Première Exposition d'Art Photographique, Paris 1894 Paris: Photo-club de Paris, 1894. First edition, one of 470 numbered copies on papier blanc du Marais from the total edition of 500, folio (40.2 x 28.2cm), original wrappers, [10] pp., 66 heliogravures on 56 sheets, printed in various colour tints, with captioned tissue-guards tipped in, wrappers spotted, tissue-repairs to spine, small abrasion to front wrapper, stitching strained in places, plates 2 and 3 loose, spotting to text-leaves, light spotting to plates margins, tissue-guard for plate 28 loose Founded in 1894 by Robert Demachy and Constant Puyo, the Photo-club de Paris was the French equivalent of the Camera Club of New York and the Linked Ring in London, associations of photographers dedicated to the emergent philosophy of pictorialism, which promoted photography as a fine art rather than purely as a means of documenting reality. This overview of their first exhibition includes photographs by leading figures including Alfred Stieglitz, James Craig Annan and Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr, and numerous others. Rare in commerce.
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![[Complete set of the Pooh books] When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House At Pooh Corner. London](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/460eb7d6-a172-4efe-854a-b0fc00a88668/56212a4f-51a5-46ef-ad4c-b0fc00aa7cfb/468x382.jpg)
[Complete set of the Pooh books] When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House At Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924-6-7-8. 4 works, first editions, first impressions (WWWVY in second state with roman numeral retained on p. ix), 8vo, original varicoloured pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, illustrations throughout by E. H. Shepard, NWAS in dust jacket (chipped and torn, front panel separated), WWVY spine darkened, headcap nicked, light rubbing to extremities, tips bumped, a few faint finger-marks to contents, bookplate to front pastedown, WTP spine slightly rolled, a few finger-marks internally, pp. 91/2 dog-eared, contemporary gift inscription to initial blank, NWAS spine unevenly sunned, THAPC cloth faded, marked and rubbed, endpapers browned, a few marks to contents(4)
Grey, Elizabeth, Countess of Kent A choice manuall or rare and select secrets in physick and chyurgery collected and practised by the Right Honourable the Countesse of Kent... whereon are added several Experiments of the Virtues of Gascon pouder and Lapis contra Yaruam by a Professor of Phisick. As also most exquisite ways of Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &c.; London: printed by G.D. sold by William Skears, 1653. 2 volumes in one, second edition, 16mo, [16], 1-206; [16], 140, lacking the first leaf (frontispiece) of part 1, page 1 of part 2 somewhat soiled; a little light worming to a few leaves in part 2, occasional loss to a letter of fore-margin, a few headlines shaved, some light soiling or spotting A hugely popular work of medicinal receipts that went through 22 editions between 1653 and 1728. Especially popular was the Countess of Kent's receipt for a ‘cure-all’ powder, ‘good against all malignant and pestilent Diseases, French Pox, Small Pox, Measles, Plague, Pestilence, malignant or scarlet Fevers, [and] good against Melancholy, dejection of Spirits’:Take the Magistery [essence] of Pearles, of Crabs eyes prepared, of white Amber prepared, Hartshorn, Magistery of white Corral, of Lapis contra Parvam of each a like quantity, to these pouders infused put of the black tips of the great clawes of Crabs, to the full weight of all the rest, beat these all into very fine pouder, and searce [sieve] them through a fine Lawn Searce, to every ounce of this pouder adde a drachm of true Oriental Bezar …An explanation of each of these ingredients – all chosen for their supposed curative powers – would require an essay in itself. ‘Crabs eyes’, for example, were small stones composed mostly of lime found in the stomachs of crayfish, which were powdered for medicinal use.Such ‘cure-alls’ were immensely popular at the time, and ‘The Countess of Kent’s Powder’ received consistently good reviews, the 17th century diplomat Sir William Temple declaring that ‘Of all Cordialls, I esteem my Lady Kent’s Powder the best, the most innocent, and the most universal’.
