A rare sealed 'mallet' wine bottle, c1730-35, of dark green glass, the neck with applied string rim, the seal to the shoulder lettered SP, the underside with deep 'kick up' and sand pontil scar, 19cm h Provenance: Discovered by the late father of the present vendor on a ledge in cave during redevelopment in Nottingham city centre in the 1970's The seal is not recorded in Burton, D - Antique Sealed Bottles 2014 The distinctive style of twin-lettered seal and find locations point to a single glass house in the Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire area in the 1720-40 period. At first sight the letters appear to be struck from two matrices, divided and framed by chevrons, in a roughly triangular border. See Burton, opp'site p.1159 Some localised degradation, no chips or cracks
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Americana. McKnight Kauffer (E., illustrator), Shakespeare in Harlem, first edition, second impression, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, May 1945, half-title, original publisher's two-tone cloth, 8vo; Vechten (Carl Van), N***er Heaven, first edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, half-title, original publisher's brown cloth only, 8vo; DuBose Heyward, Porgy, first edition, second impression, New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925, half-title, publisher's orange cloth only, 8vo; idem, Mamba's Daughter, 1929, publisher's green cloth, 8vo; Gaines (Ernest J.), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, first UK edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1973, variant publisher's pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo; Himes (Chester), Black on Black, first edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1975, dj, hb, 8vo; etc., (7) Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Travel. Whymper (Edward), Scrambles Amongst The Alps in the Years 1860-69, first edition, London: John Murray, 1871, half-title, illustrated with 23 full-page plates and 5 folding maps as called for, in-text illustrations, some splits within the block but holding, original publisher's green cloth gilt over slightly bevelled boards, some wear, 4to; Cycling: Jefferson (Robert L.) & Evans (Harry, illustrator), Through a Continent on Wheels, only edition, London: Published by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., Leicester: Printed by W. Watts, [1898], illustrated, pictorial and other adverts, original cloth over pictorial boards, 8vo; Wenyon (Charles), Across Siberia on the Great Post-Road, first edition, London: Charles H. Kelly, 1896, folding map, plates and in-text illustrations, lacking ffep, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; Dufferin and Ava (The Dowager Marchioness of), My Russian and Turkish Journals, first edition, London: John Murray, 1916, plates, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; Conway's Alps, 1905, plates, original cloth, 8vo, (5)
Books, Architecture & Design. America: Engelbrecht (Lloyd C.) & (June-Marie F.), Henry C. Trost: Architect of the Southwest, El Paso Public Library Association, 1981, double-column, illustrated, original dustjacket, somewhat discoloured, slight wear, over terracotta cloth, oblong 4to; others, including Houses of the Hamptons, 2013, dj, hb, 4to; Architecture of the Old South: Mississippi & Alabama, 1989, dj, hb, 4to; Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, 1993, dj, hb, 4to; etc., principally hardbacks with their respective dustjackets, mixed sizes, further architecture, design and art, including Jones (Barbara), The Unsophisticated Arts, first edition, The Architectural Press, 1951, illustrated, original publisher's cloth only, 4to; Normand (Charles) & Cordingley (R.A., editor), A Parallel of the Orders of Architecture, London: John Tiranti & Co., 1936, original publisher's dustjacket, somewhat tatty, over cloth and boards, folio (38 x 25.5cm); Americana/American Counterculture: Whole Earth Epilog: access to tools, First Edition, September 1974, triple-column, in-text illustrations, original wrappers, folio; Piranesi's Prisons, Dover, 1973, original wrapper, folio (37.5 x 28cm); Sheppard (F.H.W., editor), Survey of London, Volume XLI only: Southern Kensington: Brompton, 1983, dj, cloth, 4to; Gibbs-Smith (C.H.), Balloons, London: The Ariel Press, 1956, colour plates, original wrappers, chipped, folio (40.5 x 30cm); Redouté's Roses, The Ariel Press, 1975, colour plates, wrappers, folio (40.5 x 30cm); etc., (41) Provenance: Julian Bicknell (b. 1945), New Classical architect and designer of the Palladian Henbury Hall, Cheshire.
Books & Ephemera. Nichols (John, FSA), The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, volume IV: part II only (Sparkenhoe Hundred), London: Printed by and for John Nichols and Son, 1811, plates, original boards, worn, uncut, folio; stamps: an all world mint and used collection on leaves, mainly early 20th c, in two SG Simplex Junior binders, 30 British television 8 x 10" black and white publicity photographs and another smaller format, mid 20th c and Ronald Paulson, Hogarth's Graphic Works, First Complete Edition, Volumes I and II, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1965, (5)
Leicestershire. Nichols (John, FSA), The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, volume I, two parts, first edition, large paper copy, London: Printed by and for J. Nichols, Printer to The Society of Antiquaries, 1795, full-page plates, tables and genealogy, bound with the scarce essay by Crabbe (Rev. George, Rector of Muston), The Natural History of The Vale of Belvoir, n.d. [1790], [9]ff and 2 engraved plates, and a later 19th/20th c [3]pp MS index, 19th/20th c brown quarter-calf gilt over green cloth boards, light wear, folio (50.5 x 33cm); Johnson (Mrs. T. Fielding), Glimpses of Ancient Leicester, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1891, half-title with contemporary presentation inscription, later 20th c tan calf over cloth boards, 4to, (2) Provenance: 1st: Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon DBE, FBA, FSA (1906-1978), archaeologist and Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford (1962-1973); presented to her as a mark of gratitude, 21st October, 1939, for her excavations of the Roman forum and Jewry Wall of Leicester, loosely-inserted MS [2]ff presentation subscription.
