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Archaeologia: or Miscellaneous Tracts, relating to Antiquity . A broken run, volume 1,2,7,10,14-35, 46,53,60,61,65-107 plus 2 Index volumes, mixed editions, 1804-1982, numerous black & white illustrations, all ex-library copies with associated stamps, some light spotting & toning, some pencil annotations, volumes 1-35 in contemporary leather, volumes 46-107 in publishers original cloth, boards & spines slightly rubbed, includes 31 duplicate volumes, large 4to (Qty: 105)
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Geological Society of London. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 9 volumes, a partly broken run, volumes II-IV, VI-X & XII, 1846-48, 1850-54 & 1856, numerous folding geological charts, maps, etc., including some hand-coloured, and many single-page uncoloured lithographed plates of geological specimens and fossils, occasional light spotting (contents generally in clean condition), contemporary uniform dark blue half calf gilt, early bookplate to front pastedown of each volume of David Llewellin, a few minor marks to extremities, 8vo (Qty: 9)NOTESProvenance: David Llewellin (1826-1880), Civil and Mining Engineer, and Mineral Agent for Lord Aberdare and other landowners in Glamorganshire. He was responsible for the building of several branch railways in Glamorganshire, as well as construction work linked to the numerous collieries in South Wales. He was also a Fellow of the Geological Society. Attractively bound series of volumes of this important and pioneering geological publication, containing numeorus first publications of papers by William Buckland, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Gideon Mantell, Roderick Murchison, Adam Sedgwick, W.D. Conybeare, Charles Babbage, Richard Owen and many others. Darwin's contributions are: An Account of the Fine Dust which Often Falls on Vessels in the Atlantic Ocean, On the Geology of the Falkland Islands (both 1846) , On the Transportal of Erratic Boulders from a Lower to a Higher Level (1848), and On British Fossil Lepadidae (1850), and it was in the context of the Geological Society's frequent meetings and publications during the period covered by these volumes, that Charles Darwin was able to solve the problem of organic origins with the theory of evolution.
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Aflalo (F. G.) . A Book of Fishing Stories, 1913, 4 colour & 13 monochrome illustrations, some minor spotting & marginal toning, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, spine lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, together with: Scrope (William) , Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed...,[The Sportsman's Library], 1898, 19 colour & monochrome plates, some light spotting, toning & offsetting, publishers original half vellum, boards & spine slightly toned & rubbed, 8vo, and [Glover, Richard H.] . An Angler's Strange Experiences, A Whimsical Medley, and an Of-Fish-All Record without A-Bridge-Ment, by Cotswold Isys, 1883, numerous black & white illustrations, some light toning throughout, publishers original gilt decorated blue cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed, 4to, plus other modern fishing reference & related, including Modern Salmon & Sea Trout Fishing, by Kenneth Dawson, 1st edition, 1938, Spinning Up To Date, Trout, Salmon & Pike, by Jock Scott, 2nd edition, circa 1937, A Dictionary of Trout Flies and of Flies for Sea-Trout & Grayling, by A. Courtney Williams, 3rd edition, 1961, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, 8vo/4to (Qty: 42)NOTESOverall condition is good/very good
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Harte (Walter). Essays on Husbandry. Essay I. A General Introduction, shewing, that Agriculture is the basis and support of all flourishing communities; - the antient and present state of that useful art; - Agriculture, Manufactures, Trade, and Commerce justly harmonized; - of the right Cultivation of our Colonies; - together with the Defects, Omissions, and possible Improvements in English Husbandry. Essay II. An Account of some Experiments tending to improve the Culture of Lucerne by Transplantation … To which is prefixed, an Epistle Dedicatory in verse, 2nd edition, corrected and enlarged, London: W. Frederick, W Johnston, 1770, 5 engraved plates, several woodcuts to text, final leaf of advertisements, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, morocco title label to spine, 8vo, together with: Arbuthnot (James) , Natural History of those Fishes that are indigenous to, or occasionally frequent the Coasts of Buchan; with an account of the most useful Fucii produced upon these shores, Aberdeen: A. Brown & Co., 1815, half-title, contemporary red half morocco, head & foot of spine and corners worn, slim 8vo, Darwin (Erasmus) , The Botanic Garden; A Poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes, 2 volumes, Dublin: Printed by J. Moore, 1793, half-titles, edges untrimmed, original limp boards, spines worn with loss, 8vo, Land Improvement , The First Report from the Select Committee of the ... House of Commons, appointed to take into consideration the means of promoting the cultivation and improvement of the Waste, Uninclosed and Unproductive Lands of this Kingdom, London: John Stockdale, 1st January, 1796, 62pp., cropped signature to upper blank margin of title, some toning to first & last leaves, modern cloth-backed marbled boards, slim 8vo, Spence (William) , Agriculture the Source of the Wealth of Britain; A Reply to the Objections urged by Mr. Mill, The Edinburgh Reviewers, and others, against the Doctrines of the Pamphlet, Entitled "Britain Independent of Commerce." With Remarks on the criticism of the monthly reviewers upon that work, London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1808, [2], 110pp., initial 22 leaves heavily torn to blank margins, dust-soiling, modern wrappers, 8vo, contained in slipcase, Pattu (Jacques-Pierre-Guillaume) , Description d'une vis d'Archime?de a? double effet, destine?e aux irrigations et aux e?puisemens, lue a? la Socie?te? d'Agriculture et de Commerce de la ville de Caen, le 19 janvier 1815, Caen: F. Poisson, 1815, [2],21,[1]pp., half-title, folding engraved plate (strengthened at foot and gutter margin), light scattered spotting, 20th century pastepaper boards, slim 8vo Maitland (John) , Observations on the impolicy of permitting the exportation of British Wool, and of preventing the free importation of Foreign Wool, London: William Phillips, 1818, [12],60pp., modern cloth, slim 8vo, and 3 others (Qty: 11)NOTESHarte - Williams II, 42. Goldsmiths 10629. Higgs 4870. Kress 6736. Perkins 758. Rothamsted p.68. See also Fussell, More old English Farming Books , 1950, pp.45-46. First published anonymously in 1764, Harte's Husbandry won considerable contemporary approval. "In 1764 Harte published a volume of Essays on Husbandry , of which a second edition ... appeared in 1770 - a charming and valuable work. Johnson confessed that "his [Harte's] Husbandry is good", and Chesterfield praised its style [ Letters, iv. 214]. Arthur Young, in his Six Weeks Tour through the Southern Counties, published in 1768, describes a visit to "my very excellent friend", Harte, at Bath. "His conversation", Young says, "on the subject of husbandry is as full of experience and as truly solid as his genuine and native humour, extensive knowledge of mankind, and admirable philanthropy, and pleasing and instructive"." [DNB]
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Montes de Oca (Rafael). Ensayo Ornitologico de los Troquili de os o Colibries de Mexico, 1st edition, Mexico, Ignacio Escalante, 1875, tinted lithograph portrait of the author (some light spotting and stained to lower portion, with paper restoration to lower outer corner), 12 fine hand-coloured lithographs of hummingbirds by Hesiquio Iriarte after careful watercolour drawings from nature by the author as well as the Mexican landscape painter Josè Marìa Velasco (1840-1912), some light browning throughout, title, 3 colour plates and 5 final leaves of text with some paper restoration to outer edges, modern black crushed full morocco, retaining original green printed upper wrapper (chipped with a little loss to edges and now relined), folio (29.3 x 19.8 cm), contained in modern green cloth drop-over bookbox, with black morocco gilt label to spine (Qty: 1)NOTESFine Bird Books p. 95; Nissen IVB 643; Palau 178890; Wood p. 470. Only three copies in the UK (BM, Cambridge University, and Natural History Museum). Montes de Oca describes 48 species of hummingbird, of which 46 are here illustrated. The author worked as a naturalist for the Mexican Guatemalan Boundary Commission, and his collection of plant specimens now form part of the herbarium at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.The work is dedicated to the Mexican Society of Natural History (founded only 8 years earlier in 1868). Montes de Oca published several important papers in that society's scientific journal Naturaleza. The illustrations clearly owe much to the scientifically precise and highly accurate illustrations published by the famous British ornithologist John Gould (1804-1881) in his remarkable Monograph of the Trochilidae or Family of Humming-Birds, published in 25 parts between 1849 and 1861 (a copy of which was sold in these rooms in November 2019).
