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Click here to subscribeGillingwater, Edmund. An Historical Account of the Ancient Town of Lowestoft, in the County of Suffolk, first edition, London: Robinson & Nichols, [1790]. Quarto, pp. [iii-xv], 485, [vi], lacking half-title, rebound in half crushed morocco, untrimmed edges, contents mostly good, title & preface with creasing and closed tears, sold with all faults
RMS Titanic & White Star Line. A collection of 91 postcards, 46 of which have been auto-signed by Titanic survivors; three First Day Covers published by Rembrandt, again with survivors’ signatures; a facsimile Titanic card signed by Millvina Dean [youngest survivor], limited edition numbered 34/100, plus another similar signed by Edith Haisman [oldest survivor], numbered 38/100, together with other colour printed postcards of RMS Ceramic, Megantic, Oceanic, Majestic, Calgaric, Laurentic, Baltic and similar SS ships
Burney (William) The Naval Heroes of Great Britain; or accounts of the lives and actions of the distinguished admirals and commanders who have contributed to confer on Great-Britain The Empire of the Ocean, Printed for Richard Phillips, London, 1806, together with A Brief inquiry into the present condition of the Navy of Great Britain and its resources, printed for S Highley, London, 1804, A Narrative of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Fleet under the command of Earl Howe, Printed by T.Burton, 1796, Tytler (Patrick Fraser) Life of James Crichton of Cluny, commonly call The Admiral Crichton, Printed by James Ballantyne and company, Edinburgh, 1819, Annals of Lloyds Shipping Register, 1884, Findlay (Alexander) A Hand-book for the navigation of the different channels of the Thames and Medway, a book of abstracts of the ships and vessels belonging to the British Navy between 1794 and 1820,Weynton (O) Elements of Navigation acquired during his education in the Royal Mathematical School of Christ's Hospital, De Lolme (J.L) The Constitution of England, or an account of the English Government, in which it is compared, both with the republican form of government, and the other monarchies in Europe, Printed for G.G.J and J Robinson, London, 1788, together with The Present State of Great Britain and Ireland, eighth edition, printed for J. Robertson, London, 1738, Rees (Rev.T) A Topographical and Historical Description of South Wales, printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, pull out map of South Wales inside front cover, circa 1815, Rogers (Rev. Charles) The Poetical Remains of King James The First of Scotland, one of one hundred and fifty copies, printed for the editor, 1873, Duhigg (Bartholemew Thomas) History of the King's Inns: or an account of the legal body in Ireland, printed by John Barlow, Bolton Street, 1806, Archer (Thomas) Our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, Her Life and Jubilee, volumes 1-4 (in two volumes) Blackie and Son, London, 1888, Whiston (William) The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus The Jewish Historian, two volumes bound in one, Albion Press, London, Matthews (W.R) Saint Paul's Cathedral in Wartime 1939-1945, Hutchinson & Co, 1946, Morgan (Iwan) University College of Wales Aberystwyth, The College By The Sea, 1928, and a biographical memoir of Dr. John Douglas, bishop of Salisbury
Morris ( Rev W.M Meredith) British Violin Makers Classical and Modern, First Edition, leather bound in cardboard case, Chatto & Windus, London, 1904, together with Stoeving (Paul) What Violinists Ought to Know, Brimsmead (Edgar) History of the Pianoforte, Koechlin (Charles) Gabriel Faure, Mill (Henry) Antonio Stradivari, his life and work, 1909, Hadden (Cuthbert) Biography of George Frederick Handel, 1888, and bound volumes of sheet music including Mendelssohn, Wagner, Cassell's nation's music etc
Eight boxes of various books including various childrens books, coffee table books including WILLIE G DAVIDSON "100 years Harley Davidson Motorcycles", TILMAN OSTERWOLD "Pop Art", various other novels, books on art, Debrett's Peerage 1995, LYNDA LA PLANTE "Royal Flush", published MacMillan 2002, signed "Lynda La Plante", MARY WESLEY - three novels bound as one "Jumping the Queue", "The Camomile Lawn" and "Harnessing Peacocks", published MacMillan 1992, signed "Mary Wesley", ALLISON PEARSON "I don't know how she does it", first edition, published Chatto & Windus 2002, signed "Allison Pearson" and TIM WINTON "Eyrie", published Picador, signed "Tim Winton" and inscribed "To (her) dad!", etc
Ali (Shahamat). An Historical Account of the Sikhs and Afghans, in connexion with India and Persia, from the journal of an expedition to Kabul, through the Panjab and the Khaibar Pass, London: John Murray, [circa 1850], hand-coloured frontispiece, ownership inscription 'E. Roberts' to front blank, lightly spotted, all edges gilt, original blue pictorial cloth, rubbed, 8vo, together with:Gleig (G.R). Sale's Brigade in Afghanistan, with an account of the seisure and defence of Jellalabad, new edition, London: John Murray, 1879, ownership inscription of Charles J Pearce to front free endpaper, half-title, preliminary leaves lightly spotted, 20th-century green morocco gilt, Library blindstamps to covers, portion of covers stained, rubbed, 8vo, plusEyre (Vincent). The Military Operations at Cabul, which ended in the retreat and destruction of the British Army, January 1842, with a journal of imprisonment in Afghanistan, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, 1843, folding map, 2 leaves of publisher's advertisements at rear, a few light spots, original green pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid (endpapers and blanks renewed), rubbed, 8vo, with another copy of Eyre's Cabul (2nd edition, 1843) and Lady Sale's A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-2 (Eighth thousand, 1844)QTY: (5)NOTE:The first title is scarce in any form. We can only trace two copies of the title appearing at auction in the last 35 years.
