Genlis (Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de Brulart de). The Young Exiles, or, Correspondence of some Juvenile Emigrants: A work intended for the entertainment and instruction of youth, 3 vols., 1799, half - title to 2nd and 3rd vols., some light browning to prelims., pubs. ad. leaf at rear of 2nd vol. and to verso of final leaf of 3rd vol., contemp. tree calf, worn, 1st vol. with upper cover near - detached, 8vo, together with Louvet de Couvray (Jean Baptiste), Emily de Varmont; or Divorce Dictated by Necessity; to which are added The Amours of Father Sévin, 3 vols., 1798, half - title to 1st vol. only, contemp. tree calf, worn with joints cracked and one or two covers near - detached, 3rd vol. with loss to spine, 8vo, plus Caroline (Princess of Hasburgh), The Spirit of "The Book;" or, Memoirs of Caroline Princess of Hasburgh, A Political and Amatory Romance, 3 vols., ed. Thomas Ashe, 1st ed., 1811, without half - title, contemp. half dark green morocco, rubbed and scuffed, labels missing, 8vo (9)
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Manuscript Recipe Book of William Ella de Rompton Com. Nottys., 1729 [and later], 92pp., containing num. medical and household receipts in several hands, incl. receipts for col. inks, varnish and 'soders', num. medical receipts for cramp, miscarrying, piles, rheumatism, jaundice, deafness, watery eyes, etc., etc., continental style blind - stamped calf, lacking clasps and some wear to extrems., small 4to (1)
Milton (John). The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton. Containing, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd, Sampson Agnoises, and his Poems on Several Occasions. Together with Explanatory Notes on each Book of the Paradise Lost, and a Table Never Before Printed, 1695, port. frontis., trimmed and relaid, eng. plts., divisional titles, some minor spotting and light browning, contemp. blind - panelled calf, rebacked, folio (1)
Nalson (John). An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State, from the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion in the Year MDCXXXIX to the Murther of King Charles I Wherein the first Occasions, and the whole Series of the late Troubles in England, Scotland, Ireland, are faithfully Represented..., 2 vols., 1682, eng. frontis. to each (frontis. to vol. 2 with repair to verso), one eng. port.,contemp. calf, boards worn, amateur reback to vol. 1 and upper board of vol. 2 detached, folio, together with Saumaise, Claude, Defensio Regia, pro Carolo I. ad Serenissimum Magnae Britanniae Regem Carolum II. Filium natu Majorem, Heredem & Successorem Legitimum , 1649, near contemp. vellum with yapp fore edges, 12mo, with Willoughby (Elizabeth, Baroness Willoughby of Parham), So much of the Diary of Lady Willoughby as Relates to her Domestic History, & to the Eventful Period of the Reign of Charles the First, pub. Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1845, gauffered gilt edges, contemp. gilt dec. morocco, joints & extrems. slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus eleven others including an early 18th c. manuscript book of sermons, dated 1703/4, inscribed Alexander Bruce Balliol college (15)
Persian Manuscript book. Khwaja Muhammad A'zam Kashmiri's Vaqi'at - i Kashmir (also sometimes known as Tarikh - i Kashmir or Tarikh - i Kashmir - i A'zami), late 18th/early 19th century, 448 pp., the title page with an elaborate gilt and colour decorated illuminated headpiece, the text in black ink with significant words in red, margins ruled in red, blue and brown, contemp. goatskin with doublure pastedowns, 8vo (28 x 17 cm) A history of Kashmir down to 1160 A.H./ca. 1750. This is a good copy with decent calligraphy and illumination, produced in Northern India. (1)
[Riddell, Robert F.]. Indian Domestic Economy and Receipt Book; Comprising Numerous Directions for Plain Wholesome Cookery, both Oriental and English; with much Miscellaneous Matter ... Connected with Household Affairs likely to be Immediately Required by Families, Messes, and Private Individuals, Residing at the Presidencies of Out - Stations, 7th ed., Madras, 1870, half - title present, single uncol. litho. plt. showing nine 'useful domestic machines', contemp. morocco, gilt dec. spine, a little rubbed and minor wear to extrems., 8vo (1)
