GEOLOGY. - George Poulett SCROPE. Considerations on Volcanos… leading to the Establishment of a New Theory of the Earth. London: W. Phillips, 1825. First edition, 8vo (228 x 139mm.) 2 folding engraved plates with outline hand-colouring. (Lacking uncoloured plate, toning, browning, spotting to rear, sometimes heavy, some marginal annotations, burnt fore-edge.) Near contemporary blue paper-covered boards, later paper label mounted to spine (rebacked, heavily rubbed, soiling to boards). Provenance: A. Raistrick (bookplate to front-free endpaper and stamp to rear pastedown); by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
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KENEALY, Edward Vaughan. The Book of Fo. London: Englishman Office, 1878. First edition, 8vo (194 x 114mm.) Title with circumpunct symbol, illustrations in the text. (Spotting to first leaves, fore-edge and intermittently, toning.) Original maroon cloth (light rubbing to extremities, slight sunning to spine). - And a related volume (W.J. Wilkins' 'Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic', 1882, 8vo) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
SUSSEX. - John WALPOLE-BOND. A History of Sussex Birds. London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1938. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (247 x 149mm.) Numerous plates. (Toning, pp.103-106 loose in volume 2.) Original brown buckram, t.e.g. (light rubbing). Provenance: 'Margaret and Tony' (gift inscribed to on the front-free endpaper of volume 1). - And a further twenty-one volumes relating to Sussex (including William H. St. John Hope's 'Cowdray and Easebourne Priory in the County of Sussex', 1919, folio, and two copies of Thomas Walker Horsfield's 'The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex', 2 vols., 1835, 4to) (24).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
MIDDLE EAST. - Charles M. DOUGHTY. Travels in Arabia Deserta. London: Philip Lee Warner, 1921. 2 vols., first printing of the second edition, 8vo (219 x 137mm.) Photogravure portrait frontispiece, introduction by T.E. Lawrence, numerous plans and plates, some folding, colour map in pocket to rear of volume 1, illustrations in the text. (Toning.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to upper covers, t.e.g. (slight fading to spines, small tear to top of spine of volume 1). - And a further four volumes related to the Middle East, all by T.E. Lawrence (including the first impression of 'The Letters of T.E. Lawrence', 1938, 8vo) (6).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
MOUNTAINEERING. - Edward WHYMPER. Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69. London: John Murray, 1871. First edition, fifth thousand, 8vo (218 x 140mm.) 22 wood-engraved plates, 5 maps, including 4 folding and 1 in colour, 1 folding geological subsection in colour, numerous in-text illustrations. (Toning, small repairs verso the maps, occasional corner crease, bookplate to front pastedown.) Early 20th century brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (light rubbing). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
POUQUEVILLE, F.C.H.L. Travels in Epirus, Albania, Macedonia, and Thessaly. London: Richard Phillips, 1820. 4 engraved plates. (Toning.) [Bound with:] POUQUEVILLE, F.C.H.L. Travels in Southern Epirus, Acarnia, Aetolia, Attica and Peloponesus, or the Morea, &c. &c. in the Years 1814-1816. London: Richard Phillips, 1822. 2 engraved maps, 1 folding, 1 engraved plate. (Toning, slight offsetting on folding map.) [Bound with:] FORBIN, Count. Travels in Greece, Turkey, and the Holy Land, in 1817-18. London: Richard Phillips, [n.d. circa 1820.] 6 engraved plates, including 1 folding 'View of Jerusalem'. (Toning, marginal tear to title and first text leaf.) [Bound with:] PERTUSIER, Charles. Picturesque Promenades in and Near Constantinople, and on the Waters of the Bosphorus. London: Richard Phillips, 1820. 7 engraved plates, including 2 folding and 1 double-paged folding engraved plate. (Toning.) [Bound with:] MULLER, Christian. Journey Through Greece and the Ionian Islands in June, July, and August, 1821. London: Richard Phillips and Co., 1822. (Light spotting to title.) 8vo (212 x 125mm.) Mid-20th century red calf over brown buckram-covered boards, two red morocco lettering pieces to the spine (endpapers replaced, light rubbing). Note: as writer and influential diplomat, Pouqueville's interest in Greece were among the first sentiments of the early 19th century philhellene movement.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
THORBECKE, Ellen. People in China. London: George G. Harrap, 1935. First edition, 4to (298 x 222mm.) 32 mounted photographic portrait plates, 1 colour plate. (Browning to half-title, spotting to first text leaf, toning.) Original pictorial paper-covered boards (marginal damp-staining, red mark to upper cover). Provenance: Harry White (name inscribed to initial blank).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
[TUKE, Richard.] Memoires of the Life and Death of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, late Justice of the Peace for Middlesex, who was Barbarously Murthered by the Papists upon the first Discovery of the Horrid Plot. London: John Hancock, 1682. First edition, 8vo (148 x 90mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece by Van Hove, advertisement leaf to rear. (Chipping to margins of frontispiece, A1-B8 detached, spotting, browning, marginal damp-staining from G2-K2.) Contemporary calf (surface rubbing). [ESTC, R40676].Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
