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Children's and Illustrated Books 123 - 158
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Travel and Topography 200 - 261
The Arts, Architecture, Collecting 262 - 286
General Subjects, History, Theology, Militaria. 287 - 331
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LITERATURE FIRST EDITIONS, CLASSICS, BIOGRAPHY
1. A‟BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of England. The Comic History of Rome. Illustrated by John Leech. London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. [c.1880]. Three volumes, 4to. 30 hand coloured plates plus illustrations in the text, a few spots, marbled endpapers and sides, armorial bookplates of Ivor A.B. Ferguson. Contemporary red half morocco, a.e.g., top of one spine with slight loss, spines and extremities with some mostly light wear. £200
2. AESOP. Fables of Aesop, And other Eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflections. By Sir Roger L‟Estrange, Kt. [bound with] Fables and Storyes Moralized. Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop... London: Printed for R. Sare [et al] 1699. Two works in one volume, first work third edition, second work first edition, folio, (xviii), 476, (xvi), 238, (2 advertisement) pp. Portrait and frontispiece plates, some occasional browning, some bumping of corners. Contemporary panelled calf, some wear to edges and corners, rebacked in a lighter calf retaining the original spine label. £750 A furiously prolific journalist and pamphleteer, L‟Estrange‟s edition of Aesop first appeared in 1692 and is described by DNB as “the most extensive collection of fables in existence”. Wing A709, L1247.
3. ALMANACK: A Chatto & Windus Almanack 1926. Limited edition, no. 138 of 250 copies, 8vo, (x), 151, (1) pp. 6 black and white plates, plus decorative borders and a full page coloured illustration to Albert Rutherston‟s Calendar. Original buckram backed printed boards, some light marking, spine a little faded. £75 Collecting extracts from Chatto and Windus‟ books, including pieces on Lytton Strachey and Aldous Huxley and by Roger Fry, Chekov, Proust and Clive Bell.
4. AUSTEN, Jane. [Works]. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey. Persuasion. Lady Susan and the Watsons. London: Martin Secker [c.1920]. Adelphi edition, seven volumes, 8vo. Recent red half morocco, gilt decorated spines, a fine set. See inside upper cover. £700
5. BARNES, William. Poems from... Selected and Edited by Walter Partridge with a preface by Mark Franklin. Sutton Mandeville: Perdix Press 1981. Limited edition, no. 56 of 100 copies, signed by both the Printer and Illustrator, tall 8vo, 34, (2) pp. Frontispiece and one other wood engraving by Robert Tilleard, plus a signed copy of the frontispiece engraving loosely inserted. Printed wrappers, fine. £60 A 19th century poet best known for his verse written in Dorset dialect.
SIGNED COPY 6. BELLOW, Saul. More Die of Heartbreak. New York: William Morrow and Company (1987). First edition, 8vo, 335, (1) pp. Inscribed from the Author on the half title. Cloth backed boards, d.w., not price clipped but with the edges of the flaps slightly browned, a near fine copy. £100
7. BLAKE, William. Songs of Experience. (London: Ernest Benn 1927). Large 8vo, (28) leaves. 27 coloured illustrations, the leaves printed on rectos only. Gilt decorated cloth, a couple of marks otherwise fine. £50 An elegant edition printed on Japanese vellum.
8. (BRONTË, Anne). Agnes Grey. A Novel by Acton Bell. Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press 1931. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, (viii), 220 pp. Frontispiece and one plate by Jack Hewer plus a drawing by the Author. Original gilt titled orange cloth, a couple of very minor marks otherwise a fine copy. £75
9. (BRONTË, Anne). The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. By Acton Bell. Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press 1931. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 2 volumes 8vo. 5 plates by Jack Hewer. Original gilt titled orange cloth, fine. £125
10. BRONTË, Charlotte. Villette. Oxford University Press, Henry Frowde (1906). Small 8vo, vi, 573, (3), (8 advertisement) pp. Portrait frontispiece and decorative title, later inscription to fly leaf. Contemporary quarter vellum with gilt leaves and a black label to spine, t.e.g., a very good copy. £40
11. (BRONTË, Charlotte). The Professor. By Currer Bell. Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press 1931. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, (x), 283, (1) pp. Frontispiece by Jack Hewer and a view of Brussels by Colonel Batty. Original gilt titled orange cloth, a fine copy. £75
12. (BRONTË, Charlotte). Villette. Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press 1931. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 2 volumes 8vo. 6 plates including 2 by Jack Hewer. Original gilt titled orange cloth, a few very minor marks otherwise a fine copy. £125
13. (BRONTË, Emily). Wuthering Heights. A Novel by Ellis Bell. Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press 1931. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, (xii), 385, (1), 9, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 3 plates by Jack Hewer. Original gilt titled orange cloth, a couple of very minor marks otherwise a fine copy. £95
14. BRONTË, Charlotte, Anne & Emily. Novels of the Sisters Brontë. Jane Eyre. Shirley. Villette. The Professor. Wuthering Heights. Agnes Grey. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. [with] GASKELL, Elizabeth. The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Edited by Temple Scott. Edinburgh: John Grant 1924. Thornton Edition, 12 volumes, 8vo. 67 plates. Original gilt decorated green cloth, an excellent bright set still protected by their original d.w.‟s, these with some browning and marks and minor loss to the spine ends. £525
15. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Last Poems. London: Chapman and Hall 1862. First edition, 8vo, (xii), 142, (2 advertisement) pp. Contemporary signature to half title, sellotape marks to paste downs. Original blind stamped purple cloth, spine and edges a little sunned, some light marks. Wise 19. £150
16. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. The Poetical Works of... London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1897. 8vo, xxi, (i), 667, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece, marbled endpapers and sides, a little foxing to blanks and half title, contemporary inscription “As a souvenir of the [Glasgow] exhibition of 1901...”. Contemporary brown half morocco, period style gilt decoration to spine, t.e.g., some light wear to extremities otherwise good. £50
17. BURROUGHS, William. The Naked Lunch. Paris: The Olympia Press (1959). First edition, first issue, 8vo, 225, (3) pp. Original paper wrappers, d.w. with only the faintest of rubbing to the top of the spine. A near fine copy. £1,850 The first issue with the green title border, but with the price crossed out and the new price stamped on the lower cover, and the price blacked out to the lower wrapper. See lower cover.
18. CHILDE, Wilfred Roland. Selected Poems. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons (1936). First edition, 8vo, 60, (2) pp. Some light spotting, marbled endpapers. Finely bound by Bayntun‟s in full blue calf, a.e.g., gilt rules, gilt spine with brown and red labels, a fine copy. £75
19. CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. London: W. Collins, Sons & Co. (1926). First edition, 8vo, viii, 312 pp. Marbled endpapers and sides. Recent dark blue half morocco, a.e.g., a fine copy. £400
20. CHRISTIE, Agatha. A Pocket Full of Rye. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (1953). First American edition, 8vo, (viii), 211, (1) pp. Signed by the Author on the title page. Cloth, light rubbing to extremities, d.w., not price clipped, some light browning and soiling, minor loss to lower corner of upper wrapper. See inside upper cover. £950
21. CICERO, M. Tullius. Of the Nature of the Gods; in three books. With critical, philosophical, and explanatory Notes. To which is added, An Enquiry into the Astronomy and Anatomy of the Antients. London: Printed for R. Franklin 1741. 8vo, (iv), 283, (9 Index) pp. Some foxing, contemporary signature to front blank with two library references in the same hand to the other side of the leaf. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked in a lighter calf with new endpapers, corners a little worn. £150
ERIC GILL 22. CLAY, Enid. Sonnets and Verses. (Waltham St. Lawrence): The Golden Cockerel Press 1925. Limited edition, no. 317 of 450 copies, 8vo, (viii), 35, (3) pp. 8 wood engravings by Eric Gill and a gilt Cockerel below the colophon by Desmond Chute. Original linen backed boards, slight fading to edges, a few marks otherwise a very good copy. £275 The Author was Gill‟s older sister. Chanticleer 25. Evan Gill 274. The first book that Gill illustrated for the Golden Cockerel Press. See also items 91/2, 269 (Gill); 25, 68, 84/5, 216 (GCP).
23. COLERIDGE, (Samuel Taylor). Selected Poems of... [London]: The Nonesuch Press 1935. Limited edition, no. 254 of 500 copies, large 8vo, (viii), 130 pp. 3 full page wood engravings by Stefan Mrozewski, patterned metallic endpapers with oxidisation as is usual. Original limp orange vellum, t.e.g., a very good copy. £110 Printed at the Fanfare Press. Lacking the slipcase.
24. (CONNOLLY, Cyril). HOBSON, Anthony. Cyril Connolly as a Book Collector. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press 1983. Limited edition, 135 of 150 copies, large 8vo, 24, (4) pp. Portrait frontispiece. Printed wrappers, fine. £40
ROBERT GIBBINGS 25. COPPARD, A.E. Pelagea, & other Poems. (Waltham Saint Lawrence): The Golden Cockerel Press 1926. Limited edition, no. 345 of 425 copies, 8vo, (ii), 44, (2) pp. 6 wood engravings plus the Press device by Robert Gibbings. Buckram backed patterned boards in fine condition, d.w. repeating one of the wood engravings to the upper cover, slight loss to the top of the spine, some minor soiling. Chanticleer 43. See also items 22, 68, 84/5, 216. £125
26. CRESCENDO POETRY SERIES: CADDICK, Arthur - The Speech of Phantoms. HEATH- STUBBS, John - Aphrodite‟s Garland. MORRIS, Guido - Songs at High Noon. WRIGHT, David - Moral Stories. WELCH, Noël - Ten Poems. BERGONZI, Bernard - Godolphin & other Poems. NEWTON, Douglas - Metamorphoses of Violence. TRAKL, Georg - Decline. Saint Ives: The Latin Press 1951-2. Eight volumes complete, first editions, 8vo. Each sewn in the original printed wrappers, a few minor spots otherwise fine. £80
27. CRUIKSHANK, George. The Comic Almanack and Diary. Illustrated by... and H.G. Hine. London: David Bogue 1852. Small 8vo, 64, 24 advertisement pp. Hand coloured folding frontispiece (“The Bloomers in Hyde Park, or an Extraordinary Exhibition”) and 6 black and white plates. Original limp cloth with gilt titled and decoration to upper cover, some rubbing and marks otherwise very good. £75
28. CUMMINS, P.D. One is One. London: Macmillan & Co. 1951. First edition, 8vo, x, 76 (2) pp. Inscribed on the fly leaf from the Author, and with loosely inserted three autograph letters from her to the same recipient as well as a couple of newspaper cuttings, a printed invitation to a party at her house and a typed programme from a production of one of her plays. Cloth, d.w., browned with slight loss to the top edge. £60
29. D‟ANGOULEME, Marguerite. The Heptameron, of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre. Translated... from the Authentic Text of M. Le Roux de Lincy. With an Essay... by George Saintsbury. London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society 1922. Five volumes, 8vo. 73 plates plus 150 head and tail pieces. Original gilt titled white buckram, some minor marks, spines very slightly browned, a very good set. £60 First published 1558. The plates, by the Swiss artist Freudenberg, were first used in a late 18th century Berne edition.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS‟ COPY 30. DANTE ALIGHIERI. Tutte Le Opere di... Nuovamente rivedute nel testo da Dr. E. Moore. Oxford: Nella Stamperia Dell‟Università 1894. 8vo, (xii), 490, (2) pp. With the signature of Dorothy L. Sayers to the fly leaf verso. Original maroon cloth, spine sunned with some wear to ends. £60
31. [DAWSON, William James]. The House of Dreams. London: James Bowden 1897. First edition, 8vo, 136 pp. Original gilt decorated cloth, some marks and soiling, t.e.g., others uncut. £50
32. (DICKENS, Charles). WARD, Adolphus William. Dickens. London: Macmillan and Co. 1882. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 224 pp. Some occasional light foxing. Extra Illustrated with 50 plates, including portraits of both Dickens and other Authors as well as images from his novels, and with a penny stamp showing Dickens with the caption “A Tribute to Genius” pasted to the front blank. Slightly later full calf, gilt rules, t.e.g., gilt spine with a red label, dated to foot of spine, some minor marks otherwise a handsome copy. £150 “English Men of Letters” series.
33. DOYLE, A. Conan. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. Illustrations by W.B. Wollen. London: George Newnes 1896. First edition, first issue, 8vo, (viii), 334, (2), 8 advertisement pp. 24 plates, one with a stain to the top corner, frontispiece recto foxed, small W.H. Smith & Son blind stamp to the fly leaf. Original gilt titled red cloth, spine slightly sunned, ends with some rubbing. Green & Gibson A19a. The advertisements are dated 10.2.96. £125
34. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Uncle Bernac. A Memory of the Empire. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1906. Third impression, 8vo, x, 300, (8 advertisement) pp. Duncan Grant‟s copy, with his signature, dated 1932, on the fly leaf. Original gilt titled red cloth, spine dull with some light wear to ends, some marks. £150
35. (ELIOT, T.S. The Waste Land). The Dial. November 1922. Volume LXXIII, Number 5. Greenwich, CT. Large 8vo, xvi, (2), (473)-592, xvii-xxxii pp. Frontispiece by Robert Delaunay tipped in. Original printed wrappers, spine worn with loss to ends. £650 Including pieces by W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound as well as illustrations by Picasso and Duncan Grant, but notable chiefly for including the first American printing of The Waste Land. It was first printed in the October issue of Criterion, with this issue of the Dial appearing “almost simultaneously (i.e. ca. 15 October)” (Gallup). It was first published in book form in New York in December, with the first British edition not appearing for another 9 months (Hogarth Press, September 1923). The poem is without notes, which were added later to the books. Eliot wrote in “The Frontiers of Criticism” (1956) “I had at first intended to put down all the references for my quotations... when it came to print The Waste Land as a little book... it was discovered the poem was inconviently short, so I set to work to expand the notes... with the result that they became the remarkable exposition of bogus scholarship that is still on view today”. Gallup C135, A6.
36. ELIOT, T.S. Ash-Wednesday. London: Faber & Faber 1930. First trade edition, 8vo, 21, (1) pp. Light marginal browning throughout. Original gilt titled brown cloth, a few minor marks, top of spine rubbed. Gallup A15b. £80
37. ELIOT, T.S. Sweeney Agonistes. Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama. London: Faber and Faber (1932). First edition, small 8vo, 31, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, one very small tear to top edge, a few spots to the outer edge of the upper wrapper otherwise a near fine copy. Gallup A23. £200
38. ELIOT, T.S. The Classics and the Man of Letters. The Presidential Address delivered to the Classical Association on 15 April 1942. Oxford University Press 1942. First edition, early state, small 8vo, 28 pp, in the original printed pale blue printed wrappers, very slight wear to top of spine, edges a little bumped and faded. £40 Gallup A40.
39. ELIOT, T.S. Four Quartets. London: Faber and Faber (1944). First English collected edition, 8vo, 44 pp. Light marginal browning throughout. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, browned and a little soiled with some loss to the top of the spine. £150 Gallup A43b. Originally published as separate pamphlets, the first collected edition was published the year before in New York.
40. ELIOT, T.S. Poetry and Drama. The Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, Harvard University, November 21, 1950. London: Faber and Faber (1951). First English edition, 35, (1) pp. Brief inscription to foot of fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, some minor browning otherwise a very good copy. Gallup A57b. £50
41. ELLIS, Henry. Original Letters Illustrative of English History; including numerous Royal letters: from Autographs in the British Museum, and one or two other Collections. London: Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard 1824. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece in each volume, one folding, marbled endpapers with a later booklabel to paste downs, also a bookplate in one volume but having been removed in the others. Contemporary full calf, triple gilt rules, ends of several joints starting otherwise a handsome set. £120 A second series comprising a further four volumes appeared in 1827.
42. ELYTIS, Odysseus. Selected Poems. Chosen and Introduced by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Translated by Edmund Keeley, George Savidis, Philip Sherrard, John Stathatos, Nanos Valaoritis. (London): Anvil Press Poetry (1981). First edition, 8vo, xiv, 114 pp. Signed by the Author on the title page, Prospectus for this work loosely inserted. Cloth backed boards, d.w. with some light marks, a very good copy. £100 The Author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979.
43. ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS: CHURCH, R.W. Bacon. FROUDE, James Anthony. Bunyan. JEBB, R.C. Bentley. London: Macmillan and Co. 1892, 85, 89. Three works bound in one volume, 8vo, viii, 227, (1), vi, 181, (1), xi, (1), 224 pp. Prize inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers and edges. Bound by Mudie in full calf, gilt rule, some minor marks otherwise an excellent copy. £80 Three volumes published in the “English Men of Letters” series edited by John Morley.
44. FARQUHAR, George. The Recruiting Officer: A Comedy... As it was Acted at the Theatre- Royal in Drury-Lane... Anno 1706. With a Note on the Author and the Play by Sir Edmund Gosse; and embellish‟d with designs by Véra Willoughby. London: Printed for Peter Davies 1926. Limited edition, no. 372 of 550 copies, folio, (iv), 61, (3) pp. 12 coloured plates. Original half vellum, patterned boards, edges faded. £60
45. FRANCIS, Dick. Risk. London: Michael Joseph (1977). First edition, 8vo, 251, (1) pp. Inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, some light browning otherwise very good. £60
46. FRASER, George MacDonald. Flashman and the Redskins. London: Collins 1982. First edition, 8vo, 479, (1) pp. Map endpapers. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, very light browning of spine, a near fine copy. £50
47. GALSWORTHY, John. [Poems]. The Augustan Books of Poetry. London: Ernest Benn Ltd. (1932). 8vo, 30, (2) pp. Inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf. Original green cloth with the Author‟s initials in gilt to the upper cover. £30
48. GALSWORTHY, John. The Plays of... London: Duckworth (1935). Fourth impression, 8vo, (viii), 1149, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in light brown crushed morocco, a.e.g., spine slightly sunned with a couple of small marks otherwise a very good copy. £50
49. GASKELL, Mrs. Cranford. With... Illustrations... by Evelyn Paul. London: Chapman & Hall [1910]. 8vo, (viii), 247, (1) pp. 24 coloured plates, pictorial endpapers, free endpapers browned, Prize label to fly leaf verso. Original gilt titled cloth, t.e.g., spine slightly browned. £50
50. GEM: The Gem, A Literary Annual. London: W. Marshall 1830. 12mo, (xii), 275, (1) pp. Frontispiece, engraved title and 10 plates, three stanzas copied to a front blank in a contemporary hand, marbled endpapers. Recent full red calf, a.e.g., some minor marks. £65 A collection of prose and verse including work by John Keats, James Hogg, John Clare and Mary Howitt.
