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Lot 955
NEU - ORIGINAL UK LPs. The first 2 wonderful studio LPs from Neu!, both original UK pressings and presented in great condition. Titles are Neu! (UAG 29500 - really strong Ex record with a couple of very light and faint scuff marks/Ex+ superb condition sleeve with just a little laminate wear) and Neu! 2 (UAG 29500 - superb Ex+ condition record showing very few markings/Ex nice and neat gatefold sleeve with a little foxing).
Lot 456
RARE/SIGNED 1960S PROGRAMMES. Four programmes and a signed card to include: 1967 'The Fool' designed programme for Del Shannon/Chuck Berry at The Saville Theatre, signed to inner by Del Shannon, 1961 fold out programme for the Shadows at the Adelphi, Slough signed to verso in blue ink by Jet Harris, Bruce Welch, 1962 Billy Fury programme with latterly signed promo card, 1964 'first appearance' Chuck Berry programme. **see authenticity note in auction info
Lot 131
SPICE GIRLS SIGNED PRINT. A mounted and framed display piece bearing five hand signed images depicting members of the Spice Girls. Numbered 9/260, with only the first ten being hand signed. Won by the vendor in a promotional competition in February 1998 as per sticker to the verso. Measures 54 x 38cm.
Lot 830
LED ZEPPELIN - S/T 'I' - 1ST UK PRESSING (ATLANTIC 588171 'SUPERHYPE', 'UNCORRECTED', 'TURQUOISE'). Always ace to see very first UK pressing of the iconic eponymous debut LP from Led Zeppelin. With Superhype/Jewel Music credits on both sides, *uncorrected* matrix 588171 A//1 1 1 2 & B/1 1 8 8 with the original turquoise lettering grey stripe sleeve. The record is in VG condition. There are surface markings to the playing surfaces, though these are never of a heavier nature with no scratches to mention. No damage to the labels where there are just some spindle markings. The sleeve is in solid VG+ condition - there is some normal light creases to the laminate and some small and light creases leading 'in' from the spine; there are no rips or tears of any nature to note.
Lot 861
ROCK/INDIE - COLOURED 7". Really high quality collection of around 80 x limited edition coloured 7" vinyl releases. Artists/titles include Hum - Stars (green, 2 copies), Mark Lanegan - Stay (green), Ween - Piss Up A Rope (yellow), Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark (green), Box Car Racer - I Feel So, Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down, Pearl Jam - Alive (white) and Light Years (yellow), El Pasado Les Pertenece, Marcy Playground, Old 97s - Cryin' Drunk, Dinosaur Jr. - Over It (white), Incubus - Pardon Me (red), Queens Of The Stone Age - First It Giveth (red), The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Peaches (yellow), Coheed And Cambria - A Favor House Atlantic, Inner City Unit, Soul Asylum, Night Surfer, Veruca Salt and Soundgarden. Condition is typically superb Ex+ (records) and Ex to Ex+ on the sleeves (often very clean, there are often small cataloguing stickers on the front of the sleeve, we have found on most sleeves that these can be removed leaving very little residue).
Lot 148
TOM ROBINSON/DANNY KUSTOW USED AMPLIFIER. A Fender Champ 12 amplifier, owned and used by Danny Kustow during his time with the Tom Robinson band. Later donated by Tom Robinson to the vendor to be used for her daughter's first band. Sold with signed letter of provenance from the vendor, who worked for Tom Robinson in a PA/admin capacity from 1987 onwards.
Lot 28
Wagner, Richard; Rackham, Arthur (illus) The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie with Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods. William Heinemann, 1910-11. 8vo (2 vols). Org. cloth in djs; Rhinegold: 34 tipped-in colour plates by Rackham; Siegfried: 30 similar plates. First trade editions. With one other. [3] ..Occasional foxing or toning, some wear to jackets but a very good pair.
