Newton, Isaac Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica Perpetuis commentariis illustrata, comi studio, PP. Thomae Le Seur et Francisci Jacquier ... editio altera longe accuriator et emendatior. Geneva: Cl[aude] and Ant[oine] Philibert. 1760. 3 volumes, 4to (25 x 19.5cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked with original spines laid down, gilt arms and earl's coronet to sides, pp. xxxi 548, viii 442, [8] xxviii 376 [1] 376-536 [2] v-viii 537-703, volume 1 with half-title, title-page printed in red and black, woodcut headpieces, diagrams throughout, covers rubbed, tips restored, occasional light spotting and browning, tape-repairs to volume 3 front free endpaper [Babson 31] (3)Note: Second 'Jesuit' edition, first published in 1739-42, much valued for its extensive commentary and textual apparatus. Provenance: Professor Richard G. West FRS FGS (1926-2020), British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist, though unmarked as such.
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Harris, Joseph An Essay upon Money and Coins London: G. Hawkins, 1757-58. First edition, parts 1 and 2 in one volume, 8vo, [viii], 128; [xiv], 130, contemporary calf, gilt border to covers, slightly rubbed [ESTC T58105 and T58106]Note: Joseph Harris (1704-64) was equally distinguished as an astronomer and as an expert on coinage. From a humble background, he came to the attention of Edmond Halley, the Astronomer Royal. He spent some time making astronomical observations in South America and the West Indies, and familiarised himself with marine navigational practice, proposing improvements to measuring equipment and publishing a very popular instructional work on the uses of globes and orreries. He later observed the 1761 transit of Venus from Wales. Harris entered the Royal Mint in 1736, and became the King's Assay Master in 1749. This influential 1757 work, considered by the Victorian economist J. R. McCulloch as 'one of the best and most valuable treatises on the subject of money that has ever seen the light', argues that it is vital to a country's economy that the value of precious metal in its coinage remains constant.
Scottish herringbone bindings The Holy Bible With Arguments ... and Moral and Theological Observations ... composed by the Reverend Mr Ostervald. Edinburgh: Colin Macfarquhar, 1770. 2 volumes, 8vo (21 x 12.5cm), contemporary red morocco, floral motifs gilt to spines, covers lavishly gilt-tooled in herringbone pattern, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, Psalms (Edinburgh: Colin Macfarquhar, 1771) bound in at rear, wear and some loss to spine-ends, tips bumped, variable light browning, [Darlow & Moule 1205; ESTC T91947, five copies only], together with: Book of Common Prayer. Edinburgh: Alexander Kincaid, 1761. 12mo (16.8 x 10.5cm), contemporary dark blue morocco gilt-tooled in herringbone pattern, Dutch floral endpapers, Psalms (Kincaid, 1761) bound in at rear, ownership inscription ('Isobella Meldrum'), wear to spine, joints and extremities, light spotting and browning [ESTC T166781] (3)
17th- and 18th-century English books Collection of works including: Goodwin, Thomas. Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta ... for the use of Abingdon Schoole. Newly revised and inlarged by the Author. Oxford: Leonard Lichfield for Henry Crypps, 1638. [Bound with:] Idem. Moses and Aaron. Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, used by the Ancient Hebrewes. London: by John Haviland, 1634. Fifth edition. [And:] Rous, Francis. Archaeologiae Atticae libri tres. Three Bookes of the Attick Antiquities. London: for John Williams, 1645. Second edition. 3 works in 1 volume, 4to (18.2 x 14.2cm), contemporary calf, binding worn, no endpapers, final few signatures loosening [ESTC S103289, R28817, S103224; STC 11964 (Goodwin, Romanae historiae), 11955 (Goodwin, Moses and Aaron); Wing R2032 (Rous)]; [Walker, Clement]. Relations and Observations, Historical and Politick, upon the Parliament begun Anno Dom. 1640 [Part 2: Anarchia Anglicana or the History of Independency. The Second Part]. [London]: printed in the year 1648 [i.e. 1660?] [Part 2: printed in the Year, M. DC. XL, IX., i.e. 1660?]. [Bound with:] Idem. The High Court of Justice, of Cromwels New Slaughter-House in England. [London]: printed Anno Domini 1660. 2 works in 1 volume (the first work in 2 parts), 4to (18.6 x 13.5cm), 18th-century sprinkled tan calf gilt, engraved folding plate to Anarchia bound as frontispiece to Relations, light worming to lower margins and gutter from front of Relations to quire S just touching foot image in plate [ESTC R33535, R200419, R17922; Wing W335, W318, W326B]; [State letters]. Cabala, Mysteries of State, in Letters of the Great Ministers of K. James and J. Charles. London: for M. M. G. Bedell, and T. Collins, 1654 [i.e. 1653]. First edition, 4to (19 x 14cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, initial blank, bookplate (Joseph Berens, Lincoln's Inn, recorded as a director of the Hudson's Bay Company), bound without advertisements, worm-track in gutter of first quire, closed tear to foot of F8, bound with a copy of James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae, 1645 (without engraved title) [ESTC R13349; Wing C183]; Segar, Simon. Honores Anglicani: or, Titles of Honour the Temporal Nobility of the English Nation ... have had. London: John Baker, 1712. First edition. [Bound with:] Hotoman, François. Franco-Gallia: or, an Account of the Ancient Free State of France, and most other Parts of Europe, before the Loss of their Liberties. London: Edward Valentine, 1721. Second edition in English. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo (19.2 x 11cm), contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked, Mainsforth Library label to front pastedown, Hotoman with half-title, 6 pp. advertisements [ESTC T114134, T115191]; Shelton, Maurice. An Historical and Critical Essay on the True Rise of Nobility, Political and Civil; from the First Ages of the World, thro the Jewish, Grecian, Roman Commonwealths, etc., down to this Present Time. London: C. Rivington, 1718. First edition, 8vo (18.8 x 11.4cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, contemporary ownership inscription (Henry Bradshawe) to title-page [ESTC T89512: 12 UK copies]; Whitelocke, Richard. Miscellaneous Essays. Viz. I. Of Company and Conversation ... V. Of Women [etc.]. London: Jonas Browne, 1715. First edition, 8vo (18.4 x 11.9cm), contemporary mottled calf, advertisement leaf, front joint cracking, light browning [ESTC T144050]; Burton, John, fellow of Eton College. The Genuineness of Ld Clarendon's History of the Rebellion printed at Oxford vindicated. Oxford: at the theatre, 1744. First edition, 8vo (18.7 x 11.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, leather split along joints, browning, F8 torn affecting a word either side, bound without advertisement leaf [ESTC T144783]; and 9 others (these not collated), all 8vo, contemporary bindings: Peter Barwick, The Life of John Barwick, 1724 (first edition, 2 engraved portraits); John Oldmixon, Clarendon and Whitlock Compar'd, 1727 (first edition, front joint cracked); Laurence Echard, The History of the Revolution, and the Establishment of England in the Year 1688, 1725 (first edition); Roger L'Estrange, A Brief History of the Times, 1687-8 (3 parts in 1 volume, first edition); Benjamin Hoadly, The Original and Institution of Civil Government, 1710 (second edition); Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Remarks on the History of England, c.1780 (new edition, relined); Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland, 1740 (third edition, bookplate of W. Wynne with motto in Welsh); idem, An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion, 1724 (apparent first edition, W. Wynne bookplate); George Buchanan, History of Scotland ... Second Edition, revised and corrected from the Latin Original, by Mr. Bond, 1722 (2 volumes, spines worn, joints cracked); David Lloyd, State-Worthies, 1766 (2 volumes) (19)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).
17th-century biography Collection of works comprising: Clarke, Samuel. The Lives of Sundry Eminent persons in this Later Age. In Two Parts, I. Of Divines. II. Of Nobility and Gentry of both Sexes. London: Thomas Simmons, 1683. First edition, folio (31.7 x 19cm), contemporary sheep, rebacked, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White, engraved armorial plate, 10 engraved portraits in the text, binding worn, small worm-track in text from front to sig. X (never affecting more than a letter), a few sporadic worm-tracks in margins elsewhere, spill-burn in K4 affecting a word either side [ESTC R5310; Sabin 13466; Wing C4538]; Laud, William. The History of the Troubles and Tryal of the most Reverend Father in God, and Blessed Martyr, William Laud, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Written by himself, during his Imprisonment in the Tower. London: Ri. Chiswell, 1695. First edition, folio (31.5 x 19.8cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, engraved portrait frontispiece, title-page in red and black, advertisement leaf, light damp-stain in gutter at front [ESTC R354; Wing L586]; Hacket, John. Scrinia Reserata: a Memorial offer'd to the Great Deservings of John Williams, D.D. Who some time held the Places of Ld Keeper of the Great Seal of England, Ld Bishop of Lincoln, and Ld Archbishop of York. London: Edw. Jones for Samuel Lowndes, 1693. First edition, folio (37.7 x 22.8cm), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, engraved portrait frontispiece, errata leaf, advertisement leaf, extra-illustrated with a contemporary engraved portrait of Williams from another work (mounted to title-page verso), front joint cracking, a few spots and marks [ESTC R9469; Wing H171]; Heylyn, Peter. Cyprianus Anglicus: or, the History of the Life and Death, of ... William [Laud] ... Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Dublin: James Carson, for John Hyde, and Robert Owen, 1719. First Dublin edition (third overall), folio (30.2 x 19cm), contemporary panelled calf, wear to binding, small worm-track in lower margin [ESTC T107058]; and 6 others (these not collated): Thomas Carte, An History of the Life of James Duke of Ormonde, 1736 (first edition, 3 volumes, folio, non-uniform bindings, ex libris the Conservative Club); William Camden, The History of ... Princess Elizabeth, c.1680 (folio, contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked, title-page supplied in facsimile, edition unknown); William Sanderson, A Compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her Son and Successor James, 1656 (first edition, folio, 18th-century mottled tan calf gilt, engraved portrait of James, lacking portrait of Mary); idem, A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles, 1658 (first edition, folio, contemporary calf, portrait of the author, lacking portrait of Charles); Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs, 1771 (4to, contemporary calf); David Lloyd, Memoires of ... those ... that suffered ... for the Protestant Religion, 1668 (folio, modern cloth, frontispiece laid down, title-page margins extended) (12)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).
