Stafford, Sir Thomas Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced or, an Historie of the Late Warres of Ireland, especially within the Province of Mounster. London: printed by A[ugustine] M[athewes], 1633. First edition, second issue, folio (32.5 x 20.5cm), 20th-century half calf, 16 engraved plates (of 19: without the 2 portrait frontispieces and 'Map of Mounster'), extant plates comprising views of battles, castles and cities (Limerick, Yougal, Cork), 'A Map of the Siege of Kinsale' folding, 'A Map of Muskrey' single-page, the rest all double-page, title-page laid down, marginal repair to final leaf of prelims, small hole in 2D3, plates sometimes closely trimmed or frayed along edges, marginal damp-staining to pp. 1-50 and approx. 377-391 (end) affecting 3 plates, folding plate with discreet old repairs verso [ESTC S117457; STC 23132a]; Sprigg, Joshua. Anglia Rediviva; Englands Recovery: being the History of the Motions, Actions, and Successes of the Army under the Immediate Conduct of His Excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax, Kt. Captain-General of all the Parliaments Forces in England. London: by R. W. for John Partridge, 1647. First edition, folio (28 x 18.2cm), contemporary blind-ruled sheep, armorial woodcut frontispiece, folding engraved portrait, folding letterpress table, extremities worn, lacking plan (Battle of Naseby) and text-leaf L2, damp-staining to title-page and final few leaves, spill-burn in D1, short closed handling tears to folding portrait and table [ESTC R18123; Wing S5070]; [Davies, John]. The Civil Warres of Great Britain and Ireland. Containing an Exact History of their Occasion, Originall, Progress, and Happy End. By an Impartiall Pen. London: by R. W. for Philip Chetwind, 1661. First edition, folio (29 x 18.5cm), contemporary sprinkled sheep ruled in blind, rebacked and relined, front board detached, title-page in red and black, ownership inscription to front pastedown ('A. W. G. Lowther F.S.A., 1957'), browning [ESTC R9924; Wing D393]; and 7 others similar (these not collated): John Nalson, An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State, from the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion in the Year MDCXXXIX to the Murther of King Charles I, 1682 (first edition, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, 'Mind of the Frontispiece' leaf present, old repairs to spine-ends); Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, A Collection of Several Tracts, 1727 (first edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, The State Letters of Henry Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland during the Reign of J. James the Second, Oxford, 1763 (first edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary cat's-paw calf, volume 2 rebacked, inscribed 'The gift of the Right Honourable Lord Milton to John Armstrong of Tipperary July 1766' on initial blanks), [William Dugdale], A Short View of the Late Troubles in England, 1681 (folio, contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked, portrait discarded); Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafforde, Letters and Dispatches, Dublin, 1740 (2 volumes, folio, contemporary tree calf gilt, worn, endpapers renewed); Richard Musgrave, Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland, Dublin, 1801 (first edition, 4to, contemporary marbled calf, 10 engraved folding maps and plans, a few closed tears, binding worn, front board near detached); [Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, editor], Miscellaneous State Papers from 1501 to 1726, 1778 (first edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary tree calf, joints cracked, volume 2 front board detached, frontispiece offset) (14)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).
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Strada, Famiano De bello Belgico The History of the Low-Countrey Warres, Written in Latine. In English by Sr. Rob. Stapylton. London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1650. First edition in English, folio (28.8 x 17.3cm), modern leather, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Marshall, 13 further engraved portrait plates, toning, a few marks, frontispiece repaired recto, small worm-track in top margins from front to quire G and in lower margins from quire 3A to end, closed tear in M2, closed marginal tear to plate facing 2H4 [ESTC 24631; Wing S5777]; Fuller, Thomas. The Holy State [-The Profane State]. London: by John Redmayne for John Williams, 1663. Fourth edition, folio (28.2 x 18.5cm), modern half sheep, engraved additional title-page, engraved portraits throughout the text, early ink annotations and underlining, browning, marginal repair to H4, I5 with spill-burn affecting text verso, a few leaves (e.g. H4, N2, Y2, 2B4, 2C1, 2Q5) strengthened in gutter, worming in gutter of 2C-2F, bound after a defective copy of The Holy Warre, third edition, 1647, lacking at least the engraved title-page, retaining the folding map (loose, laid down, closed tear to one fold) [ESTC R15500; Wing F2446]; Idem. A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof. London: by J. F. for John Williams, 1650. First edition, folio (33.2 x 22cm), contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, 7 double-page engraved plates and plans (only), tear to foot of spine, front joint reinforced, engraved title image shaved along fore edge, quire A also trimmed, frontispiece bound after quire A and repaired in lower margin, shallow chips and some paper-thinning to fore margins of temple plans facing 2Q2 and 2T3, map of Midian facing 3C1 with short closed tear, marginal paper-reinforcement in index [ESTC R18096; Wing F2455]; Ralegh, Sir Walter. The History of the World. London: for G. Conyers [and others], 1736, Eleventh edition, folio (34.6 x 22cm), contemporary marbled sheep, 8 engraved folding maps by Emanuel Bowen, bound without portrait frontispiece, bindings worn along extremities, volume 1 joints cracked, volume 2 rebacked with original spine laid down, one map (facing p. 101) with strip of browning [ESTC T36544]; Whitelocke, Bulstrode. A Journal of the Swedish Ambassy, in the Years M.DC.LIII. and M.D.C.LIV. London: for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1772. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to (25.3 x 19.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, half-titles, worn, labels perished, spotting to front and rear, early labels of Greenock library to front pastedowns [ESTC T144829]; Davila, Arrigo Caterino. The History of the Civil Wars of France. A New Translation ... by Ellis Farneworth. London: for D. Browne [and others], 1758. First edition thus, 2 volumes, 4to (26.1 x 19.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, front joints slightly cracked [ESTC N8421: 7 UK copies; 'Printed by William Bowyer; his records show 500 copies printed']; and 3 others (these not collated): Paul Rapin de Thoyras, The History of England, 1743 (third edition in English, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary speckled calf, numerous engraved plates and maps, several folding, joints cracked, labels perishing); James Macpherson, An Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland, 1773 (third edition, 4to, contemporary calf); Vertot, The History of the Knights of Malta, 1728 (first edition in English, volume 2 only, folio, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, engraved portraits) (13)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).
17th-century England and English Civil War Collection of bindings, 19th century including: Lonsdale, John Lowther, Viscount. Memoir of the Reign of James II. York: T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1808. First edition, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, half-title, inscribed 'For Lord Redesdale, with Lord Lonsdale's Comps, Janr 23d 1808', recipient's ownership inscription to title-page, joints cracked); Whitaker, Thomas Dunham. The Life and Original Correspondence of Sir George Radcliffe, Knight, LL.D., the Friend of the Earl of Strafford. London: John Nichols and Son, 1810. First edition, 4to, contemporary calf gilt, marked, Syston Park bookplate; Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1836. New edition, 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, Clan Macaulay bookplates; Idem. The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon ... Written by Himself. Oxford: at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1759. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked; Vaughan, Robert, editor. The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, twin morocco labels, Eton leaving inscription; Calamy, Edmund. An Historical Account of My Own Life. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan half calf, merlion device gilt to spines, headcaps worn; [English Civil War]. Select Tracts relating to the Civil Wars in England, in the Reign of King Charles the First. London: R. Wilks, 1815. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, bookplates of Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe (1827-1899) re-imposed; and approx. 20 others similar (e.g. Gilbert Burnet, History of his own Time, 1766, third edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked, portrait; Godfrey Goodman, The Court of King James the First, 1839, 2 volumes; Memoirs of Robert Cary, Earl of Monmouth, 1808; William Lilly's History of his Life and Times, from the Year 1602 to 1681, 1823, contemporary straight-grain green morocco gilt, etc.), the lot sold as bindings, not subject to return (approx. 50 volumes)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).
