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Lot 50
Indian Art.- Kramrisch (Stella) The Hindu Temple, 2 vol., first edition, signed presentation copy from the author inscribed on title of vol.1, Calcutta, 1946 § Zimmer (Heinrich) The Art of Indian Asia: Its Mythology and Transformations, 2 vol., Bollingen Series XXXIX, New York, 1955 § Brown (Percy) Indian Architecture, 2 vol., third, revised, edition, 1956 § Zannas (Eliky) Khajuraho, The Hague, 1960 § Begley (W.E.) & Z.A.Desai. Taj Mahal: The Illumined Tomb, Cambridge, Mass., 1989 § Cousens (Henry) The Architectural Antiquities of Western India, Ananda Cooomaraswamy's copy with his bookplate by Eric Gill, pencil annotation to p.44, 1926, plates and illustrations, original cloth or cloth-backed boards with dust-jackets, most rubbed, some a little frayed or chipped at edges, the second also with slip-case; and 10 others on Indian architecture, 4to & 8vo (19)
Lot 79
Arnobius, of Sicca. Disputationum adversus gentes libri octo, Roman type, initial spaces with guide-letters, &2 bound after a4 as often, occasional spotting or light foxing, engraved armorial bookplate of William Morehead, 17th century calf, arms of Signet Library to covers, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [Adams A1994; EDIT 16 CNCE 3083], folio, Rome, Francesco Priscianese, 1542.⁂ A well-margined first edition of this work composed in response to Diocletian's persecution of the Christians. It is one of very few books from this Roman press.
Lot 177
Europe.- Breval (John Durant) Remarks on Several Parts of Europe: Relating chiefly to the History, Antiquities and Geography of those Countries, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved frontispieces, double-page engraved map, 43 plates, 12 folding or double-page, subscriber's list, one or two short marginal tears, occasional faint off-setting, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked with the original spine laid down, a little rubbed, folio, Bernard Lintot, 1726.
Lot 169
Gaskell (Elizabeth C.) Cranford, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, advertisement leaf at end, upper hinge a little weak, original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1891§ Kingsley (Rev. Charles) The Water-Babies, first edition, 2 plates by J. Noel Paton, modern blue half morocco, gilt, spine a little faded, Cambridge, 1863 § Montaigne (Michel de) Essays, 2 vol., translated by John Florio, one of 900 copies, original tan morocco, Nonesuch Press, 1931 § Hardy (Thomas) Winter Words, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, fine copy, 1928; Late Lyrics and Earlier, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, fine copy, 1922; and 5 others, v.s. (11)
Lot 164
Ruskin (John) The Stones of Venice, 3 vol., first edition, 1851-53; The Seven Lamps of Architecture, first edition, 1849; another edition, second edition, 1855, together 5 vol., plates, some hand-coloured, uniformly bound in crushed brown morocco, gilt, by Rivière & Son, t.e.g., others uncut, spines a little rubbed and faded, joints worn with some covers detached, original gilt pictorial cloth bindings bound in at ends; Modern Painters, 6 vol., first complete edition, one of 450 large paper sets on handmade paper with plates on india paper, original green cloth, uncut, very slightly rubbed, Orpington, 1888, large 8vo & 4to (11)
Lot 151
Miller (M.) Letters Written During a Captivity of upwards of Six Years in France, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved frontispiece, dedication signed by author, manuscript note about 'The Loss of the Wolverine' loosely inserted, occasional faint spotting, ink inscription, modern morocco backed boards, 24mo, Yeovil, 1814.⁂ Scarce, one of only 7 copies, all in the UK.
![Botany.- [Spratt (George)] Flora Medica: Contained Coloured Delineations of the Various Medicinal Plants ..., 2 vol., first e](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/301ad9da-51ab-4cd1-ae03-aaa30115c199/9aec326b-1025-4a7c-b283-aad400bfb553/468x382.jpg)
Lot 200
Botany.- [Spratt (George)] Flora Medica: Contained Coloured Delineations of the Various Medicinal Plants ..., 2 vol., first edition, 184 hand-coloured plates, of which 7 folding, 1 with short tear neatly repaired, occasional marginal pencil notes, occasional spotting, later half-calf, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Nissen BB1 1882], 8vo, 1829-30.
