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Click here to subscribeMaps. A collection of approximately 135 British maps, mostly 18th & 19th century, engraved maps of counties, countries, sea charts, manuscript estate plans, London ward plans and British Cities, with examples by or after Moll, Cole, Stowe, Faden, Pazzini, Greenville Collins, Nichols, Lewis, Archer, Kitchin and Morden, some duplicates, various sizes and conditionQTY: (approx. 135)
Huxley (Aldous). Along The Road, notes and essays of a tourist, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1925, some minor spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, spine toned, coves lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with:Gretton (G.), The Englishwoman in Italy: impressions of the life in the Roman States and Sardinia during a ten years' residence, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Hurst and Blackett. 1860, engraved title pages, some light marginal spotting, original uniform embossed red cloth, boards & spines slightly rubbed & marked, 8vo, plusChaney (Edward), The Evolution of the Grand Tour, Anglo-Italian cultural relations since the Renaissance, 1st edition, London: Frank Cass, 1998, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, andBlaksley (J.), Travels, Trips, and Trots. On and off duty from the Tropics to the Arctic Circle, 1st edition, London: printed by J. J. Keliher & Co., 1903, monochrome illustrations, top edge gilt, some minor marginal toning, original gilt decorated cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other late 19th century & modern European travel reference & guides, including Baedeker guides, all original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8voQTY: (6 shelves)
* Pigot (James). Pigot & Co.'s Map of England & Wales with part of Scotland [and] Pigot & Co,'s New Map of Scotland with the latest Improvements, circa 1839, two engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, old folds, each approximately 670 x 500 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazedQTY: (2)
Horn (Roni). 153 Drawings, 1st edition, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth and Xavier Hufkens, 2013, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, together with:Tuchman (Maurice, et al), Chaim Soutine (1893-1943), catalogue raisonné, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Köln: Taschen, 1993, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, some minor rubbing, large 8vo, plus other modern art reference, mostly original cloth, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (A carton)
Besant (Walter). The Survey of London, 10 volumes, London, Adam & Charles Black, 1903-25, numerous monochrome illustrations, some minor toning, all top edges gilt, original uniform gilt decorated red cloth, spines lightly faded & rubbed, large 4to, together with:Aldin (Cecil), Old Manor Houses, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1923, monochrome illustrations, colour endpapers, some minor spotting & toning, top edge gilt, original gilt decorated half vellum, hand written title & author to the spine, 4to, plusBridges (John A.), Idylls of a Lost Village, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1889, monochrome vignettes, minor marginal toning, original gilt decorated blue cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other early 20th century & modern British topography reference & related, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves )
Juptner (Joseph P., editor). U.S. Civil Aircraft, volumes 1-9, 1st edition, Los Angeles: Aero Publishers, 1962-81, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light spotting & toning, original cloth in dust jackets, covers rubbed, large 8vo, together with:Anderson (Fred), Northrop, an Aeronautical History, 1st edition, Los Angeles, Northrop Corporation, 1976, monochrome illustrations, original brown cloth, some minor rubbing, large 8vo, plusWoolnough (John H.), The 8th Air Force Album, Florida: 8th AF News, 1978, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light toning & spotting, original blue cloth, large 8vo, and other modern aviation reference, including, Air Enthusiast/Internation, volumes 1-22, 1971-82, all original cloth in dust jackets, large 8vo, & publications by PSL, Ian Allen, Jane's, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (6 shelves)
* Vanity Fair. A collection of 75 caricatures, mostly late 19th-century, colour lithographic caricatures by or after 'Spy', 'Ape', 'Guth', 'Snapp', 'Sic', Who', 'T', 'Tec' and others of sportsmen, politicians, naval & military, aviators, huntsmen, doctors & scientists, literary and men of the arts and jockeys, occasional duplicates, each approximately 360 x 215 mm, good conditionQTY: (75)
Antiquarian Topography. A collection of mostly 19th century topography reference, including Old and New London, a narrative of its history, its people, and its places, 6 volumes, London: Cassell, Peter, Galpin & Co., circa 1890, contemporary uniform gilt decorated blue half calf, 8voPicturesque America; or, the land we live in, 2 volumes, edited by William Cullen Bryant, New York: Appleton and Company, circa 1872, original gilt decorated full morocco, folio, & other mostly 19th century topography & related reference, some leather bindings, some original cloth, G, 8vo/folioQTY: (2 cartons)
