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A 19th century French Louis IV style gilt metal mantel clock, the white enamel convex Roman dial with Arabic five minutes, Marti drum movement with outside countwheel bell strike. The servres style porcelain inset case decorated with figures and portrait medallions, 19" high16cm depth, 46cm height, 25cm width.
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Early 19th century Bindings:- Bloomfield (Robert) Rural Tales, Ballards and Songs. 1st Ed. Vernor et al, London 1802, with frontispiece portrait (160 x 106mm) plus Barrett (Rev. J.T.) 'A Course of Psalms'. 5th Ed. Cochran, London 1827 (165 x 95mm) plus [Cervantes (Miguel)] The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote. 4 vols. Hurst Robinson, London 1820 (170 x 105mm) plus Langhorne - Plutarch's Lives. 8 vols. Richardson et al, London 1821 (160 x 100mm) All full red gilt morocco with gilt edges, fair condition, bumps, foxing etc (14)Provenance: John. P. Love Collection All full red gilt morocco with gilt edges, fair condition, bumps, foxing etc (14). Please see condition report images.
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Attributed to Thomas Gosden, Binder (1780-1840):-Walton (Izaak) and Cotton (Charles). 'The Complete Angler'. John Major, London 1823. With engraved portrait frontispiece after Housman and plates, in text vignettes throughout: 4to. (200 x 130mm) full green morocco reproducing the tablet on title page of Pt.II, six panel spine with fish ornament and monogram gilt edges. Some browning within, otherwise good conditionProvenance: John. P. Love Collection
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Waller (Horace). 'The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa from 1865 to His Death'. With map (loose), plates and portrait frontispiece, Murray, London 1874. 2 vols. 8vo. half calf, marbled boards plus Huxley (Thomas) Darwiniana Essays' and 'Evolution and Ethics' , Appleton, New York and London Ltd. Half red calf, marbled boards (loose) b/ps etc plus a collection of fourteen 18th/19th century bindings, varying subjects and in mixed condition (18)
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De St Evremond (Charles de Saint Denis). The Works Thereof. Des Maizeaux trans. Churchill et al, London 1714 with portrait frontispiece, owner's inscription on title page. 8vo. (190 x 120mm) Full red gilt calf, the six panel spine with scrolling, urn and shell ornament, bumps and scuffed (3)Provenance: John. P. Love Collection
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Ludlow (Edmund). 'Memoirs', 3 vols. Vivay, Bern, Switzerland 1698, portrait frontispiece. 8vo. Old full gilt calf plus Morris (Peter) 'Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk', 2nd Ed. Blackwood et al 1819. Portrait frontispiece, 3 vols. Old calf plus Milton (John) 'Paradise Lost', Tonson, London 1758. Thick 8vo. Full calf plus 'Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border' 2 vols. Kelso 1802. Full calf, all for restoration (9)Provenance: Malcolm Deas Collection
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18th century English binding:- 'England's Black Tribunal set forth in the Tryal of King Charles I'. 4th Ed. Playford and Sawbridge, London 1703 with portrait frontispiece bound with 'The Conspirators or The Case of Catiline'. 2nd Ed. Roberts, London 1721. 8vo. (180 x 105mm). Full red calf with gilt ornament and six panel spine, foxing throughout, binding repairedProvenance: John. P. Love Collection
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A 19th century portrait of El Di Jose Barrera oil on canvas 26cm x 20cm together with a head and shoulder portrait of a girl 13cm x 14cm (2)Provenance: Malcolm Deas Collection Jose Barrera portrait, with seam cracks down four lines and restoration to these. the other possibly stuck down with a faint line across the middle.
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Cookery Interest:-Farley (John). The London Art of Cookery and Housekeeper's Complete Assistant on a New Plan... 8th Edition. Scatcherd and Whitaker et al, London 1790. 8vo. with appendix, table and portrait frontispiece. 'Mr John Farley Principal Cook at The London Tavern', rebound in calf and marbled boards (1)
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Anon. 'The History of Don Francisco de Miranda's Attempt to effect a Revolution in South America in a Series of Letters by a gentleman who was an officer under that general to his friend in the United States' Oliver and Munroe Boston 1808. Red cloth, much stained, scribbles etc plus Memoirs of Gregor M'Gregor comprising a sketch of the Revolution in New Grenada and Venezuela, map and seven plates, 2pp replaced. Stockdale, London 1820. Re-bound plus Auchmuty (Sir Samuel), Notes of the Viceroyalty of la Plata in South America. Stockdale, London 1808. Portrait frontispiece, four plans/maps - lacking one, rebound, all in used condition (3)Provenance: Malcolm Deas Collection
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Anon: The Revolutionary Plutarch... 3rd Ed. 3 vols. Murray, London 1805 with portrait frontispiece. Duc D'Enghien. Half calf, marbled boards plus twelve miscellaneous titles relating to Latin America, Spain etc., most leather bound, mixed used condition (20)Provenance: Malcolm Deas Collection
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Rivière and Son (Binder), Donne (John). 'Poems by J.D. with Elegies on The Authors Death'. 3rd Ed. John Marriot, St Dunstan's Churchyard, London 1639, with portrait frontispiece, gilt edges, small 8vo (140 x 95mm). Full green morocco with six panel gilt decorative spine, stamped Bound by Rivière and Son. b/p for Oliver Brett: pencil notes, some fading and warpingProvenance: John. P. Love Collection
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Byron (Lord George Gordon) (1788-1824): The Works thereof.,4 vols., John Murray, London 1823, with portrait frontispiece engraved by C Warren. 8vo. (220 x 140mm). Full contemporary blue morocco with gilt tooled ornament and edges, some foxing, owner's signature cut out (4)Provenance: John. P. Love Collection
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An early 19th century bronzed lead portrait roundel depicting Queen Caroline, 9.5cm diameter; together with a George III metallic oval portrait, 6.5cm x 8cm; eight plaster roundels; and a small portrait print (10) Queen Caroline - No breakages to portrait. Light wear and marks to surface of miniature and frame.George III - A bit of wear to edges of oval portrait, scuffs and marks to frame. Plaster rounds - man on horse - crack to plaster below feet and near edge and so little plaster loose crumbs beneath frame. Others - Appear to be in a good condition. High res images on website with zoom function for close-up and detail.
