1594 RECORDE, Robert. / DEE, John. / MELLIS, John. The ground of Artes, teaching the perfect worke and practice of Arithmaticke, both in whole numbers and fraction, after a more easie and exact sort than hitherto hath beene set foorth. And now diligently corrected and beautified with sundry new Rules and necessary additions: And further endowed with a third part of Rules of Practise .… as are incident to the Trade of Merchandise. Printed by T.D. for John Harison, London. 8vo. With abacus-like woodcut illustrations on thirty six pages. Contemporary vellum with gilt lettered title on spine. Early ink doodlings and trial sums in some margins, occasional staining but a good copy. The 17th of 29 STC and 13 Wing printings. The earliest surviving edition of what is the first book in the English language dealing with arithmetic is dated 1543. It came from the pen of a "D in Physicke" who was a graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge. He was the founder of the English school of mathematical writers as aside from this work he also wrote on geometry and was the first to introduce algebra into the country. His switch over from the officially used Roman numerals to arabic numbers contributed to his success and this went through a multiplicity of 16th and 17 century editions. The corrected edition of 1561 was done by John Dee while the schoolmaster John Mellis added a third part [here found with a separate titlepage] in 1582. This final part of which this is the fourth printing is important in that it deals with merchants trading, rules of three, loans and interest, barter coins etc and even "Sportes and Pastimes done by number" There was no Dublin printed text book on "double entry" accountancy until close to the end of the 17th Century. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney
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1601 CANISIUS, Dr Peter, S.J. Summa Doctrinæ Christianæ. Antwerp: Printed Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Joannem Moretum, 1601. Small 8vo with woodcut printer's device on titlepage and final leaf. One of several catechisms produced by the later canonized Jesuit, this version of 1554 took on the name "catechismus major" as it became a significant weapon in the Counter Reformation. In this the first 17th century edition Joannes Moretus reprints Christopher Plantin's excessively unctuous dedication of 1566 to Phlip II of Spain along with an "Appendix de hominis lapsu et istificatione secundum sententiam & doctrinam Concilij Tridentini. Contemporary vellum. Provenance: 17th century autograph ex libris of Philippi Despiennes. Two small library stamps, one faded and hard to decypher but denoting Jesuit ownership, the other from the Dominican Convent at Sart. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney
1687 LILLY, William. Brevissima Institutio seu ratio grammatices, cognoscendæ, ad omnium puerorum utilitatem præscripta. Printed at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. 12mo. pp. [ii], 206. Recent full calf with morocco letter piece on spine. Light browning. A very good copy. The most celebrated of all the Tudor school Latin grammars made its first appearance under this title in 1549 and continued to be published and used far into the 18th Century. The only edition to be printed in the reign of James II. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney
MARKHAM, Gervase. How to chuse, ride, trayne and dyet running horses - Printed by E.A. London: 1606. 4to. Bound in nineteenth century full brown morocco by Riviere. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Extremely rare as are all the earlier Elizabethan editions. STC 17350. This was first published under the title A discourse of horsmanshippe in 1593 but the enlarged second edition of 1595 carried the new title above marking this out as the world's first book on training racehorses. Markham had the true instinct of a horse-dealer and to enhance sales each edition carried fresh material. Thus it is that this final version alone provides the completed text. During the period when he was so engaged, he was also a participant in the Nine Years War in Ireland in the role of a captain of cavalry. As demand for this book declined, he subsequently periodically changed the title but eventually fell foul of the London booksellers, who found themselves saddled with shelves of books, so similar in content as to be virtually unsaleable. In a document, dated 1619, that survives in the archives of the Society of Antiquaries, London, they obliged him to promise that