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GENERAL CATALOGUE 2011

INDEX KENT ........................................................... Numbers 1 to 692 KENT MAPS ............................................... Numbers 693 to 782 HISTORY and THEOLOGY ..................... Numbers 783 to 849 ILLUSTRATED and CHILDREN............. Numbers 850 to 889 NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE ...... Numbers 890 to 1030 EXTRAORDINARY ITEM........................ Number 1031

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KENT *** 1 ABELL, HENRY FRANCIS. HISTORY OF KENT. Kentish Express. 1898 [19777] 328 pp. with maps and some good illustrations by the author. Original decorated cloth. Worn at extremities otherwise very good copy. £50 Mr Abell's aim was to connect the wider history of Britain with the events in Kent, from Roman times to the 19th century. It remains a useful work, which has become quite scarce.

2 AGRICULTURE - BOYS, JOHN. GENERAL VIEW OF THE AGRICULTURE OF THE COUNTY OF KENT; WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MEANS OF ITS IMPROVEMENT. DRAWN UP FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT, FROM THE ORIGINAL REPORT TRANSMITTED TO THE BOARD; WITH ADDITIONAL REMARKS OF SEVERAL RESPECTABLE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN AND FARMERS. TO WHICH IS ADDED A TREATISE ON PARING AND BURNING. BY JOHN BOYS OF BETSHANGER, FARMER. 1805 [18963] Second Edition with amendments and additions. xxiii + 293 pp. with folding engraved map in original handcolour, and 2 copper-engraved plates, folding tables etc..

Bound in fine contemporary half-calf with marbled boards.

A very attractive, exceptionally clean copy. £450 The second and much enlarged edition of the primary book on 18th and 19th century Kentish agriculture. Boys’ report was first issued in 1794 (but not generally circulated) in draft form as part of the extensive series of reports drawn up for the Board of Agriculture under Arthur Young. These described the conditions of farming throughout the county, and were designed to be returned to the Board with each farmer’s comments, afterwards being edited and incorporated into a final report, the first of which was published in 1796. This is the second published edition, describing in great detail the agricultural practice in Kent at the beginning of the agricultural revolution. Boys, a farmer from Betteshanger, edited and considerably enlarged the original report with the addition of much new material.

3 AGRICULTURE - [YOUNG, ARTHUR]. A SIX WEEKS TOUR, THROUGH THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES. Describing Particularly I. The present State of Agriculture and Manufactures.

II. The different Methods of cultivating the Soil.

III. The Success attending some late Experiments on various Grasses, etc.

IV. The various Prices of Labour and Provisions.

V. The State of the Working Poor in those Counties, wherein the Riots were most remarkable.

WITH DESCRIPTIONS and MODELS of such new invented IMPLEMENTS of HUSBANDRY as deserve to be generally known: INTERSPERSED With Accounts of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and Other Objects Worthy of Notice.

in Several Letters to a Friend. By the Author of the Farmer’s Letters. W. Nicoll, at the Paper-Mill, No. 51, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. London, 1768 [18442] First Edition. 8vo, [2] + 284 pp; without the half-title and final blank leaf which are sometimes present, but the text is complete, with seven woodcut illustrations. Bound in quarter calf, spine with raised bands, and title label, over marbled boards.£550 This work was the beginning of a most exhaustive inquiry into the state of British agriculture it began almost by accident, with a simple recording of the crop rotations, the implements used, the cost of labour and provisions, the size of farms, and the horses or oxen employed on holdings of different sizes.

Passing reference is also made to local industry, such as the manufacture of Witney blankets, and useful facts and figures about them are mentioned. It developed into the collection of a vast amount of information which was to transform agriculture in these islands, and further afield.

BALLAD OF FAIR ROSAMOND 4 ANON. THE UNFORTUNATE ROYAL MISTRESSES, ROSAMOND CLIFFORD AND JANE SHORE, CONCUBINES TO KING HENRY II AND EDWARD THE FOURTH. With Historical and Metrical Memoirs of those Celebrated Persons by Sir Thomas More, Michael Drayton, Thomas Hearne, Etc. Printed by and for William Cole, 10, Newgate Street, London. [c.1825] [19771] Small 8vo. 4.5 x 6.75 inches. Frontis. + 88 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait . Some signs of wear and occasional foxing and browning, consistent with age. £65 This work reprints source material, including popular ballads, on the two royal mistresses, although the greater part of the text is concerned with Rosamond Clifford.

‘Fair Rosamond’ was a favourite mistress of King Henry II but, her fame having passed into English folklore, many of the accounts connected with her life are legendary. These would include her having borne two noble sons to the king and being poisoned by his jealous and ferocious queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. One story links her to Westenhanger Castle, Kent.

The extracts used in the work include an historical account by Thomas Hearne, the Oxford antiquary (1678-1735) and The Ballad of Fair Rosamond by Thomas Deloney (died c.1600)..

Elizabeth ‘Jane’ Shore [nee Lambert] (d.1526-27?) was claimed by Thomas More (1478-1535) in his The History of King Richard III (1513) to be the merriest of Edward IV’s three concubines. After his death in 1463, she is known to have pursued relationships with Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset and with William, Lord Hastings before being made to perform public penance for her promiscuity by Richard III. While in prison, she captivated the King’s Solicitor, Thomas Lynom, who soon married her in spite of the king’s view that he had been ‘marvellously blinded and abused with the late wife of William Shore.’ She was apparently still alive when More wrote his history. This work also quotes from the poet, Michael Drayton (1563-1631) and includes the ballad, ‘The woefull lamentation of Jane Shore.’ A very scarce work.

5 ARCHAEOLOGIA CANTIANA: BEING THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Printed for the Society. 1858-2003 [20652]

KENT 125 volumes in total, individually priced between £10 and £25. We have in stock most, if not all, of the volumes.

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The monographs that are contained here are authoritative and well illustrated covering every aspect of Kentish history providing a major source for the Kentish historian.

6 ARMSTRONG, ALAN. Edited by. THE ECONOMY OF KENT 1640-1914. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge/Kent County Council. 1995 [18895] 8vo. 318 pp. + 29 b/w plates with tables and figures to the text. Original black cloth. As new, in like dust wrapper. £65 This volume, the third in the Kent History Project, complements those already published on the economy of Kent and religion and society in Kent between 1640 and 1914. This volume considers the population of Kent, its growth, mobility, and distribution; agriculture; industry; transport; labour; and the importance of the sea to the county.

7 ARMYTAGE, SIR GEORGE J. Edited by A VISITATION OF THE COUNTY OF KENT BEGUN ANNO DNI 1663 FINISHED ANNO DNI 1668. BY SIR EDWARD BYSSHE, Kt CLARENCEUX KING OF ARMES. The Harleian Society, London. 1906 [20097] Folio. 7 x 10.5 inches. xi + 203 pp. + 20 + [4] catalogue.

Bound in original burgundy cloth, gilt with gilt device of The Harleian Society to upper board. A little rubbed at extremities and spine faded. Half-title a little browned but a very good copy. £150 Pedigrees and Arms of Kent families in the 17th century.

Scarce.

8 ASHFORD. HEADLEY'S GUIDE TO ASHFORD AND DISTRICT. Headley Brothers, The Invicta Press, Ashford, Kent. [1936] [19602] Fourth edition. 88 pp. + coloured frontis with 2 maps, a plan of Ashford and numerous photo illustrations and adverts. Original pictorial paper wrappers. £35

10 ASTBURY, A.K. ESTUARY. LAND AND WATER IN THE LOWER THAMES BASIN. Carnforth Press. 1980 [17392] [x] + 326 pp., + 41 plates, 2 figures in the text and a large folding map. Original blue cloth, gilt. Mint in like dust wrapper. £20 A comprehensive study of the lower river and its banks, dealing with its geology, post-glacial history, Roman sites and river crossings, pre-Roman and Roman roads, the Saxon and Danish eras, stones, churches and buildings, etc.

11 AUSTEN, B. ENGLISH PROVINCIAL POSTS 1633 - 1840.

A study based on Kent examples.

Phillimore, Chichester. 1978 [18992] 8vo. viii + 192 pp. with illustrations and map, seven appendices, refences and bibliography. Original cloth gilt with neatly price-clipped dust wrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. Fine condition. £20 A detailed study of the methods by which the Post Office ran services outside London.

12 BADDELEY, G.E. (INVICTA).

THE TRAMWAYS OF KENT. Volume 1-West Kent. W.J. Fowler & Son, Cricklewood Ltd. 1971 [17971] 8vo. 176 pp. Original cloth gilt in dust wrapper. A very good copy. £20 This book is the first of two volumes that together will describe the tramway systems which once existed in the County of Kent.

13 BARFRESTONE GILBERTSON, E. BARFRESTONE CHURCH. Sept. 7 1846 [17766] Pencil drawing, 10 x 7 inches, laid on contrasting card with frame line and title neatly executed by hand Titled and dated in pencil. Mounted in conservation materials ready for framing, overall size 17 x 15 inches. £100

A comprehensive look at the town of Ashford and its amenities in the mid-thirties with some excellent photographs of the principal buildings and institutions. A very good copy of this scarce Ashford guide.

A very accomplished drawing depicting the eastern end of the Norman church. Several figures appear in the fore- and middle ground, the nearest seated on the low wall round the church. This drawing was among a small number from an album of drawings of places scattered throughout England.

They had all been carefully mounted on card and exquisitely hand-titled. None of the drawings was signed but the album was identified as the work of E. Gilbertson.

9 ASHFORD - DEARN, F.D.W. Artist and C. ROSENBERGH, Engraver. ASHFORD CHURCH, KENT. DEDICATED TO ROBERT MASCALL Esq. S. Reader, Britannia Printing Office, Cranbrook, !st July 1812 [20553] Uncoloured Aquatint printed in black ink, 12 x 9.5 inches, with good margins. Mounted in conservation matterials, ready for framing. A very good example with signs of an old crease, otherwise fine. £250

14 [BARHAM, REV. R.H.] THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OR MIRTH AND MARVELS BY THOMAS INGOLDSBY. Richard Bentley, London. 1842 - 47.

[17614] 3 volumes.

Large 8vo. with engraved titles and illustrations by George Cruikshank and John Leech.

Uniformly bound in contemporary half-morocco, gilt, very slightly worn at extremities with some foxing to the plates as usual, but a very good set. £200

One of a series of five rare aquatint views published by Reader in Cranbrook, of Wealden churches, all drawn by Dearn. We have had examples of Goudhurst, Tenterden, Hawkhurst and Cranbrook through our hands in the past. They were issued printed in sepia and hand-coloured or, as here, printed in black and uncoloured. Both are very hard to find as they were not issued in book form, but separately published as single sheets, giving them a high mortality rate.

The Ingoldsby Legends proved very popular and three volumes, the First, Second, and Third series, comprising more than fifty tales and a Life of Barham, were respectively published in 1840, 1842, and 1847, with many subsequent editions. Thus, 1840 saw the the publication of the single volume that is the First series. 1842 saw the two volumes, namely the First edition of the Second Series and the Second and subsequent editions of the First Series. 1847 saw the First Edition of the Third Series with later editions of the First and Second Series. This makes for a number of permutations in the

KENT composition of sets. In this instance we have a Second Edition, published 1843, of the 1840 First Series; a First Edition of the 1842 Second Series; and a First Edition of the 1847 Third Series. Simplicity itself! Suffice it to say that all you need is a First, a Second, and a Third series to make up a set!

15 —— THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. Illustrated by Cruickshank, Leech, and Tenniel. Richard Bentley and Son. 1881 [18213] Folio. Approximately 8 x 11 inches. 64 pp., with 40 woodcut illustrations.

Bound in grey-green cloth preserving the original illustrated paper wrappers. £45 The ‘People’s Edition’ of the famous tales. A scarce survivor in this format.

16 BARHAM, REV. RICHARD HARRIS. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF THE REV. RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM. AUTHOR OF INGOLDSBY LEGENDS: WITH A SELECTION OF HIS MISCELLANEOUS POEMS BY HIS SON. Richard Bentley. l870 [14347] First edition. 2 volumes with frontis portrait. Original cloth gilt. Extremities slightly worn, otherwise a very good copy. £125 The scarce and very entertaining biographical memoir of the author of Ingoldsby Legends by his son. Barham was for some time vicar of Snargate and knew the smugglers and country folk, listened to their tales, some of which were to emerge in the 'Legends'. Barham was also a friend of other novelists and writers of his day and many letters to them are reprinted here.

His life spans the years 1788 - 1844 and it sheds much light on Kent in this period. The poems are included in this first edition. We have another example of this title in half-morocco binding at the same price

17 BATES, H.E. THE BLOSSOMING WORLD. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, VOLUME TWO. Michael Joseph, 1971 [19887] First Edition.182 pp. Illustrated by John Ward. Original cloth, gilt in unclipped dustwrapper. A very good copy. £30 The second volume of Bates’ autobiography.

18 —— A BREATH OF FRENCH AIR. The Book Club, 121 Charing Cross Road nd but c 1960 [19900] First Edition of the Book Club Edition, 184 pp. Original cloth in dust wrapper. £25 A very good copy of the first edition of the Book Club Edition, of the second of the ‘Larkin’ series of novels.

The dust wrapper design bears a remarkable resemblance to that of the original by Broom Lynne but, although competently executed, is simply a pastiche.

19 —— THE DISTANT HORNS OF SUMMER. Michael Joseph, 1967 [19885] First Edition. 8vo. 277 pp. Original cloth in dust wrapper designed by Broom Lynne, book and wrapper in very good condition. £30 First Edition.

20 —— IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY. ILLUSTRATED BY C. F. TUNNICLIFFE. Country Life. 1942 [19605] First edition. 4to. ix + 150 pp. with 14 fine woodengravings by Tunnicliffe. Bound in original cloth, gilt.

In very good condition in the original, unclipped dust wrapper, which has slight chipping to the head and tail of the spine, not affecting the lettering. A very good copy. £65 The book describes something of what the Southern English countryside was like during the first two winters and summers of war. Bates's prose combined with Tunnicliffe's fine illustrations make this a most attractive book.

21 —— THE PURPLE PLAIN. Michael Joseph, 1947. [19899] First edition. 224 pp. Original cloth in dust wrapper, which is chipped at the base of the spine with loss of publishers name and front panel is also chipped, but a reasonable copy. £25 22 —— THE VANISHED WORLD. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, VOLUME ONE. Michael Joseph, 1969 [19886] 189 pp. Illustrated by John Ward. Original cloth, gilt, in price-clipped dustwrapper. A very good copy. £30 First edition of the first volume of the autobiographical trilogy.

23 BAXTER, G.G., K.A. OWEN and P. BALDOCK. AIRCRAFT CASUALTIES IN KENT, PART 1: 1939 TO 1940. Kent Aviation Historical Research Society. Meresborough Books. 1990 [19517] 8vo. 126 pp. Original laminated pictorial boards. A very good copy. £20 Standard work, now out of print.

24 BELLOC, HILAIRE. THE OLD ROAD. Illustrated by William Hyde. Constable. 1911 [19036] 8vo. xii + 296 pp. with maps, including folding map at end, and original illustrations by William Hyde. Original decorated cloth. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. Slight wear on corners of boards. £70 First Edition of the most famous of the descriptive accounts of the old Pilgrim's Road.

ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR 25 BENENDEN CHURCH, 1839 REV’D MR. BOYS’S HOUSE - THE RECTORY - 1839.

1839 [19759] Watercolour. 21 x 14.25 inches. The titles and initials of the painter, FDF. fecit, are supplied by a separate caption, attached below the print in the original album. £250 The watercolour shows the church at the top of a sloping field grazed by sheep, with three rustic figures on its edge (this land may have been the ‘Playstool,’ which Hasted records as ‘formerly used as a bowling-green by the local gentry.’) To the left is the ‘rectory,’ of the title (actually the vicarage). At the time of the painting, the Reverend Daniel Boys, MA, had been vicar since 1805. He died in 185, aged eighty. The church had been partly rebuilt following a fire caused by lightning in 1672, which had destroyed its wooden belfry.

KENT Coincidentally, the Reverend Boys also held the living of Brookland on Romney Marsh, a church which has managed to retain its detached wooden belfry. The church, was again partly remodelled to suit Victorian tastes in the early 1860s at the instigation of Gathorne Hardy, the new owner of the Hemsted estate and an aggressive rebuilder. Hasted (1798) records that before the Cranbrook-Tenterden turnpike road was completed, ‘the roads were so deep in winter...that within these fifty years Sir John Norris, whilst he resided at Hemsted, was forced to have his coach drawn to church in the common waggon track, by six oxen, one before the other, as the only means of conveyance to it.’

This painting has been extracted from an album used by several generations of the family of Thomas Law Hodges at his properties of Hemsted, near Benenden and Jennings, near Maidstone. They had married into many of the other local landed families and were in the habit of visiting each other’s houses and estates. Hodges was Liberal M.P. for Kent from 1830-32 and for West Kent from 1832 until the dissolution of Parliament in 1841; he was again elected in 1847 and sat until defeated in 1852. He died 14 May 1857. Hemsted House was subsequently sold and demolished by its new owner, Gathorne Hardy, later Lord Cranbrook, and replaced by a new building which is the basis for Benenden School, one of the top private girls’ schools in the country.

An attractive watercolour, full of interesting detail, recording the appearance of Benenden Church before its mid-Victorian restoration.

ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR 26 BENENDEN - [HEMSTED HOUSE] 40] [19760] Watercolour. 19 x 13 inches.

[c.1830£250

The watercolour is untitled, but depicts old Hemsted House, near the village of Benenden in Kent. The Tudor mansion is set in wooded parkland and there are two groups of sheep grazing in the foreground and middle distance. Hemsted was a separate manor within Benenden Parish and passed through many generations of the Guldeford family. It may have been rebuilt around the time of Queen Elizabeth’s visit, in the 1570s. It was sold to Admiral of the Fleet, Sir John Norris after 1719 and later to the Hodges family in 1788.

At the time of the painting, which is extracted from an album used by several generations of the family at Hemsted and at Jennings, near Maidstone, the house was in the possession of Thomas Law Hodges. He was Liberal MP for Kent from 183032 and for West Kent from 1832 until the dissolution of Parliament in 1841; he was again elected in 1847 and sat until defeated in 1852. He died 14 May 1857. Hemsted House was subsequently sold and demolished by its new owner, Gathorne Hardy, later Lord Cranbrook, and replaced by a new building which is the basis for Benenden School, one of the top private girls’ schools in the country.

An attractive watercolour, valuable for its portrayal of old Hemsted House before its demolition around 1860.

27 BENNETT, G., WYN BERGESS AND CARLETON EARL. THE KENT BIBLIOGRAPHY. A finding list of Kent material in the Public Libraries of the County and the adjoining London Boroughs. Library Association, 1977 - 1981. [19548] 2 vols. 4to. (Main volume and supplement). Original cloth and paper wrappers. £30 Invaluable reference for the Kent collector.

28 BETHERSDEN. A TRUE AND PERFECT INVENTORY OF ALL THE GOODS AND CHATTELS OF RICHARD WARD, LATE OF BETHERSDEN IN THE COUNTY OF KENT, TAYLOR, DECEASED: MADE, TAKEN AND APPRISED THE 1 AND 20TH DAY OF FEBRUARY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTIE FOUR [15525] Old folds, vellum discoloured in places, but in very good condition. £200 29 BIGNELL, ALAN. HOPPING DOWN IN KENT. Robert Hale. 1977. [18038] 176 pp., with illustrations. Original cloth, gilt in dust wrapper. A fine copy. £30 A good general history of hops and hop pickers, and the trade therein. Out of print and now become quite scarce.

30 BIRCHINGTON - BARRETT, J.P. A HISTORY OF THE VILLE OF BIRCHINGTON, THANET, KENT. Printed at ‘Keble’s Gazette’ Office.

1893,1908 [18611] Second edition. Comprising the original edition 227 pp. + 29 b/w illustrations with an additional 15 pp. printed and added later. Original printed, paper-covered boards.

Occasional foxing and repairs to 2 pages otherwise a very good copy of a scarce book. £100 A well-compiled account.

COUNTY AVI-FAUNA 31 BIRDS - BALSTON, R.J., REV. C.W. SHEPHERD and E. BARTLETT. NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF KENT. R. H. Porter, 7 Princes Street, Cavendish Square, London. 1907 [17219] First Edition, 8vo. xix + 465 pp., with a photo frontis and 8 hand-coloured lithographic plates and a coloured folding map. Original cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. Some foxing on the half title and the corresponding leaf at the rear of the book, which leads me to think that this sheet of paper is inferior to that used for the text and plates, as the book is otherwise clean and tidy. A very good copy. £375 The fine plates for this nicely produced book are by the famous bird artist J. Smit and are the last of their kind; a twentieth century survivor of the nineteenth century hand-finished bird book. Scarce work of county avifauna of which only 300 copies were printed.

32 BIRDS - GILLHAM, E.H. and R.C. HOMES. THE BIRDS OF THE NORTH KENT MARSHES. Collins. 1950 [18523] First Edition. 8vo. 320 pp. with maps, diagrams and photo illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper designed by Stephen Russ. Wrapper chipped and repaired otherwise very good. £35 Classic of modern ornithology describing the nationally important Kentish wetlands.

33 BIRDS - HARRISON, JAMES. M. THE BIRDS OF KENT. With illustrations in colour by the author. Witherby. 1953 [16311]

KENT Two volumes. 4to. 11 x 8 inches. Vol.I. xv + 510 pp.with 49 plates, some coloured. Vol.II. xi + 314 pp. +[1] with 31 plates, some coloured. Coloured plates are all full-page. Original cloth gilt. A fine example. £110 The standard monograph now long out of print.

34 BIRDS - TAYLOR, D.W., D.L. DAVENPORT, and J.J.M. FLEGG. THE BIRDS OF KENT. A REVIEW OF THEIR STATUS AND DISTRIBUTION. Kent Ornithological Society 1981 [17929] 440 pp. with maps, diagrams and photo illustration.

Original cloth in dust wrapper, upper part of wrapper slightly yellow, but a good copy of the original hard bound edition. £25

A very good photographic survey of the Cinque Ports.

Completed just after the second world war, much war damage is still evident.

40 —— KENT OUR COUNTY. Kent Messenger. 1979 [20656] 4to. 203 pp. with illustrations throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. £20 41 —— KENT OUR GLORIOUS HERITAGE. Kent Messenger 1950. [20462] 4to. 10.75 x 8.5 inches, 152 pp. with photo illus throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. £30

Standard work. Paperback edition available at £15

Photographic record of the county before the motorcar became all-pervasive.

35 BLACK, SHIRLEY BURGOYNE. EDWARD HASTED, THE HISTORIAN OF KENT. Darenth Valley Publications, Otford, Kent. 2001 [20094] xiv + 469 pp. + 23 monochrome plates. Blue cloth, gilt to spine, in dust wrapper. As new. £25

42 —— KENTISH PRIDE. Kent Messenger, Maidstone. 1952 [16825] 4to. 10.75 x 8.5 inches, 180 pp., unpaginated with photo illustration throughout. Original cloth, gilt, in near mint condition. £25

The life of Edward Hasted, 1732-1812, whose popularity as an historian is undiminished today, was one of extremes. Despite his reduction from country squire to inmate of a debtor’s prison, he remained single-minded about his work of writing a definitive history of Kent, work which occupied forty years of his life. Here is the background to that magnum opus.

36 BLIGH, ALLAN L. Compiled and edited by SEASHORE AND COUNTRYSIDE AN ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK For homes AND holidays in districts served by the south-eastern AND chatham railway Published for the South Eastern and Chatham Railway Company by Killby, Bligh and Co., Ltd., 34 Essex Street, London, W.C. No date but c.1912 [19519] Second edition. 170 pp. including numerous pictorial advertisements.

Original coloured pictorial paper wrappers. Some loss to head and tail of spine otherwise a very good copy. £45 Filled with details of 43 of the principal towns served by the railway, including rail fares and ticket prices. At the time of publication the fastest journey between London and Folkestone took 89 minutes.

37 BOORMAN, H.R. PRATT. ASHFORD’S PROGRESS; THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPORTANT TOWN. Kent Messenger. 1977 [17968] 203 pp. with illustrations throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A good copy. £20 38 —— KENT A ROYAL COUNTY. Kent Messenger, Maidstone. 1966 [13795] 4to., 181pp., photo illustration throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. Slight damp stain to boards but a good copy. £20 A further compilation of photographs from the Kent Messenger’s archives with special reference to Royalty.

39 —— KENT AND THE CINQUE PORTS. Kent Messenger. 1957 [20460] 4vo. 10.75 x 8.5 inches, 167 pp. with photo illustrations throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. £30

A great compilation of photographs from the Kent Messenger’s archives. A companion to ‘Kent Our Glorious Heritage’

43 —— SPIRIT OF KENT. THE RT. HON. LORD CORNWALLIS. Kent Messenger. 1968 [19626] 458 pp. with illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper. £20 44 BOORMAN, H. R. PRATT and ANN ROPER. KENT INNS A DISTILLATION. Maidstone; Kent Messenger 1955. [19796] 4to. 172 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth in the scarce dust wrapper. A very nice copy. £40 A great survey of Kent's pubs in the days before most were ruined by 'modernisation'.

45 BOORMAN, H.R. PRATT and V.J. TORR. KENT CHURCHES. Kent Messenger. 1954 [19539] 4to.

176 pp. with photo illustration throughout.

Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy in dust wrapper. £35 An excellent comparative photographic record, thoughtfully contrasting similar features in churches often miles apart. ** We also have a copy of the 1972 reprint at £30. **

46 BOURGEOIS, SIR FRANCIS and R. EARLOW. SMUGGLERS ATTACK’D. FROM THE ORIGINAL PICTURE IN THE COLLECTION OF Tho. Sam. JOLLIFFE Esq. THIS PLATE IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY HIS MUCH OBLIGED AND OBEDIENT SERVANT B. B. EVANS. B. B. Evans in the Poultry, London. October 1st. 1793 [8382] Large black aquatint 17 x 25 inches. Old closed tear, but a good example. £500 Large, separately published print. Dramatic engraving with a group of smugglers being attacked by mounted soldiers (dragoons?). There is a known partner to this view, ‘The Smugglers Defeated’.

KENT 47 BRASTED - CAVE-BROWNE, J. THE HISTORY OF BRASTED, ITS MANOR, PARISH, AND CHURCH. J.H. Jewell, Westerham. 1874 [19400] vii + 55 pp. + frontis albumen-type of Brasted Church + genealogical table of the owners of Brasted Park. Original cream cloth, gilt, Boards a little dusty, otherwise a very good copy. £150 Inscribed ‘The Rev. Canon Marsden from his old friend E***** Shand, May 1874’.

48 BROADSIDE SONGSHEET. THE KENTISH GARLAND. Printed and sold by J. Pitts, Seven Dials.

Price One Penny. n.d. but C.18th [14250] Oblong folio. 13 x 8 inches. Printed folded sheet with woodcut portrait of a woman followed by 26 eight-line verses. Slight loss to upper and lower left corners, the latter affecting the first four lines of the second verse; fragmentation of top right corner affecting five lines but all lyrics still legible, and very small tears to right margin and lower corner without loss. The two halves have parted for three-quarters of the depth of the sheet, through seven verses, but without loss and leaving lyrics legible. Rare. £100 Julia Vaynes, in her 2-volume work ‘The Kentish Garland’, records a number of differences between the Roxburghe, Douce and Cumberland versions of the Ballad, some of which are shared by this version. However, study of her notes suggests that this is another, possibly unrecorded version. The ballad was published as early as 1720 but we have been unable to date this version accurately.

49 BROADSTAIRS. THE BROADSTAIRS PIER ORDER AND SCHEDULE OF HARBOUR RATES. Board of Trade and Carter, Printer, Broadstairs. 1883 and 1879 [19513] Folio. ii + 13 pp + [iv] + [6] pp. Bound in modern halfcalf, gilt. A very good copy. £125 Scarce Board of Trade order for the management of Broadstairs Pier, together with the Schedule of Dues for landing goods at the pier.

50 BROMLEY KELLY'S. BROMLEY DIRECTORY (WITH WHICH IS AMALGAMATED STRONG’S BROMLEY DIRECTORY) REVISED FOR 1906. Comprising the following parishes: Bromley, Beckenham, Bickley, Chelsfield, Chislehurst, Cudham, Down, Farnborough, Footscray, Grove Park, Hayes, Keston, Knockholt, Mottringham, North Cray, Orpington, Shortlands, St Mary Cray, St Paul’s Cray and West Wickham, together with Official Establishments, Local Institutions, Churches, Postal Arrangments, etc. etc. 1s. complete with map. Printed and Published by Kelly's Directories Limited, 182, 183 and 184 , High Holborn, London W.C. 1906 [19815] Thick 8vo. map + [i] + 64 pp. + [8] [Announcements of Hospitals, Institutions and Societies] + pp.64a-d + pp.65584 + pp.1-22 [insurance adverts] + 100. [Visitor’s Guide to Pleasure and Health Reports] + pp.585-6 [rear free endpaper] + p.[587] [rear paste-down endpaper] + 15 inserted photographs or full-page adverts printed on art paper and not paginated. Original decorated cloth, gilt. A little worn at extremities, otherwise a very good copy.

Map contains one or two old tears and repairs, without loss. Scale 4 inches to 1 mile. £400 Massive works of reference, Kelly's directories are now in demand, with those being published before 1914 being very scarce.

51 —— DIRECTORY OF BROMLEY, BICKLEY, CHISLEHURST, ORPINGTON and DISTRICT (‘BUFF BOOK’). The Book comprises: Street Section, Private Residents Section, Commercial Section, Trades Section, Official Information; and a Map of the District. Kelly’s Directories Ltd., Established 1799. The Oldest and Largest Directory Publishers in the World. 186 Strand, London. W.C.2. Price: Two Shillings and Sixpence net; by Post, Sixpence extra. 1925 [19817] Thick 8vo. i-ii + map + iii-iviv [adverts] + [1] + A2, A2a, A2b [adverts] + A3-A42 + A42a-A42b [adverts] + A43A56 + A56a-A56b [adverts] + 4 pp. + 4a-4b [adverts] + pp.5-8 + 8a-8b [adverts] + pp.9-18 + 18a-18b [adverts] + pp.19-30 + 30a-30b [adverts] + pp.31-50 + 50a-50b [adverts] + pp.51-74 + 74a-74b [adverts] + 75-118 pp. + 118a-118b [adverts] + pp.119-176 + 176a-176d [adverts] + pp.177-412 + 412a-412b [adverts].

Adverts also on front and rear paste-downs. Also one photo advert page printed on art paper and not paginated.

Bound in original card wrappers with adverts, loss of surface from rear cover, affecting the wording of the advertisements. A couple of repaired marginal tears to map, without loss. £250 Scale map 4 inches to 1 mile. Massive works of reference, Kelly's directories are now in demand, with those being published before 1939 being very scarce.

52 —— DIRECTORY OF BROMLEY, BICKLEY, CHISLEHURST, ORPINGTON and DISTRICT (‘BUFF BOOK’). The Book comprises: Street Sections, Private Residents Sections, Commercial Sections, Trades Section, Official Information; and a Map of the District showing the boundaries of the borough of Bromley Kelly’s Directories Ltd., Established 1799. The Oldest and Largest Directory Publishers in the World.

186 Strand, London. W.C.2. Price: Five Shillings net;

by Post, Sixpence extra. 1935 [19818] Thick 8vo. i-iv [adverts] + [1] + A2-A8 + A8a-A8b [adverts] + A9-A40 + pp.1-2 + 2a-2b [adverts] + pp. 3-4 + 4a-4b + pp.5-56 + 56a-56b [adverts] + pp.57-176 + pp.177-228 + 228a-228b [adverts] + pp.229-696 + 696a696b [adverts] + pp.697-698 + 698a-698b [adverts] + folding map.

Adverts on front and rear paste-downs, plus one advert photo page, printed on art paper and not paginated, and a bound-in advertising bookmark. Bound in original card wrappers with adverts, slight chipping not affecting the wording of the advertisements. Folding map in very good condition with one small tear repaired. £200 Scale map 4 inches to 1 mile, ‘Based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of The Controller, H.M. Stationery Office. Printed by Suttley anad Silverlock Ltd., Andover, Hants.’

KENT Massive works of reference, Kelly's directories are now in demand, with those being published before 1939 being very scarce.

53 BROOKE, JOCELYN. CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS, A NOVEL. Faber and Faber, 24 Russell Square. 1961 [17649] 8vo. 192 pp. Original cloth in the scarce, unclipped, dust wrapper. A near mint copy in like dust wrapper. £100 This late book, described as a ‘comedy of manners’ in the blurb, was his last published novel and very hard to find in good condition. ‘I was nearly fifty, and the coming winter became identified, in my mind, with the melancholy prospect of old age...’ In five years Jocelyn was dead.

54 —— THE CRISIS IN BULGARIA. OR IBSEN TO THE RESCUE! Chatto and Windus. 1956 [15379] 4to. 90 + [1] pp. illustrated throughout by the author.

Original red cloth, gilt, in the scarce, and unclipped, dust wrapper designed by John Woodcock, which is slightly faded on spine and with some staining, but a very good copy. £95 A curious Brooke item in which he indulged his fascination with the surreal, and his skill in producing collage, cut from Edwardian newspapers and ingeniously assembled, to produce bizarre images, reminiscent of the work of Terry Gilliam for Monty Python many years later. This is a near-mint example of a title very hard to find in good condition.

Roy’ and initialled ‘JB’. Original printed card wrappers a very good copy. £85 Jocelyn gave this copy to Roy Fuller, poet and literary figure.

The Hand & Flower press was the child of Erica Marks who lived at Aldington and cultivated a literary circle, including young Jocelyn Brooke. The Poets in Pamphlet (this being number 12) were issued as a bound anthology as well as sold separately, hence the strange pagination. The print runs were very small and all their titles are scarce and this, Jocelyn’s second published book of poems was not a runaway success.

58 —— THE GOOSE CATHEDRAL. The Bodley Head. 1950 [17652] First edition. 186 pp. Original cloth in the rare, unclipped dust wrapper, which has a small closed tear to the top of the spine, not affecting the lettering, and a small closed tear to the back upper edge. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. £85 Third part of Brooke’s brilliant autobiographical reminiscence, centred on Folkestone, Sandgate and the Elham valley, which has become known as the ‘Orchid Trilogy’.

59 —— THE MILITARY ORCHID. The Bodley Head. 1948 [17783] First Edition, 134 pp. with coloured frontis and decorations by Stephen Bone. Original cloth in the scarce, unclipped dust wrapper, slightly chipped at the head and tail of the spine, and a little dust-stained, otherwise a very good copy. £110 The scarce first issue of the first part of ‘The Orchid Trilogy’.

UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY 55 —— THE CRISIS IN BULGARIA. OR IBSEN TO THE RESCUE! Chatto & Windus. 1956 [15380] 4to. 90 + [1] pp. illustrated throughout by the author.

Original card wrappers, a very good copy. £135 An uncorrected publisher’s proof copy with a second printing of one of the illustrations pasted over the first, which seems to have been quite altered. Proof copies of Brooke’s books are not common. A curious Brooke item in which he indulged his fascination with the surreal, and his skill in producing collage, cut from Edwardian newspapers and ingeniously assembled, to produce bizarre images reminiscent of the work of Terry Gilliam for Monty Python many years later.

56 —— DECEMBER SPRING POEMS. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1946 [17777] First edition. 8vo. 72 pp. Original cloth in the very scarce dust wrapper, the spine of which is a little faded and has a tiny tear and loss of surface, as has the front hinge. This notwithstanding, very good copy. £145 The author’s first published book, of which very few were printed, is very hard to find in a wrapper.

57 —— THE ELEMENTS OF DEATH AND OTHER POEMS. POEMS IN PAMPHLET 1952. XII JOCELYN BROOKE. Hand and Flower Press, Aldington. 1952 [17776] First edition, 36 pp., (paginated 351-383) with inserted compliments slip of The Listener, the BBC magazine, marked ‘With the Compliments of the Editor, and in Brooke’s hand ‘And a Happy New Year to you, dear

60 —— THE MILITARY ORCHID. The Bodley Head. 1948 [19472] First Edition, second impression,134 pp., with coloured frontis and decorations by Stephen Bone. Original cloth in the second impression, price-clipped dust wrapper.

Slightly chipped at the head and tail of the spine, and a little dust-stained, otherwise a very good copy. £85 The scarce first issue of the first part of ‘The Orchid Trilogy’.

The wrapper on this copy is from the second impression, which on the face of it is identical but the blurb at the front is different, the press comments on the rear flap do not appear in the first edition and the rear panel portrait of Brooke and small blurb below have been substituted with notices of the publication of the companion volumes ‘A Mine of Serpents’ and ‘The Goose Cathedral’.

61 —— A MINE OF SERPENTS. Bodley Head.

1949 [17651] First Edition. 252 pp. with photo illustration and decorations by Stephen Bone. Original cloth in the scarce, unclipped dust wrapper, which has one or two small closed tears but lettering and design unaffected. A very good copy. £85 62 —— PRIVATE VIEW, FOUR PORTRAITS. James Barrie. 1954 [15427] First Edition. 178 pp. A very good copy in the scarce, unclipped dust wrapper. Fore edge a little foxed. £45 A quartet of wonderfully observed character studies of people we have encountered elsewhere in his novels, all in Brooke’s inimitable style.

KENT 63 —— RONALD FIRBANK. Arthur Barker, London. 1951 [15377] First edition. 102 pp. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. £35 Part of the ‘English Novelist’ series. Brooke’s full length critical essay on a favourite author.

64 —— THE WILD ORCHIDS OF BRITAIN. DRAWINGS FROM THE LIVING PLANTS BY GAVIN BONE, ADDITIONAL DRAWINGS BY MUIRHEAD AND STEPHEN BONE. The Bodley Head.

1950 [19936] Folio. 139 pp. + frontispiece and 40 fine coloured plates.

Limited edition, Number 871 of 1140 copies. Bound in the original buckram, gilt, with the scarce original dust wrapper, very slightly chipped and creased at head and tail of spine, but otherwise a very good copy. Skilfully repaired. £250 Brooke’s Magnum Opus, a lifetime passion is realised in this work. Brooke conceived this book in 1924 when Gavin Bone made a drawing of a Lizard Orchid when they were both at Bedales school. The aim of the book is to give good illustrations of British orchids from British specimens, which are botanically correct but spirited, with more of a feeling for the living plant than a strict botanical illustration. Gavin Bone, Jocelyn’s lifelong friend, was killed in World War Two and his father and brother were to finish the work. The first and only edition, it is a finely produced book and was sold in 1950 for eight guineas. Very hard to find in a dust wrapper.

65 BROWN, A.G. CHANNEL TUNNEL BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Channel Tunnel Association, London. 1969 [19939] Folio. 8 x 12 inches approx., 42 mimeographed pages comprising 315 items of published material. Bound in original blue and black on white card pictorial wrappers, text stapled through wrappers. A very good copy of a scarce item. £50 A very useful bibliography for serious collectors of Channel Tunnel material; in itself a collector’s item.

66 BURNHAM, P. and S. MCRAE. KENT THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND. Paul Norbury Publications, Tenterden, 1978 [19804] 4to. xviii + 176 pp. Illus throughout. A very good copy in dust wrapper. £20 An interesting work by two environmental scientists from Wye College, who using their expertise relate the history and development of Kent to agriculture and geology showing why and how our landscape has developed as it has.

67 BURTT, FRANK. STEAMERS OF THE THAMES AND MEDWAY. Richard Tilling, 1949 [19654] First edition. 192 pp. with colour frontispiece and photo illustrations. Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like dust wrapper. £75 Covering vessels from the early nineteenth century to the date of publication, with numerous illustrations. A scarce title on the river steamers; scarcer still in a dust wrapper.

68 BUSHELL, T. A. THE BARRACUDA GUIDE TO COUNTY HISTORY SERIES, VOLUME 1, KENT. Barracuda Books Ltd. Buckingham. 1976 [17460] 8vo. xii +134 pp. + xiii-xlii with photo illustrations.

Original cloth in dust wrapper, a very good copy. £25 The principal people, places and events of the county’s history in date order, 2500BC-AD1973; with indices to places and people and a comprehensive entry-related source index. A useful work in which I often find surprising information.

69 CALTON, ROBERT BELL. ANNALS AND LEGENDS OF CALAIS. WITH SKETCHES OF ÉMIGRÉ NOTABILITIES, AND MEMOIR OF LADY HAMILTON. John Russell Smith, London. 1852 [16415] First Edition. 8vo. viii + 220 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's catalogue. Illustrated with a lithographic frontis and some small wood-engravings in the text. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Spine faded and worn at extremities but a very good copy. £75 An entertaining and interesting work on the history of Calais, whose history is so bound up with England and the English.

70 CANTERBURY. DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY, ILLUSTRATED WITH TEN HIGHLY-FINISHED LINE ENGRAVINGS, FROM DRAWINGS TAKEN EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK, WITH A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF ST. AUGUSTINE’S MONASTERY, NOW CONVERTED INTO A MISSIONARY COLLEGE, FOR THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. FIFTH EDITION. Published by Henry Ward, 8, Mercery Lane, Canterbury. 1850 [17488] 4to. 48 pp. + 10 full-page steel engraved plates, one a folding ground plan. Period cloth, rebacked, and internal hinges reinforced. Some foxing to plates otherwise a very good copy. £200 A curious work by Henry Ward, despite his assertion that the ‘plates were from drawings taken expressly for this work’ they are off-prints from Winkles well-known work on Cathedrals and the only original material is that on the new repairs, death of W. Howley Late Archbishop of Canterbury and the founding of the new Missionary College of St. Augustine’s.

71 —— PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT CITY OF CANTERBURY. Cross and Jackman, 1927 [19617] 138 pp. + [2 pp.] with folding street plan and photo illustration throughout. Original printed wrappers. £30 Very good copy of this 1920's guide to the city with interesting adverts and photographs.

ORIGINAL SOURCES ON THOMAS BECKET 72 CANTERBURY - ABBOTT, EDWIN A. ST. THOMAS OF CANTERBURY HIS DEATH AND MIRACLES. By Edwin A. Abbott, M.A., D.D. Formerly Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge and Hulsean Lecturer, author of ‘Philochristus’ ‘Onesimus’ Etc. Vol. I and Vol. II. Adam and Charles Black, London. 1898 [20127]

KENT Two volumes. Large 8vo. 6 x 9.25 inches. Vol.I. Frontis + xv + [1] + 333 pp. + [1] + [2] pp. advertisements.

Illustrated with one plate, serving as frontispiece. Vol.II. vii + [1] + 326 pp. + [2] pp. advertisements. Both volumes have half-title. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt.

Spines and top of boards faded, extremities lightly worn..

Bookplate of Museum and Public Library, Maidstone, 1915, on front paste-downs. £145 A scholarly edition of the original sources concerned with the martyrdom and subsequent miracles attributed to Thomas Becket (c.1120-1170), Archbishop of Canterbury. The accounts are translated into English, with the Latin versions in notes below. In Vol.II the extracts detailing the miracles are arranged in parallel texts. Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) spent most of his career as an innovative Headmaster of the City of London School and was notable for his teaching of languages and of English literature. His writings included studies of English grammar and numerous theological works.

An essential source for the study of Becket.

ROMAN RICHBOROUGH 73 CANTERBURY BATTELY, JOHN. JOANNIS BATTELY S.T.P. ARCHIADIACONI CANTUARIENSIS OPERA POSTHUMA. VIZ. ANTIQUATES RUTUPINAE ET ANTIQUATATES S. EDMUNDI BURGI AD ANNUM 1272 PERDUCTAE. [With a separate title page to each part:] ANTIQUITATES RUTUPINAE. Autore Joanne Battely S.T.P. Archiacono Cantuariensi. Editio Secunda.

ANTIQUITATES S. EDMUNDI BURGI AD ANNUM MCCLXXII PERDUCTAE. Autore Joanne Battely S.T.P. Archidiacono Cantuariensi. Opus Posthumum. Text in Latin. E Theatro Sheldoniano, Oxoniae. 1745 [20009] Second edition. 4to. 8.5 x 11 inches. [ii]; Rutupinae, [xiv] + 138 pp. Illustrated with 13 plates, including four folding and three vignettes including one title page, and capital at beginning of text; [8], A-R4, S-S1; [ii]; S. Edmundi Burgi, [ii] + 164 pp. Illustrated with three plates, including one folding and one vignette at beginning of text. [2], A-U4, X-X2. General title page and separate title page and register for each part with additional half title for part two. Bound in original full calf with gilt borders to boards. Spine rebacked with original cloth decorated gilt, divided into compartments with decorated raised bands; new red morocco label and marbled endpapers. Slight traces of browning but otherwise a clean crisp interior. £250 John Battely (1646-1708), clergyman and antiquary, was educated in his home town of Bury St Edmunds and at Trinity, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1675 and his links to his adopted county of Kent developed after his appointment as chaplain to two successive Archbishops of Canterbury. He was collated to the rectories of Hunton and Adisham, Kent in 1684, to the achdeaconry of Canterbury in 1688 and in the following year he received a canonry of the cathedral and was inducted as master of Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury. His own religion being ‘untainted by superstition on the one side, or enthusiasm on the other,’ his main concern was the study of the history of Kent and to demonstrate the Anglo-Saxon roots of the Anglican church (DNB). He became a member of the Society of Antiquaries in 1708. None of his research was published in his lifetime and the Antiquitates Rutupinae did not appear until 1711.

This account in Latin of the Roman stations of Thanet, and especially of Richborough, the Roman

Rutupiae, was cast as a dialogue between Battely and Henry Wharton and Henry Maurice, two of his fellow chaplains at Lambeth Palace. The second edition was published by his nephew, Oliver Battely (1697-1762) with the hitherto unprinted history of Bury St Edmunds to the year 1272, the two works together recording the Battely’s range of historical research from Suffolk to Kent. The Rev. John Duncombe, one of the Six Preachers, published an English translation in an octavo format in 1774. A handsomely printed, large format edition illustrated with sixteen engraved plates and maps and four vignettes.

74 CANTERBURY - BENNETT-GOLDNEY, FRANCIS. (Compiled by). THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT CITY OF CANTERBURY. OFFICIAL GUIDE. FULLY ILLUSTRATED. Cross and Jackman.

Canterbury 1923 [19662] Fourth edition. 100 pp. + original yellow wrappers, with folding street plan and photo illustrations throughout.

Original printed wrappers. £40 Very good copy of this early guide to the city, with interesting adverts and photographs. These early twentieth-century guides have now become scarce.

ST. THOMAS BECKET IN ART 75 CANTERBURY - BORENIUS, TANCRED. ST.THOMAS BECKET IN ART. London: Methuen & Co.Ltd. 1932 [19013] 4to. xix + 122 pp. illustrated with 44 black and white plates.

Original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. Some pages uncut.

Small neat bookplate on front paste down. Slight discolouration on edges of front boards and dust wrapper but generally fine condition for age. £45 The first adequate survey of the images of the ArchbishopSaint in European art, abundantly illustrated, mostly from little-known material. A scarce title.

76 CANTERBURY - BOYLE, JOHN. PORTRAIT OF CANTERBURY. Robert Hale. 1974 [19045] 8vo. 192 pp. Photographic illustrations. First edition.

Original cloth gilt in edge worn dust wrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. £25 A readable and interesting modern survey, with good illustrations.

FINE VIEW OF CANTERBURY 77 CANTERBURY - BRAUN and HOGENBERG. CANTVARBURY. CANTUARIA VRBS FERTILIS SIMAE ANGLIAE CELEBRIS; ARCHIEPISCOPATI SEDE, COMMENDATA. Cologne 1572 [20605] Copper engraved plate, 17 x 12 inches in fine original hand-colouring. Latin text on verso. Mounted framed and double glazed with conservation materials. A fine dark impression of the plate with good margins. An outstanding example. £1,000 The Canterbury plate from Braun & Hogenberg’s Civitates orbis Terrarum, the great celebration of the European city published between 1572 and 1617 and illustrated with 363 plates. A remarkable series of engravings incorporating an astonishing detail, giving an impression of the economy, status, wealth and the social structure of each town; even the costume of the local inhabitants is depicted. Canterbury was

KENT issued in the first volume published in 1572 with descriptive text on the verso of each plate. Three language versions were produced; Latin, German and Italian, this is the Latin edition, which was reissued several times.

78 CANTERBURY BRENT, JOHN. CANTERBURY IN THE OLDEN TIME. bound with FELIX SUMMERLY’S HAND-BOOK FOR CANTERBURY: Its Historical Associations and Works of Art... [edited by] John Brent A.Ginder, Publisher, Canterbury, Bell and Daldy, London. 1860 [19945] Small 8vo. 5 x 7 inches. JOHN BRENT: First edition.

Wood-engraved frontis, lithographed title page + vi + 117 pp. FELIX SUMMERLY: A New Edition, Revised, with Additions. A folding map of the City and its vicinity, a folding plan of the Cathedral + wood-engraved frontis + 3 wood-engraved plates + vi + 118 pp. with numerous woodcuts to the text + [20] pp. adverts. Bound in original green cloth, with gilt title to spine and embossed titles to upper and lower boards. £175 John Brent, a Canterbury councillor and Alderman had a keen interest in the history of Canterbury and Kent. He became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in April 1853, and was also a member of the British Archaeological Association and the Kent Archaeological Society. In 1855 Brent was asked to revise Felix Summerly's Handbook for Canterbury, and in 1860 his own well-received book on the city appeared, Canterbury in the Olden Time, which was an enlarged version of a paper originally published in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association and which appeared as a companion volume to the Handbook.

Felix Summerly was a pseudonym for Sir Henry Cole, whose Hand-Book for Canterbury had originally been published in 1843. Cole was a remarkable man whose achievements are too great to list here. Suffice it to say that he was at the centre of the group of people that organized the Great Exhibition and, rather more prosaically, commissioned and published the first Christmas card. The two authors’ works complimented one another, as the former concentrated on the institutions (justice, political history, guilds and fraternities, etc.), whereas the latter focussed on the fabric of the city (the cathedral and churches, the city walls and Dane John, St. Augustine’s Monastery, the nunneries, hospitals, etc.). Each work is scarce in its own right and doubly so as a combined volume.

79 —— CANTERBURY IN THE TIME. SECOND EDITION - ENLARGED. Marshall, 1879 [18531] 312 pp. with 32 lithograph plates, 3 of which coloured. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Spine usual otherwise a very good copy.

OLDEN Simpkin are hand faded as £85

The much enlarged edition - contains a wealth of detail on the city.

80 CANTERBURY - BRITTON, JOHN. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE METROPOLITICAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY; ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS OF VIEWS, ELEVATIONS, PLANS, AND DETAILS OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF THAT EDIFICE: WITH BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES OF THE ARCHBISHOPS, ETC. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, Paternoster Row, and the Author, Burton

Cottage, Burton Street, and Joseph Taylor, 59 High Holborn, London. 1821 [19581] First edition, 4to. Fine engraved frontispiece and engraved title page, letterpress title page, iv + 110 pp. + [4].

Illustrated with 26 fine full-page engravings, carefully designed by this supreme architect to drive home to the reader the principles of Gothic and other styles. The plates were drawn by George Catermole and engraved by Le Keaux. Bound in green half-morocco, gilt,over marbled paper boards. An extremely attractive example, very clean internally and almost entirely free from the foxing which often disfigures this finely designed book. £275 Britton’s work became an instant classic and it is still one of the best essays on the architecture of the cathedral.

81 CANTERBURY - BRITTON, JOHN THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE METROPOLITICAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY; Illustrated by a Series of Engraving of Views, Elevations, Plans, and Details of the Architecture of that Edifice with Biographical Anecdotes of the Archbishops, etc. By John Britton, F.S.A. etc. M.A. Nattali,19, Southampton-Street, Covent Garden, London. 1836 [19967] 4to. 9.5 x 12 inches. [ii] + 114 pp. [2], [A]-[A4], B-O4, P1. Illustrated by 26 engraved plates, plate 20, serving as the engraved title. Plates (other than architectural) drawn

by George Cattermole and engraved by J. Le Keux.

Bound in original green cloth, with black morocco label, gilt. Extremities slightly worn and sunning to top and inside of rear board. Pages deckle edged and occasional foxing. Otherwise fine and clean interior. £250 John Britton (1771-1857) was an antiquary and photographer, born near Chippenham, Wiltshire. In 1789 he first met Edward Brayley in a Clerkenwell bookshop and began a long partnership with him, including the twenty-seven volume compilation of The Beauties of England from 1801, based on extensive fieldwork, which he partly wrote and edited. His architectural work culminated in the Cathedral Antiquities of England, published in fourteen volumes, 1814-1835. These pioneered the use of measured plans, sections and elevations to explain the principles of English Gothic to the reader but seven planned volumes did not appear as the substitution of steel engraving for copperplate made further work on the series uneconomic.

This 1836 reprint of the Canterbury volume is less common in libraries than the original 1821 edition. A fine copy of this very scarce volume which is still one of the best essays on the architecture of the cathedral.

82 CANTERBURY - BROOKS, NICHOLAS. THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF CANTERBURY. CHRIST CHURCH FROM 597 TO 1066 (Studies in the early history of Britain) Leicester University Press, 1984 [18981] 8vo. xiv + 402 pp. with sixteen illustrations and maps.

Original cloth gilt with dust wrapper. £25 A detailed history of the foundation and early history of the see and cathedral church of Canterbury until the Norman Conquest, with a detailed account of the development of the estates and lordship of the church of Canterbury.

KENT 83 CANTERBURY - BURNBY, JOHN. AN HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE METROPOLITICAL CHURCH OF CHRIST, CANTERBURY; CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF ITS ANTIQUITIES, AND OF ITS ACCIDENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS, SINCE THE FIRST ESTABLISHMENT. WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE EPITAPHS, AND A SOUTH PROSPECT OF THE CATHEDRAL. The Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged, With a Preface, containing Observations on the Gothic Architecture, And an Historical Account of the Archbishops of Canterbury, From Augustin to the Present Time. Together with An Elegy, written By the Rev. John Duncomb, M.A. Canterbury: Printed and sold by Simmons and Kirkby.

1783 [19641] 8vo. Approx. 6 x 9 inches. [ii] + frontis. + [ii] + viii + 138, 137-156 pp. (latter section includes appendix, elegy and index). [2], A-R4, S-S5, T-U4, X-X2. (some signatures labelled incorrectly). Illustrated with one engraved plate, serving as frontispiece. Original off-white heavy paper wrappers with another layer of laid-on blue paper giving the impression of a quarter binding, with original printed title label to front. Leaves untrimmed and occasionally unopened Some worming in latter part, not affecting legibility, otherwise a very clean interior. £175 The first edition appeared in 1772 and another came out in 1799. Published anonymously, but known to be the work of John Burnby as Smith notes: ‘This was compiled by the late Mr. John Burnby, an Attorney of Cambridge, although from the Elegy by the Rev. John Duncombe being inserted it is generally attributed to the latter’.

Duncombe (1729-86) was educated at Cambridge and after ordination in 1753 held a number of Kentish livings. He acquired a contemporary reputation as a writer and poet, and in 1773, wrote an account of a cricket match, Surry Triumphant, or, The Kentish-Men’s Defeat, a parody of the ballad Chevy Chase, to which Burnby replied in The Kentish Cricketers of the same year. A fine copy in very original condition, thus rare.

84 CANTERBURY - BUTLER, JOHN. THE QUEST FOR BECKET’S BONES. THE MYSTERY OF THE RELICS OF ST THOMAS BECKET OF CANTERBURY. Yale University Press. 1995 [18191] 4to. xii + 180 pp. Original blue cloth. A very good copy in like dust wrapper. £25 The newest addition to the long running speculation as to the real burial place of Becket.

85 CANTERBURY - CARTWRIGHT, JULIA. THE PILGRIMS’ WAY FROM WINCHESTER TO CANTERBURY J.S. Virtue and Co., London 1893 [19146] 4to. viii + 157 pp. with 46 illustrations, many full-page, and 2 maps. Original pictorial olive cloth, gilt. All edges gilt. A fine copy of a charming book. £75 An interesting and well-illustrated historical and topographical account of the route taken by countless pilgrims.

CANTERBURY 86 CATHEDRAL. STATUTES OF THE CATHEDRAL

THE AND

METROPOLITICAL CHURCH OF CHRIST, CANTERBURY. Privately printed for the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. 1925 [18466] 8vo. 141 pp. Original blue cloth, gilt. Upper board a little damp-stained otherwise a very good copy. £30 This copy was presented to Rev. William Douglas Springett, (author of ‘ Handbook for Travellers in Sussex’) and is inscribed ‘ W.D. Springett from The Dean and Chapter of Canterbury K.A. Bell Dean. F. of S. John Baptist 1925’ and bears Springett’s attractive engraved bookplate. Rev. Springett was sometime Curate at Pluckley and later Vicar at St. Matthew’s, Brixton.

87 CANTERBURY - COTTON, CHARLES. THE GREY FRIARS OF CANTERBURY 1224 TO 1538.

Together with a chapter on the remains of the Friary and its restoration by R.H. Goodsall. British Society of Franciscan Studies Extra Series Vol II. Manchester: University Press. 1924 [16565] First Edition. 8vo. 112 pp. with plan and illustrations.

Original cloth gilt. £30 A useful summation of Franciscan Canterbury. From the library of Sir Thomas Neame with his bookplate.

88 —— A KENTISH CARTULARY OF THE ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM. Kent Archælogical Society. 1930. [17711] 188 pp. with illustrations. Original cloth, gilt. Spine faded otherwise a very good copy. £35 89 —— THE SAXON CATHEDRAL OF CANTERBURY AND THE SAXON SAINTS BURIED THEREIN. Manchester University Press. 1929 [18524] 4to. 111 pp. with illustration. Original cloth, gilt. £50 Scarce.

90 CANTERBURY - COTTON, CHARLES. Edited by. KENT RECORDS - THE CANTERBURY CHANTRIES AND HOSPITALS TOGETHER WITH SOME OTHERS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD IN 1546. A SUPPLEMENT TO KENT CHANTRIES. Kent Archaelogical Society, 1934 [19642] 80 pp. Original cloth, gilt. Book plate and previous owner’s library stamp on front paste-down. £35 91 CANTERBURY - COZENS, WALTER. OLD CANTERBURY. Cross & Jackman, Canterbury. 1906.

[18534] First Edition. 8vo. 120 pp. with photographs and other illustrations. Original printed paper wrappers. £30 A useful work containing some interesting information on old city plans and detailing the changes the author had seen in his lifetime.

92 CANTERBURY - CROSS, F.W. and J.R. HALL. RAMBLES ROUND OLD CANTERBURY. Canterbury, Cross & Jackman, 1884 [18533] Third edition, revised. 4to. 148 pp.+ 4 pp. index with wood engravings throughout. Original pictorial cloth, gilt.

A very good example. £50 Extends to include Fordwich and Chilham. An interesting and well- produced book, printed in Canterbury.

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SUPERB COPPERPLATES 93 CANTERBURY - DART, J. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY AND THE ONCE-ADJOINING MONASTERY: Containing an Account of its First Establishment, Building, Reedifications, Repairs, Endowments, Benefactions, Chapels, Altars, Shrines, Reliques, Chauntries, Obiits, Ornaments, Books, Jewels, Plate, Vestments; before the Dissolution of the Monastery : and the Manner of its Dissolution.

A Survey of the Present Church and Cloysters, Monuments and Inscriptions, with other Things remarkable : Which, with the several Prospects of the Church, are Engraven by the Best Hands.

The Lives of the Archbishops, Priors, &c. of ChristChurch : With an Account of Learned Men there flourishing in their several Times.

An Appendix of Ancient Charters and Writings relating to the Church and Monastery. Catalogue of the ChurchWealth in Prior Estrey’s Time. An Ancient Saxon Obituary, and a Large One continu’d Thence downward.

By the Reverend Mr. J. Dart. Printed, and Sold by J. Cole, Engraver, at the Crown in Great Kirby Street, Hatton-Garden: And J. Hoddle, Engraver, in BridewellPrecinct, near Fleet-Bridge. 1726 [19175] Folio. [x] + 204 + lvi pp. [A-A2], B-Tt, A-P1. illustrated with 46 copper plates, engraved by James Cole including 4 folding and 5 of coats of arms of subscribers and fifteen engravings in the text, several of which are repeated.

Bound in early, half-calf, gilt, with decoration and navy morocco label with plain boards. A few closed tears on pages, none of them affecting the text. Light damp stain visible at lower left-hand edge of first seventy pages. £450 This copy has all the plates called for by J.R. Smith’s Bibliotheca Cantiana (1837), except that it includes only five plates of coats of arms of subscribers (numbered I-IV and VII) rather than nine and also has the following differences: the two prospects, pp.27-28, are both folding and the text engraving on p.94, is ‘Over the Chapel of St. Michael’. It includes the plates opposite pp.88-89 ‘Lady Mohun’ and ‘Isabel, Duchess of Athol’ frequently missing from copies of this work.

A fine copy of this lavishly illustrated account of the cathedral and its monuments and of the Archbishops, Priors and Deans, etc. who served it. It is likely to be an early issue of the title as the imprint includes only the names of the printer and engraver and not the additional London booksellers listed in some versions.

94 CANTERBURY - DEANE, REV. JOHN BATHURST. THE WILL OF HENRY DENE, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, DECEASED 15 FEBRUARY, 1502-3. EXTRACTED FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, VOL. XVIII. 1861.

Royal Archaeological Institute, London. 1861 [18517] 8vo. Extract 12 pp. Bound in boards with dark red cloth and gilt title to spine. £85

This extract from the prestigious Archaeological Journal gives a good deal of biographical information about Dene and includes the will, written in Latin, in full with copious notes.

From the library of antiquary F. William Cock with his attractive bookplate.

12TH C. SURVEY OF KENT CHURCHES 95 CANTERBURY - DOUGLAS, DAVID C. THE DOMESDAY MONACHORUM OF CHRIST CHURCH CANTERBURY. Edited with an Introduction by David C. Douglas, M.A. Professor of Medieval History in the University of Leeds. Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 96 Cheyne Walk, London, S.W.10. 1944 [20204] Large folio. 13.5 x 17.25 inches. vi + 127 pp. Illustrated by [16] facsimile plates at end. [A-B4], C-R4. Text in English and Latin. Bound in original black cloth, gilt and deckle edges. Extremities worn, bumped on lower edges, front board sunned on right edge with stain that also affects endpapers and free endpapers. Slight staining to margin edges of end facsimile pages. Otherwise a fine clean copy. £185 A twelfth century survey of the churches, knights and lands of Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury: ‘The manuscript which is here edited was written at the monastery of Christ Church in Canterbury, and is now preserved in the library of the dean and chapter of that place’ (MS. E. 28). It is written in three scripts, dated c. 1100, 1150 and 1200 and the text falls into four main groups, 1. Documents relating to Kentish churches and to payments due from them; 2. Surveys of the lands of the archbishop and the monks of Christ Church, of the see of Rochester and other Kentish landowners; 3. A list of the knights of the archbishop; 4. Documents concerning the affairs of Christ Church and its property. The editor’s introduction supplies a detailed and scholarly analysis of the texts, including a discussion on possible links to the great Domesday survey of 1085-86. A complete transliteration of the Latin documents is followed by an index and facsimile reproductions of all the manuscripts. The editor, David Charles Douglas (1898-1982), became a distinguished historian of the Norman period and was author of William the Conqueror (1964) and other works on the Normans and their achievements. A very large book with some superficial wear and tear but now quite scarce.

96 CANTERBURY - DU BOULAY, F.R.H. Ed. DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF MEDIEVAL KENTISH SOCIETY. Volume XVIII of the Kent Records Kent Archæological Society. 1964 [17403] 8vo. 390 pp. with map. Original cloth, gilt. £35 Based on six sets of records covering the medieval history of the county:1) A list of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s tenants - reign of Henry II. (2) The Pipe Roll of Canterbury 1292 -5. (3) Kent Lay Subsidy Roll 1334-5. (4) Earliest Canterbury Freemen’s rolls 1298-1363. (5) King’s Bench referring to Kent 15031532. (6) Calendar of archbishopric demesne leases 15031532. Together with copious indexes.

97 CANTERBURY - EVANS, S. & F. BENNETTGOLDNEY. EDITORS. CANTERBURY, MOTHERCITY OF THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE. THE CATHEDRAL BY F.W. FARRAR, ST AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY & ST MARTIN’S CHURCH BY C.F. ROUTLEDGE. Published by Canterbury Chamber of

KENT Trade and the Corporation of the City. Cross and Jackman, n.d. c 1903 [17192] Folio [2] + 135 pp. with text and photo illustration on recto of each page, and fine advertisements on verso. Red cloth, gilt, as issued. A very good example. £65 This is a presentation copy from the editors dated March 1903.

A sort of elaborate guide book and history, with almost a trades directory contained within the splendid adverts, many with photographs of their shops and wares. A nice production.

98 CANTERBURY FOWLER, REV. MONTAGUE. SOME NOTABLE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY. S.P.C.K. 1895 [14436] 222 pp. + 6 chromolithographic portraits. Original decorated purple cloth, gilt. Spine faded and rather rubbed and bumped. £25 Fourteen illustrious archbishops are dealt with in some detail, and a list of the complete sequence of archbishops is included.

The colour-printed plates are quite attractive.

99 CANTERBURY - G.S. [G. SMITH] CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. By G. S., With illustrations. Printed and published by H.S.Claris, ‘Kent Herald’ Office. 1883 [20113] 8vo. 5.25 x 7.25 inches. Frontis. + x + 388 pp.+ [5], illustrated with 28 plates, 8 folding (26 numbered), including frontispiece. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt, double blind stamped borders and single inner panel on boards and red edges. Spine, decorated gilt at top and bottom, chipped and worn; joints weak. £35 A detailed historical survey of Canterbury Cathedral, wellillustrated with photo-lithographs, engravings and plans: all the information is arranged in chronological order; the various changes in the fabric and in the government of the church are noticed as each occurred, and all recorded events of any interest, that have happened in connection with the Cathedral and Monastery, are, in like manner, narrated or referred to.’ Similarly the careers of the Archbishops, Priors and Deans ‘are interwoven in the body of the work.’ (Preface).

Although the author has styled himself G.S.on the title page, the plan at the end states, ‘Measured and Drawn by G. Smith’ and he has been identified as George Smith.

Kent Bibliography

100 CANTERBURY - GOSTLING, WILLIAM. A WALK IN AND ABOUT THE CITY OF CANTERBURY, WITH MANY OBSERVATIONS NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY DESCRIPTION HITHERTO PUBLISHED. THE SECOND EDITION. Canterbury, Simmons and Kirkby. 1777 [19510] 402 pp. + (16) pp index. with folding engraved map and table, and 23 engraved plates, some folding. All folding embellishments have been backed with linen.. Later halfcalf with gilt ruling and three-coloured monogram, gilt, to upper board. Top edges gilt. A very good copy. £200 The second edition was considerably enlarged with the addition of some fine engraved plates by Grose, Hawkins, and others. A particularly attractive copy. We have another copy of this title at the same price.

101 CANTERBURY GUIDE. AUSTEN’S HANDBOOK TO CANTERBURY AND THE CATHEDRAL.

Austen’s, 17, St. George’s Street, Canterbury. No date but c.1924 [17200] 91 pp. with 23 illustrations + folding map. Original pictorial wrappers. Slight crease to front wrapper otherwise a very good copy. £40 102 CANTERBURY - HALL, F. MARCUS, RICHARD S. STEVENS, and JOHN WYMAN. THE KENT AND CANTERBURY HOSPITAL 1790-1987.

Kent Postgraduate Medical Centre, Canterbury. 1987 [18059] xi + 229 pp. with b/w illustrations throughout. Original laminated pictorial card wrappers. A very good copy. £25 * Signed and dedicated by the authors to fellow author Ivan Green.

103 CANTERBURY - HASTINGS, THOMAS. Vestiges of Antiquity; or, A Series of Etchings AND Engravings of the Ancient Monastery of St. Augustine, with the Cathedral, Castle, and Other Antiquities, in the Suburbs of the Metropolitan City of Canterbury.

Published by the Author and Sold by Murray, Albemarle Street, London. 1813 [19620] Large folio. [ii] + [12] + [1] pp. Unpaginated.

Frontispiece and 11 fine large etched engravings. Bound in contemporary red half-morocco, gilt. A little rubbed at extremities, one or two pages of letterpress foxed but a very good copy. The original label stating this set to be ‘Proofs’ is affixed on the rear paste-down endpaper. £650 A scarce work. The list of subscribers accounts for 125 copies, of which 70 are proofs and it is likely that only 200 or so were printed. The engravings are very fine and interesting and are in the style of the picturesque works coming back from the antique lands of the Grand Tour.

FINE ASSOCIATION SET OF CANTERBURY HUGUENOT REGISTERS 104 CANTERBURY - HOVENDEN, ROBERT. THE REGISTERS OF THE WALLON OR STRANGERS’ CHURCH IN CANTERBURY. PARTS I - III. Edited by Robert Hovenden, F.S.A., Fellow and Member of Council of the Huguenot Society of London.

The Publications of The Huguenot Society of London.

Volume V. Parts I-III. Only five hundred copies printed for The Huguenot Society of London by Chas. T. King, Lymington. 1891-98 [20112] 4to. 7.75 x 10 inches. Part I. [8] + vi + [2] + 304 pp. + [4]; Part II. [8] + 305-501 pp. + [4]; Part III. [22] + [pp.502-506] + pp.507-886 + [13]. Pagination and register are continuous for the three parts. Index at end.

Each part has half-title and series title page; Part III has additional series and individual part title pages for Parts II and III and Index. Illustrated with Society’s Emblem and motto on series title pages. Limited edition nos.: Part I, 175, Part II, 186, Part III, 55. Text mainly in French.

Bound in original black cloth, gilt with blind stamped double borders on boards and double gilt lines at top and base of spines and above and below maroon morocco labels with additional gilt decoration below. Marbled edges slightly worn, top corners of Part II bumped. Some browning of endpapers and occasional traces of foxing but

KENT otherwise very clean and crisp inside. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Colyer Colyer-Ferguson, Igtham Mote and Wombwell Hall, Kent, on front paste-downs. A very fine set. £300 Printed from the registers, formerly in the custody of the authorities of the French Church, assembling in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral. Contents: Church of the Cathedral Crypt, Baptisms, 1581-1837, Marriages, 1583-1747, Deaths, 1581-1715; Malthouse Church, Baptisms, 1710-1823, Marriage 1744; Appendices, Abstracts of Marriage Contracts, 1580-1680, of Wills, 1586-1704 and undated and of Miscellaneous Documents, undated and 1586-1683; Index of persons and of places.

An estimated 40,000 Protestant Walloon and Huguenot refugees settled in England from at least the early 1550s but especially during the periods following the Massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572 and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Many of those landing on the Kent coast gravitated towards Canterbury, to practice the trade of silk weaving, and were granted asylum there, having been given the use of the western crypt of the Cathedral for their worship. There were eleven original register books, bound into ten, and in 1840 these were passed to the custody of the Office of the Registrar-General. Roger Hovenden (1830-1908), a noted genealogist, also edited the Canterbury Cathedral registers from 1564 (1878) and those of other churches in Kent (Chislet), Essex, Surrey and London, in addition to his writings on family history, classical literature, etc. The Huguenot Society of London was founded by the directors of the French Hospital in 1885 to promote the publication and interchange of knowledge about Huguenots in the British Isles. In 1986 it became the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland. This set is from the library of Sir Thomas Colyer-Fergusson, Bart., F.S.A. (1865-1951) of Igtham Mote, Kent. A Vice-President of Kent Archaeological Society, he was also a notable genealogist and transcribed nearly sixty registers in the Diocese of Rochester.

DIOCESAN HISTORY OF CANTERBURY 105 CANTERBURY - JENKINS, ROBERT C. CANTERBURY. By Robert C. Jenkins, M.A. Rector and Vicar of Lyminge, Hon. Canon of Canterbury. With map.

(Diocesan Histories). Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Northumberland Avenue, Charing Cross; 43, Queen Victoria Street, E.C.; and 48, Piccadilly, W., London. Pott, Young, and Co., New York. 1880 [20563] 8vo. 4.75 x 6.75 inches. [vi] + 428 pp. + [4] pp. advertisements. Illustrated by coloured folding ‘map to illustrate the annals of Canterbury’ (Stanford’s), serving as frontispiece. Bound in original blue cloth, decorated in black and gilt, with diocesan arms on front board and SPCK monogram on rear. Buff endpapers. Some foxing and spotting, especially on edges, but otherwise a fine copy. 1882 inscription on first free endpaper. £45 A still useful compact history of Canterbury diocese from the Roman and Anglo Saxon periods, largely concerned with the period before 1688. It includes a list of archbishops from Augustine (597) to Tait (1868) and of the priors and later, the deans.

Robert Charles Jenkins (1815-96) was rector of Lyminge and a noted antiquarian, who also published The Chartulary of the Monastery of Lyminge founded A.D. 633 by St AEthelburga the Queen (c.1880).

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

106 CANTERBURY - KEESEY, WALTER. CANTERBURY SKETCH BOOK. A. and C. Black.

1915 [15603] First Edition. Slim 8vo. 24 sketches by Walter Keesey without text. Original boards with paper label to upper cover. Spine slightly rubbed but a good copy. £35 This copy is signed by Keesey on the title page. Published in A. and C. Black’s ‘Artist’s Sketch Book Series’, with very attractive pencil drawings of the city from the beginning of the motor age. We have some unsigned reprints of this title priced at £10

107 CANTERBURY - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF CANTERBURY. Kelly's Directories. 1970 [19542] 8vo. 344 pp. Original printed card wrappers. £20 108 CANTERBURY - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF CANTERBURY, WHITSTABLE, HERNE BAY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Kelly's Directories.

1936 [18738] 8vo. 56 + 812 pp. + 2. Complete with the map. Original printed boards, spine faded. A good copy. £100 Scarce pre-war directory of Canterbury together with the surrounding villages.

109 CANTERBURY - MASON, ARTHUR JAMES. WHAT BECAME OF THE BONES OF ST. THOMAS? A CONTRIBUTION TO HIS FIFTEENTH JUBILEE. C.U.P. 1920 [18457] 8vo. 196 pp. with folding plan of Canterbury Cathedral.

Original plain card wrappers with title label to spine. £30 A consideration of the bones, excavated at Canterbury in 1888, as to the possibilty of their being those of St. Thomas a Becket. Scarce.

CANTERBURY PROBATE 110 CANTERBURY - MATHEWS, JOHN AND GEORGE F. MATTHEWS. YEAR BOOKS OF PROBATES . Abstracts of Probate Acts in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Vol.1, 1630-4 (1902), Vol.2, 1635-39 (1903), Vol.3, 1640-44 (1905), Vol.4, 1645-49 (1906); Sentences and Complete Index Nominum (Probates and Sentences) for the Years 1630-1639.

(1907); Abstracts of Probate Acts in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Commonwealth Probates, Vol.1 (1650-1) (1909), Vol. 2 (1652-3) (1911), Vol.3 (1654-5) (1914); Abstracts of Probates and Sentences in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1620-4 (1911). Edited

by John Matthews and George F. Matthews, B.A. London: Issued to Subscribers from 93 and 94 Chancery Lane, London, W.C. 1902-1914 [19468] 4to. Ten volumes. 6.25 x 10 inches. 349 pp.; 431 pp.; 292 pp.; 582 + [2] pp. advertisements; 171 pp.; 389 + [1] pp. advertisements; 506 pp.; 352 pp.; 341 pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with PCC device on front boards. Some wrinkling of cloth and a few stains.

Occasional light pencil marks in clean interiors. Armorial bookplate on front paste-down of Vol.2, 1635-39 only. £850 Abstracts of Probates and Sentences is Vol.1 (1620-4); Vol.2 (1625-29) was never published. ‘The Probate Act Books of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury exist in an almost unbroken

KENT series from the year 1526, and are of great value to Antiquarians...they afford a means of obtaining a list of the Wills, Registered and Unregistered, in the Principal Court of Probate, more complete even than the Official Calendars themselves...’

The abstract volumes include indexes of stray names and of places (the places index not included in Commonwealth Abstracts, Vol.3) , including English and Welsh counties.

Although the entries are largely drawn from the southern province of Canterbury, ‘the Wills of persons resident in the Province of York, in Scotland, Ireland, the sometime American Colonies, and elsewhere, have been registered there, when the necessary grants of Probate have been made for the administration of property lying within the Province of Canterbury.’ The 1620-24 volume does not include indexes.

111 CANTERBURY - MAUDSON, CHEMIST, WESTGATE CANTERBURY. MANUSCRIPT PRESCRIPTION BOOK COMMENCING 21/7/1909 AND CONCLUDING 13/1/1927.

OVER SIX HUNDRED PRESCRIPTIONS WERE ADMINISTERED IN THE PERIOD. Ledger manufactured by H.J. Goulden Canterbury. c.1909 [19663] Tall, thin ledger with ruled lines. Approximately 80 pages, used recto and verso, in ink in several hands. All the handwriting is clear despite some stains and torn pages.

The original quarter-roan binding has been renewed, retaining the original old marbled boards which are much rubbed and worn. There are several inserted pieces of paper, as memoranda or as formulae. £125 Apart from the interesting thought ‘What did the chemist give them?’ we do know who the recipients are by the name and, sometimes, the address of the patient, and this makes interesting reading - From the Archbishop of Canterbury, and numerous clergy, Lords and Ladies, Mrs. and Misses, even Miss Sackville-West and, as time moves through the years of the First World War, more and more military men, of all ranks.

Turning to the end of the book and turning it up-side-down, the chemist has analyzed the numbers of prescriptions from Canterbury, and those from Kent generally. He has listed the N.H.S. prescriptions from their introduction in 1923 to beyond the date in which he completed the book, (working from the other end) and has filled the blanks at the rear with tables detailing the amound paid by the N.H.S. This analysis is continued right up until 1954. A prime piece of social history inviting the labour of a researcher.

112 CANTERBURY - MESSENGER, A.W.B. THE HERALDRY OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. VOLUME I, THE GREAT CLOISTER VAULT. By Commander (S.) A.W.B.Messenger F.S.A, L.R.I.B.A., (Retd.), R.N. The Office of the Friends, Christ Church Gateway, Canterbury. 1947 [20214] 8vo. 6 x 8.75 inches. [iv] +148 pp. Illustrated by one colour plate, serving as frontispiece, 3 black and white key plates, 64 black and white photographic plates and three folding plates (two pedigrees and one plan) at end. Errata slip tipped in. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt. Slight wear to extremities with good clean interior. Ex-Library copy, with Folkestone Public Libraries. Reference Dept. label and library stamps repeated inside. Pencil note on contents page. £40

Very good reference work long out of print. Although other volumes were projected by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, Volume I, by Arthur William Bryant Messenger, was the only one to appear. It was first issued in quarterly parts in 1939-40 as a Supplement to the Reports and Chronicles of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral.

113 CANTERBURY - PENNELL, JOSEPH AND ELIZABETH. A CANTERBURY PILGRIMAGE. RIDDEN WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED. Seeley and Co. 1885 [17679] Small 4to. 78 pp. with full page and other illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy. £80 A charming account of a tricycle ride from London to Canterbury, with Pennell's fine illustrations depicting their early cycle, and other machines being ridden through the empty roads of Kent. As it was hopping time several illustrations are devoted to this subject. Scarce.

114 CANTERBURY - PIKE’S. CANTERBURY AND DISTRICT, HERNE BAY and WHITSTABLE LOCAL DIRECTORY 1932-33. Garnett, Mepham and Fisher Ltd. 1933 [20029] 498 pp. + 18 pp. adverts. Lacking the map, as is usual.

Bound in original blue cloth only very slightly worn. A very good copy. £100 A very good copy of the annual 'Blue Book'. Pre-war editions are now difficult to find. ** Also 1920-21 edition available at same price**

115 CANTERBURY - RACKHAM, BERNARD. THE ANCIENT GLASS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. Published for the Friends of Canterbury

by Lund Humphries and Co. Ltd. 1949 [16182] Folio. xv + 194 pp. + 21 coloured plates with descriptive guards and 80 monochrome plates. Original blue cloth with gilt titles and gilt device to front board. Near mint in publisher’s plain dust wrapper. There is a neat school library stamp on the front and rear paste-down endpapers, but the book was never seen by students as it shows no signs of use, and is preserved in the original slipcase which is a little worn on the extremities. £200 A superb production with heavy paper and magnificent photographic illustrations, combined with comprehensive descriptions and commentaries, this remains the definitive work on the subject. It was expensive at the time and issued in a very small edition. Bernard Rackham was Keeper of the Department of Ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

116 CANTERBURY - ROUTLEDGE, REV. C.F. THE HISTORY OF ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH CANTERBURY. A MONOGRAPH. Kegan, Paul. 1891 [19612] 189 pp. with wood engraved illustrations. Original cloth, gilt. £40 Scarce first issue of this standard history of St. Martin's.

117 CANTERBURY RULE, MARTIN. (EDITOR). THE MISSAL OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY CANTERBURY. WITH EXCERPTS FROM THE ANTIPHONARY AND LECTIONARY OF THE SAME MONASTERY. Cambridge University Press.

KENT 1896 [18526] Small folio. clxxxiv + 174 pp. printed in red and black. With 2 photo facsimile leaves. Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy. £90

and marks in text and small missing area to foot of one page, not affecting text. A fine copy of the first published history and topography of Canterbury. £1,250

Very scarce. This copy presented by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press and the Editor. No recipient is named but there is the ownership inscription of C[harles] W[alter] Moule, dated 1896, who was a member of Corpus Christi college.

First edition of the earliest printed history and topography of Canterbury. It is based on original sources and some of these records are printed in the appendix, said to be the first published book to provide this. It describes both the city (according to its six wards) including the wall and gates, castle, river and cathedral, and its churches and suburbs and includes a list of mayors.

William Somner (1598-1669) was born and educated in Canterbury, the son of the registrar of the court. His patron, Archbishop Laud, to whom the book is dedicated, appointed him registrar of the ecclesiastical courts and the lengthy description of the cathedral is thoroughly Laudian in tone. As an ardent royalist, Somner attempted to protect the cathedral and its muniments from the ravages of parliamentary soldiers.

He published works in praise of Charles I after his execution and was briefly imprisoned in Deal Castle in 1659. After the Restoration, he was made Master of St John’s Hospital in the city and the office of auditor of the cathedral. The first edition of the Antiquities provided the frame work for Battely (an equally famous antiquarian) to make additions and revisions for the second edition of 1703, which remains a cornerstone for the Canterbury collector, much used by all later historians.

The William Betham of the inscription is possibly Sir William Betham (1779-1853), the antiquary, who may have used it for his research; he revised part of Camden’s Britannia for a new edition of 1806, the year of the inscription. Betham spent much of his career in Dublin, working on the Irish records, and was appointed Ulster King of Arms in 1820.

118 CANTERBURY - SAYERS, JANE. E. PAPAL JUDGES DELEGATE IN THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY 1198-1254.

A STUDY IN ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION AND ADMINISTRATION. Oxford University Press for Sandpiper Press. 1997 [18978] 8vo. xxv + 398 pp. Original cloth gilt, fine copy in dust wrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. £30 The first account of how papal jurisdiction operated in prereformation England through a series of special courts in the southern province. It describes and assesses their origins, procedure, personnel and judicial business and contains appendices of documents in Latin with a full bibliography.

First published as part of the Oxford Historical Monographs, 1971.

119 CANTERBURY - SMITH, G. COMPLETE GUIDE TO CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. A complete guide to every object of interest in and around the Building, with a new plan of the Precincts, and several other interesting plates. Austen’s Library, 17, S. George’s Street, Canterbury. No date but c.1930 [17251] Revised edition. 73 pp. + [2] adverts + 2 folding plans and 2 other plans with several wood-engraved views in the text. Original printed yellow card wrappers with view of cathedral laid on. £35

FIRST CANTERBURY HISTORY 120 CANTERBURY - SOMNER, WILLIAM. THE ANTIQUITIES OF CANTERBURY. OR A SVRVEY OF THAT ANCIENT CITIE, WITH THE SUBVRBS, AND CATHEDRALL. Containing principally matters of Antiquity in them all.

Collected chiefly from old Manuscripts, Lieger-bookes, and other like Records, for the most part, never as yet Printed. With an Appendix here annexed: Wherein (for better satisfaction to the learned the Manuscripts, and Records of chiefest consequence, are faithfully exhibited. All (for the honour of that ancient Metropolis, and his good affection to Antiquities) Sought out and Published By the Industry, and Goodwill of William Somner. Printed by I.L. [i.e.John Legat] for Richard Thrale, and are to be sold at his Shop at Pauls-Gate at the signe of the Crosse-Keyes, London. 1640 [19908] First edition. 4to. 6.75 x 9 inches. [xvi] + 516 + [12] pp.

[8], A-3U4. Illustrated by three folding plates, including The Mapp of Canterbury [engraved by Hollar] and on verso of title, full page coat of arms of the See and vignettes, including royal devices, at heads of sections.

Bound in recent full speckled calf, gilt; spine with raised bands in compartments and gilt tooling; early ink ownership inscription in Latin above title, ‘Gul. Betham 1806, repeated in Greek. Some light pencil annotations

SECOND EDITION 121 —— THE ANTIQUITIES OF CANTERBURY. IN TWO PARTS. The First Part. The Antiquities of Canterbury; or a Survey of that Ancient City, with the Suburbs and Cathedral, &c. Sought out and Published by the Industry and Good Will of WILLIAM SOMNER. The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by Nicolas Battely, M.A. Also, Mr Somner's Discourse called CHARTHAM-NEWS: Or a Relation of some Strange Bones found at Chartham in Kent. To which are added some Observations concerning the Roman Antiquities of Canterbury. And a Praface, giving an Account of the Works and Remains of the Learned Antiquary Mr. William Somner, by N.B. The Second Part. Cantuaria Sacra; Or the Antiquities I. Of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church. II. Of the Archbishoprick. III. Of the late Priory of Christ-Church; and of the present Collegiate Church, Founded by K. Hen. VIII. With a Catalogue of all the Deans and Canons thereof. IV. Of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury. V. Of the Monastery of St. Augustin; of the Parish-Churches, Hospitals, and other Religious Places, that are or have been in or near that City; Enquired into, by NICOLAS BATTELY, Vicar of Beaksborn. Illustrated and Adorned with several Useful and Fair Sculptures. Printed for R. Knaplock, at the Angel and Crown in St. Paul's ChurchYard. 1703 [20498] Folio, with copper-engraved prospect of the City after J. Kip, and 19 copper-engraved plates and a plan of the city, including a fine folding view of the Cathedral by W. Holler. Bound in full contemporary panelled calf, skillfuly

KENT rebacked, preserving the original label . A fine copy. £700 Second and best edition of this fine work. First published in 1640. Somner, who was a famous antiquarian and scholar of Anglo-Saxon, provided the framework for Battely (an equally famous antiquarian) to make additions and revisions. This remains a cornerstone for the Canterbury collector, much used by all later historians.

122 CANTERBURY - STANLEY, ARTHUR P. HISTORICAL MEMORIALS OF CANTERBURY. The Landing of Augustine. The Murder of Becket. Edward the Black Prince. Becket’s Shrine. By Arthur P. Stanley, D.D. Dean of Westminster, formerly Canon of Canterbury. Seventh edition. With illustrations. London: John Murray. 1875 [19363] 8vo. Seventh Edition. 5x 7.5 inches. 304 pp. [6], B-U2. illustrated with with a folding plan and wood-engravings, including frontispiece and map in text. Bound with vellum, gilt, with maroon morocco label, marbled endpapers and red edges Front hinges and joints weak Slight foxing on front free endpapers and half title, otherwise clean interior. Small neat bookplate on front paste-down. 1889 ink inscription on first front free endpaper. £35 Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-1881) was born in Cheshire into an ecclesiastical family and educated at Rugby and Oxford.

The essays forming the Historical Memorials of Canterbury were expanded from an article and from lectures delivered in the city and were first published in late 1854. An appendix prints medieval accounts of the Archbishop's shrine and documents from the Cathedral Treasury that relate to it. The Plan of Canterbury Cathedral at the time of Becket's murder depicts routes and spots linked to the event in red. ***We have a leatherbound edition at £30.***

123 CANTERBURY - STEWART, BRIAN. THOMAS SIDNEY COOPER OF CANTERBURY. Rainham: Meresborough Books. 1983 [19681] 4to. 8.75 x 12.5 inches. 52 pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Bound in original pictorial paper wrappers. £20

This copy has been specially bound by Robert Hovenden, and an impression of his bookplate has been used as a frontispiece in this copy, later acquired by Sir Thomas Neame with his bookplate, and later still by James Hobbs with his book label.

The book is an off-print of a portion of a collective History of English Cathedrals, and issued by Hal Drury in Canterbury.

Scarce.

126 CANTERBURY - WILLIS, ARTHUR J. CANTERBURY MARRIAGE LICENCES 1751-1780; 1781-1809; 1810-1837. Compiled by Arthur J.Willis, F.R.I.C.S., F.S.G. Lyminge; Arthur J. Willis. [17511780, 1781-1809] London and Chichester, Phillimore 1967, 1969, 1971 [19467] 4to. Three volumes, 6.25 x 10 inches. 1751-1780, 372 pp., 1781-1809, 407 pp., 1810-1837, xi + 258 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with pale blue dust wrappers.

Some foxing and page edge staining to first two volumes.

Wrappers creased and stained with some edge tears and abrasions, that of first volume having faded spine and tape repairs. All interiors generally clean with occasional neat pencil annotations. £300 This edition is limited to 250 copies. The first two volumes were privately published by the author. A continuation of ‘Canterbury Marriage Licences,’ edited in six series, by Joseph Meadows Cowper, 1568-1618 - 1726-1750, published from 1892.

The records abstracted are contained in contemporary MS registers from the Diocesan Registrar’s archives, now deposited in the Cathedral Library at Canterbury. There are indexes of surnames of the parties, of miscellaneous surnames and of places in the appendix and, additionally for the second and third volumes, of service units (ships of the Royal Navy and Regiments of the Army).

127 CANTERBURY - WILLIS, Rev. R. THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. Longman, Pickering and Bell. 1845.

[18527] First Edition, 8vo. 141 pp. Illustrated with 52 fine wood engraved plates and plans. Bound in blue half-calf gilt, with marbled boards. A nice copy. £65

A useful summary of the life and work of ‘Britain’s most accomplished cattle painter.’ Cooper, of course, painted livestock other than cattle and was also an accomplished lithographer.

The standard 19th. century work on the structure of the cathedral described by Woodruff and Danks in ‘Memorials’ as ‘a masterly treatise...almost the last word on matters structural’

124 CANTERBURY - THORNE, WILLIAM. CHRONICLE OF SAINT AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY CANTERBURY. NOW RENDERED INTO ENGLISH

BY A.H. DAVIS, M.A. Oxford, Blackwell. 1934 [17669] First and only English edition. 740 pp. with map and plan.

Original decorated cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded as normal. £75

128 CANTERBURY - WOODCOCK, AUDREY. Edited by. CARTULARY OF THE PRIORY OF ST. GREGORY, CANTERBURY. Royal Historical Society, 1956 [18752] 4to. 209 pp. Original cloth, gilt. Some small library stamps but a very good copy. £20

Invaluable translation of the great Saxon chronicle. Difficult to find and always in demand.

125 CANTERBURY - WALCOTT, MACKENZIE, E.C. MEMORIALS OF CANTERBURY. Hal Drury, Mercery Lane, Canterbury. 1868 [16370] 8vo. 74 pp. + [1] Neatly bound in green half-morocco, gilt, over marbled boards. £60

One of the earliest Canterbury manuscripts.

129 CANTERBURY - WOODCOCK, BRIAN L. MEDIEVAL ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS IN THE DIOCESE OF CANTERBURY. O.U.P. 1952. [18754] 8vo.160 pp. Original cloth. Dust wrapper torn with small loss to upper panel, but a very good copy. £35 A study of the day-to-day operation of Canon Law from the thirteenth century to the Reformation. Scarce.

KENT 130 CANTERBURY -WOODMAN, FRANCIS. THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. Routledge and Kegan Paul . 1981 [19005] 4to. xviii + 282 pp. Illustrated throughout. Small neat bookplate on inside of front endplate. Original cloth gilt in dust wrapper. Fine condition. £70 This has become the standard work on the subject, and is now out of print.

CANTERBURY WILLS 131 CANTERBURY WOODRUFF, C. EVELEIGH. SEDE VACANTE WILLS: A CALENDAR OF WILLS PROVED BEFORE THE COMMISSARY OF THE PRIOR AND CHAPTER OF CHRIST CHURCH, CANTERBURY. DURING VACANCIES IN THE PRIMACY, With an Appendix containing transcripts of archiepiscopal and other wills of importance.

Compiled and Edited by C. Eveleigh Woodruff, M.A., Hon Librarian to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. Kent Archaeological Society. Records Branch, Volume 3 (Kent Records). Canterbury: Printed for the Records Branch by Cross & Jackman 1914 [19469] 8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. [ix] + xxii + 146 + vii pp. [6].

Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with Society’s device on front boards. Light fraying to top and bottom of spine and some staining on endpapers, otherwise a fine, clean copy. £40 The calendar of wills includes an index of parishes. The copies of wills in the appendix are in Latin and English.

PRESENTATION COPY 132 CANTERBURY WOODRUFF, C. EVELEIGH and WILLIAM DANKS. THE MEMORIALS OF THE CATHEDRAL AND PRIORY OF CHRIST IN CANTERBURY. By C. Eveleigh Woodruff, M.A. Six-Preacher of Canterbury Cathedral and Honorary Librarian to the Dean and Chapter and William Danks, M.A. Canon Residentiary.

With illustrations by Louis Weirter, R.B.A. Chapman and Hall, London 1912 [19493] First Edition. 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. [2] + frontis. + xxi + [i] + 489 + [3] pp. [a1-8], b1-4, A-2H4, 2I-[2I2] Illustrated with 34 plates, including frontispiece, and numerous text drawings. Original publisher’s blue cloth, gilt, with illustrated front board. Top edges gilt. Inscription on front free endpaper. £85 First edition of the standard early twentieth-century history of Canterbury Cathedral and its Priory, with chapters on the library, stained glass, choir, organ and bells. A sound presentation copy from the author.

133 CANTERBURY - WRIGHT, CHRISTOPHER JOHN. A GUIDE TO THE PILGRIMS' WAY AND NORTH DOWNS WAY. London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1981 [19217] Third edition. 8vo. [1] + 325 + [1] pp. Illustrated with maps and black and white photographs. Original cloth, gilt, in coloured pictorial dust wrapper. £20

First edition published 1971. A comprehensive guide to walking from Winchester to Canterbury, Folkestone and Dover.

134 CARTER, G.C. THE GOODWIN SANDS. With a Foreword by Ronald Jessup. Constable and Co. 1955 [12451] 148 pp. with photo illustration. Original cloth. A good copy in dustwrapper. £20 Authoritative account - Carter served for two and a half years on the North Goodwin Lightship. ***Another 1953 copy in chipped dust wrapper***

135 CARTER, GEORGE GOLDSMITH. FORGOTTEN PORTS OF ENGLAND. Evans Brothers Ltd., London 1952 [19595] First reprint, 8vo. x + 206 pp. with maps and photographic illustrations. A good copy in a very good dust wrapper with one or two minor chips to edges, not affecting the design or overall appearance. A very good copy. £25 An interesting work concentrating on the silted-up harbours of England. The local examples are Richborough, Reculver, Sandwich, Lympne, Fordwich, Lydd, and Rye and Winchelsea.

KENTISH UPRISING 136 CARTER, MATTHEW. A MOST TRUE AND EXACT RELATION OF THAT HONOURABLE THO’ UNFORTUNATE EXPEDITION OF KENT, ESSEX, AND COLCHESTER, IN 1648. By Matthew Carter, Quarter-Master General in the Kings Forces: And other Persons of Repute. Printed, and Sold by J.Pilborough, Colchester. No date but c.1650 [19052] Small 8vo. x + 276 pp. A3, B3, C-Z6, Aa-Bb6, end.

Bound in full contemporary calf, recently rebacked. On front endpapers is a list of names, including author and other protagonists in the events, and inscription of owner, Nicholas Hubbard, 1741, with his additional purchase note on rear endpaper. At least two different hands are represented. Short ownership inscription of 1955 in ink on front endpaper. £650 Second edition containing an additional 62 pages of text compared with the first edition of 1648.

Matthew Carter was a loyalist and a gentleman of position and influence in the county of Kent. When the loyal inhabitants of that county rallied round the king's standard in May 1648 in the last desperate attempt to defeat the parliamentarians Carter was chosen as quartermaster-general of all the forces, and in the memorable events which followed bore a conspicuous part. At the surrender of Colchester he was thrown into prison. During his confinement he wrote an account of the scenes of which he had been an eyewitness. This valuable tract fearlessly exposes the cruel deeds of Fairfax and his subordinates

ROAD GUIDE OF 1821 137 CARY, JOHN. CARY’S NEW ITINERARY : OR AN ACCURATE DELINEATION OF THE GREAT ROADS, BOTH DIRECT AND CROSS, THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES; WITH MANY OF THE PRINCIPAL ROADS IN SCOTLAND. FROM AN ACTUAL ADMEASUREMENT BY JOHN

KENT CARY; MADE BY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY’S POSTMASTER GENERAL. FOR OFFICIAL PURPOSES; UNDER THE DIRECTION AND INSPECTION OF THOMAS HASKER ESQ., SURVEYOR AND SUPERINTENDANT OF THE MAIL COACHES. This Work shows the Immediate Route from the Metropolis to all parts of England and Wales; from Town to Town in every direction, distinguishing also, the Cities, Market, Borough and Corporate Towns: And those at which the Assizes are held and gives the time of the Mails Arrival and Departure from each Decribes the Line of the Navigable Canals and the course of the Rivers passed over. The Number of Houses and Inhabitants contained in each Town, and those Inns which supply Post Horses and Carriages. Also The Inns throughout the Metropolis from which the Mail and Stage Coaches go. their time of departure and the Route they severally take. The Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Seats situate near the Roads. A List of the Cross Country Stages The Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Seats situate near the Roads Maps of the Isle of Wight, Environs of London, Bath, Brighton, the Lakes and Cheltenham. And a Large Map of England and Wales, adapted to the Work. Ninth Edition with Improvements.

Published by G and J. Cary, 86 St. James’s Street, London. 1821 [20621] Ninth Edition. 8vo. [viii] + 1-41 + [1] + 1-124 numbered double columns [i.e. 62 pp.] + [82] + 588 numbered double columns [i.e. 294 pp.] +589-602 + 603-958 numbered double columns [i.e. 355 pp.] + 959-1047 pp. + [1]. Illustrated with eight folding, coloured engraved maps., including A New Map of England and Wales at front, and Map of the Mail Road from London to Dublin and engraved dedication page. Bound in later green cloth, with black morocco labels. Map of England and Wales torn and repaired with old tape and some browning and staining; otherwise a fine and complete copy of the ‘Bible’ of the coaching age. £85 Contains much useful information. John Cary (1755-1835) was a London cartographer, engraver, globe maker and publisher, considered by many to be one of the finest of his day, known for his high standards and continuous edition improvements.

The New Itinerary was first published in 1798, with the eleventh edition appearing in 1828. The principal content of the book is the itinerary of roads measured from the starting points in London and the cross roads, or cross country routes, with their appropriate indexes. The book also includes a comprehensive coach directory of stage services from their Metropolitan inns of departure, stages around London, provincial stage coaches, a list of packet boats, an itinerary and map of the new mail road to Holyhead and an index to the country seats and their possessors. A comprehensive guide to road travel in England, Wales and Southern Scotland shortly before the start of the railway age.

138 CHALKLIN, C.W. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY KENT A social and economic history Longmans. 1965 [19016] 8vo. xv + 294 pp., with plates, maps and plans. Original cloth gilt with dust wrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. Slight wear to top of dust wrapper £35 otherwise a fine copy.

The book examines Kent’s position as a Home County on its agriculture, industry and trade and the special character of Kentish society. Classic text, all editions now out of print.

1959 CHANNEL TUNNEL PROJECT 139 CHANNEL TUNNEL. THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. Design and Construction of a Channel Tunnel as recommended by three Engineer Constructors, Bechtel Corporation, Brown and Root, Inc. Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc. November 1959. 1959 [20276] [vi] + 30 pp. Illustrated by coloured maps on front and rear endpapers and four folding maps and diagrams and one table in text. Bound in original black cloth, gilt. Fine condition. £200 ‘Earlier this year it was agreed between Technical Studies, Inc., the American member of the Channel Tunnel Study Group, acting in behalf of that group, and Bechtel Corporation, Brown and Root, Inc., and Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc., that our three companies would make a study of the Channel Tunnel project and report our findings.’ This study places the English tunnel portal in the vicinity of Sugarloaf Hill and the terminal, the Ashford side of Westenhanger, rather than the sites at Castle Hill and Cheriton respectively that were ultimately chosen for the completed project. In view of later events, the comment that ‘the probability of fire in the tunnels, except on the trains in transit, is so low that a general fire protection system cannot be justified,’ makes interesting reading today. A fascinating example of a proposed Channel Tunnel scheme, not totally dissimilar to the actual one that was brought to fruition over thirty years later - apart from the price of course; this one came in at an estimated completion cost of a mere £82,695,00 for the four year project. Now a very scarce item.

140 —— COPY OF A REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE CHANNEL TUNNEL WORKS MADE TO THE BOARD OF TRADE BY MAJOR MARANDIN, R.E., C.M.G., ONE OF THEIR INSPECTING OFFICERS. (Sir Michael Hicks Beach.) London: Printed

by Henry Hansard and Son .. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed 30 July 1888 [17747] Folio. Single sheet designed to be folded twice to display the title details. Slightly dusty otherwise a very good example. £50 A rare survivor, the report relates to the inspection of the Tunnel workings and the state of their maintenance, with details.

141 —— CORRESPONDENCE REFLECTING THE PROPOSED CHANNEL TUNNEL AND RAILWAY. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. Printed by Harrison and Sons.

1875 [17656] Folio. iv + 72 pp. + 5 large coloured lithographed folding plans and maps. Original blue paper wrappers. A very good copy. £350 The table of contents lists fifty-one items of correspondence, in English and French, between the various parties and individuals concerned. The folding plates are profiles, plans and maps both English and French.

KENT 142 —— CORRESPONDENCE WITH REFERENCE TO THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A CHANNEL TUNNEL. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. Printed at the War Office, by Harrison and Sons. 1882 [17657] Folio. xvi + 368 pp. Original blue paper wrappers. Spine fragmented and text a little loose otherwise a very good copy. £475 The text comprises correspondence between all the parties concerned with the promotion and consideration of the Bills to construct a tunnel. The papers have been divided into three periods, 1867 to 1870, 1871 to 1876, and 1880 to 1882. The table of contents sets out all the items with their date, sender and recipient and includes all the government departments involved, the two railway companies and their chairmen, Sir Edward Watkin and James Staats Forbes, and various military and engineering experts. Scarce.

143 —— DEPUTATION TO THE PRIME MINISTER. FULL DETAILS OF THE PRESENT SCHEME - MILITARY, ENGINEERING, FINANCIAL. SPECIAL ARTICLES. FOOD SUPPLIES IN TIME OF WAR. BENEFIT OF THE CHANNEL TUNNEL TO BRITISH TRADE. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. EDITED BY W. TURNER PERKINS. Channel Tunnel Co. Ltd. 1913 [18024] 4to.136 pp. with long folding section and illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers, which have been neatly repaired. £140 Scarce early 20th century report.

144 —— DEPUTATION TO THE PRIME MINISTER. FULL DETAILS OF THE PRESENT SCHEME - MILITARY, ENGINEERING, FINANCIAL. SPECIAL ARTICLES. FOOD SUPPLIES IN TIME OF WAR. BENEFIT OF THE CHANNEL TUNNEL TO BRITISH TRADE. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. EDITED BY W. TURNER PERKINS. Channel Tunnel Co. Ltd. 1913 [19512] 4to.136 pp. with long folding section and illustrations in the text. Bound in modern quarter-calf, gilt. Original printed front wrapper preserved. A very good example Scarce early 20th century report. £150 .

145 —— ECONOMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL. CHANNEL TUNNEL COMMITTEE REPORT. Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty, March 1930.

Together with:CHANNEL TUNNEL COMPANY Ltd. NOTES ON THE REPORT OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL CHANNEL TUNNEL COMMITTEE. PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL. H.M.S.O. 1930 [15460] 8vo. 2 volumes. 111 pp. with a large folding coloured lithographic plan, and 3 other folding charts, and 21 pp.

Original blue printed wrapper. Near mint examples.

Detailed report with the scarce confidential notes from the tunnel company. £100

146 —— REPORT FROM THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE CHANNEL

TUNNEL; TOGETHER WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE, MINUTES OF EVIDENCE, AND APPENDIX. In addition INDEX TO THE REPORT ... ON THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. London: Henry Hansard and Son. 1883 [17666] Report: Folio. xlv + 574 pp. + 1 large folding plate showing plan and sections through Mr. Fowler’s proposed Train Ferry Boat. Index: Folio. pp.575 to 695. Report in original blue paper wrappers with repair to lower corner and index in original white paper wrappers. A very good copy. £600 A full account of the proceedings in committee, which took place between the 24th April and the 21st June 1883. Among those giving evidence were Sir Edward Watkin, Chairman of the South Eastern Railway, James Staats Forbes, Chairman of the London Chatham and Dover Railway; the civil engineers involved with the proposed schemes, Frederick Bramwell, consulting engineer, a Vice-President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and John Hawkshaw, the Engineer of the Channel Tunnel Company, representatives of the Railway Inspectorate and Col. F.E.B. Beaumont, inventor of a tunnel-boring machine and deviser of a system of compressed-air powered locomotives for hauling trains through the tunnel. Also contains numerous tables describing the traffic between the channel ports and France.

CHANNEL TUNNEL 147 CHANNEL TUNNEL. TYLDEN-WRIGHT, CHARLES. THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. TRANSACTIONS OF NORTH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF MINING AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. VOL. XXXII. 1882. A. Reid, Newcastle.

1882 [18700] 16 pp. with 6 plates, 2 of which are very large folding and 4 double-page coloured. Loosely inserted is a 2 pp. paper on ‘The Geological Conditions of a Tunnel under the Straits of Dover.’ by Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, dated 1899, and mentioning Beaumont’s boring machine. Original printed paper wrappers. Some creasing and small tears to wrapper otherwise a very good copy.

Rare Channel Tunnel paper with two fine plates of the Beaumont and English Boring Machine and Beaumont’s Compressed Air Locomotive and four coloured plates showing geological strata. The text provides a description of the 1882 works, an examination of the machinery, and a look at the ventilation system. £375

148 CHAPLIN, LIEUT. COL. H.D. THE 97TH OR EARL OF ULSTER'S REGIMENT 1824 - 1881.

Q.O.R.W.K. Museum Committee. 1973 [19810] 73 pp. with maps and photo illustration. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A mint copy. £35 149 CHAPMAN, H.T. REMINISCENCES OF A HIGHWAY SURVEYOR 1886-1932. Privately by the Author. 1932 [14401] 148 pp. on art paper. Numerous photo illustrations and portraits. Original embossed blue cloth. A little bumped but a very good copy. £45 The author was latterly the County Surveyor for Kent, having previously been surveyor for several other counties, and is largely responsible for the shape of the county’s roads and

KENT transport system, including early proposals for the building of the Dartford Tunnel. There are many interesting photographs of buildings, bridges and road schemes and also much fascinating detail. Chapman had many friends and acquaintances among the county’s dignitaries and he mentions and provides photographs of many of them.

150 CHARLTON PARK. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR OF CHARLTON PARK, BISHOPSBOURNE, KENT. Undated but early Victorian, c.1850 [20219] Original watercolour, 10 x 7 inches, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing, overall size 16.5 x 14 inches. Titled in pencil at the top edge ‘Charlton Park, Bishopsbourne, Kent.’ A very good, bright depiction of Charlton Park, originally a Tudor manor house, set in parkland. The current house is the work of former owner John Foote, sometime after 1776.

The view is of the front of the house, viewed from the northeast, with a coat of arms centrally at the lower edge. Two ladies are walking towards the house and a group of horseman is gathered in the middle ground. A chaise is on the drive in front of the house. A delightful view, emphasising the mature parkland setting. £120

151 CHISLET - HASLEWOOD, REV. FRANCIS. THE PARISH OF CHISLET, KENT: ITS MONUMENTS, VICARS, AND PARISH OFFICERS; WITH A DIGEST OF ANCIENT DOCUMENTS NOW REMAINING IN THE PARISH CHEST. Privately printed to be had only of the Author, Ipswich. 1887 [19463] First Edition. 4to. xiii + 193 pp. with plates and folding pedigrees. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Spine faded otherwise a very good copy of this rare book. £175 Limited edition of 205 copies. Haslewood’s monograms on Kentish villages are always accurate and preserve much that has now been lost (gravestone inscriptions etc.). The genealogical information is always good.

152 CHURCH, RICHARD. THE CRAB-APPLE TREE. Heinemann. 1959 [15455] First Edition. 238 pp. Original cloth in slightly faded dust wrapper designed by Charles Stewart. A very good copy, fore-edges a little foxed. Fine Kentish novel. £25

SIGNED COPY 153 —— THE GOLDEN SOVEREIGN. A CONCLUSION TO OVER THE BRIDGE. Heinemann.

1957 [16585] First Edition. 245 pp. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy of the book in a like wrapper. £45 His second volume of autobiography. Signed on the title page by the author.

SIGNED COPY 154 —— KENT. Robert Hale. 1948 [16586] 289 pp. with folding map and photo illustration Original cloth in a dust wrapper, which is a little worn at the head of the spine and has two closed tears but is complete. A good copy. This copy is signed by the author on the front free endpaper. £25 ***We also have unsigned copies at £10***

SIGNED COPY 155 —— THE PORCH. Heinemann. 1961 [16599] A new edition. 355 pp., with a new introduction by the author. Original cloth. A very good copy in like wrapper.

A later reprint of this popular novel. This copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper ‘To Jean and Robert in friendship.

Richard Church July 1961’ . £35

156 —— THE VOYAGE HOME. Heinemann, London. 1964 [13751] First edition. 223 pp. Original cloth gilt in price clipped dustwrapper. Spine sunned otherwise a very good copy. The last volume of the author’s autobiographical trilogy. £20 157 CHURCHILL, IRENE JOSEPHINE. EAST KENT RECORDS. A Calendar of some unpublished Deeds and Court Rolls in the Library of Lambeth Palace, With Appendices referring especially to the Manors of Knowlton, Sandown, South Court, and North Court.

Edited by Irene Josephine Churchill, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. (Kent Records. Volume 7, 1920-22).

Printed for the Records Branch [of Kent Archaeological Society] by Mitchel Hughes and Clarke. 1922 [19843] 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. l + 224 pp. [8], b-c8, d1, B-D8, E-E2, F-P8, Q-Q4, R-R2. Separate title pages for series and individual title. Bound in blue cloth, gilt with double gilt bands and gilt crest of Society on front boards. Small ink stain on first title page. Ink and pencil comments in introduction. £35 158 CINQUE PORTS. INDEXES OF THE GREAT WHITE BOOK AND OF THE BLACK BOOK OF THE CINQUE PORTS. Elliot Stock, London. 1905 [13975] 4to., 139 pp. Original decorated burgundy cloth, gilt.

Important indices. £45 159 CINQUE PORTS - BURROWS, MONTAGUE. HISTORIC TOWNS - CINQUE PORTS. Longmans.

1888 [17204] 261 pp., with folding maps. Original cloth gilt spine faded, otherwise a good copy. £20 A very good monograph on the subject.

160 CINQUE PORTS - GREEN, IVAN. THE BOOK OF THE CINQUE PORTS THEIR ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT, HAYDAY AND DECLINE. Barracuda Books Ltd. Buckingham. 1984 [19573] 8vo. 144 pp. with photographs and illustrations. in original. Rexine in dust wrapper. A very good copy.

A well illustrated account, signed by the author. £25 161 CINQUE PORTS - HUEFFER, FORD MADOX. [FORD MADOX FORD]. THE CINQUE PORTS - A HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE RECORD. William Blackwood and Sons. Edinburgh and London. 1900. [18106] First edition. Large 4to. xiv + 413 pp. with 14 photogravure plates with printed tissue guards and 19

KENT black and white full page plates and text illustrations by William Hyde. Decorated cloth gilt. Top edge gilt. Head and tail of spine and corners very slightly bumped. Slight foxing to text block but a very good copy. £240 Ford Madox Hueffer was the real name of the well known writer Ford Madox Ford. In the late nineteenth century he was one of the group of writers who settled in and about Rye and the Romney Marsh, of whom Henry James, H.G. Wells and Joseph Conrad are now the most famous. Hueffer’s delightful book is this group’s only contribution to topographical literature, and a fine book it is, greatly enhanced by William Hyde’s brooding illustrations, which capture the remote and isolated feel of the marsh countryside. As a portrait of the Marsh at the turn of last century, it is often overlooked and become scarce, as the writer has a large American following and many copies are now overseas.

162 CINQUE PORTS - HULL, FELIX. (Edited by).

A CALENDAR OF THE WHITE AND BLACK BOOKS OF THE CINQUE PORTS. 1432 - 1955. H.M.S.O. 1966 [16647] 818 pp. Original cloth, gilt. Small split in front hinge, otherwise, a good copy. £20 The minutes of all the meetings of the Cinque Ports Confederation since the mid 15th century.

SIGNED COPY 163 CLARK, F.C. KENTISH FIRE. Adams and Son, Rye. 1947 [19028] 4to.111 pp. with photographic illustrations. Original boards with dust wrapper. Author’s inscription on prelims.

Two small neat bookplates inside front paste down. Signs of removed adhesive tape and repairs to edges of dust wrapper, otherwise good condition. £20 Now scarce work which includes accounts of traditional farming practices and rural industries with several chapters on windmills.

164 CLUNN, HAROLD. FAMOUS SOUTH COAST PLEASURE RESORTS PAST AND PRESENT, THEIR HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS, THEIR RISE TO FAME AND A FORECAST OF THEIR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. T. Wittingham, 1929 [17191] First Edition. Large 8vo. 404 pp., with numerous illustrations. Original blue cloth, gilt. £45 Quite scarce now, this book gives a fascinating picture of the rise of the seaside resorts, and their present state (1929). The towns in Mr Clunn's survey are Brighton, Hastings, Torquay, Folkestone and Worthing.

165 COOKE, GEORGE ALEXANDER. TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. Bound together with :TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX. Containing an Account of its Situation, Extent, Towns, Roads, Rivers, Minerals, Fisheries, Manufactures, Commerce, Fairs, Agriculture, Markets, Curiosities, Antiquities, Natural History, Civil and Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions &c. To which is prefixed, a Copious Travelling Guide; Exhibiting The District and Principal Cross Roads, Inns and Distance of Stages. Noblemen’s

and Gentlemen’s Seats, Forming a Complete County Itinerary. Also a list of the Markets and Fairs; and an index table, showing, at one view, the distances of all the towns from London, and from each other. Illustrated with a Map of The County. Printed for C. Cooke. 17, Paternoster Row, By Brimmer and Co. Water Lane, Fleet Street. n.d. but c.1800 [17383] 12 mo. 2 volumes bound as one, 360 pp. and 168 pp. with a hand-coloured, folding engraved map of each county.

Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards with contrasting title labels, gilt. A little rubbed at extremities but a very good, clean copy. £250 This volume has here been bound up with the volume for Essex, with a nunber 4 stamped on the binding, so at some time it was part of a set of all Cooke’s county volumes. A most interesting pocket compendium of the counties for the traveller, containing a mass of information. The descriptions of Dover and Hythe make no reference to the works undertaken for the Napoleonic Wars, from which I conjecture the date to be about the turn of the eighteenth century. Not recorded by Smith.

166 COOKRIDGE, E H. ORIENT EXPRESS THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WORLDS MOST FAMOUS TRAIN Allen Lane. 1979 [19560] First Edition 288 pp. Original ochre cloth in good dust wrapper. £25 Definitive history of the Orient Express

BOTANICAL RAMBLES 167 COOPER, DANIEL. FLORA METROPOLITANA; OR BOTANICAL RAMBLES WITHIN THIRTY MILES OF LONDON. Being the results of numerous excursions made in 1833, 34, 35 furnishing a list of those plants that have been found on the different heaths, woods, commons, hills, etc. surrounding the metropolis (more particularly the counties of Surrey and Kent) chiefly from actual observation, and the latest authorities. Intended for the student in practical botany, with a list of the land and fresh-water shells of the environs of London.

By Daniel Cooper. London: S.Highley, 32, Fleet Street. 1836 [19478] 12mo. xvi + 139 pp. [6], a-a2, B-N4. Errata slip tipped in before index. Bound in early dark green morocco, gilt, decorated with acorn motif, edges gilt. Some rubbing and wear to edges of boards and joints and small losses of binding at top and bottom of spine. Otherwise a fine copy. £275 Daniel Cooper (1816/17-1842) the naturalist, was born in Lambeth. Intended for medicine, his enthusiasm for field botany developed during his pupillage to a local physician, to whom the book is dedicated. The botanical excursions he made in 1833-35, led to his precocious authorship of the Flora early in 1836 and in the same year he was largely instrumental in the foundation of the Botanical Society of London, which he initially served as honorary curator.

The Flora lists plants in localities within thirty miles of city of London, in the counties of Surrey, Kent, Essex and Middlesex with a greater emphasis on the first two counties. At that period, this included locations as close to the city as Wimbledon and Wandsworth Commons, Battersea Fields, Hampstead Heath, Highgate, etc. The Kent section includes Blackheath, Woolwich, Charlton, Dartford, Northfleet and

KENT Gravesend, Lewisham, Eltham, Rochester and Chislehurst, etc.

Of particular interest is the listing of the rare Orchis militaris (Military Orchid) in the chalk-pit, near the paper-mill at Harefield, Middlesex. This copy lacks the dedication leaf and is in all probability one of the dedication copies which have a special binding. A handwritten dedication has been removed by the family before sale. The Flora contains a poem by Campbell, a list of subscribers providing a total of 205 copies, an index to the localities and lists of synonyms at the beginning. At the end there is an addenda, A list of the Land and Fresh-water Shells found in the Environs of London and an index to the genera of flowering plants.

The Flora Metropolitana had an early initial success, being reprinted with a Supplement containing an index of both Latin and English names, time of flowering, colour of flowers, etc. in 1837. The list of shells was separately published in 1836 and an another Supplement, containing many additional localities, appeared in 1838.A handsome copy of this rare work.

FAVERSHAM AND EAST KENT FLORA 168 COWELL, M. H. A FLORAL GUIDE FOR EAST KENT, Etc., BEING A RECORD OF THE HABITATS OF INDIGENOUS PLANTS FOUND IN THE EASTERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF KENT, WITH THOSE OF FAVERSHAM PARTICULARLY DETAILED, AND DEFINITELY EXHIBITED; Together with brief remarks on the uses of the several species in rural or domestic economy, Agriculture, Medicine, and historical associations; deduced from various authorities. IN TWO DIVISIONS, illustrated with two maps. By M. H. COWELL, Corresponding Member, and Local Secretary for Kent, of the Botanical Society of London. W. Ratcliffe, Court Street; Faversham W. Pamplin, Jun Botanical Bookseller, Lavender Hill Wandsworth, Surrey, and all Booksellers . 1839 [19458] First Edition, 8vo. xiv + [ii] + 98 pp. + [6] pp. catalogue.

Illustrated with one double-page hand-coloured lithographic map of Faversham and district and one engraved uncoloured map of the Isle of Thanet. Bound in twentieth century cloth with the original label affixed to upper board. A very good copy of this rare item. £375 This work was only produced once, and the print-run must have been very small, as we have not catalogued a single example for over 30 years. As a comment on Jacob’s ‘Flora of Faversham’ this gives an update and retrospect to that work and adds a further 21 ‘first’ records for the county. Very little seems to be known about Mr Cowell other than his membership of various Botanical Societies: and this - his lasting memorial.

SURVEY AND MAP OF KENT, 1720 169 COX, THOMAS. KENT. Taken from MAGNA BRITANNIA ET HIBERNIA, ANTIQUA and NOVA [Or, A New Survey of Great Britain; wherein to the Topographical Account given by Mr.Cambden, and the late Editors of his Britannia, is added a more large History, not only of the Cities, Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes mentioned by them, but also of many other Places of Note, and Antiquities since discovered. Collected and composed by an Impartial Hand. [In Six Volumes.] [In

the Savoy: printed by Eliz. Nutt; and sold by M. Nutt, and J. Morphew, London.] [1720] [19968] 4to. 9 x 7 inches pp. 1071-1270 comprising the entire section on the County of Kent, extracted from vol. 2 of the complete work and hence lacks title page. 6Y2-8A1.

Illustrated with folding map of Kent by Robert Morden at beginning of text. Rebound in half calf with maroon morocco boards and black morocco labels, gilt and raised bands. Interior slightly browned with occasional foxing and pencil notes, with some early water stains on bottom margins not affecting text. Edges darkened with a few ink stains. Otherwise a clean neat copy. £200 Magna Britannia was intended to be an enlargement of the sixth edition of Britannia by William Camden (1607) and was originally published in monthly parts as a supplement to the Atlas Geographus (5 vols., 1711-17). Only the sections on the English counties were published in six volumes from 1720-31.

Vols.1 and 2 (the latter including Kent) were continuously paginated and both appeared in 1720.

The series has generally been attributed to Thomas Cox (1655/6-1734), rector of Stoke Harvard and vicar of Broomfield, Essex who published a number of works on ecclesiastical and national history. His DNB author, however, considers that ‘this was probably a confusion arising from the name of the bookseller who took over the publication from 1724, who was also a Thomas Cox.’ ESTC follows the traditional attribution of the work to the Rev. Thomas Cox, although it notes that the vendor of the remainder of the Magna Britannia stock advertised in a sale catalogue of 1738 was probably Thomas Cox (i.e. the printer). The work was reissued in the same year by another printer. The cartographer Robert Morden (d. 1703) produced the English county maps for the 1695 edition of Camden’s Britannia and these remained standard for fifty years, hence their later use in Magna Britannia.