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Fairburn (John), Publisher, London. Fairburn's Edition of the Trial of Sir Home Popham (1762-1820) for withdrawing the whole of the Naval Force under his Command, without orders, to attack the Spanish Settlement in the Rio de la Plata... March 1807. See note on end paper. 60pp, marbled boards, half calf, fragile (210 x 135mm) plus 'Anon' 'Notes on the Vice Royalty of La Plata in South America...'. Stockdale, London 1808, 5 maps/plans as listed but lacks portrait of Sir Samuel Auchmuty. Small 4to. Half black calf and marbled boards, bumped etc (2)Provenance: Malcolm Deas Collection
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A rare set of six Peninsula War Fan Papers, unmounted including C Sloper, Lambeth Road, London with portrait of Ferdinand VII plus J Hadwen Cheapside, London, A coloured engraving of three figures 'La Espana Triunfara' plus three further monochrome street skirmish scenes by Behrmann & Collman, London 1813 plus one other dated 1808, (approximately 520 x 280mm) (6)
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A Worcester bell-shaped King of Prussia mug, c.1757, printed in black with a head and shoulders portrait of Frederick II of Prussia, titled and dated 1757, the reverse printed with Fame blowing trumpets, both flanking a design of pennants and military trophies, signed in the print 'RH Worcester', 12 cm high
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18th century Sevres hard paste bisque porcelain portrait medallion, bust of Benjamin Franklin (American 1706-1790) facing right, circa 1778-1800, after Giovanni Battista Nini (1717-1786) and Jean-Jacques Caffieri (1725-1792) A/F. For another example see the collections of The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California Location:Catalogue note: A terracotta relief bust by Nini of the same model, enclosed within a glass medallion case survives in the archives at Sevres, said to have been inspired by/after a terracotta bust of Franklin by Caffieri, which was exhibited at the Salon, 1777 Location:
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Missionaries in China, India, Africa and the Pacific Visitors' book kept by the Wilson family of Sheffield, 1890s-1940s 4to, red cloth binding, containing approx. 100 varicoloured leaves, filled with autograph entries mainly from missionaries (British and native) on the occasion of visits to Sheffield, including their name, date of visit, place of service, and a message, often in both English and the relevant native language, the book containing several thousand entries in total, including: Yung-King Yen (1838-1898), American Episcopal missionary in Shanghai (1894), his message comprising a translation of Thessalonians into Chinese and his signature in Chinese and English, with a pasted-in portrait photograph and his Chinese visiting card on red paper); James Chalmers (1841-1901), Tamate, New Guinea (1895), eventual cannibalism victim, his message including John 3:16 in English and a native language; Bathoen I (c.1845-1910), Sebele I (d.1911) and Khama III (c.1837-1923), respectively chiefs of the Bangwaketse, Kwena and Bangwata peoples of Bechuanaland (Botswana), on the occasion of their 1895 tour of England to gain support against the proposed annexation of their lands by Cecil Rhodes and the British South Africa Company; Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-c.1929), Sikh-born Christian missionary, his message comprising Ephesians 6:18 in English and Urdu, dated, 1920, with full-page photographic portrait mounted to facing page; William Booth (1829-1903), general of the Salvation Army (1893); and numerous others, including Arthur Bonsey (1858-1942), Hankow, Amy Easter Brockway, Ambositra, Madagascar, 1897 (her message including John 14:1 in Malagasy), John Knox, Vizagapatam, 1897, including John 4:2 in Telugu, Samuel Lavington Hart, principal of the Anglo-Chinese College, Tientsin, 1900, Ebenezer and Blanche Cooper, Samoa, 1901, James Duthie (1833-1908), Travancore, 1902, Ruth Massey, Wuchang, 1902, in Chinese and English, Lillie E. V. Saville, Peking, 1904, in Chinese and English, James and Annie Sharman, Antananarivo, 1906, and similar, including missionaries operative in numerous locations across Africa, India, Burma, China and elsewhere. A few leaves torn in gutter, 2 leaves (1910 and 1922) loose Provenance: By descent to David R. Wilson (1926-2020), bookseller and ornithologist (obituary: British Birds, vol. 113, issue 9, pp. 560–561).
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Edinburgh Collection of antiquarian local histories Bower, Alexander. The History of the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Alex. Smellie, 1817. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, uncut in original boards;Stevenson, R. H. The Chronicles of Edinburgh, from its Foundation in A.D. 617, to A.D. 1851. Edinburgh: William Whyte & Co., [1851]. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 7 engraved plates including frontispiece and folding view;[Mackie, Charles]. The History of the Abbey, Palace, and Chapel-Royal of Holyroodhouse. Edinburgh: J. Hay and Co., 1819. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial boards, later spine label, engraved additional title-page, 8 engraved plates and plans (one folding);Foulis, Robert. Old Houses in Edinburgh, and their Inhabitants, as they are and Might; with the Result of an Experiment towards their Improvement in the Grassmarket. Edinburgh: Johnstone and Hunter, 1852. First edition, inscribed 'with the author's kind regards', 8vo, original cloth;Miller, Peter. The Old Tolbuith ... With the Luckenbooths and the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh from 1365 to 1617. Edinburgh: printed for private circulation, 1867. First edition, inscribed 'Thomas Dickson Esq LLD with Mr Miller's best respects May 1887', 4to, original cloth, engraved plates;Chalmers, P. Macgregor. Dalmeny Kirk: its History and Architecture. Glasgow: Carter and Pratt, 1904. First edition, one of 120 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, woodcut illustrations, laid-in autograph letter signed from the author;Dickson, John. Centenary Memorial. History of South College Street Church. Edinburgh: William Oliphant & Co., 1866. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, tinted wood-engraved frontispiece, 8 tinted lithographic portrait plates;and 37 others similar, 19th or early 20th century, original cloth, concerning areas including Morningside, Leith, Stockbridge, various churches, etc.(40+) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)
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A collection Billings, R.W. Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1901. Volumes I, III and IV; Patrick Geddes interest: publications about, or including the work and philosophy of, Patrick Geddes; The Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments, [n.p., n.d. - late 19th century?]. Volumes I-V, VII and VIII.; [Groome, Francis H., editor]. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical Biographical and Historical, Edinburgh: Thomas C. Jack, 1882-1885. Volumes I-VIII; MacDonald, George. Robert Falconer. London: Hurst and Blackett, [1886?]; idem. Alec Forbes of Howglen. London: Hurst and Blackett, [1886?]; [Scott, Sir Walter]. Chronicles of The Canongate. Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1827. 2 volumes; [Gilfillan, Rev. George, editor]. The National Burns, including The Airs Of All The Songs. London: William Mackenzie, [n.d]. 4 volumes, 4to, gilt decorated green cloth with red and gilt portrait medallion, g.e.; [Scott, Sir Walter]. Anne of Geierstein. Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1829. 3 volumes; Jamieson, John. An Etymological Dictionary of The Scottish Language, 2 volumes. Edinburgh: William Tait, 1840-1841; and other 19th and 20th century books about Scotland or written by Scottish authors The lot sold as seen, not subject to return(60+)
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Gregory the Great, Saint (540-604) Dialogus eiusque diaconi Petri in quattuor libros divisus: de vita et miraculis patrum italicorum et de eternitate animarum cum tabulis nuncnunc a novo supradditis. Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berchtoldt Rembolt, 23rd March 1508. 8vo (21 x 13.5cm), later vellum, 64 ff., signatures a-h8, title-page with criblé woodcut central panel containing Rembolt's device on shield suspended on vine and supported by two lions rampant, letterpress above in red, the whole enclosed by decorative criblé woodcut frame, large woodcut portrait of Gregory to verso of title-page, criblé woodcut initials throughout, all with red penwork embellishment, capital strokes throughout in red, boards sprung, a1-2 slightly marked and damp-stained, minute worm-track to lower margins of quires a-b, g5-h8 with small repaired tear in gutter, a few other light marks [not in Adams but cf. G1191 for a 1513 edition by Rembolt] Ulrich Gering (d.1510) was one of three German printers who together established the first printing press in France, in Paris in 1470.
