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Click here to subscribe[CHALLONER, Richard]. Britannia Sancta: or, the Lives of the most Celebrated British, English, Scottish, and Irish Saints: who have flourished in these Islands, from the Earliest Times of Christianity, down to the change of Religion in the Sixteenth Century..., London 1745, 2 parts in 1 vol., title to part I and first few pp. detached, contemp. calf, both hinges very worn, 4to
PYNE, William Henry. The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore, 1819, vol. 2 and 3 only, first edition, 69 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates (as called for), broken or lacking spine. partly disbound, dampstained and foxed, 4to. (sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return)
DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Chapman and Hall 1870, first edition in 6 monthly parts, wood-engraved plates after Luke Fildes, earliest issue of part 6 with the "eighteenpence" slip over the one shilling price on the upper wrapper, part 1 lacking back cover, part 2 with the rare fragile "Cork Hat" slip (lacking a top corner), occasional spotting, original wrappers, toning, creasing and fraying especially to spines, preserved in a paper wallet, 8vo
BIBLE, English. The Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New., presumably London: Robert Barker 1614, the genealogies bound first with all before the Adam & Eve engraving (including the general title) lacking, red ruled throughout, Apocrypha present, double-column black letter text, New Testament title imprint dated 1614, bound with The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..., London: Company of Stationers 1614, bound with at front The Genealogies by John Speed, defective with title and first leaf lacking. Adam & Eve leaf torn with loss, with map, full calf, remains of gilt only, losses and scuffed, 8vo
TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings, George Allen & Unwin 1969, first india paper edition, 2 large folding maps, half title and title-page, rubbing to slipcase, crease to lower corner of several leaves, some foxing to rear free endpaper and prior leaf, org. pictorial cloth, in slipcase, 8vo
HUSSARS. Historic Record of the Third (King's Own) Hussars containing an account of the formation of the Regiment in 1685 and its subsequent services to 1903, London: Griffith 1903, eight chromolithograph plates, full polished calf,, 8vo; and DE AINSLEY, General. Historical Record of the First or the Royal Regiment of Dragoons, London: Chapman & Hall 1887, eight chromolithograph plates, original red cloth, 4to (2)
WILLIAMSON, Henry. Works, including first editions with dustjackets: As the Sun Shines, The Sun in the Sands, Scribbling Lark, The Phasian Bird, The Golden Virgin, It was the Nightingale, A Clear Water Stream, The Innocent Moon and The Power of the Dead; others by Williamson including a few firsts but lacking dj. or ex lib.; Anne Williamson's biography Tarka and the last Romantic, ex lib.; and WILLIAMSON, Richard. The Dawn is my Brother, 1959, 1st edn., Capreol, The story of a Roebuck, 1973, 1st edn. (42 incl. 3 pbk.)
ANGLING. WEST, Leonard. The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation, first edition, privately printed, original green cloth, colour plate illustrations; HARDY'S Book of Fishing, 1975 reprint, dj; WILLIAMS, Courtney A. Trout flies, a discussion and dictionary, pub. A. & C. Black, London 1932; BATES, L. Vernon. Tackle Making for Anglers, London 1938, advance review copy, dj; MALLOCH, P. D. Life History and Habits of the Salmon and other Freshwater Fish, pub. A. & C. Black 1910; Norwegian and other Fish-tales, London 1910; and others on fishing (42 incl. pbks)
[POLAR] ROSS, Sir John. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, pub. 1835, first edition, vol. 1 only (lacks appendix), 2 folding maps, 24 plates, 5 charts (some detached), original cloth, 4to, [Abbey Travel 636]
[DICKENS, Charles], "Boz". Master Humphrey's Clock, Chapman and Hall, 1840-41, first edition, second issue in 20 monthly parts, 3 wood-engraved frontispieces by George Cattermole, woodcut illustrations and initials by Cattermole and H.K. Browne, original printed blue wrappers, some heavily foxed, occasional soiling or creasing, the odd small chip, back covers of some detached or almost, weak spines to some, preserved in two crude custom drop boxes, 8voMaster Humphrey's Clock was first issued in weekly parts before being collected together into monthly issues and finally into book format.