170 CRANBROOK - DE LAUNAY, JULES. ABSTRACTS OF CRANBROOK WILLS. Proved in the Diocesan Courts of Canterbury ... 1396-1640. Kent Records Collection and K.A.S. 1984 [20093] Soft cover 8vo. 6 x 8 inches. xi + 459 pp. Original pale green pictorial card wrappers. A fine copy. £25 Useful reference now very scarce.

171 CRAWFORD, O.G.S. ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE FIELD. Phoenix House. 1953 [17415] 280 pp. + 24 plates and 43 figures to the text. Original green cloth, gilt. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper. £20 One of the standard texts on the subject but eminently readable.

172 CRAYFORD - CARR, WILLIAM. THE SPOT THAT IS CALLED CRAYFORD. HISTORICAL NOTES ON THE URBAN DISTRICT OF CRAYFORD FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES. Crayford UDC. 1965 [16941] Revised and enlarged edition . 152 pp. with 19 illustrations including coloured frontis. Original cloth, gilt.

A very good copy signed by the author. £20 173 CUNLIFFE, BARRY. IRON AGE COMMUNITIES IN BRITAIN. An account of England, Scotland and Wales from the seventh century BC until the

KENT Roman conquest. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1978 [19002] Second edition, 4to. xviii + 439 pp. + Photo plates 28 pp.

Original dark blue cloth, gilt. Very good in like, unclipped, dust wrapper £60 Standard authoritative text.

174 CUXTON - CHURCH, DEREK. CUXTON. A KENTISH VILLAGE. Cassell, Sheerness. 1976 [19611] 177 pp., with diagrams and illustration throughout.

Original pictorial boards. £25 A well-researched history of this village on the banks of the Medway. Becoming difficult to find.

175 DARENT VALLEY ALEXANDER, WILLIAM G.G. A FARMING CENTURY. THE DARENT VALLEY 1892-1992. Quiller Press, London.

1991 [20556] 1st edition. 4to. 7.5 x 10 inches. 176 pp. with numerous black and white illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt. A fine copy in like dust wrapper. £25 Account of a farming family from Scotland who moved to the Darent Valley, Kent in 1892 and founded a farming dynasty.

Now out of print.

HISTORY OF DARTFORD 176 DARTFORD - DUNKIN, A. J. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF DARTFORD TOGETHER WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING TOPOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho Square. 1844 [16900] Large 8vo. xxvi + 478 pp. + [2] with 9 plates including an engraved frontispiece. Neatly pasted to one of the blank prelims is a black-bordered slip in memory of Ann Chapman Dunkin. This gives her details, and those of her husband, with dates, and has two photographic miniature portraits of Ann and John Dunkin. That of John Dunkin is a photograph of his engraved portrait whilst that of his wife appears to be a reduction of an original photograph.

Original red cloth, gilt. Re-spined with the original spine laid-on. A very good copy. £250 From the imprint it appears that this edition of Dunkin's history of Dartford was issued at a later date by John Russell Smith, using the remaining sheets from Dunkin’s own press, possibly for the benefit of Dunkin’s widow or, in light of the memorial slip, in her memory. As with all Dunkin’s books the collations are difficult and this copy demonstrates the eccentricity of his books, which were printed in very small numbers. The pagination is contrary to normal practice in that the verso of page 1 is page 3, thus throughout the book the recto has an even number. Pages 22 and 23 do not exist but comparison with another copy shows that the text is uninterrupted. There is an instance where a cancel has been inserted producing no less than three pages numbered 233, two on the same leaf. The list of plates calls for fourteen plates including the frontis. This copy has nine, two of which are different to those called for, and few plates appear where they are listed. Again it is clear, from comparison with other copies, that the plates varied from copy to copy, and there is no evidence that any of the errant plates were ever actually included in this issue.

177 DARTFORD - DUNKIN, A.J. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF DARTFORD WITH TOPOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. Printed and published by J. and W. Davis, Dartford. 1904 [19083] Large 8vo. xxviii + 477 pp. + [2] illustrated with 18 plates including an engraved frontispiece. Bound in recent red half-morocco, gilt. A very good copy, with some old ink inscriptions and annotations by a previous owner in the text, that provide additional first hand information.

Combined with an attractive binding by our Bookbinder, this is a desirable example. £250 This is the later facsimile edition of Dunkin's history of Dartford, originally published in 1844, and it retains the flavour of the original but corrects the ‘palpable mistakes’ of the earlier printing. Thus it is free from the entertaining foibles of the original in respect of variety of plates and odd pagination and represents a very good alternative to the scarce first edition.

178 DARTFORD - DUNKIN, A.J. MEMORANDA OF SPRINGHEAD AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. DURING THE PRESENT PERIOD. One Hundred Copies. Printed for Private circulation. 1848 [16860] 8vo. 152 pp. with a frontis portrait and 6 plates. Bound in the original cloth but re-spined at a later date. Rather worn at the extremities and covers rather stained, otherwise a good example. £165 Printed at the Private Press of J. Dunkin, in an edition of one hundred copies only. Dunkin’s somewhat eccentric books are all very scarce, but contain interesting information.

179 DARTFORD KEYES, SIDNEY KILWORTH. DARTFORD. SOME HISTORICAL NOTES. Dartford, Perry, Son, and Lack, 1933 [18908] Thick Royal. 8vo. 727 pp. with maps, plans, and illustrations throughout. Original blue cloth, gilt. £150 With a signed portrait of the author and a presentation inscription in the author’s hand pasted on the front free endpaper. A fine copy of the first volume of the author's monumental history of Dartford.

180 DEAL - BURNAND, F.C. THE ZIG-ZAG GUIDE ROUND AND ABOUT THE BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL KENTISH COAST. A. and C. Black.

1897 [18127] First Edition. viii + 188 pp. + 32 with folding frontis and illustrations throughout by Phil May. Original pictorial cloth. Spine darkened and a little worn, but a good copy.

Primarily concerned with Deal, Sandwich and the Isle of Thanet. Attractively illustrated in Phil May's distinctive comic style. £65

181 DEAL - PAIN, E.C. HISTORY OF DEAL (1914 - 1953). Deal: T.F.Pain & Sons. 1953 [16113] 148 pp. with photo and other illustrations. Original cloth, gilt. Spine faded but a good copy. £85 Scarce modern history of Deal encompassing the two World Wars - intended as an update to complete Laker's history.

CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF THE DEAL LUGGERS

KENT 182 —— THE LAST OF OUR LUGGERS AND THE MEN WHO SAILED IN THEM. Sketches and etchings by H.W. Pain and T.A.N. Bent. Deal, T.F. Pain and Sons. 1929 [19525] Tall 8vo. 174 pp. Illustrated throughout with etchings and photographs. Original cloth, gilt, in the very rare dust wrapper, which has a closed tear in the front panel and a piece missing from the head of the spine, not affecting the design. Rebacked, with scratching and wear on spine and boards Newspaper photograph pasted on front free endpaper. £200 The rare, Deal-published account of the luggers and the men who sailed them in the period 1858 - 1909. A cornerstone in any Deal / Goodwin Sands collection. The best work on the subject with much first-hand detail and anecdotes, collected and recorded when the last of the nineteenth-century sailors were still alive.

183 DEAL - TREANOR, REV. THOMAS STANLEY. THE LOG OF A SKY PILOT. OR WORK AND ADVENTURE AROUND THE GOODWIN SANDS. Religious Tract Society. 1893 [10898] 256 pp. with illustration throughout. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Front free endpaper torn out and amateurishly re-attached with stamp paper, otherwise a very good copy. £65 A very good copy of this scarce book which continues the history of the Deal boatmen and the Goodwin sands.

184 —— THE LOG OF A SKY PILOT. OR WORK AND ADVENTURE AROUND THE GOODWIN SANDS. Religious Tract Society. 1894 [20248] Second Editon, 256 pp. with illustration throughout.

Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Front free endpaper removed, otherwise a very good copy with the binding very fresh and bright. £65 A very good copy of this scarce book which continues the history of the Deal boatmen and the Goodwin Sands.

FISHING AND OYSTERS 185 DEMPSTER, HENRY. THE DECKEDWELLED FISHING BOAT, FISHERIES AND FISHMARKET REFORM: Being Dialogues on these Important Subjects with Full Information on the Oyster Question. By Henry Dempster, H.E.I.C.S. Printed for the Author by Aird and Coghill, Glasgow. 1868 [20213] 8vo. 4.5 x 6.5 inches. 138 pp. + [1] p. [A-A4], [B-B8], CI8, [K1]. Illustrated by coloured lithograph plan serving as frontispiece, two folding plans of vessels, one at the end and engravings in text. Bound in original blue cloth; blind stamped borders enclosing decorative patterns on boards, front gilt image of fishing craft. Title ‘Fishing’ in white on front board and spine. Extremities worn and some staining on boards. Yellow endpapers. Slight browning but otherwise clean inside. £175 An investigation into the state of British fisheries and fish markets, largely written in the form of a dialogue, featuring Tom, Dick and Harry and a number of fishermen, etc. It has a particular emphasis on oyster culture and some detailed boat plans (one showing deck and elevation plans, the other the

rigging) and descriptions of the decked-welled craft recommended for fishing. The coloured lithograph shows the proposed oyster tanks at Kinghorn, Fife. Although biased towards the southern part of the east coast of Scotland, there are frequent references to other areas, including Billingsgate Market in London and the Herne Bay Oyster Fishing Company.

A very scarce work with much useful information on fishing boats and the fishing industry in the late nineteenth century.

186 DENNY, ERNEST. ALL-OF-A-SUDDEN PEGGY. A Light Comedy in Three Acts. Samuel French, London. 1910 [18153] 159 pp. inscribed and signed by the author. Original green half-calf over marbled boards with gilt title to spine. A very good copy. £175 Two of the three acts are set in Hawkhurst. A smartly bound presentation copy inscribed on, and incorporating, the halftitle: To Miss Marjorie Dawson in old days just ‘Peggy’ from the author of her namesake:- ALL-OF-A-SUDDEN PEGGY in both old days, and these, & in future days, - her friend Ernest Denny. Dec: 2. 1910. Loosely inserted is a two-page letter of the same date from Denny to Marjorie on his printed notepaper. This play was subsequently made into a silent movie with Marguerite Clark and Jack Mulhall and was one in a number of movies made from Denny’s original plays.

187 DEPTFORD - DEWS, NATHAN. THE HISTORY OF DEPTFORD IN THE COUNTIES OF KENT AND SURREY. Compiled from Authentic Records and Manuscripts. By Nathan Dews, Author of the ‘History of Somersham.’ ‘The Banks of Calder.’ etc., etc. Second edition. Revised and Enlarged, with Illustrations. (The Thamesmead Histories, Vol. III).

Conway Maritime Press, 7 Nelson Road, Greenwich, London, S.E.10. 1971 [20263] 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. 328 pp. Illustrated by [four] plates, including three folding (two genealogical tables and facsimile map) and other illustrations in text. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with pictorial dust wrapper. Top edges green. Bookplate. Fine condition. £65 A facsimile reprint of the standard nineteenth century history of Deptford, itself now scarce. First published in 1883, the second edition, reprinted here, was revised and enlarged. The book includes chapters on the manors and Evelyn family, ecclesiastical sites, charities and schools and on commercial and industrial history. There is a list of all warships launched at the Royal Dockyard from 1551 to 1869, when naval shipbuilding at Deptford ceased. Fine copy of a now scarce book.

188 DETSICAS, ALEC. COLLECTANEA HISTORICA. Essays in memory of Stuart Rigold. Kent Archæological Society. 1981 [11117] 4to. 315 pp. including 64 b/w plates and 65 figures to text. Blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in dust wrapper.

A collection of essays edited by Alec Detsicas. £25 189 —— STUDIES IN MODERN KENTISH HISTORY. [Edited by NIGEL YATES] Presented to Felix Hull and Elizabeth Melling. Kent Archæological Society. 1983 [13324] 4to. 230 pp. including 20 b/w plates. Blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in dust wrapper. £25

KENT 190 DITCHFIELD, P.H. and G. CLINCH. MEMORIALS OF OLD KENT. Bemrose and Sons Ltd. 1907 [17474] First edition, Fat 8vo. 335 pp. with numerous illustrations.

Original cloth, gilt. A good copy. £35 Contains articles on Dickens’ Kent, Romney Marsh and Smuggling, Castles and Bridges.

191 DOMESDAY BOOK. KENT. OR THE GREAT SURVEY OF ENGLAND OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR A.D. 1066 Colonel Sir H. James, Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. 1863 [18255] Folio. 10 x 14 inches. [vi] + 28 pp. with lithographic title 2 pages of text and 28 pages of litho facsimile pages and two woodcut illustrations. Contemporary green halfleather over cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board.

A very good copy of a scarce item. £150 Colonel James, who claimed to have invented the process, introduced Photozincography for the reproduction of Ordnance Survey maps and utilised the process in the production of this accurate, life-size facsimile, issued in 33 volumes, covering one or two counties per volume. As such, this is a very early example of the process that James was to utilize widely.

192 DONOVAN, PAUL. SPORTING THE OAK. The Life and Times of Thomas Downes Wilmot Dearn.

Christine Swift. Egerton 2005 [18045] 8vo. 249pp. with a large section of photographic illustrations. Original gilt boards dust wrapper. A very fine copy. £25 Detailed study of author/artist/architect.

Thomas

Dearn

Cranbrook’s

193 DORMER, PHILIP G. EASTWELL PARK HISTORIETTE. Eastwell Publications. 1999 [20210] First edition. 4to. 6.75 x 9 inches. [vi] + 154 pp.

Illustrated with black and white photographs; colour photograph inside rear cover. Bound in coloured pictorial card wrappers as issued. Crease to lower edge of front wrapper, otherwise fine condition. £20 A detailed history of Eastwell Park, the country estate and mansion, near Ashford, now a hotel. This was the last book by local historian, Philip Godfrey Dormer (1923-99), who had already published several works on the parish of Eastwell.

194 DOUCH, JOHN. SMUGGLING. FLOGGING JOEY'S WARRIORS HOW THE ROYAL NAVY FOUGHT THE KENT AND SUSSEX SMUGGLERS. Dover, Crabwell Publications, 1985. [17675] 165 pp. with illustrations throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. £30 The book documents the efforts of the Customs and the Navy to defeat the 'gentlemen'. All of Mr. Douch’s books are long out of print and have become something of classics in Smuggling literature.

195 DOVER. DOVER AND THE EUROPEAN WAR, 1914-18. Reprinted from the Dover Express and East Kent News, dec. 1918 to Feb. 1919. Dover Express Printing Office. 1919 [19651] 4to. 48 pp. with double-page map showing bombs and shells that landed on Dover. Original green, printed card

wrappers faded around extremities but a very good copy of a scarce item. We have not had a copy of this item in over twenty years. £75 196 —— GODWYNEHURST LADIES’ SCHOOL DOVER. Seven photographs of the School, two external and five internal. No date but c.1900 [14907] Seven photographs, 4.25 x 6 inches, mounted on paper. In very good condition. £50 Pike’s Directory for 1910 lists Godwynehurst Ladies’ School as run by Mrs. J. S. Wise from Layburne Road, Dover. The photos show:1. External view of the building; 2. View from neighbouring property looking down on the field adjoining the school; 3.

View of the Dining Room; 4. Junior Class Room; 5. The Senior Class Room; 6. Drawing Room; 7. A bedroom.

197 DOVER - BAVINGTON JONES, J. ANNALS OF DOVER. INCLUDING HISTORIES OF THE CASTLE, PORT, PASSAGE, RELIGION, THE CORPORATION, MAYORS & THEIR TIMES, CORPORATION OFFICIALS, REPRESENTATION IN PARLIAMENT, AND SOCIAL HISTORY. Dover, at the Express Works. 1916 [16376] First Edition. 8vo. [12] + 432 pp. + [16] pp. Original cloth, gilt. Spine faded but a very good copy. £85 Indispensible history of Dover. This first edition is now hard to find.

198 —— ANNALS OF DOVER. INCLUDING HISTORIES OF THE CASTLE, PORT, PASSAGE, RELIGION, THE CORPORATION, MAYORS & THEIR TIMES, CORPORATION OFFICIALS, REPRESENTATION IN PARLIAMENT, AND SOCIAL HISTORY. Dover, at the "Express” works. 1938 [17241] Second Edition. 8vo. 480 pp. Original cloth, gilt. A near mint copy. £85 Indispensible history of Dover. This 2nd edition has been brought up-to-date (so far as the end of 1937), the text and the index revised.

199 —— THE CINQUE PORTS. THEIR HISTORY AND PRESENT CONDITION. Dover Express. 1937 [19384] Second Edition. 8vo. 8 x 6 inches, [viii] +162 pp. + (6) pp. index. Original cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded but a very good copy. £75 The book is in two parts - the customs and privileges of the Cinque Ports, and then a description of each port. This work is based on Jeake’s Charters of the Cinque Ports 1728, and Mantel’s History of Coronations and Courts of Brotherhood 1771, and Knocker’s Grand Court of Shepway 1862. Jones distils these rather dry texts into a very readable account which contains much interesting information on the activities of each port under the Cinque Ports Charter and a concise account of their subsequent history. The first edition of 1903 was limited to 50 copies, and this edited and updated edition was not a large printing and it too has become scarce.

200 DOVER CASTLE - DARELL, REV. WILLIAM. THE HISTORY OF DOVER CASTLE,

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KENT ILLUSTRATED WITH 10 VIEWS AND A PLAN OF THE CASTLE. Printed for S. Hooper. 1786 [17376] Small folio. vi + 68 pp. with 10 copper engraved plates and a folding plan. Bound in eighteenth century calf, gilt.

Rebacked with original spine laid on. A very good copy. £175 A very nice copy of this printing of Darell's work, here translated from the Latin manuscript in the College of Arms.

Darell was chaplain to Queen Elizabeth I. This copy is from Castle Freke Library with their attractive Bookplate. We have a further copy of this title in stock at the same price.

201 —— THE HISTORY OF DOVER CASTLE, ILLUSTRATED WITH 10 VIEWS AND A PLAN OF THE CASTLE. Printed for Hooper and Wigstead, No.212 High Holborn, opposite Southampton Street, Bloomsbury-Square 1797 [19514] Tall folio, viii +71 pp.+ [1] advert with 10 copper engraved plates and a folding plan. This copy measures overall 13 x 9.5 inches. Bound in half-calf over marbled boards with embossed and gilt decoration to spine and contrasting title label, gilt. The edition of 1797 was reset but retained the original engraved illustrations £195 A very nice copy of this printing of the work of William Darell, Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth I, translated from the Latin manuscript in the College of Arms.

202 DOVER CASTLE, PUCKLE, REV. J. THE CHURCH AND FORTRESS OF DOVER CASTLE. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE AUTHOR'S DRAWINGS. Oxford and London : John Henry and James Parker. 1864 [19659] [10] + 132 pp. + 8 pp. publisher’s catalogue. Illustrated with 2 folding plans and 9 lithographic plates, 2 of which are printed in colour. Bound in the original cloth, gilt. A very good copy. £35 This work is of importance as the best record of the Saxon church before it was ‘restored’ by Puckle.

THE ENGLISH CHANNEL STEAM SHIP COMPANY LTD 203 DOVER - DICEY, CAPTAIN W.T.Y. DOVER TO CALAIS, NEWHAVEN TO DIEPPE, WITHOUT SEA SICKNESS. A LETTER SHOWING ITS ACCOMPLISHMENT IMMEDIATE, ECONOMICAL & SUCCESSFUL. Whitehead, Morris and Lowe, Steam Printers, London. 1874 [18698] Third illustrated edition. Pamphlet. 5 x 7 inches approx.

16 pp. with wood-engraved vignette to title page, 3 other wood-engraved illustrations and a plan. Original printed pictorial paper wrappers. £120 A very rare example of promotional material for the twinhulled cross-channel ferry. Designed by Capt. Dicey, whose experience with twin hulls was gained as Master-Attendant at Calcutta, the ferry was intended to alleviate much of the uncomfortable motion of single-hulled vessels in the Channel.

Unfortunately, ‘Castalia’, the only ferry completed, whilst being very stable was also very slow, with the result that she was in service for only two years before being withdrawn and later sold, to finish her days as a floating isolation hospital on the Thames.

DOVER SOLICITOR’S SKULLDUGGERY

204 DOVER - DOCUMENTS AND PAPERS OF KNOCKER OF DOVER. 1826-1830 [19768] Thirty three manuscript letters and associated financial documents. Some letters bear postmarks and seals. A few seals have been removed and two letters have the postal address page detached from the body of the letter. £300 These papers relate to the intertwined family and business affairs of the Knocker family, solicitors, of Dover and are largely concerned with the problems arising from the onset of mental incapacity in one of the partners, Thomas Knocker.

Although there are some accounts and legal documents, the core of the collection is formed by the letters between William Knocker, his son, Edward, the brother of Thomas, the latter’s wife Mercy, and their principal correspondent, John James Pierce, solicitor of Canterbury and friend of the family.

According to his wife’s account (document 27), Thomas Knocker had his first seizure in February 1824 and because ‘sea air never agreed with him’,took up residence in Canterbury. Mercy describes her husband as hearing voices in his head and that his greatest amusements were shredding paper, cutting up his garments and trying to mend them, and writing. Eventually, in 1827, his brother Edward takes Thomas to London to be placed in the care of ‘eminent medical Men.’ (23). These same physicians, having diagnosed his condition as epilepsy, then subject poor Thomas to the full rigours of early nineteenth century medical treatment, seemingly applicable to all ailments. He was bled in the arm, blistered on the back, had leeches placed on his temples and was sent to bed at night with a wet cloth around his head. In her account, Mercy adds that in London his principal food was ‘Gloucester jelly,[made from rice, sago, pearl barleyand sundry mucilaginous substances] served with brandy, later replaced by wine.

Naturally this complete mental breakdown of a practising solicitor, possessed of numerous property and other assets, had serious ramifications for the family business. ‘When will these perplexities end’ wrote Edward in 1827. (23). In fact William and Edward had already taken measures to exclude Thomas from the business, and the partnership between him and his father was dissolved with effect from the end of 1826 (Deed of Arrangement, 11). Although Thomas seemingly had to surrender all his assets, he was granted three eighths of the profits of future business. The Deed was signed by all three Knockers as well as by Pierce of Canterbury and two others, presumably as witnesses.

There follows a gap in the correspondence until 1829 when we learn of a new development from John Pierce. Mercy has caused some scandal by absenting herself from home and leaving their four children in the care of ‘an old faithful servant’ (29). The reaction of Edward Knocker is (described

by Mercy as acting with ‘flagrant injustice and illegality’) to turn out the servant, remove the children, extract her private papers from a locked chest and make off with all her keys. She claims that ‘Although circumstances compelled me to a temporary absence from my house it was farthest from my thoughts to desert my beloved children.’ She arrives in Canterbury hoping that Pierce will help her, but he declines to become involved in the affair and sends a report of her claims to Edward instead.

We hear nothing more of the outcome of these particular events and the last few letters from 1830, reveal that Thomas has died, succumbing either to the effects of his illness, or the treatment for it, we don’t know. Mercy is endeavouring to locate the deed dissolving the partnership and, being aware that her late husband had been allocated a share of the profits

KENT is also seeking an account book. Presumably unable to have direct dealings with Edward Knocker, she is placing reliance on John Pierce to help her. Unfortunately for the lady, her faith in Pierce’s impartiality is quite unjustified as the latter is always going to take the side of his fellow solicitor and friend, Edward Knocker. He prevaricates with Mercy and goes so far as to state that ‘There never was any Deed of Dissolution of Partnership all that was done in respect to the Dissolution was an Advertisement in the London Gazette’. (30). Pierce, of course, is being quite disingenuous here, as he was a signatory to the surviving Deed Of Arrangement which had dissolved the partnership in December 1826. The account book she seeks has been sent back to Edward Knocker to be made up he claims, and whether Mercy ever received Thomas’ share remains uncertain. From Edward’s letter to Pierce of 5 March 1830 (31) it is evident that the two solicitors were colluding in their attempt to exclude Mercy altogether from any role in executing her husband’s will or receiving her entitlements from the deed of dissolution of partnership, on the grounds of his insanity when signing such documents, and in withholding from her relevant documents, like the account book. The correspondence ends with Pierce informing Mercy that he would only become a trustee for the children ‘of my departed and much esteemed friend’ if Edward Knocker consented to it. By 1833, John James Pierce was a corporate officer of Canterbury city council but was no longer acting as a solicitor. William Knocker served as Mayor of Dover several times and Edward Knocker (1804-1884) acted as an officer of the Cinque Ports and was Town Clerk of Dover.

He published material on the history of Dover and the Cinque Ports, including An Account of the Grand Court of Shepway, 1862. A fascinating group of documents recording the unfolding of a family tragedy.

205 DOVER - GILBERTSON, E. ST. RADIGUND’S ABBEY. Near Dover. 3 Sept. 1846 [17767] Pencil drawing, 10 x 7 inches, laid on to contrasting card with frame line and title neatly executed by hand. Titled and dated in pencil. Mounted in conservation materials ready for framing, overall size 17 x 15 inches. £100 A very accomplished drawing depicting the west side of the Norman chapel, which had latterly been converted into a dwelling, and showing the interesting chequer pattern wrought in the stonework. This drawing was among a small number from an album of drawings of places scattered throughout England. They had all been carefully mounted on card and exquisitely hand-titled. None of the drawings was signed but the album was identified as the work of E. Gilbertson.

206 DOVER GUIDE. DOVER HARBOUR BOARD. GUIDE FOR 1932. Dover Harbour Board, 1932 [19712] Oblong 4to., 64 pp. with plan and photo illustrations throughout. One or two of the photo plates of ships have had the sea watercoloured in by a child but quite neatly, and this remains a good copy. Original decorated boards, gilt. £35 An interesting look at the history of the Board and its state in the 1930s, with some fine photographs of the docks and ships.

207 —— DOVER “THE GATEWAY OF ENGLAND”. A GUIDE BOOK AND ITINERARY OF DOVER. BRACING AND EXHILARATING. G.W. Grigg & Son, St. George’s Press, Dover. [1925] [17401]

128 pp. + small folding map with numerous b/w photo illustrations. Original full-colour pictorial paper wrapper.

A little foxed and edgeworn and missing top right corner.

Staples rusted but not affecting text. A good copy of a scarce guide. £35 208 —— DOVER THE GATEWAY OF ENGLAND. OFFICIAL GUIDE AND SOUVENIR PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE DOVER ENTERTAINMENTS COMMITTEE. The Dover Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd., 144, Snargate Street, Dover. No date but [1932] [19805] 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 110 pp.with coloured frontis illustration

by Leonard Richmond, and double-page map. Illustrated throughout in b/w. Original printed card wrappers with diagonally cropped front wrapper. Staples rusted and therefore stitched. Some creasing to first few fore edges due to the novel design, otherwise very good. A flyer for the 1932 Band Season and Forthcoming Events is loosely inserted £20 An unusual item with its croppped wrapper, the diagonal following the title at a 45 degree angle. A footnote ascribes copyright for the text to S.S. Dyson in 1932 and two fixtures for County Cricket are also dated 1932, thereby fixing publication date.

209—— ELLIS, AYTOUN. ‘VITESSE’. The Story of ‘Continental Express’ Barrup, Mathieson and Co. 1949 [18061] 4to. 46 pp. with photographic illustrations throughout Original cloth, lettered in green £40 A nice copy of this fascinating company history. From the library of author David Collyer.

210 —— . A GUIDE BOOK AND ITINERARY OF DOVER. Printed and Published by G. W. Grigg and Son “St Georges Press” Worthington St, York St, and High Street. In conjunction with Dover Chamber of Commerce.Dover: 1907 [19418] 12mo. 61 pp. + [50] pp. adverts or illustrations (unpaginated).

Bound in the original printed and illustrated paper wrappers. A very good copy. £55 A fine example of this scarce well-illustrated, turn of the century guide.

211 DOVER GUIDE, BATCHELLER, W. THE NEW DOVER GUIDE: INCLUDING A CONCISE SKETCH OF THE ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND CASTLE, WITH SUCH OTHER GENERAL INFORMATION AS MAY BE USEFUL TO VISITORS; AND A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE NEIGHBOURING VILLAGES. THE FIFTH EDITION, EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS, FOUR PLANS OF THE CASTLE, AND ONE OF THE MAISON DIEU. Dover, W. Batcheller, 1842. [20133] [2] + 144 pp. + [1] 144* + [14] pp. with 4 woodengraved plans and wood engravings in the text. Original printed grey card wrappers with engraved illustration to front. A little worn at extremities, spine cracked and chipped at head and tail. Small tape mark to front. A very

KENT good copy nonetheless. £175 Good example of this well-known mid-19th century guide to the port

212 —— THE NEW DOVER GUIDE; INCLUDING A CONCISE SKETCH OF THE ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND CASTLE, WITH SUCH OTHER GENERAL INFORMATION AS MAY BE USEFUL TO VISITORS AND A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE NEIGHBOURING VILLAGES. THE SIXTH EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS, AND PLANS OF THE CASTLE, THE ANCIENT TOWN WALL, ST. MARY'S CHURCH, AND THE MAISON DIEU. Dover, Printed and Published by W. Batcheller, King’s Arms Library.

1845. [19116] viii + 206 + [24] pp. with 6 plates and 26 wood engravings in the text. Original red cloth, gilt, with gilt vignette to upper board. Rebacked with original gilt titles laid on. A very good example. £175 A much expanded version of the guide first published in 1828; comparing the two shows that much has changed in the growing harbour and watering place - most of all, the SouthEastern Railway, the wonder of the age, had arrived. A full description of this is included and from the text and adverts an interesting picture emerges of nineteenth century life in Dover.

213 —— THE NEW DOVER GUIDE; INCLUDING A CONCISE SKETCH OF THE ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND CASTLE, WITH SUCH OTHER GENERAL INFORMATION AS MAY BE USEFUL TO VISITORS AND A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE NEIGHBOURING VILLAGES. THE SEVENTH EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED. EMBELLISHED WITH THIRTY ILLUSTRATIONS, AND PLANS OF THE CASTLE, THE ANCIENT TOWN WALL, ST. MARY'S CHURCH, AND THE MAISON DIEU, THE PRIORY CHURCH, AND THE HARBOUR OF REFUGE. Dover, W. Batcheller, 1853 [19975] 223 pp. + (10) adverts + 16 pp. Appendix for the year.

With a folding engraved map and engraved views throughout. Bound in the original purple/blue cloth, gilt, with gilt vignette of Dover Castle to upper board. £175 A nice copy of the standard Batcheller's guide but more interesting than most in that it contains the rare folding engraved map of Dover by John Adams (Land Surveyor of New Folkestone Road, Dover), and even more interesting the 16page appendix at the end of the guide. This section is in fact a Directory of Appointments for the Year, for example, Magistrates, Aldermen, Councillors, Police Officers, Customs and Excise Officers etc. It goes on to list Pilots, Packet Services and finally the Tide Tables for the Year. Scarce.

214 DOVER GUIDE, EVANS, SEBASTIAN and F. BENNETT-GOLDNEY. Edited by. HANDBOOK TO DOVER. Printed at the “Standard” Office, Dover for the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

1899 [17441]

121 pp. + folding plan of Dover Harbour with several figures to the text and a folding map. Lacking separate geological map. Original red cloth, gilt. A near fine copy of a well-produced publication. £25 An interesting work, the handbook comprises a number of chapters, written by experts in their subjects, and pertaining to Dover. These include the Geology of the District, the Early History, The Castle, The Harbour and Port, Dover as a resort, the Natural History of the District among others.

215 DOVER GUIDE, HEYWOOD, JOHN. JOHN HEYWOOD’S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO DOVER WITH EXCURSIONS. PRICE ONE PENNY. John Heywood, Deansgate and Ridgefield, Manchester. n.d. c.1896 [20381] 8vo. [6] + 32 pp. + [6] + double page plan of Dover with adverts on verso. Illustrated from photographs. Original printed paper wrappers, somewhat fragile with a corner missing from the rear cover not affecting the printed matter, otherwise a very good example. £110 These ephemeral, paper-bound, ‘Penny’ guides are very hard to find and must have had a very high mortality rate.

216 DOVER - HAINES, CHARLES R. DOVER PRIORY. A HISTORY OF THE PRIORY OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, AND ST. MARTIN OF THE NEW WORK. WITH A FOREWORD BY G. G. COULTON. Cambridge University Press. 1930 [16634] 513 pp. with illustrations throughout. Original cloth gilt.

A fine copy in the very scarce dust wrapper, chipped at head and tail of the spine but now neatly repaired. £75 The standard history of pre-dissolution monastic Dover.

Scarce.

217 DOVER HARBOUR. IN PARLIAMENT SESSION 1932-33 DOVER HARBOUR PLANS AND SECTIONS. NOVEMBER 1932. ENGINEERS: SIR ALEXANDER GIBB AND PARTNERS, QUEEN ANNE’S LODGE, WESTMINSTER, SW1.

SOLICITORS MOWLL AND MOWLL, DOVER. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS: WYATT and Co., VICTORIA STREET, WESTMINSTER. SW1.

Together with, IN PARLIAMENT SESSION 1932-33. DOVER HARBOUR BOOK OF REFERENCE TO PLANS. Cook, Hammond & Kell, 47-49 Tothill St., Westminster.

1932 [12416] Large Folio plans. Original printed wrappers, title page and 4 pages of plans and sections printed on one side only.

Book of reference. Folio. Original wrappers, title page and 12 pp. Bound as issued, at present rolled. Wrappers slightly dusty, but in very good condition. £75 These plans are for providing a railway tunnel from Buckland to near the Eastern Breakwater, a link which was never completed. From the collection of Alec Hasenson. Scarce.

218 DOVER - HARPER, CHARLES G. THE DOVER ROAD. ANNALS OF AN ANCIENT TURNPIKE. ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR, AND FROM OLD PRINTS AND PORTRAITS. Chapman and Hall. 1922 [18875]

KENT Second and revised edition. [xii] + 257 + [2] pp. with illustration throughout. Original decorated red cloth, slightly faded as usual but a very good example. £65 The smaller format second issue. This was only the third 'Road Book' to be issued, which makes the first edition very hard to find. Harper was only just winning his readership at the time and the print run was probably quite small. The work is the usual charming and informative Harper style, a mix of history, legend, and topographical detail.

219 DOVER - HOLLINGSBEE, BOB. DOVER IN OLD PICTURE POSTCARDS. European Library, Zaltbommel. 1989 [18033] [5] pp.* + 75 b/w illustrations. Signed by the author on title page. Original pictorial blue cloth. A fine copy. £20 * Covering the first half of the twentieth century and depicting a lively and prosperous Dover, untroubled by war damage and re-development.

DOVER RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY 220 DOVER - HOWARD, LUKE. Love and Truth in Plainness Manifested: Being a Collection of the several WRITINGS Faithful Testimonies, and Christian Epistles, of that Ancient Suffering Servant and Minister of Christ

BY LUKE HOWARD OF DOVER., DECEASED. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS CONVINCEMENT, LABOURS AND SUFFERINGS FOR THE TRUTH. T. Sowle, in White-Harte-Court in Gracicius-Street, London 1704 [19664] First Edition, 12mo, [14] + 316 pp. + [2] + [12]. Bound in recent half-calf, gilt. The text has been well used, resulting in several finger marks and some small holes in text and tears to fore edge here and there. Complete and without loss of text. £450 A rare little volume of writings on, and by, Luke Howard, (1621-1699). Howard, a Quaker activist and writer, was born at Dover on 18 October 1621, the son of Robert Howard (c.1580-1625), a shoemaker. Following his father’s trade , Luke was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to a shoemaker, and for a time was a strict conformist to the Church of England. His apprenticeship completed, Howard went to London and joined John Goodwin's Independent congregation at Coleman Street.

At the outbreak of the civil war Howard had hoped to join the parliamentarian army but failed to get enrolled. He took service with the garrison in Dover Castle, but there refused to sing psalms in 'rhyme and meter'. In his journal Howard relates that, after becoming successively a Brownist, presbyterian, and Independent, he joined the Baptists, and journeyed to London to be 'dipped' by William Kiffin. In turn he shifted from the Particular Baptism of Kiffin to General Baptism, rejecting the 'dark stuff' of Calvinism. He then became disillusioned with the Baptists, coming to see the very act of baptism as a merely worldly form.

In 1655 Howard again went to London and was converted to Quakerism by William Caton and John Stubbs. Through Howard's work Quaker numbers increased at Dover, and the movement attracted many Baptists, the cause of much controversy between the two groups. Howard was largely responsible for the conversion to Quakerism of the Leveller John Lilburne, who was imprisoned in Dover Castle, where he visited him many times. Lilburne became fully convinced in 1656 and described Howard as his 'indeared, spiritual and faithful friend' At the Restoration Howard was imprisoned in Dover Castle for three months. In June 1661 he was committed

to Westgate prison in Canterbury for five days, and in the July following was sent to Dover Castle for about sixteen months 'because we could not forbear meetings' On 30 January 1684 he was taken, along with seven others, from a meeting and imprisoned in the same dungeon for fifty-one weeks.

Howard was held in high esteem by leading London Quakers, for a testimony from the second day morning meeting, signed

by William Penn, George Whitehead, and others, described him as 'of an exemplary Christian conversation, and of a good report among his friends and neighbours, and beloved of them for his just and upright dealing.'

Howard wrote a number of tracts, many of which are found in Love and Truth in Plainness Manifested. Some of these are replies to Baptists, such as A Looking Glass for the Baptists (1673) and The Seat of the Scorner Thrown Down (1673); in the latter Howard explains why he left the Baptists, and more generally discusses ideas such as the Quaker notion of the 'inner light' and their views on baptism. Luke Howard died on 7 October 1699 and was buried on 13 October 1699, presumably at Dover. In these writings he paints a vivid picture of religious intolerance and, naming names, accounts for political corruption and persecution of Dissenters in the 17th century port.

221 DOVER - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF DOVER. AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. 1953 Kelly's.

1953 [14785] 440 pp. Original printed wrappers. Worn at extremities, lacking map. £30 ** We also have 1956 and 1959 editions at similar prices **

222 DOVER - KNOCKER, EDWARD. AN ACCOUNT OF THE GRAND COURT OF SHEPWAY, HOLDEN ON THE BREDENSTONE HILL, AT DOVER, FOR THE INSTALLATION OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, AS CONSTABLE OF H.M. CASTLE OF DOVER, AND WARDEN AND KEEPER OF H.M. CINQUE PORTS 28th. AUGUST 1861. John Russell Smith. 1862 [10865] 4to. 164 pp., with 3 engraved plates. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Spine a little faded, with an old tear repaired.

Some foxing but a good copy of this nicely printed book. £35 223 —— AN ACCOUNT OF THE GRAND COURT OF SHEPWAY, HOLDEN ON THE BREDENSTONE HILL, AT DOVER, FOR THE INSTALLATION OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, AS CONSTABLE OF H.M. CASTLE OF DOVER, AND WARDEN AND KEEPER OF H.M. CINQUE PORTS 28th. AUGUST 1861. John Russell Smith. 1862 [14450] 4to. 164 pp. with 3 engraved plates. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Spine a little faded, with repair to backstrip.

Some foxing but a good copy of this nicely printed book. £50 This presentation copy is inscribed both by the original owner, to whom it was apparently presented by the author, and by Major Teichman Derville, town councillor and later author of ‘The Level and Liberty of Romney Marsh’, who presented it to W. Lamacraft, Town Clerk of New Romney. Contains much useful information.*** Unsigned copies in stock at £25***

KENT 224 —— ON THE ANTIQUITIES OF DOVER. A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE MEMBERS OF THE DOVER MUSEUM AND PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION on November 24th, 1857. Printed by W. Batcheller, Dover. 1857 [16857] 8vo. [i] + 44 pp. + 5 figures on two double-page lithographic plates. Original printed paper wrappers.

Neatly re-spined. Some foxing to text and slight wear to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. £45 A neat local printing of one of Mr. Knocker’s early history lectures. The profits from this publication were to fund the restoration of the Maison Dieu.

225 DOVER - MITCHELL, VIC and KEITH SMITH. DOVER TO RAMSGATE INCLUDING THE MARGATE SANDS BRANCH Middleton Press 1990 [19378] Small 4to. 9.5 x17 in. 96pp. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and diagrams. Laminated pictorial boards, spine faded. £25 226 DOVER - PIKE'S. DOVER AND DISTRICT LOCAL DIRECTORY 1938-39 Garnett, Mepham and Fisher, Ltd. Brighton. 1938-39 [17575] Small 8vo. 388 pp. With the map. Original decorated cloth, a near fine copy. £100 In fine condition. Scarce. ***We have another copy of this edition, lacking the map, and one for 1932-33 lacking map, each at £85***

227 DOVER - ROY, JOHN and TONY THOMPSON. PICTURE PALACES REMEMBERED. An affectionate look at the Cinema Theatres of Dover, Deal and Folkestone. Glenton Publications, Dover. 1987 [18401] 116 pp. profusely illustrated.. Pictorial card wrappers. A near mint copy. £20 228 DOVER - STEER, FRANCIS. (Editor). JOHN PHILIPOT'S ROLL OF THE CONSTABLES OF DOVER CASTLE AND LORD WARDENS OF THE CINQUE PORTS, 1627. With a foreword by Sir Winston Churchill. G. Bell and Sons. 1956 [10334] 4to. 31 pp. with 7 colour plates. Original cloth in dustwrapper. £25 229 DOVER VIEWS. 32 VIEWS OF DOVER AND DISTRICT. Callcut and Beavis, 77 and 78 Great Eastern Street, London. No date but c.1910 [18147] Oblong view-book with 24 photo plates. Original gilt stamped red cloth. A little rubbed at extremities but a very good copy. £35 The views are as follows - Shakespeare's Cliff; The Harbour, Dover; The Parade, Dover; The Lord Warden Hotel & Castle Street, Dover; The Strand, Deal; The Pier, Deal; Deal and Walmer Castles; The Promenade, Deal; Queen Elizabeth’s Pocket Pistol & The Sands and Parade, Dover; Dover Castle; Admiralty Pier, Dover; General View & Waterloo Crescent, Dover; The Pier, Folkestone; The Lift & Metropole Hotel, Folkestone; Folkestone Parish Church (2); Folkestone from the Pier; The Harbour, The Band Stand, Leas Shelter, Lower Sandgate Road, Folkestone; S.S. Mary Beatrice leaving

Folkestone Harbour; Sandgate (2); Hythe (2); The Warren, Folkestone.

230 —— THE ALBUM OF DOVER VIEWS. Charles Reynolds and Co., 26 & 27 Milk Street 1893 [17237] 8vo. Concertina type view-book of glazed lithos, containing 17 different images and two fine panoramas, one of Dover from the sea, and a smaller one of Marine Parade. Printed in Germany. Original decorated red boards blocked in gilt. A very good copy. £125 This type of view book originates in Germany and is an example of the curious mixture of photograph and drawing which was prolific from about 1875 to 1895 when photography finally won the day. This example probably dates from about 1893 as the Promenade Pier, which was completed in that year, is shown as constructed, although it is quite common for these albums to have ‘proposed’ developments shown as completed.

231 DOVER VIEWS. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW BOOK By FRANCIS FRITH AND OTHERS. No place or date, but c.1870 [13291] Oblong 8vo. View book containing 12 real photographic plates (albumen types) pasted onto thick card and professionally and neatly titled by hand. Original green cloth, with gilt title on the upper board, within a blind stamped frame. A fine example with the photos free from fading, slight loss of surface from one image on to the facing image, but a very good example. £250 A most interesting collection of views which are mostly unsigned. Some are probably the work of Adams, the pioneering Dover photographer and some are marked ‘Frith’s series’. With the advent of photography the local publishers were quick to supply albums and binders where the customer could choose from the images in stock and compile their own collections as souvenirs. This is an early example. The Views are:1. Dover (view of the sea front looking east, with numerous boats drawn up above high water mark). 2. Dover (looking east from Admiralty Pier to the Harbour entrance). 3. The Esplanade ( looking west). 4. The Esplanade (looking east) 5.

The Harbour (Wellington Dock with four paddle steamers and sailing ships). 6. Dover (The Crimea memorial etc). 7. Castle Street (with horse-drawn carts etc). 8. South Foreland (east cliffs). 9. Shakespeare Cliff (with old wooden railway viaduct) 10. Lord Warden Hotel ( from Admiralty Pier) 11. Dover Castle. !2. The Pharos.

232 DOVER VIEWS. THE ROYAL ALBUM OF DOVER AND DISTRICT VIEWS. A.H. POINTER (Publisher.) A.H. Pointer, Royal Bazaar. No date but c.1880 [17236] Coloured folding concertina-type glazed lithos, printed in Germany with a photo-litho of Pointer standing outside his shop. Original red cloth, gilt. £45 Better than average view book of this type, not often found coloured .

VIEWS OF DOVER AND DEAL 233 DOVER VIEWS. THIRTY TWO VIEWS OF DOVER AND DEAL. Published by Newman and Co London n.d. c.1870 [15817]

KENT Oblong 8vo. 32 steel-engraved vignette views (7 x 5 inches). Bound in the original brown cloth, gilt, without text as issued. A very good copy. £265 The steel engravings are as follows (larger full page views are marked thus*):Marine Parade, Dover; The Promenade Gardens, Dover; The Barracks, Dover; Governor’s Apartments or the Entrance to Dover Castle; Admiralty Pier, Dover; The Esplanade, Dover; Granville Docks and Convalescent Home, Dover; Dover and Admiralty Pier; Dover Crescent and Castle; Dover Sailors’ Home and Russian Mortar; Dover Parade and Heights; Dover Castle; St. Radigund’s Abbey Dover; St. James’ Church, Dover; Officers’ Apartments, New Barracks, Dover; Dover from the Harbour; *Dover Castle; *Shakespeare’s Cliff and Tunnel Dover; *Queen Elizabeth’s Pocket Pistol; *Dover; *Dover Harbour; *South East View of Deal Castle; *Walmer Castle; *Walmer Church; Deal Pier looking towards the Esplanade; The Hospital Barracks, Deal; Prince of Wales Terrace, Victoria Town, Deal; The South Barracks, Deal; Walmer Castle, Kent; Walmer Castle, near Deal; North Barracks, Deal; Deal Pier from the Esplanade.

234 DULWICH BLANCH, WILLIAM HARNETT. DULWICH COLLEGE AND EDWARD ALLEYN: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FOUNDATION OF GOD’S GIFT COLLEGE AT DULWICH TOGETHER WITH A MEMOIR OF THE FOUNDER BY SIR WILLIAM HARNETT BLANCH E.W.Allen. 1877 [17587] First edition. 4to. viii + 136 illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and another view of the old building and two portraits. Bound in original green cloth, heavily blocked in gilt with a central medallion-like portrait of Alleyn. A very attractive Victorian cloth binding, only very slightly worn at extremities, a very good copy. £50 235 DULWICH - HALL, EDWIN T. DULWICH HISTORY AND ROMANCE 967-1922. The Manor, College, Schools, Village and Picture Gallery, Edward Alleyn and the Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatres. By Edwin T. Hall an Estates and College Governor of Dulwich College and Chairman of the Picture Gallery Committee. Second and Enlarged Edition 1922. Bickers and Sons, Ltd., Publishers, [London]. 1922 [20264] Small 8vo. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. xi + 64 pp. Illustrated by [40] plates, including frontispiece. Half-title. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt. with deckled pages. Some browning, blank label pasted on verso of first free endpaper; otherwise good condition. £25 A well illustrated account of Dulwich, largely concerned with the history of the College and its art gallery. The links with the former priory of Bermondsey and Southwark Cathedral are also emphasised. The College was established by Edward Alleyn (1566-1626), the actor, theatre owner and contemporary of Shakespeare and received its foundation deed in 1619. The book includes a list of seventeen theatres in the London area, constructed, 1576-1632. Edwin Thomas Hall (1851-1923) was a governor of the College.

236 ELHAM - AUCTION PARTICULARS. OXROAD FARM, ELHAM. PARTICULARS, PLAN AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF THE RESIDENTIAL & AGRICULTURAL ESTATE KNOWN AS “OXROAD FARM,” ELHAM, COMPRISING A

SUBSTANTIALLY BUILT SUPERIOR FARM HOUSE, STABLING FOR 2, COW AND CATTLE LODGES, LARGE BARN AND OTHER BUILDINGS, AND PRODUCTIVE MEADOW AND ARABLE LAND, IN ALL ABOUT 51 Acres, 3 Roods. 1 Perch.

Between Canterbury and Folkestone. About 1.5 miles from Elham Station, 8 miles from Folkestone and 9 miles from Canterbury. Healthy and bracing situation 450 feet above sea level. At the Royal Fountain Hotel, Canterbury.

Saturday, 30th August, 1924 at 3 p.m. Geering & Colyer, Ashford 1924 [17160] 4to. 5 pp. with a coloured lithographic map. In original printed card wrappers. Wrappers a little rubbed with traces of old folds otherwise, a fine example. £45 An attractive coloured map of the property accompanies the particulars. The desirable nature of all the property in the Elham Valley has pushed prices up for this type of material which adds to the history of the property.

237 ELHAM - HART, BRIAN. THE ELHAM VALLEY LINE. 1887-1947. Wild Swan Publications.

1984 [18673] 4to. [8] + 104 pp. with photo illustration throughout. A fine copy in original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. £75 The now standard history of this romantic branch line, the product of over 20 years’ research. Only a small number were produced and the book is now very scarce.

238 —— ELHAM VALLEY REFLECTIONS. A PERSONAL CELEBRATION. Millgate Publishing, 1989 [20379] 4to. 92 pp. Illustrated with fine photographs throughout.

Original pictorial wrappers. £35 Historical photographic tour through the Elham Valley. Long out of print and becoming very hard to find.

239 ELHAM, KENT. 1681 - 1909 A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS: LEASES, INDENTURES, CONVEYANCES, WILLS, ETC. 1681 - 1909 [14730] Various sizes, mostly on vellum, some on paper. Sixteen items, some with more than one document attached. All hand-written in various hands with seals and signatures of the people concerned. Generally a little dusty and discoloured but all legible and mostly in very good condition. £300 An interesting group of documents relating to the Rolfe family of Elham and lands owned or leased by them and called Harland at Ottinge. The names on the documents are, in chronological order, Henry Sander of Elham, Richard Rolfe (father and son), Robert Foster of Acrise, Thomas Gibbon, James and Isaac Rolfe, (Sir) Samuel Egerton Brydges, George Culling, and diverse other Rolfes.

240 ELTHAM - BUCKLER, JOHN CHESSELL. AN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE ROYAL PALACE AT ELTHAM. J. B. Nichols and Son, London, 1828 [18974] First Edition 8vo. [vi] +108 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontis and wood engravings in the text. Original quarter-cloth over marbled boards with contrasting title

KENT label. One leaf torn, with no loss, and repaired with conservation tape, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

A good account of this historic building. £125

LAND LAW IN KENT 241 ELTON, CHARLES I. THE TENURES OF KENT. By Charles I. Elton, Late Fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford; and of Lincoln’s Inn, Barrister-at-Law. James Parker and Co., London. 1867 [20569] Large 8vo. 6.5 x 9.75 inches. xx + 424 pp. + 8 pp.

Rebound in red half morocco; spine divided into compartments by blind stamped decoration and gilt rules, with black morocco label, gilt. Extremities worn, top edge darkened. Some griming and staining to pages especially at end, last page has lower margin tear, not affecting text. Library stamps of the Law Society, including title page, and with occasional ink corrections in text. £120 Scarce substantial review of the history of the Tenures of Kent, to show how much less land in the county is of the nature of gavelkind. Highly detailed survey of the ownership of Kentish land in medieval times, with accounts of gavelkind, the Domesday book, ancient demesne, the various forms of tenure and of disgavelled land. It includes a table of places in Kent, mentioned in the text. The author, Charles Isaac Elton (18391900), a lawyer and antiquary, was educated at Cheltenham and Oxford, being called to the bar in 1865. As a jurist of the historical school, he specialised in real property cases and published on The Law of Copyholds (1874). He inherited an estate in Somerset in 1869 and served as the county’s MP, 1884-5 and 1886-92. *** We have another copy in original cloth at £1200 ***

242 ERITH - CLAPHAM, ALFRED W. LESNES ABBEY. in the parish of Erith, Kent. Being the complete report of the investigations, architectural and historical, carried out by the works committee of the Woolwich Antiquarian Society during the years 1909-1913. The Cassio Press. 1915 [19615] Folio. iii + 94 pp. uncut, with numerous illustrations on 26 plates, 3 of which are coloured, plus coloured frontispiece and coloured folding plan, and 20 illustrations to the text.

First few gatherings unopened. Original quarter olive cloth, gilt. A very good copy. £85 Lesnes Abbey, founded by Richard de Luci in 1178, became one of the first monasteries suppressed by Cardinal Wolsey.

Wolsey obtained permission from Pope Clement VII to close all monasteries with less than eight inmates and in 1524 Lesnes closed. It later passed into the hands of Henry VIII and was sold.

243 EVERITT, ALAN. THE COMMUNITY OF KENT AND THE GREAT REBELLION 1640 - 60.

Leicester University Press. 1966 [18886] 356 pp. Original green cloth, gilt. £45 Important text on the effect of the Rebellion on Kentish families and houses. Scarce.

244 —— CONTINUITY AND COLONIZATION. The evolution of Kentish settlement. Part of Leicester Studies in English Local History, Communities, Contexts and Cultures. Leicester University Press 1986 [18539]

xxi + 426 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original green cloth, gilt. A fine copy in unclipped dust wrapper. £80 Study of the evolution of Kentish settlement from the end of the Romano-British period and the coming of the “English” down to the fourteenth century.

245 FAVERSHAM - CULMER, GEORGE G. A GUIDE TO THE ANCIENT BOROUGH OF FAVERSHAM. Printed and Published by Wyard’s Printing Works Ltd, Faversham: [1936] [19414] Small 8vo. 72 pp. illustrated with sepia photographs.

Contains numerous advertisements.

Bound in card wrappers with title page, including borough seal reproduced on front. Fine, clean copy. £45 The guide contains three tours of Faversham and its immediate vicinity, followed by notes on the surrounding villages. It includes a short list of references and is copiously illustrated with photographs and interesting period advertisements, which are listed at the front. A charming and attractive mid-thirties guidebook.

COCK’S, NEAME’S, HOBBS’ COPY 246 FAVERSHAM - DONNE, C. E. AN ESSAY ON THE TRAGEDY OF ‘ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM’ BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A PAPER READ AT THE MEETING OF THE KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY HELD AT FAVERSHAM IN JULY, 1872, WITH NOTES. Russell Smith & Co., London and Higham, Faversham. 1873 [16188] 8vo. iv + 19 pp. Bound in red cloth, gilt, preserving the original green printed card wrappers. A near mint example. £150 With the bookplates of William Cock, Sir Thomas Neame and James Hobbs. A rare contribution to the Arden literature.

SCARCE FAVERSHAM GUIDE 247 FAVERSHAM - GIRAUD, FRANCIS F. A VISITOR’S GUIDE TO FAVERSHAM. CONTAINING A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE TOWN, AND BRIEF NOTICES OF THE ADJOINING VILLAGES, BY FRANCIS F. GIRAUD, TOWN CLERK OF FAVERSHAM; LOCAL SECRETARY AND MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY; ETC, AND CHARLES E. DONNE, M.A., VICAR OF FAVERSHAM; DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO EARL SYDNEY G.C.B., Etc. Printed and Published by James Higham, 91, Preston Street , Faversham 1876 [18897] First and Only Edition 8vo. [3] + ii + [4] +107 pp. + [5] Bound in the original printed heavy paper wrappers, in near mint condition. £125 Fine and scarce town guide of which we have no previous record.

STANDARD HISTORY 248 JACOB, EDWARD. THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND PORT OF FAVERSHAM, IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. By Edward Jacob, Esq. F.S.A. Illustrated with copper plates. London: Printed for the author by J.March; and sold by B.White, in Fleet-Street;

KENT L.Hawes, and Co. in Pater-Noster-Row; S.Patterson, in Essex-Street; and S.Doorne, in Faversham. 1774 [19496] First edition. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. [4] + vii-xii + [4] + 222 pp. [A-A8], B-P7. Illustrated with 15 engraved copperplates, including two folding plates (one being a plan of the town), as called for; it also includes five additional plates, four of them folding, at end. Engraving of arms on dedication page and engraving of the medal of King James II and his Queen on p.205 (described as Plate 16). Bound in original calf, spine rebacked with red morocco label, gilt. Edges of boards worn and abraded.

Manuscript inscription of Willm. Jefferys Junr. Town Clerk 1818, on front paste-down and another of the same upside down on rear paste-down. This copy has the printed book label of ‘Martha Short, Sevenoaks, Kent 1774’ £450 Edward Jacob (1710?-1788), antiquary and naturalist, was born in Canterbury but moved to Faversham ‘and happily fixed his abode in this pleasant town about 1735,’ where he practised as a surgeon like his father and grandfather before him. The family had a long tradition of holding civic office in Canterbury, Sandwich and Dover and Jacob served four times as Mayor of Faversham. ‘Having an early propensity to the study of antiquities,’ he carried out extensive research on the history of his adopted town resulting in the publication of this volume: ‘In reducing his chaos into form, the author hath aimed at being concise and intelligible, without omitting any thing of consequence.’ In 1770 he wrote the preface to a reprint of the first edition of the 1592 Elizabethan domestic tragedy ‘Arden of Faversham’ and also published on the flora of the area and the fossils of the Isle of Sheppey in ‘Planta Favershamienses’ in 1777.

In addition to its coverage of the usual civic and ecclesiastical subjects, Jacob’s History includes chapters on the oysterfishery, the gunpowder works and the cultivation of the dye crop madder. There are eleven appendices, including ‘An account of Mr. Arden’s Murder’ and ‘The Account of King James the Second’s being brought to Faversham’. A fine copy of this early history of Faversham, copiously illustrated with engravings, including a handsome plan of the town. **We have a copy of the modern reprint at £25.

249 FAVERSHAM KIP, JOHANNES. BOUGHTON COURT. THE SEAT OF SIR BARNHAM RIDER Kt. London, Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719 [20225] Large copper-engraving, 16 x 13 inches,, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. £150 From Harris’ History of Kent. Drawn by Thomas Badeslade, this illustration varies in that it is engraved by John Harris.

250 FINCH, W. COLES. IN KENTISH PILGRIM LAND. ITS ANCIENT ROADS AND SHRINES. C. Daniel Co., London 1925 [17957] First edition. 326 pp. with illustrations throughout.

Original decorated cloth gilt, a very good copy. £35 Well-written and illustrated account of the ancient pilgrims roads.

251 —— THE LURE OF THE COUNTRYSIDE. A NATURE LOVER’S POT-POURRI C. Daniel Co. 1927 [18522]

First Edition. 325 pp. with frontispiece by Donald Maxwell and photo illustrations throughout. A very good copy. Original decorated cloth, gilt. £35 Well-written account of rural English natural history in the form of a calender using Kentish examples and with some detail on mills and milling.

SIGNED COPY OF FIRST EDITION 252 —— WATERMILLS AND WINDMILLS. A HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THEIR RISE, DECLINE AND FALL AS PORTRAYED BY THOSE OF KENT. The C.W. Daniel Company.1933 [18758] First edition. 336 pp. with numerous illustrations throughout Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy. £125 Scarce first edition of the classic book on the subject, the illustrations in particular are far better quality in this edition than the 1970’s reprint. ***A copy of the reprint is in stock at £35.***

253 —— THE GEM OF THE KENTISH COAST. 32ND NEW EDITION. THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE ADVERTISING AND INFORMATION BUREAU OF THE FOLKESTONE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. F.J. Parsons, Folkestone. [1932] [19451] 8vo, 144 pp. with photo illustrations throughout. Original pictorial card wrappers. £35 Attractive 1930's Folkestone guide with detailed hotel advertisements, many illustrated with photos and illustrations of other establishments such as the Central Super Cinema in George Lane and The Playhouse in Guildhall Street.

254 —— A WINDY DAY ON THE LEES, FOLKESTONE. OCT. 1880. Marrin’s Bookshop. 2007 [18347] Giclee reproduction 10.5 x 14.5 inches printed on Somerset Velvet acid-free paper Published in 2007 in a limited edition of 50 copies. Produced for us using state of the art reproduction technology on very high quality paper and guaranteed colourfast. £35 A charming Victorian caricature depicting a group of promenaders with their bath chairs, children and dogs all caught up in the blustery breeze as they make their way down the ‘Lees’, gripping their umbrellas and hats. The rusty browns, muted purples and mossy greens all contribute to the feel of the Autumn day. Young soldiers glance amorously at the serving maids, ladies and gentlemen’s eyes meet, and faces look away like the ships that are passing each other in the distance.

255 FOLKESTONE ANONYMOUS WATERCOLOUR. FOLKESTONE FROM THE LEAS. A fine original watercolour drawing of Folkestone in the early nineteenth century, before the harbour improvements and the arrival of the railway. There are no less than three Customs cutters depicted, emphasising the switch of resources to the Preventive Men as a result of the cessation of hostilities. Folkestone had at this time a major Customs presence due to the port’s well-known connection with the ‘Free Trade’. *Provenance: We have a record of this work having passed through our hands about 30 years ago. It was purchased in the Acrise Place sale and sold to Dr C.H.

KENT Bishop, the late Folkestone historian, whose collection was dispersed after his death some years ago. Original watercolour no signature or date but c. 1820 [19709] Watercolour on paper 19 x 14 inches, recently mounted in conservation materials and framed in a classic gilt moulding. A very well-observed watercolour, confidently painted by an unidentified artist. Slightly faded but in fine condition. £950 Looking east from a point just west of the top of the present day Road of Remembrance, with open fields where Albion Villas now stand. In the foreground, sheep are grazing and a couple are walking arm in arm along the cliff path, with the unrestored Parish Church in the middle distance and the Georgian and medieval buildings of Church Street behind.

Perched on top of the cliff is a small walled look-out post which was presumably the south-western end of the Battery, with a building not far away which may well be the Battery Blockhouse itself. Behind these in the distance we see the two Martello towers on the East Cliff and beyond these, the cliffs to Shakespeare’s Cliff outside Dover.

From a broken fence in the foreground we see a rough path leading down the cliff , and we also look down on the Harbour and Lower Road. Two customs cutters are drawn up the beach and a gang of men are in the act of pulling one of the craft over on its side to be worked on. Behind this we see three sides of the early harbour, and Copt Point beyond. Shipping is entering the harbour mouth and several fishing smacks dot the sea. Another fast-looking customs cutter is standing off the beach, on which there are two bathing machines and a lugger being launched.

256 FOLKESTONE - AUCTION PARTICULARS. THE PRIORY, FOLKESTONE, KENT. PARTICULARS, PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF THE FREEHOLD MANSION HOUSE KNOWN AS ‘THE PRIORY’.... ALSO IN 4 LOTS TWO CONVENIENT FREEHOLD RESIDENCES ADJOINING, BEING NOS. 4 AND 6, ‘THE BAYLE’, AND THREE SUBSTANTIALLY BUILT COTTAGES, NOS. 14, 16 AND 18, ‘THE BAYLE’, ALL NOW OCCUPIED BUT SUITABLE FOR PURCHASE WITH A VIEW TO FUTURE OCCUPATION. TO BE OFFERED FOR SALE BY AUCTION BY MESSRS. FAREBROTHER, ELLIS and CO. (IN CONJUNCTION WITH MESSRS. LOFTS and WARNER) AT THE QUEEN'S HOTEL, FOLKESTONE, ON THE 8th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1922, AT 2.30 O'CLOCK PRECISELY Farebrother, Ellis and Co. November, 1922 [17577] Folio. 12 pp. + 2 b/w photo illustrations of the house and garden + large, coloured lithographic folding map of the property tipped in at the rear. Original decorated card wrapper. Occasional light foxing to text otherwise near fine. £175 A rare survivor in a remarkable state of preservation..

257 FOLKESTONE - BROWN, REV. J.H. A HISTORY OF HARVEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Folkestone, F. J. Parsons. 1962 [17754] 240 pp. with photo illustrations. Original cloth, gilt. Fine copy. £30 A very good copy of the definitive history of the 'Harvey'. Not having a long print run, this has become quite hard to find.

258 FOLKESTONE - COOKE, E.W. A VIEW OF FOLKESTONE HARBOUR. Signed E.W. Cooke and dated 1830 [20236] Original pencil and wash drawing on paper, heightened with white, 10 x 5 inches approx., mounted in conservation materials, framed in light oak and glazed, overall size 17 x 12 inches approx. Depicting the foreshore at the end of The Stade with fishermen tending their nets, with boats and ships in the harbour and the general bustle of activity around the fishermen’s quarter.

The Parish Church overlooks the scene in the background.

Titled Folkestone, and signed and dated in pencil. £1,400 A delightful, busy and accomplished drawing, which undoubtedly formed the basis of Cooke’s famous engraved view of ‘Folkestone Harbour, Low Water’, published the following year in ‘Sixty Five Views of Shipping and Craft’.

259 FOLKESTONE - ELGAR, W.H. THE ANCIENT BUILDINGS OF THE FOLKESTONE DISTRICT. F.J. Parsons, Folkestone. 1921. [17750] 108 pp. with plans and illustrations by the author. Original yellow boards. A mint copy £35 The first (and only) of an intended series on the buildings of the neighbourhood. Twenty-six most interesting buildings are covered:- Folkestone Parish Church, Priory, and Mansion House, Martello Towers, Sandgate Castle, Cheriton Church, Enbrook Manor, Newington Church, Hawkinge Church, Swingfield Church, Capel Church, Alkham Church, St Radegund’s Abbey, Paddlesworth Church, Lyminge Church, Barfreston Church and Sculpture, Hythe Church and Crypt, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Hythe, Saltwood Church and Castle, Postling Church, West Hythe Church, and Lympne Church and Castle. ***Another very good copy available at £30***

260 FOLKESTONE - ENGLISH, JOHN. ENGLISH'S REMINISCENCES OF OLD FOLKESTONE SMUGGLERS AND SMUGGLING DAYS BY AN OLD FOLKESTONER. Folkestone, John English. No date. but c.1882 [20137] 12mo. [8] + 72 pp. Originally pubilished in wrappers, this copy has been neatly bound in full green buckram, with a title label. £145 The rare first issue of English’s locally published account of the notorious local smugglers. He had originally published these in his newspaper the Folkestone Express and so popular did they became he printed them separately as above. He was to reprint them several more times with illustrations and other additions.

261 FOLKESTONE ENGLISH, JOHN. FOLKESTONE - ENGLISH'S REMINISCENCES OF OLD FOLKESTONE SMUGGLERS AND SMUGGLING DAYS. By an Old Folkestoner. Printed and Published by John English, ‘Express’ Works, 31, High Street, Folkestone. No date but c.1888 [20583] Second edition. 8vo. [1] advertisements + [1] + [6] + 77 pp. + [3] pp. advertisements.

Illustrated by [4] lithographic plates of Folkestone in 1831-32, reproduced from paintings by George Barnard, in the possession of Arthur Tite, and by vignettes and pictorial initial letter.

Originally published in wrappers, this copy has been neatly bound in black cloth, gilt. The rear original yellow paper

KENT wrapper, with pictorial advertisements, has been retained.

Missing corner to top of beginning advertisement page, not affecting text, and some foxing; otherwise fine condition. £125 The rare second edition of English’s locally published account of the notorious local smugglers, with an expanded text and the addition of illustrations. English had originally published these in his newspaper The Folkestone Express and they became so popular that he printed them separately as above.

The first issue appeared in 1882 and he issued several more editions (the third in 1890). This edition contains, at the end, a poem in fourteen stanzas entitled Nicknames of Folkestone Men.

262 FOLKESTONE EXPRESS. SUPPLEMENT TO THE FOLKESTONE EXPRESS, SANDGATE, SHORNCLIFFE AND HYTHE ADVERTISER. DIAMOND JUBILEE SOUVENIR. With the Publisher’s and Advertisers’ compliments. Presented to the Subscribers June 19th, 1897. Thomas Henry English, Folkestone 1897 [20547] Oblong folio, 12 x 10 inches, 28 pp. in printed and pictorial pale grey paper wrappers. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the Queen and Royal Family with their residences. Also numerous advertisements, mostly pictorial, of local businesses including a particularly interesting photograph of the celebrations of Leney’s Dover Brewery and staff. Bound in original wrappers, spine reinforced with matching paper. A near fine example of this rare item. £100 The textual content is devoted to the Queen’s Jubilee, which is derived from various sources, the chef interest of this attractive item in in the 13 pages of adverts for about 50 local businesses, many of which are illustrated with portraits of the premises of the business.

263 FOLKESTONE - [FELIX] W.G. GLANFIELD. A FEW CYCLING RUNS, WALKS AND DRIVES, ROUND FOLKESTONE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, With accompanying large Scale Map, [Thorpe and Co.’s Cycling and Touring Map of Folkestone District], by William G. Glanfield. Printed and Published by F. J. Parsons, Ltd., The Library, Sandgate Road, Folkestone. [Map published by] Thorpe and Co., Stationers and Printers, Folkestone. [c.1895-1900] [20247] Small 8vo. 4 x 6 inches. 30 pp. With folding map, 22 x 17 inches. Advertisements on front endpaper and rear cover.

Bound in blue linen stiff wrappers with advertisement on rear; slight wear to extremities and some spotting inside.

Otherwise in fine condition with undamaged map. £30 The writer of this guide to cycling, walking and driving in the Folkestone area is better known by the name of Felix, under which pseudonym he contributed numerous articles to the Folkestone Herald (published by F. J. Parsons) and wrote Rambles around Folkestone (c.1914). At the end of the text are tariffs for the hire of bath chairs, pleasure boats, and first and second class carriages to a variety of local destinations. There is an advertisement for Martin Walter cycles on the front endpaper and a gear table for their driving wheels after the tariffs. At the foot of each page is a running advertisement for the cycles and ‘Psycho’ carriage of Hillsdon and Stones. This firm, of 181 Snargate Street, Dover, appears not to have flourished, unlike Martin Walter of Sandgate Road, which

diversified into sports outfitting, automobile engineering and ultimately achieved a national reputation for its Dormobile vehicle conversions, with works at Cheriton Road and Tile Kiln Lane. F. J. Parsons were well known in the town as publishers of the Folkestone Herald.

Little is known of the map publishers, Thorpe and Co., Stationers and Printers, Folkestone, which appears to have been printed by Gall and Inglis, Edinburgh. It covers much the same area as the better known English’s Road Map of East Kent, although differing in detail. This map was presumably prepared in or before 1899 as the lines of the South Eastern and London, Chatham and Dover Railways are still listed separately , before their merger in that year. Certainly the text is likely to have been written before 1900, as there are no references to motor transport of any kind, the only forms of road transport available being the bicycle and the carriage.

264 FOLKESTONE ‘FELIX’ [W.G. GLANFIELD] RAMBLES AROUND FOLKESTONE, AND OTHER SPECIAL ARTICLES. Folkestone, Glanfield, n.d. but, c 1914 [19077] 237 pp. with photo illustrations. This copy has additional cuttings from the local paper inserted. Bound in half morocco over marbled boards, with a considerable addition of cuttings from the local paper pasted in or inserted and a folding coloured street plan of the town of c. 1920. A attractive special bound copy of this interesting work. £165 A series of delightful articles relating to Folkestone events, people and social history, published in the Herald newspaper between 1891 and 1913 and here collected together in book form with the addition of some fine photographic illustrations.

One of the most informative and charming books on Folkestone, painting a vivid picture of the town before the First World War. The original cardboard type of binding has a tendency to fall apart, and is often found held together with sellotape or worse.

This copy has been handsomely rebound in half morocco and lettered in gilt which together with the additional material make this a particularly attractive item.

265 —— RAMBLES AROUND FOLKESTONE, AND OTHER SPECIAL ARTICLES. Folkestone, Glanfield, n.d. but, c 1914 [19536] 237 pp. with photo illustrations. Bound in original printed boards. £100 A series of delightful articles relating to Folkestone events, people and social history, published in The Herald newspaper between 1891 and 1913 and here collected together in book form with the addition of some fine photographic illustrations.

One of the most informative and charming books on Folkestone, painting a vivid picture of the town before the First World War. Signed dedication copy. ****Another, unsigned copy available at £65.***

266 FOLKESTONE GUIDE - ENGLISH, J. ENGLISH'S HANDBOOK OF FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, FOR VISITORS, WITH NOTICES OF THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTS IN THE VICINITY, AND SOME BRIEF REMARKS ON THE GEOLOGY, BOTANY AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE DISTRICT. Cover Title : ENGLISH’S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO FOLKESTONE, HYTHE, SANDGATE, DOVER,

KENT CANTERBURY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD, WITH 56 VIEWS and 2 MAPS. PRICE ONE SHILLING. Published at the ‘Express’ works High Street.

Folkestone: 1905 [19972] 12mo. [8] + 192 pp. + [2] pp. adverts. With 2 folding maps and photographic and wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Some of the adverts are also illustrated. Original yellow pictorial paper wrappers, tiny nick to the shoulder of the front board, otherwise a fine copy. £250

Churchill, 7 Great Marlborough Street, London. F. J. Parsons, Ltd. Sandgate Road, Folkestone. 1899 [20642] Small 8vo. 4.25 x 6.75 inches. vii + [i] + 79 pp. + [1].

Illustrated by photographic frontispiece, diagram and folding map of Folkestone at end. Bound in original blue cloth, with booksellers label of F. Weatherhead, 17 George Lane, Folkestone.

With the Author’s Compliments inscribed on title and small library catalogue mark on verso. A fine clean copy. £85

Good example of these scarce guides. First issued in 1856 and reissued almost every other year until just before the First World War with the twentieth edition. Mr. English must have printed hundreds of copies of all editions but we have records of less than 20 copies passing through our hands in 30 years.

One of the richest sources of local information. Mr Goulden states that the Eighteenth Edition of 1900 ‘was reissued after 1900 with cancel covers bearing the edition statement: Nineteenth Edition.’ However this is a separate edition as the page numbers differ and the index of illustrations, which may be reused from a previous edition, begins to differ from the text towards the end, indicating that it has been reset

A guide to the town, promoting the advantages of Folkestone as a healthy place to visit, and providing practical advice for those who might wish to rent a house or apartment for the season, stated to run from mid-July to the end of September.

The book contains chapters on the history, geographical situation, water supply, drainage and sea bathing.

It particularly examines the climate, including the temperature, sunshine, rainfall, relative humidity and wind, concluding that its ‘ever-fresh air ...is one of its most prominent features’ and ‘the reason why persons feel exhilarated in Folkestone.’ A fine copy of this scarce guide to Folkestone in 1899, complete with map.

SCARCE FOLKESTONE GUIDE, 1900 267 FOLKESTONE GUIDE - GODWIN, G. N. MATE’S ILLUSTRATED FOLKESTONE. A Literary, Historical and Pictorial Souvenir. Written by the Rev. G. N. Godwin, B.D., Author of ‘Historic Hastings,’ ‘Southampton Illustrated,’ Weymouth Illustrated,’ Etc. Profusely Illustrated with about 100 Views from Copyright Photographs by The Photochrom Company, Ltd., London; and Lambert Weston and Son, Folkestone.

Printed by W. Mate and Sons, Ltd., Newspaper and General Publishers, Art Printers, etc., Bournemouth. E. Marlborough and Co., 51, Old Bailey, London, E.C. Abel Heywood and Son, Oldham Street, Manchester.

1900 [20244] Oblong 4to. 12.5 x 9.75 inches. [8] pp. advertisements + [75] + [2] pp. + [7] pp. advertisements. Advertisements continue on front and rear endpapers. Extensively illustrated with black and white photographs, including one large folding panoramic view (33 x 9.5 inches) of Folkestone from the end of the pier. Bound in original red limp linen with decorations on front cover and advertisements on rear. A fine copy. £300 A lavishly illustrated visitors’ guide to Folkestone with numerous high quality black and white photographs of the sea front, beach, harbour, Leas, churches and some street scenes, extending to the Warren and nearby towns and villages. The large panoramic view of the town from the pier is of particular interest as are other photographs by the local firm of Lambert Weston. It also includes numerous advertisements, depicting shop fronts, hotels, schools, etc. W. Mate and Sons, Ltd of Bournemouth published a wide range of similarly illustrated guides to seaside and inland resorts and to historic cities.

George Nelson Godwin (1846-1907) was a clergyman, antiquary and travel writer, best known for his works on the history of Hampshire. A fine copy of a very scarce title - one other example is in Folkestone Library.

268 FOLKESTONE GUIDE - LARKING, ARTHUR E. NOTES ON FOLKESTONE. Historical, climatological, and medical with a chapter on Hints on selecting apartments. By Arthur E. Larking. J. and A.

269 FOLKESTONE GUIDE - MACKIE, S.J. ENGLISH'S HANDBOOK OF FOLKESTONE FOR VISITORS, WITH NOTICES OF THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTS IN THE VICINITY, AND SOME BRIEF REMARKS ON THE GEOLOGY, BOTANY AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE DISTRICT. Cover Title : ENGLISH’S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO FOLKESTONE, HYTHE, SANDGATE, DOVER, BOULOGNE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD, WITH 42 ILLUSTRATIONS & TWO MAPS, AND A VIEW OF FOLKESTONE FROM THE SEA. PRICE ONE SHILLING. Published at the ‘Express’ Office, High Street. Folkestone: No date but c.1885 [20466] Thirteenth edition, revised and enlarged. 12mo. [8] + 160 pp. + [20] pp. adverts with wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Some of the adverts are also illustrated. Lacking 1 folding map and the view of Folkestone. Folding map of the Drives and Walks Round Folkestone present.

Original yellow pictorial paper wrappers. Upper hinge cracked otherwise a fine copy. £250 Good example of these scarce guides. First issued in 1856 and reissued almost every other year until just before the First World War with the twentieth edition. Mr. English must have printed hundreds of copies of all editions but we have records of less than 20 copies passing through our hands in 30 years.

270 FOLKESTONE HANDBOOK. FOLKESTONE VIEWS AND REVIEWS. W.T. Pike and Co., Publishers, Grand Parade, Brighton. 1895 [20237] Folio, 8.5 x 11.5 inches, [i] + 84 pp. illustrated throughout. Original pictorial card wrappers printed in red and gold with decorative border. Wrappers somewhat time-stained but internally clean. £300 A rare Folkestone item not found in the British Library catalogue or the Kent Bibliography. Comprising a general description of Folkestone and Hythe and listing their main attractions. This is followed by a comprehensive trade guide to the principal hotels and businesses in Folkestone with many premises being illustrated in photographs or engravings, both internal and external views. The inside front and inside and

KENT outside rear covers have advertisements for local businesses.

Altogether a remarkable insight into late-Victorian Folkestone.

271 FOLKESTONE - HARE. Engraved by.

FOLKSTONE, KENT. [THE PARISH CHURCH]. c.1850 [19711] Coloured wood-engraving, 9 x 5.5 inches, mounted and framed in conservation materials. Overall size 14 x 11 inches. £75 Unusual view of the parish church of St. Mary & Eanswythe from the north side, showing the building before the beginnings of the series of restoration and enlargements which were begun some time after 1851.

272 FOLKESTONE HART, BRIAN. FOLKESTONE’S RAILWAYS. Wild Swan Publications. 2002 [20443] 4to. 94 pp. profusely illustrated. Softback. £30 From Cheriton Halt to Shakespeare Halt and down the Harbour branch, Folkestone’s railway heritage is described and illustrated. From the South Eastern Railway in the 1830’s and passing through and beyond the great days of steam.

273 FOLKESTONE - JONES, COUNCILLOR JOHN. FOLKESTONE AND THE WAR. Printed and published by J. Jones, Folkestone. No date but c.1919 [19652] 8vo. viii + 79 pp. with photo frontis. Original printed paper wrappers, a little chipped and worn. Some top edges ink-stained but text unaffected. Very scarce. £65 An interesting and entertaining account of the war years in Folkestone from an insider’s viewpoint. Where else would we learn of ‘The terrible Mrs. Grundy ... and other forbidding personages of the Social Purity League’? We have not seen a copy in many years.

HISTORY OF THE METROPOLE 274 FOLKESTONE - JONES, LESLIE R. METROPOLE, FOLKESTONE: THE OLD ...THE NEW. THE STORY OF A GREAT HOTEL. Folksetone : F.J. Parsons. 1969 [20371] First Edition, 8vo. 102 pp. with a frontis and 12 pp of good photographic plates. Bound in the original wrapper as issued. Some underlining in the text but a very good copy. £45 Important historical account of the great Folkestone hotel.

Issued in a small edition for private circulation in two formats, a cheaper card covered edition and a deluxe cloth bound edition. Mr Jones was able to produce such a well printed book as he had been the editor of the local newspaper, and had a financial interest in the newspaper and the printing works in Folkestone. Both these issues are are now scarce.

275 FOLKESTONE - KELLY’S DIRECTORY OF FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE, HYTHE AND SALTWOOD. **We stock a range of Kelly’s Directories for the area dating from the 1950s to the 1970s, prices reducing with relative youth.

276 FOLKESTONE KIP, JOHANNES. BEACHBOROUGH. THE SEAT OF WILLIAM

BROCKMAN ESQ. London, Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719 [20230] Large copper-engraving, 16 x 13 inches, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. £150 From Harris’ History of Kent. Drawn by Thomas Badeslade, and engraved by Kip.

277 FOLKESTONE MACKIE, S.J. A DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF FOLKESTONE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, WITH GLEANINGS FROM THE MUNICIPAL RECORDS, REPRINTED FROM THE FOLKESTONE EXPRESS. Folkestone, J. English. 1883 [15524] 8vo. vi + 352 pp. with portrait frontis of William Harvey, and numerous wood engravings throughout.

Professionally re-sewn and recased preserving the original decorated cloth, gilt. A little rubbed and spine a little faded, but a very good copy. £100 The enlarged second edition of the standard 19th century Folkestone history and guide. ‘The Gleanings from the Municipal Records’ which appear in this edition contain much of interest - The Early Charters, The Harbour, The Fishermen, Old Streets, Inns, Forms of Punishment, etc. This edition of Mackie is the most comprehensive antiquarian history of the town, but suffers from a serious production fault which affects all copies - the book was bound using metal staples instead of being sewn in the traditional way. These staples rust over time and the sections fall apart. We have had this fault professionally rectified; the book has been re-sewn and reinserted into its original case.

278 FOLKESTONE - MACKIE, S.J. A DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF FOLKESTONE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, WITH GLEANINGS FROM THE MUNICIPAL RECORDS, REPRINTED FROM THE FOLKESTONE EXPRESS. Folkestone, J. English. 1883 [17892] 8vo. vi + 352 pp. with portrait frontis of William Harvey, and numerous wood engravings throughout.

Professionally re-sewn and recased, preserving the original decorated cloth, gilt. A little rubbed and spine a little faded, with rust marks from the original stapled binding, but a very good copy. £90 The enlarged second edition of the standard 19th century Folkestone history and guide. 'The Gleanings from the Municipal Records' which appear in this edition contain much of interest - The Early Charters, The Harbour, The Fishermen, Old Streets, Inns, Forms of Punishment, etc. This edition of Mackie is the most comprehensive antiquarian history of the town, but suffers from a serious production fault which affects all copies - the book was bound using metal staples instead of being sewn in the traditional way. These staples rust over time and the sections fall apart. We have had this fault professionally rectified; the book has been re-sewn and reinserted into its original case.

ENGLISH’S GUIDE 279 —— HANDBOOK OF FOLKESTONE FOR VISITORS. With a notice of the remarkable objects in the vicinity, and some brief remarks on the geology, botany, and natural history of the district.

KENT [Cover title]: English’s Guide to Folkestone, Sandgate and its Neighbourhood with 19 Illustrations and 2 Maps...Price one shilling. J. English, The Library, High Street, Folkestone. 1867 [20582] Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. 12mo. [8] + 128 pp., including 20 pp. advertisements. Illustrated by a wood engraved frontis of William Harvy and 18 topographical wood engraved plates framed by red rules. Together the illistration on the front board making a 20th plate one more than advertised on the cover.

One of the advertisements is also illustrated with Two folding maps, Plan of the Town of Folkestone and Map of the Drives and Walks Round Folkestone. Original pink and blue pictorial card wrappers, with view over harbour on front.

Small tear to foot of pp.61-62, not affecting text, otherwise fine condition. Inscription of first owner, Charles White, on title page, dated Sept. 24th 1867 and in ink at top of front wrapper; Folkestone 1867 in ink on spine. No. 3609 and Avv. ‘Enrico Ricci’ stamped on title page and rear first free endpaper, otherwise a very nice example. £300 A good example of these scarce guides. First issued in 1856 and reissued almost every other year until the twentieth edition, just before the First World War. Mr. English must have printed hundreds of copies of all editions but we have records of less than twenty copies passing through our hands in thirty years. This fifth edition of 1867 (title page undated, but preface gives September 1867) is particularly scarce and is not listed in Goulden. A fine complete copy.

280 FOLKESTONE PANORAMA. FOLKESTONE FROM THE SEA. No place or date but c. 1890 [20565] Folding photo/litho panorama, 33 x 3½ inches. Overall size, 36 x 10 inches. Framed and glazed in conservation materials. Traces of old folds, otherwise in very good condition. £165 Very interesting panorama of Folkestone from the sea, showing the Lift and Pier (opened in 1884) and Switchback Railway (1888), on the left. Priory Gardens is roughly central and the old Harbour House overlooks the harbour and landing stage.

St. Andrew’s Convalescent Home has been erected (1885) on the East Cliff. Produced as a folding concertina type view book, probably printed in Germany.

281 FOLKESTONE - SMART, J.G.O., G. BISSON AND B. C. WORSSAM. GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND CANTERBURY AND FOLKESTONE. (Combined memoir in explanation of One-inch Geological sheets 289, 305 and 306, New Series) Second impression (with minor amendments).

H.M.S.O., London.. 1966/1975 [20561] 4to. 6.25 x 10 inches. x + 337 pp + [1]. Illustrated by 6 plates, including two folding (plate I monochrome) and 17 figures in text. Bound in original amber cloth. Otherwise a fine clean copy. £30 A thorough memoir, still the standard account of the geology of East Kent. A fine copy of this handsomely produced book.

282 FOLKESTONE VIEWS 32 PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF FOLKESTONE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Callcut and Beavis, 77 Great Eastern Street, London. n.d. but c. 1910 [20273]

Oblong 8vo. 9.5 x 7 inches. [2] pp. Illustrated by [24] plates of black and white photographs. Bound in the original publishers decorated stiff red card, and blocked in gilt. Hinges and joints loose, extremities worn. £40 The views are; The Harbour, Folkestone; The Band Stand Folkestone; Shades and Lees, Folkestone; Lower Sandgate Road Folkestone; The Pier Folkestone; The Lift and Metropole Hotel, Folkestone; St Mary’s Church, Folkestone (2 views exterior and interior); Folkestone from the Pier; S.S ’Mary Beatrice,’ Folkestone; Sandgate, General View and The Parade; Hythe General View and Crypt of Church; The Warren Folkestone; Shakespeare's Cliff Dover; The Harbour Dover; The Parade Dover; Dover Castle; Town Hall, Dover; Admiralty Pier Dover; General View and Waterloo Crescent, Dover; Lord Warden Hotel and Castle Street, Dover; Queen Elizabeth’s Pocket Pistol and Sands and Parade Dover; The Pier, Deal; Deal Castle and Walmer Castle; Canterbury Cathedral.

283 —— THE ALBUM OF FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE AND HYTHE VIEWS. London: Charles, Reynolds & Co., Ltd, 72 & 73 Fore Street and 18 & 20 Fore Street Avenue, London, EC 1885 [17609] 8vo. Concertina type view-book of glazed lithos, containing 21 different images and two fine panoramas, one of Folkestone from the sea and one of Sandgate.

Printed in Germany. Original blue decorated boards, blocked in gilt. A very good copy. £150 This type of view book originates in Germany and is an example of the curious mixture of photograph and engraving which were prolific from about 1875 to 1895 when photography finally won the day. This example must date from after 1884 as the pier and cliff lift are shown.

284 FOLKESTONE VIEWS. EARL’S PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF FOLKESTONE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Containing 14 of the Newest Views. W.E. Earl, 62 and 64 High Street, Folkestone.

Printed in Bavaria. n.d. but c. 1900 [20274] Oblong 8vo. 9 x 6.75 inches. [9] pp. of black and white photographic views , folded continuously. Text on rear endpaper. Bound in the original publishers stiff red card and blocked in gilt. Slight wear to extremities but otherwise fine condition. £35 The views are: The Beach, Folkestone; Boulogne boat entering Folkestone Harbour and Boulogne Boat leaving Folkestone Harbour; The Warren, Folkestone and Rough Sea, Folkestone; The Lees looking west and Pier entrance and sands; Lower Walk, Folkestone and General view of Folkestone from incoming steamer; View of Harbour and East Cliff and Folkestone Harbour; Promenade gardens and bandstand and Harbour entrance; Beach Rocks Convalescent Home Sandgate and Sandgate general view - showing Shorncliff Camp; The Crypt - Hythe and Saltwood Castle near Hythe. ‘The pictures in this book are taken from the photos of the Eiminent Photographic Publishers Poulton and Son, Chester Vaughan and others.’

285 FOLKESTONE VIEWS. SIXTEEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF FOLKESTONE. R.J. Watford.

The Arcade 67. High St and 15. Tontine St Folkestone. E and S. London. [1895] [20245] Oblong 8vo. 7.75 x 6 inches. [16] pp. captioned black and white photographs. Advertisement for publisher on rear

KENT endpaper. [Title from front board]. Bound in original red cloth, gilt with decorated front board. Extremities worn and slight darkening of top left corner of front board.

Otherwise a fine clean interior. £60 The high quality black and white photographs include views of the Leas, harbour and sea front, the parish church, the Warren and of Hythe. A very scarce publication, with one copy recorded in the British Library.

286 —— SOUVENIR ALBUM OF VIEWS. FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE, HYTHE, AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Folkestone, Herald Printing Works. c.1900 [18198] Oblong 4to. approximately 11.5 x 9 inches. Title and introduction and 44 photo plates and a long (14 x 36 inches) panorama of Folkestone from the Sea. Original grained, gilt-stamped red cloth with photo insets. Rather worn and time-stained but still imposing. £150 An elaborate production in which an advertisement for the West Cliff Hotel states that ‘Since October 1900, the hotel has been entirely remodelled ...’ and one of the views shows the 'Duchess of York' leaving her berth at Folkestone for France.

The 'Duchess' was delivered in 1895 and lasted until 1904.

This means that this view book can only have been produced during this 3-4 year period. Scarce.

287 —— TWELVE VIEWS OF FOLKESTONE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Engraved and published by Newman and Co. [London] nd but c 1850 [19973] Oblong 8vo. (7.5 x 5.5 inches) vignette view book containing 12 steel engravings of Folkestone and neighbourhood, without text, as issued. Original blindstamped and gilt cloth. Plates clean and good early impressions. A very good example. £175 Newman and Co. were commercial view-book producers who employed teams of artists to produce sample books of images of all the popular resorts. Newman’s travelling salesmen took these to the local booksellers and printers, who could select views for their personalised publications. Competition seems to have been quite strong in this field as there were at least three similar producers of view books (viz. Rock, Harwood and Kronheim). Some plates may even bear the same titles, but are not identical, because they were drawn by different artists for different companies. This makes identification of different editions extremely complex. This edition contains a good selection of views as listed. Those with an asterisk are large format vignettes, nearly full-page:- 1. Folkestone looking East; 2. Folkestone looking West; 3. Folkestone from the Pier Head; 4. Folkestone Lighthouse and Harbour; 5. Folkestone and Harbour; 6. Folkestone from the Sea; 7. Pavilion [Hotel] Folkestone,. 8. Folkestone Viaduct; 9. New Church Folkestone 10. General View of the Camp Shorncliffe; 11. *Saltwood Castle; 12. *Folkestone Harbour

288 —— THIRTY VIEWS OF FOLKESTONE. [This edition contains a good selection of views depicting:] 1. The Lees Steps and Beach, Folkestone, Kent; 2. West Cliff from the Pier, Folkestone; 3.

Folkestone from the Dover Road; 4. Folkestone from the Sea; 5. Pier and Railway Station, Folkestone; 6.

Folkestone Church, Kent; 7. Royal Terrace, Folkestone; 8. The Lees, West Cliff, Folkestone; 9. West Cliff Terrace, Folkestone, Kent; 10. West Cliff, Folkestone, Kent; 11.

Sandgate Road West, Folkestone; 12. Clifton Gardens,

Folkestone; 13. Sandgate Road East, Folkestone; 14.

Wesleyan Chapel. Folkestone; 15. St Michael's Church, Folkestone; 16. Albion Villas, Folkestone, Kent; 17.

Folkestone from Sandgate plain; 18. Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone; 19. Folkestone from East Cliff; 20. The Viaduct, Folkestone; 21. Folkestone, Marine Parade; 22.

Dover from the Castle Steps; 23. Dover from Admiralty Pier; 24. Sandgate, Kent, from the Hythe Road; 25.

Devonshire Terrace, Sandgate, Kent; 26. Gloucester Terrace, Sandgate, Kent; 27. Radnor Terrace, Sandgate, Kent; 28. Wellington Terrace, Sandgate, Kent; 29.

Sandgate from the Cliff Walk; 30. Sandgate and Camp.

Rock and Co., London. No date but c.1870 [20170] Oblong 8vo. (7 x 5 inches), vignette view book containing 30 uncoloured steel engravings of Folkestone without text, as issued. Bound in original blind stamped and gilt burgundy cloth. Some very slight foxing affecting 6 plates, otherwise a very good example of a popular souvenir.

Neat inscriptions in ink and pencil to front free endpaper.

Becoming scarcer as many copies have been broken and the plates framed. £375 Each plate bears its original date of publication, as there is a gap of 19 years between the earliest [1851] and latest [1870].

Presumably, the images could be reused until the view changed and needed updating, when the old plate would be dropped and a new one drawn. Rock and Co. were commercial view book producers who employed teams of artists to produce images of all the popular resorts. They would then send travelling salesmen to the local booksellers and printers who could choose from their sample books which of the views they would use for their personalised publications. Competition seems to have been quite strong in this field as there were at least three similar producers of view books (e.g. Newman, Harwood and Kronheim). Some plates may bear the same titles, but are not identical, because they were drawn by different artists for different companies.

This makes identification of different editions extremely complex.

289 —— VIEWS OF FASHIONABLE FOLKESTONE, SANDGATE, HYTHE, AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. As seen through the Camera. P. C. Upton, 24, 26 and 28 Tontine St., and 15 and 17, Sandgate Rd., Folkestone. [c.1897] [20246] Oblong 4to. 10 inches x 6.5 inches. [40] pp. including [1] pp. advertisements. Further advertisements on endpapers and rear boards. Illustrated with black and white captioned photographs. Bound in original olive green stiff boards, gilt, with decorated front board and pictorial coloured advertisement on rear board. Slight wear to extremities but generally a fine copy. £65 An interesting collection of black and white photographs of the Folkestone area dating from the late 1890s, soon after the completion of the Metropole Hotel in 1897 and before work on the harbour extension began, in the same year. Other than the usual scenes of the sea front, harbour and Leas, etc., it includes views of the new churches, Radnor Park, Shorncliffe Camp and the Pleasure Gardens Tennis Ground. It includes photographs by Lambert Weston and F. J. Parsons, the local printers and publishers of the Folkestone Herald. Upton later became Upton and Sons Ltd. specialising in high class china and glass, leather goods, toys and stationery of 46 Sandgate Road and had ceased trading by the early 1960s. A fine copy of a scarce work, with one copy recorded in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

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TWO ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS 290 FOLKESTONE HARBOUR FROM THE DURLOCKS. No artist or date but c.1850 [20233] Large original watercolour, 17 x 12 inches approx., mounted in conservation materials, framed in light oak and glazed. Overall size 26 x 22 inches approx. £950 A very attractive view from the high ground above the fishermen’s quarter with two seated figures looking across the inner harbour to the Pavilion Hotel and Harbour House, with the Parish Church and the Bayle in the background.

291 THE RAILWAY VIADUCT AT FOLKESTONE. No artist’s name or date but c.1850 [20239] Original watercolour view, 11.5 x 8.5 inches approx., mounted in conservation materials, framed in light oak and glazed, overall size 20 x 18 inches. £750 One of Folkestone’s most famous views is that of Cubitt’s huge, nineteen-arch, railway viaduct over Foord Valley. This delightful view captures the rural feel of the valley with its lush vegetation, trees, cattle, mill and Pent stream. A train is crossing the viaduct with a steam locomotive at either end. A very accomplished work. Attributed to Copley-Fielding. *

292 FOLKESTONE - WINBOLT, S.E. ROMAN FOLKESTONE. Methuen. 1925 [17399] First edition. 199 pp. with plans and photo illustration.

Original red cloth. Spine faded but a very good copy.

The standard book on the Folkestone villa. £25 293 FOLKESTONE - WOODWARD, MATTHEW. THE PAST AND PRESENT OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF FOLKESTONE. Together with, An account of the Reliquary of St. Eanswythe Discovered in 1885. Skeffington & Son. 1892 [15104] First Edition. 138 pp. + (6) adverts with 12 photo plates showing the church before and after restoration. Original cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded otherwise fine copy. £45 Contains the only detailed description of this historic building before the ‘restoration’ of the 1860s. ***We have a less fine copy at the price of £40***

294 FOOTE, WILLIAM. THE GENERAL OR PRINCIPAL HIGHWAY ACT (5 & 6 WILL. 4, c.50) AND THE ACT FOR THE BETTER MANAGEMENT OF HIGHWAYS (25 & 26 Vict. c. 61), AND OTHER STATUTES AFFECTING THE LAW IN CONNECTION WITH THE HIGHWAYS IN ENGLAND AND NORTH WALES; With practical and explanatory notes, forms, references to statutes and cases, and a copious index to each of the Highway Acts. By William Foote, Attorney-at- Law. Third edition.

London: John Crockford, 10, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C. 1862 [19724] 12mo. 4.5 x 7.5 inches. lxxxviii + 302 + [2] + 14 pp. advertisements, the New Laws of the Session of 1862, tipped in at end and advertisements on front and rear paste-downs. a-a12, b-b8, c-d12, B-L12, M-M6, N-N12, O-O8, P-P8. Bound in original buff cloth, rebacked spine,

blind stamped boards, edges rubbed. First free front endpaper and title page slightly detached at lower edges.

1867 ink inscription on first free endpaper. Clean interior. £120 The larger part of the book, whose first edition was published in 1852, is concerned with the Highway Act of 1836 and it is followed by a section on the Highway Act of 1862. Both parts have separate indexes.

295 FUSSELL, L. A JOURNEY ROUND THE COAST OF KENT; CONTAINING REMARKS ON THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTS WORTHY OF NOTICE THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE OF THAT INTERESTING BORDER, AND THE CONTIGUOUS DISTRICT; INCLUDING PENSHURST, AND TUNBRIDGE-WELLS; WITH RYE, WINCHELSEA, HASTINGS AND BATTLE IN SUSSEX: BEING ORIGINAL NOTES MADE DURING A SUMMER EXCURSION. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 47 Paternoster-Row. 1818. [20361] 8vo. Hand-coloured folding engraved map, iv + 304 pp.

Recently bound in quarter-morocco gilt, over blue paper boards. A very good copy. £175 The conversational text sheds much light on the condition of Kent in the early 19th. century. The description of remote parts such as Romney Marsh, Dymchurch Wall, The Redoubt, Lydd, and Dungeness Light are most interesting.

296 GARDINER, DOROTHY. Edited by. THE OXINDEN LETTERS 1607 - 1642. Being the Correspondence of Henry Oxinden of Barham and his Circle. Edited with Notes and an Introduction by Dorothy Gardiner. Constable and Co Ltd., London. 1933 [20212] 8vo. 5.75 x 9 inches. xxxvi + 328 pp. + [18]. Illustrated with portrait frontis. and 12 plates (including facsimiles) and a folding genealogical table and map at end. With half-title, bibliography and index. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt, boards stained, spine a little faded and extremities bumped and worn. Deckle edges with top edge maroon. Some lower edge staining near beginning, otherwise clean inside. £65 This elusive volume gives a fascinating insight into daily life in the country houses of East Kent during the early seventeenth century and the prelude to the Civil War. It prints 240 letters from the Oxinden family of Great Maydekin House, Barham, largely selected from Additional MSS, 27,999 and 28,000 in the British Museum (now in the British Library). Sir Henry Oxinden (1609-70) was born in Canterbury and educated at Wye and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, being admitted to Gray’s Inn, 1632. He served on the parliamentary side during the siege of Arundel, 1643 but took no further part in the events of the 1640s. He published four volumes of verse and other works which attacked Puritan ministers and moved to support for Charles I and later the Restoration. He was ordained in 1661 but never took up residence in the Buckinghamshire living of Radnage, to which he had been presented. Over 200 titles from Oxinden’s library survived to found Elham parish library and are now housed in Canterbury Cathedral Library.

The editor of the letters, Dorothy Gardiner, nee Kempe (1873-1957) was educated in London and at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She later worked at the LMH settlement in Lambeth, where she married the rector, and in 1917, moved with him to Canterbury, on his appointment as residential canon of the Cathedral. Her other published works

KENT included English Girlhood at School (1929), The Story of Lambeth Palace (1930) and Companion into Kent (1934). A further volume of the letters, The Oxinden and Peyton letters, 1642-1670 appeared in 1937.

Kent Bibliography

297 GATTIE, G. BYNG. MEMORIALS OF THE GOODWIN SANDS, AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS, LEGENDARY AND HISTORICAL. W.H. Allen. 1890 [13803] 297 pp. with maps and illustrations in the text. Original illustrated cloth, decorated gilt. Front inner hinge repaired but a bright clean copy. £75 First edition of this scarce work on the Sands, which is very nicely produced and illustrated, with full details of the various designs and devices for the improved safety of the Sands, including the frontispiece of Capt. Bullock's first safety beacon. *** We also have a copy of the 1904 reprint (without gilt decoration at £45 ***

298 —— MEMORIALS OF THE GOODWIN SANDS, AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS, LEGENDARY AND HISTORICAL. WITH MAPS AND CHARTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. The ‘Kelkel’ Edition. J.J. Keliher and Co., Ltd., 99, Victoria St., and 33, King William St., E.C. London 1904 [17949] 297 pp. with maps and illustrations in the text. Original cloth, decorated gilt. A bright clean copy. £45 Second edition of this scarce work on the Sands, which is also very nicely produced and illustrated, but the binding is without the gilt decoration on the first issue. The text seems to be identical to the first edition, with full details of the various designs and devices for the improved safety of the Sands, including the frontispiece of Capt. Bullock's first safety beacon.

299 [GLEIG, G.R.] THE CHRONICLES OF WALTHAM. A. and W. Galignani and Co., Paris : 1835 [19447] 8vo. First Continental Edition, issued in the same year as the first English edition. Bound in original printed paper wrappers as issued. A little worn at extremities and the spine has been replaced, but a rare survivor in original condition. £150 George Robert Gleig (1796-1888). On leaving Oxford in 1811, Gleig joined the army, and was involved in the later stages of the Napoleonic wars. He was ordained in 1820 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and became Curate of Westwell.

Ash and Ivychurch were added later to his jurisdiction. His novel is of great social interest, reflecting the life of the country people in the parish of Waltham and East Kent in general. The backdrop of England at the end of the long years of war bringing change to these quiet communities; falling corn prices, smallholdings becoming unprofitable, leading to evictions of families who for generations had held the same farms. The knowledgeable reader will see through the thinly disguised portraits of well-known landowners, and families who are still to be found in the locality today. RARE.

RARE TWO DECKER KENTISH NOVEL 300 —— THE COUNTRY CURATE. By the Author of ‘The Subaltern’ and ‘The Chelsea Pensioners’.

Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. 1830 [17130]

8vo. First Edition. 2 volumes bound as one. iv + 334 pp. + 435 pp. Rebound in recent half-calf, tooled in blind and gilt, the two volumes bound as one. Title page of the first volume is a little foxed and the book has been used, with some finger marks here and there, but a good copy of a work that was much taken up by the Circulating Libraries and is consequently near impossible to find in pristine condition. £200 The novel is in the form of 10 character sketches. Localities for Gleig’s characters are identified in the preface to the second edition of this novel, from which we learn that the village of Westwell was the poacher, Ash for the Smuggler (A. Brockman, now a convict in New South Wales), Romney Marsh for the Miser, The Schoolmistress back to Westwell etc. 'Let me therefore, be content to remind him, that he who has the care of a large parish, and goes about, as he ought to do, among his people, cannot fail, if he keep his eyes open, ... to see things..'

Gleig was Curate of Westwell, Ash and Ivychurch and his novels value as social history cannot be overestimated.

George Robert Gleig (1796-1888). On leaving Oxford in 1811 Gleig joined the army, and was involved in the later stages of the Napoleonic wars. He was ordained in 1820 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and became Curate of Westwell, later Ash and Ivychurch were added to his jurisdiction. His novels are of great social interest reflecting the life of the country people in the parishes of East Kent.

The knowledgeable reader will see through the thinly disguised portraits of well-known landowners and families who are still to be found in the locality today. Rare Kentish novel.

301 GLENDINNING, VICTORIA. VITA THE LIFE OF V. SACKVILLE-WEST Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, London. 1983 [16969] First Edition. 8vo. xviii + 430 pp. illustrated with photographs. Original cloth. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. £25 302 GLOVER, JUDITH. THE PLACE NAMES OF KENT. Batsford. 1976 [10558] 8vo. 215 pp. Original cloth, gilt, in dustwrapper. £25 The first issue of the standard modern work on Kent’s place names.

303 GLYNNE, SIR STEPHEN. NOTES ON THE CHURCHES OF KENT. John Murray. 1877 [17683] First Edition. 351 pp., + 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue with wood engravings in the text. Original green cloth, gilt.

Prelims and title page slightly foxed, and a blind stamp on the title states ‘Presented by Mr Murray’. A very good copy. £85 Thorough book covering 312 churches, mostly surveyed before the 'restorations' of the Victorians, and recording many original features since destroyed.

THE 304 GOMME, G.L. Edited by.

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE LIBRARY: TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF KENT AND LANCASHIRE, BEING A CLASSIFED COLLECTION OF THE CHIEF CONTENTS OF THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE FROM 1731-1868. Elliot Stock. 1895 [18538] xii + 328 pp. Original buckram, gilt. £40

KENT Contains many fascinating and unusual articles, fully indexed by name and subjects, mostly devoted to Kent, of the 328 pp. only about 50 are concerned with Lancs.

ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT DIARY 305 GOODNESTONE - BENGE, FREDERICK. WILLIAM. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF HOLIDAYS IN KENT AND LIFE IN GOODNESTONE Together with a mint copy of David Oliver’s book ‘The Diaries of Frederick William Benge. Broadstairs, 1837, Goodnestone, 1847’ which is No.3 of a limited First Edition of 500 copies, with signed dedication from Oliver to William Lapthorne, the Broadstairs historian and previous owner of the diary. 1837, 1847 [19628] 4to. 7.5 x 8.75 inches. [138] pages of manuscript, comprising [109] pp. at front; [29] pp. inverted manuscript at rear with [7] blank pages in centre.

Illustrated with pen and wash sketches on ten pages of the 1837 text. Bound in red half-morocco, marbled boards.

A trifle rubbed at extremities Occasional slight foxing but otherwise clean. £1,750 The two diaries have been identified as the work of Frederick William Benge (1787-1849), who was living in Pimlico at the time of the holiday but moved to Rowling House, Goodnestone, Kent in 1839. First part untitled; after introductory comment, entries from 12 September to 10 October 1837, followed by conclusion. Second part titled, Continuation of the Journal from 1847, Commencing 2 November ending 14 November 1847.

The diaries were transcribed and privately published by David R.Oliver (Broadstairs, 1994), illustrated throughout, with much additional matter, contemporary engravings, photographs, etc. Oliver’s book contains four appendices, including background information on the family, persons mentioned in the diary, relevant extracts from Kentish Gazette, etc.

Despite having been previously researched, there remains much more to be explored. A unique item

306 GOODNESTON. KIP, JOHANNES. GOODNESTON. THE SEAT OF THE HON’BLE Sr BROOK BRIDGES Bart. London, Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719 [20227] Large copper-engraving, 16 x 13 inches, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. £150 From Harris’ History of Kent.

307 GOODSALL, R.H. THE ARUN AND WESTERN ROTHER. Constable. 1962. [18043] First edition 196 pp. with photographic illustrations Original cloth in dust wrapper. £25 Goodsall’s popular and well-informed work.

308 —— STEDE HILL THE ANNALS OF A KENTISH HOME. Headley Brothers: 1949 [18537] 8vo. xii + 210 pp. with photo illustration and folding pedigrees. Original cloth gilt in dust wrapper. A very good copy. £35 Focusing on one house and the fortunes of its inhabitants, provides a history of the county in miniature.

Hollingbourn/Harrietsham area.

SANDGATE

309 GOUGH, JOHN B. ORATIONS. Copyright Edition, Revised by himself. London: Morgan and Scott.

No date but c.1900 [20384] 8vo. 5 x 7.5 inches, Frontis portrait of the author + approximate 150 pp. comprising 11 orations of 12-14 pages each, separately and eccentrically paginated. Bound in the original stamped and decorated brown pictorial cloth, gilt, with a vignette of Gough’s birthplace in Sandgate to upper board. £45 Born in Sandgate, Kent, John B. Gough (1817-1886) emigrated to the United States with his mother and sister when he was twelve. His mother died of a stroke and Gough, despondent, began to drink. After marrying in 1838. he and his wife had a daughter who unfortunately died within days of her birth, quickly followed by her mother At the age of 25 Gough, unemployed, homeless, and a confirmed drunkard attended a temperance meeting in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he took the pledge. He began to tell his story to eager audiences and soon embarked on a career of lecturing against the evils of drink. During his career, Gough delivered some 9,600 lectures in America, Canada, England, Scotland, and Ireland.

When he died in 1886, the New York Times wrote that he ‘was probably better known in this country and in Great Britain than any other public speaker.’

310 GOULDEN, R.G. KENT TOWN GUIDES 17631900. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LOCALLY-PUBLISHED KENT TOWN GUIDES, TOGETHER WITH ACCOUNTS OF THE PRINTING, PUBLISHING, AND PRODUCTION OF TOWN GUIDES IN CERTAIN TOWNS IN KENT. The British Library. 1995 [7381] 8vo. 134 pp., with 6 illustrations. New. £30 Excellent addition to the bibliography of the county. Most of the guide books to Kent were published after 1837 when Smith's Bibliotheca Cantiana was published. Mr Goulden, whose interest was stimulated by his family connection with guide book production in Canterbury and elsewhere, works for the British Library and is thus perfectly placed to compile such a complex work. The book is concerned with local publications only, and with the aid of an introductory essay to the publishing history of each town, he unravels the story in an extremely lucid way. * Mr Goulden informs me that the book is still in print at the original price, but remember we have to order this from the B.L. which can take a week or so.

311 GRASBY, E. D. Y. THE PROVINCE OF KENT 1770-1970. Published with the authority of the Right Worshipful the Provincial Grand Master for the Province of Kent. Printed in England by J. A. Jennings, Ltd., Canterbury. 1970 [20559] 4to. 8 x 10 inches. [viii] + 102 pp. Illustrated by b/w photos, blue provincial badge on title page. Prefaces by Lord Cornwallis, Provincial Grand Master and the author, signed E. Dudley Grasby, Hawkhurst, 1970. Bound in original navy, gilt. Fine condition. £20 Published to celebrate the Bicentary of the formation of the Provincial Grand Lodge and the installation of the first Provincial Grand Master in about 1770.

312 GRASEMANN, C. and G.W.P. McLACHLAN. ENGLISH CHANNEL PACKET BOATS. Syren & Shipping. 1939 [18508]

KENT First Edition, 205 pp. illustrated throughout. Original cloth in the very scarce dust wrapper. A very good copy. £65 Detailed work with a chronological table of vessels engaged in regular cross-channel service from 1790 to 1939. ***Aanother first edition without dustwrapper at £45***

GRAVESEND ARCHIVE 313 MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF GRAVESEND IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY. A large quantity of legal documents, leases, indentures, wills, rent books, insurance policies and receipts, maps and plans, auction particulars etc., relating to property in Gravesend and Milton. 1800 - 1930 [12086] Vellum deeds, bound rent and account books manuscript and printed plans and drawings, printed letterheads and insurance documents, share certificates, etc.

The condition is mostly very good, some a little dusty and grubby, mostly folded. £950 A fascinating archive from an estate agent or similar, some of the more interesting items are :A manuscript plan, dated June 1820 and signed by Edward Mawley, Architect ‘A Freehold Estate at Gravesend property of Mr Charles Mawley’. The plan shows a crescent of villas adjacent to Gravesend Church, pen and ink with watercolour wash.

A manuscript plan and elevation of a proposed villa dated 1829 showing a delightful Georgian house.

A manuscript ‘Plan of freehold estate property of Charles Mawley, 1831’. at Gravesend depicting four blocks of land, houses etc. between Princess Street, Church Street, Bath Street and New Road, intersected by Wakefield Street and Kempthorne Street. Signed by John Brown, Surveyor, London 1831. Pen and ink with watercolour wash.

A lithographic ‘Plan of the Gravesend Freehold Investment Company at Milton next Gravesend, Kent’. depicting plots for disposal. Hand coloured.

A number of printed share certificates for the Gravesend and Milton Diamond Steam Boat Company, 1837.

Manuscript cheques and/or promissory notes with embossed duty stamps, various banks and dates 1830 -1860.

Five bound account books of various sizes, detailing collection of rents and amounts spent on properties and with tradesmen etc. Between 1828 and 1842. Property belonging to William Curd, Mrs Mary Martin, James Turtle in account with William Glover.

A large quantity of handsomely printed fire insurance policies completed by hand, issued by County Fire Office and others.

Many of the documents relate to the family of Umfreville, notably Samuel, but also to a number of other local families.

314 GRAVESEND PHILIP, ALEX. J. A HISTORY OF & ITS SURROUNDINGS FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES. Published by the Author, Wraysbury, Bucks. 1954 [16766] 4to. i-x + 214 pp. with numerous illustrations. Green cloth with gilt spine. A very good copy. £60 Published by subscription, (143 subscribers are listed) it is unlikely that more than 200 were printed and, given the number of libraries listed, it is easy to understand why it has become difficult to find.

315 GRAVESEND - CRUDEN, ROBERT PEIRCE. THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF GRAVESEND IN THE COUNTY OF KENT AND THE PORT OF LONDON. London: William Pickering 177 Piccadilly; James Johnson 46 Harmer Street Gravesend. 1843 [16902] Large 8vo. 569 pp. with 38 engravings, several folding.

Original cloth, gilt, skilfully rebacked. Some slight foxing to the folding plates as is usual, but a very good copy. £250 A very important Kentish town history, and a maritime history together with the story of the adjacent dockyards. Scarce.

316 GRAVESEND - HARKER, SYDNEY. THE BOOK OF GRAVESHAM. Barracuda Books, Buckingham. 1979 [16767] 4to. 140 pp. illustrated throughout. Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like dust wrapper. £20 A well-illustrated account. As with all the Barracuda Books imprints, these were issued in limited numbers and have become quite scarce.

GRAVESEND IN THE 1860s 317 GRAVESEND MILLER, WILLIAM. JOTTINGS OF KENT. Being a Series of Historical, Ecclesiastical, Topographical, and Statistical Sketches by William Miller, of H.M. India Office. Second Edition.

Thomas Hall, 4a, Windmill Street, Gravesend. Whitaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane, Ludgate Hill, London. 1864 [20258] Second edition. 8vo. 4.25 x 6.5 inches. viii + 198 pp. + [3] advertisements. Bound in original red leather, with blindstamped borders enclosing decoration and gilt-blocked decorated title on extra gilt front boards, with gilt decorated spine title and gilt edges. £150 The contents of this pocket version, first published in 1864, had appeared in the Gravesend Free Press (established 1855) owned by Thomas Hall. The author is presumed to be a local ma - certainly the coverage of Gravesend is much more extensive than any other entry. The surrounding settlements are dealt with in greater detail but there are chapters on many other towns and settlements apart from the Weald and the coast south of Dover. There is an introductory section on the history and resources of the county and a survey of the Kings and Earls and Dukes of Kent.

An attractive and useful account of north and east Kent in the 1860s. ***We have another clothbound copy at £100***

318 GRAVETT, KENNETH. TIMBER AND BRICK BUILDING IN KENT. A selection from the J. Fremlyn Streatfeild Collection. Phillimore, for the K.A.S. 1971 [16373] 4to. xiii + 32 pp. + 122 plates. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. £35 In the late nineteenth century Streatfeild proposed to reissue Hasted’s history of Kent, to this end he commissioned a wealth of Architectural drawings of fine examples of Kentish buildings. These are here printed for the first time with a introduction by an acknowledged expert in the field. *** A later reprint is available at £25.***

KENT 319 GRAYLING, FRANCIS. COUNTY CHURCHES - KENT. George Allen and Co., 1913.

[17958] 2 vols. 173 + 183 pp. with photo illustrated. throughout.

Original blind stamped cloth, gilt, a good set. The bindings are not uniform. £25 Invaluable pocket sized guide to the churches of Kent.

320 GREENWICH - HAMILTON, OLIVE and NIGEL. ROYAL GREENWICH A GUIDE AND HISTORY TO LONDON’S MOST HISTORIC BOROUGH containing photographs by Stanley Devon and historical illustrations drawn from archives, galleries and collections throughout Britain The Greenwich Bookshop. 1969 [16848] 4to. xii + 267 pp. with illustration throughout. Original decorated boards. £20

GREENWICH & BLACKHEATH, 1834 321 GREENWICH - RICHARDSON, HENRY S. GREENWICH, ITS HISTORY, ANTIQUITIES, IMPROVEMENTS, AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS..

Illustrated with Engravings on Wood by G. Baxter, from Drawings by W.B. Mackie. Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers Court; and H. Richardson, Greenwich, London. 1834 [19629] First Edition 8vo. 130 + [1] pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 2 full page wood-engraved plates. Bound in modern red buckram, spine lettered gilt, one or two sections of the book are foxed, due to paper inconsistency, but a very good example with about half of the book uncut and unopened. Scarce. £200 A great deal of information has been packed into this scarce guide, detailing a description of the town, population, and ‘modern’ improvements to Greenwich, Blackheath and neighbourhood.

LARGE PAPER COPY 322 GROSE, FRANCIS. A PROVINCIAL GLOSSARY; WITH COLLECTIONS OF LOCAL PROVERBS, AND POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. A NEW EDITION, CORRECTED. Printed for Edward Jeffery 1811 [19892] Folio, iv + 124 pp. Large paper copy 14 x 12 inches.

Recently bound in half calf, gilt, with marbled boards.

A very nice copy of this printing of Grose’s collection of provincial dialect, which contains a lot of Kentish examples and is one of the first works on the subject. £200

323 GUIDE TO THE COUNTY. EXCURSIONS IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. COMPRISING BRIEF HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL DELINEATIONS; TOGETHER WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE RESIDENCES OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY, Remains of Antiquity and other Interesting Objects of Curiosity. Forming a Complete Guide for the Traveller and Tourist. Illustrated with Fifty Engravings, including a Map of the County.

Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; J.Grieg, Back Road, Islington; and P. Youngman, Witham and Maldon, Essex. 1822 [19781]

12 mo. 4.25 x 6.5 inches. iv + 216 pp. B-T6. Illustrated with engraved frontis., 2 folding engraved maps, and 38 copper-engraved plates by Grieg after drawings by Gastineau and others. Bound in calf, gilt, decorated spine with morocco labels and gilt borders to boards and marbled edges, now faded. Some wear to spine edges and to top joints. Bookplate on front paste-down and ink inscription on first free endpaper. Slight foxing as is normal and a few stains on first few pages, but a good copy. £150 A good copy of this view book of early 19th century Kent. The title page calls for 50 plates including the maps but, even including the engraved frontispiece, no copy we have seen accounts for more than 48. For some reason two plates were never issued, as noted in Smith’s bibliography. This copy, perhaps assembled later, has no more than 41, including the maps and frontispiece.

324 GUIDES TO THE COUNTY - BLACK'S. GUIDES TO KENT. Edinburgh, A. and C. Black. .

We stock a range of these popular guides from 1886 to 1915 commensurate prices.

325 GUIDE TO THE COUNTY - [FISHER, THOMAS.] THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF ROCHESTER AND ITS ENVIRONS: To which is added, a Description of the Towns, Villages, Gentlemen’s Seats, and Ancient Buildings, Situated on, or near the Road from London to Margate, Deal, and Dover.

Embellished with Copper-Plates Printed and sold by T. Fisher; Rochester, Sold also by S. Crowder, Bookseller, in Pater-Noster Row, London, 1772 [19706] First edition. xiv + 353 pp. + [1] errata, with folding engraved plan of Rochester and 5 other copper-engraved plates. Recent half-calf over marbled boards with contrasting title label, gilt. Fore-edge margin of one and a half leaves neatly excised wth no loss of text, otherwise a very good copy. £200 326 —— THE KENTISH TRAVELLER'S COMPANION IN A DESCRIPTIVE VIEW OF THE TOWNS, VILLAGES, REMARKABLE BUILDINGS AND ANTIQUITIES SITUATED ON OR NEAR THE ROAD TO MARGATE, DOVER AND CANTERBURY ILLUSTRATED WITH A CORRECT MAP OF THE ROAD ON A SCALE OF ONE INCH TO A MILE AND A TABLE OF DISTANCES IN KENT. THE THIRD EDITION WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS. Simmons & Kirkby, Canterbury; and W. Gillman, Rochester. The Third Edition, 1790 [18020] Third edition. 8vo. iv + 320 pp. + [8] with 3 folding copper-engraved strip maps and a folding distance chart.

Bound in contemporary calf, finely rebacked in calf with raised bands and morocco label, gilt. An attractive copy. £250 The third edition ‘with considerable additions’ states the title page and it seems so. The book is 80 pages longer than the second edition and an index has been added along with the distance table. Fisher’s name has been removed from the imprint [and Gillman’s added] so he had either sold his business or died. The work was first published in response to the growing numbers of tourists making their way to the Isle of

KENT Thanet to indulge in the new fad, 'sea bathing'. Five editions were to be published by 1799. 'This very useful volume' - Smith

327 GUIDE TO THE COUNTY - FREELING, ARTHUR. Edited by. PICTURESQUE EXCURSIONS; CONTAIN UPWARDS OF FOUR HUNDRED VIEWS AT AND NEAR PLACES OF POPULAR RESORT: WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF EACH LOCALITY. Ackerman & Co., Strand, Tilt and Bogue, Fleet Street. n.d. c. 1840 [19343] 12 mo. 332 pp illustrated with charming wood-engravings throughout. Bound in the original decorated publisher’s cloth, gilt. Skilfully recased, preserving the original binding. £175 The work is divided into excursions, viz, 1. The Isle of Wight. 2.

