Petrarchan love poems.- Contile (Luca) Le rime di messer Luca Contile divise in tre parti, con discorsi, et argomenti di m. Francesco Patritio et m. Antonio Borghes, first edition, woodcut printer's device to title, head-pieces and historiated initials, some worming in text, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, 17th century sheep, gilt spine in compartments and with red morcoco label, joints starting, but holding firm, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and extensively scuffed, [Gamba 1333; Fontanini I, p. 498; EDIT 16 CNCE 13182], 8vo, Venice, Francesco Sansovino & Co., 1560. *** Handsomely printed first edition of these love poems in the style of Petrarch, written by this Italian poet, playwright, historian and diplomat.
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Wild (John James) Bookbinding in the Library of All Souls College, 6 facsimile titles and 12 plates including 6 fine chromolithographs heightened with gold, loose as issued in original wrappers (browned & frayed at edges), preserved in cloth folder with ties, 1880 § Foucquet (Jean) Facsimiles of Two "Histoires" from vols. I and II of the Anciennetés des Juifs...in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson, 2 fascicules, [one of 20 copies], signed presentation copy from Thompson to Allan H.Bright inscribed at head of titles, 5 photogravue and 4 colour plates, small tear to lower edge of larger fascicule, original cloth-backed wrappers, uncut, lightly browned, together in original cloth-backed folder with ties, privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1903 § Dibdin (Rev. Thomas Frognall) A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland, 2 vol., first edition, engraved plates, illustrations, handsome contemporary tree calf, gilt, by Rivière & Son, spines gilt, g.e., joints split with one cover loose, 1838, a little rubbed; and c.25 others, bibliography, including some old book sale catalogues, v.s. (c.30)
Blake (William) The Book of Los, deluxe hos commerce copy i with a set of progressive plates & other additional material, from an edition limited to 538, with additional plates showing the progressive stages of the collotype and hand-stencil process and a guide-sheet & stencil bound at end and original copper plate mounted on inside rear cover, original tan morocco, t.e.g., 1976; Milton a Poem, number U of 26 copies for the William Blake Trust etc., from an edition limited to 426, 1967; The Book of Ahania, one of 808 copies, 1973; Visions of Albion, one of 446 copies, light spotting, 1959, all with collotype plates hand-coloured through stencil, the last three original morocco-backed marbled boards, the last slightly rubbed, the first three with marbled board slip-cases, Trianon Press; and 3 other earlier Blake facsimiles, 4to & folio (7)
![Uranians.- [Cory (William Johnson)] Ionica, Smith, Elder & Co., 1858; Ionica II, [Cambridge, at the University Press], 1877,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3e7721bc-9437-49c2-bd06-b2100119a9ed/93f6625e-8e88-4a9a-b867-b210011b8e04/468x382.jpg)
Uranians.- [Cory (William Johnson)] Ionica, Smith, Elder & Co., 1858; Ionica II, [Cambridge, at the University Press], 1877, together 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, a few pencil corrections, later blue morocco, rebacked, covers soiled, g.e., 8vo*** Regarded as the first published work by the Uranians, a group of homosexual poets. William Johnson (later Cory) was a master at Eton who was forced to resign in 1872 following the interception of an indiscreet letter to one of his pupils. This copy inscribed in Latin to W.R.I[nge] (the 'gloomy Dean' and Professor of Divinity at Cambridge) by Hugh MacNaghten. They were both schoolboy contemporaries and rivals in College at Eton.
Canada.- Hardy (Capt. Campbell) Sporting Adventures in the New World; or, Days and Nights of Moose Hunting in the Pine Forests of Acadia, 2 vol., first edition, chromolithograph frontispiece to both vol. (that in vol. 2 a little foxed, and loose), contemporary green half-morocco over marbled boards, gilt, spines a little toned, some small scuffs, t.e.g., 1855; Forest Life in Acadie. Sketches of Sport and Natural History in the Lower Provinces of the Canadian Dominion, chromolithograph frontispiece, numerous plates (one torn), original cloth, spine faded, 1869, 8vo (3)
Athenian Law.- Petit (Samuel) Leges Atticæ, first edition, Roman and some Greek type, title printed in red and black and with large engraved printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, é4 blank, some foxing, occasional staining, mostly lightly browned, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, short split to vellum at head of upper joint, very small tape repair to lower cover, little staining, folio, Paris, Charles Morel, 1635. *** First edition of Samuel Petit’s important and handsomely printed study of ancient Athenian law, dedicated to Francis Auguste de Thou, the son of Jacques. Petit was a distinguished classical scholar and orientalist, and professor of Greek and later principal of the Collège des Arts at Nîmes.
Fête Books.- Relazione de funerale celebrato in Parma...alla...Dorotea Sofia Palatino di Neoburgo..., engraved portrait, heraldic title-vignette, head-pieces & initials and 3 folding plates, modern marbled boards, [Not in Berlin Kat. or Cicognara], Venice, G.B.Recurti, 1750 § Festa des Senato Consulente per la Pace di Vienna..., Italian & French text, old ink stamp to foot of half-title, contemporary marbled boards, a little rubbed and stained, Milan, 1810, folio (2)*** The first is devoted to the splendid funeral ceremony held in February 1750 in the church of Sta.Maria della Steccata in Parma, the traditional burying place of the ruling Farnese dynasty, to mark the death of Dorothea Sophia, Dowager Duchess of Parma and Piacenza, paid for by her daughter Elisabetta Farnese, Queen of Spain. The second records the festivities held at the Palazzo del Senato in Milan to celebrate the Peace of Vienna and the triumphant return to Milan of Napoleon’s step-son, Eugène de Beauharnais (1781-1824), then ruling in Lombardy and Venice as Napoleon’s viceroy.
Salmon Clubs.- Moisie Salmon Club, Canada.- [A Group of 6 Unpublished Reports on the Water and Other Conditions in the Upper Reaches of the Moisie River 1914-53], one original typescript, four carbon copies and one photocopy facsimile, text verso only, all between 5-10ff, one with manuscript illustration (copy of original), one folded, housed loose within custom-made folding portfolio and morocco-backed slipcase, 1914-53 § Weeks (Edward) The Moisie Salmon Club. A Chronicle, from an edition limited to 1500 signed by the author, colour frontispiece, plain photographic illustrations, original cloth, silver gilt, original slipcase, Barre (MA), 1971, [together Wood BSS 153 & 145], 4to (2) *** First mentioned: four reports written by Club members, and 2 by the Club manager in 1952-53; they investigate not only conditions affecting the salmon, but also wildlife observations more broadly, naming of pools, regional transportation and other matters of pertinence to members of a club well-known for its monitoring of the river's water conditions. Second mentioned: described by Wood as 'the finest book ever written on a salmon club, and one of the best in the entire literature of salmon fishing'.