![17th-century English books Collection of works on politics, theology, law and literature including: [Gunpowder Plot]. Actio i](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/103db3fe-7615-4ce5-8821-aead00b5a32c/82389717-e227-483c-a9a2-aeb400f739a5/468x382.jpg)
17th-century English books Collection of works on politics, theology, law and literature including: [Gunpowder Plot]. Actio in Henricum Garnetum Societatis Jesuiticae in Anglia ... omnia ex Anglico à G. Camdeno Latinè versa. London: John Norton, 1607. First edition in Latin, 4to (17.8 x 14cm), 18th-century calf, title-page with armorial stamp in red ink and contemporary ink inscription (faded), contemporary marginalia and underlining, 19th-century bookplate (R. M. Beverley), initial and final blanks discarded, light browning, a few spots and marks, rear inner hinge gone [ESTC S102858; STC 11620]; Doddridge, Sir Robert, & others. The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquarian, viz. Mr. Justice Doddridge, Mr. Agar, Francis Tate, WIlliam Canden [sic], and Joseph Holland. Touching the Proceedings of the High-court of Parliament in English. London: William Leake, 1658. First edition, small 8vo (14 x 8cm), contemporary sheep, unidentified earl's crest gilt to spine, retaining initial blank and terminal advertisement leaf, bookplate (baron's coronet, name Sinclair, motto 'fide sed pugna'), spine worn [ESTC R210130]; 'Philanax Misopappas'. Rawleigh Redivivus; or the Life and Death of the Right Honourable Anthony Late Earl of Shaftesbury. London: Thomas Malthus, 1683. First edition, 8vo (17.1 x 10.8cm), early-19th-century tan calf, small hole in F4 affecting a few letters, engraved portrait frontispiece, armorial ink-stamp to title-page, marginal worm-trail from quire I to end (text unaffected) [ESTC R3409]; Forbes, William. Considerationes modestae et pacificae controversarium. London: Thomas Roycroft [and others], 1658. First edition, 8vo (15.8 x 10cm), contemporary blind-panelled sheep, old deaccession ink-stamp to title-page [ESTC R209737]; Baudier, Michel. The History of the Administration of Cardinal Ximenes, Great Minister of State in Spain ... translated into English, by W. Vaughan. London: John Wilkins, 1671. First edition in English, 8vo (16.6 x 10.6cm), contemporary sheep, engraved portrait frontispiece by Cross, binding worn, front inner hinge tender, hole in L8 costing a few letters, lacking either final blank or endpaper, ink-stamps (Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, Glasgow) to endpapers, frontispiece recto and final page of text) [ESTC R6814]; and 16 others similar (these not collated), including: Ovid, De arte amandi ... Englished, 1662; Richard Gardiner, Specimen oratorium ... editio quinta, Oxford, 1675; Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum, ex authoritate primum regis Henrici 8. inchoata, 1640 (binding worn); William Lawson, A New Orchard, and Garden ... as also, the Husbandry of Bees, 1652 (lacking several leaves); John Goodman, The Penitent Pardoned ... Second Edition, 1683 (frontispiece and title-page laid down); Peter Heylyn, Mikrocosmos ... sixth edition, 1639 (lacking at least final 2 leaves including blank, retaining woodcut architectonic title-page); Sir Robert Cotton, Cottoni posthuma, 1672 (lacking front board) and others, mainly in contemporary bindings (several bindings defective) (21)Note: The Actio in Henricum Garnetum was first published in English the previous year, as A True and Perfect Relation of the Proceedings at the Severall Arraignments of the Late most Barbarous Traitors.
Antiquarian literature Collection of English and continental books, 16th-18th century comprising: Hooker (Richard). The Works, in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity. London: for Thomas Newcomb for Andrew Crook, 1666. Folio (36.5 x 22.8cm), contemporary red goatskin, large gilt arms to covers comprising prince’s crown above monogram ‘V A’ (or reverse) between ostrich feathers, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional architectonic title-page, bookplate of the dukes of Portland (two arms counter-embowed, vested and gloved each holding an ostrich feather), front cover detached [ESTC R11910]; Ruscelli, Girolamo. Le imprese illustri, aggiuntovi nuovam[en]te il quarto libro da Vincenzo Ruscelli. Venice: Francesco de Franceschi senesi, 1584. 4to (24.1 x 17.5cm), old calf, 4 engraved title-pages, 2 folding plates (signed O2-3 and 2B3-2), engraved emblems throughout the text (many full-page), bookplate of John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe (1680-1741), styled as the Earl of Roxburghe, front board loose, variable browning and mottling throughout, 2R1 loose, a few early headlines shaved [Adams R955]; Antoninus Florentinus, Archbishop of Florence, Saint. [Summe majoris, part 2 only of 4]. Lyon: Jean Cleyn, [1506]. Folio in 8s (29.5 x 20cm), modern leather backing wooden boards, text in double column, gothic letter, 68 lines and headline, contemporary hand-painted initials and capital strokes throughout (in red or blue), old vellum manuscript fragment bound in at rear, lacking first quire (A), last leaf apparently blank (otherwise final quire lacking a leaf) [Adams A1214]; and 8 others (these not collated), including: Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, 1655-61-73 (3 volumes, folio, modern calf, engraved plates); Silius Italicus, De bello Punico, Lyon, 1547 (16mo, later binding); Giovanni Pietro Valeriano Bolzani, Hieorglyphica, Frankfurt, 1678 (4to, modern tan morocco gilt); Tacitus, Opere, Venice: Giunti, 1620 (4to, contemporary vellum, engraved additional title-page, front inner hinge gone); Galen, Omnium operum, Venice: Valgrisi, 1562 (3 volumes only, of 10, folio, modern bindings, repairs); Ben Jonson, Workes, 1616 (first collected edition, volume one only, folio, modern orange morocco, numerous leaves including title-page supplied in photocopy); Biondi, An History of the Civill Warres of England, betweene the two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, 1641 (lacking engraved title-page); and similar (16)
![[Ballet] The Works of Monsieur Noverre, translated from the French London: G. Robinson [and others], [1782]-3. First edition](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/103db3fe-7615-4ce5-8821-aead00b5a32c/c8b0d5e8-9236-4ca0-a0b0-aeb400f7487d/468x382.jpg)
[Ballet] The Works of Monsieur Noverre, translated from the French London: G. Robinson [and others], [1782]-3. First edition in English, 3 volumes in 1, 8vo (21.1 x 12cm), recent blue half morocco, half-title to each volume, engraved portrait frontispiece, pp. [9] vi-lxviii 227 [5], [4] 258, [6] vii-xi [3] 3-330, toning, light spotting, ownership inscription effaced from half-title, frontispiece browned and more heavily spotted, occasional pencil-markings [ESTC N25828]Note: Very rare: ESTC traces nine copies in libraries world-wide; two copies traced at auction, the last in 1985. Jean-Georges Noverre's concept of ballet d'action revolutionised the performance of classical ballet. Volumes 1-2 comprise a translation of his Lettres sur la danse et sur les ballets, first published in 1760; the third volume contains treatments of his ballets The Danaides, Rinaldo and Armida, Adela of Ponthieu, The Graces, The Horatii and Curiatii, Agamemnon Revenged, and Apelles and Campaspe.
Machiavelli, Niccolo The Florentine History in VIII Books Now exactly translated from the Italian. London: for Charles Harper, and John Amery, 1674. Second edition in English, 8vo (17 x 10.6cm), contemporary tree sheep, rebacked and relined, engraved portrait frontispiece, ownership inscription 'James Espinasse, Gray's Inn' to initial blank, his bookplate to front pastedown (presumably reimposed), toning, browning and occasional damp-staining to margins, worm-track to lower margin in quires A-D (repaired in frontispiece and title-page), title-page marked, 2A7 and 2B7 with marginal repairs, a few other marks [ESTC R22284; Wing M136]Note: Uncommon. The first edition in English appeared in 1595.
European literature Collection of works in French and other languages comprising: Proust, Marcel. Les plaisirs et les jours. Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1896. First edition, folio (29.5 x 20cm), later half morocco, 14 tinted plates, partly unopened, original wrappers bound in; Eluard, Paul. Le dur désir de durer. Illustrated by Marc Chagall. Philadelphia: Grey Falcon Press, & London, Trianon Press, 1950. One of 1500 copies, 4to, original wrappers, colour frontispiece; Gide, André. Montaigne. An Essay in Two Parts. London: Blackamore Press, 1929. One of 800 copies signed by the author, 4to, original cloth; Gautier, Théophile. Musée secret ... pointes sèches originales de Mya. Paris: Frazier-Soye, 1932. One of 875 copies on vélin d'Arches, folio, original wrappers, 10 plates, glassine dust jacket, plates and text in unbound bifolia as issued, spotting; Claudel, Paul. Les Euménides d'Eschyle. Paris: Nouvelle revue française, 1920. One of 100 copies 'sur papier Whatman à la forme ... réservés aux bibliophiles de la Nouvelle revue française', 4to, original wrappers, glassine dust jacket, edges untrimmed and unopened, glassine dust-soiled; Boiardo, Matteo Maria, conte di Scandiano. Sonetti e canzone. Milan: Societa tip. dei classici italiani, 1845. One of 250 copies only, 4to (24.2 x 18.6cm), 20th-century crushed green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, title-page vignette hand-coloured, top edge gilt, others untrimmed (wide margins); Gallo, Agostino. Elogio storico di Antonio Gagini scultore ed architetto palermitano. Palermo: Reale stamperia, 1821. 4to (26.5 x 19cm), later half morocco, copper-engraved portrait frontispiece, 30 pp., light staining to final leaf, Baron Napier bookplate; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust. Jena: Eugen Diederich, 1909. 'Jubilee edition' (Jubiläumsausgabe), one of 1000 copies on Van Gelder paper, 4to, original blind-stamped brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, with one clasp (of two); and 6 others similar (14)Note: Les plaisirs et les jours was Proust's first published book.