BAEDEKER, Karl. Konstantinopel und Das Westliche Kleinasien. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1905. First edition, 8vo (138 x 99mm.) Text in German, numerous lithographed maps, many folding. (Toning.) Original limp red cloth, gilt lettering (paper label mounted to spine, slight spine fading). Note: with the insert in German advising caution at the Turkish frontier. Provenance: Pusey House, Oxford (small stamp to title). - And a further fifty-five travel guides published by Baedeker (56).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
HADDON, Walter. Poematum Gvalteri Haddoni, Legum Doctoris, Sparsim Collectorum, Libri Duo. London: Richard Yardley and Peter Short, 1592. Small 8vo (146 x 78mm.) Engraved device to title-page, Roman and italic letter. (Occasional soiling, corner creases throughout, lacking blanks?) Near contemporary sewn wrappers (creasing, minor soiling, near contemporary manuscript notes verso the wrappers). Note: first edition was published in 1567. Walter Haddon served under three monarchs, including Queen Elizabeth I, for whom he wrote a reply to Jerome Osorio da Fonesco, the Portuguese historian and priest who had exhorted Elizabeth to return to the Catholic church. This, and Haddon's reply, became known as the most significant religious polemical exchange in the second half of the sixteenth century. Haddon is less known for his lyrical Latinate poetry.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
NEW NATURALIST. The New Naturalist Library. London: Harper Collins, 2013-2020. 19 vols., first edition, 8vo (223 x 148mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Toning.) Original cloth (occasional spine ends bumped), dust-jackets (volumes 131 and 132 are lightly bumped). Note: an unbroken run from 124 to 142. Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams (19).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
PALMIERI, Luigi. The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872. London: Asher & Co., 1873. First edition, 8vo (244 x 148mm.) 8 wood-engraved plates, 1 folding, 78pp. introduction by Robert Mallet. (Toning, light spotting to front and rear leaves.) Original blue cloth, Vesuvius erupting in gilt to upper cover (spine panel split and worn, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: W. Backhouse (name inscribed to front-free endpaper); L.R. Wager, geologist (name inscribed to front-free endpaper). - And a further two volumes related to volcanology (including the second edition of G. Poulett Scrope's 'The Geology of Extinct Volcanos of Central France', 1858, 8vo, and Charles Daubeny's 'A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanos, of Earthquakes, and of Thermal Springs', 1848, 8vo) (3). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
NEW NATURALIST. The New Naturalist Library. London: Harper Collins, 2001-2013. 34 vols., first editions, 8vo (223 x 148mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Toning.) Original cloth (occasional spine ends bumped), dust-jackets (volumes 93,104 and 120 are lightly bumped). Note: an unbroken run from volumes 89 to 123. Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams (34).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
TRAVEL. - Albert SMITH. A Month at Constantinople. London: David Bogue, 1850. First edition, 8vo (198 x 117mm.) Numerous illustrations in the text, 'Appendix', 8pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Lacking frontispiece, spotting to front and rear blanks.) Near contemporary cloth-backed boards (light rubbing, spotting to lower cover). - And a further five works related to Constantinople (Théophile Gautier's 'Constantinople of Today', 1854, 8vo, and Walter Colton's 'Visit to Constantinople and Athens', 1849, 8vo, and volume 1 [of 2] of Robert Semple's 'Observations on a Journey Through Spain and Italy to Naples; and Thence to Smyrna and Constantinople', 1808, 8vo) (6).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
LAW. - Robert BROOKE. La Graund Abridgment. London: Richard Tottell, 1576. 4to (213 x 156mm.) Black letter, 2 parts in 1, title with historiated wood-cut border, colophon to rear. (Lacking title to first part, marginal damp-stain to first few leaves, ink annotation and underlining to numerous leaves.) 17th century calf (upper cover detached, worn). Note: Brooke abridged nearly 21,000 cases and filed them under 404 headings. An important legal summary of British Common Law. Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
HANHAM, Frederick (editor). Natural Illustrations of the British Grasses. Bath: Binns and Goodwin, 1846. First edition, 4to (308 x 204mm.) 61 mounted dried specimens of grass on separate leaves. (Lacking 1 specimen 'Bromus Secalinus', 3 are partially lacking, and 3 loose, offsetting to descriptive leaves, occasional soiling and creasing.) Original blue silk moiré boards bound by Astle & Sons, gilt decoration to covers (heavily rubbed, spine panel worn with loss). Provenance: Dawson of Low Wray (armorial bookplate to front pastedown). - And six related volumes (including an album of approximately 225 botanical specimens from North Yorkshire mounted on 29 leaves, all numbered and titled with Latin and common names in pink and blue manuscript hand, 1928-1933, small folio). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams (7).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
