Railways. Tredgold on the Steam Engine. Locomotive and Stationary Engines: the Principles and Practice of their Construction, Exemplified in Numerous Examples, James S. Virtue, c.1850, 61 plates including some folding, spotting and some finger soiling, marginal repairs to title, modern cloth with remains of original leather spine relaid, folio, together with: [Tredgold, Thomas], The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive Engines in Operation on the Several Lines of Railway. Completing Division A. and forming the first volume of the new edition of Tredgold on the steam engine., John Weale, 1850, 40 mostly folding plates, some spotting, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, 4to, plus Whishaw (Francis), The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland, 1st edition, Simpkin, Marshall, 1840, large folding map and 16 mostly double-page or folding plates (many chipped and with occasional tears and repairs with some loss), folding tables, original cloth, crudely rebacked and recornered, 4to (Qty: 3)NOTESSold with all faults not subject to return.
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Poland. Bowles (John), Poland Subdivided according to the extent of its Severall Palatinates, circa 1744, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, large uncoloured cartouche, additional title above map, old folds, short splits to old folds, folds strengthened on verso, 570 x 860 mm (Qty: 1)NOTESRare unrecorded state of William Berry's two sheet map of Poland originally published in about 1683 in London. William Berry's map of Poland was the first large scale map of Poland to be published in England and whilst the map credits Nicholas Sanson's earlier map as its source the map is actually drawn from Hubert Jaillot's map of Poland published about ten years earlier in Amsterdam. The first edition has a dedication to Charles II whereas this edition acknowledges the present king, George II. The scarce second state bears the publishing imprint of Thomas Taylor, Philip Overton and John Lenthall. We have been unable to locate another example of this map and this example was catalogued by Ashley Baynton Williams for the London Antiquarian Book Fair of 2013.
Hearne (Thomas). Guilielmi Neubrigensis Historia sive Chronica Rerum Anglicarum, libris quinque. E Codice MS. pervetusto, in Bibliotheca praenobilis Domini Thomae Sebright, Baronetti, Oxford, Theatro Sheldoniano, 1719, list of subscribers to pages cxxiii-cxxxiv, contemporary calf, rubbed and a little wear, with joints cracked, large 8vo, together with: Scottish Law. Proof, in the conjoined processes, George-James Duke of Hamilton, Lord Douglas Hamilton, and their Tutors, and Sir Huw Dalrymple of Northberwick, Baronet, Pursuers, against the person pretending to be Archibald Stewart, alias Douglas, only son now on life of the marriage between Colonel John Stewart... and Lady Jane Douglas..., printed in obedience to two interlocutors of the Lords of Session, of date December 19, 1765, and February 5, 1766, 1054 pages of main text, plus appendices, contemporary half calf, worn with covers detached, thick 4to, plus: A' Costa (Girolamo) , Istoria dell' Origine e del Progresso delle Rendite Ecclesiastiche..., 2 volumes bound in 1, Venice, 1768, engraved frontispiece to first volume, ink stamp to foot of first volume title page, contemporary full vellum,spine label a little rubbed, 8vo, and other miscellaneous antiquarian, including St. John Chrysostom, Opera, Volume 1 only, Basel, Officina Hervagiana, 1539, title with woodcut vignette, some early ink marginalia, printer's woodcut device to verso of final leaf, portion of the general index to the full work bound in at front (first leaf soiled), disbound without covers, folio, Sir George Staunton, An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, volume 1 only, 2nd edition, corrected, 1798, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, worn with covers detached, 4to, mostly 18th and 19th century works, some odd volumes and part-sets, mainly leather bound, 8vo, 4to, & folio (Qty: 6 shelves)
Constantin (Robert). Lexicon Graecolatinum Rob. Constantini. Secunda hac editione, partim ipsius authoris, partim Francisci Porti & aliorum additionibus plurimum auctum, [Geneva], Heirs of Eustace Vignon & Johann Stoer, 1592, title printed in red and black, with printer's woodcut device, text printed in double-column, very slight water stain to extreme margins to final leaves (generally a clean copy), 18th century full diced calf gilt, joints cracked with upper cover detached, leather split (but mainly without loss) at head and foot of spine, thick folio, together with: Raleigh (Sir Walter). The History of the World, in Five Books..., Whereunto is added in this edition, The Life and Tryal of the Author, printed for Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Benj. Tooke, etc., 1687, additional engraved title, with printed leaf The Mind of the Front trimmed and mounted to facing leaf, printed title in red and black, first leaf of preface with upper portion missing, 6 double-page engraved plates, including 4 maps (includes Arabia & India, The Middle East, Holy Land, and Sicily), some marks and minor defects, near-contemporary calf, worn, folio (with all faults), plus three further editions of the same work (1652, 1665 and 1677), each defective, but with some plates and maps remaining, worn in contemporary bindings, folio, plus other various antiquarian, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, including La Vie de Gaspard de Coligny, Seigneur de Chastillon sur Loin, Gouverneur pour le Roi de l'Isle de France & de Picardie, Colonel General de l'Infanterie Francoise, & Amiral de France, Cologne, 1686, Ovid's Metamorphoses. In Fifteen Books. A New Translation, by Several Hands, adorn'd with cuts, 2 volumes, printed for A. Bettesworth and W. Taylor, E. Curll, and J. Browne, 1717 (first volume lacking upper cover), Jeremy Collier, Essays upon Several Moral Subjects, 6th edition, corrected, 1709, Tournefort, A Voyage into The Levant, volume 1 (of 3) only, 1741 (with numerous engraved maps and plates), Colonel Atwell Lake, Kars and Our Captivity in Russia, 1st edition, 1856 (bound in contemporary calf), John M'Gregor, British America, volume II only, 2nd edition, 1833 (with several folding maps of Quebec), R.C. Dallas, The History of the Maroons, from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone: including the Expedition to Cuba, volume II only, 1803, Clericus & Mangetus, Bibliotheca Anatomica, volume II only, Geneva, 1699, etc., all leather-bound, mostly 8vo, but including 11 folios (Qty: 6 shelves)NOTESSold as seen, not subject to return.
