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Click here to subscribeNO RESERVE [Budgen (L.M.)] "Acheta Domestica". Episodes of Insect Life, First Series, first edition, wood-engraved frontispieces and illustrations, many hand-coloured, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, original pictorial cloth, gilt, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, retaining original backstrip, corners a little bumped, g.e., endpapers renewed, 1849; and a 19th century manuscript commonplace book with a few watercolour drawings, 8vo (2)
Griset (Ernest Henri) Funny Picture-Book, first edition, colour illustrations, lightly browned title, occasional spotting, previous owner's ink inscription, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, [1874]; and 2 others on Griset by Lionel Lambourne, one inscribed by author, 4to (3)
Essex.- Cromwell (Thomas) History and Description of the Ancient Town and Borough of Colchester, 2 vol., large paper copy, wood-engraved title-vignettes, 2 engraved maps, one folding, 25 plates, and 2 folding facsimiles, some spotting, one or two marginal repairs, later calf, gilt, by Bayntun Rivière, t.e.g., others uncut, 1825 § [Strutt (Benjamin)] The History and Description of Colchester..., 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved frontispieces and plates, later half morocco, Colchester, W.Keymer, 1803, 8vo (3)
NO RESERVE Clocks.- Allix (Charles) & Peter Bonnert. Carriage Clocks: Their History & Development, first edition, Woodbridge, 1974 § Plomp (Dr. R.) Spring-driven Dutch Pendulum Clocks 1657-1710, Schiedam, 1979 § Leopold (J.H.) The Almanus Manuscript..., 1971 § Bennion (E.) Antique Medical Instruments, reprint, 1980 § Karp (M.G.) In Flagrante Collecto (caught in the art of collecting), New York, 2006, illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first two a little rubbed and frayed; and 7 others on clocks, 4to & 8vo (12)
Essex.- [Muilman (Peter)] A New and Complete History of Essex, from a Late Survey..., 6 vol., engraved frontispiece, additional engraved titles in vol.1 & 2, 2 folding engraved maps only (of 3) and 50 engraved plates only (of 52),14 folding, list of subscribers and directions to binder leaf at end of vol.6, a few plates torn and repaired, a few leaves in vol.6 frayed at lower outer corner, occasional marginal worming, bookplate of Richard /Fortescue Purvis, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, Chelmsford, Lionel Hassall, 1770-72 § Farmer (J.) The History of the ancient Town, and once Famous Abbey, of Waltham, in the County of Essex..., first edition, list of subscribers and errata to such, 9 engraved plates, 4 folding including large bird's-eye view of Copt Hall (creased), short tear to frontispiece, later russia with border of gilt rules and small ornaments to corners, spine gilt, g.e., worn patch to upper cover, for the Author, 1735, rubbed; and 9 others on Essex, 8vo & 4to (16)
NO RESERVE Modern Art.- Mössinger (Ingrid, editor) Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Catalogue of the Collection, Wienand, 2015 § Szech (Anna) Paul Klee: The Abstract Dimension, Basel, 2017 § McShine (Kynaston, editor) Joseph Cornell, New York, 1980 § Langa (Helen) Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York, Berkeley, 2004 § Srp (Karel) & others. New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection, one leaf creased and torn, New Haven & London, 2011 § MOMA. First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh, limited edition, front free endpaper loose and torn (repaired with tape), original cloth-backed printed wrappers, worn, upper cover detached, New York, 1929, illustrations, many colour, all but the last original cloth or boards, the fourth and fifth with dust-jackets; and c.40 others on modern art, 4to & 8vo (c.45)
NO RESERVE Sickert (Walter).- Woolf (Virginia) Walter Sickert: a Conversation, first edition, original pictorial wrappers by Vanessa Bell, very slightly rubbed, spine a little browned, Hogarth Press, 1934 § Catalogue of an Exhibition of "English Echoes": A Series of New Paintings by Richard Sickert, A.R.A., original printed wrappers, uncut, Leicester Galleries, 1931 § Fine Art Society. The Ruth and Joseph Bromberg Collection of Sickert Prints and Drawings, original wrappers, 2004 § Sickert (Walter) The Complete Writings on Art, edited by Anna Gruetzner Robins, Oxford, 2000 § Baron (Wendy) The Camden Town Group, 1979, plates and illustrations, some colour, the last two original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the last also with slip-case; and a small quantity of others on or relating to Sickert, some with notes loosely inserted, some pamphlets, 8vo & 4to (c.50)