Americana. Signed Books: Paretsky (Sara), Killing Orders, ffep signed by the author, first UK edition, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1986, original publisher's dustjacket, light creases, spine slightly faded, some stable tears to verso, red cloth boards, 8vo; crime fiction: Ellroy (James), American Tabloid, ffep signed by the author, first UK edition, London: Century, 1995, pictorial dustjacket, black cloth, 8vo; idem, The Black Dahlia, signed and dedicated, Arrow, 1993, pb, 8vo; Mason (Bobbie Ann), In Country, signed and dedicated title-page, first edition thus, New York: Harper & Row, 1986, paperback, 8vo; Updike (John), Recent Poems 1986-1990, signed, first edition thus, limited edition copy no. 246/350, Helsinki: Eurographica, June 1990, original wrappers, uncut, 8vo; Ford (Richard), Independence Day, signed and dedicated by the author, first UK edition, Harvill, 1995, dj, hb, 8vo; another signed Richard Ford novel; Larry Brown's Dirty Work, dj, hb, 8vo; Sheila Bosworth's Slow Poison, dj, hb, 8vo; other authors, all signed, including Don DeLillo John Irving, Hilton Obenzinger, Barry Hannah, Andre Dubus, Kevin McDermott, Robert Kroetsch, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky, etc., (29) Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Children's & Juvenile Books. Portraits and Characters of the Kings of England, from William the Conqueror to George the Third, Parts I & II, London: J. Harris and Son, 1823, [bound with] Wonders! Descriptive of Some of the Most Remarkable of Nature and Art, London: Printed for J. Harris and Son, 1821, three separate title-pages with hand-coloured engraved vignettes, collating: 17, [1] (advert); [ii], 17; [ii], [16]pp, illustrated with hand-coloured engravings, some finger marking in places, contemporary calf over marbled boards, lettered in gilt, 8vo; Hack (Maria), Harry Beaufoy [...], first edition, London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1821, frontispiece, original publisher's red roan over marbled boards, upper-cover loose, 24mo; chapbook: Anon, True Stories of Cottagers. The Railroad Boy, London: Joseph Masters, 1852, frontispiece and in-text vignettes, original wrappers, 24mo; etc., mixed bindings and sizes, (9)
Derbyshire. Rayner (Samuel), The History and Antiquities of Haddon Hall: Illustrated by Thirty-two Highly Finished Drawings; with an Account of the Hall in its Present State, association copy, first edition, large paper subscriber's copy with proof illustrations, Derby: Published by Robert Moseley, London: Weale, Architectural Library, et al, 1836, [xii], 53, [1]pp, illustrated with 32 proof state named-view lithographs, each printed on India paper and subsequently press-rolled onto leaves, mostly of medieval architecture, the prelims somewhat foxed, the plates - mostly their leaves - more so, the leaf of plate 24 creased, finely bound in contemporary green quarter-morocco gilt over moiré silk boards, gilt-lettered spine and upper-cover, gently rubbed, the upper-cover with slight sunned portion, all edges gilt and gauffered, folio (41.5 x 33cm) Provenance: 1) George Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon (1803-1866), of Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, landowner and sometime MP, bibliophile and Dante scholar; his subscriber's copy and later presented by him to; 2) Sir James Lacaita, KCMG (1813-1895), Anglo-Italian politician, man-of-letters and a fellow authority on Dante, with whom Vernon co-operated in his own edition of the Inferno (London, 1858-65); ffep with contemporary manuscript presentation inscription: Sir James Lacaita from his sincere friend Vernon, Sudbury Hall, Derby, 13. Nov:r 1861; thence by descent to his son: 3) Charles Lacaita (1853-1933), of Selham, Sussex, botanist and Liberal MP; his and his wife Mary's engraved bookplate to pastedown.
Rowling (J.K.), four sets of the Harry Potter Hogwarts House/20th Anniversary Editions, first paperback editions thus, i.e. seven volume sets of the Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, & Hufflepuff variants as called for, Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2017-2021, original pictorial covers, edges stained the colours of their respective house colours, 8vo; four hardback part-sets conforming of The Philosopher's Stone to The Order of the Phoenix only, Bloomsbury, June 2017-2020, original pictorial dustjackets designed by Levi Pinfold, over cloth boards, edges stained the colours of their respective house colours, polychrome endpapers, 8vo, (48)
Travel. Forrest (John, FRGS) & Angas (G.F., illustrator), Explorations in Australia, first edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875, frontispiece, illustrated with 8 full-page plates and 5 folding maps with hand-coloured delineation as called for, original publisher's green cloth gilt over pictorial boards, some shelf wear, 8vo
Romani. Lucas (Joseph), The Yetholm History of the Gypsies. Dedicated to Queen Esther Faa-Blyth, first edition, Kelso: J. & J.H. Rutherfurd, 1882, half-title, photographically-illustrated portrait frontispiece of the gypsy Queen Esther, dedication leaf inscribed and signed by Sir Arthur Sutherland of Hethpool House, Kirknewton, Northumberland (1867-1953), original publisher's red cloth, stained, the contents fine, 8vo; Stables (Gordon), Leaves from the Log of a Gentleman Gipsy: In Wayside Camp and Caravan, first edition, London: Jarrold & Sons, n.d. [c. 1890], illustrated, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; Bennett's Gipsy Queen, n.d., original red cloth, 8vo; Rehfisch (Farnham, editor), Gypsies, Tinkers and other Travellers, Academic Press, 1975, dj, hb, 8vo; others, various (7)
Travel. Prior (James, Esq., RN), Voyage Along The Eastern Coast of Africa, to Mosambique (sic; Mozambique), Johanna, and Quiloa (sic; Kilwa); to St. Helena; to Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco in Brazil, in the Nisus Frigate, [bound with] Voyage in the Indian Seas, in the Nisus Frigate, to the Cape of Good Hope, Isles of Bourbon, France, and Seychelles; to Madras; and the Isles of Java, St. Paul, and Amsterdam. During the Years 1810 and 1811, first editions, London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1819 & 1820, [iii]-[vi], 114pp, illustrated with a folding map and 1 plate; iv, 114, [2]pp (advertisement leaf), illustrated with a fold map frontispiece and 3 plates, sporadic and unobtrusive foxing in places, uncut, later bound in panelled calf over bevelled boards by the Iplsey Bindery, stamped, 8vo; [Japan] Hearn (Lafcadio), Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life, first edition, London: Gay and Bird, 1895, original publisher's red cloth gilt, spine somewhat discoloured, head with slight split, but stable, uncut, ffep inscribed: G. Burne-Jones, 1904, 8vo; [India] Raven-Hill (Leonard), An Indian Sketch-Book: Impressions of the East and Great Durbar, London: "Punch" Office, 1903, illustrated, split with some movement, original publisher's cloth boards, loosely-inserted watercolour of a contemporary girl, 4to, (3)