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[Whymper, Josiah Wood, illustrator]. Plates Illustrative of Natural History [cover-title], 7 volumes, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1843-50, letterpress title-page to each volume, 210 wood-engraved plates each containing descriptive letterpress, variable toning , a few plates closely trimmed shaving imprint or other subsidiary text, damp-staining to fore margins of volume 1 (stronger towards front, also affecting lower margin of title-page and first plate), volume 3 with marginal worm-track to title-page and first plate, volume 4 with very light marginal damp-staining and with small hole to margin of 3 consecutive plates, volume 7 lacking front free endpaper, original cloth, front covers lettered in gilt, covers variably marked and water-stained, sections of wear to joints and extremities, housed in a custom solander box, large oblong 4to (33.5 x 27.4 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESEach volume has the printed title 'Thirty Plates Illustrative of Natural History'. Volumes one and two are dated 1845 and 1847, volume four, 1843 and volume five, 1850; the others are undated. Provisional general title-pages appear to have been issued at two points during the work's lengthy publication: in 1843, with 120 plates published (and the title 'One Hundred and Twenty Plates Illustrative of Natural History'), and in 1845, with 151 plates published according to Freeman (3031), who notes a bis plate (number 19), not present here or listed on the title-page of the relevant first volume. Seven volumes appear to be all that was eventually published. No other set approaching 210 plates can found in auction records; Library Hub identifies a scattering of individual volumes or highly fragmentary sets in UK institutions.
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Borlase (William). Observations on the Antiquities and Monuments of the County of Cornwall, 1st edition , Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson, 1754, engraved map and 23 plates (one folding), engraved illustrated head & tail-pieces, list of subscribers, occasional light toning & spotting, later endpapers, contemporary mottled calf (pitted), old reback, joints slightly split, board edges worn & showing, folio, together with: Bray (Anna Eliza) , A Description of the part of Devonshire bordering the Tamar and the Tavy ... in a series of Letters to Robert Southey, 3 volumes, London: John Murray, 1836, wood engraved illustrations and one additional mounted engraved plate, occasional spotting, upper corners of titles cropped, ink and blind stamps to titles and few other ink stamps, bookplate, top edge gilt, later 19th century half morocco, gilt decorated spines, 8vo, Marshall (William) , The Rural Economy of the West of England: including Devonshire. and parts of Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Cornwall, 2 volumes, London, 1796, folding map provided in facsimile, some ink markings to margins, dampstaining, contemporary half calf, worn, 8vo (Qty: 6)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I
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Chapman (Abel). On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-Life, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1908, 2 photogravure plates including frontispiece, 32 halftone plates, 4 + 16 pp. advertisements, duplicate of plate at p.108 ('Jackson's Hartebeests') laid in, light spotting to frontispiece, a few leaves unopened, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, original pictorial cloth gilt, mottling and small perforation to front board, 8vo together with: Savage Sudan, its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921, 30 plates including frontispiece, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo, Wild Spain (España Agreste). Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History and Exploration, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1893, folding map frontispiece, 51 halftone plates, 4 pp. advertisements, frontispiece spotted, edges untrimmed, original cloth, spine slightly rolled, large 8vo, Wild Norway: with Chapters on Spitsbergen, Denmark, etc., 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1897, 16 halftone plates, 2 + 16 pp. advertisements, original cloth, 8vo, Unexplored Spain, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1910, 32 halftone plates, 22 pp. advertisements, original pictorial cloth gilt, wear to upper inner corner of front board, lower outer corners bumped, 4to (Qty: 5)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Provenance (Wild Norway): Presentation copy, inscribed by the author 'To Howard Saunders Esq. with the author's sincere thanks - gratias non semel, sed terque, quaterque curatus' on the front free endpaper. Saunders (1835-1907) was the author of An Illustrated Manual of British Birds (1888-9). Czech Africa pp. 59-60 ( On Safari , Savage Sudan ). '[Chapman's] African adventures culminated in On Safari (1908) and Savage Sudan (1921) - the first natural history book about this area - which were entertaining and vivid accounts of east Africa and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan' (ODNB).
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Couch (Jonathan). A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: Groombridge and Sons, 1862-3-4-5, 252 chromoxylographic plates, errata leaf to rear of volume 2, extra-illustrated with various engravings pasted in as tailpieces (one to verso of plate 35), old newspaper cuttings mounted to volume 1 pp. v-vi (offset onto facing pages), and to bifolium tipped in between volume 2 pp. vi and 1, occasional light spotting and offsetting, most plates without tissue-guards, book-label (Baillie Walker, 52 Victoria Street West, Aberdeen) to volume 1 front pastedown, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, spine-ends slightly rubbed and nicked, large 8vo (Qty: 4)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Freeman 828; Nissen ZBI 979.
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Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, London: John Murray, 1859, iii-ix + 502 pp., folding lithographic diagram, half-title and advertisements discarded, occasional spotting (stronger towards front), a few light stains and marks, several leaves sometime dog-eared, leaves a2-4 (a2=title-page) slightly nicked and friable along fore edges, B6 with closed tear in fore margin repaired verso, I1 badly frayed, with 6cm closed tear, and old tape-repair along fore and bottom edges just touching final letter of each line not affecting legibility, P12 with closed tear to top margin (old repair touching running head recto) and a few other nicks, Y9-10 each with 3cm closed tear repaired verso (repairs covering part of text but not affecting legibility), manuscript correction in black ink to p.109 ('not' scored through), edges untrimmed, original cloth, recased and relined, rubbed, a few sections of wear to extremities, tips bumped, housed in a custom morocco-backed solander box, 8vo in 12s (Qty: 1)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Norman 593; PMM 344b. First edition of 'the most important biological book ever written' (Freeman) and 'one of the most important books ever published' (Garrison-Morton). One of 1,250 copies, 'of which about 1,170 were available for sale' (Norman); Freeman's binding variant b.
