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Lot 347
Verne (Jules) 20k Leagues Under the Seas first English edition half-title plates 6pp. advertisements contemporary & later ink inscription on front endpapers bookseller`s and binder`s small sticker on rear pastedown hinges pulled and split original russet gilt- & black-pictorial cloth spine damaged and lifting with some loss corner tips worn g.e. Sampson Low Marston Low & Searle 1873.
Lot 354
Wilde (Oscar) The Importance of Being Earnest first edition number 27 of 1000 copies bookplate and small ownership inscription of C.S.Ascherson original salmon pink cloth gilt designs by Shannon corners bumped covers slightly soiled and spine a little discoloured but overall a good tight copy [Mason 381] 8vo 1899
Lot 357
Wodehouse (P.G.) The Pothunters first edition first issue signed by the author on front free endpaper 10 plates by R.Noel Pocock without advertisements as issued original blue cloth with silver lettering and loving cup illustrations rubbed at edges with some minor marking spine slightly discoloured [McIlvaine A1; Jasen 1] 8vo Adam & Charles Black 1902. ***The true first issue of the author`s first book set at the fictional public school of St. Austin`s; an excellent copy signed thus.
Lot 366
Wyndham (John) The Day of the Triffids first edition inscribed by the author with triffid doodle on half-title original cloth 8vo 1951.hn ***The contemporary inscription reads “To Les Aaronberg / from / John Wyndham / alias / J.B.Harris”. The drawing is almost identical to the one gracing the original dust-jacket`s upper panel with an additional flourish depicting the venomous sting. Scarce signed thus.
Lot 149
Putnam Aeronautical Books. British Civil Aircraft Since 1919, 3 vols., 2nd ed., 1973-74; German Aircraft of the First World War, 2nd ed., 1970; German Aircraft of the Second World War, 1st ed., 1972; Russian Aircraft Since 1940, 2 copies, 1st eds., 1975; Aeroflot - Soviet Air Transport Since 1923, 1st ed., 1975; The World’s Airliners, 1st ed., 1962; British Aviation - The Great War and Armistice 1915-1919, 1st ed., 1969; British Aviation - The Adventuring Years 1920-1929, 1st ed., 1973; Miles Aircraft Since 1925, 1st ed., 1970; Shorts Aircraft Since 1900, 1st ed., 1967; Gloster Aircraft Since 1917, 1st ed., 1971; Vickers Aircraft Since 1908, 1st ed., 1969; Handley Page Aircraft Since 1907, 1st ed., 1976; Fairey Aircraft Since 1915, 1st ed., 1974; Avro Aircraft Since 1908, 1st ed., 1965; Blackburn Aircraft Since 1909, 1st ed., 1968; The British Bomber Since 1914, 1st ed., 1967; Hawker Aircraft Since 1920, new edition, 1971; Boeing Aircraft Since 1916, 1st ed., 1966; num. b & w illusts. from photos, and others in the same series, all orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, G/VG (43)
Lot 216
* Mitchell (J.W.). “First Flight of the Spitfire”, 5 March 1936, pub. Mirage Fine Art, 1986, col. print after the original by the artist, signed in pencil by Jeffrey Quill (test pilot), Humphrey E.J. (RAF test pilot), Sammy Wroath (RAF test pilot) and Jim Mitchell (artist), image 38 x 56cm, framed and glazed, (limited edition 192/975), together with Taylor (Robert), “Victory over Dunkirk. Bob Stanford-Tuck claims an Me110, one of three enemy aircraft he shot down over Dunkirk, 23 May 1940, pub. Military Gallery, Bath, 1983, coloured print after the original by the artist, signed in pencil by Bob Stanford-Tuck, image 31 x 46cm), framed and glazed, plus Bagley (Laurence), “Glittering Wings”. The Supermarine Southampton Flying Boat designed by R.J. Mitchell... , n.d., c. 1980s, coloured print after the original by the artist, image 50 x 75cm, framed and glazed, with eleven other aviation pictures, all framed and glazed (14)
Lot 243
* Holt (Alan S.). “Return to France”. On 10th June 1944 “Johnnie” Johnson’s 144 Canadian Spitfire Wing landed at St. Croix-sur-Mer, Normandy: the first Allied fighters to land on French soil since 1940, pub. 1991, coloured print after the original, signed by the artist in pencil with orig. pencil remarque of two Spitfire aircraft, also signed by Johnnie Johnson, approx. 41 x 50cm, framed and glazed. Limited edition of 850, this copy numbered A.P. 16/50. (1)
Lot 262
