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Click here to subscribeDU CHAILLU, PAUL BELLONI Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa. First Edition, 1861 8vo, orig. pictorial cloth gilt by Edmonds and Remnants with ticket (tail of spine nicked). Folding frontispiece, 27 plates and folding map (short tear to inner edge). 28pp. adverts. at end. A good clean copy.
IRELAND, SAMUEL A Picturesque Tour through Holland, Brabant, and Part of France . . . 2 vols, First Edition, 1790. 8vo., fine cont. tree calf gilt wit key pattern border, decorative spines gilt with red and blue labels. Titles with vignettes and 42 plates (ex 43, lacks plate at p.65 in Vol. 1), mostly sepia aquatints. Sold w.a.f. (2)
LIVINGSTONE, DAVID Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. First Edition, 1857 8vo, orig. cloth (head of spine chipped). Folding frontis., portrait, plates and text illustrations (as per list), two folding maps, one in pocket at end (inner joints with some wear). Adverts. dated Nov. 1857.
LOGAN, JAMES Notes of A Journey Through Canada, The United States of America, and the West Indies. First Edition, Edinburgh 1838 (spine faded). Folding engraved map (a few spots). -- ROSS, Sir JOHN and others. Arctic Miscellanies. A Souvenir of the late Polar Search. Second Edition, Hudson's Bay; Or Every-Day Life in the Wilds of North America. Second Edition, Edinburgh and London, 1848. Fontis and three plates, text illustrations. All 8vo., orig cloth (3)
TRISTRAM, Rev. HENRY BAKER The Land of Israel; A Journal of Travels in Palestine . . ., First Edition, 1865 Orig. cloth gilt. Two folding maps, one of them coloured, 12 plates, inc. four chromolithographs, text engravings. -- STANLEY, ARTHUR PENRHYN. Sinai and Palestine . . ., Fourth Edition, 1857. Cont. calf gilt (bird's mess on upper cover). Seven coloured folding maps, five woodcut maps. Both 8vo. (2)
BEWICK, THOMAS A History of British Birds. First Edition, 2 vols., Newcastle, 1797 - 1804, A GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. Second Edition, Newcastle, 1791. 8vo., uniformly bound in cont. tree calf, spines gilt with blue morocco labels (Vol. 2 of first work with slight wear to head of spine). Text illustrations. Bookplates of George Becher Blomfield. (3)
DARWIN, CHARLES The Descent of Man, And Selection in Relation to Sex. First Edition, Second Issue, 2 vols., 1871. With list of other works by Darwin on versos of titles. 8vo., orig. cloth, spines gilt. Both vols. with 16pp. of adverts. at end, dated Jan. 1871. Text illustrations (endleaves, half titles and adverts. spotted). With Insectivorous Plants, Third Thousand, 1875. (3)
BEZE, THEODORE de. Icones id est Verae Imagines Virorum Doctrina simul et Pietate Illustrium . . . First Edition, Geneva, Jean de Laon, 1580. 4to., cont. vellum gilt (lower cover browned), fragments of green ties. Woodcut device on title, 38 oval woodcut portraits, within decorative borders, 44 emblem illustrations at end (small wormhole in lower blank margins, more prevalent towards the end and just affecting two numerals). Bookplate of George Becher Blomfield.
BURNET, GILBERT, Bp The Abridgment of The History of the Reformation of the Church of England. 1682. 8vo., cont. calf (upper cover detached). Additional engraved title and 2pp. of portraits (hole in blank area of title). Wing B5755. -- BEVERIDGE, WILLIAM, Bp.The Church-Catechism Explained: For the Use of the Diocese of St. Asaph. First Edition, 1704. 4to., cont. calf (some wear). With five others including Lilley, W. Anglicus, Peace or no Peace, 1645 (text shaved). Wing L2207. (5)
FULLER, THOMAS A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine. First Edition, Printed by J.F. for John Williams. 1650. Folio, cont. calf (upper cover detached and with wear at lower edge). Engraved additional title, plate of arms, and 24 double page maps and plates (ex 28) (one with tear at lower edge, another with brown mark, Pi with minute hole). Sold w.a.f. Wing F2455
HOMER Iliad. Second Edition in Greek, First Aldine Edition [Venice, Aldus Manutius 1504]. Small 8vo., 19th c. vellum, a.e.g. 277 leaves (lacking one blank). Anchor device on Ai. Preceded by the three lives of Homer sometimes found in the Odyssey volume. 56 leaves (repair to blank margin of Ai). Bookplate of George Becher Blomfield and half a page of ms. notes on verso of front endpaper.
