NO RESERVE Fréart (Roland, Sieur de Chambray) A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern, translated by John Evelyn, 2 parts in 1, fourth edition, title in red & black with woodcut vignette, 40 full-page engraved illustrations, some other smaller engraved illustrations and head- & tail-pieces, title lightly soiled and laid down, F1 stained, p.69 soiled and torn at lower edge affecting foot of image, modern half calf, green morocco label, [Harris 236; cf.Fowler 128 & 130 and Millard British 19, 1664 & 1707 editions], by T.W. for J. Walthoe [& others], 1733 § Halfpenny (William) Practical Architecture... or a sure guide to the Rules...representing the Five Orders, fifth edition, engraved throughout with title, dedication, Preface and 48 plates and tables of measurements, some light browning, plate 4 with contemporary ink measurements added and with measurement rule drawn onto front free endpaper, old inscription to front pastedown partly erased, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked preserving old spine and repaired, [Harris 309; Millard British 28], Tho: Bowles [& others], 1736; folio & 8vo (2)⁂ The second is a reissue of Halfpenny's first book, a useful builder's pocketbook first published in 1724. Halfpenny was the first architectural writer to translate the modular proportions of the orders according to Palladio into feet and inches.
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NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Abbey (Maj. J.R.) Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860...from the Library...A Bibliographical Catalogue, 2 vol.; Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland ...; Life in England ..., together 4 vol., reprints, Folkestone & London, 1972 § Carter (John) and Percy H. Muir. Printing and the Mind of Man: A Descriptive Catalogue Illustrating the Impact of Print on the Evolution of Western Civilization..., first edition, 1967 § Pardoe (F.E.) John Baskerville of Birmingham: Letter-Founder & Printer, 1975 § Hunt (Arnold) and others, editors. The Book Trade: Its Customers 1450 to 1900: Historical Essays for Robin Myers, New Castle, De., 1997 § Twyman (Michael) Lithography 1800-1850, 1970 § Updike (D.B.) Printing Types..., 2 vol., first edition, with T.L.s. from the author and other letters and ephemera loosely inserted, Cambridge, Mass., 1922 § Martin (Frank) The Engraver's Cut: Twenty-Eight Wood Engravings and Woodcuts Chosen by the Artist, number 44 of 135 copies signed by the artist, original cloth-backed boards, slip-case, printed at the Rampant Lions Press of Cambridge, 1999, illustrations, all but the last original cloth or boards, the sixth rubbed, the rest with dust-jackets, the first rubbed and stained; and c.60 others, bibliography and book arts, 4to & 8vo (c.65)
NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Mortimer (Ruth) Harvard College Library...Part II: Italian 16th Century Books, 2 vol., Cambridge, Mass., 1974 § Goldschmidt (E.P.) The Printed Book of the Renaissance, second edition, Amsterdam, 1966 § Clair (Colin) Christopher Plantin, 1960 § Hinman (Charlton) The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare, 2 vol., Oxford, 1963 § Moxon (Joseph) Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing (16830-4), edited by Herbert Davis and Harry Carter, second edition, 1962 § Lowry (Martin) The World of Aldus Manutius, Oxford, 1979; Venetian Printing: Nicolas Jenson and the Rise of the Roman Letter Form, original wrappers, Herning, 1989, illustrations, all but the last original cloth, the first with slip-case, the rest dust-jackets; and c.40 others on early printing, 4to & 8vo (c.45)
NO RESERVE Gardens.- Henrey (Blanche) British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, 3 vol., original cloth, together in slip-case, 1975 § Rohde (E.S.) The Old English Gardening Books, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, browned, 1924 § Cecil (Hon. Mrs Evelyn) A History of Gardening in England, original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1910 § Ward (F.Kingdon) Plant Hunter's Paradise, first edition, original cloth, 1937, illustrations, a little rubbed, and c.25 others on gardens and gardeners, 4to & 8vo (c.25)
NO RESERVE Horst (Tieleman van der) Theatrum machinarum universale; of Nieuwe Algemeene Bouw-kunde, 2 vol. including Atlas, first edition, mixed set, text with half-title, contemporary red-stained parchment-backed marbled boards, rubbed, Atlas engraved throughout with half-title, vignette title, dedication and 30 double-page plates by Jan Schenk mounted on stubs, modern book-label of Artium Genio, later half morocco, a little rubbed, [Berlin Kat. 2253], folio, Amsterdam, P. Schenk, 1739.⁂ Practical guide to building staircases, bannisters and stairlights; with the rare text volume.
