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Click here to subscribeDingley (Robert) Vox Coeli; or, Philosophical, Historicall, and Theological Observations, of Thunder, first edition, title within typographic border, lacking engraved portrait frontispiece, b3 and 4 misbound at end, blank leaf b4 present, occasional soiling, modern half calf, [Wing D1502], 8vo, Printed by M. S. for Henry Cripps, 1658.⁂ Provenance: ?Joshua Read (ink name at head of title).
Anti-Spain polemic.- Treatise Paraenetical (A), that is to say: an Exhortation. Wherein is shewed ... the right way and true meanes to resist the Castilian King ...by a pilgrim Spaniard, first edition in English, title with woodcut decoration, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, light damp-staining, a few ff. shaved at foot, affecting signatures, later wrappers, lower cover chipped and creased, [Palau 328878; Sabin 96752; STC 19838], sm. 4to, for William Ponsonby, 1598.⁂ An important anti-Spanish treatise that includes references to Brazil and the West Indies as well as an early account of Sir Francis Drake's 1589 Lisbon campaign.
Economics.- Locke (John) Several Papers Relating to Money, Interest and Trade, 2 parts in 1, first collected edition, mixed issue, errata leaf present at end, no endpapers, hinges weak, later vellum, head of spine nicked, [Wing L2757; Kress 1980; Goldsmiths 3315], 8vo, Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1696.⁂ This copy with title to first part reading "By Mr. John Locke" and with second part with 111pp. and title dated 1695, mixing the two 'editions' identified by ESTC.
Medicine.- Lemnius (Levinus) The Secret Miracles of Nature, first edition in English, title printed in red and black, occasional browning, lacking rear endpaper, ink inscription to endpaper, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary calf, some splitting to joints wear to corners, [Wing L1044], by Jo. Streater, 1658.⁂ Scarce first edition in English of this popular book of "secrets", a mixture of medical lore combined with occultism, astrology and religious belief.
Spanish empire.- Campanella (Tommaso) A Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy. Wherein We Have a Political Glasse Representing Each Particular Country, Province, Kingdome, and Empire of the World, with Wayes of Government by Which They May be Kept in Obedience, first edition in English, woodcut initials and headpieces, title of the 1654 reissue mounted on stub at front, ink library stamps to title verso (with some show-through) and fore-margin of 2 other ff., a few pencil marks to fore-margins, modern calf, [Sabin 10198; Wing C401], sm. 4to, 1654 [but 1653].⁂ Campanella's treatise on the expansion and defence of the Spanish empire in which he imagines the world unified under the rule of a theocratic monarch. Includes sections on the British Isles, Persia and the New World with recommendations to build castles at river mouths to guard against the English. Provenance: Longton Public Library (ink stamps).
Chemistry.- Simpson (William) Zymologia Physica, Or a brief Philosophical Discourse of Fermentation, from a new Hypothesis of Acidum and Sulphur, 2 parts in 1, first edition, title stained at foot, I6 repaired tear to verso with slight loss of text, K7 torn affecting 8 lines of text, small hole to D7 with loss to a couple of words, some slight worming, mostly marginal, cropped with occasional loss to text at fore-edge and headlines, some light water-staining, Printed by T. R. & N. T. for W. Cooper, 1675.⁂ Covers 'natural Hot-Baths', minerals, heat, fire, light, and 'other subterraneal Phoenomena, as Damps, Earth-quakes, Eruptions, &c.'. Part 2, with a separate title-page, comprises 'A Discourse of the Sulphur-Bath at Knarsbrough in York-shire.'
Comines (Philippe de) The Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton, first edition in English, title within elaborate woodcut historiated border (shaved to border), woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, genealogical tables on pp. 379-96, lacking final errata f., title and final text with some fraying to margins, first 4 ff. including title trimmed at head, some staining to title, occasional light browning, contemporary calf, covers with central gilt arabesque with initials "W. W." to either side, rebacked, some chipping to corners, light surface wear, [Pforzheimer 190; STC 5602], folio, by Ar. Hatfield, for I. Norton, 1596.⁂ Translated by Thomas Dannett and dedicated to Lord Burghley, Comines' Historie is essentially a memoir of his diplomatic experiences along with some thoughts on the prerogative of princes.