Brereton, Henry Newes of the Present Miseries of Rushia: occasioned by the Late Warre in that London: for John Bache, 1614. First edition, 8vo (18.4 x 11.5cm), modern quarter leather, [4] 56 pp., woodcut title-device, headpiece and initials, text mainly in black letter, loss to head of title-page partly affecting words 'Newes of', lower margins extended throughout with loss of all catch-words and signature-marks and frequently obscuring at least part of last line of text [ESTC S114176; STC 3609]; Molesworth, Robert, Viscount Molesworth. An Account of Denmark, as it was in the Year 1692. London: printed in the year 1694. First edition, 8vo (18 x 11cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, browning [ESTC R29546; Wing 2832A]; Vertot, René-Aubert. The History of the Revolutions in Portugal. Translated from the French. London: Sam. Buckley, 1712. First edition in English, 8vo (18.8 x 11.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, G1-3 fore margins extended at an early date [ESTC T81951]; Idem. The History of the Revolution in Sweden. London: for James and John Knapton [and others], 1729. Sixth edition in English, 8vo (19.5 x 11.8cm), contemporary panelled calf, B2 with extensive closed tear and marginal repairs, light damp-staining towards rear, marginal loss to final leaf [ESTC 006352494]; Burnet, Gilbert. Some Letters containing an Account of what seem'd most Remarkable in travelling thro' Switzerland, Italy, some parts of Germany, etc. In the Years 1685 and 1686. London: J. Lacy, 1724. 8vo (19.4 x 12cm), contemporary calf, rubbed, front joint cracked [ESTC T144978]; Lyell, Charles. Travels in North America; with Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. London: John Murray, 1845. First edition, 2 volumes, large 12mo (19.3 x 11.5cm), contemporary green half calf, 7 lithographic or engraved plates and maps (3 hand-coloured), advertisements discarded [Ward & Carozzi 1431]; [Gleig, George Robert]. A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans. London: John Murray, 1826. Second edition, 8vo (21.2 x 12.5cm), contemporary half vellum, ex libris Matthew Aylmer Whitworth, 5th Baron Aylmer (1775-1850), British soldier and colonial governor in North America, with his bookplate and ownership inscription ('Aylmer 1827') (8)Note: Brereton's work, an account of the Polish-Russian war of 1609-18, is rare, ESTC tracing eight copies only in libraries world-wide, and no copies found in auction records. Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).
English Civil War Collection of pamphlets comprising: Englands Third Alarm to Warre: stirring up the Whole Land as One Man, to help the Lord, and His Servant David (all the Faithfull in the World) against most Bloudy Adversaries, Mighty Hunters before the Lord. London: Thomas Underhill, 1643. First edition, 4to (17.9 x 13.2cm), modern cloth, light browning, marginal damp-stains [ESTC R9479, 11 copies world-wide; Wing E3058]; An Agreement of the People for a Firme and present Peace, upon Grounds of Common-Right and Freedome; as it was proposed by the Agents of the Five Regiments of Horse. [London: no printer], 1647. First edition, 4to (18.2 x 12.4cm), modern quarter leather, [2] 14 pp. [ESTC R204468, 7 UK copies; Wing A780]; Mercy in her Exaltation. Or, a Soveraigne Antidote against Fear of the Second Death. In a Sermon preached at the Funeral of Daniel Taylor Esq; in Stephens Coleman Street London. [By John Goodwin]. London: F. Macock for H. Eversden, 1655. First edition, 4to (17.8 x 13.4cm), modern cloth, woodcut mourning border to title-page, browning [ESTC R202308, 9 UK copies; Wing G1181]; His Highnesse the Lord Protector's Speeches to the Parliament in the Painted Chamber, the one on Munday the 4th of September; the other on Tuesday the 12. of September 1654. London: for G. Sawbridge, 1654. First edition, 2 parts in 1 volume, 4to (18.8 x 13.4cm), modern calf, browning, part 1 with closed marginal tear in C3 and marginal spill-burn in E3 [ESTC R207635; Wing C7175]; The Royalists Defence: vindicating the King's Proceedings in the Late Warre made against him. [By Charles Dallison]. [London: no printer], 1648. First edition, 4to (18 x 13.2cm), modern cloth, errata leaf, browning [ESTC R5148; Wing D138]; The Case of the Kingdom stated, according to the Proper Interests of the severall Parties Ingaged. [By Marchamont Nedham]. London: [no printer], 1647. Third edition ('with Addition by the Author') 4to (18.8 x 13cm), modern quarter leather, [2] 6 9-16 pp., browning, title-page slightly chipped along fore edge, quire B shaved at foot [ESTC R40043; Wing N380]; Killing No Murder: briefly discoursed in Three Questions. By Col. Titus, alias William Allen. London: Reprinted in the Year 1689. 8vo (18.8 x 11.2cm), modern quarter leather, browning, A2 bound after A4 [ESTC R214304 (third variant); Wing T1312]; and 2 others, one defective, the other later (George Wilson, Bribes no Perquisites: or, the Case of the Earl of Macclesfield, 1726) (9)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).
Harrington, James The Oceana of James Harrington and his Other Works; some wherof are now first publish'd from his Manuscripts. The whole collected, methodiz'd, and review'd, with an Exact Account of his Life prefix'd, by John Toland. London: to be sold by the booksellers, 1700. First collected edition, folio (30.8 x 19.4cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, engraved frontispiece, portrait after Sir Peter Lely, plate ('The Manner and Use of the Ballot'), advertisement leaf, variable light spotting and browning [ESTC R9111; Wing H816]; Brady, Robert. An Introduction to the Old English History, comprehended in three several Tracts. London: by Tho. Newcomb, for Samuel Lowndes, 1684. First edition, folio (31 x 19.2cm), 20th-century quarter sheep, marbled sides to style, browning, 2N3 slit for cancellation (the cancel also present)[ESTC R34414; Wing B4194]; Thomas May. The History of the Parliament of England: which began November the Third, M. DC. XL. With a Short and Necessary View of some Precedent Years. London: by Moses Bell, for George Thomason, 1647. First edition, folio (28.8 x 17.6cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, imprimatur leaf, title-page in red and black, light damp-staining to lower fore corners [ESTC R8147; Wing M1410]; Walker, Edward. Historical Discourses upon Several Occasions: viz. I. The Happy Progress and Succes of the Arms of K. Charles I [...]. London: by W. N. for Sam. Keble, 1705. First edition, folio (34.2 x 21.2cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, engraved headpieces and initial, full-page engraved portrait of Charles I, engraved folding plate, bookplate (Thomas Bagnall, St Edmund Hall, Oxford) to title-page verso, variable spotting and browning; Hakewill, George. An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World. Oxford: William Turner, 1635. Third edition ('revised ... besides the addition of two entire bookes not formerly published'), folio (27.8 x 18.5cm), modern half calf, engraved additional title-page, letterpress explanation leaf ('The argument of the front and of the worke'), retaining medial blanks 3E4 and 4A4, contemporary ownership inscription ('Ex libris Thomas Wadland') to letterpress title-page, occasional light browning, a few marks [ESTC S120609; STC 12613]; and 3 others (these not collated): Arthur Collins, Letters and Memorials of State in the Reigns of Queen Mary [to] Oliver's Usurpation, 1746 (first edition, 2 volumes, large folio, modern quarter morocco, engraved frontispieces, all edges untrimmed, possibly a large-paper copy); William Howell, An Institution of General History, or the History of the World, 1680 (second edition, folio, modern cloth); Edmund Sawyer, Memorials of the Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected (chiefly from the Original Papers of ... Ralph Winwood, 1725 (first edition, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and relined, without portrait) (11)Note: John Toland's influential edition of the works of James Harrington was an important component in his project to introduce republican ideas to an 18th-century audience, and 'provided a foundation for the whig intellectual tradition that influenced Maximilien Robespierre, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine' (ODNB). Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).
Sarpi, Paolo The Historie of the Councel of Trent London: by Robert Barker, and John Bill, 1620. First edition in English, folio (33.5 x 21cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, colophon leaf present, blanks and endpapers discarded, inner hinges strengthened, quires 2M-N transposed, C3 with short closed tear at foot [ESTC S116698; STC 21761]; Fuller, Thomas. The Church-History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ, to the Year M. DC. XLVIII. London: for John Williams, [1655]. First edition, folio (33 x 21.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, engraved folding map of Cambridge, 4 engraved plates (one double-page), rear board detached, loss to lower fore corners of first 2 leaves to partial loss of imprint in title-page, occasional browning, a few damp-stains and other marks, folding map laid down, old repair and early annotations to final leaf verso [ESTC R14493; Wing F2416]; [Adams, John]. Index Villaris: or, an Exact Register, alphabetically digested, of all the Cities, Market-Towns, Parishes, Villages, the Hundred, Lath, Rape, Ward, Wapentake, or other Division of each County, London: for T. Sawbridge, 1690. Second edition, large folio (37 x 22cm), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked at an early date, no pp. 265-8 but text continuous, closed tear to foot of E2, light worming in gutter towards rear [ESTC R4927; Wing A480]; [Commonwealth of England]. Original Letters and Papers of State, addressed to Oliver Cromwell ... Found among the Political Collections of Mr. John Milton. London: by William Bowyer, and sold by John Whiston, 1743. Folio (35.5 x 21.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, contemporary bookplate (Lt. Colonel Pechell), Castle Goring book-label, heavy craquelure to sides, variable browning [ESTC T56123]; and 8 others, 17th and 18th century folios (these not collated): [John Stow, The Annales, or Generall Chronicle of England, 1615] (first edition, contemporary calf, lacking all before [par.]7 and all after 4Q2, ex library, covers near-detached); John Walker, An Attempt towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy ... in the late Times of the Grand Rebellion, 1714 (contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Tracts, being a Collection of Several Treatises relating to the Government. Privately Printed in the Reign of K. Charles II, 1693 (contemporary mottled calf, front board detached); [John Oldmixon], The History of England during the Reign of the Royal House of Stuart, 1730 (first edition, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Sir Robert Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England, 1643 (first edition, 19th-century tan half calf, engraved portrait frontispiece and title-page, both laid down, early text-leaves remargined, browning); Peter Heylyn, The Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts, 1681 (first edition, contemporary panelled calf, worn lacking frontispiece); idem, Ecclesia Restuarata: The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 1674 (third edition, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and recornered); Isaac Barrow, A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy, 1683 (contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked, browning, worming) (12)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).