NO RESERVE Knowles (David) The Religious Orders in England, 3 vol., vol.2 reprint, Cambridge, 1948-61 § Harvey (John) Mediaeval Architects: A Biographical Dictionary down to 1550, revised edition, supplement loosely inserted, 1987 § Wood (Margaret) The English Mediaeval House, 1981 § Blair (J.) and Nigel Ramsay. English Medieval Industries, London and New York, 2001 § Quiney (Anthony) Townhouses of Medieval Britain, New Haven and London, 2003 § Peña (Ignacio) The Christian Art of Byzantine Syria, 1996 § Firnie (Eric) Romanesque Architecture: The First Style of the European Age, New Haven and London, 2014, illustrations, original cloth, all but the first with dust-jackets; and c.60 others on the Middle Ages and medieval art & architecture, v.s. (c.65)
![NO RESERVE L[angley] (B[atty]) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, ?first edition, ?second issu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7880a55c-c37c-4d60-a7a2-af6000b6498e/e02a9bf0-ffb0-4bda-8a4f-af6000b8e807/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE L[angley] (B[atty]) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, ?first edition, ?second issue, 200 engraved plates, title with contemporary ink inscription "Rev.Saml. Almaty 1766" at head and slightly frayed at edges, text browned, slight water-staining to upper edge and worming to outer and lower margins (mostly single hole but worse towards end and just touching edge of final plate), modern sprinkled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, spine slightly faded, [Not in Harris but cf.449 & 450 and Berlin Kat. 2276], 4to, by S.Harding, 1741. ⁂ Popular pattern book including designs for doors, windows, chimneypieces, pavements, church fittings, obelisks, pedestals, bookcases, ceilings and ironworks. This 1741 edition is not listed by Harris; it contains the 186 plates of the first edition of 1740 published by Thomas Langley (with plate 186 misnumbered) and the 14 additional plates of roofs of Harding's second edition of 1745 but with pagination of the second edition and date 1741.
NO RESERVE Lutyens (Sir Edwin).- Butler (A.S.G.) and others. The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, vol.3 only (of 3), 1950 § Hussey (Christopher) The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1953 § Weaver (Lawrence) Houses & Gardens by Sir Edwin Lutyens, R.A. third impression, 1925 § Jekyll (Gertrude) and Christopher Hussey. Garden Ornament, second edition, light staining to title, 1927 § Jekyll (G.) and Lawrence Weaver. Gardens for Small Country Houses, n.d., plates and illustrations, original cloth (the fourth repaired), the first with dust-jacket, all a little rubbed; and 10 others on Lutyens and Jekyll, v.s. (c.15)
NO RESERVE Meason (Gilbert Laing) On the Landscape Architecture of the Great Painters of Italy, first edition, one of 150 copies, half-title, lithographed vignette title and 55 plates, tissue guards, some light foxing, mostly marginal, original green cloth, red roan label, rubbed, lower cover stained, spine faded, 4to, C.Hullmandel, 1828.⁂ Interesting work on the architecture featuring in paintings by Titian, Poussin, Claude, Veronese, Carracci, Raphael and others.
NO RESERVE Milizia (Francesco) Le Vite de' Piu Celebri Architetti d'Ogni Nazione e d' Ogni Tempo..., first edition, engraved title with large vignette, head-pieces & initials and 6 folding plates, errata leaf, old ink signature to title, light marginal soiling or foxing, contemporary calf, uncut, rather worn, rebacked with red morocco label, corners repaired, 4to, Rome, Paolo Giunchi Komarek, 1768.
NO RESERVE Millar (Andrew) Scumbling & Colour Glazing; A Practical Handbook for House Painters, Coach Painters and Others, second edition, 14 plates of mounted colour paint samples, some glazed (a few with glazing partly lifted), ex-library copy with accession numbers to verso of title and label but no stamps, modern cloth, 1924 § Mitchell (F. Scott) A Few Suggestions for Ornamental Decoration in Painter's and Decorator's Work, plates and illustrations, some colour including some of mounted paint samples, light foxing, original decorated cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, Thos. Parsons and Sons, 1909 § Nicholson (Peter) Mechanical Exercises; or, The Elements and Practice of Carpentry, Joinery, Bricklaying..., first edition, engraved frontispiece and plates, light offsetting, contemporary tree sheep, rubbed, 1812; and c.35 others on houses, decoration, building, etc., 4to & 8vo (c.40)
NO RESERVE Muthesius (Hermann) Das Englische Haus, 3 vol., second edition, original cloth-backed boards, Berlin, 1908-11 § Weaver (Lawrence) and R. Randal Phillips. Small Country Houses of To-day, 3 vol., vol.2 second edition, [c.1911-25] § Cutler (Thomas W.) Cottages and Country Buildings, 1896 § White (Roger) Cottages Ornés: The Charms of the Simple Life, New Haven and London, 2017 § Sondon (Eric) Suffolk Houses: a Study of Domestic Architecture, Woodbridge, 1977, plates and illustrations, all but the first original cloth or boards, last two with dust-jackets; and c.55 others on small houses and cottages, 4to & 8vo (c.60)
NO RESERVE Patte (Pierre) Monumens Érigés en France a la Gloire de Louis XV, first edition, engraved title-vignette and head-pieces, woodcut tail-pieces, 57 engraved plates, 17 double-page and 7 folding, privilege/errata leaf at end, title creased, occasional light spotting, mostly marginal, tear (repaired) and small hole to plate V, plate XXIV shaved at edges, one or two slightly frayed at edges, contemporary calf with decorative gilt-roll border, rubbed and scuffed, corners worn, rebacked, red morocco label, new endpapers, [Berlin Kat. 2516; Millard France 130], folio, Paris, the Author, Desaint & Saillant, 1765.⁂ Important work on urban planning in eighteenth century France including proposals for what is now the Place de la Concorde as well as practical concerns such as sanitation and conservation.