Critique of Pascal.- Boyle (Robert) Hydrostatical Paradoxes, made out by New Experiments, (For the most part Physical and Easie), first edition, imprimatur leaf bound at beginning, title in red and black, 3 folding engraved plates, D4 with small paper flaw affecting catchword, N1 with small burn-hole affecting one word of text on both sides, ms correction to A6 verso, contemporary calf, upper joint cracked, a little rubbed, [Wing B3985; Fulton 72; Madan III, 2738], 8vo, Oxford, Printed by William Hall, for Richard Davis, 1666.⁂ Rarely found complete; this copy with imprimatur leaf (usually bound with contents leaf as b1 or 2 after the preface) bound at beginning and evidently there from early times given the staining from the leather to the edges of the leaf. "Hydrostatical Paradoxes is both a penetrating critique of Pascal's work on hydrostatics, full of acute observations upon Pascal's experimental method, and a presentation of a series of important and ingenious experiments upon fluid pressure" (DSB).Provenance: William Hunt (ink inscription at head of title "Ex lib. Guilielmi Hunt Donum Gualterii Grubbe Armigeri 1714"); Albert L. Mond (bookplate)
Estienne (Henri) World of Wonders: or, an Introduction to a Treatise Touching the Conformitie of Ancient and Moderne Wonders, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition in English, titles with woodcut devices, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, lacking initial blank and rear endpaper, small rust-hole to first title and 2C5, one or two short marginal tears, contemporary calf, covers with arabesque centre-pieces in gilt, sympathetically rebacked, additional restoration to joints, corners repaired, rubbed, [STC 10553], folio, for John Norton, 1607.⁂ First published in 1566 as Apologie pour Herodote, Estienne's work ran afoul of the church in Geneva. The author was arrested and forced to remove the offending sections.
Beckford copy.- Oxenham (James) A True Relation of an Apparition in the likenesse of a Bird with a white brest, that appeared hovering over the Death-Beds of some of the children..., first edition, engraved frontispiece trimmed at fore-edge, lacking A1 (?blank), late 19th century newspaper cuttings stuck to front endpapers, early 19th century calf, gilt, rubbed, joints cracking, head of spine chipped, [Wing O842], 4to, Printed by I. O. for Richard Clutterbuck, 1641.⁂ Lot 347 in the Beckford sale, 3 July 1883, reoffered in 1988 and the last time a copy of this work appeared at auction. ESTC locates 9 copies, only 3 of which are in N. America
Vauban (Sebastien Le Prestre) The New Method of Fortification, first English edition, additional engraved title, 30 folding engraved plates, some light browning, contemporary panelled calf, a little rubbed, [Wing L1116], 8vo, Printed for Abel Swall, 1691.⁂ Mascall family copy with ink inscription of Jon. Mascall jun. on front endpaper; bookplate of Robert Mascall; and later inscription from Herbert Mascall-Curteis (dated 1884) on front endpaper.
Whitehall (John) Miscellaneous Poems, with Some Remarks on the Death of King Charles the II. and the Happy Succession of King James the II, first edition, with initial blank f., a very good, uncut copy, modern speckled calf, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, [Wing W1867], 4to, for T. Salusbury, 1685.⁂ A scarce collection of poems on contemporary subjects.
Agriculture.- Hartlib (Samuel) The Reformed Husband-Man; or a Brief Treatise of the Errors, Defects and Inconveniences of our English Husbandry, in ploughing and sowing for Corn, with the Reasons and general Remedies, first edition, title within typographic border, typographic decorations, title rather soiled with some chipping to fore-margin, lacking final blank, with an addition 2ff. "To the Reader" bound after A2, modern calf-backed cloth, [Wing H998], sm.4to, by J. C., 1651.⁂ Scarce.
Kirby (Richard) and John Bishop. The Marrow of Astrology, 2 parts in 1, first edition, foxed and browned throughout, a few stains and burn-holes, ink signatures of William Cordell (dated 1711) on A3, numerous ink annotations and calculations, probably in his and another hand, additional manuscript leaf with red ink ruled table entitled 'The Speculum for Wm Lillies Nativity" inserted after K2 part 2, later green half morocco over marbled boards, g.e., a little rubbed, [Wing K622], 4to, Printed by Joseph Streater...for the Authors, 1687.⁂ ESTC locates 9 copies. This copy with bookplate of Charles F. Cox, New York.
