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Lot 267 • Front Cover: Lot 365

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PRINTED BOOKS & MAPS IMPORTANT TRAVEL & NATURAL HISTORY THE BABINGTON SMITH AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION MUSIC, FINE BINDINGS & ILLUMINATED LEAVES

Wednesday 10 April 2013 Lots 1-658 commencing at 11am

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A selection from a private collection of important English Literature to be offered 15th May

FORTHCOMING SALES IN 2013 Thursday 11 April

The Milburn Collection of Mountaineering Books & Periodicals

Wednesday 15 May

Printed Books, Maps & Documents

Thursday 16 May

Historic Aviation, Maritime & Transport Memorabilia

Friday 17 May

Arms, Medals & Militaria

Wednesday 19 June

Printed Books, Maps & Photography

Thursday 20 June

Children’s & Illustrated Books Modern First Editions, Toys & Games

Wednesday 17 July

Picture Sale: British & Continental Oils & Watercolours Old Master & Modern Prints

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CONTENTS Travel British Topography Natural History

1-55 56-89 90-140

Maps

141-221

Decorative Prints & Original Art

222-296

Periodicals

297-298

Sir Henry Babington Smith Autograph Collection

299-339

Historical Documents, Autographs & Ephemera

340-400

The Beatles

401-413

Music

414-422

Illuminated Leaves

423-437

Antiquarian

438-525

Science

526-550

Fine Bindings

551-572

Bookcases

573-577

Cartons

578-596

Quantity

597-658

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION To commence at 11am

Lot 3 1 Baedeker (Karl). The United States with an Excursion into Mexico, 2nd revised ed., 1899, folding colour maps and plans, browning front and rear (and to general map with marginal tear), previous owner signature to front endpaper, original cloth, spine a little rubbed, slight lean, 8vo, together with La Russie. Manuel de Voyageur, troisieme ed., 1902, folding colour maps (general maps front and rear torn in half without loss, rear map with paper reinforcement to verso, a few spots, original red cloth, rebacked with original spine relaid, 8vo (2)

£150-200

2 Bastien (J. Fr.). Dictionnaire Géographique Portatif des Quatre Parties du Monde, traduit de l’anglais sur la dernière édition de Laurent Echard par Vosgien, new edition, pub. G. Le Roy, Caen, 1795, addn. half title, folding b & w eng. hemispheral map of the World and of Europe [lacking 3 maps?], upper hinge weak, contemp. mottled calf with gilt dec. spine, spine a little frayed at foot, 8vo, together with Benoit Le Franq (pub.), Nouvel Atlas des Enfans, Ou principes clairs pour apprendre facilement & en fort peu de temps la Géographie....., pub. Brussels, 1780, addn. half title, twenty-two (of 24) engraved folding maps and plts. all with contemp. outline colouring, new end papers, modern qtr. calf with contrasting morocco label to spine, 12mo Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

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£100-150

3 Belcher (Captain Sir Edward). Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, Performed in Her Majesty’s Ship Sulphur, During the Years 1836-1842, Including Details of the Naval Operations in China from Dec. 1840, to Nov. 1841, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1843, three folding maps contained in vol. I front pocket, 19 engraved plates, 8 pp. ads. at end of vol. I, scattered light spotting and light marginal water stains, original cloth, spines faded and repaired, 8vo Sabin 4390.

(2)

Lot 46

4 Benjamin (S.G.W.). The Atlantic Islands as a Resource of Health and Pleasure, 1st ed., New York, 1878, numerous b&w wood eng. illusts., 3 pp. pubs. list at rear, orig. green cloth gilt, very sl. rubbed to extrems. (generally in bright condition), 8vo (1)

£700-1000

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£100-150

Lot 6

5 [Bennett, Samuel]. The History of Australian Discovery and Colonisation, parts I-V [all published], Sydney, 1865, lithographed title (cropped at foot affecting imprint), five tinted plates, occasional light spotting, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus African Fragments: Comprising Mr. WM. Lee’s Narrative of two Expeditions into the Interior of Africa; The Travels of a Tartar to Timbuctoo; Sketch of Whydah; Customs of the Gold Coast, and Other Articles by Capt. Pierce, of Cape Coast, Africa, Designed as an Appendix to Museum Africanum, by Charles Hulbert, Shrewsbury, 1826, double-page engraved map, one or two spots, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, plus The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise.

A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature, by Alfred Wallace, 6th ed., 1877, two folding maps, b & w illustrations, occasional spotting, prize label, original green cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with others including The Adventures of Robert Drury, During Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar..., 1807 and A Few Words, on the Encouragement Given to Slavery and the Slave Trade, by Recent Measures, and Chiefly by the Sugar Bill of 1846, by Stephen Cave, 2nd ed., 1849, inscribed by the author (9)

6 Blaeu (Willem Janszoon). The Light of Navigation wherein are declared and lively pourtrayed all the Coasts and Havens of the West, North and East Seas. Collected partly out of the books of the principall authors which have written of navigation (as Lucas Johnson Waghenaer and divers others)....., 3 parts (bound in one), pub. Amsterdam and by WIlliam Johnson, London, 1612, title and frontis. lacking and replaced in facsimile, 19th century manuscript ownership signature and date to A1 and to first f.e.p., closed tear to D3, slight loss to foredge of L2, occ. spotting, dust and finger soiling throughout, forty-one engraved b & w sea charts (including thirty-nine double page), numerous woodcut coastal profiles and illusts. to text, two volvelles to text (one detached), addn. ink ownership stamps to front and rear end papers, partial adhesion of first and second f.e.p., upper hinge and joint weak, 19th century half calf, rubbed and worn, oblong 4to Koeman M. Bl 11. Rare in any state but the edition with English text must be considered extremely scarce.

(1) £25000-35000

£150-200

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7 Bougard (Rene). The Little Sea Torch: or True Guide for Coasting Pilots: by which they are clearly instructed how to navigate along the coasts of England, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Sicily; The Isles of Malta, Corsica, Sardinia and others in the Straits; and of The Coast of Barbary from Cape Bon to Cape de Verd.

Enriched with Upwards of One Hundred Appearances of HeadLands and Light Houses together with Plans of the Principal Harbours, also a Table of Soundings and Various Explanatory Remarks...., Translated from the French of Le Sieur Bougard with Corrections and Additions by J.T.Serres, published for the Author by J.Debrett, 1801, title page, dedication and list of subscribers, 130 pps. of descriptive text with occ. near contemp. pencil marginalia, pp. 134 with repaired closed tear, 137 hand coloured aquatint plates of land profiles on twenty sheets, half title with list of charts on verso, twenty-four engraved maps with contemp. hand colouring (on twelve sheets), complete as lists, table of soundings and index at rear, contemp. marbled boards with modern half calf, gilt dec. spine, boards rubbed and worn, folio Abbey Life. 344. The first and only English edition translated by Serres from René Bougard’s ‘Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer’.

(1) £2000-3000

9 Brown (Thomas). A General Atlas, Being a Collection of Maps of the World & Quarters, the Various Empires, Kingdoms & States in the Known World, Edinburgh, [1814], calligraphic title, 33 handcoloured engraved maps (of 36, lacking World Hemisphere, Mercator’s Projection and Turkey in Asia), Jamaica & Egypt with some loss at inner margin, occasional light spotting and soiling, some show-through, contemporary morocco-backed boards, boards detached, some wear, 4to

8 Brion de la Tour (Louis). Atlas et Tables Elémentaires de Géographie Ancienne et Moderne Destinées a L’Education de la Jeunesse....., Nouvelle Edition, pub. Auguste Delalain, Paris, 1821, printed title and advertisement, thirty-one (complete as list) engraved folding maps with contemp. outline colouring, final leaf with repaired closed tear, near contemp. manuscript ownership signature to rear pastedown, near contemp. qtr. vellum, marbled boards, printed paper label to spine, partially lacking, spine repaired, 8vo, together with Vuillemin (Alexandre), Atlas Universel de Géographie Ancienne et Moderne a l’Usage des Pensionnats, pub.

J. Langlume, Paris, c.1850, calligraphic title page, comparison plate and fifty (complete as list) engraved maps, forty-nine with contemp. outline colouring, some spotiing and staining, largely confined to margins, contemp. qtr. cloth, worn at extrems., oblong 4to (2)

Sold as a collection of maps not subject to return.

(1)

£300-400

10 [Brusco, Giacomo Agostino]. Description des Beautes de Genes et de ses Environs, Ornee de differentes vues, de tailles douce, et de la Carte Topographique de la Ville, Genoa: Yves Gravier libraire, 1781, eng. title, seventeen eng. plts. (13 folding), two folding eng. maps (inc. map frontis., strengthened to folds & closed tear) and one folding table, some toning and spotting, lacking free endpapers, contemp. half sheep, gilt dec. spine, extrems. rubbed, 8vo, together with [Foppens, Jean Francois], Historia Episcopatus Antverpiensis, Continens Episcoporum Seriem, et Capitulorum, Abbatiarum, et Monsteriorum Fundationes..., Brussells: Francois Foppens, 1717, eng. port. frontis., two folding eng. maps and five folding eng. plts. only (of 6), woodcut armorial illusts., title with ink erased signature and upper margin of excised, few folding plts. strengthened to folds, slight dampstaining to upper margins of few leaves, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spine, foot of spine and board corners worn, 4to

£200-300

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£200-300

11 Carr (John). A Northern Summer; or Travels Round the Baltic, through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany in the Year 1804, 1st ed., 1805, eleven sepia aquatint plts. (correct as list), including one folding plate torn to fold, leaf 2T1 torn to lower blank margin, dust-soiled & frayed to margins, some spotting & toning (mostly to plts.), contemp. marbled calf gilt, lacking title label to spine, joints cracked and some wear, 4to Abbey, Travel 73.

(1)

£100-150

12 Carruthers (Douglas). Unknown Mongolia. A Record of Travel and Exploration in North-West Mongolia and Dzungaria, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1914, folding maps and panoramas, numerous b & w illustrations, modern blue morocco-backed boards, 8vo (2)

£150-200

13 Carter (Howard and Mace, A.C.). The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen.

Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1923-33, numerous b & w illustrations, a few minor spots, original sand cloth, gilt vignette to upper covers, a trifle rubbed at spine ends, d.j.s, some tears and losses, a few spots, 8vo (3)

14 Charnock (John). An History of Marine Architecture Including an Enlarged and Progressive View of Nautical Regulations and Naval History, both Civil and Military, of all Nations, Especially of Great Britain, 3 vols, 1st. ed., 1800 - 02, addn. eng half title to vol.

1, ninety-eight uncoloured engraved and aquatint plts. (including twenty folding), occ. spotting and offsetting, near contemp. gilt diced calf, re-backed, rubbed and frayed at extrems., 4to

£1000-1500

(3)

Lot 13

10

£400-600

15 Cherry-Garrard (Apsley). The Worst Journey in the World.

Antarctic 1910-1913, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1922, colour frontispiece to each, b&w maps and plts., including some folding, half-title to vol.

1 sl. creased and fore-edges of one folding plate a little frayed, some spotting to edges, new endpapers, orig. light blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed and spotted, 8vo

16 Churchill (Winston S.). The Story of the Malakand Field Force, An Episode of Frontier War, 1st ed., 1st issue, Longans, Green, and Co., 1898, b & w port. frontis., two folding maps and four singlepage maps, 32pp. pubs. ads. at rear, some spotting and one folding map with short closed tear to lower blank margin, endpapers renewed, orig. apple green cloth, a trifle rubbed and marked, 8vo

Spence 277.

(2)

Woods A1(a).

(1)

£500-800

£700-1000

17 Churchman (John). Tha Magnetic Atlas, or Variation Charts of the Whole Terraqueous Globe: Comprising a System of the Variation and Dip of the Needle by which the Observations being Truly Made, The Longitude may be Ascertained, 4th. ed., 1804, title page and preface, three folding charts and maps, appendix at rear, some spotting and staining, end papers torn with slight loss, contemp. boards with later paper reback to spine, boards stained and worn at extrems., 4to (1)

£300-500

18 Conder (Josiah). The Modern Traveller. A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe, 30 vols., 1830, twenty-one folding maps, ninety-six eng. plts. & two eng. plans (correct as list), slight worming to outer margin of one plt. to vol. 11, some occ. dampstaining to vols. 4, 5 & 19, contemp. maroon half morroco gilt, rubbed, 12mo (30)

Lot 16

11

£400-600

19 Escosura (Patricio de la). España Artistica y Monumental vista y descripcion de los sitios y monumentos mas notables de España......, 2 vols.(of 3), pub. Paris, 1842, title page and indices, ninety-six (of 144) litho. plts. each with tissue guard, slight spotting throughout, near contemp. half morocco, bumped and a little rubbed at extrems., folio The third volume was not published until 1850, some eight years after the first. This probably accounts for the reason that the third volume is often not present.

(2) £3000-4000

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Lot 20

20 Falconer (William). An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: or a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements and Military Operations of a Ship, 1st. ed., pub. T.Cadell, 1769, title page dedication and list of subscribers, twelve uncoloured engraved folding plates (complete), slight browning and staining throughout, one plate frayed at foredge, ownership signatures to front pastedown and second f.e.p., book plate of Assheton Curzon, contemp. gilt speckled calf, skillfully rebacked with contrasting gilt morocco label to spine, a little bumped and rubbed at extrems., 4to (1)

ÂŁ300-500

21 Hall (Captain Basil). Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island... and a Vocabulary of the Loo-Choo Language, by H.J. Clifford, 1st ed., 1818, half-title present, fine hand-col. aquatint frontis., seven handcol. aquatint plts. and one uncol., six eng. maps, charts & diags. (including 2 folding), all correct as list, some offsetting and spotting, bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort to upper pastedown, hinges split, contemp. diced calf, neatly rebacked preserving orig. gilt dec. spine, 4to Abbey, Travel 558.

(1)

ÂŁ300-500

Lot 21

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22 Harris (John). Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca: Or, a Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Above Four Hundred of the Most Authentick Writers... Also an Appendix of the Remarkabe Accidents at Sea... The Charters, Acts of Parliament about the East-India Trade... To which is Prefixed a History of the Peopling of the Several Parts of the World, and Particularly of America..., 2 vols., 1st ed., 1705, nine folding engraved maps, 22 (of 23) engraved plates, West Indies map loose, World Map torn and laid-down, a few leaves loose at front of vol. II, a few tears, spots and light marginal water stains, a few marginal wormtracks, contemporary calf, upper covers detached, some edge wear and stains, folio Sabin 30482.

(2)

26 Koldewey (Karl). The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-70, and Narrative of the Wreck of the “Hansa” in the Ice, 1st UK ed., 1874, folding linen-backed colour map, 4 chromo. plates, illustrations, occasional spotting and chipped foredges, bookplate of The Durban Club, t.e.g., contemporary half burgundy morocco, modern reback, edges rubbed, 8vo, plus A History of Exploration.

From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, by Sir Percy Sykes, 1st US ed., 1934, colour frontispiece, folding maps, modern burgundy morocco-backed boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 8vo (2)

£150-200

27 Lefroy (J.H.). Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands 1515-1685, Compiled from the Colonial Records and other Original Sources, 2 vols., Bermuda Historical Society, 1981, several b & w plts., some folding, both vols. with folding map in pocket on rear pastedown, orig. green cloth gilt, some marks, large thick 8vo

£2000-3000

23 Hounsell (George C.). Flags and Signals of All Nations, pub.

Field & Tuer, c.1870, col. litho. title, five leaves of preliminary text, seventy-one col. litho. plts., containing over 200 illusts. of flags, hinges cracked, orig. dark green cloth gilt with bevelled edges, slight dampstain at head of upper board, folio

Limited edition, 577/1000 copies.

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£100-150

Contains colour illustrations of 237 flags from countries around the world, including the Commercial Code for ships, Signal Flags authorised by the British and French Admiralties, American marine signal flags, yacht club flags, etc.

(1) £200-300

24 Huc (M.). Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, during the years 1844-5-6, Translated from the French by W. Hazlitt, 2 vols. in one, 1st ed., [1852], half titles, additional titles, folding map, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, one or two spots, bookplate, a.e.g., contemporary burgundy morocco gilt, spine a little rubbed and faded, 8vo (1)

£100-150

28 Levasseur (Victor). Atlas National Illustré des 86 Départements et des Possessions de la France, pub. A.Combette, Paris, 1854, dec. engraved double page title and table of statistics, 100 double page engraved maps (complete), including two folding (France and The World), all with contemp. outline colouring, occ. marginal spotting, upper hinge weak, contemp. gilt half morocco, rubbed and worn, folio (1)

29 Little (Mrs. Archibald). Intimate China, 2nd ed., c. 1901, b & w illustrations, one or two spots, endpapers renewed, original red pictorial cloth, spine and edges a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Peking. A Historical and Intimate Description of its Chief Places of Interest, by Juliet Bredon, 2nd ed., revised & enlarged, 1922, folding maps and plans, original orange pictorial cloth, d.j., a few tears, loss to rear panel, 8vo, with others related including E.T.C. Werner’s Myths & Legends of China, New York, 1922, A Compendium of the Book of Common Prayer of the United Church of England and Ireland... Translated into Chinese by the Late Rev. Dr. Morrison, 1848 and Pidgin-English Sing-Song or Songs and Stories in the China-English Dialect. With a Vocabulary, by Charles G. Leland, 2nd ed., 1887

25 Keppel (Captain the Hon. Henry). A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H.M. Ship Maeander, with portions of the Private Journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1853, eight tinted lithograph plates, folding map contained in vol. I rear pocket, a few light spots, contemporary previous owner signatures, original red cloth gilt, vol. I spine ends with chips and tears, spines faded, 8vo (2)

£200-300

£200-300

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£150-200

30 Livingstone (David). Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years’ Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean, 1st ed., 2nd issue, 1857, folding wood-eng. frontis., eng. port., two folding maps (one contained in rear pocket, with small split to fold), num. b&w plts., 8pp. pubs. list at end dated November 1, 1857, some occ. spotting, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, fading to spine, couple of small holes to rear joint, 8vo, together with Livingstone (David & Charles).

Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries; And of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864, 1st ed., 1865,folding wood-eng. frontis., folding map at end (large handling tear), num. eng. plts. and illusts., pubs. adverts at rear, dated January, 1866, cracking to hinges, orig. cloth gilt, spine faded, wear to extrems., 8vo, plus Waller (Horace), The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death..., 1874, folding map to rear pocket of vol. 1, eng. plts. and illusts., hinges strengthened, orig. cloth gilt, rebacked preserving orig. spines, rubbed and some fading, 8vo, and Lugard (Captain F.D.). The Rise of Our East African Empire. Early Efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda, 2 vols., 1893, port frontis. to each, folding maps incl. two to front and rear pocket of vol. 1, b&w illusts. to text, orig. dec. cloth gilt, spines faded, some fading to rear cover of vol. 1, rubbed, 8vo, together with McDermott (P. L.), British East Africa or Ibea. A History of the Formation and Work of the Imperial British East Africa Company, 1893, b&w port. frontis., folding col. map, b&w plts., orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo (7)

33 Methven (Robert). The Log of a Merchant Officer; Viewed with Reference to the Education of Young Officers and the Youth of the Merchant Service, pub. John Weale, Smith Elder & Co. [and] Ackermann and Co., 1854, addn. half title, dedicated title page inscribed in contemp. ink manuscript ‘With the Author’s Comps.’, dedication and preface, eighteen litho. plates including two printed in colour and two with addn. near contemp. hand colouring, ten litho. sample tables and logs, one folding litho. map and three wood engravings to text, t.e.g., upper joint cracked, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and worn at extrems., slim folio Uncommon.

(1)

£200-300

34 Monin (C.V.). Atlas Universel de Géographie Ancienne & Moderne en 42 Cartes, pub. Paris, c.1860, dec. litho. title page, fortytwo (complete) litho. maps with contemp. outline colouring, some dust and finger soiling to margins, two maps with repairs to margins, early 20th century qtr. cloth, 4to, together with Drioux (Claude Joseph & Leroy Charles),Atlas Universel et Classique de Géographie, Ancienne, Romaine du Moyen Age, Modern et Comtemporaine....., new edition, pub. Paris, 1863, title page and index, sixty-five (of seventy) maps, most with contemp. hand colouring, slight spotting throughout, addn. map of North & South America loosely inserted, 20th century qtr. sheep, 4to, with two other similar atlases

31 Lyell (Denis D.). Memories of an African Hunter. With a Chapter on Eastern India, 1st ed., 1923, half-tone illustrations, a few spots, original green cloth, edges a little rubbed, 8vo, author’s own copy, signed with annotations, together with John Taylor’s Maneaters and Marauders, 1959 (2)

£300-400

32 Markham (Clements R.). A History of the Abyssinian Expedition, with a Chapter Containing an Account of the Mission and Captivity of Mr. Rassam and his Companions by Lieutenant W.F. Prideaux, Bombay Staff Corps, 1st ed., 1869, five maps and plans, 4 folding, (one torn without loss, one repaired), a few spots, bookplate of Col. William Francis Prideaux, Indian Staff Corps, library cloth, some repairs and stains, 8vo (1)

£300-500

Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

(4)

£100-150

35 Nelson (Admiral Horatio). Memoirs of the Life and Achievements of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, by a Captain of the British Navy, 2nd ed., 1805, 116 pp., lacking portrait frontispiece?, occasional spotting, press cuttings and portraits pasted at front and rear, contemporary owner inscription, title with repaired tear, two letters from the National Maritime Museum tippedin (noting differences with their copy), contemporary half calf, spine chipped, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with The Young Navigator’s Guide to the Sideral and Planetary Parts of Nautical Astronomy..., 2nd ed., corrected, 1828, diagramatic illustrations, pubs. list at end, occasional soiling and dampstains, previous owner inscriptions, contemporary half calf, some wear, 8vo, with others related including A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence of ViceAdmiral Lord Collingwood, 2 vols., 5th ed., 1837

£100-150

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£100-150

36 Ortelius (Abraham). Abrahami Ortelii Theatri Orbis Terrarum Parergon sive Veteris Geographiae Tabulae Commentariis Geographicis et Historicis Illustratae: Editio Novissima, Tabulis aliquot aucta et varie emendat atq innovata, Cura et Studio Balthasaris Moreti, pub. Plantin & Moretus, Amsterdam, 1624, title page with contemp. hand colouring, some marginal fraying and staining, large uncoloured heraldic woodcut armorial of Philip IV on verso, dedication and *3 detached, thirty-nine uncoloured double page maps and five double page plates, all with Latin text on verso, one map (France) with closed tear affecting image, woodcut printers device to final leaf, occ. spotting and creasing, later re-guarding with occ. wormholes, front free endpaper torn, near contemp. vellum, old reback and some other later repairs to spine, folio, contained in early 20th century vellum gilt book box Koeman C. (Atlantes), Ort.46 (1)

ÂŁ4000-6000

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Lot 39

37 Palestine Exploration Fund. Quarterly Statements, 1869-76, 1878-91, 1893-1905, 1907-1927, together 57 vols., commencing Quarterly Statement no. 2, 1969, folding plates and plans, occasional spotting, original terracotta and green cloth, some dampstaining, plus 11 loose issues from 1906 and 1928-30, five annual reports 1904-1929 and three annuals for 1911, 1914-15 and 1923-25 (approx 75)

39 Parry (William Edward). Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty’s Ships Fury and Hecla, 1st ed., 1824, thirty eng. plts. (inc. frontis. and four folding), nine maps & charts (inc. 4 folding), upper margin of title inscribed “Sir Byam Martin, with the author’s best compts.”, occasional offsetting and spotting, few plts. & plans with oval blind stamp to margin, 20th c. library cloth, spine faded, 4to

£300-400

Sabin 58864. Sir Thomas Byam Martin (1773-1854) was a British Royal Navy officer who served at sea during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and late as a naval administrator until his death in 1854. In August 1819 during Sir William Edward Parry’s first expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, named one of the Canadian arctic islands Byam Martin Island in honour of him.

(1) £400-600

38 Pardoe (Julia). The Beauties of the Bosphorus, 1838, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title, map and 78 engraved views after William Bartlett, occasional light spotting, disbound, upper cover and part of spine only, 4to, together with Denmark Delineated; or, Sketches of the Present State of that Country, by A. Andersen Feldborg, Edinburgh, 1824, additional engraved title, 22 (of 23 plates, lacking Cronburg Castle), titles misbound, a few spots, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 8vo (2)

£200-300

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40 Philby (H. St. J.B.). The Heart of Arabia. A Record of Travel & Exploration, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1922, two folding maps (one with marginal tear), b & w illustrations, vol. I lacking half title and front endpaper, occasional light spotting, library stamps and labels, endpapers browned (vol. I rear torn with loss), original green cloth, spines a little rubbed with shelf numbers erased, 8vo (2)

£150-200

41 Pinkerton (John). Abrégé de la Géographie Moderne rédigée sur un nouveau plan, revised and corrected by J.P. Buache, pub.

Dentu, Paris, 1805, addn. half title, nine (complete) folding engraved maps with contemp. outline colouring, hinges and joints weak, contemp.calf, spine partially lacking, 8vo, together with Masselin (J.G.). Dictionnaire Universel des Géographies, Physique, Historique et Politique....., pub, Paris, 1827, addn. half title, eight engraved folding maps with contemp. outline colouring, three maps detached, slight worming to last few leaves, hinges and joints weak, contemp. calf gilt, spine partially lacking and near detached, heavily frayed and worn, thick 8vo, with three other atlases similar Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

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Lot 42 43 Psalmanaazaar (George). An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island Subject to the Emperor of Japan, 1st ed., 1704, 15 engraved plates (of 16, lacking plate 12 as often), folding alphabet table, a few tears, some spotting and water stains, title with frayed foredge and previous owner signature, contemporary half vellum, boards rubbed, 8vo, together with The Siamese Tales: Being a Collection of Stories Told to the Son of the Mandarin Sam-Sib, for the Purpose of Engaging his Mind in the Love of Truth and Virtue. With an Historical Account of the Kingdom of Siam, [by George Brewer], 1st ed., 1796, engraved frontispiece, lacking half title and advert. leaf, occasional spotting, previous owner inscription, contemporary calf, rebacked, 8voFirst work a famous hoax by literary imposter Psalmanazar (not his real name).

£150-200

42 Psalmanaazaar (George). Description de l’isle Formosa en Asie. Du Gouvernement, des Loix, des Moeurs & de la Religion des habitans, Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1708, eighteen copper engravings, including views and map of Japan, several folding, contemp. calf gilt, rubbed and a little wear to extrems., 12mo Cordier, Bibliotheca Japonica 408.

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£200-300

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£150-200

Lot 44

44 Ptolemaeus (Claudius). Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo, 2 parts bound in one, pub. Hugo à Porta & Gaspar Trechsel, Lyon & Vienna, 1541, letter press title with printers woodcut device, later manuscript ownership signature, slight worming to first few leaves, pp.128 trimmed with slight loss to image (chart of the winds), numerous large woodcut initials, fifty (complete) wood engraved maps (including forty-nine double page), slight marginal water staining, a few small splash stains, 18th century calf with gilt dec. spine, few worm holes to spine, a little rubbed, folio

45 Schriverius (Petrus). Beschryvinge van de Graven van Holland, Zeeland ende Friesland, van der eersten Diederick af, totden laersten Philips..., The Hague, 1678, addn. eng. title (trimmed at foot with some loss to caption), eng. dedication & armorial, twenty eng. portrait plts. with eng. & letterpress caption beneath, folding table, contemp. vellum, 12mo, together with Shoberl (Frederic), The World in Miniature: The Netherlands, Containing a Description of the Character, Manners, Habits, and Costumes..., [1823], sixteen hand-col. eng. plts. only (of 18), occasional minor spotting & offsetting, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spine, rubbed, 12mo

Sabin 66485. Adams P2221. The second edition of Ptolemy by Servetus.

Map 28 with an account of the discoveries of Colombus to verso. A fine early atlas in very good condition.

(1) £10000-15000

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20

£150-200

Lot 44

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46 Seller (John). The Coasting Pilot: Describing the Sea-coasts, Channels, Soundings, Sands, Shoals, Rocks and Dangers: The Bayes, Roads, Harbours, Rivers, Ports, Buoyes, Beacons and Sea-marks upon the Coasts of England, Holland, Flanders & France, with Directions to bring a Shipp into any Harbour on the said Coasts....., Collected and Published by John Seller, Hydrographer in Ordinary to the King, Pub. John Seller, William Fisher, John Thornton & James Atkinson, c.1690, dec. eng. title page with slight creasing and slight worming, 54 pps. with eng. horizon profiles to text, some staining and spotting throughout, modern end papers, modern half calf with contrasting morocco label to spine, slim folio, together with a separate portfolio containing eleven (only) folding b & w engraved sea charts by John Seller, some charts frayed with slight loss, several strengthened on verso, some spotting and staining, each approx. 390 x 530mm, contained in modern marbled card portfolio with four linen ties, slim folio The charts consist of :- ‘Chart of the West Part of England from Portland to Silly’ [on sheet with] ‘A Draught of the Landsend of England and Islands of Silly’, ‘The River of Humber/ The River of Tyne’, ‘A Chart of the North Coast of England from Yarmouth to Cocket Island’ [on sheet with] ‘A Description of the East Coast of Scotland’, ‘A Chart of the Maes’ [on sheet with] ‘The Coast of Holland between Maes and the Texel’, ‘A Chart of the Eemes Elve’ [on sheet with] ‘A Chart of the Coast of Jutland’, ‘A Chart of the South Sea Texel and FlyStreame’ [on sheet with] A Chart of the Fly and Amelander’, ‘A Chart of Flanders’ ‘A Chart of the Sea Coasts of England Flanders & Holland’, ‘ A Draught of the Sands Channels Buoyes Beacons and Sea-Marks upon the Coast of England’, ‘A Chart of ye Narrow Seas’ [and] ‘A Chart of the Brittish Chanel’.

(2) £5000-8000

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48 Smythe (Mrs S.M.). Ten Months in the Fiji Islands, With an Introduction and Appendix by Colonel W.J. Smythe, 1st ed., 1864, 10 chromo. and tinted plates, four maps (two folding), occasional light spotting, modern crimson half morocco, 8vo (1)

£100-150

49 Stanfield (Clarkson). Stanfield’s Coast Scenery. A Series of Views in the British Channel, pub. Smith, Elder and Co., 1836, addn. dec. half title, forty uncoloured engraved plts. (including vignette title) complete as list, very occ. spotting, a.e.g., contemp. gilt and blind stamped morocco, skillfully rebacked, boards a little faded, 4to (1)

50 Survey of Western Palestine. Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology, by Lieut. C.R. Conder and Lieut. H.H. Kitchener, 3 vols., 1881-83, lithographed maps, plates and plans, colour frontis. to vol. III, scattered light spotting, original burgundy cloth, upper cover with gilt Jerusalem Cross, joints and edges a little rubbed, 4to, together with Special Papers on Topography, Archaeology, Manners and Customs etc., 1881, map frontis., some spotting, uniform cloth, small splits to joints, 4to, plus Jerusalem, by Col. Sir Charles Warren & Capt. Claude Reignier Conder, 1884, maps and illustrations, occasional spotting, rear hinge tender, uniform cloth, a little rubbed, 4to, with The Fauna and Flora of Palestine, by H.B. Tristram, 1884, 20 lithograhed plates (13 hand-coloured), first few leaves loosening, a few spots, uniform cloth, light dampstains, 4to, with Memoir of the Physical Geology and Geography of Arabia Petraea, Palestine, and Adjoining Districts,

by Edward Hull, 1888, Arabic and English Name Lists, Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer, 1881, A General Index, Compiled by Henry C. Stewardson, 1888, Archaeological Researches in Palestine During the Years 1873-1874, by Charles ClermontGanneau, 2 vols., 1896-99, The Survey of Eastern Palestine, Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, Archaeology,

by Major C.R. Conder’s 1889, vol. I [all published], 1889 and Trelawney Saunders’ An Introduction to the Survey of Western Palestine: Its Waterways, Plains & Highlands, 1881

Lot 50 47 Smith (George). A Narrative of an Exploratory Visit to Each of the Consular Cities of China, and to the Islands of Hong Kong and Chusan, in Behalf of the Church Missionary Society in the Years 1844, 1845, 1846, 1st ed., 1847, double-page colour map, 12 lithographed plates, a few tinted, occasional water stains and spotting, title detaching, modern brown cloth, 8vo, together with A Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China after the Wreck of the Kite, by John Lee Scott, 1st ed., 1841, four engraved plates, light water stain to frontispiece, occasional soiling, original cloth gilt, upper joint splitting, small repair to spine, 8vo, plus The Life and Opinions of the Rev. William Milne, D.D., Missionary to China, Illustrated by Biographical Annals of Asiatic Missions, from Primitve to Protestant Times; Intended as a Guide to Missionary Spirit, by Robert Philip, 1st ed., 1840, engraved frontispiece, pubs. ads. at front, occasional spotting, presentation inscription to title, front hinge broken, original cloth, spine detached with loss, 8vo, with M. Geraldine Guinness’ The Story of the China Inland Mission, 2 vols., 1893 (5)

£100-150

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£800-1200

51 Sykes (Brigadier-General Sir Percy). The Quest for Cathay, 1st ed., A & C Black, 1936, colour frontis., folding maps, illustrations, previous owner signature, original red cloth, d.j., a few tears and losses, 8vo, together with Sunshine and Sport in Florida and the West Indies, by F.G. Aflalo, 1st UK ed., [1907], b & w plates, a few spots, front endpaper repaired at gutter, t.e.g., original cloth in bright condition, 8vo, plus Young Japan. Yokohama and Yedo 185879, by John R. Black, 2 vols., OUP, 1968, colour frontis. to vol. I, original cloth, d.j.s, 8vo, with other travel including Count Byron de Prorok’s In Quest of Lost Worlds, 1935, Robert Grant Webster’s Japan: From the Old to the New, 1905 and P.T. Etherton’s Across the Great Deserts, 1948

£200-300

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£150-200

53 Thompson (W.M.). The Holy Land, Egypt, Constantinople, Athens, etc., A Series of Forty-Eight Photographs, Taken by Francis Bedford, [1866], forty-eight mounted albumen prints (5.5 x 12.5cm and similar), some heavy spotting throughout, photo captions and imprints closely trimmed at foremargins, gutter percha partly broken and several leaves detached, hinges cracked, a.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. cloth, rubbed, a little wear to head of spine, 4to (1)

£300-500

54 Wright (Rev. G.N.). The Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean. Drawn fom Nature, [1840], additional engraved title, folding eng. map of the Mediterranean, sixty-three eng. views after W.L. Leitch, T. Allom, etc., contemp. half calf gilt, 4to, together with Carne (John), Syria, The Holy Land, Asia Minor, & c.

Illustrated, 1st series, [1836], addn. eng. title, thirty-six eng. views after W.H. Bartlett & William Purser, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco, gilt dec. spine, 4to (2)

55 Younghusband (Captain Frank E.). The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through The Himalayas, The Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894, 4th ed., 1897, b&w illusts., mostly after photos., four folding maps, including map of the North Western Frontier of India in pocket at rear, orig. green cloth, rubbed and some minor marks to extrems., together with Stein (Sir Aurel). On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks, 1st ed., 1933, some colour and numerous b&w plts., incl. some folding, map at end, torn to folds with some sellotape repairs, orig. cloth, rubbed, with some fraying and sl. wear, plus Calvert (Albert F.). The Exploration of Australia, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1895/96, b&w frontis. to first vol., folding coloured map (torn without loss), b&w plts., t.e.g., orig. two-tone cloth gilt, sl. rubbed and some light soiling, 4to, together with The Discovery of Australia, 2nd ed., pub.

Dean & Son, 1902, half-title, b&w frontis., b&w plts., a.e.g., orig. green cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some marks, 4to, plus Meredith (Louise Anne Twamley), Notes and Sketches of New South Wales, During a Residence in that Colony from 1839 to 1844, 1st ed., pub. John Murray, 1844, half-title not present, 164 pp., nearcontemp. green full morocco, gilt dec. spines, a few minor marks, small 8vo, and other travel, including S. W. Christian, The Caroline Islands, 1899, Henning Haslund, Tents in Mongolia, 1st ed., 1934, & Men and Gods in Mongolia, 1st ed., 1935 (inscribed by the author), Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Natural History & Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage around the World on HMS Beagle, new ed., 1890, etc., all 8vo

52 Symons (G.J., ed.). The Eruption of Krakatoa, and Subsequent Phenomena. Report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society, 1888, two chromo. frontispieces, colour plates, folding tables, maps and charts, a few light spots, original cloth, upper joint splitting, spine a little faded and torn at ends, 4to (1)

£200-300

£300-400

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£150-200

BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY

Lot 56

56 Ackermann (Rudolph). A History of The University of Oxford, Its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings, pub. R.Ackermann, 2 vols.

1814, addn. half title to each vol., eng. b & w portrait frontis. to vol.

1, dedication and list of subscribers, 114 engraved and aquatint plates (including the thirty-three founders plates) all with contemp. hand colouring (complete as lists), some offsetting mainly from plates to text, very occ. light spotting, armorial book plate of E.W.Wynne Pendarves to each vol., a.e.g., gilt ruled dentelles, contemp. gilt dec. diced calf by C.Hering, hinges and joints weak, 4to Abbey Scenery no. 278. Tooley, no.5. A handsome set.

(1)

ÂŁ1500-2000

Lot 56

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60 Barratt (Thomas J.). The Annals of Hampstead, 3 vols., pub.

A. & C. Black, 1912, tipped in col. plts., numerous b & w illusts., folding maps (including one contained in rear pocket of vol. 2), a.e.g., orig. dec. cloth in bright condition, with remains of torn and frayed d.j.s, 4to Limited edition of 550 copies, signed by the author.

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61 Calvert (F., and Roberts, P.E.). The Isle of Wight Illustrated, in a Series of Coloured Views... Accompanied by a Succinct Historical, Geographical, and Topographical Description of the Island, 1st ed., G.H. Davidson, 1846, half-title present, tinted litho. frontis. (margins foxed and water-stain to blank fore-margin), hand-col. eng. map, twenty fine hand-col. aqua. views, with tissue guards, occn. minor marks to margins, and some light off-setting of plts. to text, but generally a clean copy, hinges split, a.e.g., orig. green cloth, elaborately gilt dec. spine and upper cover (former faded), rear cover blocked in blind, some minor marks, but overall a bright copy, slim 4to

57 Armstrong (Mostyn John). An Actual Survey of the Great Post-Roads between London and Edinburgh, 1776, title page with engraved oval vignette of a coach and horses, general map of the Post Roads and forty-four (complete) engraved road maps with sparse contemp. outline colouring, later ownership signature to front pastedown, modern half gilt speckled calf, 8vo (1)

Abbey, Scenery, 352.

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62 Cary (John). Cary’s Traveller’s Companion or a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales, Shewing the Immediate Route to every Market and Borough Town throughout the Kingdom, laid down from the best Authorities on a New Set of County Maps, 1806, calligraphic title page, advertisement and contents list, fortythree engraved maps with contemp. outline colouring, list of market & borough towns bound in at rear, slight toning, staining and offsetting throughout, contemp. half calf, rebacked, 8vo

£100-150

59 Barber (Thomas). Picturesque Illustrations, of the Isle of Wight, Comprising Views of every object of interest on the Island, pub. Simpkin & Marshall, [1834], eng. map frontis. (slightly toned), eng. vignette title, forty eng. plts., occasional spotting, contemp. half calf, modern morocco title label to spine, extrems. rubbed, 8vo, together with Lyon (Rev. John), The History of ye Town and Port of Dover, and of Dover Castle; with a Short Account of the Cinque Ports., 2 vols., Dover, 1813, six folding eng. plans, and ten eng. plts. (one folding), endpapers renewed, modern half calf retaining orig. cloth covered boards, 4to (3)

£500-700

£150-200

58 Bankes (George). The Story of Corfe Castle, and of many who lived there, 1st ed., 1853, five plates, extra-illustrated with approx.

60 engraved plates, mostly portraits, occasional offsetting, a.e.g., contemporary calf, joints and edges a little rubbed, 8vo (1)

£100-150

Chubb CCLXXVI. (1)

£150-200

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£100-150

Lot 61 63 Conybeare (William Daniel & Phillips, William ). Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales with an Introductory Compendium of the General Principles of that Science......, part 1 (all published), 1st. ed. 1822, folding engraved geological map of England & Wales with contemp. hand colouring, calligraphic title page, folding engraved cross sectioned geological chart with contemp. hand colouring bound at rear with uncoloured folding eng. plt. of scientific instruments, later pencil annotations to front paste down and f.e.p., contemp. morocco gilt, a little rubbed at extrems., 8vo, together with Reynolds (James, pub.), Reynolds’s Geological Atlas of Great Britain, Comprising a Series of Maps Geologically Coloured......, c.1880, addn. half title, col. litho. frontis. of ‘Comparative View of the Mountains and Hills of England and Wales’, index and hand coloured geological reference plt., thirtythree double page litho. maps with contemp. hand colouring (including one folding), complete as list, gutta percha perished, contents loose and text block detached, a.e.g., contemp. cloth gilt, spine torn and partially detached, faded, frayed and worn, small 8vo, with Ramsay (Andrew C.),Geological Map of England & Wales, pub. Edward Stanford, 1881, large folding map with contemp. hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight staining to margins, later ink manuscript ownership signature to end paper, 960 x 880mm, contained in contemp. blue gilt cloth slip case, a little rubbed at extrems.

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£200-300

64 Cooke (George Alexander). Topographical and Statistical Description of the British Isles, 13 vols. (only), c.1802 - 10 thirtyseven uncoloured engraved folding county maps, some worming to boards and end papers which affects five maps (Shropshire, Durham, Essex, Hertfordshire & Buckinghamshire), occ. slight spotting and offsetting, contemp. half calf gilt, some hinges weak, worn at extrems., small 8vo

68 Gray (George Carrington). Gray’s New Book of Roads. The Tourist and Traveller’s Guide to the Roads of England and Wales and Part of Scotland on an Entirely new Plan....., pub. Sherwood, Jones and Co., 1824, addn. dec. half title with a wood engraving of a rider at a tole-gate, half title with near contemp. ink manuscript ownership signature, folding eng. map of England & Wales with contemp. outline colouring, preface and list of roads and cross roads, forty-nine b & w eng. county and regional maps (including one folding, (‘A Map of Derbyshire’), appears to lack the county map of Derbyshire, index bound at rear, modern half morocco gilt, square 8vo

The maps consist of :-Staffordshire, Kent, Surrey, Monmouth, Herefordshire, South Wales, North Wales, Westmorland, Lancashire, Sussex, Hampshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Durham, Cumberland, Northumberland, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and four maps of Yorkshire. Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

(13) £100-150

Chubb CCCXCII. (1)

69 Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of England and Wales, 8 vols., pub. Hooper and Wigstead [1797], engraved frontispiece and title to each, folding uncoloured engraved map of England and Wales to vol.7, 629 engraved plates and plans (including two folding), occ. spotting and staining, together with The Antiquities of Scotland, 2 vols., pub. Hooper & Wigstead, 1797, engraved frontispiece and title to each volume, 189 engraved plates and plans, some spotting and staining, with Darell (Revd. Wm.),The History of Dover Castle, pub. Hooper & Wigstead, 1797, engraved title and frontispiece, nine engraved plates and plans (including one folding), bound with Grose (Francis),A Provincial Glossary; with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions, New ed., pub. Edward Jeffery, 1811, printed title, very occ. spotting, all bound in matching contemp. gilt and blind stamped calf with gilt dec. spines, slight rodent damage at foot of spine of vols.2, 4 , 7 & 8 and to head of spine on the Dover Castle volume, large 4to

65 Cordiner (Rev. Charles). Antiquities & Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters, to Thomas Pennant, 1st ed., 1780, eng. vignette title with author’s inscription to upper margin “To Capt. Alexr. Dirom from the Author in testimony of sincerest Respect and Esteem”, twenty-one eng. plts. (inc. 1 folding), contemp. sheep, rebacked and corners repaired, extrems. rubbed, 4to, together with Lauder (Sir Thomas Dick), An Account of the Great Floods of August 1829, in the Province of Moray, and Adjoining Districts, Edinburgh: Adam Black, 1830, two folding eng. maps (one with repaired closed tear to inner margin), numerous eng. plts. and illusts., contemp. tree calf, gilt dec. spine with contrasting morocco labels, extrems. rubbed, 8vo (2)

£150-200

Large Paper Copy.

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66 Dugdale (William). The Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated; from Records, Leiger-Books, Manuscripts, Charters, Evidences, Tombes, and Armes, 1st ed., pub. Thomas Warren, 1656, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED, containing port frontis. and fifteen engraved plates and maps as called for (mostly engraved by Hollar), numerous engravings to text throughout, with much additional engraved material bound-in including maps of Warwickshire by Charles Smith, Richard Blome, Bowen/Kitchin, Seller/Grose, an Ogilby road map of Oxford to Coventry, three large engraved Kip views, an aquatint etching after Sandby of Kennilworth Castle published by Boydell, a mezzotint of Shakespeare’s bust by William Ward, two small Buck views, and several others, title relaid, some of the additional prints also relaid or with fold tears, contemp. mottled calf, modern reback, folio Upcott p. 1247.

(1)

£300-500

Lot 69

£400-600

67 Dugdale (James). The New British Traveller or Modern Panorama of England and Wales, 4 vols, pub. J.Robins & Co., 1819, engraved allegorical frontis. addn. dec. half title to each volume, folding uncoloured engraved map of England & Wales and fortythree engraved county maps by Neele and fifty engraved topographical plts., some maps trimmed, some water staining, spotting and slight offsetting throughout, book plate of Thomas Earle, upper board of vol.3 near detached, contemp. tree calf, rubbed and worn, 4to Chubb CCCLXIII. (4)

£120-180

£200-300

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70 Hinton (John). [The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure....., 1765 - 73], thirty-four (of 39) double page uncoloured engraved strip road maps, old folds, slight creasing, modern half calf with contrasting morocco label to spine, slim upright 4to Chubb CCXXVI, Beresiner p.114. The maps are clearly based on John Ogilby’s ‘Britannia’ of 1675 but are of a much larger scale than most other 18th century road and route maps. Hinton’s road maps have no reference to an engraver or author. Perhaps Hinton considered the authorship unnecessary as he was already known as the publisher of the two dominant English cartographers of the 18th century, Thomas Kitchin and Emaunuel Bowen as well as being the publisher of ‘The Universal Magazine’.

(1) £150-250

71 Kirby (John, of Wickham-Market). The Suffolk Traveller, First Published by Mr. John Kirby..., Who took an actual Survey of the whole County, in the Years 1732, 1733, and 1734, 2nd ed., 1764, folding eng. map, hand-coloured in outline (cropped to outer ruled margin, few closed tears, one repaired), four folding strip maps, final gathering loose, contemp. half calf, lacking title label, boards detached, worn, 8vo (1)

£100-150

72 Kitchin (Thomas). Ogilby’s Survey Improv’d or Kitchin’s New and Instructive Traveller’s Companion for the Roads of England and Wales. Laid down in a Plain Intelligible manner with all the Towns, Villages &c. thereon and the Distances in Single Miles on each Road, pub. Thomas Kitchin, 1771, oval calligraphic title page, index of towns and folding table of cross roads, folding map of England & Wales torn with loss, addn. facsimile map supplied with note indicating that it was taken from a copy of the atlas owned by Sir Henry Fordham, ninety-five uncoloured engraved strip road maps, slight staining to margins of final few leaves, last page with marginal closed tears and slight loss, repaired on verso, front end paper with repaired margins and with copious later pencil manuscript annotations and notes to recto and verso, modern end papers and paste downs, modern ‘envelope style’ limp calf with leather tie, oblong 8vo The plates for these maps were acquired and used again by Carington Bowles in his 1782 ‘Post-Chaise Companion’ but this earlier publication is not listed in Chubb and we can find no auction records for this atlas. Scarce.

(1) £600-900

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74 Lewis (Samuel, & Co., publishers). A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate & Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries and Townships and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey and Man....., 4 vols., 1st ed., 1831, title page to each vol., forty-three b & w engraved maps (including fifteen folding), slight staining and offsetting throughout, occ. marginal finger soiling, t.e.g. (but not on vol.4), contemp. half morocco gilt, a lttle rubbed at extrems., 4to Chubb CCCCXXX. (4)

73 Laurie (Robert and James Whittle). Whittle and Laurie’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....., 7th ed., pub.

James Whittle and Richard Holmes Laurie, 1814, calligraphic title page, advertisement and explanation, 8 pps. of towns and villages, folding eng. map of England & Wales with contemp. outline colouring, twenty-five eng. regional route maps with contemp. hand colouring, manuscript ownership signature to first rear endpaper and another on first front endpaper, hinges and joints weak, contemp. limp morocco, rubbed at extrems., 4to Beresiner pp. 136 - 39.

(1)

£120-180

75 London Magazine. The London Magazine or Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, vol. 19, pub. R.Baldwin, 1750, calligraphic title with eng. vignette of London, eng. allegorical frontis., eleven uncoloured engraved folding plts. including three town panoramas (Ely, Northampton and Maidstone) and seven eng. folding county maps by Thomas Kitchin, (Sussex, Surrey, Cumberland, Devon, Cheshire, Lancashire and Cambridgeshire), some toning throughout, 19th century vellum with contrasting morocco label to spine, a little stained and soiled. 8vo, together with Martin (Benjamin),The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences...., pub.

W.Owen, 1756, title page printed in red & black, allegorical frontis., fourteen engraved plts. (including three folding), five engraved folding maps by Emanuel Bowen (Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Wiltshire) together with a folding eng. town plan of Bath, very occ. spotting, hinges and joints weak, contemp. reverse calf, 8vo, with Hinton (John pubs.),The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure....., vol. 4, 1749, calligraphic title with armorial device, addn. half title, eng. allegorical map frontis., sixteen eng. plts. (including nine folding), and two uncoloured folding maps by John Hinton (Devon and Dorset), some offsetting throughout, hinges and joints weak, contemp. half calf, rubbed and worn at extrems., 8vo

£150-200

Sold as a collection of maps and engravings, not subject to return.

(3) £150-200

76 Morris (F.O., ed.). A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, 6 vols., n.d., c.1870’s, addn. chromolithograph title to each, numerous chromo. plts., a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. red cloth, extrems. slightly rubbed, 4to (6)

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£150-200

79 Paterson (Captain Daniel). Paterson’s British Itinerary, Being a New and Accurate Delineation and Description of the Direct and Principal Cross Roads of Great Britain, 2 vols., 1st ed., pub.