Morison (Stanley) . John Fell, The University Press and the 'Fell' Types..., 1st edition, Oxford University Press, 1967, 22 plates including colour frontispiece, publishers original blue cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly toned & rubbed with small tears to head & foot of spine, folio, together with: Symonds (John Addington). The Letters of John Addington Symonds, edited by Herbert M. Schueller and Robert L. Peters, 3 volumes, Detroit, 1967-69, monochrome plates, original uniform green cloth gilt in dust wrappers, thick 8vo, plus: The Cambridge History of the British Empire, edited by J. Holland Rose, A.P. Newton and E.A. Benians, 2 volumes, Cambridge University Press, 1929/40 respectively, top edge gilt, original blue cloth gilt in dust wrappers, rubbed and spine somewhat dulled, thick 8vo, and other history and related, mostly academic publications, including Emma Cownie , Religious Patronage In Anglo-Norman England 1066-1135, 1998, Lesley Smith & Benedicta Ward, Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages, 1992, S.A. Skilliter, William Harborne and the Trade with Turkey 1578-1582, 1977, Bertram D. Wolfe, Diego Rivera, His Life and Times, New York, 1939, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, 1936 (rebound), etc., mostly original cloth in dust wrappers, all 8vo (except first title folio) (Qty: 6 shelves)
Oman (Charles) . A History of the Peninsular War, 7 volumes, reprinted Greenhill Books/AMS, 1980-96, monochrome illustrations and maps, original uniform red cloth, the first 5 volumes in dust wrappers, 8vo, together with; Oman (Charles). A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages, 2 volumes, Greenhill Books, 1991, original cloth in dust wrappers, 8vo, plus Haig (Major-General Douglas) . Cavalry Studies Strategical and Tactical, 1st edition, Hugh Rees, 1907, numerous folding maps, some underlining in red ink, original red cloth gilt, rubbed and a little wear to joints, 8vo, and Webster (Charles & Frankland, Noble) , The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939-1945 (History of the Second World War), 4 volumes, H.M.S.O., 1961, colour maps, monochrome illustrations, original publisher's cloth gilt in dust wrappers, a little rubbed and some marks and toning to spines, large 8vo, plus other military history, all 20th century publications in dust wrappers, including Marcus Cunliffe, Soldiers & Civilians, The Martial Spirit in America 1775-1865, 1969, Richard Hill, The Prizes of War, The Naval Prize System in the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815, 1998, John S.G. Blair, In Arduis Fidelis, Centenary History of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Scottish Academic Press, 1998, etc., all 8vo, VG (Qty: 6 shelves)
Rowling (J. K.) . Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 5th edition, 1998, ...and the Chamber of Secrets, 4th edition, 1998, ...and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 3rd edition, 1999, ...and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, ...and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003, ...and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005, ...and the Deathly Hallows, 2007, all 1st editions, all original cloth in dust jackets, some spines lightly faded, 8vo, together with: Deighton (Len) , Horse under Water, 1st edition, 1963, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, spine slightly toned, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Francis (Dick) , For Kicks, 1st edition, 1965, some minor toning, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, covers with repaired minor loss to head & foot, 8vo, plus other first editions and modern fiction, including Ngaio Marsh, Patrick Ness, Mo Hayder, Ian Rankin, Lee Child, G/VG, 8vo (Qty: 6 shelves)Please note that the first four Harry Potter books in this lot are all later impressions of The Book People editions
Poland. Hondius (J.), Nova Poloniae delineatio, Amsterdam, circa 1630, hand coloured engraved carte-a figures map with six costumed figures to vertical margins and seven oval vignette views to horizontal borders, large strapwork cartouche, trimmed to neatline on three margins and laid on later paper, 415 x 565 mm (Qty: 1)NOTESFirst and only state with borders. The town views depict Danzig, Krakow, Breslau, Posnan, Sandomierz, Crosno and Biecz.
