentation copy, signed and inscribed on flyleaf, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in d.j., 8vo, together with Taverner (Eric), Trout Fishing from All Angles. A Complete Guide to Modern Methods, Lonsdale Library series, n.d., c. 1930s, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., 8vo, plus Harris (J.R.), An Angler’s Entomology, New Naturalist series, 1st ed., 1952, col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus a large collection of miscellaneous fishing books, mostly 20th-c. hardback publications, some in d.j.
803 Shipley (William). A True Treatise on the Art of Fly-Fishing, Trolling, etc., as practised on the Dove, and the principal streams of the Midland Counties; applicable to every Trout and Grayling in the Empire. Edited by Edward FitzGibbon, 1838, eng. frontis. and five eng. vignette illusts. on india paper, front free endpaper torn to upper outer corner, hinges repaired, orig. green cloth, rebacked preserving orig. spine, 8vo, (large paper copy, see Westwood and Satchell, p.194.), together with Steele (William F.), A Handbook of Field Botany, Comprising the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous to the British Isles arranged according to the Natural System..., 2nd ed., Dublin, 1851, eng. frontis., hinges cracked, orig. cloth gilt, frayed at head & foot of spine, 8vo
(3 shelves)
(2)
£150-250
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£80-120
Lot 806
804* Stamps. A fine collection of unused commemorative world stamps on the theme of fish, c. 1950s-2003, two ring binder albums, containing approx. 1000 mint commemorative stamps celebrating exotic and tropical fish from all parts of the world, incl. many smaller dependencies and islands, incl. Antigua, Pitcairn Islands, Maldives, Jersey, Guernsey, Gilbert Islands, Fujeira, Papua New Guinea, Umm Al Qiwain, Turks & Caicos Islands, Christmas Island, Cambodia, etc., various denominations, including approx. 175 complete sets , a few part-sheets, all carefully mounted and labelled in cellophane pockets on thick paper leaves, in half morocco binders, 4to Catalogue value approximately £1500. (2)
£400-600
805 Vaniere (Jacques). Fishing. A Translation from the Latin of Vanier. Book XV. upon Fish. By the late Rev. John Duncombe... with a brief Introduction; and Passages from English Writers, selected as Notes, printed for R. Triphook, 1809, title and 44 pp. of text, one or two minor marks to title, untrimmed, contemp. calf-backed boards, rubbed and a little wear, with sl. loss to foot of spine, slim 8vo A translation of part of Vaniere’s Praedium Rusticum published as an article in Censura Literaria by J. Haslewood. A printed note to verso of the title states that ‘a few additional copies have been printed for general distribution’, and an early pencil note to the front endpaper states that only 50 copies were printed (this information probably taken from Lowndes). (1) £150-200
807* Armstrong (Robin, 1947-). “And when the timrous trout I wait to take and he devours me bait”, n.d., c.1985, large watercolour and gouache, signed by the artist in lower right, watercolour remarque of a fishing fly with the leader running into the manuscript title, 705 x 490mm, mounted, framed and glazed
806* Aldin (Cecil, 1870-1935). Fishing, pub. Lawrence and Bullen Ltd, 1901, chromolithograph, 260 x 340mm, mounted, framed and glazed From the set of twelve ‘Traditional British Sports’. (1)
£120-180
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£400-600
809* Armstrong (Robin, 1947-). Chalkstream brownie leaping. Woodtown, March ‘90, large watercolour and gouache, signed and dated by artist in lower right corner, watercolour remarque of a salmon fly with the leader running into the manuscript title, 480 x 690mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£400-600
810* Armstrong (Robin, 1947-). Male Sockeye in full spawning colours, King Salmon, ALaska, 1990, watercolour and gouache, signed and dated by artist in lower right corner, watercolour remarque of a salmon fly with the leader running into the manuscript title, 480 x 690mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£400-600
811* Armstrong (Robin, 1947-). Brown trout head study, 1989, watercolour and gouache, signed by artist below image, two watercolour remarques of a fishing fly and a trout’s tail on mount, titled in manuscript on mount by artist, 200 x 300mm, mounted, framed and glazed
808* Armstrong (Robin, 1947-). “In all his glory, a male in full spawning colours”, n.d., c.1985, large watercolour and gouache, signed by the artist in lower right, watercolour remarque of a fishing fly with the leader running into the manuscript title, 705 x 490mm, mounted, framed and glazed
(1)
£80-120
This image was used as an illustration in Robin Armstrong’s book ‘Split-cane and Sable’, page. 117, published in 1988. (1) £400-600
Lot 812
Lot 809
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814* Armstrong (Robin, 1947-). Salmon Parr, n.d., c.1990, watercolour and gouache, signed and described by artist below image, 305 x 240mm, mounted, framed and glazed
812* Armstrong (Robin, 1947-). Salmon head study, n.d., c.1990, watercolour and gouache, signed by artist below image, two watercolour remarques of a fishing fly and a salmon’s tail on mount, titled by artist in manuscript on mount, 200 x 300mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
(1)
£100-150
£100-150
813* Armstrong (Robin, 1947-). Cock Salmon in full livery, 1987, watercolour and gouache, signed and described by artist below image, watercolour remarque of a fishing fly to mount, titled in manuscript by artist on mount, 225 x 300mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£100-150
815* Josset (Lawrence 1910 - 1995). The Fishing Boy, pub. Frost & Reed Ltd., 1955, mezzotint, printed in colours, signed in pencil by engraver below image, 530 x 390mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
£120-180
816* Marples (George, 1869 -1939). Trout and Mayfly, uncol. etching, manuscript attribution on mount, 205 x 300mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)
Lot 814
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£150-200
817* Pollard (J.). Fly Fishing, pub. T. Helme, Nov. 17th 1831 [but later impression], hand coloured aquatint, laid on card? 380 x 480mm, framed and glazed in near contemp. maple frame, together with, Pollard (R.), Untitled fly fishing etching, n.d., c.1820, uncoloured, 110 x 355mm, mounted, framed and glazed (2)
819* Fishing Reels. A mixed collection of twelve reels, early - mid 20th century, including a Hardy Bros. ‘Viscount 150’ salmon reel, a Hardy Bros. ‘Marquis’ salmon no.2 reel, a Hardy Bros. Ltd. ‘Silex no.2’ salmon reel with its original box and a Hardy Bros. Ltd. ‘Viscount 130 mark II’ trout reel with its original box, together with an early Allcock & Co. Ltd. brass trout reel and an Allcock’s ‘Aerialite’ brass and composite trout reel, plus a J.Bernard & Son steel trout reel and a W.Young & Sons ‘Pridex’ trout reel, together with an early Abu ‘Ambassadeur 6000’ and an ‘Ambassadeur 6500’ multiplier reel, plus another Abu ‘Ambassadeur 6000’ with its original leather case, with one other unmarked wooden fly reel, together with a brass gut cast box, an aluminium fly tin containing approx. twenty-two salmon flies, an unused spool of Hardy ‘Dry Fly’ floating line in a plastic case and a tin containing numerous spinners, lures and plugs
£70-100
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£200-300
820* Fishing Rods. Three split cane rods, early - mid 20th century, including a Hardy Palakona ‘Perfection’ two piece trout rod, 8ft. 6 inches in length, complete with original Hardy canvas rod bag, together withH.Moore split cane rod, three piece salmon rod, 12ft. 6 inches in length, complete with original H.Moore canvas rod bag, withHardy split cane rod, a Palakona ‘The Knockabout’ two piece trout rod. 9ft 6 inches in length, complete with original Hardy canvas rod bag (3)
£80-120
818* Wilkinson (Norman, 1878-1971). An Evening Rise, oil on canvas, signed by artist in lower left, 335 x 495mm, framed (1)
£800-1200
821* Fishing tackle. Brass extending salmon gaff, Hardy Bros. Alnwick, early 20th century, with turned wooden handle, 860mm when fully extended, together withHardy Bros. Ltd. salmon tailer, early 20th century, with whipped handle and retaining clip, 800mm in length, withHardy Bros. line dryer, early 20th century, small, portable brass line dryer with detachable turned wooden handle, 300mm in length, plus a portable lantern in a wooden case, possibly for use when sea trout fishing (4)
£100-150
822* Fishing tackle. A very large collection of fishing tackle and equipment, mostly early - mid 20th. century, including split cane and fibre glass game, course and sea rods, various landing nets, rod bags and boxes, fishing flies and fly boxes and wallets, spinners and lures, course and game reels , floats, line and traces, weights and fly tying materials and equipment, various condition Sold as a collection, not subject to return. (-)
Lot 819
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£200-300
FOSSILS & MINERALS 826* A pair of split polished calcified Ammonites, Clioniceras, Madagascar, 140 million years old, approx. 14 x 11cm (5.5 x 4.5ins), with acrylic stands (2)
£80-120
823* A ceremonial hand axe, c.5000 - 8000 BC, neolithic green stone axe, approx. 120mm in length Greenstone, unlike flint was not suitable for flaking and was therefore ground against another abrasive stone to achieve this very fine highly polished appearance. These axes were often used for ceremonial purposes. This axe was analyzed by the London Museum using geochemical fingerprinting and although discovered in Wiltshire, was found to have been manufactured in the Mounts Bay area of Cornwall. (1) £70-100
827* A substantial specimen Malachite boulder, Republic of Congo, approx. 28 x 23cm (11 x 9ins), with acrylic stand (1)
£150-200
824* A pair of fossil wood bookends, The Petrified Forest, Arizona, 220 million years old, approx. 20 x 16cm (8 x 6ins) (2)
£100-150
825* A good amethyst geode section, Brazil, approx. 33 x 17cm (13 x 7ins) (1)
£100-150
828* A large rectangular limestone plaque showing water permeation, Dendrite, Solnhofen, Germany, 160 million years old, approx. 25 x 19cm (8 x 10ins), with acrylic stand (1)
Lot 826
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£60-80
829* A pair of fossil wood sections, polished finish, Madagascar, 220 million years old, approx. 21 x 25cm (8.5 x 10ins), with acrylic stands (2)
£200-300
Lot 831
830* A large natural limestone Trilobite, Paradoxides, Saharan Morocco, 350 million years old, approx. 17 x 19cm (7 x 7ins), with acrylic stand (1)
£60-80
831* An iridescent whole Ammonite, Clioniceras, Madagascar, 140 million years old, approx. 26 x 28cm (10 x 11ins), with acrylic stand (1)
£150-200
Lot 832
832* A naturally formed Urchin plaque set with six specimens, La Coste, France, 20 million years old, approx. 23 x 28cm (9 x 11ins), with iron stand (1)
£150-200
833* A fine giant limestone Ammonite, Mantelloceras, Saharan Morocco, 200 million years old, approx. 46 x 39cm (18 x 15ins), on a substantial bronzed base (1)
£1500-2000
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836* A large specimen Labradorite boulder, Madagascar, approx. 24 x 24cm (9.5 x 9.5ins) (1)
£200-300
834* An amethyst geode section, Brazil, approx. 32 x 19cm (12.5 x 7.5ins), with wood stand (1)
£150-200
837* Two pieces of young Amber with inclusions, Copal, Madagascar, 2000+ years old, approx. 15cm and 10cm (6 ins and 5ins) respec.
835* Three unusual primitive neolithic bone tools, consisting of awl, fire starter and wedge & sinker, Baffin Island, Canada, 500-2000 years old (3)
(2)
£150-200
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£80-120
Lot 838
Lot 839
Lot 840
838* A natural Amethyst cushion, Brazil, approx. 9cm (3.5ins) diam., with acrylic stand (1)
840* A large pair of fossil wood bookends, each mottled, The Petrified Forest, Arizona, 220 million years old, approx. 23 x 20cm (9 x 8ins)
£60-80
(2)
839* An attractive stalactite section of Amethyst, Uruguay, approx. 13cm (5ins) diam. (1)
£150-200
841* A superb rare split black limestone Ammonite, Speetoniceras, pyritised and calcified, Saratou region, Volga River, 200 million years old, approx. 30 x 27cm (12 x 10.5ins), with acrylic stand
£60-80
(2)
Lot 841
175
£500-700
844* A fine Keichousaurus skeleton in matrix set in Jialingjiang Formation, Guishou Province, China, 200 million years old, approx. 17 x 27cm (10 x 7ins), with acrylic stand (1)
£500-700
842* A rare natural limestone plaque with multiple teeth from a single shark, Odotus Obliuus, Khourigba Plateau, Morocco, 60 million years old, approx. 58 x 53cm (23 x 21ins), with iron stand (1)
£500-700
843* A fine giant limestone Ammonite, Mantelloceras, Saharan Morocco, 200 million years old, approx. 46 x 43cm (18 x 17ins), with iron stand (1)
845* An interesting collection of mounted shells, some rare species, Philippines, modern, 32 x 23cm (12 x 9ins), framed
£300-500
(1)
£100-150
846* An interesting collection of mounted shells, some rare species, Philippines, modern, approx. 32 x 23cm (12 x 9ins), framed (1)
176
£100-150
847* A large polished iridescent Ammonite, Clioniceras, Madagascar, 140 million years old, approx. 18cm (7ins), with acrylic stand (1)
Lot 849
£60-80
848* An agate geode section, Brazil, approx. 16cm (6ins), with acrylic stand (1)
£60-80
850* A section of an agate nodule, Condor Agate, calcified, approx. 11 x 11cm (4.5 x 4.5ins), with acrylic stand
849* A rare pine cone and branch in matrix, calcified, Araucaria Marabilis, Petrified Forest, Patagonia, Argentina, 170 million years old, approx. 15 x 12cm (6 x 5ins), with acrylic stand (1)
(1)
£200-300
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£60-80
851* A substantial pair of fossil wood bookends, Conifer, Australia, 200 million years old, approx. 25 x 12cm (10 x 5ins) (2)
£100-150
Lot 854
852* A rare fossil curved fish in matrix, Limestone, Solnhofen, Germany, 160 million years old, approx. 32 x 45cm (13 x 18ins), with acrylic stand (1)
£300-500
853* A large natural Ammonite, Mantelloceras, Saharan Morocco, 200 million years old, approx. 26 x 20cm (10 x 8ins), with iron stand (1)
£100-150
854* A substantial section of natural Pyrite, Iron, Morococha mine, Junin, Peru, approx. 20 x 17cm (8 x 7ins), with acrylic stand (1)
£200-300
855* A fine round table top of veneered Malachite, Republic of Congo, modern, approx. 50cm. diam., with iron base (1)
£500-700
Lot 855
178
857* A collection of fossils, including a Trilobite (Morocco), plus an ammonite set with fossilised branch (Dorset), approx. 22cm long; Calymene; three shark’s teeth; a fossilised whale tooth, Hildoceras; coral, etc. (19)
£100-150
856* A collection of fossils, including a Trilobite, together with a Calymene trilobite (Morocco), approx. 12cm diameter; sea urchin cretaceous; Nautilus, Jurassic (Burton Bradstock); shark’s tooth (Morocco); Ammonite group; various Ammonites, Jurassic (Dorset) (20)
£100-150
858* A collection of fossils, including Trilobite ‘bowl’, set with 17 various Moroccan species (Devonian), approx. 24cm wide, plus Ammonite Leioceras, Jurassic (Dorset); Ichthyosaur vertebra (Abingdon, Oxford); polished coral; Clypeus, Jurassic (Cotswolds); Promicroceras Jurassic (Charmouth, Dorset) (10)
£200-300
859* A Tharias, Santana formation (Brazil), positive and negative fish set in Cretaceous, each approx. 34cm wide (2)
Lot 857
Lot 859
179
£100-150
860* A Keichousaurus, Triassic Lizard set in a rectangular stone, approximately 31cm wide (1)
£150-200
862* A collection of fossils, including two Silurian sea bed specimens, each set with Trilobite fragments (Wenlock edge), approximately 17cm wide and various smaller fossilised plants (14)
£100-150
863* A pair of Pleistocene jaw bones (Equus), approximately 10, 000 years old), each retaining teeth, approximately 47cm wide, fossil bones, various (15)
861* A collection of neolithic and bronze age flint arrowheads, United Kingdom and Denmark, displayed in an ebonised and glazed case, 43 x 31cm (1)
£150-200
180
£100-150
Lot 864
864* A Vinctifer Comptoni Cretaceous, set in curved stone, 53cm wide (1)
866* A collection of minerals, including Amethyst geode, plus Calcite; green Calcite; rose quartz; man made geode set with Pyrite; desert rose; sulphur; quartz geode; smokey quartz
£150-200
(17)
£120-150
867* A Calcite and Pyrite specimen, approx. 16cm wide, together with Amethyst, Malachite and Chrysocolla (4)
£100-150
868* An Agate Amethyst geode, approx. 32cm wide, together with Barites, Malachite and Zeolites (3)
£80-120
865* A large collection of Neolithic knapped flint, including arrowheads, axe heads, etc., in four mahogany trays (4)
£200-300
869* A cave-like Amethyst geode, with Calcite crystals, approx. 25cm high and 43cm wide (1)
Lot 866
181
£150-200
874* A collection of minerals, including Green Calcite, plus Barites, Gypsum, Calcite and Pyrite, smokey Quartz, (approx. 23cm wide) (6)
870* A collection of fossilised coral, together with a collection of seashells (mostly from America)
875* A Neolithic flint axe head, 22cm long
(2 trays)
(1)
£50-80
£100-150
£100-150
871* A collection of minerals, including a Pyrite ball, plus Galeria and Fluorite; Iron Pyrite, approx. 20cm wide; Malachite (17)
£100-150
872* A collection of minerals, including Orpiment, plus Emerald; Gypsum; Amethyst; Pyrite; Labradorite; stalactite quartz (15)
£80-120
873* A collection of minerals, including an Amethyst specimen, 30cm wide, plud stalactite quartz, Hematite and Quartzite (4)
876* A large Neolithic axe head, probably Cornish green stone, 29cm wide
£80-120
(1)
£200-300
877* A Neolithic jade axe head, 12cm long, together with another axe head (New Caledonia), 11cm wide (2)
Lot 874 182
£150-200
878* A late 19th century mahogany straight front collectors cabinet, comprising ten short and four long drawers, 84cm x 93cm wide, 67cm deep, containing an extensive collection of fossils, seashells and minerals, including ammonite, bellamite, gryphea, the shells to include a varied collection of Pleistocene (Cyprus and Larnaca); minerals to include Kynaite (Kenya), Sodlaite (Ontario), Chiastolite (South Australia) (-)
ÂŁ200-300
879* A 20th century collectors cabinet, formerly a millinery shop display cabinet, 144cm high x 64cm wide, 54cm deep, comprising fourteen shallow glass fronted drawers over twin cupboard doors enclosing two deep drawers, containing an extensive and interesting collection of seashells and fossils, including Gastrana, Laminosa, Pliocene, Red Crag (Walton on the Naze, Essex), Eocene (Woolwich), the lower drawers containing a range of shells all neatly displayed in small blue card and glazed boxes (-)
Lot 879
ÂŁ200-300
183
884* An extensive collection of freshwater and seashells, to include Chicoreus ramosus (Philippines), two boxes of British Victorian landshells, numerous plastic collectors chests containing shells, etc. (6 cartons)
£200-300
