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Click here to subscribeWAUGH (EVELYN)Men at Arms, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'For Janet Stone/Souvenir of Stinchcombe/Ascension 1954 from Evelyn Waugh' on the front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (frayed, 2 old tears repaired), 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1952This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
WAUGH (EVELYN)Officers and Gentlemen, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO L.P. HARTLEY, inscribed 'Leslie with warm regards from Evelyn' on front free endpaper, publisher's blue cloth, dust-jacket (unclipped, slightly frayed at head of spine, toned) [Davis Checklist A30], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1955This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
WOOLF (VIRGINIA)Street Haunting, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 430 OF 500 COPIES, SIGNED and numbered by the author in purple ink, publisher's green quarter morocco, gilt lettered on spine (faded), 8vo, San Francisco, [The Grabhorn Press], for The Westgate Press, 1930This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
WATSON (JOHN)Memoirs of the ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey, and their Descendants to the Present Time, 2 vol., first published edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, 53 engraved plates (several folding or double-page, one printed in sepia), engraved head- and tail-pieces, occasional light off-setting, contemporary 'Etruscan' binding of panelled calf, tooled in gilt and blind, g.e., Warrington, W. Eyres, 1782--FOXE (CHARLES JAMES) A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second; with an Introductory Chapter, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, 2 plates, contemporary blue straight-grained morocco gilt, sides with Greek key, floral and pointillé corner-pieces, g.e., W. Miller, 1808--PENNANT (THOMAS) The History of the Parishes of Whiteford, and Holywell, engraved vignette on title and divisional title, 22 plates (one double-page), B. & J. White, 1796; The Literary Life of the late Thomas Pennant Esq. By Himself, 4 engraved plates (one folding, hand-coloured), B. & J. White, and R. Faulder, 1793, 2 works bound in 1 vol., fine contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e., 4to (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
BUFFON (GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE)Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, vol. 1-24 (comprising: Matériaux généraux & Quadrupèdes, 15 vol.; Oiseaux, 9 vol.), FIRST EDITION, 838 engraved plates (576 and 262 respectively), 2 engraved maps, without some half-titles, occasional browning, contemporary mottled calf, the 'Oiseaux' near uniform and rebacked, slight loss to one spine label of volume 1, minor worming in upper cover of volume 9 [Nissen ZBI 672], 4to (255 x 185mm.), Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1767 & 1770-1783, sold not subject to return due to uncertain collation of this editionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
CHESELDEN (WILLIAM)Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones, FIRST EDITION, printed on thick paper, engraved frontispiece, large engraved vignette on title, full-page engraved Royal Arms on a separate sheet, engraved dedication with engraved deer skeleton on verso, 29 engraved illustrations (of which 9 full-page), and several decorative initials on 25 leaves of letterpress, 56 full-page engraved plates with descriptive text on verso (excepting plate 56 which as an engraved illustration of an obelisk on the verso) by Jacob Schijnvoet and Gerard van der Gucht, lacking the duplicate set of engraved plates without letters, additional uncoloured aquatint portrait of Cheselden by J. Faber after J. Richardson pasted onto front free endpaper, some spotting, small area of dampstaining in the margin of a few leaves, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered [Garrison & Morton 395; Heirs of Hippocrates 814; cf. Norman 466], folio (500 x 330mm.), London, [?William Bowyer], 1733This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
DARWIN (CHARLES)On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, half-title, folding lithographed diagram, 32-page publisher's catalogue dated June 1859 at end, a few light spots to first few leaves and diagram, publisher's blindstamped green cloth (Freeman variant b), lettered in gilt on spine, binder's label of Edmonds and Remnants at end, a little bumped at corners and spine ends, extremities lightly rubbed [Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Norman 593; PMM 344], 8vo, John Murray, 1859This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
DARWIN (CHARLES)On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, FIRST EDITION, folding plate, 32pp. publisher's adverts at rear dated December 1861, 2 pages with offsetting, publisher's plum cloth, covers blindstamped and upper cover with gilt orchid, lightly rubbed, spine ends bumped [Freeman 800a], 8vo, John Murray, 1862This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
