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Preisdatenbank abonnierenPhotograph of King George VI when Prince Albert, 208 x 150mm, in military uniform, mounted on card and nicely presented in a frame. Signed 'Albert 1928' below portrait, the card being inscribed 'Speaight Ltd./157 New Bond Street' at base, and also signed 'Speaight'. Would admirably suit a collector's study wall!
Twelve tape measures comprising four novelty celluloid examples, a pear, 6cm, a plum, a galleon, and a basket of fruit, all but last with complete tapes, a white metal cylinder example incorporating a pin container with print portrait to top, a pierced ivory example, a natural shell example and five others (12)
Nine charms and other objects with Stanhopes comprising a plastic circular box (Buckfast Abbey), 5cm, a plastic cross (three views - Mount St Joseph Abbey Roscrea), 4.5cm, a cloth pin badge (seven views - Bataille de l'Yser, 1915), 5cm, a bar brooch with chained dropper (four views - American Falls), 4.2cm, a bone monocular (untitled male portrait photograph), 1.5cm, a plastic bar brooch with chained binoculars (single view - continental cottages), 4.5cm, a plastic ring (three views - Bruxelles), 2.7cm, a modern brass telescope (The Brixham Smack - Provident), 5.5cm, and a modern pewter turret (four views - Windsor Castle), 2.2cm (9)
Buttons - dress and costume - three framed displays comprising a framed display of 11 including four floral porcelain and two paste border portrait, another of 31 comprising 11 portrait within a border of glass examples, and another of 44 portrait and jewelled, set within a border of decorative buttons (86+)
An 18th century miniature watercolour portrait of a lady, possibly Barbara Villiers, another 18th century miniature watercolour portrait of a lady wearing pearls, both unsigned together with a miniature relief embossed white metal plaque depicting Oliver Cromwell, all mounted in single gilt gesso frame, overall frame size 26cm x 19cm.
Wallace (Harold Frank, editor). British Deer Heads, An Illustrated Record of the Exhibition Organized by "Country Life" and Held at the Royal Water Colour Society's Gallery, June 26th to July 10th, 1913, 1st edition, [1914], black & white illustrations from photographs, erratum slip tipped in at page 93, top edge gilt, original cream cloth gilt with previous owner's name label to upper cover and family provenance note on card to front pastedown, somewhat dust-soiled, 4to, (limited edition 250/600 copies), together with Peter Spicer & Sons. Spicer's Stalking Records Season 1913, [1914], colour and black & white illustrations including some tipped in, commercial adverts and game register left blank, original boards with recent cloth gilt reback, boards slightly rubbed and marked, large 8vo, plus [Speed, Lancelot], A Sojourn in the Highlands: Achanalt, 1855, 1st edition, [1886?], photographic portrait frontispiece, black & white illustrations including pictorial title-page, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and darkened, 4to, plus two related (5)
Churchill (Awnsham & John, publishers). A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some now first Printed from Original Manuscripts. Others Translated out of Foreign Languages, and now first Publish'd in English, [volume 3 only], 1st edition, 1704, 3 parts in 1 volume as issued (see note), each with own section title dated 1703 in addition to main volume title, pagination and register continuous, the third part (Baldaeus) with engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title page, 33 engraved folding plates including maps, plans, views and orthographical tables of the Tamil language, numerous engraved vignettes in the text, several full-page, volume title chipped and browned in upper outer corner, first section title (Ovalle) slightly marked, faint damp-staining in quires [pi]-B, contents otherwise clean and fresh, contemporary French mottled calf, richly gilt spine, mild wear to extremities, folio (31 x 19.5 cm Cox I p. 10 for the collection and p. 263 for Baldaeus; Sabin 13015 (specifying Ovalle and Monson); Borba de Moraes I p. 158 for the 1744 edition. This third volume of Awnsham and John Churchill's important collection of voyages contains three texts: 1) Alonso de Ovalle, An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile, printed at Rome by Francisco Cavallo, 1649, Translated out of Spanish into English; 2) Sir William Monson, Naval Tracts: in Six Books ... The Whole from the Original Manuscript, Never Before Published; and 3) Philippus Baldaeus, A True and Exact Description of the Most Celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, as also of the Isle of Ceylon ... translated from the High-Dutch printed at Amsterdam, 1672. (1)
Desnos (Louis Charles). Almanach g‚ographique, ou Petit atlas ‚l‚mentaire, 1st edition, Paris: Desnos, 1770[-1], engraved dedication leaf and title page, 32 double-page engraved maps hand-coloured as issued, bound without the portrait and text ('Calendrier perpetuel et historique' and 'Id‚e g‚n‚rale de la g‚ographie et de l'histoire moderne, par M. Maclot': see note), a few sprays of very light spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco, gilt spine, green morocco label, triple fillet panels gilt to sides, a few mild scuffs, 12mo (11.5 x 6 cm) This copy is bound without the text but appears to have all the maps from the two published volumes, which contained 17 and 15 maps respectively; copies are habitually encountered in varying states of completeness. The lot sold not subject to return. (1)
