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(Published 1869, Copyright 1897). The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain. First Published in 1869, Twain chronicles, in his customary humorous voice what he calls his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City, depicting his journey through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867. This particular book holds a copyright of 1897 and while not a first edition, is in good condition, showing some ware. Many illustrations bring to life the wit and wisdom of Mark Twain, capturing his five-month voyage that included numerous trips on land. The Innocents Abroad became the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime and one of the best-selling travel books of all time. A desired treasure and get for fans of American Literature, and Twain fans in particular. Own a piece of great Americana literature that came from discerning collector’s private collection. Size: 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 x 1/2 in.

This is an important journal about the campaign of General Burgoyne, in a first edition state, and it provides you-are-there insights into the campaign which may have cost the British a chance to win the Revolutionary War. The full title is A State of the Expedition from Canada, As Laid Before the House of Commons By Lieutenant-General Burgoyne, and Verified By Evidence; With A Collection of Authentic Documents … Written and Collected by Himself, And Dedicated To the Officers of the Army He Commanded. London: Printed for J. Almon, Opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly 1780. The journal is a first edition, 4 vo., with five raised bands, a red label with gilt lettering and faint horizontal ruled bands on the spine, brown boards, marbled endpapers, six engraved folding maps and charts, 140 pages of text and Appendix i - lxii, with a Postscript to the Appendix lxi - lxii, and an Advertisement at the end about the positions of his army on September 8 and September 19 and the expedition to Bennington, with a separated front board, the rear board is still attached; the label on the spine reads “Burgoyne’s Narative”, and you can tell this is a first edition by its size - the first edition measures 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. wide and the second edition is smaller, measuring 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. wide. Burgoyne (1722 - 1792) was a brilliant British general who was granted Supreme Command of the Northern Army during the Revolutionary War, and he hoped to end the war by marching down from Canada to Albany, New York, meet up with the army of Sir William Howe, join Howe in a campaign against George Washington and retake the entire Hudson River Valley; his aim was to prevent New England from receiving supplies and reinforcements from the south, but his plan was thwarted by the Americans and one of his own generals. Burgoyne captured Crown Point and Fort Ticonderoga in his march south, which threatened to cut off vital supplies to the American army, but Howe never met Burgoyne’s army in New York, and eventually Burgoyne’s army was cut off by the Americans and Burgoyne was forced to surrender all his forces at Saratoga, which proved to be a turning point in the war. There are a total of six maps here that show Burgoyne’s positions at various stages in the campaign and are in fabulous condition - very clean, no stains or foxing - and the third map is the only one with an issue - a slight tear on the edge (a half-inch tear at the bottom that does not touch any part of the map or the text). The frontis map is titled “A Map of the Country in which the Army under Lt. General Burgoyne acted in the Campaign of 1777, shewing the Marches of the Army & the Places of the principal Actions. Drawn by Mr. Medcalfe & Engraved by Wm. Faden. London, published as the Act direct by Wm. Faden. Feb. 1st, 1780.” The second map (located in the rear of the book) is titled “Plan of the Action at Huberton under Brigadier Genl. Frazier, supported by Major Genl. Reidesel, on the 7th July 1777. Drawn by P. Gerlach Deputy Quarter Master General. Engraved by Wm. Faden. London … Feb 1st, 1780.” This map is hand-colored with red highlights. The third map (at the rear) is titled ”Position of the Detachment under Lieut. Col. Baum, Walmscock near Bennington, shewing the Attacks of the Enemy on the 16th August 1777. Drawn by Lieutt. Durnford, Engineer. Engraved by Wm. Faden. London … Feb 1st 1780 …” This map is hand-colored with red highlights too. The fourth map (at the rear) is entitled “Plan of the Encampment and Position of the Army under His Excellent Lt. General Burgoyne at Swords House on Hudson’s River near Stillwater on Sept 17th with the Positions of that part of the Army engaged on the 19th Sept 1777. Drawn by W.C. Wilkinson Lt. 62d Regt. Asst. Engr. Engraved by Wm. Faden. London … Feb 1st, 1780 …” The map is hand-colored with red highlights. The fifth map (at the rear) is titled “Enemy’s Camp at Stillwater, Plan of the Encampment and Position of the Army under His Excellent Lt General Burgoyne at Braemus Heights on Hudson’s River near Stillwater, on the 20th Septr with the Positions of the Detachment &c. on the Action of the 7th of Octr & the Position of the Army on the 8th Octr 1777. Drawn by W. C. Wilkinson, Lt 62 Regt. Asst Engr. Engraved by Wm Faden. London, published as the Act direct by W. Faden, Charing Cross, Feb 1st 1780” This map is hand-colored with red, blue, and orange highlights. The last map (at the rear) is titled “Plan of the Position which the Army under Lt. Genl. Burgoyne took at Saratoga on the 10th of September 1777, and in which it remained till the Convention was signed … Engraved by Wm Faden. Published as ye Act directs, Feby. 1st 1780 by Wm Faden Charing Cross”, with orange and red hand-colored highlights. Burgoyne’s campaign was pivotal to the direction of the Revolutionary War. If he had been successful, the British might well have won the war. But the Americans captured his army at Saratoga, which turned the tide of the war. The front cover is detached, but that can be repaired, and the rest of the book is astounding - the text is clean and important, the maps are very clean and provide insights into the movements of Burgoyne’s army. The book is a first edition, and Burgoyne was one of the greatest generals the British had in the war, and he was let down by one of his own generals.

The Village Coquettes: A Comic Opera In Two Acts. By Charles Dickens, With Music By John Hullah. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1836; the reverse of the title page reads “London: Printed By Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street”, then a dedication page which reads “Dedication To J. P. Hartley, Esq.,” dated December 15th, 1836; the reverse is blank, followed by two unnumbered preface pages, a page with Dramatis Personae, with a notice at the bottom which reads “The Passages marked with inverted commas are omitted in the representation”, and on the backside “ *** Managers are requested to observe that this Play is Copyright, and cannot be acted without the Author’s permission”, and the imprint at the end is the same as the imprint on the reverse of the title page - “London: Printed By Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street”. The book is a first edition and the only opera or libretto written by Dickens; Dickens wrote the libretto himself and John Hullah wrote the music for it. The opera was first presented on December 6, 1836, and it ran for nineteen nights in London before it was transferred to Edinburgh under the auspices of Mr. Ramsay, a friend of Sir Walter Scott. The play was also the medium which brought John Forster in contact with Dickens - Forster wrote an extensive biography of Dickens, and his biography of Dickens is included in the auction here. Richard Bentley was its first publisher in 1836, and the following year Bradbury & Evans printed an edition which was sold in theaters for 10 pence. In 1878 Bentley issued a facsimile reprint (which was indicated on the reverse of the title page), and since then, the title page was printed by someone else who omitted to state that it was a new printing, not the original. Bradbury & Evans printed the musical score with an 1837 date on it; this is now very scarce. And to avoid confusion, it’s helpful to know that the opera was originally published by Richard Bentley and printed by Samuel Bentley, who were brothers and worked together in Samuel’s printing shop. It was originally issued in grey boards, which is scarce and hard to find, and it was 71 pages long. It was also sold in sheets which were never bound or sewn. According to Eckel (page 158), in 1894, someone discovered a hundred copies of the sheets which were about to be sent to a warehouse to be pulped; these sheets were clean and unfolded and come up for auction from time to time, but the publication in the original grey boards does not come up for sale very often. The book is demy octavo, which is about 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. wide in book talk, and the boards here actually measure 9 x 5 3/4 in. wide. It is 71 pages long, as called for, with an exquisite binding by F. Bedford. There are five raised bands, with gilt lettering and decorative gilt tooling on the spine, and “1836” at the bottom of the spine. The boards are beautiful green morocco with triple gilt-ruled fillets on the borders, with the bookplate of Thomas James Wise on blank endpapers, the top edge is gilt, and very light scattered foxing. Francis Bedford (1799 - 1883) was an English bookbinder who was awarded prize medals at several English and French exhibitions. Thomas James Wise (1859 - 1937) was a bibliophile with a reputation for having an exceptionally distinguished book collection, and scholars from all over the world traveled to his library in literary pursuits. Wise was president of The Bibliographical Society from 1922 to 1924, and in 1926 received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Oxford University, and his own library - the Ashley Library - is kept intact in a room at the British Museum. He was a noted bibliographer who exposed piracies and forgeries of important books - yet he was a forger and a thief who stole leaves from books in the collection of the British Museum, too. He swindled people by selling duplicates and acting as an agent for wealthy collectors, and he stole documents that were resold or authenticated by him. A remarkable feat, to go so high up in the literary world, and then to have his reputation take a dive after his death. But research by David Foxon has shown that Wise began his deft fingers career in the 1890’s, to replace leaves missing from books in his own collection, and Frances Bedford died in 1883, well before Wise began his shifty career. Wise also supplied an American collector with leaves stolen from the British Museum to replace leaves missing from his collection too, and the leaves were acquired by the American collector between 1901 and 1903, well after the binding here was done by Bedford. (Foxon’s research was published by the Bibliographical Society in 1959 with the conclusion that Wise must have known that some of the leaves added to his collection were stolen and that it was probable that he had taken the leaves himself.) Stab-holes were also used to identify whether or not Wise had stolen a leaf from the British Museum. The distance between stab-holes varies from book to book; therefore, if a leaf has been removed from one copy and placed in another, its stab-holes will not match; by comparing the stab-holes of a suspected stolen leaf with a leaf from the museum copy, it could be determined whether or not a leaf was stolen from the museum, and that does not appear to be the case here - Bedford was not alive to do Wise’s bidding in the 1890’s, either. This means in all likelihood, The Village Coquettes is a not a fake or forgery, despite Wise’s shenanigans, and we believe this is a genuine original copy by Dickens. So you’re looking at a rare first edition of Dickens’ one and only comic opera, an attractive copy in a fine binding, with a remarkable history attached to it. See The First Editions Of Charles Dickens, Their Points and Values, by John C. Eckel 1932 for more information about the book.