HAMILTON, William. Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos: in a Series of Letters, Addressed to the Royal Society. London: T. Cadell, 1774. New edition, 8vo (193 x 120mm.) 5 engraved plates, 1 folding engraved map. (Toning, a three-inch tear to map.) Early 19th century tree calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (light rubbing to extremities). Note: the first edition was published in 1772. Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
BIBLE, In Ge'ez. [A hand-written Ethiopian Coptic Bible in the Ge'ez script. N.p.: circa early 19th century.] 200pp., manuscript, 8vo (183 x 162mm.) 20 quires of 100 vellum leaves with manuscript text in red and black. (Heavily browned, occasional moderate soiling, squiggles and drawings in a child's hand to first and last blank leaves.) Original wooden boards, string-bound (light rubbing).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
GEOLOGY. - Eugène VIOLLET-LE-DUC. Mont Blanc, A Treatise on its Geodesical and Geological Constitution; its Transformations; and the Ancient and Recent State of its Glaciers… translated by B. Bucknall. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. First edition, 8vo (219 x 137mm.) Numerous illustrations in the text, 2pp. advertisements to rear. (Toning, uncut leaves, spotting to advertisement leaf.) Original blue cloth, pictorial gilt (wear to spine ends). Provenance: L.R.W. (name inscribed on half-title). - And a further thirteen volumes relating to glaciers, the Alps, and Mont Blanc (including James D. Forbes' 'Norway and Its Glaciers, Visited in 1851', 1853, 8vo, and by the same author, 'The Tour of Mont Blanc and of Monte Rosa', 1855, 8vo, and M. Le Chanoine Rendu's 'Theory of the Glaciers of Savoy, 1874, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams (14).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
FOWLES, John. The Magus. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First English edition, 8vo (197 x 126mm.) (Toning.) Original purple cloth-backed boards (slight spotting to upper cover), dust-jacket (spine ends bumped). - And a further twenty literary volumes (including Cecil Beaton's 'Far East', 1945, 8vo) (21).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
CHARPENTIER, Jean de. Essai sur Les Glaciers et sur Le Terrain Erratique du Bassin du Rhone. Lausanne: Marc Ducloux, 1841. First edition, 8vo (232 x 146mm.) Folding partially hand-coloured engraved map, 8 lithographic plates, 1 folding. (Map with 5-inch tear, marginal loss to title, adhesive mark to dedication leaf, occasional spotting, lacking errata, rear blank cut.) Near contemporary purple cloth (spine sunned). Provenance: L.R. Wager, geologist (name inscribed to front-free endpaper); by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
MANTELL, Gideon. Thoughts on a Pebble. London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849. Eighth edition, 12mo (164 x 132mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, 4 chromolithographed plates, 27 woodcut illustrations in the text, 8pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Preliminaries and first leaves loosening, toning.) Original blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt decoration to upper cover, g.e. (rubbing to spine panel, extremities bumped). Note: scarce. Dedicated to Mantell's son, while being described by Dennis R. Dean as an 'eloquent review of geological fundamentals - far too sophisticated for most nine-year olds'. Provenance: Theodore Higgins (name inscribed to title-page); by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
GEOLOGY. - Roderick Impey MURCHISON. Siluria. The History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains. London: John Murray, 1854. First edition, 8vo (226 x 139mm.) Folding engraved hand-coloured map in pocket to rear, 1 folding uncoloured lithographed map, 37 lithographed plates, including 3 folding, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text, (Toning, occasional spotting, lacking half-title, three illegible names to the front-free endpaper.) Original green cloth, blind stamped and gilt vignette to upper cover (rebacked with original spine laid-down, spine sunned, extremities rubbed). - And a further six volumes related to geology (including W.D. Conybeare and William Phillips' 'Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales with an Introductory Compendium of the General Principles of that Science', 1822, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams (7).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
KEROUAC, Jack. Rimbaud. [San Francisco:] City Lights Books, 1960. First edition, folding broadside (124 x 625mm.) Printed in black on yellow paper (minor marginal creasing, toning to folds).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