880* An interesting collection of fossilised bone, including a large Aveley mammoth molar (Mammuthus sp. Primigenius, Blumenbach), approx. 16cm long x 12cm high, plus vertebrae, jaw bone, teeth, Canon bone Ox (Bos primigenus) etc. On 27 July 1963 John Hesketh, then aged 23, an analytical chemist and amateur geologist, noticed the tip of a mammoth’s femur which had been exposed during the routine working of a clay and gravel pit owned by theTunnel Portland Cement Company at Aveley near Grays, in Essex. He promptly alerted the British Museum’s Natural History Department and as a result the fossilised skeletons of two prehistoric elephants, one lying directly above the other, and the remains of a young giant ox or young bison were excavated. Dr. A.J. Sutcliffe, of the Department of Palaeontology of the British Museum (Natural History) estimated that the remains were probably between 100, 000 and 200, 000 years old. Provenance: From the collection of the late John Hesketh. (approx. 20) £200-300
885* A Victorian mother of pearl scrimshaw nautilus shell, engraved ‘A present for Elizabeth Ann from Llandudno N. Wales’, decorated with the S.S. Great Eastern, and ‘The Great Eastern Stm.S laying the Atlantic Company’, ‘July 27th 1866, completed, shore and landed and spliced Messages pass rapidly between Ireland & New. F.Land’, approx. 12cm x 8.5cm
881* A large quantity of freshwater and seashells, many displayed in blue card and glazed boxes, to include Limnaea Stagnalis; Planorbis; Corneus, contained in a pair of modern oak bedside 3 drawer chests (2)
The transatlantic telegraph cable was the first cable used for telegraph communications laid across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, stretching from Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island, in western Ireland right the way across to Heart’s Content in eastern Newfoundland. It was revolutionary for communication as before the introduction of the cable messages had to be sent via ship and this could take up to ten days, the telegraph cable took a matter of minutes. (1) £100-150
£100-150
882* A collection of freshwater and seashells, contained in eighteen plastic five-drawer chests, each drawer labelled, for example Oligacene, Kobrow, and Eocene (Colwell Bay, Isle of Wight); Pliocene (Red Crag, Foulton Hall) (18)
886* A group of various Neolithic flint arrowheads, scrapers, etc., contained in a Victorian mahogany paint box by G. Rowney (with printed label) impressed “Department of Science and Art, Reward”, and others similar, contained in two bygone cardstock boxes
£200-300
Strong scrapers were the first tools used very much like a rough file would be used today, to round and fashion angular fractured bones into various articles. To be followed by smaller and finer scrapers and finally by the minute tools giving the finishing surface and decoration. (3) £70-100
883* A good collection of freshwater and seashells, together with various fossils, including Corals; Cladocora; Allonissos (Rhodes, Greece); Levantian; Ammonite, lower chalk (Isle of Wight), etc. (5 cartons)
£200-300
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ANTHONY KNIBBS CERAMIC EGG DISPLAYS
Lot 887
Lot 888
887 Knibbs (Anthony R.), Sea Birds, n.d. c.1990, twenty-six life size hand painted ceramic eggs, displayed in custom built box frame, signed by artist and with a manuscript identification key verso of frame, overall size 330 x 410mm (1)
892* Knibbs (Anthony R.), Garden Birds [and] Pipits, Larks and Buntings, n.d., c, 1990, two sets of twenty-five and twelve hand painted life size ceramic eggs, each set displayed in a custom built box frame, each signed by artist and with a manuscript identification key verso of frame, 220 x 220mm and 150 x 200mm respectively
£80-120
(2)
888* Knibbs (Anthony R.), Raptors, n.d., c.1990, fifteen hand painted life size ceramic eggs, displayed in custom built box frame, signed by artist and with a manuscript identification key verso of frame, overall size 330 x 410mm (1)
893* Knibbs (Anthony R.), Garden and Woodland Birds eggs [and] Small Passerines n.d., c.1990, two sets of thirty-five and twelve hand painted life size ceramic eggs, each set displayed in a custom built box frame, each signed by the artist and with a manuscript identification key verso of frame, 200 x 250mm and 140 x 170mm respectively
£70-100
889* Knibbs (Anthony R.), Waders, n.d., c.1990, sixteen hand painted life size ceramic eggs, displayed in custom built box frame, signed by artist and with a manuscript identification key verso of frame, overall size 300 x 250mm (1)
(2)
890* Knibbs (Anthony R.), Wading Birds, n.d., c.1990, seventeen hand painted life size ceramic eggs, displayed in custom built box frame, signed by artist and with identification key verso of frame, overall size 350 x 300mm
(2)
£70-100
895* Knibbs (Anthony R.), Game Birds, n.d., c.1990, twelve hand painted life size ceramic eggs, displayed in a custom built box frame, signed by artist and with a manuscript identification key verso of frame, 300 x 250mm
£70-100
891* Knibbs (Anthony R.), Crows, Jays and Magpies [and] Game Birds, n.d., c.1990, two sets of fourteen and nine hand painted life size ceramic eggs, each set displayed in a custom built box frame, each signed by artist and with a manuscript identification key verso of frame, 270 x 210mm and 250 x 200mm respectively (2)
£80-120
894* Knibbs (Anthony R.), Blue Bird’s Eggs [and] Avocet Eggs, n.d., c.1990, two sets of eight and four hand painted life size ceramic eggs, each set displayed in a custom built box frame, each signed by the artist and with a manuscript identification key verso of frame, 200 x 150mm and 170 x 170mm respectively
£70-100
(1)
£80-120
(1)
£70-100
£100-150
Lot 889
Lot 893 185
Lot 895
Lot 897
DISPLAY CABINETS
NATURAL HISTORY, SPORTING & BOTANICAL BOOKS
896* Display Cabinet. A good late Victorian mahogany counter-top shop display cabinet, glazed sloping front, with two-piece internal shelving on brass mounts, and opaque glass base, with sliding glazed doors to rear, approx. 50 ins long x 10 ins x 10 ins (127 x 25 x 25cm) (1)
898* [Agricultural receipts]. “An Essay for improving Potatoes 1800”, 4 pp. in a neat ink copperplate hand, the essay begins “The following short essay points out the proper mode to cultivate potatoes & make them more productive in quantity, excell in quality & flavour, and none of them found rotten and easier preserved when laid up in the fall of the year.” and it ends “This essay made out by Alexander Campbell of Ormidale and transcribed by John Mae Ewen, Schoolmaster Kilmoden, Anno 1800”, with a very similar document by the same author entitled “Essay upon Winding of Hay 1800”, together with a receipt on a single piece of paper entitled “Receipt for Itch, Scan, or Lice, in Sheep”
£200-300
897* Display Cabinet. A fine and large exhibition quality late Victorian Gothic Revival style mahogany display cabinet, formerly in The British Museum, London, pent-roof shape, four glazed panel opening doors with airtight sealing, lock system (partly disassembled), free-standing upon a carved ornamental base raised on six legs, shows some age wear, length 92 ins (234cm), height 69 ins (173cm), width 38 ins (97cm) Previously acquired in late 1940s by a former specialist consultant to the British Museum, following a redesigning of some of the galleries. (1) £600-800
(3)
186
£80-120
902 Bannerman (David Armitage). The Birds of Tropical West Africa. With Special Reference to those of the Gambia, Sierra Leone, The Gold Coast and Nigeria, 8 vols., 1st eds., 1930-51, chromos. and col. plts. after Henry Jones, H. Gronvold, G.E. Lodge, and others, numerous b & w illusts. to text, folding maps, etc., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed (vols. 1 & 2 sl. faded on spines), tall 8vo Volume 1 inscribed on flyleaf ‘To J.E.W. Flood. With the compliments of David Bannerman, June 1930’. (8) £200-300
903 Bannerman (David Armitage & Lodge, George E.). The Birds of the British Isles, 12 vols., 1st ed., 1953-63, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth, d.j.s, a few minor tears and stains, 4to (12)
£150-200
904 Binney (Amos). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States, and the Adjacent Territories of North America..., Edited by Augustus A. Gould, vols. 1-4 only (of 5), Boston, 1851-59, 106 eng. plts. (mostly hand-col.), wood eng. illusts. to text, plts. 71 & 26 folded & loosely inserted (provided from a large paper copy?), unobtrusive blind library stamps to text & plts., library labels to upper pastedowns, t.e.g., to vols. 1-3 and bound in orig. cloth with library classification numbers at foot of spines, slight wear to joints and head & foot of spines, vol. 4 in contemp. boards, 8vo Volume 4 has half title entitled ‘A Supplement to the Terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States &c.’. (4) £100-150
905 British Museum. Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History), [1903-40], 8 vols. bound in four, reprint, Martino, New York, [1991], orig. cloth gilt, 8vo One of 450 copies. (4)
£70-100
899 Andrews (James). The Parterre: or, Beauties of Flora. Twelve Highly-Finished Drawings, with Poetical Illustrations, Tilt and Bogue, 1842, twelve hand-col. litho. plts., foxed, first plt. trimmed and tipped-in to mount, one plt. with notch in blank fore-margin, one tissue guard with closed tear repaired with adhesive tape on verso, endpapers lightly soiled, hinges split, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, sl. rubbed and marked, rebacked preserving orig. spine, folio (1)
£300-400
900 Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Shooting, by Thomas De Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham & Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, 2 vols., Longmans, Green & Co, 1886, b & w frontis. to each, plts. & illusts., upper hinge of vol. 1 cracked, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. publisher’s blue half sheep gilt, armorial to upper board of each, slight wear at head & foot of spines, slightly rubbed & scuffed, 4to Limited ed. 111/250. Armorial bookplate of Sir Alfred Sherlock Gooch. (2) £70-100
906* Butterflies & Moths. An album of watercolour drawings of butterflies and moths from British Guiana and West Indies, c. 1890-1900, 355 watercolour drawings on 86 sheets, a few missing, some captioned, tissue guards (with some offsetting from images), a few leaves loose, endpapers browned, pencil signature of H. Mcarther at front, front hinges broken, original half calf, rubbed and scuffed, oblong 8vo
901 Bannerman (David A. & W. Mary). Birds of Cyprus, reprinted, 1989, col. illusts. after D.M. Reid-Henry and Roland Green, b & w illusts. to text, orig. cloth in d.j., together with Handbook of the Birds of Cyprus and Migrants of the Middle East, by David Armitage Bannerman and W. Mary (Jane) Bannerman, 1st ed., Oliver & Boyd, 1971, col. plts., b & w illusts. to text, orig. cloth in d.j., plus An Ornithological Journey in Morocco in 1951 [from Ibis, 94] by D. Bannerman and J. Priestley, [1952], pp. 406-682, b & w illusts. from photos, folding map, stapled as issued, without wrappers, half-title inscribed ‘With the compliments of David and Jane Bannerman’ and two others related, all 8vo (5)
(1)
£200-300
907 Cotteswold Naturalists’ Club. Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Club, vols. 1, 4-19 (in nine), pub. 1853-1918, numerous litho, b & w plts., folding maps & plans etc. (some col.), ex-lib. with usual marks, uniform modern green cloth, classification numbers at foot of spines, some extrems. rubbed & frayed, 8vo (9)
£70-100
187
£100-150
908 Curtis (William). The Botanical Magazine; Or, Flower-Garden Displayed, vols. I-IV, 1791-96, 143 hand-coloured engraved plates, one uncoloured plate, plate 60 with small tear in image, some light spotting and soiling, contemporary half calf, vol. I lacking upper cover, some wear, 8vo (4)
£300-400
909 Curtis (William). Flora Londinensis, or, Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London with their Places of Growth, and Times of Flowering, their several Names according to Linnaeus and other Authors..., 2 vols., [1777]-1798, 236 (of 432) hand-col. plts. only, lacks title and prelims. to first vol., some soiling, staining and marginal paper repairs, especially to front and rear of each vol., later typewritten index bound in at front of each vol., early 20th c. library qtr. morocco, rubbed and marked, folio Henrey 595. Hunt 650. Nissen 439. Blunt 189-90. Generally regarded as the first national flora. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (2) £500-800
910 Daniel (William Barker). Rural Sports, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1801-02, engraved title to each, 58 copper-engraved plates, some spotting and dampstains, bookplates, contemporary diced calf, rebacked retaining most of original spines, lightly rubbed, 8vo (3)
£200-300
911 Day (Francis). British and Irish Salmonidae, 1887, twelve litho. plts. (inc. 9 chromos), few wood eng. illusts., orig. cloth gilt, slightly frayed at head & foot of spine, small label mark to spine, large 8vo (1)
Lot 908
£100-150
912 Dixon (Charles). The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands, 2nd ed., enlarged, improved and thoroughly revised by the Author, Sheffield, Pawson & Brailsford, 1900, half-title, forty-one chromos. after Charles Whymper, orig. pict. cloth gilt, a little dust soiled, 4to (in 8s) (1)
£70-100
913 Duhamel du Monceau (Henri Louis). A Practical Treatise of Husbandry: Wherein are contained, many useful and Valuable Experiments and Observations in the New Husbandry, Collected during a Series of Years..., also, the most approved Practice of the best English Farmers, in the Old Method of Husbandry..., 1759, title printed in red & black, six eng. plts. (inc. 4 folding), one folding table, some dampstaining to outer margins, occ. light offsetting, contemp. calf, joints cracked, slightly rubbed to extrems., 4to Kress B5778. (1)
£100-150
914 Dykes (W.R.). Notes on Tulip Species, Edited and Illustrated by E.A. Katherine Dykes, 1st ed., 1930, fifty-four col. plts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. green cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear, joints partly split, folio, together with Urquhart (Beryl Leslie, ed.), The Camelia, 1st ed., 1956, twenty col. reproductions from paintings by Raymond Boothe and Paul Jones, orig. half cloth, faded and some wear to spine, slim folio (2)
Lot 909
188
£70-100
Lot 915
915 Evelyn (John). The Compleat Gard’ner; or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen-Gardens; with Divers Reflections on Several Parts of Husbandry. In Six Books. By the Famous Monsr. De La Quintinye, Chief Director of all the Gardens of the French-King. To which is Added His Treatise of Orange-Trees, with the Raising of Melons..., 1st ed., 1693, eng. port. frontis., eleven eng. plts. inc. two folding, title printed in red & black, contemp. panelled calf, gilt dec. spine with morocco label, folio Wing L-431. A nice example. (1)
916 Evelyn (John). Silva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. As it was Deliver’d in the Royal Society the XVth of October, MDCLXII... Terra, a Philosophical Essay of Earth, Being a Lecture in Course. To which is Annexed Pomona: or, an Appendix Concerning Fruit-Trees, in Relation to Cyder; the Making, and Several Ways of Ordering it..., 4th ed., 1706, eng. port. frontis., title printed in red & black, few eng. illusts. inc. some full-page, hinges repaired, contemp. speckled calf, neatly rebacked and corners repaired, folio
£1200-1800
Armorial bookplate of the Mugrave family of Eden Hall. (1)
189
£200-300
190
917 Gould (John). The Birds of Europe, 22 original parts (complete), 1832 - 37, 448 lithographic plts. (complete) by and after Elizabeth & John Gould and Edward Lear, all with fine bright original hand colouring, one plate (Puffin) with repaired closed tear affecting image, occ. spotting and creasing, occ. plts. and leaves detached, occ. marginal fraying, dedication, preface, introduction, title pages, list of plates and list of subscribers bound in part 22, orig. pubs. litho. printed boards with part numbers added in contemp. manuscript, four vols. with defective cloth backstrip, boards of parts 6 & 7 detached, rubbed, worn and stained, folio The Birds of Europe was the first of John Gould’s monumental works to feature the paintings of Edward Lear. Lear’s contribution is restricted to the larger more striking birds such as the owls, cranes, storks, swans and raptors. In ‘The Ruling Passion of John Gould’ by Isabella Tree she notes that “in volume Lear’s contribution may not have been prolific, but its impact was revelatory. Lear’s participation transformed the work of Mrs Elizabeth Gould.... into dynamic and expressive works of art. Like an ornithological Michaelagelo he propelled her limited sense of prospective into the third dimension”. With an original printed prospectus to front pastedown of vols. 1 & 2 (unknown to Sauer), with contemp. manuscript marginalia of a price of three guineas per part. Rare in this original unbound state. Nissen IVB 371, Sauer 2 (22) £40000-60000
191
918 Handbook of the Birds of the World, ed. Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and Jordi, Sargatal, vols. 1-9 & 11-15, pub. Lynx Ediciones, Barcelona, 1992-2010, col. and b&w illusts. throughout, all orig. cloth gilt in d.j.s, large 4to, VG (14)
£500-700
919 Harrison (Joseph). The Floricultural Cabinet and Florists’s Magazine, vols. VI-VIII, January 1838-December 1840, additional eng. title to first and third vol., forty-two hand-coloured eng. plts. of flowers, including one or two folding, folding b&w wood eng. plan of the gardens of the Royal Botanic Society, Regents Park, contemp. uniform morié cloth, gilt label to spine of each vol., rubbed and marked, spines somewhat sunned, 8vo (3)
£100-150
922 Horticultural Society of London. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London, vols. 1-4 only, all 2nd eds. (except vol. 4 which is 1st ed.), 1815-22, eng. title-pages, forty-four fine hand col. aquatint & stipple eng. plts., forty-one uncol. eng. plts & tables (some folding), occ. spotting, contemp. half-calf gilt, rubbed, 4to
920 Hickey (William, i.e. “Martin Doyle”). The Illustrated Book of Domestic Poultry, 1st ed., 1854, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates, illustrations, a few light spots, endpapers renewed, original green cloth, some fading, 8vo (1)
£150-200
(4)
923 Kent (Nathaniel). General View of the Agriculture of the County of Norfolk; with Observations for the Means of its Improvement. Drawn up, for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, 1796, folding eng. map frontis. (slightly dampstained to fore-edge), three eng. plts. (one folding), contemp. half calf gilt, upper board detached, corners worn, some wear, 8vo
921 Hogg (Thomas). A Concise and Practical Treatise on the Growth and Culture of the Carnation, Pink, Auricula, Polyanthus, Ranunculus, Tulip, Hyacinth, Rose, and Other Flowers..., 3rd ed., printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824, six hand-col. litho. plts., incl. frontis., half-title present, stitching partially broken and one gathering detached, with page block just holding together, untrimmed, orig. pink boards, dusty and marked, spine deficient, 12mo (1)
£700-1000
(1)
£70-100
£70-100