he would not write anything further on the subject of horses. However his name though lived on right down to the 20th century when stud grooms were still quoting Master Markham, the first author to appreciate the need to handle with gentleness the highly strung Arabian horse whom he named "the only stallion", a judgment endorsed by posterity. This is the ancestor of the modern thoroughbred for all horses listed in the General Stud Book - first published in 1793 and now produced at four-yearly intervals - trace their male line ancestry back to just one of three sires, the Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian and the Godolphin Arabian all of whom stood at stud in England in the first half of the 18th century. Of this pre-potent trio, one had a direct Irish connection, the charger that Colonel Byerley rode in the battle of the Boyne. Sweeney 2979. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney
1686 COX, Nicholas. / LANGBAINE, Gerald. The Gentleman's Recreation: In four parts, viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing - London: Printed by Freeman Collins, 1686. 8vo. Bound in nineteenth century full mottled calf. Covers framed by a wide gilt floral roll, spine richly gilt. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Each part has its own engraved plate. The 3rd and best of the five editions as it includes an extra work "The Hunter, a discourse of horsemanship" by Gerald Langbaine. Printed by L Lichfield, Printer to the University, Oxford. These were left over sheets of the first edition published the year previous and by one of the quirks of the book trade, you will pay more for this on its own than one bound in as an extra. Provenance: An accompanying autograph letter addressed to "Hutchinson" offers this copy as a gift from Stanley Maxwell. Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney
S. ROGIERS AFTER JACOB HONDIUS Hibernia, A Map of the Island of Ireland Contained within a silver beaded photograph frame, 13 x 18cm This comes from the 1616 revision by Jocodus Hondius of the "Tabularum Geographicarum Contractum", which had been first published under this title in 1600 by P Bertius. The Latin text is drawn in part from the incunable De Situ Orbis of Dionysius Periegetes (1st edition 1477). Andrew Bonar Law - "The Printed Maps of Ireland to 1612", page 17. Provenance: Purchased from the Neptune Gallery, Dublin ; from the estate of Tony Sweeney
Detective Inspector John Sweeney of New Scotland Yard John Sweeney, Tony's grandfather, rose to be a senior London police officer. He instigated the Flying Squad (immediately done into cockney slang as Sweeney Todd, Flying Squad). Tony Sweeney was immensely proud that a son of evicted Irish emigrants from Kerry could rise to such a responsible position in Victorian England and then publish his sensational memoirs. Tony commissioned a slip case, designed by Michael Scott, with a gilt printed morocco label, giving details of Sweeney's career, his custody of the Crown Jewels during the postponement of Edward VII's coronation, security for Queen Victoria's visit to Ireland in 1900, and his defence against libel. Mounted under magnifying glasses are two silver commemoration medals of above events. Containing: Detective Inspector John Sweeney At Scotland Yard, 1st Edition, London 1904 and the 2nd Edition which contains the defence against Parmeggiani, cloth covers with design of handcuffs Edited by Frances Richards. "New and enlarged edition" printed by Alexander Moring, who appears to have been in a loose partnership with Grand Richards, London, 1905. 8vo with portrait in a red cloth binding decorated with a pair of handcuffs. The previous year's first edition provoked a libel suit and the supplementary chapter was entitled Parmeggiani v. Sweeney. Luigi Parmeggiani was a major collector of antiques and pictures who resided at I Bedford Square, Bloomsbury where his visitors included on one occasion the Empress Frederick of Germany with John Sweeney acting as bodyguard. According to the author Parmeggiani had been one of the formost figures amongst the anarchists and it was this allegation that prompted the law suit. John Sweeney marshalled his evidence so well though that the plaintiff was in the final instance reduced to claiming that the anarchist also named Luigi Parmeggiani was his brother. After a four day hearing before Mr Justice Ridley and a special jury in the King's Bench Court the plaintiff was awarded damages of one farthing, reminiscent of the outcome of the Whistler v Ruskin case, but had to pay John