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Lot 3049

PIPER, John. Brighton Aquatints…with…an Introduction by Lord Alfred Douglas. London: Curwen Press for Duckworth, 1939. Limited edition, being one of 200 copies only, oblong folio (253 x 389mm.) 12 black and white aquatints with tissue-guards, accompanying text on blue paper. (Some light spotting to first text leaves, some offsetting to one plate.) Original red cloth-backed boards, paper label mounted to upper cover (toning to extremities, slight dust-soiling to lower cover).

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Lot 3180

PLANTIN PRESS. – CATULLUS, TIBULLUS & PROPERTIUS. Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Cor. Galli Fragmenta. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1560. 16mo in 8s (112 x 68mm.) Woodcut printer’s device within wide decorative border, woodcut initials. (Marginal loss to last two text leaves T1-T2, browning, occasional light spotting.) Late 18th century calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (endpapers replaced, surface abrasions). Note: this was the first Plantin edition of these three poets. Provenance: William Milbourne (name-plate to front pastedown). – And a further volume (Caius Suetonius’s ‘Tranquillus cum annotate diversforum’, 1645, 16mo) (2).

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Lot 3176

CAREY, Henry Charles and Isaac LEA. The Geography, History and Statistics of America and the West Indies; Exhibiting a Correct Account of the Discovery, Settlement, and Progress of the Various Kingdoms, States and Provinces of the Western Hemisphere, to the Year 1822. London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1823. First U.K. edition, 8vo (206 x 124mm.) Half-title, large engraved folding hand-coloured map of North America, 12 hand-coloured maps and charts, 4 folding engraved views, 1 folding engraved uncoloured map, 1 folding letterpress chart. (Toning, occasional light spotting or offsetting, blanks replaced.) 21st century brown half morocco, green morocco lettering piece to the spine (endpapers replaced). Note: includes maps or views of Quebec, Philadelphia, Cuba, Mexico, West Indies and Brazil.

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Lot 3040

CHURCHILL, Winston S. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. London: Longman, Green & Co., 1900. First edition, 8vo (190 x 123mm.) 3 folding maps, including 1 in colour, 2pp. advertisements and 32pp. publisher’s catalogue to rear, plans within text. (Toning.) Original pictorial cloth (some wear to spine seam, minor staining and finger-marking to covers). – And a related volume (a first edition of Winston S. Churchill’s ‘Ian Hamilton’s March’, 1900, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of Trevor Hives, thence by descent (2).

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Lot 3053

RICKETTS, Charles (illustrator) and [Katherine BRADLEY and Edith COOPER.] ‘Michael Field’. The Race of Leaves. [London:] printed at the Ballantyne Press, 1901. Limited edition, this being one of 280 copies, 8vo (232 x 140mm.) Wood-engraved border in red and black to first leaf of text and decorations by Charles Ricketts. (Some offsetting to front and rear leaves, toning.) Original paper-covered boards, paper label to spine. Provenance: Lord Battersea, M.P. (armorial bookplate to front pastedown).

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Lot 3041

CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life, A Roving Commission. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. First edition, second issue (220 x 139mm.) 16 plates, including photographic frontispiece, 1 folding map to rear. (Toning, occasional browning, a 3-inch closed tear to p.163.) Original pink cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and blind-stamped (fading to spine and wear to spine ends, extremities rubbed, minor stain to lower cover). Note: 12 lines of Churchill titles verso the half-title. An entertaining account of the author’s early life and his most widely read book. Provenance: D.I.C. Ashton-Cross (bookplate to front pastedown); from the estate of Trevor Hives, thence by descent.

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Lot 3188

BEATON, Cecil. The Book of Beauty. London: Duckworth, 1930. First edition, 4to (278 x 216mm.) Colour frontispiece, 27 black and white photographic plates. (Mild toning.) Original pink cloth-backed boards (some soiling to extremities). Note: Beaton’s first book. – And a further twenty-six volumes (including Herbert Read’s ‘The Green Child’, 1945, 8vo, and Herbert Corey’s ‘Farewell, Mr. Gangster!’, 1936, 8vo) (27).