Lot 182
Austen, Jane; Thomson, Hugh (illus) Pride and Prejudice. George Allen, 1894. 8vo, org. decorative green cloth gilt, upper board with elaborate peacock design, spine lettered and decorated similarly in gilt, a.e.g.; numerous illus to text by Thomson. First illustrated edition. Often regarded as the most beautifully produced of Austen's works, the quality of Thomson's drawings, and their expression of the spirit of Austen, has led to them becoming as synonymous with her work as Shepard is with Milne.. Binding a touch bumped, gilt a little faded, internally generally clean, a very good copy.
Lot 144
Cooke, W.B. (Engr.); HUMPHREYS, H. Noel (text) Views in Rome, and Its Surrounding Scenery. From Drawings by David Roberts, T. Creswick, W.L. Leitch, T.H. Kromek &c. with Descriptive Sketches. David Bogue, 1845. 4to, full vellum gilt; eng tit., 29 plates (one double-page panorama of Rome). First ed.
![[Darwin, Charles] Fitzroy, Robert, and King, Philip Barker Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/34f3d4a9-9654-4e9b-9c4c-aa8900bb1226/515e359b-c434-4311-bc00-aab700de0d9b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 149
[Darwin, Charles] Fitzroy, Robert, and King, Philip Barker Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, Describing their Examination of the Southern Shores of the South America, and the Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe. Vols I+II with Appendix to II. Henry Colburn, 1839. 8vo (3 vols). Full blue calf, sometime rebacked preserving original spines, boards ruled in gilt with blind roll-tooled border, red speckled edges; I: 11 plates; II: 30 plates; Appendix: 1 folding map, 6 plates; lacking all loosely inserted maps. First edition. Whilst lacking the more famous Darwin contribution, the two journals of the voyages prepared by Fitzroy (and the appendix of more in-depth study) remain an important text in the history of science. With the suicide of Stokes (whose journal is a major element of the first volume) and the retirement of Captain King, Fitzroy found himself the guardian of the vast array of documentation the voyages had produced - far more than would fit in a single volume. In the end, an agreement was reached with Darwin. Fitzroy would present the material for which he was responsible, whilst Darwin provided a third volume made up of his account of the voyage. Fitzroy's work may be overshadowed in the popular imagination by his more controversial partner, but his contributions were on less important - his surveys of South American waters were so accurate they are still the foundation for many charts of the area. Fitzroy was deservedly awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographic Society on his return and his two volumes are a major source on the route traversed by the expedition. Fitzroy would undergo a seeming religious conversion by the time of his account of the voyage, repudiating his doubts in the literal truth of Creation, being particularly dismayed by Origin. His scientific work continued though, ultimately leading him to the creation of the Meteorological Office, in which role he invented the weather forecast in an effort to reduce loss of life at sea. Whilst Fitzroy is mostly remembered today as Darwin's Captain, he is much more than this. A principled man who devoted himself to duty - to the point of leaving only his debts for his family - he was a scientific officer who recognised the importance of Darwin's work, even if he later disagreed with the ultimate direction such work would lead. His work is still a hugely important source of scientific, maritime, ethnographical and historical information and remains a landmark in science.
Lot 255
Morris, Beverley Robinson British Game Birds and Wildfowl. Groombridge and Sons, 1855. 4to, half red leather, upper board with central gilt vignette, spine lettered directly in gilt, yellow endpapers, a.e.g.; 60 hand-coloured plates (as called for). First edition.Binding a little worn and rubbed at edges and joints, though boards still tight, variable foxing throughout (generally slight or very slight), occasionally affecting plates, but a nice copy with still vibrant colours.