TOPLEY, William. The Geology of the Weald. London: for H.M.S.O., 1875. First edition, 8vo (248 x 150mm.) 7 plates, including 2 hand-coloured lithographed folding maps. (Browning to preliminaries, toning.) Near contemporary red cloth (sunned to spine, wear to spine ends). - And a further thirty-nine volumes relating to geology and fossils (including Richard Owen's 'A History of British Fossil Mammals, and Birds', 1846, 8vo, and Edward Pidgeon's 'The Fossil Remains of the Animal Kingdom', [1830], 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams (40).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. - Constance GARNETT (translator). White Nights and Other Stories. London: William Heinemann, 1918. First UK edition, 8vo (188 x 121mm.) (Toning, mild spotting to fore-edge.) Original red cloth (fading to spine, lightly bumped extremities, minor damp-stain to upper cover). Note: contains the first publication in English of 'Notes From Underground'.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
MANTELL, Gideon. A Sketch of the Geology of Surrey. Dorking: Robert Best Ede, 1840. First separate edition, signed by Gideon Mantell, 4to (298 x 232mm.) 3 lithographed plates, 1 hand-coloured. (Spotting to the uncoloured plates and verso, toning, browning to pastedowns.) Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper label mounted to upper cover (spine worn, covers scuffed, extremities rubbed). Provenance: William Constable (inscribed to by the author on the initial blank); by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
OVID. - Isaak VERBURG (translator). De Gedaant-Wisselingen van P. Ovidius Naso, in het Latyne n Nederduitsch, Nieulyx vertaald, en te zamen in het Licht gegeven, door Isaak Verburg. Amsterdam: R. and J. Wetstein and W. Smith, 1732. 2 vols., first edition of this Dutch translation, folio (433 x 272mm.) Title in red and black with engraved vignette, Latin and Dutch text in parallel, 4 engraved plates, 124 engraved illustrations in the text. (Intermittent browning, fingermarks to titles, damp-staining to upper margins throughout volume 1, and to first leaves of volume 2, lacking blanks.) 20th century half brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (endpapers replaced) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
GEOLOGY. - P.I. MARTIN. A Geological Memoir on a Part of Western Sussex; with Some Observations Upon Chalk-Basins, the Weald-Denudation, and Outliers-by-Protrusion. London: John Booth, 1828. First edition, 4to (286 x 213mm.) Folding hand-coloured engraved frontispiece map, folding table, 3 hand-coloured plates to rear. (Small repair to map and a marginal tear, small tear and crease to table, creasing to front blank, toning, offsetting to title, upper hinge broken.) Original blue cloth, paper label mounted to upper cover (bumped to extremities, occasional scuffing). Provenance: John Roe (name inscribed to the initial blank); by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
LEVANT. - Henry A. HARPER. Walks in Palestine. London: The Religious Tract Society, 1888. First edition, 4to (309 x 244mm.) 24 photogravures with tissue-guards after photographs taken by Cecil V. Shadbolt. (Toning, occasional fingermark.) Original cloth boards, pictorial gilt to upper cover (upper cover nearly detached, rubbed).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
LLOYD, David. Memoires of the Lives, Actions, Sufferings & Deaths of those Noble, Reverend, and Excellent Personages, that Suffered by Death, Sequestrations, Decimation, or otherwise for the Protestant Religion, And the great Principle thereof, Allegiance to their Soveraigne, in our late Intestine Wars, from the Year 1637, to the Year 1660. With the Life and Martyrdom of King Charles I. London: Samuel Speed, 1668. First edition, 4to (294 x 178mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 8pp. 'Table' bordered in black, advertisement leaf to rear. (Browning to margins, notes in manuscript hand to rear blank, lacking front blank.) Contemporary calf, black morocco lettering piece to spine (rebacked, rubbing).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
COPWAY, G. The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation. Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1851. First edition, 8vo (188 x 123mm.) Lithographed frontispiece, 6pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Spotting and browning throughout, hinges reinforced.) Original black cloth (rebacked with original spine laid-down). - And four related volumes (5).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
WOODWARD, Samuel. An Outline of the Geology of Norfolk. Norwich: by John Stacy for Longman's & Co., 1833. First edition, 8vo (222 x 135mm.) 1 hand-coloured folding map, 1 hand-coloured folding section of the Norfolk cliffs, 5 uncoloured lithographed plates to rear. (Lacking the plan, spotting to the uncoloured plates, toning.) Near contemporary cloth, paper label to spine (rubbing to extremities, some loss to label). - And a further six volumes related to the geology of specific areas (including J.W. Robberds' 'Geological and Historical Observations on the Eastern Vallies of Norfolk', 1826, 8vo, and William Pengelly's 'The Lignite Formation of Bovey Tracey, Devonshire', 1863, 4to, and Henry T. de la Beche's 'Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset', 1839, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams (7).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
