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Lot 3078
After Robert Taylor, 'Spitfire', a first edition print, signed in pencil by Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader CBE, DSO, DFC and Air Vice Marshall Johnnie Johnson CB, CBE, DSO, DFC, published by Universal Promotions Ltd of Bath 1979. Overall image 40 x 53cm approximately; ebonised frameCondition Report:Some foxing and a little grubby with some wear to frame.
Lot 152
NO RESERVE Agriculture.- Fürst (Johann Evangelist) Der Wohlberathene Bauer Simon Strüf, eine Familien-Geschichte, 4 parts in 2 vol., woodcut vignettes to titles, woodcut illustrations, part 3 sigs.1&2 worm traces at foot, just touching the odd letter, both vol. some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary cloth, spines gilt, soiled and rubbed, Augsburg & Regensburg, Kollmann & Pustet, 1841 § Krackhart (Carl) Neues illustriertes Conditoreibuch, second edition, half-title, 58 chromolithographed plates, some spotting or mostly light foxing, occasional staining, original pictorial boards, stained and rubbed, [cf. Bitting pp.264-265 and Weiss Gastronomia 2083 (note)], Leipzig, Heinrich Killinger, 1878; and a small quantity of others, 19th & 20th century German cookery, v.s. (Sm.Qty.)⁂ It is rare to find all four parts together of the first mentioned.
Lot 212
NO RESERVE Economics.- Goschen (G.J.) Address by the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen to the Members of the Philosophical Institution at Edinburgh on Laissez-Faire and Government Interference, first edition, pencil annotations, disbound, 1883; The Theory of the Foreign Exchanges, second edition, pencil notes and annotations to text and margins, bookplate of Martin Ridley-Smith to front pastedown, contemporary half calf, 1863; and 4 others by the same, 8vo (6)
Lot 89
NO RESERVE Dorset.- Coker (John) A Survey of Dorsetshire, first edition, folding engraved map, 6 engraved armorial plates, armorial bookplate to both pastedowns, ink ownership inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper, title with small ink inscription, light browning, scattered spotting, marginal mark to X2v, front endpaper detached, contemporary calf, red morocco spine label (chipped), worn, upper cover detached, lower joint split but holding, for J. Wilcox...S. Palmer and J. Huggonson, 1732 § Hare (Augustus J.C.) Walks in London, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, illustrations, a few instances of light soiling or staining, bookplate of Charles B. Cochran, bound in crimson morocco, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, mottling to covers, spines very slightly faded, lightly rubbed, t.e.g.; and others, topography and travel, including a 6 vol. set of Throsby's Memoirs of the Town and County of Leicester, v.s. (c.32)⁂ The first mentioned one of two issues published in 1732 with different imprint.
Lot 227
NO RESERVE Custance (Olive) Rainbows, first edition, half-title, signed presentation inscription from the author to front endpaper (signed "Olive Douglas"), dated Weston August 1902, some light scattered spotting, mainly to peripheral ff., endpapers browned, original paper-backed boards, spine sunned, spine chipped at foot and with old glue repair, rubbed, light staining, 1902 § Moses (Henry) Designs of Modern Costume, &c...on 29 plates, 29 engraved plates, pencil ownership inscription of M.F. Messel to front free endpaper, dated 1947, foxed, contemporary crimson morocco, gilt, a few light marks, rubbed, g.e., Henry Setchel & Son, [1823]; and others, literature, v.s. (c.102)⁂ Olive Eleanor Custance (1874-1944) poet and wife of Lord Alfred Douglas. Custance was a contributor to The Yellow Book. The second mentioned contains the ownership inscription of M. F. Messel (1875-1960), daughter of Edward Linley Sambourne.
Lot 246
NO RESERVE Kipling (Rudyard) Just So Stories, first edition, first state, half-title, plates and illustrations by the author, some marginal foxing, endpapers foxed, first state pictorial cloth, spine lettering and decoration rubbed away (as often), but the covers bright, fraying to extremities, [Livingstone 267], 1902 § [Giraud (Jane Elizabeth)] The Flowers of Shakespeare, hand-coloured lithograph title and 29 hand-coloured lithographs, tissue-guards, title and one other loose, a few coming loose at head, previous ink ownership inscription and light spots to title, occasional finger soiling, upper hinge weak, original cloth, rebacked, worn, Day & Haye, [1845] § Basile (Giambattista) Stories from the Pentamerone, first trade edition, illustrated by Warwick Goble, colour plates, occasional scattered foxing or finger soiling, original pictorial cloth, spine sunned, ends worn, 1911; and 13 others, children's and illustrated, v.s. (16) ⁂ First mentioned: in the first state binding which was blocked with a white colouring that was highly prone to rubbing. This copy brighter than most, and thus rare.
