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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 293

Holden, W. C. BRITISH RULE IN SOUTH AFRICA. ILLUSTRATED IN THE STORY OF KAMA AND HIS TRIBE AND OF THE WAR IN ZULULAND London: Wesleyan Conference Office, [1879] FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, 8vo, viii + 218 + 6 ad pp, frontis + 4 plates + 1 plan + 2 maps of which one folds out, half calf with marbled text block edge, ex-library copy with stamps, some shelf wear and loss of surface on boards, inscription on title page from “Author” dated 1880 to Frere, Frikkie Botha bookplate

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 211

Mitford, Bertram THE KING’S ASSEGAI, A MATABILI STORY London: Cuatto & Windus, 1894 FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, [2] + [vii] + 248 + 32 catalogue pp, frontis + 5 plates, original red pictorial cloth, one crease in front board, bump in middle of front hinge, headcap and foot of spine show some wear, ex-library with stamps on 4 pages, front and back hinges opening, foxing on eps and edge of text block, Frikkie Botha and “Mens Conscia Recti” bookplate

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 240

Le Vaillant, Francois VOYAGE DE M. LE VAILLANT DANS L’INTÉRIEUR DE L’AFRIQUE, PAR LE CAP DE BONNE-ESPÉRANCE, 2 VOLS Paris: Chez Leroy, MDCCLXXXX [1790] FIRST EDITION, 8vo, Vol I: xxiv + 382 pp, frontis + 5 plates of which 2 fold out; Vol II: 399 pp, 5 plates [1 plate absent], quarter bound in leather with marbled boards and text block edge, corners bumped with shelf wear, light foxing throughout, some pages with mild foxing, a few light stains and small tears, Frikkie Botha bookplate; Vol I: spine covered with loosening brown paper, hinge cracked, small mark on title page with ghosting from frontis, 3cm tear in dedication page, foxing on frontis and reverse discoloured, hinge of first fold out reinforced, one third of preface page loose and top corner torn away, corner of one page torn away as well as 5cm of margin, correction in ink on one page and "Narina" plate with ink notes in bottom margin, one page 3cm loose along spine, spine cracked, last page has 5cm tear in gutter; Vol II: some restoration to spine, loss at headcap and foot, front and back hinge cracked, small cut in centre of half title, extensive note on one page, unusually the “suppressed” plate is present and “Le Hottentot Gonaquoi” is absent, Volume I bund with text block upside down and spine cover loosening (2)

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 286

Schulz, Aurel & Hammar, August THE NEW AFRICA New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897 FIRST US EDITION, 8vo, xii + 406 + [ii] ad pp, 4 plates + one fold out map, original green pictorial cloth with uncut pages and clear plastic covering, front hinge cracked, foxing on eps and text block edge, number of pages unopened, spine cracked in a few places, foxing on some pages, fold out map reattached and small tear at map hinge, Frikkie Botha bookplate

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 216

[Phillipps, Thomas] SCENES AND OCCURRENCES London: William Marsh, 1827 FIRST EDITION, 8vo, xvi + 214 pp, fold out frontis, half red morocco and cloth, new eps, text block edges gilt, limited foxing, a few pages with small brown stain, corrected title of first plate pasted over original

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 254

[Parkes, Fanny] WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM, 2 VOLS London: Pelham Richardson, 1850 FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, 4to, Vol 1: xxxv + 479 pp, frontis + 27 plates, Vol 2: xiii + [1] + 523 pp, frontis + 20 plates + rear pocket with panorama of Himalayas, original blue cloth with gilt decoration; Vol 1: netting of inner hinge showing; Vol 2: foxing on eps, small tear in one page, some pages unopened, minimal foxing on plates, presentation inscription to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton from author in both volumes (2)

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 260

Chapman, James TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA, 2 VOLS London: Bell & Daldy, MDCCCLXVIII (1868) FIRST EDITION, 8vo, Vol 1: viii + [1] errata + ix - xvi + 454 pp, frontis + 3 plates + fold out map, Vol 2: x + [1] errata + 480 pp, frontis + 3 plates + fold out map, half morocco, new eps, top edge gilt, cockling to pages, many pages unopened, Frikkie Botha and Georgian Court bookplates (2)

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 269

Moodie, Lieut. John W. D. TEN YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA. INCLUDING A PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF THE WILD SPORTS IN THAT COUNTRY, 2 VOLS London: Richard Bentley, 1835 FIRST EDITION, 4to, Vol 1: xii + 1 - 328 + 339 - 346 + 329 - 338 + 347 pp, frontis + two plates with musical scores, Vol 2: viii + 352 pp, frontis, quarter leather and marbled boards, new eps, some foxing on frontis pages, George Drummond and Frikkie Botha bookplates; Vol 1: binding error in page order, but complete (2)