Lot 75
Kipling (Rudyard) The Jungle Book, first reprint, slight shelf lean, light wear to spine ends, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, first edition, spine slightly faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1895, illustrations, occasional foxing, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, g.e., 8vo (2)
Lot 208
Sheep.- Daubenton (Louis-Jean-Marie) Instruction pour les bergers et pour les propriétaires de Troupeaux, first edition, half-title, 22 engraved plates, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments and with orange morocco label, rather worn, but holding firm, Paris, Pierres, 1782 § Ardêne (Jean-Paul de Rome d') Trattato sulla cognizione, e cultura de' Giacinti, half-title, title with engraved vignette, 2 folding engraved plates, short repair at foot of half-title, some spotting, contemporary floral patterned limp boards, a few nicked, rubbed, Viterbo, Domenico Antonio Zenti, 1763; and 2 others, Gardens & Agriculture, v.s. (4)
Lot 154
Peacock (Thomas Love) Maid Marian, first edition, occasional spotting, later morocco backed boards, a little rubbed, 1822; The Works, 10 vol., large paper edition numbered 52 of 100 copies, frontispieces, tissue-guards, bookplate, original buckram, browned as usual, 1891; and others, including the Halliford edition of the works, 12mo & 8vo (32)
Lot 190
Middle East.- Palgrave (William Gifford) Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63), 2 vol., first edition, hand-coloured folding map, tear (repaired), 4 folding lithographed plans, occasional soiling, ex-library with labels to front pastedowns, contemporary half calf, rubbed and worn, Cambridge, 1865
Lot 93
History of world poetry.- Quadrio (Francesco Saverio) Della Storia e della Ragione d'ogni Poesia ..., alla ... Francesco III, duca di Modana, 5 vol. in 7, first edition, half-titles to all but index vol., 5 engraved devices to titles, 5 engraved plates (one with two images), some spotting throughout, water-staining, mostly marginal, contemporary vellum, lacking some spine labels, 4to, [Bologna and Milan], Francesco Agnelli, 1739-1752.⁂ An ambitious complete history of world poetry through the ages, with much on music and opera.
Lot 189
Middle East.- Doughty (Charles M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vol., first edition, half-title to vol. 1 only, strengthened at joint, vol. 2 title strengthened at joint, folding plates, 1 with tears, tape repairs, illustrations, folding colour map and plate loosely inserted, 1 or 2 short marginal tears, publisher's catalogue at end (vol. 1 only), ex-library with label remnants to front pastedown and usual stamps, occasional marginal soiling, later cloth, rubbed and worn, 8vo, Cambridge, 1888.⁂ Classic work on the exploration of Arabia with so much information on the topography of the area that it was used as a text-book by the British army during the Arab Revolt. There are also detailed descriptions of the Bedouin tribes and their customs.
Lot 149
Darwin (Erasmus) The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society: A Poem, with Philosophical Notes, first edition, half-title, stipple-engraved frontispiece and 3 plates after Fuseli (1 with repaired tear), occasional damp-staining, ink ownership inscription to half-title, 20th century calf-backed boards, 4to, 1803.
![Jane Austen.- [Austen (James)] The Loiterer, a Periodical Work, first Dublin edition, occasional spotting, small marginal hol](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/301ad9da-51ab-4cd1-ae03-aaa30115c199/314bdaff-82c0-4144-8808-aad400bfd641/468x382.jpg)
Lot 148
Jane Austen.- [Austen (James)] The Loiterer, a Periodical Work, first Dublin edition, occasional spotting, small marginal hole (F8), previous owner's label to front pastedown, cracked upper hinge, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, small loss to spine extremities, lower board becoming detached, 12mo, Dublin, 1792.⁂ The Loiterer's was written and published by Jane Austen's brothers. Gilson suggests that it was through the publication of The Loiterer that she became acquainted with Egerton of Whitehall (who were the London distributers of this work from the fifth number on) and who later published her first work, Sense and Sensibility.
Lot 48
Indian Art.- Fergusson (James) and James Burgess. The Cave Temples of India, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, folding map, 99 plates including one mounted albumen print, a few tinted, 2 folding, with a duplicate of plate XVIII, very occasional spotting, map creased, Breezewood book-label, contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., spine gilt, rubbed, 1880; History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, light foxing at beginning and end, modern half morocco, t.e.g., 1876, 4to & 8vo (2)⁂ James Fergusson (1808-86), originally an indigo planter in India later became an architectural historian and respected authority on Indian architecture and its cave temples in particular. The first work was co-produced with the archaeologist James Burgess who from 1886-89 was Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India.