![[Helmont (Franciscus Mercurius van)] Seder Olam sive Ordo Seculorum, first edition, woodcut device to title and final f., ink](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8638a96b-a72a-4d2b-9fec-b05100c03eea/4cf86cf8-38b9-4751-a163-b05100c22ce8/468x382.jpg)
Lot 140
[Helmont (Franciscus Mercurius van)] Seder Olam sive Ordo Seculorum, first edition, woodcut device to title and final f., ink ?library stamp and colour crayon shelf-mark to title, 2 engraved plates, manuscript inscription in ink to front endpaper verso, and a few ff. with ink underlining to text, A6 with small hole to lower edge (partial loss of letters), modern calf, spine gilt, [STCN 864753322], 12mo, [?Leiden], 1693.⁂ A rare work by Flemish polymath, van Helmont, which combines apocalyptic elements, corresponding to contemporaneous eschatological literature in England, and mystical esoteric themes, such as transmigration of the soul.Provenance: M.?D.H Koeselitz [ink ownership inscription to title]
Lot 17
Middle East.- Addison (Charles Greenstreet) Damascus and Palmyra: a Journey to the East, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 10 hand-coloured lithographs, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, cracked upper hinges, original decorative cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Atabey 9], 8vo, 1838.⁂ Provenance: Bookplate of Sefik E. Atabey to front pastedowns. "The plates are after drawings by William Thackeray, lithographed by G.E. Madeley ... Thackeray, who had studied art in Paris, also visited the East and in 1846 produced, anonymously, 'Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Cairo', with his own drawings." (Atabey)
Lot 216
Bread.- Photobook.- Simmons (Owen) The Book of Bread, first edition, 2 tipped-in gelatin silver prints, 8 tipped in black & white prints, 12 chromolithographed plates, photographic illustrations, some very light spotting, occasional creasing to lower inner corner of prints, as often, some very faint offsetting, original green cloth, lettered in gilt and black, corners and ends of spine slightly bumped, [Bitting p. 435; Parr & Badger The Photobook, I, 56], 4to, Maclaren & Sons, [1903].⁂"one of the humblest, yet most essential of objects is catalogued as precisely, rigorously and objectively as any work by a 1980s Conceptual artist" (Martin Parr in The Photobook) .
Lot 232
NO RESERVE Shaw (George Bernard) The Adventures of the Black Girl in Hear Search For God, first edition, half-title, woodcut illustrations, original pictorial boards, fractional bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1932; The Political Madhouse in American and Nearer Home, first edition, half-title, original boards, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1933; The Common Sense of Municipal Trading, first edition, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1904; and 5 other first editions by the same, including a duplicate of the first, 8vo & folio (8)
Lot 6
Egypt.- Wilson (Robert Thomas) History of the British Expedition to Egypt, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding engraved maps/battle-plans, each with partial hand-colouring, a few tape repairs, 2 folding letterpress titles, some foxing and offsetting, corner of Q4 torn away, upper hinge weak, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, Chiswick bookplate, 1803 § Antes (John) Observations on the Manners and Customs of the Egyptians, first edition, large folding engraved map with tear repaired, 2ff. advertisements at end, some foxing, later half calf, gilt, The Atabey copy with bookplate, 1800, 4to (2)
Lot 98
London.- Vallès (Jules) La Rue a Londres, one of 100 from a total edition of 750, 22 etchings, each in 2 states, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations, many full-page, loose as issued, original cloth portfolio, gilt, lacking ties, rubbed, Paris, 1884 § Welch (Charles) & Philip Norman. Modern History of the City of London, number 151 (of ?) signed by publisher, half-title, frontispiece, title in red and black, illustrations, many full-page, near contemporary half-morocco, a little rubbed, 1896 § Bone (James) The London Perambulator, first edition, signed and dated by author and artist, frontispiece and plates by Muirhead Bone, bookplate, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, pencil notes to upper cover, chipping to corners and spine extremities, 1925; and others, London, v.s. (sm. qty)
Lot 68
Europe.- Londonderry (Marquis of) Recollections of a Tour in the North of Europe in 1836-1837, 2 vol., first edition, half-title to vol. 2 only (as called for), 2 engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 plates, 2 folding maps, scattered spotting, original cloth, vol. 1 rebacked retaining original backstrip, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1838 § Turkish Proverbs translated into English, ex-library with usual labels, modern cloth, lightly sunned spine, Venice, Armenian Monastery of S. Lazares, 1896 § Lardner (Rev. Dionysius) The History of Switzerland: The Cabinet of History, additional engraved title, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, 1832; 8vo & 12mo (4).