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Hill, David Octavius, and Robert Adamson Portrait photograph of clockmaker Robert Bryson, c.1843-8, Robert Burns family provenance salted paper print from a calotype negative, 20 x 14.9cm, mounted, framed and glazed, manuscript provenance note dated 1887 pasted to backboard Robert Bryson FRSE (1778-1852) held the royal warrant for clockmaking in Scotland, and worked from premises at 66 Princes Street, Edinburgh, adjacent to Alexander Hill, brother and business partner of D. O. Hill.Provenance:1) Presented by Robert Bryson to Isabella Begg (née Burns, 1771-1858), sister of Robert Burns, the poet (her portrait taken by Hill and Adamson);2) By descent to Agnes (1800-1883; married name Brown) and Isabella Begg (1806-1886), daughters of Isabella Begg;3) Presented on the death of Isabella Begg to David Dunlop, solicitor, Ayr, executor;4) Presented by Dunlop to Robert Adam (fl. 1870s-80s), city chamberlain, Edinburgh, c.1887;5) With Lockharts, solicitors, Ayr.Literature: Sarah Stevenson, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson: Catalogue of their Calotypes taken between 1843 and 1847 in the Collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1981, p. 46 (version 'a');Colin Ford, An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1976, p. 357;Cf. David Bruce, Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes, 1973, pp. 180-1 for another version.
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Eminent Victorians – Nonconformists – Anti-Slavery Activists Collection of letters to and from members of the Read, Rawson, and Wilson families of Sheffield, 19th century-early 20th century Approx. 90 in total, all autograph unless otherwise stated, a few items mounted in 20th-century 4to blue half calf album, the rest loose, with quarter morocco solander box. Letters include:William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), American abolitionist and journalist, Birmingham, 1877, 3 pp., to Mary Anne Rawson, arranging to visit her at Wincobank Hall, Sheffield (‘It is rare indeed that friends are permitted to see each other, after so long a separation, especially if an ocean intervene … You speak of your advanced age. But I have kept step with you, and we shall meet relatively as to our years as we stood in 1840 …’), the letter mounted in album opposite an albumen print photographic portrait of Garrison;George B. Cheever (1807-1890), American abolitionist minister, 2 letters, 1886, both to ‘My dear Sir’, 3 pp. and 2 pp., recalling a visit to ‘your dear and honoured aunt’, i.e. Mary Anne Rawson (‘We can never forget her kindness, and the charm of her household circle’), mentioning abolition (‘With what exceeding pleasure you must all have looked back upon your own God-guided efforts in behalf of the millions of slaves, by God’s great mercy and Divine Providence as free as ourselves, and needing only to be educated and trained in the knowledge and grace of the blessed, gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’), enclosing photographic carte-de-visites of Cheever and his wife (both present), etc.;William Booth (1829-1912), general of the Salvation Army, to Mr Wilson, 1902, 2 pp.;Evangeline Booth (1865-1950), daughter of William and his successor as general of the Salvation Army, 1896, To Mr Wilson, typed letter signed, 1 p.;Agnes Weston (1840-1918), philanthropist to sailors, 1 p., 1895, to Mr Wilson, declining an invitation;Newman Hall (1816-1902), nonconformist divine, 2 letters, 1863 and undated, the first to Mary Anne Rawson, 6 pp., the second to ‘Dear Madam’, concerning an invitation to Sheffield from Mr and Mrs Wycliffe Wilson;W. 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Nightingale (1794-1874), father of Florence Nightingale, 1843, ‘My dear Sir, Many thanks to you and to Miss Read for your most liberal invitation to stay at Derwent Hall …’, 2 pp.;Thomas Raffles (1788-1863), Congregational minister and abolitionist, 2 letters, to Joseph Read, 1827, 1 p., and to Mrs Read, undated, 2 pp., on preaching and social engagements;Thomas Rawson Birks (1810-1883), Church of England clergyman, theologian and opponent of Darwinism, 9 letters, all to members of the Read family, 1820s-60s, on religion, family matters, etc. With 2 letters from Agnes and Anna Birks;Thomas Barnardo (1845-1905), philanthropist and founder of Dr Barnardo’s Homes, 1877, to Mary Anne Rawson, regarding her gift of a parcel of cloth jackets for Barnardo’s children;Richard Winter Hamilton (1794-1848), Congregational minister, 3 letters, all to Joseph Read, 1827, 1833 and undated, 1, 2, 1 pp.;and numerous others, including from John Pye Smith (Congregational minister and abolitionist), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury (as Viscount Cranborne, 1936, on Foreign Office stationery), Thomas Binney (Congregational minister and abolitionist, to Mrs Rawson), Constance, Lady Battersea, George Rawson (hymn-writer, a bifolium of hymn lyrics), Goldwin Smith (historian), Nathaniel Micklem (Congregational minister and principal of Mansfield College, Oxford), J. Rendel Harris (biblical scholar, 2 letters), politicians, divines, etc. Together with a selection of relevant engraved portraits, cartes-de-visite and printed ephemera, and an ambrotype apparently showing Mary Anne Rawson seated among family members The John Rylands Library (University of Manchester) holds a related collection of papers bequeathed by a member of the Wilson family in 1923 and catalogued as the ‘Rawson/Wilson Anti-Slavery Papers’ (GB 133 Eng MSS 414-415, 741-744). Their description summarises the lives and activities of successive members of the Read, Rawson and Wilson families: ‘Mary Anne Rawson, née Read (1801-1887), of Wincobank Hall, Sheffield, was a noted campaigner against slavery. She was the daughter of Joseph Read (1774-1837) and his wife Elizabeth, both prominent Nonconformists and philanthropists. Joseph Read controlled the company which became the Sheffield Smelting Company. Mary Anne's sister, Elizabeth Read (1803-1851), was married to William Wilson (1800-1866), and was the mother of Henry Joseph Wilson (1833-1914). Sometime in the late 1820s, Mary Anne Read married William B. Rawson, a banker of Nottingham. The marriage however was very short-lived, as William Rawson died sometime during the 1830s … Henry Joseph Wilson (1833-1914) was born in Nottingham, the son of William Wilson (1800-1866) and Elizabeth, née Read (1803-1851), Nonconformist radicals; his father was the chairperson of the Nottingham Anti-Slavery committee … In 1866, after the death of his father, Wilson joined his brother at the Sheffield Smelting Company. The success of the business enabled Wilson to pursue a career in politics, championing ultra-progressive Liberalism … Wilson's son, Alexander Cowan Wilson (1866-1955), was a well-known Quaker philanthropist. Alexander Wilson moved to Manchester in 1916 where he continued in the family tradition of campaigning against slavery and conscription’.Provenance: By descent to David R. Wilson (1926-2020), bookseller and ornithologist (obituary: British Birds, vol. 113, issue 9, pp 560–561).