NEW TESTAMENT, The Newly Translated out of the Originall Greeke . . . Imprinted . . . by Robert Barker, 1612. First 4to Edition of the New Testament of the Authorized Version. 19th c. diced calf gilt (joints with some wear). Black letter, title within woodcut border (rehinged, some browning to text). STC 2910. Herbert 318. Cancelled bookplate of Caleb S. Mann and signature of G. B. Blomfield, 1869
PLATINA, BARTHOLOMAEUS SACCHI de The Lives of the Popes . . . Translated into English . . . by Paul Rycaut. First Edition, Printed for Christopher Wilkinson, 1685. Folio, old calf, spine gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece (frontis. and title cut round and mounted, title and lower margins of first few leaves repaired). Wing P2403. Bookplate of G. B. Blomfield. With another volume. (2)
THOMAS AQUINAS, Saint Incipit coffessionale seu libellus optim' bti Thome de aqno. de modo cofitedi et de puritate coscientie. 29 leaves only (lacks ai and di, and final blank), Gothic letter, rubricated. 8vo., 19th c. boards (first gathering with worming to lower margins). Sold not subject to return. Listed under supposititious works. BM/STC French p.420. Either the edition by D. Roce, Paris (1510?), or that of P. Gromorsius, Pairs, 1520 Not in Adams
WALTON, ISAAC The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. First Collected Edition, Tho. Newcomb for Richard Marriott, 1670. 8vo., later calf gilt (rubbed). Four engraved portraits. With the blanks A1 and A8. Wing W671 Bookplate of George Becher Blomfield pasted over another. A good copy.
BERKELEY, GEORGE, Bp. of Cloyne The Works. First Edition, 3 vols., 1820. Cont. half calf, spines gilt. Folding plan and folding chart. -- BEDE, Venerable. The Ecclesiastical History of The English Nation. Ed. the Rev. J. A. Giles. 1840 Cont. half calf, spines gilt. Frontispiece and double page map. -- WHATELY, RICHARD, Archbp. of Dublin. 1839 Cont. blue stained calf gilt. All 8vo. Bookplates of George Becher Blomfield. (5)
CONYBEARE, Rev. W. J. and the Rev. J. S. HOWSON The Life and Epistles of St. Paul. First Edition, 2 vols., 1852. 4to, cont. maroon morocco, ruled in gilt with decorative corners, by Hugh Roberts of Chester, a.e.g. (slight wear to inner lower cover of Vol. 1). Engraved titles, maps and plates after W. H. Bartlett and others. Text illustrations. (2)
CURTIS, JOHN HARRISON A Treatise on the Physiology and Diseases of the Eye. First Edition, 1833. Hand coloured engraved frontispiece; A TREATISE ON . . . THE EAR. Fifth Edition, 1831. Engraved portrait frontispiece (spotted) and two plates, one of them folding. Both orig. cloth backed boards. -- JOHNSON, JAMES. The Economy of Health or the Stream of Human Life . . ., First Edition, 1836. Orig. boards (spine cracking). Lithographic frontpiece. - PARIS J A A treatise on Diet, 1826. Cont half calf (4)
GRANVILLE, GEORGE, Lord Lansdowne Poems Upon Several Occasions. First Edition, 1712. Signature of Wm Yonge 1721 on verso of upper cover, and a 19th c. signature on title. 8vo., cont. panelled calf (some wear). With a Seventh Edition of Edmond Waller's Poems, 1705 (lacking a portrait), and seven other vols. of poetry, mostly 19th c., in good leather bindings. (9)
LE GRAND D'AUSSY, PIERRE JEAN BAPTISTE Fabliaux or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth Centuries . . . Selected and Translated into English Verse (by G. L. Way and G. Ellis). First Edition, 2 vols., W. Bulmer and Co., 1796-1800. Large Paper, 8vo., cont. half green morocco, spines gilt, t.e.g. Text illustrations by John and Thomas Bewick. Bookplates of George Becher Blomfield. (2)
WHISTON, WILLIAM Primitive New Testament. Parts I-IV. First Edition. Stamford and London, Printed for the Author, 1745. 8vo., cont. calf with decorative gilt borders and spine (some wear to joints and staining to text at end of vol.) Bookplate of James Dix, Bristol, Biblical Collection, and signature of G. B. Blomfield, 1870 Sold not subject to return.
CHRISTIE, AGATHA . Nemesis. 1971. First edition. 8vo, original cloth in d.w. Dustwrapper a little edge rubbed but generally very good. Signed by Agatha Christie boldly across title. With autograph letter from Daphne Honeybone, dated 6th December 1971, loosely inserted in which she writes "I thought you might like a copy of Nemesis which I asked the author to sign this morning".
CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE: Souvenir programme for the launch of the Cunard White Star liner "Queen Elizabeth" on Sept. 27th 1938. Plates, the double-page centre spread, after Frank Mason, printed on a gold background. 4to, original coloured wrappers, silk tie bound. Together with the souvenir number of "The Shipbuilder" issued for the launch of the Cunard White Star liner "Mauretania" in 1939. Folding plans. Folio original wrappers; and Lightholler's "Titanic and other Ships", first edition 1935 (binding stained).
Four reference books on blue-printed pottery: A.W. Coysh Blue and White Transfer Ware 1780-1840" (David & Charles, 1970, first edition with dust jacket, signed by the author); A.W. Coysh "Blue-Printed Earthenware 1800-1850" (David & Charles, 1972, first edition with dust jacket, signed by the author); A.W. Coysh and R.K. Henrywood "The Dictionary of Blue and White Printed Pottery 1780-1880" (Antique Collectors' Club, 1982, first edition with dust jacket); and Robert Copeland "Spode's Willow Pattern" (Studio Vista, 1990 paperback reprint)
Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary, The Crossing of Antarctica, The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctica Expedition 1955-58, Cassell London 1958, first edition signed by Hillary and Fuchs, 338pp dust wrapped good condition, together with 4 Christmas Cards sent by the Hillary family to the owner of the book - a former secretary at the Royal Geographical Society.
