Curiosa.- Dulaure (Jacques-Antoine) Pogonologia, or a Philosophical and Historical Essay on Beards, first edition in English, half-title, lightly browned, one or two corrections in ink, book-label of Thomas Preston, contemporary sheep, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked, Exeter, printed by R.Thorn, and London, T.Cadell, 1786 § Treatise (A) on the Custom of Counting Noses, first edition, title lightly soiled and with faint ink signature, ex-library copy with embossed stamp, later half calf, rubbed, rebacked, for M.Smith, 1779 § Modern Dissertation (A) on a Certain necessary Piece of Household Furniture, 16pp., only edition, title with woodcut ornament, modern panelled calf, spine faded, by H.Kent, 1752, 8vo (3)⁂ An interesting and amusing group of oddities, on beards, noses, and chamber pots. The first is a scarce satirical work on beards which until that time had long been out of fashion. The second, on noses, is one of two issues with variant imprints, both rare; ESTC records only one copy with this imprint (Dublin City Libraries). The third item, on chamber pots, has 4 locations in ESTC (BL, Guildhall, & Wellcome in UK, and another in Kansas).
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Children's.- Trusler (John) The Progress of Man and Society, first edition, half-title with wood-engraved vignette and the author's coat-of-arms to verso forming frontispiece, numerous wood-engraved illustrations by John Bewick, elaborate calligraphic inscription "George Cuitt 1794" (etcher, son of George senior the landscape painter) to head of frontispiece, a little soiled and stained, a few leaves with small tears to fore-edge repaired, modern book-label of Philip Gosse Weppons, old sheep, rubbed, spine faded, John Trusler, 1791 § Book of English Trades (The), wood-engraved plates, modern half calf, red roan label, 1818 § Book of Trades; or, circle of the Useful Arts, engraved frontispiece, additional vignette title and plates, wood-engraved illustrations, original blind-stamped green cloth, pictorial gilt spine, Glasgow, 1839 § New Ready Reckoner (The); or, Trader's Sure Guide, tables, contemporary sheep, worn and wormed, London: W.C.Fletcher, Leeds: Webb & Millington, Selby: W.R.Galpine, 1844 § Cabinet of Useful Arts and Manufactures (The), designed for the perusal of Young Persons, 10 full-page woodcut illustrations, contemporary sheep, rubbed, rebacked preserving old spine, corners repaired, Dublin, 1825, most rubbed; and 11 others, trades and children's, 8vo et infra (16)⁂ The first is an educational work for children covering a wide range of subjects but particularly trades, sports and pastimes including balloons, dancing, fencing, and swimming.
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Humour.- [Duncan (John Shute)], "Solomon Upright". Hints to the Bearers of Walking-Sticks and Umbrellas, third edition, 6 etched plates, illustrations, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, light spotting or soiling, old tape stains to front free endpaper and final leaf of advertisements, original printed wrappers, rubbed, slightly creased at edges, spine ends worn, 1809 § Crowquill (Alfred) A Guide to the Watering Places, first edition, 17 plates, some engraved views, light foxing, modern half morocco, original pictorial board bound in at end, [1845], 8vo (2)⁂ The first is a scarce work first published the previous year, by the keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It warns against the dangers of carelessly-used sticks and umbrellas.
