Troubadours.- François Guizot's set.- Raynouard (François-Just-Marie) Choix des poésies originales des troubadours, 6 vol., first edition, 4 folding plates of facsimiles of manuscripts, vol.2 lacking quire d., and quire c. duplicated, foxed, ink ownership stamps to title (including that of Guizot), contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spines in compartments, spines with labels removed from foot and a few nicks, corners worn, rubbed, large 8vo., Paris, Firmin Didot, 1816-1821.*** François Guizot's set of this scarce work on troubadours. Includes a study of the 'langue romane', biographies, verses from the Crusades, and a comparative grammar of Occitan and other European languages. Guizot (1787-1874) was Prime Minister of France under Louis Philippe.
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NO RESERVE MacGahan (J.A.) Campaigning on the Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva, first edition, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, double-page hand-coloured map, advertisement leaf at end, occasional foxing, original red-brown cloth, very slightly rubbed at edges, a very good copy, New York, 1874 § Schuyler (Eugene) Turkistan: Notes on a Journey..., 2 vol., sixth edition, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, 3 folding colour maps, final two leaves of vol.2 badly opened, original cloth, spines faded and worn at ends, 1877, 8vo (3)
Markham (Clements R.) Travels in Peru and India while superintending the collection of Chinchona plants and seeds in South America, and their introduction into India, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and 7 plates, illustrations, 2 folding maps, folding genealogical table of the Incas, 30pp. publishers' catalogue at end, folding map with short tear to inner edge and slight fraying to outer edge, leaves a little brittle and chipped at edges, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, 4to, 1862.*** Cinchona was the source of quinine used as a cure for malaria, and was greatly needed by the British in India.
Martyn (William) The Historie, and Lives, of the Kings of England, first edition, without 72pp. 'Successions of the Dukes and Earles...' at end, title with woodcut architectural border and coat-of-arms on verso, woodcut head-pieces and initials, small rust-hole to Ii1 touching side-note, a few light stains, later half russia, joints split, spine worn and torn at head, [STC 17527], for John Bill, William Barret, and Henry Fetherstone, 1615 § [Seward (William)] Anecdotes of some Distinguished Persons, 2 vol., third edition (first Dublin edition), ink inscriptions to titles, marginal staining to end of vol.1, contemporary calf, spines gilt, Dublin, William Porter for P.Byrne, 1796 § Life (The), Voyages and Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called King of the Beggars, edited by Thomas Price, engraved portrait (creased at inner margin), contemporary sheep, worn, London, Bristol & Exeter [imprint with "Eristol" and in upper case], [?1785] § Series of Letters (A) between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot..., 4 vol., contemporary tree calf, 1809, rubbed; and 10 others, v.s. (18)*** ESTC records only 6 copies of the second item (5 in Ireland and one in America), and 6 UK copies of the third.
Anti-christ.- Palmer (Thomas) A Little View of the Old World, in two books. I. A Map of Monarchy ... II. An Epitomy of Papacy, wherein is discovered the rise of Anti-Christ ..., first edition, title laid down, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, spotting and staining, trimmed occasionally affecting head-lines, page numbers an marginal notes, contemporary calf, rebacked, small paper label to upper cover, a little rubbed, [Wing P253], for Livewell Chapman, 1659.*** Scarce. ESTC lists only 5 copies, 4 in the UK and 1 in North America.
Cowley (Abraham) The Works, first collected edition, engraved portrait by W.Faithorne trimmed to platemark, woodcut device on title, with Life bound after Davideis, neat contemporary ink inscription of Thomas Pargiter of Lincoln College 1668 to verso of portrait and with several annotations or crossings out by him (a few cut away from margins on a1 & e2 of Life and D3 of Verses), short tear to lower margin of Q4 towards end affecting catchword but no loss, contemporary calf, rubbed and slightly stained, rebacked, [Wing C6649], by J.M. for Henry Herringman, 1668 § Milton (John) Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley, half-title, 2 engraved portraits, first few leaves becoming loose, modern half morocco, for Jacob Tonson...John Poulson..., 1732, folio & 4to (2)*** At the foot of Thomas Sprat's Life of Cowley in the first Pargiter has added "and most hearty flatterer" before Sprat's name.
