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Lot 247
DIROM, Alexander (1757-1830). A Narrative of the Campaign in India which terminated the war with Tippoo Sultan in 1792. With maps and plans illustrative of the subject, and a view of Seringapatam. London: W. Bulmer, 1793. Quarto (260 x 205mm). Engraved frontispiece, plate, 6 maps and plans, all but one folding, engraved plate of Tippoo Sultan`s Great Seal (frontispiece cropped, frontispiece and title browned and spotted, some spotting and browning throughout, some mainly marginal staining). 19th-century green half calf gilt by Higginbotham & Co. of Madras (rather worn, lower cover detached). Provenance: Palace Library, Mysore (stamp on front free endpaper); early signature erased from title with some thinning of paper; some pencil marginalia and annotation. FIRST EDITION. INDIA - MARQUIS CURZON OF KEDLESTON. British Government in India. The Story of the Viceroys and Government Houses. London: Cassell, 1925. 2 volumes, quarto (317 x 270mm). Half titles, photogravure frontispiece portraits, half tone plates (some spotting and staining throughout). Original blue half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities rubbed). NUMBER 60 OF 500 "EDITION DE LUXE" COPIES. With 3 other works on India in 4 volumes including James Grant`s Cassell`s Illustrated History of India (London, [c.1880], 2 vols.) and The Historical Record of the Imperial Visit to India 1911 (London, John Murray, 1914, publisher`s presentation copy, blindstamped "With Mr Murray`s Compliments"). MUNRO, Innes (d.1827). A Narrative of the Military Operations, on the Coromandel Coast, against the combined forces of the French, Dutch, and Hyder Ally Cawn. London: for the Author, 1789. Quarto (266 x 212mm). Additional title with engraved vignette, folding engraved plans (additional title detached and stained, some mainly marginal worming, spotting and staining, some offsetting). 19th-century half library calf (some staining, a few wormholes).. (9)
Lot 15
Bougard (Rene). The Little Sea Torch: or, True Guide for Coasting Pilots: by which they are Clearly Instructed how to Navigate along the Coasts of England, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Sicily; the Isles of Malta, Corsica, Sardinia, and others in the Straits; and of the Coast of Barbary Enriched with Upwards of One Hundred Appearances of Head-Lands and Light-Houses. Together with Plans of the Principal Harbours ... translated from the French ... with corrections and additions by J. T. Serres, 1st English ed., pub. for the author, by J. T. Debrett, 1801, title with some foxing and vertical crease, inkstamp erased towards inner margin, list of subscribers, nineteen (of twenty) hand-coloured aquatint plates of land profiles, lacking plate 20 (containing strip views of Salerno, Port of Messina and Gulph of Salerno), plates with watermark dated 1796, twenty-four hand-coloured engraved plans of harbours and islands, on twelve leaves, occn. minor foxing, some marks and soiling to margins, one or two short closed marginal tears, modern brown library cloth, rubbed and some marks, folio. Abbey, Life, 344. The first and only English edition translated by Serres, with corrections and additions, of Ren? Bougard`s Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer, first published in 1684. (1)
Lot 158
Morandi (Giambattista). Historia Botanico-Practica, seu Plantarum, quae ad usum medicinae pertinent, nomenclatura, descriptio, et virtutes, cum ab antiquis, tum a recentibus celebrium auctorum scriptis desumptae, ac aeneis tabulis delineatae, atque ad vivum ex prototypo expressae ..., 1st ed., Milan, Pietro Francisco Malatesta, 1744, hand-coloured additional title (some marks and marginal soiling, two small holes towards top margin, sl. affecting image), title printed in red and black with engraved vign., sixty-eight single-page eng. plts. with contemp. hand-colouring, a few minor marks and small marginal stains to text leaves at front of vol., small dampstain to lower margin of approx. twenty plates at rear of vol., not affecting engraved surface, old inkstamp to engraved and printed titles erased, modern half calf, sl. rubbed, folio. Nissen BBI, 1406. Hunt 522. Stafleu and Cowan 6290. Johnston 404. First edition of Morandi`s herbal, for which the author drew and engraved all the plates, here with contemporary hand-colouring. Morandi worked for Victor Emanuel II of Savoy, as a botanical artist at the Gardens of the Castello Valentino in Turin. (1)
Lot 169