Ayres (Philip) Emblemata Amatoria...In Four Languages, first edition, engraved throughout, frontispiece, title, 2 leaves 'Sonnet', 44 plates with facing leaf of text, title with small piece missing from lower corner, some other leaves shaved close, touching edge of plate, several leaves misbound, some early ink annotations to blank versos, later red morocco, gilt, g.e., [Wing A4307; Landwehr Rom. 130; Praz p.263; Freeman p.205], 8vo, Sold by R. Bently...S. Tidmarch, 1683.⁂ "Its graceful four-lined poems in copper-plate hand required no intellectual effort to follow, the subject was love - the book was, in fact, admirably suited to the drawing-room and the ladies for whom it was destined." (Freeman)
Great Plague and Great Fire of London.- Vincent (Thomas) God's Terrible Voice in the City... Narration of the two late Dreadfull Judgments of Plague and Fire, first edition, a few ff. closely shaved at head or foot, rust-hole to N2 affecting 1 or 2 letters of text, occasional light soiling, book label to pastedown, modern antique-style mottled calf, chipping to foot of lower joint, [Wing V440], 8vo, n.p. 1667.⁂ Provenance: Charles Whibley (book label).
Europe.- Barclay (John) The Mirrour of Mindes, or Barclay's Icon Animorum, translated by Thomas May, first edition in English, with initial and final blanks, 2K4 inverted, occasional light foxing, a few ff. closely shaved at head, a few ink ownership inscriptions, contemporary vellum, lacking ties, soiled, [STC 1399], 12mo, by John Norton, 1631.⁂ Scarce. Discusses the people of the principal nations of Europe: their merits, failings, habits and customs of thought and behaviour. Provenance: Wm. Prytherghe, 1647; David Ellis; Hugh Wynne (ink inscriptions).
Natural History.- Lovell (Robert) Panzooryktologia [graece]. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, with blank Kk4 at end of first part and additional leaf in Index along with longitudinal half-title (following 3A4) as usual, titles with ornamental typographic borders, woodcut initials, light soiling to first title, occasional light browning, lacking rear endpaper, contemporary calf, rebacked, retaining much of original backstrip, endpaper and spine labels renewed, corners bumped, [Wing L3245 & 3246], 8vo, Oxford, Hen. Hall for Jos. Godwin, 1661.⁂ Exhaustive survey of the natural world that includes a description of unicorns in the first part.
"The Huguenot Pope".- Mornay (Phillippe de) A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion...Against Atheists, Epicures, Paynims, Jewes, Mahumetists, and other Infidels, first edition, translated by Sir Philip Sidney and Arthur Golding, title within woodcut border, largely printed in black letter, woodcut decorations and initials, trimmed close at upper edge, slightly affecting headlines towards end, browned, particularly to margins, some water-staining, later tree calf over wooden boards, head of spine repaired, upper joint cracking, [STC 18149], 4to in 8s, Imprinted...by [John Charlewood and] George Robinson for Thomas Cadman, 1587.⁂ Sir Philip Sidney's first published work. He began the translation before his fatal expedition to the Low Countries. Mornay (1549-1623) studied law and jurisprudence at the University of Heidelberg in 1565 and the following year Hebrew and German at the University of Padua. He escaped the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and became Henry of Navarre's de-facto right-hand man, gaining great political influence and being dubbed 'the Huguenot Pope'. In about 1592 he was sent on a mission to the court of Queen Elizabeth in England where he and his wife befriended English Protestants such as Francis Walsingham, Mary Sidney, and her brother Philip.Provenance: E. Backshell junior (ink name dated 1713 within typographic border); L. Namey (ink name dated 1809 on title); Schmidtchen (bookplate with booksellers' catalogue descriptions pasted above and beneath on pastedown).