![Collection of works, 18th-19th century [Locatelli, Francesco]. Lettres moscovites. Paris: Huart l'aîné, 1736. First edition](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/460eb7d6-a172-4efe-854a-b0fc00a88668/4e9c9938-c42a-4090-b608-b0fc00aa0d01/468x382.jpg)
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Collection of works, 18th-19th century [Locatelli, Francesco]. Lettres moscovites. Paris: Huart l'aîné, 1736. First edition, small 8vo, [4] 363 pp., contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt monogram 'B' with ducal coronet to covers, joints superficially cracked;Davenport, R. A. The Life of Ali Pasha, of Tepeleni, Vizier of Epirus: surnamed Aslan, or the Lion. London: Thomas Tegg and Son, 1837. Small 8vo, contemporary green morocco gilt, engraved portrait frontispiece;Johnston, Robert. Travels through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland. London: J. J. Stockdale, 1815. First edition, 4to, contemporary calf (covers detached), 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates, wood-engraved plate, 2 engraved maps, lacking half-title and list of plates (pp. ix/x), general soiling, paper disruption to gutter of frontispiece, title-page and dedication leaf [Abbey Travel 15];and 14 others (these not collated), including: Henry Maundrell, A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697, Perth, 1800 (20th-century quarter calf, engraved plate); John Dundas Cochrane, A Pedestrian Journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, to the Frontiers of China ... A New Edition, Edinburgh, 1829 (2 volumes in 1, contemporary half calf, engraved frontispiece and folding map; John G. Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Dublin, 1839 (contemporary half calf); John Kitto, The Gallery of Scripture Engravings, London, c.1840 (3 volumes, 4to, contemporary half morocco, numerous engraved plates); William Otter, The Life and Remains of Edward Daniel Clarke, Professor of Mineraology in the University of Cambridge, London, 1825 (2 volumes, contemporary blue half calf by T. Armstrong of Villiers St, Strand, with his ticket, engraved bookplates of the barons Northwick); The Scots Magazine, Volume 25, Edinburgh, 1763 (contemporary half calf, engraved plates and maps including 'A Curious Map of Some Late Discoveries in the Terra Australis comprehending New Guinea and New Britain', and 'An Accurate Map of Minla and the Rest of the Philippine Islands'); and similar.Sold as seen, not subject to return(20) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)
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Darwin, Charles [Owen, Richard] Original review by Richard Owen of Darwin's seminal work, On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection [contained within] The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal for January, 1860 ... April 1860, volume CXI. London: Longman, Green [&c;] 1860, including the original review of Charles Darwin's work, On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. , pp. 487-532, contemporary black half morocco, slightly rubbed;Darwin, Charles. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the World. London: J. Murray, 1890. 8vo, new edition, engraved portrait, original pictorial cloth, rubbed;Darwin, Charles. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the World. London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1890, 8vo eighth edition, frontispiece, plates, original blue cloth(3) Richard Owen, an ambitious leading figure of Victorian science, wrote this important (anonymous) review of the Origin of Species et al for the respected Edinburgh Review. As is well known, Owen vacillated between accepting or denying evolution but was convinced that Darwin's proposed mechanisms were wrong. Owen argued instead for a confusing theory of "the continuous operation of the ordained becoming of living things." In addition to throwing scorn on Darwin's ideas, Owen praised his own behind the veil of anonymity.