Lot 259
Legge, W. Vincent Capt. A History of the Birds of Ceylon. Published by the Author, 1880. Large 4to, contemporary half morocco, spine lettered directly in gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.; one key plate, one coloured map, 34 hand-coloured plates after or by J.G. Keulemans, woodcuts to text; bound as one volume to be presented as a prize by then-Colonel Legge at Aberwystwyth Grammar School 1883, thence to Henry Ralph Goring Clarke (armorial bookplate upper pastedown). First ed.. An excellent copy, spine sunned and a little shelfwear to binding, slight marginal toning, gift inscription page foxed, occasional foxing to head of some pages, most noticeable between pp. 726-737 (affecting one plate) but else clean internally with striking colour to the plates.
Lot 141
Grote, George A History of Greece. John Murray, 1846-1856. 8vo (12 vols). Org. cloth; 18 maps (13 folding), 1 port. frontis. First ed. The rare first edition of this monumental work of Victorian scholarship, from the industrious educational ethic which produced Macaulay's History and Gibbon's Decline.
Lot 44
Turner, J.M.W. Picturesque Views on The Southern Coast of England from Drawings Made Principally By J. M. W. Turner, R. A. John and Arthur Arch, London. 1826. Folio (2 vols). Full leather, boards with gilt roll-tooled borders enclosing central blind panel, spines lettered directly in gilt, marbled endpapers, marbled edges; 80 plates and vignettes. First Edition.. Binding rubbed and bumped, joints on I cracking, II sometime rebacked, some foxing, spotting etc throughout, offsetting from plates, some pages toned, a very good copy
Lot 147
Cook, Capt. James Captain Cook's Journal during his First Voyage Round the World, edited by Capt. Wharton. Eliot Stock, 1893. 8vo, green morocco-backed boards, spine lettered directly in gilt; port. frontis., 7 folding maps (rear three bound in) and charts, 2 fac. MSS plates, 2 plates; ex-lib. with bookplate to upper pastedown and stamps to pre-lims and verso of plates. First ed. With A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken by the Command of His Majesty for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Printed by H. Hughs for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785. 4to (3 vols). Uniformly bound with the above with similar ex-lib. markings; lacking title in I, 24 plates and folding chart across volumes (without Atlas volume and thus *-plates). Second ed. And A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World. Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777. 4to (2 vols). Uniformly bound with others with ex-lib. stamps; 58 of 63 plates (lacking frontis., XLIV, XLIX, LX, LXII, and XXVII). First ed. Pacific Ocean and South Pole showing signs of restoration throughout, some loss to plates, worse to South Pole.
Lot 224
Bacon, Sir Francis The Two Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane. [Printed for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sold at his shop at Graies Inne Gate in Holborne], 1605 [foot of title page lacking]. 8vo, full red leather, spine with morocco lettering-piece; ll. [1], 45, 118 [i.e. 121, numerous but expected, errors in pagination], ff. A4-L4, 2A4-3G4, 3H1 [lacking final blank and errata leaves as is common]. First edition, with 'maniable' on C4r, l.5. Bacon's hugely influential work inspired the taxonomic structure of Diderot's Encyclopedie and is recognised as a founding essay in empirical philosophy. Bacon himself, was a pioneer of experimental science (his death being attributed by Aubrey to the attempt to freeze meat), courtier to the glittering Elizabethan age, and prolific writer. The work can be seen as a precursor to De Augmentis Scientia and through it, and his other writing, Bacon has exerted a dynamic influence on the entire development of Western scientific thought to the present day. In his own words, his book was to ''be some preparative or key for the better opening of the Instauration''. ESTC S100507; STC (2nd ed.), 1164; Pforzheimer, 36. Binding a touch worn, internally variable foxing etc, pages suggest a touch of damp, generally clean, variable wearing to margins, close cropped at head, occasionally touching text, K2 with very slight marginal tear not affecting text, 2A1-3 and 2B1-4 marginal fraying with very slight loss, 2D4 slight tear with loss to margin, 2L3 marginal restoration affecting marginalia, 2L4 restoration to margin not affecting text, 2R1 loss to lower corner, 3D4 loss to lower corner, 3E1 inner margin restored not affecting text, 3E2 to end with varying restoration generally not affecting text, worming from 3F2 worsening to end affecting text, 3G4 tearing near foot of page affecting text, no final blank or errata. Generally a very good copy (bar worsening to final leaves) of an important work.