The Life Of The Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson: Baron Nelson Of The Nile, And Of Burnham-Thorpe And Hilborough In The County Of Norfolk; Knight Of The Most Honourable Military Order Of The Bath; Doctor Of Laws In The University Of Oxford; Vice-Admiral Of The White Squadron Of His Majesty’s Fleet; Duke Of Bronte, In Farther Sicily; Grand Cross Of The Order Of St. Ferdinand And Of Merit; Knight Of The Imperial Order Of The Ottoman Crescent; Knight Grand Commander Of The Equestrian, Secular, And Capitular, Order Of St. Joachim Of Westerburg; And Honorary Grandee Of Spain. By Mr. Harrison. In Two Volumes. Lord Viscount Nelson’s transcendent and heroic services will, I am persuaded, exist for ever in the recollection of my people; and, while they tend to stimulate those who come after him, they will prove a lasting source of strength, security, and glory, to my dominions. The King’s Answer to the City of London’s Address on the Battle of Trafalgar. London: Printed, at the Ranelagh Press, By Stanhope And Tilling; For C. Chapple, Pall Mall, And Southampton Row. 1806. This is the first edition of Harrison’s Life of Nelson, in a fine binding by Kelly And Sons, with five raised bands, gilt titles, six gilt-ruled compartments and “Extra Illustrated” on the spine, double-gilt fillets on blue morocco, gilt fillet borders on marbled endpapers, an engraved frontis portrait of Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B. published in 1806 by C. Chapple, a dedication page to the King from James Harrison, an Advertisement thanking people for helping him in writing this work, followed by a four-page Preface and 392 pages of text in Volume I and 512 pages of text in Volume II. The frontis portrait of Nelson at the beginning of Volume II was done by S. Freeman from a painting by Abbot, there are 110 engraved portraits and coastal scenes of places visited by Lord Nelson, and all the edges are gilt. According to Lowndes & Alibone, this biography was also written with the aid of Lady Hamilton and custom bound, a unique set, according to a note found in the front endpapers of Volume I, and we’ve learned that James Harrison spent many months with the friends and relatives of Lord Nelson collecting anecdotes, letters and doing interviews about this famous British hero. Harrison’s two-volume biography is the most comprehensive work on Lord Nelson. The firm of Kelly & Sons was founded by John Kelly in 1770 near the Strand in London, but the shop was later moved to larger premises on Water-street. They crafted full-leather bindings throughout the nineteenth century and expanded to cloth bindings as time went on. The bindings are 8 Vo. and 9 5/16 x 6 1/8 in. wide and tight and secure, there are a few brown spots on the title page, the dedication page, and the first page of advertisements in Volume I, the rest of the text and plates are very clean, and there is just light rubbing at the edges of the spines and the tips. According to WorldCat, there is only one listing for this set by the Ranelagh Press in Special Collections around the world, at Yale University. All the other listings are modern reprints or online copies, so this is clearly a rare first edition of the life of Lord Nelson, one of the most brilliant figures in British naval history.

The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson K.B. from His Lordship’s Manuscripts, By The Rev. James Stanier Clarke, F.R.S. Librarian to The Prince, And Chaplain Of His Royal Highness’s Household. And John M’Arthur, Esq. LL. D. Late Secretary To Admiral Lord Viscount Hood, London, Printed By T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. For T. Cadell and W. Davies, In The Strand. And W. Miller, Albermarle Street]. 1809. In Two Volumes. This is a first edition set, extra illustrated, of Clarke and M’Arthur’s important biography of Lord Nelson. The two volumes are 3/4 bound on half blue morocco, with five raised bands, gilt titles, six gilt compartments with corner devices, marbled endpapers with bookplates from the libraries of R. C. Anderson and Ira Dye, U.S.N. and a small green bookseller’s label from George Gregory, Bookseller to H.M. Queen Alexandra, Bath. The color frontis depicts Nelson dying (“The Immortality of Nelson”) engraved by Charles Heath after a painting by Benjamin West, with a dedication page to His Royal Highness George Augustus Frederick The Prince (The Prince of Wales), then a two-page advertisement from the authors thanking the Prince, William Earl Nelson (Lord Nelson’s brother), Lady Nelson for providing letters from her late husband, and several other dignitaries, including the Earl of Egremont, in helping the authors write this biography. A fifteen-page list of orders received for the set prior to publication has a one-line erratum at the end, adding one name to the list, then there are thirty-five pages of Contents for both volumes (i - xxxv), followed by Explanations of the Engravings for the two books (i - xiv), a facsimile of a letter from Lord Nelson, beautiful colored portraits of Lord Nelson and Emma Hart (Lady Hamilton) as “A Baccanth”, then an introduction and 359 pages of text and engravings in Volume I, an Appendix with Lord Nelson’s family tree and details about the Battle of Trafalgar, for a total of 375 pages in Volume I and 511 pages in Volume II, with four maps of battle plans in Volume II, including a fold-out map for the Battle of the Nile, a regular map for the Attack off Copenhagen, and two maps for the Battle of Trafalgar - one at the commencement and one at the close of the battle; fifteen of the extra illustrations are hand-colored, all the pages are printed on high-quality thick paper, and all the edges are gilt. James Stanier Clarke was Nelson’s librarian and chaplain, and the two-volume set was printed by Thomas Bensely and published by Thomas Cadell and William Davies, a publishing firm established in London in the mid 1790’s. The authors relied on the collection of manuscripts now in the British Museum and known as the Bridgeport Collection, and they borrowed letters from friends of Lord Nelson as well as from his wife, Lady Hamilton, to complete this important biography. We are not sure how many first editions were printed, but Lowndes notes there were about 1200 subscribers who signed up before publication to receive these two volumes, and if that is any indication of how many first editions were printed, that’s a small number indeed. (William Thomas Lowndes was an English bibliographer whose principal work, The Bibliographer’s Manual of English Literature, was the first systematic work of its kind and was published in four volumes in 1834. It took Lowndes fourteen years to complete.) The set is 4 To. and each volume measures 13 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. wide, and Volume I is 2 1/2 in. deep while Volume II is 2 3/4 in. deep. The gilt on the spines is lightly faded, with light rubbing at the tips, and the second volume has wear at the crown; there is light browning on the front blank endpapers of the first volume, not on the marbled endpapers, and the colored frontis at the beginning of the first volume has light browning in the margins, otherwise the plates and text are very clean, the binding is tight, and still a rare and attractive first edition set about the life of Lord Nelson.

The Life of Nelson, By Robert Southey, In Two Volumes, London: Printed For John Murray, Bookseller To The Admiralty And To The Board Of Longitude, 50, Albemarle Street, 1813, with five raised bands, gilt titles, gilt decorations, and “1813” in gilt at the bottom of the spines, gilt-fillet borders surrounding contemporary diced and polished calf covers, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled, first edition, second issue, with page 258 correctly numbered in Volume II (the first issue is numbered “852” on page 258 of the second volume), with the frontis portrait of Nelson, a dedication page devoted to John Wilson Croker, Secretary Of The Admiralty, two pages of Contents (vii - viii), 253 pages of text and three pages of ads for John Murray books at the end of Volume I, facsimile signatures of Lord Nelson (“Horatio Nelson”) on the frontis of Volume II, two pages of Contents (vii - viii), 275 pages of text, and five pages of ads for books published by John Murray at the end of Volume II. Southey had written a review of the various biographies of Nelson by others - Clarke & M’Arthur, Charnock, Harrison, and Churchill - for the Quarterly Review of February 1810, and John Murray, Southey’s publisher, had asked him to enlarge upon his review, the result of which is this fine biography. The two volumes are 8 Vo. and measure 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. wide apiece, with light foxing on the frontis pages and light rubbing at the tips, very clean text, and these two volumes are hard to find as a set, even as first editions, second issues. Only three sets are offered online right now, and just one is a first edition, first issue, so a rare find indeed.

Nelsons Friendships, By Mrs. Hilda Gamlin, Author Of Emma Lady Hamilton … Etc Etc., In Two Volumes, With Sixty Illustrations, including many rare Portraits, London: Hutchinson & Co., Paternoster Row 1899, first edition, 3/4 bound, with gilt lettering and gilt decorations on the spines, marbled covers, blank endpapers, the owner’s name inscribed on the front paste-downs, and the bookplate of Booth Tarkington on the front free endpapers - Booth Tarkington was a famous American author who set many of his novels in the Midwest and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice, an honor only received by William Faulkner, John Updike, and one other. The frontis of Volume I shows a portrait of Lord Nelson, there are two pages of Contents, a List of Illustrations and 368 pages of text in Volume I, three pages of Contents, a List of illustrations, 306 pages of text, and a 79 page Appendix at the end of Volume II, including two pages outlining how Nelson’s descended from King Edward the First in 1307 at the very end. The pages are very clean, with tissue guards between the frontispieces and the title pages, light rubbing on the edges of the spines, and the two volumes measure 8 1/4 x 6 in. wide apiece. Hilda Gamlin also wrote an important biography about Lady Hamilton, and that biography is included in the auction later on. You can tell this is a first edition set here because books published by Hutchinson only needed one printing listed on the title page or copyright page to be considered first editions, and there are no other printings listed on the title pages or copyright pages here. (See A Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions by Bill McBride, McBride Publisher, 585 Prospect Ave., West Hartford CT 06105.)

