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Bill Darrell, (British, 20th century), 'Autumn, 1963', signed, oil on board, 60 x 90cm, Pamela Hughes, (British, 1918 - 2002), 'Mother and Child Playing 2'; 'Mother and Child Playing', pencil and charcoal drawings, 54 x 36cm, Jamie Day, Forest, lithograph, Coastal scene with a light house, coloured lithograph (5)
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Camille Souter HRHA (b.1929)Calary When We Got Back (1964)Oil on board, 79 x 57cm (31 x 22½'')Signed and dated 1964; inscribed with title versoProvenance: UTV Art CollectionExhibited: The UTV Art Collection Exhibitions including this work held at: Armagh County Museum, April 2000; O'Rahilly Building, UCC, Cork, March 2002; Fermanagh County Museum, September / October 2003; Monaghan County Museum, March 2004; The Naughton Gallery, Queens University Belfast, January / February 2006'Towards Abstraction' exhibition, The Highlanes Gallery, Spring 2007.Literature: 'Camille Souter: The Mirror in the Sea' by Garrett Cormican, full page illustration p.71; 'UTV Art Collection', 2009, illustrated p.53This painting, Calary When We Came back (1964), begs a number of questions; where had the artist returned from, what might have happened in her absence The golden glow of light from the field and the comfortable but dreamlike allure of the cottage perched at its summit suggest relief at coming home. Camille Souter does not allow narrative to dominate in her work but this painting combined with the title, which was certainly imposed after its completion, reinforce the idea that this was a welcome return. Compositionally it is very like another very fine painting, Forgotten Island near Venice painted in the same year. Both paintings employ the same compositional elements of high horizon line, repeated vertical lines in the foreground to draw the eye upward and a floating moon above. The palette too is very similar so it would seem as if both paintings emerged from the same stream of consciousness, yet it is the differences that are most telling. The forgotten Adriatic island is barely defined, it has no features other than a blurred landmass and a serried line of bare trees, whereas Calary When We Came Back abounds in suggestions of detail from the wild vegetation in the foreground and the geological striations of the field to the house itself, with the moon emerging from the halo of mist to welcome the family back.Camille Souter always works in natural light conditions. She believes that artificial lighting distorts colour and asks that audiences be allowed to experience her work in naturally lit galleries. Garret Cormican, her biographer describes her life in Calary, where there was no electricity. Souter would paint from early morning but adamantly refused to work into the afternoon, saying, ‘ I like to work from first light until around 3 p.m.. Then I go back in the evening, but the light goes wrong in the afternoon. I hate afternoon light.’ That uncompromising integrity and discipline in relation to light is evident in every nuance in this painting. Calary was a place of great freedom for Souter and her husband the sculptor, Frank Morris. In an era which also celebrated the work of Jack Yeats, Paul Henry and Patrick Collins, the artist and critic Brian O’Doherty described Souter as one of the principal painters in Ireland to develop an atmospheric style of painting.Lady Angela Antrim, whose name is written on the back of the painting, bought work for Ulster Television, which like RTE built up an art collection in recognition of its role as a visual medium. It goes back to the time when the firm was founded in 1959. The late Theo Snoddy records that when the firm opened in Havelock House on the Ormeau Road in 1959, she told the Earl of Antrim, Chairman of the Board and her husband, ‘Look, you’ve got to get some pictures on the walls here because the place looks bare.’ Lady Antrim, an artist herself, clearly recognised quality as this is one of Souter’s finest works from an exceptionally productive period in her career. Because the early acquisitions were to embellish the building, they were not constrained to purchase Ulster art only, which later became a condition for collecting.Catherine MarshallAugust 2017