*Artist and Writers. Green (Valentine), Inigo Jones..., published J. Boydell, 1775, small mezzotint on wove after Van Dyke, thread margins, 180 x 130 mm, together with Watson (James), Mr Bartolozzi, 1785, uncoloured half length portrait on laid after Sir Joshua Reynolds, scratch letter proof, title added in near contemporary ink manuscript, small margins, 380 x 280 mm, with Esplens (John & Charles), George Heriot, Jeweller to King James VI who besides founding & endowing his stately hospital at Edin. bequeath'd to his relations above sixty thousand pounds..., 1743, uncoloured mezzotint on laid after John Scougal, trimmed to image with slight fraying, some marginal repaired closed tears, laid on archival paper, 350 x 235 mm, plus Lebenck (Petrus), Godfridus Kneller Germanus in aula Brittanica pictor ver‚ regius..., circa 1720, small uncoloured mezzotint on laid, small margins, 240 x 175 mm, and Turner (Charles), J M W Turner, circa 1820, uncoloured half length mezzotint on india laid, showing the artist in profile with a sketch book, good margins, 430 x 330 mm, with one other similar (6)
Egypt, Cyprus & Sudan. Album of original watercolours and pencil sketches, 1885, 15 watercolours and 55 pencil sketches on thick wove paper, mounted rectos and versos to 19 light card leaves, portrait and landscape, various dimensions (approximate ranges 6 x 12.5 to 29 x 22 cm), most of the watercolours heightened with bodycolour, a few en grisaille, nearly all images with pencilled captions on the mounts, many dated, and including detailed views and street scenes in Alexandria, Cairo, Giza, Ismailia, Suakin, 'Ramleh' (Ramallah in Palestine) and various locations in the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus, marginal soiling and fraying only to occasional and minor effect on images, one sketch loose, contemporary black morocco, spine perished and leaves loose, boards worn, oblong folio (35.5 x 47.5 cm) The artist may have produced this album while serving on the 1885 Suakin Expedition with the Scots Guards: one of the pencil sketches in Cyprus, dated 1885, depicts the Scots Guards' camp in the Troodos Mountains; the caption to a sketch of a dahabiyah on the Nile refers to previous service with the Ceylon Rifles. (1)
*Female portraits. [Green (Valentine), Elisabeth Lady Nuneham, circa 1780], uncoloured full length mezzotint on laid after Peter Falconet, small margins, 610 x 385 mm, together with Corbutt (C. pseud. Richard Purcell), Georgiana Countess Spencer & her daughter the Honble. Miss Georgiana Spencer, circa 1760, uncoloured half length portrait on laid after J.Reynolds, small margins, 385 x 275 mm, with McArdell (James), Lady George Lennox, circa 1760, uncoloured half length portrait on laid after A. Ramsay, thread margins, 330 x 230 mm, plus Faber (John), [Shepherdess, circa 1750], uncoloured half length mezzotint on laid after Henry Pickering, proof before title and letters, small margins, 355 x 250 mm, and Watson (J.), Lady Erskine, published Carington Bowles, circa 1780, uncoloured half length mezzotint on laid after A. Ramsay, thread margins, 355 x 255 mm, with Watson (James), The Dutchess of Mazareen & Count Colbert in the characters of Verumnus and Pomona..., published J. Boydell, 1777, uncoloured mezzotint on laid after Gaspard Netscher, small margins, 500 x 355 mm, plus, Smith (J.), The most Illustrious Princess Sophia Electrice Dowager of Brunswick, successor to ye crown of England &c. after Her Majesty Queen Ann & her Royal Issue, circa 1720, uncoloured half length mezzotint on laid, good margins, old collector's ink stamp to lower margin, 350 x 250 mm, mounted (7)
*Female portraits. Watson (James), [Mary (n‚e Heblethwayte) Lady Boynton, published Robt. Sayer, 1770], uncoloured full length mezzotint on laid after Francis Cotes, trimmed to image, central horizontal fold, slight creasing, 630 x 385 mm, together with Green (Valentine), The Right Honble. Lady Betty Delm‚, W. Richardson, 1790, uncoloured full length mezzotint after Sir Joshua Reynolds, good margins, laid on later card, 630 x 385 mm, with Smith (John), Serenissima Maria Beatrix G. G. Angliae Scotiae Franciae et Hiberniae Regina &c., sold by Alex Brown, [1686 or later], uncoloured oval portrait on wove after N. de Langillierre, trimmed to plate mark, 345 x 250 mm, mounted (3)
*Politicians & aristocracy. Reynolds (S. W.), Henry Gally Knight Esq., circa 1810, uncoloured mezzotint on laid after Henry Edridge, good margins, 490 x 365 mm, mounted, together with Jones (J.), Lady Charlotte Spencer in the character of Miss Rivers [and] Lord Chas. Spencer in the character of Col. Rivers, To their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough this plate is most respectfully dedicated..., published J. Roberts Oxford and J. Jones, London, 1788, uncoloured mezzotint after J. Roberts, laid on card and backed with linen, 460 x 355 mm, mounted, with Smith (J. R.), Erasmus Darwin M.D. & F. R. S., published J. R. Smith 1797, uncoloured half length portrait on laid after J. Wright, 380 x 280 mm, good margins, plus Houston (Richard), The Right Honourable Henry Pelham, Chancellor of the Exchequer and John Roberts Esqr., Joshua Edmondson, circa 1760, uncoloured mezzotint on laid after John Shackleton, margins repaired on verso, 390 x 390 mm, and Faber (J.), Henricus Gale Armigr. De Taunton Dean in Agro Somersetensis, 1742, uncoloured half length mezzotint on laid after J. Whood, 325 x 225 mm, with Barney (William Whiston), To the Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford. This plate of their sons, George Spencer Earl of Sunderland and Lord Charles Spencer..., 1805, uncoloured full length mezzotint on laid after R. Cosway, slight staining, small margins, 530 x 400 mm, plus Smith (John), The Rt. Honble. Sr. Robert Clayton Kt., Lord Mayor of the City of London, 1680, circa 1720, uncoloured mezzotint on laid after J. Riley, small margins, 410 x 290 mm, with one other similar (8)