![17th-century English books Collection of works on politics, theology, law and literature including: [Gunpowder Plot]. Actio i](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/103db3fe-7615-4ce5-8821-aead00b5a32c/82389717-e227-483c-a9a2-aeb400f739a5/468x382.jpg)
17th-century English books Collection of works on politics, theology, law and literature including: [Gunpowder Plot]. Actio in Henricum Garnetum Societatis Jesuiticae in Anglia ... omnia ex Anglico à G. Camdeno Latinè versa. London: John Norton, 1607. First edition in Latin, 4to (17.8 x 14cm), 18th-century calf, title-page with armorial stamp in red ink and contemporary ink inscription (faded), contemporary marginalia and underlining, 19th-century bookplate (R. M. Beverley), initial and final blanks discarded, light browning, a few spots and marks, rear inner hinge gone [ESTC S102858; STC 11620]; Doddridge, Sir Robert, & others. The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquarian, viz. Mr. Justice Doddridge, Mr. Agar, Francis Tate, WIlliam Canden [sic], and Joseph Holland. Touching the Proceedings of the High-court of Parliament in English. London: William Leake, 1658. First edition, small 8vo (14 x 8cm), contemporary sheep, unidentified earl's crest gilt to spine, retaining initial blank and terminal advertisement leaf, bookplate (baron's coronet, name Sinclair, motto 'fide sed pugna'), spine worn [ESTC R210130]; 'Philanax Misopappas'. Rawleigh Redivivus; or the Life and Death of the Right Honourable Anthony Late Earl of Shaftesbury. London: Thomas Malthus, 1683. First edition, 8vo (17.1 x 10.8cm), early-19th-century tan calf, small hole in F4 affecting a few letters, engraved portrait frontispiece, armorial ink-stamp to title-page, marginal worm-trail from quire I to end (text unaffected) [ESTC R3409]; Forbes, William. Considerationes modestae et pacificae controversarium. London: Thomas Roycroft [and others], 1658. First edition, 8vo (15.8 x 10cm), contemporary blind-panelled sheep, old deaccession ink-stamp to title-page [ESTC R209737]; Baudier, Michel. The History of the Administration of Cardinal Ximenes, Great Minister of State in Spain ... translated into English, by W. Vaughan. London: John Wilkins, 1671. First edition in English, 8vo (16.6 x 10.6cm), contemporary sheep, engraved portrait frontispiece by Cross, binding worn, front inner hinge tender, hole in L8 costing a few letters, lacking either final blank or endpaper, ink-stamps (Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, Glasgow) to endpapers, frontispiece recto and final page of text) [ESTC R6814]; and 16 others similar (these not collated), including: Ovid, De arte amandi ... Englished, 1662; Richard Gardiner, Specimen oratorium ... editio quinta, Oxford, 1675; Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum, ex authoritate primum regis Henrici 8. inchoata, 1640 (binding worn); William Lawson, A New Orchard, and Garden ... as also, the Husbandry of Bees, 1652 (lacking several leaves); John Goodman, The Penitent Pardoned ... Second Edition, 1683 (frontispiece and title-page laid down); Peter Heylyn, Mikrocosmos ... sixth edition, 1639 (lacking at least final 2 leaves including blank, retaining woodcut architectonic title-page); Sir Robert Cotton, Cottoni posthuma, 1672 (lacking front board) and others, mainly in contemporary bindings (several bindings defective) (21)Note: The Actio in Henricum Garnetum was first published in English the previous year, as A True and Perfect Relation of the Proceedings at the Severall Arraignments of the Late most Barbarous Traitors.
19th-century fiction Collection of triple-decker novels comprising: Barrie, J. M. The Little Minister. London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original brown cloth, initial blank and half-title to each volume, 16 pp. advertisements to volume 1, ownership inscriptions of Campbell Douglas (1828-1910), noted architect, to front front free endpapers, rubbed and bumped, spines rolled, variable spotting and staining, volume 1 final quire (P) with shallow burn-hole to lower margin [Sadleir 167]; Banks, Mrs G. Linnaeus [Isabella]. The Manchester Man. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1876. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, half-titles, 2 + 16 pp. advertisements, slightly rubbed and marked, spines rolled, tips bumped and showing through, volume 2 recased and relined (spine stained), half-titles spotted [Sadleir 154: 'A factual story of Manchester during the first 30 years of the nineteenth century'; contains reference to the Peterloo massacre]; [Holford, Mary Anne]. Strathrowan. A Tale of Modern Life. London: Chapman & Hall, 1879. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, pp. [4] 297, [2] 304, [2] 358, half-title to volume 1, rubbed, tips bumped, volume 1 inner hinges cracked, light cracking to others [not in Sadleir]; Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Refugees. A Tale of Two Continents. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. First edition (1,000 copies printed), 3 volumes, 8vo, [8] 227, [4] 214, [4] 304, 24 pp. advertisements to volume 1 (dated 3/93), original green cloth, bindings shaken, soiled and worn, Grant's Library labels to front covers, variable spotting and staining, volume 2 signature 2 loose, signature 6 starting, volume 3 water-stained and front cover bowed [not in Sadleir]; together with 4 other triple-deckers (these not fully collated): George Meredith, One of our Conquerors, 1891 (first edition, original blue cloth); [Sarah Ellis née Stickney], Family Secrets, [c.1843] (first edition, contemporary green half skiver, 31 engraved plates including frontispieces and additional vignette title-pages); [John Galt], The Spaewife; a Tale of the Scottish Chronicles, 1823 (first edition, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered); Walter Besant, Herr Paulus, 1888 (first edition, contemporary quarter roan, volume 1 with loss to headcap); and one double-decker, H. S. Merriman, From One Generation to Another, 1892 (original cloth) (26)Note: Library Hub traces three copies only of Strathrowan (BL, Cambridge, NLS).
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[Ballet] The Works of Monsieur Noverre, translated from the French London: G. Robinson [and others], [1782]-3. First edition in English, 3 volumes in 1, 8vo (21.1 x 12cm), recent blue half morocco, half-title to each volume, engraved portrait frontispiece, pp. [9] vi-lxviii 227 [5], [4] 258, [6] vii-xi [3] 3-330, toning, light spotting, ownership inscription effaced from half-title, frontispiece browned and more heavily spotted, occasional pencil-markings [ESTC N25828]Note: Very rare: ESTC traces nine copies in libraries world-wide; two copies traced at auction, the last in 1985. Jean-Georges Noverre's concept of ballet d'action revolutionised the performance of classical ballet. Volumes 1-2 comprise a translation of his Lettres sur la danse et sur les ballets, first published in 1760; the third volume contains treatments of his ballets The Danaides, Rinaldo and Armida, Adela of Ponthieu, The Graces, The Horatii and Curiatii, Agamemnon Revenged, and Apelles and Campaspe.
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[Cleland, John] Memoirs of *********** ** ************ [a Woman of Pleasure] London: printed for G. Fenton in the Strand, [?1755], 2 volumes, 12mo, 232pp. + 252pp., typographic ornament on title-pages, contemporary calf, gilt rule to boards, volume number gilt stamped to spines, ownership inscription 'M.F. Heise, 1785' on front free endpapers, the free endpapers also with small unobtrusive blindstamp of a ?princely coronet with initials 'W.W.', slightly rubbed, joints split or partly split, occasional light spotting, [ESTC T84804: BL copy only]; with a single contemporary manuscript annotation 'Navarino' in lower margin of page 191 volume 1 referencing the word 'untoward' which is underlinedNote: A very early edition of the first and the most famous erotic or pornographic novel in English. 'The novel, consisting of two letters addressed by the fictional character Frances “Fanny” Hill to a “Madam,” recounts in vivid and explicit detail Fanny’s transgressive sexual experiences from her adolescence through her middle age' (University of Indiana, 'Banned Books', online). The novel was perhaps the most heavily challenged book in court, in both England and the United States. It was first published unabridged in the United States by Putnam in 1963, but it was not until the landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Memoirs v. Massachussets (383 U.S. 413) in March 1966, that the ban imposed by the Attorney General of Massachusetts was lifted. Cleland [1710-1789] composed his novel while serving a sentence for debt in the Fleet Prison. According to his own testimony, it was written largely from boredom and, the early chapters anyway, was based on an idea '... originally give me by a young gentleman of the greatest hopes I ever knew, above eighteen years ago, on an occasion immaterial to mention here'. Volume one appeared about November 1748, and volume two was published in early February the following year. Both were printed by Thomas Parker for Ralph Griffiths and advertised in the press at three shillings each volume. 'In November 1749, a warrant was issued for the arrest of the author, publisher and printer of the book and by the end of the month, Cleland, Griffiths and Parker... were all on bail and awaiting trial' (Kearney, A History of Erotic Literature, p.66). The bookseller and publisher Ralph Griffiths blamed everything on his brother, Fenton Griffiths, whose inverted name, G. Fenton, was used for the book's false imprint. When examined before Lord Stanhope, the Law Clerk in the Secretary of State's office on 13 November 1749 Ralph Griffiths said he had sold about 60 sets of the said work. Cleland in his defence argued ingeniously that had he not been prosecuted the work would have died a quiet death and added, somewhat maliciously, that the clergy were amongst the keenest buyers of the work. Cleland and his associates were found guilty in court, and the novel was withdrawn, at least officially, from circulation. Despite losing the case, however, Cleland seems to have escaped lightly; no record of any punishment exists. Foxon states: 'There were four editions in which the title-page reads, with minor variations, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. London: printed for G. Fenton, 1749'; at least one of them was probably printed on the continent. Shortly after his release, Cleland produced a heavily bowdlerized version of the Memoirs, entitled Memoirs of Fanny Hill, which was published in March 1750. Ralph Griffiths was again prosecuted for this publication at the instigation of Bishops of the Church of England. In his defence Griffiths argued that he saw nothing wrong with the book as all the details of the sexual encounters had been omitted from the text. Indeed the book, as a result, is significantly shorter than the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Readers however did not embrace this watered down version of the more racy original which circulated widely in underground form for over two hundred years. The number of copies of the first edition of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is unknown but if Ralph Griffiths's claim that he had sold about sixty copies between November 1748 and November 1749 is true, it seems unlikely that more than a few hundred at most were ever printed. The number of copies printed of the present edition is also unknown but is probably no greater than the first edition. No copies of this edition are recorded being sold at auction since 1975. David Foxon notes "Editions C & D [with 1749 on the title-page], like the undated Memoirs of ********** cannot at present be dated at all precisely; probably they never will". ESTC notes the date as "? 1755". The copy of this edition reproduced in Eighteenth Century Collections Online has the front endpaper inscribed and dated 1759, indicating that this edition must have been printed by 1759 at the very latest. David Foxon. Libertine Literature in England 166-1745, Appendix. 1964
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North American literature Collection of works, 19th-20th century including: [Irving, Washington]. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. No. I [-VII.]. New York: C. S. Van Winkle, 1819-20. First editions, early printings, 7 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (20.6 x 13cm), contemporary maroon calf, parts 1-2 continuously paginated, remaining parts separately paginated, penciled annotation 'Bound from the parts [...] 2nd printing' to front free endpaper, contemporary gift inscriptions to title-pages, bindings sunned and rubbed; [Early Canadian printing]. The Rising Village, with Other Poems. By Oliver Goldsmith. A Descendant of the Author of "The Deserted Village". Saint John, New Brunswick: published for the author by John McMillan, 1834. 12mo, contemporary cloth, 144 pp., bookplate (Gilmour of Lundin and Montrave), light wear to spine; [Ball, Charles]. Fifty Years in Chains; or, The Life of an American Slave. New York: H. Dayton, 1860. 8vo, original blue cloth, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, binding rubbed, spine rolled, pp. 265-8 repaired; Faulkner, William. Salmagundi. And a Poem by Ernest M. Hemingway. Milwaukee: Casanova Press, 1932. One of 525 copies only, large 8vo, original wrappers, light splitting to front joint; Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon. Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. First US edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, wood-engraved additional vignette title-pages, front free endpapers with ownership inscriptions 'Benjamin W. Crowninshield', either the US politician (1772-1851) or his grandson (1837–1892), spines sunned; and 12 others, including Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mother Carey's Chickens, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c.1911 (inscribed by the author), Robert Wilson, Poems, Boston, 1856 (first edition, with secretarial presentation inscription), Hermann Scheffauer, Looms of Life, New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1908 (first edition, inscribed by the author), Richard Eberhart, Thirty One Sonnets, New York: Eakins Press, 1967 (first edition, inscribed by the author), Liam O'Flaherty, The Fairy Goose and Two Other Stories, New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927 (first edition, signed by the author, additionally inscribed by British composer Kaikhosru Sorabji, 1892-1988 'To my dear friend Frank Holliday very affectionately ... K. 30/9/43'), Sir Woodbine Parish, Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata, 1852 (second edition, original cloth), and similar (19)
European literature Collection of works in French and other languages comprising: Proust, Marcel. Les plaisirs et les jours. Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1896. First edition, folio (29.5 x 20cm), later half morocco, 14 tinted plates, partly unopened, original wrappers bound in; Eluard, Paul. Le dur désir de durer. Illustrated by Marc Chagall. Philadelphia: Grey Falcon Press, & London, Trianon Press, 1950. One of 1500 copies, 4to, original wrappers, colour frontispiece; Gide, André. Montaigne. An Essay in Two Parts. London: Blackamore Press, 1929. One of 800 copies signed by the author, 4to, original cloth; Gautier, Théophile. Musée secret ... pointes sèches originales de Mya. Paris: Frazier-Soye, 1932. One of 875 copies on vélin d'Arches, folio, original wrappers, 10 plates, glassine dust jacket, plates and text in unbound bifolia as issued, spotting; Claudel, Paul. Les Euménides d'Eschyle. Paris: Nouvelle revue française, 1920. One of 100 copies 'sur papier Whatman à la forme ... réservés aux bibliophiles de la Nouvelle revue française', 4to, original wrappers, glassine dust jacket, edges untrimmed and unopened, glassine dust-soiled; Boiardo, Matteo Maria, conte di Scandiano. Sonetti e canzone. Milan: Societa tip. dei classici italiani, 1845. One of 250 copies only, 4to (24.2 x 18.6cm), 20th-century crushed green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, title-page vignette hand-coloured, top edge gilt, others untrimmed (wide margins); Gallo, Agostino. Elogio storico di Antonio Gagini scultore ed architetto palermitano. Palermo: Reale stamperia, 1821. 4to (26.5 x 19cm), later half morocco, copper-engraved portrait frontispiece, 30 pp., light staining to final leaf, Baron Napier bookplate; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust. Jena: Eugen Diederich, 1909. 'Jubilee edition' (Jubiläumsausgabe), one of 1000 copies on Van Gelder paper, 4to, original blind-stamped brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, with one clasp (of two); and 6 others similar (14)Note: Les plaisirs et les jours was Proust's first published book.