Lot 81
Christopher Columbus.- Giovio (Paolo) Elogia Virorium Bellica Virtute Illustrium Veris Imaginibus Supposita, title with woodcut Medici device, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, 2pp. ms. index in an early hand at end, occasional small areas of staining and spotting, final f. with some ceasing, late 17th / early 18th century calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, covers with triple gilt filet borders, joints splitting, corners worn, rubbed, [Adams G639; Mortimer, Italian, 213; European Americana 551 / 23], a wide-margined copy, folio, Florence, Laurentius Torrentinus, 1551.⁂ Handsomely printed first edition of this collection of biographies of the subjects of portraits in the author's private collection. Of particular note was that of Christopher Columbus; the only known authentic likeness of the discoverer of the New World, with his biography on pp.171-174.
Lot 212
Drink.- Loftus (William) The Spirit Merchant, first edition, occasional spotting, publisher's advertisements at end, original cloth, rebacked, rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1866; New Mixing and Reducing Book, for the use of Publicans and Spirit Dealers ..., occasional faint spotting, publisher's advertisements at end, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, spotting to upper cover, small loss to spine extremities, c.1869; The Spirit Merchant, ; 8vo (2)
Lot 82
References to Chaucer and Thomas More.- Giraldi (Lilio Gregorio) Dialogi duo de poetis nostrorum temporum. Ad ill. diam Renatam Ferrariae et Carnuti principem. & c. Eiusdem epistola uersu conscripta, in qua agitur de incommodis, quae in direptione vrbana passus est.., mostly italic type, woodcut decorative initials, lacking final f. (possibly with a printer's device, or simply blank), some foxing, 19th century russia, with 'Newby Hall' lettered longitudinally on upper cover and shell corner-pieces, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [Adams G722; EDIT 16 CNCE 21248], 8vo, Florence, [Lorenzo Torrentino], 1551.⁂ First edition of this collection of three works, the first being the first survey of modern Latin poetry. It includes several references to English writers, most notably to Chaucer. This is a very early reference to the author in a continental printed book. Also, mentioned are Thomas More, John Colet, and William Lily. Provenance: Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725), collector (his ink collation mark 'C & P' to front pastedown); Lord Grantham (engraved armorial bookplate).
Lot 26
NO RESERVE Van Gogh (Vincent).- De La Faille (J.B.) Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Works on Paper. Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vol., revised edition, San Francisco, 1992 § Hulsker (Jan) The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches. Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné..., Amsterdam, 1996 § Van Gogh Museum. Vincent van Gogh. Drawings vol.1 (The Early Years 1880-1883) [&] Paintings vol.1 (Dutch Period 1881-1885), together 2 vol., Amsterdam, 1996-99 § Walther (Ingo F.) and Rainer Metzger. Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Paintings, Cologne, 1997 § Feilchenfeldt (W.) Vincent van Gogh: The Years in France, Complete Paintings 1886-1890, 2013 § Spaandonk (Trudy) & others. Van Gogh in Brabant: Paintings and Drawings from Etten and Nuenen, Zwolle, 1987, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first slightly frayed at edges; and c.25 others on Van Gogh, some catalogues/pamphlets, v.s. (c.30)
![Cruikshank (Robert).- [Westmacott (Charles Molloy)] The English Spy ..., 2 vol., first edition, 72 aquatint plates, all but o](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/301ad9da-51ab-4cd1-ae03-aaa30115c199/1fd2bb88-8d58-42ff-9ae1-aad400bfe72c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 8
NO RESERVE Expressionism.- Dube (Annemarie & Wolf-Dieter) E.L.Kirchner: Das Graphische Werk, 2 vol., third edition, Munich, 1991 § Moeller (M.) & Rolans Scotti. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, Munich, 1998 § Dabrowski (M.) & Rudolf Leopold. Ego Schiele: The Leopold Collection, Vienna, New York, 1997 § Frey (S.) & Josef Helfenstein. Paul Klee Rediscovered: Works from the Bürgi Collection, 2000 § Benson (T.O.) & others. Expressionismus in Deutschland und Frankreich: Von Matisse zum Blauen Reiter, Munich, 2014, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards, all but the first with dust-jackets; and 13 others, most Expressionism, 4to & 8vo (19)
Lot 161
Dickens (Charles) The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Papers, first edition in book form, first issue, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title and 41 plates, browned and spotted as usual, loss to 2 corners not affecting text, contemporary half calf, rubbed and worn, 1837; The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, first edition in book form, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title and 37 plates only (of 38), scattered spotting, occasional faint off-setting, bookplate loosely inserted, contemporary calf, rebacked, 1844; Sketches by Boz. The Second Series, second edition, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title and 10 plates, occasional faint spotting, original cloth, rubbed and worn, 1837; The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Complete: Part Second of the Mystery of Edwin Drood by the Spirit-Pen of Charles Dickens, through a Medium, bookplate, original cloth bound at end, contemporary half-morocco, rubbed, Battleboro, T. P. James, 1873; and 6 others by the same, 8vo (10)
Lot 209
Wallace (Alfred Russel) The Malay Archipelago..., first American edition, 8 engraved plates and illustrations throughout by Wood, 2 folding maps, 1 outlined in colour by hand, ownership inscription "Ogden E. Edwards" to dedication f., his pencil annotations throughout, foxing, contents separating a little in several places, upper hinge pulling a little, original brown pictorial cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, a little loss at spine ends and corners, 8vo, New York, 1869.⁂ Printed in the same year as the first edition.
