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Lot 124
Arlequin Press. One Pair of Eyes. Donald Watson, 1st edition, deluxe issue, Chelmsford: Arlequin Press, 1994, colour illustrations, original half morocco, slipcase, oblong folio, number 37 of 60 leather-bound copies signed by the author, publisher's prospectus and original print laid in, together with: Fuller (Errol). The Great Auk, 1st edition, Southborough: Errol Fuller, 1999, mounted colour frontispiece, photographic illustrations throughout, original green half leatherette, slipcase, 4to, number 185 of 400 copies signed by the author, without the accompanying print by Raymond Ching, Meinertzhagen (Richard). Pirates and Predators. The Piratical and Predatory Habits of Birds, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1959, all plates as called for, bookplate of Robert 'Bob' Spencer (1923-1994), ornithologist, top edge gilt, recent red crushed half morocco, 4to [Plesch Library]. The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung für Botanik, Vaduz, Lichtenstein, collected by the late Arpad Plesch, Part 1 [-3], 3 volumes in 1, London: Sotheby & Co., 1976, list of prices and purchasers bound in, posthumous Plesch bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary green half morocco, 4to, [Godman Collection]. The Godman Collection of Watercolours for John Gould's 'The Birds of Great Britain'. The Property of Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Gordon Tregear, London: Christie's, 1994, all edges gilt, contemporary black crushed morocco gilt, 4to, and 3 others, 20th-century ornithology, half morocco bindings (Rogerson & Tunnicliffe, Our Bird Book, 1947; Rickman, Sketches and Notes from a Bird Painter's Journal, 1949; Blunt, The Art of Botanical Illustration, 1950)Qty: (8)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II
Lot 135
Frohawk (Frederick William). The Natural History of British Butterflies, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1925], 60 coloured and 5 uncoloured plates, errata slip tipped to volume 1 front free endpaper, original blue cloth, printed dust jackets, a bright copy, folio, together with: Thomson (David Croal). The Life and Works of Thomas Bewick being Account of his Career and Achievements in Art with a Notice of the Works of John Bewick, 1st edition, London: "The Art Journal" Office, 1882, engraved frontispiece, numerous vignettes and plates (wood-engraved, or electrotypes or facsimiles of wood-engravings), all on india paper, mounted, original patterned cloth gilt, rubbed, folio, number 13 of 75 copies, initialled by the author, ibid. The Water-Colour Drawings of Thomas Bewick, 1st edition, London: Barbizon House, 1930, tipped-in colour plates, laid in tissue-guards, original pattern cloth, rear cover marked, 4to, number 75 of 325 copies, from the total edition of 525, McAlpine (Daniel). The Botanical Atlas. A Guide to the Practical Study of Plants. Containing Representatives of the Leading Forms of Plant Life. Volume I. Phanerograms [Volume II. Cryptograms], 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston, 1883, chromolithographic frontispieces, 52 colour-printed engraved plates, folding table, volume 1 inner hinges partially cracked, original green pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed, large 4to, and 14 others, 20th-century ornithology reference, including another copy of Thomson, Life and Works of Thomas Bewick, number 32 of 75 copies, all 4to or folioQty: (20)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Freeman 2383 (McAlpine); Nissen ZBI 1452 (Frohawk).