![Gorodetsky, Sergei (1884-1967) Angel Armeniy. Stikhotvoreniya [Title in Russian; 'The Angel of Tiflis [Tbilisi]: [no publishe](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/103db3fe-7615-4ce5-8821-aead00b5a32c/2a0140e7-3247-4ca6-8be6-aeb400f7b572/468x382.jpg)
Gorodetsky, Sergei (1884-1967) Angel Armeniy. Stikhotvoreniya [Title in Russian; 'The Angel of Tiflis [Tbilisi]: [no publisher], 1918. 8vo, 32 pp. (17.7 x 13.5cm), wire-stitched, head- and tailpieces from bas-reliefs in the Akdamar monastery (Lake Van, modern Turkey), inscribed by the author in Russian on dedication leaf recto 'Erik Lvovich Bekoder[?] s druzhecki privetlivy, Sergey Gorodetsky, [1]920 IV Baku' ('To Erik Lvovich Bekoder[?], with friendliest greetings, Sergei Gorodetsky, 1920 IV Baku'), disbound, browned, together with 11 others, Russian literature, including Boris Pasternak, Doktor Zhivago, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1957 [i.e. 1958] (first trade edition in Russian, original light green boards, later-issue dust jacket), Leon Trotzky, The Bolsheviki and World Peace, New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918 (original blue-green cloth, portrait frontispiece) (12)Note: Sergei Gorodetsky co-founded the Acmeist movement in Russian poetry with Nikolay Gumilev; outside poetry his works include the scenario for Prokofiev's ballet Ala i Lolli (later reworked for orchestra as the Scythian Suite), and a 1933 Sovietised rewrite of the libretto for Glinka's A Life for the Tsar. Some sources cite the first edition of Angel Armeniy as appearing in 1917, others in 1918; we have been unable to trace another copy.
World War I writers Collection of works by Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and others comprising: Thomas, Edward. Rose Acre Papers. London: Lanthorn Press, 1904. First edition, small 8vo, original blue quarter cloth: Idem. The Woodland Life. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1897. 4to, original cloth (second state of binding, slightly marked); Idem. These Things the Poets Said. Flansham: Pear Tree Press, 1935. First edition, one of 150 copies, 8vo, original quarter cloth, glassine dust jacket, woodcut title-page, initials and head- and tailpieces in colours, unopened, dust jacket chipped at head of spine, endpapers browned; Idem. Poems. London: Selwyn & Blount, 1917. First edition, 8vo, original boards, photogravure portrait frontispiece; Idem. A Literary Pilgrim in England. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1917. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, with the rare dust jacket (the statement 'second edition' on front flap apparently referring to Thomas's work Maurice Maeterlinck, advertised below), all plates as called for; Brooke, Rupert. 1914 and other Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited, 1915. First edition, third impression, 8vo, original cloth, bookplate of Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999), B. H. Blackwell compliments slip inscribed 'sent by instruction of Mr G. R. Mitchison' mounted to front free endpaper; and 17 others, all in original cloth or boards unless stated, including: 5 by Edward Thomas (e.g. The Life of the Duke of Marlborough, 1915, first edition, with the rare dust jacket, chipped); Rupert Brooke, 1914 and other Poems, 1915 (first edition, first impression, front free endpaper excised); Wilfred Owen, Poems, 1921 (first edition, second impression); Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack, 1918 (first edition, contemporary cloth); 'Restalrig', War Blasts and Other Poems, Edinburgh: Leith Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd., 1915 (2 copies, both inscribed by the author); Vignettes of War from the Notebook of a Journalist in Arms, by the Late Lieutenant Hugh G. Garland, Adelaide: W. K. Thomas & Co., c.1920; If I Goes West! By a Tommy, 1918 (review copy blind stamp); Ballads of Battle, by Lance-Corporal Joseph Lee 1st/4th Battalion Black Watch, 1916 (dust jacket); and similar (23)
Baker, Sir Samuel W. Ismailia A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, portrait frontispieces, 2 maps (one folding), 51 wood-engraved plates, 55 pp. advertisements, contemporary ownership inscriptions, later ownership inscription to volume 1, wear to extremities, front inner hinges cracking, spotting to endpapers and frontispieces, folding map spotted and with old repairs verso, damp-staining to last few plates in volume 2; Idem. The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs. London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. First edition, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, steel-engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 maps (one folding), 22 wood-engraved plates (23 listed; the Coor and Bayard illustrations are one plate), ink-stamp (Baron de Worms, Milton Park, Egham) to title-page, bookplate (motto 'vinctus non victus'), wear to extremities, spotting to prelims, inner hinges slightly cracked; Speke, John Hanning. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. First edition, 8vo (21.4 x 13cm), modern sheep, all plates and maps as called for; Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857. First edition, 8vo, later half roan, all plates and maps as called for; Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; with Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and the Present Colony of New South Wales. London: T. & W. Boone, 1839. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21.6 x 13.5cm), modern green half morocco, xxi [3] 355, ix [3] 415 pp., engraved vignette title-pages (unsigned), 50 plates (of 51: lacking plate 27, 'Chaeropus ecaudatus'), nearly all lithographic, several hand-coloured or folding, 4 pp. advertisements, original front free endpaper with contemporary gift inscription 'Emmeline Sophia Mackenzie ... from her brother Donald Hume Macleod 10th September 1840' bound in after title-page (Macleod was a British army officer and early settler in western Australia), ink-stamps 'F. A. Dundas, essayez' to p. 1 of each volume, volume 1 lacking text-leaf O1, plates spotted, a few damp-stained, marginal consolidation to plates 13 and 15; and 11 others: Sir Samuel W. Baker, The Albert N'yanza, London, 1866 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, recased, lacking route map); [Egypt], A History of the Operations of the French and British Armies in Egypt, from the Landing of Bonaparte to the Restoration of the Ottoman Power ... By Several Gentlemen, Members of the Literary and Philosophical Society in Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle: K. Anderson, 1809-10 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, 2 folding plates, folding plan, woodcut tailpieces by Bewick, map of Egypt absent, browning and damp-staining, repair to one plate); Henry M. Stanley, In Darkest Africa, New York, 1890 (first US edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, lacking 'Map of the Great Forest Region' in volume 1 end-pocket); idem, How I Found Livingstone, 1872 (first edition, 8vo, 20th-century cloth with section from original cloth binding laid onto front board, incomplete, lacking 2 maps); A. M. , Pioneer Missionary of the Church Missionary Society to Uganda, London, 1890 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, folding map); C. G. Schillings, In Wildest Africa, New York, 1907 (large 8vo, original cloth); Bertram Thomas, Arabia Felix, London, 1932 (first edition, original cloth, half-title and frontispiece working loose); Adolphus Slade, Turkey, Greece and Malta, London, 1837 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked, lacking frontispieces); Dufferin, A Yacht Voyage, Toronto, 1873, original cloth, inscribed by the author; and 2 unrelated (Thomas Bewick, A History of British Birds, 1832, contemporary tree calf, rebacked; P. Hawker, Instructions to Young Sportsmen, 1824, third edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates) (22)
Brown, George Mackay 13 volumes, 4 signed, and 3 Prospectuses comprising: The Storm and other Poems. The Orkney Press, 1954, original pictorial wrappers, 'R.T. Johnson' on half-title; Greenvoe. 1972; Hawkfall and other Stories. 1974, signed on title, and inscribed to Sheena, dustwrapper lightly rubbed; Hawkfall. 1974; An Orkney Tapestry. 1978, signed and inscribed on title 'Peggy & Ronald, George Mackay Brown, Stromness, Orkney', with short A.L.S. form the author to Mr Kinsey, thanking him for his kind note about his D Litt (hon) from Glasgow, price-clipped; Andrina and other Stories. 1983, price-clipped, small mark to dustwrapper; The Golden Bird. 1987, signed 'George Mackay Brown, Stromness, Orkney 29 Sept. 1987' on title; The Island of Women. 1988; The Masked Fisherman and other stories. 1989, dustwrapper slightly marked; Selected Poems. 1991; Vinland, 1992; For the Islands I sing. 1997; [Prospectus for] Stone. 1987, 4pp., with order form, clean in envelope; [Prospectus for Four Poets for St. Magnus. 2 copies, 2pp, with order form, clean in the same envelope; Portrait of Orkney. 1988 (late edition), original wrappers, signed on title; dustwrappers (13 volumes, and 3 Prospectuses)
