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EDWARDIAN ART NOUVEAU INLAID MAHOGANY OCCASIONAL TABLE shaped top above four central drop down circular wine coasters, 45 x 45cmsOne wine coaster has a crack down the middle, the crack is only on the inside and has not gone right through to the other side, all the other coasters look good.General wear to the top, i.e. light surface scratches.
After Laurence Stephen Lowry R.A. (British, 1887-1976), "The Two Brothers", signed in pencil in the margin, with Fine Art Trade Guild blindstamp, from an edition of 850, published by Adam Collection Ltd, colour reproduction print, image size 60.5 x 30.5cm, 23.75 x 12in.Artists’ Resale Right (“droit de suite”) may apply to this lot. Condition report: The print is in good, original condition with strong colours and no obvious faults to report. There is some very light time staining and yellowing around the edge of the print near the mount board. The print is framed and glazed.
Gerry Blood (1932-2005), Coastal view with sailing boats, signed, oil on canvas, 49.5 x 75.5cm, 19.5 x 29.75in.Artists’ Resale Right (“droit de suite”) may apply to this lot. Condition report: The painting is in good, original condition. There is some light craquelure across the surface of the painting. The painting is framed but not glazed. The frame has some minor scuffs and scratches commensurate with age.
[Rogers (Thomas)] The conspiracy of guts and brains: or An answer to the twinn-shams, only edition, drop-head title, some light foxing, disbound, [R1842B], small 4to, [Printed and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster], [1694].⁂ Rare only edition, with ESTC recording only three copies, of which only one in UK (BL). The work denounces both dissenters (the 'guts') who attacked the Church of England and the monarchy, and those comprehensionist Anglicans (the 'brains') who sympathised with their cause.
Hooke (Nathaniel) The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth, 4 vol., fourth edition, engraved frontispieces, folding maps and plates, some light soiling, slight worming to fore-edge at beginning of vol.3, later ink inscription to front free endpapers, contemporary diced russia, gilt, rebacked, a little worn, joints split, some covers detached, 4to, J. & R.Tonson..., 1766-71.
The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. The last incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers of London, to which is annexed several of the most particular bye-laws of the said company, and also a summary of their meetings: gifts, appointments, &c ., 2 parts in one, some light occasional spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, with a red morocco label to upper cover, joints cracked, some loss to spine, worn,1790; and another of the same for 1862, 4to (2)⁂The first [-second] Report of the Committee of the Fish Association for the Benefit of the Community, respecting the measures to be adopted for the supply of the Metropolis and its Neighbourhood.
America.- Quakers.- [Walton (William)] A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his family; who were surprised by the Indians, and taken from their farms, on the frontiers of Pennsylvania. In the spring, 1780, Philadelphia, printed: London: reprinted and sold by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1790 bound with Cresson (Joshua) Meditations Written During the Prevalence of the Yellow Fever, in the City of Philadelphia, In the Year 1793; Which proved fatal to upwards of 4000 of its Inhabitants, 1p. advertisements at end, W. Phillips, 1803 and 4 other 18th or 19th century Quaker publications, together 6 works in 1 vol., occasional spotting, light browning, contemporary half calf, upper cover missing, worn, but holding firm, 8vo
Military finance.- [Williamson (John)] A treatise on military finance; containing the pay of the forces on the British and Irish establishment, with the allowances in camp, garrison, and quarters, &c. , 2 parts in 1, including supplement, first part with 27 tables on 14 folding ff., second part 2 folding tables, part 1 some foxing and light browning, occasional spotting elsewhere, ink signature on front endpaper of P.H. Bund of the 13th Light Dragoons, contemporary half calf, spine gilt and with red morocco label, joints split, but holding, rubbed and scuffed, large 12mo, for T. Egerton, 1804-1805. ⁂ The standard reference work on all aspects of military pay. The supplement is rare.
Trollope (Anthony) The Warden, first edition, later issue, original cloth, rebacked, retaining original backstrip, corners repaired, light soiling, new yellow glazed endpapers, [Sadleir p. 18], 8vo, 1855 [but 1858].⁂ Made up from the sheets of the first edition, cut down and reissued in the spring of 1858 in pink cloth.