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Lot 3096

LOFTUS, William Kennett. Travels and Researches in Chaldaea and Susiana; with an Account of Excavations at Warka, the ‘Erech’ of Nimrod, and Shúsh, ‘Shushan The Palace’ of Esther, in 1849-52. London: James Nesbit, 1857. First edition, 8vo (227 x 133mm.) 3 folding lithographed maps, 4 plates, numerous illustrations in the text. (Toning, occasional fingermark, blanks replaced.) 21st century brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, two red morocco lettering pieces to the spine (endpapers replaced).

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Lot 3215

GIBSON, Edmund. Chronicon Saxonicum. Ex Mss Codicibus Nunc Primun Integrum Edidit, Ac Latinum Fecit. Oxford: Sheldon Theatre, 1692. First edition, 4to (238 x 185mm.) Title with engraved vignette, imprimatur verso title, 1 double-paged engraved map of England, 38pp. ‘Index Rerum’, ‘Addenda & Emendanda’ verso last leaf Uu4. (Toning, occasional annotation and marks in red pencil.) 19th century half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (lacking lettering piece, rubbing to spine and extremities). Provenance: Charles Chevalltooke (circular bookplate to front-free endpaper).

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Lot 3035

HASSALL, Arthur Hill. A History of the British Freshwater Algae. London: S. Highley and H. Bailliere, 1845. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (217 x 132mm.) 103 chromolithographed plates, errata to rear of vol. 1. (Spotting to front and rear leaves and to several plates, toning.) 20th century green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards bound by Hayday, g.e. (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplates to the front pastedowns). – And a further five related volumes (including John Ralf’s and Edward Jenner’s ‘The British Desmidieae’, 1848, 8vo, and Francis Wolle’s ‘Fresh-Water Algae of the United States’, 2 vols., 1887, 8vo) (7).

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Lot 3120

ELIOT, T.S. The Sacred Wood. London: Faber and Faber, 1920. First edition, 8vo (169 x 100mm.) (Toning.) Original blue cloth (lightly rubbed extremities). – And a further thirty-four volumes, mainly 20th century poetry (including Cecil Day Lewis’s ‘Collected Poems’, 1954, 8vo, and Ted Hughes’s ‘Season Songs’, 1976, 8vo, and James Joyce’s ‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’, Criterion Miscellany No. 15, 1930, 8vo) (35).

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Lot 3174

UNITED STATES. – James STUART. Three Years in North America. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (190 x 113mm.) Large folding engraved map. (Toning, browning to titles, blanks replaced.) 21st century brown half calf, grey morocco lettering pieces to the spines (endpapers replaced). Note: an account of travels around Eastern America via North Carolina. – And a related volume (Francis Lieber’s ‘The Stranger in America’, the first British edition, [1835], 8vo) (3).

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Lot 3207

COOKERY. – Francis COLLINGWOOD and John WOOLLAMS. The Universal Cook, and City and Country Housekeeper. London: R. Noble, 1792. First edition, 8vo (213 x 124mm.) Half-title, 12 engraved plates of ‘Bills of Fare’, 1 engraved plate of carving, 5pp. of contemporary manuscript recipes to rear. (Spotting to preliminaries and to plates and rear leaves, lacking frontispiece.) Near contemporary half morocco, red lettering piece to spine (endpapers replaced, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplate to front pastedown). [Bitting pp.94-95.]

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Lot 3240

SIGNED BOOKS. – Jonathan COE. Bournville. London: Viking, 2022. First edition, first impression, signed by the author, 8vo (233 x 150mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. – And a quantity of approximately seventy further volumes of contemporary novels, all signed (including Melvyn Bragg’s ‘The Soldier’s Return’, 1999, 8vo, and China Miéville’s ‘The Last Days of New Paris’, 2016, 8vo) (a quantity).

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Lot 3116

SIGNED BOOKS. – Rachel CUSK. Outline. London: Faber and Faber, 2014. First edition, third impression, signed by the author, 8vo (215 x 130mm.) (Mild toning.) Original yellow cloth, dust-jacket. Note: the first volume of Cusk’s ‘Outline’ trilogy. – And a further thirty-five signed volumes of contemporary fiction (including a first edition, first impression of J.G. Ballard’s ‘The Kindness of Women’, 1991, 8vo, and a first edition, first impression of Hilary Mantel’s ‘Bringing Up The Bodies’, 2012, 8vo) (36).

