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Click here to subscribeYANAGI, Soetsu. The Unkown Craftsman: a Japanese Insight into Beauty, Kodansha International 1972, first edition, adapted by Bernard Leach, foreward by Shoji Hamada, orig. cloth, dustjacket, 8vo; BIRKS, Tony & Cornelia Wingfield Digby. Bernard Leach, Hamada & their Circle from the Wingfield Digby Collection, Phaidon. Christie's 1990, illus., orig. cloth, dj, 4to; and others on studio pottery and oriental ceramics, some pbk (9)
NATURAL HISTORY. BEWICK, Thomas. A History of British Birds, Newcastle 1797 & 1816, 2 vols., vol. 1 first edition, with advertisement on last f. of both vols., wood engrs., bookplates, two col. cloth, 8vo; IDEM. A General History of Quadrupeds, Newcastle 1811, 6th edn., wood engrs., advert at end, bookplate, two col. cloth, 8vo (3)
MILITARY. CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Great War, London: George Newnes nd (c. 1933), 3 vols., b&w illus., half red morocco gilt, 4to; BLADEN, Martin. C. Julius Caear's Commentaries of his Wars in Gaul, and Civil War with Pompey, K. Knapton and D. Midwinter, third edit, 1725, frontis, 13 plates and maps all but one folding, some age browning, calf with an 'old' reback, 8vo; LAROCHEJAQUELEIN, Marchioness de. Memoirs.., with a folding map of the Theatre of War in La Vendee, translated from French, Edinburgh 1816, tree calf, 8vo; VERTOT, Abbot [René-Aubert]. The History of the Revolution in Sweden, London 1729, 6th edn., contemp. calf, 8vo; WILLIAMS, Lieut.-Col. England's Battles by Sea and Land, London nd (c. 1860), 3 vols., engr. plts & maps, half. calf, rubbed, large 4to; LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, first trade edition, 1935, frontispiece, plates, folding maps, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink signature to endpaper, original buckram, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to; and others including naval & odd vols. (34)
DEVON. LYSONS, Daniel & Samuel. Magna Britannia, vol. 6, Devonshire, 2 vols., London 1822, double page map of Devon, double page plan of Exeter, 3 double page maps, 29 plates (some pages and plates loose), untrimmed, orig. pubs. boards, 4to; RISDON, Tristram. The Chorographical Description or Survey of the County of Devon, Plymouth 1811, foxed, orig. pubs. boards, 8vo; WHITE, William. History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire, Sheffield 1850, folding map loose, embossed calf, bookplate, 8vo; and VANCOUVER, Charles. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Devon with Observations on the Means of its Improvement drawn up for the consideration of The Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, printed for Richard Philips 1808, first edition, with folding hand-coloured map, tables and engraved plates (some folding), bound in boards with paper covered spine & printed label (binding worn), 8vo (5)
MOUNTAINEERING & ARCTIC. CHAPMAN, F. Spencer. Northern Lights. The Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition 1930-1931, London: Chatto 1932, 1st edition, frontis., folding map & plates, orig. cloth , 4to; NEVE, Arthur. Thirty Years in Kashmir, London: Arnold1913, red cloth (wear), bookplate, seventeen plate illus., some with double images, folding map at end, 8vo; FELLOWES, Air-Commodore P. F. M. & others. First Over Everest: The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition 1933, first edition 1933, half-title, plates, 3 folding maps and diagrams, 3D glasses in pocket at end, scattered spotting, original cloth, sunned spine and top edge, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities; and others related (14)
GREEN, Roger Lancelyn. Authors & Places, London: B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1963, first edition, signed and inscribed in ink to ffep 'For Pip, Betty and Lorraine, after our visit to 'Bateman's' with love from Roger 7 May 1963', original beige cloth, dj (worn/chipped with some tears), 8vo; IDEM. Andrew Lang, Leicester: Edmund Ward 1946, first edition, ink ownership inscription to ffep for E. W. Price, original navy cloth, dj (worn/spotted/chipped with some tears), 8vo. (2)Roger Lancelyn Green was associated with members of the Inklings literary discussion group such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. In Authors & Places he writes, amongst others, about Kipling and (see provenance) Cormell Price.Provenance: The Estate of Lorraine Price. Lorraine Price was the daughter of Edward William Cormell Price and granddaughter of Cormell Price, the founder of the United Services College which Rudyard Kipling attended. Cormell Price was the inspiration for 'The Head' in Stalky & Co. (and a member of the 'Birmingham Set' at Oxford along with others such as William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones).Bateman's in East Sussex was the last home of Rudyard Kipling and bequeathed to the National Trust by his widow.