Cosmographiae Universalis Lib. VI In quibus juxta certioris fidei scriptores... Basel: Ex Officina Henricpetrina, [March 1572 to colophon]. First edition in Latin, small folio (32 x 21.5cm), woodcut vignette on title with portrait of Münster to verso, woodcut maps and town views, double-page woodcut of 'sea and land monsters', lacking 24 leaves including 9 views: Figura areae Romanae, Geneva, Verona, Florence, Worms, Heidelberg, Pomerania, large folding plan of Vienna, Constantinople, contemporary calf neatly rebacked with later spine, final leaf laid-down obscuring printer's device, 1920s Stevenson ownership signature to title-page, small hole to title-page with some loss to text on verso and upper margin repaired, some light dust-soiling and occasional spotting, some areas of light dampstaining throughout book (mostly marginal), occasional offsetting particularly to 'Civitas Francofordiana', outer edges of 'Civitas Bisontina...' torn away with some loss to engraved area, small tear to corner of Cologne with loss to page number, some minor repairs and slight fraying to several leaves, some mild worming affecting a few letters towards the end of the book, some light dampstaining [USTC 625634] FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS
![[The Pooh books] 4 works, 8vo, all with endpapers and text-illustrations by E. H. Shepard, and comprising:When We Were Very](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/460eb7d6-a172-4efe-854a-b0fc00a88668/f236eb3a-a628-405a-af4a-b0fc00aa7c11/468x382.jpg)
[The Pooh books] 4 works, 8vo, all with endpapers and text-illustrations by E. H. Shepard, and comprising:When We Were Very Young. London: Methuen Children's Books, 1974. Deluxe edition, one of 300 copies signed by Christopher 'Robin' Milne, 8vo, original light blue crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, all edges gilt, spine sunned, mottling to front cover;Winnie-The Pooh. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, pale mottling to front cover;Now We Are Six. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, spine faded, pale markings to covers, browning to half-title and final page;The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co., 1928. First edition, 8vo, original pink cloth, spine faded, juvenile crayon-markings to covers and pp. 6, 90, 100, tips bumped, negligible cockling to cloth on front cover(4)
Lighthouses: sketches, watercolour sketches and prints A collection A large quantity, including:Sketch of Skerries Light House, looking west, 38.5 x 56cm;Pen and ink wash sketch of Smalls Light House, 38 x 52cm;White, P.W.? Sketch of Lundy Island Light House, 15 x 22cm;After W. Simpson. The Light-House at Cape Chersonese, looking south, tinted lithograph;Desprez & Panseron. Cayer contenant les plans et elévations de trois differents phaneaux, propre a eclairer les vaisseaux sur les ports de mer, projet par le Sieur Panseron. [Paris: Chéz l'auteur : Le Vasseur graveur : Desnos, 1781] Folio, 5 plates of 6 only;and many others(quantity) FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS
Pixley, Captain W. Manuscript account of cruises 325 manuscript pp. covering April 1841 - October 1844 journalling cruises around the coastline of the British Isles, in 19th-century quarter black morocco, 20 x 15cm FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERSPixley's journal notes a keen interest in lighthouses, and references meeting the Stevensons and visiting the Bell Rock Lighthouse. On Saturday 24th April Pixley writes: "at 6 am Bell Rock Lt. Ho. in sight...This very dangerous Rock is only 1/2 a mile long & 110 yards broad...the Rock is entirely covered at high water, but dives at L.W. about 8 feet. On this is built the most splendid and beautiful Light House...The Lt. House was commenced in 1808 and finished in 1811, built by Robert Stevenson Esq., the Gentleman that we landed yesterday & whose Son is now with us; the inspection of this wonder of the world was the greatest that I ever had."Pixley also includes several small pen and ink sketches of lighthouses in the work.On Friday 14th July 1843, Pixley was involved in a shipwreck near the Rock of the Longships, which he recounts on p.201 of the journal.Provenance: Captain Thomas William Pixley (1819-1891) resided on the Isle of Wight and was, at one point, captain of the Merchantman Essex. On 16th March 1841, Pixley was appointed as an Elder Brother of Trinity House – the official authority for lighthouses in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar.
