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Light Horse Volunteers (London & Westminster)George III Officer flat gilt coatee button circa 1779. A splendid example. FORWARD over Lion of England clutching a crowned oval shield inscribed with GR cypher, 1780 flanked; LHV below. Approx. 24 mm . Shank . VGC Originally raised in August 1779 upon the threat of French invasion. The first enrolled was Charles Herries, afterwards Colonel of the regiment.
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Light Horse Volunteers George III Officer flat gilt coatee button circa 1779-1814. A splendid example. FORWARD over Lion of England clutching a crowned oval shield inscribed with GR cypher; LHV cypher below. Mold line. Approx. 24 mm Gibson & Jacks, London . Shank . VGC Originally raised in August 1779 upon the threat of French invasion. The first enrolled was Charles Herries, afterwards Colonel of the regiment.
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Scottish. 9th Bn. Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Highlanders) HLI Officer glengarry badge circa 1908-39. Fine scarce die-stamped silvered Thistle star bearing applied title scrolls and mounted with gilt thistle sprays and crowned oval bearing motto (LACESSIT) with Sphinx below. Central silvered St.Andrew and Cross. . Loops . VGC
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Royal Marine Light Infantry Victorian helmet plate circa 1878-1901. Good die-stamped brass crowned star bearing laurel sprays, GIBRALTAR, fouled anchor and strung bugle below. Central circlet PER MARE PER TERRAM with the globe in relief to centre. . Loops . Minor service wear, light verdigris to reverse. GC
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Scottish. 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot Victorian Officer helmet plate circa 1878-81. Good scarce gilt crowned star mounted with laurel sprays and Garter, the green velvet centre with gilt coiled bugle; 71 in the coil. . Three loops . Nap of velvet worn. GC 71st (Highland) (Light Infantry) became 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry on Friday 1st July 1881
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South African Light Horse Boer War sheet brass slouch hat badge circa 1899-1902. Good Maltese cross example. Arms bearing SALH initials, 1899 to centre. (Owen 661). . Original wire loops . GC Raised 8.11.1899 under Lt.Col. Hon. J.H.G. Byng, Known as The Sakabulas from the black tail feathers of that bird worn in the slouch hats.
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Edwards (Sydenham). The New Botanic Garden, illustrated with one hundred and thirty-three plants, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Stockdale, 1812, half titles, 61 fine hand-coloured engraved plates by F. Sansom after Sydenham Edwards, some light offsetting to text, endpapers spotted, all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grained green morocco gilt, some fading to spines, a little rubbed and scuffed, 4toQty: (2)NOTESDunthorne 107; Nissen BBI 480. The plates were originally produced for R.W. Dickson's A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening, 1805-07.
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Bukh?r? (Mu?ammad ibn Ism???l). Le Recueil des Traditions Mahométanes, par Abou Abdallah Mohammed ibn Ismaîl el-Bokhâri, publié par M. Ludolf Krehl, 4 volumes, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1862-1908, half-titles, light occasional spotting, volume 3 title marked, some offsetting of gold border and calligraphy to rear blanks, mild toning to preliminaries, contemporary quarter calf over speckled boards, titles in gilt to spine, raised bands, small stickers to spines of two volumes, extremities rubbed, 4toQty: (4)NOTESA scarce, complete set of this work in a contemporary binding. Has only appeared complete once at auction. The fourth volume was published decades later and here is contemporaneously bound to style. From the library of Edward Henderson (1917-1995), British diplomat and Ambassador to Qatar. The work is a compilation of around 7,000 traditions of the acts and sayings of the Prophet which is said to have taken the author 16 years to complete.