Sweeney's legal costs. Together with Landsdowne, A Life's Reminiscences of Scotland Yard, London (n.d.) Together with Chief-Inspector Littlechild. The Reminiscences, 2nd Edition, London 1894, decorated cloth with paper label (Littlechild was Sweeney's 'boss' at Scotland Yard) The Author dedicated his book "To possible criminals … those who, having within them the germs of crime, are in constant danger of falling into its dark abyss, and if every such person will purchase a copy, ample remuneration awaits my labour. If the perusal of itsd pages should cause but a small number to 'look before they leap,' my reward will be greater. If one truth stands out more prominently in my experiences than another, it is that 'The way of the transgressor is hard". Littlechild was John Sweeney's boss when the Special Branch came into being but his book by the year 2000 was priced below that of his subordinate and this despite Littlechild himself having played a leading role in the hunt for "Jack The Ripper". Provenance: bookplate of James H Dalton and a note indicating that in 1953 he had presented it to J A de Grolian. Acquired by us from Lathkill Books, Bakewell, Derbyshire. Together with Chief-Inspector Cavabba Scotland Yard, Past and Present, London 1893, half-calf, art nouveau spine (Tony Sweeney says Cavanna is the first detective who acquired a 'personality cult') Together with a collection of five volumes on policing, including Galton F., Finger Prints, London 1892 Provenance: The estate of Tony Sweeney
Clarice Cliff & Graham Sutherland - A Harrods 1934 Art In Industry `Modern Art for the Table` teacup and saucer, the interior wells with black floral decoration against a pink ground, the border edges with black banding and pink and black ribbon trails, printed Bizarre FIRST EDITION mark (hairline to the saucer).
DICKENS, CHARLESBook - (BOOK)A first edition of Dombey & Son, by Charles Dickens, pub. Bradbury & Evans, 1848. with a good, clear Dickens autograph dated 1847 inlaid on the first blank prior to the half-title. Book bound from the parts in contemporary green morocco boards, with recent reback, a little rubbed at edges, thick 8vo. Some spotting to the plates (as usual), a few repairs etc. Overall size approx. 220x150mm. A good way to obtain a signed Dickens item at a reasonable price.
Dit Boecxken: A Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in the Year 1492, number 40 of 150 copies, illustrations, original morocco-backed marbled boards, uncut, with the original box, [Thacher p.146; cf.W&S p.35-36 & 78], 4to, Honey Dun Press, 1978. A reprint of the privately printed edition (only 25 copies) for Alfred Denison by the Chiswick Press in 1872. "It contains 26 chapters, of a few lines each, giving recipes for artificial baits, unguents & pastes, & at the close two pages are given to the periods at which certain fish are `at their best`". W&S. It also contains instructions for catching birds and ducks with the hands (by baiting them), recipes for paste fishing baits made from beaver`s kidney, human blood and barley flour, other baits, various fishing methods, etc. Denison says in his introduction, "We may consider it to be the first known work on angling".
![Pritt (T.E.) Yorkshire Trout Flies, first edition, [one of 200 copies], half-title, 12 lithographed plates including 11 hand-](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10011/2877885/8-2013327172438_468x382.jpg)
Pritt (T.E.) Yorkshire Trout Flies, first edition, [one of 200 copies], half-title, 12 lithographed plates including 11 hand-coloured of flies, tissue guards, gutta percha perished and becoming loose (as usual), book-label of Jon. Shackleton, original cloth, title and quotation in gilt on upper cover, a little rubbed, spine slightly worn at head and foot, [Thacher pp.408-409], 8vo, Leeds, 1885.
Edinburgh Angling Club. Songs and Selections from the Album of the Edinburgh Angling Club founded 1847, edited by J.Smith, enlarged edition, engraved frontispiece, additional vignette title and illustrations by William Forrest, inscribed "To Professor [David] Wyllie, who helped me to buy my first rod.J.R.R." on half-title and with card of Dr.Ronaldson loosely inserted, original glazed pictorial green cloth, gilt, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, very slightly marked, [Thacher p.159; cf.W&S p.83, earlier editions], 8vo, Edinburgh, 1900. A collection of verse with attractive engravings. General Sir James Russell of Ashiestiel was the owner of the Club`s main fishing, David Wyllie and Dr.Ronaldson were members of the club.