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Lot 3173

HALL, Basil. Travels in North America, in the Years 1827 and 1828. Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1829. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (189 x 114mm.) Folding hand-coloured engraved map of the United States and Canada, 1 folding table. (Toning, lacking half-titles, a 3-inch tear to map.) 21st century half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, two red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (3).

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Lot 3147

CHILDREN’S BOOKS. – Mabel DEARMER. The Cockyolly Bird. The Book of the Play. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. First edition, 4to (214 x 163mm.) 10 tipped-in colour plates. (Mild toning, minor staining to preliminaries and first leaves.) Original red pictorial cloth (inner hinge weakened). Provenance: Elizabeth Brown (pencil name to front-free endpaper). – And a further seven volumes (including Eleanor Vere Boyle’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’, [1875], 4to, and her ‘Child’s Play’, 1859, 4to, and ‘Moorland Mousie’, illustrated by Lionel Edwards, 1929, 4to, and Anna Sewell’s ‘Black Beauty’, 1936, 8vo) (8).

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Lot 3008

LE FANU, Jospeh Sheridan. The Evil Guest. London: Downey & Co., [1895.] First edition, 8vo (187 x 118mm.) Frontispiece and title printed in sepia, wood-engraved illustrations by Brinsley Le Fanu, 8pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear [pp.7-8 blank] dated March 1895. (Light to moderate spotting throughout, a newspaper clipping mounted verso front-free endpaper.) Original cloth blocked in black and gold, t.e.g.

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Lot 3052

RICKETTS, Charles (illustrator) and [Katherine BRADLEY and Edith COOPER.] ‘Michael Field’. Julia Domna. [London:] printed at the Ballantyne Press, 1903. Limited edition, this being one of 240 copies, 8vo (233 x 142mm.) Wood-engraved border in red and black to first leaf of text and decorations by Charles Ricketts. (Occasional light spotting, uncut leaves.) Original paper-covered boards, paper label to spine. Provenance: Lord Battersea, M.P. (armorial bookplate to front pastedown).

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Lot 3100

HANSARD, T.C. Typographia: an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing. London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1825. First edition, 8vo (242 x 140mm.) Engraved and woodcut plates, 3 folding, wood-engraved illustrations. (Toning, crease to last leaf.) Contemporary half calf, red morocco lettering piece to spine (some loss to top of spine, extremities lightly rubbed).

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Lot 3015

CAPEK, Karel. R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots). London, Edinburgh etc.: Humphrey Milford for the Oxford University Press, 1923. First British edition, first impression, 8vo (171 x 112mm.) (Toning, some adhesive remains to the ‘Cast List’ verso title.) Original black wrappers with red lettering (detached from text-block, split to spine panel). Provenance: Cecil F. Mockford (name inscribed to title-page). Note: Capek’s play introduced the word ‘robot’ to the language (meaning ‘forced labour’ in the original Czech).

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Lot 3113

WHISTLER, James Abbott McNeill. Whistler v. Ruskin. Art & Art Critics. London: Chatto & Windus, 24th December 1878. First edition, 12mo (189 x 141mm.) (Mild toning, variable leaf size.) Original brown wrappers (spine seam splitting, minor corner creasing). Note: Having sued Ruskin for a bad review that ‘damaged my reputation’, Whistler won the case but was awarded only a nominal farthing. The trial had not, as he hoped, improved his finances or his reputation. He sold his lavish London home and moved to Venice to work on a commission for a series of etchings. But in the development of the modernist aesthetic, the trial was a significant moment.

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Lot 3172

MARTINEAU, Harriet. Society in America. London: Saunders and Otley, 1837. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (187 x 111mm.) (Toning.) 21st century half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, black and tan morocco lettering pieces to spines (endpapers replaced). Note: one of the earliest and most comprehensive accounts of American life and culture, including observations on economics, politics and slavery (3).

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Lot 3051

GRANT, Duncan (illustrator). – S.T. COLERIDGE. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. [N.p. but London: privately printed for Richard and Allen Lane,] 1945. Limited edition, being one of 700 copies, this one signed by publisher Allen Lane, 8vo (225 x 143mm.) Text in red and black, 5 colour plates by Duncan Grant. (Light marginal browning to first and last leaves.) Original blue niger morocco, gilt medallion to upper cover, t.e.g. (spine slightly faded).