These are two books related to Lord Nelson, one about the Victory and how it was built, the other a comprehensive bibliography that covers his life and naval career. The first is The Anatomy Of Nelson’s Ships, by C. Nepean Longridge, with drawings designed by E. Bowness and executed by G. F. Campbell, published by Percival Marshall & Company Ltd. London in 1955, and it’s probably a first edition because there is just a single date on the copyright page; with a label on the spine and a gilt title on the cover surrounded by a gilt-ruled border, and blank endpapers. The book covers the hull and rigging of the Victory and is filled with figures, illustrations, and plates, as well as a fold-out of the H.M.S. Victory’s deck plans, a large fold-out of the rigging for the ship, and another of the fore-top and fore-mast of the Victory. The book is 283 pages long, with fading on the spine, light foxing, and pencilled notes on the last free endpaper about spacing between the masts. The book measures 9 7/8 x 7 3/8 in. wide and a valuable resource for Nelson enthusiasts. The second book is Lord Nelson 1758 - 1805 A Bibliography, by Leonard W. Cowie, from Bibliographies of British Statesmen, no. 7, published by Meckler Corporation, Westport, CT and Meckler Ltd., Grosvenor Gardens, London, 1990. It’s printed on acid-free paper, with gilt lettering on the spine, gilt titles on black boards, blank endpapers, it's 191 pages long and includes a list of manuscripts and archival resources about Nelson, his naval background, a chronological list of battles and engagements, as well as personal events in his life. It has references about the battles of Cape St. Vincent and Teneriffe, the battle of the Nile, his engagements in Naples and Sicily, his life at Merton Place, and the battle of Trafalgar, which ended his life, and there is an index that lists his ships and over 1300 references that cover Nelson’s private and naval career. The book is a first edition which measures 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. wide and is In exceptional condition, clean and bright. The two books are being sold as one lot and are great resource material for anyone who follows Lord Nelson and his life and naval career.

Victories Of The Duke Of Wellington, from Drawings by R. Westall, R.A. London: Printed For Rodell And Martin, New Bond-Street 1819, with the printer’s imprint on the reverse of the title page (London: Printed By Thomas Davison, Whitebriars). The book is a first edition and has 12 hand-colored aquatints that show heroic images from Wellington’s triumphs at Vintera all the way to Waterloo, where Napoleon met his match and lost an epic battle against the British, and this battle shaped the future of Europe for decades to come. The book is 1/2 bound, with roan leather, gray-green marbled boards and a paper label on the front board showing the title and how much it originally cost to buy the book, blank endpapers, a colored frontis showing British troops fighting in Spain at the Battle of Vimiera, then the title page and printer’s imprint, followed by a two-page preface dedicated to honor Wellington’s leadership and the British soldiers who died at Waterloo, followed by 47 pages of text and the hand-colored aquatints that portrayed Wellington’s victories. There is also a small bookseller’s label on the front paste-down which reads “John Pennington & Son, Importers & Booksellers 127 S. 7th St. Philadelphia” and a note listing the battles won by Wellington depicted in the book, and under the black border for the colored frontis it reads “London Published June 20, 1819, Drawn by R. Westall, R.A.”, “Engraved by T. Fielding” and the title “Vimiera”. The titles and size of the plates make a difference in telling whether the book is a first edition or not, as well as the price for the book. The first issue has titles underneath each plate, while the third issue lacks the titles; the page sizes are much smaller in the first issue than in the third issue and the plates in the later issues are also mounted on blue-gray cards, without the titles, and the first edition cost £3, 13 shillings, and 6 pence, while the third issue cost 10 guineas. The colored frontis here has black borders and the title “Vimiera” under the plate, and all the other plates follow suit - they have the name of the battle and a black border around each plate, rather than being mounted on cards - the pages are smaller than the ones in the third issue, and the book here cost £3, 13s, and 6d, so we believe this is a first edition, first issue of the Westall book. The book is a folio size and the boards measure 13 1/8 x 10 1/4 in. wide, while the pages for the plates are 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. wide and the actual plates within the black borders measure 10 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. wide. There are condition issues present - the leather and boards have wear, the binding is loose, and there is soiling and browning on some of the pages - but this is a first edition, probably a first issue, and exceptionally rare.

Master Humphreys Clock, By Charles Dickens, With Illustrations By George Cattermole and Hablot Browne, London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand, MDCCCXL - MDCCCXLI [1840 - 1841], complete three-volume set, first edition, first issue, tall 8 vo., with the imprint of Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars [London] on the reverse of the title page, with a dedication page to Samuel Rogers and a two-page preface, “Devonshire Terrace, York Gate, September 1840” on iv in Vol. I, “Devonshire Terrace, London, March, 1841” on vi of Vol. II, and “Devonshire Terrace, York Gate, November 1841” on vi of Vol. III, with all the points of issue called for by Eckel and Walter Smith that make this set a first edition, first issue, with gilt lettering, elaborate gilt tooling, and Roman numerals in gilt on the spine, with the original embossed brown cloth and gilt clock motifs on the front covers, and a neat device on the clocks where the hand of the clock pointed to the volume number for the book; pale yellow endpapers, with the bookplate of Kenneth Rapoport on the front free paste-down of each volume, with 306 pages in Vol I, 306 pages in Vol II, and 426 pages in Vol III; with illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne and woodcut engravings by E. Landells, C. Gray, Vasey, and S. Williams, after the designs by Cattermole and Browne; Daniel Maclise also drew one of the illustrations on page 108 in the second volume. All of the illustrations are untitled and some are unsigned, while others contain the artist’s initials or monogram, occasionally reversed, and the initials and surnames of the engravers are also appended to the illustrations in most cases (Smith page 49), and all those details are present here, as called for. There are 56 points of issue in the three volumes, according to Smith, and all 56 points are present here; Smith calls them “internal flaws”, but they are just points of issue by another name, and these points of issue make the three books a first edition, first issue set. The yellow endpapers are also important. Many people believe that the first issue had marbled edges and marbled endpapers, but Smith (page 57) quotes Hatton and Cleaver (page 163), who said that copies with yellow endpapers and trimmed edges preceded those with marbled endpapers and marbled edges, so right now the copies with marbled endpapers are considered first edition first issues, but this set with yellow endpapers is considered a first issue set too, and it seems rarer than the sets with marbled endpapers, based on Smith’s observations. And that begs the question: If the copies with yellow endpapers preceded the other copies, does that make the copies with marbled endpapers first editions, but second issues? We don’t know the answer to the question, but it seems to be obvious, and perhaps more research needs to be done here to get the literary community to agree. (Part of the answer seems to be in finding out exactly when the copies with yellow endpapers were first printed and when the copies with marbled endpapers were first printed, and we don’t know if research that way has been done yet.) This is Dickens’ fifth novel and it was issued in three forms - in weekly parts, monthly parts, and the three-volume book form after all the parts were completed, and this is the first time Dickens used woodcuts in his novels; Volumes I and II also include “The Old Curiosity Shop” and Volumes II and III include “Barnaby Rudge”. George Cattermole (1800 - 1868) was a British painter and illustrator who worked mainly in watercolours; he was also a friend of Dickens and many other literary and artistic figures, and Hablot K. Browne (1815 - 1822) was an English artist and illustrator who illustrated many of Dickens’ novels after 1836. Kenneth Rapoport was a noted book collector who amassed many rarities in literature, especially works by Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Moliere, and English poetry and drama, according to Swann Galleries in their April 2022 auction catalogue, and his remaining book collection is housed in a separate room at Harvard University’s Houghton Library. The boards measure 10 1/4 x 7 1/8 in. wide; Vol. I has clean text, with light bumps on the right edge of the front cover, tips slightly curled in, and a 1 in. long chip developing on the spine, Vol. II has clean text, with very light bumps at the heel and crown of the spine, three tips are slightly turned in, and Vol. III has clean text and light bumps at the edge of the rear board and small brown oval stains on the fore-edge of the book, the tips are slightly turned in, and light bumps on the crown and heel of the spine. See The First Editions Of Charles Dickens, Their Points and Values, by John C. Eckel 1932; also Walter E. Smith, Charles Dickens In The Original Cloth, A Bibliographical Catalogue Part I, Los Angeles: Heritage Bookshop 1982; and A Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens: Bibliographical, Analytical & Statistical, by Thomas Hatton and Arthur Cleaver 1933 for more information about this set.

Waterloo: The Downfall Of The First Napoleon: History Of The Campaign Of 1815. By George Hooper, Author Of “The Italian Campaigns Of General Bonaparte”. With Maps And Plans. London: Smith, Elder And Co., 65, Cornhill. M.DCCC.LXII [1862] The Right of Translation is reserved. A first edition, 3/4 bound, with five raised band, gilt titles, six gilt-ruled compartments and gilt tooling on the spine, red leather with marbled boards, marbled endpapers, the half-title followed by the title page, a three-page Preface, four pages of Contents (ix - xii), 344 pages of text, including the Appendices, with five folding maps and battle plans at the rear, and the top edge is gilt. A study of the decisive battle of Waterloo, where Napoleon lost his quest to control all of Europe, the book measures 8 7/8 x 6 1/8 in. wide, the binding is tight and the text is clear, with light wear at the tips. A first edition with all the maps present, and a great primer for learning about Napoleon and Waterloo.