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Patrick Collins HRHA (1911-1994)Fields on the Mountain IOil on board, 60 x 76cm (23½ x 30'')SignedProvenance: 'Patrick Collins Exhibition', The Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, May 1967, Catalogue No.6, where purchased and thence by descent to current owner.Patrick Collins (1911 - 1994) was one of the most important painters of landscape in Ireland in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. His popularity was largely due to his unique depictions of a land shrouded in layers of mist that could read equally convincingly as wrapped in memory and mystery. As with Fields on the Mountain I (1967), his work rarely refers topographically but instead attempts to present an essential image of Ireland as a whole. This work and its companion piece Fields on the Mountain II, now in the collection of Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and shown in the touring exhibition, The Delighted Eye (1980) emerged from what is arguably Collins’s most successful and popular period, when his work became progressively more romantic and expressionist. Collins was largely self-taught, apart from evening classes at the National College of Art and occasional classes with the portrait painter, George Collie RHA, from whom he would have learned the rudiments of oil painting but little else, and he spoke of his interest in Jack .B. Yeats, Nathaniel Hone the Younger and Paul Henry among Irish artists. While his work was certainly influenced by Yeats and especially the older artist’s application of paint, his interest in the other two artists focused on their approach to landscape. He particularly admired Paul Henry for turning his back on possibly more lucrative subjects in the 1920s to concentrate on Irish bogs. Paul Henry and the 17th century Dutch artists who are largely credited with inventing landscape had an identifiable audience for their work in mind, people who no longer lived on the land or knew how to work it. Collins was not primarily interested in nostalgia and especially not urban nostalgia. He felt that he had no choice but to paint the Irish landscape. As he told Brian Lynch, ‘it’s the field I plough. I have nothing else’.Fields on the Mountain I repeats a number of essential elements that Collins identified in that landscape and employed with considerable subtlety. The absence of hard edges and right angles is a marked feature of this painting, as is the halo effect of light surrounding the cluster of fields and cottages in the middle distance. Apart from travellers, Collins rarely included a human presence in his landscapes. It is only hinted at here through the obvious signs of habitation and agriculture but he was particularly sensitive to the shimmering reflections of marshy ground and coastal inlets. All are cocooned here in a typical Collins motif, a virtual frame within a frame, of mottled soft grey-purple. This is symbolic of his vision of the island as a whole which despite a period spent living in France - remained his chosen ground. Frances Ruane, described him as ‘consciously isolationist’ in his painting and went on to say that ‘if there really is a Celtic imagination, Collins must have it. Catherine MarshallAugust 2017
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REPTON, H. Observations on The Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. T. Bensley for J. Taylor. 1803. Fo. frontis. port. Illustrations and engravings as listed. Complete with overslips. 2 small tears to margin of folding coloured plate. light offsetting. full cont. cf. glr. border & spines, dentelle inside. Books from the Library of John Ehrman
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KIPLING, Rudyard, The Light that Failed. J.B. LIppincott, monthly magazine,, 1890. cl. bds. Tog.with Independence. Rectorial Address delivered at St. Andrews, oCT. 10, 1923. Macmillan, 1923. 1/4 bds. Plus Mr. Yorick, [STERNE, Laurence] A Sentimental Journey Through France & Italy, Houghton Mifflin & co. 1905. 8vo. 1/2 bds. 3 From the Library of John Ehrman
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Warwickshire.- Dugdale (Sir William) The Antiquities of Warwickshire, first edition, presentation copy from author with ink inscription "Saml Hinton ex dono Authoris Jany. 4th 1656 Litchfeildis" on title, engraved portrait frontispiece by Hollar, title printed in red & black, 5 engraved double-page maps mounted on stubs, 10 plans & plates, other illustrations throughout, errata leaf at end but lacking final blank, a little cropped, frontispiece trimmed to plate mark and laid down, light water-staining to inner margins, some spotting and soiling, old marbled boards, rebacked in calf with gilt spine and morocco label, corners repaired, [Wing D2479], folio, Thomas Warren, 1656.