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Hueffer (Ford Madox). On Heaven and poems written on active service, 1st edition, London: The Bodley Head, 1918, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper, publishers original blue cloth, 8vo, together with: Paul (John Dean), The Man Of Ton, a satire, 1st edition, London: Henry Colburn, 1828, some minor spotting & toning, publishers original wrappers with paper label to the front cover, spine rubbed with loss, 8vo Laver (James), A Stitch in Tine; or Pride Prevents a Fall, London: Nonesuch Press, 1927, front endpaper inscribed by the author, plus a handwritten letter on headed notepaper by the author to Lady Methuen, some light marginal toning, publishers marbled boards, slightly rubbed, 8vo, and other 19th-century & modern literature & history reference, including Lines written at Ampthill Park, in the Autumn of 1818, by Henry Luttrell, London: John Murray, 1819, 8vo, mostly original cloth G/VG, 8voQty: (6 shelves )
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Mary Rose. Narrative of the loss of the Mary Rose, at Spithead, July 20, 1545, from original manuscripts, &c. &c., 1st edition, Portsea: S. Horsey, Sen, 1842, 96 pages, some ink marks to title and few other leaves mostly towards rear of volume, light browning, dust-soiling and damp staining, front free endpaper discarded, all edges gilt (rubbed), original polished wooden boards (using timber recovered from the Mary Rose), sheep spine, 32mo (9 x 5.3 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESScarce. Only one UK institutional location for this edition found (British Library). A history of the ship's demise first published by Samuel Horsey in 1842; a second edition appeared in 1849, also bound in wood salvaged from the wreck.
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Pugin (Augustus). Specimens of the Architecture of Normandy, from the XIth to the XVIth Century, London: Blackie & Son, 1874, additional engraved title and numerous plates, light scattered spotting, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 4to, together with: King (Edward). Munimenta Antiqua; or, observations on antient castles. Including remarks on the whole progress of architecture, ecclesiastical, as well as military, in Great Britain..., 3 vols., 1799-1804, frontispieces lacking and numerous plates removed, some text leaves detached, contemporary calf, some boards detached, worn, folio, together with other miscellaneous books etc. including volumes 4 & 6 of Morris's British Birds (lacking some plates), volume 3 only of Omerod's History of Chester 1819 (plates removed), an early 19th century album containing a small selection of watercolour views, studies and pencil drawings etc., and a 19th century naive oil painting on tin of a man on horseback capturing a tiger (26.5 x 22.5 cm)Qty: (a carton)NOTESSold with all faults, not subject to return.
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North-West Frontier. Routes in Chitral, Gilgit & Kohistan, 4th edition, General Staff, India, 1941. printed by the manager, Government of India Press, Simla, copy no. 247, 1942, 485 pp., large folding route map contained in rear pocket, original cord-bound cloth-backed printed boards, shelf number pasted at foot, a little light spotting, some edge wear, 8voQty: (1)NOTESRare. Issued by the Intelligence Department for official use only by the Government of India as a practical military and political handbook of this region of the North-West Frontier and Afghanistan. Sources were officers in the field and their clandestinely-employed local tribesmen. The work, along with other tribal monographs, route books and military reports were classified and subject to strict rules of custody. It was also ordered that when a new edition of a particular work appeared all previous editions had to be destroyed. As a result these works survive in very few locations. (Finding Aid. British Intelligence Files on Afghanistan and its Frontiers, c. 1888-1946, IDC Publishers, 2003).