EGYPTOLOGY. Three Shelves of Works. PORTER, Bertha & Rosalind L. B. Moss, The Theban Necropolis, parts 1 & 2, Ashmolean Museum 1985 reprint, 2 vols, blue cloth, dustwrappers, 8vo; PETRIE, Flinders. The Making of Egypt, London 1939, first edition, cloth, dustwrapper, large 8vo; and others related (78 & small box of paperbacks, etc).
POLAR. SHACKLETON, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic, Heinemann 1909, first edition, 2 vols., half-titles, frontispieces, 12 colour plates, b&w plates, captioned tissue-guards, 3 folding maps and 1 folding chart in pocket at end vol. 2, cracked hinges, scattered foxing, previous owner's ink signature to ffeps., ex Officers' Library- Royal Marines, Chatham, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners, rebacked with orig. spine with library no., large 8vo (2)
MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1927, first edition, illustrations by Ernest Shepard, original red pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed with some tanning and bumping, a little spotting to endpapers, half-title and printers-detail-page at end browned, pencil inscription to half-title, 8vo.
[DUNTON, John] Athenian Sport: or two thousand paradoxes merrily argued..., printed for B. Bragg, 1707, first edition, half-title, bookplate, contemporary calf; [HUTCHESON, Francis] An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, London 1726, 2nd edition, engraved coat-of-arms at head of dedication, bookplate, contemp. calf; HOWELL, Dr. Medulla Historiae Anglicanae, J Knapton, et al 1724, plates, including frontis and folding table, cont. calf; GAY, John. Poems on Several Occasions, printed for Tonson & Lintot 1731, two volumes, engravings and frontispiece by F. Foudrinière, contemp. calf; [JOHNSON, S.] The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers, 1769, 4th edition, contemp. calf; and LONGINUS, Dionysius. The Works of Dionysius Longinus, On the Sublime: or, A Treatise Concerning the Sovereign Perfection of Writing. Translated from the Greek. With some Remarks on the English Poets, by Mr. Welsted, 1712, contemp. calf, all 8vo or small 8vo (7)
WILDE, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Goal. By C.3.3, London: Leonard Smithers 1899, untrimmed, dirty, bookplate, two-colour cloth, 8vo; PEARSON, Hesketh, The Life of Oscar Wilde, London: Methuen, 4th edn., 8vo; and FREEMAN, William. The Life of Lord Alfred Douglas: Spoilt Child of Genius, London: Herbert Joseph, 1948, first edition, 8vo (3)
FIVE BOXES OF BOOKS to include sixteen early twentieth century volumes of Rudyard Kipling's works, two Folio Society books (without slipcovers) comprising Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the looking glass, a vintage From Russia With Love, a first edition Count Belisarius by Robert Graves, a 1714 edition of Shakespeare's plate,a group of antiquarian bibles, assorted foreign language books, a group of modern hobby reference books, etc (5 boxes) (s.d)
° ° Froissart, John - De l'Histoire et Cronique de Messire....Revue & corrigé sur divers exemplaires, and suivant les bons auteurs, par Denis Sauvage de Fontenailles en Brie.....vols. iii and iv (only, of 4) bound together. The first critical edition of this major French text, and 'infiniment supérieure aux éditions précédents' (Brunet). (12), 363, (4) and (11), 350, (5)pp. printer's device on titles. engraved headpiece decorations and decorated initial letters; old calf, rebacked with original gilt decorated panelled spine preserved, red speckled edges, folio. Lyon: Jan de Tournes....1560-1561. Provenance: From the private collection of the late Terry Jones (1942-2020), known for his roles as a writer, comedian, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.