Sixteenth century woodcut map of the British Isles created by Sebastian Munster for his book: Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia: There were numerous editions in multiple languages from 1544 to 1628. This map is from the German publication, probably the 1598 edition. The work was a massive chronicle of all the geographical knowledge of the world to that point. The work included world maps as well as views of smaller cities and woodcut illustrations of historical subjects, mythology, natural history and ethnography. Munster was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Hebrew scholar. He also became a Franciscan monk at an early age. Munster's Cosmographia was the first work of scientific based knowledge in the German language. The print was professionally conserved: bathed in ethanol, filtered in recalcified water to remove soluble acids. Mended, humidified, and flattened. Then deacidified. Note, top right corner has been repaired. Size: 10 1/2 x 7 in.

Queen Victoria, By Richard R Holmes F.S.A., Librarian to the Queen, London and Paris, Boussod, Valadon & Co. Fine Art Publishers to Her Majesty 1897, a first edition of this biography (the dates on the title page and copyright page match), with a gilt title, gilt decorations and five raised bands on the spine, green morocco boards, gilt dentelles with marbled endpapers and a green and gilt bookplate which reads “Diamond Jubilee Gift to Robert and Eliza Cumming with Much Love from William and Elizabeth 1897”, “Queen Victoria” on the half-title, then a colored frontispiece of Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales with a lettered tissue guard. The text was set up and printed in London by J S Virtue, the plates were engraved and printed by Boussod, Valadon near Paris in 1897, and the top edge is gilt. There are 41 plates altogether (the colored frontispiece and forty plates in black and white), with tissue guards protecting all the plates and red titles on each of the tissue guards, and there are 195 pages of text, followed by the Contents and List of Illustrations at the rear. The book is 4 To. and measures 13 x 10 14 in. wide. We’ve seen other copies with wormholes and detached boards, and this is nothing like that. The hinges and boards are solid, and there’s not a worm in sight. There’s light rubbing at the edges of the spine and light wear at the heel and tips, light foxing on three pages (177, 185, and 193), and the rest of the pages are clean and bright. Queen Victoria was a British monarch who reigned for over sixty years. She ascended the throne in 1837 and the Diamond Jubilee celebrated her 60th year as Queen, and her reign was longer than that of any previous British monarch; she died three and a half years after this book was published. See A Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions, Compiled By Bill McBride, McBride Publisher, 585 Prospect Ave., West Hartford CT 06105.

A Voyage Round The World, In His Britannic Majesty’s Sloop, Resolution, commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the Years 1772, 3, 4, and 5. By George Forster, F.R.S. Member of the Royal Academy of Madrid, and of the Society for promoting Natural Knowledge at Berlin. In Two Volumes. London, Printed for B. White, Fleet-Street; J. Robson, Bond Street; P. Elmsly, Strand; and G. Robinson, Pater-noster Row. MDCCLXXVII. [1777] The two volumes are 3/4 bound, with five raised bands, a red label with gilt titles on the spines, marbled covers, blank endpapers with pencilled notes on the front free endpaper and a fourteen-page preface after the title page of Volume I, an engraved fold-out chart of the Southern Hemisphere before the first page of text in Volume I, and a small label (M.P. O’Brien, Bookbinder, Auckland) on the rear paste-down in both volumes. The first volume is 602 pages along, including an errata leaf at the rear, and the second one is 607 pages long, with errata at the bottom of the second Contents page in the front, and “David baron Munday, 1 College Row, Calcutta” is inscribed in pencil at the top of the title page to the second volume. Sabin 25130. This is Forster’s important account of Cook’s second voyage. Forster and his father served as botanists during the expedition, and originally his father was supposed to write the official account of the voyage, but a dispute arose over payment and the Admiralty decided to prevent the elder Forster from adding his name to the official report, so this unofficial account was written by both of them and issued under the son’s name only, and it was published in March 1777, six weeks before Cook’s official account was published. The purpose of the second voyage was to circumnavigate the globe as far to the south as possible, searching for any land masses between South America and New Zealand that were previously unknown. Cook proved that “Terra Australis” didn’t exist, but his party became the first to traverse the Antarctic Circle and discovered new islands in the Pacific, including the South Sandwich Islands. Both volumes are 4to. and measure 11 1/4 x 9 5/8 in. wide, with tight bindings, rather clean text and occasional spots, and Volume II has dampstains on the title page and Contents page, otherwise clean text as well. An attractive first edition of this rare and important history of Captain Cook’s voyage around the southern part of the world in the 1700’s.

An Historical Account Of All The Voyages Round The World, Performed By English Navigators; Including Those Lately Undertaken By Order of his Present Majesty. The Whole Faithfully Extracted from the Journals of the Voyagers. Drake ... Cavendish ... Cowley ... Dampier ... Cooke ... Rogers ... Clipperton and Shelvocke ... Anson ... Byron ... Wallis ... Carteret ... And Cook, 1768 - 1771, Together With That of Sydney Parkinson, Draftsman to Joseph Banks, Esq; who circumnavigated the Globe with Capt. Cook, in his Majesty’s Ship the Endeavor. And The Voyage of Mons. Bougainville round the World, Performed by Order of the French King. Illustrated with Maps, Charts, and Historical Prints. In Four Volumes. To which is added, An Appendix. Containing the Journal of a Voyage to the North Pole, by the Hon. Commodore Phipps, and Captain Lutwidge ... London: Printed for F. Newbery, the Corner of St. Paul’s Church-yard. MDCCLXXXIV [1774]. This is a complete set of the first edition. It was edited by David Henry for Newbery and published between 1773 and 1774, and all four volumes are present to make this a first edition set. Henry originally produced four volumes describing these great voyages of discovery, then added a fifth in 1775 and a sixth in 1786, and usually just the first four volumes are counted to be considered a set. (See WorldCat.) The four volumes have seven raised bands, instead of the usual five, with burgundy and black labels with gilt titles, brown boards, and the bookplate of Edward John Mitton on the blank endpapers. There are maps and charts and numerous engravings, and Volume One has a fifty-page introduction, a five-page list of subscribers, a leaf with directions to the binder, a frontis of Sir Francis Drake, and 480 pages of text. Volume Two has 440 pages of text, Volume Three has 470 pages of text and a fold-out chart of the track of the Dolphin, the Tamar, Swallow, and the Endeavor through the South Seas, along with a fold-out chart of the Strait of Magellan, and Volume Four is 486 pages long: the first part of Volume Four is about Captain Cook’s voyage around the world in 1768, 1769, 1779, and 1771, including two pages of Vocabulary of the language of the inhabitants of New Holland and two pages showing Specimens of the language of the inhabitants of the island of Savu; that is followed by an Account of Bougainville’s Voyage Round the World, including two pages of Vocabulary of the Language of Taiti Island, and the last part of Volume Four is about the journal of Commodore Phipps and Captain Ludwidge when they ventured towards the North Pole - their voyage was undertaken to discover a North-East passage to China and Japan, according to the introduction for this part of Volume Four, with maps of Spitsbergen and New Greenland and a map for what they thought was the North-East passage to China and Japan - and strangely enough, Volumes One and Two are dated 1774 and Volumes Three and Four are dated 1773 - we don’t know why they are dated like that, but they are. We’ve only seen one set like this offered for sale, but it had just three of the four books in the set; Christie’s sold a similar set at auction in 2012 for over £8000, but that set also had one of the additional two volumes that were published by Henry later on, and we haven’t seen any other offerings for this elusive title. It is just difficult to find this particular set with all four books present. All four volumes are 8vo. and measure 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in. wide, and they show age wear on the boards and the spines, the first volume has a loose binding and the rest are relatively secure. The plates and text are surprisingly clean, and the maps are in great shape. This is a rare and historically important set, with maps and engravings and content that describe the voyages of some of England’s greatest explorers, and the set is just hard to come by.

This is a complete first edition set of Captain Cook’s third and final voyage across the ocean. The title is Captain James Cook, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, For Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere: Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, In the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. Being a copious, comprehensive, and satisfactory Abridgement of the Voyage Written By Captain James Cook, F.R.S. And Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S. Illustrated with Cuts. In Four Volumes, London, Printed for John Stockdale, Scatcherd, and Whitaker, John Fielding, and John Hardy. MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]. This was Captain Cook's third attempt to discover a northwest passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and it was his final voyage because he was killed off the Sandwich Islands (present-day Hawaii), and this recounts the voyage. Initially his ships sailed to Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Cook, Tonga, and Society Islands, then they sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from northern California through the Bering Strait before he was stopped by pack ice, then his ships returned to the Sandwich Islands for the winter and he was killed in a skirmish with natives over a boat. Charles Clerke took command, he died six months later, and the fleet returned to England under John Gore. John Webber was the artist on the expedition. The books have five raised bands, red labels with gilt titles, brown boards, blank endpapers with “P. Pope, December 7th, 1855” inscribed on the front paste-downs and a Yardley bookplate on the front free endpapers, and the first book has a dedication page after the title page, and the last book has a 35-page Index, followed by a List of Subscribers and Directions for placing the Copper Plates and Directions to the Binder, and a list of pamphlets and books published by John Stockdale at the end. The set is the first octavo edition and has all the fold-out maps and engravings that are called for. The first book has the frontis portrait of Capt. Cook and a large folding map called A General Chart which showed the routes and discoveries made by Captain Cook, and the third book has a fold-out sketch of Karakakooa Bay and a chart of the Sandwich Islands, as well as the fold-out showing the death of Captain Cook; there are 49 full-page engravings altogether in the four volumes, and the engravings say “Cook’s Voyage, Octavo Edition” at the top. (Sabin 16251) The first book is 360 pages long, the second is 359 pages, the third 400, and the final book is 310 pages long, and the boards may be the original boards. The books are 8vo. and measure 8 3/8 x 5 1/2 in. wide. with wear on the spines and at the tips, light browning, the frontis portrait, title page and dedication page in the first book are detached, but present, and there are pencilled notes on the front free endpaper of the first book.