924 Landseer (Thomas). Twenty Engravings of Lions Tigers Panthers & Leopards, 1823, decorative eng. title page and twenty uncoloured eng. plts., slight spotting and staining throughout, lacking front end paper, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and worn at extrems., upper cover detached, oblong 4to (1)
192
£100-150
925 Linnaeus (Carl). Philosophia botanica in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica, 2nd revised ed., Berlin, 1780, engraved portrait frontis. and eleven plates, a little spotting and light offsetting of frontis. to title, contemp. mottled calf, some wear, recent antiquestyle calf gilt reback, 8vo (1)
£100-150
926 Loudon (Mrs. Jane). British Wild Flowers, 3rd ed., 1859, sixty hand-col. plts., 20th c. morocco backed boards with orig. front and rear cloth covers relaid, 4to (1)
£200-300
927 Loudon (John). A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences; and on the Choice of Situations Appropriate to Every Class of Purchasers ... in Constructing or Improving Mansions, and other Rural Buildings, so as to Combine Architectural Fitness with Picturesque Effect ..., 2 vols., 1806, thirtytwo eng. plts., inc. one with overlay, some dust soiling to vol. 2, recent half calf gilt, with morocco label to spine of each, 4to (2)
£300-500
Lot 925
928 Lynch (Stanislaus). Rhymes of an Irish Huntsman, pub. Country Life, 1937, eight mounted colour plates by Michael Lyne, b & w illustrations, presentation inscription, original cloth, d.j., some tears and losses, 4to Limited edition, 14/175 signed by author and artist. (1)
£100-150
929 Markham (Gervase). The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent. Or a Direction to the Husbandman, for the true Ordering, Manuring, and Inriching of all the Grounds within the Wealds of Kent, and Sussex; and many generally serve for all the Grounds in England of the Nature..., revised, inlarged, and corrected, 1664, pp.[4], 20, ink stamp to verso of title, slight browning and fraying to margins, modern calf gilt, slim 4to Wing M641. (1)
Lot 927
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£150-200
932 Miller (Philip). The Gardener’s and Botanist’s Dictionary; containing the Best and Newest Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower Garden, and Nursery; of Performing the Practical Parts of Agriculture; of Managing Vineyards, and of Propagating all Sorts of Timer Trees..., 2 vols. in four, 1807, twenty eng. plts., some browning to plt. margins, contemp. half calf gilt, joints cracked, head & foot of spines worn and extrems. rubbed, folio (4)
£150-250
933 Morris (Beverley R.). British Game Birds and Wildfowl, 2 vols, 4th ed., revised and corrected by W.B. Tegetmeier, 1895, sixty double-page hand-col. plts. (correct as list), some minor fore-edge spotting, orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed, large 8vo (2)
£150-200
930 Maund (Benjamin). The Botanic Garden; Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, Cultivated in Great Britain..., parts 7, 9-13, pub. 1831-[35?], eng. title to each, seventy-two hand-col. eng. plts., occ. minor spotting and offsetting, contemp. uniform straight grain green half morocco gilt, spines numbered 1-6, joints & extrems. slightly rubbed, slim 4to (6)
£250-350
931 Millais (John Guille). Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches; Illustrating the Habits, Modes of Capture, Stages of Plumage, and the Hybrids and Varieties which Occur Amongst Them, 1892, port. frontis. of Thomas Bewick, 16 chromo. plts. and 18 autotype plts., wood engs. to text, pages cockled, t.e.g., orig. red half morocco gilt, water damaged and warped, folio, together with [Fothergill, George Algernon], Notes from the Diary of a Doctor, Sketch Artist and Sportsman, pub. York, 1901, b&w plts. and illusts. throughout, orig. pict. two-tone cloth, slight loss to base of spine, wear to extrems., folio, plus Smith (F. Hopkinson), Well Worn Roads of Spain, Holland & Italy, 1887, b&w plts. and illusts., occ. spotting, orig. gilt dec. cloth, some marks, folio, plus Meinertzhagen (Colonel R.), Pirates and Predators, The Piratical and Predatory Habits of Birds, 1st ed., 1959, (2 copies), col. and b&w plts., orig. cloth in d.j., some water damage, 4to Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (5)
934 Morris (Rev. F.O.). A History of British Birds, 6 vols., pub. Groombridge and Sons, 1863-66, 358 hand-col. plts., a.e.g., together with A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 1st ed., 3 vols., 1853-56, 225 col. litho plts., a.e.g., matching contemp. gilt dec. diced calf, with contrasting morocco labels to spines, rubbed and some wear to extrems., large 8vo Francis Orpen Morris was educated at Bromsgrove School in Worcestershire, where he first developed an interest in natural history, and in 1828 he went to a private tutor, Rev. J.M. Butt, Vicar of East Garston, near Lambourne, Berkshire. Afterwards he went up to Oxford, where he studied at Worcester College, graduating with a BA. On leaving Oxford he entered Holy Orders, and he became a prolific writer on various subjects. It has been said that ‘Morris was too voluminous to be accurate, and too didactic to be scientific’, but despite this his works, especially his ‘History of British Birds’ were hugely popular. (Mullens and Swann, A Bibliography of British Ornithology, 1986, pp.415/6). (9) £400-600
£100-150
194
935 Morris (F.O.). A History of British Moths, 4 vols., 5th ed., 1896, 132 hand-coloured lithographed plates, one or two tears, previous owner signatures, bookplates, original cloth gilt, some stains, 8vo, together with A History of British Butterflies, 8th ed., 1895, 79 handcoloured plates, some loosening, previous owner signature, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus 27 odd parts of A History of British Birds, 4th ed., 1895, vols. I-V only (of 6) of A History of British Birds, 4th ed., 1895 and another copy of A History of British Butterflies, 8th ed., 1895 (34)
£150-200
939 Partington (Peter). Drawn to the Forest, Text by Robert Burton, The Society of Wildlife Artists in the New Forest, 2000, colour illusts. throughout, orig. signed pen, ink and watercolour drawing of a lapwing by Peter Partington to front free endpaper, image approx. 13 x 18cm, orig. cloth in d.j., together with Jonsson (Lars), Birds and Light. The Art of Lars Jonsson, 1st ed., 2002, colour and b&w illusts. throughout, signed by Jonsson to half title, orig. cloth in d.j., plus five further Jonsson bird books (all but one signed) including two exhibition catalogues, one with a small ink sketch of a wader, all 4to 936 Morris (F.O.). A History of British Birds, 6 vols., 1st ed., 185157, 358 hand-coloured engraved plates, occasional spotting and browning, a.e.g., contemporary green half morocco by Birdsall, spines with raised bands and gilt decoration, a little rubbed and faded, 8vo (6)
(6)
940 Payne (Charles Johnson, “Snaffles”). More Bandobast, 1st ed., 1936, twelve tipped-in col. plts., numerous b & w illusts., some full-page/double-page, a little light foxing on endpapers, orig. linen in frayed and stained d.j. (with sl. loss), 4to, together with Armour (G.D., illust.), Pastime with Good Company, With an Introduction by Horace G. Hutchinson, 1st ed., [1914], fifty-five b & w tipped-in plts., with captioned tissue guards, generally toned, early ms. ownership name on front pastedown, rough-trimmed edges foxed, orig. qtr. cloth with pictorial label on upper cover, somewhat dusty and marked, corners showing, 4to, plus Somerville (E.OE.), Slipper’s A B C of Fox Hunting, 1st ed., 1903, full-page col. illusts. throughout, some finger-soiling, bookseller’s oval embossed stamp on front free endpaper, rear hinge splitting, orig. pictorial cloth, shaken, rubbed and marked, upper cover with corners bumped, folio, plus others, mostly field sports, incl. Cecil Aldin, Lionel Edwards, Edward Seago, etc.
£200-300
937 Morris (F.O.). A Natural History of British Moths, 4 vols., 1872, 132 hand-coloured lithographed plates, one or two minor tears and light toning, previous owner signature, original green cloth gilt, joints and edges lightly rubbed, 8vo (4)
£100-150
938 New Naturalist Series, vols. 1-33, 35, 38-39, 43-46, 48, 194566, together 41 vols., all 1st eds. apart from vols. 1, 3 & 44, colour and b & w illustrations, a few spots, previous owner signature, original cloth, d.j.s, some tears and losses, 8vo (41)
£100-150
(2 cartons)
£200-300
941 Poyser (T & A.D., pub., ). A collection of 64 ornithological titles, 1970’s-90’s, plus a few duplicates, colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth, d.j.s, 8vo
£300-400
Includes: Flight Identification of European Raptors, 1974; Ducks of Great Britain and Europe, 1975; Bird Observatories in Britain and Ireland, 1976; Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland, 1976; The Peregrine Falcon, 1980 and The Golden Eagle, 1997. (72) £400-600
195
942 Prevost (Florent, and Lemaire, C.L.). Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d’Europe, pub. Paris, [1864], eighty fine hand-col. plts. by Pauquet, two uncol. plts. at rear (incl. double-page plt. of tools), publisher’s catalogue at rear (dated 1870), occ. spotting, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, 8vo (1)
£300-500
943 Redi (Francesco). Experimenta circa generationem Insectorum Ad Nobilissimum Virum Carolum Dati, Amsterdam, 1671, additional eng. title (by De Hooghe), eng. vign. title, thirty-nine eng. plts. (including 10 folding), contemp. vellum with yapp fore-edges, soiled, 12mo (1)
£200-300
944 Savory (E.W., ed.). Sporting Pictures, with Descriptive Letterpress by B. Fletcher Robinson, Cassell, c.1902, col. frontis., twenty-five tipped-in col. plts., endpapers foxed, front free endpaper creased and with some sl. loss at edges, orig. pictorial blue cloth, somewhat soiled, extrems. sl. rubbed, folio
Lot 942
Scarce. (1)
£100-150
945 Shirihai (Hadoram). The Birds of Israel, 1st ed., pub. Academic Press, 1996, colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth, d.j., 4to, together with Birds in Brazil, by Helmut Sick, pub. Princeton University Press, 1993, colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth, d.j., plus A Falcon in the Field. A Treatise on the Training and Flying of Falcons, by J.G. Mavrogordato, 1966, illustrations, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, with others including The Original Water-Color Paintings by John James Audubon for the Birds of America, 2 vols., pub. American Heritage Publishing Co., 1966, The Greenshank, by Desmond Nethersole-Thompson, 1951 and A.G. Glenister’s The Birds of the Malay Peninsula, Singapore & Penang, 1959 reprint (17)
£150-200
946 Smith (Robert). The Universal Directory for Taking Alive and Destroying Rats, and all other kinds of four-footed and winged vermin, in a method hitherto unattempted: calculated for the use of the Gentleman, the Farmer, and the Warrener, 1st ed., printed for the Author, 1768, six eng. plts. by Thomas Bowen of Clerkenwell, four folding (one expertly strengthened on verso), contemp. ms. marginalia, contents generally soiled, M3 with lower blank corner torn away, modern qtr. sheep, leather spine label, 8vo With contemporary manuscript recipe on small slip loosely inserted. The interesting marginalia details further recipes for dispatching vermin. (1) £150-200
Lot 943
196
947 Smith (Thomas). The Life of a Fox, Written by Himself and Extracts from the Diary of a Huntsman, new ed., 1896, col. frontis., thirteen col. and b&w illusts. (complete as list), bookplate for ‘Fielden, Court of Hill’ to front pastedown, t.e.g., near-contemp. half crushed-morocco gilt, 4to, together with [Surtees, Robert Smith], Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour; “Plain or Ringlets?”; Mr. Romford’s Hounds; “Ask Mamma”; Handley Cross; “Hawbuck Grange”, 6 vols., n.d., c. 1890’s, num. col. illusts., t.e.g., bookplate for ‘Fielden, Court of Hill’ to front pastedown of each, all near-contemp. half crushedmorocco, gilt dec spines, 8vo (7)
£150-200
948 Somerville (E. Oe.). Slipper’s ABC of Fox Hunting, 1903, twenty full-page col. plts., complete (letters L & M, P & Q, R & S, T & U, and X, Y & Z combined in one illustration), orig. pict. cloth, rubbed and some wear, folio, together with Edwards (Lionel), Seen From the Saddle, 1937, b&w illusts. throughout, orig. green cloth gilt, some damp rippling to top of covers, 4to, plus Sketches in Stable and Kennel, 1933, col. frontis., eleven mounted col. plts., num. b&w illusts., occ. spotting, bookplate for ‘Fielden, Court of Hill’ to front pastedown, orig. printed cloth, 4to, plus twenty-seven other hunting related, incl. Wheel-Tracks, by E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross, 1923; They Meet at Eleven, by Frank Meads, 1956, etc. (30)
950 Stephenson (John & Churchill, James Morss). Medical Botany: Or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants of the London, Edinburgh and Dublin Pharmacopoeias; Comprising a Popular and Scientific Account of all those Poisonous Vegetables that are Indigenous to Great Britain, 4 vols., 1st ed., 1831, 184 handcoloured engraved plates only (of 185, lacking plate 47), plate 101 bound upside down, occasional light spotting or soiling, contemporary black half calf, spines with red labels and gilt decoration, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo
£150-200
949 Sporting Almanacks. The Oracle of Rural Life; An Almanack for Sportsmen, Farmers, Gardeners and Country Gentlemen, 6 vols. in one, 1839-44, additional engraved titles, 69 engraved plates, light waterstain, contemporary green half morocco, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with The Sportsman’s Dictionary; Or the Gentleman’s Companion for Town and Country, Dublin, 1786 (2)
Nissen 1891. (4)
£400-600
951 Tegetmeier (W.B.). The Poultry Book, new ed., 1873, colour frontispiece, additional title and 28 chromolithographed plates (complete), a few spots and surface abrasions, contemporary morocco-backed boards, spine rubbed and chipped, small split to upper joint, folio, with two others including a worn copy of Wright’s Book of Poultry, Revised by S.H. Lewer, c. 1912
£70-100
(3)
197
£100-150
952 Thornton (Robert John). A Family Herbal: or Familiar Account of the Medical Properties of British and Foreign Plants, Also their Uses in Dying, and the Various Arts, Arranged According to the Linnaean Systems..., 2nd ed., 1814, eng. frontis., num. hand-col. engs. to text, contemp. half-calf gilt, slight cracking to spine, thick 8vo, together with Edinburgh New Dispensatory, 5th ed., 1797, contemp. calf gilt, some wear to extrems., 8vo, plus Healde (Thomas), The New Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London..., 2nd ed., 1788, contemp. calf, joints cracked, some wear, 8vo (3)
957 Warner (Robert, Williams, Benjamin Samuel & Moore, Thomas). The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants, vols. I-III, 1882-84, 143 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates by John Nugent Fitch, including one double-page, first vol. with some minor marks to a few plates at centre of vol., orig. uniform pubs. dec. brown cloth gilt, a little rubbed and scuffed to extrems., a few marks to covers, 4to Nissen 2107. Ex libris W. T. Orde Powlett, with his signature to front pastedown of first two volumes, and title of third volume. (3) £1500-2000
£200-300
958 Warner (Richard). Plantae Woodfordienses. A Catalogue of the More Perfect Plants Growing Spontaneously about Woodford, in the County of Essex, 1st ed., London: Printed for the Author, 1771, [8], 222, [2]pp., eng. monogram device to title, includes ‘Additions to Warner’s Plantae Woodfordienses, [by Thomas Furly Forster], 1784’ at rear (comprising pages 241-255), errata leaf at rear and ‘Additions’ leaves loose, front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of James Comerford, crude hinge repair to front endpaper, contemp. speckled calf, lower joint cracked and wear, upper board & endpaper detached, spine lacks title label, spine & extrems. rubbed and slightly worn, 8vo in 4s
953 [Trade Catalogue]. Charles V. Mapes’ (B.M. Whitlock, Special Partner) Illustrated Catalogue (for 1861) of Plows, and other Agricultural Implements and Machines, for Sale at Mapes’ Agricultural and Seed Warehouse, 126 and 128 Nassau Street, and 11 Beekman St., New York, N.Y., pub. New York: M’Crea & Miller, 1861, 250 pp., engraved frontis. and four full-page wood engraved illusts. on stiff paper, numerous wood engraved illusts. to text, 12 pp. price list after title, a few leaves with light marginal staining, endpapers renewed, orig. sheep with gilt lettering to upper cover, rebacked, corners and board edges repaired, 8vo (1)
Henrey 1477. The “Index of the Latin names as given by Linnaeus, ” p.223238 was published later and is lacking in this copy. (1) £200-300
£100-150
954 Tull (Jethro). The Horse-Hoing Husbandry; Compleat in Four Parts: or, an Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation..., 2nd ed., printed for A. Millar, 1743, seven eng. plts. (six. folding), leaf A1 of supplement close-trimmed at foot slightly affecting last line of text, hinges cracked, contemp. calf gilt, worn at head & foot of spine, joints cracked and extrems. rubbed, folio (1)
£200-300
955 The Vermin Killer: being a Complete and Necessary FamilyBook: Shewing a ready Way to Destroy Adders, Badgers, Birds of all Sorts, Earwigs, Caterpillars... Worms in Houses and Gardens, Bugs, Lice, Fleas, &c. also, Several excellent Receipts for the Cure of many Disorders; amongst which are Dr. Mead’s, for the Bite of a Mad Dog; Mrs. Stephens’s for the Gout, &c. and Some useful Directions for Gardening and Husbandry; and likewise for Travellers, in Regard to the Management of a Horse on a Journey, &c. With many curious Secrets in Art and Nature, printed and sold by W. Owen, [1755?], 84pp., foxed and dust-soiled, A2 and A5 with repaired tears, modern marbled wrappers, 12mo in 6s Rare early edition. (1)
£200-300
956 The Vermin Killer; being a Complete and Necessary Family Book: Shewing a ready Way to Destroy Adders, Badgers, Bugs, Birds of all sorts, Caterpillars, Earwigs... Worms in Houses or Gardens, &c. &c. also, Some Valuable Physical Receipts for the Rheumatism, Palsy, Gout, Pleurisy... Piles, &c. to which are added, Many curious Secrets in Nature and Art. A New and Enlarged Edition, printed for John Thompson, c.1840s, pp.40, foxed and browned, orig. printed wrappers bound in, near contemp. sheepbacked stiff marbled wrappers, rubbed, large 12mo in 6s Rare edition. (1)
959 Wilson (Alexander and Bonaparte, Prince Charles Lucien). American Ornithology; Or, the Natural History of the Birds of the United States. The Illustrative Notes and Life of Wilson, by Sir William Jardine, 3 vols., [1832], port. frontis., 103 col. plts., t.e.g., occ. spotting, orig. qtr. morocco, gilt dec. spines, rubbed, 8vo
£80-120
(3)
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£200-300
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961 Wright (John). The Fruit Grower’s Guide, 6 orig. divs., pub. H. Virtue & Co., [1896-1901], 46 chromos (inc. 3 addn. chromo titles), b & w wood eng. illusts. to text, a couple of leaves loose, a.e.g., orig. publishers dec. cloth gilt, some dampstaining to covers, rubbed, 4to (6)
£200-300