![Speede, John Yorkshire. To be solde by Roger Rea the Elder and Younger, [c.1662]. Framed and glazed both sides, hand-coloured](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/34f3d4a9-9654-4e9b-9c4c-aa8900bb1226/b84b8c91-38a1-40c0-ac3b-aab700ddefe8/468x382.jpg)
Lot 107
Speede, John Yorkshire. To be solde by Roger Rea the Elder and Younger, [c.1662]. Framed and glazed both sides, hand-coloured, English text on verso. Speede's copyrights remained in the hands of the Humble family until 1659 when they were purchased by first William Garret, and shortly after the Reas. It appears the Reas intended to issue an edition of Speede's atlas for the Restoration, however they were delayed and the complete work had not been issued by as late as 1666. Maps bearing their imprint are relatively scarce because (according at least to Bassett and Chiswell in their 1676 preface) the Rea edition was largely destroyed in the Great Fire.
Lot 197
Signed Modern First Editions Thatcher, Margaret, The Downing Street Years, signed on the endpaper, (1993); Snowdon, Public Appearances (1991); Heller, Joseph, Closing Time (1994, First UK); James, P.D., A Certain Justice (1997); Le Carre, John, Our Kind of Traitor (2010); Van Der Post, Laurens, The Voice of the Thunder (1993); Rose, Alec, My Lively Lady (1968, 2nd Imp.); Archer, Jeffrey, The First Miracle (1994); with 6 others. [14].
Lot 198
Banks, Lynne Reid The L-Shaped Room. Chatto & Windus, 1960. 8vo, org. cloth, in unclipped jacket (16s). First ed. Naughton, Bill Alfie. MacGibbon & Kee, 1966. 8vo, org. cloth, in unclipped jacket (25s). First ed. Sillitoe, Alan Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. W.H. Allen, 1958. 8vo, org. cloth, in unclipped jacket (13s 6d). First ed. . Banks spine of jacket faded, creasing and rubbing to head and foot of spine with some loss to head, a little bumping to board edges, a little marking to page edges, expected toning to pages, generally clean internally. Naughton with some wear and creasing to jacket edges, head and foot of spine a touch bumped, pages edges slightly foxed, occasional foxing internally, owner's ink inscription to ffep. Sillitoe jacket with edge wear, with a touch of loss to head and foot of spine, lower panel a bit dusty, board edges a little bumped, slight foxing to page edges, occasional foxing internally, pages slightly toned, clean internally. All very good.
Lot 191
Lycophronis Lycophronis chalcidensis Alexandra, cum graecis Isaacii Tzetzis commentariis. Accedunt versiones, variantes lectiones, emendationes, annotationes & indices necessarii. Cura & opera Johannis Potteri & Collegii Lincolniensis Socii. Oxonii, E Theatro Sheldoniano. Oxford, Sheldonianus, 1697. Folio, full calf, sometime rebacked, spine with contrasting morcco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers; eng. frontis., eng. tit. First ed. A deliberately (wilfully) obscure proto-Mannerist poem, full of obscure, doubtful archaicisms, practically impossible to understand without a commentary, for which obscurantist snobbery maybe the best explanation for its popularity. This Oxford edition by a future Archbishop of Canterbury includes the Tzetzes scholia and a Latin translation by Joseph Scaliger, along with an extensive commentary.
Lot 214
Duns Scotus, John Opera Omnia, volumes 1-2, 4 & 5 (part 2) - 12. Lyon: laurence Durand, 1639. Folio (12 of 14 vols). Full contemporary vellum, red edges; eng. port. frontis. by Cornelis Bloemaert and with eng. title printed in red and black, separate titles printed in red and black to each book. First ed.