![[Avril (Louis, Abbé)], "M.L.M.". Temples Anciens et Modernes; ou Observations historiques et critiques sur les plus célèbres](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8766109f-1deb-4a16-a9ea-a7e0012ad58f/7fdf297b-45f4-4089-ca69-93f44a4fb8ae/468x382.jpg)
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[Avril (Louis, Abbé)], "M.L.M.". Temples Anciens et Modernes; ou Observations historiques et critiques sur les plus célèbres Monumens d'Architecture Grecque et Gothique, 2 parts in 1, half-titles, 7 folding engraved plates, charming woodcut architectural head-pieces, contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt, rubbed, corners worn, [Berlin Kat. 1899], London & Paris, Musier, 1774 § Warton (Rev. T.) & others. Essays on Gothic Architecture, third edition, folding engraved frontispiece, engraved plates, light foxing, modern boards, uncut, 1808; and 4 others, architecture, uniformly bound in modern boards, tall 8vo (6)
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Congreve (William) The Works, 3 vol., first Baskerville edition, engraved portrait and 5 plates, light foxing to first few leaves of 'The Old Bachelor' in vol.1 but otherwise a lovely clean copy, engraved bookplate of Francis Longe of Spixworth Park, Norfolk, contemporary calf, covers with Longe crest in gilt, a little rubbed, neatly rebacked preserving old gilt spines with roan labels, Birmingham, John Baskerville, for J. & R. Tonson, 1761 § Cibber (Colley) An Apology for the Life..., first edition, engraved portrait by G. Vander Gucht after Vanloo, a little soiled and browned, modern half calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, by John Watts for the Author, 1740 § Ruggle (George) Ignoramus, Comoedia, engraved frontispiece, woodcut plate, lightly browned, modern cloth, 1787; and 5 others, drama, 4to & 8vo (10) ⁂ Francis Longe (1689-35) or his eldest son and heir, also Francis (1726-76). The latter was an undergraduate at St Catherine's Hall in Cambridge where he met Richard Gardiner who later wrote the scandalous novellaThe History of Pudica, a Lady of N-rf-lk. With an Account of her Five Lovers... published in 1754. It includes an account of life at Spixworth Park. The house contained an extensive and notable library.
![Lear (Edward).- [Gray (John Edward)] Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall, 17 fine lithographed plates by](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8766109f-1deb-4a16-a9ea-a7e0012ad58f/b9f1d766-3647-4f6f-81f7-03faba079325/468x382.jpg)
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Lear (Edward).- [Gray (John Edward)] Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall, 17 fine lithographed plates by J.W. Moore (one by D.W. Mitchell) after drawings by Lear, hand-coloured by Bayfield, heightened with gum arabic, some very light spotting, front free endpaper detached, original cloth with gilt lettering to upper cover, a little spotted, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, later endpapers, [Nissen ZBI 1691, IVB 392; Fine Bird Books, p.79; Anker 189], folio, Knowsley, Privately Printed, 1846. ⁂ First edition of this magnificent work, one of only 100 copies printed. Edward Lear lived intermittently at Knowsley between 1831 and 1837, working principally on drawings of the birds and animals in the menageries maintained by Edward Smith Stanley, thirteenth Earl of Derby (Lord Stanley when he first employed Lear). Lord Derby's private zoo was one of the largest in England, occupying 170 acres and holding at his death in 1851, 1,272 birds and 345 mammals. Lear often spoke of his years at Knowsley as the happiest time of his life. He was immensely popular with the Stanley children and grandchildren, and it was to amuse them that he began composing his "Nonsense Books."
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Theatre and David Garrick.- Sayer (Robert) and John Smith of Cheapside. Dramatic characters, or different portraits of the English stage, two engraved titles in English and French, engraved dedication to David Garrick, contents leaf, 36 numbered plates only (of 38, lacking plate 5 and 38), hand-coloured engravings, by Charles Grignion, some after Johann Ludwig Wernhard Faesch and Zoffany, each plate approx. 95 x 75 mm. (3 3/4 x 3 in), each leaf 130 x 104 mm. (5 1/8 x 4 1/4 in), occasional spotting and light surface dirt, Robert Sayer and John Smith, circa 1770-75; [bound with] The Metamorphoses of Melpomene and Thalia, or Dramatic Characters of the French and Italian Comedies, two engraved titles in English and French, contents leaf in French, 19 plates only (of 30, lacking plates 5, 6, 9, 13, 14-18, 27-28), hand-coloured engravings, after Faesch, each plate approx. 95 x 80 mm. (3 3/4 x 3 1/4 in), each leaf 130 x 104 mm. (5 1/8 x 4 1/4 in), occasional spotting and light surface dirt, half calf, spine split, rubbed and worn, 12mo, Robert Sayer, [circa 1773]. ⁂ A rare collection of theatrical engravings, still with full margins as issued.