Southampton, Lymington, Winchester Etc., 3. Tunbridge-Wells.

4. Hastings & St Leonards. 5. Brighton, Worthing, Lewis Etc. 6. Dover. 7. Down The Thames to Margate, Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Etc. 8. Up the Thames to Richmond, Hampton Court, Etc. The Margate section is another issue, in a slightly different format, of the Water Guides issued by Tilt and others, with the same charming illustrations by Bonner, which succeed so well in giving a flavour and feeling of the times of this pre-railway era.

ILLUSTRATED SEASIDE GUIDE 1851 328 GUIDE TO WATERING PLACES BLANCHARD, EDWARD L. ADAMS’S DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO THE WATERING PLACES OF ENGLAND, AND COMPANION TO THE COAST. Part I. Southern and Eastern Division. Containing full descriptions of The Isle of Wight (with map). The New Forest and South Coast. Weymouth. Dawlish, Plymouth, and West Coast. Exmouth and Sidmouth. Torquay, Brighton. Hastings, Dover. Margate, Ramsgate, Etc. Etc. Gravesend, Sheerness, South End, Herne Bay. Walton, Harwich, Etc. Part II. Northern and Eastern Division...Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Cromer, Etc. Tynemouth, Warkworth, Alnmouth, Etc. The WateringPlaces of Wales, and the Western Coast: Maryport, Southport, Bangor, Swansea, Etc. Scarborough, Inland Spas and Watering-Places. Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark. The Isle of Man, Etc, Etc. By E. L. Blanchard.

Variant title: Adams’s Pocket Guide...on front boards.

W.J.Adams, 59, Fleet Street, London. 1851 [19979] 16mo. 4.25 x 6.5 inches. viii + 271 pp. + [17] advertisements. [A-A4], B-S8. Illustrated with woodcuts

by F. Delamotte and two folding maps of the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands/Isle of Man. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt with spine compartments and blind stamped decorative borders, enclosing blind stamped decoration at rear, and gilt block of Dover waterfront and castle at front. Spine a little sunned and front hinge loose.

Slightly browned but otherwise clean interior. Early ink inscription, Nancy Maria Hillman, Aylsham on front pastedown. £175 In his preface, Blanchard claims that ‘the changes wrought by road and rail, the local innovations and alterations induced by the march of modern improvement, the creation by fashion of new watering-places, and the consequent desertion of the old’ have brought about a requirement for new guidebooks. In this guide he has described the chief features of each resort based

on ‘the latest personal visits’, and provided practical information on climate, transport and accommodation. An introductory table gives railway distances from London. The Guide was first published in 1848 as Adams’s Illustrated Descriptive Guide and further editions appeared in 1855 and 1859. Blanchard (1820-1889) was best known as a writer and playwright and was drama critic of the Daily Telegraph, 186387. He compiled some of Bradshaw’s Descriptive Railway Guides and details of his London guides appear in the advertisement pages of this volume. Freeman Gage Delamotte (1814-1862), who produced the woodcuts, was a well known wood engraver. A fine edition of this popular pocket guide to English seaside resorts and inland spas.

329 —— ADAMS’S ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO THE WATERING-PLACES OF ENGLAND, AND COMPANION TO THE COAST. Part I. Southern and Western Division. Containing full descriptions of The Isle of Wight (with map).

Portsmouth, Southampton. The New Forest and South Coast. Weymouth. Dawlish, Plymouth, and West Coast.

Exmouth and Sidmouth. Torquay. Brighton, Bognor and Worthing. Hastings and St. Leonard’s. Dover. Margate and Ramsgate, Etc. Etc. Part II. Northern and Eastern Division...Gravesend, Sheerness, South End, Herne Bay. Walton, Harwich, etc.Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Cromer, etc.

Tynemouth, Alnmouth,Warkworth, etc.

Maryport, Southport, Bangor, Swansea, etc. Scarborough.

Guernsey, Jersey. Alderney, Sark, etc. The Isle of Man, etc. W.J.Adams, 59, Fleet Street, London. 1849 [20657] 16mo. 4.25 x 6.5 inches. Part I. viii + 144 pp. + [8]; Part II. 125 pp. +[3] advertisements. Illustrated with woodcuts

by F. Delamotte and a folding map of the Isle of Wight.

Bound in original dark brown cloth, gilt, with blind stamped decorative borders, gilt blocked title to upper board. Early ink inscription on front paste-down. £175 In this guide Blanchard has described the chief features of each resort based on ‘the latest personal visits’, and provided practical information on climate, transport and accommodation. An introductory table gives railway distances from London.

The Guide was first published in 1848 as Adams’s Illustrated Descriptive Guide and further editions appeared in 1855 and 1859. Blanchard compiled some of Bradshaw’s Descriptive Railway Guides. Freeman Gage Delamotte (1814-1862), who produced the woodcuts, was a well-known wood engraver.

A fine edition of this popular pocket guide to English seaside resorts and inland spas.

330 GUIDE TO WHITSTABLE - COX, W.J. GUIDE TO WHITSTABLE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. W. J. Cox, High Street,Whitstable: Printed and Published, 1876 [18237] Small 8vo. 61 pp. + [21] pp. adverts. Original illustrated pink card wrappers. This is a near mint example of a scarce guide. £85 A well-compiled work containing a wealth of information.

Goulden lists three of these guides of the same date and lists three variants of the illustration on the covers. This is different again as the view here is “Whitstable from Borstal Hill Mill”.

PROOF COPY

KENT 331 —— GUIDE TO WHITSTABLE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. Whitstable: Printed and Published

by W. J. Cox, High Street, 1876 [19607] Small 8vo. 61 pp. + [21] pp. adverts. Uncut. Without wrappers. A very good, bold impression, this is a mint example of a scarce guide. £85 A well-compiled work containing a wealth of information.

Goulden lists three of these guides of the same date and lists three variants of the illustration on the covers. We have discovered a fourth but there is no telling which wrapper would have been applied in this instance.

332 —— ILLUSTRATED POPULAR GUIDE TO WHITSTABLE-ON-SEA AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOOD. Whitstable: Printed and Published by W. J. Cox, High Street. No date but [1884] [18245] Small 8vo. 42 pp. + [11] pp. adverts. Original buff printed paper wrappers. Wrapper a little dusty but a very good example of a scarce guide. £85 A well-compiled work containing a wealth of information.

333 —— W.J. COX’S NEW ALBUM OF WHITSTABLE-ON-SEA AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. W.J. Cox, Whitstable. No date but c.1900 [18688] Small concertina-type view book, 4 x 5 inches approx., containing 18 two-colour lithographic views. Original blue printed card wrappers with decoration. Wrappers have several chips without loss to printed design and fold is reinforced otherwise very good. £60 A scarce example of a rather ephemeral view-book.

334 GULVIN, K.R. KENT HOME GUARD A HISTORY. North Kent Books, 1980 [17966] 93 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original laminated hardcovers.Very good copy. £20 * Signed by author on title page. Out of print, the story of Kent’s ‘Dad’s Army’.

335 HALL, HAMMOND. MR. PICKWICK’S KENT. A PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE TOUR OF THE CORRESPONDING SOCIETY OF THE PICKWICK CLUB IN ROCHESTER, CHATHAM, MUGGLETON, DINGLEY DELL, COBHAM AND GRAVESEND. W. and J. Mackay and Co., Rochester; Horace Marshall and Son, London. 1899 [17290] 92 pp. + 18 pp. adverts with 30 b/w photo illustrations.

Original pictorial soft red cloth wrappers. A little dusty but a very good copy. £45 A fascinating tour of Kent places portrayed in Dickens’ books, each with the appropriate reference.

336 HALLING - GOWERS, EDWARD and DEREK CHURCH. ACROSS THE LOW MEADOW. Halling - a village on the Medway. Christine Swift Bookshop. 43 Scott Street, Maidstone. 1979 [19404] First Edition. 8vo. 134pp. with black and white photo illustration throughout. Original black cloth with gilt titles, manuscript map end papers. Very good book in like dust wrapper. £35 A detailed history of the village of Halling in Kent, a village with a long history, as its oldest known inhabitant ,‘Halling

Man’, whose remains were discovered in 1912, dates from 2000 BC.

337 HARPER, CHARLES. THE INGOLDSBY COUNTRY. LITERARY LANDMARKS OF THE ‘INGOLDSBY LEGENDS’. A. and C. Black. 1904 [17925] The First Edition, 274 pp., with 90 original illustrations by the author. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Some foxing as always. £45 Well-compiled companion to the "Ingoldsby Legends" and the Elham Valley and many of the villages and smaller towns of East Kent. We also have copies of the second edition at £35.

338 HARRIS, G.G. THE TRINITY HOUSE OF DEPTFORD 1514-1660.

The Athlone Press 1969 [18178] 8vo. 310 pp. Original cloth, gilt in dust wrapper. A good copy. £25 Fascinating study of early years of Trinity House. The principal lighthouse, seamark, and pilotage authority.

18TH CENTURY WINDOW ON KENT 339 HARRIS, JOHN. THE HISTORY OF KENT. IN FIVE PARTS. CONTAINING, I. AN EXACT TOPOGRAPHY OR DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY. II. THE CIVIL HISTORY OF KENT. III. THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF KENT. IV. THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY OF KENT. VOL. I. (ALL PUBLISHED) London : Printed and sold

by D. Midwinter, at the Three Crowns in St Pauls Church-Yard. 1719 [18367] Folio. Portrait facing Title, Dedication, Preface, Ode to Kent, list of subscribers + 592 pp. + xl index . Illustrated with a large folding engraved map of the county within heraldic border. Maps of Romney Marsh and the Isle of Thanet, and 39 views (35 double-page) of Kentish houses including a fine panorama of Rochester and Chatham and the famous view of the Pantiles at Tunbridge Wells.

Bound in full paneled calf, gilt expertly rebacked. A nice tall copy with the plates and maps in very good preservation, occasional light foxing to fore-edges affecting one or two plates and the text lightly browned as is normal, a few paper faults and the binding worn on extremites, but a very good copy. £4500 This copy has the heraldic bookplate of Robert Bristow of London. Harris's work was not published until shortly after his death in 1719 andt is much prized today for the sumptuous plates and maps, which provide us with a picture of Kent at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The views of the great Kentish houses, by Kip and Badeslade, which utilize the birdseye projection, show not only the house and gardens in detail but the countryside around and its cultivation. The great map of the county by Parker, within the coats of arms of the noblemen and gentry is, probably, the most splendid and decorative ever printed. The Map of Romney Marsh is also a rarity.

Dr John Harris (born c.1666) was educated at Cambridge and, after ordination, held a number of livings in Sussex, London and Kent (prebend of Rochester, perpetual curacy of Strood and rector of East Barming). He was involved in the political controversies of the day and was a well known writer and

KENT lecturer on science (elected F.R.S. 1696), his 1704 Dictionary being one of the first publications to promote Newtonian science. This book is becoming very hard to find complete as the value of this type of illustration has caused numerous copies to be broken up.

340 —— THE HISTORY OF KENT. IN FIVE PARTS. CONTAINING, I. AN EXACT TOPOGRAPHY OR DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY. II. THE CIVIL HISTORY OF KENT. III. THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF KENT. IV. THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY. V. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF KENT. VOL. I. [all published]. By John Harris, D. D. and F. R. S. Printed: And Sold by D. Midwinter, at the Three Crowns in St Pauls Church-Yard, London. 1719 [20618] Folio. Portrait frontispiece facing title, Dedication, Preface, Ode in Praise of Kent, List of subscribers. [2] + iii + [1] + iv + ii + iv + 592 pp. + xl pp. index and addenda. Text in double columns. Illustrated with a large folding engraved map of the county within heraldic border. Maps of the Beacons of Kent, Dover, Romney Marsh and the Isle of Thanet (two maps) and 3 views (32 double-page) of Kentish houses; a fine panorama of Rochester and Chatham and the famous view of the Pantiles at Tunbridge Wells. Also views of Dover Castle and Reculver Church (total 44 plates and maps). Also illustrated by three woodcuts in text, Royal Arms at head of dedication and headpiece vignettes and decorated initials. N.B. Lacks the plate of The Mote, p. 192.

Bound in original calf with gilt borders and expertly rebacked, spine divided into compartments, with gilt decorations, by raised bands and gilt rules, morocco label.

Marbled endpapers and red speckled edges, darkened on top. A nice tall copy with the plates and maps in very good preservation, occasional light foxing affecting a few plates and the text lightly browned as is normal, a few paper faults and the binding worn on extremities; otherwise a very good copy. £3950 341 HARTLEY - BANCKS, REV. G.W. HARTLEY THROUGH THE AGES. THE STORY OF A KENTISH VILLAGE. Privately printed for the Author. 1927 [15459] 4to. 172 pp. with photo illustration. Original boards as issued. Spine lettering worn and corners bumped, otherwise a good copy. £65 Scarce.

342 —— THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ALAN EVERITT. W. Bristow, Canterbury, 1797 - 1801Republished by E.P. Publishing and Kent County Library. 1972 [20089] 12 volumes with folding maps and plates throughout.

Original cloth, gilt, in near mint condition in the original dust wrappers. £850 A fine complete set of the reprint of the 12 volume edition. The second edition of Hasted's great county history was revised and enlarged, and the smaller size made it easer to use. The text was reset and the maps of the Hundreds were folded to

accommodate this smaller size. This reprint was very well produced and is itself now scarce complete.* We often have odd volumes of this edition. Please enquire.

FIRST EDITION OF HASTED WITH LETTER FROM AUTHOR 343 HASTED, EDWARD. THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. CONTAINING THE PRESENT STATE OF IT, CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL; COLLECTED FROM PUBLIC RECORDS, AND OTHER THE BEST AUTHORITIES, BOTH MANUSCRIPT AND PRINTED: ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS, AND VIEWS OF ANTIQUITIES, SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY, Etc. Canterbury, Printed for the author, by Simmons and Kirkby. 1779-1799 [20256] FIRST EDITION. Large paper copy. 4 vols. Folio, with large hand-coloured folding map of Kent, plan of Canterbury, 35 folding maps of the Hundreds, and 60 full page engraved plates (some folding), depicting the houses, churches and antiquities of Kent, and numerous illustrations in the text. Bound in contemporary full diced calf, skilfully rebacked re-using the original gilt decorated and panelled spines, which are in seven compartments with raised bands,and with gilt titles and volume numbers direct to spine. Very slightly worn on extremities, and one outer hinge cracked but a very clean and crisp example.

The bookplate of Edward Hasted, most likely his son, is attached to the front pastedown endpaper. £3,500 Includes a letter from Edward Hasted to Mr. [Thomas] Payne, Bookseller at Mewsgate, Charing Cross, penned in all probability by Hasted’s servant Harriet Brewster, as it is entirely in the third person. This letter, dated September 4th 1799, is a request to Mr. Payne to come and collect a large paper copy of The History of Kent, ..’which he [Hasted] has appropriated to Mr. Payne’s use’... as it is ..‘liable to harm daily from being in so compact a room’.At this time (17951802) Hasted was confined in the King’s Bench debtors’ prison at Southwark and gives his address as Kings Bench, St. Georges Fields, No.6 in [?] staircase. His penury may be demonstrated by the postal stamp on the outside of the letter, which states ‘St. Georges Fields, Penny Post, Unpaid’.The letter was tipped into the first volume and from this we conclude that the large paper copy referred to in it is this copy.

The First Edition was published between 1779 and 1799.

Edward Hasted (1732-1812), devoted forty years of his life to the compilation of this superlative county history, which records in minute detail the village, parochial and town life of the entire county. Embellished with maps of the hundreds, and fine architectural views, the four volumes present a picture of Kent from the Saxons to the late 18th century - it remains the primary source book for the Kentish historian.

344 HAWKINGE HUMPHREYS, ROY. HAWKINGE 1912 - 1961. Meresborough Books. 1981 [13419] 192 pp. with maps and photo illustrations. Original laminated pictorial boards, spine sunned, otherwise a very Standard history of the airfield, now long good copy out of print. £22

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KENTISH M.P. 345 HAYTER, SIR GEORGE. (Painter) and JAMES SCOTT. (Engraver). THOMAS LAW HODGES, ESQ. OF HEMSTED. M.P. FOR KENT FROM 1830 TO I832, - FOR WEST KENT FROM 1832 TO 1841, AND FROM 1847 TO 1852. From a Portrait

by Sir George Hayter, Painted at the Expence of his former Constituents and Presented to Mr Hodges as a tribute of respect for his Public Services and private worth. Printed by J. Brooker. No place or date, but c.1853 [14120] Black Mezzotint engraved portrait, 14 x 20 inches, a proof example printed on India paper and signed in pencil in the lower margin ‘Selected, Sir George Hayter’ showing this to be an artist’s proof. Some faint marginal foxing, otherwise a fine example. Recently remounted in conservation materials and refixed into the original gilt frame, which is a little worn and rubbed but, as the original frame, worthy of preservation. £250 A fine, dark impression from the plate, depicting the distinguished man in a frock coat, with gloves and stick in hand, standing before a classical pillar with an extensive landscape behind. Sir George Hayter was the leading Royal and society portrait artist of the day and his work is represented in numerous collections. Thomas Law Hodges was Liberal MP for Kent from 1830-32 and for West Kent until the dissolution of Parliament in 1841; he was again elected in 1847 and sat until1852. He died 14 May 1857. Hodges is listed in Pigott’s Directory for 1840 as living in Benenden; Hemsted House was subsequently sold and demolished by its new owner, Gathorne Hardy, later Lord Cranbrook, and replaced by a new building which is the basis for Benenden School, one of the top private girls’ schools in the country.

ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR 346 HEMSTED, KENT. [c.1820] [19761] Watercolour. Image size, 17 x 13.5 inches. The initials FF, after the title, are presumably those of the artist.

Mounted on the original paper page from the album, with heading ‘Benenden’ at top and numbered 142 (143 on reverse). Slight tear to the top centre. £175 The watercolour shows a view of the wooded park, taken from the interior of a rustic wooden summerhouse, with a shell ornamentation above, on the interior of the thatched roof.

Hemsted was a separate manor within the parish of Benenden, Kent and passed within many generations of the Guldeford family. It may have been rebuilt around the time of Queen Elizabeth’s visit in the 1570s. It was sold to Admiral of the Fleet, Sir John Norris after 1719 and later to the Hodges family, in 1788.

At the time of the painting, which was extracted from an album used by several generations of the family at Hemsted and at Jennings, near Maidstone, the house was in the possession of Thomas Law Hodges. He was Liberal MP for Kent from 183032 and for West Kent from 1832 until the dissolution of Parliament in 1841; he was again elected in 1847 and sat until defeated in 1852. He died 14 May 1857. Hemsted House was subsequently sold and demolished by its new owner, Gathorne Hardy, later Lord Cranbrook, and replaced by a new building which is the basis for Benenden School, one of the top private girls’ schools in the country.

A charming watercolour of a peaceful parkland scene.

347 HOLLINGBOURNE - CAVE-BROWNE, J. THE STORY OF HOLLINGBOURNE, ITS CHURCH AND ITS CLERGY. Maidstone, E.J. Dickinson. 1890 [18151] 106 pp. with 10 illustrations and a folding pedigree.

Original dark brown cloth, gilt. £165 A very good copy of this very scarce local history.

348 HOPE, LADY ELIZABETH REID. ENGLISH HOMES AND VILLAGES (KENT AND SUSSEX). By Lady Hope. With Illustrations. J. Salmon, 85 and 87 High Street, Sevenoaks. 1909 [20215] First edition. 4to. 9.5 inches x 6.5 inches, [xvi] + 296 pp.

With 63 colour plates and 17 black and white plates and numerous other photographs and vignettes within the text.

Bound in original green pictorial cloth with gilt decoration, including illustration of Pantiles on front board; extremities worn, contents and illustrations all clean and tight, a very good example. Bookplate of Gerald J. Davey and ink inscription, Natalie Beard, 25 December 1910. £150 A lavishly illustrated book describing the topography and history of the Weald and adjoining areas, within twenty-five miles of Tunbridge Wells. With 63 full page colour representations of the countryside, houses and gardens from paintings by: Sidney Baker, F. W. Burton, C. Essenhigh Corke and others. All beautifully reproduced by Salmon, the renowned Sevenoaks printers. Chapters on places of interest ranging from Maidstone and Rochester, through Knole, Ightham Mote, Penshurst and The Weald, to Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, East Grinstead, Lamberhurst, Eridge Castle, Bayham Abbey and Lewes.

349 HORSLEY, CANON J. W. PLACE NAMES IN KENT. South Eastern Gazette. Maidstone: 1921 [18542] First Edition. 8vo. 84 pp. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt to spine. A fine copy. £25

KENT PEDIGREES 350 HOWARD, JOSEPH JACKSON AND HOVENDEN, ROBERT. SOME PEDIGREES FROM THE VISITATION OF KENT, 1663-68. Annotated by Joseph Jackson Howard, LL.D., and Robert Hovenden.

Privately Printed. 100 copies. London: Mitchell and Hughes, 140 Wardour Street, W. 1887 [19475] Small folio. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. [iv] + 134 pp. + [2] pp. advertisements at end + [71] blank sheets interleaved.

Illustrated with two plates and engravings in text. Half bound in thick vellum boards. Dent to centre and some fraying at top of spine. Wear on lower edges of boards and attached paper shards at bottom of last four pages.

Slight foxing of endpapers but fine clean interior. Ink inscription on front paste-down and upside down bookplate in the same name, dated 1924, on rear pastedown. £200 Limited edition of one hundred copies.

‘The Editors...have issued these Pedigrees from ‘the Visitation of Kent in 1663-68 as a separate Volume. Many of them have appeared previously in the ‘Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica,’ but the Annotations have all been amplified, and the data specially authenticated.’

KENT The Visitation was a detailed heraldic investigation of the main Kentish families taken at intervals in the17th century.

This volume examines twelve families, employing family trees (pedigrees), wills, register extracts, marriage licences and inscriptions from church monuments, etc.

A handsome copy of this genealogical work.

351 HULL, FELIX. GUIDE TO THE KENT COUNTY ARCHIVES OFFICE. Kent County Council.

1958. [19037] 8vo. xvi + 290 pp. with photographic illustrations.

Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. £20 352 HUMPHERY-SMITH, CECIL R. PHILLIMORE ATLAS AND INDEX OF PARISH REGISTERS. Phillimore & Co. Ltd., 1984 [20298] Original blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like dust wrapper. £45 "The genealogist’s bible." The Atlas includes the famous county "parish" maps, which show pre-1832 parochial boundaries, colour-coded probate jurisdictions, starting dates of surviving registers, and churches and chapels, where relevant. Topographical maps face each "parish" map, and show the contemporary road system and other local features, to help deduce the likely movement of people beyond the searcher’s starting point. The Index lists the parishes, with grid references to the county maps. It indicates the present whereabouts of original registers and copies, and whether a parish is included in other indexes. It also gives registration districts and census information

353 HYTHE. AUCTION PARTICULARS. Particulars and Conditions of Sale of the Valuable Freehold Building Site....... being the Old Sportsman Inn, Recently Destroyed by Fire..... to be Sold by Auction, by Cobay Brothers, Limd.... on Monday, February 8th, 1909 .... etc., etc. Printed by W.S. Paine, Hythe. 1909 [14024] Large sheet, approximately 16 x 21 inches, printed on both sides and folded. With full particulars of the site, conditions of sale and receipt form. £20 354 —— AUCTION PARTICULARS. Particulars and Conditions of Sale of the Valuable Freehold Property.......situate and being No. 93, High Street, Hythe, Formerly Licenced as a Beer House, and known as The Providence Inn..... to be Sold by Auction, by Cobay Brothers, Limd.... on Monday, February25th, 1979 .... etc., etc. Printed by W.S. Paine, Hythe. 1907 [19118] Large sheet, approximately 16 x 21 inches, printed on both sides and folded. With full particulars of the site, conditions of sale and receipt form. £20 355 HYTHE - COX, DAVID. HYTHE, KENT. Drawn by D. Cox Engraved by J. C. Allen. Published for the Proprietors n.d. but c. 1840 [15826] Hand-coloured steel engraving, approximately 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Mounted in conservation materials. £65 A lively view by the English landscape artist David Cox looking south from the high ground above the church, with the town and English Channel beyond. Fort Twiss and Fort Sutherland, the two strong points built on the seashore during the Napoleon invasion scare, are still in evidence.

356 HYTHE - DAVIES, W.J.K. THE ROMNEY, HYTHE & DYMCHURCH RAILWAY. David & Charles. 1975. [17100] 208 pp., with photo illustration. Original cloth in dust wrapper. £20 First edition of the standard history.

357 HYTHE FORBES, DUNCAN. HYTHE HAVEN. THE STORY OF THE TOWN AND CINQUE PORT OF HYTHE. Shearwater Press, Hythe. 1982 [16730] 8vo. 240 pp. with maps and illustrations throughout.

Original blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in a very good wrapper. £20 *This copy is signed by the author.

We also have available another, unsigned, copy (wrapper has neat repair at top) for the same price.

SCHOOL TRIP TO HYTHE - 1925 358 HYTHE - GRIFFITHS, MISS and MISS STONE. WOODLAND ROAD (G). EDUCATIONAL VISIT TO HYTHE. [Title on front board: School Journey to Hythe]. [1925] [20280] 8vo. 5.75 x 7.75 inches. Cyclostyled in mauve and blue ink with blue borders and pencil manuscript at end. 68 pp.

[5 blank]. Illustrated by drawings and map in text; black and white photographic print tipped in, p.10 and graph paper pasted in, pp. 51-52. Bound in cloth with pictorial front board. Fine condition. £45 The record of a London school’s two-week visit to Hythe in 1925. The text of the book, by two teachers, is likely to have been prepared in the school itself. The only school with the name Woodland Road in the London area is in the borough of Lambeth, the LCC school at Woodland Road, Norwood; it is likely therefore to be the school whose girls visited Hythe from 1st to 15th May 1925, staying at the Sutherland House Private Hotel in Stade Street. Unfortunately the page for listing Our Party has not been filled in so there is no record of the girls’ names but we do have their daily routine, a list of outfit recommended and details of their itinerary. The book provides a list of recommended reading and illustrated comments on the places to be visited, Hythe itself, Dymchurch, Dover, Lympne, Saltwood, Folkestone, Sandgate and Canterbury, with additional notes and drawings of architectural styles, leaves, insects and sea creatures and clouds. The weather chart, with graphs, has been filled in to record the weather. The pencil diary section describes visits to the churches at Hythe, Folkestone, Lyminge and Saltwood, Canterbury Cathedral, Dover, Sandgate and Saltwood Castles, Folkestone Museum, Life Boat, Roman site and the Warren and Lympne (with a separate account, in some detail, of Lympne Aerodrome). The Woodland Road School no longer exists but there is still a Paxton Primary School in Woodland Road, Norwood.

A fascinating record of a school visit to the Hythe area made over eighty five years ago.

359 HYTHE - HART, BRIAN. THE HYTHE AND SANDGATE RAILWAY. INCORPORATING THE HYTHE AND SANDGATE TRAMWAY. Wild Swan Publications. 1987 [18462]

KENT 4to. [8] + 168 pp. with photo illustrations throughout.

Original green cloth, gilt. A near fine copy in dustwrapper. £35

This is the only copy we’ve ever seen. The short catalogue of Tiffen’s Circulating Library at Folkestone lists 220 books which

The standard history; another well-researched work from Brian Hart, of which few were printed.

HYTHE HIGHWAY SURVEYORS, 1764

LIGHT RAILWAY POSTER 360 HYTHE - ROBERTS, N. CRAMER. GREATSTONE BY THE ROMNEY, HYTHE AND DYMCHURCH RAILWAY. WORLD’S SMALLEST PUBLIC RAILWAY. Vincent Brooks, Day and Sons Ltd. Lith. London WC2. No date but c. 1930 [19703] Large railway advertising poster, 26.5 x 41 inches, original colour-printed lithograph. Conservation mounted on to linen and expertly framed in a 2-inch solid oak frame using conservation backing etc. £1,500 This charming period piece of railway poster art depicts a miniature train arriving at a station, where the Stationmaster and various passengers await. Ladies in cloche hats, a golfer and his clubs and the inevitable child with bucket and spade are depicted in bold primary colours with exciting modern typography - a classic of its era.

Opened in 1928, Greatstone Station served little obvious purpose, particularly as it was located only a mile distant from the station at New Romney. There was building speculation in Greatstone at the time, and although bungalows were constructed at Greatstone-on-Sea, the size of the development was considerably smaller than originally expected. The attractive little station was too large for the limited traffic generated, and when the railway re-opened after World War II, it was unstaffed, with its buildings closed. In the 1950s tourist trade picked up and the halt was upgraded again to full station status. The buildings were renovated or replaced, and staff were reinstated. This new lease of life lasted for 14 years. In 1964 staff were withdrawn, and in 1970 the buildings were demolished.

UNRECORDED HYTHE GUIDE. 361 HYTHE - TIFFEN, W. THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. LEONARD IN THE CINQUE PORT OF HYTHE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT; and Some Account of the Immense Pile of Human Bones in the Ancient Crypt beneath the Chancel. W. TIFFEN, Forty Years Librarian at Hythe and Folkestone. W. Tiffen, Printer, Hythe and Folkestone. No date but c.1850 [20342] Small 8vo, 4 x 7 inches, with Engraved frontis, engraved title page + 24 pp. + 1 steel-engraved plate + 8 pp.

Tiffen’s Short Catalogue + [4] pp. adverts. including a full-page advertisement for Tiffen’s ‘Excursions from Folkestone, Sandgate, and Hythe. Bound in the original printed paper wrappers reinforced with grey-green endpapers. Front and rear paste-down endpapers show signs of removal of labels. Slight wear at extremities and spine fragmented with small loss. Lower margin of final text leaf torn away affecting one line of text (supplied in manuscript) and the publisher’s imprint. Plates and title slightly foxed otherwise a clean copy of a very scarce item. Not recorded by Goulden and not in the Kent Bibliography or ESTC. Extremely rare. £200

362 HYTHE TURNPIKE ROADS. [APPOINTMENT OF SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS FOR THE TOWN AND PORT OF HYTHE, IN KENT, 1764]. At a Special Sessions held at the Guildhall for the said Town and Port of Hythe in the County of Kent aforesaid the fourteenth-Day of January in the fourth Year of ...George the third... by The Reverend Richard Smith and others- - - Justices of the Peace... By Vertue of an Act of Parliament ...of ......1691. Entitled, An Act for the better Repairing and Amending the High-ways, and settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods, the said Justices, do Nominate and appoint You William Ogle and William Pledge of the Parish of Saint Leonard in the said Towne and Port of Hythe ... to be Surveyor of the Highways within your said Parish... [Manuscript title on verso is] 1764. Janry. 14th Surveyors Warrant. Printed for J. Coles, Stationer in Fleet-Street, [London]. 175- [20304] Letterpress with space for manuscript insertions. 15.5 x 20 inches. One leaf. Folded, with seals turned down on left hand edge. Some browning and fraying of edges and creases of folds. Ink stains and a few random lines on verso. Small closed tear to foot of document, not affecting legibility. Otherwise in fine condition. £200 A pre-printed form for the appointment of Surveyors of Highways under the terms of the Highways Act of 1691, including a detailed account of its provisions, with relevant sections of other acts, and the corresponding duties of the surveyors. William Ogle and William Pledge are nominated to this office for a term of one year, with a responsibility to provide ‘an Account upon Oath of all Money that hath come to your Hands, which ought to be employed in the Amending the High-ways, and how you have disposed of the same.’ The appointment is made by the Reverend Richard Smith and other JPs and the document bears the signatures and seals of Smith (who was also Mayor), Thomas Rogers and John Mercer.

Provisions are made for the regular viewing of the roads and their repair together with the maintenance of adjoining hedges and ditches. The number of horses drawing hired wagons was not to exceed six (or three for carts) and the width of wheels was also regulated. The Surveyors were to call, on 26 December, a meeting of the ‘Constables, Headboroughs, Tything-Men, Church-wardens, and Inhabitants’ of Hythe and draw up a list of all substantial property owners and tenants, from whom the next surveyors would be chosen early in January. It is of interest that the trust for the new turnpike road from Faversham to Hythe had been established in 1762, two years before the two highway surveyors were appointed to oversee the roads within the parish. The turnpike trusts would take over the duty of maintaining these roads, funded by the tolls, but in co-operation with the highway surveyors who were responsible for all the parish roads; their office continued in some areas until the passage of the Local Government Act of 1894.

363 HYTHE [VIEW BOOK]. HYTHE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. J. Lovick 16 High Street Hythe 1900 [19797] Oblong 4to. 9 x 7 inches, with 12 full-page and 8 halfpage photo illustrations. Bound in the original red boards,

KENT decorated and titled in gilt, extremities rubbed otherwise a very good example. £75 We have not come across this publisher of Photo views of Hythe before. There are some very good views with the premotoring scene depicted comprehensively. Scarce.

370 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME VII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1906 [10829] 4to. 92 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . £20 Cranbrook, Bilsington, Bilsington Priory and Woodchurch.

A COMPLETE SET OF ‘SAUNTERS’ 364 IGGLESDEN, CHARLES. A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. Ashford, Kentish Express. 1901 - 1946 [19698] 34 vols. 4to. each with illustrations after original drawings

by Xavier Willis, all in original blue decorated cloth, some spines a little faded and the usual slight variation in cloth colour but a fine set. £1,100 An exceptional, complete collection of Charles Igglesden’s great architectural and historical tour of Kent towns and, particularly, the villages.

The detailed and often conversational text is enhanced by the charming drawings of Xavier Willis. The elusive Volume 33, printed in 1942 and covering Romney Marsh, is present here. Apparently the stocks of that volume were destroyed by bombing during the war thus making it an almost impossible task to form a complete set. In 1995 we catalogued and sold a complete set (£850) and speculated that an opportunity to acquire a full set would probably not occur again for many years. Since then only one other set has passed through our hands.

365 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME II. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1911 [14219] 4to. 81 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . £20 Appledore, Hollingbourne, Benenden, Hemsted, Great Chart, Godington, Littlebourne, Ickham and Willesborough.

366 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME III. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1901 [15794] 4to. 95 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . £25 Eastwell, Elham, Lyminge, Allington, Aylesford and the Old Carmelite Priory at Aylesford.

367 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME IV. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1902 [14220] 4to. 95 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . £20 Tenterden, St Michael's, Smallhythe, Betteshanger, Little Chart, Northbourne, Brenchley and Matfield.

368 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME V. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1903 [10826] 4to. 110 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . £20 Minster in Thanet, Ebbsfleet, Biddenden, Rolvenden, Brookland and Fairfield.

Staplehurst,

369 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOL VI Ashford : The Kentish Express, 1904. 1909 [20594] 4to. 88 pp. with illus. by Xavier Willis. Orig. decorated cloth. Good copy. £25 Boughton-under-Blean, Dunkirk, Smarden, Lympne, Court-atStreet, West Hythe.

371 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME VIII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1908 [16923] 4to. 88 pp. illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A very good copy. Herne, Hoath, Herne Bay, Broomfield, Leeds and Leeds Castle. £20 372 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME IX. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1910 [16927] 4to. 88 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A good copy.

Sissinghurst, Goodnestone-Next-Wingham, Loose, Coxheath, Chartham, Bridge and Patrixbourne. £25

373 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME X. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1913 [16924] 4to. 82 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A very good copy. £25 Brabourne, Bircholt, Smeeth, Sellindge, Nonington and Womenswold.

374 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. no date but c.1916 [16631] 4to. 8o pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A very good copy. Godmersham, Goudhurst, Kilndown, Luddesdown, Cuxton and Halling. £25 375 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XIII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1919 [16919] 4to. 85 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . Slight cockling to text but a very good copy. £20 Dymchurch, Aldington, Sevington, Mersham and Egerton.

376 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XIII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1919 [16919] 4to., 85 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . Slight cockling to text but a very good copy. £20 Dymchurch, Aldington, Sevington, Mersham and Egerton.

377 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XIV. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1920 [10832] 4to. 80 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . £25 Westwell, Hothfield, Bearsted, Thurnham and Kingsnorth.

378 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XV. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1922 [16920] 4to. 88 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A very good copy. £25

KENT Hawkhurst, Sandhurst, Flimwell, Warehorne and Ruckinge.

Hamstreet,

Orlestone,

379 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XVI. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1923 [16921] 4to. 89 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A very good copy. £25 Kenardington, Stone-in-Oxney, Wittersham, East Sutton, Chart Sutton, Sutton Valence and Frittenden.

380 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XVII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1924 [16922] 4to. 84 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A very good copy. £25

4to. 93 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A very good copy. £25 Sheldwich, Ospringe, Stone-by-Faversham, Teynham, Lynsted, Wateringbury andYalding.

Greenstreet,

387 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXIII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1928 [16910] 4to. 80 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A fine copy.

Barham, Kingston, Stanford, Westenhanger Castle, Saltwood and Saltwood Castle. £30

Ulcombe, Headcorn, Horsmonden, Lamberhurst, Bayham Abbey and Scotney Castle.

388 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXIV. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1930 [15536] 4to. 82 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A very good copy. Hythe, Newington-next-Hythe, Borden, Tunstall and Newenden.. £28

381 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XVIII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1925 [17428] 4to. 83 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . £25

389 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXV. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1931 [20596] 4to. 93 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A fine copy.

Westbeer, Chislet, Upstreet, Grove Ferry, Reculver, Sarre, Ash and Woodnesbough.

382 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XIX. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1926 [17429] 4to. 80 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis . A very good copy. Richborough, Sandwich, Eastry, Staple and Ham. £30 383 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XX. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1927 [16913] 4to. 88 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original pictorial cloth. A near fine copy. £25 Barfrestone, Coldred, Tilmanstone, Shepherdswell, Eythorne, Lydden, Kingsdown, Ringwould, Oxney, Worth, Ripple and Waldershare.

384 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XX. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1927 [16913] 4to., 88 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. Original pictorial cloth. A near fine copy. £25 Barfrestone, Coldred, Tilmanstone, Shepherdswell, Eythorne, Lydden, Kingsdown, Ringwould, Oxney, Worth, Ripple and Waldershare.

385 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOL. XXI. Ashford, Kentish Express. 1927. [20595] 4to. 83 pp. with original illustrations by Xavier Willis.

Original pictorial cloth, A good copy. £30 Challock, Molash, Badlesmere, Leaveland, Newchurch, Ivychurch, Adisham and Witfield.

Throwley,

386 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1928 [15791]

Sandgate, Doddington, Newnham, Boughton Aluph, Brook and Hinxhill. £30

390 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXVI. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1932 [18052] 4to. 98 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A fine copy.

Boughton Malherbe, Linton, Denton, Bishopsbourne, Monkton and St. Nicholas-at-Wade. £28

PRESENTATION COPY FROM XAVIER WILLIS 391 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXVI. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1932 [20597] 4to. 98 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A fine copy. £30 Boughton Malherbe, Linton, Denton, Bishopsbourne, Monkton and St. Nicholas-at-Wade.

392 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOL. XXVII. Kentish Express.

1933 [20598] 91 pp. illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A fine copy. £30 Faversham, Davington, Birchington, Bekesbourne.

393 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXIX. The Kentish Express. Ashford: 1934 [14595] 4to. 78 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A fine copy.

Harbledown, Hackington, New Romney and Hawkinge. £30 394 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXX. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1939 [16918] 4to. 84 pp. Illustrated by Xavier Willis. . A fine copy.

Broadstairs, East Farleigh, West Farleigh, Mongeham, Sholden, Acrise and Swingfield. £50

KENT 395 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOL XXXI Ashford : The Kentish Express 1939. [20600] 4to. 76 pp. with illustrations by Xavier Willis. . A fne copy. £50 Capel-Le-Ferne, Hougham, Paddlesworth, Hartlip, Bredhurst, Stockbury and Bredgar.

396 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOL. XXXII. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1939 [20601] 4to. 77 pp. with illustrations by Xavier Willis. . A fine copy. £50 Shadoxhurst, Waltham.

Hastingleigh,

Crundale,

Elmsted,

Petham,

397 —— A SAUNTER THROUGH KENT WITH PEN AND PENCIL. VOLUME XXXIV. Ashford: The Kentish Express. 1946 [17431] 4to. 74 pp. Ilustrated by Xavier Willis. , bumped at the head of spine otherwise a good copy. £70 Ashford, Lower Hardres, Nackington, Upper Hardres, Stelling and Thanington. *The last volume of the series. Scarce.

IRELAND’S KENT IN GREEN MOROCCO 398 IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY. ENGLAND'S TOPOGRAPHER, OR A NEW AND COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT: FROM THE EARLIEST RECORDS TO THE PRESENT TIME, INCLUDING EVERY MODERN IMPROVEMENT. Embellished with a series of views From Original Drawings by Geo.Shepherd, H.Gastineau, etc. With historical, topographical, critical and biographical delineations. 4 vols. Geo.Virtue. London: 1828-30 [20570] First Edition, 4 vols. 8vo. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. Illustrated with 124 steel-engraved plates and an atractive folding map. Bound in attractive green half morocco over marbled boards; spine divided into compartments by raised bands, extremities slightly worn. Some plates are slightly foxed, as it is always, due to the variable quality of the paper otherwise in fine condition. Old stamps of Whitstable Historical Society on free endpapers. but altogether a very good example £500 William Henry Ireland (1775-1835) became known as ‘Shakespeare’ Ireland, after his activities in forging Elizabethan documents, which he justifies, in his ‘Confessions’ of 1805, as works equal to those of Shakespeare. He was a prolific writer, producing ninety literary works of all types, ‘dramas, Gothic and sentimental novels, imitation ballads, satirical and political poems, romances, topographic works and Chattertonian fantasies.’ This account of Kent is derided

by Smith (Bibliotheca Cantiana) as a ‘miserable performance, with pretensions of being a County History; it is chiefly taken from Hasted and others; the owners of estates are brought no later down than the time of Hasted; he does not appear to have set his foot in the County, but at some of its fashionable watering-places.’ Certainly Ireland devotes greater space to the new seaside resorts, like Margate, which had risen to prominence since Hasted’s time.

Of course today, the importance of the work is recognised as lying in the superb quality of its steel engravings. They give a unique picture of

Kent in the early nineteenth century. ***We have in stock two other examples of this work, bound in later half calf or in the original cloth at slightly lower prices.***

399 [JAMES, G.P.R.] DARNLEY; OR, THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington Street. 1830 [19572] 8vo. Three volumes. Vol.1. xi + 324 pp. Vol.2. 335 pp.

Vol.3. 340 pp. Volumes 2 and 3 are incorrectly labelled 3 and 2 respectively and also have their title leaves transposed. Original half-calf over marbled boards with raised bands, embossed and gilt decoration to spine and contrasting title labels, gilt. All edges marbled. Some wear to extremities otherwise a very good copy. £200 Rare 19th century Kentish ‘three-decker novel’ telling the tale of Sir Maurice Osborne in relation to Henry VIII and his treacherous times. Chilham Castle is central to the plot and there are many other Kentish references.

400 JENKINS, REV. R.C. THE SAXON DYNASTY. PEDIGREE OF THE KENTISH KINGS. Folkestone, J. English. 1867 [18536] 8vo. 48 pp. with 5 steel and 2 wood-engraved plates.

Rebound in blue cloth, original gilt label to upper board.

Scarce - the illustrations include one of the few engraved views of Lyminge Church. £60

MAIDSTONE NOVEL 401 [JENNER, STEPHEN.] STEEPLETON; OR, HIGH CHURCH AND LOW CHURCH: BEING THE PRESENT TENDENCIES OF PARTIES IN THE CHURCH, EXHIBITED IN THE HISTORY OF FRANK FAITHFUL. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.

LONDON. 1847 [18119] First Edition. Small 8vo. v + 333 pp. Original half-roan, gilt, over marbled boards. Worn at extremities and title page a little dusty and spotted with two small repairs otherwise clean and crisp internally. £250 A thinly disguised account of church life and politics in and around Maidstone. We are fortunate that a former owner has provided a key to the characters in neat hand on the front free endpaper, giving the characters’ names, who they were in reality, and their parish or church. The plot concerns the author, Frank Faithfull, [ie Stephen Jenner] and his church colleagues . He is clearly concerned at the apparent leanings towards Rome of a number of them and the High Church debate was indeed a very real problem at the time. Quite an insight into parochial church politics in the early nineteenth century. A very scarce item. We have never seen this Kentish novel before. Rare.

402 JERROLD, WALTER. HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN KENT. Macmillan. 1907 [13053] First Edition. 447 pp. with folding map and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Original cloth, gilt. Top edges gilt. Worn at head and tail of spine, but a clean and neat example. £20 A good copy of the first edition of this well-illustrated, and much reprinted, compendium. We usually have copies of the later editions.

KENT 403 JESSUP, F. W. SIR ROGER TWYSDEN 15971672. The Cresset Press. 1965 [20261] 229 pp. with photo illustration.. Original cloth gilt in dust wrapper. £20 A very good biography, typical of Jessup's encyclopaedic Kentish knowledge.

404 —— SOUTH EAST ENGLAND - Ancient People and Places. Thames and Hudson, 1970 [19574] 273 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth in dust wrapper. £25 Primarily concerned with pre-history, Roman Kent, Sussex and Surrey.

405 —— THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF KENT. With 55 illustrations and 2 maps.

(The County Archaeologies) London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1930 [19721] 8vo. xiv + 272 pp. Illustrated with 13 plates (some trimmed short) with folding map at end and 35 text illustrations, including map. Original blue cloth gilt in scarce dust wrapper. Small neat bookplate inside front paste-down. Fine condition. £35 Part of the County Archaeologies series, a useful work, very hard to find in a wrapper. Another copy available without wrapper at £20.

406 JOHNSON, STEPHEN. THE ROMAN FORTS OF THE SAXON SHORE. Paul Elek, London. 1976 [19904] First edition, 172 pp. with numerous figures to the text.

Original burgundy cloth, gilt. A mint copy in a fine, unclipped dust wrapper. £40 A comprehensive account of the Saxon Shore Forts explaining the complete system of Forts on our coast and on the continent.

407 JOHNSON, THOMAS. BOTANICAL JOURNEYS IN KENT AND HAMPSTED. A facsimile reprint with Introduction and Translation of his Iter Plantarum 1629, and Descriptio Itineris Plantarum 1632.

Edited by J.S.L. Gilmour. Pittsburgh: The Hunt Botanical Library. 1972 [19220] 4to.[2] + x + 176 pp. with folding map and facsimile plates. Bound in original leatherette, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste-down. A very good copy. £35 The two works here reproduced and translated are the first separately published accounts of botanical exploration in Britain, and very rare. Previously only printed in Latin, they are here also augmented with scholarly studies that include modern names for the plants and the locations cited. The journeys took Johnson and his companions from London to the Hoo peninsula and Sheppey, and from London to Thanet by boat and via Sandwich, Ash, Wingham and Canterbury, back to London along the now A2.

Thomas Johnson (1595/1600-1644) was an apothecary and botanist, who took part in a number of botanical journeys in England, often with fellow apothecaries. Among his other publications was a revised edition of Gerard’s Herbal.

Johnson joined the Royalist army after the start of the civil war and died of his wounds in 1644 during the second siege of Basing House, Hampshire.

408 JONES, DAVID K. C. THE SHAPING OF SOUTHERN ENGLAND. Edited by David K. C. Jones, Department of Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science. (Institute of British Geographers Special Publication, No. 11). Academic Press, A Subsidary of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, London, etc. 1980 [20275] 4to. 7.25 x 10 inches. x, 274 pp. Illustrated by maps and figures, including black and white photographs, in text.

Bound in original green cloth, gilt in pictorial dust wrapper. Fine condition. £45 ‘The Shaping of Southern England presents a compilation of essays written to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the publication of S.W. Wooldridge and D.L. Linton’s classic monograph Structure, Surface and Drainage in South-East England. Originally published in 1939, and subsequently revised in 1955...’ This new study considers new interpretations on their synthesis of landscape evolution and presents the results of more recent research. Chapters by the different contributors include the Tertiary evolution of the south-east, sarsens, the North Downs of Surrey, glaciation of the London Basin, the rivers Thames and Kennet and the weathering and erosion of the chalk.

409 KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF KENT. 1882.

Kelly's. 1882 [19897] Thick 8vo. 946 pp. Recent red cloth with leather title label lettered in gilt, a very good copy. £150 410 —— DIRECTORY OF KENT. 1903. Kelly's Directories 1903 [18344] 4to. 1066 pp. +178 pp adverts, without the map. Original cloth very faded and worn but the text block is in very good condition. Usable and stitching holding well, could do with rebacking, so priced accordingly £110 A good reference copy of a scarce year.

411 ——. DIRECTORY OF KENT. 1907. Kelly's.

1907 [19895] Thick 8vo. xxxii + 1152 pp. +140 pp. adverts. Recent cloth, gilt. Half of page one torn away with loss, lacking the map, but a very good copy. £180 412 —— DIRECTORY OF KENT 1938. Kelly's Directories. 1938. [19894] 4to. 1174 pp. + adverts, without the map. Recent cloth with leather label lettered in gilt. A very good copy.

Massive reference work, all volumes are much in demand.

£135 NOTE *** We have a large number of Kelly’s of other Home counties. Please enquire***

413 KEMP, JOHN. MEMOIR OF JOHN KEMP, FIRST PASTOR OF 'EBENEZER' STRICT BAPTIST CHAPEL, BOUNDS CROSS, BIDDENDEN, KENT. INCLUDING AUTOBIOGRAPHY, EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS, MEDITATIONS, VERSES, AND SERMONS....PUBLISHED IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE BY HIS WIDOW. Farncombe and Sons Ltd. 1933 [19946] viii + 232 pp. with 10 photo plates. Original green cloth, gilt. A very good copy. £30

KENT Despite the religious nature of the work it reveals an unexpected amount of the social history of the small Wealden parishes of Wadhurst, Ticehurst and Biddenden.

414 KENNINGTON - FURLEY, ROBERT. THE ANNALS OF KENNINGTON, IN KENT. A LECTURE DELIVERED BY ROBERT FURLEY, OF ASHFORD, F.S.A., AT THE KENNINGTON NATIONAL SCHOOL, ON MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1877.

Headley Brothers, Ashford. 1877 [19108] First Edition. Slim 8vo. 37 pp. Original grey printed card wrappers, with minimal rubbing to extremities, a little dusty and time-stained but a good copy. £45 The very scarce original edition of this Kennington item which is one of the few works on the subject and very informative.

populist and innovative than the pro-bill ‘Red Tapist’ elite, represented by the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, against whom they ranged themselves. In Kent, Sir Edward Knatchbull, MP between 1819 and 1830, and again in 1832, represented the anti-bill faction. He and his fellows were defeated in the subsequent election.

419 KENT. HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL AND PICTORIAL. Published for Subscribers. Allan North, London. 1907. [20025] 4to. 8 x 10.5 inches, unpaginated (approx. 240 pp.) with biographical details of 99 subscribers and 42 tissueguarded, photographic plates of Kentish notaries, some with their residences. Original half calf over blue cloth, gilt. Inscribed in ink on title page ‘H.W. Selby-Lowndes from F.D. Brockman.’ £175

415 KENT COUNTY COUNCIL. KENT THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION IN WAR 1939-1945.

Kent County Council. 1946 [18200] Folio. [8] + 170 pp. with maps and b/w illustration, includes folding map showing the location of 'Doodlebugs' that fell in Kent. Original pictorial paper-covered boards.

Spine missing and boards edgeworn but a very good copy. £45

Francis Drake Brockman was a member of an old Kent family whose seat was at Beachborough House, near Folkestone, and who is included among the subscribers. Henry William Selby Lowndes became Master of Foxhounds at the East Kent Hunt in 1900. Interesting picture of the great and the good in early 20th century Kent.

The official story of the events in war time Kent and how the county coped with it.

420 MAIDSTONE JOURNAL AND KENTISH ADVERTISER and MAIDSTONE GAZETTE AND KENTISH COURIER. Printed and published every Tuesday by John Vine Hall, King’s Arms Office, Maidstone. 1832-33 [19658] Broadsheet newspapers. Maidstone Journal between Nos. 2398 and 2452, from January 3rd, 1832 to January 13th, 1833, 34 of 54 issues; with Maidstone Gazette between Nos.1816 and 1839, January 22nd, 1833 to July 2nd, 1833, complete run of 24 issues. Recent half-leather over marbled boards with spine in compartments with raised bands and contrasting title label, gilt. The contents are clean and free from tears. £600

416 —— PLANNING BASIS FOR KENT. INCORPORATING REPORTS UPON THE COUNTY PLANNING SURVEY AND THE COUNTY ROAD PLAN. Kent County Council. 1948 [17661] Folio. [10] + 121 p. with photo illustration throughout and 12 large folding maps and diagrams. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. £45 With the benefit of hindsight some of this is very sad. This was such an important document and so much of it was wrong.

417 KENT ELECTION BROADSIDE. EAST KENT ELECTION. BROTHER ELECTORS ... ... I call upon my Brother Blues to VOTE FOR DERING AND DEEDES, and by their vote to shew SIR BROOKE BRIDGES and his compatriot CAPTAIN ACHESON, that in Politics, as in all other matters, ‘Honesty is the best policy.’

Ramsgate, 31st March, 1857 [18310] Printed broadside, 12 x 18 inches, black letterpress on white paper Traces of old folds, otherwise fine. £150 An interesting example of the style of electioneering typical of the era. Boldly designed and printed.

418 —— THE THREE CANDIDATES BEFORE THE COUNTY. KENT WANTS A TRIED MAN -- AN ABLE MAN -- AN INDEPENDENT MAN. H. Ward, Printer, Canterbury. n.d. but [1831] [16435] Printed broadside, 9 x 11 inches. Some faint glue stains, but a very good example. £145 The Reform Bill caused a cataclysmic upheaval in the political landscape of the 1830’s. At this extremely significant time in the country’s political evolution, two factions of the Conservative party emerged. The anti-bill Ultras were mostly devout landowners and provincial notables who were, on the whole, agrarian paternalists. Although they were styled as ‘a selfish, aristocratic clique’ by their opponents, they were more

BOUND NEWSPAPER

In all, 58 issues of one of Kent’s principal papers, published during the period of upheaval and political reform in Britain.

421 KENTISH WEALD - CLEERE, HENRY. and DAVID CROSSLEY. THE IRON INDUSTRY OF THE WEALD. Leicester University Press . 1985 [19627] xvi + 395 pp. With numerous illustrations. Original cloth gilt, in dust wrapper. A fine copy. £70 A highly scholarly work by the foremost experts, gathering much scattered information under one cover. Now out of print.

AQUATINT PLATES 422 KENTISH WEALD - DEARN, T.D.W. AN HISTORICAL, TOPOGRAPHICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE WEALD OF KENT. Cranbrook, S. Reader. 1814 [19912] First Edition, 8vo. lvi + 277 + [5] index and [1] pp. advert. Illustrated with map and eight sepia aquatint plates after drawings by the author. Bound in recent half-calf over marbled boards. Apart from some offsetting from plates and a little light browning, a very good copy. £350 Rare history of the Weald with fine engraved illustrations including the well-known view of the High Street at Cranbrook.

KENT 423 KENTISH WEALD - FURLEY, ROBERT. A HISTORY OF THE WEALD OF KENT. WITH AN OUTLINE OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE COUNTY, ALSO A SKETCH OF THE PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE DISTRICT BY HENRY B. MACKESON. Igglesden. Ashford, 1871-74 [19988] FIRST EDITION Two volumes bound in three. Vol. I. xvi + 462 pp. Vol. II. part one, xii + 424 pp. Vol. II part two, [iv] + 425- 935 pp. with folding maps throughout..

Original green decorated cloth, gilt, only very slightly worn at extremities otherwise a very good copy. £200 A very good set of the standard source book on the geology and history of the Weald. Much under-rated work which is central to the county’s history.

FIRST FULL GAZETTEER OF KENT 424 KILBURNE, RICHARD. A TOPOGRAPHIE OR SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. WITH SOME CHRONOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, AND OTHER MATTERS TOUCHING THE SAME, AND SEVERAL PARISHES THEREIN. Thomas Mabb, for Henry Atkinson, London. 1659 [19362] 422 pp. with copper-engraved frontis of the author.

Original full calf. Rebacked twice, with the spine from the first rebacking re-used, having raised bands, gilt decoration and contrasting title labels, gilt. A very good copy with good margins. £650 The most important 17th century gazetteer of the county. This copy is inscribed on the free endpaper by an early owner ‘John Guy 1680/81’. Another early hand has inscribed some remarks about the book and concludes with the opinion that ‘Kilburn’s Survey of Kent is all modern and superficial’. A further early hand has made some neat inscriptions on another free endpaper. Additionally, one or another of these owners has carefully been through the list of Errata at the rear of the book and corrected the text as necessary. Richard Kilburne (1605 - 1678), was an eminent solicitor in the Court of Chancery and a resident of Hawkhurst. This is a 'must' in any definitive Kent collection.

425 —— A TOPOGRAPHIE OR SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. WITH SOME CHRONOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, AND OTHER MATTERS TOUCHING THE SAME, AND SEVERAL PARISHES THEREIN. Thomas Mabb, for Henry Atkinson, London. 1659 [19499] 422 pp. with copper-engraved frontis of the author.

Original full panelled calf, gilt decoration and title label in red. The upper hinge is cracked but sound. A very clean copy with good margins in a contemporary unrestored binding. £650 The most important 17th century gazetteer of the county. This copy is inscribed ‘Lach Marryat’ in an eighteenth century hand on the verso of the portrait, and has the engraved bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earle Lonsdale. Richard Kilburne (1605 - 1678) was an eminent solicitor in the Court of Chancery and a resident of Hawkhurst. This is a ‘must-have’ in any definitive Kent collection.

426 KIP, JOHANNES. THE GRANGE AND LEYBOURN CASTLE. THE SEATS OF WILLIAM

SAXBY ESQ. London, Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719 [20228] Large copper-engraving, 16 x 13 inches, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. £150 From Harris’ History of Kent. Drawn by Thomas Badeslade, this illustration varies in that it is engraved by John Harris.

427 —— HIGH STREET HOUSE. THE SEAT OF HENRY STREATFIELD ESQ. London, Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719 [20224] Large copper-engraving, 17 x 14 inches, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. £125 From Harris’ History of Kent. Drawn by Thomas Badeslade.

428 —— TUTSHAM HALL. THE SEAT OF EDWARD GOULSTON ESQ. London, Printed and sold

by D. Midwinter, 1719 [20229] Large copper-engraving, 16 x 13 inches,, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. £150 From Harris’ History of Kent. Drawn by Thomas Badeslade, and engraved by Kip.

429 —— WALDERSHARE. THE SEAT OF SIR ROBERT FURNESE BARONETT IN KENT. London, Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719 [20223] Large copper-engraving, 17 x 13 inches, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. £150 From Harris’ History of Kent. Drawn by Thomas Badeslade,

430 —— WIERTON. THE SEAT OF Sr CHRISTOPHER POWELL Bart. London, Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719 [20226] Large copper-engraving, 16 x 13 inches, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. £150 From Harris’ History of Kent. Drawn by Thomas Badeslade, this illustration varies in that it is engraved by John Harris.

ORPINGTON PARISH REGISTERS 431 KIRBY, HERBERT CHARLES THE REGISTER OF THE MARRIAGES, CHRISTENINGS AND BURIALS IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, ORPINGTON, IN THE COUNTY OF KENT, FROM 1560 TO 1754. At head of title: Lewisham Antiquarian Society. Edited by Herbert Charles Kirby.

Lewisham Antiquarian Society Publications No.8.

London: Printed by Charles North, Blackheath Printing Works, S.E. 1895 [19476] 110 copies privately printed, of which this is No.3. Small folio. 7.5 x 11 inches. [iv] + iv + 98 pp. Title page and index rubricated. Original cloth, gilt, with blind stamped borders and black endpapers. All corners bumped, with some abrasions on rear top right corner with creasing extending into pages. An ex-library copy with several small stamps, including title page. Ink inscription on half title and brief pencil note at end. £250 The transcript reproduces the black letter title of 1597 from the beginning of the parchment register and the unusually styled preface of Christopher Monckton, who became vicar in 1620. An appendix of relevant wills is followed by indexes of persons and of places.

KENT A scarce item produced only in a very limited edition. Only two copies are recorded in London libraries, including the British Library copy.

432 KIRBY, HERBERT CHARLES AND LELAND LEWIS DUNCAN. THE MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN THE CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD OF S. MARY, LEWISHAM. Edited by Herbert Charles Kirby and Leland Lewis Duncan.

(Lewisham Antiquarian Society. Publications. 2). Printed

by Charles North, 39 and 41 Turner Road; and at Blackheath [for Lewisham Antiquarian Society, Lee].

1889 [19842] 4to. 7.75 11.25 inches. [viii] + 86 pp. Bound in original russet cloth, gilt with double gilt bands at top and bottom of spine and blind ruling on boards. Black endpapers and red and black lettering on title page and appendices and index titles. £75 Two hundred copies privately printed.

Scarce copy of limited edition with only three or four copies recorded outside copyright libraries.

433 KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN, SIR.HUGHE. KENTISH FAMILY. Methuen. 1960 [20542] Large 8vo,10 x 6.5 inches, 269 pp. with folding plates and photo illustrations throughout. Original cloth in dustwrapper. £30 First class work charting the history of this most influential of Kentish families from before the Civil War to the 1960s.

434 KNOLE BRIDGMAN, JOHN. AN HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF KNOLE, IN KENT; WITH A BRIEF GENEALOGY OF THE SACKVILLE FAMILY. EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS. Published by W. Lindsell, 87, WimpoleStreet; W. Hodsoll and T. Clout, Sevenoaks; and Strange, and Nash, Tonbridge Wells. 1817 [18128] First Edition 8vo. viii + 164 pp. with 3 aquatint plates and 6 plates of Coats of Arms Bound in marbled paper wrappers with paper title label. Some slight offsetting and spotting otherwise a very good copy. £180 The first detailed description of the great house, with a catalogue of the then contents. Scarce.

435 —— AN HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF KNOLE, IN KENT; WITH A BRIEF GENEALOGY OF THE SACKVILLE FAMILY. EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS. Published by W. Lindsell, 87, Wimpole-Street. 1827 [19084] Second Edition, 8vo. viii + 164 pp., with 1 aquatint plate and 5 plates of coats of arms. Bound in recent blue halfmorocco, gilt, over marbled paper boards with title label.

Some slight offsetting and spotting otherwise a very good copy. £180 The second edition of the first detailed description of the great house, with a catalogue of the then contents. Scarce.

436 LAMBARDE, WILLIAM. A PERAMBULATION OF KENT. CONTAINING THE DESCRIPTION, HYSTORIE, AND CUSTOMES OF THAT SHIRE. WRITTEN IN THE YEERE 1570.

Chatham, W. Burrill, 1826 but reprinted by Adams and Dart 1970 [17197] 538 pp. with portrait. Original cloth in dust wrapper, a very good copy. £45 This useful and affordable 1970 reprint of the Sixth Edition is surprisingly difficult to find. Richard Church contributes an interesting introduction to this edition.

EXTRA ILLUSTRATED COPY 437 —— A PERAMBULATION OF KENT: CONTEINING THE DESCRIPTION, HYSTORIE, AND CUSTOMES OF THAT SHYRE. WRITTEN IN THE YEERE 1570. BY WILLIAM LAMBARD, OF LINCOLNE'S INN, GENT: First published in the yeere 1576. and now increased and altered after the Authors owne last Copie. Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant.

1596 [20191] 2nd edition. 8vo. 5 x 7 inches let into large folio 10.5 x 16 inches. Frontis. + [10] + 588 pp. + [5] + [1].(Pagination errors, p.35 is numbered 31, p.239, 139). A-2O8, 2P-2P5.

Illustrated with decorated title page, within broad border, vignette at beginning of epistle and 2 maps, a full page woodcut map, Anglia Heptarchia, with table of Saxon characters and exposition and a folding woodcut map, 'A Carde of the Beacons, in Kent.’ Extra illustrated with portrait and facsimile signature of Lambarde, 1594, serving as frontispiece, two page folding map, Mappa Thaneti Insule, similar to that in John Harris’ The History of Kent, 1719, and folding plate, The North Prospect of Canterbury, engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77) and published by John Ogilby (1600-76). Includes two dedication epistles and a Table (index), followed by list of ‘Faultes escaped’ (errata). Printed in black letter. Bound in recent calf, gilt; boards have blind stamped and gilt decorated borders; Spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt. Generally a fine clean copy. Early signature, Snm Galfridi Brissenden, on title page and partly cropped signature, John .?.way, 1614, at top of first dedication page. £2,000 An impressive copy of the book that is the first English county history, here in the second and best edition (it was first published 1570 and later editions appeared in 1640, 1656, 1826, 1970, etc.). It is this work that inspired all subsequent county histories. William Lambarde (1536-1601) was a lawyer and antiquary and a personal consultant to Elizabeth I. This second edition contains the fine map of the beacon system for signalling danger from the coast to London, which was not to reappear in subsequent editions. ‘The description and historie of the shyre of Kent’ forms the greater part of the work and includes an account of its geography and pre-Conquest history, a new section on the execution of justice, a taxation summary by lathe, hundred and parish, a list of particular features (e.g. fairs, poorhouses, etc.), an account of the see of Canterbury and archbishops and a parish by parish account, with Thanet, the Goodwin Sands area and the Cinque Ports grouped together at the beginning. The final section lists the customs of Kent. The text of all later editions is taken from this beautiful Elizabethan black letter printing, one of the most desirable of Kentish books. This copy has been enhanced by being skilfully let into folio pages, extra illustrated with a portrait of Lambarde, an early map of the Isle of Thanet and a Hollar/Ogilby engraving of Canterbury and handsomely bound in calf.

KENT 438 LANGTON, ROBERT. CHARLES DICKENS AND ROCHESTER. With Numerous Illustrations From Original Drawings by the late William Hull and the Author. Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1880 [17704] Booklet. 24 pp. + 12 illustrations on nine plates with a number of illustrations to the text. Original pictoral greyblue paper wrappers. Front a little dusty and creased otherwise a good copy. £75 This nicely produced item is an offprint of a paper presented to the Manchester Literary Club, and reprinted by Dickens’ Publishers in a paper wrapper made to resemble the weekly parts of Dickens’ Works.

439 LANSBERRY, FREDERICK. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN KENT, 1640-1914. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge/Kent County Council. 2001 [19666] 8vo. 302 pp. + 12 b/w illustrations on 8 plates, with 7 figures to the text and 6 maps. Original black cloth. As new in like dust wrapper. £65 This volume, the seventh in the Kent History Project, complements those already published on the economy of Kent and religion and society in Kent between 1640 and 1914. The volume begins with an important new assessment of the impact of the Civil Wars and Interregnum in Kent, which challenges some of the interpretations of previous studies of this period of Kent's history. The major thrust of the volume is, however, the transformation of Kent’s government from a system controlled by a small number of landed families into one which, on the eve of the First World War, involved a much broader range of people from the commercial, industrial and professional classes. There are also detailed studies of political radicalism in Kent between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries and of the impact of crime and the maintenance of public order.

440 LARN, RICHARD. GOODWIN SANDS SHIPWRECKS. David & Charles. 1977 [18067] 176 pp. with maps and numerous illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper. £25 Now scarce standard work on the subject.

441 LEE - HART, F. H. HISTORY OF LEE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, By F. H. Hart, Member of the Lee Parochial Committees, Guardian of the Poor, etc., and formerly Overseer for the Parish of Lee, and Surveyor of Highways. (Thamesmead Histories Vol. II). Conway Maritime Press, 7 Nelson Road, Greenwich, London, S.E.10. 1971 [20209] Reprint of first edition of 1882. 8vo. 6.5 x 9.25 inches. [viii], 100 pp. + [8] pp. new index. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with price clipped blue and grey pictorial dust wrapper and blue top edges. Slight spotting of edges otherwise a fine clean copy. £25 Hart lived in the parish of Lee for more than seventy years and collected his material for this history while serving on various parochial committees. In addition to Lee, the work covers Eltham, Lewisham, Blackheath, Charlton and Greenwich. A fine reprint of a work first published in 1882.

442 LEEDS, C.S. CHATS ABOUT GILLINGHAM. AN OUTLINE OF ITS PAST AND PRESENT HISTORY. Gillingham: Parrett & Neves. 1906 [18434]

First Edition, Tall 8vo. [12] + 247 + (4) pp. with photo illustrations throughout. Bound in full morocco gilt, with the alms of the town on the upper board in gilt, a little worn on extremities but a very good copy. £175 A good example of this scarce history, the subscribers list printed at the rear of the volume accounts for 230 copies it it likely only a few more than this number were printed. The work is scarce.

ROMNEY MARSH DEEDS 443 LEGAL DOCUMENTS RELATING TO ROMNEY MARSH, 1804 Six legal documents concerning land in and around Romney Marsh in the possession of Charles, Earl of Romney and his family and ancestors comprising, 1. ABSTRACT OF THE TITLE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES EARL OF ROMNEY TO SEVERAL PIECES OF MARSHLAND SITUATE IN THE PARISHES OF ALLINGTON [i.e.Aldington] LYMPNE WEST HYTHE BURMARSH AND DYMCHURCH IN KENT IN THE OCCUPATION OF MR WILLIAM WALL SOLD IN LOTS AT ASHFORD 24TH. MARCH 1804 [includes marginal comments, extended at end by, by C. Robinson, Canterbury Sept: 4th 1804, continuation page repeating title on verso, Roffe & Scudamore Maidstone, with additional note of transmission to Robinson; 2. MR EDWARD BACHELLOR TO MR JOSEPH GREENE FEOFFMENT OF MESSE [messuage] AND LANDS IN LYMPNE IN KENT CONSON [consequence] £550.

1697 SEPTEMBER 28TH. COPY [23rd March 1735]; 3.

LEASE FOR A YEAR. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES EARL OF ROMNEY AND LORD VISCOUNT MARSHAM TO MR THOMAS BRIDGER. DATED ELEVENTH DAY OF OCTOBER 1804; 4.

SPECIAL AGREEMENT FOR THE SALE AND PURCHASE OF MARSHLAND DATED 12TH OCTOBER 1804. EARL OF ROMNEY AND VISCOUNT MARSHAM AND MR. BRIDGER; 5.

RELEASE AND APPOINTMENT. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL OF ROMNEY AND LORD VISCOUNT MARSHAM TO MR. EDWARD BRIDGER. DATED 12 DAY OF OCTOBER 1804; 6.

ASSIGNMENT OF TERMS TO ATTEND THE INHERITANCE FOR MR.THOMAS BRIDGER. MR.WILLIAM SCUDAMORE TO MR WILLIAM FOWLE. DATED 12TH OCTOBER 1804. 1735, 1804 [19985] 1. Abstract, 12.5 x 16 inches. Folded manuscript secured with pink tape. 33 leaves and an inset continuation leaf repeating title on verso. 2. Feoffment, 12.25 x 15 inches.

Folded manuscript secured by pin. [5] leaves. 3. Lease, 28 x 22.5 inches. Folded, sealed, single-leaf parchment with stamp, on prepared blank indenture form, Sold by H. Answorth, Law Stationer, Clifford’s Inn, Fleet Street, with double and triple red lined borders. 4. Special Agreement, 28 x 19 inches. Folded, sealed, single-leaf manuscript (forming two leaves) with embossed stamp. 5.

Release, 27 x 22.5 inches. Folded, sealed, four-leaf parchment with stamps, first leaf a prepared blank indenture form as above, with double and triple red lined borders. 6. Assignment, 31 inches x 24 inches. Folded, sealed, single-leaf parchment with stamp. Abstract has

KENT frayed edges, especially detached continuation sheet, which has edge tears affecting text but is otherwise clean inside. Feoffment has water stain on one edge not affecting legibility and exterior is grimed and stained.

Special Agreement and the three parchments have grimed exteriors but are clean inside. £250 Essentially these documents are concerned with summarising the title of Lord Romney to various properties in Romney Marsh and with their transfer, by sale or lease to Thomas Bridger, grazier of Lympne in 1804. Bridger had successfully bid for these ‘Pieces or Parcels of Marsh Land,’ the Stone Reaches, Aldington and three ‘Waterings’ in the parish of Burmarsh, at the Saracen’s Head, Ashford on 24 March, for the sum of £4750. It was to be October before the requisite conveyancing documents could be signed and sealed because of the need to prove Romney’s title to the lands and to recover them from tenants to whom they had been leased.

The Abstract (no.1), prepared by Roffe and Scudamore of Maidstone was sent to another lawyer, Charles Robinson of Canterbury, whose critical marginal comments are continued at the end. The estate of Robert Marsham, second Baron Romney (1712-1793), a famous philanthropist and patron of science (and a founder member, together with the first Viscount Folkestone, of the Society of Arts in 1754) left insufficient funds to pay his debts. His son, Charles (17441811), created Earl of Romney in 1801, had to permanently alienate leased properties such as those sold to Bridger in 1804. There are references to ‘Negroes Slaves and their Issue Cattle Stock and moveable things in and upon such plantations’ (the island of St Kitts) assigned to the second Earl of Radnor (1750-1828), grandson of Viscount Folkestone.

The Abstract also refers to the recovery of lands in and around the Marsham family seat of The Mote at Maidstone and Allington and other manors with mills, dovehouses, gardens, meadow, pasture, hop ground, wood, furze, heath, fresh marsh, salt marsh, etc.

FIRST EDITION, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED 444 LEWIS, JOHN. THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL OF THE ISLE OF TENET IN KENT. London: Printed in the year 1723 [20135] Large folio, 10 x 15 inches, within which are skilfully let in the leaves of the quarto first edition with additional illustrations. viii + 140 pp. + 103 pp. with the 8 plates of the first edition and 13 additional plates (see list below). A previous owner, in an old hand, has added 4 sides of neat manuscript index. Bound in later half-calf over marbled boards with spine in compartments, decorated gilt, raised bands, and a contrasting leather title label, gilt. £1,000 The additional plates are as follows and include six of the twenty-four rare Walker views: Buck’s View of Richborough from the North-West, 1735; Stukely’s double view of Portus Rutupiae from Sandwich, and South-West view of Richborough Castle, 1722; The Gentleman’s Magazine illustration of The Palace of Ford, with Salmeston Grange, and Minster Church and Manor House, 1811; Walker’s Thorn Farm in Minster, 1812; A Plan of Ramsgate Harbour from Smeaton’s Historical Report, 1791; Stockdale’s View of St. Lawrence Church, 1810, from his Etchings of Antiquities in the County of Kent, of which only 250 copies were published; A View of Broadstairs, engraved from a drawing by Nixon, showing the famous archway; Walker’s Stone House, nr Broadstairs, 1812;

Walker’s Helicon Dale, nr Ramsgate, 1812; Sewell’s view of King’s Gate, near Margate, Kent, from the European Magazine, 1787; Walker’s view of Kingsgate; his view of Joss Stairs, Kingsgate; and of Kingsgate from the Sands, all 1812.

The aquatints by George Walker were published in his TwentyFour Picturesque Views of the Isle of Thanet. Letting-in involves cutting in a larger, heavier leaf, a hole that is slightly smaller than the leaf of the work to be mounted, and pasting the smaller leaf over the aperture, thus exposing both sides of the leaf, much in the manner of a pane of glass in a window frame.

SECOND EDITION 445 —— THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES, AS WELL ECCLESIASTICAL AS CIVIL, OF THE ISLE OF THANET, IN KENT and A COLLECTION OF PAPERS, RECORDS, ETC. REFERRED TO IN THE FOREGOING HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF TENET. SECOND EDITION WITH ADDITIONS. For the Author and for Joseph Ames, and Peter Thompson; and sold by J. Osborn, at the Golden Ball in Pater-noster Row. 1736 [16213] Large 4to. viii + 204 pp. + 124 with 4 copper-engraved maps and 21 copper-engraved plates and other plates in the text. Bound in full straight-grained crimson morocco, the spine in compartments with raised bands with a single gilt line on the bands and elaborate tooling in blind in the compartments. Boards panelled with a diamond intersecting the square and elaborate blind tooling and an armorial crest in a blind-tooled lozenge in the center.

Extremities slightly rubbed and corners bumped, but a fine example. £850 A very attractive large-paper copy of the second and best edition of Lewis’s Thanet, one of the greatest of the eighteenth century histories of the Kentish regions, with some valuable extra material inserted.

The extra illustrations are :A large folding map of Thanet by S. Parker (published in Harris’s History of Kent 1719) bound in before the title.

Three hand-coloured etched plates from the extremely rare ‘Six Views in Kent, in colours, by Amelia Noel’ published in 1797. These are loosely inserted into the front of the volume.

The binding is impressive and is a rare example of a Staggemeier attributed binding. An old penciled note on the front free endpaper to this effect and comparison with other examples of his work support the attribution. L. Staggemeier came from Germany but was working in London on his own in Villiers Street by about 1793. By 1799 he was in partnership with Samuel Welcher, and in their heyday they were one of the most prolific of the West End binderies, producing ‘extra’ quality work. They seem to have separated about 1810 and had disappeared from the Directories by 1820.

446 RARE PROSPECTUS FOR THIRD EDITION OF LEWIS’S HISTORY OF THANET. NEW EDITION. LEWIS’S HISTORY OF THANET, CONTINUED TO 1809, WITH AT LEAST FORTY COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVINGS, AND TRANSLATIONS OF THE ORIGINAL LATIN CHARTERS, AND OF THE GREEK AND SAXON NOTES. ....... Printed by Witherden, Margate, December 1809 [20201]

KENT Single sheet, 7.5 x 11.5 inches, printed both sides, signs of old folds, slight creasing and browning to top and bottom edges, otherwise a very good example. £150 This new and improved edition was the work of John Boys of Margate, with the assistance of several ‘learned friends’. The prospectus outlines how the new edition was brought about and what improvements benefited from. Rare.

447 LEWISHAM ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEWISHAM ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY FOR 1908-1912. Printed for the Society by Charles North, The Blackheath Press, London, S.E. 1913 [20265] 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. xxvii + 32 99. Illustrated by [three] plates, one serving as frontispiece. Title page in red and black. Half-title. Bound in original cloth, gilt. Ink inscription, dated 1924, on first free endpaper. Fine clean condition throughout. £25 The preliminaries are concerned with the routine business of the Society, lists of officers and members, reports, list of publications, etc. The one article, Odds and Ends of Lewisham History, is by Leland L. Duncan. It includes sections on the tower of the parish church, two accounts of household possessions, based on probate inventories of 1529 and 1576 and the bounds of the Manor of Lewisham, etc.

448 LEWISHAM - DUNCAN, LELAND. HISTORY OF THE BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM, WITH AN ITINERARY. WITH CHAPTERS ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT BY W.H. GRIFFIN, AND ON THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES

BY A.W. HISCOX, SOMETIME MAYOR OF THE BOROUGH. Charles North, The Blackheath Press. 1908 [20190] 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. xvi + 173 pp. with 73 b/w illustrations including frontis. Original cloth, gilt. A very good copy.

The standard history of that part of London which used to be Kent. £65

449 LINDLEY, KENNETH. COASTLINE. Written and illustrated by Kenneth Lindley. Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 178-202, Great Portland St., London W1. 1967 [20206] First edition. 4to. 6.75 x 9.75 inches. 159 pp. Illustrated with black and white drawings by author, photographs and reproductions of engravings, etc. Bound in original yellow cloth with pictorial design continuing across boards and spine. Pictorial coloured dust wrapper with watercolour of Edward Ardizzone on front and spine. Blue and black pictorial endpapers. A little wear at extremities, small section missing from lower edge of front inside wrapper and some foxing to edges. Otherwise fine clean copy. £25 An illustrated survey of coastal features and attractions. It includes chapters on ports and resorts, bungalows, piers, beach objects, forgotten industries, lighthouses, creeks and inlets, caravans, signs and notices, souvenirs, etc. Kenneth Arthur Lindley (born 1928) is a well known artist and illustrator who has also published several other books on the coast, including Seaside Architecture (1973).

Edward Ardizzone (1900-79), who painted the watercolour drawing of Southend featured on the wrapper, was a famous author and illustrator of children’s books.

450 LUDDENHAM UPPER LEVEL ACCOUNT 1889 [20307] Ruled manuscript accounts. Folio. 8 x 13 inches. [4] leaves, one leaf blank. Folded. Front, with title and rear grimed where document was originally folded in eight.

Signs of water staining in centre, not affecting legibility.

The audited accounts of the Luddenham Upper Level sluice for 1888-89. The work carried out on the watercourses for that year includes ‘Cutting and drawing and fleeting streams’ (i.e. preparing a channel that is dry except in times of heavy rainfall). Other items are administrative, including payment of the Expenditor of the Sluice’s salary, office and travelling costs and expenses relating to last year’s accounts. It would appear that the Expenditor was a paid official concerned with the maintenance of the system and collecting the special rate from owners and tenants to meet the day-to-day payments involved. Luddenham is a parish north-west of Faversham.

According to Hasted (1798), ‘near one half of it is marsh land, which reaches to the waters of the Swale...’ In 1878, Kelly’s states: ‘A great part of the parish is improved marsh. There is a commission for the sewers and draining of this and some adjoining parishes, which is paid for by a rate levied upon the owners and occupiers of land.’ This account, for the Upper Level, is likely to relate to only a part of the total system under the control of this commission. £25

451 LUGARD, CECIL E. Compiled by.

SEASALTER. BOROUGH, MANOR AND PARISH. Printed by Elvy Bros., “Whitstable Times” Office. No date but c.1930 [18248] v + 35 pp. + 3 b/w illustrations, 2 full-page, including a drawing by R.H. Goodsall (of Kentish Patchwork fame) of the proposed reconstruction of Old Seasalter Church.

Original printed buff card wrappers. Wrapper a trifle dusty otherwise a near fine example. £60 Valuable reference for local historians focussing on the Parish and Church records. Scarce.

NOVEL OF THE SOUTH DOWNS 452 LUSHINGTON, ELLEN E. STORM AND CALM ON THE DOWNS By Ellen E. Lushington, Author of ‘Westfield Village,’ and ‘A Land and Sea Story.’ Walter Smith, London and Frederick Bunyard, Maidstone 1884 [19055] 8vo. [viii] + 391pp. Original brown cloth with embossed decoration in black, gilt Water stains on rear boards Some brown staining and small holes in last twelve pages and rear end papers. Ink inscription on half title £35 Scarce novel of the South Downs by Ellen E. Lushington (1817-after 1881): ‘It was with a desire to represent some of the scenery of the South Downs, and to recall some of their associations, that this story was commenced.’

453 LYDD - DUNCAN, LELAND L. Edited by ARTHUR FINN. MOMUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN THE CHURCHYARD AND CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS’ LYDD, KENT. Kent Archæological Society 1927 [18719] First Edition. ix + 68 pp. Original green card wrappers.

Spine repaired, some foxing, otherwise a good copy. £20

KENT 454 MACDOUGALL, PHILIP. THE STORY OF THE HOO PENINSULA. John Hallewell Publications, 1980 [19714] *First Edition. 212 pp. with photo illustration. Signed by author. Original cloth. A fine copy in dust wrapper. £35

KENTISH MIRACLE 455 MAIDSTONE: THE KENTISH MIRACLE; OR, A SEASONABLE WARNING TO ALL SINNERS. Shewing the wonderful relation of one Mary Moor whose husband died some time ago, and left her with two children, who was reduced to great want. How she wandered about the Country asking relief and went two days without food. How the devil appeared to her, and the many offers he made to her to deny Christ and enter into his service, and how she confuted Satan by her powerful arguments; and she came to a fountain of water where she fell on her knees prayed to Almighty God that he would give that virtue to the water that it might refresh and satisfy her children's hunger. Likewise an account how an angel appeared to her and relieved her, also declared many things that shall happen very speedily. Shewing likewise what strange and surprizing accidents shall happen by means of an approaching war, and concerning a dreadful earthquake, &c. No place or date but c.1750 [18109] Small pamphlet, approximately 3.5 x 6 inches. 8 pp. with a decorative headpiece and the Royal Coat-of-Arms George I as a tailpiece. A trifle dusty and fore edges a little creased, but a very good example of a rare item.

This item closely resembles the pamphlet entitled ‘A Strange and Wonderful Relation’ (see next) in which a shepherd has a visitation from an Angel who warns of God’s dire retribution on the world’s sinners, including war, earthquakes, storms and ‘distemper among horned cattle’. Rare. £150

18TH CENTURY MAIDSTONE PAMPHLET 456 MAIDSTONE: A STRANGE AND WONDERFUL RELATION, WHICH HAPPENED IN MARCH LAST TO A SHEPHERD, IN THE COUNTY OF KENT NEAR MAIDSTONE, AS HE WAS ATTENDING HIS SHEEP. No place or date but c.1750 [18114] Small pamphlet. 8 pp. unopened, on single sheet folded to 3.75 x 6 inches with two woodcut illustrations and woodcut head and tailpiece. A trifle dusty and one corner creased, but a very good copy of a rare pamphlet. £250 This item closely resembles the pamphlet entitled ‘The Kentish Miracle’ (SEE PREVIOUS ITEM) in which a destitute woman encounters the Devil and an Angel.

457 MAIDSTONE [ALLCHIN, J.H.] [MAIDSTONE] MUSEUM, PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND BENTLIF ART GALLERY. REPORT OF THE CURATOR AND LIBRARIAN. From November 1st, 1908, to October 31st, 1910. With an Appendix, being a report on the Annual Conference of The Museums Association in Maidstone, 1909, and York, 1910. Walter Ruck, Maidstone. 1911 [18101] 93 pp. + 4 b/w plates. Original printed paper wrappers.

A comprehensive report on the activities of the Museum, Library and Gallery including latest acquisitions, exhibitions, loans, exchanges, visitor numbers, etc. Scarce. £40

458 MAIDSTONE - AMPREY, A.S. (Edited by) A GUIDE TO THE BOROUGH OF MAIDSTONE. Compiled by Order of the Mayor and Corporation.

Printed and published by Walter Ruck, Maidstone, 1919 [19729] Second edition, oblong 8vo. 7.25 x 5.75 inches. [10] adverts + 116 pp. + [2] adverts. with numerous b/w photographic illustrations. Original printed boards. Hinges a little loose, otherwise a very good copy. £85 Scarce Maidstone guide with interesting advertisements.

459 MAIDSTONE ELECTORS REGISTER. THE REGISTER OF ELECTORS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT ELECTIONS OF MEMBERS TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE BOROUGH OF MAIDSTONE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT, Between the Thirtieth day of November, 1851, and the First day of December, 1852. Printed by Smith and Son, 10 Week Street, Maidstone. 1851 [16849] Folio. 28 pp. Preserved in original paper wrappers, on which is the title page. £45 The first 8 pages are a list of Freemen (536), the remainder are ‘A List of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of Members for the Borough of Maidstone, in respect of Property occupied within the Parish of Maidstone ....’ This contains a further 1751 names. Registers like these became statutory in the 1830s and were published frequently, but do not survive in any numbers.

460 —— THE REGISTER OF ELECTORS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT ELECTIONS OF MEMBERS TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE BOROUGH OF MAIDSTONE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT, Between the thirtieth day of November 1855, and the first day of December 1856. Maidstone: Wickham and Son, Printers, Week Street. 1855 [16851] Folio. 32 pp. Preserved in original paper wrappers, on which is the title page. £45 The first 8 pages are a list of Freemen (471), the remainder are ‘A List of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of Members for the Borough of Maidstone, in respect of Property occupied within the Parish of Maidstone, .....’ This contains a further 1789 names. Registers like these became statutory in the 1830s and were published frequently, but they do not survive in any numbers.

461 —— THE REGISTER OF ELECTORS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT ELECTIONS OF MEMBERS TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE BOROUGH OF MAIDSTONE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT, During the year 1870. Maidstone: Printed by W.H. Vale, King Street. 1869 [16852] Folio. 62 pp. Preserved in original paper wrappers, on which is the title page. £65 The first 10 pages are a list of Freemen (371), the remainder are ‘A List of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of Members for the Borough of Maidstone, in respect of Property occupied within the Parish of Maidstone, .....’. This contains a further 3357 names. Registers like these became statutory in

KENT the 1830s and were published frequently, but they do not survive in any numbers.

462 —— THE REGISTER OF ELECTORS ENTITLED TO VOTE AT ELECTIONS OF MEMBERS TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE BOROUGH OF MAIDSTONE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT, During the year 1872. Maidstone: Printed by W.H. Vale, King Street. 1871 [16853] Folio. 64 pp. Preserved in original paper wrappers, on which is the title page. £65 The first 10 pages are a list of Freemen (371), the remainder are ‘A List of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of Members for the Borough of Maidstone, in respect of Property occupied within the Parish of Maidstone, .....’. This contains a further 3473 names. Registers like these became statutory in the 1830s and were published frequently, but they do not survive in any numbers.

463 MAIDSTONE - GILBERT, WALTER B. MEMORIALS OF THE COLLEGIATE AND PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, IN THE KING’S TOWN AND PARISH OF MAIDSTONE, TOGETHER WITH A LIST OF INCUMBENTS, CHURCHWARDENS AND OTHER OFFICERS, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME. Wescomb and Smith, Maidstone, 1866 [19707] Small 8vo. 230 pp. Original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt.

A trifle rubbed at extremities otherwise a very good copy. £60 464 MAIDSTONE - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF MAIDSTONE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. 1964.

Kelly's. 1964 [17611] 8vo. xii + A8b + 514 pp. Lacking the map. Original printed cloth. Clean copy. £25 465 MAJOR, ALAN. A NEW DICTIONARY OF KENT DIALECT. Meresborough Books. 1981 [17203] 8vo. 148 pp. with diagrams. Original laminated hardcover.

Spine slightly faded, but a very good copy. £20 Augmented and expanded edition of Parish and Shaw’s dialect dictionary published in 1888. This new edition has now become quite hard to find.

466 MALLING - FIELDING, Rev. C. H. MEMORIES OF MALLING AND ITS VALLEY; WITH A FAUNA AND FLORA OF KENT. Henry C.H. Oliver, West Malling, Kent. 1893 [18096] Tall 8vo. xiv + 291 pp. with illustrations throughout and a coloured folding map. Original blue cloth, gilt. A trifle rubbed at the extremities otherwise a very good copy.

Although there has been a reprint of this work this first issue is a far superior production. £85

467 MARGATE. THE ALBUM OF MARGATE VIEWS. Wm. Z., London. n.d. but c.1899 [17382] Oblong concertina type view-book of glazed lithos, containing 21 images. Printed in Germany. Original printed boards, gilt. A very good, clean copy. £40 This type of view book originates in Germany and is an example of the curious mixture of photograph and drawing which were prolific from about 1875 to 1895 when photography finally won the day.

468 —— PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF MARGATE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Printed in Bavaria, No date but c.1870 [18202] Oblong view-book containing 17 tinted images. Original printed boards, rather worn and with a slight water stain in the sky of a few images but a good copy. £25 The photographs are credited to :- Perkins, Son & Venemore Lee-London S.E. or G.E. Houghton, Margate.

469 MARGATE - [BARHAM, REV. R.H.] INGOLDSBY, THOMAS. MISADVENTURES AT MARGATE. A LEGEND OF JARVIS’S JETTY. Pictured by Ernest M. Jessop. Eyre and Spottiswoode, Gt.New St., London. No date but c.1880s [17469] Large folio. 10 x 15 inches approx. [2] Titles + 18 pp. of coloured lithographs printed on recto only. Original pictorial paper-covered bevelled boards. Slight wear at extremities and fore-edges. As usual the gutta-percha binding has disintegrated, so recased, otherwise a very good copy. £100 A tale in verse of a visit to Margate by Mr. Simpkinson, whose generosity towards a tearful boy on the pier is rewarded by the boy absconding with his belongings.

470 MARGATE - GRITTEN, A. J. CATALOGUE OF THE BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND EXCERPTS DEALING WITH MARGATE, THE ISLE OF THANET AND THE COUNTY OF KENT IN THE LOCAL COLLECTION OF THE BOROUGH OF MARGATE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Borough of Margate. 1934 [17625] 166 pp. indexed catalogue. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy. £40 This invaluable catalogue was issued in a small edition and does not appear on the market very often. Essential reference for the Thanet collector.

471 MARGATE - KIDD, WILLIAM. THE PICTURESQUE POCKET COMPANION TO MARGATE, RAMSGATE, BROADSTAIRS, AND PARTS ADJACENT; ILLUSTRATED WITH ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD BY G.W. BONNER. William Kidd, 228, Regent Street; London, 1831 [19223] 12mo. iv + 215 pp. + 1 advert + 12 pp. catalogue.

Illustrated with charming wood-engravings throughout.

Over 120 views including head and tail-pieces. Bound in the original dark green quarter-morocco, spine lettered in gilt, over the original cloth, gilt with the original paper label on upper board. Clean example in very nice original cloth, with original paper label on upper board. £250 This is a very good example of the steam packet guide, designed to fit the pocket of the traveller and describe the journey from London Bridge down the Thames to Thanet.

Then, all aspects of the island are described and illustrated with great detail; the wood engravings by Bonner are particularly charming and skilful. The preface states that since the advent of steam packets visitors had increased from an average of 20,000 per season to 98,128 in 1830.

RARE KENTISH PLAY

KENT 472 A MARINE OFFICER. [BURN, MAJORGENERAL ANDREW.] WHO FARES BEST, THE CHRISTIAN OR THE MAN OF THE WORLD? or The Advantages of a Life of Real Piety to a Life of Fashionable Dissipation. Price one shilling stitched.

Printed by T. Bensley, for James Mathews, No. 18, Strand. 1789 [16933] 8vo. Half-title + v + 62 pp. Some foxing but a neat copy.

Bound in marbled paper wrappers. £150 A play in the form of a discourse between the man of the world, Horatio and the Christian Eugenio. Despite its moral tone the play is interesting for its depiction of ‘Fashionable Dissipation’ and modes and manners of the day.

Profits were for the benefit of the church in Strood. On the half-title is an ink inscription, ‘Mr Cox July 11 Chatham’

473 MARKHAM, GERVASE. THE INRICHMENT OF THE WEALD OF KENT, OR, A DIRECTION TO THE HUSBANDMAN, FOR THE TRUE ORDERING, MANURING, AND INRICHING OF ALL THE GROUNDS WITIHN THE WEALDS OF KENT, AND SUSSEX; AND MAY GENERALLY SERVE FOR ALL THE GROUNDS IN ENGLAND OF THAT NATURE; AS 1. Shewing the nature of Wealdish Ground, comparing it with the Soyl of the Shires at Large.

2. Declaring what the Marle is, and the several sorts thereof, and where it is usually found.

3. The profitable use of Marle, and other rich manuring, as well in each sort of Arable Land, as also for the increase of Corn and Pasture through the Kingdome.

Painfully gathered for the good of this Island, by a Man of great Eminence and Worth; But Revised, enlarged, and corrected with the consent and by conference with the first Author. By G.M. Printed by J. Streater for George Sawbridge, Dwelling on Clarken-well-Green. 1668 [17482] 4to. (4) + 19 pp. Full old calf, rebacked and lettered gilt.

This is a very attractive example. £175 Gervase Markham (1568-1637) descended from a Nottinghamshire gentry family, appears to have begun writing after he settled in London in 1593, although he had to retire to the country and live as a tenant farmer for several years after the fall of Essex (to whose faction he belonged) in 1601. His output of poetry and drama was extensive and it is speculated that he may have been the Rival Poet of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (with whom he shared a patron in Southampton). His nonliterary works included military training, domestic economy, veterinary medicine and horsemanship, in addition to husbandry.

Markham has been frequently accused of plagiarism but in the Inrichment he does at least acknowledge the input of the original author. To some extent the blame lies with publishers who reissued his work in different forms. This came to a climax in 1617, when five different books on horses, all by Markham, were on the market at the same time. He was forced to sign an agreement with the Stationers’ Company: ‘I... do promise hereafter never to write any more book or books to be printed of the diseases or Cure of any Cattle, as Horse, Oxe, Cowe, Sheepe, Swine, Goates etc.’ (quoted in DNB).

The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent was first published in 1625 but is better known as one of the six constituent parts (five by Markham) of the popular ‘A Way to get Wealth’, published in fifteen editions, 1631-1684, as a compendium of agricultural practice. As a consequence, although separately paginated, the work has a continuous

register with the other parts of the thirteenth edition of 1676.

After describing the nature of the Weald and its ‘dens’, the larger part of the text is concerned with farming on the different Wealden soil types and especially with the use of chalky marl as a soil improvement agency. The final part investigates various remedies against what Markham considers to be the nuisance to the husbandman caused by moles: ‘That if you take green Leeks Garlick or Onions, and chopping them grosly, thrust it in the holes, the very fume or savour thereof will so astonish and amaze the Moals, that they will presently forsake the Earth, and falling into a Trance, you may take them up with your hands.’ This important early text was to be reprinted at least six times in his compendium publications. ***We also have two other editions of this work – please enquire***

474 MARSH, ARTHUR. A TIME TO REMEMBER. SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF A KENTISH VILLAGE. Published by the author 1985 [18448] Folio. 45 pp. with b/w photo illustration and numerous sketches by the author to the text. Original pictorial card wrappers. A very good copy inscribed and signed by the author ‘With very best wishes, Arthur.’ £20 A short history and recollection of the village of Hastingleigh, near Ashford in Kent, and its immediate vicinity. Beautifully illustrated with numerous sketches of the more significant buildings in the area, including many houses, farms and the church.

EARLY ALBUMEN TYPE PHOTOGRAPHS 475 MARTIN, CHARLES WYKEHAM. THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF LEEDS CASTLE, KENT. Nichols and Sons, Parlament Street, Westminster: 1869 [19835] Folio. x + 210 + xxxvi pp. with 8 original photographic plates, vignette illustrations in the text and a full page hand-coloured plan. Original red cloth gilt, spine neatly repaired. but a very good copy. £300 Important not only as the only detailed history and description of the castle, with much genealogical information on its occupiers from Domesday to Wykeham Martin, but also as an example of early photographic book illustration using Albumen prints. An albumen print was produced on a thin piece of paper that was coated with albumen (egg whites) and salt, floated in silver nitrate, and then mounted on card or to form the plates in a book as here. The Maidstone photographer J. Cruttenden printed and mounted each image by hand.

476 MARTIN, W. STANLEY, and B. PRESCOTT ROW. KENT'S CAPITAL. A HANDBOOK TO MAIDSTONE ON THE MEDWAY AND GUIDE TO THE DISTRICT. The Homeland Association’s Handbooks No.6 Maidstone, Walter Ruck.

[1898] [17923] First Edition, [16] + 146 pp. + [32] pp. of adverts with photo illustrations. Original red cloth gilt, the hard-cover binding, this copy is without the folding map but has the plan of Maidstone. £65 Scarce late Victorian guide to Maidstone with some fine advert of shop fronts etc.

KENT 477 —— TONBRIDGE: FOR THE RESIDENT, THE HOLIDAY MAKER, AND THE ANGLER. A Descriptive and Historical Handbook. Tonbridge: T.A. Flemons, 141 High Street. [1896] [20380] 16mo. 5 x 7.25 inches, [viii] + 126 pp. + [46] adverts, some illustrated, with numerous black and white illustrations to the text, some full-page. Bound in the original pictorial paper wrappers. Slight wear to spine otherwise a very good copy indeed. £65 Aside from the useful editorial content this guide has a large number of interesting advertisements.

KENTISH DIALECT POEM 478 [MASTERS, JOHN WHITE]. DICK AND SAL; OR JACK AND JOANSES FAIR, A DOGGEREL POEM. Third Edition. Printed for the Author by Z. Warren, Albion Library, 86 Snargate Street, Dovor.

[1830] [20251] 12 mo. 4.25 x 7.75 inches. 23 pp. Sewn paper.

Extremities worn. Price on front obliterated. Sound inside. £60 A scarce early edition of a popular Kent dialect poem relating the humorous adventures that befell the couple when: ‘I thought dat Sal and I, / Ud go to Canterbury town, / To see what we cud buy’ and they find the ‘Middlemas’ fair is on. The poem was written by John Masters White (1791-1873), botanist, gardener and poet, who was born at Ashford, where his parents ran the workhouse, and later the one at Chartham.

Masters travelled widely in Kent and other counties and wrote the poem in about 1820, while working as a gardener in Faversham: ‘although he disparaged it as ‘doggerel,’ it was, in fact, well written ... Masters was innovative in handing over the narration almost entirely to a Kentish voice.’ (DNB). By 1910 seventeen editions had been issued, with variations to the text, according to changing dialect usage and changing the title to Dick and Sal at Canterbury Fair. It was reprinted in Parish and Shaw, A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect (1888) and a limited illustrated edition was published by Ben Sands in Whitstable in 1973. The success of Dick and Sal inspired dialect poems of this genre in other counties, including Sussex.

From 1830-63 Masters worked in India, taking charge of the first commercial tea estate in Assam in 1839, before returning to Faversham, where he wrote an inferior sequel, Richard and Sarah, in standard English (1868, published in a Faversham journal, 1897). This third edition of 1830 (known only from libraries in Canterbury and Maidstone; no earlier edition being recorded) was issued by Zachariah Warren, publisher of Dover guidebooks, who died in 1834. The fourth edition was published by Thomas Rigden of Dover around 1845. A very scarce copy of an influential dialect poem.

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479 MATE, MAVIS E. TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS 1450-1550 THE EXPERIENCE OF KENT, SURREY, AND SUSSEX. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge. 2006 [18876] 8vo. viii + 261 pp. Original chocolate cloth with contrasting title to upper board and gilt to spine. As new.

An academic work by an expert on the period, however due to £65 its limited appeal very few were published.

480 MAXWELL, DONALD. HISTORY WITH A SKETCH-BOOK. Illustrated by the Author. John Lane, the Bodley Head. 1926 [19551] First Edition 8vo. xiv +174 pp. illustrated throughout.

Original cloth. A good copy. £22 Delightful work, full of Maxwell's fine drawings.

481 —— UNKNOWN SUSSEX BEING A SERIES OF UNMETHODICAL EXPLORATIONS OF THE COUNTY ILLUSTRATED IN LINE AND COLOUR BY THE AUTHOR. John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1923 [17283] First Edition, 4to. 207 pp. with 21 colour plates and many other original illustrations by the author. Original cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded, a good copy. £45 A nice example of Maxwell’s ‘Unknown’ series of county books.

482 MEASOM, GEORGE. THE OFFICIAL ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY AND ALL ITS BRANCHES. W.H.Smith and Son, 1853 but reprinted Countryside Books. 1987 [17913] 8vo. viii + 104 pp. with numerous illustrations to the text.

Laminated pictorial boards, slight chip but a fine copy. £25 A facsimile of the guide originally published in 1853. George Measom wrote guide books for many of the great railway companies, all containing considerable detail about the places encountered en route. The original guide commands a threefigure sum, but this is an affordable alternative.

483 MEDWAY - KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF THE MEDWAY TOWNS ROCHESTER, CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM, STROOD, RAINHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Kelly's. 1974 [18171] 1134 pp. with the folding map. Original printed boards £25 484 MELLING, ELIZABETH Edited by. KENTISH SOURCES IV. THE POOR. A collection of examples from original sources in the Kent Archives Office, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Kent County Council. 1964 [18999] 8vo. xviii + 189 pp. illustrated. Original cloth gilt Fine in dust wrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. £20 Uncovers the workings and injustices of the Poor Laws from Elizabethan times to the breakdown of the old Poor Law in the last century, by examples in the County Archives.

485 —— KENTISH SOURCES. VI. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. A collection of examples from original sources in the Kent Archives Office, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. K.C.C. 1969 [17196] 8vo. 294 pp. with illustrations. Original pictorial laminated binding. £20 486 —— SOME KENTISH HOUSES. A COLLECTION OF EXAMPLES FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES IN THE KENT ARCHIVES OFFICE, FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

KENT ILLUSTRATED BY A. M. OAKLEY. KENTISH SOURCES V. K.C.C. Maidstone. 1965 [19671] Oblong 8vo. vii + 80 pp. with illustrations throughout.

Original cloth in the original dust wrapper. A very good copy. £20 'Presents the Timber-framed and early stone and brick houses in which yeoman, trader, parson and cottager dwelt.’

RAMSGATE INTEREST 487 MINIATURE ALMANAC. LONDON ALMANAC. [Company of Stationers.] 1878 [20352] Miniature book, 35 x 58 mm., [24] pp. with four-page, non-folding panorama of Granville Marina, Ramsgate from the sea, an explanation of the almanac, a list of Eclipses, etc., for 1878, a one page per month almanac, a Regal Table (Kings and Queens of England up to Victoria), a Royal Family list, a list of Great Officers of State including Cabinet members, Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, a Table of Stamps (duty payable on bills payable at any time otherwise than on demand), Dividends and Transfer Days Also two engraved coats of arms, one of the City of London, the other that of the Worshipful Company of Stationers.

Bound in the original natural morocco with red panels elaborately decorated with gilt tooling and applied fullcolour oval vignettes of flowers to front and back, each a different design. All edges gilt with yellow endpapers..

The London Almanac appeared continuously for over 200 years from 1690 until about 1912. From about 1736 the engravings were of London views, making this edition unusual in that the view is of Ramsgate. The binding is characteristic of the London Almanacs of the period. £150 A charming example of a decorative and practical miniature book, in near fine condition.

488 MITCHELL, VIC and KEITH SMITH. THE EAST KENT LIGHT RAILWAY. Country Railway Routes series. Middleton Press, Midhurst. 1989 [19192] First Edition 4to. 96 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original hardback illustrated and laminated boards. A very good copy. £25 489 MORAN, JAMES. HENRY GEORGE .

PRINTER, BOOKSELLER, STATIONER, AND BOOKBINDER, WESTERHAM 1830-c.1846 Westerham Press 1972 [19174] First Edition. 12 mo. 55 pp. plus 12pp.of facsimiles of George’s publications including The Old Oak Chair illustrated by Cruikshank & the Westerham Journal.

Black and white illustrations by Streatfield and Cruishank.

Original binding, brown cloth with title label to upper cover. £25 An interesting account of various aspects of the book trade including a chapter on George’s purchases at the Strawberry Hill sale of 1842.

RARE VIEWS OF RAMSGATE 490 MOSES, HENRY. PICTURESQUE VIEWS OF RAMSGATE, WITH DESCRIPTIONS BY H. MOSES. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN HISTORICAL

ACCOUNT OF RAMSGATE. H. Moses, 6, UpperThornhaugh Street, Bedford Square. 1817 [19616] First Edition. 8vo. 8 pp. with 23 copper-engraved plates

by Henry Moses, each with descriptive leaf of text including plan of Ramsgate Harbour. Bound in the original buff-coloured boards as issued, with the original label affixed to the upper board. Boards skilfully rebacked and preserved within a custom made drop-back-box with spine of dark brown morocco with contrasting title label and spine in compartments with raised bands, decorated with a gilt anchor tool. The box has marbled boards and the inside is lined with black felt. This copy is practically free of foxing, thus a fine copy of this rare book. £650 Henry Moses (1782-1870) was a superb draughtsman who became the foremost engraver of his day. His ‘picture’ of Ramsgate was his first book and is his only strictly topographical work. It was printed just three years after the completion of Smeaton's new harbour. The delightfully detailed and crisp views of the buildings of the town, but more especially the harbour and its shipping, ‘are distinguished for the purity and correctness of the drawing’ (DNB). The animated streets with their carts and fashionable figures show the Georgian architecture at its best. It is without doubt the most charming of Kentish port guides. On the plan of the harbour is marked the exact spot and direction from which each view was drawn.

Note. The label on the upper board of the work states his address as No.1 Portland Place, Wandsworth Road and the date as 1821 (price 10s.). This casts some light on the history of the book. It seems Moses published and sold this himself and presumably around 1821 he moved and still had copies of this work, published in 1817, in stock, so he had another label printed. The book and plates are the original edition of 1817, and only this label of later date.

SCARCE MUGGLETONIAN TRACT 491 MUGGLETON, LODOWICK. A TRUE INTERPRETATION OF THE WITCH OF ENDOR. Spoken of in 1 Sam. XXVII. begin. at the 11th Verse.

Shewing, 1. How She and all other Witches do beget or produce that Familiar Spirit they deal with, and what a Familiar Spirit is, and how those Voices are procured, and Shapes appear unto them, whereby the Ignorant and Unbelieving People are deceived by them. 2. It is clearly made appear in this treatise, that no Spirit can be raised without its Body, neither can any Spirit assume any Body after Death; For if the Spirit doth walk, the Body must walk also. 3. An interpretation of all those Scriptures, that doth seem as if Spirits might go out of Men’s Bodies when they die, and subsist in some Place or other without Bodies. Lastly, Several other Things needful for the Mind of Man to know which whoever doth understand, it will be great Satisfaction. By Lodowick Muggleton, Penman hereof, and the last chosen Witness unto that EverBlessed Body of Christ Jesus Glorified, to be the only Wife, very True God alone, Everlasting Father, and Creator of both Worlds, and al that were made in them.

The Third Edition. Printed by Subscription 1724, reprinted London: 1793 [19411] 8vo. 4 x 6 inches. [iv] + 58 pp. A-G4, [H]-[H3]. Sewn without binding as issued, Some exterior griming but generally clean . £150

KENT Lodowick Muggleton (1609-1698), the religious thinker who gave his name to Muggletonianism, was a journeyman tailor of the City of London. At the time of the great surge of radical religious groups, including the Ranters, in the early years of the English republic in 1650-51, he and his cousin John Reeve proclaimed themselves to be the Two Witnesses of the Book of Revelation; their task was to fulfill the Third Commission of God, following those of the Old and New Testaments. After Reeve's death in 1658, Muggleton assumed the role of the sect's leader and began to publish and travel to meet other believers; one of these, a Kentish woman, became his third wife. Muggleton's anti-trinitarian views and vehement opposition to Quakers led to his trial for blasphemy during the term of office of a Quaker Lord Mayor. In 1676 he was fined and sentenced to the pillory and his books were ceremonially burnt by the common hangman. His autobiography, The Acts of the Witnesses, appeared in 1699. The Witch of Endor was first published in 1669, again in 1724 and was reprinted as the third edition in 1793 (with only three copies recorded by E.S.T.C.)

492 MUNRO, A.G. and PRESCOTT ROW. ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM WITH PEN AND CAMERA. Containing a Chapter on the Architecture of the Cathedral by Rev. Greville M. Livett, M.A. T. Oldroyd, Rochester and The St. Bride’s Press Ltd., London. 1901 [15669] Second edition. xii (adverts) + frontis + 136 pp. + xxxii (adverts) with numerous b/w illustrations and folding map in rear pocket. Original olive cloth, gilt. One leaf has been (neatly) mutilated with some loss of text otherwise a very good copy. £35 Published under the auspices of the Homeland Association, this is Homelands Handbook No. 9. In addition to that in the text, there is abundant information to be gleaned from the delightful advertisements.

493 NEAME, ALAN. THE HOLY MAID OF KENT. The life of Elizabeth Barton, 1506-1534. Hodder and Stoughton. 1971 [19718] 8vo. 390 pp. with illustrations, maps and tables. Original gilt cloth, slight staining to boards and spine loose, lacks half title. Library stamps on back of title page. Dust wrapper slightly frayed and torn at edges. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. Generally a respectable copy. £20 The only full length study of Elizabeth Barton executed in 1534 for opposing the royal will of King Henry VIII. Was she ‘a lunatic, a dupe, an imposter, or a saint?’

COACHING WATERCOLOURS 494 NEWHOUSE, CHARLES B. THE COAST ROAD. Unsigned and undated but c.1830 [19976] Original watercolour, 16 x 11 inches approx., depicting a stagecoach crossing open heath and passing a crossroad with its signpost. The coach is well-loaded with six outside passengers in addition to the driver and guard. In the far distance a hunt is in progress with the hounds hotly pursued by the huntsmen. The signpost cannot be read but atop the post is a rectangle containing the initials CBN. The door of the coach shows the route but only London is distinct enough to be readable; nonetheless, the title ‘The Coast Road’ appeared on the old backing, and it is highly likely that this is one of a number of coaches that

connected London and Dover. Additionally on the side of the coach can be made out Fetter Lane, London, and Hatchet[t’s], Piccad[illy]. There was likely a coaching inn in Fetter Lane, and certainly there was one in Piccadilly called Hatchett’s. £450 Charles B. Newhouse, 1805-1877, was widely known for his coaching scenes and numerous prints were published based on his work..

495 NEWHOUSE, CHARLES B. THE DOVER COACH. Unsigned and undated but c.1830 [20459].

11 x 8 inches approximately, depicting a four-horse stagecoach, movinig at a fast clip. The coach is wellloaded with six outside passengers in addition to the driver and guard with his post-horn. On the side of the driver’s box is the word ‘Express’ and the coach door shows a cross-shaped figure with a motto and the words Dovor - London, surmounted by the names ‘B.W. Horne, J. Watson, and C. Wright’. Additionally on the side of the coach can be made out the words ‘Ship Hotel, Dovor’, ‘Lion Hotel, Canterbury’, and ‘Margate & Ramsgate’, indicative of the route. On the boot is just visible the name of the coaching inn Hatchett’s in Piccadilly. £375

WITH LETTER FROM AUTHOR 496 NEWMAN, JOHN. WEST KENT AND THE WEALD. (The Buildings of England Series). Penguin Books. 1976 [20464] Second Edition, small 8vo. 7.5 x 4.5 inches. 671 pp. with 100 photo plates. Original cloth in dust wrapper. Loosely inserted in this copy is a manuscript letter from the author. £45 497 —— NORTH EAST AND EAST KENT. (The Buildings of England Series). Penguin Books. 1969 [20100] 548 pp. with photo illustration. Original cloth in dust wrapper. Pevsner's famous survey. £20 498 —— WEST KENT AND THE WEALD. (The Buildings of England Series). Penguin Books. 1969 [16668] 645 pp. with 100 photo plates. Original cloth in dust wrapper. £20 499 NICOLSON, NIGEL. KENT PHOTOGRAPHS

BY PATRICK SUTHERLAND. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 1988 [19665] First Edition, 4to. 160 pp. colour illustrated throughout.

Original cloth in dust wrapper. Signed copy. £30 500 NINETEENTH CENTURY CRANBROOK BILLHEAD. GEO. WATERS, PRINTER, BOOKBINDER, STATIONER, AND LIBRARIAN, TO THE CRANBROOK DISTRICT COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. Account Books of every description, Magazines, Reviews, and all other Publications procured on the shortest Notice. Westminster Life and British Fire Office. Cranbrook, July 1st, 1839 [20202]

KENT Printed billhead, 7.5 x 4.5 inches, on white paper, with a variety of styles of typeface (presumably to demonstrate the versatility of the printing side of the business).

Illuminated with a woodcut illustration of books, quill pens, inkwell, etc. Completed in manuscript ink. Very clean. Signs of old folds and manuscript in ink has faded slightly, otherwise as given to customer. £25 The receipt is made out to the ‘Committee of Millhouse School’ for the printing of a number of different circulars and handbills, etc., and is marked Settled, and signed Geo. Waters.

A deduction by way of discount has been made from the total ‘on account of Charity’, suggesting that the school was a worthy but impecunious establishment.

501 —— STAMP OFFICE & CIRCULATING LIBRARY. BOUGHT OF J.T. DENNETT, PRINTER, BOOK AND MUSIC SELLER, STATIONER, AND BINDER. New Music, Magazines, Reviews, and all other Publications procured Weekly at the London Prices.

Copper plate printing and other Cards Engraved. London Newspapers supplied. Agent to the Kent Fire and Life Office. Cranbrook, 4th June 1835 [20200] Printed billhead, 7 x 5.5 inches, on white paper, with a variety of styles of typeface (presumably to demonstrate the versatility of the printing side of the business).

Completed in manuscript ink. Very clean with one tiny closed tear to top left corner. Signs of old folds and manuscript in ink has faded slightly, otherwise as given to customer. £25 The receipt is made out to Mr. Munn for a copy of the West Kent Poll Book that cost six shillings, and is marked Pd [Paid], and signed J.T. Dennett. A further note seems to refer to something, perhaps a loan, due in January or February 1838, which is also inscribed on the reverse. Mr. Dennett went on to become a Director of the London & County Bank, Cranbrook branch in 1847.

502 NINETEENTH CENTURY PERIODICAL. THE THANET FIGARO. Volume 1, Number 1, Saturday, June 2, 1877. One Penny. Printed for the Proprietors by Messrs. Clement Smith & Company, at their Works, Cursiter Street, London, E.C., and publishedby them at their Temporary Offices, No. 26, Queen Street, Ramsgate. 1877 [20198] Folio, 9.5 x 12 inches, 16 pp. with masthead design showing Ramsgate beach and railway station. The leaves are all separate with some slight wear to edges. £45 According to the front page ‘The Thanet Figaro’ ...will be a paper of light reading, intended to interest equally Residents and Visitors in Thanet. Contains a full-page advertisement for The Granville, St Lawrence-on-Sea with a woodcut of the buildings seen from the cliff. and a number of other local advertisements.

503 NORTH KENT. HORTON KIRBY AND SOUTH DARENTH : PICTURES AND MEMORIES OF 100 YEARS 1894 - 1994. H.K.and S.D. Parish Council. 1994 [18201] Oblong, 9.5 x 8.25 inches. 176 pp. with numerous b/w illustrations throughout. Original pictorial glossy card wrappers. Near mint. £25 A thorough and interesting history of the parish over a century. Scarce.

SIGNED COPY 504 ORWIN, C.S. AND S. WILLIAMS. A HISTORY OF WYE CHURCH AND WYE COLLEGE. Ashford, Kentish Express. 1913 [19534] First Edition, 8vo. 235 pp. with photo illustrations.

Original cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded and embossed mark of public library on upper board, but this copy has not been used and is free from stamps etc. A very good example Scarce history of Wye and the College £65 .

VIEWS OF MARGATE IN 1820 505 OULTON, W.C. A PICTURE OF MARGATE, AND ITS VICINITY. By W.C. Oulton, Esq. Author of the Traveller’s Guide, Etc., Etc. Illustrated with a Map and Twenty Views, Engraved by J.J.Shury, from Drawings by Captain G. Varlo, R.M. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, Paternoster Row. 1820 [20302] First Edition, half title + engraved map + engraved titlepage + letterpress title-page + preface [ii] + 5-124 pp. + [1 pp. list of plates] , illustrated with 19 engraved views (the engraved title-page has a plate of St Johns Church which forms the 20th plate). In this copy the unnumbered list of plates is bound at the end, instead of after the letterpress title-page, as in some copies, which accounts for the pagination of the prelims (vi), when only [iv] are present. This example is complete in every way. Bound in contemporary half calf, gilt, over marbled boards.

Occasional foxing marks as usual, and a slight damp stain occasionally affecting the lower margin of the plates, though the images are unaffected. An attractive copy of this, now very scarce, item. £350 Fine early 19th century view book and descriptive guide of the town and harbour of Margate, here described in accurate detail, giving probably the best record of the town at this time.

Steam boats with hordes of visitors are depicted, and the thoroughfares and bathing establishments of the town, as well as more prosaic edifices such Cobb’s Brewery and The Prevention Post, windmills, etc., etc. A charming guide which depicts the town in words and fine engraved views.

506 OYLER, THOMAS H. LYDD AND ITS CHURCH. Kentish Express, Ashford. 1894 [15453] 52 pp. with illustrations in the text including two brasses.

Original cloth, gilt. £50 This was F.W. Cock’s copy with his signature on the front paste-down endpaper and some marginal additions and corrections in his neat hand. ***We have another unsigned copy at £40***

507 PARISH, W.D. AND W.F. SHAW. A DICTIONARY OF THE KENTISH DIALECT AND PROVINCIALISMS IN USE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. W.E. Goulden. The Athenaeum Canterbury and Hamilton, Adams and Co. London 1887 [18677] First edition. 8vo.194 pp.

Bound in the original publisher’s cloth gilt. A very good example. £100 Scarce Kentish dialect dictionary full of curiosities.

508 PARR, HENRY. NEW WHEELS IN OLD RUTS. Illustrated by F.W.R. Adams. T. Fisher Unwin, London 1896 [18544]

KENT 8vo.197 pp. with numerous line drawings to text. Original pictorial red cloth. Edges untrimmed. A little worn but a very good copy. £25 A humorous account of a walking tour through Kent.

509 PEDDIE, JOHN. CONQUEST : THE ROMAN INVASION OF BRITAIN. Bramley Books, Godalming.

1998 [17412] xvi + 214 pp. with 70 illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine in like, unclipped wrapper. £20 An assemblage of written accounts and archaeological evidence which has been expertly combined into the story of the Claudian conquest of Britain

LEE PRIORY PRESS 510 PETRARCH, FRANCESCO. A FEW SONNETS ATTEMPTED FROM PETRARCH IN EARLY LIFE. Printed at the private Press of Lee Priory; by John Warwick. 1817 [19667] 4to. [i] + 95 pp. + [i] illustrated with engravings, including title page vignette. Each sonnet opens with an engraved heraldic initial and is set within ruled borders.

Original plain boards with printed spine label. Some light foxing, but a good copy.. £500 The book prints translations of forty sonnets by Petrarch, with an introduction (‘Advertisement’) and notes by ‘F.W.’ The Lee Priory Press was an early private press, run by Sir Egerton Brydges from 1813-1823. Brydges (1762-1837), born at Wootton Court near Canterbury, was a genealogist (obsessed with the peerage and his vain attempts to claim an extinct barony) and literary scholar. At Lee Priory, near Ickham, Brydges employed printers and compositors to reprint to a good quality, early and rare works of literature, especially poetry. These were sold in very small editions of a hundred or less, at high prices.

512 PHILLIPS, CHARLES J. KENTISH HOMES VISITED BY THE STAFF AND NURSES OF THE ONTARIO MILITARY HOSPITAL ORPINGTON, KENT, IN 1916. Privately Printed, 1917. [19389] 4to. 88 pp. with 18 plates. Original. cloth, gilt. A very good copy. £90 Rare account of some fourteen visits to country homes in Kent during the First World War by this Canadian Hospital. The houses included Knole, Penshurst, Montreal and Mereworth.