Lot 31
Timlin, William M. The Ship That Sailed to Mars. George G. Harrap & Co., 1923. 4to, org. parchment-backed boards; 48 tipped-in coloured plates. First edition. As with many children's' classics this was started by architect and illustrator Timlin as a diversion for his son. It grew into book form and Harrap, impressed by the beauty of design, decided to use the original manuscript for the text, rather than typesetting.Parchment a little dusty and boards scuffed at edges, pages cockled, with suggestions of damp at some point, a good copy of a rare classic.
Lot 190
Lee, Nathaniel The Rival Queens or the Death of Alexander the Great. J. Magnes and R. Bentley, 1677. 8vo, paper wrappers; pp. [8 (title page defective, lacking one page of Epistle Dedicatory)], 64 [66, two leaves numbered 25-26], [2 (Epilogue)]; provenance: small ink stamp of Penzance Library on Epistle Dedicatory page, ink MSS note on ffep states it was purchased from ''John Kinsman, Penzance'' in 1879. First edition. With a dedicatory verse to Lee by Dryden and prologue written by Sir Charles Scroop. Lee was a dramatist, possibly under the patronage of the 2nd Duke of Buckingham. This blank verse tragedy about Roxana's jealousy for Statira made Lee's reputation. His success was matched by excess - much in the company of the infamous Rochester - and he died of a drunken fit before his 40th birthday. He spent time in Bedlam, summing up his situation as follows: ''They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.''Loss to title page, one page of Epistle Dedicatory lacking, page corners folded, pages toned and occasionally spotted.
Lot 58
Young, Rev. George A History of Whitby, and Streoneshalh Abbey. Whitby: Clark and Medd, 1817. 8vo (2 vols). Sometime rebound in half-calf (matching spines but varying marbled boards on each vol.), spines with contrasting morocco-lettering pieces; 14 engraved plates (some folded), 3 folded maps (2 with tape restoration), one folded table (extra-illustrated, as is not uncommon). First ed. of this rare work.
Lot 237
Chapman, Capt. F. Gun, Rod and Rifle. Eastbourne: V.T. Sumfield, 1908. 8vo, org. red cloth; all plates as called for inc. 2 folding colour plates of flies. First ed. Scarce sporting work by one of the best shots in England, a noted huntsman and Master of the Wensleydale Hunt, and a keen fisherman. Chapman was a country gent of the old school, hardy and adventurous and, like many others, when he could no longer do, he wrote. With idem Reminiscences of the Wensleydale Hounds. Eastbourne: V.T. Sumfield, [1907]. 8vo, org. red cloth; all plates as called for (frontis. and last loose but present). First ed. Both contain armorial bookplates for the Chapman-Purchas family, descendants of the Captain.
Lot 22
Caldecott, Randolph Picture Books: The House that Jack Built; The Mad Dog; Babes in the Wood; Sing a Song; Farmer's Boy; Queen of Hearts; The Milkmaid; Hey Diddle Diddle; A Frog he would; Come Lasses and Lads; Mrs Mary Blaize; and Great Panjandrum. George Routledge & Sons, 1878-85. All card wraps (12). Together with the first Picture Book, Frederick Warne, [1879], a re-issue of the first four picture books in one volume, org. cloth; and Irving, Washington, Old Christmas, Macmillan & Co., 1878, org. cloth gilt; and Engen, Rodney K., Randolph Caldecott 'Lord of the Nursery', org. cloth and dj. [15]
Lot 199
Blyton, Enid Island of Adventure. Macmillan & Co., 1944. 8vo, org. cloth in later jacket (8s 6d). First ed. Castle of Adventure. Macmillan & Co., 1946. 8vo, org. cloth in jacket (7s 6d). First ed. Ship of Adventure. Macmillan & Co., 1950. 8vo, org. cloth in jacket (8s 6d). First ed. River of Adventure. Macmillan & Co., 1955. 8vo, org. cloth in clipped jacket. First ed. With Mountain of Adventure, 1949, cloth no jacket; and The Sea of Adventure, 1950 reprint in jacket (8s 6d). Along with 6 Famous Five Books, in jackets, 6th-11th impressions and The Famous Five Big Book, Hodder & Stoughton, 1964. In jacket, first of this collection. And five other similar books. [17]
Lot 27
Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. 4to, finely bound in calf by Bayntun-Riviere, upper board with central inlaid vignette after 'Peter Pan is the Fairies' Orchestra' enclosed in gilt fillet borders, upper board and spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., in custom-made clamshell box; 50 colour tipped-in illus by Arthur Rackham. First trade edition.