The History Of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha, first illustrated edition in English, translated by John Philips, 'printed by Tho. Hodgkin, and are to be sold by John Newton, at the three pigeons over against the Inner-Gate in Fleet-street', London 1687, marbled boards, with extensive wear, pencil annotations to inside cover and interior.Wear and foxing throughout, with some of the spine loose. Final page number: 616, with three further pages of poems and an "Errata" section within the binding. Frontispiece engraving present, but only five illustration pages are there (from the expected eight) - all those present are included with the images. Appears complete otherwise
Gardens.- Parkinson (John) Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris ... faithfully reprinted from the edition of 1629, facsimile edition, half-title, vignette title, illustrations, many full-page, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, later half-morocco, lightly sunned spine, folio, 1904Chris Pickvance Collection
Laurence (John) A New System of Agriculture, being a Complete Body of Husbandry and Gardening, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 2 plates, a few engraved illustrations, a few minor stains, small worm-holes to upper margin of first few leaves, generally clean and crisp, contemporary calf, 1726 Chris Pickvance Collection
2017 Proof Coin Set Collection Edition, with The Royal Wedding silver and bronze medals (1.58oz), US 1976 Bicentennial Dollar set, UK ECC entry 1973 silver medal, Diamond Jubilee crown, 2003 BUNC Five Pound, with a selection of various coins including commemorative crowns, first decimal sets, etc, (qty)
FORSYTH (CAPTAIN J.):The Highlands Of Central India..., rebound half-calf cloth-covered boards, first edition, 1871 - CAMPBELL (MAJOR WALTER): The Old Forest Ranger..., original blind-stamped blue cloth-covered boards with gilt cover illustration and spine, London, 1853 - NEWALL (CAPTAIN J.T.): The Eastern Hunters, original blue cloth-covered boards with gilt spine, London, 1866; Hog Hunting In The East..., rebound, London, 1867 - SHAKESPEAR (MAJOR HENRY): The Wild Sports Of India..., rebound, London, 1862 - together with three publications by 'The Old Shekarry' [LEVESON (H.A.)]; and three other publications by various authors relating to hunting in India (11)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
HAWKER (PETER)Instructions to Young Sportsmen, with Direction for the Choice, Care, and Management of Guns... To which is Added, a Concise Abridgement of the Principal Game Laws, first edition, ownership inscription of Robert Inman, 12 page advertisements Gale and Fenner bound in at end, untrimmed in early blue boards rebacked preserving most of original spine, 12mo, J. Johnson, 1814This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
NORTON (ROBERT)The Gunner, Shewing the Whole Practise of Artillerie, first edition, title page within engraved border, errata leaf after gathering A not recorded by ESTC, woodcut illustrations, 35 engraved plates (15 double-page), further illustrations in the text, without initial blank, title trimmed and laid down, several plates slightly shaved, a few repairs at gutter towards end of volume including to wormtrails, modern quarter calf, rubbed [ESTC S115254], folio, A.M. for Humphrey Robinson, 1628This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Royal George Model Cannon And Related PublicationThe First Dated 1840The first of bronze and of tapering multi-stage form with raised mouldings, the second reinforce engraved 'Relic of Royal George Sunk 1782 - Raised 1840'; the second a copy of A Narrative of The Loss of The Royal George ...', (bound in the wood of the wreck), 8th edition, Portsea, 1847 (2)15 cm. barrel Footnotes:H.M.S. Royal George was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. At the time of her launch in 1756 she was the largest warship in the world and saw service during the Seven Years War. She sank at Portsmouth in 1782 with the loss of more than 800 lives, one of the most serious maritime losses in British waters. A fund was established by Lloyd's Coffee House to provide aid to widows and children of the sailors lost in the sinking, which was the foundation of what would become the Lloyd's Patriotic FundFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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[ADYE (RALPH WILLETT)]The Little Bombardier, and Pocket Gunner, FIRST EDITION, ownership inscription of Captain F. Knox (dated 1819) on title, untrimmed in publisher's boards, printed spine label, rubbed, scarce, 12mo, T. Egerton, Military Library, 1801This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BAKER (EZEKIEL)Twenty Two Years Practice and Observations with Rifle Guns, first edition, 6 hand-coloured engraved plates, engraved table, lacking front free endpaper, original boards, rebacked, T. Page [1803]; Twenty-Six Years Practice..., third edition, half-title, 9 engraved plates and tables (6 hand-coloured), browning, contemporary half roan, E. Baker, 1806; Thirty-Six Years' Practice..., sixth edition, half-title, 