Prussia. Henneberger (Caspar), Prussiae das ist des L andes zu Preussen, Welches das herrlichste Theil ist Sarmatiae Europeae..., Konigsberg, Lorentz Segebaden, [1629 but 1863 facsimile], ' woodblock' map on nine sheets, sectionalised and laid on linen, sparse outline colouring, overall size 920 x 1040 mm (Qty: 1)NOTESHenneberger was a German, Lutheran pastor, historian and cartographer. Hennenberger published the first detailed map of Prussia in 1576 in the book " Kurze und wahrhaftige Beschreibung des Landes zu Preussen " (A Short and Truthful Description of the Lands of Prussia), eventually published in 1584. Dantiscum Emporium, catalogue of the 2005 exhibition on maps of Gdansk and the Baltic. See entry G87 on page 229 for Henneberger's map of Prussia, fifth edition of 1629. The text on page 230 overleaf enumerates, in Polish and German, the editions known to exist and states 'fifth edition of 1629 (copy in the Archives of the Diocese of Warmia, Olsztyn). According to Jaeger (1982) and Meurer (1991) this edition is known only from an 1863 facsimile reprint.' The references are to Eckhard Jaeger's Prussia-Karten 1542-1810, (1982), and to Peter Meurer's Fontes Cartographici Orteliani, (1991).
Regional maps of England and Wales. A collection of six maps, 17th - 19th century, hand coloured engraved maps, including examples by Cassini, Philip, Zatta (2 copies) and Mercator/Hondius (2 copies), various sizes and condition, with De Vaugondy (Robert). Les Isles Britanniques qui comprennent Les Royaumes D'Angleterre, D'Ecosse et D'Iralande.., Britannicae Insulae in quibus Albion seu Britannia Major et Ivernia seu Britannia Minor...., Paris, 1750 & le Royaume D'Angleterre divisé selon les sept Royaumes ou Heptarchie des Saxons..., Paris, 1753, together three hand coloured maps, the first described item with inset map of the Orkney, Shetland and Faroe Islands, central fold toned and partially split and repaired on verso, some staining, the two other maps, both with frayed margins, slight creasing and staining, 480 x 595 mm, 485 x 530 mm and 485 x 520 mm respectively, plus Johnson (J.). Johnson's England and Wales, [1865 or later], hand coloured engraved map, 640 x 435 mm (Qty: 10)
River Dnieper. Blaeu (Willem Janszoon), Campus Inter Bohum Borystenem, Amsterdam, circa 1645, hand coloured engraved map on two conjoined sheets, professionally re-margined at base, old folds, 655 x 325 mm, Dutch text on verso (Qty: 1)NOTESLarge map showing the course of the Dnieper River from Cherkasy to the estuary on the Black Sea. The map is in strip style with two vertical maps following the course of the river, each decorated with cartouches and compass roses and including numerous lengthy notations describing the cataracts, cities, salt mines, fortresses, and the historical traditions of the Kozaks. The map is based on an inset map from the important Radziwill-Makowski map of the Duchy of Lithuania (1613), which was the most accurate map of Lithuania and served as a resource for all other maps of the region for 150 years. Blaeu first published the map, along with the inset of the Dnieper River, as a four-sheet map in his Appendix in 1631. The map of Lithuania and the strip map of the Dnieper River then appeared separately in subsequent Blaeu atlases. The earlier editions have an additional title at the base flanked by putti which this example lacks.
Somerset. Jansson (Jan), Comitatus Somerettensis Somerset-Shire, circa 1638, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, ornate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, slight staining, 385 x 510 mm, Dutch text on verso, together with Collinson (John). A Map of the County of Somerset, published C. Dilly, 1792, hand coloured engraved map originally published in Collinson's ' The History and Antiquities of the county of Somerset, collected from authentick records..., ', old folds, some weakness where old folds cross, one area of crude repair on verso, 480 x 630 mm, with Morden (Robert). Somersetshire, [1695], engraved map with contemporary outline colouring (it is rare to find Morden's maps with contemporary colouring), 360 x 425 mm, plus Slater J & Pigot (James). Somersetshire, circa 1857, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, uncoloured vignette of Wells Cathedral, 240 x 360 mm (Qty: 4)NOTESThe first described item is in the scarce 'pre-atlas' state printed before the addition of the six coats of arms and a re-working of the title cartouche.
* Somerset. Saxton (Christopher), Somersetensem Comitat (agri fertiltate celebrem) hec ob oculos ponit Tabula. Anno 1575. et D. Elizabethe Regine Ao 17, [1579], engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, ornate heraldic and strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, with the arms of Thomas Seckford in the lower right corner, 395 x 520 mm, mounted framed and glazed (Qty: 1)NOTESThe first county map of Somerset.
