Ɵ Abu al-Fazl Hubaysh bin Ibrahim al-Tiflisi, Nazm al-Suluk wa Taqwim al-Adviyeh (a dictionary of medicine and guide to herbal remedies), in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [Ottoman Levant (possibly Jerusalem), dated Shawwal 974 AH (1556-7 AD)] single volume, 274 leaves plus an additional endleaf at each end, perhaps lacking a Fihrist at the front of the volume (indicated by the pagination of leaves), single column, 19 lines informal black naskh with headings and important words in red, title on fol. 1r with text in alternate lines of red and black, pagination and contemporary catchwords throughout, a few marginal inscriptions and a few ink ownership inscriptions to title page, some finger-soiling to margins, else overall clean and very presentable condition, 210 by 140 mm.; eighteenth-century leather over pasteboards with flap, boards and flap with some provincial tooling in blind, Ottoman style central medallions and corner-pieces with additional florets and stamps surrounding these, rebacked, resewn and doubleurs added, some repairs to binding, overall very neat and clean conditionAbu al-Fazl Hubaysh bin Ibrahim al-Tiflisi was a physician and astronomer, given the title 'al-Mutabbib' (the doctor) for authorship of numerous medical texts; including the present volume as well as the Kafiyat al-Tibb (Encyclopedia of Medicine). Though little is known about al-Tiflisi's working life, he is thought to have lived around 600 AH (1203 AD): see Brockelmann (Suppl. i. 893) and C. P. Rieu (British Museum Catalogue, 1883, p. 852). The present codex forms a substantial work on herbal medicine and acts as a reference work for medication and the application of practical remedies. The colophon is signed by Ismail bin Abd'ulhaq al-Hamsa Damashqi al-Mutabbib, whose title most probably records the use of the volume by an early medical practitioner. It clearly stayed in such use for some centuries, and an early eighteenth-century ownership inscription to the title indicates that it was still used then by another Mutabbib, Afif al-Din bin Sadaqa bin Afif, who worked in the al-Salahi Hospital in Jerusalem. The binding currently housing the manuscript was probably added by Afif and used in the Salahi Hospital, one of the foremost centres for Islamic medical studies in the Middle East.
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Ɵ A devotional treatise on the Prophet Muhammad, in Ottoman Turkish, on polished paper [probably Ottoman Turkey, dated 1096 AH (1684 AD), but probably copied late eighteenth century] single volume, 75 leaves, apparently complete, single column, 13 lines of informal cursive black naskh, some headings in red, text-blocks ruled in red, catchwords throughout, some scattered spotting, else clean and bright, eighteenth-century inscription in Latin to upper pastedown (four lines in neat scribal hand), together with an old sales record from UK auction and a presentation bookplate, a further erroneous Italian description (of another book) pasted to lower pastedown, 175 by 120 mm.; contemporary dark brown morocco, ruled in blind with diamond-shaped pattern to covers, lacking leather to spine, extremities scuffed; together with another volume from the same property: a fragmentary section from an East African Qur'an This book was certainly in Western European ownership by the eighteenth century (when it received the Latin inscription on its pastedown), and was later gifted to the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution to Major Haverfield in the late nineteenth century (presentation plate on pastedown), and later de-acquisitioned and sold some decades later.
Ɵ An Astronomical treatise, in Arabic, decorated manuscript on blue paper [Ottoman Turkey or possibly Qajar Persia, dated 1231 AH (1816 AD)] single volume, 32 leaves (uncollatable), apparently complete, single column, 15 lines of fine black nasta'liq, some headings in red, illustrated with over 40 tables and diagrams, most of these ruled in red with annotations in black nasta'liq (by the same hand), some later comments and ownership inscriptions to endpapers, some light finger-soiling, else clean condition, a few early ownership seals, 220 by 170 mm.; contemporary brown leather over pasteboards, ruled and tooled with central medallions in blind, spine strengthened at ends (tightening the binding), a little worn at extremities An appealing work on astronomy with over 40 skilfully diagrams of a celestial nature, together with numerous charts and tables probably pertaining to the movements of the sun and moon.