SAY (THOMAS)American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved additional pictorial title in volume one, 54 hand-coloured engraved plates, tissue guards, half crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, t.e.g., original printed paper spine labels and one printed original upper cover label bound in [Nissen ZBI 3612; Sabin 77370], 8vo, Philadelphia Museum, Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1824-1828This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
STUBBS (GEORGE)The Anatomy of the Horse, FIRST EDITION, later issue, 24 engraved plates printed on wove paper (one keyplate with several tears repaired some loss to margins, 7 others with short, mostly marginal, tears repaired, 2 just touching printed area, loss to blank margin of a few), without the errata slip, several leaves of text with short repairs and marginal trace of worming, modern half morocco, reusing original marbled boards, printed label 'Stubbs' Anatomy of the Horse. £4 4s. 0d.' on upper cover [Garrison and Morton 308.1; Nissen ZBI 4027; Podeschi 57], oblong folio (425 x 555mm.), J. Purser, 1766 [but plates watermarked 1815]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
WEINMANN (JOHANN WILHELM)Phytanthoza iconographia sive conspectus aliquot milium... Plantarum, arborum, fruticum, florum, vol. 1 (of 4), FIRST EDITION, title (in Latin) printed in red and black, text in alternate Latin and German, letterpress pp.53-200 only, 150 engraved and mezzotint plates (numbered 126-275, one folding) printed in colour and finished by hand after Ehret and others, occasional spotting and browning, contemporary calf, spine gilt tooled with morocco, lettering labels [Dunthorne 327; Great Flower Books, p.151; Nissen BBI 2126], folio (395 x 240mm.), Regensburg, Hieronymus Lenz, [1734]-1737, sold not subject to returnThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
[WRIGHT (THOMAS)An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe... and Particularly the Via Lactea], FIRST EDITION, lacking all before p.9, final leaf of text, subscribers list, and contents leaf, 32 engraved plates (of which 2 folding and 8 with mezzotint), every leaf remargined at gutter, recent half calf reusing earlier boards and spine [Norman 2265], 4to, [for the Author, and sold by H. Chapelle, 1750]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
HARRIS (JOHN)Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca: or, a Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispieces, 9 folding or double-page engraved maps (including 2 World, and Continents), 20 engraved plates (of 22), list of subscribers, without final blank in volume 2, frontispiece in volume 1 defective, that in volume 2 laid down, World map toned, other with small area of repair, short marginal repairs to two other maps, modern panelled calf, gilt morocco spine label, folio (397 x 237mm.), Thomas Bennet, John Nicholson, and Daniel Midwinter, 1705This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
HEARNE (SAMUEL)A Journey from Prince of Wales' Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, &c. in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772, FIRST EDITION, 5 folding engraved maps (one large, hand-coloured in outline), 4 folding engraved plates, contents shaken (a few gatherings loose), untrimmed with wide margins in contemporary blue boards, old ink lettering label on spine, worn, some loss to spine, hinges weakened [Hill 791; Lande 1220; Sabin 31181], 4to (310 x 255mm.), T. Cadell Jun., and W. Davies, 1795This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
INDIAALLEN (REV. GEORGE LOSCOMB) AND MRS. [SARAH] ALLEN. The Views and Flowers from Gugerat and Rajpootana, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, with inscription from Mrs. Allen dated August 1858 on frontispiece (see below), title and text printed in red and gilt, publisher's advertisement printed in gilt, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, 12 full-page hand-coloured lithographed illustrations (6 views, 6 floral groups), some spotting, gilt-printed floral endpapers, publisher's green decorative cloth gilt, g.e., gutta percha perished (contents loose) [cf. Theakston, p.2, with spelling 'Guzerat' on title], large 8vo (270 x 180mm.), Paul Jerrard, [c.1858]; together with a small group of manuscript items relating to the Allens, including a 4-page manuscript account ('Deesa [near Bombay], March 10th 1844') describing a trip to Mount Abu ('... to make arrangements for Mrs. G.A. spending the hot weather there...'), George Allen's investigation into the conversion and baptism of a man named Murrolman, and an uncomfortable uphill journey carried on a bamboo chair held by 'four mountaineeers, by no means overburethened [sic] with clothing...' (small group)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE)Journal du voyage... en Italie, par la Suisse & l'Allemagne, en 1580 & 1581, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait of Montaigne, a handful of ink spots, contemporary speckled polished calf, gilt arms on covers, joints cracked, rubbed, 4to, Rome, sold in Paris by Le Jay, 1774This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
