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![*[Nelson, Frances Herbert [Fanny], Viscountess Nelson, 1761-1831]. Views of the Memorable Victory of the Nile, etched and eng](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7b305c9c-d629-4973-9938-a71a00b59d6e/2430a816-da7f-4076-bbda-150958dbb8e3/468x382.jpg)
Lot 171
*[Nelson, Frances Herbert [Fanny], Viscountess Nelson, 1761-1831]. Views of the Memorable Victory of the Nile, etched and engraved by Frances Chesham, aquatints by William Ellis, after William Anderson, [2nd edition], published Alexander Riley, 1 December 1800, a rare set of 4 aquatints with original hand colouring, descriptive letterpress trimmed with loss of all below publisher's imprint to each, laid on card and mounted to show image and engraved details of ships to lower margins, contemporary gilt frames with verre-eglomise ruled and decorative borders with title captions, glazed, visible image area 178 x 370 mm (7 x 14.5 ins) Provenance: A manuscript note written by Horatio Mends, signed and dated at York, 13 March 1928, giving the provenance of these aquatints is pasted to the backing board of all 4 pictures. The first reads: 'This is No. 1 of a set of 4 aquatints once the property of Viscountess Nelson. My mother, wife of Vice Admiral G.B.C. Mends and daughter of Captain Josiah Nisbet, son of Lady Nelson by her first marriage gave them to me. I have known them from early childhood as having belonged to Lady Nelson'. Lady Nelson had married Josiah Nisbet MD in 1779, but he died in 1781 leaving her an infant child, also called Josiah. This Captain Josiah Nisbet (1780-1830) was married to Frances Herbert Nisbet with whom he had six children. The youngest, Georgina Nisbet (1830-1904) married Vice-Admiral George Butler Clarke Mends (1808-1884), and it is their only child Brigadier-General Horatio Reginald Mends CB (1852-1933) who has written these notes of provenance. Viscountess Nelson bore her husband no children, but Nelson was fond of his stepson Josiah, even taking him to sea in 1793 for training as a naval officer. For the next few years he and Fanny wrote to each other affectionately and regularly. By the time Nelson returned to England in 1797 he was a changed man and in pain from the loss of his lower right arm following an attack on Santa Cruz, Tenerife. Fanny nursed him devotedly and this proved to be their happiest time together. Returning to sea in 1798 Nelson won the Battle of the Nile in 1798 and fell in love with Emma Hamilton. News of the affair reached England before Nelson and the Hamiltons returned in 1800. Though Fanny did her best to reconcile with him these attempts failed, though Nelson treated her generously, allocating her half his income. Fanny became Baroness Nelson in 1798 and Viscountess Nelson in 1801. After his death she was awarded a pension and lived in Exmouth until her death in 1831. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes of Fanny that 'When, in 1798, he [Lord Nelson] destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile she was touchingly proud of him', and the survival of this fine set of aquatints with strong anecdotal family provenance enhances this historical viewpoint. (4)
Lot 234
*Barker (Benjamin, 1776-1838). Views in and near Bath, [from The Fine Arts. Forty-eight aquatint coloured engravings by Theodore Fielding from a work containing forty-eight subjects of landscape scenery, principally views in and near Bath, Bath, 1824], 31 (of 48) fine colour aquatints on wove paper, one mounted on buff paper within single line ruled border, 170 x 220 mm (6.5 x 8.5 ins) or similar, loosely contained in old marbled paper boards Abbey 45. Tooley/Prideaux page 327. Tooley, Coloured Plates, page 91/92. The first edition of Barker's fine topographical views, later reissued by W. Everett in 1843. Each with title in pencil to verso: Scenes near the Old Bridge, Bath, Hampton Cliffs near Bath, Cottage at Chippenham, Scene near Bathford, Claverton, near Bath, Stoke, near Bath, Below Wick Rocks, Freshfield, near Bath, Scene from Hampton Cliffs, near Bath, Castle Combe, near Bath, Scene near Chepstow, etc. (31)
Lot 456
*@Nevinson (Christopher Richard Wynne, 1889-1946). Banking at 4000 feet, 1917, lithograph on wove paper, from the Making Aircraft set of six lithographs by Nevinson, (for the series The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals, commissioned by the British Department of Information and published by the Fine Art Society, London in 1918), signed and dated 1917 in pencil lower right, numbered 22 in pencil lower left, trimmed just inside the image (with loss of 1 or 2 mm to top and side margins), retaining the lower blank margin containing the signature, overall sheet size 411 x 312 mm (16.25 x 12.3 ins), framed and glazed Black 20. Edition of 200. Provenance: Major Charles Fair DSO (1885-1950) and Marjorie Fair, purchased from the Leicester Galleries in March 1918, shortly after the couple's wedding on 18 September 1917. Having enlisted on 10 August 1914, Charles Fair was commissioned in the 19th London Regiment, and saw significant action during the Battle of the Somme at High Wood, Le Transloy Ridge and Bourlon Wood. This lithograph was first exhibited at Nevinson's second exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in March 1918, entitled War Pictures by Nevinson Official War Artist on the Western Front. (1)
Lot 457