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Lot 3088

FISHING. – J. HICKS. Wanderings by the Lochs and Streams of Assynt; and the North Highlands of Scotland. London: James Blackwood, 1855. First edition, 8vo (159 x 97mm.) 8 engraved plates, including 2 of flies, errata verso p.vii, index. (Toning, pp.151-154 loosening.) Original yellow cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (browned to spine, rubbing to spine ends, fingermarks to covers). – And a further thirty-three volumes related to fishing (including H. Cholmondeley-Pennell’s ‘Trolling for Pike, Salmon and Trout’, [1876], 8vo, and Augustus Grimble’s ‘The Salmon Rivers of Scotland’, 1913, 8vo, and W. Senior’s [‘Red Spinner’] ‘Waterside Sketches’, 1875, 8vo, and W.L. Calderwood’s ‘The Salmon Rivers and Lochs of Scotland’, 1909, 4to) (34).

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Lot 3167

AMERICA. – Mary HOWITT. A Popular History of the United States of America. London: Longmans, Brown, Green et al., 1859. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (181 x 115mm.) 22 plates. (Toning.) Near contemporary black half morocco, gilt lettering to spines (extremities rubbed and surface rubbing to covers). Provenance: Edmund Francis Davis (bookplates to front pastedowns). – And a related volume (W.G. Brownlow’s ‘Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession’, 1862, 8vo) (3).

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Lot 3142

LENORMANT, François. Chaldean Magic: Its Origin and Development. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, [1877]. First edition, 8vo (213 x 132mm.) 2pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear, 18pp. index. (Toning, occasional minor spotting.) Original pictorial green cloth (minor stain to upper cover).

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Lot 3118

TROLLOPE, Anthony. Ralph the Heir. London: Strahan & Co., 1871. First edition in one volume, 8vo (217 x 132mm.) Black and white lithographed plates by F.A. Fraser. (Occasional scattered spotting and browning, lacking half-title.) Contemporary half calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (extremities rubbed). – And a further twenty-five volumes, mostly literary (including ‘The Diary of John Evelyn’, 4 vols., 1906, 8vo) (26).

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Lot 3097

KELLY, Christopher. History of the French Revolution, and of The Wars Produced by that Memorable Event; From the Commencement of Hostilities in 1792, to the Second Restoration of Louis XVIII. London: Thomas Kelly, 1817. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (262 x 209mm.) 53 engraved plates, 7 hand-coloured engraved maps and 1 plan. (Toning and offsetting, some creasing and marginal loss to preliminaries.) Near contemporary half calf (extremities rubbed, minor scuffing). Provenance: Mary Ann Alner-Bowring (ink name inscribed initial blanks). – And a further three related volumes (James Moore’s ‘A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain’, 1809, 4to, and Barry E. O’Meara’s ‘Napoleon in Exile; or, a Voice From St. Helena’, 2 vols., 1827-1831, 8vo) (5).

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Lot 3090

CONJURING. – [Angelo J. Lewis.] ‘Professor Hoffman’. More Magic. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1890. First edition, 8vo (190 x 128mm.) Illustrations in the text. (Mild toning, illegible ink name to front pastedown.) Original blue pictorial cloth, gilt lettering, g.e. (lightly bumped). – And a further five related volumes (including Professor Hoffman’s [Angelo J. Lewis] ‘Modern Magic’, 1898, 8vo, and also, by the same author, ‘Latest Magic’, 1918, 8vo) (6).

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Lot 3029

MEDICINE. – Whitelaw AINSLIE. Materia Indica; or, Some Account of Those Articles Which Are Employed by the Hindoos, and Other Eastern Nations, in their Medicine, Arts, and Agriculture. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, et al., 1826. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (220 x 133mm.) Half-title to vol. 1. (Toning, occasional scattered spotting.) Original cloth-backed boards, paper labels mounted to spines (discoloured and stained, fading, extremities rubbed). Note: Ainslie was a British surgeon who joined the East India Company in 1788 and spent 27 years in India studying local medical practices. He was one of the first Europeans to study Ayurveda and he was greatly impressed by the efficacy of India’s materia medica. Provenance: Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplates to front pastedown) (2).