London.- Boulton (William B.) The Amusements of Old London, 2 vol., 1901 § Gordon (Charles) Old Time Aldwych, Kingsway, and Neighbourhood, 1903 § Taylor (Tom) Leicester Square..., 1874 § McCarthy (J.) & Joseph Pennell. Charing Cross to St.Paul's, 1891 § O'Donoghue (EG.) Bridewell Hospital: Palace, Prison, Schools..., 2 vol., 1923-29 § Times (The). The History...of the site in Blackfriars..., one of 100 copies on hand-made paper, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket (soiled), privately printed, 1956 § Dobie (Rowland) History of the United Parishes of St.Giles-in-the-Fields and St.George Bloomsbury, second edition, folding engraved map in pocket at end (repaired), modern cloth, 1834, plates and illustrations, those in the first hand-coloured, all but the last two original pictorial cloth, gilt, a little rubbed; and c.30 others on central London and the West End, v.s. (c.35)
Staffordshire.- Plot (Robert) The Natural History of Stafford-shire, first edition, title with engraved vignette, 37 engraved plates by Burghers, 25 double-page (mostly houses), lacking the "Armes Omitted" plate (as often), also lacking the folding map and 4pp. list of subscribers at end (3M3 & 4), a few contemporary manuscript annotations, plate V torn and stained (loose), plate XV with small rust-hole to image, a few marginal tears and repairs, generally a clean tall copy with wide margins, large engraved bookplate of Rt. Hon. Washington Sewallis Earl Ferrers mounted on front pastedown, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, gilt, spine gilt, rubbed, spine ends and corners worn, joints split, [Wing P2588], Oxford, Printed at the Theater, 1686; sold not subject to return⁂ With two chapters on minerals and stones, including fossils; by the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.
West Country.- [Kennedy (James)] A Description of the Antiquities and Curiosities in Wilton-House, half-title, 25 engraved plates, some spotting and light offsetting, modern half calf, Salisbury, 1786 § Price (Francis) A Series of...Observations...upon...the Cathedral-Church of Salisbury, first edition, list of subscribers, lacking all plates, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed, joints split, by R.Baldwin, 1753 § [Anstey (Christopher)] The New Bath Guide..., stipple-engraved frontispiece, title and 10 plates, offsetting, contemporary mottled calf, spine worn and defective, Bath, John Browne, 1807; and 11 others on the West Country including RCHM Salisbury vol.I & Dorset vol.V, 4to & 8vo (14)
Wiltshire.- Rutter (John) Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, first edition, large paper copy, half-title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, additional pictorial title and plate, 10 engraved plates including unnumbered plate of South West View (as usual), large folding lithographed plan hand-coloured in outline, wood-engraved vignettes, double-page genealogical table and list of subscribers at end, foxing to some plates, handsome contemporary olive green straight-grain morocco cathedral binding with elaborate borders tooled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, inner gilt dentelles, pale pink moiré silk endpapers with gilt-tooled border, g.e., a little rubbed, upper joint neatly repaired, [Abbey, Scenery 418], (340 x 275mm.), Shaftesbury, by the Author, 1823; A Description of Fonthill Abbey and Demesne, fifth edition, engraved frontispiece, advertisement for 'Delineations...' at beginning, original printed wrappers, rubbed, lacking spine, Shaftesbury, by the author, 1822, 4to & 8vo (2)⁂ Account of Beckford's extraordinary Gothic mansion designed by James Wyatt. The construction was rushed and the huge tower collapsed several times. Beckford was forced to sell the property and most of its contents in 1822 due to financial constraints and the majority of the building was demolished in 1825.