Fleming, Ian Moonraker London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition, first impression, state B, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, covers unevenly damp-stained and slightly bowed, text-block toned, strip of browning to each free endpaper, ownership inscription in blue ink to front free endpaper, dust jacket toned, spine-panel rubbed and with light fraying to headcap, damp-staining to rear flap, a few other nicks and marks [Gilbert A3a 1.2/3]
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Gorodetsky, Sergei (1884-1967) Angel Armeniy. Stikhotvoreniya [Title in Russian; 'The Angel of Tiflis [Tbilisi]: [no publisher], 1918. 8vo, 32 pp. (17.7 x 13.5cm), wire-stitched, head- and tailpieces from bas-reliefs in the Akdamar monastery (Lake Van, modern Turkey), inscribed by the author in Russian on dedication leaf recto 'Erik Lvovich Bekoder[?] s druzhecki privetlivy, Sergey Gorodetsky, [1]920 IV Baku' ('To Erik Lvovich Bekoder[?], with friendliest greetings, Sergei Gorodetsky, 1920 IV Baku'), disbound, browned, together with 11 others, Russian literature, including Boris Pasternak, Doktor Zhivago, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1957 [i.e. 1958] (first trade edition in Russian, original light green boards, later-issue dust jacket), Leon Trotzky, The Bolsheviki and World Peace, New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918 (original blue-green cloth, portrait frontispiece) (12)Note: Sergei Gorodetsky co-founded the Acmeist movement in Russian poetry with Nikolay Gumilev; outside poetry his works include the scenario for Prokofiev's ballet Ala i Lolli (later reworked for orchestra as the Scythian Suite), and a 1933 Sovietised rewrite of the libretto for Glinka's A Life for the Tsar. Some sources cite the first edition of Angel Armeniy as appearing in 1917, others in 1918; we have been unable to trace another copy.
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Heaney, Seamus The Door Stands Open: Czeslaw Milosz 1911-2004 [Dublin]: The Irish Writers' Centre Limited, printed and made in Poland by the Book Art Museum, Lodz, 2005. 'Special edition', one of 250 copies signed by Heaney, 4to, original stainless-steel covers, grey cloth spine, integral silkscreened 'mixed media wrap', black card chemise with Heaney's signature printed in silver, text mainly on light blue handwoven paper; Hughes, Ted. Tales from Ovid. London: Faber and Faber, 1997. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 300 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original quarter cloth, slipcase; Idem. T. S. Eliot: A Tribute. [London]: privately printed by Faber and Faber, 1987. First edition, one of 250 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original blue wrappers, retaining glassine inner chemise and card wrapper; Durrell, Laurence. The Red Limbo Lingo. A Poetry Notebook. London: Faber and Faber, 1971. First edition, one of 1200 numbered copies, this copy inscribed by the author for Yehudi and Diana Menuhin on mounted card slip, and with the recipients' bookplate, 4to, original red cloth, slipcase; and 20 others, modern literature, all signed limited editions, including Ian McEwan, Other Minds, Bridgewater Press, 2001, 2 copies, each one of 100; Graham Greene, How Father Quixote became a Monsignor, 1980, one of 330; idem, Why the Epigraph?, 1980, one of 950; V. S. Naipaul, Two Worlds, Nobel Lecture, December 7 2001, 2002, one of 58 from the total edition of 70 (front board water-damaged); William Golding, To the Ends of the Earth, 1991, one of 400 (with cardboard slipcase); John Updike, Getting the Words Out, 1988, one of 250; and similar (24)Note: The Door Stands Open was published to mark the death of Polish author Czeslaw Milosz, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980; there was also a 'deluxe' edition of 60 copies with an autograph quotation by Heaney.
Modernism and Bloomsbury Collection of works including: Eliot, T. S. Ara Vus Prec. London: Ovid Press, 1919. First edition, number 53 of 264 copies, original black paper boards (early binding), yellow cloth backstrip, 55 pp., woodcut initials and colophon device, edges untrimmed, contemporary gift inscription to initial blank, boards rubbed, text-block detached from binding, a few leaves sometime dog-eared with concomitant faint creasing; Lewis, Wyndham. The Caliph's Design. Architects! Where is your Vortex! London: The Egoist Ltd., 1919. First edition, [one of 1,000 copies], 8vo, original marbled paper wrappers over card, spine sunned, small split to foot of front joint; 'H. D.' Hymen. London: Egoist Press, 1921. First edition, 8vo, original patterned card wrappers, Pound, Ezra. A Draft of XXX Cantos. London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1933. First edition, 8vo, original black cloth, ownership inscription of Hugh MacDiarmid ('C. M. Grieve') to front free endpaper, half-title and title-page creased; Sackville-West, Vita. Poems of West & East. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1917. First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, halftone frontispiece, publisher's review-copy blind stamp to title-page, covers slightly discoloured, light marginal spotting; and 12 others, including: Edith Sitwell, The Mother and Other Poems, 1915 (first edition, original wrappers, chipped); Lytton Strachey, Pope: The Leslie Stephen Lecture for 1925, 1925 (first edition, contemporary purple half morocco by J. Van West); Virginia Woolf, The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays, 1950 (first edition, dust jacket repaired); Edwin Muir, The Structure of the Novel, Hogarth Press, 1928 (first edition, inscribed 'To Dora, with love & a happy new year, Edwin'); Baron Corvo, The Venice Letters, London: Cecil and Amelia Woolf, 1974 (one of 200 copies); and similar (17)
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Australia, Turkey, France etc. 21 volumes comprising: Pardoe, Julia. The Beauties of the Bosphorus. London, [1838], 8 original parts, 4to, 2 engraved title-pages, 3 portraits, 3 maps and 164 engraved plates, original pictorial red cloth gilt, faint waterstain to 5 of the 8 volumes, mostly marginal and mostly light, head and base of spines worn; Booth, Edwin Carton. Australia. London: Vertue. 1873, 8 original parts, 4to, 2 engraved title-pages, 111 engraved plates and 8 coloured maps, original pictorial brown cloth gilt, contents loose, rubbed; Hozier, Capt. H.M. The Franco-Prussian War... and The Rhine Valley. London, [1870-72], 2 volumes, 4to, 81 plates, contemporary green half calf, spines gilt, a little light spotting; Maltebrun. Précis de Géographie Universelle. Paris, 1852. Large 8vo, engraved plates, folding maps hand-coloured in outline, black morocco-backed marbled boards, some spotting; Milner, Thomas. The Gallery of Geography. London: W. & R. Chambers, [c.1864]. Large 8vo, illustrations, coloured folding maps, contemporary half calf, rubbed; Pugin, Augustus. Specimens of the Architecture of Normandy. 1874. 4to, additional engraved title and 77 plates, contemporary half brown morocco, library stamp to title, rubbed, upper cover detached; sold not subject to return (21)
Grahame, Kenneth The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1931. First Shepard-illustrated edition (thirty-eighth overall), 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, top edge dyed green, dust jacket, spine rolled, a few pale marks to covers, light spotting to outer leaves and edges, dust jacket spine darkened and mottled, light dust-soiling and a few trivial marks to panels; Idem. The Wind in the Willows. With an Introduction by A. A. Milne and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. One of 2200 copies signed by the designer Bruce Rogers, 4to, original quarter cloth, 16 mounted colour plates, slipcase; Idem. The Golden Age. With Illustrations and Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1928. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 275 copies signed by Kenneth Grahame and E. H. Shepard and printed on rag paper, 8vo, original quarter vellum, slipcase, spine rolled, endpapers browned; Idem. First Whisper of "The Wind in the Willows". Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1945. 8vo, contemporary green crushed morocco by Bayntun-Riviere; and 1 other (5)
Rackham, Arthur (illustrator) The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Introduction by A. A. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1951. 'One hundredth edition', one of 500 copies, 4to, original cream sheep, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, printed on handmade paper, 12 colour plates (tipped in as issued), slipcase, faint toning to free endpapers, light wear to extremities of slipcase, related pamphlet (Eleanor Graham, The Story of The Wind in the Willows, London: Methuen, [1951], 8 pp., original wrappers) laid in
Broughton, Thomas Duer Letters written in a Mahratta Camp during the Year 1809 Descriptive of the Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies, of the Mahrattas. London: John Murray, 1813. First edition, 4to (26.6 x 20.8cm), 20th-century half calf to style, 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates, retaining directions to the binder leaf, half-title discarded, light offsetting, modern tissue-guards laid in [Abbey Travel 433], together with 11 other works on India (these not collated), including: Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell, Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (first edition, contemporary quarter skiver, book-label of Ronald Munro Ferguson, presumably the 1st Viscount Novar and governor-general of Australia, 1860-1934); 'Outline of Political, Territorial and Administrative Changes in the Punjab (Earliest Times up to 1947. V. S. Suri, Director of Archives, Punjab', Patiala: Punjab State Archives, 1966 (roneoed typescript, 73 ff., folio); Stanley Reed, The Royal Tour in India, Bombay: Bennett, Coleman & Co., 1906 (4to, contemporary blue half calf); The House of Bagrian, Lahore: Lion Press, c.1930 (oblong folio, original half cloth, halftone photographic plates, wear to spine); W. F. B. Laurie, Sketches of Some Distinguished Anglo-Indians, 1887-8 (2 volumes, new edition of volume one, 8vo, original cloth, volume 2 frontispiece loose); William Ward, A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos, 1822 (3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half russia, joints cracked, some covers near detached); D. Warren, The Motor Car in India, Bombay: Bennett, Coleman & Co., 1906 (8vo, contemporary quarter leather by M. Narsimlu of Hyderabad, library markings to title-page); and similar (14)