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Lot 3044

CHURCHILL, Winston S. Thoughts and Adventures. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1932. First edition, first impression, 8vo (217 x 140mm.) Photographic portrait frontispiece. (Toning, minor spotting to preliminaries, occasional browning.) Original cloth, dust-jacket (browned, chipped at top of spine panel, split to spine panel). Note: the book of essays that covers, perhaps, the broadest range of Churchill’s interests. In a letter to his publisher Churchill wrote of the book that, ‘although there is no single theme, it has some of the best things in it I have ever written’. Provenance: from the estate of Trevor Hives, thence by descent.

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Lot 3036

TRUMAN, Harry S. The Memoirs of… Year of Decisions 1945. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1945. Volume 1, first British edition, inscribed by Harry S. Truman, 8vo (222 x 141mm.) Photographic portrait frontispiece. (Toning, a few leaves with pencil marks to margins.) Original blue cloth (sunned to spine and top of upper cover, inner hinge weakened). Note: the inscription reads: ‘To K.A.F. Sainsbury, Kind Regards, Harry Truman, 8-65’. Provenance: Kay Sainsbury (inscribed to in ink from Harry S. Truman on the half-title and ink name on front pastedown).

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Lot 3115

SIGNED BOOKS. – Ian MCEWAN. Black Dogs. London: Jonathan Cape, 1992. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo (205 x 133mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (faint toning to extremities). – And a further forty-five contemporary novels, all signed (including Ian McEwan’s ‘Enduring Love’, 1997, 8vo, and Will Self’s ‘Shark’, 2014, 8vo, and Martin Amis’ ‘The Information’, 1995, 8vo) (46).

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Lot 3032

MEDICAL. – Arthur Hill HASSALL. The Microscopic Anatomy of the Human Body, in Health and Disease. London: Samuel Highley, 1849. 2 vols. in 1, first edition, 8vo (216 x 130mm.) 66 lithographed plates, many coloured. (Toning, occasional spotting and finger-marking, illegible ink name to title.) Contemporary red half morocco, gilt to spine (joints splitting, extremities rubbed, minor paper loss to covers). Note: plates 8, 17 and 38 were not issued.

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Lot 3149

BOND, Michael. A Bear Called Paddington. London: Collins, 1959. First edition, second impression, 8vo (198 x 134mm.) Illustrations by Peggy Fortnum. (Toning, pencil name erased and light spotting to front-free endpaper.) Original red cloth (scuffing to upper cover, lightly bumped), dust-jacket (price-clipped, some loss to extremities, ‘Book 1’ in pencil on inner flap).

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Lot 3241

SIGNED BOOKS. – John le CARRÉ. A Legacy of Spies. London: Viking, 2017. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo (233 x 128mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. – And a quantity of approximately sixty-five further volumes of contemporary literature, all signed (including Alan Bennett’s ‘The Uncommon Reader’, limited edition, 2007, 8vo) (a quantity).

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Lot 3204

COOKERY. – [Maria Eliza RUNDELL.] A New System of Domestic Cookery; Formed Upon Principles of Economy: and Adapted to the Use of Private Families. By a Lady. London: George Ramsay for John Murray, 1811. New edition, corrected, 12mo (161 x 85mm.) Engraved frontispiece, 9 engraved plates, 6pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Occasional browning and light spotting, plates trimmed, marginal fingermarks.) Contemporary half calf, red morocco lettering piece to spine (extremities rubbed, heavily to covers). Note: first published in 1806. Provenance: J. Briggs (ink name inscribed to initial blank); Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplate to front pastedown). – And a further three related volumes (Michael Donovan’s ‘Domestic Economy’, 2 vols., 1830, 8vo, and Charles Elmé Francatelli’s ‘The Cook’s Guide… A Practical Treatise on English and Foreign Cookery in All Its Branches, 1880, 8vo) (4).

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Lot 3117

SIGNED BOOKS. – Kazuo ISHIGURO. Klara and the Sun. London: Faber and Faber, 2021. First edition, first impression, signed by the author, 8vo (233 x 149mm.) (Mild toning.) Original pink boards, dust-jacket. – And a further fifteen volumes of contemporary literature, all signed (including a reprint of Graham Swift’s ‘Waterland’, 1983, 8vo) (16).