Bewick (John).- [Trusler (John)] Proverbs Exemplified, and illustrated by Pictures from Real Life, teaching Morality and a Knowledge of the World, first edition, wood-engraved title-vignette and illustrations by John Bewick, lightly browned, near contemporary half russia, spine gilt, t.e.g., a little rubbed, slight wear to upper joint, J.Trusler, 1790 § [Johnson (Richard)] The Blossoms of Morality, second edition, wood-engraved illustrations and vignettes by and after John Bewick, contemporary tree sheep, rubbed, rebacked preserving old spine, one corner repaired, [Tattersfield TB 2.50.], E.Newbery, 1796, 12mo (2)
London.- [Busby (Thomas Lord)] Costume of the Lower Orders of the Metropolis, first edition, etched pictorial title and 23 plates of streetsellers, all hand-coloured, some light marginal browning or soiling, [Colas 492], [c.1820] bound into (as sometimes) Leigh's New Picture of London, 2 folding engraved maps, engraved plates of London buildings (one of Greenwich lacking), foxed, some repairs, Samuel Leigh, 1822, together 2 works in 1 vol., bound together in modern calf, spine gilt with black roan label, slightly marked, 12mo
Bewick (Thomas).- Sportsman's Progress (The): a Poem, descriptive of the Pleasures derived from Field Sports, 24pp., first separate edition, half-title, wood-engraved title-vignette and 12 other vignettes by ?Thomas Bewick, lightly browned, the Schwerdt copy with his circular engraved bookplate, original boards, uncut, rubbed, spine worn, [Hugo 3612; Schwerdt II p.223; Not in Tattersfield], 8vo, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1820.⁂ Rare; first published in the second edition of Scott's British Field Sports and probably one of only a few copies issued separately. Library Hub lists only 2 printed copies (BL and University of Liverpool Library), WorldCat adds a further 5 copies of which 2 are in the UK (University of Suffolk, Ipswich and University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham).
Bewick (Thomas).- Relph (Rev. Josiah, of Sebergham) Poems..., first edition, wood-engraved title-vignette and illustrations by Thomas Bewick, first and last leaves lightly browned, bookplate of James Rolt, original boards, uncut, rubbed, spine defective, Carlisle, J.Mitchell, 1798 § Pretty Book of Pictures (A) for Little Masters and Misses, fifteenth edition, one of 250 copies, title in red & black with decorative border, wood-engravings by Bewick printed from the original blocks on japon and mounted, foxing, original roan-backed cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, 1867 § Mynshul (Geffray) Essayes and Characters of a Prison and Prisoners, half-title, woodcut to facsimile title by Bewick, some spotting, from the Bewick Collection of Rev. Thomas Hugo with book-label, original boards, uncut, rubbed, spine ends chipped, Edinburgh, 1821 § [Roxby (Robert)] The Lay of the Reedwater Minstrel, first edition, [one of 250 copies], wood-engraved title-vignette by Robert Bewick, old ink inscriptions to front endpapers, original printed boards repeating wood-engraving, rubbed and stained, crudely rebacked, Newcastle, for the Author, by D.Akenhead and sons, 1809, [Tattersfield TB 2.489.; TB 2.507.; TB 2.158.; TB 2.352.]; and 9 others with illustrations by Bewick or his workshop, 8vo & 4to (13)
Hindley (Charles) The Life and Times of James Catnach..., first edition, presentation copy from the author inscribed to George Skelly of Alnwick with 2 mounted photographic portraits, illustrations, some hand-coloured, some by Bewick, extra-illustrated with numerous additional plates including engravings, lithographs, portraits, letters, advertisements and a mock-up of a chapbook 'The Golden Pippin, mostly mounted on blank leaves and bound in, modern buckram, morocco label, 1878; The History of the Catnach Press, 1887; The True History of Tom and Jerry, one of 250 copies, hand-coloured plates, [1883] § Tuer (Andrew W.) The Book of Delightful and Strange Designs...of the Art of the Japanese Stencil-Cutter, limited edition [?one of 100 copies], text in English & French, with original stencil mounted on stub as frontispiece, double-page textile stencil designs, title browned and slightly frayed at edges, original cloth-backed boards, paper label on upper cover and spine, Leadenhall Press, [1893], plates and illustrations, rubbed; and 7 others, Leadenhall Press, chapbooks etc., 8vo & 4to (11)