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 279

Bisset, Maj. Gen. John J. SPORT AND WAR London: John Murray, 1875 FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, 8vo, xviii + [2] + 268 + 32 ad pp, frontis + 7 plates + fold out map, recased with original cloth and spine laid down, new eps, Frikkie Botha bookplate, inscribed by the author to Mrs. Carthew on 12 Nov. 1876

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 229

Little, James S. SOUTH AFRICA, A SKETCH BOOK OF MEN, MANNERS AND FACTS, 2 VOLS London: W. Swan Sonneschein & Co., 1884 FIRST EDITION, 8vo, Vol I: xix + errata + 224 pp, Vol II: [ii] + 225 - 505 pp, original blue cloth, new eps, top edge gilt; Vol I: foxing on prelims, restitching visible at spine in few places, foxing on edge of text block, some pages more heavily foxed; Vol II: minimal foxing on prelims, a few text pages and index, some repairs to stitching and pages (2)

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 213

Tongue, M. Helen BUSHMAN PAINTINGS Oxford: Claredon Press, 1909 FIRST EDITION, 4to, booklet bound in limp brown boards + loose map + 54 loose plates as issued in modern solander box, booklet: 47 pp + [1] + 4 plates, paper spine of booklet opening but binding tight, plate XLVIII with 1cm tear on edge

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 219

Pringle, Thomas AFRICAN SKETCHES London: Edward Moxon, 1834 FIRST EDITION, 12mo, xvi + [2] + 528 pp, frontis + map, recased with original cloth and spine laid down, new eps, spine cracked with evidence of inexpert repair, pages uncut, spine opening in one place, some light pencil marks in text, foxing on plates and ghosting on facing pages

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 288

Chapman, Abel ON SAFARI London: Edward Arnold, 1908 FIRST EDITION, 8vo, xvi + 340 pp, frontis + 33 plates, half green morocco and cloth, gilt top edge, slight shelf and corner wear, tanning in margins of eps, Frikkie Botha bookplate With companion volume of proofs of the illustrations used in the 1908 edition, 8vo, [138] pp of which 107 with tipped in illustrations, original black pictorial cloth, Frikkie Botha bookplate, corners bumped, fraying to headcap and foot, pages bending at edges of tipped in illustrations, spine split halfway through text block (2)

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 281

Holub, Dr. Emil SEVEN YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA. TRAVELS, RESEARCHES AND HUNTING ADVENTURES BETWEEN THE DIAMOND FIELDS AND THE ZAMBESI 1872-1879, 2 VOLS Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881 FIRST US EDITION, 8vo, Vol I: xi + 426 pp, 29 plates + 1 fold out map, Vol II: xi + 479 pp, 30 plates, modern full red leather, ex-library with stamps on title pages, browning on margins of eps, Frikkie Botha bookplate; Vol I: map with two partly repaired 15cm tears with minor loss (2)

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 209

Campbell, Colin T. BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA: A HISTORY OF THE COLONY London: John Haddon & Co., 1897 FIRST EDITION, 8vo, viii + 222 + [2] pp, 2 maps of which one folds out, green cloth, hinges cracked, ep halfway loose, overall consistent tanning of pages, map with three small tears and two 14cm tears angled from map hinge, first 8 pages foxed

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 225

Colenso, Rev. John W. TEN WEEKS IN NATAL Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., 1855 FIRST EDITION, 16mo, xxxi + [1] errata + 271 + 16 report + 16 ad pp, frontis + 3 plates + 1 fold out map, recased in original green cloth, previous owner’s name on ep, eps tanned, tanning in gutter of prelims, one page with a fingermark, minimal foxing on back of fold out map, three plates with foxing, one plate with a brown line, two plates with a damp stain along spine, restoration report inserted, Frikkie Botha bookplate

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Stephan Welz & Co
Lot 270

Butler, Capt. Henry SOUTH AFRICAN SKETCHES London: Ackermann and Co., 1841 FIRST EDITION, small folio, 15 + [i] pp + 15 plates, frontis, half leather and cloth with clear plastic cover, some shelf wear and boards faded towards edges, light tanning and foxing on eps, mild foxing on back of frontis, pencil notes traced with ink on title page with one starting “Poor Butler! My companion during three years ... at the Cape of Good Hope”, bookplate of Sir William Vernon Cruise

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Nigel Ward & Company
Lot 2172

A quantity of prints and watercolours to include limited edition character prints, harbour scene, a woven silk picture entitled 'The First Set', etc.