![[Courtilz de Sandras (Gatien de)] The French Spy: or, the Memoirs of John Baptist de La Fontaine, first English edition, smal](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ecb6c56e-2a66-4435-8ee1-acf000ac6f97/446a9103-7dc2-4cc6-959e-acf500a50e98/468x382.jpg)
[Courtilz de Sandras (Gatien de)] The French Spy: or, the Memoirs of John Baptist de La Fontaine, first English edition, small paper defect affecting odd letter (M1), occasional foxing, near contemporary speckled calf, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Wing C6597A], 8vo, for R. Basset, 1700.
Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Opera, 1 vol. in 2, first edition published in England, fine engraved additional architectural title, engraved head- and tail-pieces, lightly browned throughout, occasional spotting, contemporary panelled armorial calf, sympathetically rebacked, preserving red and green morocco spine labels, spine ends little chipped, corners worn, joints starting, but holding firm, rubbed, Cambridge, Jacob Tonson, 1702; and Tonson's Virgil, 1701, 4to (3)
NO RESERVE Military Dictionary (A). Explaining all Difficult Terms in martial discipline, fortification, and gunnery ... to which is added, a Sea-Dictionary of all the Terms of Navigation, third edition, folding engraved frontispiece, misbound after advertisement, 2 full-page illustrations, previous owner's ink signature to title, light browning to first and last few leaves, contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt, 12mo, J. Morphew, 1708.
Palmer (Samuel) Moral Essays on some of the most Curious and Significant English, Scotch and Foreign Proverbs, first edition, later pencil marks and annotations to preface, trimmed affecting odd headline, spotting, near contemporary diced calf, upper cover detached, s little rubbed, 8vo, by Tho. Hodgkin, for R. Bonwicke, W. Freeman ..., 1710.
NO RESERVE Osborne (Thomas, Duke of Leeds) Copies & extracts of some letters written to and from the Earl of Danby (now Duke of Leeds) in the years 1676, 1677, and 1678. With particular remarks upon some of them, first edition, initial blank, 2 ff. advertisements at end, a few ink numbers to verso of title, water-stained, contemporary panelled calf, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, spine ends little chipped, a few stains, rubbed, 8vo, Printed for John Nicholson, 1710.*** Provenance Charles, 4th Earl of Orrery & Lady Elizabeth Cecil (their engraved armorial bookplate to verso of title).
More (Dr. Henry).- Ward (Richard) The life of the learned and pious Dr. Henry More, Late Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge. To which are annex'd divers of his useful and excellent letters, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, advertisement f. at end, occasional spotting or staining, contemporary panelled calf, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, some staining, rubbed, 8vo, Printed and sold by Joseph Downing, 1710.
Oliphant (Laurence) The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the Autumn of 1852, second, enlarged, edition, lithographed frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations, folding map with route in red (spotted), 16pp. publishers' catalogue at end, original pictorial brown cloth, gilt, corners bumped, spine ends a little worn, 1853 § Graham (Stephen) Through Russian Central Asia, first American edition, plates, original pictorial cloth, New York, 1916 § Bigham (Clive) A Ride through Western Asia, second edition, plates, 4 folding hand-coloured maps (spotted), original cloth, 1897; and 10 others on Russia and Central Asia, 8vo (13)
D'Urfey (Thomas) New Opera's, with comical stories, and poems, on several occasions, first edition, bookplate of Stanley Earl of Derby to pastedown, some browning or marginal toning, contemporary panelled calf, light scuffing, neatly rebacked with red morocco spine label, small burn hole to lower cover edge, [ESTC T134712], William Chetwood, 1721; and 2 others, 18th century, one also with the bookplate of Charles Stanley, Earl of Derby, 8vo (3)
Gueullette (Thomas Simon) Mogul Tales, Or, The Dreams of Men Awake: Being Stories told to divert the Sutana's of Guzarat, for the Supposed Death of the Sultan, 2 vol., first edition in English, engraved frontispieces and 4 plates, occasional light foxing, vol.1 A1 with small hole to upper margin, bookplate to pastedowns, contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt with green morocco labels, cracking to joints but holding firm, vol.2 upper joint neatly repaired, spine ends chipped, corners a little bumped, 8vo, J. Applebee, 1736.*** Scarce and charming work, an imitation of the Arabian Nights and similar works that were in vogue at the time.