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Lot 3010

LE FANU, Joseph Sheridan. The Purcell Papers… with a Memoir by Alfred Percival Graves. London: Richard Bentley, 1880. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (184 x 115mm.) (Light spotting to preliminaries of vols. 1 and 2.) Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spines (minor sunning to spines (lightly bumped spine ends). Note: Le Fanu’s posthumously published collection of his earlier fiction (3).

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Lot 3119

BOTANY. – William RHIND. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom; Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with Their Uses to Man and the Lower Animals. London: Blackie and Son, 1855. First edition, 8vo (244 x 146mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece of Linnaeus, engraved additional title, 41 plates, including 21 hand-coloured. (Colour plates browned, marginal spotting to rest, contemporary address erased verso front endpaper.) Contemporary black half morocco, red morocco lettering piece to spine (lightly rubbed extremities). – And a further fifteen volumes relating to botany (including Joseph Harrison’s ‘The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist’s Magazine’, 5 vols., [March-December 1833- January-December 1837], 8vo, and Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie’s ‘Every Man His Own Gardener. Being a New and much more Complete Gardener’s Kalendar’, 1792, 8vo, and J.S. Henslow’s ‘Le Bouquet des Souvenirs’, 1840, 8vo, and ‘The Florist, Frutist, and Garden Miscellany 1851-1856’, 2 vols. (only), 1852 and 1856, 8vo) (16).

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Lot 3005

BARRIE, J.M. Peter and Wendy. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1911.] First edition, 8vo (198 x 131mm.) 13 plates by F.D. Bedford. (Mild toning, rear endpaper browned, 4 newspaper clippings relating to J.M. Barrie mounted on the front and rear pastedowns and endpapers.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover and spine.

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Lot 3225

CLARKE, Louisa Lane. The Microscope: Being a Popular Description of the Most Instructive and Beautiful Objects for Exhibition. London: G. Routledge & Co., 1858. First edition, 8vo (181 x 113mm.) 12pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear, 12pp. catalogue for C. Baker’s ‘Achromatic Microscopes, Barometers, Thermometers, Telescopes, Opera Glasses, &c. &c’ bound-in to rear. (Toning, occasional light spotting.) Original green blind-stamped cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (minor staining lower cover). – And a further twenty-two volumes relating to the microscope (including Jabez Hogg’s ‘The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Applications’, 1854, 8vo, and ‘The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society’, 18 vols., 1869-1877, 8vo) (23).

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Lot 3203

LIQUOR. – William TERRINGTON. Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1869. First edition, 8vo (160 x 97mm.) (Light spotting to preliminaries.) Original green cloth, decorative gilt (extremities rubbed, marks and minor staining, inner hinge slightly weakened). Note: an early cocktail book. Provenance: Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplate to front pastedown).

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Lot 3080

ALDIN, Cecil. Pickles. London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, [1909.] First edition, 4to (287 x 252mm.) 24 colour plates on stiff card. (Some spotting to margins of text leaves and half-title, toning.) Original red and green cloth boards (spines ends lightly bumped, red cloth finger-marked). Provenance: ‘Mildred’ (ink name gift inscribed on the half-title).

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Lot 3103

SOUTH SEAS. – James BURNEY. A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. London: by Luke Hansard for G. and W. Nicol et al., 1803-1817. 5 vols., first edition, 4to (298 x 228mm.) 28 engraved maps and charts, 17 folding, 13 engraved plates, 1 folding, 6 wood-cut illustrations in the text. (Several folding plates with marginal creasing and moderate to heavy spotting, offsetting, occasional minor spotting, blanks replaced to all volumes except vol. 1 and 2.) Near contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards to vols. 1 and 2, two later black morocco lettering pieces to spines (rebacked and corners repaired, extremities and covers rubbed, endpapers replaced), with 20th century half calf over marbled paper-covered boards for vols. 3-5 (endpapers replaced). Note: many of the voyage accounts published here are otherwise inaccessible and so Burney’s work ‘must always form the basis of historical research for early voyages and discoveries throughout the Pacific’ [Hocken]. Provenance: Cranleigh School (bookplates to front pastedowns of vols. 1 and 2, and stamps to titles of vols. 3-5). [Sabin, 9387.] (5).