![[Simond, Louis]. Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, during the years 1810 and 1811, by a French Traveller, 2 v](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/27b5cdfc-fc3c-49b1-9e32-ada600c31087/14294b7f-a35e-4d21-8c84-adad00ad2e21/468x382.jpg)
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[Simond, Louis]. Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, during the years 1810 and 1811, by a French Traveller, 2 volumes, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., 1815, half-titles, 21 sepia aquatint plates including frontispieces, few engraved illustrations, two folding tables, light toning, front endpaper & half-title of volume 2 slightly damp stained to margins, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines, upper joints of each neatly repaired, 8vo, together with: Gilpin (William), Observations on several parts of the counties of Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex. Also on several parts of North Wales; relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, in two tours, the former made in the year 1769. The latter in the year 1773, London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1809, 20 sepia aquatint plates, bound with ibid., Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales, & c. relative chiefly to picturesque beauty: made in the summer of the year 1770, 5th edition, London: T. Cadell Junior and W. Davies, 1800, 17 sepia aquatint plates, contemporary tree calf, rebacked preserving original gilt-decorated spine, upper joint split at head, 8voQty: (3)
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Osbaldiston (William Augustus). The British Sportsman; or Nobleman, Gentleman, and Farmer's Dictionary of Recreation and Amusement, 3rd edition, London: for the proprietor for W. Lewis, 1812, 42 hand-coloured engraved plates, occasional minor spotting, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 4to, together with Howitt (Samuel). Groups of Animals containing forty-four plates, drawn from life and etched by Samuel Howitt, London: Edward Orme, 1811, 45 uncoloured etchings on 44 sheets, some light spotting and offsetting, water stain to a few plates, previous owner signature, contemporary diced calf, rebacked, a little rubbed and scuffed, 4to, with other natural history including John T. Boswell Syme's English Botany; or coloured figures of British Plants, volumes I & IX only, (of 12), 3rd edition, 1863-69, 5 volumes of Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History, 1792-1807, Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne, 2 volumes, new edition, 1825, and P. Fisher's The Angler's Souvenir, 1835Qty: (12)NOTESSold as a collection of plates not subject to return.
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Horner (Gordon). For You the War is Over, 1st edition, London: privately published for the author by the Falcon Press, 1948, signed by the author to the preface, 12 tipped-in colour plates plus numerous monochrome illustrations, original boards in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed with minor repaired tears, oblong 4to, together with: Reid (James), The Life Of Christ in Woodcuts, 1st edition, London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1930, numerous black & white woodcuts, some light spotting, publishers original boards with black cloth spine, boards & spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo Boccacio (Giovanni), Thirteene Most Pleasaunt and Delectable Questions,...limited edition, London: Peter Davies, 1927, pencil annotations to the front pastedown, some light spotting & toning, publishers original boards, slightly rubbed with minor loss to the head & foot of the spine, 8vo, limited edition of 525 un-numbered copies, and other modern history reference, including publications by the Universities of Oxford, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Liverpool, & The Lonsdale Library, Athlone Press, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, some paperbacks, some odd volumes, some ex-library with associated marks, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (6 shelves)
![Bible [Latin]. Biblia Sacra vulgatae editionis, 7 volumes, Paris: Fredericum Leonard, 1705, engraved title to volume 7 with i](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/27b5cdfc-fc3c-49b1-9e32-ada600c31087/02117c11-1a9f-49f9-a35c-ada600fe15d8/468x382.jpg)
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Bible [Latin]. Biblia Sacra vulgatae editionis, 7 volumes, Paris: Fredericum Leonard, 1705, engraved title to volume 7 with imprint date of 1697, one folding engraved map, light toning, bookplates of D. de Sambucy and Robert J. Hayhurst to front endpaper of first volume, all edges gilt, contemporary red crushed morocco, elaborate gilt-decorated spines and gilt-ruled borders to boards, joints and extremities slightly rubbed, 16mo in 8sQty: (7)