Economics.- Engels (Friedrich) Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844, translated by Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky, first authorised English edition, small pencil ownership name to pastedown, one or two short marginal tears, lacking front free endpapers, upper hinge broken, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine lightly sunned and with fraying to ends, lower cover bumped with and cloth puckered at lower corner, some light surface marking, lightly rubbed, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1892; and another by the same, the first English edition of Socialism Utopian and Scientific (1892), 8vo (2) *** The first mentioned in a variant cloth binding, blocked entirely in black and with the publisher's name and logo of George Allen & Unwin. Scarce, this translation was first published in American in 1887, an unauthorised edition on American sheets appeared in England in 1888. This edition includes a new preface by Engels.
![[Broughton (Hugh)] A treatise of Melchisedek, proving him to be Sem, first edition, title within woodcut border, a few tiny m](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3e7721bc-9437-49c2-bd06-b2100119a9ed/6c2d97d2-809a-46c4-8eed-b210011b639a/468x382.jpg)
[Broughton (Hugh)] A treatise of Melchisedek, proving him to be Sem, first edition, title within woodcut border, a few tiny marginal nicks or tears, occasional passage-marking in pencil, most leaves water-stained at head, lacking morocco spine label, upper joint split and cover loose, [STC 3890], [Richard Watkins] for Gabriel Simson and William White, 1591; Daniel His Chaldie Visions and his Ebrew: both translated after the originall, [second edition], woodcut printer's device to title, K3&4 with Hebrew characters printed in red and black, woodcut tailpiece to final f., lacking plates, B1 small loss to blank upper corner, a few neat and subtle marginal repairs (repair just obscuring a few letters of printed side-note to B3v), very small marginal worm trace to first and last few leaves, just within text to P1&2 but no loss of sense, most leaves with water-staining, mainly to margins, morocco spine label, [STC 2786], Gabriell Simson, 1597, partly in black letter, uniformly bound in modern half calf over marbled boards, chipping to spine ends, corners rubbed, small 4to (2) *** Both rare; we cannot trace a copy of the first mentioned at auction since 1973. The second mentioned was first published the year before in 1596.
Sweden.- Panoramas.- Karta öfver Segelleden från Stockholm Kanalvägen till Götheborg, 4 engraved views and hand-coloured map of the canal within border of smaller views, all laid down and folding concertina-style, c.245 x 2140mm, first view with rust-spot and wear to edges with slight loss to upper edge, one or two stains and creases, loose in modern roan-backed folder with ribbon ties, original glazed printed blue wrappers mounted on boards (rubbed and marked), [Abbey, Life 617], Stockholm, Ls. Gust. Rylander, [c.1851] § Panorama öfver Krönings Processionen den 28 September 1844, folding lithographed panorama on conjoined sheets, c.165 x 1800mm., folding into original cloth-backed printed yellow boards, L.G.Rylander, 1844 § Från Dödsbädden till Grafchoret. Panorama öfver Processionen vid Högstsalig H.M.Konug Carl XIV Johns Likbegängelse...den 26th April 1844, additional lithographed title with tinted vignette and tinted lithographed panorama of scenes and procession, c.150 x 1345mm., letterpress text, original cloth-backed glazed blue boards printed in gold, Albert Bonniers, 1844, all rubbed, oblong 8vo & small folio, Stockholm (3)
Bunyan (John) The Pilgrim's Progress, seventeenth edition, woodcut illustrations, ink notes in early hand to final blank, lacking engraved frontispiece, first gathering a little frayed at edges including a couple of tears and A11 defective at foot (loss of text), heavily browned throughout, modern calf-backed marbled boards, 12mo, for N. Boddington, 1710.
Norway.- Thomas-Stanford (Charles) A River of Norway, being the Notes and Reflections of an Angler, first edition, 10 photogravure plates and a map in colour, publisher's advertisements to rear, occasional light foxing (including to plates), ink ownership inscription to front endpaper, original pictorial cloth, richly gilt, very light bumping to spine ends, [Wood BSS 33], 8vo, 1903.*** An attractive book on salmon fishing in Norway, primarily on the Gaula river that empties into the Sunnfjord which the author fished every year from 1898-1903, and is best known for the Osen Pool between the first foss and the fjord (depicted on cover). The final chapter focuses on the early pioneers of salmon fishing in Norway.
![Canada.- [Collingwood (Minnie)] What Fishing is like in Labrador, signed presentation inscription from the author to front en](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3e7721bc-9437-49c2-bd06-b2100119a9ed/2050fbf1-8a9b-4ea3-9624-b210011a92c0/468x382.jpg)
Canada.- [Collingwood (Minnie)] What Fishing is like in Labrador, signed presentation inscription from the author to front endpaper, 4 original photographs laid-down to blank leaves with typed captions (first as frontispiece), a couple of small ink corrections to text (possibly in author's hand), p.1 coming loose at foot, upper hinge weak, original cloth, gilt, spine discoloured and ends slightly worn, two small marks to upper cover foot, [Wood BSS 68], 8vo, Usk, privately printed, 1898.*** An engaging account of the Collingwood couple's summer of salmon fishing on the one-rod River Mingan, on the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence (now Quebeck), from June-September 1897.
Wagner (Johann Martin) Bassorilievi antichi della Grecia o sia fregio del tempio di Apollo Epicurio in Arcadia, first edition, 25 engraved plates by Ruschweyh after Wagner, one folding, foxing, old ink library stamp to title and foot of one plate, contemporary boards, rubbed, [BAL 3561; Blackmer 1756; not in Cicognara], Rome, F.Bourlié, 1814 § Visconti (E.Q.) Mémoires sur des Ouvrages de Sculpture du Parthénon..., first French edition, 1818 bound with Clarac (F., Comte de) Mélanges d’Antiquités Grecques et Romaines...du Musée du Louvre, 1830, 2 works in 1 vol., half-titles, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine ends worn, Paris § [Carcacno (G.)], "Signora Petralba". Origine della Greca Architettura..., first edition, 3 folding plates, some loss to lower outer margins at end, original printed wrappers, uncut, rubbed and soiled, upper wrapper almost detached, lower defective and repaired, Milan, 1818, the last two volumes Blackmer copies with book-label; and 4 others, Greek antiquities, v.s. (7)*** The first item is the earliest illustrated record of the celebrated sculptured marbled frieze from the temple of Apollo at Bassae, dating from c.400 BC and portraying Lapiths fighting against Centaurs and Amazons. The sculptures were purchased at auction by the British Museum, where they remain in a designated gallery.
