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Click here to subscribeHALL, 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).
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).
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.
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).
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).
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).
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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).
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).
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
JONES, Edwin Godden. Analyse des Eaux Minerales de Spa, avec des Observations sur Leurs Propriétés Médicinales. Liege: J.F. Desoer, 1816. First edition, 8vo (216 x 132mm.) Engraved frontispiece, half-title, errata leaf. (Toning, blanks replaced.) 20th century brown half morocco (some loss to spine panel, endpapers replaced, lightly rubbed). – And a further six volumes (including the ‘Second Report of the Commissioners for Inquiring into the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts’, 2 vols., 1845) (7).
SIGNED BOOKS. – Jonathan COE. The Rotters’ Club. London: Viking, 2001. First edition, first impression, signed by the author, 8vo (233 x 147mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. – And a quantity of approximately eighty further volumes of contemporary fiction, all signed (including Paul Beatty’s ‘The Sellout’, 2016, 8vo, and Maggie O’Farrell’s ‘Instructions for a Heatwave’, 2013, 8vo) (a quantity).
CONJURING. – George G. KAPLAN. The Fine Art of Magic. Pennsylvania, York: Fleming Book Company, 1948. First edition, 8vo (235 x 153mm.) Illustrations in the text. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (slight creasing to spine panel). – And a quantity of books, booklets and pamphlets related to conjuring (including Harlan Tarbell’s ‘Course in Magic’, 8 vols., 1971, 8vo) (a quantity).
WORSLEY, Richard. The History of the Isle of Wight. London: A. Hamilton, 1781. First edition, 4to (307 x 229mm.) Large folding engraved map of Isle of Wight by John Haywood with partial outline hand-colouring, 31 engraved plates, including 12 double-paged, several engraved illustrations in the text. (One plate with marginal tear, paper repair verso the map, remains of bookplate to front pastedown.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (extremities rubbed).
SHELLS. – William TURTON. A Conchological Dictionary of the British Islands. London: John Booth, 1819. First edition, tall 12mo (213 x 124mm.) 28 hand-coloured engraved plates in 2 states, coloured and uncoloured, index to rear. (Faint spotting to title, occasional annotation in pencil, lacking blanks.) 20th century half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, maroon morocco lettering piece to spine (endpapers replaced). Note: scarce with the plates in two states. – And two related volumes (G.B. Sowerby, Jnr.’s ‘A Conchological Manual’, 1839, 8vo, and William Turton’s ‘A Manual of the Land and Fresh-Water Shells of the British Islands’, 1831, 8vo) (3).
BLIGH, William. A Voyage to the South Sea, Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s Ship The Bounty… Including an Account of the Mutiny on Board the Said Ship, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew. London: George Nicol, 1792. First edition, 4to (284 x 117mm.) Title, author’s ‘Advertisement’, 7 engraved maps and charts, some folding. (Lacking portrait frontispiece and all preliminaries before title, lacking rear blank, front blank replaced, occasional intermittent spotting, 2 plates with heavy spotting, marginal chipping to 1 plate, leaves Hh4-Kk with marginal tear.) Later blue cloth (endpapers replaced, extremities rubbed). Note: a mounted paper note states the book was presented to Cranleigh school by Captain Barnard Hankey, R.N. along with 200 other volumes relating to voyages of discovery. Provenance: Cranleigh School (stamp to title and bookplate to front-free endpaper, and manuscript numbering in white to spine); Frederick Barnard Hankey, R.N. (mounted paper clipping to front-free endpaper).
MILNE, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen, 1926. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) Numerous illustrations by E.H. Shepard. (Mild toning, browning to endpapers.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (extremities rubbed and crease to spine panel). Provenance: ‘Broadbent’ (pencil name to initial blank).
BENSON, E.F. The Inheritor, a Story of Youth. London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., [1930.] First edition, 8vo (185 x 118mm.) 6pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear, dated ‘Summer 1930’. (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries.) Original salmon cloth (some fading), dust-jacket (browned to spine, minor loss to top of spine panel). – And a further nineteen literary volumes (including Kate O’Brien’s ‘Mary Lavelle’, 1936, 8vo, and Amanda M’Kittrick Ros’s ‘Irene Iddesleigh’, 1926, 8vo, and ‘R.W. Binns’s ‘Worcester China’, published by Bernard Quaritch’, 1897, 8vo) (20).
[MISCELLANEOUS]. COSTUME & FASHION Costumes of All Nations, Designed by the First Munich Artists, third (revised and enlarged) edition, Grevel & Co., London, 1910, pictorial maroon cloth gilt, hand-coloured plate illustrations throughout, tall quarto. Condition Report : Covers damp speckled; front free endpaper detached and with loss to lower fore-edge corner. Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (ITALIAN 1720 - 1778) DIVERSE MANIERE D'ADORNARE I CAMMINI ED OGNI ALTRA PARTE DEGLI EDIFIZI DESUNTE DALL'ARCHITETTURA EGIZIA, ETRUSCA, GRECA First edition, title-page, additional double-page engraved title, 70 plates including inset map, half-page plates and others inset into text, scattered spotting and surface dirt throughout, minor handling creases, mottled calf, spine gilt, red Morocco label, folio, Generoso Salomoni, Rome, 1769 Condition Report: Please note this is a first edition., scattered spotting and surface dirt throughout, minor handling creases, mottled calf, spine gilt, red Morocco label, folio, Generoso Salomoni, Rome, 1769Condition Report Disclaimer
A cased set of "Art Treasures of The Vatican" silver medallions by John Pinches, retailed by Franklin Mint, housed in a table collector's chest with brass plaque inscribed "The Art Treasures of The Vatican First Edition Proof Set This collection minted for F L Simmons No. 2471", each medallion No'd. "2471", approx 100 oz, together with various ephemera relating to the collection
Rackham (Arthur), ARTHUR RACKHAM'S BOOK OF PICTURES, introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, first edition, green cloth boards, gilt embossed illustrated cover, forty four tipped-in tissue guarded colour plates including frontispiece, William Heinemann, London 1913; with Nathaniel Hawthorne, A WONDER BOOK, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (2) (at fault)
'BB'S FAIRY BOOK MEETING HILL, illustrated by D.J. Watkins Pitchford, first edition, blue cloth boards, silver embossed title to cover, DJ, illustrated title page, fifteen colour plates including frontispiece, Hollis & Carter 1948 CONDITION REPORT:The DJ shows a taped repair to the front cover lower front corner and a tear to the upper front corner, a loss to the back cover lower edge approximately 8cm wide, and a small loss to the top of the spine. The DJ is somewhat worn and grimy overall, and shows further small chips and tears to the edges. The boards show expected shelf wear, bumps to all corners and age-related fading to the blue cloth. There is a slight wave to the back board. The block shows some dirt to the page edges. The pages show some age-related darkening but no significant wear or foxing. The binding is generally tight but is somewhat open between pages 40 and 41. The book appears to be complete.
De Bourrienne (M), MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, 4 vols, first edition, 3/4 leather (later spine and endpapers), marbled boards, engraved portrait frontispieces, engraved plates throughout, Richard Bentley, London 1836 (4) (at fault), together with Sloane (William Milligan), LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, 4 vols, red cloth boards, bee embossed front board with gilt embossed crowned N cypher, gilt embossed spine, colour lithographic frontispieces, monochrome plates throughout, Macmillan & Co Ltd, London 1896 (8) (at fault)
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