Topography. Derbyshire: Hedinger (J.M.), A Short Description of Castleton, in Derbyshire; its Natural Curiosities, and Mineral Productions, sixteenth edition, Stockport: Printed by J. Lomax, and Sold by S. Needham, Castleton, 1820, wood-engraved frontispiece of The Peak Cavern, 37pp, verso of frontispiece with library stamp, not visible recto, 20th c institutional binding of blue morocco over cloth boards, ffeps with their stamps and label, 12mo; Bailey (Thomas), Annals of Nottinghamshire, four volume set, first edition, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., n.d. [1853], full-page and folding plates, in-text illustrations, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, some wear, 4to; Joynes (Lucy), Original Rhymes, Accompanying an Historical Chart of the Borough of Nottingham, Nottingham: Printed for, and Sold by the Authoress, BY R. Allen, 1844, folding frontispiece, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; Ward & Lock's (Late Shaw's) Tourist's Picturesque Guide to Nottingham and Its Environs London: Ward, Lock, and Co., n.d., plates and adverts, one leaf supplied in facsimile, plan apparently lacking, otherwise unexamined, 20th c calf over marbled boards, split, 12mo, (7)
The Inklings. Williams (Charles), The House of the Octopus, first edition, London: Edinburgh House Press, 1945, half-title, original publisher's dustjacket, price-clipped, over green cloth, 8vo; idem., The Descent of the Dove, first edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939, red cloth only, 8vo; idem., Flecker of Dean Close, first edition, London: The Canterbury Press, 1946, dj, worn, chipped and creased, over grey cloth boards, 8vo; idem., Collected Plays, first edition thus, Oxford University Press, 1963, publisher's dj, some tears, over blue cloth, 8vo; Hadfield (Alice Mary), An Introduction to Charles Williams, London: Robert Hale Limited, 1959, original publisher's dustjacket, price-clipped, sunned spine, over blue cloth, 8vo; Tolkien (J.R.R.), Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Oxford University Press, 1963, original wrappers, 8vo; idem., The Silmarillion, first edition, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977, original publisher's dustjacket over cloth, spine sunned, 8vo; idem., Smith of Wootton Major, first edition, 1967, original pictorial hardback boards, worn and somewhat twisted, 8vo; idem., The Letters, first edition, 1981, dj over brown cloth, spine sunned, 8vo; idem., Mr Bliss, first American edition, Boston, 1983, dj, somewhat sunned, over cloth, oblong 8vo; & Gibb (Jocelyn, editor), Light on C.S. Lewis, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1965, dj over cloth boards, 8vo, (13)
![Cookery. Reynolds (Robert, Cook to His Grace the Duke of Portland), The French and English Professed Cook [...], Containing U](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6abfac2d-222e-4bd4-8f53-b29100c4c94e/c552e3ab-0681-4b24-8f41-b29100c9d28d/468x382.jpg)
Cookery. Reynolds (Robert, Cook to His Grace the Duke of Portland), The French and English Professed Cook [...], Containing Upwards of Seven Hundred Practical Receipts [...], To which is added a Short Account of Wines, ?first edition, London: Printed for J. Booth, n.d. [c. 1815-20], xviii, 350, [10]pp (publisher's catalogue), in-text table settings, original publisher's sheep over boards, upper-cover lettered in gilt, chipped and worn, but holding, MS ownership inscription to pastedown, 8vo; Anon, Domestic Economy: A Class-Book for Girls, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1886, original cloth, 8vo; & Medical: Stevenson (William, Physician at Wells), A Successful Method of Treating the Gout by Blistering. With an Introduction, Consisting of Miscellaneous Matter, first edition, Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1779, xl, 41-170, [1]pp (errata leaf), ex-library copy, stamps to prelims and final two leaves, later 19th c half-calf over marbled boards, label to upper-cover, 8vo, (3)
![Antiquarian Books, two shelves, 18th c and later, including [Sherer (Moyle)], Recollections of The Peninsula, first edition,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6abfac2d-222e-4bd4-8f53-b29100c4c94e/95f2f634-9589-4a93-8be7-b29100ca7240/468x382.jpg)
Antiquarian Books, two shelves, 18th c and later, including [Sherer (Moyle)], Recollections of The Peninsula, first edition, London: Longman, et al, 1823, contemporary diced calf, 8vo; Simcox (George Augustus), A History of Latin Literature, two volume set, London: Longmans, 1883, contemporary Merchant Taylor's School prize binding of scarlet calf, gilt armorial supralibros, marbled endpapers, 8vo; another five leather prize bindings, including Washington Irving; Roman Catholic Missal, 1862, contemporary vellum over boards, 8vo; a 19th c volume, later turned into a novelty disguise book box, 8vo; volumes of Tennyson, decorative blue cloth gilt, 8vo; two 18th c harlequin volumes of Gibbon; Captain Marryat; etc., mixed bindings and sizes
Roxburghe Club. Locke (John), Directions Concerning Education: Being the First Draft of His Thoughts Concerning Education Now Printed from Additional MS. 38771 in The British Museum, with an Introduction by Frederic George Kenyon, first edition thus, Oxford: Printed for Presentation to the Members of The Roxburghe Club, 1933, half-title, rubricated title-page, frontispiece, [viii], 84pp, prelims with some light foxed spots, original brown morocco over red cloth, slight wear, lettered in gilt direct, top edge gilt, others uncut, 4to Provenance: Sir Frederic George Kenyon GBE, KCB, TD, FBA, FSA (1863-1952), President of The British Academy (1917-1921), Director and Principal Librarian of The British Museum (1909-30); Roxburghe Club member no. 187 and one of his own personal copies (of 2) of the sole book he presented to the bibliophile's club (no. 198), though his name is not printed in red on the membership leaf in this copy.
Post-Incunabula. Kaysersberg (Johann Geiler von), Otther (Jacob, editor), & Rhenanus (Beatus), Navicula sive speculu[m] fatuo[rum], Prestantissimi sacarum literarum Doctoris Joannis Geyler Keyserbergii Concionatoris Argentinen. a Jacobo Othero collecta. Compendiosa vitæ eiusdem descriptio, per Beatum Rhenanum Selestatinum. Ad Narragoniam, first edition, s.l., s.n., n.d. [?Strasbourg, dated 1509 & 1510; pastedown with booksellers' listings, where they suggest a date of 1513], 2 woodcuts, Gothic letter, collates: [26], [252], [6]ff; i.e. 1-2⁸, 3⁴, 4⁶, A⁴, B-C⁸, D⁴, E-F⁸, G⁴, H-I⁸, K⁴, L⁸, M⁴, N-O⁸, P⁴, Q⁸, R⁴, S-T⁸, U-X⁴, Y⁸, Z-²A⁴, ²B⁸, ²C⁴, ²D⁸, ²E-F⁴, ²G-H⁸, ²I⁴, ²K⁸, ²L-M⁴, ²N-O⁸, ²P-Q⁴, ²R-S⁸, a⁶, contemporaneous manuscript on A1-2, E4, G3-4, title-page lower gutter starting to split, some pages irregularly trimmed, with some edges uncut, some toning in places, occasional foxed spot, a handful of small repaired tears to fore-margins only, wormhole/holes to fore-margin throughout, both points of condition never affecting text, the fore-edge with traces of contemporaneous 16th c ink lettering, 19th c vellum over boards, lettered in gilt, title and colophon leaves with Croydon Public Libraries stamps, somewhat erased on the former, 4to The scarce first edition of Johann Geiler von Kaiserberg's thirty-seven sermons, influenced by Sebastian Brandt's Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools), in which he comments and satirises the follies and vices of his day. This edition precedes the 1511 edition, better known for its greater number of woodcuts.