Ɵ Jalal-al-Din Rumi "Molavi", Mathnavi, copied by Haji Hussayn ibn Badr al-Din al-Mashhadi, in Farsi, fine illuminated manuscript on paper [early Safavid Persia (probably eastern regions), dated 20 Rajab I 909 AH (1503-04 AD)] single volume, 6 parts in one volume, 320 leaves, lacking at least 11 leaves (the first two leaves, one bifolia and the first leaves to five of the six books), text in four columns, 22 lines of elegant black nasta'liq, headings in red throughout, one large heading opening the second book of the Mathnawi, in Timurid style of blue and gilt with title in white thuluth decorated with green spiralling vines, some contemporary and later inscriptions to margins and endleaves, some early repairs to outer margins, worming to outer edges (rarely affecting text), some scattered ink smudges and stains, spine cracked with some gatherings and bifolia becoming loose, 242 by 170 mm.; seventeenth-century diced leather boards, stamped in blind with central medallions and cartouches to the borders, crudely rebacked in red morocco, boards worn A fine example copied in a trained hand from the very earliest period in Safavid period, still drawing heavily on the Timurid style of manuscript production.
Ɵ Jalal-al-Din Rumi "Molavi", Mathnavi, in Farsi, decorated manuscript on paper [rural Central Asia (probably Uzbeck regions), dated 1123 AH (1711 AD)] six books in one volume, seemingly complete (one gathering misbound at the end of the volume), 408 leaves plus an additional endleaf at each end, text in four columns, 17 lines of confident black nasta'liq, 6 vibrantly painted head-pieces, painted in yellow orange and red with primitively drawn flowers and arabesque shapes, some leaves with text-blocks ruled in black, catchwords throughout, a few gatherings and bifolia loose or becoming loose from spine, some scattered ink smudges and stains, some inscriptions to endpapers in a slightly later hand, 315 by 225 mm.; fine eighteenth-century green Safavid boards with three centrally stamped cartouches, ruled in blind, inner covers with stamped paper decoupage designs using silver, yellow and red paper, extremities chipped with a little loss, covers lightly scuffed
Pentacon Six Medium Format SLR Close-Up Outfit. Comprising body #11186 (2nd blind not quite fully closing, hence condition 4G) with WLF & CZJ Biometar 120mm f2.8 #7279748 (condition 5F), standard eye-level and critical finders. Also bellows unit, Right Angle Finder, set of extension tubes, reversing adapter etc. All in a heavy duty metal case. (From The Bob White Collection).
Bob Dylan (American, b.1941) 'LAKESIDE CABIN' Giclée print in colours, 2008, signed and numbered 62/295 in pencil, from 'The Drawn Blank Series', printed by GTZ Fine Art Editions, New York, published by Washington Green Fine Art in association with Black Buffalo Artworks, with their blind stamp, on Hahnemuhle 350gsm wove paper, with full margins sheet 69.8 x 55.8cm, unframed, within paper folder, with catalogue
Game.- Wallis (Edward, publisher) European Travellers, an Instructive Game, folding hand-coloured aquatint pictorial map of Europe, dissected and mounted on linen, c.500 x 670mm., colouring rather crude, soiled and lightly worn, some pencil scribblings and scorings (partly erased causing abrasion), creased at edges, folding into original blind-stamped green cloth, upper cover titled in gilt, lacking ties, rubbed, a few stains, spine faded, E.Wallis, [c.1845] § Wallis (J. & E., publishers) The Panorama of Europe, a New Game, hand-coloured engraved sheet with 39 engraved city views in anti-clockwise spiral around title and larger central view of London, dissected and mounted on linen, c.475 x 630mm., rather soiled and browned, one or two stains, some sections creased at corners, lacking slip-case, J. & E.Wallis and J.Wallis Junr., 1815, [Whitehouse pp.16 & 37], small 4to & tall 8vo (2)⁂ The first is a scarce race game from the Arctic Sea to London via the Urals, depicting polar bears and whales, Cossacks, sledging and troikas in Russia, camels in the Holy Land, porcelain-making in Germany, bull-fighting, wine-making and various city views.