![Norway.- [Belton (William)] Two Summers in Norway, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 2 folding maps (that in vol. 1, torn c](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3e7721bc-9437-49c2-bd06-b2100119a9ed/710d2142-24f1-448c-a52a-b210011aa114/468x382.jpg)
Norway.- [Belton (William)] Two Summers in Norway, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 2 folding maps (that in vol. 1, torn cleanly along fold with the upper portion loosely inserted), publisher's advertisement leaf at end, a few faint scattered spots, orginal green cloth stamped in blind, spines gilt, rebacked preserving original back-strip, spines toned, a few faint stains, [Wood BSS 4], 8vo, Saunders and Otley, 1840.*** A key, early book on salmon fishing, and the earliest work in English to describe fly fishing for salmon in Norway (as known to Wood), which set the trend for the Namsen River as the most popular Norwegian river for English anglers in the 19th century.
![Oliphant (Mrs. [Margaret]) A Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3e7721bc-9437-49c2-bd06-b2100119a9ed/912b4f44-6de2-4675-8865-b210011b921e/468x382.jpg)
Oliphant (Mrs. [Margaret]) A Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, some light spotting or foxing, mainly to endpapers and fore-edge, modern red half calf, upper covers with central gilt arms of Epsom College, spines gilt but a touch darkened, vol. 3 light stain to foot of upper joint, little rubbed, heavier to fore-edge of covers, t.e.g., Macmillan and Co., 1882 § Thomson (James) The Seasons...with the Life of the Author by Patrick Murdoch, third edition, half-title, numerous illustrations, contemporary ink ownership inscription laid down to front free endpaper, light foxing to endpapers, near contemporary red morocco, gilt, some wear to joints and extremities, g.e., Longman, Green &tc, 1863; and others, literature, several sets incomplete, 8vo (c.145)
![Hussey (Christopher) English Country Houses: Early [Middle & Late] Georgian 1715-1760 [1760-1800 & 1800-1840], 3 vol.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3e7721bc-9437-49c2-bd06-b2100119a9ed/63194b87-0656-454f-93bc-b210011c1b13/468x382.jpg)
Hussey (Christopher) English Country Houses: Early [Middle & Late] Georgian 1715-1760 [1760-1800 & 1800-1840], 3 vol., vol.1 second edition, vol.2 with dust-jacket, 1967-56-58 § Steele (H.Rooksby) & F.R.Yerbury. The Old Bank of England, London, 1930 § Crook (J.Mordaunt) Victorian Architecture: A Visual Anthology, New York & London, 1971 § Cole (David) The Work of Sir Gilbert Scott, 1980 § Wragg (Brian) The Life and Works of John Carr of York, York, 2000 § Hart (V.) Nicholas Hawksmoor: Rebuilding Ancient Wonders, New Haven & London, 2002, plates and illustrations, original cloth or boards, all but vol.1 & 3 of the first and the second with dust-jackets, some a little rubbed; and c.50 others on architecture, all from the library of Gavin Stamp with his bookplate or book-label, a few inscribed, v.s. (c.60)
Eliot (T.S.) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, first edition, second impression, original pictorial yellow cloth, dust-jacket rubbed and soiled, front flap detached, 1939 § Bridges (Robert) The Tapestry, Poems, one of 150 copies on Japon, printed in Arrighi type by Frederic Warde and Stanley Morison, bound in green morocco ruled in gilt & black, uncut, rather worn, privately printed [at the Fanfare], 1925 § Greene (Graham) Stamboul Train, first edition, original cloth, stained, 1932 § Yeats (W.B.) Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, illustrations by Norah McGuinness, original pictorial cloth, 1927 § Tagore (Rabindranath) The Crescent Moon, colour plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, designed by T.Sturge Moore, 1913 § Betjeman (John) Summoned by Bells, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1960 § Powell (Enoch) First Poems: Fifty Short Lyrics, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author inscribed at head of title in 1951, original wrappers, label to upper cover, uncut, Oxford, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1937, most a little rubbed; and c.30 others including several by Norman MacCaig, 4to & 8vo (c.35)
Millais (John Everett) Millais's Illustrations, wood-engraved additional pictorial title & plates, 1866 § Cornhill Gallery (The), wood-engraved plates by Millais & others, 1865 § Willmott (Rev. R.A.) The Poets of the Nineteenth Century, wood-engraved illustrations by Birket Foster & others, foxing, 1857 § De Sanctis (Mme.) Reynard the Fox, wood-engraved plates by Wilhelm Kaulbach, some spotting, later half calf, spine gilt, g.e., 1885, plates and illustrations, all but the last original cloth, rubbed, the first two rebacked; and 3 others, 4to & 8vo (7)
![Hume (David) Histoire d'Angleterre...[Maison de Plantagenet], 6 vol., Amsterdam, 1765; Histoire de la Maison de Tudor..., 6 v](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3e7721bc-9437-49c2-bd06-b2100119a9ed/62cc5bb0-a6bf-460f-a994-b210011b3a53/468x382.jpg)
Hume (David) Histoire d'Angleterre...[Maison de Plantagenet], 6 vol., Amsterdam, 1765; Histoire de la Maison de Tudor..., 6 vol., Amsterdam, 1763; Histoire de la Maison de Stuart..., 6 vol., titles in red & black, "Londres" [?Amsterdam], 1763, together 18 vol., half-titles, near-uniform contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with floral motifs, a little rubbed, lacking some labels, a few wormholes to spines or joints § [Holbach (P.H.D, Baron)] Tableau des Saints, ou Examen de l'esprit..., 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, modern cloth-backed boards, uncut, "Londres" [Amsterdam], 1770 § [Bosc du Bouchet] Le Conseil de Momus..., no title as issued, 3 engraved plates including the one of the farting god, disbound, [Paris], [1730] § Chevalier (Michel) Lettres sur l'Organisation du Travail, first edition, half-title, foxing, modern half calf, Paris, 1848, rubbed; and c.15 others, continental, 8vo & 4to (c.35)
Botany.- Gerard (John) The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, second edition, lacking initial and final blanks, with engraved pictorial title and numerous woodcut illustrations, old ink inscriptions of John Symond to title and dedication, first few leaves loose and slightly frayed at edges, engraved title also browned and slightly stained, occasional light damp-staining, final leaves (Table 6Z onwards) frayed/defective at corners with slight loss, old ink inscription of Andrew Moss 1828 to front free endpaper, contemporary sheep, worn, covers detached, [Henrey 155; Hunt 223; Nissen BBI 698; STC 11751], folio, by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633; sold not subject to return*** The preferred edition of the greatest English herbal, expanded and improved by Thomas Johnson from the 1597 first edition.