* Seago (Edward Bryan, 1907-1974). “Battle of Britain”. An RAF pilot exits his Hawker Hurricane, c. 1940, an original artwork preliminary sketch, depicting a Battle of Britain period scene, ink & watercolour wash, signed lower left in ink by the artist, in matted mount, unframed, 10 x 14in (26 x 36cm). Seago, a now highly acclaimed artist & illustrator, served with the Royal Engineers during WWII but was invalided out in 1944 to become an official War-artist doing propaganda work for HMSO making sketchbook and related studies for such wartime activities and wrote & illustrated several books including “A Generation Rising” (1942), and “High Endeavour” the biography of his friend Jimmy Chipperfield, Circus supreme & self-motivated RAF Pilot. A 1944 first-edition copy of which is included with this lot. (2)
Lot 605
Silverstone “The First 50 Years”. Special edition published by the British Racing Driver’s Club 1998, numbered 519 of 1500 copies to celebrate the Golden Anniversary of the circuit 1949-1998, for distribution through membership of the BRDC, marbled end-papers, with applied manuscript numerated edition label, green cloth bindings and with impressed gilt-tooling to leather-bound spine, together with BRDC Yearbook 2003-04 in celebration of 75th Anniversary of the Club 1928-2003, green cloth hard-covers, published by the club to membership only, fully illustrated with members listing etc., also with Members Bulletin Vol 30 No.1 Spring 2009 (3)
Lot 699
* Bachmann 0-0 gauge 2-rail electric locomotives. Two limited edition locomotives and tenders, comprising first series LMSS 460 Silver Jubilee No. 5552 in black with bright parts in sterling silver and stainless, VG to excellent, some bright metal numbers, letters and numbers loose, two missing, three loose in bag, together with third series Southern 460 Lord Nelson No. 850 and 8-wheel tender, finished in lined malacite green, both in fitted wooden cases, with certificates, VG to excellent, cases excellent (2)
Lot 421
Milton, John. The Paradise Lost of Milton. With Illustrations by John Martin. Small folio, Henry Washbourne & Co. 1858 [The third Washbourne edition]. 24 mezzotint plates by John Martin. All pales present but some wrongly placed, the first leaf of text and the list of illustrations, some scattered foxing. A couple of the plates with ragged edges and a few with minor marginal dampstaining. The book has a sometime suffered from a bad rebacking. Full contemporary panelled calf, rubbed and worn, all edges gilt and gophered.
Lot 426
Voragine, Jacobus de. The Golden Legend. 1507. 403 leaves (of 406?) lacking 1Y4,Y5 & 3D (black letter) 8, folio 382. 87 woodcuts in the text and numerous woodcut initial letters. Contemporary ink marginalia, some ink underlining. Some minor worming. The first 5 leaves and the last 6 leaves re-margined, a few other leaves with missing corners, some with replaced corners and a couple with minor tears. The colophon leaf trimmed and laid down. Collation: The signatures are in eights lettered: 1a-i; k-t; v, x, y, z; 2A-I, K-U,X,Y,Z; [Black letter] 3A-E(vi). Lacking 1y4-5, 3Dviii and Evii & viii (?). Nineteenth century full calf binding, rubbed and worn, the joints starting. * This appears to be the only surviving copy with the following last lines in the printed colophon “. . . Whiche werke was fynyffhed the fourth daye of Septembre. The yere of our lorde M. CCCCC. & vii. / Emprynted at Londõ in Fletestrete in the Sygne of the sonne. ByWynkyn de Worde. ” This leaf also has De Worde’s device printed on it. In the copies held in the Guildhall Library in London and at Lambeth Palace Library the colophon has Pynson’s device and the final line reads: “Emprynted at Londõ in Fletestrete in the Sygne of the George. ByRycharde Pynson. ” Hodnett (1973, p. 21) states “Two books make 1507 notable. In that year De Worde and Pynson turned from rivalry to co-operation and brought out jointly new editions of the Legend aurea on 4 Sept. and, sometime after 13 Sept. , the Boke named the Royall. Though Pynson’s name and dev ce are in the only perfect copy of the former, the one at Lambeth, and in some copies of the latter, the type in both instances is De Worde’s. All the cuts in the Royal Book are his, and . . . so are all but five of the seventy cuts in the Legend aurea. ” Maitland (1843) gives a full description of the Lambeth copy (pp. 77-78) and adds a foot note (note T pp. 365-367) where after stating that “. . . I may be exposing my ignorance by speaking of this work as unknown. The truth is, however, that I have not found any notice of it;” He then compares it to the 1527 edition. The number of known copies has (with this copy) been extended from seven to eight. The other seven being held as follows, two in London in the Guildhall and Lambeth Palace