51. GREENE, Graham. Our Man in Havana. An Entertainment. London: Heinemann (1958). First edition, 8vo, (vi), 273, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, some minor marks and rubbing otherwise a very good bright copy. £125
SIGNED COPY 52. GREENE, Graham. Monsignor Quixote. London: The Bodley Head (1982). First edition, 8vo, 221, (1) pp. Inscribed from the Author on the title page. Cloth, d.w., not price-clipped, edges slightly bumped, spine a little browned otherwise very good. £325
53. GREENE, Graham. Why the Epigraph? London: The Nonesuch Press (1989). 8vo, (2), 48 pp. Cloth, a fine copy still with the original clear plastic wrapper. £75 Usually found containing a slip with the Author‟s signature which details the limitation of 950 copies, this is perhaps a review or “out of series” copy.
DAVID JONES 54. GREGYNOG PRESS: Llyfr Y Pregeth-wr. [The Book of Ecclesiastes]. Gwasg Gregynog 1927. Limited edition, no. 230 of 250 copies, large 8vo, (26) pp. Title vignette and a full page wood engraving by David Jones, signature to front blank, headlines and side-notes printed in red. Original gilt titled limp buckram, faded with some wear to the spine ends. Harrop 8. £225
BLAIR HUGHES-STANTON 55. GREGYNOG PRESS: GRUFFYDD, W.J. Caniadau. Gwasg Gregynog 1932. Limited edition, no. 309 of 400 copies, large 8vo, (viii), 101, (3) pp. Initial letters and 4 wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, pages partly unopened. Original gilt titled buckram backed boards, some light rubbing otherwise a very good copy. £225 Harrop 21, stating only 275 copies printed.
AGNES MILLER PARKER 56. GREGYNOG PRESS: SAMPSON, John. XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales. Collected by... With Engravings on Wood by Agnes Miller Parker. Newtown: The Gregynog Press 1933. Limited edition, no. 20 of 235 copies from a total edition of 250 copies, large 8vo, xi, (iii), 108, (2) pp. 8 wood engraved illustrations and a small press device, bookplate, very light marginal browning throughout. Original gilt titled Welsh sheepskin, some marks and darkening, light scuffing to the edges of the upper cover. £2,250 The second title Parker illustrated for Gregynog, and bound especially in “a gypsy colour”. Harrop 27, pp121-2. See also item 78 and inside upper cover.
57. HARDY, Thomas. Winter Words, in Various Moods and Metres. London: Macmillan and Co. 1928. First edition, 8vo, xii, 202, (2) pp. Original green cloth, spine a little sunned otherwise very good. £35 "...a collection of 105 poems which Hardy had been assembling at the time of his death in 1928..." Purdy p252.
58. HARRISON, Clifford. In Hours of Leisure. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. 1896. Third edition, 8vo, (viii), 183, (1) pp. A few light spots, marbled endpapers. Bound by Bumpus in full vellum, a.e.g., with the initials “K.D.” to the centre of the upper cover and gilt hearts to each corner, gilt spine with further hearts, slight bowing of covers otherwise an attractive and unique copy. £60
59. [HAYWOOD, Eliza Fowler]. The Wife. By Mira. London: Printed for H. Gardner 1773. Third edition, 12mo, (ii), 280 pp. Contemporary sheep, gilt decorated spine with some wear and slight loss to foot, green morocco label. £350 First published 1756 alongside a companion work, “The Husband”, the pair providing guides as to suitable behaviour in a marriage. Perhaps best known for her novels, Haywood published a wide range of titles, including “The Female Spectator”, a collection of topical work published under several pseudonyms, and translations of popular European romances. ESTC lists seven copies of this edition, with only two in the UK.
60. HOLDEN, Hubert Ashton (Editor). Foliorum Silbula. Part the First, being passages for Translation into Latin Elegiac and Heroic Verse. Cambridge: Deighton Bell and Co. 1881. 8vo, (xiv), 700 pp. Inscribed from the Editor on the half title with a later owner‟s initials also below, marbled endpapers. Contemporary full vellum, bevelled edges, brown and red morocco spine labels with very slight wear, some light soiling otherwise an attractive copy. £50 A collection of verse spanning from Greek poets to Tennyson.
61. ISHERWOOD, Christopher. Sally Bowles. London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1937. First edition, small 8vo, 150 pp. Marbled endpapers. Recent dark blue full morocco, gilt rule and spine, a.e.g., a lovely copy. £450
62. JEPHSON, Robert. Braganza. A Tragedy. Performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. Written by... Dublin: R. Moncrieffe 1775. 12mo, (iii)-70 pp, bound without the half title. Later wrappers with a manuscript spine title. £30 One of three Dublin editions published in this year, as well as one Belfast and four London editions.
63. JOHNSON, Samuel. The Rambler. Edited by the Rev. Robert Lynam. London: George Cowie and Co. 1825. Two volumes, 8vo, vi, 474; vi, 480 pp. Marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary full calf, decorative gilt borders to covers, gilt spines with maroon morocco labels, some light rubbing to extremities otherwise very good. £225 Published weekly from 20th March 1750 to 14th March 1752, before being carefully revised for the collected edition. All but a handful were by Johnson - the best-selling issue, no. 97, is by Samuel Richardson.
64. JOHNSON, Samuel. Johnson‟s Lives of the English Poets. Completed by William Hazlitt. London: Nathaniel Cooke 1854. First edition thus, 4 volumes, 8vo. Engraved title in volume I and 25 plates plus illustrations in the text, Prize inscription in volume I, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary full calf, gilt arms to covers, gilt spines with maroon and green labels, slightly chipping to a few labels otherwise a very good set. £250
65. KINGSLEY, Charles. Westward Ho! Or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh... Rendered into Modern English by... London: The Sunday School Union [c.1920]. 8vo, (viii), 484 pp. Frontispiece, marbled endpapers and edges, armorial bookplate of Ernest Bryan Gipps. Contemporary maroon full calf, gilt arms of Holland House, Hove, to upper cover, gilt spine with a green label, some light rubbing otherwise very good. £50
66. KIPLING, Rudyard. Plain Tales from the Hills. London: Macmillan and Co. 1923. 8vo, x, 336 pp. Chigwell School prize inscription to paste down. Contemporary full vellum, t.e.g., gilt arms, some marking otherwise a very good copy. £60
67. LAWRENCE, T.E. The Diary of... MCMXI. [London]: (The Corvinus Press 1937). Limited edition, no. 48 of 203 copies, being one of 40 copies printed on “Medway” paper, 4to, (98) pp. 13 black and white photographic illustrations, taken by Lawrence, plus a striking gilt decoration to the first page of the diary, all the tissues still present. Original gilt titled limp vellum. t.e.g., gilt bird to the lower cover, brief yapp edges to the fore edge with silk ties intact, a couple of light marks to the lower cover otherwise a fine copy held in a card slipcase. £3,750 Concerning the Lawrence‟s time in northern Syria in 1911, surveying and photographing antiquities, including three letters written to his wife. O‟Brien A194, omitting a whole line of the colophon and thus attributing this binding to the 30 copies on “Canute” paper only. See inside upper cover.
68. LAWRENCE, T. E. Shaw-Ede. T. E. Lawrence‟s Letters to H. S. Ede 1927-1935. Foreword and Running Commentary by H. S. Ede. (London): The Golden Cockerel Press (1942). Limited edition, no. 93 of 500 copies, small 4to, 61, (1) pp. Contemporary inscription to front blank. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in blue quarter morocco, t.e.g., some minor wear to spine otherwise very good. £300 “...in these letters, more than any of this others, Lawrence‟s culture, taste, and wisdom are revealed in sharp contrast with his surprising idiosyncrasies” (Pertelote). O‟Brien A234. Pertelote 151. See also items 313 (Lawrence); 22, 25, 84/5, 216 (GCP).
69. LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Poetical Works of... London Henry Frowde 1893. 8vo, viii, 878 pp. Marbled endpapers and sides. Bound by Morrell in contemporary green half morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt flowers, faded to brown, t.e.g., a very good copy. £60
70. MILTON, John. Paradise Regain‟d. A Poem, in four books. To which is added Samson Agonistes; and Poems upon Several Occasions: With a Tractate of Education. London: J. and R. Tonson [et al] 1765. 12mo, (vi), 381, (2 advertisement, 1) pp. 6 plates, armorial bookplate of Joseph Hunter, signatures to fly leaf. Contemporary speckled calf with some wear, neatly rebacked with a red label. £125
71. MITCHISON, Naomi. To the Chapel Perilous. London: George Allen & Unwin (1955). First edition, 8vo, 172, (4 advertisement) pp. Inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., some light soiling otherwise very good. £50
72. MITCHISON, Naomi. Judy and Lakshmi. With drawings by Avinash Chandra. London: Collins 1959. First edition, 8vo, 160 pp. Inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., some light soiling and browning otherwise very good. £50
73. MITCHISON, Naomi. Karensgaard. The Story of a Danish Farm. London: Collins 1961. First edition, 8vo, 192 pp. Frontispiece and 10 photographic plates, inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., light soiling to the lower wrapper otherwise very good. £50
74. MURDOCH, Iris. The Italian Girl. London: Chatto & Windus 1964. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 213, (3) pp. Two wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some rubbing to extremities and light soiling otherwise very good. £40
75. MURDOCH, Iris. A Fairly Honourable Defeat. London: Chatto & Windus 1970. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 401, (1) pp. Signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some minor soiling to the lower cover otherwise a very good copy. £60
SIGNED COPY 76. MURDOCH, Iris. The Sea, the Sea. London: Chatto & Windus 1978. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 501, (1) pp. Signed on the title page by the Author. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some minor bumping to the top edge otherwise a fine copy. £225 Booker Prize winner.
77. NICOLSON, Harold. Diaries and Letters. 1930-39. 1939-45. 1945-62. London: Collins 1966-68. First edition, three volumes, 8vo. Photographic illustrations, signature to fly leaf in volume I. Cloth, d.w.‟s, not price clipped, slight chipping to the top of the spine of volume I otherwise an excellent set. £45
78. (PARKER, Agnes Miller). BATES, H.E. Down the River. With... Engravings on Wood by Agnes Miller Parker. London: Victor Gollancz 1937. First edition, small 4to, 151, (1) pp. 83 wood engravings, 6 full page. Cloth, d.w., spine slightly browned, minor loss to ends. See also item 56. £80
79. PLATH, Sylvia. Crossing the Water. London: Faber and Faber (1971). First edition, 8vo, 64 pp. Foyle‟s label to the paste down. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, lightly browned with a few marks otherwise very good. £75
80. POWELL, Anthony. The Military Philosophers. A Novel. London: Heinemann (1968). First edition, 8vo, (viii), 243, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, top of spine slightly worn, spine and edges browned otherwise very good. £45 The ninth volume in Powell‟s epic “Dance to the Music of Time” series.
81. PROUST, Marcel. Remembrance of Things Past. Swann‟s Way. Within a Budding Grove. The Guermantes Way. Cities of the Plain. The Captive. The Fugitive. Time Regained. Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin and Andreas Mayor. London: Chatto and Windus 1982. Three volumes, 8vo. Cloth, d.w.‟s designed by Enid Marx, small tear to the wrapper of volume III otherwise a good set. £95
82. PUSHKIN, Alexander. Boris Godunov. Translated and Adapted by D.M. Thomas. (Leamington Spa): Sixth Chamber Press (1985). Limited edition, no. 82 of 200 copies from a total edition of 230, signed by the Translator, 8vo, 88 pp. Cloth backed decorative boards, a fine copy. £45
83. RAVILIOUS, Eric. Almanack 1929. With Twelve Designs on Wood by... And a Specimen of the Roman & Italic of Fournier-Le-Jeune composed on the „Monotype‟. London: Lanston Monotype Corporation Ltd. 8vo, (46) pp. 12 wood engravings, booklabel of Evan Gill, brother of Eric, some light foxing. Original buckram backed paper boards, light browning to top edge, a very good copy. £650 Including a four page Preface by Ravilious in which he sets out his ideas behind the 12 wood engravings, which while stemming from the 12 signs of the zodiac also use different symbols, and in two cases show the chalk figure of the Long Man of Wilmington which is cut into the Downs near Eastbourne. Very scarce.
84. (RAVILIOUS). BRETON, Nicholas. The Twelve Moneths. Edited by Brian Rhys, with Wood Engravings by Eric Ravilious. (Waltham Saint Lawrence): The Golden Cockerel Press 1927. Limited edition, no. 277 of 500 copies, 8vo, (viii), 26, (2) pp. 24 wood engravings plus a decorative border to the first page of text, two tissues loosely inserted. Original buckram, spine slightly sunned, covers a little bowed otherwise an excellent copy. £200 Chanticleer 51.
85. (RAVILIOUS). SMITH, Aaron. The Atrocities of the Pirates; Being a Faithful Narrative of the unparalleled sufferings by the Author during his captivity among the Pirates of the island of Cubal with an Account of the Excesses and Barbarities of those inhuman freebooters... Decorated throughout... by Eric Ravilious. (Waltham Saint Lawrence): The Golden Cockerel Press 1929. Limited edition, no. 11 of 500 copies, 8vo, (viii), 156, (2) pp. Frontispiece and 9 wood engravings in the text, partly unopened. Original buckram backed boards, t.e.g., some minor marks, top edge of lower cover with a small bump, otherwise a near fine copy. Chanticleer 68. £250 See also items 277-279 (Ravilious); 22, 25, 68, 216 (GCP).
86. [REED, Isaac (Editor)]. The Repository: A Select Collection of Fugitive Pieces of Wit and Humour, in Prose and Verse. By the most eminent Writers. London: Charles Dilly 1783. Second edition, 4 volumes, small 8vo. Binder‟s leaf bound in at the front of volume I, marbled endpapers. Modern blue calf, gilt spines with brown labels, an excellent set. £350 A varied and entertaining collection of 18th century works, including Gray‟s “Elegy”, Garrick‟s “Odes”, plus his anonymous “Fribbleriad”, Christopher Smart‟s “Hilliad” and Fielding‟s “Essay on Nothing” as well as more eccentric tracts, such as John Hall- Stevenson‟s anonymous “A Pastoral Puke. A Second Sermon preached before The People called Whigs” and “The Council in the Moon”, a satire on Cambridge University‟s fellows.
FORE EDGE PAINTING 87. ROGERS, Samuel. Poems. A New Edition. London: T. Cadell 1827. 12mo, (viii), 314, (2) pp. Engraved second title and 6 plates. Contemporary red straight- grain morocco, gilt borders, some fading and minor rubbing, a.e.g., with beneath the gilt a fore edge painting of Brighton Pavilion. £475 The painting is skilfully done and shows the west side of the Pavilion, possibly after an engraving - see Ford, Images of Brighton, 538.
88. RUSKIN, John. The Poems of... Now first collected from original manuscript and printed sources; and edited... by W.G. Collingwood. Orpington: George Allen 1891. First „ordinary‟ edition, 2 volumes, 4to. 27 plates, including 4 facsimiles showing Ruskin‟s handwriting, marbled endpapers. Later brown half morocco, cloth sides, spine faded, t.e.g., a near fine copy. £250 Published at the same time as a „special‟ edition bound in vellum and a „small‟, i.e. 8vo, edition. Wise II p212. See also items 280/1.
89. SACKVILLE-WEST, V. The Edwardians. [London]: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf, the Hogarth Press 1933. 8vo, 349, (1) pp. Armorial bookplate of Michael Fox, marbled endpapers. Contemporary blue half calf, spine sunned, t.e.g. £35 First published 1930.
90. SACKVILLE-WEST, V. Pepita. London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1937. First edition, 8vo, 282, (4 advertisement) pp. 16 plates. Cloth, d.w. with some tears and minor loss. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A32a. £65
91. SAINT DOMINIC‟S PRESS: The Game. A Monthly Magazine. Vol. VI, No. 34. January 1923. 8vo, 8 pp. Two wood engravings, one by Eric Gill. Single folded sheet, unopened, edges browned. £60 Containing a poem, “The Nuptials of God” (above which is Gill‟s engraving). The final issue printed. Taylor & Sewell F1. Evan Gill 263.
92. SAINT DOMINIC‟S PRESS: GILL, Eric & PEPLER, Hilary. In Petra. Being a sequel to „Nisi Dominus‟, together with a preface and notes... Ditchling: S. Dominic‟s Press 1923. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 26, (2) pp. 6 wood engravings by Gill and 3 by David Jones. Original cloth backed patterned boards, the patterned paper used having had some text printed on it in error. Taylor & Sewell A111. Evan Gill 87. £150 See also items 22, 269.
