Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition.- Thornton (Richard, geologist on Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition, 1837-62).- Thornton (Octavia, Helen & M.V., sisters of Richard Thornton) 4 Autograph Letters to Richard Thornton all but 1 signed (1 incomplete), 27pp. & 1 envelope addressed Thornton "Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition", 8vo, Bradford, 3rd August 1858 - 3rd November 1859, much of it domestic and home news, "There are some accounts in Blackwood's Magazine... of Capt. Burton's expeditions in search of the true source of the Nile", and referring to the Zambezi Expedition, "... the two years you went for, will have nearly expired... is it probable you may extend your researches further into the country. We were very much amused lately, to see a letter in the newspaper from Capt. Bedingfield, saying that during Dr Livingstone's absence he did not think it worth while to refute the slanders he had made on his name, but that he thought that Dr L had behaved in a most ungentlemanly and arbitrary manner", folds, 1 letter slightly burnt with very small loss § Waller (Horace, missionary and slavery abolitionist, 1833-96) Autograph Letter signed to George Thornton (brother of RT), 3pp., 8vo, Sydenham, Tuesday, 9th May 1865, "I am not very clear about the £5 mistake at the moment, but fortunately on Friday I hope to meet the Dr and Rowley and Mrs Alington when I have little doubt we can set it to rights", folds; and 3 others, v.s., v.d. (13 pieces).⁂ Richard Thornton was recommended by Sir Roderick Murchison as geologist to the Zambezi Expedition. After the Expedition reached the delta of the Zambezi, Livingstone sacked Thornton, accusing him on the evidence of his brother, Charles, of being slack in his duties and not obeying orders. Instead Thornton joined an expedition led by Baron von der Decken on his first attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. In 1863 Thornton returned to the Zambezi and rejoined Livingstone's expedition. A few months later he died on board a boat of malaria and acute dysentry near the head of the Shire River in modern day Malawi.
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Renouard's set.- Rollin (Charles) De la maniere d'enseigner et d'etudier les belles-lettres, par rapport a l'esprit & au coeur, 2 vol., half-titles, titles in red and black and with woodcut ornament, folding engraved portrait, engraved head-pieces, woodcut decorative initials, portrait trimmed within border, occasional light browning and spotting, contemporary blue morocco, gilt, spines in compartments and with double morocco labels, spines faded to brown, rubbed, g.e., 4to, Paris, Widow Estienne, 1740.⁂ Includes a section on the French language. Provenance: Antoine-Augustin Renouard (1765-1853), bibliographer, book dealer and printer ('AAR 1798 / N.3839', inscription to front free endpaper).
NO RESERVE Schott (Gaspar) Magia physiognomica sive dissertatio de notis latentis animi, & futurorum successuum humano corpori a natura impressis, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, stained, 19th century marbled boards, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, 12mo, Graz, Widmanstad, 1742.⁂ Treatise on human physiognomy, by this pupil of Kircher.
![Ancient World.- [Goguet (Antoine Yves)] De l'origine des loix, des arts et des sciences; et de leurs progrès chez les ancien](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee63881f-2d9b-48be-884b-abd001161691/66868124-434a-42d2-a12b-abd0012614ef/468x382.jpg)
Ancient World.- [Goguet (Antoine Yves)] De l'origine des loix, des arts et des sciences; et de leurs progrès chez les anciens peuples, 6 vol., half-titles to all but vol.6, 9 engraved folding plates, 3 large folding letter press tables, plate 3 with tear at head without loss, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, richly gilt spines in compartments and with red and black morocco labels, rubbed, Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1759; and 8 others, 18th century French, 8vo (14) sold not subject to return.
Judaica.- Rubens (Alfred) A Jewish Iconography, one of 500 copies, 1954; Anglo-Jewish Portraits, 1935, frontispieces and plates, illustrations, original half vellum, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, the second with some pages unopened, The Jewish Museum; A Jewish Iconography, one of 650 copies, revised edition, illustrations, original goatskin, slip-case, 1981; and 3 others, by the same, Judaica, 4to & 8vo (6)
NO RESERVE Edward VI (King of England and Ireland, 1537-53).- Recovery between Edward Punner, John Astley, & Gregory Davye and Thomas Montgomery attorney & Robert Harcourt of le hylle of a messuage with garden and 100 acres of land, 550 acres, and two hundred acres of pasture etc. in "le hylle" & Broughton [?Oxfordshire], manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 21 lines, in Chancery hand, large remains of Chancery seal, right side slightly stained, folds, creased, 292 x 450mm., 4th July 1549.⁂ Originally heard before Sir John Baldwin (bap. before 1470, d. 1545), judge; Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
Scotland.- Campbell (Colin, sixth Earl of Argyll, magnate, c. 1542-1584) Document relating to the Earl of Argyll, manuscript in Scots English and Latin, Secretary hand, 1p., tears with slight loss in left margin not affecting text, folds, browned, Hand & Flower watermark, sm. 4to, 1574.
Vaudeville.- Pain (Marie Joseph, French playwright, poet and essayist, 1773-1830) & Pierre-Ange Vieillard, French poet, playwright and literary critic, 1778-1862. [Brutal ou] Il vaut mieux tard que Jamais. Proverbe: Vaudeville en un Acte, manuscript in French, title and 46pp., slightly browned, original wrappers, [c. 1820]; and 2 other French Plays (1 play in 7 acts), sm. 4to (9 pieces).