*@Nevinson (Christopher Richard Wynne, 1889-1946). After a Push, 1918, lithograph on Antique de Luxe laid paper, from the edition of 25, signed and dated in pencil lower right, some pale discolouration to upper central portion of the sheet, with a few very small archival repairs, some paper tears and occasional slight loss to blank outer edges, image size 33.5 x 43.5 cm (13.2 x 17.2 ins), sheet size 39.5 x 51.5 cm (15.5 x 20.25 ins), mounted Black 27. Edition of 25. Provenance: Major Charles Fair DSO (1885-1950) and Marjorie Fair, purchased from the Leicester Galleries in March 1918, shortly after the couple's wedding on 18 September 1917. Having enlisted on 10 August 1914, Charles Fairwas commissioned in the 19th London Regiment, and saw significant action during the Battle of the Somme at High Wood, Le Transloy Ridge and Bourlon Wood. This rare lithograph was first exhibited at Nevinson's second exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in March 1918, entitled War Pictures by Nevinson Official War Artist on the Western Front. (1)
![[MODERN FIRSTS EDITIONS] Gardner, John. Licence Renewed, first edition, Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1981, boards, d](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f3ae273b-da83-463d-8590-a71200bf3712/e02c6e4f-2344-4648-ac09-942d91a55cf7/468x382.jpg)
![[ART] MacCarthy, Fiona. Stanley Spencer. An English Vision, first edition, Yale University Press, Washington, 1997, boards,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f3ae273b-da83-463d-8590-a71200bf3712/6b7e8d12-f0d8-49c5-9056-bd8399405092/468x382.jpg)
Lot 254
[ART] MacCarthy, Fiona. Stanley Spencer. An English Vision, first edition, Yale University Press, Washington, 1997, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Bone, Stephen. Albion. An Artist's Britain, Black, London, 1939, first edition, cloth, dustjacket with pictorial onlay, colour plate and black and white text illustrations, quarto; Kluver, Billy, and Martin, Julie. Kiki's Paris. Artists and Lovers 1900-1930, Abrams, New York, circa 1989, cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; and eleven other assortedworks, (14).
Lot 205
Books: Diary and letters of Madame D'Arblay, volumes 1 to 4 published in London by Bickers & Son 1876, a First Edition 'Lord Hervey and his Friends' based on letters in 1726-1738 published in London by John Murray in 1950, also two volumes Ferrier, Susan 'The Inheritance' and 'Destiny' of a limited edition (of 350) of the works of Susan Ferrier, published in London by Eveleigh Nash & Grayson in 1929.
Lot 3588
Aldin (Cecil), The Romance of The Road, first edition, Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, London 1928, the front with inset tipped-in [...] Map of London [...in] 1828, further tipped-in plates by and after Aldin (10), maps after Cary (6), wood engravings throughout, titled black boards as issued, folio
Lot 3593
Botany - Gray (Samuel Frederick), A Natural Arrangement of British Plants, According To Their Relations To Each Other, As Pointed Out By Jussieu, De Candolle, Brown, &c., Including Those Cultivated For Use [...], first edition, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London 1821, two-volume set, xii, xvii-xxviii + 824pp and viii + 757pp, hand-coloured plates, period cloth board, the spines with leather title labels, 8vo
Lot 3597
Dickens (Charles), David Copperfield, first edition, Bradbury & Evans, London 1850, xv, 624pp, illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne (pseud. "Phiz), period half-calf and marbled boards, teel book label of George Sheard, Batley, dated 1851 and numbered 298 in ink MS, 8vo; Dickens (Charles), Bleak House, first edition, Bradbury & Evans, London 1853, xvi, 624pp, illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne (pseud. "Phiz), period half-calf and marbled boards, blue book label of George Sheard, Batley, dated 1853 and numbered 366 in ink MS, 8vo [2, disbound]
Lot 3614
Miscellaneous - Thackeray (William Makepeace), Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero, [presumably first London edition after serialisation], Bradbury and Evans, London 1849, xiv, 622pp, later quarter-calf and maroon buckram, 8vo; The Biographical Gallery, Comprising 240 Portraits of Distinguished Characters of All Nations, With Brief Descriptive Notices by G. Woodrow, Allan Bell and Co., London 1834, illustrative bust-length engravings throughout, period quarter-leather and buckram boards, 12mo; Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth), The Courtship of Miles Standish, And other Poems, With Illustrations by John Gilbert, G. Routledge & Co., London 1859, iv, 135pp, period watered cloth boards, 16mo; Longfellow anthology, period quarter-leather; other classical literature; architecture, history and reference; leather and other bindings (qty)
Lot 3618
Rowling (J.K.), Harry Potter, 'De Luxe Collectors First Editions', including Philosopher's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix, Bloomsbury, London 1999-2003, hb, decorative pictorial, gilt and coloured cloth, 4to (5); another, The Order of the Phoenix, first edition, Bloomsbury, London 2003, hb, dj, 8vo [6]
Lot 285
Four first edition Coalport figures and figure groups from the Wallace and Gromit series, 'Wool Shop Encounter' from A Close Shave WG7, 'Ready for Takeoff' from A Grand Day Out WG2, 'Do Something Gromit' from A Grand Day Out WG1 and 'Feathers in Disguise' from The Wrong Trousers WG5, also a Royal Doulton limited edition figure group from the Lion King Series 'The Circle of Life' no.971/1000 DM11 (5). CONDITION REPORT In the Lion King figure group the birds tail has been restored, but not apparent at first sight.