* Sylvanus (Bernard, publisher). Quarta Europae Tabula, Octava Europae Tabula, & Secunda Asiae Tabula, Venice, 1511, together three Ptolemaic woodblock maps, printed in red & black, each on two conjoined sheets, displayed in a three aperture mount, each approximately 400 x 500 mm, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)NOTESRare. Originally issued in Bernardus Sylvanus' edition of Ptolemy's Geographia , the first to be published in Venice.
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[Africa]. Group of approximately 36 manuscript maps, town plans and geological sections, c.1860, all in pen and ink on laid paper, many folding, 17 on loose or disbound single sheets or bifolia (these generally water-damaged, resultantly friable and separating along central folds), 15 remaining bound together in a section disbound from a larger sketchbook (some of these mounted on guards), 4 town plans similarly disbound (these water-stained), various dimensions (sheet size range approx. 23 x 19 cm to 28 x 40 cm), together with: Gambia, Map of the River Gambia for 105 Miles above the Falls of Barraconda, by F. W. Finden, from a Sketch made by His Excellency Governor Mac Donnell, February 1849, lithographic map, marginal excisions to top and right-hand edges, closely trimmed along others edges, small hole to lower outer corner, creased from folding, 31 x 39 cm, Aden, Plan of Aden and the Surrounding Country, [1839], lithographic map, disbound from book with guard adhering to inner edge verso, trimmed with loss of frame along lower edge, creased from folding, 29 x 51 cm (Qty: -)NOTESThe manuscript maps and plans appear to be meticulous contemporary copies mainly after those in Heinrich Barth's Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa (first edition in English 1857-8). The printed map of Aden is from Indian Papers, No. IX, Correspondence relating to Aden (1839).
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[America]. Two pamphlet volumes, 1806-13, containing: 1. Sullivan (James & Pickering, Timothy). Interesting Correspondence between His Excellency Governour Sullivan and Col. Pickering; in which the latter vindicates himself against the groundless charges and insinuations made by the Governour and others, 2nd edition, Boston: Printed by Greenough & Stebbins, 1808, 24pp., 2. Pickering (Timothy), Mr. Pickering's Speech, in the Senate of the United States, on the Resolution offered by Mr. Hillhouse to repeal the several Acts laying an Embargo, November 30, 1808, [U.S.]: [publisher not identified], [1808], 27pp., caption title, 3. Adams (James) , A Review of the Correspondence between the Hon. John Adams, Late President of the United States, and the Late William Cunningham..., 2nd edition, Salem: Cushing & Appleton, 1824, 140pp., some spotting, 4. Upham (Charles W.) , A Discourse, Delivered on the Sabbath after the Decease of the Hon. Timothy Pickering, Salem: Foote & Brown, 1829, 45,[1]pp., errata slip present, 5. Everett (David) , A Report of the Case of Belchertown Election, with the Documents, and Minutes of the Arguments in the Case. Published by Order of the House of Representatives, in their January Session, 1811. Under the Direction of David Everett, Boston: Printed by Isaac Munroe, Printer to the State, 1811, [52pp.], 6. Vose (John) , An Oration, Pronounced at Hanover, August 27, 1805, before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Hanover, N.H.: Printed by Moses Davis, 1806, 14,[2]pp., final leaf blank, 7. ibid. , An Oration, Pronounced at Londonderry, before the Rockingham Agricultural Society, at their Annual Meeting, June 7, 1813, Concord: Printed by George Hough, Sept. 1813, 15,[1]pp., manuscript calculation to title, bound with one other, some spotting and browning, items 1-4 in first volume, items 5-7 in second, both bound in uniform modern boards, printed paper title label 'American Pamphlets' to spine of each, 8vo, together with: Burroughs (Charles), A Discourse Delivered in the Chapel of the New Alms-House, in Portsmouth, N.H.Dec. XV. MDCCCXXXIV. on the Occasion of its being first opened for Religious Services ... Published by request, Portsmouth, N.H.: J.W. Foster,1835, 108pp., half-title present, light spotting, modern cloth-backed marbled boards, printed title label to upper board, 8vo, United States Treasury, Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Prepared in Obedience to the Act of the 10th May, 1800 ... to which are prefixed, the Reports of Alexander Hamilton, on Public Credit, on a National Bank, on Manufacturers, and on the Establishment of a Mint, 2 volumes, Washington: Printed by Duff Green, 1828, library ink stamp to titles, some browning and spotting, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, maroon morocco title label to spine of each, old library numbers to spines, some joints cracked and wear to extremities, 8vo (Qty: 5)NOTESBurroughs: Sabin 9458. The half-title is Dr. Burroughs's Discourse on Pauperism and it is in fact on that subject alone that the author concentrates. The Rector of St. John's church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Burroughs considered that the nature of public provision for the relief of the poor was 'one of the most momentous and interesting subjects of political economy'. It was a subject, he recognised, 'that deeply affects the civil, social, religious, and moral concerns of the community ... Though perfection in the system of providing for the poor cannot be attained, yet it may be to a much nearer degree approached. Many errors may be corrected; many corruptions may be healed; many evils may be remedied'. And Burroughs reviews local causes of poverty and local provision for the poor, while at the same time looking at the bigger picture, the policies and practices of Britain, and the views of the great political economists (Malthus, Say, Chalmers and others). He commends the practical humanity and public philanthropy of the new local alms-house or poorhouse and recommends its continued financial support by the residents of Portsmouth.
