Books - Fleming, Ian (1908 - 1964) - Three hardback first editions comprising; You Only Live Twice, 1964, The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962 & On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963, all with dust jacketsCondition report: OHMSS - Wear to dust jacket to the corners and edges & pencil price mark present.The Spy Who Loved me - Wear to dust jacket to the corners and edges, pencil name present to first inner page, with date stamp to the top right-hand corner.You Only Live Twice - Wear to dust jacket to the corners and edges & pencil marking present to first inner page.General condition consistent with age.Unless specifically stated, books have not been collated (ie checked for correct pagination and the presence of all stated prints. Due to the large nature of many books, reports are not prepared for every page and a general overview is given.
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First World War interest – ‘Take Up the Sword of Justice’ recruitment poster published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee London, poster no. III printed by David Allen & Sons Ltd. approx. 74 x 50 cm, published in the wake of the sinking of the Lusitania; together with another recruitment poster with the same slogan and ‘Join Now’, 15cm x 75cm, both framed and glazed (2)Condition report: We have not been able to remove these posters from their frames but both seem to have been laid on card. Large poster with vertical crease at centre running whole length, smaller poster also with central vertical crease and several rust-coloured splashed drip marks. Larger frame coming loose at joints and with losses.
India and the British Raj - Letters from William Ewing to His Dear Brother Malcolm Hart Orr-Ewing From India 1874-1878, a finely bound one-sided family correspondence, 94pp of ink manuscript letters, each linen-laid and collated in pencil by a later hand, all the letters are addressed from Calcutta, via Brindisi, where William seems to have been involved in trade & industry (iron?), and detail the life among the burgeoning British middle-class in India in the first-second decade of the Raj, including accounts of domestic native life (picked-out with vernacular nouns and their English equivalents), typical game and other shoots, anecdotes about fellow British people on the scene, as well as curiosity and concerns for the Ewings back home in Scotland, etc., collected then bound in the latter 19th/early 20th century by Ramage, London, stamped, in brown morocco gilt, slightly bevelled boards with a graduating double-fillet gilt enclosing a singular-fillet in blind, the upper cover lettered in gilt, six-compartment spine of raised bands, gilt-fillet and blind-rolled turn-in, marbled endpapers, the recto pastedown with a gilt tooled and lettered title label, 4to, [1]
Adventures, Mysteries, & the Unknown - Mitchell-Hedges (F.A.), Battling with Sea Monsters, first edition, London: Duckworth, [n.d., c. 1925], b/w plates, contemporary blue cloth, refreshed endpapers, lacking flyleaves, (1); Spence (Lewis), Atlantis in America, first edition, London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1925, b/w plates, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Travel, Sturt (Captain Charles), Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia [...], two-volume set, reprint, New York, 1969, 20th century cloth, 8vo, (2), [4]
Africa - Baker (Sir Samuel W., Pacha, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.G.S.), Ismailïa: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade/Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, With Maps, Portraits, and Upwards of Fifty Full-Page Illustrations [...], two-volume set, first edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1874, 1 fold-out and 1 full-page map, full-page wood-engraved plates, contemporary pictorial green cloth gilt, expertly rebacked, refreshed endpapers preserving original brown flyleaves, vol. I title-page with a slightly later ink MS ownership inscription: Thomas Barber/1877, 8vo, [2]
![Africa - Speke (John Hanning, Captain H.M. Indian Army), Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile [...], first edit](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/9476e09b-95c3-4419-a976-ad910141b0d5/468x382.jpg)
Africa - Speke (John Hanning, Captain H.M. Indian Army), Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile [...], first edition, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863, portrait frontispiece, plate 420 (another portrait) title, and dedication leaves supplied in facsimile, lacking the map of Eastern Equatorial Africa, illustrated with 73 illustrations and one full-page map, 20th century brown leather binding gilt, 8vo, (1); Stanley (Henry M.), Through the Dark Continent [...], Map and Illustrations, New and Cheaper Edition, eighth edition overall, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1890, illustrated with 1 fold-out map, 12 full-page wood engravings, and further in-text illustrations, contemporary pictorial cloth, expertly rebacked, refreshed endpapers, 8vo, (1); Burton (Richard Francis), The Source of the Nile: The Lake Regions of Central Africa, London: Folio Society, 1993, pictorial binding, slipcase en suite, 8vo, (1); etc., [6]
![An Early Influence of John Bunyan's - Calvinist Puritanism, [Bernard (Richard, Rector of Batcombe, Somerset)], The Isle of Ma](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/6be90bed-2880-4650-a517-ad910141b31b/468x382.jpg)
An Early Influence of John Bunyan's - Calvinist Puritanism, [Bernard (Richard, Rector of Batcombe, Somerset)], The Isle of Man: or, The Legall (sic) Proceeding in Man-shire against Sinne (sic)/ Wherein, by way of a continued Allegorie (sic), the chiefe (sic) Malefactors disturbing both Church and Common-Wealth, are detected and attached; with their Arraignment, and Iudiciall triall (sic), according to the Lawes (sic) of England/ The spirituall (sic) use thereof, with an Apologie (sic) for the manner of handling, most necessary to be first read, for direction in the right use of the Allegory thorow-out (sic), is added in the end/The fourth Edition much enlarged, London: Printed for Edw. Blackmore, at the great South doore (sic) of Pauls, 1627, printed in black-ruled borders throughout, pp: [xxvi], 303, [30] (contents), [1] (errata), contemporary limp vellum covers (disbound), later 19th century ink MS numbered label to spine, verso blank inscribed in a contemporary hand with a manuscript note viz. the profanity of swearing, 12mo, [1] Provenance: John Hayes/his book [...], contemporary 17th century ink MS ownership inscription to recto pastedown.