![Hicks (F[rederick]. C[odrington]). Forty Years Amongst the Wild Animals of India from Mysore to the Himalayas, FIRST EDITION](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7d418e3a-aa88-4035-8d4c-a7230101a751/ba3cb89f-9c00-427d-b034-91505ab695c9/468x382.jpg)
Lot 556
Hicks (F[rederick]. C[odrington]). Forty Years Amongst the Wild Animals of India from Mysore to the Himalayas, FIRST EDITION SIGNED AND NUMBERED (201) BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE, lithographed and photographic plates, tissue guards, 3ff advertisement leaves to rear, fine blue crushed morocco, spine gilt, ruled in gilt, gilt dentelles, t.e.g., 4to. Alahabad, 1914.
![Hicks (F[rederick]. C[odrington]). Forty Years Amongst the Wild Animals of India from Mysore to the Himalayas, FIRST EDITION](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7d418e3a-aa88-4035-8d4c-a7230101a751/378608ee-fe26-4dd0-ba3d-201e78fe7183/468x382.jpg)
Lot 558
Hicks (F[rederick]. C[odrington]). Forty Years Amongst the Wild Animals of India from Mysore to the Himalayas, FIRST EDITION SIGNED AND NUMBERED (201) BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE, lithographed and photographic plates, tissue guards, 3ff advertisement leaves to rear, fine blue crushed morocco, spine gilt, ruled in gilt, gilt dentelles, t.e.g., 4to. Alahabad, 1914.
Lot 566
Historical Record of The Honourable East India Company's First Madras European Regiment. 1843 Edition.A scarce copy of the original edition written by "A Staff Officer" Published by Smith Elder and Co of London. An illustrated history covering 575 pages with index. Original cloth cover with gilt tooling. An ink dedication at the front states presented to Earl of Eglinton and Winton 1843. Slight wear.
![[Iceland]. Crymogaea sive rerum Islandicarum Libri III, per Arngramur Jonsson, 1st edition, Hamburg: Phillipp ab Ohr, [1609],](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/425ba282-35d8-44a4-a191-a71a00b657f8/597c2975-1bb5-42d4-9154-aa5c6b2a3436/468x382.jpg)
Lot 20
[Iceland]. Crymogaea sive rerum Islandicarum Libri III, per Arngramur Jonsson, 1st edition, Hamburg: Phillipp ab Ohr, [1609], woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and tailpieces, contemporary ink inscriptions to title and scattered marginalia including errata corrections, lacks folding letterpress table and final 4 pp. 'Errata' found in a few copies, modern ownership signature to front free endpaper, contemporary sheep, gilt-decorated spine, rubbed, slightly snagged at head and tail of spine and one small hole to fourth compartment, 4to First edition of Arngrimur's rare and seminal history of Iceland. It was reprinted in 1610 and 1614. The Macclesfield copy of this first edition sold in 2008 is the only other copy traced at auction in the last 50 years. (1)
Lot 21
Johnston (Alexander Keith). The Physical Atlas. A Series of Maps and Notes illustrating the Geographical Distribution of Natural Phenomena..., published William Blackwood & Sons, 1848, calligraphic title, dedication and preface, thirty (complete) double page engraved maps, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, half morocco gilt, skillfully rebacked preserving original spine, folio The first edition to contain the palaeontologial and geological map of the British Isles. (1)
Lot 314
Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham). A Saxon Treatise concerning the Old and New Testament. Written about the Time of King Dgar (700 yeares agoe)..., Whereby appeares what was the Canon of holy Scripture here then receiued, and that the Church of England had it so long agoe in her Mother-tongue. Now first published in print with English of our times, by William L'Isle of Wilburgham, Esquier for the King's Bodie..., And hereunto is added out of the Homilies and Epistles of the fore-said Aelfricus, a second edition of A Testimonie of Antiquitie, &c. touching the Sacrament of the Bodie and Bloud of the Lord, here publikely preached and receiued in the Saxons time, &c., London: Printed by John Haviland for Henrie Seile, 1623, collates [*2],#4,a-a4,O-T4,V-V3,b-f4,A-N4, leaves O1-V3 misbound after a4 and before b1, title with early signature Henry Richardson at head, title dampsoiled & torn with loss to lower outer corner & lined to verso and five other leaves also with similar loss to lower outer corners & repaired, dampstaining and soiling throughout, single worm hole to fore-edge margins, lacking final leaf V4 (blank), early 19th century calf, cathedral style blind embossed tracery arch window motif to centre of each board, slight splitting to joints, rubbed and worn, slim 4to STC 160, ESTC S100438. (1)
Lot 321