Carington Bowles, 1785, double page engraved map of England & Wales with contemp. hand colouring, eng. calligraphic title to each vol., dec. eng. dedication to vol.1, addn. half title to vol.2, 358 uncoloured engraved strip road maps (complete) on 179 pages, contemp. gilt marbled calf, with contrasting labels to spines, upper board on vol. 1 near detached, rear board detached, bumped at extrems.,8vo (2)

£200-300

80 Peepshow. The Tunnel Under the River Thames [cover-title], c.1850, four hand-col. eng. divisions, incl. top with hand-col. circular eng. between circular peepholes, depicting figures promenading inside the tunnel, 11 x 17.5cm (4.25 x 7ins), extending 53cm (21ins), re-housed in a cloth binding with remains of paper label on spine ‘Cabinet Cyclopaedia’, with letterpress leaf mounted on front pastedown ‘A Brief Account of the Thames Tunnel’ (1)

77 Owen (John and Bowen, Emmanuel). Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv’d; Being a Correct Coppy of Mr. Ogilby’s Actual Survey of all ye Direct & Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales....., 4th. ed., pub. Thomas Bowles, 1749, title page, 8 pps. of tables, 273 pps. of uncoloured engraved road and county maps, printed back to back, 19th century ink manuscript inscription to front paste down, contemp. calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, 8vo Chubb CLIIIa. (1)

81 Pennant (Thomas). Of London, pub. Robert Faulder, 1790, eng. port. frontis. and eng. title, folding eng. plan, eleven eng. plts. including one folding, bound with Additions and Corrections to the First Edition of Mr. Pennant’s Account of London, 1791, two eng. plts. (one folding), contemp. calf, rebacked preserving orig. gilt dec. spine, corners repaired, 4to, together with A Tour in Wales MDCCLXX, pub. 1778, eng. title with MDCLXX corrected by hand to MDCLXXIII, twenty-six eng. plts. (few folding), occasional spotting and offsetting, contemp. calf, rebacked preserving orig. gilt dec. spine, 4to, with [Pote, Joseph], The History and Antiquities of Windsor Castle..., pub. Eton, 1749, title in red & black, thirteen eng. plts., lower hinge repaired, contemp. calf, rebacked preserving orig. gilt dec. spine, 4to

£400-600

78 Parkyns (G.J.). Monastic and Baronial Remains, with other Interesting Fragments of Antiquity, in England, Wales, and Scotland, 2 vols., 1816, 200 uncol. aquatint plts. (inc. frontispieces), some spotting mostly to plate margins and some toning of text leaves, bookplates of Thomas Tylston Greg and Graham Noble to front endpapers, a.e.g., contemp. gilt dec. dark green morocco, 8vo, together with Woolnoth (William), The Ancient Castles or England and Wales..., with Historical Descriptions by E.W. Brayley, Jun., 2 vols., 1825, addn. eng. vignette titles, 107 eng. plts. (inc. frontispieces), contemp. dark green half morocco, gilt dec. spines, 8vo (4)

£100-150

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£200-300

82 Ramble (Reuben). Reuben Rambles Travels in the Western Counties of England, pub. Darton & Clark, c.1850, eight engraved maps with litho. vignette borders, all with contemp. hand colouring, some offsetting to maps, two maps pasted to inside of front and rear covers (as published), pubs. dec. printed limp card boards, contained in modern ‘wallet style’ qtr. morocco portfolio, with a facsimile label to upper board and silk ties, small 4to The maps comprise of:- Berkshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Cornwall, Hampshire, Devonshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset. One of five parts eventually published as a complete atlas in 1845 (Chubb DXVII). The maps are taken from ‘Miller’s New Miniature Atlas’. Uncommon.

(1) £250-350

83 Robinson (P.F.). Rural Architecture, or a Series of Designs for Ornamental Cottages, 1st ed., 1823, 96 litho. plans and elevations, bound with Hunt (T.F.), Designs for Parsonage Houses, Alms Houses, etc. etc. with Examples of Gables, and other Curious Remains of Old English Architecture, 1827, 21 litho. plates, contemp. half calf, attractive gilt decorated spine, joints cracking, 4to (1)

£200-300

84 Senex (John). Les Routes d’Ogilby par l’Angleterre revues corriges augmentées & reduites par Senex en 101 Cartes, pub.

[George Louis] Le Rouge, Paris, 1759, title page printed in French & English, uncoloured engraved map of England and Wales and 101 b & w engraved strip road maps (complete), near contemp. ‘envelope style’ limp morocco, a little faded, oblong 8vo This work is a French edition of ‘An Actual Survey...., of the Principal Roads’

by John Senex. An English edition was also published in 1759.

(1) £300-500

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Lot 87 Lot 85 85 Smith (Charles, Cartographer). Smith’s New English Atlas.

Being a Complete Set of County Maps, Divided into Hundreds...

Preceeded by a General Map of England and Wales..., 1st ed., 1804, calligraphic title, 39 (of 46) hand-coloured engraved maps on 43 sheets (lacking Cumberland, Lancashire and Westmorland), occasional spotting and offsetting, one or two tears and marginal repairs, water stains to title and contents leaves, manuscript numbers, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached, rubbed, folio

87 Turner (J.M.W.). Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England...., 2 vols. (in one), pub. John & Arthur Arch, 1826, title page and contents lists, forty-eight uncoloured engraved plts. and thirty-two engraved vignettes and chapter headings throughout (complete as lists), occ. spotting, book plate of Viscount Mersey, a.e.g., contemp. gilt and blind stamped calf with gilt dec. spine, a little bumped and worn at extrems., 4to

Chubb CCCXI. Sold as a collection of maps not subject to return.

(1) £500-800

£300-500

A handsome copy.

(1)

88 Westall (William, and Moule, Thomas). Great Britain Illustrated, pub. Charles Tilt, 1830, additional engraved title, 118 engraved views on 59 sheets, occasional scattered spotting, contemporary half calf, gilt dec. spine worn at head & foot, extrems. rubbed, 4to, together with Finden (William), Views of Ports and Harbours, Watering Places, Fishing Villages... on the English Coast, pub. Charles Tilt, 1838, addn. eng. title and forty-nine eng. plts., occasional spotting and some browning mostly to margins, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, extrems. rubbed, 4to

86 Teesdale (Henry & Co., publisher). Improved Edition of the New British Atlas Containing a Complete Set of County Maps, on which are Delineated the Mail, Turnpike and Principal Cross Roads, Cities, Towns & most Considerable Villages, Parks, Rivers, Navigable Canals & Railways, preceded by General Maps of England, Ireland, Scotland, North & South Wales, the whole Carefully Revised & Corrected to the Year 1832, calligraphic folding title page with inset table of explanation, three engraved folding maps sectionalised and laid on linen and forty-five double page engraved maps, all with bright contemp. hand colouring (including Yorkshire on four sheets), book plate of John Francis Bassett, contemp. gilt diced calf, joints a little cracked, frayed and rubbed at extrems., large 4to Chubb CCCCXII. (1)

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£150-200

89 Whitaker (Thomas Dunham). The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, in the County of York, 3rd ed., pub. Leeds & London, 1878, eng. port. frontis., addn. hand-col. etched title, two litho maps (one folding) and numerous plts. & folding pedigrees, occasional spotting mostly to margins, half-title spotted and frayed, t.e.g., modern calf, large 4to, together with [Carr, William], The Dialect of Craven, in the West-Riding of the County of York..., 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1818, orig. cloth, vol. 1 rebacked preserving original spine, vol. 2 repaired at head and frayed at foot of spine, 8vo, plus Twisleton (Tom), Poems in the Craven Dialect, 5th ed., Settle: Craven Printing and Stationary Co., 1893, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo

£400-600

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NATURAL HISTORY 90 Ayres (William P. and Moore, Thomas). The Florists’ Guide, and Gardeners’ and Naturalists’ Calendar, 1850, twelve hand-col. litho. plts., occ. spotting and occasional dust-soiling, a.e.g., orig. half morocco gilt, extrems. rubbed, 8vo, together with Rhind (William), A History of the Vegetable Kingdom, revised ed., 1868, numerous eng. plts. (some hand-col.), contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spine, 8vo, with Sowerby (John E.), The Ferns of Great Britain..., 1855, numerous hand-col. eng. plts., contemp. half calf gilt, 8vo, plus five other natural history related (8)

93 Brown (Captain Thomas). Illustrations of the Recent Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. With the Description and Localities of all the Species, Marine, Land and Fresh Water, 2nd ed., c.

1844, 62 engraved plates (two hand-coloured), one or two lightly browned, a few spots, contemporary boards, lacking spine, rubbed with stains, 4to (1)

£200-300

£150-200

91 Bewick (Thomas). A General History of Quadrupeds, 1st ed., Newcastle, 1790, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, p.17 top corner torn away just affecting text, one or two leaves detached, a few spots, previous owner signature to title, contemporary half calf, vertical split along spine, rubbed, 8vo (1)

£70-100

92 Brodtmann (Carl Joseph). Naturhistorische Abbildungen der Saeugethiere, pub. Zurich, 1824, dec. litho. title, eleven uncoloured litho. ethnological plts. and 135 (only) uncoloured litho. plts. of mammals, four plates torn with crude repairs, stained throughout, later half calf, 4to, together with Tröthan (V.),Naturgeschichte das Thierreich Erste Classe Saeugethirer...., pub. Vienna, 1837, calligraphic title page, sixteen uncoloured ethnological litho. plts. and eight-eight (only) uncoloured litho. plts. of wild and domestic mammals, contemp. half morocco gilt, bumped and worn at extrems., folio, plus Brodtmann (Carl Joseph),Naturhistorische Bilder Gallerie aus dem Thiereiche...., c.1840, twelve uncoloured litho. ethnological plts. and approx. ninety (only) uncoloured litho. plts. of mammals, birds and insects, some staining and spotting throughout, text block partially split and several leaves detached, some marginal fraying, later qtr. cloth, rubbed, worn and frayed, folio Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return (3)

94 Buffon (Georges-Louis Le Clerc, Comte de). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particuliere, 12 vols., Zweibrucken: Sanson & Compagnie, 1786-1787, half-titles, 138 hand-col. eng. plts., some with minor water-staining at head, occn. short edge-tears to text, first vol. with armorial bookplate of E.G. Graham Little on front pastedown, sprinkled edges, near contemp. half red morocco gilt, extrems. rubbed, spines sl. sunned, sm. 8vo (12)

£250-350

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£300-500

97 Claridge (John). A General View of the Agriculture in the County of Dorset, with Observations on the Means of its Improvement, 1793, half-title, three uncol. aquatint plts., bound with Pomeroy (William Thomas), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Worcester..., 1794, half-title, bound with Clark (John), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Brecknock..., 1794, half-title, few pencil notes to margins, bound with Martin (Alexander), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Renfrew..., 1794, half-title, some dampstaining , bound with Hassall (Charles), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Carmarthen..., 1794, half-title, bound with Griggs (Messrs., of Kelvedon), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Essex, 1794, half-title, bound with Stone (Thomas), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Huntingdon..., 1793, half-title, bound with Robinson (John), Letter to Sir John Sinclair, Bart. from John Robinson, Esq. Surveyor-General of Woods and Forests, 5th April, 1794, pub. 1794, half-title, bound with Somerville (Robert), Outlines of the Fifteenth Chapter of the Proposed General Report from the Board of Agriculture, on the Subject of Manures, 1795, half-title, bound with Kent (Nathaniel), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Norfolk..., 1794, one hand-col. aquatint, leaf A2 detached and lacking A3, contemp. half calf, spine leather torn, without covering to lower board, upper board worn some with loss of marbled paper, 4to

95 Buffon (Georges Louis Le Clerc). Oeuvres Complètes de Buffon Augmentées par M.F.Cuvier.... de Deux Volumes Supplémentaires, vols. 1 & 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13 & 14, 16 & 17, 25 & 26 and vol. 2 of the supplement, pub. Paris, 1829 - 31, addn. half title to each volume, vol.1 with portrait frontis., 116 (only) engraved plts. with contemp. hand colouring, partially uncut, contemp. qtr. red morocco gilt, 8vo, together with Nouvelle Histoire des Animaux ou Le Naturaliste du Second Age, pub. Paris, 1810, engraved portrait frontis., twenty-four uncoloured eng. plts., numerous wood engravings to text, upper hinge and joint weak, contemp. calf gilt, worn at extrems., 12mo Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return.

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£200-300

96 Cholmondeley-Penell (Henry). The Sporting Fish of Great Britain with Notes on Ichthyology, 1886, eighteen chromo plts., orig. cloth gilt, extrems. slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Stoddart (Thomas Tod), Angling Songs, 1889, eng. port. frontis., orig. cloth, 8vo, with Parker (Eric), An Angler’s Garland of Fields, Rivers, and other Country Contentments, 1920, half-title with author’s signature, edges untrimmed, orig. boards, extrems. rubbed, 8vo (Large Paper copy) (3)

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£100-150

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£250-350

98 Colonna (Fabio). Phytobasanos cui accessit vita Fabi et lynceorum notitia..., Florence, 1744, engraved vignette to title, thirty-eight eng. plts. of plants at rear, uncut, contemp. vellum, rubbed and soiled, edge wear to head of lower board, 4to Nissen 386.

(1)

£300-500

99 Curtis (John). British Entomology; being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland..., vol. 1-4 (of 8) bound in two, 1824-27, 194 hand-col. eng. plts., contemp. gilt dec. blue calf, lower board of vol. 1 and upper board of vol. 2 detached, vol. 1 spine torn at head with loss, some spine labels lacking, worn, 8vo Nissen 1000. Sold as a collection of plates.

(2)

£200-300

100 Daglish (Eric Fitch, illust.). The Natural History of Selborne, Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by E.M. Nicolson, Thornton Butterworth, 1929, half-title, port. frontis., sixteen wood-eng. mounted plts., folding map, plus extra wood eng. plt. “The Snipe” signed by Daglish mounted inside flap on front pastedown, endpapers browned, ms. ownership name on front free endpaper, untrimmed, orig. qtr. japanese vellum, spotted and toned, board edges rubbed, 4to in 8s, (limited edition, 134/125 copies), together with Gosse (Philip Henry), A History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals..., 1st ed., Van Voorst, 1860, half-title, twelve litho. plts., eleven in colour, pubs. ad. leaf at rear, title-page sl. torn at head of gutter margin, first leaf of preface with closed repaired tear in blank fore-margin, rough-trimmed, endpapers renewed, orig. blindstamped green cloth gilt, rebacked preserving orig. spine, lower corners sl. bumped and rubbed, 8vo, plus Bennett (E.T., ed.), The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated, 2 vols.

(Quadrupeds/Birds), half-title, numerous wood engs. on letterpress

by Branston and Wright after drawings by William Harvey and others, incl. Edward Lear, vol. 1 with some felt tip scribblings on G4 and G5, half-title, and prelim. blank, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, contemp. green half morocco gilt, extrems. rubbed, spines faded, first vol. with upper hinge split at head, 8vo, plus A History of British Forest-Trees, by Prideaux John Selby, 1842

Lot 98

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£150-200

101 Day (Francis). The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 vols., 1880-84, 180 b & w plts., marginal notes and annotations in pencil by a previous owner, George H. Fox of Falmouth, with his ownership signature in both vols., t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, contemp. olive green half morocco gilt, a little rubbed and some minor surface damage, large thick 8vo (2)

£100-150

102 Donovan (Edward). The Naturalist’s Repository, or Miscellany of Exotic Natural History, exhibiting Rare and Beautiful Specimens of Foreign Birds, Insects, Shells, Quadrupeds, Fishes, and Marine Productions; more especially such New Subjects as have not hitherto been fugured, or correctly described; forming a Compendium of the Most Interesting Modern Discoveries in Zoology, 5 vols. in two, 1st bookform ed, printed for the Author, and Simpkin & Marshall, 1834, 180 hand-col. eng. plts., plt. 113 with short tear in blank fore-margin, 4pp.

‘Advertisement’ following first title, vol. 3 with tear in upper margin of L2 (just clipping first line of text), preliminary blank in each vol. with ownership ink stamp of C.H. Palairet, marbled endpapers, upper hinge split, red edges, contemp. speckled brown calf, rubbed and scuffed, second vol. with some loss to head of spine and joints splitting (upper cover near-detached), raised bands, contrasting labels in second and fourth compartments, remainder with central oval tool within a volute frame, sides with gilt border composed of rope roll between single fillets and ribbon and flower roll, gilt hatched edges, 8vo in 4s

Lot 99

Nissen, IVB, 259 (first issued in parts 1822-1827). An unusually clean and bright set of the plates.

(2) £3000-4000

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Lot 102

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103 Donovan (E. and Westwood, J.O.). Natural History of the Insects of China..., new ed., Henry G. Bohn, 1842, fifty-eight uncoloured mixed method eng. plts., rough-trimmed, orig. orange cloth blocked in black and gilt, somewhat rubbed and marked, large 4to Soulsby 1232b. Nissen 1143.

(1)

106 Everard (Anne). Flowers From Nature, With the Botanical Name, Class, and Order; and Instructions for Copying, pub. Joseph Dickenson, 1835, thirteen fine hand-coloured lithographed plates, including frontispiece, some light overall spotting to frontis., bookplates 11 & 12 with some light scattered spotting, a.e.g., orig. embossed patterned cloth, rubbed and some wear to spine, with loss to head and foot, outer corners bumped, folio (375 x 270mm)

£300-500

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104 Dried specimens. Flora Cryptogamia [so-titled on spine], 1820s-1870s, 252 numbered dried moss specimens, all mounted on paper and identified in neat ms., mounted on recto of album leaves, between one and four to a page, some signed W. Wilson or initialled W.W., many dated and with place of origin, e.g. Snowdon; Ireland; Highlands; Gen Farg, Perthshire; Cuddington, Cheshire; Lancashire; Beddgelert, N. Wales; Yorkshire; Knutsford Moor; Cotteral Wood, Cheshire; Miller’s Dale, Derbyshire; Loch Lomond; Deeside, Aberdeenshire, etc., orig. burgundy half sheep gilt, rubbed, spines lightly faded and frayed at ends, some splitting to joints, linen ties (lacking one), 4to (2)

107 Flintoft (J.J.). British Mosses in the English Lake District, Prepared and Arranged, pub. Keswick, c.1850, printed title, fifty leaves of pressed moss specimens with manuscript annotations, front free-endpaper clipped to upper outer corner, hinges cracked, orig. cloth gilt, extrems. rubbed, 8vo, (three UK institutional locations found), together with Braithwaite (R.), The British MossFlora, 3 vols., 1887, 128 eng. plts., occasional spotting, orig. gilt cloth gilt, large 8vo, with Berkeley (Rev. M.J.), Outlines of British Fungology; Containing Characters of above a Thousand Species of Fungi..., 1860, twenty-four litho plts. (23 hand-col.), orig. cloth gilt, spine faded and loss at head, 8vo, and Handbook of British Mosses; Comprising all that are known to be Natives of the British Isles, 1863, twenty-four litho plts. (23 hand-col.), pubs. ads. at rear, orig. cloth gilt, joints split and frayed, rubbed, 8vo, plus Stark (Robert M.), A Popular History of British Mosses..., 2nd ed., 1860, twenty chromo plts., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, square 8vo

£200-300

105 Evelyn (John). Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty’s Dominions, 5th ed., 1729, title in red & black (spotted & dust-soiled), eng. illusts. to text, light worming to lower blank margins of leaves at front of volume, later endpapers, contemp. calf, old reback, joints cracked, worn, folio Henrey 136.

(1)

£400-600

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£150-200

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£200-300

108 The Gentleman’s Compleat Jockey: With the Perfect HorseMan and Experienc’d Farrier: Containing I. The Nature of Horses; their Breeding, Feeding and Management... II. The True Method, with Proper Rules and Directions to Order, Diet and Physick... III. the Methods to buy Horses, and Prevent being Cheated... IV. How to make Blazes, Stars and Snips... V. The whole Art of a Farrier, in Curing all Diseases... VI. The Methods of Shooing, Blooding, Rowling..., by A.S. Gent., 1st ed., printed for Peter Parker, 1711, folding engraved frontispiece, 4 pp. pubs. list at end, wormtrack to contents and ad. leaves at end, some spotting and browning ‘1d’ manuscript price to title, contemporary calf, neat reback, 12mo ESTC N483162 only lists one location and states the book is wrongly attributed to Adolphus Speed.

(1) £300-500

109 Goldsmith (Oliver). A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 4 vols., new ed., York, 1808, 101 eng. plts. (inc. frontispieces with ink signature to verso), edges untrimmed, orig. boards, some spines torn and deficient, 8vo, together with Hill (Peter & Cadell, Thomas, pub.), A New System of the Natural History of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, and Insects, 3 vols., Edinburgh, 1791-92, numerous eng. plts., contemp. sheep, worn at head & foot of spine and some joints cracked, worn, 8vo, with Mantell (Gideon Algernon), The Wonders of Geology..., 6th ed., 1848, eng. frontis., six litho plts. (3 hand-col.) and wood eng. illusts. to text, contemp. half calf, rubbed, 8vo, and Miller (Hugh), The Old Red Sandstone; or, New Walks in an Old Field, 4th ed., 1850, folding hand-col. litho frontis., eng. plts., orig. cloth, spine torn, 8vo, plus five others (15)

112 Harrison (Joseph). Floricultural Cabinet, and Florist’s Magazine, 1833-35, 1837-40, 1842-46, 1854-59, together eighteen vols., approx. 200 plts., some folding, mostly hand-col., but some col. litho. plts. in later vols., some toning and foxing, front free endpapers with ownership ink stamp, final six vols. with armorial bookplate of Josiah Spode on front pastedown, contemp. half calf gilt (1837-46 uniform and 1854-59 uniform), rubbed, first seven vols. worn with some loss to spines, 8vo, together with another eleven vols. of the Floricultural Cabinet, 1833-48, approx. 120 col. plts., contemp. half calf (1840-48 uniform), plus The Floral World, 5 vols., 1858-73, rubbed and some wear, and The Florist’s Journal for the Year 1844, all with col. plts., 8vo

£150-200

110 Haigh (James). The Dyer’s Assistant in the Art of Dying Wool and Woollen Goods. Extracted from the Philosophical and Chymical Works of those most Eminent Authors, Ferguson; Dufay; Hellot; Geoffery; Colbert; and that Reputable French Dyer Mons. de Julienne. Translated from the French with additions and Practical Experiments, new ed., 1800, E1 torn with loss affecting footnotes, marginal toning front and rear, contemporary sheep, neat back, 8vo (1)

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113 Hill (John). The Family Herbal, or an Account of all those English Plants, which are Remarkable for their Virtues, and of the Drugs which are Produced by Vegetables of other Countries..., Bungay, [1812], fifty-two (of 54) hand-col. eng. plts., few marks & stains, contemp. sheep, rebacked, 8vo, together with Herbarium Britannicum Exhibens Plantas Britanniae Indigenas..., vol. 1 only (of two), 1769, 195 uncol. eng. plts., folding table, occ. spotting, contemp. calf, worn with boards detached (one non matching), 8vo

£100-150

111 Harrison (J.C.). The Game Birds of the British Isles, Text by Colin Laurie McKelvie, Memoir by the Honourable Aylmer Tryon, 1st ed., pub. Ashford Press in association with J.C. Harrison, 1989, twenty-five fine col. plts., a.e.g., orig. half plum morocco gilt, in orig. slipcase, folio, VG Limited edition 65/475.

(1)

£700-1000

(2)

£200-300

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£100-150

Lot 114 116 Jardine (Sir William). The Naturalist’s Library: Ornithology, vols. 1-4, 9, 10, 12, and 14, Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1833-43, all with eng. frontis. and addn. eng. title (latter mostly hand-col.), 196 handcol. eng. plts., letterpress illusts. and diagrams, some vols. with pubs. ads. at rear, stitching strained in places, and somes leaves detached, orig. brown cloth gilt, except Games-Birds which is bound in contemp. half calf gilt (rubbed), spines faded and with some minor fraying at ends, vol. 3 worn, 8vo, together with The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands by Robert Mudie, 2 vols., 1841

114 International Fisheries Exhibition, London, 1883. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature, vols. 1-13 (complete), 1884, comprising Handbooks, Parts 1-3, Conferences, Parts 1-4, Prize Essays, Parts 1-4, Official Catalogue, 4th ed., Analytical Index, uncol. lithos. and other illusts., folding plans, etc., oval indelible inkstamp of William Brown, Fishing Tackle Manufacturer to title of several vols., orig. dec. cloth, minor wear to extremities, a few marks, 8vo Includes an article by Stephen Mitchell entitled ‘The Place of Fish in a HardWorking Diet, with Notes on the Use of Fish in Former Times’ and another

by John Joseph Cayley and Henry Hewitt Bridgman on ‘Scheme for a Central Wholesale Fish Market for London, on the River Lambeth Side Between Waterloo Bridge and Charing Cross Railway Bridge’.

(13) £200-300

Comprising: Humming Birds, parts I (34 plates) and II (30 plates); Gallinaceous Birds, parts I (lacking plates) and II Game-Birds (30 plates, closetrimmed); Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, parts I Birds of Prey (34 plates), II Incessores (3 plates of eggs only), III Rasores and Grallatores (34 plates), IV Natatores (31 plates). Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

(10) £300-500

115 Jardine (Sir William). British Salmonidae, reprint, Decimus, 1979, twelve colour plates, introductory booklet loosely inserted, marble endpapers, orig. half morocco in cloth slipcase, large folio Limited edition 62/500.

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117 Jardine (Sir William). The Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, 4 vols., pub. Hardwicke and Bogue, c.1885, uncoloured eng. portrait frontis. and addn. half title to each vol., some pencil doodles to title page of vol. 4, 129 eng. plts. with contemp. hand colouring, vol. 4 with one plt. and pps. 295-298 detached, occ. slight spotting throughout, a.e.g., contemp. calf with gilt dec. spines, boards a little stained, spines faded, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., 12mo, together with The Naturalist’s Library, vol. 11, Ornithology, Birds of Western Africa, part 1, c.1850, addn. half title with eng. vignette with contemp. hand colouring, eng. b & w portrait frontis., thirty-two engraved plts. with contemp. hand colouring, contemp. half calf with gilt dec. spine, 12mo, with The Natural History of Game-Birds, 1834, addn. half title with eng. vignette with contemp. hand colouring, eng. b & w portrait frontis., thirty engraved plts. with contemp. hand colouring, some toning and offsetting throughout, a.e.g. contemp. blind stamped morocco, rubbed at extrems., 12mo, plus The Naturalist’s Library, Vols. 1 & 24, Mammalia and Ornithology. British Birds part 1st., 1843, addn. half title with eng. vignette, portrait frontis., thirty and thirty-four eng. plts. respectively, all with contemp. hand colouring, slight offsetting, t.e.g., matching contemp. speckled calf with gilt dec. spines, 12mo

£70-100

Lot 116

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£150-250

118* Jones (Paul Osborne, 1921-1998). Camelia “White Nun”, gouache on paper, signed, 34 x 24cm (13.5 x 9.5 in), framed and glazed, together with Flora Magnifica: Selected and Painted by the Artist, Text by Wilfrid Blunt, Tryon Gallery, 1976, number 335 of a limited edition of 500 signed by the artist, sixteen colour plates after Paul Jones, t.e.g., orig. half vellum gilt by Zaehnsdorf, contained in orig. cloth slipcase (slightly rubbed), folio (2)

£150-200

121 Loehneyss (Georg Engelhard von). Neu-Eroffnete HofKriegs und Reit-Schul, [Nuremberg, 1729], half-title present, lacks main title, thirty-eight fine full-page engraved plates (of sixty two), including several double-page, text for parts 5 & 6 (of 6) only, one leaf of text loose, contemp. half calf gilt, with volume label to spine marked Zweyter Band, rubbed and minor wear to extrems., folio (40 x 24.5cm), together with Andrade (Manoel Carlos de), Luz da liberal, e nobre arte da Cavallaria, Lisbon, Regia Officina Typografica, 1790, eng. port. frontispiece, lacking most of the ninety-three plates (plates of geometric figures present only), one or two leaves partly loose, contemp. cats-eye paw full calf, gilt-dec. spine with morocco title label re-lettered, rubbed, folio

119 Day (Francis). British and Irish Salmonidae, 1887, nine chromos. and three uncol. plts. at rear (complete), orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed on spine, tall 8vo, together with Lamond (Henry), The Sea-Trout. A Study in Natural History, 1st ed., London & Manchester, 1916, col. plts. and other illusts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, plus Houghton (Rev. W.), British Fresh-Water Fishes, 3rd ed., 1900, tinted views, wood-engs. to text, a.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed and fore-edges sl. dampstained, tall 8vo, and seven others (10)

£150-200

120 Lindley (John). Ladies’ Botany: or a Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany, 2 vols., 5th ed., [1848], fifty hand-col. eng. plts., bookplate and ink stamp to verso of titles, some marginal toning, orig. green cloth, gilt dec. spines, faded & marked, 8vo, together with The Flower Garden, [containing directions for the cultivation of all garden flowers: with selected lists of the most approved annual, biennial and perennial flowering plants, 1839], lacking title, fifteen hand-col. eng. plts., eight wood eng. plts. and illusts. to text, some dampstaining & dust-soiling, contemp. calf gilt, spine label defective, upper board deatched and lower joint cracked, 8vo, with Bennett (AlfredW.),The Flora of the Alps, 2 vols., 1896, chromo. plts., gutta percha perished and contents loose, orig. cloth, 8vo, plus others including Familiar Wild Flowers by F. Edward Hulme (33)

Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

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£150-200

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£200-300

122 Loudon (John Claudius). A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences... in Constructing or Improving Mansions and Other Rural Building, so as to Combine Architectural Fitness with Picturesque Effect; and in Forming Gardens, Orchards, Farms, Parks, Pleasure Grounds, Shrubberies, all Kinds of Useful or Decorative Plantations and every Object of Convenience or Beauty Peculiar to Country Seats..., 2 vols., 1st ed., 1806, half titles, 32 engraved plates (one with overslip), p.477, vol. II with marginal repair, some offsetting and browning, contemporary diced calf gilt, joints cracking , a little rubbed, 4to, together with Miller (Philip).

The Gardener’s Dictionary: Containing the Best and Newest Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit, Flower Garden, and Nursery, 7th ed., 1759, engraved frontispiece, 18 (of 19) engraved plates, one repaired, two holes in text leaves 13G1 & 2, a few spots and marginal wormtracks, bookplate, contemporary reverse calf over boards, some wear, folio (3)

125 Markham (Gervase). A Way to get Wealth, Containing sixe Principall Vocations, for Callings, in which every good Husband or hu-wife, may lawfully imploy themselves..., 4 parts of six only, 10th ed., 1660, few woodcut illusts., general title torn to upper outer corner and lined to verso, two other leaves torn to upper outer corners, occasional marginal repairs, dust-soiling and few marks, 20th c. morocco gilt, 4to (Wing M678), together with Weston (Richard), The Gardener’s and Planter’s Calendar..., 2nd ed., 1778, manuscript notes to front free-endpaper, contemp. sheep, torn & scuffed, 12mo, with Cobbett (William), The English Gardener..., 1829, some spotting and browning, modern qtr. morocco, 12mo, and Anderson (James), The New Practical Gardener, and Modern Horticulturist, [1872-74], twenty-five chromo plts. (inc. few doublepage) and one double-page eng. diag., numerous illusts. to text, a.e.g., contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spine, 4to, plus six others related The first title includes Cheape and Good Husbandry for the Well-ordering of all Beast and Fowles and for the General cure of their Diseases, 10th ed., 1660; The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent..., 1660; Markham’s Farewell to Husbandry, or, The Enriching of all Sorts of Barren and Sterile Grounds in our Nation..., 7th ed., 1660; A New Orchard and Garden..., 3rd ed., 1660.

(10) £250-350

£200-400

123 Loudon (Jane). The Ladies’ Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals, 1st ed., 1840, half-title, forty-eight hand-col. litho plts., occasional offsetting & light toning, together with The Ladies’ Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants, 1st ed., 1841, fiftyeight hand-col. litho plts., without half-title, closed-tear to N4, occasional spotting, with The Ladies’ Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials, 2 vols., mixed eds., 1843-49, ninety-six hand-col. litho plts., without half-titles, a.e.g., modern uniform gilt dec. green morocco by Papuchyan H & H Bindery, contrasting morocco labels to spines, 4to Nissen 1234, 1235 & 1237.

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126 Medwin (Thomas). The Angler in Wales, Or Days and Nights of Sportsmen, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1834, etched frontis. to each (spotted and browned), eng. vigns. to text, orig. boards, worn on spine, 8vo, together with Shipley (William), A True Treatise on the Art of Fly-Fishing, Trolling, etc., edited Edward Fitzgibbon, 1838, wood-eng. frontis. and a few vigns. on india paper (frontis. dampstained and spotted), list of subscribers, orig. blind-panelled cloth gilt, soiled and some wear, 8vo, plus Francis (Francis), A Book on Angling, Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every Branch, 3rd ed., revised and improved, 1872, port. frontis., sixty col. and b & w plts., correct as list, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and faded on spine, 8vo, and three others

£2000-3000

124 Lowe (E.J.). A Natural History of British Grasses, 1858, seventy-four chromo plts., orig. green cloth, spine slightly faded, large 8vo, together with A Natural History of New and Rare Ferns, 1862, seventy-two chromo plts., occasional spotting, orig. green cloth, spine slightly faded and few marks, large 8vo, with Sowerby (John E., illust.), The Ferns of Great Britain..., 1859, eighty handcol. eng. plts., few leaves loose, orig. cloth, spine faded, 8vo, with The Ferns of Great Britain..., The Descriptions, Synonyms, & c. by Charles Johnson, 1855, hand-col. frontis. and b & w plts., oig. cloth, joints split, 8vo, plus An Analysis of the British Ferns and their Allies,

by G.W. Francis, 5th ed., 1855, plus The Ferns of Great Britain, and their Allies, by Anne Pratt, [1871], plus two others related (8)

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£200-300

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£150-200

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127 Merian (Maria Sibylla). Histoire Générale des Insectes de Surinam et de toute l'Europe, contenant leurs descriptions, leurs figures, leurs differentes metamorphases, 2 vols. bound in one (Plantes de Surinam/Plantes de l'Europe), Troisieme Edition, revue, corrigée, & considérablement augmentée par M. Buch'oz, Paris, L. C. Desnos, 1771, first volume with seventy-two fine handcoloured copper engraved plates, including several partly folded, second volume with 184 fine handcoloured copper engraved plates on forty-seven leaves (plates numbered I-CLXXXII, plus Ia and LIa), contemp. full calf gilt, recent antique-style gilt dec. reback, large folio (50.5 x 32.5cm, 20 x 12.75ins) Nissen BBI 1341 & 1342. Hunt 467 & 524. Dunthorne 205. Great Flower Books, p. 67.

One of the most famous works on natural history, Merian's Insects of Surinam and Europe was first published in 1705, following two years of research by the author in the Dutch colony of Surinam, between the summers of 1699 and 1701. Having purchased the original copper plates at auction in Paris, the publisher Desnos issued this beautiful edition in which Merian's remarkable botanical accuracy, and interest in insect transformation is displayed. Some of the plants and fruit on which the insects fed were still strange or unknown to Europeans at this time, such as the cassava and pawpaw.

(1) £30000-50000

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45

Lot 131

128 Mudie (Robert). Gilbert’s Modern Atlas of the Earth, c.1820, 263 uncoloured engraved plts. of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects, botany and natural phenomena, lacking title, index and maps, some marginal fraying and tears, a few plts. stained and dust soiled, worn and broken, contemp. half morocco gilt, boards and spine covered with adhesive clear plastic, crude manuscript tile to spine, 4to Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

(1)

£150-200

129 Murray (Richard Paget). The Flora of Somerset, pub. Taunton, 1896, b & w frontis., folding map, edges untrimmed, orig. green cloth gilt, 8vo, together with Marshall (Edward Searburn), A Supplement to the Flora of Somerset, pub. Taunton, 1914, orig. green cloth gilt, 8vo Bookplate of Thomas William Cowan.

(2)

£100-150

130 [Pennant, Thomas]. British Zoology, 4 vols., 4th ed., 17761777, 276 (of 280) eng. plts., three plts. torn and one defective, hinges to vol. 1 crudely strengthened, contemp. calf gilt, some cracking to hinges, rubbed and some wear, 8vo (4)

132 Schreber (Johann Christian). [Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der natur mit Beschreibungen], vols. 1 - 4 (only), pub.

Enlangen & Leipzig, c.1780, vol.1 lacking title and pps. 1 - 138, approx. 250 (only) engraved plates of mammals, bright contemp. hand colouring, hinges and joints weak, contemp. calf with gilt dec. spines, rubbed and worn, 4to

£150-200

131 Reaumur (Rene-Antoine Ferchault de). The Art of Hatching and Bringing up Domestick Fowls of all Kinds, at any Time of the Year. Either by means of the Heat of Hot-Beds, or that of Common Fire, 1st English ed., 1750, half title, 15 folding engraved plates, marginal wormhole and track towards end, a few spots, presentation inscription, contemporary calf, joints cracking, a little rubbed and stained, 8vo (1)

Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

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£150-200

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£200-300

133 Shaw (George and Nodder, Frederick Polydore). Vivarium Naturae or the Naturalist’s Miscellany, vol. I only, 1790, engraved title, 37 hand-coloured engraved plates (folding plate with marginal tear), a few light spots, contemporary half calf, covers detached, rubbed, 8vo (1)

135 Sowerby (James, & Smith, James Edward). English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, 12 vols., 2nd ed., [1832]-46, approx. 2580 hand-coloured engraved plates, including five folding, marbled edges and endpapers, contemp. uniform full calf, rubbed and somewhat marked to spines, with many labels missing (some retained inside volumes), 8vo

£200-300

134 Sherer (John). Rural Life Described and Illustrated, in the Management of Horses, Dogs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry etc., etc., Their Treatment in Health and Disease....., Modern Farming, Gardening, Shooting, Angling...., c.1860, addn. dec. half title, eightyfive uncoloured engravings and lithographs (including three folding), bound with orig. pubs. paper wrappers, contemp. half calf with gilt dec. spine, rubbed and worn, 4to, together with, Oliver (F.W.),The Natural History of Plants....., from the German of Anton Kerner von Marilaun, 2 vols., pub. Blackie & Son, 1894, sixteen chromolitho. plts. and numerous b & w illusts. to text throughout, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and worn, 4to, with Deakin (Richard),Florigraphia Britannica; or Engravings and Descriptions of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Brtiain 3 vols. (of 4), 1841 - 47, numerous b & w eng. plts., contemp. half sheep, rubbed, worn and frayed, 8vo, plus, Grommbridge and Sons (pubs.),The Floral World, Garden Guide and Country Companion, 1877, twelve chromolitho. plts. (including four folding), contemp. half morocco, lacking upper board and spine, 8vo, together with another nine vols. similar, various sizes and condition

Nissen 2225.

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£500-800

136 Squier (E. G.). Tropical Fibres: Their Production and Economic Extraction, pub. New York, 1861, sixteen hand-col. litho plts., occasional spotting and few marks, a.e.g., orig. green cloth gilt, slightly frayed at head & foot of spine, 8vo (1)

£100-150

137 Verneuil (P.). Etude de la Mer, Faune et Flore de la Manche et de l’Ocean, 2 vols., new ed., Paris, 1924, fifty col. plates and numerous illusts. to text by Mathurin Meheut, orig. cloth, joints slightly frayed, spines faded and some dust-soiling, folio (2)

Sold as a collection of engravings and prints not subject to return.

(16) £100-150

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£100-150

138 Ward (Rowland). The English Angler in Florida, with some Descriptive Notes of the Game Animals and Birds, 1st ed., 1898, portrait frontispiece, b & w illustrations, spotting front and rear, bookplate, original red cloth, slight fading to spine, 8vo, together with Modern Development of the Dry Fly. The New Dry Patterns, the Manipulation of Dressing them and Practical Experiences of their Use, by Frederic M. Halford, 1st ed., 1910, portrait frontispiece, colour charts and illustrations of flies, photogravure plates, a few light spots, t.e.g., original cloth, lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus James G. Bertram’s The Harvest of the Sea. A Contribution to the Natural and Economic History of the British Food Fishes, 1865 (3)

MAPS All lots unframed unless otherwise stated

141* Africa. Bowen (Thomas), A New and Accurate Map of Africa, Drawn from the best Authorities, 1779, uncoloured engraved map, old folds, toned overall, 335 x 415mm, framed and glazed, together with Albrizzi (Giambatista),Carta Geografica del Congo O Bassa Guinea Della Caffraria E Del Monomotapa, c.1750, uncoloured engraved map of South Africa, old folds, some creasing, some toning, one closed repaired marginal tear, 335 x 425mm, with Bellin (Jacques Nicolas),Carte de L’Ocean Oriental ou Mer des Indes...., c.1790, uncoloured engraved map of the Indian Ocean including East Africa and part of Western Australia, old folds, slight toning, 345 x 485mm, framed and glazed

£200-300

Not examined out of frames.

(3)

£100-150

142 Asia, East Indies, China & Japan. A mixed collection of approx. 110 maps and charts, mostly 18th & 19th century, engraved and litho. maps, including examples by Cassell, Fullarton, Bartholomew, Levasseur, Mitchell, S.D.U.K., Kelly, Neele, Johnson, Mallet, Bonne and Kitchin, some duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.110)

143 Australasia. A collection of approx. sixty-five maps and charts, mostly 19th century, engraved and litho. maps and sea charts, including maps of Australia, the Pacific, New Zealand and New Caledonia, with examples by Bartholomew, Mallet, Bellin, S.D.U.K., Johnston, Vandermaelen, Weller and Collins, various sizes and condition

139 Wood (W.). Index Entomologicus; or, A Complete Illustrated Catalogue, Consisting of 1944 Figures, of the Lepidopterous Insects of Great Britain, 1st ed., William Wood, 1839, fifty-four hand col. plts., a number of orig. printed wrappers bound in at rear, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, early 20th c. burgundy half morocco, gilt dec. spine, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo in 4s (1)

(approx.65)

£150-200

140 Yarrell (William). A History of British Fishes, 4 vols. (incl. two supplements), 1st ed., 1836-60, num. engs. to text, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and some fading to spines, 8vo, together with A History of British Fishes, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1841, num. eng. to text, ms. letter from Yarrell tipped in at front of each vol., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and some fading to spines, 8vo, plus A History of British Fishes, 2 vols., 3rd ed., 1849, eng. port. to vol. 1 (stained), num. eng. to text, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo (8)

£400-600

£150-200

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£200-300

47 Bowen (Emanuel & Owen John). A collection of approx. 100 engraved road maps [1720 or later], uncoloured strip road maps printed back to back, many duplicates, each approx. 190 x 120mm, various condition (approx.100)

£70-100

148* Brecknockshire. Speed (John), Breknoke, both Shyre and Towne Described, pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Brecknock, strapwork cartouche, 385 x 515mm, English text on verso, framed and double glazed (1)

£100-150

149 Bristol Channel. Doncker (Hendrick), Cust van Engelandt van Lezard tot Engelands eynde de Sorlinges ende Canaal van Bristou als mede hoe zy van Yrland gelegen, pub. Amsterdam, c.1675, uncoloured engraved sea chart, inset map of the Scilly Isles, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, skillfully repaired closed tears, slight loss to upper margin and corners, professionally repaired, 435 x 530mm 144 Belgium & Holland. Speed (John), A new Mape of ye XVII Provinces of Low Germanie, Mended a New in Manie Places, pub.

Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676, uncoloured ‘carte a figures’ map, ten costumed vignettes to vertical margins and eight oval engraved views of cities to upper margin, split to central fold, some fraying to margins, torn with slight loss to lower corners, 420 x 535mm, English text on verso, mounted (1)

(1)

150 British county maps. A mixed collection of approx. sixty-five maps of Northern counties, mostly 17th - 19th century, including maps of Durham, Yorkshire, Westmorland, Northumberland and Cumberland, with examples by Cole & Roper, Archer, Seller/Grose, Kitchin, Cary, Wallis, Moule, Rocque, Oddy, J & C Walker, Phillips, Owen & Bowen and Morden, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition

£200-300

145 Berkshire. Speed (John), Barkshire Described, pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676, engraved map with sparse outline colouring, engraved panorama of Windsor Castle, split at base of central fold with slight loss, some marginal fraying, 390 x 520mm, English text on verso, mounted (1)

£100-150

(approx.65)

£150-200

151 British county maps. A mixed collection of approx. seventy maps, mostly 17th - 19th century, including maps of Kent, Middlesex, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire and Berkshire, with examples by Cary, Moule, Morden, Rocque, Murray, Seller/Grose, Kitchin, Archer, Fullarton, Phillips, and Perrot, some duplicates, various sizes and condition

£150-200

(approx.70)

£150-200

152 British county maps. A mixed collection of approx. fifty-five maps, mostly 17th - 19th century, engraved maps of Rutland, Nottinghamshire, Northampshire, Rutland, Leicestershire and Derbyshire, including examples by Seller/Grose, Owen & Bowen, Moule, Morden, Cary, Badeslade & Toms, Kitchin, Archer, Cole & Roper and Rocque, several duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.55)

£150-200

153 British county maps. A mixed collection of forty-nine maps, mostly 17th - 19th century, including maps of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Wiltshire and Dorset, with examples by Whittaker, Cary, Moule, Morden, Saxton/Hole, Wallis, Seller/Grose, Archer, Cole & Roper, Kitchin, Bowen, Pigot, Dawson and Phillips, some duplicates, various sizes and condition (49)

154 British county maps. A mixed collection of approx. 120 maps, 17th - 19th century, engraved and litho. maps and town plans, including examples by Morden, Moule, Weller, Owen & Bowen, Archer, Lewis, Seller/Grose. Whittaker, Fullarton, Dawson and Cary, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition

146 Bohemia. Speed (John), Bohemia Newly Described, pub.

Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676, uncoloured engraved ‘carte a figures’ map, ten costumed figures in vertical margins, seven oval vignettes of cities to upper margin, some marginal fraying and closed tears, slight loss to lower corners, 415 x 530mm, English text on verso, mounted (1)

£150-200

(approx.120)

£150-200

1

49

£100-150

155 British county maps. A mixed collection of approx. 225 maps, 17th - 19th century, engraved and lithographic maps, including examples by Morden, Lewis, Archer, Greenwood, Collins, Saxton/Hole & Kip, Cary, J & C Walker, Heywood, Van den Keere, Leigh and Bartholomew, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.225)

£200-300

156 Canada & North America. A collection of approx. fifty-five maps, mostly 18th & 19th century, engraved and litho. maps, including examples by Tallis, De Vaugondy, Bonne, Bartholomew, Hall, Johnston, J & C Walker, Mitchell, Colton and Weimar, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.55)

£100-150

157 Carmarthenshire. Speed (John), Caermarden Both Shyre and Towne described, pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676, engraved map with sparse outline colouring, inset town plan of Carmarthan, strapwork cartouche, compass rose and mileage scale, slight fraying to margins but not affecting image, slight offsetting of watercolour, 390 x 510mm, English text on verso, mounted (1)

159* Derbyshire. Speed (John), Anno Darbieshire described, pub.

John Sudbury & George Humble, c.1627, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Derby and of Buxton, ornate strapwork cartouche and compass rose, printers fold to image, small closed tear to central fold, repaired and strengthened on verso, occ. marginal closed tears, 385 x 510mm, mounted, framed and double glazed, English text on verso

£100-150

(1)

£200-300

158 Carnarvonshire. Speed (John), Caernarvon Both Shyre and Shire-towne with the Ancient Citie Bangor described, pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676, uncoloured engraved map, inset town plans of Carnarvon and Bangor, elaborate strapwork cartouche, some marginal fraying and closed tears just affecting image, 390 x 515mm, English text on verso, mounted (1)

£120-180

160* Devon. Saxton (Christopher & Lea Philip), Devon-Shire Described by C.Saxton. Corrected, Amended and many Additions

by P.Lea, c.1693, engraved map with sparse contemp. outline colouring, inset town plan of Exeter, slight staining and offsetting, 395 x 450mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Blome (Richard),A Mapp of Devon Shire with its Hundreds, c.1673, hand coloured engraved map, strapwork cartouche and table of hundreds, 260 x 315mm, mounted, framed and glazed (2)

50

£200-300

161 Devon. Darton (William), Devon Shire Divided into Hundreds and the Parliamentary Divisions, pub. Wiliam Darton & Son, [1844], engraved map with contemp. outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, uncoloured engraved vignette of Dartmouth Castle, slight staining and offsetting, 360 x 455mm, contemp. gilt cloth boards, together with Smith (Charles),A New Map of the County of Devon Divided into Hundreds, 2nd. edition, 1808, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, short split to linen, 455 x 495mm, contained in contemp. slip case with printed label to upper board, with Besley (Henry),Devonshire, c.1850,engraved map with contemp. outline colouring, folded and laid on linen, 240 x 295mm, contemp. cloth boards, plus Pinnock (William),The History and Topography of Devonshire; with Biographical Sketches &c. &c. and a Neat Map of the County, pub.

G and W.B.WHittaker, c.1825, folding engraved map, title page with wood eng. vignette, 72 pps. of descriptive text, pubs. orig printed paper wrappers, 12mo, together with another five folding maps, including examples by Walker, Hall, Collins and Philips, various sizes and condition (9)

165 Exeter. Meisner (Daniel), Excester in Engellandt, originally published in ‘Sciagraphia Cosmica’, c.1637, miniature uncoloured engraved town plan, 100 x 145mm, together with Hermannides (Rutger),Exonia Excester, originally published in ‘Britannia Magna et Hibernia Nova Descriptio’, c.1661, uncoloured engraved town plan, old folds, 105 x 130mm, with Merian (Matthäus),Exonia Excester, originally published in ‘Topographia Germinae’, c.1650, uncoloured engraved town plan, 165 x 130mm, plus Hayman (John & Jenkins Alexander), Exeter, 1806, uncoloured engraved town plan, old folds, 215 x 235mm, and Cole (Roger & Roper John), Exeter, 1805, hand coloured engraved town plan with vignette of Exeter Cathedral, 240 x 185mm, together with five others similar including examples by Tallis/Rapkin, Bartholomew, A & C Black and Stuckeley, various sizes and condition

£120-180

(10)

£150-250

162 Devon. Speed (John), Devonshire with Excester Described and the Armes of such Nobles as have borne the title of them, pub.

Henry Overton, c.1743, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Exeter, strapwork cartouche, a dissected map professionally conjoined, strengthened on verso, margins skillfully extended, backed with archival tissue, 380 x 505mm Batten & Bennett. The Printed Maps of Devon no.6 state 9. This particular map is used as the illustration on page 13.