![Andersen (Hans) & Dulac (Edmund, illustrator), Stories [...], first edition, thus, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/210ca319-fe15-4416-8013-ad910141b3ec/468x382.jpg)
Antarctica and Polar Exploration - Shackleton (E.H., C.V.O.), The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, two-volume set, first edition, London: William Heinemann, 1909, illustrated, contemporary blue cloth (the sunned backstrips chipped and torn, the fragment is present and loosely-inserted, ad hoc taped repair), top-edge gilt, others untrimmed, 4to, [2]
Antarctica and the Arctic, Polar Exploration - Marr (Scout, of the Quest Expedition), Into the Frozen South, first edition, London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923, illustrated with 29 half-tones, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Parry's Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage [...], London: Blackie & Son, 1894, cloth, 8vo, (1); Mawson (Sir Douglas), The Home of the Blizzard, first edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938, d/j, h/b, 8vo, (1); Fuchs (Sir Vivian) & Hillary (Sir Edmund), The Crossing of Antarctica [...], first edition, London: Cassell, 1958, d/j, h/b, 8vo, (1); Scott's Last Expedition, Folio Society: 1964, cloth, slipcase en suite, 8vo, (1); further Captain Scott interest, mostly d/j, h/b; etc; Mountaineering, including Edmund Hillary, John Hunt, and further Everest interest, some first editions, most with d/j, all h/b, (9), [31]
Architecture - Author's Presentation Copy to Howard Colvin, Whistler (Laurence), The Imagination of Vanbrugh and His Fellow Artists, first edition, London: B.T. Batsford Limited, 1954, the title-page and verso of [A8] with wood engravings by Whistler, each printed in black on a green ground, pp: xv, 269, 140 b/w illustrations, contemporary black cloth, gilt to a Baroque design, 8vo (32cm x 22cm), [1]Provenance: Sir Howard Colvin, CVO, CBE FBA, FRHistS, FSA (1919-2007), British architectural historian; presented to him by the author, flyleaf with author's autographed ink MS inscription: "For Howard Colvin ~ with evert good wish, & lasting gratitude, from Laurence Whistler/May 1954".
Arctic and Polar Exploration - MacGahan (Januarius Aloysius) & De Wilde (G.R., illustrator), Under the Northern Lights, first edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876, full-page and in-text illustrations, relayed contemporary pictorial cloth, some internal gutter repairs, refreshed endpapers, 8vo, (1); Lamont (James, F.G.S., F.R.G.S.) & Livesay (William, editor & illustrator), Yachting in the Arctic Seas, or Notes of Five Voyages of Sport and Discovery in the Neighbourhood of Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya, first edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1876, 2 fold-out maps (one of which is repaired), full-page wood-engraved plates, contemporary blue cloth, spine pictorial gilt, refreshed endpaper, verso of frontispiece with a contemporary ink MS ownership inscription: James Bingham, 8vo, (1); Amundsen (Roald) & Ellsworth (Lincoln), First Crossing of the Polar Sea [...], first edition, New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927, b/w plates, contemporary blue cloth, 8vo, (1); Franklin, (3); Jeanette Expedition's for the North Pole, (1), [7]
![Arctic and Polar Exploration - Nansen (Fridtjof), "Farthest North" [...], two-volume set, first edition, London: George Newne](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/71816edf-dc4a-4f09-a73b-ad910141be89/468x382.jpg)
Arctic and Polar Exploration - Nansen (Fridtjof), "Farthest North" [...], two-volume set, first edition, London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1898, illustrated with 1 chromolithograph after Dr Nansen, b/w full-page and in-text illustrations, and maps, contemporary pictorial cloth (trifle rubbed), all-edges gilt, 8vo, [2]
Art History, Exhibitions - Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, Collected at Manchester in 1857, first edition, Manchester: Bradbury and Evans, [n.d.], contemporary wrappers, 8vo, (1); Society of Women Artists Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, Crafts &c, Royal Institute Galleries, 195 Piccadilly, W., Seventy-Second Exhibition [...] 1927, contemporary card wrappers, 8vo, (1); Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection, contemporary wrappers, 8vo, (1); etc
Austen (Jane) & Thomson (Hugh, illustrator), Pride and Prejudice, first Thomson illustrated edition, London: George Allen, 1894, pp: xxvii, [1] (blank), 476, frontispiece and in-text illustrations, contemporary pictorial cloth gilt with a peacock and its feathers, as issued, (rubbed, upper-cover loose with movement, torn spine splits, upper-gutter split with the first quire loose, the contents loosening but present), all-edges gilt, Sheffield School Board award bookplate to recto pastedown, 8vo, [1]
![Belles-Lettres - [Smollett (Tobias)]: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle/In which are included, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/01b66d84-da91-4626-a3bc-ad910141c5ef/468x382.jpg)
