Furniture.- Hayward (Helena) Thomas Johnson and English Rococo, 1964 § Ward-Jackson (Peter) English Furniture Designs of the Eighteenth Century, 1958 § Schiffer (H.F.) The Mirror Book: English, American, & European, signed by the author on title, Exton, Pa., 1983 § Petsopoulos (Yanni) Kilims: Flat-woven Tapestry Rugs, New York, 1979 § Hope (Thomas) Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, reprint, foxing, Raymond Erith's copy with his signature, original cloth-backed boards, spotted & soiled, 1937, illustrations, all but the last original cloth or boards with dust-jacket, the first a little rubbed; and c.20 others on furniture & the decorative arts, some sale catalogues including the Bute Collection of 1996 and the Simon Sainsbury collection of 2008, 4to & folio (c.25)
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Bloomfield (Robert) Wild Flowers; or, Pastoral and Local Poetry, presentation inscription "To Mr Walter Jackson, from the Author. May. 19. 1819" to verso of title, 8 wood-engraved plates, later ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, offsetting, scattered spotting, contemporary marbled calf, lacking spine label, spine ends and corners worn, joints split, 1812 § [Butt (George)] A Peep at the Wiltshire Assizes: A Serio-Ludicrous Poem, first edition, half-title, binder's embossed stamp to front free endpaper, attractive navy half morocco by Cedric Chivers of Bath, gilt, extremities lightly rubbed, Salisbury, Brodie and Dowding, [1819] § [Polwhele (Richard)] The Fair Isabel of Cotehele, a Cornish Romance, first edition, later ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, some light browning, some spotting and soiling, 19th century diced calf, wear to corners, rubbed, lower joint cracked but holding firm, for J. Cawthorn, by Michell and Co. Truro, 1815; and others, 19th century poetry, 8vo (c.25) *** The first mentioned first published in 1806.
Heraldry.- Lautte (Jean) Le jardin d'armoires, contenant les armes de plusieurs nobles royaumes et maisons de Germanie inferieure, first edition, Sig. B defective (lacking 2ff. and misbound, B2 heavily trimmed and laid down), lacking final blank, front free endpaper with "Duplicate" ink-stamp to foot, title with small loss at inner margin affecting a few letters and laid down, title with various early ink inscriptions, frequent and often extensive annotation in a contemporary hand, some printed side-notes and annotations trimmed, V8 small paper-flaw hole affecting letter of text, light browning, some light and mostly marginal water-staining, some very small worming to head of gutter, contemporary sheep, rebacked, corners worn, front endpapers renewed, 12mo, Gent, Geeraert van Salenson, 1567; sold not subject to return.
Gothic poetry.- Lewis (Matthew Gregory) and others. Tales of Wonder; Written and Collected by M.G. Lewis, Esq. M.P., 2 vol., first edition, advertisement leaf at end, bookplate of Viscount Halifax dated 1887, book-label of J.O. Edwards, contemporary ink ownership inscription to head of titles, occasional light spotting or soiling, else very good, contemporary calf, rebacked but covers detached, rubbed and worn in places, [Summers, p.525-27], W. Bulmer & Co. for the author, 1801; and another, a parody of Lewis, large 8vo & 8vo (3) *** Contributors to Tales of Wonder include Robert Southey, Robert Burns, and Sir Walter Scott. Some of Scott's earliest writings appear in the volumes, which by virtue of their high cost of publication, were nicknamed "Tales of Plunder". Also included in the lot is "The Old Hag in a Red Cloak", a contemporary parody of M.G. Lewis' "The Grim White Woman" included in Tales of Wonder.
Gardens.- Triggs (H. Inigo) The Art of Garden Design in Italy, 1906 § Hussey (Christopher) English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, 1967 § Strong (Roy) The Renaissance Garden in England, 1979; A Celebration of Gardens, 1991 § Hadfield (M.) & others. British Gardeners: A Biographical Dictionary, 1980 § Hohmuth (J.) Labyrinths & Mazes, Munich & London, 2003, plates and illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards, the first a little worn with joints split, the rest with dust-jackets; and c.20 others on gardens and landscape gardening, v.s. (c.25)
America.- Binns (John) Declaration of Independence, facsimile broadside, engraved ornamental border incorporating the seals of the 13 original states, medallion portraits of Washington, Jefferson and Hancock, laid onto linen support, old folds with associated losses, heavy browning and discolouration to old varnish, rough edges with nicks, tears and losses, c.900 x 660 mm, [Philadelphia], John Binns, 1819. *** Rare. In 1816, the publisher John Binns was the first to announce plans to publish a decorative broadside of the Declaration of Independence. He proposed to sell copies for $10. Other publishers jumped on the bandwagon and rushed out decorative, cheaper broadsides of the Declaration before Binns finally managed to publish his in 1819.
de Teramond (Guy) L'Art et le Beau: La Forme Humaine et sa Beauté Etudes Artistiques, illustrations, light finger-soiling marks to title, original pictorial cloth, rather scratched and scuffed, Paris, [c.1906] § Sze (Mai-Mai) The Tao of Painting, 2 vol., first edition in English, illustrations, original cloth, spines faded, 1957 § Strachan (W.J.) The Artist and the Book in France, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, tear to spine head, the odd nick and fraying to extremities, New York, 1969; and c.100 others, art reference, v.s. (c.100)
England & Wales.- Cary (John) Cary's New and Correct English Atlas, being a New Set of County Maps, first edition, engraved title, dedication and 47 maps with partial hand-colouring, list of subscribers at end, Sussex and Warwickshire misbound, some foxing, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper and signature of Raymond Erith, engraved bookplate of Fiennes Sanderson Miller of Radway, contemporary half calf, a little worn and stained, 4to. John Cary, 1787.*** Raymond Erith (1904-73), 20th century architect in the classical style who remodelled Nos. 10, 11 & 12 Downing St. between 1959 and 1963. His practice was continued by his pupil and partner Quinlan Terry.