Lot 53
Fielding, Theodore Henry A Picturesque Description of the River Wye. Ackermann & Co., 1841. 4to, green cloth; 12 hand-coloured aquatints, hand-numbered in ink and lettered in pencil under image by a contemporary hand; provenance: William Kitching, 1848 (pencil owner's inscription to title) -- George Seton Veitch (armorial bookplate upper pastedown). First ed., large paper. Attractive and scarce work.
Lot 65
Cotes, V. Cecil Two Girls on a Barge. Chatto & Windus, 1891. 8vo, org. pictorial cloth; forty-four illus by F.H. Townshend. First ed. V. Cecil Cotes appears to be the pseudonym of Sara Jeannette Duncan, a Canadian newspaper journalist with Anglo-Indian roots. This book is an early and scarce account of a converted narrow boat trip, in this case undertaken by a pair of adventurous female Cambridge graduates. It is generally agreed to be authentic in tone and knowledge and describes a journey up the Grand Junction, Oxford and Coventry canals. The detail extends to a meeting with canal reformer George Smith, though for some reason the author refers to him exclusively as ''Mr Gershom''.
Lot 76
Braun, Georg; Hogenberg, FranzLondinum feracissimi Angliae Regni metropolis. First published in Civitates Orbis Terrarum, c.1570. Hand-coloured. Latin text to verso.The earliest town plan of London, this map uses a view perhaps unique to maps, a flat-plane city strangely angled to show the major buildings, though with no regard to perspective. This was published in Civitates Orbis Terrarum, itself the first collection of printed town maps. There are various states of the map identified. This is likely an intermediate state between the first state and the final state in 1574. The spelling of Westminster has changed to "West Muster" (from "West Mester") but it does not show the Royal Exchange or bear the words "Cum Privilegio" in the lower right corner. The map was produced for the Hanseatic League, and their headquarters in London (the Steelyard) is described in the lower right corner. It was hoped to attract Royal favour from Mary - hence the Royal Barge in the centre of the river - and emphasise the importance of the League - hence the ostenatious ignoring of the impressive halls of the Livery Companies. Intriguingly, the original map must have drawn on information acquired earlier than its publication date. Several details would have changed by the time of publication, such as the spire of St Paul's (destroyed in 1561); the cross in St Botolph's without Bishopgate churchyard (lost in 1559); and the identifying of York Place as "Suffolke Place" (re-named 1557). This map was most likely derived from a much larger plan commissioned by the League, but only three sheets survive from this version. This is thus a hugely significant source on early modern London and its development, presented here in an attractive hand-coloured state.
