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Click here to subscribe[Gildon, Charles] The New Metamorphosis; or, The Pleasant Transformation: Being The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleuis of Medaura, 2 volumes, first edition, 6 engraved plates, heavily browned, a few leaves loose, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, vol. 1 with spine cracked, 8vo, London: S. Brisco, 1708
Wheler, George. A Journey into Greece... In Company of Dr. Spon of Lyons, first edition, 7 engraved illustrations on 5 sheets, the first shaved at foot, folding engraved map, engraved illustrations throughout, Dd4 with rust-hole to margin, Yy3 with rust-hole, slightly affecting text, a few later leaves with evidence of minor worming to gutter, occasional light browning, contemporary calf, rebacked, bookplate of Elwin Millard, folio, London: William Cademan, Robert Kettlewell and Awnsham Churchill, 1682 [Wing W1607] The first attempt at a systematic topographical description of Greece.
Smollett, Tobias. A Complete History of England, 16 volumes, including the Continuation, volumes 1-3, second edition, volumes 4-11, third edition, volumes 1-5 (Continuation), first edition, 187 engraved portraits, 8 folding engraved maps, occasional dampstaining and spotting, contemporary calf, a few volumes with spines chipped at ends, volumes 3, 7 and 16 with joints slightly cracked, 8vo, London: James Rivington and James Fletcher [later Richard Baldwin], 1758-1760 and 1760-1765, sold not subject to return
Bulleid, Arthur and Harold St. George Gray. The Glastonbury Lake Village, 2 volumes, first edition, plates, volume one with spine cracked and frayed along upper hinge, top edge gilt, 4to, Taunton: Glastonbury Antiquarian Society, 1911-1917; Paul, Roland Wilmot. An Account of Some of the Incised and Sepulchral Slabs of North-West Somerset, plates, modern cloth, folio, London: Provost & Co., 1882; Jewers, Arthur J. Wells Cathedral, first edition, plates, original cloth, 4to, London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1892, all ex-library copies with usual markings (4)
George, Hereford Brooke. The Oberland and its Glaciers: Explored and Illustrated with Ice-Axe and Camera, first edition, half-title, 28 mounted photographic plates by Ernest Edwards, the full-page plates with tissue guards, browned, double-page lithographed map, spotted, original cloth gilt, extremities chipped, all edges gilt, library stamped, 4to, London: Alfred W. Bennett, 1866
Vergilius Maro, Publius. The Works... Translated into English Verse by Mr Dryden, first edition, engraved frontispiece, laid down with some loss of image, 98 [of 100] engraved plates, one with fore-edge shaved, another with loss due to paper blemish, a few leaves with margins torn, browned, contemporary calf, joints cracked, bookplate of Coker Court, folio, London: Jacob Tonson, 1697 [Wing V616]
Carey, Frances Jane. Journal of a Tour in France in the Years 1816 and 1817, first edition, contemporary calf, all edges gilt, 8vo, London: Taylor and Hessey, 1823; Scott, John. A Visit to Paris in 1814, fifth edition, light spotting, original boards, spine chipped with loss, 8vo, London: Longman, et al., 1816; Mitchell, R. Mathew's Trip to Paris, hand-coloured folding frontispiece, modern half calf, 12mo, London: Dean and Munday, 1819; Trollope, Frances. Paris and the Parisians in 1835, 2 volumes, first edition, plates, p.219 repaired with very slight loss of text, contemporary half calf, 8vo, London: Richard Bentley, 1836; and 5 others, European travel, v.s. (10)
[E.W.B.] The Anti-Gallican; or Standard of British Loyalty, Religion and Liberty; including a Collection of the Principal Papers, Tracts, Speeches, Poems, and Songs, that have been published on the Threatened Invasion, first edition, nos.1-12 bound in one volume, 3 folding engraved frontispieces, 2 hand-coloured, later tissue guard, some spotting, late nineteenth century blue half morocco by Bayntun, all edges gilt, 8vo, London: Vernor and Hood, 1804
[Combe, William] Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, shortly before the Revolution, first edition, 18 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Thomas Rowlandson, light browning and offsetting, without the advertisements at end, as usual, original publisher's cloth gilt, 8vo, London: R. Ackermann, 1821 [Tooley 415]
Winslow, Jacques Benigne. The Uncertainty of the Signs of Death, first edition, 6 engraved plates, occasional light spotting, late eighteenth century polished calf, the spine with the Hamilton cinquefoil flower and Maltese Cross in compartments, bookplate of Elwin Millard, 8vo, London: M. Cooper, 1746 PROVENANCE: William Beckford, Hamilton Palace Library.