Richardson (Thomas, publisher) The Modern Angler,containing the Most Esteemed Methods of Angling., first edition, 24pp., folding hand-coloured wood-engraved frontispiece, text lightly browned, small tear to fore-edge of frontispiece repaired, modern calf-backed marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound in (laid down, upper wrapper frayed at edges), [Thacher pp.363 & 421], 12mo, Derby, Thomas Richardson, [c.1830]. Rare.
![[Boaz (Herman)] The Angler`s Progress: A Poem, second edition, half-title, 12 wood-engraved vignettes, 3pp. advertisements at](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10011/2877885/13-2013327171839_468x382.jpg)
[Boaz (Herman)] The Angler`s Progress: A Poem, second edition, half-title, 12 wood-engraved vignettes, 3pp. advertisements at end, table of harbours, seasons and depths for catching fish pasted over final leaf (text supplied in pencil on rear free endpaper), light offsetting, a few spots, mostly to endpapers, contemporary half morocco, spine titled in gilt with fish motifs, [Thacher pp.68-69; W&S p.35], 8vo, J.H.Burn, 1820. Also published in Newcastle as the first of the Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers.
Charfy (Guiniad, pseudonym) The Fisherman: or, the Art of Angling Made Easy, first edition, advertisement leaf at end, occasional spotting or browning, Brent Gration-Maxfield`s copy with his neat pencil notes on front pastedown, contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked to style, green roan label, [Thacher p.105; W&S p.58], 8vo, for J. Dixwell, [?1800]. Scarce. "A compilation by George Smeeton, printer of St. Martin`s-lane, who, with his wife, was burnt to death." Westwood & Satchell.
Kelson (George M.) Tips by the Author of "The Salmon Fly", first edition, half-title, illustrations, 11pp. advertisements for angling equipment at end, half-title and endpapers browned, original pictorial burgundy cloth, gilt, very slightly rubbed, a few small stains to upper cover, [Thacher p.296], 4to, by the author, 1901.
Best (Thomas) A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, 2 advertisement leaves at end, contemporary ink inscription "W.P." at head of half-title, frontispiece and title very lightly foxed, one or two other marks but a fine tall copy in modern russet morocco, gilt, by Brian Frost & Co. of Bath, covers with double gilt rule border, spine ruled and titled in gilt with five raised bands, g.e., [Thacher pp.52-53; W&S p.31], 12mo, for C.Stalker.H.Turpin, 1787. Best was Keeper of His Majesty`s Drawing-room in the Tower of London.
Blacker (William) Blacker`s Art of Fly Making &c. Comprising Angling & Dyeing of Colours, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of fly-fishing, engraved title and 20 plates including 17 finely hand-coloured plates of flies, tissue guards, very occasional spotting, bookplate of E.W.E.Siddall, original black morocco, gilt, spine gilt, a little rubbed, [Thacher pp.61-62; W&S p.33], 12mo, 1855. Originally issued as Art of Angling in 1842, and then in 1843 as Blacker`s Art of Angling, but this is the first edition to include the detailed plates of flies.
Shirley (Thomas) The Angler`s Museum; or, the Whole Art of Float and Fly Fishing, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut title-vignette of fish, portrait a little offset on title, lightly browned, ex-library copy with small ink and perforated stamps on title (across woodcut so fairly unobtrusive), modern crimson morocco with gilt rule border, by Frost & Co. of Bath, spine titled in gilt and with two raised bands, g.e., [ThacherW&S p.194], 12mo, for John Fielding, [1784]. The rare first edition. The portrait frontispiece shows "Mr. John Kirby, the celebrated angler", who was keeper of Newgate and died in 1804 at the age of 80.
Carroll (W.) The Angler`s Vade Mecum, containing a descriptive account of the Water Flies., first edition, half-title, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates, a little foxed and soiled, light water-staining to lower margin, contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco, gilt, spine gilt, a little rubbed, corners and head of spine worn, [Thacher p.102; W&S pp.50-51], 8vo, Edinburgh, 1818. One of the earliest books with plates of flies in colour, containing 194 examples of natural flies arranged from May to September. A contemporary ink inscription on the front free endpaper notes, "July 28th I caught 7 Perch with an artificial fly called the red hackle and also 3 trout at ?Beactuef.".