* Polish Towns & Cities. A collection of 22 maps (in 14 frames), 15th - 19th century, engraved city plans of Thorn, Zamoscium, Szczecin, Kamieniec, Grodno, Riga, Krakow, Gnadenfrei, Sandomierz, Lubem Stettin and Oels, with examples by or after Merian, Schnitzer, Schedel, Munster, Mallet, De La Feuille, Bodenehr, De Fer and Eben, various sizes, good condition, all framed and glazed, some with multiple images within one frame QTY: (22)
Daniel (W. B.). Rural Sports, 4 volumes, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, 1812, monochrome engraved plates, bookplates to the front pastedowns, some off-setting & marginal toning, contemporary uniform gilt decorated full calf, boards detached, slightly rubbed with some loss, 8vo, together with:Boswell (James), The Life of Samuel Johnson, 4 volumes bound in 2, 4th edition, London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1804, portrait frontispiece to volume 1, period pencil inscriptions to the head of the title pages, modern endpapers, some light toning, modern gilt decorated half calf, 8vo, plusWalton (Izaak & Charles Cotton), The Complete Angler..., to which are added an introductory essay;...and illustrative notes, 2nd edition, London: John Major, 1824, engraved portrait frontispiece & further illustrations, period inscription to the head of the title page, bookplate to front pastedown, some toning & minor spotting, modern calf spine retaining contemporary calf boards, 8vo, and other mostly 19th century literature & reference, mostly contemporary leather bindings, some later cloth & leather bindings, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4toApproximately 65 volumes QTY: (3 shelves )
* Eastbourne. (Newman & Co. lithographers), Eastbourne. This View is dedicated by permission to His Grace The Duke of Devonshire K. G. By his Humble and Obedient Servant, A. Jinman, published by A. Jinman, Eastbourne, June 1st 1864, large tint stone lithograph on two conjoined sheets, some spotting, 235 x 1150 mm, supported by two near-contemporary short pine battens on the vertical marginsQTY: (1)NOTE:An uncommon separately published panorama.
Folding Maps. A collection of approximately 100 maps, mostly 19th century, engraved and lithographic folding maps of British counties, towns, cities and regions, together with guide books, touring maps and plans, including examples by or after Greenwood, Geographia, Ordnance Survey, Bacon, Bartholomew, Dower, Bowles & Carver, Philips, Cary and Baedeker, various sizes and conditionQTY: (approx. 100)
Travel. A collection of late 19th century & modern travel reference & related, including A Winter in Arabia, by Freya Stark, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1940, ex-library copy with associated stamps & marks, contemporary quarter morocco library binding, 8voEast is West, by Freya Stark, 1st edition, 1945, original cloth, 8voBaghdad Sketches, by Freya Stark, reprinted, 1946, original cloth in dust jacket, 8voArabian Sands, by Wilfred Thesiger, 3rd impression, London: Longmans, 1964, original cloth in dust jacket, 8voThe Marsh Arabs, by Wilfred Thesiger, 1st edition, 1964, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (5 shelves )
Greene (Graham). Why the Epigraph?, London: Nonesuch Press, 1989, original cloth, acetate wrapper, 8vo, limited signed edition 640/950, together with Our Man in Havana, 1st edition, London: Heinemann, 1958, light marginal toning, original cloth, dust jacket, spine slightly faded, light toning to rear panel, 8vo, plus The Spy's Bedside Book. An anthology edited by Graham Greene & Hugh Greene, London: Rupert-Hart Davis, 1957, original cloth, dust jacket, some fading to spine, 8vo, plus 19 others by the author including British Dramatists, 1942, A Burnt-Out Case (2 copies), 1961, The Comedians, 1966, May We Borrow Your Husband?, 1967 and Travels With My Aunt, 1969QTY: (22)
Graham (Rigby, illustrator). The Brewhouse Private Press 1963-1983, by Christine Battye, Wymondham: Sycamore Press, 1984, monochrome illustrations, original cloth, 4to, limited edition of 120, Rigby Graham's copy, this copy marked 'o/s' and signed in initials, additionally inscribed at front 'Rigby Graham, Leicester', together with Erni (Hans). Catalogue Raisonne de l'Oeuvre Lithographie et Grave de Hans Erni, by Pierre Cailler, 2 volumes, Geneva: Editions Pierre Cailler, 1969, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth, dust jackets, slight dust soiling, 4to, each volume with an original drawing by Hans Fermi to the half titles dedicated to Rigby Graham and dated 1976, plus A Lifetime of Drawing. Rigby Graham Sketchbook Drawings, with an essay by Malcolm Yorke..., London & Church Hanborough: Artists' Choice Editions, 2004, colour and monochrome illustrations, original pictorial boards, 4to, limited signed edition 83/197, with others related including Charles Flores Correspondences. With monotypes by Rigby Graham, Cog Press, 1973, limited edition 6/150, signed at front by Rigby Graham, A Broken String of Beads, Cog Press,1980, limited edition of 200, Rigby Graham, Wymondham Art Gallery, 1979, limited edition 74/200, Woodcuts and Words, Previous Parrot Press, 1994, limited signed edition of 242, this copy unnumbered, plus other booklets illustrated by the artist, a few limited editions etcQTY: (45)