9 engraved plates and tables (6 hand-coloured), modern half calf, E. Baker, 1816; Remarks on the Result of Thirty-Nine Years Practice..., seventh edition, half-title, 9 engraved plates and tables (6 hand-coloured), pasted-in additional leaf ('Gentlemen may be supplied with rifle guns... for shooting tigers'), contemporary half roan, E. Baker, 1819; and 2 facsimiles, 8vo (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BEAUFOY (HENRY)Scloppetaria: or Considerations on the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns... By a Corporal of Riflemen, first edition, 13 engraved plates, light foxing, contemporary calf, T. Egerton, 1808 - BAKER (EZEKIEL): Remarks on Rifle-Guns, being the Result of Fifty Years' Practice, ninth edition, 9 engraved plates (7 hand-coloured), 6-page engraved table of Lead Balls, contemporary half roan, E. Baker, 1825; ibid., tenth edition, 9 engraved plates (7 hand-coloured), 6-page engraved table of Lead Balls, modern half morocco, E. Baker, 1829; and a facsimile of the first mentioned, 8vo (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MONTBLANC, PATRON OF THE ARTS SERIES 4810, GAIUS MAECENAS A LIMITED EDITION FOUNTAIN PEN, NO. 3010/4810, CIRCA 2011 Cap and Barrel: silver coloured cap engraved with the first verse of an ode to Maecenas by Horace, stamped Ag 925, with white marbled columnar barrel Nib and Filling System: white gold coloured nib stamped 18K and 750, piston filling system, uninked Accessories: None Condition Report: The nib does not state the nib size. In our opinion, we believe this to be a medium sized nib. Condition Report Disclaimer
British Craftmanship edited by W J Turner Hardback Book 1948 First Edition published by Collins some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
The Basis of Design by Walter Crane Hardback Book 1898 First Edition published by George Bell and Sons some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
In an Eighteenth Century Kitchen edited by Dennis Rhodes Hardback Book 1968 First Edition (Limited Edition of 2000 copies) published by Cecil and Amelia Woolf some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn Hardback Book 1963 First English Translation Edition published by Victor Gollancz Ltd some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings by Thomas Balston Hardback Book 1949 First Edition published by Art and Technics Ltd some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
General Degree Pure Mathematics by R L Perry Hardback Book 1967 First Edition published by University Tutorial Press Ltd some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Forty Years of Spy by Leslie Ward Hardback Book 1915 First Edition published by Chatto and Windus some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
The Way to A Good Table Electric Cookery by Elizabeth Craig Hardback Book 1937 First Edition published by The British Electrical Development Association Inc some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Seaside Fashions 1860 1939 by Avril Lansdell Softback Book 1990 First Edition published by Shire Publications Ltd some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Signed Book Ian Scleater The Story of the Palace Theatre Watford Hardback Book 2008 First Edition Signed by Ian Scleater on the First page published by Atlantic Publishing some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Encyclopaedia of Monsters by Daniel Cohen Hardback Book 1989 First Edition published by Michael O Mara Books Ltd some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Old Cook Books An Illustrated History by Eric Quayle Hardback Book 1978 First Edition published by Studio Vista / Cassell Ltd some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Exploring the World of King Artur by Christopher Snyder Softback Book 2011 First UK Paperback Edition published by Thames and Hudson Ltd some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
The History of Clan Mackintosh and the Clan Chattan by M Mackintosh Hardback Book 1948 First Edition published by W and A K Johnston Ltd some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
The Higher Arithmetic by H Davenport Hardback Book 1952 First Edition published by Hutchinson s University Library some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE AND FIRST EDITION BOOKS TO INLCUDE POINTS SCHMOINTS BY MARTY BERGEN (SIGNED BY AUTHOR), NOW WE ARE SIXTY BY CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW, OCTAVIUS OF MINICUS FELIX BY J H FREESE, COUSIN KATE BY GEORGETTE HEYER, SHORTHAND MANUAL, OXFORD COMPANION TO ENGLISH LITERARTURE WITH DUST COVER, SCIENCE BOOKS ETC.