Moore, John. A Journal during a Residence in France, from the Beginning of August, to the Middle of December, 1792, 2 volumes, first edition, folding engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, without half-titles, light spotting, contemporary half calf, spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1793
Charleton, Walter. Chorea Gigantum, or, The most Famous Antiquity of Great-Britan, Vulgarly called Stone-heng, Standing on Salisbury Plain, first edition, 2 folding wood-engraved plates, one with fore-edge soiled and cropped, imprimatur leaf, upper margin cropped with occasional loss to running title, worming to upper margin of B3 to D4, with occasional loss of text, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, 4to, London: Henry Herringman, 1663 [Wing C3666] RARE.
Smith, James Edward. A Sketch of a Tour on the Continent, in the Years 1786 and 1787, 3 volumes, first edition, without half-titles, occasional light spotting, contemporary polished tree calf, spines tooled elaborately gilt, bookplate of Coker Court, 8vo, London: Printed for the Author, 1793
[Witches and the English Civil War] A true and exact Relation Of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex... first edition, pp.6 and 30 with marginal note slightly shaved, 8vo, London: Henry Overton and Benj. Allen, 1645; bound with forty-one contemporary tracts in 2 volumes, including; A Manifestation from Lieutenant Col. John Lilburn, Mr William Walwyn, Mr Thomas Prince, and Mr Richard Overton, [London], 1649; A Discourse Betwixt Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburn... and Mr Hugh Peter, [London], 1649; [Lilburn, John] England's New Chains Discovered, 1649; The Laws Funerall, [1648]; The Prisoners mournfull cry, against the Judges of the Kings Bench, [1648]; The Proposition of Liev. Col. John Lilburne, [1647]; England's Birth-Right Justified, [n.d.]; Articles Exhibited In Parliament Against William, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Feb. 25. 1640, 1640; Articles of the Commons Assembled in Parliament in Maintenance of their Accusation, against William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury, whereby he stands charged with High Treason, [London], John Wright, 1643, a few tracts with margins shaved, sometimes affecting text, early eighteenth century half calf, bookplate of Coker Court, 8vo, sold not subject to return (2)
Webb, John. A Vindication of Stone-Heng Restored: In which the Orders and Rules of Architecture Observed by the Ancient Romans, are discussed..., first edition, licence leaf, signed recto 'Ri. Sackville' engraved illustrations in text, occasional rust-marks, title and first signature working loose, contemporary calf, worn, bookplate of Salisbury Museum Library, folio, London: R. Davenport, 1665 [Wing W1203] It seems likely the signature is that of Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset (1622-1677).
Cruickshank, George, illustrator. The Scourge; or Monthly Expositor, or Imposture and Folly, volumes 1-11 [of 12], first edition, 69 hand-coloured engraved plates after George Cruickshank and others, 66 folding, a few with minor repairs, one detached, modern red buckram, 8vo, London: M. Jones, 1811-1816, sold as a periodical, not subject to return RARE. The Scourge was one of the first publications to feature the work of George Cruickshank, then an emerging caricaturist. The impetus behind the publication was John Mitford (1782-1831), a talented classical scholar who fell prey to alcohol and madness. Now largely forgotten, The Scourge was part of a movement of political dissent in the early nineteenth century within the British press and it shocked the establishment with its comedic treatment of important national figures.