Royal Flying Corps.- Morris (Francis St. Vincent, pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, war poet, buried at the British Military Cemetry at St. Sever, Rouen, son of Rev. Ernest Edwin Morris, Canon of Southwell Cathedral, Vicar of Ashbourne with Mapleton, 1854-1924) Hints for Huns, autograph manuscript initialled, 17pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, Royal Flying Corps Graduation Certificate 1916, Northern Command School of Scouting and Sniping Certificate 1916, and a photograph of Francis Morris loosely inserted, original morocco, corners rubbed, lacks spine, 1917; and another, a manuscript collection of prayers compiled by Mary Evelyn Morris, Deaconess, (1887-1978), sister of the first mentioned, sm. 4to & 8vo (2).⁂ First mentioned a humorous collection of prose and poetry relating to Morris's experiences learning to fly in the Royal Flying Corps."Of the height you were up/In a Sopwith Pup/Or the stunts you did on a Bristol/Or the Vickers Scout/Which buzzes about/Like a shot from a Browning Pistol... ." - Morris.Francis St. Vincent Morris (1896-1917), known to his family as "Vin", was born in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. He was educated at Brighton College and Wadham College, Oxford. Morris was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Sherwood Foresters Regiment in 1915, and transferred to the 3rd Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps in early 1917. He was posted to France, where he had two flying accidents due to poor weather. In the same year his plane crashed near Vimy Ridge in a snow storm, and was badly wounded and died on 29th April 1917. Some of Morris's poetry (of a more serious nature than the above) was published by Blackwell's in 1917, and his poems were included in several World War I anthologies.
![Holland (Henry) Herwologia Anglica hoc est clarissimorum et doctissimorum. aliqout [sic] Anglorum, 2 vol. in 1, engraved pict](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee63881f-2d9b-48be-884b-abd001161691/b8789427-3a6a-4971-bcba-abd001261d1c/468x382.jpg)
Holland (Henry) Herwologia Anglica hoc est clarissimorum et doctissimorum. aliqout [sic] Anglorum, 2 vol. in 1, engraved pictorial title, incorporating a medallion map of the British Isles and a view of London, half-title to vol.2, 65 engraved portraits by Willem and Magdalena van de Passe and 2 illustrations of monuments to Queen Elizabeth and Prince Henry, woodcut decorative initials and tail-pieces, final contents f., lacking )(5&6, and, as often, the f. of verses signed by I. Gruterus, title just starting to come away at foot and with a couple of repairs verso, the odd marginal tear or repair, some spotting or staining, occasional offsetting, some mostly light browning, contents f. browned, later mottled calf, spine gilt and with red morocco label, [STC 13582; Hind, Engraving in England II, pp. 145-162]. folio, [Arnhem], [Printed by Jan Jansson at the expenses of Crispijn van de Passe and Jan Jansson for Henry Holland, London], 1620.⁂ 'The most trustworthy series of English portraits published up to that time' (Hind).
Ireland.- Stafford (Sir Thomas) Pacata Hibernia, Ireland appeased and reduced: or, an historie of the late vvarres of Ireland, especially within the province of Mounster, under the government of Sir George Carew, Knight, 16 engraved plates only, all but 2 double-page or folding, woodcut head and tail-pieces and decorative initials, lacking Speed's map of Munster and the engraved portraits of The Earl of Totnes and Queen Elizabeth, title soiled, 9 plates trimmed and laid down on thicker paper, small hole within image of plate of army of King of Spain, 2P3 lower corner torn away, affecting printed side-note, final f. laid down, some staining and finger-marking, 19th century calf, spine in compartments, lacking spine label, lower joint split, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [STC 23132a], Printed by A[ugustine]. M[athewes]. 1633. And part of the impression made over, to be vented for the benefit of the children of Iohn Mynshew, deceased, 1633; and 2 others, English Literature & History, including a 19th century facsimile edition of the plates from the mentioned work, folio & 8vo (3) sold not subject to return.
NO RESERVE Manuscript Collections.- 3 Short Stories.- The Ruby Ring: The Spirit of the Orange Tree: The discontented Girl, manuscript, 51pp., slightly browned, original wrappers, manuscript label on upper cover, covers worn and detached, sm. 4to, [19th century] § Riddles, manuscript, 57pp., watercolour decoration, pencil inscription on fly-leaf: "Lotty, Nelly & Issy from Lady Digby 1862", 1f. with tear, slightly browned, modern inscription on front pastedown: "From Collection Hon. John Fox Strangway Abbotsbury", original half morocco, gilt, corners bumped, 1862; and c. 15 others, v.s., v.d. (c. 15).
![Elzevier.- Bible, Greek.- Tēs Kainēs Diathēkēs apanta [graece]. Novi Testamenti libri omnes, recens nunc editi, double column](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee63881f-2d9b-48be-884b-abd001161691/32ff5d67-979b-4616-a3ee-abd00126ef00/468x382.jpg)
Elzevier.- Bible, Greek.- Tēs Kainēs Diathēkēs apanta [graece]. Novi Testamenti libri omnes, recens nunc editi, double column, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, small marginal repair to title, O6 couple of ink stains, occasional spotting, later calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, [STC 2798.5; D&M 4680; Willems 397], London [but Leiden], [Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevier] for Richard Whittaker, 1633 bound with Psalmes, 1646 (Wing B2450), 8vo
![Bindings.- Bible, English.- [The Holy Bible containing ye old and New Testaments], 2 parts in 1, double column, ruled through](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee63881f-2d9b-48be-884b-abd001161691/fdf1878a-eeda-4803-aae2-abd0012602e7/468x382.jpg)
Bindings.- Bible, English.- [The Holy Bible containing ye old and New Testaments], 2 parts in 1, double column, ruled throughout in red, defective at beginning and end, a group of ff. in middle nibbled with loss of text, some staining, inner gilt dentelles, contemporary black morocco, richly gilt, covers with wide filet, 'dog tooth', floral and foliage borders, spine in compartments, richly decorated with floral and foliage tools, rubbed, [Wing B2237B], (binding 118 x 65mm.), John Field, 1653; and another, Book of Common Prayer, 1715, 24mo & 8vo sold as bindings and not subject to return.
