Antiquarian literature Collection of editions of Greek and Latin classics, 17th-19th century Quintilian. De institutione oratoria … emendavit … Edmundus Gibson. Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano impensis Henrici Cruttenden, 1693. 4to, contemporary mottled calf stamped in blind, imprimatur leaf, front board partly detached; Plautus. Comoediae … ex recensione Joh. Frederici Gronovii. Leiden: ex officina Hackiana, 1669. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, engraved title-page to volume 1, half-title to volume 2; Kennett, Basil. Romae Antiquae Notitia: or, the Antiquities of Rome … The Third Edition revised, corrected, and augmented with New Sculptures. Oxford: at the Theater, for Timothy Child, and Robert Knaplock, 1704. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf ruled in blind, engraved portrait frontispiece, 12 engraved folding plates (collation not established), errata leaf; Sallust. Opera Omnia excusa ad editionem Cortii cum editionibus Havercampi et Gabrielis Antonii collatam. London: T. & T. Payne, 1789. 8vo, contemporary calf, printed on thick paper (possibly a large-paper copy), Murray family gift inscription on initial blank, wear to headcap; Cicero. Thoughts, on the Following Subjects, viz. I. Religion. … XII. Miscellaneous Thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English Translation, with Notes. London: for J. Newbery, and R. Griffiths, 1750. 12mo, contemporary calf, contemporary bookplate of Alexander Bower of Methie, ownership inscription ‘John Bower, Rutland Regt’ to margin of p. 94; and 13 others similar, including editions of Homer, Tacitus, Arrian, etc., all British imprints, leather-bound (26) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.
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India Collection of Indian imprints and manuscripts [Indian big-game hunting]. Two manuscript hunting diaries kept by one M. W. Selby Lowndes, 1924-6. The first 4to, contemporary roan-backed boards, approx. 100 pp., titled on first page ‘2 months leave - a shoot in the Himalayas, 1924’, describing a journey from Nowshera via Lahore and Dehradun to various Himalayan stations including Mandali, species taken including red bear (i.e. Himalayan brown bear), tahr, bharal, etc., binding shaken, the second 8vo, contemporary cloth-backed boards, approx. 90 pp., titled on front pastedown ‘Diary of a month’s shoot in the Central Provinces India, April & May 1926', full-page sketch-map, species taken including bison, wild dog, sambar, tiger, etc. Together with related ephemera including a lengthy draft letter written from the Royal Artillery camp at Meerut apparently by the author; [Princely State of Hunza]. The Autobiography of Sir Mohomed Nazim Khan, K.C.I.E., Mir of Hunza, c.1950?. Copy typescript, 4to, 145 pp., 16 photographic plates, wire-stitched in buff card wrappers, ownership inscription ([C. […] Biscoe') dated 1956 on front wrapper, inscribed on the title-page ‘With best wishes to … ?Biscoe, the Khan’; Jyotishi, T. P. [Bengali title.] Ascension of Edward VII to Heaven. (A Dirge.) With Illustrations. Calcutta: K. P. Mookerjee & Co., 1911. First edition, 8vo, original grey cloth lettered in black, introduction in English, main text in Bengali, 11 halftone photographic plates with green tissue-guards; Karna, Lalchand Nawalrai. Western World Travels. Hyderabad: printed by Kethmal Parsram Gulrajat at the Blavatsky Press, and published by Mr. Lalchand Navalrai Karna, 1927. First edition, 8vo, xiv 120 xxxv pp., original wrappers (spine reinforced), inscribed on the front wrapper ‘With regards from [author’s printed name], To Balak Ram Esqr I.C.S'; [Lawrence, Sir Walter]. Ruling Princes and Chiefs of India. Bombay: The Times of India Press, 1930. First edition, folio, recent library cloth, 2 portrait frontispieces in colour (George V and Lord Halifax), photographic illustrations throughout, cancelled library stamp and withdrawal stamps to front endpapers; [India]. [Pamphlet volume, including:] Foreign Travel and Hindu Shastras. Judgment in the Benares Caste Case, 1911, Allahabad: Leader Press, 1912, 105 pp.; Social Reform on Shastric Lines … by A. Mahadeva Sastri, Mysore: published by the author, 1909, xxiii 104 pp.; Appreciation of the Author's Essays on “Vedi Law of Marriage” and “Vedic Religion and Caste” [drop-head title], 12 pp.; Vedic Religion and Caste … by A. Mahadeva Sastri, Mysore: published by the author, 1908, 71 pp.; and 3 others similar. 8vo, contemporary cloth, backstrip perished, rear board detached; Sanyal, Ram Bramha. A Hand-Book of the Management of Animals in Captivity in Lower Bengal. Calcutta: printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press, 1892. First edition, one of 1,000 copies according to the printer's slug on the final page, 8vo, original cloth-backed printed boards; [Indian postal history.] Smith, Stephen. Indian Air-Ways. Part I [II … III]. Calcutta: Kuntaline Press, 1926-30. First edition, 3 volumes, small 8vo, original wrappers, part 2 inscribed on the title-page by the author; Ward, William. A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology, of the Hindoos. Serampore: Mission Press, 1818. Second edition, volume 1 only (of 2), 4to, near-contemporary half calf, restored paper-loss to head of title-page just touching one letter, damp-staining to rear; and 5 others, all Indian imprints (15)