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Guicciardini (Francesco). The History of Italy, From the year 1490, to 1532, 10 volumes, 1st English language edition, London: printed by John Towers, 1753-56, Lord Camden bookplates to the front pastedowns, some light toning, marks & wear, tear from the margin to the middle of pp.151, some cracked guttering, contemporary uniform mottled full calf with gilt decorated red & green calf spine labels, boards & spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: Boccaccio (Giovanni), Delle Opere Di M. Giovanni Boccacci cittadino fiorentino,..., 4 volumes, Florence: con licenza de' Superiori, 1723, previous owner blind stamps & inscriptions to the front endpapers, some minor toning & spotting, contemporary uniform full vellum, boards & spines slightly rubbed & toned, 8vo Manuscript. Indice Dei Libri Esistenti nell' Archivio del Monte Comune, circa 1825, a neatly handwritten manuscript in Italian containing 152 numbered & 11 un-numbered sheets, presentation bookplate to the front pastedown, some light spotting, toning & offsetting, some ink corrosion to the title page & verso, contemporary full vellum, boards & spine slightly rubbed & marked, folio, and other 18th & 19th-century reference & literature, including 2 volumes of bound miscellaneous late 19th & early 20th-century pamphlets, mostly original leather, some vellum bindings, some Latin & foreign language, overall condition generally G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (3 shelves)
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Aldin (Cecil). A Gay Dog, the story of a foolish year, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1905, 24 colour plates, period inscription to the front pastedown, some light marginal spotting & offsetting, publishers original illustrated boards, boards & spine slight rubbed & marked, 4to, together with: Tennant (Dudley [illustrator]), Poems of Passion and Pleasure, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, London: Gay & Hancock, circa 1910, 20 tipped-in colour plates with tissue paper guards, some light toning & minor spotting, top edge gilt, publishers original gilt decorated white cloth, boards & spine very lightly marked, large 8vo Bewick (Thomas [illustrator]), Our Summer Migrants..., by J. E. Harting, 1st edition, London: Bickers and Son, 1875, black & white illustrations, some marginal toning, top edge gilt, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, and other late 19th & early 20th-century illustrated literature, including The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night, by Richard F. Burton, volumes 1-10, Supplemental Nights, volumes 1-7, Shammar edition, circa 1900, printed by The Burton Club, 526/1000, 8vo, mostly original gilt decorated cloth, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves )NOTESFrom the Methuen Library, Corsham Court.
![Thompson (Hugh [illustrator]). The Story of Rosina, and other verses, by Austin Dobson, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner &](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/27b5cdfc-fc3c-49b1-9e32-ada600c31087/546d3c0f-890a-4efa-b0e1-ada600fe532d/468x382.jpg)
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Thompson (Hugh [illustrator]). The Story of Rosina, and other verses, by Austin Dobson, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1895, bookplate to front pastedown, together with: Days with Sir Roger de Coverley, a reprint from "The Spectator", London: Macmillan and Co., 1892, Our Village, by Mary Russell Mitford, London: Macmillan & Co., 1983, period inscription to the half-title, The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith, reprint edition, London: Macmillan & Co., 1894, all with black & white illustrations, some light toning, all edges gilt, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with other late 19th & early 20th-century illustrated literature, including G. A. Henty, Bertram Mitford, Charles Gilson, & The Works of R. L. Stevenson, 20 volumes, Pentland limited edition, London: Cassell and Company, 1909, 1361/1550, 8vo, all in original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (4 shelves)
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Rottiers (Bernard Eugene Antoine). Monumens de Rhodes, Atlas only, Brussels, 1828, lithograph title, map and 74 engraved and lithographed plates only (of 75, lacking plate 5), a few hand-coloured, one or two short closed marginal tears, a few light spots, modern cloth with original title mounted to upper cover (title a little soiled with repaired tears), oblong folioQty: (1)NOTESBlackmer 1450.