Libraries, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Harvard, Princeton and a copy that was sold in Christie’s (London) in 2008. The Lambeth copy (which contains 466 leaves including a woodcut frontispiece, a table of contents to the Golden Legend and a final colophon leaf) is generally accepted to be the “only possibly complete copy” (Farrell 2006, p. 483). The first sixty leaves commence with a life of Adam and Eve and it has a “Folio primo” first leaf. These sixty leaves are lacking in the Cambridge, Edinburgh, Harvard and Princeton copies and Farrell suggests that “perhaps (they) were never issued in some copies. ” That they were never issued with this copy is partially evidenced by the condition of the first and last few leaves which were, prior to the nineteenth century binding and repairs never part of a larger work. Only the two copies held in London have colophon leaves and both of them have Pynson’s name. The copy offered for sale here commences on a. 1. with a running title “Thadvent of our Lorde. Folio primo. ” With the lacking leaves this would give a total of 406 leaves. The distressed states of the other remaining copies (all of which are lacking their colophon leaves) would make this the most complete copy of this (variant) issue of the book. Whether this is the first or second issue or simply a “rogue” issue printed by De Worde must, at the present time, remain a matter for speculation. Farrell (1966). Farrell, Mark R. In Princeton University Library Chronicle Volume LXVII, Number 2,Winter 2006. Hodnett (1973). Hodnett, Edward. English Woodcuts 1480-1535. Oxford, 1973. Maitland (1843). Maitland, S. R. A List of Some of the Early Printed Books in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth. 1843.
Lot 433
[Army Lists]. Lists of the Officers of the Several Regiments and Corps of Militia: Of the Officers of the Several Fencible Regiments of Infantry; and of all the Regiments and Independant Companies Raised since the First of January, 1793. . . . 1794. Contemporary full morocco binding, gilt, rubbed and worn. Together with; A List of the Officers of the Militia; The Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry; and Volunteer Infantry; with an Index. The Ninth Edition, 15th July, 1803. Some minor worming to the inner margins, not affecting the text and with some minor dampstaining. Original marbled boards with paper spine, rubbed, the head and tail of the spine fraying. (2).
Lot 31
Dapper (Olfert). Asia, oder Genaue und Grundliche Beschreibung des gantzen Syrien und Palestins, oder Gelobten Landes. Worinnen die landschafften Phonicien, Celesyrien, Commagene, Pierien, Cyrestica, Seleucis, Cassiotis, Chalibonitis, Chalcis, Abilene, Apamene, Laodicis, Palmyrene, etc., Neben den Landern Perea oder Ober-Jordan, Galilaa, das absonderliche Palestina, Judaa und Idumea begriffen sind, 2 parts in one, Amsterdam: Jacob von Meursen, 1681, addn. eng. title, first title printed in red and black, text in double column, thirty-nine eng. plates (including ten double-page or folding eng. maps and plans, twenty-one double-page or folding views etc., and eight single-page plts), numerous half-page engravings, plt. of Jerusalem with burn hole to image and one other double-page plt. trimmed to caption on lower margin, contemp. sheep, gilt dec. spine, slight loss of leather at head & foot of spine, joints cracked and board corners worn, folio. Blackmer 449 and Atabey 322. The first edition in German of Dapper’s `Syria and Palestine’. The first edition appeared in Dutch in 1677. Olfert Dapper (1635-1689) produced a number of classic accounts of the various parts of the known world, including Africa (1668), China (1670), Persia (1672), and the Middle East (1681). The present work, carefully compiled from the accounts of Jesuit missionaries and explorers, as well as early writers such as Josephus and Eusebius, was translated into German by Jacob von Meursen, who also engraved the impressive illustrations. (1)
Lot 145
Ward (Rowland). Horn Measurements and Weights of the Great Game of the World: Being a Record for the Use of Sportsman and Naturalists, 1st ed., 1892, port. of the author and num. illusts. printed in sepia tint with tissue guards, wood-engs. to text, errata slip at p. 3 & 257, orig. `animal skin’ effect cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt, 8vo. A near-fine copy. This was the first work of its kind to be published and was designed not as a scientific work but as one for sportsmen as well as scientists who were interested in seeing comparable measurements at a glance. The second edition was published in 1896 under the title Records of Big Game with their Distribution, Characteristics, Dimensions, Weight and Horn & Tusk Measurements, the current publication is the 26th edition. (1)