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Darwin (Charles). The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 volumes, London: John Murray, 1868, 32 pp. advertisements dated April 1867 to volume 1, 2 pp. advertisements dated February 1868 to volume 2, green coated endpapers, binder's ticket to rear pastedown of volume 1, bookplates of Queens' College, Cambridge to volume 1 front pastedown and volume 2 title-page verso, ink withdrawal stamps to volume 1 title-page and volume 2 title-page verso, light spotting to endpapers and outer leaves, largely unopened, original cloth, single-line imprint to spines, traces of labels, extremities slightly bumped, light cockling to rear covers, 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Freeman 877; cf. Norman 597 (second issue). First edition, first issue, one of 1,500 copies, with five lines of errata in volume one, and seven in volume two. The work is noted for containing Darwin's first use in print of the term 'survival of the fittest', which he borrowed from Herbert Spencer, preceding its appearance in the fifth edition of the Origin (1869).
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Darwin (Charles). The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: John Murray, 1872, 7 heliotype plates by Rejlander numbered in Arabic (3 folding), 4 pp. advertisements dated November 1872 to rear, wood-engravings in text, black coated endpapers, surface-crack in plate 5, a few trivial marks, front inner hinge partially cracked but firm, original cloth, very slightly shaken, light fraying to headcaps, joints rubbed, tips bumped and worn, cockling to sides, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Provenance: Henry C. D. Chorlton (fl.1887-1929), Manchester-based artist and member of the Northern Art Workers' Guild, with pencilled ownership inscription 'H. C. D. Chorlton, 1881, 16 Fernleaf St, Moss Side' to front free endpaper (erased from title-page). Freeman 1142; Garrison-Morton 4975; cf. Norman 600 (first issue).
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Godman (Frederick Du Cane). A Monograph of the Petrels (Order Tubinares), 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Witherby & Co., 1907-10, half-title, title-pages in red and black, 106 hand-coloured lithographic plates mainly by J. G. Keulemans, many heightened in gum arabic, all with tissue-guards and mounted on linen stubs, text-leaves toned, light spotting to preliminaries, a few other text-leaves and margins of plates 96, 100 and 102, small faint stain in image of plate 87, plate 95 slightly short, original wrappers bound in, bookplates (Jorge Casares), top edges gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary red crushed half morocco gilt, 4to (32.6 x 24.6 cm) (Qty: 2)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Anker 163; Mullens & Swann p. 234; Nissen IVB 356; Wood p. 361; Zimmer p. 248. Number 204 of 225 copies only. The work was in fact begun by Osbert Salvin, and completed after his death by Godman in collaboration with R. Bowdler Sharpe.
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Kennedy (Alexander W. M. Clark). The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, 1st edition, Eton: Ingalton and Drake, 1868, 4 hand-coloured albumen prints mounted on card, tissue-guards, half-title discarded, bookplate of George Oakley Fisher (1859-1933), collector, contemporary half morocco, 8vo (17.6 x 11.8 cm), together with: Garner (Robert), The Natural History of the County of Stafford [-Supplement to the Natural History of the County of Stafford], 2 parts in 1 volume, 1st edition, London: John Van Voorst, 1844-60, engraved frontispiece, etched plate, 7 lithographic plates, hand-coloured folding map, extra-illustrated with engraved plates mainly from The Beauties of England and Wales, half-title discarded, frontispiece spotted and offset, light spotting to other plates, short split to one fold of map, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked retaining original roan cornerpieces, 8vo (21.5 x 13.2 cm), Macpherson (Hugh Alexander, & William Duckworth), The Birds of Cumberland critically studied, including some Notes on the Birds of Westmorland, 1st edition, Carlisle: Chas. Thurnam & Sons, 1886, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece by J. G. Keulemans, folding colour map, top edge gilt, contemporary dark green crushed half morocco gilt by Morrell, 8vo (21.5 x 13.4 cm), Bucknill (John A.), The Birds of Surrey, 1st edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1900, half-title, 6 photogravure plates, folding map, contemporary dark green crushed half morocco gilt by Morrell, 8vo (21.9 x 13.3 cm), Babington (Churchill), The Birds of Suffolk [caption-title], [?Bury St Edmunds, 1883-4], extracted from the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, pp. 277-557, 7 halftone plates, lithographic map hand-coloured in outline, with descriptive text-leaf (unpaginated), interleaved throughout, ownership inscription, bookplate and annotations of Thomas Tindal Methold (1838-1902) of Hepworth Hall, Suffolk, contemporary half morocco, 8vo (21.6 x 13.6 cm), and 4 similar works, 19th-century county faunas or avifaunas, leather-bound, 8vo (Qty: 9)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Gernsheim 436 (Kennedy); Mullens & Swann pp. 326 (Kennedy), 226 (Garner), 374 (Machperson), 105 (Bucknill), 33 (Babington). Kennedy's work was the first ornithology book to be illustrated with photographs.
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Lydekker (Richard). The Deer of all Lands. A History of the Family Cervidae Living and Extinct, 1st edition, London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1898, 24 hand-coloured lithographic plates by J. Smit, light marginal spotting to plates 8, 9 and 16, slightly stronger to plate 24, pencilled ownership inscription to half-title, edges untrimmed, modern crushed dark green half morocco gilt, 4to (29.4 x 22 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Freeman 2367 (with incorrect date); Nissen ZBI 2604; Wood p. 444. Number 191 of 500 copies only, signed by the author and the publisher on the limitation page. 'A fine monograph on an interesting subject, beautifully illustrated' (Wood).
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Muirhead (George). The Birds of Berwickshire, 2 volumes, 1st edition, large-paper issue, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889-95, half-titles, 10 wood-engraved or etched plates, 2 plans, folding map, wood-engraved vignettes to title-pages and throughout the text, vignettes and 5 of the plates hand-coloured by the artist, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, modern red crushed half morocco, 4to (25.4 x 16.5 cm), number 76 of 100 copies, this copy hand-coloured by the artist John Blair, and inscribed by him 'These reproductions were coloured by me, John Blair' on the limitation page and volume 2 half-title, together with: Lilford (Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron), Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1895, half-titles, frontispiece, 24 photogravure plates after Archibald Thorburn, 43 wood-engraved plates after G. E. Lodge, linen-backed folding map, light spotting to outer leaves and a few plates including map, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, modern red crushed half morocco, 4to (28.2 x 21.5 cm), Wallis (John), The Natural History and Antiquities of Northumberland, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: for the author, 1769, signatures A4 pi2 a-c4 B-3K4, chi2 B-4E4 4F1, contemporary ownership inscriptions effaced from title-page, a few small worm-tracks towards rear of volume 1, closed tear in volume 1 3K3, 19th-century half calf, one label perished, 4to (26.4 x 20 cm), Hartert (Ernst, & Francis C. R. Jourdain), The Birds of Buckinghamshire and the Tring Reservoirs, (Reprinted from Novitates Zoologicae, Vol. XXVII.), Tring: Hazell, Watson & Viney Ld., 1920, 2 halftone plates, original wrappers bound in, another offprint (K. Price, The Birds of Buckinghamshire, from Records of Bucks, Vol. XV, Part 1, 1947) laid in, 20th-century quarter calf, folio (28.2 x 19 cm) (Qty: 7)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Freeman 3873 (Wallis); Mullens & Swann pp. 426 (Muirhead), 355 (Lilford). In the octavo issue of Lilford's work Lodge's illustrations are printed in the letterpress rather than as separate plates.