93. SAINT DOMINIC‟S PRESS: TAYLOR, Michael & SEWELL, Brocard. Saint Dominic‟s Press. A Bibliography, 1916-1937. Compiled by... With a memoir by Susan Falkner, an introduction by Brocard Sewell, a preface by Michael Taylor, and an appendix by Adrian Cunningham. (Lower Marston): The Whittington Press (1995). Limited edition, no. 205 of 400 copies, 4to, (viii), 180, (2) pp. Illustrations including facsimile pages tipped in and a couple of photographic portraits. Cloth backed boards, slipcase, fine. £150
94. SAPPER. [pseud. - McNEILE, H.F.]. Knock-Out. London: Hodder and Stoughton 1933. First edition, 317, (1) pp. Signature to paste down, evidence of tape having been removed from the front endpapers. Original light blue cloth, a little rubbed and marked. £40
95. SCOTT, Walter. Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable... Edinburgh; and William Miller, and John Murray, London 1808. First edition, 4to, (iii-x), 377, (1), cxxvi pp, bound without the half title. Old signature to title page, marbled endpapers. Contemporary dappled calf with a gilt tooled border, rebacked with minor repair to corners also, a very good copy. £150 Todd & Bowden 28Aa. A slightly later issue with two of the three cancels listed on p89.
96. SCOTT, Sir Walter. The Waverley Novels. Waverley. Guy Mannering. The Antiquary. Rob Roy. The Black Dwarf. A Legend of Montrose. Old Mortality. The Heart of Midlothian. The Bride of Lammermoor. Ivanhoe. The Monastery. The Abbot. Kenilworth. The Pirate. The Fortunes of Nigel. Peveril of the Peak. Quentin Durward. St. Ronan‟s Well. Redgauntlet. The Betrothed. The Chronicles of Canongate. The Talisman. Woodstock. The Fair Maid of Perth. Anne of Geierstein. Count Robert of Paris. The Surgeon‟s Daughter. Castle Dangerous. London: The Gresham Publishing Company [c.1905]. Holyrood edition, twenty-five volumes, 8vo. Coloured frontispieces and black and white plates in the text, by Warwick Goble, John Hassall and H.M. Brock among others, some light foxing to text leaves. Original gilt decorated blue cloth, some light rubbing, one spine with a small scratch otherwise a very good set. £225
97. SHAFFER, Peter. Amadeus. A Play by... (London): Andre Deutsch (1980). First edition, 8vo, 122, (2) pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a fine copy. £30
98. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works of... Edited by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall with Notes and Introductions... and Life of Shakespeare by Edward Dowden. London: Blackie & Son 1894. Eight volumes, large 8vo. 37 plates plus illustrations in the text, some occasional light foxing. Original decorative brown cloth with bevelled edges, a.e.g., foot of lower joint of volume I worn otherwise an excellent set. £200 The Henry Irving Shakespeare, Subscription edition.
99. SHAKESPEARE, William. Shakespeare‟s Sonnets. Stratford-on-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press 1905. Limited edition, no. 36 of 510 copies, 8vo, (vi, 160) pp. Decorative borders to title and sonnets, several pieces of pencilled marginalia. Uncut in two tone cloth with some soiling, a couple of tiny wormholes to the joints otherwise a good sound copy. £100
100. SOMERVILLE, E. Œ. & ROSS, Martin. In Mr. Knox‟s Country. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1915. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 311, (1) pp. 8 plates by Somerville. Original light green cloth, foot of spine very slighly browned otherwise an excellent copy. £70
101. SOMERVILLE, William. The Chace. Hobbinol. London: Printed for W. Bowyer, W. Strahan and R. Baldwin 1773. Two works bound in one volume, both sixth edition, 8vo, xv, (i), 122, (iv), 82 pp. 8 plates, later signature to paste down. Contemporary sheep, corners with some wear, rebacked with a gilt banded spine, retaining the original maroon label. £100 First published in 1735 and 1740 respectively.
102. SOUTHEY, Robert. The Poetical Works of... Joan of Arc. Thalada the Destoyer. Madoc. The Curse of Kehama. Roderick, the Last of the Goths. Minor Poems. The Poets Pilgrimage to Waterloo. The Lay of the Laureate. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1812-17. Fourteen volumes, 12mo. Frontispiece in “Joan of Arc” and 8 plates in the “Pilgrimage to Waterloo”, monogrammed bookplate to paste downs, bookplate of George Cornwallis- West to the fly leaf of volume I, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary calf, gilt borders, gilt spines, a little rubbing to joints, some minor loss to spine ends otherwise a very good set. £650 A set published using existing editions of Southey‟s works - first editions of “Minor Poems” and “The Lay of the Laureate”, second edition of “The Poet‟s Pilgrimage...”, third editions of “Thalaba...” and “The Curse of Kehama”, fourth editions of “Madoc” and “Roderick...” and the fifth edition of “Joan of Arc”.
103. [SWIFT, Jonathan]. A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind... To which is added, An Account of a Battle between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James‟s Library. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell for W. Smith and G. Faulkner 1741. 12mo, 264 pp. 8 plates, contemporary signature to title page and one page in the preliminaries, ink stamps to fly leaf. Contemporary speckled calf, some light marks, top of upper joint with some worming. See inside lower cover. £150
One of Swift‟s finest satires, an attack on religious and intellectual pedantry. “...the most strikingly original [of his works], and the one in which the compass of his powers is most fully displayed... he lashed out in all directions...” (Encyc. Brit.). Teerink 237. First published 1704.
104. [SWIFT, Jonathan]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver. First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several ships. London: Printed for John Bell 1774. Two volumes, 12mo. Two newspaper cuttings concerning Holland, Green and Mason‟s record-breaking balloon flight of 1836 are included in volume II, one tipped in to a margin, the other loosely inserted, with a manuscript note concerning the distance travelled. Marginal staining to the free endpapers and first and last leaves of text. Contemporary calf, joints recently restored, gilt banded spines with some light wear, recent red morocco labels. Teerink 318. First published 1726. £400
105. (TENNYSON). ALLINGHAM, Helen. The Homes of Tennyson. Painted by... Described by Arthur Paterson. London: A. & C. Black 1905. First edition, 8vo, x, 98, (6 advertisement) pp. 20 coloured plates with captioned tissues, some mostly marginal foxing. Original decorated cloth, t.e.g., spine a little browned, minor wear to top. £50 In two parts - Farringford and Aldworth. Inman 183.
106. THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: Macmillan and Co. 1905. First edition thus, 8vo, xlvi, (2), 402, pp. 48 plates and 2 other illustrations, Chigwell School prize inscription to paste down. Contemporary full vellum, t.e.g., gilt arms, some minor marks otherwise a handsome copy. £70
107. THOMSON, Hugh (Illustrator). Coridon‟s Song and other Verses from various sources. With Illustrations by... and an Introduction by Austin Dobson. London: Macmillan and Co. 1894. First edition thus, 8vo, xxxii, 164 pp. Black and white illustrations, some light foxing. Original gilt decorated green cloth, small mark to lower cover, a very good copy. £40 One of Macmillan‟s splendidly bound “Cranford” series.
108. TREVELYAN, R.C. Beelzebub, and other Poems. London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press 1935. First edition, one of 400 copies, 8vo, 59, (1) pp. Original boards decorated in red, some minor marks, still with the original tissue wrapper, this with some tears and slight loss. Hogarth Living Poets, Second series, no. 3. Woolmer p129. £80
109. WAUGH, Evelyn. Scott-King‟s Modern Europe. [London]: Chapman and Hall 1947. First edition, 8vo, (iv), 88, (2) pp. Coloured frontispiece by John Piper. Cloth, d.w. also by Piper, not price clipped, with light foxing and a couple of minor tears. £45 Davis, Doyle et al XXII.
BERYL COOK 110. WAUGH, Evelyn. The Loved One. An Anglo-American tragedy. Illustrations by Beryl Cook. London: The Folio Society 1983. No. 41 of 100 copies signed by Cook, small folio, (xx), 107, (3) pp. 8 coloured plates. Quarter goatskin, t.e.g., marbled sides, slipcase, very slight browning of spine otherwise a fine copy. £350
WELCH FAMILY COPIES
111. WELCH, Denton. Maiden Voyage. (Foreword by Edith Sitwell). London: Routledge 1946. Second printing, 8vo, (viii), 304 pp. Frontispiece, title vignette, decorated endpapers and one other full page illustrations by the author, from the Library of the Author‟s brother, with his signature (W.A. Welch) to a front blank. Cloth with some marks, d.w., torn in two and repaired, loss to edges, staining from old sellotaped repairs. £30 Fifoot EB23a. First published 1943.
112. WELCH, Denton. Brave and Cruel, and other Stories. London: Hamish Hamilton (1948). First edition, 8vo, 248 pp. From the Library of the Author‟s brother, with his signature (W.A. Welch) to the fly leaf in both ink and pencil, three page typescript of the Sunday Times review of this title loosely inserted. Original cloth, spine slightly sunned, one small patch of wrinkling to the upper cover. £40
113. WELCH, Denton. In Youth is Pleasure. (London): Vision (Press) 1950. 8vo, (iv), 154 pp. Frontispiece, decorative endpapers and head-pieces to each chapter, from the Library of the Author‟s brother, with his signature (W.A. Welch) to the fly leaf in pencil. Cloth, a few minor marks. £30 First published 1944.
114. WELCH, Denton. A Last Sheaf. London: John Lehmann 1951. First edition, 8vo, 239, (1) pp. 9 black and white plates at the end, from the Library of the Author‟s brother, with his signature (W.A. Welch) to a front blank. Cloth, damp stained, d.w. with loss to spine ends and top edge. £40 A collection of short stories, also including the Author‟s poetry and paintings.
115. WELCH, Denton. The Denton Welch Journals. Edited and with an Introduction by Jocelyn Brooke. London: Hamish Hamilton (1952). First edition, 8vo, xvi, (2), 268 pp. Portrait frontispiece, from the Library of the Author‟s brother, with his signature (W.A. Welch) to the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. worn with loss and some old repair. £30
116. WELCH, Denton. I Left My Grandfather‟s House. With an Introduction by Michael De-la- Noy. London: Allison & Busby (1984). 8vo, 156 pp. Signed by De-la-Noy on the title page and also inscribed from him to Welch‟s sister-in-law on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., spine slightly sunned otherwise near fine. £30
117. WELCH, Denton. The Journals of... Edited by Michael De-la-Noy. London: Allison & Busby (1984). First edition thus, 8vo, (xiv), 378 pp. A few black and white illustrations, signed by De- la-Noy on the title page and also inscribed from him to Welch‟s sister-in-law on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £30
118. (WELCH, Denton). DE-LA-NOY, Michael. Denton Welch. The Making of a Writer. (Harmondsworth): Viking (1984). First edition, 8vo, 302, (2) pp. Signed by De-la-Noy on the title page and also inscribed from him to Welch‟s sister-in-law on the fly leaf, with a further manuscript note from him loosely inserted, as are several press cuttings. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £30
119. (WELCH, Denton). METHUEN-CAMPBELL, James. Denton Welch. Writer & Artist. With a Foreword by Alan Bennett. (Leyburn): Tatarus Press (2002). First edition, one of 500 copies, 8vo, (xviii), 268 pp. 61 illustrations, inscribed from the Author to Welch‟s sister-in-law on the fly leaf and with a compliments slip from him also loosely inserted. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £75
120. WHEATLEY, Dennis. Strange Conflict. London: Hutchinson & Co. [1941]. First edition, 8vo, 291, (1, 12 advertisement) pp. Map endpapers, inscribed on the title page from the Author. Original black cloth, minor rubbing to extremities, lettering to spine a little dull. £50
121. WOOLF, Leonard. Sowing. Growing. Beginning Again. Downhill All the Way. The Journey Not the Arrival That Matters. London: The Hogarth Press 1961-69. Five volumes, a mixed set - “Downhill...” and “The Journey...” first editions, others later impressions, 8vo. Numerous photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w.‟s, three spines with some light browning, some minor marks, a couple of small tears otherwise a very good set. £100 “Growing” is in a variant wrapper with only one star on the spine, where normally there are two. See also item 331.
122. WOOLF, Virginia. The Waves. London: The Hogarth Press 1931. First edition, 8vo, 325, (1) pp. Minor staining to the hinges. Original purple cloth, spine faded, some light rubbing. Kirkpatrick A16a. £75
CHILDREN'S AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
123. ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. Illustrated by John Lawrence. Penguin Books, Kestrel Books (1976). First reprint thus, 8vo, (iv), 550 pp. Frontispiece and illustrations in the text, some in colour, folding map at the end, signed by Lawrence on the half title. Cloth backed boards, d.w., not price clipped, some light wear to spine ends otherwise good. £100
124. BARKER, Cicely Mary. The Book of the Flower Fairies. Poems and Pictures by... London: Blackie and Son [1927]. First edition thus, 8vo, 92 pp. 72 coloured plates. Original gilt titled green cloth, minor rubbing to extremities, small mark to the inside top edge of the lower cover otherwise a fine copy. £175 Collecting together the Flower Fairies of the Spring, Summer and Autumn.
125. BRERETON, Captain F.S. A Knight of St. John. A Tale of the Siege of Malta. Illustrated by W. Rainey. London: Blackie and Son 1906 [but 1905]. First edition, 8vo, 384, (16 advertisement) pp. 8 plates, Sunday School Prize label dated 1905 to paste down. Original gilt titled pictorial green cloth, slight bumping of spine ends otherwise a very good copy. £150
126. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice‟s Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co. 1868. Fifth edition (tenth thousand), 8vo, (x), 192 pp. Frontispiece and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel, some minor marks. Recent red full morocco, a.e.g., gilt decorated spine. £950 A handsome copy of an early edition of “Alice”. Williams, Madan, Green & Crutch 46c. First published 1865. See inside lower cover.
127. CRANE, Walter. Flora‟s Feast. A Masque of Flowers. Penned & Pictured by... London: Cassell & Company 1889. First edition, small 4to, 40 leaves, (2, 8 advertisement) pp. Coloured lithographs to one side only of each leaf, patterned endpapers. Cloth backed decorative boards, some marks and light wear, slight loss to the lower corner of the upper cover. £140 “...one of the most remarkable contributions to herald the decade of Art Nouveau... Crane‟s first and finest flower book...” (Spencer).
128. [DARTON, William]. Little Jack of All Trades; or, Mechanical Arts Described, in Prose and Verse. London: Printed by Harvey and Darton 1823. 12mo, 66, (4 advertisement) pp. 15 plates with 3 images per plate, some mostly light foxing throughout, contemporary inscription to front blank and signature to title. Recent maroon quarter calf over original marbled boards with a little wear. £175 A charming and oft-reprinted little book showing different tradesmen, from printer and carpenter to glass-blower and auctioneer. Lawrence Darton G223(1).
129. (DULAC, Edmund). HOUSMAN, Laurence. Stories from the Arabian Nights. Retold by... With Drawings by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton [1907]. First trade edition, 4to, xvi, 133, (3) pp. Frontispiece and 49 coloured plates tipped in with captioned tissue, grouped at the back, booklabel. Original gilt titled cloth, very mild darkening of the spine otherwise an excellent copy. £225
130. (DULAC, Edmund). SHAKESPEARE, William. Shakespeare‟s Comedy of the Tempest. With illustrations by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder & Stoughton [1908]. First edition thus, 4to, xxiv, 144 pp. 40 tipped in coloured plates with captioned tissues, a few light spots. Original gilt titled green cloth, spine slightly sunned, a few marks and some minor rubbing otherwise a very good copy. £250
131. (DULAC, Edmund). FITZGERALD, Edward. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by... With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton [1909]. Limited edition, no. 690 of 750 copies signed by Dulac, 4to, (62) leaves, printed on rectos only. 20 coloured plates tipped in with captioned tissues, small mark to the outer edge of a few leaves otherwise internally an excellent copy. Original gilt decorated vellum, lacking the ties, t.e.g., some mostly light marks and soiling, minor wear to foot of spine. £850
132. (DULAC, Edmund). POE, Edgar Allan. The Bells, and other Poems. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton [1912]. Limited edition, no. 612 of 750 copies signed by Dulac, 4to, (xiv, 176) pp. 28 coloured plates tipped in with captioned tissues plus vignettes in the text. Contemporary inscription to fly leaf, free endpapers browned. Original gilt decorated vellum, t.e.g., lacking the ties with some rubbing and a few small marks, covers slightly bowed. £825 See inside upper cover.
133. (DULAC, Edmund). FITZGERALD, Edward. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by... With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac London: Hodder and Stoughton [c.1918]. 8vo, viii, 189, (1) pp. 12 coloured plates tipped in with a captioned tissue, text leaves printed on rectos only. Original gilt decorated red cloth, slight sunning of spine otherwise a very good copy. £75
AUTHOR‟S INSCRIPTION 134. FLETCHER, Rev. W. The Young Geographer; or, the Narratives of Four Japanese Travellers. London: N. Hailes and N Hailes, jun. 1836. First edition, 12mo, (iv), 169, (7 advertisement) pp. Hand coloured folding map of the world, part of the original fly leaf laid in at the front, containing Fletcher‟s inscription “With the Author‟s compliments”. Recent purple quarter calf, marbled sides. £200 Scarce, Copac listing only 2 copies.
135. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. With a Preface by Austin Dobson and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: Macmillan & Co. 1890. First edition thus, 8vo, (xxxvi), 305, (1, 6 advertisement) pp. Black and white illustrations, some foxing, slight loss to paste down. Original gilt decorated green cloth, some bumping of extremities otherwise very good. £45 One of Macmillan‟s splendidly bound “Cranford” series.
136. GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. With a Frontispiece by Graham Robertson. London: Methuen and Co. (1909). Fourth edition, 8vo, (vi), 302, (2) pp. Frontispiece, owner‟s label to fly leaf. Original gilt decorated cloth, t.e.g., extremities with some light wear. £150
137. GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated by Nancy Barnhart. London: Methuen & Co. (1925). Sixteenth edition - second edition thus, 8vo, (viii), 302, (2), 8 advertisement pp. 12 coloured plates, bookplate to fly leaf. Original gilt titled blue cloth, with decoration in black, t.e.g., d.w. a little browned and creased with some loss to the spine ends. £200 First published 1908; with these illustrations 1922.