Paston letters.- Fenn (John) Original Letters, Written during the Reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. and Richard III, 2 vol., second edition, hand-coloured engraved frontispieces, additional vignette titles, 17 engraved plates, one of which hand-coloured, folding pedigree, bookplates, vol. 1 2D4 tear to foot without loss, folding pedigree browned and little frayed at head (no text loss) with short tear to blank lower margin, some offsetting, some foxing and light browning, occasional soiling, vol. 1 Sig 2E with light damp-stain to fore-edge, contemporary polished calf, spines with red and green morocco labels, vol. 2 spine ends and joints repaired, a few light stains, heavier to vol. 1 upper cover, rubbed, for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1787; and a defective copy of Paine's Common Sense (1793), 4to & 8vo (3) *** Fenn's series ultimately numbering five volumes, with volumes 3 & 4 first published in 1789 and volume 5 posthumously in 1823.
![[Johnson (Samuel)] A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, first edition, second issue with 6-line errata, some light s](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/da73235b-e219-492c-af3b-b14900ae5ca7/b0f59fc2-9cbe-46ec-892b-b14900b311cd/468x382.jpg)
[Johnson (Samuel)] A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, first edition, second issue with 6-line errata, some light spotting, some passages marked in pencil with notes at end, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary calf, red morocco label, rubbed, spine chipped at head, W.Strahan and T.Cadell, 1775; and 7 others, Johnson & Boswell including an attractively-bound 5 vol. Life in green straight-grain morocco, gilt, 8vo et infra (8)
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Quakers.- [Finch (Richard)] Second Thoughts concerning War, wherein the Great Subject, is Candidly considered, and set in a New Light ... intitled the Nature and Duty of Self Defence, addressed to the People called Quakers, half-title, occasional marginal pencil finger-posts, scattered spotting, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, new endpapers, modern half-calf, Nottingham & London, by Samuel Cresswell ... and sold by M. Cooper, 1755 § [Parnel (James)] A Collection of the Several Writings given forth from the Spirit of the Lord, through that Meek, Patient, and Suffering Servant of God, James Parnel ..., previous owner's ink signature to early blank, ex-library with 'withdrawn' stamp to title, several ff. with small marginal loss, affecting occasional sidenote, first and last few ff. with tears and small marginal loss with expert tissue repairs, 3Q2 & 3Q3 heavily trimmed (possibly from another copy of the same), spotting and staining, modern endpapers, modern calf, 1675 § A Collection of Memorials concerning divers Deceased Ministers and others of the People called Quakers in Pennsylvania, New-Jersey ..., previous owner's ink signature to title, scattered spotting, modern endpapers, modern antique-style calf, York, 1824; 8vo (3).
India.- Atkinson (Capt. George Francklin) "Curry & Rice", fifth edition, colour plates of sketches by the author, original pictorial cloth, gilt, designed by M.Digby Wyatt, 1911 § Archer (W.G.) The Plains of the Sun: Poems, ?proof copy (for an edition limited to only 50) with a few manuscript corrections and typed passages/lines/words pasted in, original wrappers, 1943 § Elwin (Verrier) I Married a Gond, offprint from 'Man in India' vol.XX no.4, original wrappers, browned, upper cover becoming detached, 1940 § Dunbar (Janet) Golden Interlude: The Edens in India 1836-1842, signed & inscribed by the author to Mildred Archer with A.Pc.s. loosely inserted, 1955 § Lunt (James, editor) From Sepoy to Subedar being the Life and Adventures of Subedar Sita Ram, a Native Officer of the Bengal Army..., illustrated by Frank Wilson, inscribed by the artist to Mildred Archer with A.Ls.s. & ephemera loosely inserted, 1970 § Jacobs (Julian) The Nagas: Society, Culture and the Colonial Encounter, 1990, some plates or illustrations, all but the first three original cloth or boards, the last two with dust-jackets, some a little rubbed; and a small quantity of others on India and the British, some pamphlets, 4to & 8vo (c.50)*** Verrier Elwin was an anthropologist who lived among and wrote several books on Indian tribal communities.
Provincial Imprint.- Mudge (R.C.) Poem on Masonry, Masonic Hymns and Songs, 6pp. list of subscribers at end, errata slip loosely inserted, disbound, Weymouth, J. Commins, for the Author, 1819 § Howe (John) Trifles, Light as Air; Dedicated to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, lacking N2 (divisional title), bookplate of Anne & F.G. Renier, book-label of J.O. Edwards, contemporary ownership inscription to pastedown, occasional correction or annotation in a contemporary hand ?the author's, G2-3 horizonal tear into text without loss, N3 working loose, endpapers stained, abrasion marks to pastedowns, original boards, spine with portions lacking and vertical split, soiled and quite worn, Sheffield, Wm. Todd, 1816, first editions, some spotting and light soiling; and others, 19th century poetry, imprints including Banbury, Ipswich, Sunderland, Hull, Windsor &tc, 8vo & 12mo (c.20) *** Of the first mentioned, WorldCat and Library Hub record only four copies.