Lot 202
Speed (John). John Speed’s England. A Coloured Facsimile of the Maps and Text from the Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine First Edition, 1611, 4 vols., Edited by John Arlott, pub. Phoenix House Limited, 1953, forty-one colour printed maps, with English text on verso, orig. pubs. half cloth with printed label to upper board, each contained in comtemp. slip case, slight rubbing at extrems., folio (4)
Lot 229
Oppianus. Alieuticon, sive De Piscibus, Libri quinque e graeco traducti ... C. Plinii Secundi, De Naturis Piscium ... de medicinis ex aquatilibus sive piscibus, Pauli Jovii, De Piscibus, 3 parts bound in one, ed. Johannes Caesarius, Strasbourg, Jacobus Cammerlander, February 1534, 8 pp. prelims. + 152 numbered leaves, woodcut initials, large printer’s woodcut figure of Fortuna to verso of final leaf (with neat 18th c. ownership inscription below), some light browning throughout, contemp. Venetian blind-tooled goatskin, with foliate border enclosing inner lozenge of foliate roll, with small figure of Fortuna to centre of each cover, top fore-edge title by hand Oppiani Alieutica, lacks ties, skilfully recased with minor restoration to extreme corners, 4to (binding size 205 x 155mm) Adams O202. This edition not in Westwood and Satchell. Oppian’s poem on fishing was the first book on the subject, here translated by Lorenzo Lippi, with additions by the translator including cooking recipes. (1)
Lot 246
Berkshire. Overton (John), A New Map of Barkshire with all the Hundreds, Parkes and other Places thereunto belonging, 1666 [or later], hand coloured engraved map by Wenceslaus Hollar, panorama of Windsor Castle and two engraved vignettes of Knights of the Garter, margins strengthened on verso, trimmed to neat line, repaired marginal tear, 360 x 490mm, together with Saxton (Christopher & Hole William), Comitatus Bercheriae vulgo Barkshyre qui olim sedes Atrebatum, n.d., c.1637, hand coloured engraved map 240 x 330mm. The first described item is scarce. First published in c.1670, this map was probably part of a composite atlas. These atlases were published by Overton with a varying map content up until the early 1700’s when the business was taken over by John’s son Henry. This example does not show any roads which would indicate an early edition of the map and although it’s design owes a great deal to John Speed’s earlier map of Berkshire of 1611, it is much less common. (2)
Lot 535
Gheyn (Jacob de). Maniement d’armes, d’arquebuses, Mousquetz et piques, Amsterdam, Robert de Baudous, 1608, engraved allegorical title, text in English, French and German in three parts, 117 full-page eng. plts. in all, some embrowning throughout, later vellum (probably 18th century), some marks and soiling, ties partly defective, folio. Lipperheide Qb19. The first French edition of De Gheyn’s famous drill manual, known in English as the Exercises of Arms. The work is based on the drill developed at the end of the 16th century by Count Johann II of Nassau-Siegen (1551-1623) and introduced in the Dutch Army by his cousin Maurits, Prince of Orange (1567-1625). (1)
Lot 549
[MolŽ, Guillaume Fran?ois Roger]. Histoire des Modes Francaises, ou Revolutions du Costume en France, depuis l’etablissement de la Monarchie jusqu’a nos jours. Contenant tout ce qui concerne la tete des Francais, avec des recherches sur l’usage des Chevelures artificielles chez les Anciens, 1st ed., Amsterdam and Paris, Costard, 1773, half-title, eng. head-piece, occn. light foxing and marks, single wormhole to blank fore-margin throughout becoming two holes towards the end, label removed from front pastedown, red sprinkled edges, contemp. speckled half calf, with paste paper boards, rubbed, 12mo.. First edition of this interesting and important work on the history of hair-styling and grooming, beards and wigs. (1)
Lot 560
Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 vols., 3rd ed., with additions, 1784, vol. 1 with approx. 2Ó square piece torn from fore-margin of Bb8 affecting seven lines of text on each page, first vol. with early ms. name written in blank gutter margin of title-page, and with early ms. inscription on front pastedown, front free endpaper of vol. 1 with portion torn away, untrimmed, orig. boards, dust-soiled and extrems. a little worn, spines frayed with sl. loss, early ms. title and vol. no. to spines, 8vo. Goldsmiths’ 12554; Kress B789. First published in 1776, this is the first octavo edition, containing several additions, including a new chapter entitled `The Conclusion of the Mercantile System’. A rarely-found unrestored copy of this seminal work in the original boards. (3)
Lot 564
Stow (John, and Edmund Howes). The Annales, Or Generall Chronicle of England, Begun First by Maister John Stow, and After him Continued and Augmented with Matters Forreyne, and Domestique, Anncient and Moderne, unto the Ende of this Present Yeere 1614, by Edmond Howes, 1615, title within elaborate woodcut border, woodcut headpieces and initials, one Preface leaf misbound, N1-6, R1-6 & Ee1-3 misbound, Ss4 with tear in text and resulting loss, a few small burnholes and closed marginal tears, scattered minor spots, eighteenth c. diced calf gilt, rebacked, rubbed, folio. Provenance: Henry Huth library (small bookplate). First edition with Shakespeare reference on p. 811. STC 23338.. (1)
Lot 627
Galsworthy (John). The Works of John Galsworthy, Manaton Edition, 30 vols., 1923-36, photogravure frontis. to each, orig. qtr. vellum gilt, minor discol. to spines, in d.j.s, rubbed and frayed to extrems., spines somewhat discol., 8vo. Limited edition 111/530, signed by the author to the first volume.. (30)
Lot 663
Caxton (William). The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, Written in French Raoul Lefevre, Translated and Printed by William Caxton (about A.D. 1475), the first English Printed Book, now Faithfully Reproduced with a Critical Introduction, Index and Glossary... by H. Oskar Sommer, 2 vols., 1894, eight pages in photographic facsimile, untrimmed, orig. linen-backed boards, small 4to, together with Nares (Robert), A Glossary or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions, to Customs, Proverbs, etc. which have been Thought to Require Illustration in the Works of English Authors, Particularly Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, new edition, with considerable Additions both of Words and Examples, by James O’Halliwell and Thomas Wright, 2 vols., 1901, orig. linen-backed boards, recased, 8vo, with other early English history and literature, including Renaissance theatre (3 shelves)
Lot 672
Betjeman (John). Old Lights for New Chancels. Verses Topographical and Amatory, 1st ed., 1940, the author’s second published work, silhouette port. frontis., orig. cloth with paper label to spine, a little rubbed, slim 8vo, together with Moore (Nicholas), The Glass Tower. Drawings by Lucian Freud, 1st ed., Editions Poetry London, 1944, col. and b & w illusts. and decorations by Lucian Freud (his first appearance in print), orig. linen-backed printed boards in sl. chipped d.j., slim 8vo, plus Fontenelle (Bernard de), A Plurality of Worlds. John Glanvill’s Translation, with a Prologue by David Garnett, pub. Nonesuch Press, 1929, colour-stencilled decorations to text by T.L. Poulton, orig. limp vellum with slipcase, 8vo (limited edition 1050/1200), 8vo, and other poetry, literature and film interest (3 shelves)
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Lot 326
Nottingham Forest 1980 Toyota Cup [World Club Championship] memorabilia, comprising: the rare Japanese language edition of the official programme v Nacional Montevideo (Uruguay); together with the more commonplace English language 4-pager; and a press pass and bib formerly owned by the Daily Mirror’s Arthur Cooper (4). This was the first time that the World Club Championship was played in Japan
Lot 405
Manchester United Opus, ultra luxurious production, limited edition, signed by Sir Alex Ferguson & Sir Bobby Charlton, over 800 pages, lavishly illustrated with over 2,000 images, over 400,000 words, half . A metre square, weight over 35kg., printed on 200 gsm silk-coated paper, overall production entirely from natural materials- leather, silk, paper, wood and cotton thread, sits in a silk . Clam-shell presentation box, white cotton gloves provided, first published October 2006 by Krakenopus
Lot 475
The bat used by Len Hutton to score his 50th century in first-class cricket in the Roses Match at Old Trafford 4-7th June 1949, a Slazenger ‘Gradidge’ ‘Len Hutton Autograph’ full size cricket bat inscribed to back of bat in Hutton’s handwriting ‘Bat used in completing 50th century for Yorkshire,’ signed in ink ‘Len Hutton’. The 1950 edition of Wisden has an article ‘Tribute to Hutton’ (pages 93-102) by V.G.J. Jenkins, and on pages 100-102 lists each of Hutton’s centuries to date. The fiftieth century for Yorkshire is listed as the Yorkshire v Lancashire match played at Old Trafford, Manchester on 4-7th June 1949 where Hutton made 201 in Yorkshire’s first innings