Clutterbuck, Robert The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1815-27. First edition, large-paper copy, 3 volumes, large folio (49.2 x 31.5cm), later tan half morocco by J. Leighton of Brewer Street, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 52 engraved maps and plates (1 hand-coloured), 2 hand-coloured lithographic plates, most plates marked proof, occasional light spotting; Samuel, Nathaniel. The History of Hertfordshire. London: [no publisher], 1728. First edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, [8] 368 pp. engraved folding map, binding worn, front joint cracked [ESTC T36381, calling for [8] 369 [1] pp. with the final leaf unsigned, this not present in e.g. the Yale copy, and the text apparently ending on p. 368]; Chalmers, George. Caledonia: or, an Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain, from the most Ancient to the Present Times. London: for T. Cadell, 1810-10-24. Second, first and first editions, all on large paper, 3 volumes, 4to (33.5 x 24.5cm), later tree calf gilt with twin morocco labels, engraved folding map, 5 plans, folding table, bookplates (motto 'Fortes fortuna juvat'), volume 1 head of front joint cracked; Bruce, J. Collingwood. Incised Markings on Stone, found in the County of Northumberland, Argyleshire, and Other Places. London: for private circulation, 1869. First edition, large folio (62 x 58cm), contemporary half morocco, 32 tinted lithographic plates, spotting, wear to head of spine with commensurate paper-erosion to head of gutter throughout, touching images of double-page plates, otherwise affecting guards and margins; Gordon, Sir Robert. A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1813. Folio, uncut in original boards, 3 engraved plates (portrait frontispiece, damp-stained; arms; and folding manuscript facsimile), wear to covers: Bartlett, W. H. (illustrator). The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland. London: Virtue and Co., c.1840. 2 volumes 1 in, 4to (26 x 20.2cm), contemporary green morocco gilt, all edges gilt, engraved map, 110 engraved plates including 2 additional vignette title-pages (10)Provenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.
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[Insane 17th-century annotator] The Most Notable Antiqui[ty] of Great Britai[n], vulgarly called on Salisbury Plain. Restored by Inigo [Jones]. London: printed by James Flesher, [1655]. First edition, folio (27.7 x 18.2cm), disbound, lacking E2, portrait frontispiece and 4 folding woodcut plates (of 7; the remaining plates with old repairs), with 3 initial blanks (all detached), title-page defective, browning, damp-staining towards front. With profuse ink marginalia throughout in a contemporary hand (closely trimmed in places; occasional concomitant paper corrosion), in English and occasionally Latin (and a few phrases in French), unrelated or only tangential to the printed text, in a rambling, scurrilous and repetitive style, with numerous references to 17th-century figures and events, and exhibiting a fixation with large sums of money, the printed dedication 'To the Favourers of Antiquity' (A4) signed 'Pembroke & Muntgomrye' in the same hand as the marginalia, the signature asterisked with an accompanying annotation by an 18th-century hand, 'This Philip E. of Pembroke and Mongomery [sic], was the writer of these wild notes. A Wood woud have less belyed him, in calling him a mad man, than in saying he was illiterate & coud not write his name', 19th-century annotation to initial blank, 'There is reason to believe that the notes scrawled upon these pages are written by the Philip Earl of Pembroke & Montgomery to whom the book is dedicated, E. D.'Note: The dedicatee of the work was Philip Herbert, fifth earl of Pembroke (1621-1669), though the 'writer of these wild notes' is more likely to have been his son, the infamous seventh earl (1653-1683), also Philip, who succeeded in 1674 and 'quickly acquired an unenviable reputation for barbarous and violent behaviour' (ODNB). He was reported by John Aubrey in Brief Lives (1680) to keep at the family seat of Wilton House a menagerie of exotic animals, was committed to the Tower for blasphemy, and killed two men in separate drunken incidents, escaping punishment first through claiming privilege of peerage, and second by royal pardon. The character who emerges from these annotations is obsessed with money, and those who have it, motifs which recur throughout a bewildering variety of ravings, doggerel verse and arbitrary lists, written in spelling eccentric even for the period, altogether suggesting a person of entirely unsound mind. If he was not the earl of Pembroke, references to Wilton House and Ramsbury suggest that he at least thought he was, and the annotations are perhaps dateable to the 1660s on the basis of a recollection that 'some 40 or rather 44 years agoe, there was a great faction betwixt ye Digberians & ye Buckingamians' (p. 26); another remark, 'How ould art thou? fifteen come Lent. If Christmasse lasted all ye year, then what should become of Lent' (p. 15), suggests that the annotator was an exact contemporary of the seventh earl's. Further examples include: 'If hee be mad as my Lady Harewood says whose tongue is not slaunder it is rather for wantinge ye ten thousand pounds an year his father promisd to give him tha[n] yt hee thinkes 6000 an year to bee too mutch for him to manage with Wilton & Ramesberye' (p. [vi]); 'And was it not strange, that in one week His Grace should loose one thousand pounds at gleeke? or 4000 ls at gleeke. Hath hee burned ye teats of her virginity? Certayneley that ould woeman wanted businesse that sette London bridge afyre, shee did [?] the city of London to ye value of cent mil escu au moins' (p. 1) 'The house of ye Howards is now goinge towards theyre woonted declininge, for when they are great, they emprison & beat, & then ye sunne leaves shining then thousand hee & shee hereticks, ten thousand hee & shee Armineans, ten thousand hee & shee Armenians, London lickpenny, Lincolne lickpenny, Mrs Sarah Graunty widdow hath a 1000 an year land of inheritance to live on' (p. 14); 'Ravilliack Crummewell is to bee pulld apeices wth 4 wild horses upon London streets & then to bee hang draiwen & quartered not decapite[d]' (p. 31); 'Hinnico Jones alias Iniguity Jones a justice of peace of ye qudrum and custos rotilorum hath for keepinge ye kinges houses in repayre deaux cens mil escu per an, three score thousand ls starlinge an year and well payed hee is 4 score years ould. Midwife Mrs Bullard midwife Mrs Whiteby midwife Mrs Cutler twoo parsons widdowes' (p. 34); 'Mathew Cardroe lyeth heer, whooe drunke too mutch of bottle bear. I care noe more to kill them in bravado then forto drinke a pipe of Trinidado [...] Tom Tippett uppe & downe doth walke & cannott see himself in his owne optick glasse' (p. 41); 'Wilton House Ramsberye house Pembrokes Earl Pembrokes & Muntgomeryes then Lord Chamberlaynes. Personal suppositum intelligens ten of 20 ls an year augmentation monye to ye Greeke lecture or buildinge at Cambridge, Oxford Caius de Antiquitate Cantabrigi' (p. 43); 'I kneaw ye 3 Mackullyes taylours all three Scottshmen & brothers ye woorst of them dyed woorth twenty-thousand pounds they three dyed in all woorth three score thousand starlinge deaux cens mil escu au moins' (p. 50); 'I was nurst 2 years at Mourtleack two years togither [...] by Nurse Beck, whoe nurst ould mad Besse Tallmatch' (p. 61); 'Sr Ferauncis Cranes hanginges all ye suits at Mourtleck upon ye Thames where I was nurst cost ten thousand pounds at least. Hee made my Lord keeper Williams ye 4 seasons of ye year & sould them to him for £500 Sir Firauncis Crane of Grafton Auditour Crane' (p. 63); 'Hee & shee marquesse Ormonde, hee & shee Marquesse Toosmond, Hee & shee Marquesse Desmond, Rabshekais & Achitophells, Madam you must bee whippt at a cart stayble, or you shall ride in a dunge cart, or have rotten eggs throwne at you[r] Irish honour' (p. 69).