Bristol. A manuscript album with original sketches of Bristol and Wales, by Augustin Prichard, 4 Chesterfield Place, Clifton, Nov. 1884[-1897], 98 pages numbered in manuscript, each with a mounted illustration in blue or black ink, of buildings, streets, landscapes, seascapes, and portraits, copied from other artworks, engravings, or photographs, including Bristol Cathedral, Redcliff Church, Redland Green Chapel, Southerndown Rocks, St. Donat's Castle, The Red Lodge, Colston's School, Foster's Almshouse, Back Street, The Old Black Boy Inn, Portrait of Mrs. Esttin, each with explanatory text in manuscript below, most initialled, toned and spotted, some dust-soiling, endpapers soiled and with remains of paper cover turn-ins, front free endpaper detached, original decorated cloth, sometime rebacked in vellum (lettered in a calligraphic hand), rubbed and extremities worn (with remnants of old paper cover to spine and lower return), 4to Augustin Prichard (1818-1898) was a surgeon specialising in ophthalmology, who had a large practice in Bristol. He was highly regarded in his field, having helped establish a number of pioneering practices, and he lectured and published on the subject. He was also interested in photography and was devoted to sketching. (1)
*Tanqueray (Paul, 1905-1991). An archive of photographic portraits, approximately 200+ studio gelatin silver prints, mostly society portraits (and a few female nudes), some with Tanqueray's ink stamp and annotated on verso, some by Richard Shakspeare, including portraits of the Honourable Lydia Yarde Buller (later Duchess of Bedford), actress Winifred Shotter (signed by her), Miss Mollie Sullivan, Miss Pamela Colledge, Miss Rosemary Dale, and a mounted print of Richard Shakspeare inscribed 'To Richard with my best, always, Paul. 1936' (inscription slightly water-stained), together with approximately 400 other gelatin silver prints by Richard Shakspeare, including military, early motor vehicles, steam trains and planes, animals, landscapes and buildings, flowers, etc., including prints of racing drivers Rudolph Hasse, Rudolf Caracciola, and Louis Klemantaski, 30 x 25cm and smaller, plus a small quantity of ephemera, mostly relating to motoring, e.g. typed sheet 'The Bugatti Owner's Club Night Trial' 1938 (listing R.W. Shakspeare), British India Certificate of Registration for a Solo Francis Barnett motorcycle (and tax disc dated 1941), typed schedule for the Polish Ski Train dated 1938, and a 1930 Certificate of Insurance Provenance: Bequeathed by Richard Shakspeare to his long-standing friend Valerie Roseblade, and thence by descent. Richard Shakespeare was an old Etonian who travelled widely and was a motoring enthusiast with a broad interest in cars and racing, and a particular love of Bugattis. Shakspeare worked for a time as a model and assistant to Paul Tanqueray, one of London's leading studio portrait photographers whose work is well represented in the National Portrait Gallery. Richard Shakspeare was apparently killed on active service in Sicily during the Second World War. (a carton)
Knolles (Richard). The Generall Histories of the Turkes ... together with The Lives and Conquests of the Othoman Kings and Emperours ... untill this Present Yeare 1603, 1st edition, Adam Islip, 1603, engraved architectonic title page, 28 engraved medallion portraits and 1 engraved battle scene in the letterpress, all by Laurence Johnson, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, woodcut wreath border to The Lives and Conquests section title; intermittent pale tide-mark extending from bottom edges into text, quires A and 5F-H chipped in margins with engraved title (A2) largely torn away (but retaining most of the text) and partial loss of floral headpiece in the errata (5H8), repairs in leaves V4, 2N3, 3R6 and 5F3, small closed chip in X5 (portrait verso), small hole in 3A6 and spill-burn in 4B6 to minor loss of text and running head respectively, marginal worming from 4M to end, 17th- and 18th-century ownership inscriptions and pen-trials to initial blank and engraved title, occasional contemporary marginalia, contemporary calf, worn, front board detached, folio in 6s (31.5 x 22.5 cm) Blackmer 919; Cobham-Jeffery p. 31; Cox I p. 204; STC 15051. First edition of 'the greatest of English works of the Renaissance period dealing with Turkey' (Chew, cited after Blackmer). (1)