Palladio (Andrea). The First Book of Architecture ... Translated out of Italian, with an Appendix touching Doors and Windows, by Pr. Le Muet ... Translated into English by Godfrey Richards, 10th edition, Corrected and enlarged, London: Printed for S.H. and H.T., 1724, folding engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, 64 full-page engraved illustrations and 3 folding plates, lacks D2, D3 & Z3, browning to margins of letterpress title, dust-soiling, some scattered spotting and few marks, modern half calf, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
* Havell (Robert). Set of Four Shooting Prints, Pheasant Shooting Black Park near Uxbridge, Snipe Shooting near Uxbridge, Wild Duck Shooting near Cowley [and] Partridge Shooting near Windsor, circa 1830, four aquatints with contemporary hand-colouring, occasional marginal closed tears, skillfully repaired, Wild Duck Shooting and Snipe Shooting laid on later paper, each approximately 245 x 325 mm, uniformly mounted, together with Thurnam (Charles, publisher). Grey Wiganthorpe. Bred by Garforth Esq. Got by Figaro, out of Marciana by Coriander, Faith by Pacolet, Atlanta by Matchem..., Charles Thurnam, Hodgson & Graves, S. & J. Fuller & Ackermann & Co., circa 1840, aquatint with contemporary hand colouring, 295 x 335 mm, mounted, with Alken (Henry). The Race for the Welter Stakes, You are Worth Double what I Gave for you [and] The Shooting Drag, circa 1830, together three aquatints with contemporary hand colouring, each approximately 130 x 200 mm, mounted, plus Weaver (Arthur). Three Golfing Prints, Safely On, Holing Out and Out of Trouble, Thomas Ross Limited, 1994, together three hand-coloured gravures, each approximately 210 x 280 mm, mountedQTY: (11)
Brown (Horatio F.). The Venetian Printing Press, an historical study based upon documents for the most part hitherto unpublished, London: John C. Mimo, 1891, monochrome examples & vignettes, some minor marginal toning, top edge gilt, contemporary green half morocco bound by Zaehnsdorf, spine lightly faded, some minor rubbing, 4to, limited edition 289/520, together with:Credazzi (Fabritio), Guida Della Monaca Religiosa..., 1st edition, Rome: Apprello Andrea Fei, 1622, engraved title page, 19th century endpapers, some toning & marks, 19th century gilt decorated full calf, boards & spine rubbed, hinges cracked, 4to, plusQuintana (Don Manuel José), Memoirs of Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordova, styled The Great Captain, translated by Joseph Russell, London: Edward Churton, 1851, some very minor toning, all edge gilt, modern half morocco, slightly rubbed, 8vo, and other 17th to early 20th century history, art, & ecclesiastical reference & literature, some leather bindings, some many original cloth, some odd and defective volumes, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)
Road Maps. A collection of approximately 100 maps, mostly 17th - 19th-century, engraved road maps, including examples by or after Baxter, Ogilby, Paterson, Senex, Owen & Bowen, 'Gentlemen's Magazine', Bowles & Carver, Cary, Carington Bowles, Gardner, Mogg and Laurie, various sizes and condition QTY: (approx. 100)
Large Scale County Maps. A collection of 38 sheets from various maps, 18th & 19th century, large-scale engraved map sheets, many with contemporary hand-colouring, including examples from Benjamin Donne's map of Devon, Chapman & André's map of Essex, Andrews and Dury's Sixty-five miles round London, John Rocque's map of Berkshire, Hodskinson's map of Suffolk, Taylor's map of Gloucestershire and Armstrong's map of Lincolnshire, occasional duplicates, some sheets torn and frayed with occasional loss, a few sheets town along the central fold, various sizes and conditionQTY: (38)
European Travel. A collection of late 19th century & modern European travel reference, including Como and Italian Lake-Land, by T. W. M. Lund, London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1887, original gilt decorated green cloth, 8voHolland, by Nico Jungman & Beatrix Jungman, 1st edition, London: Adam & Charles Black, 1904, original gilt decorated cloth, 8voCathedrals and Cloisters of Midland France, 2 volumes, by Elise Whitlock Rose, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907, original uniform gilt decorated green cloth, 8voSketches on the Old Road through France to Florence, by A. H. Hallam Murray, reprinted, London: John Murray, 1904, original embossed white cloth, 8vo, all original cloth, some in dust jackets, some odd volumes, G/VG, 8vo/4to QTY: (3 shelves )
Aijazuddin (F. S.). Pahari Paintings & Sikh Portraits in the Lahore Museum, 1st edition, London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1977, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, together with; Archer (W. G.). Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1973, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, covers lightly rubbed, large 8vo, plus, Falk (Toby & Mildred Archer). Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library, 1st edition, London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981, numerous black and white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly faded, previous owner reference sticker to spine, lightly rubbed to head and foot, large 8vo, and 4 other Indian art reference publicationsQTY: (8)