MURCHISON, Roderick Impey. The Silurian System, founded on Geological Researches in the Counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caermarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester and Stafford. London: John Murray, 1839. 2 vols. [including 'Atlas' volume], 4to (311 x 240mm.) 6pp. list of subscribers, 56 plates, including 31 lithographed plates of fossils, 10 hand-coloured lithographic folding sections, 2 engraved maps, 13 lithographed plates including 2 hand-coloured, and 1 folding. (Heavy damp-stain to first four plates and to the fossil plates, browning to folding plates, toning, lacks large separate geological map.) Contemporary red half straight grain morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (rubbing, some loss to marbled paper). Provenance: Jos Newill (name inscribed to front pastedown, gift inscribed to on title); by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
LYELL, Charles. Principles of Geology, being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface. London: John Murray, 1832-1833. 3 vols., second and first editions, 8vo (212 x 132mm.) 4 engraved maps, 2 folding and 2 hand-coloured, 4 uncoloured engraved plates, 2 hand-coloured aquatint plates, indexes to rear, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, 1p. publisher's advertisement. (Lacking half-title to volume 1, frontispiece of volume 2 nearly detached, initial blanks of volume 3 adhering, toning, occasional spotting.) Near contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering pieces to the spines, Thomas Graves' armorial eagle motif in gilt to base of spines (lacking several lettering pieces, endpapers replaced on volumes 2 and 3, light rubbing). Note: volume 1 is a second edition, volumes 2 and 3 are first editions. Inscribed 'From the author. To Lieut. Thomas Graves, RN. H.M.S. Mastiff- Rec'd. at Napoli Le Romania, Dec 22nd 1832' with Graves' monogram at the end. From May 1832 until February 1836 Graves was Commander of H.M.S. Mastiff and surveying the Mediterranean. Provenance: Thomas Graves, naturalist and Lieutenant in the Royal Navy (initials inscribed to in ink on the second blank of volume 1, bookplate to the front pastedown of volume 1); by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams (3).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
YOUNG, Arthur. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Norfolk. London: for G. and W. Nicol et al., 1804. First edition, 8vo (208 x 126mm.) Folding hand-coloured map of Norfolk as frontispiece, half-title, 6 engraved plates, 9 folding tables. (Occasional spotting, especially to plate 6, browning to preliminaries, pencil marks to margins, some creasing to tables.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (light rubbing). Provenance: John McDowall (armorial bookplate to the front pastedown). - And a related volume (John Tuke's 'General View of the Agriculture of the North Riding of Yorkshire', 1800, 8vo) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
CLARKE, Samuel. [A General Martyrologie, containing a Collection of all the greatest persecutions which have befallen the church of Christ, from the Creation, to our Present Times. London: for William Birch, 1677.] Third edition, corrected and enlarged. Engraved plates. (Lacking title and all before A1, plates laid-down, repairs to first and last leaves, browning.) [Bound with:] 'A Relation of the Distressed State of the Church of Christ Professing the Protestant Religion in the Great Dukedom of Lithuania'. London: William Birch, 1676. (Browning.) [Bound with:] 'A Martyrologie, containing A Collection of all the Persecutions Which have Befallen the Church of England Since the Plantation of the Gospel to the End of Queen Maries Reign'. London: William Birch, 1677. (Browning, spotting, repair to last leaf.) 4to (299 x 185mm.) Modern green morocco-backed cloth. Provenance: Worthing Public Library (labels to pastedowns). - And a further thirty-five miscellaneous volumes (including a third edition of Sake Dean Mahomed's 'Shampooing; or, Benefits Resulting from the use of the Indian Medicated Vapour Bath', 1838, signed in 4s) (36).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
LONDON SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES (publisher). Archaeologia; or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity. London: the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1770-1796. 12 vols., 4to (271 x 198mm.) Numerous engraved plates, many folding. (Browning, occasional spotting.) Near contemporary cat's paw calf, red and green morocco lettering pieces to the spines, gilt borders and turn-ins (upper cover of volume 3 detached and upper cover of volume 12 loosening, rubbing to extremities, minor loss to spine ends). Note: the first twelve volumes of this publication that continued until 1991. Aside from the material on Stonehenge and Avebury it also contains material from the Middle East, including articles and plates in volume 2 relating to Tartarian antiquities (12).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