960 Wolf (Joseph). Feathered Favourites. Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds, 1st ed., 1854, 12 chromolithographed plates, occasional light spotting, bookplate of W.H. Mullens (co-author with H. Kirke Swann of A Bibliography of British Ornithology, 1917), original red cloth gilt, chipped at spine ends, 4to Presentation copy, inscribed to title: “Signed for A.H. Palmer, J. Wolf”. A.H. Palmer was the son and biographer of his artist father Samuel Palmer (18051881). (1) £150-200
962 Wyatt (Claude Wilmot). British Birds: Being Coloured Illustrations of all the Species of Passerine Birds Resident in the British Isles, with some notes in reference to their plumage, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1894-99, fifty-seven fine coloured litho. plts., with occ. gum arabic highlights, some spotting to prelims. but plts. in clean condition, contemp. half calf gilt, rebacked with orig. spines relaid, heavily rubbed, 4to Nissen 1027; Zimmer p. 694. (2)
Lot 961
200
£1500-2000
GEOLOGY, NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE & MEDICINE
963 Accademia del Cimento. Saggi di Naturali Esperienze fatte nell’ Accademia del Cimento, Sotto la Protezione del Serenissimo Principe Leopoldo di Toscana, e descritte dal Segretario di essa Academia [ed. Lorenzo Magalotti], 1st ed., second issue, Florence: Giuseppe Cocchini, 1667, half title, title printed in red and black with engraved device, four-page dedication (light browning), large historiated woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 75 full-page engravings of experimental apparatus, lacks port. frontis. (as often), final blank present, some minor spotting and a few discreet archival tissue small closed tear repairs, recent good quality blind-stamped calf with large diamonds in two tones of dark brown, gilt-dec. spine with two contrasting leather labels, folio (342 x 233mm). A handsome and clean copy The Accademia del Cimento (active 1657 to 1667) was the first organized scientific academy. The Saggi was its only publication, the first issue of 1666 published without the dedication, and only part of the edition included the portrait of Duke Leopold. The Saggi contains the description of the first true thermometer, hygrometer, and an improved barometer. There also experiments concerning air, water, heat, sound and the pendulum. Norman 486 (large paper copy); Dibner, Heralds, 82. (1) £2000-3000
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964 Accademia del Cimento. Saggi di Naturali Esperienze fatte nell’ Accademia del Cimento, Sotto la Protezione del Serenissimo Principe Leopoldo di Toscana, [ed. Lorenzo Magalloti], 2nd ed., Florence: Gio. Filippo Cecchi, 1691, half title, title printed in red and black with engraved device, eng. port. frontis. of Grand Duke Cosimo III of Tuscany (often lacking), four-page dedication, large historiated woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 75 full-page engravings, final blank present, occ. light browning (somewhat heavier to lower margins of first few leaves) and a few spots, lengthy old Italian note to front free end paper, recent antique-style blindpanelled dark brown calf gilt, folio (362 x 240mm) (1)
966 Agricola (Georgius). De la generatione de la cose, che sotto la terra sono, e de le cause de’loro effetti e nature, lib. V. De la natura di quelle cose, che da la terra scorrono, lib. IIII. De la natura de le cose fossili, e che sotto la terra si cauano, lib. X. De le minere antiche e moderne, lib II. Il Bermanno, o De le cose metallice, dialogo, 1st Italian ed., Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1550, woodcut printer’s device to title and recto of final leaf, italic and roman types, 22 ten-line historiated woodcut initials, full-page woodcut diagram (S6v), d4 blank, minor spotting, edges speckled red, 19th-c. half calf gilt over marbled boards, a little rubbed, 8vo (150 x 100mm)
£1000-1500
Adams A339; Hoover 12. Uncommon. (1)
965 Adams (Joseph). Observations on Morbid Poisons, Chronic and Acute. The First Comprehending Syphilis, Yaws, Sivvens, Elephantiasis, and the Anomala Confounded with them. The Second the Acute Contagions, Particularly the Variolous & Vaccine..., Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, and Further Commentaries on the Doctrines of Mr. Hunter, 2nd ed., 1807, four col. printed stipple eng. plts. (with some scattered spotting), author’s presentation inscription to upper margin of title, “Presenté à Mons. Alard, par L’Auteur”, advertisement leaf at end of volume, front free endpapers with ink presentation stamp and ownership inscription of Edgar M. Crookshank, Senior Vice-President of the Royal Veterinary College, hinges repaired, late 19th/early 20th c. qtr. sheep with recent calf reback, 4to This is the second and best edition of the most important work by Joseph Adams, friend and biographer of John Hunter. The book is of some importance because it contains the first scientific mention of cowpox. Wellcome, II, p.14. (1) £150-250
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£1000-1500
967 Agricola (Georgius). De mensuris & ponderibus Romanorum atque Graecorum Lib. V - De externis mensuris & ponderibus Lib. II - Ad ea, quae Andreas Alciatus denuo disputavit de mensuris & ponderibus, brevis defensio Lib. I - De mensuris, quibus intervalla metimur Lib. I - De restituendis ponderibus atque mensuris Lib. I De precio metallorum & monetis Lib. III, Basel: Froben and Bischof, 1550, printer’s woodcut printer’s device to title and last leaf (errata) verso, woodcut initials, two full-p. diagrams, blank present (x6), title spotted, G.R. Nicolaus bookplate to front pastedown, a.e.g., modern crushed dark brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf with inner dentelles gilt and gilt-titled contrasting leather labels in two spine compartments, folio (302 x 197mm). A handsome and clean copy Adams A-344. Second and enlarged edition (first 1533), the last three works here published for the first time. (1) £1000-1500
968 Aldrovandi (Ulisse). Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum historia, Joannes Cornelius Uteruerius... colligere incaepit, Thomas Dempsterus... perfecte absolvit, Marcus Antonius Bernia denuo in lucem edidit, Bologna: G.B. Ferroni, 1642, eng. title, wood eng. illusts. to text, embossed lib. stamp to upper outer corner of initial two blanks and title, latter leaf with ink and pencil shelf-marks to verso, minor marginal damp-staining to first few leaves, modern tan antique-style full morocco with six raised bands and old leather spine label, cloth slipcase, folio (345 x 240mm) (1)
£1000-1500
Lot 967
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969 Aldrovandi (Ulisse). De animalibus insectis libri septem, Bologna: G.B. Ferroni, 1638 [1644], eng. allegorical title dated 1638, woodcuts to text, colophon dated 1644, embossed lib. stamp to upper outer corners of initial two blanks and title, the latter with ink and pencil shelf-marks to verso and with a few minor brown spots and chips to foremargin touching plate impression, scattered spotting, modern tan antique-style full morocco with six raised bands and old leather spine label, cloth slipcase, folio (350 x 240mm) (1)
ÂŁ1000-1500
970 Aldrovandi (Ulisse). De quadrupedis digitatis viviparis libri tres et de quadrupedis digitatis oviparis libri duo..., Bologna: Nicolo Tebaldini, 1645, eng. title, woodcut illusts. to text incl. some fullpage, woodcut initials throughout, embossed lib. stamp to upper outer corner of title with ink and pencil shelf-marks to verso, minor dust-soling at front and rear, tipped-in typed letter from the geologist Professor Henry Faul of the University of Pennsylvania dated 14 October 1969 at rear (checking provenance for all the Aldrovandi volumes here offered and with an appended reply from the bookseller Bernard M Rosenthal confirming their legal title), modern calf with six raised bands and leather label in cloth slipcase, folio (350 x 240mm) (1)
ÂŁ1000-1500
971 Aldrovandi (Ulisse). De quadrupedibus solidipedibus volumen integrum, Bologna: Nicolo Tebaldini, 1639, eng. title and colophon both dated 1639, woodcuts to text, woodcut initials, embossed lib. stamp to upper outer corner of initial two blanks and title with ink and pencil shelf-marks to verso of latter, occ. spotting, modern light tan antique-style calf with six raised bands and old leather spine label in cloth slipcase, folio (350 x 240mm) (1)
Lot 969
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ÂŁ1000-1500
Lot 971
205
Lot 972
972 Apianus (Petrus & Frisius, Reiner Gemma). Cosmographia, sive descriptio universi orbis, Antwerp: Arnold Coninx, 1584, large woodcut of globe to title, folding woodcut world map after R.G. Frisius, numerous astronomical and geographical woodcut illustrations and diagrams, lacks all four volvelles on pp. 20, 25 (lower revolving figure still present), 65 and 189 now supplied in modern photocopy facsimile, woodcut on on p. 22 with weighted string pointer, a little browning and some occ. marginal dampstaining, some scattered later pen and pencil marginalia in later hands, title (dustsoiled, contemp. ink inscriptions struck through) and following two leaves frayed at upper outer corner not affecting text, contemp. limp vellum, rubbed and soiled, 4to (228 x 155mm), preserved in a modern custom-made cloth chemise Adams A1286; Shirley, Mapping of the World 96. One of the most important geographical/astronomical texts of the Renaissance and an influential instrument book for navigators and travellers. The (often missing) world map is one of the earliest to show the new continent of America. (1) £2000-3000
973 Armstrong (John). The Morbid Anatomy of the Stomach, Bowels and Liver, illustrated by a series of plates from drawings after nature ... and a summary of the symptoms of the acute and chronic affections of the above-named organs, pub. Baldwin & Cradock, 1838, sixteen fine hand-coloured lithographs by W. Fairland after W. P. Cocks, each with tissueguard, occ. minor marks and marginal soiling, old oval ink stamp of Bath Medical Library to verso of title and final leaf, and bookplate of Bath United Hospital to front pastedown, orig. cloth, rubbed and soiled, and frayed to upper, outer corners, modern matching reback, large 4to This work was originally published in three parts by the same publishers in 1828, but was discontinued due to the author’s early death in 1829. (1) £150-200
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974 Astruc (Jean). Elements of Midwifry. Containing the most Modern and Succesful Method of Practice in every different kind of Labour. With a short History of the Art of Midwifry, and an Answer to a Casuistical Letter, on the Conduct of Adam and Eve, at the Birth of their first Child..., Translated, with Additions and explanatory Notes, by S. Ryley, 1766, lacks front free endpaper, manuscript genealogies to front pastedown, contemp. calf gilt, worn, 8vo (1)
£80-120
975 Baier (Johann Jacob). Oryktographia Norica, sive rerum fossilium et ad minerale regnum pertinentrum, in territorio Norimbergensi erusque eicinia observaturum succincta descriptio, 1st ed., Nuremberg, 1708, eng. frontis. and six folding eng. plts., minor hole to plt. 2, some spotting throughout, old light damp staining to lower margins, a few leaves including final four plts. with minor worm tracings to lower margins, eng. armorial bookplate of the geologist John Phillips FRS [1800-1874], St. Mary’s Lodge, York, to front pastedown with his name in an unidentified hand above, with a second printed bookplate on page facing, ‘S “The Benhams” near Wantage, Berks’ [possibly the shipping merchant and book collector Stephen William Silver, 1819-1905], contemp. blindstamped vellum, rubbed and soiled, 4to (203 x 166mm) Nissen ZBI189. ‘Baier’s Oryctographia norica (1708) was a new, systematic presentation based on his own studies. The work contributed much to disproving the idea that fossils were a mere sport of nature... he believed that the earth had been created in one act and that the Deluge was the only great change since the Creation. His exact foundation work, however, helps to prepare the ground for the next generation to determine historically the geological structure of mountains and transform oryctography into geology’ (DSB). Phillips refers to this work in his Manual of Geology (1855). A fine association item. (1) £2000-3000
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976 Baker (Thomas). The Geometrical Key: or the Gate of Equations Unlock’d: A New Discovery of the Construction of all Equations, Howsoever Affected, Not Exceeding the Fourth Degree; viz. of, Linears, Quadratics, Cubics, Biquadratics..., 1684, folding table and ten folding plts. (complete), a few with small tears, lacking half-title and preceding Latin title-page, small hole to G4, ink stamp to title and front pastedown, small piece missing from upper outer corner of front endpaper, contemp. calf gilt, upper cover neardetached, some wear to extrems., 4to (1)
£300-500
977 Balbinus (Bohuslaus Aloy). Miscellanea historica regni Bohemiae, quibus natura Bohemicae telluris, Decas I, liber I-VII bound in four, Prague, 1679-87, engraved plate to vol. I title verso, large folding eng. plt., five tables, some browning throughout, final leaf of vol. 1 archivally repaired without loss, some minor worming to inner margin of a few leaves of vol. 7 with archival repairs, old ink bookseller stamps to pastedowns, old blind-stamped vellum with manuscript titles to spines now somewhat faded, sl. rubbed and soiled, folio, contained in two modern cloth slipcases Without the final three volumes, Decadis I libri VII and Decadis II libri I-II. The first book concerns the biology of Bohemia including botany and fauna, as well as medicinal springs. (4) £300-500
978 Ball (John). A New Compendious Dispensatary: or, A Select Body of the Most Useful, Accurate, and Elegant Medicines, both officinal and extemporaneous, for the several disorders incident to the human body ..., printed for T. Cadell, 1769, xii + 310 pp., contemp. sheep, rubbed and joints cracked, with library bookplate to front pastedown, 12mo, together with Medicina Salernitana: id est, Conservandae Bonae Valetudinis Praecepta, ed. Johannem Curionem, nova editio melior, Montpellier, 1622, 32 pp. prelims., 478 pp. of text, library bookplate to front pastedown, contemp. calf, rubbed and some wear, 16mo, plus Green (Jonathan), A Practical Compendium of the Diseases of the Skin, 2nd ed., corrected and improved, 1837, two colour litho. plts. at front, with some marginal spotting, and spotting to final few leaves of text, inner hinges broken, contemp. cloth, crudely repaired to spine, two additional booklets bound in at rear, one describing the patent fumigating warm air, and vapour apparatus for baths, as introduced into this country early in 1822, by Jonathan Green, the other A Short Account of Fumigating, Hot Air and Vapour Baths, 1838, 8vo, and other 19th century medical interest, various
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£100-150
979 Barra (Pierre). L’Usage de la Glace, de la Neige et du Froid, Lyon, Antoine Cellier fils, 1675, 16 pp. prelims., 249 pp. of text and 22 pp. table of contents at rear, final blank present some light browning, contemp. calf, rubbed and scuffed, with library bookplate to front pastedown only, 12mo Krivatsky 721 for the first edition of 1617. One of the first treatises on modern hydrotherapy. (1) £150-200
980 Barry (Edward ). A Treatise on the Three Different Digestions, and Discharges of the Human Body, and the Diseases of the Principal Organs, 1st ed., 1759, contemp. half calf gilt over marbled boards, joints cracked, some rubbing and slight wear, together with Pott (Percival), A Treatise on Ruptures, 2nd revised ed., 1763, errata leaf at rear, L6 is a cancel, contemp. calf gilt, sl. cracked along upper joint, and a little wear to extrems., both 8vo Second volume: Garrison Morton 3576 (1st ed., 1756). (2)
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£200-300
984 Boerhaave (Hermann). Materia Medica: Or, A Series of Prescriptions adapted to the sections of his Practical Aphorisms concerning the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases, 1741, printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, 1741, woodcut device to title, woodcut headpieces etc., 3pp. pubs. list at end, old ownership signature to title, library bookplate to front pastedown only, contemp. reversed calf, upper cover near-detached, some wear, 8vo (1)
£150-200
985 Boerhaave (Hermann). Boerhaave’s Institutions in Physick... Being a Complete System of what is Necessary to be Known in the Study of Physick, Translated by J. Browne, 2nd ed., 1715, small wormtracks at gutter at front and end, a few spots, contemporary panelled calf, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with The Whole Works of that Excellent Practical Physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham, 2nd ed., 1697, E7 with repaired tear, some spotting, previous owner inscription, 18th c. panelled calf, old reback, 8vo, with two others: Charles Drelincourt’s Opuscula Medica, 1727 and William Wadd’s Mems. Maxims, and Memoirs, 1827 (4)
981 Barton (Richard). Lectures in Natural Philosophy, Designed to be a Foundation, for Reasoning Pertinently, upon the Petrifications, Gems, Crystals, and Sanative Quality of Lough Neagh in Ireland, and intended to be an introduction, to the Natural History of Several Counties contiguous to that Lake, particuarly the County of Ardmagh, 1st ed., Dublin, 1751, eng. frontis. and six engraved plates including three folding (one map), app subscribers, pubs. advert. to final leaf verso, a little spotting throughout, contemp. calf with gilt dec. spine, some wear, joints cracked, 4to (1)
986 Brocchi (Giovanni Battista). Trattato mineralogico e chimico sulle miniere di ferro del Dipartimento del Mella... , 2 vols., 1st eds., Brescia, 1808-07, folding table to vol. 1, occ. spotting, uncut, orig. wrappers with printed paper labels to spines, a little chipped and soiled, spines faded, 8vo (225 x 145mm)
£300-400
982 Becchetti (Filippo Angelico). Teoria generale della terra esposta all’accademia volsca di Velletri, Roma: Paolo Giunchi, 1782, eng. frontis., title within decorative border, eng. vingettes, initials and decorations, errata to final leaf verso, scattered light browning, edges stained red, contemp. half calf gilt over patterned boards, rubbed, tall 12mo A nice copy of a rare work. (1)
Very rare. This extensive work relates to the iron works of Mella in Val Trompia near Brescia. Besides containing an historical section it contains expositions of methods of excavation of minerals and their treatment, chemical analyses and finally a section on the geology of the region. Ward & Carozzi 317; Zittel pp. 95-6. (2) £300-400
987 Buckland (William). Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Bridgewater Treatises (Treatise VI), 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1837, half-titles, corrigenda leaf at rear of vol. 1, eightyseven plts. including one hand-col. multi-folding and nine folding or double-page uncol. plts., some spotting and occ. light browning, largely confined to plts. in vol. 2, ownership name stamp to front endpapers, contemp. calf gilt with gilt armorials to covers, sl. rubbed, neatly rebacked in matching calf gilt with contrasting red and green spine labels, 8vo