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Reynolds (Joshua). The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, knt. ... containing his Discourses, Idlers, A journey to Flanders and Holland, and his commentary on Du Fresnoy's art of painting; printed from his revised copies, (with his last corrections and additions), to which is prefixed an account of the life and writings of the author, by Edmond Malone, 2 volumes, London: T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies, 1797, half-titles present, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, occasional light scattered spotting, 19th century calf, gilt decorated spines, rubbed and light wear, 4to, together with: Ballantine (James), The Life of David Roberts, R.A. compiled from his journals and other sources, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1866, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece and nine etched plates, illustrations to text, occasional scattered spotting and offsetting, armorial bookplate of Joseph Gundry to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary red half morocco, gilt decorated spine, extremities slightly rubbed, 4to, Edwards (Edward), Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born in England..., intended as a continuation to the Anecdotes of Painting by the late Horace Earl of Orford, London: Leigh & Sotheby, 1808, half-title (creased), light scattered spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco, gilt decorated spine, worn, 4to, with two others, Catalogue de la collection célèbre de tableaux de feu M. Jean Jules Angerstein ... notices historiques et biographiques par Jean Young..., London: J. Young, Hurst, Robinson & Co., 1823; and Memoir of the Life of William James Müller..., by N. Neal Solly, London: Chapman & Hall, 1875Qty: (6)
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* Stamps - Great Britain. 1840 1d Black (H F / H G), horizontal pair, shaved at base of right stamp otherwise good margins all round, small black ink mark upper left corner. Red MX cancels. SG 2 (£750+), together with: 1840 1d Black (L E), four good to very large margins, red MX. SG 2 (£375); 1840 1d Black (Q H), four good to large margins, light red MX. SG 2 (£375); 1840 1d Black (N F), four good margins, light red MX, small stain lower right. SG 2 (£375)Qty: (4)
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Nansen (Fridtjof). Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96, 2 volumes, 1st English edition, London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897, 4 folding colour maps, colour and monochrome illustrations, some light spotting, original cloth gilt, a couple of corners bumped, spine ends a little rubbed, 8voQty: (2)
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Aldin (Cecil). Dogs of Character, 1st edition, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1927, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper, some light spotting & marginal toning, top edge gilt, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed & marked with some loss to the spine, 8vo, together with other modern fiction &1st editions, including Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Ian Banks, Susan Hill, Haruki Murakami, plus approximately 60 Penguin paperbacks, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8voQty: (6 shelves )
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Black's Colour Guides. London to the Nore, Painted and Described by W. L. and Mrs M. A. Wyllie, London: A. & C. Black, 1905, colour plates, top edge gilt, original pictorial cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed, together with 8 other Black's Colour Guides, including The Thames, by Mortimer Mempes and G. E. Mitton, 8vo, Holland by Nico & Beatrix Jungman, 8vo, all original pictorial cloth, together with; Austen (Winifred, Illustrator), Birds Ashore and Aforshore, by Patrick Chalmers, 1st edition, London: Collins, 1935, 16 colour illustrations, some light spotting, publishers original gilt decorated blue cloth, boards & spine lightly faded with some minor marks, large 4to, plus Woburn Library, Salt-Water Fish, byF. G. Aflalo & R. B. Marston, London: Hutchinson & Co, 1904, 17 colour plates, British Fresh-Water Fishes, by Herbert Maxwell, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1904, 12 colour plates plus 3 black & white illustrations, period inscription to the front endpaper, both with some light spotting & toning, top edges gilt, publishers original uniform gilt decorated green cloth, some minor rubbing to the spines, 8vo, and Reynolds (Frank, illustrator), Mr Pickwick, London: Hodder and Stoughton, circa 1920, 25 tipped-in colour plates with paper guards, some light spotting throughout, publishers original gilt decorated red cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, plus other illustrated literature and similar, mostly early 20th century, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, 8vo/4toQty: (Approximately 55)
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Bewick (Thomas). A General History of Quadrupeds, 1st edition, Newcastle: S. Hodgson, R. Beilby & T. Bewick, 1790, wood-engraved illustrations, a little light spotting and stains, contemporary previous owner signature and inscription of Richard West to title and front endpaper, contemporary calf, rebacked, original spine relaid with modern label, 8vo, together with A History of British Birds (Land/Water), 2 volumes, Newcastle: Edward Walker for Thomas Bewick, 1816, titles with wood-engraved vignettes, wood-engraved illustrations, occasional spotting, previous owner signature, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked, original spines relaid, 8voQty: (3)NOTESRoscoe 1b, 22 & 23.