COOKERY. - Charles Elmé FRANCATELLI. The Modern Cook, a Practical Guide to the Culinary Art in all Its Branches. London: Richard Bentley, 1846. First edition, 8vo (222 x 138mm.) Portrait frontispiece, a variant p.1 also bound-in, 'Bills of Fare' and 14pp. index to rear. (Toning, occasional spotting.) Original blind-stamped brown cloth (sunning to spine, wear to spine ends). Note: Francatelli's first book. - And a further two volumes by Francatelli ('The Royal Confectioner: English and Foreign', 1874, 8vo, and 'The Cook's Guide, and Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant', 1880, 8vo) (3).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
LEWIS, C.S. The Four Loves. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1960. First edition, 8vo (201 x 129mm.) (Mild toning.) Original grey boards, dust-jacket. Provenance: Simon Gordon Clark (bookplate to the front pastedown). - And nineteen further volumes, many by C.S. Lewis (including 'The Abolition of Man', 1956, 8vo) (20).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
PRIVATE PRESS. - Blair HUGHES-STANTON and Ida GRAVES. Epithalamion. Colchester, Higham: The Gemini Press, 1934. Limited edition, this being number 105 of 330 copies signed by the author and illustrator, 4to (339 x 204mm.) 23 wood-engraved illustrations by Hughes-Stanton, one for each stanza, a 4pp. advertisement loosely inserted, signed to the colophon at rear. (Some spotting.) Original green paper-covered boards, paper label mounted to spine (some loss to the label, mark to lower cover, faint marks to upper cover). Note: the first of two publications from the Gemini Press. The poem is a celebration of the relationship between Ida Graves and Blair Hughes-Stanton. The work was re-issued in 1980 by the Basilisk Press, using sheets from unsold copies of this earlier edition.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
CHEMISTRY. - Michael FARADAY. Chemical Manipulation; Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry. London: W. Phillips, 1827. First edition, 8vo (220 x 127mm.) Illustrations in the text, 16pp. index to rear. (Toning.) Near contemporary boards, mounted paper label to spine (rebacked with paper, some loss to spine ends, light rubbing, staining to upper cover).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
AFRICA. - David LIVINGSTONE. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857. First edition, with a cut out signature of Livingstone mounted verso the front-free endpaper, 8vo (214 x 130mm.) 3 tinted lithographed plates, including 1 folding, 1 engraved portrait plate, 20 wood-engraved plates, including 1 folding cross-section, 2 folding maps by J. Arrowsmith to rear. (Lacking publisher's advertisements, spotting to frontispiece and portrait and to margins of tinted plates, toning.) Contemporary brown half calf (detached from text-block, worn). Note: the tinted plates are the frontispiece and those opposite p.66 and p.225.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
BENCHLEY, Peter. Jaws. London: Andre Deutsch, 1974. First edition, 8vo (197 x 123mm.) (Mild toning, slight spotting to fore-edge.) Original cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further twenty-six volumes of 20th century fiction (including Giuseppe di Lampedusa's 'The Leopard', 1960, 8vo, and Laurie Lee's 'Cider With Rosie', 1959, 8vo) (27).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
MOUNTAINEERING. - James D. FORBES. Travels Through The Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1843. First edition, 8vo (247 x 159mm.) 12 lithographed plates, 5 tinted, 2 maps including 1 folding map on linen of the 'Mer de Glace of Chamouni'. (Several maps damp-stained and also to the linen of folding map, toning.) Near contemporary brown morocco with scrolling gilt borders, green morocco lettering piece to the spine (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
PHILLIPS, Richard (publisher). Modern London; being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis. London: Richard Phillips, 1804. 4to (266 x 198mm.) 54 plates, including 31 hand-coloured etched plates of London trades, and 23 black and white engraved plates with a folding panorama of London and a folding map, descriptive leaf to each hand-coloured plate, 7pp. index, 2pp. 'List of Copper Plates', 1p. publisher's advertisement verso. (Spotting to the folding plates and margins of the uncoloured plates, browning, sometimes heavy, offsetting to descriptive leaves, spotting to preliminaries.) Contemporary black half straight grain morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (rubbing to extremities). Note: first issue hand-coloured plates. [Tooley, 370.]Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
GEOLOGY. - James D. FORBES. Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1859. First edition, 8vo (224 x 138mm.) Half-title, 9 lithographed plates, including 1 folding and chromolithographed frontispiece. (Occasional spotting, toning.) Original black cloth (spine ends worn, fading). - And a further six volumes related to glaciers and the ice age. Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams (7).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
HEDIN, Sven. Trans-Himalaya, Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet. London: Macmillan and Co., 1910-1913. 3 vols., 8vo (223 x 139mm.) Numerous photographic plates, 4 folding maps. (Occasional spotting.) Original red cloth, gilt figure to upper covers (some sunning to spines). Note: volumes 1 and 2 are second printings, the first printing was in 1909. Volume 3 is the first edition of 1913 (3).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