Thames.- Ravenstein (E.G.) The Oarsman's and Angler's Map of the River Thames, folding lithographed strip-map with hand-colouring, c.565 x 840mm., dissected and mounted on linen, light soiling, folding into original cloth with printed green label to upper cover (bit worn), James Reynolds, n.d. § Oarsman's and Angler's Map of the River Thames from its Source to London Bridge (The), colour strip-map dissected and mounted on linen, folding concertina-style into original cloth, Edward Stanford, 1905 § Taunt (Henry W.) A New Map of the River Thames..., third edition, double-page maps with mounted photographic illustrations, original cloth, Oxford, [c.1878], all rubbed; and 3 others on the Thames, one with panorama, 8vo et infra (6)*** The first shows the river from the Thames Head through Oxford to London Bridge, along the way describing canals, locks, fishing possibilities, bathing sites, etc.
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Architecture.- Archer (Lucy) Raymond Erith Architect, [33 copies], first edition, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, all but one sealed in 2 publisher's packages, Burford, 1985; and a quantity of Country Life, a few bound in cloth (1900s), the rest loose in original wrappers from the 1920s & '30's, Raymond Erith's copies, some with his signature, many with his paper markings of particular houses, 4to & folio (5 boxes)
Birmingham.- Hutton (William) An History of Birmingham, to the end of the year 1780, first edition, list of subscribers (with additional f. for the latecomers), folding engraved frontispiece panorama, 2 folding plans (town and canals) and 14 plates, of which 1 folding, piece from upper margin of title, offsetting, occasional spotting or mostly light staining, original boards, rebacked, preserving original chipped backstrip with later ms. title label, corners worn, rubbed, [Goldsmiths' 12120], Birmingham, Printed by and for Pearson and Rollason, 1781; and an early 19th century work on Birmingham silversmiths, 8vo (2) *** Eric Quayle's copy (noted book collector and author; with his bookplate and initialled note to inner front board) of the first edition of the first significant history of Birmingham. Includes workingmen's clubs, theatres, public buildings, the lamp act, and charity schools and poor house statistics.
Estienne (Henri, editor) Conciones sive orationes ex Graecis Latinisque historicis excerptæ, first edition, title with large woodcut printer's device, woodcut decorative initials, index ff. A1-6 bound at end, lacking final blank, faded ink stamp of a religious institution to to outer margin of title, small hole to lower margin of P1, occasional staining to inner gutters, occasional spotting, washed, antique style ornately blind-stamped panelled calf, gilt spine in compartments, [Adams C2486 (issue with pp.278 [288]); Renouard, Estienne, 133:3; Schreiber 176], folio, [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1570. *** Examples of speeches of Greek and Roman historians to be used in the instruction of lawyers and politicians, amongst others. Translations of texts are made by the humanists Lorenzo Valla, Francesco Filelfo and Angelo Poliziano. Authors include Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon and Tacitus.Provenance: Peter Scupham; The Cantley Library / Bagman of Cantley (modern bookplates to front pastedown).
Strachey (Lytton) Characters and Commentaries, cloth spine a little faded, jacket lightly soiled and rubbed, 1933; Elizabeth and Essex, jacket toned, extremities a little chipped and nicked, 1928; Queen Victoria, cloth spine a little faded, jacket spine faded, a little creased, 1921, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and c.35 others, Strachey and Herbert Read, and some others relating to the Bloomsbury group, v.s. (c.40)
Cosgrave (Bronwyn) & others. Sample. 100 Fashion Designers. 010 Curators: Cuttings from Contemporary Fashion, illustrations, many colour, original pleated white boards with elastic strap, fore-edge cut at angles, cloth slip-case, 2005 § Coton (A.V.) The New Ballet: Kurt Jooss and his Work, first edition, illustrations, some colour, original pictorial cloth, gilt, dust-jacket, slightly rubbed, a little frayed and chipped at edges, 1946 § Ballets Jooss. Souvenir programme, illustrations, a little browned, hand-printed pictorial wrappers designed by Hein Heckroth, spine slightly worn, Totnes, Dartington Hall, [c.1938]; and 7 others on ballet & dance, mostly Ballets Jooss including a duplicate of the last, 4to & 8vo (10)
Jones (Barbara) The Unsophisticated Arts, first edition, 1951; Design for Death, 1967 § Lambert (M.) & Enid Marx. English Popular Art, 1951 § Brears (Peter) North Country Folk Art, Edinburgh, 1989 § Ayres (James) English Naive Painting 1750-1900, 1980 § Husband (T.) The Wild Man: Medieval Myth and Symbolism, New York, 1980, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first a little frayed and defective at edges, the third rubbed; and c.25 others on British naive, folk and popular art, some pamphlets/catalogues, 4to & 8vo (c.30)
Supernatural Fiction.- James (M.R.) The Five Jars, plates and illustrations by Gilbert James, a little foxed, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight mottling to upper cover, 1922 § Woodforde (Christopher) A Pad in the Straw, illustrations by Yunge-Bateman, original cloth, dust-jacket, rubbed, torn and repaired with sticky tape to verso, 1952 § Munby (A.N.L.) The Alabaster Hand and other Ghost Stories, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, spine defective, 1949, first editions, 8vo*** The first is James's only novel, a fairy tale for children; the second is a collection of ghost stories for children.