Aesop. Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflections, by Sir Roger L'Estrange, 2nd edition, corrected and amended, 1694, engraved frontispiece, without portrait and leaf A1 of preface also lacking, frontispiece and title repaired and strengthened to verso, some toning, occasional spotting and marginal dust-soiling, modern half calf, maroon morocco title label to spine, folio Wing A707. (1)
Baskerville Press. The Works of Mr William Congreve... consisting of His Plays and Poems, 2 volumes, Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, 1761, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, and five plates, some spotting and toning, marbled endpapers, bookplate of 'Johannis Naylor Leightonensis', all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco with elaborate gilt decoration, contracting morocco labels to spines, joints cracked and slight wear to extremities, 8vo Gaskell 16. (3)
[Bayfield, Mrs. E.G.]. A Winter in Bath, by the author of two popular novels, 4 volumes, 1st edition, [1807], gathering H in volume 1 sprung, occasional spotting and few marks, early signature of Ethel Duberly to front free endpapers, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, some joints a little cracked, light wear to extremities, 12mo, together with [Goldsmith, Oliver], The Life of Richard Nash, Esq; Late Master of the Ceremonies at Bath. Extracted principally from his original papers, 2nd edition, 1762, engraved portrait frontispiece, annotation at head of title, toning and spotting, later 19th century half calf, gilt decorated spine, wear at head of spine, 8vo, with Butler (Samuel), Hudibras, in Three Parts; Written in the Time of the Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, and a Preface, by Zachary Grey, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1764, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, 15 engraved plates by Hogarth (of 16, lacking plate 8, some plates folding), scattered spotting, rear free endpaper of volume 2 torn, contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, joints cracked and some wear at head & foot of spines, 8vo, plus other 18th and 19th century antiquarian, including eight volumes of the Spectator (31)
Charles I. Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His sacred Maiestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings, [London: printed by John Grismond for Richard Royston], 1648 [i.e. 1649], [8], 269, [3]pp., first two words of title in Greek characters, with final blank leaf, without portrait and folding plate, some light dust-soiling, late 19th century/early 20th century sheep, rubbed, 8vo, together with [Hickes, George], The Gentleman Instructed, in the Conduct of a Virtuous and Happy Life. In Three Parts. Written for the Instruction of a Young Nobleman. To which is added, a Word to the Ladies, by way of Supplement to the first part, 5th edition, 1713, light dampstaining, contemporary panelled calf, joints split, 8vo, with Bible [New Testament], The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ..., London: Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd, 1694, bound with The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1693, titles and borders red ruled throughout, some browning and dust-soiling, lacking front free marbled endpaper, contemporary blind decorated black morocco, extremities rubbed, 8vo, and Chamberlayne (Edward), Angliae Notitia: or the Present State of England, with divers remarks upon the Ancient State thereof, 21st edition, 1704, engraved portrait frontispiece, some spotting, contemporary panelled calf, gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, joints split and worn at head & foot of spine, 8vo, plus other antiquarian, mostly 18th century For first work see F.F. Madan, New Bibliography of the Eikon Basilike, 2; Almack, 4 and Wing E272. Identified by Madan as the "second edition", with two square blocks added to title page and text reset; epigram has mis-spelling "mali" for "mala" on title page. (13)
Defoe (Daniel). A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-man. Corrected by himself, 1st authorized edition, 1703, engraved portrait frontispiece by Van der Gucht after Tavener, contemporary signature J. Anstruther to title and with the bookplate of Sir John Anstruther to verso (overlaid on leterpress notice), contemporary panelled calf, upper board detached and lower board near detached, lacking title label to spine, some wear, 8vo, together with Paley (William), The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, 2nd edition, corrected, 1786, half-title, armorial bookplate of F. Luard to upper pastedown, contemporary tree calf, gilt decorated spine lacking title label, joints cracked and slight wear to extremities, 4to, with Gray (Thomas), Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems, London: J. Dodsley, 1789, engraved vignette to title, engraved plates and vignette illustrations, some dust-soiling and occasional spotting, armorial bookplate of Henry Cholmondeley Jackson and with a series of autograph letters signed by the poet and artist Laurence Whistler (1912-2000) relating to the volume, hinges repaired, contemporary calf, rebacked, board edges worn, 4to, and Scott (James & Green, Charles and others), A General Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: or, a Complete System of Literature, 2 volumes, 1765, engraved frontispiece to each, volume 1 title in red & black with repair to fore-edge, numerous engraved plates including some folding, slight toning, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines, 4to, plus other antiquarian including Arithmetick; or, the Ground of Arts..., by Edward Hatton, 1699, and Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa... in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, by Mungo Park, 2 volumes, 5th edition, 1807 For first title see Furbank & Owens 1. A second volume was issued in 1705. This work was issued in response to a pirate edition of Defoe's works published in the same year by John How. (20)