NO RESERVE Piper (John) Buildings and Prospects, first edition, double-page colour lithograph pictorial title, Architectural Press, 1948; A Painter's Camera: Buildings and Landscapes in Britain 1935-1985, 1987 § Elborn (Geoffrey, editor) To John Piper on his Eightieth Birthday..., limited edition, Piper's own copy with his book-label, Stourton Press, 1983, illustrations, original cloth, the second with dust-jacket, slightly soiled; and another illustrated by Piper, 4to & 8vo (4)
NO RESERVE Pitrou (Robert) Recueil de Differents Projets d'Architecture de Charpente et autres concernant la Construction des Ponts, edited by Tardif, first edition, engraved throughout with title, dedication, 8pp. text and 35 double-page plates and plans mounted on stubs, 8 also folding, plate XI forming large overlay to plate X, with engraved approbation pasted to p.9, light soiling and staining to title, plate I slightly frayed at lower edge, small scratch to plate XXIII and with border shaved at one side, marginal staining throughout, mostly to lower outer corner, contemporary tree sheep, spine gilt in compartments with urns & lattice and red morocco label, a little rubbed and stained, a few scuffs, some wear to joints, small repairs to spine ends, corners and upper cover, folio, Paris, the Author's widow, 1756.⁂ Competition design project for the Place Louis XV on the Île de la Cité and other schemes in Paris by the Inspecteur Générale des Ponts et Chaussées de France during the 1730s & '40s, edited posthumously by his son-in-law. Pitrou was particularly accomplished in arching.
NO RESERVE Règemortes (Louis de) Description du Nouveau Pont de Pierre, construit sur la Rivière d'Allier a Moulins..., first edition, plates only, fine engraved pictorial title and 16 plates & plans, 12 double-page, one also folding, all mounted on stubs, several plates defective at inner or outer margins (repaired) but plan lacking portion to image at central fold and final two plates with margins torn and frayed, plate 15 with 2 small holes affecting image, old cloth with large gilt-stamped ornamental morocco label mounted on upper cover, rubbed, rebacked in morocco, folio, Paris, 1771.⁂ Account of the construction of Règemortes' bridge across the river at Moulins, the fourth such structure after the previous one by Hardouin-Mansart was swept away in a flood. Begun in 1753 and completed ten years later, the bridge was at that date the longest in France at 300 metres. This copy is without the explanatory leaves of text sometimes found with the plates.
NO RESERVE Scamozzi (Vincenzo) L'Idea della Architettura Universale, 2 parts in 1, first edition, additional engraved architectural titles incorporating portrait of the author, letterpress titles with large woodcut device, woodcut head- & tail-pieces and initials, numerous full-page woodcut illustrations, some double-page, 44 full-page engraved illustrations, 5 double-page, with 2 blank leaves but lacking Register leaf (p.371) at end (as often), plate on p.62 of Book 6 not pasted over, first engraved title lightly soiled, otherwise an excellent clean copy, engraved bookplate of Thomas Worsley Surveyor General of His Majesty's Works, eighteenth century calf, rubbed, a few scuffs and gouges, rebacked in morocco, spine gilt, corners repaired, new endpapers, [Berlin Kat. 2605; Fowler 292; Millard Italian 123], folio, Venice, Giorgio Valentino, 1615.⁂ After Palladio's Quattro Libri this was the most influential architectural work of the early seventeenth century.Thomas Worsley (1711-78), of Hovingham Hall, Yorks., landowner, horse-breeder and amateur architect who was Surveyor of the Office of Works from 1760 until his death. He designed the stables at Marske Hall near Richmond, Yorks., for John Hutton and his own Hovingham Hall with its unusual entrance via a manège.