* Prints & Engravings. A mixed collection of approximately 1000, mostly 19th century, engravings, prints & lithographs, including portraits, topographical views, genre, natural history, 'Hogarth', domestic animals, dogs and field sports, various sizes and conditionQTY: (approx. 1000)
* Prints & Engravings. A large collection of approximately 1000 prints, mostly 19th-century, engravings and lithographs, including encyclopedia plates, natural history, portraits, genre, religion, classical, topographical views, historical scenes, Vanity Fair cartoons and 'Hogarth', various sizes, good conditionQTY: (approx. 1000)
Smith (Jospeh). Bibliotheaca Anti-Quakeriana; or, a catalogue of books adverse to the Society of Friends,..., facsimile edition, New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1968, some spotting to the text-block, some minor loss to the foot of the front paste down through to pp.9, original blue cloth, some minor marks to the boards, 8vo, together with:Forbes (David W.), Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780-1900, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999, monochrome illustrations, original uniform green cloth, large 4to, plusLada-Mocarski (Valerain), Bibliography of Books on Alaska Published before 1868, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed, large 8vo, andWagner (Henry R. & Charles L. Camp), The Plains & the Rockies, a critical bibliography of exploration, adventure and travel in teh American West 1800-1865, 4th edition, San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1982, monochrome frontispiece, original red cloth, 8vo, plus other modern United States of America bibliography & related reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (3 shelves & a carton)
* Standing Press. A handsome oak & beech 'French style' standing press by Hampson Bettridge & Co., with beech side supports, having a large central metal screw thread and wheel, cast brass manufacturer's plate for Hampson Bettridge & Co., 35, 36, 37 Cloth Fair, London E.C., platen approximately 51 x 32 cm (19.5 x 12.5 inches), total height approximately 185.5 cm (73 inches), with few timber blocks for height adjustmentQTY: (1)NOTE:The French standing press with central screw thread and wheel has a percussion feature which allows much greater pressure to be applied in comparison with a standard standing press.
James (Henry). The Turn of the Screw, Illustrated by Mariette Lydis, Hand and Flower Press, 1940, lithographic plates, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary half vellum over boards, slightly soiled, small folio, (limited edition, 135/200 copies), together with another copy of the same in original cloth-backed boards, rubbed and soiled, spine frayed and detached, small folio, (limited edition, 52/200 copies), plus Johnson (B.F.). Street Children, Photographs by Julia Trevelyan Oman, 1st edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1964, black & white illustrations from photographs throughout, original cloth-backed boards in soiled and frayed dust jacket, oblong small folio, andBellow (Saul), The Victim, 1st UK edition, London: John Lehmann, original cloth in pictorial dust jacket, a little chipped and browned, small adhesion stain to upper wrapper, 8vo, andSpark (Muriel), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1st edition, London: Macmillan & Co, 1961, original cloth in dust jacket, a little rubbed and soiled, 8vo, plus other mostly modern fiction including works in English translation, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, plus some art and larger format publicationsQTY: (6 shelves)
* Natural History. A collection of approximately 140 prints, 18th & 19th-century, engravings and lithographs of mammals, shells, fish and molluscs, with examples by or after Buffon, Couch, Forbes, Jardine, Houghton, Swainson, Gordon, Tate and Forbes, small format, good condition, all mountedQTY: (approx. 140)
Miller (Philip). The Gardeners Dictionary: containing the methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden, as also the Physick Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory and Vineyard:..., 2nd edition, London: printed for the author, 1733, engraved frontispiece & 4 further plates, front & rear gutters cracked, light water mark to the verso of the dedication page, some minor toning & spotting, rebound retaining contemporary calf spine & boards, lightly rubbed with some minor loss to head & foot, folioQTY: (1)
* Collins (Grenville). The Cheife Harbours in the Islands of Orkney, circa 1688, retaining four charts, all contained in contemporary calf binding, rubbed and some wear, all other plates from this work removed, folio, together with 12 other broken and stripped atlas folio bindings, including John Speed, Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (with frontispiece and title page remaining only, both with some damage), Blaeu, Janssen, J.B. Homann, Covens & Mortier, etc., all with contents removed, mainly contemporary leather and vellum bindings, large folioQTY: (2 cartons)NOTE:Sold with all faults, not subject to return.