138. [HUGHES, Thomas]. Tom Brown‟s Schooldays. By an Old Boy. With Illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. London: Macmillan and Co. 1897. 8vo, xxiv, 312 pp. Coloured folding map plus black and white illustrations, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of Banstead School to paste down. Full tree calf, gilt arms to upper cover, gilt spine with a green label, minor wear to extremities otherwise a handsome copy. See inside lower cover. £95
139. LANG, Andrew. The Pink Fairy Book. Edited by... With... illustrations by H.J. Ford. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1897. First edition, 8vo, viii, (ii), 360 pp. Black and white illustrations, occasional light spots. Recent pink half morocco, marbled sides, a.e.g., an attractive copy. £175
140. LANG, Andrew. The Crimson Fairy Book. Edited by... With... illustrations by H.J. Ford. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1903. First edition, 8vo, xi, (i), 371, (1) pp. 8 coloured and 35 black and white plates plus 10 illustrations in the text, tissue guard to the frontispiece foxed with some offsetting to the title page. Recent crimson half morocco, marbled sides, a.e.g., a handsome copy. £225
141. LANG, Andrew (Editor). The Blue Poetry Book. With... illustrations by H.J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1904. Third edition, 8vo, xx, 351, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations, slightly later inscription to fly leaf, label removed from fly leaf. Original gilt decorated blue cloth, a.e.g., light damp staining to the outer edge of the lower cover. £40
142. LANG, Andrew (Editor). The Yellow Fairy Book. With... illustrations by Henry J. Ford. London: Longmans, Green and Co. (1935). 8vo, xvi, 321, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations, later bookplate to fly leaf. Original yellow cloth, spine somewhat darkened. £45
143. MILNE, A.A. A Gallery of Children. Illustrations by Saida (H. Willebeek Le Mair). London: Stanley Paul & Co. (1925). Seventh edition, 4to, 106 pp. 12 colour plates plus an illustration to the title, contemporary inscription to fly leaf, two pages with some marks, occasional light foxing. Cloth, d.w. with slight loss to top of spine, a few minor tears and some soiling, overall a very good copy. £125
DELUXE EDITION 144. MILNE, A.A. Now We are Six. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. (1927). First deluxe edition, 8vo, (xii), 103, (1) pp. Illustrations throughout. Original Publisher‟s limp blue morocco with gilt decoration, spine slightly sunned with faint rubbing to ends, a handsome copy. See inside upper cover. £600
145. MILNE, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. (1928). First edition, 8vo, xii, 180 pp. Illustrations throughout and on the endpapers, owner‟s name and date to the fly leaf. Original gilt decorated salmon cloth, t.e.g., slight fading of spine, a near fine copy. £240
146. MITFORD, Mary Russell. Our Village. With an Introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and... Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: Macmillan and Co. 1893. First edition thus, 8vo, lx, 256 pp. 100 illustrations, occasional light foxing. Original gilt decorated cloth, a.e.g., a couple of light marks otherwise a near fine copy. £35 One of the splendidly bound “Cranford” series.
147. NESBIT, E. Children‟s Stories from Shakespeare, and “When Shakespeare was a boy” by the late Dr. F.J. Furnivall. London: Raphael Tuck & Sons [1920s]. Small 4to, 129, (1, 14 advertisement) pp. 10 coloured plates, one misbound, plus the original covers bound in at front and back, modern inscription to front blank. Later full vellum, spine title slightly rubbed otherwise a handsome copy. £50
148. [PARKS], Mabel. The Old Arm Chair. By... Illustrated... by George Lambert. London: Frederick Warne [1881]. Small 8vo, (24) pp. Coloured illustrations throughout, slightly later inscription to paste down. Original pictorial boards, some minor edge wear, recently rebacked. £60
149. PILKINGTON, Mrs. [Mary]. The Asiatic Princess. London: Vernor and Hood 1800. First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo. Frontispiece in volume I, volume II with the fly leaf removed and slight cracking to the upper hinge. Contemporary green quarter calf, marbled sides, paper spines labels and corners worn. £150 A very scarce children‟s tale (ESTC lists four copies) dedicated to Princess Charlotte.
150. (RACKHAM, Arthur). WAGNER, Richard. The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Armour. London: William Heinemann 1910. First edition, 4to, x, 160 pp. 34 coloured plates, tipped in onto stiff paper with captioned tissues, pictorial endpapers, advertisement for a Leicester Galleries Exhibition of Rackham‟s work loosely inserted. Original gilt decorated brown buckram, some rubbing. Latimore & Haskell p37. £225
151. (RACKHAM, Arthur). BARRIE, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensingon Gardens. From the Little White Bird by J.M. Barrie. A New Edition. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Hodder & Stoughton [1912]. “Deluxe edition”, 4to, (ii, xii), 122, (2) pp. 50 coloured plates tipped in with captioned tissues, and placed amongst the text for the first time in this edition, occasional light foxing to text leaves, one text leaf with a small tear and some light creasing to the outer edge. Original gilt decorated green cloth, spine a little faded, small patch of wear and some fading to the foot of the lower joint. £600 With a new frontispiece in this edition and the addition of 7 black and white illustrations. This edition is marginally larger than previous issues. Latimore and Haskell p40. Riall p114.
152. (RACKHAM, Arthur). EVANS, C.S. Cinderella. Retold by... and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann (1919). First trade edition, small 4to, 110 pp. Coloured frontispiece tipped in, tissue guard with slight offsetting to the title page, numerous coloured and black and white silhouette illustrations, contemporary signature to fly leaf and inscription to frontispiece recto. Original decorative orange, black and white boards, some minor rubbing, d.w. with loss to the spine ends otherwise a very good copy. £550 Latimore & Haskell p49. Riall p134.
153. (RACKHAM, Arthur). GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Company (1929). Limited edition, no. 26 of 575 copies published in England, from a total edition of 775 copies, 4to, 232 pp. 12 coloured plates plus illustrations in the text, grey and white pictorial endpapers, light foxing to the first and last text leaf. Original gilt titled vellum, t.e.g., some minor marks otherwise an excellent copy held in a later half morocco solander case. £750 Latimore and Haskell p65. Riall p170.
154. (REYNOLDS, Frank). DICKENS, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. Illustrated in Colour by Frank Reynolds. London: Hodder & Stoughton [1911]. First edition thus, 4to, (iv), 572 pp. Vignette title and 21 plates tipped in with captioned tissues, pictorial endpapers. Original gilt titled red cloth, foot of spine slightly worn otherwise very good. £75
155. RICHARDS, Frank. Billy Bunter Among the Cannibals. Illustrated by R.J. MacDonald. London: Charles Skilton (1950). First edition, 8vo, 236, (4) pp. Coloured frontispiece and black and white illustrations in the text. Cloth, top edge slightly faded, d.w. with some minor rubbing and marks otherwise very good. £75
156. (ROBINSON, Charles). STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Child‟s Garden of Verse. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head 1921. 8vo, (xii), 136, (4, 6 advertisement) pp. Black and white illustrations, signature to paste down. Gilt decorated red cloth, spine dull, pictorial d.w. with a couple of minor tears and some light marks, a very good copy. £75 First published with these illustrations in 1896. Scarce with a wrapper.
157. SCHAEPPI, Sophie. Der Tante Sophie ABC. 25 Lichtdruckbilder nach Originalzeichnungen von... Frauenfeld: J. Huber [1893]. First edition, 4to, (25) leaves - title and 24 plates - one for each letter of the alphabet excepting I and Y. All but the final plate have been carefully hand coloured by a previous, presumably young, owner. Original pictorial cloth, with some darkening and minor marks. £100 Framing each picture are related words in both French and German.
158. TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. Illustrated by the Author. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. (1967). Third edition, seventeenth impression, 8vo, 317, (3) pp. 4 colour plates plus 8 black and white illustrations, map endpapers. Original decorated green cloth, slight fading to the top of the spine, d.w., not price clipped, with some browning and wear to extremities. £125
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159. AGASSIZ, Louis & GOULD, A.A. Outlines of Comparative Physiology, Touching the Structure and Development of the Races of Animals, Living and Extinct. For the Use of Schools and Colleges.Edited... by Thomas Wright. London: H.G. Bohn 1855. 8vo, xxiv, 442 pp, with several leaves of advertisements at beginning and end. Coloured frontispiece, later inscription to recto. Original decorative blind stamped cloth, some rubbing, minor wear to top of lower joint otherwise very good. £60
160. BABINGTON, Charles Cardale. Flora of Cambridgeshire: or a Catalogue of Plants found in the county of Cambridge, with references to former catalogues, and the localities of the rarer species. London: John van Voorst 1860. First edition, 12mo, lvi, 327, (1) pp. Folding map. Original green cloth, spine very slight rubbed otherwise a near fine copy. Freeman 137. £75
161. BATES, Henry Walter. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, during eleven years of travel. London: John Murray 1864. Second edition, 8vo, (iii)-xii, 466 pp. Frontispiece and 39 illustrations plus a folding map at the end. Recent green quarter morocco, black labels, old marbled edges. £225 Bates spent 11 years in South America, initially in the company of Alfred Russel Wallace. An important scientific work, this was his only published book, spending much of the rest of his life editing the Transactions of the Royal Geographical Society.
162. BEAUMONT, W. Worby. Motor Vehicles and Motors. Their Design, Construction and Working by Steam, Oil and Electricity. Westminster: Archibald Constable 1902. Second edition, large 8vo, xvi, 636 pp. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations, many photographic and some extending, some mostly light marginal browning and staining throughout. Modern cloth, retaining the original backstrip, new endpapers. £350 A major early work on motoring, particularly from an engineering point of view, with detailed diagrams and chapters on some of the more famous models as well as the different components of a car.
163. BEWICK, T. History of British Birds. The Figures Engraved on wood by... The History and Description of Land Birds. ...Water Birds. Newcastle: Edward Walker, for T. Bewick 1804. Two volumes, volume II (Water Birds) first edition, demy 8vo. Numerous wood engraved illustrations, a few spots in volume II, marbled endpapers and sides. Later dark green half morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, some minor rubbing, a handsome set. £450 Roscoe 17d, seemingly variant E, although the engraving at p.136 appears to be a combination of the second and third states.
164. BEWICK, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures engraved on wood by... Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by Edw. Walker for T. Bewick... 1820. Seventh edition, 8vo, x, 528 pp. Numerous wood engraved illustrations, some occasional mostly light foxing, marbled endpapers, 20th century inscription to fly leaf verso. Contemporary straight grain morocco, skilfully rebacked retaining the original green morocco labels. A handsome copy. £300 See also items 264/5 and inside lower cover.
165. BUNYARD, Edward A. The Anatomy of Dessert. London: Dulau & Company 1929. Limited edition, no. 226 of 1,000 copies signed by the Author, 8vo, (viii), 133, (3) pp. Frontispiece, a few light spots. Original green buckram, t.e.g., minor rubbing otherwise a very good copy. £100
166. CABOT, David. Ireland. (London): HarperCollins (1999). First edition, 8vo, 512 pp. 8 coloured plates and numerous black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a fine copy. £125 New Naturalist series no. 84.
167. DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species, by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray 1861. Third edition, (seventh thousand), 8vo, (iii-xx), 538 pp, bound without the half title. Folding table with some subtle repair, edges of the first two leaves with a few minor chips. Recent dark green half morocco, marbled sides. £1,600 Freeman 381. First published 1859. Including a leaf detailing alterations from the second edition, and also the historical sketch for the first time in a Murray edition, appearing originally in a shortened form in the first German edition and subsequently in the fourth American printing (both 1860). See inside lower cover.
168. DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray 1885. Sixth edition, 28th thousand, 8vo, xxi, (1), 458 pp. Folding plate, some foxing to front and rear blanks and first and last text leaf, booklabel to paste down. Original dark green cloth, some light rubbing, tiny patch of wear to the top of the spine. £500 Freeman 416. An early issue of the final definitive text, which first appeared in 1876 (18th thousand).
169. DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray 1898. 51st thousand, 8vo, xxi, (1), 432 pp. Folding plate, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary black half calf, gilt spine, boards with some scuffing otherwise a very good copy. Freeman 455. See inside lower cover. £550
170. DARWIN, Charles. A Naturalist‟s Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of HMS Beagle round the world. Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy. London: John Murray 1890. 8vo, (xii), 500 pp. Portrait frontispiece, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary half calf, top corners with some bumping otherwise an excellent copy. £350 “It is impossible to overrate the influence of the voyage on Darwin's career: it was both his education and his opportunity. He left England untried and almost uneducated for science, he returned a successful collector, a practised and brilliant geologist, and with a wide general knowledge of zoology gained at first hand in many parts of the world” (DNB). Freeman 58. See inside lower cover.
171. DARWIN, Charles. On the Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs; Also Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and parts of South America. With... a critical Introduction to each work by Prof. John W. Judd. London: Ward, Lock, and Co. 1890. 8vo, xx, 549, (1, 6 advertisement) pp. 5 plates and a folding map plus illustrations in the text, owner‟s label to paste down, small ink stamp to frontispiece recto. Freeman 279a. £40
172. FERGUSON, John. Bibliotheca Chemica: A Catalogue of the Alchemical, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Books in the Collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons 1906. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, xxi, (iii), 487, (1); (iv), 598, (2) pp. Portrait frontispieces, some light foxing to endpapers, inscribed from Ferguson on the fly leaf of volume I. Partly unopened in the original buckram, spines slightly dull and rubbed. £250
173. FORBES, R.J. Short History of the Art of Distillation. From the Beginnings up to the death of Cellier Blumenthal. Leiden: E.J. Brill 1948. First edition, 8vo, (vi), 405, (1) pp. 203 illustrations in the text plus a folding table, signature to fly leaf. Buckram, d.w. with some loss to the spine ends and corners, spine browned. Scarce. £200
174. FROST, W.E. & BROWN, M.E. The Trout. London: Collins 1967. First edition, 8vo, 286 pp. 1 colour and 16 black and white plates plus maps and diagrams, brief inscription to foot of fly leaf. Buckram, d.w., price clipped, slight browning of spine, some light marks to lower wrapper. £60 New Naturalist Monograph no. 21.
175. GILBERT, Oliver. Lichens. (London): HarperCollins (2000). First edition, 8vo, 288 pp. 16 colour plates plus black and white illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £160 New Naturalist series no. 86.
176. GRIMBLE, Augustus. Deer-Stalking. London: Chapman and Hall 1886. First edition, 8vo, (xii), 115, (1, 4 advertisement) pp. 6 photographic plates, owner‟s signature to half title. Original gilt titled red cloth, spine sunned with slight marking to the top of the upper cover. £40
177. [HANSEL, John George]. Compendium Medicinale: Or, a Brief Summary of the Original Causes of most Diseases in Human Bodies, with their Symptoms and Method of Cure. As also, An Uncommon Account of the Origin of Plagues, and other Malignant Disorders... By J.H., Chym. & Pharm. London: Printed for S. Huddleston [et al] 1730. Third edition, small 8vo, (ii), ix, (iii), 112, 93-193, (3 Index) pp. Some browning and light wear to edges, one gathering a little proud. Modern quarter calf, marbled boards. £225 First published in 1714 as “Medicina Brevis” with a second edition in 1721. Only two copies located of this edition, in the British and Wellcome Libraries (III p208).
178. HEWER, H.R. British Seals. London: Collins (1974). First edition, 8vo, 256 pp. 24 black and white plates plus 54 illustrations in the text, inscription to fly leaf. Buckram, d.w., not price clipped, very slight sunning to the spine with a couple of creases to the foot otherwise a fine copy. £80 New Naturalist series no. 57.
179. JEKYLL, Gertrude. Wood and Garden. Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a working amateur. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1901. Ninth impression, 8vo, xvi, 286 pp. Frontispiece and 65 photographic illustrations, endpapers foxed. Original gilt title buckram, spine sunned, a very good copy. £50
180. LUNN, Angus. Northumberland. With Alston Moor. (London): Collins (2004). First edition, 8vo, 304 pp. 16 pages of colour photographs plus black and white illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a fine copy. £90 New Naturalist series no. 95.
181. LYELL, Sir Charles. The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation. London: John Murray 1863. Third edition, 8vo, xvi, 551, (1), 32 advertisement pp. 2 plates and 58 text figures, a few spots to blanks and half title, small W.H. Smith blind stamp to fly leaf. Original gilt titled blind stamped green pebbled cloth, small hole to upper joint otherwise very good. £300 The last major work of Lyell‟s life, it was affected by the publication of Darwin‟s “Origin of Species” four years earlier. Lyell couldn‟t bring himself to champion the new theories, and his impartial overview of the competing theories in the later chapters disappointed Darwin, although he admitted “The whole... struck me as a compilation, but of the highest quality, for when possible the facts have been verified on the spot...” Bailey pp187-201. First published the same year.
182. MANTELL, Gideon. The Medals of Creation; Or, First Lessons in Geology, and in the Study of Organic Remains. London: Henry G. Bohn 1844. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xxviii, 456, (4 advertisement); viii, 457-1016 pp. 6 plates at the front of volume I, including 4 chromolithographs, plus a folding plate in volume II and 167 woodcuts in the text, an ex-Library copy with stamps to the rear of the plates and to the title pages, blind stamp to the folding plate, remains of labels to paste downs. Contemporary half morocco, some light wear. £275 "...an original and significant work, surveying as it did the whole science of paleontology... Such syntheses... were fundamental to biological transformation, later to be called evolution..." Dean 160.