![NO RESERVE Soane (Sir John).- House of Commons. Papers...[&] Further Papers...relating to the Building a New Infirmary, a](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7880a55c-c37c-4d60-a7a2-af6000b6498e/b11fc5b0-de33-4e45-b19d-af6000b9aba2/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Soane (Sir John).- House of Commons. Papers...[&] Further Papers...relating to the Building a New Infirmary, and Leasing of Ground, at Chelsea Hospital, 3 parts in 1, first edition,12 folding engraved plans, 7 hand-coloured or partly so, the last 3 printed in sepia, with 2 contemporary manuscript leaves of copies of further letters between the Treasury and a Col.Gordon bound in at end, engraved bookplate of Ronal Ryall, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, some worn patches, rebacked preserving most of old red roan label, folio, 20th April,10th May & 8th June 1809.⁂ The government had purchased a site for an infirmary next to Chelsea Hospital, due to be executed by John Soane, then Clerk of Works to the Hospital, but sold off a portion on a long lease to Col.Gordon to build a house. These papers include Soane's proposals and reports. The additional letters bound in concern the boundaries.
NO RESERVE Speer (Albert) Neue Deutsche Baukunst, first edition, original cloth, spine a little browned and ends worn, Berlin, 1941; Die Neue Reichskanzlei, third edition, original cloth-backed boards, rubbed, rebacked, Munich, [c.1940] § Kulka (Heinrich) Adolf Loos: Das Werk des Architekten, Vienna, 1979 § Anderson (Stanford) Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century, Cambridge, Mass. & London, 2000, plates and illustrations, the last two original cloth with dust-jackets, rubbed; and c.25 others on modern German and North European architecture, 4to & 8vo (c.30)
NO RESERVE Brown (Richard) The Principles of Practical Perspective; or Scenographic Projection..., first edition, 51 engraved plates, most aquatint, one hand-coloured, some light water-staining, mostly marginal but affecting a few plates, old book-label of W.Goode, contemporary half calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked, 4to, 1815.
NO RESERVE Ceramics.- Henrywood (R.K.) Staffordshire Potters 1781-1900, 2002 § Cox (Alwyn & Angela) Rockingham 1745-1842, 2001 § Drakard (D.) and Paul Holdway. Spode Transfer Printed Ware 1784-1833, enlarged edition, 2002 § Godden (Geoffrey A.) Godden's Guide to Ironstone, Stone & Granitewares, 1999 § Griffin (John D.) The Don Pottery 1801-1893, Doncaster, 2001 § Sarni (E.P.) Italian Renaissance Maiolica, 2012, illustrations, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first four Woodbridge; and c.60 others on pottery and porcelain, mostly English, 4to & 8vo (c.65)
NO RESERVE Horology.- Allix (Charles) Carriage Clocks: Their History & Development, original rexine, Woodbridge, 1974 § Symonds (R.W.) Thomas Tompion: His Life and Work, 1951; Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, limited edition, 1940 § Robinson (Tom) The Longcase Clock, revised edition, Woodbridge, 1995 § Garnier (R.) & Jonathan Carter. The Golden Age of English Horology: Masterpieces from the Tom Scott Collection, Winchester, 2015 § Bromley (John) The Clockmaker's Library: The Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts..., 1977, illustrations, all but the first original cloth or boards, the last three with dust-jackets; and c.25 others on clocks and watches, 4to & 8vo (c.30)
NO RESERVE Bullet (Pierre) L'Architecture Pratique, qui comprend le detail du Toisé, & du Devis des Ouvrages de Massonnerie, Charpenterie, Menuiserie, Serrurerie, Plomberie, Vitrerie, Ardoise, Tuille, Pavé de Grais & Impression, engraved frontispiece and 12 plates, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, a few spots, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt with morocco label, rubbed, spine worn at head, [cf.Berlin Kat. 2542, Fowler 72 & Millard French 45, other editions], Paris, J.B.Delespine, 1732 § Le Clerc (Sébastien) Traité de Géometrie Theorique et Pratique, a l'usage des artistes, engraved allegorical frontispiece, title-vignette, head-pieces and 55 engraved plates by Cochin and Chedel on 49 sheets, 39 folding, lightly browned, 1764; Pratique de la Geometrie sur le Papier et sur le Terrein, half-title, engraved frontispiece and 82 plates on 44 sheets (most printed on both sides), plus 2 more at end ?from another work, light soiling and marginal water-staining, 1744, both contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, rubbed, the second with joints split and spine ends worn, Paris, Ch.A.Jombert § Laugier (Marc Antoine) Essai sur l'Architecture, second edition, engraved frontispiece by Eisen, title in red & black, 8 folding engraved plates, light spotting, F8 lacking part of lower margin, contemporary calf, rather worn, [Berlin Kat. 2405], Paris, Duchesne, 1755, 8vo (4)⁂ The first is a useful handbook for builders and surveyors with practical information on costs and specifications, first published in 1691 and in several editions over the subsequent one hundred and fifty years.