(1) £200-300

163* Durham. Speed (John), The Bishoprick and Citie of Durham, pub. Henry Overton, [1707 or later], hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Durham, 380 x 500mm, framed and glazed (1)

£100-150

166 Folding maps. A collection of approx. sixty-five maps, mostly 19th & early 20th century, folding, sectionalised maps, many laid on linen, mostly of European countries and cities, including examples

by Wyld, Luffman, Leigh, Bartholomew, Tardieu and Stanford, various sizes and condition

164 Eastern Europe. A collection of twenty-four maps, 17th - 19th century engraved maps, including examples by S.D.U.K., Mallet, Tallis, Bonne, Rollos, Mercator/Hondius, Cary, Arrowsmith, De L’Ilse, Johnston and Neele, several with contemp. hand colouring, some duplicates, various sizes and condition (24)

(approx.65)

£100-150

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£100-150

167 France. Berry (William), The Kingdom of France Distinguished according to the extent of all its Provinces and Conquests in Spain, Italy, Germany,, Flanders, Artoise, Haynoult, Namur and Luxembourg. Provinces of the Low Countries, c.1680, engraved map with contemp. outline colouring, elaborate b & w cartouche and mileage scale, slight off setting and spotting, central fold repaired on verso, some marginal closed tears, 570 x 890mm, together with another approx. seventy regional and country maps of France, mostly 18th & 19th century, including examples by Bonne, Mallet, S.D.U.K., Johnston, Gall & Inglis, Mercator/Hondius, Dezauche, Jansson, Faden, Cary, Wyld and Arrowsmith, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.70)

£150-200

170 Globe Gores. Woodward (George), Twelve gores (on 2 sheets), c.1840, twelve uncoloured terrestrial gores with two circular polar calottes, printed on two sheets, each sheet 215 x 325mm, with a pair of engraved celestial and terrestrial gores by George Woodward, each sheet 125 x 280mm, plus Bale,Twelve celestial gores, c.1845, set of uncoloured engraved celestial gores, occ. marginal closed tears, sheet size 200 x 410mm

168 Germany. Speed (John), A Newe Mape of Germany Newly Augmented...., pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676, uncoloured engraved ‘carte a figures’ map, ten engraved vignettes of costumed figures to vertical margins, eight oval city views to upper margin, short split to central fold, some marginal fraying causing slight loss to image in lower right and left corners, 405 x 535mm, English text on verso, mounted (1)

George Woodward is recorded as a mid 19th century globe maker based in Fleet Street and Hatton Garden. He worked with Bale (no christian name recorded) and their combined terrestrial and celestial globes are considered a pair. Worms and Baynton-Williams. British Map Engravers.

(5) £400-600

£200-300

169 Germany. A mixed collection of approx. eighty-five maps, mostly 18th and 19th century, engraved and litho. maps, many with contemp. colouring, including examples by Wyld, Johnston, Cowperthwait, Gibson, Bonne, Cary, Gall & Inglis, Lizars, Teesdale, Cruchley, Kitchin, Mallet, Tallis, Faden, Sanson and Rollos, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.85)

£150-200

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173 Hungary. Speed (John), The Mape of Hungari newly augmented...., pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676, uncoloured engraved ‘Carte-a figures’ map, ten costumed figures to vertical margins and four oval vignettes of cities to upper horizontal margin, short split at base of central fold with slight loss, some marginal closed tears and fraying, 400 x 520mm, English text on verso, mounted

171* Gloucestershire. Blaeu (Johannes), Glocestria Ducatus Vulgo Glocester Shire, c.1648, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 415 x 505mm, French text on verso, mounted, framed and double glazed (1)

£150-200

(1)

£300-500

174 Huntingdonshire. Blaeu (Johannes), Huntingdonensis Comitatus, Huntington Shire, c.1650, hand coloured engraved map, elaborate cartouche and mileage scale, 400 x 505mm, Latin text on verso, together with Ogilby (John),The Road from Huntingdon to Ipswich..., c.1675, hand coloured engraved strip road map, elaborate cartouche, occ. marginal closed tears, 330 x 465mm, with Morden (Robert),Huntingtonshire, [1695 or later], hand coloured engraved map, 370 x 425mm (3)

£100-150

175 India. A collection of approx. seventy-five maps, mostly 18th & 19th century, engraved and litho. maps, including examples by Weller, Johnson & Ward, S.D.U.K., Tallis, Child, Vandermaelen, Bellin, Levasseur, Bartholomew, Johnston and Arrowsmith, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.75)

176 Ireland. A collection of approx. eighty-five maps, 17th - 19th century, engraved maps, including examples by Van den Keere, Taylor & Skinner, Perrot, Bertius, Mercator/Hondius, Hermannides, Weller and De Vaugondy, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition

172 Hertfordshire. Speed (John), Hartford Shire described, The Sittuations of Hartford and the most ancient towne S.Albons with such memorable actions as have happenend, pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676, engraved map with sparse outline colouring, inset town plans of Hertford and Verolanium, some marginal fraying, split to central fold, 390 x 515mm, English text on verso, mounted (1)

£200-300

(approx.85)

£150-200

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£200-300

178* Jamaica. Browne (Patrick), A New Map of Jamaica, in which Several Towns, Forts and Settlements are laid down....., the Greatest part Drawn or Corrected from actual Surveys made by Mr. Sheffield and others. With Corrections & Improvements up to Jany.

1797, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, inset town plan of Port Royal, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, some overall toning, small ink stain to town plan, 700 x 1300mm, framed and glazed (1)

£500-800

177 Italy. A mixed collection of twenty-seven maps and topographical engravings, mostly 18th & 19th century, including twenty-one engravings and lithographs, with examples by Balzour, ‘Vue D’Optique’, Trojani, Parboni, Moore and Allen and six large scale maps, by Dyonnet, Johnston, Andiveau-Goujon, Pozzi and Manzoni, various sizes and condition

179 Kent. Jansson (Jan), Cantium Vernacule Kent, c.1660, hand coloured engraved map, ornate cartouche and mileage scale, compass roses and numerous rhumb lines, 385 x 505mm, Dutch text on verso, together with Blaeu (Johannes),Cantium Vernacule Kent, c.1690, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, ornate cartouche and mileage scale, some restoration on verso, 385 x 530mm, blank on verso

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£150-200

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£200-300

180 Kent. Symonson (Philip), A New Description of Kent...., the tractes of Ryuers, Rylles and creeks with the trendinge of the SeaShore be more naturally described then heretofore it hath ben done, pub. John Overton, c.1665, hand coloured engraved map on two conjoined sheets, inset views of Rye and Dover Castle, ornate strapwork cartouche, central fold strengthened on verso, occ. repaired marginal closed tears, lower left corner torn with loss and replaced in skilful manuscript facsimile, closed tears affecting image which are professionally repaired on verso, 530 x 780mm (1)

183* Manuscript map. A finely drawn manuscript twinhemisphere World map titled “Map of the World from the Best Authorities” by James Fuller, Stockwell, Surrey, 1824, pen and ink on wove paper, four inset geaographical tables, sheet size 318 x 370mm, framed and glazed Extremely finely and intricately drawn. For details on the calligrapher, see lot 237 in the prints section.

(1) £200-300

£300-500

181 Kent. A collection of nine maps, 18th & 19th century, engraved and lithographic maps including examples by Seutter, Bowen/Kitchin, Moule, Johnson, Taylor/Blome, Bowen and Teesdale, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (9)

184 Maps. A mixed collection of approx. ninety maps, mostly 19th century, British county, town and regional maps, including examples by Archer, Wallis, Dawson, Weller, Lewis, Fullarton and Moule, some duplicates, various sizes and condition

£100-150

(approx.90)

£70-100

185* Maps. A mixed collection of thirty-six British and overseas maps, mostly 18th & 19th century, including British county maps, European country and city plans, jigsaw maps and maps of London, with examples by Moule, Lewis, Owen & Bowen, Whittaker, Archer, Stow, S,D.U.K. and Thomson, mostly framed and glazed, various sizes and condition (36)

£100-150

186 Maps. A mixed collection of approx. 100 British & foreign maps, mostly 17th - 19th century, including British county maps by Morden, Kitchin, Cary, Seller/Grose, Owen & Bowen, Archer, Moule, Dawson and Lewis, and overseas maps by Gibson, Harrison and D’Anville, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition

182 Manuscript map. Alsace and the Rhine, c.1840, linear ink and watercolour map on eight conjoined sheets, laid on linen, old folds, some closed repaired tears, slight staining and dust soiling, slight fraying and abrasion to margins, 440 x 2250mm The map follows the course of the upper Rhine from Lichtenberg in the west through Pfaffenhoffen and Hageneau and finishes at Drusenheim in the east.

(1) £300-500

(approx.100)

£150-200

187 Maps. A mixed collection of approx. 250 maps, mostly 17th 19th century, British and foreign maps and sea charts, including examples by Collins, Speed, Admiralty charts, Morden, Blaeu, Moule Saxton/Kip, Ogilby and Cary, various sizes and condition (approx.250)

£100-150

188 Middle East. A collection of sixty-six maps, mostly 18th & 19th century, engraved and litho. maps, including examples by Vandermaelen, Johnston, Weller, Hall, Mitchell, Mallet, S.D.U.K., Gall & Inglis, Dower, Stieler, Archer, Brué and Finlay, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (66)

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£120-180

191 Motoring & touring maps. Edwardian leather map case containing thirty-seven folding maps, pub. Edward Stanford, c.1900, crocodile effect leather case with carrying handle, two locks, the case titled and numbered in gilt, containing thirty-seven (complete) colour printed sectionalised folding maps, laid on linen, each approx. 530 x 740mm, complete with original measuring wheel, case dimensions 200 x 395 x 110mm, slight wear at extrems.

189 Middlesex Speed (John), Midle-Sex described with the most Famous Cities of London and Westminster, pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676, engraved map with sparse outline colouring, inset town plans of Westminster and London, inset vignettes of St. Peters and St. Pauls, some fraying and closed tears to margins, slight creasing at base of central fold, short closed tear to central fold, 390 x 515mm, English text on verso, mounted (1)

£200-300

The case is unusually complete with all the maps and the measuring wheel and is in very good condition. A luxury item manufactured for the early motoring tourist.

(1) £150-200

192 North & East Africa. A collection of approx. 100 maps and charts, mostly 18th & 19th century, engraved and litho. maps, including examples by Johnston, Bonne, De Lisle, Arrowsmith, S.D.U.K., Wallis, Mallet, Wilkinson, Gall & Inglis, Thomson, Bowen, Moll, Arrowsmith and Lapie, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition, together with fourteen uncoloured engraved mid 19th century sea charts of Madagascar, various sizes and condition (approx.114)

£200-300

193 North America. A collection of approx. seventy-five maps, mostly 18th & 19th century, engraved and litho. state and regional maps, including examples by Arrowsmith, Kitchin, Johnston, Colton, Cowperthwait, Mitchell, Steiler, Bartholomew, Fulton, Johnson, Thomson, De Vaugondy, Vandermaelen, Hall and Brion, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.75)

190* Middlesex. Blaeu (Johannes), Middle-Sexia, c.1648, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, ornate cartouche and mileage scale, 380 x 410mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)

£100-150

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£200-300

194 Ogilby (John). The Road from Dartmouth in Com. Devon to Minhead in Com. Somerset [and] The Contmuation of ye Extended Road from Barstable to Truro, c.1675, two hand coloured engraved strip road maps, each approx. 330 x 430mm (2)

£100-150

195 Ordnance Survey. A mixed collection of sixty-two maps, mostly early to mid 19th century, engraved maps, sectionalised and laid on linen, most with sparse hand colouring, various sizes and condition (62)

£100-150

196 Ordnance Survey. Thirty-nine ‘ Old Series’ one inch maps, nos. 1 - 12, 14 - 33, 38 - 40, 47 - 48 [and] 58, [1810 - 22], index map and thirty-eight engraved maps, sectionalised and laid on linen, some very sparse outline colouring, each map approx. 640 x 930mm, contained in ten contemp. blue morocco gilt solander boxes, rubbed and frayed The maps cover all of Southern England from Kent to Cornwall and up to South Wales.

(39) £400-600

197 Ordnance Survey. Eight ‘Old Series’ one inch maps, nos. 64 & 65, 69 & 70, [and] 83 - 86, c.1825, engraved maps with sparse outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, each approx. 630 x 930mm, contained in two contemp. morocco gilt solander boxes, frayed and worn The maps cover South Lincolnshire, Rutland, North Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire.

(8) £150-200

Lot 196

199 Persia. Arrowsmith (Aaron), Map of the Countries lying between the Euphrates and Indus on the East and West and the Oxus and Terek and Indian Ocean on the North and South, Inscribed to Brigadier General Sir John Malcolm Knight of the Royal Persian Order of the Lion and Sun, By John Macdonald Kinneir, pub. A.Arrowsmith. 1813, engraved folding map, sectionalised and laid on linen, on two sheets, contemp. outline colouring, some offsetting, slight staining and dust soiling, each sheet approx. 945 x 645mm, both inscribed on verso in near contemp. ink manuscript ‘Major Wyndham 67th Foot, 1822’ Colonel Charles Wyndham was commissioned into the army as Cornet with the 10th Light Dragoons in 1811. On the 20th December 1821 he was promoted to Major in the 67th Regiment of Foot. He served under Lord Wellington between 1812 and 1813 during the Peninsular campaign of the Napoleonic Wars.

(1) £200-300

198* Oxfordshire. Blaeu (Johannes), Oxonium Comitatus vulgo Oxford Shire, c.1845, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring and some later enhancement, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, the vertical margins decorated with sixteen heraldic shields of Oxford University colleges, engraved view of the Rollright stones with contemp. hand colouring on verso, 380 x 500mm, mounted framed and double glazed, French text on verso (1)

£200-300

200 Railway map. London to Birmingham Railway, c.1860, very large ink manuscript and watercolour map, laid on canvas, some dust soiling, 5400 x 650mm The section of railway shown travels through Warwickshire. It shows Nailcote Hall (now a luxery hotel) and Berkswell and Hampton stations.

(1) £150-200

Lot 199

Lot 201

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201 Rennie (John, 1761-1821, canal pioneer). Reports as to the Wisbech Outfall and the Drainage of the North Level and South Holland...., with a Statement &c. as to the Drainage of the Fens North of Boston by Anthony Bower: Printed by the Order of the Governor, Baliffs and Conservators of the Bedford Level Corporation, pub. Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1814, calligraphic title page with near contemp. pencil ownership signature, large folding engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, closed tear affecting image, addn. uncoloured folding engraved map, 33 pps. of text, partially uncut, contemp. paper wrappers torn and frayed with slight loss, ownership signature to upper cover, slim 4to, together with Joselyn (John & Jackson Arthur),Plan of the Parish of Stretham in the Isle of Ely, 1835, lithographic ‘enclosure map’ with contemp. hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, 1220 x 1050mm, contained in contemp. slip case with later typed label to upper board and spine, biro annotation to recto of slipcase, with Wells (Samuel),To the most Noble The Governor, The Baliffs and Conservators of the Great Level of the Fens called Bedford Level, This Map of the said Great Level and parts Adjacent is most gratefully Dedicated, pub. G. & J. Cary, 1829, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on line, calligraphic title, heraldic crest and compass rose, some offsetting, some pencil and ink manuscript annotations, 810 x 790mm, marbled end papers, bound in contemp. half morocco gilt, frayed and worn

202 Road maps. Bowen (Emanuel & Owen John), Devon [1720 or later], uncoloured engraved county map, descriptive text on Exeter and thirteen (complete) hand coloured engraved strip road maps relating to Devon, each approx. 180 x 120mm, together with Gardner (Thomas),Five road maps relating to Devon, Dorset, Somerset & Cornwall, originally published in ‘A Pocket Guide to the English Traveller’ [1719], three hand coloured and two b & w engraved strip road maps, each approx. 175 x 270mm, with Desnos (Louis Charles),Four road maps relating to Devon, Somerset and Cornwall, originally published in ‘Nouvel Atlas D’Angleterre’, [1767], uncoloured engraved strip road maps from a French edition of John Senex’s road surveys, each approx. 160 x 215mm plus eight engraved strip road maps, including examples by Hinton and from the Universal and the Gentleman’s magazine, various sizes and condition

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(approx.200)

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£200-300

203 Russia A mixed collection of approx. 200 maps and prints, mostly 19th century, including topographical and genre prints and engravings, sea charts and maps including examples by Chatelain, De Vaugondy, Tallis, Mallet, S.D.U.K., Laurent, Arrowsmith, Bonne, Kitchin, Lizars, Weller, Hall, Tanner, Desilver, Teesdale, Bellin, Brué, Johnston and Fullarton, some duplicates, various sizes and condition

£150-200

Lot 202

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£150-200

Lot 206 204 Saxton (Christopher, Hole, William & Kip). A collection of nine maps, c.1637, together nine uncoloured engraved maps, occ spotting and staining, each approx. 280 x 370mm, various condition

206 Sea charts. Blaeu (Willem Janszoon), Pascaarte van het vermaert Canael van Bristou......, [and] Eygentlijck beworp naer ‘t Leven van alle Havenen, Gaten ende Reeden......, [1608 - 20], pair of uncoloured engraved sea charts, titles in Dutch and repeated in French, compass roses and numerous rhumb lines, pin hole worming to second item, each approx. 250 x 550mm

The maps comprise of :- Herefordshire, Nottinghamshire, Westmorland, Northumberland, Merioneth, Radnor, Flint, Essex and Berkshire, (9) £150-200

Koeman IV (p34) M. Bl. 1. and Koeman IV (p56) M. Bl. 15 (J) respectively. A scarce pair of early sea charts showing the North and South coastlines of South west England including the Bristol Channel and South west Wales.

Originally published in ‘Het Licht der Zee-Vaert’.

(2) £700-1000

205 Scandanavia & Europe. A mixed collection of approx. sixtyfive maps, mostly 19th century, engraved and litho. maps, including examples by Arrowsmith, S.D.U.K., Hall, Johnston, Lapie, Levasseur, Beaupré, Mitchell, Delamarche, Bartholomew, Stieler, Bonne, Desilver, Teesdale, Fullarton and Tallis, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.65)

£150-200

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207 Seller (John & Grose Francis). A collection of fifty-five county maps, c.1780, uncoloured engraved county maps, many with descriptive text below and on verso of maps, each approx. 125 x 150mm An almost complete set of English and Welsh county maps.

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209 South America. A mixed collection of approx. 100 maps, mostly 18th & 19th century, engraved regional, country and subcontinent maps, including examples by S.D.U.K., Bonne, Bellin, Cary, Arrowsmith, Cassell, Hall, Levasseur, Johnston, Bartholomew, Fullarton, Mitchell, Tallis, Johnson & Ward, Mallet, Vandermaelen and Stieler, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition

£150-250

(approx.100)

£300-500

210* Suffolk. Blaeu (Johannes), Suffolcia vernacule Suffolke, c.1650, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, ornate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 380 x 505mm, mounted, framed and double glazed, Dutch text on verso (1)

£100-150

211 Vandermaelen (Philippe). A collection of eleven maps of the East Indies, c.1830, lithographs with contemp. outline colouring, slight staining, occ. duplicates, each approx. 475 x 580mm The maps are of the East Indies including maps of Java, Borneo, Sumatra and the Moluccan Islands.

(11) £70-100

212 Vandermaelen (Philippe). A collection of twenty sea charts of the Pacific, c.1827, engraved charts with contemp. outline colouring, each approx. 475 x 520mm The charts cover island groups in the Pacific including the Magellan, Caroline, Mariana, Moluccan, New Hebrides, Friendly, New Caladonian, Navigator and Solomon islands.

(20) £100-150

208 Single (Simon). A Description of the Land of Wedlock, Containing a Diverting Account of the Numerous Inhabitants of this Vast Region......., Their Laws, Customs and Government with Directions how to Avoid the Multitude of Dangerous Quicksands and Precipices this Extensive Country Abounds with....., Illustrated with an Accurate Map of the Island of Marriage, pub. John Fairburn, c.1811, engraved allegorical map with contemp. outline colouring, map trimmed at foredge with slight loss to strapwork margin [with imprint 1802], title page and pp. 1 - 34 [2], final leaf with poem ‘The Cure of Cuckoldom’, occ. spotting, later end papers, modern qtr. calf gilt, small 8vo Scarce. Only one location found (Cambridge University).

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213 Wales. A mixed collection of approx. fifty maps, mostly 17th 19th century, engraved county and regional maps, including examples by Owen & Bowen, Van den Keere, Phillips, Lewis, Cary, Darton, Kitchin, Archer, Seller/Grose, Cole & Roper, Morden, Fullarton and Moule, some duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.50)

£100-150

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£120-180

217* Westmorland. Speed (John), The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne Described with the Armes of such Nobles as have bene Earles of either of them, pub. George Humble, c.1627, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Kendal, elaborate strapwork cartouche, compass rose and mileage scale, 385 x 505mm, English text on verso, mounted, framed and double glazed (1)

214 Wallis (E., pub.). The Parlour Travellers through Europe adapted for Elder Pupils in Geography, 1820, engraved map with contemp. outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic cartouche, marbled end papers, 460 x 540mm, retaining 38 pp. rule book in contemp. paper wrappers, contained in contemp. slip case with dec. engraved title vignette with contemp. hand colouring, rubbed and worn at extrems.

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218* Worcestershire. Saxton (Christopher & Lea Philip), Worcestershire Described by C.Saxton, Corrected and Amended with many Additions as Roads &c. by P.Lea, c.1690, hand coloured engraved map,inset town plan of Worcester, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 380 x 490mm, mounted, framed and glazed

£100-150

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215 West Africa. A mixed collection of approx. forty maps, mostly 18th & 19th century, engraved and litho. maps, including examples

by Bonne, Tallis, S.D.U.K., Child, Weller, Bellin, De Vaugondy, Mallet, Stieler, Lizars and Colton, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.40)

£200-300

219 World & Polar. A mixed collection of approx. seventy maps, mostly 19th and early 20th century, engraved and litho. maps, including examples by Bellin, S.D.U.K., Bartholomew, Stieler, Hughes, Johnston and Philip, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition

£100-150

(approx.70)

216 West Indies. A mixed collection of approx. sixty maps and prints, mostly 18th & 19th century, including maps by Bonne, Thomson, Bartholomew, Bellin and Vandermaelen, and prints by Middleton, I.L.N. and Mallet, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.60)

£100-150

£100-150

220 Yorkshire. Speed (John), York Shire, pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676, engraved map with sparse outline colouring, some marginal fraying but not affecting image, some staining, 385 x 515mm, English text on verso, mounted

£80-120

(1)

£100-150

221 Yorkshire. Hobson (William Colling), This Map of Yorkshire is most Respectfully dedicated to the Nobility, Clergy, Gentry, Landowners and Manufacturers of the County, 1843, engraved map by J & C Walker, with contemp. outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, on two sheets, calligraphic title and table of explanation, slight off setting and soiling, each sheet approx. 1250 x 785mm, bound in contemp. gilt cloth boards, rebacked, a little rubbed and worn, lacking clasp Brian Kentish, A Catalogue of County Atlases of England and Wales 1607 1868 and Large scale County maps, 2008, Item 78.

(1) £150-200

Lot 217

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DECORATIVE PRINTS & ORIGINAL ART All lots unframed unless otherwise stated

222* Ackermann (R., publisher). A collection of fifty-two engravings, c.1815 - 30, aquatints with contemp. hand colouring of topographical views and of furniture, occ, slight offsetting, each approx. 130 x 200mm (52)

£100-150

224* Architectural Ornaments. A mixed collection of approx. ninety prints, mostly 18th & 19th century, engravings and lithographs of vases, furniture, architectural designs and reliefs, including examples by Charpentier, Wolf, Basseri, Casini, Biondi, Furlanetti and De Kaeppelin, various sizes and condition (approx.90)

£200-300

225* Barrelier (Jacques). A collection of approx. 100 engravings, originally published in ‘Plantae per Galliam, Hispanium et Italiam’ pub. Paris, c.1714, engravings, many with later hand colouring, occ. duplicates, each approx. 120 x 150mm (approx.100)

223* Andrews (Henry C.). A collection of approx. 125 engravings, originally published in ‘The Botanist’s Repository’ [1797 - 1814], engravings with contemp. hand colouring, occ. duplicates, each approx. 255 x 195mm, together with four early 19th century botanical watercolours, various sizes and condition (approx.129)

£150-200

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£100-150

226* Blackwell (Elizabeth). A collection of forty-one engravings, originally published in ‘A Curious Herbal’, [1737 - 39], hand coloured engravings, each approx. 300 x 200mm (41)

£150-200

227* Bonelli (Giorgio). A collection of forty-eight engravings, originally published in ‘Hortus Romanus’, pub. Rome, [1772 - 93], hand coloured engravings, some staining and spotting, some marginal worming, each approx. 370 x 240mm, various condition (48)

£100-150

228* Botanical Watercolours. Daisies and wallflowers, a pair, on wove paper, each 32 x 20cm, framed and glazed, with the name ‘Lagneau’ inscribed to each mount (2)

£70-100

229* Botany. A mixed collection of approx. 320 prints and engravings, 18th - 20th century, engravings, lithographs and prints of flowers and fruit, including examples by Curtis, Pratt, Wright, ‘Florilegium Harlemense’ and Sowerby, many mounted, various sizes and condition (approx.320)

£100-150

230* Botany. A mixed collection of approx. 120 botanical prints, mostly 19th century, engravings and lithographs, many with contemp. colouring, with examples by Curtis, Fitch, Lemaire and Smith, various size and condition (approx.120)

£100-150

Lot 226

231* Botany. A mixed collection of approx. seventy-five prints, 18th & 19th century, including approx. fifty-five colour lithographs originally published in Eeden’s ‘Haarlem’s Flora’ [1872 - 81], many duplicates, each approx. 340 x 250mm together with nineteen hand coloured engravings originally published in John Miller’s ‘Illustration of the Sexual System of the Genera Plantarum of Linnaeus, c.1804, each approx. 460 x 310mm

Lot 228

(approx.75)

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£150-200

232* Botany. A mixed collection of approx. 100 prints, 18th & 19th century, engravings and lithographs, including twenty hand coloured, with examples by Boyce, Chevilet, Andrews, Albin and Loudon, some duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.100)

£80-120

233* British topographical views. A mixed collection of approx.

120 prints and engravings, mostly 18th & 19th century, including aquatints, engravings and lithographs, several with contemp. colour, with examples by Daniell, Gauci, Morris and Hogg, some duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.120)

£120-180

236* Burgess (Henry William, c. 1792-1844). A group of four sketch books, c. 1830s/40s, a total of approx. 50 leaves with pencil studies of trees, rocks, architectural details, etc., often with several studies to one page, versos all blank, occ. caption and date, some spotting, several leaves det., ownership signature of Lady Light at front of each vol., one dated 1869, contemp. wrappers, several covers det., oblong folio (26 x 37cm) (4)

£200-300

234* Buffon (Georges Louis Le Clerc). A collection of forty-one engravings of birds, originally published in ‘Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particulière’, Paris [1749 - 1788], hand coloured engravings, each approx. 240 x 190mm, together with Hayes (Wiliam),Five engravings of birds, originally published in Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds....., from the Menagery of Osterly Park...., c.1794, five engravings with contemp. hand colouring, each approx. 270 x 210mm (46)

£120-180

235* Buffon (Georges Louis Le Clerc). A collection of approx. 100 prints, originally published in ‘Histoire Naturelle, Genrale et Particulière’, pub. Paris [1749 - 88], including sixty-seven hand coloured engravings and thirty-seven uncoloured lithographs from a later German edition, each approx. 210 x 165mm (approx.100)

237* Calligraphy. Four extremely well executed sheets of calligraphy and geographical tables, drawn by James Fuller and dated 1824-1826, pen & ink, two sheets drawn on Bristol board, two drawn on thick wove paper, comprising a sheet advertising the calligraphic instruction of Mr Fuller, a sheet displaying specimens of various typefaces, a sheet displaying the points of the compass and degrees of the sun, and a sheet of geographical charts showing the relative size of mountains and rivers, 56.3 x 45.5cm or 51.5 x 40.5cm, some light dust-soiling and marks

£100-150

See the manuscript map in this sale, also by James Fuller.

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£200-300

240* Chinese rice paper drawings. A group of five watercolour drawings of Chinese trades and street sellers, 19th c., watercolour on rice paper, each showing two figures at work, some light soiling, and one or two paper splits, each approx. 27 x 17cm (10.5 x 6.5ins) and similar, individually framed and glazed (5)

£100-150

241* Chinese ricepaper drawings. A collection of Twenty-three drawings depicting warriors, boxes of tea, fighting with pikes and staffs, etc., 19th century, each approx. 17 x 25cm, sixteen of the drawings framed and glazed, some tears and flaking, a few of the unframed drawings with more significant loss (23)

£300-500

238* Advertising Poster Cigarette poster, c.1920, Chinese chromolitho. poster showing a geisha having her face painted with four open packets of cigarettes at base, slight marginal fraying and creasing not affecting image, slight staining to lower margin, contemp. tin battens on horizontal borders, 760 x 470mm (1)

£100-150

239* Chinese Rice Paper Drawings. Two albums of Chinese rice paper watercolours, mid 19th c., first album containing 27 court figures in ceremonial costumes, second album containing 15 watercolours of flowers, fish, river scenes, furniture and objects, approx. 8 torn with some loss, others with marginal tears and chips, a few spots, the largest 30 x 18.5cm, contained in 20th c. patterned cloth (2)

242* Cook (Beryl, 1926-2008). [Fairy Dell], pub. Bristol, Alexander Gallery Publications Ltd, 1981, colour lithograph, signed by artist in pencil lower right, F.A.T.G. blind stamp to lower left, 430 x 400mm, mounted framed and glazed (1)

£400-600

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£150-200

244* Curtis (William). Curtis’s Botanical Magazine; or FlowerGarden Displayed, vols. 15,16 & 49, 1801, 1803 & 1822, approx.

120 engravings with contemp. hand colouring, occ. spotting, occ. duplicates, a.e.g. disbound and lacking boards, 8vo Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (approx.120)

£200-300

245* Curtis (William). A collection of approx. 100 botanical engravings all relating to Australasia, c.1810 - 40, engravings with contemp. hand colouring, occ. spotting and offsetting, each approx.

215 x 130mm (approx.100)

£120-180

243* Currier & Ives. The Fairies’ Home, 1868, fine hand-coloured lithograph, published by Currier & Ives, New York, 1868, a few light spots (generally in good condition), 38.5 x 52.5cm (15.2 x 20.6ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (glass cracked) (1)

£200-300

246* Dillenius (Johann Jakob). A collection of sixty engravings, originally published in ‘Hortus Elthamensis’, c.1732, hand coloured engravings, occ. spotting and staining, each approx. 275 x 210mm (60)

£300-500

247* Duhamel du Monceau (Henri Louis). ‘Cytisus Laburnum’ [and] ‘ Sparmannia Africana’, originally published in ‘Traite des Arbes et Arbustes qui se Cultivent en France, [1801 - 19], stipple engravings after Pierre Joseph Redouté, contemp. colouring, each approx. 310 x 235mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Berlese (Abbe Laurent), Camellia Sweetiana, originally published in ‘Iconographie du Genre Camellia’ [1839 - 43],mixed method engraving after J.J.Jung, contemp. colouring, 310 x 240mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with Wallich (Nathanael), Ruellia Neesiana, originally published in ‘Plantae Asiaticae Rariores [1829 32],lithograph with contemp. hand colouring, 465 x 345mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with another fourteen stipple engravings after Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau, printed in colours and finished by hand, each approx. 310 x 240mm, mounted

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£100-200

250* Erotica. [Franz von Bayros Bail der aus dem Boudoir der Madame CC, privately published, Vienna, 1912], a group of twentyfour heliogravure plates (of thirty), each pseudonomously signed in their plate as Choisy le Conin, each plate impression c. 185 x 175mm, several with marginal brown stain away from plate impressions, together with eight other hand-coloured engravings of erotica, from other works (32)

£100-150

251* Etchings. A collection of forty-three etchings by various artists, including prints from Etchings for the Art-Union of London

by The Etching Club, 1872, including Seymour Haden, Legros, Lalanne, Thomas Webster, C. W. Cope, Richard Redgrave, Thomas Creswick, W. E. Frost, Slocombe and others, many on india paper, various sizes, all loosely contained in later cloth portfolio (except one by Thomas Webster framed and glazed) (a portfolio)

£100-150

248* Dunning (R.). Mill Bridge near Fountains Abbey, Refectory in Fountains Abbey [and] East View of Fountains Abbey from Studley Park, pub. R.Dunning, Ripon, 1813, together three (of 4) aquatint views by R & D Havell, all with contemp. hand colouring, slight spotting and staining, largely confined to margins, each approx. 260 x 345mm, together with Lake District, pub. G.Hullmandel, c.1830,nine uncoloured lithographs of views in the Lake District on india wove, with a dedication to William Wilberforce, each approx.

270 x 340mm The first described item:- Abbey Scenery no. 368. The second item is not listed in Abbey and must be considered scarce.

(12) £200-300

249* Edwards (George). A collection of thirty engravings, various editions, mostly late 18th and early 19th century, hand coloured engravings of mammals, fish, insects and reptiles, some duplicates, occ. spotting and staining, each approx. 180 x 250mm, together with another three engravings similar by Pass and Wilkes (33)

£100-150

252* Fashion & costume. A collection of approx. 100 engravings originally published in ‘Le Moniteur de la Mode’, pub. Paris, c.1890 - 1910, engravings with contemp. hand colouring, including two double page, each with central fold, very occ. dust and finger soiling, each approx. 370 x 260mm (approx.100)

£150-200

253* Fashion & costume. A collection of approx. sixty engravings, originally published in ‘Le Moniteur de la Mode’, pub.

Paris, c.1890 - 1905, engravings with contemp. hand colouring, each wih central fold, occ. spotting and finger soiling, each approx.

370 x 250mm (approx.60)

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£120-180

254* Foot (Victorine, 1920-). At a Window in Florence & In Venice, together two oils on canvas board, each signed, 25 x 20cm (10 x 8ins) and 17 x 22.5cm (6.75 x 9ins) respectively, both framed, together with Durman (Alan, 1905-1963), Summer Landscape with Country Church, 1937, pastel on paper, signed and dated lower right, 37 x 45.5cm (14.5 x 18ins), framed and glazed (3)

£80-120

255* Frey (Johan Jacob, 1681-1752). The Sacrifice of Noah, after Poussin, Rome, 1746, engraving on laid paper, dedicatory title, toned with repaired split to central fold, plate dimensions 46 x 57.5cm (1)

£70-100

Lot 253

256* Furniture designs. A mixed collection of approx. 125 prints, 19th century, engravings and lithographs of furniture, curtains, beds, architectural interior and exterior design, including examples originally published in ‘Le Garde Meuble’, ‘L’Art Pratique du Tapisserier’ and Ackermann’s Repository of Arts,, together with twenty lithographs of porcelain and pottery, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.145)

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£200-300

258* Gould (John, Richter H.C. & Hart W.). Gecinus Viridis (Young), Pica Caudata, Hydroprogne Caspia, Gecinus Viridis [and] Oxylophus Glandarius, originally published in ‘The Birds of Great Britain’ [1862 -73], together five hand coloured lithographs, each approx. 500 x 340mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with four hand coloured lithographs of birds including Parrots and Hornbills after Smith and Keulemanns, each approx. 225 x 200mm, mounted, framed and glazed, plus a large colour printed reproduction print of American Merganzers after J.J.Audubon, 575 x 875mm, mounted and framed but lacking glass (10)

£250-350

257* Gardens & architecture. A mixed collection of approx. eighty prints, mostly 18th & 19th century, hand coloured engravings and lithographs, including examples by Thiemé, Motte, Bowles, Montalegre, Van Loon, De Fer, Herisset, Fruck, Corvinus, Rembshardt, Mertz and Delfenbach, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.80)

£300-500

259* Graham (Peter, R.S.A., 1836-1921). [The Sea Arch], pub.

Arthur Tooth & Sons, 1905, large uncoloured mixed method engraving on India wove by Joseph B. Pratt, signed below image in pencil by the artist and the engraver, blind stamp of the Print Sellers Association to lower left, proof before letters and title, some dust soiling and staining largely confined to margins, 900 x 740mm, with another copy of the same image, but this example trimmed to plate mark, together with [Haunt of the Cormorant], pub. Arthur Tooth & Sons, 1903, large uncoloured mixed method engraving on India wove by Joseph B. Pratt, signed below image in pencil by the artist and engraver, blind stamp of the Print Sellers Association to lower left, proof before letters and title, some spotting and marginal closed tears, largely confined to margins, 740 x 920mm, plus Leighton (Edmund Blair), [The Elopement], pub. Arthur Tooth & Sons, 1897, uncoloured gravure on India wove, signed in pencil below image by artist, blind stamp of the Print Sellers Association to lower left, slight marginal dust soiling, 545 x 765mm Lot 258

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£200-300

263* Indian Erotica. A pair of Indian erotic miniatures, probably late 19th or early 20th c., depicting copulating couples in the composite form of a running elephant and rider, gouache on paper (possibly from an earlier date), one with manuscript text above, 20 x 12cm mount aperture and slightly smaller, framed and glazed, together with a 19th c. Indian mica painting of a Hindu Procession, captioned with title to lower margin, some marks, 16 x 20cm, framed and glazed (3)

£100-150

264* Interior Design. An original design for a grand bedroom with four-poster bed and furnishings in the Louis XVI style, 20th century, pen, ink, watercolour and gouache design on paper, signed Hamed lower left, 65.3 x 78.8 (21.75 x 31ins), gilt frame, glazed (1)

265 Keene (Charles Samuel, 1823-1891). An original drawing of a man lying on a beach, pen & ink cartoon (with pencilled grid for enlarging), showing a gentleman in a suit and bowler hat reclining on a pebbly beach, with a cigarette in his mouth, beside a large notice which states ‘I dont buy shells, never eat buns & don’t want a boat’, initialled lower left, 12 x 17cm (4.75 x 6.75ins), framed and glazed

260* Hainard (Robert, 1906-99, Swiss). Jeune Castor sous la pluie [Young beaver in the rain], woodcut printed in colours, signed in pencil and numbered 18/30, 38 x 48cm, together with two other signed woodcuts by Hainard titled Le blaireau dans l’obscurite [Badger in the dark] and Mesange a Moustache [Bearded Reedling], all framed and glazed, each with old Tryon Gallery label to verso (3)

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£100-150

266* Le Brun (Cornelius). Double portrait of a male and female slave, originally published in ‘Voyage de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie en Perse et aux Indes Orientales, pub. Amsterdam, c.1720, hand coloured engraving, old folds, 310 x 385mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Portier du Roy, hand coloured engraving, slight toning and spotting, 290 x 180mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with Deux Portiques et les Deux Colomnes, hand coloured engraving, old printers fold, 255 x 380mm, mounted, framed and glazed, plus two other hand coloured 18th century engravings similar, both framed and glazed, together with Chippendale (Thomas), Eight engravings of Chippendale Designs for Chinese Furniture, originally published in ‘The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director; being a large Collection of the most elegant and useful designs of Household Furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern taste, c.1754, eight engravings by M.Darley, later hand colouring, slight staining largely confined to margins, each approx. 230 x 370mm, mounted, with Watteau (Jean Antoine), L’Oeuvre de Antoine Watteau D’apres les Dessins Originaux, Paris,c.1880, dec. litho. title and twenty-one litho. plts. only (including two double page), printed in sanguine, occ. spotting, some dust and finger soiling largely confined to margins, gutta percha perished and contents loose, pubs. dec. printed boards, soiled and rubbed, slim folio

£150-200

261* Havell (Daniel). ‘The Town of Dixan in Abyssinia’ [and] ‘Mucculla in Abyssinia’, pub. William Miller, 1809, together two aquatint engravings after Henry Salt, original hand colouring, each approx. 480 x 650mm, slight spotting, largely confined to margins, mounted, framed and glazed, together with five other framed and glazed engravings and photographs, various sizes and condition The first two described items were 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.

(7) £150-200

Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return.

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262* Hollar (Wenceslaus). ‘By Plymouth’, ‘Part of Plymouth Sound’ [and] ‘By Plymouth’, 1676, together three etchings of Plymouth Sound, each approx. 65 x 140mm, trimmed to plate mark, tipped on to later paper Pennington 932, 933 & 934.

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£70-100

£150-200

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£100-150

269 Morris (William). An original design for a border, a wood engraved illustration of a procession of knights, with right-hand border of scrolling stems and leaves drawn in pen & ink, with pencilled outline visible and touches of blue pencil-colouring, sheet size 21.5 x 20.5cm (8.5 x 8ins), with pencil inscription on verso ‘Cosmo Gordon, Given to me on Oct 27 1909 by S.C.C.’, together with an envelope addressed to Cosmo Gordon and with pencil inscription in his hand ‘Original design for borderpiece by William Morris. Given to me by S.C. Cockerell at Cambridge on Oct 27 the day after Professor Mackail’s lecture. 1909’ (1)

£200-300

267* Macdonald (Thomas (pubs.)). ‘The Vale of Festiniog Merionethshire’, ’Pontnewydd Near Corwen Merionethshire’, ‘Pont Aber Glaslyn Merionethshire’, ‘A View of Grange in Borrowdale’ [and] ‘A View of Beddgelert, Carnarvonshire’, c.1814, five aquatint engravings with contemp. hand colouring, some spotting and staining, various engravers and artists, each approx. 450 x 590mm, framed and glazed, together with Lambe (R. pubs.), Aberystwith Castle, 1810, engraved aquatint by J.Jill after J.Warren, contemp. hand colouring, some staining, 455 x 610mm, framed and glazed Not examined out of frames.

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£300-500

268* Military & maritime. A mixed collection of twelve engravings and lithographs, 19th century, engravings, aquatints and lithographs, including several with contemp. colouring, with examples by Sutherland and Stroobant, various sizes and condition, framed and glazed (12)

£100-150

270* Mughal School. Two portraits of a Prince and Princess, 18th c., fine opaque watercolour on paper, each holding a lotus flower, Persian text at head and foot, each image 13 x 7.5cm (5.25 x 3ins), framed and glazed (2)

£300-500

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277 Piranesi (Giovanni Battista). Vedute di Roma, c.1760’s, a collection of ten small-scale etched views of ancient buildings in Rome, plate size approx. 13 x 19cm, sheet size 17 x 26.5cm, some light spotting, light vertical crease to each where previously folded

271* Natural history. A mixed collection of approx. 200 engravings, mostly 18th century, including 150 hand coloured engravings of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and botany with examples by Schreber, Edwards, Buffon and Pass, and approx. fifty uncoloured engravings of birds and mammals after Buffon, some duplicates, each approx. 250 x 200mm (approx.200)

The views are: Fontana d’Acqua Felice, S. Stefano Rotondo, Palazzo degl’ Ambasciatori di Venezia, Palazzo Pontifico etc., Villa Lodovisi, Chiesa di S. Paolo fuori delle Mura, Belvedere in Vaticano, Chiesa ed Ospedale di Santo Spirito, Chiesa di S. Carlino alle Quattro Fontane, & Arco degli Argentieri (by Bellicard).

(1) £200-300

£300-500

272* Natural history. A mixed collection of approx. 115 prints, mostly 18th & 19th century, lithographs and engravings of mammals, birds, fish reptiles and ethnological portraits, including approx. thirty-five with hand colouring, various sizes and condition (approx.115)

278* Pondlife. An early 20th-c. large-scale chromolithograph, c.

1900, depicting pond life with frogs, beetles, snakes and other species, 58.5 x 77cm, framed and glazed

£100-150

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£100-150

273* New Zealand. Dumont d’Urville (Jules & De Sainson Louis), eight lithographs originally published in ‘Voyage de la Corvette L’Astrolabe’ [1830 - 34], uncoloured lithographs, occ. duplicates, slight marginal staining, each approx. 275 x 365mm (8)

£100-150

274* Newcastle on Tyne. Newcastle sur la Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, pub. Lemercier, Paris, E.Gambart & Co. London [and] Emile Seitz New York, c.1860, tinted lithograph after J.Arnout, title printed in French and English, slight spotting, 335 x 450mm, together with Newman & Co., (pubs.),Dartmouth the Harbour and Castle from Dyer’s Hill, Totnes from Totnes Down Hill [and] Devonport & the Hamoaze from Mount Edgecumbe, c.1860, together three tinted lithographs, slight marginal dust soiling and spotting, each approx. 270 x 370mm (4)

£120-180

275* North America. A collection of approx. 300 prints and engravings, mostly 19th century, including approx. 270 steel engraved views of Connecticut and Rhode Island and approx. thirty folio engravings and lithographs of historical, natural history, topographical and genre scenes, some duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.300)

279 Portraits. A good early 19th century album of portraits of European royalty, military and political leaders, together forty-three mezzotints, lithographs and engravings, each with tissue guard, including portraits of George III, Victoria, The Duke of Wellington, Prince Charlotte and Prince Leopold, The Duchess of Kent, Napoleon Bonaparte, Frederick II of Prussia, Charles X of France and Prince Albert, with examples by Lewis, Doo, Taylor, Clint, Say, Pichler, Townley, Maile, Skelton, Dawe, Reynolds and Cardon, various sizes and condition, contemp. half morocco, rubbed and worn, folio

£150-250

276* Orme (Edward, publisher). ‘The Burial Place of a Peer Zada Anopther’, ‘A Pagoda’, ‘A Hindoo Place of Worship’ [and] ‘The Bridge at Juonpore Bengal’. originally published in ‘A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India......, Embellished with Coloured Engravings’, [1802 - 05], together four aquatint engravings by Orme, Stadler and Merke, occ. slight marginal staining, each approx. 340 x 440mm, mounted, framed and glazed Abbey Travel, vol.2 no.424. plt. nos. 7, 14, 15 & 16.

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Bookplate of Elizabeth Anne Hippisley, Ston Easton.

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£100-150

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£300-500

280* Prints & engravings. A large mixed collection of approx.

1250 prints, and engravings, mostly 19th century, prints, lithographs and engravings, including topography, natural history, ‘Punch cartoons’, portraits, heraldry, ‘Hogarth’, technical & industrial, architecture, military & marine, Oxford, historical, religion and genre, various sizes and condition (approx.1250)

£300-500

281* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approx. 750 prints, engravings and lithographs, mostly 19th & early 20th century, including British and foreign topography, portraits, genre, marine, natural history, religion, photographs and sporting, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.750)

£150-200

282* Prints & engravings. A large mixed collection of approx. 800 prints and engravings, mostly 19th century, including British & foreign topography, marine, genre, portraits and natural history, various sizes and condition (approx.800)

£150-200

283* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approx. ninety prints, mostly 18th & 19th century, including costume, royalty, erotica, nine hand coloured engravings from Robert Plot’s ‘Natural History of Staffordshire’, and three lithographs of Buffalo hunting from George Caitlin’s North American Indian series, several duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.90)

£150-200

284* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approx. 140 prints, mostly 18th & 19th century, engravings and lithographs of marine scenes, foreign topographical and genre scenes and technical & industrial engravings, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.140)

285* Purigini (Anton, late 19th century). St Mark’s Basilica and the Grand Canal, Venice, a pair of watercolours, signed and titled, each 59 x 25cm, period frames (2)

£150-200

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£100-150

288* Sticklebacks. An early 20th-c. large-scale chromolithograph, c. 1900, depicting sticklebacks on the river bed, 56 x 74.5cm, framed and glazed, some damage (1)

£100-150

289* Switzerland. Lakeside cottages with several figures, 19th century, watercolour, inscribed in pencil lower-left “Interlachen, Switzerland”, 28 x 49cm, attribution on mount to William Leighton Leitch (1804-1883), framed and glazed (1)

£100-150

290* Switzerland. A collection of approx. 200 prints, mostly 19th century, engraved and aquatint topographical views, some duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.200)

291 Tombleson (William). A collection of approx. 300 engravings, c.1840, uncoloured engravings, originally published in Tombleson’s ‘Eighty Picturesque Views on the Thames and Medway’, many duplicates, each approx. 170 x 220mm

286 Royal Navy. Four engravings of naval vessels after Thomas Baston, 18th century, uncoloured on laid paper, two armorials masked with old pieces of paper, plate dimensions 29.5 x 38.5cm, framed and glazed

(approx.300)

£100-150

292* Topographical engravings. A mixed collection of approx.

1000 prints and engravings, mostly 19th century, British and foreign topographical views, including examples by Finden, Allom, I.L.N., Dugdale, Neale, Westall and Bartlett, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition

From Baston’s “Twenty-two prints of several of the capital ships of his Majesties Royal Navy” printed in 1721 and reissued after 1766.

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287 South America. A collection of twenty-six prints, mostly 18th & 19th century, engravings and lithographs, including topographical views, genre scenes and portraits, with examples by Mallet, Dapper/Ogilby, Hasller, Gallina, Muller and Lemercier, various sizes and condition (26)

£100-150

(approx.1000)

£100-150

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£100-150

296* Weinmann (Johann Wilhelm). A collection of approx. ninety engravings originally published in ‘Phytanhoza Iconographia’ [1737 - 45], mixed method engravings with contemp. hand colouring, occ. duplicates, each approx. 330 x 215mm, various condition

293* Trew (Christoph Jacob). Eight engravings, originally published in ‘Plantae Selectae’, pub. Nuremberg [1750 -73], eight engravings with contemp. hand colouring, slight staining largely confined to margins, one plate with repaired lower margin, each approx. 400 x 230mm (8)

(approx.90)

PERIODICALS

294* Vue d’Optiques. ‘A View of the Grand Palace of Westminster’, ‘La Bourse Royal a Londres’ [and] ‘Vue du Parc St James a Londres et du Canal de Buckingham prise de la cour de L’Hotel du même nom’, pub. Paris & London, c.1770, together three engraved views with early hand colouring, each approx. 290 x 440mm, mounted, framed and glazed (3)

297 Illustrated London News, 6 half-yearly vols., Jan 1889-Dec 1890 & Jan-Dec 1892, num. engs. to text, several leaves missing, hinges broken to first two vols., orig. cloth gilt/contemp. cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear, together with Graphic, An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, Jul-Dec 1894, num. engs. to text, contemp. half morocco gilt, scuffed and stained, folio

£80-120

295* Vue d’Optiques. A collection of six engravings, c.1760, six hand coloured engravings of London, Rome, Paris and Fontainbleau, some marginal closed tears, each approx. 265 x 435mm, mounted, framed and glazed (6)

£400-600

£200-300

Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

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£150-200

298 Illustrated London News, 14 half-yearly vols., May 1842-Dec 1843, Jan-Dec 1848, Jan-Jun 1852, Jan-Dec 1862, Jan-Dec 1866, Jan-Dec 1869, Jan-Jun 1878 & Jun-Dec 1914, num. engs. to text, occ. spotting, several leaves missing, orig. cloth gilt/contemp. cloth gilt, several spines worn with loss, folio

£100-150

Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

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£200-300

THE SIR HENRY BABINGTON SMITH AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION The collection offered here was largely assembled by Sir Henry Babington Smith (1863-1923). He was a civil servant and financier, the sixth of seven brothers, all but one of whom distinguished themselves in later life, the exception having died young. The earliest autographs mostly relate to Babington Smith's father, Archibald Smith (1813-1872), noted Glasgow mathematician and only son of the geologist James Smith (1782-1867), whose name also appears in the collection. Archibald Smith was the author of 'A Graphic Method of Correcting the Deviations of a Ship's Compass' (1855) and related works. Many of the mathematical and scientific letters in this collection are therefore addressed to Archibald Smith and on the subject of the mathematics, magnetism and compasses. Archibald's sons all had contact with notables of their day and these form the majority of other letters in the collection. Of Babington Smith's brothers, the oldest was James Parker Smith (18541929), a barrister and MP; Walter Edward Smith (b. 1855), vicar of Andover, Hampshire; Charles Stewart Smith (1859-1934), consul-general at Barcelona; Arthur Hamilton Smith, keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum; and the youngest, George Edward Smith (1868-1944), brigadier-general in the Royal Engineers.

