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Click here to subscribeSWINBURNE, HENRYTRAVELS THROUGH SPAIN, IN THE YEARS 1775 AND 1776 London: P. Elmsly, 1779. First edition, 4to, [xxx], 427, folding map and 13 plates (as called for), 4 additional plates bound in at p.297 and at end, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, neatly rebacked retaining original spine
[CORSINI, EDOARDO]RAGIONAMENTO ISTORICO SOPRA LA VALDICHIANA IN CUI SI DESCRIVE L'ANTICO, E PRESENTE SUO STATO Florence: Francesco Moücke, 1742. First edition, 4to., with a large folding engraved map of the Val di Chiana comprising three folio sheets (41 by140 cm), contemporary vellum, Leo S. Olschki label and book plate of John BuryNote: The Val di Chiana is a valley of central Italy, one hundred kilometres long, which covers the provinces of Arezzo, Siena and Perugia. Its name derives from the Chiana which rises near Arezzo, flows between the Arno and Tiber. In prehistoric times the valley was occupied by the Arno, which then flowed to the Tiber. When a natural dam formed by alluvial deposits diverted the Arno to the northwest, the Chiana drained to the Tiber; but another natural dam at Chiusi prevented proper drainage, and during medieval times the Chiana valley became marshy and malarial. Re-interest was kindled in the early 18th century in drying to resolve the drainage and hydraulic systems. In 1788 detailed engineering plans made by Vittorio Fossombroni were put into effect, and the work was completed between 1826 and 1838. The watershed was moved southward, and, as a result, the Chiana valley drains partly to the Arno and partly to the Tiber. Almost entirely reclaimed for cultivation, the valley now forms a fertile and productive agricultural region.
MOUNT ETNAWINCHILSEA, HENEAGE FINCH, EARL OF A True exact relation of the late prodigious earthquake & eruption of Mount Aetna. London: T. Newcomb, 1669. 4to., folding engraved frontispiece, 20th century vellum, by Maltby, edges uncut, and with the final blank leaf, folding frontispiece mounted with small tear to the upper margin and repair to small tear at the inner margin, small nick at the foot of the spine, ESTC R31019; [Massa, Giovanni Andrea] Della Sicilia grand'isola del Mediterraneo in prospettiva il Mont' Etna, o Mongibello, esposto in veduta, Palermo: appresso Vicenzo Toscano, impressore della Comp. di Gesu, 1708. First edition, 4to., contemporary limp vellum, light marginal spotting, bookplates of Clifton College Library and John Bury; Hamilton, Sir William Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other volcanoes in a series of letters. New edition. London: T. Cadell, 1774. 8vo., with 5 engraved plates and a folding map, contemporary sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked, original backstrip laid down, small tear at inner edge of folding map, armorial book plate of William Cooley; [Lowe, Emily] Unprotected females in Sicily, Calabria, and on the top of Mount Aetna. London: Routledge,Warnes and Routledge, 1859. 8vo., coloured lithographic frontispiece and 2 other coloured lithographic plates, publisher's blind stamped and gilt blue cloth, endpapers renewed, book plate of John Bury (4)
DOLCE, LODOVICOLE PRIME IMPRESE DEL CONTE ORLANDO Venice: appresso Gabriele Giolito De Ferrari, 1572. First edition, 4to., printer's device on the title page, with a full page woodcut portrait of the author within a decorative border, the arguments to each canto contained within woodcut borders, and 25 framed woodcut vignettes, contemporary vellum, title page with stains to the outer margin, some instances of worming, mostly at the lower corner of the inner margins, final leaf with an ink drawing, the ink of which has penetrated the recto of the leaf to create a small hole affecting a couple of words of the text, USTC 827143; Soranzo, Giovanni Lo Armidoro. Milan: appresso Giovanni Giacomo Como, appresso Giacomo Ardizzone & Giovanni Battista Rossi, 1611. First edition, 4to., contemporary vellum, lacking title page, USTC 4028569 (2)
A COLLECTION OF ASIAN ART REFERENCE WORKS, INCLUDINGDAVISON, GERALD The Handbook of Marks on Chinese Ceramics. London: Han-Shan Tang Books, 1994. First edition?, 8vo, original boards with gilt title; [Idem] The New and Revised Handbook of Marks on Chinese Ceramics. London: Gerald Davison, 2010. 8vo, original red board with gilt title; Hall, James Illustrated Dictionary of Symbols in Eastern and Western Art. London: John Murray, 1994. First edition, 8vo, original boards with gilt title to spine, dust-jacket not price clipped; Chaffers, William Marks & Monograms on European and Oriental Pottery and Porcelain. London: William Reeves, 1965. 15th revised edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, dust-jacket price clipped; Blacker, J.F. The ABC of Japanese Art. London: Stanley Paul & Co., [n.d.]. 8vo, original cloth; Mew, Egan Japanese Porcelain. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, [n.d.]. 8vo, original cloth with gilt title to spine and cover, some tears to dust-jacket; Cammann, Schuyler Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket price clipped, some tears to dust-jacket; and 20 others (28)
ALBRIZZI, GIOVANNI BATTISTAFORESTIERE ILLUMINATO INTORNO LE COSE PIU RARE, E CURIOSE, ANTICHE, E MODERNE DELLA CITTA DI VENEZIA Venice: presso Giambatista Albrizzi, 1761. 8vo., engraved title page, with a double engraved view of Venice (not called for) and a double engraved plate of the church of S. Nicolo di Castello and the Capuchin monastery of S. Antonio Abate at p. 86, with 40 of 43 other engraved plates by F. Zucchi (25 double page, but lacking the plate of the Rialto at p. 195, the Veduta di Venezia at p. 233, and that of the Giuoco di Forze at p. 337), modern half calf, cloth boards, book plates of John and Michael Bury; [Maffei, Francesco Scipione] De gli anfiteatri e singolaramente del Veronese libri due. Versona: per Gio. Alberto Tumermani, 1728. First edition, 8vo., with 15 engraved plates (of which 13 are folding), contemporary vellum, with the engraved armorial book plate of William Murray of Touchadam and with the book plates of John and Michael Bury at the rear; [Meschinello, Giovanni] Storica dimostrazione della citta di Padova. Padua: per li Conzatti, 1767. 12mo., with 4 folding engraved plates, contemporary calf, with the book plates of John and Michael Bury; [Albanese, Modesto] Descrizione delle cose piu notabili che sono nella Chiesa di S. Giustina di Padova de Monaci Casinensi. Padua: [n.p.], 1741. 12mo., modern cloth, book plates of John and Michael Bury; Bottani, Giovanni Descrizione storica delle pitture del Regio-Ducale Palazzo del Te fuori della porta di Mantova detta Pusterla con alcune tavole in rame. Mantua: Giuseppe Braglia, 1783. 8vo., engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 folding engraved plans, contemporary mottled calf, with the book plate of John Bury (5)