An Account Of The Mutinous Seizure Of The Bounty, With The Succeeding Hardships Of The Crew. To which are added, Secret Anecdotes of the Otaheitean Females. London: Printed for Bentley and Co. No. 22, Fette Lane; and sold by H.D. Symonds, Paternoster Row. It has an engraved frontis titled “The Pirates seizing Captn. Bligh”, with References To The Principal Incidents following the title page, text pages running from B [page 9] to 69, followed by seven pages for a chapter titled “Secrete Anecdotes Of The Otaheitean Females”. The book is 3/4 bound with a gilt title on the spine, two raised bands, pebbled marbled boards, with blank endpapers and a pencilled note on the front paste-down which reads “Maggs Bros. London £14 - 10 - 0 1936, note engraved plate of the Pirates seizing Capt. Bligh, Small 8 Vo. half calf @ 1800”, with the bookplate of Francis Stanton Blake on the front paste-down. There are inked notes from a quill pen in the margins of the last chapter, the notes are about [Edmund] Burke and the morality of sex, with references to King David and Herod, and the notes are dated May 24, 1823. The crew actually mutinied and seized the Bounty in 1789 - it was real story - and this anonymous narrative about the open boat voyage endured by Captain Bligh was taken from the original first edition of 1790 and the third edition of 1792. Both editions are extremely rare, and apparently the third edition is not even listed among the holdings of the British Library. This copy was likely printed between 1790 and 1792, and may well be a first edition of the Bentley printing. This rare narrative is a small 8vo. and measures 7 5/8 x 5 in. wide and has light browning or foxing here and there. We’ve only seen two copies sold at auction in the last twenty years - one sold for £5019 at Christie’s in 2004 and the other sold for £7563 at Bonhams in 2020, and this would be a wonderful addition to any collector who is looking for Bounty.

Sir William Monsons Naval Tracts: in Six Books, Containing, 1. A Yearly Account of the English and Spanish Fleets, during the War in Queen Elizabeth’s time; with Remarks on the Actions on both sides. 2. Actions of the English under King James the First, and Discourses upon that Subject. 3. The Office of the Lord High Admiral of England, and of all the Ministers and Officers under him; with other Particulars to that purpose. 4. Discoveries and Enterprizes of the Spaniards and Portugueses; and several other remarkable Passages and Observations. 5. Divers Projects and Stratagems, tender’d for the good of the Kingdom. 6. Treats [Treaties] of Fishing to be set up on the Coast of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the Benefit that will accrue by it to all His Majesty’s Three Kingdoms: With many other things concerning Fish, Fishing, and Matters of that Nature. The Whole from the Original Manuscript; Never Before Published. London, for A. and J. Churchill. 1703. Monson was a successful captain in the war with Spain, and this is a first edition, with all six books included here. We thought some pages were missing in the last book, but discovered that the printer had mispaginated some pages in Book VI. Pages 537 suddenly skips to page 550, and we thought pages 538 to 549 were missing, but the second column of page 537 speaks of pirates, and the conversation is continued on the very next page, even though the next page is misnumbered. (On 537, Monson speaks of meeting a pirate named Tucker, and Monson continues to speak about Tucker on the next page, but it is misnumbered 550 instead of 538.) If this were a later edition, the misnumbered pages would have been corrected, and since the errors have not been corrected, this is clearly a first edition of Monson’s Tracts. The front of the book begins with the title page, then the Preface, followed by a five-page detailed description of the Contents of each book, then a five-page epistle to his son, and the first page of Book I is numbered 169 - and that is apparently correct, because the page numbers of the book match the page numbers in the table of contents. The first page of text on the contents page for Book I is 169, and Book I begins on page 169 - why it doesn’t start on page I we don’t know, but it is accurate. The first page of Book I is number 169. The book has six raised bands, with gilt titles on a red label and gilt devices in five of the six compartments, brown calf covers, blank endpapers, and the title page and all follow after that. The text is in double columns, and the last paste-down endpaper has a bookbinder’s label from C.S. Carpenter of Shrewsbury, Mass. Monson (1569-1643) ran away to sail the seas when he was just sixteen. He saw action in a privateer again the Spanish, then became second-in-command of a ship when he was just twenty. He saw action against the Spanish again and helped capture a rich Spanish ship - and was captured afterwards in another encounter with the Spanish and spent time in captivity. He was knighted in 1596 and led a fleet of Queen Elizabeth’s ships against the Spanish again, and this time he captured the same Spanish commander who had taken him prisoner ten years earlier. He was elected to Parliament in 1601 and was named Admiral of the Narrow Seas in 1604, and In 1614 he was sent to repress Barbary pirates who marauded the coasts of Scotland and Ireland. He saw no further active service till 1635, so he retired and spent the last years of his life writing these Tracts. He retired under a cloud, but his writings are reputed to be the first work of naval history recorded by a major participant. The Tracts were first published in the third volume of Churchill's Voyages, but they have been edited and reprinted for the Navy Record Society by M. Oppenheim, and Monson’s memoirs are regarded as the best account of naval life and activities in the late Elizabethan period, combining historical narrative with his suggestions for the improvement of the country's maritime resources, and his writings are one of the best authorities for the naval history of the early 17th century”. National Maritime Museum Cat. V, 349. Sabin 13015 (Churchill). His Tracts also contain valuable and early information on European fisheries, including whaling. The book measures 12 7/8 x 8 1/2 in. wide, the binding is tight and secure, and the text is very clean. An exceptionally rare first edition of British naval history written by an actual participant when the British navy was in its infancy.

Lieut. J M Gilliss, The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere During the Years 1849 - ’50 - ’51- ’52, Volumes I and II, Chile, Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, Printer. MDCCCLV [1855], printed for the House of Representatives, 33d Congress, 1st Session, a first edition. Volume 1 focuses on the geography, climate, earthquakes, government, social condition, and mineral and agricultural resources of Chile, with five raised bands, six gilt-ruled compartments with U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition in gilt letters and Buffington on heel of the spine, beautiful relief covers with gilt dentelles and gilt decorations on red and black panels, gilt dentelles on a pale blue front paste-down, pale blue endpapers, a full-page black and white frontis of Santa Lucia followed by the title page, then a Message from the President, a Preface (Prefatory), seven pages of Contents, including errata (Corrigenda), and a List of Illustrations. The first map is astounding - a large colored fold-out panoramic view from the Summit of Santa Lucia in Santiago - it measures 70 inches long when unfolded - and 41 more plates, for a total of 556 pages in Volume I, including the Appendices and an Index. Volume II focuses on minerals, Indian antiquities, and the zoology of Chile, with beautiful plates of native birds and reptiles, and it has a total of 300 pages, including more Appendices and an Index. Volumes 3 and 6 are not here - that would make the set ginormous - and Volumes 4 and 5 were never published. J. Buffington was a Massachusetts member of Congress. These are the first two volumes of an account of an American expedition to Chile, sponsored by the American government. The expedition was led by Lieut James Melville Gilliss between 1849 and 1852 and it went overland to Panama City, then across the South Pacific to Callao, Valparaiso, and Santiago. The book is 4to. and measures 11 1/4 x 9 3/4 x 3 3/8 in. deep - it looks like an old bible - with light browning spots here and there, light rubbing on the heel and crown and along the edges of the spine, and the two volumes mark a vast leap forward in our understanding about the cities, towns, and natural history of Chile. Sabin 27419.

The Narrative of Robert Adams, A Sailor, Who Was Wrecked On The Western Coast Of Africa, In The Year 1810, Was Detained Three Years In Slavery By The Arabs Of The Great Desert, And Resided Several Months In The City Of Tombuctoo, With A Map, Notes, And An Appendix, London, Printed For John Murray, Albemarle-Street, By William Bulmer And Co., Cleveland-Row. 1816, the first British edition, 3/4 bound, with five raised bands, a black label with gilt title and the bands ruled in gilt, half calf and marbled boards, blank endpapers, with a large folding map of Africa depicting slave routes in color, followed by the title page and a letter to the Company Of Merchants Trading To Africa asking them to consider Adams‘ narrative for publication, followed by The Contents and an Errata leaf, then a twenty-two page introduction and a five-page advertisement about the map; there are 192 pages of text followed by two appendices and the index, for a total of 231 pages, and all the errata details are uncorrected, which makes this narrative a first edition. Timbuctoo is a city in Mali, and it is spelled Tombuctoo in the book. Adams was an American seaman, the son of a sail maker from New York and an African-American mother; Adams’ real name was Benjamin Rose, and after setting sail from New York, his ship was blown off course and wrecked on the west coast of Africa, where he and the crew were taken prisoner and enslaved by Moors. He claimed he was held in slavery by at least five different owners, and after three years, the British consul at Mogador managed to ransom him back and sent him on to the American consul-general at Tangier. Then he made his way to Wales and London, where he used the name Adams, possibly because he was afraid of being considered a deserter and he didn’t want to be arrested, especially after all the efforts made to secure his release. He roamed around London acting like a destitute sailor until someone recognized him and took him to the office of the Company of Merchants Trading to Africa, where he related his story, and because Adams was not able to read or write, thus the narrative here. So this is an account of an American sailor taken into captivity on the Barbary Coast and one of the very few accounts of a white person sold into slavery. The narrative is 4to. and measures 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. wide, with occasional light brown spots, and in terrific condition otherwise, and an important narrative of white slavery.