Lot 63
Africa.- Steevens (G. W.) With Kitchener to Khartum, half-title, 8 maps, most folding, advertisements at end, bookplate, previous owner's ink inscription, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Edinburgh & London, 1898 § McLynn (Frank) Stanley. The making of an African explorer, first edition, 1989; Stanley. Sorcerer's Apprentice, first edition, 1991, half-titles, plates, original cloth, dust-jackets, § Farwell (Byron) The Man Who Presumed, half-title, plates and maps, original cloth, price-clipped dust-jacket, fractional chipping to extremities, 1958; and others Africa, 8vo (13)
Lot 72
Myanmar.- Robertson (Thomas Campbell) Political Incidents of the First Burmese War, first edition, contemporary gift inscription in ink to front endpaper, later A.L.s tipped-in to front pastedown, contemporary black morocco, covers, spine and dentelles gilt, possibly a remboîtage, spine with two later labels neatly added, extremities rubbed, 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1853.⁂ Robertson was British Political Officer in Arakan in Burma during the First Anglo-Burmese War (1924-26) and remained a civil servant with the Bengal Civil Service for the rest of his career. The A.L.s tipped-in at the front, dated September [19]34, is addressed to Maurice Collis, an eminent scholar on Burmese history who spent most of his career in the civil service there. The letter presents this book to him as an addition to his library, describing it as a good and interesting account of the expeditions to Aracan and Ava in 1824. Collis' archive papers have recently been acquired by the National Library of Ireland.
Lot 204
Heraldry.- Nicolas (Nicholas Harris) The Siege of Carlaverock in the XXVIII Edward I A.D. MCCC, first edition, frontispiece, title printed in red and black, illustrations, bookplate, some spotting, nineteenth-century polished calf, slightly bumped at extremities, some marks to covers, covers with gilt boarder, spine elaborately gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, 4to, 1828.⁂ Based on a contemporary poem, supposedly by Walter of Exeter, this book contains details of the participants and the events of the siege, reproducing numerous illustrations depicting the coats of arms of those involved in the siege.
![India.- [Mullaly (Sir Herbert)] Russia's March Towards India, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, folding colour map, one or](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8638a96b-a72a-4d2b-9fec-b05100c03eea/46481f81-36a4-48b6-b40c-b05100c23e8e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 265
Art Criticism.- Price (Uvedale) Essays on the Picturesque, first edition, 3 vol., spotted, top edges unopened, later cloth, corners bumped, edges uncut and dust-stained, 1810 § E.R. and J. Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, one of 150 copies signed by the publisher, 2 vol., plates and illustrations, some light spotting, newspaper clippings relating to Whistler pasted and tipped-in at pastedowns, contemporary half morocco, some light rubbing at extremities, t.e.g., others uncut, 1908; and another relating to art, v.s. (14)
Lot 249
Photography.- Cartier-Bresson (Henri) Images à la Sauvette, first edition, black and white photographic reproductions, light water-staining to endpapers and occasionally at gutter, occasional cracking at gutter, original illustrated boards designed by Matisse, light water-staining to spine and edges, some minor surface soiling, spine and lower cover toned, spine quite worn, with loss to one letter to spine foot and a few small portions of loss along joints, rubbed at extremities, large 4to, Paris, Verve, 1952.
Lot 208
Dickens (Charles) Master Humphrey's Clock, 3 vol. in 2, first edition in book form, frontispieces, illustrations, scattered spotting, occasional light soiling, contemporary half calf, a few small stains, rubbed, vol. 1 backstrip come away from spine and torn at head (with very small portion of loss), vol. 1 covers detached, vol. 2 with short tear to spine head and joints starting, 8vo, 1840-41.