[COOK, CAPT. JAMES]AN ABRIDGEMENT OF A JOURNAL OF THE ADVENTURES VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE Manuscript, folio (391 x 255mm.), 3pp., in a neat copper plate hand, written largely in the first person plural, providing an overview of the voyage of the Adventure, under the command of Capt. Tobias Furneaux, with small inset "Circumpolar Chart of the South Pole with the Adventures track round the Globe" on third page, undated & unattributed, small split at fold, small tear at inner margin touching a few letters but without loss, on laid paper watermarked with a capital "H" and "D"Note: The Adventure was the companion ship under the command of Capt. Tobias Furneaux, which accompanied Capt. James Cook, on the Resolution on his second voyage to the South Pacific in 1772-1775. The two ships crossed the Antarctic circle in January 1773 and became separated in heavy fog, following which the Adventure sailed along the southern and eastern coasts of Van Diemen’s Land before reuniting with the Resolution at Queen Charlotte Sound in New Zealand. The ships explored the Society and Friendly Islands before they again became separated in October 1773 near Cook Strait in a gale. Nine of Furneaux's men were murdered by Maoris at Queen Charlotte Sound, an episode which is related in this abridgement. The account is largely in the first person plural, implying that the author may have been on the expedition, but the account occasionally lapses into the third person plural: "in the adjoining Coves to where the Boat was sent they saw a canoe paddling in shore.... we rowed in after them." Where Furneaux's account reads "we saw about 20 baskets, tied up, and a dog eating a piece of broiled flesh which, upon examining we suspected to be human", the present account reads "The lieutenant and some of the people went on shore to the fire and found five heads lying on it and five entrails lying about it".A pencilled note at the head of page 1 reads "p.134, volume 1" but the text of the present manuscript does not appear to tally with page 134, volume 1, of any of the editions of Cook's voyages consulted.The manuscript is accompanied by a 20th century typescript of the text.
[BECKFORD, WILLIAM]ITALY: WITH SKETCHES OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL London: Richard Bentley, 1834. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo., original cloth, previous owner's signature on the title pages of both vols., discolouration of some pages, last couple of leaves in vol. 1 water stained, book plate of John Bury; Brydone, Patrick A tour through Sicily and Malta in a series of letters to William Beckford. London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1775. New edition, 2 vols., 8vo., folding map as a frontispiece to vol. 1, contemporary tree calf, green silk endpapers, a.e.g., with floral fore-edge paintings under the gilt, modern rebacking (4)
NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE34 WORKS, INCLUDING ELIOT, GEORGE [EVANS, MARY ANNE] Silas Marner... Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First edition, 8vo, original orange cloth rebacked, 16pp. of adverts and 4pp. Carlyle autobiography with some tears; [Idem] Middlemarch. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, [n.d. but 1876.] 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; Stevenson, R.L. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with other Fables. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896. 8vo, original maroon cloth; and 6 other works by Stevenson; Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel Longhorne] The Prince and the Pauper. London: Chatto & Windus, 1881. First edition, 8vo, original cloth gilt; and another by Twain; Jerome, Jerome K. Three Men in a Boat. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1889. First edition, second issue, 8vo, original blue cloth rebacked; Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur The Sign of Four. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1893. Third edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth; Galsworthy, John Flowering Wilderness. London: William Heinemann, [1932]. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped, with a loose letter dated March 1930, signed by Galsworthy; Pope, Alexander - Aubrey Beardsley The Rape of the Lock. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. 4to, original blue cloth gilt, section trimmed from title-page and dedication; Browning, Robert Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1871. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, bookplate of Eleanor, Countess of Castle Stewart; and 6 others by Browning (5 with the same bookplate); Byron, George Gordon, Lord Marino Faliero... London: John Murray, 1821. 8vo, contemporary red morocco gilt; and 9 others, including two 18th century Goldsmith works (34)
WHEELER, GEORGE, SIRA JOURNEY INTO GREECE, IN COMPANY OF DR. SPON London: William Cademan, Robert Kettlewell & Awnsham Churchill, 1682. First edition, folio, with three tipped in vignettes and 4 full page plates (of 9) of coins at the end, numerous engravings in the text, contemporary calf, rebacked, title page a little dusty and with faded signature and pen marks in the margins, general discolouration throughout, tear in p. 65 (but no loss) and tear to upper outer corner of plate 4 of coins with loss of one coin, some minor marginal splits, lacking the map, with the book plates of Barwick Sharpe Browne, J.I.LL. Baker, and T. Murray Browne on the front pastedown and those of John and Michael Bury at the rear, ESTC R9388
TOLKIEN, J.R.R., A COLLECTION OF 46 VOLUMES, INCLUDINGTHE SILMARILLION. 1977, FIRST EDITION dustwrapper, small owner's sticker to f.f. endpaper; Farmer Giles of Ham. 1969. Sixth impression, dustwrapper; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. 1969. Sixth impression, dustwrapper; Smith of Wootton Major. 1975; Unfinished Tales. 1980, dustwrapper; Narn I Chin Hurin. 2007, dustwrapper; The Road goes over on. 1969. 4to, original boards, dustwrapper; Bilbo's Last Song. 1991, dustwrapper; The Father Christmas Letters. 1976. 4to, owner's name on endpaper and title; Hammond, W.G. & C. Scull The Lord of the Rings. A Reader's Companion. 2014, dustwrapper; The Filmbook of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Fantasy Films Books, 1979, dustwrapper; Tolkien, Christopher The History of Middle Earth. 1983-1996. 12 volumes, 8vo, dustwrappers; Fonstad, K.W. The Atlas of Middle-earth. Boston, 1981, 4to, cloth, dustwrapper; and 23 others, Tolkien related (46)