513 PHILP, BRIAN. EXCAVATIONS AT FAVERSHAM, 1965. THE ROYAL ABBEY, ROMAN VILLA, AND BELGIAC FARMSTEAD. K.A.S. 1968 [19722] 4to. 92 pp. with folding plates and illus. Original cloth . A good copy, dust wrapper worn at extremities. £25 First report on the excavations.

514 —— EXCAVATIONS IN THE DARENTH VALLEY, KENT. THE DETAILED REPORTS ON THE DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION OF A COMPLETE IRON AGE FARMSTEAD SITE AT FARNINGHAM HILL ....SITES AT DARENTH ....

OTFORD. Alan Sutton, Stroud. 1984 [17501] 4to. 225 pp. with folding plates and illustrations and microfiche in rear pocket. Original cloth in dust wrapper.

A mint copy. £20 515 —— EXCAVATIONS IN WEST KENT. 1960 - 1970. THE DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION OF PREHISTORIC ROMAN, SAXON, AND MEDIEVAL SITES MAINLY IN THE BROMLEY AREA AND IN THE DARENTH VALLEY. Headley Bros. 1973 [15532] 4to. 242 pp. with folding plates and illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. £20

KENT MARRIAGE REGISTER 511 PHILLIMORE, W.P.W. and RICHARD JOHN FYNMORE. KENT PARISH REGISTERS. MARRIAGES. Two volumes.

Edited by W.P.W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L. and Richard John Fynmore of Sandgate. London: Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124 Chancery Lane 1910 [19474] 8vo. Vol.1. [viii] + 152 pp. [4], B-L4; Vol.2. [viii] + 152 pp. [4], B-K4, L-L8. Original cloth, gilt. Some foxing, especially Vol.I, and one lower edge tear. Ink inscription on half-title of Vol.I. Vol.I. Marriages at Lamberhurst section, has been extensively annotated and corrected at various dates, in pencil, black and red ink and white correcting fluid with further corrections appearing on a three page ink manuscript insertion. Occasional light pencil notes appear elsewhere in the volume. £175 Phillimore’s Parish Register series, Vol.110 and Vol. 151.

Limited edition of 150, initialled by editor on reverse of title page. The parishes included are Vol.1, Penshurst, Eynsford, Charlton in Dover, Westerham and Lamberhurst; Vol. 2, Halstead, West Farleigh, Willesborough, Newington, Staplehurst and Wichling.

HUMOROUS SKETCHES BY PHIZ 516 PHIZ. SKETCHES OF THE SEASIDE AND THE COUNTRY. [19408] £60 Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882), the famous Victorian illustrator, adopted the pseudonym of Phiz soon after he began collaborating with Charles Dickens in illustrating the serial publication of Pickwick Papers from 1836. It may have been chosen to harmonize with Boz, already selected by Dickens for himself, but there is also a possible reference to physiognomy, because of his ability in drawing faces. Phiz went on to illustrate another ten novels by Dickens before their working relationship ended. In his long career, he produced illustrations for many other writers and for periodicals, including Punch and The Illustrated London .

517 PIGOT & Co. PIGOT AND CO.’S ROYAL NATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTIES OF KENT, SURREY AND SUSSEX . Pigot, (1839), but reprinted 1993 [18535]

KENT Roy. 8vo. 282 pp. with three folding maps. Bound in paper wrappers a very good copy. £35 Facsimile reprint of one of the most sought after directories of the county. Each town is listed alphabetically, introduced by a short description with population and statistical information, and then follows a list of Gentry, Clergy, Traders, Shops &c.

Invaluable as a guide to the economic growth of the County at the time of the Industrial Revolution. This edition, now out of print, was limited to 1500 copies and is become quite scarce.

KENT, HOME COUNTIES AND LONDON. 518 —— ROYAL NATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTIES OF BEDFORD, CAMBRIDGE, ESSEX, HERTS, HUNTINGDON, KENT, MIDDLESEX, NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, SURREY AND SUSSEX. COMPRISING CLASIFED LISTS OF ALL PERSONS IN TRADE, AND OF THE NOBILITY, GENTRY AND CLERGY, RESEDENT IN THE TOWNS AND PRINCIPAL VILLAGES IN THE ABOVE COUNTYS. AN ACCOUNT OF EVERY MODE OF CONVEYANCE BY RAILWAY, ROAD AND WATER; POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS Etc. TO WHICH IS ADDED A CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY OF LONDON AND ITS SUBURBS; WITH AN EXTENSIVE CONVEYANCE GUIDE, INCLUDING VALUABLE INFORMATION CONNECTED WITH RAILWAYS. LISTS AND LOCALITIES OF ALL PUBLICK BUILDINGS, INSTITUTIONS, SOCIETIES, Etc; LONDON AND PROVINCIAL BANKERS AND NEWSPAPERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. Pigot and Co. 59, Fleet Street. London. 1839 [17250] Royal 8vo. viii + 9-719 pp. of the counties, and London 266 pp. + [84] + [32] + 102 pp. adverts. LACKING THE MAPS AS USUAL. Bound in original diced roan, rubbed and worn, but strong and sturdy. A very good copy.

Lacking the maps of the counties. £550 One of the most sought-after directories of South East England and London. Each town is listed alphabetically, introduced by a short description with population and statistical information, and then followed by a list of Gentry, Clergy, Traders, Shops &c. Invaluable as a guide to the economic growth of the County at the time of the Industrial Revolution. The lists of Railways and other conveyances are very interesting, as are the details of financial and other institutions. The 100 pages of advertisements are a joy, many with illustrations of shops, products and other fascinating information. The text is complete but the maps are missing as always. A fine and rare directory.

519 PIKE’S DIRECTORY OF TUNBRIDGE WELLS, TONBRIDGE, SOUTHBOROUGH, AND LOCAL BLUE BOOK FOR 1895-6. Garnett, Mepham and Fisher Ltd. 1896 [20030] 428 pp. Lacking map. Bound in original blue cloth only very slightly worn, a very good copy. £150 VERY SCARCE

520 PITBLADO, LAURENCE O. THE ROMAN INVASIONS. A Saga of the Caledonian Race. The Britain into which Caesar adventured in 55 B.C. Allen and Unwin. 1935 [17209]

160 pp. + 4 folding maps and 8 illustrations and maps in the text. Original blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy in like dust wrapper. £25 The landscape into which the Romans came in the first century B.C. was a different one to that we see today. The North Sea then extended far into the eastern midlands and Scotland was an island. This work deals with how this affected the way in which the Romans subdued and occupied most of Britain.

521 PITT, STEPHEN, H. A HUNDRED AND TEN YEAR HISTORY OF THE INVICTA PRESS HEADLEY BROTHERS LTD 1881-1991 Headley Brothers, Ashford 1991 [19168] First Edition, 4to. 44 pp. Archive monochrome and colour photographs throughout. Publisher's original navy cloth covers, silver title lettering to the upper panel.

An illustrated history of Headley Brothers Ltd 1881-1991 including several staff photographs. £25

522 PLANCHÉ, J.R. A CORNER OF KENT; OR SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PARISH OF ASH-NEXTSANDWICH, ITS HISTORICAL SITES AND EXISTING ANTIQUITIES. Robert Hardwicke, London.

1864 [17155] xxiii + 413 pp. with 13 lithographic plates, and wood engravings in text. Recent quarter-calf over marbled boards with raised bands and contrasting title label, gilt embellishment and date to spine. £175 A scarce item. A fine copy of this definitive account of the history of Ash. James Robinson Planché (27 February 1796 – 30 May 1880) was a British dramatist, antiquary and officer of arms. Over a period of approximately 60 years he wrote, adapted, or collaborated on 176 plays in a wide range of genres. Planché was responsible for introducing historically accurate costume into nineteenth century British theatre, and subsequently became an acknowledged expert on historical costume, publishing a number of works on the topic. Planché's interest in historical costume led to other antiquarian research, including heraldry and genealogy In both fields he became an acknowledged expert. Ash was lucky to have such a distinguished author with an interest in the Village.

523 —— A CORNER OF KENT; OR SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PARISH OF ASH-NEXTSANDWICH, ITS HISTORICAL SITES AND EXISTING ANTIQUITIES. Robert Hardwicke, London.

1864 [20436] xxiii + 413 pp. with 13 lithographic plates, and wood engravings in text. Bound in the original green cloth, gilt; which has been neatly re-cased and the endpapers have been renewed. A very good example, occasional foxing on the litho plates as usual, but a cleaner than average. £150 524 PLATTS, BERYL. A HISTORY OF GREENWICH. David and Charles, Newton Abbot. 1973 [20205] First Edition. 8vo. 5.75 x 9 inches. 231 pp. Illustrated by black and white photographs. Original pale blue cloth, gilt in coloured pictorial dust wrapper. A very good copy.

The first modern one volume history of Greenwich. £20

POLICE AND POSTS

KENT 525 POLICE CONSTABULARY FORCE. [CHADWICK, EDWIN and CHARLES ROWAN], and POSTS BETWEEN LONDON AND PARIS. [WILLIAM F. COWPER] First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire as to the Best Means of Establishing an Efficient Constabulary Force, in the Counties of England and Wales.

TOGETHER WITH Report from the Select Committee on Postal Communication between London and Paris. W. Clowes, London: 1839 and 1850 [16055] Folio. vi + 255 pp. and xxii + 299 pp. Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards. Contrasting title label, lettered gilt. A trifle worn at extremities but a very good copy. £300 POLICE :Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890), one of the nineteenth century's great reformers, and Charles Rowan, chief commissioner of the new Metropolitan Police, conducted this inquiry into the means of improving police protection and getting at the ‘removable antecedents of crime.’ It was Chadwick who also conducted the groundbreaking inquiry (PMM 313) into sanitary conditions in 1842 which led to tremendous advances in public health reform.

POST :‘Select Committee appointed to ascertain the most expeditious and least expensive mode of postal communication between London and Paris and the Northern parts of Europe’... (p.iii).

The report comments on the lateness of mails between London and Boulogne via Folkestone, this route having temporarily replaced the Dover to Calais route. The two routes and respective harbour facilities are then compared.

The Committee concluded that the Boulogne route remained the most expensive and stated that ‘risk of serious accident to the packets is greater .... [and] that Calais could not well be superceded’ (p.v). The Committee recommended that trains from Dover to London be accelerated and noted delays in day mails from Paris. Proceedings include a fuller draft report. 36 witnesses appeared before the Committee on 10 days of evidence session held between March and May 1850. 1,861 questions related to the mails, their organisation, times and procedures involved and overall efficiency (of railways and steam packets). These questions were put to British and French postal officials, railway and ship workers associated with the mail service. A further 275 questions were put to Parliamentary clerks, newspaper proprietors and officials connected with the printing of Parliamentary papers (including Henry Hansard). These largely related to the procedures linked to the aforementioned breach of privilege.

Appendices (110 pages) include correspondence, documents and statistics relating to the Paris to London mail service.

526 PRATT, ANNE. THE FLOWERING PLANTS, GRASSES, SEDGES & FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN, and their allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworts and Horsetails. a new edition revised by edward step, f.l.s. illustrated with three hundred and fifteen coloured plates figuring upwards of 1500 species. Frederick Warne and Co. London 1899 [18714] Large 8vo. Four volumes, illustrated with 315 superb coloured plates. This edition was thoroughly revised upon scientific lines by Edward Step, bringing it into line with the science of the day, forty years after it was first issued.

Bound in publisher’s original green half-morocco over cloth, spine with raised bands and contrasting title lables.

A little worn at extremities but sound and quite a smartlooking set. The endpapers of each volume are slightly foxed and this sometimes affects the title pages but is nowhere serious. Internally clean and crisp. £350 Although not solely devoted to Kent flora, Anne Pratt lived in Dover for much of the time she was working on these volumes and the descriptions often use Kentish examples of local names for wildflowers and traditional use for herbs and medicinal properties as used in Kent. All the descriptions are interesting giving locations and much folklore and an abundance of local names and traditions associated with each plant, and even its appearances in literature. All of Anne Pratt’s books are wellcomposed, with handsome, accurate, coloured illustrations.

The reason for the success of her works must be shared with the printers William Dickes & Company, who produced the thousands of blocks required for colour printing using the Baxter process (combining a lithographic key plate that printed the main features of the design, followed by colour applied through a succession of wood blocks). The quality of the colour printing is not quite as good in this edition as it was in the 1860s, as this popular work was often reprinted and the plates became worn. Hoever, without actually having an original edition to hand for comparison, one would not be immediately aware of this. This edition represents the most complete and reasonably priced of all the issues.

STANDARD HISTORY OF CHATHAM 527 PRESNAIL, JAMES. CHATHAM: THE STORY OF A DOCKYARD TOWN AND THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE BRITISH NAVY. Medway Borough Council. 1976 [19637] 8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. Frontis. + 283 pp. Illustrated with 20 black and white plates, including 5 maps. Original blue cloth, gilt, with arms on front boards. Lacks dust wrapper but otherwise a fine copy. £30 An excellent and readable history.

528 PUGH, CHRISTINE and GEOFFREY E. HUTCHINGS. STOCKBURY: A REGIONAL STUDY IN NORTH-EAST KENT. The Hill Farm, Stockbury, Kent. 1928 [18089] 4to. 72 pp. with 2 folding maps and 3 other plates or tables. Original green cloth, gilt. An ex-library copy with evidence of labels, otherwise very good. £28 Geography, Geology, Vegetation and Fauna of the village and district.

529 RAINHAM. THE DURLAND BAKERY, GROCERY AND PROVISION STORES, HIGH STREET, RAINHAM. Mrs C. Chambers in Account with Mrs. Baker and Dadswell. 1894-1901 [20458] Five 12mo. preprinted account books, completed by hand, each containing approximately 100 pages. Each bound in full red roan, with title lettered in gilt on the upper board.

Condition is mixed, three being very good and the other two very grubby and worn, but the contents are quite easily readable even in the poorer copies. £40 The contents are the weekly grocery accounts for a prosperous middle class late Victorian household. Everything from tobacco, wine, cheese and butter to bacon, borax, cocoa and tea, with the cost of each item. Meat and drink for the social historian.

KENT 530 —— THE PARISH MAGAZINE, 1867-1870.

Edited by J. Erskine Clarke, MA. St Andrew’s, Litchurch, Derby. London: Bell & Daldy, York Street, Covent Garden. 1867-1868 [19421] Three volumes. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.4 inches. First Volume contains Vol.IX. [parts] 4- 12, 1867. Vol.X. [parts] 1-12, 1868. + [84] pp. Second Volume contains, another Vol.X complete, bound with Vol.XI [parts] 1-12, 1869. + [98] pp. Third Volume contains Vol.XII, [parts] 1-12, 1870. + [48] pp. Each part of 24 pp. separately paginated, except parts 12 of 20 pp. Rainham and Newington Parish Notes section at end of each volume unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with wood-engravings, decorated borders to title page and decorated initials. First two volumes bound in uniform dark blue cloth, gilt. Spines faded otherwise very good. Third volume bound in half-leather over marbled boards. A little worn at extremities otherwise very good. £135 The Parish Magazine was nationally distributed, issued in twelve monthly parts (n.b.1867 lacks parts 1-4), with a contents list for each year, and here bound with the parish magazine for Rainham.

The national magazine includes several articles in series such as Godly Laymen of the English Church, Glimpses at Early Church History, Plain Words about the Communion Service, Grey’s Old Court, Placida, the Christian Martyr, Sketches of the Holy Apostles and Life among the Esquimaux as well as a series of short sermons, several stories in parts, poetry and articles on contemporary subjects of interest. There are superb engravings of trades, among them a milkman, water-cress girl, baked potato sellers, omnibus conductor, postman, fireman and parcels delivery man.

The Rainham magazine also includes the parish register entries for other parishes of the North Kent Marshes, Halstow and Newington. There are reports and accounts for the National School, the Blanket Society, the Clothing and Coal Club, the Sunday School Treat and the Church Missionary Society, etc., along with letters, poetry, obituaries and newsworthy local happenings of a more secular nature; also a series of articles on church bells and the church calendar.

531 RAMSGATE. 32 VIEWS OF RAMSGATE AND DISTRICT. Callcut and Beavis, 77 Great Eastern Street, London. No date but c.1900 [16314] Oblong view-book with 24 plates of photographs. A near fine copy £35 The views are Ramsgate Harbour, New Road, Royal Crescent, The Waterfall, Granville Gardens, St. Georges Church, Inner Harbour, The Beach, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral (interior), Herne Bay, The Clock Tower - Herne Bay, Old Herne Church, The Reculvers, Margate, The Parade Margate, Victoria Clock Tower - Margate, Margate Harbour from the Pier, The Jetty - Margate, St. John’s Church Margate, St. John’s Church (interior) - Margate, The Fort Margate, The Jetty (another view) - Margate, Newgate Gap Margate, The Fort - Margate, Cliftonville, The College Margate, Kingsgate, North Foreland, Broadstairs, York Gate Broadstairs, and Westgate-on-Sea.

532 RAMSGATE - CLAYSON, ALLAN. WISH YOU WERE HERE. Coleridge’s Holidays at Ramsgate.

A. and C. Clayson. 2001 [15282] xiv + 121 pp., including 6 full-page coloured plates and numerous b/w illustrations to the text. Red cloth, gilt to spine, in dust wrapper. New. £20

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, famed author of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, spent many weeks in Ramsgate during the later part of his life. This book, based on his notes and letters written whilst there, gives an insight into his life and the resort.

533 RARE PRINTER’S CATALOGUE FLYER. BOOKS LATELY PRINTED BY R. POCOCK, GRAVESEND, AND SOLD BY MESSRS. ROBINSONS, PATERNOSTER-ROW, AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS. Price One Shilling.

R. Pocock, Prinetr, Gravesend. No date but c.1802 [20203] Single sheet, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, printed on one side only.

Top edged slightly creased and browned otherwise a very good example. £100 The Books referred to are as follows: The Margate Water Companion [1802]; Memoirs of the Tufton Family, Earls of Thanet, [1800]; The History of Gravesend and Milton, by Pocock, [1797]; [Clarke’s] Observations on the Tunnel at Gravesend, [1799]; The Gravesend Water Companion, [1802]; Rules for the Game of Boston; Antiquities of Rochester Cathedral, and Pocock’s Reading made Easy. Rare.

534 REDSHAW, C. J. Edited by. THE INVICTA MAGAZINE FOR THE HOMES AND PEOPLE OF KENT. Dartford; Snowden Brothers. 1908-1913 [15195] 3 volumes (All Published). Royal 8vo. 384 + 256 + 256 pp. Original cloth gilt. A well-bound, clean set only slightly rubbed. £125 A complete set of this fascinating, well-illustrated and invaluable work of reference, covering almost every aspect of Kentish life and history. Sets are now scarce.

SEVENOAKS 535 RICHARDS, F. OLD SEVENOAKS. ILLUSTRATED BY C. ESSENHIGH CORKE, F.R.P.S. Price 2/6 Net. J. Salmon, 85 High Street, Sevenoaks.

1901 [15623] Small 8vo. 132 pp. with frontispiece and 6 half-tone plates and pen illustrations in the text throughout. Original red cloth with black title lettering. Spine faded and slight wear to extremities, but a very good copy. £80 Attractive turn of the century guide to Sevenoaks. Scarce.

RAMSGATE 536 RICHARDSON, CHRISTOPHER T. FRAGMENTS OF HISTORY PERTAINING TO THE VILL, OR WILLE, OR LIBERTY, OF RAMSGATE. Ramsgate: Published for the Author by Messrs Fuller.

1885. [17227] First Issue. 212 pp. + iii list of subscribers, with large folding lithograph view of Ramsgate in 1791. Bound in publisher’s cloth, gilt.. Very minor wear at head and tail of spine and extremities, otherwise a very good copy.

A useful work, the subscribers list notes 93 copies. Includes Notes on the Streets and Inns, the Harbour, a Chronology of Events and Names of Ships’ Masters etc. £120

KENT 537 ROAKE, MARGARET and JOHN WHYMAN. Editors. ESSAYS IN KENTISH HISTORY. Frank Cass. 1973 [19031] 8vo. x + 301 pp. with illustrations, maps, diagrams and tables. Original cloth gilt in dustwrapper. Small neat bookplate on front paste down. £75 Contains twenty three articles reprinted from Archaeologia Cantiana.

538 ROBERTS, GEORGE. THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND IN PAST CENTURIES; ILLUSTRATED IN REGARD TO THEIR HABITS, MUNICIPAL BYE-LAWS, CIVIL PROGRESS, ETC., FROM THE RESEARCHES OF GEORGE ROBERTS. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, and Roberts.

London. 1856 [19135] First Edition, 8vo. xvi + 572 illustrated with wood engravings in the text. Bound in the original brown cloth as issued, a little rubbed on extremities but a good copy. £200 A mass of useful information, chapters on Witchcraft, Victualling of Ships, Pirates and Turks in the Channel, Beacons, Prices of Food, Value of Timber, Election Trickery, Gypsies, Crime and Punishments, Smuggling, and much else to do with the organisation of society and modes and manners.

Scarce ‘Social History’ was a new science at this time and we have only handled one copy of this work before.

539 ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM. A BOUND VOLUME OF ACTS OF PARLIAMENT RELATING TO ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM. 1. An Act for....providing an additional Workhouse for...Chatham...Relief, Government, and Employment of the Poor. 1802.

2. An Act for Paving, Cleansing, Lighting and Watching the Streets and Lanes of Chatham. 1772.

3. An Act to expand an Act for Paving, Cleansing, Lighting and Watching the Streets and Lanes of Chatham, and to extend the Provisions....to parts of the High Street situated in St. Margarets and Gillingham 1776.

4. An Act for the recovery of Small Debts within Rochester, Strood, Findsbury, Cobham, Shorne, Higham, Cliffe, Cooling, High Halstow, Chalk, Hoo, Burham, Wouldham, Halling, Cuxstone, Chatham and Gillingham and the Ville of Sheerness, 1817.

5. An Act for enlarging the Powers for the recovery of Small Debts within Rochester, Strood, and several other places in Kent. 1808.

6. An Act for Paving, Cleansing, Lighting and Watching the Streets and Lanes of St. Nicholas within the City of Rochester and the parish of Strood and for making a road through Star Lane to Chatham Hill, 1769.

8. An Act to incorporate a Company for lighting with Gas the City of Rochester and the Town of Chatham and Strood...1825.

9. An Act for....providing a new Workhouse for...Strood, Government, and Employment of the Poor. 1812.

10. An Act for better assessing the Poor of St. Nicholas in the City of Rochester 1809. Various publishers...

1769-1825 [16066]

Folio. Approximately 300 pages, printed and manuscript.

Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, skilfully re-backed, red morocco label on the upper board, £300 with the contents lettered in gilt.

With an extensive manuscript index bound in at the front with interleaving after each act for manuscript summaries of cases and opinions, some of which amount to several pages, others remaining blank. The text is also littered with manuscript notes in a clear, neat hand.

540 ROCHESTER - BUCKLAND, W.E. KENT RECORDS. THE PARISH REGISTER AND RECORDS IN THE DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER: A SUMMARY OF INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THE ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS COMMITTEE OF THE ROCHESTER DIOCESAN CONFERENCE. Mitchell Hughes & Clarke, London. 1912 [18155] 125 pp. Original cloth, gilt. £45 An extremely useful reprint of the parish registers of Rochester diocese. Difficult to find.

SIGNED COPY 541 ROCHESTER HARRIS, EDWIN. RESTORATION HOUSE; OR, ROCHESTER IN THE TIME OF THE COMMONWEALTH. Edwin Harris, Rochester. 1904 [18257] 224 pp. + [7] pp. catalogue + 10 b/w plates. Original red quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine and upper board.

Cloth damp-stained and rubbed and a small chip from spine but a good copy of a scarce title. £80 The Restoration House is an Elizabethan Mansion situated in Crow Lane, Rochester and one of the finest such houses in the country. Harris’ account is fictionalised but based on local history during the time of Cromwell. Copious notes at the end give further detail on each chapter. The list of subscribers at the rear gives 216 names so perhaps 500 would have been published. This copy is inscribed on a blank prelim ‘Presented to my old friend M. Ashdown. With the Compliments of The Author Edwin Harris 151 Eastgate Rochester June 4th 1927.’

Scarce.

542 ROCHESTER - KELLY’S DIRECTORY OF ROCHESTER, CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD 1951. Kelly's. 1951 [18164] 8vo. xvi + 22 + 852 pp. + [2] pp. Original printed boards.

Ex-library (reference), a good copy. £30 543 —— DIRECTORY OF ROCHESTER, CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD 1953. Kelly's. 1953 [18163] 8vo. xvi + 22 + 802 pp. + [2] pp. Lacking folding map.

Original printed boards. Ex-library (reference), but a good copy. £30 544 —— DIRECTORY OF ROCHESTER, CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD 1963. Kelly's. 1963 [18162] 8vo. xvi + 8 + 1004 pp. + [2]. Original printed boards. £30 Spine repaired and complete.

545 ROCHESTER - KELLY'S. DIRECTORY OF ROCHESTER, CHATHAM, GILLINGHAM AND NEIGHBOURHOOD 1963. Kelly's. 1963 [18165]

KENT 8vo. xvi + 8 + 1004pp. + [2] Lacking the folding map.

Original printed boards. £25 We have another copy, dated, 1967 at the same price.

546 ROCHESTER POLL BOOK. THE POLL FOR TWO MEMBERS TO REPRESENT THE CITY OF ROCHESTER, IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. IN THE SIXTH PARLIAMENT OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA, TAKEN ON SATURDAY, THE 30TH APRIL, 1859, INCLUDING THE WHOLE OF THE REGISTERED ELECTORS, WITH AN INDEX SHEWING FREEMEN AND ELECTORS. Compiled from Messrs. Martin & Kinglake’s Private Poll Book, by George Colvill, Secretary to the Rochester Liberal Association.

Candidates: Philip Wykeham Martin, Esq. John Alexander Kinglake, Serjeant-at-Law. George Henry Money, Esq., George Mitchell. Caddel and Son, Gazette Office, Rochester. 1859 [15961] 8vo. 46 pp. interleaved throughout with blanks.

Contemporary white buckram, gilt. A trifle dusty with some old ink stains, bumped at corners with an unobtrusive blind stamp on the margin of the title page, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

This example was at some time part of Rochester Public Library’s reserve stock, remaining there un-used. £175 Comprising half-title, title page with nomination, polling and declaration information to verso; lists of the voters with name, occupation and place of residence, for each of the polling stations; a complete alphabetical list of the voters, 1164 in all; a list of the unpolled Freemen and Electors of the City of Rochester; a Statement of the Poll at each Polling place, Cross and Single votes, the State of the Poll during the day and the Grand Total of votes cast; a list of the Members of Parliament for the City of Rochester from the revolution in the year 1688, with the names of candidates and number of votes cast at each election. Very scarce.

547 —— THE POLL OF THE ELECTORS FOR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, TO REPRESENT THE CITY OF ROCHESTER. TAKEN BEFORE SAMUEL SIDDEN, ESQ. MAYOR, ON MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1826, AND FIVE FOLLOWING DAYS. CANDIDATES. The Hon. Henry Dundas, Ralph Bernal, Esq. and Major General William Armstrong. To Which is Added An Alphabetical List of the Voters, Their Profession, &c. From the Press of Wm. Epps., Rochester.

1826 [15953] Small square 8vo. 39 pp. with blank interleaving throughout and several blank leaves at front and back.

Original half-calf, gilt, worn on extremities, skillfully rebacked, some foxing marks and the odd ink blot, but a very good copy. This copy has a neat, nearly invisible, embossed stamp of Rochester Library to title page. £175 A useful and fascinating reference and historical document.

Comprising title page; lists of the voters with name, occupation and place of residence, for each of the six days of voting; a complete alphabetical list of the voters, 840 in all; a Statement of each day’s poll; a list of the unpolled Freemen of the City of Rochester; a list of the Members of Parliament for the City of Rochester from the revolution in the year 1688, with the names of candidates and number of votes cast at each election. Marginal notes and observations throughout

including the occasional ‘dead’ marked against an individual’s name. One printed footnote refers to an individual having been objected to as a voter ‘on account of having received parochial Relief’. Scarce.

548 —— THE POLL OF THE ELECTORS FOR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, TO REPRESENT THE CITY OF ROCHESTER. TAKEN ON TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1807, AND THE THREE FOLLOWING DAYS, BEFORE RICHARD THOMPSON, ESQ. MAYOR. CANDIDATES. SIR T.B. THOMPSOM, Bart., JOHN CALCRAFT ESQ., SIR THOMAS TRIGGE K.B. To Which is Added An Index and an Alphabetical List of the Voters, Arranged Under the Places, or Parishes, Where They Reside: ....... From the Press of W. Epps. 1807 [15959] 8vo. 40 pp. with blank interleaving throughout. Preserved in nineteenth century blue sugar-paper wrappers, on which we have printed a copy of the title page. This example was at some time part of Rochester Public Library’s reserve stock, remaining there un-used. Without any stamps. Only very occasional foxing, otherwise a very good, clean copy. £175 Comprising title page; lists of the voters with name, occupation and place of residence, for each of the four days of voting; a Statement of each day’s poll; a complete alphabetical list of the voters, 640 in all; a List of the Electors of Rochester, who voted at this Election, ... showing for whom each person voted; a General Abstract of the Whole Poll; a list of the unpolled Freemen of the City of Rochester; a list of the Members of Parliament for the City of Rochester from the revolution in the year 1688, with the names of candidates and number of votes cast at each election. A useful and fascinating reference and historical document. One printed footnote refers to an individual having been ‘Expunged by order of the Mayor, having received relief within three months’. Very scarce.

549 —— THE POLL OF THE ELECTORS FOR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, TO REPRESENT THE CITY OF ROCHESTER. ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1835, AND THE FOLLOWING DAY. JOHN BATTEN, ESQUIRE, MAYOR, RETURNING OFFICER. CANDIDATES, RALPH BERNAL AND THOMAS TWISDEN HODGES, ESQUIRES; AND LORD CHARLES WELLESLEY. To Which is Added An Index and an Alphabetical List of the Voters, and a List of the Unpolled Freemen and Electors... Rochester: Printed and Sold by S. Caddel, and G.H. Vidion; and J. and W.H. Sweet, Strood. 1835 [15960] 8vo. 33 + [5] pp. Preserved in nineteenth century blue sugar-paper wrappers, on which we have printed a copy of the title page. This example was at some time part of Rochester Public Library’s reserve stock, remaining there un-used. Apart from an unobtrusive blind stamp on the margin of the title page it is a very good, clean copy. £145 Comprising title page; lists of the voters with name, occupation and place of residence, for each of the four days of voting at each of the polling places; a complete alphabetical list of the voters, 870 in all; a Statement of each day’s poll; a List of the unpolled Freemen and Electors; a list of Persons Disqualified from Voting,...; a list of Voters who have died since the Election; a list of the Members of Parliament for the City of Rochester from the revolution in the year 1688, with the

KENT names of candidates and number of votes taken at each contested election. A useful and fascinating reference and historical document, scarce.

550 —— THE POLL OF THE ELECTORS FOR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, TO REPRESENT THE CITY OF ROCHESTER. TAKEN ON MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF JULY, 1802, BEFORE SAMUEL BAKER, ESQ. MAYOR. CANDIDATES. SIR W. SIDNEY SMITH, Kt., GEORGE SMITH ESQ., JAMES HULKES, ESQ., JAMES ROPER HEAD, ESQ. To Which is Added An Index and an Alphabetical List of the Voters, Arranged Under the Places, or Parishes, Where They Reside: ....... From the Press of W. Epps. Rochester.

1802 [15962] 8vo. 38 + [1] pp. with blank interleaving throughout and several blank leaves to front and rear. Bound in contemporary full calf, gilt, skilfully rebacked, with the City of Rochester’s coat of arms stamped in gilt on the upper board and another coat of arms on the rear board.

An unobtrusive blind stamp on the margin of the title page, two or three pages lightly browned and the extremities a trifle bumped and worn otherwise a very good, clean copy in an attractive armorial binding. £285 Comprising title page; lists of the voters with name, occupation and place of residence; a Statement of the Poll; a complete alphabetical list of the voters, 594 in all; a List of the Electors of Rochester, who voted at this Election, ... showing for whom each person voted; a General Abstract of the Whole Poll; a list of the Freemen of Rochester who did not vote at the Election; a list of the Members of Parliament for the City of Rochester from the accession of George the Third, with the names of candidates and number of votes taken at each election. A useful and fascinating reference and historical document. Very scarce.

551 ROGERS, P.G. THE SIXTH TRUMPETER. THE STORY OF JEZREEL AND HIS TOWER. O.U.P. 1963 [19535] First Edition. 154 pp. with photo illustrations. Original cloth in dustwrapper. a very good copy. £25 The story of the strange religious sect which set up in Chatham and Gillingham in the late 1880s, and its ill-fated building project.*A signed presentation copy.

552 ROLLASON, D.W. THE MILDRITH LEGEND. A STUDY IN EARLY MEDIEVAL HAGIOGRAPH.Y (Studies in the early history of Britain). Leicester University Press 1982 [18980] 8vo. xii + 171 pp. two illustrations and map. Original cloth. Fine condition in dust wrapper. Small bookplate on front paste down. £35 An account of the legend of St. Mildrith, abbess of Minster-inThanet, as it developed in the independent Kingdom of Kent and later in tenth and eleventh century England as a preoccupation with the nature and sanctity of kingship. Three appendices summarise extant texts of the Legend and print full versions of two Latin texts with detailed notes.

553 ROMNEY MARSH AUCTION PARTICULARS. KENT. IN THE PARISHES OF OLD ROMNEY AND MIDLEY, 40 ACRES OF RICH

FREEHOLD GRAZING LAND, COMPRISING FOUR ALLOTMENTS IN WALLAND MARSH, WITHIN A SHORT DISTANCE OF LYDD, BROOKLAND AND APPLEDORE RAILWAY STATIONS. TO BE SOLD

BY AUCTION BY MR. GEO. WIGLEY ON TUESDAY, JULY 28th, 1896, AT THE SARACEN’S HEAD HOTEL, ASHFORD, AT FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, BY DIRECTION OF THE TRUSTEE OF THE LATE MRS. BRADFORD. Edwin J. French, Printer, Winslow. 1896 [17494] Large prospectus, 10 x 16 inches. 4 pp. + large coloured lithographic folding plan of the land. Designed to be folded twice to pocket size. One or two small splits at folds otherwise a very good example. £45 554 ROMNEY MARSH - BRADLEY, A.G. AN OLD GATE OF ENGLAND. RYE, ROMNEY MARSH, AND THE WESTERN CINQUE PORTS. Robert Scott.

1925 [19025] 8vo. ix + 374 pp. with original illustrations by Marian E.G. Bradley. Original cloth, gilt. Slight erosion of paper on inside edge of front paste down which has small neat bookplate otherwise a very good, clean copy. £20 Third impression of first edition of 1917. Contains a wealth of anecdotal and factual information on Romney Marsh as well as Rye and Hastings and their hinterlands.

ROMNEY MARSH NOVEL 555 ROMNEY MARSH - C. R. S. ACROSS THE MARSH. A TALE OF THE KENTISH LEVELS. W.E. Baxter Limited, 35 High Street, Lewes. 1897 [20268] 8vo. 4.75 x 7.25 inches. 295 pp. [3], B-T8, U-U4. Half title. Bound in original card covers with cloth spine.

Extremities worn, front hinges a little loose. Small area missing from top of rear cover. Covers darkened and occasional spotting. but generally clean inside. Early signature at top of title. A sound copy of this very scarce title. £125 A work of romantic fiction, set on Romney Marsh at the time of writing. The principle settings are the village of ‘Netherden,’ and the houses of ‘Little Chantrey’ and ‘Great Chantrey Court,’ both situated in the neighbourhood of the Royal Military Canal. Across the Marsh includes much interesting period detail and local colour about life on Romney Marsh in the late nineteenth century. Occasionally, dialect words used in the text are explained in footnotes. The identity of the author is unknown and the novel is very scarce; COPAC records only four copies in British libraries, Oxford, Cambridge, the British Library and the National Library of Scotland. It has not been possible to trace any copies in Kent libraries.

556 ROMNEY MARSH - FIRTH, DR. F.M. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ROMNEY MARSH. Meresborough Books. 1984. [17318] 8vo. 127 pp. with maps and photo illustrations. Original cloth in dustwrapper. £20 Well-written and comprehensive modern natural history of the Marsh.

557 ROMNEY MARSH - FORBES, DUNCAN. THE FIFTH CONTINENT. THE STORY OF ROMNEY

KENT MARSH AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. Hythe, Shearwater Press. 1984 [12651] 192 pp. with maps and photo illustration. Original cloth. A very good copy in a spine faded dust wrapper. £20 Good account of Romney Marsh, its towns and villages and its history.

A NOVEL 558 ROMNEY MARSH - HADDEN-PARKES, MRS. ERMENGARDE. A STORY OF ROMNEY MARSH IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY London: Eliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, E.C. 1893 [20382] 8vo. 247 pp. + 8 monochrome plates. Decorative headand tailpieces. Bound in the original stone-grey printed cloth with gilt titles to spine, and title, author and design to upper board in brown. Spine worn at head and tail and small split to front hinge. Some wear to extremities. A good copy. £75 559 ROMNEY MARSH - HULF, TERRY. ROMNEY DENGE WALLAND (THREE MARSHES). Samson Press, no date but c.1997 [16932] 4to. Limited edition of 154 copies. Unpaginated.

Introduction + 36 b/w plates + afterword. Signed and numbered by the author. Original burgundy cloth. A mint copy. £25 A sometimes quirky photographic appreciation of Romney Marsh.

560 ROMNEY MARSH - INGRAMS, RICHARD AND FAY GODWIN. ROMNEY MARSH AND THE ROYAL MILITARY CANAL. Wildwood House. 1980 [17396] First Edition, 192 pp. with photo illustration. Original cloth in dust wrapper. A very good copy. £30 This copy signed on the half-title by Godwin and Ingrams. Fay Godwin's fine evocative photographs combine with Richard Ingrams’ interesting text to make this a much sought-after volume.

ROMNEY MARSH 1719 561 ROMNEY MARSH. (S. PARKER AFTER WILLIAM DUGDALE). THE DESCRIPTION OF ROMNEY MARSH, WALLAND MARSH, DENGE MARSH, AND GUILFORD MARSH, WITH THE DIVISIONS OF THEIR WATERINGS, THEIR HEADS, ARMES, PRINCIPAL SEWERS AND THEIR GUTTS...AND ALSO THE LEVELS OF WITTERSHAM..APPLEDOURE CHANELL LYING TO THE LEVEL OF ROTHERBRIDGE, UP TO NEWENDEN, SANDHURST, AND BODIAM;TOGETHER WITH THE HARBOURS OF RYE AND WINCHELSEA, WITH THE MARSHES ADIOYNING. J. Harris. London. 1719 [20672] Uncoloured copper engraving 13 x 25 ins. Mounted in acid free cut-out mount to museum standard, a very good example. £250 The second issue of the first printed map of Romney Marsh which appeared in Dugdale's "History of Embanking and Draining" and was reissued in Dr Harris’s “History of Kent” published in 1719. At a scale of one inch to the mile the appearance of the complicated pattern of dykes, drains, and

walls serves to show why Romney Marsh was seldom visited by outsiders up until the 19th century.

562 ROWLANDSON, THOMAS. AFTER SWEET MEAT COMES SOUR SAUCE or CORPORAL CASEY GOT INTO THE WRONG BOX. Nov. 30th by Thomas Tegg, No 111 Cheapside. 1810 [20297] Plate measures 12.5 x 9 inches, preserved within a conservation mount, narrowly trimmed with loss of heading ‘Tegg’s caricatures No 24’ above the image, but imprint intact. Original hand-coloured etched caricature. £400 Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) is perhaps the most wellknown of the Georgian caricaturists. In this scene, a comely wench kneels at the foot of a bed, one hand holding the lid of a strong box containing her lover, the corporal, on whom she bestows a kiss before closing the lid. At the window, the head of an enraged older man, presumably her cuckolded husband, peers, scowling, over the window sill.

563 —— PROGRESS OF GALLANTRY OR STOLEN KISSES SWEETEST. Thos. Tegg. No 111.

Cheapside. No date but c.1814 [20295] Folio, 14 inches by 10 inches to edge of plate, with ample margins. Original hand-coloured etched caricature. £600 Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) is perhaps the most widely known of the Georgian caricaturists. His ability to produce highly entertaining and often bawdy satires on the modes and manners of his day has made him world famous. Marked number 279, this print comes from the early years of a fruitful relationship with the publisher Thomas Tegg, which lasted 12 years between 1807 and 1819. During this time Rowlandson produced many images which were designed to be funny on the day, pinned up on the tavern wall and then discarded. This accounts for the rarity of these large etchings. The subject of Progress of Gallantry is loaded with sexual innuendo leaving little to the imagination but a great deal to interpretation. Five figures stand on the quayside. In the forefront stands an old seaman with a telescope to his eye, a leering expression on his face as he looks out to sea at whatever has captured his interest. Meanwhile, the old tar's wife, with a parasol, kisses a young officer, while a toothless old man, dressed in black, shivers in the wind as he gazes out to sea. Behind him stands a soldier with his bayonet pointing skywards. A pile of cannonballs lies behind this diverse group and there is, seated on the edge of the quay, a girl into whose eyes a black sailor gazes. Here we have youth and age engaged in amorous activities. The old men are transfixed by what they can see offshore, as is the soldier with the bayonet, the couples are engrossed in each other. Love is not the theme however, phallic symbols abound in the shape of cannon barrels and telescopes, vying with each other in size as they point out to sea, and in the case of the cannon, from decidedly ambiguous vantage points. Rowlandson at his best, poking fun at love and sexual desire.

564 —— A TOUR TO THE LAKES. Who’er has travell’d life’s dull round Through all its various paths hath been Must oft have wondered to have found His warmest welcome at an inn. No date but paper watermarked 1810 [20296] Folio, 14 inches by 10 inches to edge of plate, with margins Original hand-coloured etched caricature. £350

KENT Thomas Rowlandson (1757 - 1827) is perhaps the most famous of the Georgian caricaturists. This caricature is a larger working of Rowlandson’s well-known Dr. Syntax character, who appeared in illustrations of William Coombe’s poem of the same name.

565 RYE - COLLARD, JOHN A. A MARITIME HISTORY OF RYE. John A. Collard, Rye 1978 [19410] 4to. Fronts + ix + 153 pp. Numerous monochrome photographic illustrations, sixteen maps, three of which are folding. Original pictorial card wrappers. a very good copy. £35 Contains: Origin and Early growth. A Century of Turbulence, 1200 to 1300. Supporting the Angevin Empire, 1300 to 1453.

Decline in the Expanding World, 1453 to 1588. Survival Problems and a New Harbour, 1720 to 1788. Defence in the Napoleonic War, 1788 to 1815. Conflicts of Interest, 1800 to 1845. Aftermath of the Industrial Revolution, 1845 to 1875.

Pre-war Tranquility, 1875 to 1914. Dark Days, 1914 to 1939.

Total War, 1939 to 1945. Trial and Error, 1945 to 1962.

Hopes Revived, 1962 to 1974. Appendices: A Pamphlet of 1677. Extracts from ‘The Report of John Smeaton Upon the Harbour of Rye’ (1763). Extracts From the Report of Alexander Sutherland on a Proposed ‘Canal Through the Weald of Kent’ (1801). List of Harbourmasters.

ROYALIST PROPAGANDA 1642-44 566 [RYVES, BRUNO]. MERCURIUS RUSTICUS: OR, THE COUNTRIES COMPLAINT OF THE SACRILEDGES, PROPHANATIONS, AND PLUNDERINGS, COMMITTED BY THE SCHISMATIQUES ON THE CATHEDRALL CHURCHES OF THIS KINGDOME. Mercurius Rusticus, I-XVIII, 1642-43, I-IV, 1642-43, V (after Querela). [Bound with] Querela Cantabrigiensis: Or, A Remonstrance By way of Apologie. For the banished Members of the late flourishing University of Cambridge.

By some of the said Sufferers. (Oxoniae,1646.); [Bound with] Mercurius Belgicus: Or, A briefe Chronologie of the Battails, Sieges, Conflicts, and other most remarkable passages from the beginning of this Rebellion, to the 25. of March, 1646... Oxford, Printed in the Yeare, 1646 [20439] 8vo. 3.75 x 5.75 ins. [14] + 223 pp. + [1] + [12] + 34 pp. + [6] + [48] pp. This copy lacking the general title page (‘the barbarous out-rages’) and the additional engraved title. Includes preface at beginning, preface to the second series of Mercurius Rusticus (I-IV), with a catalogue of cathedrals; preface to the Querela with index to it and the Mercurius Rusticus; preface to Mercurius Belgicus and Chronologie; this section lacking the additional 16 page ‘Catalogue of the Persons of Quality slain on both sides’.

In Mercurius Rusticus V, D1 has been replaced by an exquisitely hand-written leaf, simulating a printed page.

Bound in Victorian blind-stamped decorated calf, spine divided into compartments by raised bands, with red morocco label and marbled endpapers. Faded red edges.

Extremities worn. Lower corners of pages to H6, clipped.

Tears and ink stains to preface; browning and ink and water stains in text. Ownership inscriptions of William Jame(e)son on reverse of title and margins and also of Elizabeth Guest on margins (with prayer on verso of

Querela title-page), both 1695. Other names, comments, etc., elsewhere and drawings of birds on reverse of title. £300 The 1646 single-volume edition of the royalist newsbook, Mercurius Rusticus first issued in parts, May 1643 - March 1644, reprinted with additional material. These newsbooks, which first appeared in late 1641, are regarded as the forerunners of the English newspaper. The royalist Mercurius Aulicus, was issued in the royalist headquarters of Oxford from January 1643, as an answer to the London newsbooks, and it inspired many similar publications. (Raymond lists about 70 Mercurius titles alone). Mercurius Rusticus was published anonymously from May 1643, but is attributed to Bruno Ryves (c.1596-1677), a royal chaplain and Vicar of Stanwell, Middlesex. After he joined the royal army, his living was sequestered, hence his recourse to journalism; (after the Restoration, he became successively dean of Chichester and of Windsor). The first series of Rusticus (I-XVIII) details the plundering of royalist households. It includes the ‘outrages of Colonell Sandyes in his perambulation of Kent,’ as Colonel Edwin Sandys, of Northbourne, was securing the county for parliament in 1642. In a raid by Sandys on the house of the absent dean of Canterbury, his wife is immodestly treated, her cabinet broken open and her son sent to Dover Castle; later the Dean himself is arrested, ‘with their Swords drawn,’at Gravesend. A cleric of Laudian persuasion, Ryves emphasised the despoliation of cathedrals, like Canterbury, Rochester and Chichester, described in the second series of Rusticus (parts IIV). The ‘Rebells’ first attempt of this kind was ‘on the Cathedrall Church of Canterbury, under the conduct of Colonel Sandys,’ in which the soldiers, ‘Giant-like, began to fight with God himselfe, overthrew the Communion Table...defaced the goodly Screen...violated the Monuments...spoyled the Organs, brake downe the ancient Railes and Seats...forced open the Cupboards of the Singingmen, rent some of their Surplices, Gownes and Bibles...mangled all our Service-books and Books of CommonPrayer; bestrowing the pavement with the leaves thereof...’

(N5). Subsequently, as Ryves relates, the Colonel himself is mortally wounded in Prince Rupert’s first cavalry charge of the war, at the skirmish of Powick Bridge, near Worcester, in September 1642 (but living long enough to engage in a exchange of tracts on his alleged renunciation of the parliamentary cause). The Querela, concerning the sufferings of the University of Cambridge under Cromwell’s soldiers, is attributed to John Barwick (1612-64), a fellow of St. John’s College, and Dean of St. Pauls after the Restoration. To this 1646 edition of the Rusticus, is added the Mercurius Belgicus or ‘Chronologie’ of events from December 1641-March 1645, ‘a candid and impartiall Epitomie of an unnaturall Warre, Subjects banding against their lawfull Prince, Brother against Brother, and Father against Sonne.’ Scarce copy of a lively work of royalist propaganda.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 567 SACKVILLE-WEST, VITA. THE GARDEN. Decorations by Broom Lynne. Michael Joseph. 1946 [19498] First Edition, 135 pp. with decorations, edges uncut.

Limited edition numbered 667 of 750 printed, signed and numbered by the author. Original buckram with gilt titles to upper board and spine. Attractive bookplate on front paste-down otherwise a near fine copy in an acetate protective cover. £350

KENT 568 —— IN YOUR GARDEN AGAIN. Michael Joseph. 1953 [19490] First Edition. 178 + [1] pp. iIllustrated with photographic plates. Original cloth in price clipped dust jacket. A fine clean copy in a near mint dust wrapper. £45 This is very good copy of the first edition, the second of her classic gardening books.

569 —— KNOLE AND THE SACKVILLES. Heinemann, London. 1922 [18622] First edition. xvi + 231 pp. with frontis and 18 other b/w illustrations. Original pictorial cloth. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, etc. Wear to extremities and 3-4 cm mark to upper board. A good reading copy. £85 570 —— KNOLE AND THE SACKVILLES Lindsay Drummond, 1949 [19719] 8vo. xv + [1] + 231pp. with tables and photographic illustrations. Original cloth gilt in unclipped dust wrapper.

Some foxing, mainly on edges, and small tears to dust wrapper but generally clean inside. £40 571 —— THE LAND. William Heinemann Ltd. 1955 [18072] 8vo. 107 pp. Original gilt boards with dust wrapper £20 First published 1927 poetry in the pastoral tradition. Woodcut

by George Plank.

572 —— ORCHARD AND VINEYARD. John Lane. The Bodley Head . 1921 [19524] 8vo. 101 pp. + [2] adverts. Text unopened. £350 A very good example of Vita Sackville-West’s fourth work.

DECORATIVE MAP AND INDENTURE 573 SANDGATE. MANUSCRIPT DEED. RELEASE TO USES OF A COTTAGE OR TENEMENT AND LAND AT SANDGATE IN THE PARISH OF CHERITION. MRS. ANN JEFFREY AND OTHERS RELEASE THE PROPERTY TO THE Rev. R.G. GREENE 7 March, 1840 [17162] Four large (2 x 3 feet), vellum membranes, joined. The first has a large and fine calligraphic sUPERSCRIPTION ‘RAWDON GRIFFITHS GREEN’ below which is a ‘MAP TO WHICH THE ABOVE WRITTEN INDENTURE REFERS’. A finely-drawn, coloured ink and watercolour, manuscript map, roughly 20 x 12 inches, showing the position of the property, the highways, roads and paths, together with the names of adjoining landowners. Below this are the seals and signatures of the eight people involved in this contract. ANN JEFFERY; W. BATEMAN; JEFFERY CULLEN; B. MINTER; R.G. GREENE AND RALPH THO. BROCKMAN. Traces of old folds and the outside a little dusty, otherwise very fresh and clean, all seals in good order. £250 One parcel of land would seem to be situated on the north side of the present Sandgate High Street and the corner of what is now [Military Hill] (then Road from Sandgate to Cherition commonly called Bugg’s Hill). The position would appear to be what is now the Village Green. The other dwelling or

possibly a shop is facing, ‘Street or Lane in Sandgate called The Back Lane’ Either side of the plot are strips marked with owners names including Cyrus Robert Purday who was the owner of the Circulating Library in Sandgate and publisher of several guides to Sandgate. Behind these shops is a long strip called ‘Garden Ground’ running behind the shops in Back Lane all the way to ‘Buggs Hill’’. Behind this Garden Ground is a Large Meadow or Pasture running from the garden ground at the rear of the shops in Back Lane to below the cliffs which are marked ’Land of Her Majesty’s Master General and Board of Ordnance or one of them commonly called Shorn Cliff’.

574 SANDWICH - ANDERSON, ARTHUR HENRY . SANDWICH , KENT. An appreciation of an ancient borough, and a practical guide to its most interesting features. Homeland Association. No date but c.1923 [18920] Ninth Edition, 32 pp.+ xxxv adverts. Illustrated with black and white photographs and plan of town Bound in Original printed wrappers with art nouveau design, neat bookplate, and presentation stamp to title page. A nice copy. £40 An interesting volume from the Homeland Handy Guides series, this being No 3 official town Guide c.1923, highlighting places of interest and the history of this important town .

575 SANDWICH - BENTWICH, MARGARET. HISTORY OF SANDWICH IN KENT. Deal, T.F. Pain & Sons, 1971 [18034] 168 pp., + (4) pp. with illus. Original cloth in dustwrapper, boards faded. £25 *Limited edition of 500 copies - signed by the Author. The only modern history of the town.

576 SANDWICH HANDBOOK. Edited by C.P. NEILSON. THE ANCIENT TOWN AND PORT OF SANDWICH. OFFICIAL HANDBOOK. Published by the Sandwich Corporation in Conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce. No date but c.1927 [19802] 77 pp. with b/w illustration. Original pictorial card wrappers. A little foxing to first gathering otherwise a good copy. £20 The illustrations show a wonderfully uncluttered street scene with none of the traffic congestion encountered today.

577 SANDYS, CHARLES. CONSUETUDINES KANCIAE: A HISTORY OF GAVELKIND AND OTHER REMARKABLE CUSTOMS IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho Square, London. 1851 [17226] xvi + 352 pp. + 12 + 12 adverts, with folding geanealogy of the Sons of Woden (browned as is usual), and two folding facsimile documents. Original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt. Repair to spine, otherwise a very good copy. £100 Scarce 19th century account of Gavelkind and other Saxon, Jutish and early Kentish matters including language. Only 184 copies are accounted for in the list of subscribers which gives an idea of the print run.

KENT 578 SATTIN, D.L. JUST OFF THE SWALE. THE STORY OF THE BARGE BUILDING VILLAGE OF CONYER. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JEREMY NESHAM. Meresborough Books. 1978 [10889] [12] + 140 pp. with illustrations throughout. Original illustrated boards. A very good copy. £25 A very good history of this boat-building village and the barges they constructed, now out of print.

579 SAUL, NIGEL. DEATH, ART, AND MEMORY IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND. THE COBHAM FAMILY AND THEIR MONUMENTS, 1300-1500 Oxford University Press 2001 [18955] First Edition. 8vo. xiii + 287 pp. illustrated throughout with 42 black and white plates and 5 genealogies and maps. Bound in original black cloth with gilt titles in a fine dust wrapper, a near mint copy of this scarce book.

Innovative and compelling study of the Cobham family which through their spectacular collection of monuments, explains the aspirations and fears of the gentry, and makes a major contribution to our understanding of their world view. £50

PRESENTATION COPY 580 SCOTT, BENJAMIN J. THE NORMAN BALLIOLS IN ENGLAND COMPILED IN PART FROM MR.WENTWORTH HUYSHE’S HAROLD AND THE BALLIOLS. With illustrations and additional matter, including introductory and concluding chapters and a pedigree. Privately Printed. 1914 [16511] Large 8vo. xix + 476 pp., with numerous illustrations and folding pedigrees. Finely printed on hand-made paper with deckle edges. Original green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed on extremities but a very good copy. £145 Presentation copy to Hugh Scott with a letter from the author inserted. Numerous annotations and extra material added to the chapter on the Scotts. The Kent connection here is with the Scotts of Scot’s Hall. There is a chapter on them and the book relates to the ancestry of this ancient family. Very scarce.

581 SCOTT-JAMES, ANN. SISSINGHURST THE MAKING OF A GARDEN. Michael Joseph. 1975 [19518] Third impression. 159 pp. with colour and black and white photos. Original cloth gilt, in dustwrapper. A very good copy. £20 The first edition. Still one of the best books on Sissinghurst.

582 SEVENOAKS - DINES, H.G. and A. M. INST, and S. BUCHAN, and C.A. HOLMES, and C. R. BRISTOW. GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND SEVENOAKS AND TUNBRIDGE. HMSO. 1969 [16823] xii + 183 pp. with maps and photos. Original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. A mint copy. £30 Part of Memoirs of the Geological Survey of G.B. series. Now only published in paperback.

583 —— GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND SEVENOAKS AND TUNBRIDGE. HMSO. 1982 [19527]

xii + 183 pp. with maps and photos. Original printed card wrappers. A mint copy. £20 Part of Memoirs of the Geological Survey of G.B. series. Now only published in paperback.

584 SEVENOAKS - DUNLOP, JOHN. THE PLEASANT TOWN OF SEVENOAKS. A HISTORY. Caxton and Holesdale Press. Sevenoaks. 1964 [15571] First Edition. 238 pp. with illustrations throughout.

Original cloth in dust wrapper. £35 Useful modern history, well compiled, also covers the large houses and landowners of the locality. **We also have a second impression of 1965 at £30**

585 SHAW, WILLIAM, FRANCIS. LIBER ESTRIAE; OR MEMORIALS OF THE ROYAL VILLE AND PARISH OF EASTRY, IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. John Russell Smith. London 1870 [19450] First Edition. Folio. vi + 244 pp. with 14 illustrations full page plates and illustrations in the text. Bound in original cloth gilt, slightly worn on extremities, and some light foxing to the preliminary leaves, including frontis and title page, but a very good copy of a work which is prone to foxing, often much worse than this example £250 Very scarce, scholarly history. The subscribers list numbers 74 copies and it seems likely that no more than 100 or so were printed.

586 SHEARS, W.S. WILLIAM NASH OF ST. PAUL’S CRAY PAPERMAKERS. The Batchworth Press, London. Published for private circulation, 1950 [20557] 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. frontis. + ix + [i] + 177 pp. + [1]. Illustrated by 27 plates, two in colour and two sketches at foot of text. Original blue cloth, gilt, with detached dust wrapper inset. Top corners bumped and some stains and scratches to boards and spine, otherwise fine condition. 1963 inscription on first free endpaper.

Interesting history of this North Kent paper mill printed for private circulation. It includes the War Diary, August 1940 April 1945. The mill was heavily damaged in the air raid of 19th-20th March 1941. £20

587 SHEPPEY - DALY, AUGUSTUS A. THE HISTORY OF THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY FROM THE ROMAN OCCUPATION TO THE REIGN OF HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII. with 90 illustrations by James Procter. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1904 [18877] First edition. 297 pp. Bound in original paper wrappers as issued, rebacked in cloth, otherwise a near fine copy.

The scarce first edition of this history and guide. Combines charming illustrations and thorough text and remains one of the best published volumes on the island’s history. £85

588 SHERLOCK, D. and H. WOODS, ST. AUGUSTINE’S ABBEY: REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS, 1960-78 (Monograph series of the Kent Archaeological Society) Kent Archaeological Society. 1988 [18989]

KENT xxxi + 366 pp. + 3 coloured plates and 52 b/w plates with numerous figures to the text and several folding ground plans. Blue cloth gilt with slight fraying to top of spine, otherwise fine in dust wrapper. £25 589 SHORE, W. TEIGNMOUTH. KENT. A. and C. Black. London. 1907 [15940] First Edition. 4to. 240 pp. with 2 folding maps and 73 coloured plates by W. Biscombe Gardner. Original decorated cloth, gilt. £85 A nice example of this attractive Black's Colour book. This first issue is far better than the later reprint in all respects. ***We also have the reprint of 1924 at £30***

590 SHORTER, A. H. PAPER MAKING IN THE BRITISH ISLES. An Historical and Geographical Study.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot. 1971 [20558] 8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. 272 pp. Illustrated by 16 black and white plates and 32 figures in text. Bound in original black cloth, gilt in coloured pictorial dust wrapper. Fine condition. £25 Standard history of paper making, copiously illustrated, by a leading authority on the subject.

DOUBLE SIGNED COPY 591 SILLITOE, ALAN and FAY GODWIN THE SAXON SHORE WAY FROM GRAVESEND TO RYE. Hutchinson. 1983 [18734] First Edition. 192 pp. with photo illustration throughout.

Bound in original cloth gilt, in the original dust-wrapper, a very good copy £45 This copy is signed by the author and the photographer on the title page. ***We also have an unsigned copy at £25***

592 SIMSON, J. EMINENT MEN OF KENT. Elliot Stock. 1893 [18514] 178 pp. with engraved frontis. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Slight wear to extremities otherwise a good copy.

A useful reference work. £25

PRISON CAMP AT SISSINGHURST (See front cover illustration) 593 SISSINGHURST - ENGLISH SCHOOL, c.

1830, probably drawn by James Willis of Tenterden.

SISSINGHURST CASTLE. A naive view of Sissinghurst Castle, depicting the scene c.1761, when the castle was being used to house French prisoners of war.

Watercolour and ink on wove paper watermarked Whatmam 1830 [20481] Large imposing, colourful watercolour, 29.5 x 23.5 inches. Derived, but not a directly copied, from an earlier drawing now in the possession of the National Trust at Sissinghurst. Single large sheet of Whatman wove paper, watermarked 1830, some marginal tears repaired, with one or two chips, not affecting the drawing. Inscribed on verso:

‘This Mansion was built by Sir John Baker in the reign of Edw. 6th and his eldest son, Sir Rich. Baker, entertained Queen Elizabeth at this Place in July 1573. During the seven year’s war, Sissinghurst was hired by Government for the confinement of French prisoners from 1756 to 1763, whence it acquired the name of Sissinghurst Castle.

James Willis Cranbrook, Kent.’

Some old stains and browning visible on verso and creases from frequent rolling, evidence that the drawing has probably never been framed for display, but stored rolled up. This also accounts for the very fresh colouration which shows no signs of fading. £4,750 The present drawing is undoubtedly derived from an earlier (1760) drawing by an unknown hand that emerged on to the market from Canada in January 2010, and was sold at Bonhams for £12,000. (Sale 17572). The earlier drawing was purchased by the National Trust and is now preserved at Sissinghurst.

This version was made c.1830, and closely resembles the earlier drawing, but is not a direct copy. It is here enlivened by many more character figures. Details of the buildings vary considerably, whilst retaining the overall appearance of the original. It could be that the owner of the original drawing was emigrating to Canada, and perhaps a family member or friend commissioned a copy? Bagshaw’s 1849 Directory of Kent lists only a Willis and Neve (as attorneys) in Cranbrook, and no other Willis’s in the professional classes, or in the gentry.

Perhaps Mr Willis discovered the original drawing among papers belonging to a local family and he copied it for his own use, or was he commissioned to make a copy? This is purely speculation on my behalf and doesn’t account for the differences between the drawings. Whatever the reason for the drawing being made, which may not be possible to discover, the drawing remains a wonderful graphic glimpse of a moment in the more murky history of Sissinghurst.

During the Seven Years War (1756-63) Sissinghurst Castle was leased to the government and became a prison camp. Over 3000 captured French seamen were held there, and the camp at Sissinghurst acquired a reputation as a cruel, cold and overcrowded place where only the most unruly of prisoners were sent. Much of the contents of the house and its garden were used by the prisoners for firewood, including the Elizabethan panelling, the pews and altar rails in the chapel.

Depicted here is an event which occurred on 9 July 1761 during Sissinghurst’s time as a prison camp, the details of which are known through evidence later given to a military inquiry into the incident. Three escaped prisoners, who had been recaptured, were being returned to the camp through the fields. Some of the prisoners looking on made their way to the fence to see their comrades approaching. The sentry on duty on the far side of the moat, one John Bramston, known, at this stage, to be intoxicated, told them not to come any closer to the fence or he would fire at them. He then aimed his musket, loaded with three balls, and fired, hitting a Frenchman, Baslier Baillie, and fatally wounding him. Another ball hit Sebastien Billet, who is shown lying dead on the ground.

A charming and evocative piece of folk art, of great historic and decorative interest.

MARGATE YELLOWBACK 594 SKETCHLEY, ARTHUR [pseud. George Rose]. MRS. BROWN AT MARGATE. By Arthur Sketchley. (The ‘Mrs. Brown’ series). George Routledge

KENT and Sons, London and New York. Printed by Simmons and Botten, Shoe Lane, London, E.C. [1874] [20262] 8vo. 4.25 x 6.5 inches. [2] pp. advertisements + [153] pp. + [1] p. advertisements (continued on both endpapers).

Bound in original yellow pictorial cloth. Extremities worn and spine title partly eroded. Slight damage to lower rear endpaper but generally good inside. £100 Very popular in their day, but now largely forgotten, the Mrs. Brown monologues and sketches first appeared in Fun Magazine in 1865 and continued in volume form until 1881.

The series included accounts of trips to various places as here, visits to contemporary events such as exhibitions and her views on various topical questions, e.g. Women’s Rights. Mrs. Brown ‘is a kind-hearted older woman with the prejudices and ignorance of what contemporaries would see as the lowermiddle classes. Despising everything that is not English, she delighted readers with her unwittingly humorous observations on any number of topics, these written phonetically to capture her accent and speech patterns’ (DNB).

She was the most famous creation of George Rose (1817-82), who used the pseudonym of Arthur Sketchley. Rose was educated in Chelsea and at Oxford, before being ordained and serving as a curate in several outer London churches. In 1855 he left the Church of England and joined the Roman Catholic Church, acting as a tutor to the dukes of Norfolk. He wrote and adapted plays for the London stage but did not achieve literary success until the creation of Mrs. Brown, touring the world to give public reading, 1879-80. A scarce copy of this yellowback.

595 SMARDEN - HASLEWOOD, REV. FRANCIS. THE MEMORIALS OF SMARDEN, KENT. Ipswich, Privately Printed. 1886 [15948] 4to. xv + 329 pp. with frontis and some illustrations in the text. Original decorated cloth, gilt. Spine faded and splits to external hinges otherwise a very good copy of this scarce book. £185 Companion work to Haslewood’s Antiquities of Smarden, this work is primarily concerned with people and genealogy and is fully indexed. Privately printed limited issue, with the subscribers list accounting for 184 copies, it may be that, as with his other works, it was limited to 202 copies.

596 SMETHAM, HENRY. HISTORY OF STROOD. Chatham, Parrett and Neves, Strood Sweet, and Sons.

1899 [17276] 8vo. 435 pp. with illustration throughout. Original pictorial green cloth boards. A good copy, with bumped corners and some silverfish nibbling to edge of upper board. £65 The standard history of the town, well compiled and illustrated.

597 SMITH, C. and W. LESLIE. STORIES OF FAVERSHAM. Faversham: Privately Published, 1974.

[19756] 8vo. 521 pp. with photo illustrations. Original cloth gilt.

An extremely interisting collection of essays on all aspects of Faversham history, legend and topography. This copy is signed by the author. £30

598 —— STORIES OF THE ISLE OF THANET Faversham: Privately Published, 1981 [19713]

Second Edition. 257 pp., with photo illustrations.

Original cloth gilt £30 An extremely interesting collection of essays on all aspects of Thanet history, legend and topography.

599 SMITH, CHARLES ROACH and F.W. FAIRHOLT. THE ANTIQUITIES OF RICHBOROUGH, RECULVER, AND LYMNE, IN KENT. John Russell Smith. 1850 [18923] 4to. 272 pp. with coloured frontispiece, nine plates, and illustrations in the text throughout. Original blind stamped cloth, worn at extremities, small water stain to the corner of four plates not affecting image, otherwise a good copy. £125 A good example of this text by the well-known archaeological pioneer. The first recorded digs at these important sites.

REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS AT LYMPNE. 600 SMITH, CHARLES ROACH and JAMES ELLIOTT, JUN. REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS MADE ON THE SITE OF THE ROMAN CASTRUM AT LYMNE, IN KENT, IN 1850 ..... WITH NOTES ON THE ORIGINAL PLAN OF THE CASTRUM, AND ON THE ANCIENT STATE OF ROMNEY MARSHES ... Printed for the Subscribers to the Excavations, London, 1852 [19647] 4to. viii + 45 pp. + [5] list of subscribers + etched folding frontis + 10 etched plates, by W.H. Brooke, H.W. Rolfe, R. Windle and others, one of which is hand-coloured, and numerous wood-engraved plans and illustrations to the text. Original printed paper wrappers, spine repaired. A little worn at extremities and somewhat timestained but a very good copy. The front bears the neatly inked name of ‘Stephen Steele Esq`re’ and the signature of ‘C[harles] Roach Smith’, so possibly a gift from the author. Another hand has inscribed H. Lemmon, and a further hand at the bottom has written ‘Supplement to The Antiquities of Richborough, Reculver, and Lymne.’ £250 This report was produced for the Subscribers to the Lymne excavation and more than two years after Smith’s work The Antiquities of Richborough, Reculver and Lymne. It is more fully illustrated, with specially produced plates, and more descriptive of the excavations than the section on Lympne in that work. The report has additional notes by James Elliott Jnr., a principal subscriber to the dig, who had made previous excavations in the area. The subscribers to the Lymne dig appear in the order in which they subscribed and with the amount of their subscription. Interestingly, neither of the names on the cover appears in the list of subscribers in the ‘Report’ or that in the ‘Antiquities’. The list of Lymne subscribers amounts to 109 names so perhaps 120 copies were produced, of which this is a rare survivor.

601 SMITH, F.F. A HISTORY OF ROCHESTER. The C.E. Daniel Co., Graham House, Tudor St, London E.C.4. 1928 [17306] First Edition. Fat 8vo. xv + 523 pp. with photo illustration. Original cloth gilt, spine repaired and slightly faded, but a good copy. £45 Still a standard work on Rochester, though more commonly found in the 1970's reprint, this is a good copy of the earlier

KENT edition and has the bookplate of Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis, who was created Baron only the year before this book was published. ***We also have copies of the 1970 reprint at £25***

602 —— ROCHESTER IN PARLIAMENT 12951933.

INCLUDING THE CHATHAM AND GILLINGHAM DIVISIONS OF ROCHESTER. ALSO THE BOROUGH OF CHATHAM FROM JUNE 1832 TO 1918. Simpkin Marshall. 1933 [10896] 190 pp. Original cloth gilt. A good copy from the Law Society's Library with some neat stamps. £40 With a presentation letter from Smith to the Library and an inscription. A scarce title.

PRESENTATION COPY 603 SMITH, GERARD EDWARDS. A CATALOGUE OF THE RARE OR REMARKABLE PHAENOGAMOUS PLANTS, COLLECTED IN SOUTH KENT : WITH DESCRIPTIVE NOTICES AND OBSERVATIONS. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, Paternoster Row, London: 1829 [15952] First Edition. 8vo. viii + 78 pp. illustrated with 5 fine hand-coloured plates including Early Spider Orchids and Bee Orchids. Original green half-morocco. Spine in compartments tooled in gilt with contrasting title label.

Rebacked, retaining the original spine. Corners a little rubbed, otherwise a very good copy. £450 This copy is inscribed to ‘Ward Hunt Painter, with the author’s kind regard, January 1877’ and a botanical note in his hand on page 18. G. E. Smith lived in Sandgate and compiled this detailed list of local plants in his leisure with the help of many local people, landowners and clergy, most of whom appear in the list of subscribers, which accounts for exactly 350 copies, so only this number and perhaps a few more were printed. The list is fascinating for the locations given and the finders’ names and, in some cases, the author’s digressions on the views from the spot where a rarity was found etc. The quality of the hand-coloured plates is very high and the book contains first records for thirty-six plants of the Kent Flora (See Hanbury and Marshall). Very rare.

604 SMITH, J. RUSSELL. BIBLIOTHECA CANTIANA. A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED...ON THE COUNTY OF KENT. VOLUME. 1. (ALL PUBLISHED) 1837.

Reprinted J. Hallewell, Chatham. 1980 [15348] 360 pp. Original cloth, gilt. A near mint example £45 Invaluable reference work. Although originally published in 1837, this remains the standard bibliography. Even this reprint is becoming harder to find.

605 SMUGGLING. AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAWS RELATING TO SMUGGLING, AND THE COASTING TRADE IN GREAT BRITAIN George Eyre and Andrew Strahan. 1820 [8400] Folio. 14 pp. Bound in modern cloth boards, gilt. A very good copy. £35 606 —— AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAWS RELATING TO SMUGGLING, AND THE COASTING TRADE IN GREAT BRITAIN. George Eyre and Andrew Strahan. 1820 [14085]

Folio. 14 pp. Disbound and preserved in a plastic sleeve. £35 607 —— AN ACT TO AMEND TWO ACTS PASSED....FOR MAKING MORE EFFECTUAL PROVISION FOR THE PREVENTION OF SMUGGLING. Dublin: George Grierson and John Rowe Power. 1817 [14098] Folio. 12 pp., disbound preserved in a plastic sleeve. A very good copy. £35 608 —— AN ACT TO ENABLE HIS MAJESTY TO DIRECT THE DISTRIBUTION OF ANY REWARD AWARDED BY COMMISSIONERS OF THE CUSTOMS OR EXCISE TO THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMY, NAVY, OR MARINES, FOR APPREHENDING SMUGGLERS, IN SUCH MANNER AS HIS MAJESTY SHALL BE PLEASED TO APPOINT. George Eyre and Andrew Strahan. 1819 [8406] Folio. 2 pp. disbound and preserved in a plastic sleeve. £20 609 —— SMUGGLING AND SMUGGLERS IN SUSSEX. THE GENUINE HISTORY OF THE UNPARALLELED MURDERS OF MR. WILLIAM GALLEY, AND MR. DANIEL CHATER, BY FOURTEEN NOTORIOUS SMUGGLERS, WITH THE TRIALS AND EXECUTION OF SEVEN OF THE CRIMINALS AT CHICHESTER, 1748-9. Brighton : W. J. Smith. No date but c.1880 [19115] 263 pp. with frontispiece and other illustrations. Modern half-morocco, gilt, over marbled boards in Victorian style.

A very good example in a very attractive binding.

This reprint of the famous narrative, first printed in the eighteenth century, has the virtue of having several articles concerning smuggling added. The events described have obvious connections with smuggling in Kent. £125

WILDLIFE IN NORTH KENT MARSHES 610 A SON OF THE MARSHES. [JORDAN DENHAM]. DRIFT FROM LONGSHORE. Edited by J.A. Owen. With a Frontispiece by A. Thorburn.

Hutchinson and Co. 34 Paternoster Row, London, E.C. 1898 [20177] 8vo. 5.5 x 8 inches. [ix] + 261 pp. + [1] with frontis.

Bound in original green cloth, gilt. Spine and edges of boards darkened and a few spots on front boards.

Endpapers browned and some foxing, mostly confined to £80 margins and edges which are rough cut.

An account of wildlife, especially birds in the North Kent Marshes, with particular reference to the country around Milton-Next-Sittingbourne at the mouth of the Swale, and Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey. There is also a chapter on rambles in Sussex. The dialect speech of inhabitants of both areas is recorded by the author. A Son of the Marshes is a pseudonym for Jordan Denham and the work was a joint production by him and the editor, Jean Allan Owen (18411922); it was probably originally published as a series of articles. Owen, afterwards Visger, was a prolific natural history writer, who also edited several other books by Jordan Denham, relating to wild fowl and the Milton Regis area.

KENT Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935) was a well known illustrator of British birds.

611 SOUTH EASTERN UNION OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. A SURVEY AND RECORD OF WOOLWICH AND WEST KENT. Combining descriptions and records, brought up-to-date, of the Geology, Botany, Zoology, Archaeology and Industries of the district, with a brief Photographic Commentary, in commemoration of the 12th Annual Congress, 1907, of the South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies. General Editors: C. H. Grinling. T.A. Ingram, M.A., LL.D. B.C. Polkinghorne, BSc., F.C.S. (the late). Labour Representation Printing Co., Ltd. (T.U.) 8, New Road, Woolwich. 1909 [20178] 8vo. 6 x 8.5 inches. viii + 526 pp. Illustrated by text figure. Cover title: Woolwich Surveys. Bound in original patterned grey cloth, titled in black. Ex-library copy with white class mark on lower spine, Borough of Chatham Reference Library armorial bookplate on front paste down, rubber stamp on title page and occasionally elsewhere, accession number on verso of title. Ownership inscription, dated 1909, and occasional ink notes and corrections in text. Printed inset: Woolwich Surveys, 1909. [Appeal for corrections, suggestions, etc]. £75 A comprehensive survey and list of the geology, botany, zoology, archaeology and industries of Woolwich and the surrounding area of north west Kent, issued to mark the Woolwich Congress of the South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies in 1907. The natural history sections list species occurring and cover flowering and non-flowering plants, mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, fishes, insects and molluscs. There is an account of the ancient churches in tabular form and description of all ‘the scientific industries’ (i.e. engineering, chemical, military and shipbuilding, etc.).

The various sections have separately named editors being Charles Herbert Grinling, Bennett Corcyra Polkinghorne and Thomas Allan Ingram.

Grinling, a curate from Nottinghamshire who settled in Woolwich, produced several other books on the area and its industries but is best known for his works on railways, especially his History of the Great Northern Railway.

612 SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. AN ACT FOR MAKING A RAILWAY FROM THE LONDON AND CROYDON RAILWAY TO DOVER, TO BE CALLED THE ‘SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.’ Royal Assent, 21 June, 1836. Printed by C. Roworth and Sons, London.

1836 [18702] Folio. 8 x 12 inches approx. xxx index to Act + 166 pp. + [1]. Disbound but intact. Printed on pale blue laid paper.

A fine copy. £250 It is commonly assumed that railways were a Victorian initiative but many railways, the Great Western, the London South Western and London and Brighton among them, had come into being before Victoria’s ascent to the throne. This act of William IV brought into being the South-Eastern Railway, the aim of which was to bring rail access to the channel ports of Dover and Folkestone.

613 —— AN ACT TO ALTER AND DIVERT THE LINE OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY, SO AS TO JOIN THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON

RAILWAY. Royal Assent, 19 July, 1839. Printed by C. Roworth and Sons, London. 1839 [18704] Folio. 8 x 12 inches approx. vi index to The SouthEastern Railway Act, 2&3 Vict. c. lxxix [1839]. + 26 pp. + [1]. Disbound but intact. Printed on laid paper. A fine copy. £60 A further Act, after that of 1836, concerning the alteration and diversion of the S.E.R. line near Chiddingstone, to make a junction with the London and Brighton Railway at Redstone Hill (Redhill). Scarce.

614 —— AN ACT TO ALTER AND DIVERT THE LINE OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY, SO AS TO JOIN THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY. Royal Assent, 3 July, 1837. Printed by C. Roworth and Sons, London. 1837 [19541] Folio. 8 x 12 inches approx. xi index to The SouthEastern Railway Amended Act, 1 Vict. c.93 lxxix [1837]. + 34 pp. + [1]. Disbound but intact. Printed on laid paper.

A fine copy. £80 One of the first Acts given Royal Assent by Queen Victoria, little more than a month after her coronation, this Act was to amend the original Act that permitted the SER to commence a line from the Croydon end of the London and Croydon Railway. After some consideration, the SER had decided that a different route would be preferable, by means of a junction with the L. and C.R. at Penge Common and this amendment dealt with that deviation and other necessary alterations.

615 —— AN ACT TO AMEND THE ACTS RELATING TO THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. Royal Assent, 14 June, 1839. Printed by C. Roworth and Sons, London. 1839 [18703] Folio. 8 x 12 inches approx. xi index to The SouthEastern Railway Amendment Act. 2Vict. c. xlii.[1839] + 15 pp. + [1]. Disbound but intact. Printed on laid paper.

A fine copy. £60 A further Act, concerning the alteration and amendment of powers granted under the previous Acts, and dealing in particular with the obtaining of land by the S.E.R. Scarce.

616 —— TIME TABLE ON AND AFTER JUNE 1, 1847. TUNBRIDGE WELLS, MAIDSTONE, CANTERBURY, RAMSGATE, MARGATE, FOLKESTONE & DOVER. S.E.R./ J. Truscott, London.

1847 [18699] Single sheet 20 x 13 inches, folding to 6.5 x 6.5 inches, printed both sides. Traces of old folds with small tears and splits at folds otherwise a near fine example of a very rare item. £300 When opened, one side of the sheet gives full details of train times to and from the advertised stations. The other side is divided into six pages giving Steam Ship departures from Folkestone to Boulogne and Ramsgate to Ostend including names of ships and small wood-block illustrations of a locomotive and paddle steamer, times for the Whitstable and Margate branch lines, Regulations for Passengers (2 pp.) and Steam Packet Regulations at Folkestone. The last page is the title page.

GREENWICH RAILWAY INTEREST

KENT 617 SPOONER’S PROTEAN VIEWS, NO. 7.

WINDERMERE. WHICH ON HOLDING UP TO A STRONG LIGHT CHANGES TO A VIEW OF THE VIADUCT OF THE GREENWICH RAILROAD. W. Spooner, Strand, London. [18696] Hand-coloured lithographic view, 7 x 5.5 inches, of Lake Windermere. Mounted on card, 11 x 8.5 inches overall, with elaborate lithographed label below. Some slight creasing and a small closed tear otherwise a very good example. £300 Spooner’s Protean Views were examples of ‘Transforming’ views, which were achieved by pasting another view, on very thin paper, behind the colourful original. When held up to a strong light the two views were superimposed, in this instance transforming the rural tranquility of Windermere by creating the image of a large railway viaduct crossing the lake. This was a joke on William Wordsworth, who objected bitterly against the extension of the railway to Windermere on the basis that it would bring many travellers into the district, thereby destroying the beauty and tranquility they had come to enjoy. Very scarce.

618 ST. MARGARET’S AT CLIFFE. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR OF ST. MARGARET’S AT CLIFFE. October 1851 [20218] Original monochrome wash sketch, image approx. 10 x 6 inches, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing, overall size 14.5 x 11 inches. £120 Depiction of the village of St. Margaret’s at Cliff, as viewed from a pasture to the the north-east, with the church dominating the background. Titled in pencil ‘Taken from the Curfew Field. St. Margaret’s at Cliff, nr Dover, October 1851.’

619 STANFIELD, CLARKSON. R.A. STANFIELD’S COAST SCENERY. A SERIES OF VIEWS IN THE BRITISH CHANNEL, FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS TAKEN EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK BY CLARKSON STANFIELD, ESQ. R.A. Smith, Elder & Co. 1836 [17374] viii +128 pp. illustrated with 40 highly-finished steelengraved views including the vignette on the title-page.

Finely bound in the publisher’s original full morocco.

Pictorial embossed gilt with all edges gilt. A fine copy, but the plates are affected with foxing here and there, and roughly 10 are quite badly foxed. £200 An attractive copy of this steel engraved view-book, in the fine embossed gilt publisher’s binding with decorative lozenge on the boards of Neptune’s trident surrounded with fish and seaweed, the spine decorated with anchors and shells, all in gilt. The engravings are the productions of one of the preeminent marine painters of the Nineteenth century. Despite the foxing this is one of the nicest examples of this work we have seen.

STAPLEHURST REGISTERS 1558-1653 620 STAPLEHURST - CHAMBERLAIN, JAMES SLADE FFOSTER. THE REGISTERS OF STAPLEHURST, 1558-1596, WITH INTRODUCTION [BOUND WITH] THE REGISTERS OF STAPLEHURST, 1596-1653, WITH INTRODUCTION. Canterbury: Gibbs and Sons, Printers, Palace Street 1910, 1913 [19471]

8vo. 6.75 x 8.75 inches. [ii] + ii + 127 pp.; [iii] + 154 pp.

Inserted is the Staplehurst Register, by J.S. FF. Chamberlain, M.A. Stapled article. 283-299 pp. and illustrated with three photographic plates, an offprint from unspecified journal. Bound in later red cloth, gilt. Light rust impressions from staples of inset on front endpaper.

Occasional light foxing and page edge abrasions with tear to 1596-1553 registers, pp. 27-28. A few pencil ticks are also present. £145 The first volume is a transcript of the old paper register, with additional material from the parchment register, and the second volume is a transcript from the parchment register, with additional material from a duplicate paper register.

Thomas Cromwell had ordered that registers should be kept by churches in 1538 but in 1597 it was ordered that a fair copy of the entries, but only from Queen Elizabeth’s accession in 1558, should be made into a parchment book. In many parishes the old paper registers going back to 1538, and containing much additional information, were lost or destroyed. Fortunately those for Staplehurst survived. The Reverend Chamberlain also published a transcript of the earliest registers as ‘The Old Register of Staplehurst, 1538-1558’ (1907). The article inset gives some extracts, with commentary, from the paper registers, including entries for the period, 1538-1558.

Both volumes are indexed.

PRESENTATION COPY 621 STOWTING - BRENT, JOHN. AN ACCOUNT OF RESEARCHES IN AN ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY AT STOWTING, IN KENT, During the Autumn of 1866.

Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by John Brent, Esq., F.S.A. Printed by J.B.Nichols and Sons, London; 1868 [19122] Large 4to. [ii] + 12 pp. Illustrated with one full page lithographic plate.

Bound in are two offprints by John Brent from the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, both of which are reports of the last year’s progress in archaeology in East Kent March 23, 1871 (Proc.S.A.L. 2S. v.124), 6 pp.

April 29, 1875 (Proc.S.A.L. 2S. vi.375), 7 pp, illustrated with engravings.

Three page epistle in French from author, dated Canterbury 19 November 1872, also bound in.

Contemporary green quarter-morocco, spine stamped J. Brent in gilt, with marbled boards and endpapers. £300 An interesting bound collection of the author’s accounts of archaeological excavations in East Kent with a presentation letter. This copy is inscribed and signed and was clearly a gift to a French colleague M. Henri ...... as is witnessed by the accompanying letter, which has what appears to be a response from the recipient on the last page.

We have not seen a copy of this paper before. Rare.

622 STRAKER, ERNEST. WEALDEN IRON. A MONOGRAPH ON THE FORMER IRONWORKS IN THE COUNTIES OF SUSSEX, SURREY AND KENT. David and Charles. 1969 [20095] 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. xiv + 487 pp. with maps, plans and illustrations throughout. Original cloth with dust wrapper.

A very good copy. £75

KENT Reprint of the scarce and standard title.

623 SWALE - [JORDAN, D. and J.A.VISGAR.] ANNALS OF A FISHING VILLAGE. DRAWN FROM THE NOTES OF 'A SON OF THE MARSHES' EDITED

BY J.A.OWEN William Blackwood and Sons. 1891.

[19056] |First Edition, 8vo. viii + [1] + 289 pp. + 24 pp. advertisements at end. Illustrated with six plates. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Light wear to cloth boards. £95 An interesting snapshot of life in the north Kent marshes as it was a hundred years ago, the manners and customs of the marshmen are well described and even the dialect is recorded.

The tale centers around Milton Regis, or Marshton as it is disguised. Very scarce.

624 SYDENHAM - KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF SYDENHAM AND FOREST HILL. Kelly's. 1926 [19567] 8vo. A3-A40 + 340 pp. From the General Index to the Private Residents and Commercial Directory. All sections are complete but the last few leaves of the Professional and Trades section at the rear are missing. No map present. Later hard binding in burgundy cloth with gilt titles. Lacking original wrappers. Generally browned otherwise a very good copy. £85 Massive works of reference, Kelly's directories are now in demand with those published before 1939 being very scarce.

625 —— DIRECTORY OF SYDENHAM, NORWOOD AND STREATHAM. Kelly's. 1907 [19566] 8vo. 488 pp. + 28 pp. No map present. Later hard binding in burgundy cloth with gilt titles. Lacking original wrappers. Some browning especially to last few gatherings, otherwise a very good copy. £85 626 TANNER, NORMAN. Edited by. KENT HERESY PROCEEDINGS 1511-12. KENT RECORDS VOLUME XXVI. Kent Archaeological Society, Maidstone. 1997 [20092] 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. xxvi + 129 pp. Bound in original dark blue cloth, gilt. A mint copy. £25

KENTISH GLUTTON 627 TAYLOR, JOHN. THE GREAT EATER OF KENT, Or, Part of the Admirable Teeth and Stomach Exploits of Nicholas Wood, of Harrison, in the County of Kent, His Excessive manner of Eating without manners in strange and true manner described By John Taylor.

Printed by Eliz. All-de for Henry Gosson, London 1630.

This issue is an undated [19th century reprint] [20121] 8vo. [1] +18 pp. Illustrated by decorative ornament, vignettes and initials. Disbound pamphlet in original paper wrappers. A few small stains at foot of last page but £75 otherwise a very good copy.

No publication details for this reprint of the Water Poet, John Taylor’s wonderful story of the great Kentish glutton. The original 1630 tract is impossible to obtain, with only four copies being recorded by ESTC. Smith states that it was reprinted in Taylor’s Collected Works and in the Antiquarian

Repertory of 1807 and COPAC records reprints in the Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana of 1871, etc. and in the Old Book Collector’s Miscellany of 1873. This copy, being separately paginated, is likely to be an unrecorded reprint by a nineteenth century bookseller. According to Smith, Wood was born at Holllingbourne, ‘being a landed man and a true labourer’ and that he suffered from an eating disorder. A note added to this reprint, confirms that the Harrison of the title is Harrietsham.. Wood’s feats of eating were monumental, a whole Hog at one sitting, and another time thirty dozen of pigeons; the title page of the original pamphlet stating that ‘He ate a ducke, guts, feathers and all.’ Taylor saw Wood in action at the White Lion in Harrietsham and offered him twenty shillings, and five shillings a day, to travel to London and eat in public at the Bear Garden. On reflection, Wood declined this offer believing that the authorities would disapprove ‘of one that ate so much, and could work so little.’

He also feared that ‘if his stomach should fail him publicly, and lay his reputation in the mire, it might have been a disparagement to him for ever, and especially in Kent, where he hath long been famous...’ Wood’s pamphlet is written in a florid and entertaining style, full of classical allusions and references to other famous eaters of history. It is a good source for the early seventeenth century diet, referring to many regional specialities such as Norfolk dumpling and Devonshire white-pot and supplying long lists of dietary terms such as ‘flawn, or fool, or froise, or tansy, or pancake, or fritter, or flapjack, or posset, galley-mawfrey, mackeroon, kickshaw, or tantablin.’

John Taylor (1578-1653) describing himself in the pamphlet as ‘Waterman of Saint Savours in Southwark,’ was born in Gloucester but spent much of his life as a Thames waterman, following early naval service in the late 1590s.

Residing on Bankside and developing links with writers, actors and courtiers attending the south bank theatres, he began to read extensively and to publish his own works of prose and rough-hewn poetry. He styled himself the water poet and commenced a long series of journeys to destinations such as Hamburg, Scotland and Prague and to York and Salisbury, by sea and by river from London. Some of these were quite whimsical and were sponsored and others more serious in purpose, including his support for the Protestant cause at the opening of the Thirty Years War in Bohemia. It is noteworthy that in 1630, the same year as his abortive attempt to exploit Wood’s gargantuan appetite, Taylor also attempted to achieve literary respectability, as if he were a Shakespeare or a Jonson, by bringing out his collected works. Another prodigy that provided source material for him was the centenarian, Thomas Parrr, brought to London in 1635. Wood’s later career continued to be eventful. He surveyed the navigation of the upper Thames, broke his long connection with the Watermen’s Company, after a dispute, published a handbook of carriers, wagons and packet boats leaving London for the provinces and because of his strong royalist views, fled to Oxford to become a political activist for the King’s cause, visiting him in captivity in the Isle of Wight in 1648 . He ended his career as an alehouse keeper near Covent Garden and continued his journeys by water and on land, nearly all his activities being subsequently described in his publications.

SIGNED COPY 628 TEMPLE, PETER. ENGLISH CHANNEL. WITH PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY KEITH BAYNES. Hodder and Stoughton. 1952 [14519]

KENT 4to. 224 pp. with 12 colour plates and b/w illustrations.

Original pictorial cloth in a very good dustwrapper. A very good copy. £30 A charming sea journey from west to east, visiting both sides of the Channel, well-written by an engaging character who managed to spend time with some of the more interesting people to be met with in each port. This copy is signed by Peter Temple on the title page.

1967 SURVEY OF TENTERDEN 629 TENTERDEN - FREDERICK MACMANUS AND PARTNERS. TENTERDEN EXPLORED. AN ARCHITECTURAL AND TOWNSCAPE ANALYSIS. Frederick MacManus and Partners, Chartered Architects & Planning Consultants. George Cullen, Townscape Consultant. Maidstone: Kent County Council 1967 [19480] Oblong folio. 12.5 x 8.25 inches. [ii] + 117 pp.

Extensively illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps. (Copy no?)1235, stamped on back. Stapled, illustrated card wrappers, with plastic overlay bearing title in red. Ex-library copy with bookplate inside front wrapper, and stamps, etc. on title and rear of title. £40 Study commissioned jointly by Kent County Council and the Borough Council of Tenterden to analyse the architectural character of the town ‘and to suggest how it might be conserved while allowing the town to continue to serve contemporary needs.’ A brief historical section with maps is followed by an architectural appraisal of the buildings and a visual analysis of the townscape. This consultants’ study, with its numerous street scenes populated by 1960s cars, is now possessed of a certain period charm itself.

630 THE AMICI. EXCERPTA. SELECTIONS FROM THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE AMICI. Printed for the Amici for private circulation by J. Brown, Kent Arms Office, Week Street, Maidstone. 1836 [19924] Tall 8vo. viii + 151 pp. comprising 77 poems. Title page printed in red and black. Original dark green cloth, gilt. A trifle dusty and with a little wear at the extremities otherwise a very good copy. £200 A prefatory note states that ‘The following contributions were read at the weekly meetings of a Society of Gentlemen at Maidstone, originally united by private friendship - and characteristically named The Amici.’ Only one of the contributors is named, that by virtue of the fact that the poem itself is an acrostic that identifies him as Thomas Turpin.

Otherwise the only clue to the contributors’ identities is their initials. By its nature a limited edition and now rare

631 THE KENT COUNTY YEAR BOOK. THE KENT COUNTY YEAR BOOK 1953. Edited by DOROTHY PILCHER. Incorporating Kent Personalities.

Kent Messenger, Maidstone. 1953 [14522] [xvi] + 272 pp. with a folding map. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy £20 Mostly comprised of lists of Kent personalities and local Government information, etc. ***We have copies of other years – please enquire***

CIVIL WAR PAMPHLET

632 THE LONG PARLIAMENT. AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT. CONCERNING THE LATE REBELLIOUS INSURRECTION IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. WHEREBY A COMMITTEE IS APPOINTED FOR THE SAID COUNTY, FORTHWITH TO SEIZE UPON ALL THE ARMES AND HORSES, AND IMPRISON THE PERSONS OF ALL THOSE THAT APPEARED IN, OR GIVEN ANY ASSISTANCE TO THAT INSURRECTION, AND REBELLION; OR HAVE WILLINGLY RELIEVED ANY OF THE SAID REBELS, WITH ARMES, AMMUNITION, MONEY OR OTHERWISE. August 19. Printed for John Wright, in the Old Bailey, 1643 [17952] Small 4to. Title (within woodcut typographic border ) + 5 pp. Bound in quarter morocco over marbled boards, title in gilt on spine and manuscript label on upper board. The paper of the pamphlet is uniformly browned as usual.

Verso of title page is stamped ‘British Museum sale duplicate 1787’ this records that this example was disposed of by the British Museum in one of their celebrated duplicate sales. A very good example of an extremely rare item. £650 During the first year of the Civil War there were several unsuccessful attempts to organize revolts in Kent and a serious outbreak of violence took place in July 1643. The immediate cause of this uprising was the strong feeling aroused in the county by the attempt to make the people take the Covenant to support the forces raised in defense of Parliament following the discovery of the royalist plot of Edmund Waller in May 1643. The minister of Ightham refused to administer the Covanant and was consequently arrested despite his parishioners’ attempts to assist him. This incident set off the disturbances. Sevenoaks became a centre of armed resistance and armed groups also gathered at Aylesford and near Faversham. Roads from the county to London and to Surrey were secured, Chatham dockyard was threatened and much of the county was in an unsettled state.

Negotiations were opened between the County Committee and the rebels but before definite results had been achieved, Parliament sent troops into the county. The rebels in Sevenoaks-Tonbridge area where subdued.

Rebel reinforcements from Aylesford got as far as Yalding but submitted there to the Parliamentary forces and pockets of resistance in other parts of were also suppressed.

THE ‘WEST KENTS’ NEWSPAPER 633 THE QUEEN’S OWN GAZETTE. A monthly record of regimental doings of The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment, nos 572-583, January-December 1923. [The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment] The Barracks, Maidstone 1923 [20285] 4to. 8.5 x 11 inches. pp. 4557-4790 [233 pp]. Illustrated with one plate and black and white photographs, cartoons, etc. in text and by regimental badges at head of titles.

Bound in recent black half morocco, gilt, old boards stained and worn. Fine inside. £200 A bound set of The Queen’s Own Gazette for 1923 which provides a fascinating record of an era when Kent had two county regiments. It has news of the regiment’s five battalions, and their respective companies, sergeants and corporals messes, etc. (the 1st Battalion being then based at Poona).

There are lists of officers, reports of sporting activities and

KENT accounts of visits made to the recent battlefields and their war cemeteries in France and Flanders. Occasional articles deal with the question of amputations (‘The end of the wooden leg’) and provide interesting statistics (i.e. the numbers of war medals issued). There is an obituary, illustrated by a plate, for the regiment’s former colonel, Major-General Sir Edmund Leach (1836-1922), who first saw service in the Crimea. The Regiment was formed in 1881 from a union of two units, from one of which, the 50th (Queen’s Own) Regiment of Foot, it took part of its title. In 1961 it amalgamated with The Buffs (The Royal East Kent Regiment) to form The Queen’s Own Buffs, the Royal Kent Regiment. Copies of this newspaper (published with its predecessors, 1876-1961) outside the British Library set, are now very scarce. Because it includes so many names it is a valuable source for those researching the history of the Regiment.

PRIVATELY PRINTED BROADSIDE 634 THOMAS, Mrs. WILD FLOWER ALPHABET. TO MY LITTLE DAUGHTER MARY. Mrs Thomas, Eyhorne House, [Hollingborne, Kent] March 1849 [17158] Two Folio broadside sheets, letterpress printed on one side only. The first appears to be a proof for the second one, as a quotation is supplied in manuscript at the head of this sheet and on the second the quote is typeset. The quotation is by Bernardin de St. Pierre - “Les Prairies seront votre école, les fleurs vos Alphabets, et Flore votre Institutrice.“ Below the title are twenty-six verses of charming poetry, each verse representing a letter of the alphabet - Arum, Buttercup, Cowslip and so on. In fine condition apart from one having been removed from an album, therefore remains of old glue on verso. £150 I have not been able the find anything definite on the history of this private press. These two printed broadsides are very wellhandled so it is very hard to think of them as sole productions.

WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS 635 THOMPSON, STEPHEN. OLD ENGLISH HOMES A SUMMERS’S SKETCH BOOK THE ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, Crown Buildings 188, Fleet Street 1876 [18553] Small folio. viii + 215 pp. illustrated with 24 ‘Woodbury type’ mounted real photographs. Bound in the original publisher’s elaborate green decorated cloth, blocked in gilt and black, on thick bevelled boards, all edges gilt.

Extremities a trifle worn but a fine example. £275 The contents are: Ightham Mote (4), Hever Castle (1) Penshurst Place (6), Knole (8), Hampden House (3) and Stoke Poges (2). The images are a mixture of interiors and exteriors with fine views of the houses and some of the villages associated with them.

First Edition. 352 pp. Original blue cloth. Hardcover with gold lettering on the spine and a white curving ‘S’ design from top to bottom of spine, lettering within ruled white border on the front board. A good copy, rubbed at the edges, slight wear to the cloth at the extremities, no dustwrapper. £350 The true first edition of the great smuggling story of Romney Marsh. Many people are confused by the Robert Holden issue, also dated 1915 on the back of the title page. In this case it is simply stating the fact that the book was ‘First published July 1915’, as the Holden issue was in fact published nearly a year later.

637 THORNTON, E.C.B. THAMES COAST PLEASURE STEAMERS. T. Stephenson and Sons, Prescot, Lancs., 1972 [19689] Oblong 4to., 7 x 9 inches approx., iv + 49 pp. with numerous b/w illustrations. Original coloured printed card wrappers. Wrapper a little yellowed and marked, otherwise a very good copy. £20 Forty-nine pages may not seem much but the oblong format gives space for a comprehensive and informative study of the subject. Well-written and illustrated.

638 TIFFIN, ALFRED W. THE GOUDHURST CORONATION BOOK. A RECORD OF CELEBRATIONS IN GOUDHURST AND KILNDOWN (KENT) ON MAY 12th, 1937 THE CORONATION OF THIR MAJESTIES KING GEORGE VI. AND QUEEN ELIZABETH. DIRECTORY, REMINISCENCES AND LOCAL LORE. The Courier Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd. 1937 [20369] 896 pp. with numerous illustrations throughout. Bound in the original gold-decorated blue cloth boards. A clean bright copy. £250 The rare, companion volume to the much sought-after Jubilee Book. We also have a second copy, the binding showing some wear and tear and the gilt not so bright as the example above (but internally clean and sound). This is offered at the reduced price of £200.

639 —— THE GOUDHURST JUBILEE BOOK. A RECORD OF CELEBRATIONS IN GOUDHURST AND KILNDOWN ON MAY 6th, 1935 THE SILVER JUBILEE OF THE REIGN OF THIR MAJESTIES KING GEORGE V. AND QUEEN MARY 1910 - 1935.

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE, DIRECTORIES, HISTORICAL NOTES AND REMINISCENCES. The Courier Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd. 1935 [20368] 504 pp. with illustrations throughout. Bound in the original purple cloth with silver titles and decoration.

Front hinge slightly worn. Boards, with the fugitive purple colour, a little faded as usual. £250

DR. SYN – A TRUE FIRST EDITION

The rare, fascinating and invaluable account of all things to do with Goudhurst and area. Companion to the Goudhurst Coronation Book.

636 THORNDIKE, RUSSELL. [spelled THORNDYKE in this first issue.] DR. SYN. A TALE OF ROMNEY MARSH. Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. July 1915 [17490]

640 TRADE CARD. JOHN COULTER, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANT. HIGH STREET CHATHAM. Office 79 and 81 High St., Chatham. Bonded and Export Warehouse, 3,7,8, and 10 High St. Chatham. Telegraphic

KENT address Coulter. Chatham. No place or date but c.1890 [12852] Engraved Trade Card, or Show Card, 10 x 6.5 inches, printed on card, with three vignette views of Coulter’s Offices and Shop; the Bonded Warehouse and an interior view of their Bottling Cellars, all worked with elaborate lettering into an elegant show card. Slight browning to edges but otherwise in fine condition. £45 A large Trade Card cum Bill Head or Show Card. Removed from an unknown printer’s guard book, where a copy of each previous job was retained to show prospective clients. A fine example of late nineteenth century trade engraving and typography.

641 TREANOR, REV. THOMAS STANLEY. HEROES OF THE GOODWIN SANDS. Religious Tract Society 1900 [17896] Seventh edition. 256 pp. with maps and wood-engraved and half-tone illustrations. Original pictorial cloth, gilt.

A good copy of this classic book on the Goodwins. £40 642 TUNBRIDGE WELLS - BRISTOW, C. R. and R. A. BAZLEY. GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND TUNBRIDGE WELLS. Stationery Office.

1972 [19576] x + 161 pp. with maps and photos. Original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. A mint copy. £20 Part of Memoirs of the Geological Survey of G.B. series. Now only published in paperback.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND CALVERLY ESTATE 643 TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE - BRITTON, JOHN. DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES OF TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND THE CALVERLEY ESTATE; With brief notices of the picturesque scenery, seats, and antiquities in the vicinity. Embellished with Maps and Prints. Published by the author, Burton Street ; Longman & Co. Paternoster Row; and Rodwell, New Bond Street. Sold by Nash, and Elliott, Tunbridge Wells. 1832 [17904] xii + 148 pp. with 3 double-page maps and plans, 10 lithographic plates, and two woodcuts in the text. Original cloth, skilfully rebacked. Original label on the spine.

Some foxing and browning but a good copy. £250 Scarce work by the distinguished architect John Britton, designed to promote Decimus Burton's Calverley Estate.

644 —— DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES OF TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND THE CALVERLEY ESTATE; With brief notices of the picturesque scenery, seats, and antiquities in the vicinity.

Embellished with Maps and Prints Published by the author, Burton Street ; Longman & Co. Paternoster Row ; and Rodwell, New Bond Street, Sold by Nash, and Elliott, Tunbridge Wells. 1832 [19104] 8vo. xii + 148 + 4 pp. With 3 double page maps and plans, 9 lithographic plates, and two woodcuts in the text.

Bound in the original cloth with paper labels on the upper board and spine. A very good copy. £250

645 TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE - CAUSTON, PETER. TUNBRIGIALIA. [OR, THE PLEASURES OF TUNBRIDGE] London: 1709 [18314] 8vo. 12 pp. Title page with wood cut coat-of-arms of seven stars. Latin poem in praise of Tunbridge Wells. Late 19th century paper-covered boards. Manuscript title to upper board on printed paper label with decorative border, lettered Biliotheca Cantiana with a similar bookplate of William John Mercer to the front pastedown. A rare item. £350 One of the ‘incunabula’ of Tunbridge Wells books, there being only a handful of prior publications, all of which are virtually unobtainable. Smith notes in Bibliotheca Cantiana that an edition was published, in Latin and English, in 1705 in Tunbridge Wells. That edition is incredibly rare and the present London imprint of four years later is no less scarce.

We have never handled a copy previously.

CLIFFORD’S TUNBRIDGE WELLS WITH ADDITIONAL PLATES 646 TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE - CLIFFORD, JOHN. THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANCIENT & PRESENT STATE OF THAT PLACE. with a particular description of all the Towns, Villages, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Ancient & Modern Seats, Founderies &c. within the circumference of sixteen Miles, with accurate Views of the principal Objects. : Printed and Published by J.Clifford. Tunbridge Wells, May also be had at either of the Libraries, on the parade. Sold also in London by Hamilton Adams & Co., Paternoster Row. 1840 [19105] Seventh edition, revised. 12mo. [4] + xi + [1] + 172 pp. a-a6, B-P6. Illustrated with 2 folding maps and fourteen plates, including seven engravings (2 folding) and seven woodcuts, plus title page vignette and dedication. A slip, Tunbridge Wells fares, bound in after p.165. Original yellow printed paper wrappers, sometime respined in yellow card. Wrappers and some lower page corners a little grubby and worn, but preserving the original apperance. One folding plate repaired. A plan of Tunbridge Wells, serving as a frontispiece has the southern Parish and County boundaries hand-coloured in outline. £375 A late edition of Clifford’s guide with the (undated) title page little changed from the early years of the century. It is similar to Goulden 61 but has additional plates and is in paper covers.

The Address to the reader is dated January, 1840. The front cover contains the same date and the edition statement with an altered imprint, Sold also by R.Nash and J.Elliott (compare Goulden 62) All these ephemeral guides have become very difficult to find complete.

647 TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE - COLBRAN, JOHN. Edited by JAMES PHIPPEN. COLBRAN’S NEW GUIDE FOR TUNBRIDGE WELLS, Being A Full and Accurate Description of The Wells and Its Neighbourhood, within a Circuit of nearly twenty Miles; Illustrated with Plates, Wood Engravings, etc. of most of the principal Places. Edited by James Phippen. Printed and Published by John Colbran, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.,

KENT and A.H. Bailey and Co., Cornhill, London. 1839 [1840] [19106] Small 8vo. Engraved folding map and frontispiece + xiv + 404 pp. + xi , list of subscribers + [i] + 32 pp. advertisements [8], B-2N4. Illustrated with folding coloured map and 14 plates (11 engravings, two folding and one lithograph and two woodcuts) including frontispiece and several woodcuts to the text. p.117 is misnumbered 116. Original green cloth, gilt. A little rubbed at extremities. Front hinges loose and front endpaper detached. Small tear to map. Some staining and occasional light foxing to plates otherwise a very good, clean copy. £250 This is one of the early versions of Colbran’s New Guide (see Goulden, p. 94). The map and title are both dated 1839 and the Advertisements are both dated January 1840. This seems to conform most closely to Goulden 63 but has fourteen inserted plates, including frontispiece, rather than sixteen.

Colbran’s guides are a mine of information and difficult to find in good condition.

648 TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE - SPRANGE, JASPER. THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE. Or An account of the ancient & present State of that Place. With a particular description of all the Towns, Villages, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Ancient & Modern seats, Founderies &c. within the circumference of sixteen Miles, with accurate Views of the principal Objects. Tunbridge Wells: Printed and Sold by J. Sprange. Sold also in London by Rivington’s Booksellers St Pauls Ch Yard..

1817 [19102] 12mo. [4] + x x + 332 pp. [2], A-A2,B-B8,C-GG4. illustrated with table and twelve plates, including eight folding, in addition to frontispiece, title vignette and dedication. Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, gilt title to spine. Calf is frayed and split at top and bottom of spine with some interior stains opposite some plates. Small, contemporary newspaper cutting tipped in, p.206. Otherwise a fine complete copy.

Author’s address is signed J. Sprange. January, 1815. This copy is a reissue of the 1815 edition and is similar to Goulden 27 but has additional plates, even more than Goulden 28, which has only eleven. It has the preface complete and ‘A list of the Lodging Houses’, pp.313-320. The colophon, in the name of Clifford, Printer, is on p.332 only. This suggests an intermediate version between John Clifford, taking over from Jasper Sprange (died 1823), his uncle.

£375 A very attractive Tunbridge Wells guide with a fine collection of wood engravings, paying particular attention to the major country seats, which are described in detail with lists of paintings.

649 —— THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDE Or An account of the ancient & present State of that Place.

To which is added a particular description of the Towns and Villages, Remains of Antiquity, Gentlemens Seats, Founderies &c.&c. within the Circumference of Sixteen Miles. Tunbridge Wells: Printed and Sold by J.Sprange, at his Circulating Library. Sold also in London by T. Beecroft Bookseller, Pater Noster Row. 1780 [19114] 12mo. [4], viii, 48, 45-53, [3], 49-68; 54, vi, 51-52, 5598, xii, 99-106, vi, 107-178; 14; 16. illustrated with 3

plates, one folding, in addition to frontispiece, title vignette and dedication. Bound in contemporary full calf with contrasting title label, gilt, and gilt decoration to spine. Lacks final blank leaf but has the advertisement from an earlier issue pasted on the rear paste-down endpaper. Front hinge cracking and split at top otherwise a very good copy. £200 First published in 1780, the early issues of this little guide, all dated 1780, have very eccentric pagination and Goulden lists five variants. This issue conforms almost entirely to number three, giving it a date after March 5th but before July 27th 1782.

A very attractive Tunbridge Wells guide with a fine collection of wood engravings, paying particular attention to the major country seats, which are described in detail with lists of paintings.

FINE BINDING 650 TUNBRIDGE WELLS VIEWS - AMSINCK, PAUL. TUNBRIDGE WELLS, AND NEIGHBOURHOOD, ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF ETCHINGS, AND HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIONS. THE ETCHINGS EXECUTED BY LETITIA BYRNE. London: By William Miller and Edmund Lloyd. 1810 [19925] Folio, [12] + 183 pp. with 31 full page engraved plates and 12 vignettes. Bound in contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, probably by the publisher.

Spine in compartments and titles and decoration in gilt with a decorative paper title label to upper board. Mostly found with foxing and browning to text and plates, this copy appears less affected than most. A very good copy. £600 A scarce work which lists 196 subscribed copies, making it likely that only 200 or so copies were produced. The charming illustrations focus on the gentlemen’s seats which abound in the neighbourhood. Sadly, as one of the best view books of this part of the county, a large number of copies of this work have been broken-up for the plates but it is here presented in its complete and original state

TURNPIKE ACT, 1748 651 TURNPIKE ROADS. FARNBOROUGH TO SEVENOAKS. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for repairing and widening the Road leading from ...the Town... of Farnborough in the County of Kent, to ...Riverhill, in the Parish of Sevenoaks...

Printed by Thomas Baskett, Printer to the King’s most Excellent Majesty; and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, London.

1748 [20338] Disbound. Folio. 7.75 x 12.25 inches. [2] + 131-160 pp. text, which is in black letter. Fine crisp condition.

This turnpike Act establishes a trust to improve the eleven mile stretch of road from Farnborough to Riverhill, just south of Sevenoaks, which also formed part of the post road from London to Tunbridge Wells and on to Rye. The preamble states that this highway is, ‘by reason of the great and heavy Carriages frequently passing through the same, greatly in Decay, and the same is become very bad in the Winter Season.

£45

KENT 652 —— SEVENOAKS TURNPIKE TRUST The Hon. R. H. Clive by the direction of the Earl and Countess Amherst and The Trustees of the Sevenoaks Turnpike Road. (Copy draft) Conveyance by way of exchange of certain lands in the parish of Sevenoaks, Kent, forming the site of a new line of Road near White Hart Hill. Dated 22nd October 1852. Austen and Holcroft, Sevenoaks. 1852 Manuscript on blue paper, tied with tape, with annotations in several other hands Folio. 10 x 16.75 inches. [28] pages, numbered 1-13. The plans mentioned as drawn in the margin, are not included in this draft document.

Originally folded in four with (and a small missing section on former front and back of folded document, not affecting legibility). Red stamp with white horse, inscribed Gordon Ward .M.D. F.S.A. Extremities worn but otherwise in fine condition. £75 An extensively annotated draft indenture for the conveyance and exchange of land in the vicinity of Knole Park, between the Trustees of the Sevenoaks Turnpike Trust (set up in 1749, to improve the road from Farnborough to Riverhill, near Sevenoaks) and Robert Henry Clive and the Earl and Countess of Amherst on the other. In 1822 a specification of the construction work for realigning the road in the area of White Hart Hill was issued, and the Trustees were further authorised by two acts of the mid-1830s to divert the turnpike road along a new line. By this Indenture the two Treasurers of the Trust, Charles Palmer and Joseph Palmer, of Sevenoaks, agree to pay Clive, '£65.12.6 of lawful British money,' in exchange for a piece of land of just over one acre, being part of two fields, called Shangden Meadow, or Long Meadow, and Seven Acres, belonging to Whitehart Farm. An insertion at the end grants to Clive in exchange, a 'part of the Old Road intended to be abandoned,' between Knole Park on the north and Clive's existing land to the south. The document rehearses the descent of the land sold to the Trust at great length from the Duke of Dorset to his daughter, Mary, then Countess of Plymouth, and later Countess Amherst in 1825. By a family settlement of 1839, Clive, now a relative by marriage, had acquired an interest in that part of the Amherst land in question. William Pitt Amherst, first Earl Amherst (1773-1857) served as a diplomat at the courts of the two Sicilies and of the Chinese Emperor, before his appointment as Governor-General of Bengal in 1823. On his return from India to his home at Knole House, he sometimes occupied himself in local affairs, particularly in promoting road improvements. He married Mary (1792-1864), widow of his stepson the sixth earl of Plymouth, as his second wife in 1839. She had been born Lady Mary Sackville, one of the daughters of John Frederick, 3rd Duke of Dorset, of Knole House. Robert Henry Clive (17891856) of Oakley Park, Shropshire, who had married Harriet, daughter of Other Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth in 1819, was a grandson of Clive of India

TURNPIKE ACTS 653 TURNPIKE ROADS. KENT ROAD TO DEPTFORD. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for making and maintaining a Road from the Kent Road, in the County of Surrey, to Deptford, in the County of Kent; and a Branch therefrom, to Horsleydown, in the County of Surrey. [1st July 1811.]. Bound with, An Act for amending an Act of his present Majesty for making a Road from the Kent Road in the County of Surrey, to Deptford in the County of Kent, and a Branch therefrom

to Horsleydown, in the said County of Surrey. [18th July 1812.]. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, London. 1811, 1812. [20432] Folio. 8 x 12.75 inches. 1811,75pp1812,. Disbound and rebound in later limp brown cloth, with added paper title, The Road from the Kent Road to Deptford, etc. Edges frayed, withtraces of old folds. £95 ‘Whereas the making and maintaining of a Turnpike Road from the Kent Road, at or near a certain House called the Bricklayers’ Arms, in the Parish of Saint George the Martyr, to join the Turnpike Road leading from Rotherhithe to the Lower Town of Deptford, near the Transport Office in Grove Street, in the Parish of Saint Paul’s Deptford, and to pass in a Line...along and Part of Blue Anchor Road, and across the Deptford Lower Road and across the Grand Surrey Canal, through the several Parishes of Saint Paul’s Deptford, Saint Mary Rotherhithe, Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, and Saint George the Martyr...and also...a Turnpike Road from Horsleydown in the Parish of Saint John’s, at the Point of Junction of Charles Street, Fair Street, and Freeschool Street, to join...where such newly intended Road will cross the Blue Anchor Road, and to pass through Dockhead across Neckinjer Road, across Dandy’s Corner near Dandy’s Turnpike, and across Blue Anchor Lane, and through the several Parishes of Saint Mary Rotherhithe, Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, and Saint John’s Southwark...will be a great Benefit.... A detailed source for the early nineteenth century road system of Southwark and Deptford.

654 TURNPIKE ROADS. SEVENOAKS TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for repairing and amending the Highways leading from Seven Oaks to Woods Gate, and Tunbridge-Wells...

And for amending ... the Highways leading from WoodsGate... to Kippings-Cross in the Parish of Brenchly...

Printed by John Baskett, And by the Assigns of Henry Hills, deceas’d, London. 1724 [20305] Disbound, Folio. 7.5 x 11 inches. [2] + 307-312 pp. text, in black letter. Fine crisp condition. £45 This turnpike act amends the 1709 Act which improved the road between Sevenoaks and Tunbridge Wells via Tonbridge and Woods-Gate and provided for a short extension from Woods-Gate to Kippings-Cross, in the parish of Brenchly (which was later continued on to Lamberhurst and Flimwell in East Sussex). The original act was for a term of fifteen years and this was renewed for a further twenty-one as, ‘by reason of the Natural Clay and deepness of the Soil, and the Difficulty of getting proper Materials for Amendment,’ it had not been effectively repaired during that time.

SEVENOAKS TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS 655 TURNPIKE ROADS. SEVENOAKS TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for repairing the Roads leading from Seven-oaks to Woodsgate and Tunbridge-wells, and from Woodsgate to Kipping’s-cross in the County of Kent; and also for repairing the Roads from Kipping’s-cross ... to Lamberhurst Pound; and Pullen’s-hill ... and to Flimwellvent in the County of Sussex. Printed by John Baskett, London. 1740 [20308] Disbound, Folio. 8 x 12.25 inches. [2] + 247-270 pp. main text is in black letter. Fine crisp condition. £45

KENT This turnpike Act amends the 1709 and 1724 Acts, for repairing and improving the road between Sevenoaks and Tunbridge via Woodsgate.

It renewed the 1724 Act for a further period of twenty one years and, because this stretch had ‘become so bad and ruinous’, extended the short Kipping’s Cross spur via Pullen’s Hill and Lamberhurst, to Flimwell-vent, in the parish of Ticehurst, just over the Sussex border

improve the road between Sevenoaks and Tunbridge Wells via Tunbridge and Woodsgate was established by an Act of 1709, which was enlarged by the subsequent Acts of 1724 (creating also a short extension from Woodsgate to Kippings Cross) and of 1740. The depiction of Tonbridge railway station on map 3 confirms a date after 1842. A scarce example of a turnpike map provided for practical use by the officers of the Trustees.

656 TURNPIKE ROADS. SEVENOAKS TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS. [MEETING NOTICE FOR TRUSTEES OF SEVENOAKS TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS, WOOODSGATE AND KIPPINGS CROSS TURNPIKE TRUST, 1828]. Notice is hereby given, That the next meeting of the Trustees for repairing the Road, from Sevenoaks Common, to Woodsgate, Tunbridge Wells, and Kippings Cross, and from Tunbridge Wells, to Woodsgate, in the County of Kent, is appointed to be holden at the Rose and Crown Inn, Tunbridge Town, on Monday - the fifth Day of May next at Twelve o’Clock at Noon, for taking into further consideration the improvement of the road at the upper end of Tonbridge Town and on general Business. Dated the twenty second day of April 1828 Lingard and Carnell, Clerks to the said Trustees. Dakens, Printer, Tunbridge. 1828 [20337] Letterpress notice with space for manuscript insertions.

7.5 x 4.75 inches. One leaf. Attachment hole in centre, not affecting legibility. Some griming and wear to extremities but otherwise in fine condition. £65

658 TURNPIKE ROADS. WROTHAM HEATH TO FOOTS CRAY. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for repairing the Road leading from the Royal Oak on Wrotham Heath, to the town of Wrotham...and from thence to the Village of Foot’s Cray... Printed by Thomas Baskett,; and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, London. 1752 [20431] Disbound iFolio. 7.75 x 12.25 inches. [2] + 202-203 pp. main text is in black letter. £45

The Turnpike Trust to repair and amend the road between Sevenoaks and Tunbridge Wells via Tonbridge and Woodsgate was established by an Act of 1709, which was enlarged by the subsequent Acts of 1724 (creating also a short extension from Woodsgate to Kippings Cross) and of 1740. An interesting example of the day-to-day administration of a turnpike trust, this meeting was specifically concerned with the alteration and improvement of the portion of the road as it passed through the upper end of Tonbridge Town. Other examples of notices for similar meetings dated May 1828 and April 1835 (the latter not specifically mentioning the Tonbridge Town repairs) are also available at the same price.

MANUSCRIPT TURNPIKE MAP 657 —— THE SEVENOAKS, WOODSGATE, TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND KIPPINGS CROSS, AND THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS - WOODSGATE TURNPIKE ROADS. c.1845. [Pasted to front endpaper: Printed notice of meeting of turnpike Trustees, Tonbridge, 1828}. c.1845 [Notice, 1828] [20341] Large square folio. 19.5 x 19 inches (boards). 6 manuscript maps (numbered by Elliston Irwood), in double linen sheets, with hand coloured and lettered plans of turnpike roads running from sheet to sheet. Bound in later brown buckram. Hand labelled on front board by Irwood. Linen maps are stained and show signs of much use, presumably having been employed in the field. £350 The route of the turnpike is shown from just north of the Sevenoaks/Tonbridge boundaries, via Watts Cross and Hildenborough, through Tonbridge Town, and via Quarry Hill, Bounds Corner, Castle Hill, Fairthorne Gate and Southborough to Woodsgate. The final map shows the section from Woodsgate to Kippings Cross. The Turnpike Trust to

TURNPIKE ACT, 1752

This turnpike Act establishes a trust to improve the twenty mile stretch of road from Wrotham Heath via Wrotham to Foots Cray. The preamble states that this highway ‘is, by reason of the heavy Carriages frequently passing through the same, greatly in Decay; and is very bad and deep in the Winter Season; and in many Places very narrow and incommodious, so that Carriages are frequently hindered and delayed in the said Road...’