° ° Kipling, Rudyard - A Kipling Note Book. Illustrations, Anecdotes, Bibliographical and Biographical Facts anent this Foremost Writer of Fiction. First Edition - the 12 monthly issues. each with title device, and within orange rules, 5 text illus. and 15 (ex. 19) of the loose inserts; original decorated and printed wrappers, sm. 8vo. New York: M.F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, February, 1899 - January, 1900
° ° Thackeray, William Makepeace - Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero. First Edition (bound as 2 vols.) engraved pictorial (vol.1) and printed (vol.2) titles, 39 plates and num. text engravings; contemp. gilt ruled half calf and marbled boards, gilt decorated panelled spines with red and black labels, gilt tops, marbled edges and e/ps. 1848 Spines rubbed, corners lt. wear; some plts. offsetting, lt. soiling (mostly marginal). vol.1 text pp. 320, vol. 2 text pp. 321-624. old armorial bkplt., Thomas Ashton. p.336 has plate of the Marquis. Text good, toning to plate margins. Extremities to bindings a little scuffed.
° ° Dickens, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield with illustrations by H. K. Browne, (Phiz), 8vo, half calf, Bradbury and Evans, London, 1850, and The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, first edition in book form, engraved frontispiece, additional title and 41 pates by R. Seymour, R.W. Buss & H. K. Browne ("Phiz), 8vo, half calf, Chapman and Hall, London, 1837, (2).
° ° Blunt, Lady Anne - A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race. A Visit to the Court of the Arab Emir, and "Our Persian Campaign". First Edition, 2 vols. 15 plates, a coloured folded map, and some text engravings; earlier 20th cent. red half morocco and cloth, gilt decorated panelled spines, gilt tops and marbled e/ps., cr.8vo. 1881A lt. leather wear, but reasonably good, some intermittent inside spotting, the back e/ps. of vol. 1 are not marbled. xxxiii, 273 and xi, 283pp. (incl. half titles) and 24pp. John Murray's catalogue (Oct. 1880); pictorial bookplates of Musgrave Clark
° ° [Wycliffe, John] - The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal Books, in the Earliest English Versions…Edited by the Rev. Josiah Forshall, F.R.S., etc., and Sir Frederick Madden, K.H., F.R.S., 4 vols, uncut, rebound half calf with gilt lettered spines and renewed endpapers, Oxford, at the University Press, 1850 Note: A good copy of this significant work. John Wycliffe (circa 1330-1384) and his followers began translating the Bible from the Latin Vulgate in 1384. This act defied the Catholic Church's policy at the time, which prohibited making the entire Bible available in the vernacular language. Possessing Wycliffe's translation became a crime. Posthumously declared a heretic, Wycliffe was a precursor f the Protestant Reformation. The Oxford edition of the Wycliffe Bible is the first printed edition of his complete translation, whereas earlier printed editions included only the New Testament. Provenance: From the private collection of the late Terry Jones (1942-2020), known for his roles as a writer, comedian, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.Note: A good copy of this significant work. John Wycliffe (circa 1330-1384) and his followers began translating the Bible from the Latin Vulgate in 1384. This act defied the Catholic Church's policy at the time, which prohibited making the entire Bible available in the vernacular language. Possessing Wycliffe's translation became a crime. Posthumously declared a heretic, Wycliffe was a precursor to the Protestant Reformation. The Oxford edition of the Wycliffe Bible is the first printed edition of his complete translation, whereas earlier printed editions included only the New Testament.“Provenance: From the private collection of the late Terry Jones (1942-2020), known for his roles as a writer, comedian, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.”