FROST, ROBERTFOUR WORKS, COMPRISING Mountain Interval. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1921. Second edition, 8vo, signed by Robert Frost and dated Amherst June 1924 to free-endpaper, original quarter cloth gilt, bookplate; [Idem] West-Running Brook. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1928]. First edition, 8vo, number 264 of 1000 copies, signed by Robert Frost and Graham B. Munson, original green quarter cloth gilt over patterned boards; and another copy, not limited edition, signed and inscribed from Robert Frost to F.B. Adams in Fall 1932 to title-page, original quarter cloth gilt, bookplate; [Idem] A Way Out. New York: The Harbor Press, 1929. 8vo, original quarter cloth (4)
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D.SPEECHES AND ADDRESSES, INCLUDING Inaugural Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt... Washington: The U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. 8vo, number 83 of 100 copies, inscribed to Fred Adams Jr. from Roosevelt, original quarter vellum, slipcase; Barck, Dorothy C. Minutes of the Council of Appointment of New York, April 4, 1778-May 3, 1779. Hyde Park: Privately Printed, 1925. 8vo, signed inscribed from Roosevelt on free-endpaper; Inaugurations a collection of documents relating to Roosevelt's inaugurations, including invitations, photographs of the President and programs; Roosevelt, Franklin D. Instead of a Christmas Carol, including the text of President Roosevelt's United Flag Day Address. Berkley Heights: The Oriole Press, 1942. Small 8vo, wrappers; [Idem] Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, Chautauqua, N.Y., August 14, 1936. 8vo, original boards, a little dampstaining; Hunt, Merwin W., compiler Public Addresses of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Los Angeles: De Vorss & Co., [1934]. First edition, 8vo, original boards with cloth spine; Roosevelt, Franklin D. The War Message. Philadelphia: Ritten House, 1942. 8vo, number 53 of 100 copies, original blue cloth gilt, slipcase, original box; and a collection of others
MORIER, JAMESA JOURNEY THROUGH PERSIA, ARMENIA, AND ASIA MINOR TO CONSTANTINOPLE London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812. First edition, large 4to, 3 folding maps, 26 plates, contemporary calf neatly rebacked, some foxing to title and initial map, occasional foxing and light browning
ENGLAND AND WALES. LORD PROTECTOR (1653-1658 : O. CROMWELL)AN ORDINANCE FOR UNITING SCOTLAND INTO ONE COMMON-WEALTH WITH ENGLAND London: Williau du-Gard & Henry Hills, 1654. First edition, 4to, [2], pp. 253-260, [2], woodcut on title, modern wrappersNote: On 12 April 1654, under the terms of the Tender of Union, the Ordinance for uniting Scotland into one Commonwealth with England was issued by the Lord Protector. It declared that "the people of Scotland should be united with the people of England into one Commonwealth and under one Government" and decreed that a new "Arms of the Commonwealth", incorporating the Saltire, should be placed on "all the public seals, seals of office, and seals of bodies civil or corporate, in Scotland" as "a badge of this Union".
MACLEAN, ALISTAIR, 12 FIRST EDITIONS,INCLUDING Night without End. 1960; When Eight Bells Toll, 1966; Where Eagles Dare. 1967; Bear Island. 1971; The Way to Dusty Death. 1973; Breakhart Press. 1974; The Golden Gate. 1976; Athabasca. 1980; River of Death. 1981; Partisans. 1982; Floodgate, 1983; San Andreas. 1984; first editions, dustwrappers, none price clipped (12)
THE ROYAL SCOTSA COLLECTION OF 7 BOOKS Leask, J.C. and McCance, H.M. The Regimental Records of The Royal Scots. Dublin: Alexander Thom & Co., Ltd., 1915. Small 4to, contemporary calf with gilt thistle tooling to spines and the monogram of King George V to the upper cover, gift inscription to flyleaf; Ewing, John The Royal Scots 1914-1919. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1925. 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; Cannon, Richard Historical Records of the British Army. London, [n.d.] 8vo, original red cloth gilt; Weaver, Lawrence The Story of the Royal Scots. London: Country Life, [n.d.] 8vo, original blue cloth; Paterson, Robert H. Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard, a history of the first Royal Regiment of Foot, The Royal Scots. Edinburgh: The Royal Scots History Committee, 2001. 2 volumes, original cloth, dust-jackets (7)
FOURNIER, GEORGESTRAITE DES FORTIFICATIONS, OU ARCHITECTURE MILITAIRE Paris: Jean Henault, 1661. 3rd edition, 2 parts in 1 col., 16mo., with an engraved frontispiece to the first part, the second part formed of 110 engravings of forts, plans, etc., contemporary mottled calf, spine decorated gilt in compartments, very light water staining of the upper sections, with the book plate of John BuryNote: Georges Fournier (1595 - 1652) was a French Jesuit priest, geographer and mathematician, who as a naval military chaplain acquired considerable knowledge of technical and naval matters. His widely published work on fortifications was first published in 1649 and translated into Dutch, Spanish and German.
FRANZINI, GIROLAMOLAS COSAS MARAVILLOSAS DE LA S. CIUDAD DE ROMA adonde se veen el movimiento de las agujas y las canales, por donde viene a Roma el agua felice, las anchas y acomodadas calle. Rome: por Hieronimo Francino por Alexandro Gardano, y Francisco Coattini compañeros, 1589. 8vo., title page ion red and black with a woodcut headpiece, with a 103 woodcut illustrations, 19th century light tan calf, bind decorated boarders, upper cover with the arms of Sir William Stirling of Pollock, spine decorated in blind, rebacked, by Charles Hering, very light worming of the lower inner margins throughout, with the bookplates of William Stirling, Charles Brooke, and John and Michael BuryNote: USTC 348290. Spanish edition of a guide first published in Venice in 1588, the year in which Sixtus V announced one of the four special holy years and Rome, doubtless in anticipation of the huge increase in pilgrims to the Holy City generated by such events. It has been called the first true guide to the City. It went through numerous editions and its illustrations appeared for decades after to illustrate similar guidebooks. It includes a Spanish translation of Palladio's L'antichità di Roma with a separate title page. The Stirling-Maxwell arms very similar to stamp 2 University of Toronto British armorial bindings. (https://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/STI003 22.10.18) Probably lot 41 Sotheby's, Oct 17, 1978.