Naval & Maritime.- Mahan (Capt. A. T.) The Life of Nelson, 2 vol., first edition, 1898; The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution, 2 vol., second edition, 1893; The Influence of Sea Power upon History, n.d.; Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812, 2 vol., 1905; Naval Strategy, 1911, plates, maps and illustrations, original cloth front cover and spine bound in at end of each vol., modern dark blue morocco, gilt, t.e.g., 8vo (8)*** A handsome set of Mahan's great works of naval history.
![Canada.- [Henry (Walter)] Trifles from My Port-Folio or Recollections of Scenes and Small Adventures during Twenty-Nine Years](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3e7721bc-9437-49c2-bd06-b2100119a9ed/306d5212-4f0f-4baa-b077-b210011a9816/468x382.jpg)
Canada.- [Henry (Walter)] Trifles from My Port-Folio or Recollections of Scenes and Small Adventures during Twenty-Nine Years' Military Service..., first edition, hinges starting, original cloth-backed boards with paper labels to spines, vol. 2 with gauge mark to top edge, spines sunned, a little soiled and rubbed, housed within modern custom-made slipcase, 8vo, Quebec, William Neilson, 1839.*** Rare: only one copy at auction in last 50 years. Believed to be the first book to discuss salmon fishing in North America, with several chapters devoted to Henry's fishing trips to the Malbaie and Jacques Cartier rivers in the 1830s.
Picard (Jean) Traité du Nivellement, first edition, 3 engraved plates, errata leaf at end, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, spine ends and corners worn, spine chipped at foot, 12mo, Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1684.*** Treatise on levelling using a new instrument designed by the astronomer Picard as a by-product of his researches into the measurement of the circumference of the earth. It was also used to calculate how to bring water from neighbouring rivers to the palace and park of Versailles in the 1670s.
![Canada.- [Adamson (William Agar)] Salmon-Fishing in Canada. By a Resident, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3e7721bc-9437-49c2-bd06-b2100119a9ed/de094b8b-1a8b-431c-b08d-b210011a8f30/468x382.jpg)
Canada.- [Adamson (William Agar)] Salmon-Fishing in Canada. By a Resident, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, extra illustrated with an additional set of the illustrations stuck down to blank leaves interleaved (to face illustrated pages), contemporary dark green half morocco, spine gilt with salmon devices, spine sunned and with some minute rubbing, modern slipcase, 1860 § Hewitt (Edward Ringwood) Secrets of the Salmon, first edition, one of 780 copies, numerous plain photographic plates, illustrations and diagrams, modern dark green half morocco over marbled boards, gilt, edges uncut, New York, 1922 § La Branche (George M. L.) The Salmon and the Dry Fly, colour frontispiece, original calf-backed marbled boards, slipcase, Boston and New York, 1924 § Cronyn (Verschoyle P.) The Fly Leaf, ?one of 25 copies, original cloth-backed printed wrappers, with two later reprint copies of the same, together housed within custom-made modern morocco-backed drop-back box, privately printed, [1959-68], [together Wood BSS 59, 97, 106 & 73]; and 6 others, including another copy of the first mentioned, a first edition in original cloth, 4to et infra (9)*** A splendid group of works on salmon fishing in Canada, including some classics in the development of American 'how-to' literature of salmon fishing.
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[Fitzgibbon (Edward)] The Book of the Salmon, first edition, 8 hand-coloured plates, advertisement leaf at rear, hinges cracked but holding firm, original cloth, spine slightly faded, extremities worn, 1850 § Dawson (George) Pleasures of Angling with a Rod and Reel for Trout, first edition, plates and decorative initials, ink inscription front endpaper, some foxing, original decorative cloth, gilt, New York, 1876 § Hall (Bradnock) Norwegian and Other Fish-Tales, first edition, plates, upper hinge starting, original decoraive cloth, gilt, 1910; and 4 others, 8vo (7)*** A group of works sporting works incorporating salmon fishing and all in original cloth.
Artelt (Paul) Die Wasserkünste von Sans-Souci, 5 portraits, 83 photographic plates, folding colour plan, original decorated cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners slightly worn, Berlin, 1893 § Paulus (Dr. E.) Die Cisterzienser-Abtei Bebenhausen…, chromolithographed additional decorative title, lithographed plates, 2 chromolithographed, some folding, some foxing, Stuttgart, 1886 § [Fritsch (K.E.O.)] Der Kirchenbau des Protestantismus von der Reformation bis zur Gegenwart, illustrations, Berlin, 1893 § Valdenaire (A.) Friedrich Weinbrenner: sein Leben und seine Bauten, original cloth-backed boards, faded, Karlsruhe, 1919 § Hegemann (W.) Das Steinerne Berlin, Berlin, 1930, plates and illustrations, all but the fourth original cloth, a little rubbed; and c.65 others, German architecture, 4to & 8vo (c.70)*** The first is a historical and technical study of the garden waterworks at Frederick the Great’s palace of Sans Souci and at the adjacent New and Charlottenhof Palaces in the Potsdam palace complex, by the engineer in charge of the hydraulic machinery.
British Isles.- Ireland.- Wilkinson (Sidney Berdoe) Reminiscences of Sport in Ireland, first edition, a few plates and illustrations, original drab cloth, privately printed, by Grant Richards, 1931 § Liddell (Peter) Salmon Rivers of Eire, mimeograph typescript, ink library stamps to title, original cloth wrappers with ring-binder, housed within drop-back box, privately printed, 1971, [together Wood BSS 58 & 48], small folio & 8vo (2)*** First mentioned: a rare first edition of this memoir of salmon fishing in Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which was reprinted in 1987 by the Signet Press. Second: A report on the effects of arterial drainage schemes, pollution and netting and trapping on salmon stocks in Irish Rivers by Liddell, chairman of the British Association of River Authorities. Rare.