Bacon (Sir Francis) Sylva sylvarum: or, A natural history, in ten centuries whereunto is newly added the history naturall and experimentall of life and death, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional pictorial title, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, portrait laid down, lacking blank C2, burn hole to printed title, A2. (a)1&2 and B1, with loss of a few letters in each instance, some staining and spotting, contemporary boards, rebacked, worn, but holding firm, [Gibson 178; Wing B330], printed by J.F. and S.G. for William Lee, 1664; and 7 others, by or about Bacon, most defective, v.s. (8) sold not subject to return.
NO RESERVE Fables.- Phaedrus. Phædri Augusti Cæsaris liberti fabularum Æsopiarum libri quinque, water-stained, occasional spotting, contemporary sheep, spine ends and corners little worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Wing P1959], 8vo, Benjamin Tooke & Thomas Cockeril, 1688. sold not subject to return.
Recusant ownership.- Collier (Jeremy) A defence of The short view of the profaneness and immorality of the English stage, &c. Being a reply to Mr. Congreve's Amendments, &c. and to the Vindication of the author of the Relapse, some foxing, contemporary calf, spine faded, rubbed, [Wing C5248], Printed for S. Keble, 1699 § Dennis (John) The usefulness of the stage, to the happiness of mankind. To government, and to religion. Occasioned by a late book, written by Jeremy Collier, foxing, contemporary calf, spine faded, rubbed, [Wing D1046], Printed for Rich. Parker, 1698; and 2 others, similar, 8vo (4)⁂ Provenance: Croxdale Hall, Co. Durham, with inscriptions from two generations of the recusant Salvin family.
NO RESERVE Kipling (John Lockwood, artist and art school administrator, father of Rudyard Kipling, 1837-1911) 3 Autograph Letters signed to Martin Wood, 13pp. & 2 envelopes, 8vo, Earls Court Road, 26th March & 11th June 1891 & n.d., on various Indian topics, including the publishing of his book, Beast and Man in India..., "My humbler aim is to give a general impression of the way in which the brutal mind & temper & Indian habits of life are concerned with animals in servitude. You say 'not forgetting the tiger' - Do you know I believe I shall forget the beast and play Hamlet with the Hamlet left out!", folds; and 5 other letters including an ALs from Alice Kipling, v.s., v.d. (8).
Naval.- White (Thomas Evanson, translator) History of the Rise and Progress of the Naval Power of England, interspersed with various notices relating to the French Marine, half-title, tables, 20pp. advertisements at end, some marking in pencil, occasional spotting, lightly browned, original boards, rebacked in cloth, spine faded and with split at joints, rather worn, but holding firm, J.S. Barr, 1802 § Liardet (Capt. Francis) Professional Recollections of Points of Seamanship, Discipline, &c., first edition, single f. 'By permission' and advertisement f. at end, original cloth, gilt, spine faded, rubbed, Portsea, William Woodward, 1849; and 13 others, mostly Naval, v.s. (15)
![Frankenstein & Dracula.- Gaiety Theatre... Frankenstein, 8pp., [1887] § New Theatre, Cambridge... Dracula, 9pp., 1928, pr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee63881f-2d9b-48be-884b-abd001161691/14b87335-608d-4111-8a31-abd0012611b4/468x382.jpg)
Frankenstein & Dracula.- Gaiety Theatre... Frankenstein, 8pp., [1887] § New Theatre, Cambridge... Dracula, 9pp., 1928, printed programmes, 8vo & sm. 4to (2).⁂ First mentioned opened at the Gaiety Theatre, London on 24 December 1887, the production was a flop, closing after a week.
NO RESERVE Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne) Novels of the Sisters Brontë, 11 vol. only (of 12, lacking Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë), Thornton Edition, plates, 1898-1901 § Austen (Jane) The Novels, 11 vol. only (of 12, lacking The Letters), "Winchester Edition", Edinburgh, 1911-12, Battersea Public Library stamps and blindstamps to titles, remains of bookplates to pastedowns; and c.70 others, mostly literature and history, v.s. (c.90)
NO RESERVE Ruskin (John) The Works, edited by E.T.Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, 39 vol., "Library Edition", limited edition, plates and illustrations, original maroon cloth, gilt, uncut, spines slightly rubbed and faded, London & New York, 1903-12; and Cook's 2 vol. Life of Ruskin, 8vo (41)
Morris (William) The Collected Works ..., 24 vol., limited edition of 1050 copies, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, occasional spotting, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth-backed boards, light scattered spotting, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, spare spine labels tipped-in, 1910-15 § Ruskin (John) Modern Painters, 6 vol., plates, occasional faint spotting, bookplate, contemporary vellum, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1888; and 4 others, Morris and Ruskin, 8vo & 4to (34)
First World War Photograph Album, 95 sepia photographs only (of 96) on 48pp., each 100 x 120mm. captioned by hand below, original green cloth, a little rubbed and marked, 4to, 1915.⁂ An excellent album of photographs from the First World War, all taken in a private capacity, focussing on the campaigns in Gallipoli and Egypt. The captioned titles include "Turkish prisoners digging our graves - Anzac", "Graves of those who died of wounds from Gallipoli" "Pillow fight on Euripides" and Tub & Apple contest - Euripides". Nearly all collections of photographs from the war were taken as part of official propaganda work, private collections such as this are rare.