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[Combe (William)] The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint pictorial title and 29 plates by George Cruikshank, plates lightly browned, text foxed and with offsetting from plates, a few with nick to fore-edge, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, slight worming to head of joints,[Abbey, Life 356; Cohn 153; Tooley 151], T.Tegg, [1815]; The Tour Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, third edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, vignette title and 29 plates after Thomas Rowlandson, some light soiling or browning, modern half morocco, Ackermann, 1813; [The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax], together 3 vol., vo1.1 with engraved title stating "ninth edition", hand-coloured aquatint vignette titles in vol.1 & 3 and 78 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Thomas Rowlandson, some light browning, pp.167-170 and one plate loose, original blind-stamped green cloth, spines pictorial gilt (a little faded), Nattali and Bond, [c.1850], [the last two cf.Abbey, Life 266-267 & Tooley 427-429], 8vo (5)
Livestock.- Lambert (James) The Country-Man's Treasure, woodcut frontispiece of cow, sheep and hog, with additional variant title, 3pp. advertisements at end, second title with tip of lower outer corner torn away not affecting text or border, E2 torn at upper outer corner with loss of a few letters to 4 lines (neatly supplied in ink manuscript), for Henry Twyford, 1683 bound with Treatise (A) of Oxen, Sheep, Hogs, and Dogs, tear to D7 but no loss, for Obadiah Blagrave, 1683, together 2 works in 1, several 18th century ink signatures and inscriptions (H.Sandford, David Blakway 1750, Thos. Collins 1762, 1763 & 1774) and with extensive annotations and remedies to text and endpapers (small wormtrack to front endpapers), staining, later calf, border of gilt rules and decoration in blind, rebacked and corners repaired, [Wing L232 & T2093; Fussell I, pp.87-88; Smith I p.343, first work only, "I cannot trace a copy"], 8vo ⁂ Two rare veterinary works. The first work, originally published in 1676, appeared in 2 variants with different title-pages; unusually both are present here. The first (ESTC R504352) is titled "The Country-Man's Treasure...by James Lambert" with imprint "for Henry Twyford" and is listed by ESTC as being in a private collection and Yale Beinecke library only, and not in Wing. The second (ESTC R30927) "The Countrymans Treasure...by James Lambart...for Henry Twyford...and Obadiah Blagrave..." appears with 4 UK copies listed - BL, Oxford Bodleian, Wellcome, and Rothamsted, of which the latter was sold in these rooms July 2018 lot 371 (although it was in fact the previous variant).The second work is also rare, with ESTC recording only 4 copies - BL, Wellcome, Rothamsted and Yale Beinecke (Rothamsted copy bound with the first work, sold as previously stated). The annotations concern additional treatments for ailments such as "for anything bitten with a mad dog", "a very good pissing drink for a beast", "for pissing blood" etc.
Palude (Petrus de) Sermones Thesauri novi de sanctis, collation: a-b6 c-q8.6 r-t6 v8 x-z6 A-O8.6 P-Q6, double column, 264 ff., 53 lines and headline, c1 with an initial R in blues on a gold ground within a red frame and with large floral decoration in green, red and blue with 5 bezants to lower margin, initials in red, b6 and Q6 blank, later ink marginalia, a1 red ink numbers to verso, c1 small hole to upper corner, partially removing an ink stamp, some staining and spotting, 16th century panelled blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, spine in compartments, remains of metal clasps, head of spine and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, folio (278 x 188m.), Strasbourg, Martin Flach, 1488.⁂ The French Dominican Petrus de Palude was appointed titular patriarch of Jerusalem in 1329. In the same year he travelled to Egypt to negotiate the deliverance of the Holy Land. The sultan was immovable. Literature: BMC I 149; BSB-Ink S-332; Goff P513; GW M41806.
Darwin (Charles, naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection, 1809-82).- Rowlett (George, Royal Navy, purser on board The Beagle Voyage of 1831-36, 1797-1836).- [Last will and testament], engraved plate with manuscript insertions and signed "George Rowlett", engraved illustration of 2 ships at head, blind paper seal, folds, edges creased, folio, 30th November 1819.⁂ Rowlett's will signed and sealed as a 22 year old going to sea, with instructions to leave his worldly possessions to Mrs Lucy Sherrard, and that his body should be committed "to the Earth or Sea". Rowlett was ship's purser on The Beagle and at 38 was the oldest officer on board. He died on 27 June 1834 at 2pm, "he had for some time been sinking under a complication of diseases" (Darwin), and his body was buried at sea, some 40 miles off the north of the Island of Chiloé.