Woolley (Hannah). The Accomplish'd Ladies Delight in Preserving, Physick, Beautifying, and Cookery. Containing, I. The Art of Preserving, and Candying Fruits and Flowers, and making of all sorts of Conserves, Syrups, and Jellies. II. The Physical Cabinet, or, Excellent Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery, Together with some Rare Beautifying Waters..., and also some New and Excellent Secrets and Experiments in the Art of Angling. III. The Compleat Cooks Guide, or, Directions for Dressing all Sorts of Flesh, Fowl, and Fish, both in the English and French Mode..., 3rd ed., enlarged, printed for Benjamin Harris, 1683, addn. eng. title page and one woodcut plt., also includes title pages for parts 2 & 3, early appears to lack leaf G1 and also all after N2 at the end of the volume (being the major part of the table to physick and chyrurgery), closed tear to leaves I4 & I5, both repaired with archival tissue, pages frayed to fore - edges with some slight loss to general title and first & last leaves, generally well thumbed, few inner margins of pages strengthened, contemp. sheep, slight wear to extrems., 12mo, contained in modern purpose made morocco covered book box. Text appears complete other than defects noted. Section I appears complete in eleven leaves rather than usual twelve leaves. (1)
Evans (Edmund). A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads, Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [c. 1865], frontis., additional pictorial title - page, and forty - eight wood - eng. vignettes after Birket Foster, Harrison Weir, Samuel Palmer, and others, printed in six or eight colours by Edmund Evans, the text and elaborate borders and decoration printed in gold, orig. purple cloth, blocked in gilt, oval paper only printed in colours from wood by Edmund Evans in a sunken panel on the upper cover, becoming loose in case, a.e.g., 8vo. An outstanding example of the Victorian gift book. The Preface is signed J. C[undall], who had devised the book. (1)
Pickering (William, publisher). Order for the Administration of the Holy Communion and Occasional Offices according to the Use of the Church of England, William Pickering, 1848, printed by C. Whittingham in red and black, full contemp. calf, blocked in blind, rubbed, red edges, 8vo, together with The Book of Common Prayer Noted by John Merbecke, 1550, William Pickering, 1844, musical settings, printed in red and black by Charles Whittingham, foxed, contemp. parchment, gilt, soiled and rubbed, small 4to, and The Enthusiast, or The Straying Angel. A Poem by James Orton, William Pickering, 1852, inscribed "With the Publisher's comps", printed by C. Whittingham, title - page in red and black, orig. blue cloth, blocked in gilt to a design by W. H. Rogers, slightly soiled, 8vo, and two other Pickering titles, in three volumes (6)
Fireplaces and Ranges. Frost & Winfield's Pattern Book of Register Stoves, Tiled Grates and Kerbs for Tiled Hearths, Open and Close Fire Cooking Ranges..., Plain and Ornamental Gates, Railing, Balusters, Tomb Fences, Dust Screens..., City Road Foundry, Derby, c.1870, forty?eight litho plts. (mostly chromos), orig. cloth gilt, slightly frayed to extrems., oblong 8vo, together with H.F. & Co., General Ironfounders, Manufacturers of Close and Open Fire Leamington Kitchen Ranges. Yorkshire Patent Cottage and Excelsior Range..., pub. Glasgow, c.1880, seventeen chromo plts. inc. one folding, orig. printed chromo wrappers, recent cloth spine strip, slim 4to, with Hardy & Padmore, Iron & Brass Founders & General Engineers, Worcester Foundry, Worcester, Supplementary Drawings, 1885, litho plts. inc. few partly hand?col., some plts. torn with slight loss, title page creased, surface soiling, orig. wrappers, creased, oblong folio, plus Badger & Co.'s Patent Worcester Kitchener..., Worcester, 1882, 4pp., creased, 4to (4)
Tiles. Pattern Book for the use of Architects. Mansfield Tiles, Selection of the Newest Designs for Tiling of Walls, Hearths, Floors, &c. Ceramic Mosaic. Slabbed Pannels and Briquette Fireplaces made by Mansfield Bros. Encaustic Tile Works, Burton?on?Trent, c.1905, title printed in red & black, twenty - eight litho plts. (mostly chromos), orig. boards with cloth spine strip, rubbed to board edges, slim folio. (1)
Keynes (Geoffrey). John Ray. A Bibliography, pub. Faber, 1951, port. frontis., orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, (limited edition of 650 copies), together with Portraits of Dr. William Harvey, pub. Royal Society of Medicine, 1913, collotype plts., orig. cloth in dust soiled d.j., slim 4to, plus Kenney (Cyril Ernest), The Quadrant and the Quill. A Book Written in Honour of Captain Samuel Sturmy, 'a tryed and trusty sea - man', 1947, b & w illusts., orig. linen - backed boards, slim 4to, and others (7)