Spallanzani (Lazzaro). Dissertations Relative to the Natural History of Animals and Vegetables, translated from the Italian, new enlarged and corrected edition, 2 vols., 1789, three folding eng. plts., front pastedowns with ownership inkstamp, neat contemp. ms. signatures to front and rear pastedowns, contemp. full calf gilt, contrasting labels to spines, 8vo. This important treatise was originally published in Modena in 1780 as `Dissertazioni de fisica animale e vegetabile`; the translator was Thomas Beddoes, the Bristol physician and friend of Coleridge. The first volume consists of six dissertations on digestion, while the second covers the generation of certain animals and plants. A fine copy. (2)
Lot 458
* Ruskin (John, 1819-1900). Autograph letter signed `J. Ruskin`, pencil date of 29 Jan 1861 at head in an unidentified hand, to Mr [William Cox] Bennett, apologising for having missed him due to a misunderstanding, thanking him for the bells poem [`Ring Happy Bells!`?], `You`ll be vexed I fear to find how prosaic and hard a person I am, when you come to try me. This picture of Burton`s for instance is of a kind I have little regard for. I entirely reject and dislike the whole school of set on foot by young men who think that fine feeling excuses bad painting. I must have my good painting first - as I must have good grammar & spelling. Burton can`t paint a vine leaf - and yet thinks he can paint a christ. There is some gift in him but the whole pack of them want to be sent to school & [?] & fed on bread & butter til they`ve got their conceit taken out of them. I am very sorry for Burton - as I am for [?] more - but it is of no use. People must learn their business before they can live by it`, 3 pp. with remains of album guard to left margin, 8vo, together with stamped and franked envelope to Bennett in Ruskin`s holograph, plus two letters signed (one autograph and one typed) from Peter Quennell as editor of `History Today` to Wilfrid Blunt concerning Ruskin, plus a photocopy of a letter to Ruskin from S. Carlyle Cockerell and a late edition of Ruskin`s `Mornings in Florence`, 1903. The identity of the recipient is made clear from the envelope giving the address as 2 The Circus, Greenwich. William Cox Bennett (1820-95) was a journalist and author. The artist Burton referred to in the letter so scathingly is almost certainly William Shakespeare Burton (1826-1916). He had only one great success with his pre-raphaelite painting `The Wounded Cavalier` which was hung next to Holman Hunt`s `The Scapegoat` at the Royal Academy in 1856. His output otherwise seems to have consisted mainly of religious pictures. (5)
Lot 491
Clark (Richard). Practical and Ornamental Penmanship, A New Copy Book, by Richard Clark, Writing Master to the Royal Academy, at Portsmouth, [London], 1758, eng. title, 5 pp. introduction, 2 pp. list of subscribers, and twenty-nine (of 30) eng. plts. mostly by Edward Thorowgood and J. Howard, a few plates close-trimmed to fore- or lower edge, including title (numbered 1-30, lacking plate 13), later half calf with marbled boards, spine and outer corners renewed, oblong folio. The second edition of a work first published in 1742. Richard Clark, son of the Writing Master John Clark (author of the popular Writing Improv`d), ran a school in Little Flower Street, Portsmouth, in partnership with William Kippax. (1)
Lot 495
Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia, gia Ridotta a miglior lezione dagli Accademici della Crusca, ed. Ora accuratamente emendata, ed. Accrescruta di varie lezioni tratte da un antichissimo codice, 4 vols., Livorno, Tommaso Masi, Tipi Bodoniani, 1807-13, eng. port. frontis. to first vol., a little foxing to front and rear of each vol., contemp. uniform full calf, with gilt morocco labels to spine of each vol., rubbed and some surface marks to covers, 8vo. Brunet, II 506. An important edition edited by the Italian bibliophile Taetano Poggiali. (4)
Lot 540
Smith (Albert). The Social Parliament. At the First ... an Act to Amend the Laws relating to the giving of dinner and evening parties, 1st ed., 1848, humorous printed Act with drop-head title (below the words `Second Edition`, wood eng. thumbnail vigns., 8 pp., uncut and partly unopened, a little soiled and frayed at margins, disbound as issued, slim folio. Albert Richard Smith (1816-60), was an English author, entertainer, and mountaineer. He was an early contributor to Punch and wrote satires on the pretentions and snobbery of social climbers. He published a second similar humorous act in the same year: An Act for Promoting the Public Health in Towns and Elsewhere. (1)
Lot 565
Galton (Francis). The History of Twins, as a Criterion of the Relative Powers of Nature and Nurture, offprint (from the Journal of the Anthropological Institute), 1875, pp. 391-406, stitched as issued with plain blue wrappers, some spotting, together with two further Galton offprints, Visualised Numerals/Statistics of Mental Imagery, both 1880, the first item with two tables, both paginated pp. 1-18, a little spotting, orig. printed wrappers, a little spotting and soiling with vertical crease, all slim 8vo, plus a second edition of Hereditary Genius, 1892, some spotting, orig. cloth, spine spotted and faded, 8vo. The first paper anticipated the modern field of behaviour genetics, which relies largely on twin studies. (4)