[Wallace, Robert Grenville]. Fifteen Years in India; or, Sketches of a Soldier's Life, being an attempt to describe persons and things in various parts of Hindostan, 1st edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1822, contemporary full sprinkled calf gilt, rubbed and some wear to joints, 8vo, together with Mundy (Captain Godfrey Charles). Pen and Pencil Sketches, being the Journal of a Tour in India, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, 1833, without half-titles, frontispiece to each volume, and 14 engraved plates, engraved folding map with outline hand-colouring to rear of first volume, some spotting and occasional minor marginal stains, frontispiece to first volume torn and repaired to verso with tape, contemporary black half morocco gilt, rubbed and wear, 8vo, plus[Sherer, J. M.]. Sketches of India: written by an Officer for Fire-Side Travellers at home, 2nd edition, with additions, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees..., 1824, contemporary full calf gilt, rubbed and somewhat worn with lossQTY: (8)
Waters (Major R. S.). History of the 5th Battalion (Pathans) 14th Punjab Regiment formerly 40th Pathans ('The Forty Thieves'), 1st edition, London: James Bain, 1936, monochrome plates from photographs and folding plans, folding sketch maps, original green cloth gilt, a few minor marks to extremities (generally in very good condition), large 8vo, together with Talbot (Colonel F. E. G.). The 14th King George's Own Sikhs: The 1st Battalion (K.G.O.) (Ferozepore Sikhs), The 11th Sikh Regiment, 1846-1933, 1st edition, London: Royal United Services Institute, 1937, monochrome plates and maps, some scattered spotting to preliminary leaves, bookplate of Reginald Arthur Savory to front pastedown, original red cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, large 8vo, plus History of the Guides 1846-1922 & 1922-1947, 2 volumes, Aldershot: Gale & Ploden, 1938/50 respectively, monochrome plates, folding maps (some contained in pocket at rear of first volume, modern presentation inscription to Bill Beynon, dated Xmas 1952-53 to half-title of each volume, original light brown and red cloth gilt, rubbed and a few marks, large 8vo, and Lawford (Lieutenant-Colonel J. P., and Catto, Major W. E.). Solah Punjab, The History of the 16th Punjab Regiment, 1st edition, Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1967, monochrome plates and illustrations, map endpapers, original green cloth gilt in dust wrapper, a little rubbed to extremities, 8voQTY: (5 )
Bamford (P.G). 1st King George V's Own Battalion, The Sikh Regiment, The 14th King George's Own Ferozepore Sikhs, 1st edition, Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1948, 11 full-page colour plates, 17 maps, further black & white illustrations, original green cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:The Story of the 1st. & 2nd. Battalions, 41st Dogras, volume 1. October 1900 to December 1923 & October 1917 to March 1922, for private circulation only, Bombay: Thacker & Co, [circa 1923], 11 black & white illustrations after photographs (including frontispiece), 5 folding maps, near-contemporary black morocco gilt, 8vo, withRawlinson (H.G). The History of the 3rd Battalion 7th Rajput Regiment (The Duke of Connaught's Own), 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941, portrait frontispiece, further black & white illustrations, errata leaf, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, with 7 others related including H.F. Murland's Baillie-Ki-Paltan (1932), Reginald Hennell's A Famous Indian Regiment (1927), W.B.P. Tugwell's History of the Bombay Pioneers (1938) & Mohamed Ibrahim Qureshi's History of the First Punjabi Regiment (1958)QTY: (10)
Burton (Richard F). Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, 2 volumes in 1, 2nd edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857, half-titles, 14 plates (8 tinted lithographs, 5 chromolithographs), 3 maps (lacking 'Plan of the Haram in volume 1), smaller illustrations to text, occasional spotting & light toning, original blindstamped terracotta cloth gilt, all edges gilt, rebacked with original spine laid on, rubbed & faded, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Macro 640 (for the first edition of 1855-56).
Carr (John). A Northern Summer; or Travels round the Baltic through Denmark. Sweden, Russia, Prussia and part of Germany, in the year 1804, 1st edition, London: printed for Richard Phillips, 1805, half title, 11 sepia aquatint plates, some toning and light offsetting, later half calf, spine a little faded, 4to, together with Brooke (A. de Capell). Travels through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark to the North Cape in the Summer of 1820, 1st edition, London: printed for Rodwell and Martin, 1823, half title, lithograph frontispiece, map, and 20 lithograph plates, including 2 colour, some spotting and light offsetting, annotations to front endpaper, contemporary half calf, some edge wear, 4to, plus A Winter in Lapland and Sweden, with various observations relating to Finmark and its Inhabitants; made during a residence at Hammerfest, near the North Cape, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1827, large folding map, 21 lithograph plates, a few tinted, last plate reinforced at gutter, occasional light offsetting and spotting, modern cloth-backed boards, 4to, with others including An Account of Denmark as it was in the year 1692, [by Robert Molesworth], 4th edition, 1738, Field Sports of the North of Europe; comprised in a personal narrative of a residence in Sweden and Norway, in the years 1827-28, by L. Lloyd, 2 volumes, 1830, A Tour in Sweden in 1838, by Samuel Laing, 1839, and Excursions in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, by Robert Bremner, 2 volumes, 1840QTY: (13)NOTE:First three titles Abbey Travel 73, 248 & 250 respectively.
Doorly (Gerald S). The Voyages of the 'Morning', 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1916, half-title, 16 plates after photographs (some two per page, many loose or loosening), folding map, 6pp. of musical scores, a few light spots, pen marks to rear free endpaper, closed tear to folding map inner fold, original blue pictorial cloth, lightly rubbed & marked, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Renard 450; Rosove 96.A1. Taurus 142."One of the scarcest books of Antarctic exploration". The work “records the discovery of Scott Island and the first landing on Beaufort Island, and personal impressions of the Southern party upon their return”. (Rosove)"It must have been a rarity to find someone interested in reading the title in the midst of the First World War". (Taurus)
Drake (Edward Cavendish). A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels, from the earliest accounts to the present time... The whole forming a history of whatever is most worthy of notice in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, 1st edition, London: J. Cooke, 1768, imprimatur leaf signed by Shelburne at front, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 9 engraved maps, 54 engraved plates, subscribers list, World map with marginal repair Asia map with marginal loss from insect predation, small marginal wormtracks to first few leaves and at end, a few marginal wormholes, occasional light water stains, previous owner inscription, contemporary calf, joints cracking, some edge wear and stains, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:Cox I, 18; ESTC T124554; Hill 492; Sabin 20826 (citing editions of 1767, 1770, and 1771 only).'A collection of voyages and relations of experiences by travelers from the time of the Portuguese navigators to the middle of the eighteenth century, including those of Magellan Drake, Cavendish, Olivier van Noort, William Dampier, Woods Rogers, John Clipperton, George Anson, and Lionel Wafer' (Hill).
Elphinstone (Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India; comprising a view of the Afghaun Nation, and a History of the Dooraunee Monarchy, 1st edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815, contemporary manuscript inscription (possibly in Elphinstone's hand) in brown ink to head of title ‘Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India’, errata leaf, large folding engraved map of the Kingdom of Caubul, with contemporary outline colouring (folds neatly strengthened with brown paper to verso), one smaller engraved map with outline colouring, and 14 aquatint plates, all but one hand-coloured, four-page publisher’s catalogue at end, occasional minor spotting, leaves untrimmed throughout, 20th-century half morocco gilt over cloth boards, edges lightly rubbed, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Abbey Travel 504; Tooley 209; Yakushi E63.Provenance: The Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India (commonly known as the India Board or the Board of Control) was an arm of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for managing the government's interest in British India and the East India Company between 1784 and 1858. It was abolished by the Government of India Act 1858 and replaced by the India Office.Elphinstone's account of his mission to the Court of Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk, King of Kabul, containing the first full description of Afghanistan and its people. Elphinstone was appointed British ambassador to the Afghan court in 1808.
Francklin (William). Observations made on a Tour from Bengal to Persia in the years 1786-7. With a short account of the remains of the celebrated Palace of Persepolis, and other interesting events, 1st edition, London: printed for T. Cadell, 1790, a little light spotting, some pencil underlining and annotations (a few in red pencil), hinges reinforced, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, two corners repaired, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Ferrier (J.P.) Caravan Journeys and Wanderings in Persia, Afghanistan, Turkistan, and Beloochistan; with historical notices of the countries lying between Russia and India... translated from the original unpublished manuscript by Capt. William Jesse, edited by H.D. Seymour, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, 1857, folding map (slight fraying at fore edge) and 3 plates, small ink stamp to final leaf, light stains at gutter of frontispiece and title, moder calf-backed boards, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Ghani 138 (Francklin). The first London edition, following the Calcutta edition of 1788.