Norway.- Pulitzer (Joseph) We Go Fishing in Norway, whole page photographic illustrations, first and final leaf lightly spotted, original printed wrappers, lightly stained, [St Louis (MO)], [privately printed], 1954 § Hoffman (Philip) A River in Norway, Christmas 1944, one of 300 copies, with a signed presentation inscription by the author, illustrations, some faint damp-staining, some leaves working loose, original pictorial wrappers, detached but intact (staples rusted), Santa Barbara (CA), privately printed, 1944, both housed within custom-made modern morocco-backed drop-back boxes, [together Wood BSS 28 & 26], 8vo (2)*** A pair of scarce mid-century privately printed accounts of Salmon fishing in Norway by American anglers. The first, of a 5 week trip on the legendary Alta River, by newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., whose family were the first to take the lease which had belonged to the Duke of Westminster until his death in 1953. The second is a scarce example of a salmon fishing 'Christmas book', by US diplomatic envoy to Norway 1930-35.
Canada.- Harmsworth (Cecil) A Little Fishing Book, first edition, one of 80 copies, title in red and black with printer's device, original cloth-backed boards with paper label to spine, [Wood BSS 93], 8vo, Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1930.*** One of relatively few books on salmon fishing printed by a private press. Printed by The Cuala Press for private circulation, the work was popular and went on through four commercial editions. Provenance: from the author's family library ['Rothermere' bookplate].
Hegemann (Werner) Amerikanische Architektur & Stadtbaukunst, Berlin, 1925 § Le Moyne (L.V.) Country Residences in Europe and America, New York, 1908 § Public Ledger Building, Philadelphia (The): with an Account of the Proceedings connected with its Opening June 20, 1867, old ink library stamps to title, Philadelphia, 1868 § Hubbard (Elbert) So Here are the Preachments entitled the City of Tagaste, and a Dream and a Prophecy, limited edition signed by the author and "illuminer", tipped-in portrait, hand-coloured decorative borders by Minnie Gardner, original boards, uncut, rebacked & recornered in roan, East Aurora, NY, Roycrofters, 1900 § Allen & Young, architects of Stockton, California. Architecture..., publicity brochure, original printed wrappers, rebacked in cloth, Stockton, Ca., [1927], plates and illustrations, all but the last two original cloth, a little rubbed; and c.80 others, American architecture, v.s. (c.85)*** The first is devoted to American public, commercial, and domestic architecture and town planning, with an appreciation of buildings designed by the McKim Mead White partnership and high-rise buildings in New York City.
Darwin (Erasmus) Phytologia; or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening, first edition, 12 engraved plates, some folding, some foxing and marginal staining or browning, later half calf over marbled boards, spine faded, Printed for J. Johnson, 1800; and 3 others by or about the same, 4to and 8vo (4)
Suckling (Sir John) Fragmenta Aurea: A Collection of all the Incomparable Peices, third edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Marshall (lightly spotted), cropped shaving a few head-lines, some staining, bookplate of Sir Stafford H.Northcote, Bart, bookseller's ticket of A.Holden of Exeter, later panelled calf, spine gilt, for Humphrey Moseley, 1658 § Pitcairn (Archibald) & others. Selecta Poemata, 1727 bound with Poems in English and Latin on the Archers, and Royal-Company of Archers, 1726 2 works in 1 vol., first editions, browned, modern calf-backed cloth, Edinburgh § Cicero (Marcus Tullius) The Letters, edited by William Melmoth, 5 vol., bookplate of Boyd Alexander of South Barr, contemporary calf, spines gilt with red roan labels, Edinburgh, 1808 § Byron (G.G.N., Lord) English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers, reprint of the third authorised edition, half-title, 3pp. advertisements, original boards, spine worn, 1810 [but later, watermarked 1819] § [Erskine (Thomas)] Armata: a Fragment, ?first edition, 4pp. advertisments at end, original boards, uncut, broken and loose, 1817; and a quantity of others, literature, 8vo et infra; sold not subject to return (c.100)*** The last is a political romance and utopian novel concerning an imaginary voyage to a parallel earth, by the lawyer and politician Thomas Erskine. It is the first work of science fiction by a Scottish author.
Farming & Farm Buildings.- Maxwell (Robert) Select Transactions of the Honourable the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland, first edition, signed authentication by the author on verso of title, initial imprimatur leaf, folding engraved plate, a few pencil annotations/markings, contemporary calf, rubbed, upper joint split, spine ends & corners worn, [Fussell p.20], Edinburgh, Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1743 § Gray (W.J.) A Treatise on Rural Architecture...Farm Houses, Farm Offices, Cottages, Manses, Schools..., only edition, 48 lithographed plates, tissue guards, illustrations, original blind-stamped cloth, spine faded, Edinburgh, 1852; and another on farm buildings, 8vo (3)*** The Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland, founded in 1723, was the first organisation in Scotland to promote the adoption of improved farming methods which would improve crop yields, grazing, and the cultivation of flax for the manufacture of linen.
Newton (Sir Isaac).- Pemberton (Henry) A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy, first edition, engraved title-vignette, initials and head- and tail-pieces, 12 folding engraved plates, first and last few leaves slightly frayed, endpapers likewise, contemporary panelled calf, worn, covers almost detached, [Babson 98; Wallis 123], 4to, Printed by S. Palmer, 1728.*** Pemberton edited the 1726 third edition of Newton's Principia.