![[Hooker, William]. [Pomona Londinensis, 1st edition, London: Hooker, 1813-18], 35 hand-coloured aquatint plates only (of 49:](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/27556d06-14f1-4e11-85a7-ac1e00d5ce41/a03cc7ef-5653-4eff-8516-ac1e0105088d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 141
[Hooker, William]. [Pomona Londinensis, 1st edition, London: Hooker, 1813-18], 35 hand-coloured aquatint plates only (of 49: without plates 36-49), lacking all preliminary text including title-page, and text-leaf for plate 8, repairs to plates 1, 2 and 7, text-leaf for plate 1 with extensive repairs, text-leaves untrimmed, modern blue quarter morocco, 4to (35 x 24 cm), together with: Willughby (Francis, & John Ray). The Ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the County of Warwick Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. In Three Books ... Translated into English, and enlarged with many Additions throughout the whole Work. To which are added three considerable discourses, I. Of the Art of Fowling ... II. Of the Ordering of Singing Birds. III. Of Falconry, by John Ray, London: by A. C. for John Martyn, 1678, title-page in red and black, 76 engraved plates (of 80: lacking plates 1 and 9 and the 2 unnumbered plates, these last supplied in facsimile), toning, lacking at least text-leaves E2, H1, L1, 2A2-3, 2G4, 2Q3 and 3L3-4 (all supplied in facsimile on toned paper, laid in), tear with loss to plate 11 and 72, plates 73-77 frayed, fraying and repairs to a few other plates, 20th-century quarter calf, folio (35 x 22 cm), [MacGillivray, William, & Georges Cuvier]. The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History and the Physical Sciences [...] The Animal Kingdom, 1835-7, an incomplete run, 21 monthly numbers (only) in one volume, 84 + 84 pp., the sections from each number containing The Animal Kingdom bound in sequence at rear, 34 hand-coloured engraved plates (of 130), later half morocco with original part-title mounted to front board, folio (34.6 x 23.2 cm)Qty: (3)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Nissen BBI 913 (Hooker); Nissen IVB 991 (Willughby & Ray); Nissen ZBI 4619 (MacGillivray). Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
Lot 390
Fale (Thomas). Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling: teaching, an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of Dials upon any plaine plat howsoever placed. With the drawing of the twelve Signes, and houres unequall in them all. Whereunto is annexed the making and use of other Dials and Instruments, whereby the houre of the day and night is knowne: of speciall use and delight, not only for Students of the Arts Mathematicall, but also for divers Artificers, Architects, Surveyours of buildings, free-Masons and others, London, Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1633, [4], 60 [16] leaves, foliated, woodcut illustration of a dial to title page, woodcut initials, and numerous large woodcut diagrams and illustrations throughout (by Jodocus Hondius), pale browning to upper blank margins of title and several preliminary leaves, extensive near-contemporary manuscript notes and diagrams in brown ink to front endpaper, verso of final leaf of text, rear endpaper and inside covers, contemporary limp vellum, some soiling and darkening to spine and outer edges, with indistinct manuscript annotations to upper cover, and ownership initials 'IG' to centre of upper cover, with upper portion of the upper cover now missing (probably rodent-gnawed), small 4toQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: C. E. Kenney, Esq., F.S.A., F.R.I.C.S.; his sale, Sotheby's Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection, The Property of C. E. Kenney, Third Portion, Science and Surveying A to G, Monday 28th March, 1966, to Thorpe; John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller. STC 10681 (3 copies in the U.S. and 5 elsewhere). Fourth edition of the earliest English treatise on dialling, or the design of sundials, and the author's only known publication. First published in 1593, it was reissued by Felix Kyngston in 1626, 1627, 1633 and 1652. The last 16 leaves comprise a table of sines, and was the first trigonometrical table to be printed in England. The author identifies Hondius as the engraver of the diagrams in his dedication to Thomas Osborne 'one M. Iod Hondius, who hath shewed himselfe an excellent workeman in the great Globes set forth by M. Mullineux, and the Maps of England for M. Camdens booke'. The extensive and highly technical annotations at the front and rear of the volume provide examples of how to make a variety of sundials, as well as a description of a visit to a clock maker in Bankside, London, on August 6th 1657: "Aug. 6th 1657 was at Mr Ahasuerus Foremantle at ye Bankside, & saw an exelent clock that he bin studying and making, at tymes tweenty yeers and stood him in 200 LL,: & it went with springs: & turned upon a spindle like a windmill it was about 13 inches square & 30 inches high: one the foreface it had a hand to point the houer going round in 12 houres & upon the same center went another hand about in one hower shewing the minuts. and right under the center of the hand was a motion that went about once a yeer rasing the 12 signes with a litle pointer fixed to the center of the hand; which shewed in what sine & deg the [sun] was in each day in the yeer...". A pencil transcription of this text (on the rear inside cover) accompanies the volume.
Lot 394
Fale (Thomas). Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling: Teaching, an Easie and Perfect way to make all kindes of Dials upon any plain plat howsoever placed..., London: Printed by Felix Kingstone, 1652, [4], 90 [i.e. 60], [10] leaves, title cropped at head and to fore-edge margin, lacking final 6 leaves, dust-soiled and some fraying, disbound 4to (Wing F310; ESTC R16336), together with: [Puget de la Serre, Jean] , Le secretaire du cabinet, ou la manière d'écrire que l'on pratique a la Cour...derniere edition, Paris: Nicolas Le Gras, 1693, woodcut device and early ink inscription on title, last leaf of table torn to fore-edge margin, closed tear to leaf I7, some spotting, wormhole in upper margin, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, worn, 8vo, and with a selection of defective & incomplete 17th century works, fragments and odd leaves of letterpress, etc., including The Common-Wealths Great Ship, commonly called the Soveraigne of the Seas, built in the yeare, 1637. With a true and exact dimension of her bulk and burden..., London: printed by M. Simmons, for Tho: Jenner, 1653, leaves torn with loss, disbound 4to; The Queens Closet Opened 2 parts in one, [including: A Queens Delight: or, the Art of Preserving, Conserving. amd Candying], by W.M., London: Nathaniel Brook, 1656, first part torn and incomplete, second part 'A Queens Delight' complete, disbound 12moQty: (A carton)NOTESSold with all faults, not subject to return.