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Wallace (Alfred Russel). Island Life: or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1880, half-title, 3 maps (one hand-coloured), 2 pp. advertisements, wood-engraved maps and plans in text (many full-page), maps and adjacent text-leaves spotted, occasional light spotting elsewhere, brown coated endpapers, ownership inscription to half-title, top edge gilt, original green cloth gilt, spine-ends slightly nicked, upper outer corners bumped, 8vo, together with: ibid., Darwinism, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1889, half-title, photographic portrait frontispiece, folding map, 2 pp. advertisements, wood-engraved illustrations throughout, green coated endpapers, original cloth, spine rolled, corners bumped, 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Provenance ( Darwinism ): Sir Edward Fry (1827-1918), judge and zoologist (bookplate). Freeman 3865 & 3866; Norman 2179 ( Island Life ). Island Life, Wallace's sequel to The Geographical Distribution of Animals (1876), focuses on problems of animal dispersal and speciation and is likewise considered 'one of the foundation works of zoogeography' (Norman).
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Wallace (Alfred Russel). The Geographical Distribution of Animals. With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1876, half-title to each volume, 20 wood-engraved plates, 7 chromolithographic maps, errata leaf to volume 2, a little light spotting, ownership inscription 'James Faber' to half-title of volume 1, top edges gilt, original morocco-grain green cloth gilt, headcaps slightly frayed, pale mottling to volume 1 front board, 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Provenance: Thomas Henry Riches (1865-1935), collector and amateur zoologist (ink-stamps to half-titles; cancelled in volume one, effaced in volume 2). Freeman 3863; Garrison-Morton 145.60; Norman 2178. 'A pioneering work in zoogeography, and Wallace's most comprehensive monograph' (Norman). One of two binding variants: some copies are bound in fine-diaper cloth, with no priority assigned.
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Willughby (Francis, & John Ray). The Ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the County of Warwick Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. In Three Books ... Translated into English, and enlarged with many Additions throughout the whole Work. To which are added three considerable discourses, I. Of the Art of Fowling ... II. Of the Ordering of Singing Birds. III. Of Falconry, by John Ray, London: by A. C. for John Martyn, 1678, title-page in red and black, 80 engraved plates, 2 inserted tables, light toning, title-page spotted and soiled, fore edge slightly chipped, repaired at lower outer corner verso, marginal chip to L3, small spill-burns in Y4, 2E1 and 2N1, closed tears in 2I4 and 3H2, repairs to lower outer corners of plates 1, 2, 23 and 58 and to both outer corners of plate 78, extensive closed tears in plates 8 and 14, a few nicks closed tears and other marks to plate margins, modern half calf, folio (35.3 x 21.3 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I ESTC R9288; Keynes 39; Mullens & Swann pp. 651-2; Nissen IVB 991; Wing W2880; Wood p. 629; Zimmer pp. 677-8. First edition in English, greatly enlarged from the Latin first edition of 1676 by the addition of Ray's three discourses. 'One of the most important treatises on ornithology of all time, being the first systematic classification of the birds of the world' (Wood).
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[Worlidge, John]. Systema Horti-culturae : or, the Art of Gardening ... by J. W. Gent., 2nd edition, London: Tho. Dring, 1683, 3 engraved plates, without additional engraved title, occasional underscoring and ink markings, slight worming to fore-edge blank margins at head, toning & dust-soiling, few marks, margins frayed, final advert leaf repaired to fore-edge, recent endpapers, contemporary sheep, rebacked, repairs to board edges & corners, 8vo, together with: Markham (Gervase) , The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent. Or, a Direction to the Husband-man, for the true Ordering, Manuring, and Inriching of all the Grounds within the Wealds of Kent, and Sussex; and may generally serve for all the Grounds in England of that nature, London: Printed by W. Wilson, for E. Brewster and George Sawbridge, 1653, [4], 20pp., light browning and spotting, modern half calf, slim 4to, Cox (Nicholas) , The Gentleman's Recreation, in Four Parts. Viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing, 6th edition, London: Printed for N. C. and sold by J. Wilcox, 1721, engraved frontispiece (strengthened to gutter margin, 4 engraved folding plates (one with repaired closed tear), leaf 2C3 with closed tear, light toning and spotting, modern blank leaves, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, 8vo, Miller (Philip) , The Gardeners Kalendar..., 10th edition, London: Charles Rivington, for John & James Rivington, 1754, engraved frontispiece, some toning, dust-soiling and light spotting, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked, 8vo, and 3 others (Qty: 7)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I
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* Darly (Mary & Matthew, active circa 1760-1780). The Little Deans Yard Macaroni, July 30th, 1772, The Oxford Macaroni, January 11th, 1772, Jehu the true English Coachman, August 10th 1773, Mr. Convex, The Feild Preacher, May 21, 1775 & Mr. Concave, August 1, 1775, five engraved or etched caricatures published by Mary and Matthew Darly, plate size 170 x 125 mm (6.8 x 4.75 ins), and slightly smaller, the first work (Little Deans Yard Macaroni) with margins, the others trimmed to or just within plate mark, the third work (Jehu the Coachman) trimmed with loss of the volume number and imprint at head and foot, all printed on laid paper, together with Kay (John, 1742-1826). Sir David Rae of Eskgrove, Bart., Lord Justice Clerk, 1799, Mr. Pierie & Mr. Maxwell two Batchelors, 1785, & Courtship/Matrimony, 1789, together three etched caricatures, the first on handmade wove paper, the second and third works on laid paper (the latter probably thus lifetime impressions), plate size 125 x 93 mm (4.9 x 3.6 ins( and slightly smaller, all with blank margins, plus Bretherton (James, circa 1750-1790). A collection of 17 etched caricatures of men of the day, including Bunbury, Mr. Cornwall, Speaker, Mr. J. Lee, Lord Stormont, Mr. Powis, Marquis of Rockingham, Apsley, Sir Francis Molineux and Mr. Quarme, Lord Nugent, Lord Effingham, Lord Surry, Mr. Dundas, Mr. Rigby, Mr Francis, Duke of Grafton, Sir Charles Turner, Mr. Brooke Watson, Sir James Erskine, & Lord Sidney, 1782-88, 17 etchings mostly on wove paper, occasional light spotting, plate size 176 x 113 mm (7 x 4.4 ins), all with margins, and most with printed caption pasted at foot identifying the subject, and six other similar engravings, late 18th/early 19th century, including May Day, by Darly, 1780, Lord Monboddo seated at his desk, Anthony Serious Esqr., An Opera Girl of Paris in the Character of Flora by Grignion after Brandoin, etc., and a late 18th century original pen, brown ink and grey wash caricature of a gentleman, titled in brown ink at foot 'Buckhorse', sheet size 213 x 125 mm (8.5 x 5 ins), all contained in 20th century album of clear plastic sleeves (Qty: 32)NOTESBM Satires 4990 (for Darly's Oxford Macaroni).