Lot 217
Clarke, Samuel A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God, The Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation bound with A Discourse Concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation bound with Several Letters to the Reverend Dr. Clarke, from a Gentleman in Glocestershire, relating to the First Volumes of the Foregoing Sermons; with the Dr's Answers Thereunto. Printed for W. Botham for James Knapton, 1719. 8vo, full panelled calf, lacking morocco lettering-piece. Fifth corrected editions of first two, second ed. of the last. Clarke was a Cambridge-educated polymath at a time when the traditional ideas of broad knowledge of all subjects were withering against the increasing specialisation of education. He was a noted natural philosopher and early Newtonian, whose work sped the replacement of Cartesian systems with Newton's in the Cambridge syllabus. He was also though a philosopher and theologian, and whilst his first theological publication was a relatively uncontroversial effort, he shot to fame with his next work. In 1704 and 1705 Clarke was selected to deliver the Boyle lectures - successive lectures being a great distinction - because of the combination of mathematics, philosophy and divinity which he offered. These two lectures, printed here, were an answer to Hobbes and associated thinkers on the nature of Liberty, but enlarged from that to aim to prove God's existence through reason. The two separated lectures show the orthodox contemporary view that it was possible to distinguish between natural and revealed religion (the former open to human reason, the latter a personal and confirming experience). As Clarke himself argued, no one could believe in Christ without first believing in God. This was not the perception of all critics who suggested that Clarke might have proven the natural existence of God, but what happened to the Fable of Jesus Christ? What is striking are the clear signs of Clarke's Newtonian training and mathematical background. His metaphysics were constructed in mathematical reasoning and he allied elements of Newtonian science to allow and imply an invisible but necessary directing Providential force. Clarke's genius was not to see the newly developing fields of science as being an enemy of theological interests, but rather an inherent part of God's great design, and thus something to be accommodated within the theological framework. As the great natural philosophers before him, he saw science as a tool for understanding the invisible God through God's visible creation.
Lot 256
Seebohm, Henry The Geographical Distribution of the Charadriidae or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and their Allies. Henry Sotheran, [1887-8]. 4to, org. green pebble-cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt, upper board with black fillet borders, lower with same in blind; 21 hand-coloured plates, monochrome illus to text. First edition, first issue (with Slender-Billed Dotterel frontis).Binding worn, with wear to joints and rubbing and loss to head and foot of spine, internally occasionally dusty, very slight occasional foxing to plates but still bright colours, small tape repair of marginal tear to verso of 'Somali Courser', a very good copy.
Lot 19
Gray, Thomas; Bentley, Richard (illus.) Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray. R. Dodsley, 1753. 4to, half green leather; eng. tit., full-page frontis. and head- and tail-pieces to each poem. First ed., but not first printing (''Designs'' not ''Drawings'' on title). Bentley was a protege of Horace Walpole and helped with the gothic decor of Strawberry Hill.
Lot 69
Love, John Geodaesia: or, the Art of Surveying and measuring of Land Made Easie. Printed for John Taylor, at the Ship in S. Paul's Church-Yard, 1688. 8vo, full early calf, paper label to spine; pp. [4 (Title, verso blank, Dedication, Licence)], [8 (Preface)], [10 (Contents)], [2 (Catalogue)], 196, [10 (Table of the Northing, Southing, Easting or Westing of every Degree from the Meridian)], [24 (Table of Sines and Tangents)], [8 (Log Tables)]; title printed in red and black, numerous figures and illus to text, letterpress tables. First edition. John Love was an English land surveyor who travelled to the New World around 1680. He worked surveying grants for settlers in the Carolinas and, with Maurice Matthews, produced an early map of the area. He noted the lack of knowledge of local surveyors and wrote one of the first practical guides on the subject to address the deficiency. The first edition, licensed in 1687 though with a publication date of 1688, was hugely successful. There were 11 English editions before the 12th edition was published in America in 1793. This may well have been the first survey book published in the new United States and Washington certainly studied surveying from the work. The book changed little over publications, its significance lying (according to A.W. Richeson) in Love's care in consider the different conditions for American field work, versus English. [For geometrical studies, with references to surveying, mapping and similar, including plates of examples and instruments, see Lot 277.]