Bates (Ely). A Cursory View of Civil Government; Chiefly in Relation to Virtue and Happiness, 1st edition, 1797, few leaves with crease marks to lower blank corner, recent quarter calf gilt, 8vo, together with Jones (David), A Continuation of the Secret History of Whitehall; from the Abdication of the Late K. James, in 1688, to the Year 1696, 1st edition, 1697, title with 'Q. Mart' variant (for 'Q. Mary'), various pages misnumbered as usual, also contains 'The Tragical History of the Stuarts', with separate title page (also dated 1697) and pagination, one or two leaves a little marked, front pastedown with early ink library shelfmark and armorial bookplate 'Francis Gwyn Esqr.' (of Forde Abbey and Lansanor, Glamorgan), contemporary speckled calf, lightly rubbed, rebacked, some discreet corner repairs, 8vo, plus Hartley (David), Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations, 1 volume (of 2), 1st edition, 1749, half title: 'Part the First, Containing Observations on the Frame of the Human Body and Mind, and on their Mutual Connections and Influences', a few leaves near front with water stain affecting top corners, early ink ownership name to top margin of title, endpapers with offsetting from leather turn-ins, front free endpaper chipped with short tears, back free endpaper missing, front pastedown with armorial bookplate 'Saml. Strode 1741' crossed-out in early ink, contemporary calf binding, heavily rubbed and worn with hinges split (front board near detached), 8vo Bates: Last copy sold at auction was in 1999. Jones: Wing J929. Hartley: Wellcome III p.215, Norman 1003. This was the first English work to use the word "psychology" in its modern sense. (3)
Lot 343
Camillo (Leonardi). Speculum Lapidum Camilli Leonardi. Cui Accessit Sympathia Septem Metallorum ac septem selectorum Lapidum ad Planetas. D. Petri Arlesis de Scudalupis Presbyteri Hierosolimitani, 2 parts in one, 1st edition, Paris: Apud Carolum Seuestre & Davidem Gilliu[m], et Joannem Petitpas, 1610, engraved title with ink stamp and manuscript annotation to lower blank margin, one engraved portrait only (of 2, lacking portrait of the Duke of Nivernois), woodcut printers device to title of second part, full-page woodcut diagram, continuous pagination, small worm hole to lower blank margin of majority of first part, hinges repaired, contemporary speckled calf, modern reback and title label, board corners rubbed and showing, 8vo Early work on mineralogy. Caillet 6544; Duveen pp. 351-52; Ferguson II, pp. 26-27; Hoover 526. (1)
Lot 354
D'Orleans (Joseph). Histoire des Revolutions d'Espagne, depuis la Destruction de l'Empire des Goths, jusqu'a l'enteire & parfaite reunion des Royaumes de Castille & d'Arragon, 3 volumes, Paris, 1734, folding engraved map of Spain to first volume, single folding engraved plate to second volume, contemporary uniform full calf, gilt decorated spines, a little rubbed and minor wear to extremities, 4to, together with [Villeneuve, Madame de], La Jardiniere de Vincellenes, nouvelle edition, revue & corrig‚e, 5 parts bound in one volume, Lille, 1780, contemporary cats-paw full calf, gilt decorated spine, a little rubbed and a little worming to foot of upper joint, 8vo, plus Scott (John), The Christian Life, from its beginning to its consumation in glory... with directions for private devotion, and forms of prayer, Second Edition, Corrected, 1683, engraved frontispiece, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 18th century gilt-decorated red full morocco, a little rubbed and some marks, minor wear to extremities, 8vo, and other continental literature and history, all printed in French or Italian, including Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grece, 9 volumes, 1791, Oeuvres de Mme Cottin, 11 volumes, Paris, 1815-1816, etc., all leather bound, mainly 8vo (50)
Lot 362
Dryden (John). The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, 6 volumes, Jacob Tonson, 1735, titles printed in red and black, several engraved plates, contemporary uniform full calf, gilt decorated spines, rubbed and some wear to joints and extreme corners, 12mo, together with Rowe (Elizabeth), The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse, of Mrs Elizabeth Rowe, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, corrected, to which is now first added, The History of Joseph, A Poem, 1750, old ownership signature to head of title of each volume excised, engraved bookplate of Thomas Munro to front pastedown of each, early 19th century dark blue gilt-decorated full morocco, very slightly rubbed, 12mo, plus other 18th century and early 19th century English literature, poetry, etc., including Petis de la Croix, The Turkish Tales, 2 volumes, 6th edition, Dublin, 1770, Letters from a Persian in England to his Friend at Ispahan, 3rd edition, 1735, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson, 8 volumes, new edition, 1785, Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series, by Walter Scott, 4 volumes, 1832, etc., all leather bound, 8vo/12mo (63)