![[Cooper (James Fenimore)] The Pilot; a Tale of the Sea, first English edition, 3 vol., occasional faint spotting, contemporar](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/301ad9da-51ab-4cd1-ae03-aaa30115c199/243c2fa7-dc6f-428a-820e-aad400c00be5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 155
[Cooper (James Fenimore)] The Pilot; a Tale of the Sea, first English edition, 3 vol., occasional faint spotting, contemporary half-calf, rubbed, 1824 § [Peacock (Thomas Love)] Maid Marian, first edition, faint spotting, previous owner's ink inscription, later half-calf, rubbed, 1822 § [Scott (Michael)] The Cruise of the Midge, first edition, 2 vol., occasional faint spotting, original cloth, rubbed, small loss to spine extremities (vol. 1), 1836 § [Morier (James)] The Adventures of Hajji-Baba, of Ispahan, in England, 2 vol., occasional faint spotting, remnants of paper label to front pastedowns, original paper-backed boards, rubbed, small loss to spine extremities, 1828 § Farquhar (Ferdinand) The Relicks of a Saint, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, occasional faint spotting, cracked hinges, contemporary morocco backed boards, rubbed and worn, small loss to spine extremities, 1816; and others, similar, 8vo & 4to (c.90)
Lot 139
Johnston (Robert) Historia rerum Britannicarum, first edition, woodcut vignette to title, initials and tail-pieces, occasional spotting or staining, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, 19th century label to spine, soiled and marked, Amsterdam, Johannes Ravesteyn, 1655 § [Spencer (Henry), George Canning, et. al.]. The Microcosm, A Periodical Work, by Gregory Griffin of the College of Eton, 40 numbers in 2 vol., third edition, some spotting or mostly light foxing, later red straight-grain morocco, gilt, rubbed, g.e., Windsor, for C. Knight, 1790; and 7 others, English Literature, v.s. (10)
![Science fiction.- [La Folie (Louis Guillaume de)] Le Philosophe sans Prétention, ou l'Homme Rare. Ouvrage physique, chymique,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/301ad9da-51ab-4cd1-ae03-aaa30115c199/ff269567-b3b7-4e5b-bdbe-aad400c0151d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 100
Science fiction.- [La Folie (Louis Guillaume de)] Le Philosophe sans Prétention, ou l'Homme Rare. Ouvrage physique, chymique, politique et moral, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, title vignette, and half-page vignette, ink stamp to title and p.59, some spotting, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with olive morocco label, 1 corner worn, remains of shelf label to foot of spine, rubbed, 8vo, Paris, Clousier, 1775.⁂ A visitor from Mercury arrives on earth in an 'electrical flying machine'. The Mercurian (Ormaris) acts as a mouthpiece for the author's own scientific opinions,including in the fields of geology and mineralogy, electricity and chemistry. Includes an attack on Priestley and his theories on 'fixed air'.
Lot 195
England.- E. C. A Faithful Account, of the Present State of Affairs. in England, Scotland and Ireland, first edition, engraved frontispiece, advertisement at beginning, chipped & tender edges, neatly restored, 1 or 2 short tears, small rust hole (B5), browning, 12mo, [Wing C22], for Tho. Bever, 1690.
Lot 104
Silk manufacture.- Castelli (Carlo) L'Arte di Filare la Seta a Freedo Ossia senza Fuoco sotto le Bacine delle Filatrici, first edition, 2 folding letterpress tables, a little staining, contemporary sheep-backed embossed boards, spine gilt, rubbed, [Kress 657], 8vo, Milan, Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1795.