Du Halde, Jean Baptiste. The General History of China. Containing A Geographical, Historical, Chronological, Political and Pyshical Description of the Empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea and Thibet, 4 volumes, first edition in English, 4 engraved frontispieces, 15 engraved plates, 11 folding and 3 [of 4] engraved maps, 2 folding, one creased, another with slight tears, vol. 2 with some staining on pp.252-253, vol.1, pp.483-502 with minor worming to outer margin, occasionally very slightly affecting text, occasional light browning, contemporary calf, heavily rubbed, extremities chipped, some cracking to joints, bookplate of Coker Court, 8vo, London: John Watts, 1736
Chalmers (Patrick R.) Kenneth Grahame: Life, Letters and Unpublished Work, first edition, inscribed by Elspeth Grahame with autograph postcards loosely inserted, A.L.s by Alastair Grahame loosely inserted, illustrations, bookplate, original cloth, a little rubbed, dust-jacket, browned, slight chipping to extremities, 1933 § Gettmann (Royal A.) George Gissing and H. G. Wells, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, lightly faded spine, 1961 § Woolf (Cecil) A Bibliography of Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo, frontispiece, plates, original cloth, price-clipped dust-jacket, 1972 § Stott (Raymond Toole) A Bibliography of the Works of W. Somerset Maugham, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1973; and others, bibliography or author biography, 8vo (c.115)
World.- Reclus (Élisée) The Earth: a Descriptive History of the Phenomena of the Life of the Globe, 2 vol., double-page colour frontispiece and 23 plates, some double-page, illustrations, occasional faint spotting, 1 signature loose (2D, vol. 2), vol. 2 cracked hinges, original cloth, a little rubbed, 1871 § Symonds (John Addington) Sketches in Italy and Greece, occasional faint spotting, previous owner's ink stamp to title, publisher's advertisements bound at end, original cloth, rubbed and worn, 1879 § Byrd (Richard E.) Discovery, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates, original cloth, lightly browned spine, spotting to upper cover, New York, 1935; and 5 others, 8vo (9)
Labat (Jean-Baptiste) Memoires du Chevalier d'Arvieux..., 6 vol., first edition, some water-staining, mostly marginal, even browning and a little marginal foxing, vol.II signatures x11 and 12 marginal tears with loss, also with single worm-hole through entire text block with superficial loss to text, contemporary speckled calf, worn with some loss to backstrips, especially spine ends, vol.II worming to upper cover, 12mo, Paris, Charles-Jean-Baptiste Delespine, 1735.⁂ Includes the account of the travels of Laurent d'Arvieux to Constantinople and the Levant covering the religion, customs, costume, natural history of the various countries in the region.
Mexico.- Lopez de Gomara (Francisco) The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the West India, now called Spaine. Atchieved by the most woorthie Prince Hernando Cortes, second edition in English, largely printed in black letter, woodcut device to title, woodcut initials, title and final leaf in facsimile, heavily silked original title bound at end, P4 inserted from a different copy and partially in facsimile, 2X3 loosely inserted from a different copy, tender edges (a2-4 strengthened), several leaves strengthened at inner hinge, 3G1 trimmed with marginal loss (restored), occasional staining and marginal water-staining, 1 or 2 small marginal holes or loss, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, [Sabin 27752], sm. 4to, Thomas Creede, 1596.⁂ Rare and important work on the conquest of Mexico by Cortes's secretary and private chaplain, translated from Spanish into English by Thomas Nicholls and with a dedication to Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizbeth's principal secretary and 'spymaster.' Because of Lopez de Gomara's privileged position, he had access to many documents which subsequently disappeared, making this work one of the fullest and most detailed contemporary accounts of the destruction of the Aztec Empire. This is a reissue of the 1578 first edition in English.