![[Walpole (Horace)] Aedes Walpolianae: or, a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk..., second](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8766109f-1deb-4a16-a9ea-a7e0012ad58f/ea411f10-c40c-4e50-b3ea-e9c7ea466714/468x382.jpg)
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[Walpole (Horace)] Aedes Walpolianae: or, a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk..., second edition, 2 engraved portraits, 2 folding engraved plates and 2 folding plans, a little browned, some light offsetting, modern half red morocco, by Bernard Middleton, spine gilt in compartments with green morocco label, 4to, [John Hughs], 1752. ⁂ Walpole's expanded description of his father Sir Robert Walpole's magnificent collection of paintings, the majority of which was sold to Catherine the Great of Russia after Sir Robert's death for over £40,000. The work includes 'A Sermon on Painting' by Horace Walpole and 'A Journey to Houghton..A poem. By the Reverend Mr. Whaley'.
![Ovidius Naso (Publius) Metamorphoseos Libri XV, ff. [40], 208, Italic type, woodcut printer's device to title and final verso](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8766109f-1deb-4a16-a9ea-a7e0012ad58f/8de3caa1-281c-44f2-f11f-ebd23a5ef2af/468x382.jpg)
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Ovidius Naso (Publius) Metamorphoseos Libri XV, ff. [40], 208, Italic type, woodcut printer's device to title and final verso, initial spaces with guide-letters, some light foxing, 19th century morocco, gilt, faded and rubbed, g.e., [Not in Adams; EDIT CNCE 28770], Venice, Heirs of Filippo Giunta I, September, 1522 § Bible, Latin. New Testament. Evangelium secundum Matthaeum secundum Marcum secundum Lucam secundum Johannem. Acta apostolorum. Breves variarum tralationum annotationes, adjecta veterum Latinorum exemplarium manuscriptorum diversa lectione, collation: a-z8, aa-cc8 dd4; A-T8 V4; à8, è8 (Adams calls for *4 after end of index, not present here or in another copy examined), title with woodcut printer's device, ruled throughout in red, a few passages or lines obliterated in ink, occasional spotting or staining, contemporary calf, covers with centre-pieces of twin dolphins surmounted by a coronet, rebacked, corners repaired, rubbed and stained, [Adams B1729; Renouard, Estienne, 51:2], Paris, Robert Estienne, October, 1541; and another, Aretino, probably printed in London, defective at end, 8vo (3) sold not subject to return.
![[Simond (Louis)] Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain...by a French Traveller, 2 vol., first English edition, 21](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8766109f-1deb-4a16-a9ea-a7e0012ad58f/d5992aa5-2dd1-4c00-fe85-0ce30a6542ac/468x382.jpg)
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[Simond (Louis)] Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain...by a French Traveller, 2 vol., first English edition, 21 hand-tinted aquatint plates by J. Clark after the author, 2 folding tables, engraved illustrations in text, 8pp. advertisements at end of vol.2, light cockling to beginning of vol.1 from damp but faint staining only affecting front endpapers, contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked, corners repaired, Edinburgh, George Ramsay, 1815 § Butcher (Rev. Edmund) An Excursion from Sidmouth to Chester, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved frontispiece, advertisement leaf at end of vol.2, contemporary half calf, red roan labels, 1805 § [Goldsmith (Oliver)] the Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq., first edition, engraved portrait, 2 advertisement leaves at end, contemporary calf, joints split, 1762 § Gostling (W.) A Walk in and about the City of Canterbury, third edition, title in red and black, signature at head, folding engraved map (lightly foxed), N gathering bound in preliminaries, modern cloth-backed boards, uncut, old paper label preserved on upper cover, Canterbury, 1799, slightly rubbed; and 3 others, topography, 8vo et infra (9)
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De Nobleville (Arnault) Aedologie ou traite du rossignol franc, ou chanteur, first edition, Bradley Martin copy with his bookplate, 2 engraved folding plates, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, upper joint cracked but holding firm, Paris, Debure, 1751 § Savigny (Jules-Cesar) Histoire naturelle et mythologique de l'ibis, engraved title vignette, 6 engraved plates (2 folding), occasional light spotting, bookplates "E. Bibl. Radcl." with "Sold by Authority" ink stamp at foot and of Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked preserving original backstrip, Paris, Allais, 1805, 8vo (2) ⁂ John Radcliffe (1650-1714), physician and philanthropist, he left the bulk of his estate to University College in trust for building and operating a library.