* Welsh Costume. Four Costume Prints, circa 1850, including Brandard (J.). Welsh Market Woman, published T. Catherall Chester & Bangor circa 1860, uncoloured tint stone lithograph, slight spotting to the margins, 330 x 220 mm, together with McGahey (J.). Welsh Costumes, T. Catherall, Chester & Bangor, Sept. 21st 1848, lithograph after J. C. Rowland, contemporary hand-colouring, marginal fraying, spotting and closed tears, 250 x 300 mm, with Newman & Co. (Publishers). Welsh Costumes No 4 & No 5, circa 1860, two tint stone lithographs, each approximately 180 x 250 mm, plus Giant View Card. Welsh Costume, circa 1920, over-sized black and white photographic postcard, some water staining, 315 x 230 mmQTY: (5)
Leicestershire & Rutland. A Collection of 40 maps, mostly 17th - 19th century, engraved and lithographic maps, including examples by or after Blome, Moll, Rocque, Taylor/Blome, Kitchin, Cary, Ellis, Morden (small format), Carington Bowles, Bowen (Thomas), Seller, Seller/Grose, Oddy, Laurie & Whittle, Lodge, Murray, Teesdale, Baker, Archer, Moule, Pigot, Langley, Dawson, Letts, J & C Walker, Harrison, Smith and Bowen (Emanuel, Large English Atlas), occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition QTY: (40)
Devon. Speed (John), Devonshire with Excester Described and the Armes of such Nobles as have borne the titles of them, Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell [1676], hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Exeter, slight toning and spotting, occasional marginal closed tears, one repaired closed tear affecting the printed image, central fold partially strengthened on the verso, 385 x 510 mm, English text on versoQTY: (1)
Beach (Milo C., Editor). Masters of Indian Paintings 1100-1900, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Zurich: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 2011, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, covers rubbed and marked to head and foot, some loss, large 4to, together with; Aitken (Molly Emma), The Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting, 1st edition, London: Yale University Press, 2010, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plus, Bunker (Emma C. & Douglas Latchford), Adoration and Glory the Golden Age of Khmer Art, 1st edition, Chicago: Art Media Resources, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, and 32 other India and China Art reference and related mostly original cloth in dust jackets some original wrappers, 8vo/4to/large 8vo, G/VGQTY: (36)
Rossi (Paola & Rodolfo Pallucchini). Tintoretto, L'opera complete, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Milan: Electa, 1974, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets in slipcase, some minor wear, large 4to, together with:Noon (Patrick), Richard Parkes Bonington, the complete paintings, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, tear to the rear cover, folio, plusHirschauer (Gretchen A. & Catherine A. Metzger), Luis Melédez, master of the Spanish still life, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, and other Old Master & Renaissance art reference & related, many original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperbacks, overall condition is generally fair to very good, 8vo/folioQTY: (5 shelves )
* Tomkeieff (Sergei Ivanovich, 1892-1968). Russian and British geologist and petrologist. A small personal archive of books, pamphlets, extracts, papers and models by and relating to Tomkeieff, mostly c. 1940s/1950s, including 4 copies of 'A New Periodic Table of the Elements based on the Structure of the Atom', London: Chapman & Hall, 1954, original printed wrappers, slim 4to, plus other papers and a small collection of models relating to Tomkeieff's ideas for the new periodic tableQTY: (2 cartons)NOTE:Tomkeieff referred to the three principal types of periodic table as helical, rectilinear, and spiral. This was in 1954 and, previously, Tomkeieff had sent a short letter to Nature in which he gave a formula to generate a periodic table.