Maurice (Thomas). The History of Hindostan; its Arts, and its Sciences, as connected with the history of the other great empires of Asia, during the most ancient periods of the world. With numerous illustrative engravings. By the author of Indian Antiquities, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the author, 1795 & 1798, and The Modern History of Hindostan, comprehending that of the Greek Empire of Bactria, and other great Asiatic Kingdoms, bordering on its western frontier, commencing at the period of the death of Alexander, and intended to be brought down to the close of the eighteenth century, 4 parts in two volumes, London: printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and Co.,1802 &1803 (with final part The History of India and of the East-India Company, dated 1809), together four volumes, 19 engraved plates, folding hand-coloured engraved map (A Map of Hindostan according to its modern divisions) at front of third volume, spotting to some preliminary leaves, and plates, ink ownership signature to head of title of first volume and to front pastedown of second volume of E. B. Greenly [Elizabeth Brown Greenly], dated 1798 and 1799 respectively, 19th century bookplate of E.H. Greenly to front endpaper of each volume, autograph letter signed by the author Thomas Maurice to Miss Greenly, dated 5th July 1798, pasted to front pastedown of first volume, contemporary uniform half calf with vellum outer tips, contrasting red and black morocco labels to spines, joints to first volume cracked, rubbed, 4toQTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: Elizabeth Brown Greenly (1771-1839), later Lady Elizabeth Coffin-Greenly, patron and artist, born at Titley Court, Herefordshire, on the 27th November, 1771, the only child of William Greenly and his wife Elizabeth (née Brown). William Greenly was said to have been 'an excellent scholar and antiquary, and a man of great goodness of heart and simple manners'. Elizabeth, or Eliza as she was known, married Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, a man more than ten years her senior, and an erratic seafarer who suffered from gout. Eliza was said to have 'some eccentric habits' and after the first year of marriage he went to visit friends and stayed away for seven years. Eliza formed a significant library at Titley Court, which was sold in these rooms in 2016. Cox I, 306. - Lowndes II, 1520. Thomas Maurice, Anglican clergyman and Orientalist, "was one of the first to popularize Eastern history and religions." (Cox I, 305)With single-page manuscript letter signed by Thomas Maurice to Elizabeth Greenly, dated 19 Princes Street, Cavendish Square [London], 5th July 1798, thanking her for her subscription to his History of India. 'I have this day sent to Messrs Shephard & Addlington my first volume, hot-pressed, and with the best plates I could select. I have taken the liberty to add to it, ... my Elegy on my great and lamented friend, Sir William Jones, and The Crisis, a poem which I have just published.'A further Supplement to the Modern History of Hindostan was published in 1810, entitled Supplement to The Modern History of India : bringing that history down to the year of our Lord 1788, when the imperial Mogul dynasty, by the blinding and dethronement of Shah Aulum, virtually became extinct.
Mundy (Godfrey Charles). Pen and Pencil Sketches being the Journal of a Tour in India, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1832, half-titles, frontispieces, 14 plates, engraved folding map with outline colour at rear of volume 1, presentation bookplates to front pastedowns, Bath Public Reference Library blindstamps to a few leaves, occasional light spotting, early 20th-century red half morocco gilt, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:Orme (Robert). A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, from the year MDCCXLV to which is prefixed a dissertation on the establishment made by Mahomedan conquerors in Indostan, 3 volumes, 4th edition, Madras: Re-Printed by Pharoah and Co, 1861-62, numerous folding maps, ownership inscriptions to titles, a few leaves with archival repairs to margins, toned, modern half calf gilt, 8voQTY: (5)NOTE: Czech, Asia, p. 145 (for first work).
Blacker (Valentine). Memoir of the Operations of the British Army in India during the Mahratta War of 1817, 1818 & 1819, 1st edition, London: printed for Black, Kingsbury, Parbury and Allen, 1821, half title, 2 folding aquatint plates (engraved by William Daniell), 45 engraved maps and plans (incorporated from the atlas volume), folding tables in appendix, some offsetting and light spotting, top edge gilt, modern red half morocco, small mark to rear cover, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Lieutenant-Colonel Valentine Blacker served under Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Hislop with the army of the Deccan during the Mahratta War of 1817-1819, and in 1820, after being appointed the first Surveyor General of India, initiated the trigonometrical mapping survey of the continent.
Wilson (William Rae). Travels in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Hanover, Germany, Netherlands, 1st edition, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green 1826, 6 uncoloured aquatint plates, some light offsetting and spotting, front hinge repaired, original green cloth, spine repaired and a little faded, 8vo, together with Forester (Thomas). Norway in 1848 and 1849: containing rambles among the fields and fjords of the central and western districts; and including remarks on its political, military, ecclesiastical and social organisation, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850, double-page map, 10 tinted lithograph plates, publisher's catalogue at end, some offsetting and light spotting, original cloth, rebacked, a few stains, 8vo, plus Laing (Samuel). Journal of a Residence in Norway, during the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; made to inquire into the moral and political economy of that country, and the condition of its inhabitants, 1st edition, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1936, publisher's catalogue at end, a little light spotting, endpapers toned, original cloth, spine chipped and repaired, 8vo, with six others related including Samuel Laing's The Heimskringla; or Chronicle of the Kings of Norway, translated from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson, 3 volumes, 1844, and Observations on the Social and Political State of Denmark, and the Duchies of Sleswick and Holstein, 1852QTY: (11)NOTE:First work Abbey Travel 22.
Burnes (James). A Narrative of a Visit to the Court of Sinde; A Sketch of the History of Cutch, from its first connexion with the British Government in India till the conclusion of the treaty of 1819; and some remarks on the medical topography of Bhooj, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell; and Whittaker, Treacher, & Armot, London, [1831], two engraved folding maps, with outline colouring (Sketch of a Route from Bhooj to Hyderabad, traversed by James Burnes in 1827-8, & A Sketch of the Runn and countries adjacent to illustrate a Memoir on its formation, and the alterations of the Eastern Branch of the Indus), folding genealogical table of the Talpoor Family, first map torn without loss, second map and table now loose, errata leaf at end, and 3pp. text printed in double column titled Dr. Burne's overland journey from India, taken from the Montrose Review of 23rd and 30th May 1834, first map with three pressed flowers adhering to verso, small printed label of James Burnes M.D., L.L.D, F.R.S. to foot of front pastedown, binders ticket of J. B. Dunlop, 4 India Place, Edinburgh to rear pastedown, contemporary black half calf, rubbed and slight wear to joints and edges,8voQTY: (1)NOTE:First UK edition, published two years after the unprocurable Bombay edition of 1829, which was privately printed "for the perusal of the author's friends". Copies dated 1831 exist with Stark, the printer, substituted in the imprint for Cadell.Burnes arrived in Bombay in 1821 "and was successful in the open competition for the office of surgeon to the residency of Cutch. He volunteered to accompany the force which, in 1825, expelled the Sindians who had devastated Cutch and forced the British brigade to retire to Bhuj. The amirs of Sind then invited him to visit them as 'the most skilful of physicians and their best friend, and the cementer of the bonds of amity between the two governments', and on his return he was complimented by the government on the zeal and ability he had displayed at Cutch and Hyderabad. His account of his visit to Sind, written as an official report to the resident at Cutch, is an excellent account of the country, and was a valuable contribution to the geography of India" (ODNB).