MEDWAY BARGE TRAFFIC 659 UPPER MEDWAY CONSERVANCY. BARGE TOLL REGISTER. Toll Register, June 13 1911-February 27 1958. [20440] Large folio ruled ledger with manuscript entries. 15 x 19.5 inches. 398 pp. Disbound, and stitching loose but original labels survive. Some water staining on first few pages, but ink entries legible throughout. £175 Each entry lists date, toll permit number, name, barge, destination (from, to), class, miles, tons, rate, tolls charged and remarks. There are 47 entries per page and hence some 18,700 entries in total from the first load of stone in 1911 to the last load of waste paper, on the Coronation Queen of 120 tons, at the end of February 1958.

660 VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY. THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, KENT. EDITOR WILLIAM PAGE. Dawsons. 1974 [17066] Folio. Three volumes, with maps, plates and illustrations throughout. Bound in red cloth gilt. A fine copy in original glassine wrappers. £250 These are the Dawson reprint produced in 1976 and are now out of print. Covering the early history, ecclesiastical history, archaeology, natural history, geology, maritime history and many other subjects it remains a very useful work. For a modern reprint quite high production values were maintained.

661 —— THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, KENT. Ed. WILLIAM PAGE. Archibald Constable and Company Ltd. and The St. Catherine Press. 1908, 1926 and 1932 [18196] First Edition. Folio. Three volumes, with maps, plates and illustrations throughout. Volumes I and II finely bound by Sawyer in full red crushed morocco, gilt; with spines in compartments with raised bands and gilt title and Tudor

KENT rose and crown decoration in each compartment, and date to base of spines and all edges gilt. Volume III is in original red cloth, with gilt titles and elaborate gilt decoration to spine and upper board. £450 Volumes I and II have the bookplate of Annie Cowdray to the front pastedown. The V.C.H. grand scheme projected five volumes for Kent but only three were ever published in 1908, 1926 and 1932. The gestation period of the book clearly defeated Annie Cowdray and she did not manage to have the third volume bound, nonetheless the first two volumes are very attractive and lavishly bound. The work covers the early history, ecclesiastical history, archaeology, natural history, geology, maritime history and many other subjects and remains a very useful work.

662 VIDLER, L.A. A NEW HISTORY OF RYE. With Fifty Illustrations. First published by Combridges, Hove, Sussex. 1934. This edition published by Gouldens, Rye, Sussex. 1971 [20266] Facsimile reprint of the first edition, 4to. xii + 180 pp.

Illustrated with frontispiece and illustrations in text.

Original cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper, designed by Michael Renton. £40 The best Rye history, reprinted with a few corrections and a new dust wrapper. This facsimile reprint did make the book common for a time, but this edition is out of print now and becoming difficult to find; its major virtue being that it is half the price of the early edition. Leopold Amon Vidler (18701954) was a native of Rye, Mayor from 1927-28 and founder and first curator of the Rye Museum. The history first appeared in monthly instalments in the Sussex County Magazine, 1933.

PRESENTATION COPY 663 VINE, FRANCIS T. CAESAR IN KENT. The landing of Julius Caesar and his battles with the ancient Britons with some account of early British trade and enterprise Privately Printed. 1886 [19015] Square 8vo. xiii + 242 pp. with title page vignette. Earlier owner’s quarter-binding initialled and titled gilt, and bookplate on front paste down and later bookplate on front endpaper. Presentation statement from the author to G. Payne on the front free endpaper and four page letter to the same, dated 1886, pasted in opposite title page.

Sepia photograph of The Marquis Conyngham, to whom the book is dedicated, pasted in opposite the dedication.

Occasional ink comments and corrections in the text by Mr Payne, the original owner. £80 Although not in its original printed wrappers, this is a very interesting copy of a presentation volume with inscription and letter from the author.

664 VINE, P.A.L. THE ROYAL MILITARY CANAL. David and Charles. 1972 [10650] 8vo. 239 pp. with maps, plans and illustrations. Original cloth in dustwrapper. £30 Standard work on the subject, long out of print and much in demand.

665 VIRTUE, GEORGE. VIRTUE'S PICTURESQUE BEAUTIES OF GREAT BRITAIN: SERIES OF VIEWS. By the most approved artists, taken expressly for this work, Messrs G. Shepherd, H.

Gasteneau, etc. etc. Comprising the Principal Cities and Towns, Public Edifices and Dock Yards; Seats of the Nobilility and Gentry, Hospitals, Churches, Castellated and Monastic Ruins, etc, Accompanied by Historical and Biographical Notices, Combining Every Interesting Object, Ancient and Modern, from an Elaborate Survey, and Original Designs taken upon the spot. Kent. G. Virtue. 1829 [19470] 4to. 11 x 9 inches. Engraved title with steel engraved vignette, full page frontispiece of Canterbury Cathedral, letterpress title opposite the folding engraved map,130 pp. and 126 steel engraved plates, printed two to a page.

Unsympathetic recent full-calf gilt, but preserving the original labels. Some occasional foxing, occasionally quite severe, but otherwise a good copy. £325 The principal engraved view book of 19th century Kentish topography.

666 WADE, JANE. Edited by. TRADITIONAL KENT BUILDINGS Nos. 1 to 6. Studies by students at the School of Architecture, Canterbury College of Art. Kent County Council Education Committee. between 1980 and 1988 [17391] Folio. Numbers 1 to 6, 8.5 x 11.5 inches, with between 28 and 44 pages per volume, with numerous photographic illustrations, elevations and plans Original printed, pictorial, card wrappers. All in fine condition. £100 The first few volumes in a projected series of Occasional Papers, the aim of which was to present a selection of students’ drawings with sufficient information for the buildings to be understood. Very professionally produced, these volumes provide a record of some of Kent’s most important vernacular buildings. The first four deal with a variety of buildings around Kent while the fifth concentrates entirely on the village of Brook, near Wye, and the last on Barns from the medieval period on.

FIRST BOOK ON CHANNEL SWIMMING 667 WEBB, MATTHEW. THE ART OF SWIMMING - BY CAPTAIN WEBB THE CHANNEL SWIMMER. (Edited by A.G. Payne). Ward, Lock and Tyler, Warwick House, Paternoster Row. no date but [1875] [20281] First Edition, 8vo. 111 pp. + [1] + [4] pp. advertisements.

Illustrated with a colour printed frontispiece portrait and three full-page, wood-engraved plates. Bound in decorated blue cloth with a gilt portrait of Webb to upper board. £375 This is the earliest published account of Captain Webb’s great swim of August 1875, rushed into print to satisfy the public demand for an account of the event. The book appeared in three different issues: the first bound in blue cloth with a gilt portrait of Webb as part of the cover design, which Thomas in his Bibliography of Swimming dates to 1875; the second is a ‘Yellowback’ paper-covered edition which he is unable to positively date but speculates 1876; and the third version is another hard bound edition, identical to the first in every respect apart from the cloth colour is red, the coloured frontispiece is absent and the title page is a cancel with the publisher’s imprint altered.

KENT The cheap ‘paperback’ issue of Webb’s book is, due to its ephemeral nature, probably the scarcest of the three issues, Thomas’s speculation is that it was later than the first issue (this may well be wrong as it would seem most likely that the hard bound 2/6d issue would be sold alongside the cheaper 1/issue). The Victorians were clever at marketing, and from the beginning Captain Webb controlled the published records of his swim together with A.G. Payne, who was a respected sports journalist who was a friend of Webb’s and witnessed the swim.

They issued a fairly well constructed book giving a short life of Webb, followed by an instruction book on swimming, followed by a résumé of recent swimming feats, and finally the first-hand account (by Payne) of Webb’s first unsuccessful attempt and last of all his successful swim.

Webb was one of the first sportsmen to value himself as a ‘brand’ in the way sports celebrities do today.

SWIMMING 668 [WALKER, DONALD.] WALKER’S MANLY EXERCISES, TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED RACING, HUNTING AND SHOOTING, AND THE WHOLE CAREFULLY REVISED BY ‘CRAVEN’ (John William Carleton). With sixty-four engravings. Sixth edition.

London: Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row. 1839 [19910] Frontispiece + engraved title page + [viii] + 264 pp with 62 engraved plates and wood-engraved head- and tailpieces. Original green cloth binding with gilt titles and decorative gilt-stamped spine. All edges gilt. A very attractive clean copy with the book plate of Henry, Duke of Gloucester. £450 Activities covered in this book in addition to physical exercise include Swimming, Rowing, Sailing, Horse Riding, Carriage Driving, the Turf (Racing), Hunting, and Shooting. The first edition [1835] of this book was so popular that a second edition was requested within two weeks and, as here, is into its sixth incarnation within only four years, with illustrations by F. Howard and H. Alken. Walker sang the praises of Training as being essential to all exercise - ‘nay, it supercedes medicine by banishing disease’. Walker explained that he was not interested in mere pastimes but the acquirements necessary to the highest degree of bodily and mental accomplishment. This fascinating work promotes health through correct, diverse and energetic exercise and shows that the current trend for such things is by no manner an invention of the 21st century. There is much to be learnt from this little tome.

BATHING AND SWIMMING 669 FAMILIAR HINTS ON SEA-BATHING. Necessity of Sea-Bathing. Advantages of Sea-Bathing.

Disorders for which Relief is sought in Sea-Bathing.

Bathing for Amusement - Exercise of Swimming. Bathing of Invalids. William Smith, 113, Fleet Street, London.

1838 [20269] 16mo. 3.75 x 5.75 inches. xi + 146 pp. + [2] pp. advertisements. Bound in original limp cloth, gilt.

Extremities worn and spine rubbed and worn with slight loss at head and tail, but very good inside. All things considered a very nice copy of an extremely ephemeral item. £300

The anonymous author presents a strong case for the medical advantages of regular bathing and particularly for sea bathing and swimming as opposed to immersion in rivers and pools. He is perhaps ahead of his time in recommending that ladies should wash their hair rather than covering it up in water and in deploring the use of stays, except the French corsets, which laced upwards, worn by the aristocracy: ‘Our ladies of fashion, therefore, retain their beauty of form to an advanced period of life. I know the daughter of an earl, now sixty years of age, who, though she has had four children, has been touched by time with so lenient a hand, that not a girl of eighteen wearing English stays, could be found in the United Kingdom to vie with her in beauty and freshness of form.’ The author also inveighs against the male habit of diving headfirst into water, giving a graphic account of a school friend who ended up with his face stuck in the mud at the bottom of a pond. He condemns ‘the coarse brutality of the bathingwomen, in dipping the bathers...a calling exercised only by ignorant, often by dram-drinking fisherwomen.’ Instead ‘the women who attend upon ordinary female bathers in the machines, should be persons of kind, soothing, and persuasive manners...with all the qualities of the best hospital nurses.’ He also describes how the interior of an ideal bathing machine should be furnished with a carpet and matting, a sofa and closet, a window and ventilator. A fascinating account from a date when swimming was not normally an exercise considered safe; this pamphlet addresses these concerns. Its author is unknown but presumably a physician from the degree of medical knowledge displayed. He does, however, devote a whole chapter to the harm wrought by the abuse of medication, again showing views of unusual discernment for this period.

A very scarce work; COPAC records only three copies of this edition in British libraies, at Oxford and Cambridge and the British Library and one of the 1841 second edition.

670 WALMER - CURZON, THE MARQUESS OF KEDLESTON. THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF WALMER CASTLE AND ITS LORDS WARDEN. Edited by Stephen Gwyne. Macmillan. 1927 [16772] First Edition. 8vo. 330 pp. with photo illustrations.

Original decorated cloth, gilt. Very slightly rubbed, but a very good copy. £35 Complete history of the Wardens of the Cinque Ports, and the structure and content of the Castle. A very useful work.

671 WALMER - ELVIN, REV. CHARLES S. THE HISTORY OF WALMER AND WALMER CASTLE. Cross & Jackman, Canterbury. 1897 [16865] 8vo. 151 pp. with photo illustration. Original card wrappers with paper label on upper cover, a little worn on extremities, but a good copy. £65 The first printing of this work was produced by the author in a subscription edition of around 125 copies in 1894. This reissue is also scarce.

672 WARD, LOCK AND CO. GUIDES TO THE KENT COAST TOWNS . Ward, Lock and Co. [20653] We have a range of the Kentish guides. Please enquire.

673 WARNICKE, R.M. WILLIAM LAMBARDE. ELIZABETHAN ANTIQUARY 1536 - 1601.

Chichester, Phillimore. 1973 [18899] 8vo. 188 pp. with 4 plates. Original cloth in dust wrapper.

KENT A detailed survey of Lambarde’s career and historical writings. £25

674 WATSON, HILARY. THE BOOK OF MAIDSTONE. KENT’S COUNTY TOWN. Barracuda Books Ltd., Buckingham. 1981 [17961] First Edition, 8vo. 144 pp. With illustrations throughout.

Original cloth, gilt spine slightly faded, otherwise in near mint condition in the original dust wrapper. £30 A good general and social history of the town.* Signed presentation copy. This volume was produced as a limited edition, this is number 59 of about 350 copies.

CHISLEHURST 675 WEBB, E.A., G.W. MILLER, AND J. BECKWITH. THE HISTORY OF CHISLEHURST. ITS CHURCH, MANORS, AND PARISH By E.A.Webb, G.W.Miller, and J.Beckwith With numerous illustrations, maps, and pedigrees London: George Allen 1899 [19150] 4to. [2} + frontispiece + xvii + [iii] + 487 pp. + [3]. [3], b-c4, A-3P4, [1] illustrated with 64 plates, 14 pedigrees, 3 folding and 2 maps, both folding. Original red cloth, gilt, slight fading of spine and edges of boards, with original spine rebacked. Top edges gilt. Early ink inscription on half-title. £300 Subscribers’ list at end accounts for less than two hundred copies and less than five hundred were printed.

A comprehensive account of the parish as it was at the end of the nineteenth century, covering the parish church and registers, the manors and local government, the buildings and local families and natural history.

Only economic development, industries and the railway appear to have been largely omitted.

676 WEST, JENNY. THE WINDMILLS OF KENT. Charles Skilton. 1973 [16868] 4to.126 pp. with diagrams and photo illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper, A very good copy. £25

POST REFORMATION KENT CATHOLICS 677 WHATMORE, L.E. RECUSANCY IN KENT: STUDIES AND DOCUMENTS. By Revd. L. E. Whatmore, M.A., F.R. Hist.S. [C.W. Field, 26, High Street, Robertsbridge]. 1973 [Preface dated 19 October 1974] [20286] Large 4to. 8.5 x 13.5 inches. [viii] + 63 pp. + [4] pp.

Stapled paper wrappers. Duplicated foolscap size typescript and letterpress title page and front wrapper.

Slight wear to extremities, otherwise in fine condition.

‘Among the papers of the late Arthur Hussey of Wingham and presented by his wife to the Kent Archaeological Society (bundle 14, Arthur Hussey Mss, Museum, Maidstone) are some 150 quarto sheets concerning Kentish recusants...’ This collection publishes these transcripts with additional material from the now defunct Southwark Record.

It includes population statistics for East Kent parishes, 1557-63 and lists of recusants for 1581-93 and 1678. Leonard Elliott Whatmore (1912-82), born in Hastings, was a scholar and Catholic priest who served in the parishes of Polegate and Hailsham, Sussex, 1966-78. As a historian, he was particularly interested in the

subjects of recusancy and catholic loyalism. His works also included Archdeacon Harpsfield’s Visitation, 1557 (Canterbury diocese) and studies of the Elizabethan settlement and the Carthusian order. A scarce compilation of material relating to post-Reformation Catholicism in Kent with indexes of priests and family names.

£25

REPORT ON UK OYSTER BEDS 678 WHITSTABLE - GREAT BRITAIN. LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD. ON OYSTER CULTURE IN RELATION TO DISEASE. Twenty-fourth annual report of The Local Government Board, 1894-95.

Supplement in continuation of the Report of the Medical Officer for 1894-95. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. [C.- 8214.].

Half title: Report and papers on the cultivation and storage of oysters and certain other molluscs in relation to the occurrence of disease in man submitted by the Medical Officer of The Local Government Board. Bound with: Supplement in continuation of the Report of the Medical Officer for 1894-95. Inland Sanitary Survey, 1893-95.

Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. [C.- 8215.]. Half title: Report on the Inland Sanitary Survey, 1893-95; submitted by the Medical Officer of The Local Government Board. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode. London: 1896 [19459] 8vo. [2] + xxvi + 174 pp. illustrated with 4 photographs, 24 folding maps in colour and black and white and 16 plates. Inland Sanitary Survey, viii + 284 pp. illustrated with one folding coloured map. Bound in green cloth library binding, gilt with original card front covers of two parts preserved. Small library stamps on covers and title pages. Detached cover of Oyster Culture report chipped at edges. Interiors clean. £300 The report was commissioned to determine the extent of the bacterial contamination of oyster and other mollusc fisheries by bacteria, especially those of cholera and typhoid. The greater part of the text comprises four appendices, of which the longest is a report by Dr. H. Timbrell Bulstrode on oyster beds around the coastline of England and Wales. Particular attention is given to the important Thames Estuary fisheries, including those of the Colchester and Brightlingsea area and the other Essex beds and for Kent the Whitstable, Seasalter, Swale and Medway beds. It is copiously illustrated by maps which show the relationship between the fisheries and the sewage outfalls. Further appendices examine the bacteriological contamination of oysters under the microscope, a typhoid outbreak at a Connecticut college, linked to oyster consumption and a short report in French.

The Inland Sanitary Survey provides abstracts of 220 urban districts. Each abstract comments on dwellings of the poor, water supply, sewerage and drainage, the state of middens and privies, refuse removal and certain registered trades with an assessment of the efficiency of the relevant authorities in dealing with sanitation problems, etc. Kent local authorities represented include Broadstairs, Deal, Faversham, Gravesend, Herne Bay, Hythe, Lydd, Margate, New Romney, Ramsgate, Sandgate and Sittingbourne.

On Oyster Culture in Relation to Disease is an important survey, providing the scientific evidence for a link between the sewage contamination of oyster beds and outbreaks of cholera

KENT and typhoid in the population. Extensively illustrated with plates and maps. Very scarce.

679 WHITSTABLE HISTORY - GOODSALL, R.H. WHITSTABLE, SEASALTER AND SWALECLIFFE. THE HISTORY OF THREE KENT PARISHES. Cross & Jackman, Canterbury, 1938 [19171] First Edition, large 8vo. 326 pp. with coloured frontis, and numerous coloured and other plates throughout. Original blue cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded but a very good copy.

This copy was from Folkestone library reference collection and apart from a few neat stamps is in near mint condition. £85 The scarce standard work on the three parishes. A wellcompiled and superbly illustrated work which has never been reprinted and is now difficult to find.

680 WHITSTABLE OYSTERS - COLLARD, ALLAN OVENDEN. THE OYSTER & DREDGERS OF WHITSTABLE. Joseph Collard, 1902 [18965] 92 pp. with map and photo illustrations. Bound in original green wrappers. £85 Standard book on the Kentish oyster fishery. Scarce.

SIGNED COPY 681 WHITSTABLE RAILWAY - HART, BRIAN. THE CANTERBURY AND WHITSTABLE RAILWAY. Wild Swan Publications, 1991 [19650] 4to. [6] + 186 pp. with photo illustrations throughout. A fine copy in original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. Signed by the Author. £70 The now standard history of this historic branch line, the largest collection of pictures of the line ever published. Only a small number were printed and the book is now scarce.

682 WILLMOTT, FRANK G. BRICKS AND 'BRICKIES'. Privately Published. 1972. [18838] x + 78 pp. with numerous photographic illustrations.

Bound in the original illustrated boards, a very good copy. £35 The history of Eastwoods Ltd., Brickmakers and Bargeowners.

At the same time it is the story of some of the people of Lower Halstow, Conyer, Rainham etc. Interesting insight into Thames and Medway bargemen. The work was privately printed and the run was quite restricted, hence its scarcity.

683 WILSON, MAURICE. COASTAL CRAFT. Noel Carrington, 29 Percy Street, London. 1947 [18455] Thin 4to. 32 pp. including 15 full-page illustrations (8 in colour). Original green cloth, gilt. A very good copy £30 Nicely produced and charmingly illustrated it includes several craft from our shores, from Whitstable, Ramsgate, and Folkestone. as well as Thames Barges. Scarce.

684 WINCHELSEA - COOPER, WILLIAM DURRANT. THE HISTORY OF WINCHELSEA, ONE OF THE ANCIENT TOWNS ADDED TO THE CINQUE PORTS. John Russell Smith, Old Compton Street, Soho. Hastings: Henry Osborne, 55, George Street. 1850 [19509]

First edition. vii + 264 pp. illustrated with a folding map of Winchelsea and 5 steel-engraved plates, (four with double views), 3 tinted lithographs and 2 wood-engraved plates. Original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt. This copy was a reference library copy but seems to have been little used, and is in good condition. Apart from a blind-stamp on the upper cover and signs of stamp removal from front free endpaper, it has survived unscathed. £100 Still a fundamental book on the history of Winchelsea. Scarce.

685 WITNEY, K.P. THE KINGDOM OF KENT. Phillimore. 1982. [17448] First Edition, 4to. 292 pp. with illustrations. Original cloth in dust wrapper. Spine is faded £35 Now out of print, the Dark Age in the Kingdom of Kent. A classic study.

686 WOODS, T.P.S. PRELUDE TO CIVIL WAR. 1642. MR. JUSTICE MALET AND THE KENTISH PETITIONS. With an introduction by Ivan Roots.

Michael Russell, Salisbury 1980 [19618] Large 8vo. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. xi + 244 pp. Illustrated with 8 pages of plates and petition reproduced in text. Original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. Fine clean copy. £25 ‘Tom Woods, in providing a fresh and meticulous account of the Kentish petitions of 1642, has made a perceptive contribution to our understanding of the immediate circumstances in which the English Civil War broke out. As a study, too, of a notable lawyer, Sir Thomas Malet, this book illumines much else besides - not least the minutiae of judicial procedure and the conduct of assizes.’

687 WOOLDRIDGE, S.W. and FREDERICK GOLDING. THE WEALD. Collins. 1962 [9019] 8vo. 276 pp. with maps and photo illustration. Original cloth, gilt, in very good dustwrapper. £35 A fine modern survey of the geology, archaeology, natural history and economic and social history of the Weald, constituting an important volume in the New Naturalist series.

688 WYE - HUBBARD, G.E. THE OLD BOOK OF WYE BEING A RECORD OF A KENTISH COUNTRY PARISH FROM THE TIME OF HENRY THE EIGHTH TO THAT OF CHARLES THE SECOND. Pilgrim Press Ltd: Derby. 1951 [14706] First Edition. 166 pp. + frontis, 2 plates and endpaper maps. Original cloth in a very good dust wrapper. A very good copy. £35 Exemplary study showing just how much information early records contain - if you can interpret them.

689 WYLLIE, W.L. and M.A. LONDON TO THE NORE. A. and C. Black. 1905 [18193] ix + 260 pp. + 60 coloured plates + [4] pp. catalogue, with 28 b/w head- and tailpieces. Original pictorial brown cloth, gilt. A near fine example of a rare Black’s colour book with the bookplate and ownership inscription of the late Philip Worsley Wood, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. £250 A very desirable copy of a very desirable title, packed with Wyllie’s highly evocative paintings of the Thames and its shipping and craft.

KENT 690 YALDING - AUCTION PARTICULARS. YALDING, KENT. WITHIN EASY REACH OF TONBRIDGE, PADDOCK WOOD AND MAIDSTONE MARKETS. PARTICULARS, PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE OF THE VALUABLE FREEHOLD HOP AND FRUIT FARMS KNOWN AS CROWPLAIN, GAINHILL AND HILL FARMS IN THE PARISH OF YALDING AND A CAPITAL SMALLHOLDING IN THE PARISH OF NETTLESTEAD, KENT, HAVING A TOTAL AREA OF ABOUT 306 ACRES ALL LET AND PRODUCING A RENTAL OF £608 16s. 4d. PER ANN. WHICH MESSRS. FAREBROTHER, ELLIS and CO. WILL SELL BY AUCTION, AT THE ‘ROYAL STAR HOTEL,’ MAIDSTONE, ON THURSDAY, THE 23rd OF OCTOBER, 1913 AT THREE O’CLOCK PRECISELY IN FOUR LOTS. Particulars and Conditions of Sale, with Plans, may be had at the Place of Sale; of Messrs. COWARD AND HAWKSLEY, SONS AND CHANCE, Solicitors, 30, Mincing Lane, E.C.; of Messrs. ELAND, NETTLESHIP AND BUTT, Solicitors ‘Estates Gazette,’ Ltd., 34-35, Kirby Street, E.C. 1913 [17576] Large folio. 12 pp. particulars, etc. + 2 large, coloured lithographic folding plans of the Yalding and Nettlestead properties in rear pocket. Heavy paper wrapper with laid paper text block. A trifle dusty externally with occasional light foxing otherwise a very good copy indeed. The number 227 has been neatly written in blue pencil in the top left corner of the front wrapper. £125 Scarce survivor from a pre-first world war sale

691 YATES, N. AND GIBSON, M. Edited by.

TRAFFIC AND POLITICS. THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF ROCHESTER BRIDGE AD 43 - 1993. The Boydell Press / Rochester Bridge Trust, 1994 [18933] xviii + 390 pp. Well illustrated. Original cloth in dust wrapper, as new. £45 First in the projected 10 volume ‘Kent History Project’ covering aspects of the history of Kent. Very impressive and detailed history of the bridge.

692 YATES, NIGEL. Edited by. KENT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge/Kent County Council. 2001 [18888] 8vo. 418 pp. + 56 b/w plates and 5 maps, of which 2 are large folding maps, with 11 figures to the text and numerous tables. Original black cloth. As new, in like dust wrapper. £65 This volume, the sixth in the Kent History Project, complements those already published on the economy of Kent and religion and society in Kent. Comprising ten chapters, each chapter begins by evoking a picture of Kent on the eve of the First World War and looks at changes that have taken place between then and the present, with particular attention to the impact of the two World Wars on the county.

KENT MAPS

KENT MAPS *** 693 ARCHER, JOHN. KENT. Engraved for Dugdale’s England and Wales Delineated. c.1857 [17935] Engraved map 7 x 9 inches. Mounted and fully handcoloured.

An excellent example particularly well coloured. £50

DUTCH IN THE MEDWAY 694 BOUTTATS, GÉRARD. L’ABBRUCCIAMENTO FATTO DA GLI VASCELLI OLANDESI DI QUELLI DE GLI INGLESI NELLA REVEERA[?] DI CATTAM ANNO 1666 24 DI AGOSTO. [THE BURNING BY DUTCH VESSELS OF THOSE OF THE ENGLISH IN THE PORT[?] OF CHATHAM AUGUST 24TH 1666] Amsterdam 1667 [17941] Uncoloured copper engraving 17 x 13 inches.

Even slight browning and traces of old folds but a very good example. £350 A double-panel Dutch chart from an unidentified news sheet of the period. The chart on the left shows the entrance to the Thames and the coast of East Anglia and Kent. The plan on the right shows the Medway and Sheerness being attacked by the large Dutch flotilla. The date shown on this Dutch chart says that the attack was in 1666. In fact the attack took place between 12-14th June 1667. The title inscription is in Italian.

Very scarce.

SMALL BOWEN’S KENT 1751 695 BOWEN, EMANUEL. [A MAP OF] KENT DRAWN FROM SURVEYS AND THE BEST MODERN MAPS BY E. BOWEN GEOG., TO HIS MAJESTY. ENGRAVED FOR THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE. London, Printed for J. Hinton at the Kings Arms in St. Paul’s Church Yard. 1751 [18000] Copper-engraved map, 8 x 8 inches. Traces of old folds but a very good example. £80 The county map engraved for the Universal Magazine, which was a fashionable periodical of the day. A small but detailed map with a decorative rococo cartouche and the arms of Canterbury.

SMALL BOWEN’S KENT 1756 696 —— KENT DIVIDED INTO ITS LATHES. CONTAINING THE CITIES BOROUGHS AND MARKET TOWNS WITH THE ROADS AND DISTANCES. Engraved for the General Magazine of Arts & Sciences for W. Owen at Temple Bar. 1756 [17974] Hand-coloured copper engraving 8 x 7.5 inches. £100 Attractive map of Kent similar to that published for the Universal Magazine in 1751 but with numerous differences.

SMALL BOWEN’S KENT 1751 697 —— KENT DRAWN FROM SURVEYS AND THE BEST MODERN MAPS BY E. BOWEN GEOG., TO HIS MAJESTY. ENGRAVED FOR THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE. London, Printed for J.

Hinton at the Kings Arms in St. Paul’s Church Yard.

1751 [15514] Hand-coloured copper-engraved map, 8 x 8 inches, mounted, framed and glazed using conservation materials.

Overall size 14 x 14 inches. Traces of old folds but a very good example, nicely coloured. £165 The county map engraved for the Universal Magazine, which was a fashionable periodical of the day. A small but detailed map with a decorative rococo cartouche and the arms of Canterbury.

CANTERBURY IN 1572 698 BRAUN, GEORG. and FRANS HOGENBERG. CANTVARBURY. CANTUARIA VRBS FERTILIS SIMAE ANGLIAE CELEBRIS; ARCHIEPISCOPATI SEDE, COMMENDATA. Cologne 1572 [20645] Copper engraved plate, 17 x 12 inches, in fine handcolouring. Latin text on verso. Mounted in conservation materials. A fine dark impression of the plate with good margins, some marginal discolouration but an outstanding example. £850 The Canterbury plate from, Braun and Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the great celebration of the European city, published between 1572 and 1617 and illustrated with 363 plates. A remarkable series of engravings, incorporating an astonishing wealth of detail, giving an impression of the economy, status, wealth and the social structure of each town, even the costume of the local inhabitants is delineated.

Canterbury was issued in the first volume published in 1572 with descriptive text on the verso of each plate. Three language versions were produced; Latin,as here, German and Italian. The Latin version was reissued several times before 1600 and, as the plate was unaltered, it is impossible to determine from which issue an individual map comes.

699 FULLARTON, A. KENT. Engraved Map of Kent Published by A. Fullarton, Glasgow n.d. but c.1845 [16966] Hand-coloured engraved map of the county, 9.5 x 7.5 inches, with a vignette of Canterbury in one corner and a list of the Hundreds. Mounted in acid-free conservation board. Good impression with good margins, attractively coloured. A fine example. £60 Attractive and detailed map of the county showing the South Eastern Railway completed to Dover, something achieved in 1844.

700 —— KENT. Engraved Map of Kent Published by A. Fullarton, Glasgow n.d. but 1843 [18142] Engraved map of the county, 9.5 x 7.5 inches, with a vignette of Canterbury in one corner and a list of the Hundreds. Trace of old fold. Good impression with good margins. A fine example. £50 Attractive and detailed map of the county.

701 GIBSON. J. AN ACCURATE MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES. Engraved for the Complete Magazine for J. Payne at the Feathers in Pater-noster Row, n.d. but 1765 [18143]

KENT MAPS Copper-engraved map 8 x 7 inches. Signs of old folds, a very good example. £75 Attractive mid-eighteenth century map.

The sheet shows in the north the coast between Graveney and Whitstable, Boughton and Bossenden in the centre with Selling in the south.

REPRODUCTIONS OF HASTED’S MAPS 702 HASTED, EDWARD. MAPS OF THE HUNDREDS IN KENT. WE HAVE REPRINTED THE COMPLETE SET OF 35 OF HASTED'S FAMOUS MAPS OF THE HUNDREDS OF KENT AND THE PLAN OF CANTERBURY. .

Canterbury, 1778-1801 but reprinted 2004 [15851] Uncoloured copper-engraved maps (engraved area aprox 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. Printed on good quality, acid-free off-white/cream paper. Price per map. £12. £12 The sheets show the whole county in great detail and are the best maps prior to the modern maps of the Ordnance Survey.

THE COUNTY IN 1783 703 —— AN ACCURATE MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT, TAKEN FROM A LATE ACTUAL SURVEY. [Simmons and Kirkby] Canterbury. 1783 [18011] Hand-coloured copper-engraved map. 19 x 27 inches with good margins. Scale quarter of an inch to one mile. Traces of old folds. A good copy of the first edition in original outlined hand-colouring. £300 This sheet shows the whole county and was designed to form an index map for reference to the Hundreds contained within the ‘History’. The late actual survey was that of Andrews, Dury and Herbert of 1769, which forms the basis for all the maps of Hundreds in Hasted’s work. He had much criticised the survey when it first appeared for inaccurate place-names etc., and he made great efforts to correct these for his re-publication of the map. This is an attractive example.

704 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF AXSTANE. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [10444] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15.5 x 13.5 inches) with good margins. Scale 1.5 inches to one mile. A very good copy. £95 The sheet shows the river Thames at Greenhithe in the north, the Darenth Valley from Hawley to Eynsford in the centre and Hartly, Fawkham and Kingsdown in the south.

705 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF BLACKHEATH. Canterbury, n.d. but [1778-1800] [20102] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15½ x 13½ inches) with very good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. £200 The sheet shows the river Thames from Deptford to Woolwich in the north, Greenwich and Lewisham in the centre and Sydenham and Eltham in the south.

706 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED BOUGHTON, BLEAN, THE LIBERTY SEASALTER AND THE LIBERTY OF THE VILLE DUNKIRK, ANTIENTLY THE KINGS FOREST BLEAN. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [19583]

Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile.

A very good copy. £45

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707 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF BRENCHLEY AND HORSEMONDEN, AND THE HUNDRED OF WEST BARNFIELD. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [10454] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile.

Traces of old folds but a very good copy. £85 The sheet shows Brenchley in the north, Horsmonden and Lamberhurst in the centre, with Bedgbury and Flimwell to the south.

708 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF BROMLEY AND BECKENHAM AND THE HUNDRED OF RUXLEY. Canterbury. n.d. but 17781801 [16383] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 14½ inches) with good margins. Scale 1 inch to one mile.

A very good copy. £150 The sheet shows Beckenham, Bromley, Chislehurst and the Crays in the north, and Hayes, Keston, Farnborough and Chelsfield in the centre, with Down in the south.

709 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF CALEHILL AND CHART AND LONGBRIDGE. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [11958] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 1¼ inches to one mile.

Some slight foxing but a very good copy. £100 This sheet shows Ashford in the centre, with Egerton, Little Chart, Charing and Westwell to the north. Smarden, Pluckley, Bethersden and Great Chart are to the West, and Kingsnorth, Mersham and Hinxhill to the South and East.

710 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF CRANBROOK, BARKLEY AND ROLVENDON. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [14258] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. £110 This sheet shows Cranbrook and Staplehurst in the north with Biddenden in the centre Benenden and Rolvenden to the west and just short of Smarden to the east.

711 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF DOWNHAMFORD AND OF BRIDGE AND PETHAM; WITH THE CITY AND COUNTY OF THE CITY OF CANTERBURY, AND THE LIBERTY OF FORDWICH. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [15516] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile.

Traces of old folds, but a very good copy. £110 This sheet shows the River Stour from just east of Chartham in the west to Grove Ferry in the east. The City of Canterbury is in the centre, with the land south of the Stour as far as Bridge with Bekesbourne, Littlebourne, Wickhambreux and Stodmarsh

KENT MAPS to the east, and Nackington, the Upper and Lower Hardres and Petham and Waltham to the south and west.

712 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF EYHORNE. Canterbury. n.d.but (1778-1801) [19138] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 1 inch to one mile.

Traces of old folds but, a very good copy. £95 The sheet shows Bredhurst and Stockbury in the North, Hollingborne and Leeds Castle in the centre, west to Boughton Monchelsea and east to Lenham and Otterden. To the south are Sutton Valence and Headcorn.

713 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF FAVERSHAM. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [18324] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile.

Traces of old folds but a very good copy. £85 The sheet shows the The Isle of Harty in Sheppey, The East Swale and Faversham Creek down to the town. To the south the map follows the Ashford Road through Sheldwich as far as Badlesmere Lees with Newnham to the west and Badlesmere in the east.

714 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF FELBOROUGH AND WYE. Canterbury. n.d. but 17781801 [15520] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. £90 This sheet shows the River Stour from Chartham in the north to Wye in the south. Godmersham is in the centre, with Molash, Challock and Eastwell Park to the east, and Brook, Crundale and Bodsham to the south and west.

715 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF GREAT BARNFIELD AND SHELBRITTENDEN. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [10461] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. £85 This sheet shows Glassenbury House just outside Cranbrook in the north with Hawkhurst, Sandhurst and Newenden along the Tunbridge to Hastings Road, with Sussex forming the southern border, and the Isle of Oxney just to the east.

716 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF HOO AND OF CHATHAM AND GILLINGHAM. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [12081] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 18 inches) with good margins. Scale 1.25 inches to one mile.

A very good copy. £85 The sheet shows the Hoo Peninsula and the Isle of Grain in the north, the mouth of the river Medway down to Chatham and Gillingham in the centre, with Waldeslade and Lydsying Green in the south.

A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF 717 —— LITTLE AND LESNES AND DARTFORD AND WILMINGTON. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [14744]

Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15.5x 13.5 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. £75 The sheet shows the river Thames from Woolwich to Dartford Marshes in the north, Plumstead, East Wickham and Erith in the centre and Dartford and Wilmington in the south.

718 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF MAIDSTONE. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [10449] Hand-coloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile.

A very good copy. £125 Original map from Hasted’s History of Kent. The sheet shows Boxley and Barming ether side of the town of Maidstone in the centre with East Farleigh, Loose and Linton in the south.

719 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF MAIDSTONE. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [15840] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. £100 720 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF MARDEN. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [10458] Hand-coloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile.

Mounted in conservation materials. £110 The sheet shows, a strip with Teise river forming the west border, with Stile Bridge in the North, Marden and Staplehurst central and further south Goudhurst and Killdown.

721 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF MARDEN. Canterbury. n.d. but 1790 [18146] Hand-coloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile.

Traces of old folds but a very good copy. £75 722 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF RINGSLOW CONTAINING THE ISLAND OF THANET. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [10471] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 17 inches) with good margins. Scale 1.25 inches to one mile.

A very good copy. £100 This sheet shows the whole of the Island of Thanet from Sandwich Bay to Reculver with the fledgling towns of Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate and Minster as well as the numerous villages, farms and hamlets.

723 —— A MAP OF THE LIBERTY, FORMERLY CALLED THE HUNDRED, OF ROCHESTER AND OF THE HUNDRED OF LARKFIELD. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [10448] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19.5 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. £95 The sheet shows Rochester and the north bank of the Medway down to Aylesford, and south of the river Medway from Snodland to Allington with the hinterland of the Mallings, Birling, and Addington in the south.

724 —— STOWTING,

A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF STREET AND HEANE AND OF

KENT MAPS BIRCHOLT BARONY AND FRANCHISE. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [16203] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 18 inches) with good margins. Scale 1¼ inches to one mile.

Traces of old folds, otherwise a very good example. £110 This sheet shows from outside Waltham the land to the left of Stone Street, with Elmsted, Hastingleigh, Braborne and Stowting in the north with Sellinge, Aldington, Stanford and Lympne in the centre, and Saltwood and the town of Hythe in the south and the sea forming the southern border.

725 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF TENTERDEN, BLACKBORNE, OXNEY AND HAM. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [14093] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile.

A very good copy. £75 This sheet shows High Halden and Shadoxhurst in the north with Tenterden left of centre, and Woodchurch central and Warehorne right centre, The Isle of Oxney and Appledore are south of these.

726 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF TENTERDEN, BLACKBORNE, OXNEY AND HAM. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [8129] Hand-coloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile.

A very good copy. £100 727 —— A MAP OF LOWY OF TUNBRIDGE. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [10452] Uncoloured copper-engraved map. (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) From the first edition. Scale 2 inches to one mile.

A good copy. £70 The sheet shows Tunbridge in the centre, Hadlow to the north, with Leigh Green to the west with Tunbridge Wells just off the map to the south.

728 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF TWYFORD. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [10451] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. £75 The sheet shows the confluence of the Medway and Bewle rivers at Yalding with Wateringbury to the north and West Farleigh to the east and North Hatch to the west, and Brenchley in the south.

729 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF TWYFORD. Canterbury. n.d. but 1782 [18145] Hand-coloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile.

Trace of original folds. A very good copy. £100 730 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF WACHLINGSTONE. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [12079] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 19 x 15 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. £75 The sheet shows Tonbridge in the north, Quarry Hill, Bidborough, Speldhurst and Ashurst to the west, Tudeley, Pembury to the east with Tunbridge Wells to the south, the

centre sector is blank as the separate map of the Lowy of Tunbridge fits in here.

731 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF WESTGATE, WHITSTABLE, BLENGATE AND PRESTON. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [14750] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 1¼ inches to one mile. A very good copy. £100 This sheet shows the sea coast from Whitstable to Reculver in the north. The City of Canterbury in the south west and all the land between the north of the River Stour and the Isle of Thanet at Sarre in the east. Below this are Preston, Stourmouth and Elmstone.

732 —— A MAP OF WESTERHAM AND EATONBRIDGE HUNDRED, WITH THE PARISH AND VILLE OF BRASTED: AND THE HUNDRED OF SOMERDEN. Canterbury, n.d. but 1778-1801 [19140] Hand-coloured copper engraved map (engraved area 15 x 15 inches) with good margins. Scale 1¼ inches to one mile. A very good copy. £110 The sheet shows Westerham and Brasted in the north, Eatonbridge, Hever, Chidingstone and Penshurst in the centre, with Cowden in the south.

733 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF WORTH, NEWCHURCH, ALOESBRIDGE, ST. MARTINS-POUNTNEY AND LANGPORT, IN WHICH IS CONTAINED THE DISTRICTS OF ROMNEY, WALLAND AND DENGE MARSHES, WITH THE LIBERTIES OF THE TOWNS OF NEW ROMNEY AND LYDD. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [14749] Hand-coloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 1.25 inches to one mile. A very good copy. £125 This sheet shows the whole of the Romney Marshes from Hythe to Rye in great detail. This map is scarce due to a fire at the engravers which caused a delay in the map’s production, when the map was finished it was sent to subscribers after the printing of the first edition, for them to insert in the correct place. In many cases it was never inserted by the owners and is often missing from sets of the first edition.

734 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDRED OF WROTHAM, AND THE HUNDRED OF LITTLEFIELD. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [15519] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 19 inches) with good margins. Scale 2 inches to one mile. A very good copy. £100 The sheet shows Stansted to the north and Wrotham, Ightham and Borough Green in the centre and Plaxtol and Mereworth in the south.

735 —— A MAP OF THE HUNDREDS OF WINGHAM AND KINGHAMFORD. Canterbury. n.d. but 1778-1801 [10470] Uncoloured copper-engraved map (engraved area 15 x 20 inches) with good margins. Scale 15 inches to one mile. A very good copy. £65

KENT MAPS This sheet shows Ash and Wingham in the north, Goodneston and Nonington in the centre and Bishopsborne, Kingston and Barham in the south.

736 HOGG, ALEXANDER. A NEW MAP OF KENT DRAWN FROM THE LATEST AUTHORITIES. 1784 [17977] Hand-coloured copper engraving. 8.5 x 4.5 inches.

Includes remarks and engraved by Thomas Conder. A fine example. £50 From Walpole’s The New British Traveller.

737 HULL, F. Edited by. CATALOGUE OF ESTATE MAPS 1590-1840 IN THE KENT COUNTY ARCHIVES OFFICE. With a preface by Miss H. M Wallis, Superintendent of the Map Room, British Library.

Kent County Council. 1973 [19462] Large 4to. xiii + 288 pp. With colour and black and white plates. Original stiff printed card wrappers. A very good copy. £45 An invaluable guide to the manuscript maps in the Kent Archives. Fully indexed as to places people and surveyors, the catalogue is very nicely produced and is long out of print.

KENT 1683 738 JANSSON, J. [PETER SCHENK, and GERALD VALK.] CANTIUM VERNACULE KENT. Amsterdam. [1646] but reissued [c.1683] [10723] Hand-coloured copper engraved map, 15 x 19 inches, with good margins. A very good impression in very attractive hand-colouring. £450 This is an example of the art of Dutch mapmaking at its height.

In this reissue of Jansson's map of 1646, all the art of the engraver and cartographer are combined to produce a finished ‘accurate’ map of the county together with such embellishments as sea monsters, galleons, compass roses and coats of arms held aloft by angels, combined to make this one of the most decorative and accomplished examples of 17th century cartography.

KENT 1644 739 JANSSON, JOANNES. PROVINCIAE CANTII VULGO KENDT NOVA DESCRIPTIO. Amsterdam, 1644 [17987] Engraved map in original outline hand colour. 15 x 20 inches. Dutch text on verso. A crisp impression with excellent margins. A fine example. £600 This impression comes from the Dutch text appendix published

by Jansson in 1644, in which he published eleven English county maps, derived from Speed’s maps. However, the plates are in an unfinished state [state I] and were to be extensively re-engraved and augmented before being published in the more commonly seen Novus Atlas in 1646. These impressions differ in the decoration of the cartouche, which is without its familiar embellishments. These were to appear on the later issues and differ in several other features. They only appeared in this state once and the impression was probably not large.

Rare.

‘QUARTERMASTER’S MAP’ 740 JENNER, THOMAS and WENCESLAUS HOLLAR,. A MAPPE OF KENT, SOUTHSEX, SVRREY, MIDDLESEX, BARKE, and

SOUTHAMPTON SHIRE, AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT, PART OF ESSEX, AND WILTSHIRE, ETC. Printed Coloured and Sold by Iohn Garrett: at the South Entrance of the Royall Exchange in London. [1676] [20635] Engraved hand-coloured map. 20 x 11 inches. Previously folded. Small compass rose above imprint, lower centre.

Title in frame above scale of miles, lower right. Coastal shoals depicted off North Kent and Essex and a number of ships at sea, with a small naval battle in progress in the Channel. Some browning to borders and occasional foxing, otherwise fine condition. £750 A later edition of the so-called Quartermaster’s Map, engraved

by Hollar and first published by Jenner in 1644 as part of The Kingdome of England and Principality of Wales. It consisted of six folding maps, this being the south eastern part. These had been reduced from Christopher Saxton’s large twenty sheet wall map of c.1583. The title of Quartermaster’s Map derives from the title description of the original 1644 edition, which refers to the map’s usefulness to ‘all Commanders for Quarteringe of Souldiers, and all sorts of Persons, that would be informed, Where the Armies be...’ It proved to be especially popular with the Parliamentarian army, the Civil War having greatly increased the demand for easily portable maps. The Royal Arms, present on many maps of the period, has probably been deliberately omitted by Jenner, who sympathised with Parliament. Following Jenner’s death in 1673, the plates which had been used by him for the 1671 reprint, passed into the possession of John Garrett of the Royal Exchange, who published it, with the addition of roads, in 1675 (on silk), 1676 and 1688. A fine copy of this historically significant map.

741 KELLY'S. KELLY’S MAP OF KENT. Kelly's. c.1883 [18172] Large folding map of the county, 41 x 27 inches, coloured by hand in outline, dissected and laid on to linen. Bound in original red cloth-covered stiff card with embossed decoration and gilt title. Spine amateurishly repaired but serviceable. Some chipping to edges of panels but a good example. Library label to pastedown £75

KENT 1607 742 KIP, WILLIAM, after JOHN NORDEN. CANTIUM QUOD NUNC KENT. [George Bishop, John Norton, London]. 1607 [20613] Copper-engraved map, finely hand-coloured. 15.75 x 11.75 inches, within the inner frame. Title, upper central panel. Numbered key to hundreds, dated 1605, upper right panel. Scale of miles. Johannes Norden deliniavit above, William Kip, Sculpsit, below. Compass rose lower right, in Britannici Maris pars.

On verso, Latin text, Cantium/Kent, from Camden, Britannia (1607), pp.22930. Illustrated by headpiece vignette and decorated initials. Framed, glazed and mounted in attractive materials. £350 The so-called ‘Saxton-Kip’ maps appeared in editions of Camden's Britannia from 1607 and were based on Christopher Saxton's great county atlas of 1579. This map of Kent, drawn in 1605, was based on a survey by John Norden (c.1547-1625), the surveyor and cartographer, and engraved by William Kip (fl.1585-1618). The engraving is typical of the early seventeenth century with a fine compass rose in the English

KENT MAPS Channel and scroll work cartouches around the title and list of hundreds. The 1607 Britannia (which included six of Norden’s county maps and thirty four Norden and Saxton maps engraved by Kip) was the sixth and last Latin edition (first, 1586). The last to be published in Camden’s lifetime, it has been described as the first true English county atlas. This map includes some interesting details in the Romney Marsh area, commenting on Denge Marshe, ‘Holme or hollye growing to great trees on the mayn beach.’ It also indicates the ‘Vindelis Insula Old Winchelsey whose ruynes lurk unseen under the sea waves’ (Sussex). An attractively framed and mounted copy of this early map of Kent.

743 KIP, WILLIAM, after NORDEN, JOHN. CANTIUM QUOD NUNC KENT. [George Bishop, John Norton, London]. 1610 [20615] Copper-engraved map, finely hand-coloured. 15 x 11 inches. Title, upper central panel. Numbered key to hundreds, dated 1605, upper right panel. Scale of miles with ‘Johannes Norden deliniauit’ above and ‘William Kip, Sculpsit’ below. Compass rose lower right, in Britannici Maris pars. [Plate no.] 11 appears lower left. Laid on to two sheets of paper. Small tear to upper left corner (Parte of Midlesex) and lower centre left (Sussex), before backing.

Early fold line in centre, otherwise fine condition. £250 744 KITCHIN, THOMAS. KENT DRAWN FROM AN ACTUAL SURVEY AND REGULATED BY ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS. [R. Baldwin, The London Magazine] 1747 [17990] Hand-coloured copper engraved map. 6 x 8 inches. A fine example. £75 Attractive map of the county with a cartouche showing hop pickers stripping a hop bine and cannon and flags to show Kent’s martial achievements. The arms of Canterbury also appear, as does the coast of France (from Calais to Ambletuse). Rivers and main roads are clearly marked.

745 —— KENT DRAWN FROM AN ACTUAL SURVEY AND REGULATED BY ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS. [R. Baldwin, The London Magazine] 1747 [18326] Hand-coloured copper-engraved map. 6 x 8 inches.

Mounted, framed and glazed in conservation materials.

Overall size 11 x 14. A fine example. £125 746 —— A MAP OF KENT. Kitchin and Jeffreys, London. 1749 [17991] Hand-coloured copper-engraved plate. 7 x 5 inches.

With letterpress below. Also engraved on the plate is an explanation of the map, statistical information, and a list of towns with their fairs and market days noted. A fine example. £75 Attractively coloured map in full body colour. The statistical information underneath makes this a curious and quaint item.

747 —— A NEW MAP OF KENT DRAWN FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES. By Thomas Kitchin, Geographer. Engraver to H.R.H. The Duke of York. [R. and J. Dodsley] 1770 [17992] Uncoloured copper engraving, 8 x 10 inches, with good margins. A fine example. £85

From Kitchin’s ‘English Atlas or A Complete Set of Maps of all the Counties of England and Wales’ published by R. and J. Dodsley, using the maps from Kitchin’s ‘England Illustrated’ published in 1764.

748 LANGLEY, EDWARD. and BELCH, WILLIAM. LANGLEY’S NEW MAP OF KENT. Langley and Belch, No.17 High Street Borough, London. n.d. but c.1817 [17506] Steel-engraved map of Kent, 10 x 8 inches, in original full hand colouring, with two uncoloured inset vignettes, one depicting Hop picking, and the other Shipbuilding and Agriculture. A fine example, in very good condition. £150 Attractive early 19th century map of the county with the decorative vignettes which show the county’s claims to fame.

LEA’S KENT, 1693 749 LEA, PHILIP. TO HIS GRACE THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD JOHN [TILLOTSON]

BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY PRIMATE OF ALL ENGLAND AND METRAPOLITAN, AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTIES MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL, &C. THIS NEW MAP OF KENT IS MOST HUMBLY PRESENTED AND DEDICATED BY P. LEA. [From The Shires of England and Wales, described by Christopher Saxton, Being the Best and Originall Mapps With many Additions and Corrections Viz: ye Hundds, Roads, etc. by Philip Lea. Also the new Surveis of Ogilby, Seller, etc. Sold by Phillip Lea. [c.1693] ]. P. Lea, London. [1693] [20604] Large copper-engraved map. First state, 21.25 x 16.25 inches to plate mark, margins concealed by mount. [approx. scale, one inch to three miles]. Upper left panel with key to River Thames and, to the right, eight shields with coats of arms. Centre left, A Table of Explanations and below it A Scale of Miles. Lower left, a plan of Canterbury, based on Speed, and to the right of it a panel with four columns listing the places identified on the plan.

Lower right, dedication panel, surmounted by mitre and Archbishop’s coat of arms. Very attractively later handcolouring. Traces of old folds and an old, minor repair to top right margin where small piece has been torn away and skilfully replaced (so skilfully it could not be detected until map was removed from frame and held to the light), affecting about one inch of the border of the map and blank sea area. Otherwise a fine copy. £1,650 A fine hand-coloured map of Kent, divided into the five lathes and further divided into hundreds, with a separate plan of Canterbury. Symbols are used to indicate the sees, deaneries, shire towns, corporations, market, fair and post towns, cinque ports, country houses, parish churches, etc. The City of London is shown at the top left and the estuary and lower reaches of the Thames are shown in some detail with the channels, shoals and banks indicated and coloured.

This new map of Kent was commissioned by Philip Lea, instrument-maker and mapseller, who had bought the Saxton plates in 1665, prior to reworking and updating them. It replaced the original Saxton (also including Surrey and Sussex) and later Ogilby maps, used in earlier editions of his county atlas, The Shires of England and Wales. The date of this

KENT MAPS edition, in its first state, may be inferred by the dedication to John Tillotson, who was Archbishop, 1691-94. After Lea’s death in 1700 his widow Anne continued the business; following her death in about 1730, the copper plates were again sold and a new printing of the Kent map was issued by John and Thomas Bowles, 1730-33. A handsome depiction of the county.

750 LETTS’. MAP OF KENT. Letts’, Son and Co., Ltd. [1881] [19603] Coloured lithographic map, 16 x 13 inches, dissected and laid on to linen. Original black moire cloth outer panels with label to front. A very clean and bright example. £60 Part of a series of maps published in Letts’ County Atlas.

Sheets were available separately and, as in this instance, could be dissected for easier reference. The map covers an area including the Essex coast and parts of Surrey and Sussex with the detailed area extending from Deptford round to the county border before Rye. Principal topographical features extend several miles into the adjacent counties. A key denotes the divisions into Lathes, Hundreds and Liberties and there are panels for statistics and explanation of signs.

751 MORDEN, ROBERT. KENT. London, 1708 [17996] Uncoloured copper-engraved map.6.5 x 8 inches. A fine example with good margins. £125 Commonly referred to as ‘Miniature Morden’s’ this map was published as part of ‘Fifty Six New and Accurate Maps of Great Britain’ published in conjunction with Herman Moll in 1708.

752 —— KENT. London, 1695, but c. [1753] [18297] Hand-coloured copper-engraved map. Traces of old folds. A fine example. £200 Morden’s maps were issued without alteration in four editions of Gibson’s Camden, and the thin paper of the late editions is the only way of distinguishing them, apart from the generally lighter impressions due to the plates becoming worn. Not easy to see without direct comparison.

KENT 1695 753 —— KENT. London, 1695 [18298] Copper-engraved map - uncoloured. A fine example. £250 An uncoloured example of the first edition on thick paper,

VICTORIAN KENT 754 MOULE, THOMAS. KENT. London. n.d. but c.1845 [16425] Steel engraved map, finely coloured by hand. Map 8 x 10.5 inches, frame 14.5 x 16.5 inches. Attractively mounted to conservation standard. £125 Certainly the last decorative engraved map of the county. After this period maps appeared as more functional objects, but here we have three charming inset views of Greenwich, Rochester, and Dover; and four Kentish coats of arms framed in wreaths of hops surrounding the detailed map of the county. ***Another copy unframed is available at £65***

755 MUDGE, COUNTY OF

WILLIAM. A MAP OF KENT DRAWN FROM

THE THE

TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY TAKEN BY ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE BOARD OF ORDNANCE, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF LT. COLONEL Wm. MUDGE, ROY’l. ART’y. F.R.S. REDUCED FROM THE LARGE MAP IN FOUR SHEETS, By a Scale of One Inch to two Statute Miles. NEW EDITION. London.

Published by Ja’s Wyld, Geographer to Her Majesty. 5 Charing Cross East. 1841 [20469] Hand-coloured, engraved map, 24 x 36 inches approximately, dissected and laid on to linen Preserved in original paper-covered slip case with leather title label, gilt. Some slight wear to folds but a fine example. £300 Another issue, of the reduced scale Mudge Ordnance Survey map from the edition of 1801, which had established itself as the pre-eminent map of the county. The high price of the foursheet map, and its size, called for smaller, less expensive issues. Rare.

GOODWIN SANDS 756 NUNN, CAPT. W. A LARGE DRAUGHT OF THE DOWNES, SHOWING THE SANDS, SHOALS, DEPTHS OF WATER AND ANCHORAGE, WITH ALL THE LEADING MARKS TO AVOID THE DANGERS THEREIN. Sold by Wm. Mount and T. Page on Tower Hill. London. No date but c.1745 [18292] Hand-coloured copper-engraved sea chart 17 x 22 inches.

Mounted in conservation materials. A very good example with good margins. £350 One of the definitive maps of the Goodwins, the plate shows the coast from Dover to Margate, showing the Stour estuary and the sand banks of the Downs and Goodwin Sands. A detailed map on both sea and land, with many points of coastal reference including a gallows on the cliff near Deal.

Decorated with a cartouche and compass scale and a compass rose, rhumb lines, etc.

DOVER VIA SANDWICH AND DEAL 757 OGILBY, JOHN. THE ROAD FROM CHELMSFORD IN ESSEX TO MALDON, RA[Y]LEIGH IN ESSEX AND GRAVESEND IN KENT With the branch from Canterbury, to Deal by Sandwich and thence to Dover. (London ) n.d. but 1675 [20644] Hand-coloured, copper-engraving, 12.5 x 16.5 inches, with decorative cartouche. Wide margins, a very good copy with attractive colouring. £275 Published in ‘Britannia’, John Ogilby’s famous strip road maps were the first engraved sheets to map England’s roads.

They combine a decorative title cartouche with the detailed and practical arrangement of sections or strips, in this case six strips from Chelmsford in the lower left corner of the map, through Rayleigh and Billericay, Gravesend, and on to Canterbury and Dover.

LONDON TO HYTHE 758 —— THE ROAD FROM LONDON TO HITH IN KENT INCLUDING THE ROAD BY MAIDSTONE. (London ) n.d. but 1675 [18299] Uncoloured copper-engraving, 12.5 x 16.5 inches, with decorative cartouche. Some old repairs in the wide

KENT MAPS margins, not effecting the map, otherwise a very good copy £275 Published in ‘Britannia’, John Ogilby’s famous strip road maps were the first engraved sheets to map England’s roads.

They combine a decorative title cartouche with the detailed and practical arrangement of sections or strips, in this case six strips from London in the lower left corner of the map, through Rochester and Canterbury to Dover.

LONDON TO RYE 759 —— THE ROAD FROM LONDON TO RYE IN SUSSEX. (London ) n.d. but 1675 [20643] Hand-coloured, copper-engraving, 12.5 x 16.5 inches, with decorative cartouche. Wide margins, a very good copy with attractive colouring. £275 Published in ‘Britannia’, John Ogilby’s famous strip road maps were the first engraved sheets to map England’s roads.

They combine a decorative title cartouche with the detailed and practical arrangement of sections or strips, in this case six strips from London in the lower left corner of the map, through Lewisham and Bromley, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and on via Lamberhurst to Rye.

OGILBY’S COUNTY MAP 1672 760 OGILBY, JOHN. ENGRAVED BY F[RANCIS] LAMB. A NEW MAP OF KENT. ACTUALLY SURVEY’D AND DELENIATED BY HIS MAJESTIES COSMOGRAPHER JOHN OGILBY ESQ. London. [1672] [20606] Large copper-engraved map, 16.75 x 21.5 inches to edge, in original hand-colour, within ruled inner and outer borders, between which the orientations, North, South, East and West, are found. Upper left oval dedication panel ‘To his Grace, the most Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, by divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury; Primate of all England and Metropolitan, & one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council, his munificent Patron, &c. This new Map of the County of Kent ... ‘, with adjacent Mitre and coat of arms of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Lower left 'A Table of Explanation' and 'A Scale of English Miles' [1-12] [Approx. scale 1 inch to 3 miles] with 'F.Lamb. Sculp at lower edge.' Lower right title cartouche 'A NEW MAP OF KENT Actually Survey'd and deleniated (sic) by His Majefties Cofmographer JOHN OGILBY Efq'. Trimmed tight to outer border and laid on to board . Some foxing along one fold and occasionally along lower edge. A little timestained but intact and undamaged. £1,650 A fine hand-coloured map of Kent, divided into the five lathes and further divided into hundreds. Symbols are used to indicate the sees, deaneries, shire towns, corporations, market, fair and post towns, Cinque Ports, country houses, parish churches, etc. The City of London is shown at the top left and the estuary and lower reaches of the Thames are shown in some detail with the channels, shoals and banks indicated. The map is dedicated to Archbishop [1663-1677] Gilbert Sheldon, who financed the establishment of the Sheldonian Museum at Oxford, where he was Chancellor. Philip Lea’s map of 1693 was based on this map.

DYMCHURCH TO FOLKESTONE

761 ORDNANCE SURVEY. [ORDNANCE MAP OF DYMCHURCH TO FOLKESTONE.] Scale six inches to one mile. Kent. Sheet. LXXIV. N.W. Third edition, 1908. Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office.

1908 [19691] 50 x 60 inches. Uncoloured engraved map, dissected and laid on to linen in 28 panels. Limp marbled paper covers with label of Edward Stanford, Geographer, to upper cover. A well-used map, rather scuffed and grubby and having suffered several punctures. None of this affects the readability and usefulness. £125 Surveyed in 1871. Revised in 1906. Heliozincographed from 1/2500. Covers the coastal region from Dymchurch in the West to Folkestone in the East and inland from Sellindge across to Hawkinge and Crete Road East, showing the main SER line and the Sandling Branch.

ROMNEY MARSH WITH DUNGENESS 762 ORDNANCE SURVEY. [ORDNANCE MAP OF PART OF ROMNEY MARSH.] Scale six inches to one mile. Kent. Sheet. LXXXI. Second edition, 1899.

Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office. 1899 [19643] 39 x 51 inches. Hand-coloured engraved map, dissected and laid on to linen. Bound in limp black boards. Slight wear and staining consistent with age, but generally fine condition. £135 Surveyed in 1871. Revised in 1896-97. Heliozincographed from 1/2500. Covers the parishes of St Mary in the Marsh, Blackmanstone (part), Ivychurch, Hope Old and New Romney, St Martin’s New Romney, Brenzett (part), Midley and Lydd, including the whole of the Dungeness peninsula as far west as Lydd Camp. The edge of the coastline has been coloured blue and the areas of the parishes of New Romney, St Martin’s New Romney and Hope, pink. Maps such as this were produced, usually to order, and centred around a point, selected by the client, who, in this case, may have been New Romney Municipal Borough Council.

MAIDSTONE 763 —— ORDNANCE MAP OF THE COUNTRY AROUND MAIDSTONE. Scale one inch to one mile. Engraved at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. Surveyed in 1865-69 Revised in 1893 and Published by Colonel J. Farquharson, C.B., R.E., Director General, 1896 [19158] Hand-coloured engraved map, dissected and laid on to linen. Housed in a worn but complete cloth-covered slipcase, labelled Edward Stanford, Ordnance Map of the Country around Maidstone. The label and the cloth of the upper cover of the slip-case have been damp at some point and the original red cloth is faded but complete. The slipcase has proved its utility as the map is in fine condition within. Neat Victorian address stamp on reverse of map, not affecting map. £120 Major roads, railways, wood and county boundaries are hand coloured. Maps such as this were produced, usually to order, centred around a point selected by the client and Stanford’s would use sheets from the appropriate O/S maps and provide extras like hand-colouring and linen quality, etc.

OGILBY IMPROVED

KENT MAPS 764 OWEN, JOHN, and EMANUEL BOWEN. A MAP OF KENT. [Printed for Carington Bowles, in St. Paul’s Church Yard.] No date but c.1750 [18325] Small engraved handcoloured County Map 5 x 7.5 inches.

Framed and glazed in conservation materials, overall size 9.5 x 12 inches. A very good example. £95 From, BRITANNIA DEPICTA, or OGILBY IMPROV'D. owen and Owen’s famous road-book-cum-atlas.

765 PARKER, SAMUEL. A MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. ENGRAVED FOR HARRIS’S ‘HISTORY OF KENT’ London : Printed and sold by D. Midwinter, at the Three Crowns in St Pauls Church-Yard 1719. 1719 [18279] Large hand-coloured map, two sheets joined, approximately 33 x 23 inches overall. Traces of old folds but a very fine example, mounted in conservation materials ready for framing. £1,250 The most decorative engraved map of the county, Parker’s map, dated 1719, was published in John Harris’ ‘History of Kent’ and was based on Symondsen’s map with a view of Dover Castle and Town but with the addition of 118 Coats-ofArms forming a decorative border. Included are lists of Lathes, Bailywicks, Hundreds, Market Towns, Cities, Ports, and Franchises.

766 ROCQUE, JOHN. KENT. Rocque and Sayer 1753 [17997] Hand-coloured engraved map. 6.5 x 8 inches A very good example. £85 This map with its inset view of Dover castle was published in 1753, in English and French, by John Rocque and Robert Sayer in ‘The Small British Atlas’, which contained fifty four maps. Although unsigned the maps are distinguished by the shading round the county borders giving the counties the appearance of islands.

schedule dated 1841, and most of the information on ownership is the same. From this list we know the uses of each field, i.e. its cultivation (marsh, arable, pasture etc). It also identifies all the buildings on the map, with ownership and use.

Using Google Earth, it can be seen that the modern field patterns remain remarkably consistent, the most obvious change being the arc of the railway which cuts across the lower right hand quadrant of the map and the addition of new housing developments. The windmilll still stands (in working order), with the nearby turnpike cottage still standing on the Ramsgate-Canterbury A253. It is truly remarkable that so little has changed in the more than 170 years that have passed since the map was made.

The Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 set up the Tithe Commission headed by three Commissioners sitting in London, William Blamire (1790-1862), Captain Thomas Wentworth Buller, RN, (1792-1852) and the Rev. Richard Jones. By 1841 G.H. Whalley was an Assistant Commissioner. The Act allowed the substitution of a money payment - the tithe rent-charge for payment in kind. The first tasks of the Commissioners were to find out where commutation had already taken place, and also to establish the boundaries of every unit in which tithes were paid separately. This unit was known as a tithe district to distinguish it from a parish or township. This map would appear to be a result of these enquiries.

768 SELLER, JOHN. KENT. Francis Grose. 1787 [17999] Hand-coloured copper-engraved map with letterpress description below. A very good example. £65 Published by Grose in his ‘Antiquities of England and Wales’

GREAT KENT WALL-MAP

767 SARR NEAR SANDWICH. PLAN OF THE PARISH OF ST. GYLES OTHERWISE SARR IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. We the undersigned Tithe Commissioners for England and Wales do hereby certify this to be a copy of the map and plan referred to in the apportionment of the Kent Charge in lieu of tithes in the Parish of St. Gyles otherwise called Sarr in the County of Kent. As witness our hands signed William Blamire and T W Buller.

Signed G.H. Whalley, Assistant Tithe Commissioner.

[Signed with initials] E.J.W. 23/3/43 Surveyor’s signature abraded and so far not traced. [John ???man]. 1843 [20446] Finely drawn manuscript tithe map, 25 x 18.75 ins. Ink and colour wash on paper, mounted and laid on linen.

Some surface dirt and slight discolouring, later pencilling of names, with occasional additions in pencil. £750

769 SELLER, JOHN., JOHN OLIVER, AND RICHARD PALMER. KENT ACTUALLY SURVEY’D AND DELINEATED BY JOHN SELLER, HYDROGRAPHER TO THE KING. Newly Corrected and Amended with many Additions. Sold by H. Moll over against Devereux Court in ye Strand P. Overton Map and Printseller near St. Dunstans Church Fleetstreet, and by I. King Map and Printseller at the Globe in the Poultry, London, c.1681, but this edition [c.1715] [20611] Copper engraved map. 37.75 x 24.25 inches within the inner frame. Two sheets joined, with one inch gap in between. Dedication cartouche To the Nobility and Gentry...of Kent at upper right with martial and naval achievements. At lower left, Title and imprint cartouche with cornucopia depicting the produce of the Garden of England with additional cameo of the white horse of Kent below and two scale bars to its right. At lower right, The Explanation of the Map cartouche with maritime imagery.

To its left explanation of symbols used in map inscribed on column base and compass rose to right of dedication. Sea creatures and ships surround the coasts, with a naval engagement off Romney Marsh. Framed, glazed and mounted map. Small stain and a few marks near lower edge, but otherwise fine condition. £2,750

A very attractive mid-19th century Kentish tithe map of the parish now known as Sarre. An interesting feature of the map is that it shows an intricate network of water-filled ditches fed by the River Stour, which were presumably water-meadows.

The scale is given at 6 chains to the inch. The fields are numbered and the owners’ names have been pencilled on to the map in a later hand. We have obtained a copy of the tithe

The rare map of Kent engraved for Seller’s projected Atlas Anglicanus. John Sellerannounced in 1679 his intention to produce a folio county atlas together with the surveyor John Oliver and the engraver Richard Palmer. By 1680 three counties were completed and it was announced that they were now ‘upon the actual Survey of the County of Kent.’ Only two further counties were completed before the project was

MANUSCRIPT TITHE MAP

KENT MAPS abandoned and the partnership dissolved in 1693. The printing history of the Kent map, engraved on a scale of a half-inch to one mile, is obscure. After the first impression of about 1681 (of which no examples are known), it was reissued in 1688 under the name of Seller alone. The plate was then sold to Philip Lea who issued it with some examples of his reprint of Saxton’s atlas in 1693/4. Very few of these are known and, following the deaths of Seller (1698) and Lea (1700), the map was revised and sold by R. Davies in 1710. It then passed into the hands of Herman Moll and P. Overton who published it c.1711-14. This copy of the map, the fifth issue, had the additional name, I. King, added to the imprint. A final and sixth issue appeared much later, in 1775. As well as being the most difficult of the Kent maps to find, its attractiveness as an example of late seventeenth century engraving is clear The survival rate of maps like this is very low due to their large size, and in this case as it was not issued in an atlas and bound in book form. The few copies that do survive were probably bound up in composite atlases by early collectors.

MANUSCRIPT ESTATE MAP 770 SHORTER, JOHN. A PLAN OF THE FARM CALLED GLASS COCKS BELONGING TO MISS HENRIETTA COLLIER, SPINSTER, SITUATE IN THE PARISH OF SANDHURST IN THE COUNTY OF KENT 1767 [15626] Manuscript on vellum, 25.5 x 21 inches, in ink and watercolour, heightened with gold. Traces of old folds, otherwise in fine condition. Some later owners of surrounding land are added in pencil. £850 A delightfully quirky map decorated with a fine cartouche in a flourishing calligraphic style with cherry motif, and another heightened with gold surrounding the explanation, also a compass point and scale of Gunters Chains and scroll above the list of fields etc., all beautifully drawn and decorated in colour and gilt. At the top a disembodied hand points to the Turnpike road to Rye. Drawn with amazing detail, the farmhouse and buildings are shown in perspective as are the gates to fields and even swans are drawn on the pond.

The work of John Shorter, 1728-1781, a Hastings official ( jurat 1759, town chamberlain 1764) and schoolmaster at the Hastings Free School. Estate plans are recorded for Sussex, but so far he is not listed for work in Kent.

771 SMITH, C.S. A NEW MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. DIVIDED INTO LATHES Etc. Printed for C. S. Smith No 172 Strand January 6th 1804 [18301] Original hand-coloured engraved map 17 x 20 inches.

Trace of an old fold, but a very good example with fine wide margins. £250 Nice example of this turn-of-the-century Kentish map from Smith’s ‘New English Atlas’. The maps were drawn by J. Tomkins and engraved by H. Vincent .

772 —— A NEW MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT. Divided into Lathes &c. London: Printed for C. Smith, No.172 Strand, January 6th 1804, corrected to 1818 [19160] Third edition. Hand-coloured folding engraved map, 19 x 21 inches, dissected and laid on to linen. Preserved in the original card slip-case with printed label and neat contemporary inscription. £250 Good example of this pre-railway Kentish travelling map from Smith’s New English Atlas.

SPEED’S KENT 1616 773 SPEED, JOHN. KENT WITH HER CITIES AND EARLES DESCRIBED AND OBSERVED. No place or date but London [1616] [18013] Hand-coloured copper-engraving, 15 x 20 inches.

Mounted in conservation materials double-sided to show the text in Latin on verso. Framed and double glazed in a suitable moulding. A fine, strong impression from the second issue, which had no publisher’s imprint. The centre fold has been strengthened on verso but there are no repairs or restorations. The colouring, which has some age but is not original, is particularly attractive. A fine example of the second edition identifiable by the latin text on verso. £1,500 John Speed's justly renowned map of the county from the second edition of his great early 17th century atlas of the British Isles. His survey was based on the earlier work of Philip Symonson with the addition of his own embellishments, and separate plans of Canterbury and Rochester. The beauty of the engraving is particularly evident in such a strong impression. One of the most attractive maps of Kent, from the Latin issue.

SPEED’S MAP 1676 774 —— KENT WITH HER CITIES AND EARLES DESCRIBED AND OBSERVED. Performed

by Iohn Speede and Are to be sold by Tho: Bassett in Fleetstreet and Ric: Chiswell in St. Pauls Churchyard, [London]. [1676] [20634] Hand-coloured copper-engraving, 15 x 20 inches.

Mounted in conservation materials, double-sided to show the Latin text on verso. Framed and double glazed in a suitable moulding. £850 One of the most attractive and decorative maps of Kent, from the rare Latin issue. There are slight variations in the abbreviations of the names as described by Burgess.

SYMONSON, BUT SOMEWHAT WORN. 775 SYMONSON, PHILIP. A NEW DESCRIPTION OF KENT. DIVIDED INTO FYVE LATHES THEREOF : AND SUBDIVIDED INTO BAYLYWICKES; AND HUNDREDES; WITH THE PARISH CHURCHES CONTEYNED WITHIN EVERY OF THE SAME HUNDREDES. ALL WHICH, FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDINGE, ARE DISTINGUISHED WITH VARYETYE OF COLOURES. COMPREHENDING AS WELL THE CITIES; THE USUALL MARKET TOWNES; AND THE PORTES, WITH THEIR MEMBERS LYING IN KENT: AS ALSO SUCH OF THE HOWSES OF THE NOBYLITIE AND GENTRYE AS THE PLOTT COULDE CONVENIENTLY RECEAVE. WHERIN MOREOVER THE NATURE OF THE SOYLE (WHETHER PLAYNE, HYLLYE, OR WOODDYE) IS MORE DILIGENTLYE OBSERVED : AND THE TRACTES OF RYVERS, RYLLES AND CREEKES AND THE TRENDINGE OF THE SEASHORE BE MORE NATURALLY DESCRIBED THEN HERETOFORE IT HATH BEN DONE. BY THE TRAVAYLE OF PHIL: SYMONSON OF ROCHESTER GENT. Printed and Sold by J. Overton at Ye White

KENT MAPS Horse neare St. Pilchers Church. [London] . No date but c.1665-1680 [20619] Large coloured copper-engraved map, 30 x 20 inches, printed on two sheets joined. Title in elaborate cartouche with scale of English Myles, Tables of Lathes and Hundreds, Cities, Ports and Franchises. The sea is dotted with ships and a sea-monster. All within a decorative scalloped and scaled border. The map is time-stained and worn. The map retains borders and margins on 3 sides, the top is trimmed to just outside the border, which has suffered slight loss. Repaired tear adjacent to join with slight loss and some damage from creasing. Traces of old folds. The tables appear to have been wiped with a damp cloth and some of the information is difficult, and in one or two instances impossible, to read. However, the map detail is still easily legible. A rare opportunity to purchase at a substantial discount one of the most important Kent maps. £850 This map comprises the county of Kent in its entirety, with parts of Middlesex (including the City of London), parts of Essex, Surrey and Sussex. Philip Symonson’s map of Kent, the first engraved map of the county and only the second English printed map to show roads was first published in 1595 and only one complete copy of that issue is known. This map went through a number of iterations and this is the seventh state of the map, as published by Overton who took it over from Stent.

Overton added two views; Dover Castle and Towne from ye Landside, and Rye, by W. Hollar and Sir Anthony Van Dyke.

The scale is half an inch (13mm) to one mile, the largest scale that had been used for a printed county map at this date. To accommodate the size, the map was printed from two plates on two sheets and then joined together. The scale allowed for great detail, all the churches are accurately depicted with a spire or square tower. It is also the first county map to show latitude and longitude, based on the Azores meridian.

MINIATURE SPEED 776 VAN DEN KEERE, PIETER. KENT. (John Speed and George Humble) 1646 [18294] Uncoloured copper engraving 3.5 x 5 inches. English text on verso plus 2 pages of the text from the atlas still joined to the map as published. An attractive example. £145 The rare Kent map from the so-called 'Miniature Speed' county atlas. Pieter van den Keere issued a miniature atlas of the English Counties in around 1605 based on Christopher Saxton's atlas of 1579. Subsequently the map-plates were reprinted by W.J. Blaeu and then acquired by George Humble the London publisher of John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain'. He had the old plates reworked with English titles and 23 new plates engraved - they were issued in 1627 as a 'pocket atlas' under the title 'England Wales Scotland and Ireland described from a farr larger voulume by John Speed'.

777 WALKER, J. AND C. WALKER’S [FOLDING MAP OF] KENT. Printed by J. & C. Walker, n.d. but c.1843 [15905] Hand-coloured engraved map, 16 x 13 inches, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into original cloth boards with the original label on the upper board and mileage chart on inner paste-down. A very good example. £65 Nice example of this map of Kent with boundaries of the Lathes, Railways (such as there were at this date, South

Eastern to Dover, and Canterbury and Whitstable) and parklands etc.

778 CANTERBURY - DAWSON, ROBERT, Lieut.

R.E. CANTERBURY. (FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY) BOUNDARY COMMISSION MAP. House of Commons. n.d. but 1831 [16652] Lithographic map, 14 x 12 inches, with contemporary hand-colouring. Fine example, very attractive colouring. £60 These maps were produced from the Ordnance Survey maps on a scale of 2 inches to one mile, to redefine the parliamentary boundaries, in this case joining the parishes or wards to become one constituency. The map is sold together with the pages of text and statistics which accompanied the map in the report.

SEA CHART 779 HEATHER, WILLIAM. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE MASTER ,WARDENS AND ELDER BRETHREN, OF THE TRINITY HOUSE, THIS CHART OF THE DOWNS AND MARGATE ROADS IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY WILLIAM HEATHER 1797. As the Act directs Jan. 12 1797 by W. Heather at the Navigation Warehouse No 157, Leadenhall Street London 1797 [18732] Large hand-coloured copper engraved sea chart, 25.5 x 32 inches. Traces of a old central fold, one corner has old crease and a faint damp stain in the top right-hand corner and occasionally along the right margin but a very good example of a rare chart. Separately issued charts are more elusive than those which were issued in atlases. £650 Heather specialised in supplying charts to the merchant trade, operating from 157 Leadenhall Street, at 'The Sign of the Little Midshipman’. The premises were immortalised by Charles Dicken’s 1846 novel 'Dombey and Son’ as the shop kept by Sol Gils: the 'Little Midshipman’ was illustrated in the book. This is a so-called ‘blue-back’ from the waterproof backing paper that these charts originally came supplied with, (here removed). Heather’s chart was a valuable update for sailors navigating the treacherous Goodwin Sands and the approaches to the Thames Estuary. A very fine and detailed chart with numerous compass roses, soundings, coastal profiles, indications of the speed and direction of winds and the composition of the sea.

780 HYTHE - DAWSON, ROBERT, Lieut. R.E. HYTHE. (FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY) BOUNDARY COMMISSION MAP. House of Commons. n.d. but 1831 [16650] Lithographic map, 17 x 11 inches, with contemporary hand-colouring. A fine example with very attractive colouring. £75 These maps were produced from the Ordnance Survey maps on a scale of 2 inches to one mile, to redefine the parliamentary boundaries, in this case Hythe, Folkestone and Sandgate became one constituency. The map is sold together with the 4pp. of text and statistics which accompanied the map in the report.

781 —— HYTHE. (FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY) BOUNDARY COMMISSION MAP. House of Commons. 1831 [16832]

KENT MAPS Lithographic map, 15 x 12 inches. With contemporary hand-colouring. A fine example with attractive colouring. ÂŁ75 These maps were produced from the Ordnance Survey maps, in this instance on a scale of 3 inches to one mile, to redefine the town boundaries, Five windmills are marked in Hythe, and the three forts which were built in Napoleonic times, Twiss, Sutherland, and Moncrief.

782 SANDWICH - DAWSON, ROBERT, Lieut.

R.E. SANDWICH. (FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY). BOUNDARY COMMISSION MAP. House of Commons, n.d. but 1831 [16831] Lithographic map, 13 x 8 inches, with contemporary hand-colouring. A fine example with attractive colouring. ÂŁ40 These maps were produced from the Ordnance Survey maps, in this instance on a scale of 4 inches to one mile, to redefine the Municipal Borough boundaries. Where previously the boundary had been defined by the bank of the Stour it now ran along the centre of the river.

HISTORY and THEOLOGY

HISTORY and THEOLOGY *** ALL THE WORLD’S RULERS 783 ANDERSON, JAMES. ROYAL GENEALOGIES: OR, THE GENEALOGICAL TABLES OF EMPERORS, KINGS AND PRINCES, FROM ADAM TO THESE TIMES; IN TWO PARTS Part I. Begins with a Chronological History of the World, from the Beginning of Time to the Christian Era, and then the Genealogies of the earliest great Families and most ancient Sovereigns of Asia, Europe, Africa and America, down to Charlemain, and many of them down to these Times. Part II. Begins with the Grand Revolution of Charlemain, and carries on the Royal and Princely Genealogies of Europe down to these Times; concluding with those of the Britannic Isles. See a more particular Account in the Preface and in the Contents of the Tables.

By James Anderson, D.D. Part II has separate title page: The Second Part of the Genealogical Tables of Emperors, Kings and Sovereign Princes, From Adam to these Times.

Beginning at the Grand Revolution of Europe under Charlemain. And containing The German Emperors, the Electors and Princes of Germany, and All Remaining North of France. Then The various Tables of France, Italy, Sicily, Spain, Portugal, etc. And last of all The Britannic Tables Ancient and Modern, with The Descendants of the Royal and Princely Families of the British Isles. Printed for the author by James Bettenham: and sold by E. Symon and J.Clarke in Cornhill; R. Ford in the Poultry: A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, J. Osborn and T. Longman in Pater-Noster Row; R. Gosling in Fleetstreet; A. Millar, and N. Prevost in the Strand; T. Green at Charing-Cross; J. Jackson in Pall-Mall; and J. Stagg in Westminster-Hall, London. 1732 [19898] First edition. Folio. 10.5 x 16 inches. [xviii] + 812 pp. + [18] [9], A-A2, B-10A1. Part 2 has separate title page (with decorated vignette at foot) but pagination and register are continuous.

Three tables are folding.

Illustrated with decorative vignettes at end of tables. Title page in red and black. Inset: Genealogy of the Kings of Sardinia, [1855], printed sheet folded in three; two manuscript tables. Bound in early calf, spine rebacked, dark brown morocco label, gilt, with green marbled endpapers. Extremities worn. Occasional neat pencil notes and early armorial bookplate of George Ormerod of Sedbury Park on front paste-down. Bookseller’s cutting, quoting Brunet number and Times cutting of 1863 on princes of the German Confederation. Fine condition. £450 ‘...the Sovereigns of all Ages and Nations...drawn up in the Order of their Succession, ranged under the Banners of their respective Tribes and Constellations and passing in one compendious Review... ’ (from the author’s dedication to Frederick, Prince of Wales). In his preface, Anderson also states that the work can be regarded as ‘an Abridgement of Universal History,’ and it is certainly enlivened by his historical notes on the thousands of individuals contained in it; for instance, his summary of the Emperor Trajan, ‘who raised the 3rd Persecution, and banish’d 11000 Christians, otherwise an excellent Emperor,’ and of his successor, Adrian

(i.e. Hadrian), ‘a learned and valiant Prince, tho’ something proud, cruel and deceitful.’ Of a Grand Master of St John of Jerusalem, he says, ‘He had no Favourites, no Partiality, and his Government was agreeable both to Knights and People.’

Anderson too makes good his claim for impartiality (‘he has let every nation enjoy its own faith’), by including tables for the Muslim caliphs, sultans and other rulers.

James Anderson (1679-1739) was born in Aberdeen and ordained as a Church of Scotland minister before moving to London in 1707, where his reputation as a Presbyterian preacher led to his nickname of Bishop Anderson. After losing a large sum in the South Sea Company in 1720, he turned to writing as a source of income and became best known for his works on freemasonry. The Royal Genealogies developed out of his translation of the Genealogische Tabellen of Johann Hubner of Hamburg and took Anderson ‘seven Years hard Labour.’ It is certainly a monumental work and also a very beautiful one, a triumph of the printer’s art, and full credit must be given to James Bettenham for his achievement. A second edition appeared in 1736.

This copy was owned by George Ormerod (1785-1873), antiquary and historian, author of The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester. He bought Sedbury House and its surrounding estate in 1825 Sedbury (in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire, located on the English side of Offa’s Dyke).

A magnificent work of genealogy, enlivened by the author’s ascerbic comments, and very handsomely printed, in fine condition.

IRISH TRIAL 784 ANONYMOUS PAMPHLET. A NARRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COURT OF KING’S-BENCH, IN IRELAND, RELATING TO THE TRIAL OF MARY HEATH, FOR PERJURY: IN TWO LETTERS. THE FIRST, FROM A COUNCIL LEARNED IN THE LAW, WHO WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE WHOLE PROCEEDINGS. THE SECOND, FROM A GENTLEMAN WHO ATTENDED THE TRIAL. Printed for J. King in the Strand. [Price One-Shilling] 1745 [20487] 8vo. iv + 5-80 pp. Disbound pamphlet occasional foxing, but a very good copy. £450 A famous injustice of the time, which caused ‘much noise in a neighbouring Kingdom’ [Ireland]

NOT IN ESTC 785 ANONYMOUS PAMPHLET. [CIVIL WAR.] THE GROUNDS AND PRINCIPLES OF RELIGION CONTAINED IN A SHORTER CATECHISM: (ACCORDING TO THE ADVICE OF THE ASSEMBLY OF DIVINES SITTING AT WESTMINSTER.) TO BE USED THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM OF ENGLAND, AND DOMINION OF WALES. The Proofs carefully corrected and amended.

Printed and sold by J. Rawlins, in Queen’s-Head Court in Pater-Noster-Row, London 1706 [20494] 12mo. 21 + [3] pp. Disbound pamphlet occasional foxing, but a very good copy. £120 A reprinting of the Puritan Civil War Catechism. Very scarce.

This edition not listed in ESTC or Copac

HISTORY and THEOLOGY COMPENDIUM OF SPANISH PEACE TREATIES 786 ANONYMOUS PAMPHLET. [SPANISH TREATIES]. PRONTUARIO DE LOS TRATADOS DE PAZ, ALIANZA COMERCIO, ETC. DE ESPAÑA. HECHOS CON LOS PUEBLOS, REYES, REPUBLICAS, Y DEMAS POTENCIAS DE EUROPA. Desde antes del estableciamiento de la monarquia gotica, hasta le fin del reynado del señor Don Phelipe V. Reynado del Señor Don Phelipe IV. que comenzò en 31.de Marzo de 1621. y acabò en 17. de Septiembre de 1615. Parte IV.V.VI.VII. ultima. En Madrid. Año de MDCCII. 1702 [18354] Small 8 vo. [xx] + [1] + pp.2 to 579 A to T; V to Z; Aa to Oo3 end. Skilfully recased in original vellum binding.

Original hand written title on spine. The ties have long since fallen off leaving the stubs on the front and back covers. £210 This is a compendium of peace treaties covering the reign of Philip IV of Spain including parts IV,V,VI and VII. These compendiums were issued in series, each one corresponding to the reign of the named monarch. Philip IV (1621 - 1665) was King of Spain, Sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands and King of Portugal until 1640. The King was famous for his patronage of Diego de Velazquez and the Golden Ages’ dramatists Lope de Vega and Calderon de la Barca. Philip IV relied upon Olivares, known as ‘el conde duque’, his powerful favourite and prime minister, to manage his foreign policy.

Popular opinion blames Olivares for the decline in power of the Spanish Empire.

CLASSICAL MARTIAL LEADERS 787 ARROL, ROBERT. CORNELII NEPOTIS VITAE EXCELLENTIUM IMPERATORUM: Cum Versione Anglica, in qua verbum de verbo, quantum fieri potuit, redditur; Notis quoque Anglicis, Tabula Chronologica, et Vocabulario locupletissimo.

OR, CORNELIUS NEPOS’S LIVES OF THE EXCELLENT COMMANDERS: With an English Translation, as literal as possible; With English Notes, a Chronological Table, and a large Vocabulary. By Robert Arrol, Master of the Grammar-School of Greenock. Printed by T.W. and T. Ruddimans, Edinburgh: And sold by Messrs. Hamilton and Balfour, J. Paton, and other Booksellers in Edinburgh, and J. Barry, Glasgow. 1744 [20117] First edition. 8vo. 4.5 x 7 inches. xvi + 326 pp. + [2], Addenda et Emendanda a-b4, A-2S4. Fragmenta, Chronologia and Vocabularium at end. Parallel texts in Latin and English. Bound in original full calf, unlettered and undecorated. Extremities worn. Worming throughout lower edge margins, sometimes extending into text without significantly impairing legibility. Early signature, John Hescott and initials on title page. £110 This is a work of collective biography of the great military commanders and war leaders of classical antiquity, including the Greeks, Miltiades, Themistocles, Lysander, Alcibiades and many others and the Carthaginians, Hamilcar and Hannibal.

It concludes with additional biographies of Cato and Atticus.

The chronology at the end places all the figures in their historical context. In his preface, the translator explains that his version is after that of John Clarke with corrections and improvements taken from the edition of Augustinus Van

Staveren: ‘Mr John Clarke was a Gentleman very sufficient for translating either in a literal or free Way (but if he had published less, perhaps his Works would have been better done) and because his Translation of Nepos is reckoned one of his best Pieces, it is therefore mostly retained in this Edition, but altered in many Places, especially where the two Texts differ.’ The preface concludes with a modest disclaimer: ‘he hopes the competent, candid Judge will pardon his Escapes and Defects, and accept of his honest Designs and Desires to serve the Publick.’ This edition is notable for its extensive vocabulary or Latin-English dictionary section at the end, emphasising the book’s purpose as a teaching text.

Cornelius Nepos (c. 100-24 BC) was born in Cisalpine Gaul, near Verona. The Vitae is his only surviving work and because of its simple style of writing, has been a popular choice for passages of unseen translation in Latin exams of all levels.

Very scarce in this first edition, with ESTC recording only three copies in Britain and three in the US.

788 BAILDON, W.P. (Editor Vols. 1-4) and RONALD ROXBURGH (Vol.5) The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn. The Black Books.

1422 to 1914.

Lincoln’s Inn, London 1897-1968 [17145] 5 Volumes. 4to. Vol.I. 1422 to 1586, 521 pp. Vol.II. 1586 to 1660, 529 pp. Vol.III. 1660 to 1775, 544 pp.

Vol.IV. 1776 to 1845, 547 pp. Vol.V. 1845 to 1914.

Original uniform green cloth, gilt. A near fine set. £300 The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is said to take its name from Henry de Lacy, third Earl of Lincoln, who died in 1311. He lived close by and is credited with being the Society's patron. The other three Inns of Court also date back to the fourteenth century but Lincoln's Inn can claim the oldest extant records, the Black Books, which record its principal activities from 1422 to date.

The first four volumes were published between 1897 and 1902, Volume 5 was not published until 1968.

CLASSIC PURITAN TEXT 789 BAXTER, RICHARD. GILDAS SALVIANUS; THE REFORMED PASTOR. Shewing the nature of the Pastoral work; Especially in Private Instruction and Catechizing. With an open Confession of our too open Sins. Prepared for a day of Humiliation kept at Worcester, Decemb. 4. 1655. by the Ministers of that County, who subscribed the Agreement for Catechizing and Personal Instruction, at their entrance upon that work. By their unworthy fellow-servant Richard Baxter. Teacher of the Church at Kederminster. Printed by Robert White, for Nevil Simmons, Book-seller at Kederminster, and are to be sold by William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church Yard. 1656 [20435] First edition. 8vo. 4.25 x 6.25 inches. [80] + 480 pp. + [16] pp. Vertical half-title at end. Illustrated by decorated initials. Includes prefaces to the ministers and to the layreaders at beginning and letters to the ministers and gentry in London and to ‘the Ministers of the Gospel in this County’ (i.e. Worcestershire), signed in the name of the ministers of the Kidderminster and Evesham Associations. Bound in later half calf with marbled boards and rebacked spine with blind stamped and gilt rules and red morocco label. Faded red edges. Extremities worn.

Browned inside and some stains. Occasional ink and

HISTORY and THEOLOGY pencil notes in margins. Three ownership inscriptions on first free endpaper of 1827, 1860 and 1867 (Lagos N.C. Africa and Nelson Dock, Liverpool); Latin inscription on second free endpaper. £850 Richard Baxter (1615-1691) the eminent Presbyterian Divine, finished this work on 25 December 1655 (he didn’t observe Christmas). A variant of this first edition was published in Kidderminster only, also in 1656, with a second edition appearing in 1657. Baxter spent his early life and career in Shropshire but, following ordination in 1638, he was appointed lecturer or preacher at Kidderminster 1641-42, and again from 1647 (chosen vicar by his congregation 1648) until he was ejected at the post-Restoration settlement in favour of the original incumbent, Dance. During his long life he swung in and out of political and religious favour, living through the turbulence of the Civil War (in which he served as chaplain in the West Country campaign of the New Model Army from 1645) and the Restoration, but never swayed from his beliefs.

He did receive a licence to preach under the Declaration of Indulgence in 1672 and when this was withrawn the following year, he suffered fines and imprisonment for his nonconformity, most notably under Judge George Jeffreys in 1685-86 (for a seditious publication). Although a Puritan and a Presbyterian by inclination, his practise of religion was by no means prescriptive or exclusive and he also described himself as ‘a Catholick Christian’ (‘...be very tender of the Unity and Peace of the Catholick Church,’ T8 v.) The Reformed Pastor (‘a classic of puritan evangelism,’ DNB) was one of his most popular works and set out his views of the preacher’s and minister’s office, including exhortation public prayer, admonition and discipline, and catechising.

JEFFERIES AND THE BLOODY ASSIZES 790 [BENT, JAMES.] THE BLOODY ASSIZES: OR A Compleat History of the Life of George Lord Jefferies, from His Birth to the Present Time. Wherein, Among Other Things, is Given a True Account of His Unheard of Cruelties, and Barbarous Proceedings in His Whole Western Circuit. COMPREHENDING The whole Proceedings; Arraignment, Tryals, and Condemnation of all those who suffer’d in the West of England, in the Year 1685. With their undaunted Courage at the Barr, their Behaviour in Prison; the Cruel Whippings afterwards, and the remarkable Circumstances that attended their Executions. To which is added Major Holmes's excellent Speech with the Dying Speeches and Prayers of many other Eminent Protestants. None of which were ever before Publish'd. Faithfully Collected by several WestCountry Gentlemen, who were both Eye and Ear Witnesses to all the matter of Fact. With Allowance London, Printed for J. Dunton at the Black Raven in the Poultrey, over against the Compter, and sold by R. Janeway in the Queens-Head-Alley in Pater-noster-row.

1689 [19153] Disbound pamphlet. 4to. 70 pp. + [1] advertisement. £350 Attributed to James Bent; cf. BM. According to Halkett & Laing (v.9, p.32), the original work was by John Shirley with contributions by Pitts (i.e. John Tutchin) and probably by Titus Oates and John Dunton. Dunton (Life and errours of John Dunton, 1818, v.1, p.184-5) mentions that Mr. Shirley wrote Lord Jeffrey's Life; he adds also that Mr. Pitts was, in part, author of The Bloody Assizes. S. Parks (John Dunton and the

English book trade, 1976, p.40) states that most writers consider James Bent to be the pseudonym of John Dunton.

Since Dunton has already attributed the authorship of The Bloody Assizes to Shirley and Pitts, it is most probable that James Bent (Dunton) and Titus Oates were only minor contributors to this work. ‘A poem to the memory of George Lord Jefferies,’ by John Carter: p.[5]-[8]

SCHOLARS’ BIBLE, 1827 791 BIBLE IN ENGLISH. THE COMPREHENSIVE BIBLE; DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY KING GEORGE THE FOURTH, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORIZED VERSION WITH THE VARIOUS READINGS AND MARGINAL NOTES USUALLY PRINTED THEREWITH: A general introduction, containing disquisitions on the genuineness, authenticity, and inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, - various divisions and marks of distinction in the sacred writings, - ancient versions, - coins, weights and measures, - various sects among the Jews: Introductions and concluding remarks to each book: The parallel passages contained in Canne’s Bible; - Dr. Adam Clark’s Commentary, 7 vols.; - Rev. J .Brown’s Self-Interpreting Bible. 2 vols., - Dr. Blayney’s Bible; - Bishop Wilson’s Bible, edited by Crutwell; - Rev. T. Scott’s Commentary, 6 vols.; and the English version of Bagster’s Polyglott Bible, systematically arranged: Philological and explanatory notes: Table of contents, arranged in historical order: An analysis and compendium of the Holy Scriptures: A chronological index, interspersed with synchronisms of the most important epochs and events in profane history. An index of the subjects contained in the Old and New Testaments; and An index to the notes, introductions, and concluding remarks. Printed for Samuel Bagster, Paternoster Row, at the Warehouse for Bibles, New Testaments, Prayer Books, and Psalters, in Ancient and Modern Languages:

by Bagster and Thomas, Printers, Bartholomew Close, London. 1827 [19820] 4to. 8 x 10.5 inches. [4] + ii + [ii] + 1352 + xviii + xiii [indexes] + [1]. [4], a-m4, B-Z4, 2A-8N4. Printed in double columns. Bound in contemporary black morocco, gilt decorated spine, divided into compartments in the style of fleurons made from half-triangular tools placed together to form a square inverted to produce a diamond.

Boards have dice pattern with decorated gilt borders and dentelles. Weak hinges and joints at front and first four leaves, including title page, are creased. A few small tears, including title page, not affecting text and light foxing. Occasional early annotations in pencil or neat ink Inscription on first free endpaper, Charlotte Augusta Salter, Nov.22nd.1842. On rear endpaper, facing the colophon, is list of errata, in ink and pencil, with note, sent to Bagster. £250 Contains additional title page, The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 6M2 (1827). COPAC records about a dozen copies; only two are in two volumes (and one in the USA, noted by Herbert). This copy contains no blank family register pages.

HISTORY and THEOLOGY This Authorised Version of the Bible was edited by William Greenfield (1799-1831), a gifted philologist, who became editorial superintendent of the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1830, deploying his formidable command of European and oriental languages. It is the result of his intensive study of languages and of biblical criticism, including an extensive scholarly introduction with two indexes and, it is said, contains 4000 illustrative notes with 500,000 marginal references.

The bible was published by Samuel Bagster the elder (17721851). A successful bookseller, he turned his attention in 1816, to the production of polyglot bibles and those in English with printed notes as the monopoly on production to the king’s printers and the two universities, did not apply to these categories. The collaboration with Greenfield began in 1822 and the Comprehensive Bible, although attacked by some as heterodox became very popular, especially among Unitarians.

It was reprinted in both 1828 and 1829. The firm’s motto, Multae terricolis linguae, coelistibus una / Many tongues for those on earth, one for those in heaven, believed to be by Greenfield, appears on the title page.

Good copy of an influential and scholarly edition of the Authorised version.

200 ENGRAVINGS 792 —— THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW: NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES, AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED. BY HIS MAJESTY’S SPECIAL COMMAND APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES. Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King’s Excellent Majesty.London: 1724 [19426] 4to. in eights. 7.2 x 9.75 inches. [966] pp. A-Z8, AaVv4; A-K8; A-O4; A-A4, B-E3. Illustrated with fifty-one leaves of plates, with four engravings per page = 204, plus additional illustrated title page and royal arms on main title page. Bound in early calf with blind stamped decorative borders, sometime rebacked in morocco with red morocco label, upper and lower page edges gilt decorated around three sides. Some griming of edges and occasional small edge tears with slight loss of text, a few early ink annotations. Early inscription on first free endpaper and another attached to front paste-down. £600 Authorised Version with separate title page for the New Testament:; John Baskett, Printer to the University. 1723 with a separate register. The Apocrypha also has a separate register as does the index and tables at the end, making a total of four registers.

There is a separate engraved title page (placed before the main title) for the plates: The Historical Part of the Holy Bible or the Old and New Testament Exactly and Compleatly Describ’d in above Two Hundred Historys Curiously Engraved

by J. Cole From Designs of ye best Masters (Sold by Richard Ware, at the Bible & Sun Warwick lane at Amen Corner...).

This Bible is similar to Herbert 970 and E.S.T.C. T89252 but the New Testament is dated 1723 rather than 1719.

A good example of a Bible illustrated by contemporary engravings.

PIRATE AMSTERDAM BIBLE 793 —— THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW Newly translated

out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by his Majesties special command.

With most profitable Annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance. Which notes have never before been set forth with this new translation; But are now placed in due order with great care and in dustrie. Printed in the Year 1683. [Amsterdam]: [Printed by or for Stephen Swart, bookseller, The Exchange ? ] 1683 [19701] Folio. 8.75 x 13.25 inches. [2], A-A4, B-D4, E-E8, FZ8, 2A-2X8, 2Y-2Y4, 2Z1. End of O/T. Apoc. 3A-3K8, 3L1. End of Apoc. N/T. 4A-4N8, 4O-4O2. End of N/T. Index, A-A2, B-F2 = [1068] unnumbered pages (sequence from 2N is wrongly signed 3N to 3Z). Engraved title page with royal arms, figures of Moses and Aaron and a view of London. Lacks ordinary printed title page and no separate title for New Testament. Bound in early calf, gilt decorated spine with remains of red morocco label and decorative centre panels with blind stamped decoration on front and rear boards.

Edges worn and rubbed.

Dedication and contents page has missing section including text. Interior shows signs of age including browning, staining and worming with some small tears and lower edge abrasions, these not affecting text. Early armorial bookplate inside front paste-down and early signatures on first free endpaper and rear paste down. £600 This is the King James version but with the Geneva notes, and did not have maps in this issue. The fine engraved title page includes a vignette bird’s-eye view of London from Southwark before the Fire, showing three of the south bank theatres. The effect of this illustration on the title page is to make you think this is a London printed Bible, however there is no printer or place an this is the tell tale omission, and this was almost certainly printed in Amsterdam and masquerading as a English printing, This is Bible is similar to Herbert 782 but also includes Apocrypha, as the British Library copy. The 1683 edition is a reprint of the 1672 edition (Herbert 702), considered to be a possible imprint of Stephen Swart, bookseller near the Exchange, Amsterdam.

CAMBRIDGE BIBLE OF 1673 794 BIBLE IN ENGLISH [KING JAMES VERSION] THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW TESTAMENT...

Bound with imperfect copies of The Book of Common Prayer and The Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins ( also

by Hayes, Cambridge, 1673). Printed by John Hayes Printer to the Universitie, Cambridge. 1673 [20138] 4to. 7 x 9 inches. The Holy Bible; The Old Testament.

[478] leaves. A-A2, B-B8. C-2P4; Apocrypha, [88] leaves. a-I8; The New Testament, [148] leaves. A-S8, TT4. Separate register for Apocrypha and separate title page and register for New Testament.

Bound with [Book of Common Prayer], [182] pp.(lacks title page) and with The Whole Book of Psalms, [116] pp. (prayers incomplete at end) [=1726 printed pages]. Main title page illustrated with architectural framework by John Chantrey; title pages have the University arms.

Bound in original calf, gilt, spine rebacked and rear board replaced, new endpapers; front board has double gilt

HISTORY and THEOLOGY borders with blind stamped decoration, enclosing gilt inner panel, decorated in corners (blind stamped only on new rear board); spine divided into compartments with gilt decorated four line divisions and panels; black morocco label, decorated gilt. Extremities worn. Small tear to e2 of Prayer Book and pages b3-A4 repaired; missing sections and slight loss of text to tops of New Testament, L-L2.

Armorial bookplate and inscription of Minerva Dickens. £850 This 1673 Cambridge Bible includes the Apocrypha and is bound with a contemporary imperfect Book of Common Prayer and The Psalms. There are twelve pages of family records, which begin on the verso of the first free endpaper and continue on six pages at the beginning, at the end of the New Testament, on an additional page tipped on to the last printed page and on the next free endpaper. These manuscript additions record the White family (1697-1706), Dickens family (1787-1877), the Manning family (1757-64) and the Jones Family (1781-1874). There is an additional ownership inscription of John White of Sutton Rochford, Essex, Paternal Uncle to Mrs Manning, afterwards Mrs Fourdrinier at (on rear manuscript page), followed by Jones family comments on value of The Bible (1843) and a note of Mrs M. Jones journey to Smyrna to nurse the wounded soldiers, 1855. This copy of the Bible is therefore noteworthy for the hundred years of family records of the Dickens family that it includes (with some additional information on the Manning and Jones families): Minerva Dickens or Dickins was one of two children of John Henry Newman’s maternal grandmother by her first marriage to a Mr Manning, who had died at an early age...Minerva, who had to be born not later than 1765, had married John Dickens, a coal merchant of Jamaica Wharf, Blackfriars. The youngest of their four children was Frederic...’ (The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman’s line version). In fact the additional family information contained in the Bible enables us to expand and enlarge this account. It records that Minerva Manning was born in 1763 and died as Minerva Dickins in 1840, aged 77. John and Minerva had six children, not four, but two daughters, both named Jane, died in infancy. The second Jane and Frederic are both recorded as having been born at New Jamaica Wharf in the Bible.

795 [BOEHN, MAX ULRICH von.] and EDWARDES [M] (Translator) MODES AND MANNERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS REPRESENTED IN THE PICTURES OF THE TIME. IN THREE VOLUMES. Vol. I 1790-1817; Vol. II 18181842; Vol. III 1843-1878.

J.M.Dent & Co.,: Aldine House London: New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1909 [18221] First Edition. Three Volumes. Vol.I. xvi + 179 pp.; Vol. II. [iv] + 164 pp. ; Vol III. [iv] + 157 pp. Illustrated with approximately 82 Coloured plates some of which are hand-coloured, and numerous fine illustrations throughout. Finely bound in uniform salmon pink half morocco gilt, spines with raised bands and compartments delicately tooled in gilt with flower motifs and titles lettered in gilt. Very slightly rubbed on extremities, but a fine set bound by Sotheran and Co., with the original watered silk covers preserved on the front and rear pastedown. £300 Classic work which reproduces many of the finest illustrations which were printed in the time span covered by these volumes.

The wealth of illustration and the scholarly text have become much respected source of knowledge on the 19th century.

BOLINGBROKE, TORY AND JACOBITE 796 BOLINGBROKE, HENRY ST. JOHN, 1st VISCOUNT. LETTERS ON THE SPIRIT OF PATRIOTISM: ON THE IDEA OF A PATRIOT KING AND ON THE STATE OF PARTIES, AT THE ACCESSION OF KING GEORGE THE FIRST. A New Edition. London: Printed for T.Davies, Bookseller to the Royal Academ. 1775 [19730] 8vo. 5.25 x 8.25 inches. xxxvi + 243 pp. [4] A8, a8, BQ8, R2. Illustrated with one plate, engraving of author, serving as frontispiece. Contemporary calf; spine divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt rules with red morocco label, gilt. Extremities worn but overall a fine copy. £150 Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751) played a prominent role in English politics in the turbulent period of the early eighteenth century, which saw the end of the Stuart line and the accession of the House of Hanover. Mercurial in temperament, he was a man of great learning and a notable orator, suffering a ‘lifelong conflict: a struggle between his reason and his passions’. A landowning Tory who accepted the settlement of 1688, he held high office as Secretary at War (supporting Marlborough’s campaigns) and later as Secretary of State, but fell out of favour after the death of Queen Anne in 1714 and fled to France to join James Stewart, the Old Pretender. He abandoned the Jacobite cause following the failure of 1715 and did not return to England for another ten years, after he had received a full legal pardon. These three writings of the 1730s are a product of his continued opposition to the Whig ministry dominated by Walpole and are also based on his study of history and philosophy in exile.. This edition reprints three of Bolingbroke’s works. He addressed his ‘Letter on the Spirit of Patriotism’ to Lord Cornbury in 1736 as a plea to all honest politicians to abandon their Whig or Tory principles and unite against corruption. ‘The Idea of a Patriot King’, circulating in manuscript form by late 1738, appealed for the monarch to rule in the interests of the nation as a whole and to chose as ministers, men of property, probity and public virtue. The three pamphlets, including ‘The State of Parties at the Accession of George I’, were privately reprinted

by Alexander Pope in 1739 and in a revised form with an attack on Pope, by Bolingbroke, in 1749 (included in the Advertisement to the present edition).

This new edition of 1775 includes a dedication to Edmund Burke by the publisher, an introduction to the reader, accounts of the character of Bolingbroke by Lord Chesterfield and Lord Orrerey and a reprint of Pope’s ‘Address to Lord Bolingbroke in the Conclusion of his Essay on Man’.

HUGUENOTS LITURGY 797 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. FRENCH TRANSLATION. LA LITURGIE DE L’EGLISE ANGLICANE: Avec Les Changements faits au Nom de Notre tres Auguste Souverain Le Roy George, Leurs Altesse Royalle le Prince de Galles, La Princesse, and leurs Lignee. Chez P. Varennes, entre la Savoye, et la Maison de la Reine Douairiere a L’Enseigne de Seneque Dans le Strand, A Londres. 1715 [20185]

HISTORY and THEOLOGY 8vo. 5x 8 inches. [xxx] + 467 pp. + [1] + [2]. Aa-Aa4, aa8, B-2G8, H-2H2. Illustrated by 51 engravings on copper, and portrait frontispiece of King George I. Includes Psalms. Text in French. Bound in original black morocco, decorated gilt; boards have double border, enclosing outer panel with decorated corners, linked to corners of inner panel enclosed by three lines and dentelles or decorated edges. Spine divided into decorated compartments by raised bands and triple lines. Marbled endpapers and gilt edges. Extremities worn. Some missing page edges, not significantly affecting text. Two later signatures on verso of first free endpaper. £300 A French translation of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer published to mark the accession of King George I. It was issued for the use of the Huguenot, or French speaking protestant congregations, who had settled in England after fleeing religious persecution from the catholics. They arrived from the 1550s onwards but in numbers after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685. The Huguenots, although Calvinist in persuasion in their original homeland, adopted the Anglican form of worship for use in the French churches in London and other British cities. Editions of the French Anglican liturgy appeared regularly from 1661 (earlier translations had appeared in 1553 and 1616) to as late as 1886, long after the Huguenots had been effectively assimilated into English society. This version includes the Psalms ( Les Pseaumes de David, p.279) which is followed by the additional forms of service (e.g.. for the Gunpowder Plot, King Charles the Martyr) and the Thirty-nine Articles (La Confession de Foy), etc. This new edition of 1715 has been issued after the accession (in 1714) of George I, first monarch of the house of Hanover, and this is celebrated by the prominent emphasis given to the King and royal family on the title page as well as the portrait frontispiece. It was necessary to issue a new prayer book for every reign, as the monarch and royal family are specifically mentioned by name in various services. Pierre de Varenne, the printer/publisher of the Liturgie, includes an advertisement for his bookshop in the Strand below the imprint on the title page. On the last two pages is a catalogue of the French titles available at the shop.

A rare title; COPAC lists only two copies of this 1715 edition in British libraries (at York Minster and University College, London).

LIMITED EDITION 798 BUDGE, SIR E.A.WALLIS THE BOOK OF THE SAINTS OF THE ETHIOPIAN CHURCH A translation of the Ethiopic Synaxarium made from the manuscripts Oriental 660 and 661 in the British Museum.

Volume 1 Maskaram Tekemt Khedar (September 8December 6) Volume 2 Takhshash Ter Yakatit (December 7- March 6) Volume 3 Magabit Miyazya Genbot (March 7-June 4) Volume 4 Sane Hamle Nahasse Paguemen (June 5September 7) Cambridge University Press 1928 [18984] First Edition. 8vo. lxxxvii + 308 pp.; xvii + 309-660 pp.; xvi + 661-954 pp.;xviii + 955-1334. Bound in original cloth gilt with some discolouration; volumes 1-3 dust wrappers abraded at edges and browned ; volume 4 lacks dust wrapper; light foxing throughout. Condition consistent with age. £250 The first complete translation of the lives of the saints and martyrs of the Jacobite church of Egypt and of many ascetics,

monks and anchorites of later centuries. The book also throws light on early Christian folklore, on the relations between the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch, Rome and Constantinople and on early heresies of the Church.

799 BURGH, JAMES. POLITICAL DISQUISITIONS: OR, AN ENQUIRY INTO PUBLIC ERRORS, DEFECTS, AND ABUSES. Illustrated by, and established upon Facts and Remarks extracted from a Variety of Authors, ancient and modern. Calculated to draw the timely Attention of Government and People to a due Consideration of the Necessity, and the Means of Reforming those Errors, Defects, and Abuses; of Restoring the Constitution, and Saving the State. By J. B. Gent. Author of the Dignity of Human Nature, and other Tracts Printed for E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, London. 1774-75 [20552] 3 volumes. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Vol.I. xxxiii + [9] + 486 pp.; Vol.II. vii + [9] + 477 pp. + [1]; Vol.III. [viii] + 460 pp. + [40] pp. index + [4] pp. advertisements, bound in before last two pages of index. Half-titles. Bound in original calf; spine divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt rules with maroon morocco labels.

Extremities worn. Top edges soiled. Vol.II. small tears to top margins of Q6-R4; Vol.III. large tear from bottom upwards to K2, not affecting legibility of text. Inscription of James W. Law, Lichfield, 1847 (Vol I only, which also has early paper auction label on front board). £850 ‘The most comprehensive exposition of the radical platform prior to the American War of Independence’ (DNB). Political Disquisitions was the magnum opus of the eighteenth century educationist and writer on constitutional reform, James Burgh (1714-75). It includes extensive quotations from earlier writers and Vols. I and II are provided with useful lists of the references employed. The question of parliamentary reform is covered at some length, with interesting statistics on the most notorious rotten boroughs, like several Cinque Port towns where a handful of electors returned two MPs. In his advocacy of annual parliaments, secret ballots and universal suffrage (of male taxpayers only), he anticipated many of the demands of the nineteenth century reformers. Burgh also comments on manners, gaming, duels, ‘lewdness’ (sexual morality), education, and the army and navy. His section on the colonies includes chapters on colonial oppression and taxation by the mother country and in discussing the American colonies, he refers to ‘Grenville’s mad and unjust project of taxing them without representation.’ Burgh was the son of a Scottish minister who moved to the London area in the 1740s, eventually running an academy for the education of dissenters at Newington Green. He published a number of popular works on political maxims, education, and the art of speaking and came to be associated with the network of radicals influenced

by John Wilkes. A fine three-volume set of the collected views of this influential political writer.

BURKE ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 800 BURKE, EDMUND SUBSTANCE OF THE SPEECH OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE, IN THE DEBATE ON THE ARMY ESTIMATES, IN THR [SIC] HOUSE OF COMMONS ON TUESDAY, THE 9TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1790.

Comprehending a Discussion of the present Situation of Affairs in France. London: Printed for J.Debrett, opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly. 1790 [19205]

HISTORY and THEOLOGY First edition. 8vo. [ii] + 36 pp. + [2] pp. advertisements.

Bound in modern covers. Tear on advertisement page slightly affecting text. £75 Edmund Burke (1729-1797) uses the occasion of a routine debate on the army estimates to express his concern that the continuing French Revolution poses a serious threat to the security of Europe. He attacks the radical nature of the Revolution: ‘They first destroyed all the balances and counterpoises which serve to fix the state; and to give it a steady direction: and which furnish correctives to any violent spirit which may prevail in any of the orders...They made and recorded a sort of institute of digest of anarchy, called the rights of man..By this mad declaration they subverted the state...’ Mr Fox, Mr Sheridan and Mr Pitt, also make contributions to the debate. In November of the same year, Burke published his famous work, Reflections on the Revolution in France. In it he develops some of the themes raised in Army Estimate debates, with a critique of the French Revolution, contrasted with the virtue of the British constitution

IRISH AND CONTINENTAL WAR MEMOIRS 801 CASTLEHAVEN, JAMES TOUCHET, 3RD EARL OF THE EARL OF CASTLEHAVEN’S MEMOIRS; OR, HIS REVIEW OF THE CIVIL WARS IN IRELAND; With his own Engagement and Conduct therein: containing also an Appendix and Postscript.

Enlarged and corrected by himself. To which is prefixed, historical Notices of the Author’s Family and Life, compiled for this Edition. Printed by Espy and Cross, 9, Bedford Row, Dublin 1815 [19839] Small 4to. 7.5 x 5 inches. [ii] + 184 pp. A-Z4. Bound in half morocco, with early paper spine label and marbled boards. Front hinges weak. Two inscriptions on pastedown endpaper, one pasted in. Inscribed James Touchet and 1641 to 1648 on title page. Various ink and pencil comments in text £250 This book first appeared under the present title in 1684 and was an expansion of an earlier version which appeared in 1680. It was reprinted in 1753 and a renewal of interest in 1815 led to the appearance of several editions with a Dublin imprint. This copy omits the prefix, Historical notes of the author’s family and life, compiled by Patrick Lynch.

James Touchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven (1612-1684) spent most of his career in military service. After 1641, he sided with the catholic Confederate army in Ireland, based at Kilkenny and later became its commander, in opposition to the parliamentary army during the Civil War period. After defeat

by Cromwell and Ireton, Castlehaven withdrew to the continent in 1651. He served in the French army against the Spanish in the Low Countries, returned to England with Charles II at the Restoration and also served against the Dutch in the 1660s and with the Spanish and Dutch against the French in the 1670s. These continental campaigns are described in the appendix. A rare edition.

PLANTIN PRESS 802 CATHOLIC BREVIARY. HORAE DIURNAE BREVIARII ROMANI, EX DECRETO SACROSANCTI CONCILII TRIDENTINI RESTITUTI, PII V. PONT. MAX. IUSSU EDITI, CLEMENTIS VIII. ET URBANI VIII. AUCTORITATE RECOGNITI. Antverpiae (Antwerp), Ex Typographia Plantiniana, 1726 [20257]

16mo. 2.5 x 5 inches approx. Engraved title page + 456 pp. + clxxxvi + 4 copper-engraved plates and elaborate woodcut tailpieces. A-Hh8, AA-MM8 (2 blank). Fully rubricated. Bound in original full morocco with ruled boards, spine in compartments with gilt title. Printed in red and blank Endpapers and blank pre and postlims inscribed with Latin prayers or texts in ink, in various hands and at various dates. Some pages well-thumbed. A very good copy. £200

RELIGION IN THE NAVY 803 CAVANAGH, J. SOME ACCOUNT OF RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES AMONG THE BRITISH PRISONERS IN FRANCE, DURING THE LATE WAR. BEING AN EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF J. CAVANAGH, R. N. To which is added, an Account of Religious Societies in the British Navy. Plymouth: Printed at the Office of John Williams, No. 31, OldTown-Street. 1826 [20490] small 8vo. vi + 7 - 50 pp. Disbound pamphlet occasional foxing, but a very good copy. £150 804 CHURCHILL, WINSTON SPENCER. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL By Winston Spencer Churchill, M.P. Author of The Story of the Malakand Field Force, 1897 The River War London to Ladysmith via Pretoria Etc. London: Macmillan And Co. Limited 1906 [19087] First edition. 8vo.6 x 9 inches. 2 volumes. Vol.1. [2] + xvi + [2] + 564 pp. illustrated with ten plates, two in colour.

Vol.2. [2] + viii + [2] + 531 pp. illustrated with eight plates, including two facsimiles, one folding. Handsomely rebound in plum half morocco with marbled boards. Spine divided into compartments by raised bands, gilt. Foreedges untrimmed. £350 Winston Churchill’s first biography was of his father, Lord Randolph, briefly Leader of the House of Commons and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Salisbury’s second administration during 1886. His study (largely based on his father’s papers and family scrapbooks) of this Conservative politician, whose brief political career was marked by underachievement and failure, broke away from the usual tradition of pious and sycophantic family memoirs. It was hailed as a frank and robustly written account and as a new type of political biography.

THE ELIZABETHAN DEAN OF ST. PAUL’S 805 CHURTON, RALPH THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER NOWELL, DEAN OF ST. PAUL’S, CHIEFLY COMPILED FROM REGISTERS, LETTERS, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC EVIDENCES.

By Ralph Churton, M.A. rector of Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire, Archdeacon of St. David’s and Late Fellow of Brasenose College Oxford, At the University Press for the Author: Sold by F.C. and J. Rivington, and J. White, London; J. Parker, Oxford; and Ford, Manchester. 1809 [19784] Large 8vo. 5.75 x 9 inches. Frontis. + xxix + 448 pp. AA8, b-b7, B-Z8, Aa-Ff8, Gg-Gg2.

Illustrated with portrait frontis, five plates, three folding plates = nine plates and one folding pedigree. Bound in full Victorian

HISTORY and THEOLOGY calf, rebacked calf with decorated gilt spine with morocco label and boards with gilt borders, marbled endpapers and gilt top edges. Binder’s label of Westleys & Co. London.

Edges of boards and front joints abraded. Slight damage to folding genealogical table and some light foxing.

Bookplate on front paste down and ink inscription at top of title page. £150 Includes Appendix, containing letters, papers, and evidences, many of them never before printed. (texts are in both English and Latin).