Letters.- Baring-Gould (Sabine, Church of England clergyman, author, and folksong collector, 1834-1924) Autograph Postcard to J.E. King & a cut signature of Baring-Gould, 1 side, 90 x 115mm., Lew Trenchard, Devon, 28th March 1912, "Welcome to use the two hymns 'On the Resur[rection] Morn[ing]', & 'Onward Xtian Soldiers' if you will send me 2/- towards the restoration of the parish church", tipped-in on paper; and c. 125 others letters, including: letters by F.T. Palgrave, Sir Henry Newbolt, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm, Joseph Wolff, J. Hanson Walker, Charles Dilke, Alfred Cooper Fryer, CM Yonge, Sir Francis Younghusband, cut signatures of George III, Prince Adolphus Frederick Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Wellington, Lily Langtry, Rudyard Kipling, free frank signed Wellington etc., v.s., v.d. (c. 125 pieces).
NO RESERVE Illustrated.- Cruikshank (George) George Cruikshank's Omnibus, additional engraved title, engraved portrait, plates and illustrations, occasional spotting and off-setting, bookplate, contemporary half-calf, rubbed, 1842 § Lear (Edward) More Nonsense, fifth edition, illustrations, original cloth, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1897; The Book of Nonsense, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1899; and others, including the Britain in Pictures series, 8vo & 4to (22)
NO RESERVE Robinson (Duncan) William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and the Kelmscott Chaucer, Kinteon, The Roundwood Press, 1982 § Hunter (William) Scrutiny of Cinema, jacket torn with loss, 1932 § Danziger (James) Beaton, 1980 § Castle (Charles) Oliver Messel, ink inscription, 1986 § Myerscough-Walker (R.) Stage and Film Décor, 1940, plates and illustrations, original boards, all but the last with dust-jackets; and c.60 others, book illustration, theatre and film design, 4to & 8vo (c.65)
Australia.- Tallis (John) & John Rapkin. Seven maps of Australia, including a general map of Australia, the others of New South Wales, Victoria or Port Phillip, Western Australia, Part of South Australia, Van Diemen's Land or Tasmania, and Polynesia, all with decorative borders and vignette illustrations, engraved maps with contemporary outline hand-colouring, the vignettes uncoloured, each sheet approximately 270 x 365 mm (10 5/8 x 14 1/4 in), some marginal toning, each with binding stitch marks to one edge, some handling creases and light surface dirt, unframed, J. & F. Tallis, [1851] (7)
Voyages.- Coreal (François) Voyages...aux Indes Occidentales, avec une relation de la Guiane de Walter Raleigh & le Voyage de Narborough a la Mer du Sud par the Detroit de Magellan, 3 vol., titles in red and black and with woodcut ornament, 18 engraved maps, plans and plates (?of 20, see note below), most folding, folding view of Arica with repaired split at fold, closely trimmed at head and with some browning and creasing, browning to titles, elsewhere some spotting and mostly light browning, engraved armorial bookplates of Bruce of Ampthill, contemporary calf, gilt spines in compartments, 1 lacking label, the others with later leather labels, little chipping to spine heads, joints starting, but holding firm, corners worn, rubbed, [Alden and Landis 722; Borba de Moraes I:214; Palau 61956; Sabin 16781], 12mo, Amsterdam, J. Frederic Bernard, 1722.⁂ There is some confusion as to plate count: Borba de Moraes calls for 15 plates and maps in 2 volumes; Palau and Sabin call for 20 plates a maps in 3 volumes. The work was published under four separate imprints in 1722, two in Amsterdam and two in Paris, which may account for this discrepancy.
NO RESERVE Church of England, Province of Canterbury. Convocation. An order for publike Prayers to be used on Wednesdayes and frydayes in every Parish Church within the Province of Canterburie..., 48pp., title with historiated woodcut border and Royal arms on verso, decorative woodcut initials, black letter, small holes to lower margin of title, stitched in plain wrappers, [STC 4587], Christopher Barker, [1586] § [Ashe (John)] A Perfect Relation of all the passages and proccedings of the Marquesse Hartford, the Lord Paulet, and the rest of the Cavelleers that were with them in Wels, 8pp., title with ornamental border, contemporary signature "Geo. Kenyon" at foot, small tear to title where folded, cropped shaving border and a few lines of final leaf, later wrappers, [Wing A3945], for Joseph Hunscot, and I.Wright, 1642 § K[illigrew] (H[enry]) A Sermon preached before the Kings Most Excellent Majesty at Oxford, 22pp. (of 24, lacking A1 containing woodcut portrait of Charles I), browned, slightly frayed at edges, disbound, [Wing K445], Oxford, for W.Web, 1643 § D'Auvergne (Edward) The History of the Last Campagne in the Spanish Netherlands. Anno Dom.1693, folding engraved battle plan (some tears to folds), browned, broken and loose, [Wing D299], for John Newton, 1693 § Monmouth (Robert Carey, Earl of) Memoirs of the Life...from an original Manuscript in the Custody of John Earl of Corke and Orrery, second edition, engraved frontispiece of procession of Elizabeth I, contemporary ink signature "Robt. Sutton" to front pastedown, contemporary sprinkled calf, roan label, rubbed, joints split, R. & J.Dodsley, 1759; and another, small 4to & 8vo (6)
NO RESERVE Board of Ordnance.- Bridges (William, politician, a member of the Board of Ordnance, d. 1714) Certificate, Thomas jenkins Ma[ste]r of ye Griffin Pink tender on her Mat:ies Ship Suffolk hath given an account of the Expence of ye Stores comitted to his Charge, D.s. "Wm Bridges", "Ja: Lowther", "C Musgrave" & "J. Pulteney", manuscript, 1p., piece of corner torn away, browned, laid down on card, folio, 23rd April 1703; and 7 other documents, 6 documents relating to the Board of Ordnance and the Navy Office, folio, v.d. (8).