Archive of the Stevenson family Comprising books, diaries, manuscripts and photographs Books:Stevenson, Alan. Biographical Sketch of the late Robert Stevenson. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1861. 8vo, original red cloth gilt, inscribed by a Stevenson, lacking initial few leaves;Records of a Family of Engineers. [N.p., n.d.] 8vo, a large number of manuscript notes and corrections, red cloth gilt;D’Arville, Nicolas. The Navigation of King James V. round Scotland… Perth: J. Brown for John Gillies, 1785. 12mo, largely incomplete but with the manuscript dedication in Robert Stevenson’s hand: “Presented by Walter Scott Esq to Mr Stevenson…1814”;Diaries:Stevenson, Charles Alexander. Diary, 1872-73, including reports of travels but also notes and sketches of various engineering sites such as the diving Bell at Anstruther;Manuscripts:Commission for Robert Stevenson, Gentleman, to be a Lieutenant in the Royal Edinburgh Spearmen, January 1804;Stevenson, Robert. ALS to James Riddoch Esq. of Kirkwall, dated October 1808, regarding progress on the Bell Rock Lighthouse, a section cut from the body of the letter;Document entitled “Evidence regarding Whalsey Skerry”;Various articles of correspondence between David and Robert Stevenson;Letter from Robert Humphrey dated March 1853, upper corner torn away, remarking upon the condition of the Bound Skerry;Stevenson, David. Note of resignation from duties due to ill health, written in a secretarial hand and signed by Stevenson;Bound genealogical manuscript from the later 19th century detailing Stevenson history;Early 18th century cashbook with additional religious writings, notes and drafts of letters, vellum bound 31.5 x 20cm, author unclear;Scheme of Division of Accounts years 1882-1901, recording accounts for the engineering firm, bound cashbook;Unsigned copy of William Earnest Henley’s poem “Why my heart do we love her so?”, with the name Geraldine switched to Katharine, a pencil note on the reverse questioning if this could have been written to Katharine de Mattos by Robert Louis Stevenson, her cousin with whom she shared a mutual friendship with Henley;Grant of Arms given to Alan Stevenson, with seal and hand-drawn and coloured arms;And othersPhotographs:Portrait of David Alan Stevenson by Drummond Young of Edinburgh; Photograph of David Alan Stevenson surrounded by family; Rochester House school photograph 1939; four family photograph albumsOther:Press cuttings album including offprints of papers by Stevenson family members, including ‘The Earthquake of 28th November 1880 in Scotland and Ireland’, Charles Alexander Stevenson, 1881; ‘Skating Diagrams’ by Charles Alexander Stevenson; ‘On a Dipping or Fog Apparatus for Electric Light in Lighthouses’, Charles Alexander Stevenson, 1888; and othersVarious scrolls, mostly typescript, writing up excerpts from family archives(quantity) FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS
Collection of limited editions 1) Green Blades from her Mound. Poems, from Poems of 1912-13 by Thomas Hardy. A Selection by Mark Cazalet, who also made all the Images. One of 200 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original yellow cloth with wraparound printed paper onlay, green cloth chemise;2) Leading the Cranes Home. A Selection of Chinese Poems translated by Arthur Waley. Woodblock Prints by Ralph Kiggell, 2006. One of 150 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original flexible boards, cloth case;3) The Revelation of Saint John the Divine, 1999. One of 150 copies signed by the artist Natalie d'Arbaloff, folio, bound in leporello format in original cloth covers;4) Bert Isaac. The Landscape Within, 1991. One of 100 copies, oblong 4to, original boards, with cloth portfolio of 15 original colour prints each numbered and signed by the author and contained in separate printed envelope, together housed in single slipcase;5) W. S. Graham. Letters & Heads. Douglas Thomson. One of 125 copies signed by the artist, folio, original cloth, slipcase;6) The Pyed Pyper. A Passage extracted from: A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities by the Studie and Travaile of Richard Verstegan, 2002. One of 175 copies signed by the artist Angela Lemaire, 4to, original buff limp leather tooled in blind, in original cardboard case with cloth ties;7) White Voices, being a Translation by Malcolm Parr of La Croisade des Enfants (1896) by Marcel Schwob with woodcut images by Keith Bayliss, 2001. One of 200 copies signed by translator and artist, oblong folio, original cloth, cutaway cloth slipcase;8) The Seafarer. One of 240 copies signed by artist Inger Lawrance and author/translator from the Anglo-Saxon Kevin Crossley-Holland, oblong 4to, stitched Japanese-style in original card covers, printed on doubled leaves unopened along fore edges, housed in original cloth case with linen ties;9) The Journey of Thomas the Rhymer with Wood Engravings and Afterword by Angela Lemaire, 2000. One of 220 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original patterned boards, slipcase;10) Masks and Other Poems by Walter Strachan, 2000. One of 100 copies signed by all 12 artists, 4to, original wrappers, slipcase, plates in various media;11) Lucian Blaga. The Poems of Light. Versions in English by Oltea Simescu and Eric Williams. Images by Sara Philpott, 2002. One of 200 copies signed by translators and artist, 4to, original cloth-backed patterned boards;12) Lens of Crystal. Poems by Robin Skelton. Images by Sara Philpott, 1996. One of 250 copies signed by author and artist, 4to, original patterned boards, slipcase(12)
Instructions relating to the Duty on Auctions Edinburgh: Sir D. Hunter Blair and J. Bruce, 1825. 8vo, 20 pp., stitched as issued, wood-engraved royal arms to title-page, longitudinal central crease, a little rumpled and nicked around edges, light spotting to outer leaves Very rare: no other copy traced.Provenance: John Gunn, messenger in Dunbeath (ownership inscription dated May 1826 to the title-page).