![[Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de)] Recueil des Faceties Parisiennes, Pour les Six premiers mois de l'an 1760, first editio](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8766109f-1deb-4a16-a9ea-a7e0012ad58f/453bdf76-bd23-481c-875c-f53fee1131aa/468x382.jpg)
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[Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de)] Recueil des Faceties Parisiennes, Pour les Six premiers mois de l'an 1760, first edition, divisional titles, errata f. at end, final f. blank, woodcut head - and tail-pieces and initials. some light browning and spotting, contemporary limp boards, lacking backstrip, later paper to covers, 8vo, [Cramer], [Geneva], 1760. ⁂ Rare first edition of a collection of Voltaire's (and others) defence of Enlightenment thought. It was a reaction to a speech by Jean-Jacques Lefranc at the Académie Française, which voiced counter-Enlightenment tendencies. Of particular note is Voltaire's passionate defence of Diderot and d'Alembert, against criticism by Pallisot. The work also includes contributions by De la Condamine and Morellet.
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Mongolia.- Carruthers (Douglas) Unknown Mongolia. A Record of Travel and Exploration in North-West Mongolia and Dzungaria, 2 vol., first edition, John F. Baddeley's copy with his pencil note and marginalia, 4 folding maps, 162 photo illustrations on 128 plates, including 11 folding panoramas, some light foxing, original blue cloth, stained and rubbed, 8vo, 1913. ⁂ An excellent association copy. John Frederick Baddeley was a British traveller, journalist and scholar, best remembered for his works on the Caucasas region and Russia, particularly his monumental Russia, Mongolia, China, 1919 (see lot 121).The volumes were presented to him by Sir William Mather, the British industrialist and politician and to whom his 1919 work is dedicated, 'To my friend John Baddeley with the wish that the year 1914 may record the success of his Magnum opus on ancient Mongolia...'. Beneath this inscription Baddeley wrote in 1932 'Sir William Mather's writing. The war delayed publication of my book till 1919. I first met Carruthers at dinner at Mather's home in Kensington Palace Gardens, in, I think, 1913. John F. Baddeley, Oxford, 8 Sept. 1932'.
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Gilpin (Rev. William) The Last Work published...representing the Effect of a Morning, a Noon Tide, and an Evening Sun, first edition, half-title 'Gilpin's Day', 30 hand-tinted aquatint plates after Gilpin, one or two plates with small spots, light marginal soiling, text lightly browned, modern calf-backed marbled boards, small folio, Edward Orme, 1810.
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Italy.- Quadri (Antonio) La Piazza di San Marco in Venezia considerata come Monumento d'Arte e di Storia, engraved additional title and16 fine hand-coloured engraved plates, some heightened in gold, occasional light foxing, engraving of doge and horse statue retained from original boards and laid down to endpapers, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, oblong folio, Venice, Dalla Tipographia de Commercio, 1831. ⁂ A fine series of views, Quadri produced a number of similar works on Venice for visitors to his native city.
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Yorkshire.- Whitaker (Thomas Dunham) An History of Richmondshire..., 2 vol., 45 engraved portraits, plates and plans including some after Turner, 4 hand-coloured, tissue guards, genealogical tables, some double-page, with publisher's lithographed note to subscribers loosely inserted at beginning, extra-illustrated with 4 original watercolour views, 7 engraved portraits and one view, most tipped into blank leaves, watercolours captioned in pencil, foxing to plates, contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old spines, corners repaired, London & Leeds, 1823; An History of the Original Parish of Whalley..., engraved plates, 2 folding, and folding engraved map, light browning, contemporary mottled calf, red roan label, repairs to lower joint, Blackburn, 1801; The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven..., engraved portrait and plates, folding genealogical tables, some foxing, modern half calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, uncut, 1805, first editions, folio & 4to (4) ⁂ The watercolours in the first depict Redmire Chapel, Redmire, Low Bolton Farm and Thornton Rust; the additional engravings include a rare folio broadside of 1752 about Henry Jenkins "who lived to the surprizing Age of 169" with an etched portrait by Thomas Worlidge.
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Africa.- Stigand (Capt. and Mrs. C.H.) Cooking for Settler and Trekker, illustrations, pencil annotations, occasional faint spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to extremities, [1920] § Cranworth (Lord) A Colony in the Making, first edition, frontispiece, plates, large folding map, occasional light spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to extremities, 1912; Kenya Chronicles, uncorrected proof copy, occasional spotting, original paper wrapper with printed label to upper cover, rubbed, a little spotted, slight chipping to extremities, 1939; and 12 others, similar, 8vo (15) ⁂ The first is scarce with only 5 copies on COPAC.