[Locke (James)] Tweed and Don; or, Recollections and Reflections of an Angler for the Last Fifty Years, second edition, wood-engraved frontispiece, light foxing, bookplates of Arthur E.Wilson-Browne and T.Spence, Edinburgh, 1860 § Rooper (George) Thames and Tweed, presentation copy from the author inscribed by him and another on half-title, [1875] § [Bertram (James)] The Border Angler: A Guide Book to the Tweed and its Tributaries., folding map, Edinburgh, 1858 § Robertson (John) The Hand-Book of Angling for Scotland and the Border Counties, folding map, 1861 § Scrope (William) Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the River Tweed, third edition, frontispiece and additional vignette title (loose), plates and illustrations, bookplate of E.W.E.Siddall, 1885, original cloth, the first four pictorial gilt, rubbed, the first with spine a little worn and stained, 8vo (5).
Halford (Frederic M.) The Dry-Fly Man`s Handbook, A Complete Manual Including the Fisherman`s Entomology and the Making and Management of a Fishery, first edition, number 8 of 100 deluxe large paper copies signed by the author on title, half-title, title in red and black, photogravure frontispiece and 40 plates, many photogravures on india paper and mounted, tissue guards, light water-staining to upper inner margin, contemporary half red calf, spine gilt, t.e.g., spine faded, a little rubbed and stained, [Thacher pp.234-235], 4to, 1913.
![[Crawhall (Joseph)] The Compleatest Angling Booke that Ever was writ, second edition, one of 100 copies, signed and inscribed](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10011/2877885/61-201332717249_468x382.jpg)
[Crawhall (Joseph)] The Compleatest Angling Booke that Ever was writ, second edition, one of 100 copies, signed and inscribed by the author to "Thomas Satchell from his friend Joseph Crawhall with kind regards" at head of first page of text, etched, woodcut and wood-engraved vignettes and illustrations by the author, Joseph Crawhall III, James Guthrie and W. Chapman throughout, some hand-coloured, with prospectus, subscription form and a few sample pages and other additional material bound in at end, some foxing, worst at beginning and end, bookplate of Sir John Dodd and with his pencil inscription to front free endpaper, later half green morocco, spine gilt in compartments with angling motifs, t.e.g., others uncut, spine faded, lower corners slightly bumped, [Thacher p.131; W&S p.69], 4to, Newcastle upon Tyne, Andrew Reid, 1881. An excellent association copy belonging to the famous piscatorial bibliographer. The additional material at the end comprises 2 plates from the first edition of 1859 which was limited to 40 copies only (etched reproduction of the famous woodcut from Berners`s Treatise of Fysshynge and a portrait of Izaak Walton), plus pp.61-68 & 85-92 and 4 plates from Border Notes & Mixty Maxty of 1880 (limited to 50 copies), all tipped into larger leaves and inscribed "Remainders" at head of p.61 in Crawhall`s hand.
Westwood (Thomas) The Chronicle of The `Compleat Angler` of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton. Being a Bibliographical Record of its Various Phases and Mutations, first edition, one of 25 large paper copies, signed and inscribed by the author "To the Rev. M.G.Watkins with cordial greeting from his brother Piscator.1882" on front free endpaper and with accompanying A.L.s. tipped in at beginning, half-title, title in red and black, decorative initials hand-coloured in red, interleaved and with a few notes or cuttings pasted in, light spotting, contemporary roan-backed boards, spine titled in gilt, a little rubbed, boards slightly worn at edges, [Thacher p.569; Westwood & Satchell p.239], 4to, Willis and Sotheran, 1864. Thomas Westwood (1814-88) was the author, with Thomas Satchell, of the highly regarded Bibliotheca Piscatoria; he moved to Belgium in 1844 to work for a railway company and spent most of his life enjoying his leisure collecting a fine angling library. There was also a trade edition of this work, which was the first of the Compleat Angler bibliographies describing 53 editions. In his letter Westwood describes his library (although his fishing library was already sold by then, offered for sale in 1873 in New York by J.W. Boulton but bought en bloc by the New York Public Library.): "In one of the bookcases.is Van Voorst`s series of natural history (not one wanting) with White`s Selborne, Jeffreys.Sowerby`s botany.Ruskin. Dibdin.& I declare, amongst the folios, the `Nuremberg Chronicle`.".