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Lot 3178

LEIGHTON, Clare. The Farmer’s Year, A Calendar of English Husbandry. London: Collins, 1933. First edition, a loosely inserted slip with Clare Leighton’s ink signature, oblong folio (280 x 353mm.) 12 full-page wood-engraved illustrations and 7 vignettes by Leighton. (Toning, occasional faint spotting.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (light spotting, price-clipped, some tears with tape repair verso).

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Lot 3227

ART & ANTIQUE REFERENCE. – A.C. SEWTER (introduction). Glyn Philpot 1884-1937. London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1951. First edition, 4to (298 x 216mm.) Numerous coloured and black and white illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket with mounted illustration to upper panel (spine ends lightly rubbed). – And a quantity of approximately fifty further volumes related to art and antique reference (including ‘Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings’, 1944, 4to) (a quantity).

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Lot 3064

ETCHINGS. – George CUMBERLAND Jnr. [Views in Spain and Portugal, Taken During the Campaigns of His Grace the Duke of Wellington. N.p.: circa 1818.] Limited edition, one of only 30 copies, oblong 4to (256 x 373mm.) 10 soft-ground captioned etched plates of views in Spain and Portugal on Whatman Paper. (Lacking title and 2 plates, a soft crease to middle of all plates, occasional finger-mark or minor soiling to margins.) Original card wrappers (stain to upper cover and a crease, chipped to extremities and upper cover loosening). Note: very rare. Dated to the paper’s water-mark, 1818. George Cumberland Jnr. was the son of the painter George Cumberland. Like his father and William Blake- with whom he was close friends- George was interested in experimental print-making. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1816-18. Prior to this, he followed Wellington’s troops in Spain and Portugal at the time of the Peninsular War. Cumberland drew 12 views and he first published them [circa 1818] in a series of 30 copies, of which this is one. There’s a copy in the British Library and one in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. In 1823, he reworked these images, added a further seven, and William Nicol published them in an edition of 100.

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Lot 3002

CHILDREN’S BOOK. – Evelyn SHARP. Wymps and Other Fairy Tales. London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1897. First edition, 8vo (194 x 152mm.) 8 colour plates by Mabel Dearmer. (Toning.) Original pictorial cloth, gilt lettering to spine (some fading to lower cover). Note: scarce. Evelyn Sharp played a significant role in the British suffrage movement. She helped found the ‘United Suffragists’ and was twice imprisoned for her activism. Her autobiography ‘Unfinished Adventure’ was first published in 1933 and republished by Faber in 2009.

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Lot 3105

JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are deduced from their Originals… by Examples From the Best Writers. London: W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton et al., 1755-56. 2 vols., second edition, folio (419 x 257mm.) Title to vol. 2 in red and black. (Lacking all before c1 in vol. 1 with title replaced in facsimile, blanks replaced, title and first four leaves in vol. 2 with marginal paper repairs and also to I8R-I8R2, occasional spotting, corner staining, creasing and spotting to last leaves.) Late 20th century full calf, red and green morocco lettering pieces to the spines (endpapers replaced). Provenance: Cranleigh School (bookplates to front pastedowns) (2).

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Lot 3042

CHURCHILL, Winston S. Liberalism and the Social Problem. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. First edition, 8vo (191 x 123mm.) (Some spotting to pastedowns and half-title.) Original red cloth, author’s signature in gilt to upper cover (slight fading to spine). Note: an early collection of Churchill’s speeches made when he was a member of the Liberal Party. Provenance: from the estate of Trevor Hives, thence by descent.              

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Lot 3164

SLAVERY. – Thomas CLARKSON. The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. 1 vol. only (of 2). First edition, 8vo (213 x 128mm.) 2 engraved plates, 1 folding. (Browning to folding plate, marginal tear to a crease, occasional spotting.) Contemporary calf (upper cover detached). Provenance: Ingestre Hall (bookplate to front pastedown).

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Lot 3089

BINDING. – H. CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL. The Sporting Fish of Great Britain with Notes on Ichthyology. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886. First edition, large 8vo (243 x 154mm.) 18 colour lithograph plates of fish. (Toning, light spotting to some plates, occasional browning.) Bound by Sotheran’s in green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt lettering and fishing motifs in gilt to spine, t.e.g. (light rubbed extremities).