° ° Malory, Sir Thomas - Morte Darthur: The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Knights of the Round Table....With an introduction by Professor Rhys and embellished with many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley. (the 2nd Beardsley edition, 1500 copies printed). pictorial title and 20 engraved plates (5 double page), many text illus. and decorations; publisher's gilt ruled and decorated cloth, gilt top with other edges rough trimmed, contents leaf loose, ink ownership inscription to inner front fly leaf, with original prospectus and specimen plate inserted, roy. 8vo. Dent & Sons, London, 1909. Note: Beardsley's first significant work was an intricately illustrated edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, presented in a facsimile format of Caxton's 1485 typographic classic. Beardsley's illustrations for this masterpiece feature a blend of knights, fauns, swans, and fantastical figures, all rendered in his distinctive "fin de siècle" style. The second edition includes 18 drawings that were not present in the original 1893-94 edition.
° ° Wentworth, Lady Judith - The Authentic Arabian Horse and His Descendants ... First Edition. coloured frontis. and many plates (24 coloured, some after drawings by Lady Anne Blunt and the Author), text illus., errata leaf and errata slip; original gilt ruled and pictorial cloth, roy. 4to. 1945 Condition: Cloth sl. marked and faded; (4), 388pp. (incl. half title), contemp. ownership on e/p. Front fly leaf ownership signature L.R.M. Clark, dated 1945. No annotations within text seen.
° ° Dickson, H.R.P. - The Arab of the Desert. First Edition. num. plates (some coloured) and text illus., 6 folded tables and 7 (ex8) folded maps under end flap; publisher's gilt cloth, thick 8vo. 1949Front inner hinged cracked, sl. wear foot of spine, lt. title and e/ps. spotting; 648pp. (incl. half title); Musgrave-Clark bkplt.
° ° Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 1st edition pictorial boards and d/wrapper; 2000; Rowling, J. K. - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. 1st edition. pictorial boards and d/wrapper. 2003; Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. 1st edition. pictorial boards. 2005; Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. 1st edition. pictorial boards and d/wrapper. 2007; Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Parts One and Two. Special Rehearsal Edition. publisher's gilt cloth and d/wrapper, pictorial e/ps. Little, Brown, 2016; Rowling, J.K. - The Tales of Beedle the Bard ... 1st edition. illus. and text decorations. pictorial boards, sm. 8vo. 2008; Rowling, J.K. - The Ickabog ... 1st edition. text illus. (some coloured and full page); publisher's decorated cloth and d/wrapper. (2020); Rowling, J.K. - The Christmas Pig. 1st edition. full page illus. (by Jim Field), publisher's gilt pictorial cloth and d/wrapper, patterned e/ps. 2021; together with some others by this author - including 2 copies of the first paperback edition of the Prisoner of Azkaban. (1999) (17)
° ° Bindings – M. Douglas – Across Greenland’s Ice-Fields, the Adventures of Nansen and Peary on the Great Ice-Cap, first edition, 8vo, illustrations, contemporary full tree calf, gilt coat-of arms to upper cover, Thomas Nelson, London, 1897, together with 40 further miscellaneous volumes, mostly bindings (41).
° ° Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. (De Luxe Edition). armorial half and title pages. publisher's gilt red cloth with mounted coloured illus. on upper cover, ge. and red e/ps. 1999; Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (De Luxe Edition). armorial half and title pages, the 4 advert./facsimile letter pages at end; publisher's gilt blue cloth with mounted coloured illus. on upper cover, ge. and blue e/ps. 1999; Rowling, J. K. - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (De Luxe Edition). armorial half and title pages; publisher's gilt green cloth with mounted coloured illus. on upper cover, ge. and green e/ps. 1999; sold with Rowling, J. K. - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. First Edition (reprinted) armorial half and title pages, the 4 advert./ facsimile letters pages at end; publisher's coloured pictorial boards and d/wrapper. Bloomsbury, (?1999); Rowling, J. K. - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. First Edition (reprinted). armorial half and title pages; publisher's coloured pictorial boards and d/wrapper. (?1999) (5) Condition: Philos. - vg., code 10-1, Chamber - vg., code 10-1; Azkaban - vg.; code 10-5; Chamber (1st ed.) vg., d/w. not clipped; Blackwells (Brighton) receipt (24/3/00); Azkaban (1st) vg., code 20 19 18; Blackwells (Brighton) receipt loosely inserted (28/4/00). nb. Chamber of Secrets (1st) Errington's Corrections - not carried out; Azkaban (1st) Errington's Corrections - not carried out, thus 2nd or 3rd printing state. Azkaban 10,9,8,7,6,5 Chamber 10-1 inc. Stone 10-1 inc.