HYDE, EDWARD, EARL OF CLARENDONTHE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION AND CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND, BEGUN IN THE YEAR 1641 Oxford: Theater, 1702-04. First edition, 3 volumes, large folio engraved portrait in each volume, half-titles, contemporary panelled calf, non-uniform, each volume with spine rebacked (3)
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS, 12 VOLUMES, INCLUDINGWARBURTON, ELIOT The Crescent and the Cross. London: H. Colburn, 1845. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 2 lithographed frontispieces, illustrations, contemporary calf gilt; Borrow, GeorgeThe Zincali. 1843. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary diced calf gilt; Logan, J. The Scottish Gael. London, 1831. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, hand-coloured aquatint frontispieces, original cloth; Lindsay, Jack Helen come of age. Fanfrolico Press, 1927. 4to, number 386 of 500 copies signed by the author, original cloth, dust-jacket; and 5 works illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe, all with dust-jackets: O More than Happy Countryman, 1943; The Leaves Return, 1947; Green Tide, 1945; My Country Book, 1942; Profitable Wonders, 1949 (12)
CARTARI, VINCENZOLE IMAGINI CON LA SPOSITIONE DE I DEI DE GLI ANTICHI Venice: per Francesco Marcolini, 1556. First edition, 4to., large oval woodcut printer's device on the title page and on the verso of the last leaf, historiated initials and printed in italic throughout, contemporary limp vellum, over lapping edges, lacking ties, wormholes in the endpapers, with the armorial bookplate of the Electors of Bavaria and the stamp on the title page of the Fürstenberg library at DonaueschingenNote: USTC 819162. Cartari's influential treatise on the mythology of the ancients concentrated on the iconography of the gods, explaining their guises and detailing their several attributes. The book was written to help artists, painters and sculptors, to understand and chose subject matters (see the publisher's preface, f. 3). It was hugely successful and exerted a lasting and profound influence on mannerist and Baroque artistic and literary concepts. It went through numerous editions, some illustrated, and as translated into many languages, including English in 1599. The book became the iconographic handbook of painters throughout Europe for the next 250 years.
APIAN, PETRUSASTRONOMICUM CESAREUM [Ingolstadt]: Edition Leipzig, 1967. Folio, first facsimile edition taken from the copy in the Gotha State Library, dated 1540, publisher's brown morocco gilt; with Diedrich Wattenberg's accompanying volume, both contained in slipcaseNote: This is an unusual, if not unique, facsimile copy of the Astronomicum Caesareum. About the facsimile of the work, Owen Gingerich writes: "Although their facsimile is a triumph of modern printing technology, the reproduction as issued is by no means a precision instrument. The reason is simple: the volvelles have been put down without insight into the subtlety of Apianus's original design...there are even more conspicuous errors in the facsimile. The assembly of disks found in folio C of the facsimile belongs on F11..." [Owen Gingerich. Apianus's Astronomicum Caesareum and its Leipzig Facsimile in Journal for the History of Astronomy, 1971]. With this in mind, this copy of the facsimile has been somewhat 'corrected' in order to properly situate the volvelles.
ANGLING50 VOLUMES, INCLUDING Grimble, A. Shooting and Salmon Fishing and Highland Sport. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1902. 4to, original quarter Japanese vellum over boards, gift and ownership inscriptions; Calderwood, W.L. The Salmon Rivers and Lochs of Scotland. London: Edward Arnold, 1909. 8vo, number 153 of 230, previously owned by Kenneth Clark, original cloth gilt; and another first edition vopy, unlimited; The North British RailwayThe Border Angler. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1858. 8vo, original red cloth gilt; Robertson, John The Hand-Book of Angling for Scotland. London: Houlston and Wright, 1861. 8vo, original red cloth gilt; Walton, Izaak & Charles Cotton The Complete Angler... London: John C. Nimmo, 1889. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; Stirling, John Fifty Years with the Rod. London: Philip Allan & Co. Ltd., 1929. 8vo, original cloth; Leitch, A. A Scottish Fly-Fisher. Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1911. 8vo, original green cloth gilt; "Black Palmer" Scotch Loch-Fishing. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. 9vo, contemporary half calf; Young, A. The Angler's and Sketcher's Guide to Sutherland. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1880. 12mo, original green cloth gilt; Stoddart, Thomas Tod The Angler's Companion to the Rivers and Lochs of Scotland. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1853. Second edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt; Falkus, Hugh Salmon Fishing. London: H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd., 1984. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket; and 38 others, sold not subject to return (50)
TOTTI, POMPILIORITRATTO DI ROMA ANTICA NEL QUALE SONO FIGURATI I PRINCIPALI TEMPII, TEATRI, ANFITEATRI, CERCHI... medaglie, & altre cose notabili. Con le vite, & effigie de' primi re d'essa. E le dichiarationi di Bartolomeo Marliani milanese, e d'altri autori. Rome: per Andrea Fei, 1627. First edition, 8vo., numerous engravings in the text and with 3 leaves of illustrations at the end, blind stamped vellum, several signatures with water staining to the upper outer corners, small hole in engraving 82, book plate of John Bury, USTC 4000620; Manilli, Giacomo Villa Borghese fuori di Porta Pinciana descritta da Iacomo Manilli romano guardarobba di detta villa. Rome: per Lodovico Grignani, 1650. With 2 engraved plates (1 a folding plate of the Villa), contemporary vellum, gilt ruled, with gilt felurons in the corners and a gilt vase of flowers as a centrepiece, small blind oval stamp of Giannalisa Feltrinelli on the title page and with the book plate of John Bury, USTC 4021294; Felibien des Avaux, Andre Les plans et les descriptions de des deux plus belles maisons de campagne de Pline le Consul. Paris: Delaulne, 1699. First edition, 8vo., with 7 engraved plates (of which 5 are folding), contemporary sprinkled calf, spine decorated gilt in compartments, later gilt monogram on the covers, partly erased early ownership signature on the title page, with the book plates of John and Michel Bury (3)Note: Totti's guide shows ancient Rome as it was in Totti's time and as he thought it had originally been. The views are highly valuable for the historian of Roman topography, and the "restorations" interesting for the reflection of contemporary architecture. Felibien's reconstruction of Pliny's villas through an analysis of the author's letters foreshadows the rise of Romantic classicism. Felibien supplies the Latin text with his own translation and copious notes. Felibien also reproduces the description of the Laurentine villa by Scamozzi, who records discrepancies that occur in the Pliny documents. Scamozzi's text appears in the original Italian with Felibien's French translation and notes. The work concludes with Felibien's Dissertation touchant l'architecture antique et l'architrecture gothique.