ARCHITECTUREJONES (INIGO) The Designs of Inigo Jones, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings, 2 vol. bound in 1, FIRST EDITION, titles with engraved portrait vignettes, 109 plates (of 135) on 85 engraved sheets (of 97) by Hulsbergh, Foudrinier and Cole (comprising 21 of 24 double-page; one of 5 folding), engraved head and tail-pieces after William Kent, list of subscribers, lacks frontispiece, contemporary reverse calf, worn with some loss to spine [Fowler 162; Harris 385], folio (460 x 280mm.), William Kent, 1727This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
SHEFIK (AHMED)Notes on a Visit to Sinai Monastery and a Motor Car Tour in Sinai Peninsula, in January 1926, first edition in English, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Kaimakam L.H.C. Hatton Bey, [with mauve stamp] Lewa Director General, Frontier Administration' on the title, photographic portrait frontispiece of Fouad I, King of Egypt, 123 photographic illustrations on 85 plates, very short tear in fore-margin of a few plates, publisher's cloth-backed printed boards, light soiling, 4to, Cairo, Government Press, 1926; with 3 other items, including articles relating to the Nubian and Western Deserts extracted from Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte, and a typescript article (with pencil annotations) entitled 'Kufu's Treasure' (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
VERYARD (ELLIS)An Account of Divers Choice Remarks, as Well Geographical, as Historical, Political, Mathematical, Physical and Moral. Taken in a Journey through the Low-Countries, France, Italy, and Part of Spain; with the Isles of Sicily and Malta. As also, a Voyage to the Levant, FIRST EDITION, 2 folding engraved plates, single ink smudge on title, a few light dampstains but generally clean, contemporary calf, rubbed, some loss to extremities of spine [Atabey 1285; Blackmer 1727; not in Cobham-Jeffery], small folio (320 x 200mm.), S. Smith and B. Walford, 1701This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
Jones, Owen The Psalms of David [The Victoria Psalter]. 1861-2. Folio, full Relievo binding, sometime rebacked retaining elements of original spine; 104 chromolithograph pages (with signs of later restoration with later facsimile print of work and other restoration). idem Book of Common Prayer. John Murray, 1845. 8vo, full vellum, boards with broad ecclesiastical borders enclosing central gilt cross, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, blue endpapers, a.e.g.; with illuminated chromolithograph section titles, borders, vignettes, initials and ornaments by Jones, other illustrations, printed in various colours. First Owen Jones edition for Murray. Jones was a hugely influential designer, architect, artist and book publisher, who was a guiding influence on the later Arts and Crafts movement. He was one of the earliest producers of chromolithographs in Britain and a leading light in the development of colour theory. He is also intrinsically linked with the brief history of the relievo binding process through his ecclesiastical works. This style of binding was intended to evoke the heavy carved wood tracery and decoration of English churches and his Psalms, immensely popular in its day, was one of the last of this style produced. The BCP was a sumptuous expression of John Murray's experiments with colour and a critical success for its striking design. Alas, in common with so many critical successes it was a commercial failure, but today is considered amongst the most important of Jones' commercial works.Psalter sometime rebacked with loss, some cracking, rubbing and bumping to binding, internally restoration and some staining to early pages, variable dusty marking to rest, however still a striking and powerful book. BCP binding worn, wtih cracking to joints and dusty marking, internal evidence of water damage with some marginal staining, also foxing etc.
Peake, Mervyn Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spottiswode, 1945. Square 8vo, org. oatmeal cloth lettered in green, in unclipped jacket (7s 6d), signed by Peake with pen and ink doodle. Second ed. The first edition of this work was destroyed in the war. This, the first post-war edition, was coloured by Peake.
Grotius, Hugo De Jure Belli Ac Pacis Libri Tres. Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1650. 8vo, archival binding, paper label on spine; pp. [24], 618, [45]; title printed in red and black, floriated initials and decorative tail-pieces. New edition, with annotations by the author. The book which made Grotius famous throughout Europe was first published in 1625. Grotius was living in Paris, having made a daring escape from Dutch prison - where he had fallen foul of intra-Calvinist dispute - in a chest of books. The work is widely regarded as the foundation stone of modern political philosophy through its anticipation of the political theorists of the 18th century. It argued for a 'natural law', based on the social contract, in opposition to theocratic revelation or monarchical edict, and as such paved the way for modern international law.