Italy.- Panoramas.- Wenk (Giulio, editor) Panorama della Strada-Ferrata delli Appennini Bologna, Pistoja, Firenze, folding tinted lithographed panorama, c.230 x 3200mm. and additional view mounted on inside cover, with 11pp. letterpress text in original lithographed wrappers loosely inserted, Arthur Elton's copy with his bookplate to front inside wrapper, light foxing, Bologna, Giulio Wenk, 1864 § Panorama della Strada-Ferrata delle Alpi Cozie Moncenisio, 3 chromolithographed views and folding panorama with smaller views to sides, c.255 x 4540mm., first view of strip frayed and chipped at edge, Florence, [c.1871] § Bossoli (E.F.) Panorama preso dal Monte Generoso, folding tinted lithographed panorama, c.220 x 2410mm., folding into original cloth-backed red glazed boards printed in gold, spine chipped at foot, Milan, [c.1870], all folding concertina-style, the first two both in original cloth-backed boards with lithographed pictorial title and illustration mounted on boards, lacking ties, all a little rubbed, 8vo (3)
Cookery.- Richards (Amy G.) Cookery, first edition, title and advertisement endpapers browned (one with tear and brittle at edges), Montreal, 1895 § "Historicus". Cocoa: All About It, printed in blue, child's inscription to half-title, 1896 § Griggs (Annie M.) Savouries for Breakfast, Luncheon & Dinner, Fairbairn's Home Manuals No.1, n.d. § Soyer (Nicolas) Soyer's Paper-Bag Cookery, second edition, 1911 § Vine (Fred T.) Saleable Shop Goods for Counter-Tray and Window, third edition, original cloth-backed printed boards, 1903, plates and illustrations, advertisements, some soiling or staining, all but the last original cloth, all rubbed, the second damp-stained at edges; and a quantity of others, cookery and household management, 8vo et infra (2 boxes)
Wijdeveld (H.Th., editor) Architectura. Weekblad van het genootschap Architectura et Amicitia, No.1-52 in 49 only (lacking no.26, 33 & 49), no.1 torn in half and lacking top half, original printed coloured wrappers, some covers detached, Amsterdam, 1921-22 § Bazel (K.P.C. de) & others. Dr. H.P.Berlage en Zijn Werk, Rotterdam, 1916 § Moretti (Bruno) Ospedali, Milan, 1935 § Johansson (G.) Funktionalismen i Verkligheten, modern cloth, Stockholm, 1931 § Ahlberg (Hakon) Swedish Architecture of the Twentieth Century, 1925 § Berens (Hetty, editor) P.J.H.Cuypers (1827-1921) The Complete Works, Rotterdam, 2007, plates and illustrations, all but the first and fourth original cloth, the last with dust-jacket, rubbed; and c.75 others on modern continental architecture, mostly Dutch, Italian & Scandinavian, 4to & 8vo (2 boxes)
Canada.- Nettle (Richard) The Salmon Fisheries of the St. Lawrence and its Tributaries, first edition, endpapers renewed, original red cloth stamped-in blind and lettered in gilt, neatly rebacked, 8vo, Montreal, John Lovell, 1857.*** An excellent first edition of this scarce early work on salmon fishing on the St. Lawrence river which flows from the Great Lakes out into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Norway.- Norwegian Anglings. Scotch and other Sporting Estates, 2 vol., 2 large folding maps in colour, one with tape repair to verso, numerous photographic illustrations throughout, advertisements, 1 vol. with endpapers renewed, original pictorial boards, light dust-soiling and rubbing, Lumley & Dowell, 1906-08 § Prag (Peter) Salmon Fishing in Norway, original pictorial wrappers, illustrations, housed within modern custom-made morocco-backed drop-back box, [Norway Travel Association], [1953] § Schwiebert (Ernest) Fly-Fishing for Salmon in Norway, original pictorial wrappers, Oslo, My Travel International, [1964], [together Wood BSS 8, 27 & 30], 8vo et infra (3)*** First mentioned: Lumley and Dowell were auctioneers, land, estate and sporting agents and these annual angling volumes are a rich resource on the history of salmon fishing in Norway.
Norway.- Sandeman (Fraser) Angling Travels in Norway, title in red and black, 4 chromolithograph plates of flies, other plain photographic plates and illustrations, some spotting, upper hinge starting, original vellum-backed cloth with paper label to spine, dust-soiled and toned, [Wood BSS 29], 4to, Chapman and Hall, 1895.*** Accounts of fishing on the rivers Vosso and Evanger, as well as the Surendal or Surna, Vadseth, Svardal and the Salten. Wood is rather skeptical about this book, commenting that apart from the first two rivers, then two of the best Norwegian salmon rivers, the rest fished were 'mostly second class', and in quoting a passage from the work goes so far as to suggest 'one gets the sense that he [author] was not a very good angler'.
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[Cotton (Charles)] Scarronides: or, Virgile Travestie. A Mock-Poem. Being the First Book of Virgils Æneis in English, Burlésque, initial f. with woodcut rebus of the printer Henry Brome verso, contemporary ink ownership inscriptions of William Gregory to rebus f. and a few margins, H5 loss to upper corner affecting pagination, final f. frayed at edges but no text loss, printed side-notes trimmed, [Wing C6391; Pforzheimer 222], E. Cotes for Henry Brome, 1664, bound with Scarronnides: or Virgile Travestie. A Mock-Poem. In imitation of the Fourth Book of Virgils Æneis in English, Burlesque, K8 with woodcut rebus of the printer Henry Brome bound at start, lacking first A1-2 (2 leaf introductory verse following title), Sig. A small loss to foot of gutter affecting some words, a few headlines shaved, some worm holes or traces affecting headlines, [Wing C6392], E. Cotes for Henry Brome, 1665, together 2 works in 1 vol., first editions, book-label of J.O. Edwards, later ownership inscription to pastedown, a few short tears or small marginal defects, some leaves reinforced at gutter, a few times affecting a letter of text to second work, lightly browned, some light spotting, some light soiling or staining, contemporary calf, rebacked in morocco, upper cover with leather repair to foot, corners worn, 8vo; and 4 others, 17th & 18th century, including the Baskerville printed Virgil (1757), v.s. (5)
Hintz (Richard R.) Hintz' Moderne Häuser: Ein Illustrierte Architectonische Zeithschrift, original cloth, new endpapers, advertisement slip mounted on front free endpaper Berlin, 1887 § Loos (Adolf) Das Andere: Ein Blatt zur Einfuerhrung Abendlaendischer Kultur in Oesterreich, No.1 & 2 [all published], stapled folding sheets, unopened, Vienna, 1903 § Wienkoop (A.) Das Englische Landhaus, third edition, original pictorial boards, Wiesbaden, 1910 § Baillie Scott (M.H.) Häuser und Gärten, original cloth, spine faded, Berlin, 1912 § Schulze (K.W.) Glas in der Architektur der Gegenwart, title spotted, original cloth, spine faded, a couple of worn patches, Stuttgart, 1929 § Ponten (Josef) Architektur die nicht gebaut wurde, 2 vol., some spotting, modern cloth, Berlin, 1925, plates and illustrations, a few colour, most a little rubbed; and 14 others, modern German architecture, v.s. (22)*** The first is a rare item of promotional architectural literature issued by a Berlin architect and builder offering houses from ready-made sets of measured drawings and plans. The second, a short-lived, periodical includes a wide range of social, literary and artistic topics, ranging from fashion and wallpaper to masturbation.