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Schriften, 8 vol. in 4, ?first collected edition, engraved frontispieces and title vignettes, some light browning, occasional foxing, contemporary half calf, 2 vol. with upper covers detached, worn, Leipzig, Georg Joachim Göschen, 1787; and another by the same, 8vo (5)
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[Elliott (Ebenezer)] Corn Law Rhymes. The Ranter, Written and Published by Order of the Sheffield Mechanics' Anti-Bread Tax Society, first edition, 12pp., book-label of J.O. Edwards, title and final f. browned, modern wrappers, 8vo, Sheffield, for the Author, by Platt and Todd, 1830. *** Rare in commerce, we can trace only one copy at auction (2006). Ebenezer Elliot (1781-1849) was an English poet, iron merchant and Chartist agitator, nicknamed "the Corn Law Rhymer" for his fight to repeal the Corn Laws.
Regent's Park.- First Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, 4 hand-coloured folding engraved plans, title loose, some light offsetting, the first plan torn and 2 & 3 with small tears at inner edge, contemporary half calf, worn, lacking upper cover, 1812; and a defective copy of the 18th Report of 1841 but with 2 folding hand-coloured plans of Regent's Park & Victoria Park, folio (2)*** Contains designs for the development of Marybone Park Farm (Regent's Park), including one by John Nash, and for Regent St. and the Regent's Canal.
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[?Temple (Henry John, Viscount Palmerston)] "Editor of the New Whig Guide". The Fudger Fudged: or, The Devil and T***y M***e [Thomas Moore], title in red and black with wood-engraved vignette, without 2ff. publisher's advertisements at end, bookplate of JNO. M. Lochhead, bookplate of Norman & Janey Buchan to rear free endpaper, occasional spotting, mainly to endpapers, olive half morocco over marbled boards by J. Larkins, spine a touch sunned, slight rubbing to joints and corners, t.e.g., for William Wright, 1819 § [Quillinan (Edward)] "Rusticus". Ball Room Votaries; or, Canterbury and its Vicinity, lacking half-title, some omitted names supplied in pencil in a contemporary hand, old stab-holes to inner margin, a few short tears to gutter repaired, some spotting, final f. creased, soiled and with lower corner repaired, modern wrappers, edges touch frayed, for Henry Colburn, 1810, first editions, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others, 19th century poetry, 8vo & 12mo (c.20)
![Architecture.- Cook (Theodore Andrea) Twenty-Five Great Houses of France, [1916] § Langenskiöld (Eric) Michele Sanm](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/da73235b-e219-492c-af3b-b14900ae5ca7/ff8f587f-b273-4419-8436-b14900b094ed/468x382.jpg)
Architecture.- Cook (Theodore Andrea) Twenty-Five Great Houses of France, [1916] § Langenskiöld (Eric) Michele Sanmicheli: The Architect of Verona, Raymond Erith's copy with his ink signature, broken, original pictorial wrappers, Uppsala, 1938 § Raval (M.) Claude-Nicolas Ledoux 1756-1806, original wrappers, Paris, 1945 § Palladio (Andrea) I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, facsimile reprint of 1570 Venice edition, biographical pamphlet loosely inserted, Milan, 1951 § Bopucher (B.) Andrea Palladio: The Architect in his Time, 1994 § Cresti (C.) & Claudio Rendina. Palazzi of Rome, Cologne, 1998 § Hitchcock (Henry-Russell) Rococo Architecture in Southern Germany, 1968, plates and illustrations, some colour, all but the second & third original cloth or boards, the last four with dust-jackets, the first four a little rubbed; and c.55 others, architecture, mostly Continental, some pamphlets, v.s. (c.60)
Maffei (Giovanni Pietro) Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI..., first edition, printer's device to title and final leaf verso, woodcut initials, large book-label, title with small closed tear paper repair at foot, and along with following leaf reinforced at gutter, scattered marginal worming (no text lost), occasional faint marginal damp-stains, eighteenth century mottled calf, spine gilt, a few light scuffs, [Edit16 CNCE 28797], folio, Florence, Filippo Giunta, 1588.*** First edition of this important work on the "Indies", both West and East; a collection of accounts of the Portuguese discoveries and missionary work in China and Japan, the East Indies, Brazil and the Americas. This copy complete with the life of St. Ignatius of Loyola, sometimes lacking.
India.- Francis (Charles Richards) Sketches of Native Life in India with Views in Rajpootana, Simlah, etc., etc., first edition, 22 tinted lithographed plates by J.C. Anderson after C.H. Fairland, list of subscribers and errata slip at rear, plate 3 with loss to corner affecting image, 1 text leaf chipped and torn without loss to text, scattered foxing, light browning to text, contemporary half roan, rubbed and worn, folio, Meldola, Cahn, & Co., 1848.*** Scarce series of Indian views.
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[Wood (Esther)] A Consideration of the Art of Frederick Sandys, being the Special Winter Number of "The Artist", number XIII of a few deluxe copies, 3 mounted photogravure plates, original decorated cream cloth, gilt, slightly soiled and stained, 1896 § Elzea (Betty) Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné, Woodbridge, 2001 § Harrison (M.) & Bill Waters. Burne-Jones, 1990 § Foskett (Daphne) John Harden of Brathay Hall 1772-1847, Kendal, 1974 § Webster (Mary) Johan Zoffany 1733-1810, New Haven & London, 2011 § Robertson (Bruce, editor) Sargent and Italy, signed and inscribed to the Archers by Richard Ormond one of the contributors, Princeton & Woodstock, 2003 § Abel-Smith (Julia) & others. Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Essex, original wrappers, 2016, plates and illustrations, some colour, all but the first and last original cloth or boards with dust-jackets; and c.40 others on British art, mostly 18th & 19th century, some pamphlets/catalogues, v.s. (c.45)
Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Institutionum Oratoriarum Libri XII., title with woodcut printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, final f. with colophon recto otherwise blank, small repair to upper corner of first 3 ff., worming (mostly a single trace) to some outer margins, occasionally affecting a few letters, spotted, occasional staining, lightly browned, attractive early 17th century black calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with floral decoration, covers with small oval centre-piece and floral corner-pieces, all within a single filet border, spine little worn at head, creased, and with a few small wormholes at foot, lower corners little worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Adams Q64; Renouard, Estiennes, 53:9], small 4to, Paris, Robert Estienne, 1542. *** 'Édition estimable' (Renouard) of this work on the theory and practice of rhetoric.