Bryant & May Collection of designs for matchboxes and public house signs 5 original watercolours, framed, for Bryant & May 'Top Dogs' matchstick covers, comprising an Old English Sheepdog, Yorkshire Terrier, Poodle, Jack Russell and Corgi, each 110 x 110mm; 10 original drawings for pub swing-sign designs comprising a pig and whistle, Royal Oak featuring the head of Charles II, a man playing chess, rose and crown, bull chasing a boy, portrait of George IV, red lion rampant, bell, swan and a farmer ploughing, each mounted, 130 x 115mm; 3 sheets with 39 laid-down samples of matchbox covers including St. Jones's Lucifers, S. Molyneux's Lucifers and Celestial Congreves; 65 print blocks commissioned by Bryant & May for commercial clients, with letter from Johnston Riddle & Co, Printers to The Book Match Dept., Bryant & May, 2nd February 1971, listing the companies
Hogarth, William Hogarth Restored The Whole Works of the Celebrated William Hogarth as originally published. Now re-engraved by Thomas Cook. Accompanied with Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth, and Explanatory Descriptions of his Designs. London: printed for the engraver, and G. and J. Robinson, 1801. Large folio (56.4 x 46cm), contemporary calf, letterpress title-page, engraved portrait, 110 engraved plates on 88 sheets (mounted on guards; plates 1-12, 64 and 72, 66 and 68, 78-87, 94-5, 96-7, 99-100, 102-3, 104-5 each two plates to a sheet; plates 69, 73 and 76, and 70, 74 and 75 each three plates to a sheet), modern tissue-guards, binding worn, front board detached, Temple Belwood ink-stamp to tissue-guards before title, title-page chipped and browned, occasional marginal browning to plates, a few plates with narrow margins at head and foot, plates 1-2 and 11-12 with repaired tears in images, 5-6 torn in gutter, plate 57 ('Gin Lane') with extensive closed tear through image (repaired), occasional marginal repairs elsewhere, plates 78-96 (i.e. mainly the 12 Hudibras plates) damp-stained, a few other marks. Together with the Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth (London: for the engraver, and G. and J. Robinson, 1803, 8vo, contemporary half calf, covers detached, Temple Belwood ink-stamps) (2)Note: A prospectus for Cook's edition of Hogarth was printed in 1795 (ESTC T36576). This copy contains all the prints listed in the accompanying copy of the Anecdotes. Most copies traced at auction are dated 1802 on the title-page; there was also a Stockdale edition in 1806. Library Hub traces one copy dated 1801 (Tate Britain).
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William - Vesalius, Andreas Tabulae anatomicae sex Six anatomical tables. London: privately printed for Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 1874. Large folio, engraved presentation page printed in red, title-page printed in red and black, 1 engraved portrait plate, 6 anatomical plates, original quarter maroon morocco, spine lettered in gilt, marbled boards, extremities rubbed, short split to lower outer joint, one of thirty copiesNote: One of Stirling-Maxwell's 'pioneering books of facsimile prints using the new photolithographic methods' (ODNB), of which 28 copies were printed, in addition to one copy on vellum and one on parchment. A set of six oversized broadsides, the Tabulae anatomicae sex, originally printed at Venice in 1538, were designed to be mounted on the wall for reference during dissections and, as a result, only two complete copies of the original printings of the six oversized anatomical plates survived. One set is in the Bibliotheca nazionale Marciana of Venice. Another, which became the basis for this edition, was purchased in 1857 by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, and is now in the Hunterian Library in Glasgow. There is a third set in the Biblioteca statale di Cremona (USTC 764591). Library Hub traces only four copies of the 1874 edition in UK institutions (Glasgow, Oxford, Royal Academy, and Royal Society of Medicine.) Provenance: 1) Christie’s, The Property of Archibald Stirling of Keir, 22-24 May 1995, lot 712. 2)The Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1952-2020).
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher) - Vesalius, Andreas Tabulae anatomicae sex Six Anatomical Tables of Andrew Vesalius. London: privately printed for Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 1874. Large folio (66 x 52 cm), [12] ff., engraved presentation page printed in red, title-page printed in red and black, 1 engraved portrait plate, 6 anatomical plates, original maroon quarter morocco, marbled sides, light wear to extremitiesNote: One of Stirling-Maxwell's 'pioneering books of facsimile prints using the new photolithographic methods' (ODNB), of which 28 copies were printed, in addition to one copy on vellum and one on parchment. A set of six oversized broadsides, the Tabulae anatomicae sex, originally printed at Venice in 1538, were designed to be mounted on the wall for reference during dissections and, as a result, only two complete copies of the original printings of the six oversized anatomical plates survived. One set is in the Bibliotheca nazionale Marciana of Venice. Another, which became the basis for this edition, was purchased in 1857 by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, and is now in the Hunterian Library in Glasgow. There is a third set in the Biblioteca statale di Cremona (USTC 764591). Library Hub traces only four copies of the 1874 edition in UK institutions (Glasgow, Oxford, Royal Academy, and Royal Society of Medicine.) Provenance: 1) Christie’s, The Property of Archibald Stirling of Keir, 22-24 May 1995, lot 712. 2)The Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1952-2020).
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher) - Vesalius, Andreas Tabulae anatomicae sex Six anatomical tables. London: privately printed for Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 1874. Large folio, engraved presentation page printed in red, title-page printed in red and black, 1 engraved portrait plate, 6 anatomical plates, original quarter maroon morocco, marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, extremities rubbed, one of thirty copiesNote: One of Stirling-Maxwell's 'pioneering books of facsimile prints using the new photolithographic methods' (ODNB), of which 28 copies were printed, in addition to one copy on vellum and one on parchment. A set of six oversized broadsides, the Tabulae anatomicae sex, originally printed at Venice in 1538, were designed to be mounted on the wall for reference during dissections and, as a result, only two complete copies of the original printings of the six oversized anatomical plates survived. One set is in the Bibliotheca nazionale Marciana of Venice. Another, which became the basis for this edition, was purchased in 1857 by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, and is now in the Hunterian Library in Glasgow. There is a third set in the Biblioteca statale di Cremona (USTC 764591). Library Hub traces only four copies of the 1874 edition in UK institutions (Glasgow, Oxford, Royal Academy, and Royal Society of Medicine.) Provenance: 1) Christie’s, The Property of Archibald Stirling of Keir, 22-24 May 1995, lot 712. 2)The Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1952-2020).Note: One of Stirling-Maxwell's 'pioneering books of facsimile prints using the new photolithographic methods' (ODNB), of which 28 copies were printed, in addition to one copy on vellum and one on parchment. A set of six oversized broadsides, the Tabulae anatomicae sex, originally printed at Venice in 1538, were designed to be mounted on the wall for reference during dissections and, as a result, only two complete copies of the original printings of the six oversized anatomical plates survived. One set is in the Ibliotheca nazionale Marciana of Venice. Another, which became the basis for this edition, was purchased in 1857 by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, and is now in the Hunterian Library in Glasgow. There is a third set in the Biblioteca statale di Cremona (USTC 764591). Library Hub traces only four copies of the 1874 edition in UK institutions (Glasgow, Oxford, Royal Academy, and Royal Society of Medicine.) Provenance: 1) Christie’s, The Property of Archibald Stirling of Keir, 22-24 May 1995, lot 712. 2)The Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1952-2020).
