Zuallart (Jean). Il devotissimo viaggio di Gierusalemme ... di nuovo ristampato, e corretto, 2nd edition, Rome: Domenico Basa, 1595, 1 engraved folding plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (of 2: lacking the plate of the Sancta Presepio at Bethlehem), 49 engraved plates in the letterpress (mainly maps and views), a few minor stains, final blank (Z8) present, bookplate of Henry Blackmer (see note), modern half vellum, 8vo (16.6 x 11.4 cm)Adams Z191; Blackmer 1873 (this copy); Cobham p. 485; cf. Mortimer Italian 557. 'This work is of importance especially for its numerous illustrations, which were used by several other writers on Palestine. The second edition contains two new plates .... Zuallart says the plates (by Natale Bonifacio) are after his own original drawings. The Belgian Zuallart made a six-month pilgrimage from Rome to Jerusalem in 1586. Books one and two describe the journey to the Holy Land, including descriptions of Zakynthos, Crete and Cyprus (Blackmer). The work was first published in 1587, in quarto format.(Qty: 1)
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Buckingham (James Silk). Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830, engraved folding map frontispiece, 26 wood-engraved plates, folding map partially split along one fold, short closed tear in volume 1 signature Z4, contemporary half calf, recased, restoration to corners, 8vo (21.1 x 13.2 cm)Macro 608; not in Atabey or Blackmer. First octavo edition; the work was first published in quarto format the previous year, and was Buckingham's fourth and final book describing his Middle Eastern travels. It notably includes, according to the full title, a 'description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat' and a 'narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf'. There are also descriptions of the 'Joasmee' (the Qawasim, the modern-day rulers of Sharjah), 'Bethoobee' (Abu Dhabi), and 'Graine' (Kuwait).(Qty: 2)
Dugdale (William). Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbies and other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries, and Cathedral and Colliegiate Churches, with their dependencies in England and Wales... originally published in Latin by Sir William Dugdale, a new edition... by John Caley, Henry Ellis and Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel, 6 volumes in 8, 1817-30, additional engraved titles, titles printed in red and black, approximately 240 engraved plates and plans, several double-page, a few leaves detached, some light spotting and toning, bookplates and inscriptions of Seminarii S. Joannis Wonersh, later buckram-backed boards, spines faded, some edge wear, sheet size 36.5 x 24 cm (14.25 x 9.5 ins), thick folioThe new edition, much expanded from William Dugdale's first edition of 1655 includes many plates of cathedrals, monasteries, priories and other religious buildings as well as costumes and seals.(Qty: 8)
W.F.P Napier CB, History of The War in the Peninsula, and in the South of France, From The Year 1807 To The Year 1814, four vols, half calf, published by John Murray, London 1828-34, together with William V Herbert, The Defence Of Plevna 1877, Written By One Who Took Part In It, half calf, first edition, published by Longmans, Green, & Co, London 1895. (5)
Greene, Graham 'The Human Factor', First edition 1978, The Bodley Head publishers London, with original dust jacket and clear cover. Also 'The Comedians', first edition 1966 with dust wrapper and clear cover, 'The Honorary Consul, The Bodley Head London 1973 first edition with original dust jacket and clear cover and 'A Burnt out case', Heinemann London 1961, first edition, original dust jacket with clear cover. (5)(B.P. 24% incl. VAT)
Poetry and Prose - 20th century - Eliot - Sween Agonistes, first edition, first issue Faber, London 1932; Davies, Hugh Sykes - Petron, with d.j., London 1935; Read, Herbert - Unit One, yellow covered boards with Unit One design by McKnight Kauffer, with d.j., designed by Kauffer, London 1934 (3)
A A MILNE "Winnie the Pooh" with decorations by Ernest H Sheppard, published Methuen & Co. Limited London 1926 (first edition), tooled and gilded green cloth board bound, together with "The House at Pooh Corner", published 1928 (first edition), tooled and gilded pink cloth board bound and three various other Pooh titles including "Now We Are Six" (17th edition - cheap form 1942), "When We Were Very Young" (36th edition - cheap form 1942) and "When We Were Very Young" (21st edition - 1930 with dust jacket) CONDITION REPORTS All have general wear and tear were they have been used, including some splits to the bindings, although not on the outside spine, discolouration, some inscriptions and rips to the dust jacket. See images for more details.