Lot 211
Body & mind.- Lemnius (Levinus) Della Complessione del Corpo Humano libri due..., first Italian edition, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut historiated initials, some light staining, contemporary limp vellum, lacks ties, [Not in Adams; Durling 2769; EDIT 16 CNCE 31668], 8vo, Venice, Domenico Nicolini, 1564.⁂ Aimed specifically at the general public to aid self-diagnosis of physical and mental ailments. Lemnius was a pupil of Vesalius and Gesner, and was known to cheer his patients with jokes and comic anecdotes.
Lot 203
Flora.- Moggridge (J. Traherne) Contributions to the Flora of Mentone, first edition, 50 hand-coloured lithographed plates, lacks half-title, slightly foxed and browned, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, gilt spine, modern red morocco label, gilt, rubbed and scuffed and spine faded, 8vo, 1864.
Lot 99
Corsets.- Reisser (M.) Avis Important au Sexe ou Essai sur les Corps Baleinés pour former & conserver la taille aux jeunes personnes, first edition, half-title, folding engraved plate, duplicates of pp.9-10 and 15-16 bound in preliminaries, A1 torn with marginal tape repair, some spotting and staining, modern cloth, [Wellcome IV, 501], 8vo, Lyon, V. Reguilliat, 1770.⁂ First edition of this practical treatise on corsetry. Reisser was a German tailor working in Lyon.
Lot 107
Librarian's writings.- Morelli (Jacopo) Operette di Jacopo Morelli ora insieme raccolte con oposcoli di antichi scrittori, 3 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, spotted, contemporary patterned paper boards, Venice, Alvisopoli, 1820 § Celsius (Olof Oloffson) I.N.J. Bibliothecæ Upsaliensis Historia, first edition, some spotting or mostly light foxing, lightly browned, contemporary half calf, spine in compartments, rubbed, 8vo, Uppsala, no printer, 1745; and a 2 vol. in 1 set of Haym's Bibliotheca Italiana, v.s. (5)⁂ The first mentioned includes a substantial description of the library of St. Mark's and dissertations on Venetian festivities and poets.
Lot 3
Great Britain. Sedgfield (William Russell). The Thames Illustrated by Photographs. First Series, Richmond to Cliefden [Second Series, Cookham to Whitchurch ... Third Series, Whitchurch to Oxford], 3 volumes, 1st edition, A. Marion, Son, & Co., 1866-8, 44 mounted albumen print photographs, as plates and in the text, some oval-shaped or round-headed, occasional fading along print edges, spotting to volume 1 affecting text and a few prints, 'View from Richmond Hill' slightly oxidised, volume 2 endpapers spotted, intermittent tide-mark to fore margins and a few other marks, volume 3 plates and text-leaves variably softened and spotted along edges from water access, the plates browned on reverse side to prints, a few prints partially lifting at corners, all edges gilt, original green sand-grain cloth over bevelled boards, front boards lettered in gilt, volume 2 cloth marked and mottled, volume 3 housed in custom suede-lined slipcase, 4to (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: Morrall family (engraved armorial bookplate with motto 'Norma tuta veritas'); 'S. S. Elliott, Ridley Hall, Cambridge' (ownership inscription). Gernsheim 331, 388, 389; Hannavy, Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography , p. 1261. Four sets traced in UK libraries (Oxford, Senate House, and two copies at the British Library); the V&A holds an incomplete copy of the first volume, and Chetham's has a copy of the second volume only. OCLC adds five sets world-wide. One other set traced at auction, in 2003.
Lot 44
Thomson (John). Illustrations of China and its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, with Letterpress Descriptions of the Places and People Represented, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Sampson Low, Marston Low, and Searle, 1873-74, 96 plates of photographic illustrations, interleaved with descriptive letterpress text and guards, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated maroon cloth, slight wear to spine ends and corners, a few small nicks to joints, volume 1 partly split and frayed along both joints, folio (470 x 345mm) (Qty: 4)NOTESWestern Travellers in China 91: 'John Thomson (1837-1921) was the first known photographer to document the people and landscape of China for publication and dissemination to the Western world. Between 1868 and 1872 he travelled over 6,500 kilometres with his compass and camera and equipment, dark room and chemicals capturing all aspects of Chinese life. The photographs in these four volumes show the many sides of China: sweeping landscapes, royalty and ruling classes, merchants and economic activity, everyday life, and the faces of men, women and children. In a time when knowledge was derived from observation and classification it should seem odd that Thomson desired a recognition not from the quality of his photographs, but from his contributions to general knowledge'. 'My design in the accompanying work is to present a series of pictures of China and its people, such as shall convey an accurate impression of the country I traversed as well as the arts, usages, and manners which prevail in different provinces of the Empire. With this intention I made the camera a constant companion of my wandering, and to it I am indebted for the faithful representation of the scenes I visited and the types of races I came into contact' (Introduction).