Kipling (Rudyard, writer and poet, 1865-1936) Autograph Letter signed to J.H. Grieve, in Kassala, Sudan, 3pp. & envelope, sm. 8vo, The Woolsack, Cape Town, [South Africa], 3rd April 1906, answering questions on his short story They, and starting humorously, "I could not read the name of the White Man that sent me the letter from Kassala... May Allah teach him to write perspicuously for at present he is a calamity to the stranger", and continuing gives a response to three questions, "The man would not see the women again because there were spirits in her presence and he would have no traffic with spirits. For it is manifest that the dead are dead and the living are the living and They cannot meet yet the woman being a virgin and blind was permitted to entertain those innocent spirits. To him a man it was forbidden", small tears along folds.⁂ "This strange haunting story of the limbo of lost children not yet ready to feel at home in Heaven ." - Roger Lancelyn Green. There are strong echoes of Kipling's own life in this ethereal story of children who have died. In 1899 his daughter Josephine caught pneumonia in New York and died, a loss from which he never really came to terms with.
Walsingham (Francis) A Search made into Matters of Religion, by Francis Walsingham Deacon of the Protestants Church, before his Change to the Catholike, second edition, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut initials and head-pieces, slight worming to fore-edge of title and at foot of first four and last four leaves, small hole to N3, occasional light browning, free endpapers detached, contemporary plain blind-ruled calf, rubbed, small portion missing from lower cover, [STC 25003], small 4to, [Saint-Omer, English College Press], 1615.⁂ Provenance: T. Busby S.J., early ink name on title; Jean-Marie-Philippe Dubourg, Bishop of Limoges 1802-1822 (bookplate); Jean-Joseph-Marie-Sixte de Marliave (1918-1999) (bookplate).
Law.- Doddridge (Sir John) The English Lawyer, first & only edition, woodcut initials and ornaments, a few contemporary ink underlinings and marginalia, contemporary sprinkled calf with triple rule border in blind, a little rubbed at edges, [STC 6981], small 4to, by [Miles Flesher for] the Assignes of I.More, 1631.
Arthurian literature.- Malory (Sir Thomas) The most ancient and famous history of the renowned prince Arthur King of Britaine, vvherein is declared his life and death, with all his glorious battailes against the Saxons, Saracens and pagans, 3 parts in 1, sixth edition, mostly black letter, 3 repeated woodcut frontispieces to each part depicting King Arthur encircled by the Knights of the Round Table, with the names of 30 knights at head and foot, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, first frontispiece with minor repairs to corners, first title with neat repair to inner margin and closely trimmed at foot, just touching date, second frontispiece with repair to upper margin and corners, 2D1-4 and 2E1&2 with small area of worming at head, just touching the odd letter, without loss, sigs. 2I-2M worm trace in lower margin, affecting the odd letter of a catchword, browned, occasional ink staining (including a few spots to third frontispiece), some other staining, 20th century blind-stamped and gilt calf, covers divided into four sections, oval rampant lion centre-pieces enclosed in author's name and title of the work, that of upper cover in gilt, foliage decorations to sections, spine in compartments and with gilt title and date, [STC 806], small 4to, Printed by William Stansby, for Iacob Bloome, 1634. ⁂ The sixth edition, and last to be printed before the 19th century. Malory apparently began work on Le Morte d'Arthur while imprisoned in the early 1450s; completing it some 20 years later. First printed by Caxton in 1485 its popularity was such that subsequent editions were issued by Wynkyn de Worde in 1498 and 1529. Three more editions followed: William Copland's (1557), Thomas East's (1585), and the present. Stansby's was the last edition before the revival of interest in medieval literature in the early 19th century. Until the discovery of the Winchester manuscript in the 1930s this 1634 printing was the textual basis for most editions. Only some 15-or-so copies in total are extant of all these 5 prior editions, and realistically this edition is the earliest obtainable edition of Malory.
Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, third edition (seventh thousand), presentation copy to Robert Colgate, half-title, folding lithographed plate, advertisement f. at end, Edmonds & Remnants binders' ticket to foot of rear pastedown, original green blind-stamped and gilt cloth, spine darkened and repaired, corners restored, rubbed at extremities, [Freeman 381; PMM 344 (b), note], 8vo, John Murray, 1861.⁂ A presentation copy of 'the most important biological book ever written' (Freeman). The inscription on the half-title in the hand of Murray's clerk reads 'From the Author'. The recipient has added his ownership inscription above this ('Rob. Colgate'). Robert Colgate was a surgeon with a practice on Bolton Road, Eastbourne. He was Admiralty surgeon and agent to the Eastbourne division of the coastguard. Darwin had made his acquaintance in the autumn of 1860 when he and his family had spent seven weeks in nearby Marine Parade. Colgate's name is included in the presentation list drawn up by Darwin for the third edition, issued in April, 1861. He wrote to thank Darwin for this gift on 25th June, 1861 (Darwin Correspondence, letter 3197), explaining that he had delayed writing until he heard back from his friend John Cowell Boys (a Sussex-born surveyor and sheep breeder who had emigrated to New Zealand), of whom Darwin had asked a series of detailed questions via Colgate on the population of bees in New Zealand. Colgate goes on to highlight 'a slight error at p.77' of the Origin, pointing out that owls and hawks were in fact the main predators of field mice, not cats. Darwin did not amend this page in subsequent editions.The third edition 'was extensively altered, and is of interest for the addition of a table of differences between it and the second edition, a table which occurs in each subsequent edition, and also for the addition of the historical sketch... which was written to satisfy complaints that Darwin had not sufficiently considered his predecessors in the general theory of evolution... there is also a postscript on page xii... concern[ing] a review of the earlier editions by Asa Gray' (Freeman p. 78)Provenance: Robert Colgate (see above); 'Jenny Flecknor, Feb, 1961' (ink inscription to front free endpaper).
Spiders.- Martyn (Thomas) Aranei, Or a Natural History of Spiders, including the Principal Parts of ... English Spiders by Eleazar Albin, as also the Whole Publication ... on Swedish Spiders by Charles Clerk, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, engraved calligraphic title, 28 hand-coloured engraved plates of spiders by Basire, Carwitham and Smith, some heightened with gum arabic, lacking frontispiece and 2 numismatic plates, light damp-staining to upper margins of plates, handsome contemporary straight-grain red morocco, by Samuel Welch with his ticket, covers decorated in blind, spine in compartments, lettered in gilt, upper cover detached, some light rubbing to extremities, g.e., [Nissen ZBI 2724], 4to, 1793.
Binding.- Raphael. Our Saviour and His Disciples, 17 fine engraved plates by J. Gaubaud and La Caleographie Royale, inner gilt dentelles, foxing, handsome contemporary black blind-stamped and gilt panelled morocco, covers with inner panel incorporating filets and large circular floral corner-pieces, upper cover with central royal arms, all within a wide ornate blind-stamped foliage border and outer gilt filet borders, rubbed, g.e., rare, folio (binding 592 x 456mm.), George Cockburn, 1832.
Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) Term time or The lawyers all alive in Westminster Hall, pen and black ink with watercolour, on laid paper, signed and title inscribed below, numbered '557', 340 x 250 mm. (13 3/8 x 9 7/8 in), under glass, minor surface dirt, framed, [1795].Provenance:Sale. Christie's, British Drawings and Watercolours, 7th April 1992, lot 125;Sale. Christie's, British Art on Paper, 17th November 2005, lot 50;Ex-collection of David Padbury Literature:Padbury, The Dighton family, their times, caricatures and portraits, 2007, illus. p. 39, and described p. 82⁂ 'Three judges preside over lawyers who jabber among themselves. No interest is taken in clients and it is impossible to say if one is actually present... Meanwhile the jury of five men sit in their box exhibiting at least one deficiency each: they appear to be individually deaf, blind, asleep, dumb and sick in their head.' [Padbury op. cit. p. 39]
![[Perrault (Charles)] Labyrinte de Versailles, engraved additional pictorial title, title-vignette, plan and 40 full-page illu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69e3a445-7f2f-4eb7-bed7-abbb011419ca/e85eae65-d445-460f-a79b-abbb011d39f9/468x382.jpg)
[Perrault (Charles)] Labyrinte de Versailles, engraved additional pictorial title, title-vignette, plan and 40 full-page illustrations after Sebastien le Clerc, old ink inscription "For my Lady Winston" at foot of engraved title (slightly cropped), occasional soiling, two plates with light stain, nineteenth century roan with Stirling arms in blind, by J.Leighton, g.e. (lower stamped "Labyrinte de Versailles Paris 1693" in blind), rebacked preserving old spine, rubbed, oblong small 4to, Amsterdam, Adrien Schoonebeek, suivant la copie à Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1693.⁂ Description of the gardens and maze of Versailles designed by Le Nôtre and Perrault using fountains depicting the fables of Aesop; first published in 1677.