NO RESERVE Accum (Fredrick) A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light..., second edition, 7 hand-coloured engraved plates, 4 aquatint, 2 folding (slightly shaved), modern morocco-backed cloth, red & green roan labels, [cf.Abbey, Life 436, first edition], 8vo, R..Ackermann, 1815.⁂ Iconic work on gas-light technology with fine plates depicting machinery, apparatus, and light fittings & chandeliers. "The adoption of gas lighting in London was largely due to this book. The famous publisher, R.Ackermann, was one of the earliest to adopt gas lighting; in a letter printed on pages 71-2 he gives an account of his cost in producing gas for the whole of his establishment and private house, that had been in use since 1811. His cost per year for gas lighting is given at £40.5s.0d., against a previous expense of £160." (Abbey).
NO RESERVE Aeronautics.- Wallis-Tayler (A.J.) Aerial or Wire-rope Tramways: Their Construction and Management, first edition, 1898 § Walker (Frederick) Aërial Navigation, second edition, 1910 § Berget (Alphonse) The Conquest of the Air, first English edition, modern half morocco, spine faded, 1909, plates and illustrations, first two original cloth, slightly rubbed and marked; and 2 others on aeronautics, 8vo (5)
NO RESERVE Astronomy.- Lowell (Percival) Mars, first English edition, 1896; Mars and its Canals, third thousand, New York, 1908; Mars as the Abode of Life, first edition, New York, 1908 § Smyth (W.H.) & George F. Chambers. A Cycle of Celestial Objects, second edition, Oxford, 1881 § Denning (William F.) Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings, first edition, 1891, plates, a few leaves loose and frayed at edges, the last crudely reattached with sticky tape, original cloth, some pictorial gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo (5)
NO RESERVE Colvin (Howard, editor) The History of the King's Works, vol.1-6 in 8 including 2 vol. of plans, vol. 1 & 2 second impressions, the rest first editions, folding plans loose in boxes, 1976-75-82-76-73; A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840, fourth edition, New Haven and London, 2008; Architecture and the After-Life, New Haven and London, 1991, illustrations, all original cloth with dust-jackets, some of the first a little frayed at edges; and another by Colvin, 4to & 8vo (11)
NO RESERVE Astronomy.- Roy (William) An Account of the Trigonometrical Operation, whereby the Distance Between the Meridians of the Observatories of Greenwich and Paris has been determined, from 'Philosophical Transactions' vol.LXXVII pp.111-270, first separate edition, 11 folding engraved plates, 4 folding letterpress tables, errata leaf, some light spotting or soiling, one plate soiled and defective at lower outer corner with slight loss to border, modern cloth, 4to, [1790].
NO RESERVE Besson (Jacques) Theatre des Instrumens Mathematiques et Mechaniques...avec l'Interpretation des Figures d'icelluy par François Beroald, title with elaborate woodcut allegorical border, woodcut ornaments and initials, full-page diagram, 60 engraved plates by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau and René Boyvin, 2 old ink inscriptions to foot of title (one crossed out), plates 1-29 with contemporary ink annotations to head of fore-margin or upper margin forming tabs (reinforced), some light marginal staining, title frayed and reinforced at upper edge, dedication defective at upper outer corner not affecting text (repaired), one or two plates with small stain to images, B2 of preliminaries misbound after B3, small old ink library stamp to verso of title, later half calf, rubbed, lower corners repaired, [Adams B838; cf.Berlin Kat. 1769, 1579 edition; cf.Millard French 22, Latin edition], folio (c.395 x 270mm.), Lyons, Barthelemy Vincent, 1578.⁂ One of the earliest French books on machinery and engineering, first published in Latin in 1569. It depicts pumps and irrigation systems, furnaces, mills, fire-fighting equipment, lathes, saws, dredging equipment, carriage suspension, bridge- & ship-building etc. There are three editions with the date 1578, one in Latin, this in French, and a third with title in Latin and French (text in French). They all contain the same plates.
NO RESERVE Coaching & Roads.- Malet (Capt.) Annals of the Road, or Notes on Mail and Stage Coaching in Great Britain, first edition, chromolithographed plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1876 § Bradley (Tom) The Old Coaching Days in Yorkshire, Leeds, 1889 § Corbett (Edward) An Old Coachman's Chatter With Some Practical Remarks on Driving, second edition, 1891 § Seile (Mark) Turnpikes and Toll-bars, 2 vol., one of 500 copies, original half cloth, n.d., plates and illustrations, the first three original pictorial cloth, some gilt, a little rubbed, spine slightly faded; and c.25 others on coaching, roads etc., 8vo & 4to (c.30)
NO RESERVE Dominiceti (Dr. Bartholomew de) A Plan for extending the Use of Artificial Water-Baths, Pumps, Vaporous, and Dry-Baths, Fumigations, and Frictions..., 23pp., only edition, stain to upper margin of a couple of leaves, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label, n.p., [1771] § Hoskins (G.G.) An Hour with a Sewer Rat; or a few plain hints on house drainage and sewer gas, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, London & Darlington, 1879 § Vacher (Francis) Defects in Plumbing & Drainage Work, first edition, illustrations, advertisements to endpapers, Manchester & London, 1889 § Teale (T.Pridgin) Dangers to Health: A Pictorial Guide to Domestic Sanitary Defects, third edition, full-page illustrations printed in blue, yellow & black, 16pp. publishers' catalogue at end, London & Leeds, 1881, the last three original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed; and 3 others on sanitation, 8vo et infra (7)⁂ The first is scarce with only a few copies recorded by Library Hub.