Economics.- Carew (Reynell) The True English Interest: or an Account of the Chief National Improvements; in some Political Observations, demonstrating an Infallible Advance of this Nation to Infinite Wealth and Greatness, Trade and Populacy, with Imployment, and Preferment for all Persons, first edition, initial imprimatur leaf with woodcut dragon device recto (with ink inscriptions partially erased), with 2 final advertisement ff. (margins a little chipped), rust-hole to G1 affecting 2 or 3 letters of text, occasional light browning, later calf, light sunning to spine, [Goldsmiths' 2065; Kress 1369; Sabin 70402; Wing R1215], for Giles Widdowes, 1674.⁂ First edition of this important economic survey of England that includes an account of English and Spanish plantations in North and South America and the West Indies and advocates for the growing of tobacco on English soil. Provenance: George ?Buxton (ink inscription).
Diet.- Bacon (Sir Francis) The Historie of Life and Death. With Observations Naturall and Experimentall for the Prolonging of Life, first edition in English, initial imprimatur leaf, additional engraved title, printed title within typographic border, woodcut decorations and initials, nick to fore-edge causing slight marginal damage, contemporary calf, modern cloth chemise and slip-case, [STC 1157], 12mo, Printed by I. Okes, for Humphrey Mosley, 1638.⁂ Very good copy of this unauthorised and anonymous translation of Historia vitae et mortis, which appeared two months before William Rawley's authorised version, whose foreword said of this translation "lame, and defective, in the whole". It includes Bacon's advice on food and diet.
Mining.- Shiers (William) A Familiar Discourse or Dialogue concerning the Mine-Adventure, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, occasional light marginal damp-staining, contemporary sheep, chipping and wear to spine ends, some surface wear, [Goldsmiths' 3641; Kress 2265; Wing S3458], 8vo, n.p., 1700.⁂ Scarce at auction, relates to an early 18th century industrial scandal. Through his wife Sir Humphrey Mackworth had inherited an estate with coal mining rights in Wales. Following the demise of the Society of Mines Royal in 1694 he established the Company of Mine Adventures and began to smelt copper but this was declared bankrupt in 1709 and he was accused of fraud, although with a change of government the charges were dropped.
Bindings. HOUSMAN (A E) More Poems, first edition 1936, 8vo, full morocco with star motifs around an 'AF' [Audrey Field] monogram, signed D C & Son 1936 [Douglas Cockerell & Son], some foxing to fore edge; two slim vols. of poems by Audrey Field [Pleydell-Bouverie], both in full morocco, one turn-in signed by Stanley Bray dated 1939, the other by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; with five other works all apparently bound by 'Audrey Field', each with her gilt stamp (8)
BEDDOES (Thomas) Hygeia: or Essays Moral and Medical on the Causes Affecting the Personal State of Our Middling and Affluent Classes, 3 vols., first edition, Bristol 1802-03, 8vo, some light staining and toning, worn half calf.Footnote: 'Beddoes’s essay ‘On the nature and prevention of some of the disorders, commonly called nervous’ (the ninth in this collection) contains one of the most comprehensive early studies of incipient epilepsy. The tenth essay, a continuation of the ninth, includes Beddoes’s plea for exact terminology to describe mental diseases, and his proposal that full-blown insanity should be studied in conjunction with incipient madness in order to gain the knowledge necessary for treatment and prevention. Beddoes is perhaps best know as the man who ‘discovered’ Humphry Davy’ (Norman 160)Condition report: Text blocks generally clear of major defects. Some age toning and staining with slight variation to paper colour. See images.