Angling & Fishing. Grey (Zane), three first editions: Tales of Fishing Virgin Seas, New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1925; Tales of Swordfish and Tuna, London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1927; Tales of Tahitian Waters, New York and London: Harper Brothers Publishers, 1931, half-titles, frontispieces and plates, original publisher's cloth bindings, pictorial endpapers, 8vo; Pritt (T.E.), The Book of the Grayling, copy no. 118/500, The Signet Press, 1992, original blue cloth, 8vo; Walton (Izaak) & Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), The Compleat Angler, London: Folio Society, 2000, colour plates, original pictorial green cloth, top edge gilt, slipcase en suite, 8vo; three works signed by their respective authors, Moc Morgan, Michael Leighton, and John Stephenson; etc., (10)
Bibliography & Miscellaneous Antiquarianism. Nicolson (William, late Bishop of Carlisle), The English, Scotch and Irish Historical Libraries [...], third edition, London: Printed for G. Strahan, et al, 1736, xviii, 272; 18; [xx], 148; xvi, 118pp, title-page with two small library stamps, other discreet ones in places, 20th c red morocco over cloth, contemporary red-stained edges, folio (35 x 24cm); Heraldry: Robson (Thomas), The British Herald, or Cabinet of Armorial Bearings, three volume set, first edition, Sunderland: Printed for the Author by Turner & Marwood, 1830, engraved title-pages, lacking volume I frontispiece, 68 plates, 20th c green morocco over cloth gilt, spines with library numbering in direct gilt, pastedowns with removed labels, 4to; Magic: Ennemoser (Joseph), Geschichte der Magie, Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1844, British Museum copy, their ownership and duplicate stamps, later with another library, their stamps and morocco over cloth binding, top edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo; A Descriptive Catalogue of Books Relating to Nottinghamshire in the Library of James Ward, [with] Supplementary Catalogue, each inscribed and dedicated by Ward, first editions, Nottingham: Privately Printed, 1892 & 1898, supplement with half-title, frontispiece, and a singular library stamp to pastedown, original burgundy morocco over cloth, gilt, mixed wear and some losses, top edges gilt, others uncut, 8vo; Sims (Rupert, compiler), Bibliotheca Staffordiensis, large paper copy no. 61/100, Lichfield: Printed for the Compiler by A.C. Lomax, 1894, original publisher's red cloth, 4to; Americana: Jamieson (Melvill Allan), Medals Awarded to North American Chiefs 1714-1922 [...], one of 300 copies, Spink & Son Ltd., 1936, original wrappers, later library red cloth, 8vo; Numismatics: Hildebrand (B.E.), Monnaies Anglosaxonnes du Cabinet Royal de Stockholm, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Fils, 1846, coin plates and folding map with library blind-stamps, their cloth binding and some further stamps, 4to; Transactions of the Cambridge Camden Society, Cambridge: John W. Parker, University Printer, 1841, original publisher's cloth, rebacked, 4to; Foster's Some Feudal Coat of Arms, 1902, illustrated, original blue cloth, 8vo; Liverpool, (14)
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[Dickens (Charles)], Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life, and Every-Day People, The Second Series: Complete in One Volume, first edition thus, London: John Macrone, 1837, etched frontispiece and title-page, further letterpress title, 10 etched plates as called for, finely bound in 19th c brown morocco over boards, gilt, marbled endpapers, uncut, 8vo; Butler (Samuel), Hudibras [...], To this Edition is added, Annotations to the Third Part, with a Compleat (sic) Index to the whole; never before Printed, first edition thus, London: Printed for George Sawbridge, 1712, general and divisional titles, full-page and folding engraved plates, contemporary blind-ruled calf boards and speckled red edges, rebacked to style in calf gilt, probably by J. Henderson, morocco lettering piece, 8vo; Strutt (Joseph) & Hone (William, editor), The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, London: Printed for Thomas Tegg and Sons, 1834, in-text illustrations, contemporary polished calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo; Combe (William) & Rowlandson (Thomas, illustrator), Doctor Syntax's Three Tours, London: Chatto and Windus, n.d. [c. 1890], double-column, colour plates, 20th c blue half-calf over marbled boards by J. Henderson, signed, uncut, 8vo; further literature and history, various leather and part-leather bindings, mixed sizes, (9)
Illustrated Books. Gaskell (Catherine Milnes) & Atkinson (Maud Tindal, illustrator), Lady Ann's Fairy Tales, first edition, London: Printed for the Author, by Grant Richards Limited, 1914, 12 colour plates, of which 'The Airs of Heaven' is torn, original publisher's cloth gilt, speckled, top-edge gilt, 4to; Heath Robinson (William, illustrator), Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, first edition, second impression, London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1917, tipped-in colour plates, b/w in-text illustrations, original publisher's pictorial red cloth, 4to; Barker (Cicely Mary, illustrator), Summer Song with Music, from "Flower Fairies of the Summer", first edition, London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, n.d. [1926], tipped-in colour plates, original cloth over pictorial boards, 4to; & Macnab's Fairy Gossip, first edition, 1936, torn loss to ffep, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, chipped and repaired, over blue cloth, uncut, 8vo, (4)
Americana. Mailer (Norman), The Deer Park, signed by the author, first UK edition, first impression, London: Allan Wingate, January 1957, original publisher's dustjacket, some very minor chips and general handling wear, over blue cloth boards, 8vo; An American Dream, signed by the author, first edition, New York: The Dial Press, 1965, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Paul Bacon, some wear, over publisher's blue cloth boards, top edge cut, others uncut, 8vo; Harlot's Ghost, ffep signed and dedicated by the author, first UK edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1991, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket, slightly sunned spine, over blue cloth, 8vo; further 9 works by Norman Mailer unsigned, including Barbary Shore, first UK edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1952, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket over blue cloth, 8vo, etc., all in their original publisher's bindings, mixed sizes, (12) Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
A Regency mahogany tea chest, c1810, the lid with ribbon inlaid border, the interior divided into compartments with two mahogany covers, 29cm l, two other early 19th c English boxes of rosewood, one string inlaid and a Japanese carved and stained hardwood sculpture of a hawk, first half 20th c, perched on a rock with prunus, glass eyes, 29cm h (4) Hawk with split up side of body, partially hidden by wing and smaller split to base Tea caddy with minor loss to inlayLarger box with small drilled hole to top and loss to escutcheonSmaller box with loss of escutcheon
Travel & Exploration. Caribbean, Jamaica & Haiti: Lorne (The Marquis of), A Trip to the Tropics and Home through America, second edition, London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1867, lithographed frontispiece and title-page, original publisher's green cloth over boards, rebacked, later endpapers, 8vo; China & Tibet: Farrer (Reginald), The Rainbow Bridge, first edition, third impression, London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1926, b/w plates and folding map, original blue cloth, uncut, 8vo; Bryant (William Cullen, editor), Picturesque America, two volume set, New York: D. Appleton and Company, n.d. [c. 1890], plates and in-text illustrations, finely bound in original publisher's brown morocco over boards, blocked in blind, tooled and lettered in gilt, some wear, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to; America: Townshend (Frank), Ten Thousand Miles of Travel, Sport, and Adventure, first edition, London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1869, frontispiece and title-page vignette, 20th c tan leather over bevelled boards, lettering pieces, marbled endpapers, 8vo; Leslie (Lionel A.D.), Wilderness Trails in Three Continents [...], With a Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, first edition, London: Heath Cranton Limited, 1931, illustrated, original publisher's green cloth boards, rebacked in later 20th c green leather, 8vo; South Africa: Lagden (Sir Godfrey, KCMG), The Basutos: The Mountaineers & Their Country, two volume set, first edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1909, half-titles, plates, original publsiher's cloth boards, reabcked, 8vo; Bernatzik (Hugo Adolf) & Ogilvie (Vivian, translator), Gari-Gari: The Call of the African Wilderness, first English edition, London: Constable & Co Limited, 1936, frontispiece, b/w plates and folding map, original publisher's dustjacket, not clipped, over cloth boards, 8vo; Darwin (Charles), Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology [...], London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1891, half-title, illustrated, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; Ruskin (John), The Stones of Venice. Volume the Second: The Sea-Stories, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1874, illustrated, original publisher's cloth, top-edge gilt, others uncut, Middle Rectory crested bookplate [Earls Bridgewater, Shropshire], 8vo; Polynesia: Paton (Maggie Whitecross), Letters and Sketches from The New Hebrides, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1894, illustrated, original green cloth, 8vo; French Central Africa, 1907, illustrated, later faux morocco over mauré boards, 8vo, (13)
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Calvin (John) & Norton (Thomas, translator), The Institution of Christian Religion [...], fourth English edition, London: Imprinted [...] by Thomas Vautrollier for William Norton, 1578, title-page with printer's device, final leaf with mask and printer's monogram, tables in double-column, original front blank, [xvi], 634, [107]ff; i.e. signatures collating: *⁸, ²*⁸, A-⁴Z⁸, ⁵A⁶, passages underlined or marked in places in a contemporary or contemporaneous hand, title-page somewhat tatty, with slight shaved loss to the opening 'THE' and washed contemporary or contemporaneous manuscript, first four leaves with small worm trail to lower margin, signatures 2P-3K with minor worm holes through lower-right margin, never affecting letters, final leaf (i.e. ⁵A6) transposed and rebound in between ⁴Z8 & ⁵A1, the final three leaves repaired, running title occasionally affected by shaving, but never drastic nor with loss of sense, some toning and minor marks in places, infrequent and occasional creases and very slight chips, bound in 20th c polished calf gilt by J. Henderson, stamped, five-compartment spine of raised bands, lettered in the second, third and fifth, sunned back, bands somewhat rubbed, 8vo Provenance: 1) Sam. Walker, 1793 ~; ink MS inscription to verso of front original blank; 2) nearly 300 years old. J.H., 19th c title-page inscription.