Chagall (Marc).- Babel (Isaac Emmanuilovich) Geschichten aus Odessa, first German edition, half-title, original cloth-backed printed boards, dust-jacket, by Marc Chagall, torn-in-two along upper joint, chips and small tears at edges, spine toned, 8vo, Berlin, Malik-Verlag, 1926.*** Rare, especially in dust-jacket by Chagall. The story of a group of Jewish criminals, living in the then notorious ghetto-like district of Moldawanka in Odessa, during the end of the Russian Empire and start of October Revolution.
Ardizzone (Edward) Johnny's Bad Day, signed and inscribed by the author/artist, 1970; Tim and Charlotte, 1951 § Reeves (James) Three Tall Tales, reprint, signed by the artist on title, 1969 § Gorham (Maurice) Londoners, 1951, all but the third first editions, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, many colour, original boards, the first two pictorial, the second torn at foot of spine, all but the second with dust-jackets, very slightly rubbed; and 7 others, Ardizzone, 8vo & 4to (11)
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Women Poets.- Dodsworth (Mrs. [Anna]) Fugitive Pieces, first edition, bookplate of George Bache Pappas, lightly browned, some light foxing and faint damp-staining, mainly marginal, contemporary calf marbled in a lattice pattern, gilt, lacking spine label, spine head chipped, spine and extremities rubbed, upper joint split but holding, Canterbury, Printed [for private distribution] by Simmons and Kirkby, 1802 § Mitford (Mary Russell) Christina, the Maid of the South Seas; a Poem, errata f. at end, lacking half-title, contemporary ink gift inscription "Elizabeth Jennings the gift of Miss Wellbeloved" to front free endpaper, title margins browned, spotting, particularly near start, hinges repaired, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked preserving original backstrip, new morocco spine label, old backstrip little chipped, rubbed, A.J. Valpy, 1811; and others, 19th century poetry by women, including Ethelinda Potts' Moonshine, 8vo & 12mo (12) *** The first mentioned rare, we can trace only one copy at auction (1980).
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Scottish poetry.- [Beattie (George)] John o'Arnha'. A Tale, second edition, hand-coloured etched frontispiece and 6 plates, plates trimmed at fore-edge, most causing loss to headline and a few just within image, a few ff. with short tears neatly repaired or marginal repairs, p.23 causing loss to couple words, light browning and offsetting, plates soiled and little rubbed, some soiling elsewhere, modern half calf, spine gilt, Montrose, 1818 § Mitchie (John) The Vices of the Tavern Dissected: or, Drunkenness Laid Open: A Poem, ninth edition, a few minor chips to upper margin, light browning and some light spotting, title and verso of final f. little soiled, later morocco backed-cloth, little rubbed, Edinburgh, for the Author, 1819, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others, 19th century Scottish poetry, including a copy of "The Craniad: or, Spurzheim Illustrated" (1817), 8vo (10) *** The first mentioned rare, with WorldCat and Library Hub recording only six copies of this edition.
Lawrence (D.H.) The Lost Girl, first edition, first issue, light toning to endpapers and half-title, bookshop stamp on title, hinge cracked towards end, original cloth, one or two marks, extremities bumped, preserved in custom-made slip-case and chemise, 1920 § A Bibliography of the Writings of D. H. Lawrence, one of 100 large paper copies signed by McDonald and Lawrence, bookplate or book-label on front and rear pastedowns, original cloth-backed boards, light rubbing to edges, otherwise fine, Philadelphia, 1925, 8vo (2)
Koudelka (Josef).- Beranová (Libuse) Diskutujeme o morálce dneška, first edition, 13 photographic plates (3 double-page), original boards, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, small tear to top edge, chipping and small loss to spine head, slight creasing and chipping to edges, 4to, Prague, Nakladatelstvi Politické Literatury, 1965. *** First and only edition of this first work, a scarce photobook by the renowned Czech-French photographer Josef Koudelka (b.1938).
Women.- Female excellence: or, Woman display’d, in several satyrick poems. By a person of quality, first edition, title with woodcut typographic ornament, small worm trace, affecting a few letters in a minor way, little staining, lightly browned, disbound, [Wing R1749], folio, Printed for Norman Nelson at Grays-Inn-Gate in Holbourn, 1679. *** Rare at auction. A collection of four misogynistic poems, once attributed to Rochester, but now sometimes attributed to Robert Gould.
