We found 118894 price guide item(s) matching your search
There are 118894 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe- List
- Grid
-
118894 item(s)/page
Lot 10
Logan Clans of the Scottish Highlands 1845 2 vol. additional chromolithographed armorial titles dedication printed in black and gold list of subscribers 72 hand-coloured lithographed plates after McIan a few trimmed modern red morocco with original pictorial cloth gilt laid on covers g.e. rubbed [Tooley 323; cf.Abbey Life 426 first edition] folio Ackermann & Co. 1845-1847.
Lot 17
Josenhans Bilder aus der Missionswelt Second Series only (of 2) first German edition 20 hand-coloured tinted lithographed plates a few repairs to several plates but most still in decent condition text ff. browned and torn later cloth-backed boards fraying to spine scarce oblong 4to Mainz [c.1858].sold not subject to return ***One of two series issued at about the same time by the Inspector of the Basel Mission. This volume covers West Africa India New Zealand and North-West America..
Lot 20
Salt (Henry) A Voyage to Abyssinia 1st 1814 first edition engraved frontispiece 6 charts (all but 2 folding) 26 plates and a large folding map hand-coloured in outline engraved map with repaired tear (repair splitting) and with a few small holes or splits at folds a few repairs to folds of charts occasional spotting or foxing heavy to a couple of charts a few small marginal repairs later calf over old marbled boards corners worn covers rubbed and scuffed [Blackmer 1479; Fumagalli 139; Gay 2683; Hilmy II p 208] 4to 1814.
Lot 128
Pozzo Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum part 1 only (of 2) first edition text in Latin and Italian 2 titles with large woodcut ornaments 102 full-page illustrations (all but 1 numbered) occasional soiling some marginal foxing a few stains modern half calf [Berlin Kat 4725] folio Rome typis Joannis Jacobi Komarek Bohemi apud S. Angelum Custodem 1693. ***Provenance: presentation inscription to first title `ex dono. George Hayter` ?Sir George Hayter portrait and historical painter..
Lot 136
Vitruvius Pollio Den Danske Vitruvius... 2 vol. first edition text in Danish French and German engraved frontispiece and 281 plates and plans some folding a few trimmed closely occasionally just within platemark some water-staining mostly marginal heavier in vol.2 encroaching within platemarks at upper corners and occasionally elsewhere contemporary calf spine in compartments richly gilt and each with a black and citron morocco label restoration to covers rubbed [Cicognara 4115] folio Copenhagen Ernst Heinrich Berlings 1746-49.
Lot 172
Willughby (Francis) The Ornithology...1678 edited by John Ray 3 parts in 1 first edition in English title in red and black 80 fine engraved plates 2 tables title with ink stamp and ink ownership inscriptions `Bethell Robinson` (scored through) and `Tho. Blythe Robinson 1837` plate 77 trimmed closely at outer edge just touching very small part of 1 image repaired tear to outer edge of plate 88 just affecting small part of image but with no loss lower corner of this plate creased others in good crisp and clean condition a few small marginal worm holes or traces to outer margins of the first c.200 text ff. antique style mottled calf-backed old marbled boards vellum corners boards faded and rubbed [Nissen 991; Wing W2879] folio A.C. for John Martyn 1678. ***`one of the most important treatises on ornithology of all time` (Wood). It contains the first systematic classification of birds of the world. For the English edition Ray corrected the text and augmented it with three new treatises on falconry songbirds and the art of fowling..