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Duret (Theodore). Manet and the French Impressionists, 1st edition, London: Grant Richards, 1910, 40 monochrome illustrations with tissue guards, some toning & spotting throughout, top edge gilt, publishers original blue cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 4to, together with; Sadleir (Thomas U. & Page L. Dickinson), Georgian Mansions In Ireland..., limited edition, Dublin: University Press, 1915, period inscription by 'T. U. Sadlier' dated 29th April 1915 to the front endpaper, 80 monochrome plates plus black & white in-text illustrations, some light toning, publishers original illustrated cloth, boards & spine lightly faded & rubbed, large 4to, 359/700, plus Laughton (Bruce), Philip Wilson Steer [Oxford Studies in the History of Art and Architecture], 1st edition, Oxford: University Press, 1971, numerous monochrome illustrations, some minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, and Pennell (Joseph), Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen..., 3rd edition, London: Macmillan & Company, 1897, 392 monochrome illustrations, some light marks & marginal toning, later endpapers, later gilt decorated full calf bound by Langstone, boards slightly warped, large 4to, plus other art, antique & architecture reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperback editions, 8vo/4toQty: (Approximately 55)
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Johnstone (Christian Isobel). Clan-Albin: A National Tale, 4 volumes, 2nd edition, London: printed for Longman, Hurst..., 1815, marginal loss to pp.9 of volume 1, some light toning, spotting & offsetting throughout, all in publishers original uniform blue boards & paper spines, volume 1 spine repaired with tape, boards & spines rubbed & marked with minor loss to head & foot, 8vo, together with; Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, Philosophy In Sport made Science in Earnest; being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of popular toys and sports, 3 volumes, new edition, London, 1831, black & white illustrations, some light spotting, publishers original uniform brown boards, tear to the foot of volume I spine, boards & spines slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8voQty: (7)NOTESFrom the Methuen Library, Corsham Court.
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Springett (Bernard H.). Secret Sects of Syria and Lebanon, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1922, ownership inscription of 'E. F. Henderson, Haifa, 12.12.45' to front endpaper, original brown cloth gilt, some damp marking to covers, in slightly rubbed and discoloured dust wrapper, together with: McPherson (J. W.). The Moulids of Egypt (Egyptian Saints-days), with a foreword by Professor E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Cairo, N. M. Press, 1941, numerous monochrome illustrations after photos, etc., author's engraved bookplate to front pastedown, inscribed 'with the Author's Compliments & greetings! J. W. McPherson', original half blue-green cloth, rubbed and some marks, 8vo, plus: Lawrence (T. E.). Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1st US edition, Garden City, Doubleday, 1935, numerous illustrations & maps, some light toning to endpapers, original cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed in frayed and somewhat darkened dustwrapper, 4to, and others similar on the Middle East, Arabic language, Palestine, etc. including: John Glubb Pasha, Story of the Arab Legion, 1st edition, 1948, H. R. P. Dickson, Kuwait, and her Neighbours, 2nd impression, 1968 & The Arab of the Desert, a glimpse into Badawin Life in Kuwait and Sau'di Arabia, 5th impression, 1972, Hans Wehr, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, edited by J. Milton Cowan, 3rd printing, 1971, Robert John & Sami Hadawi, The Palestine Diary, 2 volumes, New York, New World Press, 2nd printing 1971, Walid Khalidi, From Haven to Conquest, readings in Zionism and the Palestine problem until 1948, 1st edition 1971, Eugene Hoade, East of the Jordan, Jerusalem, 1954, etc.Qty: (60)NOTESFrom the library of Edward Henderson (1917-1995), British diplomat and Ambassador to Qatar.