Literary & Music. A large collection of 19th century & modern literary & music biography &reference, including Style, by Walter Raleigh, 2nd edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1897, original cloth, 8voThe Universal Songster or Museum of Mirth..., 3 volumes, London: George Routledge and Sons, circa 1890, original gilt decorated red cloth, 8vo, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (6 shelves )
Lane (Barbara G.). Hans Memling, master painter in fifteenth-century Bruges, 1st edition, London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2009, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, some very minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, some minor rubbing to head & foot, large 4to, together with:Friedländer (Max J. & Jakob Rosenberg), The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, 1st edition, Secaucus: Wellfleet Press, 1978, numerous monochrome illustrations, some minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, small tear to the rear cover, large 4to, plusBoehm (Barbara Drake & Jiří Fajt, editors), Prague, the Crown of Bohemia 1347-1437, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, and other Old Master & Renaissance art reference, many original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperbacks, some previous owner marks, overall condition is generally fair to very good, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves )
Portugal. A collection of 15 maps, 17th - 19th-century, engraved maps, including examples by or after Danckerts, Sanson, Jansson, Arrowsmith, Bonne, Smith, J & C Walker, Tardieu, Bowen, Pazzini, Zatta and Rizzi-Zannoni, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition QTY: (15)
Art. A collection of art reference, including Vauxhall Gardens, a history, by David Coke & Alan Borg, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4toRoyal Landscape, the gardens and parks of Windsor, by Jane Roberts, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, original cloth in dust & slipcase, folioHorace Walpole's Strawberry Hill, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (3 cartons)
Saxton (Christopher & Kip . & Hole G.). Six county maps, Devoniae comitatus vulgo Denshyre..., Wigorniensis comitatus Sabrinae Fliminis..., Hertfordiae comitatus A. Catifuclans olim Inhabitatus, Wiltoniae comitatus herbida..., Salopiae comitatus quem Cornuii..., [and] Middlesex olima Trinoban Tibus habitata, [1607 - 37], together six engraved maps, five with later hand-colouring (Devon uncoloured), occasional marginal repaired closed tears, slight staining, toning and spotting, Middlesex laid on later card, each approximately 300 x 345 mm, Devon and Wiltshire with Latin text on the versoQTY: (6)
Literary. A large collection of late 19th century & modern literary works, reference, & bibliography, including works by Samuel Pepys, R. C. Trevelyan, & publications by Oxford, Cambridge,mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some odd volumes, G/VG, 8voQTY: (6 shelves )
Lincolnshire. Bryant (Andrew), Map of the County of Lincoln from Actual Survey within the years 1825, 26 & 27..., Respectfully Dedicated to the Nobility, Clergy & Gentry of the County, April 19th 1828, large scale engraved map on eight double-page sheets, calligraphic title, compass rose, tables of explanation and divisions, engraved vignette of Lincoln Cathedral, some offsetting throughout, occasional small repaired marginal tears, each sheet approximately 530 x 815 mm, contemporary half sheep, lacking spine, boards detached, heavily worn and frayed, slim folio, binding size 585 x 465 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:The first and only edition of this large-scale map. Bryant produced 13 county maps very much in the style of the Greenwood brothers.
Stark (James & J.W. Robberds, Jun.) Scenery of the Rivers of Norfolk, comprising the Yare, the Waveney, and the Bure, Norwich: printed by John Stacy, 1834, additional engraved title, 24 engraved plates, vignette illustrations, occasional spotting and offsetting, View on the Yare plate inscribed to margin 'original painting of(?) Banchury House', previous owner inscriptions, bookplate of Sir David Stewart, Banchury Devenich, all edges gilt, contemporary burgundy half morocco gilt, edges a little rubbed and scuffed, 4to, together with Charlotte Florentia, Duchess of Northumberland. Castles of Alniwck, & Warkworth &c., W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, 1824, 39 plates on india paper, some light spotting, armorial bookplate of John Selwin, all edges gilt, contemporary burgundy straight-grain morocco, joints and edges rubbed, 4to, signed by the Duchess of Northumberland to the dedication (which is to her mother, Henrietta Antonia, Countess of Powis) QTY: (2)
Ferguson (John Alexander). Bibliography of Australia, 7 volumes (bound in 8), facsimile edition, Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1980, original uniform cloth in dust jackets, some spines lightly faded, 8vo, together with:Du Rietz (Rolf), Bibliotheca Polynesiana, a catalogue of some of the books in the Polynesiana collection fromed by the late Bjarne Kroepelien and now in the Oslo University Library, 1st edition, Oslo: privately published, 1969, monochrome portrait frontispiece, some minor marks to the text-block, original black cloth, large 8vo, un-numbered limited edition of 800 copies, plusRosove (Michael H.), Antarctica, 1772-1922, Freestanding Publications through 1999, 1st edition, Santa Monica: Adélie Books, 2001, colour frontispiece, original quarter leatherette, large 8vo, andDe Moraes (Rubens Borba), Bibliographia Brasiliana, rare books about Brazil published from 1504 to 1900 and works by Brazilian authors of the Colonial period, 2volumes, revised edition, Los Angeles: University of California, 1983, monochrome illustrations, original uniform cloth in dust jackets, some minor rubbing to the head & foot of the covers, 8vo, plus other modern Pacific, Australian, Arctic & Antarctic bibliography, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (3 shelves)