![[Boyle] (Roger, Earl of Orrery). A treatise of the Art of War, First Edition, engraved frontispiece by A. De Blois, upper cor](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10119/2795110/2-2010527121640_468x382.jpg)
Lot 2
[Boyle] (Roger, Earl of Orrery). A treatise of the Art of War, First Edition, engraved frontispiece by A. De Blois, upper corner torn away and repaired with blank, 6 folding engraved plates, gilt stamp at the head of the text, last leaf soiled and chipped at upper edge, nineteenth century half calf, spine defective, [Wing 0499], folio, by T. N. For Henry Herringman, 1677
![Brunhoff (Jean de). Les Vacances de Zéphir, First Edition, original cloth-backed boards, folio, [1936]](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10119/2795110/5-2010527122447_468x382.jpg)
Lot 39
Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, First Edition, original flower-pattern binding, edges browned, inner higes broken, 16mo., 1903; The Tale of Tom Kitten, First Edition, a few corners affected by damp, original grey boards, edges slightly faded, 16mo., 1907; and Peter Rabbit’s Almanac for 1929 (3)
![Potter (Beatrix). Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes, First Edition; original boards, 16 mo., [1917]](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10119/2795110/42-2010527122242_468x382.jpg)
Lot 63
Sold on the Instructions of the Governing Body of Rugby School Shakespeare (William). Mr. William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio ... The Fourth Edition; Fourth Folio, lacks portrait, two later manuscript notes on the title, and the oval stamp of the Arnold Library Rugby, the first gathering possibly inserted, with the fore-margin of the title slightly shorter, TT3 and TT4 also inserted and with shorter margins, small holes or rustholes in B4 and ZZ1, paper flaws in B6 and F3, all slightly affecting the text, 19th century tree calf, extremities of spine worn, upper joint cracing, bookplate of Rugby School, and stamped W*I*W inside the front cover, [Wing S2915; Pforzheimer 911], folio, (360 x 225mm), for H. Herringman, and are to be sold by Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders, 1685 The Fourth Folio Edition includes Pericles and the six spurious plays, and was printed on larger sheets than the earlier folios. This copy has the variant setting of the title page omitting Chiswell’s name. Provenance: Presented by Mathew Holbecke Bloxam, DR, to Rugby School Library in 1884 and inscribed thus on the front endpaper. Also with Bloxam’s notes saying that the book came from Lawford Hall, the property of Theodosius Boughton, Bart., in the eighteenth century.
![[Beckford (William Thomas)]. Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha, First Edition, with an](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10119/2795110/72-201052712253_468x382.jpg)
Lot 72
[Beckford (William Thomas)]. Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha, First Edition, with an autograph letter signed by William Beckford tipped in after the title, engraved frontispiece portrait, offset, signature scraped from head of title, manuscript notes on the pastedown concerning the letter, contemporary half calf, gilt spine, bookplate, joints splitting, 1835 The autograph letter is signed ‘WTB’ and addressed Park St,. Monday 5th April, 1841, to Mr. Edm. English Junr., Milsom Street, Bath. It refers to ‘this most tiresome Benjamin business’, possibly Sir Benjamin Hale, afterwards Lord Stanover. As the note says ‘Mr. English was an upholsterer at Bath, who managed much business for Mr. Beckford, and furnished his house there, and the tower on Lansdown’.
Lot 80
Leigh (Samuel). Leigh’s New Pocket Atlas of England and Wales consisting of Fifty-Five maps of the Counties and a General Map, New Edition, pub. M.A. Leigh, 1834, half title and title page, addn. dec. engraved title bound in after contents, fifty-five uncoloured engraved county maps but lacking general map of England and Wales, first few leaves with ink staining to lower border, a few maps toned overall, modern qtr. morocco with orig. calligraphic title pasted to upper board, 12mo (leaf size approx. 130 x 80mm) Not in Chubb, but refer to 373.The two original boards are loosely inserted into the binding. (1)
Lot 194