HOROLOGY, 3 VOLUMES, COMPRISINGBERTHOUD, FERDINAND L'Art de Conduire et de Régler les Pendules et les Montes. Paris, chez l'auteur & Michel Lambert, 1759. First edition, 16mo, 4 folding engraved plates, contemporary calf, spine gilt, bookplate of Léon Leroy, a little worn, upper joint split, [Berlin Cat. 1757]; Sainte Marie Magdeleine, Pierre de. Traitté d'horlogiographie, contentant plusieurs manieres de construire sur toutes surfaces toutes sortes de lignes horaires, & autres cercles de la Sphere. Lyon: François Demasso, 1674. 8vo, [xii], 324pp., additional engraved title and 80 engraved plates (plates numbered to 72, + plates 18a, b, c, d, 31a and 52a, b, c), 19th century quarter vellum, slightly rubbed and soiled, a few gatherings browned, fore-margin of a few plates cut close sometimes shaving a plate number or illustration; Trotta, Battista Nuovo Horologio Notturno per mezzo delle Stelle. Naples: Luc' Antonion di Fusco, 1651. 8vo, 104pp., later vellum, marginal repairs to wormholes
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D.A LARGE COLLECTION OF MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES AND STUDIES, INCLUDING The Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt. New York: Random House/Harper, 1938-1950. 13 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jackets chipped; Roosevelt, Elliott, editor F.D.R. His Personal Letters. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, slipcase; Grey, George Ten Days, a Crisis in American History. New York: Duffield and Green, 1933. 8vo, original card wrappers; Sherwood, Robert E. Roosevelt and Hopkins... New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; and a large quantity of others, sold not subject to return
GREW, NEHEMIAHMUSAEUM REGALIS SOCIETATIS Or a Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artifical Rarities belonging to the Royal Society. London: printed by W. Rawlins, 1681. First edition, 2 parts in 1 volume, folio, [12], 386, [2], [2 (blank)], 43; portrait frontispiece & 31 plates [two folding], contemporary calf gilt, worn, hinges splitting, plate 5 & 6 cut round and laid down, plate 31 laid down, some worming to lower margin from plate 7 onwards, portrait and final plate laid downNote: Wing G1952
LITERATURE AND ILLUSTRATED, INCLUDINGDE LA MARE, WALTER The Traveller. Faber & Faber, 1946. 4 lithographs by David Piper, original cloth, slightly faded; Blake, William The Poems. Florence Press, 1921. 8vo, vellum, slightly bowed; Kates, J. The Poetical Works. 1889. 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt; Kennedy, Margaret The Game and the Candle. 1928, number 268/500 copies signed by the author, original quarter cloth; Grigsby, J.S., editor The Orchid Door. Ancient Korean Poems. Kobe, c.1937. 8vo, watered silk binding; Mitford, Mary Our Village. 1893, original pictorial cloth gilt; Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart. 1958. First edition, dustwrapper slightly soiled; De la Mare, Walter Stuff and Nonsense. 1927. First edition, woodcuts by Bold, original cloth, dustwrapper; Cornford, F. Mountains & Molehills. Cambridge, 1935. 8vo, woodcuts by Gwen Raverat, original cloth; Whistler, Laurence Rex Whistler. 1948, reprinted, 8vo, dustwrapper,; Whistler, L. The Masque of Christmas. 1947. 8vo, original wrappers; 25 Puffin Picture Books, original wrappers, 16 volumes of Britain in Pictures; and various others; sold not subject to return (quantity)
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION, INCLUDING SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETYA NEAR COMPLETE RUN, COMPRISING First Series. Edinburgh, 1887-1911, volumes 1-61, original blue cloth gilt; Second Series. Edinburgh, 1911-1920, volumes 1-20, original red cloth gilt; Third Series, volumes 1-55, original green cloth gilt, lacking 53 & 54; Fourth Series. Edinburgh, 1964-1987, volumes 1-23, original light blue cloth; Fifth Series. Edinburgh, 1987-2006, volumes 1-19, original black cloth; Sixth Series. Edinburgh, 2007-2018 volumes 1-13, original red cloth, lacking volume 4, bookplates of Lord Shaw of Dunfermline, William Saunders and or Duncan Shaw; binding of volume 14 of Series 1 slightly dampstained, otherwise very good or fine condition; Heger, Franz Joseph Tablettes des Postes de L'empire D'allemagne et des provinces limitrophes. Mayence, [1764], 8vo, [14], 122, [14], modern black morocco, uncut; Nouvelle listes des Postes Principales, dressée en faveur des Voyageurs, qui part de Strasbourg pour l'Allemagne, La Hollande et la Suisse. Strasbourg: Amand Koenig, 1784. 12mo, [2], 54, black morocco, inscribed "The Dutchess of Buccleugh, 1787" on recto of A1 [Avis]; Poppele, E. Manuel des Postes pour l'Allemagne. Frankfurt, 1831, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards (inscribed "Buccleuch 1839, Vienna, July 10th"); Cullen, Edward Isthmus of Darien Ship Canal. London: E. Wilson, 1853, Second edition, presentation copy from the author, folding frontispiece and 3 maps (2 folding), original red cloth gilt, 12pp. advertisements, head of half-title cut away, lacks part of spine, hinges weak (recount)
URQUHART, WILLIAM, AND ANOTHERTWO MANUSCRIPT VOLUMES The Copie of King Charles the First his Revocation made in Scotland, anno 1625, act 9 part? 1633, 206 manuscript pp., with "W. Urquhart of Meldrum" to flyleaf, 17th century panelled calf, worn; Another manuscript Decreet of Ranking and Preference of the Creditors of Balquhollie, dated 23rd July 1729, 190 manuscript pp., each page signed Ja. Justice, the final page signed The Bruce (2)