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[Arabian Peninsula]. 'Carte de la mer Rouge, relevée sur celle de James Bruce', 1827, watercolour with pen and ink on laid paper (the paper probably Middle Eastern), captions and lines of latitude and longitude, title within cartouche lower left, spotting and staining, extensive loss to left side affecting frame and cartouche, 2 extensive closed tears extending into image from bottom and right edges, other chips and tears to corners edges, verso with old adhesive residue and numerous inked inscriptions in Arabic (see note), 45.8 x 31.8 cm (Qty: 1)NOTESNear-contemporary manuscript copy of James Bruce's 'Chart of the Arabian Gulf with its Egyptian, Ethiopian and Arabian Coasts', with compelling provenance to early-19th-century Egypt: the Arabic inscriptions verso include 'Ibrahim Khwajah al-Sarraf' (i.e. 'Ibrahim Khwajah the Moneychanger'), 'Misr 1223' (Cairo/ Egypt, 1808/9 AD [sic]), 'Sikandariyah 1244' (Alexandria 1828/9 AD), and a religious invocation apparently including part of the genealogy of Jesus Christ from the Gospel of Matthew, with orthographical inconsistencies suggesting a non-native author. The map was first published in Bruce's Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790). It focuses on the coast of modern Saudi Arabia down to Mocha in Yemen, and includes the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. A French translation of Bruce's work appeared in 1790-2; no edition appears to have been published in 1827, the date in the cartouche, which is consequently presumed to be the date of execution.
Berghaus (Dr. Heinrich). Physikalischer Atlas oder Sammlung von Karten, 8 parts in 2 volumes, Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1845-8, 90 maps and tables (complete as list), all but one hand-coloured, most double-page, one folding, variable toning and spotting, mainly to margins and letterpress, original blind-embossed cloth, titles blocked in gilt, rubbed with some wear to extremities, a few marks or stains, spines faded, folio (Qty: 2)NOTESThe numbered maps and tables total 90, however the covers each state '90 Karten' which is often (erroneously) taken to imply a total of 180 maps and tables: the indexes to each volume together list a total of 90 (as here). Note that some copies appear to be extra-illustrated, with a total of up to 94 maps and tables recorded. This atlas was originally issued in parts between 1838 and 1848. The maps and tables in this copy are mostly first state, but four in part one state 'zweite auflage' (second edition) and are dated 1849.
Burton (Richard F.). Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland, 2 volumes , 1st edition, London: William P. Nimmo, 1875, half-titles, 6 tinted lithograph plates (including frontispieces and plan), two folding colour maps, wood-engraved illustrations (some full-page), bound without publisher's adverts, cancelled RMA Library bookplate to upper pastedown of each, contemporary black half morocco, rebacked, contrasting spine labels, 8vo (Penzer p.91), together with: Morris (Maurice O'Connor) , Rambles in the Rocky Mountains: with a visit to the Gold Fields of Colorado, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1864, half-titles inscribed by the author, light toning to first & last few leaves, modern dark green half morocco, gilt decorated spine, 8vo, Guthrie (William) , A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar; and Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World, 22nd edition, London, 1812, 30 folding engraved maps (some hand-coloured, including double-hemisphere frontispiece), occasional scattered spotting, contemporary marbled calf, rebacked, gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, board corners worn and showing, large 8vo, and 4 others, travel (Qty: 8)NOTESProvenance: From the Library of David Wilson (1926-2020).
Capriolo (Aliprando). Ritratti di cento capitani illustri, 1st edition, 2nd issue, Rome: Filippo Thomassino and Giovanni Turpino, 1600 [colophon 1596], engraved title page, arms and 100 portraits, errata leaf, generally toned throughout, with variable spotting, late-18th-century diced russia, rebacked with a few minor marks, corners showing, large 8vo in 4s (24.5 x 17.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESNot in Adams; BM STC Italian 1465-1600 p. 147 for the first issue, which appeared in 1596; the second issue retains the original imprint in the colophon but has a new title page and dedication leaf. The portraits are mainly of Italian notables including Christopher Columbus, but there are also portraits of Tamerlane, Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, Skanderbeg and Hayreddin Barbarossa.