Lot 571
Newton (Isaac). Opuscula Mathematica, Philosophica et Philologica ..., 3 vols., Lausanne & Geneva, 1744, titles printed in red and black with eng. vign., half title to vol. 1, two folding tables, 8 pp. French bookseller`s catalogue (July 1819) bound with forty folding eng. plts. (nos. 1-40) from a different edition at rear of vol. 1, note to binder leaf at end of vol. 3, occn. spotting, contemp. half calf, rebacked, rubbed, together with Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ..., 3 vols. bound in 2, [Second Jesuits` edition], Geneva, 1760, half title to vol. 1, title to vol. 1 printed in red and black, eng. illusts. to text, lacks pp. 63-134 of vol. 1 with a later octavo edition of this section (De Motu Corporum Liber Primus) bound in its place, pp. 62 & 135 papered over, some spotting and soiling, contemp. calf, rebacked, rubbed, all 4to. The first work represents the first collected edition of the Mathematical, Philosophical and Philological Treatises by Newton. This set is lacking the sixty-two folding engraved plates and the forty plates found at the rear are from an unidentified edition, bearing plate numbers but no volume or page placement instructions for the binder. (5)
Lot 623
Miniature book. The Ashendene Press Edition of Horace`s Carmina Sapphica, Boston, Anne & David Bromer, 1983, a.e.g., orig. brown morocco, spine gilt panelled between two raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, covers with gilt single fillet border, 35 x 27mm (1.5 x 1 ins), together with 8pp. prospectus in brown cloth folder, contained together in orig. qtr. morocco bookform solander box, spine gilt lettered direct, sm. 8vo. Limited edition, 34/150 copies. In 1923 Queen Mary commissioned the Ashendene Press to print a miniature book of Horace`s songs for the library of her dolls` house. Only a handful of copies of that first printing survive today. This second edition was printed on the original Ashendene handpress, with a new introduction by Michael Hornby (son of the proprietor of the Press) and bound in the same style as the 1923 edition. Considered one of the important miniature publications of last century. (1)
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Lot 705
Ray (Man). Photographs 1920-34, Paris, Hartford & Paris, [1934], with a portrait by Picasso, text by Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Rrose Selavy, Tristan Tzara, 104 full-page b & w reproductions of photographs and photograms, title-page with signed presentation inscription, `For Charles Fraser, with compliments of Man Ray, Paris 1960`, orig. spiral-bound stiff wrappers with colour pictorial upper cover, minor marks, 4to, VG. The title-page states this is the second edition. However, it is a first edition, second issue as the publisher was attempting to generate demand by suggesting that the edition had sold out. Copies with the original title-page are exceedingly scarce. (1)
Lot 726
Hand & Flower Press. An archive of books, letters, drafts, correspondence, etc., mostly from the library of the Hand & Flower Press`s Erica Marx (and partner mezzo soprano Anna Pollak), mostly c. 1950s/60s, including approx. sixty Hand & Flower Press publications (the majority file copies) including some duplicates and a copy of Muriel Spark`s The Fanfarlo and Other Verse, 1952, orig. printed pale blue wrappers, plus approx. 45 books with presentation inscriptions to Erica Marx including many from the authors, one being Christopher Logue`s Wand and Quadrant, 1st ed., Paris, 1953, author`s first book, orig. printed wrappers, sl. browned on spine, 8vo (limited ed., 233/300 from a total edition of 600 copies), plus approx. 70 other volumes, the majority poetry, including books by Christopher Logue, Robin Skelton, May Sarton, Nathaniel Tarn, R. S. Thomas, Mary Oliver, plus a few literary journals, anthologies and books on Shakespeare, plus loose proof fascicules of the Hand & Flower Press`s edition of Shakespeare`s Sonnets, plus ten folders of manuscript, typed and printed material, including `Unpublished duplicates being a folder of Erica Marx`s typescript copy poems, plus other essays and poetry roughs, etc., by Erica Marx, a typescript of a play called `Will` by Maurice Constantine-Weyer and C. Longworth Chambrun, plus two notebooks (approx. 200)
Lot 139