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The Poems London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1949. One of 375 copies signed by the author, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth over bevelled boards, spines lettered in gilt, roundel with author's monogram gilt to front covers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, photogravure portrait frontispiece to each volume, volume 1 with strip of sunning to head of rear board, volume 2 rear board with two superficial score-marks(2)
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Cosmographiae Universalis Lib. VI In quibus juxta certioris fidei scriptores... Basel: Ex Officina Henricpetrina, [March 1572 to colophon]. First edition in Latin, small folio (32 x 21.5cm), woodcut vignette on title with portrait of Münster to verso, woodcut maps and town views, double-page woodcut of 'sea and land monsters', lacking 24 leaves including 9 views: Figura areae Romanae, Geneva, Verona, Florence, Worms, Heidelberg, Pomerania, large folding plan of Vienna, Constantinople, contemporary calf neatly rebacked with later spine, final leaf laid-down obscuring printer's device, 1920s Stevenson ownership signature to title-page, small hole to title-page with some loss to text on verso and upper margin repaired, some light dust-soiling and occasional spotting, some areas of light dampstaining throughout book (mostly marginal), occasional offsetting particularly to 'Civitas Francofordiana', outer edges of 'Civitas Bisontina...' torn away with some loss to engraved area, small tear to corner of Cologne with loss to page number, some minor repairs and slight fraying to several leaves, some mild worming affecting a few letters towards the end of the book, some light dampstaining [USTC 625634] FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS
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Collection of works, 18th-19th century Shirrefs, Andrew. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh: for the author, 1790. First edition, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece, half-title discarded;Galloway, Robert. Poems, Epistles and Songs, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. To which are added, a Brief Account of the Revolution in 1688, and a Narrative of the Rebellion in 1745-46, continued to the Death of Prince Charles in 1788. Glasgow: by W. Bell, for the author, 1788. First edition, small 8vo, contemporary sheep, rubbed, a few stains;[Chapbooks]. Volume of chapbooks, Glasgow: for the booksellers, early 19th century, contents including: History of Jack the Giant Killer; History of Paul Jones the Pirate; The Constant Lovers; or, Jemmy and Nancy of Yarmouth; The Comical Stories of Thrymmy Cap and the Ghaist; Napoleon Bonaparte's Book of Fate; The Story of Blue Bear, or the Effects of Female Curiosity; The Humours of Glasgow Fair, and the Comical Song of Auld John Paul; and numerous others similar, most with woodcut vignette on title-page;Balfour, Alexander. Contemplation; with Other Poems. Edinburgh: printed by William Watson, 1820. First edition, 8vo, uncut in original boards, half-title, slightly worn and damp-stained, largely unopened;and 15 others (these not collated), including: Robert Burns, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. A New Edition, Considerably Enlarged, Edinburgh: for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, London, 1798, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sheep, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, rubbed; idem, Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, London: A. Cleugh [printed by J. Findlay, Arbroath], 1803, 8vo, contemporary sheep, worn; David Carey, Craig Phadric, Visions of Sensibility, with Legendary Tales, and Occasional Pieces, Inverness: for the author, 1811, first edition, 8vo, contemporary sheep, frequent old restoration to fore margins; Alexander Balfour, Characters omitted in Crabbe's Parish Register, Edinburgh, 1825, first edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled sheep; Robert Fergusson, The Poetical Works, Glasgow: Chapman and Lang, 1800, 8vo, contemporary sheep, engraved portrait, prelims loosening; and similar(20)
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Collection of prints, mainly wood-engravings Joan Hassall (1906-1988). Four bookplate designs, wood-engravings, signed in pencil, separately mounted, three for named owners (Henry & Sybil Birkbeck; A. P. Polack; Lawrence Scholar and H. A. J. Brotherton, dated 1934), one unnamed, Polack bookplate spotted, various dimensions;Mabel Allington Royds (1874-1941). [Flowers], colour woodcut, signed in pencil, remnants of tape to upper corners, 17.5 x 17.5cm;William Strang (1859-1921). Alfresco, etching, signed in pencil, mounted, spotted in margins, 16 x 25.5cm;R. G. Sellar. ‘Barnacle Geese’ and ‘The Lagan at Edenderry’, 2 wood-engravings, both signed and titled by the artist in pencil, 25 x 18.5cm and 18.5 x 25cm;Douglas Percy Bliss (1900-1984). [The voyeurs] and [Succour in the storm], 2 wood-engravings, both signed and addressed by the artist in pencil, on card mounts, second print spotted and with marginal chips, 11.5 x 8cm and 9 x 10.5cm;John Nash (1893-1977). [Grazing horses], wood-engraving, signed in pencil, 16 x 11.5cm, remnants of tape to upper corners verso;Charles Pulsford (1912-1989). [Artist sketching], possibly a self-portrait, pen-and-ink and pencil, signed ‘Pulsford’ lower right, mounted, 37 x 29cm, short closed tear in left hand edge(1 folder) Provenance: William Wilson RSA (1905-1972), Scottish artist; thence by descent.
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Edinburgh and Scotland Collection of topographical and historical works, 18th-19th century all 4to, comprising:Wood, John Philp. The Antient and Modern State of the Parish of Cramond. To which are added, Biographical and Genealogical Collections ... comprehending a Sketch of the Life and Projects of John Law of Lauriston, Comptroller General of the Finances of France. Edinburgh: John Paterson, 1794. Near-contemporary calf, viii 291 [3] pp., engraved map, 7 engraved plates, mezzotint portrait of John Law, 3 folding letterpress pedigrees, list of plates at rear, front joint superficially cracked but holding, head of spine slightly defective;Trotter, Alexander. Observations in Illustration of his Modified Plan of a Communication between the New and the Old Town of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: for Laing & Forbes; and R. Ackermann, London, 1834. [Bound with:] A Plan of Communication between the New and Old Town of Edinburgh, in the Line of the Earthen Mount ... Second Edition, greatly enlarged, with Additional Plates. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1829. 2 works in 1 volume, contemporary cloth-backed boards, printed pink paper label to front, Observations with engraved frontispiece view, engraved plan, A Plan with 6 lithographic or engraved plates, all folding (plate 3 with outer section reattached), the 2 works divided by a publisher's notice on pink paper (1 f., 'What follows is Mr. Trotter's Original Plan of 1828, now abandoned, as mentioned on first page of the preceding observations')Johnstone, J. & J. Historical and Descriptive Account of the Palace and Chapel-Royal of Holyroodhouse. Edinburgh: J. Cunningham and J. & J. Johnstone, 1826. First edition, one of an unknown copies with proof plates on india paper, original printed boards, rebacked, engraved dedication, vignette title-page and 8 plates, all printed on india paper and mounted, inscribed 'To Mr John Graham Macdonald Bart, from his much obliged servants the engravers' on the front free endpaper, spotting; Lees, J. Cameron. St Giles', Edinburgh, Church, College, and Cathedral, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1889. One of 50 copies on large paper, this copy out-of-series and annotated 'Publishers' Copy' on the limitation page, apparently by the author, with his signature below, contemporary half morocco (spine sunned), Chambers family bookplate to front pastedown;Gregory, James. Memorial to the Managers of the Royal Infirmary. Edinburgh: Murray & Cochrane, 1800. 19th-century half calf, bookplate of the barons Napier, front joint split but held by cords;Robertson, D. H. The Sculptured Stones of Leith. Leith: Reid & Son, 1851. First edition, contemporary green half calf (rubbed), tinted lithographic additional title-page, 18 tinted lithographic plates (slightly spotted), folding plan;and 6 others (these not collated), all with engraved plates, including: Thomas Allom, Scotland, c.1835; J. Ewbank, Picturesque Views of Edinburgh, 1825; Thomas H. Shepherd, Modern Athens, 1829; Daniel Wilson, Memorials Edinburgh in the Olden Time, 1848 (2 volumes); and similar(14) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)The Antient and Modern State of the Parish of Cramond is also of Indian interest, containing an account of John Law's time as French governor-general of Pondicherry.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man London: Egoist Press, 1917 [i.e. 1918]. 8vo, [vi] 299 pp., original green cloth, spine darkened, a few small marks and areas of cockling to covers, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, small nick to foot of pp. 179-82 [Slocum & Cahoon A13] First UK edition to be printed in the country, the third edition overall, one of 1,000 copies: the work was first published in New York in 1916; the first UK edition of the following year comprised the American sheets with a cancel title-page.