Anderson (Captain R.P.) A Personal Journal of the Siege of Lucknow... edited, with a preface and introduction by T. Carnegy Anderson, 1st edition, London: W. Thacker and Co., 1858, 6 pp. advertisements at rear, a little light soiling, water stains to endpapers (front endpaper repaired), modern calf upper cover and spine, original lower cover retained (some fading and stains), 8vo, together with Raikes (Charles). Notes on the Revolt in the North-Western Provinces of India, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1858, folding table, advertisements at rear (a few frayed margins),half title detaching, modern half morocco, 8vo, plus Gardiner (General Sir Robert). Cursory View of the Present Crisis in India: together with the Military Power of England, respectfully addressed to the Honourable the Members of the House of Commons, 1st edition, London: Byfield, Hawksworth & Co., 1857, 34 pp., some light spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary red calf gilt, upper cover detaching, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo, with three others: J.W. Shepherd's A Personal Narrative of the Outbreak and Massacre at Cawnpore during the Sepoy Revolt of 1857, 3rd edition, revised and enlarged, Lucknow, 1886, Mutiny Memoirs being Personal Reminiscences of the Great Sepoy Revolt of 1857, by Colonel A.R.D. Mackenzie, Allahabad, 1891, and The First Shot in 1857, by an Indian Colonel (Charles Richard Matthews), privately printed, circa 1910QTY: (6)
Bewick (Thomas). A History of British Birds [land and water birds], 2 volumes, Newcastle: R. E. Bewick; London: Longman and Co., 1832, wood engraved vignette to titles and vignette illustrations, some scattered spotting, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate of Sir Clifford J. Cory, Bt. to front pastedown, top edge gilt, late 19th-century calf by Ramage, elaborate gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, minor fading and mottling at head of lower board of volume 1 and upper board of volume 2, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:The first edition of this work was published in 1797 (land birds) & 1804 (water birds).
Darwin (Charles). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, second edition, revised and augmented, twenty-third thousand, London: John Murray, 1888, some wood-engraved illustrations to text, a little spotting, lacks half-title, original green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and a little frayed at spine ends, together with:Darwin (Charles), A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of HMS 'Beagle' round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, RN, new edition, London: John Murray, 1890, portrait frontispiece, a few wood-engraved illustrations to text, 32 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear (dated January 1896), closed tear to foremargin of pp. 71/72, Sudbrooke Institute Lending Library labels to front and rear free endpapers plus 3 ink stamps to front endpapers and margin of 1 advert page at rear, original dark green cloth gilt, a few minor marks, plusDarwin (Charles), The Origin of Species... , [and] The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms with Observations on their Habits, London: John Murray, 1900 & 1904, the first with portrait frontispiece and folding chart, contemporary ownership inscriptions at front, matching green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, all 8voQTY: (4)
Meyer (Henry Leonard). Illustrations of British Birds, 4 volumes, London: Longman and Co, c.1835-44, lithographic title pages (later state without diaeresises), 313 hand-coloured lithographic plates (many with eggs to lower corners), original salmon pink printed paper wrappers bound-in (with subscriber's lists to rear panels), very occasional light spotting & dust-soiling, occasional faint offsetting, a few plates with small closed marginal tears, modern blue buckram gilt, all edges gilt, folio, (36 x 26cm) together with 8 morocco boards and one backstrip contained in blue buckram boxQTY: (4)NOTE:Mullens & Swann pp. 401-3; Nissen IVB 627.'One of our most valuable illustrated works on ornithology, in fact before the publication of Lord Lilford's Birds of the British Islands it stood sui generis' (Mullens & Swann). The first edition was published between 1835 and 1841, with 313 plates. According to Mullens and Swann, the second issue (published in 1837-44) 'is identical in appearance but is printed on stouter paper, and has a number of plates containing figures of eggs in the lower corners which are not in the first issue'. However, the concurrence of the different issues and editions means that plates were often interchanged or duplicated, and Meyer often produced extra plates for friends and associates, meaning that 'hardly any two copies ... [are] alike' (ibid.).
[Parkinson, John]. [Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause used with us, and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge planting & preserving of them and their uses & vertues, collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London, 1st edition, London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629], lacking woodcut title (photographic facsimile supplied), lacking 8 further text leaves (Hh3-4, Rr2-5, Vv3-4, including 3 botanical illustrations), woodcut portrait of Parkinson to **6 verso, full-page woodcut of garden design, 106 full-page botanical woodcuts, a few smaller woodcut illustrations to text, early ownership inscription 'J.t. Smyth' to A1, some spotting & old damp-staining (heaviest at front and rear), some damp-mottling and marginal damp-fraying to final leaves, some marginal paper loss to final leaf of text and index, repairs with loss to final 3 leaves, closed tear to 3A1 & 2Z6, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners restored, red morocco title label lettered in gilt, rubbed, folio (32 x 20 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Nissen 1489; STC 19300.First edition of "the earliest important treatise on horticulture published in England" (Henrey).Provenance: Ownership inscription possibly of Jaritt Smyth of Ashton Court, 1st Baronet and Tory Member of Parliament for Bristol (1756-68).
[Clive, Robert, Baron Clive of Plessey, 1725-1774). A True Narrative and Discovery of several very remarkable passages relating to the Horrid Popish Plot: as they fell within the knowledge of Mr. Miles Prance of Covent-Garden, Goldsmith..., 1st edition, London: Printed for Dorman Newman, 1679, licence leaf, engraved portrait frontispiece of Miles Prance by R. White, 4-page Epistle Dedicatory, and 40pp. of main text, engraved bookplate of Robert Lord Clive to verso of front board, contemporary mottled full calf, spine gilt, some light wear to lower joint and outer corners, with small loss to head and foot of spine, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB, FRS (1725 - 1774), also known as Clive of India (bookplate).Wing P3177.A courageous, resourceful but ruthless military commander, Major-General Robert Clive became the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency, using his political and military influence to amass a personal fortune. Clive's uncertain reputation was neatly encapsulated in Thomas Macaulay's famous description of him: “Clive, like most men who are born with strong passions and tried by strong temptations, committed great faults, but every person who takes a fair and enlightened view of his whole career must admit that our island, so fertile in heroes and statesmen, has scarcely ever produced a man more truly great either in arms or in council.”Given Clive of India's inclination for political machination, his ownership of this first-hand account by the Catholic perjuror Miles Prance, who became embroiled in the infamous but fictitious Popish Plot conspiracy to assassinate King Charles II, is unsurprising. On the news of the death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey in 1678, Miles Prance became an object of suspicion. Imprisoned in Newgate, Prance confessed and recanted several times, resulting in the execution of Henry Berry, Robert Green, and Lawrence Hill for the murder. It is likely the three men executed were innocent.
Pigna (Giovanni Battista). Historia de Principi di Este..., primo volume [all published] nel quale si contengono congiuntamente le cose principali dalla rivolutione del Romano Imp. in fino al M. CCCC. LXXVI, 1st edition, Ferrara, Francesco Rossi, 1570, [maltese cross]? A-4I? K? a-p?, title with large hand-coloured woodcut device of the arms of the Este family within a figurative frame with the names and arms of individual family members, contemporary ink ownership inscription to title: 'Ex bibli.ca Altempsna', woodcut historiated initials, errata leaf and register leaf at end (p3-4), wide margins, occasional light foxing (generally in very good, clean condition), contemporary Italian full vellum, gilt-decoated spine with red morocco gilt title label, folio (34.5 x 24 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Bibliotheca Altempsiana, Rome (inscription to title). The Bibliotheca Altempsiana was formed by the Austrian cardinal Marco Sittico Altemps (Mark Sittich von Hohenems Altemps, 1533–1595), son of the sister of Pope Pius IV, and housed in the Palazzo Altemps in Campo Marzio, Rome, a few steps from Piazza Navona and close to the left bank of the River Tiber, which he purchased in 1568. See A. Serrai, La Biblioteca Altempsiana, ovvero le raccolte librarie di Marco Sittico III e del nipote Giovanni Angelo Altemps, Rome (2008).STC Italian Books 1465-1600, page 519; Adams P1204; EDIT 16 CNCE 38347; Gamba 1580; Lozzi 1716.Fine large-paper copy with contemporary provenance of the first edition of Pigna's history of the Este family. A second volume was to be written by Pigna's successor, the poet Torquato Tasso, but never came to fruition.