Antiquarian books, 18th and 19th century Large collection of works, including Scottish interest comprising: Army List. A List of the Officers of the Army and Marines. [London]: War-Office, 1791. Thirty-ninth edition, 8vo (21 x 12.7cm), contemporary tree calf, bookplate of Sir George Russell Clerk (1801-1889), British civil servant in India, rubbed [ESTC T170302: 3 copies in UK libraries]; Robinson, Mary. Poems. London: J. Bell, 1791. First edition, 8vo (18.5 x 11.3cm), contemporary marbled calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, errata leaf, contemporary gift inscription ('To Miss Everett, by Mrs Lettsom as a token of friendship & esteem', bookplates ('Chute Lodge, 1816' and John Adam, motto 'crux mihi grata quies'), front board near-detached [ESTC T99736]; Scruton, James. The Practical Counting House; or, Calculation and Accountantship Illustrated. Glasgow: James Duncan, 1777. First edition, 8vo (20.6 x 12.5cm), contemporary marbled sheep, covers detached [ESTC T196938: 5 UK copies]; [Topham, Edward]. Letters from Edinburgh; written in the Years 1774 and 1774: containing some Observations on ... the Scotch Nation during a Six Months Residence in Edinburgh. London: J. Dodsley, 1776. First edition, 8vo (20.2 x 12.6cm), contemporary sheep, front joint partly cracked, front free endpaper absent, worming to foot of title and dedication, occasional soiling [ESTC T137107]; [Robertson, Joseph]. The Traveller's Guide through Scotland and it's [sic] Islands. Edinburgh: for J. Thomson Junr & Co., 1806. Third edition, 12mo (17.6 x 9.9cm), contemporary tree calf by Forsyth of Elgin, engraved title-page, 2 folding maps (coloured in outline; closed handling tears), 16 further maps; and 27 others (these not collated), including: Jonathan Swift, The Works, Dublin: George Faulkner, 1741-6 (7 volumes of 8?, 8vo, contemporary half calf, rubbed, together with a uniformly-bound copy of Miscellanies, The Last Volume, London: B. Motte, 1727); Robert Douglas, The Peerage of Scotland, 1764 (first edition, folio, contemporary half calf, label renewed, 10 engraved heraldic plates, moderate browning and damp-staining, old paper-reinforcement to inner hinges); idem, The Baronage of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1798 (first edition, 1 volume bound in 2, folio, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked to style, contemporary annotations to endpapers and margins; William Hawkins, A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown. London, 1739 (third edition, 2 volumes in 1, folio contemporary calf, joints cracked, wear, contemporary trade card of the New Printing-Office, Norwich, 1723 to front pastedown); Thomas Wood, A New Institute of the Imperial or Civil Law, London, 1730 (fourth edition, folio, contemporary calf, joints cracked, loss to leather; idem, An Institute of the Laws of England, 1734 (fifth edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, worn, engraved portrait frontispiece); William Maver, Johnson's English Dictionary, Glasgow, 1809 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, worn); Earl of Selkirk, Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland, 1805 (first edition, uncut in original boards, joints cracked, title-leaf and conjugate tipped in, 'Castle Grant, 1805' inscribed on title); Robert Southey, Roderick, 1815 (second edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, contemporary purple half calf); Warton et al., Essays on Gothic Architecture, 1808 (third edition, 8vo, contemporary tan calf gilt, worn); Robert Burns, The Life and Works, Edinburgh, 1815 (4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, worn); and similar, mainly in contemporary leather bindings (46)Provenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.
Costume, Art and Travel 7 volumes comprising: Hope, Thomas. Costume of the Ancients. London: W. Miller, 1812. New edition, 2 volumes, 4to, 300 engraved plates, contemporary diced calf, spines gilt, rubbed, one cover detached; Halliday, Andrew. A General History of the House of Guelph, or Royal Family of Great Britain. London, 1821. 4to, inscribed 'from the author. W. Seymour Esq.', with pencil annotations and corrections as if for a revised edition, probably by the author, bookplate of Lady Seymour, contemporary maroon calf; Wright, Rev. G.N. The Shores of the Mediterranean. London: Fisher & Son, [1839], 4to, additional engraved title, double-page map, and 63 engraved plates, tissue guards, contemporary calf, neat repair to head of spine; Hogarth, William. The Works, with descriptions by John Trusler. London: Jones, 1833. 4to, engraved portrait and 96 plates, contemporary black half calf, spine gilt; Fox, Charles James. A History of the early part of the reign of James the Second. London; W. Miller, 1808. 4to, engraved frontispiece offset onto title, contemporary tree calf, red morocco label upper cover detached; Naples. Monuments principaux du Musée National de Naples. Naples: Ferrante, [n.d.] 4to, 110 engraved plates, original pictorial wrappers, the wrappers somewhat soiled (7)
Miscellaneous books including music comprising: Hook, James. Six English Canzonetts for two and three voices. London: C and S. Thompson, [?1780], oblong 4to, engraved title and music, [2], 16; Bishop, H. Six New Minuets and Six Cotillons... to which is added a Minuet and Gavot by Gardel. Longman and Broderip, [c.1780], oblong 4to, [2], 19, engraved title & music; [Incomplete engraved dance score], comprising pp. 73-84, pp. 1-12; pp. 1-12, with dance instructions beneath music, no titles; Bishop, H. Six New Minuets and Twelve Country Dances. London: Longman and Broderip, [c.1780], oblong 4to, engraved title and music, [4], 22; contemporary half calf, worn, lower cover detached, with contemporary inscription of Miss Frances Dickinson and Martha Colepeper; Evelyn, John. Silva, or A Discourse of Forest Trees. York, 1801, 2 volumes, 4to, engraved portrait and 44 plates, contemporary calf, worn, boards detached; Humphreys, T.N. and J.O. Westwood. British Moths and their Transformations. 1854. 2 volumes, 4to, 124 hand-coloured lithographed plates, contemporary green morocco, gilt, g.e., tissue guards, bindings rubbed; Nansen, Fridtjof. The First Crossing of Greenland... new edition. 1892. 8vo, original pictorial cloth, spine discoloured, some spotting; Lang, Andrew. Books and Bookmen. 1887, inscribed "for Longman, from the author, who deplores the lack of inner margin!", original quarter cloth, endpaper spotted, binding slightly soiled; "Grey Owl" Pilgrims of the Wild. July 1937, signed on title page, original cloth, slightly spotted; Trollope, Anthony. The Warden, 1925; The Small House at Allington, 1925; Barchester Towers, 1925; Doctor Thorne, 1925; Last Chronicle of Barset, 1925; Framley Parsonage. 1925, all red half morocco by Zaehnsdorf; sold not subject to return (14)
Good, Frank Mason Selected Photographs of the Nile and its Scenery including some of its most Ancient Temples, etc. etc. London: A. Shapcott, [1874]. First edition, oblong 4to, original cloth, tinted lithographic title-page, 20 albumen print photographs (10 x 16.5cm), on linen-hinged card mounts as issued, mounts with lithographic captions and borders, tissue-guards throughout, covers sunned, front inner hinge cracked, initial blank spotted [Gernsheim 584]Note: Rare: no copies traced in libraries. 'Frank Mason Good is best known for his series of views of the Middle East taken on four separate tours of the area in the 1860s and 1870s. He first travelled to Egypt as assistant to Francis Frith in late 1857. He joined the Photographic Society in 1864, and in 1880 served as a judge of its annual exhibition' (National Portrait Gallery, online). Provenance: Contemporary prize plate to front pastedown, awarded to A. Yuille, address at head 56 Penywern Road; 'Yuille' is possibly a misspelling, as the orientalist Sir Henry Yule (1833-1885) is known to have lived on the same street. Images of the binding and all plates are available on the Lyon & Turnbull website.