NO RESERVE Africa.- Big Game.- Stigand (Capt. C.H.) & D. D. Lyell, Central African Games and its Spoor, first edition, half-title, plates, 2 folding, one with short tear, occasional spotting, previous owner's ink signature, original decorative cloth, faint spotting, rubbed and worn, [Hosken p.191], 1906 § Roosevelt (Theodore) The Wilderness Hunter, first edition, frontispiece, plates, ex-library with ink-stamp to title verso, small holes to front free endpaper where label removed, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spotting, shelf-mark to spine foot, bumping to corners and extremities, 1893; and another, big game, 8vo (3).
Europe.- Etherton (P. T.) and A. Dunscombe Allen. Through Europe and the Balkans, first edition, plates, some scattered spotting and small patch of damp-staining to edges, original cloth, light rubbing to tips of spine and corners, dust-jacket, chipping and creasing to head and foot with portion of loss to head of upper panel affecting 3 letters of title, chipping to upper fore-edge, extremities rubbed, 8vo, 1928.⁂ Account of a 6,300 road trip through Europe, rare in the dust-jacket.
Europe.- Lytton (Edward George Earle Bulwer) The Pilgrims of the Rhine, first edition, additional engraved title and frontispiece, half-title, plates and illustrations, some light foxing to plates, later vellum, ruled in gilt, spine gilt with green morocco label, g.e., Saunders & Otley, 1834 § Heath (C.) Paris and its Environs, 2 vol. in 1, plates and illustrations after Pugin, ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, some light foxing to plates, modern half morocco over library roan, 1831 § Beattie (William) The Danube, 2 vol., engraved title vignette and plates by W. Henry Bartlett, light foxing or spotting, ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, contemporary morocco, gilt, rubbed, 1842, 4to & 8vo (4)
NO RESERVE Iceland & Greenland.- [Nicol (James)] An historical and descriptive account of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands; with illustrations of their natural history, first edition, engraved folding frontispiece map of Iceland, additional pictorial title, map of the Faroe Islands, and 2 plates, contemporary calf, gilt, with arms of the Signet library to covers, spine and corners worn, rubbed, Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, 1840 § Gaimard (Paul) Voyage en Islande et au Groenland exécuté pendant les années 1835 et 1836 sur la corvette La Recherche, Parts 1 & 2 only (Minéralogie et Géologie), half-title, wood-engraved illustrations, foxing, original printed boards, some staining, lightly soiled, large 8vo, Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1840; and 3 others, Iceland, v.s. (6)
Iceland.- Henderson (Ebenezer) Iceland, or the journal of a residence in that island during the years 1814 and 1815, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved folding map and 16 plates, directions to binder f., a few small repairs to map, map and plates foxed, some spotting, water-stained, modern boards, short split to head of spine of vol.1, Edinburgh, For Oliphant, Waugh and Innes, 1818; and Pennant's 'Supplement of the Arctic Zoology', 8vo & small 4to (3)