£150-200
983 Boerhaave (Hermann). Dr. Boerhaave’s Academical Lectures on the Theory of Physic. Being a Genuine Translation of his Institutes and Explanatory Comment..., 6 vols., mixed eds., 1743-66, contents browned & spotted, 20th c. boards, (vol. 2 bound in qtr. cloth), old leather title labels relaid, 8vo (6)
£150-200
£300-400
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£100-150
992 Clark (John Willis and Hughes, Thomas McKenny). The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, 2 vols., 1st ed., Cambridge University Press, 1890, b & w plts. and illusts., doublepage col. litho map, orig. cloth gilt, spines frayed at head & foot, 8vo, together with De La Beche (Sir Henry T.), The Geological Observer, 1st ed., 1851, wood eng. illusts. & diags., blind library stamp to title and ink satmp to verso, free endpapers renewed, bookplates to upper pastedown, orig. cloth, rebacked preserving orig. spine, corners repaired, 8vo (3)
£70-100
993 Conybeare (William Daniel & Phillips, William ). Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales... , Part I [all pub.], 1st ed., 1822, folding hand-col. map frontis. and multi-folding hand-col. plt. of sections at rear, folding eng. plt. of instruments with description leaf, folding table, a few diags. to text, some spotting, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed, 8vo (1)
994 Cossman (Alexandre Edouard Maurice). Catalogue Illustre des Coquilles Fossiles de l’Eocene des Environs de Paris, 5 vols. (including Appendices 1-5), Bruxelles, 1886-1913, numerous halftone plts., some marginal browning, contemp. linen-backed boards, rubbed and corners sl. bumped, 8vo
988 Buffon (Georges-Louis Le Clerc, Comte de). Barr’s Buffon. Buffon’s Natural History, Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals &c &c from the French, with Notes by the Translator [James Smith Barr], 10 vols., 1807-11, eighty-three eng. plts., 3 pp. ads. at rear of vol. 1, some spotting and occ. offsetting of plts. to text, ownership signature of W.T. Orde-Powlett dated 1874 to each title and his monogrammed armorial bookplate to pastedowns, contemp. half calf gilt over marbled boards with red leather spine labels, a little rubbed, 8vo An attractive set. (10)
£100-150
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£150-200
£200-300
989 Burnet (Thomas). Archaeologicae Philosophicae, or, the Ancient Doctrine concerning the Originals of Things, Written in Latin by Thomas Burnet, Faithfully Translated into English, with remarks thereon, two parts in one vol., 1729, together with Doctrina antiqua de reium originibus, or, an Inquiry into the Doctrine of the Philosophers of All Nations, concerning the original of the World, made English from the Latin original by Mr. Mead and Mr. Foxton, 1736, eng. vign. to title, peripherals a little dust soiled and with a little marginal worming, affecting some lettering and footnotes within signatures C-F of vol. 2, 19th-century presentation bookplates to front pastedowns and printed library rules to rear pastedown, contemp. uniform calf gilt bound as a matching pair, rubbed, some leather loss to upper cover of vol. 2, 8vo ESTC N2507 & T122356 respec. (2)
£100-150
990 Childrey (Joshua). Britannia Baconica: Or, the Natural Rarities of England, Scotland & Wales. According as they are to be found in every Shire..., 1st ed., printed for the author, 1661, lacks blank leaf A1, title with ink ownership inscriptions inc. Will Gossip 1755, several headlines shaved or cropped, light browning and spotting, 18th c. sheep, joints cracked and extrems. rubbed, 8vo Wing C3871. (1)
£200-300
991 Clark (John Willis and Hughes, Thomas McKenny). The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, 2 vols., 1st ed., Cambridge, 1890, portrait frontis. to each vol., two coloured maps (one double page), some spotting, autograph sentiment signed ‘A. Sedgwick’ loosely inserted, untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and sl. soiled, some restoration to spines, large 8vo (2)
995 [Croft, Herbert]. Some Animadversions upon a Book Intituled The Theory of the Earth, 1st ed., 1685, imprimatur leaf facing title, and errata leaf at rear, a little scattered dust soiling contemp. speckled calf, old calf reback and restoration of corners, rubbed, upper joint cracked, 8vo Wing C6979. (1)
£100-150
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£200-300
998 Darwin Family. Pedigree of the Family of Darwin, compiled by H. Farnham Burke, privately printed, 1888, Woodburytype port. frontis. of Charles Darwin (11.5 x 9cm), nine plates, facsimiles of signatures within the text, some spotting and light old water staining to upper margin, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled, 4to, (one of sixty copies), together with Litchfield (Henrietta, ed.), Emma Darwin, A Century of Family Letters, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1915, b&w plts., orig. cloth, rubbed, 8vo, plus Bacon (Francis), Of The Proficience and Advancement of Learning, ed. B. Montagu, pub. Pickering, n.d., c. 1860, dec. title in red and black, signed to front pastedown by E[mily] Catherine Darwin [1810-86, sister of Charles], Margaret S[usan] Wedgwood, dated June 1866 [1843-75, niece of Charles Darwin, married Arthur Charles Vaughan Williams in 1869], and initials of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958, composer and great-nephew of Charles Darwin), dated 1944, and Ursula Vaughan Williams (his second wife), dated 1958, some pencil notes and marginalia in one or other hand, orig. cloth with spine label, spine faded and sl. soiled, plus seven other contemp. small format poetry volumes with ownership signatures of E. Catherine Darwin and/or Margaret S. Wedgwood, plus three books signed by S.M.L. Wedgwood (1855), Susan Darwin (1829) and Francis Darwin (initialled copy of his book Springtime and Other Essays), mixed bindings and condition, plus three unsigned Darwin and Wedgwood books
996 Culpeper (Nicholas). The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines, made of English Herbs that were not in any Impression untill this, printed by Peter Cole, 1656, title, 16 pp. prelims., 398 pp. of text, and 16 pp. table of contents at end, occ. minor marks, minor traces of worming towards upper outer corner of the first 24 pages of main text (generally not affecting legibility), 19th c. polished calf, rubbed and some wear to spine, with covers det., 8vo Wing C7503. Culpeper’s English Physician, his most important work, first published in 1652, was immediately popular with over 15 folio editions published before 1700. (1) £150-200
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997 Cumberland (George). Reliquiae Conservatae, from the Primitive Materials of our Present Globe, with Popular Descriptions of the Prominent Characters of some remarkable Fossil Encrinites, and their Connecting Links..., 1st ed., Bristol: J.M. Gutch, 1826, thirteen litho plts. (inc. frontis.), occ. minor scattered spotting, modern qtr. cloth, 8vo (1)
£400-600
999 Darwin (Charles). The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 1st ed., 2nd issue, 1872, seven heliotype plts. (three folding) & twenty-one woodcuts to text (as list), misprint of to page p.208 ‘htat’, ink signatiure to upper margin of title, sewing weak resulting in a few leaves coming detached, hinges split and broken, adhesive residue to title, orig. green cloth gilt, lower joint split, slightly frayed at head & foot of spine, 8vo
£200-300
Freeman 1142. (1)
211
£200-300
1000 Darwin (Charles). The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (thirtyseventh thousand), 1889, 32 pp. pubs. cat. at rear, dated January 1889, some spotting towards rear, uncut and largely unopened, orig. dark green cloth gilt in bright condition, 8vo Freeman 426. (1)
Lot 1001 £150-200
1001 Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on Coral Reefs, Volcanic Islands, and on South America: being the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836, 1851, five folding maps (two partially coloured by hand), folding hand-coloured lithographed plate of section elevations, four folding engraved plates of fossil shelves, forty-four wood engraved and typographic illustrations, plans and diagrams in text, 16 pp. pubs. cat. dated September 1856 (bound at end), some spotting throughout, ink lib. stamp to title and plate versos, untrimmed and several leaves partly sprung with resultant fore-marginal rubbing, orig. purple cloth gilt, with pale yellow endpapers, ink shelf mark number to front pastedown repeated to title, inner hinges and spine ends repaired, rubbed, bumped and marked, spine faded with remains of old lib. no. at foot of spine, 8vo (220 x 140mm) Freeman 274. This omnibus edition of the geology of the Beagle comprises remainder sheets of the first editions of the three separate parts (Freeman Nos. 271-273), with the original title pages cancelled and a new general title added. Scarce. (1) £1500-2000
1002 Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, new edition, revised and augmented by the author, 1st American edition, 4th issue, New York, 1860, folding plate, 2 pp. ads. at rear, modern red ink underscoring to pp. 9-20, old ownership names and labels to front endpapers, including one raised and one contemp. ownership signature dated 27th November 1860 now indistinct, orig. grey-green pimpled cloth gilt, rubbed and dulled, a little restoration and stiffening to spine ends, 8vo in 12’s Freeman 380: With historical sketch called Pathes and a supplement of author’s editions and alterations, plus mispagination error (pp. 116*-121*). The text is considerably altered from the earlier issues of the same year. Uncommon. (1) £500-800
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1003 Darwin (Charles). Voyage d’un naturaliste autour du monde fait a bord du navire le Beagle de 1831 a 1836, trans ed. Barbier, 1st French ed., Paris, 1875, wood eng. illusts. to text, 20 pp. pubs. cat. dated July 1882 bound at rear, heavy spotting throughout, old ownership name and address stamp to half title and bookseller’s small ticket to title, partly uncut, orig. green cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, 8vo Freeman 181. (1)
£200-300
1007 Descartes (Rene). Opera philosophica, 3 parts in one vol., 5th ed., Amsterdam: D. Elzevier, 1672, eng. port. frontis. (often missing), numerous woodcut illusts. incl. some full-page, some spotting, soiling and old damp-staining incl. discoloration towards rear, blanks at front and rear somewhat soiled and damp-stained, modern vellum gilt, lettered on spine, 4to
1004 Daubeny (Charles). A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanoes, with Remarks on their Origin, their Chemical Phaenomena, and the Character of their Products... , 1st ed., 1826, two eng. maps incl. one folding, errata leaf at rear, occ. pencil marginalia, lacks frontis., title somewhat browned and with excision to upper margin not affecting text, some spotting throughout and occasionally heavy, sl. damp staining to upper margin of final leaves not touching text, untrimmed, recent rexine gilt, 8vo (1)
Willems 469. (1)
1008 Digby (Kenelm). Remedes Souverains et Secrets Experimentez, Avec plusieurs autres secrets & parfums curieux pour la conservation de la beauté des dames, Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1684, 4 pp. prelims., 299 pp. of text, and 27 pp. Table of Contents, front endpaper loose and somewhat soiled, contemp. calf with bookplate to front pastedown, rubbed and some wear to edges and extrems., 12mo
£100-150
1005 Daubeny (Charles). A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanoes, of Earthquakes, and of Thermal Springs... , 2nd ed., greatly enlarged, 1848, four eng. plts. and eleven maps (on seven leaves) incl. one folding, correct as listed, orig. cloth, joints split and a little wear to extremities, spine rubbed and marked, 8vo (1)
Kenelm Digby (1603-1655), the philosopher, chemist and friend of Descartes, married a famous beauty, Venetia Anastasia Stanley, and it is believed he wrote part of this treatise on cosmetics in the hope of prolonging his wife’s physical charms. (1) £150-200
£100-150
1006 Davidson (Thomas). British Fossil Brachiopoda, vols. 1, 2, 5 & 6, pub. The Palaeontographical Society, 1851-86, numerous litho plts., occ. spotting and browning, contemp. uniform calf, slightly rubbed & scuffed, 4to (3)
£300-400
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1009 Edwards (H. Milne & Haime, Jules). A Monograph of the British Fossil Corals, pub. Palaeontographical Society, 1850-54, halftitle, seventy-two litho plts., ink library stamp to title and verso of plts., some browning to text and plt. margins, t.e.g., contemp. half calf gilt, rebacked, extrems. slightly rubbed, 4to (1)
1012 Einstein (Albert). A group of thirteen offprints and two journal issues, 1921-50, including eleven offprints from Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, the earliest three being ‘Geometrie und Erfahrung’, 1921, ‘Zur Theorie der Lichtfortpflanzung in dispergierenden Medien’, 1922, and ‘Zur allgemeinen Relativitatsttheorie’, 1923, plus eight others, orig. printed pale orange wrappers, plus Einstein offprints from Physical Review, 1931, and Scientific American, 1950, plus whole issues of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America and Nature, plus a modern photo of a signed portrait of Einstein, originally dated 1934
£150-200
1010 Edwards (John). A Demonstration of the Existence and Providence of God, from the Contemplation of the Visible Structure of the Greater and the Lesser World, in two parts ..., 1st ed., 1696, part 2 separately paginated with pubs. ads. to final page, title sl. dust soiled with small repair (only affecting double rules) at upper margin, the following dedication leaf with an unrepaired small hole sl. affecting lettering of the word ‘The’ to heading verso, small marginal tear with loss not affecting text to one leaf of contents, contemp. blind-panelled speckled calf gilt, a little rubbed and minor splitting to upper joint, 8vo Wing E201. (1)
Weil 114, 120, 131, *132, 137A, 156, 161, 169, 170, *178, 179, 180, 182*, 184, and 226. (16) £400-600
1013 Euclid. Euclidis Elementorum Libri XV..., ed. Isaac Barrow, separate title to second part (Euclidis Data), bound with Barrow (Isaac), Lectio... Isaaci Barrow... in qua theoremata Archimedis de sphaera & cylindro..., both pub. J. Redmayne, 1678, woodcut printer’s device to all three titles, diagrams to text, closely trimmed at upper margin, some spotting, second separately paginated work (2, 22pp) browned, recent antique-style calf gilt, 12mo
£150-200
1011 Edwards (Frederic E. and Wood, Searles V.). A Monograph of the Eocene Cephalopoda and Univalves of England, vol. 1, Parts 1-4 [all published], Palaeontographical Society, 1849-77, bound with A Monograph of the Eocene Bivalves of England, by Searles V. Wood, vol. 1, parts 1-3 and Supplement [all published], Palaeontographical Society, 1861-71, eng. plts., some minor scattered spotting, recent half calf gilt, spine with raised bands and contrasting labels, a little rubbed, 4to (1)
Wing E3394 & B396. (1)
£150-200
1014 Faraday (Michael). Chemical Manipulation, Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry, on the Methods of Performing Experiments of Demonstration or of Research, with Accuracy and Success, 1st ed., 1827, contemp. half calf over marbled boards, upper joint weak, lower board detached with some resultant pulling to inner margins of final two leaves of index, rubbed and some corner wear, 8vo
£100-150
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1015 Geological Society of London. Transactions, 12 vols. bound in thirteen, 1811-56, a complete run of both series with vol. 5 second series bound as two, a total of 477 maps and plates including some hand-coloured, double page or folding, largely bound with separate titles at the rear of each vol., occ. spotting and scattered light browning, pencil ownership signature of Challinor to front free endpaper of first and last volumes only, (presumably the Geology Academic and Author John Challinor), modern brown cloth gilt, a few vols. sl. damp marked on fore-edges, not affecting text, 4to A rare complete set of the Transactions, featuring almost 350 papers by Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, William Buckland, Adam Sedgwick, Henry de la Beche, Gideon Mantell, James Parkinson, William Phillips, Roderick Murchison, William Conybeare, John MacCulloch and others. (13) ÂŁ4000-6000
1016 Memoirs of the Geological Survey. The Geology of the Isle of Wight by Henry William Bristow, 2nd ed., revised and enlarged, by Clement Reid and Aubrey Strahan, 1889; The Geology of London and of Part of the Thames Valley, by W. Whitaker, 2 vols., 1889; The Pliocene Deposits of Britain, by Clement Reid, 1890; The Jurassic Rocks of Britain, vol. 1, Yorkshire, by C. Fox-Strangways, 1892; The Jurassic Rocks of Britain, vol. 3, The Lias of England and Wales (Yorkshire Excepted) by Horace B. Woodward, 1893; The Jurassic Rocks of Britain, vol. 4, The Lower Oolitic Rocks of England (Yorkshire Excepted) by Horace B. Woodward, 1894; The Jurassic Rocks of Britain, vol. 5, The Middle and Upper Oolitic Rocks of England (Yorkshire Excepted) by Horace B. Woodward, 1895; The Geology of the Isle of Purbeck and Weymouth, by Aubrey Strahan, 1898; The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain, vol. 1, The Gault and Upper Greensand of England, by A.J. Jukes-Browne, Contributions by William Hill, 1900; The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain, vol. 2, The Lower and Middle Chalk of England, by A.J. Jukes-Browne, with Contributions by William Hill, 1903, The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain, vol. 3, The Upper Chalk of England, by A.J. Jukes-Browne, with Contributions by William Hill, 1904, together 12 vols., maps and other illusts. (one map repaired with sellotape), all orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, a little rubbed and minor wear to extremities (Pliocene Deposits of Britain torn on spine), 8vo (12)
1021 Howard (Philip). The Scriptural History of the Earth and of Mankind, compared with the Cosmogonies, Chronoglies, and original Traditions of Ancient Nations, an Abstract and Review of Several Modern Systems, with an Attempt to Explain Philosophically, the Mosaical Account of the Creation and Deluge, and to deduce from this last event the causes of the actual structure of the earth, in a series of letters, with notes and illustrations, 1st ed., 1797, errata leaf at rear, lacks half-title [A4], some spotting, several faint marginal embossed library stamps, some spotting and occ. soiling, title fore margin sl. soiled and frayed, uncut, modern half calf gilt over marbled boards, 4to (1)
£300-400
£300-400
1017 Gibson (Thomas). The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized. Wherein all the Parts of Man’s Body, with their Actions and Uses, are Succinctly Described, According to the Newest Doctrine of the most Accurate and Learned Modern Anatomists, 4th ed., 1694, imprimatur leaf present, eighteen eng. plts., ink staining to title and following leaf, few leaves loose, minor worming mostly to fore-edge margins of occasional leaves, some spotting and minor dampstaining, contemp. calf, joints and spine cracked, some wear, 8vo (1)