An early 19th c lady's friendship album, Jane S. Dickinson, dated 1830, enclosing contemporary and later 19th c manuscript inscriptions and printed ephemera, contemporary publisher's decorative boards, split and loose/loosening contents, 8vo; Binding: an early 19th c lady's pocket book, used in the later 19th/early 20th c, inscribed with MS and illustrated with 8 original watercolour &/or pencil illustrations and drawings, contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, square 16mo; and eleven further friendship albums and books, early-mid 20th c, typically inscribed with sentiment and some wit, illustrated with approx. 68 original watercolour &/or pencil illustrations and drawings, including a view of the Taj Mahal, India, by night, as well as a 1910 b/w photograph of HMS Cumberland from the Isle of Wight, First World War cartoon of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and a collage picture of traditional Japanese figures fashioned from World stamps, etc., mixed bindings and sizes, (13)
Fifteen friendship albums and books, late 19th c and later, typically inscribed in manuscript with sentiment, verse and wit, some signatures, with approx. 102 original watercolour, pen-and-ink, &/or pencil illustrations and drawings, including a pen-&-ink of 'Letitia Fairfax as I saw her in "Oliver Twist" 1905 (from memory)', 1935 silhouette of a gentleman by a telephone box, named-view of Arundel Castle, HMS Resolution 1918, other First World War, cartoons and caricatures, flowers, etc., mixed bindings and sizes, (15)
War & Other Poetry. Brooke (Rupert), 1914, and other poems, first edition, first impression, London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, Printed at The Complete Press, West Norwood, 1915, half-title, portrait frontispiece after the photograph by Sherril & Schell with tissue-guard as issued, original publisher's blue cloth boards, no dustjacket as issued (Ahearn, Collected Books: The Guide to Identification and Values, 2011), lettered paper spine label slightly chipped, top edge cut, others uncut, ffep with contemporary owner's visitors card: Roger Clark, Street, Somerset, 8vo; Malleson (Miles) & Morrell (Philip, MP), Cranks and Commonsense: An Essay of To-day, first edition, London: Hendersons, 1916, original wrappers, uncut, 8vo; Gibson (Wilfrid Wilson), Battle, first edition, London: Elkin Mathews, 1916, original wrappers, uncut, 8vo; Oxford Poetry 1916 [&] 1923, two annual anthologies, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1916 & 1923, original wrappers, uncut, 8vo; & Brooke (Rupert) & Keynes (Geoffrey), Democracy and The Arts, London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1946, frontispiece, dj, hb, 8vo, (6)
Tolkien (J.R.R.), The Hobbit, second edition, sixteenth impression, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1966, half-title with contemporary inscription, original publisher's pictorial green cloth, 8vo; Fermor (Patrick Leigh), A Time of Gifts, first edition, John Murray, 1977, original pictorial dustjacket designed by John Craxton, worn with losses, blue cloth, 8vo; Jazz Age Poetry: Rowland (Helen) & Speakman (Harold, illustrator), The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor, first edition, London: Simpkin, Marshall, et al, 1915, monochrome illustrations, pictorial binding, 8vo; Communism: People's Commissariat of Justice of the USSR: Report of Court Proceedings in the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites", Moscow, 1938, parallel Russian and English title-pages, original cloth over boards, 8vo; Searle (Ronald), Souls in Torment, first edition, 1953, worn pictorial dustjacket, 4to; idem, Merry England, etc., [&] Paris Sketchbook, dj, hb, 4to; Allbury (A.G.), Bamboo and Bushido, first edition, 1955, dustjacket designed by Ronald Searle, some wear, black cloth, 8vo; Sassoon (Siegfried), Siegfried's Journey, 1916-1920, first edition, London: Faber and Faber Limited, title-page vignette designed by Reynolds Stone, original publisher's dustjacket, chipped, over red cloth, 8vo; Nancy Mitford
Topography. Geology: Phillips (John, FRS), The Rivers, Mountains, and Sea-Coast of Yorkshire, Subscribers' Edition, first edition, London: John Murray, 1853, illustrated with 36 lithographed plates &/or plans as called for, contemporary quarter tan-morocco over marbled boards, edges and endpapers marbled en suite, 8vo; Hargrove (Ely), The History of the Castle, Town, and Forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, fifth edition, York: Wilson, Spence and Mawman, 1798, frontispiece, hand-coloured folding map, monochrome plates, 20th c brown leather over marbled boards, uncut, 12mo in 6s; Coleridge (Hartley), Lives of Illustrious Worthies of Yorkshire, first edition, Hull: Printed and Published by Joseph Noble, 1835, plates, original publisher's green cloth and their ticket to pastedown, uncut, 8vo; Shropshire: Hartshorne (Rev. Charles), Salopia Antiqua, first edition, Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1841, additional chromolithographed title-page, letterpress title rubricated, 8 plates, in-text illustrations, initials and decorative pieces, late 20th c mottled calf, 8vo; Leighton (Rev. William Allport), Early Chronicles of Shrewsbury, 1372-1603, large paper copy, s.l., s.n., n.d. [Shrewsbury: Adnitt & Naunton, 1880], bookplates: Michael Cecil de Courcy Peele, and Plash Hall, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, 4to; Lancashire: Shaw (J.G.), History and Traditions of Darwen and its People, first edition, Blackburn: J. and G. Toulmin, 1889, half-title, folding frontispiece, plates, loosely-inserted mourning card, presumably for the book's dedicatee: The Late Jeremy Hunt, 20th c faux leather binding, marbled endpapers, uncut, 8vo; Evans (John), The Juvenile Tourist, second edition, London: Albion Press Printed, Published by James Cundee, frontispiece, defective map, contemporary mottled sheep boards, rebacked, later endpapers, 12mo; [Brathwait (Richard)], Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys of the North of England, fourth edition, London: W. Stuart, 1776, parallel Latin and English text, lacking plates, late 20th c dark brown leather, uncut, 8vo; & Latimer (John), The History of the Society of Merchant Venturers in the City of Bristol, first edition, Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1903, illustrated, original armorial blue calf gilt binding, top edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, (9)
Polar Exploration. Nansen (Fridtjof), The Norwegian Polar Expedition 1893-1896/ "Farthest North": Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Frame 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey [...], two volume set, first edition, London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1898, volume I with half-title, folding map, 1 colour plate, further monochrome plates and in-text illustrations, original publisher's pictorial green cloth binding over slightly bevelled boards, a clean and fresh copy, all edges gilt, 8vo, (2)