Sir Henry Babington Smith

Lot 299

299* Airy (George Biddell, 1801-1892). A group of four autograph letters signed ‘G. B. Airy’, 1849/1870, the first and last to Archibald Smith, the second to Lady Parker and the third to William Scoresby, the first concerning the shipwreck of St. Paul and the main Adria, 3 pp., the second offering his good wishes to Lady Parker on the engagement of her daughter Susan to Archibald Smith, 2 pp., plus integral blank, the third to Scoresby (11th January 1856), regretting that he cannot give a quick abstract of a paper sent to the Royal Society, ‘but I may mention that, on reducing the changes of compass to changes of intensity in the ships’ magnetism, it appeared that even as far as the Cape of Good Hope there was only one instance in which the maximum error (supposing the Liverpool errors to have been corrected by magnets), would have been 5 degrees in other instances, it would have been much less ...’, and later, ‘The most satisfactory way of doing this, I think, would be by the use of Gray’s adjustable correctors, finding and registering the position of the correctors proper for complete correction at each station’, 4 pp., the final letter on Oil Observatory Greenwich letterhead and explaining his reasons for separating the various periodic terms in the earth currents and ‘A good deal less laborious and more easily trusted to a young computer than that given by Fourier’s theorum’, and noting three characteristic differences between his results and those of Fourier and continuing with an explanation of same and other matters including a vibrating string, 4 pp., first and last page a little toned, all 8vo (4)

Lot 300

300* Artists. A group of twenty mostly autograph letters signed, late 19th c., the majority by artists including short note to Dorothy “Dolly” Tennant (later Lady Stanley), (1855-1926), from John Everett Millais (1829-96), Frederic Leighton (1830-96), George Frederick Watts (1817-1904), initialled note, Jean-Jacques Henner (1829-1905), in French, Frank Holl, plus autograph letters signed from the artists George Richmond, three further letters from Frederic Leighton, Henry Blackburn, Herbert Herkomer (2), William F. Harrison, A.G. Woolner, J. Edgar Boehm, a letter from George Grove concerning the Dictionary of Music and Musicians, etc., mostly 1 or 2 p., 8vo (20)

£200-300

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Lot 302

301* British Royalty. A group of twenty letters by and relating to Queen Victoria and family, c. 1850s/1880s, including an autograph letter signed ‘Albert’ from Prince Albert to the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Buckingham Palace, 16th May 1854, concerning Cardwell’s Department of Practical Art and its fitness for inspection, 3 pp., light toning to right margin, together with the original envelope also signed ‘Albert’, together with an autograph note unsigned from Queen Victoria, Osborne, 22nd July 1879, congratulating Mr Dalton on the boys’ successful examination, royal monogram, black border, 1 p. plus integral blank, both 8vo, plus three autograph letters signed ‘George’, from the future King George V, 1865/71, all brief notes to Cardwell, a total of 5 pp., 8vo, plus an autograph letter initialled from Albert Edward, Jockey Club, Newmarket, 5th May 1885, 3 pp., 8vo, plus orig. initialled envelope front from the same letter to J.N. Dalton, plus further letters to Dalton and Smith, including six relating to Prince Edward at Cambridge and two signed by Ponsomby (20)

£200-300

302* Browning (Robert, 1812-89). Autograph letter signed, ‘Robert Browning’, 19 Warwick Cresent, [London], W, 29th June 1878 (?), to Lady Cardwell accepting her invitation to dinner on 10th July and sending his respects to Lord Cardwell, one page with integral blank, 8vo (1)

303* Diplomatic, Consular and Military. A group of approx. forty autograph letters signed and similar, mostly 19th c., many diplomatic and consular official letters, signatories including Elliot (Constantinople), Lord Derby, Lord Stafford, Edward Thornton, Lord Dufferin (all St. Petersburg), Lord Cowley (Vienna), Evelyn Baring, Lord Napier, Sir Henry Bulmer, Sir Gerald Portle, G.E. Pollock, Sir John Kirk, Carl Peters, H.P. Just, Earl of Lytton, C.F. Adams, military autographs including George S. White (x5), Lord Kitchener, E.R. Fremantle, Henry Brackenbury, and Lord Napier of Magdala, various lengths and sizes, together with a lengthy and chatty autograph letter initialled from Lady Elizabeth Lyttleton (1749-1795), London, 26th April 1782, to her friend Lady Hamilton (ie. Catherine Barlow, d. 1782), at Naples, 6 pp. including integral address panel, split along several folds but all pieces present, folio

£150-200

(approx. 40)

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304* Divines. A group of approx. forty mostly autograph letters signed from religious leaders and similar, mostly 19th c., including A.C. Tait (2), Randall Davidson, Archbishop of York, St. Clair Donaldson, Archbishop of Brisbane, the Archimandrite of Cyprus, Dean Stanley of Westminster, Seddon of St. Paul’s, Henry Alford and Dean Farran of Canterbury, G.G. Bradley of Westminster, Bishops including Christopher Wordsworth, Samuel Wilberforce, G.A. Selwyn, A.W. Thorold, T. Erskine, Reverend Dr. Chalmers, Reverend Dr. Norman Macleod, W.R. Haweis, Bishops of Zanzibar, Grahamstown, etc., mostly 1 or 2 pp., 8vo (approx. 40)

£200-300

306* Fleming (Alexander, 1881-1955). Autograph letter signed, ‘Alexander Fleming’, Inoculation Department, St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, W2, 14th June 1944, to Parker Smith, ‘Wonders will never cease. Honours in masonry. - Newspaper publicity - and then this last. It is a topsy turvy world. I was very sorry not to be able to come to the installation meeting but if you ask me again I will come if I possibly can. Thank you very much for your congratulations’, a little toning and creasing, one page on printed letterhead, 8vo 305* Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, i.e. Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898).

Autograph letter signed, “C.L. Dodgson”, Ch[rist] Ch[urch] Osford, 30th October 1870, to Mrs Seymour (Nettlecombe Rectory, Taunton, Somerset), ‘I am very glad you like the photograph of Mary. In case you would like to order any further copies, you may like to know that I supply them at 2/- cabinet and 1/- carte-size. I transact the business myself, and the printer has orders to print for me only, so please write to me if you ever want any’, in purple ink on black-edged paper, one page with integral blank, 8vo, with autograph envelope, black-edged with postmarked penny red

‘The high profile given to penicillin changed Fleming’s standing in science and medicine. On 18 March 1943 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, a position he had sought for some twenty years. In 1944 he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and knighted, and in October 1945 he received with Florey and Chain the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine’ (DNB).

(1) £200-300

Dodgson took photographs of the sisters Isabel (1856-1916) and Mary Maud Fortescue Seymour (1861-1896) in the autumn of 1866. These are listed as negative numbers 1578 and 1579?, (place and current owners unknown), in Roger Taylor & Edward Wakeling, ‘Lewis Carroll, Photographer, The Princeton University Library Albums’ (2002). Isabel and Mary were the daughters of Rev. Henry Fortescue Seymour, a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, with whom Dodgson corresponded. No doubt inspired by Lewis Carroll Mary herself became a children’s author and illustrator.

(1) £600-800

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307* Galton (Francis, 1822-1911). A group of five autograph letters signed, ‘Francis Galton’, 1864/1898, to [Archibald] Smith and other members of his family, the first to Smith dated 11 November 1864, ‘H. James is really in error in believing that the elevation of the Dead Sea has never been determined by actual levelling. In 1843 Lieut. Symondes R.E., received the gold medal of the Geographical Society for having triangulated and levelled between the Mediterranean and Dead Sea. It is worked very carefully. You will see an account of it in vols. 12 & 13 of the Geographical Society’s transactions ... believing he was wrong to have thought it had been levelled again in more recent years, but ‘I see that Lynch only used barometers and I suppose ... that Van der Weelte did the same. If you do not think it well to press the pendulum matter, pure and simple, there remains nothing else for our Society to take up ...’ and suggesting that if he does want to continue that perhaps Everest Waugh, Spottiswoode and one or two others might examine the question and report back, 4 pp., brown stain to lower margins not affecting legibility, 8vo, the second letter to [?] Walter Smith, having forwarded his letter to G. H. Darwin, saying that he does not know the American statistics to which Smith refers and cannot offer an opinion on them but that if he were to work on the subject he should get an old Burke’s ‘Peerage & Baronetage’ and an old ‘County Families’ explaining how he would use these for his anlaysis. Continuing ‘I spent lately a happy day among the idiots at Earlswood [Asylum, Redhill, Surrey], bent on pyschological research. Their very intelligent medical director Dr. Graham makes regular entries of the percentage of the newly received idiots, especially asking as to relationship of parents. He told me that his conclusions entirely coroborrated those of G. H. Darwin and he had briefly stated the same in print ...’, with further information on the same subject, 4 pp., plus to letters to Mrs Archibald Smith, the first dated 13 November 1873 asking for information ‘to put together in some MS. volumes, all the materials you possess that illustrate your husband’s life in biographical order ...’, 4 pp., the second dated 16 December 1898 hoping to have a fuller account of her son’s excellent work in Africa, etc., 3 pp., plus envelope, and the last to Henry Babington Smith, 15 October 1881, hoping that he can lecture on “the measures of our faculties” at Eton, 2 pp., plus integral blank, plus orig. envelope, all 8vo

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£400-600

308* Herschel (William, 1738-1822). Autograph letter signed ‘Wm. Herschel’, Slough, 19 October 1810, to Dr. [Patrick] Wilson, suggesting a date that they pay a visit to Professor and Miss Wilson, ‘to partake of your family dinner; after which a chapter may probably be held to consider of a few propositions relating to the construction of the heavens. On looking over the observations of 2,500 objects, with a view of trying whether something might not be gathered from them I have ventured to make a more scientific arrangement of them, and to draw some conclusions which want a mature consideration, and will therefore become proper subjects for disqusition. Yesterday I had a view of the [Windsor] Castle through the 14 feet Glasgow telescope to try the focal length of the mirror, which turned out to be exactly what I wished it to be; the mirror is not finished, but will be very complete in its construction; there will not be a single flaw or defect in any part of the face or back of it. The tube is beautifully made and next week the stand is to come home’, 3 pp. plus integral address panel, seal tear and marginal split affecting sentiment and signature without loss, 4to (1)

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310* Hugo (Victor, 1802-1885). Autograph letter initialled ‘V’, Brussels, 4th April, no year, c. 1860, in French, to Julie, telling that they arrived on Wednesday, her sister the previous Sunday, noting that her sister is happy though unwell, later noting that his companion and exile Kesler will be in their group, sending friendship to Mr and Mrs Marquand and family, sending a message to Mariette [Le Clanche, Hugo’s housekeeper], mentioning that Alice is waiting to sleep and that everyone (?) in Brussels embraces her, with a postscript asking Julie to continue the daily writing lessons for his two pupils Mariette and Marie, 2 pp., written to the first and third page of a blue bifolium, some browning, bleaching and fold splits, overall in legible but fragile condition, 8vo, with an old handwritten transcription attempt

309* Hooker (Joseph Dalton). A series of four autograph letters signed, ‘Jos. D. Hooker’ (and one ‘J.D. Hooker’), Kew (and last one The Camp, Sunningdale), 6th November 1865 to 11th December 1898, the first to Mrs [Archibald] Smith having just heard of the Royal Society’s award of a Royal Medal to her husband, ‘I do most heartily congratulate you on this very tardy recognition’, marginal split without loss, some spotting, black border, the second to Archie [Smith] concerning the sorrowful news on the death of his father [James Smith of Jordanhill, 1782-1867, Scottish merchant, antiquarian, architect, geologist, biblical critic and man of letters], ‘I shall never see another senior to whom I shall look up with the respect and affection that I regarded your father with. He is the last of those later filled a large space in my boyish memory and remained the same kind of warm friend to the last... ‘, 2 pp. with integral blank, the third to Mrs Smith in 1879, concerning the possibilities of a temporary dispersal of the Gordon Hill library of voyages and travels, 4 pp. with orig. stamped and postmarked envelope, the fourth also to Mrs Smith, ‘I thank you very much for sending me “Roadmaking and Sport in C.E. Africa” [by George Edward Smith, 1868-1944], which I have read with great interest and profit; for it gives me a much clearer idea of the nature of the country traversed that I had proposed and of the difficulties to be overcome by your son which called forth all his father’s energies and suppression of self in the work he had in hand. How anxious you must have been during his absence, though I hope you did not hear of his rhinoceros hunting pursuits and narrow escapes. To have two sons who spent years of active and indeed [?] service in E. Africa, and returned to tell of their labours and their adventures is not a boon granted to many parents... ‘, with a mention of [Edward] Sabine, 3 pp., black border, all 8vo (4)

The addressee of the letter would be Juliette Drouet (1806-1853). Julie began her career as an actress before abandoning the stage to become the mistress of Victor Hugo, after which she acted as a secretary and travelling companion. She accompanied Hugo into exile in the Channel Islands and wrote thousands of letters to him throughout her life.

(1) £150-200

£400-600

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311* James (Henry, 1843-1916). Autograph letter signed ‘Henry James’, 34 De Vere Gardens, [London], 13 November 1894, to Myers [Frederic W.H. Myers, name partly obscured by ink blot], beginning ‘To such a reader as you, such delightful observer, rememberer, liker, who would not concede everything? It costs me no struggle of pride whatever to say that you must be absolutely right: there is a [?] luxury of gratitude in it. Of Georgina’s Reasons [1885] I mainly remember that I thought them pretty bad at the time - I [?] thought the tale a feeble cru, and that impression has remained with me. I dare say it is one of the worst I was ever guilty of. I have been looking for it this am - to appreciate the remarks better, but I find that I seem to be without the volume that contains it... ‘, 6 pp., plus a single-page postscript, the verso all crossed out with initials HJ at foot, some ink spots, final leaf with brown stain, typically James writing the end of the letter vertically upwards across the margins and blank areas of the first page and finishing on the inner margin of second recto (page 2) with signature appearing here at upper margin, together with an incomplete autograph letter signed ‘Henry James’, possibly to Myers again, 12 pp. present, lacking first leaf (pp. 1 and 3), with references to the characters of Rose and Tony and volume and page numbers [for his novel The Other House, 2 vols., 1896], small tear affecting sentiment adjacent to signature at foot of final page, plus an autograph letter from Henry James in the third person and unsigned, 3 Bolton Street, 9th July, no year, regretting that he cannot accept the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury due to a prior engagement, 1 p., all 8vo

312* Joule (James Prescott, 1818-1889). Autograph letter signed, ‘James P. Joule’, 5 Cliff Point, Hr. Broughton, Manchester, 27 May 1875, to [William] Thomson, beginning, ‘I am much grieved to hear so unfavourable an account of Lady Thomson. I did not think she was such a great sufferer and even hoped she was improving.

But there is always hope I trust it may yet be justified. Most consoling it must be to know she is supported by her Saviour who will not fail those who trust in Him, and who holds forth a reward which will make all trials here appear as not worthy to be compared with glory to be revealed ...’, continuing ‘you’re very kind in finding time to think of my papers, I will send the list in a day or two but you must not take any trouble in reference to sending them to Mr. Smith or otherwise. I think I had a little more vanity at that early time than now, also some ambition - how experience does away with such notions!’, brown stain to lower margin without loss of legibility, 4 pp., 8vo

The first letter is reproduced in Leon Edel (ed.), Henry James Letters, vol. 3, 1883-1895 (1980), pp. 488-9. James rented rooms at 3 Bolton Street, London, between 1876 and 1886. He was a good friend of Edward White Benson, the Archbishop of Canterbury, from 1882 until his death in 1896. It was Benson who in January 1895 told James the anecdote that led him (two years later) to write ‘The Turn of the Screw’.

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314* Lyell (Charles, 1797-1875). Autograph letter signed, ‘Cha Lyell’, 55 Harley Street, London, 19 November 1860, to James [Smith], ‘Your letters are giving me so much useful information that I must trespass once more upon your time - I’m afraid inciting you to fall into a mistake - especially as I find at page 31 of my copy of your paper in Wennerian Memoirs Vol. VIII that allude to a former paper. Please do tell me the vol and page of said previous paper’, continuing to talk of a problem of waves and cliff erosion and including a pen and ink diagram lettered A, B, and C with explanation thereof, ‘The argument runs thus. In the last 2000 years the encroachment of the sea has not exceeded 1/16th of the waste which took place in the first period when A. B. was cut back. For the period C. may be many times 2000 years for ought we know as it is not likely that the upheaval ceased just when the Romans built the wall (they commonly called the Pictish wall?), concluding with further remarks on the sea level of Cumbria, etc., 4 pp., 8vo The recipient of this letter was the geologist and biblical historian James Smith of Jordanhill (1782-1867). Known as ‘the father of the post-Tertiary geology of Scotland’ he was a supporter of the pioneering works of fellow scientists such as Lyell, Agassiz and Buckland. He was the first to maintain and prove that a colder climate precedeed the present one. His first paper on the subject was read to the Geological Society of London in 1836 and in 1839, the epoch-making ‘The late changes of the relative levels of land and sea in the British Islands’ was read to the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh; this is the paper referred to in Lyell’s letter. He was the father of the mathematician Archibald Smith and friend of the Arctic voyagers General Sabine and Captain Douglas Clavering.

(1) £300-500

313* Kropotkin (Petr Alekseevich, Prince, 1842-1921).

Autograph letter signed ‘P. Kropotkin’, 17 Roxborough Road, Harrow-on-the-Hill, 30 May 1887, to Madame, in English, thanking her for the sympathy and letter, noting that his wife is recovering well, ‘and the baby recovers by and by from the rough treatment that, poor creature, it was submitted to on its appearance in the world... I say that we find our little miss quite delightful, with her big eyes, long lids and happy expression when she is by her mother’, 4 pp., a little spotting and soiling, 8vo, together with nine other non-British royalty interest and related, including a letter signed by the Sultan of Zanzibar directing for assistance to Lieutenant C.S. Smith, sentiment and signature of the Queen of Madagascar, autograph of James Brooke (Rajah of Sarawak), autograph letter signed by Maharajah Rajinder Singh of Patiala (1872-1900), three letters signed by Maharajah of Kashmir (1898-9) and one letter with the stamp of the widow consort of the late Nawah, Nazim of Bengal (10)

£150-200

315* Maxwell (James Clerk, 1831-1879). Autograph letter signed, Glenlair, Dalbeattie, 13 May 1869, to [Archibald] Smith, ‘Here are Green’s results for the magnetic state of a soft iron cylinder of radius and length 2l [lambda]. He uses a coefficient g which is the same as Poissons k which cannot exceed 1. It is related to Thalen’s Neumanns K thus ...’, continuing afters some algebraic equations, ‘In any paper of mine when I have used a symbol m [mu] (corresponding to Faraday’s idea of the conductivity of a medium for magnetic induction)’, continuing with further algebra and explanations, referring to Thalen once more who ‘gives K = 32’, signed ‘J. Clerk Maxwell’ on the third page and giving an extra note on the calculations of three values of K and p below, 3 pages, a little browning at lower margins, old adhesion mark to final blank, 8vo Scientific letters by James Clerk Maxwell are very rarely found; the last one at auction apparently seen in 1992. This is an uncommonly fine letter on the subject of induced magnetization to a fellow mathematician. Maxwell covers this topic in his seminal ‘Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism’, a two-volume work first published four years after this letter.

(1) £500-800

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317* Nightingale (Florence, 1820-1910). Autograph letter signed, ‘Florence Nightingale’, 10 South Street, Park Lane, [London], W., 26 April 1895, to Henry Babington Smith, ‘I beg to thank you and to request your kindness to thank H.E. the Viceory for the copy of the Circular (No. 4 Sanitary 83-92) and List of Questions re “Village Sanitary Inspection Book” which you have been so good as to send me. I have read with greatest interest theses questions which appear excellent for the purpose in view - nay more, permit me to say that such a book is a most admirable plan for advancing the sanitary cause, and as a stimulus to the people - most fruitful of future good. I look forward to its becoming of immense value’, continuing with thoughtful comments and queries concerning the Questions, a total of 9 pages in a very neat hand on three bifoliums printed letterhead with black border, three integral blank pages at rear, 8vo, together with the stamped and franked envelope addressed to Smith, Private Secretary’s Office, Government House, Simla [corrected from Calcutta], signed ‘F. Nightingale’ and dated lower left (1)

316* Men of Letters. A group of approx. seventy mostly autograph letters signed, 19th c., recipients including Henry Babington Smith and other family members, Lady Cardwell, Mrs Tennant, et al, including letters from Edwin Abbott (1838-1926) concerning his novel ‘Flatland’, Matthew Arnold (1812-1888), accepting a dinner invitation with Mrs Tennant, Saint-Beuve (180469), in French, rearranging an appointment, James George Frazer (1854-1941), 2 pp. notecard, soiled, Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), two letters, Andrew Lang (1844-1912), 4 pp., Fanny Macaulay (1808-88), 4 pp., Iris Murdoch (1919-99), M.R. James (1862-1936), Hallam Tennyson (1852-1928), Martin Tupper, Henry Sidgwick, Lord Houghton, Elizabeth Eastlake, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Edward Augustus Freeman, Alfred Scott-Gatty, George Earle Buckle, Oscar Browning, John Murray, Stanley J. Weyman, mostly one to four pages, 8vo (approx. 70)

£500-800

318* Parnell (Charles Stewart, 1846-1891). Letter signed ‘Chas.

S. Parnell’, Morrisson’s Hotel, Dublin, 1st September 1882, to F. Boyle O’Reilly, Boston, ‘Allow me to introduce to you Miss Charlotte G. O’Brien - daughter of Mr William Smith O’Brien. Miss O’Brien has been interesting herself very much to secure proper treatment for emigrants at the ports of embarkation, and, also, in transit; and she now thinks of going a step further with the intention of securing [this word a manuscript correction in Parnell’s holograph] comfortable homes for them on their arrival in America.

Any assistance or information that you can give her will very much oblige’, 2 pp. on both rectos of a bifolium, black border, 8vo

£300-500

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320* Postal History. An autograph letter signed from the English polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1869), Bath, 29th January [1841], to Archibald Smith, hoping for his vote when Ellis is to be ballotted for the Oxford & Cambridge Club, 2 pp. plus integral blank, 8vo, with original envelope, an unperforated Penny Black stamp (letters NK), various postmarks including red one on stamp, together with an early pre-paid printed English postcard, stamped Wells, 11th September 1876, addressed to J. Smith, the message on the reverse from the historian Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-1892), plus a first UK Aerial Post postcard addressed to Sir Henry Babington Smith, stamped and franked 9th September 1911, the message on the reverse unsigned (3)

£100-150

319* Poetry. A manuscript sonnet titled ‘Polite Happiness’, late 19th c., in the hand of the poet Aubrey De Vere (1814-1902), embossed letterhead of Monk Coniston, Ambleside, 1 p. plus integral blank, together with a manuscript poem in the hand of De Vere’s friend the author Henry Taylor (1800-1886), unsigned and untitled, begins ‘And when all hopes that needs must knit with self’, 2 pp., 4to, plus a third manuscript poem identified as in the hand of Mary Ann Browne (1812-1844, poet, married James Grey), titled ‘Music’, 2 pp., closed tear, some browning and creasing, tipped on to an old album leaf, 4to, plus a small group of 19th-c. copy letters, news cuttings, etc., relating to the poet Thomas Gray (8)

£100-150

321* Prime Ministers and Politicians. A group of approx. seventy mostly autograph letters signed from British politicians, mid to late 19th c., including Robert Peel (8 pp. addressed to Lord Cardwell), Palmerston (2), Gladstone (2), Lord John Russell (5), two sheets of signatures mostly Welsh including David Lloyd George, plus letters from A.J. Balfour (3), M.E. Hicks Beach, John Bright, Archibald Campbell, Lord Randolph Churchill, Earl of Cranbrook, George Curzon, Lord Curzon, Charles Dilke, W.E. Forster, G.J. Goschen, Joseph Hume, W. Vernon Harcourt, Lord Hartingdon, Earl of Kimberley, Lord Knutsford, Lord Lyttleton, John Morley, Lord Milner, Stephen Spring Rice, Lord Monteagle, Lord Northbrook, Lord Overstone, Lady Palmerston, Sir George Trevelyan (3), Earl of Walmington, Samuel Wilberforce, et al, mostly 1 or 2 pp., and many addressed to Lord or Lady Cardwell, Lord Goschen, Henry Babington Smith, J. Parker Smith, Lord Brownlow, et al, mostly 8vo (approx. 70)

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323* Ruskin (John, 1819-1900). Autograph letter signed ‘J. Ruskin’, Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, 4th September 1875, to Mr(?) Bowden, thanking him for his letter and all it gives and tells, ‘All that about the children is quite invaluable to me - I trust you all have pleasure in the use I can make of your help and letters - you may like to see the enclosed proof woodcuts of one of your leaves’, regretting that he cannot refer to his former letter, asking for more details on the general circumstances of his life and ending, ‘could you try, slowly, to write a round a hand? yours hurts my eyes, but write anyhow rather than not’, 2 pp. on the first and third page of a bifolium, small tear to fore-margin of first leaf not affecting text, 8vo, together with a stamped and franked envelope addressed to Mr. Bowden at 30 Alexandra Road, Northampton

322* Ross (James Clark, 1800-1862). Autograph letter signed, ‘Ja. C. Ross’, Aston Abbotts House, Halesbury, 25 November 1861, to [Archibald] Smith, ‘I return to you Mr Evans certificate duly signed by me and I trust he will succeed in obtaining the election as an acknowledgment of his merit to the Royal Society’, 1 p. with integral blank, black border, 8vo Evans is likely Sir Frederick John Owen Evans (1815-1885), a distinguished hydrographer in the Navy. In 1860 he wrote a valuable ‘Report on Compass Deviations in the Royal Navy’ and jointly edited with Archibald Smith the ‘Admiralty Manual for Deviations of the Compass’ (1862). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862.

(1) £200-300

The letter probably relates to Elizabeth and Mildred Bowden who were trying to rear and train a child ‘Harriet’ according to Ruskinian principles.

‘Lizzie’ Bowden was a member of the Guild of St. George, established by Ruskin in the 1870s to right social wrongs of the time. Artworks were commissioned by Ruskin as memorandums for his writing before being given to the Guild, with the collections displayed in St. George’s Museum, Walkley, Sheffield. Elizabeth Bowden (daughter of William and Mildred) is identified as living at 30 Alexandra Road, Northampton in the 1881 census.

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325* Say (Jean-Baptiste Leon, 1826-1896). Autograph letter signed ‘Leon Saye’, 21 rue Fresnel, Paris, 5th June 1891, to Lord Goschen, in French, introducing Gilbert Boucher, 3 pp., together with Thiers (Louis Adolphe, 1797-1877), Autograph letter signed ‘A. Thiers’, Boulevard Malesherbes 48, 13 June, no year, to M. de Cardaillac, a short note in French, 1 p. plus integral blank, both 8vo, plus Ebers (Georg, 1837-1898), Autograph letter signed ‘Georg Ebers’, Munich, 17 March 1892, to Lord Marquis recommending names of those who have served Egyptian science, W. Golenishuff (?) and Edouard Nadille, 1 p. plus integral blank, folio (3)

324* Sabine (Edward, 1788-1883). Autograph letter signed, ‘Edward Sabine’, 6th October [1849], to [Archibald] Smith, beginning ‘The relation of the Esquimaux seems very circumstantial, even to the fact of 2 of the ships having been frozen in for 4 years, and for the other 2, one year. If a story has not gained much of its coloring or found the [?] you are obviously hoping for a record, I scarcely see how it can be doubted ...’, continuing later, ‘I have got a copy of the Esquimaux drawing of the position of the ships ... it is curious how much more successful our first (Melville Island) voyage was then any of the subsequent ones have been, 4 pp., 8vo, together with orig. postmarked envelope, plus a second ALS to Smith from Sabine dated 19 January 1867 with sympathies on the loss of a friend, 1 p., plus integral blank, 8vo, plus a third ALS [to William Scoresby (?), 23rd November 1855, concerning compasses, etc., in part, ‘There is an excellent azimuth [?], compass, also a steering compass both in one, as is now usual, on its way back from the Paris Exhibition. It belongs, I presume, to the Hydrographic Office: and to save time I have written to Capt.

Washington to propose that it should be lent to you, with a pocket chron[ometer] from his department ...’, 4 pp., 8vo, plus three further letters from Sabine’s wife Elizabeth Julianna (1807-1879) to Smith’s wife Susan (1835-1913), all signed ‘E. J. Sabine’, a total of 9 pp., 8vo (6)

£100-150

326* Science. A group of approx. twenty autograph letters and related, c. 1840s/1860s, mostly addressed to Archibald Smith, including two autograph letters signed from mathematician Arthur Cayley, a mathematical problem on four large sheets of blue paper, a mathematical response signed by Archibald Smith, 1 p., 4to, plus letters from Edmund Beckett Denison (1816-1905) (x2), James David Forbes (1809-1868) (x2), Richard Owen (1804-1892), Rear Admiral S. Zelenoy, Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-59), W. James (OS Office), J.P. Nichol, Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), Augustus De Morgan (x2), George Trench, etc. (approx. 20)

£300-400

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327* Science. A group of approx. twenty-six autograph letters and related, late 19th and a few early 20th c., many addressed to Henry Babington Smith, signatures include scientists and astronomers, etc., Charles Richet, B.A. Clough, H.A. Monroe, W.H.M. Christie (x2), E.J. Routh (x2), James Stuart, John Lubbock, Carl Pearson, S.J. Romanes (notecard), Charles William Wilson, F.M. Balfour, W.A. Macinnon, D’Arcy W. Thompson (postcard), Cyril Burt, C.S. Myers, J.R. Lowell, J.N. Maskelyne, J.W.L. Glaister, Henry E. Roscoe, Robert H. Scott, etc., mostly 1 to 4 pp., 8vo, plus cut signatures of John Couch Adams and Thomas Henry Huxley (approx. 26)

328* Scoresby (William, 1789-1857). Two autograph letters signed, ‘W. Scoresby’, Torquay, 5th April 1851 & 26th December 1855, both to Archibald Smith, the first thanking him for his attention to his note, ‘and for the cases of durations appended me’.

I think I see the whole phenomona satisfactorily and hoping that Smith might visit him in Torquay in the near future, 1 p., written to the blank leaf of a bifolium, the second leaf with printed details of Scoresby’s publications, the second letter, ‘You will probably have heard from Col. Sabine of my contemplated voyage, to Australia in the iron ship, Royal Charter, of 2700 tons ... I hope, please God, to be able, in this instance to ascertain something of the nature and extent of the magnetic changes which take place on proceeding to as high a southerly dip as we have northerly at Liverpool. In one respect I am in much anxiety - that is about the arrangements for the compasses. One aloft, indeed, is likely to be satisfactory, but tho two on deck are both “adjusted” by magnets, designed by moved for changes, by which these ships original action is linked and, if once the magnets are moved, the whole affair rendered useless for determining the compass changes! ...’, continuing with further information concerning the project and voyage, 4 pp., one small brown spot, plus a 3-page ALS to Scoresby from Argyll, 17 December 1855, concerning his proposed voyage to Australia for work concerning magentism on iron ships, and one further related letter from A.B. Beckson(?), 14 January 1856, all 8vo

£150-200

The Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman William Scoresby did indeed make the voyage to Australia in 1856. The results concerning additional data for his theories on magnetism appeared in a posthumous publication edited

by Archibald Smith: ‘Journal of a Voyage to Australia for magnetical research’ (1859). In October 1859 the Royal Charter was wrecked off the beach of Port Alerth in Anglessey in what became known as the “Royal Charter Gale”.

Some 450 people died from a total complement of some 500 passengers and crew.

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329* Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976). A series of three autograph letters signed, ‘Ernest Shepard’, Woodmancote, Lodsworth, near Petworth, 11th October, 8th November and 14th November 1960, all to Herrmann, concerning artwork for the Christopher Robin Story Book, the first mentioning ‘I think it is a good idea to introduce all the Pooh characters in a suitable background ...’, the second, ‘I note what you say and will put the characters higher in the picture. I would prefer to stick to my idea of Pooh reading to the others rather than use Olive Jones’ suggestion. Please thank her for making it’, and the third concerning the dust jacket, ‘I think you will find that black or nearblack lettering will tell out sufficiently on the top half where I have kept the trees and sky lighter in tone. How do you like my idea for the little inset on the spine? As the King appears in the story book I think it appropriate that he should appear on the wrapper and show his interest in what Pooh is reading’, the latter letter signed ‘Ernest H. Shepard’, all on printed letterhead, paperclip impressions to upper margin, the first letter one page, the others 2 pp., all 8vo (3)

£200-300

330* Signed Envelopes. A group of twenty envelopes, mostly signed, 19th c., including Florence Nightingale (26th April 1895) addressed to H. Babington Smith, Duke of Wellington ‘Wellesley’, W.E. Gladstone, Salisbury, Benjamin Jowett, Lansdowne, Stanhope, W.E. Foster, R. Lowe, Selborne, etc., mostly unstamped, plus unsigned stamped and franked envelopes in the holograph of Robert Browning (addressed to Miss Lyall, 1883), and John Ruskin (addressed to H.F. Wilson, 1883) (20)

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332* Stanley (Henry Morton, 1841-1904). Autograph letter signed (twice), ‘Henry M. Stanley’, Camp at Mikesse, 26th November 1889, to Messrs. Smith, McKenzie &c towards the end of the expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha, ‘We have been able to advance much more rapidly than I thought we would have done.

If nothing happens to disturb the arrangement our movements hence will be as follows ...’ and giving a list of places including MSWA, Bagamoyo as arrival in Zanzibar expected on 5th December, continuing, ‘We are all disappointed at not having any letters or newspapers, or any kind of greeting from you at Zanizbar.

We know that Wissman must have reached the coast about the 1st November - and by the 10th November we should have heard from you - but it is now the 26th November but three days march of for couriers. We have been indebted to Capt. Wissman for bountious supplies of good things, but we have been unable to get even a newspaper from you, what is the matter? Every mail you send to Africa has been lost and now then when we are within touch of you we cannot get a word. 2 years and 11 months are a long time to wait ...’, with an initialled ps. in gratitude for Wissman’s gifts of meats and wines, with an ensuing longer ps. dated 27th November making amends for the ‘above scrawl’, ‘2 hours beyond Mikesse your four couriers handed me one letter from Mr. C. S. Smith and one from Mr. Nicol. The contents have been understood. Another mail lost! It does not matter - we hope to be at Zanzibar before we die. But we looked eagerly through your list - a noble list it is too to see if you had shoved in a packet of old newspapers, even a lot of old advertisements, any ancient printed matter, a dime novel, or a penny dreadful - would have answered. You have heard of the traveller’s parched with thirst pointing to his naked throat for water - but you perhaps have never heard of the dessicated brain. Well we suffer from that complaint. Wissman has sent champagnes and beers ... and a princely supply of animal food, but the Samaritan to relieve charitably the stress of the mind has not appeared ... we all rejoiced to hear that the good Queen reigns yet, and that Europe has refrained from suicide, but a thousand and thousand incidents of her life we have yet to learn. Our Pasha is all in a quiver that something good said to him by Mr. Portal ...’, 3 pp., strong vertical fold, split along leaf fold, 4to, together with a related draft of a telegram from Stanley to the Queen on his arrival at Zanzibar, 6th December 1889, probably in the hand of Charles Stewart Smith (1859-1934, second son of Archibald Smith), ‘Please tell the Queen that Mr. Stanley and his officers thank Her Majesty for her remembrance of them and that Emmin Pasha is rather better though badly hurt. It is thought his skull is not fractured’, beneath which is written the text of the telegram sent (?), ‘Please inform Her Majesty - message given to Mr. Stanley. He wishes me to say he and officers are profoundly touched by it and sent most devoted thanks. Emmin’s condition is much better. Surgeon Parke who was left in attendance at Bagawoyo with German surgeons is sanguine as to his recovery. Even the German surgeons who yesterday feared the worst are more hopeful’, one page on light blue paper, watermarked 1888, folio

331* Stanley (Henry Morton, 1841-1904). Autograph letter signed, ‘Henry M. Stanley’, 30 Sackville Street, 24th July 1885, to Dorothy Tennant, ‘I came to my silent rooms to work. I found the American males had arrived. One good friend has sent me the last arrival NYT [New York Times] marked. Please read it. I send it to you because away in America also has been observed the sadness inferred. Besides the article is so very true. I do not know who wrote it, but it is evident the writer for some reason has made me the subject of study’, 2 pp. plus integral blank, a few minor spots, 8vo The letter was written shortly after a visit to America where Stanley became naturalised as an American citizen. In 1890, Stanley was to marry Dorothy Tennant (1855-1926), painter and illustrator. After her husband’s death Lady Stanley edited his autobiography, creating ‘a readable farrago of invention and omission’.

(1) £200-300

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£700-1000

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333* Stone (Reynolds, 1909-1979). A series of five autograph letters signed, ‘Reynolds Stone’, The Old Rectory, Litton Cheney, Dorchester, Dorset, 2nd June 1955, to 13th February 1956, all addressed to Bernard, plus one further letter to Helen, signed Reynolds S., all concerning a proposed exhibition, and all but the first written in brown ink, the last letter giving a list of three watercolours and fourteen engravings, ‘If I can’t come and fetch the exhibits at the end of their time (a month you said?) it might be possible that John Sparrow at All Souls would consent to house them temporarily ... I hope the exhibits explain themselves. I am sorry if the ones relying on lettering are not of much interest to your common room users. But lettering and typography might be of some interest in itself and is useful in its application not least to scientists. The technique also of engraving might be interesting with its impartial treatment of symbol, pattern and illusion, or fictional suggestion’, two letters with a few spots and small smudges without loss of sense, one or 2 pp., oblong 8vo, the last letter 2 pp., 4to (6)

£70-100

334* Sullivan (Arthur, 1842-1900). Autograph letter signed ‘Arthur Sullivan’, 8 Albert Mansions, London, SW, n.d., to [Corney] Grain [1844-95] asking if Grain will play the consul in “Trial by Jury” at the Compton Benefit and that if he can ‘come to assist us that day, your kindness would be greatly appreciated by the committee and all concerned. Let me have a line reply. Cumming plays the defendant’, 2 pp. plus integral blank, first page sl. dust-soiled with adhesion(?) marks to lower outer corners not affecting letters, 16mo, together with Gilbert (William S., 1836-1911), Autograph letter signed ‘W.S. Gilbert’, 24 The Boltons, South Kensington, 16 November, paper watermarked 1880, to Grain, saying that he cannot meet at the Criterion on Friday morning but could manage Friday afternoon as he is rehearsing the new comedy at the Criterion, saying that as he had not heard sooner he supposed he was not wanted, 2 pp. on first and fourth page of a bifolium, 8vo, plus twenty-four further autograph letters signed and addressed to Corney Grain, mostly theatrical interest, signers include George Grossmith, J.L. Toole, David James, Augustine Daly, R.H. Wyndham, J. Hare, F.C. Burnand (2), Kate Lewis, John Clayton, Madge Kendal, Mrs. T.G. Reed, Marie Bancroft(?), W.H. Kendal, Agnes Boucicault, Julius Benedict, Jacques Blumenthal, etc., plus six others including letters from Coquelin and one ALS from Grain, mostly 1 or 2 pp., 8vo (32)

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£150-200

335* Thomson (William, First Baron Kelvin of Largs, 18241907). Autograph letter signed, ‘William Thomson’, Row, Saturday, c. 1850, to [Archibald] Smith, on mathematical matters, ‘I’m afraid I made a bad mistake in the report I gave Ellis of our work on the equation fx.fy=fo.fr, for I believe I said we have made out that fx must be vfo.[to the power of] mx2. If we start with this, instead of fo.e[to the power of] mx2 which is the correct solution for the functional equation we fall upon the conclusion on the absurdity of which Ellis comments. I was not surprised by these anomalies when I read of them in Ellis’s letter for I recollected that he had mentioned to me when I saw him at Brighton that exactly the same absurd conclusion follows from Herschel’s own statement ...’, 4 pp., a little dust soiling to final page, 8vo Probably written while Thomson was editor of the Cambridge Mathematical Journal (1845-52).

(1) £150-200

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338* Thomson (William, First Baron Kelvin of Largs, 18241907). Two autograph letters signed, ‘William Thomson’, The Athanaeum, 10 May 1871, & The University, Glasgow, 11 February 1875, both to Mrs [Archibald] Smith, the first glad to hear that Archie continues to improve, suggesting that June would be the best time for a cruise, the remainder of the letter largely giving details of a boating expedition, including Holy Isle, The Bristol Channel and Plymouth, ‘... on getting out I found the Blue Bell (schooner, 170 tonnes, belonging to an old Glasgow college class fellow of mine, James Stevenson (which had left the Clyde two days after me and was bound for Spain & the Mediterranean). As I passed within short hailing distance they told us they were on the point of sailing for Cadiz. My nephew, Bottomley, and his father were with me and I wished to show them something before sailing for Portsmouth we stood out for the Eddystone [lighthouse] and weathered it very nicely on one long tack sailing quite close to it, and weaving round to the South to return to Plymouth Sound ...’, 12 pp., the second beginning, ‘I have had the enclosed proofs for a few days but until today I have not been able to go through them as I wished to do before sending them to you. You will see that I have made two or three slight changes in the manuscript slip you sent me. ...’, continuing with further information and questions concerning the print run, etc., 4 pp., both 8vo (2)

£300-400

336* Thomson (William, First Baron Kelvin of Largs, 18241907). Autograph letter signed, ‘William Thomson’, 2 College, Glasgow, 25th January 1859, to [Archibald] Smith, about submarine telegraphy, ‘There is no secrecy about my telegraphings and if any one at the R.S. [Royal Society] cares to see it I should have not the slightest objections. In the omitting cable, before its failure, signals could hvae been recorded at the rate of two words a minute in that way a morse alphabet. By a triplet alphabet I have planned it could have been done ...’, 4 pp., 8vo (1)

£200-300

337* Thomson (William, First Baron Kelvin of Largs, 18241907). Autograph letter signed, ‘W. Thomson’, 15 Union Place, Aberdeen, 16 September 1859, to [Archibald] Smith, telling that he will not be in Arran til the week after next, then writing of G. B. Airy’s concerns ‘that no iron ship is safe til she has encountered a chopping sea in the Channel! I coroborrated his opinion by reference to the Tagleur (?). He said that his systems of adjustment is perfect and that no ship which has come under his notice has ever shown more than 5 degrees of error even in southern latitudes. (How many iron ships can have come under his notice?).

Admiral Fitzroy said Airy’s mathematical theory is absolutely perfect ...’, written in a sometimes scrawly hand, brown stain to lower margin, not affecting legibility, together with a second autograph letter signed, 26th June 1859, also to Smith, concerning cable laying, with mentions of Pritchard and Burt, concerning various problems, light dust soiling to first page, both 4 pp., 8vo

339* Whewell (William, 1794-1866). Autograph letter signed, ‘W. Whewell’, n.p., n.d., envelope postmarked Cambridge, 25th March 1840, to Archibald Smith [from envelope], ‘You will probably have heard by this time that the grace to which your letter referred has passed the senate. I was not the proposer of it, but I believe I may say that the view with which it was proposed was the persuasion that further direction to the examination was requisite in order that the intentions of the university might be carried into effect... ‘, continuing to discuss the education of maths and exams, the difficulty of papers and the time allowed to answer them, etc., ending that he would be glad to discuss the matters further, 3 pp., 4to, with orig. franked envelope

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£200-300

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£150-200

HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, AUTOGRAPHS & EPHEMERA

341* Baden-Powell (Lord Robert, 1857-1941). Autograph letter signed, ‘R.S.S. Baden-Powell’, Groote Schuur, Rondebosch, Near Cape Town, 21 September 1900, to Arthur Shears, ‘Allow me through you to thank the people of Littlehampton for their liberal donation towards the Mafeking Relief Fund. It has done great good in helping to relieve the sufferers by the Siege’, 1 p. on printed letterhead, paper with horizontal centrefold crease and uniform toning, framed and glazed, the carved wooden frame with a relief portrait of Baden-Powell and monogram at head and ‘Defender of Mafeking’ within scroll at foot, crossed rifle and sword to left and right border and ornamental foliage to corners and upper border Groote Schuur, now a museum, was then the home of the businessman and former prime minister of Cape Colony Cecil Rhodes.

(1) £200-300

340* Albert (Prince Consort to Queen Victoria of England, 1819-1861). Study of Eos (greyhound) and Cairnach (Scottish terrier), August 1844, original etching on india paper with card mount support, etched by Prince Albert after his own sketch from memory of the picture by Edwin Landseer, signed, captioned, and dated in the plate impression, 134 x 177mm, mat mount (1)

£300-500

342* Banks (Joseph, 1743-1820). Autograph letter signed, ‘Jos Banks’, Soho Square, 27 March, no year, c. 1815, to Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, telling how sorry he is to hear of Hobhouse’s poor health and hoping he will get better soon, then telling of his own stomach complaints and ‘that unless my appetite should be restored I must sink under want of nutrition. Last week I had lost lb 17 of my usual weight when my appetite returned and I must have already regained some part of what I have lost. I yesterday sallied out for the first time and am just now on the point of going to consult Barrow on the outfit of our two expeditions’, 2 pp., with guard of integral blank tipped onto an old album leaf, 4to The letter is possibly written in relation to the proposed expedition up the Congo in order to prove its connection with the Niger.

(1) £200-300

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344* Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord, 1788-1824). Autograph note unsigned, 5th June 1823, in full, ‘Sir, If those fellows obtain a verdict - which is very likely - the place of passages objected to must be reprinted in asterisks - they are but one or two I believe’, sheet of paper 11 x 18cm, vertical and horizontal centrefolds, tipped onto an album leaf at corners, together with a fragment from the end of a letter signed ‘Byron’, ‘If then you really thank me &c my dear Murray, yours, Byron, Greece 1824’, remains of seals to left and right margins, tear to upper left and right margins, 9 x 11cm, tipped onto an old album leaf at upper margin

343* Britanny - Church Architecture. A manuscript plan for a church in Brest, to hold 2,500 people, drawn in February 1686 by [Simeon de] Garengeau, pen and ink on paper, signed lower right, sheet size 61 x 46cm, several splits along centrefolds, a little wear with loss at head and to right centrefold and lower left corner, without loss of image, a little soiling and creasing, docketed

The unsigned note probably relates to the publication of ‘Don Juan’.

Between June 1822 and March 1823 Byron completed the sixth to sixteenth cantos of his great poem. The publication of these later cantos was declined

by John Murray and finally entrusted to John Hunt. Cantos VI, VII, VIII were published on 15th July 1823; Cantos IX, X, XI on 29th August; Cantos XII, XIII, XIV on 17th December 1823; Cantos XV, XVI on 26th March 1824.

(2) £300-500

The plan refers to the construction of the church Saint-Louis de Brest, conceived and directed by the architect Garengeau (1647-1741).

(1) £100-150

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Lot 345

345* Calculating Machine. Herschell Filipowski’s Calculating Machine for Multiplication and Division, c. 1860, composed of a total of fifty-six wooden calculating rods, each rod with printed paper alphabet letter to crown and printed paper cover with ten columns of figures (each with nine rows), contained in orig. fitted mahogany box with drilled rod holes, the front row of eight rods in a removable slim wooden tray, the front with slits to reveal a total of eight columns of numbers on the rods within, small chip to one corner with small loss of wood and small paper loss to right side with loss of row identification numbers ‘1’ and ‘2’, original printed explanation label with example pasted inside lid, Filipowski’s address given as 25 Wilson Street, Finsbury Square, London, hinged lid with clasp, overall 13 x 12 x 8cm This rare calculating device is based on Napier’s Bones. John Napier devised logarithmic tables in the early seventeenth century and published the results in 1614. In 1617 he published details concerning the use of rectangular rods stamped with numbers to calculate multiplication and division, the physical manifestation of which became known as Napier’s Bones. Herschell “Phillips” Filipowski (1816-1872) was a Hebraist and actuary, born in Virbalis, Lithuania. He arrived in London in 1839 where he taught Jewish boys and became a prolific writer, editing two periodicals and publishing works ranging from books on Hebrew prophecy and studies of the festivals to actuarial tables and anti-logarithms. Well-versed in several languages, he also found time to translate Shakespeare into Hebrew. He appears to have been at various times a printer, specialising in Hebrew type, a school master at the West Metropolitan Jewish School and an occasional lecturer at Sussex Hall. During the late 1850s he worked in Edinburgh as an actuary, returning to London in about 1860, about which time we believe this calculating machine was made. His translation from Latin into English of Napier’s treatise on logarithms was published in 1857. The printed label inside the lid besides giving Filipowski’s address notes that he ‘gives lessons in mathematics and astronomy, also in the German and Oriental languages, at very moderate terms’. One other example of this device has been located in the Science Museum, London. Interestingly, their box is square and, while containing the same number of fifty-six rods, has an additional row for eight rods to leave the removable wooden tray empty. It would seem more than probably, based on Filipowski’s proven talents, that he made the whole device, from typesetting and printing of the paper labels to woodturning, carpentry and assembly.

(1) £700-1000

346* Caroline (Queen Consort of George IV, 1768-1821). A fragment of silk dress material, believed to have formerly belonged to Queen Caroline, c.1820, pale mauve silk fabric with floral silver thread design, folded, dimensions approx. 46 x 43cm (18 x 17ins), together with a hand-written plain card reading “This silk was bought by my mother at a public auction of the Queen Caroline’s wardrobe wife of George 4th” (1)

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347* Churchill (Right Hon. Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). Typed letter signed ‘Winston S. Churchill’, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, January 1945, to F.D. Bone, ‘I am obliged to you for your kindness in sending me the two interesting old documents, one of which bears the signature of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and I am glad to possess these. Please accept my cordial thanks’, some dust soiling and a little spotting, punch hole upper left corner adjacent to prime minister’s embossed crest, signed in black ink lower right, one page, 8vo, together with a copy of R.D. Blumenfeld’s ‘R.D.B.’s Diary 1887-1914’, 1st ed., 1930, five b & w plts., initialled presentation inscription from the author to F.W. Bone ‘From an old colleague’, orig. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed and soiled, 8vo F.D. “Freddy” Bone was a journalist and playwright.

