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Click here to subscribeBATMAN: KILLING JOKE - (1988 - DC Cents Copy) - Classic Batman story - The Joker cripples Barbara Gordon (aka Batgirl) who later becomes Oracle + Origin of the Joker updated and retold - Alan Moore story with Brian Bolland embossed cover and interior art - Green logo First Edition First Print - Flat/Unfolded - a photographic condition report is available on request
Queen Victoria penny black stamp, black MX cancel, housed in a display wallet, various stamp covers relating to Royalty, an album of 'Limited Edition first-day Lithographs', various stamp sheets from the 'Wildlife of the World mint sheet stamp collection' and various 1981 Royal Wedding stamps Condition Report & Further Details Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
Biggles and other books by Cpt. W. E. Johns hardbacks and paperbacks including first edition and others many with dust jackets and prices intact. Also includes a Biggles card game and annual. Hardbacks include Biggles goes to School, Biggles and the Missing Millionaire, Biggles and the Black Raider, Biggles in Australia etc.
Horror and Sci Fi video collection directly from a closed video shop in the 1990s and offered for sale now for the first time, including Night of the Living Dead x2 different, Return of the Living Dead, Basket Case 2, The House by the Cemetery, Mad House, Pet Sematary, Dracula, The Mummy, Hammer, Frankenstein must be destroyed, Hellraiser widescreen, Monster, Friday the 13th Part 2, House of Usher, Aliens x3 different, Doctor Who ltd ed Trial of a Time Lord box set with tin, Star Wars trilogy box set CBS Fox widescreen, sealed Mars Attacks, Star Trek the movies special edition box set including six videos, Batman box set, Jaws, Jaws 2, & 3, 2001 a Space Odyssey, THX 1138, Conan the Barbarian, Daleks Invasion Earth 2150AD, Vengeance of She, Westworld, Final Countdown, Warriors, Clockwork Orange, Close Encounters, Ewoks, time coded dealer preview cassettes including Metropolis and DS9. Nearly all ex-rental vhs videos many from first release. (over 60 videos)Condition report - All were working when the shop closed and they have been kept in their individual film boxes and were stored in sealed Really Useful boxes until now at the time of auction when we have split them into lots.
James Bond collection of VHS videos including first edition Warner home video moulded big box rental versions of The Spy Who Loved Me and Diamonds are Forever, Never Say Never Again in Guild box with original sleeve, other Bond titles inc Widescreen Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Dr No, For Your Eyes Only, Moonraker and more including a timecode dealer preview cassette and box for The World is not enough. (20+)Condition report - All were working when the shop closed and they have been kept in their individual film boxes and were stored in sealed Really Useful boxes until now at the time of auction when we have split them into lots.
4x Corgi 50 Anniversary On a Pedestal 1956-2006 limited edition 1:72 scale die-cast models comprising Messerschmitt BF109E JG-3 'UDET', Gruppenkommandeur Hauptmann Hans Von Hahn AN32107, Hawker Hurricane MKI - VY-Q, NO.85 SQN LDR Peter Townsend AN32011, Supermarine Spitfire MKI - ZP-A, NO.74 SQN, RAF, FLT. LT. Adolf Malan (First Skirmish of the Battle of Brtiain) AN31919 and P51D Mustang - USAAF 78th Fighter Group, 'Big Beautiful Doll', Col. John Landers AN32224, all boxed with certificates and pilot's notes. UK P&P £15+VAT
NO RESERVE French Art.- Blunt (Anthony) Nicolas Poussin: The A.W.Mellon Lectures..., 2 vol., Bollingen Series XXXV.7, Washington D.C., 1967; The Paintings of Nicolas Poussin: A Critical Catalogue, 1966 § Wildenstein (G.) The Paintings of Fragonard, 1960; Chardin: Catalogue Raisonné, revised & enlarged edition by Daniel Wildenstein, 1969 § Posner (D.) Antoine Watteau, 1984 § Rosenblum (Robert) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1967 § Brookner (Anita) Jacques-Louis David, 1980 § Nicolson (B.) & Christopher Wright. Georges de la Tour, 1974, illustrations, many colour, original cloth with dust-jackets, the first and third also with slip-cases, the first a little faded; and c.20 others on French 17th & 18th century painting, 4to & 8vo (c.30)
Duelling.- Bacon (Sir Francis) The charge of Sir Francis Bacon Knight, his Maiesties Attourney generall, touching duells, vpon an information in the Star-chamber against Priest and Wright. With the decree of the Star-chamber in the same cause, first edition, lacking initial and final blanks, woodcut head-pieces and initials, trimmed inscription to head of title, occasional staining, some spotting, lightly browned, disbound, [Gibson 102; Thimm p.21; STC 1125], small 4to, Printed [by George Eld] for Robert Wilson, and are to be sold [by Robert Wilson and W. Bladen] at Graies Inne Gate, 1614.⁂ Bacon against duels. He brought his case to court to see if it could 'doe any good to tame and reclaime that evill which seems unbridled'. He viewed duels as a threat to authority and against the will of God.