WEGENER, Alfred. The Origin of Continents and Oceans... translated from the third German edition by J.G.A. Skerl. London: Methuen & Co., 1924. First translated edition, 8vo (218 x 135mm.) Illustrations in the text. (Toning.) Original red cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (tear to top of spine panel, browned to spine). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
CUNNINGHAM, Robert James Hay. Essay on the Geology of the Lothians. Edinburgh: Neil & Company, 1838. First edition, signed and inscribed by the author, 8vo (216 x 125mm.) Folding engraved hand-coloured map, 16 hand-coloured etched plates, an 'Explanation of the Colours' leaf. (Minor spotting to front and rear leaves and to pastedowns, toning.) Contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rubbing to spine panel and extremities). - And a further eight related volumes (including the third edition of Robert Bakewell's 'An Introduction to Geology', 1828, 8vo, and John Phillips' 'The Rivers, Mountains, and Sea-Coast of Yorkshire', 1853, 8vo, and John F.W. Herschel's 'Physical Geography of the Globe', 1867, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams (9).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
SYMON, Lord Bishop of Ely. A Commentary Upon the First Book of Moses, called Genesis. London: Richard Chiswell, 1698. Second edition, corrected, 4to (198 x 150mm.) Half-title. (Browning, occasional spotting, contemporary hand-written notes to rear blank.) 18th century panelled calf, red morocco lettering piece to spine (rebacked, light rubbing). Provenance: Charles Chambers (name inscribed to front pastedown). - And a further eight volumes (including John Walker's 'An Attempt Towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England', 1714, folio, and 'The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments', published by Mark Baskett, 1763, 4to) (9).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
DAUBENY, Charles. A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanos; with Remarks on their Origin, Their Chemical Phenomena, and the Character of their Products. London: W. Phillips, 1826. First edition, 8vo (124 x 133mm.) 1 engraved plate, 2 engraved maps, including 1 folding, 14pp. 'List of Works Relative to Volcanos', errata leaf to rear. (Intermittent spotting, heavy to rear, crease to title.) Contemporary half calf (spine panel lacking, worn). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
NELSON. - Nicholas Harris NICOLAS. The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson. London: Henry Colburn, 1845. 4 vols. (of 7), first editions, 8vo (218 x 134mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 engraved folding facsimiles, 1 engraved folding plan. (Spotting to frontispiece, toning throughout, some pencil underlining, manuscript notes in pencil and ink to rear leaves.) Original blind-stamped cloth (rebacked with original spine laid-down, rubbing to all extremities). Provenance: Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy [1900-1946], (library labels to the front pastedowns). - And a further fourteen volumes relating to Nelson and naval history (including A.T. Mahan's 'The Life of Nelson', 2 vols., 1897, 8vo, and the second edition of John Campbell's 'Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen', 8 vols., 1750, 8vo) (18).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
MILITARY. - Howard L. BLACKMORE. A Dictionary of London Gunmakers 1350-1850. Oxford: Phaidon Christie's Ltd., 1986. First edition, 4to (280 x 114mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (slight fading). - And a further eight volumes related to militaria (9).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
HIBBERT, Samuel. History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine. Edinburgh: W. and D. Laing, 1832. First edition, 8vo (214 x 127mm.) 2 hand-coloured geological maps, 1 engraved and folding, the other wood-engraved, 6 plates drawn by Mrs. Hibbert and etched by W. Penny, including 3 double-paged. (Toning to margins.) Near contemporary brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (wear to spine ends). Provenance: A.C. Ramsay, Scottish geologist (gilt name to upper cover); L.R. Wager, geologist (name inscribed to front-free endpaper); by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
MODERN INDIE/ ALT/ SINGER-SONGWRITER LPs. A fantastic pack of 24 modern LPs, all in exceptional Ex to Ex+/ Like New Condition. Artists/ titles include Agnetha Faltskog - A (602537367900), Natalie Merchant - Paradise Is There (549801-1), Gov'T Mule - By A Thread (651751-12051-8, orange vinyl), Blackfield - Open Mind: The Best Of (KSCOPE980, yellow vinyl), Wobbler - From Silence To Somewhere (KAR133LP), Jane Weaver - The Silver Globe (019EGGSLPD, silver vinyl), Blossoms - S/T, Syd Arthur inc Apricity (orange vinyl), On And On. Von Hertzen Brothers - Nine Lives, PJ Harvey - Let England Shake, Wolf People inc Steeple, Fain. No-Man, Bonnie Prince Billy, Dan Baird & Homemade Sin, Tim Bowness, Great Sale Day, Alison Krauss, Roger McGuinn, Neutral Milk Hotel, Shirley Inspired, First Aid Kit, Status Quo. Condition is generally superb Ex to Ex+/ Like New.