Three boxes of largely hardback books, historical, literary, and botanical to include: first edition 'Castlereagh: the political life of Robert second marquis of Londonderry' by Sir J A R Marriott, published by Methuen & Co. Ltd. in 1936, first edition 'The Vision Splendid: the future of the central African federation' by C E Lucas Phillips, published by Heinemann in 1960, signed copy of 'It's a Bigger Life' by Lucille Iremonger, signed 9th September 1948, volume of The Strand magazine July-December 1894, first edition 'Every Man's Book of Nonsense' edited by John Davies, forward by Spike Milligan published in 1981, 'The Comic History of England' Gilbert A'Beckett, first edition 'Studies in 18th Century Diplomacy 1740-1748' by Sir Richard Lodge published 1930, 'Lord Norman' by Sir Henry Clay published 1957, first edition 'The Body Politic' by Ian Gilmore published 1969, possible first edition 'The Cloister and the Hearth' by Charles Reid published by Odhams Press Ltd. first edition of Penguin Books 'The Nuremberg Trial' by R W Cooper published 1947, 'Tom Cringle's Log' by Michael Scott, 'The Great Trek' by Eric Anderson Walker published A C Black Ltd. 1934. (2)(B.P. 21% + VAT)
ORNITHOLOGICAL INTEREST: Cooper (William T.), THE BIRDS OF PARADISE AND BOWER BIRDS, first edition, slipcase, brown cloth boards, DJ, colour plates and monochrome illustrations throughout, Collins, London 1977; with Turbott (E.G.) (Ed.), BULLER'S BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND, first thus, 1/2 blue leather, blue cloth boards, gilt embossed illustration to cover, DJ, tipped in colour plates throughout, Macdonald, London 1967; THE ORIGINAL WATER-COLOUR PAINTINGS BY JOHN JAMES AUDUBON FOR THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, 2 vols, slipcase, brown cloth boards, marbled endpapers, Michael Joseph Ltd, 1966; and Blackburn (Mrs Hugh), BIRDS DRAWN FROM NATURE, illustrated card boards, monochrome engraved plates throughout, Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh 1862 (4)
ORNITHOLOGICAL INTEREST: Livingstone (John A) and Lansdowne (J.F), BIRDS OF THE EASTERN FOREST, first edition, 2 vols, blue cloth boards, embossed gilt illustrations to covers, DJ, vol 2 signed by the author and illustrator to title page, colour plates throughout, The Hamlyn Group Ltd, London 1968, and McClelland and Stewart Ltd, Ontario 1970 (2)
Simon (Richard), A CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE TEST OF THE NEW TESTAMENT; WHEREIN IS FIRMLY ESTABLISH'D THE TRUTH OF THOSE ACTS ON WHICH THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IS LAID, first edition, full leather, laid paper, printed for R. Taylor, London 1689, with Simon (Richard), THE CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE VERSIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. PART II, first edition, full leather, laid paper, licensed November 22 1689 by J. Fraser, printed for Thomas Newborough and Thomas Bennet, London, and Simon (Richard), CRITICAL ENQUIRIES INTO THE VARIOUS EDITIONS OF THE BIBLE: PRINTED IN DIVERS PLACES AND AT SEVERAL TIMES. TOGETHER WITH ANIMADVERSIONS UPON A SMALL TREATISE OF DR. ISAAC VOSSIUS; CONCERNING THE ORACLES OF THE SYBYLLS. AND AN ANSWER TO THE OBJECTIONS OF THE LATE CRITICA SACRA, full leather, laid paper, printed by Thomas Braddyll, London 1684 (at fault) (3)
Bunyan (John), THE HOLY WAR: MADE BY SHADDAI UPON DIABOLUS, FOR THE REGAINING OF THE METROPOLIS OF THE WORLD, OR, THE LOSING AND TAKING AGAIN OF THE TOWN OF MANSOUL, first edition, full leather, gilt embossed decoration to spine, laid paper, hand-written bookplate to front free endpaper, engraved frontispiece, fourteen further engraved plates after Dodd, Hamilton and others including the foldout plate 8 (torn on crease), published by Alex, Hogg et al, London 1782, bound with AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MR. JOHN BUNYAN... BY A FRIEND TO THE CAUSE OF TRUE RELIGION, together with Bunyan (John), THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS: FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME, two parts bound in one volume, full leather, gilt embossed decoration to spine, laid paper, hand written bookplate to front free endpaper, engraved frontispiece, fifteen engraved plates after G. Burder (including foldout map), printed for Vallance and Simmons, London 1788 (at fault) (2)
Nott (Stanley Charles), CHINESE JADE THROUGHOUT THE AGES, A REVIEW OF ITS CHARACTERISTICS, DECORATION, FOLKLORE AND SYMBOLISM, first edition, orange cloth boards, green embossed titles to cover and spine, red and green Chinese characters to cover, pictorial endpapers with auspicious bat motif, colour lithographic frontispiece, thirty eight colour plates, one hundred and nine monochrome photographic plates, and seventy three line engravings throughout the text, B.T. Batsford Ltd, London 1936
Wells (H.G.), WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES, A STORY OF THE YEARS TO COME, first edition, red cloth boards, gilt embossed title to cover and spine, W.H.Smith library book plate to front endpaper, tissue guarded monochrome lithographic frontispiece, two further lithographic plates, Harper & Brothers Publishers, London and New York 1899
Chess.- Lopez de Sigura (Ruy) Il Giuoco De Gli Scacchi. 1584. Venice, Cornelio Arrivabene. Translated from the Spanish by Giovanne Domenico Tarsia, collation: *4 A-Z4 Aa-Dd4, first edition in Italian, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut illustrations of a board and pieces, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, lacking ties, soiled, small 4to.
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