[Chatto (William Andrew)], "Stephen Oliver." Scenes and recollections of Fly-Fishing, in Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland, first edition, wood-engraved vignette on title, illustrations, some foxing, bookplate of Edwin F. Snow on front pastedown, contemporary calf, gilt, [W&S p. 162], 12mo, 1834. "An interesting volume." - Westwood & Satchell.
![Alken (Henry) [The National Sports of Great Britain], first edition, second issue, aquatint title (dated 1821) and 50 aquatin](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10011/2877885/93-201332717252_468x382.jpg)
Alken (Henry) [The National Sports of Great Britain], first edition, second issue, aquatint title (dated 1821) and 50 aquatint plates by J.Clark after Henry Alken, all splendidly hand-coloured and in excellent condition, printed in English & French, this copy without the dual-language letterpress title-page in but with plates watermarked `1820`, 19th century bookplate of Thomas Greer on front pastedown, handsomely bound in full contemporary straight-grain morocco with blind-tooled inner border and decorative ornament contained within elaborate gilt border, spine titled in gilt with further gilt compartments within gilt-tooled raised bands, g.e., surface wear to corner some edges, small section of surface loss to upper cover near spine, [ Mellon/Podeschi 111; Schwerdt I, p.19 & IV, p. 4; Siltzer p. 70; Tooley 41], folio, Thomas McLean, 1821. "Alken`s most important work.It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection." Tooley, English Books with Colour Plates, p.64. Alken`s hugely popular presentation of the aristocratic pursuits of the time, resplendent with large hand-coloured aquatint depictions of popular pastimes including hunting on horseback, hawking, gun shooting, angling, horse-racing, pugilism and dressage, as well as activities that even at the time were becoming increasingly controversial such as bull-baiting and bear-baiting. This copy would seem to have been without the letterpress title for some time, perhaps even bound without, as the offsetting onto the verso of the additional title is that from the Preface.
[MILLES, Thomas] The Catalogue of Honor or Treasury of True Nobility. Peculiar and Proper to the Isle of Great Britaine... translated out of the Latyne into English. First Edition. engraved frontispiece and architectural title, text illus x armorial's, separate part titles, errata leaf, irregular pagination, old calf (worn and broken), roy. 4to. printed by William Jaggard, 1610. G 1 with sm. tear (lacks 4 words of text), lacks G5 (pp. 69 & 70), 4 shields with damage, some stains; sold as found. R/L 3
Cary's New and Correct English Atlas . . . from actual surveys . . . First Edition, 43 engraved and partly coloured county maps & three others, engraved dedication, advertisement leaf, subscribers' list and relevant other letterpress, half calf & marbled boards, 4to. printed for John Cary, 1787
TENNANT (S.) & GREY (P) The Vein in the Marble. First Edition. mounted plates, cloth-backed marbled boards, illus.on eps, spare labels included. 1925. * pasted card on half title - 'yours very sincerely / Stephen Tennant; OLIVER (Edith) Without Knowing Mr. Walkley: a personal memoir. First Edition. photo. plates, d/wrapper. 1938; together with other literary & illustrated editions of earlier to mid 20th cent. (qty)
JAMES (Edward) The Venetian Glass Omnibus. Limited Edition. second (extended title), illus. (from drawings by Oliver Messel), pictorial boards (some damage at lower edge of upper one), 4to. The James Press, (1933). * limitation (for this 2nd edition of Sep. 1933) of 25 copies; the first edition (20 copies), having been published December 1932. this copy with a fulsome Christmas1933 inscription by the author to Baroness D' Erlanger, and accompanied (loosely inserted) by a lengthy personal note (36 lines on 2 postcards - Dec. 23rd, 1933. c/o Lord Berners, Farringdon House, Berks.) - 'You are about the first person who stands to deserve a copy . . . last year I had twenty copies printed, but they were not so good at this. The cover has . . . been improved upon and Christopher Sykes has added several drawings in addition to Oliver's . . . ' ; and continuing about a written card being pasted over a dedication which the Baroness might well not now approve; certainly a leaf prior to that appears to have been excised - possibly something else that also may not have pleased (?) ; another very scarce offering and, significantly, inscribed from Farringdon House - where, for eccentricity, Lord Berners was more than his equal Illustrated