![Eliot (George) Scenes of Clerical Life, 1858 bound with [Craik (Dinah)] The Ogilvies, 1860 and [Craik (Dinah)] John Halifax,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/da73235b-e219-492c-af3b-b14900ae5ca7/e9c0b724-36b9-45de-962a-b14900b341df/468x382.jpg)
Eliot (George) Scenes of Clerical Life, 1858 bound with [Craik (Dinah)] The Ogilvies, 1860 and [Craik (Dinah)] John Halifax, Gentleman, 1856 and Oliphant (Margaret) The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts, burn hole to first 2pp., 1857, together 4 works in 1, first American editions, light foxing, contemporary half morocco, rubbed § [Cooper (James Fenimore)] The Red Rover, 3 vol., second English edition, some toning and occasional browning, original boards, spine label to vol.2 chipped, 1828 § Eastlake (C.L.) Hints on Household Taste, ink ownership inscription to half-title, original cloth, spine faded, ends frayed, 1878; and c.20 others, 19th century English literature, v.s. (c.25)
Marx (Karl) & Friedrich Engels. Válogatott Müvei, vol. 1 only, small loss to title affecting odd letter, previous owner's faded ink-stamp to title, title and first few ff. with small loss and expert repairs, scattered faint spotting, new endpapers, modern half morocco, 8vo, Budapest, A. Népszava, 1905. *** This volume contains the second Hungarian edition of the Communist Manifesto.
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Latimer (Bishop Hugh) [The seconde sermon], first edition, black letter, woodcut decorative initials, lacking A1-8, R1, 2E1(supplied in shorter facsimile), and 2E6-8, G1 from another copy and loosely inserted, U8 outer margin torn away, affecting printed side-notes, a few ff. with small piece cut from a margin, some spotting or staining / water-staining, lightly browned, upper hinge split, modern speckled tan calf, [cf. STC 15274], 8vo, [John Daye & William Seres], [1549]. sold not subject to return. *** Rare at auction in any condition.
Bolton (James) Nero Caesar or Monarchie depraved. An Historical Work, first edition, engraved additional title (dated 1623), engraved numismatic illustrations, title a little browned, scattered small worm-holes, sometimes touching letters, occasional faint damp-stains, contemporary calf, spine head chipped and foot worn, small patch of worming to upper cover, [STC 3221], small folio, T.S. for Thomas Walkley, 1624*** Bolton's history of Nero and early Roman Britain with much referencing contemporary events. An apparently unsuccessful attempt to gain royal patronage.
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Architecture.- Gardens.- [Perrault (Charles)] Labyrinte de Versailles. The Labyrinth of Versailles. Der Irr-garte zu Versailles. 't Dool-hof tot Versailles, 41 engraved whole-page illustrations, text in French, English, German and Dutch, some faint marginal water-staining but mainly to text leaves, contemporary vellum, a little minor soiling, [Brunet III, 723], 4to, Amsterdam, Nicolaus Visscher, [1690].*** The labyrinth of Versailles was completed around 1675, and the illustrations here depict the numerous fountains contained therein, each designed in animal forms after Aesop's fables. The first edition of this work (Paris, 1677) was in French only, while this edition combines the original French and also translations into English, German and Dutch; Brunet notes it is far less common than the first.
Irish poetry.- O'Kelly (Patrick) The Hippocrene: A Collection of Poems, etched portrait frontispiece, list of subscribers at end, ex-library with red ink-stamp to title and few other ff., frontispiece with bookseller's ink-stamp to verso, frontispiece with some abrasion marks at gutter and tiny chip to lower outer corner, some soiling, particularly to title and first few ff., some light browning and spotting, modern calf-backed boards, g.e., Dublin, T. and S. Courtney, 1831 § Lysaght (Edward) Poems, by the Late Edward Lysaght, Esq., half-title, portrait frontispiece, 20pp. list of subscribers, frontispiece fore-edge trimmed just shaving a letter of description, occasional light soiling or spotting, later half calf over marbled boards by Henderson & Bisset, little rubbed, chip to lower joint, upper joint starting at head, Dublin, Gilbert and Hodges, 1811, first editions, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others, 19th century poetry of Irish interest or imprint, 8vo (6) *** The second mentioned with the poem at pp.100-103 printed in the Irish language and phonetically transcribed into Roman characters.
Ceramics.- Hodgkin (John Eliot) Examples of Early English Pottery Named, Dated, and Inscribed, one of 500 copies signed by the authors, 1891 § Hobson (R.L.) Catalogue of the Collection of English Pottery in...the British Museum, 1903 § Horne (J.) A Collection of Early English Pottery, 1981-2000, 2 vol., one of 150 copies, original rexine-backed marbled boards, slip-cases, 2000 § Grigsby (Leslie B.) The Henry H.Weldon Collection: English Pottery: Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800, limited edition, 1990 § Charleston (R.J.) English Porcelain 1745-1850, 1965 § Barker (D.) & Steve Crompton. Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, 2007 § Cotter (John P.) Colchester Archaeological Report 7: Post-Roman Pottery from Excavations in Colchester, 1971-85, Colchester, 2000, plates and illustrations, some colour, all but the second original cloth, the first decorated (worn, spine detached), the last four with dust-jackets, the fourth also with slip-case; and a quantity of others on English ceramics including a run of Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle 1933-2019 (most bound in cloth), many pamphlets, 4to & 8vo (c.140)
Ceramics.- Meteyard (Eliza) The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, 2 vol., first edition, modern cloth with original decorated cloth mounted on boards and spine, 1865 § Pountney (W.J.) Old Bristol Potteries, Bristol, 1920 § Mountford (A.R.) The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware, 1971 § Towner (Donald) The Leeds Pottery, 1963 § Holgate (D.) New Hall & Its Imitators, 1971 § Lewis (J. & G.) Pratt Ware...1780-1840, Woodbridge, 1984 § Edwards (D.) Black Basalt: Wedgwood and Contemporary Manufacturers, Woodbridge, 1994, illustrations, some colour, all but the first original cloth or boards, the last five with dust-jackets; and c.55 others on British potteries, many pamphlets, 8vo & 4to (c.60)
Natural world.- Geology.- Jonston (John) Thaumatographia naturalis, second edition, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut decorative initials and tail-pieces, small obliterated ink signature to title, E11/12 carelessly opened at foot resulting in small piece of E12 remaining attached to E11, some water-staining, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, spine in compartments, joints splitting, but holding firm, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, [Sinkankas Gemology, 3279; Ward & Carozzi, 1218; Wellcome I, 3478; Wood p.409], 12mo, Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1633. *** Second edition of the author's first book. 'A treatise on natural wonders, was divided into ten categories: the new stars, the elements, meteors, minerals, plants, birds, quadrupeds, insects and other 'bloodless' animals, fish, and men' (Norman 1177).