SCIENCE FICTION, 19 VOLUMES INCLUDINGBRADBURY, RAY. The Day it Rained Forever. 1959; Something Wicked this Way Comes. 1963; The Machineries of Joy. 1964; The October Country. 1957, Second impression; The Illustrated Man. 1958, 3rd impression; Wyndham, John The Chrysalids. 1955, 2nd impression; Sturgeon, Theodore Thunder and Roses. 1957; Heinlein, Robert Double Star. 1958; Sloane, William Stories for Tomorrow. London, 1955; Hoyle, Fred October the First is Too Late. 1966; Hoyle, Fred & Geoffrey Into Deepest Space. 1975; Hodder-Williams, C. The Egg-Shaped Thing. 1967; Crispin, Edmund, editor Best SF Six. 1966; Kyle, Duncan A Raft of Swords. 1974; Blackburn, John For Fear of Little Men. 1972; Crossen, K.F., editor Future Tense. 1954, dustwrapper frayed; Mines, S. Startling Stories. London, 1954, dustwrapper frayed; 1953; Aldiss, Brian Greybeard. 1964; dustwrapper, first or first English editions except where noted (19)
COLONNA, FRANCESCOPOLIPHILI HYPNEROTOMACHIA ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse ostendit, atque obiter plurima scitu sanequam digna commemorat. London: Methuen, 1904. Folio, publisher's quarter buckram, 172 woodcuts in the text, paper boards, printed paper label, edges uncut, cracking of lower inner margin, book plate of Robert Gregory, a facsimile of the first edition of 1499; Fierz-David, Linda The dream of Poliphilo related and interpreted. New York, Pantheon, 1950. 8vo., publishers' cloth and five other related titles (7)
FLORENCECHIARI, G. STATUE DI FIRENZE Florence: appresso Gio. Chiari, [n.d., c. 1799]. 3 parts in 1 vol., 8vo., engraved title page to each part, with 86 engraved plates of 320 statues or statuary groups, the first part comprising the statues in the Boboli Gardens, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, wear to head and tail of spine, first title page a little and with ownership inscription of James Tyler, Florence, 181?, with the book plate of Cecil F. Crofton on the front pastedown, and the book plates of John and Michael Bury on the rear; Cambiagi, Gaetano Descrizione dell'Imperiale giardino di Boboli. Florence: Stamp. Imperiale, 1757. 8vo., half vellum, marbled boards, uncut, title page a little dusty and with small neat inscription on the title page, a few leaves with marginal notes in a contemporary hand; Guide de la ville de Florence. Florence: Gaspard Ricci, 1825. 2nd edition, 8vo., numerous engraved plates (including a folding plan of the city and other folding plates), contemporary vellum, spine decorated gilt, red morocco lettering piece, with the book plates of John and Michael Bury; Bottani, Giovanni Descrizione storica delle pitture del Regio-Ducale Palazzo del Te fuori della porta di Mantova detta Pusterla con alcune tavole in rame. Mantua: Giuseppe Braglia, 1783. 8vo., engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 folding engraved plans, wrappers (4)
MENNIE, DONALD & PUTNAM WEALETHE PAGEANT OF PEKING Shanghai: A.S. Watson & Co., 1920. First edition, folio, number 470 of 1000 copies, 66 tipped-in photographs, original blue silk covers with gilt lettering, a little silk to upper cover and spine gnawed away, some fading to covers in places, some foxing
FLEMING, IAN2 WORKS The Spy who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition, 8vo, original black pictorial cloth, dust-jacket slightly soiled and chipped in places, ownership inscription in pencil to free-endpaper; [Idem] You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition, 8vo, original black cloth gilt, some wear and discolouration to dust-jacket, ownership sticker to free-endpaper (2)
STUART, JAMES FRANCIS EDWARDMERCURE GALANT DÉDIÉ A MONSEIGNEUR LE DAUPHIN Paris: Michel Brunet, May 1708. 12mo, pp.413, [7], woodcut arms of the Dauphin on title, 2 folding engraved plates of music, contemporary French red morocco, gilt fillets on sides, large gilt arms on both covers of James Francis Edward Stuart as James III of Great Britain and Ireland, spine gilt in compartments, fleurs-de-lys in compartments, headcap with 5mm. split at head of joints, minor discolouration towards foot of covers, faded Jesuit stamp on title, half of small label at top outer corner of inside front cover, modern bookplate of Jacques LagetNote: A Rare Provenance. The Coat of Arms on this binding is one of two styles used by James Francis Edward Stuart, one as Prince of Wales, the other as King: see the University of Toronto, British Armorial Bindings (Online) for examples of both stamps. There is an example of the present stamp in the Blairs College Library in the University of Aberdeen. The BL has only an example of the Prince of Wales stamp. James VIII and III was recognsied by Louis XIV upon the death of his father in 1701. Early 1708 saw the first attempt at a French-backed Jacobite rising which fell short even of a landing, so by May 1708 James was recuperating in France, on the eve of his military career in the service of Louis.Two curious features of this French binding are that in the motto surrounding the arms are the mis-spelling of 'pense' (here 'pence') and the introduction of an extra syllable after 'soit'. Thus here it reads 'Hony soit il qui mal y pence'.