DICKENS, Charles. A Child's History of England, Bradbury & Evans, 1852-1854, 3 vols., first edition in book form, half-titles, wood-engraved frontispieces by Francis W. Topham, leaf of advertisements at the end of each volume, occasional spotting (especially at begining of each vol.), publisher's red pink ribbed cloth, covers with blind-stamped border enclosing a gilt-stamped image of King Alfred reading to his mother, spines gilt, marbled endpapers and edges, some rubbing and small tears to spine ends, glacine wraps, small 8vo; and a second copy of vol. II, first edition, in pub. cloth binding (4)
POLITICAL & SOCIAL REFORM. [WADE, John] The Black Book; Or, Corruption Unmasked!, John Fairburn 1820, first edition, bookplate, some light foxing or soiling, contemp. half calf, gilt, 8vo; GLANVILLE, John. Reports of Certain Cases, Determined and Adjudged by the Commons in Parliament .., to which is prefixed, an Historical Account of the Ancient Right of Determining Cases upon Controverted Elections, London 1775, contemp. calf, 8vo; BENTHAM, Jeremy. Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the form of a Catechism, with reasons for each article. With an introduction, shewing the necessity of radical, and the inadequacy of moderate, Reform, London 1817, contemp. calf, 8vo; and CULLUM, R. (printer) The Spirit of Election Wit, at the City of Exeter, and County of Devon, Exeter 1812, new endpapers, contemp. calf, small 8vo (4)
CRESWICKE, Louis. South Africa and the Transvaal War, London: The Caxton Publishing Co., 1900 - 1902, first edition, 8 vols.,col. & b/w illustrations and maps, some browning otherwise good copies, red cloth, royal coat of arms and ostrich feathers in gilt on upper covers, ruled foliate spine in gilt, sm. 4to (8)
CANADA. BOUCHETTE, Joseph. A Topographical Description of the Province of Lower Canada, with remarks upon Upper Canada, London 1815, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 7 aquatint plates, 8 engraved maps (4 folding), 2 engraved tables (tear to folding one), scattered faint spotting, generally clean, contemp. half calf, a little rubbed, 8vo
BARTOLI, Pietro Santi and Giovanni Pietro Bellori. Colonna Traiana eretta dal Senato e Popolo Romano, unkown edition, no title page, letterpress text description of Alfonso Chacón or index, 2 single page and 132 double page plates, full speckled calf, gilt spine in compartments titled PRINTS, folioAn edition of Bartoli's engraved masterpiece, based on his own drawings of Trajan's column. Bartoli was able to inspect the column up close in the 1660s when King Louis XIV of France commissioned the erection of scaffolding in order to make a cast of the whole frieze (the first edition was dedicated to Louis). The publication was an immediate success and later editions were produced throughout the 18th and early 19th century. The present copy appears to be on unwatermarked paper suggesting a later edition.
GORDON, Jan & Cora (authors and illustrators), mainly travel or art subjects, cloth without dustjacket, unless stated:Two Vagabonds in the Balkans, 1925, first edition; On Wandering Wheels, 1929, 1st; Two Vagabonds in Albanis, 1927, 1st; Modern French Artists, 1936, new edn.; Art ain't all Paint, 1944, 1st; Two Vagabonds in Languedoc, 1925, 1st; Two Vagabonds in Sweden andLapland, 1926, 1st; Misadventures With a Donkey in Spain, 1924; Portuguese Somersault, 1934, 1st; Star-dust in Hollywood, 1930, 1st; Poor Folk in Spain, 1922, 1st; The London Roundabout, 1933, 1st; The Luck of Thirteen, 1916, author's first book; A Balkan Freebooter, 1916; Three Lands on Three Wheels, 1932, 1st, dustjacket; and others (three paperbacks); together with a photocopy of an article about the Gordons by Kenneth J. Bryant, (24 vols)
LEVANT. ALLOM, Thomas (illustrator) and Emma Reeve. Character and Costume in Turkey and Italy, London: Fisher [1839], first edition, additional tinted lithographed pictorial title and 20 plates after Thomas Allom, light foxing, contemporary morocco stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt, a.e.g., rubbed, splatter stains to upper cover, folio
[BERESFORD, James]. Bibliosophia; or, Book-wisdom. Containing some account of the pride, pleasure, and privileges of that glorioius vocation, book-collecting, London: for William Miller by W. Bulmer 1810, 2 parts in one volume, first edition, signed by the author to top of title pge, contemporary boards with red roan back and corners (extremities worn spine crudely strengthened), various annotations by former owners including Sir Hugh Walpole, 12moA satire on Dibdin's Bibliomania.