Three Robert Taylor first edition prints, comprising two copies of `Spitfire` each signed in pencil by Grou Captain Sir Douglas Bader and Air Vice Marshall Johnnie Johnson, 16 x 20.5" and 19.5 x 23.5" and `Hurricane`, signed in pencil by Wing Commander R. R. Stanford-Tuck, 19.5 x 23.5", (3),
Lot 374
Two Jay glass faceted paperweights, the first `Camomile` containing a central yellow flower with green leaves surrounded by a ring of alternating millefiori red/green and blue canes with date cane `J1981`, part of an edition of 101 weights, in original presentation box with certificate, and a smaller weight with central `J` cane surrounded by bands of coloured millefiori canes on a translucent pink ground,
Lot 402
William Dugdale/ Roger Dodsworth, Monasticon Anglicanum, formerly the property of Richard Towneley, Scientist and Astronomer, First edition in Latin (3 Vols) Volume 1 was published in 1655, Volume 2 in 1659 and Volume 3 in 1673. Whilst volumes one and two are often found together it is much rarer for the third volume to be found with them because many copies of this volume were destroyed in a fire at the printers. HISTORICAL NOTE; Christopher Towneley (1604-74) and his nephew Richard Towneley (1629-1707) were members of a Catholic gentry family from Towneley in Lancashire. Christopher Towneley is known as an antiquary but also had an interest in scientific research, particularly astronomy. He befriended a number of the northern astronomers, Jeremiah Horrocks, William Crabtree, William Gascoigne and John Stephenson, and collected their papers. His nephew, Richard Towneley, working with other local collaborators, conducted experiments into the relationshi between air pressure and volume which became known as Boyle`s Law. He also perfected the micrometer and was a pioneer of meteorology. All three books are signed with ownershi details by Richard and Christopher Towneley and have Richard Towneley book-plates dated 1702. There is also a signed inscription pasted in to the front of Vol 3 as follows; "The three vols in Folios of Dugdales Monasticon Anglicanum are the property of Mr Townley of Townley of Lancashireand are to be sent to him with care in case of my death, J Clayton, Breadsal December 22nd 1773" confirming that the books had remained within the family for 100 years. PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o`clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn`s ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton `Vathek` Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn`s abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor`s hands and many treasures were picked u this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
Lot 410
Thomas Robson, The British Herald, or cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, from the earliest to the present time; with a complete glossary of heraldic terms, to which is prefixed a history of heraldry, collected and arranged in three volumes. First Edition 1830. All three leather bound volumes stamped "Ulster King of Arms" PROVENANCE These books have been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that they were inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns. Many of the earlier books in this estate certainly came from the library of publisher Henry George Bohn 1796-1884 or his descendants. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o`clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." His Libraries which he inaugurated were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. It had been one of Bohn`s ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on 22 August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. An extract from the Daily Graphic dated July 10th 1909 states, " His advice was often sought by such great Collectors as the Duke of Hamilton `Vathek` Beckford and on more than one occasion he was consulted on everyday matters by the Prince Consort. He was chairman of the committee appointed for the printed books department of the 1851 Exhibition. Gladstone who had a high opinion of Bohn`s abilities, offered him a baronetcy but we are told that the publisher declined the honour on principle. Bohn tired of his success in 1864 when his sons preferred other professions to following in this footsteps and sold the whole stock and copyrights of his libraries to Messers Bell and Dalby for about £40000........His second-hand books which subsequently took forty days to dispose of at various auction rooms realised £13000." Of his early career the paper said " while Napoleon was ravaging the Continent whole libraries were being dispersed by ancient families and religious institutions lest they should fall into the Emperor`s hands and many treasures were picked u this way by the Anglo-German bookseller. ..... He happened to be attending an auction at Leipzig while the Battle of Waterloo was being fought."