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Nigel Ward & Company
Lot 1098

Two first edition hardback Books; 'The Team That Wouldn't Die' 1975 and 'Exorcism' 1990 by Peter Underwood

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Lacy Scott & Knight
Lot 554

Mahon, J, Harry Pollitt - A Biography 1976, first edition, with dust wrapper, signed by Mary Pollitt, and many other Congress Party Members, with three black & white photographs and a newspaper cutting relating to Harry Pollitt

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Fieldings Auctioneers
Lot 673

MILNE, AA - 'The House at Pooh Corner', first edition 1928, another seventeenth edition 'When We Were Very Young' and a fourth edition 'Now We Are Six', quarto. (3)

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Sheffield Auction Gallery
Lot 1590

A Spode Parian Ware Bust of Winston S. Churchill, first edition 1965, after Oscar Nemon, height 17cm.

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Sheffield Auction Gallery
Lot 1224

Goebel Stoneware Bavarian Forest Series Decanter, 1980 first edition, two second edition examples. (3)

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Lyon & Turnbull
Lot 429

DU CHAILLU, PAUL B.EXPLORATIONS & ADVENTURES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA London: John Murray, 1861. First edition, 8vo, folding frontispiece, 27 plates, folding map, contemporary half calf with elaborate gilt tooling to spine, bookplate, some foxing

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Lyon & Turnbull
Lot 254

HENDERSON, HAMISHELEGIES FOR THE DEAD IN CYRENAICA London: John Lehmann, 1948. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy inscribed "To Norman and Janey [Buchan], with best wishes, Hamish, Christmas '55", bookplate of Norman and Janey Buchan, original blue cloth, dustwrapper with design by B. BiroProvenance: Norman Buchan was an MP from 1964-1990 and, along with Janey Buchan, MEP for Glasgow 1979-1994, and Hamish, helped create the Peoples Festival, the first series of 'Fringe' events at the Edinburgh Festival.

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Lyon & Turnbull
Lot 109

TWO WORKS IN ONE VOLUME, INCLUDING PLAW, JOHNSKETCHES FOR COUNTRY HOUSES, VILLAS AND RURAL DWELLINGS London: J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, 1800. First edition, 4to, 18, [2 (advertisements), 41 bistre aquatint plates (as called for in Explanation of the Plates), some spotting, chiefly marginal; [bound with] Gyfford, E. Designs for Elegant Cottages and Small Villas. London: J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, 1806. First edition, 4to, half-title, [8], 20, 26 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, rubbed, hinges weakNote: Copies are found with 41 plates and 42 plates but the Explanation of the Plates calls for only 41.

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Lyon & Turnbull
Lot 40

[BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD]ENGLISH BARDS, AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS: A SATIRE London: James Cawthorn, [1809]. First edition, 2nd issue, 12mo., contemporary green calf, gilt ruled, book plate of "JE" at the front, and of John Bury at the rear; [Idem] English bards, and Scotch reviewers: a satire by Lord Byron. London: James Cawthorn, 1810. 3rd edition with 1050 lines, 8vo., contemporary quarter roan, paper boards, edges uncut, corners knocked, ownership inscription on the upper margin of the title age and with the small oval blind stamp of Oxford Public Library, book plate of Oxford Public Library (2)

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Lyon & Turnbull
Lot 464

SPAIN, A COLLECTION, INCLUDING[AULNOY, MARIE-CATHERINE, COUNTESS D' The Lady's Travels into Spain. London: T. Davies, 1774. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, early inscription to endpaper of John Joliffe, rubbed; Borrow, George Lavengro. London: J. Murray, 1851, First edition, 3 volumes, engraved portrait; The Romany Rye. 1857, First edition, 2 volumes, neatly rebacked retaining original spines, The Zincali or the Gypsies of Spain. 1843. Second edition, 2 volumes, one cover nearly detached, contemporary half calf (9)

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Lyon & Turnbull
Lot 393

RICHARDS, J.M. & ERIC RAVILIOUSHIGH STREET London: Country Life Ltd., printed by the Curwen Press, 1938. First edition, 8vo, 24 full-page colour lithographs and original pictorial boards by Ravilious, some very minor chipping to spine ends and a little rubbing along backstrip, some very occasional slight foxing

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Lyon & Turnbull
Lot 90

PORTA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLALA PHYSIONOMIE HUMAINE Nouvellement traduite en François par le Sieur Rault. Rouen: Jean & David Berthelin, 1655. First edition of this translation, 8vo., numerous woodcuts in the text, contemporary limp vellum, light worming of the lower margins of pp.515-531, tear across p. 287, slight paper discolouration throughout, inscribed "ex libris PC" in an early hand on the title page and the letters PC stamped in blind on the covers