![Tolkien, J. R. R. [The Lord of the Rings:] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King. London: Georg](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/460eb7d6-a172-4efe-854a-b0fc00a88668/1f0063d6-e6dd-4c85-a5e3-b0fc00aa75e0/468x382.jpg)
Tolkien, J. R. R. [The Lord of the Rings:] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1955. First editions, fourth, third (stated second) and first impressions, 8vo, original red cloth, folding map in red and black to each volume, with the dust jackets. Spines rolled, cloth marked, rubbing to tips, top edges faded, spotting to edges and endpapers, light spotting to prelims, a little bleeding of cloth-dyed into margins of endpapers, personalised ink-stamps to front free endpapers, Two Towers map loose, dust jackets variably chipped and soiled, Two Towers in third-impression dust jacket, Fellowship dust jacket front panel detached [Hammond A5 a. iii for Return of the King](3) SALEROOM AMENDMENT 6/2/2024: The Two Towers is stated a second impression on the copyright page but is undated on the title-page; such copies are now commonly identified as in fact belonging to the third impression.
A Treatise on Gun-Powder; a Treatise on Fire-Arms; and a Treatise on the Service of Artillery in Time of War. Translated from the Italian by Captain Thomson, of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. London: T. and J. Egerton, 1780. First edition in English, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, half-title, 24 engraved folding plates, errata leaf [ESTC T117826];Brett, Edwin J. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Origin and Development of Arms and Armour. To which are appended 133 Plates specially drawn from the Author's Collection at Oaklands, St Peter's, Thanet, and Burleigh House, London. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1894. First edition, 4to, original cloth, neatly rebacked in black morocco, retaining earlier morocco cornerpieces (apparently original), all edges gilt, 133 plates, headings, decorative initials and decorative frames printed in red, very occasional light foxing, bookplate (Michael Moad);Baker, Ezekiel. Remarks on Rifle Guns. London: E. Baker, 1825. Ninth edition, 8vo, contemporary red half morocco with red morocco label to front board, book-label of R. T. Wigington, half-title, 6 hand-coloured etched plates including frontispiece, 2 further etched plates, etched table ('The Weight and Diameter of Lead Balls', 6 pp.);and 2 others similar(5)
Bell Rock Work Yard Medal Admiralty protection medal - granted to John Spinks White metal medal, 3 x 2.5cm, laid into a card, the medal reading: “Medal referring to Admiralty Protection and a description of the person by the Engineer”, with the Northern Lighthouses motif to the obverse, the front of the card reading: “John Spinks – Sir Joseph Banks of Craft at the Bell Rock – Signature of the Master [?] Sir Joseph Banks,” with two additional signatures reading ‘David Taylor’ and ‘Lachlan Kennedy’, the reverse of the card reading: “Bell Rock Work Yard Arbroath 23. Sept. 1808, John Spinks, [?] in the Service of the Hon. The Commissioner of the Northern Light-houses aged twenty five years – five feet six inches high – fair complexion brown eyes. [signed] Robert Stevenson, Eng. For Northern Light.” FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERSSuch medals were issued to provide the bearer Admiralty protection from impressment.