Lot 209
Ruskin (John) The Stones of Venice, 3 vol., first edition, 1851-53; The Seven Lamps of Architecture, first edition, 1849; Modern Painters, 5 vol., 1851-60, plates and illustrations, some hand-coloured, most with tissue-guards, handsomely bound in uniform blue morocco by Matthews, gilt, spines very slightly faded, slight bumping and some light rubbing to corners and spines, Seven Lamps of Architecture upper cover lightly scuffed, t.e.g., 4to (9)
Lot 139
Ancient music.- Elzevier .- Meibom (Marcus) Antiquae musicae auctores septem, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, double column, text in Greek and Latin, titles in red and black and with woodcut printer's device, 5 folding letterpress tables, of which 4 printed in red and black (of which 2 with a closed tear at edge), woodcut musical annotation, diagrams and decorative initials, modern ink ownership inscription to front pastedown, modern clipping taped to front endpaper, a couple of gatherings almost loose (E1-4 towards front; Y1-4, Z1-2 at rear), uniform light browning, some light spotting, contemporary (?original) limp boards with ink manuscript title to spine, joints cracked but stitching holding, some toning, [Willems 1148 'Collection tres estimée, et que l'on rencontre difficilement'], small 4to, Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1652.⁂ Important work on ancient musical writers, namely Aristoxenus, Euclid, Nicomachus, Alypius, Gaudentius, Bacchius and Aristides.Provenance: William M. Ivins [book label]; William Mills Ivins Jr. (1881-1961), curator of the department of prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), from its founding in 1916 until 1946. Olga Raggio (1926-2009), art historian and curator with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; gifted to the present owner.
Lot 26
Middle East.- Karaka (Dosabhai Framji) History of the Parsis, 2 vol., first edition, association copy inscribed by author's son, half-titles, frontispieces, plates, occasional water-staining, original pictorial cloth, slight chipping to corners and extremities, 1884 § Forty Days in the Desert, frontispiece, additional engraved title, plates, scattered spotting, bookplate of Nathan Schur, original cloth, gilt, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, n.d. § Iraq and the Persian Gulf, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, folding maps, lacking folding maps from end, original cloth, sunned spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [c.1945]; and others similar, v.s. (9)
Lot 50
World.- Gordon (Thomas Edward) A Varied Life, inscribed by author on half-title, frontispiece, plates, scattered faint spotting, bookplate of Peter Hopkirk, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1906 § Graham (Stephen) Through Russian Central Asia, first edition, frontispiece, plates, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, New York, 1916 § Aitchison (C. U.) A Collection of Treaties, Engagements and Sanads ..., vol. 11 only, ex-Foreign & Commonwealth Office Library with usual labels and ink-stamps, occasional marginal pencil markings, contemporary cloth, "Foreign Office" stamp to upper cover, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Delhi, 1933 § Brown (John P.) The Dervishes; or, Oriental Spiritualism, illustrations, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink inscription, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1868; and others similar, 8vo (11)
Lot 28
Middle East.- Layard (Austen H.) Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispieces, 2 plates, 3 folding maps, vol. 1 with publisher's advertisements at end, bookplate, vol. 1 cracked upper hinge, original decorative cloth, chipping to spine extremities, a little rubbed, 1887; Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, first edition, half-title, 10 plates, illustrations, 5 folding plans and maps, original decorative cloth, slight mottling, bumping to corners and spine extremities, rubbed and worn, 1853; and others by the same, including a duplicate of the second mentioned, 8vo (7)⁂ First mentioned with the bookplate of R. M. Burrell to front pastedown.