DICKENS (Charles) Dombey and Son, Bradbury and Evans 1848, 8vo, first edition in book form, illustrations by H K Browne, with 'Capatin' for 'Captain' as the final word on p.324, typical toning to plates, etched frontispiece and title lightly foxed, half calf; The Chimes, 1845, 12mo, added title and frontispiece, original red cloth gilt; Life of Charles Mathews, 2 vols., Macmillan 1879, 8vo, ink-blot stain to half title, cloth; one other
DODGSON (Rev. Charles L.) pseud. 'Lewis Carroll'. Through the Looking Glass, Macmillan and Co 1872, 8vo, first edition with 'wade' for 'wave' on p.21, half-title and one-page publisher's advertisement for Dodgson's works on Q1v, wood engraved illustrations by John Tenniel, slight foxing or spotting, front inner hinge broken, sewing broken in places, original cloth, a little worn; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 30th thousand, 1872, title slightly stained, original red cloth gilt, a little bumped; another copy - 88th thousand, 1899, 8vo, slight spotting to title; The Hunting of the Snark, Macmillan and Co 1876, 8vo, slight spotting to title, original cloth (4)
DICKENS (Charles) Oliver Twist, first edition and first issue, 3 vols., London: Richard Bentley, 1838, half-titles to volumes 1 and 2, 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank, with fireside plate, as called for, vol. I with illustrations list, half title with advert for Barnaby Rudge by 'Boz' overleaf, and 2pp. adverts at end, 'New Works of Fiction' dated November 1838 printed overleaf of half title to vol. II, Bentley's Standard Library advertising leaf to vol. III, typical browning and staining to plates, vol. I rather shaken with sewing broken in places, all in original cloth, corners bumped and worn, spine strips chipped with splitting particularly to vols. I and IIICondition report: images attached.
NICHOLAS (J L) Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand, in 2 vols., London 1817, 8vo, first edition, frontispieces, two charts and two plates, as called for, slight staining, worn cracked half calf; PRIDEAUX (H) History of the Old and New Testament,1729, vols. 2-4 only, 10th edition, 4 folding maps, calf (5)
JAMES (Edward) The Gardener Who Saw God, first edition 1937, 8vo, author's presentation inscription to his sister Audrey [Pleydell-Bouverie], half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; COWARD (Noel) The Rat Trap, first edition Ernest Benn 1924, small 8vo, inscribed by the author to Audrey [Pleydell-Bouverie], contents somewhat browned, cloth; The Vortex, 1925, 8vo, browned, author's inscription, half calf; Spangled Unicorn, no date, author's Christmas gift inscription, faded cloth; BROMFIELD (Louis) The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg, 1933; The Farm, 1933; Lilli Barr, 1932; The Man who had Everything, 1937; all inscribed by the author to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, dated 1937, each with her bookplate; The Rains Came, 1937, all in half morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe; FOREL (O-L) Aphorismes, 1937, small 8vo, no. 28 of 50 copies, author's lengthy ink inscription to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, with her bookplate, morocco binding signed by Audrey Field; DE SEVERSKY (Major A) Victory Through Air Power, New York 1942, 2nd edition, 8vo, inscribed by the author, blue morocco, faded spine
POTTER (Beatrix) The Story of Miss Moppet, first edition in book form [1916], F. Warne, no date, pictorial endpapers, original grey boards with mounted colour illustration, spine strip slightly lifting; The Tailor of Gloucester, no date, repaired; BRIDGMAN (Clare) The Bairn's Coronation Book, illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1902, pictorial covers (3)
FORSTER (E M) First editions: The Longest Journey, 1907, foxing to edges, original cloth; A Room with a View, 1908, light foxing to title and edges, 8pp. adverts at rear, original cloth, crease to front board; Howard's End, 1910, foxing to first and last leaves, 4pp. adverts at end, original cloth; A Passage to India, 1924, similar foxing, original cloth; Abinger Harvest, 1936, dust jacket a little edge worn and nicked; The Celestial Omnibus, 1st edition, Sidgwick & Jackson 1911, cloth; The Eternal Moment, 1928, cloth; and 3 others Forster related (10)Condition report: pictures attached.
Modern literature. POWELL (Anthony) A Dance to the Music of Time, first editions in dust jackets of: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, The Kindly Ones, The Valley of Bones, The Soldier's Art, Books do Furnish a Room, also - At Lady Molly's, 1957 (lacking jacket), and The Acceptance World (reprint 1961); GREENE (G) The Quiet American, 1st edition 1955, dust jacket; a few others including Iris Murdoch (4), and Poetry in Pamphlet series, 20 vols. (together 38 vols.)