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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 & Unwin Ltd, 1966. Second editions, first impressions, 3 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, 3 folding maps, light rubbing to jacket extremities; Milne, A. A. When We Were Very Young. Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, blank endpapers, p. [ix] unpaginated (first state), contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, spine rolled, rear cover water-stained, extremities rubbed and bumped, rear inner hinge tender, numeric ink-stamp to final page, a few other internal marks; Pratchett, Terry. Mort. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1987. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket (price-clipped, with publisher's overprice sticker), ownership inscription to front pastedown; and 3 others (Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, 1991, signed by Pratchett and co-author Neil Gaiman; ibid., Interesting Times, 1994; A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, 1927, fifth edition) (8)
Scotland Works by Scottish authors or relating to Scotland comprising: Colquhoun, Patrick. A Treatise on the Wealth, Power and Resources of the British Empire. London: J. Mawman, 1814. First edition, 4to., modern quarter calf, spine gilt, red morocco label, title lightly spotted; McNicol, Donald Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides. London: T. Cadell, 1779. First edition, 8vo, half-title, contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked, bookplate of Robert Pipon Marett, some slight browning and light, scattered foxing; Mackenzie, Peter Reminiscences of Glasgow and the West of Scotland. Glasgow: John Tweed, 1865. 3 volumes, 8vo, photographic frontispiece with author's facsimile inscription, 11 further portraits, plate, contemporary half calf gilt with red and green morocco labels to spine, neat ownership signatures and some news clippings pasted to endpapers, a little browning in places (5)
Clutterbuck, Robert The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1815-27. First edition, large-paper copy, 3 volumes, large folio (49.2 x 31.5cm), later tan half morocco by J. Leighton of Brewer Street, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 52 engraved maps and plates (1 hand-coloured), 2 hand-coloured lithographic plates, most plates marked proof, occasional light spotting; Samuel, Nathaniel. The History of Hertfordshire. London: [no publisher], 1728. First edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, [8] 368 pp. engraved folding map, binding worn, front joint cracked [ESTC T36381, calling for [8] 369 [1] pp. with the final leaf unsigned, this not present in e.g. the Yale copy, and the text apparently ending on p. 368]; Chalmers, George. Caledonia: or, an Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain, from the most Ancient to the Present Times. London: for T. Cadell, 1810-10-24. Second, first and first editions, all on large paper, 3 volumes, 4to (33.5 x 24.5cm), later tree calf gilt with twin morocco labels, engraved folding map, 5 plans, folding table, bookplates (motto 'Fortes fortuna juvat'), volume 1 head of front joint cracked; Bruce, J. Collingwood. Incised Markings on Stone, found in the County of Northumberland, Argyleshire, and Other Places. London: for private circulation, 1869. First edition, large folio (62 x 58cm), contemporary half morocco, 32 tinted lithographic plates, spotting, wear to head of spine with commensurate paper-erosion to head of gutter throughout, touching images of double-page plates, otherwise affecting guards and margins; Gordon, Sir Robert. A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1813. Folio, uncut in original boards, 3 engraved plates (portrait frontispiece, damp-stained; arms; and folding manuscript facsimile), wear to covers: Bartlett, W. H. (illustrator). The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland. London: Virtue and Co., c.1840. 2 volumes 1 in, 4to (26 x 20.2cm), contemporary green morocco gilt, all edges gilt, engraved map, 110 engraved plates including 2 additional vignette title-pages (10)Provenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.
Raleigh, Sir Walter (1554-1618) Document signed, Isle of Wight, 15th August 1580 Single sheet of laid paper (29.2 x 21.2cm), 14 lines written in brown ink in a secretarial hand, with Ralegh's autograph signature 'W Rawley' at foot, the text reading 'Memorand[um] that I Walter Rawley Gent have had and received this day and yere abovesaide of Sr Edwarde Horsey knight capteyne of the Isle of Wighte for victuall and lodginge for our hundred souldeyrs under my conduction for her Ma[jesties] service in Ireland during the tyme of myne and their aboode in the saide Isle of Wighte. That is to saie from the xxx daye of July in the yere abovesaide untill the xv daie of Auguste viz for fiftene daies at vi s a man by the daye the some of xxxvii ls xs', docketed in a contemporary hand, toned, spotting, old folds, repaired closed tears, faint pencilled annotations to lower half rectoNote: The young Raleigh makes preparations to travel to Ireland to help crush the Desmond rebellion, the venture which rescued him from likely obscurity as the wayward second son of a Devon country family, and propelled him instead into the favour of Elizabeth I, setting him on the path to becoming the soldier, courtier, explorer, scholar and poet, 'the Renaissance man par excellence' (ODNB) perhaps more emblematic of the Elizabethan golden age than any other figure except the sovereign herself. Ralegh's signature is extremely rare; this example notably pre-dates his 'earliest surviving letter, written to William Cecil, Baron Burghley, lord treasurer, from Cork in February 1581' (ibid.). In early 1580 Raleigh served two spells of imprisonment for violent affray. Through the intercession of friends he received a captain's commission in the reinforcements being despatched to Ireland, and there oversaw the reduction and massacre of the garrison at Smerwick, co. Kerry. Among the possessions of the dead he discovered a collection of secret letters, and was ordered to return to London to present his findings at court. Once permanently back in England (after a brief return to Ireland) he quickly established himself as a leading light at Elizabeth's court, and concerned himself with the projected colonisation of the New World.
Chater, Catchick P., Sir and Orange, James (Ed.) The Chater Collection Pictures relating to China, Hong Kong, Macao, 1655-1860, with Historical and Descriptive Letterpress by James Orange. London: Thornton Butterworth, [1924], 4to, number 78 of 750 copies, frontispiece and plates, some coloured, 3 folding maps, original cloth, gilt, occasional light soiling, gilt library stamp to upper board, very small blindstamp at head of title, some wear to spine, upper hinge split, some soilingProvenance: Private London collection
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher) Examples of the Engraved Portraiture of the Sixteenth London & Edinburgh: privately printed for Sir William Stirling Maxwell, 1872. Large folio, original tan half cloth, cloth sides, title-page in red and black, 199 photolithographic facsimiles of engraved or woodcut portraits on 114 numbered sheets (many mounted), laid-in autograph letter from Sir William Fraser (1816-1896), Scottish historian, genealogist and archivist, to Stirling-Maxwell (29 November 1870; concerning woodcuts), spine rubbed, front joint partially cracked, mottling to sides, light spotting to outer leaves, front free endpaper creasedNote: Number 50 of 50 copies only; one of Stirling-Maxwell's 'pioneering books of facsimile prints using the new photolithographic methods' (ODNB). Stirling-Maxwell (1717-1878) was fascinated by printing and reproduction. The fourth volume of his Annals of the Artists of Spain consisted of extra illustrations using the Talbotype photographic process developed by William Fox Talbot. It became the first use of photography in an art history book. 'Further evidence of his commitment to the multiple image was provided by his pioneering books of facsimile prints using the new photolithographic methods, including Examples of the Engraved Portraiture of the Sixteenth Century (1872)' (ODNB). In the preface, Stirling-Maxwell draws attention to the various methods used in reproducing the prints, e.g. the photo-lithographic: the photo-type; Sun-printing, i.e. the carbon process; and the photodynamic. These masterpieces of book production appear to have been distributed by presentation to friends, notable persons and institutions. As the present and subsequent volumes all remained at Keir, there are no presentation inscriptions. Provenance: 1) Christie’s, The Property of Archibald Stirling of Keir, 22-24 May 1995, lot 712. 2) The Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1952-2020).
Bowen, Emanuel Collection of engraved maps, c.1750-65 including: A New and Accurate Map of China; A New and Accurate Map of the Empire of Japan; Turky in Asia, Arabia, etc.; A New and Accurate Map of Persia; A New and Accurate Map of Anatolia or Asia Minor, with Syria and Other Provinces of the Turkish Empire; A New and Accurate Chart of the World; all approx. 36.5 x 43cm, each with central fold, trimmed close to or past neatline in places, World map browned, light browning to others. Together with 3 engraved plates ('A Genealogical Table of the Tribes of the Genuine Arabs'; 'A Genealogical Table of ye Tribes of the Naturalized Arabs'; 'The Tribe of Koreish'), and 48 further engraved maps, 18th century, European, historical or biblical, by Bowen, Blundell, Basire and others (57 in 1 folder)
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher) - Vesalius, Andreas Tabulae anatomicae sex Six Anatomical Tables of Andrew Vesalius. London: privately printed for Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 1874. Large folio (66 x 52 cm), [12] ff., engraved presentation page printed in red, title-page printed in red and black, 1 engraved portrait plate, 6 anatomical plates, original maroon quarter morocco, marbled sides, light wear to extremitiesNote: One of Stirling-Maxwell's 'pioneering books of facsimile prints using the new photolithographic methods' (ODNB), of which 28 copies were printed, in addition to one copy on vellum and one on parchment. A set of six oversized broadsides, the Tabulae anatomicae sex, originally printed at Venice in 1538, were designed to be mounted on the wall for reference during dissections and, as a result, only two complete copies of the original printings of the six oversized anatomical plates survived. One set is in the Bibliotheca nazionale Marciana of Venice. Another, which became the basis for this edition, was purchased in 1857 by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, and is now in the Hunterian Library in Glasgow. There is a third set in the Biblioteca statale di Cremona (USTC 764591). Library Hub traces only four copies of the 1874 edition in UK institutions (Glasgow, Oxford, Royal Academy, and Royal Society of Medicine.) Provenance: 1) Christie’s, The Property of Archibald Stirling of Keir, 22-24 May 1995, lot 712. 2)The Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1952-2020).