Lot 363
Dugdale (William). A Baronage of England, or an Historical Account of the Lives and Most Memorable Actions of Our English Nobility..., 3 volumes in 2, 1st edition, 1675-76, first two titles printed in red and black, with early manuscript ownership names to head, five folding tables, with some closed tears, one with vertical tear and old repair on verso (with consequent minor fraying and loss of narrow vertical strip of text), both volumes with some staining and marks, tears and small holes, and a couple of small losses to fore-margin just clipping marginalia, final half of volume 2 with single wormhole to blank fore-margin, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, worn and rubbed, corners showing, rebacked, folio in 4s, together with Berry (William), Encyclopaedia Heraldica, a Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, 3 volumes, undated, issued in parts between 1828-40, engraved titles, some toning and spotting mainly to first and last few leaves, volume 3 is the plates volume, ink ownership name stamp to front preliminaries, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary spotted green morocco with gilt lettered spines, rubbed and slightly marked, 4to plus Collins (Arthur), The Peerage of England..., 4 volumes, 2nd edition very much enlarged and corrected, 1741 titles in red and black, plates, contemporary Cambridge panelled calf, 8vo Dugdale: Wing D2480. (9)
Lot 364
Euclid. Euclidis Megarensis Mathematici Clarissimi Elementorum Geometricorum Libri XV, Johann Herwagen, Basel, 1546, title with woodcut device, preface by Philip Melanchthon, woodcut initials and numerous diagrams, lacking rear blank, last few leaves with repairs to margins, some water stains, soiling and ink splashes front and rear, occasional early marginalia, front blank with annotations (detaching), contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, some soiling and stains, folio Adams E975. Second Herwagen edition in Latin, the first published in 1537, and originally published in Greek by Herwagen in 1533. (1)
Lot 365
Euclid. Euclid's Elements of Geometry. In XV Books: With a Supplement of divers Propositions and Corollaries. To which is Added, a Treatise of Regular Solids, by Campane and Flussas. Likewise Euclid's Data: And Marinus his Preface thereunto Annexed. Also a Treatise of the Divisions of Superficies, ascribed to Machomet Bagdedine, but Published by Commandine, at the request of John Dee of London; whose Preface to the said Treatise declares it to be the Worke of Euclide, the Author of those Elements. Published by the Care and Industry of John Leeke and George Serle, Students in the Mathematicks, London: Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for George Sawbridge at the Bible upon Ludgate-Hill, 1661, engraved portrait frontispiece of Euclid (trimmed with loss of text and laid down), preface and folding letterpress table by John Dee (small repair to verso), woodcut initials and numerous diagrams, errata leaf at end, title repaired to verso, a few neat early annotations in English, some light spotting and soiling, recent mottled calf, covers with blind key border, spine with raised bands, green label and gilt and blind decorations, folio Wing E3398. The first English edition to contain Euclid's Data and the third complete English edition. The preface by John Dee is reprinted from Henry Billingsley's 1570 English translation and the folding table 'Ground-Plat of the Mathematical Preface of Mr. John Dee' gives Dee's hierarchical structure of the sciences. (1)
Lot 368
Fontaine (Nicolas, Sieur de Royaumont). The History of the Old Testament, Extracted out of Sacred Scripture and Writings of the Fathers for the Government of our Actions in all Conditions.., Translated... by Mr. John Coughen ... and Supervised by Dr. Anthony Horneck and other Orthodox Divines, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition, Printed by Samuel Roycroft for Richard Blome, [1690]-1688, bound with The History of the New Testament, double-column, red ruled throughout, titles in red & black (first title with part of imprint covered over and then partially removed, resulting in minor skinning of surface), 153 (of 154) engraved plates, four double-page maps & plans (two folding with some closed tears to margins and folds, a couple repaired to verso), engraved frontispiece with early ink ownership annotations to verso, appendix title laid down onto an apparent duplicate of page 61, scattered spotting and few ink marks, some closed marginal tears (most repaired to verso), marbled endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed & some wear, folio (1)