Eric Shipton, An Autobiography, The Untravelled World, signed, first edition by Shipton with dust wrapper, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1969, together with Eric Shipton, Land of Tempest, Travels in Patagonia 1958-1962, signed, first edition by Shipton with dust wrapper, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1963 (2).
L.P. Kirwarn, The White Road, signed by author, first edition, dust wrapper, Hollis & Carter 1959, together with George Lowe, Because It Is There, signed by author, first edition, dust wrapper, Lassell & Company Ltd 1959, and a copy of Joint Services Expedition to the Elephant Island Group 1970-77, signed by Chris Furse (3).
Siegfried Sassoon, introduces poems from Italy, verse written by members of the Eighth Army in Sicily and Italy July 1943, March 1944 with a foreward by Lt General Sir Oliver Leese and an introduction by S Sassoon, 91/110 copies, signed by Sassoon, London, G Harrap and Co 1945, together with Seago, Edward with the Allied Armies in Italy, first edition Collins 1945 (2).
John Heming, The Conquest of the Incas, signed by author, Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich 1970, together with Middleton Dorothy, The Life of Charles II, Earl of Middleton 1650-1719, first edition, signed by author, London Staples 1957 and Crankshaw Edward, The Fall of the House of Habsburg, first edition, signed by author, London Longmans 1963 (3).
Lafitau, Joseph Francois (1670-1740), Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquains, Comparees aux Moeurs des Premiers Temps, Paris, Chez Saugrain l'aine, 1724, 4to, 2 volumes, engraved frontispiece, map and 39 plates, head-pieces, historiated initials, (lacking plates 3, p105, and 4, p108), marbled endpapers, original calf boards, bookplates for C. J. L. Coquereau, and Sir John C. Hobhouse, First Edition.
Hunt, John, The Ascent of Everest, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1953, 8vo (220 x 140mm.), half title, colour photographic frontispiece of Tenzing on the Summit, plates, and illustrations, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, and dust-jacket, head- and tail of spine dust-jacket with few marginal tears, First Edition. With Sir William Martin Conway's 'The Alps From End to End' (Westminster, 1895).
Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805-1882), & George Cruikshank (1792-1878), The Tower of London, London, Richard Bentley, 1840, 8vo (240 x 140mm.), frontispiece lithographed plate by Cruikshank, 39 plates, illustrations, some browning, new endpapers, later half brown morocco gilt, First Edition.
Stonehouse, John Harrison, David Copperfield A Reading, in five chapters, by Charles Dickens, London, Henry Sotheran & Co., 1921, 8vo (225 x 140mm.), half title, title within double lined black border, oval portrait frontispiece of Mrs. Winter, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary stiff backed boards, title label pasted down onto spine, No. 60 of 275 limited edition copies, of which 250 are for sale, signed by Henry Sotheran & Co. Stonehouse, John Harrison, Sikes and Nancy A Reading by Charles Dickens, London, Henry Sotheran & Co., 1921, 8vo (225 x 140mm.), half title, title within double lined black border, frontispiece plate depicting Dickens impersonating Nancy and Fagin, 5 leaves of a first bibliography of the Reading Editions of Charles Dickens works (G4-G8), advertisement leaf at end, contemporary stiff backed boards, title label pasted down onto spine, No. 244 of 275 limited edition copies, of which 250 are for sale, signed by Henry Sotheran & Co.
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870), Oliver Twist, Philadelphia. Lea & Blanchard, 1839, tall 8vo (245 x 150mm.), frontispiece by Cruikshank, and 24 plates, some browning, advertisement leaves, contemporary ownership inscription on contents leaf, contemporary cloth, spine lettered and with illustration of Oliver Twist in gilt, bookplate of Charles A. Hill, First American Edition.
[Dickens, Charles], Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life, and Every-Day People. The Second Series. Complete in One Volume, London, John Macrone, 1837 [i.e., 17th December 1836], 12mo (185 x 115mm.), additional illustrated title/frontispiece by Cruikshank, and 9 plates (not yet with the 2 later plates), contemporary calf gilt by Riviere & Son, spine in 5 gilt compartments, First Edition, first issue. Sadleir states a few copies are known with no list of Illustrations and with 'Vol. III' unerased and these would certainly seem to represent an earlier (and perhaps suppressed) issue of the book".
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870), Mr. Nightingale's Diary: A Farce in One Act, Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1877, 24mo (115 x 75mm.), frontispiece by F. W. Pailthorpe, vignettes, head-piece, contemporary half green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, green front wrapper and spine strip bound in, bookplate of Charles Plumptre Johnson, First American Edition. Johnson The first edition edition was privately printed and is practically unobtainable ... The American edition is now scarce".
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