183. MANTELL, Gideon. The Wonders of Geology; Or a familiar exposition of Geological Phenomena. London: Henry G. Bohn 1848. Sixth edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xvi, 481, (1 advertisement); (vi), 483-938 pp. Frontispiece by John Martin and 6 plates - 3 coloured, plus 200 woodcuts in the text, one plate with some foxing, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary green calf, spines faded with some wear to joints and spine ends, slight damage to upper cover of volume I. £400 One of Mantell‟s most popular works. “...none did more to enhance his name among the educated public than successive editions of „The Wonders of Geology‟, a much read, widely influential invitation to the science and its latest discoveries...” The frontispiece, “The Country of the Iguanadon” by John Martin, is one of the earliest (the first edition appeared a decade earlier) to show a dinosaur supposedly in its natural habitat. “The genre itself... was new, and only a few paleontological localities were sufficiently well investigated to be reconstructed in such detail... [it] therefore became the first well-known attempt to re-create the actual appearance of dinosaurs... It effectively awakened Victorian imaginations to a saurian past that has continued to fascinate us ever since” Dean 160.
184. (MANTELL, Gideon). Thoughts on a Pebble, or, a First Lesson in Geology. London 1849. Eighth edition, square 12mo, xiv, 5-102, (8 advertisement) pp. Portrait frontispiece and 4 chromolithographed plates plus 27 woodcuts in the text, owner‟s inscription to paste down. Original gilt titled pale blue cloth, rebacked retaining the original backstrip, this browned. £250 The final edition of one of Mantell‟s most successful works, first published thirteen years before with only 18 pages and stemming from the answers he gave his young son concerning a flint pebble from a nearby stream bed. “[An] eloquent review of geological fundamentals - far too sophisticated for most nine-year olds...” Dean p79.
185. MANTELL, Gideon. Petrifactions and their Teachings; Or, a Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British Museum. London: Henry G. Bohn 1851. First edition, 8vo, xii, 496 pp. Frontispiece, a folding plate and 114 woodcuts in the text, frontispiece with some spots, stamps of the Bristol Naturalists Society to endpapers and half title, presentation label to paste down. Original blind stamped red cloth, rebacked retaining most of the original backstrip. £175 A detailed guide to the British Museum‟s fossil collections, many of which had once belonged to Mantell. “Mantell‟s last book - and perhaps the most readable of all... in returning to [his fossils] he not only sums up current scientific knowledge but his own life‟s work...” Dean 225.
186. MANUSCRIPT: [Early 19th Century Mathematical Exercises]. Two volumes, 4to, 206; 138-140, 131 leaves. Written on rectos only with neatly ruled margins, striking engraved label of Orford, Working Goldsmith, 71 Oxford St. to paste down with an inscription around it concerning the purchase of a watch. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, gilt banded spines and corners with some marks and rubbing, black morocco labels to upper covers reading “Thos. Sidden 1809”. £600 A fine example of early 19th century schoolwork, being a series of mathematical exercises, from fractions and square roots to properties of circles and polygons. Written in a fair copperplate hand, setting out each problem before showing the solution with neat series of calculations, it is illustrated where appropriate with diagrams and some pictures of cones and other three-dimensional figures, the latter being delicately shaded in monochrome water-colour. Sidden was a builder and surveyor in Rochester. See inside lower cover.
187. MARREN, Peter. Nature Conservation. A Review of the Conservation of Wildlife in Britain 1950-2001. (London): HarperCollins (2002). First edition, 8vo, 344 pp. 16 pages of coloured photographs and numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a fine copy. £100 New Naturalist series no. 91.
188. MOSS, Brian. The Broads. The People‟s Wetlands. (London): HarperCollins (2001). First edition, 8vo, 392 pp. 16 pages of coloured photographs plus black and white illustrations in the text. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a fine copy. £125 New Naturalist series no. 89.
189. MYERS, A. Wallis. Lawn Tennis. Its Principles & Practice. London: Seeley Service & Co. [1930]. First edition, 8vo, 215, (1) pp. 65 photographic plates plus illustrations in the text. Buckram backed cloth, d.w. with further photographic illustrations and some light rubbing, very good. £40 The Lonsdale Library volume V.
190. NICOLSON, Peter. Nicholson‟s New Carpenter‟s Guide; being a complete Book of Lines for Carpenters, Joiners, Cabinet-makers, and workmen in general. An Enlarged and Improved edition, by John Hay. London: James Virtue [1860]. 4to, (ii), xii, 122 pp. Frontispiece portrait, engraved second title and 121 plates, some foxing, later ink inscription to frontispiece recto showing through on the other side, fly leaf creased and torn. Contemporary half calf, black spine label, a good sound copy. £225
191. PAGE, Christopher N. Ferns. Their Habitats in the British and Irish Landscapes. London: Collins (1988). First edition, 8vo, 430 pp. 21 colour illustrations plus numerous black and white ones in the text. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a fine bright copy. £600 New Naturalist series no. 74.
192. PHILLIPSON, E.A. Steam Locomotive Design: Data and Formulæ. London: The Locomotive Publishing Co. 1936. First edition, 8vo, 444 pp. Frontispiece and 25 plates, all but one folding, plus 5 further folding diagrams and tables. Cloth, lower cover slightly bowed, d.w. worn with some loss to the spine ends and corners. £75
193. SACKVILLE-WEST, V. In Your Garden Again. London: Michael Joseph (1953). First edition, 8vo, 178, (2) pp. 8 photographic plates, owner‟s label to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine slightly browned with minor rubbing to the top, a very good copy. Cross & Ravenscroft Hulme A51a. £60
194. (SIMPSON). DUNS, J. Memoir of Sir James Y. Simpson, Bart. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas 1873. First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 544 pp. Photographic portrait frontispiece, some pencilled underlining and marginalia. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, top edge of upper cover sunned, some light rubbing otherwise very good. £80 Professor of Obstetrics (then Midwifery) at Edinburgh University, Simpson pioneered the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic.
195. SOWERBY, G.B. A Conchological Manual. London: G.B. Sowerby 1839. First edition, 8vo, (ii, vi), 130, 4 pp. Hand coloured frontispiece and 23 black and white plates showing 490 examples, plus 2 folding tables, some light, mostly marginal foxing to the black and white plates. 20 century green cloth, black spine label. £175
196. WOODWARD, Horace B. Stanford‟s Geological Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland. With Plates of characteristic Fossils... London: Edward Stanford 1914. Third edition, 8vo, (xii), 214 pp. Coloured general frontispiece map and 36 double page coloured maps showing the counties plus the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, as well as 16 double page plates of fossils and an extending table in the text, bookplate to fly leaf. Blue cloth, spine ends bumped, recently recased. £125
197. WOOLDRIDGE, S.W. & GOLDRING, Frederick. The Weald. London: Collins 1953. First edition, 8vo, x, 276, (2 advertisement) pp. 16 colour and 24 black and white plates. Buckram, d.w., price clipped, some light edge wear, one small tear and slight loss to the foot of the lower cover otherwise very good. £60 New Naturalist series no. 26.
198. YOUNG, Arthur. The Farmer‟s Calendar: Containing the Business necessary to be performed on various kinds of Farms during every month of the Year. London 1815. Tenth edition, 8vo, x, 658 pp, 2 plates, some light spotting, uncut in the original boards, spine worn with piece lacking at head, paper spine label. £125 “...the greatest of English writers on agriculture... He was indefatigable in observation, inquiries, researches, and experiments, collecting by hand the seeds of artificial grasses and sowing them himself... endeavouring, with the aid of Priestley, to discover the chemistry of soils and to apply science to practice, incessantly attempting new methods, new rotations of crops, and stirring up a widespread and intelligent interest in the development of agricultural science...” (DNB).
199. ZOOLOGY: Anatomical Model of the Mare. Vinton‟s Live Stock Models No. 5. London: Vinton & Company [c.1890] Second edition, oblong 8vo, (viii) pp, with, on the inside of the rear board, two overlaying coloured plates of a mare, illustrated on both sides, showing its internal structure, and a series of smaller overlays underneath showing the organs etc, signature to inside front cover. Original pictorial boards, slight browning and a few marks, otherwise very good. £75
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200. ABBOTT, Rev. J. (Editor). Philip Musgrave; or Memoirs of a Church of England Missionary in the North American Colonies. [bound with] [MAITLAND, Julia]. Letters from Madras, during the years 1836-1839. By a Lady. London: John Murray 1846. Two works bound in one volume, both first editions, 8vo, vi, 158, ix, (i), 145, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary full calf, double gilt rules, gilt spine with black labels, some minor rubbing otherwise very good. £65
201. AMERICA: Eighty Years Progress. [n.p., 1860s]. Salesman‟s sample copy, 8vo, (vii)-xvi, 21-30, 275-288, 451-(466), 223/4, 413/4, (12) pp. Engraved title and 5 engraved plates plus many woodcut illustrations from the battle of Charleston to cotton pickers, foxing to the engravings, signs that examples of the work's spine have removed from the paste downs. Gilt decorated green cloth, some minor rubbing. £125 A scarce example of a volume of extracts which would have been carried from door to door to drum up sales.
202. ANSON, George. A Voyage Round the World, in the Years [1740-44]. Compiled from Papers and other Materials by Richard Walter. Edinburgh: Printed for J. Fairbairn 1800. Two volumes bound in one, 12mo, 195, (1), 223, (1) pp. 20th century signature to title page. Contemporary tree sheep, some light rubbing, gilt spine with a red label. £150 First published 1740. Appointed to lead a squadron of six ships intended for the Pacific, Anson suffered serious losses and arrived in South America with only a third of his crew still alive, and two of his three remaining ships beyond repair. After recuperating they rounded Cape Horn and subsequently succeeded in capturing the annual merchant galleon sailing from Manila to Acapulco. Pressing on via China and the Cape of Good Hope, they eventually returned to England after a four year circumnavigation carrying half a million pounds worth of treasure. See inside lower cover.
203. ASHDOWN, Charles H. British Castles. London: Adam and Charles Black 1911. First edition, 8vo, xx, 208 pp. 32 colour plates plus 37 black and white illustrations in the text, slight cracking of the upper hinge. Original gilt title decorative green cloth, t.e.g., d.w. with slight loss to the spine ends, spine darkened with signs of a small label having been removed, a very good copy. Inman 129. £125
204. BESANT, Walter. The History of London. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1904. Fifth impression, 8vo, (iii)-256 pp, bound without the half title. Black and white illustrations, Prize inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary green calf, gilt borders, spine faded otherwise very good. £40
205. BRASSEY, Lady. A Voyage in the „Sunbeam‟. Our Home on the Ocean for eleven months. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1880. 8vo. xix, 492 pp. Contemporary full polished tan calf, gilt rules to edges of boards, spine with raised bands, gilt tooling to compartments, black gilt lettered label, marbled endpapers, book plate of Reginald Cunliffe Smith to first free endpaper, Eton presentation plate to him on front paste down, all edges marbled. Frontispiece, folding colour printed map to rear of volume plus many illustrations to text. Upper edge of upper board slightly faded, endpapers foxed. A very good copy. £175
206. BYRON, Robert. The Road to Oxiana. London: Macmillan & Co. 1937. First edition, 8vo, (x), 341, (1, 2 advertisement) pp. 16 black and white photographic plates. Original blue cloth, spine sunned with some light marks otherwise very good. £350 Embarking from Venice, Byron travels to Cyprus and visits Jerusalem, Syria and Iraq before reaching Iran, ending up in India via Afghanistan.
207. CALVERT, A.F. Southern Spain. Painted by Trevor Haddon. Described by... London: A. & C. Black 1908. First edition, 8vo, xii, 210 pp. 75 coloured plates with captioned tissues plus a folding map, the latter with slight browning to the top edge, some light foxing to text leaves. Original gilt titled decorative maroon cloth, t.e.g., slight rubbing to extremities, one small mark to lower cover otherwise a very good copy. Inman 76. £125
208. CALVERT, Alfred F. Spain. An Historical and Descriptive Account of its Architecture, Landscape, and Arts. London: B.T. Batsford 1924. Second edition, 2 volumes, 4to. Over 1,700 illustrations, including 46 coloured plates with tissues, upper hinge of volume II slightly cracked. Original gilt titled red cloth, gilt arms to upper covers, t.e.g., tiny hole to the upper joint of volume II otherwise a very good bright set. First published 1911. £200
209. COBBETT, William. Rural Rides. In the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford, Bucks, Wilts, Somerset... during the years 1821 to 1832... A new edition, with notes, by Pitt Cobbett. London: Reeves and Turner 1908. Two volumes, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece and a folding map, very light marginal browning. Original gilt titled green cloth, spines sunned. £60
210. COLQUHOUN, A.R. China in Transformation. London: Harper Brothers 1898. Second edition, 8vo, (xii), 398 pp. Four coloured folding maps, two with closed tears - one of these marginal, plus black and white maps and charts in the text, contemporary signature to fly leaf. Original gilt titled dark blue cloth, minor rubbing to extremities. £45
211. COOK: Captain Cook‟s Third and Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. Faithfully abridged from the Quarto edition... London: John Fielding and John Stockdale [c.1785]. 8vo, x, 370 pp. Frontispiece and 2 plates, contemporary and slightly messy inscriptions to title, further manuscript at the beginning and end, lacking free endpapers. Contemporary tree calf, joints cracking but sound, spine with a red spine label, minor loss to ends. £300 Not in the Mitchell Library catalogue. ESTC lists only 3 copies of this issue, in the British, Irish and New Zealand National Libraries.
GWEN RAVERAT 212. CORNFORD, Frances. Mountains & Molehills. Illustrated with woodcuts by Gwen Raverat. Cambridge University Press 1934. First edition, 8vo, viii, 64, (2) pp. 34 wood engraved illustrations. Cloth, some light soiling, d.w., spine and edges browned, minor loss to top of spine. £75
213. CURR, Edward. An Account of the Colony of Van Diemen‟s Land, Principally Designed for the Use of Emigrants. London: Printed for George Cowie and Co., 31 Poultry. 1824 8vo. x, [ii], 207, [1] pp. Original brown cloth, recased and rebacked preserving original spine, original paper label, plain endpapers. Slight loss to cloth at head and foot of spine, paper browned throughout but more pronounced at front and rear of volume. £775 Edward Curr arrived in Tasmania, from England, in 1820, subsequently becoming an agent for the Van Diemen‟s Land Company. Wantrup states that the text was compiled from Curr‟s memoranda and notes by George Daniel. Ferguson also notes that a copy in the NLA belonging to Daniel bears a manuscript note declaring himself the editor and the principal author of the work. Scarce. Ferguson, 938. Wantrup, pp. 124-5.
214. DAUMONT, [Jean Francois]. L‟Empire D‟Allemagne ... Paris; Chez l‟Auteur rue St. Martin pres St. Julien. 1758 Overall dimensions 97 x 120.5 cm. Large folding copper engraved map of Germany with original outline colour, dissected into 36 sections and mounted on linen. Armorial ownership plate of a Charles Palmer of Wanstead, Essex dated 1783 to one of the folded end sections, above this “Germany” written in neat black manuscript. No slipcase, judging from the soiling to the end sections not present for some time. Paper evenly toned, wormhole to centre right edge of map, a few light stains otherwise good. £175
215. DE BECKER, J.E. Commentary on the Commercial Code of Japan. London: Butterworth & Co.; Yokohama: Kelly & Walsh 1913. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. Volume II with a bookplate and a Library of Congress cancel stamp to the front endpapers. Original gilt titled red cloth, some rubbing and fading. Very scarce. £100 A third volume was also published.
216. DE CHAIR, Somerset. The Golden Carpet. Published by Permission of the War Office. (London): The Golden Cockerel Press (1943). Limited edition, no. 286 of 500 copies, large 8vo, 128 pp. Portrait frontispiece, map endpapers with a small abrasion to both paste downs. Original green quarter morocco, spine sunned, t.e.g. Cockalorum 155. See also items 22, 25, 68, 84/5. £150
217. FIELD, Claud. With the Afghans. London: Marshall Brothers, Ltd. [1908]. First edition, 8vo, (xii), 221, (1, 2 advertisement) pp. 17 black and white photographic plates, owner‟s inscription to paste down. Original gilt titled red cloth, d.w. creased and sunned with some loss to the spine ends and corners. £150
218. FRANKLIN, Captain John. Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in 1819-20-21-22: with a brief Account of the Second Journey in 1825-26-27. London: John Murray 1829. Four volumes, 16mo. 23 plates and a folding map, including 6 portraits, portrait of Franklin in volume I with some bumping to edges, some foxing to plates. Original green cloth, rebacked retaining the original backstrips with their paper labels, some loss to two of these labels otherwise a good sound set. £400 An intrepid but costly expedition to map the northernmost reaches of the American continent. Franklin travelled over 5,000 miles but lost members of his party to the elements and also to murder. First published 1823. NMM Cat. I 844.
219. [GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY]. G.W.R. Railway at Stourbridge. Secretary‟s Copy. [c. 1878] Irregularly shaped railway map, the whole dissected into fifteen sections and mounted on linen. The central section folding in a standard concertina style, the left and centre right sections dissected into triangular panels allowing the map to follow the curve of the railway line. Green cloth to folded end sections, the upper panel gilt lettered. Slightly difficult to measure but c. 38 x 218 cm (running in a line through the centre of the map). Cloth covers slightly speckled, otherwise very good. £150 Produced to show the course of the then projected spur line between Stourbridge Station (now Stourbridge Junction) and the town centre (subsequently served by Stourbridge Town). Compiled from conjoined sections of a large scale printed map of the area, then amended, coloured and annotated by hand to illustrate the owners, “reputed” or actual, of the land purchased for the building of the line. A corresponding table listing the owners in manuscript red ink to the left edge. A pencil annotation refers to one of the land owners being served notice in July 1877, Stourbridge Town station was subsequently opened in October 1879.