Americana. O'Connor (Flannery), The Violent Bear It Away, first UK edition, London: Longmans, 1960, half-title, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket over orange cloth, 8vo; idem, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, first UK edition, London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1968, half-title, lacking ffep, original dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, (2) Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Miscellaneous Books. Children's Books: Uttley (Alison) & Tempest (Margaret, illustrator), three first editions, Wise Owl's Story, 1933, Snug and Serena Meet a Queen, 1950, & Fuzzypeg's Brother, 1971, original pictorial boards, Snug and Serena with dustjacket, varying degrees of wear to each, 12mo; eleven further works by Alison Uttley, mixed editions and dates, original bindings, various degrees of wear, 12mo; India: O'Connor (V.C.), The Charm of Kashmir, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920, illustrated with 16 coloured plates and 24 illustrations from photographs, original publisher's decorative cloth gilt, top edge gilt, 4to; Negus (Sir Victor), History of the Trustees of The Hunterian Collection, 1966, hb, 8vo; Hunterian Oration, 1961 [&] 1967, 8vo; Lister Oration, 1967; a biography of Hunter; C.S. Lewis, (21)
A Chinese flambé vase, meiping, 15cm h, Qianlong mark, a Chinese blue and white rouleau vase, 20th c, painted with auspicious objects, 22cm h, painted twin fish within concentric circles, a Chinese underglaze red jar and two blue and white jars, the first 70mm h, various painted marks or unmarked (5) Blue and white dragon jar in good condition, the two other jars broken and re-stuck Rouleaux vase in good condition Flambeau vase with very minor firing cracks around bottom rim, in otherwise good condition
Marchantius (Jacobus), Opuscula Pastoralia, two parts in one, first edition thus, Coloniæ Agrippinæ, 1642-43, letterpress half-title, engraved allegorical title-pages, double-column, complete, collating: [x], 402, [4]; [viii], 271, [5], 20pp; i.e. *⁴, A-³D⁴, ³E³; *⁴, A-²O⁴, bound in contemporary South German pigskin over wooden boards, blocked and tooled in blind, the centre of each cover with a saint in an oval laureate reserve, graduating double-fillet and foliate borders, four-compartment spine of raised bands, the second lettered in contemporary manuscript, restrained by chased fore-margin clasps, both monogrammed: P.N., all edges stained red, title-page with contemporaneous inscription, final leaf with discreet 19th/20th c ex-lib stamp, 4to
Rowling (J.K.), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first impression, Bloomsbury, 1998, half-title, ex-library, split at title-page and rear endpaper, but holding, original publisher's pictorial boards only, split and bumped, institutional stamp to pastedown and label to title-page verso, 8vo; idem, another two copies of the Bloomsbury first edition, third impression, 1998, half-title, stable split at title-page, original publisher's dustjacket designed by Cliff Wright, with wear and creases, ditto boards, slight twist, & fifth impression, 1998, half-title, dj spine gently sunned, former owner's label to ffep, 8vo, (3)
Americana. Portis (Charles), True Grit, first edition, New York: Simon Schuster, 1968, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Paul Davis, some tears and chips, blue cloth, 8vo; Jackson (Shirley), Come Along with Me, first UK edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1969, dj, hb, 8vo; Malamud (Bernard), Pictures of Fidelman, first edition, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969, pictorial dustjacket designed by Catherine Smolich, cloth board, 8vo; McCarthy (Cormac), All the Pretty Horses, first UK edition, [London]: Picador, 1993, dj, hb, 8vo; idem, No Country For Old Men, first UK edition, Picador, 2005, dj, hb, 8vo; Rice (Anne), Interview with the Vampire, first edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976, publisher's cloth over papered boards only, 8vo; McCullers (Carson), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, first edition thus, London: Readers Union, 1954, dj, hb, 8vo; Johnson (B.S.), The Unfortunates, Picador, 1999, loose in gatherings as issued, publisher's box, 8vo; Kesey (Ken), Sometimes a Great Notion, first UK edition, London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1966, cloth boards only, 8vo; four John Hawkes UK first editions, all Chatto & Windus imprints, mixed dates, original dustjackets over cloth boards, 8vo; four Ring Lardner first editions, including First and Last, 1934, dj, hb, 8vo; Gass's Omensetter's Luck, first UK edition, 1967, dj, hb, 8vo; Irving's World According to Garp, first UK edition, 1978, dj, hb, 8vo; James Purdy; William Gaddis; etc., (28)Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Bible and Biblical Criticism; Extensively Annotated and Interleaved by an East Anglian Cleric in the Late 17th/Early 18th Century. The Westminster Assembly of Divines & Puritanism: [Downame (John, attributed editor), et al], Annotations Upon all the Books of the Old and New Testament; wherein The Truth is Explained, Doubts Resolved, Parallelled, and Various Readings observed. By the Joynt-Labour of certain Learned Divines, there unto appointed, and therein employed, As is expressed in the Preface, first edition, London: Printed by John Legatt and John Raworth, 1645, black-ruled title-page, double-column, wood-engraved decorative head and tail-pieces, extensively annotated in the later 17th/18th c by the Rev. Richard Nesling (1670-1734), principally interleaved with approx. [454]ff of manuscript glosses and commentary, particularly denser through the New Testament, and more so the the Psalms than the Old Testament, further interleaved leaves bound-in in advance of marginalia and commentary, yet blank, letterpress leaves' margins annotated throughout, title-page, preliminary letterpress and annotated leaves water-stained and tatty, with creased corners, of which the title and one annotated leaf are detached, the remaining contents brighter, but also affected by creased corners and a degree of tattiness that becomes gradually lighter, letterpress fore-edges worn &/or chipped with some loss of words and probably sense, fragmentary contemporary calf binding, split yet just holding, worn and with some losses, folio (34 x 23cm) Provenance: 1) The Reverend Richard Nesling (1670-1734), born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, proceeding to BA & MA at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and returning to his native county for ordination within the Diocese of Norwich, his appointment as schoolmaster at King's Lynn Free School (presumably his alma mater), preacher and vicar at Houghton. Later rector of Hessett and then Beyton, both near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk; his ownership inscription to ffep, his autograph manuscript glosses and notes, and loosely-inserted 19th/early 20th c inscribed card. 2) Long undisturbed at a Stowmarket solicitor's office, until 30 years ago when the vendor's aunt, an employee, was asked to find a home for it; before then '[...] it was used in legal proceedings but was considered that it was no longer needed [...].'