Journal Of A Voyage To The Northern Whale-Fishery; Including Researches And Discoveries On The Eastern Coast Of West Greenland, Made in the Summer Of 1822, In The Ship Baffin Of Liverpool, By William Scoresby Junior, F.R.S.E., M.W.S. &c. &c. Commander, Edinburgh: Printer For Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh, And Hurst Hurst, Robinson And Co. Cheapside, London 1823, first edition rebound in quarter calf, five raised bands, with red and black labels, gilt titles, marbled boards, blank endpapers, two fold-out maps (one titled “A Chart Of Surveys And Discoveries Made On The East Coast Of Greenland …” before the title page, another titled “A Map Of Greenland … “ dated 1823) and six other plates, as called for, 472 pages, including a table of latitudes and longitudes, remarks about Greenland, and a list of technical terms at the rear. Scoresby (1789 - 1857) was the son of the famed Arctic explorer, William Scoresby (1760-1829) and an English whaler, Arctic explorer, and scientist himself, as well as a clergyman; his works remained the classic account of Arctic and Greenland whaling throughout the 1800’s. The book is 8 Vo. and 8 5/8 x 5 1/2 in. wide, and it is in very good condition, with tight hinges and clear text. Sabin 78171. Comes with a modern book titled ”William Scoresby, Arctic Scientist” written by Tom and Cordelia Stamp and published by Caedmon of Whitby Press in 1976, with a dust jacket. The book is 253 pages long and a great supplement to the Scoresby book above.

One of the earliest views of the cities of Rome and Genoa (verso) from Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, printed by Koberger in 1493. The view is based on the plan of Giacopo Filippo. Easily recognizable are the Castel de San Angelo, the Vatican, Colosseum, Pantheon, Belvedere, and Mausoleum of Hadrian. The Nuremberg Chronicle was the first printed history of the known world with about 2000 woodcuts. The most picturesque work of the early time of printing- incunabulum. It was a world travel book that became one of the most popular books of the 15th century. Latin Edition. Cartographer: Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514). Sheet size: 15 1/2" x 27 1/2" double page. Year: 1493, one year after Columbus discovered America. Technique: wood block print. The print was professionally conserved: bathed in ethanol, filtered in recalcified water to remove soluble acids. Mended, humidified, and flattened. Then deacidified. Size: 15 1/2 x 27 1/2 in.

This is a second edition of Whitbourne’s A Discourse And Discovery of New-found-land, published in 1622, just two years after the first edition was published. The full title is A Discourse And Discovery of New-found-land, With many reasons to prooue [prove] how worthy and beneficiall a Plantation may there be made, after a far better manner than now it is. Together With The Laying Open Of Certaine Enormities and abuses committed by some that trade to that Countrey, and the meanes laid downe for reformation thereof. Written by Captaine Richard Whitbourne of Exmouth, in the County of Devon, and published by authority. As also, by Invitation: and likewise certaine Letters sent from that Countrey; which are printed in the latter part of this Booke. It was imprinted in London by Felix Kingston in 1622, with the Printer’s device below the title and the initials FK inside the device. There are typed notes in the margins from the printer, headpieces above the chapter titles, a woodcut of the royal arms on the verso of the title page, and all the edges are gilt. A rare and important work, this second issue was enlarged from the 1620 edition to include fifteen pages of letters at the end and gives the only account of George Calvert's colony at Avalon, which Calvert later left for Maryland. (Calvert was the famous Lord Baltimore.) The book is 112 pages long and includes the fifteen pages of letters, and it has the Signatures A2 and A3 as well as B - T4. (The signatures are the letters and numbers at the bottom of the pages and act as guides to the binder in assembling the pages correctly.) The signatures are present here, and A2 and A3 contain dedications to the King, and this work is in a fine binding by Riviere, with five raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling and gilt titles in six compartments on the spine, triple gilt fillets on full red morocco, wide gilt dentelles with blank endpapers, and the letters at the end came from Captain Wynne to George Calvert and from Captain Powell to Lord Calvert too. (Wynne was governor of Ferryland, a colony in the province of Avalon run by Lord Calvert, who was also “his Maiesties Principall Secretary” at the time.) Whitbourne published the book in order to promote colonization on the island. He believed it had the potential to profit England, as well as himself, and it includes details on geography, climate, the fisheries and land resources, in addition to practical advice on settlement and survival, and the text includes Whitbourne's strange encounter with a mermaid. Whitbourne was a sailor and merchant who visited Newfoundland in 1579 to catch whales and trade with the native people who lived on the island. He returned frequently and finally arrived in Newfoundland for good in 1615 as part of the English colonization effort. He became governor of Renewse, a colony on the island, in 1618, and has been called the father of Newfoundland. (Sabin 10331) This copy doesn’t come up for auction very much. The last two sales we are aware of for the 1622 edition were at Doyle’s in 2016 and Christie’s in 2017, and the sale at Christie’s realized a price of $12,500, but the book was lacking the two leaves which had the A2 and A3 signatures. This copy is a small 4to. that measures 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. wide and is extremely handsome and clean. It has the rare signatures and letters, and it marks Whitbourne’s work as a unique contribution to the early literature about Newfoundland.

A Voyage to Hudsons-Bay, By The Dobbs Galley and California, in the Years 1746 and 1747, for Discovering a North West Passage; With an accurate Survey of the Coast, and a short Natural History of the Country. Together With A fair View of the Facts and Arguments from which the future of such a Passage is rendered possible. By Henry Ellis, Gent. Agent for the Proprietors in the said Expedition. To which is prefixed, An Historical Account of the Attempts hitherto made for the finding a Passage that Way to the East-Indies. Illustrated with proper Cuts, and a new and correct Chart of Hudson’s-Bay, with the Countries adjacent. London: Printed for H. Whitridge, at the Royal Exchange. MDCC.XLVIII. [1748] with a dedication to His Royal Highness Frederick, Prince of Wales, a Preface (vii - xxii), a List of Subscribers, including Lord Chesterfield and Charles Stanhope, a Table of Contents, and 336 pages of text, with a large fold-out of “A New Chart of the parts where a North West Passage was sought” at the front, four more fold-outs and four engravings, for a total of nine plates altogether. The book is a first edition, with five raised bands, a gilt title and gilt devices on the spine, with contemporary calf, a gilt crest on both covers, marbled endpapers with the bookplate of Ditton Park, and all the edges are marbled. (Ditton Park is in the English county of Buckinghamshire and belonged to the crown in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, way back in the 1500’s.) One fold-out shows Wager Strait as a closed bay and includes the first map reference to Chesterfield Inlet (see Schwartz and Ehrenberg: Mapping of America), and apparently the crew suffered from scurvy, which Ellis attributed to two kegs of brandy obtained for a Christmas celebration. Ellis was later elected to the Royal Society for his scientific research on rust and magnetism; his research turned out to be “more or less ingenious, but wildly erroneous”. (Sabin 22312) Ellis was sent on this voyage to find the Northwest Passage and served as hydrographer, surveyor, and mineralogist on the expedition. Dobbs had been part of earlier attempts to find a Northwest Passage, one under the command of Christopher Middleton, an old Hudson's Bay Company employee, and those attempts failed to find anything. Middleton believed no passage existed, yet Dobbs refused to believe Middleton's report. A second voyage of discovery ensued in 1746, this time backed by Dobbs and his friends and commanded by two bitter enemies of Middleton and the Hudson's Bay Company. Two ships were sent on the expedition: the Dobbs Galley and the California - the title of the book here - and their search of the bays and inlets again found nothing, and according to some, this expedition proved decisively that no such passage from Hudson's Bay existed. Ellis and Dobbs continued to believe firmly in a Northwest Passage, and the controversy between Middleton and Doobs simmered for a few years, but had no definite outcome. The book contains some of the earliest information on customs of the Inuit, and you can see that in the plates and engravings here, but a Northwest Passage was never found. The book is 8vo. and measures 8 3/8 x 5 1/2 in. wide, with modest wear on the spine and corners, the first fold-out at the front has some browning, and the rest of the text and plates are clean, and all the plates and engravings are here. An interesting read about the history of Hudson’s Bay and early Canadian exploration.

Relation of Henri De Tonty Concerning the Explorations Of La Salle from 1678 to 1683, Translated By Melville B. Anderson, Chicago, The Caxton Club 1898, with “Copyright By The Caxton Club, Eighteen Hundred And Ninety Eight” on the copyright page, a first edition in an exquisite binding, with five raised bands, a gilt title, gilt decorations with six gilt-ruled compartments and “1898” on the spine, tooled leather boards with simple gilt decorations, blank endpapers with gilt-ruled borders, a limited edition which says this is one of 194 copies on hand-made paper - there were three on Japanese vellum - put out by the Caxton Club in May 1898 (mdcccxcviii), with the half-title, the title page, the translator’s note, and the original French printed on pages opposite the English translation. There are 121 pages of text, and a note near the rear endpaper which says “Printed for the Caxton Club, By R.R. Donnelly And Sons Company At the Lakeside Press, Chicago, MDCCCXCVIII”, bound by the Doves Bindery in 1900 (19 C-S 00), and all the edges are gilt. Henri de Tonty, also spelled Tonti, was an Italian explorer born about 1650. He accompanied La Salle during La Salle’s North American explorations and became a devoted lieutenant to La Salle. He also oversaw construction of the Griffon, the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes. Tonty lost his right hand in combat and thereafter wore an iron hand covered by a glove. Later he helped La Salle build Fort Crèvecoeur (present-day Peoria) during the winter of 1679 to 1680, and he was left in charge of the Illinois region when La Salle departed for Canada in the spring. Tonty was deserted by his men and tried to defend the area from marauding Iroquois, but was wounded and forced to retreat to Green Bay. The next year, Tonty and La Salle explored the Mississippi River to its mouth, claiming the area for France; La Salle named the region Louisiana after King Louis XIV, and La Salle’s last expedition to establish fur trading posts in the north failed and cost La Salle his own life in 1687. The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by a group of fifteen bibliophiles to support the publication of fine books in the style of the then-new Arts and Crafts Movement. The club's name honored the fifteenth-century English printer William Claxton, so this was one of the first books ever published by the Claxton Club. The book measures 9 1/8 x 6 in. wide, with light rubbing at the spine and near the tips, and a small repair at the heel of the spine. There are no listings of this book online except for modern reprints, so this is a rare example of an early Caxton Club book about a seventeenth century topic in a beautiful binding.