NO RESERVE Engineering.- Humber (William) A Practical Treatise on Cast and Wrought Iron Bridges and Girders, as applied to Railway Structures, first edition, half-title, tinted lithographed frontispiece, plates, some folding, ex-library copy with embossed stamp to plates, modern cloth, 1857 § Brees (S. C.) The Illustrated Glossary of Practical Architecture and Civil Engineering, modern cloth, 1852 § Cresy (Edward) An Encyclopaedia of Civil Engineering, original cloth, faded and stained, rebacked preserving original spine, 1847 § Abernethy (John S.) The Life and Work of James Abernethy, C.E., original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1897, plates or illustrations; and 14 others on engineering, 4to & 8vo (18)
ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL: CRANFORD, ill Hugh Thomson, London McMillan, 1892, reprint, original pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt plus DAYS WITH SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY, 'A REPRINT FROM THE SPECTATOR', ill Hugh Thomson, London McMillan, 1892, third edition, two copies, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt plus AUSTIN DOBSON: THE BALLARD OF BEAU BROCADE, ill Hugh Thomson, 1892, second edition, original decorative cloth gilt, top edges gilt plus WILLIAM OUTRAM TRISTRAM: COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS, ill Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson, London McMillan, 1893, first edition, original pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt plus MARY RUSSELL MITFORD: OUR VILLAGE, ill Hugh Thomson, London McMillan, 1893, reprint, original decorative cloth gilt, all edges gilt (6)
JOHN BETJEMAN: A RING OF BELLS POEMS OF JOHN BETJEMAN, ed Irene Slade, ill Edward Ardizzone, London, John Murray, 1962, first edition, original pictorial boards, d/w, vgc plus ELSA SCHIAPARELLI: SHOCKING LIFE, London, J M Dent, 1954, first edition, original cloth plus RODGER FULFORD (ED): DEAREST CHILD LETTERS BETWEEN QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE PRINCESS ROYAL 1858-1861, London, Evans Bros, 1964, first edition, inscription on front free end paper, original cloth, d/w, vgc plus RICHARD STODDARD ALDRICH: GERTRUDE LAWRENCE AS MRS A AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT STAR, foreword Daphne du Maurier, London, Odhams Press, 1955, first edition, inscription on front free end paper, original cloth, (4)
![SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE: PETER AND WENDY, ill F D Bedford, London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1911], first edition, illustrate](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d3663fff-a59b-432f-94ed-af6200a837a6/3134d24a-81ff-42cf-a2ed-af6b00f1d12a/468x382.jpg)
SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS 'MARK TWAIN', 5 titles: A YANKEE AT THE COURT OF KING ARTHUR, London, Chatto & Windus, 1889, first edition, first issue, 32pp adverts at end, dated October 1889, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine darkened with splits and small part losses of cloth, THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT, London, Chatto & Windus, 1892, first edition, 32pp adverts at end, dated May 1892, original pictorial cloth, spine a little darkened otherwise vgc, THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT, London, Chatto & Windus, 1883, new edition, 32pp adverts at end, dated June 1889, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine browned with small split at head, inner joints weak, A TRAMP ABROAD, London, Chatto & Windus, 1889, new edition, 32pp adverts at end, dated October 1889, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine darkened, ROUGHING IT AND THE INNOCENTS AT HOME, London, Chatto & Windus, 1890, new edition, 32pp adverts at end, dated April 1890, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine darkened (5)
ENID BLYTON: HEYO BRER RABBIT! TALES OF BRER RABBIT AND HIS FRIENDS RETOLD FROM THE ORIGINAL, ill Kathleen Nixon, London, George Newnes, 1938, first edition, 4to, original cloth, THE CASTLE OF ADVENTURE, ill Stuart Tresilian, London, McMillan, 1946, first edition, contemporary inscription on front free end paper, original pictorial cloth, inner joints weak, RUBBALONG TALES, ill Norman Meredith, London, McMillan, 1950, first edition, inscription on pictorial front free end paper, original cloth, d/w, (part losses), SHOCK FOR THE SECRET SEVEN, ill Burgess Sharrocks, Leicester, Brockhampton Press, 1961, first edition, original cloth, d/w, (very small part losses and rubbing) (4)