Germany and Holland 5 volumes comprising: Hills, Robert. Sketches in Flanders and Holland, with some account of a Tour through parts of those Countries, shortly after the Battle of Waterloo. London: J. Haines and J. Turner, 1816. First edition, 4to, 36 sepia aquatint plates, including 1 folding panorama (Waterloo) and 5 hand-coloured costume plates, maroon half morocco, unobtrusive library blindstamps of the Royal United Service Institution, and their bookplate with disposal stamp, very occasional light spotting; Batty, Capt. Robert. German Scenery from drawings made in 1820. London: Rodwell & Martin, 1823. First edition, 4to, engraved title-page with vignette, frontispiece and 60 engraved plates, contemporary green morocco, spine gilt, uncut, a tall copy; James, J.T. Journal of a Tour in Germany, Sweden, Russia and Poland during the years 1813 and 1814. London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, 4to, 18 sepia aquatint or etched plates, original boards, uncut, neatly rebacked reusing original paper label, bookplate of the Bibliotheca Trolleholmiae; Carr, Sir John. A Tour through Holland, along the Right and Left banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the summer and autumn of 1806. London: Richard Phillips, 1807. First edition, 4to, engraved map and 20 sepia aquatints, contemporary calf, preliminary leaves lightly browned, slightly rubbed; Kampen, N.G. van. The History and Topography of Holland and Belgium. London: G. Virtue, [1837], 8vo, engraved title, folding map and 61 plates after W.H. Bartlett, tissue guards, contemporary half calf, some spotting, upper joint slightly split at head of spine (5)
Germany, Switzerland and Travel 39 volumes comprising: Meyer, H.J. Meyer's Universum. Hildburghause and New York: Bibliographischen Institut, 1852-54. volume 15-16, oblong 4to, both volumes with engraved title and 48 engraved plates (including views of the U.S.A.), original half cloth, occasional spotting; Munchner Album - Album de Munich - Vierzig Stahlstiche - Quarantes feuilles sur acier. Munich: Georg Franz. 1846, oblong 4to, 40 views including title vignette, original cloth, occasional light spotting, rubbed; Wundermappe: Die Wundermappe oder sammtliche Kunst- und Natur-Wunder des ganzen Erdballs. Frankfurt a.M: Im Verlagsmagazin für Literatur und Kunst, 1833-37, 33 original parts, numbered between 7 and 101, large 8vo, most parts with 6 engraved plates each [not completely collated], original yellow or grey wrappers, uncut; Die Wundermappe... Ersten Bandes III Abtheilung. Frankfurt, 1834. 8vo, 2 volumes in one, engraved plates, contemporary black half calf, spine gilt; Zschokke, Henrik. Schweiz, dess Folk, Klassika Ställen och Märkvärdigheter. Stockholm, [c.1840], 8vo, 72 engraved plates, contemporary maroon morocco-backed cloth; Bechstein, Ludwig. Wanderung durch Thuringen. Leipzig. Haendel’s Verlag. n.d. (c. 1835), 8vo, 30 engraved plates, original brown cloth-backed marbled boards, orange paper label; sold not subject to return (39)
Iraq Archive relating to surveying work conducted by A. L. Holt for the Cairo-Baghdad air route, 1. [Report on two Cairo-Baghdad air route reconnaissance missions], 1921. Typescript with manuscript annotations, 34 pp. (rectos and versos), describing 'The expedition to Ma' Dak Han' (oasis near Ramadi) and the 'First Ford expedition' ('The ostensible purpose was a political mission to Nuri ibn Shalan of the Rowallah tribe', p. 11), incidents include an encounter with Arab chieftain 'Faad ul Duchaim' ('He seemed to think that he ... should receive the same consideration and subsidy as his cousin Fahad Beg ibn Hadhal whose son had taken an active part against the Turks during the war', p. 30), 2 leaves of related manuscript notes attached; 2. '2nd Ford Reconnaissance on the Baghdad-Cairo Air Route, June 6th-16th', c.1921. Manuscript, 79 ff., begins 'Purposes of the Expedition. 1. To establish by ground and air No 4 landing ground at 200 miles from Ramadi, 2. To meet the Cairo reconnaissance party at L.G. 4 and pilot them to Baghdad', describes numerous encounters with locals, e.g. 'Met a crowd of Arabs on the move. These proved to be the people of Jiza ibn Bahr. Consulted Jiza ibn Bahr himself about a guide and he produced one Zumaitan ibn Matar who proved himself excellently acquainted with the country' (f. 23), 'Met a raiding party of Arabs about 100 strong under Mutlaq ibn Thamir going to raid the Beni Sabbar people' (f. 32), 'Arrived Al Mat. Found camped there one Sheikh Mishrif al Awagi (Suwailmat) with about fifty tents but no camels. The camels had been sent away to better grazing while he remained there to retain the right to the water' (f. 35), and the airlifting of wounded sheikh Murthi al Rifadi ('an excellent piece of propaganda', f. 61); 3. 'Short Diary of Instructions & Action Taken in Connection with the Aerial Route to be Constructed between Amman and Ramadi. From 13.3.21 to [30.6.21]', 7 September 1921. Typescript, 16 ff., marked 'confidential' on title; 4. 'Report on Desert Journey to Establish L[anding] G[round] 4', from the Assistant Divisional Adviser, Ramadi, to Major Holt, 22 June 1921. Carbon typescript, 4 ff., typescript covering note attached; 5. 'Names of Places'. Carbon typescript, 3 ff., containing names and description of topographical landmarks apparently in Iraq, e.g. 'Telel Ash Shaur - Two conspicuous hills. Name said to be derived from a big meeting of all the important desert Shaikhs held some time ago', manuscript corrections in pencil; 6. Holt, A. L. Baghdad-Amman Air Route. Report on Proposed Trans-Desert Highway for Mechanical Transport. Baghdad: printed by the superintendent, Railway Press, 1922. 3 copies, folio, each in original wrappers, 9 pp., 'Confidential. Report No. 1' printed on front covers. Together with similar items relating to Holt's work on other projects: 7. 'Iraq Railways. Proposed Baghdad Haifa Railway. Notes on Estimates Drawn up from Reconnaisance [sic] Surveys with Map of Proposed Route. District Engineer, Construction and Surveys, Baghdad' [cover-title], 24th April 1930. Carbon typescript, 8 [1] ff., folding cyanotype map printed on linen (33 x 120cm, manuscript captions in red, white and blue inks, discolouration around one fold), loose in captioned folder addressed to 'District Engineer, Construction and Surveys, Baghdad'; 8. 'Hit - Baiji - Kirkuk. Railway Reconnaisance [sic]', June 1931. Carbon typescript, 21 [2] ff., 2 folding cyanotype maps, secured with grommets, wrappers and one map detached, together with various typescript mileage tables in folder with similar title to preceding item addressed to 'A. L. Holt, District Engineer, Construction and Surveys, Baghdad'; 9. 'Bahra Agreement' [concerning the Iraq-Nejd border, parties comprising Sultan 'Abd al-'Aziz of Nejd and Sir Gilbert Clayton], c.1925. 3 ff., typescript, with 6 ff. related memoranda attached; 10. Folding lithographic map of proposed oil pipelines from Naft Khaneh, Iraq, to Tripoli and Haifa (34.5 x 63.5cm, coloured, untitled); 11. 'Port d'Alexandrette. Projet', folding lithographic map of Iskenderun, modern Turkey (65 x 75cm, coloured); 12. Typescript letter to the superintending engineer, Turkish Petroleum Co. Ltd, 1928, attaching manuscript petition in Arabic from overseer 'Hamadan' and response in English from surveyor Balbhadra Singh; all typescripts and manuscripts on rectos only of foolscap sheets unless otherwise stated, most secured with old paperclips or pins with consequent rust-marks (except items 2, 3 and 7: in loose sheets) (1 folder)Note: An engrossing collection of original documents shedding light on British efforts to establish control over the post-Ottoman Middle East in the aftermath of the Great War and the 1920 Iraqi Revolt. Plans for an air route between Cairo and Baghdad were originally drawn up in 1919 by Winston Churchill as secretary of state for air, in collaboration with Hugh Trenchard, marshal of the Royal Air Force. At the Cairo conference in March 1921, Churchill, now secretary of state for the colonies, reiterated the need for an imperial air network. ‘Preparations for the selection and marking of landing grounds across the Syrian Desert between Amman and Ramadi (on the Euphrates) had been made in March 1921, and in May, after aerial reconnaissance had ascertained the nature of the country, a Ford car convoy, supplied by air, was sent out to begin work. The progress made by June had firmly established the Cairo to Baghdad route for military purposes, and the regular air mail service, begun in August, was opened to the public by October … The chief strategic function of the air route was to move reinforcements between various theatres and hence to avoid expensive duplication. From the outset Trenchard imagined a single imperial air force, distributed like the navy in a number of fleets according to an overall plan, and linked by reliable air communications’ (Omissi, Air Power and Colonial Control: The Royal Air Force, 1919-1939, pp. 135-6). Major A. L. Holt (1896-1971) was a decorated former Royal Engineers officer who during the 1920s was employed by Iraq Railways and the Turkish Petroleum Company, and pioneered mechanised exploration in the region. In 1922 he was joined on an expedition to Wadi Sirhan by Harry St John Bridger Philby. His published works include ‘Some Journeys in the Syrian Desert’ (JRCAS, Vol. 10, No. 3, 1923), and ‘The Future of the North Arabian Desert’ (RGJ, Vol. 62, No. 4, October 1923). Nuri ibn Sha'lan, powerful chieftain of the Ruwallah tribe (see item 1), was the last major Arab leader to join the Arab Revolt. He was courted assiduously by T. E. Lawrence and the British military establishment, but his people's dependence on the markets of Damascus made him reluctant to declare firmly for either the Ottomans or the British, and after an encounter as late as June 1917 Lawrence concluded that practical support from the Ruwallah remained unlikely. In March 1918 Faisal instructed Nuri to open hostilities against the Ottomans and sent him payment of £25,000. Nuri's relations with the Ottomans disintegrated soon after. He declared war by August, and the next month led his forces in the Anglo-Arab advance on Damascus. (See Tauber, The Arab Movements in World War I, pp. 148-9.) Provenance: Apparently sometime in the personal collection of A. L. Holt (the lot including a large-format envelope addressed 'Major A. L. Holt, M.B.E, M.C., Iraq Railways, Baghdad, Iraq' and other indications of his ownership).