BEALE (Thomas) The Natural History of the Sperm Whale ... To which is added, a Sketch of a South-Sea Whaling Voyage, 2nd edition, John van Voorst, 1839, large 12mo, half-title, 3 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, Geology Museum library stamps to first leaves, publisher's cloth, Westleys & Co binder's ticket
FLEMING (Ian) The Spy Who Loved Me, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape 1962, 8vo, ownership name to first free end paper, price unclipped, cloth in dust jacket, slightly edge worn; The Man With The Golden Gun, first edition 1965, light wear to dust jacket; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 2nd impression 1963, ink named, slightly worn dust jacket (3)
The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California, first edition, London 1861, 8vo, half-title, folding map, plates, as required, front inner hinge broken, publisher's green cloth with beehive motif, spine creased, a little shaken, front board with signs of a removed label, Mudie label to rear paste-down
AUBREY (John) Miscellanies..., Viz. I. Day-Fatality. II. Local-Fatality. III. Ostenta. IV. Omens. V. Dreams. VI. Apparitions. VII. Voices. VIII. Impulses. IX. Knockings. X. Blows invisible. XI. Prophesies. XII. Marvels. XIII. Magick. XIV. Transportation in the Air. XV. Visions in a Beril, or Glass. XVI. Converse with Angels and Spirits. XVII. Corps Candles in Wales. XVIII. Oracles. XIX.Exstasie. XX. Glances of Love. Envy. XXI. Second-Sighted Persons. First edition, London: for Edward Castle, 1696, 8vo, lacking initial blank, with a few woodcut illustrations, some corners with old crease marks and marginal pencillings, worn calf, rebacked [Wing A4188].Note: Aubrey's Miscellanies investigates a variety of psychic and supernatural phenomena such as omens and prophecies, dreams and apparitions, day fatality and second sight.
COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor) The Watchman. Numbers I-X [All issued]. Bristol: "Published by the Author... And sold by the Booksellers and Newscarriers in Town and Country" (No. I); "Published by the Author... and by Parsons, Paternoster-Row, London" (parts II-X), 1 March-13 May 1796. Ten numbers bound in one volume, 8vo, a little toned and creased in places, in later half calf (rubbed).FIRST EDITION OF COLERIDGE'S SCARCE POLITICAL JOURNAL, discontinued by Coleridge due to cost.
LANG (Andrew) Collection of 11 Fairy Books, first editions unless otherwise stated, in original decorative cloth bindings, some with contemporary inscriptions, including: The Yellow Fairy Book 1894, slight spotting; The Pink Fairy Book 1897, spine strip torn; The Grey Fairy Book 1900; The Violet Fairy Book 1901; The Crimson Fairy Book 1903, 2 plates loose and slightly frayed at edges; The Brown Fairy Book 1904, 1 plate loose and creased; The Blue Fairy Book 1905, 11th impression, spine worn; The Orange Fairy Book 1906; The Olive Fairy Book 1907; The Lilac Fairy Book 1910, cover a little soiled; and - The Red Fairy Book, 2nd edition 1890, in damaged binding lacking spine strip (11)
BEAUMONT (Francis) and John FLETCHER. Comedies and Tragedies... Never printed before, And now published by the Authours Originall Copies. London: for Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley, 1647, bound with - The Wild-Goose Chase. A Comedie, 1652, first collected edition, folio, portrait frontispiece of Fletcher in emended state as usual, paste-on cancel a2v of The Wild-Goose Chase present; text generally good with a few spots and slight stains, small paper tear to 4F1 without loss; all in contemporary mottled calf with good reback preserving original spine strip, armorial bookplate of Colonel James Cotes of Woodcote, Shropshire dated 1755
ROSS (Sir James Clark). A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43, in 2 vols., first edition, London: John Murray, 1847, 8vo, tinted lithographic plates (including folding panorama, 'Part of the South Polar Barrier'), 8 maps (3 folding), wood-engraved vignette chapter-headings, and 16 pp. advertisements dated January 1847 at rear, all as called for, variable spotting and foxing to plates, maps and titles, but text generally clean, ownership inscriptions, two gatherings starting, vol. II front inner hinge splitting, original cloth gilt, a little bumped (2)