Harris (James) Three Treatises. The First Concerning Art. The Second Concerning Music, Painting, and Poetry. The Third Happiness, first edition, scattered faint spotting, modern calf-backed boards, 1744 § A Chronological Series of Engravers from the Invention of the Art to the beginning of the Present Century, half-title, 3 engraved folding plates, ex-library with blind-stamps and faded ink-stamp to title verso, occasional faint spotting, previous owner's ink inscription, contemporary calf, rebacked, slight bumping to corners, Cambridge, 1770 § The Record of the International Exhibition 1862, folding double-page lithographed frontispiece, decorative title, 24 plates, some double-sided, 7 folding or double-page, illustrations, spotting, occasional off-setting, previous owner's name label to blank, later half-morocco, a little rubbed, Glasgow, William Mackenzie, [1862]; and others similar, 8vo & 4to (6)
NO RESERVE Cookery.- Ellis (William) The Country Housewife's Family Companion, first edition, engraved frontispiece of farmyard, advertisement leaf at end, some light water-staining, frontispiece detached and lacking front free endpaper, contemporary calf, worn, [Bitting p.143; Cagle 664; Oxford p.79; Simon BG 388], for James Hodges...and B. Collins, 1750; and a 16th edition of Smith's Compleat Housewife of 1758 lacking 2 of 6 plates, 8vo (2)*** On husbandry comprising the care of agriculture and livestock, and recipes for their products including bread, puddings & pies, soups & sauces, poultry, pork, butter, cheese and beer.
![[Brooke (Francis, translator)].- [Riccoboni (Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières)] Letters from Juliet Lady Catesby,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ecb6c56e-2a66-4435-8ee1-acf000ac6f97/c6197ca3-0da2-4164-8a55-acf500a55a9e/468x382.jpg)
[Brooke (Francis, translator)].- [Riccoboni (Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières)] Letters from Juliet Lady Catesby, to her friend Henrietta Campley, Transtated [sic] from the French, second edition, occasional light browning, some worming to lower margin, not affecting text, early ink ownership inscription to title, attractive contemporary mottled calf, some light insect damage along joints but an attractive copy overall, 12mo, Dublin, J. Potts, 1763.*** Rare translation of this early novel by this important early English novelist. Brooke would publish her own The History of Emily Montagu in1764, often referred to as the first North American novel. ESTC lists 5 copies only.
Gibbon (Edward) An Essay on the Study of Literature, first English edition, marginal loss to title, neatly restored, short tear neatly repaired (C1), trimmed affecting occasional printed marginal note, modern speckled calf by Bayntun-Riviere, [Norton 6], 8vo, for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1764.*** First edition in English of the great historian's first book, originally written in French
![NO RESERVE Perfumes & Cosmetics.- [Buc'hoz (Pierre-Joseph)] The Toilet of Flora; or, a Collection of...Methods of Preparing B](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ecb6c56e-2a66-4435-8ee1-acf000ac6f97/c21df5c6-0c27-49aa-a61a-acf500a56694/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Perfumes & Cosmetics.- [Buc'hoz (Pierre-Joseph)] The Toilet of Flora; or, a Collection of...Methods of Preparing Baths, Essences, Pomatums, Powders, Perfumes..., A New Edition Improved, foxed and browned, with engraved book-label "Robert Davidson No.101" and with number supplied in manuscript mounted on verso of title, modern morocco-backed boards, 12mo, for J.Murray...and W.Nicoll, 1775.*** First published in France in 1771 with the first English edition in 1772; interesting for promoting the use of natural substances in cosmetics rather than white lead based face paint and mercury based rouge. ESTC lists 8 UK copies.
Bolingbroke (Henry St.John, Viscount) Letters on the spirit of patriotism: on the idea of a patriot King: and on the state of parties, at the accession of King George the first, new edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, offsetting on to title, Printed for T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, Bookseller to the Royal Academy, 1775; A collection of political tracts. By the author of the Dissertation upon parties, printed for T. Davies, 1769; and 4 others, by the same, occasional spotting and light staining, uniformly bound in contemporary speckled calf, gilt spines in compartments and with red morocco 'Works' label, a few corners little worn, rubbed, 8vo (6)
NO RESERVE Thomson (James) The Poetical Works, 2 vol., no half-titles (as called for), list of subscribers at end of vol.1, staining to title, faint vertical crease, engraved bookplates of the Earl of Lonsdale, John Fort of Read Hall and Brisbane of Brisbane, later half maroon morocco, spines gilt, rubbed, [Gaskell 672], Glasgow, Andrew Foulis, 1784; The Seasons, Stereotype Edition, engraved plates, contemporary ink inscription to head of title, some foxing and offsetting, attractively bound in contemporary red straight-grain morocco with decorative gilt borders, spine gilt, g.e., a little rubbed and marked, spine dulled, 1809; and another edition of the same, folio & 8vo (4)*** Subscribers to the first include Edmund Burke, Patrick Colquhoun, William Robertson, and Adam Smith.