220. HAMILTON, Norah Rowan. Both Sides of the Jordan. A Woman‟s Adventures in the Near East. London: Herbert Jenkins 1928. First edition, 8vo, 320 pp. Frontispiece and 23 illustrations, owner‟s signature to both paste downs. Original green cloth, damp staining to the top of the lower cover otherwise a very good copy. £35
221. HARROD, Wilhelmine & LINNELL, Rev. C.L.S. Shell Guide to Norfolk. London: Faber and Faber (1957). First edition, 8vo, 88 pp. 8 pages of illustrations by J.S. Cotman plus black and white illustrations throughout. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a few light marks otherwise an excellent copy. £50
222. HEARN, Lafcadio. Chita: A Memory of Last Island. New York: Harper & Brothers (1889). First edition, 8vo, (vi), 204, (4 advertisement) pp. Signature to fly leaf. Original decorated russet cloth, slight rubbing to spine ends, otherwise an excellent copy held in a custom maroon quarter morocco slipcase, this with a little wear. £75 Perkins p15.
223. HEARN, Lafcadio. A Japanese Miscellany. Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1901. First edition, 8vo, (x), 305, (1, 2 advertisement) pp. 8 plates and 5 illustrations in the text. Original gilt titled decorated green cloth, t.e.g., minor rubbing to spine ends otherwise an excellent copy. Perkins p42. £100
224. HEARN, Lafcadio. “Out of the East”. Reveries and Studies in New Japan. London: Kegan Paul [c.1903]. Small 8vo, (viii), 341, (3 blank) pp. Inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt decorated blue cloth, t.e.g., some light staining to upper cover and spine. Gould 8. £30
225. (HEARN, Lafcadio). GOULD, G. M. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman. London: T. Fisher Unwin 1908. First English edition, 8vo, (xvi), 303, (1) pp. 5 plates. Original gilt titled blue cloth, some light rubbing otherwise a very good copy. Perkins p58. £60
226. [JAPAN]. (Photograph Album). [n.d.]. (32 x 40 cm). Original decorative black lacquer boards, different illustrations to each side. Upper board with a scene featuring herons with mother of pearl inlays and gilt, the lower board with gilt and red illustrations of insects. Black morocco spine with gilt tooled raised bands, all edges gilt. 50 sepia photographs mounted on card back to back, all hand coloured to varying degrees. Many numbered with English language titles to lower edge. Tissue guards present, but some torn and creased. Spine worn, the foot somewhat more than the head. A few small scuffs and chips to the boards. £750 The album comprises a mixture of subjects. Many of the photos are of urban scenes (temples, gates & some general views) and landscapes, but also a few of social scenes including a number of what we believe to be geisha women. No date indicated, but late 19th or very early 20th Century. See inside lower cover.
227. KELMAN, John. The Holy Land. Painted by John Fulleylove. London: A.& C.Black (1912). Third impression, 8vo, xvi, 302, (2 advertisement) pp. 93 colour plates with captioned tissues. Original decorated cloth, d.w. torn and repaired, loss to top of spine with subsequent fading of the cloth to that part. Inman 36. £50
228. LANDOR, Walter Savage. Tibet & Nepal. Painted and Described by... London: A. & C. Black (1905). First edition, 8vo, x, 233, (1, 4 advertisement) pp. 75 coloured plates with captioned tissues. Original gilt and black decorated blue cloth, t.e.g., spine darkened with some light wear to ends, a little rubbing to corners also. Inman 81. £100
229. LUNN, Arnold. The Mountains of Youth. Oxford University Press 1925. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 192 pp. 18 photographic plates, some foxing to preliminaries, signed by the Author on the title page, unconnected contemporary presentation inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt titled light green cloth, a very good copy. £60 Accounts of skiing holidays in several European countries.
230. MENPES, Mortimer. The Durbar. Text by Dorothy Menpes. London: Adam and Charles Black (1903). First edition, 8vo, xii, 210 pp. 100 plates with captioned tissues, some foxing to text leaves. Original gilt titled decorated cloth, t.e.g., spine a little browned, some light soiling. Inman 18. £125
231. MENPES, Mortimer. Paris. Text by Dorothy Menpes. London: Adam & Charles Black 1909. First edition, xii, 185, (1) pp. 75 coloured plates with captioned tissues plus black and white illustrations in the text, owner‟s ink stamp to half title and fly leaf. Original gilt tiled decorative red cloth, t.e.g., spine sunned. Inman 64. £75
232. MULLENS, Joseph. Twelve Months in Madagascar. London: James Nisbet 1875. First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 334 pp. 4 plates plus 7 illustrations in the text, contemporary inscription to fly leaf, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary half calf, extremities a little worn, gilt spine. £95 The Author was foreign secretary for the London Missionary Society.
233. MURCHISON, Sir Roderick. Geological Map of England and Wales. (With all the Railways). According to the most recent researches. 5th Edition. London: Edward Stanford. 1864 Image size 38.5 x 32 cm, overall dimensions 44 x 36.5 cm. A handsome geologically coloured map of England and Wales, drawn by S.P. Woodward and engraved by J. & C. Walker. The whole dissected into 12 sections and mounted on linen. The map folds between original green cloth boards, gilt lettered to upper cover, Stanford‟s yellow printed advertisements to inner cover and to folded end section on linen verso. Spine of covers slightly faded, map paper slightly toned, overall a very good example. £275
234. NANSEN, Fridtjof. “Farthest North”, Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the ship Fram 1893-96 and of a fifteen months‟ sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen, with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. London: George Newnes 1898. Second English edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xvi, 480; viii, 456 pp. Coloured folding map and a coloured plate, some foxing to the latter and to the endpapers, plus 212 black and white illustrations. Original decorated cloth with bevelled edges, illustration of the ship in the ice plus title in gilt, silver and red, slight rubbing to spine ends otherwise a very good set. See inside lower cover. £225
235. PHILBY, H. St. J.B. Sheba‟s Daughters. Being a Record of Travel in Southern Arabia. With an Appendix on the Rock Inscriptions by A.F.L. Beeston. London: Methuen & Co. (1939). First edition, large 8vo, (xx), 485 pp. Frontispiece and 64 black and white illustrations plus a folding map at the end. Original gilt titled green cloth, minor rubbing to spine ends otherwise near fine. £200
236. PISA, Alberto. Sicily. Painted by... Described by Spencer C. Musson. London: Adam & Charles Black 1911. First edition, 8vo, xii, 312 pp. 48 coloured plates tipped in with captioned tissues, extending map at the end, some occasional light foxing. Original gilt titled decorative cloth, t.e.g., a fine copy still in the original d.w., spine slightly rubbed and darkened with minor loss to top. Inman 72. £150
237. RANDALL, Peter. Mount Washington. A Guide and a Short History. Foreword by Sherman Adams. Hanover, NH 1974. First edition, 8vo, xx, 170 pp, photographic illustrations and 2 folding panoramas, original coloured wrappers bound in, folding map in pocket at the end, marbled endpapers, finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in red full morocco, gilt ruled border, t.e.g. £60
238. RIVERS: The Euphrates and the Tigris. A Narrative of Discovery and Adventure. With a Description of the Ruins of Babylon and Nineveh. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1881. First edition, 8vo, 206 pp. 18 illustrations, Bradford Parish Church Sunday School Prize label to paste down. Original gilt titled blue cloth, slight rubbing to extremities otherwise very good. £40
239. SCOTT, Captain R.F. Scott‟s Last Expedition. Being the Journals of... [and] the Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson... Arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1914. Fifth edition, two volumes, 8vo, xxvi, 636; (xviii), 534 pp. 8 photogravures (including portraits of Scott and Wilson) and 18 coloured plates (mostly taken from drawings by Wilson) plus two panoramas and 172 other plates, also three pages of facsimile from notebooks and eight folding maps, further illustrations in the text, a few light spots, faint signs of tape being removed from the paste downs. Original gilt titled blue cloth, t.e.g., some minor wear otherwise very good. £300 A fine tribute to Scott‟s doomed expedition, this work collects the writings, photographs and data found with the bodies eight months after their heroic but failed attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.
240. SHUCKBURGH, Evelyn S. A History of Rome for Beginners. From the Foundation of the City to the Death of Augustus. London: Macmillan and Co. 1906. 8vo, (iii)-xxi, (3), 339, (1) pp, bound without the half title. Black and white illustrations, Prize inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, a handsome copy. £60
241. SIBREE, James. Fifty Years in Madagascar. Personal Experiences of Mission Life and Work. London: George Allen & Unwin (1924). First edition, 8vo, 359, (1) pp. 23 photographic plates and a map. Gilt titled cloth, d.w. with some light browning and minor edge wear, a very good copy. £60
242. SMITH, R.A.L. Bath. Illustrations... by Paul Fripp. London: B.T. Batsford (1945). Second edition, 8vo, 117, (1) pp. 84 black and white illustrations, marbled endpapers. Finely bound by Bayntun‟s in full red calf, t.e.g., gilt rules, gilt spine with a turquoise label, this with a light mark otherwise a fine copy. £100
243. SOMMERVILLE, Frankfort. The Spirit of Paris. London: Adam and Charles Black 1913. First edition, 8vo, xii, 169, (3) pp. 20 coloured plates with captioned tissues. Original pictorial brown cloth, spine ends bumped otherwise a very good copy. £50 Inman 175.
244. [STANFORD]. Kent. Edward Stanford: 26 & 27 Copckspur Street, Charing Cross, S.W. [from cover label] [n.d.]. Map dimensions 64 x 99 cm, overall dimensions 65 x 102.5 cm. Folding map of the county, scale approximately 5½ inches to 10 miles. Original outline colour marking out the county boundaries, the railways outlined in red. The whole dissected into 40 sections and mounted on linen, Stanford‟s yellow paper printed advertisements to folded end sections. Folds into into dark green cloth slipcase, Stanford‟s printed label to upper cover. Lower joints of case cracked and cloth starting to peel. Small brown stain to centre top edge of map, recurring more faintly at a few other points, all more visible on linen verso. Otherwise good. £125 No printed date, but published by Stanford‟s prior to their move to 55 Charing Cross in 1873. No name appears on the map itself, save for a small printed ticket pasted onto the lower left margin.
245. STANDING, Joseph. The Children of Madagascar. London: The Religious Tract Society 1887. First edition, 8vo, 176 pp. Frontispiece and 29 illustrations, contemporary Prize inscription to front blank. Original gilt decorated blue cloth, a.e.g., minor wear to spine ends otherwise very good. £40
246. STANLEY, A. P. Sinai and Palestine in Connection with their History. London: John Murray 1860. Fifth edition, 8vo, lviii, 560 pp. Folding frontispiece diagram of the heights of the various mountains plus 6 folding maps and 5 further maps in the text, signature to front blank. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, some rubbing to top of spine otherwise a very good copy. £60
247. SUSSEX: ELLIS, William Smith. The Parks and Forests of Sussex, Ancient and Modern, Historical, Antiquarian and Descriptive, with Biographical Notices of some of the former Owners. Lewes: H. Wolff 1885. First edition, 8vo, xx, 255, (1) pp. Title page with some foxing, bookplates - Uvedale Lambert and Duncan Guthrie - to front endpapers, the latter designed by Reynolds Stone. Original gilt titled green cloth, a little rubbing to spine ends otherwise very good. £65
EXTRA ILLUSTRATED 248. SUSSEX: HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker. The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex. Lewes: Baxter 1835. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to. 2 folding maps and 56 copperplate engravings plus 80 wood engravings in the text, extra illustrated with 6 further plates bound in and others loosely inserted, old closed tear to one map and a minor one to the other, only the former affecting the image, a few light spots, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary maroon half morocco, t.e.g., gilt banded spines, a little wear to spines otherwise very good. £550 One of the standard works on the county, covering each hundred and parish and listing the various ancient manor houses, churches and ruins as well as biographies of important figures.
249. SUSSEX: MARTIN, Alderman Henry. The History of Brighton and Environs, from the earliest known period to the present time: together with a short Historical Description of Towns and Villages of interest within twelve miles of Brighton. Brighton: John Beal 1871. First edition, 8vo, (vi), 265, (1) pp. 6 plates, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt decorated blue cloth with bevelled edges, extremities a little worn. £100
250. SUSSEX: PARRY, J.D. An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Coast of Sussex. Eastbourn [sic]. Hastings. St. Leonards. Rye. Worthing. Arundel. Goodwood. Chichester &c... Forming also a Guide to all the Watering Places. Brighton: Published for the Author 1833. First edition, 8vo, xii, 435, (1) pp, with an extending map with views of Arundel Castle and Battle Abbey, an engraved vignette title and 6 plates, some light spots else very good in the original moiré cloth, slight loss to spine ends. £100
251. SUSSEX: PELHAM, Mrs. Arthur & McLEAN, David. Some Early Pelhams. Hove: Combridges 1931. Limited edition, one of 250 copies, this copy not numbered, small 4to, (xii), 285, (1) pp. 27 plates, two in colour, plus a large folding genealogy, the latter with an outer fold browned and with a couple of closed tears along fold creases, one older repair also. Inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf with a photo of her tipped onto the subsequent blank with a further inscription underneath, the Earl of Chichester‟s arms tipped on to the fly leaf verso. Original gilt titled blue cloth, t.e.g., gilt arms to upper cover, extremities with some rubbing. £125 An old Sussex family who later became the Earls of Chichester. Very scarce.
252. TAYLOR, William. California Life Illustrated. New York: Published for the Author (1858). Twenty-eighth thousand, 8vo, 348, (4 advertisement) pp, 16 plates, original gilt titled green cloth, slightly dusty, a.e.g. £80 Focusing chiefly on the Author‟s Missionary activities, which took him to all manner of communities and households. Sabin 94547.
253. THESIGER, Wilfred. Arabian Sands. (London): Longmans (1959). First edition, 8vo, xvi, 326 pp. Frontispiece and 68 photographic illustrations, 8 maps plus a folding map in a pocket at the end, signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some mostly light soiling, some creasing and very slight loss to spine ends. £125 The Author spent 5 years exploring the Empty Quarter, from 1945-50, and was the first to twice cross the desert. “The crowning touches have placed on this exploratory activity in Arabia by Wilfred Thesiger who is probably the greatest of all the explorers...” (St. John Philby).
254. THESIGER, Wilfred. The Marsh Arabs. (London): Longmans (1964). First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 242 pp. Frontispiece and 109 photographic illustrations, signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, with some creasing and wear to the spine ends. £50 A classic work on the now displaced peoples of the marshes of Iraq, where the Tigris and Euphrates meet.
255. TRAVELLER‟S COMPANION: The Traveller‟s Companion, from Holyhead to London. To which is added, a Map of the different roads, from Holyhead to London. London: Longman; Chester: Broster and Son 1796. Second edition, 8vo, (vi), 168 pp. Engraved folding map with some loss and repair to the outer margin, contemporary signature to title page, very slight loss throughout to the top corner. Recent quarter calf, marbled sides. Scarce. £225 First published 1793 without a map. ESTC lists only 5 copies.
256. UP DE GRAFF, F.W. Head Hunters of the Amazon. Seven years of Exploration and Adventure. With a Foreword by Kermit Roosevelt. New York: Garden City Publishing (1923). First edition, 8vo, xviii, 337, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 4 photographic plates. Cloth with slight fading, d.w., spine faded. £100
257. WALKER, J. & C. (SEATON, Robert). This New Map of England & Wales Compiled from the latest Surveys, is Respectfully Dedicated To The Queen, By Her Majesty‟s Most Obedient Servant, Robert Seaton. London: Engraved and Published for the Proprietor by J. & C. Walker, 9 Castle Street, Holborn. [n.d.]. Image dimensions 123 x 96 cm, overall dimensions 127 x 97.5 cm. A most decorative map of England and Wales with original hand colour marking out the counties. Large vignette illustration of Windsor Castle to upper right corner. Elaborate border featuring cornerpiece vignettes of Canterbury Cathedral, York Minster, Westminster Abbey and St. Paul‟s, plus 28 illustrations of notable British personages from throughout history. The whole dissected into 40 sections and mounted on linen, blue cloth panel to one of the folded end sections (the other missing), folds into matching cloth slipcase. Extremities of case rubbed. Some occasional creasing at section edges, one more so than the others. A lovely map. £500 No printed date. A version with a slightly different title - “New Map of England and Wales, with the adjacent countries ...” - listed in the BL catalogue with an attributed date of 1830. The illustrations to the border include writers such as Shakespeare, Milton and Byron along with Sir Isaac Newton, the Duke of Wellington and other luminaries.
258. WARBURTON, Eliot. The Crescent and the Cross; or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel. ... Third Edition. London: Henry Colbourn. 1845. 8vo. xvi, 360 and vii, [1], 342, [6], 8 pp. Publisher‟s brown cloth, gilt lettered to spine, crescent and cross in gilt to upper board and blindstamped to lower, plain endpapers. Two tinted lithograph frontispieces and 13 illustrations to text. Spine and upper edges of boards sunned, stain to lower board of volume two, heads and feet slightly worn, otherwise good. £125
259. WEIGALL, Arthur E.P.B. The Treasury of Egypt. Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons 1911. First edition, 8vo, (xiv), 308 pp. 28 photographic plates, marbled endpaper, later bookplate. Contemporary dark blue half morocco, t.e.g., slight sunning of spine otherwise a handsome copy. £80
260. WILKINSON, George Blakiston. The Working Man‟s Handbook to South Australia. With Advice to the Farmer, and Detailed Information for the Several Classes of Labourers and Artizans. [Bound with an edition of: MELVILLE, Herman. Omoo: a Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas.]. London: John Murray, Albermarle Srreet; Trelawney Saunders, Charing Cross. 1849. 8vo. xii, 110 pp; title page of second work never bound in, otherwise iii-ix, [i], 242 pp. Contemporary half brown calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt rules to compartments, gilt lettered black label, plain endpapers, armorial bookplate of William Edward Armstrong, New Hall to front pastedown, his ownership inscription reading “W E A MacDonnall” to head of title page of principal work. Folding map towards front of volume. Extremities rubbed, small tear confined to inner margin of map and small tear with loss to upper margin of contents leaf of second work, otherwise very good. £675 From the preface to the first work: “The working man and small capitalist may here see at a glance whether the colony will suit his peculiar circumstances; and, if so, what wages he may expect, and what prospects lie before him.” The work includes sections on occupations and trades, including farming and mining. Published the year after Wilkinson‟s other, more commonly available, work “South Australia. Its Advantages And Its Resources Being A Description Of That Colony ...”. The additional leaves of advertisements etc. mentioned by Ferguson never bound in. Omoo, an autobiographical and somewhat sensationalised novel, recounting a sailor‟s adventures on the South Seas. First published in 1847, the edition bound in here would appear to have been published by George Routledge & Co., printed by J. Billing of Woking. Ferguson, 5248.