Lot 38
Thomson (John). Views on the North River, 1st edition, Hongkong: Noronha & Sons, Printers, 1870, printed title and two leaves of Introduction, printed to rectos only, 14 mounted albumen prints, each with printed red rule border and caption beneath, accompanying leaf of descriptive letterpress to each plate, some fading to images and one spotted, mounts with old damp staining to inner and outer margins, ownership name inscriptions of G. Dods, 1875, and W.K. Dods and C.M. Normand to front free endpaper, stitching now largely broken and contents generally loose in original cloth-backed printed boards with decorative design to upper and lower covers, rubbed and soiled, a little paper surface loss, oblong folio (32.5 x 43 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThe photographs are captioned and measure as follows: 1) Road to the Village of Wong Tong, 173 x 232mm; 2) The Ts'ing Yune Pagoda, 154 x 232mm; 3) The Fi-Lai-Sz Monastery, 179 x 237mm; 4) The Fi-Lai-Sz Monastery, 152 x 236mm; 5) In the Ts'ing Yune Pass, 159 x 236mm; 6) View from the 'Lien Chow Kwong' Villages, 140 x 238mm; 7) An Up-Country Bridge, 178 x 232mm; 8) The Mang-Tsz Pass, 158 x 237mm; 9) Rapids, 161 x 232mm; 10) Looking North from the Pau-Lo-Hang Temple, 168 x 240mm; 11) Kwan Yin Cave, 160 x 219mm; 12) Fishing Boats, 158 x 228mm; 13) View from the Kwan Yin Cave, 143 x 226mm; 14) An Up-Country Farm, 138 x 238mm. Provenance: George Dods (1836-1909) MD LRCS Ed. 1859, was born and died in Edinburgh. He worked as Acting Colonial Surgeon in Hong Kong. He wrote at least one medical paper, ‘Tropical Malaria and Its Sequelae’, published in Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh , 1888, 7: 186-198. His only son, William Kane Dods, was born in Hong Kong Kong in 1866, shortly after his marriage to Margaret Crabbe. William Kane Dods (1866-1948) worked as an agent for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and served as treasurer and honorary secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and on the Committee of the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta. The co-owner of the book was Charles M. Normand (?1834-1912), a direct contemporary of Dods senior, who also served in the Far East as an assistant surgeon. By family descent. See also following lots 39-43. A very good copy of this notorious rarity, here in the original printed covers and with family provenance dating back to within five years of publication. It was the first of Thomson’s photographically illustrated books on China, and describes a trip two hundred miles up the North, though the photographs focus on only a few places, for which Thomson gives Chinese characters and English spellings. Like his earlier work, Visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh … to Hong Kong in 1869 , the first photographically-illustrated book published in China, it was published in Hong Kong by the Portuguese printers Noronha and Sons (The Government Printers). ’Mr. Thomson has just published a volume of admirable photographs of scenes on the North River, entered about 40 miles above Canton through the Fatshan creek. The views, which are beautifully executed, are accompanied by a short description of the places which they respectively represent, and will thus form a most pleasing illustration of a part of China little known to the generality of Europeans. In the details of foliage and other foreground these photographs will compare favourably with the best works at home, though they fail somewhat in a distant effects by being too dark in tone, a circumstance to which Mr. Thomson alludes in the introduction, where he states that, with a few exceptions, his efforts to obtain bright photographs of distant objects were baffled by a continuance of bad weather, casting a veil of mist over the distance. Bearing this in mind, the results must be considered wonderfully successful, and the views will be no less acceptable as an interesting memento for residents in China to take home with them, or as a pleasing gift to send to their friends’, Hong Kong Daily Press, 31 October 1870. ‘Views on the North River would have been expensive to produce and the print run was probably small. It is the rarest of Thomson’s books on China. There is a copy in the National Library of Scotland, another in Hong Kong University Library; a third is in the Wason Collection at Cornell University ( NUC , vol. 592, p. 256). In 1980 one was recorded in the collection of Mr and Mrs Lewis Lehr, New York (Lucien Goldschmidt and Weston J. Naef, The Truthful Lens, 1980, p. 167, fig. 157 and pp. 224-5)’, Terry Bennett, History of Photography in China: Western Photographers 1861-1879, Quaritch, 2010, p. 227. ‘ Views on the North River … can be seen as the first attempt to present Thomson’s experience of China as a visual document. The book form is being used to recreate the experience of seeing his images in a sequence predetermined by the photographer, and to that extent he was able to retain control over the order and arrangement in which his own photographs were presented ... Yet despite the success of Views on the North River as a photographically illustrated book, its circulation among the western, English-speaking communities of Hong Kong and the Treaty ports was somewhat limited, and its impact in Britain, if it had any at all, has left no trace in the contemporary reviewing journals’, Richard Ovenden, John Thomson 1837-1921 (Photographer) , National Library of Scotland, 1997, pp. 178-9.