Willoughby (Francis). Ornithologiae libri tres: in quibus aves omnes hactenus cognitae in methodum naturis suis convenientem redactae accurate describuntur, ..., ed. John Ray, 1st ed., John Martyn, 1676, imprimatur, title printed in red and black within ruled border, with eng. coat-of-arms, errata leaf, two folding tables and seventy-seven eng. plts. (complete), minor scattered worming to lower blank margin throughout, not affecting text or plates, contents partly broken with one or two leaves loose, occn. minor foxing and marks to margins, contemp. mottled calf, later reback, rubbed and a little wear to extrems., folio (410 x 250mm) Nissen IVB 991; Anker 532, Wing W2879. Zimmer, p. 677. Willoughby’s Ornithological Treatise, “the first systematic classification of the birds of the world” [Wood] was published with the assistance of his friend John Ray, and funded by the author’s widow Emma. This copy is the so-called “widow’s edition”, with Emma Willoughby’s name and her husband’s coat-of-arms printed on the title page. (1)
Lot 196
Wright (Lewis). The Illusrated Book of Poultry...., Revised Edition, pub. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1880, fifty chromolithographic plts. (inc frontis., complete as list), numerous b & w wood eng. illusts. to text, occ. spotting, first free end paper with contemp. manuscript owners inscription, old pressed leaves & flowers adhering to index at verso, upper hinge cracked, boards showing signs of water damage, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and worn, 4to (1)
Lot 386
Herodotus of Halicarnassus. Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiographi libri novem, musarum nominibus inscripti, interprete lauren[totio] Val[la], Cologne, Eucharium Cervicornum, aere & impensa M. Godefridi Hittorpii, 1526, [28], 274 pp., main title with elaborate woodcut border, first leaf of main text with additional woodcut border, some damp marking to margins, mostly to lower inner margins to front and rear, old vellum, rubbed and some soiling and wear, folio. Adams lists only the edition of 1537 by the same publisher (Adams page 400). The woodcut title border depicts scenes from the legend of Hercules. (1)
Lot 388
[Ireland, William Henry]. Effusions of Love from Chatelar to Mary Queen of Scotland. Translated from a Gallic Manuscript, in the Scotch College, at Paris. Interspersed with Songs, Sonnets, and Notes Explanatory, by the Translator, 1st ed., printed for C. Chapple, 1805, eng. frontis. (foxed and with small worm-trail in upper blank margin), and addn. inserted eng. port. of Mary Queen of Scotland, woodcut vign. tail-pieces, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, marbled endpapers, early 20th c. dark blue half morocco gilt, sm. 8vo. Scarce first edition of one of Ireland’s forgeries. William Ireland, usually known as Samuel (after a brother who died in childhood), is more commonly known for his forgeries of Shakespearean documents and plays. (1)
Lot 404
Puysegur (Jacques Francois de Chastenet de). Art de la Guerre, par Principes et par Regles, 2 vols. bound in one, Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1748, fine eng. port. frontis. of the author by J. Daulle after R. Tourniere, first title with eng. vignette, eng. title to second part by Marvye after Babel, (41) folding and double-page eng. plates, several eng. culs-de-lampe after Cochin, a few minor marks (generally in clean condition), 19th c. ownership ink stamp to front blank of F. Veillon Colonel, marbled endpapers, contemp. mottled full calf, gilt dec. spine with large eng. coat of arms to centre of both covers, surmounted with ducal coronet and armorial supported by unicorns to either side, rubbed and some wear to joints and extrems. (upper joint partly split at foot), outer corners showing, large folio (435 x 295mm). Cohen-de Ricci 830. First edition of the Marquis de Puysegur’s important treatise, published posthumously by his son, in which the author expresses his universal theory of successful warfare, partly in opposition to the growing use of firearms. (1)
Lot 436
Maffei (Giovanni Camillo). Scala Naturale, overo Fantasia Dolcissima, intorno alle cose occulte, e. desiderate nella Filosofia, Venice, Giovanno Varisco, 1564, title with printer’s woodcut device, and full-page woodcut portrait of the author to verso, several woodcut initials, one woodcut illust. to text, some marks and light staining to title, occ. marginal marks elsewhere, old limp vellum, some wear, 8vo. First edition of Maffei’s cosmological treatise, in which the world is envisaged as a series of fourteen concentric spheres with man at the centre. In the illustration, the author is shown giving instruction on the ascent through the stages, to the work’s dedicatee, Giovanni di Capua, Count of Altavilla. (1)
Lot 922