McLeod, John Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the oast of Corea, to the Island of London: John Murray, 1818. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, gilt stamp of Londonderry Public Library to front board, etched portrait frontispiece, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, light browning to margins and plates [Abbey Travel 559]; Medhurst, Walter H. China: its State and Prospects, with Especial Referenve to the Spread of the Gosepl. London: John Snow, 1838. First edition, third thousand, 8vo, original blind-stamped cloth, Baxtertype frontispiece, 5 wood-engraved plates, folding map, contemporary and near-contemporary gift inscriptions to title-page and front pastedown, bookplate (Duncan Darrock of Gourock), spine strengthened, variable spotting, repair to folding map verso, [Abbey Travel 539]; Smyth, William Henry, & F. Lowe. Narrative of a Journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the Amazon. London: John Murray, 1836. First edition, 8vo contemporary half calf, 10 lithographic or wood-engraved plates, 3 maps of which 2 folding, spotting to lithographic plates and adjacent text-leaves, non-folding map shaved along fore edge; Tennent, Sir J. Emerson. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon ... including a Monograph of the Elephant and a Description of the Modes of Capturing and Training it. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, recased and relined, wood-engraved plates and text-illustrations; Barneby, W. Henry. The New Far West and the Old Far East, being Notes of a Tour in North America, Japan, China, Ceylon, etc. London: Edward Stanford, 1889. First edition, 8vo, original maroon pictorial morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, 8 plates from photographs, 3 folding maps, inscribed 'Margaret C. Barneby, on her birthday, Nov 20th 1890, from her affec. father, the author' on the half-title, a few scuffs to binding; Buck, Edward J. Simla Past and Present. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1904. First edition, 4to, original cloth (recased), folding map, numerous plates (mainly photographic), laid-in albumen print photograph of Simla and carbon typescript headed 'Trial of Diwan Mul Raj (Governor of Multan), by Sita Ram Kohli, M.A. Punjab Government Publications' (5 ff.), marks to binding, text-block toned, occasional spotting (6)
Gall & Inglis (publishers) The Edinburgh Imperial Atlas Ancient and Modern, revised and corrected to the Present Time, from the Best Authorities. Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, c.1860. Folio (52.5 x 33.8cm), contemporary half morocco, wood-engraved title-page, letterpress title-page, 47 wood-engraved or lithographic maps, all hand-coloured, nearly all double-page, variable light offsetting from colouring, small tear in 'Asiatic Islands and New Holland', 19th-century ownership inscriptions to initial blankNote: The maps include Arabia, Persia, 'Hindostan', China and Japan, Canada and British North America, Islands of the Pacific Ocean, United States, and Australian Colonies and New Zealand.
North-West Passage Collection of travel narratives comprising: Franklin, Sir John. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. London: John Murray, 1823 [i.e. 1828]. 4to (27.5 x 21.2cm), 20th-century blue half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, 31 plates (including 9 hand-coloured aquatints, 2 hand-coloured engravings, the rest uncoloured engravings) and 4 engraved folding maps, plates offset, uncoloured engraved plates and adjacent text-leaves browned, maps mounted on linen stubs and somewhat spotted and offset, one map ('An Outline' with short closed tear to inner fold), manuscript date to title-page in blue ink [Abbey Travel 635; Nissen ZBI 1419; Sabin 25624]; Idem. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827. London: John Murray, 1828. 4to (27.5 x 21.2cm), 20th-century blue half morocco gilt uniform with the preceding work, 31 engraved plates, 6 engraved folding maps, light browning to plates, maps mounted on linen stubs, browning to 'Discoveries made by British Officers' map, variable light offsetting to others, repaired tears to text-leaves P4 and (in Appendix) d3, manuscript date to title-page in blue ink [Abbey Travel 635; Sabin 26228]; Parry, William Edward. Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. London: John Murray, 1821. 4to (27 x 20.5cm), 20th-century half calf, [8] xxix [3] 310 [5] iv-clxxix pp., 14 engraved or aquatint plates, 6 engraved charts (several folding), errata slip, Appendix sig. c1 folding, plates and charts variably spotted and offset, nos. 16-18 bound out of order, repaired closed tears in Y3 and 'Chart of ... Baffin's Bay' [Nissen ZBI 3096; Sabin 58860]; Idem. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. London: John Murray, 1824. 4to (27 x 20.5cm), 20th-century half calf uniform with the preceding work, [8] xxx [2] 571 [1] pp., 31 engraved or aquatint plates and charts including frontispiece, 4 engraved folding charts, 4 engraved folding plates of coastal profiles, variable spotting to plates and adjacent text-leaves [Sabin 58864] Ross, John. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. London: A. W. Webster, 1835. First edition, 4to (30.1 x 22.8cm), contemporary tan calf decoratively tooled in gilt and blind, 30 plates and maps (engraved, lithographic or mezzotint, several hand-coloured, 'Discoveries in the Arctic Regions' map folding; lacking 'Tulluachiu and Family' plate), errata leaf (not mentioned in Abbey), inscribed 'To ... Johan Gustav Roof with the authors best regards, June 1835, John Ross' on the title-page, front joint repaired, rear joint cracked, marginal repair to title-page, offsetting and marginal tissue-consolidation to 'Discoveries' map, spotting to a few plates [Abbey Travel 636; Nissen ZBI 3481; Sabin 73381] (5)Note: Second and first editions respectively of Franklin's two works. The second edition of the Narrative of a Journey is described as such in the Introduction (p. xiv), and is extended to 784 from 768 pp.; the title-page remains dated 1823, but it was 'presumably produced to accompany the second volume' on its appearance in 1828 (Abbey).
Palafox y Mendoza, Juan de The History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars Together with an Account of Several Remarkable Things, concerning the Religion, Manners, and Customes of both Nations, but especially of the latter ... now rendred [sic] English. London: printed by W. Godbid, and sold by M. Pitt, 1671. First edition in English, 8vo (16.5 x 10.5cm), modern calf ruled in blind, 4 pp. advertisements, early ownership inscription (Abraham Perrot) to title-page, light browning, variable spotting to margins and outer leaves, title-page slightly chipped, marginal hole in I3, final leaf silked, a few other marks [Cordier Sinica 627; ESTC R33642; Wing P200]
Pinelli, Bartolomeo Costumi diversi in no. 25 tavole Rome: Luigi Fabri, 1822. First edition, oblong folio (45 x 59.8cm), contemporary maroon half morocco gilt, etched title-page, 26 etched plates (presumably extra-illustrated with one plate from another work by Pinelli, not identified), light spotting; Idem. Nuova raccolta di cinquanta costumi pittoreschi. Rome: Giovanni Scudellari, 1817. First edition, oblong 4to (16.2 x 21.2cm), contemporary maroon half morocco gilt, etched title-page, 49 etched plates (of 50: lacking plate 38), contemporary ownership inscription 'David Dundas' (by family repute the British army officer Sir David Dundas, 1735-1820), occasional spotting (2)
Richardson, Sir John Arctic Searching Expedition A Journal of a Boat-Voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in Search of the Discovery Ships under Command of Sir John Franklin. With an Appendix on the Physical Geography of North America. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original brown cloth, titles gilt to spines, blind rules to spines and covers, viii 413, viii 426 pp., 10 lithographic colour plates including frontispieces, hand-coloured folding map, 32 pp. advertisements, very light fraying to spine-ends, damp-stain to frontispiece of volume 2, light marginal spotting to a few other plates, cloth tape reinforcement to inner hinges (possibly original) [Arctic Bibliography 14489; Sabin 71025; Stafleu & Cowan 9170] (2)Note: '[Richardson's] search for Franklin in 1847–9 was a model of careful planning and good execution, with no loss of life, no injuries, no shortages of food, and no lack of shelter. He shared the reasonable belief that some of Franklin's party survived the sinking of the Erebus and Terror and discovered the north-west passage before they died; and he argued for his old friend in The Times when McClure later claimed to have completed the discovery of the passage' (ODNB). The plates in the present work are mainly depictions of the Kutchin (Gwichʼin) people native to Alaska and Canada.
Island of Saint Helena Read, Lieut. R. P. Geographical Plan of the Island & Forts of Saint Helena... dedicated by permission to Field Marshall His R. Highness The Duke of Kent and Strathearn. London: J. & M. Rippin, 1817, 435 x 585mm, hand-coloured engraving, dissected and backed on linen, framed and glazed, a few small light dampstains
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Scotland Collection of pamphlets and proclamations, 17th-18th century including: [Monipennie, John]. Certayne Matters concerning the Realme of Scotland. London: for John Flasket, 1603. Second edition, 4to (18.1 x 13.2cm), 20th-century boards, spine defective, light browning, occasional staining, headlines often shaved, repairs to title-page (A1) and B1-2 obscuring a few letters, title page with contemporary annotations and a pen trial, final leaf N1/A2 with closed tear in gutter [ESTC S112838]; Hamilton, James, 1st Duke of Hamilton. [Incipit:] Whereas some have given out that by the Act of Councell [...]. Edinburgh: Robert Young, printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie, 1638. 4to (18.5 x 13.2cm), modern boards, typographic headpieces, woodcut initials, retaining final blank (C4), book-label of noted bibliographer F. S. Ferguson (1878-1967), slight toning [ESTC S103719]; Charles I. [Incipit:] Charles, by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith. To our lovits [blank] messengers, our sheriffs [...], greeting. Edinburgh: Robert Young, 1638. 4to (17.8 x 13cm), modern boards, woodcut headpiece (royal arms) and initial, F. S. Ferguson book-label [ESTC S116895]; Ward, Richard. The Analysis, and Application of the Sacred and Solemne League Covenant. London: J. Dollam, 1643. First edition, 4to (19.5 x 15.3cm), disbound, slightly dust-soiled, tide-mark to foot, edges nicked [ESTC R5685]; [Covenanters]. A True and Impartial Account of the Examinations and Confessions of the several Execrable Conspirators against the King and his Government in Scotland. London: Andrew Forrester, 1691. First edition, folio (28.7 x 18.7cm), disbound, final 2 leaves near detached and with closed tears [ESTC R21336]; [Medicine]. [Drop-head title:] Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session the Petition of John Monro Chirurgeon Apothecary in Edinburgh humbly sheweth that where in the competition betwixt your petition, as executor to the deceast Lieutenant Nisbet, and Janet Nisbet, executrix ... debated last week before the Lord Justice Clerk, 7 February 1701. Folio, 3 [1] pp., disbound, deckle edges, stitched together with an apparent continuation of the petition and 'Answers for Janet Nisebet and Peter Bell Merchant in Slagow her Husband ... to the Petition of John Monro against them], 2 and [2] pp., one with closed tear, [Defoe, Daniel]. Observations on the Fifth Article of the Treaty of Union, humbly offered to the Consideration of the Parliament, relating to Foreign Ships, [Edinburgh: no printer, 1706]. 4to (19.3 x 15.2cm), 20th-century quarter skiver, 4 pp., browned, bookplate of Robert A. S. Macfie (1868-1935), authority on the Roma [ESTC T55499: 10 UK copies, of which 7 in the National Library of Scotland]; Idem. A Short View of the Present State of the Protestant Religion in Britain, Edinburgh: [no printer], 1707. 8vo (18.4 x 11.4cm), 20th-century quarter skiver, a few page-numbers shaved, Macfie ownership inscription [ESTC T55491: 7 UK copies]; Almanac. Perth's True Almanack; or a New Prognostication for the Year of our Lord 1719 ... Calculated exactly (according to Art) for the Meridian of the Town of Perth ... by Mr. Patrick Stobie, Edinburgh: John Moncur, 1719. 8vo (14.8 x 9.4cm), A-B8, [32 pp.], eclipse woodcut on A4 r., detailed contemporary annotations to rear blanks, stitched in contemporary marbled wrappers (split along spine but remaining attached), final 2 leaves closely trimmed at head; and 12 others similar (these not collated), including 5 Acts of Parliament, 18th century (e.g. To prevent the infamous Practice of Stock-jobbing, 1734; For Settling and Establishing a Court of Exchequre in the North Part of Great Britain called Scotland, 1708; For rebuilding the Tron Church of the City of Glasgow [...], 1793, etc.; all disbound) (21)Note: Item 1 (Monipennie) was first published c.1594. Item 2 concerns the continuance of episcopal government in Scotland and was later published with other works as An Explanation of the Meaning of the Oath and the Covenant. No editions of The Petition of John Monro Chirurgeon Apothecary in Edinburgh or Perth's True Almanack traced in ESTC. The two Defoe pamphlets are notably rare in commerce.
Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, titles and pictorial vignettes in silver, all plates and maps as called for (including folding panorama and 3 folding maps in end-pocket), errata slip, bindings marked, browning to endpapers, very occasional light spotting, volume 2 frontispiece dog-eared; Scott, Robert F. The Voyage of the 'Discovery'. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, lacking plate facing volume 1 p. 137 (Mount Minto: Admiralty Range), spines toned, spotting; Idem. Scott's Last Expedition. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, all plates as called for (volume 2 with duplicate of the sketch map to face p. 284 bound in before p. 252), variable spotting, erosion to upper fore corners of volume 1 pp. 460 to end; Mill, Hugh Robert. The Life of Ernest Shackleton. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1933. 8vo, original cloth, 11 plates, inscribed 'Presented to Shackleton House, Hounslow College by Cecily Shackleton, 1938' on the front free endpaper, with a quotation from Robert Browning in the same hand (Cecily Shackleton, 1906-1957, was the daughter of Ernest), covers sunned; Nansen, Fridtjof. "Farthest North". London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial blue-green cloth gilt, all plates and maps as called for, closed tear in general map, Idem. In Northern Mists. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, tipped-in colour frontispieces, extremities rubbed, spines toned Amundsen, Roald. The South Pole. London: John Murray, 1912. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, incomplete (lacking at least the frontispiece in volume 1), covers marked, spotting, volume 2 front inner hinge cracked (13)
Kitchin, Thomas A General Atlas describing the whole Universe, being a Complete Collection of the Most Approved Maps Extant, corrected with the greatest care and augmented from the last edition of d'Anville and Robert... engraved on sixty-two plates, comprising thirty-seven maps. London: Robert Laurie and James Whittle, 1795. Folio, (538 x 367mm), 37 engraved map sheets, some double-page, some folding, most hand-coloured in outline, a few with areas hand-coloured, modern red half morocco, raised bands, lettered in gilt on spine, a few repairs, generally to versos, mostly comprising strengthening along folds, occasional very minor loss, small stains to title, some very light soiling
Switzerland, Germany and the Danube 5 volumes comprising: Beattie, William. Switzerland. Illustrated in a Series of Views. London: G. Virtue, 1836. 2 volumes, 4to, 2 engraved title-pages, folding map and, 106 engraved plates, contemporary half vellum, worn; Cockburn, Major. Swiss Scenery from Drawings by... London: Rodwell & Martin, 1820. 8vo, engraved title and 60 engraved plates, original boards, title somewhat spotted, occasional spotting, rebacked; Beattie, William. The Danube, its History, Scenery and Topography. London: Virtue, [c.1840], 4to, additional engraved title, portrait and 80 engraved plates, tissue guards, modern half calf retaining original marbled sides, some light spotting; Batty, Capt. Scenery of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland. London: R. Jennings, 1826. Large 8vo, engraved title and 61 engraved plates, tissue guards, contemporary red half morocco gilt, small dampstain to corner of title and plates at beginning, lightly rubbed (5)
Gentlemen's Seats Two works Hoare, Sir Richard Colt. A Collection of Forty-Eight Views of Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats, Towns, Castles, Churches, Monasteries and Romantic Places in North and South Wales, engraved by the most eminent artists. London: J. and J. Boydell, [1796]. Oblong 4to, 48 plates engraved by Ingleby, Griffith, Sandby and Byrne, contemporary dark blue full straight-grain morocco, finely gilt, “Cathedral” binding, front cover and title-page loose, spine partly attached, occasional light marginal foxing; Angus, William. The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry in Great Britain and Wales, in a Collection of Select Views. London: W. Angus, 1787. Oblong 4to, (280 x 210mm), engraved title page and 63 plates engraved by Angus after Nattes, Wheatley, Turner & others, contemporary calf gilt, red morocco label, armorial bookplate of Charles James Lucas (2)
Curtis, John British Entomology Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland. London: printed for the author and sold by E. Ellis and Co., 1823-40. 8 volumes, 8vo (24.2 x 14.5cm), 770 hand-coloured engraved plates, later crushed green half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, some fading to spines, some light offsetting from plates, some very occasional light foxing and spotting, neat corner repair to one plate in volume 7 not affecting image [Nissen ZBI 1000] (8)Provenance: 1) Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scottish-American industrialist and benefactor (bookplates). 2) Sir Alexander Stone (1907-1998), Scottish financier and benefactor.
Darwin, Charles Group of early editions London: John Murray, 1876-91. 6 works, all 8vo, original green cloth, light spotting to outer leaves, titles comprising: A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology, 1889, engraved frontispiece, 4 pp. advertisements, bookseller's ticket, front inner hinge partly cracked [Freeman 21]; The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 1891, first edition, fifth thousand, 32 pp. advertisements, bookseller's ticket to front pastedown [Freeman 226]; Insectivorous Plants. 1876, first edition, fourth thousand, errata slip, largely unopened, [Freeman 293]; The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom. Second edition, 1878, 32 pp. advertisements, partly unopened, head of spine and front cover smoke-damaged [Freeman 298]; The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits, 1881. First edition, fifth thousand (corrected), contemporary pencilled ownership inscription to initial blank [Freeman 321]; The Power of Movement in Plants, 1880. First edition, second thousand, 32 pp. advertisements, contemporary bookplate (George Evelyn Cower), cloth slightly marked [Freeman 312] (6)
Geology, botany, palaeontology Collection of works from the library of Richard G. West including: Forbes, James D. Travels through the Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain, with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1843. First edition, large 8vo, contemporary half calf, 13 lithographic plates (several tinted), 2 maps (one folding), spotting to frontispiece, title-page and folding map; Idem. Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1859. First edition, 8vo, contemporary diced tan calf, tinted lithographic frontispiece numbered VI*, 9 lithographic plates numbered I-IX (collation not established); Lewis, Henry Carvill. Papers and Notes on the Glacial Geology of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half pigskin, 10 maps (several folding); Woodward, Samuel. An Outline of the Geology of Norfolk. Norwich: John Stacy, 1833. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked, hand-coloured folding lithographic map as frontispiece, similar folding plate of geological cross-sections, 6 lithographic plates, bookplate of botanist and geologist Clement Reid (1853-1916); Wood, Searles V. A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, or, Descriptions of Shells from the Middle and Upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Vol. I. Univalves [Vol. II. Bivalves; Supplement ... Univalves and Bivalves; Second Supplement; Third Supplement]. London: for the Palaeontographical Society, 1848. First edition, 4 volumes in 3 (Second and Third Supplements issued as volume 4), 4to, contemporary half calf, inscribed 'Dr. Milne Edwards, from S. V. Wood, with Compts', numerous engraved plates; Hales, Stephen. Statistical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks; or, an Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables. London: W. Innys [and others], 1731. Second edition (first published in 1727), 8vo, contemporary calf, 19 engraved plates, bookplate of botanist Arthur George Tansley (1871-1955), rubbed, front joint cracked, occasional light browning, initial blank (with contemporary gift inscription) loose); Bates, Henry Walter. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. London: John Murray, 1864. Second edition, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, frontispiece, wood-engraved plates (counted in pagination and register), folding map; and 16 others, including Lyell, The Antiquity of Man, 1863 (third edition), Curtis, Practical Observations on the British Grasses, 1812 (fifth edition), Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants, 1829, and similar (25)Provenance: Professor Richard G. West FRS FGS (1926-2020), British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist, many works with his bookplate.
Houghton, William British Fresh-Water Fishes London: William Mackenzie, 1879. First edition, 2 volumes, folio, original red pictorial cloth gilt, 40 chromoxylographic plates (of 41); Grandville, J. J. Les metamorphoses du jour. Nouvelle édition. Paris: Garniere frères, 1869. Large 8vo, contemporary red quarter morocco, all edges gilt, 71 hand-coloured engraved plates including additional title-page, all showing anthropomorphic animals, tissue-guards, occasional light spotting; Idem. Les fleurs animées. Nouvelle édition. Paris: Garnier frères, c.1870. 2 volumes, large 8vo, contemporary red quarter morocco, green vellum tips, 54 hand-coloured engraved plates including additional title-pages (all but 2 hand-coloured), variable spotting; [Darton & Co., publishers]. [The Child's Own Book of Animals], c.1847. Oblong folio, original cloth, recased, title-page discarded, 12 hand-coloured lithographic plates each with leaf of descriptive text, binding sunned and marked, plates slightly toned and spotted, a few text-leaves nicked or frayed; Jardine, Sir William. British Salmonidae. London: Decimus, 1979. Facsimile edition, one of 500 copies, large folio, original quarter morocco, colour plates, slipcase; and 2 others on angling (9)
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