NO RESERVE Women.- Ames (Richard, attributed to) Sylvia's revenge, or, A satyr against man; in answer to the Satyr against woman, second edition, longitudinal half-title, water-stained at lower corners, trimmed at head, affecting some page numbers, occasional spotting, lightly browned, disbound, [Wing 2992E], printed for Samuel Clement at the Swan in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1692; and another by the same, small 4to (2)⁂ Written in reply to Robert Gould's misogynistic poem Love given o're: or, a Satyr against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy, &c. of Woman, first published in 1682.
Parnell (Dr. Thomas) Poems on Several Occasions, first edition, title in red and black, woodcut decorations, foxing and staining, contemporary half calf, sympathetically rebacked, 1722; Poems on Several Occasions, third edition, title in red and black, woodcut decorations, bookplates, contemporary calf, joints cracking, 1737; and 2 others, poetry, 8vo & 4to (4)
Trade with Canada.- [Little (Otis)] The state of trade in the northern colonies considered; with an account of their produce, and a particular description of Nova Scotia, first edition (one of two issues, this with head-piece of scallops and acorns on p.9 and catchword 'the' on p.12), half-title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, reader's marking of some passages in ink, occasional spotting, modern calf-backed marbled boards, [Sabin 41523; Howes L-388; European Americana 748, 115-116], 8vo, Printed by G. Woodfall, 1748.⁂ Argues in favour of expanding British settlements in Canada, and in particular Nova Scotia. He shows the importance of the colony to Great Britain in terms of trade and resources, and as a barrier against the French in Canada and Louisbourg. Little was from a prosperous Massachusetts family, and was appointed Surveyor General of Nova Scotia in 1749, the same year that Halifax was founded.
NO RESERVE Warner (Fernando) An Illustration of the Book of Common-Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 2 plates, occasional faint spotting, contemporary calf, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, folio, 1754.
Shenstone (William) The Works in Verse and Prose, 3 vol., first edition, vol.1 and 2 with engraved title-vignette, frontispieces, folding map and 3 vignette head-pieces, occasional foxing and browning, contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments with red and green morocco labels, vol. 1 joints cracking at head, some light rubbing to extremities but a handsome set overall, 8vo, 1764-69.
NO RESERVE Religion.- Morgan (Thomas) Letters to the Rev. Dr. Priestley, of Leeds, in defence of An appeal to the common sense of plain and common Christians, in Behalf of the Old Christianity of the Gospel, and In Defence of the Author, first edition, some staining, lightly browned, disbound, Leeds, Printed by G. Wright, 1772 § Raikes (Richard) Considerations on the Alliance between Christianity and Commerce, first edition, lacking half-title, occasional spotting, disbound, 1806; and 2 others, Religion, including a duplicate of first mentioned, 8vo (4)
Pamphlets.- Lover of Britain (A) A Golden Mine of Treasure, first edition, half-title (bound after title), title with woodcut ornament, short tear to final f., just within text, but without loss, some spotting, disbound, no printer, 1778 § More (Hannah) Remarks on the Speech of M. Dupont, made in the National Convention of France, second edition, occasional spotting, disbound, Printed for T. Cadell, 1793; and 7 others, similar, 8vo (9)⁂ The second mentioned is Dupont's rebuttal of his vow of atheism made in the Convention. More gave all profits from sales to the immigrant French clergy.