Bible [English]. The Bible, that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament, translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages..., Imprinted at London [i.e. Amsterdam]: by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1599(?), two initial blanks present (creased, first blank with large letterpress signature 'A' at foot and ownership signature at head of John Bourne of Alford? 29th July 1846), first general title present with woodcut frame border (having 24 small compartments, showing on the left the tents of the twelve tribes, and on the right figures of the twelve Apostles, the inner parts exhibits the four Evangelists), second general title present with woodcut illustration of the crossing of the Red Sea (ownership signature of John Bourne at head), New Testament title within decorative woodcut border (matching border of first general title), few woodcut illustrations and decorative initials, double-column roman type, bound without Apocrypha (as often), sewing at front broken and all leaves before gathering E detached (with some consequent fraying to margins), lacks 2Q8 (blank at end of Old Testament), bound with at rear an incomplete Book of Psalms, with several leaves detached and frayed at rear of volume, borders and columns red-ruled throughout volume, some light damp staining, occasional light dust-soiling and few marks, marbled pastedowns torn and frayed to edges (without free endpapers), armorial bookplate of John Bourne of Dalby to upper pastedown, all edges gilt, 17th century gilt decorated brown morocco, lacking lower panel of spine, board detached, worn, lacking ties, 4to (22.8 x 17 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Herbert 248; Darlow & Moule 188, and STC 2174.Geneva version; with Thomson's NT, but with Junius' Revelation. The section containing the Apocrypha, though included in the list of books, was apparently omitted from all except a few copies. These Bibles were printed probably for English use in the Low Countries. There are many editions bearing this date, which while agreeing closely are yet distinct (some possibly published as late as 1640). No doubt a certain number of copies were originally issued in a mixed state. The nominal date, 1599, for most editions is probably untrue in almost every case; they were apparently published at different times in Amsterdam and Dort and adopted by Barker.This edition with Esther i. 1 '... seuen and twen- | ty prouinces'. This, according to Pocock, is probably the earliest of these editions, as it abounds more than any others in gross errors: e.g. Song of Solomon v. 3, defile for put; Isaiah xxx. 32, beards for harps, xxxvi. 12, thing for dung; Matt. xxiv. 50, line repeated. Perhaps printed at Amsterdam about 1599. Some of the copies have variant leaves (Herbert, Darlow & Moule).
Guicciardini (Francesco). The Historie of Guicciardin: containing the Warres of Italie and other partes, continued for manie yeares under sundrie Kings and Princes, together with the variations and accidents of the same..., reduced into English by Geffray Fenton, 2nd edition, London: Richard Field, 1599, title with printer's woodcut device and early manuscript signatures of T. Fletcher and inscription "William Walter bought at Plymouth 17 June 1704", without first and last blank leaves (A1 & 4H6), some damp stains, browning and scattered spotting, armorial bookplate of Robert Parker to upper pastedown, 18th-century half calf (possibly utilizing original boards), leather to spine scorched and split with loss, folio (17.5 x 26.7 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC S120758; Pforzheimer 442; PMM 85; STC 12459.Described in PMM as "The First History of Europe", Guicciardini's work was originally published posthumously by his nephew, Agnolo Guicciardini, with abridged versions appearing from 1544 and the complete text was not published until the Venice edition of 1567. By the end of the 16th century there had been at least ten editions in Italian and it had been translated into Latin, English, French, Spanish, German and Dutch. Geoffrey Fenton's English translation was first published in 1579.
Chaucer (Geoffrey). The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed, London: Adam Islip, 1602, black letter, text in double column, title with architectural woodcut border, early ownership inscription 'Tho: Edwards' to title near imprint, woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, large woodcut armorial to divisional title, woodcut of Knight to B1, errata leaf at rear, lacking copperplate portrait, Oo1 (folio 209) & A1 (blank), title rehinged, errata leaf with staining and inner marginal tears with text loss (archival repairs to verso), occasional damp-staining throughout, near-contemporary calf gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid (endpapers & blanks renewed), edges stained red, gilt arabesque oval devices to each cover, corners restored, some wear, folio (33 x 21 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC S107210; Pforzheimer 178.The seventh edition 'was considerably revised mainly with the aid of Francis Thynne. It is the earliest in which thorough punctuation was attempted, and in many other ways it is a distinct improvement upon Speght's first edition. Two hiterto unprinted pieces are inserted, one non-Chaucerian' (Pforzheimer).
Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, By his Maiesties special commandement, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, 1613, general and New Testament titles within decorative woodcut borders, Apocrypha present, black letter text, verso of general title with manuscript genealogical entry for the baptism of Timothy Spencer of "Bridsto in the county of Hereford" dated 3rd December 1675, two strips of old paper applied to recto of leaf A3 of the Epistle Dedicatorie and single strip of paper to verso of A8 in same gathering (obscuring inscriptions), verso of leaf A8 also with inscription "Robert Spencer His Book the Gift of His Dear Mother Mary Spencer 1746", Q4 torn to lower half of leaf with text loss, 2T6 torn to lower outer corner with loss, fore-margin of M7 torn with slight loss of marginal note, 3Q4 torn to upper margin, long repaired closed tear to 2F7, bound with at front The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures... by J[ohn]. S[peed]., [1613?], without map, and bound with at front an incomplete Common Prayer lacking title (verso of final leaf with other mid-18th-century genealogical entries for members of the Spencer family), and bound with an incomplete 1613 edition of the Book of Psalms at rear, some dust-soiling, occasional damp staining and few marks throughout volume, later free endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, boards rubbed, 4to (21.6 x 15.8 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Herbert 323; Darlow & Moule 250; STC 2227. The first black-letter quarto edition of King James' version. This and many subsequent issues were produced in close imitation of those black-letter quarto editions of the Geneva Bible which proved so popular. Apparently a close reprint of the folio of 1611. Gen. x. 16, Emorite, Ruth iii. 15 he, etc. Both titles omit the words Appointed... (Herbert).