Cookery. [NUTT (Frederick)] The Complete Confectioner, 2nd edition, London: for the Author 1790, 12mo, half title, 10 plates including folding, some slight age staining, calf (boards detached), New York Public Library label to first pastedown; HENDERSON (W A) The Housekeeper's Instructor, or Universal Family Cook, 5th edition [circa 1800], 8vo, frontispiece and 11 plates (final plate repaired at fold), some staining, plain binding, rubbed; [RUNDELL (Maria Eliza)] A New System of Domestic Cookery, 1806, 12mo, frontispiece, half title, heavily use stained and spotted, modern boards; [MENON] La Cuisiniere Bourgeoise, suivie de L'Office, nouvelle edition, Paris, 1786, 12mo, lightly age toned, calf, lacking spine label; BEETON (Isabella) The Book of Household Management, early edition, no date, 8vo, vol. I only (of 2), tinted frontispiece and title only, illustrations, half calf; 3 others, later, defective (8)
THE ANTARCTIC PILOT, comprising the Coasts of Antarctica and all Islands Southward of the Usual Route of Vessels. London: The Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, 1939, 8vo, cream cloth covers marked 'First Edition 1930', with pink paper 'Notice' leaf before title, 3 maps including 2 folding, illustrations (some printed back to back), with Supplement No. 11-1944 booklet inserted; GUNTHER (E R) Notes and Sketches made during two years on the 'Discovery' Expedition, Oxford 1928, 4to, paper wrappers (dust stained), author's inscribed compliments slip inserted; Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, Report on the Scientific Results of S.Y. "Scotia". Vol. IV - Zoology, 1908, 4to, maps and plates, original cloth; PEARY (R E) Nearest the Pole, London 1907, large 8vo, large folding map, illustrations, bookplate of Leonard Harrison Matthews, blue cloth gilt (4)
Prize bindings. MOORE (J E S) To the Mountains of the Moon, first edition 1901, 8vo, colour frontispiece, plates (5 folding), 3 maps (2 folding), calf gilt; COWPER (H Swainson) Through Turkish Arabia: A Journey from the Mediterranean to Bombay by the Euphrates and Tigris Valleys and the Persian Gulf, first edition 1894, 8vo, half-title, double frontispiece, 2 maps, illustrations, a few corners creased, very occasional staining, full red calf gilt by Relph Brothers (2)
PSALMANAZAR (George) Memoirs of ****... a Reputed Native of Formosa. Written by Himself, 1st Irish edition, Dublin: P. Wilson et al. 1765, 12mo, 19th century manuscript verse written to first blank leaf, a little stained in places, later calf; [LONGUEVILLE (Peter)] The English Hermit, or the Adventures of Philip Quarll, 5th edition 1790, 12mo, frontispiece, title rather soiled, text toned, rebacked calf; HOLBERG (Lewis) Journey to the World Under Ground... of Niels Klim. London: Thomas North 1828, 12mo, frontispiece offset on to title, a little shaken, cloth backed boards; EAGLES (John) The Journal of Llewellin Penrose, new edition London 1825, 12mo, frontispiece and vignette title, publisher's cloth; SWIFT (J) [Works], vol. III only containing Gulliver's Travels, Dublin 1735, 12mo, frontispiece portrait and 6 plates, rather browned and soiled, rebacked calf; [SUTCLIFFE (Thomas)] Crusoniana, or Truth versus Fiction, elucidated in a History of Juan Fernandez. Manchester, for the Author, 1843, 8vo, engraved frontispiece and additional title, lacking plan of the island, 6 plates, bound with The Earthquake of Juan Fernandez as it Occurred in the Year 1835, and, An Exposition of Facts... Rise and Progress of the Woollen, Linen and Cotton Manufactures of Gt Britain, 1843, together 3 works in one vol., original cloth gilt (6)
Pamphlet. The State of the Church of Rome, when the Reformation began., London: for William Rogers, 1688, 8vo, 34pp., marbled paper wrapper; BEVERLAND (Hadrian) De Fornicatione Cavenda Admonitio: sive Adhortatio ad Pudicitiam et Castitatem, new edition, London 1698, 12mo, 109pp., uncut, paper wrapper; BARTOLOZZI (F) Ricerche Istorico-Critiche circa alle Scoperte D'Amerigo Vespucci. Florence: per Gaetano Cambiagi 1789, 8vo, 183pp., paper wrapper; with a Quaritch facsimile edition of the first four Voyages of Vespucci, 1893, paper covers (4)
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