Belles-Lettres - [Smollett (Tobias)]: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle/In which are included, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality, three-volume set, [&] The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, two-volume set, London: J. Wenman, 1784 & 1785, uniformly bound in contemporary green-stained calf (covers detached, one lacking), trimmed for the pocket, 12mo, (5); Belgian Symbolism, Maeterlinck (Maurice), Essays, six volumes, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1908, title-pages printed in red and black, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco gilt over marbled boards by Macdonald of New York, stamped, top-edge gilt, other untrimmed, 8vo, (6); Helen Keller & Disability, Maeterlinck (Madame Maurice) & De Mattos (Alexander Teixeira, translator), The Girl Who Found the Blue Bird, first edition thus, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914, contemporary pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Swift (Jonathan), The Works [...], sixth edition, seven volumes only (of eight, lacking III), Dublin: George Faulkner, 1747-1751, contemporary calf (tired, some losses, splits, etc), 12mo, (7); Bell's Poets of Great Britain, seven harlequin volumes, comprising Young (3), Cowley, & Prior (1), Edinburgh: The Apollo Press, 1777, uniformly bound in contemporary calf, marbled endpapers, title-pages with contemporary ownership stamp: W.I. Crowfoot, later Victorian book label to pastedowns: T.E. Raben, 12mo, (7); Hardcastle (Ephraim), Wine and Walnuts; or, After Dinner Chit-Chat, two-volume set, second edition, London: 1824, contemporary quarter-calf, 12mo, (2); [Clarke (William)] & Cruikshank (George, illustrator), Three Courses and a Dessert, second edition, London: 1830, contemporary roan over marbled boards, 8vo, (1); Hervey (James), Meditations and Contemplations [...], London: 1808, contemporary calf, 16mo, (1); Goldsmith; etc., [39]
Bindings - Gwynn (Stephen) & Beddington (Roy, illustrator), Two in a Valley, first edition, London: Richard & Cowan, [n.d., 1938], printed by The Camelot Press Limited, sepia frontispiece and plates, monochrome in-text illustrations, contemporaneous brown Levant morocco, the covers gilt-blocked and tooled with a Celtic style roundels, six-compartment spine of raised bands, vertically lettered in gilt in the second, third, and fourth compartments direct, top-edge gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers, 4to, (1); Day (E. Hermitage, D.D., F.S.A.) & Ellwood (G.M., illustrator), Some London Churches, first edition, London: A.R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., 1911, title printed in red and black, monochrome plates and in-text illustrations, slightly later half-vellum over marbled boards, the spine vertically lettered in gilt direct, top-edge gilt, others untrimmed, Japanese vellum flyleaves, 4to, (1), [2]
![Botany - Pratt (Anne), Wild Flowers, first edition, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [n.d., 1853], printed](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/b9764d4d-4944-4086-9c29-ad910141cb3e/468x382.jpg)
Botany - Pratt (Anne), Wild Flowers, first edition, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [n.d., 1853], printed in parallel columns with 60 accounts, each specimen illustrated with a botanical chromolithograph, contemporary cloth, upper-cover lettered in gilt, folio (33.5cm x 27cm), [1]
Burroughs (Edgar Rice): Burroughs (John Coleman, illustrator), Synthetic Men of Mars, first edition, Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1940, textually complete but collates as pp: 6, 9-315, b/w frontispiece, chipped, repaired, and conserved rare pictorial dustjacket, printed grey cloth boards, 8vo, (1); Hutton (Hugh, illustrator), A Fighting Man of Mars, first edition, Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1931, b/w frontispiece (loose), chipped, repaired, and conserved pictorial dustjacket, printed grey cloth boards, 8vo, (1); St. John (J. Allen, illustrator), The Chessmen of Mars, first edition printed in England, London: Methuen & Co Ltd., 1923, b/w frontispiece, rebacked buff cloth only, front of dustjacket pasted to pastedown, 8vo, (1), [3]
![Burroughs (Edgar Rice): Jungle Girl, first edition printed in England, London: Odhams Press Limited, [n.d., 1932], pictorial](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/5a6f45cf-71e7-4c8c-b963-ad910141cd1f/468x382.jpg)
Burroughs (Edgar Rice): Jungle Girl, first edition printed in England, London: Odhams Press Limited, [n.d., 1932], pictorial dustjacket designed by Studley Burroughs, green cloth boards, 8vo, (1); Tanar of Pellucidar, first edition, London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1939, red cloth boards only, 8vo, (1); Tarzan and 'The Foreign Legion', first edition, third impression, London: W.H. Allen, June 1950, pictorial dustjacket, orange cloth boards, 8vo, (1); Tarzan the Invincible, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1942, pictorial dustjacket, red cloth boards, 8vo, (1); other titles, mostly from the never-ending Tarzan series, mostly reprints and red cloth boards only, a few dustjackets, all 8vo, (19), [23]
Channel Islands, American Revolutionary Wars - Ouless (Philip John, editor & illustrator), The Death of Major FRS. Peirson/6th January, 1781/Being an Account of the Battle of Jersey, with an Appendix of Historical Documents, first and only edition, Jersey: Le Lievre, Bros., 1881, text in English and French, pp: [xviii], 30, XXII, [2], [2] (errata), 8 (List of Subscribers), [1] (blank), illustrated with 7 tipped-in monochrome plates mounted within lithograph scrolling borders, contemporary fine binding of dark green morocco gilt, the upper-cover centred by the Royal Arms and directly lettered in gilt above and below, within a rounded double-fillet in blind and a larger double-fillet conforming in gilt, the lower-cover with the arms of Jersey in gilt, in conforming blind fillet borders, five-compartment spine enclosing foliate motifs between banded friezes, all-edges gilt, brown paper endpapers, 4to, [1]