![Alexander (William Cleverley, 1840-1916). Sketches of Domestic Gothic [cover title], c. 1872, an album of accomplished archit](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/27556d06-14f1-4e11-85a7-ac1e00d5ce41/93b7a2e1-23aa-4089-8918-ac1e0105fa36/468x382.jpg)
Lot 522
Alexander (William Cleverley, 1840-1916). Sketches of Domestic Gothic [cover title], c. 1872, an album of accomplished architectural draughtsmanship, containing 3 watercolours and 71 pen or pencil drawings (26 with wash and 4 with watercolour) by Alexander, showing Gothic architecture and architectural details in England, France, Belgium and Italy, some drawings showing scale and some dated (1866-1872), all unsigned, various sizes, mounted one or two to a leaf or drawn straight into the album on rectos only on 54 leaves, small book ticket of the bookseller Paul Breman to rear pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary brown morocco by Ramage with gilt title to spine and both covers, rubbed, 4to (31 x 24.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESWilliam Cleverley Alexander was a British banker, art collector and patron of James McNeill Whistler. Places depicted in England include: Chapter House St. Davids, Jews House Lincoln, Kirkham Priory, Easby Abbey, Helmsley Castle, Bolton Castle, Salmeston Grange, Smallfield Place, Shulbrede Priory, West Tarring, West Dean, Mayfield Palace, Michelham Priory, Haughmond Abbey, Ludlow, Acton Burnell, Stokesay, Winchelsea, Meare, Church Knowle, Nothborough Manor, and others. Places depicted on the Continent include: Ypres, Provins, Rheims, Laon, Noyon, Beauvais, Caen, Mont St. Michel, Dinan, Brescia, Padua, Messina, Genoa, and others.
Lot 523
Arnett (John Andrews). Bibliopegia; or the Art of Bookbinding in all its Branches, New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1980, monochrome plates, introduction by Bernard Middleton, ink stamp to verso of title with some show-through, ink stamp to front free-endpaper, bookplate removed with skinning of front pastedown, original cloth, small 8vo, together with: Tidcombe (Marianne) , The Doves Bindery, 1st edition, London: The British Library; Newcastle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 1991, colour frontispiece, monochrome plates and illustrations, original cloth, 4to, Tenschert (Heribert, publisher) , Horae B.M.V., 365 gedruckte Stundenbucher der Sammlung Bibermuhle 1487-1586, volumes 7-9, Ramsen (Switzerland) : Heribert Tenschert, 2015, colour & monochrome illustrations, original printed boards, oblong folio, contained together in original slipcase, Chubb (Thomas) , The Printed Maps in the Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland, A Bibliography, 1579-1870, London: Homeland Association Ltd., 1927, monochrome frontispiece and few plates, original cloth, 4to, Marks (P.J.M.) , Beautiful Bookbindings, A Thousand Years of the Bookbinder's Art, London: The British Library; Newcastle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 2011, colour frontispiece and illustrations, original cloth in dust-jacket, 4to, and other bookbinding and printing history etc., including a continuous run of the Bibliographical Society Transactions, 'The Library', 7th series, volumes 14-20, Oxford, 2014-2019, parts loosely contained in original binders, 8vo, and 16 DVDs of the Harcourt Bindery, Boston, USA, entitled 'Nineteenth Century Bookbinding Techniques' and 'Bookbinding at the Harcourt Bindery', narrated & presented by Sam Ellenport, 2006Qty: (2 cartons)
Lot 529
Bilbo (Jack). Jack Bilbo, An Autobiography, 1st edition, The Modern Art Gallery, 1948, tipped-in colour plates, numerous monochrome plates, mostly after photographs, original cloth gilt in bright condition, in frayed and chipped dust wrapper, with card slipcase (some wear), large 4toQty: (1)NOTESAuthor's presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper 'To Mark Rubens, a heavy book on his poor shoulders from Jack Bilbo 1948'.