![Kent.- [Fisher (Thomas)] The Kentish Traveller's Companion, second edition, 3 folding engraved maps, small puncture holes to](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8638a96b-a72a-4d2b-9fec-b05100c03eea/89ea74ab-33ea-411e-9b0d-b05100c2eb0e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 92
Kent.- [Fisher (Thomas)] The Kentish Traveller's Companion, second edition, 3 folding engraved maps, small puncture holes to Y2-3 and final map, with loss to a few letters of text, final map also cropped and a little fayed at edges, with short tear to foot causing small loss, another map with short marginal tear, very light marginal damp-stain to first few leaves, some light foxing, heavier towards end, contemporary marbled calf, covers with gilt greek key borders, spine and corners worn, spine with central vertical split but holding, covers detached, Rochester & Canterbury, T. Fisher...and Simmons and Kirkby, 1779; and a defective first edition of Kilburne's Topographie or Survey of the County of Kent, 8vo & 4to (2)
Lot 32
Middle East.- Outram (Capt. James) Lieut.-General Sir James Outram's Persian Campaign in 1857, first edition, presentation copy from the author, 6 maps at end, of which 5 folding, spotting, bookplate, original cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip, sunned spine, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, for Private Circulation Only, 1860.⁂ Provenance: Presented to Major Anderson. Bookplate of Peter Hopkirk.
Lot 38
Voyages.- Ainsworth (William Francis) A Personal Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, folding colour map frontispiece, short tear at gutter with neat tape repair, vol. 1 with publisher's advertisements at end, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink signature to half-titles, original cloth, fractional bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, 1888.⁂ Provenance: Signature of S.L. Bensusan , dated 1897 to half-titles.
![NO RESERVE [More (Cresacre)] The Life of Sir Thomas More, Kt....By his Great Grandson, Thomas More, first edition, engraved p](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8638a96b-a72a-4d2b-9fec-b05100c03eea/cf79142a-f9cc-48e8-a312-b05100c25637/468x382.jpg)
Lot 185
NO RESERVE [More (Cresacre)] The Life of Sir Thomas More, Kt....By his Great Grandson, Thomas More, first edition, engraved portrait by Vertue after Holbein, title in red and black, 2 advertisement leaves at end, frontispiece lightly foxed and offset, very faint water-staining to foot throughout, endpapers foxed, spine richly gilt, corners and spine ends worn, rubbed and scratched, joints starting, James Woodman & David Lyon, 1726 § James (Robert) Pharmacopoeia Universalis: or, A New Universal English Dispensatory, second edition, lacking final leaf (?blank), half-title with contemporary ink initials "TCB" to head, ink ownership inscription "Warren 1769" to front endpaper, 2S3 with tear into text, repaired and without loss, some light foxing or browning, rear hinge tender, small loss to spine ends and along lower joint, corners worn, rubbed, upper joint starting at foot, for J. Hodges, 1752, ink ownership inscription Tho. Crawley Boevey to front endpaper, with Flaxley Abbey beneath in a later hand, the odd patch of light soiling, contemporary calf; and others, antiquarian, some odd volumes or incomplete sets, v.s. (c.45)
Lot 273
NO RESERVE Keppler (Victor) The Eighth Art, first edition, signed by author, plates, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1939 § Beerbohm Tree (Sir Herbert) Cabinet Photo as Hamlet, signed and inscribed by Beerbohm, cabinet photo mounted on stiff card, scattered spotting, [1892] § Dollard Printinghouse Dublin. Typefaces, first edition, printed in red and black, original pictorial cloth, light spotting, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Dublin, n.d.; and 2 others relating to the arts, v.s. (5).
Lot 105
NO RESERVE Agriculture.- Johnstone (John) An Account of the Mode of Draining Land, according to the system practised by Mr. Joseph Elkington, second edition, lacking half-title, with 19 folding engraved plates, marginal staining to title, cropped, modern calf, 1801 § Brown (Robert) A Treatise on Agriculture and Rural Affairs, 2 vol., first edition, half-title (vol.1 poorly printed), 6 engraved plates (water-stain to upper outer corner), vol.1 with hole to a3 (dedication) with loss of a couple of letters), browned, a few marginal tears and repairs, modern half calf, Edinburgh, 1811 § Harte (Walter) Essays on Husbandry, 2 parts in 1, second edition, 5 engraved plates, woodcut illustrations, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, 1770 § Baird (T.) General View of the Agriculture of...Middlesex, 1793 bound with Kent (N.) General View of the Agriculture of...Norfolk, 2 hand-coloured aquatint plates, one leaf torn and repaired, 1794 and Bailey (J.) & G.Culley. General View of the Agriculture of...Cumberland, 1794, the last 3 works bound in 1 vol., large paper with wide margins, each with half-title, red ink stamp to titles, some leaves browned, contemporary morocco-backed boards, rubbed; and another on agriculture, 8vo & 4to (6)
Lot 40
Voyages.- Colomb (Capt. Philip Howard) Slave-Catching in the Indian Ocean, first edition, half-title, wood engraved frontispiece, plates, one folding map, previous owner's ink name-stamp to p.vii, occasional faint spotting, cracked hinges, original decorative cloth, bumping and chipping to corners and spine extremities, backstrip beginning to split at upper joint but holding firm, 8vo, 1873.