Newspapers.- Collection of various newspapers, including issues of The London Gazette, The Times, The Graphic, L'Independance, Gazette de L'Îsle de Jersey, Gazette de Guernsey, The Northampton Mercury, The Star etc., folds, browned, v.s., v.d., 1704-1910 & 1950; and 3 others including a signed poster by Rigby Graham and an artist's proof of a view in Guernsey, 1982, v.s., v.d. (c. 25).
NO RESERVE Bindings.- Persius Flaccus (Aulus) The Satyrs, translated by Thomas Sheridan, text in Latin and English on facing pages, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, bookplate of Captain Tottenham of Woodstock, handsome contemporary red morocco with gilt floral border, spine gilt in compartments, g.e., slightly rubbed, covers a little mottled, Dublin, George Grierson, 1728; and 3 other bindings, including an imperfect Erasmus theological work in attractive red morocco, gilt, 8vo & 12mo (4)
NO RESERVE Education.- Blagdon Controversy.- More (Hannah).- The Something Wrong Developed; or, Free Remarks on Mrs. H.More's Conventicles, &c. seasonably addressed to the Blagdon Controvertists..., 20pp., first edition, stitched, a little soiled, final leaf stained and with small tear to text but no loss, 8vo, Bristol, Harris and Bryan, 1801.⁂ In 1795 Hannah More had established a Sunday school in Blagdon, one of several she founded in the poverty-stricken villages of the Mendip hills in Somerset in an attempt to keep the young from crime. The curate of the parish, Thomas Bere, was opposed to the school on the grounds that it was Evangelical and it was forced to close. The affair expanded into a national debate on how the labouring classes should be educated and by whom.Library Hub lists one copy only (BL); WorldCat records that and another at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Daniel Press.- Dixon (Richard Watson) Odes and Eclogues, 1884; Lyrical Poems, 1887; The Story of Eudocia & her Brothers, 1888, together 3 vol. in 1, one of 100, 105 & 50 copies respectively, very occasional spotting, bookplate of J.A.Fuller Maitland, contemporary citron morocco, gilt, by Stoakley late Hawes, t.e.g., others uncut, a little browned at edges, spine a little rubbed, splits to upper joint, Oxford, Henry Daniel § Bridges (Robert) Three Friends: Memoirs of Digby Mackworth Dolben, Richard Watson Dixon, Henry Bradley, first edition, original boards, uncut & unopened, dust-jacket lightly soiled, 1932 § Dolben (Digby Mackworth) The Poems, edited with a Memoir by Robert Bridges, first edition, with 4 typed sheets of variant readings and errata by Bridges loosely inserted, original cloth-backed boards, uncut & unopened, dust-jacket, spine browned and frayed at ends, 1911 § Blunden (Edmund) Pastorals: A Book of Verses, first edition, original brown wrappers printed in blue and black uncut, 1916, 4to & 8vo (4)⁂ Richard Watson Dixon taught Gerard Manley Hopkins at Highgate School. Robert Bridges became a lifelong friend of Hopkins at Oxford and was responsible for his posthumous literary reputation; he also introduced him to his young cousin, Digby Mackworth Dolben, with whom Hopkins became infatuated. Dolben drowned at the age of 19 shortly before he was due to go up to Oxford.
![NO RESERVE Hardy (Thomas) [Wessex Novels], vol.1, 13, 15 & 'Wessex Poems' only, each with etched frontispiece, original g](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee63881f-2d9b-48be-884b-abd001161691/97635a79-38c7-423f-b482-abd001259d7f/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Hardy (Thomas) [Wessex Novels], vol.1, 13, 15 & 'Wessex Poems' only, each with etched frontispiece, original green cloth, internally good but covers very damp-stained, 1895-98; [Wessex Edition], 15 vol. only (of 24, lacking Novels vol.2-4, 7, 12, 15 & Verses 1, 5 & 6), some reprints, each with photogravure frontispiece, foxed, original maroon cloth, rubbed, some staining, 1917-12-19 § Collins (Vere H.) Talks with Thomas Hardy at Max Gate 1920-1922, 1928 § Purdy (R.L.) Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study, 1954 § Millgate (M.) Thomas Hardy: a Biography, 1982 § Fowles (John) & Jo Draper, editors. Thomas Hardy's England, signed by the editors on half-title, 1984, plates and illustrations, original cloth or boards, the last four with dust-jackets, rubbed, some frayed; and a quantity of others by or relating to Hardy and his work including some Year Books and a hand-painted enamel pill box featuring Hardy on the lid, some affected by damp, 8vo & 4to; sold not subject to return (Qty)
Battle of Guadeloupe.- Royal Navy Log.- Simms (Thomas, midshipman) Journal of Proceedings of His Majesty's Ship Vengeance Command'd by Comm.r Hotham Sam.l Appleby Capt..., autograph manuscript, title and 60pp., slightly browned, last f. small stain in corner, later endpapers, 20th century half morocco, gilt spine, folio, 1st August 1779 - 31st July 1780.⁂ An eye witness account of an action in the Battle of Guadeloupe."Wednesday 22nd [1779] Still in chase at 8 P.M. the Magnificent fir'd several shot and Bro.t too La Blanche a french Frigate of 32 Guns, Orderd us to stay by her... 12 Seamen a Serjeant, Corp.s & 10 Marines on Board and rec.d several Prisoners at heard the Report of several Guns in the NE at 6 AM Joind ye Adms. La Fortune a french Frigate of 40 Guns the Magnificent and Sterling Castle still in chase in Company with ye Admr. and 2 Prizes... for all Cruizers." - Simms.