Lot 249
Cuvier, Georges, baron; Bowdich, Edward T. An introduction to the ornithology of Cuvier : for the use of students and travellers. Paris: Printed by J. Smith and sold by Treuttel and Würtz, 1821. 8vo, org. boards (covers detached but present); pp. [8], 86, [4 (Index to Ornithology)]; 20 plates showing bird figures (last plate loose but present), plate showing Orders of Birds. First English edition. The first English translation of Cuvier's Ornithologie, ou, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, d'après Le règne animal de M. le baron Georges Cuvier (1817). Cuvier was perhaps the most important pioneer in the scientific study vertebrate paleontology. Bowdich translated the work as preparation for a journey to Africa as a member of the Wetteravian Society of Natural History.
Lot 35
British History and Topography A collection of works on, or relevant to, county history, genealogy and antiquity, including bound Acts of Parliament, pamphlets, and books. Works present include: Milner's Survey of the Antiquities of Winchester (1809, 2nd ed., 2 vols); First Printing in Cambridge (1925 limited ed of 40 facsimiles after 1886 facsimiles); Furnivall edited Fifty Earliest English Wills (1882); Modus Tenendi Cur Baron cum visu Franci Plegii (1915 reprint for the Manorial Society of the 1510 original); the auction catalogue for the sale of the Trafalgar Estate (with loosely inserted maps at rear); Hennell's History of the King's Body Guard (1904) and issues of 18th century Magazines such as the Annual Register and The Topographer. [qty]
Lot 152
Mennie, Donald; Putnam, Weale (text) The Pageant of Peking. Comprising sixty-six Vandyck photgravures of Peking and environs from photographs by Donald Menni. Shanghai: A.S. Watson & Co., 1921. 4to, org. blue decorative cloth, upper board lettered in gilt; pp. 40 (text); 66 tipped-in photogravures. Second edition, published a year after the limited first edition of 1000 copies.
Lot 179
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Works. Garden City New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc., 1930. 8vo (23 of 24 vols). Half blue morocco, boards ruled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in two and at foot, t.e.g.; frontis. in first volume. Crowborough Edition - limited, no. 688 of 750, signed by Doyle. Lacking vol. 22 The Parasite. The Captain of the Pole-Star, Other Stories. . Bindings a touch rubbed and bumped, especially at extremities, bumping variable across all volumes with occasional loss to leather, variable browning to the boards. Spines and joints appear tight with no obvious signs of cracking or damage. Offsetting from turn-ins. Signed limitation page in Rodney Stone detached at head, but still integral. Internally, the pages appear to be lightly toned (varying across volumes) with slight foxing, spotting etc. throughout. Foxing is variable, with some volumes markedly more affected than others (esp. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, particularly pp. 246-7, noticeably marked and creased).
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Williams, John CalthropPractical Observations on Nervous and Sympathetic Palpitation of the Heart. Longman, Rees, Orme, Browne, and Co., 1836. 8vo, brown cloth decorated in blind with venous pattern; 1 plate of a stethoscope, with bound in errata slip. First ed.Williams was a doctor and surgeon who appears to have been an early adopter and advocate of the stethoscope in heart examinations. He describes being taught how to use one by Dr Duncan of Edinburgh in 1818, only a few years after the tool's invention. He states that he has "never permitted the disadvantage to myself of neglecting its employment". This book was originally a course of lectures given at the short-lived Nottingham medical school and was intended to clarify and improve understanding of the causes and nature of heart disease. The 1852 second edition is more commonly found and the first edition appears rare.. Extremities rubbed and bumped with a little loss, pages a little cockled, variable foxing, spotting etc. throughout, most noticeable to plate.
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Speede, John Cambridgeshire described. John Sudbury and George Humble, c.1610. Framed and glazed double-sided, hand-coloured both sides, English text on verso. This map was the first in the series to introduce a symbolic presentation of the mile scale - it is held by one of the academic figures (a motif repeated with Oxfordshire). The blank shield would seem prepared for the arms of Sidney Sussex (the youngest of the old foundations). There is one intriguing error on the map - Corpus Christi College's foundation is given as 1344 rather than 1352, advancing it ahead of both Trinity Hall and Caius.
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