International Maps and City Plans Including Blaeu, India India quae Orientalis… 47 x 54cm, hand-coloured, worn with some dampstaining;Idem. Utriusque Portus Ostiae Delineatio. Amsterdam, c.1700, 48 x 62cm, hand-coloured, some light toning;Messine [n.p., n.d.] 42 x 53cm, hand-coloured;Sanson, Nicholas. L'Afrique Divisée en ses principales Parties… Paris, 1741, 55 x 77cm;Idem. Atlantis Insula. [Paric, c.1700], 54 x 76cm, hand-coloured in outline;Smith, C. Comparative View of the Lengths of the Principal Rivers in the World. London, 1817, 53 x 68cm, hand-coloured, closed tears; and 7 others(13) FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS
Ellis, John An Essay towards a Natural History of the Corallines and other Marine Productions of the like Kind, commonly found on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. London: for the author, 1755, First edition, 4to, engraved frontispiece and 39 plates, xvii, [x], 104; contemporary calf, neatly rebacked retaining original spine, some light spotting and offsetting to title and frontispiece
A Voyage into the Levant perfom'd by Command of the late French King. Containing the Antient and Modern State of the Islands of the Archipelago; as also of Constantinople, the Coasts of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the Frontiers of Persia, and Asia Minor. London: for D. Browne [and others], 1718. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 4to (24.7 x 19cm), mid-20th-century blue half calf, xlii 402, [4] 398 [18] pp., 152 engraved plates, engraved folding map by John Senex, light browning, volume 1 with occasional damp-staining to margins, volume 2 with stronger and more consistent damp-staining to plates and worming in gutter occasionally affecting a few images, folding plate 150 with marginal loss [ESTC T133108; Nissen ZBI 4156](2) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)First published in French the previous year.
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[Specimens of Ornamental Art selected from the Best Models of the Classical Epochs] [London: Thomas McLean, 1850]. Large folio (64 x 50cm), contemporary red half morocco, all edges gilt, 80 lithographic plates, mainly chromolithographs, a few uncoloured or tinted only, tissue-guards, rubbing to extremities, bound without title-page, occasional light spotting
The Hobbit London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937. First edition, second impression, 8vo, 310 pp., original green cloth, titles and decoration to spine and covers in blue, map endpapers printed in red and black, colour frontispiece depicting Hobbiton, 3 colour plates ('The Fair Valley of Rivendell'; 'The Dark River opened Suddenly Wide', '"O Smaug, the Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities"', one uncoloured plate (Mirkwood), full-page illustrations in text, advertisement leaf to rear, spine and covers marked, loss to head and foot of spine, incipient wear to section of front joint, front board slightly bowed and with fraying to cloth along top edge, tips of both boards bumped and worn, inner hinges superficially split but remaining firm, light spotting to endpapers and half-title, light finger-soiling to half-title, title-page and occasionally elsewhere, a few leaves faintly dog-eared [cf. Hammond A3a] The second impression was the first version of the book to be illustrated in colour: the first impression had two plates only, both of which were uncoloured. A total of 2,300 copies were printed, and some 400 held at the binder's London warehouse were destroyed during an air raid in November 1940.
Gaffarel, Jacques Curiositez inouyes sur la sculpture talismanique des Persans Horoscope des Patriarches. Et lectures des estoilles. [Paris?: no publisher,] 1631. 8vo, xvi 317 pp., contemporary vellum, 2 folding woodcut plates to rear, showing constellations with stars replaced by Hebrew characters (counted as pp. 316-17), binding slightly marked, lacking front free endpaper, variable light damp-staining to lower margins and upper fore corners [Caillet II 4293; Thorndike VII pp. 304-7] Early edition of a wide-ranging and popular work on the occult sciences, namely Persian talismans, Kabbalah and star reading, first published in Paris in 1629.