McLeod, John Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the oast of Corea, to the Island of London: John Murray, 1818. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, gilt stamp of Londonderry Public Library to front board, etched portrait frontispiece, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, light browning to margins and plates [Abbey Travel 559]; Medhurst, Walter H. China: its State and Prospects, with Especial Referenve to the Spread of the Gosepl. London: John Snow, 1838. First edition, third thousand, 8vo, original blind-stamped cloth, Baxtertype frontispiece, 5 wood-engraved plates, folding map, contemporary and near-contemporary gift inscriptions to title-page and front pastedown, bookplate (Duncan Darrock of Gourock), spine strengthened, variable spotting, repair to folding map verso, [Abbey Travel 539]; Smyth, William Henry, & F. Lowe. Narrative of a Journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the Amazon. London: John Murray, 1836. First edition, 8vo contemporary half calf, 10 lithographic or wood-engraved plates, 3 maps of which 2 folding, spotting to lithographic plates and adjacent text-leaves, non-folding map shaved along fore edge; Tennent, Sir J. Emerson. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon ... including a Monograph of the Elephant and a Description of the Modes of Capturing and Training it. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, recased and relined, wood-engraved plates and text-illustrations; Barneby, W. Henry. The New Far West and the Old Far East, being Notes of a Tour in North America, Japan, China, Ceylon, etc. London: Edward Stanford, 1889. First edition, 8vo, original maroon pictorial morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, 8 plates from photographs, 3 folding maps, inscribed 'Margaret C. Barneby, on her birthday, Nov 20th 1890, from her affec. father, the author' on the half-title, a few scuffs to binding; Buck, Edward J. Simla Past and Present. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1904. First edition, 4to, original cloth (recased), folding map, numerous plates (mainly photographic), laid-in albumen print photograph of Simla and carbon typescript headed 'Trial of Diwan Mul Raj (Governor of Multan), by Sita Ram Kohli, M.A. Punjab Government Publications' (5 ff.), marks to binding, text-block toned, occasional spotting (6)
Park, Mungo Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa London: W. Bulmer and Co. for the author, 1799. First edition, 4to (28.2 x 22cm), 20th-century half calf, edges untrimmed, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 plates, 3 folding maps, postscript leaf and 2 leaves of engraved music bound after title-page, toning, maps offset [ESTC N13836]; Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig. Travels in Arabia, comprehending an Account of those Territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as Sacred. London: Henry Colburn, 1829. 2 volumes, 8vo (21 x 12cm), modern half sheep, pp. xxii 452, [2] 431, 5 engraved folding maps and plans (including Mecca and Medina), no half-titles (if issued), spotting and damp-staining to maps and plans, large route map repaired, ink-stamps of Stirling District Library to title and final page of each volume [Blackmer 239; Macro 627]; Laborde, Léon de. Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the Excavated City of Petra, the Edom of the Prophecies. London: John Murray, 1836. First edition in English, 8vo, original cloth, all plates and maps as called for (engraved or lithographic), 8 + 4 pp. advertisements to rear, contemporary gift inscription to initial blank, binding sunned [Macro 1386]; Stothert, William. A Narrative of the Principal Events of the Campaigns of 1809, 1810, & 1811, in Spain and Portugal, interspersed with Remarks on Local Scenery and Manners. London: P. Martin, 1812. First edition, 8vo (21.3 x 12.3cm), contemporary blue half roan, engraved folding map frontispiece, errata leaf, quire H nicked and torn at foot (text intact); and 2 others: John Drinkwater, A History of the Late Siege of Gibraltar, 1790 (4th edition, 4to, contemporary blue half roan, 10 engraved folding maps and plates, spotted, map facing p. 205 with repaired closed tear, text not collated); and a photograph album, c.1880, albumen prints, including views of Halifax (Novia Scotia), Kingston (Jamaica), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), St Vincent, railway construction on the Rio Blanco in Honduras, Newcastle Barracks (Jamaica), and an inspection of the West India Regiment (Jamaica), these all 20 x 13cm, red half morocco binding (7)Note: Second edition of Burckhardt's work, presumed to follow the quarto edition published the same year.
Scotland Collection of antiquarian and topographical books, mainly Scotland-related, 17th-19th including: Napier, John, of Merchiston. A Plaine Discoverie of the Whole Revelation of St John. Edinburgh: Andro Wilson, 1645. Fifth edition ('corrected and amended'), 4to (18.1 x 13.8cm), 19th-century half calf, rebacked, browning and damp-staining, errata leaf discarded [ESTC R209880]; Grose, Francis The Antiquities of Scotland. London: Hooper & Wigstead, 1797. Folio, contemporary half calf, rebacked with original spine laid down (front joint partly cracked), engraved title-page with vignette, 185 engraved plates (of 191), without text and map, marginal spotting; Hogg, James. The Jacobite relics of Scotland: being the Songs, Airs and Legends, of the Adherents to the House of Stuart. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1819-21. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21 x 13cm), contemporary green calf gilt; [Erskine, John]. The Principles of the Law of Scotland. Edinburgh: John Balfour, 1764. 8vo (19.7 x 12.5cm), contemporary calf, [ESTC T84162: 10 copies world-wide]; Colvil, Samuel. The Whigs Supplication, or, the Scotch-Hudibras. A Mock-Poem. Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1751. First edition under this title, 8vo (15 x 9.5cm), contemporary sheep, spotting, front inner hinge tender [ESTC T140222]; Dreghorn, John Maclaurin, Lord. Arguments and Decisions, in Remarkable Cases, before the High Court of Justiciary, and other Supreme Courts, in Scotland. Edinburgh: for J. Bell, 1774. First edition, 4to (25.7 x 20cm), front joint cracked [ESTC T94367]; Mackenzie, Sir George. The Laws and Customs of Scotland, in Matters Criminal. Edinburgh: heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1699. Folio, 20th-century half calf, title-page crudely repaired [ESTC R19368]; Hamilton, James George Hamilton, Duke of. Memorial ... against the Person pretending to be Archibald Stewart, alias Douglas. [Edinburgh?]: [no publisher], 1767. 9 parts in 1 volume, 4to, 19th-century half morocco, front cover detached [ESTC T118950]; Britton, John. Graphical and Literary Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire. With heraldic and genealogical notices of the Beckford family. London: printed for the author, 1823. First edition, apparently one of 30 large-paper copies with 'proofs and etchings' (there were also 270 standard large-paper copies and 500 small-paper copies), 4to, original boards (printed label to front, with contemporary annotation 'Proofs and etchings'), half-title, 14 engraved plates numbered 1-10 (all marked 'proof', plates 3-6 each present in two states; plates 9-10 hand-coloured aquatints); tissue-guards, bookplate ('Anna Maria Powell, Sarum ... 1824', a Richard Powell M. D. recorded in the list of subscribers for a large-paper copy), front board detached, marginal spotting; Rabelais, François. The Works … done out of French, by Sir Thomas Urchard [sic], Knight, Mr. Motteux, and others. London: James Woodward, 1708. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, portrait frontispiece to the first volume [ESTC T52476]; and 4 others: John Slezer, Theatrum Scotiae, Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1874, first edition, one of 250 copies, large folio, 69 facsimile plates (including one double-page prospect of Edinburgh), the additional plate to the list of 68 being the plans of Thirlestane Castle, coloured coat of arms on the title-page, numerous other coloured coats of arms separately printed and mounted as headpieces, lacking spine and front board, rear board detached; Francisque-Michel, A Critical Inquiry into the Scottish Language, 1882, one of 500 copies, spine worn; John Anderson, Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton, 1825, front inner hinge gone; Archaeological scotica, Volume IV, Part First, 1831), the lot sold as seen (17)Provenance: The Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1952-2020).
Sierra Leone Photograph album, c.1875 containing 23 albumen prints (mounted, various dimensions, 11 x 15.5cm to 16 x 20cm) 4 of which captioned on mount as depicting Elmina Castle and Cape Coast Castle in Modern Ghana, 2 coastal scenes, captioned 'Sierra Leone' and the remainder uncaptioned but including group portraits of locals and Europeans (identities of sitters in one portrait recorded in pencil on mount), river or coastal scenes, locals at work, etc., presumably in Sierra Leone or environs, 18 further albumen prints laid in, all captioned in pencil on versos as showing people and scenes and in Sierra Leone (e.g. 'Mahumedans', 'Washerwomen', the 'college', 'Samaria Chapel, Westmoreland St', these 10.5 x 14.5cm to 12.5 x 16.5cm), and 7 large albumen print views of Madeira (mounted), in contemporary binding of decorative green cloth gilt, slightly shakenProvenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.
Switzerland, Germany and the Danube 5 volumes comprising: Beattie, William. Switzerland. Illustrated in a Series of Views. London: G. Virtue, 1836. 2 volumes, 4to, 2 engraved title-pages, folding map and, 106 engraved plates, contemporary half vellum, worn; Cockburn, Major. Swiss Scenery from Drawings by... London: Rodwell & Martin, 1820. 8vo, engraved title and 60 engraved plates, original boards, title somewhat spotted, occasional spotting, rebacked; Beattie, William. The Danube, its History, Scenery and Topography. London: Virtue, [c.1840], 4to, additional engraved title, portrait and 80 engraved plates, tissue guards, modern half calf retaining original marbled sides, some light spotting; Batty, Capt. Scenery of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland. London: R. Jennings, 1826. Large 8vo, engraved title and 61 engraved plates, tissue guards, contemporary red half morocco gilt, small dampstain to corner of title and plates at beginning, lightly rubbed (5)
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Vertot, René-Aubert The History of the Knights of Malta London: for G. Strahan [and others], 1728. First edition in English, 2 volumes, folio (34.1 x 22cm), modern leatherette, [8] 487 [1] 180, [2] 80 79-220 143 [1] 196 [24] 3 [1] pp., 71 engraved portrait plates, 5 maps and plans (all but one folding), title-pages dust-soiled, occasional marginal finger-soiling, a few other marks, plates 11 and 47 and unnumbered plate facing volume 2 p. 108 browned, plate 48 stained, map of Malta and Gozo in volume 2 with partial split along one fold, volume 1 leaves 3D1 and 5K1 with repaired closed tears extending into text, short repaired tears to lower margins of a few other leaves (e.g. 3E1, 3L1, 4H1-2, 5S2, 5Z1), marginal loss and attempted repaired to 5Z2, volume 2 2O2 with loss to lower margin, 2M2, 3H1 and *T1 each with closed tear extending into text, 3K2 extensively repaired [ESTC T53873; cf. Cobham-Jeffery p. 62] (2)Note: First published in French in 1726.