Lot 388
Kersey (John). Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum: or, a General English Dictionary, Comprehending a Brief but Emphatical and Clear Explication of all sorts of difficult Words, that derive their Original from other Ancient and Modern Languages..., 3rd edition, 1721, double-column, occasional light marks, two wormholes to lower blank corners, one extending throughout first half of text block, early ink ownership inscription to title, upper blank margin of title excised, contemporary Cambridge panelled calf, a little soiled and rubbed, spine with contrasting label, headcap deficient, one corner showing, 4to (1)
Lot 413
[Sadler, John]. Rights of the Kingdom: or, Customs of our Ancestors Touching the Duty, Power, Election, or Succession of our Kings and Parliaments, our True Liberty, due Allegiance, three Estates, their Legislative Power, Original, Judicial, and Executive; with the Militia. Freely discussed through the British, Saxon, Norman Laws and Histories. With an occasional Discourse of Great Changes yet expected in the World, London: J. Kidgell, 1682, contemporary speckled calf, joints slightly cracked, light wear to extremities, 4to, together with Story (George), A Continuation of the Impartial History of the Wars of Ireland..., 1693, half-title present, ink inscription to title (partially rubbed through), thirteen engraved maps & plates only (of 14), early 19th century calf, boards detached and some wear, 4to, with Coke (Roger), A Detection of the Court and State of England during the Four last Reigns, and the Inter-Regnum. Consisting of Private Memoirs, &c. with Observations and Reflections..., 2 volumes, 1694, title to volume 1 torn to inner margin, spotting and dust-soiling, contemporary matched reversed calf, boards detached, worn, 8vo, plus A Supplement to the First Edition of the Detection of the Court and State of England, 1696, browned & spotted, disbound 8vo, plus six other 17th & 18th century antiquarian (11)
Lot 422
Stubbe (Henry). A Further Justification of the Present War against the United Netherlands, Illustrated with Several Sculptures, 1st edition, 1673, engraved frontispiece, trimmed to image and laid down, four engraved plates (two folding), one with short closed tear to lower margin briefly extending into image, all images and title with small embossed library stamp to upper area, ink ownership names to title, small ink shelfmarks to lower corner of title, and to verso, A2 with faint crayon numbering to lower blank margin, *3 (p.61) with lower blank corner deficient, occasional toning, final printed leaf slightly frayed in places, marbled endpapers, front pastedown with bookplate 'Bath Public Reference Library, presented by A.W. Page, Esq, J.P., 1923', early 20th century blind-tooled calf binding by Bayntun of Bath, spine faintly faded, extremities rubbed, 4to, together with Dugard (Samuel), The True Nature of the Divine Law, and of Disobedience Thereunto, in Nine Discourses..., 1st edition, 1687, imprimatur leaf, with lower blank corner deficient, spotting to first and final leaves, contemporary Cambridge panelled calf, rubbed and extremities worn, sometime rebacked, 8vo, plus Hunt (Thomas), The Rights of Bishops to Judge in Capital Cases in Parliament Cleared, Being a Full Answer to Two Books Lately Published..., 1st edition, 1680, early ink ownership name to title, endpapers renewed, front pastedown with armorial bookplate 'Jolliffe', contemporary speckled calf, rubbed, both joints sometime repaired, slight loss to head of spine, 8vo Wing S6046/D2461/H3759. (3)
Lot 432
Butterworth (Edmund). New Sets of Copies in Alphabetical Order, Consisting Large Text, Round Text, Round Hand & Running Hand, [Edinburgh], 1785, engraved title (laid down and repaired), 19 engraved plates, bound with Butterworth's Universal Penman, or the Beauties of Writing Delineated in all the Various Hands now Practised. Designed for the Improvement of Youth or Amusement of the Curious, Edinburgh, 1784, engraved title, engraved dedication, 29 engraved plates, letterpress leaf at end (close-trimmed at foot and laid down), some light spotting and soiling, modern green half morocco, red morocco label to upper cover, oblong folio First work not recorded on Copac, although there is a 1778 edition listed at Dumfries, with 23 plates. Copac locates the second work 1784, with 17 plates, at the National Library of Scotland. Edmund Butterworth (fl. 1778-1819) was a writing master in Dumfries and Edinburgh. (1)
Lot 473