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Collection of works about or printed in Arbroath or environs 1) With the Scottish Yeomanry. Being a Reprint, somewhat altered and extended, of Letters written from South Africa during the War of 1899-1901 by Thomas F. Dewar ... surgeon-captain ... Imperial Yeomanry. Arbroath: T. Buncle & Co., 1901. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;2) Poems and Songs from the Hackle-Shop by James Greig, Arbroath. Arbroath: Thomas Buncle, 1887. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half roan;3) Poems and Songs by Alf. T. Matthews, Arbroath. Arbroath: Arbroath Herald Office, 1891. First edition, 8vo, contemporary blue quarter roan, contents partly unopened);4) Poems on Various Subjects: Political, Satirical, and Humorous. First Series. By John Sim Sands, Writer in Arbroath. Arbroath: Stewart, 1833. First edition, 8vo, near-contemporary half calf, lithographic portrait frontispiece;5) A Record of Lunan, its Descent and Transmission, from 1189 to 1849, by William Blair-Imrie. Edinburgh: Waterston and Sons, 1902. First edition, one of 50 copies printed for the author, 4to, original red morocco gilt, top edge gilt, addressed in manuscript on limitation leaf to J. M. McBain FSA (dedicatee of Poems and Songs from the Hackle-Shop, q.v.);6) Collections and Observations Methodized; concerning the Worship, Discipline, and Government of the Church of Scotland ... by Walter Steuart, Esq. of Pardovan. Arbroath: J. Findlay for A. Brown, 1802. First edition, 8vo, viii 234 2 pp., contemporary half calf, covers detached, spotting to title-page;7) The History of Dundee ... by James Thomson. Dundee: Robert Walker, 1847. First edition, 8vo, contemporary green half calf, engraved frontispiece and additional title-page;8) Reminiscences of Arbroath and St Andrews by D. S. Salmond. Arbroath: Brodie and Salmond, 1905. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 7 photographic plates;9) [Angus]. Sammelband of locally-printed pamphlets, including: i) A Garland for the Ancient City; or, Love Songs of Brechin and its Neighbourhood, with Historical Notes, by Colin Sievwright, Brechin: D. H. Edwards, 1881; ii) Maryton, Records of the Past. A Lecture delivered in the Public School of Maryton, January 18, 1877, by Rev. William R. Fraser, Montrose: Alex. Burnett, 1877; iii) Brechin Cathedral: its History ... by the Rev. James Landreth, Brechin: D. H. Edwards, 1883; iv) Five Score and One: a Sketch of the Life of Mrs John Alexander, Brechin: D. H. Edwards, 1883; v) The Earl of Dalhousie and his Tenantry, Banquet at Edzell Castle, 1882; vi) For Love's Sake: being a Farewell Sermon preached in the West Free Church, Brechin ... by James M'Cosh, Brechin: D. H. Edwards, 1884; and approx. 6 others;10) Celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in Arbroath. Arbroath: Brodie & Salmond, 1897. First edition, 8vo, original quarter japon;and 25 others, including Natural History of Arbroath and District by Thomas F. Dewar, 1893 (first edition, original cloth, inscribed), The Sough o' the Shuttle; or Poems and Songs by Colin Sievwright, Weaver, Kirriemuir, Dundee, 1866 (first edition, original wrappers, front wrapper near detached), Bannatyne Club, Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc, Edinburgh, 1848 (4to, original cloth), An Original Collection of the Poems of Ossian, Orrann, Ulin, and other Bards ... collected and edited by Hugh and John M'Callum, Montrose: printed at the Review Newspaper Office, 1816 (8vo, original boards, rear board detached, front board near detached), and similar (including broader Scottish interest)(35) Provenance: J. M. McBain FSA, author of Arbroath: Past and Present (1887); thence by descent.
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Group portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and associates at the launching of the Great Eastern, 1857 Arch-topped albumen print photograph (24 x 22cm), on old mount, framed and glazed, a few blemishes including pale strip of discolouration across centre [NPG x4994] The sitters in this photograph (from left to right) are identified by the National Portrait Gallery as: possibly John Trotman; George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle; Lord Alfred Henry Paget; John Yates; then Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Robert Howlett’s iconic images of the construction of the Great Eastern are remembered as ‘some of the most significant photographs of the 19th century’ (Hannavy, Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, 2008, vol. 1, pp. 717-18). The Great Eastern was by far the largest ship ever built at the time, and remained so when she was scrapped in 1888. Though an unprecedented marvel of engineering, the project was a financial disaster. Brunel died a few days after her departure on its maiden voyage in 1859. Howlett himself had died the previous year, his colleagues believing that his untimely death had been brought about by the chemicals used in his photographic work; his Great Eastern series is today regarded as ‘epitomizing the spirit of Victorian engineering and endeavour’ (ODNB).