Lot 133
WODEHOUSE, PELHAM GRENVILLE-THE POTHUNTERS ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK LONDON 1902. FIRST EDITION IN FULL BLUE CLOTH WITH SILVER TITLING AND SILVER CUP DESIGN TO SPINE AND TOPBOARD. LIGHTLY RUBBED AND BUMPED ALONG EDGES. TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE A LITTLE COMPRESSED. ONE PLATE LOOSE. SCHOOL PRIZE LABEL TO FRONT PASTE DOWN ALL PRESENT
Lot 231
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) pigeonneau (b.326) linocut circa 1939 signed in blue and red pencil an artists proof on Arches wove paper with full margins in good condition 155 x 200mm. ***this is one of the first two linocuts which Picasso made; there were 226 signed and numbered impressions which were included with the deluxe edition of the book 40 Dessins en marge du Buffon published in 1957 by Galerie Berggruen Paris; Goeppert states : there are some signed artists proofs some of them heightened with coloured pencil. .
Lot 296
Damien Hirst (b.1965) after. i want to spend the r the book 1997 the first edition signed on the half-title by the artist in black ink containing colour illustrations throughout some with moveable parts cut-outs pop-ups acetate overlays etc. published by Booth-Clibborn Editions London bound as published in the original printed dust-jacket overall size 340 x 300mm. IMPORTANT: This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Lot 43
Sutherland (William). The Ship-Builder’s Assistant; or Marine Architecture First Edition 8 folding engraved plates one or two edges frayed just touching ruled borders remnant of calf binding (virtually disbound) [ESTC T59863] sm. 4to 1755. *Scarce. Only the Horblit copy is recorded as being sold in 1994 by auction records.
Lot 125
A 1948 Autographed First Edition of Purcell`s `The Fairy Queen` as presented by The Sadler`s Wells Ballet and Covent Garden Opera.; A photographic record by Edward Maninian with a preface by Prof. E.J. Dent, and articles by Constant Lambert and Michael Ayrton, published by John Lehmann and printed by Purnell and Sons Ltd Paulton (Somerset) and London.
Lot 412
A SELECTION OF FIVE BOOKS on Wedgwood:-, Stubbs & Wedgwood, by Bruce Tatterstall, published Tate Gallery, 1974; Wedgwood, Its Competitors and Imitations, 1800 to 1830, First Edition, 1977, Art Ceramic Ltd; Wedgwood Ware by W. B. Honey; Wedgwood Counterpoint by Harry M Buton; The Portland Vase and The Wedgwood Copies by Wolf Mankowitz
Lot 188
A silver Commemorative Royal Surprise Egg Guernsey 1982, by Bruce Russell, the hinged exterior opening to reveal an inscribed christening cup and Prince of Wales feathers, Limited Edition of 100, made to Commemorate the birth of the first child of H.R.H. Prince Charles and H.R.H. The Princess of Wales, complete with presentation box and certificate.