Egypt.- Maillet (Benoît de) Description de l'Egypte, contenant plusieurs remarques curieuses sur la geographie ancienne et moderne de ce pais, sur ses monuments anciens, sur les moeurs, les coutumes, & la religion des habitans, sur le gouvernement & le commerce, sur les animaux, les arbres, les plantes, &c., edited by Jean-Baptiste Le Mascrier, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black and with woodcut ornament, engraved folding map, 7 plates, of which 2 folding, head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, short tape repair to foot of map, some spotting throughout, occasional foxing, 19th century blind-stamped and gilt calf, spine in compartments and with black morocco label, spine faded, g.e., [Atabey 754; Blackmer 1061], 4to, Paris, Louis Genneau & Jacques Rollin, 1735. ⁂ Scarce. Maillet was French consul to Egypt and a writer on geological and evolutionary matters.
![Bodoni.- Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) Satira V, Traduzione Italiana..., [one of 150 copies], half-title, engraved title-vignet](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69e3a445-7f2f-4eb7-bed7-abbb011419ca/b57ea152-0cd1-476c-88aa-abbb0120d222/468x382.jpg)
Bodoni.- Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) Satira V, Traduzione Italiana..., [one of 150 copies], half-title, engraved title-vignette, the dedication copy for the Duchess of Devonshire with the 8 original watercolour drawings for the engravings bound in, 6 by Riepenhausen, 2 by F.Catel and signed, trimmed and mounted on blank leaves in place of the engravings (see following lot), paper guards (lightly browned), very occasional light marginal soiling, contemporary straight-grain tan morocco, [by C.Murton], with elaborate border in blind and central monogram "ED" of the Duchess in gilt, spine gilt in compartments with green and red morocco labels, g.e., rubbed and scuffed, [Brooks 1212], 4to, Parma, Bodoni, 1818.⁂ First Bodoni edition, dedicated to the Duchess of Devonshire who was the patron of the work, and one of only a few Bodoni productions to be illustrated, particularly with aquatints.
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Bodoni.- Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) Satira V, Traduzione Italiana..., [one of 150 copies], presentation copy inscribed "Augustus J.Foster from his affectionate mother Eliz.h Devonshire" in pencil on verso of half-title, engraved title-vignette, 6 engraved plates by Riepenhausen and 2 aquatint plates by Caracciolo after Catel, contemporary straight-grain tan morocco with elaborate border in gilt and blind [by C.Murton], spine gilt in compartments with green and red morocco labels, pale pink silk endpapers and doublures with decorative gilt black roan borders, g.e., rubbed, scuffs to upper cover, [Brooks 1212], 4to, Parma, Bodoni, 1818.⁂ Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire (1758-1824), née Hervey, was previously married to John Thomas Foster, by whom she had two sons, Frederick and Augustus. She became Lady Elizabeth Foster when her father became the 4th Earl of Bristol. On separating from her husband she became friends with Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire and lived in a ménage à trois with Georgiana and her husband the 5th Duke, bearing him two illegitimate children. Georgiana died in 1806 and Elizabeth married the Duke three years later.
Lloyd (Charles) Poetical Essays on the Character of Pope, as a Poet and Moralist..., first edition, presentation copy from the author to Miss Watson inscribed on front free endpaper, advertisement leaf at end, a few pencil annotations, title lightly browned, original boards, uncut, rubbed, preserved in wrapper, 1821; A Translation of the First Seven Books of the Odyssey of Homer, first edition, presentation copy from the translator to Samuel Galton, also signed by Emma S.Galton, errata slip pasted in at end, broken and loose, contemporary roan-backed boards, spine worn, Birmingham, 1810 § [Peacock (Thomas Love)] Crotchet Castle, first edition, lacking advertisement leaf, various Harwood signatures to head of title and front pastedown, occasional spotting, nick and soiling to head of a few leaves, original boards, uncut, spine ends a little worn, [Sadleir 1957; Not in Wolff], 1831 § Hunt (Leigh) Juvenilia; or, a Collection of Poems written between the ages of twelve and sixteen..., fourth edition, half-title, engraved portrait and plate by Bartolozzi, both a little foxed and offset, bookplate of John Hoffman, contemporary half calf, spine wormed and defective at foot, 1803 § [Southey (Robert)] Wat Tyler. A Dramatic Poem, pirated edition, half-title, soiled and stained, stitched in original wrappers, title and author's name in manuscript on upper wrapper, uncut, soiled and frayed at edges, for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1817 § Lamb (Charles) Rosamund Gray, Essays, Poems, 8pp. catalogue at beginning, half-title, original blind-stamped cloth, 1849 § Evans (Sebastian) Sonnets on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, half-title, disbound, soiled, Cambridge, 1852, 8vo & 12mo (7)⁂ A pencilled note at the beginning of the first mentioned suggests "Miss Watson" was the daughter of Dr. Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, and with whom Lloyd is known to have corresponded. The recipient of the second was Samuel Tertius Galton (1783-1844), businessman and scientist, member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham and father of Francis Galton the scientist.The fourth item is one of several pirated editions of a work written by the young radical Southey in 1794. By the time it was published by Sherwood in 1817 (in some editions printing the author's name) Southey had become a staunch Tory and Poet Laureate, thereby causing him embarrassment at which his enemies delighted.