Bishop of Cloyne [Berkeley, George] A Miscellany, containing several Tracts on various Subjects. Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752. 8vo, full calf, sometime rebacked; pp. 267, [1] [A3 cancel as common]; provenance: Matthew Boulton (business partner of James Watts, his Soho [Birmingham] library bookplate to upper pastedown). First London edition (previously published in Dublin in the same year). Among the pieces present are his critical economics text The Querist and the first printings ' Farther Thoughts on Tar-Water' and the revised text of 'Verses by the Author, on the Prospect of planting Ars and Learning in America.' Higgs 248; Sabin 4877; ESTC T39487Binding tight, with only slight wear, variable foxing, spotting and toning, but very good.
Churchill, Winston Marlborough. His Life and Times. George Harrap & Co., 1947. 8vo (2 vols). Quarter blue morocco over linen, t.e.g. in slipcase; illus. with portraits, maps and facsimile MSS. First edition in two books.Spines sunned, boards a little marked, slipcase dusty, internally toned but clean.
Jonson, Ben The Works of Ben Jonson, Which were formerly Printed in Two Volumes, are now Reprinted in One. To which is added a comedy, called The New Inn With Additions never before Published. Printed by Thomas Hodgkin, for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R. Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, 1692. Folio, full calf, joints cracking, upper board detached but present, signs of damp with some mould; port. frontis.; pp. [x], 264, 281-382 [380], 393-794 [4 (Leges Convivales)]. Third Folio ed., but the first in one volume and the last Folio edition. w.a.f.
Palladio, Andrea; Richards, Godfrey (trans) The First Book of Architecture...Translated out of Italian: With an Appendix Touching Doors and Windows, By Pr. Le Muet, Architect to the French King. Printed for T. Parkhurst, George Sawbridge and Eben. Tracy, 1693. 8vo, calf-backed boards, sympathetically rebacked, retaining original spine; eng.tit. and title page supplied in facs., org. tit. torn with loss, pp. [8], 198, 101-116 [i.e. 201-216], [217]-225, [2], 226-239, [1] (p.143 misnumbered 243, lacking 153-4, 173-4, 199-200 but with 2 different 189-90s); four folding plates (not numbered, last restored with loss bound at rear), 63 plates (numbered in pagination), figures to text. Fifth edition, corrected and enlarged. BAL/RIBA 2403; ESTC R202318
Sabatini, Rafael The Writings of Rafael Sabatini. Boston and New York: Printed at the Riverside Press Cambridge for the Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924-37. 8vo (34 vols). 24 finely bound in full red crushed morocco, boards with gilt roll-tooled borders around single gilt-ruled fillet borders enclosing two entwined double gilt-ruled fillets with alternating arch and mitre corner-pieces, spines gilt in compartments, lettered directly in two and at foot in gilt, others with gilt panels, five raised bands with central gilt decorative rule, gilt single-ruled fillet board edges, doublures of crushed green morocco within red crushed morocco turn-ins with gilt roll-tooled borders alternating twice with triple gilt-ruled fillet borders, white watered-silk endpapers, t.e.g, white silk markers, 6 others in original red pebble-grain-cloth-backed boards, paper labels to spines, edges uncut. Vol 23 lower board detached but present, spine detached at lower hinge but still attached at upper. Limited edition, no. 295 of 750, signed by Sabatini in the first. [34]
Wodehouse, P.G. Young Men in Spats. Herbert Jenkins, 1936. 8vo, org. green cloth, lettered and decorated in black, in dust-jacket (priced 7/6 on spine, with 19 Wyndham Martin titles on lower flap, Nightmare Castle and Spies of Peace at foot of flap); provenance: ink MSS gift inscription on ffep dated May 21st 1936. Stated first printing. idem The Mating Season. Herbert Jenkins, [1949]. 8vo, org. orange cloth, lettered and decorated in black, in clipped dj. Stated first printing. idem Week-end Wodehouse. Herbert Jenkins, 1951. 8vo, org. green cloth, in unclipped dj (priced 12/6); provenance: owner's MSS ink inscription on ffep dated 1953. First published in this edition. [3]