Five Harry Potter First Edition books to include- Order of the Phoenix, Goblet of Fire, Half Blood Price and The Deathly Hallows

Hot point 6kg first edition vented tumble dryer- in working order

BILL JACKLIN RA (born 1947) British, four lithographic prints entitled Day Light, Night Light, Ancient Light and First Light, all signed to the margin, three artist's proofs, one limited edition numbered 7/65 all 57 x 57 cm

A finely bound Family Bible with gilt edge pages, approximately 900 engravings, 1875, first edition.

Henry Wood, The Gentle Art of Singing, 1927, first edition, a set of four volumes (later Sir Henry Wood founder of the Promenade Concerts).

Australia, a collection of stamps and ephemera, to include a letter on The Parliament of the Commonwealth House of Representatives Canberra, dated March 16th 1929, addressed to Miss Claire O'Callaghan, a 1938 First Day Cover addressed to Mr C. Sutherland, C/O Capt C. Sutherland A.I.R.O. Burma Civil Service, Toungoo, Burma, Greame John Australian Legends Signature Edition presentation folder, Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games: Feel Inspired 45c block of 20, Faces of Australia 45c block of 25 and Australia World Stamp Expo 99 cover etc.

Australia, a collection of stamps and covers to include 2010 Canonisation of Mary Mackillop 60c sheet of ten stamps, 1992 Centennary Discovery of Gold 45c $1.20 stamps and cover, 1992 Australians Under Fire First Day Cover, signed by Victoria Cross recipients Sir Roden Cutler, Edward Kenna and Keith Payne, 1994 Australia's War Time Prime Ministers 45c (5), The Australian Army The Rising Sun Special Edition presentation folder, Australian Bicentennial Collection 1788-1988 - Australia's Heritage in Stamps, five albums in slip-case and The Colonial Collection, 3 albums in slip-case etc.

Wolfe, Tom: From Bauhaus To Our House, 1982 first edition, Jonathan Cape Ltd, 30 Bedford Square, London, WC1, hardback with dustjacket (not clipped), together with one other volume U.S. first edition, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine x2 (1976 1st ed.), The Right Stuff (1979 U.S & U.K.), Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers x2 (1970/71), The Painted Word (U.S 1975) and The Mid-Atlantic Man (1969 1st ed.), each in hardback with dustjacket. (10)

Turner (J. M. W.). The Turner Gallery. A Series of Sixty Line Engravings. From the Works of the Late J. M. W. Turner, R.A. The Descriptive Text by W. Cosmo Monkhouse, London: J. S. Virtue and Company, Limited, 1890, together with Morton, Rev. James, The Monastic Annals of Teviotdale. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1832. 4to, half calf over marbled boards; 19 plates. First edition and various other works and a tray of assorted miniature volumes including Works of Shakespeare and various volumes of poetry,etc (one box)

A collection of books including a Harry Potter first edition, a collection of Rupert books, etc. **PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR POSTING AND PACKING**

Four Harry Potter books; three first editions, one early edition

Five LVX Japanese rare Pokemon cards, (three first edition)

Limited edition 1991 Royal Wedding Prince and Princess of Wales 10th Wedding Anniversary Crown Coin and Stamp First Day cover, Queen Elizabeth II 40th Anniversary of the Accession of the Throne Coin and Stamp First Day cover, and three further coin and stamp first day covers, Queen Elizabeth II and royal family first day covers and stamps, together with various watches to include Sekonda, cigarette card albums including John Player & Sons R.A.F Badges and Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, and Collectors Classic Car Club car cards etc

Fleming Ian: You Only Live Twice. 1964 first edition. Black cloth with silver and gilt. Wood grain endpapers. Unclipped dustjacket.

Seven limited edition Robert Harrop figures from the Beano Dandy collection, comprising The Beano Dandy Collection Bash Street Kids 50th Anniversary BSK50, Roger the Dodger's Dad You'd Better Be in There Roger!, two Desperate Dan Safe Cracker BDS13, The Beano Book Front Cover 1959 BDFC03, The Beano Book Front Cover 1973 BDFC01, some first editions, and Beano, Dandy Christmas 2013 The Beano Book 1975 The 10th Day of Christmas, no 137/200, BDCS13, all with boxesDimensions: Height: 0cm  Length/Width: 0cm 

Bensusan (SL) - Morocco - painted by AS Forrest, first edition, printed by Adam and Charles Black, 1904, 74 colour illustrations, tooled cloth.Condition ReportThe spine has two splits measuring 9cms and 3cms. All of the corners are bumped. There is some fading & rubbing to the decoration and the back papers are split along the spines (front and back). All of the plates are present and the paper has yellowed with age with a few fox marks throughout the book.

Churchill (Winston Spencer) The Second World War, vols 1 - 6; The Gathering Storm, Their Finest Hour, The Grand Alliance, The Hinge of Fate, Closing the Ring and Triumph and Tragedy, all with dust jackets; "History of the English Speaking Peoples - First Edition Set with dust jackets" and also "First Edition Set" for the Second World War Set.

A 1989 Elizabeth II proof '500th Anniversary of the First Sovereign 1489-1989' 22ct gold quintuple sovereign, limited edition of 5000.Condition ReportThe sovereign is mint in a blister pack, does not come with original packaging or certificates.

First Edition Enid Blyton Books The River of Adventure, Five Have Plenty of Fun, Five go to Mystery Tour & The Circus of Adventure

A collection of first day cover stamps, comprising an album of Special Edition Royal cover envelopes 1980-1986, (45) another album of The Royal Tour The Prince and Princess of Wales (14), Commemorative Album containing sets of special events of the 1980s (57), collection of Royal Family postcards and an album containing limited edition individual stamp postcards (approx 150). (approx 216 stamp first day covers).

LOT OF BOOKS,including 'Glasgow and its Clubs' by Dr Strang, as well as several other books including 'The Clyde from its source to the sea' by W.J. Miller.C.E., two copys of Burns first edition poems and various others

Confectionery.- Abbot (Robert) The Housekeeper's valuable present: or, lady's closet companion. Being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice, first edition, woodcut floral tail-pieces, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary sheep, spine gilt, spine with basic repair to head and foot worn, joints split, but holding, some worming to upper cover, small area of red wax to lower cover, corners worn, rubbed, [Cagle 528; Maclean p.1; Oxford p.126; Simon BG 1], 8vo, Printed for the author; and sold by C. Cooke, no. 17, Pater-Noster Row; and all other booksellers in town and country, [c.1790].⁂ Rare at auction. We can trace only a handful of copies since 1969. Institutional holdings are also scarce. The title tells us that Abbot had been an apprentice at the leading confectioners Negri & Gunter, of Berkeley Square.

Gourmands.- Pond (Richard Radcliffe) "A Sketch." A Good-natured semi-satirical description of several of the most prominent gentlemen, who have been christened by God Bacchus (Fancy a pagan deity performing the ceremony of baptism!!!), author's ownership stamp at head of p.3, ?authorial manuscript key to identities of characters to verso of title and corrections to text, family presentation inscription to verso of front free endpaper, obliterated note to final verso, some spotting and staining, original limp morocco, rubbed, no place, no printer [?privately printed], 3rd September, 1868 § Sturgeon (Lancelot) Essays, moral, philosophical, and stomachical, on the important science of good-living, first edition, engraved frontispiece, L3 lower corner torn away, not affecting text, some spotting or light foxing, lightly browned, original boards, original printed label to spine, lightly soiled, [Bitting p.452; Cagle 1012; Oxford p.151; Simon BG 1422], rare in commerce, Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822; and 17 others, similar, diet, and history of food & drink, v.s. (19)⁂ The first mentioned, which is dedicated to members of the 'Bacchanalian Club', is unrecorded.

Fish.- Bellamy (J.C., surgeon) The Housekeeper's Guide to the Fish-Market... and an Account of the Fishes and Fisheries of Devon and Cornwall, first edition, initial leaf blank but for quotation, lightly browned, text block split, original limp cloth, original printed label to upper cover, spine split, some fading, [W&S p.30; cf. Bitting p,34 (1862) ], 12mo, London & Plymouth, Longman [&c.] & Edward Nettleton, 1843.⁂ The Bibliotheca Piscatoria / Henry Alden Sherwin copy of this scarce little work. His collection sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, 4th & 5th March, 1946 (engraved piscatorial bookplate to front pastedown).