China. Personal Recollections of the T'ai-P'ing Rebellion, 1861-63. By the Ven. Archdeacon Moule, Shanghai: printed at the "Shanghai Mercury" Office, 1898, pp.28, toned and some spotting, first and final few leaves creased and frayed (with some small losses), original printed wrappers, frayed (with some loss) and a little marked, slim 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESRare: not listed in Cordier. Arthur Evans Moule (1836-1918) was an English missionary who travelled to China in 1861 and witnessed some of the dramatic scenes of the Taiping Rebellion which was fought from 1850 to 1864 between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The contents of this pamphlet were first given as a lecture to the Shanghai Literary and Debating Society on 4th December 1883, and subsequently printed in the Shanghai Courier before being published here as a separate booklet. Moule wrote and published a number of other works relating to China.
Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965). Ian Hamilton's March, 1st edition, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900, portrait frontispiece, folding map, two leaves of publisher's advertisements and 32 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear, some spotting, signed by the author 'Winston S. Churchill' in brown ink to front free endpaper with additional words 'From' and '1902' above and below in another hand, probably that of Percy Wilson Brown, original dark red cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, faded on spine, together with: Churchill (Winston Spencer) , London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, 1st edition, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900, 4 maps (3 folding including colour frontispiece), single leaf publisher's advertisement and 32-page publisher's catalogue at rear, some spotting throughout, contemporary autograph ownership inscription of Percy W. Brown, 2/Gordon Highlanders, Durban, 18 June 1900, to front free endpaper, original pictorial light brown cloth, spine titled and decorated in gilt and red, rubbed and soiled, both 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESWoods A5 & A4(a). Signed first edition copies of Ian Hamilton's March are very rare, this being a near-contemporary signature seemingly done for Brigadier General Percy Wilson Brown CMG DSO (1876-1954).
Goddard (T., & J. Booth, publishers). The Military Costume of Europe; Exhibited in a Series of Highly-Finished Military Figures, in the Uniform of their Several Corps; with a Concise Description, and Historical Anecdotes; forming Memoirs of the Various Armies of the Present Time, 2 volumes in one, London: T. Goddard & J. Booth, 1812-[22], lacking title-page to volume 2 & plate/contents leaves to both volumes, containing 84 hand-coloured etched plates only (of 97), each plate with one leaf of text, plates misbound (in alphabetical order), blind stamp to title and ink number stamp at foot of advertisement leaf, verso of front free endpaper with ownership inscription of 'George W. Hill, Stoney Stretton Hall [Shropshire], October 1st 1900', contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving original spine (library markings at foot), slightly rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESColas 2058; Lipperheide 2115; Tooley 236. Without Tooley's plate number 24 as often (text leaf present). Tooley calls for 97 plates, with number 9 in the first volume used twice. Colas calls for 96 plates only, and Lipperheide cites a copy with 93 plates. This volume without Tooley plate numbers 3, 6, 11, 15, 17, 21, 24 & 33 in volume 1 and numbers 20, 31, 34, 35 & 37 in volume 2.
Hulbert (C., publisher). The Parlour Book of Foreign Scenery, Architecture and Antiquities: being a series of select descriptions of public buildings, cathedrals, mosques ... in foreign countries, with appropriate engravings by Barrett ... from drawings by Wyatt ..., Shrewsbury: 1828, 25 (of 26) engraved plates, some spotting to margins and letterpress, endpapers renewed, original publisher's boards, rebacked and re-cornered, front cover with paper label, soiled with some marks, slim 4to, together with: Tombleson (William and Fearnside, William Gray) , Eighty Picturesque Views on the Thames and Medway, London: Black & Armstrong, circa 1834, additional engraved title, index and preface, 79 (complete as list) uncoloured engraved views with tissue guards, bound without map (as often), scarce minor toning or spotting, endpapers renewed, all edges gilt, original dark green cloth, with embossed foliate decoration, rebacked and re-cornered, 4to, plus: Westall (William) , Great Britain Illustrated: a series of original views from drawings by William Westall ..., with descriptions by Thomas Moule, London: Tilt, 1830, additional engraved title, numerous uncoloured engraved views (two to each plate), 2 with juvenile colouring, variable spotting, endpapers renewed, contemporary red quarter sheep, rebacked with red cloth, some wear and marks, 4to (Qty: 3)NOTESFirst item: scarce, no UK copies listed on Library Hub or Worldcat. The engraved scenes include: Fort of Gwalior; Cuttera Muxadabad; Miaveram Choultry; Mosque at Chunargur; Musjid at Jionpoor, Savendrooghill Fort, all East Indies, plus others East Indies and Europe.