Lot 530
Brassington (W. Salt). A History of the Art of Bookbinding, with some account of the Book of the Ancients, 1894, colour frontispiece and plates, monochrome plates & illustrations, modern cloth, with dampstain, 4to, contained in purpose-made book-box, together with: Mitchell (John) , The Craftsman's Guide Series. An introduction to Gold Finishing, 1st edition, Five Oaks, Sussex: Standing Press Ltd., 1995, monochrome illustrations, author's signature at head of title-page and his inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth with pictorial upper board, small folio, Crane (W.J.E.) , Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being descriptions of the various tools and appliances required and minute instructions for their effective use, London: L. Upcott Gill, [1900?], wood engraved illustrations, upper hinge split, original cloth, blocked decoration in gilt & black, 8vo, Lindsay (Jen) , Fine Bookbinding a Technical Guide, 1st edition, London: The British Library; Newcastle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 2009, monochrome illustrations, title inscribed by the author, original printed stiff wrappers, 4to, Cockerell (Douglas) , Some Notes on Bookbinding, Oxford University Press, 1929, monochrome frontispiece and illustrations, near contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, 8vo, and other bookbinding related referenceQty: (a carton)
Lot 532
de Santillana (Anna Venini Diaz) . Venini Catalogue raisonné 1921-1986, Skira, France, 2000, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, together with; Mouillefarine (Laurence & Évelyne Possémé) , Art Deco Jewelry, Modernist Masterworks and their Makers, Thames & Hudson, 2009, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, and Varney (Carelton) , In The Pink, Dorothy Draper: America's most fabulous decorator, Pointed Leaf Press, LLC., New York, 2006, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, square 4to, plus Benaïm (Laurence) , Jacques Helleu & Chanel, 1st edition, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 2005, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, publishers original boards in slipcase, folio, and other modern 20th century design reference & related, including Ensembles Mobiliers, 18 volumes (in 17), Bibliothèque de L'Image, Paris, 2005, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, VG, 8vo/folioQty: (36)
Lot 536
Hardie (Martin). Etchings and Dry Points from 1902 to 1924, by James McBey, A Catalogue, 1st edition, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., 1925, original etching (Artist and Model), bound in as frontispiece, from the edition of 510 proofs, signed in ink, monochrome illustrations, top edge gilt, original quarter reversed calf, rubbed and worn on spine, with loss, 4to, limited edition 443/500, signed by the publisher, together with: Carter (Charles). Etchings and Dry Points from 1924 by James McBey, A Supplement, Aberdeen Art Gallery, 1962, monochrome illustrations, original cloth, some light soiling and handling marks, 4to, plus: Dodgson (Campbell). Etchings & Dry Points by Muirhead Bone. I. 1898-1907, A Catalogue, 1st edition, Obach & Co., 1909, original etched frontispiece, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original quarter reversed calf gilt, rubbed and scuffed to joints and head and foot of spine, 4to, limited edition 208/275, signed by the publishers, and: Dodgson (Campbell). A Catalogue of Etchings by Augustus John 1901-1914, 1st edition, Charles Chenil and Co., 1920, monochrome illustrations, original quarter cloth, rubbed and some soiling and staining, 4to, limited edition 134/325, with an exhibition catalogue of etchings by Augustus John at the Chenil Gallery, 1919, loosely inserted, 4to, and others related: Louis A. Wuerth, Catalogue of the Etchings of Joseph Pennell, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1998, Loys Delteil & Harold J.L. Wright, Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings of Charles Meryon, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989, Richard S. Schneiderman, The Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints of Charles Meryon, Garton & Co., 1990, Edward G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1978, Hjert & Hjert, Zorn, Engravings, A Complete Catalogue, 1980, plus a bound photocopy of Continuation of Etchings & Dry Points by Muirhead Bone, mostly in dust wrappers, all 4toQty: (10)
Lot 538
Leibovitz (Annie) . A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005, 1st edition, Random House, New York, 2006, signed by the author to the half-title, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, together with; Milligan (Max) , The Lebanon, Byblos, Lebanon, 2010, signed by the author to the half-title , numerous colour illustrations, publishers original boards in slipcase, oblong folio, and Yarrow (David) , Nowhere, 1st edition, 2007, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket & slipcase, spine lightly faded, oblong 4to, plus Flick (Robbert) , Trajectories, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, U.S.A., 2004, numerous monochrome & colour illustrations publishers original black cloth, large 8vo, and other modern photography reference, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (28)
Lot 543
Price (Francis). The British Carpenter: or, a Treatise on Carpentry. Containing the most concise and authentick Rules of that Art, in a more useful and Extensive Method, than has been made Publick, 2 parts in one (including Supplement), 2nd edition, enlarged, London: Printed by C. Ackers, and sold by the Author, also by A. Bettesworth, C. Hitch & T. Astley, 1735, engraved frontispieces to both parts and 60 engraved plates (2 folding, one with juvenile drawing to verso and some consequent show-through), some dampstains to fore-edge of frontispiece and initial five leaves, some dampstaining to inner margins mostly at front and rear of volume, bookplate label 'Study, Lilford'to upper pastedown, pencil calculations to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, without title label to spine, joints cracked, rubbed and light wear to extremities, 4toQty: (1)NOTESESTC N15568. Includes: ’A supplement to The British carpenter: containing Palladio’s orders of architecture, .. ’, London 1735, with separate titlepage, pagination, and register.