NO RESERVE Burney (Charles) An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey, and the Pantheon ... in Commemoration of Handel, first edition, 8 engraved plates including plan of orchestra, some stipple engraved and printed in bistre, with final errata/directions to binder leaf, occasional faint spotting, title and front free endpaper strengthened at hinge, cracked hinges, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, upper cover detached, 4to, for the Benefit of the Musical Fund, and sold by T. Payne, 1785.
![NO RESERVE Schools.- [Penn (James)] An Introduction to Latin Grammar; for the Use of Christ's-Hospital, third edition, engrav](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ecb6c56e-2a66-4435-8ee1-acf000ac6f97/18e83d65-db54-4d51-b3ef-acf500a5835a/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Schools.- [Penn (James)] An Introduction to Latin Grammar; for the Use of Christ's-Hospital, third edition, engraved frontispiece and additional title, with blank G6 but lacking final blank, a little soiled and browned, contemporary inscriptions to front free endpapers, later calf, printed by Charles Rivington, printer to Christ's-Hospital, 1785 § Trollope (Rev. William) A History of the the Royal Foundation or Christ's Hospital, engraved frontispiece and plates, some light foxing, original cloth, paper label, uncut, recased, William Pickering, 1834 § Stanley (A.P.) The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., 2 vol., third edition, engraved portrait, contemporary calf, 1844, rubbed; and 2 others, v.s. (6)*** The first is a scarce school book, first published in 1761, with a second edition in 1771. This edition is not in ESTC but Library Hub records 3 copies (BL, Oxford & Cambridge).
Bookseller.- Lackington (James) Memoirs of the first forty-five years of the life of James Lackington, the present bookseller in Chiswell-street, Moorfields, London...In a series of letters to a friend. With a triple dedication. 1. To the Public. 2. To Respectable, first edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, spotted, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt and with red morocco label, joints splitting, but holding firm, rubbed, 8vo, Printed for and sold by the author, No. 46 and 47, Chiswell-Street; W. Bulgin, Bristol; and all other booksellers, 1791.*** Lackington (1746-1815) is credited with revolutionising the book trade. He is best remembered for refusing credit at his shop, and thereby reduced the price of books to make himself more competitive. He also saved remaindered books from pulping and sold them at bargain prices. His main bookshop, 'The Temple of the Muses', was in Finsbury Square.
Shaw (Robert) Visits to High Tartary, Yârkand, and Kâshghar..., first edition, 4 tinted lithographs and 3 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, 2 folding maps with partial hand-colouring, advertisement leaf and 16pp. publishers' catalogue at end, original pictorial green cloth, gilt, rubbed, a little worn at edges, recased, new endpapers, 8vo, 1871.
NO RESERVE Cowper (William).- Hayley (William) The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 3 engraved portraits and a tail-piece by William Blake, later ink inscriptions to titles, some spotting, contemporary half calf, spines gilt with red roan labels, Chichester, J. Seagrave, 1803 § Cowper, Illustrated by a Series of Views, in, or near, the Park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks, 12 engraved plates by J.Greig, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, 1803 § Rural Walks of Cowper (The), displayed in a series of views near Olney, Bucks, half-title, 15 engraved plates and facsimile of writing, advertisement leaf at end, marginal foxing, original boards, pink paper label to upper cover (chipped), uncut, spine worn and stained, 1822, rubbed, joints split; and 6 others by Cowper, v.s. (10)*** A third volume of the first item, containing letters, was published by Hayley in 1804.