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Lot 3140

SIGNED BOOKS. – Antonia S. BYATT. Possession, a Romance. London: Chatto & Windus, 1990. Sixth impression, inscribed by the author, 8vo (233 x 147mm.) (Toning, spotting to fore-edge.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (minor creasing to top edge of upper panel). – And a quantity of approximately fifty further volumes of contemporary fiction, all signed (including a first edition, first impression of Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Everything is Illuminated’, 2002, 8vo, and Rose Tremain’s ‘Sacred Country’, London Limited Editions, 1992, 8vo) (a quantity).

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Lot 3153

WOOLF, Leonard. Quack, Quack! London: Hogarth Press, 1937. Cheap edition, 8vo (180 x 113mm.) (Mild toning.) Original grey cloth, dust-jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer (light rubbing to top of upper panel). – And a further twenty-one volumes (including a first impression of Gerald Durrell’s ‘My Family and Other Animals’, 1956, 8vo, and the first U.K. edition of Horace McCoy’s ‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’, 1935, 8vo, and a signed copy of Feliks Topolski’s ‘The London Spectacle 1935’, 1935, 4to) (22).

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Lot 3093

WILLIAMS, W. Mattieu. Through Norway With a Knapsack. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1859. First edition, 8vo (190 x 118mm.) 6 chromolithographed plates, 1 folding map, 4pp. ‘Appendix’ to rear. (Toning, occasional light spotting, marginal paper repair to title.) Near contemporary half calf (lacking lettering piece, light rubbing). Provenance: B. Wilson (ink name inscribed to initial blank).

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Lot 3179

FARJEON, Eleanor. – Clare LEIGHTON (illustrator). Perkin the Pedlar. London: Faber and Faber, 1932. First edition, with a loosely inserted slip with Clare Leighton’s ink signature, 8vo (221 x 150mm.) Colour plates and illustrations in the text by Leighton. Original pictorial cloth, dust-jacket (slightly chipped spine ends). – And a further twelve volumes, all related to Clare Leighton (including ‘Tempestuous Petticoat’, with a loosely inserted slip with the signature of the author, 1947, 8vo, and Helen Douglas Irvine’s ‘Fray Mario’, with a loosely inserted signature by the illustrator, 1939, 8vo, and Thornton Wilder’s ‘The Bridge of San Luis Rey’, also with a loosely inserted signature by the illustrator, 1929, 8vo) (13).

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Lot 3055

DONOVAN, Edward. The Natural History of British Insects. London: for the Author and for F. C. Rivington, 1792-1813. 16 vols. in 8, first edition, 8vo (236 X 136mm.) 8 half-titles present, 576 hand-coloured engraved plates, including 9 uncoloured plates, extra-illustrated with 60 further engraved plates hand-coloured and signed by Anne Eliza Rudge and a few signed by A.E. Pole [Charles Pole], all of them bound-in according to Stephens’ classification [James Francis Stephens], the corresponding text leaves also have insect name and plate number in manuscript, 28pp. of handwritten indices to rear of vol. 8 bound-in before printed indices, also in the same hand. (Plates not bound in Donovan’s numerical order, toning, occasional spotting and browning, lacking errata leaves.) Near contemporary brown full morocco, gilt ruled, gilt lettering to spines (extremities rubbed, upper joint of volume 8 splitting). Note: the hand-written index has two columns and it cross-references the classification of Donovan’s taxonomy with Stephens’. Anne Eliza Rudge was the daughter of Anne Rudge, wife of the botanist Edward Rudge, and herself a botanical illustrator. Anne Eliza Rudge married Charles Pole in 1824 and a few of the plates are signed A.E. Pole. All but two of Anne Eliza Rudge’s plates are copies of parts of the original figures but made necessary by arranging according to Stephen’s classifications. The two new figures are both of larvae and they are plate 200 and 439 (8).

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Lot 3187

UKERS, William H. All About Tea. New York: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company, 1935. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (260 x 182mm.) Colour frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations. (Toning.) Original green cloth, gilt to upper covers (spine ends bumped) (2).

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