Lot 283
India. Cartier-Bresson (Henri). Beautiful Jaipur, 1st edition, printed at the Times of India Press, Bombay, c. 1948, portrait frontispiece, 64 full-page illustrations from photographs, gift inscription from R.S. Bhatti, Deputy Director of Public Relations, Rajasthan, Jaipur, to front free endpaper, dated 30 November 1953, original red cloth, upper cover lettered and decorated in black, a few minor marks and a little faded at lower edge of upper cover, without dust jacket, large 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESCartier-Bresson's first and rarest book which was never published or sold commercially. The printing was ordered by the Jaipur Darbar and copies were given away as gifts.
Lot 70
LEAR (Edward) Nonsense Songs Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, 1871, First edition, R.J. Bush, together with More Nonsense, 1872, R.J. Bush, book cover design by Kell Bros. London. Together with a collection of Lear's Book of Nonsense, early editions, Frederick Warne & Co., London, some copies with AEG and linen backed pages, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and boards (possibly original) (20 vols in total)
Lot 63
The Journal of Beatrix Potter, from 1881 to 1897, First edition, 1966, Frederick Warne & Co., London, bound in green leather with case, AEG, and another copy of this work, dw Together with The Tale of Beatrix Potter - A Biography by Margaret Lane, with 8 colour and 30 black and white plates, Frederick Warne & Co., 2nd edition, 1968, dw, blue case
Lot 218
A hardback edition of 'Hogarth's Works, with Sixty-Eight Illustrations', published by J. Dicks, London, c.1880, cover with embossed gilt image of Hogarth and his dog; together with Christopher Whitfield, 'Mr. Chambers and Persephone', first edition, Golden Cockeral Press, 1937, with wood engravings by Dorothea Braby, also with an early 20th century Holy Bible
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Lot 50
A collection of Royal Worcester ceramic figurines modelled as ladies to include The First Quadrille limited edition 249/12500, Royal Debut limited edition 466/12500, Queen Of Hearts limited edition 201/12500, Fairest Rose limited edition 564/12500, Sweetheart Valentine limited edition 1811/12500, Masquerade Begins limited edition 1736/12500 and Belle Of The Ball limited edition 714/12500.
Lot 579
A large collection of The Face music magazines starting form July 1985 up to April 1997. Multiple issues and subjects to include Guns And Roses, Roy Orbison The Last Interview, Pee-Wee Herman, Iggy Pop, Billy Idol, Rock Hard, Special 200th issue, Ewan McGregor, Charlatans, Bjork, etc. Also included is a replica first edition May 1980 issue. Sadly multiple issues are not present. Approx 90 issues. Together with a selection of other music related magazines The Story Of Pop etc.
Lot 2263
Cricket - W.G. Grace, Cricket, signed first edition published by J.W Arrowsmith Bristol 1891, hardback, black and white illustrations, printed on untrimmed India paper, gold lettering to spine and cover, signed W.G. Grace to card affixed to inside front board, together with another copy, unsigned. (2).
Lot 28
Hamilton (Sir William). Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other Volcanos: In a series of letters, addressed to the Royal Society... To which are added, explanatory notes by the author hitherto unpublished, new edition, 1774, five engraved plates, folding engraved map, small Birkbeck College Library stamps, label to rear wrapper, a little light offsetting and soiling, later wrapper, spine faded with typescript label, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESFirst published in 1772.