Hazlitt (William) Liber Amoris; or, The New Pygmalion, first edition, contemporary purple morocco, upper cover detached, lower spine hinge broken, light fading, printed for John Hunt, 1823; The Spirit of the Age, or Contemporary Portraits, first edition, original boards, uncut, covers detached, spine chipped with title in manuscript, printed for Henry Colburn, 1825; and 5 others, Hazlitt, including the Nonesuch bibliography, v.s. (7)
Stained Glass.- Sewter (A.Charles) The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle, 2 vol., New Haven & London, 1974-75 § Haward (Birkin) Nineteenth Century Norfolk [& Suffolk] Stained Glass, together 2 vol., Norwich & Woodbridge, 1984-89 § Cormack (Peter) Arts & Crafts Stained Glass, New Haven & London, 2015 § Day (Lewis F.) Windows: a Book about Stained & Painted Glass, broken & loose, 1897, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards, the last rubbed with faded spine, all but the last with dust-jackets, the first a little frayed at edges; and c.15 others on 19th & early 20th century stained glass, 4to & 8vo (c.20)
Sarpi (Paolo) The History of the Council of Trent, lacking initial imprimatur leaf, engraved portrait frontispiece by G. Vertue from another edition tipped in, title browned and a little frayed at fore-edge with small repair, [a]4 & I3 very small rust-hole within text, a few short tears or marginal chips but no text loss, occasional later marginal annotations in pencil, occasional spotting, some very small and minor worming to foot of gutter and lower margin (generally single small wormhole), final f. repaired at inner margin, upper hinge cracked, contemporary panelled calf, old reback, spine label little chipped, later endpapers, [Wing S696], J. Macock, for Samuel Mearne &tc, 1676 § Platina (Bartholomaeus Sacchi) The Lives of the Popes..., first edition in English, translated by Paul Rycaut, engraved portrait frontispiece, title little soiled with 19th century ownership inscription to head, frontispiece fore-margin creased with small chip repaired with tape, title and A2 gutter strengthened, 3E2 small hole affecting few letters, final third with a few very small marginal wormholes, expanding into small traces towards end but no text loss, one or two small marginal repairs to Index, the odd spot or minor soiling but overall good, modern morocco, [Wing P2403], for Christopher Wilkinson, 1685, titles in red and black, some light browning, occasional faint marginal water-staining, rubbed, folio (2)
Worcestershire.- Dean (William) An Historical and Descriptive Account of Croome d'Abitot...Hortus Croomensis and Observations on the Propagation of Exotics, first edition, 4 fine aquatint plates, list of subscribers, frontispiece lightly spotted, plates offset, contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked, [Abbey Scenery 416], 8vo, Worcester, for the Author, 1824. *** Including 161pp. catalogue of plants at Croome and the growing of exotics.
Richards (Laura E.) When I Was Your Age, first edition, author's copy, with her ownership inscription on front free endpapers and gift inscription from the publisher's on title, front endpaper reinforced with tape at hinge, contents a little shaken, original cloth, spine sunned, chipped at edges, New York, 1895; Quicksilver Sue, first edition, author's copy, with her ownership inscription on front free endpapers, original pictorial cloth, spine faded, New York, 1899 § [Stowe (Harriet Beecher)], "Christopher Crowfield". House and Home Papers, original cloth, extremities rubbed, Boston, 1895; and c.75 others, 19th century American literature, v.s. (c.80)
Architecture.- Weaver (Lawrence) Small Country Houses of To-day, 3 vol., vol.1 third edition, vol.2 second edition, vol.3 first edition and with ink signature of Raymond Erith, 1922-19 § Richardson (A.E.) Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland during the Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries, 1914 § Blomfield (Reginald) A History of Renaissance Architecture in England, 1500-1800, occasional spotting, 1897 § Ayres (J.) Building the Georgian City, New Haven & London, 1998 § John (R.) New Classicists. Robert Adam: The Search for a Modern Classicism, Victoria, 2010 § Dean (Ptolemy) Sir John Soane and the Country Estate, 1999 § Archer (Lucy) Raymond Erith, Architect, Burford, 1985, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards, the last four with dust-jackets, the first three slightly rubbed; and c.45 others on architecture, mostly British, v.s. (c.50)
London.- Houses of Parliament. Report of the National Gallery Site Commission..., 3 folding colour lithographed plans, one creased, later cloth-backed boards,morocco label, new endpapers, 1857 § Smirke (Sydney) Suggestions for the Architectural Improvement of the western part of London, first edition, half-title, hand-coloured lithographed plan, 2 aquatint plates, one by W.Daniell, original red decorated boards, uncut, 1834 § Homersham (S.C.) London (Watford) Spring-Water Company. Report to the Directors, third edition, large folding map with routes of pipes in red, folding colour-printed lithographed plate of well and folding colour map, original cloth, spine worn, upper cover & map detached, 1850, all rubbed; and 4 others, London docks etc., v.s. (7)*** The first item investigates moving the National Gallery from its William Wilkins building in Trafalgar Square (which was not large enough), considering the effect of pollution on the paintings, and the possibility of combining the collection with the British Museum. The second proposes new parliament buildings in Green Park, a Gothic temple on the Serpentine for tombs from Westminster Abbey, and slum clearances and development of Soho.