Lot 545
Richter (George Martin) . Giorgio da Castelfranco, called Giorgione, 1st edition, University of Chicago Press, 1937, 68 monochrome plates, bookplate to front pastedown, ex-library copy with associated stamps, publisher's original blue cloth, spine lightly faded, large 8vo, together with Wright (Christopher) , Poussin, Paintings, A Catalogue Raisonné, Harlequin Books, 1985, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, plus Dunkerton (Jill et al) , Giotto to Dürer, Early Renaissance painting in the National Gallery, Yale University Press, 1991, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly rubbed to head, large 4to, Lopez-Rey (Jose & Odile Delenda) , Velazquez, The Complete Works, Taschen, 2020, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket in book box, as new in glassine wrap, folio, Caracciolo (Maria Teresa et al, editors ) , The History of Rome in Painting, 1st edition, Abbeville Press, 2011, numerous colour illustrations, original red cloth in slipcase, folio, and other Old Master/Renaissance art reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, including Abbeville Press publications, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (46)
Lot 547
Smith (John). The Art of Painting in Oyl. Wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery. Containing the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working of oyl-colours, 2nd edition, with some alterations, and many useful additions, London: Samuel Crouch, 1687, [12],100pp., early signature 'Nic. Wallis' to title and B1, F7, G4 (verso), lower outer blank corner of G3 torn, occasional light dust-soiling, early inscription to rear free endpaper, rear board inner inscribed 'Daniell Floresher his Book Ann. Dom. 1691 cost 12', contemporary sheep, paper label to spine, light wear at head & foot of spine, 12moQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller; 2) By descent. ESTC 40616; Wing S4100. The first edition was published in 1676; all editions are rare. Smith (1647/8–1727) was also a noted maker of clocks and dials.
Lot 548
Smith (John). The Art of Painting in Oyl ... the Fourth Impression, with some Alterations, and many Matters added, which are not to be found in the Three former Editions, London: for Samuel Crouch, 1705, retaining the 2 final advertisement leaves, variable spotting and browning, a few headlines trimmed, spill-burns to foot of E3 and in text of E7 (touching a few letters either side of the latter), contemporary mottled sheep, loss to spine, small 8vo (14.6 x 8.4 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Dalton Haskoll Serrell (d.1901), English solicitor, of Haddon Lodge, Dorset (book-label to front pastedown). ESTC T98430 (three copies in UK libraries). The first edition was published in 1676; all editions are rare. Smith (1647/8–1727) was also a noted maker of clocks and dials.
Lot 551
Waagen (Dr.). Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain: being an account of more than forty collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, Mss., &c., &c. visited in 1854 and 1856, and now for the first time described, 4 volumes (including Supplement), London: John Murray, 1854-1857, original cloth gilt, rubbed and some fraying and wear, particularly to first and last volumes, 8vo, together with [Patmore, Peter George], British Galleries of Art, 1st edition, London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824, contemporary cloth-backed plain boards, printed paper label to spine, soiled and some wear, 8vo, plus Passavant (M.). Tour of a German Artist in England, with notices of private galleries, and remarks on the state of art, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Saunders and Otley, 1836, engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume, half-titles present, bookplates of Captain Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson, dated 1904 and Michael Jaffé to front pastedowns, original boards with paper labels to spines, some wear and chipping to joints and edges, 8vo, and [Dallaway, James]. An Account of All the Pictures exhibited in the rooms of the British Institution, from 1813 to 1823, belonging to the nobility and gentry of England: with remarks, critical and explanatory, 1st edition, London: Priestley and Weale, 1824, marbled edges and endpapers, contemporary full calf, with gilt oval coat of arms of George Agar Ellis to centre of each cover, rubbed and some wear with spine partly detached along upper joint, 8vo, plus another copy of the Dallaway's Account of All the Pictures..., 1824 and W. Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution, 2 volumes, London: R. Ackermann, 1824Qty: (11)NOTESEx libris Michael Jaffé (1923–1997).