Löwendahl (Björn). China Illustrata Nova, Sino-Western relations, conceptions of China, cultural influences and the development of Sinology, disclosed in western printed books 1477-1877, 3 volumes (volumes 1, 2 & supplement), 1st edition, Hua Hin: The Elephant Press, 2008-12, colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets and slipcases, spines slightly faded, large 8voQTY: (3)
Phillips (Roger & Martyn Rix). The Botanical Garden, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Macmillan, 2002, numerous colour illustrations, original uniform cloth in dust jackets & slipcase, spines lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, together with:Baker (H. A. & E. G. H. Oliver), Ericas in Southern Africa, 1st edition, Cape Town: Purnell, 1967, numerous colour plates, some minor marginal toning original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly toned & rubbed, large 8vo, plus other modern horticulture & gardening reference, including The Rotal Horticulture Society Dictionary of Gardening, 5 volumes, edited by Fred J. Chittenden, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956, original cloth in dust jackets, large 4to, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (6 shelves & a carton)
Klimburg (Max). The Kafirs of the Hindu Kush, art and society of the Waigal and Ashan Kafirs, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1999, numerous monochrome illustrations, original uniform boards, spine lightly toned, minor rubbing to head & foot, large 8vo, together with:Noelle (Christine), State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan, the reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Kham (1826-1863), 1st edition, Richmond: Curzon, 1997, original cloth in dust jacket, spine & boards slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plusCoster (Will), Baptism and Spiritual Kinship in Early Modern England, 1st edition, Aldershot; Ashgate, 2002, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, spine slightly faded, 8vo, andFentz (Mytte), The Kalahsa, mountain people of the Hindu Kush, 1st edition, Denmark: Rhodos, 2010, numerous colour illustrations, original boards, some minor marks, large 4to, includes a hand written compliments slip from the publisher, plus other modern history & anthropology reference, all original cloth, mostly in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (6 shelves)
Spain. Speed (John), Spaine Newly Described with many adictions both in the attires of the people & the Setuations of their Cheifest Cityes by John Speed, Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell [1676], hand-coloured engraved carte-a-figures map with 10 vignettes of costumed figures to the vertical margins and 9 oval vignettes along the upper margin of principal cities, some marginal fraying and short closed tears, some staining, slight creasing, 420 x 540 mm, English text on versoQTY: (1)
London. Bullock (L. G.). Children's Map of London, John Bartholomew & Son Ltd. Edinburgh, circa 1948, colour-printed pictorial map, slight marginal fraying, 540 x 725 mm, together with Clark (Estra). Historic York, Ben Johnson & Co. Ltd. 1947, colour-printed pictorial map, laid on later card, 540 x 660 mm, with Basire (J.). Plan of an Estate Belonging to the Crown, called Marybone Park Farm, upon a design for Letting it out on Building Leases [and] Plan of an Estate Belonging to the Crown called Marybone Park Farm, upon a Design for Letting it out on Building Leases by John Nash, Ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 12th June 1812, two engraved plans with contemporary hand-colouring, old folds, slight offsetting, 430 x 505 mm and 400 x 440 mm respectively, supplied with seven leaves of descriptive and explanatory text by John NashQTY: (4)
Aldin (Cecil). Old Inns, 1st. edition, William Heinemann 1921, additional half-title printed in red, signed and limited by the artist on the verso of the half-title 137/380, 16 tipped-in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations throughout, upper edge gilt, the remainder uncut, publisher's quarter vellum with black and gilt title to the upper siding, together with Hunting Scenes, 1st edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1936, additional half-title detached, numerous colour illustrations throughout, juvenile presentation to the front endpaper, publisher's cloth gilt, worn at extremities, 4to, with Dogs of Character, Eyre & Spottiswoode London and Charles Scribner & Sons New York, 1927, two copies, additional half-titles, both with the original sketch and limit page removed, numerous illustrations throughout, slight spotting, all edges gilt, publisher's quarter vellum gilt, slight staining and soiling, 4to, plus Just Among Friends. Pages from my Sketch Books, Eyre and Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd, 1934, numerous illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth, 4to, with another 11 volumes by Cecil Aldin similar, various sizes and conditionQTY: (16)