Lycophron. Cassandra, translated & edited by Viscount Royston, presentation copy from the translator to the Rt. Hon. Lady Lucas inscribed on front free endpaper, folding letterpress table, light spotting, engraved bookplate of Thomas Philip Earl de Grey of Wrest Park, contemporary calf with borders in gilt and blind, Cambridge, [privately] printed by R.Watts, 1806 § Secundus (Joannes) Kisses: a Poetical Translation of the Basia..., third edition, printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece by Bartolozzi and plate, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary calf, gilt border, red roan label, J.Bew, 1778 § Somervile (William) The Chase, wood-engraved vignettes by Thomas Bewick, light staining, contemporary tree calf, printed by W.Bulmer & Co., 1802 § Goldsmith (O.) & Thomas Parnell. Poems, half-title, wood-engraved plates and vignettes by Thomas Bewick, contemporary calf, border in gilt & blind, rebacked, Bulmer, 1804 § Heron (Robert, translator) Arabian Tales..., 4 vol., modern morocco, rebacked, Edinburgh, 1792 § Trollope (Anthony) The Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 vol., first edition in book form, wood-engraved plates by George H.Thomas, contemporary half roan, 1867, all rubbed, some joints split, the first a little stained and with worn spine; and c.40 others, literature, v.s. (c.50)
Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Hours of Idleness, first edition, first issue, with 'thnnder' on p.144 line 4 and 'Thc' on p.181 line 21, lacking half-title, previous owner's occasional ink and pencil annotations, spotting, modern calf-backed boards, [Wise I.7], 8vo, Newark, S. and J. Ridge, 1807.
Stein (Sir Marc Aurel) On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China, first edition, half-title, plates, some colour, some folding, folding colour map (short tears at folds reinforced with sticky tape), advertisement leaf at end, original terracotta cloth, gilt medallion on upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, corners bumped, 8vo, 1933.
NO RESERVE Nelson (Horatio, 1st Viscount).- Southey (Robert) The Life of Nelson, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved frontispiece, lacking half-titles, foxing to frontispiece, offsetting to titles, occasional spotting and staining, contemporary calf, gilt, spines in compartments and with red morocco labels, foot of spine chipped, joints splitting, but holding firm, corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, 1813.
Trial.- The Great Stock Exchange Fraud.-The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, baron de Beaufain... for conspiracy in the Court of King's Bench, first edition, 4 pp. publisher's adverts, lacking folding plate, ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, later library roan, J. Butterworth, and Gale, Curtis and Fenner, 8vo, 1814.*** After spreading false information of Napoleon's death and causing bond prices to rise, Berenger and his co-conspirators sold more than a million pounds of government bonds for good profit. Once news of Napoleon's death was found to be a hoax, bond prices plummeted, and after the conspiracy was quickly discovered and the six men were arrested and tried.
NO RESERVE Holbein (Hans) Icones veteris testamenti; Illustrations of the Old Testament, text in English, Latin, French, Italian and Spanish, wood-engraved illustrations after Holbein, endpapers foxed, contemporary blue calf, spine gilt, worn, William Pickering, 1830 § Shelley (Percy Bysshe) Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats..., facsimile reprint of first edition of Pisa 1821, light spotting, contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, spine defective at foot, Noel Douglas, 1927 § Fenning (Daniel) The Universal Spelling-Book..., fortieth edition, woodcut frontispiece with 3 scenes, woodcut vignettes, contemporary sheep, worn, by J.Barker, [?c.1800]; and c.15 others, miscellaneous, including 2 19th French cartonnage bindings, v.s. (c.20)
Torrens (Lt.-Col. Henry d'Oyley) Travels in Ladâk, Tartary, and Kashmir, first edition, folding lithographed map and 12 chromolithographed plates, 2 folding panoramas, wood-engraved illustrations, lacking errata slip, foxing, mostly to plates, one panorama soiled and frayed at fore-edge (reinforced), original purple pebble-grain cloth, gilt, bevelled edges, rubbed and marked, rebacked preserving original spine (faded), corners repaired, 8vo, 1862.