NO RESERVE Cornhill Magazine (The),11 vol., comprising first series vol.1-9, 15 & 17, plates and illustrations, some folding, occasional foxing, uniform original blind-stamped cloth, rubbed and soiled, 8vo, 1860-68 § Nevill (Ralph) Old Cottage and Domestic Architecture in South-West Surrey, illustrations and plates, folding map, occasional light spotting, original cloth, gilt, extremities rubbed, 1889; and 8 others, miscellaneous (20) ⁂ The first is an important Victorian literary journal containing the first appearnces of works by Anthony Trollope, Alfred Tennyson, Henry James, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot and Wilkie Collins.
Occult.- Mathers (S.L. MacGregor) Kabbala Denudata. The Kabbalah Unveiled, first edition, plates, some folding, original cloth, some light rubbing to extremities but sharp and excellent overall, 8vo, 1887.⁂ Rare early work by the British occultist. Mathers is primarily remembered as one of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Dunsany (Edward Plunkett, Lord) The Chronicles of Rodriguez, number 234 of 500 copies, signed by the author and artist, photogravure frontispiece, occasional light foxing, original vellum-backed cloth, t.e.g., dust-jacket, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, creasing to head, but an excellent example overall, 4to, 1922.
Larkin (Philip) The Whitsun Weddings, first edition, jacket spine with light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1964; High Windows, first edition, ink inscription to pastedown, jacket a little creased and frayed at head, 1974, original cloth, dust-jackets; and c.60 others, Larkin, including a flier for a history of The Brynmor Jones Library signed by Larkin, v.s. (c.65)
Pictorial cloth.- Creux (Léon) Le Voyage de l'Isabella au Centre de la Terre, first edition, illustrations by Paul Coze, original handsome pictorial cloth after a design by Coze, very light fading to spine but a bright, near-fine example overall, 4to, Paris, 1922.⁂ A superb example of this charming science fiction work in its striking original cloth binding.
NO RESERVE Chiswick Press.- Manhood (H. A.) Little Peter the Great, frontispiece by Rowland Hillier, 1931 § Strong (L. A. G.) The Big Man, frontispiece by Tirzah Garwood, 1931 § Collier (John) Green Thoughts, frontispiece by Edward Wolfe, 1932, each one of 550 copies signed by the author, original cloth, some light discolouration to spines and covers, 8vo, Chiswick Press (3)
Gogmagog Press.- [Philpott (A.R.)], "Pantopuck the Puppetman". Chimneypots, number 35 of 50 copies signed by the author, this copy inscribed "For Dorothy & Reg" on colphon, elimination linocut illustrations printed in colours, light soiling to lower margins, original turquoise cloth, a few small stains, spine a little faded and lacking label, [Chamber 7], tall 8vo, printed & bound by Morris Cox at the Gogmagog Press, 1961.⁂ "This was his [Cox's] happiest book of all." Chambers.
NO RESERVE Horses.- Pembroke (Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of) A Method of Breaking Horses, and Teaching Soldiers to Ride. Designed for the Use of the Army, 2 folding engraved plates, occasional spotting or light staining, disbound, 8vo, printed by J. Hughs, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, 1761. sold not subject to return.
NO RESERVE Chemistry.- Shaw (Peter) Leçons de Chymie: Propres à Perfectionner La Physique, Le Commerce et Les Arts, first edition in French, half-title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, ink stamps to title, last 2 ff. of preface misbound, occasional spotting, some light browning, contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, corners worn, rubbed, 4to, Paris, Jean Thomas Herissant, 1759.⁂ Rare. Shaw was physician to Kings George II & III.
Mathematics.- Cotes (Roger) Harmonia Mensurarum, sive Analysis & Sythensis per rationum & angulorum mensuras promotae: accedunt alia Opuscula Mathematica, edited by Robert Smith, first edition, half-title, folding engraved table, numerous woodcut diagrams in text, faded library ink stamps to verso of title, occasional spotting or staining, some light browning, modern half calf, rubbed, [Babson supp., p29; Norman, 519; Wallis 246], 4to, Cambridge, no printer, 1722.⁂ Cotes worked closely with Newton in the preparation of the second edition of the Principia. Having published only one scientific paper in his lifetime, 'Logometria' (in which he successfully constructs the logarithmic spiral) this posthumous publication is the earliest record of Cotes' achievements.