![NO RESERVE Private Press.- [Hill (Sir John)] Lucina sine concubitu: A Letter humbly address'd to the Royal Society; in which](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee63881f-2d9b-48be-884b-abd001161691/71e63cb8-085a-4e8b-97f6-abd00126287e/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Private Press.- [Hill (Sir John)] Lucina sine concubitu: A Letter humbly address'd to the Royal Society; in which is proved...that a Woman may conceive...without any Commerce with Man, one of 500 copies, copper-engravings by Hester Sainsbury, original vellum-backed patterned-paper boards, Waltham St. Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1930 § Gill (Evan) Eric Gill: a Bibliography, second edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, Winchester & Detroit, 1991; and a few leaves from the Ashendene Press's Fioretti of Saint Francis, and a 1930 Christmas card from the Gregynog Press with wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton (Harrop E64), 8vo (4)
NO RESERVE Cleverdon (Douglas).- Sassoon (Siegfried) Vigils, number 8 of 272 copies signed by the author from an edition limited to 303, engraved throughout by Charles Sigrist with title-vignette by Stephen Gooden, printer's slip tipped in at rear, with A.L.s. from Douglas Cleverdon to James Stevens Cox dated 1976 concerning Thomas Hardy loosely inserted, original niger morocco, by John Gray & Son of Cambridge, t.e.g., others uncut, spine browned, covers faded, Bristol, Douglas Cleverdon, 1934; and a small bundle of ephemera, prospectuses etc. relating to Cleverdon and the Perpetua Press of Bristol, 8vo & 4to (a small bundle)⁂ In his letter Cleverdon thanks Stevens Cox for his latest Thomas Hardy Year Book and explains a reference on one page. He goes on to remember Hardy, " I was at a performance of The Queen of Cornwall when Hardy came over to Glastonbury to see it. It was 'blustering weather' - the only weather I was told at the time in which Hardy would go out. He signed my copy of the Q. o. C. on the half-title...probably summer, 1924."
NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Mortlock (D.P.) The Holkham Library: A History and Description, for members of the Roxburghe Club, 2006 § History of Bookbinding 525-1950 A.D.: An Exhibition..., Baltimore, 1957 § Nixon (Howard M.) Five Centuries of English Bookbinding, reprint, 1979 § Fulton (John F.) A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle, second edition, Oxford, 1961 § Harris (F.) & Michael Hunter. John Evelyn and his Milieu, 2003 § Garrett (A.) A History of Wood Engraving, 1978 § Keynes (G.) The Library of Edward Gibbon: A Catalogue, second edition, 1980, illustrations, original cloth or boards, some a little affected by damp, all but the first two and the last with dust-jackets; and a small quantity of others, bibliography, some catalogues, v.s. (c.60)
NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Gumuchian & Cie. Les Livres de l'Enfance du XVe au XIXe Siècle, 2 vol., some spotting, bound in half red morocco, spines gilt, rather damp-stained, Paris, [1930] § St. John (J.) The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books 1566-1910: A Catalogue, 2 vol., Toronto, 1958 § Cotsen (M.S.) The Beatrix Potter Collection of Lloyd Cotsen, 2004 § Alderson (B.) & Felix de Marez Oyens. Be Merry and Wise: Origins of Children's Book Publishing in England, 1650-1850, London & New Castle, 2006 § Roscoe (S.) John Newbery and his Successors 1740-1814: A Bibliography, Wormley, 1973, plates and illustrations, some colour, all but the first original cloth or boards, the last two with dust-jackets; and c.25 others on children's books, v.s. (c.30)
NO RESERVE Conjuring.- Sachs (Edwin) Sleight of Hand: a Practical Manual of Legerdemain..., second, enlarged, edition, occasional foxing, 1885 § [Lewis (Angelo J.)], "Professor Louis Hoffmann". More Magic, first edition, 1890; Conjurer Dick, n.d.; Puzzles Old and New, n.d.; Latest Magic, first edition, New York, 1918 § Clarke (Sidney W.) & Adolphe Blind. The Bibliography of Conjuring, original cloth-backed boards, 1920 § Winder (Roland) Check List of the Older Books on Conjuring in the Library..., limited edition (number not specified but "strictly limited"), presentation copy from the author to James Stevens Cox with accompanying T.L.s. offering to buy any conjuring books missing from his collection, tipped-in frontispiece and portrait, original cloth, Leeds, 1967, illustrations, all but the sixth original cloth, most pictorial, most rather damp-stained; and 2 others, Hoffmann, 8vo & 4to (9)
NO RESERVE Conjuring.- Evans & Son (J.) The little conjurer/ Der Kleine Jauberer/ Le petit escamoteur, original marbled box with lithographic title to upper lid, includes various apparatus for performing tricks, with publisher's instructions, lacking playing cards within box, some damp-staining and rubbing, box rubbed and worn, [circa 1870]; together with a box of miscellaneous small apparatus, including a tape measure modelled as an acorn, v.s, (sm. qty.)
![[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". The Nursery "Alice"..., second edition [first published edition], with "Price](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee63881f-2d9b-48be-884b-abd001161691/a7972afe-bd6d-4797-ae50-abd00126be95/468x382.jpg)
[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". The Nursery "Alice"..., second edition [first published edition], with "Price four shillings" at foot of title, colour frontispiece and illustrations after Tenniel, 3pp. advertisements at end, light offsetting to title, some marginal soiling or staining, original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards by E.Gertrude Thomson, a little worn, [Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 216], Macmillan and Co., 1890; The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case, pictorial card folder containing 12 slots for stamps in pictorial slip-case, with 38pp. booklet 'Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing' (lacking final leaf), together in printed envelope, a little creased at edges, Oxford, Emberlin and Son, 1890 [?but later], 4to & 12mo (3)⁂ 10,000 copies of the first were printed by Edmund Evans in 1889 but Dodgson thought the illustrations "far too bright and gaudy" and he rejected the print run. It was then reprinted on white rather than toned paper and Alice's profile removed from the illustration of her with the Cheshire cat on p.34.