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Manning (Eliza F.). Little Pinafore's Scrap Book, 1st edition, London: Bernhard Ollendorff, 1885, 100 colour illustrations, period inscription to the head of the title page, some light toning & spotting, publishers original illustrated boards with blue cloth spine, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 4to, together with: Day (Elizabeth [editor]), The Little Ones Own, London: Dean & Son, circa 1880, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, some light marks & toning, publishers original illustrated boards with blue cloth spine, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo Attwell (Mabel Lucie [illlustrator]), The Water-Babies, by Charles Kingsley, London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, circa 1910, 12 colour plates plus numerous black & white illustrations, some minor marks & toning, publishers original illustrated boards with red cloth spine, lightly rubbed, 8vo, and other 19th-century & modern illustrated 7 juvenile literature, including The Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1895, oblong 4to, A New History of England..., London: printed for J. Newberry, 1761, small 8vo, &Y works by Arthur Rackham, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Robinson, Edward Ardizzone, Edmund Dulac, sone leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperbacks G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (5 shelves )
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Virgil. Virgilius [Opera], Paris: Simonem Colinaeum, 1542, 239 + [1] leaves, title within woodcut border and with ownership signature, final blank present, faint red ruled borders throughout, occasional marks mostly to initial leaves, 20th century bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to upper pastedown, all edges gilt, 18th century maroon morocco, gilt decorated spine, light wear to extremities, 16mo in 8s, together with: Florus (Lucius Annaeus), Rerum Romanarum libri quatuor..., Rotterdam: Arnoldi Leers, 1670, additional engraved title, woodcut to letterpress title, light damp staining, without front free endpaper, bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to upper pastedown, contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated spine, damp staining (darkening) to lower quarter of binding, 12mo, Horace (& Minellius, Johannes), [Opera] Quinti Horatii Flacci Poemata : Cum Commentariis Joh. Min-Ellii, Rotterdam: Arnoldi Leers, 1677, additional engraved title, woodcut to letterpress title, bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to upper pastedown, contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated spine, 12mo, Horace, ex recensione D. Heinsii et T. Fabri ac variant. lection. Bentleii & Sanadonis, Amsterdam: Jac. Wetstenium, 1743, engraved title with armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Littleton Bt. to verso, bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, light cracking to lower board, 16mo in 8sQty: (4)
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Holder (William). A Discourse Concerning Time, with Application of the Natural Day and Lunar Month, and Solar Year, as Natural; and as such are derived from them; as Artificial Parts of Time, for Measures in Civil and Common Use, 2nd edition, Phil. Monkton, 1701, advert leaf at rear, a little light damp staining to upper edges of final leaves, modern antique-style panelled calf, 8voQty: (1)NOTESFirst published in 1694 and with a third edition published in 1712.
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Dickens (Charles). The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1st edition in book form, later issue (apparently second issue) with 14 line errata, London: Chapman & Hall, 1844, half-title, additional engraved title and 38 plates (including frontispiece), some plates strengthened to verso, browning and spotting, contemporary half calf, black morocco title label, upper joint split at head & foot, extremities worn, 8vo, together with: Clarke (James Stanier & M'Arther, John), The Life and Services of Horation Viscount Nelson ... from His Lordship's manuscripts, 3 volumes, London: Fisher, Son & Co., circa 1840, engraved portrait frontispieces, addition engraved titles and numerous plates, some toning and scattered spotting, contemporary calf, black morocco title labels to spines, some splitting to joints, spines rubbed, 8vo, Ladies' Pocket Magazine, 4 parts in 2 volumes, London: Joseph Robins, 1829 & 1830, engraved frontispieces, engraved titles and numerous plates (including hand-coloured fashion plates), some browning, light damp stains and scattered spotting, contemporary half calf, joints cracked, worn, 12mo in 6s, Sherlock (William), A Practical Discourse concerning a future judgment..., 10th edition, London: J. Walthoe, Sen., J. & J. Knapton, [& others], 1731, advert leaf before title, light toning and scattered spotting, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked and wear to extremities, 8vo, plus other miscellaneous books, including antiquarian, leather bindings and school prize bindings etc.Qty: (a carton)
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Bewick (Thomas). British Land Birds/British Water Birds/The Figures of Bewick's Quadrupeds, 3 volumes, Newcastle: printed by Edward Walker, 1824-25, British Land Birds with title vignette, 156 wood-engraved leaves, each numbered in manuscript top right (134 numbered twice) and mostly named in English and Latin at lower margins in a neat contemporary hand, 6 wood-engravings with contemporary hand-colouring, a couple with additional information, i.e. wood-engraving numbered 148, Corncrake, 'Cold. from a fine specimen killed by W. Jordan Esq., wt. 8 oz. Tabley 2nd Sept. 1825', plate numbered 142 with some light offsetting, blank interleaves; British Water Birds with title vignette, 146 wood-engraved leaves, most named in contemporary manuscript at lower margins, including 9 hand-coloured, blank interleaves; The Figures of Bewick's Quadrupeds, 2nd edition, 1824 with title vignette, 224 wood-engraved leaves, blank interleaves, each volume without the text leaves as issued, occasional light spotting overall, some light offsetting to interleaves, bookplates of S.E. Widdrington, hinges reinforced, uniformly bound in contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, skillfully rebacked with original spines relaid, spines slightly faded, 4toQty: (3)NOTESRoscoe 43, 44 & 12. Each volume a limited edition of 100 copies. A handsome set. Roscoe quotes a letter from Bewick to J.F.M. Dovaston, dated 26 November 1825, in which he states 'I, last summer printed 100 Sets 4to of Birds & Quadrupeds, without Type for the sole use of Artists (& when interleaved) of Naturalists...'.