Edmondson (Joseph). A Complete Body of Heraldry, 2 volumes, 1st edition, for the author by T. Spilsbury, 1780, engraved portrait frontispiece, 24 plates, worming towards front of volume 1 and rear of volume 2, partially affecting one word in title page imprint and images a few plates, intermittent marginal damp-staining, bookplates of Sir John Smith, Bart. of Sydling House, Dorset, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked with original richly gilt spines laid down, gilt arms to sides, rubbed and scuffed, corners restored, folio, together with: Parker (Matthew), De antiquitate Britannicae ecclesiae et privilegis ecclesiae Cantuarensis cum archiepiscopis ejusdem LXX, William Bowyer, 1729, engraved frontispiece, 28 plates, engraved text vignettes, frontispiece torn and laid down (image intact) and wormed in margin, water-staining in fore margins, fore edges towards front and rear chipped and softened, modern half sheep, folio; Wood (Anthony …), Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the most Antient and Famous University of Oxford, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, for Knaplock, D. Midwinter, and J. Tonson, 1721, title pages printed in red and black, volume 1 prelims slightly frayed at edges, title page spotted and ink-stained, occasional light spotting and soiling elsewhere, edges untrimmed, recent quarter calf, folio; Carew (Thomas), An Historical Account of the Rights of Elections of the several Counties, Cities, and Boroughs of Great Britain, 1st edition, printed for John Nourse, 1755, spotting to endpapers, title page and final text leaf, occasional light spotting elsewhere, shelf-mark label to front pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, scuffed, gilt arms of the Society of Writers to the Signet to sides, folio; and 1 other (8)
Fuller (Thomas). The History of the Worthies of England, 1st edition, 1st issue, printed by J. G. W. L. and W. G., 1662, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut initials, 9 pp. index bound in at rear (see Pforzheimer), bound without the initial blank; mild browning, occasional spotting and staining, small chip in upper inner corner of frontispiece, ownership inscription to title page 'Robert Newton, 1772'), near-contemporary ink annotations to pp. 242-3, closed tears in signatures P3 and [superscript 3]3R1, small hole in I4 affecting a few letters recto, endpapers renewed, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked with early gilt spine laid down, rubbed overall, board-corners worn, folio, together with: Felltham (Owen), Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political, with several new additions both in Prose and Verse, not extant in the former Impressions. In this Eleventh Edition, References are made to the Poetical Citations, heretofore much wanted, printed by M. Clark, for Charles Harper, 1696, with initial 'The Face of the Book Unmasked' leaf, additional engraved title page, letterpress title printed in red and black, occasional browning, 18th-century bookplate of one Richard Law to front pastedown, his ownership inscription and lengthy autograph poem titled 'To Mr Felltham on his Booke of Resolves' to front free endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, folio; Ashburton (Charles Alfred), New and Complete History of England, from the First Settlement of Brutus, upwards of One Thousand Years before Julius Caesar, to the Year 1795, printed and sold by W. and J. Stratford, [1795], engraved frontispiece, 45 plates (of 80), chip to lower margin of frontispiece, contemporary calligraphic ownership inscription to initial blank, contemporary reversed calf, wear to extremities, short tear to foot of spine, folio; Bible [English], An Illustration of the Holy Bible, containing the Sacred Texts of the Old Testament and the New, together with the Apocrypha, Birmingham: printed by Brown and [Bentley], 1789, first few leaves ragged and creased affecting imprint, possibly lacking an index leaf at rear, contemporary reversed calf, worn, folio; and 1 other Pforzheimer 391, Lowndes p. 847, Wing F2440 for Fuller; Wing F658 for Felltham; cf. Darlow & Moule 892 for An Illustration of the Holy Bible. The index in this copy of Fuller does not conform to either of those noted by Pforzheimer, lacking a decorative headpiece on the first page. Ashburton's work is 'a reissue of the 1791-94 edition with the last two gatherings of the text reset and updated to 1795' (ESTC). (5)
G”bler (Justin). Chronica und Historien der Braunschweigischen Frsten, 1st edition, Frankfurt: heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1566, title with xylographic text and woodcut portrait, browning and damp-staining throughout, old paper repairs in margins from leaf G1 to end, and within text in quire I, additional modern tape-repair to I5-6 versos, extensive loss of text in I6 (not part of main text), old half sheep, worn, folio in 6s Not in Adams. No copies in UK libraries. (1)