Alexander Nowell (1516/17-1602) was Dean of St Paul’s for most of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, from 1561 until his death. He was born in Lancashire and attended Brasenose College, Oxford, where he is said to have shared rooms with John Foxe, the martyrologist. Developing radical protestant views, he went into exile during Queen Mary’s reign and probably failed to receive a bishopric after the accession of Elizabeth because of them. Supported by the new Bishop of London, Edmund Grindal (later Archbishop of Canterbury) he received his preferment as dean. He gave up his rectory of Saltwood with Hythe, Kent which he had held for only a year. Although he believed that offending the monarch was a more grievous sin than offending parents, he did refer to a crucifix, he considered offensive, in the Queen’s private chapel during a sermon he preached at court in 1564. The resulting outburst from the Queen, ‘To your text, Mr Dean - leave that, we have heard enough of that,’ so discomforted him that he had to abandon the sermon and be escorted home by Archbishop Parker. He was nevertheless a celebrated preacher, the author of several, largely Calvinist, catechisms that were highly influential and also was a benefactor to several educational establishments. He provided statutes and curricula for Tonbridge School, among others.

Ralph Churton (1754-1831) was an ecclesiastic and theological writer. His two most notable biographies were this work and a study of the founders of Brasenose College, which he also attended. A fine copy of this rare biography.

HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. 806 CLARK, HUGH. A SHORT AND EASY INTRODUCTION TO HERALDRY, IN TWO PARTS. Part I. The Use of Arms and Armory, Rules of Blazon and Marshalling Coats of Armour, with engraved Tables upon a new Plan, for the Instruction of those who wish to learn the Science; also the Regalia of England. Part II. A Dictionary of Heraldry, with an Alphabetical List of its Terms, in English, French, and Latin; also the different Degrees of the Nobility and Gentry of England, with Tables of Precedency. Embellished with forty six copperplates, Containing upwards of a Thousand Examples. The whole compiled from the most approved Authorities. By Hugh Clark. The Tenth Edition, with considerable Improvements.

Printed for Edward Edwards, 53, Newgate-Street, near Cheapside, London. 1825 [20593] 12mo. 4.75 x 7 inches. frontis. + viii + 334 pp. Illustrated by 43 hand-coloured plates, including engraved dedication and two black and white plates. Part II has separate halftitle. Bound in brown half morocco with blind stamped borders and marbled boards; spine divided into compartments, gilt. Deckled edges. Occasional spotting but otherwise fine condition. £250 ‘One of the earliest and handiest little books published on the subject in a popular form’ (J. R. Planche, Somerset Herald) and ‘the first book on heraldry compiled specifically for

middle class readers with little or no knowledge of the subject.’ (both quoted in DNB). A best-selling guide to the principles of heraldry, notable for its illustrations in forty-four plates (mostly hand-coloured in this copy; the three plates of the regalia are superbly done). The book is not concerned with the arms of individual families, although a few examples are shown to illustrate the principles of blazoning. Its aim is rather to analyse the basic elements and technical terms used in heraldry and splendidly illustrated in the twenty-one plates which follow the second section, depicting a multitude of symbols and implements, ranging from hedgehogs, otters and moles to hemp-brakes, thatch-rakes and shuttles. The first edition was published in 1775 and was greatly expanded; this tenth was the first to be issued after the author’s death, not all of the examples being hand-coloured like this copy.

Subsequent new editions appeared over a period of some ninety years, until the eighteenth of 1866 (revised by Planche, itself reprinted until about 1900) and reproduced in facsimile in 1974. Hugh Clark (1745-1822), heraldic engraver, had his business premises in Soho and in the period 1778-84, also compiled works on The Arms of the Nobility and A Concise History of Knighthood. Fine example of this scarce edition, with hand-coloured engravings, in a handsome modern binding.

807 CLEVELAND, DUCHESS OF, CATHERINE LUCY WILHELMINA POWLETT. THE BATTLE ABBEY ROLL. With some account of the Norman lineages. By the Duchess of Cleveland. In three volumes.

John Murray, Albemarle Street, London. 1889 [20568] Large 8vo. 6.75 x 8.5 inches. Vol.I. frontis. + xxxvi + 352 pp.; Vol.II. [ii] + 398 pp.; Vol.III. [ii] + 528 pp.

Illustrated by plan and folding genealogical table.

Rebound in red cloth, gilt, with all edges red. Edges darkened at top, otherwise fine clean condition. £80 This work attempts to vindicate the existence of an original roll, listing the surnames of families who arrived in England with William the Conqueror, supposed to have been displayed in Battle Abbey. When the Duchess of Cleveland compiled her work, the existence of the roll was known only through early published versions by Leland, Holinshed and Duchesne and she was unaware of the copy of it, part of the Auchinleck Manuscript, held by the National Library of Scotland. In her introduction, she presents comparative tables of the three printed sources and adds the later list, set up in the church of Dives-sur-Mer, Normandy, in 1864, a more authentic list compiled from the Domesday Book and other records. In fact only fifteen individuals who fought at Hastings can be named with certainty (known as the Proven Companions of William the Conqueror), although another twenty have been proposed on the basis of circumstantial evidence. The greater part of this substantial work is a detailed account of the named families of the early lists, carried forward into the nineteenth century and full of lively historical anecdotes.

Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland (1819-1901) was the daughter of the 4th Earl Stanhope and mother of the later prime minister, the Earl of Rosebery, by her first marriage to Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny. She married Harry George Powlett, 4th Duke of Cleveland, of Chevening, Kent in 1854.

IRISH REBELLION 808 CODY, HENRY BRERETON. THE INSURRECTION ON THE TWENTY-THIRD JULY,

HISTORY and THEOLOGY 1803. Dublin Printed by Granisberry and Campbell, 10 Black Lane. [1803] [20486] First Edition, 8vo. xiii + [i] + 110 pp. Disbound pamphlet occasional foxing, but a very good copy. £950 Henry Brereton Cody (died 1830) was the author of The Insurrection of Twenty-Third July, 1803 published in the wake of Robert Emmet’s abortive rebellion. The book recounts the events leading up to the events of 1803 and attempts to give an ideological justification for the British suppression of the separatist rebels. It has been described as a travesty by subsequent Irish writers and historians for its bias against Irish nationalist republicanism. A rare item.

809 COOPER, WILLIAM HEAVEN OPENED. Wherein the Counsaile of God, concerning mans Saluation is so manifested, that all men may see the Ancient of dayes, the Iudge of the World, in his generall Iustice Court, absoluing the Christian from Sinne and Death.VVhich is the first benefit wee haue by our Lord Iesus Christ. Come and see. The third Edition. Newly amended and enlarged by Mr.William Cowper, Minister of Gods Word. Printed by Thomas Snodham for Iohn Budge, and are to bee sould at the great South dore of Paules, and at Brittaines Bursse, London. 1613 [20376] Small 4to. 5.75 x 7 inches. [6], + 216 + [4] + 217-398, + [6], + 399-457 pp. + [12] pp. Folding chart. Each part has separate title page (with subtitle and imprint variations) and dedication (to the King, Queen and Prince of Wales respectively) but pagination and register continuous throughout. General index at end. Illustrated with title-page and head and tailpiece vignettes and decorated initials. Bound in later marbled paper. Maroon edges. Some browning and spotting and small ink and water stains on lower page edges. Worming in inner margins not affecting text. Tear to chart and some edge tears and small hole at foot of 2G6, with slight loss of text and missing area from edge of 4H4, with no loss of text.

Occasional ink and pencil notes in text. Early ownership inscription, J. Alderson, on title page and later inscription, Thos Chesterfield Alton 1911, on first free endpaper.

Otherwise a fine copy. £350 A devotional treatise written by ‘puritan pastor, a physician of souls, aspiring to the conversion of sinners and aiding them to acquire a suitable sense of assurance of salvation’ (DNB).

Cowper emphasises the Calvinist doctrine of predestination, ‘Election so sure, that no creature can disannull it’ and supports his arguments by frequent scriptural references, using the new Authorised Version of 1611. He considers the views of the papists to be both ’blasphemous’ and ‘ridiculous.’

The work first appeared in 1609 as Three heavenly treatises upon the eight chapter to the Romanes. Other editions appeared in 1611, 1615-16, 1619 and 1632. William Cowper was educated at Dunbar and St Andrews, being licensed to preach firstly in Edinburgh and then at Perth, 1595-1614. He was a strong supporter of King James I and VI and in spite of his involvement in the affairs of the kirk, accepted the king’s reestablishment of the Scottish episcopacy in 1610, being consecrated Bishop of Galloway in 1612. He considered that the kirk could accommodate both bishops and the courts of the Presbyterian system. At the end of his life, he was engaged in the production of a new Scottish liturgy. His collected pastoral and devotional works were published in 1623. A scarce edition of a treatise that reflects the religious controversies of the age.

PRESENTATION COPY 810 COPE, GILBERT. (Compiled and edited by) Genealogy of the Darlington family. a record of the descendants of Abraham Darlington of Birmingham, Chester Co., Penna., and some other families of the name.

Printed by the Committee for the Family, West Chester, PA. 1900 [15355] First edition. 693 pp. with engraved plate of the Darlington coat-of-arms. Original leather half-binding over burgundy cloth, gilt. Handwritten description of Darlington arms to verso of front free endpaper with hand-illustrated coloured representation of those arms to recto of following blank leaf. Occasional annotation with further genealogical notes. Some page edges a little ragged a very good, clean copy. £200 This work was prefaced by Stephen P. Darlington who presented this copy to James Darlington with an inscription at the end of the preface.

NAPOLEON’S POLICE 811 FOUCHE, JOSEPH, DUKE OF OTRANTO. AUTHENTIC MEMOIRS OF THE PUBLIC LIFE OF M. FOUCHE, DUKE OF OTRANTO Comprising various letters addressed to the Emperor Napoleon, King Joachim, The Comte D’Artois, The Duke of Wellington, Prince Blucher, Louis XVIII, Count de Blacas, Etc. Etc. Second edition. Bound with LETTER OF M .FOUCHE, DUKE OF OTRANTO, TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. Second edition. H. Colburn, London, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipsic, and C.G. Sulpke, Amsterdam.

1818 [20020] 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. Memoirs, [ii] + 168 pp. [1], BL8, M-M4. Letter, [ii] + 65 pp. + [1] advertisement. [1], B-E8, F1. Bound in original quarter black morocco, green cloth boards; spine, blind stamped decoration with maroon label, gilt. Front hinges weak, first and second free endpapers detached and lacks rear first free endpaper.

Some occasional interior browning and foxing. 1818 date on title page of Memoirs only faintly legible. Entry from bookseller’s catalogue and newspaper cutting, ‘Eminent Frenchmen a century ago’, attached to front paste-down.

Early ink signature on title page. £150 The first edition of this work was published in 1816 as A Sketch of the Public Life of the Duke of Otranto and this still appears as the running title of this second edition. It had already appeared in French and this translation (with preface) is from the German edition of 1816, Joseph Fouche, Herzog von Otranto, von K. L. The first edition of the Letter, also in 1816, had appeared as Correspondence of the Duke of Otranto with the Duke of Wellington, Lettter I, Dresden, Jan.1, 1816 [in justification of his conduct after the flight of Napoleon] and a similar title appears at the head of the letter in this edition.

Joseph Fouche, Duc d’Otrante (1759-1820) progressed from being an extreme Jacobin during the period of the Terror (when he became known as ‘The executioner of Lyons,’claiming that ‘The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty’) to Napoleon Bonaparte’s minister of police. After carrying out a number of diplomatic missions, he was created Duke of Otranto by the Emperor in the satellite kingdom of Naples. In 1814-15 his allegiance swung backwards and forwards between whichever side was in the ascendancy. His

HISTORY and THEOLOGY renewed allegiance to Napoleon after his escape from Elba (a letter in this book urges him to seek asylum in the United States) was swiftly replaced by one to the restored Bourbon monarchy. For a short period he was also Louis XVIII’s minister of police, initiating a campaign of White Terror, before being proscribed and banished into exile. His 1816 letter to the Duke of Wellington attempts to justify his excesses: ‘Excessive forbearance has its inconveniences.’ Fouche was despised for his extreme opportunism but admired for his cleverness. His desire always to be on the winning side, led to career of constant political manoeuvring and betrayal.

The Memoirs consist of documents and letters written by Fouche, linked with an account of his career. Recipients of the letters include Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, Joachim Murat, King of Naples (1767-1815), Field Marshall Prince Blucher, Prussian commander at Waterloo (1742-1819) and the last two Bourbon monarchs of France, Louis XVIII and his brother, the Comte D’Artois, later Charles X. Scarce in this second edition with COPAC recording only three copies at the British Library, the Bodleian and V & A.

JOHN FOXE’S MARTYRS 1576 812 FOXE, JOHN [THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE ECCLESTICALL HISTORY, CONTAYNING THE ACTES AND MONUMENTES OF THINGES PASSED IN EUERY KINGES TIME, IN THIS REALME, ESPECIALLY IN THE CHURCHE OF ENGLAND PRINCIPALLY TO BE NOTED, WITH A FULL DISCOURSE OF SUCH PERSECUTIONS, HORRIBLE TROUBLES, THE SUFFRING OF MARTIRS, THE SEUERE PUNISHMENT OF PERSECUTORS, THE GREAT PROUIDENCE OF GOD IN PRESERNING MANY, AND OTHER THINGS INCIDENT TOUCHING ASWELL THE SAYDE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, AS ALSO SCOTLAND, AND ALL OTHER FORREIN NATIONS, FROM THE PRIMITIVE TIME, TILL THE RAIGNE OF KING HENRY THE EYGHT NEWLY RECOGNISED AND INLARGED BY THE AUTHOR. I. FOXE. 1576.]

Printed by John Daye, dwelling over Aldersgate. These bookes are to be solde at his shop vnder the gate, and at the West Dore of Paules. At London Cum gratia et priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis. 1576 [19352] Third edition. Folio. [20] + 2008 pp. [Facsimile title page, prelims. reproduced in manuscript, including dedication and preface. Lacks pp.1-2 and index ]. A2Y6, Aa1-Yy6, AA1-UU4, XX1-XX4, [1], AAa1-LLl3, KKk4-6, MMm1-YYy6, AAA1-SSS4, TTT1-TTT4, AAAa1-YYYy6, AAAA1-YYYY6, AAAAa1-TTTTt4.

Illustrated with numerous woodcuts in text with folding plates at y5 (last panel along the fold line not present), OOO1 (Windsor Castle), MMMM6 (burning of Latimer and Ridley at Oxford) and GGGGg2 and the large woodcut of Henry the Eighth in Council at the beginning of volume two, AAa1. With usual mispagination of pp.

898-899 Bound in modern calf, gilt, with red morocco title label, blind stamped decorative panels on front and rear boards, gilt decorated spine. Many of the woodcuts have old hand-colouring, mainly in red, blue and yellow.

Numerous minor faults but on the whole a very fine copy of a book that is usually ‘read to death.’ £5,500 ‘The Second Volume of the Ecclesticall History’ has a separate title page with different text (although the register and

pagination are continuous). This has been copied here to provide a first title page. The manuscript title in ink is probably eighteenth century and its text may derive from another edition. The book is principally set in black letter type but also employs a Roman font.

What became universally known as ‘Foxe’s Book of Martyrs’ had a long prehistory before its first publication in English in 1563, as the Acts and Monuments. John Foxe (1516/17–1587), reformer and martyrologist, born in Boston, Lincs and educated at Oxford, went into exile in Strasbourg and Basel from 1554 where he published two printed accounts, in Latin, of the earlier English and some continental martyrs. On his return to England in 1559, following the publication of his ‘Rerum in Ecclesia Gestarum’, he began to greatly expand this work to include the protestant martyrdoms of Queen Mary’s reign. Following the success of the first English edition, a corrected second edition, with three times the number of woodcuts, was published in two volumes in 1570. It took into account the published criticisms of Nicholas Harpsfield, Marian Archdeacon of Canterbury and now a Catholic exile.

This edition extended its account back to the apostolic church and expanded coverage of events in Europe. It included reprints of pamphlets, tracts sermons and the letters of martyrs and drew on the extensive collection of material gathered by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker. Foxe also carried out research in the diocesan registers and the royal archives and included much oral testimony of recent events.

The third edition of 1576 contains additional material provided by the author, particularly relating to the end of Mary’s reign and the beginning of Elizabeth’s, but was less carefully proof read than the second.

From 1571 copies were to be made available in cathedrals and the houses of bishops and resident diocesan clergy. It was frequently provided in parish churches although its greatest popular impact was not felt until after the Civil War. ‘The lively style of the book, not to mention the gruesome illustrations...was thus given an opportunity to influence - and prejudice - the minds of people in all classes of society, including those who could not otherwise have afforded it’ (PMM).

‘The importance of Acts and Monuments is currently uncontested. It is at once the most important narrative source for the English Reformation and a work that helped to shape its later development’ (DNB).

Given that it is so rare ever to find a complete version of this edition, the present copy is as good as one could wish for.

813 GENEALOGICAL PERIODICAL. THE GENEALOGIST. New Series, Volumes I-XII, 18841896. George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, London [and] William Pollard and Co., Exeter [latter, Vols IX-XII only]. 1884-96 [20590] Twelve volumes. Large 8vo. 5.75 x 9.25 inches.

Pagination varies, c.200-300 pp. Volumes I-V also include the first five parts of A New Peerage, by G.E.C., with separate half titles for the first three parts, later entitled Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant, with additional title pages for last two parts, Vols.I and II, and separate pagination sequences, 1-408 and 1-445.

Vols. VII-XII include parish register transcripts from St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, Ollerton and Wellow, Notts and Street, Somerset, all separately paginated. Illustrated by folding genealogical tables, with coats of arms and sepia or coloured

HISTORY and THEOLOGY frontispieces (one portrait), some folding. Title pages of Vols. IV-XII have ruled borders, crown and coats of arms. Rebound in later black quarter morocco over red cloth, spine gilt. Fine condition. £225 A Quarterly Magazine of Genealogical, Antiquarian, Topographical, and Heraldic Research. The First Series, Vols.I-VII, was published 1877-83. The New Series continued until Vol.XXXVIII, 1922, when the journal ceased publication.

A very fine twelve-volume run, handsomely bound.

VELLUM BOUND JESUIT MANUSCRIPT, c.1650 814 [GIUGLARIS, LUIGI.] [MANUSCRIPT EPITOME OF CHRISTUS IESUS, HOC EST DEI HOMINIS ELOGIA (1640)] [c.1650] [20008] Small 8vo. 3.75 x 5.25 inches. [1] + [30] + [2 blank] leaves manuscript in Latin (lacks the last two leaves of the Elogiorum Index, so that 54 of the 100 are listed). Bound in vellum with double blind stamped borders and red edges. Vellum stained and extremities worn. First free endpaper contains list of ten English and Latin works in a different hand. Clean interior with main manuscript in an attractive and legible upright hand. £325 The printed original (first published in 1640 with many later editions) is a poem in blank verse of c.6,000 lines, in which Giuglaris meditates on Christ’s life in one hundred Elogia.

One commentator has described it as ‘an engrossing treasury of rhetoric, exegis, metaphor, theology, and devotion.’ This epitome, by an unidentified scholar, reduces the original to c.2,000 lines. Each is numbered at the end from Elog.1 to Elog.

100; the sentences run on (rather than being unrhymed and unmetered in lines of three to eighteen words) but the extensive marginal references to the Bible, the Fathers and Roman writers have been maintained, as have many of the sentences in the original. Luigi Giuglaris, S.J. (1607-1653) was Professor of Rhetoric, Orator and tutor to Duke Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy, having joined the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in 1622.

The Elogia were composed as a thanksgiving for his family’s one hundred years at Nice. He was responsible for a number of other printed works, including the Panegirici and the Quaresimale.

The author of this manuscript epitome is unknown and a different hand has listed, on the flyleaf, ten English works (some in Latin) including travel, curiosities and two Anglican divines (Hammond and Usher). The list cannot be earlier than 1653.

An attractive little manuscript, handsome in its vellum binding.

815 GUILLIAUD, CLAUDE. COLLATIO IN OMNES DIVI PAULI APOSTOLI EPISTOLAS: iuxta eruditorum sententiam facta / per S. theologiæ Doctorem Claudium Guilliaudium Belliocensem, apud insignem Eduorum ecclesiam praepositum, et canonicum ecclesiasten. Audoeno Petit, Paris 1550 [16663] 8vo. [xx] + 416 ff. a8, e8, i4, a-z8, A-Z8, Aa-Ff8 end.

Gatherings K and L have been bound in the wrong order but the book is complete in every respect. Contemporary full-calf binding, rebacked. A clean, fresh example. Rare £400

ONE OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES

816 HEARNE, THOMAS. Reliquiae Hearnianae : the remains of Thomas Hearne, M.A., OF EDMUND HALL, Being extracts from his MS. Diaries, collected with a few notes by Philip Bliss, LATE FELLOW OF ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE, NOW PRINCIPAL OF ST. MARY HALL, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. Printed for the editor by James Wright, printer to the University.

Oxford: 1857 [18240] First edition, 2 volumes Royal 8vo. viii + 432 pp; and [iv] + 433-985 pp. Illustrated with two engraved portraits.

19th century panelled half-calf, gilt, signed by J Wright.

All edges gilt. A fine period-style binding presumably bound by J. Wright, the publisher, in a deluxe binding especially for the 50 large paper copies. Only very slightly rubbed on extremities, a near fine example. £400 This edition was limited to 150 copies only of which 50 were on large paper. The first publication of Hearne's Diaries, full of outspoken and detailed gossip on men of the day and much comment on books of all kinds. Hearne 1678-1735, was a Bodleian Library assistant and Oxford antiquary. The sheets were printed in 1817, but not finally published until 1857 as here. This very limited edition was soon exhausted and remained so until the mid 19th century when reprinted by John Russell Smith.

817 HORROX, ROSEMARY, and P.W. HAMMOND. BRITISH LIBRARY HARLEIAN MANUSCRIPT 433. Richard III Society, London, Produced by Alan Sutton for the Society, 1979-1983 [17330] A complete set of 4 volumes, 4to., xlvii + 289 pp. ; [vi] + 230 pp. ; [vi] + 260 pp. ; x + 258 pp. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece of a facsimile of part of the manuscript.. Original cloth, gilt in dust wrappers. The spine of volume three is slightly faded otherwise they are in very good order and do not seem to have been used. £150 The original hardback edition of this set is now out of print and hard to find. The manuscript, one of the most complete collections of medieval signet materials to have survived, is of great importance for the study of fifteenth-century history in general and sheds much light on the reign and government of the English monarch, Richard III. The scholarly introduction

by Rosemary Horrox explores the full significance and structure of the manuscript, which is transcribed in the first three volumes, volume four comprises an exhaustive index.

LANSDOWNE’S HOUSE OF LORDS ORDER BOOK, c.1712 818 HOUSE OF LORDS MANUSCRIPT [BEGINS] REMEMBRANCES - FOR ORDER AND DECENCY TO BE KEPT IN THE UPPER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT BY THE LORDS - WHEN HIS MAJESTY IS NOT THERE. Manuscript in ink, nd but [ c.1712] [19965] Manuscript. 4 x 6.25 inches. [76] leaves with ruled red borders consisting of 6 blank, 52 written , followed by 18 blank, with 16-18 lines per page, written in a cursive clerical hand. Bound in contemporary red morocco, gilt, the spine with raised bands and repeated tooling, the boards, panelled in gilt, enclosing the central royal arms of

HISTORY and THEOLOGY Queen Anne, 1707-1714, front and back, with marbled endpapers and gilt edges. Extremities rubbed and worn and gilt of front board royal arms largely eroded.

Occasional worming of margins, not affecting text.

Contemporary pencil inscription on verso of first free endpaper, Lansdowne, 1711/12 and on verso of second free endpaper, Orders of the House of Lords.

Contemporary ink inscription, possibly of scrivener, and of cost, 0:0:4 and possible binder’s mark on rear free endpaper. £1,000 This manuscript, written soon after 1710, details some general regulations at the beginning, but the greater part of the text is concerned with a series of orders and rules dated between 1621 and November 1710. It was inscribed for the guidance of a member of the house, who is informed at the beginning ‘that the Lord Chancellor sitteth on the Woolsack as Speaker to this House and the Lord Treasurer on the Earls Bench. Fines are imposed for late coming: Every Lord that comes after Prayers, if he be a Baron or Bishop is to pay One Shilling and if he be of any Degree above two Shillings...’ The dignity of the House is to be maintained on occasions of meeting with the Commons: ‘The place of our Meeting with the Lower House upon Conferences is usually in the Painted Chamber where they are commonly before We come and expect Our leisure. We are to come in thither in a whole Body, and not some Lords scattering before the rest, - which both takes from the Gravity of the Lords, and besides prevents the places. We are to Sit there and be covered but they are at no Committee or Conference ever to be Covered or Sit down in our presence unless it be some infirm Person and that by Connivance in a Corner out of Sight to Sit but not to be Covered.’ A similar manuscript of about 1715 appears in Blackwell Rare Books Catalogue B163 and the entry notes the existence of two others held in libraries. George Granville (1666-1735) came from a royalist family and emerged as a major Tory politician in the reign of Queen Anne. He sat as a Cornish MP from 1702, and served as secretary at war in 1710-12. After a political crisis caused by a Whig majority in the Lords, twelve new Tory peers were created on 1 January 1712, when Granville became Baron Lansdowne. Presumably he received the Remembrances book, inscribed with his name, for his guidance as a new peer at this time. Lansdowne lost all his offices on the accession of George I in 1714 and was imprisoned in the Tower on charges of high treason, 1715-17. He went into exile to France, 172015 and was created Jacobite Duke of Albemarle. He returned in 1725 and was reconciled to the Hanoverian monarchs. A rare and unusual manuscript in a handsome binding.

819 HOWARD, JOSEPH JACKSON. MISCELLANEA GENEALOGICA ET HERALDICA. Edited by Joseph Jackson Howard, LL.D., F.S.A. New Series, Volumes I-IV, 1874-86; Second Series, Volumes I-V, 1886- Hamilton, Adams, and Co., Paternoster Row, London. 1874 [20589] 4to. 8 volumes. 7.25 x 10.25 inches. Each volume circa 500 pp. All volumes copiously illustrated throughout.

Bound in later blue library cloth, gilt, with red speckled edges. All volumes in very fine, clean condition. £250 The First Series of this journal began to appear in 1868 and it continued into a Fourth Series of 1906-14 and a Fifth Series, 1932-34.

RIVIERE BINDING 820 JAMESON, MRS. and LADY EASTLAKE. THE HISTORY OF OUR LORD AS EXEMPLIFIED IN

WORKS OF ART: WITH THAT OF HIS TYPES; ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST; AND OTHER PERSONS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT. Longmans, Green, and Co, London: 1864 [15374] 2 volumes, 8vo. illustrated throughout. Bound by Riviere in full morocco with elaborate gilt design of a Star of Solomon and arabesques within panels on upper and lower boards. Spines panelled gilt with gilt tooling and raised bands, all edges gilt. A near mint example of this fine binding. £145

PRESENTATION COPY 821 JOYCE, JEREMIAH. AN ACCOUNT OF MR JOYCE’S ARREST FOR ‘TREASONABLE PRACTICES;’ HIS EXAMINATION BEFORE HIS MAJESTY’S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL; HIS COMMITMENT TO THE TOWER, AND SUBSEQUENT TREATMENT: TOGETHER WITH REMARKS ON THE SPEECHES OF MR. WNDHAM, Etc.’ Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Ridgway, York-Street; H. D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row; and D. Holt, Newark. London 1795 [20485] Second edition, corrected and enlarged. 8vo. [ii] + 30 pp.

Pamphlet bound in 19th century cloth lettered Arrest of Joyce, stamp of Working Men’s College London, on tiltle page, occasional foxing, but a very good copy. £1,000 Inscribed on the title page ‘Rev M. Maurice From The Author’.

The rare account of Joyce’s Arrest inscribed by the author.

Extremely rare thus. Joyce was born 24 February 1763 at Mildred's Court London. He became a glazier, but on the death of his father he used his inheritance to study for the Unitarian ministry, where he became proficient in mathematics and Latin. Later he became tutor to the sons of Earl Stanhope.

Joyce had radical political views, and became a member of the Society for Constitutional Reform and of the London Corresponding Society. On 4 May 1794 he was arrested at Stanhope's house in Kent on a charge of 'treasonable practices', and examined by the Privy Council, where he refused to answer any questions. He remained in custody until 19 May when, with others, he was committed to the Tower of London on a charge of High Treason. They were arraigned at the Old Bailey on 25 October. After the acquittal of some of his co-defendants, the prosecution withdrew the case against him and he was released. Joyce had suffered twenty three weeks imprisonment. Wikipedia

THEOLOGICAL APOLOGETICS BY A JACOBITE CLERGYMAN 822 LESLIE, CHARLES. A SHORT AND EASY METHOD WITH THE DEISTS AND JEWS [short title]. A SHORT AND EASIE METHOD WITH THE DEISTS. Wherein The Certainty of the Christian Religion Is Demonstrated by Infallible proof from the Four Rules, which are Incompatible to any Imposture that ever yet has been, or that can Possibly be. In a Letter to a Friend. The Fourth Edition Corrected. To which is Added a Second Part to the Jews. Shewing that these Four Rules do oblige them as much, or more than the Deists to the Acknowledgement of Christ. With an Answer to the most Material of their Objections, and Prejudices against Christianity. The Fourth Edition Corrected. Printed for

HISTORY and THEOLOGY Geo. Strahan at the Golden-Ball, over against the RoyalExchange in Cornhill, London. 1715 [20661] 8vo. 4.5 x 7 inches. [6] + xiv + 52 pp.; [4] + [2] + vii + [7] + 222 pp. + [2] pp. advertisements. Half-title and advertisement page at beginning. Separate title pages for The Deists, The Fourth Edition, 1711 and for The Jews, The Third Edition Corrected, 1715 and separate pagination and register. Bound in original calf with blind stamped decorative panel on boards; spine divided into compartments by raised bands. Extremities worn and hinges and joints weak. Some edge stains and worming in margins from rear paste down, diminishing to front, not affecting legibility of text. Early ownership inscriptions of Mary Harvey and flourishes on front and rear paste downs. Slight spotting but otherwise a fine copy. £150 ‘The best known of his apologetical works was the Short Method with the Deists (1694), which...became a classic theological resigns to deism and continued to be reprinted well into the nineteenth century’ (DNB). It defended Trinitarian orthodoxy, the principle of satisfaction and the historicity of the biblical miracles. The second part on The Jews (dated 1689) reiterates the arguments for the Christian Gospels fulfilling the Jewish law but also draws parallels between the Jews and the reformed protestant religions which rejected episcopacy.

Although published anonymously, these two works are known to have been written by Charles Leslie (16501722), a nonjuring Church of Ireland clergyman, who later resided in England. In spite of his opposition to Roman Catholicism, he became a strong Jacobite and tory supporter after the Revolution of 1688-89, spending several periods in exile abroad and serving as protestant chaplain to the exiled Stuart court in France and Italy. He was a prolific writer on political and theological subjects. This combination of the two editions is scarce and ESTC records copies in only two UK libraries, Worcester College, Oxford and the Brotherton, Leeds.

823 LIBER FEODORUM. THE BOOK OF FEES. Commonly called Testa de Nevill. Reformed from the earliest MSS. by The Deputy Keeper of the Records. 3 vols. Part I. A.D. 1198-1242. Part II. A.D. 1242-1293 and Appendix.. Index. First published in 1920/1923/1931 on behalf of the Public Record Office. Kraus Reprint A Division of Kraus-Thomson Organization Limited, Nendeln/Liechtenstein. 1971 [20567] 3 volumes. 4to. 7 x 9.75 inches. Part I. xxxviii + 636 pp; Part II. [viii] + pp.637-1483 + [1]; Index, vii + [i] + 699 pp. + [1]. Text in Latin and English. Bound in original green cloth, gilt. Slight lower edge soiling, otherwise fine condition. £175 The book was originally compiled for the Exchequer in about 1302, comprising two parchment volumes of some five hundred written surveys of fiefs or lands held directly of the Crown, recorded between 1198 and 1292 and organised by county.

These documents were transcribed from two earlier collections, one of which was known as the Testa de Nevill (Head of Neville), possibly after a container marked by a drawn symbol of the head of an official called Nevill. The book was originally intended as a register, which did not enjoy the authority of the originals as a legal document, but ultimately as these became worn or lost, the Book of Fees became the definitive record.

The three volume edition published by HMSO for the Public Record Office, 1920-31, replaced the earlier edition of 1807.

It was a revised critical edition, rearranged in chronological order. A key compares the county by county contents of the different arrangements in the 1302, 1807 and 1920/23 versions. A vast improvement over the original and very scarce as a complete three volume set.

DUBLIN EDITION 824 LYTTELTON, LORD GEORGE. THE WORKS OF GEORGE LORD LYTTELTON; Formerly printed separately, and now collected together: With some other Pieces, never before printed. Published by George Edward Ayscough, Esq. Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, No 21. Skinner-Row. 1775 [20609] 8vo. 5.25 x 8.5 inches. frontis + vii + [i] + 564 pp.

Illustrated by engraved portrait frontispiece and title page vignette. Bound in original calf; spine divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt rules with green morocco label, gilt. Blue green edges, top edge darkened.

Hinges and joints weak. Some browning and spotting inside, otherwise fine condition. £300 A selection of the more notable works of the politician and writer George, First Baron Lyttelton (1709-73). The son of the fourth baronet, of Hagley Hall, Worcs, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and, after taking the Grand Tour, entered Parliament as an MP for Okehampton in 1735. In opposition to Walpole and his successors, he served briefly as Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1755-56, before being created Baron. In 1751, Lyttelton inherited Hagley, which he transformed in the Palladian style, with a new landscape garden, partly inspired

by Alexander Pope’s ideas. He had important literary friendships with Pope, James Thomson and Henry Fielding.

The first piece in The Works, on Cicero, reflects Lyttelton’s admiration for him; he and his relatives in Parliament (known as the ‘Cousinhood’) were mocked for their Ciceronian style of oratory. The Observations on the present state of our affairs was first published in 1739 as a warmongering pamphlet against Spain. The Letters from a Persian in England (1735) serve as a satire on the state of Walpole’s England, commenting on ‘the many great towns’ which sent no ‘deputies’ to the House of Commons, while ‘almost uninhabited’ hamlets had the right to send two.

The Observations on St. Paul were influenced by his emergence as a devout Christian in 1747, after a period of marital difficulties with his second wife. The Dialogues proved one of his most popular works and were imagined conversations between famous individuals, from ancient Rome to more recent times. The Account of a Journey into Wales (written 1756 and printed for the first time in The Works) is one of the earliest romantic accounts of Welsh mountain scenery. Fuller editions were later published of the poems and letters selected here.

The Works were first published in London and Dublin editions in 1774, again in 1775, with another London edition appearing in 1776.

825 McCULLOCH, J.R. A Descriptive And Stastical Account Of The British Empire: Exhibiting Its extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, And Civil And Religious Institutions. THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED, ENLARGED, AND IMPROVED. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. 1847 [16664] 8vo. Two volumes. Vol.I. x + 766 pp. + 32 catalogue.

Vol.II. viii + 780 pp. Original blind-stamped green cloth,

HISTORY and THEOLOGY gilt. Slight wear to extremities and crease to lower board of vol. 2, otherwise a very good copy. £220 Incredible source of statistical information on the economic activity of the British Empire in the 19th century .

826 MANNING, EDWARD WINDHAM. THE LAW OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE, PROMISSORY NOTES, BANK-NOTE, BANKERS NOTES, DRAFTS, AND CHECKS. CONTAINING ALL THE STATUTES, CASES AT LARGE, CUSTOMS OF MERCHANTS, AND DECISIONS IN THE COURTS OF LAW AND EQUITY, ON THOSE VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECTS, TO TRINITY TERM, 1801. Including the Arguments in the Cafe of Lawson and others, v. Weston and others. In the sittings before Lord Kenyon and a Special Jury, in July, 1801. When some essential Information occurred respecting Country Bank; and their very extraordinary Multiplications. Together with the accumulated Stamp Duty on the respective Sums, down to the last Act of 41 G. III. c. 10, inclusive. Printed by W. Stratford, Crown-Court, Temple-Bar, for J. Stratford, Holborn-Hill. London. Price three Shillings. 1801 [20489] 8vo. iv + 92 + [4] pp. includes index. Disbound pamphlet occasional foxing, but a very good copy. £250

THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS DEMOLISHED BY MILTON 827 MILTON, JOHN and CLAUDIUS SALMASIUS. PRO POPULO ANGLICANO DEFENSIO. Joannis Miltoni angli pro populo anglicano defensio contra Claudii anonymi, alias Salmasii, defensionem regiam.

Typis Du Gardianis London 1651 12mo. Blank before title page + [ixx] + 330 pp.

Bound with [SALMASIUS, CLAUDIUS] DEFENSIO REGIA PRO CAROLO I Ad serenissimum Magnae Britannia regem Carolum II filium natu majorem, heredem & successorem legitimum. Sumptibus Regiis.

[Leyden] 1649 12mo. 2pp + 720 pp. (No printer named). London.

Printed in the Year, 1689 [19696] 4to. [2] + 3 - 25, 26 ( pp 25 and 26 are duplicated ) 27 pp. + [1] blank. Bound in volume with 19 pamhlets. Original vellum with ‘Salmasius pro, Milton contra’ and Commonwealth arms on spine in manuscript. These two works are bound together in the same volume. Various ink annotations verso front cover and pencil annotations on first blank page made by previous owners.

Sympathetically recased at some point. £750 PRO POPULO ANGLICAN DEFENSIO Probably the Jansson edition of Milton's response to the Defensio by Salmasius (Claude de Saumaise,1588-1653) published in 1649. Milton’s response was celebrated as a victory over the defence of Salmasius of absolute monarchy and the Divine Right of Kings. The work, written in Latin is noted for its colourful invectives such as a ‘dung-hill Frenchman’ and indignant attacks on the French scholar.

Milton questions how the great European scholar could defend the principle of divine right and he defends the overthrow of the monarchy by the people. The ‘Pro populo anglicano defensio’ was a pivotal work for Milton who gained

recognition and fame through his powerful response to Salmasius’ argument.

DEFENSIO REGIA...

This is the second edition of this work, published anonymously in the same year as the first edition. Both editions were published by the Elzevirs in Leyden. The printing of the Defensio is said to have been paid for by the exiled Charles II, who asked Salmasius (Claude de Saumaise 1588 - 1653) a renowned French and Classical scholar and Professor at the University of Leyden, to write a work defending the case of his father. In the Defensio, Salmasius condemns the parliamentary government in England and upholds the Divine Right of Kings.

He wrote his work in Latin and it was censored in England, one of the censors being John Milton.

Dutch Protestant printers produced these works in large numbers and their bibliography is incredibly complex: false imprints, no imprints and lack of dates being frequent.. The deception was fired by the greed of the same printers competing for the Spanish theological printing contracts and so guarding their anonymity. It is for this reason that the order of precedence of these printings is very difficult to identify.

828 MOOR, C. KNIGHTS OF EDWARD I. Volume I. [A to E.] Volume II. [F to K.] Volume III [L to O.] Volume IV. [P to S.] Volume V [T to Z] with Index of Manors. Notices collected by Rev. C. Moor, D. D., F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S. (The Publications of the Harleian Society. Volumes LXXX - LXXXIV for the years MDCCCCXXIX MDCCCCXXXII). Harleian Society, [London]. 1929 [20580] Five volumes. 4to. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. Vol.I. xii + 322 pp. + [2] + [6] pp.; Vol.II. x + [ii] + 298 pp.; Vol.III. ix + [iii] + 293 pp. + [3] + [8] pp.; Vol.IV. viii + 325 pp. + [3] + [8] pp.; Vol.V. xii + 334 pp. + [2] + [8] pp. Illustrated by arms and motto of Society on title pages. Bound in original maroon cloth, with blind stamped borders enclosing the Society’s arms and motto, gilt . Extremities worn. Tipped in small bookplate. Occasional marginal marks and comments and underlinings in text in coloured inks. Otherwise fine condition. £200 ‘A preliminary guide to the knightly families of England living in or about the time of the first Edward.’ It is based on evidence from Patent, Close, Fine, Charter, Scutage and Welsh Rolls, Parliamentary Writs, Inquisitions and some later works like the Complete Peerage. It was reckoned that there were about 5,000 Knights’ Fees in England at this time. The volumes are full of fascinating detail about the minutiae of land holding, e.g. ‘Ste. de Brokedissh’ holds 1/2 acre of turf of him [Sir Thomas de Verdon, Kt.] at Brisingham by service of a root of ginger 30 Dec.1307.’ There are also many anecdotes about the characteristic disorders of the period, e.g. ‘complaint by Prior of Watton that Peter de M[auley] and others seized his cart in which 7 nuns were shut up, dragged them out of it, seized 2 other carts laden with harness, charters, and muniments, with 10 horses drawing them, seized 140 oxen and 40 horses yoked in his ploughs at Watton, and drove them to his Castle at Mulgrave...’

A thorough work of over 1500 pages in five volumes.

PHOTOGRAPHIC ‘INCUNABLE’ OF 1866 829 MOOR, J.F. and WILLIAM SAVAGE, [photographer] THE BIRTH-PLACE, HOME, CHURCHES, AND OTHER PLACES CONNECTED

HISTORY and THEOLOGY WITH THE AUTHOR OF ‘THE CHRISTIAN YEAR.’ Illustrated in Thirty-two Photographs By W.Savage; With Notes By the Rev. J.F. Moor, Jun., M.A., Incumbent of Ampfield. William Savage, Winchester. James Parker and Co., London. 1866 [20188] First edition. 4to. 8 x 10 inches. 134 pp. + [20]. Illustrated with 32 real sepia photographs mounted separately from text but pagination and register continuous. Half-title and dedication. Erratum page at end has advertisement for Savage’s photographic prints. Title page in red and black with red headings, decorated initials and ruled borders throughout. Inset: advertisement for photograph portrait of Keble. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt, by Edmonds and Remnants, London with their label at end.

Upper board embossed gilt and decorated in Victorian ‘antique’ style, lower board blind stamped; bevelled edges and green endpapers. Extremities worn, spine sunned and occasional spotting inside but otherwise generally clean.

Early bookplate of Revd. John Le Mesurier on front paste-down. £170 An illustrated memoir of the Reverend John Keble, one of the founders of the Oxford Movement in the Church of England (from 1833 onwards). Published in this first edition in the year of his death, it is noteworthy for the 32 photographic images

by William Savage of Winchester. They include: a portrait (from a sketch) of Keeble (with facsimile signature below); views of his birthplace at Coln St Aldwyn, near Fairford, Gloucestershire (where his father was vicar for 52 years; his colleges at Oxford, Corpus Christi and Oriel; the Gloucestershire churches where he or his father served, East Leach, Burthorpe, Southrop and Coln St Aldwyn; and the Hampshire churches and parsonages with which he was associated, Hursley, Otterbourne, Ampfield and Pitt Chapel; lastly the house at Bournemouth where he died and his grave at Hursley. John Keble (1792-1866) was one of the most brilliant minds of his time, obtaining a double first at Oxford at the age of eighteen. He achieved early fame as a poet; his Christian Year (1827) was an outstanding publishing success, appearing in 95 editions in his own lifetime alone, and he held the position of Professor of Poetry at Oxford, 1831-39. In spite of his fame as one of the instigators of the Oxford Movement and authorship of several of the Tracts For The Times, which propagated its views, Keble was content to follow family tradition and spend thirty years as country parson, assiduously serving as Vicar of Hursley, Hants, 1836-66. The text is written by John Frewen Moor (1824?-1906), who was incumbent at Ampfield (along with Otterbourne), one of the new churches Keeble founded within Hursley parish. The photographs are the work of William Savage (1817-87), whose studio was at High Street, Winchester.

‘PLURALITY OF BENEFICES WITH CURE OF SOULS.’ 830 [NEWTON, RICHARD].

PLURALITIES INDEFENSIBLE. A Treatise Humbly Offered to the Consideration of the Parliament of Great-Britain. By a Presbyter of the Church of England. Printed for J. Osborn, in Pater-noster Row; and J. Rivington, in St. Paul’s Church-yard, London. 1743 [20665] First edition. 8vo. 5.25 x 8 inches. xv + [1] + 403 pp. + [1]. Illustrated with title page vignette and headpieces.

Bound in original calf, with gilt borders to boards; spine divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt rule

with red morocco label, gilt. Extremities worn, joints and hinges weak. Speckled red edges, top edge darkened. A fine crisp copy. £120 Am attack on pluralism which was widespread in the Church of England throughout the eighteenth century. A dispensation was granted to a minister to hold several ecclesiastical benefices at the same time. He would enjoy the temporal revenues from his incumbency and maintain a lowly paid curate to actually perform the care of souls in the parish (a system not reformed until the Pluralities Acts of 1838, 1850 and 1885). This book was published anonymously but is known to be the work of Richard Newton (1676-1753) from Northants, who was educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford. He was ordained and became a Doctor of Divinity in 1710. He held the living of Sudborough in his native county from 1704-48 and, while occasionally residing there to instruct pupils, invariably appointed a curate to delegate for him. Although ironical in terms of the subject matter of his book, this example of pluralism enabled him to fund his academic life at Oxford. His major achievement there was to transform Hart Hall, of which he became principal in 1710, into Hertford College by 1740. This was established for less affluent undergraduates who lived on a frugal regime said to be based on ‘small beer and apple dumplings.’ Newton published a number of works on ministerial duties and university education. Pluralities was reprinted in 1744, 45 and 53.

NEW EDITION OF PEYPS 831 PEPYS, SAMUEL. [Edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews] THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. London: Bell and Hyman 1978-1983 [17924] 11 volumes. 8vo. Original green cloth with dust wrappers.

All books and wrappers in fine condition. £300 The New and Complete transcription edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews. 1970-1983. The best edition of Pepys' diary which is now only in print in paperback.

832 RAYMOND, GEORGE FREDERICK. A NEW, UNIVERSAL AND IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND, FROM THE EARLIEST AUTHENTIC RECORDS, AND MOST GENUINE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE, TO THE WINTER OF THE YEAR 1784.

Containing A Clear, Authentic, Candid, Accurate, Faithful, and Circumstantial Account of every Memorable Transaction, interesting Event, and remarkable Ocurrence, recorded in The Annals of Great Britain. With a Comprehensive Account of its Origin and Progresive State...Interspersed with Occasional Remarks, Observations and Reflections...The Whole comprizing, in the most acurate, clear and impartial Manner, everthing worthy of being recorded in the Annals of The British Empire. Embellished and illustrated with upwards of One Hundred and Twenty beautiful Copper Plate engravings, taken from the Original Drawings of Mesrs. Metz, Stothard, and Samuel Wale, Esq by those celebrated Artists Messrs. Heath, Grignion, Walker, Taylor, Roberts, Chesham, etc. representing the most remarkable Transactions that occur in the Course of the History; with Whole Length Figures of all the British Soverigns, from Egbert the Great, first sole Monarch of England, to their present Majesties. By George Frederick Raymond, Esq.

HISTORY and THEOLOGY Assisted by Alexander Gordon and Hugh Owen, Esqrs, and others, who for many Years past, have made the History of this Country their peculiar Study. Printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespears’ Head, No. 217., Pater-nosterRow, London. [1785?] [20625] Folio. 9.5 x 15 inches. frontis. + 608 pp. + [16] pp. index, directions to the binder and list of subscribers. Illustrated by 99 copperplates, one folding map of Great Britain and tailpiece vignettes. The plate of the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham has been placed at p.442, instead of p.342. Text in double columns. Bound in later calf; spine divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt rules, with morocco labels, gilt. First three and last four pages reinforced with clear conservation material, with missing lower portions of frontispiece and title page, and some subscribers pages professionally repaired, text unaffected.

Occasional small lower edge repairs using archival tape, and a few water stains; otherwise a fine copy. £125 As a part work, there were several different versions of the History, this edition being preceded by Spring 1784 and followed by Summer 1785 (and also appearing again c.178790). This Winter 1784 edition is particularly scarce and only one library copy is recorded by ESTC, in the USA.

JACOBITE FAILURE IN 1715 833 REBEL. [pseudonym attributed to Daniel Defoe]. A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT PERTH; The Debates in the Secret Council there; with the Reasons and Causes of the suddain finishing and breaking up of the Rebellion. Written by a Rebel. The Second Edition. Printed for J. Baker and T. Warner at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, London. 1716 [20407] Small 8vo. 5x 8 inches. [iv] + 76 pp. Printer’s ornaments on half title and at beginning of text. Disbound and fixed in later marbled paper wrappers. Some browning and fraying of untrimmed edges Early date at top of title page and occasional notes in margins. Otherwise fine condition. £300 This tract was published the year after the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715. It purports to give a verbatim account of the debates of the Jacobite army council held at Perth in the presence of James Stuart, the Old Pretender and the Earl of Mar, the army commander. Mar’s army had already fought an indecisive battle with government forces under the Duke of Argyll at Sherriffmuir, near Dunkeld, which is discussed at the beginning of the account. The debate went against those who wished to continue the rising and it was decided to abandon it and retreat to the coast. The pretender took ship for France and the Jacobite army dispersed into the highlands. The question of the tract’s authorship remains controversial. For a long time it has been attributed to Daniel Defoe (1661/1731), on the basis of an early manusript attribution in a copy of it, and also on stylistic grounds. Both its printers, Baker and Warner, were two of Defoe’s principal publishers. More recently controversy has developed between the US academic, J.R. Moore, who included it in his Defoe Checklist, and the British scholars, Furbank and Owens. They have rejected the Defoe attribution of The Proceedings at Perth, with over 500 other writings ascribed to him, in Defoe De-attributions, a critique specifically aimed at Moore’s Checklist.

ESTC T69399 Moore, A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe (1971), Furbank and Owens, Defoe De-attributions (1994).

ROYAL BINDING 834 RIDER, CARDANUS. RIDER’S BRITISH MERLIN: FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD GOD 1766.

Being the Second after Bissextile or Leap-Year, Adorn’d with many delightful and useful Verities, fitting all Capacities in the Islands of Great Britain’s Monarchy.

With Notes of Husbandry, Fairs, Marts, High Roads, and TABLES for many necessary USES. Compiled for his Country’s Benefit by Cardanus Rider Printed by H. Woodfall, For the Company of Stationers, (Price Stitch’d nine-pence) 1765 [20002] 12mo, 3 x 5.5 inches. A number of blank leaves at the beginning, followed by [60] pp. followed by further blank pages. Marbled endpapers followed by Dutch floral endpapers Bound in full dark red morocco, with the royal cypher and crown motif containing the letter ‘A’ used liberally in the design of elaborate gilt, with four silver clasp bosses engraved with the King’s royal cypher GR and fastened using the original silver stylus. (The initial ‘A’ probably refers to Augusta but there is more than one candidate of this name for this date.) The binding is very worn on the rear panel with much loss of the original detail, and the front panel is cracked and in places abraded, however a sufficient amount remains for it to be an attractive item. The spine is practically intact. £500 On the first blank leaves of the book is written ‘From my Queen, who received it from (illegible)’. Most of the further notes inside are in another hand, however, we have not analysed these in any detail.

Rider’s British Merlin (the format later familiar as an almanac) was first published in 1656, and continued to be published for nearly 200 years. By the time this edition was printed, the almanac included several blank pages designed to be used as a diary or notebook.

PLANTIN PRESS 835 ROMAN MISSAL. MISSALE ROMANUM. EX DECRETO SACROSANCTI CONCILII TRIDENTINI RESTITUTUM, PII V. PONT. MAX. Ex officina Christophori Plantini, Architypographi Regii, Cum Privilegiis Pont. Max. et Regis Catholici. 1572 [20255] 8vo, 4.5 x 6.5 inches approx., Title + 375 pp. A-Z8 (V5 torn with loss) aaa4 (cancels) + xcvi Aa-Ff8 + 150 pp. ak4 + 101 pp.+ 7 full-page woodcuts and 18 half-page woodcuts. Bound in early full calf with spine in compartments with raised bands and contrasting title label, gilt. Printed in red and black, with early music. A very good copy £1,200 The Roman Missal (Missale Romanum) is the liturgical book that contains the texts and rubrics for the celebration of the Mass in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. The Council of Trent in 1570 determined the composition ot the Missal and this is a very early example, published by Christopher Plantin, and illustrated with woodcuts by Wiericx after Peeter vander Borcht. Plantin had gained the rights to publish his Missal in the Low Countries, Hungary, and parts of Germany and, more importantly, for Spain and her colonies.With label to front paste down of Rev. Canon Benoit, inscribed to the effect that the book was a gift from George Chambers. Another label to

HISTORY and THEOLOGY the verso of front free endpaper, beneath Benoit’s ownership signature. Inscribed on the blank prelim is the ownership signature of Thomas Chambers 1790; on the free endpaper at the back are the dates of the deaths of (another) Thomas Chambers (1788) and Ann Chambers (1796).

ON THE INDEX OF FORBIDDEN BOOKS 836 SABATIER, PAUL. VIE DE S. FRANCOIS D’ ASSISE. Librarie Fischbacher (Societe anonyme), 33, Rue de Seine, Paris. 1894 [20184] 8vo.Third edition. 5.75 x 9 inches. Vol.1. [4] + cxxvi + 116 pp. Extra illustrated with [31] sepia photographic plates, including portrait frontispiece of author. Vol.2. pp.117-418 + [2]. Illustrated with [22] extra plates. Text in French. Bound in presentation half vellum, gilt, with fleur-de-lis decorated boards and endpapers and patterned gIlt borders. Spine divided into compartments by gilt lines and decorations, enclosing gilt vignette decorations and two black morocco labels; all edges gilt. Binders label, G. Giannini, Florence, on verso of first free endpapers. Hand written label with author’s signature, dated 1895, below his portrait frontispiece and quotation pasted on sheet inserted before introduction; hand written captions by author to many of the extra plates. Pictorial bookplates of Laird and Eleanor Busk. £350 This handsome edition of the first modern life of St. Francis of Assisi has been divided into two extra-illustrated volumes by Paul Sabatier, with his handwritten captions. It is inset with letters and a postcard from him: dated 11 March (from Rome), 27 April, 14 August (both from Chantegrillet) and 21 October 1895 (addressed Chere Mademoiselle), postcard, dated 23 December from Italy to Madame Eleanor Joy-Busk and letter to her, of 30 March 1901 (from Rome) referring to it; also postcard of St. Francis (Paddington, 19 September 1920) to Mrs. Laird Busk at The Grange, Westerham, Kent From the enclosed correspondence, it seems that Sabatier had tried unsuccessfully to interest his publisher in ‘une edition de grand luxe’ of the Life, but he had declined because of the expense. Hence the author commissioned this sumptuous presentation edition, bound in Florence and lavishly illustrated with real photographic plates of religious art and scenes in and around Assisi, that he hand captioned. It seems likely that the recipient of the two volumes was the lady who, after her marriage to Laird Busk in 1897, became Eleanor Joy Busk. Sabatier’s letters of 1895 are addressed to ‘Chere Mademoiselle but he does offer felicitations on her recent engagement and also sends his regards to Madame Joy, ’votre mere.’ It is possible therefore that these volumes were commissioned as an engagement present.

Although ‘Mademoiselle’ had evidently visited Italy and Assisi in 1895, she was in New York by 1900-1901, when Sabatier addresses his final two communications to her as a married woman, to which she evidently fails to reply. The Busks later lived at Westerham, Kent, where Laird died early in 1922. As she placed his obituary notice in the New York Times of February 1922, it is likely that they had divided their time between New York and Westerham. The land that Eleanor Joy donated for the building of Westerham Library later that year, may have been in memory of her husband. Their son, Dougla Laird Busk

(1906-1990 was an author, explorer and diplomat.

Paul Sabatier (1858-1928) was a French clergyman who served in Strasbourg and the Cevennes before devoting the rest of his career to historical research. His Life of St. Francis was an immediate success, appearing in numerous editions and was translated into several languages, including English. It was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Catholic Church because Sabatier’s account of the saint was considered to be doctrinally unreliable and in 1919 he returned to Strasbourg as a professor of protestant theology.

837 [SAMUEL WESLEY.] AN ANSWER TO TWO PAPERS, CALLED, A LORDS SPEECH WITHOUTDOORS, AND A COMMONERS SPEECH. Wherein, The Objections Against the Present Management of Affairs are Dissolved. By a lover of his country. Printed, and are to be sold by most Booksellers in London and Westminster. 1689 [15631] Small 4to. Title page + 40 pp. Later full calf by Bickers and Son, Leicester Square. Gilt title to spine with raised bands, gilt frame to upper and lower boards. Marbled endpapers with gilt dentelles. Board edges all gilt. £300

ASTROLOGY 838 SIBLY, EBENEZER. A NEW AND COMPLETE ILLUSTRATION OF THE CELESTIAL SCIENCE OF ASTROLOGY: OR, THE ART OF FORETELLING FUTURE EVENTS AND CONTINGENCIES BY THE ASPECTS, POSITIONS, AND INFLUENCES OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES. FOUNDED ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, SCRIPTURE, REASON, AND THE MATHEMATICS. IN FOUR PARTS. Printed for the Proprietor, and sold

by W. Nicoll in St. Paul’s Church-yard, M. Sibly in Goswell Street, and E. Sibly, Portsmouth-Common. 178488 [20449] Large 8vo. Copper-engraved frontis + xii + pp.13-1126 + [4] index. A mistake in pagination puts page 39 after page 28 but the text is continuous. (This persisted in later editions.) Page 350 is mis-numbered 450, (corrected in later editions.). Some later copies lack pp. 943-946 but this copy has them repeated. The first page of the index, otherwise unnumbered, is mis-numbered 1125. There are 25 full-page copper-engraved plates in addition to the frontis, including a number of natal charts, with many charts, tables, lists and diagrams to the text. Bound in recent half-calf over marbled boards with contrasting title label to spine, which is in compartments with raised bands.

Pages 181-192, comprising a number of astronomical tables, are very grubby and have the lower edges repaired, clearly having been much used. These aside the text is generally clean, with light to moderate foxing to margins and some offsetting. Modern ownership inscription to blank recto of frontis. Lower corners of first few gatherings show wear and lower corner from one leaf (pp.

137-138) missing but not affecting text. £950 A remarkable compendium of Astrological, Astronomical, and Meteorological information. The plates include many depicting historical figures; royalty, statesmen, scientists and churchmen, each having a portrait at the centre of a natal chart, some five to a plate. One especially large portrait is of Sibly himself. Other plates show astronomical instruments and

HISTORY and THEOLOGY phenomena, the Nativity with accompanying chart, an allegorical depiction of the American Revolution, including George Washington, Blind Justice, and an American Indian holding tobacco (?), with its astronomical chart held aloft by an angel, a page of portraits of the Order of the Inspirati, viz., Appolonius, Mahomet, Roger Bacon, Edward Kelly, Dr. Dee and Paracelsus, Man in his Primeval and Lapsed states and a folding Speculum Phenomenorum. Another plate depicts distillation of perfumes in a laboratory.

839 STILLINGFLEET, EDWARD. Dean of St Pauls. ORIGINES BRITANNICAE, OR, THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE BRITISH CHURCHES. With A Preface Concerning Some Pretended Antiquities Relating to Britain, In Vindication of the Bishop of St. Asaph. M. Flesher for Henry Mortlock, at the Phoenix in St. Paul's Church-yard. London 1685 [16717] First edition, Folio. Title page printed in red and black, [2] + lxxiii + [8] + 364 pp. Full contemporary calf, rubbed and worn with two holes in the spine which is without a title label but sound,. Internally the title is slightly foxed and a worm has attacked the fore-edge of about 20 pages of the prelims all in the margin, text unaffected and most of the book is crisp and clean. £145 Stillingfleet’s effort to prove the direct Apostolic establishment of the Christian faith in Britain prior to the Roman mission of Augustine. The work was reprinted several times.

840 SWEDENBORG, EMANUEL. A TREATISE CONCERNING HEAVEN AND HELL, AND OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS THEREIN, As Heard and Seen, By the Honourable and Learned Emanuel Swedenborg, of the Senatorial Order of Nobles in the Kingdom of Sweden. Translated from the Original Latin. The Second Edition. Printed by R. Hindmarsh, No. 32, ClerkenwellClose, London; And Sold by T. Evans, and T. Buckland, Paternoster-Row; J. Denis and Son, New-Bridge-Street, Fleet-Street; I. Clark, Manchester; T. Mills, Wine-Street, Bristol; S. Hazard, Bath; and by all other Booksellers in Town and Country. 1784 [20014] 4to. 5.25 x 8.75 inches. liii + [i] p. advertisements + 400 pp. [2], a- f4, g-g2, A-3B4. With a half-title. Bound in original mottled full calf, spine gilt with blind stamped decorations, divided into compartments by decorated gilt bands. Name, I: Hurford, blocked in gilt on front board.

Yellow edges. Extremities and free endpapers frayed.

Interior has some browning and occasional stains and small edge tears, not affecting text and lower page tear Q2, where text still remains legible; a2 has paper fault, comprising small hole, affecting a couple of words but not seriously affecting legibility. £300 Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), philosopher and Christian mystic and theologian, was born in Stockholm. Up to 1741 he was a prolific scientist and inventor, but he then entered a spiritual phase and from 1744, began to experience dreams and visions. He claimed that he was appointed by the Lord to reform Christianity, having been given the ability to freely visit heaven and hell and to converse with angels and spirits. He rejected the traditional concept of the Trinity and the doctrine of salvation by faith alone, considering charity to be of equal importance. From 1747, Swedenborg divided his life between Holland and London, where some of his books were first printed and where he died in 1772. He published eighteen

theological works and influenced many later writers, including Blake, Strindberg, Baudelaire, Balzac, Yeats and Jung.

Heaven and Hell is his best known work (even appearing as an early Penguin edition in 1938) and was first issued in Latin in 1758, being translated into English in 1778. This second edition of 1784 is uncommon and ESTC records only four copies in UK libraries, one elsewhere in Europe and six in North America.

A fine copy of a scarce work.

841 TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. THE SECOND EDITION CORRECTED AND AMENDED. Printed for Richard Simpson at the Three Trouts, and Ralph Simpson at the Harp in St Paul’s Church-yard. 1699 [16104] 8vo. [viii] + 318 + [2] pp. Bound in full contemporary panelled calf, spine and hinges rubbed and worn at the head and foot and the hinges, but an attractive copy in original condition. £175 Temple, Sir William, 1628–99, English diplomat and author.

Jonathan Swift, who was Temple's secretary for various periods in the 1690s, helped prepare his letters (1700–1703) and memoirs for publication Temple's essay, Of Ancient and Modern Learning (1690), precipitated the famous “ancients versus moderns” controversy, which caused Swift to write The Battle of the Books (1697). Temple's style in his personal essays was long considered a model of balanced and polished prose.

ARTS OF PRINTER AND ENGRAVER 842 THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS. AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID POINTED AS THEY ARE TO BE SUNG OR SAID IN CHURCHES. William Pickering, London, [Colophon:] C.Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. 1853 [20026] First edition. 5.25 x 7.5 inches. c.360 leaves (unpaginated). a-d6, B-2K6; Psalms, A-2A6. Printed on hot press paper. Title in red and black within border.

Illustrated, with portrait of Elizabeth I on verso of title and wood-engraved borders throughout, by Mary Byfield, chiefly from A Booke of Christian Prayers (London, 1581 and 1590). Bound in full calf, based on a centre stamped Oxford binding of the seventeenth century. Boards have decorative blind stamped borders enclosing centre panel with tooled decoration; spine divided into compartments by raised bands enclosing decorations with maroon morocco label, gilt. Marbled endpapers and all edges red.

Inscribed dedication of 1866 on first free endpaper and two later signatures on verso of first free endpaper. Some foxing, especially of first few pages but otherwise, fine, clean interior. £250 William Pickering (1796-1854) was a London publisher and bookseller, who began a long partnership with the printer, Charles Whittingham (1795-1876) in 1828. This version of the Book of Common Prayer (sometimes known as Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer Book, e.g. by Keynes in his book on Pickering and by McLean) is a late example of their

HISTORY and THEOLOGY collaboration. It includes the woodcut borders inspired by the 1581 and 1590 editions of the Book of Christian Prayers (also often called ‘Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer Book’), skilfully executed by Mary Byfield (1795-1871), and harmonising perfectly with the type. In 1855 it was reissued with an additional facsimile title page, The Book of Common Prayer, ornamented with woodcuts from designs by Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein, and others in imitation of Queen Elizabeth’s Book of Christian Prayers. It seems likely that the attribution

by Keynes and Maclean to ‘Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer Book’ of 1569 (correctly titled Christian Prayers and Meditations by ESTC), rather than to the quite separate publications of 1581 and 1590, is an error.

843 [TOUSSAINT, FRANCOIS VINCENT.] MANNERS. Translated from the French. Printed for W.Owen, at Temple-Bar; W.Johnston, in St Paul’s Church-Yard; and J.Payne. in Pater-noster Row. London: 1752 [17693] Third edition. 12mo in 6s. [18]pp; [1] + ii + [iii] + vi + 251 pp. [2 leaves of advertisements] + 1 blank. a-2{v}, b-b3, B - U, X - Z -Z end. Bound in contemporary calf, five raised cords with some gold tooling and emblems.

New sympathetic leather title label supplied. Slight rubbing to the extremities and staining, Joints cracked but sound. Top corner of title page and preliminaries wormed, worm continues in the upper margin until about halfway through the book but nowhere affecting the text. Initials JB on title page and Helena Jonnereau in pencil inside front cover. Phebe Jonnerreau in ink on last blank page. £250 First published in 1748 in France this work was considered scandalous and treasonous. Toussaint was prosecuted and the book was burnt but the work was very sucessful and reprinted sixteen times in the first year. The first English translation appeared in 1749. Toussaint, who signs himself Panages in the dedication, regretted writing the work although he published a defence of it in 1763 showing that it contained nothing offensive. Les Moeurs was widely read and later used in the Encyclopédie.

QUEENS’ BINDER B 844 TOZER, HENRY. DIRECTIONS FOR A GODLY LIFE: ESPECIALLY FOR COMMUNICATING AT THE LORDS TABLE. INTENDED FIRST FOR PRIVATE USE; NOW PUBLISHED FOR THE GOOD OF THOSE WHO DESIRE THE SAFETY OF THEIR OWN SOULS, AND SHALL BE PLEASED TO MAKE USE THEREOF. By Henry Tozer, Mr. of Arts, and Fellow of Exeter Colledge (sic) in Oxford. The Eight Edition.

Printed by L. Lichfield, for Richard Davis, Oxford 1671 [17859] 12mo. [x] + 193 pp. A-H12, I6, End. The last leaf is erroneously numbered 163 instead of 193.

Bound in black Goatskin (morocco), elaborately tooled in gold in the decorative technique or style known as ‘Drawer handle motif’, the tools forming a loose lozenge central panel and other smaller, decorative groups.

Backstrip with gilt-decorated raised bands, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Skillfully rebacked with the original spine retained and slight restoration to the head and tail, but nearly complete. Corners bumped and some scribbling

on the margins of the text but a fine example of the work of this binder.

The Queens' Binder was so named by G.D. Hobson in 'Bindings in Cambridge Libraries' because both Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena owned examples of these bindings. In fact the term should almost certainly be applied to four separate people. From time to time attempts have been made to identify them by name, but in the absence of certainty they have been assigned letters.

The present binding is in a style favored by a number of binders, apart from the Queens' binder, at this period.

Designs by the 'Devotional Binder' and John Harding, for example, are very similar. I have settled on 'Queens' Binder 'B' on the basis of the tools used and absence of other tools used by the others. All the binders mentioned above used versions of these tools, but it is on the bindings of Queens' Binder 'B' the combinations are more often precisely the same. However it may not be sufficiently different from the versions used by others to form conclusive proof, and therefore must remain attributed to ‘QB B’ £550 The book contained herein is not common despite the ‘Eight Edition’ (sic) on the title page. I can only trace a handful of copies here or in America Of this edition ESTC records only 4 copies.

845 WATSON, WILLIAM. THE CLERGY-MAN’S LAW: OR, THE COMPLETE INCUMBENT, COLLECTED FROM THE 39 ARTICLES, CANONS, DECREES IN CHANCERY AND EXCHEQUER, AS ALSO FOM ALL THE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, AND COMMON-LAW CASES, RELATING TO THE CHURCH AND CLERGY OF ENGLAND: Digested under proper Heads for the Benefit of Patrons of Churches, and the Parochial Clergy. And will be Useful to all Students, and Practioners of Law. By Willaim Watson L.L.D. late Dean of Battel. With a Table of the Contents of the Chapters, and another of the Principal Matters. To which is added, the Names of the present Bishops, and other Chief Dignitaries of the Church of England. The Third Edition, with large Additions. Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (Assigns of E. Sayer, Esq;) for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, R. Gosling, W. Mears, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborn, T. Woodward, J. Hook, F. Clay, and J. Stephens, In the Savoy, [London]. 1725 [20186] Folio. 8.5 x 12.75 inches. 4 + [8] + 652 pp. + [62] + [4], A-A2, A-Z2, 2A-2A4, 2B-5A4, 5B-5B2, 5C-5R2, [1].

Contents include list of bishops, deans and other dignitaries at beginning and Addenda, Table (i.e.analytical) index, Books lately Published and Errata at end. Partly printed in black letter. Bound in original calf, gilt with red morocco label; Boards have blind stamped double line borders with decorative wavy line on spine border only. Spine divided into compartments by raised bands. Extremities worn, surfaces of boards eroded in places and joints a little loose. Slight worming at foot of rear endpapers and for last few pages of Table and small tear to lower edge of 501, not affecting text. Otherwise a clean crisp interior and generally a very fine copy. £300 An authoritative and detailed survey of ecclesiastical law. It includes coverage of benefices, patronage and right of

HISTORY and THEOLOGY presentations, the duties of the minister, disturbances in church, freehold of seats in church, estates and leases and tithes (including such matters as tithes of wool and wood which are all described in considerable detail).

William Watson (1637?-1689) was Dean and incumbent of Battle, an exempt in the Diocese of Chichester: ‘the Bishop of Chichester doth admit the Dean of of the exempt Jurisdiction of Battel within that Diocese, yet the Patron thereof is to institute, and induct the Dean’(2I2 verso). In the medieval period the office was possibly a local dean in the area of Hastings and Battle, separate from the Deanery of Chichester within the diocese. In Watson’s time and later it appears to have become a mere honorific title for the vicar of Battle. In about 1900 the incumbent was still styled dean and vicar and the living described as a peculiar deanery and vicarage. It is not clear who prepared the first edition for publication in 1701 or who revised it for the subsequent editions (second, 1712, this third of 1725 and the fourth of 1747). A magnificent survey of the legal and economic rights and responsibilities of early eighteenth century clergy.

SLAVE REVOLT 846 WILLIAMS, JAMES. and PRICE, THOMAS. NARRATIVE OF EVENTS, SINCE THE FIRST OF AUGUST, 1834, BY JAMES WILLIAMS. AN APPRENTICED LABOURER IN JAMAICA. Printed

by John Haddon, Castle Street, Finsbury. Sold by William Ball, Aldine Chambers, Paternoster Row; and all other Booksellers. Price one Penny [1837] [20491] small 8vo. iv + 5 - 23 + [1] Disbound pamphlet occasional foxing, but a very good copy. £200 A first hand account, taken down by Thomas Price, a Wesleyan Minister and narrates the appalling treatment of James Williams, a slave in Jamaica and his account of the revolt of 1834.

847 [WILSON], THOMAS. Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man. THE KNOWLEGE AND PRACTICE OF CHRISTIANITY MADE EASY TO THE MEANEST CAPACITIES: OR, AN ESSAY TOWARDS AN INSTRUCTION FOR THE INDIANS;. TOGETHER WITH DIRECTIONS AND PRAYERS, FOR THE HEATHEN WORLD, MISSIONARIES &c. London: B. Dod. 1764 [17364] Small 8vo. 300 pp., bound in full contemporary ruled calf gilt. A very good copy. £250 Rare treatise on the instruction of Christianity to the American Indians and Negroes in slavery.

YOUNG ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 848 YOUNG, ARTHUR. THE EXAMPLE OF FRANCE, A WARNING TO BRITAIN. By Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S. Printed for W. Richardson, No 91, Royal Exchange, London. 1793 [20448] First edition. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. [4] + 122 pp. + [1] advertisements + [1] + 24 pp. Appendix. Half-title.

Bound in original half calf with marbled boards; spine rebacked with double gilt rules. Extremities worn and boards eroded at inner edges and on front corners. Some browning and spotting and occasional pencil lines in margins. Early inscription of Jos: Berens on title page. £750

Arthur Young (1741-1820), the famous agricultural reformer, started and ended his long writing career with polemical tracts and this example, from mid-career, has been described as ‘perhaps his most influential pamphlet’ (DNB). Young was making his third tour of France when the revolution broke out and he witnessed some of the subsequent events in Paris himself as well as experiencing events in the provinces. He had been very critical of the poverty and squalor he had witnessed in the final days of the ancien regime but having experienced the violent excesses of the revolution, considered that ’The old government of France, with all its faults, was certainly the best enjoyed by any country in Europe, England excepted; but there were many faults in it which every class of the people wished to remedy.’ He now saw a different France at the height of her revolutionary fervour: ‘Her government an anarchy, that values neither life nor property. Her agriculture fast sinking, her farmers the slaves of all; and her people starving. Her manufactures annihilated. Her commerce destroyed; and her colonies absolutely ruined... Her national revenue diminished three-fourths. Her cities scenes of revolt of massacre and starvation; and her provinces plundered by gangs of banditti.’

Young had formerly been a liberal and a reformer, but his experiences in France turned him into a conservative and reactionary at home, opposing any reform of parliament at home;’The prosperity and happiness we have enjoyed for a century...is owing precisely to the House of Commons NOT speaking the will of the people...a House elected not by persons, but by property.’ The pamphlet became a best seller and second and third editions were published in Bury St. Edmunds (near Young’s ancestral Bradfield estate) with a fourth in London in 1794. There was also a Dublin edition of 1793. The ownership inscription may be that of Joseph Berens (1745-1825) (or Behrens) of Kevington (near St Mary Cray, Kent) or possibly of his son, also Joseph (c.1774-1853), of a family of City merchant traders, whose monuments are in Orpington churchyard.

849 [YOUNG, ARTHUR.] AN IDEA OF THE PRESENT STATE OF FRANCE, AND OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE EVENTS PASSING IN THAT KINGDOM. By the Author of The Example of France A Warning to Britain. The Second Edition with Additions. Printed for W. Richardson, under the Royal Exchange, London. 1795 [20457] 8vo. 5.25 x 8.25 inches. [2] + 53 pp. + [1] + [1] pp.advertisements + [1]. Braces in title. Lacks half-title.

Bound in original half calf with marbled boards; spine rebacked with double gilt rules. Extremities worn but a fine copy. £375 Arthur Young (1741-1820), the famous agricultural reformer, started and ended his long writing career with polemical tracts and this example, from mid-career, is a follow-up to what has been described as ‘perhaps his most influential pamphlet’ (DNB), The Example of France a warning to Britain (1793). Young was making his third tour of France when the revolution broke out and he witnessed some of the subsequent events in Paris himself as well as experiencing events in the provinces. He had been very critical of the poverty and squalor he had witnessed in the final days of the ancien regime but he now saw a different France which had experienced the violent excesses of the Revolution, ‘The IRON AGE of barbarism returned.’ Young had formerly been a liberal and a reformer, but his experiences in France turned him

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ILLUSTRATED and CHILDREN’S *** COMIC MISHAPS IN FRANCE, 1852 850 ADAM, VICTOR. RESTEZ CHEZ VOUS POUR EVITER LES DESAGREMENTS DE VOITURES. Scenes Comiques Composee et Lithographiees par Victor Adam. H. Gache editeur 66 rue de la Victoire, Paris.

[1852] [20288] Oblong 4to. 12 x 8.75 inches. 24 leaves of captioned lithographed cartoons. [title information from front board].

Bound in stiff card boards, rebacked. Extremities worn.

Slight browning and spotting but generally clean inside. A fine copy. £145 An engaging collection of comic drawings of every conceivable accident that could befall a horse-drawn vehicle. The passengers suffer all sorts of indignities as they are tumbled from their perches.. A very scarce work by Jean Victor Adam (1801-67); one copy is recorded in the Bibliotheque Sainte Genevieve, Paris.

NEWBURY IMPRINT 851 ANON. CHARACTERS OF THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND; SELECTED FROM THE BEST HISTORIANS. TO WHICH IS ADDED A TABLE OF THE SUCCESSION OF EACH, FROM ALFRED TO THE PRESENT TIME. WITH HEADS BY T. BEWICK, NEWCASTLE. Printed for E. Newbury, St Paul’s Churchyard; and Vernor and Hood, Birchin Lane, Cornhill.

London : 1795 [16276] 12mo. viii + 204 pp. + [3] pp. catalogue. With a copperengraved engraved frontispiece, woodcut illustrated title page and 33 wood-engraved portraits by Thomas Bewick.

Quarter-bound in recent red morocco gilt, over old marbled paper boards. Title and frontis a little foxed, otherwise a fine example. £200 Interesting Newbury imprint with quaint heads cut by Bewick.

Tattersfield, for his new book, has found the proofs of these cuts, several inscribed by Bewick, in the British Museum, with an account for ‘34 cuts His’y England @ 10/6, 17-17-0’. Roscoe’s assertion that the cuts were not by Bewick is now discredited. The book seems to be an abridged version of: ‘Characters of the Kings and Queens of England’ originally compiled by John Holt and published in Dublin.

852 AUNT LOUISA. AUNT LOUISA’S GOLDEN GIFT. comprising Little Dame Crump, Hush-a-bye Baby, Childhood’s Delight and Tottie’s Nursery Rhymes with Twenty-four Pages of Illustrations, Printed in Colours and Gold, from Original Designs by M. Tilsey Frederick Warn.

No date but c.1880 [15564] 4to. with 24 chromolithographic plates with guards. Original decorated cloth gilt, worn at extremities. Former ownership details on front free endpaper. Occasional neat repairs to one or two pages not really affecting the illustrations. £125

EXTRA ILLUSTRATED FANNY BURNEY IN 24 VOLUMES 853 BURNEY, FANNY, afterwards MADAME D’ARBLAY. FANNY BURNEY AND HER FRIENDS. The Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay (1778-1840).

Edited and Annotated by Austin Dobson. Extra Illustrated with more than 1500 Portraits, Views, Caricatures, Autographs, Etc. 24 Volumes. Based on the 1905-06, six volume edition of Macmillan, London. 1906 [20696] 4to. 24 volumes expanded from the original six and uniformly bound, 6 x 9 inches. Vol.I. is typical of the subsequent volumes and comprises: viii + 136 pp. + [3] illustrations, including portrait frontispiece. There are some 115 additional illustrations. Subsequent volumes are equally expanded, especially with portraits, views and insertion of journal articles; the extra illustrations are detailed below.

Bound in green half morocco over marbled boards with spines in compartments with raised bands and decorated gilt rules. Green marbled endpapers. Pictorial bookplates of A. M. Broadley, 1902. £4,500 An immense project, by A. M. Broadley, involving the very large scale extra illustration of Fanny Burney’s diary and correspondence, with preface and notes by Austin Dobson (18401921). This was published by Macmillan in six volumes, 1904-05 under the title used by Broadley, although he has created a new title page, dated 1906, for this entreprise. As a general principle, the compiler has inserted illustrations to correspond with a reference in the original text, which is frequently underlined in pencil.

At the beginning of volume I, Broadley has added accounts of the life of Fanny Burney’s great nephew, Archdeacon Charles Burney, and there are notable examples of the Burney family bookplates. Volume I also includes a fine folding acquatint of Queen Square, Bath, dated 1780, an early hand-coloured view of ‘Croydon’s Public Library,’ an illustrated account of the trial at the Old Bailey of Mrs. Rudd for fraud and maps to illustrate the Seven Years’ War in Germany and Bohemia.

Volume II contains some 75 extra illustrations, including about thirty each of views and portraits, including Sheridan and Boswell and fine engravings of Brighton seafront, of Venice and of Spa, with a map. Two of the plates are folding and one, Brighton Old Church, is hand-coloured.

Volume III has 97 extra illustrations, with 55 portraits and 33 views. It includes 4 naval portraits and also features the Earl of Chesterfield, General Burgoyne, a group of natives of Kamchatka, an original silhouette of George III and a fine handcoloured engraving of Mrs. Siddons. Among numerous views of Bath is a large folding watercolour drawing of a theatre, 1804.

There are several views of Devizes and Twickenham, an engraved copy of Dr. Johnson’s annotated view of Tunbridge Wells, and a plan of the Battle of Bergen.

Volume IV has 67 extra illustrations, including 33 portraits and 23 views. There are portraits of a young Tahitian woman and of a brahmin, two folding plates of the Gordon riots, and one of Brighton from the sea; also views of a busy Hyde Park, and of Salisbury, and a map of Somerset.

Volume V has 60 extra illustrations, with 38 portraits and 12 views. The latter includes Streatham, Southwark and Vauxhall Gardens and the 1782 dance at St. James’s. There is a fine tinted silhouette of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and extracts of London stock prices for 1782.

Volume VI has 71 extra illustrations, with 43 portraits and 24 views. The portraits include the Duchess of Rutland and a fine double engraving of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire (1787).

ILLUSTRATED and CHILDREN’S There are views of Salzburg, Exeter, Winchester, including one whole-page plate, and several London locations, with two engravings of the lost spa at Bagnigge Wells in Clerkenwell, the Savoy Palace ruins, Green Park and Chelsea; also two coloured cartoons, the Cavendish coat of arms and an original letter signed by Dr. Samuel Parr of Norwich. Volume VII has 102 extra illustrations, with 62 portraits and 31 views. There is a strong concentration on the King and royal family among the portraits, which include another original silhouette, an unusual coloured engraving of the King wearing a turban and an original coloured etching of George III, signed HB. Windsor Castle views include three whole-page plates of St. George’s Chapel. There are folding plates of the town hall at Bath, and of Dover, plus further engravings of Venice and a whole-page plate of balloons, another ball at St. James’s and further coats of arms. Volume VIII has 84 extra illustrations, with 26 portraits and 44 views.

The emphasis on Windsor and the royal family is continued with several folding hand-coloured plates of Windsor Castle, including a large one of the royal family on the terrace, and a further ball at St. James’s. Excursions in Oxfordshire are illustrated by numerous views of Oxford and its colleges and also of Blenheim, Nuneham Courtenay and Stanton Harcourt. There is also a pictorial record of the visit to Strawberry Hill, described in the appendix. There are thee more coats of arms and an original letter from William Mckewan of Edinburgh, 1755. The contents of the above eight volumes are typical of the remainder of the 24 volume set, which we have not yet fully catalogud.

to assist Hardy and begin her writing career. In 1912 she published her first book - The Book of Baby Birds - with Hardy's contribution. Illustrated with Detmold’s characteristic beauty and charm, this unashamedly sentimental book is a very fine production, and even succeeds in making the utterly charmless Skua’s chick look appealing.

854 CALDWELL, E. THREE OLD FRIENDS. Marcus Ward, Belfast and London. [1888] [19261] First Edition, Oblong 8vo. 32 pp. Three classic verses with music. Illustrated on every page with chromolithographs.

Original pictorial boards with gilt titles, all pages printed on stiff card. Excellent copy, clean and bright, slight wear to extremities, but a fine copy. £150

858 DULAC, EDMUND, illustrates EDGAR ALLAN POE’S THE BELLS. Hodder and Stoughton, London and New York. No date but [1912] [20628] Quarto, 8.5 x 11 inches, unpaginated (approximately 190 pp.), + 28 coloured plates with captioned tissue guards, a tinted lithographic portrait of Edgar Allan Poe on the title page and a number of similar headpieces.Original olive cloth with titles and elaborate gilt decoration to spine and upper board. Spine a little darkened and lower board a little scuffed and stained, otherwise a very good copy. £375

The classic verses of Three Little Kittens, Three Blind Mice and The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (illustrated with mice on this occasion)

855 DETMOLD E.J. illustrates JEAN-HENRI. FABRE, FABRE'S BOOK OF INSECTS. RETOLD FROM ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS' TRANSLATION OF FABRE'S "SOUVENIRS ENTOMOLOGIQUES" BY MRS. RODOLPH STAWELL. Hodder & Stoughton. [1921] [20608] 4to. vii + 184 pp. + 12 tipped-in coloured plates with lettered tissue guards Original off-white cloth with gilt titles and gilt and blind stamped decoration. £180 Fabre’s delightful essays on insects are superbly complimented

by Detmold’s glowing illustrations.

856 DETMOLD, E.J., illustrates MRS. THOMAS HARDY. The Book of Baby Birds. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University London, Press 1919 [17632] Large 4to. 120 pp. + 19 full-page, mounted colour plates

by Detmold. Bound in original beige cloth with a pictorial onlay of one of the plates, (which is a little faded) and decorative lettering on the upper board. Some slight abrasions and one or two very faint water stains, which are very hard to see. A fine bright copy. £185 Mrs. Hardy was Thomas Hardy’s second wife, Florence Dugdale, who first met Hardy in 1905, aged 26. She became his passionate friend and helper, and eventually stopped teaching in 1908 - both

PAIR OF POOR RICHARD PLATES 857 DR. FRANKLIN. (BENJAMIN FRANKLIN) Entitled FRANKLIN’S MAXIMS . *** FLY PLEASURE AND IT WILL FOLLOW YOU. *** THE DILIGENT SPINNER HAS A LARGE SHIFT *** NOW I HAVE A SHEEP AND A COW EVERY BODY BIDS ME GOOD MORROW *** and *** HE THAT HATH A TRADE HATH AN ESTATE. *** AT THE WORKING MAN’S HOUSE HUNGER LOOKS IN BUT DARES NOT ENTER. *** INDUSTRY PAYS DEBTS WHILE DESPAIR INCREASETH THEM *** No place or date but c.1850 [11448] A pair of ceramic plates, white, clear-glazed and transferprinted with vignette illustrations and letterpress printing forming a border. The edges are scalloped and moulded with flowers. £300 The famous Poor Richard tales of Benjamin Franklin here adapted for children’s plates.

Dulac’s dark and atmospheric illustrations sit well with Poe’s equally dark verse.

859 DULAC, EDMUND, illustrates EDWARD FITZGERALD’S THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Printed From The Second Edition By Kind Permission of Messrs. Macmillan and Co., Ltd. Hodder and Stoughton, London. No date but [c.1912] [20627] Quarto, 8.5 x 11 inches, unpaginated (approximately 160 pp.) quatrains with decorative borders, printed on rectos only, with 20 tipped-in coloured plates with tissue guards, each plate having a dull gilt printed border of stylised fruit and foliage. Bound in the original dark red buckram with gilt titles to spine and upper board, surrounded on upper board by an elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. Spine a little faded otherwise a very good copy. Ownership signature in pencil of artist M. Kingston Walker to front free £300 endpaper.

A very good example of this title, made more enjoyable by Dulac’s superb illustrations.

860 DULAC, EDMUND, illustrates LAURENCE HOUSMAN. STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN

ILLUSTRATED and CHILDREN’S NIGHTS. Hodder and Stoughton, London. [1907] [20370] First trade edition. Large 8vo. 8.5 x 11 inches approx. xvi + 133 pp. with 50 (including frontis) guarded coloured plates tipped in throughout the book.. Bound in original gilt and blue decorated terracotta cloth. First few pages front and rear are foxed otherwise a fine copy in a repaired dust wrapper, that has an illustration onlaid. £850 This edition was published a month after the first signed limited edition of 350 copies bound in vellum. This copy is an excellent example and rare in having the dust wrapper. ***We have in stock at £45 a smaller edition by Hodder and Stoughton with 12 Dulac illustrations, sharing 8 of the illustrations from the larger edition.***

861 DULAC, EDMUND. Illustrates WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S THE TEMPEST. Hodder and Stoughton, London. 1908 [20626] Quarto, 7.5 x 10 inches, xxiv + 144 pp. with forty tipped-in coloured illustrations with descriptive guards. Bound in original green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. Slightly rubbed at hinges otherwise a very good copy. £250 Prefaced by a synopsis of the story and profusely illustrated by Dulac’s beautiful and atmospheric paintings, this edition adds hugely to Shakespeare’s famous comedy.

862 GENTLEMAN, TOM. BRAE FARM. Transatlantic Arts, London and New York, Pilot Press Ltd., London. 1945 [19256] First edition, crown 4to. [48] pp. Pictorial boards in colours, titled in pink on both sides. 48 lithographs in bright pastel colours, 21 of which are full page. Excellent copy in very good dust wrapper. £220 Tom Gentleman studied at Glasgow School of Art and was a member of the Society of Industrial Artists. He was greatly admired as a commercial artist, designing posters and other advertising material for Shell, the British Road Federation and a number of other organisations. He also illustrated books, magazines and book covers.

FIRST EDITION KATE GREENAWAY 863 GREENAWAY, KATE. LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Printed in colours by Edmund Evans. George Routledge and Sons, London. [1884] [20179] First edition. 16mo. 4.75 x 6 inches. 80 pp. illustrated with numerous colour printed hand-engraved wood blocks.

Bound in original cream, glazed, pictorial boards with green cloth spine, all edges yellow with yellow endpapers.

Extremities worn and some browning of boards; occasional spotting inside, otherwise a fine copy. £75 The book lists the qualities ascribed to each flower arranged by both species and by attribute, followed by a selection of flower poems. The twenty five principal illustrations are captioned at the end. Catherine (Kate) Greenaway (1846-1901) was the daughter of a London wood engraver and enjoyed twelve years of art college education in the city. Her work was greatly influenced by her childhood holidays in the Nottinghamshire countryside and she chose a vaguely Regency style of costume for her figures.

Her first book illustration was published in 1867, but she did not

achieve widespread recognition until Edmund Evans (18261901) printed her illustrated book of verses, Under the Window, in 1879. It sold 100,000 copies in her lifetime. Becoming an artistic celebrity she came under the influence of the ageing John Ruskin who greatly admired her female figures.

864 GREENAWAY, KATE illustrates JANE AND ANN TAYLOR. LITTLE ANN AND OTHER POEMS.

By Jane and Ann Taylor. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.

Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd., London and New York. [c.1925] [20182] 8vo. 6 x 9.25 inches. 64 pp. illustrated by colour printed hand-engraved wood blocks in text, plus frontispiece and verso of title; pictorial half title, dedication and contents page. Bound in original cream, glazed, pictorial boards with olive green spine and corners. Slight wear to extremities and some darkening of boards; endpapers browned, otherwise a good clean copy. £50 The book illustrates verses by Jane (1783-1824) and Ann Taylor (1782-1866) and was first printed in 1882, for publication in 1883.

865 HEATH ROBINSON, WILLIAM. MONARCHS OF MERRIE ENGLAND. VOL.I WILLIAM I TO HENRY III, VOL.II EDWARD I TO RICHARD III, VOL.III HENRY VIII TO ELIZABETH, VOL.IV JAMES I TO GEORGE V. Alf Cook Ltd, Leeds and London.

[1908] [19263] First Edition. 4to. Four volumes of verses by Roland Carse, each of 36pages, each with a coloured illustration on the cover, two coloured plates and line drawings and vignettes

by William Heath Robinson. Original pictorial stiff card covers. Some wear to extremities, occasional marks, staple bound and now showing rust. £250 Each volume concentrates on different kings. Full of humorous rhymes of historical times.

866 HENTY, G.A. WITH BULLER IN NATAL OR, A BORN LEADER. Blackie and Son. London. 1901 [17695] 384 pp. + frontis and nine illustrations + 32 (catalogue).

Original blue cloth pictorial binding, gilt. All edges olivine.

Some rubbing to extremities and a little shaken but a very good copy. £90 867 JAMES, Mrs. T. H., and B.H. CHAMBERLAIN. JAPANESE FAIRY TALE SERIES. Eight of the series of sixteen. Griffth Farran & Co., London. No date but c.18861900 [20484] Disbound pamphlets, printed on washi paper. In good condition. These seem to have been bound together at sometime but now separated with remains of old binding on the spines. Original covers, bright and fresh internally. £400 The titles are:No. 9. The Serpent with eight heads, Mrs Camberlain, 26 pp.

No. 10. The Matsuyama Mirror, Mrs James, 22 pp No. 11. The Hare of Inaba. Mrs James 16 pp.

No. 12. The Cub’s Triumph, 24 pp.

No. 13. The Silly Jelly-Fish, Mrs Chamberlain 22 pp.

No. 14. The Princes Fire-Flash and Fire-Fade, Mrs James 24 pp.

No. 15. My Lord Bag-O’-Rice Mrs Chamberlain, 22 pp.

ILLUSTRATED and CHILDREN’S No. 16. The Wooden Bowl, Mrs James, 26 pp.

868 JONES, OWEN. Designed by. FRUITS FROM THE GARDEN AND FIELD. [Colophon]: Poetry by M. A. Bacon, Designs by Owen Jones, Drawn on Stone by E. L. Bateman. Longman & Co., London. 1850 [20016] Folio. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. [36] pp. Chromolithographic title page and colophon printed in gilt gothic lettering, list of contents. Illustrated by 12 full-page chromolithographic plates, each with an accompanying leaf of verses, printed and decorated in gilt All edges gilt. Full-calf Relievo binding by Remnant and Edmonds depicting vines, cereals clusters of berries, nuts, etc., with gilt embossed edges and dentelles. The endpapers have a gilt design of vines, cereals and clusters of berries echoing the binding. £300 A fine example of a magnificent genre.

The stunning chromolithographs by Bateman reflect the poetry by Bacon. This is only the second book binding of this Relievo style to have been produced; the first being Grey’s Elegy, also designed by Owen Jones, and published in 1846. The title page depicts vine leaves and the following plates illustrate Oranges, Strawberries, Cherries, Mulberries, Peach, Pomegranates, Apricots, Grapes, Apples, Blackberries and Raspberries, Hops and Wheat and Nuts and Oats. By the side of each fruit or cereal is inscribed the name of a quality or virtue and on the facing pages are the corresponding verses.

Owen Jones (1801-1874) was an architect, printer and designer. He arranged the exhibits for the Great Exhibition of 1851 and decorated the interior of the original Paxton building and of the Crystal Palace after it was moved to Sydenham.

869 JONES, OWEN. Illustrated and designed by.

FLOWERS AND THEIR KINDRED THOUGHTS. Poetry

by M. A. Bacon. Longman & Co, London. Colophon: Printed in colours at 9 Argyll Place, drawn on stone by E. L. Bateman. 1848 [18926] Folio. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. [36] pp. Chromolithographic title page and colophon printed in gilt gothic lettering, list of contents. Illustrated by [14] full-page chromolithographic plates, each with an accompanying leaf of verses printed and decorated in gilt All edges gilt. Full-calf Relievo binding

by Remnant & Edmonds, depicting ivy stems, tendrils and berries, with gilt embossed edges and dentelles. The endpapers have a gilt ivy leaf design echoing the binding. £300 A fine example of a magnificent genre.

The stunning chromolithographs by Bateman reflect the poetry by Bacon. This is only the second book binding of this Relievo style to have been produced; the first being Grey’s Elegy, also designed by Owen Jones, and published in 1846. The title page depicts Scarlet Pimpernel, Ivy and Forget-Me-Not; and the following plates illustrate Snow-drop, Primrose, Violet, Hare-bell and Pimpernel, Lilies of the Valley, Hawthorn, Rose, Honeysuckle, Carnation, Convolvulus, Fuchsia, Pansy, Forget-Me-Not and Holly. By the side of each flower is inscribed the name of a quality or virtue and on the facing pages are the corresponding two verses.

870 KEATS, JOHN. ENDYMION. Illustrated by W. St. John Harper. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. Printed in USA. No date but[1888] [11174] Folio. 12 x 15.5 inches. 141 pp. Frontis and 47 photoetchings to text. Original decorated cloth, gilt to front and

spine. Worn at extremities and stained on back board. Text tight and square with some foxing, all edges gilt. £100 871 KIPLING, RUDYARD. SEA AND SUSSEX FROM KIPLING’S VERSE. Illustrated by Donald Maxwell with an Introductory Poem by Rudyard Kipling. Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, New York. 1926 [19552] First Edition small folio, xv + 94 pp. text + 24 tipped-in coloured plates. Original blue cloth, gilt. A little wear and darkening to extremities otherwise a very good copy. £35 872 LANG, ANDREW. THE PINK FAIRY BOOK With numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford Longmans, Green and Co London. 1897 [15022] First Edition 8vo. viii + [i] + 360 pp. illustrated throughout.

Bound in full blue morocco, gilt, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands and red morocco title label lettered in gilt.

Binding signed on the front free endpaper by Bickers and Son, Leicester Square, London. Upper board lettered ‘Branksome Godalming’ Some faint foxing but a very nice example in an attractive, signed prize binding. Typical of the high quality work produced by Bickers Bindery. £100 873 LEAR, EDWARD. MORE NONSENSE. Frederick Warne & Co., London. 1888 [18919] Oblong 4to. 113 leaves, comprising half-title, title, and 4 leaves of introduction, 104 illustrated limericks plus 3 leaves adverts, all printed rectos only. Original embossed and decorated blue cloth boards, gilt. Some rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. £120 Published in the year of Lear’s death.

874 LEECH, JOHN. Designed and etched by.

YOUNG TROUBLESOME; OR MASTER JACKY’S HOLIDAYS. From the blessed moment of his leaving school, to the identical moment of his going back again.

Showing how there never was such a boy as that boy.

Bradbury and Evans, London. [1850] [19977] Oblong, 7 x 11 inches approx., [ii] + title page with vignette + 11 pp. of engraved illustrations with captions + [1] tailpiece vignette, all hand-coloured. All edges gilt. Original printed paper-covered boards. A very good copy. £200 A humorous tale, with up to four illustrations per page, all in delightful contemporary hand-colour, of young Master Jacky, home from school to spend the Christmas holidays with family and friends. Very scarce thus.

875 LOCKHART, J.G. Translated with notes by.

ANCIENT SPANISH BALLADS; Historical and Romantic.

John Murray. London. 1842 [13525] Second edition (of 2000 copies) having the decorative endpapers. 4to. Unpaginated but [xxxvi] + [220] pp. + [16] catalogue of John Murray’s latest publications + [2] advertisement for Owen Jones’ ‘Details and Ornaments from the Alhambra’ all with decorative borders + numerous attractive wood-engravings. Original green cloth with gilt

ILLUSTRATED and CHILDREN’S blocked decoration. Small loss to head of spine, and tail and corners a little frayed and bumped. Re-cased preserving the original binding and endpapers. The re-case is slightly clumsy but effective. £75

8vo. 345 pp. with coloured frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations throughout by H. Petherick Original publisher’s illustrated cloth, black title, art nouveau design to spine. £75

The earliest of Owen Jones’ illuminated gift books, this is an important, highly ornamented work containing early examples of chromolithography. Every page of text has its own coloured, decorative border printed from wood with each ballad having its own design. Jones also provided the ornamental letters and vignettes. The book is divided into sections for Historical Ballads, Moorish Ballads and Romantic Ballads, each having its own elaborate title page, also designed by Jones. Ruari McLean, in his work, Victorian Book Design, says ...’it must have been after Baxter’s ‘Pictorial Album ‘ of 1837 - the most colourful and lavish book, produced for the gift book market, that London had yet seen.’. Printed by Vizetelly and Co. and bound by Remnant and Edmonds. A real gem.

Early copy, not dated, of this scarce title.

876 LOFTING, HUGH. DOCTOR DOLITTLE IN THE MOON. Written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting.

Jonathan Cape London. 1929 [19227] FIRST EDITION.8vo. frontis + 319 pp. + [1] with coloured endpapers and frontispiece and 70 black and white whole page illustrations in text. Bound with original cloth, coloured lettering in dust wrapper. £200 877 —— DOCTOR DOLITTLE’S CARAVAN. Written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting. Jonathan Cape London. 1927 [19226] FIRST EDITION. 8vo. frontis. + 319 pp. + [1] with coloured endpapers and frontispiece and 75 black and white whole page illustrations in text. Bound in original cloth, coloured lettering, in dust wrapper. £230 The fifth volume in the Doctor Dolittle series. Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) was born in Maidenhead but settled in the USA in 1919. The Doctor Dolittle stories had their origins in the compassion he felt for the sufferings of animals that he had witnessed during his war service on the western front, 1916-17, before he was wounded and invalided home. The gently compassionate Doctor Dolittle gives up his medical practice, to treat animals instead and all the twelve books in the series were illustrated with his naive art.

878 —— DOCTOR DOLITTLE’S POST OFFICE. Written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting. Jonathan Cape London. 1927 [19228] FIRST EDITION, Third Impression. 8vo. frontis + 320 pp. with coloured endpapers and frontispiece and 70 black and white whole page illustrations in text. Bound in original cloth, coloured lettering, in dust wrapper . £175 879 —— DOCTOR DOOLITTLE’S GARDEN. Written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting. Jonathan Cape, London 1928 [19229] FIRST EDITION. 8vo. frontis + 317 pp. with coloured endpapers and frontispiece and 70 black and white wholepage illustrations in text. Bound in original cloth, coloured lettering, in dust wrapper. £175 880 MACDONALD, GEORGE. THE PRINCESS AND THE GOBLIN. A.L. Burt, New York. No date but c.1907 [18850]

MINT CONDITION ORIGINAL BOX 881 MACFALL, HALDANE. THE SPLENDID WAYFARING. By Haldane Macfall. Decorated by Lovat Fraser, Gaudier Brzeska, the Author and Gordon Craig.

[London]: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co. 1913 [19528] Large 4to. 8 x 9.75 inches. xii + 202 pp. [4] Illustrated with engravings throughout plus frontispiece, protected with tissue, and title page engraving. Bound in original purple moire cloth, gilt with decorated spine and boards, gilt border to front boards and gilt top edges, in similarly decorated white slipcase, gilt. Slipcase shows signs of wear but has admirably protected the book, which apart from occasional slight foxing, is in near mint condition. £250 Splendid copy of the author’s study of the philosophy of art, lavishly illustrated by contemporary artists, including the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915), Claud Lovat Fraser (1890-1921), and Edward Henry Gordon Craig (18721966), a theatre director and designer, and wood engraver.

882 MILNE, A.A. NOW WE ARE SIX. WITH DECORATIONS BY ERNEST SHEPARD. Methuen and Co. Ltd., London. 1927 [16529] First Edition, 8vo. [i-iii], iv-ix, [x-xii], 103 pp. With frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Bound in publisher’s full limp green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, gilt rules and corner decoration to front board, pictorial Christopher Robin decoration to centre of front board, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. One of the deluxe issues that were bound by the publisher in limp morocco.

Owner’s name in ink on front free endpaper. Head and tail of spine skillfully repaired. £175 883 MONRO, W.D. STORIES OF INDIAN GODS AND HEROES. With Sixteen Illustrations by Evelyn Paul.

George G. Harrap, London. 1912 [17673] First edition. 253 pp. + 16 coloured plates. Original soft leather Yapp binding with lavish gilt decoration and titles.

Top edges gilt other edges uncut. £85

SIGNED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM. 884 RACKHAM, ARTHUR, illustrates DE LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ. [Friedrich Heinrich] UNDINE. Adapted from German by W.L. Courtney. Illustrated by ARTHUR RACKHAM. Translated by Margaret Armour.

Heinemann, London and Doubleday, New York. 1909 [16701] Limited Edition. Large 4to. Number 975 of 1000 large paper deluxe copies, signed by Arthur Rackham. viii + 136 pp., with black and white head- and tailpieces + 15 tipped-in coloured plates. The text printed on handmade rag paper, coloured plates mounted on brown art paper and protected

ILLUSTRATED and CHILDREN’S by captioned tissue guards. Original full vellum with gilt titles and decorations. Vellum a little mottled and uniformly yellowing, extremities bumped, lacking ties. A good copy of this attractive book. £600 The plates are considered some of Rackham’s best work.

885 RACKHAM, ARTHUR, illustrates OLIVER GOLDSMITH. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. George G. Harrap, London. 1929 [20637] First edition illustrated by Rackham. Small 4to. 10 x 7.5 inches. 231 pp. illustrated with 12 colour plates and many other drawings. Bound in the original decorated cloth. Top edges gilt. A fine example in the original binding. £85

WITH THE RARE DUST WAPPER 886 —— THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. George G. Harrap, London. 1929 [20697] First edition, illustrated by Rackham. Small 4to. 10 x 7.5 inches. 231 pp. illustrated with 12 colour plates and many other drawings. Bound in the original decorated cloth. Top edge gilt. A fine example in the original binding, in a very good dust wrapper, which has a few very small tears without any loss. A near fine copy. £250 887 RACKHAM, ARTHUR, illustrates RICHARD WAGNER. THE RHINEGOLD and THE VALKYRIE. Heinemann Ltd., London. 1939 [20639] First trade edition illustrated by Rackham. Small 4to. 10 x 7.5 inches. 182 pp. illustrated with 24 colour plates and many other drawings. Bound in the original decorated cloth.

A fine example in the original binding. £100 888 RACKHAM, ARTHUR, illustrates WALTON, IZAAC THE COMPLEAT ANGLER. George G. Harrap, London. 1931 [20638] First trade edition illustrated by Rackham. Small 4to. 10 x 7.5 inches. 224 pp. illustrated with 12 colour plates and many other drawings. Bound in the original decorated cloth.

Top edges gilt. A fine example in the original binding. £165

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND THE ILLUSTRATOR 889 WARD, GEORGE. Author and JOHN WARD illustrator. ALPHONSE. Chatto and Windus, London: 1972. [13788] First Edition. Oblong 8vo. 8 x 10 inches. 30 pp. including endpapers. Profusely illustrated in colour throughout. £85 John Ward, RA., is well known for his illustrations. The story of Alphonse was written by his son George, then a pupil at King's School in Canterbury. A very attractive book.

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NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE

NATURAL HISTORY *** EARLIEST EDITION OF BATH AND WEST PERIODICAL 890 AGRICULTURE - BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETY. LETTERS AND PAPERS ON AGRICULTURE, PLANTING, ETC. Selected from the Correspondence-Book of the Society instituted at Bath, for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, within the Counties of Somerset, Wilts, Glocester, and Dorset, and the City and County of Bristol. To which is added, An Appendix; Containing, A Proposal for the further Improvement of Agriculture; By a Member of the Society; And a translation of Mons. Hirzel’s Letter to Dr. Tissot, in Answer to Mons. Linguet’s Treatise on Bread-Corn and Bread. By another Member of the Society. Printed by R. Cruttwell, by order of the Society, and sold by C. Dilly, in the Poultry, London; and by the Booksellers of Bath, Bristol, Salisbury, Glocester, Sherborne, Exeter, etc., Bath. 1780 [20390] First edition. 8vo. 5.25 x 8 inches. xii + 264 pp. + 100 pp.

A-A6, B-K4, L-L8, M-Y8, a-g8, h-h2. The Proposal and the Letter in the Appendix have separate title pages and share a new register, but pagination is continuous with the main text. Bound in a handsome contemporary calf, with dentelles; spine divided into compartments by raised bands, with floral decorations enclosed by triple borders, gilt and red morocco label. Extremities slightly worn.

Some browning and occasional staining. Notes scribbled in pencil on rear endpapers and very sparsely in text.

Otherwise a fine copy. Armorial bookplate of Wm. Constable. £350 The Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures and Commerce was established in that city in 1777. This collection of letters and papers, first published in 1780 and later reprinted was the Society’s first significant publication and was to be the first of a series that ended with Volume 15 in 1829. In 1858 the Society began the publication of a full journal and this continued, as the Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society (with some title variations) until 1940. This volume includes observations and advice on a wide range of agricultural subjects from Norfolk husbandry to contagious distemper among horned cattle and the cultivation of rhubarb.

The second part of the Appendix is a critique of the treatise on bread and corn by Simon Nicholas Linguet (1736- 94). He was originally attached to the French philosophes but afar falling out with D’Alembert, pursued a career as an advocate and publisher of controversial literature, attacking what was modern and enlightened He spent two years in the Bastille and periods of virtual exile in London and at the court at Vienna and wrote in defence of Louis XVI in his last publication. It was perhaps inevitable that he was sent to the guillotine in 1794. Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, (1707-82) drew the Society’s attention to the French version of this letter, He was a distinguished military physician who served as President of the Royal Society. The book is from the library of William Constable, FRS (1721-91), elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1775. He was a great collector of natural history and his collection may be still be viewed today at the family home of Burton Constable Hall in East Yorkshire. A fine copy

of the first edition of the earliest Bath and West Society periodical.

891 AGRICULTURE - COBBETT, WILLIAM. A TREATISE ON COBBETT’S CORN, Containing Instructions for Propagating and Cultivating the Plant, and for Harvesting and Preserving the Crop; and also An Account of the several Uses to which the Produce is applied, with Minute Directions relative to each Mode of application. By William Cobbett. Published by William Cobbett, 183, Fleet-Street, London. 1828 [20544] First edition. 12mo. 4.75 x 7.75 inches. iv + [292] pp.

Main text unpaginated. Illustrated by 3 plates. Bound in original green cloth, gilt. Deckled edges. A clean copy in entirely original condition. £350 Such was Cobbett’s confidence in the versatility of maize, he had the title page and first 4 pages printed on paper made from the husks and stalks of ‘Indian corn’. Cobbett’s monograph on the the desirability of English farmers growing maize and his own experiences in doing so on his farm at Barn Elms, south of the Thames: ‘I have frequently observed, that I believed England to be the richest agricultural country in the world, bating [excepting] the want of Indian Corn; and that, if it had that, it would exceed every country beyond all comparison.’ Cobbett had acquired his experience of the crop, during his periods of residence in the USA, 1792-1800 and 1817-19. The book covers the planting, cultivation and harvesting of the crop and its use and value as a human food.

He includes some interesting observations on the employment of oxen, as opposed to horses, for cultivation purposes, with comments on the difficulties of controlling the carters in charge of the horses. The use of oxen had been the subject of much debate in the agricultural improvement literature of this period.

William Cobbett of Farnham (1763-1835), farmer, journalist and political radical, was a prolific writer and is best known for his newspaper, the Political Register (1802-35) and for his Rural Rides (serialised in the Register, 1822-26, in book form, 1830).

A remarkably good copy of the first edition in its original cloth as issued.

892 AGRICULTURE - DICKSON, R. W. PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE; Or, A Complete System of Modern Husbandry: With the Best Methods of Planting, and the Improved Management of Live Stock.

Illustrated by Numerous Engravings. By R.W.Dickson, M.D. A New Edition. In Two Volumes, Printed for Richard Phillips, Bridge -Street, Blackfriars; by R.Taylor and Co., Shoe-Lane, Fleet-Street [vol.I] [but colophon at end states: T.C.Hansard, Printer, Peterborough Court, Fleet-Street]; by W.Flint, Old Bailey, London [vol.II].

1807 [19956] 2nd edition. 2 vols. 4to. 8.75 x 10.5 inches. Vol 1, frontis. + xliv + 650 pp. a-f2, B-3Y4, 3Z-3Z2, 4A-4O1 (despite irregularities in pagination and in the register, no pages are missing between 3Z2 and 4A1. Illustrated with 52 black and white engraved plates,(one folding), including one folding plan serving as frontis. Plate VI is absent and appears never to have been inserted. Vol. 2, frontis. + xxiv + 767 + [1] + 62 pp. Appendix + [2] pp.

Index Illustrated with 34 engraved plates, including frontis., of which 27 are hand coloured. Bound in contemporary half calf, gilt, with black morocco labels and marbled boards. Extremities rubbed and worn; joints weak, vol. II. Plate I, Vol. I is creased and torn.

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE Occasional light pencil marks and some discolouration but interior generally clean. Stamped ownership inscription: Mr. N.V. Bowater on first free endpapers of both vols. £350 R.W. Dickson was a prominent writer and editor on agricultural improvement of the early nineteenth century, although little is known about him other than what is revealed in his books, e.g. he was a M.D. residing in Hendon. He was editor of The Agricultural Magazine from 1807 (it was published until 1816) and author of The General View of the Agriculture of Lancashire (1815), one of the octavo series of the first Board of Agriculture county reports. Practical Agriculture was the most successful of Dickson’s works. It was first published in 1805 and was again revised under the title of The Farmer’s Companion in 1813. Albrecht Thaer (17521828), the famous German agronomist, edited a translation of it in 1807.

A fine two volume set of an influential work on agricultural improvement, illustrated with over eighty engraved plates of agricultural implements, grasses and livestock, the last two categories being hand-coloured.

BEST FARMING PRACTICE OF 1804 893 AGRICULTURE - FORSYTH, ROBERT THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE, SYSTEMATICALLY EXPLAINED; IN TWO VOLUMES; Being a Treatise complied for the Fourth Edition of The Encyclopaedia Britannica, and revised and enlarged by Robert Forsyth, Esq. Printed by the Proprietor, A. Bell. and sold by Arch. Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and Vernor and Hood, London 1804 [19928] 8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. Vol.1. Frontis. + xiv + [ii] + 592 pp + [8]. Vol. 2. Frontis. + [ii] + 575 pp. + [2].

Illustrated with two vignettes, serving as frontispieces and 21 plates at the end, distributed out of numerical sequence, between the two volumes according to the note to the binder. Bound in contemporary half green morocco, gilt with gilt spine bands and marbled boards, very slightly rubbed on the extremities, otherwise an excellent copy. Frontispieces, title pages and plates foxed and occasional foxing throughout but generally clean interior. Small section missing from lower edge of Vol. 1 frontispiece. £300 Robert Forsyth (1766-1845) was born in Biggar, Lanarkshire and educated in Glasgow. He was licensed as a preacher in the Church of Scotland but, unable to find a parish, turned to the study of law and was admitted an advocate in 1792. His political associations caused him to be regarded as a potential revolutionary and he started to make a living through his writing. The Principles and Practice was a revised and enlarged version of his article on Agriculture for the 4th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (published in twenty volumes, 1801-1809His philosophical ideas were attacked by Hugh Miller, rather unfairly as Fussell remarks,‘Forsyth had glimpsed the theory on which the modern world rests’ ‘whatever has no tendency to improvement will gradually pass away and disappear for ever.’

With an introduction on the history of agriculture, the two volumes provide a systematic survey of the practice of cultivating plants, including commercial crops like flax, hemp, woad and hops, etc. with a final section largely devoted to livestock. The work draws extensively on other authors, including William Marshall and the ‘General Views’ of the first Board of Agriculure. The plates are grouped at the end of

each volume and illustrate implements, threshing machines, etc.

The volumes were owned by a member of the Bowman family, whose Kentish estate included farms at Goudhurst, Hawkhurst and Hadlow.

A comprehensive account of the agriculture of the age of improvement in a fine two volume set.

894 AGRICULTURE - [MARKHAM, GERVASE.] G.M. MARKHAM’S FAREWELL TO HUSBANDRY: OR THE ENRICHING OF ALL SORTS OF BARREN AND STERILE GROUNDS IN OUR NATION...

Printed by W. Wilson for George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate Hill, neer Fleet-bridge. [London]. 1664 [20465] 4to. [vi] + 126 pp. + [4] index with a number of woodcuts to the text. Disbound but complete. Edges darkened otherwise a good, clean copy. £250 Despite Markham’s reputation as something of a hack writer it’s worth remembering that his books were extremely popular and therefore his influence on seventeenth century agriculture was profound. Includes a section on Hops.

AGRICULTURAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA 895 AGRICULTURE MORTON, JOHN CHALMERS A CYCLOPEDIA OF AGRICULTURE, PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC; In which the theory, the art, and the business of farming, are thoroughly and practically treated. By upwards of fifty of the most eminent practical and scientific men of the day. Edited by John C. Morton. 2 Vols. Blackie and Son, Queen Street, Glasgow: South College Street, Edinburgh; and Warwick Square, London. 1855 [19923] 4to. 7 x 10 inches. Vol.1. xliv + 1022 pp. [6],. Vol. 2. [iv] + 1172 pp. + [2]. Illustrated by 51 wood and steel engraved plates, numbered in one continuous sequence, including 9 double page [n.b. several plates are inserted out of numerical sequence]. Numerous engravings in text, especially of plants and insect pests. Bound in contemporary half calf, gilt with black morocco labels and gilt and blind stamped spine decorations with raised bands and marbled boards. Some wear to extremities. Binder’s label, W. West, Printer, Stationer and Bookbinder. 43 High St. Maidstone, at top of front paste-down of both vols. Crease at top of title page. Occasional light foxing inside and a few small lower edge tears and folded edges.

Vol. 2, 3F4-4G4 and 3L2-3M2 are wormed at foot of page with unimportant loss of a few letters and figures of text on two leaves only. Otherwise a clean interior. £250 The encyclopaedia edited by Morton is one of the best of the systematic works on agriculture of the nineteenth century. As will be seen from the list of authors, many of the most highly regarded authorities of the age contributed to it:, including John Lindley, Augustus Volcker, John Curtis, C. Wren Hoskyns, James Caird, Hugh Raynbird and John Bright, MP The alphabetical entries are preceded by a Calendar of farm operations and an Introductory essay, Agriculture, by Hoskyns. There are useful sections in the text on agricultural provincialisms (in language) and on local weights and measures. This work is notable for its splendid steel engravings of agricultural implements with some of the new machines of the period, including the latest American reapers

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE and also of farm carts and buildings (both plans and isometric views).

A fine set of this important agricultural encyclopaedia from the golden age of Engish farming.

AGRICULTURAL WAGES 1765-1811 896 AGRICULTURE - THE DAILY JOURNAL: OR, THE GENTLEMAN’S AND TRADESMAN’S COMPLETE ANNUAL ACCOMPT-BOOK FOR THE POCKET, OR DESK. FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1762...

Containing Fifty-two Pages, properly rul’d for keeping an Account, in the easiest Manner, of all Monies Receiv’d, Paid, Lent, or Expended, every Day in the Year: Opposite to these are fifty-two other Blank Pages, rul’d for Appointments or Engagements every Day, and a distinct weekly Column for miscellaneous Memorandums or Observations...Likewise The Court and City Director: containing Lists of both Houses of Parliament; the King’s Privy Council; Secretaries of State; Lords of the Treasury, Admiralty, Trade and Plantations, and other principal Officers at Court, and their Salaries annexed. Printed only for R.Baldwin, at the Rose, in Pater-Noster-Row, London. 1762 [19783] 8vo in fours. 3.75 x 6 inches. xvi + [108] + 83 pp. = 207 pp. with 107 ruled blank. In pocket at end: For a Horse that hav crack’d heels, manuscript prescription and directions, in two halves, [2] pp. Bound in early calf, with front board repaired along the edges. Blind stamped borders to boards. Spine eroded at top and bottom and hinges and joints weak. Some internal staining and ink stains and smears and a few small tears. £150 A printed almanac and directory for the year 1762, combined with an an almost equal number of blank ruled pages for use as a cash book as well as a memorandum book and appointments diary. Over forty of the blank pages contain hand-written entries in ink, most of which refer to labourers’ wages. An example of two consecutive entries for 1774 may be quoted: Edward Smith Wages for 1774 is £5:5:0 or more at my Pleasure June 22: had one Guinea May 5: had one Guinea.

George Smiths Wages for 1774 is £2:5:0 the last Year’s Wages Not being Paid had three Shill.

(D1 verso).

It is likely that these were agricultural wages, never exceeding £6.10.0 a year and that the owner of the book engaged in farming, as payments are recorded for a cowhouse and for lime (N2). The recorded dates of the entries are from 1765 to 1811.

Included in the printed section is a short account of A Daily System to Obtain Health and Long Life. The recommended daily diet ranges from ‘the moment you wake in the morning take a common brown bisket’ to ‘About eight or nine, a crust of bread, with a glass or two of wine, of ale, a little strong beer, or genuine cyder, may suffice to allay any craving of your stomach.’

The additional directory at the end is particularly useful, with its list of peers, MPs by Constituency, officers of state, lesser officials, admirals and even ambassadors accredited at home and abroad.

Unusually for this sort of journal, the calendar and text are complete. There is no clue as to the identity or location of the owner, but it is nevertheless a valuable record of wages paid to labourers over a period of some forty five years.

897 AGRICULTURE - YOUATT, WILLIAM CATTLE; THEIR BREEDS, MANAGEMENT, AND DISEASES; WITH AN INDEX Published under the superintendence of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

(Library of Useful Knowledge) [Preface signed, W. Youatt]. Baldwin and Craddock, Paternoster-Row, London. 1834 [19931] First Edition. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. viii + 600 pp.

Illustrated with numerous engravings in text. Bound in contemporary half-calf, gilt, over marbled boards. Spine in compartments with raised bands and black morocco title label. Slight wear to extremities and occasional foxing but otherwise a fine, clean copy. £100 In 1830, Youatt made an agreement with the Society to write a series of handbooks on animals of the farm and these were published, 1831-47. Cattle was the most successful title (after that on The Horse) and the last edition appeared in 1889. The first half of the book provides a detailed account of the local breeds found throughout Britain, with illustrations of all the more important ones. The second part describes the anatomy of cattle and their diseases, with advice on treatment. William Youatt (1776-1847) was a notable veterinary surgeon, the son of an Exeter surgeon. He edited and wrote for The Veterinarian and was ahead of his time in determining that rabies could only be spread by the bite of a rabid animal.

Youatt was a founder member of the English Agricultural Society (later RASE) in 1838 and was an early member of the newly established Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1844.

A fine copy of the first edition of this well illustrated monograph on cattle, with its valuable comprehensive survey of the British breeds.

898 AGRICULTURE - YOUATT, WILLIAM. THE HORSE; WITH A TREATISE ON DRAUGHT; AND A COPIOUS INDEX. Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

(Library of Useful Knowledge. The Farmer’s Series).

Baldwin and Craddock, Paternoster-Row, London. 1831 [19932] First Edition. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. viii + 472 pp.

Illustrated with numerous engravings in text. Bound in contemporary half-calf, gilt, over marbled boards. Spine in compartments with raised bands and black morocco title label. Slight wear to extremities and occasional foxing, but otherwise a fine, clean copy. £100 In 1830, Youatt made an agreement with the Society to write a series of handbooks on animals of the farm and these were published, 1831-47. The Horse was the first of Youatt’s handbooks to appear and also the most successful, with editions until 1898 (it was extensively revised in 1866). The first four chapters describe and illustrate British and foreign breeds. The greater part of the book is concerned with the anatomy, diseases and management of the horse, including chapters on shoeing and on veterinary medicines. The Treatise on Draught is known to be by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59), the famous civil engineer. A fine copy of the first edition of this influential monograph on horses.