JIMI HENDRIX - LP COLLECTION. Ultimate collection of 16 x LPs from Buster including originals and limited edition modern pressings. Titles are Band Of Gypsys (UK Track 2406 002 original with puppet sleeve - top Ex+ condition record/VG+ minor creasing, also with barcode RE)), Electric Ladyland (UK ltd edition RE from circa 1984, SPDLP3 - Ex+ superb condition records/Ex a couple of minor scuffs), Are You Experienced/Axis (2683 031 double RE), BBC Sessions (ltd edition 1998 3 x LP set, MCA3-11742, complete, Ex+ condition), Electric Ladyland Part 1 (UK Track 613010 - A2/B2 - VG+/Ex) and Part 2 (UK Track 613017 A1/B3 og - Ex+/Ex lovely copy), Electric Ladyland (1997 ltd edition double LP), Radio One, First Rays Of The New Rising Sun (US 1997 ltd edition double), South Saturn Delta (US 1997 ltd edition double) and Valleys Of Neptune (2010 double). Condition is chiefly brill Ex to Ex+/as new.
THE BEATLES - 60s UK STUDIO LPs. Fab pack of 3 x well presented early/original 60s UK pressing LPs. All issued on black/yellow Parlophone labels. Titles are Please Please Me (PMC 1202, mono 5th with 'Recording First Published', no 'Sold In UK' - VG+ record a few light and minor surface marks/VG strict condition sleeve with the front lovely and sharp, small paper tear on the reverse right section of the flipback tab), Help! (PMC 1255 -2/-2 stock mono original - VG+ record nice and clean, previous owner's name stickered to the labels/Ex lovely sharp and clean sleeve) and With The Beatles (PMC 1206 7N/7N 'Dominion' - VG+ a few light surface marks/VG+ some minor foxing).
NIRVANA - NEVERMIND LP (ORIGINAL 1991 EU COPY - GEF 24425). Always tricky to find original 1991 EU copy of this genre-defining seminal album from Nirvana. The record (Geffen/DGC/Sub Pop GEF 24 425) is in superb Ex condition showing only a couple of very light and minor 'shadowing' marks (perhaps caused by storage in outer PVC plastic sleeve) on side 1, with very few discernible marks elsewhere. Matrix/runout: 108 DMF- 5752 A-1 II & 110 DMF - 5752 B-2C. With the embossed 'clef' logo on side 2 label. Complete with the first pressing top opening 'upside down monkey' printed inner in super Ex condition with some very faint foxing (no splits). The sleeve is in VG+ condition feeling very sharp, with the start of a seam split roughly 2/3 along the bottom edge. The sleeve is in sharp Ex condition with a few light and minor creases/scuffs (no rips/tears or seam splits)
NIRVANA - BLEACH/ NEVERMIND LP PACK. A stunning pack of the first 2 studio LPs by legendary grunge band Nirvana. Titles include Nevermind (GEF 24 425, 1991 European pressing on Geffen. Has original printed inner sleeve with upside-down monkey image. Record has some hairline paper marks, Ex/ sleeve is wonderful Ex) & Bleach (TUPLP6, original UK pressing with Kurdt misspelling on the rear. MPO A1/ B1 matrix. Record is Ex+/ sleeve Ex+).

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