Stevenson, Robert An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824. 4to, contemporary diced russia decorated in gilt and blind including a palmette roll along edges of covers, engraved frontispiece after J. M. W. Turner, engraved additional title-page (both on india paper, mounted), 21 engraved plates and charts (many folding), inscribed on the initial blank ‘To the Right Honbl Lord Viscount Melville, from the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses’, engraved bookplate of Viscount Melville, joints and extremities rubbed, rear joint cracking at foot, a few plates offset FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS
A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour as it existed in Europe, particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II ... Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842. 3 volumes, folio (36.6 x 26.4cm), contemporary red half morocco, spines gilt in compartments with labels to second and third and military motifs to remainder, all edges gilt, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece to volume 1, 70 hand-coloured plates (etchings with aquatint), 10 uncoloured etched plates, tissue-guards, numerous hand-coloured historiated initials heightened with metallic pigments, directions to binder leaf and errata leaf to volume 1, rubbing to joints, extremities and covers, occasional light spotting, short closed marginal tear to plate 73;Skelton, Joseph. Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection of Llewelyn Meyrick, at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire; after the Drawings, and with the Descriptions of Dr. Meyrick, by Joseph Skelton. London: by G. Schulze, for J. Skelton, 1830. First edition, 2 volumes, folio (37.4 x 25.5cm), later half morocco with earlier spines laid down, etched frontispieces and additional vignette title-pages, engraved portrait to volume 1 (dated 1833 and marked proof), and 151 etched plates (numbered 1-150, including 50A-B), all on india paper and mounted, errata leaf to rear, spines worn, covers rubbed, plates 149-50 and associated text-leaves misbound in index, bookplates to front endpapers(5)
Mudge, William Part the First of the General Survey of England and Wales, containing the whole of Essex and a Portion of the Adjoining Counties. [London]: by the Surveyors of His Majesty's Ordnance under the Direction of Lt. Col. Mudge of the Royal Artillery, F.R.S., [1805]. First edition, large engraved map, 122 x 183cm, divided into 32 sections and laid on linen, light toning, a hint of offsetting, housed in contemporary straight-grain red morocco bookform pull-off case (rubbed);together with 4 books on Essex (including Philip Morant, A New and Complete History of Essex, Chelmsford, 1770-2, volumes 1-3 and 5-6 of 6 only, with numerous engraved plates; Thomas Wright, The History ... of ... Essex, c.1840, 2 volumes, 4to, engraved plates by W. H. Bartlett)(5) Mudge's map of Essex was the second Ordnance Survey map to be published, after Kent in 1801.
Rackham, Arthur (illustrator) The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm Translated by Mrs Edgar Lucas. London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1909. Signed limited edition, one of 750 copies signed by Rackham, 4to, contemporary red half morocco (rebacked with original spine laid down), edges untrimmed, 40 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, a few leaves unopened, occasional light spotting, plate at p. 80 detached from mount at upper left corner and with very small concomitant chip, plates at pp. 122 and 204 apparently reattached, plate at p. 280 remaining tipped in at one corner only. Together with one other by Rackham(2)
India and Burma Photograph album, c.1870 Oblong folio album, black diced calf binding gilt-lettered 'The Orient' on front cover, containing 53 albumen print photographs, most 18 x 23.5cm or 21 x 25.5cm (a few smaller, one in oval form), mounted to rectos only of linen-hinged stiff card leaves (dimensions 26 x 34.5cm), and including views of Valletta (Malta), the Taj Mahal, the tomb of I'timad-ud-Daulah (Agra), Qutub Minar (Delhi), a ghat (signed in the negative Bourne 1208), the Ganges at Benares, Calcutta maidan, several pagodas (probably in Burma), various river scenes and townscapes, a railway, an elephant rider, textile workers, a dance (probably in Burma, with Europeans visible in background), possible views of Aden and the Ajanta caves, one photograph (interior of mosque) signed in the negative 'Bourne 1350', binding worn, joints secured with cloth tape, first leaf mount (containing two photographs) spotted, occasional light spotting elsewhere, chiefly to mounts
A 19th Century pastel artwork depicting a portrait of a young woman looking out towards the viewer wearing a dress draped flirtatiously over her shoulder and a hat with flowers. The artist has used a light pastel colour palette of blues and pinks. Set within an elaborate spandrel gold frame with floral decoration. Measuring approx 78cm x 66cm.
A pair of 19th century Victorian revival lounge fireside library armchairs. Mahogany construction with carved fleur de lys to central, back rest and seat having padded cushioned seat in a light blue material. Further carved decoration to elbow rests and shaped legs terminating on castors. Measures approx 105 x 80 x 60 cm.
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