NO RESERVE Gaskin (Georgie) Little Girls and Little Boys, colour illustrated alphabet of girls' and boys' names, printed on rectos only, light spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, damp-stained, lacking ties, 1898 § B[elloc] (H[ilaire]) More Beasts (for Worse Children), first edition, upper hinge split, original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, [c.1897] § Sowerby (J.G.) & H.H.Emmerson. Afternoon Tea: Rhymes for Children, colour illustrations, half-title browned, original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, [1890] § Mother Hubbard's Alphabet. The History of Mother Hubbard and her Dog, hand-coloured wood-engravings, printed on rectos only, contemporary ink inscription at beginning, some stains, original printed yellow wrappers, soiled, T.H.Munday, [c.1850] § Warwick House Toy Books. Favourite Animals and their Uses, 6 large chromolithographed plates, original decorative wrappers, [c.1870] § Bohny (N.) The New Picture Book..., fifth edition, hand-coloured lithographed plates in strip format, stained, several leaves torn and repaired, contemporary half calf, Edinburgh, 1869, rubbed or worn; and 6 others, children's, v.s. (12)
Greenaway (Kate).- Harte (Bret) The Queen of the Pirate Isle, first edition, illustrations by Kate Greenaway, original pictorial beige linen, blue endpapers, g.e., a little soiled, slight stain to upper cover, [Schuster 165 (1e)], Chatto and Windus, [1886] § Greenaway (Kate) Book of Games, shaken, original pictorial green cloth, yellow endpapers, rear cover stained, George Routledge & Sons, n.d.; Marigold Garden, original cloth-backed pictorial glazed boards, Frederick Warne & Co., n.d.; Malbuch für das kleine Volk, second edition, wood-engraved illustrations after Greenaway neatly coloured by hand, some heightened with gold, original pictorial terracotta boards, joints and spine worn, Munich, n.d., the first three with illustrations by Greenaway printed in colours by Edmund Evans, all rubbed; and 12 others, Greenaway, including almanacs for 1884 & 1890 and 4 calendars for 1884, v.s. (16)
NO RESERVE Scrap Album.- A collection of Victorian scraps, Christmas & Valentine cards etc., printed in colours, a few heightened with gold, some with "lacy" embossed borders, mounted on blank leaves, some soiling, one or two items removed, a few with slight damage, ownership signature to front free endpaper, upper joint weak, original blind-stamped cloth, rubbed and soiled, splits to joints, [c.1871]; and another loose Valentine card, an envelope with embossed bee skep and roses in gold, and a small box of embossed "lace" paper, small 4to (a bundle)
Bookplates.- A collection of c.120 bookplates, book-labels, booksellers' tickets & advertisements etc., many from the West Country, some engraved, some armorial or pictorial, a few duplicates, loose in sleeves in 3 folders, v.s., [17th-20th centuries].⁂ Including "Josias Calmady. At Cambridge, Octob. 12. 1669"; John Smith Vellum Binder of Gutter Lane, London; John March Bookseller at ye Sign of the Bible...Exon; Merchant Taylors' Company; John Sutton, Stationer, London; Hon. Spencer Perceval; Lord Mountgarrett; Jean-Baptiste Henry, bookseller of Lille; Sir Edward B.Baker Bart.; Circulating Library of James Cary, Shepton-Mallet; Samuel Pepys with portrait by R.W.; Gower's Circulating Library, Bewdley; William Hide, Talgarth College, South Wales 1791 (heart-shaped); John Crandon, bookbinder of Bridgewater.
![[Leighton (John)], "Luke Limner". London Out of Town or the Adventures of the Browns at the Sea Side, lithographed illustrati](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee63881f-2d9b-48be-884b-abd001161691/923953be-7363-4d86-9590-abd00125d338/468x382.jpg)
[Leighton (John)], "Luke Limner". London Out of Town or the Adventures of the Browns at the Sea Side, lithographed illustrations in strip format printed on rectos only, original pictorial wrappers, rubbed, preserved in old envelope, D.Bogue, [1847] § Doyle (Richard) An Overland Journey to the Great Exhibition showing a few extra articles & visitors, wood-engraved folding panorama of 16 sections, light foxing, first leaf with tear to lower margin, original printed boards, rubbed and soiled, spine a little worn, [c.1851], oblong 8vo (2)
NO RESERVE Prints & Drawings.- Avercamp (Hendrick, 1585-c. 1663), Manner of. Frozen river landscape with figures drawing sleds, point of the brush and brown ink with watercolour, on laid paper without watermark, ruled brown ink border, bears artist's monogram in the lower left, sheet 200 x 300 mm (7 7/8 x 11 3/4 in), trimmed at left edge, handling creases, minor nicks and tears, some spotting and surface dirt, unframed, [probably 18th century or later]; together with a group of 10 Dutch old master prints, including Johann Gottlieb Prestel's etching and aquatint of Saint Barbara after Albrecht Altdorfer, 8 etchings of animals by Jan van den Hecke the Elder, from the suite of 12 published circa 1656, and an etching and engraving by Le Bas after Teniers of peasants dancing, all unframed, 17th century and later (11)
Caricatures.- Gillray (James) Company shocked at a Lady getting up to Ring the Bell, etching with original hand-colouring on wove paper without watermark, sheet 255 x 378 mm (10 x 14 3/4 in), trimmed to outer borderline, a few small nicks, some handling creases, surface dirt, and minor toning ,unframed, [BM Satires 10303], Hannah Humphrey, 1804; with an impression of Gillray's A Decent Story, etching with original hand-colouring, 210 x 262 mm (8 1/4 x 10 1/4 in), trimmed to outer borderline, some browning and surface dirt, unframed, [BM 8753], Hannah Humphrey, 1795; and together with a mixed group of 12 other caricatures, including an early impression of Samuel Lyne's A Parish Feast, humbly Inscrib'd to the Church-Wardens, Vestrymen, Questmen, and Parish Officers..., a pair of Scottish satirical prints, The Caledonian Voyage to Money-Land, and The Caledonians Arrival in Money-Land, and others by Isaac and George Cruikshank, others published by Fores, Laurie & Whittle etc., various sizes, all unframed, 18th century and later (14)
Caricatures.- Williams (Charles) Finding of Arms or a Midnight Domiciliary visit to the Boarding School, etching with original hand-colouring on wove paper with watermark date of '1818', plateamark 250 x 350 mm (9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in), good margins, top margin unevenly trimmed, surface dirt and handling creases, unframed, [BM Satires 13291], Thomas Tegg, 1812 [but slightly later]; together with a slightly trimmed impression of Thomas Rowlandson's The Wooden Leg; or, Careful Landlady, on wove paper watermarked '1803' [BM 11466], small loss to right edge; and with a good group of over 20 other caricatures, including a trimmed impression of "Giles Grinagain's" Wish in one hand, Laurie & Whittle's Country Life, contrasted with the Pleasures of Town, [BM 10945], George Cruikshank's Le traiteur chez Very - Madame Very's coffe house-Paris, [BM 14314], and others, various sizes, all unframed, 18th century and later (c.30) .