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Lot 3

AMICO, BERNARDINOTRATTATO DELLE PIANTE & IMMAGINI DE SACRI EDIFIZI DI TERRA SANTA Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1620. 2nd edition, folio, with an engraved title page within an architectural border, with 34 engraved plates with 46 (numbered 47) illustrations by Jacques Callot, inconsistent pagination, which sometimes includes the plates, large printer's device on verso of the last leaf, later vellum, over-lapping edges, neat repair to the lower outer corner of the title page, inner joints of a number of leaves strengthened, with the book plate of Jean Philibert Peysson de Bacot at the front, and those of John and Michael Bury on the rear pastedownNote: USTC 4004515. The drawings of the Franciscan Bernardino Amico of Gallipoli, Father Guardian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, working with the rules of perspective introduced a new standard of naturalism and topographical veracity for the sites in the Holy Land. Many of the buildings now lost are described as they were still preserved at the turn of the sixteenth century. Rembrandt owned a copy of this edition and borrowed from it Amico's rendering of the Temple of Jerusalem as a domed octagonal building. The first edition was printed in Rome in 1609, but this is the first with the plates engraved by Jacques Callot. Jean Philibert Peysson de Bacot was an official in the Cour des Monnaies de Lyon in 1734 and Procureur in 175., He owned a library of some 1750 titled at the time of its sale in 1779.

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Lyon & Turnbull
Lot 73

MURPHY, JAMESTRAVELS IN PORTUGAL consisting of observations on the manners, customs, trade, public buildings, arts, antiquities, &c. of that kingdom. London: Strahan, Cadell & Davies, 1795. First edition, 4to., with 24 engraved plates (two of which are folding), contemporary half calf, paper boards, spine decorated gilt in compartments with monogram AS, red and green morocco lettering pieces, small water stain to corners of plates III & I, tear to lower outer corner of p. 95 (not affecting text), possibly a Large Paper copy, with the bookplates of John and Michael Bury

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Lyon & Turnbull
Lot 266

MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE, A COLLECTION, INCLUDING ENGLISH THEATRETHE LONDON STAGE... London: Sherwood and Co., 1825-27. 4 volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispieces, titles with printed blue borders, presentation and ownership signatures of Hunter William Douglas and John Shedden Patrick, original quarter cloth over boards, chipped labels to spines, bookplates of Patrick; Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera. London: J. and R. Tonson, 1765. 8vo; [bound with] Kelly, Hugh False Delicacy: A Comedy... London: R. Baldwin..., 1768. 8vo; [bound with] Goldsmith The Good Natur'd Man: a Comedy... London: W. Griffin, 1768. 8vo; [bound with] The Maid of the Mill... London: J. Newbery..., 1767. 8vo; [bound with] The West Indian: a Comedy,,, London: W. Griffin, 1771. 8vo; in rubbed quarter calf; Edgeworth, Richard & Maria Edgeworth. Readings on Poetry. London: R. Hunter, 1816. First edition, 12mo, contemporary marbled boards, some rubbing, joints cracking; Greg, W.W. A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. 1962. 4 vol., 4to, original quarter cloth, library stamp to title and title versos; Halkett, S. & J. Laing. Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature. 1926-62. 9 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, Public Library stamp to title pages, some with library labels, 2 vol. with dust-jackets; Scott, Sir Walter Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. Edinburgh, 1819. 4 volumes, 12mo, modern period-style boards, some dampstaining; The Abbot. Edinburgh, 1820. 3 volumes, half-titles, contemporary half calf gilt; The Pirate. Edinburgh, 1822. 3 volumes, 8vo, near contemporary black half morocco, worn; Chronicles of the Canongate. Edinburgh, 1827, 2 volumes, 8vo, modern quarter calf gilt; Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. Edinburgh, 1828, 3 volumes, 8vo, modern quarter calf gilt; The Doom of Devorgoil. Edinburgh, 1830, 8vo, modern quarter calf gilt; Woodstock. 1826, 3 volumes, 8vo, quarter cloth, worn; some spotting; and others (43)

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Lot 415

AULDJO, JOHNSKETCHES OF VESUVIUS, WITH SHORT ACCOUNTS OF ITS PRINCIPAL ERRUPTIONS London: Longman, Rees [&c.], 1833. First edition, 8vo, [viii], 94; 16 lithographed plates, 1 hand-coloured folding map, several other plates from another work tipped in at beginning and end, original red cloth, paper label to spine, early inscription of Cosbyn Barrow 1851 and bookplate of Henry Newman, head and base of spine slightly rubbed