Medicine.- Glisson (Francis) Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis, first edition, title in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait and 3 engraved plates, plates water-stained, some spotting or mostly light foxing, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, corners worn, repair to lower cover, rubbed and and scuffed, [Wing G859; Garrison and Morton 579; Krivatsy 4828; Waller 3586; Heirs of Hippocrates 475] small 4to, E.F. for Henry Brome, 1677.⁂ 'This important work on the stomach and intestines contains Glisson's original concept of 'irritability' not only as the prime cause of muscular contraction but as a property of all human tissues'. (Heirs of Hippocrates).Provenance: 'Liber T. Harbech', probably the seventeenth century physician Dr. Thomas Harbech (inscription to head of title); 'This book belongs to the Library in the Charity School Chamber in Nottingham given by Dr. William Standfast' The Reverend William Standfast (1683-1754) was the rector of the village of Clifton, a few miles from Nottingham. The library he founded was notable for the inclusion of a large number of scientific and medical books (ink inscription to verso of title).
Asia.- Beccari (Odoardo) Wanderings in the Great Forests of Borneo: Travels and Researches of a Naturalist in Sarawak, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, illustrations, 3 folding maps, prize presentation bookplate to pastedown, some light spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, spine rubbed, 8vo, 1904.
NO RESERVE Polar.- Whaling.- Reste (C.Bernard de, translator) Histoire des Pêches, des Découvertes et des Établissemens des Hollandois dans les Mers du Nord, 3 vol., half-titles, with 5 folding engraved maps (of 6) and 11 plates only (of 22), most folding, one map in vol.3 slightly frayed at fore-edge, some light browning and marginal staining, old ink library stamp to upper outer corner of half-title of vol.2 (torn away in vol.1 & 3), contemporary tree calf with central gilt monogram "BM" or "MB", red roan and paper labels to spines, rubbed, corners worn, some splits to joints, [Sabin 70100], 8vo, Paris, Nyon, 1801; sold not subject to return⁂ A translation of de Jong's Nieuwe beschryving der walvisvangst en haringvisscherij of 1791, including much information on the polar region but particularly whaling and fishing.
Dorset.- Hutchins (John) The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, 2 vol., first edition, list of subscribers, large folding engraved map, 58 engraved plates and plans including the unlisted views of Dorchester and Woolcombe Hall, many folding or double-page, 10 folding pedigrees and folding letterpress leaf of first page of Domesday Book, engraved illustrations, with additional engraved portrait of the author by Collimore after Bestland tipped in at beginning of vol.1 (slightly water-stained and frayed at edges, reinforced), also with large folding aquatint of 'South East View of Shaftsbury' by Pollard & Jukes after Samuel Marsh Oram mounted on stub at beginning of vol.2 (a little soiled, frayed and trimmed at foot affecting imprint, laid down), contemporary ink signature of W.L.Bowles at head of title to vol.1 and to final leaf, a few leaves creased, some light browning but generally clean, occasional marginal soiling or water-staining, plate of Critchill House in vol.2 with tear to fold slightly affecting image, contemporary half diced russia, uncut, rubbed, some wear to corners and foot of spines, folio, W. Bowyer and J. Nicholls, 1774.
Papworth (John Buonarotti) Rural Residences, consisting of a Series of Designs for Cottages, Decorated Cottages, Small Villas, and other Ornamental Buildings ..., first edition, half-title, 27 hand-coloured aquatint plates, occasional light foxing, mostly to text or plate margins, offsetting, later vellum-backed boards, a little soiled, spine broken, 8vo, [Abbey, Life, 45; Tooley 359], 1818.
NO RESERVE Trade Catalogue.- Bradleys, Chepstow Place, London. Finest Value in Finest Furs, Winter Season 1928 1929, 32pp., stapled, lightly browned, 1928; Distinctive Clothes Moderately Priced, 32pp., original pictorial wrappers, spotted and soiled, Autumn 1927 § Lean, Taylor & Co's (Western Rubber Works, Plymouth) Great Wholesale Trade Sale, 18pp. broadsheet, label in red "Sale Commences April 7th" tipped to front page (creased and frayed), a little browned, folded, Plymouth, [c.1910] § Dennison Manufacturing Co.Ltd. How to Make Crepe Paper Costumes, 36pp., double-page colour chart, light water/damp-staining causing damage and some loss (tears, fraying, adhesions), original pictorial wrappers, a little worn and creased, 1927, illustrations, a few colour, rubbed; and 4 other clothing catalogues (2 Burton's mens' tailoring, Barratts' shoes, J.Whippell & Co. Ltd. clerical tailoring and robes), v.s. (8)⁂ The first features designs in all types of fur including linings in hamster, while some of the models closely resemble Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in the film Some Like It Hot. The third, Lean, Taylor & Co., advertises waterproof clothing including silk oilskins, but also sporting, household and gardening goods.