Dale (John). The Analysis of all the Epistles of the New Testament, Oxford: Printed by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the University, 1652, additional engraved title, 19th-century panelled sheep, lower board detached and upper joint split, small 8vo (Wing D123), together with:Ling (Nicholas), Politeuphuia. Wits common-wealth. Newly corrected and amended, London: Printed by Ja. Flesher, and are to be sold by Richard Royston, 1650, woodcut device to title, without initial blank (A1), old ownership names to final leaf, some dust-soiling, toning and marginal damp staining, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary marbled sheep, upper joint cracked, worn at head of spine, 12mo (Pforzheimer 803, Wing L2337), with other 17th and 18th century antiquarian including Sleidanus (Johannes), De quatuor summis imperiis libri tres, Leiden: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1655, engraved title, contemporary vellum, 24mo, and Goodwin (Thomas), Romanæ Historiae Anthologia, Newly revised and inlarged by the Author, Oxford: Printed by Leonard Lichfield for Henry Crypps, 1638, woodcut border to title with slight loss (lined to verso), lacking final two leaves, some toning, modern calf, 4to plus Palladio (Andrea), The first book of architecture / by Andrea Palladio; translated out of Italian, with an appendix touching doors and windows, by Pr. Le Muet ... translated into English by Godfrey Richards, 7th edition, corrected and enlarged, London: G. Sawbridge and Eben. Tracy, 1708, engraved frontispiece and plates (two folding), some browning and spotting, old faint library ink stamps throughout, modern cloth 4to QTY: (17)
[Fiennes, Nathaniel]. Vindiciae Veritatis. Or an Answer to a Discourse intituled, Truth it's Manifest; discovering the manifest falshoods, malicious slanders, & seditious practices, which therein are masked under this specious name of truth: and shewing how this discourse was printed and spread abroad by the author thereof, to uphold and maintain the credit of the Scots his Countrey-men..., [London], 1654, [4], 164, 82, [2] pp., some frying to corners, light dust-soiling, damp staining to margins of first and last few leaves, sewing broken, contemporary limp vellum, covers loosening, 4to (Wing F884), together with:Prynne (William), Canterburies doome. Or the first part of a compleat history of the commitment, charge, tryall, condemnation, execution of William Laud late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, London: Printed by John Macock for Michael Spark senior, 1646, engraved frontispiece by Hollar, full-page engraved plan, Z2 torn to lower outer corner with loss of marginal note, sewing partly broken and few leaves loose, some fraying to margins, contemporary boards (without leather covering), worn, folio (Wing P3904), plus five other antiquarian volumes including An Answer to Mr Benjamin Bennet's Irenicum, by John Atkinson, 1724, The Tryal of the Witnesses of the resurrection of Jesus, [by Thomas Sherlock], 1729, The Catechism for the Curats, Compos'd by the Decree of the Council of Trent, 1687, Free and Candid Disquisitions relating to the Church of England, 3rd edition, Dublin, 1750, The New Testament in Greek and English, volume 2 only, 1729, mostly worn, 8voQTY: (7)
Rowlandson (Thomas, illustrator). The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui-Hi? in Hindostan. A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos by Quiz, 1st edition, London: Thomas Tegg, 1816, folding hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, hand-coloured aquatint title, 26 hand-coloured aquatint plates, lacking leaf C8 (as often), errata slip present at rear of volume, occasional spotting, browning to some leaves of text and few with marginal damp stains, top edge gilt, late 19th/early 20th-century green half morocco with Leighton Brewer binder stamp to verso of front free endpaper, gilt decorated spine lightly faded, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Abbey Travel 437; Tooley 412.The book is a fierce satire directed against Lord Moira, Marquis of Hastings, then the Governor General. Pages 31-2 (leaf C8) is usually not present, the text being complete in these cases with the pagination jumping from 30 to 33, since the end of the first canto was rewritten. The errata slip is often missing, but is present in this copy.
Thackeray (William Makepeace). Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, engraved frontispiece & title, 38 steel-engraved plates (final plate bound as frontispiece, frontispiece bound to p. 619), further illustrations to text, contemporary ownership inscription '? Arlington Hall, 1848' to front free endpaper, occasional spotting, lacking rear free endpaper, rear hinge cracked, red sealing wax to pastedowns, original blue blindstamped cloth gilt, lightly marked & rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Grolier, 100 English, 87; Van Duzer 231; Wolff 6699.All first issue points present, with the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on page 336, with "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on page 453, and the rustic heading on page one.
Wood (John George). The Principles and Practice of Sketching Landscape Scenery from Nature, Systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple and easy subjects, to the more difficult combinations of objects, 4 parts, 2nd edition, London: Printed for the Author, by Bensley and Son, 1816-19, 64 soft-ground etchings (one of the overlays on plate 2 part 4 is supplied in facsimile), inscription to upper margin of title in first part "Priscilla Feilden, The gift of her dear aunt, June 1818", occasional light soiling, first leaf of part 2 torn to upper blank corner and slight loss to upper outer corner of first leaf in part 3, original printed wrappers, upper wrapper of part 2 torn to upper outer corner with loss, ink stain to upper wrapper of part 3, insect and rodent damage to wrapper margins with consequent wear and loss, spine strips lacking, oblong folio, contained together in book boxQTY: (4)NOTE:Abbey Life 194 (third edition). Uncommon.
Hall (Radclyffe). The Master of the House, 1st edition, 2nd impression, London: Jonathan Cape, 1932, some light spotting, original cloth gilt, price-clipped dust jacket, spine toned, a few chips, tears and repairs, 8vo, together with Birkin (Michael). She Came to Command, 1st edition, London: P.S. King and Staples Ltd, 1943, colour plate, a few spots, original cloth, dust jacket, tears and repairs, 8vo, plus Woolf (Cecil, editor). Without Prejudice. One Hundred Latters from Frederick William Rolfe Baron Corvo to John Lane, privately printed for Allen Lane, Christmas 1963, illustrations, original cloth, dust jacket, a few small tears, 8vo, limited edition of 600, with a small note from the editor loosely inserted, with others including Norman Douglas' D.H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus. A Plea for Better Manners, privately printed, 1925, title inscribed by the author to John Tweed, plus a loose letter to the same, The Songs of Meleager, Made into English with Designs by Frederick Baron Corvo in collaboration with Sholto Douglas, London: printed by Chiswick Press for the First Edition Club, [1937], and A Tan and Sandy Silence, by John D. Macdonald, 1st UK edition, 1973QTY: (approximately 60)NOTE:First work a presentation copy, inscribed to half title "My dear Mrs Eastman, here is 'the Master of the House', my favourite child. I send it to you because it is about Provence... I want it to remind you of your kindness and consideration towards a very tired author this day at Southampton, Radcliffe Hall, March 9th 1940".
Midland Publishing. Soviet X-Planes, by Yefim Gordon & Bill Guston, 1st edition, Leicester, 2000, OKB Sukhoi, a history of the Design Bureau and its aircraft, by Vladimir Antonov et al, 1st edition, 1996, OKG Mig, a history of the Design Bureau and its aircraft, by Piotr Butowski with Jay Miller, 1st edition, 1991, numerous monochrome illustrations, all original cloth in dust jackets, large 8vo, together with:Putnam, publisher, The British Bomber since 1914, by Peter Lewis, 1st edition, London, 1967, Armament of British Aircraft 1909-1939, by H. F. King, 1st edition, 1971, monochrome illustrations, some minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jackets, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plusGradidge (Jennifer M. et al), The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3, the first seventy years, volume 2 only, 1st edition, Kent: 2006, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original boards, slightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, and other modern aviation & military reference, including publications by Pen & Sword, Crécy, Airlife, PSL, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (6 shelves)
Seymour (Richard Arthur). Pioneering in the Pampas or The first forty years of a Settlers experince in the La Plata Camps, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869, signed by the author to the head of the title page, folding map frontispiece, modern endpapers retaining a contemporary inscription to the front pastedown, some light toning & spotting, rebound retaining original green cloth boards & spine with some loss, 8vo, together with:The China Journal, edited by Arthur de C. Sowerby, 7 volumes [Jan.-June 1937 - Jan.-June 1940], Shanghai: The China Journal Publishing Company, bound retaining original front covers, numerous monochrome illustrations & advertisements, some light toning throughout, modern uniform red cloth, 8vo, plusBigandet (P.), The Life or Legend of Gaudama, The Budda of the Burmese, 2 volumes, 4th edition, London: Kegan Paul, Tench, Trübner & Co., 1911, period inscriptions to both title pages, some minor marginal toning, original uniform gilt decorated cloth, boards & spines lightly rubbed & marked, 8vo, and other late 19th & early 20th-century travel & British topography reference & related, mostly original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (3 shelves)
Forbes (James). Oriental Memoirs: A narrative of seventeen years residence in India. Second edition, revised by his daughter, the Countess de Montalembert, 2 volumes, London: Richard Bentley, 1834, lithograph frontispiece to each volume, some spotting to first and last few leaves, marbled edges and endpapers, printed bookplate of Major F. H. Gregory, Styvechale Hall to front pastedown of first volume, contemporary full calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, rubbed and some marks, together with Prinsep (Henry T.). History of the Political and Military Transactions in India during the administration of the Marquess of Hastings 1813-1823, enlarged from the narrative published in 1820, 2 volumes, London: Kingbury, Parbury, & Allen, 1825, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, five folding engraved maps, two folding tables, and four engraved plates, marbled edges and endpapers, contemporary sprinkled full calf gilt, black morocco labels to spines, a little rubbed and slight wear to joints, 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:Abbey, Travel 436 for the 1813 first edition of Forbes Oriental Memoirs.A separate atlas to accompany the second edition of Forbes' Oriental Memoirs was published by Richard Bentley in 1835.