261. YOUNGHUSBAND, Sir Francis. Kashmir. Described by... Painted by Major E. Molyneux. London: Adam and Charles Black 1909. First edition, 8vo, xvi, 283, (1, 4 advertisement) pp. 70 coloured plates with captioned tissues, extending map at the end, inscriptions to front endpapers with some occasional pencilled marginalia noting the owner‟s own experiences in the region, some foxing, upper hinge slightly tender. Original decorative maroon cloth, t.e.g., spine a little sunned with bumping to ends. Inman 49. £85
THE ARTS
262. (ANGUS). TRANT, Carolyn. Art for Life. The Story of Peggy Angus. With a Foreword by Tanya Harrod. (Oldham): The Incline Press 2005. Limited edition, no. 49 of 350 copies, 4to, (iv), 242, (2) pp. Numerous illustrations, many tipped in. Cloth backed patterned paper boards, outer edge bound in cloth as well, with an accompanying 4to folder containing a CD and a collection of facsimile artwork, pamphlets and further illustrations, the whole held in a slipcase, a fine copy. £300 A contemporary of Ravilious, Bawden and Piper while at college, Peggy Angus produced a body of work that was as impressive and striking, much of it from the bohemian surroundings of her home on the Sussex downs.
263. (BAWDEN, Edward). SKIPWITH, Peyton. Entertaining À La Carte. Edward Bawden and Fortnum & Mason. (Sparham): The Mainstone Press (2007). Limited edition, no. 271 of 1,000 copies, folio, 127, (1) pp. Numerous coloured illustrations. Cloth, still held in the original publisher‟s cardboard box. £85
264. (BEWICK). Catalogue of the Choice and Valuable Collection of Books, Wood Engravings, and Engraved Woodcut Blocks, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Proof Impressions, by or related to Thomas & John Bewick, and their pupils, gleaned from every available source by the late Rev. Thomas Hugo. [London]: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge 1877. 8vo, (iv), 91, (1) pp. Frontispiece, one plate and 9 illustrations in the text, many prices pencilled in the margin. Original printed wrappers, slightly rubbed and marked, one corner restored, recently rebacked. £200 Hugo amassed undoubtedly the greatest collection of the Bewicks‟ work and wrote several books on them.
265. (BEWICK). TATTERSFIELD, Nigel. Bookplates by Beilby & Bewick. A Biographical Dictionary of Bookplates from the Workshop of Ralph Beilby, Thomas Bewick & Robert Bewick. 1760-1849. The British Library & Oak Knoll Press (1999). First edition, large 8vo, (xii), 352, (2) pp. Numerous illustrations. Cloth, d.w., some minor rubbing to the lower wrapper otherwise fine. See also items 163/4. £60
266. (CARO, Anthony). BLUME, Dieter. Anthony Caro. Catalogue Raisonné. Table and Related Sculptures. Miscellaneous Sculptures. Bronze Sculptures. Steel Sculptures. Student Work. Figurative Sculptures. General Index. Köln: Verlag Gallerie Wentzel (1981-1990). Ten volumes, square 8vo, being volumes I-IX of the catalogue and an index volume. Numerous black and white illustrations. Held in three slipcases, these with some minor wear otherwise a fine set. £250 Fourteen volumes of the catalogue (not including the Index) have been published so far.
267. DINGWALL, Kenneth. Synopsis on the Values of Imperial Early Ming Porcelains. [n.p.] 1936. 4to, 42 leaves of typescript, printed on rectos only, followed by 10 photographic plates. Some foxing to first and last few text leaves. Original cloth backed marbled boards, a little worn. £100 A member of the Oriental Ceramic Society, Dingwall donated a number of pieces to the V. & A. The printed label to the upper cover reads “Geoffrey B. Lowe‟s copy. No. 9... Personal and Confidential”. No other copy located.
268. GIBBINGS, Robert. The Wood Engravings of... with some Recollections by the Artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston. London: J.M. Dent & Sons (1959). First edition, 4to, xliv, 355, (1) pp. Coloured frontispiece and over 1,000 wood engravings, 13 copper engravings and 4 photographs of sculptures, Prospectus for this volume loosely inserted along with a 1990 exhibition catalogue of Gibbing‟s work. Gilt titled black cloth, original clear plastic wrapper lettered in red, slight scuffing to this otherwise a near fine copy. £185 A complete collection of Gibbing‟s engravings, including the illustrations undertaken for his Golden Cockerel press books.
269. GILL: SKELTON, Christopher (Editor). The Engravings of Eric Gill. Wellingborough 1983. First edition, one of 1,350 copies, 4to, xxiv, 545, (3) pp. With over 1,000 examples of Gill‟s work - several folding. Original two toned cloth, spine browned with a couple of minor marks, slipcase with some light marks and rubbing. £300 Compiled by Gill‟s nephew, this brings together a lifetime‟s work, from the well known and celebrated, such as his designs for the Golden Cockerel Press books, to more ephemeral items such as designs for rubber stamps, Christmas cards and bookplates. See also items 22, 91/2.
270. HARDIE, Malcolm. Water-colour Painting in Britain. I - The Eighteenth Century. II - The Romantic Period. III - The Victorian Period. London: B.T. Batsford (1966-68). First edition, three volumes, 4to. 765 illustrations - 7 in colour. Cloth, d.w.‟s, some light rubbing to extremities otherwise very good. £150
271. (HELLER). BROWN-BORTHWICK, Robert. Stephen Heller: His Life and Words. From the French of H. Bardbedette. London: Ashdown & Parry 1877. First edition, small 8vo, (x), 89, (1), xii pp. Photographic portrait frontispiece and a folding plate of music. Original gilt titled and decorated green cloth, light rubbing to extremities otherwise a very good copy. £40 Heller was a Hungarian composer and concert pianist.
272. HOCKNEY, David. Hockney‟s Alphabet. Drawings by... & Written contributions edited by Stephen Spender. (London): Faber and Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust (1991). First edition, signed by both Hockney and Spender, folio, (104) pp. 26 coloured plates, Prospectus for the work loosely inserted. Yellow buckram, dark blue spine lettered in gilt, slipcase, a fine copy. £250 Contributions from Spender and 25 other Authors, including Iris Murdoch, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Douglas Adams and Patrick Leigh Fermor.
273. HUSSEY, Rev. Arthur. Notes on the Churches in the Counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey, mentioned in the Domesday Book, and those of more recent date. Including comparative lists of the Churches, and some account of the Sepulchral Memorials and other Antiquities. London: John Russell Smith 1852. First edition, 8vo, xviii, 388 pp. 22 plates, bookplates and a signature to front endpapers. Original blind stamped cloth, rebacked retaining most of the original backstrip. Scarce. £150
274. JEWITT, Llewellynn. The Ceramic Art of Great Britain, from pre-historic times down to the present day. Being a History of the ancient and modern Pottery and Porcelain Works of the Kingdom, and of their productions of every class. London: Virtue and Co. 1878. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. 1,674 illustrations in the text, owner‟s signature to paste downs. Original black and gilt decorated red cloth, bevelled edges, t.e.g., spines faded with some bumping to ends otherwise very good. £150
275. LOFTUS, Barbara. A Confiscation of Porcelain. [n.p.] 1996. Limited edition, small 4to, (84) pp. Many illustrations including reproductions of oil paintings plus documentation. Spiral bound in stiff boards, a fine copy. £80 Recording a series of paintings based on the Artist‟s mother‟s memories of the day in November 1938 when the Nazis confiscated the family‟s china.
276. (ORPEN). ARNOLD, Bruce. Orpen. Mirror to an Age. London: Jonathan Cape (1981). First edition, small 4to, 448 pp. Numerous black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £65
277. RAVILIOUS, Eric. Ravilious at War. The complete work of... September 1939-1942. Edited by Anne Ullmann... a Foreword by Brian Sewell. Huddersfield: The Fleece Press 2002. Limited edition, one of 750 copies, oblong 4to, 300 pp. 200 illustrations, including 150 colour plates. Gilt titled light blue cloth with a paper label to upper cover, held in a custom made slipcase, fine. £550
278. RAVILIOUS, (Eric). Engravings. [Edited by] Jeremy Greenwood with an introduction by John Craig. (Woodbridge): The Wood Lea Press (2008). Limited edition, one of 800 copies, folio, 287, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece plus hundreds of illustrations, a small number in colour. Cloth, slipcase, fine. £175
279. (RAVILIOUS, Eric). ULLMANN, Anne; WHITTICK, Christopher & LAWRENCE, Simon. Eric Ravilious: Landscape, Letters & Design. With a Foreword by Alan Powers. Upper Denby: The Fleece Press 2008. Limited edition, one of 750 copies, 2 volumes, oblong folio. Numerous illustrations, mostly in colour. Cloth, slipcase, a fine set. £325 See also items 83-85.
LARGE PAPER 280. RUSKIN, John. Modern Painters. Orpington: George Allen 1888. First complete edition, six volumes, 4to. 90 engraved plates plus woodcuts. Original green cloth, spine ends with some bumping otherwise an excellent set. £400 Wise II 286, 287. One of 450 large paper sets printed on handmade paper, with the plates printed on India paper. Including the separately published Index volume.
281. RUSKIN, John. Sesame and Lilies. Two Lectures by... Orpington: George Allen 1892. 8vo, xii, 180 pp. Full polished maroon calf, with below the polish a most unusual liquid „stain‟ effect in lighter red, inside gilt borders, spine faded, upper joint a little worn, a.e.g. A unique and attractive binding. See also item 88. £125
282. SCOTSON-CLARK, G.F The “Halls”. Pictured by... London: T. Fisher Unwin [1899]. First edition, 4to, 47, (1, 4 advertisement) pp. 24 coloured plates preceded by caption leaves with decoration also to the title page and contents leaf, pictorial endpapers, ink stain to title verso, small piece torn from the outer edge of the rear free endpaper. Original pictorial cloth, somewhat soiled, subtly rebacked retaining the original backstrip. A collection of portraits of music hall performers. £150
283. SMITH, William (Editor). A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. London: Printed for Taylor and Walton 1842. First edition, 8vo, (iii-xii), 1121, (1) pp, bound without the half title. Small illustrations in the text. Recent full red calf, a very good copy. £100
284. (SPARE, Austin). ANSELL, Robert. The Bookplate Designs of Austin Spare. The Bookplate Society, The Keridwen Press 1988. No. 114 of 500 copies signed by Ansell, 8vo, (vi), 35, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece and 24 bookplates illustrated, plus one initial letter. Original printed wrappers, fine. £60
285. (SPENCER, Stanley). LEDER, Caroline. Stanley Spencer - The Astor Collection. London: Thomas Gibson 1976. First edition, no. 341 of 950 copies, 4to, 103, (1) pp. 157 illustrations. Cloth, d.w., slight loss to the top of the lower wrapper otherwise a very good copy. £50
286. STRACHAN, W.J. The Artist and the Book in France. The 20th Century Livre d‟artiste. London: Peter Owen (1969). First edition, 4to, 368 pp. 181 illustrations, 8 in colour. Gilt titled buckram, d.w., price clipped with a later price sticker to upper flap, some light marks, a near fine copy. £60
GENERAL SUBJECTS HISTORY, MILITARIA, ARCHAEOLOGY, THEOLOGY
287. ALMANAC: London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1813. Printed for the Company of Stationers. Miniature book, covers measuring 59 x 40 mm, (22) pp. Folding plate, here bound in, of Drury Lane Theatre, marbled endpapers. Contemporary red morocco with a folding flap, a.e.g., one corner marked and with the edges of the leather tie of the flap slightly torn, otherwise a well preserved copy. £200 Published from the late 17th century until the Victorian era, these charming little books give monthly information for saints days and the phases of the moon as well as lists of Lord Mayors and Monarchs. Welsh 4615.
288. (ASTOR, Nancy). The Palace of Westminster. Fifteen photogravure reproductions of photographs with descriptive notes. Bradford: Walter Scott for the Literature Stall, Westminster Hall [c.1950]. Oblong 8vo, (26) pp. 15 illustrations and a map, inscribed on the title page from Nancy Astor to “Dearest Janet...”. Original brown pictorial wrappers, slight bumping to extremities otherwise fine. £75 The first woman to take a seat in the House of Parliament.
289. BAGEHOT, Walter. Economic Studies. Edited by... Richard Holt Hutton. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1905. Sixth impression, 8vo, (viii), 280 pp. Marbled endpapers and edges, signature to paste down. Contemporary tree calf, double gilt rules, slight wear to edges otherwise a very good copy. £100
290. BAIRNSFATHER, Capt. Bruce. The Bystander‟s Fragments from France. More Fragments... Still More Bystander Fragments... Number Four... Five... Fragments from All the Fronts... London: “The Bystander” [c.1916]. Six volumes bound in one, 4to, 40, 40, 42, 36, 32, 32 pp. Original wrappers bound in, numerous black and white cartoons with a coloured one to the first four upper wrappers, upper wrapper of third part cut close at the lower margin with loss of text. Contemporary two toned cloth, gilt title, a very good collection. £125 Popular cartoons of the World War I trenches and surroundings including the famous image of two “Tommys”, one saying “Well, if you knows of a better „ole, Go to it”
HEBREW BIBLE 291. BIBLE: Biblia Hebraica, olim a B. Christiano Reineccio Edita... cum variis Lectionibus ex ingenti codicum copia a B. Kennicotto et I.B. De Rossi collatorum, ediderunt D. Io. Christophi Doederlein et Ioannes Henricus Meisner. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Breitkoppii et Haertelii (1793). Four volumes, 8vo, bound in contemporary calf, blind stamped borders, joints rubbed. £325 Apart from the titles and preliminary leaves, which are in Latin, the text is entirely in Hebrew.
292. BIBLE: The Holy Bible, According to the Authorized Version; with Notes, Explanatory and Practical... Prepared and Arranged by the Rev. George D‟Oyly and the Rev. Richard Mant... Oxford: Printed for the Society (for Promoting Christian Knowledge) at the Clarendon Press 1817. Two volumes, 4to. 7 maps and 53 plates, marbled endpapers. Contemporary black morocco, a.e.g., decorative gilt borders, some minor rubbing otherwise a handsome set. £225
293. BIBLE: The English Version of the Polyglott Bible; Containing the Old and New Testaments: with a copious and original selection of references... London: Printed for Samuel Bagster [1840s]. 8vo, (37), 585, (16), 188 leaves, printed in Greek and English on opposing pages. Signature dated 1843 to title page, light marking to endpapers. Contemporary black blind stamped morocco, a.e.g., fore edge with metal clasps, which being slightly too small for the volume have bowed the covers slightly, but without damage and overall an excellent copy. £125
DAVID ROBERTS 294. BIBLE: The Holy Bible, containing the Old and the New Testaments, according to the Authorized Version, with... the Commentaries of Henry and Scott, condensed by the Rev. John McFarlane. With a series of maps and tinted landscapes illustrative of the Lands of the Bible... by David Roberts, R.A. London: James Sangster & Co. 1858 4to. (35 x 25 cm). (ii), 944, 288, (12), 1249-1275, (3) pp. Contemporary full black straight grain morocco, boards with double gilt rules to edges and scrolled gilt decoration to centre, spine with gilt tooled raised bands and red gilt lettered label, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Vignette title and 31 tinted lithographic plates, 6 maps and 2 decorative leaves comprising a family register. Some foxing throughout, a light damp stain to upper right edge towards the rear of the volume. Upper joint tender and just starting at lower edge, slight scuffing to binding, otherwise handsome. £375 The views predominantly comprise of Roberts‟ lithographs of Egypt and the Holy Land, though also views of Corinth, The Acropolis and the Forum, Rome. The views of Egypt and Holy Land include two of Petra, one of which being El Khasne, the Great Sphinx and Pyramids at Gizeh and two of Jerusalem. See upper cover.
295. BRAND, John. Brand‟s Popular Antiquities of Great Britain. Faiths and Folklore. A Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and Popular Customs, Past and Current, with their Classical and Foreign Analogues, described and illustrated. Forming a new editon of “The Popular Antiquities of Great Britain”... now first alphabetically arranged by W. Carew Hazlitt. London: Reeves and Turner 1905. Two volumes bound in one, 8vo, x, 334, (2), 335-672 pp. Frontispieces, signature to front blank, marbled endpapers. Contemporary half maroon morocco, joints a little rubbed, slight wear to foot of spine. £125
296. BRITANNICA: The Encyclopædia Britannica. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information. New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company 1910-11, 1922. Twelfth edition, 32 volumes, being the 29 volumes of the eleventh edition, an Index volume and three new volumes, 8vo, printed on India paper. Original red cloth, spines sunned, tops of two spines with a tear, some other marks and light wear otherwise a good sound set. £300
297. BROWN [or BROWNE], Thomas. Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries Into very many Received Tenents, And commonly Presumed Truths... Whereunto are now added Two Discourses, The one of Urn-Burial... The other of the Garden of Cyrus... Hydriotaphia; or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns... London: Printed for the Assigns of Edward Dod & Printed for Henry Browne 1669. Fifth edition, 8vo, (xiv), 192, 203-322, 309-414, (2 blank, 16, viii), 70 pp. Folding portrait and 2 plates, some mostly marginal foxing. 20th century half calf, marbled boards, a very good copy. £300 A famous collection of superstitions and beliefs first published in 1646, containing “...an extraordinary amount of learning and research... To modern readers [it] presents an inexhaustible store of entertainment. The attainment of scientific truth was not for Browne the sole object; it is in the discussion itself that he delights, and the more marvellous a fable is, the more sedulously he applies himself to the investigation of its truth” (DNB). Wing B5164, B5155. “Hydriotaphia” was first published separately in 1658, but this edition is usually found issued alongside “Pseudodoxia Epidemica.”