Lot 578
Everett (Sir Henry). The History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1685-1914, 1st edition, 1934, maps and illustrations, some spotting, top edge gilt, original half morocco gilt, 4to, together with Wyrall (Everard). The Gloucestershire Regiment in the War 1914-1918, 1st edition, 1931, portrait frontispiece, folding maps, a few minor spots, original cloth (covers a little bowed), dust jacket (spine faded, a few stains), 8vo, plus A Pictorial Souvenir of the Duke of Edinburgh's 2nd Battalion 4th Wiltshire Regiment and History of the 62nd and 99th Foot, now the 1st and 2nd Battalions. Poona, India, 1915, British Historical and Art Publishing, circa 1915, photographic illustrations, a little light spotting, original cloth gilt, a little rubbed and faded, oblong folio, with others including Everard Wyrall's The History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1914-1919, 1927 (in damp stained binding), W.S. Shepherd's The 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (99th). A Record of their Fighting in the Great War, 1914-1918, 1927 and V.H.B. Majendie's A History of the 1st Battalion the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) July 1st. 1916 to the end of the War, Taunton, 1921Qty: (20)NOTESFrom the Library of Lt. Col. R.J. Wyatt MBE TD (1931-2019), Part III.
Lot 676
Esslemont (David, illustrator). The Prelude, by William Wordsworth, edited by Robert Woof, foreword by Stephen Gill, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 2007, 14 colour illustrations, bookplate of bibliographer Ann Ridler (1935-2018), original cloth, slipcase, large 8vo, limited edition 62/170, together with Buday (George, illustrator). The Vigil of Venus, done unto English by Lewis Gielgud, London: Frederick Muller, [1952}, wood-engraved illustrations by George Buday,small presentation inscription, bookplate of Ann Ridler, original cloth-backed boards, a few spots to cover label, 4to, limited edition 42/250, with others including Summer's Last Will & Testament, music by Constant Lambert, drawings by Michael Ayrton, OUP, 1946, limited signed edition 53/100, The Aeschylus Oresteia, illustrated by Michael Ayrton, Heritage Press, New York, 1961, Sixteen Poems written 1941-1945, by George Sims, limited signed edition, letter 'M' of 15 large paper copies from a total edition of 85, Gogmagog. Morris Cox & the Gogmagog Press, by David Chambers, Colin Franklin & Alan Tucker, 1991 and other art relatedQty: (14)
Lot 698
Miles (Henry Downes) . Pugilistica, The History of British Boxing, 3 volumes, John Grant, Edinburgh, 1906, numerous black & white illustrations, top edges gilt, bookplates to front pastedowns, some spotting throughout, publishers original gilt decorated brown cloth, volume 1 boards rubbed with minor loss, spines slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with; Donnelly (Ned) , Self-Defence; or, The Art of Boxing, Weldon & Co., circa 1881, 37 black & white plates, extra illustrations pasted down to the front endpaper, frontispiece & verso of pp.119, bookplate to front pastedown, some light toning, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Hancock (H. Irving) , Japanese Physical Training..., 1903, 19 black & white illustrations, period inscriptions to front endpapers, Jiu-Jitsu Combat Tricks..., 1904, 32 black & white illustrations, period inscription to the head of the title-page, bookplates to front pastedowns, some light spotting & toning throughout, publishers original yellow cloth, boards & spines slightly marked & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus Allanson-Winn (R. G.) , Boxing [The Isthmian Library, No. 5.], A.D. Innes & co., 1897, 18 black & white illustrations, bookplate & period inscription to front pastedown, some light spotting, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, minor rubbing to spine, 8vo, and 12 further volumes of boxing & self-defence reference, all original cloth, G/VG, 8voQty: (19)
Lot 709
Trade Catalogues. Relating to tailoring, fashion, jewellery, silverware, watches etc., early 20th century, including: 1. Tailors & Costumiers Linings & Trimmings, D. Bros & Co Ltd., 1936, containing numerous mounted samples of material samples of art silk fancy linings, artificial silk crepe, exclusive art silk satins & twill, art silk satin linings, fancy sateens & silesia, and coloured Italian fabrics, some soiling, original cloth, upper joint splitting, tall 8vo, 2.Illustrated List of Gilt & Silvered Laces Fringes, Cords, Tassels, Braids and Ornaments, for Balls & Fancy Dresses. Manufactured by George Kenning & Son, London, circa 1900, lithograph illustrations, some dust-soiling and marginal fraying, later card covers, worn, slim 4to, 3. A.E. Poston & Co., Ltd., Manufacturing Goldsmiths, Silversmiths, Electro-Platers and Cutlers Wholesale Distributors of Watches, Clocks, Travel and Fancy Goods etc., circa 1963, monochrome illustrations, related letter loosely inserted, original pictorial wrappers, slim folio, 4. A. Bellamy & Co. Ltd., New Ideas in cake top designs, circa 1950, colour & monochrome illustration, original spiral-bound printed card covers, slim 4to, 5. Genykage - Catalogue No. 33 Birdcages, circa 1930, photolithograph and monochrome illustrations, few marks, original printed stiff wrappers, slim 4to, 6. ASB [Aldolph Scott Ltd., Birmingham] New Designs and New Prices, circa 1935, wood engraved and monochrome illustrations, original printed wrappers, slim 4to, and other catalogues including Selfridge's Decorations for the Coronation 1937, Pryce Jones 1933, and Harrods' Christmas Painting Competition for Children, 1912 (covers torn), etc.Qty: (16)