Caricatures.- Barbers, Wigs and shaving.- Holland (William) The Chevening Barber; or, Shaving a Whig and Shaving a Tory, etching with original hand-colouring, platemark 250 x 350 mm (9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in), small margins approx. 3 mm, mounted on paper support, unframed, 1811; together with Isaac Robert Cruikshank's A sketch at St Albans-or-shaving the new maid dutchess!!!, [BM 15455], Henry Bunbury's The Village Barber L.M./ L'Inghilterra, [BM 4757], and Robert Dighton the Elder's A Fashionable Lady in Dress & Undress, [BM 10807], various sizes, early 19th century; and with a good group of 12 others, including a slightly trimmed but early hand-coloured impression of Sayer & Bennett's The Return from Scotland, or Three Weeks after Marriage, [BM 4625], a gody copy of Spooner's mezzotint after Hogarth, Night - La Nuit, three Dighton portraits, two Miller edition Gillrays, and others, various sizes, all unframed, 18th century and later (16)
NO RESERVE Bath.- Taylor (A.) & W. Meyler. A New and Accurate Plan of the City of Bath to the present Year, 1801, showing the boundary of the Old City of Bath and the intended construction of Frances Square, with 48-point reference key along the left edge, engraved map by R.Hancock, with hand-colouring, 465 x 525 mm. (18 1/4 x 20 3/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, small abrasion and minor loss to each corner, surface dirt and rubbing, folding but lacking slipcase, 8vo, January 1st 1801
Bristol.- Bristol Commercial Coffee Rooms. This Building was erected by the Subscriptions of the... Merchants & Inhabitants of the City of Bristol... CA Busby Architect London..., engraved broadsheet, folds, slightly creased and browned, 462 x 370mm., dated in text 1810.⁂ Charles Augustin Busby (1786-1834), architect.
NO RESERVE Channel Islands.- Guide to the Island of Guernsey (A)...with a Commercial Directory...Alderney, Serk, Herm, and Jethou, 4 lithographed plates, one folding, errata leaf at end, pencil markings, foxing and staining, frontispiece torn and defective at lower margin (laid down), tear to G3 (repaired), Guernsey, J.T.Cochrane, 1826 bound with [Collins (J.E.) The Strangers' Guide to the Island of Jersey, lacking map, Guernsey, 1833, 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary half calf, spine defective § Homelies, ou Sermons de l'Eglise Anglicane..., some staining, contemporary half roan, "Guernesey", T.Dumaresq & J.Mauger, 1817 § Du Frocq (Thomas) Le Nouveau Précepteur..., half-title, list of subscribers and errata at end, contemporary mottled sheep, "Guernesey", H.Bouard, 1818, rubbed or worn; and 8 others relating to the Channel Islands, mostly modern pamphlets (some duplicates), 8vo et infra (13)
NO RESERVE Coach Roads.- Coltman (Nathaniel) A New Map of all the Coach Roads...of England & Wales..., folding hand-coloured engraved map, c.810 x 665mm., contemporary ink signatures of James Aitken to verso, light offsetting, one or two small ink stains, original cloth slip-case with printer's label, ink inscription to label, R.H.Laurie, 1832; and 2 others on coaching, 8vo (3)
NO RESERVE London.- Harris (John) Harris's Plan of London, Westminster and the Borough of Southwark, with all the additional Streets, Squares &c., extending from Hyde Park to Mile End, with table of references below, engraving with some outline hand-colouring and colour to river, 425 x 540 mm. (16 3/4 x 21 1/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, surface dirt and minor toning, spotting visible verso, folding with marbled slipcase, publisher's printed label to upper cover, rubbed and worn, 8vo, 1791 § Tegg (Thomas) Tegg's, New Plan of London, &c. With 360 References to the Principal Streets, &c. 1824, extending from Hyde Park to Limehouse, reference table below, engraving with hand-colouring, 435 x 625 mm. (17 1/8 x 24 1/2 in), some surface dirt and browning, folding with green marbled slipcase, publisher's printed label to upper cover, rubbed and worn, 8vo, 1824 (2)
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