Women in World War I Photograph album, c.1911-20 containing c.350 snapshot-style gelatin silver print photographs (8 x 6cm to 10.5 x 6.5cm), depicting a voyage to India in 1911-12 (Rajputana, Jabalpore, Simla), family recreation in England, and activities of Army Service Corps Mechanical Transport Company 882 and attached servicewomen in London, France and Belgium (with numerous images of service cars including Rolls Royces, and two larger photographs captioned 'Canadian War Cabinet Cars, Peace Conference, Whitehall Gardens, Dec 1918 Jan 1919'), 1917-20, manuscript captions throughout. Together with 7 further albums, c.1880-1910, comprising: 4 albums with in total c.250 Scottish or English views, albumen prints, many by George Washington Wilson or John Valentine, e.g. Highlands and Islands (Staffa, Fingal's Cave, Glencoe, Skye, Tobermory, castles), Edinburgh (20 of these large-format and contained in single red morocco album), and similar; 2 family albums containing in total c.220 personal and studio photographs, c.1890, one including domestic views and interiors (e.g. 'Bachelors and Spinsters Ball, Worcester, March 31st 1891'), family scenes at Wolverton Hall, Worcestershire, views including Malta and Aden, bookplate of Agatha Royds Greene (dated 1895); and a crushed blue morocco album of domestic interiors apparently in Edinburgh, 1912 (platinum prints). Also c.250 photographic cartes-de-visite, c.1860-70, including actresses ('Miss Constance Gilchrist in "Blue Beard"'; Eweretta Lawrence; Madame Modjeska; Emily Soldene; Violet Cameron; Alice Atherton), soldiers, aristocrats and royalty (Duke of Buccleuch, Duke and Duchess of Connaught, Duke and Duchess of Albany, Alexandra Princess of Wales), W. E. Gladstone etc.; 16 similar cabinet cards; 4 photographic negatives (2 of 'Maesminnon [Maes Mynan] Hall', Wales, 2 of a house named 'La Sarsonnerie' in printed caption verso, in folder annotated '4 paper negatives, late 1840s early 50s') and a photographic portrait of George Bernard Shaw, apparently signed by Shaw on verso (1 box)
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Mattioli, Pietro Andrea [Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun] Commentarii in sex libros Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1565. Folio (363 x 245mm), [86] leaves, 1459, [1] p., [6] leaves; full-page woodcut portrait of Mattioli, numerous page-width woodcut illustrations of plants, flowers and animals, woodcut printer's device on title-pages and final verso, woodcut initials, contemporary vellum with manuscript title to spine, bookplate reading 'GOM' to paste-down endpaper, early ownership signature of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun to title-page, a few very neat annotations to index in an early hand, ties lacking, covers a little soiled A tall fine copy of the monumental edition of the most important medico-botanical encyclopaedia of the sixteenth centuryNote: "First enlarged edition... the 1565 edition is the first augmented by Mattioli's fuller notes and has always been the most valued for its completeness" (Hunt). Although Mattioli wrote on a range of subjects, and published translations of non-medical works, he is most celebrated for his work on botany and medicine, and of these works his best known are his translations of, and commentaries on, Dioscorides' De medica material. Mattioli's first Italian translation from the Greek was published in Venice in 1544, and its 'original purpose was relatively modest: it was to provide doctors and apothecaries with a practical treatise in Italian with a commentary that would enable them to identify the medicinal plants mentioned by Dioscorides' (DSB IX, p.179). Further, expanded editions followed in 1548, 1550 and 1552, and the success of these editions, led Mattioli to translate the work into Latin in 1554. This translation was "enriched by synonyms in various languages, provided with a special commentary, and accompanied by numerous illustrations valuable for the identification of Dioscorides simples [which] rendered the work accessible to scholars throughout Europe. From then Mattioli's name was linked with that of Dioscorides" (DSB IX, p.179). In addition to identifying the plants originally described by Dioscorides, Mattioli added descriptions of some plants not in Dioscorides and not of any known medical use, thus marking a transition from the study of plants as a field of medicine to a study of interest in its own right. In addition, the woodcuts in Mattioli's work were of an extremely high standard, allowing recognition of the plant even when the text was obscure. A noteworthy inclusion is an early variety of tomato, the first documented example of the vegetable being grown and eaten in Europe. This wealth of additional material transformed Dioscorides' work from an antiquarian text into a contemporary physician's vade mecum, enhanced by Mattioli's own observations and many of his own drawings, which remained in print virtually continuously until the 18th century. The 1565 edition, described by Brunet as 'la plus estimée', is considered the best for both its illustrations (first used here in a Latin edition), and text. The fine woodcut illustrations extend across the full width of the page: those of plants are by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck (originally cut for Mattioli's New Kretterbuch (Prague: 1563), with the exception of 'Eruca sylvestris') and 'those of the Animals are new' BM(NH). Reference: Hunt 94. Provenance: Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun. The library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1716) was the largest private collection of books in Scotland at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is significant both in itself and because of the life of its owner. Of a legal and landed family - the estate of Saltoun lay not far from Edinburgh in the fertile country of East Lothian - Andrew Fletcher is famous in his own country as a consistent and eloquent opponent of the Union with England in 1707, a stance for which he became known as "the Patriot". But he was also a political thinker of intelligence and originality, author of a series of tracts on militias and standing armies, on the economic and social condition of Scotland, on the issues facing the Scottish parliament before the Union, and, more generally, on the political prospects of Europe and its smaller states in particular in the face of the ambitions of Louis XIV. Informing both his political and his literary activity was a lifetime of travel, much of it in the Netherlands (and some of it in enforced political exile), but extending to France, Spain and Germany, and possibly further afield still (Fletcher spoke and wrote Italian). It was almost certainly on these travels that Fletcher acquired the greater part of his library. [Willems, P.J.M. Bibliotheca Fletcheriana, or the Extraordinary Library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Reconstructed and Systematically Arranged. Wassennar, 1999]
Millais, John G. British Diving Ducks London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913. First edition, one of 450 copies only, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, 74 colour, photogravure or collotype plates after Archibald Thorburn and others, spines faded, volume 1 headcap frayed, a few marks to sides, spotting to a few plates and adjacent text-leaves [Mullens & Swann p. 406; Nissen IVB 633; Zimmer p. 436]; Rickman, Philip. A Selection of Bird Paintings and Sketches. [Holt]: Curpotten Limited, 1979. First edition, one of 500 copies signed by the artist, folio, original crushed green half morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 32 colour plates and photographic portrait (all mounted), slipcase; Boot, Jeremy (illustrator). Nocturnal Birds of Australia. [By] Richard Schodde, Ian J. Mason. Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1980. First edition, one of 750 copies signed by the authors and artist, folio, original leatherette, with a limited edition print by Jeremy Boot (one of 500, signed by Boot) laid in (4)
Natural History 7 volumes including: Sowerby, James. English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants. London, 1790-94, volumes 1-3, 8vo, c. 216 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary half calf, worn; Rand, Edward S. Bulbs. Boston, 1873. 4to, number 4 of 20 copies printed, 10 hand-coloured lithographed plates, red half morocco, upper board detached, lacks lower board; Morris, F.O. A History of British Butterflies. 1876. Fourth edition, 4to, 72 hand-coloured plates, original pictorial cloth, worn; Johnstone, John. An Account of the most Approved Mode of Draining Land. Edinburgh, 1797. 4to, engraved plates, some folding, contemporary calf, worn, boards detached; Goodlake, Thomas. The Courser's Manual or Stud-Book. Liverpool, 1828. Large 8vo, frontispiece portrait, plates, old boards, binding repaired, worn and soiled (7)
Indian School (early 20th century), an arrangement of nine portrait miniatures, historical subjects and figures associated with the Indian Mutiny, Maharaja Prabhu Narayan Singh, Maharaja of Benares; a female musician; Empress Nur Jahan; Tatya Tope; Begum [Hazrat Mahal?]; others, watercolour and gouache on ivory, the largest 7.5cm x 6cm, framed as one with ink MS key to verso, 44cm x 36cm overallIvory Submission reference W9ECX68S
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