£200-300
1018 Greenly (Edward). Memoirs of the Geological Survey. The Geology of Anglesey, 23 vols., 1919, numerous b & w plts. and diags., folding maps & plans at rear of vol. 2, initial leaves in vol. 2 detached, orig. cloth gilt, vol. 2 boards detached, frayed and some wear, 8vo (2)
£70-100
1019 Hamilton (William). ‘An Account of the Earthquakes which Happened in Italy, from February to May 1783, in a Letter to Sir Joseph Banks’, [and] ‘Account of the Earthquake which Happened in Calabria, March 28th, 1783... ‘, extract from Philosophical Transactions of London, [1783], pp. 169-216, some spotting and soiling, modern quarter calf, spine faded, slim 4to (1)
£100-150
1020 Herschel (John F. W., ed.). A Manual of Scientific Enquiry, 1st ed., 1849, three engraved plates including one double-page and one folding, second state with twenty-page cancel (pp. 171-190), some spotting, small ink lib. stamp to title, closed marginal split to pp. 165/166, pubs. ads. to endpapers, orig. blue cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, spine faded with two small nicks at head, 8vo in 12s
1022 Hutton (James). Dissertation upon the Philosophy of Light, Heat, and Fire, in seven parts, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1794, lacks half title, final blank present, some spotting, ownership inscription at head and foot of title, ‘John F[rancis] Plaine - Lasswade near Edinburgh, 23 Aug: 1848’, and ‘Presented to me in 1829 by the late Mrs Hutton of Flimby, Cumberland, my wife’s [Margaret Smeeton Hutton] mother’ and with the later presentation inscription from Mrs Plaine to James Hamilton dated 1858 to facing endpaper, contemp. tree calf gilt, rubbed, 8vo
This collection of scientific articles on subjects relating to naval training contains a section on “Geology” by Charles Darwin. The rare first state contains text transpositions on pp. 178, 180 and 190, many copies being issued with the revised sheets in a pocket in the bottom board. Freeman 326; Norman 1057. (1) £400-600
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1023 [Hutton, James]. Abstract of a Dissertation Read in the Royal Society of Edinburgh, upon the Seventh of March, and Fourth of April, M, DCC, LXXXV, concerning the System of the Earth, its Duration, and Stability, n.p., [1785], pp. [1]30 plus final blank, title a little spotted with author’s signed presentation inscription at foot, ‘Matthew Bo[u]lton Esqr from James Hutton’, modern richly gilt-dec. tan calf with cockerell endpapers and red leather title label to spine, slim 8vo in 4’s (196 x 126mm), together with a loosely inserted photocopy of a letter concerning this copy, written by V[ictor] Eyles to previous owner Professor [Henry] Faul, confirming the holograph of Hutton with in the book, the identity of Matthew Boulton [1728-1809, engineer and partner of James Watt], and the exceptional rarity of the pamphlet “10 or at most 12”, plus a stapled photocopy specimen of Hutton’s handwriting, both 1 page, 4to ‘Hutton's theory... was first made public at two meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, early in 1785. The society published it in full in 1788 [in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh], but offprints of this paper were in circulation in 1787, and possibly in 1786' (DSB). D. R. Dean states that the offprint was published at some time after January 1786, and cites 'a small number of copies dated 1786', of which only one is presently known, as well as a few dated 1788 ('James Hutton and the History of Geology', p. 25). Hutton's theory, however, 'first appeared in print in a condensed form, in a thirty-page pamphlet entitled Abstract of a Dissertation... Concerning the System of the Earth... which Hutton circulated privately in 1785' (DSB). 'The purpose of this Dissertation is to form some estimate with regard to the time the globe of this earth has existed as a world maintaining plants and animals, to reason with regard to the changes which the earth has undergone, and to see how far an end or termination to this sytem of things may be perceived, from the consideration of that which has already come to pass. As it is not in human record, but in natural history that we are to look for the means of ascertaining what has already been, it is here proposed to examine the appearances of the earth, in order to be informed of operations which have been transacted in time past. It is thus that, from principles of natural philosophy, we may arrive at some knowledge of order and sytem in the oeconomy of this globe, and may form a rational opinion with regard to the course of nature, or to events which are in time to happen' (pp. 3-4). Exceedingly rare (ESTC notes three UK and three USA locations only) and a fine association copy. Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) was a manufacturer and entrepreneur who later formed a business partnership with James Watt to exploit Watt's patent for a steam engine with a separate condenser. Both Boulton and Watt, along with James Hutton, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood and Joseph Priestley were key members of the Birmingham Lunar Society, which met regularly from around 1765 until 1813. It was through the scientist and chemist Joseph Black that James Hutton and James Watt became close friends. Hutton accompanied Watt on his move from Glasgow to Birmingham to begin his partnership with Matthew Boulton in 1774, and that is perhaps when they first met. Besides the presentation of this copy of the Abstract, it is known that Hutton also gave Boulton a copy of the offprint of his 'Theory of the Earth'. On 25 August 1787, Josiah Wedgwood wrote James Watt a letter informing him that Josiah Wedgwood, Junior, would soon send "two books to Mr Watt's address, one for himself and the other for Mr [Matthew] Boulton; they are 'Theory of the Earth', which he has brought with him from Scotland from Doctor Hutton". In 1950 V. A. Eyles located just three copies of this 1787 offprint. (1) £10000-15000 219
1025 Huygens (Christian). Opuscula postuma, quae continent dioptricam. Commentarios de vitris figurandis, Dissertationem de corona & parheliis, Tractatum de motu, de vi centrifuga, Descriptionem automati planetarii, Leiden: Cornelius Boutesteyn, 1703, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, twenty-four folding eng. plts., woodcut initials and diagrams to text, some minor spotting, a little marginal browning and dust-soiling at front and rear, two small 19th-c. ink ownership signatures to title, two small ex libris book labels to front pastedown (E.N. da C. Andrade [English physicist, 1887-1971] and Henry & Carol Faul), modern antique-style calf gilt, 4to
1024 Hutton (James). Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe, [extract from] Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. 1 Part II, [Edinburgh, 1788], halftitle (browned), [209]-304 pp., two eng. plts. and plate explanation leaf bound at rear, plates offset (to final leaf of text and plate verso), a few modern pencil marginalia, modern blue half calf over cloth with cockerell endpapers and contrasting gilt-titled red leater label to spine, 4to (272 x 211mm)
The ‘De vi centrifuga’ gives the derivations of the propositions enunciated in the ‘Horologium’. (1) £500-700
Dibner, Heralds, 93; Norman 1130 (offprint). Hutton's famous paper was expanded into a three-volume work, Theory of the Earth (1795), published shortly before his death. His point of view is expressed in the paper's famous concluding sentence: "The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning, - no prospect of an end." (1) £700-1000
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1026 Huygens (Christian). Horologium oscillatorium sive de motu pendulorum ad horologia aptato demonstrationes geometricae. Paris: F. Muguet, 1673, woodcut device to title, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut diagrams to text incl. one full-page of the pendulum on p. 4, errata to final leaf verso, scattered later ink (and some pencil) marginalia, two old brown stains to centre of text and lower margin of final eleven leaves, worsening towards end, modern antique-style blind-panelled calf gilt with old endpapers preserved, folio (311 x 204mm) First edition of Huygens’s treatise on the dynamics of bodies in motion, and his most influential work. He analyses the mathematics of the motion of a pendulum, on which he based his invention of the pendulum clock. The Horologium “was the most original work of this kind since Galileo’s Discorsi ... It ends with 13 theorems (without proofs) on the dynamics of circular motion. Newton in the Principia acknowledges Huygens’s priority here, though Huygens’s work had little influence on his own” (PMM). His treatise was “a work of the highest genius which has influenced every science through its mastery of the principles of dynamics. It is second in scientific importance perhaps only to the Principia” (Charles Singer, A Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century, 1941, p. 258). PMM 154; Norman 1137; Dibner, Heralds, 145. (1) £10000-15000
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1027 Jameson (Robert). A Mineralogical Description of the County of Dumfries, Edinburgh: printed at the University Press, 1805, halftitle, folding eng. map frontis., four eng. plts. at rear, publishers ad. leaf at rear, some dampstaining, edges untrimmed, modern. dark green qtr. morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 8vo (1)
1030 Kelly (Howard A. & Burrage, Walter L.). Dictionary of American Medical Bibliography ..., New York & London, 1928, hinges near broken, orig. cloth, rubbed, together with Osler (William), Bibliotheca Osleriana ..., revised ed., McGill University, 1987, orig. cloth, plus Roberts (Verne L. & Trent, Ivy), Bibliotheca Mechanica, New York, 1991, port. frontis. and b&w illusts. to text, orig. cloth backed boards with minor damp stain to foot of spine, all 4to, plus other science and medical bibliography and reference including five Martino reprints
£200-300
1028 Jukes-Browne (A. J.). The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain, 3 vols., 1st eds., 1900-03-04, three folding coloured maps (one torn without loss), eight b&w plts., large library stamp to titles and endpapers, light browning to part of map frontis. and title fore-edge in vol. 1, orig. cloth gilt, vol. 2 sl. frayed at head of spine and several small nicks to upper joint of vol. 3, large 8vo (3)
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£100-150
1031 Klobius (Justus Fidus). Ambrae historiam ad omnipotentis Dei gloriam, et hominum sanitatem exhibet, 1st ed., Wittenberg: Matthaeus Henckel for heirs of Tobias Mevius & Elerdus Schumacher, 1666, [8], 76 pages, folding eng. map and three eng. plts. (two folding), some spotting, a few old ink annotations, ink and coloured pencil lib. marks to title and upper margin of dedication, modern vellum with ink title to spine, sm. 4to (185 x 140mm) A tract on the characteristics and medicinal uses of amber, which Klobius believed to originate either as the dung of a bird native to Madagascar or as whale excreta. Duveen, p. 325; Sinkankas 3466. (1) £300-500
1032 Lamarck (Jean Baptiste de). Hydrogologie ou recherches sur l’influence qu’ont les eaux sur la surface du globe terrestre..., enfin sur les changemens que les corps vivans exercent sur la nature et l’etat de cette surface, 1st ed., Paris: the author, Agasse, and Maillard, an X [1802], speckled edges, later qtr. vellum over greenstained boards, 8vo (196 x 120mm). A very clean copy ‘A bibliographic rarity essentially unknown to modern geologists and historians of science ... A critical study of Hydrogologie reveals the modern character of so many of Lamarck’s fundamental concepts that his scientific rehabilitation as a geologist seems imperative for a correct understanding of the history of geology’ (Carozzi, pp. v-vi). Ward and Carozzi 1312; Norman 1263. (1) £700-1000
1029 Keill (John). An Examination of Dr. Burnet’s Theory of the Earth, Together with Some Remarks on Mr. Whiston’s New Theory of the Earth, 1st ed., Oxford, 1698, eng. vign. to title (sl. soiled), heavy browning and some spotting, affecting all but prelims. and final thirty pages, contemp. blind-panelled calf, sl. rubbed, 8vo Wing K132. (1)
£300-500
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1034 Lovell (Robert). Panzoryktologia [Greek text], sive Panzoologicomineralogia, or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, 2 pts in one vol., 1st ed., Oxford, 1661, both titles within typographical borders, parts separately paginated with blank leaf between, pp. 112*-113* bound in to second part with conjugate leaf giving binder’s directions printed longitudinally to recto, a little spotting and browning, a few leaves det., contemp. calf, rebacked, upper cover det. and sl. frayed at foot of spine, 8vo Wing L3246 & L3245. (1)
1033 Le Clerc (Daniel & Manget, Jean Jacques). Bibliotheca Anatomica sive recens in anatomia inventorum thesaurus locupletissimus; in quo integra atque absolutissima totius corporis humani descriptio, ejusdemque oeconomia e praestantissimorum, quorumque anatomicorum tractatibus singularibus, tum hactenus in lucem editis, tum etiam ineditis ..., Editio Secunda, novis tractatibus, notis ac observationibus, tertiae ad minimam parte, priore auctior, 2 vols., Geneva, Jean Antoine Chouet & David Ritter, 1699, title to each vol. printed in red and black with eng. vign., lacks the additional eng. title to first vol., 123 eng. plts. including some folding, occasional woodcut illusts. to text, occ. very light browning (contents generally in very good condition), contemp. tabulation markers to fore-edges of both vols., each title inscribed in ink Monasterii Weingarten and dated 1709, and with small circular inkstamp to lower outer corner, contemp. blind-decorated vellum over wooden boards, with brass clasps (second vol. with clasp missing), rubbed and some light soiling, thick folio
£300-500
1035 Lowell (Percival). Mars as the Abode of Life, 1st ed., pub. Macmillan, New York, 1908, colour and b & w illustrations, t.e.g., original red cloth, minor fading to spine, 8vo A bright copy. (1)
£100-150
1036 Lowthorp (John, ed.). The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the End of the Year 1700. Abridg’d and Dispos’d Under General Heads. In Three Volumes, vol. 1 (Mathematical Papers) only, 3rd. ed., 1722, 620pp., six folding engraved plates, folding map (torn), occasional light toning, previous owner signature, contemporary panelled calf, spine ends chipped, rubbed, 4to (1)
Waller 5663. NLM/Krivatsky 6760. Keynes, Harvey, 45. ‘An extraordinary storehouse of 17th century anatomical works’ (Russell, British Anatomy 524), first published in 1685, but here in its significantly enlarged and revised second edition. This handsomely-produced compendium includes works by Harvey, Willis, Malpighi, Swammerdam and Bartholin amongst many others. Ex libris Weingarten Abbey, a Benedictine Monastery near Ravensburg in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. (2) £1000-1500
£100-150
1037 Luc (Jean Andre de). Recherches sur les modifications de l’atmosphere... , 4 vols., new ed., Paris, 1784, six folding eng. plts. and one folding table, scattered spotting, old ex-libris ink inscription of Chamblant to each title, small modern bookplate of Henry & Carol Faul to front free endpaper of vol. 1, contemp. marbled boards with later linen rebacks, sl. rubbed and soiled and a little split along joints, 8vo (4)
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Lot 1039 1038 Lyell (Charles). On the Structure of Lavas which have Consolidated on Steep Slopes; with Remarks on the Mode of Origin of Mount Etna, and on the Theory of “Craters of Elevation”,Received June 10, Read June 10 1858, offprint, [1858], 56 pp., three uncol. litho. plts. and a few illusts. to text, a little spotting and some soiling to first and last leaf, light damp stain to inner margin of plts., closed tear repair to final leaf (index), light vertical fold, contemp. half calf over marbled boards, rubbed, slim 4to Originally published in the ‘Philosophical Transactions’, vol. 148 - Part II in which Lyell concluded ‘that the conical form of Etna, as of all volcanoes, was entirely the result of the long-continued process of volcanic eruption’ (DSB). (1) £150-200
1039 Lyell (Charles). Principles of Geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth’s surface, by reference to causes and now in operation, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1830-32-33, three frontispieces (two hand-coloured), four maps (two hand-coloured, two folding), four litho plates of fossil shells and 135 wood-engraved illusts. in text, b&w illusts. to text, appendix, glossary and 3 pp. pubs. ads. at rear of vol. 3, scattered spotting and some browning to several plates, old ownership inscriptions, business cards (G.W. Himus, F.G.S.) and armorial bookplates of George Fortescue Wilbraham [of Delamere, Cheshire, 1815-1885] to endpapers and pastedowns, contemp. half calf gilt over marbled boards with leather labels to spines, heavily rubbed, short splits to joints, a little wear to spine ends and corners, 8vo (215 x 135mm) Dibner 96; Horblit 70; Norman 1398. Charles Lyell popularised the doctrine of uniformitarianism, first suggested by James Hutton, which presumes that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now, have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe. The central argument in Principles, and one that had a notable influence on young Charles Darwin, was that 'the present is the key to the past' and that geological remains from a distant past can be explained by reference to observable geological processes now in operation. (3) £2000-3000
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1040 Macculloch (John). A Geological Classification of Rocks, with Descriptive Synopses of the Species and Varieties, Comprising the Elements of Practical Geology, 1st ed., 1821, near-contemp. small oval ink lib. stamp to title and pencil signature to front pastedown of James Edmondston, FGS, uncut, orig. boards, some soiling and wear, rebacked with remains of orig. printed label retained, 8vo (1)
£200-300
1042 Martin (William). Petrificata Derbiensia; or, Figures and Descriptions of Petrifactions Collected in Derbyshire, vol. 1 (all published), Wigan: printed by D. Lyon, 1809, half-title present, fiftyfour hand-coloured engraved plates, occasional light offsetting, contemporary half calf with vellum covered board corners, gilt dec. spine, joints cracked and weak, extrems. rubbed, 4to Nissen 2715. (1)
1043 Marwick (J.). The Tertiary Mollusca of the Gisborne District, pub. New Zealand Geological Survey, Wellington, 1931, seventeen b & w plts., folding map, orig. printed wrappers, a little soiled, slim 4to, together with Cox (L.R.), Neogene Mollusca from the Dent Peninsula, British North Borneo, pub. Basle, 1948, six b & w plts., orig. printed wrappers, slim folio, with other geological pamphlets and similar, including British regional geology booklets, etc.