Lot 246
Agriculture.- Kent (Nathaniel) Hints to Gentlemen of Landed Property, first edition, 10 folding engraved plates, contemporary sheep, spine defective at head, upper board loose, 1775 - Tenants Law: or, the Laws concerning Landlords, Tenants and Farmers, fifteenth edition, contemporary calf, spine gilt, remnants of paint on upper cover, 1760 - General View of the Agriculture of the County of Mid-Lothian, engraved plate , some folding, contemporary half calf, Edinburgh, 1795, all a little rubbed; and 12 others on agriculture, some odd.vol., 8vo & 4to (18) Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 248
Agriculture.- Marshall (William) The Rural Economy of Norfolk, 2 vol., first edition, folding engraved map, endpapers stained, contemporary sprinkled calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels, slightly rubbed, spines a little worn at head, 8vo, for T.Cadell, 1787 Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 251
Baker (Henry) The Microscope Made Easy, third edition, 15 engraved plates, most folding, 1744 ; Employment for the Microscope, first edition, 17 folding engraved plates, one or two frayed at fore-edge, 1753, together 2 vol., uniform contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco labels, spine worn at head - Watkins (Francis) L"Exercise du Microscope, 3 folding engraved plates, 1 frayed at fore-edge, slight worming to fore-edge of title and first few leaves, contemporary sheep, joints split, spine worn and chipped, 1754, some browning and foxing, occasional soiling, rubbed, 8vo (3) Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 253
Herbelot (Barthelemy d") Bibliotheque Orientale ou Dictionaire Universel, first edition, half-title, title printed in red and black, occasional marginal soiling, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, red morocco label, head of spine slightly rubbed, folio, Paris, la Compagnie des Libraires, 1697. *** This work, compiled by d"Herbelot and completed by the orientalist Antoine Galland, is one of the landmarks in Arabic studies. It is a form of abridgement of all the oriental books of Arabic, Persian, Aramaic, Syriac and Hebrew. He worked on his dictionary for thirty years and died only two years before its publication. Galland supervised the completion and publication of this edition for which he wrote the preface Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 258
Bradley (Richard) A Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature, first edition, title in red and black, list of subscribers, 28 engraved plates, 1 folding, occasional foxing and soiling, bookplate of Francis Luther Fane, contemporary calf, corners and spine ends slightly worn, joints rubbed, 4to, for W.Mears, 1721 Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 260
Bryant (Jacob) Observations and Inquiries relating to ancient history; containing dissertations on the Island of Melite, together with an Account of Egypt, first edition, errata leaf, engraved plate and 6 folding maps, lightly browned, inscribed "J.L.the Gift of ye Learned Authour" on front pastedown in contemporary hand, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt, rubbed, upper cover marked with remnants of paint, 4to, Cambridge, 1767 Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 263
Castell (Robert) The Villas of the Ancients Illustrated, first trade edition, large paper copy, 13 engraved plates and plans, 9 double-page, engraved head- & tail-pieces and 5 illustrations in text, without the list of subscribers as issued, title lightly foxed, occasional light spotting or soiling, one leaf with short tear at lower margin, original boards, uncut, worn, spine defective, folio, for the author, 1728. *** Castell was jailed in Fleet Prison as a debtor on 18 June 1728. Three months later the prison governor, Thomas Bambridge, moved him under protest to a sponging house where there was a case of smallpox, which he contracted and from which he died before the end of the same year. As a result of this and other cases of abuse a House of Commons committee was set up to investigate the current state of prisons. Their report, delivered to the House on 20 March 1729 included details of Castell`s death, and as a result Bambridge was charged with murder. He was tried and acquitted; Castell`s widow lodged an appeal and Bambridge was re-tried and once more acquitted. The Villas of the Ancients was published in July 1729, making the most of the publicity Castell was receiving from his widow`s appeal. Most of the original 117 subscribers were MPs or lawyers drawn together in the interests more of prison reform than architecture Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 267
Cheyne (George) An Essay of Health and Long Life, second edition, 1724 - Mead (Richard) The Medical Works, first edition, folding mezzotint portrait, 5 folding engraved plates, 1762 Ñ Quincy (John, translator) Medicina Statica: Being the Aphorisms of Sanctorius, engraved frontispiece and folding plate, 1712 - James (R.) Pharmacopoeia Universalis: or, a New Universal Dispensatory, third edition, 1764 Ñ New Dispensatory (The), second edition, 1765, some foxing and browning, contemporary calf, the first panelled, rubbed, some joints cracked, some spine ends worn; and 3 others, medicine, 8vo & 4to (8) Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 289