NO RESERVE Beckett (Gilbert Abbott) The Comic Blackstone, first single volume edition, frontispiece, title vignette and illustrations by George Cruikshank, original cloth covers and spine strip bound in at end, frontispiece and title a little foxed, ink ownership signature removed from title, later red calf, gilt, by Baytun Riviere, 1846 § [Cooper (James Fenimore)] The Water Witch, 3 vol., first English edition, bookplates to pastedown, gathering loose in vol.2, faded ink ownership signature to titles, contemporary half calf with morocco spine label, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830; and 60 others, literature and history, mostly antiquarian, v.s. (63)
Dickens (Charles) The Battle of Life, first edition, fourth issue, new endpapers, 1846; The Chimes, second edition, ink ownership inscription removed from endpapers, 1865, illustrations, frontispieces, additional engraved titles, very occasional spotting, original red pictorial cloth, the first rebacked preserving portion of original spine, extremities rubbed and a little stained, 8vo; and another, Dickens (3)
NO RESERVE Hawthorne (Nathaniel) The Blithedale Romance, first American edition, later issue with copyright notice opposite lines 2-4 on preface, original cloth, spine ends chipped and extremities lightly rubbed, Boston, 1852 § Clark (J. W) Robinson Crusoe, engraved title vignette by Millais, later calf, lightly rubbed, 1866 § Marryat (Frederick) Masterman Ready: Or, The Wreck of the Pacific Written for Young People, illustrations, 1851, light spotting to endpapers or first few ff., bookplates to pastedown to first and last but overall bright clean copies; and c.85 others, English literature and history, mostly antiquarian, v.s. (c.90)
Wilson (Andrew) The Abode of Snow: Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus, through the Upper Valleys of the Himalaya, first edition, tinted lithographed frontispiece, wood-engraved title-vignette, 2 advertisement leaves and 32 pp. publishers' catalogue at end, folding map in pocket at end, very occasional foxing, original green cloth, pictorial gilt spine, spine ends a little worn, corners slightly bumped, a good copy, Edinburgh & London, 1875; and 5 others on the Himalayas and Kashmir, 8vo (6)
NO RESERVE *** Please note, the description to this lot has changed. ***Skeat (W. W., editor)The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 7 vol., first edition, endpapers foxed, original cloth, spines gilt, 1894§ Spurgeon (Caroline F. E., editor) Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion 1357-1900, 3 vol., illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, uncut, 1925 § Crepet (Jacques, editor) Oeuvres Complètes de Charles Baudelaire: Correspondance Générale, 6 vol., first edition, original blue half morocco, Paris, Louis Conard, 1947-1948; and 18others, literary criticism, collected letters or works, etc., v.s. (34)
NO RESERVE Cable (George W.) and J.M. Barrie. The Grandissimes, presentation inscription from Barrie to half-title verso, 1898 § Barrie (J.M) The Little Minister, 3 vol., second edition, 1891 § Kipling (Rudyard) Puck of Pook's Hill, illustrations, spine faded, 1906, light foxing to first few ff., original cloth, very light scuffing to extremities but overall clean copies, and 34 others, mostly late 19th century literature, v.s. (39)
NO RESERVE Browning (Robert) The Poetical Works, 2 vol., portrait frontispieces, bookplates to pastedown, foxing to first few ff. and title, contemporary morocco, gilt corner decorations, spines gilt in compartments, spines faded, Smith, Elder & Co., 1899 § [Chatterton (Thomas), "Thomas Rowley". Poems Supposed to have been Written at Bristol, first edition, engraved title vignette, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed, upper cover detached, B. Flower, Cambridge, 1794; and 44 others, poetry, v.s. (47)*** The second mentioned features 'Monady on the Death of Chatterton', the first poem of Samuel Coleridge to be printed in book form.
NO RESERVE Twain (Mark) Autobiography, first edition, 2 vol., portrait frontispieces, pencil dedication inscription to first ff., some damp staining to vol. 2, modern half-roan, gilt spine, t.e.g., covers stained, rubbed, [Bal 3537, variant A], 1924 § De Selincourt (Ernest) The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 6 vol., half-titles, folding facsimile of a manuscript letter, front endpapers browned, original cloth, gilt spines, vol. 1-3 spines faded, lightly scuffed, 1935-39 § Dowden (Edward) The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 2 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait frontispieces and 6 plates, folding facsimile of a manuscript letter, original pictorial cloth, gilt spine, 1886; and 27 others, literary criticism, collected letters or works, etc., v.s. (30)
NO RESERVE Pepys (Samuel).- facsimile edition.- The Historye of Renart the Foxe, 1976; Piers Plowman, 1976, facsimile editions reprinted from Samuel Pepys' copies, one of 100 copies, original morocco, coat of arms to upper cover, gilt, g.e., original slip-case, fine copies, 4to (2)*** The first is a facsimile of the copy owned by Samuel Pepys from the edition published by William Caxton in 1489.