Lot 24
Fougasses (Thomas de). The Generall Historie of the Magnificent State of Venice, from the First Foundation thereof untill this Present. Collected out of all Authors, both Ancient and Moderne, that have written of that Subject. English by W. Shute, 1st edition in English, printed by G. Eld, and W. Stansby, 1612, woodcut view of Venice to title-page, numerous woodcut portraits of doges throughout the text, lacking initial blank A1, leaves A2-4 (including title-page) and 5Z4 (final blank) laid down, variable marginal damp-staining, occasional red pencil underlining, repaired marginal tear in 4D2, tissue restoration to lower outer corner of 5D3, a few other marks, contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, arabesque centrepieces gilt to covers, restoration to extremities, folio (32.9 x 21.2 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESESTC S121332; STC 11207; not in Blackmer or Atabey.
Lot 91
Verstegan (Richard). A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: in Antiquities. Concerning the most Noble and Renowned English Nation, 1st edition, Antwerp: Robert Bruney, 1605, pp. [26] 338 [13], signatures [pi]1 [dagger]-3[dagger]4 A-2V4 (-2V3:) 2X-4 (2X3 missigned 2V3), [pi]1=full-page engraved arms of Verstegan (possibly bound originally as 2V3), [dagger]1=title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, 10 engravings in text, moderate browning, headlines and pagination generally shaved, [pi]1, [dagger]1 and 2X4 all trimmed and mounted, [dagger]2 fore margin extended at the same date, staining to [dagger]3 and 2A2-3, all edges gilt, c.1700 blue-green goatskin, twin morocco labels to spine, compartments gilt in saltire pattern incorporating acorn and seed-head tools, broad floral rolls gilt to sides, 4to (17 x 11.8 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) 'J. R. Middlemore' (early-18th-century engraved bookplate with motto 'Medio tuissimus ibis'); the Middlemore family lived at Somerby Hall, Grantham. 2) 'Henry Moyley, Grays Inn' (later ownership inscription to front free endpaper). ESTC S116255; STC21361. 'A seminal work of Anglo-Saxon scholarship' (ODNB), also noted for containing the first version of the Pied Piper of Hamelin story in English.
Lot 326
Hanway (Jonas). Advice from Farmer Trueman , to his Daughter Mary, Upon her going to Service. In a Series of Discourses, designed to Promote the Welfare and True Interest of Servants, with Reflections of no less importance to Masters and Mistresses, 1792, occasional spotting, short paper fault tear to lower outer blank corner of T1, manuscript ownership label of Betty Johnson of Eccleston to front pastedown, rear free marbled endpaper replaced, cloth hinges, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, recent green morocco spine labels, 12mo in 6s, together with More (Hannah) , Christian Morals, 2 volumes, 1813, closed tear to H10 in volume 1, contemporary half calf gilt, 12mo, plus Sharp (Granville) , A Declaration of the People's Natural Right to a share in the Legislature; which is the Fundamental Principle of the British Constitution of State, 2nd edition, 1775, half-title, ink stamp at foot of first leaf of preface and to verso of final leaf of text, edges untrimmed, original boards, rebacked preserving original printed title label, 8vo (Qty: 4)
Lot 64
Steele (Arthur). The Law and Custom of Hindoo Castes within the Dekhun Provinces subject to the Presidency of Bombay, chiefly affecting Civil Suits, a New Edition, London: William H. Allen and Co., 1868, title-page browned, ink-stamps ('C. V. Anantakrishna Iyer, High Court Vakil, Madras') and related ownership inscriptions ('C. V. Ananta Krishan Esq, Nov 1900, Madras') to title-page and text, a few ownership inscriptions effaced, later cloth, 8vo (25.2 x 15.1 cm), together with: Coleman (F. M.), Typical Pictures of Indiain Natives, 1st edition, Bombay: "Times of India" office, 1897, 24 photographic colour plates, all edges gilt, original green sheep gilt, rubbed in places, 4to (24 x 17.5 cm), Sharpe (W. R. S.), Bombay. The Gateway of India, 1st edition, Bombay Port Trust, [1930], colour frontispiece, vignette title-page, 5 lithographic colour plans (1 folding), folding halftone panorama to rear, appendices (8 letterpress leaves wire-stitched at one corner) loose in rear pocket as issued, original maroon cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 4to (28.5 x 22.7 cm), and 5 others, all India-related, including 2 copies of James T. Molesworth's Dictionary, Murathee and English, 1st edition (1831), paper heavily browned and friable with several amateur tape-repairs, and 2nd edition (1873), title-page tape-repaired, both in modern cloth, 4to (Qty: 9)NOTESSteele's work was first published in 1827, at Bombay.
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