NO RESERVE Agriculture.- Young (Arthur) Rural Oeconomy..., first Dublin edition, half-title, contemporary calf, Dublin, 1770 § Harte (Rev. Walter) Essays on Husbandry, second edition, 5 engraved plates, woodcut illustrations, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary calf, joints split, 1770 § Johnstone (John) An Account of the most approved mode of Draining Land, first edition, half-title, 15 engraved plates only (of 16), one folding, one browned, some spotting and marginal water-staining, original boards, uncut, upper cover detached, Edinburgh, 1797 § Parkinson (R.) Treatise on the Breeding and Management of Live Stock, 2 vol., 8 engraved plates, foxed, original boards, uncut, spines defective, one cover detached, 1810 § Stephens (Henry) The Book of the Farm, 2 vol., second edition, 14 engraved plates, foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spines faded and defective, Edinburgh & London, 1849, all worn; and 5 others on agriculture, 4to & 8vo (12)
NO RESERVE Castro (Joaõ Bautista de) Mappa de Portugal Angigo, e Moderno, 5 parts in 3 vol., second edition, folding engraved map, woodcut ornaments, licence leaf at end of vol.1, contemporary ink marginalia to a couple of leaves, occasional soiling to upper margin, vol.2 with tear to title and paper flaw holes to upper margin of S4, contemporary mottled sheep, spines gilt with red roan labels, rubbed and a little scuffed, one board worn at edge, Lisbon, Francisco Luiz Ameno, 1762-63 § Eustace (Rev. John Chetwode) A Tour through Italy..., 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved plates, foxed, original boards, uncut, spines a little worn and chipped at head, 1813 § Hooker (W.J.) Journal of a Tour in Iceland..., 2 vol., second edition, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, engraved maps and plates, some folding, foxing, original boards, uncut, vol.1 lacking spine and upper cover detached (title loose), 1813 § Marshall (Joseph) Travels through Holland, Flanders, Germany..., 3 vol., first edition, half-title in vol.1, browned, contemporary sheep, worn, 1772, rubbed or worn; and 4 others, European travel, 8vo & 4to (14) Saleroom notice: the first mentioned item, Castro’s Mappa de Portugal is lacking 6 maps, there should be 7 in total.⁂ The number of maps in the first appears to vary, many copies do not include any map.
First Man to appear on Television.- Baird (Margaret, wife of John Logie Baird, d. 1996) Television Baird: The story of the man who invented television, first edition, frontispiece and plates, ALs & ANs from Margaret Baird to Vera Taynton, wife of William Taynton the first man to appear on television, original boards, dust-jacket, a few small tears, 1973.⁂ "William was liked by everyone, and a happier more honest man would be hard to find. I would like to inform the Royal Television Society of William's death, as I am sure they will mention it in their magazine, because after all, William did help to make Television History in 1925!" - Margaret Baird.
![NO RESERVE Ross (Alexander) Pansebeia [graece]: or, A View of all Religions in the World [with] Apocalypsis: or, the Revelati](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/45701490-49ef-492f-a188-aa1801052d9c/a8cb1eee-cf89-4470-85b7-aa180115ddde/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Ross (Alexander) Pansebeia [graece]: or, A View of all Religions in the World [with] Apocalypsis: or, the Revelation of Certain notorious Advancers of Heresie, translated by J[ohn] D[avies], 2 parts in 1, fourth edition, engraved portrait by Lombart and longitudinal half-title, second part with separate title and 3A1 & 3A4 blanks and engraved portraits in text, water-staining to first few leaves, signature 2N (Table) cropped with slight loss, modern calf, [Wing R1974 & 1945A], by Sarah Griffin. for J.S. and are to be sold by John Williams ..., 1664.