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White (Rev. Gilbert) The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, second edition, 2 half-titles with engraved vignette, folding engraved frontispiece, 8 engraved plates (one hand-coloured) and a tail-piece, frontispiece with short tear at edge repaired, plates a little foxed and offset, light water-staining to a few leaves towards end, contemporary mottled calf, a little rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine and green roan label, 1813; The Works, in Natural History... [with] a Calendar and Observations by W.Markwick, 2 vol., lacking half-titles, with 4 engraved plates, 2 folding, 2 hand-coloured, some light foxing, engraved bookplate of Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey of Wrest Park, attractive contemporary sprinkled calf, spines gilt with red and blue morocco labels, very slightly rubbed at edges, 1802, 4to & 8vo (3) ⁂ Thomas Philip de Grey (2nd Earl de Grey, KG, PC, FRS 1781-1859), politician who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1841-44. He was also an amateur architect, rebuilding his seat Wrest Park at Silsoe, Beds. in the French style, advising on the development of both Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament, and in 1834 he became the first president of the newly established Royal Institute of British Architects.
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Africa.- Gregory (J.W.) The Great Rift Valley, first edition, colour frontispiece, 20 plates, 2 folding maps, illustrations, advertisement leaf at end, ink inscription, original decorative cloth, rebacked, abrasion mark to upper cover, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken pp.87-88], 1896 § White (Stewart Edward) The Rediscovered Country, frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, with small tear, original cloth, slight bumping to extremities, c.1915 § Wilson (Lady Sarah) South African Memories, portrait frontispiece, portraits, cracked hinge, occasional light spotting, 16pp. advertisements at end, original cloth, bumping and splitting to spine (repaired), bumping to extremities, 1909; and 8 others, similar, 8vo (11)
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London (Jack) Hearts of Three, first edition, bookplates, original cloth, dust-jacket, price-clipped, minor chipping to spine ends nad corners, light creasing to head and foot, a little rubbed but excellent overall, 8vo, New York, 1920. ⁂ London's last finished novel, published posthumously and scarce in the dust-jacket.
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Utopias & imaginary heavens & hells.- Doni (Anton Francesco) Mondi Celesti, Terrestri et Infernali, de gli Academici Pellegrini..., collation: a8 A-Z Aa-Dd8, italic type, title with large woodcut printer's device, woodcut portrait of the author and historiated initials, final f. blank, some spotting or light foxing, contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, lacking ties, lightly soiled, Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567. ⁂ Doni's description of imaginary worlds, heavens and hells, including a utopia influenced by Thomas More. Literature: Adams D826; Gibson 665; EDIT 16 CNCE 17713. Provenance: Johann Lerchenfeld (an inscription describing the purchase of this volume, dated Padua, 1569).
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Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) How I Found Livingstone, second edition, half-title (3 holes, repaired), photographic frontispiece (ink stamp to verso, water-stain to corner), 3 folding maps and plans only (of 5), 2 with small tear, some tender edges, occasional light finger soiling, 1872 § Livingstone (David) Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first edition, folding frontispiece (tear, repaired), final plate torn and repaired, 1 folding map (small tear), occasional light spotting, 1857; The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, 2 folding maps, marginal water-staining throughout, pencil annotations, 1874; plates and illustrations, later half-calf, [Hosken p.126]; and 3 others, by Livingstone or Stanley, 8vo (7)
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Swayne (G.) Gramina Pascua: or,...The Common Pasture Grasses..., 6 ff. containing 19 actual samples of grasses, each with printed titles in Latin and English, some light offsetting, errata slip laid down on final f., bookplate, contemporary half calf, gilt, folio, Bristol, for the author, by S. Bonner, 1790. ⁂ An excellent copy of a rare provincially printed specimen book, allegedly only 200 copies were printed and the grass samples were picked and prepared by three of the author's daughters,
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Williams (Charles, artist) Life High & Low. By the Author of The Greeks, Pigeons, Fashion..., fifth edition, 6 hand-coloured etched plates by Williams, lightly browned, A.M.Cohn's copy with his Cruikshank bookplate 'Connoisseurs at a Book Stall', later polished calf, gilt, by Morrell, spine gilt in compartments with red and green morocco labels, t.e.g., others uncut, J.J.Stockdale, 1819 § Stevens (G.A.) A Lecture on Heads, first edition, half-title with advertisement on verso, folding hand-coloured etched frontispiece of a theatre, 24 etched plates of heads, all by Thomas Rowlandson after G.M.Woodward, frontispiece soiled and cropped at foot with loss to imprint (laid down), light soiling and offsetting, later half blue morocco, spine gilt, g.e., joints slightly rubbed, 1808, 12mo (2) ⁂ The first is one of several editions but all are scarce. COPAC lists only 4 copies in total and only one of this fifth edition, in the British Library. Albert M.Cohn, collector and bibliographer of George Cruikshank.