Goldsmith (Oliver) The bee, a select collection of essays, on the most interesting and entertaining subjects, engraved vignette title, wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary half calf over boards, gilt, rebacked preserving all but upper compartment of original backstrip, corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, Printed for W. Lane, Leadenhall-Street, 1790.⁂ A scarce re-issue of the first edition sheets with a cancel title. Includes pieces on Voltaire, the state of the contemporary theatres, opera, language and justice.
NO RESERVE Dictionary.- Portuguese.- Vieyra (Anthony) A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, 2 parts in 1, second edition, triple column, errata f. at end, occasional ink marginalia, 2P3 small section of lower corner torn away, not affecting text, some foxing to first title, occasional spotting or staining, contemporary half calf, richly gilt spine in compartments, rubbed at extremities, 4to, Printed for Wingrave [and others], 1794.
Religion.- Pamphlets.- Carpenter (Lant) The duty of the Christian preacher, in the investigation and declaration of the truth. A discourse, delivered to the United Congregations of Protestant Dissenters, in Exeter, cut presentation inscription from the author to head of B2, Exeter, Trewman and Son, 1805 bound with Carpenter (Lant) A Review of the Labours, Opinions, and Character of Rajah Rammohun Roy: in a Discourse, on occasion of the Death, 1833 and 7 others, by or about Carpenter, together 9 works in 1 vol., occasional spotting or mostly light foxing, contemporary diced calf, gilt, sympathetically rebacked § Robinson (Robert) The Great Sin and Danger of Oppression: Two Sermons, preached during the late high Prices of Corn, to a Society of Protestant Dissenters, at Dob-Lane End, near Manchester, marginal water-staining, some foxing, modern marbled wrappers, Manchester, R. Whitworth, [1757] § Booker (Henry) A Memoir of the Life of the late Henry Booker, Minister of the Gospel...in the Parish of Wivelsfield, first edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, offsetting, some staining, lightly browned, disbound, Lewes, 1814; and 21 others, 18th and 19th century Religion, 8vo et infra (24)⁂ Carpenter was a leading Unitarian, who ran schools in Exeter and Bristol, and included Harriet Martineau among his pupils. His Systematic Education of 1815 and his Principles of Education, 1820 were praised by the Edgeworths.
NO RESERVE Italian Art.- Buonarroti (Michelangelo) The Letters, translated and edited by E.H.Ramsden, 2 vol., 1963 § Hartt (Frederick) Michelangelo, 1965; Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, 1969; The Drawings of Michelangelo, 1971 § Leonardo da Vinci. The Literary Works, edited by Jean Paul Richter, 2 vol., third edition, 1970 § Stites (R.S.) & others. The Sublimations of Leonardo da Vinci with a translation of the Codex Trivulzianus, Washington D.C., 1970 § Gould (Cecil) Leonardo: The Artist and Non-Artist, 1975 § Shearman (John) Raphael's Cartoons in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen and the Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel, 1972 § Pouncey (P.) & J.A.Gere. Italian Drawings in...the British Museum: Raphael and his Circle, 2 vol., 1962, illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first with spines faded and with slip-case; and c.40 others on Michelangelo, Leonardo & Raphael, v.s. (c.50)
Mildred Bliss-Earl of Lonsdale set.- Morier (Sir James Justinian) The Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, occasional spotting, endpapers foxed, contemporary calf-backed orange marbled boards with vellum corners, spines richly gilt and with Lonsdale monogram at head, rubbed at extremities, cloth slip-case, 12mo, John Murray, 1824.⁂ Provenance: Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale (armorial bookplates); Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks (engraved bookplates); ?Lady Augusta Lonsdale (signatures to head of titles).
Canals.- Telford (Thomas) Ship Canal, for the Junction of the English and Bristol Channels, first edition, engraved folding map with proposed route of canal and 2 folding plans, some creasing, contemporary dark green straight-grain morocco, gilt, rubbed, folio, Printed for S. Brooke, 1824. ⁂ An ambitious plan to link the Bristol and English channels thereby dispensing of longer journeys around the coast. A bill was passed allowing the building of what was to be called the 'English and Bristol Channels Ship Canal', which would run from Stolford on the Bristol side to Beer, near Seaton on the other. It was to be 44 miles long with 60 locks and be able to carry ships up to 200 tonnes. Sadly, the company were unable to raise funds for the project.