NO RESERVE Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Opera, 10 vol., half-title in vol.1, engraved portrait folding at foot (lightly foxed and offset onto title), contemporary half diced russia, black roan labels, rubbed, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1783 § Xenophon. Kyros Paideias [graecé]; De Cyri institutione..., edited by Thomas Hutchinson, engraved portrait, folding map, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1727 § Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Opera, inscription at head of title partly erased, Birmingham, J.Baskerville, 1772 § Tacitus (C.Cornelius) Opera quae exstant, 2 vol., additional engraved pictorial title, Amsterdam, D.Elzevier, 1673-72 § Homer. the Iliad and Odyssey..., translated by W.Cowper, 2 vol., 1791 § Spence (Rev. Joseph) Polymetis: or, An Enquiry concerning the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the...Ancient Artists, second edition, engraved portrait and plates, some folding, light water-staining, 1755, some foxing or browning, all but the first contemporary calf, rubbed or worn, some covers detached; and c.45 others, classical literature, history etc., v.s. (c.60)
Religion.- Leti (Gregorio) Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa; or the History of the Cardinals of the Roman Church, first English edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, lacks A4 (printer's catalogue), occasional faint soiling, 2 small rust-holes (R3 & 2K4), 2S1 lacking lower corner (not affecting text), bookplate, previous owner's pencil inscription, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, joints beginning to split, small loss to spine extremities, [Wing L1330], for J. S., 1670 § Barwick (John) The Life of the Reverend Dr. John Barwick ..., 2 engraved portrait frontispieces, bookplate, contemporary ink signatures, later manuscript provenance note to front free endpaper verso, contemporary panelled calf, a little rubbed, chipping to spine extremities, J. Bettenham, 1724; and 4 others, similar, v.s. (6)
NO RESERVE Melvil (Sir James) The Memoires of Sir James Melvil of Hal-Hill: containing an Impartial Account of the most Remarkable Affairs of State ..., edited by George Scott, first edition, some worm damage, mainly marginal but occasionally touching text, bookplates to front pastedown and title verso, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners repaired, rubbed, [Wing M1654], folio, E. H. for Robert Boulter, 1683.⁂ This is the state with pp. 26 & 31 numbered correctly, and pp. 65 & 128 misnumbered.
NO RESERVE Peck (Francis) Desiderata Curiosa: or a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces ..., 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved portrait frontispieces and 9 plates, 2 folding, engraved vignettes, headers and initials, list of subscribers, occasional pencil annotations, faint marginal dust soiling, small marginal tear (3C1), bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt, rubbed, 1732-35.
![NO RESERVE [D'Illens (Marc Guérard) & Jakob Funck] Plans und Journals von denan Belagerungen des Letzteren Kriegs in Flan](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/45701490-49ef-492f-a188-aa1801052d9c/1ff73df9-20fc-4556-9325-aa18011603f6/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE [D'Illens (Marc Guérard) & Jakob Funck] Plans und Journals von denan Belagerungen des Letzteren Kriegs in Flandern ..., first German edition, folding engraved map and 24 folding battle-plans, one or two partially hand-coloured, woodcut head and tail pieces, this copy without the letter in French at end, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, small loss to spine head, 4to, Strasbourg, Melchoir Pauschinger, 1750.⁂ An account of Louis XV's sieges in the Austrian Netherlands from 1744, when France joined the War of Austrian Succession through an alliance with Prussia, to the conclusion of the conflict in 1748.
Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., vol. 4, 5 & 6 first editions, vol. 1 & 2 "New Edition", vol. 3 second edition, half-titles in all but vol. 6, engraved portrait frontispiece, 4 engraved maps, 3 folding, L*2 in vol. 4 a cancel, occasional light spotting, occasional light marginal staining, vol. 1, 2 & 4 with bookplate of Laxton Hall, vol. 3, 5 & 6 ex-library with usual ink-stamps and paper pockets neatly attached to front free endpaper verso, vol. 1, 2 & 4 contemporary marbled calf, vol. 3, 5 & 6 contemporary mottled calf, vol. 4 lower board detached, rubbed and worn, some loss to spine extremities, some joints beginning to split, 4to, 1782-88.