Daniel Press. Ailes d'Alouette (second series), by F.W. Bourdillon, 1902, unopened, original printed blue paper wrappers (oversized to text block), minor marks, 8vo, (limited edition copy 110/130), together with Caradoc Press, Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1906, half-title, title in red and black, sonnets I & II with decorative borders, the rest with decorated initials by H.G. Webb, occasional light spotting, endpapers toned, bookplates of Robert Peel Sheldon (to front pastedown) and Ken Tomkinson (loose), untrimmed, original cloth-backed boards with printed paper labels (spine label lifting), 4to, plus seven other private press publications including: High House Press, Some Sonnets and Songs of Petrarch, done into English by W.J. Ibbett, 1926 (limited edition copy 27/105); Essex House Press, A Cycle of Sonnets by L. Nightingale, 1905 (limited edition copy 32/250); High House Press, The First Three Odes of Anacreon, done into English by Ambrose Philips, 1927 (limited edition copy 77/100); Pear Tree Press, Change, by G.H. Murphy, 1931 (limited edition copy 10/100) Provenance: Collection of G.S. Tomkinson. (9)
Lot 490
Nonesuch Press. The Works of Shakespeare. The Text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and Selection of Modern Readings, edited by Herbert Farjeon, 7 volumes, New York, 1929-33, a little browned at turn-ins, top edges gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original niger morocco gilt, a little rubbed and marked, 8vo Limited edition, 1137/1600 copies. (1)
Lot 505
Stanton Press. The Game of Chess, done into English from the Latin of M. Vida & Printed by Richard Stanton Lambert..., Decorated with Woodcuts by Nell Lambert, 1921, woodcut frontispiece and title border, five full-page woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials, text in Latin and English, additional spine paper label tipped-in, front free endpaper with bookplate of Ken Tomkinson, original linen-backed boards, lightly soiled, 4to, together with Hortulus or the Little Garden, a Ninth Century Poem by Walafrid Strabo, ...here for the First Time done into English Verse from the Latin by Richard Stanton Lambert and Decorated with Cuts on Wood by Elinor Lambert, 1923, woodcut title and illustrations in both red and black, original cloth-backed decorative boards, extremities rubbed, slim 4to, plus Chiswick Press, The Dance of Death, by Hans Holbein, with an introductory note by Austin Dobson, George Bell & Sons, 1892, facsimile woodcuts, title in red and black, bookplate of Michael Tomkinson to front pastedown, unopened, original printed wrapper, lightly toned and soiled, small paper label on spine, 4to, plus Cayme Press, A Little More Nonsense, by R.D. [i.e. Randall R.H. Davies], 1923 The Game of Chess: limited edition copy 80/250, signed by Richard Stanton Lambert. Hortulus: limited edition copy 25/132. The Dance of Death: limited edition copy 77 of 100 numbered copies on Japanese vellum (of 600 total copies). (4)
Lot 6
Coppin (Jean). Le Bouclier de l'Europe: ou La Guerre Sainte, contenant des avis politiques & Chrˆtiens, qui peuvent servir de lumi‚re aux rois & aux souverains de la Chrˆtient‚, pour garantir leurs estats des incursions des Turcs, & reprendre ceux qu'ils ont usurp‚ sur eux. Avec une relation De Voyages faits dans la Turquie, la Th‚baide & la Barbarie, 1st edition, Paris: Jean Couterot & Louis Guerin, 1686, number stamp and partially erased ink library stamp to blank areas of title with stencil motif to verso, lacks initial (?)blank, bound without 4 engraved plates found in some copies of this issue, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper lower margin, later quarter morocco gilt over boards, rubbed and with evidence of library label removal to foot of spine, 4to There are three issues of this first edition: Le Puy (Blackmer copy), Lyon and Paris (not cited in Blackmer), all dated 1686. (1)
Lot 12
Field (Cyril). Britain's Sea-Soldiers. A History of the Royal Marines and their Predecessors and of their Services in Action, Ashore and Afloat, and upon Sundry Other Occasions of Moment, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Liverpool, 1924, colour and black and white illustrations, scattered light spotting, volume I front hinge broken, top edges gilt, original half morocco gilt, joints and edges rubbed, 4to, together with Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines During the War 1914-1919, Compiled by General Sir H.E. Blumberg, Devonport, 1927, colour frontispiece, maps and illustrations, top edge gilt, uniformly bound as above, a little rubbed, 4to, plus The Royal Marine Artillery 1804-1923, by Edward Fraser and L.G. Carr-Laughton, 2 volumes, Royal United Service Institution, 1930, maps and illustrations (volume I frontispiece detached), scattered spotting, original blue cloth gilt, edges a little rubbed, thick 4to, with two others including Major L. Edye's Historical Records of the Royal Marines, volume I [all published], 1893, and Gillespie (Alexander), An Historical Review of the Royal Marine Corps, from its Original Institution down to the Present Era, 1803, 1st edition, Birmingham, 1803, half title, aquatint frontispiece, engraved vignette, light marginal dampstains to first few leaves, hinges reinforced, bookseller description pasted at end, recent blue half morocco, 4to (8)