A grained rosewood bergère, early 19th c, on sabre legs and brass castors, later leatherette upholstery, seat height 43cm h, accompanied by a contemporary portrait of a cleric, erroneously identified as the Rev. Francis Russell Nixon (1803-1879), half-length, seated in the aforementioned chair, indistinctly signed, dated 1820, pencil and wash, 16 x 12cm, (2) Provenance: By descent in the Wellesley & Calthrop families, current vendors.The traditional attribution might be a case of mistaken identity over the two Reverend Nixons, the father Robert (1758-1837) and the son Francis (1803-1879), the first Colonial Anglican bishop of Tasmania and a pioneering artist-photographer. If the latter, there is a good chance the chair and portrait descended to his son, an only child, who himself died without offspring.Frame of chair solid, upholstery splitting and in need of attention, some discolouration to portait
Wells (Edward, Rector of Cotesbach in Leicestershire), An Historical Geography of the New Testament in Two Parts, first edition, London: Printed by W. Botham, et al, 1708, frontispiece, black-ruled general and divisional titles, 2 folding maps and 14 engraved named-view plates &/or plans, three-quarters of the first part with a graduating worm trail, just affecting the lower margin and as such never touching letters, contemporary panelled calf boards, rebacked and recornered by the W.H.Smith & Son Ltd. bindery, stamped, upper-cover black in gilt with a 20th c monogram, ffep with 20th c MS presentation inscription, 8vo; & Macaulay (Lord) & Weguelin (J.R., illustrator), Lays of Ancient Rome, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897, frontispiece and in-text vignettes, contemporary Durham School full calf prize binding, gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, conforming presentation plate to recto blank, 8vo, (2)
Scotland & Bibliography. Sibbald (James), Chronicle of Scottish Poetry; from the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the Crowns: To which is added a Glossary, four volume set, first edition thus, Edinburgh: Printed for J. Sibbald, et al, 1802, volume I with Prospectus of the First Complete Edition of the Works of William Dunbar, 3pp, and a 5pp review of Sibbald's Scottish Poetry bound-in, contemporary calf, some wear, 8vo in 4s; Ancient Scottish Poems. Published from the MS. of George Bannatyne, MDLXVIII, first edition, Edinburgh: Printed by A. Murray and J. Cochran, 1770, half-title, contemporary calf, the upper-cover detached and with a repaired gutter at ffep, the rest rubbed and worn, 12mo; Bannatyne (George) & Ritchie (William Tod, editor), The Bannatyne Manuscript, four volume set, mixed editions, Edinburgh & London: Scottish Text Society, 1928-1933, original gilt-lettered roan over green cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut, loosely-inserted envelope of errata slips, 8vo; idem., another copy of volume I, 1934, original wrappers, uncut, 8vo; Laing's and Carew Hazlitt's Early Popular Poetry of Scotland and the Northern Border, two volume set, 1895, half-titles, frontispieces, original publisher's cloth, uncut, William Tod Ritchie's copies, 8vo; Henderson's Scottish Vernacular Literature, second edition, 1900, original cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut, William Tod Ritchie's copy, 8vo; Henley's Burns, 1898, original wrappers, 8vo; Carter (John) & Pollard (Graham), An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, association copy, first edition, London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1934, original cloth only, 8vo; & Hanson's Government and the Press, 1695-1763, first edition, Oxford University Press, 1936, original dustjacket, some chips, cloth boards, 4to, (16) Provenance: 1st: 1) Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), antiquarian and bibliophile, founding member of the Roxburghe Club (member no. 11); his gilt-embossed armorial bookplate to volumes I & III-IV only; 2) William Tod Ritchie, Scottish bibliographer; his early 20th c ownership inscriptions. 2nd: 1) J. Wilson, Professor of Phrenology, early-mid 19th c macabre bookplate; 2) George Graham, 19th c book label. 8th: Sir Frederic George Kenyon GBE, KCB, TD, FBA, FSA (1863-1952), President of The British Academy (1917-1921), Director and Principal Librarian of The British Museum (1909-30), and Roxburghe Club member no. 187; loosely-inserted typed copy of a letter excusing himself from a Roxburghe Club meeting at Lord Aldenham's house (to whom the letter is addressed) and proceeding to refute Carter's & Pollard's accusations of forgery against Thomas James Wise, book collector and fellow Roxburghe member.
Rowling (J.K.), Harry Potter fantasy series, seven volume set, first editions, first impressions, of the adult version, comprising The Philosopher's Stone, The Chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Phoenix, & The Half-Blood Prince, Bloomsbury, 2003-2007, half-titles, original publisher's dustjackets over black cloth boards, 8vo; with a further eight miscellaneous first editions conforming, mixed impressions, The Philosopher's Stone, first impression, 2004, The Chamber of Secrets, first impression, 2004, The Prisoner of Azkaban, first impression, 2004, two copies of The Order of the Phoenix, second and fifth impressions, 2003, The Half-Blood Prince, first impression, 2005, and two copies of The Deathly Hallows, first impressions, 2007, all in their original dustjackets over black cloth, 8vo, (15)
Aesop, The Fables of Æsop, With a Life of the Author, two volume set, first edition thus, London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1793, engraved title-pages with vignettes, illustrated with 110 plates, finely bound in later 19th c polished tan calf gilt by Morrell, stamped, morocco pieces, the spines somewhat faded, boards with light markings and wear, some joints of volume I slightly starting to split, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, (2)
Anon, The Dead Letter Office; and a Tale for the English Farmer's Fire-side, two volume set, first and only edition, London: Printed for B. Crosby and Co, by C. Baldwin, n.d. [1811], lacking half-titles (if called for?), volume I title-page cropped with loss of the first word of the title (i.e. THE), [iv], 262, [2]pp (publisher's advert); [iv], 251, [4]pp (publisher's advert), vol. II quire M loose but attached, contemporary calf over marbled boards, some surface wear, with corners bumped &/or split, but good and holding, uncut, 12mo, (2) Scarce. Attributed at times to the female authors Mrs. E.G. Bayfield, Mrs. E.M. Foster, or J.H. James. Provenance: the Westropp family of Long Melford, Sufffolk; contemporary ink manuscript ownership inscription to volume II title, clipped-erasure from volume I, their shelf-numbering to both volumes' spines and recto pastedowns.