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Miniature Book.- Embroidered Binding.- Taylor (John, "the water poet") Verbum sempiternum [&] Salvator mundi, 2 parts in 1 bound back to back, the first with blanks A1 & 2 (the first laid down) and E16, the second with blanks A1 (blank but for signature) and D15 & 16, the first with variant title with "sempiternum" rather than "sempiternae", bound in attractive contemporary embroidered dos à dos binding of cream silk embroidered with coloured silks and silver thread forming design of flower to one cover and plant with fruits (?strawberries) to other, g.e., a little rubbed and soiled, some stitching fraying, [Bondy p.15; Spielmann p.264, quoting 1616 as first edition; STC 23810], 39 x 28mm., Jo.Beale for John Hamman, 1614.⁂ Extremely rare; a charmingly-bound copy of one of the earliest "thumb" Bibles, comprising the Old and New Testaments in verse by John Taylor "the water poet". ESTC records only one copy, in Aberdeen University Library, but with the title of the first reading "Verbum sempiternae" although all the bibliographies and reprints quote "sempiternum". There are no copies on WorldCat and ESTC lists only 2 copies of the second edition of 1616 (British Library, and Huntington Library in America).We have been able to trace only 2 copies at auction: Christie's New York in 1989 bound in contemporary black morocco but lacking the blanks, and described as "One of only two copies known, the only one in private hands"; another in 1999 bound in contemporary blind-tooled morocco and lacking some blanks.
Aikin (John) The Calendar of Nature; designed for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young Persons, first edition, ink notes in contemporary hand to rear free endpaper, contemporary marbled wrappers, Warrington, W.Eyres, for J.Johnson, 1784 § White (Rev. Gilbert) A Naturalist's Calendar..., first edition, hand-coloured engraved plate, a little browned, contemporary calf, gilt, spine gilt with black roan label, 1795 § Juvenile Library. A Picture of the Seasons..., wood-engraved title-vignette and 6 charming plates of shearing, harvesting etc., contemporary ink signature to head of title, lightly browned, contemporary roan-backed boards, rubbed and soiled, S. & A.Davis, 1818 § [Mogridge (George)] Rural Pickings, hand-coloured additional pictorial title and 4 hand-coloured lithographed plates, advertisement leaf at end, original red blind-stamped cloth, spine pictorial gilt, g.e, a good copy, 1846, 8vo et infra (4)⁂ ESTC lists 3 copies of the first with only one in the UK (BL, others at Harvard and Toronto).
America, New Hampshire.- Page (John, army officer and politician, 1787-1865) Commission signed appointing Jonathan P Taylor an ensign in the Fifth Company of the Seventh Regiment of Militia in New Hampshire, D.s. "John Page", printed document with manuscript insertions, blind paper seal, a few small tears, slightly yellowed, 240 x 340mm., Rockingham, 13th August 1840.⁂ John Page, served during the War of 1812 as lieutenant in a local militia company; a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1818 to 1820; served as Register of Deeds for Grafton County in 1827 and 1829-35; United States Senator; Governor of New Hampshire.
Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) The Giaour, A Fragment of a Turkish Tale, new edition, half-title, with 7pp. ms. additions bound in, some purportedly in the hand of Sir James Bland Burges, John Murray, 1813 bound with a sixth edition of The Bride of Abydos, a third edition of The Corsair, and a fourth edition of Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, occasional spotting or light foxing, a few stains, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, housed in a modern blind-stamped and gilt drop-back box by Bell Golding, Cambridge, 8vo⁂ Sir James Bland Lamb, 1st Baronet, born and known as Sir James Burges, poet, author, barrister and M.P. He was related through marriage to Lord Byron.
Marryat (Frederick) Masterman Ready; Or The Wreck Of The Pacific, 3 vol., frontispieces and illustrations, ink name to endpapers, original blind-stamped pictorial cloth, spines faded, spine ends bumped, 1841; Newton Forster; or, The Merchant Service, 3 vol., half-titles, contemporary red morocco, gilt, spines gilt, 1832; The Pacha of Many Tales, 3 vol., half-titles, modern half calf, 1835; Peter Simples, 3 vol., contemporary half calf, rubbed, 1834, first editions, occasional spotting, bookplates; and 14 others, comprising 5 novels by the same, 8vo (19)
Canler (Louis) Autobiography of a French Detective from 1818 to 1858, first edition in English, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, rubbed, Ward and Lock, 1862 § Matson (John) Indian Warfare; or the Extraordinary Adventures of John Matson, The Kidnapped Youth, first edition, occasional spotting, original blind-stamped and gilt cloth, rebacked, a rare little work, Effingham Wilson, 1842 § Green (William) Plans of Economy; or, the Road to Ease and Independence, both in Town and Country, new edition, half-title, title spotted and soiled, some spotting elsewhere, contemporary red morocco-backed marbled boards, rather worn, but holding firm, for the Author by Vize Slater, 1824; and 6 others, 19th century, v.s. (9)
Bindings.- Bunyan (John) The Illustrated Family Bunyan, half-title, chromolithographed frontispiece, additional pictorial title and plates, plain plates, wood-engraved illustrations, preliminaries and last few ff. foxed, occasional spotting, contemporary pictorial blind-stamped and gilt calf, by J.R. Haslam of Nottingham (signed at foot of spine), spine with green morocco label, spine and small part of lower cover faded, binding 320 x 248mm., James Sangster, 1880; and an 1806 Bible in red calf, 4to (2)
Africa.- Hamilton (James) Wanderings in North Africa, first edition, half-title, engraved plates, bookplates, original cloth, spine faded, light fraying to head of spine, 1856 § Hofland (Mrs.) Africa Described, new edition, engraved folding map, publishers blind-stamped morocco, spine ends a little chipped, 1834 § Walmsley (Hugh Mulleneux) Sketches of Algeria During the Kabyle War, original cloth, light rubbing to extremities, near-fine otherwise, 1858; and another, Africa, 8vo (4)
Iraq.- Webb (Frederick Charles) Up the Tigris to Bagdad, first edition, presentation copy from the author, wood-engraved frontispiece, title vignette and 2 plates occasional spotting, final f. lightly browned, hinges splitting, original pictorial blind-stamped and gilt cloth, small paper label to upper left corner of upper cover, little rubbed at extremities, a good copy, 8vo, 1870.⁂ The presentation inscription reads 'Mrs William Price, with the author's love & admiration'.
NO RESERVE Architecture.- Scott (George Gilbert) Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, wood-engraved title-vignette, advertisement leaf and 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, light foxing at beginning and end, 1857 § Pugin (Augustus) & E.J.Willson. A Series of Ornamental Timber Gables..., lithographed additional vignette title and 30 plates by B.Ferrey, some foxing, 1831, first editions, original blind-stamped cloth, the first with light staining to upper cover, the second a little rubbed and gouges to lower cover, 8vo & 4to (2)⁂ The first proposes the use of the Gothic style for domestic houses in addition to churches and schools; the second includes illustrations of many Tudor buildings in Coventry now destroyed.
Rackham (Arthur).- Poe (Edgar Allan) Tale's of Mystery & Imagination, pictorial endpapers, 12 coloured plates by Rackham, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, occasional light foxing, 1935 § Bonser (A.E.) The Land of Enchantment, colour plates by Rackham, bookplate to pastedown, endpapers browned, light finger soiling, extremities rubbed, 1907, first editions, original pictorial or blind stamped boards, spine ends bumped and creased, a little rubbed, the second spine split, 4to (2)
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