WASHINGTON IRVING 'GEOFFREY CRAYON': 2 Titles: BRACEBRIDGE HALL OR THE HUMORISTS, London, John Murray, 1824, first edition, second state, 2 vols, TALES OF A TRAVELLER, London, John Murray, 1824, first edition, 2 vols, both works uniform contemporary half calf marble boards worn, book plates of Castletown House, Ireland (4)
JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART 'PETER MORRIS': PETERS LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK, Edinburgh, printed for William Blackwood, London, T Cadell and W Davies, Glasgow, John Smith & Son, 1819, second [but first] edition, 3 vols, engraved vignette titles, 14 portraits, contemporary half calf marble boards, armorial book plates of Thomas Conolly of Castletown House, Ireland (3)
HUGH WALPOLE: 4 Titles: THE OLD LADIES, London, McMillan, 1924 (250), first edition, large paper signed, original cloth back boards soiled, PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH RED HAIR, London, McMillan, 1925, (250), first edition, large paper signed, original cloth backed boards, ROGUE HERRIES, London, McMillan, 1930, first edition, original cloth gilt, JUDITH PARIS, London, McMillan, 1931 (350), first edition, large paper signed, original cloth backed boards, soiled (4)
![[GIOVANNI ROSINI]: LA MONACA DI MONZA STORIA DEL SECOLO XVII, Pisa, Presso Niccolo Capurro, 1829, first edition, 3 vols, engr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d3663fff-a59b-432f-94ed-af6200a837a6/d80e02ad-79b7-4d2b-9942-af6b00f1fae9/468x382.jpg)
ENID BLYTON: A BOOK OF NAUGHTY CHILDREN, ill Eileen Soper, London, Methuen, 1944, first edition, original cloth soiled, d/w, (small part losses and rubbing), THE ADVENTURES OF PIP, London, Sampson & Low Marston, [1948], first edition, inscription on front free end paper, original pictorial cloth, d/w (price clipped and small part losses), HURRAH FOR LITTLE NODDY, London, Sampson Low Marston & Co, [1950], first edition, later inscription on 'This Book Belongs to' panel, original pictorial boards, d/w (very minor losses) (3)
JOHN WODDERSPOON: JOHN CROME AND HIS WORKS WITH LISTS OF HIS PICTURES EXHIBITED IN NORWICH FROM THE YEAR 1805 TO 1821 INCLUSIVE SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NORWICH SOCIETY OF ARTISTS SHORT NOTICES OF PAINTERS THE LOCAL CONTEMPORIES OF CROME ETC ETC, [ed Richard Noverre Bacon], Norwich, printed for private circulation at the 'Norwich Mercury' printing works 1876, second edition with additions and portrait extracted from the 'Norwich Mercury' of Nov 10th, 17th, 20th and Dec 1st 1858, albumen port frontis, 19 autotype etched plates on 9 leaves, original wraps (worn in a chipped), bound in at end, the original top wrap signed and inscribed by Editor, fo 20th Century cloth, spine gilt lettered, very scarce, plus DEREK AND TIMOTHY CLIFFORD: JOHN CROME, London, Fabre & Fabre, 1968, first edition, original cloth, d/w, vgc (2)
CHARLES DANA GIBSON: 3 Titles: PICTURES OF PEOPLE, New York, R H Russell & Son, London, John Lane, 1896, oblong folio, original cloth backed pictorial boards worn, AMERICANS, London, John Lane, 1900, first edition, title page loose and chipped, some other leaves loose, oblong folio, original cloth backed pictorial boards worn, inner joints split, EIGHTY DRAWINGS INCLUDING THE WEAKER SEX, THE STORY OF A SUSCEPTIBLE BACHELOR, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, London, John Lane, 1903, first edition, oblong folio, original cloth backed pictorial boards (3)
CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER, ill Pauline Baynes, London, Geoffrey Bless, 1952, first edition, inscription verso of front free end paper, original cloth, d/w (price clipped and part losses), THE LAST BATTLE, ill Pauline Baynes, London, The Bodley Head, 1958, second impression, original cloth d//w, (small part losses) (2)
EDWIN DREW: THE CHIEF INCIDENTS OF THE 'TITANIC' WRECK TREATED IN VERSE TOGETHER WITH THE LESSONS OF THE DISASTER, London, W Nicholson & Sons, 1912, first edition, 4 photographic plates as called for, original printed top wrap, (small part losses), re-backed cloth, replacement lower wrap, staples rusted, scarce, plus SIX ORIGINAL CONSECUTIVE COPIES OF THE DAILY MIRROR COVERING THE 1912 TITANIC DISASTER, Nos 2645-2650, light horizontal centre creases, otherwise vgc (7)