Sporting.- Eardley-Wilmot (Sainthill) Forest Life and Sport in India, first edition, first issue (without maps), 20pp. publishers' catalogue at end, original pictorial red cloth, gilt, 1910 § Wardrop (Maj.-Gen. A.E.) Days and Nights with Indian Big Game, 1923 § Brown (J.Moray) Stray Sport, 2 vol., Edinburgh & London, 1893 § Aflalo (F.G.) The Sportsman's Book for India, folding colour map, ex-library copy with label and stamps to front endpapers (one loose), 1904 § Burton (Capt. R.G.) Tropics and Snows: A Record of Travel and Adventure, 1898 § Gardner (Nora Beatrice) Rifle and Spear with the Rajpoots, presentation copy from the author inscribed on title (recipient's name erased causing hole at head), 1895, plates and illustrations, occasional spotting, original cloth, the firsts four pictorial gilt, slightly rubbed, the first with faded spine, the last stained; and 9 others, sport in India, 8vo & 4to (16)
Sporting.- Macintyre (Maj.-Gen. Donald) Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and beyond the Himalayas, first edition, chromolithographed frontispiece, 24pp. publisher's catalogue at end, Edinburgh & London, 1889 § Haughton (Capt. H.L.) Sport & Folklore in the Himalaya, upper hinge weak, 1913 § Rundall (Lt. L.B.) The Ibex of Sha-Ping and other Himalayan Studies, 1915 § Whistler (Hugh) In the High Himalayas: Sport and Travel in the Rhotang and Baralacha..., 1924 § Morden (William J.) Across Asia's Snows and Deserts, inscribed by the author and his wife on front free endpaper, New York & London, 1927, first editions, plates and illustrations, some colour, occasional spotting, original cloth, the first three pictorial gilt, most a little rubbed, the first with corners bumped, the second faded; and 4 others on sport and animals in the Himalayas, 8vo (9)
Sporting.- Markham (Col. Frederick) Shooting in the Himalayas. A Journal of Sporting Adventures and Travel in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet, Cashmere, &c., first edition, additional wood-engraved pictorial title, 8 tinted lithographed plates, wood-engraved illustrations, lacking folding map, original pictorial blind-stamped green cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, rebacked preserving original gilt spine (faded), corners repaired, [Abbey, Travel 503; Czech, Asian, p.134], 8vo, 1854. *** "An excellent and early work on sport in the Himalayas." Czech.
Baker (E.C.Stuart) The Game-Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, 3 vol., second edition of vol.1, additional pictorial titles, 2 maps and 78 plates, 60 colour of which 30 chromolithographed after Grönvold, Lodge and Keulemans, some light foxing, mostly to vol.2, vol.1 & 2 contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, spines faded, slightly rubbed, vol.3 matching half cloth, 1921-30; Indian Pigeons and Doves, first edition, 27 colour plates after Grönvold and Lodge, text foxed, uniform contemporary half morocco, spine slightly rubbed and faded, 1913, [Nissen IVB 65 & 66], large 8vo (4)*** Vol.1 of the first mentioned is the second edition of Indian Ducks and their Allies, first published in 1908, and covers 'Swans, Geese and Ducks'. The other two volumes comprise 'Snipe, Bustards and Sand-Grouse', and 'Pheasants and Bustard-Quail'.
NO RESERVE Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) Through the Dark Continent, 2 vol., first edition, portrait frontispieces, plates and illustrations, bookplates to pastedown, tissue-guards foxed, occasional finger-soiling, original pictorial cloth, rather rubbed, vol.1 spine worn with portion of spine coming away, chipped with small portion of loss, hinges reinforced, 1878 § Grant (James) Illustrated History of India, 2 vol., illustrations, modern ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary half calf, rubbed, upper cover to vol.1 detached, [?1876]; and 14 others, travel, v.s. (18)
NO RESERVE Asia.- Le Bruyn (Cornelius) Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East-Indies, vol.2 only (of 2), first English edition, 59 engraved plates, many double-page and/or folding, engraved illustrations in text, a few plates lightly browned but generally clean, text with occasional water-staining to lower margin, contemporary calf, worn, covers detached, for A. Bettesworth [&c.], 1737; and Beauplan's 'Description of Ukraine' from Churchill's Voyages and Travels, folio; sold not subject to return (2)*** This volume covers Persia and the East Indies, with plates of the inhabitants, natural history, and views, some panoramas including the temples and antiquities at Persepolis.
Egypt.- Carter (Howard) & A. C. Mace. The Tomb of Tutankhamen, vol. 1 only (of 3), first edition, half-title, frontispiece and photographic plates by Harry Burton, occasional faint spotting, previous owner's ink signature, original decorative cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, 1923.