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Hogarth (William). The Works... From the Original Plates Restored by James Heath..., Explanations of the Subjects of the Plates by John Nichols, published Baldwin & Cradock, [1822], 155 etched and engraved plates on 116 sheets (including the two portraits), title & few initial leaves creased (ink stamp to verso of title), light dust-soiling to frontispiece, title-page and margins, few short closed tears to lower blank margins, old library label to upper pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco, gilt decorated spine with few library markings, upper joint split and lower board near detached, leather to corners torn with loss, extremities heavily rubbed and worn, large folio (63.5 x 48 cm) (Qty: 1)
![[Hong Kong Museum of Art] . The Art of Xie Zhiliu and Chen Peiqiu , 2 volumes, Hong Kong, 1998, numerous colour illustrations](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0450faa8-8d79-4719-b091-abb300cb473d/1d2b94c6-b804-4dbf-addb-abb4010e51cd/468x382.jpg)
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[Hong Kong Museum of Art] . The Art of Xie Zhiliu and Chen Peiqiu , 2 volumes, Hong Kong, 1998, numerous colour illustrations, publishers uniform original cloth in book box, minor tear to head of book box spine, folio, together with: Bushell (Raymond) , Netsuke Masks, New York, 1985, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original red cloth in slipcase, slipcase spine lightly faded, large 4to, and Bassoul (Aziz) , Human and Divine, the Hindu and Buddhist Iconography of Southeast Asian Art from the Claire and Aziz Bassoul Collection, Cedar of Lebanon Editions, 2006, numerous colour illustrations, publishers original boards, small tear and light rubbing to head of spine, large 8vo, plus other Asian, Middle Eastern & Oriental art reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo/4to (Qty: 32)
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Kibaltchitch (T.W.). Gemmes de la Russie meridionale. Documents inedits sur l'histoire de l'art de la gravure chez les anciens peuples ayant habite la Russie meridionale. Publie per W.Tiktine. Berlin: Reinke et Grounwald, 1910, half-title, photogravure portrait and 20 plates (including hand-coloured map), tissue guards, light toning, original quarter cloth, joints split and frayed at head & foot of spine, slim 4to (limited edition of 250 copies printed), together with: King (Charles William) , Antique Gems and Rings, 2 volumes (text & plates), London: Bell & Daldy, 1872, 75 engraved plates, wood engraved illustrations, original gilt blocked cloth, joints split & frayed, few marks, 8vo, Fossing (Poul) , The Thorvaldsen Museum. Catalogue of the Antique Engraved Gems and Cameos, Copenhagen, 1929, 24 monotone plates, tissue guards, contemporary boards, lower joint torn, marked & scuffed, 4to (Qty: 4)
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Lübbeke (Isolde) . Early German Painting 1350-1550, (The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection), 1991, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, bookplate to front pastedown, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, together with: Wendland (Hans) , Konrad Witz Gemäldestudien, Basel, 1924, 36 monochrome plates, some light toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers, rubbed with small tears & minor loss to head & foot, large 4to, and Corley (Brigitte) , Conrad Von Soest, Painter among Merchant Princes,1996, 240 black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus Löcher (Kurt) , Barthel Beham, Ein Maler aus dem Dürerkreis, Germany, 1999, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and other Renaissance art & portrait reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo/4to (Qty: 32)
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Ottley (William Young). Engravings of the Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford's Collection of Pictures, in London..., 4 volumes in 2 , London: Printed by Bensley & Son for Longman, Hurst, et al., 1818, 126 engraved plates including frontispiece to first volume and 13 engraved plans, occasional light browning mainly to text and some spotting, armorial bookplates of Adolph H.C. Wenger & Y.G. Lloyd-Greame to upper pastedowns, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated dark green straight-grain morocco, extremities rubbed and light wear, head of spine to first volume slightly torn, folio, together with: London & Middlesex Archaeological Society , A Catalogue of the Antiquities and Works of Art exhibited at Ironmongers' Hall, London, in the Month of May, 1861, 2 volumes, London, 1863, numerous wood engraved illustrations, few lithograph plates (some folding), light spotting, top edge gilt, contemporary red half morocco, gilt decorated spine, minor wear, folio, Armengaud (J.G.D.) , Les Galeries Publiques de l'Europe, Rome, Paris: J. Claye, 1856, numerous wood engraved illustrations, all edges gilt, contemporary quarter red morocco, gilt decorated spine and blocked device to boards, folio (Qty: 5)
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Panofsky (Erwin) . Early Netherlandish Painting, its origins and character, 2 volumes, 3rd printing, 1964, numerous black & white illustrations, some light spotting, publishers uniform original cloth in dust jackets, spines faded, covers lightly toned & rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, together with: Prevenier (Walter & Wim Blockmans) , The Burgundian Netherlands, Cambridge University Press, 1986, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, bookplate to front pastedown, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, folio, and Friedländer (Max J.) , Early Netherlandish Painting, volume 5, 6b, 7, 8, Netherlands, 1969-72, numerous black & white illustrations, publishers uniform original cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed & marked, 4to, plus other early Netherlandish & European painting reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo/4to (Qty: 18)
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Prendeville (James). Photographic Facsimiles of the Antique Gems Formerly Possessed by the Late Prince Poniatowski, 1st & 2nd series, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1859, 471 mounted albumen prints of engraved gems on 228 plates, some offsetting to tissue guards, leaves detached where gutta-percha perished, slight dust-soiling mostly to titles, occasional very light spotting, bookplate of Cecil Thomas to upper pastedowns, all edges gilt, contemporary red half morocco, gilt blocked urn to centre of each board, extremities rubbed, 4to, together with: Knight (Frederick) , Knight's Modern and Antique Gems, London: T. Griffiths & Edinburgh: E. Stewart, 1828, engraved title and 85 plates, some spotting, decorative bookplate of Joseph Knight F.S.A. to upper pastedown, cloth hinge repairs, contemporary calf, old reback slightly cracked to joints, extremities rubbed, 8vo, and Tassie (William) , A Catalogue of that part of Mr William Tassie's Extensive Collection of Impressions from Engraved Gems, consisting of Devices and Emblems, with Mottos in various Languages made in composition for Seals, at 20, Leicester Square..., London, 1830, occasional spotting, last two leaves with smudged ink stains, contemporary cloth, 12mo in 6s (Qty: 4)NOTESPrendeville's Photographic Facsimiles of Antique Gems is an interesting work illustrating the notorious collection of Poniatowski which was later discovered to contain numerous forgeries commissioned by him.