Leadenhall Press. 1,000 Quaint Cuts from Books of Other Days including amusing illustrations from children's story books ..., n.d., c. 1890s, num. b&w wood eng illusts., modern light blue boards, incorporating orig. upper cover, small 4to, together with Crawhall (Joseph), Crawhall's Chap - book Chaplets, c. 1883, col. woodblock illusts., partly untrimmed, orig. printed boards, heavily soiled, recased with orig. spine laid down, large 4to, plus Gottlieb (Gerald), Early Children's Books and Their Illustration, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, num. col. and b&w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., a little frayed to extrems., large 4to, and other bibliography, mostly children's literature, including Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, 2 vols., and a set of The Honeyman Collection, 7 vols., 1978 - 81 (22)
Williams (Brian, and Galfetti, Plinio). My Words His Pictures, handmade in London by Brian and Ricki Williams, 1967 - 68, two copies, 16pp., with woodblock text and illusts., orig. marbled boards, square 4to A handmade book of illustrated poems, made by two young men different only in race who lived and worked together on an island in the Mediterranean. Limited edition of 50 copies, signed by both Williams and Galfetti. (2)
Deighton (Len). Funeral in Berlin, 1st ed., 1964, orig. cloth in VG price - clipped d.j., together with Billion Dollar Brain, 1st ed., 1966, orig. cloth in sl. chipped and frayed d.j., and Action Cook Book, 1st ed., 1965, orig. printed boards in clear plastic d.j. (a few tears), plus Airshipwreck, 1st ed., 1978, with three postcards loosely inserted, orig. cloth in VG price - clipped d.j., and others including first editions in d.j's of Horse Under Water, Only When I Larf, London Dossier, An Expensive Place to Die, plus other first editions by Deighton (61)
Golden Cockerel Press. The Amores of P. Ovidius Naso Newly Translated by E. Powys Mathers, 1932, five engs. by J.E. Laboureur, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, slim 8vo Limited edition 172/350. With the bookplate of George Collett. Also with a typed letter signed Moira Gibbings to George Collett, dated May 19th, 1932, "We are most grateful for your appreciative remarks regarding the Ovid's Elegies..., We feel pleased ourselves with the general get up of the book..., although the Laboureur plates did not quite come up to our expectations". (1)
Greenaway (Kate, illust.). The Royal Progress of King Pepito, by Beatrice F. Cresswell, pub. SPCK, n.d., c.1890, col. illusts., orig. pict. boards, some wear, esp. to spine and edges, 8vo. together with Little Ann and Other Poems, by Jane and Ann Taylor, Warne, [1883], col. illusts., orig. pict. boards, some wear, 8vo, plus The Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Robert Browning, Warne, c.1925, col. illusts., orig. boards, worn at edges, 4to, and Kate Greenaway's painting Book, Warne, c.1900, col. and b&w illusts., orig. printed wrappers, rubbed and stained, 4to, and 3 others illustrated (7)
Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Undine, by De La Motte Fouqué, 1st ed., Heinemann, 1909, tipped - in col. plts., orig. cloth gilt, sl. marked on upper cover, spine faded, 4to, together with Dulac (Edmund, illust.), The Bells and Other Poems, Hodder, [1912], tipped - in col. plts. with captioned tissue guards, illusts., upper hinge broken, orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed and faded, chipped at head of upper joint, 4to, and a copy of Dulac's 'Picture Book for the French Red Cross' (3)
Tegetmeier (Denis, illust.). The Seven Deadly Virtues, with a foreword by Eric Gill, Lovat Dickson, [1934], b&w illusts., orig. cloth in rubbed and chipped d.j. with loss, 4to, unnumbered copy from an edition of 250 copies, signed by Tegetmeier and Gill, together with Flint (W. Russell, illust.), The Book of Tobit and the History of Susanna, Haymarket Press, 1929, four tipped - in col. plts., t.e.g., orig. boards, minor wear to spine, 8vo, ltd. ed. 254/875, and another similar (3)
Tolkien (J.R.R.). A Middle English Vocabulary, 1st ed., Oxford, Clarendon, 1922, ads. at rear dated October 1921, orig. printed wrappers, some wear, incl. loss at foot of spine, 8vo, together with [Tolkien, et al.], Oxford Poetry 1914 - 1916, pub. Oxford, Blackwell, 1917, orig. cloth - backed boards, rubbed, spine faded, 8vo, plus Carpenter (Humphrey, ed.), Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, 1st ed., 1981, frontis., orig. cloth, 8vo, and four others, Tolkien related First mentioned item, the Author's first book, is a reading copy only. A previous owner has cut and marked the fore - edge of each leaf to create an improvised alphabetical thumb index. (7)