NO RESERVE Safety at sea.- Watson (Ralph) A Brief Explanatory Statement of the Principle and Application of a Plan for Preventing Ships Foundering at Sea, first edition, presentation copy from the author, some foxing, modern drab wrappers, 1829; and 5 others, 19th century, 8vo (6)⁂ The mentioned is presented to Captain Henry Kater, geodesist and metrologist.
Aeronautics.- Mason (Monck) Aeronautica; or, Sketches illustrative of the theory and practice of Aerostation, first edition, lithographed frontispiece and 5 lithographed or engraved plates, offsetting, occasional spotting, original cloth, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, stained and faded, F.C. Westley, 1838; and 6 others, miscellaneous, v.s. (7)
Canler (Louis) Autobiography of a French Detective from 1818 to 1858, first edition in English, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, rubbed, Ward and Lock, 1862 § Matson (John) Indian Warfare; or the Extraordinary Adventures of John Matson, The Kidnapped Youth, first edition, occasional spotting, original blind-stamped and gilt cloth, rebacked, a rare little work, Effingham Wilson, 1842 § Green (William) Plans of Economy; or, the Road to Ease and Independence, both in Town and Country, new edition, half-title, title spotted and soiled, some spotting elsewhere, contemporary red morocco-backed marbled boards, rather worn, but holding firm, for the Author by Vize Slater, 1824; and 6 others, 19th century, v.s. (9)
NO RESERVE Italian Art.- Horster (Marita) Andrea del Castagno...with a critical catalogue, Oxford, 1980 § Ettlinger (L.D.) Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo...with a critical catalogue, Oxford, 1978 § Clark (K.) Piero della Francesca, second, revised edition, 1969; The Drawings by Sandro Botticelli for Dante's Divine Comedy, 1976 § Pope-Hennessy (John) Paolo Uccello, second edition, 1969 § Kanter (L.) & Pia Palladino. Fra Angelico, New Haven & London, 2005 § Berti (L.) Masaccio, University Park, Pa. & London, 1967 § Wohl (H.) The Paintings of Domenico Veneziano ca.1410-1461, Oxford, 1980 § Antal (F.) Florentine Painting and its Social Background, 1947 [1948], illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards, all but the seventh with dust-jackets, the fourth a little faded, the last frayed at head of spine, the first also with slip-case; and c.10 others on Early Renaissance painting, mostly Florentine, v.s. (c.20)
Khayyám (Omar) Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia..., [translated by Edward Fitzgerald], slightly browned, Sotheby's account and newspaper cuttings laid down on fly-leaves, bound in contemporary crushed morocco, gilt, gilt panelled spine, spine faded, t.e.g., by Bickers & Son, Leicester, 8vo, 1906.⁂ The Sotheby's account and newspaper cuttings record that in 1910, W.J. Wintle, bought a first edition of Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám from a second hand book stall for threepence, and sold it at Sotheby's for £49.
Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, first edition, signed by the author 'To Laura' on title, with hologram sticker to title, letters, stickers, balloons, ticket and other 'Moonlight Signing' ephemera loosely inserted, original pictorial boards, dust-jacket, near-fine generally, 8vo, 2007.