1041 Mantell (Gideon). The Geology of the South-East of England, 1st ed., 1833, litho frontis., wood eng. vignette title, hand-col. eng. plan, five litho plts. (one folding), wood eng. illusts. & diags. to text, armorial bookplate of Charles Scrase Dickins to upper pastedown, contemp. half calf gilt, morocco title label to spine, upper board very slightly cracked at head, 8vo (1)
£400-600
(3 cartons)
£100-150
1044 Miller (Hugh). The Old Red Sandstone; or New Walks in an Old Field, 1st ed., Edinburgh: John Johnstone, 1841, folding handcol. litho sectional diagram frontis., nine eng. plts., some spotting and dampstaining, 20th c. half calf, slightly rubbed, 8vo
£250-300
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1045 Miln (Robert). A Course of Physico-Theological Lectures upon the State of the World, from the Creation to the Deluge, 1st ed., Carlisle, 1786, 16 pp. subscriber’s list, old ownership signature of Elizabeth Blackett to front pastedown, contemp. half calf over marbled boards, rubbed, upper cover near det., 8vo (1)
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1048 Moretus (Theodorus). Tractatus physico-mathematicus de aestu maris, 1st ed., Antwerp: J. Meursius, 1665, woodcut device to title (later ink ownership signatures), woodcut illusts. to text incl. two projections showing America, errata leaf at rear, ink lib. stamp to title verso and p. 10 margin, bound (before errata leaf) with Propositiones mathematicae ex Geographia de aestu moris..., Vratislav [Wroclaw, Poland]: Typis Baumannianis exprimebat Johannes Christophorus Jacob, [1665], woodcut world projection to title, [12]pp, uniform browning, sm. ex libris bookplate of Henry and Carol Faul to front pastedown, old limp vellum with manuscript in brown and red ink fully covering outer covers and rear pastedown, spine and hinges sympathetically restored, 4to (225 x 168mm), housed in a modern custom-made gilt-dec. cloth slipcase
1046 Milne-Edwards (Henry & Haine, Jules). A Monograph of the British Fossils Corals, First-Fifth Parts bound as one, London Palaeontographical Society, 1850-54, seventy-two litho. plts., general and first part title browned, occ. spotting and some offsetting of plates to text, contemp. half calf gilt over marbled boards with red leather labels to spine, one title ‘Cornwall Geological Society’ and spine numbered 8, somewhat rubbed and scuffed, 4to (1)
£150-200
1047 Moivre (Abraham de). The Doctrine of Chances: Or, a Method of Calculating the Probability of Events in Play, 1st ed., 1718, vignette title provided in facsimile, contemp. calf, some cracking to joints, rubbed and scuffed, 4to De Moivre’s first book, based on “De Mensura Sortis” published in the Philosophical Transactions, 1711. Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754) was a French mathematician and Huguenot exile, arriving in England after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1697 and a friend of Isaac Newton, to whom this book is dedicated. This work on probablilty theory, in which he developed a series of algebraic and analytic tools for the solution of the problem of coincidences, the method of generating functions, solving differential equations etc. was essentially a gambler’s handbook, giving “the solution of problems concerning the advantage of players and the size of wager which may be lain in a wide variety of games of chance” (Walker). De Moivre even predicted the day of his own death, after noting he was sleeping 15 minutes longer each day, the day he would sleep for 24 hours being the day he died he calculated as being 27 November 1754, the day he did indeed pass away. Norman 1529. (1) £300-500
Two rare and early works on the theory of the tides. WorldCat suggests only two copies (and the date) of the second work, also by Moretus, held at Jena and Hamburg. (1) £500-800
1049 Moxon (Joseph). Mathematicks made Easie: or, a Mathematical Dictionary, Explaining the Terms of Art, and Difficult Phrases used in Arithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy, Astrology, and other Mathematical Sciences..., 2nd ed., 1692, eng. port. frontis., few woodcut illusts., four eng. plts. at rear (inc. one folding), few ink marks to frontis. and partly adhered to upper pastedown, closedtear to title and following leaf A2 (partly adhered together to upper inner corner), contemp. sheep, upper board detached, spine and extrems. worn, 8vo (1)
£150-200
1050 Murchison (Roderick Impey). Siluria. The History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic remains, with a Brief Sketch of the Distribution of Gold over the Earth, 1st ed., 1854, folding hand-col. eng. map frontis., folding litho map, thirty-seven litho plts. (inc. three folding), wood eng. illusts. and diags. to text, pubs. ads. at rear, hinges broken, orig. cloth, joints partly split mostly at head & foot, torn at head and frayed at foot, 8vo (1)
£100-150
1051 Murray (John). A Comparative View of the Huttonian and Neptunian Systems of Geology: in Answer to the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth, by Professor Playfair, pub. Edinburgh & London, 1802, two ink library stamps to title, early manuscript ownership to upper margin of p.27, occ. scattered spotting, 20th c. qtr. sheep, 8vo (1)
£200-300
1052 Napier (Mark). Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, his Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms, 1834, thirteen engraved plates and facsimiles, illustrations, one plate with marginal waterstain, a few spots, previous owner inscription, contemporary cloth with original chipped label to spine, 4to, together with Keill (John), An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Or, Philosophical Lectures Read in the University of Oxford, Anno Dom. 1700. To Which sre Added, the Demonstrations of Monsieur Huygens’s Theorems, Concerning the Centrifugal Force and Circular Motion, 2nd ed., 1726, woodcut headpieces and initials, diagramatic illustrations, light dampstain and spotting, 19th c. calf with blind border roll, rebacked, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Modern Mechanism. Exhibiting the Latest Progress in Machines, Motors and the Transmission of Power, edited by Park Benjamin, 1892, numerous b & w illustrations, including a section on aerial navigation, previous owner signature, contemporary calf gilt, large 8vo
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1053 Nicholls (William). A Conference with a Theist, wherein I. Are Shewn the Absurdities in the Pretended Eternity of the World, II. The Difficulties in the Mosaick Creation are Cleared, III. The Lapse of Mankind is Defended, against the Objections of Archaeologiae Philosophicae, [by Thomas Burnet], The Oracles of Reason, &c, 1st ed., 1696, folding eng. plate, errata and adverts to final leaf, some spotting or light browning, old ownership name of Samuel Aldersey to title, some minor spotting, contemp. panelled calf, rubbed, little wear to foot of spine, 8vo Wing N1092. (1)
£150-200
1054 Nyst (Henri). Annales du Musee Royal d’Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. Serie Paleontologique, vol. III, Conchyliologie des Terrains Tertiaires de la Belgique, Premiere Parti, Terrain Pliocene Scaldisien, 2 vols. (Text/Plates), Brussels, 1881, port. frontis., twenty-eight fine uncol. litho. plts., some minor scattered spotting, orig. printed stiff wrappers, lightly soiled and minor wear to extremities, folio (2)
£100-150
1056 Partlicius (Simeon). A New Method of Physick, or, a short view of Paracelsus and Galen’s Practice, in 3 Treatises, I. Opening the Nature of Physick and Alchymy, II. Shewing what things are Requisite to a Physitian and Alchymyst, III. Containing an Harmonical Systeme of Physick, trans. Nicholas Culpeper, 1st English ed., 1654, title within woodcut border, tears to lower foremargins of D7/8 touching but without loss of lettering, small hole in leaf E8 with minor loss of lettering to two lines of both pages, some paper loss to foremargin of leaf Q2 with sl. loss of text, small paper flaw to leaf X4 with resultant tear and minor loss of text, some spotting and soiling throughout, occ. browning and heavier soiling, contemp. ownership signatures of Augustin Badger, 1672, and John England, 1686, hinges broken, contemp. sheep, worn, small 8vo
1055 Parkinson (James). Outlines of Oryctology. An Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic Remains, Especially of those found in the British Strata... , 1st ed., printed for the author, 1822, half-title, ten eng. plts. and publisher’s ads. at rear, a little spotting, partly uncut, orig. boards with printed label to spine, rubbed and soiled, joints near-broken, spine worn, 8vo (1)
£100-150
Wing P612. Rare. All copies traced (paper and electronic) as per this copy lack the cancelled leaf B1. The Thomason copy contains a vertical half-title before the title (A1), not present in this copy. (1) £200-300
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1060 Philosophical Transactions. A group of eleven early disbound extracts with papers or reviews of books by Robert Boyle, nos. 1, 6, 18, 103, 114, 120, 130, 172, 176, 196 & 197, 1665-1693, eng. folding frontis. to nos. 172, 176, & 197 (sl. dampstained, folding table at rear of no. 18, some spotting and soiling, old stitching to no. 196, all disbound except no. 6 bound in later wrappers, slim 4to
1057 Pemberton (Henry). A View of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy, 1st ed., S. Palmer, 1728, engraved title vign., several engraved headpieces, initials and tailpieces, twelve folding engraved plates, subscriber’s list at end of prelims., wide margins, a.e.g., recent three-quarter red crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with purpose-made leather-trimmed cloth slipcase, 4to (280 x 210mm)
The Robert Boyle papers include Experimental History of Cold, Account of a Monstrous Calf, Further Account of the White Blood, Inquiries Touching the Sea, A Conjecture Touching the Bladders of Air that are found in Fishes, Ten New Experiments, An Historical Account of a Strangely Self-Moving Liquor, A Paper Containing a Method of Preparing the Phosporus of Humane Urine, and Freshness and Saltness. (11) £200-300
Newton was impressed with Pemberton’s mathematical abilities and chose him to edit the third edition of the Principia Mathematica. Babson 98; Wallis 132. (1) £500-800
1058 Pemberton (Henry). A View of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy, printed by S. Palmer, 1728, title with eng. vign., twelve folding eng. diagramatic plts., eng. head and tail-pieces and initials by J. Pine, list of subscribers, water-stained throughout and mouldy towards rear of vol., free endpapers and prelim. blank detached, contemp. calf, worn, with spine lacking and upper board all but detached, 4to (1)
£100-150
1059 Phillips (William). An Elementary Introduction to the Knowledge of Mineralogy, Comprising Some Account of the Character and Elements of Minerals... , 3rd enlarged ed., 1823, some eng. illusts. to text, two ink lib. stamps to page margins, some spotting and soiling throughout, contemp. half calf over marbled boards, rebacked with orig. spine relaid, rubbed with some corner wear, 8vo (1)
£70-100
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1061 Philosophical Transactions. A group of eight early disbound extracts, nos. 105, 112, 119, 121, 122, 161, 186, & 226, 1674-97, six with papers by Huygens, two with papers by Newton and one with a book review of Newton, nos. 105, 112, 161, 186 & 226 with folding eng. plts. (two at front of no. 105, some damp stained and one det.), a little spotting and soiling, all disbound, slim 4to
1062 Philosophical Transactions. A group of fifteen early disbound extracts, nos. 10, 40, 67, 104, 147, 158, 166, 171, 186, 187, 202, 217, 231, 233 & 280, 1666-1702, including papers by Ray, Wallis, Oldenburg and Evelyn, engraved plate frontis. to nos. 147, 158, 166, 186, 187, 202 (det.), possibly from another copy, and 231, some spotting and soiling, all disbound, a few with later stitching, slim 4to
The two Newton papers are A reply to Franc. Linus concerning his theory of light and colours, and The True Theory of the Tides, described by Edmund Halley. No. 186 contains a notice of Newton’s ‘Principia’ in the Books section. The papers by Christian Huygens include Thoughts of Mr. Hook’s Observations for proving the motion of the earth, About a new invention of very exact and portative watches serving to find the longitudes both at sea at land, Some experiments made in the air-pump by Mons. Papin, etc. (8) £200-300
The John Ray contributions are: Of the abundance of wood found under ground in Lincolnshire, An account of a book Synopsis methodica animalium quadiupedum, and Part of a letter communicating two observations, the one concerning the effects of a poysonous route, the other concerning the vertues of the leaves of hemlock. There are two notices of books by John Evelyn plus an article by him concerning the damage to his gardens by the preceding winter. The group also contains seven contributions by Henry Wallis and one by Henry Oldenburg. (15) £200-300
1063 Philosophical Transactions. A group of fourteen early disbound extracts, nos. 129, 162, 179, 188, 191, 198, 203, 204, 206, 216, 218, 222 & 229, 1676-97, each including a paper by Edmund Halley, engraved frontis. to nos. 129, 229, 162, 191, 198, 203, 204, 206, 218, 219 & 222, mostly folding, some spotting and soiling and a few marginal tears, all disbound, a few with later stitching, slim 4to Subjects covered by Halley including the Occultation of Mars by the Moon, made at Oxford, 1676, Theory of the Tides at the Bar of Tonqueen, Discourse concerning Gravity, and its properties, wherein the descent of heavy bodies and the motion of projects is briefly but fully handled, together with the solution of a problem of great use in gunnery, etc. (14) £200-300
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1064 Philosophical Transactions. A group of twenty-two early disbound extracts with papers by Anthony van Leeuwenhoeck, nos. 102, 106, 108, 117, 140, 148, 152 159, 160, 165, 168, 170, 173. 174, 199, 200, 202, 205, 221, 227, 235, and 279, 1674-1702, nos. 102, 106, 117, 148, 152, 159, 165, 168, 170, 199, 202, 205, 221, 227, 235, and 279 with eng. frontis., mostly folding (some det.), some occ. spotting, soiling, and old damp staining, all disbound, 4to
1066 Philosophical Transactions. A group of eight early disbound extracts with contributions by or reviews of works by Robert Hooke, nos. 8, 13, 24, 65, 101, 109, 111, 181, 185 & 189, 1666-87, eng. frontis. to nos. 101, and 185 (two plates only), some spotting and browning, later stitching to last two issues, all disbound, slim 4to
Leeuwenhoeck’s contributions include Considerations of the Compression of the Air, Observations About Sweat, Fatt, Teares, Microscopical Observations Concerning the Optic Nerve, Abstract of a letter to Mr. R. H. concerning the appearances of several woods, and their vessels, Abstract of a letter about generation by an animalcule of the male seed, Abstract of a letter concerning the parts of the brain of severall animals, etc. (22) £200-300
Hooke’s contributions include: Directions for Sea-men bound for far voyages, Of a new contrivance of wheel-barometer, Directions for observations and experiments to be made by masters of ships, pilots, and other fit persons in their sea-voyages, Some communications confirming the present appearance of the ring about saturn, etc., and including two numbers with notices of books by Hooke. (10) £150-200
1065 Philosophical Transactions. A group of ten early disbound extracts with papers by John Flamsteed, nos. 66, 110, 149, 155, 157, 177, 178, 184 , 185 & 191, 1670-87, eng. frontis. to nos. 110, 149, 155, 157, and 191, mostly folding, a few det., some browning and damp staining, a little spotting and soiling throughout, all disbound, slim 4to
1067 Philosophical Transactions. A group of three early disbound extracts with contributions by Christopher Wren, nos. 43, 45, and 53, 1669, eng. folding plate to second and third nos., first number disbound, second and third bound in modern marbled wrappers and contained in a purpose-made morocco backed cloth book box, together with nos. 49, and 150, 19th July 1669 & 10th August 1683, the second with two folding eng. plts., both in modern marbled boards, spine to latter item defective, all slim 4to
Flamsteed’s contributions include: The predictions concerning some notable obscurations of divers thick stars in the year 1671, Extracts of two letters of an astronomical nature, An account of the three great conjunctions of saturn and jupiter within the space of seven months, 1682/3, A great tide-table shewing the true times of the high-water at London Bridge to every day in the year 1684, etc. (10) £150-200
The papers by Newton are on the general laws of motion (with John Wallis), Description of an Instrument for Drawing Any Object in Perspective and Christopher Wren’s Engine. (5) £100-150
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1068 Philosophical Transactions. A group of thirty-five early disbound issues, nos. 35, 57, 59, 68, 70, 107, 125, 126, 156, 163, 164, 166, 167, 169, 175, 182, 190, 199, 200, 201, 203, 206, 220, 223, 224, 225, 228, 230, 232, 234, 270, 274, 281, 453 & 497, 1668-1750, eng. mostly folding plts. to nos. 156, 163, 164, 166, 167, 175, 190, 200, 201, 203, 220, 223, 225, 230 & 234, some spotting and soiling, occ. fraying, etc., plus incomplete or defective parts of nos. 143, 145, 154, 159, 161, 166, 190, 201 and 215, all disbound, slim 4to Contains numerous papers and communications by a great number of contributors. No. 164 contains an important article by Martin Lister titled ‘An Ingenious Proposal for a new Sort of Maps of Countrys, together with Tables of Sands and Clays, such Chiefly as are Found in the North Parts of England’, an early suggestion for making geological maps. (54) £500-700
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1070 Philosophical Transactions. Giving some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious, in many considerable Parts of World, vols. XXXI & XXXII, for the years 1720[-]23, bound as one, printed for W. and J. Innys, 1723-24, containing nos. 364-380, prelims. and indexes present (first index misbound at front), ten & eighteen mostly folding eng. plts., respec., scattered spotting and light browning, lower margin of first three leaves professionally repaired, eng. armorial bookplate with the mongram C.L. and the motto ‘De praescentia dei’ to front pastedown, contemp. panelled calf with gilt coat of arms of Lord Viscount Courtenay embossed to upper cover, corners bruised, rebacked with remains of orig. spine gilt laid down, 4to
1069 Philosophical Transactions, giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in the many considerable Parts of the World, vol. IV, Anno 1669, printed by T. N. for John Martyn, 1670, pp.[4], 893-1142, [8], containing nos. 45-56, six folding eng. plts., and one large folding map (closed tear without loss to inner margin), a little spotting and soiling, old inscriptions to title and one repair to lower border with loss of inscription only, contemp. calf, rebacked and corners restored, 4to Articles in this volume include: ‘A Summary Account of the Laws of Motion, Communicated by Mr. Christian Huygens in a letter to the Royal Society, written in Latin’; ‘An Account concerning the Resolution of Equations in Numbers imparted by Mr. John Collins’; ‘Tractatus de Corde, item de motu & colore sanguinis etc’ by Richard Lower’; ‘An Observation Made at Paris, the 17th August 1668 at Night by M. Hugen and Picart; Instructions Concerning the use of Pendulum-Watches for Finding Longitude at Sea’; ‘Observations Concerning Japan’; ‘Some Enquiries Concerning the Eruption of Mount Etna’; ‘A Description of Dr. Christopher Wren’s Engine, Designed for Grinding Hyperbolical Glasses’; ‘Some Observations Concerning the Baroscope and Thermoscope by Wallis and Beal’, etc.. See also Babson (Newton), pp. 54-55, [109]. (1) £300-500
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1071 Porta (Giovanni Battista della ). De Humana Physiognomonia libri IIII, pub. G. Cacchi, Vico Equense, 1st ed., 1586, engraved portrait title of Cardinal Aloysius d’Este, 85 engraved illustrations, 4 full-page, historiated woodcut initials, illustration on p.195 overpasted (with tear in illustration beneath), a few leaves misnumbered, a few marginal tears, waterstain and light spotting, contemporary limp vellum, some tears, creases and stains, folio Porta’s summary of previous Greek literature on physiognomy and here attempts to make a strong scientific case for it, with illustrations. “Della Porta preceded Lavater in attempting to estimate human character by the features. This is one of the first works on the ancient “science” of physiognomy to be extensively illustrated” (Garrsion & Morton, 150); Durling 3720; Norman 1723. (1) £2000-3000
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1072 Pott (Percival). A Treatise on Ruptures, 2nd revised ed., 1763, errata leaf at rear, L6 is a cancel, old pin hole mark and sl. creasing affecting pp. 79-82 without loss of text, the manuscript notes in an old unidentified hand still loose and present, bound with A Treatise on the Hydrocele, or, Watery Rupture and Other Diseases of the Testicle, its Coats and Vessels, 2nd ed., improved to very considerable editions, 1767, two engraved plts., bound with An Account of a Particular Kind of Rupture, frequently attendant upon new-born children, and sometimes met within adults, 2nd ed., 1765, pubs. ads. at foot of last page, contemp. calf, rubbed, a little wear to extrems. and sl. cracked along joints, 8vo First work: Garrison & Morton 3576 (1st ed. 1758). (1)
£200-300
1073 Ray (John). The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation, in Two Parts, viz The Heavenly Bodies, Elements, Meteors, Fossils, Vegetables, Animals... More Particularly in the Body of the Earth, its Figure, Motion and Constituency... , 2nd enlarged ed., 1692, separate title and pagination to second part, heavy spotting and some browning throughout, title torn and repaired with some loss of double ruled borders, old adhesion marks and contemp. signature at head of title, recent antique-style panelled calf, 8vo Wing R411. (1)
£100-150
Lot 1072 1074 Ray (John). Miscellaneous Discourses Concerning the Dissolution and Changes of the World, Wherein the Primitive Chaos and Creation, the General Deluge, Fountains, Formed Stones, SeaShells found in the Earth, Subterraneous Trees, Mountains, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, the Universal Conflagration and Future State, are largely Discussed and Examined, 1st ed., 1692, imprimatur leaf before title, pubs. cat. to final page, errata corrected in an old hand, some spotting and a little marginal damp staining to early leaves, contemp. quarter calf over marbled boards, joints cracked, a little wear to extremities, 8vo Wing R397. John Ray accepted the account of Creation given in the Bible, but also believed that the Book of Nature was an equally important source of truth. He was the first English naturalist to show awareness of the stratigraphic descriptions of European contemporaries and to understand that such strata could not possibly have been laid down by the Flood. (1) £200-300
1075 Robin (Alain). Encyclopaedia of Marine Gastropods, pub. Conch Books, France & Germany, 2008, numerous fine col. illusts. from photos, orig. laminated boards, together with Ardovini (R. and Cossignan, T.), West African Seashells (including Azores, Madeira and Canary Isles), pub. Ancona, 2004, numerous fine col. illusts. from photos, orig. laminated boards, both folio, together with Abbott (R. Tucker and Dance, S. Peter), Compendium of Seashells. A Colour Guide to more than 4,200 of the World’s Marine Shells, New York, 1982, numerous fine col. illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., and Abbott (R. Tucker), American Seashells. The Marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America, 2nd ed., USA, 1974, numerous col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, and others related, mostly recent publications, mostly G/VG (approx. 60)
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1076 Royal Institution of Great Britain. A large archive of approx. 5,000 offprints, 1851-1965, occ. illusts. to text, scattered dust-soiling, stapled as issued, chronilogically arranged and largely contained in over fifty red octavo file boxes, totalling 16 feet of shelf space A magnificent archive comprising innumerable papers by important scientists over a one-hundred-year period. Full details available on request. (approx. 5000) ÂŁ500-700