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349* Cigarette Cards. A vast single-owner of over 10,000 cigarette cards plus thousands of related series cards, etc., mostly 20th century, including sets and part sets of cigarette cards by Wills, Player, Churchman, Kenzitas, Ogden, etc., plus reprints of cigarette cards, older chromo. cards and other series cards, tea cards (sets and part sets), modern comic and games series cards, etc., in total many thousands, partly arranged in modern plastic cigarette card albums, plus assorted booklets, tins, boxes, etc., with related catalogues, reference works and other printed ephemera (8 cartons)

350* Cigarette cards. A large single-owner collection of over 3,500 cigarette cards, partly arranged in envelopes by cigarette brand and subject, plus booklets and tins, the majority Wills (approx. 1300) and Players (approx. 1600), plus approx. 700 others

£300-500

348* Churchill (Right Hon. Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). A group of five items relating to the funeral of Churchill, 30th January 1965, including the Order of Service, three items personalised to Lord Normanbrooke including two letters asking if he will act as a pallbearer at the funeral, plus an invitation and the Radio Times supplement, plus four press photos of the ceremony and an autograph letter signed from Clementine Churchill (Clemmie), 28 Hyde Park Gate, 4th October 1962, thanking Mary [Normanbrooke] for the tree and saying that if Norman will keep Winston company it’ll more than make up, 2 pp., 4to (10)

£500-800

(3 cartons)

£100-150

351* Cigarette Cards. A large collection of approx. 2,000 cigarette cards, postcards, etc., the cigarette cards and postcards largely loose, various subjects (2 cartons)

£70-100

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£100-150

352* Cleveland (Grover, 1837-1908). Document signed, ‘Grover Cleveland’, Washington, 4th August 1886, pre-printed document on vellum with embossed presidential seal, completed in manuscript and appointing Robert Charles Clipperton as ‘Consul of Her Britannic Majesty, for the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, to Reside at Philadelphia’, signed by the President and countersigned by the Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard, minor marks, 48 x 58cm, together with a pamphlet titled England and America. Speech of Hon. M. Russell Thayer at the Dinner Given May 27, 1898, by Citizens of Philadelphia to Captain Robert C. Clipperton, British Consul at Philadelphia, on the Occasion of His Retirement from Office, Printed by Request, [1898], 12 pp., related news cutting pasted to final blank, orig. printed wrappers, sewn as issued, somewhat soiled and heavy vertical crease throughout, covers detached, slim 8vo

353* Conrad (Joseph, 1857-1924). Typed letter signed ‘Joseph Conrad’, Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, Kent, 24th September 1922, to C.H. Baldwin, very politely declining an invitation to lecture to the Anglo-Swedish Society, ‘Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to be able to accept it, but you must know that I have never lectured in my life, having no talent for any sort of public utterance and being very badly informed on matters of general interest, on which many other men can speak interestingly or, at any rate, amusingly. There is also the question of my voice which, since an illness some years ago, has lost its resonance and is easily fatigued, even to extinction’, neatly typed with salutation, additional commas, sentiment and signature in the author’s holograph, one page on printed letterhead, 4to The Anglo-Swedish Society was one of several Anglo-European societies established after the First World War to promote greater understanding and friendship between nations. The London branch of the Society’s headquarters was at 10 Staple Inn, High Holborn.

(1) £500-800

Captain Robert Charles Clipperton (1830-1913) entered the Austrian army as a cadet in April 1848 and served in the 10th and 21st Battalions of Rifles. He fought with them during the campaign in Italy in 1848-9 and was present at the battle of Novara at the siege of Venice. He also served with the 12th Hussars and the 1st Hussars of the British German Legion. His diplomatic career began when he was nominated Vice-Consul at Theodosia, in the Crimea, in February 1858. He held various other posts before moving to America in October 1879, finally retiring on a pension in 1898.

(2) £100-150

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354* Cookery and Lotteries. An unusual scrap album, 18th century and later, the album originally used for accounts plus Irish and English lotteries, late 18th and early 19th century, giving dates, names and sums paid, the album later reused with some of the ‘less interesting’ entries pasted over and including manuscript and printed cookery receipts from the late 19th and early 20th century, a total of approx. 150 pp. including manuscript index of recipes, some spotting and soiling, contemp. reversed calf, broken and worn with contents loose, remains of the label ‘Private Accounts’ to spine and upper cover, folio

356* Crimean War. A group of three autograph letters signed, written by Robert Warden, Scutari, 4th October 1854 and Crimea, 5th January & 15th April 1855, all addressed to his sister Loui[sa], the first talking about military hardships including cholera and lack of water, then turning his thoughts to home, the second beginning ‘Never was an existence more void and stupid, more barren of anything to write about’, and continuing with general musings about the war and home, the third talking in part about food which was suddenly plentiful and turning this thoughts to a female cousin and enquiring after her character, the final letter unsigned and incomplete, a total of 19 pp., 8vo, together with Warden’s school report for 1833, plus two related modern photos and two contemporary family holiday letters from his sister and brother-in-law

The original compiler may have been from the family of Robert Shaw (17491796), founder of the Royal Bank of Ireland and MP. There are handwritten references to members of this family including Edward Briscoe, William Shaw (brother), Bernard Shaw and Mary Shaw (son and daughter?). The sums of money listed as loans and debentures for the Irish lottery are huge, one totalling over 544,000 pounds (30 million pounds today). The recipes were possibly added by Lady Eleanor Hester Shaw, wife of Sir Frederick Shaw of Bushey Park. Several letters containing recipes and a postcard are addressed to Lady Shaw at Bushey Park, Terenure. A note signed by E. Shaw in 1897 on the second leaf states ‘The receipts in this book are stuck over those pages only, of which the entries are quite uninteresting’.

(1) £150-200

Colonel Robert Warden, Companion of the Bath, served with the 19th Regiment in the Crimean Campaign of 1854-55 including the battles of Alma (severely wounded), Inkerman and the Siege of Sebastapol (wounded). For these he we was awarded medal with three clasps. He retired as Major General.

(8) £150-200

355 Crimea Diary. Manuscript or Diary of a Soldier, George Page, No. 7 Company, 3rd Regiment of Infantry, The Buffs [so titled], a total of seventy-five leaves of neatly written manuscript on light blue paper, the purpose that the account is written up for his sister, then beginning with his enlistment into the 3rd Buffs at Leamington on 28th June 1854 at the age of 16 years and 6 months, from there the Regiment goes to Ireland where George is taken ill and undergoes an operation under chloroform, in February 1855 setting sail for the Crimea aboard a steamer and then into fighting in the siege of Sebastopol, ‘I heard a gun shot and looking up saw something flying through the air ... I stepped smartly two or three paces to my left. If I had stood still it would have cut me to pieces’, at the end of the summer and the end of the siege George’s Regiment sails for Corfu where they experience an earthquake, two years later they move on to India, from there and by now a Corporal, the Buffs went on to China, George working in the kitchens preparing meat, but also seeing action when some 200 were killed fighting off a charge of Chinese cavalry, returning to England in 1860 via Hong Kong and Capetown, the whole written up in 1863, final leaf detached, later gift inscription to Fred Hughes from C.A.N., dated 1910, contemp. vellum, sl. soiled, 4to (1)

357 Edward VIII (King of England, 1894-1972). A King’s Story, The Memoirs of HRH The Duke of Windsor KG, 1st ed., 1951, b&w plts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and sl. faded on spine, together with a presentation inscription tipped onto frontispiece recto, ‘To Duncan Bowman, with best wishes from Edward, Christmas 1951’, one page letterhead with blue crest at head, a few marginal glue spots showing through from verso, 8vo (1)

£300-500

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£100-150

358* Eliot (George, 1819-1880). A series of five pen and ink drawings of Eliot’s childhood home, Griff House, and related scenes in Warwickshire by Herbert Gilchrist, c. 1880s, the first two drawings signed, the third, fourth and fifth drawings with some bodycolour, all with pencil captions, the first showing the old kitchen garden of Griff House, the second the garden of the Hall Farm, the third the old farm entrance to Griff House, the fourth ‘The Hall Farm - the exterior only of which served as a model in “Adam Bede”‘ and the fifth of ‘The Canal near Griff Hollows, the red deeps - a very familiar spot to George Eliot in her youth’, some browning, each drawing approx. 16 x 25cm and sl. smaller, sellotape marks and further annotations to versos, plus a later fragment of a manuscript note stating that these are five scenes in Warwickshire associated with George Eliot George Eliot and her husband G.H. Lewes rented Brookbank from Mrs Anne Gilchrist [widow of the Blake biographer Alexander Gilchrist] where they lived from May until August 1871. Here Eliot was able to concentrate on Middlemarch away from the noise and bustle of London. The contact between the two families was sustained up until George Eliot’s death. The biography by her second husband John Walter Cross, ‘George Eliot’s Life Related in her Letters and Journals’ was published in 1885 and it is for this book that Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist (1857-1914) hoped to provide illustrations. In 1884 he sent a selection of drawings of Griff House to Blackwood with an accompanying letter (NLS MS 4456, f212). Gilchrist visited Nuneaton and met Isaac Evans, George Eliot’s brother who had lived at Griff House since George Eliot left to live in Coventry in 1841. Blackwood seems not to have used Gilchrist’s drawings of Eliot’s childhood home which featured in her description of the fictional Dorlcote Mill in ‘The Mill on the Floss’. Today Griff House is a hotel, retaining many of the original features of Eliot’s time. Included with this lot is related paperwork from the National Library of Scotland and the George Eliot Fellowship (1999 & 2006 respectively).

(5) £400-600

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Lot 359 359* Elizabeth (Queen Consort of George VI of England). A small archive of Royal ephemera, 1950s and later, including a 9ct gold bracelet and oval E.R. pendant, reverse engraved ‘Kariba 17 May 1960’ with maker’s mark P.B., total weight 11.5g, in a presentation red leather Cartier case with gilt E.R. monogram to upper lid, together with a copy of the official spiral-bound souvenir programme for the opening of the Kariba Dam, Rhodesia, by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother on 17 May 1960, 4to, plus seven Christmas cards from The Queen Mother (1958, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, & 1984), all signed ‘Elizabeth R’, plus a 1995 Christmas card from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with autopen signatures of both, all VG, plus an autograph letter signed ‘Elizabeth R’ from The Queen Mother, Sandringham, Norfolk, 30th December 1964, to Mr Suckling concerning the health of his mother (The Queen Mother’s dresser Miss G. M. Suckling, RVM), 2 pp., 8vo, plus a photograph of Mr Suckling with his mother, plus two printed invitation cards to a dinner in honour of Lord Mountbatten (28th March 1946), plus a printed menu from the same occasion, 4 pp., toned, upper cover signed in pencil by Lady Mountbatten (15)

£1000-1500

360* Film and Theatre. Two autograph albums, c. 1930s and later, including autographs of Humphrey Bogart (paper spotted and soiled with some paper pinning beneath signature), Dennis Price, Peter Lorre, Marco Tulli, Jack Hawkins, Jennifer Jones, Godfrey Evans, Donald Sinden, Jeremy Brett, Petula Clark (pencil), Vic Oliver, Anna Pavlova and Alicia Markova (on the same page), Irene Vanbrugh, Cedric Hardwicke, Fred Terry, Zena Dare, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton, Anton Dolin, Seymour Hicks, Ivor Novello, Harry Lauder, Robert Donat, etc., plus a small group of further autographs on photo postcards and loose album leaves including Marlene Dietrich (signed at lower margin of postcard showing her at the Cafe de Paris, London), Gracie Fields, plus authographs of Orson Welles and Herbert Lom on separate sheets (2)

Lot 360

£100-150

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362* Guinea, West Africa. A series of ten letters by and related to Major John Peddie in connection with the English expedition into West Africa, 1816-17, including two autograph letters signed, one autograph letter unsigned, one letter signed and one letter in the third person unsigned, plus three related letters in French and one letter giving terms for the Expedition to Mr. Kommer, naturalist, dated 24th October 1816, the correspondence generally concerning Adolphe Kommer, mostly one or 2 pp., some spotting or toning, 4to/folio The letters deal with the preparations of the Expedition including the participation of the German naturalist Adolphe Kommer who died with Major Peddie during the exploration of the Congo River.

(10) £300-400

363 Hepburn (Katharine, 1907-2003). Helpmann, The Authorized Biography of Sir Robert Helpmann, CBE, [by] Elizabeth Salter, Foreword by Katharine Hepburn, 1st ed., 1978, b & w illusts. from photos, signed presentation inscription for Alan Sievewright from Katharine Hepburn to title, additionally signed on half-title by Sheila Helpmann, and on half-title verso by Keith Michell, Malcolm Williamson and Margot Fonteyn, the front f.e.p. with name and address rubber stamp of Alan Sievewright to recto and large autograph of Robert Helpmann pasted to verso with Alan Sievewright’s Service of Thanksgiving invitation for the life of Helpmann pasted beneath, orig. cloth in d.j., a little rubbed, together with Hepburn (Katharine), Me, Stories of My Life, 1st UK ed., Viking, 1991, b & w illusts. from photos, author’s signed presentation inscription for Alan Sievewright to front f.e.p., orig. cloth in d.j., a little rubbed, both 8vo, a few related cuttings etc. loosely inserted

361* George III American Colonies Bill. A rare American indented Twenty Shilling Bill, obverse dated March 20, 1771, signed by Luke Morris and one other signature, reverse printed by D. Hall and W. Sellers, 1771, ‘to Counterfeit is DEATH’, printed in red and black, approx. 9 x 7cm, faded and general wear throughout (1)

Provenance: Alan Sievewright, see lot 216.

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£180-220

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£200-300

364* Heraldry. An heraldic artist’s sketchbook, early 19th c., 134pp., with a large number of pen & ink drawings and some pencil sketches, drawn on 80pp. (some pages blank), comprising finished and partial designs for armorial bearings, shields, and crests, some full-page, with ms. index at rear, some minor finger-soiling and marks, rough-trimmed, orig. marbled front wrapper bound in, modern blue cloth, 4to A fascinating insight into the work of an accomplished early 19th-centuury heraldic artist. Many of the designs are ascribed to named individuals, for example, Grosvenor, Lord Stowell, Stapleton, Sir Gibbons, Lord Suffolk, Kerrisons, Paisley, Sheepshanks, Mrs. Grimstow, Lawrance, Macnaughton and Captain Ross. Several herald painters and their addresses are mentioned towards the rear of the volume: Mr. Martin, Mr. Cass, Mr. Higginson and Mr. Gwyn.

(1) £250-350

365* Heraldry. A pair of albums containing original heraldic artwork, 18th and early 19th c., each vol. with approx. thirty-five leaves, containing between them approx. 200+ drawings plus numerous smaller designs, for coats-of-arms, crests, supporters, shields, animals, borders, etc., in pen & ink or pencil, many with watercolour and some illuminated, in various hands, mounted and loose, ms. index at front of first vol., with other related material loosely inserted, occn. finger-marks and dust-soiling, first vol. with bookplate of Sir George Naylor (1764-1831), Garter, on front pastedown, second vol. with bookplate of Sir William Woods (17851842), Garter, on front pastedown, with eng. label beneath ‘This Book was given by Sir William Woods, Garter, to his Son Albert Wm. Woods, Portcullis, 16th April 1841’, signed in ink ‘Wm. Woods Garter’, early 19th c. half vellum, rubbed and worn, with some loss to extrems., spines stencilled in ink ‘Heraldic Sketches’ and ‘I’ and ‘III’, folio An attractive pair of albums, containing a profusion of heraldic designs, for example for Baron le Despencer Francis Dashwood, Lord Sandwich, Lord Clive, Lord Mexborough, Lord March, the Duke of Norfolk, Sir Henry Havelock, Lord Clare, Lord King, Sir John Griffin Griffin.

(2) £1000-1500

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368 Japan journal 1875-78, approx. 70 leaves, written in ink and pencil by an unknown hand and describing journeys from Tokyo to Kyoto, Sakamoto to Haneishi, Oiwake to Nagakubo, description of a stay in Kyoto among others, lists of provsions and purchases (‘presents for servants’), charts of interior travels, distances, modes of travel etc., a detailed account of cremation ceremonies near Tokyo, notes on Japanese timber, finishing with the return voyage from Japan to England via Shanghai, Suez and Marseilles in 1878, with an interesting itemised list of expenses for the journey, original cloth-backed boards, some wear to spine, some soiling, 8vo (1)

£200-300

369* Japanese Flags. Flags of the Different Daimios of Japan, late 19th c., coloured wood block print hand scroll depicting twenty-eight provincial flags and two national flags with details of ruling families and incomes, text in English and Japanese, approx.

18 x 400cm with orig. scroll handle and tie (1)

£70-100

370* Kemble Family. A small group of nine autograph items relating to the Kemble family, including autograph letters signed by Mary (1830), Henry (unsigned, written in the third person), Therese (x 4, 1830s-1840s), [J.P.] Kemble (written in the third person and unsigned), John Kemble, unsigned, the most substantial item being the first named letter from Mary addressed to Harley, ‘I have taken the liberty of addressing you to request you would aid me with your powerful interest in my efforts to obtain an engagement in the Champes(?) at Drury Lane Theatre. I believe it requires recommendation and I do not know how to set about it. Mrs Kemble advised me to write to you as from your known kindness you are most likely to assist me... ‘, 2 pp. plus integral address leaf, 4to

366 Horse Stud Broadside. To cover, this season, Patriot, the property of John Hudson, for ready-money, thorough-bred mares 3 guineas and a crown, and half-bred mares 2 guineas and a crown, each mare ..., Patriot will be at the White Hart, Evesham, every Sunday and Monday; Angel, Alcester, every other Tuesday; Sun, Tewkesbury, every Wednesday; Talbot, Upton, every other Thursday; Angel, Cornmarket, Worcester, every Saturday, during the season, NB: Mares proving Barren, by Patriot, last season, will be covered at half-price, [Stratford-upon-Avon:] Cox & Barnacle, Printers, 1813, letterpress broadside, a little spotting, minor centre fold split to left margin, 28 x 19.5cm

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£150-200

371 Longfellow (Alice Mary, 1850-1928). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, illust. John Tenniel, 14th thou., 1869, wood-eng. frontis. and illusts. to text, ownership inscription to front free endpaper verso, ‘Alice M. Longfellow, Florence, May 1869’, endpaper split at inner margin at head and foot, a.e.g., orig. red cloth gilt, rebacked with spine relaid, rubbed, and some corner wear, 8vo

A very rare example of an early English thoroughbred horse broadside. The main substance of the letterpress concerns the stallions lineage and racing successes. ‘Patriot, 4 years in succession, took the premium at Newmarket, as being allowed, by the Jockey Club to be the best horse in the Kingdom.

He has proved himself an excellent stock getter; and is the sire of Miltonia, Mandrain, Rosa, &c. During the time he covered in the North, his stock was sold from 800 to 1000 guineas’.

(1) £500-800

Alice Mary Longfellow was the eldest daughter of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and immortalised as “Grave Alice” in her father’s poem of 1859 titled “The Children’s Hour”.

(1) £70-100

367* Horticulture. A small group of ephemera relating to horticulture, etc., 19th century, including a letter from R. Cornfield (1836) re Gloucester Zoological, Botanical & Horticultural Society, 4 pp., 4to, together with invoices from well known seedsmen, Thomas Gibbs of Piccadilly for goods supplied to South Wales, 1849, other papers related to the Gibbs of Piccadilly and Ampthill, Beds., including an order for Hocks, 1804, an invoice for a large quantity of seeds supplied to Mrs Stirling, plus papers relating to garden works in Finchley, Middlesex, 1865, various sizes

372* Manuscript Accounts. A manuscript accounts day book, c.

1720s/1816, a total of approx. 250 pp., the earlier part of the book relating to one Mr. Collins and accounts relating to the family, a jump from the year 1748 to 1815, name index at rear, contemp. vellum, some soiling and wear, tall narrow folio, together with eleven misc. deeds and documents, 17th/19th century, all but one vellum

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£150-200

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£100-150

373* Miscellaneous ephemera, 18th & 19th c., an assortment of mostly paper documents, including solicitors’ agreements, letters (including Ellison family), printed pedigree for the Hogarth family, etc. (a carton)

376* Naval and Military archive. A small archive of documents relating to Thomas Browne Gray of the Royal Marines and his son(?) of the same name, a Colonel in the Army, all 19th c., including four naval commissions printed on vellum and completed in manuscript, each with monarch’s autograph at head of document (King George IV, King William IV and Queen Victoria x 2), plus two commissions for the younger Gray from 1862 and 1870, neither signed by Queen Victoria, plus a manuscript copy of ‘A List of the French Fleet Under the Command of Rear Admiral Villaret, June 1st 1794’, 31 pp. written in a neat hand, stitched as issued, some soiling at front and rear, 8vo, plus a further near-contemp. copy of a document showing the number of men killed and wounded in the combined squadrons of England, Russia and France in action with the Turkish and Egyptian fleets in the harbour of Navarin, 20th October 1827, 2 pp., docketed, plus a university certificate and approx. 100 mostly private letters, c. 1860s/80s, relating to the younger Gray

£100-150

374* Miscellaneous ephemera, mostly 18th and 19th c., including documents, letters, etc., mostly paper but including some vellum (a carton)

£100-150

(a folder)

£300-400

377* Nelson (Horatio, Viscount Nelson, 1758-1805). Secretarial note, unsigned, 23 Piccadilly, 1802, ‘My flagship will be the Victory ... she will be out of dock in April but as it is possible that I may be ordered to be [?] in a frigate before the Victory is ready ...’, Lord Nelson’s name in the same holograph at foot, 15 x 16cm, tipped into an autograph album that also includes numerous other 19thcentury letters and signatures, including an autograph letter signed from King George IV as Prince George, n.d., 2 pp., Duchess of Gloucester (closed tear), unsigned short note in the holograph of Mrs Thrale Piozzi, Madame Pasta (autograph note in the third person), two-page autograph letter from Lord Shaftesbury to Reverend Moore, three-page autograph letter signed from Ralph Abercromby (sl. frayed), letters from Leicester Stanhope, Lord St. Helens, Charlotte Bury, J. Sidney Owenson, G. R. Gleig, Israel Zangwill, Amelia Opie, plus signatures of Francis Galton, Daniel O’Connell, and a few others, mostly tipped or pasted in, numerous blank leaves at rear, partly broken, contmep. half roan, covers det., and backstrip deficient, 4to

375 Muggletonianism. An epistle of the prophet John Reeves to Mr William Sedgwick, written in July 1657, 53 pp. manuscript in a neat hand, ruled in red, with each page in two columns and numbered 1-106, a little spotting and soiling, an added manuscript title on different paper stock reusing the drop title heading from the head of column one and signed Fred Hockley 1842, 19th-century cloth, spine gilt-lettered J. Reeves, partly darkened and soiled, a little wear to joints and corners, a little wear to joints and corners, small 4to (17 x 13.5cm) The Muggletonians were named after Lodowicke Muggleton, and were a small Protestant Christian movement begun in 1651 when two London tailors announced they were the last prophets foretold in the biblical Book of Revelation. One of these was John Reeve(s) who received a commission from God. John Reeve (1608-58), a cousin of Lodowicke Muggleton, was born in Wiltshire. The pair were arrested under the Blasphemy Act in 1650 and were convicted on a single count of denying the Trinity and sentenced to six months in prison. Reeves’ health deteriorated in prison and in his last few years he was a pauper. William Sedgwick was an Anglican Minister in Ely and a number of letters were written by Reeve to him and others in around 1654. Sedgwick supported Reeve until his death and explained his position in a correspondence with Reeve. The British Library holds correspondence and papers of both Sedgwick and Reeve.

(1) £500-800

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£200-300

380* Perthshire Light Infantry Shipwreck. A contemporary manuscript account of ‘The Ship Rack of the 90th Lt Infantry’, paper watermarked 1830, neatly written and detailed account of the shipwreck of one wing of the 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Light Infantry) on the coast of Sicily, under the command of Captain Boulby, in part, ‘... when our ship gave a dreadful crash on the rocks and sands which alarmed any person onboard. The men running from their berths shouting, the women chreeching(?) and children crying to compleat this horrid scene. The captain coming on deck at this critical moment and seeing our dreadful situation with clasped hands he exclaimed of heaven’s she is a complete rock... ‘, continuing with an account of the ensuing days and of the journey back to Portsmouth arriving on the 17th Juny [1831], 3 pp., final blank docketed and with addressee(?) of David Meldruin, a few minor fold splits, final blank dust-soiled, folio

378* Nightingale (Florence, 1820-1910). Full-length portrait [by Goodman of Derby?], c. 1857, albumen print, visible image size 20.5 x 16cm, matt mount with arched top and clipped autograph ‘F. Nightingale’ pasted to mount beneath, some spotting, old gilt frame, glazed (1)

£250-350

379* Passport. An original European Passport for John Dymoke and family, issued 29th March 1838, consisting of a folded printed document with manuscript additions, circular stamps, etc., some fraying and wear and 45 pp. of various counter signatures and stamps for France, Belgium, Italy, etc., 1838-40, orig. marbled wrappers, rubbed and a little wear, 12mo (1)

£70-100

According to official records the shipwreck occurred due to the misconduct of the crew of the hire transport. See Alexander Marin Delavoye, ‘Records of the 90th Regiment (Perthshire Light Infantry)’, 1880, p. 86.

(1) £100-150

381* Picasso (Pablo, 1881-1973). Signature ‘Picasso’, [1962], a piece of off-white paper signed in blue ball-point pen with underscore and paraph squiggle in Picasso’s holograph, several creases but only light creasing to signature area, 7 x 19.5cm, together with a vintage black and white snapshot from the same occasion showing Picasso with Jacqueline, son Claude[?] plus other family and friends seated outside a cafe in St Tropez, 8 x 12cm

Lot 380

The vendor was on holiday in St Tropez between 8th and 16th September 1962 when she spotted Picasso at the cafe and asked for his autograph which was signed on the only piece of paper that she had to hand. A recent letter confirming this event accompanies the lot.

(2) £500-800

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382 Powell (Anthony, 1905-2000). A typed letter signed Anthony Powell, The Chantry, Nr. Frome, Somerset, 2 May 1984, to Mrs. Nixon-Eckersall, ‘I hope you will enjoy A.N. Wilson’s Belloc. He deals with the question of being a Catholic possibly proving a bar to a Fellowship, which Belloc himself put it down to, but in fact Balliol elected F.F. Urquhart the following year. The failure to get an all Souls (no doubt Balliol too) seems largely to have been due to B’s cocksureness. Like you, I met him... He used to come into Duckworth’s and send copies of his own books off, which he would certainly never pay for, and be extremely disagreeable while he was doing it...’, one leaf with two folds, together with the book on Belloc by A.N. Wilson referred to, pub. 1984, orig. boards in d.j., 8vo (2)

£80-120

384 [Scientology]. A notebook compiled by Carmen D’Alessio recording her dreams and out-of-body experiences and the development of her understanding of the phenomena of astral projection, etheric journeys, etc., 1950 & 1970s/1984, the twelve pages of entries for three months in 1950 probably transcribed from an earlier diary, then beginning ‘Second Notebook Astral ‘73’, with regular daily entries for the early 1970s, becoming less frequent with the last entry dated 19th October 1984, references to people usually by their first name or initials only, the entire notebook written in pencil in a very clear hand, a total of approx.

130 pp., a.e.g., contemp. limp morocco, some edge wear and loss to spine ends, 4to, plus a few items loosely inserted including two b & w photos (of D’Alessio?) and a short poem sent by D’Alessio to William Gerhardie, 1 p., small 8vo Carmen D’Alessio was a student of the occult and an early initiate of L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology. Since she was a child D’Alessio had suffered panic attacks and ‘other-worldly’ experiences. She first met Hubbard in London in September 1952 when he was trying to establish control over the small Dianetics group that was forming there. Hubbard became interested in D’Alessio and her knowledge of etheric and astral projection. Hubbard tried a new technique called ‘Creative Processing’ based on a routine that he had first tried out on D’Alessio. Inviting her to tell a lecture group about her experience Miss D’Alessio began her account by describing how her heart had nearly stopped before Hubbard hastily interrupted. ‘He didn’t want me to say any more’ she recalled. ‘He never allowed anyone to say anything negative about him’. Hubbard returned to America in November 1952 and embarked on a series of lecture tours on the new ‘Science’. Although D’Alessio seems to have later rejected Hubbard and Scientology she continued to investigate the phenomenon of astral projection, dreams and out-of-body experiences. For more background information see Russell Miller, ‘The Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard’ which contains a full account of D’Alessio’s involvement with Hubbard and Scientology.

(1) £300-400

385 Scrap albums. A collection of eight 19th century scrap albums, containing all manner of Victorian chromo. scraps and greetings cards, prints & engravings incl. religious, portraits, topographical, late 19th c. topographical photographs (incl. Tintagel; Boscastle; Clovelly; Ilfracombe; North Wales; Stonehenge; Rockies, Canada), occn. pencil landscapes, etc., mixed orig. bindings, in varying condition, 4to and folio

383* Sassoon (Siegfried, 1886-1967). Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti, 1st ed., Cambridge & London, 1862, wood-eng. frontis. and additional title with designs by D.G. Rossetti, some spotting, publisher’s catalogue at rear, contents sl. shaken, presentation inscription to front f.e.p., ‘Siegfried [Sassoon] from Robert, 1925’, orig. blue ribbed cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, together with a group of ten Sassoon family cabinet card photographs, plus Something About Myself by Siegfried Sassoon aged Eleven, Written and Illustrated by Margaret Adams, Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester, 1966, printed in three colours with decorations throughout, partly uncut, orig. white wrappers with gilt vignette of a cat to upper wrapper, slim large 8vo, plus Dewar (George A.B.), The Leaning Spire, published by the author, 1913, author’s initialled presentation inscription to Siegfried Sassoon to front f.e.p. dated 2nd December 1916, orig. cloth, dust-soiled, small 8vo (13)

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£200-300

386* Slavery. A manuscript legal petition to Lord Eldon, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, concerning the will of George Ogilvie, 1790s, with reference to, among other things, a plantation with slaves in Jamaica, and concerning a dispute involving Sir John Wedderburn and others, thirty leaves written to rectos only, docketed, Ogilvie & Perry copy bill with solicitors C. & J. Ferrer & Atkinson, outer blank dust-soiled, stitched to upper left corner, folio (1)

£100-150

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£100-150

388 Stanley (Henry Morton, 1841-1904). In Darkest Africa, Or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria, new edition, corrected and revised throughout, 1897, wood-eng. plts. and illusts. including frontis., large folding col. map at rear, torn without loss and detached with accompanying index leaf (small split without loss), pubs. ad leaf at rear, half-title detached, frontispiece recto with signed presentation inscription from the author, ‘To my dear Mounteney Jephson, the last survivor of the gallant band of officers who made the expedition a success, from Henry M. Stanley. This volume is one of the first five issued of this edition, June 22nd 1897, Jubilee Day’, orig. red cloth gilt, inner hinges broken, rubbed and some wear with loss at head and foot of spine not affecting gilt lettering, some edge and corner wear, 8vo Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson (1859-1908) accompanied Stanley on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887-1889. His Diary, edited by Dorothy Middleton, was published by the Hakluyt Society, 1969. The other officers of the Advance Column had died prior to the presentation of this book: Dr. Thomas Heazle Parke (1857-1893), Robert Henry Nelson (1853-1892) and William Grant Stairs (1863-1892). The group are pictured together in the frontispiece to the book, Jephson seated to Stanley’s left.

(1) £300-500

389* Theatre Memorabilia. A group of three autograph albums, c. 1930s, and sl. later, including a total of over 100 autographs, names include John Gielgud (2), Max Wall, Rex Harrison, Margaret Withers, Billy Cotton, Gordon Harker, Ray Ellington, Harry Andrews, Paul Robeson, Anton Walbrook, Ivor Novello, Ralph Richardson, Michael Redgrave, Bud Flanagan, Tommy Trinder, Vic Oliver, Roger Livesey, Tyrone Power (pencil), Robert Donat, Betty Driver, some autographs more than one to a page, and one album with occ. vign. ports. from magazines, all contemp. morocco, rubbed, oblong 8vo, plus a group of twenty-four London theatre programmes, mostly 1930s/1940s, a few with signatures including Frankie Howerd, Michael Redgrave, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Max Miller, etc., occ. spotting, slim 8vo

387* Souvenir napkins. A collection of thirty-nine commemorative napkins, early 20th c., together thirty-nine crepe paper napkins, mostly pertaining to British and foreign royalty, incl. some duplicates, printed with text and portraits in black, within decorative borders printed in colours, some fraying and tears, approx. 38 x 38cm (15 x 15ins) Including: ‘Souvenir in Commemoration of Londonds Protest Against British Troops Being Asked to Shoot Ulster Loyalist in Hyde Park, Saturday April 4th 1914’; ‘Souvenir in Commemoration of the Glorious “Contemptible Little Army” England “Honours Your” Answer to Her Call. Celebration at the Royal Albert Hall December 15th 1917’; ‘Souvenir in Commemoration of the Coronation of their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary on Thursday June 22nd, 1911’; ‘Souvenir in Commemoration of the State Visit of the King & Queen of Denmark to England, on Saturday, May 9, to the 13th, 1914’; ‘Souvenir of the Chelsea Historical Pageant to be opened on June 25’.

(39) £200-300

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£100-150

390* Theatre. A group of five letters, etc., relating to theatre, female writers, etc., 18th/19th century, including a letter from the actress Frances Abington (1813), letter from Mrs A Clerke (1795) referring to a ..... in Milford Haven in the year 1791 by Mrs Mary Morgan, etc., a blank receipt signed by Charlotte Killigrew (died 1701), a letter from George Harris, re affairs of Theatre Royal, etc.

(1820), and a letter from William Hazlitt [? son of writer] to Theatre Royal, re boxes, 1848, each 1-4 pages, 4to (5)

£100-150

391* Vellum Deeds. A large collection of approx. 100 mostly folding vellum deeds, 19th century, the majority relating to properties and related transactions in Oxfordshire, a small quantity of 18th century folding deeds, plus other related paper ephemera, etc., some deeds browned (a carton)

£300-500

392* Victoria (Queen of England, 1819-1901). Document signed, Buckingham Palace, 25th January 1838, pre-printed document on vellum with wafer seal and duty stamp to left margin, completed in manuscript and appointing Captain Francis Perry to be Major in the Royal African Colonial Corps, a little soiling, signed ‘Victoria R’ upper left, countersigned lower right, 29 x 38cm, together with a vellum military commission signed by King George III, appointing William Hamilton to be Ensign in the Eighty-Eighth Regiment of Foot under Thomas Keating, 21st March 1783, signed upper right (sl. creased), countersigned at foot, some spotting and soiling, 24 x 34cm (2)

£100-150

393* Victoria (Queen of England, 1819-1901 & Albert, Prince Consort, 1819-1861). Portrait of Victoria, the Princess Royal, 27th December 1842, original etching on india paper with card mount support, etched by Prince Albert from an ink sketch by Queen Victoria showing the Princess full length under an arch of ivy leaves, date, artist name and initials in the plate impression, 150 x 117mm, mat mount (1)

Lot 393

£300-500

394* Victoria (Queen of England, 18191901). Study of Queen Victoria’s dachsund Waldmann, drawn and etched by Queen Victoria, 12th October 1840, original etching on india paper with card mount support, with title, initials and date in the plate impression, 99 x 147mm, mat mount (1)

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£300-500

396* Victorian Autograph Album. An album containing letters, signatures, free fronts, etc., all 19th century, including a tipped in unsigned note from Queen Victoria giving directions to Rollet, 1 p., 8vo, letters from the Royal children, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, 14th March 1850, 3 pp., Princess Victoria, Osborne, n.d., in French, 2 pp., and Princess Louise, 3rd April 1855, one page in a juvenile hand, plus signatures of Queen Charlotte, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Wellington, Liverpool, Robert Peel, Clarendon, Lord Russell, Rosebery, George Cruikshank, Florence Nightingale, F. Marryat, Wm. Thackeray, Mary Howitt, printed lines

by Hannah More signed and dated by her at foot, 1827, an eightpage autograph letter signed from Herbert Fisher, a one-page note from Edward Balwer Lytton, mostly cut signatures tipped in, plus a few loose items including copies of Royal household letters, a manuscript poem titled ‘to the noble author of Childe Harolde’, 4 pp., with Stoke Park 1812 written in the same holograph at foot, splits and spotting, a 19th-century watercolour of an unidentified man, hinges cracked, contemp. half morocco, rubbed, 8vo (1)

£300-500

397 Whitehead (Alfred North and Russell, Bertrand). Principia Mathematica, vol. 1 only, 1st ed., Cambridge, 1910, ownership signature of L. Susan Stebbing to front free end paper, and below an initialled presentation inscription from Stebbing to E.M. Whetnall, dated April 1925, a few pen or pencil marginal notes and marks (pp. 14/62) and possibly in Whetnall’s hand, spotting and browning to half-title and endpapers, hinges repaired, orig. blue cloth gilt, rubbed and careful refurbishment to spine ends and corners, large 8vo

395* Victoria (Queen of Great Britain & Ireland, 1819-1901). A large framed certificate conferred on Phillip Mitchell by Queen Victoria on behalf of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, 30th December 1884, engraved with text within an ornate architectural border incorporating at the top a lunette depicting an artist painting a portrait of the Virgin Mary and Christ Child, and at the bottom a red seal, signed in ink by Queen Victoria ‘Victoria R.I.’ at the Royal Palace of Osborne, 45 x 35cm (17.75 x 14ins), mounted, framed and glazed

(Lizzie) Susan Stebbing (1885-1943) was one of the key figures in what became known in the 1930s as the Cambridge School of Analysis, was a founder member of the journal Analysis (1933), and was at the centre of the debate about the relationship between the Cambridge School and the Vienna Circle, which formed the two main traditions of analytic philosophy in the 1930s. She was a part-time lecturer at Kings College, London, from 1913 to 1915, and a frequent contributor to meetings of the Aristotleian Society where she met Russell and Whitehead. Miss E.M. Whetnall was herself a philosopher who contributed works on logic and John Dewey.

(1) £300-400

Phillip Mitchell (1814-1896) was a landscape and coastal painter who served in the Navy and later lived in Plymouth. He was largely self-taught and went on frequent sketching tours through Cornwall and as far afield as Derbyshire.

He exhibited widely, and was elected a Member of the New Society of Painters in Watercolours (NWS) in 1879, having been an Associate since 1854. The NWS became the Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1863, and subsequently added ‘Royal’ to its title by command of Queen Victoria, as commemorated in this certificate: ‘We are now pleased to confer upon the Members of that body a further mark of Our Royal Favour and Protection, by granting to them the honourable distinction of a Diploma under Our Royal Sign Manual’.

(1) £100-150

398 Wilson (John). The Royal Philatelic Collection, ed. Clarence Winchester, Dropmore Press, 1952, fourteen mostly col. plts., numerous b & w illusts., ink lib. classification mark to title verso, t.e.g., orig. crushed red morocco gilt in slipcase, spine sl. faded, folio, together with a group of approx. twenty items mostly of postal history ephemera, including copies of the London Gazette, the Postman, the London Chronicle and various Acts of Parliament, incl. Gregorian calendar acts, 1750/1751, mostly 18th/19th c., mostly slim folio (-)

£100-150

399* Wodehouse (Pelham Grenville, 1881-1975). A typescript copy of Unpleasantness at Kozy Kot, 17ff., signed by Wodehouse on the final page in black felt tip, 28 x 21.5cm (8.5 x 11ins) Typescript of the pseudo-Drones story published in the US in 1959 in a collection of ten short stories entitled ‘A Few Quick Ones’. It was, however, a rewritten version of the 1928 Jeeves story ‘Fixing It for Freddie’ collected in ‘Carry On, Jeeves’. The text begins: “The egg and the crumpet had arranged to lunch together at the Drones at one sharp, but it was not till nearly one-thirty that the latter arrived at the tryst.”

(1) £300-400

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400* Women’s Suffrage. Votes for Women Souvenir Official Programme of the Great Demonstration, Hyde Park, London, Sunday June 21 [1908], printed and published by Mrs. S. Burgess, napkin souvenir programme printed on crepe paper, with map showing route of seven processions and placement of speakers’ platforms, encircled by portraits of the twenty women speakers, enclosed by a border of purple violets, sl. dusty and rubbed to upper right corner, small tear (with v. sl. loss) to lower right corner, 37 x 38cm (14.5 x 15ins) In 1908 Prime Minster Herbert Asquith said that he would abandon his opposition to womens suffrage if it could be demonstrated that enough women wanted the vote. On 21st June 1908 Emmeline Pankhurst led seven processions to Hyde Park, where 250,000 women gathered for the largest mass meeting London had ever seen. When the government failed to respond, many concluded that peaceful agitation was useless. It was this rally that saw the first major public use by the suffrage movement of the colours purple, green, and white, symbolising dignity, purity and hope.

(1) £150-200

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THE BEATLES

401 [The Beatles.] Grapefruit, A Book of Instructions by Yoko Ono, Introduction by John Lennon, 1st British Commonwealth Edition, Peter Owen, 1970, a few illustrations to text, title signed by Yoko Ono and John Lennon in black and blue felt tip respectively, orig. cloth gilt in sl. rubbed d.j., small square 8vo, together with a scrap album of Beatles magazine photos etc. compiled by Cristina Casini, approx. 70 pp., limp card wrappers, sl. creased, folio Grapefruit was originally published by Ono’s own imprint, Wunternaum Press in Tokyo in an edition of 500.

(2) ÂŁ1000-1500

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402* The Beatles. A John Lennon poster by Alan Aldridge, pub. Music Heritage Artwork, USA, 1981, lithograph on card showing John Lennon travelling inside himself, a few little scratches to black borders, boldly signed by the artist ‘A.R. Aldridge’ to lower margin in white china ink and numbered 177/1000, 91.5 x 71.5cm, card mount Alan Aldridge is best known for his book ‘The Beatles lllustrated Lyrics’.

(1) £200-300

403* The Beatles. A group of six original b & w negatives of John Lennon receiving a Purple Hearts award at the Royal Variety Lunch at the Dorchester Hotel, 1964, two strips of 35mm negatives These unreleased photographs are sold with all copyright.

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£1200-1500

404* The Beatles. An original b & w photograph of John Lennon, with cigarette clenched in smiling mouth, wearing a barber’s jacket and about to cut the hair of an apprehensive Paul McCartney, mid 1960s, Dezo Hoffmann Collection wetstamp to verso, 15.5 x 11.5 ins (39 x 29cm) See illustration inside rear cover.

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£250-350

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407* The Beatles. The Beatles with Muhammed Ali in Miami, one week before his title-winnig fight with Sonny Liston, February 1964, black and white archival print from the original negative by Eve Bowen ‘The Hayward Archive Print’ embossed stamp lower left, 14 x 18 ins (35 x 46cm), mat mount [One of twenty copies].

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£150-200

405* The Beatles. The Beatles at the NEMS Record Shop in Liverpool, 11th January 1963, black and white print from the original negative on archival paper with “The Heyward Archive Print” embossed stamp lower left, 17.75 x 13.75 ins (45 x 35cm), mat mount (1)

£150-200

408* The Beatles. Group portrait of The Beatles posing and laughing in brown colourless suits made by Dougie Millings, April 1963, colour archival print reproduction from the original negative, ‘The Hayward Archive Print’ embossed stamp lower left, 18 x 22 ins (46 x 56cm), mat mount [One of fifty copies - certificate supplied].

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406* The Beatles. George Harrison with eyes closed and mouth open between two female fans, Paul McCartney waving his fist behind, Doncaster Gaumont, 10th December 1963, b&w print from the orignal negative on archival paper, 10 x 9 ins (26 x 23cm), mat mount (1)

£70-100

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£150-200

411* The Beatles. John Lennon leaning on the arm of a cinema chair in Doncaster Gaumont, 10th September 1963, b&w archive print from the original negative, 15.75 x 19.75 ins (40 x 50cm), mat mount (1)

£100-150

409* The Beatles. The Beatles performing on stage at ABC Cinema, Manchester, 20th November 1963, in the centre foreground a woman polishing the chrome stair rails with a rag, reproduction black and white archival print from the original negative, 18 x 18 ins (46 x 46cm) (1)

£250-350

412* The Beatles. The Beatles posing for another camera, from the side, Southend Odeon, 4th October 1964, b&w archive print reproduced from the original negative, ‘The Hayward Archive Print’ embossed stamp lower left, 18 x 13.75 ins (46 x 35cm), mat mount

410* The Beatles. The Beatles in Austin Reid department store, August 1963, with white shirts and cacti on display, black and white archival reproduction print from the original negative, ‘The Hayward Archive Print’ embossed stamp lower left, 18 x 18 ins (46 x 46cm), mat mount (1)

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£150-200

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£100-150

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413* The Beatles. The front door from Paul McCartney’s childhood home at 20 Forthlin Road, Allerton, Liverpool, late 1950s/early 1960s, with numeral 20 at top, green painted with eight panes of glass (one broken), letterbox and lock fitting removed, inside painted white with lower bolt still present, some paint flaking and soiling, overall 80 x 32 ins (204 x 81cm) 20 Forthlin Road was constructed in 1949 and from 1955 until 1964 it was the family home of the young Paul McCartney (born 1952).

The house was owned by the Local Authority and was rented to Paul’s parents Mary and Jim McCartney with whom Paul and his younger brother Michael lived. Sadly only a year after moving in to the house Paul’s mother died. Both parents actively encouraged Paul musically and he first played the trumpet, but following his mother’s death his father gave him a guitar. It was in this house that McCartney learned to play trumpet, piano, guitar and drums. By 1957 McCartney had joined The Quarrymen and begun composing with his new found collaborator John Lennon. Forthlin Road was one of the main places the group would practice and where McCartney and Lennon tried out their new songs. In 1958, McCartney invited George Harrison to join them for a while the drummer Pete Best became part of the group until Ringo Starr ousted him and The Beatles as the world knows them realised its final line up. Over 100 songs including Love Me Do, I Saw Her Standing There, When I’m Sixty-Four, etc., are believed to have been written in the house.

When the McCartneys moved out of 20 Forthlin Road in 1964, Ashley and Sheila Jones moved in with their family. Mrs Jones served as an unofficial ambassador for the home tolerating frequent Beatles visitors over the years.

In around 1978 Sheila Jones modernised the house and doors and window fittings and tiles, etc., were scrapped. Glen South, the current owner, was alerted to this by Keith Dowsing, a C&A work colleague of Sheila Jones. Through Mr Dowsing Glen South arranged to buy the door in order to auction it for an asthmatic charity for which he did concerts (Glen South, a singer/entertainer even appeared on the same bill as The Beatles at Northwich Memorial Hall on 1st December 1962 with his first group Gee South and the Bluekats). Subsequently it was Glen South himself who purchased the door at the charity auction and has retained ownership of it ever since.

When the Jones family left the house it was bought by the National Trust in 1995, both because of its connection to Paul McCartney, but also as an example of post-war social housing. Ironically, the house was redecorated and furnished in the late 1950s style to represent the period in which Paul lived at the house, and the innumerable photographs taken by Beatles fans and tourists standing in front of this “doorway to the Merseybeat” is a replica of the original door now offered here!

Photographs of the house exterior and interior, from the early Beatles period, are on display at the house and used in several publications including ‘Remember: The Recollections and Photographs of Michael McCartney’ (1992). A copy of this book, Sheila Jones’ original letter authenticating the door for auction, the letter validating the auction purchase by Glen South in 1995, plus a personal statement of this story by Glen South, are included with the lot. Paul McCartney’s bedroom door with the same provenance was sold by Sotheby’s London, 14 September 1995 (£2,875).

(1) £3000-5000

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MUSIC 416 Callas (Maria, 1923-1977). Callas, The Art and The Life, by John Ardoin, The Great Years by Gerald Fitzgerald, 1st ed., 1974, b & w illusts. from photos throughout, five signed presentation inscriptions for Alan Sievewright, the half-title signed by Ava [Gardner], in red ink by Maria Callas (1st October 1975), the facing endpaper with Alan Sievewright’s name and address wetstamp plus presentation inscriptions to him from Guiseppe di Stefano (1990) and Franco Zeffirelli (undated), the title-page with presentation inscription signed by the author John Ardoin and dated 1978, two Royal Festival Hall tickets for 22nd September and 26th November 1973 recitals by Maria Callas and Guiseppe di Stefano pasted to rear pastedown, a contemporary news cutting pasted to final blank leaf, orig. cloth (rubbed) in d.j., nicked at upper and lower margins with sellotape strengthening to verso, 4to

414* Autographs. A small group of ten letters and musical quotations, including two letters from Sir Alexander McKenzie, one signed and one initialled, an autograph letter signed and an autograph musical quotation signed from W. Vincent Wallace, one page of manuscript music signed by Julius Benedict, a short note signed by John Barnett, a brief memorandum signed in the third person by Julius Benedict, two initialled letters from Sebastian Wesley and a brief note signed by Henry Bishop (closed tear repairs) (10)

£70-100

415* Autographs. A collection of twenty-eight various autograph letters by English composers, conductors and musicians, mainly written to Flora Mann, c. 1910-44, including Ralph Vaughn Williams (2), Adrian Boult, Henry J. Wood (2), Eugene Goosens, Arnold Bax, Edward German, Philip Heseltine (“Peter Warlock”), Edmund H. Fellowes (3), Ivor Novello (2), a manuscript from the Pastoral Symphony apparently in the hand of Vaughan Williams and signed at head by the composer, plus other lesser-known figures, mostly handwritten letters, some with envelopes

Alan Sievewright was a designer, artist, impressario and friend of the stars of theatre, film and opera. He co-produced a tv documentary, Maria, for which both he and the director, Tony Palmer, won awards. He also coached Jane Seymour for her role in Callas in the US TV series Ari, presented his own programme, Callas Sings Again, and starred, alongside Judi Dench, Placido Domingo and Franco Zeffirelli, in ‘Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love’ (2004). A fine association item.

(1) £400-600

Flora Mann sang in a vocal group called the English Singers, specialising in English madrigals, which was formed following the first world war, and whose first concert was given in London on February 28th 1920.

(28) £200-300

417 Chappell (William). The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time: A History of the Ancient Songs, Ballads, and of the Dance Tunes of England, with Numerous Anecdotes and Entire Ballads. Also, A Short Account of the Minstrels, 2 vols., pub.

Chappell and Co., [1893], chromo. facsimile frontis. to first vol., b&w facsimile plates, orig. green cloth gilt, very sl. rubbed to extrems. (generally in bright condition), large 8vo (2)

£70-100

418* Flute Patent. A manuscript grant of patent for William Bainbridge of Holborn Hill, London, Musician and Turner for improvements to the double and single Flageolet or English Flute, 7th August 1819, 4 pp. handwritten document, with signature of the Prince Regent George to head of first leaf, and signed at end by Lord Sidmouth, creased where previously folded, slim folio (1)

£70-100

419* Furtwaengler (Wilhelm, 1886-1954). Typed letter signed, Potsdam, 26th May 1940, to Lydia Panische, thanking her for her various letters, with manuscript addition, one page, lower half blank, folio, together with orig. postmarked envelope, plus a signed postcard addressed to Professor Carl Straube, 1917, showing an alpine house (2)

£100-150

420* Manuscript Hymns. Three Victorian manuscript albums of hymns for four-part voices, neat ink notation with song titles, compiled by William Longforth and John Miles of Hullavington, Wilts, dated 1846 and 1874, each signed and inscribed to front endpaper with compiler’s name, two bound in half calf, the other full sheep, somewhat worn and frayed, oblong format (10 x 24cm) (3)

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£70-100

423 Antiphoner. A Manuscript Antiphonal, Spanish, c. 16th century, comprising 114 vellum leaves, incomplete (leaf numbering begins on XXXI, and goes up to CCXXVII, with significant gaps), musical notation and latin verse to each side written in black ink, decorative initials in red, yellow & blue, some leaves misbound, and several leaves at end unnumbered, four leaves with portion excised, a few leaves trimmed at foot with slight loss, occasional closed tears and old repairs, 20th c. cloth, stained, folio, leaf dimensions approx. 41 x 28cm (16 x 11ins)

421 Parisotti (Alessandro, ed.). Arie Antiche, 2 vols, Milan: Ricordi, 1885, together with a late 19th century two volume collection of bound Italain arias published by Ricordi, and a similar two volume colection of French and Italian arias mostly published

by Hamelle, plus a volume of Mozart arias published by Novello and one other duplicate volume, all bound in uniform plum buckram, rubbed and a little faded, folio All ex-libris Henry J. Wood (1869-1944), conductor best known for his association with the Promenade Concerts, with his ownership stamp to many title pages and name lettered in gilt to the upper cover of each volume.