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[Italy]. [Album of architectural studies and designs], c.1812-27, 18 wove-paper leaves each with architectural sketch recto in pen and ink, pencil and grisaille or bistre wash, captions and annotations in black ink, 4 leaves blank, contemporary Italian half vellum, marbled sides, shelf-mark label to spine, oblong 4to (24.4 x 19 cm), together with: [France & Italy] , [Manuscript journal of a tour through France and Italy], 1822-3, including Paris, Turin, Alessandria, Lucca, Buggiano, Florence, Rome, Naples, Herculaneum, and Terracina, [ 120] pp., ownership inscription 'Mary Ranson Bush, Lyons, France, Novr 30th 1822' to front pastedown, laid-in manuscript letter to Cecil H. Clough on Warburg Institute letterhead identifying the sitter as the subject of 'Hakewill's engraving', contemporary roan-backed boards, rubbed and worn, sides cockled, oblong 8vo (21 x 12.4 cm), [Genoa], 'Introduction à l'histoire de la famille D'Oria, de Gènes', 1844, manuscript in black ink on light blue wove paper, 31 leaves, written mainly rectos only, hand-painted illuminated coat of arms on leaf of thicker paper stock, initial blank annotated 'I copied this M.S. at Florence in the month of May 1844 from the original M.S. sent to me by the author Count Gräberg de Hemsö, librarian of the Pitti Palace. F. C. Brooke', contemporary Italian half vellum, 8vo (19.8 x 13 cm), and 1 other item (album of pencil sketches including views of Dover, 1907 , front cover detached) (Qty: 4)NOTESProvenance: First item only: Thomas Ashby (1874-1931), British archaeologist in Italy and director of the British School at Rome (bookplate, annotated 'Vespignani sale, March /00, 957, 16-50'; the note may refer to Italian neoclassical architect Virginio Vespignani (1808-1882)). All items: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), reader in medieval history, University of Liverpool. The first item contains two studies of fountains at the villa d'Este in Tivoli but mainly contains designs for submission to the Accademia di San Luca and other purposes, with captions as follows: 'Progetto d’un eremo per un religioso, presentato alla Accademia della pace l’anno 1812'; 'Idea per riduzione d’una sala … nell’Accademia Romana di S. Luca, ad uso della pubblicita premazioni, presentato all’Accademia de S. Luca l’anno 1814'; 'Altra idea par la sudetta sala all’istasio uso, presentato all’Ac[c]ademia d S. Luca l’anno 1814'; 'Idea per l’aspetto d’una piccolo casa private, fatto per eseguire in l’anno 1815'; 'Memoria da erigersi sopra una sepottura con l’appoggio alla parete che forma recinto dell’arca[?] [...] la Chiesa di Cavallere nel Tivolo, fatta per eseguire l’anno 1816'; 'Tinello con sala di ricreazione al di sopra, seguita su la vetta di una collina presso la Magliana per il Sig. Lugi Righetti l'anno 1827'.
Langsdorff (Georg Heinrich von). Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bid 1807, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Frankfurt: Friedrich Wilmans, 1812, engraved portrait frontispieces, 43 engraved plates, one folding plate of music, black ink stamps to titles, small red ink stamps to final plate versos in each volume, some light offsetting and offsetting, bookplates of Donald H. Graham Jr. (1914-2010, US real estate developer and Chinese bronze mirror collector), contemporary half calf, red labels to spines, tears and splits to spines, covers rubbed with some wear to corners, 4to (Qty: 2)NOTESHill 968; Howes L81; Sabin 38895-6. Contains the first published view of San Francisco, not included in the English translation of 1813-14. 'Langsdorff was naturalist to Krusenstern's expedition, which he had quitted at Kamschatka, and explored the Aleutian Isles, the Northwest Coast, California etc., and returned overland through Siberia. His work contains a fuller account of Sitka, the Settlement of St. Francisco etc., than any other' (Sabin).