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1077 Royal Society of London. Acta Philosophica Societatis Regiae in Anglia ..., [by] Henry Oldenburg ..., 6 vols., Amsterdam: H. & T. Boom, 1674-81, additional eng. frontis. to vol. 1, half-title to vol. 6, xxx folding eng. plts., some spotting, soiling and occ. browning, contemp. calf gilt, rubbed and a little minor wear to extrems., joints sl. cracked, 12mo (6)
1078 Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions, giving some account of the present undertakings, studies and labours of the ingenious, in many considerable Parts of the World, vols. 47 (2 copies), 48 part 1, 49 part 2, 50 parts 1 & 2, 51 part 1, 52 part 1, and 53 only, Wittenberg, 1768-74, folding eng. plts., some spotting, browning and dampstaining, a few lib. marks, 7 vols. in old boards, damp stained and worn, 2 vols., later half vellum, rubbed and soiled, all 4to, together with Spallanzani (Lazzaro), Dissertations Relative to the Natural History of Animals and Vegetables, translated from the Italian, new enlarged and corrected edition, 2 vols., 1789, three folding eng. plts., contemp. calf, rebacked with orig. spine labels relaid, 8vo, plus other antiquarian and science including some Royal Society Interest, including a small group of Notes and Records
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1079 Royal Society of London. Acta Philosophica Societatis regiae in Anglia ..., vols. 1-4 & 6 in 3 vols., Amsterdam: Hendrick & Dirk Boom, 1672/81, add. eng. title to first vol. (dated 1674), fifty-three eng. plts., seven tables, mostly folding, occ. spotting, large ink lib. stamp to title versos of vols. 1, 3 & 6, contemp. vellum with spines lettered in manuscript, yapp edges, sl. soiled, 12mo, together with four odd volumes (vols. 1-3 & 6) from the same publisher and vol. 5 published in Rouen by David Berthelin, plus vols. 3, 4, 8 and 12 of Bibliotheque universelle et historique, Amsterdam, 1686/1700, various defects and bindings, all 12mo (12)
1082 Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions ..., Abridged, vols. 1-10 (bound in 12), mixed eds., 1769/56, together with another nearcomplete mixed edition set of vols. 1-9 (bound in 10), 1705/49, numerous eng. plts. including many folding, some spotting, soiling and occ. dampstaining, a few ink lib. stamps, some leaves det. and frayed, contemp. non-uniform calf gilt, generally worn, a few spines broken and several covers det. and one deficient, 4to Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (22)
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1083 Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions [Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable Parts of the World, vols. 1 & 2], nos. 1-32 (bound as one), 1665-68, without title pages, ten folding eng. plts. and one table only, a few marginal splits without loss, lacks final leaf (pp. 77/78) of no. 4, some spotting and occ. heavy browning, worming to final margin of final number affecting text in final few leaves, final leaf det. and somewhat frayed, later half calf, lower board det., 4to
1080 Royal Society of London. The Philosophical Transactions ..., From ... 1665, to the Year 1800, Abridged with Notes and Biographical Illustrations, by Charles Hutton, George Shaw, Richard Pearson, vols. 1-8 & 10-18 (of 18), 1809, a total of 252 eng. plts., some spotting and soiling, a few leaves det. and sl. frayed, nearcontemp. cloth with printed book labels of Rochdale’s Circulating Library dated 1839 to front pastedowns, soiled and worn, spines damaged and most covers detached, 4to This influential edition reproduces contributions from the early days, authors including Newton, Boyle and Hooke, and continuing to include papers by authors such as Edward Jenner and Erasmus Darwin over one century later. (17) £200-300
Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1)
1081 Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions ..., vol. 47 for the year 1751 and 1752, pub. 1753, together with vol. 51 part 2, for the year 1760, pub. 1761, and vols. 52 part 1 & 2 for the years 1761 and 1762, 1762-163, a total of fifty-six folding eng. plates, and three folded tables, some spotting and browning, contemp. calf, broken and worn, covers det. and three def., together with Matey (Paul Henry), A General Index to the Philosophical Transactions, from the First to the End of the Seventieth Volume, 1787, some spotting and damp staining and a few leaves det. and sl. frayed at front and rear, contemp. half calf, worn, covers det., plus Bremond (Francois de), Table des memoires imprimes dans les transactions philosophiques de la Societe Royale de Londres, depuis 1665 jusques en 1735 ..., Paris, 1739, errata leaf at rear, some spotting and marginal browning to first and last few leaves, contemp. mottled calf gilt, rubbed, all 4to (6)
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1084 Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in many considerable Parts of the World, vol. 15 (nos. 167178), 1686, fourteen folding eng. tables (one before each part except three before the last), several with closed tape repairs to verso, some browning and old damp staining, modern qtr. calf gilt over marbled boards, 4to Contains three papers by Anthony van Leeuwenhoek and one paper by John Browne, giving the first description of sirrhosis of the liver (Garrison Morton 3613). (1) £200-300
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1085 Sacro Bosco (Johannis de). Sphaera mundi; Johannes Regiomontanus. Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta; George Peurbach. Theoricae novae planetarum, Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, [before 4 November] 1485, fiftyeight unumbered leaves incl. woodcut frontis. of an armillary sphere (highly skilfully repaired without loss and laid down), roman letter, 33 lines, woodcut initials and astronomical illustrations to text incl. seven partly colour-printed in black, red, yellow, bistre and brown, scattered later ink marginalia in a small neat hand, leaves with light pencil numbers to upper outer corners, a little spoting and soiling, one neat closed marginal repair not affecting text, modern antique-style calf gilt, sm. 4to (213 x 160mm) De Sphaera mundi was a cornerstone of medieval astronomy that enjoyed wide circulation from its origin in the 13th century. It was taught in all the schools of Europe and went through 35 editions in the incunable period alone, this being the second Ratdolt edition. Divided into four chapters it first defines a sphere, then its cycles, the rising and settings of the signs and finally movements of the sun and other planets. The later works by Peurbach and his pupil Regiomontanus signalled a new understanding of astronomy and marked the end of the dominance of classical Greek Ptolemaic astronomy. Goff J406; Hain *14111. (1) ÂŁ4000-6000
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1087 [Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873]. The Broad Stone of Honour : or, Rules for the Gentlemen of England, ‘With the alterations from the first edition’, [by Kenelm Henry Digby], 1823, eng. vign. title, printed in red and black, brief autograph note signed from the author to Professor Sedgwick of Trinity College tipped in before title, ‘Will you do me the honour to accept a copy of a book which I was deluded to print last Spring’, adhesion damage to verso, additionally signed ‘A Sedgwick, Trin Coll’ to title, two small armorial bookplates to front endpapers, a.e.g., later straight grain red morocco gilt by McMillan & Co., Cambridge, a little rubbed, tall 12mo (1)
£100-150
1086 Secchi (Pietro Angelo). Le Soleil, deuxieme edition, revue et augmentee, 2 vols. and atlas, Paris, 1875-77, half-titles, six doublepage litho. charts and thirteen litho. plts (of which twelve in colour) in atlas, woodcut illusts. to text vols. incl. some col., scattered spotting, ink lib. stamp to text vol. titles, contemp. half morocco, text vols. contemp. qtr. morocco, rubbed and spines faded, lge. 8vo, atlas vol. contemp. half cloth, rubbed, square 4to ‘This work was illustrated with magnificent colour plates of the chromosphere and of the various types of prominences. Among those shown were the small flares (now called “spiculae”) that he observed in the region of sunspots, converging toward the centre of the eruption. These, he noted, became higher, more slender, and extremely luminous at the solar poles, where considerable activity manifested itself even during periods of relative calm on the solar surface. He classified the prominences as “quiescent” and “eruptive” - terminology that is still current’, (DSB). (3) £400-600
1088 Spurzheim (Johann Christoph). Observations on the Deranged Manifestations of the Mind, or Insanity, 1st ed., 1817, four uncol. litho. plts. including frontis., a little spotting and dust soiling, contemp. half calf, heavily rubbed, 8vo (1)
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1091 Thomson (Sir William, 1st Baron Kelvin). Mathematical and Physical Papers, 6 vols., pub. CUP, 1882-1911, illustrations, some folding, bookplates to first two vols., original green cloth, edges a trifle rubbed, 8vo, with Reprint of Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism, 2nd ed., 1884, Elements of Natural Philosophy, new ed., 1885 and Treatise on Natural Philosophy, Parts I & II, new ed., 1883-88 (10)
£200-300
1092 Topley (William). The Geology of the Weald, (Parts of the Counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Hants), 1st ed., 1875, eight plates including two folding coloured maps, some light toning, modern buckram with leather label to spine, large 8vo (1)
£100-150
1093 Wallace (Alfred Russel). Tropical Nature and Other Essays, 1st ed., 1878, pubs. ad. leaf at rear, some spotting at front and rear, ballpoint pen ownership signature to title, front free endpaper det., orig. green cloth gilt with black rules, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (1)
£200-300
1094 Watson (Richard). Chemical Essays, 5 vols., mixed eds., London (and Cambridge), 1785/87, some spotting, contemp. uniform calf with leather title labels, all but one volume number label deficient, rubbed, joints tender and a little wear to extrems., small 8vo (5)
£100-150
1095 Wells (Edward). The Young Gentleman’s Astronomy, Chronology and Dialling, Containing such Elements of the Said Arts or Sciences, as are Most Useful and Easy to be Known, 3rd ed., 1725, 26 engraved plates, most folding, occasional small wormtracks at gutter, small marginal dampstain, contemporary calf, spine with gilt hogshead crest decoration, a little chipped with small holes, 8vo (1)
£70-100
1089 Stukeley (William). The Philosophy of Earthquakes, Natural and Religious, or an Inquiry into their Cause, and their Purpose, the Third Edition, to which is added, Part III on the same Subject, 1756, separate part titles and pagination to Parts II and III, some spotting throughout, contemp. manuscript footnote (Isaiah XXIV.16) to foot of p. 39 of final part, small printed bookplate of F.R.P. Forrest, Edinburgh, marbled edges and endpapers, contemp. Harleian-style gilt-tooled green morocco with lozenge centrepiece and border of crowns and other small tools, floral tool to spine compartments, later leather spine label, rubbed, a little wear to joints and extrems., 8vo (1)
£300-500
1090 Thomson (Joseph John). ‘On the Structure of the Atom: An Investigation of the Stability and Periods of Oscillation of a Number of Corpusels Arranged at Equal Intervals Around the Circumference of a Circle, with Application of the Results to the Theory of Atomic Structure’, contained as pp. 237-265 in the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, vol. 7 (6th series), January-June 1904, the complete volume with twenty-seven plates at rear, including some folding, diags. to text, later half morocco gilt with gilt library name to upper cover and ink stamp to front endpaper, 8vo
1096 Whitehurst (John). An Enquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth, Deduced from Facts and the Laws of Nature, to which is added an Appendix, Containing Some General Observations on the Strata in Derbyshire... , 3rd ed., 1778, half-title, 11 pp. subscribers, four eng. plts. incl. two folding, minor spotting, old cloth with calf corners (some wear), modern antique-style calf reback, 4to
An early attempt to describe the model of an atom. In this model electrons moved in coplanar, circular orbits inside a homogeneously and positively charged sphere. By contrast, Rutherford’s atom consisted of a positively charged nucleus with a mass of electrons revolving around it. (1) £100-150
Whitehurst thought that the stratified rocks were raised to their present position by a colossal cataclysm, when the earth's internal fire burst out to meet the primordial oceans, leading to the Biblical Deluge. (1) £300-400
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1097 Wood (James). The Principles of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 4 vols., Cambridge, 1796-1800, without general title, series titles only, contemp. uniform calf, gilt dec. spines with contrasting morocco labels, few joints slightly cracked, 8vo Series titles comprise The Elementts of Algebra: Designed for the use of Students in the University, 2nd ed., Cambridge, 1798; The Principles of Fluxions..., 2nd ed., Cambridge, 1800; The Principles of Mechanics..., 2nd ed., Cambridge, 1799; The Principles of Hydrostatics..., Cambridge, 1796; The Elements of Optics..., Cambridge, 1799 and The Principles of Astronomy, Cambridge, 1799. (4) £100-150
1098 Wood (Searles V.). A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, Or, Descriptions of Shells from the Middle and Upper Tertiaries of the East of England, 2 parts in one (Univalves/Bivalves), Palaeontographical Society, 1848-50, fifty-two uncol. eng. plts., old water stain to final few leaves, modern cloth, together with Harmer (F.W.), The Pliocene Mollusca of Great Britain, Being Supplementary to S.V. Wood’s Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, 2 vols., Palaeontographical Society, 1914-25, numerous monotone plts., some highlighting in yellow to first few pages of vol. 1, recent half calf gilt, spines with raised bands and contrasting labels, plus Busk (George), A Monograph of the Fossil Polyzoa of the Crag, Palaeontographical Society, 1859, twenty-two uncol. litho. plts., t.e.g., contemp. olive green morocco gilt, a little rubbed and faded on spines, all 4to (4)
£200-300
1099 Geology and earth sciences. A miscellaneous collection of 19th and 20th c. publications, various subjects, various languages (3 shelves)
£200-300
1100 A similar lot (3 shelves)
£200-300
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Francesco Antommarchi, Planches anatomiques du corps humain, Atlas & Text volumes, Paris, 1824-26
Edward Jenner (1749-1823), Autograph Letter Signed, Berkeley, 9 February 1821, to James White on the subject of vaccination
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1. The Seller warrants to the Auctioneer and the buyer that he is the true owner or is properly authorised to sell the property by the true owner and is able to transfer good and marketable title to the property free from any third party claims. 2. (a) The highest bidder to be the buyer. If during the auction the Auctioneer considers that a dispute has arisen he has absolute authority to settle it or re-offer the lot. The Auctioneer may at his sole discretion determine the advance of bidding or refuse a bid, divide any lot, combine any two or more lots or withdraw any lot without prior notice. (b) Where goods are bought at auction by a buyer who has entered into an agreement with another or others that the other or others (or some of them) shall abstain from bidding for the goods and the buyer or other party or one of the other parties is a dealer (as defined in the Auction Biddings Agreement Act 1927) the buyer warrants that the goods are bought bona fide on joint account.
8. (a) Notwithstanding any other terms of these conditions, if within fourteen days of the sale the Auctioneer has received from the buyer of any lot notice in writing that in his view the lot is a deliberate forgery and within fourteen days after such notification the buyer returns the same to the Auctioneer in the same condition as at the time of the sale and satisfies the Auctioneer that considered in the light of the entry in the catalogue the lot is a deliberate forgery then the sale of the lot will be rescinded and the purchase price of the same refunded. "A deliberate forgery" means a lot made with intention to deceive. (b) A buyer's claim under this condition shall be limited to any amount paid to the Auctioneer for the lot and for the purpose of this condition the buyer shall be the person to whom the original invoice was made out by the Auctioneer.
3. The buyer shall pay the price at which a lot is knocked down by the Auctioneer to the buyer (“the hammer price”) together with a premium of 17.5% of the hammer price. Where the lot is marked by an asterisk the premium will be subject to VAT at 20% which under the Auctioneer’s Margin Scheme will form part of the buyer’s premium on our invoice and will not be separately identified (the premium added to the hammer price will hereafter collectively be referred to as “the total sum due”). By making any bid the buyer acknowledges that his attention has been drawn to the fact that on the sale of any lot the Auctioneer will receive from the seller commission at its usual rates in addition to the said premium of 17.5% and assents to the Auctioneer receiving the said commission.
9. Lots may be removed during the sale after full settlement in accordance with 4(d) hereof. 10. All goods delivered to the Auctioneer's premises will be deemed to be delivered for sale by auction unless otherwise stated in writing and will be catalogued and sold at the Auctioneer's discretion and accepted by the Auctioneer subject to all these conditions. In the case of miscellaneous books, the Auctioneer reserves the right to extract and dispose of books that, in the opinion of the Auctioneer at his absolute discretion, have no saleable value and, therefore, might detract from the saleability of the rest of the lot and the Auctioneer shall incur no liability to the seller, in respect of the books disposed of. By delivering the goods to the Auctioneer for inclusion in his auction sales each seller acknowledges that he/she accepts and agrees to all the conditions.
4. (a) The buyer shall forthwith upon the purchase give in his name and permanent address and pay to the Auctioneer immediately after the conclusion of the auction the total sum due. (b) The buyer may be required to pay down during the course of the sale the whole or any part of the total sum due, and if he fails to do so after such request the lot or lots may at the Auctioneer's absolute discretion be put up again and resold immediately. (c) The buyer shall at his own expense take away any lot or lots purchased no later than five working days after the auction day. (d) The Auctioneer may at his own discretion agree credit terms with a buyer and extend the time limits for collection in special cases but otherwise payment shall be deemed to have been made only after the Auctioneer has received cash or a sterling banker’s draft or the buyer's cheque has been cleared.
11. (a) Unless otherwise instructed in writing all goods on the Auctioneer's premises and in their custody will be held insured against the risks of fire, burglary, water damage and accidental breakage or damage for which insurance the Auctioneer will charge a premium of £1.50 per £100. The value of the goods so covered will be the hammer price, or in the case of unsold lots the best bid, or in the case of loss or damage prior to the sale that which the specialised staff of the Auctioneer shall in their absolute discretion estimate to be the auction value of such goods. (b) The Auctioneer shall not be responsible for damage to or the loss, theft, or destruction of any goods not so insured because of the owner’s written instructions.
5. (a) If the buyer fails to pay for or take away any lot or lots pursuant to clause 4 or breaches any other condition of that clause the Auctioneer as agent for the seller shall be entitled after consultation with the seller to exercise one or other of the following rights: (i) Rescind the sale of that or any other lots sold to the buyer who defaults and re-sell the lot or lots whereupon the defaulting buyer shall pay to the Auctioneer any shortfall between the proceeds of that sale after deduction of costs of re-sale and the total sum due. Any surplus shall belong to the seller. (ii) Proceed for damages for breach of contract. (b) Without prejudice to the Auctioneer's rights hereunder if any lots or lots are not collected within five days or such longer period as the Auctioneer may have agreed otherwise, the Auctioneer may charge the buyer a storage charge of £1.00 + VAT at the current rate per lot per day. (c) Ownership of the lot purchased shall not pass to the buyer until he has paid to the Auctioneer the total sum due.
12. The Auctioneer shall remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller thirty days after the day of the auction provided that the Auctioneer has received the total sum due from the buyer. In all other cases the Auctioneer will remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller within seven days of the receipt by the Auctioneer of the total sum due. The Auctioneer will not be deemed to have received the total sum due until after any cheque delivered by the buyer has been cleared. In the event of the Auctioneer exercising his right to rescind the sale his obligation to the seller hereunder lapses.
6. (a) The seller shall be entitled to place a reserve on any lot and the Auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the seller for any lot on which a reserve has been placed. A seller may not bid on any lot on which a reserve has been placed. (b) Where any lot fails to sell, the Auctioneer shall notify the seller accordingly. The seller shall make arrangements either to re-offer the lot for sale or to collect the lot and may be asked to pay a commission not exceeding 50% of the selling commission and any special expenses incurred in cataloguing the lot. (c) If such arrangements are not made within seven days of the notification the Auctioneer is empowered to sell the lot by auction or by private treaty at not less than the reserve price and to receive from the seller the normal selling commission and special expenses.
13. In the case of the seller withdrawing instructions to the Auctioneer to sell any lot or lots, the Auctioneer may charge a fee of 12.5% of the Auctioneer's middle estimate of the auction price of the lot withdrawn together with Value Added Tax thereon and any expenses incurred in respect of the lot or lots. 14. The Auctioneer’s current standard notices and information (i.e. Collation and Amendments) will apply to any contract with the Auctioneer as if incorporated herein. 15. These conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English Law.
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DOMINIC WINTER BOOK AUCTIONS SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS Saleroom and Offices: Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQ Tel: 01285 860006 Fax: 01285 862461
COMMISSION SLIP Please Bid on my behalf at the sale on 5 & 6 October 2011 up to the amount shown. I acknowledge that I will be required to pay a buyer's premium at the current rate.
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Postage can be arranged for most purchases. For UK and European customers we use DPD (formerly Parceline) or Royal Mail: a separate charge is added to the invoice (minimum ÂŁ15) and parcels are despatched as soon as possible after payment has been received. All framed and glazed items and all lots for overseas customers outside Europe will be sent to Mail Boxes Etc. (tel: Swindon 01793 525009) or R.F. Shipping (tel: London 0845 873 6240). Both of these companies will quote and invoice separately. Please note: DWBA invoices must be paid before consignments are handed to third party shipping companies. 243
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