* Pembrokeshire. Speed (John), Penbrokshyre described and the Sittuations both of Penbroke and St. Davids shewed in due form as they were taken..., Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell [1676], hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plans of Pembroke and Saint Davids, large strapwork cartouche, 385 x 510 mm, mounted, framed and double-glazed, English text on verso, together with Blome (Richard). A Generall Mapp of South Wales..., circa 1673, hand-coloured engraved map, old folds, some spotting, 350 x 460 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with Saxton (Christopher & Hole G.). Caernarvo. Comitatus pars olim Orovicum [1627], hand-coloured engraved map, large strapwork cartouche, compass rose and mileage scale, 255 x 310 mm, mounted, framed and glazedQTY: (3)
* Prints & Engravings. A collection of approximately 550 prints, 18th & 19th century, engravings, lithographs, etchings and prints, including portraits, classical, topographical views, genre, religion, domestic animals, military and fashion & costume, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition QTY: (approx. 550)
Gillispie (Charles Coulston, editor). Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 16 volumes (bound in 8), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981, original uniform green cloth, large 4to, together with:Canney (Margaret & David Knott), University of London Library Catalogue of The Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1970, monochrome portrait frontispiece to volume 1, original uniform cloth in dust jackets, volume 1 dust jacket price-clipped, large 8vo, plusMottelay (Paul Fleury), Bibliographical History of Electricity & Magnetism chronologically arranged, 1st edition, London: Charles Griffin & Company, 1922, monochrome frontispiece & plates, bookplate to the front pastedown, some minor toning & off setting, original blue cloth, spine lightly faded, 8vo, and other mostly modern science & economics bibliography & related reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (5 shelves)
Pugin (Augustus Welby). A New Parallel of the Orders of Architecture; according to the Greeks and Romans, and Modern Architects, London: A. Pugin, 1829, half-title, engraved frontispiece and 66 engraved plates by Charles Normand, some spotting, contemporary half morocco, crude reback, boards worn, folio, together with:Pugin (Augustus Welby), Details of Antient Timber Houses of the 15th & 16th centuries, selected from those existing at Rouen, Caen, Beauvais, Gisors, Abbeville, Strasbourg..., London: Ackermann & Co., 1836; Gothic Furniture designed & etched in the style of the 15th century, London: Ackermann & Co., 1835; Designs for Gold & Silversmiths, London: Ackermann & Co., 1836; Designs for Iron & Brass Work, London: Ackermann & Co., 1836, together 4 volumes in one, etched titles and plates, some toning and occasional spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary burgundy half morocco, gilt decorated spine rubbed, 4to,Pugin (Augustus Welby), Contrasts; or, A parallel between the noble edifices of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and similar buildings of the present day; shewing the present decay of taste, London: Printed & published for the author, 1836, etched frontispiece, additional title and plates, occasional spotting and few marks, original cloth, slim 4to,Ruskin (John), Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, 8 volumes (without final index volume), Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1871-84, few monochrome plates, top edge gilt, contemporary dark green half morocco, slightly rubbed, 8voFergusson (James), A History of Architecture in all Countries, from the earliest times to present day, volumes 1 & 2 only (of 4), 2nd edition, London: John Murray, 1874; History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, London: John Murray, 1876; History of the Modern Styles of Architecture, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, revised, London: John Murray, 1891, wood engraved illustrations, top edge gilt, uniform early 20th-century half calf, rubbed, large 8voQTY: (16)
Upton (Florence K. illustrator). The Golliwog at the Sea-Side, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1898, colour illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers, closed tears to lower margins (B2, B3, B8, D2, D6), some finger soiling, original cloth backed pictorial boards, some light creasing, rubbing to edges, together with ten other stories from The Golliwogg series comprising: The Golliwogg's Circus, 1903 (x2); The Golliwogg's Fox-Hunt, 1905; The Golliwogg's Auto-Go-Cart, 1901 (x2); The Adventures of two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg, [1895] (x2); The Golliwogg's Air-Ship, 1902; The Golliwogg's Bicycle Club, 1896; some defective, all oblong 4to, and The Dutch Doll's Picture BookQTY: (12)
The Belknapp Press, publisher. Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Grpahic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts, French 16th Century Books, 2 volumes, compiled by Ruth Mortimer, 1st edition, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964, original uniform blue cloth, large 4toItalian 16th Century Books, 2 volumes, compiled by Ruth Mortimer, 1974, original inform red cloth, large 4to, together with:Jones (S. Paul), A List of French Prose Fiction from 1700 to 1750, with a brief introduction, 1st edition, New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1939, some minor toning, contemporary blue cloth, minor rubbing to the hea & foot of thespine, 8vo, plusAdams (H. M.), Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600 in Cambridge Libraries, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1967, errata slip to volume 1, original uniform cloth in dust jackets, 4to, and other European bibliography & biography reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (6 shelves)
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