Lot 542
Todd (Tom) The Tennis Players From Pagan Rites to Strawberries and Cream 1977, Vallancey, 1979, 1st Guernsey Edition, hardback in dust jacket, 240 pages. This is a classic and extremely sought-after book which traces the story of tennis from its origins through to the golden era of lawn tennis which came to an end with the closure of the Worple Road ground at Wimbledon in 1921. Many rare illustrations and photographs. A very scarce volume in that only 500 copies were ever printed. Todd was an early collector of tennis collectibles, and his collection formed the basis of the first Wimbledon Museum. This book also has a list of the known copies of the various editions of Wingfield’s rules booklet for Sphairistike, which totalled 15 in 1977.
Lot 549
Two American golf publications, Hunter (Robert) The Links, first edition, second state binding minus the pin flags, Charles Scribner’s sons, 1926; & Thomas Jr. (George C.) Golf Architecture in America, Its Strategy and Construction, 1st Edition, original embossed blue cloth boards, Los Angeles, 1927
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Lot 97
Barrie (J.M.) Peter and Wendy, nd. [1911], first edition, original cloth (worn); Kipling (Rudyard), A Song of the English, nd., 4to., tipped-in colour plates by W. Heath Robinson, original cloth; Collingwood (W.G.), Thorstein of the Mere, 1895, original cloth gilt; Wagner (Richard), Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods, 1911, tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham, original cloth; with two others (6)
Lot 1
Camden (William) Britannia 1695 first edition of Gibson`s translation large paper copy engraved portrait frontispiece 8 plates of coins and 50 double-page and/or folding maps most by Robert Morden engraved and woodcut illustrations one full-page Ff3 with marginal tear some light browning but generally a good copy engraved bookplates of Earl of Aylesford and William Newsam McClean contemporary panelled calf rather worn rebacked preserving fine gilt-stamped red morocco label corners repaired [Wing C359] folio by F.Collins for A.Swalle...and A. & J.Churchil 1695. ***With contributions by Samuel Pepys (naval information) and John Ray (botanical details at end of each county description).
Lot 9
Arnold (John)Leicestershire Harmony.1759 Containing a Set of Excellent Psalm-Tunes and Anthems... first edition musical notation title lightly soiled modern calf-backed marbled boards by Robert Brown for the Author 1759 § Stileman (John) Episcopal Authority...consider`d; in a Sermon preached at Leicester October 2. 1707 32pp. disbound soiled for W.Taylor... 1708 § History and Description (A) of...Saint Mary Wymeswold Leicestershire 4 tinted lithographed plates illustrations light foxing original cloth rubbed and stained [c.1846]; and 3 others ecclesiastical relating to Leicestershire 8vo & 4to(6)
Lot 18
Clough.Lead Smelting Mills..Yorkshire Dales second enlarged edition one of 750 copies signed by the author Keighley 1980 § Owen (C.) The Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield 1200-1900 Ashbourne 1984 § Stevens (P.A.) The Leicester Line: A History of the Old Union and Grand Union Canals Newton Abbot 1972 § Russell (P.) A Leicestershire Road (Harborough-Loughborough) Leicester 1934 plates and illustrations original cloth or boards the first three with dust-jackets the last faded; and c.40 others on industry canals railways etc. mostly relating to Leicestershire including a folder of material relating to Blackbrook Dam Loughborough (correspondence photographs of construction etc.) c.1900 many pamphlets v.s.(a box)
Lot 23
Graham (Rigby) Leicestershire publisher`s copy signed by the artist and publisher from an edition limited to 150 illustrations by Rigby Graham many colour some tipped in original morocco-backed cloth spine faded slip-case Leicester 1980 § Moon (N.) The Windmills of Leicestershire and Rutland one of 500 copies signed by the author 1981 § Prophet (J.) Church Langton and William Hanbury one of 250 copies 1982 § Squires (A.E.) and W.Humphrey. The Medieval Parks of Charnwood Forest one of 275 copies 1986 § Tew (D.) The Oakham Canal one of 450 copies illustrations by Rigby Graham Brewhouse Press 1968 illustrations all but the first original cloth most pictorial gilt Wymondham all but the last Sycamore Press; and 3 others Sycamore or Brewhouse presses v.s.(8)