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NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE [By] Bernardi Siegfried Albini Medicinae Doctoris, Anatomes ei Chirurgiae in Academia Batava, quae Leidae est, Professoris, Collegis Chirurgici Leidensis Preasidis.

[Leiden]: Apud Joannem Arnoldum Langerak, et Joannem et Hermannum Verbeek, Bibliop.Cum Privilegio Preapotentium Ordinum Hollandiae et West-Frisae, Leidae Batavorum. 1744 [20417] First edition. Folio. 10.5 x 16 inches. [viii] + 28 + 277 pp. + [3] pp. [2].. Illustrated by [89] copperplates (of which 85 full page) numbered 1-47 [47 from Eustachi and 42 lettered outline plates], and engraved title page vignette and decorative initials and tailpieces. Title page in red and black. Includes half-title, epistle and preface at beginning and notes, corrections, addendum, colophon and copyright privilege at end. Text in Latin (with Dutch in directions to bookbinder and privilege). Bound in original calf; spine rebacked and divided into compartments by raised bands and double gilt rules with red morocco labels and dentelles. Extremities worn and some browning. Small water stains and nicks out of bottom edge of plate XX, otherwise in fine condition. £1,850 A lavishly illustrated anatomical atlas. It provides a new edition of the plates of Bartolomeo Eustachi (d.1574), newly copied by Jan Wandelaar from the Amsterdam edition of 1722.

Wandelaar (1690-1759) was one of the most accomplished engravers of the period and Albinus worked with him to improve the scientific accuracy of anatomical illustrations. To Eustachi’s 47 plates were added 42 outline plates lettered to facilitate identification. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (16971770) was born in Frankfurt an der Oder, the son of a physician and studied in Leiden and Paris. He returned to Leiden in 1721 to teach surgery and anatomy, specialising in the study of bones and muscles. Among his other publications the most celebrated was the Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani (1747, English translation, 1749).

A handsome volume including 85 full page copperplates.

900 ANATOMY BROWNE, JOHN. MYOGRAPHIA NOVA: OR, A GRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE MUSCLES IN THE HUMANE BODY, AS THEY ARISE IN DISSECTION: DISTRIBUTED INTO SIX LECTURES. At the Entrance into which, Are Demonstrated the proper Muscles belonging to each Lecture, now in General Use at the Theatre in Chirurgeons-Hall, London, and illustrated with two and forty copper-plates accurately Engraven after the Life, not only with their Names, but their Uses, fairly delineated on each Plate, as much as can be exprest by Figures; with an Explanation of their Names throughout the whole Discourse: As also their Originations, Insertions, and Uses, at large, in their proper Descriptions, and various useful Annotations, and curious Observations both of the Author’s, and other Modern Anatomists.

Together with a Phoilosophical and Mathematical Account of the mechanism of muscular motion, and an Accurate and Concise Discourse of the heart and its use, with the circulation of the blood, &c. and with a compleat Account of the Arteries and Veins, as to their outward Coats, proving them to be made with Circular Fleshy Fibres, by whose Contractions their Trunks become Narrowed, and the Fluid Particles of the Blood are sent forwards into all the Parts of the Body. Digested into this

New Method, by the Care and Study of John Browne, Sworn Chirurgeon in Ordinary to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, and late Senior Chirurgeon of St. Thomas’s Hospital, Southwark. The second edition, with additions. Sold by Thomas Sheldermine, at the Rose-Tree in Little-Britain, London. 1705 [20375] Folio. 8 x 12 inches. frontis. + [8] + viii + [22] + x + 9186 pp. [4], a-b2, [11]..(ESTC calls for 24 unnumbered pages between preface and treatise but we have not had the chance to compare with another copy). Illustrated by portrait frontispiece and 42 engraved plates. Includes dedications to William III and Earl of Sunderland, printing privilege, preface, 8 letters and poems of commendation list of subscribers and a Treatise on Muscular Dissection

by Dr Bernard Connor at beginning; and Mathematical Disquisitions concerning Muscular Motion and An Appendix of the Heart and its Use: with the circulation of the blood and index at the end. Bound in modern half calf with marbled boards; spine divided into compartments by raised bands and double gilt lines, with black morocco labels. Some browning and occasional stains and small edge tears, otherwise a fine crisp copy. Calligraphic inscription of William Kemp, 1742 on 2nd free endpaper and abbreviated form of name on title page, with previous inscription inked out. £2,500 An influential treatise on muscular dissection, based on six lectures which may have been delivered in the Surgeon’s Hall.

It is illustrated by a superb collection of plates, many of them full page. The work was first published in 1681 as ‘A Compleat Treatise of the Muscles’ and this second enlarged edition in 1698. ESTC records only one copy of this 1705 reprint of the second edition in a British library (Cambridge) and two in the USA. It is stated that the description of the muscles is based on Muskotomia by William Molins (1648) and the plates partly taken from Tabula Anatomicae by Giulio Casserio (1632 edition). John Browne (1642-1702/3?) came from Norwich and gained surgical experience in London and in the navy,being wounded in the Anglo-Dutch war of 1665-67. About 1675 he was appointed surgeon-in-ordinary to Charles II and surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital in 1683. He published several other works on medicine, including the best surviving account of touching for the king’s evil in 1684.

COPPERPLATES OF THE SKELETON 901 ANATOMY - THOMSON, GEORGE. M.A. THE ANATOMY OF THE HUMAN BONES; With an Account of Muscular Motion, and the Circulation of the Blood: also of Digestion and Nutrition: with a Description of the Four Senses. Illustrated with variety of Copper Plates. To which is added, A short and easy Method of discovering the Virtues of Plants in curing the Diseases of the Human Body. By George Thomson, M. A. Printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun in Amen Corner; A. Ward at the King’s-Arms in Little Britain; J. Oswald at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry; and T. Hatchett, under the Royal-Exchange, London. 1734 [20514] 8vo. 5.25 x 8 inches. xxxvi + 299 pp + [25] pp. indexes.

Illustrated by 15 folding copperplates and head and tailpiece vignettes. Bound in original calf with gilt borders; spine rebacked and divided into compartments by raised bands with gilt rules and red morocco label, gilt.

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE Slight wear to extremities, top edge darkened and ink stain on lower edge. Occasional spotting and small hole in margin of b2; otherwise a very fine clean crisp copy.

Early inscriptions on front and rear paste-downs. £650 This study of human anatomy is principally concerned with the skeletal system, illustrated by a fine set of copperplates, but also examines the muscles, blood, digestive system and sense organs. At the end is a brief herbal with a separate title and index. Little is known of Thomson except that he was a physician practising in Maidstone, Kent, who seems to have acquired his MD degree after this work appeared. The evidence of the dedication suggests that he may have been a native of Aberdeen, or at least have attended the University .

The only other publications to his name were a translation of Michael Lyser’s, Art of Dissecting (1740) and the text for a compilation of Denoue’s anatomical wax models, entitled Syllabus, Pointing out every part of the human system... (c.1739). This was ‘sold only up one pair of stairs, at the grocer’s shop, the corner of Durham-Yard in the Strand, where the said Figures are exhibited to View.’ A handsome copy of this scarce early eighteenth century work on anatomy.

FINE ENGRAVINGS OF ASTRONOMY 902 ASTRONOMY - FERGUSON, JAMES. ASTRONOMY EXPLAINED UPON SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S PRINCIPLES, AND MADE EASY TO THOSE WHO HAVE NOT STUDIED MATHEMATICS. To which are added, A Plain Method of finding The Distances of all the Planets from the Sun, by the Transit of Venus over the Sun’s Disc, in the Year 1761. An Account of Mr. Horrox’s observation of the Transit of Venus in the Year 1639: and of The Distances of all the Planets from the Sun, as deduced from Observations of the Transit in the Year 1761. By James Ferguson, F.R.S. A New Edition, corrected. Printed for W. Strachan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, J. Hinton, T. Longman, T. Lowndes, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, S. Crowder, B. Law, G. Robinson, and T. Cadell in the Strand, London. 1773 [20477] 4to. 8.5 x 10.75 inches. frontis. + [viii] + 354 pp. + [10] illustrated with frontis. + 17 engraved plates, drawn by the author, all folding.

Includes dedication, contents, advertisements at beginning and index at end. Numerous tables in text. Separate title for A Plain Method and the Transit of Venus but pagination and register are continuous. The date on the title page is wrongly given as 1673. Bound in original calf, spine divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt rules with red morocco label, decorated gilt. Extremities worn, some erosion to surface of boards. Hinges and joints weak at top and bottom. Small tear to foot of E2. Otherwise a very fine, clean and crisp copy. £1,000 A well-illustrated account of practical astronomy. James Ferguson (1710-76) was the son of a farm worker and smallholder in Banffshire, who received only three months of formal education after teaching himself to read. He acquired an interest in astronomy while working as a shepherd and developed his skills as a mechanical model maker, also constructing clocks and globes. Moving to Edinburgh, he made a living as a portrait painter before going to London in 1743.

Ferguson demonstrated his astronomical models at wellattended lectures and soon gained a scientific reputation.

George III granted him an annual pension in 1761 and in 1763

he was elected an FRS. He published a number of popular books on electricity, mechanical exercises and perspective drawing. Astronomy, which first appeared in 1756, was his first major success. This new edition includes an account of the transit of Venus of 1761, illustrated with a map of the Earth superimposed by the transit path and times. There are also several fine plates of his instruments, engraved from his own drawings.

Appreciation of Ferguson’s skills as a draughtsman, led to the issue of new editions of this title well into the nineteenth century.

ASTRONOMICAL DICTIONARY, 1754 903 ASTRONOMY - HILL, JOHN. URANIA: OR, A COMPLEAT VIEW OF THE HEAVENS; CONTAINING THE ANCIENT AND MODERN ASTRONOMY, IN FORM OF A DICTIONARY: ILLUSTRATED WITH A GREAT NUMBER OF FIGURES, Comprising All the Constellations, with the Stars laid down according to their exact Situations and Magnitudes, from repeated and accurate Observations. In which, Beside Explanations of all the Terms used in that Science, by the early as well as late Authors, and in the Arabian, as well as the Egyptian and Grecian Astronomy, the Science is traced from its Origin to the present Period, and the Improvements made, from Time to Time, are laid down in a plain and familiar Manner. The Sun, Stars, Planets, and Comets are described; and their Theory explained according to the received Opinions of the present Time; the several Systems of the Universe are delivered; and the Constellations are described at large, with the Number, Magnitude, and Situation of the Stars that compose them; their Origin explained according to the Egyptian Hieroglyphics, and the Grecian Fable; and a very particular Enquiry is made into the History of those mentioned in the Sacred Writings, and in the Old Poets and Historians. A work intended for general use, intelligible to all Capacities, and calculated for entertainment as well as instruction. By John Hill, M.D. Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Bourdeaux, &c. Printed for T. Gardner, at Cowley’s Head, in the Strand, London; and Sold by all the Booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland. 1754 [20374] First edition. 4to. 7.5 x 9 inches. Unpaginated but [618] pp. [2]. Illustrated by [13] engraved plates and vignettes at end of sections. Title page in red and black. No halftitle bound in this copy. Text in two columns. Bound in original calf boards, spine tastefully rebacked and divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt double lines, with red morocco label. Some browning and staining, but otherwise a fine copy. £375 A systematic dictionary of the astronomical knowledge of the time with figurative plates outlining the constellations. The entries are largely concerned with individual stars and constellations and the sun, moon and planets. Hill discusses the systems of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe, etc., but does not have individual entries for these astronomers, or for others such as Kepler or Galileo. A second edition appeared in 1768 under the title of A New Astronomical Dictionary. The work was originally projected as the first of a six part series, entitled ‘ A compleat system of natural and philosophical knowledge,’ but no further volumes were published. In the early part of his career, John Hill (1714-75) worked as an apothecary in London, collected botanical specimens and

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE acted on the stage. He published on natural science, edited journals (making a lasting contribution to style by reducing the use of capitals) and contributed to the London Daily Advertiser under the name of ‘The Inspector.’ The range of his writing intensified to cover subjects including gardening, The Useful Family Herbal (also appearing in 1754) and his twenty six-volume work, The Vegetable System (1759-75). His corresponding relationship with Linnaeus, ultimately led to his receiving a Swedish order of knighthood, conferred at the English court in 1774. His MD had been acquired from the University of St Andrews. He was less well regarded by his contemporaries at home. His early attempts to join the Royal Society had failed and he later satirised it in print. He was mocked for the wide range of his interests, Garrick remarking, ‘For Physick and Farces, his Equal there scarce is, His Farces are Physick, and his Physick a Farce is,’ while Charles Churchill likened him to Proteus, ‘For who, like him, his various pow’rs could call/ Into so many shapes, and shine in all?/Who could so nobly grace the motley list,/Actor, Inspector, Doctor, Botanist?’ A very scarce work.

DUBLIN EDITION 904 ASTRONOMY - KEILL, JOHN. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TRUE ASTRONOMY: OR, ASTRONOMICAL LECTURES; READ IN THE ASTRONOMICAL SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. By John Keill, M.D. Fellow of the Royal Society, and Professor of Astronomy in that University.

The Seventh Edition, Corrected. Dublin, Printed at the Academic Press, by Wm. M’Kenzie. 1793 [20392] 8vo. 5.25 x 8 inches. [6] + xiv + [4] + 386 pp. + [12] pp.

Illustrated by 26 folding plates at end. Includes Dedication, preface, list of contents and index. Bound in original calf, with decorative gilt ruled spine and red morocco label; blind stamped dentelles. Extremities slightly worn. Two small holes in last plate, which is slightly cropped and one plate edge grimed. Armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Chapman, who may possibly be the author of the manuscript, How to find the Latitude of a place, on the two blank pages following 2D7. Pencil inscription of member of the family on rear first free endpaper. £350 The seventh, and last edition (and the first to be published in Dublin), of a popular work on astronomy, which remained in print for over seventy years. The original Latin version, Introductio ad veram astronomiam, was issued in 1718, and was soon followed by the English translation in 1721. Six other editions appeared (in 1730, 39, 48, 60 and 69, reprinted 78), before this Dublin one, based on last London edition. John Keill, mathematician and natural philosopher, (1671-1721) was appointed to the chair of Astronomy, in which post he delivered these lectures, in 1712, ‘By now Keill was one of the most influential natural astronomers in Britain, helping to establish and disseminate Newtonian principles’ (DNB). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1701 (being a frequent contributor to the Philosophical Transactions) and later became involved in a dispute over the invention of calculus, between Newton and Leibnitz. The owner of the book, Sir Thomas Chapman, the 2nd baronet (1756-1837) of Killua Castle, Co. Westmeath, was the great grandfather of T.E. Lawrence, whose natural father was Sir Thomas Chapman, the seventh baronet (1846-1919). Scarce in this edition.

905 ASTRONOMY - WALKER, W AN EPITOME OF ASTRONOMY, WITH THE NEW DISCOVERIES: INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE EIDOURANION, OR TRANSPARENT ORRERY; By W. Walker. The Fifteenth Edition. Printed for the Author, by C. Brightly, Bungay; and sold by J. Robson and W. Clarke, Bond-Street; and G. Kearsley, FleetStreet, London. 1802 [20658] 8vo. 5 x 8 inches. [iv] + 43 pp. + [1] pp. advertisements.

Illustrated by tailpiece vignette. Half-title. Bound in later half calf and marbled boards; Spine, in compartments with raised bands and gilt rules A fine clean copy. £250 ‘This elaborate Machine is 20 feet diameter: it stands vertical before the spectators; and its globes are so large, that they are distinctly seen in the most distant part of a Theatre. Every Planet and Satellite seems suspended in space, without any support; performing its annual and diurnal revolutions without any apparent cause.’The Epitome served as accompanying guidebook to the demonstrations of this ‘transparent orrery, which stood the Walker family in good stead for fifty years’ The orrery was devised by Adam Walker (1730-31) a self-taught schoolmaster from a Westmorland wool manufacturing family, who had developed his mechanical skills by building models of various types of mills. He became an itinerant lecturer based at York, before moving to London where he lectured in Conduit Street (see advertisement at end of book). He continued to travel and lecture to artisans and was also aquatinted with several members of the Lunar Society. Walker filled the Theatre Royal, Haymarket with a staged performance of his orrery, accompanied by the music of a mechanical harpsichord he had patented in 1772. The first edition of this work appeared as An Account of the Eidouranion, or Transparent Orrery, under Adam’s name, in 1782. William Walker (c.1766-1816) was his eldest son who, after education at Eton as a king’s scholar, 1778-80, joined his father on the lecture circuit. By the thirteenth edition (1798) of the Epitome, as it was now called, his name had replaced that of his father on the title page. After William’s death, the third son, Deane Franklin (1778-1865) continued the demonstrations and editorship of the family publications. A fine copy of this fifteenth edition, recorded by COPAC only in the British Library, Oxford and Glasgow.

HUMANE BEE KEEPING 906 BEES - NUTT THOMAS. HUMANITY TO HONEY BEES; OR PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF HONEY BEES UPON AN IMPROVED AND HUMANE PLAN, BY WHICH THE LIVES OF BEES MAY BE PRESERVED, AND ABUNDANCE OF HONEY OF A SUPERIOR QUALITY MAY BE OBTAINED Wisbeach: H and J. Leach, for the author, of whom it may be had at Moulton-Chapel, or at 131 High Holborn, London. 1832 [20581] First Edition, small 8vo. 8 x 4.5 inches, xxiii + [iii] + 240 pp. + [2] + advert slip. Illustrated with a folding frontis and 12 wood-engravings [mostly types of Hive] several of which are full page. Bound in original blue sugar-paper boards with the original title label on the later paper spine.

A very nice copy. £200 This work was to run to several later editions, this first edition is however quite scarce. The list of subscribers printed after the prelims accounts for only 232 so it is likely that only 300

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE copies were printed of this edition. Both the text and plates are charming.

907 BEES - THORLEY, JOHN . MELISSELOGIA: OR, THE FEMALE MONARCHY. BEING AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE, ORDER, AND GOVERNMENT OF BEES. With a New, Easy, and Effectful Method to preserve them, not only in Colonies, but common Hives, from that cruel Death, to which their Ignorant, Injurious, and most Ingrateful Owners so commonly condemn them. A Secret unknown to past Ages and now Published for the Benefit of Mankind.

Written upon Forty Years Observation and Experience.

Printed for the Author, and Sold by N. Thorley at the Lock and Key faceing the Mansion-House; and and J. Davidson, at the Angel in the Poultry, Cheapside, 1744 [20450] FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo. 9 x 5.5 inches, xliii + [3] + 206pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, and four engraved plates, one of which is folding, showing the author in his study. Bound in 20th century panelled full calf in 18th century style, with red morocco title label and spine in compartments with raised bands. A pencil note on the paste-down endpaper says the binding was by Bernard Middleton and dated 1981. This is a tall, untrimmed copy of this classic eighteenth century text. Some foxing here and there, and the title is a little dust stained, but a very attractive example. £550

SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 908 BION, NICHOLAS and EDMUND STONE. (Translator).

THE CONSTRUCTION AND PRINCIPAL USES OF MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF M. BION, CHIEF INSTRUMENTMAKER TO THE FRENCH KING. To which are added, The Construction and Uses of such Instruments as are omitted by M. Bion, particularly of those invented or improved by the English. Printed by H.W. for John Senex, at the Globe, over-against St. Dunstan’s Church, in Fleet Street; and William Taylor, at the Ship and Black-Swan in Pater-noster Row. And [J. Richardson in Pater-noster-Row] 1723 and [1758] [16356] Folio, title in red and black, vii + [i] + 325 + [1] pp.

Illustrated with 30 folding copper plates.

Hybrid edition consisting of the First Edition, and the Appendix to the second edition of 1758, making this identical to the second expanded edition apart from in this copy there is no separate title page for the Appendix. This copy of the first edition of 1723 has the second edition appendix bound in at the rear in such a fashion as to appear continuous. The appendix with 4 more plates was issued by Richardson in 1758 for his reprint of the work.

In the Richardson Second Edition the pagination and register are continuous after page 264 apart from the addition of a separate title page and prelims for the appendix. However in this copy the first 264 pages are the first edition issue and the appendix (pp. 265-325) is Richardson’s appendix continuously paginated, but with a separate register, showing this to be a separate issue of the appendix designed to make up copies of the first

edition. The verso of the last leaf of the appendix is an advertisement for J. Richardson’s books.

As far as I can trace this is most unusual, and I have not found copies in institutions which are the same as this.

The ‘second edition’ published by Richardson is identical in text and plates until the Appendix, but copies of this edition have a continuous register.

Bound in contemporary full calf gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands and a morocco title label.

Extremities a little bumped and worn with slight loss of surface in places. Worms have attacked the front board, leaving some small holes in the leather, but they did not get far and the original binding is on the whole very well preserved. An old owner’s name has been scribbled out on the title page, and one or two pages have been professionally repaired in the margin, but a very attractive example in very good condition. £1,500 Nicholas Bion was engineer for mathematical instruments to the King of France. It is surprising how little is known about his life beyond the fact his workshops were in Paris. He was very famous, but it is difficult to determine if his fame rests on the quality of his instruments or because he wrote this respected book. Only a few of his original instruments appear to have survived.

Edmund Stone (ca. 1700-1768), was the son of a gardener to the Scottish Duke of Argyle. At the age of 8, another servant taught him to read. Shortly thereafter he noticed an architect, working on the Duke’s house, using instruments and making calculations. Inquiring about these, he learned of the existence of arithmetic and geometry and purchased a book on the subject. At the time when Stone was 18 and a gardener on the estate, the Duke saw a copy of Newton's Principia in the grass.

Assuming it was from his library, the Duke called a servant to return it and was very surprised when the young gardener intervened claiming it was his own. The Duke became his patron and provided him with employment that would allow time for study. Stone became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1725. The patronage continued until the Duke’s death in 1743.

The work is encyclopedic and gives descriptions of the mathematical instruments commonly available at the beginning of the 18th century. It is composed of a preface giving definitions of mathematical terms, followed by eight separate books: rulers, and protractors; the sector containing a line of equal parts, line of planes, line of polygons, line of chords, line of solids, and line of metals, the compass (including both proportional compass and beam compass); surveying devices (quadrants, chords, chains, and sighting devices); water levels and gunner’s instruments (gunner’s compass and quadrant); astronomical instruments (large quadrants and micrometers for measuring); navigational instruments, including, for example, the Jacob’s staff, and the mariner’s quadrant, sundials of all forms at all orientations, the nocturnal, and a water clock.

Stone also added, as an example of the power of the instruments, a short section on "The Use of the Sector in the Construction of Solar Eclipses" in which he details the path, across Europe, of the Moon’s shadow for the eclipse of May 11, 1724—the year after the publication of this translation. In the appendix he describes and illustrates Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope as improved by Mr. Hadley, and prints Newton’s own description of the Telescope. Newton was a member of the Royal Society until his death in 1727 and would undoubtedly have known Edmund Stone.

This work is actually a translation of the second (1716) edition of Bion. It includes the additional chapters on fortification,

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE and the pendulum clock from that edition. This translation appeared at the same time as Bion’s third French edition.

A rare and important work, considered a cornerstone of the English scientific enlightenment. Very few complete copies come onto the market. The book was printed for John Senex, (1690-1740), a well known Engraver, Map, Print, Instrument and Globe seller, Publisher, Surveyor and Geographer to Queen Anne. He engraved the plates for this edition, and it is a handsome production with fine printers flowers and decorative capitals. This issue of the first edition contains the appendix of the second edition with the extra plates, as discussed above.

909 BIRDS - BANNERMAN, DAVID A. THE CANARY ISLANDS: THEIR HISTORY, NATURAL HISTORY AND SCENERY. An Account of an Ornithologist’s Camping Trips in the Archipelago. By David A. Bannerman, M.B.E., B.A. (Cantab), M.B.O.U., F.R.G.S., Etc. With illustrations and maps. Gurney and Jackson, 35 Paternoster Row, London; Tweeddale Court, Edinburgh. 1922 [20271] First edition. Large 8vo. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. xv + 365 pp. + [1] p. Illustrated by [45] plates, some full page panoramic views, with [3] colour plates of birds, including frontispiece and [4] folding maps. Half-title. Handsomely rebound in green half morocco and marbled boards. Spine divided into compartments by raised bands and decorated gilt. Top edges grey and other edges deckled. Slight insect damage at front and rear but otherwise fine and clean inside. £350 910 —— BIRDS OF WEST AND EQUATORIAL AFRICA Oliver and Boyd, 1953 [16059] First edition, 2 volumes. Thick 8vo. Vol.1. xiii + 1-795 pp. and Vol.2. viii + 797-1526 pp. Illustrated with 30 colour and 24 black and white plates, 433 illustrations in the text. Original red cloth gilt. A trifle faded but sound, without dust wrappers. £45 Based on Dr. Bannerman's eight-volume work, ‘The Birds of Tropical West Africa’, this two-volume set covers the same field in a concise format.

911 BIRDS BLAKSTON, W.A., W. SWAYSLAND, and AUGUST WIENER. CAGE AND CANARY BIRDS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN Cassell, London n.d. but c.1878 [18909] 4to.. 55 of 56 chromolithographed plates. Lacking the plate of the Kingfisher at p.343. Original green halfmorocco, gilt, at some time rather crudely rebacked. The plates are in fine condition throughout . Despite the missing plate, a very good copy. £150 As this copy is lacking one plate it is sold as a collection of plates and the purchaser should be aware of this. The overall condition of the plates is very clean and sound.

912 BIRDS - DAGLISH, FITCH, E. WOODCUTS OF BRITISH BIRDS. With Descriptions by the Artist.

Ernest Benn, London. 1925 [20243] Limited edition of 500 copies. Folio, 8.5 x 11 inches, 165 pp. with 20 single-page woodcut plates with descriptive text. Bound in original oatmeal over marbled boards quarter binding with paper title labels to front and spine.

Neatly inscribed and dated on front free endpaper by

previous owner. Light spotting to prelims and edges but text and plates clean. £120 The birds represented in these attractive and accomplished illustrations are as follows: Jackdaw; Jay; Bullfinch; Reed Bunting; Pied Wagtail; Red-Backed Shrike; Ring Ouzel; Nightingale; Stonechat; Dipper; Wren; Spotted Flycatcher; Lesser Spotted Woodpecker; Long-Eared Owl; Merlin; Heron; Ringed Plover; Puffin; Great Crested Grebe; Black Grouse.

913 BIRDS - MORRIS, F.O. A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS, ‘CABINET’ EDITION. Groombridge and Sons, 5 Paternoster Row, London. n.d. but c.1880 [19755] Cabinet Edition 8 volumes, small 8vo. Illustrated with 358 hand-coloured wood engraved plates. Bound in recent quarter morocco gilt, spines in compartments and decorated with emblematical bird tools in gilt, over original decorated russet cloth, gilt. A little worn at extremities of the cloth boards, but a very good set. Some very occasional foxing to the front and rear leaves of each volume, but the plates are not affected. £550 The colouring is particularly good in this edition of Morris and has always been prized by collectors. A very good set.

HANDSOME KALTHOEBER BINDING. 914 BOTANY - BRYANT CHARLES. Flora diaetetica: or, history of esculent plants, both domestic and foreign. In which They are accurately described, and reduced to their Linnean Generic and Specific Names.

With Their English Names annexed, and ranged under Eleven General Heads, Viz. Esculent, 1 Roots, 2 Shoots, Stalks, etc. 3. Leaves, 4 Flowers 5 Berries, 6 Stone-fruit, 7 Apples, 8 Legumens, 9 Grain, 10 Nuts, 11 Funguses.

And A particular Account of the Manner of using them; their native Places of Growth; their several Varieties, and physical Properties: Together with whatever is otherwise curious, or very remarkable in each Species. The whole so methodized, as to form a short Introduction to the Science of Botany.

By Charles Bryant, of Norwich.

Printed for B. White, at Horace’s Head, in Fleet-street, London. 1783 [20526] 8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. xvi + 379 pp. + [13] pp.

Contemporary tree-calf, spine richly gilt in six compartments, using Greek key pattern to good effect and producing a well judged elegant design. BOUND BY CHRISTIAN SAMUEL KALTHOEBER, with his orange label on the verso of the front free endpaper. Hinges just cracking but sound. A fine binding. £850 Charles Bryant (d.1799) was a keen naturalist and an excellent and industrious practical botanist who made a special study of the works of Linnaeus. He authored three botanical books, this being his second and most important. It fully describes all of the esculent plants, domestic and foreign, including their history, use, physical properties, and places of growth, along with their varieties and unique individual characteristics.

‘Johannes Salberg’s rather cursory Latin thesis on food plants [Fructus esculenti, 1763, Linnaeus as praeses], and the prodding of a pharmacist friend motivated Charles Bryant of Norwich to work on a detailed, authoritative work for gardeners, cooks, and gourmets. He thought it ‘unlearned.for people in a high station of life, to converse about their fruits.under the barbarous names that many have heard them called by.’ The fruit chapters in his Flora diaetica...describe

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE many species and some cultivars often at length and comment on their taste. All are classified as either berries, stone fruit, apples, or nuts according to the definitions of Linne.’ (Janson, Pomona’s Harvest). Particularly handsome copy.

915 BOTANY - CHAMBERS, JOHN, M.D. A POCKET HERBAL; Containing the medicinal virtues and uses of the most esteemed native plants; with some Remarks on Bathing, Electricity, etc. By John Chambers, M. D. of East Dereham, Norfolk. Printed for the Author,

by P. Gedge, Bury, And to be had of T. Hurst, Paternoster-Row; C. Law, Ave-Maria-Lane, London; and W. Barker, Dereham. 1800 [20507] 8vo. 4 x 6 inches. xx + [iv] + 328 pp. With list of subscribers at beginning and indexes at end. Bound in original calf, spine rebacked with gilt rules and black morocco label, gilt. Slight foxing and occasional edge stains, otherwise a fine copy. £450 A rare and charming example of a locally produced Herbal and general receipt book, a host of local names for plants are given and local lore and published by the author himself and printed in Bury. The list of some three hundred subscribers reveals a strong bias towards the eastern counties and itself provides an useful list of local notables. Chambers dedicates the work to the ladies, who are ‘exerting themselves in their natural sphere - to the care of their families, and the relief of the distressed,’ and in particular to ‘the fair Votaresses of Flora,’ now that botany has become a popular female study.

He trusts that ‘my Lady Bountiful’ will find his collection of prescriptions ‘a valuable addition to her Family Receiptbook.’ Part I of the herbal contains entries for ailments and for the plants themselves. Part II describes the treatment of poisons and the use of non-herbal remedies, including a brief section on the recent fashionable treatments through bathing and the employment of electric shocks. It ends with a list of prescriptions and two recipes for cheap food and drink (treacle and spruce beer) for the poor. He comments on his soup of salep root, vegetables and free offal from the butchers, ‘I have recommended this broth to great numbers of the poor, who at first are very fond of it, but soon grow tired of washing the entrails.’

Little else is known of Dr John Chambers (c.1725-1801).

A scarce example of a local publication; ESTC records only eight copies in British libraries and five in North America.

ALPINES 916 BOTANY - CORREVON, H. ATLAS DE LA FLORE ALPINE, PUBLIE PAR LE CLUB ALPIN ALLEMAND ET AUTRICHIEN Geneve & Bale, Georg & Co. 1899 [18817] 8vo. Six volumes, five of which are solely plates and one of text, vii + 193pp. + 3 advertisements + 500 coloured plates. 200 plates are after drawings by M.A. Hartinger and 300 are chromo-photolithographs. Bound in original publisher’s green cloth with gilt titles and atractive embossed black floral motif to front boards. £450 A very attractive set of this illustrated alpine flora.

TWO TITLES IN ONE VOLUME 917 BOTANY CULPEPER, NICHOLAS. Complete Herbal and English Physician; Wherein Several Hundred Herbs, with a Display of Their Medicinal and Occult Properties, Are Physically Applied to the Cure of

All Disorders Incident to Mankind To Which are Added Rules for Compounding Medicines, and Upwards of Fifty Choice Receipts, Selected from the Author's Last Legacies; Forming a Complete Family Dispensatory, and System of Physic. To Which is Annexed, the British florist, or Flower Garden Displayed; In Which the Most Ornamental Plants Will Be Most Accurately Represented in Their Names, Class, Order, Characters, Plans of Growth, and Times of Flowering; Together with the Most Approved Methods of Culture. J. Gleave and Son, Deansgate, Manchester 1826, 1825. [18816] 4to. 10 x 8 inches. Herbal: iv + 240 pp. with frontis portrait and 21 hand-coloured plates, bound with The British Florist: 44 pp. with 12 hand-coloured plates.

Original full calf with contrasting title label, gilt. General wear and rubbing Some fingermarks on the plates but generally good condition. £650 An easily readable edition and graced by the hand-coloured plates. The British Florist section is scarce and attractive.

HAND-COLOURED MEDICINAL PLANTS 918 BOTANY - GRAVES, GEORGE. HORTUS MEDICUS, OR FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MORE IMPORTANT PLANTS USED IN MEDICINE, Or possessed of poisonous qualities; with their medical properties, chemical analysis, etc., etc. By George Graves, Fellow of the Linnean Society, Editor of the new edition of Curtis’s Flora Londonensis, author of a monograph on the British Grasses, etc., etc. The chemical and medical departments by John Davie Morries, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Member of the Medico-Chirurgical Royal Medical, Plinian, and Phrenological Societies of Edinburgh, etc., etc. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, London. 1834 [20455] First edition 4to. 9 x 11.5 inches. [viii] + 274 pp.

Illustrated by 44 hand coloured engraved plates on 38.

Bound in original paper boards, with green cloth spine and paper label. Extremities worn, spine cloth frayed and boards darkened and stained. Occasional light spotting and staining inside but otherwise a fine copy with all plates intact. Label of Watson, Bookseller and Stationer of Princes Street, Edinburgh. £1,850 An exceptional work of medical botany, beautifully illustrated by hand coloured plates. Each entry for the flowering plants, fungi and barks described, includes an account of the plant’s medical properties and a chemical analysis is sometimes provided (e.g. for cinchona bark and quinine). There is a notable emphasis on poisonous plants, e.g. wolfsbane, with accounts of their symptoms. George Graves (1784-1839, but other dates are also cited in bibliographical sources) was a member of the Society of Friends and lived in Walworth, Peckham and Edinburgh. His other publications included British Ornithology (1811), Ovarium Britannicum (1816), The Naturalist’s Pocket-Book, a work which influenced the young Darwin (1818), Monograph of the British Grasses (1822) and The Naturalist’s Journal and Miscellany (1832). Fine copy of a very scarce work.

919 BOTANY - HULME, EDWARD. FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. WITH DESCRIPTIONS BY

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE SHIRLEY HIBBERD. Cassell Petter & Galpin, n.d. but 1885 [18843] 5 volumes, each with 40 coloured plates which are here clean and bright; some foxing almost always confined to the tissue guards. Bound in full contemporary morocco gilt. A very good set. £250 The 200 fine chromolithographic coloured plates by Hulme make this a very attractive work, and Shirley Hibberd’s botanical description of each flower together with its folklore, old country names and history of its introduction etc., completes the charm of the work.

920 —— FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS. Cassell Petter & Galpin, n.d. 1885 [18842] 5 volumes each with 40 coloured plates which are here clean and bright; some foxing almost always confined to the tissue guards. Bound in full contemporary morocco gilt. A very good set. £200 The 200 fine chromolithographic coloured plates by Hulme make this a very attractive work, and his botanical descriptions of the each flower together with its folklore and old country names complete the charm of the work.

921 BOTANY - IRVINE, ALEXANDER. THE LONDON FLORA; Containing a concise description of the phaenogamous British plants, which grow spontaneously in the vicinity of the metropolis, with their localities; arranged in conformity to the natural system; also a Linnean arrangement of all the indigenous British species.

To which is prefixed a comprehensive introduction to the natural method, an account of classification, and a sketch of botanical geography. By Alexander Irvine, of Marischal College, Aberdeen. Smith, Elder and Co. 65, Cornhill, London. 1838 [20603] 12mo. 4.75 x 7.5 inches. xvi + 340 pp. + [2] pp. advertisements. Bound in original green cloth. Boards have blind stamped borders enclosing floral design; spine title in spray frame, gilt. Pale yellow endpapers. Top edges uncut. Extremities worn and spine faded, with small splits to cloth at head and tail and boards stained. Edges lightly browned and occasional spotting inside, but otherwise fine condition. Small book label. £60 A detailed list of the flora of the London region, which in fact covers the whole of south east England. A separate table distinguishes between the London and the Hampstead flora.

The principal classification used is the Natural System; the Linnean arrangement for all British plants is also included.

Both sections indicate localities where the plants may be found and an appendix supplies additional localities. The book also includes a glossary and Latin and English indexes. Alexander Irvine (c.1794-1873), botanist and bookseller, was educated in Aberdeenshire. After his arrival in London in 1824, he carried out plant collecting trips into the surrounding countryside and made a special study of the six hundred species found within a two mile radius of Hampstead Heath. In 1836, at one of the first meetings of the Botanical Society of London, Irvine introduced printed forms for entering habitat and other plant data, the forerunners of modern botanical record cards. He also edited The Phytologist and published The Illustrated Handbook of the British Plants (1858).

SOWERBY COLOUR PLATES.

922 BOTANY JOHNSON, CHARLES PIERPOINT. Illustrated by SOWERBY, JOHN EDWARD. BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. Illustrated by John E. Sowerby, Illustrator of The Ferns of Great Britain, The Grasses of Great Britain, etc. Described with an introduction and a key to the natural orders, by C. Pierpoint Johnson. John E. Sowerby, 3 Mead Place, Lambeth. S. 1860 [20548] 4to. 6 x 9.5 inches. frontis. + [2] + xlix + [iii] + 168 pp.

Illustrated by 2 black and white plates, hand-coloured frontispiece by J. De C. Sowerby and 80 hand-coloured plates with 1600 figures, by J. E. Sowerby. Bound in original green morocco, gilt, front board with decorative floral gilt borders, enclosing blind stamped pattern; spine divided into compartments by raised bands, with gilt rules and decorations, blind stamping in panels and maroon morocco label, gilt. Outer (gilt) and inner (blind stamped) dentelles. All edges marbled. Slight wear to extremities.

Some spotting inside but otherwise a fine clean copy in a handsome decorative binding. £300 A well-illustrated field guide to British wild flowers, ‘Intended merely as a volume of reference for the field-botanist, the country resident or summer rambler, when works of more pretension are not at hand, our book can comprise little more descriptive matter than is absolutely necessary, with the assistance of the plates, to identify each plant’ (Introduction).

Charles Pierpoint Johnson (d. 1893) was the son of Charles Johnson (1791-1880), who was Professor of Botany at Guy’s Hospital, 1830-73. J. E. Sowerby, collaborated with the elder Johnson from 1855-57 and with his son 1857-62, on illustrating botanical texts, their titles including, Ferns (1855), British Poisonous Plants (1856), Grasses (1857-61) and Useful Plants (1861). John Edward Sowerby (1825-1870), the botanical artist and publisher was the third family generation to work in these fields, his grandfather, James Sowerby (!7571822), having been the publisher of English Botany, while his uncle, James de Carle Sowerby (1787-1871) contributed the frontispiece to this work An edition was published by John van Voorst in 1858 and he also brought out another one in 1863, with a supplement, but this 1860 edition is unusual in having been published by Sowerby himself. British Wild Flowers proved to a popular title and another six editions appeared up to 1914.

Attractive early edition, published by the illustrator, very handsomely bound in the original green and gilt morocco.

SOWERBY COLOUR PLATES. 923 BOTANY JOHNSON, CHARLES PIERPOINT. Illustrated by SOWERBY, JOHN EDWARD. THE USEFUL PLANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN: A treatise upon the principal native vegetables capable of application as food, medicine, or in the arts and manufactures. By C. Pierpoint Johnson. Illustrated by John E. Sowerby, Illustrator of ‘English Botany,’ the ‘Ferns of Great Britain,’ ‘Wild Flowers Worth Notice,’ etc. Robert Hardwicke, 192 Piccadilly, London. [1861] [20528] First edition. 4to. 6.5 x 9.75 inches. frontis. + [2] + vi + [7] - 324 pp. Illustrated by 25 hand-coloured plates with 300 figures, by John Sowerby. Half-title. Bound in contemporary green half morocco with marbled boards; spine divided into compartments by raised bands and decorated gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers.

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE Extremities worn, occasional light spotting and some erosion and griming of edge of plate 24. Otherwise a fine clean copy in a handsome early binding. Printed label of early owner, Charles M. Hutt on front paste-down and 1915 inscription on second free endpaper. £200 A well illustrated study of economic botany, including agricultural, medical and industrial crops (e.g. flax and dye plants such as weld and woad). The author advises, in his introduction, that the work is ‘a popular one, and not addressed particularly to the student of the medical profession.’ He particularly warns the general reader not to experiment with them, ‘or the practice of that most dangerous of all arts, ‘domestic medicine’.’ We have thus moved away from the old style of herbal into an era when the boundaries between medicine and botany were becoming more rigidly defined. Charles Pierpoint Johnson (d. 1893) was the son of Charles Johnson (1791-1880), who was Professor of Botany at Guy’s Hospital, 1830-73. J. E. Sowerby, collaborated with the elder Johnson from 1855-57 and with his son, 1857-62 on illustrating their botanical texts, their titles including, Ferns (1855), British poisonous plants (1856), Grasses (1857-61) and Wild flowers (1858-60, 1863). John Edward Sowerby (1825-1870), the botanical artist and publisher was the third generation of the family to work in those fields, His grandfather, James Sowerby (!757-1822), having been the publisher of English Botany. Another edition of Useful Plants was published by Kent in 1862.

924 —— THE USEFUL PLANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN: A treatise upon the principal native vegetables capable of application as food, medicine, or in the arts and manufactures. By C. Pierpoint Johnson. Illustrated by John E. Sowerby, Illustrator of ‘English Botany,’ the ‘Ferns of Great Britain,’ ‘Wild Flowers Worth Notice,’ etc. Robert Hardwicke, 192 Piccadilly, London. [1861] [20529] First edition. 4to. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. [2] + vi + [7] - 324 pp.

Illustrated by 25 coloured plates with 300 figures, by John Sowerby. Extra-illustrated by pressed flower (unusual form of daisy, 1896) mounted on buff paper, inserted as additional free endpaper at beginning. Plate 1 moved from frontispiece position to text. Half-title. Bound in recent quarter morocco, with marbled boards and maroon morocco label, gilt. Interior foxed, some lower edge and outer margin stain; slight inner edge damage, p. 141-2 and tear near top of p. 225-7 and plate 17, not affecting text or illustration. Botanical notes on verso of title page.

Occasional ink corrections to text. £200 A well illustrated study of economic botany, including agricultural, medical and industrial crops (e.g. flax and dye plants such as weld and woad). The author advises, in his introduction, that the work is ‘a popular one, and not addressed particularly to the student of the medical profession.’ He particularly warns the general reader not to experiment with them, ‘or the practice of that most dangerous of all arts, ‘domestic medicine’.’ We have thus moved away from the old style of herbal into an era when the boundaries between medicine and botany were becoming more rigidly defined. Charles Pierpoint Johnson (d. 1893) was the son of Charles Johnson (1791-1880), who was Professor of Botany at Guy’s Hospital, 1830-73. J. E. Sowerby, collaborated with the elder Johnson from 1855-57 and with his son, 1857-62 on illustrating their botanical texts, their titles including, Ferns

(1855), British poisonous plants (1856), Grasses (1857-61) and Wild flowers (1858-60, 1863). John Edward Sowerby (1825-1870), the botanical artist and publisher was the third generation of the family to work in those fields, His grandfather, James Sowerby (!757-1822), having been the publisher of English Botany. Another edition of Useful Plants was published by Kent in 1862.

MONOGRAPH ON TEA 925 BOTANY - LETTSOM, JOHN COAKLEY. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TEA-TREE, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MEDICAL QUALITIES OF TEA, AND EFFECTS OF TEADRINKING. Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, London. 1772 [20451] First Edition. Large 4to, 11 x 9 inches, vii + 64 pp.

Illustrated with a fine hand- coloured engraved frontispiece of the Tea-Tree by John Miller. Bound in modern half calf, with a green and gilt label on the spine.

Some light foxing to the frontis otherwise a fine copy of this very rare item. £1,500 A classic work on the drink, the popularity of which was sweeping the western world . An accurate botanical description is followed by chapters on the Origin of Tea, its Soil and Culture, Gathering the Leaves, Method of Curing or Preparing Tea, Varieties of Tea, Drinking of Tea, Etc. This is followed by a section on the Medical History of Tea which accounts for about half the book. John Coakley Lettsom [17441815], Wrote this work as an expanded and emended version of his Latin Thesis, submitted for his medical degree at the University of Leyden. First published in English in this edition which was dedicated to Hugh Percy, Duke of Northumberland, who, at Sion-House, had ‘the first [Tee-Tree] that ever flowered in Europe; and an elegant drawing has been taken from it in that state, with its botanical description, the Engraver has done justice to his original drawing, which is now in the possession of that great promoter of Natural History, Dr. Fothergill’ we are told in the preface. Lettsom was to become a major figure in the world of Medicine and the wider world of learning. He became FSA in 1771, FRS in 1773, he is best remembered as a philanthropist in 1773 he founded the Medical Society of London assisted in founding the Royal Humane Society in 1774, and the Royal Sea-bathing Hospital at Margate in 1791. His writings on Medical, scientific, biographical, as well as philanthropic subjects are numerous.

FINE COLOUR PLATES OF GRASSES. 926 BOTANY - LOWE, E.J. A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH GRASSES. With coloured illustrations. Groombridge and Sons, 5, Paternoster Row, London. 1868 [20479] 4to. 6.75 x 10 inches. vi + 245 pp. + [1] pp. Illustrated with 74 coloured plates and woodcuts in text. Includes dedication and contents at front and conclusion comparative analysis, index and list of authorities at end.

Bound in original green cloth, spine gilt and blind stamped grass within decorative panels on boards. Some light spotting on edges but otherwise a very fine clean copy with some uncut pages. Armorial bookplate with initials. £175 A comprehensive guide to British grasses by a renowned botanist, illustrated by over seventy coloured plates, in the handsome original binding. Edward Joseph Lowe (18251900), born in Nottinghamshire, published extensively on ferns

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE and was also an authority on atmospheric phenomena. British grasses was first published, 1857-58 and a third edition appeared in 1891.

927 BOTANY - LOWE, EDWARD JOSEPH. OUR NATIVE FERNS; OR A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH SPECIES AND THEIR VARIETIES. Volume I. Polypodium. Allosorus. Gymnogramma. Polystichum.

Lastrea. Containing descriptions of twenty-two species and three hundred and eighty-four varieties of British ferns. Volume II. Athrium. Asplenium. Scolopendrium.

Ceterach. Lomaria. Pteris. Adiantum. Cystopterus.

Woodsia. Trichomanes. Hymenophyllum. Osmunda.

Ophioglossum. Botrychium. Containing descriptions of twenty-eight species and nine hundred and ten varieties of British ferns. By E. J. Lowe, Esq., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.M.S. Memb. Scottish Meteor.

Soc., Hon. Mem. Dublin Nat.Hist. Soc., Memb. Geolog.

Soc. Edin., Corr. Mem. Lyceum Nat. Hist., New York, Corr. Mem. Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc., etc., Author of a ‘Natural History of British and Exotic Ferns,’ ‘British Grasses,’ ‘New and Rare Ferns,’ ‘Beautiful Leaved Plants,’ etc. Groombridge and Sons, 5, Paternoster Row, London. 1867 [20478] First edition (some copies of Vol. I are dated 1865). 2 vols. 4to. 6.25 x 10 inches. Vol.I. frontis + [4] + vii + 348 pp. Vol.II. vii + [1] + 492 pp. Illustrated by 79 colour plates (Vol.I. 37, Vol.II. 42) and 919 wood engravings in text (Vol.I. 17, Vol.II. 592).

Includes dedication, introduction and lists of plates and woodcuts at beginning and lists of synonyms, indexes and lists of contributors and authorities at end. Bound in mid-twentieth century half green calf. Spine divided into compartments by raised bands and decorated with gilt ferns; red morocco labels.

All edges marbled. Rubber stamp, ‘Science,’ at top of second free endpapers. Small ink stain, Vol. II, p. 229-30.

Some light spotting but otherwise a very fine copy. £250 A comprehensive guide to British ferns by a renowned botanist, in a handsome later binding, appropriately decorated with ferns.

Edward Joseph Lowe (1825-1900), born in Nottinghamshire, published on grasses and ferns and was also an authority on atmospheric phenomena.

His most comprehensive fern title was Ferns, British and Exotic, in eight volumes (1856-60 and 1871 supplement). ‘Our Native Ferns’ was reissued in 1874-76 and 1880.

928 BOTANY - NEWMAN, JOHN B. BEAUTIES OF FLORA, And Outlines of Botany, with a Language of Flowers. A Perennial Offering. By John B. Newman, M. D. The whole illustrated by splendidly coloured engravings by Lewis and Brown. Edward Kearney, 272 Pearl Street, New-York. 1848 [20483] First edition. 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. Portrait frontis of‘Linnaeus’ + iv + [5] - 288 pp. + [2] pp. Illustrated with black and white lithographed frontispiece and [35] hand-coloured lithographed plates. Includes preface, dictionary of flowers and index. Bound in original green cloth, gilt with blind stamped decorative panels on boards enclosing gilt floral vignette; spine rebacked and decorated gilt. All edges gilt. Extremities worn, spine chipped and boards stained. Some browning and spotting

inside, slight damage to top of plate opp. p.11) and small tear to edge of p.187-8. £200 A scarce item, illustrated by thirty five charming and naive hand-coloured lithographs. Each plant or group of plants is described botanically, followed by anecdotes, including classical allusions, poems about flowers and a discussion of medicinal aspects. The work is therefore partly a herbal and covers plants of economic importance, such as coffee, tea, sugar cane and citrus fruits. A biographical section, includes lives of famous botanists, with Linnaeus being ascribed a particular significance. A list at the end notes emblematic significance, or the language of flowers. Little is known of the author, who may have practised in Rochester, N.Y., other than his works quoted in the Library of Congress catalogue. Titles includes Texas and Mexico and Illustrated botany, both 1846, and a variety of other books on physiology, flora, etc.

929 BOTANY - PECHEY, JOHN. THE COMPLEAT HERBAL OF PHYSICAL PLANTS. Containing all such English and Foreign Herbs, Shrubs and Trees, as are used in Physick and Surgery. And to the Virtues of those that are now in use, is added one Receipt, or more, of some learned Physician. The Doses or Quantities of such as are prescribed by the LondonPhysicians, and others, are proportioned. Also directions for Making Compound-Waters, Syrups Simple and Compound, Electuaries, Pills, Powders, and other Sorts of Medicines. Moreover, The Gums, Balsams, Oyls, Juices, and the like, which are sold by Apothecaries and Druggists, are added to this Herbal; and their Virtues and Uses are fully described. By John Pechey, of the College of Physicians, in London. Printed for Henry Bonwicke, at the Red Lyon in St. Paul’s Church-yard, London. 1694.

[20518] First edition. 8vo. 4 x 6.5 inches. [viii] + 349 pp. + [33] pp +[2]. With penultimate advertisement leaf. Last leaf is blank. Text in double columns. Bound in original mottled calf with blind stamped panels on boards; spine rebacked in original binding and divided into compartments by raised bands, with later paper label. Extremities worn, otherwise a fine crisp copy. Armorial bookplate of Lord Battersea. £850 A book of herbal remedies divided into two alphabetical sections; English and ‘Exotick or Foreign.’ In his preface, Pechey confesses that his work is largely derivative: ‘In compiling this English Herbal of Physical Plants, I have chiefly follow’d Mr. Ray...What I have contributed to this Work, I confess, is the least Part: Some Virtues, indeed, I have added, and many good Medicines; but those I borrow’d too. So that, upon a Review, I find little or nothing belongs to me, save only the Collection, and Translation: and for that I expect Censure.’ Pechey (1654-1718) was, like Culpeper and William Salmon, one of those late seventeenth century medical practitioners who came into conflict with the London. medical establishment. After graduating from Oxford, he had become a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1684. With four of his fellows, he set up a ‘repository’ and issued handbills advertising free medical advice and cheap medicine. A long dispute with the College, who objected to his advertising, then ensued. Pechey was a prolific author on medical subjects, with titles including The London Dispensatory, midwife’s practice and studies on the diseases of maids and of infants and children.

Like most of his works, this one ends with an advertisement for his pills; ‘Excellent Purging Pills...They cure the Scurvy, the most reigning Disease of this Kingdom.’

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE The bookplate indicates that this herbal is from the library of the only Lord Battersea. Cyril Flower (1843-1907) served as a Liberal MP, 1880-92 and was created 1st Baron Battersea in the latter year. He was a patron of Whistler and was involved with the pre-Raphaelite set. Fine copy of this scarce herbal.

ESOTERIC BOTANY 1591 930 BOTANY - PORTA, GIAMBATTISTA DELLA, 1535?-1615.

PHYTOGNOMONICA IO. BAPTISTÆ PORTÆ OCTO LIBRIS CONTENTA; IN QUIBUS NOVA, FACILLIMAQUE AFFERTUT METHODUS, QUA PLANTARUM, ANIMALIUM, METALLORUM; RERUM DENIQUE OMNIUMEX PRIMA EXTIMÆ FACIEI INSPECTIONE QUIUIS ABDITAS VIRES ASSEQUATUR. Accedunt ad haec confirmanda infinita propemodum selectiora secreta ...

Nunc primu?m ab innumeris mendis quibus passim Neapolitana editio scatebat, vindicata etc. Francofurti, apud Ioannem Wechelum and Petrum Fischerum consortes. 1591 [20496] Second Edition, 8vo.7 x 5 inches, Title in red & black with with woodcut portrait on verso, [14] + 552 pages.

Illustrated with 32 large woodcuts in the text. Bound in continental contemporary full panelled calf, with red title label. One or two leaves trimmed tightly in the index just affecting the running title, and one leaf of the prelims close on the fore-edge but no loss of text, otherwise a very fine clean copy. £1,500 Thirty-two fine woodcut images of plants and animals distinguish this work on the signatures of plants, which was originally published in Naples in 1588. It is sometimes held that della Porta was the real originator of the botanical Doctrine of Signatures in any approximation to a scientific form. The theory was that Divine Providence had formed plants in such a way as to indicate the ailments they would cure, e.g. a walnut looked like the human brain, so would cure head ailments. The illustrations of the 'Phytognomonica' are helpful in interpreting Porta's view. The part of man's body which is healed by a particular herb, or the animal whose bites or stings can be cured by it, are represented in the same woodcut as the herb. The back view of a human head with a thick crop of hair is introduced into the block with the Maidenhair Fern, which is an ancient specific for baldness; a Pomegranate with its seeds exposed, and a plant of ‘Toothwort,’ with its hard, white scale-leaves, are represented in the same figure as a set of human teeth’. (Arber, Herbals p.

209) A scorpion completes a picture of plants with articulated seed vessels; a shoot of heliotrope is also included, since, to Porta's vivid imagination its curved flower spike recalled a scorpion's tail (Arber, Herbals pp. 251-2) Arber also notes the influence of this work on the herbalists of the next century, notably Johann Popp, William Cole and Nicholas Culpeper, all exponents of Paracelsus and Porta, in their theories of Astrological Botany. The woodcuts are of a very high quality and rare praised as such by Arber.

931 BOTANY - PRATT, ANNE. THE FLOWERING PLANTS, GRASSES, SEDGES & FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN, and their allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworts and Horsetails. Frederick Warne and Co. No date but c.

1870 [18799] Six volumes, large 8vo, illustrated with 320 superb plates, 319 coloured and one uncoloured. The most complete edition, the plants were first issued in 4 volumes about

1860 and in about 1870 the Grasses, Sedges etc. were added.

Bound in original green publisher’s cloth, decorated in red and black, with gilt blocking. A few old scratches and very slight wear to the extremities. All edges gilt. The endpapers of each volume are slightly foxed and this sometimes affects the title pages, but is nowhere serious. £750 Anne Pratt lived in Dover for much of the time she was working on these volumes and although not solely devoted to Kent flora, the descriptions often use local Kentish names for wildflowers and for the traditional and medicinal uses of herbs. All the descriptions are interesting, giving locations and an abundance of local names, folklore and traditions associated with each plant, and even their appearances in literature. All of Pratt’s books are well-composed, with handsome, accurate, coloured illustrations. The success of her works must be shared with William Dickes & Company, producers of the thousands of blocks required for printing in colour using the Baxter process (combining a lithographic key plate that printed the main features of the design, followed by colour applied through a succession of wood blocks). This set is an early edition, with the quality of the colour printing being exceptional because, as this popular work was reprinted, the plates became worn and the printing quality deteriorated.

Thirty years later the plates were still being used, and all who have a chance to compare them agree that the earlier editions contain the best illustrations.

932 —— WILD FLOWERS. S.P.C.K., London. 1853 [13638] Folio. [iv] + 96 leaves printed recto only, depicting in wood-engravings, 192 British wild flowers, two per page with descriptions. Uncoloured. Original green cloth with blind-embossed decoration, gilt. Rather shaken and worn at extremities. With the exception of the very first leaf which is rather creased and torn at the head and fore-edge, the contents are clean and undamaged with only occasional foxing. £75 The leaves were originally sold singly at three farthings plain or twopence coloured but the series could be bought, bound up, at eight shillings plain or eighteen shillings coloured.

MINTS 933 BOTANY - SOLE, WILLIAM. MENTHAE BRITANNICAE: BEING A NEW BOTANICAL ARRANGEMENT OF ALL THE BRITISH MINTS HITHERTO DISCOVERED. Illustrated with twenty-four Copper-plates, of the natural Size, Done from the Life by able Artists; Exhibiting a Figure of every distinct Mint herein treated of, Including all those enumerated by Ray and Hudson; Together with Several new Species hitherto unnoticed. By W. Sole. Printed by R. Crutwell, Bath; and sold by Messrs. White, Fleet-Street; Bull and Co. and J. Barratt, Bath; Gilbert, Dublin; Hanwell, Oxford; and Hodson, Cambridge. 1798 [20612] Folio. 9.75 x 13.5 inches. viii + 55 pp. + [1] pp. corrigenda. Illustrated by 24 engraved plates. Lacks plate 14, which has been replaced by a facsimiley. Half-title.

Bound in original green half morocco over marbled boards, rebacked with spine divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt rules, with red morocco label, gilt, now eroded. Extremities worn. Stain to upper blank

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE margin of last leaf and isolated spotting elsewhere, otherwise a fine copy. £450 ‘The first published work to be devoted entirely to British mints’ (Henrey). It is remarkable for its fine printing by Richard Cruttwell, and the quality of its engravings by William Hibbert, both of Bath, indicating the texture and shading of the mint plants. The original drawings from life were by James Hewlett, then of Bath, and others (see Henrey for further details). In his preface, the author critically surveys the work of earlier artists who had depicted mints, rating some as ‘in general rude and Gothick’ or ‘very indifferent.’ William Sole (1741-1802) was born and educated in Cambridgeshire, but later moved to Bath, where he practised as an apothecarysurgeon and lived for the rest of his life: ‘One cannot watch most of the British mints growing in a garden in Bath for more than 25 years without knowing them very intimately’ (quoted in Henrey). He also compiled an unpublished flora of Bath and was rewarded by the Bath and West of England Society in 1799 for his study of British grasses and their agricultural uses.

Following the publication of the Menthae Britannicae a controversy ensued between Sole and James Edward Smith, President of the Linnean Society, who disagreed with Sole’s nomenclature and classification. A fine copy of this scarce monograph. .

934 BOTANY - SOWERBY, JAMES. and SMITH, JAMES EDWARD. ENGLISH BOTANY; OR COLORED FIGURES OF BRITISH PLANTS, WITH THEIR ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS, SYNONYMS, AND PLACES OF GROWTH. C.E. Sowerby, London.

1832-1846 [20527] The second edition, 12 volumes, large 8vo, 9 x 6 inches.

Illustrated with 2580 fine hand-coloured plates. Bound in original half green morocco, a little worn on the extremities but a very good copy of this beautifully illustrated flora, one or two plates have some foxing but this set is cleaner than most I have seen. This set has been owned by a working botanist, and some plates have neat pencil inscriptions, recording places and dates the plant was found. £1,850 This exhaustive work has never been surpassed as a scientific reference book, and still is considered the most botanically accurate illustrated flora of these islands.

THE FIRST AMERICAN HERBAL 935 BOTANY - STEARNS, SAMUEL. THE AMERICAN HERBAL. Or Materia Medica. Wherein the Virtues of the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Productions of North and South America are Laid Open, so far as They are Known; and Their Uses in the Practice of Physic and Surgery Exhibited, Comprehending an Account of a Large Number of New Medical Discoveries and Improvements, which are Compiled from the Best Authorities with Much Care and Attention, and Promulgated for the Purpose of Spreading Medical Light and Information in America. Walpole, [New Hampshire] Printed by David Carlisle, for Thomas and Thomas, and the Author. 1801 [20497] 12mo. 7 x 4 inches, 360 pp. Bound in 20th century quarter calf over marbled boards, a trifle browned throughout, and a faint water stain in the gutter of the prelims, otherwise a very fine clean copy. £1,500 Considered the first herbal published in the United States.

Samuel Stearns (1784 - 1813) was born in Massachusetts and

became both a physician and lawyer. Stearns travelled widely in New England and abroad before compiling this work. He, like many physicians of the time, advocated a single medical work that would standardise medical treatments and medicines in America, it was his hope that this work might contribute to that effort. The book is arranged alphabetically by a plant's common name and gives a brief description of the plant followed by its uses, the plant parts used, remedy preparation, the class of medicine e.g., anti emetic, hypnotic, etc., and various notes and anecdotes. The 12 pp. list of subscribers gives an interesting picture of the uptake and influence of this, the first edition, of the first truly American Herbal.

TWO VOLUME HERBAL 936 BOTANY TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH PITTON DE. THE COMPLEAT HERBAL: OR, THE BOTANICAL INSTITUTIONS OF MR. TOURNEFORT, CHIEF BOTANIST TO THE LATE FRENCH KING. Carefully translated from the Original Latin. With large additions from Ray, Gerarde, Parkinson, and others, the most celebrated Moderns. To which are Added, two Alphabetical Indexes; One, containing the Names: the Other, the Physical Vertues and Uses of the several Plants. Illustrated with about Five Hundred Copper Plates, containing above Four Thousand different Fgures, all curiously Engraven. A Work highly instructive, and of general Use. With a short Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. 2 Vols. [Vol. II has variant title page of the part title, Numb.XLI. Concluding the Twelfth Class; Together with an Index and General Title to the Second Volume]. Vol. I, Printed for R. Bonwicke, Tim. Goodwin, John Walthoe, S. Wotton, Sam. Manship, Rich.

Wilkin, Benj. Tooke, Ralph Smith and Tho. Ward; and are to be sold by J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, London.. Vol. II., Printed for J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin, J. and J. Bonwicke, S. Birt, T. Ward and E. Wicksteed, London, Of whom may be had the First Volume compleat, or any single Number. 1719-30 [20377] 4to. 2 vols, first issued in parts, complete. 7 x 9 inches.

Vol. I, [ ii] + 6 + 625 pp. + [1] p. advertisements.

Illustrated by 133 plates, with numbering irregularities as recorded by Henrey. Vol. II, [ii] + 649 pp. + [11] pp.

Illustrated by 134 plates, numbered 144-277.

Irregularities in pagination and register but both volumes complete, with all plates called for. Some text in black letter in Vol. I. Each section of Vol. II begins with the running title, The Compleat Herbal, below a decorative vignette. Vol. I includes author’s and publisher’s prefaces and a short account of the author’s life and work. Bound in later handsome full calf; spine divided into compartments by raised bands, with red morocco labels.

The two volumes complete in slipcase. Some browning and staining and occasional small edge tears to text pages and plates, not affecting printed content. Otherwise a fine copy. £2,000 This comprehensive two volume work, containing 267 plates, is a survey of the plant kingdom, concentrating on some 7,000 species of economic and medicinal value. It was notable for its classification system, which divided plants into twenty two classes, largely by the general structure of the flower and further subdivided into 700 genera. Because of its excellent layout and wealth of information, it became immediately

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE popular and de Tournefort’s classification remained influential until supplanted by that of Linnaeus. The work first appeared in 1694 as the Elements de botanique and in Latin as the Institutiones rei herbariae in 1700. In England it first appeared in 41 parts, each priced one shilling, from 1716-30, one of the first books on botany to appear in this format. The title page of the translation (formerly attributed to John Martyn, although certainly not started by him), acknowledges the use of additional material from several other English botanists of the day. Those mentioned are John Ray (16271705), the naturalist whose own classification of plants was in many respects superior to that of de Tournefort; John Gerard (c.1545-1612), author of the famous Herball; and John Parkinson, herbalist (1586/7-1650), author of Paradisi sole in paradisus terrestris. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) was born in Aix-en-Provence and studied medicine at the University of Montpellier. He was appointed professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris in 1683 and subsequently travelled though the Greek islands to Anatolia, Armenia and Georgia, examining and collecting plants.

937 BOTANY - TWAMLEY, LOUISA ANNE. THE ROMANCE OF NATURE; OR THE FLOWER SEASONS ILLUSTRATED. Charles Tilt 1836 [16886] Second edition. xx + 255 pp. + 27 fine hand-coloured engraved plates. Original blind-stamped, decorated green morocco, gilt. Expertly rebacked All edges gilt. Some wear to extremities otherwise a very good copy. one or two plates are slightly foxed. £250 Louisa Anne Meredith (Twamley) was born in Birmingham in 1812. Despite her lack of formal education she had become an extremely competent writer, artist, botanist and naturalist by her teens and published her first book, Poems, at the age of twenty. She went on to publish several more books on flowers, including this volume. She married and moved with her husband to New South Wales and then to Tasmania, where she wrote two more books on her life there.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 938 BOTANY - UKERS, WILLIAM H. ALL ABOUT TEA. By William H. Ukers, M.A. The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company, New York. 1935 [20641] Two volumes 4to. 7.75 x 10.5 inches. Vol.I. coloured frontis. + xiv + [ii] + 559 pp. + [1]. Vol.II. viii + 568 pp. with numerous black and white photographs, including full page, in text and drawings, diagrams, tailpieces, etc. Halftitles. Bound in original publisher’s green cloth, gilt, with decorative teapot device, in buff dust wrappers; green lettering and decorations, with review comments on All About Coffee on rear. Pictorial tea map of the world on endpapers. Slight cockling to top edges of Vol.II and both wrappers stained, with small missing section from top rear corner of Vol.II wrapper. Otherwise very fine clean condition, in high quality glossy art paper. Vol.I has signed dedication from author to Dr. Tehyi Hsieh, dated New York, April 30, 1942. £650 A comprehensive account of all aspects of tea, by an established authority. Vol. I covers historical, technical (including cultivation and manufacture) and scientific aspects.

Vol. II examines commercial, social and artistic aspects. The appendix has a chronology, a dictionary, and bibliography of tea. William Harrison Ukers (1873-1945) founded the Tea and Coffee Trade Journal in New York in 1901 and published extensively on these subjects. His writings are still regarded as

industry standards. The companion volume, All About Coffee, first appeared in 1922. Dr Tehyi Hsieh (born 1884), to whom Ukers dedicated this copy, was a Chinese American educator, writer and diplomat, referred to as the Teddy Roosevelt of China by the 1920s press.

Fine copy of this authoritative work, in over 1100 copiously illustrated pages.

939 BOTANY - W[ARD], H. C. WILD FLOWERS OF SWITZERLAND; Or, A Year amongst the Flowers of the Alps. By H. C. W. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street, London. 1883 [20624] Folio. 12.5 x 15.75 inches. vi + [2] + 76 pp. with lithographed frontispiece, and sixteen chromolithographic plates on a grey ground, all drawn by author and colour printed by Fritz Frick, Berlin, each opposite numbered sepia key drawings of the plants. Indexes of plant names in Latin, English, French and German. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with blind stamped rules at upper and lower edges of the bevelled boards. All edges gilt.

Extremities worn and some foxing, otherwise a fine copy. £250 A collection of splendid colour plates, illustrating wild flowers, drawn life-size from living plants, presumably within the area of the author’s base of the village of Rosiniere, Canton du Vaud. Each plate and its key is followed by about four pages of text, with names, botanical descriptions and notes on habitat. The original watercolour drawings for this book were sold at Sotheby’s in July 1977. A proposed second volume on the Bernese Oberland was never published.

400 HAND-COLOURED PLATES 940 BOTANY - WEBER, J.C. DIE ALPENPFLANZEN DEUTSCHLANDS UND DER SCHWEIZ IN COLORIRTEN ABBILDUNGEN NACH DER NATUR UND IN NATURLICHER GROSSE. Munchen: Christian Kaiser. 1867,1868 [18832] Second Edition, four volumes. 12mo. Four hundred exquisite hand-coloured plates, each of a single flowering Alpine plant. Original green decorative cloth, gilt-tooled with floral motifs. An exceptionally fine example with only trivial rubbing to the extremities. £350 This stunningly beautiful little book first appeared in 1856 and is here in its final form complete with the 100-plate supplementary volume as published in 1868. The plates are simple outline engravings, which although accurate would look nothing in themselves. The secret is in the beautiful handcoloring of each of the charming figures. The jewel-like quality of the plates is extraordinary.

With the craze for all things Alpine that swept Europe in the latter half of the nineteenth century these little volumes became the faithful companions of all pleasure-loving botanists, herbalists, and travellers in the alps.

The rock gardening craze in England was driven by the desire to cultivate the plants found herein.

941 BREWING - CHILD, SAMUEL, Brewer.

EVERY MAN HIS OWN BREWER, A small Treatise, explaining the Art and Mystery of Brewing Porter, Ale, Twopenny and Table-beer, Recommending and proving the case and possibility, Of Every Man’s Brewing His Own Beer, In any quantity From one Peck to a hundred Quarters of Malt. Calculated by Exposing the Deception

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE in Brewing, To reduce the Expence of a Family, and lessen the destructive practice of Public-House tipling.

By Samuel Child, Brewer. Some Coopers attempt to extend their Art, so far as to add Strength to the Beer; but let it be remembered, that the Principal Constituent Parts of Beer, should be Malt and Hops; when strength is given to the Liquor by any other means, its Nature is altered, and it is no more Beer that we drink. Combrune’s theory of Brewing.

Printed, for the author, No. 15, Little Compton-Street, Soho; And sold by, H. D. Symonds, No. 20, PaternosterRow; J. Ridgeway, No. 1, York-Street, St. James’sSquare; J. Smith, No. 1, Portsmouth-Street, Lincoln’s-Inn Fields, London. [1790?] [20428] First edition. 8vo. 5.25 x 8.25 inches. 19 pp. + [1] pp.

Braces in title. Bound in later calf, spine gilt rules and black morocco label. Author’s signature on verso of title page and ink note in margin. Fine copy. £350 ‘There are very few families, whose expences in Porter may not be rated at three pots per day...’ Includes an interesting analysis of the fifteen ingredients of the porter recipe and is a useful source for the study of beer adulteration

PIONEERING STUDY OF FERMENTATION. 942 BREWING - PASTEUR, LOUIS. ETUDES SUR LA BIERE, SES MALADIES, CAUSES QUI LES PROVOQUENT, PROCEDE POUR LA RENDRE INALTERABLE, AVEC UNE THEORIE NOUVELLE DE LA FERMENTATION, Par M. L. Pasteur, Membre de L’Institut de France et de la Societe royale de Londres, Membre de L’Academie de Medicine et de la Societe centrale d’ Agriculture de France, des Societies royale et medicale d’Edimbourg, etc, etc. (Ce volume contient 12 planches gravees et 85 figures dans le texte.) GauthierVillars, Imrprimeur Librarie, du Bureau des Longitudes, De l’Ecole Polytechnique, Successeur de MalletBachelier, Quai des Augustins, 55, Paris. 1876 [20482] First edition. 8vo. 6.25 x 9 inches. viii + 387 pp. + [1] + [4] pp. advertisements. Illustrated by 12 plates and 85 engravings in text. Includes preface at beginning and contents at end. Half-title. Note on issue: This is the rare early issue. The binder has discarded the original printed wrappers which are a good indication of date of issue, but it retains a four page advertisement for his Etudes sur la maladie des vers a soie, which was published in 1870. In later issues this advertisement was changed to include later titles (careful examination shows some of the original wrapper at rear and this is not orange as were later issues). Bound in later buff half-morocco, with spine divided into compartments by raised bands, and decorated gilt. All edges marbled. Occasional spotting inside and one pencil note in text, otherwise a very fine clean copy in a handsome binding. £450 ‘In 1876, Louis Pasteur published his ground-breaking volume, ‘Études sur la Bière’, soon translated into English [1879] as Studies On Fermentation. The book changed the course of brewing during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, representing a huge leap forward in the scientific understanding of the processes involved in beermaking.

Brewers around the globe put Pasteur's findings to work in

their breweries, and thus plunged the industry headlong into the modern era.’ (BeerBooks). An important work of Pasteur, which demonstrated that micro-organisms were responsible both for the fermentation and the spoiling of beer, paralleling his similar work on wine and on milk. Louis Pasteur (1822-95) was one of the founders of modern microbiology. His experiments proved the germ theory of disease and he developed the first vaccines against rabies and anthrax. The technique of heating to prevent the contamination of beverages such as milk came to be known as pasteurisation.

TRUTH AGAINST ERROR 943 BROWNE, SIR THOMAS. PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA: OR, ENQUIRIES INTO VERY MANY RECEIVED TENANTS, AND COMMONLY PRESUMED TRUTHS.

By Thomas Brovvne Dr. of Physick. Printed by T.H. [Thomas Harper] for Edward Dod, and are to be sold in Ivie Lane, London. 1646 [19943] First edition. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. [20] + 386 pp. a-a6, b-b4, A-3B4, [3C1]. Illustrated with pictorial initial to preface and decorative ornaments at section headings, etc.

Running title: Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors.

Bound in original full speckled calf, rebacked to match, brown morocco label, spine with raised bands; boards blind stamped with ornamented panels. New endpapers.

Occasional discolouration to interior and slight damage to top edge of 3A, not affecting text. Otherwise a fine crisp copy which retains the original boards. £950 Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was born in London and attended the University of Oxford (MA, 1629). After visiting Ireland, he studied medicine at Montpellier, Padua and Leiden and supported the Harveian revolution. On his return he began writing Religio Medici (1642-43), his best known work, and moved to Norwich, where he practised for the rest of his life.

Whereas the Religio emphasised Browne’s piety and wit, the Pseudodoxia secured his fame as a scholar and naturalist. In his preface to the reader, Browne craves ‘exceeding pardon in the audacity of the Attempt,’ in single-handedly advancing the cause of truth against error: ‘ ... we are very sensible how hardly teaching yeares do learn; what roots old age contracteth into errours, and how such as are but twiggs in younger dayes, grow Oaks in our elder heads, and become inflexible unto the powerfullest arme of reason.’

The Pseudodoxia is divided into seven books, covering beliefs concerning matters animal, vegetable and mineral, of man, of pictures and popular beliefs and finally of geographical, historical and religious ‘tenents’ and ‘divers other Relations.’

The result is a fascinating miscellany of facts and opinions ranging from unicorns and salamanders to sneezing and the Tower of Babel. Browne’s works were much admired by his contemporaries and his diction and syntax influenced Johnson and some of the early nineteenth century essayists and romantics. He is the first recorded user of about fifty wordforms, extensions of existing English words, (e.g.. electricity, literary, locomotion and medical) and about the same number of words mostly based on Latin roots (e.g.. approximate, carnivorous, coexistence and ultimate). Browne comments on this process of new word formation in his preface: ‘Although I confesse, the quality of the Subject will sometimes carry us into expressions beyond meere English apprehensions; and indeed, if elegancie still proceedeth, and English Pennes maintaine that stream ... wee shall within few yeares bee faine to learne

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE Latine to understand English, and a work will prove of equall facility in either.’

A fine copy of the first edition of an influential book.

944 BURTON, ROBERT. THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY. What it is, With all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and seuerall cures of it. In three Partitions, with their severall Sections, members and subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, opened and cut up. By Democritus Junior. With a Satyricall Preface. Conducing to the following Discourse.

The Sixt. Edition, corrected and augmented by the Author. Printed and are to be sould by Hen: Crips and Lodo: Lloyd at their shop in Popeshead alley, London.

Colophon on final leaf: Printed by R.W. for Henry Cripps of Oxford, and are to be sold by Andrew Crook in Pauls Church-yard, and by Henry Cripps and Lodowick Lloyd in Popes-head alley. 1651. 1652 [19940] Folio. 7.5 x 11 inches. [10] + 723 pp. + [11], with the normal irregularities in pagination. [4], A-K4, A-A6, BR4, S-S6, T-2I6, 2K-4E4, 4F-4F2, 4G-4Z4, 5A-5A4.

First leaf bears half-title, The Anatomie of Melancholy, on recto and The Argument of the Frontispiece on verso.

Illustrated by engraved title page, signed C. Le Blon. fe.

Bound in recent speckled panelled full calf, gilt, blind stamped borders and later red edges. Spine divided into compartments by raised bands with red morocco label.

Engraved title trimmed to the margins and sometime laid on to old paper Some browning and foxing, largely confined to the early pages, with the usual discolouration, small tears (with a few lower page corner repairs at end) and ancient worming at top margin near end, without affecting the text. Generally a fine crisp copy, now handsomely rebound in period style. Old ownership inscription of Charles James, 1850, on retained endpaper. £2,500 The first edition was published by Burton, under his pseudonym, Democritus Junior, in quarto in 1621. It was reprinted in folio in 1624, 1628, 1632 and 1651-52, this edition (greatly enlarged to over 516,00 words from the c.353,000 of the first), being the last ‘exactly corrected [‘by the ingenuous Author’] with several considerable Additions by his own hand.’ (from the bookseller’s note at the end). The book is based on Burton’s wide reading, including the classics, and is discursive in nature, with the author frequently being diverted from his theme. It is subdivided into many sections and subsections; firstly it states the nature, types and causes of melancholy and then examines cures, including foreign travel and the benefits of country life. It proceeds to analyse lovemelancholy and religious melancholy and ends by reflecting on the causes of despair. Many of Burton’s observations still have meaning today, e.g.: ‘To see a man roll himself up like a snow ball, from base beggery to right worshipful and right honourable titles, injustly to screw himself into honours and offfices... a lawyer get more in a day then a philosopher in a year ...’ (introduction). Admired by Johnson and used by Sterne, it was much favoured by the Romantics.

Robert Burton (1577-1640) held a number of clerical benefices but the greater part of his life was spent as a student at Christ Church, Oxford, where he held the post of librarian from 1624.

A fine copy of the sixth edition of Burton’s masterpiece, which is regarded as the definitive edition it having been printed from the author’s own copy which had many additions and

corrections in his hand, which did not come to light for some time after his death in 1640.

945 BUTTERFLIES DUNCAN, JAMES. ENTOMOLOGY BRITISH BUTTERFLIES W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh: S. Highley, London: W. Curry Jun. & Co., Dublin. 1835 [18823] Small 8vo. xv + 246 pp. + 12 + 8 (catalogues), with 34 plates, 32 of which are hand-coloured. Bound in 19th century blue half-morocco, spine in compartments with raised spines and gilt title and date. £200 Volume III in the Entomology section of the Naturalist’s Library series.

946 BUTTERFLIES - MORRIS, F. O. A HISTORY OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. Eighth Edition Newly revised, corrected and enlarged. With Seventy-nine plates, coloured by hand. John C. Nimmo: London, 1895 [20355] Large 8vo. viii + 168 + 28 pp. 79 hand-coloured woodengraved plates of butterflies. 2 wood-engraved plates of apparatus & equipment. Contemporary half morocco, spine with raised bands and delicate gilt tooling of flowers to spine; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. Fine binding.

Some occasional light foxing here and there but a very good copy. £225 Attractive binding on a classic of British entomology.

KEY WORK ON CHEMISTRY 947 CHEMISTRY - BOERHAAVE, HERMAN. DR. BOERHAAVE’S ELEMENTS OF CHYMISTRY, FAITHFULLY ABRIDG’D FROM THE LATE GENUINE EDITION, PUBLISH’D AND SIGN’D BY HIMSELF AT LEYDEN. With all the Cuts and Explanations, Contain’d in the Original. To which are Added, Curious and Useful Notes. Rectifying several Opinions, etc of the Learned Author. By Edward Strother, M.D. The Second Edition. Printed for C. Rivington in St Paul’s Church-Yard, London 1737 [20543] 8vo. 5 x 8 inches. Portrait frontis. + vi + 210 pp. + viii + 208 pp. + [10] pp. indexes + 17 pp. explanation of plates + [1] pp. errata. The Abridgement of Tome II has separate half-title, register and pagination. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece, drawn by G. King, 1733, by 17 plates at end and by decorated initials and head and tailpiece vignettes. Bound in later mottled calf, with blind stamped decorative panels on boards, spine divided into compartments by raised bands, with maroon morocco label, gilt. Faded red edges, darkened on top. Small tear at foot of d6, not affecting text. Bookplate of Franz Sondheimer, the distinguished organic chemist. A very fine crisp copy. £850 Boerhaaave’s ‘Elements of Chemistry’ was a translation of ‘His Elementa chemiae’ (Leyden, 1732), his greatest work ...easily the best book on the subject all through the 18th century’ (Garrison). What Boerhaave termed a ‘surreptitious edition’ had already appeared in Paris in 1724 and was translated into English as ‘A New Method of Chemistry’, 1727, being perhaps derived from attendance at his lectures. This abridged version was translated from the 1732 Leiden edition and was first published in 1732 as the work of ‘a physician,’

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE with a similarly anonymous second edition appearing in 1734.

By the time this new version of the second was published in 1737, the editor and translator was revealed to be Dr Edward Strother. A third edition followed in 1749 but a full translation

by Peter Shaw of the authentic 1732 Leiden edition did not appear until 1753. In his preface Dr Strother complains of ‘The Original of these Sheets being very voluminous, and containing many superfluous Circumlocutions,’ yet also claims that ‘this Abridgment...I can assure you...contains the whole, except the Author’s Dedication.’ Dr Edward Strother (16751737) left Christ’s College, Cambridge, without a degree but received his MD from the University of Utrecht in 1720 and became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1721.

His publications, from 1716, included works on fever treatment and smallpox and ‘The Practical Physician for Travellers’ and ‘The Family Companion for Health’ (both 1729). The famous Dutch physician, Herman Boerhaave (1688-1738) became Professor of Botany and Medicine at the University of Leiden in 1709 and is regarded as the founder of modern clinical instruction: ‘He was ‘the greatest consultant of his time, but is now principally remembered as a great teacher and especially as an experimental chemist’ (Garrison). Several other writings were also translated from Latin into English, his reputation abroad being so high that unauthorised editions were common.

A handsome copy of this scarce volume, ESTC recording only three copies of this version of the second edition, complete with a portrait of the author.

948 CHEMISTRY - LAVATER, THE REV. JOHN CASPAR. THE WHOLE WORKS OF LAVATER ON PHYSIOGNOMY; Written by The Rev. JOHN CASPAR LAVATER, Citizen of Zurich. Translated from the last Paris Edition by George Grenville Esqr. illustrated by several hundred engravings. Printed for W. Butters, and Sold by W. Simmonds, Paternoster Row. No date but [c.1800] [20649] First English edition. Four volumes. 5 x 8.5 inches. Vol.I. 243 pp.Vol.II. i to p.186 ; Vol.III. pp.187 to 288; Vol.IV. pp.I to 334. All volumes copiously illustrated with copper engravings including title page vignettes. Ex-library copy with usual labels and stamps and decimal numbers to spines. Bound in original half-calf over marbled boards.

Spines divided into compartments by gilt rules, decorated gilt, with contrasting leather title labels, gilt. Bookplates in the form of coat of arms of an unidentified branch of the Richardson family. £450 Rev. John Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801. Lavater's name may well have been forgotten but for his work in the field of physiognomy, ‘Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe’ (1775–1778). The two principal sources from which Lavater developed his physiognomical studies were the writings of the Italian polymath Giambattista della Porta, and the observations made

by Sir Thomas Browne in his Religio Medici (translated into German in 1748 and praised by Lavater). (Wikipedia)

THE FIRST MODERN BOOK ON CHEMISTRY 949 CHEMISTRY - LAVOISIER, ANTOINE LAURENT. ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY, In a New Systematic Order, Containing All the Modern Discoveries.

Illustrated with thirteen copperplates. By Mr. Lavoisier, Member of the Academies and Societies of Paris, London, Orleans, Bologna, Basil, Philadelphia, Haerlem,

Manchester, etc. etc. Translated from the French by Robert Kerr, F R. and A. SS. Edin. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and of the Royal Physical Society, and Surgeon to the Orphan Hospital of Edinburgh.

Second edition, with notes, tables, and considerable additions. Printed for William Creech, Edinburgh; and sold in London by G. G. and J. J. Robinson, London.

1793 [20546] 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. xlvii + 48-592 pp. Illustrated by two folding tables in text and 13 folding copperplates, drawn

by D. Lazars, at end. Includes half title, and appendix with tables of weights and measures, specific gravities and chemical data. Bound in original mottled calf, gilt borders to boards, enclosing a tree calf lozenge; spine, gilt rules enclosing panels, tooled in gilt with a large centre tool and black morocco label, gilt. Joints weak, spine decoration , label and extremities worn. Marbled endpapers. Top edge grimed. Small tear to foot of D1. Otherwise a fine clean copy. £600 A classic work, ‘a truly modern text...it laid the foundations of modern chemistry’ (Duveen and Klickstein); ‘one of the most important books in the history of chemistry which finally freed the science from its phlogiston chains and formed the starting point of modern progress’ (Duveen). Its publication marked the demise of alchemy, naming twenty three chemical elements (see Q3) that are recognised today. The Elements uses the new chemical nomenclature by Lavoisier and others, published in 1787. Gone are the references to dephlogisticated air, inflammable air and fixed air, replaced by oxygen, hydrogen and carbonic acid gas (carbon dioxide). The first part describes gases and the atmosphere, combustion and the formation of acids; the second part, the combination of acids with bases and the formation of neutral salts and the third part, chemical equipment and the conduct of experiments. The Elements was first published in 1789 as the Traite Elementaire de Chimie, the first edition of Richard Kerr’s English translation appearing in 1790. In his preface, Kerr explains how his own additions to the work may be identified; he has also added some conversion tables for British weights and measures to the author’s useful statistical appendix. This 1793 second edition is corrected and enlarged (with an additional 81 pages) compared to that of 1790. The fourth and fifth editions were published in 1799 and 1802. Robert Kerr (17571813) was educated at the University of Edinburgh and initially practised as a surgeon. His scientific writings and translations, including that of Lavoisier, led to his election as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1805. The great French chemist, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) determined the key role of the constituent of air that he named oxygen both in combustion and in supplying the source of acidity in compounds, as well as in supporting life. He established that water was a combination of it and hydrogen and that air itself was principally a mixture of nitrogen (which he terms azot(e) in this work) and oxygen. Having been a tax collector in the unpopular Ferme Generale of the old regime and falling foul of Jean-Paul Marat, Lavoisier became a victim of the Reign of Terror and was sent to the guillotine in May 1794. His reputation was officially restored eighteen months later. Fine copy of this key book on chemistry, complete with thirteen copperplates.

PIONEERING WORK ON CO2 950 CHEMISTRY - LAVOISIER, ANTOINE LAURENT. ESSAYS PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL,

By M. Lavoisier, Member of the Royal Academy of

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE Sciences at Paris, etc. Volume the first. Translated from the French, with notes, and an appendix, By Thomas Henry, F.R.S. Printed for Joseph Johnson, No. 72, St Paul’s Church-Yard, London. 1776 [20545] First English edition. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. xxxii + [2] pp. advertisements + [2] + 475 pp. + [1]. In two parts, with separate half-title. Illustrated by 3 folding engraved plates between appendix and indexes. Bound in original mottled calf, gilt borders to boards, enclosing a tree calf lozenge; spine, gilt rules enclosing panels, tooled in gilt with a large centre tool and black morocco label, gilt. Front joints weak, spine decoration , label and extremities worn.

Marbled endpapers. Top edge grimed. Otherwise a fine clean copy. £1,250 ‘This classical work’ (Bolton) by the great French chemist, Lavoisier, is a study of gases (‘elastic vapours’), especially of ‘fixed air’ (carbon dioxide). The first part is an historical survey of the work of his predecessors, including Dr Joseph Priestley; the second part describes his own experiments with an ‘elastic fixable fluid’ (carbon dioxide again). Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) established the key role of the constituent of air that he named oxygen both in combustion and in supplying the source of acidity in compounds, as well as in supporting life.

He established that water was a combination of it and hydrogen (the name he gave to the ‘inflammable air,’ discovered by Cavendish) and that air itself was principally a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen. Lavoisier carried out some of the first scientific quantitative chemical experiments (including those described in the second part of this book) and helped establish modern chemical nomenclature. Having been a tax collector in the unpopular Ferme Generale of the old regime and falling foul of JeanPaul Marat, Lavoisier became a victim of the Reign of Terror and was sent to the guillotine in May 1794. His reputation was officially restored eighteen months later. The Essays were first published as Opuscules Physiques et Chymiques in 1774 and, in spite of the reference to volume one, no further volumes appeared.

It was appropriate for Thomas Henry, FRS (c.1734-1816) of Manchester, to translate this book, for his own interests coincided with those of Lavoisier. Henry, following Priestley, had showed how fixed air could be produced by reacting acid and lime and bubbling the gas through water. This formed the basis of his successful business, manufacturing soda water and magnesium carbonate, which he had developed as an antacid. Henry corrected Lavoisier’s translation of Priestley and, in appendix II, added some of his own comments on Priestley’s experiments with dephlogisticated air (i.e. oxygen). A fine copy of this scarce title, complete with the engraved plates.

PIONEERING APPLIED CHEMISTRY 951 CHEMISTRY LEWIS, WILLIAM. COMMERCIUM PHILOSOPHICO-TECHNICUM; OR, THE PHILOSOPHICAL COMMERCE OF ARTS: Designed as an Attempt to improve Arts, Trades, and Manufactures. By W. Lewis, M.B. and F.R.S. Printed by H. Baldwin, for the Author; And sold by R. Willcock, at Sir Isaac Newton’s Head in Cornhill. 1763 [-65] [20454] First edition, second issue, completing the work. 4to. 8.5 x 10.75 inches. [1] imprimatur + frontis. + [2] + xviii + x + 646 pp. + [14] pp. index. Some irregularities in register but all pages present and correct. Illustrated by six plates, including folding frontispiece and plates 1-5, royal arms and tailpiece vignettes. Includes dedication to the King,

preface and contents. Bound in original calf; spine divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt rules, with red morocco label . Extremities slightly worn and front hinge cracked but sound. Missing corners from bottom of b3-4 not affecting text. Otherwise a fine crisp copy. £1,000 This substantial volume is a work which applies science, especially chemistry, to various experimental and industrial purposes. It includes sections on the design of portable furnaces, on the properties and technology of gold, experiments on platina (i.e. platinum, then a little known metal), the manufacture of porcelain, the construction of blowing engines (blast furnaces), including at Lead Hills in the Scottish Lowlands, and black colouring, especially inks, paints and dyes. William Lewis, (1708-1781), physician and experimental chemist, was a native of Richmond, Surrey. After gaining a Cambridge degree in 1731, he began lecturing in London on chemistry and the improvement of pharmacy and manufacturing industry and was elected F.R.S. in 1745. He published on various chemical and pharmaceutical subjects from 1746 and set up his experimental laboratory at Kingston.

Lewis was largely responsible for the establishment of chemistry as a discipline in its own right, and one that was separate from physics. Although dated 1763 on the title page, it was only the first four parts that were issued in that year and it was not completed until the final three parts and appendix were added in 1765. Some copies were issued with a title page of this date, described as Vol.1, but the intended Vol.2, never materialised. A handsome volume, in its original binding, printed with wide margins and including the magnificent frontispiece of a chemical and physical laboratory, equipped with an array of Lewis’ portable furnaces.

952 CHEMISTRY SCHEELE, [CARL WILHELM]. THE CHEMICAL ESSAYS OF CHARLES-WILLIAM SCHEELE. TRANSLATED FROM THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT STOCKHOLM WITH ADDITIONS. Printed for J. Murray, No.32 Fleet-Street, London; W. Gordon and C. Elliot, Edinburgh. 1786 [20414] 8vo. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. xiii + [i] + ii + 406 pp. Bound in original calf, spine ruled gilt. Blue mottled edges. Label on spine and Royal College of Physicians Library label inside. Later bookplate of Franz Sondheimer. Extremities slightly worn, otherwise a fine copy. £1,000 Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) a chemist, born in Pomerania, Germany (at the time a Swedish province), discovered many chemical substances but is chiefly noted for discovering oxygen before Joseph Priestley and chlorine before Humphry Davy. Another important contribution was to invent a means of mass-producing phosphorus thereby enabling Sweden to become one the world’s foremost match producers. His inquisitive nature (he was in the habit of tasting chemicals) apparently led to his untimely death, the symptoms of which resembled mercury poisoning.

953 COOKERY - BRILLAT-SAVARIN, JEAN ANTHELME. PHYSIOLOGIE DU GOUT OU MÉDITATIONS DE GASTRONOMIE TRANSCENDANTE. OUVRAGE THÉORIQUE, HISTORIQUE, ET À L’ORDRE DU JOUR DÉDIÉ AUX GASTRONOMES PARISIENS.. Charpentier, Paris. 1858 [17520] vi + 525 pp. + [iii]. Text in French. Recent quarter-leather over marbled boards with spine in compartments with

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE raised bands, and gilt titles and decoration. Occasional light foxing otherwise a very good and attractive copy. £345 Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) a French lawyer and politician, was quite possibly the most famous French epicure and gastronome of all. Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste) was published in December 1825, two months before his death.

954 COOKERY - MRS. BEETON. MRS. BEETON’S FAMILY COOKERY. Ward Lock. n.d. but c.1931 [14972] 896 pp. + 20 coloured plates and numerous b/w plates + 8 pp. adverts and adverts to endpapers. Original blue cloth quarter-binding, gilt. Slight wear to extremities and spotting to boards. Occasional foxing o/w a very good copy. £35 ‘Embracing a Complete Treatise on Household Cookery and a Comprehensive and Practical Guide to Domestic Management.’

955 DARWIN, CHARLES. ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF HMS BEAGLE. Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832-1836, London Royal Geographical Society (C.I.L. Limited) 1994 [18820] Folio. 12 x 10 inches approx. Four-volume commemorative facsimile reprint of the 1840 edition, published by the Royal Geographical Society and signed

by Dr. John Hemming, Director R.G.S. This set is No.386 of 1000. Illustrated with coloured and b/w plates, some folding. Bound in half-leather over marbled boards with gilt decoration in close imitation of a period binding. £450 Contents: Vol.I. Fossil Mammalia. (Robert Owne, 1840) iv + iv + 111 pp. +large folding plate + 32 b/w plates. Vol.II. Mammalia. (George Waterhouse, 1839) 97 pp. + 32 coloured plates, and 3 b/w plates. Vol.III. Birds. (John Gould, 1841) 156 pp. + [8] index + 50 coloured plates. Vol.IV. Fish (Leonard Jenyns, 1842) xv + [1] + 172 pp. + 29 monochrome plates.

Together with Reptillia (Thomas Bell) vi + 51 pp. + 20 plates.

956 DERHAM, W. PHYSICO-THEOLOGY: OR, A DEMONSTRATION OF THE BEING AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD, FROM HIS WORKS OF CREATION. Being the Substance of Sixteen Sermons Preached in St. Mary-le-Bow Church, London; At the Honourable Mr. Boyle’s Lectures, in the Years, 1711, and 1712. With large Notes, and many curious Observations.

By W. Derham, Canon of Windsor, Rector of Upminster in Essex, and F.R.S. The Sixth Edition. Printed for W. and J. Innys, at the Prince’s Arms the West-End of St. Paul’s, London. 1723 [20549] 8vo. 5 x 7.75 inches. [16] + xvi + 444 pp. + [10] + [2] pp. advertisements. Illustrated by folding plate at end and title page and head and tailpiece vignettes. With dedication to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Bound in original calf, with gilt ruled borders to boards; spine divided into compartments by raised bands, with gilt rules and morocco label, gilt. Extremities worn, joints weak. Tear to lower edge of L8-N1, caused by worming, not affecting legibility of text. Otherwise a crisp clean interior. Early armorial bookplate and date 1726, inscribed on front paste-down. £175

A work of natural theology, which employs observations of the natural world, and especially of the animal kingdom, to prove the working of God’s providence and the truths of Christianity.

The author first examines the earth itself, including, for example phenomena like volcanoes, which ‘Outlets seem to be of the greatest Use to the Peace and Quiet of the terraqueous Globe, in venting the subterraneous Heat and Vapours; which, if pent up, would make dreadful and dangerous Commotions of the Earth and Waters.’ He continues with a survey of animal sense organs and their other attributes and activities and this is followed by sections on man, quadrupeds, birds, insects, water creatures and plants. The single plate illustrates some details decribed in the text, including the feathers of a bird and the stings of a wasp and bee. The sermons were originally delivered as the Boyle Lectures of 1711 and 1712 and have been extensively annotated for the published version. Robert Boyle (1627-1691), the famous natural philosopher and scientist left funds for the delivery of annual sermons using the example of natural history to prove the truth of religion.

William Derham (1657-1735) was educated at Oxford and ordained priest in 1682. He became rector at Upminster, Essex in 1689 and a canon of Windsor in 1716, after being appointed chaplain to the Prince of Wales at the time of the Hanoverian succession (hence the badge on the title page). He was elected FRS in 1703. The Physico-Theology was first published in 1713 and was immediately successful, with about seventeen editions (including those of Glasgow and Dublin) being published before 1800. It was also translated into several European languages. A fine copy of this intriguing work, complete in its original binding.

ENLIGHTENMENT IN ENGLAND 957 DESCARTES, LE GRAND, ANTHONY [after RENE DESCARTES]. AN ENTIRE BODY OF PHILOSOPHY, ACCORDING TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE FAMOUS RENATE DES CARTES, IN THREE BOOKS: I. The Institution, in X Parts; 1.

Logick, 2. Natural Theology. 3. Daemonology, or of Created Spirits. 4. General Physicks, or Natural Philosophy, generally considered. 5, Special Natural Philosophy of the World and Heaven. 6. The Four Great Bodies, Earth, Water, Air and Fire, and what have their rise from them; where of Metals and Meteors. 7. Of Living Things in general, and in particular of Plants and Animals. 8. Man, in respect to his Body. 9. Man, as to his Mind or Soul. And 10. Ethicks, or Moral Philosophy, treating of Man’s right Ordering his Life. II. The History of Nature, which Illustrates The Institution, and consists of great Variety of Experiments relating thereto, and explained by the same Principles, in IX Parts, 1. Of Bodies. 2. Of Qualities. 3. Of the Earth and Heaven. 4. Of the Earth, Water, Fire and Air. 5. Of Things dug out of the Earth. 6. Of Meteors 7. Of Plants. 8. Of Animals. And, 9. Of Man. III. A Dissertation of the Want of Sense and Knowledge in Brute Animals, in II. parts, giving a Mechanical Account of their Operations. Written Originally in Latin by the Learned Anthony Le Grand.

Now carefully Translated from the last Corrections, Alterations, and large Additions of the Author, never yet Published. The Whole Work illustrated with almost an Hundred Sculptures Dispersed to such places as best admit thereof:. All designed, Drawn and Engraven Historically by good Artists. Besides the Figures or Schemes for the Explanation of the Philosophical Parts

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE that require the same. Endeavoured to be so done, that it may be of Use and Delight to the Ingenious of both Sexes. By Richard Blome. Printed by Samuel Roycroft, and sold by the Undertaker Richard Blome, dwelling in New Weld-street, at the Green Pales, near Clare-Market: and at these Booksellers following... London. 1694 [20415] First edition. Folio. 9.5 x 13.75 inches. frontis. + [30] + 403 pp. + [1] + 263 pp. + [1]. Illustrated by 101 copperplates, including one folding. Includes dedication, epistle to the reader, preface, contents, explanation of plates and arms of benefactors at beginning. Printed marginal notes. Part II-III have separate pagination and engraved dedications but register is continuous. Bound in original mottled calf boards with blind stamped decorative panels; Spine rebacked and divided into compartments, decorated and ruled gilt, by raised bands with red morocco label. Red speckled edges. Extremities worn and some erosion of boards. Early armorial bookplate. Traces of worming at front and occasional spots and small edge tears. Otherwise a very fine clean crisp copy with all plates intact. £2,750 A lavishly illustrated view of Cartesian philosophy by one of its most ardent exponents. The first part surveys the nature of all things according to the philosophy of Rene Descartes (1596-1650). The second part shows how his principles can explain all natural phenomena from the elements to man. The third part argues a mechanistic view of animal motivation and looks at concepts of the soul. It is based on the Institutio philosophiae secundum principia domini Renati Descartes (London, 1672) by Antoine Le Grand (1627/8-1699) who says of Descartes in the preface, ‘He was of such a singular Genius, that he alone discovered more Philosophical Truths, than ever were discovered in all foregoing Ages. We do not go about here to give any Instances of his Philosophical Sentiments, since this whole Work contains nothing else, but his Opinions...’ Le Grand entered the English province of the Franciscans at Douai, was ordained and in 1656, sent to teach philosophy in England where he spent most of his subsequent career, his books being recommended for study at Oxford and Cambridge. He showed ‘that a Roman Catholic priest could occupy an influential position in English intellectual life...His life and work link the two worlds of Catholic recusancy and the new philosophy of the later seventeenth century’ (DNB).

Richard Blome (1635?-1705) may be regarded as the editor of this work, arranging its enlargement, translation and illustration. He was best known as a publisher of cartographic works and may have been responsible for the eight scematic and heradic plates. The principal engravers were, however, Johannes Kip (1653-1722). Michael van der Gucht (16601725), Bernard Lens (1659-1725) and G. Freeman. Many plates show allegorical figures in classical draperies, but others depict a naval battle, cargo handling, vacuum experiments and animals and insects. A magnificent work, handsomely illustrated, in very fine condition.

TWO RARE WORKS ON DISTILLING BOUND IN ONE 958 DISTILLING - ANON THE PRACTICAL DISTILLER; OR, A BRIEF TREATISE OF PRACTICAL DISTILLATION. In which the Doctrine of Fermentation is Methodically Explain’d in a New Method.

With the Description of a New Engine-Still, Engraved on a Copper-plate; which, for its Dispatch of Business, is

preferable to any other. To which is added, by way of Appendix, a Treatise of making Artificial Wines from several Fruits of the British Production, interspers’d with many useful Reflections and Observations.

Bound with, SMITH, GEORGE, Distiller. A COMPLEAT BODY OF DISTILLING Explaining the Mysteries of that Science, in a most easy and familiar Manner; Containing an Exact and accurate Method of making all the Compound Cordial-Waters now in Use, with a particular Account of their several Virtues: As also a Directory Consisting of All the Instructions necessary for learning the Distillers Art; with a Computation of the original Cost of the several Ingredients, and the Profits arising in Sale.

Adapted no less to the Use of private Families, than of Apothecaries and Distillers. In two Parts. By G. Smith, of Kendall in Westmorland. Printed for B. Lintot, at the Cross-Keys; between the Two Temple-Gates, in FleetStreet, London1718; Printed for Bernard Lintot between the Temple-Gates, London. 1725; 1718; 1725. [20418] First editions. 8vo. 5x 7.75 inches. Practical Distiller, illustrated with a frontis + [iv] + 54 pp. A Compleat Body of Distilling, [viii] + 150 pp. + 2 pp. Includes initial advertisement page, preface, The Distiller’s Directory and index at end. Part II has separate title page but pagination and register continuous. Bound in original calf; boards with gilt borders; sometime rebacked. Some staining and browning but otherwise fine condition. Early ink symbols on 2nd free endpaper, possibly library shelf mark.

Armorial bookplate of The Honble. George Baillie Esqr, one of the Lords of the Treasury, 1724. £1,850 The first anonomus item seems very scarce with ESTC recording 4 copies in UK and 3 in the US. The second work was to be reprinted at least 4 times,with the addition of a frontis plate ,but no plate was issued with this first issue.. The First edition is scarce with 7 recorded in the UK and only 5 in the US. The book is from the library of George Baillie of Jerviswood (1664-1738) and later of Mellerstain. Baillis fled abroad, after his father was executed for high treason in 1684, joining a group of Presbyterian exiles, but returned with the Dutch army of the Prince of Orange. He held office in the Scottish government and reluctantly came to uphold the principle of Union. A strong supporter of the house of Hanover, he held office as one of the Commissioners of the Treasury, 1717-25.

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959 DISTILLING - COOPER, AMBROSE. THE COMPLETE DISTILLER; Containing, I. The Method of performing the various Processes of Distillation, with Descriptions of the several Instruments: The whole Doctrine of Fermentation: The manner of drawing Spirits from Malt, Raisins, Molosses, Sugar, etc. and of rectifying them: With Instructions for imitating to the greatest Perfection both the Colour and Flavour of French Brandies. II. The manner of distilling all Kinds of Simple Waters from Plants, Flowers, etc. III. The Method of making all the compound Waters and rich Cordials so largely imported from France and Italy; as likewise all those now made in Great Britain. To which are added, Accurate Descriptions of the several Drugs, Plants, Flowers, Fruits, etc. used by Distillers, and Instructions

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NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE for chusing the best of each Kind. The Whole delivered in the plainest manner, for the Use both of Distillers and Private Families. By A. Cooper, distiller. Printed for P. Vaillant in the Strand; and R. Griffiths in Pater-NosterRow, London. 1757 [20420] First edition. 5 x 7.75 inches. [xvi] + frontis. + 266 pp. + [14] pp. index. Illustrated by folding copper-engraved frontispiece, showing 12 types of distillation apparatus. and vignette head and tailpieces. Includes half-title, preface, contents and index. Bound in original mottled calf. Boards have double gilt borders and spine is divided into compartments by raised bands and double gilt rule with recent label.. Extremities worn but otherwise a fine copy. Armorial bookplate of Richard Pryce. £550 Aside from detailing methods of distillation, this book contains many recipes for drinks and scented waters. Little is known of the author, but the book may have belonged to Richard Pryce, F.R.S. (1723-91). influential dissenter, moral philospher and pamphleter, who was minister of Newington Green Unitarian Chapel.

960 DOGS - SHAW, VERO. THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE DOG. With an Appendix on Canine Medicine and Surgery. Cassell and Co., London. nd but c 1890 [20354] First Edition, 4to. viii + 664 pp. Illustrated with 28 chromolithograph l plates and numerous black and white woodcut illustrations Bound in half red morocco gilt, spine with raised bands and attractive gilt tooling, some foxing to the verso of the plates which can be seen in the margins here and there but a very good copy in a very good binding. £550 The standard Victorian reference work on Dogs, here in an unsigned binding but probably the work of one of the better ‘West End’ binders of the mid twentieth century. Valued for its fine coloured plates of the various types of dog. This is a handsome example.

THE FIRST HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY 961 ELECTRICITY - PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH. THE HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE OF ELECTRICITY, WITH ORIGINAL EXPERIMENTS, By Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S. The Second edition, corrected and enlarged. Printed for J.Dodsley in Pall-Mall, J. Johnson and J. Payne in Pater-noster Row, and T. Cadell (Successor to Mr. Millar) in the Strand, London. 1769 [20509] Second edition. 4to. 8.25 x 10.5 inches. [iv] + xxxii + 712 pp. + iii bibliography + [7] + [2] pp. advertisements.

Illustrated by 8 folding engraved plates, drawn by the author and two advertisement plates at beginning and end.

Bound in original full calf; spine divided into compartments by raised bands, with gilt rules and morocco label, gilt. Joints and hinges weak. Light spotting and occasional stains but otherwise a fine clean crisp copy. £1,250 Second, enlarged edition of the first history of electricity, by Dr Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), perhaps the most successful of his non-theological publications. The first, or historical part was based on careful study of the primary sources and he was also able to devote several chapters to the work of Dr Benjamin Franklin, whom he met in London.The second half of the book examines the present state of electricity, including an

account of electric theory and science. The book concludes with sections on the construction of electrical machines, well illustrated by the author’s plates, a short chapter on ‘practical maxims for the use of young electricians,’relates the ‘most entertaining experiments performed by electricity’ and ends with instructions on thirty new and miscellaneous experiments to carry out. The book displays advertisements for two of Priestley’s graphic timeline charts, of Biography (1765) and a New Chart of History (1769). The Chart of Biography led to the award of his LL.D degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1764 and was cited in connection with his election to FRS. The History and Present State of Electricity was first published in 1767 and further expanded editions appeared in 1775 and 1794.

WESLEY ON ELECTRICITY 962 ELECTRICITY - WESLEY, JOHN. THE DESIDERATUM: OR, ELECTRICITY MADE PLAIN AND USEFUL. BY A LOVER OF MANKIND, AND OF COMMON SENSE. Printed and sold at the NewChapel, City-Road; London., and at the Rev. Mr Wesley’s Preaching-Houses in Town and Country, 1790 [20504] The Third Edition, the last to be published in Wesley’s lifetime. viii + pp.9 to 72. Disbound pamphlet occasional foxing, but a very good copy. £300 Dealing with Wesley’s use of electricity in free medical clinics which he had established for the poor in Bristol and London.

Although not widely appreciated by either science or medicine, several historians have credited Wesley with being one of the most notable electrotherapists in the eighteenth century. This essay reviews Wesley's applications of electricity for a wide variety of physical ailments, in a case by case format. In the tradition of English parish priests, he combined treatment for illness with spiritual evangelism - a combination which characterized much of the Methodist movement. It also detailed the reactions of physicians during Wesley's time and the theoretical/research developments which occurred up to Wesley's death in1791. Very scarce

963 FISH - CALDERWOOD, W.L. THE LIFE OF THE SALMON. WITH REFERENCE MORE ESPECIALLY TO THE FISH IN SCOTLAND. Edward Arnold, London. 1908 [20409] 8vo. Second impression. xxiv + 160 pp. + frontis and 7 b/w photographic plates. Bound in the original blue cloth, gilt, with depiction of a salmon in gilt to upper board. A very good copy. £35 964 FISH - WALKER, CHARLES EDWARD and PATTERSON, CHARLES S. THE RAINBOW TROUT. Lawrence and Bullen, Covent Garden. 1898 [20408] First edition. 8vo. 63 pp. + [1] bibliography + 5 illustratons on 4 b/w plates. Bound in original burgundy cloth, gilt. £65 965 FISHING - BICKERDYKE, JOHN. THE BOOK OF THE ALL-ROUND ANGLER. A COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE ON ANGLING IN BOTH FRESH AND SALT WATER. Upcott and Gill, 170 Strand, London. 1888 [17470]

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE [xvi] adverts + xvii + 127 pp., 92 pp., 127 pp., 108 pp., + xxiv index + [2], xii, [4] adverts + 3 (of 4 ) full-page plates and numerous figures to the text. £30 The book is in four divisions, 1. Coarse Fish. 2. Pike. 3. Game Fish. 4. Sea-Fish., each comprehensively covering the subject.

966 GARDENING - BRADLEY, RICHARD. NEW IMPROVEMENTS OF PLANTING AND GARDENING BOTH PHILOSOPHICAL AND PRACTICAL. IN THREE PARTS.... TO WHICH IS ADDED, THAT SCARCE AND VALUABLE TRACT, INTITLED, HEREFORDSHIRE-ORCHARDS. London: for J. and J. Knapton in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch in Pater-noster Row, J. Pemberton in FleetStreet, and D. Browne without Temple-Bar. 1731 [20253] Sixth edition, 8vo, 4.5 x 8 inches approx., [xvi] + 608 pp. + [24] index with copper-engraved frontis and 13 copperengraved plates. New Improvements Parts II and III, the section on Herefordshire Orchards and the Appendix have separate title pages, all dated 1730 apart from the appendix, which is dated 1731. On the blank verso of the last leaf in a neat contemporary hand are two paragraphs, hints for the cultivation of Pompious (Pumpkins) and Tobacco respectively. Bound in the original full-calf with ruled and panelled boards, spine rebacked and in compartments with raised bands and gilt title and date.

Three plates repaired or reinforced with archival tape otherwise a very good copy. £550 Richard Bradley was a Fellow of the Royal Society, having been elected at the age of 26. He was a prolific writer, and is acknowledged for his Historia Plantarum Succulentarum (1716-27) and New Improvements of Planting and Gardening (1717-18), one of the first works on horticulture.

967 GARDENING CANE, PERCY S. GARDENING - GARDEN DESIGN. [A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE & GARDEN DESIGN] London: 12 Eaton Square. 1936 [18914] Folio. 4 quarterly issues for 1936 bound together in publisher’s binding. 128 pp. profusely illustrated throughout with articles from regular contributors.

Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt. A little wear to extremities otherwise a very good copy. £30 Scarce 1930’s garden design journal with articles on design, plants, wild-life, established gardens, statuary, etc.

GARDENING IN 1773 968 GARDENING - MAWE. THOMAS. EVERY MAN HIS OWN GARDENER. BEING A NEW, AND MORE COMPLETE GARDENER’S KALENDAR THAN ANY ONE HITHERTO PUBLISHED. Containing, Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Hot-House, Green-House, Shrubbery, Kitchen, Flower and Fruit-Gardens, for every Month in the Year; but, also ample Directions for performing the said Work, according to the newest and most approved Methods now in Practice among the best Gardeners.

In this Edition, particular Directions are given with respect to Soil and Situation; and to the Whole

is added, complete and useful Lists of Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Fruit Trees, Evergreens. Annual, Biennial, and Perennial Flowers. Hot-House, GreenHouse, and Kitchen Garden Plants. By Thomas Mawe, (Gardener to His Grace the Duke of Leeds) and other Gardeners. The Sixth Edition, Corrected, Enlarged, and very much Improved. London: Printed for William Griffin, at Garrick’s Head, in Catherine-Street, Strand.

1773 [19370] 12mo. 4.1 x 6.76 inches. Frontis.+ [ii] + ii + 480 + xii pp.

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Illustrated with engraved frontispiece by Isaac Taylor. Bound in contemporary patterned calf, gilt decorated spine and gilt borders, black morocco label.

Front and rear hinges loose and joints weak Small area on top border of frontispiece missing. Small abraded area at right lower edge of C6-7 with minimal loss of text. Early ink stains, especially, F6-7 and U6-7. Some foxing and browning of pages. 1947 ink inscription inside front paste-down. £175 First published as Mawe’s Gardener’s Calendar in 1767, this proved to be one of the most popular gardening books of its era and indeed continued to be revised as late as 1879. It is arranged by the months of the year, with lists of plants at the end.

In fact it was not written by Thomas Mawe, but by John Abercrombie (1726-1806), son of an Edinburgh market gardener, who had worked at Kew and other royal gardens and later established his own market gardens in the London area. Having expanded his practical observations into book form, his publisher, William Griffin, submitted the publication to his friend, William Mawe, gardener to the Duke of Leeds.

Mawe ’bore testimony to the merit of the production, and prefixed his name to the publication in order to give it that celebrity to which it was so justly entitled, for which he received a gratuity of twenty guineas.’ Following the great success of the book, Mawe, a notable figure in the gardening world, invited Abercrombie to visit him in Yorkshire. There the author saw ‘a gentleman so bepowdered, and so bedaubed with gold lace, that he thought he could be in the presence of no less a personage than the Duke himself.’ (both quotations from Blanche Henrey). In spite of this the two became friends and Mawe gave Abercrombie further information to use in his published works.

This sixth edition is the last to appear under the sole authorship of Mawe and from the seventh edition of 1776, Abercrombie added his own name to the title page. These later editions were larger by a third or more. The fine engraving of two gardeners digging and hoeing was replaced by a portrait of Abercrombie from 1800 onwards. A scarce early edition of this influential gardening book.

969 GARDENING - MILLER, PHILIP. THE ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GARDENERS DICTIONARY: Containing The best and newest Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit, Flower Garden, and Nursery; As also for Performing the Practical Parts of Husbandry: Together with The Management of Vineyards, and the Methods of making Wine in England. In which likewise are included, Directions for Propagating and Improving, From Real Practice and Experience, Pasture Lands and all Sorts of Timber Trees. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden at Chelsea, and Member of the Botanick Academy

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE at Florence. The Fifth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.

Printed for the Author; And Sold by John Rivington, in St. Paul’s Church-yard, London; A. Millar, J. Whiston and B. White, H. Woodfall, G. Hawkins, J. Hinton, R. Baldwin, L. Hawes and W. Clarke and R. Collins, W. Johnston, T. Longman, T. Caslon, C. Rivington, J. Dodsley, M. Richardson, and J. Hinxman. 1763 [20109] 4to. 9.75 x 10.75 inches. frontis. + [928] pp. Illustrated with 13 plates, including frontispiece + 12 folding plates (one hand-coloured). Printed in double columns. Bound in original full calf. Spine divided into compartments by raised bands with double lines and decorations, gilt. with red morocco label. Extremities worn, boards eroded in places and front joints weak. Small tear at foot of F2, not affecting legibility of text. Inscription of William Barlow on first free endpaper (1770) and title page (1771) and stamp of W. Barlow, Stowmarket on front paste-down and first free endpaper, which also contains the signature of the second owner, with a further signature, Jno. Hawkins on second free endpaper. £600 Philip Miller’s Gardeners Dictionary is regarded as the greatest of all systematic works to appear on the subject of horticulture. Pehr Kalm, writing in Stockholm in 1753, found that of the books in England and America on the subject, its practitioners ‘all answered with one mouth, Miller’s Gardener’s dictionary, either in folio, or the abstract in 8vo, was the best of all, and that when one has it, no other book is afterwards required.’ (quoted in Blanche Henrey). This shows that the abridged edition (itself a hefty volume) was regarded with equal respect to that of the full version. The full Dictionary was issued in eight editions (1732-68) in Miller’s lifetime as was the Abridgement, expanded from an octavo to a quarto size (1735-71). Miller (1691-1771) was the son of a Scottish Market gardener of Deptford. After running a florist’s business at Southwark, he was appointed Gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden in 1722 and held this office for forty-eight years, being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1730. He had a particular interest in establishing the cultivating the red dye plant madder in England, as large quantities were imported from Holland. Hence there is detailed article on the crop (under the heading rubia) in this edition, illustrated with one plate of the plant and six of its industrial processing.

970 GARDENING - STROUD, DOROTHY. CAPABILITY BROWN. Country Life Ltd., London.

1950 [14186] Folio. 9 x 11.5 inches. 224 pp., including numerous b/w plates. Original sand-coloured cloth with contrasting title cartouche, gilt. Endpapers lightly foxed but a very good copy.

Dustwrapper has a large piece missing from tail of rear and a one inch by half inch triangular chip from the head of the front, and head and tail of spine a little ragged. £65 The most celebrated of England’s 18th century landscape architects, ultimately Royal Gardener to George III.

971 GEOLOGY - ANSTED, D.T. GEOLOGY, INTRODUCTORY, DESCRIPTIVE, & PRACTICAL. John Van Voorst. Paternoster Row, London 1844 [18947] Two Volumes. 8vo. xxiii + 506 pp.; xv + 572 pp. + [8 catalogue] Illustrated with fine wood-engraved text

diagrams, and charming vignettes, etc. Original cloth, covers ruled in blind, gilt title to spine, partly uncut. A very good copy. £150 A fine manual of Geology of the pre- Origin of Species orthodoxy

SCARCE WORK ON COAL FOSSILS 972 GEOLOGY CLAY, CHARLES. GEOLOGICAL SKETCHES AND OBSERVATIONS, ON VEGETABLE FOSSIL REMAINS, ETC., COLLECTED IN THE PARISH OF ASHTON-UNDERLYNE, FROM THE GREAT SOUTH LANCASHIRE COAL-FIELD, ETC. ETC. ETC. Also an Attempt to explain the Original Formation of the Earth, on a Theory of Combination. Illustrated with numerous Wood Cuts, Etc. By Charles Clay, M.R.C.S.E., Ashton-under-Lyne.

Published by H. Johnson, 44 Paternoster-Row, London; Bancks and Co., Manchester; and Davis, Stalybridge.

1839 [19907] 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. [blank leaf] + frontis. + 150 pp. + [22] blank leaves at end. Interleaved with blank pages throughout. Illustrated with folding lithograph, serving as frontispiece and woodcuts in text, including full page Geological Sketch of the Parish of Ashton-under-Lyne.

Recently rebound in half calf, gilt, with black morocco labels and marbled boards. Spine divided into compartments with double gilt lines. Occasional light foxing, stains and browning and a few light pencil marks but generally clean interior. Ink inscription at top of title, Daniel F.Howorth, Nov.1860 Ashton-under-Lyne (probably the Daniel Fowler Howorth, who is mentioned as a co-discoverer of ‘a great bone cave in the island of Colonsay’ in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1880). £550 The first part describes and illustrates the vegetable fossils found in the coal strata. The second part begins with Observations on the Theory of the Earth’s Original Formation, comparing it with the scriptural account which the author regards as ‘figurative.’ An appendix includes his views on the formation of coal, and an account of visits to Peak District limestone caverns.

Charles Clay (1801-93) moved from Ashton-under-Lyne to Manchester about the time of the publication of this work, one of his few non-medical texts. He was better known as a pioneer gynaecological surgeon, who also advanced the technique of abdominal surgery. Clay was a collector of fossils and coins and an avid bibliophile, possessing over a thousand editions of the Bible and about 1500 rare books on midwifery and gynaecology.

Fine copy of a very scarce work on the geology and fossils of coalfields, illustrated with charming woodcuts and containing some interesting observations on the creation of the earth.

973 GEOLOGY LYELL, CHARLES. PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY Or the modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology. John Murray. London. 1867 [18486] 2 volumes, xvi + 671 pp. + 32; and xvii + 649 pp. + (ii), with 7 plates and numerous text illustrations and maps.original green cloth, gilt. Faint signs of a label removed from foot of one backstrip Small roundel library stamp to half-title of second volume, otherwise an excellent clean and sound set. Bound in original green

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE cloth gilt, faint signs of a label removed from the front board of volume one and some rather enthustic use of an ownership stamp, but still an very good example in the original cloth. Attractive copy of this classic text. £300 974 GEOLOGY - PRESTWICH, SIR JOSEPH. GEOLOGY: VOLUME I. CHEMICAL, PHYSICAL AND STRATIGRAPHICAL : VOLUME II. STRATIGRAPHICAL AND PHYSICAL. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1886-88 [15648] First Edition. Large 8vo. Two volumes 7.5 x 9.5 inches. xxiv + 477 pp. and xxviii + 606 pp. Illustrated with eight coloured folding maps, 16 plates of fossils and numerous illustrations in the text. Original cloth gilt. A little worn at extremities and the head of volume two has a small repaired tear, but a very good copy. £185 Although a general textbook of geology, Prestwich's most important geological investigations were those into the older Tertiary formations in south-eastern England, and those into the Quaternary deposits of England and France, containing the traces of early man. The broad range of his research and thought was incorporated in his well-known comprehensive work, which was the standard text for several generations.