Hemer (Matthaeus). Vita, et gesta gloriosissimi martyris Sancti Sebastiani... Leben und Thaten dess Heiligen und glorwurdigen Martyrers Sebastiani, sonderbahren Patronen wider die Pest, Augsberg: Wilhelm Planegger, 1702, additional engraved title, 50 engraved plates, 15 leaves of music at rear, edges untrimmed, near contemporary quarter vellum, paste paper covered boards, 4to, together with Holbein (Hans), The Dance of Death; from the Original Designs of Hans Holbein. Illustrated with Thirty-three Plates, Engraved by W. Hollar. With Descriptions in English and French, 1816, engraved portrait frontispiece and portrait plate and 31 other plates, some spotting and toning mostly to plates, edges untrimmed, 20th century boards, slim 8vo (2)
Lumisden (Andrew). Remarks on the Antiquities of Rome and its Environs: Being a CLassical and Topographical Survey of the Ruins of that Celebrated City, 1st edition, 1797, portrait frontispiece, 12 engraved maps and plates, a few folding, occasional light offsetting and spotting, armorial bookplate of Thomas Lumisden Strange, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and repaired, 4to, together with Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver [Jonathan Swift], 2 volumes, 1777, some light spotting, volume I title and endpapers detached, stiching weak, later boards, spines rubbed, 8vo, plus The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell, 6th edition, 1813, extra-illustrated with at least 60 portraits and views, some offsetting and light spotting, later half calf, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo, with others including Fontenelle's Dialogues of the Dead, 1708, Le Rime di M. Francesco Petrarca, 1732 and The Diary of Ralph Thoresby/Letters of Eminent Men addressed to Ralph Thoresby, 4 volumes 1830-32 (63)
Milton (John). Paradise Lost. A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Sixth Edition, with Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, 2 volumes, for J. and R. Tonson [and others], 1763, engraved portrait frontispiece, 14 engraved plates by J. S. Mller after Francis Hayman, mild spotting and browning, small worm-track to initial gatherings in volume 1, light damp-staining in lower margins of volume 2, stronger and more extensive in a few gatherings, contemporary ownership inscriptions of Joseph Fry (see note) to frontispiece recto (dated 'Dunkerque, March 10th, 1767'), section title of the Seventh Book, and rear free endpaper of volume 2, contemporary French mottled calf, spines and extremities worn, joints split but firm, 8vo Provenance: from the collection of noted Quaker chocolatier and type-founder Joseph Fry (1728-1787), with his ownership inscriptions, and apparently purchased and bound for him in France. (2)
Playfair (James). A System of Chronology, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for William Creech, 1784, half-title, 11 plates numbered 1-7, several folding, water-staining to upper outer corners of half-title and title page, very faintly continuing in subsequent leaves, modern calf-backed marbled boards, folio (47 x 28 cm), together with: Sawyer (Edmund), Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected (chiefly) from the Original Papers of Sir Ralph Winwood, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, for Thomas Osborne, 1727, engraved portrait frontispiece, publisher's advertisement leaf to each volume, variable spotting, browning to prelims and endpapers, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, joints cracked but holding, folio (47 x 28.5 cm); Clarendon (Edward Hyde, earl of), The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, 1st edition, Oxford: at the Clarendon printing-house, 1759, engraved portrait frontispiece, head- and tailpieces, and initials, frontispiece offset, bookplate of Robert Smyth of Gaybrook, Westmeath (1801-1878), contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed and worn, joints partially cracked but firm, folio (40 x 24 cm); Allestree (Richard), Works, 3rd edition, Oxford: at the Theater, 1695, engraved frontispiece and title device, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments and neatly repaired, red morocco label, gilt panelling to sides, slightly rubbed, folio (39 x 23.5 cm); Gibson (Edmund), Codex juris ecclesiastici Anglicani ... second edition, revised and improved with large additions, by the author, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1761, 2 volumes in 1, title page tipped in (one letter obscured), endpapers renewed, contemporary buff reversed calf, rebacked to style with new label, worn, repairs, folio (41 x 25.5 cm) Lowndes pp. 1881 (Playfair), 2955 (Sawyer), 468 (Clarendon), 888 (Gibson); Wing A1084 for Allestree. This second edition of Sawyer is notably uncommon, with ESTC tracing four copies; this copy appears to be on large paper, though no large-paper issued is recorded in ESTC. (7)