Warwickshire.- Proposals For Publishing an Entire New Map of Warwickshire, From a new and accurate Survey, upon four Sheets of Atlas Paperon a Scale of one Inch to a Mile, printed broadside, folds, browned, slightly soiled at head, edges a little creased and chipped, [unrecorded in ESTC though similar to another prospectus by the publisher], 263 x 215mm., Warwick, J[ohn] Sharp, n.d. [?c. 1785].⁂ A suggested new edition based on Henry Beighton's "A mapp of Warwichshire", first published posthumously in ?1750, this edition may never have been published.
Paston Letters.- Fenn (John, editor) Original Letters, Written during the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III, 5 vol., all but vol. 1-2 first edition, additional engraved titles, engraved frontispieces, 3 hand-coloured, 8 plates, 3 hand-coloured, 34 facsimiles, folding table, small tear, repaired, title and frontispiece fore-edges neatly strengthened (vol. 2 & 3), occasional spotting and off-setting, bookplates, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 4to, 1787-1823.
Quarantine.- Plague.- Hospitals.- Howard (John) An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe, first edition, half-title, 22 engraved plates, 20 folding, occasional small tears, large folding table, small tear, occasional spotting and soiling, faint staining to first few leaves, Warrington, William Eyres, 1789; bound before, [Aiken (John)] Appendix containing Observations concerning Foreign Prisons and Hospitals, first issue, [1791], together 2 works in 1 vol., bookplate of the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, 4to.⁂ Howard spent 15 months from 1785, travelling throughout western and southern Europe inspecting lazarettos (quarantine stations) for the treatment of plague victims.
NO RESERVE Coventry printing.- Staughton (S. ) A selection of remarkable events in the lives of the primitive fathers, eminent reformers, and martyrs, in the Christian Church: Including A Concise History of the Lives, Sufferings and Deaths, of the Noblemen, Bishops, and other distinguished Persons, who have valiantly defended the Protestant Religion, engraved frontispiece, list of subscribers (mostly in the East and West Midlands), red ink stamp to title, Coventry, printed and sold by Mrs. Luckman, and by the editor., 1791 bound with Edinburgh Society For Publishing Religious Tracts. The Great Question Answered: Whar shall I do to be saved?, drop-head title, Edinburgh, Printed ny J. Ritchie, 1803 bound with Merrill (Daniel) The Mode and Subjects of baptism Examined, second edition, Boston, Manning & Loring, 1805, together 3 works in 1 vol., some spotting or light foxing, contemporary sheep, spine gilt and with red morocco label and paper library label (chipped with loss), upper cover , corners worn, rubbed, 8vo ⁂ The first mentioned provincially printed work is rare, with ESTC recording only 4 copies (not in Bodleian).
Berington (Joseph) The History of the Reign of Henry the Second ..., 3 vol., previous owner's ink signature, manuscript inscription to front free endpaper of vol. 1, occasional faint spotting, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, Basil, 1793 § H[owell] (J[ames]) Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren, lacking additional engraved title, each letter dated in ink by hand, occasional marginal annotations, small rust hole (I3), occasional faint spotting, later manuscript note tipped to front free endpaper, bookplate, later morocco, rubbed and worn, Humphrey Moseley, 1645 § Delepierre (Octave) Historical Difficulties and Contested Events, first edition, ex-library with ink-stamp to title, abrasion mark to front pastedown where label removed, original cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, a little rubbed, 1868; and 22 others, similar, 8vo (27)
![NO RESERVE Cookery.- [Percy (Thomas, editor)] The Regulations and Establishment of the Household of Henry Algernon Percy, the](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/45701490-49ef-492f-a188-aa1801052d9c/09c0424c-9f5d-438d-9d95-aa1801161232/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Cookery.- [Percy (Thomas, editor)] The Regulations and Establishment of the Household of Henry Algernon Percy, the Fifth Earl of Northumberland, at his Castles of Wresill and Lekinfield in Yorkshire...M.D.XII., first edition, half-title, woodcut head-piece, slight worming to lower margins, front free endpaper loose, contemporary tree calf, a little worn, joints split, lacking part of label, 8vo, n.p., [privately printed], 1768.⁂ Scarce; ESTC lists only 2 UK copies of the first edition (BL & Bodleian, Oxford).