975 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. A HISTORY OF THE EARTH, AND ANIMATED NATURE. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY VIEW OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF BARON CUVIER, AND COPIOUS NOTES EMBRACING ACCOUNTS OF NEW DISCOVERIES IN NATURAL HISTORY: A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY WASHINGTON IRVING; AND A CAREFULLY PREPARED INDEX TO THE WHOLE WORK. IN TWO VOLUMES. A Fullarton and Co., Edinburgh and London. Fullarton Macnab and Co., New York. 1850 [15174] 4to. Two volumes. 10.5 x 7 inches, Portrait frontis, liv + 536 pp. and 541 pp. Illustrated with a total of 72 handcoloured plates, each volume also having a hand-coloured frontispiece. Bound in 20th century red half morocco over marbled boards, in Victorian style, with blue morocco title labels, lettered gilt. Some foxing to the prelims of both volumes affecting the frontis title pages and first few leaves. Nonetheless, a very attractive set. £250 A popular Victorian classic of the natural world. The illustrations mostly depict several animals, birds, fish, insects etc. in bright hand-colouring. Here is the pre-Darwin world of Natural History.

A MYSTIC HOMEOPATH 976 HOMEOPATHY - PELADAN, ADRIEN. ANATOMIE HOMOLOGIQUE. La triple dualite du corps human et la polarite des organes splanchniques avec un Preface de Josephin Peladan. [At head of title]: Oeuvre posthume du Docteur Adrien Peladan Fils.

Libriarie J-B. Bailliere et Fils, rue Hautefeuille, 19, Paris. 1886 [20531] 8vo. 5.5 x 9 inches. Pp. [iii]-li + [i] advertisement + 158 pp + [2] pp. Lacks (presumably) outer wrappers and half title. Illustrated by double circular portraits on title page.

Bound in later quarter morocco, spine with gilt rules and title. Loosely inserted is a modern portrait of Ambroise Paré. Fine condition in attractive early 20th century binding. £250 Dr Adrien Peladan (1844-1869) was born at Nimes and studied medicine at Montpellier. He was a pioneering homeopath, practised at the Hahnemann Hospital in Paris and founded the magazine, L’Homeopathy. He died of a fatal error made by a pharmacist in the dilution of a homeopathic strychnine dose that he was testing for a patient who had complained about it. A Rosicrucian, Peladan had a great interest in esoteric subjects, as did his father Adrien senior (1815-90), and his son Josephin (1858-1918), who wrote the long preface about his father’s life and work.

977 HOPS - SALMON, E.S. THE POLLINATION AND FERTILISATION OF HOPS; AND THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ‘SEEDED’ AND ‘SEEDLESS’ HOPS. The Journal of the Board of Agriculture, Vol.XX No.II. February to June 1914 [19922] 6 x 10 inches. Offprint from the Journal of the Board of Agriculture, Feb. 1914, pp.953-966, April 1914, pp.2230, May 1914, pp.123-134, June 1914, pp.213-220.

Illustrated with 9 b/w plates showing 18 figures and another figure to the text, with 18 tables to the text . Halfbound in black leather over grained blue cloth with gilt title to upper board. A neat ownership inscription in ink to the front pastedown reads ‘ J. Arthur Waite - July 1914 Rebound from the Journal of the Board of Agriculture’.

Bookseller’s ticket for Mee and Wilson Ltd., Derby, also to front pastedown. £250 Mycologist E.S. Salmon of the South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye was one of the country’s foremost researchers on hops and his expertise was very significant in the development of new hop varieties.

978 KITCHINER, WILLIAM. COOKERY - THE COOK'S ORACLE: CONTAINING RECEIPTS FOR PLAIN COOKERY ON THE MOST ECONOMICAL PLAN FOR PRIVATE FAMILIES: ALSO THE ART OF COMPOSING THE MOST SIMPLE, AND MOST HIGHLY FINISHED BROTHS, GRAVIES, SOUPS, SAUCES, STORE SAUCES, AND FLAVOURING ESSENCES: THE QUANTITY OF EACH ARTICLE IS ACCURATELY STATED BY WEIGHT AND MEASURE; THE WHOLE BEING THE RESULT OF ACTUAL EXPERIMENTS INSTITUED IN THE KITCHEN OF WILLIAM KITCHINER, M.D. London: Printed for Cadell and Co., Edinburgh; Simpkin and Marshall, and G.B. Whittaker, London; and John Cumming, Dublin. 1829 [18935] A new edition. 12mo. xix + 512 pp. + [4]. Original papercovered boards with original title label to spine. Front board detached. Missing corner of front free endpaper, occasional slight foxing, otherwise a very good and original copy. £85 979 MATHEMATICS - PARDON, WILLIAM. A NEW AND COMPENDIOUS SYSTEM OF PRACTICAL ARITHMETICK. WHEREIN THE DOCTRINE OF WHOLE NUMBERS AND FRACTIONS, BOTH VULGAR AND DECIMAL, IS

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE FULLY EXPLAINED, AND APPLIED TO THE SEVERAL RULES OF METHODS OF CALCULATION USED IN TRADE AND BUSINESS: AND BY SHEWING AND COMPARING THE NATURAL DEPENDANCE UPON, AND AGREEMENT OF, ONE RULE WITH ANOTHER, THE WHOLE IS RENDER’D MORE EASY THAN HERETOFORE, AND THE LEARNER IS INSTRUCTED IN THE VULGAR AND DECIMAL OPERATIONS TOGETHER, WHICH AT THE SAME TIME DEMONSTRATES THE REASON AS WELL AS THE PRACTICE OF BOTH. Printed for Richard Ware, at the Bible and Sun in Amen-Corner, near Pater-NosterRow, London 1738 [18772] 8vo, 397 pp. + 7 pp. bookseller’s catalogue Bound in recent period-style half-calf with marbled boards. £300 An interesting early volume on arithmetic. A scarce work which it seems to have run to only one edition

980 MATHEMATICS WEBSTER, W. ARITHMETICK IN EPITOME: OR, A COMPENDIUM OF ALL ITS RULES, BOTH VULGAR AND DECIMAL. In Two PARTS. To Which Are Now Added, Clear and Plain DEMONSTRATIONS deduc’d from the Principles of Arithmetick itself; without either Reference to Euclid, or Use of Algebra.

The Fourth Edition, carefully corrected. Printed for A. Bettesworth, in Pater-noster Row, and C. King, in Westminster-Hall. 1729 [19822] 4 x 6.5 inches. xii + 226 pp. + [2] pp. + 5 engraved plates.

Disbound and lacking upper board, otherwise complete. £150

SALMON TAKES THE BATE 981 MEDICINE - BATE, GEORGE [edited by] SALMON, WILLIAM. PHARMACOPOEIA BATEANA: OR, BATE’S DISPENSATORY. Translated from the Second Edition of the Latin Copy, Published by Mr. James Shipton. Containing his Choice and Select Recipe’s, their Names, Compositions, Preparations, Vertues, Uses and Doses, as they are Applicable to the whole Practice of Physick and Chyrurgery: the Arcana Goddardiana, and Their Recipe’s intersperst in their proper Places, which are almost all wanting in the Latin Copy. Compleated with above Five Hundred Chymical Processes; and their Explications at large, various Observations thereon, and a Rationale upon each Process.

To which are added in this English Edition, Goddard’s Drops, Russel’s Pouder, and the Emplastrum Febrifugum: Those so much Fam’d in the World; As also several other Preparations from the Collectanea Chymica, and other Good Authors. By William Salmon, Professor of Physick.

Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, at the Prince’s Arms, in St. Paul’s Church-yard, London. 1694 [20517] First edition. 8vo. 4.75 x 7 inches. [xvi] + 965 pp. + [19] pp. Illustrated by one plate. Text in double columns.

Dedication to William III. Bound in original full calf with blind stamped decorated panels; spine divided into compartments by raised bands, later paper label.

Extremities worn and some browning, otherwise a fine copy. Various inscriptions on first free endpaper, including

date 1694 and 1733 inscription of Johan Willmot, with ‘Cautions in giving the Bark 312.’ Another note signed by a doctor on the ‘Art of Physick’, ‘through the Ignorance partly of those that Exercise it and partly of those that Judge easily of Physitians it is Accounted of all arts the most Injorious.’ Two further cautions on rear second free endpaper. £1,650 The first English translation of a popular pharmacopoeia, issued in Latin in 1688. Its appearance reflects the desire of the more radical, or less established practitioners, like Salmon and Culpeper to defy the monopolistic hold of the College of Physicians and the Society of Apothecaries over the medical professions, by publishing in the vernacular In the text statements from Bate’s writings are clearly distinguished from the expansions and corrections made by Salmon. This edition has also been improved by the addition of Goddard’s famous apoplexy pills in addition to other patent remedies. George Bate (1608-88) was educated at Oxford and became a fellow of the College of Physicians of London in 1640. He achieved the notable feat of acting successively as physician to Charles I, Oliver Cromwell and Charles II. but his collection of prescriptions and remedies was only published, in Latin as the Pharmacopoeia, by his apothecary, Jack Shipton, twenty years after his death. William Salmon (1644-1713), ‘Professor of Physick’, had no formal medical education and acquired his early knowledge by being apprenticed to a travelling entertainer and quack. In 1671 he set up his practice outside St. Bartholomew’s Hospital to provide a service for those patients who failed to gain admission to it. He opposed the monopoly of the College of Physicians, which was attempting to suppress the activities of irregular practitioners like Salmon: ‘I know that I have many Enemies in the World, and that the publishing this Work will create me many more, and those powerful ones...’ (Preface).. Salmon was a most prolific author, basing his writings on material gleaned from his own extensive library. His translation of Bate appeared in five editions up to 1720. Scarce copy of a popular book of remedies with interesting comments by early physicians who used it.

WITH EYEWITNESS MS. ACCOUNT 982 MEDICINE - BOERHAAVE, HERMAN. BOERHAAVE’S TREATISE OF THE MATERIA MEDICA, AND FORMS OF MEDICINES, ADAPTED TO HIS APHORISMS, ON THE KNOWLEDGE AND CURE OF DISEASES. Translated from the last Genuine Edition of the Latin. Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, at the West-End of St. Paul’s; G.Hawkins, at Milton’s Head, between the Temple-Gates; and E. Littleton, at the Mitre, over-against St. Dunstan’s-Church, Fleet-street, London. 1739 [20525] 12mo. 4 x 6.75 inches. [ii] + viii + 245 pp. + [1] + xxix pp. indexes + [1]. Illustrated by vignette head and tailpieces. Bound in original calf with gilt ruled borders to boards, enclosing single tooled embossed gilt monogram with coronet front and back; spine divided into compartments by raised bands with gilt rules. Marbled endpapers and traces of red edges. Extremities worn.

Early annotations in text in black and red ink. Early medical notes by several doctors on front and rear free endpapers and on blank leaf inserted between last two pages of index, which also contains a personal account of Dr Boerhaave’s illness. It has been established that the binding stamp is the monogram of John Poulett, 1st Earl

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE Poulett.

Bookplate of Franz Sondheimer, the distinguished 20th century organic chemist. £650 An English translation of the Libellus de materia medica of the great Dutch physician, Herman Boerhaave. This copy has some valuable manuscript observations on the use of the remedies by doctors of the time, including an account of the Boerhaave’s self-medication when he was stricken by a severe attack of gout in 1722 by someone ‘who conversed with him daily at that very time.’ The medicines that Boerhaave took are described in detail by the writer who also observes that ‘The Doctor was a very large man and his case peculiarly bad, therefore I suppose he judged it necessary to take these medicines in Larger Quantities, and to Continue them longer than he would have Directed to the Generality of his Patients.’

Some similarities of phrase suggest this writer may have been aware of Samuel Johnson’s biographical articles on Dr Boerhaave in the issues of The Gentleman’s Magazine for January, February, March and April of 1739, the same year as this translation was published. Certainly Johnson provides an account of the illness which is quite relevant to the inscription: ‘At length, having in the sixth month of his illness, obtained some remission, he took simple medicines in large quantities, and, at length, wonderfully recovered’ (for full text see Herman Boerhaave by Samuel Johnson, Google/Amazon). Boerhaave (1668-1738) became Professor of Botany and Medicine at the University of Leiden in 1709 and is regarded as the founder of modern clinical instruction. Many of his other writings were also translated from Latin into English, including his Aphorisms, Elements of Chemistry and Lectures on the Theory of Physick. In his preface (translated from the 1719 edition) he refers to an unauthorised edition of his Treatise ‘published without my Knowledge or Desire, by a learned Gentleman at London.’ This had managed to appear in 1714, even before Boerhaave went to print himself. A second English edition appeared in 1727. This copy is from the library of John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett (c.1668-1743), who was elected F.R.S. in 1706. He was a Tory politician who held office in Harley’s administration as First Lord of the Treasury, 1710-11 and Lord Steward, 1711-14. After the Hanoverian succession he retired to his country estate in Somerset.

A very scarce edition (ESTC lists only the British Library copy and three in North America) of this early work on what has now become pharmacology, with an eyewitness account of the author’s selftreatment of his illness.

983 MEDICINE - BOYLE, ROBERT. MEDICINAL EXPERIMENTS: OR, A COLLECTION OF CHOICE AND SAFE REMDIES For the most part Simple, and easily prepar’d: Very Useful in Families, and fitted for the Service of Country-people. By the Honourable R. Boyle, Esq; late Fellow of the Royal Society. In Three Parts.

Containing above Five Hundred Choice Receipts. The Fifth Edition Corrected. Printed for W. Innys, at the Prince’s Arms in St. Paul’s Church-yard, London. 1712 [20659] 12mo. 4x 6.25 inches, portrait frontis. + [xxiv] + 168 pp. + [xx] + 61 pp. + [1] + [12] pp. advertisements. The second volume has a separate half-title; the third volume has a separate title page, preface, index and pagination, but the register continues through all three volumes.

Rebound in later calf, with gold borders to boards; spine divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt rules, with maroon morocco label, gilt. Marbled endpapers.

Edges darkened.

Browning and spotting. Last

advertisement leaf has missing lower corner with some loss of text. £650 A three part collection of country remedies by the famous chemist, Sir Robert Boyle (1627-1691). An example is ‘A Remedy against the Bitings of Vipers, and other Venomous Creatures...a hot Iron may be held as near the Wound as the Patient can possible endure.’ This is a popular work, but Boyle also wrote more scientific accounts of blood chemistry and the principles of respiration. The first edition of the Experiments was published in 1692 and the last appeared in 1731. An attractive work by a famous scientist.

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE AND MINERAL 984 MEDICINE BRADLEY, RICHARD. COURSE OF LECTURES UPON THE MATERIA MEDICA, ANCIENT AND MODERN. Read in the Physick Schools at Cambridge, upon the Collections of Doctor Attenbrook and Signor Vigani, deposited in Catherine-Hall, and Queen’s College. By R. Bradley, F .R .S . And Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. Printed for Cha. Davis in Pater-Noster-Row, London. 1730 [20541] First edition. 8vo. 5 x 8 inches. [xviii] + 170 pp. + [4] pp. advertisements. Illustrated with decorative initials and head and tail piece vignettes. Includes dedication page.

Bound in original calf, boards with decorative blind stamped panels; spine rebacked later and divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt rules, with red morocco label, gilt. Extremities worn, edges darkened, some foxing and staining. Heavy ink crossing out on verso of title page, causing some staining through to title, and small holes. Early ink inscription on title, Ex Libris Soc. Reg. Medicae Edinensis. Later bookplate of Franz Sondheimer, the distinguished organic chemist. £300 A work of pharmaceutical botany, this also includes minerals and animals used in the preparation of medicines. Richard Bradley (1688?-1732) was a Fellow of the Royal Society, having been elected at the age of 26. He was a prolific writer, and is acknowledged for his ‘Historia Plantarum Succulentarum’ (1716-27) and ‘New Improvements of Planting and Gardening’ (1717-18), one of the first works on horticulture. He was appointed the first Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge in 1724 and this work is one of the two sets of lectures that he published. It is dedicated to the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and Heads of the University. The lectures were partly based on the collection of materia medica, including minerals, deposited at the University by John Francis Vigani (1650?-1712 The inscription shows that this volume was once part of the library of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, founded in 1737, and granted the royal title in 1778 (after which date this book was added to stock).

This library was sold by auction in 1969. Scarce copy of this attractively printed volume.

THREEPENNY ENGLISH HERBAL CURE 985 MEDICINE - CULPEPER, NICHOLAS. THE ENGLISH PHYSITIAN ENLARGED; WITH THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY NINE MEDICINES MADE OF ENGLISH HERBS, THAT WERE NOT IN ANY IMPRESSION UNTIL THIS. Being an AstrologoPhysical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation;

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE Containing a Compleat Method of Physick, whereby a Man may preserve his Body in Health, or Cure himself, being Sick, for Three Pence Charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English Bodies. Herein is also shewed these Seven Things, viz. 1.

The way of Making Plaisters, Oyntments, Oyls, Pultisses, Syrups, Decostions, Juleps or Waters, of all sorts of Physical Herbs, that you may have them ready for your use at all times of the year. 2. What Planet governeth every Herb or Tree (used in Physick) that groweth in England. 3. The Time of gathering all Herbs, both vulgarly and Astrologically. 4. The way of Drying an Keeping the Herbs all the Year. 5. The Way of Keeping their Juyces ready for use at all times. 6. The Way of Making and Keeping all kind of useful Compounds made of Herbs. 7.

The Way of mixing Medicines according to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease, and Part of the Body Afflicted.

By Nich. Culpepper, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology. Printed for A. and J. Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, London. 1695 [20505] 8vo. 4.75 x 7 inches. [xii] + 284 pp + [16] pp. Includes indexes at beginning and end. Bound in recent morocco, with blind stamped borders on boards; spine divided into compartments by raised bands, blind stamped rules and morocco label, gilt. Edges darkened. Interior browned with occasional lower edge staining. Rows of x’s, crossed out at end. Inscriptions of Henry Jenkins, Christchurch, 1804 on title page and at end. Bookplate of Franz Sondheimer. £450 An early edition of the best known of all English works on medical botany. Commonly known as Culpeper’s ‘herbal,’ The English Physitian of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54) first appeared as a folio volume in 1652. The title was changed to the English Physitian Enlarged, and the format to octavo, in 1653. It was an immediate success and editions have continued to appear until the present day. Culpeper recommended the use of ‘vulgar’ English herbs as ‘being most fit for English Bodies,’ and, as he was an astrologer physician, ‘believed that every disease was caused by a planet and that in order to effect a cure a herb belonging to an opposing planet must be used’ (Henrey). The Henry Jenkins of Christchurch, who owned the book in 1804, may have been the handyman, later farmer, of that name, who was married in the town in 1800. With the bookplate of Franz Sondheimer, the distinguished organic chemist.

CULPEPER CHALLENGES THE APOTHECARIES 986 —— A PHYSICAL DIRECTORY: OR A TRANSLATION OF THE DISPENSATORY MADE BY THE COLLEDGE OF PHYSITIANS OF LONDON, And by them imposed upon all the Apothecaries of England to make up their Medicines by. Whereunto is added, The Vertues of the Simples, and Compounds. And in this second Edition are Seven hundred eighty four Additions and general heads whereof are these; Viz. 1. The Dose (or quantity to be taken at one time) and Use, both of Simples and Compounds. 2. The Method of ordering the Body after sweating and purging Medicines. 3. Cautions (to all Ignorant People) upon all Simples or Compounds that are dangerous. With many other Additions, in every Page, marked with the letter A. The second Edition much enlarged, by Nich. Culpeper Gent. Studient in Physick.

Printed by Peter Cole, and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange. 1650 [20495] Second edition (first was 1649, in quarto), Folio. 7 x 10.5 inches. Frontis portrait + [x] + 242 pp. + [18] pp. indexes + [2] pp. advert. Irregularities in pagination are as noted

by ESTC. Bound in original half calf on marbled boards with marbled endpapers. Spine divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt rules and decorated with gilt flower heads. Contrasting leather title label, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Extremities very slightly worn and some occasional spotting in text. Lower corner of 3M2 missing though not affecting text. These aside, a very fine crisp copy in handsome original binding. One of Culpeper’s most elusive titles. £2,000 Nicholas Culpeper’s (1616-1654) unofficial translation of the London Pharmacopoeia was a direct attack on the authority of the College of Physicians. In 1649, when Peter Cole became aware that a new edition of the Society’s Pharmacopoeia was to be published in Latin, he printed an English translation a year before the official edition. Through the publication of an official pharmacopoeia, the College of Physicians sought to control and regulate the practice of the Apothecaries, who were obliged to use it to make up prescriptions for the licensed physicians. Culpeper’s translation made it a medium for the liberalisation of medicine. By publishing in English, Culpeper not only made the prescriptions available to the non-Latin readers, but also made the official use much safer because many of the Apothecaries themselves did not read Latin.

Culpeper considerably improved on the original by clarifying the preparations and adding much additional material, forming the basis for his ‘English Physician’ of 1652, otherwise known as ‘Culpeper’s Herbal’, the most popular of all English herbals. Culpeper has only relatively recently been rehabilitated from ‘vituperative quack’ and founder of the modern cult of herbalism, to a figure of outstanding importance who had a far greater influence on medical practice in England between 1650 and 1750 than either Harvey or Sydenham. [Poynter, Sanderson, and Woolley.] A fine copy in original binding with the bookplate of the distinguished organic chemist Franz Sondheimer.

HEAVENLY HERBAL CURES 987 MEDICINE - CULPEPER, NICHOLAS. and DR. PARKINS. CROSBY’S IMPROVED EDITION. THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, ENLARGED WITH THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINE MEDICINES MADE OF ENGLISH HERBS, NOT IN ANY FORMER IMPRESSION OF CULPEPER’S BRITISH HERBAL, Containing An Astrologo-Physical Discourse on the various Herbs of this Nation, and also a complete Method of Physic, whereby Man may preserve his Body in Health, or cure himself when sick, with such Remedies only as grow in England, being the best adapted for English Constitutions: Illustrated with Correct Copper Plates of the most Useful and Remarkable Plants; To which is added The Family Physician, And a Present for the Ladies, Containing the best Remedies for every Disease incident to the Human Body. By Dr. Parkins, Author of the Holy Temple of Wisdom, etc. Printed by E. and H. Hodson, Cross-street, Hatton-Garden; For B. and R. Crosby and Co. Stationer’s Court, Paternoster Row, London. Price on Fine Paper, with coloured plates, 7s. 6d. boards. On small paper, with plain plates, 5s. bound. 1814 [20506]

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE 12mo. 4.75 x 8 inches. xxii + [ii] + 389 pp. + [7] pp.

Illustrated with [8] engraved plates. With indexes at beginning and end. Bound in later green half morocco,gilt, with marbled boards; Spine divided into compartments by raised bands with gilt rules and red morocco label, gilt.

Slight foxing and the odd stain here and there, p.163-4, torn affecting the text, but not its legibility. £200 An edition of the famous ‘herbal’ by Nicholas Culpeper (161654), first published in the enlarged octavo edition in 1653, illustrated by over 100 small engravings on eight plates arranged in pairs. At the end there are several additions by the editor, Dr Parkins, including ‘A curious figure of the heavens,’ demonstrating the astrological principles underlying the herbal treatment of a distressed lady in 1807. This is followed by the two extra sections advertised on the title page, The Family Physician (remedies) and A Present for the Ladies (a short selection of recipes). This edition first appeared in 1809.

Little is known of ‘Dr’ John Parkins of Little Gonerby, near Grantham other than his other writings which include, The Book of Miracles, The Cabinet of Wealth and The Universal Fortune-teller. In a book published in 1819, entitled Ecce Homo, Parkins is attacked as someone ‘ who impiously styles himself Grand Ambassador of Heaven.’ Illustrated early nineteenth century edition of Culpeper in a handsome later binding.

HAND-COLOURED COPY 988 MEDICINE - CULPEPER, NICHOLAS.and PARKINS, DR. CROSBY’S IMPROVED EDITION. THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, ENLARGED WITH THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINE MEDICINES MADE OF ENGLISH HERBS, NOT IN ANY FORMER IMPRESSION OF CULPEPER’S BRITISH HERBAL, Containing An Astro-physical Discourse on the various Herbs of this Nation, and also a complete Method of Physic, whereby Man may preserve his Body in Health, or cure himself when sick, with such Remedies only as grow in England, being the best adapted for English Constitutions: Illustrated with Correct Copper Plates of the most Useful and Remarkable Plants; To which is added The Family Physician, And a Present for the Ladies, Containing the best Remedies for every Disease incident to the Human Body. By Dr. Parkins, Author of the Holy Temple of Wisdom, etc. Printed by J. and E. Hodson, Cross-street, Hatton-Garden; For B. Crosby and Co. Stationer’s Court, Paternoster Row, London. Price on Fine Paper, with coloured plates, 7s. 6d. boards. On small paper, with plain plates, 5s. bound. 1809 [20508] 12mo. 5 x 8.25 inches, frontis. + xxii + [ii] + 389 pp. + [7] pp. Pages in B signature bound in incorrect order but all are present.

Illustrated with [8] hand-coloured engraved plates, including frontispiece and remainder of plates bound at end. With indexes at beginning and end.

Bound in later blue half cloth, gilt, with red and gilt morocco label to spine. Original paper wrappers bound inside. Pages irregularly cut with deckle edges. Some browning, spotting and lower edge stains and a tear, p.512, affecting the text, but not its legibility. £300 A new edition of the famous ‘herbal’ by Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), first published in 1653, illustrated by over one hundred small engravings on eight hand-coloured plates At the end there are several additions by the editor, Dr Parkins, including ‘A curious figure of the heavens,’ demonstrating the

astrological principles underlying the herbal treatment of a distressed lady in 1807. This is followed by the two extra sections advertised on the title page, The Family Physician (remedies) and A Present for the Ladies (a short selection of recipes). Another edition appeared in 1814 An illustrated early nineteenth century version of Culpeper, which is scarce in this 1809 edition, COPAC recording only one copy in the Wellcome Library.

THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD 989 MEDICINE - DE HALLER, ALBERT. (17081777) DISSERTATION SUR LES PARTIES IRRITABLES ET SENSIBLES DES ANIMAUX. Par M. De Haller. Traduit du Latin par M. Tissot. Lausanne, Marc-Michel Bousquet et Comp 1755 [19449] First Edition in French, 12 mo. in 8s – Title, 100 pp.

Bound in contemporary full vellum, with original leather label to spine. Bookplate on front paste-down: ‘Ex libris D. Delafaye, acad. chirurg. Paris’ £500 De Haller’s greatest importance in neurophysiology incontestably lies in that he was first to locate decisively the two basic properties of the organism, sensation and movement, in two different tissues: in nerves and in muscles and other contractile elements, respectively. He forced research to seek new ways of finding more precise evidence for the existence of a connection between the nerve impulse and muscle activity, of exploring the dependence of the organic functions upon the nervous system in greater detail than before, and of determining more precisely the magnitude of nervous factors (Neuburger, Experimental Brain and Spinal Cord Physiology, p. 119) His greatest single contribution to the subject is his laboratory demonstration of Glisson’s hypothesis that irritability (contractility), e.g. in an excised muscle, is the specific immanent property of all muscular tissues and sensibility an exclusive property of nervous tissue ... De Haller thus distinguished between nerve impulse (sensibility) and muscular contraction (irritability). This research based upon 567 experiments, of which he himself performed 190, was made at Gottingen.

TOBACCO AND ARSENIC 990 MEDICINE - FOWLER, THOMAS, M. D. MEDICAL REPORTS OF THE EFFECTS OF TOBACCO IN THE CURE OF DROPSIES AND DYSURIES, Or, Cases of Pain and Diffulty of passing Urine. By Thomas Fowler, M. D. Physician to the General Infirmary of the County of Stafford, and Member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, etc. Together with Observations on the Medicinal Effects of Tobacco, from Correspondents.

The Second Edition revised with Considerable Additions.

[Bound with] Medical Reports of the Effects of Arsenic, in the Cure of Agues, Remitting Fevers, and Periodic Headachs; By Thomas Fowler, Physician to the General Infirmary of the County of Stafford. Together with a Letter from Dr. Arnold, of Leicester, and another from Dr, Withering, describing their Experienceof the Effects of Arsenic in the Cure of Intermittents. Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Johnson, No. 72, St Paul’s Church-Yard, and William Brown, Corner of Essex-Street, Strand, London; Printed for J. Johnson, No 72 St Paul’s Church Yard, and

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE William Brown, Corner of Essex Street, Strand, London..

1788; 1786 [20512] 8vo, in fours. 5 x 8.5 inches. Tobacco, xv + [v] + 98 pp.; Arsenic, [xvi] + 118 pp. + [2] pp. advertisement (June 16, 1788). Bound in original half calf with marbled boards; spine decorated gilt with red morocco label, gilt.

Extremities worn and interior browning and spotting.

Otherwise a fine copy. Early inscription at top of Tobacco title page and two contemporary ink medical notes in Arsenic. £750 Two short books bound together, which advocate the use of tobacco and arsenic as an effective medical treatment for certain conditions. The first reports sixty cases of the treatment of dropsical swellings of the body and of dysuries ( urine retention) by the use of tobacco infusions. The second has reports of 86 cases where measured drops of arsenic in solution were used to treat various feverish conditions, including tertian and quotidian agues (malaria) as well as headaches. Both books include formulae for preparing the medications, general observations, and reprint correspondence from other medical men. Dr. Thomas Fowler (1736-1801) was born in York. The patients whose cases are recorded in this book all attended the General infirmary of the County of Stafford, where Fowler served as physician.

Tobacco was first published in 1785 and a Stafford edition also appeared in 1788. Fowler’s arsenic therapy seemed to have made a greater medical impact than his tobacco cure. He had taken the ague and fever drops marketed by Thomas Wilson of London and had them analysed by the apothecary at Stafford, as related in his preface. His Liquor mineralis (which became known as Fowler’s solution) was accepted into the London Pharmacopoeia in 1809 and was considered to be an alternative treatment to quinine for malaria throughout the nineteenth century, being also recommended by David Livingstone for sleeping sickness. Its use continued until about 1940 as a ‘tonic’ for malnourished or convalescent patients.

SOME TOXIC TREATMENTS 991 MEDICINE - GATAKER, THOMAS. ESSAYS ON MEDICAL SUBJECTS, Originally printed separately; To which is now prefixed an introduction relating to the use of Hemlock and Corrosive Sublimate; and to the Application of Caustic Medicines in Cancerous Disorders.

By Thomas Gataker, Surgeon-Extraordinary to His Majesty and Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, and Surgeon to Her Majesty’s Household and St. George’s Hospital. Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pallmall, London. 1764 [20532] 8vo. 5.25 x 8 inches. [4] + lii + 284 pp. Mispaginations noted in ESTC have been corrected and there are no final advertisement pages; this version may therefore be a corrected reprint, not recorded by ESTC. Additional divisional titles for the three constituent essays. Illustrated by tailpiece vignettes. Bound in original calf with gilt borders on boards. Spine divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt rules, with red morocco label, gilt.

Traces of red on edges. Some browning and occasional spotting and staining. Tear extending from margin of O4 into text but not affecting its legibility. Armorial bookplate of William Northcote, Surgeon and his inscription on title page. 1830 inscription (Wotton) on rear free endpaper and later stamp of Stephen Shute on first free endpaper. . £250 These essays were first published separately as ‘Venereal Complaints’ in 1754, ‘Solanum, or Nightshade’ in 1757

(including later supplement) and ‘An Account of the Structure of the Eye’ in 1761. The three lectures on the eye were delivered at the Theatre of Surgeons Hall. Gataker’s first work was a translation of ‘The Operations in Surgery’ by HenriFrancois Le Dran (1685-1770), with editions appearing from 1749-1781. He became involved in a controversy with another London surgeon, Richard Guy, of Mark Lane, over his method of treating cancer without cutting, by means of caustic and corrosive substances and plant toxins like hemlock (as outlined in the introduction to this work). Described as a surgeon with ‘ophthalmologic leanings,’ Gataker served in this office to George III and his household from 1761 until his death in 1768. William Northcote, Surgeon, the first owner of this book, is likely to have been the the well known naval surgeon of that name who served from 1757 through the period of the Independence War (died c. 1783). His publications included ‘The Marine Practice of Physic and Surgery’ of 1770 and he recognised the importance of citrus fruits in the prevention of scurvy. A scarce work.

992 MEDICINE - GRAHAM, THOMAS J., MD. MODERN DOMESTIC MEDICINE: A popular treatise, describing the symptoms, causes, distinction, and correct treatment of the diseases incident to the human frame; embracing the modern improvements in medicine. To which are added, A domestic materia medica; a copious collection of approved prescriptions, etc. etc. Together with an appendix on the cold water system. The whole intended as a comprehensive medical guide for the use of clergymen, heads of families, and emigrants, in the absence of their medical adviser. By Thomas J. Graham, M. D., Graduate of Glasgow, and member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The eleventh edition, with many additions. Published for the Author, by Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers’ Court; Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly; Hamilton and Co., Paternoster Row; William Tegg and Co., Queen Street, Cheapside; London; Bell and Bradfute, Bank Street, Edinburgh; and sold by all booksellers in the Kingdom. 1853 [20534] 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. xvi + 773 pp. + [1] + 12 + [1] + [3] pp. advertisements. Bound in original half calf with marbled boards. Spine divided into compartments by raised bands and decorated gilt, with red morocco label, gilt. Endpapers and all edges marbled. Extremities worn, occasional spotting and browning, but generally fine condition. Pencil inscription on first free endpaper and pencil marks in margins. £45 Part I of this popular family dictionary of medicine lists domestic medicines, approved prescriptions and other general treatments. Part II is an alphabetical survey of ailments and their treatments. The first edition was published in 1826 and this eleventh edition was the last of the nineteenth century. A modern reprint, styled the twelfth edition, was issued in 1988.

Dr Thomas Graham of Epsom, Surrey, (1795?-1876) also published on the diseases of infants and children, and of females.

993 MEDICINE - HARVEY, WILLIAM. AN ANATOMICAL DISSERTATION UPON THE MOVEMENT OF THE HEART AND BLOOD IN ANIMALS, BEING A STATEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD .... Privately reproduced in facsimile from the original edition printed at Frankfort-on-the-Maine in the

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE year 1628 with a Translation and Memoir for G. MORETON, 42, Burgate Street, Canterbury .1894 Canterbury: G. Moreton. 1894 [20168] Facsimile, limited edition, large-paper copy; this copy numbered 89/100. 4to. 9 x 12 inches. x (prefatory memoir) + 74 pp. + 91 pp. with frontis portrait from the original in the National Portrait Gallery, and two illustrations. Top edges gilt otherwise deckle edges.

Printed on the verso of the title page: This copy is the property of:- (then, neatly inscribed in ink) ‘To Mr. G.E. Bellamy with gratitude for what you have done for me Harriet L. Yeats Feb 2nd 1943’. Neat, earlier ownership inscriptions to front pastedown. Bound in the original full vellum with gilt title to spine and Harvey arms to upper board, gilt. £350 A copy of Harvey’s famous work, comprising a facsimile of the original in Latin and an English translation.

NONESUCH WILLIAM HARVEY 994 —— THE ANATOMICAL EXERCISES OF DR. WILLIAM HARVEY, DE MOTU CORDIS 1628: DE CIRCULATIONE SANGUINIS 1649: The first English text of 1653 now newly edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

Issued on the occasion of the tercentenary celebration of the first publication of the text of De Motu Cordis. The Nonesuch Press, London. [1928] [19901] 8vo. 5 x 8 inches. [1 blank leaf] + xvi + 202 + [1] pp. + [2 blank leaves]. Illustrated with title page vignette and folding plate by Stephen Gooden (1892-1955), engraved on copper by C. Sigrist. [On verso of title page]: Printed and made in Holland with the types of Joan Michael Fleischman and of Christopher van Dijck. Colophon: This edition, printed by Job. Enschede en Zonen on Dutch paper, is limited to 1450 copies for sale in England and America. This copy is number 996. Bound in full calf, gilt, spine divided into compartments by raised bands, outlined by blind stamped lines; double gilt borders with stars in corners on front and rear boards. Deckle edges with gilt top edge. Printed decorative bookplate with ink signature of J. Hargreaves Jones on front paste-down.

Contained in plain brown card slipcase with small split and wear to lower extremities. Fine condition. £250 Published to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the first publication of the Latin edition of 1628 in Frankfurt, this English translation of De Motu Cordis collates the editions of 1653 and 1673. The De Circulatione Sanguinis (translated at the same time) in the form of two essays addressed to John Riolan the Younger of the University of Paris, was published simultaneously in Rotterdam and Cambridge in 1649.

Together the two works set out Harvey’s theory of the circulation of the blood throughout the body by the action of the heart. Despite some initial opposition from the prevailing Galenic orthodoxy on the function of the heart and blood vessels, Harvey’s principles soon became generally accepted.

William Harvey (1578-1657) was born in Folkestone and educated at the King’s School, Canterbury, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and the University of Padua, where he was awarded his MD in 1602. He became a licentiate of the College of Physicians in London in 1604 and physician to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1609-29. Charles I appointed him his physician-in-ordinary in 1639.

Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar and bibliographer, was a regular editor in the early days of

the Nonesuch Press.

His expertise in both medicine and literature came together fortuitously in the various studies he made of Harvey, including the standard biography of 1966.

The Nonesuch Press was founded in London in 1922 by Francis Meynell and others and issued over 140 titles from 1923 to the mid-sixties. This private press designed its own books but sent them out to commercial printers to obtain a wider circulation and lower prices for its readers.

995 —— [DE MOTU CORDIS] MOVEMENT OF THE HEART AND BLOOD IN ANIMALS: AN ANATOMICAL ESSAY AN ANATOMICAL ESSAY

by Willliam Harvey Translated from the Latin by Kenneth J. Franklin and now published for the Royal College of Physicians of London. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications. 1957 [20358] 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches, coloured frontis portrait + xii + 209 pp. Bound in the original dark blue cloth, gilt. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. £30 The English translation is followed by the full Latin text. The translation is prefixed by a scholarly introduction. This has become the most widely respected translation of Harvey’s famous text.

HARVEY’S COMPLETE WORKS 996 —— THE WORKS OF WILLIAM HARVEY, M.D. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR .. London: For the Sydenham Society.

1847 [20357] 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches, xcvi + 624 pp. Bound in the original blue-green cloth with blind-stamped decoration, gilt titles and to upper and lower boards the arms of Thomas Sydenham (known as the Father of English Medicine) after whom the Society is named. Top edges gilt.

A very good copy indeed. £300 Here Harvey’s complete printed works together with numerous works by Harvey which appeared in other authors’ work are here all collected in one volume, in tranlation, together with some letters and his will, etc..

HARVEY ANNIVERSARY LECTURE 997 MEDICINE [HARVEY, WILLIAM.] JENKINS, ROBERT C. HARVEY: AND HIS CLAIMS AS A DISCOVERER. A Lecture, delivered at Folkestone on the Three-Hundredth Anniversary of his Birth (April 1st, 1578).

By Robert C. Jenkins, M.A., Rector of Lyminge, and Hon. Canon of Canterbury. T. Richards, Printer, Great Queen Street, London. All Booksellers, Folkestone. 1878 [20300] 8vo. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 23 pp. Disbound in paper wrappers. Exterior a little dusty, clean inside. Ink inscription at head of title. £65 A vindication of William Harvey’s claim to be regarded as the discoverer of the circulation of the blood. It also refutes the story that he ended his life by the self-administration of poison after awakening and finding himself blind. The Tercentenary of Harvey’s birth in 1578 was celebrated in Folkestone by the initiation of several memorial projects. A Harvey window was installed in the parish church and a statue unveiled on the Leas in 1881. Robert Charles Jenkins (1815-96), the Rector of

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE Lyminge, was a prolific author, publishing on the history of Lyminge Church and on Canterbury and the Kings of Kent. He also wrote widely on church history, theology, heraldry and on matters connected with the Roman Catholic church. The reference in the inscription may be to Cardinal Raimondo Capisucchi (1616-91). A very scarce item, with COPAC locating only one copy in the Royal College of Surgeons Library.

998 MEDICINE [HARVEY, WILLIAM.] KEYNES, GEOFFREY. THE PORTRAITURE OF WILLIAM HARVEY. THE THOMAS VICARY LECTURE 1948: London: The Royal College of Surgeons. 1949 [20356] 7 x 10 inches approx. Tissue-guarded frontis portrait + [iv] + 42 pp. + 46 images on 32 tissue-guarded plates.

Bound in the original blue cloth, gilt. Spine very slightly faded otherwise near fine. £55

GERMAN FATHER OF SCIENTIFIC SURGERY 999 MEDICINE - HEISTER, DR. LAURENCE [LORENZ]. A GENERAL SYSTEM OF SURGERY. IN THREE PARTS. CONTAINING THE DOCTRINE and MANAGEMENT I. Of Wounds, Fractures, Luxations, Tumors, and Ulcers, of all Kinds. II. Of the several Operations performed on all Parts of the Body. III. Of the several Bandages applied in all Operations and Disorders.

The Whole illustrated with Thirty Eight Copper Plates, exhibiting all the Operations, Instruments, Bandages, and Improvements, according to the Modern and most approved Practice.... Printed for W. Innys in Pater-noster Row; C.Davis in Holborn; J. Clarke under the RoyalExchange; R. Manby and H.S. Cox on Ludgate-Hill; and J. Whiston in Fleet-street. 1745 [20501] 4to. Two volumes in one, separately paginated, about 7.5 x 9.5 inches. xvi + 476 pp. + 338 pp. + [10] pp. index + 38 large, folding copper-engraved plates. Bound in later full calf with double-ruled boards. Spine divided into compartments by raised bands, with gilt rules and contrasting leather title label, gilt. Some wear to extremities. The text is more or less evenly and, it might be said, attractively browned and the plates, some professionally backed, one with a repaired three-inch split, are crisply folded. A very good copy. £850 Heister, 1683-1758, was a German anatomist, surgeon and botanist born in Frankfurt am Main. He was the founder of scientific surgery in Germany and is credited with coining the word ‘tracheotomy’. He studied at the Universities of Giessen and Wetzlar, and afterwards went to Amsterdam where he studied anatomy under Frederik Ruysch. After gaining experience in Dutch field hospitals he studied anatomy under Albinus and Bidloo at Leiden, and also attended Boerhaave’s lectures on chemistry and ocular diseases. He earned his doctorate at the University of Harderwijk, and in the summer of 1709 he rejoined the Dutch military as a field surgeon during the Siege of Tournai, later distinguishing himself in his treatment of the wounded during and after the carnage at Malplaquet. An innovator, he introduced a spinal brace, and his name is commemorated by plants of the genus Heisteria.

This book contains many fascinating medical and surgical

illustrations and includes an account of the tourniquets used at the time.

EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE 1000 MEDICINE - HUDSON, THOMAS, and J. McARDELL. THE REV’D STEPHEN HALES D.D. Clark of the Closet to her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales. F.R.S. and Member of the Academies of Science at Paris and Bologna. Aged 82. Sold at the Golden Hind in Covent Garden. Price 2s. n.d. c 1760 [17006] Mezzotint portrait, 9 x 13 inches with frame line, with good margins. Mounted in acid-free conservation board and backed with museum board ready for framing. £150 Stephen Hales was born at Bekesbourne in Kent on 7th September 1677 and died aged 84 on 4th January 1761. He was curate of Teddington in Middlesex from 1708 until his death. He was an English physiologist and philanthropist, notable for experiments on the blood pressure of horses. He was by inclination a biologist, but had received a training in mathematics and physics. Thus equipped he proceeded to investigate the dynamics of the circulation. He extended his exact investigations into most of the mechanical aspects of the circulation. He calculated the circulation rate, and he estimated the actual velocity of the blood in veins, arteries and capillary vessels. He made a very important contribution by showing that the capillaries are liable to constriction and dilatation and began to explore the mechanism of the heart, by which it adjusts to its output needs. He made important contributions to many other subjects, among them his discoveries on respiration, his campaign for temperance, and his improvements in ventilation in ships and prisons.

INVENTOR OF THE STETHOSCOPE 1001 MEDICINE - LAENNEC, R. T. H. A TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF THE CHEST AND ON MEDIATE ASCULTATION, By R. T. H. Laennec, M. D. Regius Professor of Medicine in the College of France, Clinical Professor to the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, etc.etc.etc. Translated from the latest French edition, with copious notes and a sketch of the author’s life, by John Forbes, M. D. F.R.S. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, Physician to the Chichester Infirmary, and Physician in Ordinary to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.

From the Fourth London Edition, considerably enlarged and improved, with many additional notes and an extensive bibliography of the different diseases. With Plates. Desilver, Thomas and Co., Philadelphia. Samuel Wood and Sons, New York.

1835 [20551] 8vo. 5.75 x 9.25 inches. frontis. + xliv + 675 pp. + [1] advertisements. Illustrated by 2 plates, with plate II facing the title, as directed in notice to binder, and plate I at end.

Includes dedication to James Clark, M D., F.R.S., translator’s prefaces to three editions, and his life of the author. Rebound in recent quarter cloth, with marbled boards and new endpapers; spine decorated gilt, with morocco label, gilt. Slight wear to extremities. Title page loose at inside edge. Edges browned, foxing throughout, largely confined to margins. Otherwise fine condition. £175

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE An authoritative study of chest diseases by the French inventor of the stethoscope. The first section describes traditional methods of examination of the chest and the later development of the percussion method (Auenbrugger, 1761) and Laennec’s new technique of mediate auscultation, made possible by his stethoscope. The greater part of the book examines diseases of the bronchi, lungs, pleura and the heart and circulation, including forty-nine case studies (abbreviated by the translator). Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) was a native of Quimper, Brittany, who studied medicine at Nantes and Paris. In 1816 he had the idea of using a tube to listen to the sound of the patient’s heart and lungs. His first stethoscope, as he termed his new invention, was a roll of stiff paper, but this was replaced by a wooden tube, as illustrated in plate I of this work (the modern binaural stethoscope was developed in 1851). His results were published in his Traite de l’Auscultation Mediate (1819), followed by the important revised 2nd edition in 1826, ‘the most important treatise on diseases of the thoracic organs ever written’ (Garrison); ‘He virtually created the modern science of the respiratory organs and their diseases’ (PMM).

Laennec’s translator, John Forbes (1787-1861) and his dedicatee, James Clark (17881870), were both Scottish physicians, with careers that paralleled each other in many respects. They were school fellows, both studied in Aberdeen, served as naval surgeons, graduated MD at Edinburgh on the same day in 1817 and later served as royal physicians. Clark observed Laennec’s methods at the Hopital Neckar in Paris and urged Forbes to translate the latter’s book of 1819. The first English version subsequently appeared in 1821, with the second and third editions, following the author’s own extensive revisions, in 1827 and 1829. This copy, published in Philadelphia, followed the fourth London edition of 1834. Later English editions appeared in 1838 and 1846.

Handsomely rebound copy of this important medical treatise, complete with plates of the first stethoscopes. .

PIONEERING STUDY OF TUBERCULOSIS 1002 MEDICINE - LOUIS, PIERRE CHARLES ALEXANDRE. Translated by CHARLES COWAN. PATHOLOGICAL RESEARCHES ON PHTHISIS. By E.[Sic] Ch. A. Louis, Doctor in Medicine of the Faculties of Paris and St. Petersburg; Physician to the Hospital of La Pitie: Perpetual President of the Societe Medicale d’Observation; Member of the Royal Academy of Marseilles, of the Imperial Medico-Chirurgical Academy of St. Petersburgh, and of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. Member of the Legion of Honour. Translated from the French, with introduction, notes, additions, and an essay on treatment. By Charles Cowan, M.D..

M.R.C.S. Member of the Societe Medicale d’Observation; Bachelier des Lettres of the Sorbonne; Eleve of the Hospitals of Paris and of the Ecole Pratique; Ex-President of the Hunterian Society, and Member of the Royal Medical and Ethical Societies of Edinburgh.

Edward Portwine, 124, Aldersgate Street; J.T. Cox, 84, High Holborn, London. Maclachlan and Stewart, Stirling and Kenny, Edinburgh: Hodges and Smith, Dublin: Strong, Bristol: Bailliere, Paris. 1835 [20530] First English edition. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. li + [i] + 388 pp. Half-title. Bound in original half morocco, with marbled boards and gilt rules on spine. Slight wear to extremities and small section of page missing from lower

corner of xxxv, not affecting text. Otherwise fine condition. Library stamp of Medical Society Edinburgh on title page and bookplate of Royal College of Pathologists £275 A pioneering work on medical pathology, based on the clinical observation of fifty-one patients who died of phthisis (tuberculosis) in hospital in Paris. The first two sections provide autopsy reports followed by analysis of clinical features, including non-pulmonary lesions. Two final chapters examine causes (with interesting observations on occupational factors) and treatment.

Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787-1872) graduated in his medical exams in Paris in 1813 and spent the next seven years practising in Russia, before returning to France as a hospital consultant in Paris. He is regarded as the founder of statistical and observational methods in clinical medicine, based on the careful collection and analysis of patient data. Louis founded the Societe d’Observation Medicale, for the promotion of evidence based medicine. He considered the common practice of bloodletting to be ineffective as a treatment and published observations on yellow fever and typhoid. (a disease which he named, being the first to establish its pathological nature). Louis’s books were also published in Boston and his methods were highly regarded by east coast physicians. This English edition is a translation of his Recherches anatomico-pathologique sur la phthisie of 1825. His translator, Dr. Charles Cowan (c.18061868) of Bath, studied under Dr. Louis in Paris (see his introduction).

1003 MEDICINE - MEAD, RICHARD. A TREATISE CONCERNING THE INFLUENCE OF THE SUN AND MOON UPON HUMAN BODIES, and the Diseases thereby produced.

By Richard Mead, Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians at London and Edinburgh, and of the Royal Society, and Physician to His Majesty. Translated from the Latin, under the Author’s Inspection, By Thomas Stack, M. D. F .R. S. Printed for J. Brindley, Bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in New Bond-street, London. 1748 [20648] 8vo. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. xxiii + [iii] + 130 pp. The contents leaf (signed *c) intended to be bound after signature C was printed as S4. Illustrated by head and tailpiece vignettes and a printer’s fleuron.. Bound in original calf; spine divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt rules with morocco label, gilt. Extremities worn, hinges cracking at head and tail of spine. Clean crisp interior and in all a fine copy. Inscriptions of George Augustus Middleton, St. John’s, Cambridge on front paste-down and at top of title. £650 An attempt to discover the medical effect of the moon and other natural phenomena such as eclipses, storms and the tides on the human body The author cites many authorities from the classical authors onwards but the work is largely animated by the spirit of modern scientific enquiry, including reference to the theories of Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton. The physical phenomena discussed by Dr Mead range from large scale epidemics to case studies of individual symptoms, found to vary in response to the phases of the moon or marked changes in barometric pressure: ‘Here Mead joined Hippocratic climatic theory with Newton’s theory of the tides, claiming that a tidal flux of the air caused many ailments. This Capt has variously been termed the last gasp of astrological medicine and one of the first works of Newtonian medicine’ (DNB).

Richard Mead (1673-1754) came from a dissenting family, which spent some time in exile in the Netherlands. He attended

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE the Universities of Utrecht and Leiden, where he studied medicine, although he received his MD from the University of Padua. in 1695. He set up a medical practice in Stepney in 1696 after his return to England. He soon joined the Church of England and moved to the city of London after taking up the post of physician to St Thomas Hospital, and later continued to move west to increasingly lucrative medical practices. He received a DM degree from Oxford, was admitted to the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians and appointed physician to George II. Later in his career Mead gained a reputation as a collector, amassing one of the largest library collections of his time, of over 10,000 volumes. His first book was on the subject of poisons in 1702 and he subsequently published on the plague, pestilence, smallpox, fevers and scurvy and other medical subjects. The Sun and Moon appeared in Latin as the De imperio solis ac lunae in corpora humana et morbis inde oriundis in 1704, with the first English edition in 1712. This 1748 and last separate edition of the Sun and Moon to appear in the author’s lifetime, bears the inscription of George Augustus Middleton (1791-1848) who acquired it on his admission to St Johns College, Cambridge in 1809. He left without taking a degree but later received a Lambeth MA, and after ordination sailed to New South Wales.

He spent the rest of his career as a colonial chaplain, serving principally in the Newcastle area. A fine copy of this work by a distinguished eighteenth century physician, later owned by an Australian colonial chaplain.

PHYSICK AT CRANBROOK 1004 MEDICINE PEMELL, ROBERT. TRACTATUS DE SIMPLICIUM MEDICAMENTORUM FACULTATIBUS. A TREATISE OF THE NATURE AND QUALITIES OF SUCH SIMPLES AS ARE MOST FREQUENTLY USED IN MEDICINES, BOTH PURGING, AND OTHERS. Methodically handled, for the benefit of those that understand not the Latin Tongue. To which is added: Many Compound Medicines for most Diseases incident to Mankind: As also two Alphabeticall Tables, very necessary for the Reader. Together with, The Explanation of all hard words or Termes of Art, whereby the Vulgar may the better understand it.

By Robert Pemel, Practitioner in Physick, at Cranebrooke in Kent. Licensed and Entred according to Order. Printed by M. Simmons, for Philemon Stephens, at the guilded Lyon in St. Pauls Church-Yard, London. 1652 [20346] 4to. 6 x 7.5 inches. [18] + 8 + [328] pp. Includes list of authors used, alphabetical index of simple medicines in text and explanation of hard words (‘Whereby the Vulgar may the better understand it’) at beginning and subject index of diseases at end. Running title: The Nature of simple Medicines. Bound in full calf, twentieth century antique style, with blind stamped borders; spine divided into compartments with raised bands, double lined gilt, with red morocco label. Red edges. Occasional browning and staining but otherwise fine condition. Early inscription, Will: Kemp. on title page, with W: K. p. 4: 8 above. £2,000 The 170 chapters of this treatise discuss the preparation, application and remedial properties of a wide variety of substances. These range from metals and minerals such as quicksilver, brimstone, lapis lazuli, through manna (‘a condensed dew, falling from the aire...’), nitre, salt and honey, to numerous plant derived substances, including many herbs

and spices.

Robert Pemell (d.1653) was a physician of Cranbrook, whose books were published by the London theological bookseller, Philemon Stephens, 1650-53. They included titles on the diseases of the head (the first book on neurology in English), on help for the poor and the second part of this work on remedies, Tractatus de facultatibus simplicium, which appeared with his treatise of the diseases of children. There was another issue of the title page of this volume, but this work is entirely complete in itself. In spite of the use of Greek and Latin in the titles, the texts were written in English. In his preface to this work (dated 16 September 1651), Pemell states his desire ‘to publish some other Tracts usefull for the vulgar capacity, as also for young Practitioners.’ An interesting survey of the medical remedies employed in the Weald of Kent in the mid-seventeenth century.

MEDICAL FRAUDS IN 1703 1005 MEDICINE - [PITT, ROBERT]. THE CRAFT AND FRAUDS OF PHYSICK EXPOS’D. The very low Prices of the best Medicines Discover’d. The Costly Medicines, now in greatest Esteem, such as Bezoar, Pearl, etc. As also the Distill’d Waters, Censur’d. And the too frequent Use of Physick prov’d Destructive to Health.

With Instructions to Prevent being Cheated and Destroy’d by the prevailing Practice. The Second Edition, Improv’d.

And Augmented with an Alphabetical Index of all the Simples, and Compounds now in use, referring to the Page where their Virtues and Prices are set down. Printed for Tim. Childe, at the White-Hart in St. Paul’s Churchyard, London. 1703 [20413] 8vo. 4.25 x 7.75 inches. [24] + 204 pp. + [9] pp. includes dedication, preface and contents at beginning and index at end. Bound in original speckled calf boards, spine rebacked and divided into compartments by raised bands, red morocco label. Extremities rubbed and edges of rear board eroded. Interior browned. Initials, A.S. at top of title page. Armorial bookplate of Baptist Noel, Earl of Gainsborough, etc., 1700. £550 A physician’s attack on the profession of apothecaries with a survey of remedies approved by the author. The work is anonymous but known to be that of Robert Pitt (1653-1713).

He was born at Blandford Forum, Dorset and educated at Oxford, where he became professor of anatomy in 1682, being elected FRS in the same year. On moving to London, he was admitted to the Royal College of Physicians in 1684 (admitted a fellow 1687) and held office as physician to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1698-1707. His desire to reform medical practice, led to his support for the Dispensary at the College to provide medicine for the sick poor which is discussed in the first part of this book. He condemns the costly, and often imported remedies, like bezoar and pearl, advocated by grasping apothecaries and recommends cheaper and more effective indigenous simples and preparations which may either be purchased from the dispensing profession or made up at home by the family. Pitt published several other works, supporting his his own conception of physic but was in turn attacked in print by supporters the apothecaries, in opposition to the dispensary physicians, like himself. Baptist Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough (1684-1714), the owner of the book, inherited the earldom in 1690 was both a peer and a MP. The family derived its position and titles from Baptist Hicks, a wealthy London textile merchant and MP, who became Baron Hicks and Viscount Campden in 1628.

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NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE 1006 MEDICINE POMET, PIERRE. A COMPLEAT HISTORY OF DRUGGS, Written in French by Monsieur Pomet, Chief Druggist to the present French King, to which is added what is further observable on the same Subject, from Messrs. Lemery, and Tournefort, Divided into Three Classes, Vegetable, Animal and Mineral; With their Use in Physick, Chymistry, Pharmacy, And several other Arts: illustrated With above Four Hundred Copper Cutts curiously done from the Life; and an Explanation of their different Names, Places of Growth, and Countries from whence they are brought; the Way to know the True from the False, their Virtues, and c. A Work of very great Use and Curiosity. Done into English from the Originals. Two volsumes in one. Printed for R. Bonwicke, William Freeman, Timothy Goodwin, John Walthoe, Matthew Wottton, S. Manship, John Nicholson, Benjamin Tooke, Rich. Parker, and Ralph Smith, London. 1712 [20373] First Edition, 4to. 7 x 9 inches. Illustrated by 86 copperplates. 2 volumes bound in one, with separate register but continuous pagination. Vol. I, Title page in red and black, dedication to Dr Sloane, preface, list of subscribers and advertisement [xiv] + 224 pp. Vol. II includes list of books quoted in this work, catalogue of seeds from the American islands,[18] + pp. 225-419 + [10] pp. index, + [2] pp. advertisements Bound in original calf with blind stamped panels, neatly rebacked, spine divided into compartments by raised bands with a red morocco title label. Extremities slightly worn.

Volume 2 has browning to plates. One or two small tears but nowhere serious. Some plates are not bound according to the list but all plates are present. Occasional browning small stains elsewhere but otherwise a fine copy of this scarce title. £1,100 The first volume is concerned with the medicinal and economic uses of plants (‘vegetables’), subdivided into seeds, roots, woods, barks, leaves, flowers, fruits, gums and juices. Full page plates illustrate the preparation of plantation crops such as sugar cane, indigo, tobacco, etc. The second part deals with animals and their products. Notable plates illustrate five types of unicorn, an elephant and rhinoceros, camel, whales, beekeeping, silk production and fishing, the last three being full page. The final part is concerned with inorganic materials, metals, minerals, bitumens, stones and earths and is not illustrated. The first edition of this work by Pierre Pomet (1658-1699) was published in Paris in 1694. This is the first English edition and it was followed by three others, in 1725, 1737 and 1748. The translator and compiler, does not reveal his name on the title page or in his dedication to the famous physician, Sir Hans Sloane (1760-1753) but is thought to be Joseph Browne (while others have ascribed the work to John Hill (1714-75). Pomet’s study, as revised by the translator, includes a vast range of substances regarded as drugs or medicines by contemporaries. Many of these are plants of economic value, including the spices of south east Asia, the new plantation crops of the new world and the beverages, tea, coffee and chocolate. From coral to unicorns, from bees to amber, the work is an appealing blend of the mythical and the real, reflecting the best scientific knowledge of the time, coupled with ancient wisdom and beliefs. The book has the Bookplate of Franz Sondheimer, (1926-1981), a distinguished organic chemist (see Wikipida), who, when he died, was Royal Society Research Professor, University College London.

1007 —— A COMPLETE HISTORY OF DRUGS. Written in French by Monsieur Pomet, Chief Druggist to the late French King Lewis XIV. To which is added what is further observable on the same Subject, from Mess.

Lemery, and Tournefort, Divided into Three Classes, Vegetable, Animal and Mineral; With their Use in Physic, Chemistry, Pharmacy, And several other Arts. Illustrated With above Four Hundred Copper-Cuts curiously done from the Life; and an Explanation of their different Names, Places of Growth, and Countries where they are produced; with the Methods of distinguishing the Genuine and Perfect, from the Adulterated, Sophisticated, and Decayed; together with their Virtues, etc. A Work of very great Use and Curiosity. Done into English from the Originals. The Fourth Edition, carefully corrected, with large Additions. Printed for J. and J. Bonwicke, S. Birt, W. Parker, C. Hitch, and E. Wicksteed, London. 1748 [20453] 4to. 8.25 x 10 inches. [xx] + 221 pp. + 202 pp. + [9] pp. index + [1] pp. advertisements. Two volsumes bound as one with separate register and pagination. In this copy there is no sign of a separate title page for Vol. 2, or evidence that one was bound into this copy, if indeed it was ever produced (the signature sequence begins with.

B). Title page in red and black. Includes dedication of the former editions to Sir Hans Sloane, prefaces to the former editions and to the fourth edition by John Hill, a list of the authors cited and appendix of additions at end. Illustrated by 86 copperplates and vignette tailpiece at end. Bound in original calf, neatly rebacked, spine divided into compartments by raised bands and gilt rules with red morocco label. Extremities worn and edges darkened with some browning and spotting inside. Small missing section to lower part of plate 6 and tears to foot of Vol. II, L1, just touching text, and to adjacent plate 86. Plate 38 placed after plate 35, but all plates are present. Otherwise a fine copy of this scarce title. Partly erased early Libris inscription at top of title page. £1,650 The first English edition appeared in 1712 and was followed by the second in 1725 and third in 1738 before this fourth and final edition of 1748. These translations included additional material from the works of two other French scholars, Nicholas Lemery (1645-1715), pharmacist and chemist and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1673-1721), the notable French botanist. The dedication by the original translator (thought to be Joseph Browne) is to the famous physician, Sir Hans Sloane (1760-1753). John Hill (1714-75), an actor, physician and a prolific author, in his preface to the fourth edition, refers to the ‘gross Errors of the Translator,’ which have now been amended, and the whole work has been updated and anglicised, to include English drugs in common use. Although not credited, some of the plates are derived from the work of the well known natural history engraver, Francis Barlow (d.

1704). This edition includes a vast range of plants of economic value, including the spices of south east Asia, the plantation crops of the new world and the beverages, tea, coffee and chocolate. The plates of animals in particular are delightful’ as are the descriptions, e.g. the badger ‘is a Beast commonly very fat, and of a strong stinking Smell.’ The book has the Bookplate of Franz Sondheimer.

DIABETES

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE 1008 MEDICINE - PROUT, WILLIAM. An inquiry into the nature and treatment of diabetes, calculus and other affections of the urinary organs: with remarks on the importance of attending to the state of the urine in organic diseases of the kidneys and bladder: and some practical rules for determining the nature of the disease from the sensible and chemical properties of that secretion. Second edition revised and much enlarged. Baldwin Cradock and Joy, London 1825 [20521] Second edition, 8vo. 9 x 6 inches, [4] + xii + 328 pp.

Illistrated with a folding hand-coloured frontis plate, Bound in the original boards as issued, with the original paper label on the spine, joints cracked but sound, extensive notes on the end papers in a contemporary hand, 4 pp. adverts precede the title, dated December 1824.

Rare in this original condition. £250 This was Prout’s first important monograph, it was published in 1821 and went through five English and two American editions and two German translations. In it Prout presents his observations on urinary diseases with other opinions and ideas then in vogue.

1009 —— AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF GRAVEL, CALCULUS, AND OTHER DISEASES. Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, Lo0ndon 1821 [20519] 8vo. 8.5 x 5.25 inches, vi + 228 pp .Illustrated with a hand-colored chart of urinary sediments (on p.227).

Bound in original full calf rebacked, a little worn on the extremities but a very good copy. £300 Between 1815 and 1827 Prout published a series of important papers on urine and digestion that opened up the areas of purine and metabolic chemistry. In 1821 Prout published athis concise textbook on urine. Prout was among the first to divided food components into fats, carbohydrates and proteins.

This work led to his discovery that the gastric juice contains free hydrochloric acid.

1010 MEDICINE - QUINCY, JOHN. PHARMACOPOEIA OFFICINALIS ET EXTEMPORANEA: OR, A COMPLETE ENGLISH DISPENSATORY, In Four Parts. Containing I. The Theory of Pharmacy, and the several Processes therein.

II. A Description of the Officinal Simples, with their Virtues and Preparations, Galenical and Chemical. III. The Officinal Compositions, according to the last Alterations of the College: together with some others of uncommon Efficacy, taken from the most Celebrated Authors. IV. Extemporaneous Prescriptions, distributed into Classes suitable to their Intentions in Cure. By John Quincy, M.D. The Seventh Edition, much enlarged and corrected. To which is added, An Account of the Common Adulterations both of Simples and Compounds; with some Marks to detect them by. Printed for J. Osborn and T. Longman, at the Ship in Pater-nosterRow, London. 1728 [20444] 8vo. 5 x 8 inches. xv + [1] advertisements + 674 pp. + [60] pp. + [62] pp. Illustrated by headpiece vignette to dedication. Title within double line border. Text in double columns. Includes preface, contents and two indexes.

Bound in original calf with morocco label. Boards have decorated panels and spine is divided into compartments

by raised bands, decorated gilt. Extremities slightly worn and some erosion to surface of boards. Worming to lower edges of index (from 2Z4 to end), just touching on edge of text and on rear endpapers. Some browning but otherwise fine. £425 The English Dispensatory was first published in 1718 and provided a very comprehensive survey of all the materia medica and their therapeutic qualities. Part I is concerned with the theory of pharmacy and the various processes, e.g. distillation. Part II examines the simples, vegetable, animal and mineral (including waters, salts and metals like mercury) according to the desired effect, e.g. diuretics. Part III discusses officinal compositions, that is by type of preparation, such as syrups, balsams and unguents. Part IV lists extraneous compositions, or method of administrating like diet-drinks, draughts, pills, embrocations, etc. John Quincy (d.1722) practised as an apothecary in London, but also received an MD degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1712. One of his patrons was Joseph Collett (1673-1725), Governor of Fort St. George (i.e. President of Madras, 1717-20) to whom this book is dedicated. The English Dispensatory proved very popular and was issued in fifteen editions to 1782 and Quincy also published another bestselling title.

SALMON’S REMEDIES OF 1683 1011 MEDICINE - SALMON, WILLIAM. DORON MEDICUM: OR, A SUPPLEMENT TO THE NEW LONDON DISPENSATORY. IN III BOOKS. Containing a Supplement I. To the Materia Medica. II. To the Internal Compound Medicaments. III. To the External Compound Medicaments. Compleated with the Art of Compounding Medicines: Observations and Exemplifications Chymical: An Idea of the Process of the universal Medicine of Paracelsus, taken from an Original Manuscript: Together with many rare Secrets of the Medical Art, not Vulgarly known: Some of them gathered out of the Manuscripts of Famous Men, not yet Printed: some the Gleanings out of the vast Printed Volumns of Medical Authors; Others of them Communicated by several Worthy and Learned Men, of profound Parts, universal Scholars, and Professors of this Art. By William Salmon, Professor of Physick. Printed for T. Dawks, T. Bassett, J. Wright, and R. Chiswell. 1683 [20535] First edition. 8vo. 4.5 x 7 inches. Portrait frontis. + xvi + 720 pp. + [60] pp. index + [4] pp. advertisements. With mispaginations as noted by ESTC and cancel with additional signatures, v, x, y, and z-z4, but all text complete. Text in double columns. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece of author, engraved by Thomas Burnford.

Bound in original calf; spine rebacked and divided into compartments by raised bands and blind stamped rules with red morocco label, gilt. Extremities worn, edges grimed and ink stained. Some water stains at side and lower edges of pages. Tear in lower corner of H1, with slight loss of text, but still legible. Tears to lower corner of 2E4 with slight loss of text. 2C4 misprinted at lower corner of page. Bookplate of Franz Sondheimer, the distinguished organic chemist. £750 In this book Salmon provides an extensive supplement to his popular translation of the ‘Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, or, The New London Dispensatory’, first published in 1676. In the preface, he states that ‘we did intend to Compleat that Book, with all such necessary Additions as the Modern way of

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE Practising requires,’ but found that the volume of new material was so great that it would have been impossible to incorporate it all in one volume to sell at a reasonable price; hence the publication of this very bulky supplementary volume, of over seven hundred pages. Its appearance reflects the desire of the more radical, or less established practitioners, like Salmon and Culpeper to break the monopolistic hold of the College of Physicians and the Society of Apothecaries over the medical professions, by publishing in the vernacular. He was a most prolific author, basing his writings on material gathered from his own extensive library and on the title page he refers to: ‘the Gleanings out of the vast Printed Volumns of Medical Authors.’ This work appeared in a variant version, also of 1683, and there was another edition in 1688. Scarce volume, ESTC recording only six copies in British libraries, with a handsome portrait of the author.

SALMON’S CURE-ALL 1012 —— SYNOPSIS MEDICINAE: OR, A COMPENDIUM OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PHYSICK. In Seven Books. Containing, I. The Elements or Principles of the Art. II. The Cure of Infants Diseases. III. The Cure of Diseases of the Head.

IV. The Cure of Diseases of the Brest. V. The Cure of Diseases of the Belly. VI. The Cure of Diseases Universal.

VII. The Cure of all Sorts of Fevers. Shewing the Names, Signs, Causes, Differences, Prognosticks, and various Intentions of Curing all kinds of Diseases from Head to Foot, happening to Humane Bodies. Galenically and Chimically Performed. The like never Published before in any Language whatsoever. The Third Edition. Wherein, besides the Addition of nearly the whole First Book, there are several Hundreds of other Additions, Alterations and Amendments, throughout the whole Work. By William Salmon, Professor of Physick. Printed by J. Dawks, in Great Carter Lane, London: and are to be Sold by most Booksellers. 1695 [20537] 8vo. 4.5 x 7 inches. Portrait frontis + [32] + 1064 pp.

Text in double columns. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece, engraved by F. H. Van Hove. Includes dedication to Sir Henry Goodricke. Bound in original mottled calf, boards with blind stamped borders; spine divided into compartments by raised bands and blind stamped rules, with recent paper label. Extremities worn, rear hinges and upper joints weak. Browning and foxing, more apparent in last hundred pages. Tears with slight loss of text to lower edge of K3 and lower corner of L4; early ink correction on T4. £650 A corrected and expanded edition of Salmon’s popular treatise on the principles of physic (medicine) and the description and treatment of a comprehensive range of diseases, first published in 1671: ‘It is now about Twenty Four Years since this Book first came abroad into the World: What a kind Reception it has met withal, the vast Numbers which have been vended of it, may witness, there having been above Seven thousand of them Sold in a very few Years.’ Salmon’s numerous works works reflect the desire of the more radical, or less established practitioners, to break the monopolistic hold of the College of Physicians over the medical professions, which was attempting to suppress the activities of irregular practitioners like himself. His preface complains of ‘the many Objections which are daily raised by envious Minds, to spot and blemish it [’This Work’], out of Hatred they have to its Author.’ He employs some vituperative language, referring to

the ‘Warwick-lane Sparks’ and ‘Blades’ [Warwick Lane was the address of the College] and the ‘Revelation-Men, viz. the Goosequill Doctors, Recipe Doctors, or Knacky Doctors.’

These have attacked him ‘for Serving and Curing the Poor People of this Great City of London, and he adds ‘I cure every Year between Two and Three Hundred poor People gratis, letting them have both Advise and Physick for nothing.’ There was a reissue of this edition, also in 1695 and a final one appeared in 1699. Scarce volume, ESTC recording only eight copies in British libraries, with a handsome portrait of the author.

1013 MEDICINE - SCHOFIELD, ALFRED T. THE MANAGEMENT OF A NERVE PATIENT. J.A. Churchill, London. 1906 [16218] First edition. xii + 267 pp. Contemporary blue leather halfbinding over pale blue cloth. Spine in compartments with raised bands with gilt decoration, contrasting title label, and date to base, gilt. A very good copy. £45 This copy is bound uniformly with a copy of his earlier work ‘The Unconscious Mind’, which has his ownership inscription, suggesting that they were both his personal copies.

1014 —— THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND. Hodder and Stoughton. 1899 [16219] Second edition. xiv + 435 pp. Contemporary blue leather half-binding over pale blue cloth. Spine in compartments with raised bands with gilt decoration, contrasting title label, and date to base, gilt. A very good copy. £75 This copy has the ownership signature of the author ‘Alfred T. Schofield, 19 Harley Street, W’ and is bound uniformly with our copy of another of his works ‘The Management of a Nerve Patient’, suggesting that they were both his personal copies.

COLOURED ONLAYS 1015 MEDICINE SPRATT, GEORGE. OBSTETRIC TABLES: COMPRISING COLOURED DELINEATIONS ON A PARTICULAR PLAN, INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE ELEMENTARY AND OTHER WORKS ON THE PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY, ELUCIDATING PARTICULARLY THE APPLICATION OF THE FORCEPS, AND OTHER IMPORTANT PRACTICAL POINTS IN OBSTETRIC SCIENCE. SUPPLEMENT TO OBSTETRIC TABLES: COMPRISING GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS WITH DESCRIPTIONS AND PRACTICAL REMARKS; EXHIBITING ON DISSECTED PLATES MANY IMPORTANT SUBJECTS IN MIDWIFERY. By G. Spratt, Surgeon-Accoucheur, Editor of the Flora Medica, etc. Published for the Author, by John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho; London: Machlachlan and Stewart, Edinburgh; and Hodges and Smith, Dublin. 1833-1835 [19460] Two Volumes, First issues. 4to. 8.5 x 11 inches.

Obstetric Tables, [32] pp. illustrated with 12 coloured, and black and white plates, 9 of them with dissected overlays. Supplement to Obstetric Tables, [38] pp. + [6] pp. illustrated with 7 coloured, and black and white plates, 5 of them with dissected overlays The uncoloured tables at the beginning of both volumes were a trifle foxed and have been professionally washed and reinserted.

Bound in original green cloth, rebacked in morocco, gilt,

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE with black morocco labels on front boards, the label of the 1833 volume being a replacement. Marginal tears repaired, Some spotting and occasional wear to opening flaps, but a very good example of the most complete edition of Spratt’s remarkable work. £850 This is a pioneering obstetric atlas in two volumes, uses superb, hand-coloured overlays with popup flaps to depict the female reproductive organs and the development and delivery of the foetus, including the use of forceps.

‘Obstetric Tables’ contains a dedication to Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, Bart., physician to the Queen, with a preface and list of subscribers at end. The Supplement contains a dedication to Michael Ryan, M.D. Lecturer on the Practice of Medicine, Midwifery, Etc. and additional subscribers list.

Little is known about the life of George Spratt. The illustrations in the last volume of Woodvill’s Medical Botany were lithographs by George Spratt and he is remarkable for straddling the medical and art worlds: he was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, a male midwife, and author and artist of Flora Medica (1829). The use of forceps was greatly propagated by Spratt’s ingenious plates, both in Europe and America.

The use of lift-up flaps goes back as far as Versalius in 1538.

Spratt adapted the technique to enhance his pioneering work.

The Tables were an immediate success and reached a third edition by 1838 and a definitive fourth by 1843, which formed a basis for the first US edition of 1850. The book was said to be in use at Harvard as late as 1914.

A magnificent and highly unusual item, remarkable for its numerous hand coloured coloured movable overlays. These two volumes are the most complete form of the tables, subsequent editions have less plates and are abridged.

MEADOW SAFFRON 1016 MEDICINE - STÖRCK, ANTHONY. AN ESSAY ON THE USE AND EFFECTS OF THE ROOT OF THE COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE, OR MEADOW-SAFFRON. Shewing that it is a powerful Remedy, and sometimes cures the most obstinate Distempers, when other Medicines utterly fail. With a Figure of the Plant, And an Appendix concerning the Cicuta, or Hemlock. By Anthony Storck, M.D. Aulic Counsellor and Chief Physician to her Most Sacred, Apostolic Majesty, the Empress Queen; and Physician to the Pazmarian Hospital at Vienna. Translated from the Latin Original, published at Vienna, in 1763. Printed for T. Becket, and P. A. De Hondt, in the Strand, London.

1764 [20500] 4to. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. frontis. + iv + [5] + 47 pp.

Illustrated by folding engraved frontispiece of Colchicum.

Bound in maroon quarter morocco, gilt with marbled boards. Some wear to extremities and spotting and browning inside. Armorial bookplate of Sir Archibald Grant of Monymoske Bart. £450 An English translation of a study on the medicinal uses of the plant, Meadow Saffron (Colchicum autumnale), published in Latin in Vienna in 1763. The author describes the effects of varying doses of the prepared root on himself, and also on a dog (which was sacrificed). The drug was then tried on seriously ill patients admitted to the hospital in Vienna and these experiments are related in graphic detail in thirteen case studies. An appendix recounts similar trials with hemlock, which he had already carried out and published in several

earlier works. Anton, Freiherr von Storck (1731-1803) rose from humble origins to receive his medical degree in 1757 and later became rector at the University of Vienna. He was appointed personal physician to the empress Maria Theresa after successfully treating her for smallpox. Storck was a pioneer in the field of experimental pharmacology with his controlled use of poisonous plants for medical purposes. As this study shows, he carefully researched their toxicity levels and medicinal properties. The copy bears the bookplate of Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk, second baronet (16961778). A fine copy, from the library of a famous Scottish landowner, of a very scarce item, with only two copies recorded by ESTC in England (John Rylands and British Library) and three in North America.

1017 MEDICINE - THOMAS, ROBERT, MD. THE MODERN PRACTICE OF PHYSIC, Exhibiting the character, causes, symptoms, prognostics, morbid appearances, and improved method of treating the diseases of all climates. By Robert Thomas, M. D. And an Honorary Member of the Historical and Philosophical Societies of New York. Seventh edition, revised, and considerably enlarged by an addition of much important mstter, as well as by an English translation of the formulae or prescriptions. Printed for Longman, Hirst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies; Baldwin, Cradock; and Joy: T and G. Underwood; S. Highley; G. and W. B. Whittaker; Burgess and Hill; E. Cox, Borough, London; and Adam Black, Edinburgh. 1821 [20533] 8vo. 5.5 x 6.5 inches. xiv + [ii] + 946 pp. Includes A systematic arrangement of the diseases at beginning and a view of the former and present London Pharmacopoeiae and index at end. Bound in original half calf, with marbled boards, repaired with later endpapers. Spine divided into compartments by raised bands, with green morocco label.

Edges grimed, tears to top of first free endpaper and lower margin of p.419. Inner margin rust stain and hole, slightly affecting text in 2U signature; some other occasional staining and spotting. £65 A comprehensive work on the medical practice of the early nineteenth century, describing diseases with detailed prescriptions for their treatment. This work appeared in eleven editions from 1801-1853 was translated into French and had also been issued in six New York editions when Dr Thomas (1753-1835) signed his preface from Salisbury in 1821.

PRESENTATION COPY - MEDICAL PROPERTIES OF BUTTERCUPS 1018 MEDICINE - TURNBULL, A. On the Medical Properties of the Natural Order Ranunculaceae: And More Particularly on the Uses of Sabadilla Seeds and Delphinium Straphisagria And Aconitum Napellus, And Their Alcaloids, Veratria, Sabadilline, Delphinia, And ACONITINE Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, London 1835 [20522] 8vo, 8.5 x 5 inches, viii + 172 pp. Bound in the original boards as issued, with the original paper label on the spine, joints cracked but sound, pencil shorthand notes on the front free end paper in a contemporary hand. Rare in this original condition. £200

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE This copy has the inscription on the front free end paper, ‘To Sir George Sinclair Bart, With the Very Kind Regards and best wishes of his friend the Author’

FAMILY MEDICINE BESTSELLER 1019 MEDICINE BUCHAN, WILLIAM. DOMESTIC MEDICINE: OR, A TREATISE ON THE PREVENTION AND CURE OF DISEASES BY REGIMEN AND SIMPLE MEDICINES. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING A DISPENSATORY FOR THE USE OF PRIVATE PRACTITIONERS. By William Buchan, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. The Eighth Edition; corrected and enlarged.

To which is now added, A Complete and Copious Index.

Printed for W. Strahan; T. Cadell in the Strand, London ; and J. Balfour, and W. Creech, at Edinburgh. 1784 [19893] 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. xxxvi + 767 pp. + [36] + [2].

Bound in early calf with raised bands and red morocco label, edges frayed, hinges and joints weak. Some foxing and browning and a few small tears in margins, not affecting text. £125 ‘Before the twentieth century, no single health guide enjoyed as much popularity as Domestic Medicine’. First published in Edinburgh in 1769 and becoming an immediate bestseller, it appeared in 142 separate English language editions and became especially popular in America, being published in Philadelphia alone from 1772-1871, and was also translated into seven other European languages. The first part contains much common-sense advice on healthy living, including food and drink, sleep and exercise. The second part on identifying, treating and curing diseases and injuries, is followed by an appendix, containing a dispensatory of medical preparations.

MONKSHOOD 1020 MEDICINE - FLEMING, ALEXANDER, M.D. AN INQUIRY INTO THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF THE ACONITUM NAPELLUS; To which are added Observations on several other species of Aconitum. By Alexander Fleming, M.D., President of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh.

John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, London. 1845 [20388] 8vo. 5.75 x 9 inches. xiii +[i] + 160 pp. [7]. Arms of the Society on title page. Tables in text. Half-title. Spine title, Fleming on Aconite. Bound in original half-calf.

Presentation binding with University of Edinburgh arms and Latin inscription, gilt. Spine divided into compartments by raised bands and decorated gilt with black morocco label. Marbled endpapers and edges.

Extremities slightly worn but otherwise a fine copy. Prize inscription from Dean of the Faculty of ‘The Edinbro’ University’ to Percy Boulton, 1860. Boulton (1841-1909) was born in Beverley and studied medicine in Edinburgh.

He later became a distinguished obstetrician. £110 Aconite, a name given to plants of the hellebore family, commonly known as monkshood or wolfsbane, was the source of a poison known to the ancients. This book prints Fleming’s inaugural dissertation of 1844, in which he investigated the effects of both toxic and therapeutic doses of aconite on various parts of the animal and human body. The tincture of aconite which he prepared was found effective as a painkiller,

especially in cases of rheumatism. Fleming (1823-1875) was born in Edinburgh and graduated MD from the University, with this thesis. He later spent time on the continent and Ireland, but the greater part of his medical career was passed at the Queen’s College and Hospital at Birmingham, where he was well known both as a teacher and practitioner throughout the West Midlands. In 1859 he was elected as a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London. Fine copy of this scarce work.in a handsome presentation binding.

1021 POMPONII MELAE. De Situ orbis, libri III. cum notis integris Hermolai Barbari, Petri Joannis Olivarii, Fredenandi Nonii Pintiani, Petri Ciacconii, Andreae Schotti, Isaci Vossii, & Jacobi Gronovii. Accedunt Petri Joannis Nunnesii. et Jacobi Perizonii.....curante Abrahamo GronovioOratoris excerpta cosmographiae. Cosmographia falso aethicum. Auctorem praeferens cum variis lectionibus ex MS. ravennatis anonymi geographia, ex MS. Leidensi suppleta. Curante Abrahamo Gronovio.

Editio altera. Samuelem Luchtmans Et Fil. 1748 [18214] Tall 8vo. [xx] + 545 pp. Illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece and a folding engraved map of the known earth in classical times with numerous copperplate engravings in the text. Bound in full contemporary calf, skillfuly rebacked label on spine gilt and the spine in compartments decorated in gilt. An attractive example.

The plates are faintly and evenly browned and the text is free from blemish. £250 A corner of the title page has been torn away not affecting the text, otherwise a clean crisp example.

SIGNED HAZLITT. SASSOON’S COPY 1022 POPULATION - [HAZLITT, WILLIAM] A REPLY TO THE ESSAY ON POPULATION, BY THE REV. T.R. MALTHUS. In a Series of Letters. To which are added, Extracts from the Essay; with Notes. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row. 1807 [19371] First edition. 8vo. 5.25 x 8.5 inches. iv + 3-378 pp.

Despite irregularities in pagination (lacks pp.1-2, 41-42) and in the register (C8 cancelled as usual), the text is complete and is identical to Keynes 4. Bound in contemporary half-calf with blind stamped decoration, gilt decorated spine slightly rubbed, green morocco labels, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Some foxing and discolouration throughout. Philip Sassoon illustrated bookplate inside front paste-down and Port Lympne library label at foot of first blank. A copybook ink inscription, W Hazlitt 1807, at end of advertisement and smaller signatures, W. Hazlitt at end of letters I-III. These latter appear identical to that (using his earlier long z) in the Mary Evans Picture Library self-portrait and therefore are almost certainly the author’s actual signature. £850 The first three of the letters appeared originally in Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, 14 March and 16 and 23 May 1807, Cobbett being a friend of Hazlitt. The other two letters and the 'Extracts from the essay on population with a commentary, and notes.' were added specifically for the book. The author’s name does not appear on the title page but he has signed it several times in the text. William Hazlitt, painter, journalist and essayist (1778-1830) was born in Maidstone, the son of a

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE Unitarian minister. His view of the natural disinteredness of the human mind led him to assert his own optimistic view of human nature in contrast to the pessimism of Malthus, whose theory was based on self-interest, which he abhorred. Robert Malthus, the famed political economist (1766-1834) was an ordained minister of the church and professor of history and political economy at the East India College. He published the first edition of his most famous work, 'An Essay on the Principle of Population' in 1798 and the second expanded edition, to which Hazlitt is replying, in 1805. Hazlitt's impassioned attack on Malthus proved ineffective and in 1819, he referred to these early essays, 'the style of which is, I confess, a little exuberant,’ (quoted in Keynes, p.9). The work of Malthus, however, produced an immediate and lasting impact, leading to the taking of the first national census in 1801 and influencing writers and thinkers such as Darwin. The concept of a Malthusian crisis was influential in the twentieth century in popular culture, inspiring a new environmentalism, exemplified by the Club of Rome's 1972 report, The Limits to Growth.

This copy bears the bookplate of Philip Sassoon and a Port Lympne library label. Sir Philip Sassoon, third baronet (1888-1939) succeeded his father as Unionist M.P. for Hythe, Kent, in 1912. He completed his house, Port Lympne, above Romney Marsh, after the end of the war and it became a social centre for the famous of the day. A fine association copy of this scarce work, signed four times by the author.

1023 RAY, JOHN. THE WISDOM OF GOD MANIFESTED IN THE WORKS OF CREATION, IN TWO PARTS. Viz. The Heavenly Bodies, Elements, Meteors, Fossils, Vegetables, Animals, (Beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Insects) more particularly in the Body of the Earth, its Figure, Motion, and Consistency, and in the admirable Structure of the Bodies of Man, and other Animals, as also in their Generation, etc. By John Ray, Fellow of the Royal Society. The Second Edition, very much enlarged. Two volumes in one. Printed for Samuel Smith, at the Princes Arms in St. Paul’s Church-yard.

1692 [20471] Second edition. 8vo. 4.25 x 6.5 inches. First Part, [xxxii] + 206 pp. Second Part, [ii] + 176 pp. Includes dedication, preface, contents of both parts and advertisements at the beginning of the First Part. Separate dated title page, register and pagination for the Second Part. Running title throughout, The Wisdom of God in the Creation. Title page grimed and some browning and staining. Small portions missing at top and side of title page, not affecting text. £450 Ray’s observations on the natural world from the viewpoint of scripture and in the light of the workings of divine providence.

The first part considers the hypotheses of Aristotle, Epicurus and Descartes before surveying the heavenly bodies and the ‘Multitudes of Creatures’ on earth. The second part discusses ‘The Wisdom of God discovered in the Structure of the Body of Man.’ A long section examines ‘Of the eye, its beauty’ and a fine passage argues against the view ‘that Man is worse dealt with by Nature than other Creatures; whereas they have some Hair, some Shels, some Wool, some Feathers, some Scales, to defend themselves from the injuries of the Weather, Man alone is born Naked and without all Covering.’ Ray counters that whereas the other creatures ‘cannot at pleasure change their Coverings...a Man can alter his Cloathing according to the exigency of the Weather, go warm in Winter, and cool in Summer, cover up himself hot in the Night, and lay aside his Cloaths in the Day, and put on or off more or fewer according

as his Work, and Exercise is.’

John Ray (1627-1704), primarily known as a botanist and zoologist, was the first to lay down the correct principles of classification in the animal and vegetable kingdom, with a greater appreciation of the life and structure of organisms than his more famous successor, Linnaeus. He was, however, also a competent exponent of natural theology as this work illustrates. Raven believes that The Wisdom of God ‘is certainly his most popular and influential achievement’ and it continued to be reprinted throughout the eighteenth century. An early edition of a scarce and important work.

1024 RIVERS - THOMAS, B.F. and D.A. WATT. The Improvement of Rivers. A Treatise on the Methods Employed for Improving Streams for Open Navigation, and for Navigation by Means of Locks and Dams. New York : John Wiley & Sons. London Chapman and Hall, 1903 [11988] First Edition. Large 4to. xiv + 356 pp. with a large number of illustrations throughout and folding engineering drawings and sections. Bound in the original cloth gilt, slightly worn on extremities and a old damp stain on the rear board, otherwise a very good copy. £75 A first edition of what was to become one of the standard reference works of the subject in the twentieth century, largely based on American examples. Scarce.

1025 SEA-ANEMONES - GOSSE, PHILIP HENRY. A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH SEA-ANEMONES AND CORALS WITH COLOURED FIGURES OF THE SPECIES AND PRINCIPAL VARIETIES. London: Van Voorst 1860 [18818] First Edition. 8vo. xl + 362 pp. illustrated with a coloured frontispiece, 10 other fine coloured lithographed plates, one plate in monochrome and numerous engraved illustrations in the text by W. Dickes after drawings by Gosse. Bound in full calf with raised bands gilt title on green with red labels and elaborate floral motifs. This is an unsigned but high-quality binding £450 Gosse’s work on sea-anemones and corals is considered to be the most important of all his writings. A standard authority on the subject, it is profusely illustrated, and contains a coloured representation of every identified British species.

1026 SODDY, FREDERICK. LE RADIUM. Interpretation et Enseignements de la Radioactivite.

Librairie Felix Alcan, Paris. 1926 [11177] 384 pp. with 37 figures to the text. Original card wrappers. £100

EUROPEAN SPORTING CLASSIC 1027 SPORT - AFLALO, FREDERICK GEORGE. SPORT IN EUROPE. Edited by F.G.Aflalo. Illustrated from drawings by Achibald Thorburn, E. Caldwell, and E.F.T. Bennett and from photographs. Sands and Co., London 1901 [19832] 4to. 7.75 x 10.25 inches. Frontis. + xii + 483 pp. + [1].

Illustrated with 54 full-page plates including frontispiece (some of the plates are paginated as text), and 80 halftones in the text. Printer’s colophon on verso of title page and at end. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with great bustard on spine and elk on front boards and repeat of title within border and mounted elk’s head on rear

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE boards. Top edges gilt. Slight wear to edges of boards and occasional foxing, otherwise a clean interior. £200 The editor, Frederick George Aflalo (1870-1918) was a prolific author of books on wildlife, and fishing, hunting and sport in many parts of the world. He also edited The Sports of the World (2 vols.1902-03).

This volume is lavishly illustrated and includes the work of two of the foremost wildlife artists of the day. Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935) contributed five double plates, mostly of game birds, and the striking red deer stag frontispiece. He was the son of a miniaturist favoured by Queen Victoria, and sketched birds and animals in the field, his work being remarkably lifelike and natural for the time. Thorburn is now regarded as Britain’s greatest ornithological artist; indeed, as one of the great bird painters of all time.

Fourteen splendid and very lively full-page animal studies are contributed by Edmund Caldwell (1852-1930). He was born in Canterbury, studied under Sidney Cooper and became a talented animal painter and book illustrator. This copy was part of his own collection.

Included is a loosely inserted sheet of artwork on board by Caldwell. It includes head studies of hare and rabbit and red, roe and fallow deer. The roe deer head is very similar to that of the full length animal on the plate facing p.97. The name of the publisher, Sands, is written in pencil on the back of the board and it is obviously the the artwork for another of its publications, possibly ‘Types of British Animals’ by Aflalo (1899). A fine copy, with an interesting provenance.

DEER HUNTING CLASSIC 1028 SPORT - COLLYNS, CHARLES PALK. NOTES ON THE CHASE OF THE WILD RED DEER IN THE COUNTIES OF DEVON AND SOMERSET With an appendix descriptive of remarkable runs and incidents connected with the chase from the year 1780 to the year 1860. By Charles Palk Collyns of Dulverton, Surgeon. Edited by the Hon.L.J. Bathurst. Illustrated by E.Caldwell Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London, 1902 [19831] 8vo. 7.75 x 10 inches. Frontis. + xxviii + 307 pp.

Appendix, notes of chases between the years 1780 and 1825 and 1827-60. Illustrated with eight plates, including frontis. and 28 illustrations in text which have been separately printed and applied above their letterpress titles (those on pp. 261 and 307 not captioned or listed).

Bound in quarter vellum, gilt red boards, with decorative gold block in border on front and gilt tops. Endpapers foxed and stained. Interior clean with deckle edges, a few pages carelessly opened, affecting only margins. Pencil inscription on verso of half title, £150 No.61 of limited edition of 250. This is the second edition; the first was published in 1862 and the third in 1907.

The author, Charles Palk Collyns (1793-1864) was born in Kenton, near Exeter. He trained in London at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and studied at the Devon and Exeter Hospital, before settling at Dulverton in 1814. Here he was well placed to pursue his interest in deer hunting, through the Devon and Somerset Stag Hunt, with whom he had hunted for forty six years at the time of publication.

The editor, the Hon. Lancelot Julian Bathurst (1868-1928) was a younger brother of Seymour Henry, the seventh Earl Bathurst, whose family owned the Morning Post, 1908-24. L.

J. Bathurst was Master of the Puckeridge Foxhounds, 1894-96.

The illustrator, Edmund Caldwell (1852-1930) contributed eight full page plaes and all but one of the 28 half tones in the text. He was born in Canterbury, studied under Sidney Cooper and became a talented animal painter and book illustrator.

This copy is inscribed by him and was part of his own file collection.

A fine copy of this handsomely produced limited edition.

FIRST EDITION OF GILBERT WHITE 1029 WHITE, GILBERT. THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE, IN THE COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON. With Engravings, and an Appendix. London: Printed by T.Bensley; For B.White and Son. 1789 [19081] FIRST EDITION. 4to. v + 468 pp. + [14]. Letterpress title, engraved folding frontispiece panorama, engraved title with vignette illustration, illustrated with 6 further plates, one of which is folding, and one on the title page to the second half. Separate section title and page heads for The Antiquities of Selborne. Complete with five Latin appendices, index and errata leaf. This copy has the usual errors in pagination as noted by Martin. Slight water mark on lower edges of plates 8 and 9, but not affecting the engravings. Bound in the original marbled boards, rebacked with a new gilt spine with red morocco label, and gilt decoration in compartments using flower and other tools. These have combined to produce a fine binding completely in keeping with the period and feel of this lovely book. A rare unpressed and untrimmed example just as it was issued. As this first edition has long been sought after by collectors most copies found today have been trimmed and rebound, discarding the original boards and losing much character. £1,500 A very nice copy of this classic work of literature and natural history which has never been out of print since this, its first appearance. Gilbert White’s name does not appear on the title page but the Advertisement is signed, Gil. White, Selborne, January 1st, 1788. The Natural History section is in the form of letters addressed to Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington. The Antiquities section, describing the history of the parish of Selborne, is also in epistle format but not addressed to known correspondents. The plates feature Birds, fossils, two engravings of Selborne church and several views of the village including a splendid panorama. This first edition cost one guinea when published and it is probable that no other book of Natural History has been more influential, Charles Darwin wrote that when about sixteen years old, ‘ From reading White’s Selbourne, I took much pleasure in watching the habits of Birds, and even made notes on the subject’. Thus Darwin’s attention was drawn to the subject of Natural History by Gilbert White, as were a host of others from all over the world, and the new science of Natural History became something any enquiring mind could indulge in, and non professionals could produce work of scientific importance.

PHILIP SASSOON’S COPY 1030 ZOOS [RENNIE, JAMES.] THE MENAGERIES, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MONKEYS, OPOSSUMS AND LEMURS. With Engravings on wood by J. J. Jackson after Drawings by

NATURAL HISTORY and SCIENCE W. Harvey. Nattali and Bond, 23, Bedford Street Covent Garden. 1850 [19764] 8vo. vi + [ii] + 442 pp. Illustrated with 19 wood engravings in the text. Bound in the original green blind stamped and gilt decorated cloth. With the engraved bookplate of Philip Sassoon on the front board. £250 The book came to us among a general collection of material, which contained two other books from the Library at Port Lympne (Hazlitt, and a volume of poetry). It was purchased in auction and the vendor deceased. The auctioneer would not disclose his name, but said he had lived in Hythe. I don’t know the fate of the Library at Port Lympne, perhaps some books were disposed of locally.

It is intriguing to speculate - was Sir Philip considering starting a zoo at Port Lympne? Did he own a pet monkey?

A very nice copy of an attractive Victorian manual on apes, which was published anonymously. However it is recorded as the work of James Rennie (1787–1867), author, naturalist and lecturer whose work has undergone upward reappraisal among the scientific community, and Darwin scholars in particular, over the last few years.

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ADDENDUM *** AN EXTRAORDINARY ITEM 1031 CHAMBERS, CAPTAIN SAMUEL, RN. MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK - NEW LIGHT ON TRAFALGAR. [20513] Manuscript notebook, 10 x 15 x 2.8cm, marbled endpapers, unpaginated, much of text faint but readable. Late 18th century watermark. Bound in full leather, which is showing evidence of wear. Hinges strained and some pages loose. Displayed in a new drop-back box. £9,500 This Manuscript Notebook was compiled by Samuel Chambers, one of the swashbuckling Captains of Nelson's Navy. Among Chambers’ many exploits, it is recorded that in the three years following being made a captain in 1804, he captured, recaptured and destroyed no less than fifty vessels. In 1814 he was involved in the transportation of the Portuguese Royal Family from Brazil to Portugal, and ferried Simon Bolivar from La Guiara to Carthagena in 1827.

The notebook, written in a fine copper-plate hand, contains detailed information about signals, his Rio de Janeiro voyage, several detailed lists of the men serving on his various commissions, and other material. Perhaps most significant is the section entitled ‘Signals made previous to, and in the action off Cape Trafalgar’ (19-21 October 1805). The Battle of Trafalgar, the total defeat of the French Fleet, is the greatest of Britain’s naval victories, and most resonant because of the death of Nelson. The lengthy record of signals is a telegraph log of the battle, and as Trafalgar represents a very early use of the then unofficial ‘Home Popham’ system of telegraphy, includes the most famous of all naval signals in British history: ‘England Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty’.

The log is from H.M.S. Euryalus, possibly deriving from the signal lieutenant. It does not originate from the master's log, but includes many telegraph signals NOT recorded there, thereby adding to our knowledge of the events at Trafalgar.

Below is an abbreviated but physically accurate list of the content of the notebook. Obviously inspection is needed.

[Title] Samuel Chambers Esq., Captain of HM Ship Dover (inscription) [2] Illustrations of signals from ‘Chace’ (1) to ‘Bring Chace under hail’ (221) to ‘Annul’ (no number given) , with attractive coloured drawings of flags for various masts. Not the Home Popham (1 = Chace, 133 = Tack or Wear), information columned: Pendts \ No. | Flag [illustrated] \ No. | Purport. The first column describes where the flag goes (which mast etc.).

[4-15] ‘Signals to Armed Schooners and Tenders’, giving numbers and significations (‘An Enemy in Sight’ = 1, ‘Having Struck on a Shoal’ = 37, ‘Having discovered land’ = 43, etc., etc.), 44-79 not given, 80-143 signification given, followed by one page of ‘Night Signals for Schooners and Tenders’, illustrated with representation of lanterns, significations 1-7, then further (on opp. page, significations 1-27, 28 not filled in). Again not Home Popham (e.g. 1 = An Enemy in Sight). Nor Howe (except for (1) according to online research.

[17-22] ‘The following Orders are to be Obey'd by the Officers & Crew of His Majesty's Sloop Port Mahon’. Details of the duties of the Senior Lieutenant (correct lists, orders obeyed promptly, etc.), duties of the officers in charge of watches, followed by details of washing days, when the crew are supposed to change to clean shirts, meal times, exercise, distribution of provisions (cheese on Sunday Tuesday and Thursday), surgeon's duties, lighting the range, etc., etc.

[23-29] Hammock List fr Watch Bill His Majesty's Sloop Port Mahon’ (names and functions from ‘Main Top Starbd’ to Carpenters, to Marines, etc.). The number of the hammock is columned, names in pencil.

[31-41] Quarter Bill of His Majesty's Sloop Port Mahon’, names, positions (e.g. ‘3rd Gun & Opposite’, Marines, ‘Fire Men, etc., etc., with abbreviations of information about ‘quarters’ or placement in margins, much in pencil.

[43-45] ‘Mooring & Unmooring’, headings of positions in ink, names in pencil [47-48] ‘Weighing’ (as above).

[49] ‘Capstan Bar Men’ (as above).

[50-71] Headings with names associated as above, from ‘Loosing Sails’ to ‘In Harbour when Sails are loos'd to Dry’ to ‘Fore Topsail Halliards’ to ‘To attend the Marines’.

[72] ‘Arachne's Station Bill’ [in large letters] [73-76] From Starboard Fore Castle (‘Thos Hardy’) to ‘Carpenters’, heading in ink, names in pencil. [77-85] blank.

[86-113] Headed ‘Signals made previous to and in the action off Cape Trafalgar

October 19th & 21st’.

[114-117] blank.

[118-126] Heading in large letters ‘Rio de Janeiro’. He gives advice, born of experience, about the route, landmarks, probable weather conditions, recommended procedures, features of the coast, features of the city, anchorage, etc.

Concluding with ‘Angles from the Boat’ (e.g. ‘Fort St. Cruz & Largo 13° 56’)..[127-182] blank [182] is the end of notes started at the other end of the notebook to be numbered from [i] -. i. Blank

[ii-vi] Exhaustive technical detail of [HMS Dover?] (‘Tonnage 1715’, ‘Masts and Yards’, anchors, etc. etc.) Not obvious which ship. Later reference to the ‘Dover’ (see [ix]) Information columned in different ways, depending on object (e.g.

Masts (Nature | No. of each | Cloths [Head, Foot] | Deep Yard | [?] |; and Boats Launch | Lugger | 16 [oars] | Length | Breadth). [viii] blank [ix-x] ‘Dimensions of Dover, 2nd Barges Sails Masts, Yards, &c’. [xi-xvii] blank [xviii-xix] ‘A Table for finding the distance of Ships in the Line’, columnised (first column ‘Guns’). [xx-xxiii] ‘Explanation of the annexed Table’, followed by ‘Remarks’. [xxiv-xxx] blank [xxxi] Written to be filled in ‘DUNCAN'S’. [HMS Duncan 74, 1814 commission for Chambers]. [xxxii-liii] Headings with exhaustive list of names of personnel in various parts of the Duncan 74 from ‘Forecastle’ to the ‘Boys’, columnised (Names | Country | Profession | Yrs at sea. | Age | Feet | Inches | Helm | Lead | Row | Boats). Initials are used for Country, including E, I, S, but also A [America?], Afr [Africa?], Prus [Prussian?]. Many are attributed professions, commonly Sea and Lab, but also stonemason, brushmaker, dyer, shoemaker, glazier, etc., etc. [liv-lv] blank [lvi] Names headed ‘Poop’, very faint. [lvii-lxxii] Exhaustive list of names from ‘Quarterdeck’ (Captain Chambers down) to ‘Boarders & Spungers’ to ‘Fire & Lanthorn Men’, giving ‘Station’ on the ship.

Variation of Signals at Trafalgar, Chambers vs Sturge Jackson (NRS) To give some idea of the contents, I draw a comparison between the Signals involving the ‘Euryalus’ at Trafalgar, recorded in Chamber's Notebook, and in T. Sturge Jackson (Logs of the Great Sea Fights 1794-1805 (NRS, 1981), mainly the opening pages. Chambers commences at 8.30 [a.m.] 19 Oct, Jackson at 6.4.[6.04 a.m.]. He does not record the early morning signals which appear in Jackson, but commences with a signal not in Jackson, as follows: ‘Teleg. Communicate Intelligence As fast as you can to [Rendez] Gibraltar [8.30]’. ‘Gibraltar’ is given the number ‘72’ which Home Popham 1806 translates as ‘Army, Armistice’. Later references as well as this suggest different codes being used.

Chambers’ next has Phoebe to Euryalus, ‘784 [[Co. No.?] Ships in the North’, ‘784’ being ‘Ships’ (Home Popham 1806) Chambers then has ‘792’ trans. ‘Signal’ (still no equivalent in Jackson).

Then 9.20 am ‘370 | Admy \ Enemy ships coming out Port | Strange ship in the North’. Jackson has ‘370’ ‘Enemy are coming out of port’ at 7.20 a.m. (note time variant), but ‘370’ in Home Popham 1806 translates as ‘His’, ‘Admy’ [Admiralty?] presumably indicating a different or variant code.

Of signals that immediately follow, Naiad to Euryalus in Chambers precedes a signal both Chambers and Jackson have (‘Make all sail’ 307 Admy, 9.30 vs. 8.40 in Jackson), following in Jackson. Again neither has used ‘307’ as Home Popham 1806.

Variation of the timing of signals is apparently normal.

Chambers records: ‘England Expect [sic] that Every Man will do his Duty, Victory to General, 11.35, Repeated to the Naiad immediately’. NOT in Jackson's list of signals but it is in the Log. All the above looks extremely complex, and is. I would like to acknowledge the kind assistance of Dr N.A.M. Rodger in helping me to understand the complicated business of naval signals and his fantastic knowledge of the naval canon.

remains important in Kentish cartography as the first 'modern' survey, here shown on one map. This outline of the county became something of a classic, it was widely copied and was still being used in the late nineteenth century. Further copies of the index map are available, priced according to finish.

ADDENDA *** 1032. ANDREWS, J., A. DURY, AND W. HERBERT. FARNBOROUGH/ORPINGTON - A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT IN TWENTY FIVE SHEETS. SHEET NUMBER 6 - WICKHAM AND HAYES TOP LEFT. SWANLEY TOP RIGHT. SEVENOAKS BOTTOM RIGHT. WESTERHAM BOTTOM LEFT. N.B. A SMALL AMOUNT OF THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE MAP, PART OF SURREY, IS BLANK. THE MAP DETAIL SHOWS ONLY KENT. London. 1769 [18291] Copper-engraving in original outline colouring. Sheet approximately 19 x 28 inches. A fine example with good margins. £250

1035. —— ROMNEY MARSH A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT IN TWENTY FIVE SHEETS. SHEET NUMBER 23 ROMNEY MARSH - RYE - BROOKLAND WALLAND MARSH. London. 1769 [9214] Copper engraving in original outline colouring. Sheet approximately 19 x 28 inches. £175 1036. —— ROMNEY MARSH A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT IN TWENTY FIVE SHEETS. SHEET NUMBER 24 ROMNEY MARSH - LYDD - NEW ROMNEY DYMCHURCH. London. 1769 [9215] Copper engraving in original outline colouring. Sheet approximately 19 x 28 inches. £175

The map shows Wickham, Wickham Court, Farnborough, Orpington, the Crays, Swanley, Chelsfield, Lullingstone, Shoreham, Chevening, Brasted and Sundridge among other more or less important places.

1037. —— TENTERDEN - A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT IN TWENTY FIVE SHEETS. SHEET NUMBER 18 - FRITTENDEN TOP LEFT TO HOTHFIELD AND ASHFORD TOP RIGHT. HAM STREET BOTTOM RIGHT. ROLVENDEN AND IDEN GREEN BOTTOM LEFT WITH TENTERDEN, HIGH HALDEN, BETHERSDEN AND WOODCHURCH ROUGHLY CENTRAL. London. 1769 [18290] Copper engraving in original outline colouring. Sheet approximately 19 x 28 inches. This example is dissected and laid onto linen to form a folding map but here mounted flat. A fine example. £250

FACSIMILE REPRINT 1033. —— KENT - A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT IN TWENTY FIVE SHEETS. ON A SCALE OF TWO INCHES TO A MILE, FROM AN ACTUAL SURVEY; IN WHICH ARE EXPRESSED ALL THE ROADS, LANES, CHURCHES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMENS SEATS, ROMAN ROADS, HILLS, RIVERS, WOODS, COTTAGES AND EVERY THING REMARKABLE IN THE COUNTY; TOGETHER WITH THE DIVISION OF THE LATHES AND THEIR SUBDIVISION INTO HUNDREDS. London Printed for A. Dury in Dukes Court St. Martins Lane and W. Herbert at No 27 in Gulstons Sq. White Chappel, Published according to Act of Parliament January ye 1st. 1769 but reprinted by Harry Margary, Lympne Castle Kent. 1968 [18867] Folio. Engraved title and dedication, (forming sheets 25 and 21), index map of the county and 23 copper engraved maps. Each sheet approx. 19 x 28 ins. The de-luxe edition bound in original cloth. In very good condition. £175

A few sets of Andrews and Dury’s great map of Kent were dissected to form a series of folding maps, this being one such.

They are quite scarce in this format.

1038. —— THAMES ESTUARY A TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT IN TWENTY FIVE SHEETS. SHEET NUMBER 3 HUNDRED OF HOO - SHERENESS - THAMES ESTUARY. London. 1769 [9198] Copper engraving in original outline colouring. Sheet approximately 19 x 28 inches. £100

A facsimile of the rare atlas of the county of Kent providing an affordable example of this great map (the original is well into four figures). Andrews and Dury published their famous atlas some thirty years before the Ordnance Survey and they immediately became the best large scale maps of the county - it is thought Edward Hasted based his maps of the Hundreds of Kent on Andrews and Dury’s work. The fine engraved hatching at once distinguishes these sheets from other maps of the period and the use of the large scale enables one to see individual houses and particularly the country seats, many of which are identified with their owners’ names. Also available in card wrappers at £75.

A large area of this map is the Thames estuary, but this is dotted with sand banks and ships. The town of Sheerness is on the right at the bottom of this sheet with the mouth of the Medway separating the Isle of Sheppy and the The Isle of Grean [sic] and most of the Hundred of Hoo.

1039. BLAEU, J. CANTIUM VERNACULE KENT. [ENGRAVED MAP OF KENT]. Amsterdam Joan Blaeu.

1646 [17938] Double-page copper-engraved map, 15 x 21 inches, uncoloured with very large margins from the second Blaeu issue with latin text on the reverse. A very fine example. £500

1034. —— KENT - A TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT - THE INDEX MAP OF THE WHOLE COUNTY. London. 1769 [17934] Copper-engraved map, 19 x 27 inches, fully hand-coloured producing a very decorative effect. Good margins all around, a particularly attractive example. £300

Joan Blaeu’s attractive map of the county, combining all the fine points of Dutch cartography at the height of its influence. With eight coats of arms, and fine title cartouche, this sheet is finished with five well-engraved sailing ships dotting the sea . First issued in 1645-62 but this comes from the second issue with latin text on the reverse and is a fine dark impression.

Highly detailed sheet covering the entire county. For easy reference and engraved with a twenty-five square grid shows how the larger-scale sheets are divided. Thomas Kitchin, the well known engraver, produced this map for the publishers, and it

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chart of the Downs and the dedication cartouche of the larger sheet. The pictorial and allegorical cartouche depicting the maritime and agricultural prowess of the county differs in several details but remains largely the same.

1040. —— CANTIUM VERNACULE KENT. [ENGRAVED MAP OF KENT]. [P. Mortier] Amsterdam 1645, but 1714-15 [15471] Double-page copper-engraved map, 15 x 21 inches, in fine contemporaneous hand-colouring. Mounted in conservation materials. A very fine example. £600

SMALL BOWEN AND KITCHIN’S KENT 1767

This impression of the plate is the very last issue of this map with a grid added, showing degrees and minutes. Issued in 1714-15 by P. Mortier in his composite Atlas. Despite the late date the plate is still very crisp and the quality of the original hand-colouring is very fine.

1043. —— KENT DIVIDED INTO ITS LATHES. AND SUBDIVIDED INTO HUNDREDS; EXHIBITING THE CITIES, BOROUGH AND MARKET TOWNS WITH CONCISE HISTORICAL EXTRACTS, RELATING TO TRADE AND MANUFACTURERS. DESCRIBING ALSO THE CHURCH LIVINGS WITH IMPROVEMENTS NOT INSERTED IN ANY OTHER SET OF HALF SHEET COUNTY MAPS EXTANT. [Thomas Kitchin in Atlas Anglicanus] 1767 [17976] Hand-coloured copper engraving. 9 x 12.5 inches. A fine example in very attractive colour. £250

LARGEST BOWEN AND KITCHIN’S KENT 1760 1041. BOWEN, EMANUEL. BOWEN, EMANUEL AND THOMAS KITCHIN AN ACCURATE MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT DIVIDED INTO ITS LATHES, AND SUBDIVIDED INTO HUNDREDS. DRAWN FROM SURVEYS, AND MOST APPROVED MODERN MAPS, WITH VARIOUS ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS: ILLUSTRATED WITH HISTORICAL EXTRACTS, RELATIVE TO THE AIR, SOIL, NATURAL PRODUCE, MANUFACTURES, TRADE AND PRESENT STATE OF ITS CITIES AND PRINCIPAL TOWNS. BY EMAN: BOWEN GEOGRAPHER TO HIS MAJESTY. London printed for Robert Sayer in Fleet Street, Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Churchyard, n.d. but [1760] [15659] Copper-engraved map, 21 x 27.5 inches, in original handcolouring. A fine clean example with good margins. £550

Atlas Anglicanus was first published in 1767 by Thomas Kitchin issuing the Bowens’ large maps on a reduced scale making them more easily affordable. Such was its popularity that a second edition was issued in 1777.

SMALLEST OF BOWEN AND KITCHIN’S KENT 1767 1044. —— KENT DIVIDED INTO ITS LATHES. CONTAINING THE CITIES BOROUGHS AND MARKET TOWNS WITH THE ROADS AND DISTANCES. Engraved for the General Magazine of Arts & Sciences for W. Owen at Temple Bar. 1756 [17974] Hand-coloured copper engraving 8 x 7.5 inches. £100

This is the largest of Bowen’s clasic eighteenth century maps of the county. From Bowen and Kitchin’s Large English Atlas which was published over a period of eleven years between 1749 and 1760, and forms a highly important series of large scale English County maps, some of the best produced in the eighteenth century.

Crammed with information, detailed notes of historical and topographical facts fill all the available space surrounding the map. Inset is a chart of the Downs and completing this imposing sheet, a large pictorial and allegorical cartouche depicting the maritime and agricultural importance of the count.y

Attractive map of Kent, similar to that published for the Universal Magazine in 1751 but with numerous differences

TWO SHEETS FROM 65 MILES AROUND LONDON 1045. DEAL - ANDREWS, J., A. DURY, AND W. HERBERT. TWO SHEETS FROM THEIR MAP OF THE COUNTRY SIXTY FIVE MILES ROUND LONDON. THE SHEETS ARE NOS 1 AND 3 BEING THE ROMNEY MARSH TO AND INCLUDING DEAL COASTLINE AND THE HINTERLAND TO ASHFORD AND CANTERBURY. September 10th, 1777 by John Andrews and Andrew Dury, but reissued by J. Stockdale.

1807 [18289] Large folio. Two sheets joined, 36 x 27 inches.

Attractively hand-coloured. Sheet No.1 contains only a corner of the Romney Marsh, but includes the title page to the whole work. Bound in recent dark red half-morocco with marbled boards, spine labelled. Clean and free from foxing, but there is some offsetting on to the plates, especially those with a considerable amount of sea. This map seems prone to this but the offsetting here is lighter than others I have seen. This is a fine example. The list of subscribers’ names is engraved in the blank area, i.e. the sea. £300

MID SIZE BOWEN AND KITCHIN’S KENT 1762 1042. —— AN ACCURATE MAP OF THE COUNTY OF KENT DIVIDED INTO ITS LATHES, AND SUBDIVIDED INTO HUNDREDS. DRAWN FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES AND ADORNED WITH VIEWS OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCHES OF CANTERBURY AND ROCHESTER, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE DIOCESES AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS. Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Churchyard, I. Ryall and R. Sayer in Fleet Street, T. Kitchin on Holborn Hill, H. Overton without Newgate, I. Bowles and H. Parker in Cornhill, London. 1762 [18001] Copper-engraved map, 20 x 16.5 inches, outlined in original hand-colouring. Lightly browned with traces of old fold but a very fine example. £350 From the first edition of The Royal English Atlas engraved by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin - the maps being very similar to those published in the Large English Atlas, some of the best produced in the eighteenth century. Similar detailed notes of historical and topographical facts fill all the available space surrounding the map. As noted in the title, the Cathedrals of Canterbury and Rochester are shown on this sheet replacing the

Rare example of these 2 sheets from the 20 sheet map on a scale of about 1 inch to a mile. An amazing amount of detail with gentlemen’s houses and lesser dwellings, woodlands and parklands clearly shown. The list of subscribers accounts for just 101 copies. Stockdale reissued the entire map in 1807 as here. All the issues are rare.

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Somerset Herald, land and water bailiff, MP for Sandwich and a royalist during the Civil War. John’s book, The New Description of Kent, was never published and it is uncertain to what extent it formed the basis for the work by his son, Thomas (d.1682), who spent most of his life at Greenwich. This copy is unusual in that the map,by Philip Symonson of Rochester, and the first engraved map of the county, is present in fine condition as issued. First published in 1595, (only one complete copy known), it is considered the most accomplished specimen of English cartography before the eighteenth century. Such was the importance of the map that, it being only the second English printed map to show roads, in most copies it was removed by earlier owners. Here it appears in its third state with the engraved views of Rye and Dover, the former after Anthony Van Dyck, the latter drawn and engraved by W. Hollar. The book has an interesting provenance, having been left to Charles Wentworth George Howard (1814-79), a younger son of the sixth Earl of Carlisle and Georgiana Cavendish, of Castle Howard, by Sir David Dundas of Ochtertyre, Perthshire (1799-1877), MP for Sutherland, who held office as Solicitor General, 1846-48 and Judge Advocate General, 1849-52. It was later owned by Major John Addison Botley, of Challock, Kent, who served in both world wars.

1046. DOVER - ANDREWS, J., A. DURY, AND W. HERBERT. DOVER - A TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT - SHEET 20 - DOVER LYDDEN - RINGWOULD. London, 1769 [16540] Hand-coloured copper-engraved map, 19 x 28 inches, mounted in conservation materials. A fine example. £300 The Dover map of the rare 25-sheet atlas of Kent. On a scale of 2 inches to the mile, the coastline extends from East Wear Bay at Folkestone in the south, to St. Margaret's Bay in the north, whilst the country behind is shown from Alkham out to Waldershare and Coldred.

1047. DOVER - OGILBY, JOHN. THE ROAD FROM LONDON TO DOVER........ [London] n.d. but, 1675 [20540] Handcoloured copper engraving 12½ x 16½ inches, with decorative cartouche. A very good copy with wide margins and attractive colouring. £300 John Ogilby’s famous strip road maps were the first engraved sheets to map England’s roads. They combine a decorative title cartouche with the detailed and practical arrangement of sections or strip, in this case six strips from London in the lower left corner of the map, though Rochester and Canterbury to Dover.

1048. PHILIPOTT, THOMAS. VILLARE CANTIANUM: OR KENT SURVEYED AND ILLUSTRATED. Being an exact Description of all the Parishes, Boroughs, Villages, and other respective Manors Included in the County of Kent; And, the Original and Intermedial Possessors of them, even until these Times.

Drawn out of Charters, Escheat-Rolls, Fines, and other Publick Evidences; but especially out of Gentlemens Private Deeds and Muniments. By Thomas Philipott Esq; formerly of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. To which is added An Historical Catalogue of the High-Sheriffs of Kent: Collected by John Phillipott Esq; Father to the Authour.

Printed by William Godbid, and are to be sold at his House over against the Anchor Inne in Little Brittain, London.

1659. [20610] Small Folio. 7.75 x 11.5 inches; map, 30.5 x 20.75 inches. [xii] + 401 pp. + [1] with mispaginations as noted by Smith. Illustrated by large folding engraved map, A New Description of Kent, 4 text engravings and decorated initials. This copy lacks one leaf of the preliminary matter called for (Second Addenda), but the revisions appear to have been made to the text (and noted ‘Addenda’ in the margins) and this leaf discarded.

Bound in eighteenth century diced brown morocco, rebacked, boards with decorative gilt border, continuing as inside dentelles; spine divided into compartments by decorative gilt rules, gilt title.

Marbled endpapers.

Extremities worn. Some early annotations and corrections. Small tear at foot of 2D2, not affecting legibility. Otherwise the text is in fine crisp condition, as is the map. Armorial bookplates of Charles W. G. Howard, The Gift of The Rt. Hon: Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre, 1877 and of John Addison Botley. Altogether an exceptional example of both the book and the very rare map. £2,750 The scarce first issue of Philipott's great county history complete with the rare map. This work is one of the key books on the county. Smith says ‘A very valuable performance, as an early history of property, and continues to be highly and justly prized.

Though the son takes the credit, there can be little doubt but that much of it was written by the father.’ John Philipott (1589-1645) who was born in Folkestone and later lived in Eltham, was

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