D' ERLANGER (Baron Emil B.) L' Age d' Or: Poemes et Sonnets. Limited Edition. coloured pictorial & printed wrappers (lt. marked, creased at edges, some internal spotting), uncut & partly unopened, 4to. Paris: (Francois Bernouard, 1919). * limitation of 500 numbered copies; with another poem (typescript, 14 lines on a single sheet, 20-12-19) loosely inserted; AYRAL (L.) L'Age des Cieux. First-Edition. printed in blue, wrappers (? lacks upper one), 4to. Paris (privately published) 1930. * author's inscription to Baron d' Erlanger on half title; FRANTEL (Max) Dialogue sur la Tombe des Hommes . . . Limited Edition. portrait sketch, printed wrappers, 4to. Paris, 1937. * one of 20 lettered copies (this one 'M', the note printed in red) - 'cet exemplaire a ete tire specialement pour le Baron Emile B. D'Erlanger & with an extended personal mss. note on half title (3)
(ERLANGER) La Collection Erlanger . . . texte par Gustave Geffroy. Limited Edition. letterpress & 40 plates (11 coloured) printed within captioned glassine guards, contemp. gilt-lettered calf (some wear), lge. folio. Paris, 1911. * the significant collection (David, Teniers, Brueghel, Bonnington, etc.) of Frederic Emile, first Baron Erlanger (of the merchant banking & trading company); German/ British art connoisseur benefactor & music patron; this (very scarce) volume published the year of his death Illustrated
![[GRAVES, Robert] The Marmosite's Miscellany, (by) John Doyle. First Edition. original patterned boards (sl. used), slim 8vo.](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10050/2869396/384-2013419172748_468x382.jpg)
RAWLINGS, LEO; And The Dawn Came Up Like Thunder, with supporting account by Bill Duncan, signed copy with two letters, first edition 1972, also a dagger with rope grip, leather scabbard and double edged blade. CONDITION REPORT: The rope is part of the grip and we are unable to see under it to ascertain if there is any damage/corrosion. Remnants of what looks like a "Wilkinson" mark, but unsure. Rusting to dagger allover.
La Davina Commedia, Michelangelo Caetani, published by M. Caetani and P.E. Castanola, Rome, 1855; illustrated work on Dante's Divine Comedy which includes six large hand coloured illustrations and tables with front title in hand-illuminated script and book plate of Vernon family on inside front cover "Vernon semper viret", first edition 1855. CONDITION REPORT: Covers are in poor condition but the contents are sound.
After George Vernon Stokes (1873-1954) TWO LIMITED EDITION COLOURED ORNITHOLOGICAL ETCHINGS, the first entitled ~Blackcock~, signed and numbered 7/75 in pencil to margin, card mounted, simply framed, under glass. 32.5cm x 28cm; the second untitled and unframed, signed and numbered 66/75 to margin, card mounted. 28cm x 32cm Some discolouration and fading, one small foxing spot to unframed etching.
A set of four limited edition silver medallions commemorating Winston Churchill Centenary 1974, cased, three 1977 silver proof crowns with cases, further crowns, comprising 1935, 1953, 1960 and fifty further Elizabeth II issues, four two pounds coins, a fifty pence 1973, four USA dollars, two Kennedy half dollars 1968, an Australia shilling 1914, a Canada twenty-five cents 1941, two Britain`s First Decimal Coins sets and four cards, each holding four small ingots detailed `The Hundred Greatest Cars`.
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