Children's Books - Carroll (Lewis) & Hudson (Gwynedd M., illustrator), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Centenary Edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, for Boots of Nottingham, [n.d, 1932], tipped-in colour plates, pictorial red cloth gilt, dustjacket (split & chipped), 4to, (1); Robinson (W. Heath), Bill the Minder, first edition, London: Constable & Co Ltd., 1912, colour plates and b/w in-text illustrations, pictorial cloth, green-stained top-edge, 4to, (1), [2]
Children's Books - Strang (Mrs Herbert) & Govey (Lilian A., illustrator), The Rose Book of the Fairies, Humphrey Milford at the Oxford University Press, 1922, colour plates, pictorial boards, 4to, (1); Hendry (Hamish) & Woodward (Alice B.), Red Apple and Silver Bells, ?first edition, London: Blackie and Son Limited, [n.d., c. 1900], title-page and frontispiece printed in red and black, b/w plates and in-text illustrations, contemporary cloth, all-edges gilt, 8vo, (1); Brown (Alice), The One-Footed Fairy, and other Stories, with Illustrations, London: 1912, contemporary pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1), [3]
![Children's Books -Anderson (Florence Mary), Thee Rainbow Twins, London: Joseph Johnson, [n.d., 1919/20], colour plates and in](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/95be7e27-5da9-4d0f-8a29-ad910141d495/468x382.jpg)
Children's Books -Anderson (Florence Mary), Thee Rainbow Twins, London: Joseph Johnson, [n.d., 1919/20], colour plates and in-text illustrations, contemporary pictorial boards, 4to, (1); Lancaster (Flo) & Maybank (Thomas, illustrator), Oojah House: The Story of Flip Flap's Little Mansion, London: E. Hulton & Co. Ltd., [n.d., c. 1923], original wrappers, 4to, (1); Adams (Frank, illustrator), The Old Nursery Rhyme Book, London: Blackie and Son, [n.d., c. 1910], pictorial boards, 8vo, (1); Browne (E. Gordon) & Anderson (Florence, illustrator), Nutcracker & Mouse-King, London: George Harrap & Company, 1916, contemporary boards, 4to, (1); Elliott (J.W.) & Dalziel (Brothers, illustrators), National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs, with Illustrations, first edition, London: Novello and Company, Limited, [n.d., 1875], contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Sunshine for 1902, pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1), [6]
China - Wright (The Rev. George Newenham) & Allom (Thomas, illustrator), China, In a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits, of that Ancient Empire, four-volume set, first edition, [London]: Fisher, Son, & Co., [1843], each volume with additional steel-engraved title-pages, illustrated topographical named-view steel engravings, contemporary pictorial red cloth gilt, all-edges gilt, cream yellow endpapers, 4to, [Cordier Sinica 80-81; Lust 363], [4]
![Classics - Livy & Ruperti (Georg Alexander, editor), T. Livii Patavini Historiarvm [...], six-volume set, first edition t](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/e2e119a6-d78c-4640-9e3e-ad910141d8d0/468x382.jpg)
Classics - Livy & Ruperti (Georg Alexander, editor), T. Livii Patavini Historiarvm [...], six-volume set, first edition thus, Göttingen: Carl Friedrich Günther Ruprecht, 1807-1808, contemporary English Regency diced calf gilt, marbled edges, drab endpapers, 8vo, (6); Horace, The Odes and Satyrs [...], London: Jacob Tonson, 1715, contemporary calf (covers present but detached), armorial spine crested in gilt, flyleaf with ink MS ownership inscription: C Hart/August 1/1802, 12mo, (1); Virgil & Dryden (John), The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis, three-volume set, sixth edition, London: Jacob Tonson, 1730, contemporary calf (tired), volume I title with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription: S: Phellps/1735, 12mo, (3); miscellaneous volumes of Homer, including Pope's translation, (4); etc., [15]
![Cooke (John Henry), Ida, or The Mystery of the Nun's Grave at Vale Royal Abbey, Chester: An Historical Novel [...], signed by](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/b150b797-3854-4b19-a209-ad910141d9b8/468x382.jpg)
Cooke (John Henry), Ida, or The Mystery of the Nun's Grave at Vale Royal Abbey, Chester: An Historical Novel [...], signed by the author, 152 of the 300 limited quarto editions, first and only edition, Chester: Phillipson & Golder, 1912, title-page printed in red and black, colour frontispiece, b/w plates, contemporary quarter-vellum over lettered yellow cloth, top-edge cut, the others untrimmed, marbled endpapers, 4to, [1]
Cookery - Cust (The Honourable Lady), The Invalid's Own Book: A Collection of Recipes from Various Books and Various Countries, first edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853, contemporary pink cloth, 12mo, (1); Dods (Mistress Margaret), [pseud. Johnstone (Mrs Christian Isobel], The Cook and Housewife's Manual [...], seventh edition, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1842, defective title-page, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Cre-Fydd, Meals for the Million [...], second edition, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1869, contemporary cloth, 12mo, (1); Holland (Mrs Mary), The Complete Economical Cook [...], fourteenth edition, London: Thomas Tegg, 1839, rebacked contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Bishop (Frederick), The Wife's Own Book of Cookery [...], Illustrated with 250 Descriptive Engravings, ?first edition, London: Ward and Lock, [n.d., ?1856], contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Beaty-Pownall (S), A Book of Sauces, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd, 1896, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Francatelli (Charles Elmé), The Modern Cook [...], twenty-sixth edition, London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1880, contemporary blue cloth, 8vo, (1); [Rundell (Maria)], The New System of Domestic Cookery [...], London: William Tegg and Co., 1876, rebacked contemporary cloth, 12mo, (1), [8]