Lot 129
Yorkshire. Ordnance Survey maps, scale of 6 inches to one mile, sixteen sheets, first edition 1853 - 1857, sixteen double page uncoloured engraved maps, each laid on later linen, slight dust soiling, later endpapers with library book plate and ink stamps, one ink stamp to margin of first map, each map approximately 640 mm x 940 mm, marbled endpapers, modern quarter morocco gilt, a little worn, bumped at extremities, large folio, together with approximately 250 20th century ordnance survey maps, mostly of the I inch series The complete survey for Yorkshire in the large size first described comprises of 311 sheets and is sometime referred to as'The Record Map'. (approx.250)
Lot 141
Darwin (Robert Waring). New Experiments on the Ocular Spectra of Light and Colours, Read at the Royal Society, March 23, 1786, 1st edition, J. Nichols, 1786, 36 pages, four hand-coloured plates only (of 5, but with later added plate on different paper stitched in) uncut, edges a little frayed, disbound, 4to ESTC T186348. Rare. Robert Waring Darwin (1766-1848) was a medical doctor and the father of Charles Darwin. "Robert provided the first empirical evidence that small eye movements are made even when people attempt to keep them fixed. This he found during his studies of the afterimages of colored stimuli in which he noticed that while a person tried to fixate a colored circle, a lucid edge appeared on the adjacent white-paper background. He concluded "as by the unsteadiness of the eye a part of the fatigued retina falls on the white paper."" (Burntwood Family History Group). (1)
Lot 147
Kuhnert (Wilhelm, and Lydekker, R.). Animal Portraiture, being Fifty Studies, 1st edition, 1912, fifty mounted colour plates with accompanying text descriptions, light spotting mainly affecting first and last few leaves, early ownership inscription to front free endpaper, top edge gilt, original pictorial brown cloth, gilt lettered, slightly marked and extremities lightly rubbed, folio (1)
Lot 19
Herbert (Thomas). Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. Describing Especially the two Famous Empires, the Persian, and great Mogull: Weaved with the History of these later Times. As also, many Rich and Spacious Kingdomes in the Orientall India, and other parts of Asia; Together with the Adjacent Isles. Severally relating the Religion, Language, Qualities, Customes, Habit, Descent, Fashions, and other Observations touching them. With a Revivall of the first Discoverer of America, revised and enlarged by the author, printed for Jacob Blome and Richard Bishop, 1638, additional engraved title, engraved maps and illustrations in text, lacking leaves D1-4 and QQ2-3, E4 torn with some loss of text, light waterstain to lower area throughout, some light soiling and a few corners torn away, bookplate, contemporary calf, rubbed with some wear to spine, folio ESTC S119691; Sabin 13471; STC 13191. The second edition, revised by the author, the first edition published in 1634. Sir Thomas Herbert (1606-1682) sailed with Sir Dodmore Cotton and Sir Robert Shirley's ambassadorial party to Persia in 1627-28, and after Cotton and Shirley's deaths, continued to travel extensively in Persia and surrounding countries, returning back to England via Ceylon, Mauritius and St. Helena in 1629. Sold with all faults not subject to return. (1)
Lot 191
British Isles. Jaillot (Hubert), Les Isles Britanniques qui contiennent les Royaumes d'Angleterre, Escosse et Irlande..., published Paris, 1709, hand coloured engraved map, inset map of the Faroes, Orkneys and Shetland islands, two large cartouches, some marginal staining, slight creasing, central fold strengthened on verso, 465 x 655 mm, together with Visscher (Nicolas & Schenk Pieter), Le Comt‚ D'Artois et des environs ou l'on voit le ressort du l'onseil provincial d'artois avec les frontieres de Picardie, published Amsterdam, circa 1700, hand coloured engraved map of north west France, large decorative cartouche, old folds strengthened on verso, 495 x 710 mm The first described map. R.W.Shirley, Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1650 - 1750, Jaillot 1 state 3. This edition not recorded. (2)
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