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Lyon & Turnbull
Lot 460

SARDINIA - SMYTH, WILLIAM HENRYSKETCH OF THE PRESENT STATE OF THE ISLAND OF SARDINIA London: J. Murray, 1828. First edition, 8vo, engraved map, & 6 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, rubbed, bookplate of Thomas Peers Williams

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Lot 72

MOUNTENEY, BARCLAYSELECTIONS FROM THE VARIOUS AUTHORS WHO HAVE WRITTEN CONCERNING BRAZIL: more particularly respecting the Captaincy of Minas Geraes and the gold mines of that province. London: Effingham Wilson, 1825. First edition, 8vo., engraved map with hand colouring in outline as frontispiece, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, corners a little rubbed, with the book plate of John Bury on the rear pastedown; [Conder, Josiah] The modern traveller: a popular description, geographical, historical, and topographical of the various countries of the globe: Brazil and Buenos Ayres. London: James Duncan, 1825. 2 vols., 12mo., folding engraved map as frontispiece to vol. 1, and 7 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, book plates of John Bury and inscription on the front pastedowns (3)Note: Sabin 51191. The first 6 chapters are on the history of Brazil, the voyage to Brazil and ports, geography, natural history and medical diseases there. The rest of the book is on the geology, mineralogy, and mining in Minas Geraes. A list of works consulted is provided at the end and include the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Humboldt, Southey, John Mawe, Caldleugh, Koster, etc.

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Lyon & Turnbull
Lot 437

HOBHOUSE, JOHN CAMA JOURNEY THROUGH ALBANIA AND OTHER PROVINCES OF TURKEY in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople during the years 1809 to 1810. London: J. Cawthorn, 1813. Second edition, 2 volumes, 4to, 2 folding maps and 20 (of 22) plates, lacking plates "Hadrian's Temple", p. 322 and "First Gate of the Seraglio", p. 992, contemporary green half morocco, marbled boards, rubbed, some foxing, some neat pencil and ink annotations and scoring in an early hand, lower hinge of volume 2 broken

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Lot 332

GRIEVE, SYMINGTONTHE GREAT AUK, OR GAREFOWL London: T.C. Jack, 1885. First edition, 4to, 4 plates (2 coloured) & 1 folding map, original brown cloth, bookplate of Howard H. Davis

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Lot 10

CATANEO, PIETROI QUATTRO PRIMI LIBRI DI ARCHITETTURA Venice: in casa de' figiuoli di Aldo, 1554. First edition, folio, printer's device on the titlepage and on the verso of the last leaf, wood cut historiated initials, with 44 woodcuts, of which 6 are full page, 19th century half parchment, marbled boards, morocco lettering pieces, corners and edges worn, front and rear modern free endpapers, marginal water stain on ff. 10 & 11, and ff. 41-50, with the book plates of John and Michael BuryNote: USTC 819671; Renouard p. 159 no 8. The first book treats of the siting and laying out of cities with their fortification; the second of building materials; the third outlines the principles of ecclesiastical architecture while the last gives plans for palazz. Cataneo's work on the design of cities was influential, having been cited by Andrea Palladio and elaborated on by Scamozzi and Vasari. His plan for an 'ideal city' is said to have influenced Richard Newcourt's proposal for the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire, as well as the design of cities such as Philadelphia and Savannah.

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Lot 18

LANGLEY, B. & T. LANGLEYGOTHICK ARCHITECTURE IMPROVED BY RULES AND PROPORTIONS: in many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, chimney-pieces, arcades, colonades, porticos, umbrellos, temples and pavillions. &c. London: John Millan, 1747. 4to., engraved title page, 62 of 64 plates (lacking plates 5 & 47 (copies supplied), contemporary calf, earlier rebacking, edges worn and rubbed, small tears in the upper margins of plates 61 & 62 and A and B), with the book plate of John Bury: [Parker, J.H.] A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic architecture. London: Charles Tilt, 1836. 8vo., 34 plates, publisher's green cloth, gilt, upper and lower inner joints with splits; Eastlake, Charles L. A history of the Gothick Revival. London: Longmans, Green, 1872. First edition, 4to., with 35 of 36 plates (lacking plate 1, the frontispiece), publisher's blind stamped and gilt cloth over bevelled boards, upper and lower inner joints splitting, lower board bowed, loosely inserted is a facsimile book plate "from the library of Kenneth Clark, Saltwood); Clark, Kenneth The Gothic revival. London: Constable, 1928. First edition, 8vo., frontispiece and plates, publisher's cloth and another (5)