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Voyages.- Hondius (Jodocus) Franciscus Draeck nobilissimus Eques Angliæ ano æt sue 43, portrait of Sir Francis Drake, half-length, second state, engraving, on laid paper with indistinct text-based watermark, sheet 395 x 307 mm. (15 1/2 x 12 1/8 in), trimmed just within the platemark, small repaired tear to lower margin, minor surface dirt and light browning, reworked and published by George Vertue, [1538, but later impression from first half of the 18th century]. ⁂ A particularly fine, contemporary portrait of Sir Francis Drake, celebrating his circumnavigation of the World. The portrait is understood to have been engraved by Jodocus Hondius during his residency in London, but with additional shading to the background by George Vertue added to the copper plate in the early 18th century.
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Middle East.- Bounieu (Michel Honoré, 1740-1814) L'Odalisque, or L'Amusement du Sultan, mezzotint, on thick laid paper without watermark, unlettered proof state, platemark 377 x 485 mm. (14 3/4 x 19 1/8 in), sheet 393 x 530 mm. (15 1/2 x 20 7/8 in), lower edge trimmed just within the platemark, some spotting and browning, with light damp-stain upper right, minor nicks and tears, unframed, [circa 1785-1790].
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[Burney (Frances)] Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth, 5 vol., first edition, vol.1 with list of subscribers, and advertisement leaf at end, contemporary ink inscription or signature at head of titles, some light foxing, mostly at beginning and end, a few minor tears and defects, most marginal but H3, 9 & 10 slightly affecting text, H10 lacking small portion of outer margin just touching edge of text, contemporary calf, new red morocco labels, slightly rubbed, spines browned, [Rothschild 550-551], 12mo, T.Payne, 1796. ⁂ Jane Austen, Sir Joseph Banks, Edmund Burke, Sir William Chambers, Maria Edgeworth, Warren Hastings, Nevil Maskelyne, Hannah More, Mrs Piozzi, Mrs. Radcliffe and Humphry Repton all appear in the extensive list of subscribers. Austen refers to Camilla in Northanger Abbey.
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Los 21
[Bunbury (Henry William)], "Geoffrey Gambado". An Academy for Grown Horsemen, fourth edition, lacking half-title,12 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates by W.Dickinson after the author, 1812; Annals of Horsemanship, half-title, 17 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates after the author, frontispiece shaved and folding at foot, 1812, together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional light soiling, later red straight-grained morocco, gilt, by Wallis, spine gilt, g.e, very slightly rubbed at edges, 4to
Los 534
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Mr Tod, first edition, first edition, first or second printing with date on title, dated by the author "Oct. 15th 1912" below the dedication, colour frontispiece and 14 colour plates, plain title vignette and illustrations in text, very light spotting and some finger-soiling, original grey boards with mounted colour illustration, slight shelf-lean, spine browned and chipped at head, light marking, [Linder p.429; Quinby 21], 16mo, 1912. ⁂ The dedication of The Tale of Mr Tod reads "For William Francis of Ulva - someday!". William Francis here refers to Francis William Clark (also the recipient of the inscribed copy in the next lot), the then two-year-old son of her cousin, Carolin Hutton who's husband was the Laird of Ulva. It is very unusual to find a copy inscribed by Potter in this manner and implies that this is the dedication copy.
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Los 521
Fleming (Ian) [The James Bond Novels], 14 vol., first paperback editions, light browning to margins, original pictorial wrappers, On He Majesty's Secret Service with "60c" price to upper cover, a few spine a little creased and browned, some light rubbing to extremities but excellent or near-fine examples overall, preserved in custom velvet-lined slip-case, 8vo, Pan, 1955-67.