King (Jessie M.) Kirkcudbright: a Royal Burgh, first edition, full-page illustrations, occasional marginal damp-staining, original pictorial wrappers, browned and faintly stained, 1934; Budding Life, full-page illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, browned, 1907 § MacGillivray (Pittendrigh) Pro Patria, inscribed to Macaulay Stevenson with ALs by the author, marginal water-staining to first few leaves, occasional faint spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, Edinburgh, 1915 § Stevenson (Robert Louis) Virginibus Puerisque and other papers, pencil inscription from Robert Macaulay Stevenson to his daughter, original morocco, rubbed, 1916; 8vo (4)
Gilpin (William) The Life of Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, first edition, small tear to title, marginal note trimmed, occasional faint spotting, 1755, bound after, The Life of Bernard Gilpin, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, vignette title, short tear to final leaf, 1753, bookplate, later half-calf, a little rubbed; The Lives of John Wiclif; and the most Eminent of his Disciples, second edition, etched portrait frontispiece and 4 plates, occasional faint marginal damp-staining, short tear (H4), bookplate, later half-calf, rubbed, small loss to spine extremities, 1766; The Life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, first edition, occasional faint spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, rubbed, cracked upper joint, 1784; and another second edition of The Life of Bernard Gilpin, 8vo (4)
Beardsley (Aubrey).- Symons (Arthur, editor) The Savoy: An Illustrated Quarterly, 8 vol., first edition, plates and illustrations by Beardsley, Sickert, Rothenstein, Beerboh,. Rossetti, etc., loosely inserted Christmas card in volume 1., volume 7 lacking publisher's slip, bookplates, occasional spotting, vol. 1 and 2 in original pink pictorial boards, the rest in original green pictorial wrappers, rubbed and worn, chipping to extremities, small loss to spines, housed in a modern drop-back box, [Lasner 103; Nelson 1896 1A], 4to, Leonard Smithers, 1896.⁂ The arrest of Oscar Wilde and the dismissal of Aubrey Beardsley as the art editor of The Yellow Book created difficulties for the artists and writers of the 1890s. Leonard Smithers's enterprise was therefore timely. However, employing Beardsley was not without its problems, his cover illustration for No. 1 having to be suppressed, for example, as it depicted a young boy urinating on The Yellow Book. Symons editorship was crucial, as he recruited writers including Yeats, Conrad, Shaw, Verlaine, Ernest Dowson and John Gray.
Oxford.- [Pechell (Sir John)] The History of the University of Oxford, to the Death of William the Conqueror, first edition, occasional faint spotting, correction inserted by hand, modern front free endpaper, bookplates, additions and errata bound at end, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed, Oxford, 1772 § Norris (John) A Catalogue of the Pictures, Models, Busts, &c. in the Bodleian Gallery, Oxford, Oxford, [1840] bound before Haskins (John) The Battle of Waterloo. A Poem, 1816, occasional faint spotting, engraved plates pasted to pastedowns, engraved portrait sewn to front free endpaper, bookplate, presentation inscription to blank, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, § Wade (W. M.) Walks in Oxford, 2 vol., engraved frontispieces, 11 plates and a large folding map, occasional faint spotting, bookplate, modern morocco-backed boards, Oxford, 1817; and 8 others, Oxford, 8vo & 12mo (12)⁂ The first is a preface to a much more substantial work printed the following year: a history from William I's death, also printed in Oxford and almost ten times as long.
NO RESERVE Macfall (Haldane) Whistler: Butterfly, Wasp, Wit, Master of the Arts Enigma, first edition, inscribed and dated by Macfall, frontispiece and plates, original cloth, lightly browned, Edinburgh & London, 1905 § Ingpen (Roger) William Thomas Horton (1864-1919), plates. original cloth-backed boards, rubbed, dust-jacket, a little browned, loss to edges, n.d. § Bullough (Edward) Æsthetics. A Course of Lectures Delivered Autumn, 1907, ink inscription, occasional faint spotting, original cloth, a little browned, [1907]; and others, similar, v.s. (c.55)
NO RESERVE Publishers.- Franklin (Colin) The Private Presses, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, 1970 § Bishop (Philip R.) Thomas Bird Mosher, first edition, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1998 § Kraus (Joe W.) Messrs. Copeland & Day, illustrations, original cloth, Philadelphia, 1979; A History of Way & Williams with a Bibliography of their Publications: 1895-1898, illustrations, original cloth, Philadelphia, 1984; and others on publishers or booksellers, v.s. (c.65)
NO RESERVE Morison (Stanley) & Kenneth Day, The Typographic Book 1450-1935, first edition, illustrations, many full-page, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight chipping to spine extremities, slipcase, rubbed and worn, 1963 § Jones (Herbert) Stanley Morison Displayed, first edition, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1976 § Keynes (Geoffrey) William Pickering Publisher, limited edition of 350 copies, occasional spotting, illustrations, occasional pencil markings, original cloth, remnants of dust-jacket loosely inserted, 1924 § Chapman (R. W.) Cancels, first edition, ALs signed by author loosely inserted, plates, 1 folding, occasional spotting, original vellum backed boards, a little rubbed, 1930 § Nelson (James G.) A Checklist of Early Bodley Head Book: 1889-1894, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, Oxford, Rivendale Press, 1999; and 10 others, similar, 4to & 8vo (15)
Wheler (George) Voyage de Dalmatie, de Grece, et du Levant, 2 vol., second edition in French, titles in red & black, engraved frontispieces, 56 plates (9 folding), and 29 maps (1 folding), woodcut decorations and illustrations, folding map with minor marginal loss at upper left corner, light browning, contemporary diced calf, gilt, g.e., extremities worn, joints splitting, some loss at spine ends, [Blackmer 1787 for first edition, but vide accompanying footnote; also Atabey 1329], 12mo, The Hague, Rutgert Alberts, 1723.