Radcliffe (M.) A Modern System of Domestic Cookery; Or The Housekeeper's Guide: Arranged On The Most Economical Plan For Private Families, first edition, engraved frontispiece, additional vignette title, and 11 plates and bills of fare, short tear at head of letterpress title, some spotting and staining (some of which offsetting from botanical samples previously inserted), contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn, covers rubbed and scuffed, [cf. Oxford p.161 (1827 edition)], Manchester, Printed And Published By J. Gleave, 1823 § Poole (Watkin) The Female's best friend, or, the young woman's guide to virtue, economy, and happiness: containing a complete modern system of cookery, new edition, engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 11 plates or bills of fare, frontispiece, additional title and plates foxed and stained, plate at p.166 with a couple of short tears, plate at p.395 trimmed just within border at outer margin, plate at p.402 loss to inner margin and laid down, some spotting and staining (some of which offsetting from botanical samples previously inserted), lightly browned, [Attar 249.1; Cagle 936; Oxford pp.160-161], late 19th century half calf, gilt spine in compartments and with leather label, rubbed, with loss of some spine gilt, g.e., Manchester, Printed And Published By J. Gleave, 1826; and 6 others, provincially printed cookery, v.s. (8)

Drinks & Drinking.- Ricket (Edward) The Gentleman's Table Guide and Table Companion to the Art of Dining and Drinking...with Practical Recipes for Wine Cups, American Drinks, Punches, Cordials, third edition, printed in red and black, steel-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, advertisements at end and to yellow endpapers, occasional ink marginalia or signature, some spotting or staining, large armorial bookplate of Charles Willmore Emlyn to front pastedown, original green pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, g.e., scarce, [cf. Cagle 962 (first edition)], Frederick Warne & Co., 1873; and 12 others, Drinks & Drinking, v.s. (13)

Fête book.- Sandford (Francis) The History of the coronation of the most high, most mighty, and most excellent monarch, James II...With an exact account of Their Majesties most splendid processions, and their royal and magnificent feast in Westminster-Hall, first edition, initial imprimatur f. signed 'Norfolk & Marshall', title in red and black with engraved coat-of-arms (printer's name in red), 30 engraved plates by William Sherwin & others, all but one double-page and mounted on stubs, engraved illustrations, head-pieces, and historiated initials, 'Yeomen' plate with marginal tear at head of fold, plan of Westminster with short tear at foot, just within platemark, but without loss, spotting, occasional marginal damp-staining, lightly browned in places, contemporary panelled calf, spine in compartments, joints splitting, but holding firm, spine ends little worn, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Wing S652], a good copy, folio (text block 442 x 282mm.), In the Savoy: printed by Thomas Newcomb, one of His Majesties printers, 1687.⁂ A wide-margined copy of this magnificent record of James II's lavish coronation, which set the standard for subsequent coronations. The plates include the regalia, the procession, plans and interior scenes of Westminster Abbey and the coronation itself, the banquet with accompanying seating plan and dishes served (with list in the text), and the fireworks on the Thames (often missing). Provenance: 'Mrs Isabella Drake, her booke, 1712' (ink inscription to front pastedown).

Sherratt & Hughes, publisher. The Manx Cookery Book. issued in aid of the Peel Church spire re-building fund, lightly browned throughout, original pictorial wrappers, Manchester, Sherratt & Hughes, 1908 § Colville (James, editor) Ochtertyre House Booke of Accomps 1737-1739, original cloth, gilt, Edinburgh, University Press, 1907 § Davidson (Alan) North Atlantic Seafood, first edition, one of 250 copies signed by the author in aid of the RNLI (on a label mounted on front free endpaper), illustrations, original boards, dust-jacket, 1979 § Coatts (Margot) Edible Architecture, one of 300 copies, colour illustrations by Ian Beck, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine gilt, Marlborough, Libanus Press, 1987; and a quantity of others, 20th century and later food & drink, generally in good clean condition, v.s. (Qty.) ⁂ An excellent group of 20th century and later works on food & drink.

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, ex-library copy with stamps to versos of prints and plates, preliminaries, and occasionally in text, otherwise internally clean, occasional creasing to lower inner corner of prints (including 1 gelatin), as often, some offsetting, original green cloth, lettered in gilt and black, library blind-stamp to upper cover, lower edges little worn, a couple of nicks, rubbed, [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).

[Borella (Mr.)] The Court and country confectioner: or, The house-keeper's guide ; to a more speedy, plain, and familiar method of understanding the whole art of confectionary, pastry, distilling, and the making of fine flavoured English wines, 2 parts in 1, first edition, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking final blank, edges of first and last few ff. browned (including title), occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned elsewhere, modern pale calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, [Bitting p.49; Cagle 572; Maclean pp.10-11; Oxford p.102 'a well-arranged book'; Gabler G13780;cf Simon BG 227], 8vo, Printed for G. Riley, and A. Cooke, at their Circulating Library, Queen Street, Berkley Square; J. Bell, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand; J. Wheble, at No. 20. Pater-noster-row; and C. Etherington, at York, 1770.⁂ Rare first edition of this work by the self-styled 'ingenious foreigner, now head confectioner to the Spanish ambassador in England'. The second part is 'On distilling in general'.

Soyer (Alexis) The Gastronomic Regenerator: a simplified and entirely new system of cookery, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author after Emma Soyer, engraved self-portrait of Emma Soyer, 13 steel- or wood-engraved plates, of which 2 folding, offsetting, 'My table at home' plate trimmed at foot, affecting caption, 2 folding plates with short neat tear in fold, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary polished calf, sympathetically rebacked, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, [Bitting p.443 (note); Cagle 1003; Oxford pp.176-177; Vicaire 798; cf. Simon BG 1401], a good copy, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1846; The Pantropheon Or, History of food, and its preparation, from the earliest ages of the world, first edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author after Emma Soyer, title printed in gold and black, 41 engraved plates, 6pp. advertisements for Soyer's publications at end, occasional spotting, new endpapers, original pictorial cloth, richly gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, this little darkened, rubbed and marked, [Bitting p.443; Cagle 1005; Simon BG 1405; Vicaire 798], Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1853; and 9 others, by the same, v.s. (11) ⁂ A good selection of works by this celebrated French chef, who worked to alleviate the suffering of the poor (including in the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1849), and to improve the quality of food offered to British soldiers in the Crimean War.

Thacker (John) The Art of Cookery. Containing above Six Hundred and Fifty of the most approv'd Receipts, first edition, woodcut illustrations, 32pp. letterpress bills of fare at end, errata slip mounted on final blank, S2 [i.e. S1] piece from upper margin torn away, water-stained, some spotting or mostly light staining, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped calf, spine in compartments, spine ends and corners worn, joints splitting, but holding, water-stained, rubbed, [Bitting p.458; Cagle 1019; Maclean pp.140-141; Oxford p.88], 8vo, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Printed by I. Thompson and Company, 1758.⁂ Thacker was cook to the Dean and Chapter of Durham Cathedral and opened a cookery school in the city in 1742. The influence of French cookery is evident in the collection.Provenance: 'Anne Williamson' (later ink signature to head of title); Mary Chadsey (modern bookplate to front pastedown).

Confectionery.- Wallace (James) The Confectioner's Guide and Ladies' and Housekeeper's Instructor being a grand display of pastry, in a variety of forms: also confectionary; Iceing, candying, preserving, jelly-making, sugar-boiling, colouring, &c. &c., index ff. carelessly opened, just touching text on G11, but without loss, occasional spotting, original yellow engraved architectural boards, publisher's advertisements to rear board, lightly soiled, rubbed, [cf. Oxford p.159 (Leeds imprint in same year) & Simon BG 1594 (10th edition, Bungay, 1831)], 12mo, Joseph Smith, 193, High Holborn, [1st July, 1826 (date of 'Advertisement' following title)].⁂ A very good copy of a rare little work. It is difficult to establish a sequence for the early editions with their different imprints. All carry an advertisement from the author stating that the particular printing is a reaction to high demand. The matter is further complicated by the fact that we find no edition before 1826 to help us to establish the first edition. No copy of this imprint found on WorldCat or Library Hub.Provenance: 'Gwenllian Jones' Book, Tyn yr [illegible], 1876' (ink inscription to front pastedown).

[Brillat-Savarin (Jean Anthelme)] Physiologie du gout, ou méditations de gastronomie transcendante, 2 vol., first edition, first issue, [one of 500 copies], half-titles, woodcut ornament to titles, ink author attribution to title of vol.1, water-stained, foxing, lightly browned, contemporary red straight-grain morocco-backed glazed boards, gilt and blind-stamped spines in compartments, vol.1 head of spine neatly repaired, little rubbed, [Cagle 98; Simon Vinaria p.218; Oberlé Fastes 144; Vicaire 116-117; cf. Simon BG 253], 8vo, Paris, A. Sautelet & Co., 1826.⁂ 'Brillat-Savarin's great book ... became such a landmark in the history of modern gastronomy that it set, and is still setting, the pattern for hundreds of imitators' (Elizabeth David, French Provincial Cooking, London, 1960, p.45). The rare first issue, with the 'E' of 'BOURSE' in imprint of first volume lying horizontally, and a weak 'D' in the 'DU' of 'A L'ORDRE DU JOUR'.

French.- Brillat-Savarin (Jean Anthelme) Physiologie du gout, ou méditations de gastronomie transcendante, 2 vol., third edition, the first illustrated, half-titles, 2 lithographed plates after Henry Monnier, ink writing offsetting to p.209 of vol.1 and pp.283-285 of vol.2, some water-staining (including titles), foxed and stained, lightly browned, contemporary blue calf-backed marbled boards, spines gilt, rubbed, [Oberlé Fastes 148; Vicaire 116-117; cf. Bitting, pp.60-61Simon BG 253], Paris, A. Sautelet & Alexandre Mesnier, 1829 § Albert (B.) Le Cuisinier parisien, ou Manuel complet d'économie domestique, contenant la cuisine, la charcuterie, la grosse pâtisserie, et la pâtisserie fine, seventh edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece and 3 plates, plates 1 and 2 with repaired tear, without loss, light water-staining to preliminaries, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary blue cloth-backed marbled boards, corners worn, rubbed, [Bitting p.5 (note); Vicaire 9; cf. Cagle 28 (fifth edition)], scarce, Paris, A. Ledentu, fils, 1845; and 10 others, 18th & mostly 19th century French, v.s. (13)