LITERATUREA MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF LITERATURE, HISTORY, ETC., INCLUDING BOSWELL, JAMES The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson. London, 1785. 2nd edition, 8vo., contemporary sprinkled calf, upper cover detached; Browne, Thomas Works. Ed. Geoffrey Keynes. London, 1928. 6 vols., 8vo., publisher's cloth, fore-edges uncut; Forster, E.M. Alexandria: a history and a guide. Alexandria: Whitehead Morris, 1938. 2nd edition, 8vo., original printed paper boards, lower cover damaged; Masefield, John Lost endeavour. London, 1910. First edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth, half morocco, cloth; Evelyn, John The diary. Oxford, 1955. 6 vols., publisher's cloth dust wrappers; Smith, Stevie Novel on yellow paper or work it out yourself. London, 1936. First edition, 8vo., original cloth, lacks dust wrapper; Lobeira, Vasco Amadis of Gaul. Tr. Robert Southey. London, 1872. 3 vols., 8vo., original cloth; Toynbee, Philip Pantalon or the valediction. London, 1961. First edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dust wrapper; Bethell, Leslie, editor The Cambridge history of Latin America. Cambridge, 1984. 2 vols., 8vo., publisher's cloth, dust wrappers; Boxer, C.R. The golden age of Brazil 1695-1750. Berkeley (LA), 1964. 8vo., publisher's cloth, dust wrapper; Ingamells, John, compiler A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy 1701-1800 compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive. New Haven (Conn.), 1997. 8vo., publisher's cloth, dust wrapper; Carvalho, Joao Jorge, de Gaticanea ou cruelissima guerra entre os caes, e os gatos. Lisbon, 1816. 8vo., engraved frontispiece, 2 folding engraved plates, contemporary quarter roan, marbled boards; Campion, Thomas The Maske as produced at Hatfield Palace on May 30th & 31st. 1924. London, privately printed at the Cayme Press for the Chelsea Publishing Company, 1924, 4to., quarter buckram, paper boards, fore-edges uncut, no 452 of 500 copies; and approximately 80 others, a quantity
CLAUDE PARADIN, BARTHOLOMAEUS RICCI AND JEAN DE LA FONTAINE, 4 VOLUMES, COMPRISINGPARADIN, CLAUDE Devises Heroiques et Emblemes... Paris: R. Boutonne, 1621. Second edition, 8vo, [iv], 340, [3], engraved title and 174 engraved emblematic illustrations (after the original woodcuts by Bernard Salomon) in text, contemporary vellum, later label on spine, lacks ties, title and first leaf with stain in margin, some light staining up to p. 20, occasional minor marginal foxing, [Landwehr VI, 572]; Ricci, Barthomomaeus Triumphus Iesu Christi Crucifixi. Antwerp: Adrian Collaert, 1608. 8vo, [xviii], 7[1], [ix], engraved title and full-page engravings, 19th century calf, armorial bookplate of George Chetwynd and small light blindstamp on title of "Grendon Hall" [Warwickshire], a little light soiling, repair to lower margin of p.69-71, binding worn; La Fontaine, Jean de Contes et nouvelles en vers. Amsterdam, 1776. 2 volumes, 8vo, viii, xiv, 231; viii, 270, [ii], engraved frontispiece in volume 1, engravings in the text, half-titles, 19th century red half morocco, a.e.g., rubbed, bookplates of John T. Beer (4)
DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE, ANTOINE JOSEPHLA THEORIE ET LA PRACTIQUE DU JARDINAGE Paris: Jean Mariette, 1709. First edition, 4to., 32 folding or double plates (lacking three which are supplied in facsimile), contemporary mottled calf, spine decorated gilt in compartments, wear to head and tail and edges, outer joints splitting, book plates of John and Michael BuryNote: Despite the missing 3 plates, a very good copy of this highly influential work. Translated into English in 1712, it includes a description for the first time in England of the use of a fosse or deep ditch as an invisible division between the garden and the landscape beyond, a device now known as a 'ha-ha' (or in French a "claire-voie" or "ah-ah", and especially associated with the English landscape school.
STEUART, SIR JAMESAN INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL OECONOMY London: A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1767. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to , [t-p], [v]- xv. + (1p) errata + (xii) + 639pp; (xvi) + 646pp + (xii) + (1) errata, 2 folding tables, contemporary calf, spines with raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco labels lettered gilt and oval green morocco labels numbered gilt, top of spines worn, a little rubbed and scuffed, hinges with short splits but firm and holding, engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Munro, folding cloth box with morocco gilt lettering pieceNote: FIRST EDITION. A handsome copy of the first important English work on political economy. Kress 6498. Goldsmith 10276. Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp.241-242. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, p.176. Palgrave, III, pp.475-476. Gleig, Life of Munro, 1830. Sraffa 5677 (Catalogue of the Library of Piero Sraffa. Ed by G de. Vivo. 20135677 "half-titles probably not called for".Provenance: Sir Thomas Munro (1761-1827) Colonial administrator in India and Governor of Madras. Son of the Glasgow merchant trading with Virginia Alexander Munro. Educated at Glasgow grammar school and Glasgow University, studied mathematics under Professor Williamson, and chemistry with the celebrated Dr Irvine and also studied political economy.
MOTOR RACINGA COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA 14 framed photographs and 41 loose photographs showing race cars and spectators; a grey racing helmet; a collection of silver-plate and pewter prize ware: 5 tankards, a punch bowl for 1st libre racing cars Rufforth, three trophy cups, two platters, two ashtrays and a cigarette box reading "Aintree 18th June 1960 first place"; 44 books relating to motor racing, including: Silverstone, Fifty Golden Years. [N.p.], 1958. 4to; and Noble, Richard Thrust. London: Partridge, 1998. 8vo; and a further collection of racing programmes and passes; a large quantity"John Romanes born in Edinburgh, was educated at Melville college and joined the RAF during WWII. He then went on to run the family business of The Lothian Chemical Company. His main passion was however motor Racing, his wife, Doris also had a great interest and supported him in his racing and even helping build his racing cars. They were heavily involved over the years in Motor sport and now with her passing, they would like to know their books will give others as much pleasure in the future as they have to them over the years. His car of choice was Lotus. He was one of the first to build a Lotus Eleven and race it at Charterhall and other circuits. He went on to build a Lotus 18 and 22. He knew Jim Clark and others of a similar period in Racing. He was instrumental with others in forming and seeing the racing circuit built at Ingliston in the mid-sixties. He was also heavily involved in The Scottish Motor Racing Club and assisted organising race meetings. He also increased the profile of the club and motor racing in general that in turn saw it develop into a strong financial 'business' He was Chairman of the SMRC for two years and latterly Hon. Vice president of the SMRC and a member of the BRDC".