England.- Warner (Rev. Richard) Excursions from Bath, first edition, vignette title, engraved map illustrations, occasional faint spotting, bookplate, contemporary diced calf, rubbed, Bath, 1801; A Companion in a Tour Round Lymington, first edition, half-title, small marginal loss neatly restored (C1), short tear (C4), bookplate, later half-calf, rubbed, Southampton, [1789]; 8vo & 12mo (2)
NO RESERVE Literary criticism.- Hodgson (Geraldine E.) Criticism at a Venture, first edition, occasional spotting, bookplate, original cloth, a little rubbed, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, small tear to spine head, 1919 § Gawsworth (John) Ten Contemporaries, first edition, original cloth, slight bump to spine head, dust-jacket, rubbed, small tears, small loss to spine foot, 1932; Ten Contemporaries (Second Series), first edition, one or two pencil annotations, original cloth, a little spotted, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, small hole to spine, 1933 § Nield (Jonathan) A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Titles, one or two pencil annotations, original cloth, rubbed and faded, 1902 ; and others, similar, 8vo & 4to (c.75)
West Indies.- Edwards (Bryan) The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, 2 vol., first Dublin edition, folding engraved map with short tears, 5 folding tables, vol.1 X8 with tear repaired in margin, vol.2 with defect to lower margin of c.20ff., contemporary calf, one spine label slightly chipped, 8vo, Dublin, Luke White, 1793.
Horses.- Veterinary.- Fiaschi (Cesare) Trattato dell'imbrigliare, maneggiare, e ferrare cavalli, collation: A-N8 O4, title with woodcut printer's device, full-page woodcuts, mostly of horse tack, woodcut music, woodcut historiated initials, first few sigs. loose, some staining and spotting, lightly browned, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, soiled, [Not in Adams; EDIT 16 CNCE 41316], 8vo (153 x 103mm.), Venice, Francesco de Leno, 1563.⁂ A rare edition of this work on horse management.
Cookery.- Dumas (Alexandre) Grande Dictionnaire de Cuisine, first edition, in 2 vol., half-title, etched portrait frontispiece of Dumas and a portrait of contributor D. F. Vuillemot, both by Paul-Aldophe Rajon, some spotting, heavier to a few ff. (including title), contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spine in compartments, rubbed, [Bitting p.135; Cagle 171; Oberlé 238; Vicaire 297], large 8vo, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1873.
Polar.- Shackleton (Ernest H.) The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, plates (12 colour), illustrations, 3 folding maps in pocket at end, previous owner's ink inscription, occasional spotting, original pictorial cloth, browned spines, spine covering split at lower joint (vol. 2), rubbed, 1909 § M'Clintock (Captain) A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions, first edition, frontispiece and 13 engraved plates, 3 folding maps, folding facsimile, occasional marginal damp-staining, occasional spotting, original cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, rubbed, 1859 § Scott's Last Expedition, 2 vol., second edition, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, maps, previous owner's ink inscription, original cloth, a little rubbed, 1913; and 5 others, including 2 framed engravings, v.s. (10)
Pseudonym Library.- [Yeats (William Butler)] "Ganconagh" John Sherman and Dhoya, second edition, bookplate, 1891 § [Crawford (Ann)] "Von Degen" A Mystery of the Campagna, second edition, 1891 § "Talmage Dalin", European Relations: a Tirolese Sketch, 1891 § "John Oliver Hobbes", A Study in Temptations, 1893 § [Ramé (Marie Louise)] "Ouida", The Silver Christ, previous owner's ink inscription, 1894, occasional light spotting, original uniform cloth, browned, slight bumping to corners; and 50 others in 'The Pseudonym Library' in original cloth or original wrappers, 8vo (55)⁂ The first is Yeats' first published work of extended prose fiction.