![Ducamp (Emmanuel [editor]) . Pavlovsk, The Palce and the Park, The Collections, 2 volumes, Alain de Gourcuff Éditeur, Paris,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/27556d06-14f1-4e11-85a7-ac1e00d5ce41/7fd413a2-1f0f-46f2-b5a8-ac1e01062fd6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 717
Ducamp (Emmanuel [editor]) . Pavlovsk, The Palce and the Park, The Collections, 2 volumes, Alain de Gourcuff Éditeur, Paris, 1993, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, publishers original boards in book-box, box spine slightly faded, large 4to, together with; Moncrieff (Elspeth, Stephen & Iona Joseph) , Farm Animal Portraits, 1st edition, Antique Collectors' Club, 1998, signed by Stephen & Iona Joseph to the title page, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, and Timms (Robert) , Nicholas & Alexandra, The Last Imperial Family of Tsarist Russia, 1st edition, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1998, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly faded, large 4to, plus other modern Russia, travel, art & miscellaneous reference, including Russian Furniture, The Golden Age 1780-1840, by Antoine Chenevière, 1st edition, 1988, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (6 shelves)
![Almine Rech Gallery [publisher] . Calder and Picasso, 1st edition, New York, 2017, numerous colour & black & white il](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/27556d06-14f1-4e11-85a7-ac1e00d5ce41/2404692b-eec0-4a58-b0c9-ac1e0106438a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 748
Almine Rech Gallery [publisher] . Calder and Picasso, 1st edition, New York, 2017, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, publishers original boards, spine lightly rubbed, large 4to, together with; Caldwell Jr. (Benjamin H. et al) , Art Of Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 1st edition, 2003, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed, large 4to, and Bullock (Natasha & Alexie Glass-Kantor) , Parallel Collisions, 12th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 1st edition, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2010, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, publishers original boards in slipcase, large 4to, plus other mostly modern art reference & related, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, some 'as new' in original plastic wrap, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves)
![Barrie (David) . John Ruskin [Modern Painters], new edition, Pilkington Press, 2000, numerous colour & black & white](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/27556d06-14f1-4e11-85a7-ac1e00d5ce41/c1f463ab-c2bd-4e0f-9617-ac1e0106442e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 749
Barrie (David) . John Ruskin [Modern Painters], new edition, Pilkington Press, 2000, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, minor rubbing to head, large 8vo, together with; Bevan (Tony) , Tony Bevan 28-09-2005 / 8-01-2006, 1st edition, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, 2005, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original illustrated black cloth, large 4to, and Choi (Eunju) , Inauguration National Museum of Modern and Contemporary art Seoul, 1st edition, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, 2014, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, publishers original boards, large 8vo, plus other mostly modern art reference & related, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, some paperbacks, some 'as new' in original plastic wrap, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves)
Lot 754
Butlin (Martin) . The Pantings and Drawings of William Blake, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Yale University Press, 1981, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, publishers original cloth in dust jackets, spines lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, together with; McKechnie (Sue) , British Silhouette Artiists and their Work 1760-1860, 1st edition, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1978, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spine faded, large 8vo, and Longstaffe-Gowan (Todd) , The London Square, Gardens in the Midst of Town, 1st edition, Yale University Press, 2012, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, small tear to foot of spine, square 4to, plus other modern art, history & miscellaneous reference, including publications by Folio Society, Antique Collectors' Club, Cambridge, Gollancz, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (6 shelves & a carton)