Walpole (Horace) Anecdotes of Painting in England...collected by the late Mr. George Vertue, 4 vol. including 'A Catalogue of Engravers' but without supplement to 'Anecdotes', first editions, engraved frontispiece and 86 plates, errata leaf at end of vol.1, advertisement leaf at end of vol.3 & Catalogue, some light offsetting, handsome contemporary red morocco, gilt, spines gilt with floral motifs and roan labels (2 missing), g.e., joints, corners and foot of vol.1 worn, 4to, Thomas Farmer at Strawberry Hill, 1762-63.*** Walpole’s interpretations of Vertue’s sometimes cryptic notebook entries were to exercise a profound influence on subsequent British art history. The further volume of Anecdotes was printed in 1771, but not distributed until 1780.
Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne) Novels of the Sisters Brontë, 8 works in 12 vol., "Thornton Edition", frontispieces and plates, titles in red and black, a few tears affecting text, some light spotting and staining, endpapers browned, ink ownership inscription to front free endpapers, tape repair to upper hinge of Wuthering Heights, some upper hinges slightly cracked with first few leaves slightly proud, original cloth, spines gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, a few small stains, some very lightly soiled, spines lightly sunned, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, 8vo, Edinburgh, John Grant, 1905.
Stephens (James) Irish Fairy Tales, colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham, 1920 § Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book, tipped-in colour plates by Dulac, [c.1920] § Goethe (J.W. von) Faust, colour plates by Willy Pogany, 1908 § Shakespeare (William) The Tempest, tipped-in colour plates by Paul Woodroffe, 1908 § Grahame (Kenneth) The Golden Age, plates by Maxfield Parrish, 1900, most with tissue guards (some captioned), all original pictorial/decorated cloth, gilt, very lightly rubbed, the first with slight marks to upper cover and small gouge to lower; and 2 others, similar, 4to & 8vo (7)
Vocal Enchantress (The) presenting an Elegant Selection of the Most Favourite Hunting, Sea, Love & Miscellaneous Songs...With the Music prefixed to each, engraved frontispiece and vignette title (lightly offset), advertisement leaf at end, bookplate of Godfrey E.P. Arkwright, bookplate of the Duke of Gloucester to front free endpaper, C6 loss to lower corner, occasional light spotting or soiling, contemporary calf, rebacked, some corners repaired, some rubbing to covers, for J. Fielding, [1783] § Settle (Elkanah) Eusebia Triumphans. The Hannover Succession to the Imperial Crown of England, An Heroick Poem, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper dated 1901, first few leaves very slightly frayed at fore-edge (no text loss), B2 very short tear to lower margin, final f. with small paper repair to head to verso, a couple headlines shaved, some soiling and staining, most leaves reinforced or with old repairs to gutter, later half morocco, quite worn, [Rothschild 1825], for John Nutt, 1702, first editions, book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others, most 18th century but including a selection of 19th century plays bound in 9 volumes, v.s. (c.30)
Jesuits.- Monita privata societatis..., title in Latin and Spanish, manuscript text in Spanish, title and 93pp., 3-line ink borders on text, slightly browned, old bookseller's description with ink inscription "Cosens sale Sotheby July 1890" on front free endpaper, bookplate of Frederick Cosens with ink library stamp of Car. I. Taboris superimposed upon it, front free endpaper loose, original half patterned calf, upper cover detached, sm. 4to (220 x 170mm.), [18th century]. *** An anonymous work. Allegedly a code of instructions addressed to the superiors of the Jesuit order outlining various methods of advancing the influence of the Society and attacking its enemies. In reality the work is a fabrication attributed to a disaffected Polish Jesuit, Hieronim Zahorowski. First published under the title: Monita privata societatis Jesu, Notebrigae, 1612 (i.e. Cracow, 1614). Provenance: Frederick Cosens (1819-89), hispanist; collector of Spanish books and manuscripts.
Mimaut (Louise Mathilde Julie) Le Maison de Mademoiselle Mimaut 107, Rue de Longchamp à Paris, 30 photogravure plates on thick paper mounted on stubs, light water-stain to upper edge & inner corner of first few plates not affecting image, original half parchment, gilt, Paris, [1910] § Weaver (Sir Lawrence) Tradition & Modernity in Plasterwork, original vellum-backed pictorial boards, gilt, 1928; Gas Fires and their Settings, original vellum-backed pictorial boards, gilt, dust-jacket, 1929 § Crace (J.G.) "The Crace Papers". Two Lectures on the History of Paperhangings, 1939 § Turner (L.) Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain, 1927 § Yerbury (F.R.) Georgian Details of Domestic Architecture, signed & inscribed by the author on title, 1926 § Thornton (Peter) Authentic Decor. The Comestic Interior 1620-1920, Gavin Stamp's copy with his book-label and with 3 A.Ls.s. to him loosely inserted (2 from the author, 1 from Claire Tomalin), 1984 § Kuyper (W.) De Kunst van het Wonen, Bussum, 1947, plates and illustrations, all but the first three original cloth, the last with dust-jacket, most a little rubbed; and 15 others on interiors, v.s. (23)
Podeschi (John B.) Dickens and Dickensiana, frontispiece, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, New Haven, 1980 § Browne (Edgar) Phiz and Dickens ..., portrait frontispiece, plates, original cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, remnants of dust-jacket, 1913 § Harvey Darton (F. J.) Dickens: Positively the First Appearance, portrait frontispiece, plates, original cloth-backed boards, slight bumping to corners, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight creasing to extremities, 1993; and others on Dickens, 8vo (12).
Photograph Album.- Canada & US.- [Set of 3 Albums recording Trout Fishing in Maine and Salmon Fishing in New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Scotland], c.1000 black and white photographs, most mounted within album corner-pieces and set 4 per page, sometimes more, and albums 2 and 3 with several larger (whole page) photographs, album 1 also with several colour postcards, most images with manuscript captions in white, and each album with a contents list in ?same hand at start, generally clean but album 1 with some instances of soiling or chips to photograph edges, album 2 with a couple of loose leaves at start, album leaves generally slightly brittle at edges, all three within uniform drab cloth, with manuscript titles in white to spines, slightly worn, each housed within modern custom-made morocco-backed drop-back box, [Wood BSS 186], photographs between 65 x 65mm. - 255 x 198mm., oblong 4to, [1919-29].*** A remarkable set of photograph albums with around 1000 snap shots of fishing life and scenes, complied by a "G.K.W.". In the first album (1919-26): trout fishing in Maine, mainly at York's Twin Pine Camps on Daicey Pond near Greenville. The second (1927-28): salmon fishing in New Brunswick on the Rivers Cains, Miramichi, Tobique and Upsalquitch. The Cairns trip in May, fishing for the 'black' salmon, that had over wintered in the river. The third (1928-29): salmon fishing on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, the Margaree River and on the Grand Codroy River in Newfoundland, and finally a trip to the Aberdeenshire River Dee in Scotland. In among the fishing scenes, scattered 'turist' shots (or postcards, album 1) of scenes or family members.