NO RESERVE Female authors.- Head (Alice M.) It Could Never Have Happened, first edition, inscribed by author, portrait frontispiece, plates, one or two faint spots, original cloth, dust-jacket, water-stained edge, slight chipping, 1939 § Black (Helen C.) Notable Women Authors, plates, pencil annotations, original decorative cloth, rubbed and worn, 1906 § Meynell (Viola) Alice Meynell: a Memoir, portrait frontispiece, plates, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, browned, small loss to spine extremities, 1929 § Tuell (Anne Kimball) Mrs. Meynell and her Literary Generation, first edition, original cloth backed boards, slight bumping to corners, New York, 1925; and others, similar, 8vo (c.50)
Biography.- Noguchi (Yone) Lafcadio Hearn in Japan, portrait frontispiece & plates, occasional faint spotting, original paper wrappers, crease to upper cover, original portfolio, lightly browned, London & Yokohama, 1910 § Eliot (T. S.) Charles Whibley: a Memoir, first edition, original paper wrappers, lightly browned, 1931 § Sladen (Douglas) Twenty Years of My Life, first edition, inscribed by author, colour frontispiece, occasional pencil annotations, spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, 1915; My Long Life: Anecdotes and Adventures, first edition, inscribed by author, original cloth, dust-jacket, rubbed, small loss to spine head, 1939 § Bell (J. J.) I Remember, first edition, inscribed by author, related newspaper clipping tipped-in, original cloth, dust-jacket, small loss to spine extremities, Edinburgh, 1932; and others, including a large quantity of typescript facsimile DNB with annotations, v.s. (lge. qty.)
NO RESERVE Thompson (Francis) The Collected Poetry, limited edition of 100 copies signed by the publishers, portrait frontispiece, facsimile manuscript tipped-in, occasional faint spotting, original morocco, rubbed, 1913 § Huddart (Frideswith) The Hound of Heave. Ten drawings for the poem of Francis Thompson, first edition, 10 plates, captioned tissue-guards, copy of the poem in pocket to front pastedown, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, small loss to spine head, 1914 § Thompson (Francis) The Hound of Heaven, original cloth-backed boards, Philadelphia, 1916 § Owlett (F. C.) Francis Thompson, inscribed by author, cracked hinged, original cloth-backed boards, 1936; and others either on or by Thompson, v.s. (c.145)
Africa.- Anderson (Andrew A.) Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in the Gold Regions of Africa, 2 vol., first edition, 14 plates, 2 loose, occasional marginal pencil annotations, cracked hinges, ink inscription to front pastedown, original cloth, rubbed and worn, small loss to spine head (vol. 1), spotting to upper cover (vol. 1), [Hosken p.4], 1887 § Petherick (John) Egypt, the Soudan and Central Africa, first edition, large folding map backed on linen, small tear neatly repaired, ex-library with ink stamp to title, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, [Czech p.129], 1861 § Pike (Nicolas) Sub-Tropical Rambles in the Land of the Aphanapteryx, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 4 folding maps, cracked upper hinge, original cloth, a little rubbed, small loss to spine extremities, New York, 1873 § Foà (Édouard) Le Dahomey, portrait frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, contemporary half-morocco, a little rubbed, Paris, 1895; and another, 8vo (6)
India.- Mecham (Clifford Henry) Sketches & Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow. From Drawings Made during the Siege, first edition, tinted lithographed title with vignette and 16 plates only (of 17), spotting and damp-staining, margins frayed, loose in original cloth, spine defective, covers loose, folio, 1858; sold not subject to return. ⁂ Rare.