Lot 755
Sutton (Peter C.) . Dutch & Flemish Paintings, The Collection of Willem Baron van Dedem, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Frances Lincoln, 2002, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets & slipcase, 4to, together with; Solkin (David H., Ann Bermingham, & Susan Sloman) , Gainsborough's Family Album, 1st edition, National Portrait Gallery, 2019, numerous colour illustrations, publishers original boards, 4to, and Lyles (Anne [editor]) , Constable, The Great Landscapes, Tate, 2006, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, oblong 4to, plus other art reference, including The Largerfeld Collection, 3 volumes, Christie's, New York, 2000, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves )
Lot 761
Louis de Giafferri (Paul) . L'Histoire du Costume Féminin de l'an 1037 à l'an 1870, Editions Nilsson, Paris, circa 1923, numerous colour illustrations, some light toning throughout, loosely contained in publishers original decorated blue cloth folder with ties, boards slightly faded & marked, folio, together with; Allen (Charles & Sharada Dwivedi) , The Taj at Apollo Bunder,..., 1st edition, Pictor Publishing, Mumbai, 2010, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, and Tiradritti (Francesco) , Egyptian Wall Painting, 1st edition, Abbeville Press, New York, 2008, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket and slipcase, large 4to, plus Berman (Harold) , Bronzes, Sculptors & Founders 1800-1930, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Abage Publishers/Schiffer, Chicago, 1974-94, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other art reference & related, including Facsímil de la Mascara Real, limited edition 117/710, 1981, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (4 shelves & a folder)
Lot 9
Homer. Fragments of the Iliad of Homer from a Syriac Palimpsest. Edited by William Cureton, 1st edition, London: printed by order of the trustees of the British Museum, by Richard Taylor, 1851, xix 129 pp., 6 tinted lithographic facsimiles on 5 plates to rear, followed by 5 plates of untinted lithographic facsimiles, blanks spotted, edges untrimmed, original blue cloth, loss to head of spine, folio (39 x 26.6 cm), together with: Enlart (Camille), Les monuments des Croisés dans le royaume de Jérusalem. Architecture religieuse et civile, 2 volumes, 1st editions, Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1925-8, text volumes only (without the 2 atlas volumes), illustrations throughout, untrimmed in original wrappers, each housed in separate custom grey card chemise, 4to, Schlumberger (Gustave, & others), Sigillographie de l'orient latin, 1st edition, Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1943, 22 plates, largely unopened, untrimmed in original wrappers, 4to, and 3 others, Middle Eastern and Cypriot art referenceQty: (6)NOTESHomer: Presentation copy, one of 20 copies printed on fine paper for private distribution by the editor, this copy presented to Ralph William Grey (1819-1869), English politician (inscribed by the editor on title-page verso 'Twenty copies only on this paper printed for private distribution to my friends, William Cureton' and by a publisher's clerk on initial blank 'R. W. Grey Esqr MP with the editors very kind regards, Nov 1 1856'; bookplate of Grey to front pastedown). Enlart and Schlumberger's works are both instalments in the Bibliothèque archéologique et historique series issued by the antiquities department of the French high commision in Syria and Lebanon. Pages 143-64 of Schlumberger concern Cyprus.
Lot 98
Hill (John). Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening. Containing Plain and Familiar Directions for Raising the several useful Products of a Garden..., Compiled and Digested from the Papers of the late celebrated Mr. Hale, by the Authors of the Compleat Body of Husbandry. And comprehending the Art of constructing a Garden fo use and Pleasure; the best Methods of keeping it in Order.., London: T. Osborne, T. Trye, S. Crowder & Co., and H. Woodgate, 1757, 61 engraved plates including frontispiece (plates 11 & 26 on slightly thicker paper, bearing the Strasburg Lily watermark with initials LVG for Lubertus Van Gerrevink, similar to Churchill 406), title with ink stamp of L.E. Newton Library to lower blank margin, short repaired closed tear to plate 8 & at foot of leaf 6D2, short vertical rust line to gutter margins of 4X2, plate 30, 4Y1-5A1 (6 leaves of text), some overall light toning, occasional spotting to few leaves of text, light dampstaining to margins of few leaves at front & rear, bookplate of Leonard E. Newton to upper pastedown, hinges repaired, 20th century half sheep, earlier red morocco title label preserved, lower joint cracked at foot, joints and extremities rubbed and scuffed, folioQty: (1)NOTESHenrey 776; Nissen 880. The work was issued in 60 numbers from 28 August 1756 to 8 November 1757.
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