NO RESERVE Trade Catalogue.- Brucciani & Co. Ltd. (D.) Catalogue of Casts for Schools, 52pp., illustrations, title soiled, light marginal water-staining to first few leaves, short tear to one margin, original wrappers, cord loop to upper left-hand corner, printed label concerning the transferral of the business to the Board of Education pasted to upper cover, rubbed and soiled, tear to upper outer corner, spine faded, 1914 [but later]; and catalogue of fireplaces from Société Marbrière d'Avesnes of Paris with 59 plates (lacking wrappers), 4to (2)⁂ Domenico Brucciani (1815-80) emigrated to London from Lucca in Italy and founded a Gallery of Casts in Covent Garden. Replicating art was a profitable business at the time and his firm became very successful, providing casts of notable sculpture and architecture for the British Museum and the South Kensington Museum (now the V & A). It also supplied casts for schools of art, as listed in the present catalogue. Demand lessened in the early 20th century and the firm was taken over by the V & A in the 1920s.
NO RESERVE Trade Catalogue.- Monarch Trick MFG Co., Lynn Mass. Magical Apparatus, Tricks, Scientific Novelties etc., 54pp., illustrations, errata slip on blue paper tipped in at beginning, with flyer for "Very Latest Handkerchief Production" printed on yellow paper loosely inserted, light spotting and soiling at beginning and end, slight staining to upper margin of last few leaves, original pictorial red wrappers, rubbed and soiled, spine frayed, chipped at edges, 8vo, Lynn, Mass., 1900.
Trade Catalogue.- Rey & Tramblay, Montpellier. "Rex" Lits & Sommiers Métalliques. Meubles de Jardins, Album No.6, 61pp., printed in black and colours with decorative borders in orange, swatches for colours and wood on verso of title, colour illustrations, some with glazed wood effect, a few heightened with silver, some updating of prices in red ink, with 3 price lists loosely inserted, one adhering to one glazed wood colour sample and slight adhesions to others, occasional spotting or soiling, hinges weak, original half cloth, Montpellier, 1926 § Kenrick & Sons Limited (Archibald) Ironfounders & Enamellers, Manufacturers & Patentees, 166pp., decorative title, photographic illustrations, one or two price sheets tipped in, price list for 1920 loosely inserted, occasional light spotting, hinges weak, original cloth, West Bromwich, 1899, rubbed; and 2 others, ironmongery, including a defective catalogue from Messenger & Co., Horticultural Builders of Loughborough and London, 4to & 8vo (4)⁂ The first comprises iron bedsteads; the second all types of ironmongery including kitchenware, and various household, garden and builders' ironwork.
NO RESERVE Trade Catalogue.- Terry & Sons Ltd. (Joseph), York. [Confectionery], 56pp.,colour plates heightened with gold, 2 folding, with reproduction of hygiene certificate at beginning, original printed wrappers sewn with cord, very light staining to lower corner, 4to, York, 1933.⁂ Mouthwatering catalogue of a wide variety of boxes of chocolates, some disguised as champagne bottles or books, and including the famous chocolate orange and also a chocolate apple.