NO RESERVE Wilde (Oscar) Impressions of America, one of 500 copies, spotting, later wrappers, original wrappers bound in (faded, upper cover detached, lower cover torn), Sunderland, Keystone Press, 1906 § Hertz (Emmanuel) Abraham Lincoln, a New Portrait, introduction by Nicholas Murray Butler, vol. 1 only (of 2), first edition, signed presentation inscriptions from the author and Nicholas Murray Butler tipped in at front, plates, original cloth, spine faded, rubbed, New York, 1931; and 8 others, modern literature, 8vo (10)
Africa.- Hamilton (James) Wanderings in North Africa, first edition, half-title, engraved plates, bookplates, original cloth, spine faded, light fraying to head of spine, 1856 § Hofland (Mrs.) Africa Described, new edition, engraved folding map, publishers blind-stamped morocco, spine ends a little chipped, 1834 § Walmsley (Hugh Mulleneux) Sketches of Algeria During the Kabyle War, original cloth, light rubbing to extremities, near-fine otherwise, 1858; and another, Africa, 8vo (4)
Africa.- South Africa.- Latrobe (Rev. Christian Ignatius) Journal of a Visit to South Africa in 1815, and 1816, first edition, folding engraved map with routes supplied by hand in red and blue, 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 4 engraved outline panoramas, offsetting, some spotting or foxing, short tear without loss to final index f., contemporary dark blue half morocco, gilt, spine in compartments, 1 lower corner bumped, rubbed, [Abbey, Travel 325; Mendelssohn pp.886-87], 4to, 1818.
America.- Volney (Constantin-François, Comte de) Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d'Amérique, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 2 folding engraved maps (1 large) and 2 folding engraved plates, errata f., a few ink spots to head of large map, occasional spotting, contemporary tree calf, gilt, spine richly so and with red and black morocco labels, rubbed, [Sabin 100692], 8vo, Paris, Courcier & Dentu, 1803.⁂ Includes a vocabulary of the Miami language.
Americas.- Acosta (Jose de ) Historia naturale e morale delle Indie, first edition in Italian, italic type, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, some early ink underlining, lacking ɫɫ4 and 2V6 (the latter blank), Y3 with small hole, affecting several letters recto and part of woodcut initial verso, 2O4 and 2P1 (bifolium) loose, occasional spotting, the odd small stain, 19th century morocco-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, spine worn at foot and with a few small wormholes, rubbed, [Adams A128; Alden & Landis 596/2; Sabin 124 ("The only Italian version, printed with the types of Aldus"); EDIT 16 CNCE 227], small 4to, Venice, Bernardo Basa, 1596. sold not subject to return. ⁂ 'His work opened the eyes of the rest of Europe to the great wealth that Spain was drawing from America. Eventually Spain grew more secretive in these matters' (Hill p.3). The first Italian edition of Historia natural y moral de las Indias, first published in 1590.
China.- Clark (Robert Sterling) & Arthur de C. Sowerby. Through Shên-Kan: the Account of the Clark Expedition in North China, 1908-9, edited by Major C.H.Chepmell, first edition, plates, some colour and mounted, folding colour map in pocket at end, original pictorial cloth, uncut, occasional light spotting, a little rubbed and soiled, corners bumped, 4to, 1912.
Europe.- Spenser (Edmund) Sketches of Germany and the Germans, 2 vol., first edition, hand-coloured frontispieces, folding engraved map, some foxing, bookplates, original cloth, spines faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1836 § Kampen (Professor Van) Holland and Belgium, engraved additional title and plates, tissue-guards, hinges weak, original cloth, some fraying to spine ends and corners, [c.1860] § Eyries (Gustave) Les Chateaux Historiques De La France, vol. 1 & 2 only (of 3), titles in red and black, 28 engraved plates, spotting, bookplates, contemporary half morocco, gilt, Paris, 1877; and 6 others, European travel, 8vo & 4to (11)
Iraq.- Webb (Frederick Charles) Up the Tigris to Bagdad, first edition, presentation copy from the author, wood-engraved frontispiece, title vignette and 2 plates occasional spotting, final f. lightly browned, hinges splitting, original pictorial blind-stamped and gilt cloth, small paper label to upper left corner of upper cover, little rubbed at extremities, a good copy, 8vo, 1870.⁂ The presentation inscription reads 'Mrs William Price, with the author's love & admiration'.
South America.- Hadfield (William) Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands, first edition, lithograph portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps, one hand-coloured, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, original cloth, splitting to upper joint, spine ends a little chipped, [Sabin 29486], 8vo, 1854.