William IV.- Lesage (Alaine-René) The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, 4 vol., first English edition, translated by Benjamin Heath Malkin, 24 engraved plates, occasional foxing, mainly to plates, occasional faint marginal staining, bookplates, lengthy ink inscription to endpaper, contemporary diced calf, rebacked with original spines laid down, gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1809.⁂ Bookplates of Sir John Barrow, with manuscript note to bookplate in vol. 1. Barrow was Second Secretary to the Admiralty for nearly 40 years, enjoying the confidence of all 11 chief Lords during this period, particularly that of King William IV. The ink inscription, dated 1827, reads, "These volumes were given to Mr Barrow by His Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral (later William IV) on board the Royal Sovereign Yacht in commemoration of His Royal Highness' first visitation of the Naval Establishment at the several ports of Portsmouth, Plymouth and Pembroke". An additional note below this reads, "The above is my Father's own handwriting. ?JB".
Bindings.- Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) The Poetical Works..., 6 vol., new edition, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece by Finden after Phillips, 1855 § Hutchinson (Thomas, editor) The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley, frontispiece, plate, Oxford, 1904 § Poems of Robert Browning, engraved portrait frontispiece by Walker after Talfourd, 1912 § Thackeray (William Makepeace) The Works, 12 vol., half-titles, frontispieces, plates, and illustrations, school prize plates, a little spotting, 1882-4 § Mathers (Powys, translator) The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, 4 vol., 1937, first contemporary tree calf, rebacked in morocco, second full brown levant morocco, third contemporary full navy blue calf, fourth and last respectively contemporary half calf and maroon morocco, second rich chestnut brown doublures, second g.e., last t.e.g., most spines richly gilt, all in compartments with raised bands, first, third, and fourth green and/or maroon labels, second gilt coat-of-arms to both boards, first two palmette gilt dentelles, each a little rubbed, second spine faded; and 25 others, similar, 8vo (49)
Coryate (Thomas) Coryat's Crudities...to which are now added, his Letters from India, &c..., 3 vol., half-titles, engraved additional pictorial title and 7 plates, one shaved at fore-edge, woodcut illustrations, advertisement leaf at end of vol.3, some light offsetting, occasional browning or soiling, tears to title in vol.1 & 2 and final leaf of text in vol.3 repaired, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments, rubbed, spine ends worn, labels lacking or chipped, 8vo, for W.Cater..., 1776.⁂ Eccentric work covering the author's travels in Europe, the Levant, Middle East and India. This is the first reprinting of the first edition of 1611, and the first to contain the Letters from India.
NO RESERVE Bindings.- Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire..., 8 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece after Reynolds, 12 engraved folding maps, 5 with hand-colouring, a very little foxing, 1862 § Wrangham (Rev. Francis) Plutarch's Lives..., 6 vol. third edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 1f. publisher's catalogue, spotting and offsetting, for J.Mawman & others, 1819 § Goldsmith (Oliver) The History of Rome..., 2 vol., tenth edition, ink and embossed stamps of Jose Antonio de Agreda, for Leigh and Sotheby & others, 1809, first 20th-century half calf, others contemporary calf, both rebacked, each spines attractively gilt in compartments and with maroon and/or green title labels, 8vo (16)
Defoe (Daniel) The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings..., 14 vol., one of 720 copies from an edition limited to 750, Oxford & Stratford-upon-Avon, 1927-8 § Austen (Jane) [Works], 7 vol., wood-engraved illustrations by Joan Hassall, 1975 § Surtees (R.S.) [Novels], 8 vol., frontispieces and plates, most with hand-colouring, 1949-56 § Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 4 vol., by David Nutt, 1909 § Lamb (Charles) The Essays of Elia..., 2 vol., frontispieces and plates, London & Toronto, 1929, second and third Folio Society, original cloth or cloth-backed boards, first and fourth t.e.g. with others uncut, each a few scuffs and stains, spines faded or darkened; and 13 others, 8vo (48)