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Lot 425

COOK, CAPTAIN JAMES - HAWKESWORTH, JOHNAN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES... FOR MAKING DISCOVERIES IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1773. FIRST EDITION, 3 volumes, 4to, 52 plates and charts, some folding, some spotting; Cook, Capt. James A voyage towards the South Pole. London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1779. THIRD EDITION, 2 volumes, 4to, engraved portrait frontispiece and 63 plates and charts, folding table, portrait offset onto title, some offsetting and spotting, gathering d misbound before b and c, some marginal tears, some discolouration to plates, page 295 repaired, pages 371-4 volume 1 detached, a few marginal repairs, a few dampstains; Cook, Capt. James A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London: G. Nicol & T. Cadell, 1784. FIRST EDITION, 3 volumes, 4to, and atlas folio, 87 plates and charts (24 in text volumes, 63 in atlas volume), some folding, folding table, final two leaves of Contents misbound at end, a few small stains, a few marginal tears, a corner torn away, somewhat spotted, several boards detached, view of Christmas Harbour torn; Kippis, Andrew The life of Captain James Cook. London, 1788. 4to, frontispiece, spotting; all text volumes bound in early 19th century boards, uncut, [with endpapers watermarked "1804" and binder's waste from "The York Courant, 17 June 1805" used in volume 2 of the Third Voyage], worn, some covers detached, atlas contemporary half calf, worn (10)

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Lot 246

FLEMING, IAN - SIGNEDON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First edition, special edition limited to 250 numbered copies of which this is 63, signed by the author, 8vo, portrait, original quarter vellum gilt over black cloth covers with white ribbon motif to upper cover,some very light marginal soiling in places

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Lot 339

MILLAIS, [JOHN GUILLE]BRITISH DIVING DUCKS London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1913. First edition, 2 volumes, folio, number 295 of 450 copies, 74 plates, (39 coloured), bookplates of Michael Walpole and Douglas G. Andrew, original maroon buckram, t.e.g., head and base of spines very slightly rubbed (2)

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Lot 421

CAFFRARIA - SOUTH AFRICA - KAY, STEPHENTRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN CAFFRARIA Describing the character, life and customs, and moral condition of the Tribes. London: John Mason, 1833. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, folding map and 4 plates, contemporary half calf, spine gilt

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Lot 386

HENTY, GEORGE ALFRED43 VOLUMES IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL CLOTH The Tiger of Mysore. London: Blackie & Son, 1896. First edition, 8vo; The Lion of St. Mark, [n.d.]; The Dragon and the Raven, [first edition, 1886]; The Lion of the North, [first edition, 1886]; When London Burned, 1895; In Greek Waters, [first edition, 1895]; Under Wellington's Command, 1899. First edition; With Frederick the Great , 1898. First edition; A Jacobite in Exile, [first edition, 1894]; In Freedom's Cause, [first edition, 1886]; Through Russian Snows, 1896. First edition; One of the 28th, a tale of Waterloo, [first edition, 1890]; With Moore at Coruna, 1898. First edition; True to the Old Flag, [first edition, 1885]; With Ice in Virginia, [first edition, 1891]; Friends Though Divided, [first edition, 1883]; With Cochrane the Dauntless, 1897. First edition; At Agincourt, 1897. First edition; Danby, Paul The British Army Book. London, [n.d.]; and 23 others (43)

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Lot 219

HOMERTHE ILIAD, TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE London, 1715-20. First edition of Pope's translation, 6 volumes, 4to, titles printed in red & black, 1 engraved portrait & double-page map (in vol.1), 1 folding frontispiece (in vol.2), half-title and list of subscribers in volume 1, engraved head-pieces and initials, no initial license leaf in volume 3, contemporary panelled calf, worn, two covers detached, slightly dampstained at beginning of volume 6, armorial bookplates of Sir John Ligonier (6)

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Lot 408

CURLING, 6 VOLUMES, INCLUDINGKERR, JOHN. THE HISTORY OF CURLING. EDINBURGH, 1890 First edition, 8vo, plates, illustrations, original red morocco-backed pictorial boards; Ramsay, Rev. J. An Account of the Game of Curling. Edinburgh, 1882. 8vo, limited to 250 copies, later cloth with original front wrapper laid down; Kerr, John History of Curling Scotland's Ain Game. 1890. 8vo, illustrations, original cloth; Dykes, T. Sporting Scotland... Curling. Edinburgh: J. Gray, [1902], 8vo, presentation copy, original boards soiled; Mobbs, A.N. Curling in Switzerland. 1929, 8vo, plates, original pictorial cloth; Taylor, J. Curling. Edinburgh, 1884. 8vo, illustrations, original cloth (6)

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Lot 84

AUBREY, JOHNMISCELLANIES London: A. Bettesworth, et. al., 1721. 2nd edition, 8vo., engraved plate, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, red morocco lettering piece, slight paper discolouration throughoutNote: Aubrey's Miscellanies is a collection of chapters on hermetic philosophy.The author was fascinated by the occult and supernatural, and 'Miscellanies' is a broad-ranging study, with sections on auspicious and inauspicious dates, omens, communications with angels, and magic, as well as a study of 'second sight' (the ability to foresee future events through divine inspiration) that is reputed to be the first treatment of the subject to appear in print. The chapter on "magic" includes a few short references to witches and witchcraft: notably "Vervain and dill, Hinders witches from their will", and several stories recounting methods used to hinder witchcraft. The book was first published in 1696. This second edition, revised and enlarged, includes an account of the author's life.