World.- Wilkinson (Hugh) Sunny Lands and Seas, first edition folding map, plates, original pictorial cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1883 § Nansen (Fridtjof) "Farthest North" Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 ..., 2 vol., first English edition, half-titles, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 4 folding colour maps, occasional spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1897, 8vo (3)
Suffolk.- Gage (John) The History and Antiquities of Suffolk. Thingoe Hundred, first edition, hand-coloured engraved map, 35 engraved plates, plans and portraits, a few mezzotint, light offsetting to title from map, occasional spotting, contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt, 1838 § Page (Augustus) A Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller, list of subscribers, a few pencil markings, contemporary half calf, label detached but loosely inserted, Ipswich and London, 1844, a little rubbed, 4to & 8vo (2)
Darwin (Charles) The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, second edition, revised, 3 folding maps, illustrations, publisher's advertisements at end, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, 1874.⁂ This edition was extensively revised to take into account the work of Professor James Dwight Dana on Corals, which was published after Darwin's first edition.
Husbandry & Gardens.- Markham (Gervase) Cheape and good hvsbandry for the vvell-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases, second edition, first f. blank except for fleuron signature, final f. blank, some worming to upper corners, affecting some page numbers, [STC 17337; Poynter 22.2], Printed by T.S[nodham] for Roger Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere the Conduit in Fleetstreet, 1616 bound with Lawson (William) A New Orchard and Garden. Or The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich orchard: particularly in the north parts of England, 2 parts in 1 (The second part, 'The Countrie Housewife's Garden...together with the Husbandry of Bees', has a separate title-page dated 1617), first edition, partially printed in black letter, title with woodcut illustration of men working in an orchard, woodcut illustrations, decorations and initials, C2 outer margin trimmed, affecting printed side-notes verso, [British Bee Books 20; Fussell I, p.31; Henrey 226; STC 15329; Walker Catalogue p.44], Printed at London by Bar: Alsop for Roger Jackson, 1618 and a defective copy of Markham's Countrey Contentments at start, and a defective copy of N.F.'s Husbandmans Fruitfull Orchard, 1609 at end, some staining and spotting, contemporary limp vellum, soiled, small 4to ⁂ The first mentioned includes hawking, horses, cattle and other livestock and poultry. The second mentioned includes a section on bees.
Inoculation .- Lysons (Daniel) An essay upon the effects of camphire and calomel in continual fevers. Illustrated by several cases. To which is added, an occasional observation upon the modern practice of inoculation, first edition, later wrappers, Printed by E. Reeve, 1771 § Royal Society.- A letter to Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. &c. &c. &c. : on his being elected the President of the Royal Society : with some observations on the management of the British Museum, by a Fellow of the Royal Society, second edition, little water-staining at head, some spotting, disbound, 1821; and 6 others, Science & Medicine, 8vo (8)
Machines.- Lanz (Philippe Louis) and Agustin de Bethencourt y Molina. Analytical Essay on the Construction of Machines, first edition in English, 13 folding lithographed plates, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf, rebacked, preserving original gilt backstrip, corners repaired, rubbed, 4to, R. Ackermann, [c.1815].⁂ Translated from the French of Jean Nicholas Pierre Hachette this edition offers additional material for the English reader.
Topsell (Edward) The historie of foure-footed beastes. Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, first edition, issue with woodcut of hyena on title, numerous woodcuts, some full-page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, with initial and final blanks, lacking A6, title with short tear at head with loss of first letter, short tear at foot with marginal loss, and creased, some tears with loss of text, most noticeably to B2, K1 (mostly side-note), K2 (outer margin cut away with loss of side-notes and part of woodcut verso), O4, Oo3, Pp4, and small areas of lower corners of sig. Xxx, water-stained, some spotting and creasing, contemporary calf, spine in compartments, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Nissen ZBI 4145; STC 24123; Wellcome 6323], folio, Printed by William Jaggard, 1607. sold not subject to return. ⁂ Topsell's translation of Gesner's Historiae animalium, dedicated to Richard Neile, Dean of Westminster, and with charming, indeed some times fantastical illustrations.
Field sports.- Jourdain (François-Xavier) Traité général des chasses a courre et a tir ; contenant des principes surs pour la propagation du gibier, et la destruction des animaux nuisibles..., 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 36 engraved plates, of which 1 folding, 6 ff. of engraved music, 2 errata ff., some spotting or light foxing, attractive contemporary half mottled calf, spine gilt and with large dark blue morocco, labels, little rubbed at extremities, [Thiébaud 522], 8vo, Paris, Audot, 1822.⁂ 'Un des livres de chasse les plus agréablement illustrés de cette époque.' (Thiébaud).