Mahbubi (Sadr al-Shari'ah al-Asghar al-, d.1346/7 CE). Tanqih al-usul, probably Iran or Central Asia, c.17/18th century, Arabic manuscript in black ink on laid paper, 117 unnumbered leaves + 3 blanks, naskh script, 15 lines to the page, text within concentric red and blue frames throughout, rubricated headings, diacritics and other marks, contemporary sepia wash to text area of final few leaves, profuse Arabic annotations by several hands to margins, text, interleaves and blanks (naskh and nasta'liq script), a few minor stains and repairs, early binding of reddish-brown goatskin, covers elaborately blind-tooled with outer floral roll and stamped corner- and centrepieces all containing repeated vegetal motifs, manuscript label in Arabic pasted to front cover, slight loss to spine-ends, 8vo (21 x 12 cm), laid-in typed letter signed from Martin Lings (1909-2005) as assistant keeper, British Museum (dated 1961) identifying the work, together with: [Persian manuscript], Hikmet-nama, probably Iran, c.16/17th century, Persian manuscript in black ink on thick laid paper sprinkled with gold, 82 unnumbered leaves + 2 blanks, nasta'liq script, 18 lines to the page, text within gold frames throughout, rubricated headings, containing approximately 6 discrete sections, Persian manuscript title 'Hikmet-nama' to initial blank, occasional marginal damp-staining, a few leaves repaired or extended in fore margins, 2 consecutive leaves with stain in text (text remaining legible), one blank page towards rear with numerous Islamic seal impressions (and concomitant ink-staining), a few other marks, early sheep binding, both covers detached, spine perished, worn, 8vo, (21 x 12 cm) (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: 1) Edward Hampton, British soldier, with his ownership inscription 'E Hampton, 67th Regiment, Kabul, 1879' to the initial or final blank of each work. ‘Lieut. Hampton served in the Afghan war in 1879-80, and was present in the engagement at Charasiab on the 6 th October 1879, and in the operations round Cabul in December 1879 (Medal with two Clasps)’ (Hart, The New Annual Army List … for 1888, p. 281). 2) Thence by descent. Sadr al-Shari'ah al-Asghar al-Mahbubi was an influential legal scholar from Central Asia who died in Bukhara, modern-day Uzbekistan. His Tanqih al-Usul, a synthesis of Hanafi and Maliki legal writing, marked a significant new development in Islamic jurisprudence but has been overlooked by modern scholarship (see Al-Azem, Rule-Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition , p. 79). At least the first section of the second item (the 'Hikmet-nama', i.e. 'Book of maxims' or 'Book of wisdom') appears to be from the encyclopaedic Javedan-nama by Persian author Baba Afzal al-Din (d.1213/14; see Mosannafat, Tehran, 1952, p. 289).
* Napier (Sir Charles James, 1782-1853). Autograph letter signed as governor of Sind to Sir Henry Bunbury (1778-1860), 7th Baronet, Hyderabad, Sind, 29 May 1844, 'I have got through, in this infernal frying pan, a great operation which I think seals the conquest ... By Lord E[llenborough']s orders ... we have had a meeting all of the chiefs and jaghirdars ... They are all wild to be led against the Punjaubees; and offered to follow me to the tune of 40 000 men ...', single bifolium, 4 pp., 5cm closed tear along central folds, a few other small nicks and chips, 4to (26 x 21.2 cm), together with: Autograph letter signed to Sir Henry Bunbury, Nice, 28 December 1847, on his time in India and his contemporary officers ('I told [Lord Dalhousie] what I thought he ought to know ... that he has not, in all India, a single General ... that deserves the name ... [and] that I had the highest opinion of Gough as regards every noble quality of heart, but that he had a potato for a head ...'), single bifolium, 4 pp., conjugate leaf with integral address panel verso, ink-stamps, seal-tear causing partial loss of 2 words, short closed tear to no loss, 4to (22.6 x 17.3 cm), Autograph note signed to William Potter, 9 December 1841, single bifolium, 1 p., 6 lines including date and signature, related newspaper cuttings on Napier mounted verso of first leaf and to conjugate blank, conjugate blank with recipient's address panel tipped in recto and mounting residue verso, 12mo (17.7 x 11.6 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance (third item): Francis Edwards, 1966 (typescript purchase note). Napier's annexation of Sind territory was criticised by Gladstone's cabinet and many Company directors, and remains one the most contentious episodes in the history of British involvement in India. Sir Henry Bunbury, 7th Baronet, of Barton Hall near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, was a prominent soldier and politician, and in his retirement an acclaimed military historian. He married Napier's sister Emily, his second wife, in 1830.
Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia. After Lithographs by Louis Haghe from Drawings made on the Spot. With Historical Descriptions by George Croly [-William Brockedon], 6 volumes in 3, London: Day & Son, 1855-6, 248 lithographic plates (including portrait frontispiece and 6 vignette titles) and 2 engraved maps (numbered 125 and 212), tissue-guards throughout, 2 of the plates (213 and 240, i.e. 'Interview with Mehemet Ali in his Palace, Alexandria' and 'The Simoon in the Desert') printed in colours, the rest single- or double-tinted, variable spotting, marbled endpapers, contemporary purple morocco, spines richly gilt in compartment, hop-leaf roll to sides gilt, coat of arms incorporating Jerusalem cross and crusader motto 'Deus vult' to front covers, some light rubbing to extremities, housed in a custom blue cloth slipcase, 4to (29 x 19.5 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: Peter William Monckton Copeman (1932-2018), English dermatologist (bookplates). Abbey Travel 388 (volumes 1-4 only); Blackmer 1432 refers. First quarto edition, and the second overall, of Roberts's masterpiece of travel and lithography. The work was first published in 1842-9, in folio format; the format of the present edition is occasionally described as imperial octavo. Volumes five and six (for which Abbey does not provide a collation) each have a list of illustrations on a single leaf and 22 and 19 leaves of descriptive text respectively.
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