![ROUTLEDGE'S NURSERY ALBUM FOR CHILDREN, London and New York, George Routledge & Sons, [1874], first edition, 72 kronheim](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d3663fff-a59b-432f-94ed-af6200a837a6/cff276d5-5083-4493-bcaf-af6b00f24ca7/468x382.jpg)
ROUTLEDGE'S NURSERY ALBUM FOR CHILDREN, London and New York, George Routledge & Sons, [1874], first edition, 72 kronheim colour printed plates as called for, old inscription on front free end paper, original cloth gilt, re-backed, new end papers, two copies on Copac held at The British Library and the University of Oxford
ALFRED COOPER FRYER: BOOK OF ENGLISH FAIRY TALES FROM THE NORTH-COUNTRY, London, W Swan Sonnenschein, 1884, first edition, 6 plates, some leaves loose, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine browned plus SABINE BARING-GOULD: STRANGE SURVIVALS SOME CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF MAN, London, Methuen, 1892 first edition, frontis, original cloth gilt worn, spine toned plus CHARLES GODFREY LELAND: THE ENGLISH GIPSIES AND THEIR LANGUAGE, London, Trubner & Co, 1874, third edition, original blind stamped, cloth worn, small part loss of cloth to head and foot of spine, plus GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL: PAWNEE HERO STORIES AND FOLK-TALES, London, David Nutt, 1893, first edition, original cloth soiled, Mudie's Library label on top board (4)
PACKET OF 16 WWII PUBLICATIONS COMPRISING IAN HAY: THE BATTLE OF FLANDERS 1940, London, HMSO, 1941, first edition, original wraps, ATLANTIC BRIDGE, London, HMSO, 1945, first edition, original wraps, FRANK OWEN AND H W ATKINS: THE ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS, London, HMSO, 1945, first edition, original wraps, THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN, London, HMSO, 1941, first edition, original wraps, BEFORE WE GO BACK, London, HMSO, 1944, first edition, original wraps, RAF MIDDLE EAST, London, HMSO, 1945, first edition, original wraps, THE EIGHTH ARMY, London, HMSO, 1944, first edition, original wraps, REPORT BY THE SUPREME COMMANDER TO THE COMBINED CHIEFS OF STAFF ON THE OPERATIONS IN EUROPE OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, London, HMSO, 1946, first edition, original wraps, ARK ROYAL, London, HMSO, 1942, first edition, original wraps, WAR AT SEA, London, Oxford University Press, 1942, first edition, WAR PICTURES BY BRITISH ARTISTS SERIES NUMBER 1, original wraps, MERRILL MUELLER: AMERICAN AIR POWER, London, The Pilot Press [1942], first edition, original wraps, ALFRED CECIL HARDY: AMERICAN SEA POWER, London, John Murray and The Pilot Press [1942], first edition, original wraps, WILLIAM BATT: AMERICA ARMS, London, John Murray and The Pilot Press [1942], first edition, original wraps, HENRY GEORGE THURSFIELD: NAVIES OF THE USA AND JAPAN, London, Rolls House Publishing [1944], first edition, oblong original wraps, AIR TRAINING CORPS GAZETTE, June 1945 vol 5 number 6, original wraps, JAPANESE AEROPLANES AIRCRAFT IDENTIFICATION, London, 1943, oblong original wraps, plus CIVIL AIRCRAFT MARKINGS, London, Ian Allan, 1957, first edition, original wraps plus J W R TAYLOR: LIGHT PLANE RECOGNITION, London, Ian Allan, 1975, first edition, original wraps, (18)
![SIDNEY ROGERSON: TWELVE DAYS, ill Stanley Cursitter, foreword B H Liddell Hart, London, Arthur Barker [1933], first edition,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d3663fff-a59b-432f-94ed-af6200a837a6/43291be3-4feb-4348-bcc7-af6b00f267bf/468x382.jpg)
RODNEY STEEL: BENTLEY THE CARS FROM CREWE, London, Dalton Watson, 1988, first edition, original cloth gilt, vgc plus JOHNNIE GREEN: BENTLEY 50 YEARS OF THE MARQUE, London, Dalton Watson, 1974, revised edition, original cloth plus MERVYN FRANKEL AND IAN STRANG: BENTLEY THE 1938-1939 OVERDRIVE CARS, London, Academy Books for Highfield Publishing, 1994, first edition, 4to, original cloth, d/w, vgc plus JOHN ADAMS AND RAY ROBERTS: A PRIDE OF BENTLEYS, London, New English Library, 1978, first edition, original cloth, d/w, plus ERIC DYMOCK: ROVER THE FIRST NINETY YEARS 1904-1994, Sutton Veny Wiltshire Dove Publishing, 1993, first edition, oblong 4to, original cloth d/w, vgc, plus JOHN PRICE WILLIAMS: ALVIS THE POST WAR CARS, Croydon Motor Racing Publications, 1993, first edition, 4to, original pictorial laminated boards, vgc plus DAVID BURGESS WISE: CLASSICS OF THE ROAD, London, Orbis Publishing, 1980, re-print, 4to, original cloth, d/w plus RICHARD BIRD: LAGONDA HERITAGE, London, Osprey, 1994, first edition, original pictorial wraps, (8)
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