Americana. Crime Fiction: Chandler (Raymond), The High Window, first edition, Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, August 1945, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket, clipped, over blue cloth; idem, The Brasher Doubloon, first edition thus, second impression overall, Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, July 1946, the half-title, title, and cloth binding still lettered The High Window as per, original movie printed dustjacket, price-clipped, 8vo; idem, Spanish Blood, first edition, Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, July 1946, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Hoffman, black cloth, 8vo; idem, The Second Chandler Omnibus, first edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962, original dustjacket designed by Patricia Davey, cloth, 8vo; others, including Farewell, My Lovely, third impression, June 1946, dj, cloth, 8vo; etc., (7) Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Horace Taylor (1881-1934) - Portrait of Claude Calthrop, bust-length, a Chinese soapstone sculpture of Li Tieguai in the background, signed, titled and dated Geneva 1918, 25 x 22cm Provenance: Claude David Usticke Calthrop (1893-1921), First Secretary General of the Rhineland High Commission, Coblenz. Unexamined out of frame. Long established deposits of dirt in places, some localised surface wear and marks from the former broken glazed panel.
Travel. Nansen (Fridtjof) & Archer (William, translator), Eskimo Life, first English edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893, half-title, 16 full-page plates as called, in-text illustrations, 24pp publisher's catalogue bound at rear, original publisher's green cloth, pictorial gilt, slight wear, uncut, 8vo; Kallmorgen (Friedrich), In's Land der Mitternachtssonne: Tagebuch eines Malers, Karlsruhe: Kunstdruckerei Künstlerbund, n.d. [1899], lithograph printed facsimile of the Impressionist artist's sketchbook, contemporary publisher's red cloth gilt, oblong folio (31 x 42.5cm); Naylor (R.A.), Letters on Sweden and Norway, first edition thus, [Warrington]: Printed for Private Circulation Only, [by Bowker Brothers], [June 1887], photographically-illustrated with three portraits by Parkinson of Warrington, original pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, 8vo; Goodman (E.J.) & Lange (Paul, illustrator), New Ground in Norway, first edition, 1896, original publisher's cloth, pictorial gilt, 8vo; etc., (5)
Rowling (J.K.), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, signed by the illustrator Cliff Wright, first de luxe edition, Bloomsbury, 1999, half-title, original publisher's decorative blue cloth, pictorial inset, lettered in gilt, some surface wear, all edges gilt, silk marker starting to fray at its end, 8vo
Modern Firsts. Calvino (Italo) & Weaver (William, translator), Invisible Cities, first English edition, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1974, half-title, original publisher's dustjacket designed by Arnold Skolnick, minor wear, now preserved under a wrapper, grey cloth, 8vo; Nabokov (Vladimir), PniN, first edition, fourth impression, London: Heinemann, 1969, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Faczynski, black cloth, 8vo; Waugh (Evelyn), Brideshead Revisited, third edition, London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1945, half-title, original red cloth only, 8vo; Olsen (Tillie), Tell Me A Riddle, first UK edition, Faber, 1964, OK ex-library copy, dj, hb, 8vo; Whitman (Walt), Drum-Taps, first edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1915, half-title, original cloth over pictorial papered boards, square 8vo; Vale (Edmund), Roc: A Dog's-Eye View of War, first edition, London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1930, original cloth, 8vo; Wright's Lawd Today, first edition, London: Anthony Blond, 1965, dj, hb, 8vo; Sinclair's White Chappell, first trade edition, Uppingham: Goldmark, 1987, dj, hb, loosely-inserted prospectus, 8vo; Kenneth Grahame; Jules Verne, (10) Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Iceland & the Faroe Islands. Craigie (W.A., editor), Skotlands Rímur: Icelandic Ballads on The Gowrie Conspiracy, first edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908, frontispiece, original wrappers, 8vo; Sturlason (Snorre), Monsen (Erling, editor), & Smith (A.H., translator), Heimskringla, or The Lives of the Norse Kings, first edition thus, Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1932, frontispiece, folding map, in-text illustrations, original blue cloth pictorial cloth, 8vo; Kelchner (Georgia Dunham), Dreams in Old Norse Literature and their Affinities in Folklore, first edition, Camrbidge: University Press, 1935, original cloth only, 8vo; Einarsson (Stefán), Icelandic: Grammar, Texts, Glossary, first edition, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1945, original blue cloth only, 8vo; Clarke (D.E. Martin, editor & translator), The Hávamál, first edition thus, Cambridge: University Press, 1923, original cloth only, 8vo; Schlauch's Romance in Iceland, first edition, 1934, cloth only, 8vo; Lockwood's Introudction to Faroese, first edition, 1955, cloth only, 8vo; Young (Jean I., translator), The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson: Tales from Norse Mythology, first edition thus, 1954, loosely-inserted author's compliments slip, cloth, 8vo; Old Norse Literature; etc., (18)
Illustrated Books. Shakespeare (William) & Dulac (Edmund, illustrator), The Tempest, first edition thus, London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1908], tipped-in colour plates, original publisher's green cloth, pictorial cloth, stable split to top portions of upper-joint, ffep with prize bookplate, 4to; two copies of Dulac's illustrated edition of Stories from the Arabian Nights, Hodder and Stoughton for Boots, n.d. [c. 1930], tipped-in colour plates, original cloth, 4to; Mabel Lucie Attwell, Charles Dickens, etc., (6)
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Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire. Deering (Charles, MD), Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova [...], first edition, Nottingham: Printed by and for, George Ayscough, & Thomas Willington, 1751, folding frontispiece of Nottingham Castle, the east and south prospects, plan of the castle, and a plate of a stocking-frame's parts, other engraved full-page plates, some illustrations repaired, ex-library copy, their 20th c green cloth, 4to; Thoroton (Robert) & Throsby (John, editor), History of Nottinghamshire: Republished with Large Additions, three volume set, first edition thus, London: Sold by B. and J. White, 1797, frontispieces and engraved title-pages, full-page plates, ex-library red cloth, discreet stamps to verso of title-page, contemporary marbled edges, 4to; Brown's Newark-upon-Trent, 1879, illustrated with 9 photographs by the woodbury permanent process, later institutional cloth, their marks in places, 4to; Grose's Nottinghamshire, 1789, 3 engraved plates, 1 map, 19th c speckled calf over marbled boards, provenance: Frederic Arthur Wadsworth (1871-1943), Nottingham historian and book collector, his armorial bookplate, 4to; Sutton's Nottingham Date-Book, 1750-1850, contemporary quarter-morocco, 8vo; White's Directory and Gazetteer of Nottinghamshire, Sheffield, 1844, contemporary calf, split but just holding, 8vo; Wright's 1900 Directory of Nottingham, folding map, cloth, 8vo; Nottingham Castle, 1836; Haddon Hall, Derbyshire; etc., (13)
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