Hunting Wicksted, Charles The Cheshire Hunt; A Song. Chester: Printed for the Publisher, by T. Griffith, 1837. 8vo, org. pink moire cloth (upper joint starting, board loose but attached); 2 plates; provenance: Douglas Peter Crossman (armorial bookplate to upper pastedown). A rare item, the Schwerdt copy sold in 2006 in the Duke of Gloucester sale at Christie's. Schwerdt II p. 294 ''Very rare. We have never heard of another copy.'' [Hawke, Martin] Howell Wood; or, the Raby Hunt, in Yorkshire. A new hunting song, to the tune of Ballynamonaora. Pontefract: Printed and Published by John Fox, 1806. 8vo, unbound pamphlet; decorative woodcut headpiece. Third ed., ''with very considerable additions''. The first edition of this work was published in 1804. The author was first identified in the 1840 edition by the Middle Hill Press. [2]
Cook, Capt. James Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World...Including Capt. Furneaux's Journal Of His Proceedings during the Separation of the Ships With a Narrative of Commodore Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole. and An Abridgement of Foster's Introduction to his History of Northern Discoveries on the progress of navigation. To which is added, Governor Phillip's Voyage to Botany-Bay; With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island. Newcastle: Printed by M. Brown at the Bible, in the Flesh-Market, 1790. 8vo (3 vols of 4 (of 2 bound in 4). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards; pp. I: i-xxvi, 27-564; II: 565-692 [end of First Voyage], [693-694], 695-1004 [Second Voyage], [1005], 1006-1022 [Rules for preserving the health of seamen]; IV: 499-779 [Third Voyage], [780-2], 783-863 [North Pole], [864]-870 [Foster's Shipbuilding], [871-2], 873-953 [Governor Phillip], [954]-796 [(i.e. 976 [2 (Directions to Binder)), Animals]; I: port. frontis., map (torn with loss of folding half), 6 plates; II: one plate (of 3); IV: 15 plates (Death of Cook folding). Later, seemingly rare, provincial edition. This edition appears to have been issued first in parts (as there are various signatures in parts at foot of some pages). The additional material was added to draw in the reading public. Forbes, Hawaiian Nat. Bib. Vol. I, 190. ESTC N26645
Buck, Edward J. Simla Past and Present. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, & Co., 1904. 8vo, org. green decorative cloth; folding map, 51 plates as called for. First edition. A rare account of the British Raj's favourite summer retreat. Hardinge of Penshurst, Lord On Hill and Plain. John Murray, 1933. 8vo, org. cloth in dj; 16 photographic plates as called for; provenance: authorial gift inscription on ffep. First ed. With The British in India, a pamphlet published in conjunction with the opening of the British in India Museum in Colne, 1971, pp.38, 9 b/w illus after photos. [3]
Milton, John; Martin, John (illus.) Paradise Lost. Printed for Henry Washbourne, 1853. 4to, full coarse-grain plum leather gilt; 24 mezzotints by John Martin. Martin's mezzotints were first sold in stages to subscribers. Twenty-four were then selected to accompany the poem, originally in a two-volume edition in 1827. Mezzotints seem especially apt for Milton's work, with their emphasis on the contrast between dark and light. Typical of all artists, in imagining Milton's work, Martin has drawn on his own Romantic sentiments, The poem becomes an embodiment of the sublime. His figures disappear before the grandeur and the terror of the setting. Both Heaven and Hell are greater than those within them, eternal, magnificent and legitimately awe-inspiring.
Peary, R.E. Nearest the Pole. Hutchinson, 1907. 8vo, org.black cloth; numerous photographic plates. First UK ed. Chapman, F. Spencer Northern Lights. The Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition. 1930-31. Chatto & Windus, 1932. 8vo, org. cloth; numerous photographic plates. First ed. Lyon, Capt. G.F. The Private Journal of Capt. G.F. Lyon. Barre: Imprint Society, 1970. 4to, org. cloth-backed boards, in slip-case; illus. by James Houston. Limited edition, numbered 836 of 1950, signed by artist. with three others [6]
Wycliffe, John (trans.) A Smaller Biblia Pauperum. Imprynted atte the sign off The Grasshopper, bye Unwin Brothers, 1884. 8vo, org. parchment gilt, two metal clasps; title printed in red and black, 38 woodcuts. The woodcuts which form this work had been previously unknown, possibly never having been published since their first production, likely c.1450. The blocks were first used to produce a limited edition for the 1877 Caxton Exhibition. After which, this reduced size edition was published. In order to best present the blocks the paper was hand-made in a 15th century style in Holland; the binding was executed after a contemporary book in the British Library; and the English text was that of the so-called ''Wycliffe Bible'', being the best known English text of the period (even if it had been banned by the Church authorities at the time).