NO RESERVE London.- Egan (Pierce) Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, first edition, second issue, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, vignette title, 35 plates and illustrations by I. R. & G. Cruikshank, 3 folding music leaves, off-setting, plate facing p.280 trimmed, contemporary calf, rubbed, lower board detached, 1821; The Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, in their pursuits through Life in and out of London, engraved hand-coloured frontispiece, vignette title, 35 hand-coloured plates, 1 loose, contemporary morocco-backed boards, rebacked with original spine laid down, a little rubbed, 1889, 8vo (2)
NO RESERVE London.- Henley (W. E., editor) A London Garland, first edition, frontispiece, plates, occasional spotting, original decorative vellum, a little rubbed and spotted, 1895 § Frewin (Leslie, editor) The Café Royal Story: a living legend, first edition, frontispiece, plates & illustrations, original decorative boards, a little rubbed, 1963 § Whitten (Wilfred) London in Song, previous owner's ink inscription, decorative cloth, browned, 1898 § Whyte (Frederic) A Bachelor's London, frontispiece, plates, occasional pencil annotations, original cloth, price-clipped dust-jacket, spotting, small loss to spine head, 1931; and others similar, v.s. (22)
NO RESERVE Irish authors.- Freeman (John) A Portrait of George Moore in a Study of his Work, limited edition of 600 signed by the author, portrait frontispiece, original boards, dust-jacket, lightly browned, slight creasing to top edge, 1922 § Holroyd (Michael) Bernard Shaw, 5 vol. in 4, first edition, first and last vol. signed by author, plates, original boards, dust-jackets, 1988-92 § Dublin Verses by Members of Trinity College, occasional faint spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, Dublin, 1895 § Hone (Joseph) W. B. Yeats 1865-1939, first edition, portrait frontispiece, original cloth, dust-jacket, slight chipping to corners and extremities, 1942; and others by or on Irish writers, 8vo (c.50)
Lemery (Nicolas) Cours de chymie contenant la manière de faire les opérations qui sont en usage dans la médecine, par une méthode facile, seventh edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 7 plates of apparatus, 1 folding engraved plate with an explanation of chemical symbols, some water-staining, contemporary calf, gilt spine in compartments, head and foot of spine and corners worn, rubbed, [Ferguson II, 20. Wellcome III, 486], 8vo, Paris, Etienne Michallet, 1690.⁂ The first edition to include the folding plate of chemical symbols. The work is divided into three parts: minerals, vegetables and animals.
Greece.- Wheler (George) A Journey into Greece, first edition., 7 engraved plates (4 of coins, 3 smaller), numerous illustrations in text, lacking folding map, some spotting, occasional foxing, lightly browned, 19thc entury polished calf, gilt, joints split, but holding, corners worn, rubbed, [Atabey 1328; Blackmer 1786; Wing W1607], Printed for William Cademan, 1682; and 2 others, Greece, folio & 8vo (3)
Gilpin (William) An Essay on Prints, third edition, occasional underlining and marginal annotations in pencil and ink, ink signature to title, bookplates, later half-calf, a little rubbed, 1781; Three Essays: on Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape, third edition, 14 aquatint plates, occasional faint spotting, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, 1808 § Hussey (Christopher) The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View, first edition, frontispiece, 29 plates, occasional pencil underlining and marginal notes, bookplate, original marbled cloth, rubbed, spine covering split at lower joint, 1927; and 2 others, a fourth and fifth edition of An Essay on Prints, 8vo (5)
Inwood (Henry William) The Erechtheion at Athens, first edition, 34 lithograph plates, some double-page, one folding, some foxing and marginal browning, contemporary green half morocco, gilt, rubbed, covers stained, folio, 1831.⁂ Inwood was the architect of St. Pancras Church on Euston Road in London, partly modelled on the Erechtheion and one of the most important Greek Revival buildings.
Warner (Rev. Richard) Sermons on the Epistles or Gospels, for the Sundays Throughout the Year, 2 vol., first edition, bookplate and ink signature of Lord Eldon, contemporary half-vellum, gilt coronet to upper covers, a little rubbed, 1816; Practical Discourses, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, occasional faint spotting, bookplate, contemporary half-calf, rubbed, 1803-04; and 2 others by the same, 8vo & 4to (6)
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