NO RESERVE Albin (Eleazar) A Natural History of English Song-Birds..., second edition, copper-engraved frontispiece and 23 plates, woodcut head-pieces and initials, 1p. publisher's catalogue, frontispiece and 1 plate lower margin repaired, title shaved at lower edge with loss to imprint, first text f. repair to lower fore corner with insignificant loss to text, a little spotting and soiling, some faint browning, contemporary calf, g.e., rebacked preserving earlier boards, gilt, spine a little faded, [Nissen BBI 17], for R.Ware, 8vo, 1741.Provenance: Madelaine Jay (bookplate)
NO RESERVE Bannerman (David Armitage) The Birds of the British Isles, 12 vol., first edition, colour plates, 1953 § Sitwell (Sacheverell) Fine Bird Books 1700-1900, limited edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, most colour, 1 folding, with lower half detached, tape burn to edges of fold on both portions, 1953, original cloth or half cloth, a little marked and bumped, 4to & folio (13)Provenance: Madelaine Jay (bookplates)
NO RESERVE Europe.- Clarke (Edward Daniel) Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Parts I & II (to end of Part II Section 2 only) in 3 vol., first edition, engraved portrait and 110 plates, maps & plans, some folding, some with aquatint and 2 battle plans with partial hand-colouring, engraved or wood-engraved vignettes, some foxing and offsetting, creasing to first few leaves of vol.1, contemporary half calf, rubbed, spines worn and frayed, one detached, joints split, [Atabey 253], 4to, 1810-14; sold not subject to return⁂ Comprising: Part I. Russia, Tartary & Turkey; Part II. Sections 1 & 2 only (of 3). Greece Egypt & the Holy Land, without Section 3 and the whole of Part III on Scandinavia.
Hewitson (William C.) Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds..., 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 138 hand-coloured plates, a very little foxing, some to a few plate margins, "Phillips, | Wokingham" ink stamp to front free endpapers verso, contents separating a little, contemporary calf, g.e., board margins and spine compartments attractively ruled in gilt, gilt floriate and palmette devices respectively to dentelles and to board corners, a little worn, 8vo, 1846.Provenance: Madelaine Jay (bookplates)
Morris (Rev. Francis Orpen) A History of British Birds, 6 vol., first edition, 358 wood-engraved plates, some soiling, contents separating a little, vol.III 1f. torn with loss to text, contemporary half calf, worn along edges, scuffing, spines faded, [Nissen IVB 645], 1851-7; A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 vol., second edition, 232 lithographed plates, tissue guards, publisher's catalogues, hinges splitting, contents separating, a few ff. loose, [Nissen IVB 646], 1875; A Natural History of British Moths, 4 vol., first edition, 132 lithographed plates, [Nissen ZBI 2893], 1872, plates each with hand-colouring, first and second foxing, most to endpapers, first some to plates, first later half calf, second original cloth gilt, third later half morocco, third attractively and with g.e., a little worn and bumped, second with superficial splits to joints, 8vo (13)Provenance: Madelaine Jay (bookplate)
NO RESERVE Evelyn (John) Sculptura; or, the History and Art of Chalcography, and Engraving in Copper, second edition, engraved portrait, plate and folding mezzotint, portrait a little spotted and offset onto title, mezzotint with marginal soiling, contemporary calf, worn, spine ends chipped, J.Payne, 1755. ⁂ Originally published in 1662 this was the first book in English to describe the process of mezzotint engraving and to include a mezzotint print, 'The Executioner' by Prince Rupert of the Rhine after Ribera. Mezzotint was invented by Ludwig von Siegen in the 1640s and the process was developed and brought to England by Prince Rupert, whom Evelyn credited with the invention. This edition includes 'The Little Executioner', a greatly reduced copy of Rupert's version.
Morris (Beverley R.) British Game Birds and Wildfowl, first edition, 60 wood-engraved plates by Benjamin Fawcett printed in colours and finished by hand, plate and conjugate text f. opposite p.243 loose, some spotting mostly to text ff., contemporary red half calf, gilt spine in compartments and with olive leather label,joints starting but holding firm, corners worn, rubbed, [Anker 345; Fine Bird Books p.125; Nissen IVB 644], 4to, Groombridge & Sons, 1855.
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