London.- Gascoigne (Bamber) Images of Richmond, limited edition signed by the author, A.L.s. from the author loosely inserted, Richmond-upon-Thames, St.Helena Press, 1978; Images of Twickenham with Hampton and Teddington, limited edition, Richmond-upon-Thames, St.Helena Press, 1981 § Evans (John) Richmond, and its vicinity, lithographed frontispiece, modern half calf, spine gilt, uncut, Richmond, [c.1824] § Mackay (Charles) The Thames and its Tributaries..., 2 vol., wood-engraved additional pictorial title and illustrations, light soiling, modern half calf, spines gilt, 1840 § Ellis (Charles) Richmond: and other poems, first edition, Baxter oil colour frontispiece, 3 plates, light foxing, 1845 § Murray (John Fisher) Environs of London. Western Division, wood-engravings, Edinburgh & London, 1842 § Aungier G.J.) The History and Antiquities of Syon Monastery, the Parish of Isleworth, and the Chapelry of Hounslow, 1840, maps, plates and illustrations, all but the third original cloth, the first with slip-case, the second with dust-jacket, the last three rubbed with faded spines; and c.15 others on south-west London and the Thames, 4to & 8vo (c.20)
Iceland.- Mackenzie (Sir George Steuart) Travels in the Island of Iceland, during the summer of the year MDCCCX, first edition, half-title, 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates on mounted India paper, 2 engraved maps (1 folding and hand-coloured in outline), 7 engraved plates (1 folding), including one of music, 4 folding letterpress tables, engraved vignettes, some spotting or foxing (mostly to backing sheets for aquatint plates), modern brown half morocco, gilt spine in compartments, [Abbey Travel 160; Tooley 313], a good copy, 4to, Edinburgh, Thomas Allan and Company, 1811.⁂ Mackenzie travelled to Iceland in 1810 with the physicians Henry Holland and Richard Bright.
Iceland.- Troil (Uno von) Letters on Iceland..., made, during a Voyage undertaken in the Year 1772, by Joseph Banks..., first edition in English, engraved folding map, engraved plate of a geyser, lacking initial blank, occasional spotting, lightly browned, 19th century half calf, sympathetically rebacked, 8vo, Printed by and for W. Richardson, 1780.⁂ Troil was chaplain to the King of Sweden, and later became Archbishop of Uppsala. The work was first published in Stockholm, 1777, in German.
NO RESERVE India to Egypt.- Noé (Louis Panteleon Jules Amedee, Comte de) Mémoires relatifs à l'expédition anglaise partie du Bengale en 1800 pour aller combattre en Égypte l'armée d'Orient, first edition, presentation copy from the author, half-title, 19 hand-coloured lithographed plates, double-page lithographed map with hand-coloured route, errata and binder's ff. at end, lacking folding map of Egypt, spotting and staining, upper hinge split, contemporary red boards, crudely rebacked, head of spine worn and corner worn, upper joint splitting, rubbed, [Abbey, Travel, 350; Blackmer 1204; Colas 2208], 8vo, [Paris], Royal Printers, 1826. sold not subject to return. ⁂ 'The author was a member of the French nobility who emigrated during the Revolution. In 1791 he joined the British Army and served in India. In 1800 this force was sent to Egypt to join in the concerted Anglo-Turkish efforts to oust the French. Most of the plates concern Ceylon and India.' (Blackmer). Provenance: William Arbuthnot (engraved armorial bookplate, with an inscription from the author above it, written in Paris, July, 1826).
NO RESERVE Middle East.- Dickson (H. R. P.) The Arab of the Desert, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 11 folding maps and plans at end, chipping to edges, ex-library with ink-stamp to title verso, modern cloth, 1949 § Martineau (Harriet) Eastern Life, Present and Past., 3 vol., presentation inscription from author to vol. 1., half-titles, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, abrasion mark to front free endpaper where labels removed, later morocco-backed boards, blind-stamp to upper covers, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1848, 8vo (4)
Palestine.- Reland (Adriaan) Palaestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, folding engraved portrait frontispiece (torn), additional engraved title to vol.1, printed titles in red and black, 13 engraved maps and plates, some folding, engraved illustrations and decorations, some browning to plates, first few leaves detached and with strengthening to inner margin, contemporary vellum, [Blackmer 1406], 4to, Utrecht, Guilielm Broedelet, 1714.⁂ "His description of Palestine is a remarkable work for its time" (Blackmer).