ERUDITION, METAPHOR AND ELABORATE DICTION 298. BROWN [or BROWNE], Sir Thomas. The Works of the Learned Sr. Thomas Brown, Kt. Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich. Containing I. Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors. II. Religio Medici: With Annotations and Observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia: or, Urn-Burial: Together with The Garden of Cyrus. IV. Certain Miscellaneous Tracts. London: Printed for Tho. Bassett et al 1686. First collected edition, folio. Portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, engraved head and tail pieces and initial letters plus a plate of urns, Coleridge family copy with the bookplate of Bernard, Lord Coleridge to the fly leaf, partly obscured armorial bookplate to fly leaf. 19th century half calf, marbled sides, maroon spine label, some rubbing, subtle repair to foot of joints. £650 “Religio Medici” first appeared in two pirated editions in 1642, and became a sensation all over Europe. “One of the most unusual... writers of the seventeenth century... [his] inimitable style mirrors the peculiarity of his thought: in an age given to erudition, metaphor and elaborate diction, his writing has an individual excess of all three of which the reader never tires” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Keynes 201. Wing B5150. Published four years after Browne‟s death.
299. COMMON PRAYER: The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches. Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon Printer to the University; And sold by J. Beechcroft, [et al]. 1769. 8vo. Unpaginated, A1-Mm8. Contemporary full red morocco, spine with gilt tooled raised bands, diagonal gilt rules and twin flower motifs to compartments, recurring greek key design in gilt to edges of boards, marbled endpapers. Ownership inscription of Anna Hammett / Martha Anna Hammett dated Novr. 23, 1793 to second free endpaper, accompanied by a profusion of further inscriptions by later members of the Hammett and subsequently the Beadon families on adjacent blank leaves, to verso an old engraving pasted in and to blank rear endpapers. Small 19th cutting from a family history relating to a descendent of the Beadons pasted onto front pastedown. Some very light wear to extremities, light soiling to boards, otherwise very handsome. £300 Griffiths, p. 185. See inside lower cover.
300. COMMON PRAYER: The Book of Common Prayer. Proper Lessons to be Read at Morning and Evening Prayer. Oxford: At the University Press 1853. Two volumes, 16mo. Brief contemporary inscription - “Anna” - at the front of both volumes. Bound by Hayday in contemporary black morocco, a.e.g., with gilt borders and spines, very slight rubbing of gilt to the spines otherwise near fine and held in a custom black morocco case. £125
301. COOKE, Arthur O. A Book of Dovecotes. London & Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis (1920). First edition, 8vo, (xviii), 285, (11) pp. 4 colour and 13 black and white illustrations, plus 14 pp of photographs, owner‟s inscription to fly leaf. Original buckram backed boards, spine slightly browned, lower corners a little browned. £50 Elfick and Harris 68.
302. CREASY, Sir Edward. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World. From Marathon to Waterloo. London: Richard Bentley 1883. Thirty-first edition, 8vo, (xvi), 407, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers, Prize label of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. Contemporary dark blue calf, double gilt rules, gilt crest to upper cover, gilt banded spine with a brown label, some light rubbing to spine ends otherwise very good. £65 Other battles include Syracuse, Hastings, Blenheim and Saratoga.
303. HALL, Trevor H. Old Conjuring Books. A Bibliographical and Historical Study with a supplementary check-list. (London): Duckworth (1972). First limited edition, no. 968 of 1,000 copies signed by the Author, 8vo, xvi, 228 pp. Portrait frontispiece plus 8 plates of title pages, slight bumping to the outer edge of several early leaves. Decorated cloth, d.w., price clipped, a near fine copy. £75
304. (HAVELOCK). MARSHMAN, John Clark. Memoirs of Major-General Sir Henry Havelock. London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer 1867. Third edition, 8vo, (viii), 457, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers and edges, Harrow School Prize label to paste down. Contemporary calf, lower cover faded, gilt rules, spine and school device, black spine label, slight rubbing to extremities. £50 Serving in Afghanistan and India, Havelock died during the siege of Lucknow.
305. (HENRY VIII). HERBERT of Cherbury, Edward, Lord. The Life and Reign of Henry the Eighth. London: Printed by Andr. Clark, for J. Martyn [et al] 1672. Second edition, folio, (vi), 639, (1, 15 Index, 1) pp. Portrait frontispiece of Henry VIII, front blank with a slightly later full page manuscript account of Herbert‟s life and works. Coleridge family copy with the inscription of Sir John T. Coleridge, nephew of the poet, to another blank and bookplate of Bernard, Lord Coleridge to the fly leaf, 18th century armorial bookplate of John Lewis Petit to paste down. Contemporary calf, rebacked in a slightly lighter calf with a maroon label. An excellent copy. £700 Wing H1505B. First published in 1649.
306. (JACKSON). HENDERSON, Lieut.-Col. G.F.R. Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War. With an Introduction by Field-Marshal the Right Hon. Viscount Wolseley. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1906. Two volumes, 8vo. 2 portraits and 33 maps, several folding, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of Cheltenham College in volume I, brief inscription in volume II. Contemporary green full calf, double gilt rules, gilt crests, gilt spines with red and brown labels, slight sunning of spines otherwise near fine. £150
THE BIRTH OF THE OLD PRETENDER 307. JAMES STUART: A Full Answer to the Depositions; And to all other the Pretences and Arguments whatsoever, Concerning the Birth of the Prince of Wales. The Intreague thereof detected, The whole design being set forth, with the way and manner of doing it. Whereunto is annexed, A Map... of St. James‟s Palace... Describing the Place wherein it is supposed the true Mother was delivered: With the particular Doors and Passages through which the Child was convey‟d to the Queens Bed-Chamber. London: Printed for Simon Burgis 1689. First edition, folio, (iv), 21, (1) pp. Folding map, outer margin of first two leaves cut close without loss to text, next leaf with soiling to the margin as a result, outer edge of final leaf laid down with some loss but again no loss of text, one paragraph on page 8 censored using type ornaments, modern booklabel of John Prebble, journalist and historian. 20th century quarter calf. £450 A lively work published in support of the notion that James Stuart was illegitimate. The pressure on Queen Mary (James II‟s second wife) to produce a boy after a series of girls was such that even before the birth her pregnancy was called into doubt. “The warming- pan scandal”, so-called after the alleged method that was used to smuggle the false child into the Queen‟s bedchamber (the route being shown on the map in this work), became a cause celebré for all the King‟s Protestant opponents. Wing F2342.
308. JOSEPHUS, Flavius. The Works of... Translated by William Whiston. London: Chatto and Windus 1875. Two volumes, 8vo. 52 plates, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary half calf, green and red morocco labels, some light spots, a couple of scuffs to the lower cover of volume II otherwise a very good set. £150
309. JUSSERAND, J.J. English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages. (XIVth Century). Translated from the French by Lucy Toulmin Smith. London: T. Fisher Unwin 1909. 8vo, 451, (1) pp. Frontispiece and illustrations in the text, marbled endpapers, Prize label to paste down. Contemporary full parchment, a.e.g., gilt spine and borders, gilt arms to upper cover - “Potsdam, Jamaica”, some light marks otherwise a very good copy. £50
310. [KEBLE, John]. The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year. London: Griffith Farran & Co. [c.1894]. 8vo, x, 316 pp. 8 plates, marbled endpapers and edges, armorial bookplate of H.F. Salt, inscription to same dated 1894. Contemporary full straight grain morocco, some rubbing to extremities, spine slightly sunned otherwise a good copy. £45
311. KEYNES, John Maynard. A Treatise on Money. London: Macmillan and Co. 1935. Third impression, two volumes, 8vo. Outer edge of several early leaves in volume II slightly bumped. Original gilt titled cloth, a couple of small marks otherwise very good. £150 The precursor to his “General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”, prompted and informed by the then recent world recession. First published 1930.
312. LAUGHTON, John Knox. Sea Fights and Adventures. Described by... London: George Allen 1901. First edition, 8vo, xvi, 294 pp. 32 plates plus 7 plans in the text, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize inscription to fly leaf verso. Contemporary tree calf, double gilt rules, gilt spine with some light wear otherwise a very good copy. £65
313. (LAWRENCE, T.E.). [ARMSTRONG, Terence]. Annotations on Some Minor Writings of “T.E. Lawrence”. By G. London: Eric Partridge 1935. Limited edition, no. 394 of 500 copies, small 8vo, 28 pp. Frontispiece portrait of a drawing by Frederick Carter, booklabel to paste down. Cloth, d.w., some minor rubbing otherwise near fine. O‟Brien E077. See also items 67/8. £50
314. LEWIS, C.S. The Four Loves. London: Geoffrey Bles (1960). First edition, 8vo, 159, (1) pp. Signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some light marks otherwise very good. £35
315. [LUGARD, Sir Edward]. General the Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Lugard. 1810-1898. [Boscombe 1925]. 8vo, 37, (1) pp. Printed wrappers, staples rusted otherwise very good. Scarce. £40 Lugard joined the 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment in 1839 and served in India for nearly 25 years, before being appointed Permanent Under Secretary of State for War in 1859.
316. (NELSON). SOUTHEY, Robert. The Life of Nelson. London: Blackie and Son [c.1917]. 8vo, 236 pp. Coloured frontispiece, marbled endpapers, Prize label to paste down dated 1917. Contemporary calf, covers with some fading to edges, gilt spine. £50
GREEK NEW TESTAMENT 317. NEW TESTAMENT: [Greek title] Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta... Novum Jesu Christi Dn. nostri Testamentum. Ut ex Bibliotheca Regia Anno M.D.L. per Robertum Stephanum excusum fuit. Francofurti [Frankfurt]: Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium & heredes Joannis Aubrii 1601. Folio, (xxxii), 470, (1 Errata, 1) pp. Printer‟s device to title and final page, woodcut initial letters and headpieces, title ruled in red. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., double gilt rules to edges, rebacked in a lighter calf with repairs to corners also. £800 “A reprint, in the same type, of R. Stephanus‟ edition of 1550...” Andreas Wechel had fled to Frankfurt following the St. Bartholomew‟s Day Massacre taking with him the three Royal types, all of which are used in this volume. Darlow & Moule 4658.
318. NORTH, S. Kennedy. “Mr. North‟s Maggott”. English Folk Dances pictured by... with an Introduction by Cecil J. Sharp. London: S. Kennedy North 1921. First edition, thin oblong 4to, (30) pp. 12 full page coloured illustrations, inscribed “five hundred copies only printed, no. 31” to the inside front cover in North‟s hand and with his compliments slip tipped onto the fly leaf. Original pictorial wrappers, some soiling and creasing, subtle repairs to the inside of the outer edges, recently resewn. Scarce. £175
319. PAINE, Thomas. Agrarian Justice, Opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly; being a Plan for meliorating the Condition of Man, by Creating in every Nation a National Fund. London: R. Carlile 1819. 8vo, 19, (1) pp. Ink stamp of Battersea Public Library to two pages. Recent wrappers, title page replicated on upper cover. £140 Written as a protest against the new ruling classes of revolutionary France, who had quickly lapsed into the bad habits of the aristocracy they had replaced, the pamphlet proposed reform of land ownership, a one-off payment of £15 for all persons reaching 21 years old and pensions for persons over 50. “Private property is God-given, [Paine] agreed, but it is always subject to the primary rule that the earth is „the common property of the human race‟” (Keane pp 424-7). Not in Gimbel. First published 1797.
320. PAUL, N.M. [Editor]. True Stories from French History. London: Griffith, Farran, Browne & Co. [c.1907]. 8vo, 288 pp. Portrait frontispiece of Napoleon, marbled endpapers, Prize label of the Haberdashers‟ School dated 1907. Contemporary blue calf, a.e.g., gilt arms to upper cover, gilt spine with a red label, a fine copy. £60
321. PELHAM, Camden [pseud.]. The Chronicles of Crime; or, the New Newgate Calendar. Being a Series of Memoirs and Anecdotes of Notorious Characters who have outraged the Laws of Great Britain... with... Engravings... by “Phiz” [Hablot K. Browne]. London: T. Miles & Co. 1891. Two volumes, 8vo. Engraved title and 51 plates, with the booklabel of Ernest Shackleton to paste downs, later owner‟s bookplate also, two small bits of sellotape to paste down in volume II with signs of its removal at the back. Original gilt titled red cloth, light rubbing to extremities, a few marks otherwise a very good set. £300
322. PRESCOTT, William H. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, of Spain. London: George Routledge [c.1881]. 8vo, (xx), 580 pp. Portrait frontispiece, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of the Royal School for Daughters of Officers of the Army, dated 1881, to paste down. Contemporary full calf, covers with gilt arms and rules, gilt spine, some very minor rubbing otherwise a handsome copy. £60
323. PRESCOTT, William Hickling. The History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a preliminary view of the ancient Mexican Civilization and the Life of the Conqueror Hernando Cortes. London: George Routledge [c.1906]. Two volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces, one further portrait and 2 folding maps plus a facsimile plate showing Cortes‟ signature, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of Cheltenham College dated 1906 in volume I, brief inscription in volume II. Contemporary red full calf, double gilt rules, gilt crests, gilt spines with red and brown labels, slight scuffing to the upper cover of volume II otherwise very good. £125
324. ROBERTSON, William. The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI. The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. The History of America. An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India. London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies [et al] 1808-9. Twelve volumes, being the eighteenth edition of “Scotland” in three volumes; the eleventh editions of “Charles V” and “America” in four volumes each and the fifth edition of “India” in one volume, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece of the Author and 5 plates plus 4 folding maps of the Americas and 2 folding maps of India, contemporary signature to fly leaves. Uniformly bound in contemporary mottled calf with gilt and blind stamped decoration, spines faded and a little rubbed, black labels, several with some chipping, minor wear to tops of two spines, but overall a good sound set. £600 Including a lengthy biography of Robertson in volume I. First published between 1759 and 1791.
THE GEOLOGY OF THE WESTERN FRONT 325. ROYAL ENGINEERS: The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War, 1914-19. Work in the field under the Engineer-in-Chief, B.E.F. Geological work on the western front. Chatham: W. & J. Mackay 1922. First edition, 8vo, 71, (1) pp, followed by 27 plates, including maps and geological sections, mostly coloured, and also photographs, all in very good state, slight cracking to upper hinge. Original gilt titled blue cloth, an excellent copy. £225
326. SMILES, Samuel. Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct. London: John Murray 1883. 8vo, xviii, 415, (1) pp. Prize inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary maroon full calf, double gilt rules, gilt arms of Salisbury School, gilt spine sunned otherwise a handsome copy. £80
327. SOUTHERDEN, Samuel. The Censor; Or, Gleanings in Sussex. London: M. Allen 1807. First edition, 12mo, (ii), xix, (20)-242 pp, bound without the advertisement leaf at the end. Bookplate of the well known collector Edward Huth, marbled endpapers. Later half calf, marbled sides, t.e.g., an excellent copy. £175 A collection of writings on many subjects, including Slavery, Trade, Religion and Politics, and including some poetry as well as events from the Author‟s life, although without anything directly connected to Sussex.
328. SPIRO, Socrates [Editor]. An English-Arabic Vocabulary, of the Modern and Colloquial Arabic of Egypt. Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office; London: Bernard Quaritch 1897. First edition, 8vo, xvi, 552, (2 Errata) pp. Title page with some repairs to the edges, pages browned throughout, marbled endpapers. Contemporary dark blue half morocco, slight sunning of spine. £100
329. (SUTTON). Richard Vincent Sutton. A Record of his Life together with Extracts from his Private Papers. (London: Printed by George W. Jones at the Sign of the Dolphin 1922). 4to, (ii), 194, (2) pp. 6 photographic plates tipped in, tissue guards with some foxing. Inscribed from Sutton‟s mother on a front blank. Original linen backed boards, some minor marks and browning otherwise an excellent copy. £200 Born 1891, Sutton attended Ludgrove and Eton before obtaining a commission in the Life Guards. As well as including childhood correspondence this volume collects his wartime letters and diaries, including his accounts of Ypres and the Somme. Wounded several times, he succumbed to the flu epidemic in November 1918. A beautifully printed tribute in the style of the private press books of the previous generation, and very scarce; Copac listing only three copies.
330. WHITMORE, Lt.-Col. F.H.D.C. The 10th (P.W.O.) Royal Hussars and the Essex Yeomanry, during the European War, 1914-1918. Colchester: Benham and Company 1920. First edition, small 4to, viii, 326 pp. 15 photographic illustrations and 10 maps, Errata slip tipped in at the front. Original gilt titled grey cloth, spine ends and corners with some rubbing, t.e.g. £100
331. WOOLF, Leonard. Quack, Quack! London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press (1937). 8vo, 193, (1) pp. Four black and white plates. Cloth, foot of spine browned, d.w. chipped and soiled with loss to edges. £45 Woolf‟s attack on fascism includes comparisons of Hitler and Mussolini‟s expressions with the Hawaiian war god Kukailimoku, and all three feature on the striking wrapper designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. First published 1935. See also item 121.