Baedeker (Karl). Konstantinopel, Balkanstaaten, Kleinasien, Archipel, Cypern, 2nd ed., 1914, maps and plans, folding map at front near detached, orig. limp cloth, sl. rubbed, 8vo, together with Wainwright (A.), A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book 7, The Western Fells, 1966, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in frayed and marked d.j., small 8vo, plus other miscellaneous travel, etc, natural history, incl. Nansen's Fram ofver Polarhafvet den Norska Polarfarden 1893 - 96, 2 vols., Stockholm, 1897, etc (a carton)
Cooke (E.W.). Leaves from my Sketch - Book, 1876, twenty - six tinted litho. plts., a.e.g., orig. dark green mock morocco gilt, oblong 4to, together with Beauties of the Court of Charles II (so titled on spine), 1827, eight fine hand - col. stippple engs., lacks title, a.e.g., contemp. red half morocco gilt, a little rubbed, folio, plus Lhuer (V.), Le Costume Breton/Costume Auvergnat et Bourbonnais, n.d., pub. Paris, c. 1940, num. pochoir costume plts., loosely contained in orig. printed grey card folder with ties, 4to, and other misc. books (a carton)
Miscellaneous books, mostly 19th c., incl. several vols. of The Anglo - Saxon Review, The Chromolithograph, 2 vols., 1868, Orchids by W. Watson, 1890, several folio vols. incl. The Christian's New and Complete Family Bible, pub. C. Cooke, n.d., c. 1780s, Bacon's New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas of The British Isles, c. 1890, lacking one map, and a defective copy of the first volume only of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, 1583, printed in black letter, with some woodcut illusts. (a carton)
Johns (Captain W.E.), Approx. 60 vols. from the Biggles series, plus a few Worrals, Gimlet, Science Fiction etc., 1940s - 60s, ALL reprint editions, incl. Children's Book Club, Dean & Son, Thames Publishing, Hampton Library, OUP reprints etc., many in d.j.s, some general wear etc., plus a qty. of other related material, incl. Biggles annuals, issues of the Boy's Own Paper, Biggles playing cards, a Biggles Jigsaw set in orig. box, Johns collectors publications etc. (3 shelves)
Black, Hermina. A collection of 25 novels from Strangers Can Love, 1953 to Two Ways of Loving, 1981. All first editions rebound in half red morocco bindings by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London. * From the authors collection all being Christmas presents from the publishers Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., many with printed cards (i. e. "Your own book in seasonable dress comes to you with every good wish for Christmas and the New Year from your publishers in the City of London" these cards are signed by the directors of the firm. (25).
De Givry, Grillot. Witchcraft Magic & Alchemy. Translated by J. Courtenay Locke. With 10 Plates in Colour and 366 Illustrations in the Text. 4to., 1931; Waite, Arthur Edward. The Book of Ceremonial Magic. Including the Rites and Mysteries of Goëtic Theurgy, Sorcery and Infernal Necromancy. 4to., 1911; Remy, Nicholas. Demonolatry ...... Drawn from the Capital Trials of 900 Persons, more or less, who with in the last fifteen years have in Lorraine paid the penalty of death for the crime of Witchcraft. 4to., [First published Lyon, 1595] This edition, 1930. Together with four other books about the occult, all with some pencil scoring. Various formats and bindings. (7).
Barker (Cicely Mary). Flower Fairies of the Spring, Flower Fairies of the Autumn, A Flower Fairy Alphabet, n.d., c. 1930s, twenty - four col. plts. to each, orig. boards, worn and broken on spines, small 8vo, together with Kipling (Rudyard), The Jungle Book, 2nd imp., June, 1894, b & w illusts., a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, a little rubbed and corner crease to upper cover, 8vo, with other childrens and illustrated books, including Angela Brazil, Richmal Crompton, Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, Rupert Stories, etc. (3 shelves)
A good Victorian gilt metal mounted inlaid burr walnut D-shaped credenza, with book-matched veneered top over strapwork inlaid cavetto frieze and twin arch panel fronted doors centred with shaped strapwork panels, flanked by gilt foliate mounted pilaster uprights and glazed curved doors enclosing velvet lined shelves, on plinth base now with later castors, 108cm high (excluding castors), 185cm wide, 48cm deep.
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