BUCHAN, John. The Long Traverse, Hodder & Stoughton, first edn, 1931, frontis. org. light blue cloth with black lettering small amount of spotting to cloth in d/w with a small amount of loss, inscription on half-title, 8vo; with Prester John, first of the Argosy series (1935), with one other. (3)
[JONES, David]. A Compleat History of Europe: Or, a View of the Affairs thereof, Civil and Military, from the year 1600 to the Treaty of Nimeguen... London: Mead for Rhodes, Nicholson & Bell 1705, 4 vols; IDEM. A Compleat History of Europe... Treaty of Nimeguen, 1676, to the End of the Year, 1700, London: Rhodes, Newborough, Nicholson & Bell 1705, (bound as vol. 4); IDEM. A Compleat History of Europe.. for the Year, 1701, London Rhodes, Nicholson & Bell 1706 (bound as vol. 6); down to vol. 17 for the Year 1712, London: Rhodes, Nicholson & Bell 1713; PUFFENDORF, Samuel. An Introduction to the History of the Principle Kingdoms and States of Europe, London 1700, 4th edn; IDEM. Idem, London 1708, 9th edition; [J. C. ]. A Supplement to Mr Samuel Puffendorf's Introduction to the History of Europe, London 1726, 2nd edn; in all 20 vols, uniform full calf with red labels, bookplates, 8vo; [WHATLEY, Samuel] A General Collection of Treatys, Declarations of War, Manifestos, and other Publick Papers, Relating to Peace and War, Among the Potentates of Europe, from 1648 to the present Time, first edition, 1 p. publisher's advertisements misbound after b3, contemp. panelled calf, 8vo (21)
JEROME, Jerome K. Three Men in a Boat, first edition, second impression, Bristol: Arrowsmith 1889, title page publisher's address '11 Quay Street', vignette illustrations by A. Frederics, advertisement pastedowns at the rear, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, dated 26/11/90, loosely inserted, blue-grey cloth; IBID. Three Men on the Bummel, Bristol: Arrowsmith nd, brown cloth; IBID. The Idle Thoughts of An Idle Fellow: A Book for an Idle Holiday, London & New York nd, 27th edition, ALS, dated 22/7/89, tipped to back of title, cream cloth, bookplates, all 8vo (3)
TROLLOPE, Anthony. Orley Farm, London 1862, first edition, 2 vol. illustrations by J. E. Millais, occasional light scattered spotting, publishers red cloth; HUMPHRIES, Mr. Spectacle de la Nature: or Nature Display'd being discourses on such particulars of Natural History, London: Davis et al 8th edn, 6 vols, illustrated with copper plates, some folding, full gilt calf, 8vo.; GIBBON. Roman Empire, London 1826, new edn., 4 vol.; and others, mainly calf bindings (24)
MOORE, Henry. Heads Figures and Ideas, Curwen Press for George Rainbird 1958, large presentation inscription on the front endpaper by Henry Moore, SIGNED and dated 1979, extensively illustrated throughout inc. coloured lithographs, the coloured lithograph by Henry Moore is present 'THIRTEEN standing' (coming loose), some foxing on first few pages, org. linen backed decorative boards, some scuffing, linen browned, large folio
An album of Autographed Edition FDCs, to include John Lidiard, Michael Fish, Diarmuid Gavin, Neville Duke, Tery Gilliam, Colin Jackson, Jan Leeming, Lord Lichfield, Wendy Richard and many more, together with an extensively large collection of First Day Covers, 1970s onwards, in folders and loose (00s)
A collection of mostly British coins, some silver content, from Victoria onwards, to include half-crowns, florins, shillings, sixpences, threepences, and decimal coinage; a Queen Mother £5 coin; royal and other commemoratives; a Coinage of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1970 set; Britain's First Decimal Coins, in pouch; and a 5th Army Commemorative Medal of the Entrance of the Allied Armies in Naples 1st October 1943; total weight of pre-1920 silver content coins - 0.4oz; total weight of 1920-1946 silver coins - 5oz.Qty: 1 box
A 1990s YVES SAINT LAURENT SUIT AND A STEWART PARVIN SUIT the first in coral with pearlized buttons, size 38; the second pale gold damask silk and wool shift dress and matching jacket with crystal buttons, size 38, with a 1960s/70s 'psychedelic' flower print maxi dress, and three handmade garments including two black maxi skirts and a navy 'twenties inspired blue drop waisted dress (8)
MARIE HALL (VIOLINIST) INTEREST: AN ALBUM OF MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER POSTCARDS "mostly late 19th/ 20th Century musicians , including Miss Marie Hall (1884-1956); Jan Kubelik and his wife; Melba, Elgar, etc, contained in a bound album, together with one of Miss Hall's calling cards. Hall was the first performer of Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending, and a major figure in early 20th century music. Most cards addressed to one Miss M. Glennie, Gravelly Hills (a music school?) Provenance: by repute acquired by the vendor's grandfather in exchange for cigarettes during WWII.
DARWIN: 'THE DESCENT OF MAN and selection in relation to sex', illustrated, 2nd edn, revised and augmented, twenty-first thousand, John Murray, London 1888, green cloth, (some damage to binding), with other books including a part set of Shakespeare's works, Crowder, Ware and Payne 1772 (vols I and IV-XII only); Dumas; Heron Books editions, Beeton's shilling cookery book and others
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