World.- Costello (Louisa Stuart) A Pilgrimage to Auvergne, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, occasional light foxing, 1842 § Baker (Sir Samuel) The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, new edition, 2 maps, 1872 § Koldewey (Robert) The Excavations and Babylon, translated by Agnes Johns, illustrations and plans, some colour-printed, 1914, original cloth or boards, first blind-stamped, lightly rubbed or faded; and 3 others, travel, 8vo (7)
Britain.- [Gough (Richard)] Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain, vol. 1 only (of 2), first edition, 83 engraved plates, most with tissue-guards, engraved illustrations, scattered spotting, short marginal tear with expert repair (p1), small loss to corner not affecting text (2Y2), occasional faint marginal water-staining, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt, g.e., folio, by J. Nichols for the Author, 1786.⁂ Volume 2 was published 10 years later in 1796, and is often separate from this volume.
London.- [Henry (David)] An Historical Account of the Curiosities of London and Westminster, 3 parts in 1, half-title, contemporary vellum-backed boards, corners worn, splits to joints,Thomas Carnan, 1785 § Peter Parley's Visit to London, during the Coronation of Queen Victoria, 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates, frontispiece detached, original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1838 § Visit (A) to Uncle William in Town..., first edition, engraved plates with multiple views, 4pp. publisher's catalogue at end, old ink library stamp to front free endpaper, original roan-backed pictorial boards, J.Harris, 1818 § Abbott (J.W.) A History of London...with some account...of its most important buildings, engraved portrait, original boards, uncut, worn, lacking spine, 1821, some spotting or soiling, rubbed; and 6 others on London, 8vo et infra (10)
Wiltshire.- Speed (John) Wilshire, first edition, county map with inset town plan of Salisbury and a vignette of Stonehenge, engraving with hand-colouring, on laid paper with armorial watermark, sheet 393 x 514 mm (15 1/2 x 20 1/4 in), first edition woodcut initial verso, double-glazed, central vertical fold with splitting repaired, carefully repaired tear centre left, minor toning, Sudbury and Humble, framed, [circa 1610-1612].
Birds.- Morris (Rev. F.O.) A History of British Birds, 6 vol., first edition, 358 stencil hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, vol. 2-5 with bookplates to front pastedown, contemporary half morocco, rebacked with original spines laid down, gilt with black morocco labels, lightly scuffed, 8vo, 1851-57.
London.- Hunt (Leigh) The Town; its Memorable Characters and Events, 2 vol., first edition, wood-engraved frontispieces and illustrations, lightly browned, a few minor marginal tears, title of vol.2 trimmed and mounted, contemporary half morocco, 1848 § Gay (John) Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London...[&] Dr.Johnson's London, engraved frontispiece, foxing, Roger Senhouse's copy with his signature, book-label and pencil notes to front free endpaper, contemporary half calf, spine ends chipped, joints split, 1807 § Corry (John) A Satirical View of London, fourth edition, folding stipple-engraved frontispiece (browned and torn at fold), later calf-backed cloth, 1809 § Timbs (John) Romance of London, 3 vol., neat ink inscription to title and bookplate of John Browne, 1865, most first editions, the last two all original cloth, some spines a little faded, all rubbed; and 6 others on London, 8vo et infra (14)
Birds & Fish.- Yarrell (William) A History of British Birds, 3 vol., first edition, vol. 2 with small calf restoration to spine, 1843; A History of British Fishes, 2 vol., second edition, light spotting to endpapers, vol. 2 with small tear at head of spine, 1844, wood-engraved illustrations, bookplates to front pastedowns, uniform contemporary calf, rebacked with original spines laid down, gilt with red morocco labels, 8vo (5)
Horse-racing.- General Stud-Book (The); containing...the Pedigree of Every Horse, Mare, &c. of Note, that has Appeared on the Turf..., first edition, lacking half-title, lightly soiled and stained at beginning and end, contemporary mottled calf, worn and stained, 8vo, H.Reynell for J.Weatherby, Junior, 1793.⁂ Scarce and early thoroughbred stud-book, preceded only by the less substantial An Introduction to a General Stud-Book published by Weatherby in 1791. This volume of 1793 is therefore the first volume of The General Stud-Book, containing many more pedigrees and far more accurate. Weatherby has continued to issue a stud-book every four years, the most recent volume, number 48, being published in 2017.Not in the British Library. ESTC records only 6 UK copies (Cambridge, Cardiff, Durham and St.Andrews university libraries, and Longleat House and Wellcome Institute), and 3 in America.