Walpole, Horace Anecdotes of Painting in England … with Considerable Additions by the Rev. James Dallaway. London: at the Shakespeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major, 1826-8. 5 volumes, large 8vo, 20th-century blue crushed half morocco by Riviere & Son, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, all plates as called for (engravings on india paper, mounted). Together with 5 others (these not fully collated), including: John Kay, A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Edinburgh, 1837 (2 volumes, 4to, contemporary half morocco, numerous etched plates, with 2 autograph notes signed by the editor Hugh Paton, one mounted to volume 2 front free endpaper, relating to the printing of the work and initialled ‘HP’, the other laid in, concerning the portrait of ‘Campbell the precentor’ and signed H. Paton); Lionel Cust, The National Portrait Gallery, 1902 (first edition, one of 750 copies, 5 volumes, 4to, contemporary red crushed morocco gilt by Maclehose of Glasgow, top edges gilt, japon doublures); The Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland, Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston, Limited, 1906 (one of 540 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, chromolithographic plates of tartan patterns); and similar (17) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman.
Scots law Collection of works, 16th-19th century Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland. [Sammelband of laws and acts of parliament passed at Edinburgh]. Edinburgh: various publishers, 1661-72. 7 works in one volume, folio, contemporary sheep, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary annotations and Murray family ownership inscriptions to endpapers and blanks, binding slightly worn with loss to foot of spine. Contents comprise: 1) The Laws and Acts of the First Parliament of our most High and Dread Soveraign, Charles the Second … holden at Edinburgh the First of January, 1661. Re-printed by Andrew Anderson, 1673. 118 [2] pp.; 2) Laws and Acts past in the Second Session of the First Parliament, of … Charles the Second. Re-printed by Andrew Anderson, 1673. 23 [1] pp.; 3) Laws and Acts passed in the Second Session of the First Parliament, of … Charles the Second. Printed by Evan Tyler, 1663. 44 [12] pp.; 4) Acts rescinding two Acts past in the last Session of Parliament: the one for excepting of persons from Publick Trust; and the other for voting the same by Billets. Edinburgh, the ninth of September, 1663 [drop-head title]. 3 pp.; 5) The Laws and Acts of the Second Parliament, of … Charles the Second. Printed by Evan Tyler, 1670. 44 [4] pp.; 6) Laws and Acts past in the Second Session of the Second Parliament, of … Charles the Second. Printed by Evan Tyler, 1670. 16 [3] pp.; 7) Laws and Acts past in the Third Session of the Second Parliament, of … Charles the Second. Printed by Andrew Anderson, 1672. 16 21-66 [5] pp., (lacking pp. 17-20); [Skene, Sir John]. The Lawes and Actes of Parliament, maid be King James the First, and his Successours Kinges of Scotland […] De verborum significatione. Edinburgh: Robert Waldegrave, 1597. Folios in sixes, [2] 162, 178 [98] ff., pi2 a-2d6 A-2G6, ²A-²D4 ²E6-²F6 ²G2 ²H-²S6 ²T4, 19th-century panelled sheep, with the autograph signature of John Skene ‘Jo. Skene’) to end of Table (²E5), with the folding genealogy ‘The Race of the Kings of Scotland’, retaining medial blanks e1 h4 n2, 2D4 ²E6, various contemporary annotations and pen-trials to title-page (including that of James Murray), binding worn, joints cracked, without the engraved title-page and accompanying explanatory leaf as usual, letterpress title-page laid down, second leaf extended along margins, dedication leaf ‘Serenissimo et invictissimo principi Jacobo Sexto' misbound between ff. 177 and 178 (presumably intended as a prelim) [STC 21877]; and 11 others (not collated, comprising: Sir John Skene, Regiam Majestatem, [1609], first edition, later panelled sheep, joints cracked, losses and paper repairs to outer leaves including title-page, loss to final leaf of text; [Sammelband of numerous Court of Session rulings etc. concerning Archibald Douglas of Douglas and the Duke of Hamilton and others, 1760s], 4to, contemporary half sheep, worn; Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton, The Right of Succession to the Kingdom of England, 1703, first edition, folio, contemporary calf, gilt spine, damp-staining; Sir John Clerk, Historical View of the Forms and Powers of the Court of the Exchequer in Scotland, 1820, 4to, contemporary calf, front board near-detached; House of Commons Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee of the whole House upon the Conduct of His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, 1 February 1809, folio, contemporary marbled calf, boards detached; [Jacobite Uprising of 1745], The Report of the Proceedings and Opinion of the Board of General Offices on their Examination into the Conduct … of Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope … [etc.], 1749, 4to, contemporary half calf, front board detached; Gilbert Hutcheson, Treatise on the Offices of Justice of Peace [etc.], 1809, second edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf; Memoir of the Life and Trial of James Mackcoull … containing a Full Account of his Trial … for robbing the Branch of the Paisley Union Bank at Glasgow of Twenty Thousand Pounds. Edinburgh, 1822, 8vo, contemporary half calf, front joint cracked; The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, Commonly called Lord Cochrane … for a Conspiracy, London, 1814, 8vo, contemporary half calf, another work bound in at rear; and 2 similar) (16) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.