Hinds (John) The Groom`s Oracle, and Stable-Directory, first edition, half-title, folding hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, 4pp. advertisements tipped in at end, occasional spotting, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, paper label on spine, a little rubbed, corners bumped, 8vo, 1829 Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 292
Howard (John) The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, second edition, folding engraved plates, small stain on half-title, contemporary calf, Warrington, 1780 - [Colquhoun (Patrick)] A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, third edition, contemporary half calf, 1796 - [Fordyce (David)] Dialogues concerning Education, 2 vol., second edition vol.1, first edition vol.2, titles with engraved vignettes (soiled), contemporary sheep, 1745-48 - Hoyland (John) A Historical Survey of the Gypsies, first edition, contemporary half calf, York, 1816 - Instructions for the Drill, third edition, original boards, uncut, spine defective, 1803, some browning and soiling, all rubbed, the third a little worn; and another, 8vo (7) Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 297
Jones (Inigo) The Designs consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings, Publish"d by William Kent, with some Additional Designs, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved title-vignettes, head- & tail-pieces and initials, 136 engraved plates and plans on 97 sheets, 29 folding and/or double-page, lacking engraved portrait frontispiece, light foxing and browning, occasional soiling, one or two plates slightly frayed at edges, contemporary calf, a little worn, upper cover, folio, 1727. *** List of subscribers includes Colen Campbell, Sir Hans Sloan and Christopher Wren as well as Hon. Col. Fane and Lady Fane Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 305
Lye (Edward) Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico-Latinum, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, list of subscribers, some soiling and occasional foxing, some endpapers loose, contemporary sprinkled calf, morocco spine labels, joints split, spine ends and corners worn, 1772 - Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol., "third edition", contemporary sprinkled calf, some joints cracked, spine ends and corners worn, 1776; and 13 others, linguistics, v.s. *** Subscribers to the first mentioned include Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson and William Hunter Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 306
Macquer (Pierre Joseph) Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 2 vol., second English edition, 6 engraved plates, contemporary red morocco, 1764 - [Dossie (Robert)] The Elaboratory laid open; or, the Secrets of Modern Chemistry and Pharmacy revealed, second edition, contemporary calf, 1768 - Watson (R.) Chemical Essays, 5 vol., first editions vol.1,2 & 5, fourth edition vol.3 and third edition vol.4, folding table, contemporary half calf, morocco labels, Cambridge, 1781-87-88-87, some browning or foxing, rubbed, one or two spines worn at head, the first a little scratched, 8vo et infra (8) Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 309
Major (Thomas) The Ruins of Paestum, otherwise Posidonia, in Magna Graecia, first edition, list of subscribers, engraved coat-of-arms on dedication leaf, 25 engraved plates/plans and 6 engraved head- and tail-pieces, some browning and spotting, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, uncut, extremities a little worn, folio, T.Major, 1768 Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 311
Manstein (Christoph Hermann von) Memoirs of Russia, Historical, Political, and Military, [edited by David Hume], first edition, 10 folding engraved maps and plans, some foxing and soiling, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt, spine gilt with red morocco label, a little rubbed, joints cracked, spine a little worn at head, 4to, for T.Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1770 Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 314
Martyn (John) and Ephraim Chambers, translators & editors. The Philosophical History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, 5 vol., 44 engraved plates only (of 45, lacking plate 8 in vol.1), 1742 - Baker (Henry) The Microscope Made Easy, third edition, 15 engraved plates, 1744 - Jones (William) Physiological Disquisitions; or, Discourses on the Natural Philosophy of the Elements, only edition, 9 engraved plates, 1781 - Long (Roger) Astronomy, in Five Books, vol.1 only (of 2), engraved frontispiece and numerous plates, contemporary reversed calf, Cambridge, for the Author, 1742, most plates folding, some browning, contemporary calf, the first and third with gilt spines and morocco labels, all rubbed, boards of the first with a few worn patches, some joints split and wear to spine ends; and 11 others, science, v.s. (19) Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 319
Moore (John) A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany, 2 vol., second edition, vol.1 one leaf detached, 1779; A View of Society and Manners in Italy, 2 vol., first edition, 1781, some foxing and soiling, uniformly bound in contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, morocco labels, 2 spine heads slightly chipped, 8vo Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
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