Europe.- Leake (William Martin) Travels in the Morea, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved illustrations, lacking all plates and maps, ex-library with ink-stamps to titles verso, occasional pencil marginal notes, contemporary calf, lightly faded spines, [Weber 974], 1830 § Beudant (F. S.) Travels in Hungary, in 1818, small hole to title, tear to title, neatly repaired, small marginal loss (C4), occasional marginal tears, short tear (repaired) and small hole to final leaf of text, modern half morocco, 1823 § Leake (William Martin) The Topography of Athens, vol. 1 only (of 2), first edition, engraved frontispiece, lacking atlas vol., damp-staining, occasional spotting, original cloth-backed boards, rebacked with original spine laid down, rubbed and worn, water-staining to upper cover, [Blackmer 971], 1821; 8vo (5)*** Blackmer states of the last "First edition, special format. This work is normally found with the plates and text bound together. However Brunet mentions an 'atlas' of eight plates ... There is no indication of how many copies were issued this way."
NO RESERVE India.- Elphinstone (Mountstuart) The History of India, 2 vol., first edition, contemporary half calf, rubbed, spine gilt, 1841 § Smith (Vincent) The Early History of India, third edition, frontispiece, folding maps, contemporary calf prize binding, gilt, extremities a little rubbed, 1914; and 3 others, India, 8vo & 4to (6)
Turkey.- Walsh (Rev. Robert) Narrative of a Journey from Constantinople to England, second edition, 8 lithographed plates (5 views and 3 of inscriptions, 1 folding) and 2 folding maps (one with short tears to folds), light spotting to plates, contemporary cloth, roan label, uncut, rubbed and marked, spine faded, lower joint split, [Atabey 1313; Blackmer 1764], 1828 § [Marana (Giovanni Paolo)] Letters writ by a Turkish Spy..., 8 vol., twelfth edition, engraved frontispiece, one or two leaves loose in vol.1, engraved bookplate of Robert Clavering Esq. 1748, modern book-label of Edward John Kenney, contemporary calf, rather rubbed, joints cracked, spine ends a little worn, A.Wilde, 1748 § Tott (François de, Baron) Mémoires...sur les Turcs et les Tartares, 4 parts in 2 vol., engraved bookplate of Hon. William Forward, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed, joints split, one label chipped, Maestricht, J.E.Dufour & Phil Roux, 1786, 8vo (11)*** The first is an account of the author's return journey from Constantinople where he was chaplain to the British Embassy.
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Voyage.- H[argrove] (W[illiam]) Some interesting particulars of the second voyage made by the missionary ship, the Duff : which was captured by the Buonaparte privateer in the year 1800, first edition, lacking final f., water-stained, some spotting, contemporary calf, lacking upper cover, rather worn, Knaresborough, Hargrove, 1809; and 1 vol. of The British Novelist, 1824, large 12mo & 8vo (2) sold not subject to return. *** The Duff was sent to the South Seas but captured off the coast of Brazil by French privateers, who then held the crew at Montevideo
Blanford (W.T.) Eastern Persia: An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870-71-72, vol.2 only (of 2: Zoology and Geology), first edition, half-title, 28 lithographed plates, 18 by Keulemans of birds and mammals and hand-coloured, folding hand-coloured map (foxed), plates lightly browned with some foxing, original cloth, rubbed, spine cockled, [Anker 45; Nissen ZBI 405], 8vo, 1876. *** "A complete survey of the whole Persian avifauna". (Anker). The first volume, by Frederic John Goldsmid and others, covers Geography.
NO RESERVE Cambridge.- Dyer (G.) History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge, 2 vol. in 1, engraved additional vignette title and plates, marginal water-staining to frontispiece and additional title, contemporary tree calf, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, roan label chipped, 1814 § Le Keux (J.) & Thomas Wright. Memorials of Cambridge, 2 vol., engraved additional vignette titles and plates by Le Keux, illustrations, original blind-stamped cloth, spines gilt and faded, 1847 § [Wright (J.M.F.)] Alma Mater; or, Seven Years at the University of Cambridge. By a Trinity Man, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 6pp. musical notation, original cloth-backed boards, paper labels, joints split, spine of vol.1 torn, 1827 § Hailstone (Edward) The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Bottisham and the Priory of Anglesey in Cambridgeshire, photographic frontispiece, folding genealogical tables, contemporary half roan, spine faded, Cambridge, 1873, rubbed; and a guide to Cambridge, 8vo et infra (7)
London.- Knight (Charles, editor) London, 6 vol., first edition, illustrations, extra-illustrated with c.370 plates, some engraved, some aquatint with hand-colouring, many double-page or folding, occasional spotting or foxing, half morocco, spines gilt, rubbed and faded, 8vo, 1841-1844.*** Plates feature views of London, plans of buildings, interiors, architectural aspects, and portraits etc.
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