Lot 117
Geology.- Humboldt (Alexander von) A Geognostical Essay on the Superposition of Rocks, in both hemispheres, first English edition, half-title, scattered spotting, abrasion marks to front pastedown where label removed, original cloth, bumping to corners and extremities, backstrip splitting at upper joint, 8vo, 1823.
Lot 213
NO RESERVE Crime.- Weir (Dr. McCook) Prison Despotism: a personal narrative, first edition, title detached and loosely inserted, tables at end, ex-Nottingham library with usual labels and ink-stamps, 'withdrawn' stamps to label and title, text-block broken, original decorative cloth, gilt, library label to upper cover, small loss to spine extremities, slight bumping to corners, [1885] § Andrews (William) Punishments in the Olden Time, frontispiece, illustrations, previous owner's ink signature, ex-Nottingham library with label and ink-stamp to title verso, scattered faint spotting, original wrappers silked and bound-in, modern cloth, rubbed, [?1881]; and another, similar, 8vo (3).
![Middle East.- [Malcolm (Col. Sir John)] Sketches of Persia, 2 vol., first edition, faint spotting to first few ff., small los](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8638a96b-a72a-4d2b-9fec-b05100c03eea/cbd5576e-9d5d-4f60-b775-b05100c2aad7/468x382.jpg)
Lot 29
Middle East.- [Malcolm (Col. Sir John)] Sketches of Persia, 2 vol., first edition, faint spotting to first few ff., small loss to top edge 'Contents' ff., bookplates, Earl of Hopetoun's signature to vol. 1 title, near contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, vol. 1 upper joint beginning to split at foot but holding firm, 8vo, 1827.⁂ Provenance: Bookplate of the Earl of Hopetoun, and bookplate of Peter Hopkirk (1930-2014).
Lot 221
Economics.- Hayek (Friedrich August) Profits, Interest and Investment and other Essays on the Theory of Industrial Fluctuations, first edition, some light edge spotting, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original cloth, some light rubbing and toning to spine, a very good copy, 1939; John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, first edition, plates, very faint spotting to endpapers, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1951; 8vo (2).
Lot 145
Kant (Immanuel) Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können, first edition, woodcut ornament to title, cherub head-piece to head of A2, and head- and tail-pieces, water-stained, some spotting, mostly lightly browned, contemporary speckled limp boards, rebacked in brown paper, worn, but holding, rubbed, 8vo, Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1783.⁂ Important companion volume to his Critik der reinen Vernunft. Here Kant summarises the conclusions of his 'Critique of Pure Reason' in a more accessible manner, and provides a rebuttal to negative reviews received for it.
Lot 253
Rackham (Arthur).- Dickens (Charles) A Christmas Carol, first trade edition, issue without the frontispiece mounted but with date to verso of title, 12 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham, captioned tissue guards, pictorial endpapers, occasional marginal soiling, some light foxing, heavier to peripheral ff., original olive pictorial cloth, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, dust-jacket, a few very small chips or short tears, spine with horizonal tear and portions of loss to ends (affecting some text), browned, a few very light spots or marks, lower flap with joint split at head, upper joint broken, 4to, London & Philadelphia, 1915.
Lot 73
Myanmar.- Symes (Michael) An Account of An Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, first edition, half-title, 2 folding engraved maps, 26 engraved plates, some folding, maps and plates with some spotting and off-setting, occasional spots to text, contemporary half morocco, covers detached, extremities worn, 4to, W. Bulmer & Co., 1800.⁂ First edition of what has been described as "one of the first detailed accounts of the country written in English... it addressed the history, geography, culture, and economics of Burma" (ODNB). It also includes a description of the plants of Burma, with 8 plates.