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VENUTI, RIDOLFINOACCURATA, E SUCCINTA DESCRIZIONE TOPOGRAFICA DELLE ANTICHITÀ DI ROMA. ROME: Rome: Battista Bernabò e Giuseppe Lazzarini, 1763. First edition, 2 vols., 4to., interleaved throughout, with 1 engraved folding map, 96 engraved plates, 2 engraved headpieces and 2 vignettes, contemporary vellum, some wear to heads, tails of spines and to edges, covers with some staining (2)Note: One of the most important books on the topography of Ancient Rome in the 18th century, it contains 96 fine engraved plates including 19 by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. They were first published in his Varie Vedute of 1748. A complete catalogue of Venuti's works, complete lists of the members of the Roman Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of London is given at end of vol. 2. Both books with the ownership signature of Sir William Watson, FRS (3 April 1715 -10 May 1787), English physician and scientist and with the bookplate of the architect Percy B. Tubbs (1868-1933). The Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914, Vol. 2, p. 840 notes Tubbs' particular interest in collecting works on the topography of ancient Rome, and especially in the works of Piranesi.

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POTTER, BEATRIX5 WORKS, COMPRISING The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. First edition, first issue with the same endpaper repeated four times, original maroon boards, gift inscription to endpaper; The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904. First edition, (first or second printing, with "muffetees" mispelt as muffatees" on p. 15, 16mo, original grey boards, ownership signature to half-title; The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911. First edition, (first or second printing), 16mo, original dark green boards; The Tale of Mr. Tod. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1912. First edition, (first or second printing), 16mo, original grey boards, listed by Quinby as a variant stamped in green; The Tale of Pigling Bland. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1913. First edition, [first or second printing], 8vo, original green boards (Quinby variant); all with some general wear and various levels of soiling (5)

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Lot 74

NEWTON, SIR CHARLES THOMASTRAVELS & DISCOVERIES IN THE LEVANT London: Day, 1865. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo., folding maps as frontispiece to both vols., 39 plates (including some folding), and woodcut illustrations in the text, publisher's blind stamped, green cloth, slight offsetting from the maps to both title pages, inner joints of vol. 2 cracking, bookplates of Carol Waldstein and also John and Michael Bury (2)Note: The plates include 12 mounted albumen prints by Francis Bedford of antiquities from drawings by Lady Newton, & 17 plates (including engravings after photographs by B. Spackman, etchings by W. Severn after photos by D.E. Colnaghi & drawings by Mrs. C.T. Newton, & aquatints by W.J. Alais after photos by D.E. Colnaghi & B. Spackman & drawings by A. Berg.)

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Lot 434

[GREECE & OTTOMAN EMPIRE] - ALLAN, JOHN H.A PICTORIAL TOUR IN THE MEDITERRANEAN including Malta, Dalmatia, Turkey, Asia Minor, Grecian Archipelago, Egypt, Nubia, Greece, Ionian Islands, Sicily, Italy, and Spain. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1843. First edition, 4to, tinted lithograph title and 40 tinted lithographed plates, publisher's blue cloth gilt, [Abbey, Travel, 200; Blackmer 24], very slightly rubbed at extremities

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UNICORNUS, JOSEPHUSLIBER DE UTILITATE MATHEMATICARUM ARTIUM; in quo candide lector multa quidem scitu periucunda, admiratione digna, & humano usui necessaria passim reperies. Venice: apud Domenico Nicolini da Sabbio, 1561. First edition, 8vo., large woodcut printer's device on the title page, a double-page woodcut diagram sowing the connections of the many off-shoots of architecture, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, signature F duplicated, foliation jumping from 52 to 57, various inscriptions on the front endpapers, slight staining of the title page and subsequent couple of leaves, with the book plate of John BuryNote: USTC 86161. After a preliminary discourse addressed to Gio. Battista Gremolo, the work is arranged under four main headings: cosmography, architecture, arithmetic and geometry, optics, catoptrics and astrology with sections on music and military geometry. The opening chapter contains a Boethian assertion of the moral purpose of studying arithmetic and the need for those who have just emerged from the study of grammar and from school to turn their minds to reading Euclid. As well as ancient authorities, Unicornus refers to the works of recent writers such as Pico della Mirandola, Alberti, Serlio, Dürer, and others.