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China, Vietnam, Japan; big-game hunting Papers and journals of Philip Mason Sears (1899-1973), 1922-3 all manuscript (pencil) unless otherwise stated, contents comprise:1) Account of a hunting trip to north Shensi, China (55 leaves, loose), together with a notebook, headed ‘Hunting Trip to North Shensi’ (approx. 50 pp, containing 3 different drafts of the same narrative. Contents include descriptions of: Kwei-Hua-Cheng (‘a city of great fascination … the farthest point to which European civilization has as yet punctuated … Like all large Chinese cities, it teems with activity. And what sights there are to see on every side … a great number of the women down to the little girls had painted faces …’); Suiyuan (‘a splendid picturesque walled city’); Antung (‘on the Manchurian side of the Yalu River … a large disagreeable commercial town’); shipping on the Yalu River; village life; local housing, food and customs including wedding ceremonies; Russian refugees in Kwei-Hua-Cheng (‘as they remarked, nothing could have been worse than living under the Bolsheviks’); and an audience and shooting competition with the dutun (/tutung, i.e. military governor) of Suiyuan, General Ma Fuxiang (1876-1932) (‘He is a Mohammedan from Kausu … the absolute ruler of his people upon whom he imposes the heaviest taxes’).2) ‘Ammon Hunting in a Land of Long Ago’. Typescript, 18 leaves, foolscap, rectos only, signed ‘Mason Sears’ in pencil, pencilled corrections. Describing the above trip, focusing on sheep hunting, with additional details of local education, Mongol caravans, bandit raids, ‘red festivities’, etc. Together with another copy of the same article, carbon typescript, pencilled corrections.3) Notes from a hunting trip in the Vietnamese jungle with French big-game hunter François J. Defosse (1881-1954), 20 bifolia of friable wood-pulp paper, comprising detailed notes on bushcraft, specific animals and their pursuit including elephants, tigers, crocodiles, boar, etc. (e.g. ‘In following up a wounded tiger it is of great advantage to use a shotgun as a charging tiger cannot pass through two charges of big buckshot’), tribal customs (including the Mois tribe), etc., the trip undertaken in the vicinity of the La Nga river and possibly Hué (‘Hu’) and the notes presumably composed ‘on the spot’, ‘Defosse’ cited throughout. Together with approx. 30 leaves of related jungle notes on smaller paper, a manuscript map of the La Nga river, and a fragment of 9 leaves of typescript and manuscript relating to tiger and elephant stalking with Defosse, including sightings of gibbon and sambar.4) Notebook containing a journal of a visit to Japan, 27 pp., (a few leaves loose), with two different drafts of the same narrative, and including descriptions of Yokohama, Kamakura, Nikko, Kyoto, etc., comments on the Japanese imperial family, Japanese culture and the adoption of western customs and institutions, Japanese children, etc. (‘They are absolutely unspoiled and never seem to show off’), ‘Note on Kashmir’ (2 pp.) at end.5) Notebook containing remarks on Korea, Chinese theatre, and Chinese cities, and comparisons between Japan and China, 15 pp., textblock loose in binding.6) ‘Monster Demonstrations in Peking’, typescript, 14 pp, apparently an account of the May Thirtieth Movement, 1925 (‘Never since the Boxer Uprising of 1900, has the foreign community of Peking seen such an outburst of wrath among the Chinese as that which followed the killing of some students by the foreign police during the rioting of May 31st in the International Settlement at Shanghai …’) together with a carbon copy.7) ‘Bird shooting and the Yalu River’, 3 leaves, lined paper; ‘Mongolian trip’, 3 leaves, lined paper, comprising notes of trip from Kalgan to Gobi desert; Notes on Manila, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Saigon, Canton, 5 leaves, lined paper.8) Short article on geographical coordinates of Peking, carbon typescript, 4 pp.; small souvenir album of 10 photographs of shooting trip in Shansi, presented by Basil Cochrane Newton, British Legation, Peking (mounts loose in wrappers); 3 pp. notes on visit to Mongolia (on single sheet folded twice); 1 leaf on hunting in India including ‘River life going down to Bandipur’; 1 leaf headed ‘The Khyber Pass, May 18, 1923’, containing remarks from a visit; fragment of an account of a trip from Baguio, Philippines; manuscript hunting calendar; letter of recommendation for Haliba Pandit, guide on hunting trip; approx. 20 bifolia of miscellaneous notes on same paper as notes on Vietnamese hunting trip; and approx. 30 additional leaves, typescript and manuscript, including letters, journal fragments, etc.(quantity) Philip Mason Sears (1899-1973) was an American Republican politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Massachusetts Senate before helping develop US policy on Africa as representative to the UN during the 1960s. After graduating from Harvard in 1922 he spent a year travelling in the Far East with his friend Douglas Burden (1898-1978), the soon-to-be-famous naturalist who had been sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History to collect specimens from the region, and who later included his own account of the trip in his 1960 memoir Look to the Wilderness.Travelling first to Japan, Sears then proceeded to the distant Chinese province of Shensi in pursuit of the argali (mountain sheep). His description of the area is a fascinating eyewitness account of a traditional society on the eve of the epochal upheaval brought about by the Chinese Civil War, and includes an engrossing portrait of local Muslim warlord and opium trafficker Ma Fuxiang (1876-1932), who was to side with Chiang Kai-shek.Sears's guide on his next expedition to the depths of what is now Vietnam was the semi-legendary François J. Defosse (1881-1954), who had been employed by the Roosevelts during their own Asian hunting expeditions. A Conradian figure, Defosse arrived in Saigon in 1900 with the French army, and after years protecting workers on the Tonkin railway from tiger attacks was granted 'pioneer leave', probably a euphemism for intelligence work, and travelled into the jungle where he found employment with a logging company.Having chosen a course far more intrepid than most other travelling scions of the Gilded Age, Sears evidently intended these voluminous notes to form the basis of a published work, though perhaps sidetracked by his political career, he was not able to bring this intention to fruition.An article on the Mason Sears archive by Peter Robinson, Associate Professor, Japan Women's University ('Travel Writing as Historiography: Philip Mason Sears’s Unpublished Travel Writings', Journal of the Faculty of Humanities, Japan Women’s University, no. 71, March 2022) is available on request.
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Fordun, John of Scotichronicon cum Supplementis et Continuatione Walteri Boweri ... cura Walteri Goodall. Edinburgh: Robert Fleming, 1759. 2 volumes, folio, contemporary Spanish vellum, spines decorated in gilt, labels to second compartments, edges sprinkled red, title-pages printed in red and black, armorial bookplates of Edward Davenport (motto 'time deum et honora regem'), recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to volume 1, index and 'De nuptiis ...' section bound before main text in volume 1 (usually found at rear of volume 2), variable moderate browning [ESTC T096013];[Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun]. A Speech upon the State of the Nation. [London: no publisher, 1701]. 6 pp. + conjugate blank, 4to, unbound, housed in a custom red cloth case;Defoe, Daniel. A History of the Union between England and Scotland. London: John Stockdale, 1786. 4to, modern half calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, advertisement leaf, spotting towards rear;and 1 other (Sir William Gibson-Craig, editor, Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Scotland, Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office, 1867-, 3 volumes, large folio, each volume with additional title-page containing hand-coloured and gilt vignette after a medieval manuscript initial, photozincographic facsimiles of manuscripts throughout, volumes 1 and 3 rebacked, volume 2 spine defective, contents not collated)(7) The Edward Davenport whose bookplate is found in this copy of Scotichronicon is possibly Edward Davies Davenport (1778-1847), Cheshire landowner and member of parliament for Shaftesbury, who 'had the sensibility of an aspiring man of literature and the conscience of an ambitious social reformer' (History of Parliament, online).