[Leadbetter, Mary]. Cottage Dialogues relating to Marriage and Domestic Conduct. Extracted, with permission, from the Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry, Part the First, printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1811, pp.[iv]+72, recent marbled wrappers, title-page reproduced in facsimile and mounted on upper cover, sm. 8vo. We have been unable to trace a copy of this edition. Full of useful information for the zealous housewife, such as how to cook haggis, the usefulness of bees, how to wash clothes, the best way to manage a husband, and the merits of growing vegetables. (1)
Lot 1192
Richards (Frank). A collection of 10 Billy Bunter titles, all 1st eds., 1949-57, b&w illusts., all orig. cloth in laminated d.j.s, some chipping to spine ends, 8vo, together with Howard Baker Reprints, 28 vols., c. 1970’s, col. and b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, plus one other related. First edition Billy Bunter’s comprising Lord Billy Bunter; Billy Bunter’s First Case; Billy Bunter’s Christmas Party; Billy Bunter and the Blue Mauritius; Billy Bunter Amoung the Cannibals; The Banishing of Billy Bunter; Billy Bunter Afloat; Billy Bunter Butts In; Billy Bunter in Brazil; Billy Bunter’s Postal Order. (39)
Lot 1197
Sitwell (Edith). Facade, privately printed for the author, Favil Press, 1922, col. frontis. by G. Severini, uncut, orig. dec. boards with printed label to upper cover, faded and split along spine with some loss, a little fading and wear to extremities, 8vo. Signed limited edition 100/150. Fifoot EA6b. An unknown number of copies of the original typescript prepared for the first performance precede this first official edition. (1)
Lot 49
Perry China Seas and Japan 1st 1856 3 vol. first edition 88 tinted lithographed plates 22 maps and charts including 14 large folding 23 lithographed Natural History plates 18 hand-coloured 3 colour facsimiles of Japanese paintings 2 folding 16 meteorological diagrams and 352 full-page wood-engraved astronomical charts a few repairs and splits at folds to charts some loss to world chart some offsetting occasional spotting modern light russet half morocco spines gilt a good set 4to Washington 1856. ***Without the unlisted and often suppressed nude bathing plate at p.405 but with the photographer plate opposite p.194 in vol.1..
Lot 54
Gerning Tour along Rhine Mentz to Cologne first English edition hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 23 plates list of subscribers ex-library copy with ink stamp to verso of title and to O2 verso blind-stamps to all plates and a few text ff. modern dark green half morocco spine gilt gilt shelf number to foot of spine slightly rubbed [Abbey Travel 217] despite library markings still a good copy with good colouring 1820 [but plates watermarked 1816-1819 and text 1817-1818]. ***The plates are in an early state (without numbering to top right corner)..
Lot 60
[Rottiers Description Monumens de Rhodes Atlas vol. only first edition lithographed title map and 75 plates after P.J. Witdoeck 8 hand-coloured occasional spotting front free endpaper creased contemporary dark brown half morocco spine repaired with loss of 1 compartment at head rubbed [Atabey 1056; Blackmer 1450; Weber I 163] oblong folio Brussels 1828. ***Rottiers was requested by the King of the Netherlands to undertake an archaeological mission to Greece. His original intention was to excavate at Delos and Milos but the laws of the new Greek government prevented this. Instead he looked to the islands under Turkish rule and fixed upon Rhodes..
Lot 61
Society Of Dilettanti. Antiquities of Attica edited by William Wilkins first edition half-title 78 engraved plates and plans a few text ff. browned some offsetting contemporary diced russia gilt rebacked preserving original backstrip [Blackmer 1659; Cicognara 2646] a very good copy folio 1817.
Lot 63
Daniell India by the way of China first edition 50 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates some light browning occasional light spotting modern half dark green straight-grain morocco spine in compartments and richly gilt [Abbey Travel 516; Tooley 173] a very good copy oblong folio bound as folio 1810. ***The Daniells left England in April 1785 on board the Indiaman Atlas arriving in Whampoa China in August. Having spent several months in China they then sailed on to Calcutta. Includes views of Madeira the Cape of Good Hope Java Macao and Canton. .
Lot 64
Fitzclarence Route across India 1st first edition half-title 13 plates (mostly aquatint 9 hand-coloured) 4 engraved battle-plans with partial hand-colouring (each with key f.) and 2 maps (1 large folding with route hand-coloured) errata leaf short tear to map just within image offsetting modern half dark blue crushed morocco spine faded [Abbey Travel 519] 4to 1819.