Barrie (J.M.) The Admirable Crichton, 1914; Quality Street, 1913, half-titles, tipped-in colour plates by Hugh Thomson, occasional spotting, endpapers browned, fore-edge foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, the first spine faded and upper joints cracking, some light marking and bumping to extremities § Evans (C. S.) The Sleeping Beauty, illustrations by Arthur Rackham, pictorial endpapers, ownership signature, some light spotting and occasional short open tears to lower margins, original pictorial cloth-backed boards, soiled, 1920, and 13 others, childrens' and illustrated, v.s. (16)
NO RESERVE Greenaway (Kate).- Harte (Bret) The Queen of the Pirate Isle, first edition, illustrations by Kate Greenaway, bookplate of Eric Quayle to pastedown, original pictorial cloth, spine browned, light surface soiling, light rubbing to extremities, [1887]; and another, Greenaway, 4to (2)
Pogany (Willy).- Newman (Isidora) Fairy Flowers, Nature Legends of Fact & Fantasy, first edition, 15 mounted colour plates and plain illustrations by Willy Pogany, pictorial endpapers a little browned, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, very light toning to spine, corners a little bumped, but bright and excellent generally, original pictorial slip-case, extremities a little worn with split to foot partially repaired with tape, rubbed, [1926] § Khayyam (Omar) The Rubaiyat, second edition, 20 tipped-in colour plates by Dulac, original cloth, gilt, light toning to half of upper cover, [1909], 4to (2)
Early Photography.- Photogenic Drawings.- Taylor (Silas Badger, merchant, of Islington, 1809-98) Autograph Letter signed to his brother Alfred Swaine Taylor, 3pp., folio, New York, 24th April 1839, responding to his brother's letter on photogenic drawings, "By the arrival of the Great Western... I got your kind letter... enclosing for me some drawings sketches &c - executed by the marvellous aid of light alone - Some accounts of this mysterious process had already reached us...", folds.⁂ "Taylor was... a pioneer of photography and devised improvements in the fixing and printing processes used by William Henry Fox Talbot. He described his methods in his On the Art of Photogenic Drawing (1840)." - Oxford DNB.
De Tournes, printer.- Polyaenus. Stratagematum libri octo. Adiecta est etiam Latina versio, editio princeps, edited by Isaac Causabon, parallel Latin and Greek text, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, some spotting and light staining, lightly browned, later vellum, yapp edges, Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1569; and Obsequens, De Tournes, 1553, 16mo (2)⁂ 'Isaac Casaubon was the first who gave us the Greek text of Polyaenus, from a very imperfect Ms., which he procured at a great expense. The preface affords an idea of the labour and trouble with which the work was composed.' (Dibdin).
Plantin.- Scaliger (Joseph Justus) Poemata omnia, 4 parts in 1, Greek and Roman type, titles with woodcut printer's device, woodcut decorative initials, occasional spotting, some light staining, contemporary calf, spine in compartments and with later gilt, spine ends chipped, rubbed, [Leiden], Franciscus II Raphelengius in the house of Plantin, 1615 § Suicerus (J.H.) Compendium physicae Aristotelico-Cartesianae, 2 parts in 1 vol., first title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, 2 ink stamps to verso of title, some marginal water-staining, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, richly gilt spine in compartments, Frankfurt, Sande, 1715; and 4 others, defective Continental, v.s. (6)
Elzevier.- Apollonius, of Rhodes. Argonauticorum libri IV, with Latin translation by J.Hoelzlin, title in red & black with woodcut printer's device, Greek and Latin text, woodcut head-pieces and initials, light water-staining at beginning and end, slight worming to front endpapers, later red morocco, gilt, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine (rubbed and faded), upper board recovered with closely matching red straight-grain morocco, corners repaired, Leiden, Elzevier, 1641 § Livius (Titus) Historiarum quod extat, 3 vol., engraved pictorial title and 2 portraits (a little browned), inner margin of frontispiece and title crudely repaired, occasional browning or light staining, later half vellum, spines gilt with red and black roan labels, rubbed, some joints split, Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevier, 1679-78, [Willems 510 & 1568], 8vo (4)
Elzevier.- Scarron (Paul) Le Virgile travesty en vers burlesques, first Elzevier edition, Paris [but Leiden], [Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier], 1648 bound with Scarron (Paul) Le Virgile travesty en vers burlesques, livre troisiesme [-cinquiesme], Paris [but Leiden], [Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier], 1650, together 4 parts in 1 vol., woodcut printer's device to titles, head-pieces and initials, some spotting and light water-staining, contemporary vellum, [Willems 648] § Puget de la Serre (Jean) Le Secretaire a la Mode, 2 parts in 1, engraved pictorial title, printed titles with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, some light staining, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, later morocco labels to spine, [Willems 1186], Amsterdam, Louis & Daniel Elzevier, 1655; and 4 others, Elzevier (Willems 461, 1454 & 1455 (in 1 vol.), 1363 and 2023), v.s. (6)

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