Lot 102
Nottinghamshire.- Thoroton (Robert) The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, first edition, initial imprimatur f., title in red and black, folding engraved map and 16 plates and plans by Wenceslas Hollar after R. Hall, some double-page or folding, engraved illustrations, some full-page, 8pp. and a slip of coats-of-arms at end, contemporary ink ownership inscription Tho. Staunton to verso of imprimatur, a few instances of early ink correction or marginalia, more frequent to coats-of-arms, two folding plates laid down, double-page plates strengthened at inner margin to verso, a few plates with short tears and tape repairs to verso, with one or two small portions of marginal loss, a few small rust holes within text and a couple of plates, some light foxing or browning, the odd small stain, modern antique-style calf, double morocco labels to spine, light scratches, [Wing T1063], folio, by Robert White, for Henry Mortlock, 1677.
Lot 109
NO RESERVE Lee (James) An Introduction to Botany...Extracted From the Works of Dr. Linnæus, first edition, 12 engraved plates, each with leaf of descriptive letterpress, armorial bookplate of C.E. Bagge and his ink ownership stamp to front endpaper, ink marginalia to foot of I8v, light offsetting, light browning, occasional scattered spotting, description to plate 12 with tiny rust hole within text, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine label chipped, rubbed, corners and upper cover worn, joints split but holding, [Henrey 952], for J. and R. Tonson, 1760 § Thorburn (Archibald) British Birds, 4 vol., one of 205 copies, colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, bookplate, vol. 3 with ink inscription to pastedown, occasional slight cracking at gutter, endpapers lightly browned, original cloth, spines lightly faded, corners bumped, rubbed, t.e.g., 1925-26; and others, natural history, v.s. (10)
Lot 62
Africa.- Baring (Evelyn, Earl of Cromer) Modern Egypt, 2 vol., first edition, frontispiece, folding colour map, advertisements at end, bookplates to half-titles, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1908 § Johnston (Sir Harry) The Nile Quest, half-title, frontispiece, plates, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, original cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip, n.d.; 8vo (3).
![NO RESERVE Russia.- [Algarotti (Francesco)] Saggio di Lettere sopra la Russia, first edition, engraved title-vignette, woodcu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8638a96b-a72a-4d2b-9fec-b05100c03eea/a4e619a6-44b7-4311-aaea-b05100c2dbc3/468x382.jpg)
Lot 77
NO RESERVE Russia.- [Algarotti (Francesco)] Saggio di Lettere sopra la Russia, first edition, engraved title-vignette, woodcut head- & tail-pieces and initials, a little stained, modern cloth-backed boards, uncut, Paris [Venice], Gio.Briasson, 1760 § [Muralt (Béat Louis de)] Letters describing the Character and Customs of the English and French Nations. With a Curious Essay on Travelling, second edition in English, with 2 titles (first in red & black), 1726 bound with [Desfontaine (P.F.) & Pierre Brunoy.] Remarks on the Letters, concerning the English and French, first edition in English, 1726, together 2 works in 1 vol., foxing, bookplate of Sir Stafford H.Northcote Bart., contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, by Tho.Edlin, 8vo (2)⁂ The first is an epistolary report of a trip to Russia in 1738-39; the second a view of the English and French by a Swiss traveller.
Lot 267
NO RESERVE Art.- Thorson (Victoria, editor) Great Drawings of All Time. The Twentieth Century, first edition, 2 vol., profuse whole-page colour illustrations, original buckram-backed cloth, each vol. within original presentation slip case, cloth with mounted pictorial on-lays, lightly scuffed, folio, Redding (Connecticut), 1979.⁂ Over 750 whole-page colour illustrations covering the major art movements of the twentieth century.
Lot 149
NO RESERVE Isambert (François-André) Tableau des Progrès du Droit Public et du Droit des Gens, first edition, A.L.s. from the author tipped-in to half-title, scattered light foxing, contemporary boards, spine with red morocco label, spine toned, spine ends and corners very lightly rubbed, Paris, 1829; and two others French, including a copy of Zola's Lourdes, 8vo (3)⁂ François-André Isambert (1792-1857), French lawyer, historian, and politician.