Breeches Bible [Geneva Translation] The Bible: That is the Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Old and New Testament. Cambridge: University Press, 1992. 8vo, full calf in a period style, a.e.g. in publisher's box, printed on acid-free paper, with explanatory pamphlet. ''Reissue'' of the 1591 edition of John Legate. John Legate's printing of the first Bible in Cambridge was not merely an act of production, but instead a direct challenge to the supremacy of London's printers, specifically the Queen's. By charter, the Queen's Printers had the exclusive right to the highly lucrative Bible trade. However, by charter of Henry VIII (confirmed by Elizabeth) the university had the right to print 'omnimodos libros', or all manner of books. Not unsurprisingly, a legal challenge followed, which the University Press defended to Lord Burghley (Chancellor of the University at the time) both by reference to their charter and by challenging the benefits of the monopoly. An agreement was reached and the Bible released for sale, however Cambridge would not produce another edition until 1629. The 1591 Bible is now rare, with two of the three known institution copies being imperfect. This limited facsimile was produced from the Bible Society and British Library copies, and omits Apocrypha. It was produced to mark the 400th anniversary of Cambridge's Biblical production and celebrate the long and noble history of the Press.
19th Century Bibles KJV bound with The Psalms of David in Metre. KJV: Cambridge: Stereotyped and Printed by R. Watts for the British and Foreign Bible Society, n.d. but ?1806; Psalms: Edinburgh: Sir D. Hunter Blair and J. Bruce, 1809. 8vo, later leather. Cambridge Stereotype Edition. The 1806 edition was likely the first English Bible to bear the Society's name on its title. Agrees generally with Herbert 1488 KJV bound after BCP and before Brady and Tate Psalms. All: Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1853. 8vo, contemporary leather, sometime rebacked, gift details in blind and gilt, two metal clasps. A gift of the Lord Wharton Trust. Wycliffe, John (trans); Tyndale, William (trans) The Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Gospels in Parallel Columns. John Russell Smith, 1874. 8vo, later leather. KJV with Henry & Scott commentaries. Birmingham: Eld & Blackham, [c.1899]. Folio, full leather, sometime rebacked, boards decorated in blind, upper board with gilt titles, metal corner-pieces and clasps; illus with chromolithograph plates. KJV. Glasgow: Printed by William Collins for The Scottish Bible Society Edinburgh, [c.1906]. 8vo, later leather; 96 coloured plates and 17 coloured maps. Emerald Teacher's Bible. [5]
Book of Common Prayer [BCP] Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book. William Pickering [and the Chiswick Press], 1853. 8vo, full plum morocco, boards with blind panelling, upper board lettered directly in gilt, spine lettered directly in gilt and panelled in blind in compartments, chocolate endpapers, all edges gilt over red; title printed in red and black, port. frontis., decorative borders by Mary Byfield after Durer, Holbein, Tory and others. Byfield was a life-long employee of the Chiswick Press and this Pickering edition of Elizabeth's prayer book is widely considered her masterpiece. It weaves old and new designs into a harmonious and attractive setting for the Caslon type, which simultaneously illuminates and contextualises the words it encloses. With the Folio Society edition of the same (2013 reprint of the 2004 first Folio edition). 8vo, quarter bound in green leather gilt over marbled boards, green endpapers, top edges gilt, others green, green marker, in slipcase decorated in gilt; illustrated after the Pickering edition. [2]
Books & records - More Adventures of Rupert, 1947 Annual; The Poet and Other Animals, Harold Richardson, Pictures by G.H. Thompson published by Ernest Nister; The Book of Nonsense and More Nonsense, Edward Lear published by Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.; Herge The Adventures of TinTin The Crab With the Golden Claws, Methuen, First Edition 1958; 7'' singles and albums including the Beatles, Cliff Richard, Suzie Quatro, Bay City Rollers, Abba and children's etc.