(8) £80-120

Previously in the collection of Dr. H. J. Chaytor, Master of St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge.

(1) £700-1000

422 Tans’ur (William, 1700-1783). [A Compleat Melody: Or, The Harmony of Sion ..., n.d., c. 1730s], 204 leaves of engraved music, printed to one side only, an incomplete copy, text begins with Psalm II through to Psalm CL, plus Anthems at end, first few leaves with some fraying and loss to lower outer corners, some marks and occ. soiling, many leaves with manuscript verse copied in ink or pencil to verso of the leaf (early 19th century), dated c. 1820-50, several with names given below, orig. plain boards, heavily worn, oblong 8vo

424* Illuminated Leaf. An illuminated leaf in colours and highlighted in gold, probably French, c. 1450, painted on vellum, each side with fifteen lines, mostly beginning with names of Saints and all but three lines with decorative initial letter in blue, red, white and gold, line fillers, border to verso and recto painted with the same design featuring a jester, flowers and fruit, small loss of vellum beneath jester’s foot affecting foliage, a little dust and soiled, folio size 160 x 130mm

An interesting early English Psalmody with early 19th century ownership annotations. Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

(1) £100-150

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£200-300

ILLUMINATED LEAVES

425* Illuminated leaf. A single Old Testament Bible leaf on vellum, from 2 Chronicles, French, early/mid 15th century, doublesided, 41 lines of double-column latin text to both sides, written in black, incorporating initials and decoration in red & blue, leaf approx. 250 x 165mm, mounted, double-glazed frame (1)

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£150-200

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426* Illuminated leaf. A single illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum, from a commentary on the Psalms, French, late 14th/early 15th century, double-sided, 55 lines of double-column latin text to both sides, written in black, with initials in red & blue and floriated border decoration in red & blue, leaf approx. 275 x 210mm, mounted, double-glazed frame The work from which this leaf is taken appears to be a commentary on the Psalms with text by St. Augustine, Jerome & Cassiodorus.

(1) £250-350

427* Illuminated leaf. A single vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, French, c.1500, double-sided, 23 lines of single-column text, written in black & red, with decorative initials and line fillers in gold and colours, finely painted ornate border to both sides incorporating flowers, grapes and animals, text & border approx.

158 x 100mm, leaf approx. 183 x 120mm (1)

£300-500

428* Illuminated leaf. A single vellum leaf from the Gospel of St. John, Northern French, 15th century, double-sided, 21 lines of single-column text to both sides, written in black, incorporating an illuminated miniature to one side depicting the deposition from the cross, text approx. 103 x 66mm, miniature approx. 44 x 39mm, leaf approx. 150 x 102mm (1)

£300-400

429* Illuminated leaf. A single vellum leaf from a Divinum Officium, Florentine, 1470, double-sided, 30 lines of double-column text to both sides, written in black, with six decorative initials in red & blue, text approx. 212 x 165mm, leaf size approx. 366 x 264mm (1)

Lot 431

£100-150

430* Illuminated leaf. A single vellum Bible leaf from the Gospel of St. Luke, French(?), 15th c., double-sided, 36 lines of doublecolumn latin text to both sides, written in black and red, with eight decorative initials in red & blue (six heightened in gold), text approx.

203 x 133mm, leaf size approx. 293 x 204mm (1)

£200-300

431* Illuminated leaf. A bifolium vellum leaf from the Pange Lingua by Aquinas, German(?), c.1400, double-sided, 24 lines of single-column latin text to both sides, written in black and red, first page with large illuminated initial with large foliate extension, many other initials in red and blue, fore-edge margin of second leaf excised with slight loss of some letters, text approx. 180 x 105mm, dimensions of first leaf approx. 230 x 175mm (1)

£250-350

432* Illuminated leaf. A single vellum leaf forming part of a Calendar from a Book of Hours, listing feast & saints days, French, early 15th century, double-sided, 17 lines of single-column text in red & black, one decorative initial in blue heightened wih gold, both sides with decorative foliate border with flowers and strawberries to fore-edge margins, text size with border approx. 95 x 90mm, leaf size approx. 178 x 125mm (1)

£200-300

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433* Illuminated leaves. A group of three individual illuminated leaves from Books of Hours, French, 14th-15th centuries, each with single-column text in black, decorative initials and line fillers in red & blue, one leaf with initials and line fillers heightened in gold & colours and with small hand-painted image of a dog sitting to upper margin, leaf sizes approx. 137 x 98mm, 166 x 108mm & 166 x 110mm (3)

£300-400

434* Illuminated leaves. A pair of illuminated leaves on vellum from a Book of Hours, English(?), 15th century, double-sided, 29 lines of double-column text in black & red (some slightly rubbed), 27 decorative initials in red & blue including fifteen heightened with gold, text size approx. 117 x 85mm, leaf size approx. 170 x 115mm (2)

£200-300

Lot 433

435* Illuminated leaves. A pair of illuminated leaves on vellum from a Book of Hours, French, 15th century, double-sided, 14 lines of single-column text in black & red, 14 decorative initials in red, blue & heightened with gold, decorative line fillers in red, blue and heightened with gold, fore-edge border to one side to each leaf with foliate decorative border in blue, red, green, and gold, text size with border approx. 80 x 78mm, leaf size approx. 152 x 108mm (2)

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£200-300

437* Printed Leaves. Bible [German], Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, c. 1483, a single printed leaf from the famous Koberger Bible, double column text, with illustration of Abraham and Isaac, with contemporary hand-colouring, 32 x 20.5cm (12.5 x 8ins) mount aperture, framed and double-glazed, together with a folio printed leaf from the Nuremberg Chronicle, printed by Anton Koberger, 1493, leaf CXXXIIII with four woodcut portraits to each side, 38.5 x 26.5cm (15.25 x 10.5ins) mount aperture, framed and double-glazed, plus four other incunable folio printed leaves from early bibles and bible commentaries, three in Latin, and one in English, all framed and double-glazed

436 Printed Leaves. A leaf from the Letters of St. Jerome First Printed by Sixtus Reissinger, Rome c.1466-1467, with an Historical Essay by Jeremy Duquesnay Adams..., pub. Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, H.M. Fletcher, Los Angeles & London, 1981, explanatory text, with original leaf loosely inserted, orig. qtr. vellum, slim folio (limited 13/300), together with a miscellaneous collection of twenty-five other 15th & 16th century printed leaves, including two leaves from Vitae Parallelae, by Plutarch, Venice: N. Jenson, 1478, bound in modern qtr. cloth, lacking label to upper board, slim folio, all remaining leaves neatly mounted and bound in modern qtr. cloth, folio (8)

ÂŁ500-800

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ÂŁ200-300

ANTIQUARIAN 438 Aemylius (Georgius, editor). Evangelia quae Consueto More Dominicis et Aliis Festis diebus in Ecclesia leguntur, Heroico carmine a Georgio Aemilio M. reddita, adiectis breuibus argumentis & imaginibus artificiose sculptis &c., Cologne: Mart. Gymnicum, 1549, title with woodcut printer’s device (partly hand-col.), woodcut initials and illusts., fore-edge margin of k8 slightly torn affecting part of one letter to verso, gatherings T-Z at end loose or detached, some light soiling, browning & few marks, contemporary vellum over wooden boards, upper cover with initials IFKH, a bird motif and date 1618, dust-soiled, 8vo

440 Austen (Jane). Sense and Sensibility: A Novel, 3 vols., 2nd ed., printed for the Author, and published by T. Egerton, 1813, halftitles present, terminal blank present in each vol., occn. fox spots and very small hole to a few leaves (one or two just clipping a letter), free endpapers and binder’s blanks either excised or adhered to pastedowns, sprinkled edges, contemp. tan half calf gilt, rubbed and extrems. worn, with joints cracked, and upper cover of first vol. detached, large 12mo Gilson A2; Keynes 2.

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Not in Adams. Only one UK institutional location found (John Rylands Library, Manchester).

(1) £150-250

441 Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice: A Novel, 3 vols., 2nd ed., printed for T. Egerton, 1813, half-titles discarded, scattered foxing and some light toning, second vol. with one gathering starting, all vols. with early ms. ownership name on prelim. blank, marbled endpapers, upper hinges repaired, lacking rear free endpapers, contemp. green half morocco, lightly rubbed, gilt dec. spines, some surface loss to marbled sidings, large 12mo

439 Alexander (John). Jesuitico-Quakerism Examined, or a Confutation of the Blasphemous and Unreasonable Principles of the Quakers; With a Vindication of the Church of God in Britain, from their Malicious Clamours, and Slanderous Asperations, 1st ed., 1680, 1 pp. pubs. cat. at end, occasional light soiling, contemporary mottled calf, a little rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, together with Certamen Religiosum: Or, a Conference Between the Late King of England, and the Late Lord Marquesse of Worcester, Concerning Religion. Together with a Vindication of the Protestant Cause, from the Pretences of the Marquesse his last Papers; which the necessity of the King’s Affaires denyed him Oportunity to Answer, [by Thomas Bayly], 2 parts in one, 1651, title printed in red and black, (lacking portrait frontis. of Charles I), a few spots, contemporary calf, rubbed, small square 4to (2)

£3000-4000

Gilson A4; Keynes 4. An attractive set.

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£3000-5000

442 Baskerville Press. Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists, Birmingham, 1761, engraved frontispiece, 15 engraved plates, occasional light offsetting and spotting, frontis. detaching at inner margin, contemporary presentation inscription, contemporary calf, rebacked, edges rubbed, 8vo, together with The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Baskerville, Cambridge, 1762, light spotting, a.e.g., contemporary black morocco gilt, lightly rubbed, 8vo

£150-200

Gaskell 14 & 20.

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£200-300

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445 Bible [Latin]. Testamenti Veteris Biblia Sacra, sive, Libri Canonici Priscae Judaeorum Ecclesiae a Deo traditi, Latini recens ex Hebraeo sacti, brevibusque Scholiis illustrati ab Immanuele Tremellio & Francisco Junio..., Secunda cura Francisci Junii, Londini, Excudebant G.B. R.N. & R.B., 1593/1592, general title within dec. woodcut border (detached, torn to fore-edge corners with loss of image and repaired, trimmed at head with slight loss), New Testament title present (with small hole not affecting text), 18th c. signature Edwd. Ludlow to upper margin of A1 in Old Testament, occasional faint underscoring & marginal notes, lower outer corner of first leaf of preface torn with loss and repaired, few leaves torn with occassional loss, holes and staining to P4-P6 & 2A1-2A6, lacks 3C2, final blank present, slight dust-soiling and few marks, ownership inscription of Maria Ludlow & Edward Ludlow jnr. 1740 to front free endpaper, contemp. calf, lacks spine and upper board detached, worn, folio

443 Bewick (Thomas and John). Select Fables; with Cuts, Designed and Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and Others, Previous to the Year 1784: together with a Memoir; and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick, 1st ed., Newcastle, 1820, wood eng. port. frontis. of Thomas Bewick, woodcut vignette to title, numerous wood eng. illusts., occasional scattered spotting, contemp. half calf, neatly rebacked with gilt dec. spine, 8vo, together with Cicero (Marcus Tullius), The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Several of his Friends, with Remarks by William Melmoth, 3 vols., 3rd ed., 1778, eng. armorial bookplate of Rev. D. Griffith Vicar of Merthyr 1758 to upper pastedowns, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spines, joints cracked, 8vo, with Tennyson (Alfred), The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1900, t.e.g., contemp. half morocco by Bickers & Son, gilt dec. spine, 8vo, plus other antiquarian and bindings (18)

£300-400

Darlow & Moule 6185.

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444 Bible [Greek Old Testament]. Vetus Testamentum Graecum ex Versione Septuaginta Interpretum, Juxta Exemplar Vaticanum Romae editum, 2 parts in one, London, 1653, title in red & black with eng. illust. and ownership signature “Ex libris Jac. Petrie 1742” to verso (excised to upper & lower margins & repaired), double column text in Greek, endpapers renewed, contemp. calf, rebacked, 8vo, together with Gutbier (Aegidius), Notae Criticae in Novum Testamentum Syriacum..., Hamburg, 1667, a.e.g., contemp. mottled calf, rebacked preserving orig. spine, 8vo (2)

£300-400

£200-300

446 Bible [Ethiopian]. Manuscript bible, Ge’ez language, c. 1800, eighty-five leaves, black and red script on vellum, two full-page col. illustrations of Saint George and the Dragon, and The Crucifixion, some soiling and marks, contemporary hand-carved wooden boards with inset bone decoration, leather spine, rubbed, 4to (250 x 220mm) (1)

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£200-300

449 Boccaccio (Giovanni). Geneologia de gli Dei i Quindeci libri..., Venice: Comino da Trino di Monferrato, 1547, printer’s woodcut device to title & final leaf, early ink signature to lower margin of title, numerous woodcut initials and one full-page woodcut illust., Q2 & Q8 lacking with duplicate of Q1 & Q7 instead, bookplate of the Duke of Northumberland, 1867 & two leather labels to upper pastedown, 18th century vellum, gilt dec. spine with black morocco labels, 4to in 8s Adams B2174 and Censimento 16 CNCE 6314.

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£200-300

450 [Boisguilbert, P. Le Pesant de]. Marie Stuart, Reyne d’Escosse, Nouvelle Historique, 3 parts in one, Paris, 1675-80, contemp. vellum, 12mo, together with La Chambre (Marin Cureau de), The Characters of the Passions. Written in French by the Sieur de la Chambre, Physitian to the Lord Chancellor of France, Translated into English, 1650, title in red & black (slightly frayed), some dust-soiling, contemp. sheep, spine repaired, 8vo, with M. (J.), The History of the Venetian Conquests, from the Year 1684 to this present year 1688, Translated out of French by J.M., 1689, folding table, contemp. sheep with later, morocco label, 8vo, with Heraldry, Heraldry in Miniature; Containing all the Arms, Crests, Supporters, and Mottos, of the Peers, Peeresses, and Bishops, of England, Scotand, and Ireland..., 1788, addn. eng. title, numerous eng. armorial plts., some marginal toning, contemp. calf, rebacked, 12mo, plus three others (7)

£200-300

451 Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites & Ceremonies of the Church..., Together with the Psalter or Psalmes of David..., London: printed

by John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1662, title torn and repaired, few other leaves torn with occasional loss and repairs, lacks final leaf 2H8, some dust-soiling and marks, manuscript genealogies at front of volume, hinges split, a.e.g. with gauffered edges, early 19th c. panelled calf, cloth spine strip, worn, small folio Wing 3622(A) and ESTC R211954.

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447 Bible [English]. The Bible: Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages..., Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1602, general title and New testament title within decorative woodcut border (early signature to general title, fraying to upper & lower margins of initial leaves), black letter text, Apocrypha present, close-trimmed at head with some loss to running titles and trimmed to fore-edge occasionally affecting marginal notes mostly at rear of volume, bound with an incomplete Book of Psalms at rear, some dustsoiling and dampstaining, 18th c. reversed calf, upper board detached and lower joint cracked, worn, 4to Geneva Version. Herbert 269.

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452 Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacrements, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches, Cambridge, John Hayes, 1683, bound with The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into the English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others..., 1683, woodcut initials, occasional light soiling, previous owner inscription, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, small 4to, together with L’Office de L’Eglise, en Latin & en Francois: Contenant les Offices Por Toute L’Annee, nouvelle edition, Paris, 1717, engraved frontispiece, four engraved plates, the whole within gilt borders with some letters in gilt and blue, previous owner signature of J.L. Eyre to title, his bookplate, contemporary calf gilt, spine a little rubbed, 8vo, with The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacrements, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, printed by John Baskett, Oxford, 1718 (repaired)

£300-500

448 Bindings. The History of England from the Accession of James II, 5 vols., Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1849, contemp. half calf gilt by H. White & Sons, Carmarthen, 8vo, together with Familiar Wild Flowers, Figured and Described by F. Edward Hulme, 5 vols., first-fifth series, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [1897], numerous chromo plts., occ. minor spotting, orig. gilt dec. pictorial green cloth, 8vo, with The Waverley Novels, by Sir Walter Scott, 13 vols., Edinburgh: W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, c.1885, b & w frontispieces, contemp. green half calf, with contrasting labels, 8vo, plus 11 vols. of The Works of Charles Dickens, pub.

Chapman & Hall, 1866, b & w frontispieces, contemp. green half morocco gilt, upper panel of one vol. torn, 8vo (34)

£150-200

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£150-200

453 Bronte (Charlotte, “Currer Bell”). Villette, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1853, bound without half titles and ads., occasional light spotting or soiling, one or two chips to foredges, later diced half calf, spines a trifle rubbed, slipcase, 8vo (3)

£200-300

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£200-400

454 Bronte (Charlotte, “Currer Bell”). Shirley. A Tale, 3 vols., 1st ed., Smith, Elder, 1849, 16pp. pubs. cat at rear of vol. 1, without half-titles, some marginal toning, ownership signature Grace Thistlethwayte Nov. 1849 to front free-endpapers, upper pastedowns with ink stamp of J. Barton’s Circulating Library and overlaid with 20th c. armorial bookplate of Julian Park, hinges repaired, orig. cloth gilt, rebacked preserving orig. spines (reduced at head & foot), spines and extrems. faded and some marks, 8vo Sadleir 348.

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458 Coleridge (Samuel Taylor). Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: Illustrated by Select Passages from our Elder Divines, Especially from Archbishop Leighton, 1st ed., 1825, 12pp. pubs. ads. at front & 4pp. pubs. ads. at rear of volume, some light toning, few closed tears to front ads., edges untrimmed, hinges repaired, orig. boards with modern reback, 8vo, together with Tennyson (Alfred), Maud, and Other Poems, 1st ed., 1855, 8pp. pubs. ads. at front dated August 1855, orig. cloth, worn at head & foot of spine & lower joint, 8vo, with O’Meara (Barry E.), Napoleon in Exile; or, a Voice from St. Helena. The Opinions and Refections of Napoleon on the most Important Events of his Life and Government, in his own Words, 2 vols., 4th ed., 1822, eng. frontis. to each, 20th c. cloth, 8vo, plus three others

£300-500

455 Cicero (Marcus Tullius). Le Lettere Familiari Latine di M. Tullio Cicerone e d’altri Autori, commentate in Lingua Volgare Toscana da Giovanni Fabrini da Fighine..., Venice: I Sessa, 1611, title and verso of final leaf with printer’s woodcut device of cat & mouse, Ditton Park bookplate to upper pastedown, blind stamp to rear freeendpaper, contemp. calf, old reback with gilt dec. spine, joints cracked and slight wear to extrems., folio, together with Lucretius Carus (Titus), Le Poete Lucrece, Latin et Francois, de la traduction de M.D.M., Paris: Toussainct Quinet, 1650, eng. frontis., early ink signature to title, some dampstaining, contemp. calf, rebacked preserving orig. spine, few minor worm holes to upper board, 8vo (2)

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459 Constitution - France. Constitution de la Republique Francaise, [Paris, 1799], 15,[1]pp., edges untrimmed and frayed, disbound 8vo, together with Histoire Entiere Et Veritable Du Procez de Charles Stuart, Roi d’Angleterre, contenant, en forme de Journal, tout ca qui s’est faict et passe sur ce sujet dans le Parlement, et en la Haute Cour de Justice, et la facon en laquelle il a ete mis a mort, Janvier, 1648 et 49..., A Paris, reimprime par Chaudrille, [1792], one eng. plt., bound with La Vie, les Amours, le Proces, et la Mort de Marie Stuart, Reine de France et d’Ecosse, Decapitee a Londres, le 18 Fevrier, a l,age de 44 ans..., Paris, 1793, eng. port. frontis., contemp. gilt dec. mottled sheep, joints cracked and slight wear, 8vo, with [Carnot de Feulins, Claude-Marie], Histoire du Directoire Constitutionnel, comparee a celle du Gouvernement qui lui a succede jusquau 30 prairial an 7..., Paris, An 8 [1800], modern qtr. calf, 8vo, plus two others

£150-200

456 Clarendon (Edward Hyde, Earl of). The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England ... 8 vols., new edition, Oxford, 1826, some minor scattered spotting, hinges repaired, together with The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England... in which is included a Continuation of His History of the Grand Rebellion, 3 vols., new ed., Oxford, 1827, occasional spotting, hinges repaired, contemp. uniform calf, modern rebacks with gilt dec. spines and contrasting labels, darkened to board edges, 8vo (11)

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£200-300

£300-400

460 Cruikshank (George). George Cruikshank’s Magazine, edited

by Frank E. Smedley (Frank Fairlegh), [cover-title], Parts I and II (all pub.), D. Bogue, January & February 1854, five etched plts., four folding, letterpress engs., numerous ads., some light off-setting of plts. to text and occn. minor staining, stitching partially broken in first part, orig. printed wrappers, some loss to spines, and part I with rear cover detached, slim 8vo, housed together in a brown cloth solander box, gilt lettered spine

457 [Clinton, Henry]. Memorandums, &c. & c. Respecting the Unprecedented Treatment which the Army have met with Respecting Plunder taken after a Siege, and of which Plunder the Navy Serving with the Army Divided their more than ample share, now Fourteen Years Since, 1794, [4],106,[8]pp., pubs. ads. at rear, untrimmed, occ. spotting, stitched as issued, 8vo, together with [Hunt, Henry], An Impartial Report of the Proceedings in the Cause of The King Versus Henry Hunt, Joseph Johnson... for a Conspiracy, Tried before Mr. Justice Bayley, and a Special Jury, at York Spring Assizes, on the 16th... 27th of March, 1820, pub. Manchester, 1820, some dust-soiling, margins of title torn, untrimmed, stitched as issued, 8vo, with Locker (John), Address to the King, the Ministry, and the People of Great Britain and Ireland, on the Present State of the Money System of the United Kingdoms..., 1809, ink marginal note to title, disbound 8vo, and Balfour (Francis), A Treatise on the Influence of the Moon in Fevers, Calcutta Printed, Edinburgh reprinted, 1785, A7 & A8 torn with loss, occ. spotting, disbound 8vo, plus [Hauksbee, Francis], The Patch.

An Heroi-Comical Poem...., 1st ed., 1724, vii,39,[1]pp., lacking halftitle, some dust-soiling, later plain wrappers, 8vo (5)

£150-200

Cohn 185. Scarce.

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£100-150

461 Dalrymple (Sir John). Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Dissolution of the last Parliament of Charles II until the Sea-Battle off La Hogue, 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1771, contemp. calf, 4to, together with Fosbroke (Thomas Dudley), Encyclopaedia of Antiquities, and Elements of Archaeology, Classical and Mediaeval, 2 vols., 1825, numerous eng. plts. (inc. 1 folding), few eng. illusts. to text, occasional spotting and offsetting, hinges repaired, contemp. half calf, rebacked, 4to, with Brewer (James Norris), A Descriptive Account of Various Palaces, and Public Buildings, English and Foreign..., 1810, numerous eng. plts., some spottong and dampstaining, book label of Viscount Mersey Bignor Park to upper pastedown, attractive gilt dec. diced calf, joints slightly rubbed, 4to

£200-300

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£150-200

Lot 464

462 Davies (Samuel Thomas). Odd Fellowship; Its History, Constitution, Principles, and Finances, pub. Witham: Richard Sutton Cheek, 1858, 23pp., bound with the original manuscript version of the same work, comprising 84 leaves written in a neat contemporary hand to one side of each leaf, plus 4 leaves of manuscript tables, some spotting throughout, a.e.g., contemp. green half morocco, gilt dec. spine neatly repaired at head & foot, 8vo, together with Gould (Robert Freke). The History of Freemasonry. Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, Etc., 3 vols., n.d., c. 1870s, num. b & w engs., mostly ports., some spotting, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. half morocco, 4to, plus Tudor-Craig (Major Sir Algernon), Catalogue of Contents of the Museum at Freemasons’ Hall in the Possession of the United Grand Lodge of England, 3 vols., 1938, col. and b & w plts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, 4to

463 Defoe (Daniel). The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: 4th ed., printed for W. Taylor, 1719, & The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of his life ..., 1st ed., 1719, folding doublehemisphere engraved map frontis. to each, 4 pp. & 11 pp. pubs. list at rear of each, respectively, contemp. calf, rubbed and marked, with some minor wear, 8vo Moore 412 & 417.

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£200-300

464 Dempster (Thomas). De Etruria Regali Libri VII. Nunc Primum Editi Curante Toma Coke, 2 vols. (including supplement), Florence: Gaetan Tartini, 1723-26, titles in red & black with eng. vignette to each, two eng. portrait plts., ninety-three eng. plts. (some folding), folding eng. map and seven tables, vol.1 with additional unpaginated leaf to Chapter LXVII and errata leaf at end of text, some toning and spotting mostly to plts., contemp. vellum, folio

Author’s gilt morocco book label to upper pastedown of first work. Samuel Thomas Davies (1833-98) was Witham’s first photographer. He was born in Bristol, but by 1860 he was living and working in Witham. By 1874 he was working on his own as a “Photographic Artist and Accountant” and was also the school attendance officer. In 1869 he prepared a guide book to Witham (unpublished), and was librarian at the Literary Institution and secretary and member of ‘Loyal Guithavon Lodge’ for over 40 years. When he died unmarried in 1898, the Oddfellows Friendly Society provided his tombstone in All Saints’ churchyard.

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£1000-1500

465 Dickens (Charles). A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, 1st ed., 2nd issue, 1843, title printed in red and blue, half title and title verso printed in blue, ‘Stave I’ heading to p.1, single leaf ad. at end, four hand-coloured engraved plates by John Leech (one reinforced at gutter), stitching broken, occasional light spotting, previous owner signature to title, yellow endpapers, original brown cloth gilt, spine vertically split with losses (part retained), one or two light stains, 8vo Smith II pp. 19-22.

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£400-600

466 Dolce (Lodovico). Modi Affigurati e Voci Scelte et Eleganti Della Volgar Lingua, con un Discorso Sopra a Mutamenti e Diversi Ornamenti dell’Ariosto, Venice: Apresso Gio. Battista et Marchio Sessa, [1564], printer’s woodcut device to title, ownership blind stamp to rear free endpaper, contemp. vellum, 8vo Adams D743.

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469 Du Choul (Guillaume). Veterum Romanorum Religio, Castrametatio, Disciplina Militaris ut & Balneae ex Antiquis Numismatibus & Lapidibus Demonstrata, 1st ed., Amsterdam, 1685, half title, additional engraved title, title printed in red and black, folding table, numerous engraved military, numismatic and religious illustrations, one or two light spots, contemporary panelled calf, a little rubbed, 4to

£200-300

467 Doyle (Arthur Conan). The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, 1st ed., 1896, b & w illustrations by W.B. Wollen, stitching broken, some loose leaves, occasional browning, original cloth, spine faded, some stains, 8vo, together with Uncle Bernac. A Memory of the Empire, 1st ed., 1897, illustrations, ads. at end, a few spots, bookplate, original cloth, spine a little faded with short tears at ends, 8vo, with three others (5)

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470 Ehrensteen (Edward). Sacrae Regiae Majestatis Sueciae, Extraordinarii, & ad Pacis Mediationem constitui, Legati Domini Eduardi Ehrenstenii Cancellarii Aulae, &c. Negotiatio cum Celsis & Praepotentibus Dominis Ordinibus Generalibus Foederati Belgii pro concilianda Pace Publica, a Mense Junio 1674 usque ad Mensem Februarium 1675..., Hagae-Comitis, 1675, 160pp., first & last leaves detached, disbound 4to, together with [Defoe, Daniel, Attrib.), Some Account of the Life, and most Remarkable Actions, of George Henry Baron de Goertz, Privy-Counsellor, and Chief Minister of State, to the Late King of Sweden, 1719, 46pp., eng. port. frontis., disbound 8vo

£70-100

468 Du Bellay (Martin). Les Memoires de Mess. Martin du Bellay Seigneur de Langey. Contenant le discours de plusieurs choses aduenues au Royaume de France, depuis l’an M. D. XII. bound without all after pp. 1171 (28pp.?), final leaf adhered to rear freeendpaper, close-trimmed to running titles, few minor marks, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spine, 8vo, together with Waller (Edmund), Poems, &c. Written upon Several Occasions, and to Several Persons, 4th ed., 1682, lacking port. frontis., upper pastedown lacking, contemp. calf, rebacked, 8vo, with Bible (New Testament), Le Nouveau Testament de Notre Seigneur JesusChrist. Traduit en Francois, avec des notes Litterales pour en faciliter l’intelligence, Paris, 1729, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spine, 8vo, plus other 17th to 19th c. antiquarian (11)

£150-200

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£100-150

471 Erotica. Les Heures de Paphos. Contes moraux par un sacrificateur de Venus, 1787 [Brussels, 1864?], thirty facsimile plates including title (albumen prints after the original engravings), t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, contemp. three-quarter crushed blue morocco gilt over marbled boards, rubbed, 8vo

£200-300

A rare and complete reprint of this classic work of erotica by Claude Louis Desrais.

(1) £100-150

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472 Eutropius (Flavius). Historiae Romanae... de Marnef, Paris, 1560, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, a few spots, some leaves detached, lacking front endpaper, annotation to front pastedown, contemporary calf, lacking spine, upper cover detached, 16mo (1)

475 French Revolution. Tableaux Historiques de la Revolution Francaise ou Analyse des Principaux Evenemens qui ont eu lieu en France Depuis la Premiere Assemblee des Notables Tenue a Versailles en 1787; Contenant cent Soixante Sujets graves a l’eau-forte et au burin, par les premiers Artistes de Paris..., 2 vols., 1817, 222 eng. plts., some dampstaining to margins, occasional scattered spotting, near contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spines with calf title label to upper boards (label to upper board of vol. 2 slightly torn), joints cracked and minor rubbing to extrems., few marks & fading to boards, folio

£150-200

473 Faerno (Gabriel). Fables in English and French Verse, Translated from the Original Latin..., 2 vols. in one, Claude du Bosc, 1741, eng. frontis., numerous eng. illusts. to text, endpapers renewed, modern calf preserving contemp. calf covered upper board, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (1)

Armorial bookplate of J. Hornsby Wright.

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476 Froelich (David). Bibliotheca, seu Cynosura Peregrinantium, hoc est Viatorium, vol. 1 only (of 2), 4 parts in one, Ulm: Wolfgang Endter, 1644/1643, folding eng. frontis., six folding plts., five folding tables (inc. one eng. table torn at folds and soiled to verso), bookplate of Fürstlich Aürspergsche Fideicommisbibliothek zu Lambach to upper pastedown, 18th c. vellum, remnants of paper label to spine, slightly marked, ties lacking, 12mo

£150-200

474 Fontaine (Nicolas, Sieur de Royaumont). L’ Histoire du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament, avec des Explications edifiantes, tirees des Saints Peres pour regler les murs dans toute sorte de conditions..., Par le sieur de Royaumond prieur de Sombreval, Paris: Pierre le Petit, 1680, addn. eng. title, eng. vignette to letterpress title, numerous eng. illusts. to text, ownership blind stamp to rear free-endpaper, slight dampstaining and spotting, short closed tears to one or two leaves, a.e.g., 20th c. half morocco, gilt dec. spine, 12mo (1)

£400-600

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£150-200

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£100-150

477 Garimberti (Girolamo). La Prima Parte, Delle vite, ouero Fatti Memorabili d’Alcuni papi, et di Tutti i Cardinali Passati..., Venice: Gabriel Giolito, 1568, title with woodcut printer’s device, woodcut dec. initials, outer margin of title renewed, lower corner of X1 repaired, occasional light dampstaining at foot of few leaves, ownership blind stamp to rear free-endpaper, 19th c. vellum with morocco title label to spine, 4to

479 Gray (Thomas). The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are Prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason, York & London, 1775, occasional scattered spotting, near contemp. half calf gilt, with gilt crest to upper panel of spine, 4to, together with Fenelon (Francois de Salignac de La Mothe), The Adventures of Telemachus the Son of Ulysses..., 3 vols. in one, 2nd ed., 1719/1715, eng. frontis. and eng. eng. plts., early annotations to few leaves, without A1 in vol. 1 as usual, few closed tears to leaves A6-A9 in vol.

2, contemp. calf, modern reback with red morocco title label to spine, large 12mo, with Henderson (Ebenezer), Iceland; or the Journal of a Residence in that Island, During the Years 1814 and 1815..., 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1818, folding eng. map and fourteen eng. plts. (inc. one double-page), some toning, free-endpapers clipped, orig. cloth, joints cracked and frayed at head and foot of spines, some faded and discolouration, 8vo, and Drinkwater (John), The Collected Plays..., 2 vols., Sidgwick & Jackson, 1925, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, spines slightly dustsoiled, 4to, in orig. slipcases (limited edition 13/230 printed on handmade paper), and Griffith (John Edwards), Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families, with their Collateral Branches in Denbighshire, Merionethshire and other parts, 1914, some spotting, contemp. half calf, lower joint cracked at foot, light dampstaining and extrems. rubbed, folio, plus fifteen others

Chatsworth bookplate to upper pastedown. Adams G250 and Cemsimenti 16 CNCE 20426.

(1) £150-200

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£300-400

480 Guicciardini (Francesco). Della Historia d’Italia, libri XX..., one vol. in 2, Venice: Presso Gio. Antonio Bertano, 1580, printer’s woodcut device to title with early ink signature, short closed tear to 2X8, occasional light underscoring, some marginalia and notes to endpapers, ownership blind stamp to rear free-endpapers, front hinge of vol. 1 weak, contemp. limp vellum, remnants of old morocco title labels to spines, lacking clasps, 4to Adams G1513, Centimento 16 CNCE 22326.

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£150-200

481 Hobbes (Thomas). Behemoth; Or an Epitome of the Civil Wars of England, from 1640 to 1660, 1679, 214 pp., some leaves trimmed affecting headlines, a few spots, later mottled calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 12mo Wing H2240.

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£100-150

482 Holbein (Hans). La Danse des Morts a Basle, pub. Hasler & Cie, Basle, c. 1840, forty fine hand-coloured lithograph plates by Danzer after Hieronymus Hess (1799-1850), heightened with gum arabic, tissue guard to each, and gold, text in German, French and English, occ. scattered spotting, title page missing, a.e.g., orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed and somewhat worn to spine with upper cover near detached, faded to edges, 4to The first edition of this particular Dance of Death sequence by the Basel artist Hieronymus Hess (1799-1850), which follows the well-known version

by Holbein with two exceptions, plate 35 has a Chinese figure instead of a Turkish one, and plate 38 depicts the artist Hess himself.

(1) £150-200

478 Gravelot (Hubert Francois & Cochin Charles Nicolas).

Iconologie par Figures ou Traite complez des Allegories Emblemes &c., 4 vols., Paris, [1791], half-titles present, engraved portrait frontis. to vol. 1 and eng. title page to each, 202 engraved plts., occasional minor spotting and few leaves with dampstaining mostly to margins, blind ownership stamp to rear free endpapers, a.e.g., contemp. red straight-grain morocco, gilt dec. spines, extrems. slightly rubbed, 8vo Cohen-De Ricci 456. Armorial bookplate of Baron Leigh.

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483 Hoyle (Edmond). Mr. Hoyle’s Games of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess and Backgammon, Complete... To which is now first added two new cases at Whist, never before printed. Also the new laws of the game at Whist, as played at White’s and Saunder’s Chocolate Houses, [11th ed., c. 1765?], half title, 204 pp., light spotting to endpapers, contemporary red half calf gilt, a little rubbed, 12mo Unsigned pirated copy? Advertisement to title verso states ‘No copies of this Book are genuine, but what are signed by us, Edmond Hoyle and Thomas Osborne.’

(1) £70-100

£700-1000

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484 Hugo (Victor). Les Miserables, 10 vols. in five, 1st ed., Brussels: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven, 1862, half-titles present, contemp. half calf gilt with morocco labels, extrems. slightly rubbed, 8vo (5)

£400-600

485 Hugo (Herman). Pieux Desirs imites des Latins..., Antwerp, 1627, eng. title, numerous eng. illusts., title with small repaired tear to fore-edge margin and slight tear to inner margin, slight toning and occasional minor marks, ownership blind stamp to rear freeendpaper, contemp. morocco, extrems. rubbed and worn at foot of spine, 8vo (1)

£200-300

486 L’Emery (Nicolas). Recueil des Curiositez Rares & Nouvelles des plus Admirables Effets de la Nature & de l’Art..., Premiere (seconde) partie, [new ed.], Suivant la Copie de Paris, Leiden: Pierre Vander Aa, 1684, addn. eng. title, some light toning, worm trail to endpapers, 18th c. vellum over wooden boards, repeating manuscript monogram to upper board, clasps present, 12mo Caillet 3552; Cagle 823 (1711 1st UK ed.) & 1089 (1688 Leiden ed.); Bitting p.144 (1685 ed.); Vicaire p.327 (1685 ed.). This work was first published in French in 1674.

(1) £200-300

487 La Fontaine (Jean de). Fables choisies, mises en vers. 2 vols. in one, Amsterdam, 1728, eng. port. and eng. frontis., numerous eng. illusts., hinges cracked, contemp. calf, later title label to spine, joints cracked, 16mo in 8s, together with Poullin de Lumina (Etienne Joseph), Histoire de l’eglise de Lyon depuis son etablissement par Saint Pothin..., Lyon, 1770, contemp. mottled calf, gilt dec. spines, slight wear to extrems., 4to, with Duez (Nathanael), Dittionario Italiano, et Francese. Dictionnaire Italien et Francois... reueu, corrige, & augmente..., 2 parts in one, Venice, 1678, some dampstaining and marks, few paper repairs, modern amateur qtr. calf, 4to, plus other 17th/18th c. antiquarian

Lot 482

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£200-300

488 Law. A Treatise Concerning Estates Tayle, and Discents of Inheritance, Written by N.N. and Published by I. Sherman, of Lincolnes Inne, London: John Grove, 1641, [4],42[i.e.43],[1]pp., front blank A1 present, slight dust-soiling and toning, later marbled wrappers, slim 4to, together with English Civil War. The Petition of the Most Substantiall Inhabitants of the Citty of London, and the Liberties thereof, To the Lords and Commons for Peace. Together with the Answer to the same. And the Replye of the Petitioners, London: Edward Husband, 1642, [2],20,[2]pp., final blank C4 present, slight toning & dust-soiling, disbound 4to Wing N61 and C3888C. (2)

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£150-200

Lot 490

489 Law. Additional Lists of Attornies and Solicitors, Admitted in Puruance of the Act, for the better Regulation of Attornies and Solicitors. Presented to the House of Commons, Pursuant to their Order of the 22d Day of February 1730, pub. 1731, some dampstaining and light dust-soiling, disbound folio, together with A Letter to the Common Council of the City of London. With Remarks on Lord Chief Justice Pratt’s Letter to the City of Exeter, 1764, [2],38pp., some dust-soiling, disbound 8vo, with International Law. Argument of John Addison Thomas, Counsel & Agent of Claims for the United States..., pub. 1854, 37pp., author’s inscription to halftitle, disbound 8vo, and Emmet (Robert), The Speech of Robert Emmet, Esq. as Delivered at the Sessions House Dublin, before Lord Norbury... On being found Guilty of High Treason, as Leader of the Insurrection of 1803..., pub. 1836, 8pp., ink stamp to title, disbound 8vo

490 [Le Clerc, Jean]. Figures des Histoires de la Saincte Bible, Accompagnees de Briefs Discours, 2 parts in one, Paris, G. Le Be, 1666, first title printed in red and black within foliate border, 269 fine woodcut illustrations after Jean Cousin by Jean le Clerc, fullpage woodcut at end of first part close-trimmed, one or two chipped foredges, a few marginal repairs, leaves profesionally cleaned, a few light sots, later morocco-backed boards, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration, folio (1)

The Act for the better Rgulation of Attorneys and Solicitors of 1729 was the first effective enactment for the regulation of the Profession.

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£600-800

491 Leslie (Charles). The Theological Works, 2 vols., 1721, eng. head and tail-pieces, contemp. panelled calf gilt, cracked on joints and some wear to extremities, together with Blackall (Ofspring), The Works... , 2 vols., 1723, eng. port. frontis. to vol. 1, some spotting, contemp. panelled calf, joints cracked and some wear to extremities, with Barrow (Isaac), The Works of Isaac Barrow, 3 vols. in two, 1716, eng. port. frontis., contemp. calf, rebacked, and Stackhouse (Thomas), A New History of the Holy Bible..., 2 vols., 1755, eng. port. frontis., eng. plts. & maps (some folding), some dampstaining and dust-soiling, modern qtr. morocco, plus other 17th/18th c. theology related, all folio (14)

£200-300

492 Lionnois (L’Abbe). Traite de la Mythologie, ou Explication de la Fable par l’Histoire Augmente des Hieroglyphes des Egyptiens..., A l’usage des jeunes gens..., 6th ed., Nancy, 1816, 216 engravings on seventeen folding plates, one gathering sprung and slightly frayed to fore-edge, contemp. boards, some wear, 8vo (1)

£80-120

493 Luiken (Jan). Tafereelen der Eerste Christenen, Bestaande in 92 Konst-Prenten van Jan Luiken, Berymt Door Pr. Langendyk en Cl. Bruin, 1st ed., Amsterdam: Wed. B. Visscher, 1722, title in red & black, with eng. vignette, ninety-two eng. illusts., few leaves loose, some marginal fraying and few closed tears, rear free-endpaper with blind stamp, endpapers partly torn and lifting, contemp. vellum, 4to, together with Missale Romanum, Ex Decreto Sacrosancti Conilii Tridentini Restitutum..., Lyon, 1685, title in red & black with eng. illust. (detached & torn to fore-edge), sewing weak and few leaves detached and frayed to margins, blind stamp to rear free-endpaper, contemp. boards, worn, lacking spine and leather covering, 4to (2)

£200-300

494 Lyttelton (George Lord). The History of the Life of King Henry the Second, and of the Age in Which he Lived, 6 vols., 3rd ed., printed for J. Dodsley, 1769-73, engraved vignette titles, Canford Manor bookplate to front pastedown of each vol., contemp. full calf, gilt dec. spines, rubbed and very sl. wear to extrems. (generally a good set), together with Watson (Robert), The History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, 3 vols., 6th ed., 1803, bookplate of Joseph Coltman to front pastedown of each vol., contemp. tree calf, rubbed and some wear to joints and extrems., plus Clarendon (Edward Earl of), The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, together with An Historical View of the Affairs of Ireland, now for first time carefully printed from the original MS. preserved in the Bodleian Library, 7 vols., Oxford, 1849, marbled edges and endpapers, contemp. uniform full calf gilt, with coat of arms in gilt to upper cover of each vol., red and dark green spine labels, a little rubbed and scuffed (generally a good copy), all 8vo (16)

495 Malvezzi (Virgilio). Discourses Upon Cornelius Tacitus..., And Translated into English, by Sir Richard Baker, Knight, 1st English ed., 1642, title within decorative border, folding table with closed tear, upper hinge cracked, contemp. calf, upper joints slightly cracked and slight wear at foot of spine, extrems. rubbed, folio Wing M359.

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£150-200

496 Manuscript Sermons. A bound volume of handwritten manuscript notes of sermons by Reverend Philip Henry (16311696), 233 pp. of neat handwritten manuscript in brown ink, plus 29 pp. of further notes bound back-to-back at rear, some marks and occ. smudging, early ownership signature to front pastedown of Mary Savage, contemp. calf, joints cracked, worn, small 8vo A collection of notes on sermons by Reverend Philip Henry, generally dated between 1683 and 1687, and possibly transcribed by one of his sons.

Reverend Philip Henry was a Minister of the Gospel at Broad-oak, near Whitchurch in Shropshire. A Life of Mr Philip Henry was published by his son Matthew Henry (1662-1714), and Remains of the Rev. Philip Henry AM Extracted from Unpublished Manuscripts, by Sir John Bickerton Williams, was later issued by the Religious Tract Society in 1848, largely based on manuscripts, diaries and commonplace books by Philip Henry.

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497 Medina (Pedro de). L’arte del navigare..., di nouo ampliata, & corretta, Venice: Tommaso Baglioni, 1609, title printed in red and black with wooduct device (a little soiled, small oval ink stamp and lower outer corner repair not affecting text), woodcut illustrations to text incl. a full-page woodcut of the Atlantic, blank leaves at end of prelims. and end of text both present, A2 recto (dedication) discoloured, bound with [A. de la Cueva? M. Velserus? or A. Albizzi?], Squitinio della liberta Veneta..., Mirandola, 1612, some browning, bound with Helian (Louis), Riposta in Difesa delle ragioni del... Arciduca Fernando contra il manifesto... di Venetia..., 1617[? or 1637], bound with Discorso libero incontro la grandezza e potenzia temporale del Papa..., tradotto dal Francese in lingua volgare, 1628, final leaf blank, bound with Vera, e soda risposta alle calunnie, e ragioni, con le quali i ribelli de la Val-telina, veri, e naturali sudditi de Grisoni..., Tradotta dall’idioma francese nell’italiano per Gio: Pietro Lanfranchi Modonese, Minlan, 1627, bound with Raisons pour lesquelles les troys ligues de Missieurs les Grisons ont de1 libe1 re1 de ne permettre plus la residenze ordinaire en leur pays a aulcuns Ambassadours de princes estrangers, n.p., 1620, 12pp, old limp vellum, soiled, 4to

499 Menot (Michel). Fratris Michaelis Menoti zelantissimi p[re]dicatoris ac sacre theologie p[ro]fessoris ordinis minoru[m] Sermones quadragesimales una cu[m] nonnullis alijs tractatibus hic colentis, Paris: Jean Petit, c.1525, title in red & black, and with printer’s woodcut device, few dec. initials, final leaf lined to verso, occasional early marginalia, blind stamp to rear free-endpaper, some light dampstaining and dust-soiling to few leaves, 18th c. mottled calf, gilt dec. spine, upper joint cracked and lower joint rubbed, 8vo Not in Adams. An edition of sermons by a popular Franciscan preacher, ‘remarkable for their vigour, and the range of anecdotes and fables they contain as exempla’ (Oxford Companion to French Literature). The contents of this edition varies and the example in the Bibliotheque Nationale also contains an Epistolarum.

(1) £150-200

Medina’s navigational treatise was first published in Spanish in Seville in 1545, and it was soon translated into English, French and German as well as Italian. Palau 159680.

(1) £2000-3000

500 Miniature book. London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1804, printed for the Company of Stationers, [1803], double-page eng. of a View of West India Docks from Blackwall Entrance, red ink duty stamp on title-page, a.e.g., marbled endpapers (non-matching), orig. red morocco with blue, red, and cream leather onlays, elaborately gilt dec. with hare tool, stars, tendrils, crosses, and gilt rolls, contained in matching slipcase (latter sl. rubbed but in unusually bright condition), 62 x 38mm (2.5 x 1.5ins) (1)

£150-200

501 Nelson (James). An Essay on the Government of Children, under three general heads: viz. Health, Manners, and Education, 1st ed., 1753, subscribers list, lower outer corner of leaf H1 torn with loss of catchword ‘The’ and repaired, scattered spotting and light browning including to title, contemp. half calf gilt, joints cracked, rubbed, 8vo (1)

£100-150

502 Pamphlets. [Williams, John]. The Case of Indifferent Things used in the Worship of God..., J. Redmayne, 1683, small 4to, together with Thompson (N., pub.), Some Brief Remarks on the Debates of the House of Commons in the Last Parliament at Oxford, 1683, small 4to, and Hunton (Philip), A Treatise of Monarchy: Containing Two Parts. I. Concerning Monarchy in General. II. Concerning This Particular Monarchy..., reprint, 1689, small 4to, together with a quantity of other pamphlets including 17th and 18th century sermons, Popish Plot interest, pamphlets by Roger L’Estrange, 18th & 19th century political and religious pamphlets and disbound works, etc., some minor fraying, mostly small 4to or 8vo

498 [Meerman, Willem]. Comoedia Vetus, 1st ed., [Antwerp, 1612], [32]pp. (A4-D4), eng. title with eng. caption to lower margin “Eij Maet, siet is t’lant vol gecken, Noom wil mijn Heer de stock onttrecken” (close-trimmed), slight ink stain to lower margin throughout volume, later endpapers, 18th c. qtr. calf, spine and extrems. worn, slim 4to Only two UK institutional locations found (British Library & University of London).

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506 Pope (Alexander). The Iliad of Homer, 6 vols., 1760, eng. port. frontis. and plt. to vol. 1, two folding eng. plts., few eng. head & tailpieces, together with The Odyssey of Homer, 5 vols., 1760, few eng. head & tailpieces, with The Works of Alexander Pope, 9 vols., 1766, twenty-four eng. plts. (inc. frontis. to vol. 1), some light dustsoiling, uniform contemp. calf, lacking few morocco title labels, rubbed and some wear, 8vo (20)

£150-200

503 Pfintzing (Melchior). Der Aller-Durchleuchtigste Ritter, oder die Rittermässige... Gross-Thaten... dess Aller-Grossmächtigsten Heldens Maximiliani I..., 2 parts in one, pub. M. Schultes, Ulm, 1679, eng. frontis. (closed tear to lower left portion of image), title printed in red & black, 115 of 117 woodcut illusts. (lacks leaves H3 & M3), dec. initials and head & tailpieces, minor worming to upper outer margin corners of last few pages, contemp. calf, elaborate gilt dec. spine, slightly rubbed to extrems., rear board with wear to upper outer corner, folio (1)

£500-800

504 Pluche (Noel Antoine). The History of the Heavens, Considered According to the Notions of the Poets and Philosophers, compared with the Doctrines of Moses, trans. J. B. De Freval, 2 vols., 2nd ed., to which is added a Revisal of the Work, 1741, twenty-five eng. plts., eng. bookplate of William Constable to front pastedown of each vol., contemp. full calf, volume label to spines renewed, 8vo (2)

507 Postillae. Postille maiores totius anni cum multis historiis siue figuris magnis [et] mediocribus euangeliorum dominicaliu[m] ac ferialiu[m] in locis p[er]priis de nouo insertis..., Lugduni: per Gilbertum de villiers, pridie Non[n]. Januarii, 1525, title in red and black with woodcut border (with early signature at head), one large woodcut of the Crucifixion, smaller woodcut illusts. and initials throughout, printer’s device to verso of final leaf, occasional worming mostly to margins (affecting few letters of text), fore-edge margins of Bb3 & 4 excised, some dampstaining, light dust-soiling and few marks, first and last few leaves frayed, endpapers renewed with blind stamp to rear free-endpaper, contemp. calf over wooden boards, blind dec. to boards with peppered worm holes, repaired at head & foot of spine, lacking clasps, 4to

£100-150

505 Plutarch. Vite ... de gli huomini illustri Greci et Romani, nuovamente tradotte per M. Lodovico Domenichi et altri ... con la vita dell’auttore, descritta da Thomaso Porcacchi, 2 vols., Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1569, large printer’s woodcut device to title of each vol., woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, etc., some minor worming to corners and extreme margins of first and last few leaves of each vol., contemp. half calf gilt, somewhat worn, with peppered worming to spines and joints, 4to

Adams P2043.