![Cookery - De Mauduit (Vicomte) & Shepard (Mary, illustrator), The Vicomte in the Kithcenette [...], first edition, London](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/3838293e-f33c-4cc4-a845-ad910141dc93/468x382.jpg)
Cookery - De Mauduit (Vicomte) & Shepard (Mary, illustrator), The Vicomte in the Kithcenette [...], first edition, London: Stanley Nott, 1934, pictorial dustjacket, cloth boards, 8vo, (1); Madge's Book of Cookery [...], London: Horace Marshall & Son, 1901, pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Landon (Major James Henry), The Pytchley Book of Refined Cookery, fifth edition, London: [n.d.], red cloth, 8vo, (1); Bradshaw (Grace), The High School Cookery Book, with Diagrams, London: 1916, cloth over wrappers, 8vo, (1); Provincial Kent Imprint, Brownscombe (Mrs W.), 228 Common Sense Recipes [...], Maidstone: 1906, cloth over advert-printed boards, 8vo, (1); Henry (May), Halford (Kate), & Bright (G. Lilian, illustrator), Dainty Dinners and Dishes for Jewish Families, third edition, London: 1916, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Macrae (Mrs Stuart), The Ingle-Nook Cookery Book, London: 1910, pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Anton (Mrs G.), The Modern Cookery Book, Containing 500 Practical and Favourite Recipes, Kidderminster: 1911, blue cloth, tall 8vo, (1); two copies, Craies (Euterpe), Recipes from East and West, London: [1912], blue cloth, 8vo, (2); Tested Recipes, London: 1907, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); Peel's Savouries Simplified, London: [n.d.], original wrappers, 8vo, (1); Charles Herman Senn, (3); Filippini's Desserts; etc., [31]
![Cookery - Jewish Cuisine, Hertz (Rebecca), Die Praktische Israelitische Ko?chin [...], ?first edition, Hamburg: B. G. Berends](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/6d9d6a5f-230d-4159-b8f7-ad910141ddd4/468x382.jpg)
Cookery - Jewish Cuisine, Hertz (Rebecca), Die Praktische Israelitische Ko?chin [...], ?first edition, Hamburg: B. G. Berendsohn, 1869, entirely printed in Fraktur, contemporary cloth over boards, 8vo, (1); Landemare (Georgina) & Nankivell (Selma, illustrator), Recipes from No. 10, Some Practical Recipes for Discerning Cooks, first edition, London: Collins, 1958, cloth boards only, 8vo, (1); Miss Smallwood's Goodies: East Sweetmeat Making at Home, second edition, [n.d.], original wrappers, square 12mo, (1); three copies, Mrs Beeton's Household Management, mixed 20th century editions, (3); The Hay System, first edition, London: 1938, d/j, h/b, 8vo, (1); Saxon (Edgar), Simple and Attractive Food Reform, Rochford: 1948, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); two copies, Good Things, Made, Said & Done, for Every Home & Household, twenty-sixth & thirty-fourth editions, Leeds: 1890 & 1896, contemporary cloth, 24mo, (2); Morphy (Countess), The Polyglot Cookery Books: English-German, two-volume set, London: 1954, 8vo, (2); Folio Society, (1); Larousse Gastronomique; etc., [20]
![Cookery - two copies, Mrs. Beeton's Household Management: A Complete Cookery Book [...], London: 1906 & 1923, b/w and col](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/5d29561e-198f-4906-84be-ad910141df18/468x382.jpg)
Cookery - two copies, Mrs. Beeton's Household Management: A Complete Cookery Book [...], London: 1906 & 1923, b/w and colour plates, contemporary bindings, large 8vo, (2); Dowie (Minnie), Mrs Minnie Dowie's Cookery Book and Household Management, Comprising 900 Cookery Recipes [...], first and ?only edition, London: Maclaren & Company, [n.d., c. 1900], b/w portrait frontispiece, cloth, 8vo, (1); Richards (A.A.), Tomato and Cucumber Culture, second edition, London: 1946, pictorial dustjacket, cloth, 8vo, (1); Lister (Stephen), [psued. Gerahty (Digby George), & BIRO (illustrator), Fit for a Bishop, or How to keep a Fat Priest in Prime Condition, first edition, third printing, London: Peter Davies, 1959, pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, (1); etc., [12]
![Dart (John), Westmonasterium, or The History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peters Westminster [...], To which is](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/4838c3f5-7245-453d-9810-ad91013dcedc/468x382.jpg)
Dart (John), Westmonasterium, or The History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peters Westminster [...], To which is added Westminster Abbey, A Poem [...], two volumes bound as one, of which volume I is the thick paper issue, first edition, London: Printed & Sold by James Cole [...], [1723-24], copperplate-printed, illustrated with a portrait mezzotint of the author by John Faber Junior (1684- 1756), 136 engravings (of which 4 are two-page) and inclusive of the 7 plates of subscribers' coats of arms, engraved historiated initials and in-text vignettes, later 19th century calf gilt (disbound, chipped, rubbed, and with losses (including the spine)), folio (41.5cm x 26.5cm), [1]
Decorative Art - MacQuoid (Percy, R.I.), A History of English Furniture, four-volume set, London: Lawrence & Bullen, Limited, [n.d., ?1938], colour plates, contemporary cloth gilt, folios, (4); Jourdain (M.), English Decoration and Furniture of the Early Renaissance (1500-1650) [...], first edition, London: B.T. Batsford, 1924, colour frontispiece, b/w plates, contemporary cloth gilt, folio, (1); Lenygon (Francis), Decoration in England from 1640 to 1760, second edition, London: B.T. Batsford, 1927, b/w plates, contemporary cloth gilt, folio, (1), [6]