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Ralph (Bemjamin). The School of Raphael: or, The Student's Guide to Expression in Historical Painting. Illustrated by examples engraved by Duchange and others, under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, from his own drawings after the most celebrated Heads of Cartons at Hampton Court, John Boydell, 1759, lacks title page, 24 pages of preliminary text, and 45 copper engraved plates of a total of 90 heads after Raphael, depicting the expressions, by Duchange, Pigné, Dupuis, Thomassin, Beauvais, Tardieu and others, occasional light spotting, first and last leaf with some soiling and minor fraying to edges, stitched as issued, without binding, oblong folio (26 x 43 cm, 10.2 x 15.1 ins), together with Sarto (Andrea del). Pitture a fresco di Andrea del Sarto esistenti nella Compagnia dello Scalzo in Firenze, Florence, Tipografia all'Insegna di Dante, 1830, engraved portrait of the artist by J. Saunders after V. Gozzini, title, 41 pages of text, single leaf Avviso dell'Editore, and 15 copper engraved plates by Lasinio and others, contents generally in clean condition, with wide margins, original black morocco-backed green cloth with gilt black morocco title label to upper cover, rear cover missing, some wear to spine and upper cover detached, large folio (54 x 37 cm) (Qty: 2)
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Saint (Andrew, editor) . South-East Marylebone, 2 volumes, (Survey of London, volume 51 & 52), Yale University Press, 2017, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, publishers original cloth in dust jackets and slipcase, large 4to, together with: Wightwick (George) , The Palace of Architecture: A Romance of Art and History, 1860, 67 black & white woodcut illustrations, later inscription to front pastedown, some toning & spotting throughout, rebound retaining publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed & marked, large 8vo, and [John Henry Parker] , A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture, 3 volumes, 5th edition, 1850, numerous black & white illustrations, some light toning & spotting, top edges gilt, publishers uniform original embossed brown cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other 19th century & modern architecture reference & related, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, 8vo/4to. (Qty: 46)
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Strauss (Walter L.) . The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Dürer, 6 volumes, Abaris Books, New York, 1974, numerous monochrome illustrations, bookplates to front pastedowns, publishers uniform original cloth, boards & spines slightly marked & rubbed, large 4to, together with: Winkler ( Friedrich) , Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürer, 4 volumes, Berlin, 1936, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light toning throughout, volumes 1 & 2 rebound retaining original green cloth boards, volumes 3 & 4 in original green cloth, volume 4 lacking spine, rubbedcto head & foot, large 8vo, and Andersson (Christiane D.) , Popular Lore and Imagery in the Drawings of Urs Graf (c. 1485-1529), a dissertation..., January 1977, previous owner inscription to front endpaper, original cloth, 4to, plus other Albrecht Dürer and 15th century German drawing reference, including Albrecht Dürer die Landschafts Aquarelle, by Walter Koschatzky, 1971, mostly original cloth, 8vo/folio (Qty: 34)
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Venuti (Ridolfino, and Amaduzzi, Giovanni Cristoforo). Vetera Monumenta quae in Hortis Caelimontanis et in aedibus Matthaeiorum adservantur nunc primum in unum collecta et adnotationibus illustrata, 3 volumes, Rome: Monaldini, 1776-79, volumes 1 & 2 with half-titles and engraved pictorial title (by Johann Cassini after Vincenzo Brenna), volume 3 lacking all before main text, engraved dedication and 266 plates by Mazzoni, Morghen, Baroni, Giardoni, Carloni, Gregori, Giordano, and others (of 270, lacking numbered plates CV & CVI in vol.1 and XVI in vol.3), 2 plates folding, a few pencil annotations, plate XCII in volume 1 torn to lower outer blank corner and repaired, plate XXXIII in volume 2 torn with long repaired closed tear, some dust-soiling and light spotting, edges untrimmed, modern maroon half morocco gilt, spines with manuscript number applied in white, folio (Qty: 3)NOTESRossetti, Rome 11296; Cicognara 3898; not in Berlin Katalog. This work forms a comprehensive catalogue of the collection of antiquities belonging to the renowned collector and patron of the arts Ciriaco Mattei (1542-1614), at his residences in Rome, the Palazzo Mattei and Villa Celimontana. He was also a close friend of Caravaggio. The first volume reproduces statues; the second, busts, herms, shields, and bas-reliefs; the third, bas-reliefs, sarcophagi and inscriptions. Sold with all faults, not subject to return.
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Waring (John Burnley). Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862, 3 volumes, London: Day & Son, 1863, additional chromolithograph title to each, 301 chromolithograph plates, some offsetting to tissue guards, light toning, ink stamp to verso of letterpress titles, library blind stamp to plates, titles and some leaves of text, armorial bookplate of George Thomas Robinson to upper pastedowns, all edges gilt, contemporary burgundy morocco by Palmer & Howe of Manchester, with elaborate gilt decoration, rubbed and worn, joints of volume 1 splitting at head, folio (Qty: 3)
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Worlidge (Thomas). A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems; most of them in the possession of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom; etched after the Manner of Rembrandt, 1 volume bound in two, London: Printed by Dryden Leach for M. Worlidge & M. Wicksteed, 1768, etched portrait frontispiece, 173 etched plates only (of 182), half-title bound in at front of second volume, light toning and scattered spotting, armorial bookplate of 'Hugh, Duke of Westminster, Eaton, 1884', all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grain black morocco, gilt decorated spines and gilt panelled and decorated boards, joints and extremities rubbed, 4to, together with: Spilsbury (John) , A Collection of Fifty Prints from Antique Gems. In the Collection of the Right Honourable Earl Percy, the Honourable C.F. Greville, and T.M. Slade, Esquire, London: John Boydell, circa 1785, 50 etched plates, some dampstaining and scattered spotting, armorial bookplate of 'Hugh, Duke of Westminster, Eaton, 1884', all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated straight-grain green morocco, three vertical line indentations to upper board, joints and extremities rubbed, 4to (Qty: 3)
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Colman (Jeremiah). The Noble Game of Cricket, 1st edition, London: Batsford, 1941, colour and half-tone plates and illustrations, some light spotting and stains, top edge gilt, original buckram gilt, dust jacket, a little rubbed with short tears, 4to, limited edition of 150, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to George Rowland Blades, 1st Baron Ebbisham (1868-1953), together with: Wisden. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1946, advertisements front and rear (one leaf with closed tear), occasional light spotting, original limp cloth, manuscript cricket scores to rear wrapper, small tears at spine ends, 8vo, Leveson Gower (H.D.G.) Cricket Personalities, 1st edition, 1925, light toning to endpapers, original cloth, spine slightly faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo, signed by the author, with other cricket including Richard Daft's Kings of Cricket, 1893, signed by the author (lacking spine) and W.K.R. Bedford & W.E.W.Collins's Annals of the Free Foresters from 1856 to the present day, 1895 (Qty: 29)
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* Classical. Bach Suites for Unaccompanied Cello No 1 in G major and No 3 in C major with Janos Starker on cello (ED1, Columbia 33CX 1656, blue/gold labels), rare original mono 1st pressing from the 1950s, very desirable recording as no Columbia SAX stereo version exists, 1N/3N matrix numbers, Garrad & Lofthouse flipback sleeve with some minor discolouration and loss along top edge and a circular heat mark on the rear of the sleeve, record has been cleaned on a Loricraft professional record cleaner, vinyl condition is excellent with just a few light marks (Qty: 1)
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Agrippa ( Camillo ). Trattato di S cienza d' A rme : et u n d ialogo in detta materia , Venice: Appresso Antonio Pinargenti, 1568, [8], 111, [1] pp., decorative engraved title incorporating portrait of the author (shaved ink annotation to lower blank margin in an early hand), 26 engraved illustrations (including 13 full-page & 9 double-page), woodcut decorative initials, some ink show-through from text, few leaves slightly shaved at head & foot, some dampstaining and light dust-soiling, offsetting and few manuscript marks, old paper slip pasted to final leaf beneath register, traces/remnants of bookplate to front pastedown with consequent adhesive residue where bookplate removed, late 17th/early 18th century sheep, gilt decorated spine, upper board & spine rubbed, slim 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESThimm p.4; Censimento 16 CNCE 534. This title is one of only two works listed in Censimento 16 with the imprint of Antonio Pinargenti. According to Dennis E. Rhodes (Silent printers: anonymous printing at Venice in the sixteenth century, London: British Library, 1995), Pinargenti was not a printer, and the work was actually printed by Bolognino Zaltieri. Camillo Agrippa (1520-1595) was an engineer, architect, and mathematician, who was also an accomplished fencer. He is best known for his treatise on fencing, which became a standard work across Europe. He uses Euclidean geometry to explain the movements of the human body, its action, and reaction in time and space. This work was first published in 1553, and the illustrations are believed to be by Stradanus (Jan van der Straet, 1525-1605), although they have also been ascribed to Michelangelo. They were re-engraved for this edition by Giulio Fontana, as stated in the preface, because the original plates had become too worn.