McGrandle (Leith, editor) Europe: The Quest for Unity, number 458 of 475 copies with an original etching by Pietro Annigoni signed and numbered by the artist, half green morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, cloth slipcase, Verona, Officina Bodoni for Ranelagh Editions, 1975 § Selig (Richard) The Unicorn, number 41 of 55 copies, illustrations & decorations by Margaret Adams, initial in gilt by Jenny Hancox, original morocco-backed pictorial Japanese veneer boards, gilt, by George Percival of Leicester, t.e.g., others uncut, board slip-case, printed at the Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester, 1983 § Stillwell (M.B.) The Influence of William Morris and the Kelmscott Press, very light spotting, morocco-backed patterned-paper boards, uncut, spine very slightly faded, Providence, R.I., 1912; and a small quantity of others, mostly private press, many pamphlets, v.s. (c.50) *** The first is a collection of texts by leading figures advocating a unified Europe, including Queen Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, De Gaulle, Churchill, Willy Brandt, Adenauer, Pompidou, and others. One of the last book designs of Giovanni Mardersteig.
Beardsley (Aubrey) Under the Hill, second edition, illustrated by Beardsley, original decorated green cloth, gilt, 1913 § Whistler (Laurence) !Oho!, first edition, illustrated by Rex Whistler, original pictorial boards, dust-jacket, slightly rubbed and marked, 1946 § Powers (Alan) The English Tivoli, number 19 of 50 copies, 16 colour lithographs by Powers all numbered & signed in pencil, loose as issued in original cloth drop-back box, printed at the Curwen Studio, 1988 Wright (Harold J.L.) & Campbell Dodgson. The Etched Work of F.L.Griggs, one of 400 copies, original cloth, wrapper, 1941 § Reade (Brian) Victoria & Albert Museum: Ballet Designs and Illustrations 1581-1940, original cloth, 1967 § Russell (Judith, editor) The Wood-Engravings of Gertrude Hermes, original cloth, dust-jacket, Aldershot, 1993, plates and illustrations, a few colour; and c.85 others, modern illustrated and illustrators including some King Penguins, many pamphlet, v.s. (c.90)
Schroedinger (Erwin) What is Life?, first edition, small chip to foot of half-title, neat ink ownership inscription dated 1945 to endpaper, original cloth, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, upper joint broken, significant loss to spine ends (not affecting text), chipping to remainder of spine, light creasing to head and foot, light surface soiling to panels and spine, extremities rubbed, 8vo, Cambridge, 1944.*** A cornerstone title in the study of quantum physics, scarce in the dust-jacket.
Design.- Ashbee (C.R.) Craftsmanship in Competitive Industry, first edition, ex-library copy with ink stamp and numbers, original cloth-backed boards, paper label, rubbed, corners a little worn, London & Chipping Campden, Essex House Press, [1908] § Read (Herbert) Art and Industry: the Principles of Industrial Design, first edition, original cloth, defective dust-jacket loosely inserted, 1934 § Sweetman (John) The Oriental Obsession: Islamic Inspiration in British and American Art and Architecture 1500-1920, original boards, dust-jacket, Cambridge, 1988 § Larmour (Paul) The Arts & Crafts Movement in Ireland, original boards, dust-jacket, Belfast, 1992 § Benton (C.) & others. Art Deco 1910-1939, original wrappers, 2003, illustrations, some colour; and c.60 others on design, ornament, crafts etc., some pamphlets & catalogues, 4to & 8vo (c.65)
London.- Barjaud (J.-B.) & C.P.Landon. Description de Londres et de ses Edifices, first edition, half-title, folding hand-coloured engraved map, engraved plates, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, Paris, 1810 § Highmore (A.) Pietas Londinensis..., lacking half-title, contemporary calf, 1810 § Bayley (John) The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, 2 vol., first edition, vol.1 with variant title including "Biographical Anecdotes" rather than "Memoirs", engraved plates including double-page plan, some spotting, contemporary half morocco, 1821 § Transactions of the Hampstead Antiquarian and Historical Society for the year 1898 [-1904-05], 6 vol., limited deluxe edition signed by the secretary/treasurer, original buckram, gilt, uncut, 1899-1907, all rubbed; and a small quantity of others on London including an album of views of Highgate annotated by George Potter and a framed stevengraph of the Crystal Palace, v.s. (c.40)
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[Brown (Thomas)] The Paradise of Coquettes, a Poem, half-title, bookplate of Anne & F.G. Renier, ink ownership name and inscription of Herbert G. Norman, half-title with contemporary ownership inscription of J.R. Macky to verso, a few leaves near start roughly opened, a few short tears to p.xlv affecting text but without loss, some foxing and light browning, final few leaves with light damp-staining to head, later boards, rubbed and stained, uncut, for John Murray, 1814 § Cox (James) The Wanderings of Woe, or Conjugal Affection. A Tribute to the Memory of a Beloved Wife, half-title, fine stipple-engraved portrait of the author's wife, lightly browned, some spotting, uncut in original boards, remains of printed spine label, spine ends chipped, corners worn, lower joint split at foot, Mawman, Cadell and Davies, 1813, first editions, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others, 19th century poetry, 8vo (c.25)
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