![Detmold (Edward J., illustrator), The Fables of Æsop, first trade edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d., 1909], tipped](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/27a5e018-6a82-4274-b920-ad910141e394/468x382.jpg)
Dickens (Charles) & Browne (Hablot K., illustrator), Little Dorrit, first edition thus, first issue, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857, quires CC and DD transposed, lacking etched frontispiece and additional title-page, a few neat marginal repairs, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, the back sympathetically refurbished, the interior pastedowns reinforced at the gutter, 8vo, [1]First issue with signature BB2 misprinted as "B2" at page 371; "William" instead of "Frederick" on page 317, line 27; and the name "Rigaud" appears instead of "Blandois" on pages 469, 470, 472, and 473.
![Domesticity - Local Provincial Imprint, Anon, [Selwyn (John Murray)], The Servant's Companion, and Useful Guide [...], Contai](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/1f0e2ab6-a26d-4ec9-82a1-ad910141e503/468x382.jpg)
Domesticity - Local Provincial Imprint, Anon, [Selwyn (John Murray)], The Servant's Companion, and Useful Guide [...], Containing Numerous useful Receipts and Tales, By An Experienced Housekeeper, first edition, Derby: Printed by G. Wilkins and Son, [n.d., c. 1820], pp: iv, 5, 60, contemporary limp calf enclosing original pink paper wrappers, contemporary ink MS ownership inscription: W.A. Nicholson, Mar: 2/1821, 8vo, (1); Periodical, The Family Economist; A Penny Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Moral, Physical, and Domestic Improvement of the Industrious Classes, 1848-1853, bound as two volumes, contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, (2), [3]
Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) & Paget (Sidney, illustrator), The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, first appearance in print, The Strand Magazine, 1891-1893, bound as five volumes, contemporary black quarter-roan gilt over cloth, red-speckled edges, 8vo, (5); The Boudoir, II, 1904, contemporary cloth, 4to, (1), [6]
![Edwardian and Later Politics - Autographed by Stanley Baldwin, Grondona (L. St. Clare), The Kangaroo Keeps on Talking [...],](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/75f73b4f-7912-4343-99d6-ad910141e7df/468x382.jpg)
Edwardian and Later Politics - Autographed by Stanley Baldwin, Grondona (L. St. Clare), The Kangaroo Keeps on Talking [...], With an Introduction by [...] Stanley Baldwin (which here is signed by him in ink MS), second impression, London: The Victoria Publishing House, 1924, cloth, 8vo, (1); Raymond (E.T.), Mr. Lloyd George: A Biography, first edition, London: Collins, 1922, rare with dustjacket, cloth, 8vo, (1); Du Parcq (Herbert), Life of David Lloyd George, four-volume set, London: Caxton Publishing Company, 1912, contemporary red cloth, 4to, (1); Balfour (Arthur, M.P.), Decadence: Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, first and only edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1908, blue cloth, Ex Libris Fergus Wood M.A., Oxon. Clerk, 8vo, (1); Asquith (The Earl of Oxford &), Speeches, first edition, London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1927, d/j, black cloth, 8vo, (1); Asquith's memoirs, two-volume set, (2); etc., [15]
Flint (William Russell, illustrator), The Song of Songs Which is Solomon's, number 34 from a limited edition of 500, Now Printed in the Authorised Version [...], London: Philip Lee Warner/Publisher to the Medici Society, 1909, printed on Riccardi paper, tipped-in colour frontispiece and plates, top-edge gilt, others untrimmed, loosely inserted invitation to Flint's eponymous exhibition at The Medici Society's Galleries, Piccadilly, London, W., hessian cloth over grey papered boards, upper-cover with printed title-label, 4to, (1); Models of Propriety, first edition, second impression, London: 1951, in-text sepia illustrations, pictorial dustjacket over red cloth, 4to, (1); Works by Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., Royal Academy of Arts, 1962, colour plates, original wrappers, 8vo, (1), [3]
Gardening - Dami (Luigi), Il Giardino Italiano, first edition, Milano: Casa Editrice D'Arte Bestetti & Tumminelli, 1924, pp: 61, [iv], 351 b/w full-page illustrations of Renaissance and later prints and photographs of Italian formal gardens, contemporary green cloth, gilt-lettered black roan labels to upper-cover and spine, folio (34.5cm x 25.5cm), [1]
Gardening - Green (David), Gardener to Queen Anne: Henry Wise (1653-1738) and the Formal Garden, first edition, Oxford University Press: 1956, pp: xx, 232, frontispiece and a further 53 b/w plates, 1 in-text illustration after Sir James Thornhill, pictorial dustjacket designed by Felix Kelly, green cloth boards, 4to, [1]
Gay (The late Mr John), Fables, two-volume set, mixed editions: volume I, fifth edition, volume II, first edition, London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and J. Watts, [&], J. and P. Knapton, 1737-1738, volume I with title-page vignette and in-text copperplate engravings by Paul Fourdrinier (1698-1758) after various hands, volume II with a frontispiece, title-page vignette, and full-page engravings by Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin (1698-1755), after Hubert-François Gravelot (1699-1773), contemporary calf (rubbed and worn, with a few losses), 8vo, [2] Provenance: Sir George Beaumont, 6th Baronet Stoughton Grange, Leicestershire (1726?1762), volume II with his contemporary ink MS ownership inscription dated April the 18th/1739, his later Chippendale Armorial bookplate to the pastedown of volume I only. The pastedowns are illustrated, presumably by the baronet with pen and ink drawings of horsemen, horses, and facial studies.