Thevenot (Melchisédech). The Art of Swimming, illustrated by forty proper copper-plate cuts, which represent the different postures necessary to be used in that art with Advice for Bathing, 2nd edition, London: printed for John Lever, 1764, 38 of 40 copper plate illustrations, all hand coloured bar the frontispiece, period inscriptions to the front endpapers, front & rear gutters cracked, some general wear, toning & light spotting, loss to the right bottom corner of pp.45, contemporary half calf, boards & spine rubbed with some minror loss, small 8vo, together with:Watts (I.), The Knowledge of the Heavens and the Earth made easy: or, The First Principles of Astronomy and Geography explain'd by the use of Globes and Maps:..., 3rd edition, London: printed for Richard Ford, 1736, 6 folding plates to the rear with previous owner annotations & pencil drawings to the rears, modern endpapers, some light wear & toning, water mark to the foot of the 'Table of Contents', modern calf spine retaining contemporary full calf boards, slightly rubbed, 8vo, plusComber (Thomas), An Historical Vindication of the Divine Right of Tithes, from scripture, reason, and the opinion and practice of Jew, Gentiles, and Christians in all Ages, 2 parts bound in 1, 2nd edition, London: printed by S. Roycroft, 1685, binding slightly loose, some minor toning & spotting, contemporary embossed full calf, boards & spine rubbed with some minor loss to the head & foot, 4to, and other 17th, 18th & 19th-century literature & theology, mostly contemporary leather bindings, overall condition is generally fair/good, 8vo/4toApproximately 115 volumesQTY: (5 shelves)
Graham (Maria). Journal of a Residence in India, 1st edition, Edinburgh: printed by George Ramsay for Archibald Constable, 1812, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, title supplied in photocopied facsimile,15 etched or engraved plates including 2 folding (one folding plate torn to fore-edge margin), some toning, light spotting and offsetting, endpapers renewed, contemporary half calf, modern reback with red morocco title label, 4to, together with: Bernoulli (Jean), Description Historique et Geographique de l'Inde..., volume 1 only (of 3), nouvelle edition, Berlin: Chrétien Sigismond Spener, 1791, engraved folding map, 38 engraved plates and plans (including 20 folding), few marginal notes, some worm trails mostly to upper margins and fore-margins of several leaves mostly at front and rear of volume, some margins frayed, near-contemporary marbled calf, gilt armorial emblem of The Society of Writers to the Signet to centre of each board, modern reback with morocco title label, boards rubbed, 4to, plus other texts, including odd and some defective volumes, including Asiatick Researches: or, Transactions of the Society, instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences and literature, of Asia, volume 1 only, 1788, Narrative of the Siege and Capture of Bhurtpore, in the Province of Agra, Upper Hindoostan, by the Forces under the command of ... Lord Combermere..., by J.N. Creighton, 1830, Histoire Generale des Voyages, ou Nouvelle Collection..., new edition, volume 13 only, 1755, Ferishta's History of Dekkan, from the First Mahummedan Conquests..., by Johnathan Scott, volume 2 only, 1794, and The Journal of Sir Thomas Roe, Embassador ... to Ichan Guire, the Mighty Emperor of India, volume 1 only (incomplete part), [1744]QTY: (7)NOTE:Sold with all faults, not subject to return.
Griffin (Lepel H.). The Rajas of the Punjab being the History of the principal states in the Punjab and their political relations to the British government, 2nd edition, London: Trumner & Co., 1873, half-title brown calf-glazed endpapers, original blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed and marked, spine discreetly restored to head and foot, large 8vo, together withThe Crisis in the Punjab from the 10th of May until the Fall of Delhi, by a Punjab Employe. For the benefit 'Lawrence Asylum', Lahore: Punjabee Press: H. Gregory, 1858, [iv],vi,v,154,vi pp., errata slip bound in at rear, final leaf of main text and first page of the appendix at rear with small paper repair to for-margin (not affecting text), modern quarter calf gilt, 8vo, plus Bell (Major Evans). The Annexation of the Punjaub, and the Maharajah Duleep Singh, 1st edition, London: Trumner & Co., 1882, [iv],108pp., bookplate of the Oriental Club to front pastedown, original blind-stamped red cloth gilt, and minor wear to head and foot of spine, 8vo, and others relating to the Punjab including regimental histories: History of the 20th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Infantry Brownlow's Punjabis. From its formation, in 1857 to 1907, Devenport, Swiss & Co., [1907], S. S. Thorburn, The Punjab in Peace and War, 1904, Colonel J. P. Villiers-Stuard, Letters of a Once Punjab Frontier Force Officer to his Nephew, 1925, An Outline History of The First Punjab Regiment, Jhelum, Gouldsbury Press, circa 1944, History of the 1st Battalion Punjab Regt., circa 1937, History of the 3rd Battalion 1st Punjab Regiment, 1927, A History of the 1st Battalion 15th Punjab regiment 1857-1937 by Lieut.-Colonel J. E. Shearer, 1937, and Lieut.-Colonel Sir Geoffrey Bethan, The Golden Galley, The Story of the 2nd Punjab Regiment 1761-1947, Oxford, 1956, all 8voQTY: (11)
[Holdsworth, T.W.E., "Carnaticus"]. Summary of the Mahratta and Pindarree Campaign, during 1817, 1818 and 1819, under the direction of the Marquis of Hastings: chiefly embracing the operations of the Army of the Deckan, under the command of His Excellency Lieut.-Gen. Sir T. Hislop, Bart. G.C.B. with some particulars and remarks, 1at edition, London: printed for E. Williams, 1820, half title, folding engraved map and plan, single-page plan of the Battle of Mahudpore, light spotting, untrimmed, modern half calf, some fading to spine, 8vo, together with Moor (Edward). A Narrative of the Operations of Captain Little's Detachment and of the Mahratta Army, commanded by Purseram Bhow; during the late Confederacy in India, against Nawab Tippoo Sultan Bahadur, 1st edition, London: for the author by George Woodfall, 1794, folding engraved map, 7 engraved plates, some offsetting and toning, water stains to first few leaves, manuscript shelf numbers to title, bookplate, later half calf, Palace Library Mysore label to spine, a little rubbed with small stains and wormholes, 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:First work scarce. Written anonymously due to the strong criticism of his superior officers and their conduct of the campaigns, this publication is now attributed to an Irish officer in the Madras Army by the name of Marshal Clarke.