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Pope (Alexander). The Works of Alexander Pope, in Verse and Prose, 8 volumes bound in 4, London: printed for Nichols and Son & others, 1812, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I (offsetting to title), press cutting at front, some light spotting, previous owner inscriptions, contemporary half calf, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Shakespeare (William). Shakespeare's Histories & Poems, Tragedies, Comedies, 3 volumes, London: J.M. Dent, 1925, photogravure illustrations by E.J. Sullivan, contemporary red half calf by Riviere and Son, spines a little darkened and rubbed, 8vo, plus seven others leather-bound including Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, 1875 (bound by Bickers and Son), Oxford Illustrated Dictionary, 1962 (bound by Hatchards), Lord Rosebery's Chatham. His early life and connections, 1910 (bound by the Times Book Club) and Reginald Lewis's George II. and His Ministers, 1910Qty: (14)
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Landscape Annual. Jennings' Landscape Annual for 1835 - The Tourist in Spain. Granada, by Thomas Roscoe, illustrated from drawings by David Roberts, London: Robert Jennings & Co., 1835, engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title, 29 engraved plates on India paper, few wood engraved illustrations, occasional light spotting, armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick to upper pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary green morocco, spine slightly faded, 8vo, together with: Hughes (John), Views in the south of France, chiefly on the Rhone; engraved by W.B. Cooke, and J.C. Allen, from drawings by P. Dewint. After original sketches by John Hughes ... with descriptions, London: W.B. Cooke, 1825, 24 engraved plates, occasional light spotting to plates, front free endpaper inscribed 'Cecil Elizabeth Drummond from Lady Liverpool, 1840' and front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Algernon Heneage Drummond, contemporary dark brown half sheep, marbled sides, spine and extremities rubbed, slim 4toQty: (2)
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Chesney (Francis Rawdon). Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition carried on by order of the British Government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1868, 45 lithograph plates, most tinted, a few folding, 2 maps (one folding with splits along folds in rear pocket), 24 pp. advertisements at end, a little light spotting and offsetting, contemporary ownership signature of C.F. Staunton M.D. at head of title, his inscription to half title, endpapers renewed, original cloth, spine faded and repaired at ends, a little rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESAtabey 236: "This is the concluding portion of Chesney's account of the Euphrates Expedition, not a later edition of the first part. In addition to the reconstructed section of Chesney's original manuscript which had been lost in the 1830's, it contains the journals of Captain Charlewood and of General J.B.B. Estcourt, an account of Helfer's visit to the Arabian desert, and Ainsworth's account of Constantinople." Not in Abbey or Blackmer.
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Smith (John Thomas). Vagabondiana; or, anecdotes of mendicant wanderers through the streets of London; with portraits of the most remarkable, drawn from the life, London: Published for the Proprietor; and sold by Messrs. J. and A. Arch, Mr Hatchard & Mr Clarke, 1817, half-title, additional etched title with contemporary hand-colouring, letterpress title in red & black within diamond ruled lozenge, 54 etched plates, few illustrations to text, scattered spotting, occasional light damp stains to upper margins, top edge gilt, contemporary half calf, marbled sides, joints cracked, extremities rubbed, large 4toQty: (1)
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* Brooke (Harriet). British Wild Flowers in their Seasons, from drawings by Harriet Brooke, executed by M. and D. Hanhart, 1855, together 12 hand-finished chromolithograph plates (one for each month of the year), each with highly decorative foliate borders and verse within, occasional light spotting & toning, minor marginal damp stain, 43.5 x 37cm, framed & glazedQty: (12)
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