Geology - Goldschmidt (The Late V.M.) & Muir (Alex, editor), Geochemistry, first edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954, dustjacket over blue buckram, 8vo, (1); Dines (H.G.), The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England, two-volume set, first and only edition, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1956, folding loose maps, b/w plates, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (2); Africa, Colonial geology surveys and reports, primarily Tanganyika, including The Mineral Resources of Tanganyika Territory, third edition, 1946, green cloth, 8vo, others, original wrappers, (20); Tanzania and Kilimanjaro, (4); UK regional geological surveys, all with original wrappers; some geological society journals and offprints; hardback reference, some academic imprints; etc., [approx. 50]
Golden Cockerel Press - Chamfort (Nicolas) & Mathers (E. Powys, translator), Maxims and Considerations, two-volume set, number 251 from a limited edition of 550, 1926, titles printed in red, blue, and black, contemporary vellum over blue papered boards, fragmentary pictorial dustjackets, untrimmed edges, a couple of sporadic blind stamps, 8vo, (2); Scott (Walter Sidney, editor), two titles: Shelley at Oxford [...], [&] Harriet & Mary [...], numbers 315 & 353 from a limited edition of 500, printed in Perpetua type on Arnold's mould-made paper, gilt-lettered morocco over blue buckram, top-edge gilt, others untrimmed, 4to, (2); Coppard (Alfred Edgar) & Gibbings (Robert, illustrator), The Hundredth Story, first book printed in 'Golden Cockerel' type, number 433 from a limited edition of 1,000, 1931, contemporary green morocco over patterned boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, London, stamped, top-edge gilt, other untrimmed, pictorial bookplate: Séan Ó Corcora, 8vo, (1); Whitfield (Christopher) & Sandford (Lettice, illustrator), Lady from Yesterday, 1939, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); Miller (Patrick) & Webb (Clifford, illustrator), Ana the Runner: A Treatise for Princes & Generals Attributed to Prince Mahmoud Abdul, 1937, original wrappers (chipped spine), 8vo, (1); Calderon (V.G.), Phibbs (Richard, translator), & Webb (Clifford, illustrator), The White Llama, being La Venganza del Condor, 1938, original wrappers, 8vo, (1), [8]
Golden Cockerel Press - Lucas (Frank Laurence, translator) & Severin (Mark, illustrator), The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, A New Translation [...], with Ten Engravings, first edition, number 264 from a limited edition of 750, The Golden Cockerel Press: 1948, printed in Poliphilus Roman and New Hellenic Greek types on Arnold's mould-made paper, parallel verse in English and Ancient Greek, pp: 35, [1] (colophon), black quarter-morocco over terracotta cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, stamped, vertically gilt-lettered back flanked by fleurons, the pictorial upper-cover gilt with the Birth of Aphrodite, untrimmed edges, tall 8vo, [1]
Golden Cockerel Press - Travel, Swire (Navigating Sub-Lieutenant Herbert, R.N.), The Voyage of the Challenger: A Personal Narrative of the Historic Circumnavigation of the Globe in the Years 1872-1876, two-volume set, first edition, copy number 167 from a limited edition of 300, The Golden Cockerel Press: 1938, printed in Eric Gill's Perpetua type on Van Gelder paper, hand-coloured frontispieces, monochrome in-text illustrations, volume I with map endpapers (recto only), gilt pictorial vellum-coloured buckram over teal cloth, slipcase en suite, folios (32cm x 20cm), [2]
Hitler (Adolf), Mein Hitler, Unexpurgated Edition, Two Volumes In One, London: Hurst and Blackett Ltd., October 1939, portrait frontispiece, contemporary cloth (splits, worn), 8vo, (1); Left Book Club Editions, Heiden (Konrad) & Manheim (Ralph), Der Fuehrer: Hitler's Rise to Powers, Books I & II (complete, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1944, papered boards, 8vo, (2), &, Citizen Toussaint, 1945, conforming binding, 8vo, (1); Vansittart (Sir Robert), Black Record: Germans Past and Present, first edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1941, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); etc., [6]
Housman (Clemence) & (Laurence, illustrator), The Were-Wolf, first edition, London: John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1896, title-page printed in orange, pp: [iv], 123, [1] (colophon leaf); 16 (publisher's catalogue), illustrated with 6 wood engravings, each of which are monogrammed within the platemark and prefixed with their own captioned paper guard, contemporary cloth gilt (faded, bleached), edges untrimmed, 8vo, [1] The Were-Wolf features Laurence Housman's last illustrations, by 1898 he had "stopped producing book illustration since the strain of his intricate drawings affected his poor eyesight" (Zipes).Provenance: Halsey Ricardo (1854-1928), Aesthetic Movement architect and designer, some time partner of William de Morgan (1839-1917); his ink MS ownership inscription to front flyleaf.