Los 157
Africa.- Hatton (Frank) North Borneo Explorations and Adventures on the Equator, frontispiece, plates, illustrations, large folding map (1 tear), 32pp. advertisements at end, ink inscription, occasional light spotting, a little rubbed, 1885 § Hall (R. N.) Great Zimbabwe Mashonaland, Rhodesia, frontispiece, plates, illustrations, folding colour map, ink inscription, occasional light spotting, 1905 § Lugard (Sir F. D.) The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa, occasional light foxing, light soiling to upper cover, 1922; first editions, original cloth, slight bumping to extremities; and 9 others, similar, 8vo (12)
Los 244
Archer (Sir Geoffrey) and Eva M. Godman. The Birds of British Somaliland and the Gulf of Aden, 4 vol., 28 colour plates after Archibald Thorburn, folding maps, bookplate of Peter Tate, original cloth, dust-jackets, light fading to spines, otherwise a fine set, 1937-61 § Chapin (James P.) The Birds of the Belgian Congo, 4 vol., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History vol.LXV, LXXV, 75a & 75b, vol.2 with colour frontispiece after G.E.Lodge, plates and illustrations, folding map, occasional ink notes to margins, titles a little browned and spotting, modern red crushed half morocco, spine gilt with bird motifs, New York, 1932-54 § Jackson (Sir Frederick John) The Birds of Kenya Colony and The Uganda Protectorate, 3 vol., portrait frontispiece, folding colour map and 24 colour plates after G.E.Lodge, captioned tissue-guards, original cloth, 1938; and 5 others, birds of Africa, 8vo (16)
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Los 20
[Bunbury (Henry William)], "Geoffrey Gambado". An Academy for Grown Horsemen, 2 parts in 1 vol., first Rowlandson edition, 29 hand-coloured etched plates by Rowlandson after Bunbury, lightly browned, text foxed and with offsetting from plates, modern bookplate of Woods Price, later half morocco, uncut, spine slightly faded, rubbed, 1809; another edition, first edition, stipple-engraved frontispiece and 16 plates by W.Dickinson after the author, light soiling, crease to lower margin of title, tear to outer margin of E2 (repaired), contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered in calf, spine gilt, for W.Dickinson, 1787, 8vo & small folio (2)
Los 203
Big Game.- Willoughby (Captain Sir John C.) East Africa and its Big Game, first edition, plates (3 loose), folding map (short tear), occasional light spotting, 1889 § Dickinson (Captain F. A.) Big Game Shooting on the Equator, first edition, plates, cracked hinges, slight shelf-lean, 1908 § Maxwell (Marius) Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa, first English edition, limited to 500 copies, plates, folding map, 1925; frontispieces, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Czech p.175, p.48, p.109]; and 11 others, Big Game, v.s. (14)
Los 68
Rackham (Arthur).- Goldsmith (Oliver) The Vicar of Wakefield, number 93 of 575 copies for England signed by the artist, from an edition limited to 775, 12 colour plates, illustrations, original vellum, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 1929 § Walton (Izaak) The Compleat Angler, 12 colour plates, captioned tissue guards, illustrations, light spotting to first few leaves, original green cloth, gilt, spine slightly faded, Philadelphia, [1931], all plates and illustrations by Arthur Rackham, 4to (2)
Los 175
Africa.- Patterson (Lt.-Col. J.H.) In the Grip of the Nyika, first edition, illustrations, maps, occasional light spotting, [Czech p.126] 1909 § Hattersley (C. W.) The Baganda at Home, first edition, frontispiece, plates (some loose), occasional spotting, ink inscription, 1908 § Fisher (Mrs A. B.) Twilight Tales of the Black Baganda, frontispiece, plates, n.d.; original cloth, slight bumping to extremities, n.d.; and 15 others, similar, 8vo (18)
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Baskerville (John).- Virgilius Maro (Publius) Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, first Baskerville edition with J of "Johannis" positioned between B & I in imprint, list of subscribers, some light foxing, mostly at beginning and end, extensive ink manuscript notes in French on front free endpaper, early letterpress book-label of Samuel De Tournes and other old labels to front pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, a little rubbed, especially corners, repairs to joints, preserved in modern board slip-case, [Gaskell 1], 4to, Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1757.
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