FLANDERS AND UNITED PROVINCES, 8 VOLUMES, COMPRISINGBENTIVOGLIO, CARDINAL GUIDO Historicall Relations of the United Provinces & of Flanders... rendered into English by the Right Honourable Henry Earle of Monmouth. London: H. Moseley, 1652 [continued as] The Compleat History of the Warrs of Flanders. London: H. Moseley, 1654 , first English editions, numerous engraved portraits, eighteenth century calf, head of spine slightly rubbed, upper joint splitting, lacks portrait frontispiece of Henry of Monmouth; Temple, Sir William The Works [including Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands]. Edinburgh: G. Hamilton &c., 1754. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf; Motley, J.l. The Rise of the Dutch Republic. London, 1864, 3 volumes, 8vo, brown morocco gilt by Riviere, t.e.g. (8)
GRUNER, LEWISFRESCO DECORATIONS. STUCCOES OF CHURCHES & PALACES IN ITALY DURING THE FIFTEENTH & SIXTEENTH CENTURIES London: John Murray, 1844. First edition, large folio (55 x 44cm.), lithographed title, 46 lithographed plates (numbered 1-30 + 2a & 17a + I - XIII, + 46 - as called for in list of plates), 34 partly or fully hand-coloured, salmon pink half morocco, dampstain to upper margin of some plates, rubbed, bookplate of the Earl of Lovelace
ARNOLD, MATTHEW & JULIAN HUXLEYARNOLD, M. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to Mrs Macmillan, accepting an invitation but saying he will sleep at his Club, 1pp., integral blank, Pains Hill Cottage, Cobham, April 25th; Huxley, Julian A.L.S. to Miss Henderson, writing that he is sending her a copy of his first book & asking for his fountain pen to be sent back to him if found, 2 pp., 27 Westbourne Grove, sept. 16th, 1912 (2)
9 VOLUMES, COMPRISINGSOUVENIRS HISTORIQUES, OU GALERIE DE PORTRAITS ET DE SCENES MEMORABLES Paris: d'Adrien Egron, [c.1815], 2 parts in one volume, oblong 8vo, 11 engraved plates, contemporary red half morocco gilt, bookplate of John Calthrop, Stanhoe Hall, early inscription dated 1817; Hare, A.J.C. Memorials of a Quiet Life. 1872. 3 volumes (including Supplementary Volume), 8vo, volume 3 with 56 mounted photographs, contemporary calf; Prescott, W.H. History of the Conquest of Peru. 1847. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, plates, original cloth, spines faded, ownership inscription of Ashley H. Sturt & Crichel stamp to front endpapers; Romilly, Sir Samuel Memoirs of the Life. London: J. Murray, 1840. Second edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved plate, contemporary calf, neat repair to head of spines (9)
BETJEMAN, JOHNGHASTLY GOOD TASTE: OR, A DEPRESSING STORY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE London: Chapman & Hall, 1933. First edition, 8vo., folding illustration at rear, original quarter blue cloth, printed pink paper boards, with spare label tipped in to rear pastedown, errata slip tipped in at p.1, a little wear to corners, book plate of John Bury at front: An Oxford University chest comprising a description of the present state of the town and University of Oxford. London: John Miles, 1938. 4to., illustrations by L. Moholy-Nagy, Osbert Lancaster, the Rev. Edward Bradley etc., original quarter buckram, marbled boards, lacking dust wrapper, book plate of John Bury; Ghastly good taste. London: Anthony Blond, 1970. 4to., folding illustrations at the end, original quarter buckram, printed pink paper boards, dust wrapper, book plate of John Bury; Acton, Harold Five saints and an appendix. London: Robert Holden, 1929. First edition, 8vo., publisher's quarter buckram, marbled boards, edges uncut, with dust wrapper, wrapper with wear to head and tail; [Idem] Cornelian. London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. First edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth, fore-edges uncut, a little rubbed and stained, no 462 of 550 copies signed by the author; [Idem] Old lamps for new. London: Methuen, 1965. 8vo., original cloth, dust wrapper; Potocki, Geoffrey Wladislas Vaile, Count de Montalk Social climbers in Bloomsbury: done from the life. London: The Right Review, 1939. 8vo., original printed paper wrappers, a little dusty; [Idem] Snobbery with violence: a poet "in gaol". London: Wishart, 1932. 8vo., printed paper wrappers and (8)
LEAR, EDWARDJOURNALS OF A LANDSCAPE PAINTER IN SOUTHERN CALABRIA London: Bentley, 1852. First edition, 8vo., with two engraved maps and 20 tinted lithographic plates, original blind stamped blue cloth, book plate of Lady Alice E. Shaw Stewart, daughter of John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, and wife of the Scottish politician, Sir Hugh Shaw Stewart, Bart. (1854-1942)
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUISTREASURE ISLAND London: Cassell & Company, 1883. First edition, first impression, with the October advertisements and the following issue-points: 'dead man's chest' uncapitalised on pp. 2 and 7; the first letter of 'vain' broken on the last line of p.40; the '8' not present in the pagination of p.83; the '7' bolder and larger in the pagination of p. 127; the full-stop missing after 'opportunity' in line 20 on p. 178; and 'worse' for 'worst' in line 3 of p. 197., 8vo, pp. viii, 292, [4, advertisements], half-title, frontispiece map printed in grey, blue, red and brown, tissue-guard present; October advertisements (5R-1083), original sage green cloth, rather skewed, joints rubbed, spine slightly darkened, rear hinge cracked, gift inscription 'Sibyl Brooke, from a Father, New Years Day 1884" at head of half-title
KING, PETER, IST BARON KINGTHE HISTORY OF THE APOSTLES CREED London: J. Robinson & J. Wyat, 1703. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, bookplate of the Earl of Lovelace; King, Peter, 1st Baron King An Essay for a General Regulation of the Law. London: S. Austen, 1737. First edition, 8vo, 8pp. publisher's advertisements at end, contemporary calf, rubbed (2)
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