Ives (Edward). A Voyage from England to India, in the Year MDCCLIV and an Historical Narrative of the Squadron and Army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the Years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the Admiral and the Nabob Serajah Dowlah. Interspersed with some interesting passages relating to the manners, customs, &c. of several nations in Indostan. Also, a Journey from Persia to England, by an Unusual Route, 1st edition, London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773, 2 engraved folding maps, 13 engraved plates (1 folding), mid 19th-century ownership inscription to front pastedown, occasional light spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked, red morocco title label lettered in gilt, rubbed, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC T12210; Howgego I, P117. Not in Ghani or Atabey.Ives' narrative is highly important for its descriptions of Kuwait, Basra, Baghdad, Mosul, and Haleb (Aleppo) among others. In addition to this, he was the first western author to provide detailed descriptions of the Parthian ruins of Ctesiphon and includes a valuable account of Geriah Fort (now Vijaydurg), a notorious Mahratta pirate stronghold held by Tulagee Angria until its capture by the East India Company.
Kaye (John William). History of the War in Afghanistan. From the unpublished letters and journals of political and military officers employed in Afghanistan throughout the entire period of British connexion with that country, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1851, first and last few leaves of each volume with some light scattered spotting, marbled edges and endpapers, contemporary uniform half calf gilt decorated spines with contrasting maroon and green morocco labels, lightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (2)
Maunsell (Colonel E. B.). Prince of Wales's Own, The Scinde Horse, 1839-1922, published privately by the Regimental Committee, 1926, numerous monochrome plates including many after photographs, two additional printed maps of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (both linen-backed) at rear, single oval ink stamp to front and rear endpaper of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst Museum, together with Brooke (Lieutenant Colonel K. R.). The Scinde Horse (14th Prince of Wales's Own Cavalry), 1922-1947, published privately by The Scinde Horse Association, 1957, monochrome plates after photographs at rear, both original green cloth gilt, first volume a little rubbed with some marks, large 8vo, plus Yeats-Brown (Major F. C. C.). The Star and Crescent. Being the Story of the 17th Cavalry from 1858 to 1922, printed for private circulation only, Pioneer Press, Allahabad, [1927], large folding map printed in red and black of German East Africa, half-tone illustrations after photographs, original pigskin-backed blue cloth gilt, rubbed and spine with some soiling and light discolouration, 8vo (limited edition, this copy numbered 88, of an unspecified limitation), plus two other Indian cavalry regiment histories: Lieutenant VCP Hodson Historical Records of the Governor-General's Body Guard, London: W. Thacker & Co., 1910, and Major A. M. Daniels, Skinner's Horse The History of the First Duke of York's Own Lancers (Skinner's Horse) and the 3rd Skinner's Horse now amalgamated under the designation the 1st Duke of York's Own Skinner's Horse, London: Hugh Rees, 1925, all original publisher's cloth (except the final volume rebound in dark blue cloth), rubbed and some marks, 8voQTY: (5)NOTE:Maunsell's Scinde Horse (1926) contains the ownership signature of Charles G. Maunsell, the father of the author, dated June 10th, 1927, to half-title.
Munro (Innes). A Narrative of the Military Operations on the Coromandel Coast, against the combined forces of the French, Dutch, and Hyder Ally Cawn, from the year 1780 to the peace in 1784; in a series of letters, 1st edition, London: printed for the author by T. Bensley, 1789, half title with engraved vignette (bound after dedication), subscribers list, 10 folding engraved plates (9 battle plans and folding view of Port Louis on the Isle of France), first plan detached, some light spotting and offsetting, untrimmed, bookplate, original wrappers (some wear), modern burgundy half morocco, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC T106034.
Orme (Robert). A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, from the Year MDCCXLV, to which is prefixed a dissertation on the establishments made by Mahomedan conquerors in Indostan, 2 volumes bound in 3, 2nd edition, corrected with alterations, additions, and an index, by the Author, London: John Nourse, 1775-78, 36 engraved plates and maps (mostly folding), including Plan of the military operations at Calcutta in 1756, and coastal panorama entitled Calcutta as in MDCCLVI, complete as list given at the end of the third volumes, some minor marginal spotting, and light toning to a few plates, contents generally in clean condition, contemporary uniform mottled full calf, spines gilt decorated in six compartments with contrasting green and red labels, rubbed and some marks, first volume re-cased with original spine laid down, 4to QTY: (3)NOTE:A close friend of Clive of India, Edward Orme became the first official historiographer of the East India Company in 1769 and was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1770. Second edition of the first volume (the remaining volumes being first editions) of the author's major history of the Carnatic Wars between the British and the French in India (1745-1763), which led to the British East India Company becoming the dominant foreign power on the subcontinent.'Orme was in India in the Company's service practically the whole time he wrote. It is a record of noble deeds written with picturesque details, and in dignified and natural language appropriate to its subject. Its accuracy in important matters is unquestionable.' (Cambridge History of British and American Literature)
[Parks, Fanny]. Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in Search of the Picturesque, during four-and-twenty years in the East; with revelations of life in the Zenana. Illustrated with sketches from nature, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Pelham Richardson, 1850, 50 lithograph plates (complete), including frontispiece to each volume (19 of which are hand-coloured) and one folding panorama (Elevation of the Himalaya Mountains) in rear pocket of first volume, frontispiece and title to second volume loose with some fraying to outer fore-margins, several leaves at rear also loose, inner hinges loosened (upper inner hinge to second volume detaching), contemporary ink ownership signature of G. Hodgson, Fair Lawn to title of first volume, and bookplate of Montagu Egerton Loftus to front pastedown of each volume, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, a few marks and very slight fraying to extreme outer corners, large 8vo (29 x 19.5 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Montagu Egerton Loftus (1860-1934), Vice-Consul in Corsica and a King´s Messenger.Abbey, Travel 476; Mendelssohn III, pp. 630-31.Fanny Parks (née Frances Susanna Archer, 1794-1875) arrived in India in 1822, as the wife of Charles Crawford Parkes, a civil servant in the East India Company. Stationed at Allahabad, she travelled extensively, often on her own, visiting Agra, Fatehgarh, Cawnpore, Meerut, Delhi, and Landour in the Himalayas. As a woman she was able to enter the Zenana, witnessing marriage and religious ceremonies not reported on by male writers. Unlike most of her English female contemporaries in India, she immersed herself in Indian culture, making this one of the most readable travel memoirs of the period. According to ODNB " Her fluent Hindustani enabled her to penetrate Indian life, and she adopted some Indian customs, signing her writing and drawings in Persian script... and playing the sitar." The second volume concludes with chapters on Cape Town and South Africa.
Pearse (Hugh). Soldier and Traveller, Memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Colonel of Artillery in the service of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, 1st edition, London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1898, 2 illustrations (including frontispiece), 2 maps, 32pp. publisher's catalogue to rear, light scattered spotting, original red cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Howgego, II, G3; Riddick 111; Yakushi P38.'An adventurer and soldier of fortune, Gardner (1785-1877) travelled through much of Central Asia and Afghanistan before joining the service of Ranjit Singh in 1832. Carefully edited by Major Pearse, Gardner's memoirs tell in a rough-hewn fashion of his experiences as the commander of Sikh artillery in the 1835 conflict with Afghanistan over control of the Peshawar Valley. Similarly, Gardner gives an accounting of the bloody internal struggle for control of the Sikh State following the death of Ranjit Singh. With the imposition of British dominion over the Sikhs at the conclusion of the First Sikh War of 1846, Gardner's memoirs recede into the record of his retirement years spent in the Vale of Kashmir' (Riddick).
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