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Brunet IV, 742. The definitive edition of the best early Italian translation of Plutarch by Ludovico Domenichi, incorporating his final corrections.

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508 Southey (Robert). The Life & Correspondence of the late Robert Southey, ed. Charles Cuthbert Southey, 6 vols., 1849-50, engraved frontis. and title to each vol., marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate of Jane Young to front pastedown of each, 19th century uniform full calf gilt, with red and dark green morocco spine labels, very sl. rubbed, 8vo, together with Poe (Edgar Allan), Works ..., 4 vols., pub. New York, 1866, eng. port. frontis. to vol. 1, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus Bunyan (John), The Works, 2nd ed., with ... Additions, printed for E. Gardner ..., 1736, title loose and frayed with some minor soiling, some marks and minor soiling to first and last few leaves, contemp. calf, worn with covers det., folio, and others various, including St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 22 vols., 192024, orig. cloth in d.j.s, several torn and frayed with a little loss, William Cowper & John Newton, Olney Hymns in Three Books, 1779, lacking half title (Russell 21), Samuel Jackson Pratt, Liberal Opinions, Upon Animals, Man, and Providence..., 6 vols., 1775[1777], some minor worming, vols. 5 & 6 both defective with several leaves missing, mostly 8vo (43)

511 Sandford (Francis). The History of the Coronation of the Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch, James II... and His Royal Consort Queen Mary: Solemnized in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in the City of Westminster, Thursday the 23 of April, Being the Festival of St. George, in the Year of Our Lord 1685, [1st ed.], pub. 1687, imprimatur leaf present, title printed in red and black with armorial vignette (imprint with printer’s name Thomas Noecomb printed in red), thirty double-page eng. plts. and plans and one single-page plt., repaired small hole to title & following leaf, few repaired closed tears to blank margins of text and to few plts., some occasional dampstaining mostly to margins, some dust-soiling and marks, early 20th c. panelled calf, boards detached (with imprimatur leaf and final leaf of text), old reback, rubbed and slight wear to spine ad extrems., folio Wing S652. This volume contains a double-page engraving of the Coronation Banquet inside Westminster Hall, a double-page engraved plan of the place settings of the tables and a full list of all the food that was served. Also included is the double-page fireworks plate.

(1) £300-500

£150-200

512 Serponte (Johannes Georgius de). Physionomia Officiorum, sive Lex Naturalis Explicata per Erotemata, et Apocrimata de Officis..., Innsbruck: typis Michaelis Antonii Wagner, 1733, folding eng. frontis., few worm holes mostly to inner blank margins, blind library stamp to final leaf, lacks free endpapers, a.e.g., contemp. sheep, strip of leather excised from upper board, rubbed, folio

509 [Refuge, Eustache de]. Arcana Aulica: Or Walsingham’s Manual of Prudential Maxims, for the States-Man and Courtier. To which is Added Fragmenta Regalia: Or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, Her Times and Favourites, by Sir Robert Naunton, 2 parts in one, 3rd ed., 1694, engraved frontispiece, 5 pp. pubs. list at end, small annotation to title, later calf, spine with red labels, rubbed, 12mo

The volume includes a discussion of Machiavelli and Luther.

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Attributed to Sir Francis Walsingham, this is in fact a translation by distant cousin Edward Walsingham of part two of Eustache de Refuge’s Traite des Cours, published anonymously in Paris in 1617, the first English edition appearing in 1652.

(1) £100-150

£100-150

513 Shakespeare (William). The Works of Shakspere, Imperial Edition, Edited by Charles Knight, 2 vols., Virtue & Co., [1873-76], addn. eng. titles and numerous eng. plts., contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spines with morocco title labels, light dampstain to spines and boards of vol. 1, folio

510 Roland (Marie-Jeanne). Appel a l’Impartiale Posterite, par la Citoyenne Roland, Femme du Ministre de l’Interieur; ou Recueil des Ecrits qu’elle a rediges, pendant sa detention aux prisons de l’Abbaye et de Sainte-Pelagie, ed. L.A.G. Bosc., 4 parts in two vols., 1st ed., Paris, 1795, occasional annotation, light spotting and marginal wormholes, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, a few stains, 8vo

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£100-150

514 Southey (Robert). The Doctor, &c., 1st ed., 7 vols., Longman, 1834-47, half-titles present, titles printed in red and black, pubs. ads. to vols. 1 & 4, frontis. to vol.7, some spotting and toning, orig. cloth with paper title labels to spines, some wear at head & foot of spines, covers rubbed, 8vo

Memoirs of Madame Roland, a prominent figure in the Girondist party during the French Revolution, executed in November 1793 during the Reign of Terror. ESTC T119815.

(2) £100-150

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£100-150

515 Spenser (Edmund). The Shepherd’s Calendar, Containing Twelve Aeglogues, Proportional to the Twelve Months..., London: John Ball, 1732, eng. port. frontis., twelve eng. plts., English & Latin titles and text, front free-endpaper with inscription John Innys of Redland Court 1767, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spine slightly faded, 8vo (1)

£150-200

516 State Trials. A Complete Collection of State-Trials, and Proceedings for High-Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours; from the Reign of King Richard II to the End of the Reign of King George I, 6 vols., 2nd ed., with great additions, 1730, titles printed in red & black, contemp. speckled calf, gilt dec. spines with contrasting title labels (one label with some loss), some cracking to joints, folio (6)

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Lot 519

517 Sulzer (Johann Georg). Tableau des Beautes de la Nature, Frankfurt: Knoch & Esslinger, 1755, untrimmed, orig. paper wrappers, paper spine label written in ink in a contemporary hand, a little fraying to extrems, 8vo

520 Terence. Terence’s Comedies, Translated into English Prose, as near as the Propriety of the two Languages will admit, Together with the Original Latin from the Best Editions... Revised and Corrected by S. Patrick, 2 vols., 1745, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, a few spots, previous owner signatures, bookplates, contemporary calf, spines with green labels and gilt decoration, a little scuffed, 8vo, together with A Short Survey of the Lineal Descent of the Sovereign Princes, that are most Considerable in Europe..., collected and published by William Alexander, Edinburgh, 1704, occasional water stains and spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, rubbed, 8vo, plus The History of India, by the Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1843, 8 pp. pubs. list at end of vol. II, a few light spots, bookplates of Lord Colchester, vol. II hinges tender, original cloth, a little rubbed and faded, 8vo, with others including Sarah Stickney Ellis’s Family Secrets or Hints to those who would make Home Happy, 3 vols., 1841, Charles Dickens’ A Child’s History of England, 3 vols., 1854 and two defective antiquarian

Rare French translation of “Versuch einiger moralischen Betrachtungeen uber die Werke der Natur” by the Swiss physicist, philosopher and aesthetician John Georg Sulzer (1720-1779).

(1) £100-150

518 Sweerts (Francois). Epitaphia Ioco-Seria, Latina, Gallica, Italica, Hispanica, Lusitanica, Belgica..., pub. Cologne, 1645, lacking *1 before title (blank?), slight worm trail to few leaves, occ. spotting, some fraying to margins of first & last few leaves with discreet repairs to upper margins of last few leaves, faint ink stamp to verso to title and final leaves, a.e.g., modern calf by ChiversPeriod bookbinders, 8vo (1)

£100-150

519 Tennyson (Alfred, Lord). The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate (Connoisseur Edition), ed. William J. Rolfe, 12 vols., Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1895-98, b&w plts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, contemp. three-quarter crushed brown morocco gilt, large 8vo Limited edition 105/250.

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£200-300

521 Thackeray (William Makepeace). The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, 2 vols., 1st ed. in bookform, Bradbury & Evans, 185859, bound from the parts, forty-eight steel eng. plts. by the author, incl. frontispieces and addn. title-pages, marginal toning to plts., numerous wood engs. on letterpress, rough-trimmed, orig. blue blindstamped cloth, spines faded and sl. frayed to extrems., 8vo, together with [Lister, Thomas Henry], Herbert Lacy. By the Author of Granby, 3 vols., 1st ed., Henry Colburn, 1828, without half-titles and ads., first few leavs of vol. 1 detached, title-page to vol. 1 with upper corner sometime torn away and repaired, ms. ownership name at head of titles, modern book ticket on front pastedowns, scattered foxing and marks, orig. moiré maroon cloth, faded and spotted, some sl. fraying to spine extrems., first vol. with binding detached at upper hinge, large 12mo, plus other 19th lit., incl.

George Eliot, Walter Scott, Oliver Goldsmith

£200-300

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522 [Treaty of Madrid]. Articles of Peace, Entercourse and Commerce, Concluded in the names of... Charles... King of Great Britaine... and Philip the Fourth, King of Spaine..., in a Treaty at Madrit, the fist day of November after the old Stile, in the yeere of our Lord God MDCXXX, Translated out of Latine into English, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker..., and by the Assignes of John Bill, 1630, 68pp., lacking blank leaves A1 & I4, some dustsoiling, slight fraying & toning to margins, armorial bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron to upper pastedown, 20th c. qtr. vellum, slim 4to STC 9251, Goldsmiths 603, Palau 17971. The treaty of 1630 guaranteed that British traders could move freely and undertake business in America and the East Indies, except those parts of the West Indies, Central and South America where the Spanish had settlements. It kept England out of the Carribbean, but gave free rein to trade with the North American colonies, and for the British to pursue their plantings of colonies in unoccupied parts of the Americas.

(1) £150-200

523 Verepaeus (Simon). Catholicum Precationum Selectissimarum Enchiridion ex Sanctorum Patrum..., Antwerp: J. Bellerus, 1598, title and calendar in red and black, woodcut device to title & final leaf, early ownership signatures to title, few woodcut illusts. to text, some dampstaining, near contemp. leather over wooden boards, spine worn with loss, lacking clasps, 8vo (1)

£150-200

524 Wise (Francis). A Letter to Dr Mead concerning some Antiquities in Berkshire, Particularly shewing that the White Horse, which gives name to the Vale, is a Monument of the West-Saxons, made in memory of a great Victory obtained over the Danes A.D. 871, Oxford, 1738, two folding plates, bound with Further Observations upon the White Horse and other Antiquities in Berkshire. With an Account of Whiteleaf-Cross in Buckinghamshire.

As also of the Red Horse in Warwickshire, and some other Monuments of the same kind, Oxford, 1742, three engraved plates (one folding), also bound with Stukeley (William), Palaeographia Britannica: or, Discourses on Antiquities in Britain, part 1 only (of 3), 1743, three engraved plates (including two folding), marbled edges, contemp. diced calf, rubbed with a little fraying to extrems, 4to, together with Wild (Charles), Twelve Etched Outlines, selected from the Architectural Sketches made in Belgium, Germany, and France, 1st & 2nd series, 1833-36, 24 etched plates, t.e.g., contemp. cloth, split to upper joint, folio, and Verein Nurbergischer Kunstfreunde (ed.). Die Nurnbergischen Kunstler, geschildert nach ihrem Leben und ihren Werken, parts 1-4 [all published], Nuremberg, 1822-1831, 16 engraved plates, scattered spotting, contemporary half calf, upper joint of backstrip split, 4to, plus Men of Mark. A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits, parts 3 & 5 only (of 7), 1878-1881, mounted portrait photographs, a.e.g., occ. light foxing, attractive gilt dec. full calf, rubbed to extrems, 4to, plus Barnard (Henry), School Architecture; or Contributions to the Improvement of School-Houses in the United States, 2nd ed., New York, 1849, numerous wood engraved plates, orig. cloth gilt, some fraying to extrems, 8vo (6)

525 Wroth (Mary). The Countesse of Montgomeries Urania, 1st ed., printed for John Marriott & John Grismand, 1621, lacks A1 (engraved title by Simon van de Pass), B1-3 with some marks and light soiling, and frayed to fore-edges, with a little loss (not affecting text), final two leaves (Ffff3-4) with some similar fraying to foreedges, with minor loss (not affecting text), 18th century calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed and a little wear, with upper joint partly cracked at foot, folio STC 26051. Rare. ESTC locates 14 institutional copies. First edition of the first work of English prose fiction by a female writer. Lady Mary Wroth (15871653) was the daughter of Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester and beloved niece of the wealthy Earl and Countess of Pembroke. At the age of 13 she danced before Elizabeth I. She is known to have attended plays by Shakespeare. Urania is a collection of tales of love and romance, and incorporates the author’s personal experience and opinions as a woman in Jacobean society.

(1) £3000-5000

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SCIENCE & MEDICINE 528 Bailly (Jean Sylvain). Histoire de l’Astronomie Ancienne, depuis son Origine jusqu’a l’Etablissement de l’Ecole d’Alexandrie, 2nd ed., Paris, 1781; Histoire de l’Astronomie Moderne... nouvelle ed., 3 vols., Paris, 1785, together two works in 4 vols., 21 folding engraved plates, closed tear to vol. IV half title, occasional light spotting and browning, contemporary tree calf, two covers detached, others weakening, a little rubbed, 4to, together with La Mesure des Surfaces et des Solides, par l’Arithmetique des Infinis et les Centres de Gravite, by Abbe Deidier, 1st ed., Paris, 1740, three parts in one, 27 folding engraved plates, front blank detached, some browning and spotting, contemporary mottled calf, some wear to spine snd edges, 4to (5)

£200-300

526 Adams (George). Astronomical and Geographical Essays Containing a Comprehensive View of the General Principles of Astronomy, The Use of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes...., The Description and Use of the Armillary Sphere, Planetarium, Tellurian and Lunarium...., 1st. ed., pub. R.Hindmarsh, 1789, dec. stipple engraved frontis., title, preface, advertisement and contents list, separately paginated catalogue of mathematical and philosophical instruments and twenty-one uncoloured folding engraved plts. at rear, some staining and dust soiling to plts., contemp. marbled calf, rebacked and repaired at corners, 8vo (1)

£200-300

527 Aeronautics - [Pocock, George]. The Aeropleustic Art or Navigation in the Air, by the Use of Kites, or Buoyant Sails, 1st ed., [London: W. Wilson? for the author, c.1834], eng. title by A. Adlard with aquatint vignette by P. Roberts, and three aquatint plates (2 by Roberts, one after T. Butterworth & the other after S. Colman, on paper watermarked 1834), spotting, offsetting and some dampstaining, 16 leaves with ink stain to blank fore-edge margins and with consequent embrittlement & fraying, late 19th dark blue qtr. sheep, with orig. printed paper label to upper board, worn at head & foot of spine & joints rubbed, board edges worn, boards spotted, slim 4to Upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of Francis Frederick Fox (18441927), civil engineer and ink stamp of Terence Bryant Bristol Collection, dated 1980. Recognising the force of wind power, Pocock provides a history of the kite as a scientific invention, and examines its potential adaptations as a kind of ascending parachute for mariners before describing the famous Charvolant, a kite-powered carriage capable of speeds of twenty miles per hour. The vignette illustration to the title shows a rescue by means of a kite, and the plates illustrate a kite-powered ‘Boat Race’, the ‘Patent Kite and Charvolant’ and ‘Charvolants travelling in various directions in the same wind’. The author’s daughter, Martha, survived a test flight in one of Pocock’s contraptions, to later become W.G. Grace’s mother. The work attracted serious attention, as well as satire, and a second edition appeared in 1851.

Not in Abbey or Tooley.

(1) £500-700

529 [Barlow, William]. Magneticall Advertisements: Or, Divers Pertinent Observations, and Approved Experiments Concerning the Nature and Properties of the Load-Stone: Very Pleasant for Knowledge, and Most Needfull for Practise, of Travelling, or Framing of Instruments fit for Travellers both by Sea and Land, 1st ed., 1616, 80 pp. only (of 86 pp., lacking N1-4 & O1), woodcut headpieces and initials, illustrations, occasional light soiling, a few frayed foredges, previous owner signature to title, modern cloth, small 4to STC 1442. Contains Barlow’s discovery of the directional properties of the compass-needle. The book’s publication was the subject of a dispute with Mark Ridley, who had published his own A Short Treatise of Magneticall Bodies and Motions in 1613.

(1) £200-300

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530 Bell (John). The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body, Containing the Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints, and the Heart and Arteries..., 3 vols., 4th ed., 1816, thirty-two eng. plts., some soiling and staining, contemp. qtr. calf gilt, some wear to covers of vol. 3, rubbed, 8vo, together with Jackson (Robert), An Outline of the History & Cure of Fever, Endemic and Contagious; More Expressly the Contagious Fevers of Jails, Ships, & Hospitals, the Concentrated Endemic, Vulgarly Called the Yellow Fever of the West Indies..., 2nd ed., pub. Edinburgh, 1808, several leaves with some loss, repaired with archival tissue, dampstaining to lower portion of leaves, recent boards, 8vo, plus Butter (John), Remarks on Irritative Fever, Commonly Called the Plymouth DockYard Disease; With Mr. Dryden’s Detailed Account of the Fatal Cases, Including that of the Lamented Surgeon, Dr. Bell..., pub.

Devonport, 1825, several leaves with some loss repaired with archival tape, dampstaining to lower portion of leaves at front and rear, contemp. boards, rebacked preserving orig. spine, rubbed, 8vo (5)

533 Brown (Thomas). Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into very many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths, 5th ed., 1669, three parts in one, folding portrait frontis. (repair to verso), two engraved plates, p.6 lower corner torn away (affecting marginal note), marginal wormtracks, occasional spotting and browning, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, rubbed, 4to, together with Experimenta, Atque Observationes quibus Electricitas Vindex Late Constituitur, Atque Explicatur, Augustae Taurinorum, [Torino, 1769], 66 pp., folding table (repair to verso), folding engraved plate, occasional light spotting, modern wrapper, 4to, plus The Principles of Analytical Calculation, by Robert Woodhouse, 1st ed., Cambridge, 1803, 219 pp., one or two repaired tears, small marginal burnhole, modern marbled wrapper, 4to, with others including Francis Maseres’ Tracts on the Resolution of Affected Algebraick Equations by Dr. Halley’s, Mr. Raphson’s and Sir Isaac Newton’s Methods of Approximation, 1800 (author’s presentation copy), William Nicholson’s The First Principles of Chemistry, 1790 and John Astruc’s A Treatise of the Venereal Disease, in Six Books, 2 vols., 1737

£100-150

531 Birch (Thomas). The Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle, 1st ed., 1744, pubs. ad. leaf front and rear, occasional light spotting, contemporary calf, neat reback, covers a little rubbed, 8vo (1)

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£300-400

£100-150

534 Culpeper (Nicholas). A Directory for Midwives: Or, a Guide for Women in their Conception, Bearing and Suckling their Children, 1755, folding engraved plate, advert. leaf at end, bound without front and rear blanks, a few spots, previous owner signatures to title, contemporary sprinkled calf, insect damage to upper cover, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Pyretologias, Pars Altera: Sive, Exercitatio de Febribus Inflammatoriis Universalibus, Part II only, by Richard Morton, 1694, advert. leaf at end, lacking portrait frontispiece, a few spots, marginal wormtrack to first few leaves, previous owner signature to title, contemporary panelled calf, old reback, rubbed, 8vo

532 Bowden (Ambrose). A Treatise on Dry Rot, in which are Described, the Nature and Causes of that Disease in Ships, Houses, Mills &c., with Methods of Prevention and Cure.

Containing also an Enquiry into the Origin of Fungi... and some Account of those Ships... in the History of the British Navy, 1st ed., 1815, half title, two hand-coloured plates, Institute of Naval Architects Library bookplate, contemporary diced calf gilt, spine a little rubbed with small shelf number, 8vo

ESTC N2151; Wing M2833.

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£200-300

535 Darwin (Charles). Insectivorous Plants, 1st ed., 1875, b & w illustrations, small repair to final leaf, a few spots, original green cloth, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo, together with The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 49th thou., 1897, folding diagram, one or two spots, original green cloth, tiny tears at spine ends, 8vo, with others by Darwin including The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 40th thou., 1888 and The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, ed. Francis Darwin, 3 vols., 3rd ed., 1887

Bowden’s Gold Medal winning treatise, when presented at the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in 1815, when the government adopted his recommended cure for dry rot, namely submerging ships in sea-water.

(1) £300-500

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£150-200

538 Ellis (George Edward). Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, with Notices of his Daughter, 5 vols., Macmillan & Co., 1876, engraved illustrations, occasional light toning and spotting, Royal Engineers Library stamps to titles, contemporary green half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, together with The Life and Letters of Faraday, by Dr. Bence Jones, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1870, b & w illustrations, a few spots, original cloth, spines faded with short splits to joints, 8vo, with others related including Bence Jones’ The Royal Institution: Its Founder and its First Professors, 1871, Michael Faraday’s Experimental Researches in Electricity, vols. II & III only, 1844-55 and Michael Faraday’s Chemical Manipulation, Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry, on the Methods of Performing Experiments of Demonstration or of Research with Accuracy and Success, new ed., 1830 (approx 60)

£150-200

539 Euler (Leonhard). Letters of Euler on Different Subjects in Physics and Philosophy. Addressed to a German Princess.

Translated from the French by Henry Hunter D.D. With Original Notes, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1802, half titles, 20 engraved plates, occasional light spotting and offsetting, contemporary tree calf, spines and edges rubbed, 8vo (2)

£100-150

536 Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 3rd ed., with Additions and Corrections, John Murray, 1861, folding diagramatic plate, 2 pp. pubs. list at end, one or two faint spots, light brown chalk-glazed endpapers (some adhesions marks at front and rear due to label removal), original green blindstamped cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed (generally a very good copy), 8vo Freeman 381. 2000 copies printed. This edition extensively altered by the author, with the addition of a table of differences between it and the second edition, and the important Historical Sketch of the Recent Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species.

(1) £800-1200

537 Dionis (Pierre). The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Improv’d, According to the Circulation of the Blood, and all the Modern Discoveries..., Translated from the Third Edition, Corrected and Enlarged by the Author..., 1703, twenty eng. plts. (inc. one folding), lacking front free endpaper, some worming to fore-edge margins and some marginal repairs, lower outer corner of O2 torn slightly affecting few letters of text, hinges strengthened, contemp. panelled calf, rebacked preserving orig. spine, 8vo (1)

£100-150

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540 Franklin (Benjamin). Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America, To Which are Added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects, the Whole Corrected, Methodized, Improved, and now First Collected into One Volume, [4th ed.], 1769, seven eng. plts. including two folding, ex-lib. with small purple ink name stamp to title, plts. 2-5 and occasionally elsewhere, some old dampstaining with resultant browning and discolouring to early leaves, worming to upper margin of prelims. and first plt. with one small hole affecting three letters to recto and verso of preface leaf without loss of sense, lacks half-title, modern library cloth with remains of printed label and withdrawn stamp to front pastedown, 4to Ford 307; Howes 320; Sabin 25506.

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£700-1000

541 Jamieson (Alexander). A Celestial Atlas Comprising a Systematic Display of the Heavens in a Series of Thirty Maps Illustrated by Scientific Descriptions of their Contents, and Accompanied by Catalogues of the Stars and Astronomical Exercises, 1822, engraved calligraphic title and dedication, engraved plate and 30 engraved celestial maps, plate III with marginal loss and fraying, occasional light spotting and offsetting, contemporary half calf, paper label to upper cover, rebacked, light edge wear, oblong 4to (1)

Lot 541

£400-600

542 Kulmus (Johann Adam). Tabulae Anatomicae, in quibus Corporis Humani Omniumque ejus partium structura & usus brevissime explicantur, 1st ed., Amsterdam, 1732, title printed in red and black, 28 folding engraved plates on 26 sheets, marginal repair to plate II, errata leaf at end, occasional browning to text, fep detaching, armorial bookplate of Patrick Hume, Earl of Marchmont, contemporary sprinkled calf, joints cracking, spine a little rubbed, 8vo (1)

£200-300

543 Linnaeus (Carl). Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis, vol. I only (of 2), 10th ed., Stockholm, 1758, occasional light spotting, contemporary calfbacked boards, edges rubbed, 8vo The 10th edition was the begining of zoological nomenclature, with the Animal Kingdom divided into six classes, the first, Mammalia including whales and the West Indian Manatee (originally classified among Fishes in the first edition of 1735).

(1) £200-300

544 Nieuwentyt (Dr. Bernard). The Religious Philosopher: Or, the Right Use of Contemplating the Works of the Creator..., 2 vols., 3rd ed., 1724, twenty-nine folding eng. plts., bookplate to pastedown of vol. 1, contemp. Cambridge pane, rebacked and recornered, some wear, 4to (2)

£150-200

545 Paris (John Ayrton). The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, 1st ed., 2 vols., 1831, engraved portrait frontis. to vol. I, folding facsimile plate to vol. II, occasional light spotting, Radcliffe Observatory Oxford inkstamps at front, previous owner signatures, original boards, neat calf reback, 8vo, together with Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart, by his Brother, John Davy, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1836, engraved portrait frontis. to vol. I (offsetting to title), 16 pp. pubs. list at front of vol. I, some light spotting and toning, original boards, neat calf reback, 8vo (4)

£150-200

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546 Partridge (Seth). The Description and Use of an Instrument, Called the Double Scale of Proportion. By which Instrument, all Questions in Arithmetick, Geometry, Trigonometry, Astronomy, Geography, Navigation, Fortification, Gunnery, Gaging Vessels, Dialing, may be most Accurately and Speedily Performed, without the Assistance of either Pen or Compasses, 1st ed., 1661, two diagramatic plates (one folding), contemporary replacement advert. pasted over printed advert. on final leaf, one or two leaves mispaginated, occasional light soiling, previous owner inscription to front blank, contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, 12mo Wing 630A. Scarce, no copies recorded at auction. “The first complete duplex slide rule was made in 1657 by Seth Partridge. The rule consisted of two strips of wood held together by bridging cleats with a third strip sliding freely between them. This rule carried the numbers and trigonometric scales on both faces.” (Derrenberger, A History of the Slide Rule, April 1939).

(1) £400-600

547 Prostitution. The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon.

Reprinted from the Pall-Mall Gazette, pub. F. A. Roberts, n.d., c.

1885, 32 pp., including advert to verso of final leaf, fore-edges of some leaves re-strengthened, bound with Startling Disclosures Concerning Eliza Armstrong, Bramwell Booth, and the famous procureess Becky Jerrett, A ‘St. James’s’ Maiden Tribute, pub.

William James Pitt, 30 Newcastle Street, Strand, n.d., c. 1880s, 8 pp., second leaf with some marks and small repair, endpapers a little browned, contemp. half cloth, rubbed and frayed to corners and edges, small 4to (1)

£70-100

548 Rust (Johann Nepomuk). Theoretisch-Praktisches Handbuch der Chirurgie, mit Einschluss der Syphilitischen und AugenKrankheiten; in Alphabetischer Ordnung, 18 vols. (inc. index), 1st ed., Berlin & Vienna, 1830-36, engraved portrait frontis. to vol. 1, contemp. marbled half sheep, gilt dec. spines, extrems. slightly rubbed, 8vo The only edition of this comprehensive German dictionary of surgical practice. Although the entire range of surgical expertise and practice are covered, the work is also of special interest for including several notable accounts concerning the history of reconstructive surgery.

(18) £300-400

549 Stewart (Dugald). Account of the Life and Writings of Thomas Reid, D.D.F.R.S. Edin., Late Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, 2nd ed., W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1803, errata leaf at end, a few minor spots, contemporary sprinkled calf, joints and edges a little rubbed, 8vo

Lot 546

(1)

£150-200

550 Tyndall (John). The Glaciers of the Alps. Being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents, an Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are Related, 1st ed., 1860, wood-engraved frontis., plates and illustrations (a few part-coloured), 32 pp. pubs. list at end, occasional light spotting, original red blindstamped cloth, spine faded, edges rubbed, one or two stains, 8vo Neate T75.

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£100-150

FINE BINDINGS 551 Bindings. Walden, or Life in the Woods, by Henry David Thoreau, 1927, 16 tipped-in woodcuts by Eric Fitch Daglish, t.e.g., modern full brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/Zaehnsdorf, upper cover with a Cosway-style inset oval miniature painting of an Eagle Owl, slpcase, 8vo Limited edition, 42/100 signed by the artist.

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£200-300

552 Bindings. The Plays of William Shakespeare, Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy left by the Late George Steevens, 10 vols., new ed., 1823, half titles, portrait frontispiece to vol. I, a few light spots, armorial bookplates of Lord Battersea, a.e.g., contemporary claret red straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt lyre and corner pieces enclosed by blind anthemion rolls, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, joints and edges a little rubbed, 12mo (10)

£200-300

553 Bindings. Dawn of the Gods, by Jacquetta Hawkes, Chatto & Windus, 1968, colour and b & w illustrations, a.e.g., contemporary full blue morocco, upper cover with onlaid Cretan design, slipcase, 4to, limited edition, 79/265 signed by the author, together with Castles, by Charles Oman, Great Western Railway, 1926, folding map contained in rear pocket, a few minor spots, a.e.g., modern full red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine with raised bands, 4to, plus Castles of Britain, by Christina Gascoigne, 1975, colour and b & w illustrations, a.e.g., contemporary brown half morocco

by Asprey, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration, 4to (3)

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Lot 552

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£200-300

555 Chivers (Cedric). A London Garland Selected from Five Centuries of English Verse, by W.E. Henley with Pictures by Members of the Society of Illustrators, Macmillan, 1895, decorative half-title, frontis., two etched and one litho. plt., numerous letterpress illusts., incl. some full-page, scattered foxing, marbled endpapers, verso of front free endpaper with pencilled note ‘sample only not valued 1901’, t.e.g., remainder foxed, contemp. tan calf, signed ‘Cedric Chivers, Binder, Bath’ on lower turn-in, faint stain to foot of spine and adjacent upper return, covers with gilt double fillet border and gilt panel of trefoil scalloped roll, dotted roll, and double fillets, spine and upper cover with blind lettering, and embossed and gilt tooled with paeony flowers and leaves, dotted wavy line roll on edges, gilt dec. turn-ins, 4to, contained in a cloth solander box (1)

£500-700

554 Cathedral binding. Le Nouveau Testament c’est a dire la Nouvelle Alliance de Nostre Seigneur Jesus Christ, Amsterdam: Henry Desbordes, c.1710, eng. title (slightly dampstained), bound with Les Pseaumes de David, Amsterdam: Henry Desbordes, c.1710, eng. title, occasional spotting, contemp. and later manuscript ownership to front blank and endpaper including family history notes for the Dorey family of St. Helena, Jersey, Channel Islands, a.e.g., with gauffered edges, 19th c. calf cathedral binding with gilt initials P.D. to upper board, design impression weak in places, silver metal clasps (lower clasp with engraved initials P.D.R to inside edge), 12mo The front endpaper blank has a manuscript inscription “This Book rebound at Bristol, The 31st October 1848, John Dorey”.

(1) £100-150

556 Chivers (Cedric). The Booke of Thenseygnementes and Techynge that the Knyght of the Towre Made to His Doughters by the Chevalier Geoffroy de la Tour Landry, edited with Notes and a Glossary by Gertrude Burford Rawlings, George Newnes, 1902, frontis., addn. title-page, and five plts., all present in two states (hand-col. and uncol.), red initial letters, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed (lightly foxed), marbled endpapers, contemp. tan calf, spine lightly faded and rubbed to extrems., upper corners showing, spine and covers embossed by Alice Shepherd from a design by H. Granville Fell, spine lettered and with strapwork design, upper cover with a knight, and lower cover with shell design, 4to Limited edition, 16/56 copies. Chivers, Books in Beautiful Bindings, XXXVI (‘Cedric Chivers has purchased the whole of the edition de luxe, on large paper’).

(1) £400-600

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Lot 559

557 Chivers (Cedric). Books in Beautiful Bindings, Bath, c.1910, two mounted col. plts. (offset to text), sixteen b & w plts., later cloth with orig. printed wrappers mounted on covers, 8vo

Lot 560

559 Chivers (Cedric). The Booke of Thenseygnementes and Techynge that the Knyght of the Towre Made to His Doughters by the Chevalier Geoffroy de la Tour Landry, edited with Notes and a Glossary by Gertrude Burford Rawlings, George Newnes, 1902, frontis., addn. title-page, and five plts., all present in two states (both uncol., but one on heavy stock cream paper), red initial letters, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, latter and endpapers foxed, contemp. half vellum, some discolouration, spine with vellucent panel depicting a landscape and incorporating the title within a shield, linen sides, 4to

Rare: ‘... one copy of a limited number of catalogues which I have specially printed for distribution to known or recommended lovers of books’.

(1) £150-200

558 Chivers (Cedric). In Memoriam by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Illustrated by Alfred Garth Jones, George Newnes, 1901, half-title present, fifteen plts. (incl. frontis.), letterpress illusts., gauffered top edge, remainder untrimmed, marbled endpapers, hinges repaired, contemp. tan calf, signed ‘Cedric Chivers, Bath’, on lower turn-in, spine and edges rubbed, spine and covers with embossed decoration of stylised interlaced stems and foliage, outlined with gilt fillets, upper cover with inset vellucent panel depicting a figure with a lyre in a landscape, gilt fillet on edges, turn-ins with fillets, heart tools, and flower tools, 8vo

Limited edition, 20/56 copies. Chivers, Books in Beautiful Bindings, LXXXIV. (1) £300-500

560 Chivers (Cedric). Paul & Virginia, by Benardin de Saint-Pierre, with a Memoir, Illustrated by Ad Lalauze, Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1881, seven eng. plts. (frontis. lightly offset to title), a.e.g., floral gilt endpapers (rear free endpaper with tip of upper corner missing), contemp. tan morocco, signed ‘Cedric Chivers, Bath’ on lower turn-in, a trifle rubbed and marked in places, gilt rule decorated raised bands, gilt lettered labels in second and fourth compartments, remainder with curved chevron and leaf decoration, date lettered at foot, covers with swirling gilt fillet design incorporating gilt heart tool, gilt fillets on edges and turn-ins, 8vo

Limited edition, 4/25 copies on Japanese vellum, signed by the illustrator.

Chivers, Books in Beautiful Bindings, XIV(a).

(1) £300-500

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149

£250-350

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Lot 562

561 [Chivers, Cedric]. The Poetical Works of the Ettrick Shepherd, including The Queen’s Wake, Pilgrims of the Sun, Mador of the Moor, Mountain Bard, &c. &c. with an Autobiography, and Illustrative Engravings, from Original Drawings, by D.O. Hill, Esq., S.A., vol. 5, Blackie, 1840, eng. frontis. (detached) and addn. title (both foxed), double-page eng. notice ‘To the Subscribers’, patterned textured free endpapers, vellum pastedowns, front pastedown with monogram ‘CC’ painted in blue (possibly that of Cedric Chivers), a.e.g., early 19th c. blue morocco, spine lightly faded, gilt rule decorated raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and fourth compartments, remainder with dotted line lattice, date lettered at foot, covers with double fillet and dotted line border filled with dotted fish scale design, each compartment containing a large dot tool, double fillets on edges, gilt dec. turn-ins, 12mo in 6s Provenance: from the Chivers Bindery.

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Lot 563

563 Embroidered binding. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments..., Cambridge University Press, c.1928, cream silk endpapers, a.e.g., contemp. binding of cream ribbed silk, the spine embroidered with the words ‘Ursula - July 17th 1928’ in raised metal threads, upper cover with central oval worked in raised metal threads, enclosing a flower and surrounded by flower sprays, birds, butterflies, and snails, all worked in satin and long & short stitch in coloured silks in shades of green, blue, and pink, rear cover with sl. smaller oval worked in metal threads, enclosing grapes and vine tendril with leaves, worked in colours, 12mo With a card label loosely inserted inscribed: ‘To Miss Tod as a Souvenir from The Members of the Bookbinding Centre’.

(1) £70-100

564 Fore-edge painting. An English Dictionary, Etymological, Pronouncing and Explanatory, with Lists of Affixes and Prefixes Abbreviations, Latin, French, and Italian Phrases, and a Supplement of Words of Recent Introduction, Blackie, c.1907, printed in triple column, a.e.g., fore-edge painting of Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, green moiré silk doublures, contemp. tan morocco by Dreyfous, signed on front turn-in, edges a trifle rubbed, spine lightly faded, gilt dotted line decorated raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, remainder with central flower tool and volute cornerpieces, covers with gilt scrolling seedhead roll and double fillet border, with inner rococo border of volutes, fleur-de-lys, and roundels, fillets on edges, turns-ins with bird and arrows & quiver roll, sm. square 8vo

£200-300

562 Chivers (Cedric). The Booke of Thenseygnementes and Techynge that the Knyght of the Towre Made to His Doughters by the Chevalier Geoffroy de la Tour Landry, edited with Notes and a Glossary by Gertrude Burford Rawlings, George Newnes, 1902, frontis., addn. title-page, and five plts., all present in two states (hand-col. and uncol.), red initial letters, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, marbled endpapers, contemp. purple morocco, signed ‘Cedric Chivers, Bath’ on lower turn-in, covers sl. bowed, joints a little rubbed in places, spine gilt lettered and with gilt fillet and leaf design, covers with gilt fillet borders, upper cover with inset vellucent panel depicting a knight by H. Granville Fell, 4to

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Limited edition, 3/56 copies. Chivers, Books in Beautiful Bindings, XXXVI (‘Cedric Chivers has purchased the whole of the edition de luxe, on large paper’).

(1) £400-600

150

£200-300

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Lot 565

Lot 566

565 Fore-edge painting. The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, Illustrated by Twenty Vignettes from Designs by Turner, and Thirtyseven Woodcuts from Designs by Harvey, Edward Moxon, 1843, half-title, port. frontis., and numerous letterpress engs., some light foxing, a.e.g., recent fore-edge painting of Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe, Scotland, executed by Steven St. Clair Smallwood (with his label on front pastedown), upper hinge split, contemp. green morocco, sl. rubbed in places, spine lightly faded, 8vo in 4s (1)

566 Fore-edge painting. Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay, new ed., Longman et al, 1861, eng. port. frontis. and addn. title (lightly foxed and minor water-stain to upper blank margin), printed in double-column, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Aldersey Maynard-Taylor on front pastedown, upper hinge split, a.e.g., split fore-edge painting of Basing House after the Siege, and Lady Place, Hurley, Berkshire, contemp. crimson morocco, rubbed, spine gilt dec., covers with circular gilt armorial, 8vo

ÂŁ100-150

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151

ÂŁ150-200

Lot 567

Lot 568

567 Fore-edge painting. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels, popular ed., with Sixteen Illustrations by Cruikshank, Leech, Tenniel, and Barham, Richard Bentley, 1889, half-title, sixteen eng. plts., incl. frontis., contemp. ms. inscription on prelim. blank, front free endpaper with vertical crease, a.e.g., two adjacent monochrome fore-edge paintings of Leeds Castle and Hever Castle in Kent, contemp. red morocco, sl. rubbed and marked, 8vo (1)

£100-150

568 Fore-edge painting. The Making of England, by John Richard Green, Macmillan, 1885, half-title, maps on letterpress, contemp. ms. inscription on prelim. blank, a.e.g., fore-edge painting of Ludlow, Shropshire, contemp. brown morocco, sl. rubbed and marked, spine faded, 8vo, together with Lending unto the Lord; or, Three Days in the Life of Christian Furchtegott Gellert, Poet, and Professor in Leipsic University, by Baron Conway and J. Russell Endean, Illustrated from Original Designs by the Honourable Charlotte Ellis, Kerby and Endean, 1874, six plts., incl. frontis., 1p. musical notation, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., fore-edge painting of Derwentwater and Skiddaw, orig. gilt dec. scarlet morocco, sm. square 8vo, plus Theatre D’Education a l’Usage de la Jeunesse par Madame de Genlis, vol. 2 only, Paris, c.1847, with a fore-edge painting of a street scene with shops, awnings, figures, carts, etc., sm. 8vo (3)

£100-150

569 French binding. Eucologe ou Livre d’Eglise, a l’Usage de Paris..., Paris: Dehansy, 1789, half-title present, some spotting and toning, title-page with imprint overlaid with later label, marbled endpapers, hinges split, a.e.g., contemp. crimson morocco, rubbed, gilt hatched raised bands, gilt lettered label in second compartment, fourth and sixth compartments with onlaid leather lozenge in centre (latter gilt tooled), remainder with flower tool surrounded by dots and volute cornerpieces, covers with gilt hounds tooth roll border, and wide inner border composed of drawer handle roll and fleuron roll, central panel of gilt tooled green onlays, incl. tulip cornerpieces, enclosing flaming heart and bird tools and lettered ‘Unisons Nous’ above and below, large 12mo (1)

Lot 569

£200-300

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Lot 571

570 Haeften (Benedictus van). Schola Cordis sive Aversi a Deo Cordis ad eumdem reductio, et instructio, Antwerp: Ioannem Meursium et Hieronimum Verdussium, 1635, eng. title-page, numerous letterpress engs., first few gatherings with ink stain at head, marbled endpapers, lacking free endpapers, old typed catalogue description mounted on front pastedown, gauffered edges, contemp. brown calf, some wear to extrems., with sl. loss at foot of spine, upper cover just holding on two cords, and corners showing, smooth spine with gilt pointillé rolls, repeated as border on covers, enclosing a gilt ecclesiastical oval armorial surrounded by a variety of volute, dot, and flower tools, lacking ties, sm. 8vo

572 Sangorski (F., and Sutcliffe, G.). The Poems of William Shakespeare, According to the Text of the Original Copies, including the Lyrics, Songs, and Snatches Found in His Dramas, printed at the Essex House Press, and published by Edward Arnold, 1899, eng. plt., decorative initial letters throughout, titles printed in red, crimson moiré silk doublures, a.e.g., modern Cosway-style green morocco, signed on lower turn-in, dotted line roll dec. raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, remainder with central Tudor rose onlaid in red leather and gilt-tooled, surrounded by gilt leaves, dots, and roundels, covers with gilt double rule border, with onlaid Tudor roses and leaf and dot tools at the corners, upper cover with inset oval miniature on ivorine of Shakespeare, within a gilt border of drawer handle and fleur-de-lys tools and surmounted by an eagle tool, gilt tooled edges and turn-ins, latter incorporating onlaid Tudor rose and leaf design at corners, large 8vo, contained in a crimson velvet-lined cloth solander box, with gilt lettered morocco spine label

Van Haeften’s popular emblem book, first published in 1629, strongly influenced the work of Francis Quarles.

(1) £150-200

571 Jones (Owen). Gray’s Elegy. Illuminated by Owen Jones, Longman, 1846, eighteen thick card leaves, richly chromolithographed in colours and gold, upper pastedown with ink ownership signature of Mary Buckingham Chandos and Stowe Library label, hinges neatly repaired, a.e.g., orig. brown relievo leather by Remnant & Edmonds, with their ticket, with a design of holly, ivy, and clover leaves by Owen Jones, large 8vo McLean, Victorian Publishers’ Book-Bindings, pp.11 & 15.

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Lot 572

Limited edition, 100/450 copies.

(1)

£200-300

153

£500-800

BOOKCASES 573* A Victorian mahogany double bookcase, the straight canted cornice over four glazed doors with acanthus moulding, enclosing shelved interior on a plain plinth, approx. 175 cm h x 189 cm w x 31 cm d (68.75 x 74.5 x 12.25 ins) (1)

£300-400

574* A late 20th-c. stained pine open bookcase, designed to be wall-mounted with the shelves at an angle of 45 degrees, 157 cm h x 157 cm w x 25 cm d (61.75 x 61.75 x 9.75 ins), with a selection of early-mid 20th-c. cloth-bound books, mostly literature (-)

£100-200

575* Eight modern bookfair-type three-shelf folding bookcases, each approx. 70cm wide

Lot 573

(8)

£100-150

576* Seven modern bookfair-type three-shelf folding bookcaes, each approx. 70cm wide (7)

£100-150

577* Thirteen Unix sectional bookcase units, of differing graduated sizes, each enclosed by a pair of glass sliding doors (nine units in dark oak and four units in light oak), largest size approx. 38 cm h x 134 cm w x 26 cm d (15 x 52.75 x 10.5 ins) and smaller (13)

Lot 574 154

£200-300

CARTONS 578 Auction Catalogues. The Honeyman Collection of Scientific Books and Manuscripts, 7 vols., Sotheby, October 1978-May 1981, some colour and numerous b&w plts., orig. printed wrappers, 4to, together with Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books & Fine Bindings from the Celebrated Collection the Property of Major J. R. Abbey, 6 vols., June 1965-October 1970, b&w plts., orig. boards/wrappers, 4to, plus Bibliotheca Phillippica, 16 vols., a part set, Sotheby & Co., 1946-81, b&w illusts., all orig. printed wrappers, 4to, and other similar auction catalogues, mostly Sotheby’s, including ChristieMiller, Mentmore, Bradley Martin, George Abrams, Richard Manney, The Garden Collection, etc., plus a quantity of The Print Collector’s Quarterly, 1925-42, British Museum Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits, bound in 9 vols., with extensive annotations by George Suckling, contemp. cloth, heavily worn, 8vo, etc. (approx. 200 vols.)

(4 cartons)

583 Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future. Deluxe Collector Editions, vols.

2-5, 7, 8 & 10-12, ed. Mike Higgs, pub. Hawk Books, 1987-1995, col. illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. laminated boards, folio, together with The Dan Dare Dossier, ed. Mike Higgs, 1990, col. illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. boards, folio, plus Cheetham (Nicolas Cheetham), A Journey from Earth to the Edge of the Cosmos, [2006], col. illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. boards in d.j., 4to, plus other science fiction related (2 cartons)

584 Erasmus (Desiderius). Colloquia, cum notis ..., Corn.

Schrevelio, Leiden, 1655, eng. title, early ink ownership inscription to front endpaper for A. Pomeroy and Johannes Pomeroy, both of Trinity College, Dublin, dated 1660 and 1692, contemp. calf, modern reback, 8vo, together with Isla (Jose Francisco de), The History of the Famous Preacher Friar Gerund de Campazas: otherwise Gerund Zotes, translated from the Spanish, 2 vols., 1st English ed., 1772, contemp. full calf, rubbed and marked, spines with some restoration and title labels renewed, 8vo, plus Petrie (George), The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, Dublin, 1845, b&w wood eng. illusts. to text, contemp. half dark green calf gilt, large 8vo, and Leader (R. E.), History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, in the County of York, 2 vols., Sheffield, 1905, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. qtr. vellum gilt, sl. rubbed, large folio, plus other misc. books, mostly 19th c. and early 20th c., including Hertfordshire Families, ed., Duncan Warrand, 1907, Thomas Inman, Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1872, Rapin de Thoyras, The History of England, trans. N. Tindal, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1732, The Holy Bible, with illustrations by Gustave Doré, 2 vols., pub. Cassell, n.d., 1870s, a defective copy of R. Hindry Masons’ History of Norfolk, 1884, lacking plates, a Victorian album, containing printed and handwritten verse, some prints and drawings, etc., issued by W. & H. Rock, c. 1840, an incomplete copy of Stieler’s Schul-Atlas, etc.

£200-300

579 Bernays (Albert J.). Household Chemistry; Or, Rudiments of the Science Applied to Every-Day Life, 3rd ed., Considerably Enlarged, 1854, a few illusts. and diags. to text, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed, small 8vo, together with Ward (Artemas), The Encyclopaedia of Food. The Stories of the Foods by Which we Live, How and Where they Grow and Are Marketed, Their Comparative Values and How Best to Use and Enjoy Them, New York, 1923, col. plts., numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, with other cookery and related (3 cartons)

£70-100

580 Clarendon (Edward Hyde, Earl of). The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England..., 1st ed., vols. 1 & 2 only (of 3), Oxford, 1702-1703, half-titles, eng. frontis. to each vol., with ink stamps to frontispieces and few other leaves, few paper repairs, contemp. panelled calf, rebacked and corners repaired, rubbed, folio, together with [Hughes, John & Kennet, White], A Complete History of England: with the Lives of all the Kings and Queens thereof..., 3 vols., 1706, eng. port. frontis., endpapers renewed, contemp. panelled calf, rebacked and corners repaired, folio, with Smith (H. Clifford), Buckingham Palace, its Furniture, Decoration & History, pub. Country Life, 1931, b & w plts., t.e.g., orig. cloth in slightly torn d.j., folio, plus other misc. books etc. (a carton)

(3 cartons)

£100-150

(2 cartons)

£70-100

586 Hooke (N.). The Roman History, From the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth, 11 vols. (complete), 1818, folding eng. maps, contemp. diced calf, gilt-dec. spines with contrasting labels, some wear to extremities, 8vo, together with The Christian Observer, Conducted by Members of the Established Church, vols. 19, 20 & 22-28, 1820-28, uniform contemp. sprinkled calf gilt with red morocco label to spines, some minor wear, 8vo, and other miscellaneous antiquarian

£100-150

582 Dan (Horace and Willmott, E.C. Morgan). English ShopFronts, Old and New, Batsford, 1907, fifty-two half-tone plts., t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and faded, 8vo, together with Heal (Sir Ambrose), The Signboards of Old London Shops, 1st ed., Batsford, 1947, 2 copies, numerous b & w illusts. to text, orig. two-tone cloth in sl. soiled and frayed d.j.s, 4to (limited edition of 1,000 copies), plus Lewin (F.G. and Savory, J.H.), Rhymes of ye Olde Sign Boards, Bristol & London, [1911], numerous uncol. illusts., orig. linen-backed boards with ties, tall slim folio (approx. 41 x 18cm), and other miscellaneous books, mostly London interest (3 cartons)

£200-300

585 Gardening. The Kitchen and Fruit Gardener. A Select Manual of Kitchen Gardening and Culture of Fruits..., and a Calendar of Work to be Performed each Month in the Year. The Whole Adapted to the Climate of the United States, Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1844, spotting and browning, orig. cloth, some wear, 8vo, together with Ward (H.W.), My Gardener: A Practical Handbook for the Million, 1891, wood eng. illusts., orig. cloth gilt, frayed at head & foot of spine, 8vo, plus other gardening reference

581 Dallaway (James). Inquiries into the Origin and Progress of the Science of Heraldry in England, with Explanatory Observations on Armorial Ensigns, 1st ed., pub. Gloucester, 1793, eng. plts., some hand-col., contemp. half morocco, rebacked, preserving orig. spine, 4to, together with Harrod’s Royal Despatch of Great Britain, 1890, illustrated commercial ads both front and rear, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and a little worn at head and foot of spine, tall 8vo, with other miscellaneous antiquarian (a carton)

£150-200

(2 cartons)

£100-150

155

£150-200

587 Hull (Edward). Mount Seir, Sinai and Western Palestine. Being a Narrative of a Scientific Exploration, 1885, wood-engs., folding maps and diags., orig. pict. cloth, worn on spine, 8vo, together with Ritter (Carl), The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula, trans. William L. Gage, 4 vols., Edinburgh, 1866, some minor scattered spotting, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and somewhat soiled, 8vo, with others of travel and Middle East interest (3 cartons)

592 Pratt (Anne). Poisonous, Noxious, and Suspected Plants, of Our Fields and Woods, n.d., pub. SPCK, c. 1860, title and forty-four leaves, each with chromo. illust. and printed text to rectos only, some minor dust-soiling, recent half calf, slim 8vo, together with Rohde (Eleanour Sinclair), The Old English Herbals, 1922, col. frontis., b & w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 4to, plus Jefferies (Richard), Round About a Great Estate, 1st ed., 1880, orig. cloth gilt, a little worn on spine, 8vo, and other miscellaneous natural history and related

£150-200

588 Jeffreys (John Gwyn). British Conchology, Or an Account of the Mollusca which now Inhabit the British Isles and the Surrounding Seas, 5 vols., 1862-69, numerous eng. plts., some hand-col., some spotting, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and dust-soiled, a little frayed at head and foot of spine, 8vo, together with Michell (E.B.), The Art and Practice of Hawking, 1st ed., 1900, photogravures and half-tone plts., some dampstaining to lower margins, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled, plus Chapman (Abel), First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling, 1896, b & w illusts. by the author and three by Chas.