White (Rev. Gilbert) A Naturalist's Calendar, with observations in various branches of Natural History, first edition, hand-coloured engraved plate, 2 near contemporary manuscript notes tipped-in, bookplate loosely inserted, previous owner's ink inscription dated 1820, occasional faint spotting, contemporary straight-grain morocco, gilt, slight rubbing to corners, 1795; Account of the House-martin, or Martlet. In a Letter from Rev. Gilbert White to the Hon. Daines Barrington ... 20th November 1773, 8pp. extract from Volume 56, Chapter 27 of the Royal Philosophical Transactions for 1774, modern half-calf, c.1774, 8vo & small 4to (2)⁂ The first with the bookplate of Lord Selbourne loosely inserted, and inscribed 'A.M. De Ruthyn from Lord Henley, 1820.' Anna Maria, Dowager Lady Grey de Ruthyn, married William Ede, the third son of Lord Henley in 1820.
Medicinal waters bound by Hering.- Allen (Benjamin) The natural history of the chalybeat and purging waters of England, with their particular essays and uses. Among which are treated at large the apoplexy & hypochondriacism, first edition, errata f. (misbound earlier in preliminaries), lacking N5-8 at end, later engraved illustration of people bathing mounted as frontispiece, later related ink ms. notes and an index to endpapers, occasional spotting or staining, dark blue straight-grain morocco by Hering (with his label to front free endpaper), gilt, covers with triple filet borders with floral corner-pieces, spine in compartments and with blind-stamped and gilt filet and foliage decoration, rubbed, g.e., [Wing A1018; Wellcome II, p. 32], 8vo (binding 168 x 102mm.), Printed: and sold by S. Smith and B. Walford, 1699.
Ireland.- [Farewell (James)] The Irish Hudibras, or Fingallian Prince, first edition, half-title/licence leaf before title, 4pp. Irish glossary at end, 8vo, Richard Baldwin, 1680, together with Vol. 1 of The Roman History, Dr Goldsmith, 1797 and The Life of Nelson; Southey, Robert, 1831.Qty: 3
AMENDED DESCRIPTION AND REVISED CONDITION REPORT Sinerpica lamp by Michele De Lucchi for Studio Alchimia, for the Bau.haus Uno collection, 1979 first edition, in the Memphis style, formed as a pink round plinth holding a blue pole around which a green pole is wound holding a small yellow tube for an exposed bulbProvenance: purchased by the vendor from a French antique shop in 2009. Condition Report: In good condition. Plug has been removed.
5 vols. incl. a rebound 'History of the Brocklesby Hounds' by G.E. Collins Nimrod Junior 1700-1901, 'Memories of Racing & Hunting' by The Duke of Portland 1935, first edition, and a vol. 'The Flying Parson & Dick Christian' by Guy Padget and Lionel Ervin illustrated by Charles Simpson, first edition 1934 etc.
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