First World War poets and novelists Collection of works Graves, Robert. Over the Brazier. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1916. First edition, first impression, 4to, original wrappers, housed in a custom green calf-backed solander box, wrappers darkened and with creasing to edges; Brooke, Rupert. Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1911. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue cloth, paper spine-label, tips slightly bumped; Idem. 1914 and Other Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1915. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue cloth, paper spine-label, photogravure portrait frontispiece of Rupert Brooke in profile (with tissue-guard), housed in custom blue morocco-backed slipcase and matching chemise; Rosenberg, Isaac. Poems. Selected and Edited by Isaac Rosenberg. Selected and Edited by Gordon Bottomley. With an Introductory Memoir by Laurence Binyon. London: William Heinemann, 1922. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original black cloth with paper spine-label, halftone portrait frontispiece, dust jacket (slightly toned in places, rubbing to corners); Gurney, Ivor. Severn & Somme. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1917. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original red boards, printed spine-label, spine sunned and rubbed, headcap worn, sunning to head of front board, small worm-track to foot of pp. 21/2, gradually ramifying and extending into rear board; Sitwell, Edith (editor). Wheels 1919. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original cloth-backed pictorial boards; Aldington, Richard. Death of a Hero. A Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1929. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket (toned, spine-panel browned and chipped), spotting to gutter of prelims including title-page; and 1 other (8)
English books Group of English imprints, 17th-18th century [Monsey, R.]. Scarronides: or, Vigile Travestie, a Mock-Poem. Being the Second [ … Seventh] Book of, Virgils Aeneis, translated into English Burlesq. London: Thomas Mabb, for Robert Clavel, 1665. First edition, 8vo, 102 [2] pp., contemporary blind-ruled sheep, section-title to p. [45], advertisement leaf to rear, binding worn, title-page spotted and chipped without loss of text, early ownership inscription of Anthony Murray [Wing M2455]; [Tasso, Torquato]. Godfrey of Bulloigne: or the Recovery of Jerusalem. Done into English Heroical Verse, by Edward Fairfax. London: J. M. for Ric. Chiswell [and others], 1687. 8vo, contemporary speckled calf, worming and damp-staining, K2 torn across upper fore corner, Murray family ownership inscriptions [Wing T174B]; [Neo-Latin]. Carminum proverbialium totius humanae vitae statum breviter delineantium. London: excudebat R. N. impensis Richardi Thrale, 1654. 8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked at an early date, Murray family ownership inscriptions, bookplate (Murray Esqr of Crieff) [Wing I11]; Barclay, John. Joannis Barclaii Argensis. Editio Novissima. Cum clave. Oxford: excudebat I. L. impensis Thomae Huggins, 1634. 12mo, [30] 705 [9] pp., contemporary blind-ruled calf, lacking endpapers, loss to head of title-page, small holes in F1 and L10 [STC 1391]; Barber, Mary. Poems on Several Occasions. London: C. Rivington, 1735. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf [Rothschild 345 for the first edition, 1734]; [Goldsmith, Lewis]. The Female Revolutionary Plutarch. London: for John Murray, 1806-6-5. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, stipple-engraved portrait frontispieces of Josephine Bonaparte, Marie Antoinette and the Princess of Lamballe, 4 pp. advertisements, contemporary bookseller's ticket (A. & I. Black and H. Parry, 7 Leadenhall Street) to front pastedown of volume 1; [Gregory, John]. A Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man, with those of the Animal World. London: J. Dodsley, 1766. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf; and 16 others (all in contemporary calf, not collated, including: John Barclay, Euphormionis Lusini, Oxford, 1634, defective, with loss to a few leaves; Shaftesbury, Characteristicks, 1749, 3 volumes, engraved title-page; Cervantes, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote, Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1771, 4 volumes in 2, engraved frontispieces; Parnell, Poems on Several Occasions, Glasgow, 1748; The Muses Library, or a Series of English Poetry, 1741; Pufendorf, An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe, 1728; Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1795; Tooke, The Pantheon, representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods, 1784, engraved frontispiece; and similar) (31) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.