Golf.- Thomas (George C., Jr) Golf Architecture in America, Its Strategy and Construction, first edition, half-title, colour frontispiece, plates, 1 folding at end, a few colour, illustrations, near fine original pictorial cloth, [Murdoch 767 'One of the outstanding books on golf course architecture having the added attraction, as a book, of being handsomely produced'], a very good copy, Los Angeles, The Times-Mirror Press, 1927 § Wind (Herbert Warren) The Story of American Golf, Its Champions and Its Championships, first edition, numerous photographic illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, original board slip-case mirroring design of cloth with printed paper labels, worn, but holding firm, [Murdoch 870 'one of the modern-day masterpieces of golf literature'], New York, 1948; and another, Golf, v.s. (3)
Architecture.- Plaw (John) Ferme ornée; or, rural improvements. A series of domestic and ornamental designs, suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms, &., new edition, 38 sepia aquatint plates, advertisement f., 8pp. publisher's catalogue of architectural books at end, text stained, plates with marginal water-staining and occasional marginal foxing, some spotting, original boards, sympathetically rebacked, water-stained, [cf. Abbey, Life, 48, first edition], rare, 4to, Printed for J. Taylor, at The Architectural Library, 1813.
NO RESERVE British Art.- Butlin (Martin) & Evelyn Joll. The Paintings of J.M.W.Turner, 2 vol., revised edition, original wrappers, together in slip-case, New Haven & London, 1984 § Gage (John) Colour in Turner: Poetry and Truth, 1969; J.M.W.Turner 'A Wonderful Range of Mind', New Haven & London, 1987 § Finberg (A.J.) The Life of J.M.W.Turner R.A., second edition, Oxford, 1961 § Constable (John) [Correspondence & Discourse], edited by R.B.Beckett & others, 8 vol., 1962-75 § Thornes (John E.) John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science, original wrappers, Birmingham, 1999, illustrations, some colour, all but the first and last original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, some spines slightly faded; and c.20 others on Turner and Constable, 4to & 8vo (c.35)
Architecture.- Vicenza.- Scamozzi (Ottavio Bertotti) Il forestiere istruito delle cose più rare di architettura, e di alcune pitture della città di Vicenza dialogo, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of dedicatee Mario capra, title vignette and 36 folding plates, armorial ink stamp to title, marginal worming, occasionally touching the odd letter or within platemark, occasional spotting, modern calf, gilt spine in compartments and with black leather label, [Fowler 43; Millard, Italian, 19], 4to, Vicenza, Giovambattista Vendramini Mosca, 1761.⁂ First edition of this architectural guide to Vicenza, and in particular the buildings of Palladio. Provenance: J.B. and Michael Bury (bookplates).
Binding.- Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, illustrations by E.H. Shepherd, original pictorial endpapers preserved, charming panelled pictorial vellum, by The Cottage Bindery, Bath, upper cover with central mounted painted panel depicting a game of Poohsticks, lower cover with central mounted painted panel with Christopher Robin, Pooh and owl in silhouette heading off into the distance, both panels within two sets of gilt filet borders with corner-pieces of Pooh eating honey, spine in compartments with a central standing Pooh, spine little darkened, t.e.g., preserved in a buckram slip-case with a panel from original pictorial cloth mounted on upper panel, 8vo (binding 196 x 132mm.), 1928.
NO RESERVE British Art.- Harrison (Martin) & Bill Waters. Burne-Jones, 1973 § Wildman (S.) & John Christian. Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer, New York, 1998 § Barringer (Tim) & others. Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde, 2012 § Parry (Linda, editor) William Morris, 1996 § Doughty (Oswald) A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, second edition, 1968 § Andrews (Keith) The Nazarenes: A Brotherhood of German Painters in Rome, Oxford, 1964, illustrations, some colour, the first and last two original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the rest original wrappers; and c.15 others on the Pre-Raphaelites, 4to & 8vo (c.20)
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