[Salmon, William.] The Works of Aristotle, in four parts, containing, I. His Complete Masterpiece ... to which is added The Family Physician ... II. His Experienced Midwife ... III. His Book of Problems ... IV. His Last Legacy ... a new and improved edition, printed for Miller, Law, and Carter, [1821], engraved portrait frontispiece dated 1821, 8 woodcuts to the text, sporadic light spotting, contemporary sheep, slightly rubbed, front joint split at foot, 12mo, together with: Gay (John), Elegant Edition of Fables, with the Life of the Author, T. Heptinstall, 1796, 2 volumes in 1, engraved title page and frontispiece, numerous vignettes by Rothwell and others, lacking engraved title and frontispiece of volume 2, contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, slightly front, foot of front joint split, 12mo; Cowper (William),[Poems, comprising:] Table Talk, and Other Poems; The Task; Minor Poems, 3 volumes, for John Sharpe by C. Whittingham, 1822, 21 engraved vignette titles after Westall, some slightly spotted and offset, gilt edges, contemporary buff calf, richly gilt spines, twin morocco labels, elaborate blind panels to sides enclosed by gilt and blind rolls, 12mo; and 10 others, 18th- and 19th century English and French literature, mainly leather-bound, 12mo Later London edition of the infamous manual of sex and pregnancy usually attributed to William Salmon (1644-1713). Sharpe's attractive edition of Cowper, with plates after Westall, first appeared in 1817-18. (15)
Shakespeare (William). The Plays of William Shakspeare..., with Corrections and Illustrations of various Commentators. To which are added notes, by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, revised and augmented by Isaac Reed, with a Glossarial Index, 21 volumes, 6th edition, 1813, half-titles, 78 engraved plates (including portrait frontispiece to volume 1), few engraved illustrations, four foling tables, occasional spotting and dampstains, together with Shakspeare Illustrated, by an assemblage of Portraits & Views, appropriated to the whole suite, of that Authors Historical Dramas; to which are added Portraits of Actors, Editors, &c., London: S. & E. Harding, 1793, 150 engraved plates (including frontispiece and title, occasional spotting, with Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners: with Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare..., and on the English Morris Dance, 2 volumes, 1807, titles in red & black, nine engraved plates (one folding, plate 1 misbound in volume 2), wood engraved illustrations by J. Berryman, some scattered spotting, plus An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words made use of by Shakspeare; calculated to point out the different meanings to which the words are applied, by the Rev. Samuel Ayscough, 1790, occasional light spotting and some dampstaining towards rear of volume, each volume with later matching marbled endpapers, uniform contemporary calf with gilt & blind decorated borders to boards, all volumes professionally rebacked (in morocco), with elaborate gilt & blind decorated spines, contrasting morocco labels (numbered 1-25), corners neatly repaired, 8vo A handsome set. (25)
Shakespeare (William). The Plays and Poems, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage, by Edmond Malone, 21 volumes, 1st edition, printed for F. C. and J. Rivington [and others], 1821, engraved portrait frontispieces to volumes 1 and 2, 7 further plates (found in volumes 2, 3 and 16), spotting to endpapers and prelims, very occasionally to text, typescript contents slips tipped to initial blanks, bookplates of J. Denham Smith and L‚opold Dor (see note), later 19th-century tan half calf, marbled endpapers, edges and sides, spines richly gilt in compartments, twin red and maroon morocco labels, extremities and joints slightly rubbed, light wear to corners, shallow chip to volume 19 spine label, 8vo Jaggard p. 514, Lowndes p. 2262. Third variorum edition, and the first edited by James Boswell the younger (1778-1822): it is as such known as 'Boswell's Malone'. Provenance: Joseph Denham Smith (1816/7-1889), Congregationalist minister and hymnodist; L‚opold Dor (1881-1960), French jurist and amateur archaeologist (bookplates). (21)
Tennyson (Alfred, Lord). Works, 6 volumes, Strahan & Co., 1872-3, half-title to each volume, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, wood-engraved head- and tailpieces and initials, spotting to endpapers, turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco gilt by Ramage, scalloped green morocco onlays to head and foot of spines, spines slightly darkened, a few pale marks to sides, 8vo (20 x 13 cm) (6)
Wotton (Sir Henry). Reliquiae Wottonianae. Or, a Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; with Characters of Sundry Personages: and other Incomporable Pieces of Language and Art, 1st edition, printed by Thomas Maxey, for R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait, 1651, 4 engraved portrait plates including frontispiece, title page dust-soiled and slightly damp-stained, occasional light soiling elsewhere, contemporary ownership inscription 'Wm Killigrew' to final leaf verso (see note), later calf, diamond panel gilt to sides, worn, joints split but firm, 12mo (14.1 x 7.5 cm) Lowndes (1864) p. 2997; Wing W3648. The owner of this copy appears to have been English courtier and playright Sir William Killigrew (1606-1695). (1)