[Perronet, Jean-Rodolphe] [Description des projets et de la construction des ponts de Neuilly, de Mantes, d'Orleans et autres] [Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1788]. Second edition, plate volume only, large folio (59 x 41cm), 20th-century half morocco, engraved portrait, 74 engraved plates (numbered 1-73, with 3 plates numbered 34, but lacking plate 59), mostly double-page, several also folding, all edges untrimmed, damp-stains to lower edges, plates 24-6 with light worming to central fold;Desgodetz, Antoine. Les edifices antiques de Rome … Gli edifizi antichi di Roma. Rome: Vincenzo Poggioli, 1822. Folio, contemporary cloth, 137 engraved plates, rear joint split;Roy, William. The Military Antiquities of the Romans in North Britain. Published by the order, and at the expense of, the Society of Antiquaries of London. London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1793. Large folio (53 x 35cm), 20th-century half calf, 50 engraved plates (of 51: lacking plate 35), marginal repairs to prelims;[Thomson, James. Atlas of Scotland. Edinburgh: for John Thomson & Co., 1832]. Folio, 20th-century half calf, 2 engraved plates ('A Comparative View of the Heights of the Principal Mountains of Scotland' and 'A Comparative View of the Lengths of the Principal Rivers of Scotland') both hand-coloured, 29 engraved maps, all folding, a few with inset town plans, many on multiple sheets, lacking title-page, crude tape-repairs to prelims and ‘A Comparative View of the Heights …’ plate (4) From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire. The first edition of Perronet's foundational work on bridge-building was published in 1782-3.
Portrait of a young woman in red cape,"The Bridesmaid" a Baxter print, in oval mount. 34x27cm approx. together with a framed convex glass Crystolium of a little Dutch girl on a beech. 24x16cm approx. And a devotional framed convex crystoleum of a woman. 12x10cm approx. Framed. (3) (B.P. 21% + VAT)
A 19th century continental yellow metal brooch or buckle, of oval form, centre set with a painted portrait miniature on ivory depicting Artemis with her bow leaning against a tree stump, within a seed pearl surround, being yellow metal backed and with bracelet catch to left hand side, unmarked but tests as approx 14/15ct gold, gross dimensions approx 30 x 27mm, 9.7gIvory submission ref: UKARTUM2
A carved carnelian pendant as a profile portrait of Mars the Roman God of War, 20 x 15mm, in stepped yellow metal mount, unmarked but tests as approx 14/15ct gold, on yellow metal belcher link neck chain, stamped 10 to the clasp and tests as approx 9/10ct gold, gross weight 13gSeveral chips to outside edges of carnelian, which can be seen in online images when magnified.Larger chip/missing piece from bottom right corner.‘Mars’ has been scratched into the back of the stone.Gap in top link at clasp.
Reginald Grenville Eves RA (1876-1941): oil on canvas, portrait of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), signed and dated 1924 UR, Philip Mould gallery labels verso, image 50 x 60cm, overall 70 x 80cm. In 1901, Eves had his first work shown at the Royal Academy. He exhibited in Paris several times and won a silver medal in 1924 and a gold medal in 1926 at the Paris Salon. He was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1933 and a Royal Academician in 1939. Eves established a successful society portrait practice in London and his subjects included Thomas Hardy, Sir Ernest Shackleton, George VI and Sir Max Beerbohm. Artist Resale Rights may apply Not available for in-house P&P
Roger Fry (1866 - 1934): oil on canvas portrait, Aldous Huxley, signed LL, image 30 x 40 cm, overall, 45 x 53 cm. Fry was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism. Fry's efforts significantly increased the profiles of artists such as Cézanne, Gauguin, and van Gogh. Artist Resale Rights may apply Not available for in-house P&P

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