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Chiromantia 1 Physiognomia, ex aspectu membrorum hominis. 2 Periaxiomata de faciebus signorum. 3 Canones astrologici, de judiciis aegritudinum. 4 Astrologia naturalis. 5 Complexionum noticia, juxta doninium planetarum. Strassburg: Johannes Schott, 1541. Folio (29 x 19.5cm), 130 [2] pp., a-l6, old vellum, large woodcut portrait of the author to title-page, woodcut illustrations of palms and facial types throughout the text, printer's woodcut devices to recto and verso of colophon leaf, annotated slips and engraved armorial bookplate mounted to front pastedown, faint early marginalia to pp. 65-6 [VD16 R 3111; this edition not in Adams] Scarce early edition of a widely-read work on palmistry, physiognomy and astrology, first published in 1522, also by Schott, under the title Introductiones in chiromantiam.
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4 books Francis, Philip. A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace. London: A. Millar, 1749. Third edition, 2 volumes, 4to, two portrait frontispieces, plate, contemporary calf, bookplates of Sir Charles Wolseley;‘Anacreon’. Anacreontis et Sapphonis carmina. Salmurium: Joannem Lenerium, 1660. 12mo, later vellum;Lactantius. Divinarum Institutionum Libri Septem. Venice: Aldus, 1535. 8vo, modern half vellum(4)
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Napoleonic Interest Three works, including an imperial binding Napoléon, Le Prince. Napoléon et ses Détracteurs. Paris: Calmann Levy, 1887. 8vo, one of 75 copies on Japan, inscribed to 'S.A. la Princesse Pierre-Napoléon’ in 1885 with her ownership stamp, attractive crushed green morocco gilt with French Imperial eagle motifs and banded spine;Barré, W. History of the French Consulate under Napoleon Buonaparte… London: Thomas Hurst, 1804. 8vo, portrait frontispiece, contemporary tree calf gilt, marginal hole to pp.413-4 with no loss to text;[Lemaistre, John Gustavus] A Rough Sketch of Modern Paris… London: J. Johnson, 1803. 8vo, modern quarter calf (3)
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A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour as it existed in Europe, particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II ... Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842. 3 volumes, folio (36.6 x 26.4cm), contemporary red half morocco, spines gilt in compartments with labels to second and third and military motifs to remainder, all edges gilt, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece to volume 1, 70 hand-coloured plates (etchings with aquatint), 10 uncoloured etched plates, tissue-guards, numerous hand-coloured historiated initials heightened with metallic pigments, directions to binder leaf and errata leaf to volume 1, rubbing to joints, extremities and covers, occasional light spotting, short closed marginal tear to plate 73;Skelton, Joseph. Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection of Llewelyn Meyrick, at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire; after the Drawings, and with the Descriptions of Dr. Meyrick, by Joseph Skelton. London: by G. Schulze, for J. Skelton, 1830. First edition, 2 volumes, folio (37.4 x 25.5cm), later half morocco with earlier spines laid down, etched frontispieces and additional vignette title-pages, engraved portrait to volume 1 (dated 1833 and marked proof), and 151 etched plates (numbered 1-150, including 50A-B), all on india paper and mounted, errata leaf to rear, spines worn, covers rubbed, plates 149-50 and associated text-leaves misbound in index, bookplates to front endpapers(5)
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The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1886. Large folio (49.5 x 36.5cm), number 18 of 100 copies signed by the publisher, portrait frontispiece, 72 coloured plates (including 44a), map, contemporary calf, spine gilt, rebacked retaining original spine, t.e.g., hinges broken, joints repaired, corners worn
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Collection of travel accounts Slade, Adolphus. Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, etc. And of a Cruise in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831. London: Saunders and Otley, 1833. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 20th-century cloth, edges untrimmed, half-titles, colour aquatint frontispieces, folding map, folding lithographic plate of manuscript facsimile;Fellows, Sir Charles. Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, more particular in the Province of Lycia. London: John Murray, 1852. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, 7 folding plates and maps including frontispiece, spine sunned and with label removed, wear to head of rear joint, ink-stamps of the Poynton and Worth Colliers' Library to front pastedown (the leaf repaired) and title-page, frontispiece partly torn along stub but remaining attached;Bartlett, W. H. Gleanings on the Overland Route: Pictorial and Antiquarian. London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1864. 8vo, original pink cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and blind, gilt edges, 22 engraved maps and plates including folding panorama of Alexandria, spine sunned;Palgrave, William Gifford. Personal Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63). New Edition, in One Volume. London: Macmillan and Co., 1868. 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, engraved title-page with portrait of the author (the portrait implied to be a separate plate in the list of plates, apparently in error), 5 folding maps and plans;Martin, William Young. The East: being a Narrative of Personal Impressions of a Tour in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876. First edition, 8vo, original brown cloth decorated in black, wood-engraved frontispiece, worming to front joint, damp-staining to foot of frontispiece and title-page;Walker, Theodore. Wanderings Eastward. A Diary of Travels in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, and Greece, in 1885. London: S. W. Partridge, 1886. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 8 wood-engraved plates;Hakluyt Society. Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia during the Years 1520-1527 by Father Francisco Alvarez. London: Hakluyt Society, 1881. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, spine faded;Beaufort, Emily A. Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines. Including some Stays in the Lebanon, at Palmyra, and in Western Turkey. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pink pictorial cloth gilt, 5 chromolithographic plates (of 6: lacking volume 2 frontispiece), spines sunned, covers marked, volume 1 rear joint split;and 15 others, the mentioned items collated with regard to plates only(25) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)
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Alighieri, Dante The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1802. First edition in English, 3 volumes, 8vo, portrait, half-titles in volumes 2 and 3, contemporary calf, volume 1 rebacked retaining older spine, volume 2 with cracked joints, volume 3 with one board detached, volume 1 title-page lightly browned, neat early ownership signatures of Marianne Bruce, volume 1 dedication bound between pp.404 and 405, volume 2 without pp.53-4 but gatherings complete and text continuous(3) Boyd's 1802 translation of Dante's complete Divine Comedy reignited the work's popularity.
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