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Lot 326

DEERSTALKING - LYDEKKER, RTHE DEER OF ALL LANDS. A HISTORY OF THE FAMILY CERVIDAE LIVING AND EXTINCT. London: Rowland Ward, 1898. First edition, 4to, number 261 of 500 copies signed by Rowland Ward, 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J. Smit, illustrations in the text, original green cloth gilt, spine faded, small stain to upper cover

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Lot 164

BATTLE OF WATERLOO, 2 VOLUMES, COMPRISING, KELLY, CHRISTOPHERA FULL AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE MEMORABLE BATTLE OF WATERLOO London: Thomas Kelly, 1818. First edition, 4to, additional engraved title, frontispiece, folding plan, & 18 plates, maroon half morocco gilt, uncut, plate at p.42 frayed with loss of blank margin & mounted, plate at p.456 frayed with loss of blank margin, pp.101-104 misbound after p.128, lacking pp.77-80; Gerard, lithographer/publisher Collection de Douze Vues de Waterloo. Brussels: Gerard, [? 1837]. Oblong 4to, 11 (of 12) lithographed plates, original green printed wrappers inscribed "James Stirling 1837", some spotting, wrappers slightly frayed (2)

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A COLLECTION OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE HISTORY BOOKS, INCLUDING DAVIS HADLANDMYTHS & LEGENDS OF JAPAN London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1912. First edition, 8vo, original cloth with gilt tooling; and another copy dated 1913; Campbell Davidson, Augusta M. Present-Day Japan. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1907. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf with gilt tooling to spine and cover; Hearn, Lafcadio In Ghostly Japan. Boston: Little, Brown.., 1919. 8vo, original cloth, spine worn, hinge becoming loose; MacKenzie, Donald A. Myths of China and Japan. London: Gresham Publishing, [n.d.]. 8vo, contemporary panelled cloth, light spotting to text-block; and 12 others (17)

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Lot 344

ORNITHOLOGY, 12 VOLUMES, COMPRISINGSCOTT, PETER Wild Chorus. London, 1938. First edition, 4to, number 1152 of 1250 copies signed by the author, plates, original blue pictorial buckram gilt, t.e.g.; Millais, J.G. The Wildfowler in Scotland. 1901. 4to, plates, original half vellum, binding slightly soiled; Chapman, Abel Memories, 1930; Retrospect, 1928; Bird Life of the Borders, 1907; The Borders and Beyond, 1924, uniform green half morocco, emblematically tooled on spines, t.e.g., spines slightly faded; Muirhead, George The Birds of Berwickshire. Edinburgh, 1889. 2 volumes, 8vo, presentation copy from the author to Sir Archibald H. Dunbar, Bart. of Northfield, from the author, folding map, illustrations, original white cloth, t.e.g., spines slightly discoloured, bindings lightly marked; Kirkman, F.B. The British Bird Book. 1911. 4 volumes, 4to, plates, original buff buckram, green morocco labels, bindings slightly soiled (12)

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Lot 433

FULLER, JOHNTHE HISTORY OF BERWICK UPON TWEED Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute..., 1799. First, and only, edition, 8vo, half-title, frontispiece, folding map (a few tears and repairs), 6 engraved plates, contemporary calf neatly rebacked with later spine, some dust-soiling

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BERTOTTI-SCAMOZZI, OTTAVIOIL FORESTIERE ISTRUITO DELLE COSE PIU' RARE DI ARCHITETTURA...DELLA CITTA' DI VICENZA Vicenza: Mosca, 1761. First edition, 4to., engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette on the title-page and 36 engraved plates (the majority folding), modern full calf, spine gilt in compartments, title page a little dusty and with neat small ownership stamp, some marginal worming throughout, with a few holes repaired, in a few instances touching the inner margins of the plates, with the book plates of John Bury and Michael BuryNote: This guide to Vicenza, by the doyen of the Palladian Revival in Italy is almost entirely devoted to the buildings of Palladio and Scamozzi. The folding plates show elevations of Palladian buildings - and there are two plates of the interior of the Teatro Olimpico. There was a second edition in 1780. The author was much ought-after as a cicerone by those cognoscenti on the Grand Tour.

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[BECKFORD, WILLIAM]RECOLLECTIONS OF AN EXCURSION TO THE MONASTERIES OF ALCOBAÇA AND BATALHA London: Richard Bentley, 1835. First edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary half calf, cloth boards, with book plate of John Bury

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