Lot 65
Heber Upper Provinces of India 1828 2 vol. first edition engraved frontispieces folding map (hand-coloured in outline) and 8 plates ex- North Devon Athenæum Library copy stamp to titles and versos of plates labels to pastedowns some foxing to plates new endpapers and pastedowns contemporary half calf rebacked in later brown morocco gilt shelf numbers to lower spines rubbed and scuffed 4to 1828.
Lot 66
Robertson Historic Disquisition of India and the Progress of Trade with that Country first edition half-title engraved folding maps each with a short tear within image and creased outer margins with a few very small wormholes turning into small frayed traces to last few index ff. modern morocco-backed boards spine gilt 4to for A. Strahan and T. Cadell 1791.
Lot 67
Williamson (Capt. Thomas) and Samuel Howett illus first edition hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece additional pictorial title hand-coloured in gouache 39 hand-coloured aquatint plates title lightly creased a few minor spots or marks but plates with fine bright hand-colouring contemporary red half crushed morocco gilt spine in 6 compartments 4 with gilt big game motifs later red morocco label to upper cover spine repaired upper cover faded corners worn rubbed g.e [Schwerdt II 297; Abbey Travel 427; Tooley 508] a very good copy oblong folio 1807. ***`The most beautiful book on Indian sport in existence` (Schwerdt). With some of the earliest aquatints of the wild elephant. Plate XXX1 in Tooley`s first state `Hunting Jackalls` rather than `Jackals rescuing a hunted brother` and with plates XIII and XIV numbered in reverse order..
Lot 75
Smyth Sicily and its Islands 1sts first edition engraved folding frontispiece map 13 (of 14) plain aquatint plates map foxed and offsetting onto title plates offsetting some spotting or foxing contemporary half calf short split to head of lower joint spine ends and corners worn rubbed [Moncada 2068; Pine-Coffin 821-3] 4to 1824.
Lot 84
Solis y Ribadeneyra Conquest of Mexico translated by Thomas Townsend first edition in English engraved portrait frontispiece 2 maps (1 double-page) and 6 plates modern half calf spine in compartments richly gilt and with red morocco label [Sabin 86487; Palau 318693] a very good copy folio T. Woodward J. Hooke and J. Peele 1724.
Lot 96
Mawe Travels in the Interior of Brazil 1st first edition engraved frontispiece map and 7 plates 1 hand-coloured repaired worming to frontispiece (affecting part of image) and inner margins of all to B4 (including title) small wormhole or trace to remaining ff. occasionally affecting a few letters of text or very small part of plate modern half calf spine gilt spine slightly faded [Sabin 46991] 4to 1812.
Lot 102
Planta Helvetic Confederacy 2 vol. first edition engraved titles and folding map head of title of vol.1 trimmed partially removing ink inscription but still with good margins occasional spotting contemporary half calf sympathetically rebacked in diced calf spines gilt corners worn very good copies 4to 1800.
Lot 114
Low (Lt. Charles Rathbone) Her Majesty`s Navy 3 vol. first edition chromolithographed frontispieces additional vignette titles and 40 plates by W.Christian Symons and W.Fred Mitchell original pictorial cloth g.e. spine ends slightly rubbed 4to [1889-93]. ***A very good set in the original binding..
Lot 121
Gibbs (James) A Book of Architecture first edition 147 engraved plates only (of 150) lacking plates 1 110 and 131 last plate with marginal repair list of subscribers some soiling and mostly marginal staining modern half calf [Harris 257; Fowler 138] folio 1728. ***Subscribers included Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor..
Lot 167
Lilford (Thomas L. Powys 4th Baron) Coloured Figu 7 vol. first edition list of subscribers photogravure portrait and 421 chromolithographed or hand-coloured lithographed plates mostly after Thorburn and Keulemans mounted on linen stubs throughout some water-staining to plates later green half morocco gilt t.e.g. others uncut spines slightly sunned [Nissen IVB 563; Fine Bird Books p.119] 8vo 1885-97.
Loading...-
118894 item(s)/page