Whymper, illustrated commercial ads at rear, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, 8vo, with other natural history and related (2 cartons)

(2 cartons)

593 Prince (John, Vicar of Berry-Pomeroy). Danmonii Orientales Illustres: Or, the Worthys of Devon. A Work, wherein the Lives and Fortunes of the most Famous Divines, Statesmen, Swordsmen, Physicians, Writers, and other Eminent Persons, Natives of that most Noble Province ..., are memoriz’d in an Alphabetical Order ..., 1st ed., Exeter, 1701, woodcut armorials to text, occ. marks and minor soiling, later full calf, rubbed and marked with some wear, joints cracked with upper cover det., folio, together with Maxwell (Sir Herbert). Chronicles of the Houghton Fishing Club 1822-1908, pub. 1908, b&w port. frontis., num. b&w plts., some dampstaining to endpapers, orig. cloth gilt, covers dampstained, 4to, plus Page (R. P., ed.), Further Chronicles of the Houghton Fishing Club, 19081931, col. and b&w plts., orig. cloth, covers heavily dampstained, 4to, and Francis (Francis), Hot Pot; or, Miscellaneous Papers, 1880, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, 8vo, plus five others, incl. a duplicate of Chronicles of the Houghton Fishing Club 1822-1908, by Sir Herbert Maxwell, 1908

£150-200

589 Mill (Adair, trans.). Islam Sanatinda Turkler. The Turkish Contribution to Islamic Arts, pub. Istanbul, 1976, col. illusts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., rubbed, small folio, together with Hawley (Sir Donald), Oman & its Renaissance, 1987, num. col. illusts., col. and b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., large 4to, plus Lewis (Bernard), num. col. and b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., large 4to, plus others, mostly travel related (3 cartons)

(a carton)

594 Rowlandson (Thomas, illust.). The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque, 7th ed., [1818], hand-col. aquatint title and twenty-nine plts., occasional spotting and offsetting, contemp. half calf, crude reback, rubbed, 8vo, together with Ritchie (Leitch), Heath’s Picturesque Annual, Travelling Sketches in the North of Italy, the Tyrol, and on the Rhine, 1832, addn. eng. title and twentyfive eng. plts., occasional spotting and toning, a.e.g., contemp. red morocco gilt, extrems. rubbed, 8vo, with Goldsmith (Rev. J.), The Natural and Artificial Wonders of the United Kingdom, 3 vols. in one, 1825, numerous eng. plts., orig. cloth, spine torn, 8vo, and Conrad (Joseph), Almayer’s Folly, A Story of an Eastern River, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1895, some spotting, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. green cloth, frayed and worn to extrems., plus other books including antiquarian and Nonsuch Press (2 cartons)

£200-300

£200-300

595 Williams (Captain John). An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Bengal Native Infantry, From its First Formation in 1757, to 1796, When the Present Regulations Took Place.

Together with a Detail of the Services on Which the Several Battalions have Been Employed During that Period, 1817, four hand-col. aqua. plts., first leaf of text loose, contemp. tree calf, backstrip deficient, 8vo, together with Culpepper (Nicholas), The Complete Herbal... To Which are Now First Annexed, The English Physician Enlarged, and Key to Physic, 1850, port. frontis. and twenty hand-col. eng. plts., recent quarter morocco gilt, 4to, plus Fishwick (Henry), The History of the Parish of Rochdale in the County of Lancaster, pub. Rochdale & London, 1889, b & w illusts., genealogical tables, t.e.g., orig. quarter morocco gilt, worn and somewhat dampstained, 4to, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian

591 Ogilby (John). Britannia, Volume the First. or an Illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales...., 1675, facsimile edition, pub. Osprey, 1971, add. half title, 100 uncoloured double page road maps, pubs. cloth gilt, folio, together with Schûler (C.J.),Mapping the World, 2010, text in English, Dutch and German, numerous colour and b & w illusts. throughout, pubs. cloth gilt, d.j., folio, with Westwood (T. & Satchell T.),Bibliotheca Piscatoria, 1883, contemp. gilt cloth, 8vo,Mackenzie (Ian), British Prints, Dictionary and Price Guide, pub. Antique Collectors Club, 1998, numerous colour and b & w illusts. throughout, pubs. cloth gilt, 4to, plus Hill (Gillian),Cartographical Curiosities, pub. the British Library, 1978, add. half title, numerous b & w illusts. throughout, pubs. limp card, oblong 8vo, with Nevill (Ralph),Old English Sporting Prints and their History, 1923, addn half title numerous b & w and tipped in colour plts. throughout, contemp. cloth gilt, spine faded, folio, together with other map, book and print reference books, important auction catalogues and periodicals (3 cartons)

£150-200

£150-200

590 Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, 12th ed., 1925; Winnie-The-Pooh, 2nd ed., 1926; Now We Are Six, 1st ed., 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, 1st ed., 1928, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, occasional light fingermarks, presentation inscriptions, t.e.g., original cloth gilt, spines rubbed at ends and three faded, 8vo, together with Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811, by a French Traveller: With Remarks on the Country, its Arts, Literature, and Politics, and on the Manners and Customs of its Inhabitants, [by Louis Simond], 2 vols., 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1815, 21 tinted aquatint plates, two folding tables, one or two tears, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf, covers detached, vertical splits along spines, rubbed, 8vo, with others including divs. II & III of The Fruit Grower’s Guide, by John Wright, 1890’s and three Florence K. Upton Golliwogg books (in poor condition) (a carton)

£100-150

(a carton)

£100-150

156

£150-200

596 Wylie (Captain F. J., ed. ). The Use of Radar at Sea, 5th ed., reprinted, 1982, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, together with Frankland (Mark), Radio Man, The Remarkable Rise and Fall of C. O. Stanley, 1st ed., 2002, some colour and many b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Lovell (Bernard, ed.), Electronics and Their Application in Industry and Research, 1st ed., Pilot Press, 1947, b&w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth, rubbed and soiled, 8vo, and Reader (W. J.), A History of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 1871-1971, 1st ed., 1987, colour frontis., b&w plts., orig. cloth in d.j., large 8vo, plus others on the history of early radio, radar, and electrical engineering, including a quantity of Practical Wireless, Practical Television, Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, etc.

(9 cartons)

600 Grant (Sir Alexander). The Ethics of Aristotle Illustrated with Essays and Notes, 2 vols., 2nd ed., revised and completed, 1866, some minor scattered spotting, orig. cloth gilt, frayed at head and foot of spine, 8vo, together with Finlay (George), A History of Greece from its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time B.C. 146 to A.D. 1864, 7 vols., new ed., Revised Throughout, and in part Rewritten with Considerable Additions, by the Author, Edited Rev. H.F. Tozer, 7 vols., Oxford, 1877, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and dust-soiled, 8vo, with other Greek and Roman interest (3 shelves)

601 Armengaud (J.G.D.). Les Galeries Publiques de l’Europe (Rome), pub. Paris, 1859, numerous wood-engs., a.e.g., orig. blindstamped and gilt-dec. quarter morocco, rubbed and some wear at extremities, folio, together with Leitch (R.P.), A Course of Sepia Painting, [1886], twenty-four sepia plts., orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, a little rubbed, oblong 8vo, plus Wright (Thomas), Caricature History of the Georges; Or, Annals of the House of Hanover, Chatto & Windus, 1876, hand-col. frontis., uncol. eng. plts., numerous illusts. to text, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, and other Victorian cloth-bound publications and similar

£150-200

QUANTITY 597 [Smith, W.]. Xenophon’s History of the Affairs of Greece, by the Translator of Thucydides, 1770, two folding eng. maps, contemp. quarter calf gilt, rebacked, preserving orig. spine, 4to, together with Scott (Walter), The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland; Comprising Specimens of Architecture and Sculpture, and other Vestiges of Former Ages, 2 vols., 1815, uncol. copperplate engs., some minor scattered spotting, a.e.g., contemp. olive green straight-grained morocco with Etruscan-style gilt borders, rubbed and some minor wear to extremities, 4to, plus Stuart (Villiers), Nile Gleanings Concerning the Ethnology, History and Art of Ancient Egypt as Revealed by Egyptian Paintings and Bas-Reliefs. With Descriptions of Nubia and its Great Rock Temples to the Second Cataract, 1879, col. litho. plts., outline engs., plus additional large folding col. litho. plt. of the funeral tent of Queen Is Em Kheb (several small splits), t.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. cloth, rebacked, preserving orig. spine, thick 8vo, and other miscellaneous books, including Churchill’s Marlborough, 4 vols., 1933-38, a few leather bindings, art reference, etc.

(3 shelves)

(3 shelves)

£200-300

(3 shelves)

£150-200

603 Weinglass (D.H.). Prints and Engraved Illustrations By and After Henry Fuseli. A Catalogue Raisonné, Scolar Press, 1994, numerous b & w illusts. to text, orig. boards in d.j., 4to, together with Burkett (M.E. and Sloss, J.D.G.), William Green of Ambleside. A Lake District Artist (1760-1823), 1st ed., 1884, signed on title by Mary Burkett, col. and b & w illusts., orig. green mock morocco gilt, with d.j., small 4to, plus Saudek (Robert), Experiments with Handwriting, 1st ed., 1928, b & w illusts. contained in separate booklet at rear, some minor spotting of prelims., orig. cloth in frayed d.j., 8vo, and other miscellaneous books, including art and antiques reference, history and biographies, etc., mostly recent hardback publications, G/VG

£200-300

599 Ali (Salim and Ripley, S. Dillon). Compact Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1987, numerous distribution maps to text, 104 col. plts. at rear, orig. cloth gilt in sl. frayed d.j., folio, together with Important Bird Areas in Africa and Associated Islands. Priority Sites for Conservation, Edited Lincoln D.S. Fishpool and Michael I. Evans, 2001, col. illusts. from photos, illusts. and sketch maps to text, orig. laminated pict. boards, folio, plus Forshaw (Joseph M. and Cooper, William T.), Parrots of the World, 3rd (revised) ed., 1989, numerous col. plts. and distribution maps to text, orig. boards in d.j., folio, and other ornithology, mostly recent publications, G/VG (3 shelves)

£100-150

602 Warren (B. H.). Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania, 1st ed., Harrisburg, 1888, fifty coloured litho. plts. after Audubon, some marks and light soiling to endpapers, orig. green cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, 8vo (Nissen 972), together with Dresser (Christopher), Principles of Decorative Design, 1st ed., pub.

Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [1873], two chromo. plts. (of which one is loose), b&w illusts. to text, orig. brown cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear, with fraying to head and foot of spine and outer corners, small 4to, plus other miscellaneous literature, illustrated books, art reference, etc., including several issues of Alphabet and Image, W. B. Yeats, Collected Plays, 1st ed., 1934, several Faber and Faber Ariel Poems, a bound volume of ‘Old Jonathan’, or The District and Parish Helper, September 1859-August 1864, T. A. Coward, The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs, Series I-III, etc.

598 Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vols., 4th ed., corrected, 1770, contemp. sheep, joints cracked and some wear, 8vo, together with Lower (Mark Antony), English Surnames. An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological, and Humourous, 2 vols., 3rd ed., enlarged, 1849, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, some wear to spines, 12mo, plus Mill (James), Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind...

Edited by Additional Notes by John Stuart Mill, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1878, orig. blind-panelled cloth gilt, worn on spines, 8vo, and other miscellaneous antiquarian (3 shelves)

£100-150

(6 shelves)

£100-150

604 Ruskin (John). The Stones of Venice, 3 vols., 1st eds., 185153, numerous eng. plts., some col. or tinted, spotting throughout, t.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. cloth, worn on spines, large 8vo, together with Pupin (Michael J., editor), South Slav Monuments. 1), Serbian Orthodox Church, 1918, col. and b & w illusts., folding map at rear, orig. gilt dec. cloth, a little rubbed and marked, folio, with other miscellaneous books, mostly late 19th/early 20th-c. hardbound publications, including history, literature, art reference, etc.

(6 shelves)

£100-150

157

£200-300

605 Davis (Lindsey). A Dying Light in Cordoba, with An Appreciation by Peter Lovesey/A Time to Depart, with an Appreciation by Ellis Peters, both pub. Scorpion Press, Blakeney, Glos., 1995, orig. quarter morocco gilt (both limited edition, nos. 56 & 47 of 99 copies, signed by the author), plus O’Connell (Carol), Killing Critics, with an Appreciation by Barry Maitland, 1995, orig. quarter morocco gilt (limited edition 53/85, signed by the author), and Booth (Stephen), Blood on the Tongue, with an Appreciation

by Reginald Hill, 2002, orig. quarter morocco gilt (limited edition 47/80, signed by the author), and Cleverly (Barbara), Ragtime in Simla, with an Appreciation by H.R.F. Keating, 2002, orig. quarter morocco gilt (limited edition 30/80, signed by the author), all 8vo, and other recent crime fiction, some signed by the author, all orig. hardback publications in d.j., VG (6 shelves)

609 Robinson (W. Heath, illust.). Shakespeare’s Comedy of a Midsummer Night’s Dream, pub. Constable & Co. Ltd., 1914, twelve tipped-in col. plts. with tissue guards, b & w illusts., small circular ‘presentation copy’ blindstamp to title, some spotting and small biro mark on title and p. 43, orig. dec. cloth, some wear to spine, 4to, together with Risk (Robert K., and Bateman, H.M.), Songs of the Links, 1st ed., Duckworth, 1919, b & w illusts. to text, orig. cloth, badly dampstained (sl. affecting contents), slim 4to, plus Nabokov (Vladimir), The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, pub. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn., 1941, orig. hessian with paper label to spine (1500 copies printed), 8vo, and Pound (Ezra), A B C of Reading, 1st ed., 1951, orig. cloth in d.j. (d.j. sl. darkened on spine), and Major (John), The Autobiography, Harper Collins, 1999, b & w illusts. from photos, a.e.g., orig. blue full morocco gilt with slipcase (limited signed edition 5/100), and other miscellaneous books, mostly poetry and fiction, plus a few cricket, cookery and music interest, etc.

£200-300

606 Dance (F. Peter). The Art of Natural History. Animal Illustrators and Their Work, 1st ed., Country Life Books, 1978, numerous col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in slipcase, folio, together with Lyseght (A.M.), The Book of Birds. Five Centuries of Bird Illustration, 1st ed., Phaidon, 1975, numerous col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, plus Elliott (Brent), Flora. An Illustrated History of the Garden Flower, with a Preface by Sir Simon Hornby, 1st ed., Royal Horticultural Society, 2001, numerous fine col. illusts., orig. boards in d.j., 4to, with other natural history and related, including Gerald Durrell, mostly G/VG (3 shelves)

(6 shelves)

610 Richards (Walter). His Majesty’s Territorial Army. A Descriptive Account of the Yeomanry, Artillery, Engineers, and Infantry with the Army Service and Medical Corps, Comprising ‘The King’s Imperial Army of the Second Line’, 2 vols. in 1, n.d., [1910], sixteen col. plts. by R. Caton Woodville, some minor scattered spotting, later cloth gilt, a little rubbed and darkened, 4to, together with Illustrated Catalogue of Macfarlane’s Castings, 6th ed., vol. 2 only, n.d., c. 1870s, numerous wood-engs. to text, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, tall 8vo, plus Recent Locomotives.

Illustrations, with Descriptions and Specifications and Details, of Recent American and European Locomotives, Reprinted from the Railroad Gazette, Enlarged Edition (including a Chapter on Compound Locomotives), New York, 1886, numerous wood-engs. and diags., commercial ads at rear, orig. quarter morocco gilt, backstrip deficient, folio, with others of military and technical interest, etc.

£100-150

607 Richardson (Sir John, and others). The Museum of Natural History; Being a Popular Account of the Structure, Habits, and Classification of the Various Departments of the Animal Kingdom: Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, Shells, and Insects, 8 orig. divs., n.d., c. 1860s, eng. plts., some hand-col., wood-engs. to text, a.e.g., orig. blind-stamped cloth, a little rubbed, slim folio, together with Lydekker (Richard), The Royal Natural History, 6 vols., 1893-96, seventy-two chromos., numerous wood-engs. to text, contemp. green half calf, gilt-dec. spines, rubbed and faded, royal 8vo, plus Lloyd’s Natural History series, 15 (of 16) vols., 1896, numerous col. plts., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed on spines, 8vo, and other similar late 19th-c. cloth-bound natural history (3 shelves)

(3 shelves)

£150-200

611 Masters (Robert). The History of the College of Corpus Christi and the B. Virgin Mary (Commonly Called Bene’t) in the University of Cambridge, From its Foundation to the Present Time, 2 vols., Cambridge, 1753, folding eng. plan (handling tear), eng. plts., armorials to text, contemp. half calf with marbled boards, worn, joints cracked, 4to, together with Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, Edited by ‘Boz’, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1838, half-titles present, port. frontis. to vol. 1, uncol. etched plts. by George Cruikshank, 36 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear of vol. 2, some minor scattered spotting, orig. blind-stamped cloth, gilt-dec. spine, rubbed and some wear, 12mo, plus Vanbery (Arminius), Travels in Central Asia. Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand, Performed in the Year 1863, 1st ed., John Murray, 1864, half-title present, wood-engs., folding map at rear, unobtrusive ex-lib. oval blindstamp to most plts., contemp. half calf, gilt-dec. spine, rubbed, 8vo, and other miscellaneous antiquarian, including an album containing twelve early 19th-c. uncol. litho. views of the Isle of Man, after Lady S. Murray, etc.

£300-400

608 Walker (Nick). Rolls-Royce 20HP, 20/25, 25/30 & Wraith in Detail, pub. 2009, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos by Simon Clay, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to (printed label to f.e.p., signed by the author), together with Frankel (Mervyn and Strang, Ian), Bentley. The 1938/1939 Overdrive Cars, pub. 1994, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in d.j., 4to, plus Fifty Years of the Rolls-Royce Enthusiasts’ Club, 1957-2007, pub. 2008, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. mock morocco gilt in d.j., thick 4to, plus Nisbet (Alexander), A System of Heraldry, Speculative and Practical, 2 vols., Facsimile Edition, 1984, b & w illusts., orig. mock morocco gilt, in plastic d.j.s, folio, and Foster (J.J.), Concerning the Portraiture of Mary Queen of Scots, pub. Dickinsons, 1904, collotype plts., t.e.g., remainder roughtrimmed, orig. quarter morocco gilt, rubbed, faded and dampmarked, folio (limited Edition De Luxe 6/175, initialled by the author), and other miscellaneous books, mostly history and biographies, etc.

(6 shelves)

£150-200

(3 shelves)

£100-150

158

£200-300

616 Raven (J.J.). The Bells of England, 1st ed., 1906, frontis., b & w illusts. to text, 40 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and faded on spine, together with Morris (Ernest), Towers and Bells of Britain, 1st ed., 1955, author’s presentation copy, signed and inscribed on flyleaf, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in sl. soiled and frayed d.j., plus Tintinnabula. Small Bells,

by Ernest Morris, 1st ed., 1959, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos and drawings, orig. cloth in d.j., and Bliss (Mary and Sharpe, Frederick), Church Bells of Gloucestershire, 1st ed., pub.

Alan Sutton, 1986, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in d.j., all 8vo, and others on bells and bell ringing, folk songs and ballads, etc.

612 Lonsdale Library, vols. 4, 10, 26, 34 & 35. Fine Angling for Coarse Fish, by Eric Parker [and others], reprinted, 1968; Salmon Fishing, by Eric Taverner [and others], n.d.; The Lonsdale Keeper’s Book, n.d., ex-lib. copy with a few marks; Anglers’ Fishes & Their Natural History, by Eric Taverner, n.d.; Seatrout Fishing, by Jock Scott, 1969, ex-lib. copy with a few marks, col. and b & w illusts., all orig. cloth in d.j., with three others in the same series, without d.j., all 8vo, and others of fishing interest (3 shelves)

£150-200

613 Pritt (T.E.). An Angler’s Basket Filled in Sunshine and Shade Through the Space of Forty Years: Being a Collection of Stories, Quaint Sayings, and Remembrances, with a Few Angling Hints and Experiences, 1st ed., Manchester, 1896, port. frontis., orig. dec. cloth, rubbed, together with Wilcocks (J.C.), The Sea-Fisherman: Comprising the Chief Methods of Hook and Line Fishing in the British and Other Seas, and Remarks on the Nets, Boats, and Boating, 3rd ed., much enlarged, 1875, illusts. and diags. to text, some scattered spotting, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, a little rubbed, plus Chaytor (A.H.), Letters to a Salmon Fisher’s Son, 2nd ed., with Appendix, 1919, eight b & w illusts. from photos, correct as list, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and marked, all 8vo, plus others of fishing interest (3 shelves)

(3 shelves)

£200-300

617 Goode (George Brown and Bean, Tarleton H.). Oceanic Ichthyology, A Treatise on the Deep-Sea and Pelagic Fishes of the World, Based Chiefly Upon the Collections made by the Steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the Northwestern Atlantic, 2 vols. (Text/Plates), Smithsonian Institution Special Bulletin, Washington, 1895, 123 uncol. plts., ex-lib. copy with usual marks, orig. cloth, worn on spines, folio, with others on fish and fisheries, etc.

(6 shelves)

£150-200

£150-200

618 Bryce (William Moir). The Scottish Greyfriars, 2 vols.

(History/Documents), n.d., [1909], photogravures and half-tone plts., orig. cloth gilt, a little frayed at head and foot of spines, thick 8vo, together with Songs of the North, Gathered Together from the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland, ed. Harold Boulton, Music Arranged by Malcolm Lawson, 3 vols., n.d., c. 1920, frontis. to each, vols. 2 & 3 signed by Harold Boulton, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, with others of Scottish interest

614 Blondel (James Augustus). Dissertation Physique sur la Force de l’Imagination des Femmes enceintes sur les Fetus, Traduit de l’Anglois par Albert Brun, Leiden, 1737, first print ed., title in red and black, small ink stamp to verso of title, single worm hole running throughout, touching letters, contemp. calf, gilt-dec. spine, rubbed and some wear, together with Blankaart (Steven), A Physical Dictionary; in which, all the Terms Relating Either to Anatomy, Chirurgery, Pharmacy, or Chymistry, are very Accurately Explain’d, 1st ed. in English, 1684, some spotting and browning, later quarter sheep gilt, both 8vo, plus Hogg (Jabez), The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Application, 8th ed., 1871, eight col. plts., including frontis., single woodcut plt. and numerous woodcuts to text, recent cloth, plus two further copies of the same work (13th & 15th eds.), both orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, and others of medical and scientific interest, including New Sydenham Society fasciculus, etc.

619 Wright (Thomas, editor). The Works of James Gillray, The Caricaturist, with the Story of His Life and Times, n.d., pub. Chatto & Windus, [1873], port. frontis., b & w illusts., a.e.g., orig. pict. cloth, a little rubbed on spine, 4to, together with Kelemen (Pál), Baroque and Rococo in Latin America, 1st ed., New York, 1951, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. cloth in frayed d.j., 4to, and other art reference and related

(3 shelves)

(3 shelves)

(6 shelves)

£200-300

£150-200

£150-200

615 Calderwood (W.L.). The Life of the Salmon, with Reference more Especially to the Fish in Scotland, 1st ed., 1907, Salmon and Sea Trout, with Chapters on Hydro-Electric Schemes, Fish Passes, etc., 1st ed., 1930, half-tone plts., both orig. blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed, together with Grimble (Augustus), The Salmon Rivers of England & Wales, 2nd ed., revised and reset, 1913, The Salmon Rivers of Ireland, 2nd ed., revised and reset, 1913, The Salmon Rivers of Scotland, 3rd ed., 1913, half-tone plts., maps, etc., all orig. gilt-dec. cloth, rubbed, some wear and marks etc., 8vo, and others of fishing interest, mostly 20th-c. hardback publications, many in d.j., G/VG

620 D’Arblay (Frances or Fanny, nee Burney). Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay, Author of ‘Evelina’, ‘Cecilia’, etc., Edited by Her Niece, 7 vols., new ed., 1854, port. frontis. to each, folding facsimile document to vol. 1, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, a little rubbed on spine, small 8vo, together with Poe (Edgar Allan), The Works, ed. John H. Ingram, 4 vols., Edinburgh, 1874, half-titles present, port. frontis. to vol. 1, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Cottle (Joseph), Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, 1st ed., 1847, port. frontis., orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, rebacked, preserving orig. spine, 8vo, and other 19th-c. cloth-bound literature and similar

(3 shelves)

(3 shelves)

£150-200

159

£150-200

621 Maxwell (Right Hon. Sir Herbert, ed.). Fishing at Home & Abroad, pub. London & Counties Press Assocation Ltd., 1913, photogravure port. frontis., tipped-in col. plts., numerous b & w illusts. from photos, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. brown morocco, lettered and blocked in gilt, a little rubbed, thick 4to (limited edition 78/750), together with Jordan (Starr and Evermann, Barton Warren), American Food and Game Fishes. A Popular Account of all the Species Found in America North of the Equator, London, 1902, with another edition of the same work, New York, 1905, col. plts. with tissue guards, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, both orig. cloth, rubbed, 4to, and others of fishing interest (3 shelves)

625 British Museum (Natural History) London. Forty Drawings of Fishes Made by the Artists Who Accompanied Captain James Cook on His Three Voyages to the Pacific, 1768-71, 1772-75, 177680, Some Being Used by Authors in the Description of New Species, Text by P.J.P. Whitehead, pub. 1968, thirty-six plts., orig. cloth gilt in sl. frayed d.j., tall folio, and others of fish and fisheries interest (3 shelves)

626 Smith (Joel). Saul Steinberg. Illuminations, Yale University Press, Newhaven & London, 2006, together with Surreal Things.

Surrealism and Design, edited Ghislaine Wood, V & A Publications, 2007, and A Grand Design. The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, edited Malcolm Baker and Brenda Richardson, V & A Publications, 1997, numerous col. and b & w illusts., all orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, and other art reference and miscellaneous books, including a few antiquarian, all ex-Athenaeum Library with usual marks

£150-200

622 Davies (Randall). Chelsea Old Church, with a Preface by Herbert P. Horne, 1st ed., Duckworth & Co., 1904, b & w and sepia illusts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and marked, 4to (limited edition 116/320), ex-libris E. Beresford Chancellor, with his bookplate, 4to, together with 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 Husband, a Bachelor, a Father, a Lover, a Citizen or a Subject, London & New York, 1930, col. illusts. after Gillray, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, (limited edition 89/1000), and other miscellaneous books, mostly late 19th-c. cloth-bound literature and history, etc.

(3 shelves)

(3 shelves)

£150-200

(3 shelves)

£150-200

628 Wisden’s Cricketer’s Almanack, 1945, 1947, 1949-69 & 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985-88, 1990, 1991, 1993-2001, together 41 vols., b & w illusts. and ads, all orig. limp yellow cloth except 19962001 bound in orig. brown hardback cloth with d.j., with other cricket and sporting interest (3 shelves)

£200-300

629 Richardson (Charles). A New Dictionary of the English Language, Combining Explanation with Etymology: And Illustrated

by Quotations from the Best Authors... , 2 vols., William Pickering, 1844, contemp. crushed russia gilt, rubbed and scratched on spines, 4to, together with Tyndall (John), Fragments of Science for Unscientific People: A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and Reviews, 1st ed., 1871, a.e.g., contemp. calf, gilt-dec. spine with contrasting label, rubbed and some soiling, 8vo, plus Giral del Pino (Hto. San Joseph), A New Spanish Grammmar; Or, The Elements of the Spanish Language: Containing an Easy and Compendious Method to Speak and Write it Correctly, 2nd ed., 1777, half-titles present, some marginal browning, contemp. sheep, joints cracked and some wear to spine, 8vo, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian

£200-300

624 Gunther (Albert C.L.G.). An Introduction to the Study of Fishes, Edinburgh, A. & C. Black, 1880, numerous b & w illusts. to text, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, thick 8vo, together with Pietsch (Theodore W., editor), Fishes, Crayfishes, and Crabs.

Louis Renard's Natural History of the Rarest Curiosities of the Seas of the Indies, 2 vols. (Text/Plates), John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London, 1995, col. illusts., orig. cloth in slipcase, folio, with others of fish and fisheries interest (3 shelves)

£150-200

627 Teichman (Sir Eric). Journey to Turkistan, 1st ed., 1937, b & w illusts. from photos, folding map at rear, map endpapers, orig. cloth in frayed d.j., 8vo, together with Hedin (Sven), Central Asia and Tibet. Towards the Holy City of Lassa, vol. 2 only (of 2), 1903, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, t.e.g., remainder roughtrimmed, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, faded on spine and somewhat rubbed, plus Bergman (Sten), Through Kamchatka by Dog-Sled & Skis. A Vivid Description of Adventurous Journeys Amongst the Interest & Almost Unknown Peoples of the Most Inaccessible Parts of this Remote Siberian Peninsula, 1927, b & w illusts. from photos, two sketch maps, publisher’s ads at rear, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, upper cover soiled, 8vo, and other miscellaneous books, mostly late 19th-c. cloth-bound vols. including natural history, travel, medicine, etc.

623 Sacheverell (Dr. Henry). The Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, Before the House of Peers, for High Crimes and Misdemeaors; Upon Impeachment by the Knights, Citizen and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled, in the Name of Themselves... , 1710, contemp. blind-panelled calf, upper cover detached, folio, together with 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, half-titles present, later quarter calf gilt, some wear, 4to, plus Swinton (John), An Abridgment of the Public Statutes In Force and Use Relative to Scotland, from the Union, in the Fifth Year of Queen Anne, to the Twenty-Seventh Year of His Present Majesty King George III Inclusive, 2 vols., Edinbugh, 1778, half-titles present, contemp. half calf gilt, upper cover of vol. 1 detached, some wear, 4to, and other miscellaneous antiquarian, including a collection of late 19th/early 20th-c. government reports and printed pamphlets etc. relating to education (some in foreign language) (3 shelves & 4 cartons)

£150-200

£150-200

(3 shelves)

160

£200-300

630 Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

Palaeontology, vol. 4, Parts 1-7, Fossil Plants of the Carboniferous Rocks of Great Britain [Second Section] by Robert Crookall, HMSO, 1955-76, half-tone plts., uniform orange cloth gilt, 4to, together with Zaslow (Morris), Reading the Rocks. The Story of the Geological Survey of Canada 1842-1972, pub. Ottawa, Canada, 1975, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, maps and plans, etc., orig. cloth in sl. torn d.j., 4to, plus Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Palaeontology, No. 13. A Monograph of the Silurian and Devonian Corals of New South Wales..., Part 1, The Genus Halysites,

by R. Etheridge, Junr., pub. Sydney, 1904, nine half-tone plts., orig. linen-backed printed boards, slim 4to, and other geology and related (6 shelves)

638 Geddie (John and Brown, Joseph). The Home Country of R.L. Stevenson, Being the Valley of the Water of Leith from Source to Sea, Edinburgh & London, 1898, photogravure port. frontis., half-tone plts., t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and some minor wear to head and foot of spine, folio, together with Illustrations of the Scenery of the River Tay, Reproduced in Photogravure by T. & R. Annan from Watercolour Drawings by Sir Wm. Fettes Douglas, R.B. Nisbet, Charles H. Mackie and James Paterson, with an Introduction

by John Geddie, Edinburgh, 1891, thirteen half-tone plts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth, some wear, slim folio, plus Bryce (William Moir), History of the Old Greyfriars’ Church, Edinburgh, with a Chapter on the Subscribing of the National Covenant, by D. Hay Fleming, Edinburgh & London, 1912, half-tone plts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and a little marked, 4to, and other Scottish history, topography and related

£150-200

631 Newberry (John Strong). The Paleozoic Fishes of North America (United States Geological Survey Monograph, vol. 16), Washington, 1889, fifty-threehalf-tone plts., some folding, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, together with Gemmill (James F.), The Teratology of Fishes, 1st ed., Glasgow, 1912, twenty-six halftone plts. with captioned tissue guards, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, slim 4to, and others of fishing and fisheries interest

(6 shelves)

£150-200

633 Paperbacks. A collection of approx. 550 Pan paperbacks, including history and thriller fiction, Georgette Heyer, etc., mixed conditions

639 Harris (Eileen). British Architectural Books and Writers 15561785, Cambridge University Press, 1990, b & w illusts. to text, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, together with Armstrong (Elizabeth), Robert Estienne, Royal Printer. An Historical Study of the Elder Stephanus, CUP, 1954, b & w illusts. and facsimile title, etc., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and faded on spine, royal 8vo, plus Grolier 75. A Biographical Retrospective to Celebrate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Grolier Club in New York, 1959, John Carter’s copy with his ownership signature on flyleaf, underscoring and marginal notes, plus handwritten index on rear endpapers and two TLS loosely inserted, orig. two-tone cloth with morocco label to spine, a little rubbed, 8vo, and other bibliography and related, mostly G/VG

(6 cartons)

(3 shelves)

(3 shelves)

£150-200

632 Paperbacks. A large collection of approx. 2,000 early Penguin and Pelican paperbacks, mixed conditions (14 shelves & 4 cartons)

£300-500

£100-150

634 Paperbacks. A collection of approx. 350 mixed paperbacks, including a few early Penguins as well as more recent publications, including French literature and non-fiction, etc., condition mainly G/VG (5 cartons)

640 Braudel (Fernand). The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, 2 vols., 1972, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, together with Freeman (Douglas Southall), Lee’s Lieutenants. A Study in Command, 3 vols., New York, 1942-44, b & w illusts., maps and plans, orig. cloth in sl. frayed and chipped d.j.s, 8vo, plus Fuller (J.F.C.), The Decisive Battles of the Western World and their Influence Upon History, 3 vols., 1954-56, numerous maps and battle plans, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j.s, 8vo, and other military history, political biographies, etc., mostly G/VG

£100-150

635 Paperbacks. A collection of approx. 500 Pelicans and a few Pengiun paperbacks, plus a few miscellaneous books, mainly G/VG (5 cartons)

£150-200

£100-150

636 Aviation and related, mostly recent hardback publications, many in d.j., G/VG

(3 shelves)

(6 shelves)

641 Gibbings (Robert). The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, with Some Reflections by the Artist, Edited Patience Empson, Introduction by Thomas Balston, 1959, numerous b & w illusts., orig. cloth gilt with orig. glassine d.j. lettered in gilt, 4to, together with Drake (Maurice), A History of English Glass-Painting, With Some Remarks upon the Swiss Glass Miniatures of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 1912, thirty-six col. and b & w plts. from drawings by Wilfred Drake, orig. parchment-backed boards, a little soiled and some wear, folio, with other miscellaneous art and antiques reference, children’s and illustrated works, etc.

£200-300

637 Nansen (Dr. Fridtjof). ‘Farthest North’. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ships Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months’ Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieutenant Johansen... , 2 vols., [2nd. ed.], 1898, numerous b & w illusts., single col. plt., folding map at rear of vol. 2 (torn), later half morocco gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Morris (Rev. F.O.), A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, vol. 1 only, (of 3), 2nd ed., 1875, seventy-nine col. litho. plts. of eggs., t.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, plus Oeuvres du Comte de Lacépèce, comprenant l’Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupedes Ovipares, des Serpents, des Poissons et des Cetaces, vols. 2, 3, 6, 10 & 11 only, Paris, 1832, a few hand-col. plts., contemp. olive green quarter morocco gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, with other miscellaneous books including natural history, King Penguin series, leather bindings, etc.

(6 shelves)

(3 shelves)

£200-300

161

£100-150

£150-200

642 Hadfield (Charles). British Canals. An Illustrated History (3rd imp. of the 2nd ed. with extra illustrations), David & Charles, 1966, b & w illusts. from photos, together with McCutcheon (W.A.), The Canals of the North of Ireland, 1st ed., David & Charles, 1965, and Delany (V.T.H. & D.R.), The Canals of the South of Ireland, 1st ed., David & Charles, 1966, b & w illusts. from photos, all orig. cloth in sl. soiled and frayed d.j.s, 8vo, and others of canal and topographical interest, mostly a little dampstained and soiled

643 Walpole (Horatio, Earl of Orford). The Works, 5 vols., 1798, half-titles present, vign. title to each, eng. plts., some minor scattered spotting, recent tan full morocco, spines with raised bands and contrasting leather labels, 4to, together with other miscellaneous antiquarian, all recent amateur bindings

648 Hill (George Birkbeck, ed.). Boswell’s Life of Johnson, together with Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson’s Diary of a Journey into North Wales, 6 vols., Oxford, 1934-50, port. frontis. to each, orig. cloth gilt, (vols. 1-4 in frayed and torn d.j.s), 8vo, together with Marchand (Leslie A., editor), Byron’s Letters and Journals, 1798-1824, 11 vols., 1973-81, orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, plus Johnson (Samuel), The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on their Works, 4 vols., 1781, port. frontis. to vol. 1, later half cloth gilt with leather label to spines, 8vo, and RCHM, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge, 2 vols., 1859, b & w illusts. from photos, folding plans and diags. plus separate volume containing map showing position of monuments and plans of King’s, St. John’s & Trinity Colleges, all orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, and other miscellaneous books, mostly history and literature etc.

(6 shelves)

(6 shelves)

(3 shelves)

£70-100

£200-300

644 Scottish history and topography, mostly early-mid 20th-c. hardback publications, some in d.j.

(6 shelves)

649 Jonson (Ben). The Works of Ben Jonson, with Notes Critical and Explanatory and a Biographical Memoir by W. Gifford, with an Introduction and Appendices by Lieutenant-Colonel F. Cunningham, 9 vols., Bickers & Son, 1875, recent half leather with red morocco label to spines, 8vo, together with Gibbon (Edward), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 vols., new ed., 1827, port. frontis. to vol. 1, folding maps, recent half morocco with contrasting labels to spines, 8vo, with other miscellaneous antiquarian, all later amateur bindings

£100-150

645 Lang (Andrew). A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation, 4 vols., 1902-7, photogravure port. frontis. to each, folding genealogical table at rear of vol. 1, orig. cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed, 8vo, together with Carmicheal (Alexander), Carmina Gadelica. Hymns and Incantations, with Illustrative Notes on Words, Rites, and Customs, Dying and Obsolete: Orally Collected in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and Translated into English, 6 vols., Scottish Academic Press, 1972, orig. two-tone cloth gilt, 8vo, with other Scottish history and topography, etc., mostly early-mid 20th-c. hardback publications, some in d.j.

(6 shelves)

(6 shelves)

£150-200

£150-200

647 Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers, to Which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, 2 vols., 9th ed., corrected and revised, 1806, half-titles present, port. frontis. to vol. 1, recent full black leather, spines lettered in gilt, thick 4to, together with The Works of Tacitus, Volume I: Containing the Annals, to which are Prefixed, Political Discourses Upon that Author, London, 1728, title a little stained, recent two-tone full morocco, folio, with other miscellaneous antiquarian, all recent amateur bindings (6 shelves)

£150-200

650 Pepys (Samuel). The Diary of Samuel Pepys, M.A., F.R.S., Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty, Transcribed from the Shorthand Manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalen College, Cambridge... , With Lord Braybrooke's Notes, Edited, with Additions, by Henry B. Wheatley, 10 vols. (including Index & Pepysiana), 1902-3, port. frontis. to each, b & w illusts., t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. cloth, gilt-dec. spines, rubbed and some a little dampstained, 8vo, together with Zola (Emile), Nana, trans. Victor Plarr, Introduction by George Moore; La Curee, trans. A. Teixeira de Mattos, Introduction by Henry James; La Terre, trans. Ernest Dowson, Introduction by Harry Thurston Peck; Germinal, trans. Havelock Ellis, Introduction by William Dean Howells; Piping Hot, trans. Percy Pinkerton, Introduction by Guy De Maupassant; L'Assommoir, trans. Arthur Symons, Introduction by Robert H. Sherard, pub. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1924, together 6 vols., untrimmed, orig. cloth with printed paper label to spines (spare label at rear of each), orig. soiled and frayed d.j.s, 8vo, (2050 sets issued), together with other clothbound late 19th & early 20th-c. history and literature, etc.

646 Modern first editions, including Stephen King, Len Deighton, Jeanette Gleeson, Stephen Baxter, Jane Adams, Dean Koontz, and many others, all orig. hardback publications in d.j., VG (6 shelves & a carton)

£200-300

(6 shelves)

£200-300

162

£150-200

651 Miscellaneous books, including history, biographies and literature, some South American interest, Folio Society publications, etc., mostly 20th-c. hardback publications, many in d.j.

(6 shelves & a carton)

657 Johnson (Samuel). The Works, with an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, 12 vols., new edition, 1801, port. frontis. to vol. 1, contemp. tree calf, gilt-dec. spines with contrasting labels, rubbed, scratched and a little chipped, 8vo, together with Lodge (Thomas), The Famous and Memorable Works of Josephus, A Man of Much Honour and Learning Among the Jews, Faithfully Translated out of the Latin and French, By Tho. Lodge, Doctor in Physick, 1655, title damaged and extensively repaired, some browning, marginal repairs to last few leaves, contemp. calf, rebacked, folio, with other miscellaneous antiquarian

£100-150

652 Parks (George B. and Temple, Ruth Z., editors). The Literatures of the World in English Translation. A Bibliography, vols. 1-3 (in 4) only, pub. Frederick Unger Publishing Co., New York, 1968-70, orig. cloth gilt, royal 8vo, with other foreign language history, literature and related, including journals and paperbacks (6 shelves & a carton)

(3 shelves)

658 Ricauti (T.J., architect). Rustic Architecture. The Picturesque and Pleasing Appearance of Rough Wood, Thatch, etc. When Applied as the Only Decorations of Rural Buildings, 1840, fifty-two uncol. litho. plts. from zincographic drawings, spotting throughout, orig. half morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed, oblong 4to, together with Hayley (William), The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr., an Introductory Letter to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper, 4 vols., Chichester, 1806, port. frontis. to vol. 1, half-titles present in vols. 2-4, some scattered spotting, recent half morocco gilt, 8vo, plus Gilchrist (Alexander), Life of William Blake, ‘Victor Ignotus’, with Selections from his Poems and Other Writings, 2 vols., London & Cambridge, 1863, half-titles present, port. frontis. to vol. 1, eng. plts. from Blake’s own works, minor scattered spotting, t.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed on spines, 8vo, and Gibbon (Edward), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with Notes and a Memoir, by F.A. Guizot, 2 vols., n.d., c. 1860s, eng. plts., some folding, some scattered spotting, contemp. half calf, gilt-dec. spines, contrasting labels (renewed), large 8vo, and other miscellaneous antiquarian, including Thackeray’s Works, 22 vols., 1859, later red half morocco gilt (unevenly faded on spines)

653 History, literature and biographies, all 20th-c. hardback publications in d.j., G/VG (6 shelves & a carton)

£150-200

654 Scottish history and topography etc., mostly 20th-c. hardback publications, some in d.j.

(6 shelves)

£150-200

655 Roskill (Captain S.W.). The Secret Capture, 1st ed., 1959; The Navy at War 1939-1945, 1st ed., 1960; The Merchant Fleet in War. Alfred Holt & Co., 1939-1945; 1st ed., 1962; Hankey, Man of Secrets, 1877-1963, 3 vols., 1st eds., 1970-74; Naval Policy Between the Wars, vols. 1 & 2, 1st ed., 1968 & 1976, b & w illusts. from photos, all orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., 8vo, with others of naval interest (3 shelves)

£150-200

656 Foster (Major R.C.G.). History of the Queen's Royal Regiment, vols. VIII & IX, Aldershot, 1953 & 1961, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, maps and battle plans, col. frontis. to vol.

9, both orig. cloth gilt, vol. 9 in d.j., 4to, together with The London Scottish in the Second World War - 1939 to 1945, With a Foreword

by Colonel R.J. Ogilvy, edited Brigadier C.N. Barclay, pub. 1952, b & w illusts. from photos, folding maps and battle plans, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Cassell's History of the Russo-Japanese War, 3 vols., 1904, numerous b & w illusts. from photos and drawings, maps and battle plans, contemp. half morocco gilt, some wear, 4to, and others of military and aviation interest, etc.

(3 shelves)

£200-300

£100-150

(3 shelves)

£150-200

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£300-500

HISTORIC AVIATION MARITIME & MOTORING MEMORABILIA MEDALS, ARMS & MILITARIA Thursday & Friday 16-17 May 2013 Closing date for sale Friday 5 April

Special Dambusters 70th Anniversary Sale

For further information please contact Henry Meadows henry@dominicwinter.co.uk Tel: 01285 860006 www.dominicwinter.co.uk

CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS MODERN FIRST EDITIONS Thursday 20 June

J. R. R. Tolkien. Lord of the Rings, 3 volumes, 1st editions, 1954-55 Estimate: £4000-6000

Jack B. Yeats. Broadsides.

First Series, 51 issues, a run, June 1908-August 1912 Estimate: £700-1000

Further entries invited. Please contact: Paul Rasti paul@dominicwinter.co.uk

Conditions of Sale and Business 7. Any representation or statement by the Auctioneer in any catalogue, brochure or advertisement of forthcoming sales as to authorship, attribution, genuineness, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or estimated selling price is a statement of opinion only. Every person interested should exercise and rely on his own judgement as to such matters and neither the Auctioneer nor his servants or agents are responsible for the correctness of such opinions. No warranty whatsoever is given by the Auctioneer or the seller in respect of any lot and any express or implied warranties are hereby excluded.

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 19.5% of the hammer price. Where the lot is marked by an asterisk the premium will be subject to VAT at 23.40% which under the Auctioneer’s Margin Scheme will form part of the buyer’s premium on our invoice and will not be separately identified (the premium added to the hammer price will hereafter collectively be referred to as “the total sum due”). By making any bid the buyer acknowledges that his attention has been drawn to the fact that on the sale of any lot the Auctioneer will receive from the seller commission at its usual rates in addition to the said premium of 19.5% and assents to the Auctioneer receiving the said commission.

9. Lots may be removed during the sale after full settlement in accordance with 4(d) hereof.

10. All goods delivered to the Auctioneer's premises will be deemed to be delivered for sale by auction unless otherwise stated in writing and will be catalogued and sold at the Auctioneer's discretion and accepted by the Auctioneer subject to all these conditions. In the case of miscellaneous books, the Auctioneer reserves the right to extract and dispose of books that, in the opinion of the Auctioneer at his absolute discretion, have no saleable value and, therefore, might detract from the saleability of the rest of the lot and the Auctioneer shall incur no liability to the seller, in respect of the books disposed of. By delivering the goods to the Auctioneer for inclusion in his auction sales each seller acknowledges that he/she accepts and agrees to all the conditions.

4. (a) The buyer shall forthwith upon the purchase give in his name and permanent address and pay to the Auctioneer immediately after the conclusion of the auction the total sum due. (b) The buyer may be required to pay down during the course of the sale the whole or any part of the total sum due, and if he fails to do so after such request the lot or lots may at the Auctioneer's absolute discretion be put up again and resold immediately. (c) The buyer shall at his own expense take away any lot or lots purchased no later than five working days after the auction day. (d) The Auctioneer may at his own discretion agree credit terms with a buyer and extend the time limits for collection in special cases but otherwise payment shall be deemed to have been made only after the Auctioneer has received cash or a sterling banker’s draft or the buyer's cheque has been cleared.

11. (a) Unless otherwise instructed in writing all goods on the Auctioneer's premises and in their custody will be held insured against the risks of fire, burglary, water damage and accidental breakage or damage.

The value of the goods so covered will be the hammer price, or in the case of unsold lots the best bid, or in the case of loss or damage prior to the sale that which the specialised staff of the Auctioneer shall in their absolute discretion estimate to be the auction value of such goods. (b) The Auctioneer shall not be responsible for damage to or the loss, theft, or destruction of any goods not so insured because of the owner’s written instructions.

5. (a) If the buyer fails to pay for or take away any lot or lots pursuant to clause 4 or breaches any other condition of that clause the Auctioneer as agent for the seller shall be entitled after consultation with the seller to exercise one or other of the following rights: (i) Rescind the sale of that or any other lots sold to the buyer who defaults and re-sell the lot or lots whereupon the defaulting buyer shall pay to the Auctioneer any shortfall between the proceeds of that sale after deduction of costs of re-sale and the total sum due. Any surplus shall belong to the seller. (ii) Proceed for damages for breach of contract. (b) Without prejudice to the Auctioneer's rights hereunder if any lots or lots are not collected within five days or such longer period as the Auctioneer may have agreed otherwise, the Auctioneer may charge the buyer a storage charge of £1.00 + VAT at the current rate per lot per day. (c) Ownership of the lot purchased shall not pass to the buyer until he has paid to the Auctioneer the total sum due.

12. The Auctioneer shall remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller thirty days after the day of the auction provided that the Auctioneer has received the total sum due from the buyer. In all other cases the Auctioneer will remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller within seven days of the receipt by the Auctioneer of the total sum due. The Auctioneer will not be deemed to have received the total sum due until after any cheque delivered by the buyer has been cleared. In the event of the Auctioneer exercising his right to rescind the sale his obligation to the seller hereunder lapses.

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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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.

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The nearest train station to the saleroom is Kemble (BR) which is on the London (Paddington) to Worcester Shrub Hill line. Train journey times from London are on average 90 minutes whether direct or with one change, and run at about one per hour from early until late. Several of the trains in each direction are direct and about half the services require a brief change at Swindon. Customers are advised to check train times and book as early as possible for the best range of ticket services and discounts.

National Rail Enquiries:

08457 484950

Telephone advance train ticket booking:

08457 000125 (First Great Western)

Online train timetables and online ticket bookings:

www.nationalrail.co.uk

Taxis from Kemble Station (5 miles/10 minutes) Brian's Cabs Cirencester Radio Cars Cirencester Taxis

01285 655299 / 07980 579947 01285 650850 01285 642767

Taxis from Swindon Station (12 miles/25minutes) V-Cars

01793 701701

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