Lot 188
Vertue (George) Medals, Coins, Great-Seals, Impressions, from the Elaborate Works of Thomas Simon, first edition, engraved pictorial title, dedication, head- & tail-piece and 37 plates, occasional early ink correction or marginalia, 1753, bound with Walpole (Horace) Aedes Walpolianae: or, a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk..., second edition, 2 engraved portraits, 2 folding engraved plates and 2 folding plans, woodcut head- & tailpieces, first few ff. with small stain to outer lower corner, [John Hughs], 1752, together 2 works in 1 vol., bookplate of ?Joseph Griffiths Swayne (name partially erased), additional bookplate of Frances Louisa Swayne to front free endpaper, some foxing and offsetting, 19th century russia, spine gilt and with black morocco label, staining to covers, rubbed at extremities, joints cracked but holding firm, 4to. ⁂ The second is Walpole's expanded description of his father Sir Robert Walpole's magnificent collection of paintings, the majority of which was sold to Catherine the Great of Russia after Sir Robert's death for over £40,000. The work includes 'A Sermon on Painting' by Horace Walpole and 'A Journey to Houghton..A poem. By the Reverend Mr. Whaley'.
Lot 97
London.- Smith (H. Clifford) Buckingham Palace, first edition, vintage silver gelatin print and list of those presented at court in 1932 tipped-in at beginning, plates and illustrations, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1931 § The Temple of Taste: comprising Elegant Historical Engravings ..., ?originally published in parts, 21 engraved plates, scattered faint spotting, later half-morocco, a little rubbed, [c.1796] § Pictorial Half-Hours of London Topography, previous owner's ink inscription to title, engraved plates, scattered spotting, original limp cloth, a little rubbed, [c.1856] § Godwin (E. W.) Temple Bar, plates, scattered spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [1877]; and others on London, v.s. (17)
Lot 69
Korea.- M'Leod (John, surgeon) Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck, second edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, title with ink ownership inscription to head, bookplate, publisher's advertisements to rear, light foxing or spotting throughout, plate borders lightly browned, later blue half calf and red morocco label to spine, joints cracking but firm, extremities heavily rubbed, [Abbey, Travel 559], 8vo, John Murray, 1818.⁂ With one more colour plate than the first edition published the previous year.Provenance: J. Talbot Clifton of Kildalton Castle [bookplate]; likely Talbot Clifton the dedicated traveller, who explored Canada, Siberia, Burma, Malaya, Indonesia, Africa and South America, moving to Kildalton on Islay in the 1920s.
Lot 198
Shakespeare Forgeries.- Ireland (William Henry) Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare, second edition (first 8vo edition), half-title, folding engraved portrait frontispiece printed on both sides, slightly foxed, some spotting throughout, top edges uncut, original boards, rubbed at extremities, spine sunned, splitting at head of upper joint, Cooper and Graham, 8vo, 1796.
Lot 7
Europe.- Brosset (M.) Chronique Géorgienne, half-title, folding table, scattered spotting, contemporary half-morocco, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, Paris, 1831; Histoire de la Géorgie, vol. 1 only, text in Russian, pencil note to front pastedown stating no further volumes published, [Petrograd], 1923 § Wardrop (Marjory, editor) Georgian Folk Tales, previous owner's blind-stamp to title, previous owner's ink inscription, original cloth-backed boards, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1894 § Allen (W. E. D.) A History of the Georgian People, first edition, presentation inscription from author to front free endpaper, frontispiece, plates, 3 folding maps at end, original cloth, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1932; and others on Georgia, 8vo & 4to (6)
Lot 125
Geology.- Woodward (John) An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England, 2 vol. bound as 1, first edition, ex-Sedgwick Museum Library with label and occasional ink-stamps, P2 with print defect affecting odd word, Z5 with short marginal tear, 2R2 with small hole, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1729.
Lot 248
NO RESERVE Milne (A. A.) Now We Are Six, first edition, illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, half-title, ink ownership inscription front endpaper and a couple of other ink markings, occasional spots of finger soiling, light browning to endpapers, original pictorial cloth, spine sunned, extremities scuffed, t.e.g., 1927; and three others from the series, second and third editions, 8vo (4)
Lot 43
Voyages.- Khan (Mirza Abu Taleb) The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan, in Asia, Africa, and Europe, 2 vol., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, previous owner's pencil signature to titles, spotting, contemporary half-calf, sunned spines, vol. 1 with upper cover detached and crudely reattached with tape, vol. 2 with 2C8 to lower cover detached, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1810.
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