° ° Rackham, Arthur (illustrator), 3 works – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, first trade edition, first issue, sm. 4to, 12 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original olive cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover, London, Heinemann, 1915; Eden Phillpotts, A Dish of Apples, sm. 4to, 3 tipped-in colour plates, tissue-guards, original grey pictorial cloth, London & New York, Hodder & Stoughton, [1921]; F.A. Steel, English Fairy Tales, first trade edition, 8vo, colour plates, original red cloth, London, Macmillan, 1918. Together with 2 more volumes illustrated by Rackham, reprints (5).
° ° Bawden, Edward first book as illustrator - Paltock, Peter - The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, 4to, blue cloth gilt in a torn d/j, with loss, with 19 coloured stencil illustrations, 5 being full page, 4 double-page, with coloured endpapers, Dent, London, 1928; Flaubert, Gustave - Salammbo, one of 1600 signed by the illustrator Edward Bawden, 4to, original cream buckram, with 8 double-page plates, The Limited Editions Club, University Press, Cambridge, 1960, in slip case and Conrad, Joseph and Hueffer, Ford Madox - The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story, 1st English edition, 8vo, yellow pictorial cloth, without dedication leaf later inserted in some copies, lacks front endpaper and half title, with the thirty-two page publisher’s catalogue at rear, some uncut, title embossed ‘’PRESENTATION COPY’’, with ink ownership inscription and date 3/7/07, William Heinemann, London, 1901 (3)
° ° Rackham, Arthur (illustrator) – 7 works – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, new edition, 4to, 50 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original green cloth, decorative gilt, London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]; William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, first trade edition, 40 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original beige cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover, London, Heinemann, 1908; Richard Wagner – Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods, translated by Margaret Armour, first trade edition, 4to, 30 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original beige cloth, pictorial gilt, London, Heinemann, 1911; Richard Wagner – The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie, translated by Margaret Armour, first trade edition, 4to, 34 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original beige cloth, pictorial gilt, London, Heinemann, 1910; Hans Andersen – Fairy Tales – reprint, 4to, colour plates, original red cloth, London, G.G. Harrap, 1932; Some British Ballads, first trade edition, 4to, 16 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, original blue cloth, London, Constable & Co. Ltd., [1919]; and a duplicate of the last (7).
° ° The Florist - Volume First. coloured plates and other illus.; old half calf and marbled boards. 1848; Hooker, William - The English Flora of Sir James Edward. class xxiv Cryptogamia (vol. V, Pt.1). old half calf and marbled boards. 1833; Miller's Abridged Gardener's Dictionary. vol. 1 (3rd edition). engraved frontis.; old calf. 1748; with 2 related books (5)
° ° Stone, F. Gleadowe - Tactical Studies From The Franco-German War of 1870-71, first edition, tall 8vo, 22 folding lithographed maps, including 17 with outline hand-colouring, near contemporary tree calf, gilt ruled, two green morocco lettering pieces to the spine, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., London, 1886. Note: scarce.