Lot 25
Hanbury.Hist..Charitable Foundations..Church-Langt first edition with errata leaf at end occasional light soiling no free endpapers contemporary mottled calf a little worn for the Benefit of the Charity 1767 § Prophet (John) Church Langton and William Hanbury one of 250 copies illustrations original cloth gilt transparent dust-jacket Wymondham Sycamore Press 1982 8vo & 4to(2) ***Hanbury the Rector of Church Langton in Leicestershire “having a natural genius for planting and gardening ...had...begun to make extensive plantations and gardens in this parish and in two other parishes adjoining those of Gumley and Tur Langton procuring for this purpose seeds and plants from all quarters and especially from North America. His plantations were reckoned in 1758 to be worth at least 10 000l...He proposed to vest his gardens in a body of trustees who were annually to dispose of the produce and devote the proceeds to the creation of a fund. When this fund should reach 1 500l. the interest was to be applied to the decoration of the church at Langton the providing an organ and the support of an organist and schoolmaster; when it should reach 4 000l. a village hospital was to be founded and advowsons were to be bought to enable the trustees to reward deserving clergymen by preferment.” Further plans included a library picture gallery hospital for women and finally a choral college at Oxford. “In 1777 the year before his death the annual income amounted to 190l. 17s. which was regularly invested till in 1863 it had risen to about 900l. The trustees then applied to the court of chancery.” DNB Despite not attaining the heights of Hanbury`s vision a charity in his name still exists today.
Lot 35
Act..making..Navigable Communication between the Loughborough Canal and the Town of Leicester... disbound spine reinforced [1791] § Farnham (George F.) Quorndon Records 2 vol. including Supplement original cloth-backed wrappers or boards privately printed 1912 § Potter (T.R.) Walks round Loughborough first edition title in red and black broken original cloth faded 1840; Rambles round Loughborough presentation copy from the author original cloth Loughborough 1868 § Fletcher (Rev. W.G.Dimock) History of Loughborough 1887; Chapters in the History... 1883 together 2 works in 1 vol. Loughborough § Deakin (J.) Loughborough in the XIX century signed presentation copy from the author Loughborough Echo Press 1927 some plates and illustrations the last four original cloth all rubbed; and a small quantity of others on Loughborough mostly pamphlets etc. v.s.(a box) ***The first includes the Charnwood Forest canal.
Lot 39
Nichols.History/Antiquities..County of Leicester 4 vol. in 8 first edition engraved frontispieces title-vignettes and c.500 portraits plates maps and plans a few folding (one large of inscription) one hand-coloured one on india paper and mounted genealogical tables including 4 folding a few ink annotations in contemporary hand some foxing and offsetting frontispiece of vol.1 part 1 torn and defective at lower margin (repaired with no loss to image) handsome contemporary russia. boards with elaborate borders in gilt & blind and gilt garter arms in centre rebacked with gilt morocco spines a little rubbed together in later wooden lectern bookcase on wheels (a few marks and scratches) folio 1795-1815.
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Lot 53
Wright.History/Antiquities..County of Rutland [Additions...; Farther Additions...] together 3 parts in 1 first edition main title in red and black double-page engraved map plate and illustrations some full-page woodcut coats-of-arms title very lightly soiled bookplate of Crewe Hall on front pastedown nineteenth century red morocco gilt rubbed spine faded [Wing W3696 & 3691] folio for Bennet Griffin... 1684[-87-1714].
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Malby.With Camera/Rucksac..Oberland/Valais first edition photogravure plates [c.1900] § Ball (John) Bernese Alps including the Oberland 1873 § Association of British Members of the Swiss Alpine Club. Report... vol.1-18 in 5 contemporary half morocco original wrappers bound in rubbed and faded 1910-26 plates and illustrations the first two original cloth a little rubbed; and c.25 others on the Alps v.s.(c.35)
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