The Royal Mint 2015 Five Sovereign Gold Coin Proof Twin Sets Featuring The Fifth Portrait First Edition Proof Set and the Standard Portrait Proof Set. Each set consisting of the £5, £2, Sovereign, Half Sovereign and Quarter Sovereign. Complete with Booklet and CoA and presented in their original boxes and housed together in a Royal Mint Premium outer box 350 and 500 sets respectively of each issued,
PAUL MCCARTNEY, GEOFF DUNBAR AND PHILIP ARDAGH 'HIGH IN THE CLOUDS', 2005, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED: First Edition, first printing, Faber and Faber Ltd., 2005, illustrated dustwrapper unclipped, inscribed and signed personally to re-recording sound mixer Ray Merrin, by Paul McCartney and illustrator Geoff Dunbar, both dedications of thanks in black ink, read ' Hey Ray, always good to work with ya! Paul McCartney', and further annotated with a heart, 'all the best Ray Geoff Dunbar'. * Paul McCartney working again with Ray Merrin, collborated with Geoff Dunbar on the 1985 animated film 'Rupert and the Frog Song', McCartney began working on the film adaptation of 'High in the Clouds' in 2009, the film finally going into development in 2013, optioned by Gaumont.Provenance: property of film re-recording sound mixer, the Late Ray Merrin.by descent to the vendor. Ray Merrin (1937 - 2018) part of the Oscar winning 'Best Sound' team for The Last Emperor (1987) four times Bafta nominee and recipient of the Bafta Lifetime Achievement Award 2018 for outstanding contribution to sound design. Ray's filmography includes The Railway Children, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Tommy, Alien, The Killing Fields, Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Mission, 'Rupert the Frog Song', 'Give My Regards to Broad Street', Bridget Jones's Diary,Little Voice, Hilary & Jackie, Trainspotting, Harry Potter and the Philiosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets.
Various books on nature, etc. Stamp (Sir Dudley) Nature Conservation In Britain, first edition with dust wrapper, various other similar, varying editions to include Dragonflies, Flowers of The Coast, Insect Natural History, Ramsbottom (John) Mushrooms and Toadstools, Yonge (CM) The Seashore, revised edition 1966, Moths, Axel (Herbert) and Husking (Eric) Minsmere Portrait of A Bird Reserve, signed by both authors, various other natural history books, David Attenborough, Skinner (Bernard) Moths of The British Isles, other books on beetles, land and water bugs, etc. (a quantity)
Harold Riley; 'Sketches from the Belfry', first impression, signed by the artist, Peter Alliss and Dave Thomas, number 3 of 200 signed and numbered copies, 1 of 500 total, also a Belfry Yardage sketchbook by Riley, a 34th Ryder Cup programme, 2001 Cup mug and Ben Scott limited edition number 1021 (5).
A quantity of mainly boxed Corgi vehicles and modes of transport to include a limited edition H E Payne Transport Ltd model scale replica, an Eddie Stobart Ltd lorry, an Inspector Morse Jaguar 2.4 01803, The Avengers Vintage Bentley with white metal John Steed figure 00101, an Articulated Lorry 921, a Corgi 'The Aviation Archives Aeroplane Berlin Airlift' first issue 47201 and 'The Aviation Archives Frontier Airlines Avro York-BOAC' first issue etc.
A quantity of Hornby Dublo and other named carriages and engines to include Hornby Dublo LMS 2394 engine, Hornby Dublo LMS 26133 carriage, a Tri-ang tender, a Hornby Dublo Queen Mary 6222 engine, a Hornby Dublo carriage LMS 4183, a large engine LMS 2603, a Corgi boxed 'Dibnah's Choice' steam engine for Wilkinson Machinery Merchant Leith, a cart carrying timber, a boxed Matchbox model 'John Hoadley's Mammoth Fair Traction Steam Engine' and a copy of John Ramsay's 'British Model Trains Catalogue', first edition.
Herbert Thomas Dicksee RE (1862-1942) 'THE FIRST NIGHT FROM HOME' (A PUPPY ASLEEP, CONTENT WITH ITS NEW SURROUNDINGS) Original etching on vellum, signed artist's proof, edition of 250, one state only, published by The Fine Art Society, London, 1901, with blindstamp Pl.21 x 29.8cm Provenance: The Bryan and Valerie Steele Collection.
John Blatchly - EIGHTY IPSWICH PORTRAITS - Samuel Read’s Early Victorian Sketchbook, 1980 first edition, signed by the author and with further inscription - This copy is one of three signed by the author and specially bound for presentation to - Dr. John Blatchly, Mr Tony Copsey, Mr Nigel Dickin (Nigel Dickin’s copy), in fine full calf binding slip case
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