° ° Wharton, Edith - Old New York ... Decorations by E.C. Caswell. First Edition, 4 vols. pictorial e/ps. to each volume; original roy. blue cloth with pictorial label on upper boards and printed label on spines, coloured and floral patterned d/wrappers with a pictorial title on upper wrapper of each, and contained in the original slipcase, sm.cr.8vo. London and New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1924. Note: Four separate stories with the metropolis as a background, comprises - False Dawn (the 'Forties); The Old Maid (the 'Fifties); The Spark (the 'Sixties); New Year's Day (the 'Seventies)
° ° 'Pogany, Willy (illustrator) – 3 works – Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse by Edward FitzGerald, limited edition, being number 49 of 1250 copies signed by Pogany, 4to, 12 tipped-in colour plates, original green morocco, gilt green and red decoration to upper cover, t.e.g., London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1930; Richard Wagner – Tannhauser, A Dramatic Poem Freely Translated In Poetic Narrative Form by T.W. Rolleston, first trade edition, 4to, 16 tipped-in colour plates, original grey pictorial cloth, gilt, London, G.G. Harrap & Co., 1911; Richard Wagner – The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan, by T.W. Rolleston, first trade edition, 4to, 8 tipped-in colour plates, original brown pictorial cloth, gilt, London, G.G. Harrap & Co., [1913]. Together with Rudyard Kipling’s ‘A Song of the English’, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, first trade edition, 4to, [1909] (4).
° ° Rowling, J. K. - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. First Edition (reprinted). armorial half and title pages. publisher's coloured pictorial boards and d/wrapper. Bloomsbury, (?1999)Vg. copy, unclipped (£10.99) d/w., of which cannot see a mention in Errington (?) Code is 20 19 18 17; none of Errington's corrections carried out - save deletion of second '1 wand' (p.53) and space between Taylor and 1997 is present p.(4). Blackwells (Brighton) orig. receipt (23/3/00) loosely inserted. Print run number 20,19,18,17
° ° Tolkien, J.J.R - Lord of the Rings, 3 vols, to consist of The Fellowship of the Ring, first edition, 8th. impression, original cloth, folding map at rear, clipped dust-jacket, browned with slight loss to head of spine; The Two Towers, first edition, 7th. impression, original cloth, folding map at rear, original clipped dust-jacket with browned spine; The Return of the King, 1st edition, 6th. impression, folding map at end, original red cloth, original clipped dust-jacket, with edges and spine sunned, all George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1960.
° ° Brighton – John William Holloway – An Authentic and Faithful History of the Atrocious Murder of Celia Holloway… Including, Also, The Trial for the Murder, and the Extraordinary Confessions of John William Holloway, Together With His Life, Written by Himself…, first edition, 8vo, 5 engraved plates, 2pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear, contemporary half calf, For the Proprietors, Brighton, 1832. Together with ‘Les Confessions de Saint Augustin’, fifth edition, text in French, contemporary calf, chez J. Viret et al., Rouen, 1647, 12mo (2).
° ° Esquemeling, John - The Bucaniers of America: or, a True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults committed of late years upon the Coasts of the West indies, by the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French ... more especially, the unparallel'd exploits of Sir Henry Morgan ... who sack'd Puerto Velo, burnt Panama, &c. Written originally in Dutch ... now faithfully rendered into English. First English Edition. 6 full page illus. including 4 portraits and 2 double page engravings, 2 folded and 1 double page maps, and num. text engravings (incl. maps). printed for William Crooke, 1684; together with Ringrose, Basil - Bucaniers of America. The second volume (of this set) containing the Dangerous Voyage and Bold Attempts of Captain Bartholomew, and Others; performed upon the Coasts of the South Sea, for the space of two years, &c. From the original journal of the said voyage ... num. text maps and plans (some full page, 1 folded). printed for William Crooke ... 1685. together 2 vols. contemp. speckled calf, gilt decorated and panelled spines with red and black labels, 4to.Note: First published (in Dutch) Amsterdam, 1678; this edition was based on the Spanish which (perhaps not surprisingly) had taken liberties with the original text; Morgan bringing a successful libel suit against the printers.Condition: Binding vol.1 red sprinkled edges, blind ruled covers; vol.2 marbled edges and no. blind ruling; vol.1 - upper joint tender, both vols. lt. bds. and spine wear; both vols with some light marginal soiling / stains - just touching catchwords / text. All plates and pages present. Text good, bar staining to lower right margins pp.49-114 and 105-150 and pp. 55 to end in part III. vol. I. Text to vol. 2 good. 3cm closed tear to plate 'Battle between the Spaniards'.
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