Pardoe (Julia). The Beauties of the Bosphorus, Illustrated in a Series of Views of Constantinople and its Environs, 2 volumes, published George Virtue, 1838, additional decorative title, one uncoloured engraved map and seventy-eight (only) engraved plates, very slight spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco with gilt decorated spines and boards, worn and rubbed at extremities, 4to, together with Bartlett (William), The Danube: Its History, Scenery and Topography..., published Virtue and Co., circa 1840, portrait frontispiece, additional decorative title, two engraved maps and seventy-four (only) engraved plates, some water staining and slight spotting throughout, near contemporary cloth gilt, worn, 4to, with approximately 110 engraved views, most from the above two publications, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return. (approx.110)
Sarikulova (Gul'-Chara Abulatipovna). Grafika Kazakhstana [Russian title], 1st edition, Almaty: Nauka, 1967, 77 numbered plates on 39 sheets, portrait bookplate and contemporary ownership inscription (dated 19.7.67) of artist Valentin Antoshenko-Olenev contributor of plates 26-30 (see note), original cloth, a few marks, square 8vo, together with: approximately 20 books and pamphlets of bookplate reference, 19th and 20th century; and assorted ephemera including: 2 19th-century scrapbooks of embossed arms, crests and monograms; 4 bookplate woodblocks or copperplates; bookbinding paraphernalia including original wooden boards from a 15th-century book, and a front board onlaid with mother-of-pearl; various post-cards and manuscript journals, 19th and 20th century; and approximately 15 assorted maps, 18th-20th centuries Rare Almaty-printed monograph on Kazakh design, from the collection of artist Valentin Antoshenko-Olenev (1900-1984), sometime student of Marc Chagall, accompanied by assorted ephemera. No copies traced in libraries. (a carton)
BarrŠs du Molard (Alphonse). M‚moires sur la guerre de la Navarre et des provinces basques, depuis son origine en 1833, jusqu'au trait‚ de Bergara en 1839, 1st edition, Paris: Dentu, 1842, half-title (with small mark), folding map, folding table, engraved portrait (very faintly spotted), original wrappers bound in (slightly soiled), modern quarter morocco, 8vo, together with Douglas (Sir Howard), A Treatise on Naval Gunnery, 2nd edition, John Murray, 1829, half-title, 4 folding tables, 5 engraved folding plates, spotting to preliminaries and plates, occasionally to text, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in morocco, 8vo (2)
Maugham (W. Somerset). Cakes and Ale, [1954], portrait frontispiece and illustrations by Graham Sutherland, three facsimile leaves, partly unopened, slight partial toning to endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original cream and navy calf, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition 315/1000, signed by the author and artist, 'Eightieth Birthday Edition', together with The Good Terrorist, by Doris Lessing, London Limited Editions, 1985, original cloth-backed patterned boards, glassine wrapper, 8vo, limited signed edition 42/250, plus Family and Friends, by Anita Brookner, London Limited Editions, 1985, slight marginal toning, original cloth-backed boards, glassine wrapper, 8vo, limited signed edition 68/250, with two others: Ian McEwan's The Child in Time, 1987 and Sebasitan Faulks' The Fatal Englishman, 1996, each signed by the author From the Collection of Alan and Joan Tucker, Stroud. (5)
Sayers (Dorothy L.). Aeneas at the Court of Dido, Christmas 1945, 6 pages, a little light spotting, stapled as issued, 8vo Scarce. With a two page typed letter signed to Mrs Hills, from the author, December 1946: "I am so glad you liked War Cat - perhaps as a "cat person" you will care to have a portrait of the culprit himself taken after dinner from the looks of it... I enclose also a little set of cat-verses I had printed last Christmas, which may amuse you. The episode is quite imaginary, but I feel that if nothing of the sort ever happened it might well have done so". From the Collection of Alan and Joan Tucker, Stroud. (1)
Buffon (Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de). Histoire Naturelle, G‚n‚rale et ParticuliŠre, avec la description du cabinet du roi, volumes 1-3, 5-8 and 10-12 only, Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1764, numerous engraved plates, heavy damp soiling and staining to volumes 1, 11 & 12, occasional worming mostly to margins, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines, contrasting morocco labels (volumes 8 & 11 with defective title labels), volume 12 lacking spine, joints cracked and some wear, 4to, together Walton (Izaak and Cotton, Charles), The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation..., with lives of the authors... edited by Edward Jesse..., to which are added papers on Fishing-Tackle, Fishing Stations, etc. by Henry G. Bohn, 1861, engraved portrait frontispiece and numerous plates and vignette illustrations, contemporary calf, spine torn and lacking title label, worn, 8vo, with Culpeper (Nicholas), Complete Herbal..., To which are now first annexed his English Phyician Enlarged..., 1816, engraved portrait frontispiece, numerous hand-coloured engraved botanical plates, occasional dust-soiling and few marks, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary calf, rebacked and corners repaired, 4to, plus other miscellaneous 18th & 19th century British & continental antiquarian books, mostly leather bound, including some odd volumes (2 cartons)
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