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Girard (Pierre Jacques Franc?ois). Traite? des Armes ... enseignant la maniere de combattre de l'epée de pointe seule ... Orné de figures en taille douce, 1st edition, Paris: Moette, Le Gras, La Veuve Jovenel et al., 1737, additional engraved title by E.Herblot ( Nouveau Traite? de la Perfection sur le fait des Armes, etc., and bears the date of 1736), engraved portrait of the author by J. de Favanne, and 116 plates, author's signature of authorization to verso of Preface leaf, lower outer blank corner of leaf C1 torn away, occasional slight spotting and few minor marks, light toning to margins, 20th century vellum, preserving morocco title label to spine, oblong 4to (22 x 27.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThimm 116-117; Vigeant p.63. Traite? des Armes is an important practical fencing treatise, by the retired naval officer Girard, whose work is highly regarded for recording some innovations introduced into the theory of the small sword during the preceding forty years.
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Angelo (Domenico). [L'École des Armes ...] The School of Fencing, with a General Explanation of the Principal Attitudes and Positions Peculiar to the Art. Dedicated to their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Gloucester and Prince Henry-Frederic, by Mr Angelo, London: S. Hooper, 1765, titles and text in English & French (archival tape strengthening to lower blank margin of English title), 47 engraved plates (with imprint at foot of each dated Feb 1763), modern speckled calf, titled in gilt to upper board, minor fading and light scuffs, oblong folio (28.2 x 44.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThimm p.10; Cohen-de-Ricci, p.83. Angelo Domenico Malevolti (1716-1802) was the son of a wealthy Italian merchant. When the author came to England, he changed his name to 'Angelo' and became a fencing teacher to the English royal family, practising the fencing techniques and positions according to the French fencing school. The 1763 first edition of this work was published in French as L'École des Armes, and re-issued in various sizes. The second edition was the first bilingual edition of this important and beautifully illustrated work on fencing. The plates and text were reproduced in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert.
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Angelo (Domenico). [L'École des Armes ...] The School of Fencing, with a General Explanation of the Principal Attitudes and Positions Peculiar to the Art. Dedicated to their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Gloucester and Prince Henry-Frederic, by Mr Angelo, London: S. Hooper, 1765, titles and text in English & French (vertical creases to French title), 47 engraved plates (with imprint at foot of each dated Feb 1763), plate 1 with repaired closed tear to inner blank margin, plate 35 with repaired closed tear to lower blank margin, plate 36 with long repaired horizontal closed tear and lined to verso, plate 43 repaired to upper blank margin, final leaf of index creased, occasional light spotting and some minor dust-soiling, lacking front free endpaper, bookplate of Paul Couturier de Royas to front pastedown, 19th century half straight-grain morocco, slight damp mottling and wear to cloth sides, upper joint split at foot, extremities rubbed, oblong folio (28 x 44.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThimm p.10; Cohen-de-Ricci, p.83. Provenance: Paul Couturier de Royas (1853-1934) who was one of the greatest bibliophiles in the Dauphiné. He was grand-nephew of Paul-Emie Giraud, mayor of Romans and deputy of Drôme, author of numerous works of local history on the Dauphiné and Romans. The first edition of this work was published in French in 1763 as L'École des Armes, and re-issued in various sizes. This second edition is the first bilingual edition of this important and beautifully illustrated work on fencing. The plates and text were reproduced in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. Angelo Domenico Malevolti (1716-1802) was the son of a wealthy Italian merchant, and on his arrival to England, he changed his name to 'Angelo'. He became a fencing teacher to the English royal family, practicing the fencing techniques and positions according to the French fencing school of the time.
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Angelo ( Domenico ). The School of Fencing with a General Explanation of the Principal Attitudes and Positions Peculiar to the Art, by Mr. Angelo, London, 1787, letterpress title, 44 plates (numbered 1-47, imprint at foot of plates dated August 1783), some toning, spotting and light offsetting, occasional dampstains, endpapers renewed, original publisher's boards (lightly dampstained & spotted), modern cloth spine, oblong 8vo (14 x 23.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThimm p.10; Vigeant 29. An English edition of an important work on fencing, edited by the son of the author. Containing paired plate numbers 2 / 3, 11/12, and 13/14, being assigned as one plate.
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Olivier (Jean, Fencing Master). Fencing Familiarized: or, a New Treatise in the Art of Sword Play. Illustrated by Elegant Engravings (L'Art des Armes Simplifie?), 1st edition, London: J. Bell, [1771], xlix, 196, [1]pp., titles and text in English & French, 8 folding engraved plates, title with early signature W. Reeve to upper blank margin, advert leaf to verso of final leaf with imprint dated 1771, occasional light offsetting and minor spotting, armorial bookplate of William Reeve, Leadenham House, Lincolnshire to upper pastedown, contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked preserving original gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESThimm p.211; Vigeant p. 97; Pardoel 1945; Castle, Schools and masters of fence, p. XLIX and p. 218. The first edition of Olivier's Fencing familiarized, with the text in English and French juxtaposed. "The work is very sound, and thoroughly justifies its French title, as it contains a simplified system, shorn of all unnecessary and obsolete details." (Thimm).