Shakespeare (William) Songs of Shakespeare Illuminated by H.C.Hoskyns Abrahall, chromolithographed throughout with decorative title and plates heightened with gold, some light foxing, original decorated cloth, gilt, Day & Son, [c.1865] § Livre d'Heures, illustrations & decorations, with additional states of 2 pictorial titles & imprint to verso of first, all with delicate hand-colouring and heightened with gold, bookplate of Laz. Goldschimdt, contemporary morocco, gilt, by P.Kersten, uncut, t.e.g., spine faded, slip-case, Paris, Leullier, [c.1900] § Gaskin (Arthur J.) A Book of Pictured Carols, one of 100 copies on Japanese vellum, plates, original vellum-backed cloth, spotted & soiled, 1893, all a little rubbed; and 5 others, children's & illustrated, v.s. (8)
Norway.- Flury (Roy, editor.) Alten. Red Letter Days. The Diary of Colonel Dalrymple-Hamilton, number 5 of 5 copies, signed by Flury on front endpaper, colour frontispiece, most leaves manuscript facsimile, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine slightly faded and ends very lightly bumped, Oxford, 'published privately', 1994; Alten. Red Letter Days..., number 1 of 60 deluxe edition copies, title in red and black, original dark green half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, housed within original presentation cloth slipcase, pictorial gilt, Cambridge (MA), privately printed by Charles B. Wood III, 2009, both copies with black and white illustrations, [Wood BSS 12 & 13], large 8vo (2)*** Two different reproductions of Colonel Dalrymple-Hamilton's remarkable fishing adventures; the first very rare being one of only 5 copies. The original diary is still owned by the family.
Malthus (Thomas Robert) An Essay on the Principle of Population. . . , 2 vol., fourth edition, lacking half-titles, occasional foxing or soiling, light water-staining to upper margin of vol.2, a few minor marginal flaws, contemporary half calf, worn, spines defective or lacking, upper cover detached, [Goldsmiths' 19373; Kress B.5219], 1807 § Sinclair (Sir John) Appendix to the History of the Public Revenue of the British Empire, first edition, presentation copy with "from the author" inscribed at head of half-title (cropped), staining to final leaf, contemporary half roan, 1789 § [Nicholls (G.)] Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture, bookplate of Ferguson of Raith, original cloth, [Goldsmiths' 33401], 1843 § Attlee (Clement) The Labour Party in Perspective, Left Book Club Edition, original orange cloth wrappers, 1937, rubbed; and 11 others, 8vo & 4to (16)
Salmon Fishing Illustration.- The Sportsman's Portfolio of American Field Sports, whole page wood-engraved illustrations (c.280 x 210mm.), contemporary ink ownership inscriptions to half-title and upper cover, some minor marginal damp-staining, original printed upper cover wrapper, lower cover supplied in later drab along with repairs to spine and extremities, a little creased and soiled, housed within modern custom-made drop back box, [Wood BSS 216], oblong 4to, Boston, M.M. Ballou, 1855.*** Containing a rare and important illustration: likely the first American illustration of fly fishing for salmon (Wood), and described by the Derrydale press in their 1929 reprint edition as 'the first American picture book of sport'.
Price (Uvedale) A Letter to H.Repton, Esq., first edition, occasional foxing, for J.Robson, 1795 bound with [Marshall (William)] A Review of the Landscape, presentation copy from the author, half-title, very lightly browned, 1795, together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary half calf, rubbed, joints split, lacking label, [BAL 2620 & 2060] § Mason (W.) The English Garden: a Poem. In Four Books, A New Edition, corrected, contemporary ink inscription "Jane Murray Bath Aug. 28th 1784" to title, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked with gilt floral spine & red morocco label, York, A.Ward, 1783 § [Akenside (Mark)] The Pleasures of the Imagination. A Poem, first edition, lacking half-title, title in red & black with engraved vignette (slightly soiled), advertisement leaf at end, book-label and inscription of architect Roderick Gradidge, later vellum-backed boards, a little faded and a few stains, R.Dodsley, 1744, 8vo & 4to (3) *** The first two items arose from the controversy engendered by the publication in 1794 of Richard Payne Knight’s poem The Landscape and Uvedale Price’s An Essay on the Picturesque. The first item, written by Price in reply to a pamphlet by Humphrey Repton, emphasises Price’s view that landscape gardening should be founded on the same principles as landscape painting, while the second by William Marshall defends Capability Brown against accusations, particularly by Price, that the clumps and belts so favoured by Brown and his followers were planted in too formal a manner.
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[Dodsley (Robert) with contributions by Samuel Johnson] The Preceptor: Containing a General Course of Education, 2 vol., first edition, engraved frontispieces and folding plates and maps, maps hand-coloured in outline, lacking a few plates and one defective, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, R.Dodsley, 1748 § Knox (R., editor) The Anatomy of the Bones of the Human Body...with Explanatory References by John Barclay, 32 engraved plates, 1829; Plates of the Arteries of the Human Body; after Frederic Tiedemann, second edition, 38 engraved plates with partial hand-colouring, 1831, together 2 vol., foxing, ex-library copies with stamps to verso of plates, contemporary cloth, worn and stained, covers detached, Edinburgh § Page (David) Handbook of Geological Terms..., second edition, original cloth, Edinburgh & London, 1865 § Williams (Frederick S.) The Midland Railway, first edition, original cloth, rubbed, new endpapers, [1876] § Singer (Charles) The Earliest Chemical Industry: An Essay in the Historical Relations of Economics & Technology illustrated from the Alum Trade, original cloth, spine faded, Folio Society, 1948; and c.20 others, science & medicine, including parts of Supplement to fourth & fifth editions of Encyclopaedia Britannica with engraved plates and in original boards, v.s. (c.25)
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