India - Railwayana, Indian Imprint, Brinkworth (R.E.), Locomotive Maintenance (Carriage and Wagon, Shop and Shed Practice) and Operation, ?first and only edition, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., Ltd., 1938, b/w fold-out plans and charts, in-text illustrations and diagrams, contemporary cloth over boards, 4to, [1]
![Ingoldsby (Thomas), [pseud. Barham (Richard Harris)], & Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth &a](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/0ec0de5e-0ff0-40b4-98f7-ad9101420351/468x382.jpg)
Ingoldsby (Thomas), [pseud. Barham (Richard Harris)], & Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth & Marvels, first edition thus, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907, title-page printed in olive and sepia, tipped-in colour plate, contemporary pictorial cloth gilt, pictorial endpapers, tipped-in MS label to endpaper, top-edge gilt, others untrimmed, 4to, [1]
Latchford (Benjamin), The Loriner, Opinions and Observations on Biddle-Bits and the Suitable Bitting of Horse, with Illustrations [...], first and only edition, London: Printed by Nichols, Son, & Co., 1871, illustrated with full-page lithographs, rebacked contemporary green cloth board, upper-cover gilt-lettered, 4to, [1]
Lawrence of Arabia - Lawrence (T.E.), The Mint: A day-book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes by 352087 A/c Ross, first edition, No. 1089 of a limited edition of 2000, London: Jonathan Cape, 1955, printed at the Alden Press, Oxford, on Spalding & Hodge paper, contemporary blue morocco gilt over blue cloth by A.W. Bain & Co. Ltd., London, marbled endpapers, as issued, with papered slip case en suite, 4to, (1); two copies, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: a triumph, third and fifth impressions, London: Jonathan Cape, 1935, the third impression complete with dustjacket, contemporary cloth gilt, 4to, (1); Garnett (David, editor), The Letters of T.E. Lawrence, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1938, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Graves (Robert), Lawrence and the Arabs, third impression, London: Jonathan Cape, 1937, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1), [5]
Legal History, the Commonwealth of England & the Cromwellian Protectorate - Sheppard (William), An Epitome of all the Common & Statute Laws of this Nation, Now in force. Wherein more than Fifteen hundred of the hardest Words or Terms of the Law are Explained; And all the most useful and profitable Heads or Titles of the Law by way of Common Place, Largely, Plainly, and Methodically handled. With an Alphabetical Tables, first edition, London: Printed for W. Lee [...], 1656, printed in Roman and Italic, black-ruled title-page, historiated and foliate initials, collates complete: [A1-A4], b-e2, B- [I4], K-[T4], V-[V4], X-Z4, Aa-[Ii4], Kk-[Tt4], Vv-[Vv4], Xx-[Zz4], Aaa-[Iii4], Kkk-[Uuu4], Xxx-[Zzz4], Aaaa-[Iiii4], Kkkk-[Uuuu4], Xxxx-[Zzzz4], Aaaaa-[Iiiii4], Kkkkk-[Uuuuu4], Xxxxx-[Zzzzz4], Aaaaaa-[Iiiiii4], Kkkkkk-[Uuuuuu4], Xxxxxx-[Zzzzzz4], Aaaaaaa-[Eeeeeee2], contemporary legal calf, blind-ruled, lower-cover exposed board only, spine perished in places but holding, the top fore-edge horizontally inscribed with the author's surname, 4to, [1]
L'Estrange (Sir Roger, Kt), Fables, of Aesop/And other Eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflexions, first edition, London: Printed for R. Sare, T. Sawbridge, B. Took, M. Gillyflower, A. & J. Churchil, and J. Hindmarsh, 1692, some Gothic Black Letter printing, lacking portrait frontispiece, 1 etched and engraved plate, repaired title-page with chipped loss to lower-right margin, rebacked and relayed contemporary two-tone panelled calf, refreshed endpapers, 4to, [Wing A706], [1]
![Lindsay (David), A Voyage to Arcturus, first edition, first issue, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920, pp: [viii], 303, [1] (co](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d8ce81ee-3057-4298-ac18-ad6b00a5b300/fb59ce4a-46c6-4c11-848b-ad9101420e25/468x382.jpg)
Lindsay (David), A Voyage to Arcturus, first edition, first issue, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920, pp: [viii], 303, [1] (colophon), 8 (publisher's adverts), well-rebacked contemporary red cloth only, refreshed endpapers somewhat tightening the prelims, 8vo, [1] This title by David Lindsay is considered a seminal work of science fiction. The author's first book printed in an issue of 1500 copies, was not originally a great success, with only 596 of the issue being sold on publication.
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