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Danet (Guillaume). L'Art des Armes, ou? l'on donne l'application de la the?orie a? la pratique de cet Art, avec les principes me?thodiques adopte?s dans nos Ecoles d'Armes, 2 volumes, [3rd edition], Paris: Belin an 6, [1797 or 98], half-titles present, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1 and allegorical frontispiece to volume 2, and 44 engraved folding plates (of 45, lacking plate 23), initial leaves in volume 1 with dampstain at foot (title with short closed tear at foot), some spotting and few plates in volume 1 with old brown ink splashes, some light dust-soiling, contemporary quarter sheep, terracotta red title labels to spines, slight splitting at foot of upper joints, board corners worn & showing, 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESThimm p.75. A reissue of the original edition of 1766, 1767, with different title-pages. The second volume contains “Re?futation des Observations critiques de M*** Maitre d'Armes ... contre le traite? de l'Art des armes,” a reply to the anonymously-published work of N. B. Texier La Boe?ssie?re.
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Hamon (Peter Gustavus ). Spinal Deformities Cured and Prevented by P.G. Hamon, Professor of Gymnastics: To which is subjoined a Treatise on Fencing, and on Bodily Exercises, London: Carpenter & Co., 1832, 8 hand-coloured lithograph plates (some cropped to ruled margin at fore-edge, final plate with small ink marks), spotting and light dust-soiling, armorial bookplate of C. Robert Bignold to upper pastedown, contemporary half calf, green morocco title label to spine, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESThimm p.126.
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Roland (George). A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of the Art of Fencing ... and Continued by Easy and Progressive Lessons, from the Simplest Position to the most Complicated Movements, 1st edition , Edinburgh: Archd. Constable & Co., 1823, half-title, 12 lithograph plates, occasional spotting and toning, bookplate of William E. Stuart and bookseller's label of Frank Murray of Derby to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with black calf title label, blind embossed decoration & gilt ruled border to boards, extremities a little rubbed, 8vo, together with: Ibid. , An Introductory Course of Fencing, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: Published by the Author, [1830?], 5 lithograph plates, light toning and minor spotting, original cloth gilt, spine worn and deficient, extremities worn, slim 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESThimm p.243; Pardoel 2217. The first edition of this treatise by George Roland (fl.1809-1862), fencing master at the Royal Academy of Edinburgh and son of Joseph Roland, fencing master at the Royal Military Academy of Woolwich. A reissue, printed from the same setting of type, was published in 1824.
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Roland (George). A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of the Art of Fencing ... and Continued by Easy and Progressive Lessons, from the Simplest Position to the most Complicated Movements, 1st edition , Edinburgh: Archd. Constable & Co., 1823, half-title, 12 lithograph plates with some offsetting from text, extensive manuscript notes in pencil throughout and to three plates and also blank flyleaves at front & rear, light toning, occasional spotting, slight dampstaining at rear, edges untrimmed, hinges repaired, original boards, reback cloth spine with printed paper title label, boards marked and slightly worn to edges, 8vo, together with: Ibid. , An Introductory Course of Fencing, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: Published by the Author, [1830?], 5 lithograph plates, light toning and scattered spotting, bookplate to upper pastedown, scuffing to endpapers, original cloth gilt, rebacked, slim 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESThimm p.243; Pardoel 2217. The first edition of this treatise by George Roland (fl.1809-1862), fencing master at the Royal Academy of Edinburgh and son of Joseph Roland, fencing master at the Royal Military Academy of Woolwich. A reissue, printed from the same setting of type, was published in 1824.
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Rolando (Le Sieur Guzman ). The Modern Art of Fencing agreeably to the practice of the most eminent masters in Europe. By Le Sieur Guzman Rolando, of the Academie des Armes. Carefully revised and augmented with a technical glossary, etc. by J.S. Forsyth, London: Samuel Leigh, 1822, half-title, 23 hand-coloured engraved plates (including frontispiece with coloured pencil signature J.H. Hart & flourish mark to verso, with consequent light show-through), tissue guards (few with closed tears), 12 page publisher's book list at rear, some toning and light dust-soiling, some marginal browning, scattered spotting, edges untrimmed, modern dark green half calf, gilt decorated spine, 12mo in 6s (Qty: 1)NOTESThimm p.244; Vigeant p.113; Pardoel 2226. Rolando was fencing master of the Academie des Armes in France. The present work was adapted from a manuscript by Rolando in the possession of one of his former students as referred to in the introduction to the volume. This the first edition of the pocket-sized illustrated handbook proved very popular. The title-page includes a quote from John Locke regarding education ' Fencing has so many advantages in regard to health and personal appearance, that every gentleman of respectability ought to have so striking a mark of distinction.' It includes a publisher's stock list on the last 4 pages ('Established school books'). A Spanish edition was published by Ackermann in 1826.
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Chapman (George). Foil Practice; with a Review of the Art of Fencing, according to the theories of La Boe?ssie?re, Hamon, Gomard, and Grisier. For the use of Military Classes, Instructors in the Army, and Others, London: W. Clowes & Sons, 1861, half-title, 4 lithograph plates (one folding and frayed to fore-edge margin), bound with Ibid. , Notes and Observations on the Art of Fencing. A Sequel to 'Foil Practice.', Part 1, No. 1 [all published], London: Clowes, Charing Cross, 1864, 2 lithograph plates, occasional light spotting, front free endpaper inscribed 'To Colonel Gordon Maynard Ives with the Author's Respects, Jan 7 1878', upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of Colonel Gordon-Ives, C.B., contemporary red half morocco, joints cracked and weak, worn, cup ring mark to upper board, slim 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESThimm p.56. Colonel Gordon Maynard Gordon-Ives (1837-1907) was born in London, the son of Jeremiah Robert Ives and Emma Maynard. He married Amy Violet B. Pullin in 1880 and later married Millicent Grace Villiers in 1897, both at St. George Hanover Square, London. He gained the rank of Colonel in the Coldstream Guards.
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Corbesier (Antoine J.). Theory of fencing, with the small-sword exercise, 1st edition, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873, 23 lithograph plates, fore-edge margin of title with short closed tear and slightly torn to edge, some light scattered spotting, front free endpaper inscribed by the author 'complements of A. J. Corbesier N. Academy J.B. LaLande de Ferriere, New Orleans, L.A.', contemporary half straight-grain dark brown sheep, gilt embossed emblem of United States Navy Bureau of Ordnance, upper joint slightly cracked and extremities a little rubbed, slim 8vo, together with: Sabine (Lorenzo) , Notes on Duels and Duelling, Alphabetically Arranged, with a Preliminary Historical Essay, 3rd edition, Boston: Crosby, Nicols & Co., 1859, original brown cloth, blind blocked decoration, spine frayed at head & foot, 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESThimm p.65 and p.250. Joseph LaLande De Ferriere (died 23 Nov 1875), was a Private in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War and served in Co. E, 4th Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Louisiana Militia. Lieutenant Antoine Joseph Corbesier (1837-1916) USMC was a Belgian national born in Brussels. He was appointed Sword Master of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in 1865 and served in that position for 49 years. Lorenzo Sabine (1803-1877) was born in New Concord (now Lisbon), New Hampshire, and became a United States Representative from Massachusetts in 1833. From early childhood, Sabine, in his own words, was "revolution-mad". Today he is particularly known for his historical research and published works relating to the Loyalists of the American Revolution rather than for his efforts as a public servant.
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