Golding, William, 23 books, 3 signed, and 1 with slip signed, includingLord of the Flies. London: Faber and Faber, 1955. Third impression, 8vo, original red cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped but worn with chips and tears, some dampstaining to covers; {Idem] Pincher Martin. London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped; [Idem] The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin. New York: Harcourt..., 1956. First American edition, loosely inserted slip signed by Golding, dust-jacket not price-clipped; [Idem] Free Fall. New York: Harcourt..., 1960. First American edition, signed by the author, dust-jacket not price-clipped; also the first UK edition, dust-jacket not price-clipped; [Idem] The Spire. New York: Harcourt..., 1964. First American edition, 8vo, signed by the author, dust-jacket not price-clipped, gift inscription and bookplate; also with the first UK edition in price-clipped dust-jacket; [Idem] [To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy:] Rites of Passage, 1980; Close Quarters, 1987; Fire Down Below, 1989, signed by the author; all first editions in unclipped dust-jackets; [and] Fire Down Below. London: Faber & Faber, 1989. 8vo, uncorrected advance proof copy; and 12 others
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16 volumes including Graves, RobertGood-bye to all that: an autobiography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First edition, second state, with the erratum slip between pp, 398/399, portrait frontispiece, plates (including double plate), publisher's cloth, salmon cloth, spine darkened, edges rubbed, endpapers dusty, with the bookplate of R. J. Dickinson (Higginson & Williams A32b); Pseudo-Phalaris Phalaridos Akragantinon tyrannou epistolai. Epistolae ex MSS recensuit, versione, annotationibus, & vita insuper authoris donavit, Car. Boyle. Oxford: e typ, Clarendoniano, impens. Stephani Fletcher, 1718. 8vo., engraved frontispiece and engraved vignette on the title-page, text in Greek and Latin, contemporary panelled calf, upper board detached (but present), paper a little discoloured; and another 14 (16)
Gray, Alasdair, James Kelman, Alan Sharpe and Archie Hind, a collection of 21 volumes, including Gray, A.Lanark. Edinburgh: Canongate, 1981. First edition, dated 27 February 1981 and signed by the author to front free endpaper, dustwrapper, tiny nick at head of spine; Gray, Alasdair Lanark. New York, 1985. First American edition, dustwrapper; Gray, A. The Fall of Kelvin Walker. 1985, dustwrapper; Gray, A. Something Leather. 1990;Kelman, James The Busconductor Hines. 1984, dustwrapper; Kelman, James Not Not while the Giro. 1983, presentation copy signed, original wrappers; Sharp, Alan A Green Trade in Gedde. 1965, dustwrapper; Hind, Archie The Deer Green Place. 1966, dustwrapper
Hogg, JamesScottish Pastorals, Poems, Songs, &c. Mostly written in the Dialect of the South. Edinburgh: Printed by John Taylor, Grassmarket, 1801. First edition, 8vo, [1-5], 6-62, 19th century calf-backed cloth, margins seemingly trimmed with scissors or a knife affecting a letter on p.53, several letters on p. 59-62, lower corner of p.58 torn away with loss of 2 or 3 letters, some dust-soiling, chiefly to title-page and verso of final leaf, spine partly detached (and loosely inserted), 2 small numerals in ink at head of title page in inner marginNote: VERY RARE. The first edition of Hogg's Scottish Pastorals is very rare and must have been printed in fairly small numbers. COPAC records only 6 copies in UK libraries (including NLS, Edinburgh and Glasgow University).Scottish Pastorals was published when Hogg was thirty years old and running the sheep-farm of Ettrickhouse in the Ettrick valley. The poems offer a striking picture of rural Scottish life in the early nineteenth century and contain a good deal of raw energy. The year after its publication Hogg met Sir Walter Scott, of whom he later wrote an unauthorized biography. He became widely known as the "Ettrick Shepherd", a nickname under which some of his works were published. He is best known today for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. His other works include the long poem The Queen's Wake (1813), his collection of songs Jacobite Reliques (1819), and his two novels The Three Perils of Man (1822), and The Three Perils of Woman (1823).According to his "Memoir of the Author's Life" Hogg arranged for the Scottish Pastorals to be printed after delivering sheep to market in Edinburgh, writing out some of the poems from memory, and engaging 'a person to print at my expense'. As this was undertaken virtually on the spur of the moment Hogg selected, as he later stated, not neccesarily the best poems but those he could remember most. The printer was John Taylor, a stationer, whose premises were opposite the sheep pens in Edinburgh's Grassmarket. Taylor printed mostly cheap chapbooks, of typically poor quality, and is unlikely to have sold many copies from his modest premises while Hogg gave away copies to friends so the publication cannot have been a commerical success. Hogg too was mortified to find numerous textual misprints, so much so that in later life he took little pride in his first collection of poems in print.Provenance: , Dr James Fairweather Milne (1896-1985), one-time General Practitioner at Boddam, bequeathed to 3rd cousin, the vendor.
Modern first editions, 5 works, comprisingHemingway, Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket price-clipped, shelf-lean, worn dust-jacket, gift inscription to front free-endpaper; Shute, Nevil On the Beach. London: Heinemann, 1957. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped, a little soiling and chipping; Fleming, Ian The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, 8vo, original black cloth gilt without dust-jacket; Wright, Peter Spycatcher. Victoria: William Heinemann, 1987. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000. First edition, third impression, 8vo, original boards (5)
Modern literature, a collection of 82 signed works, includingde Bernières, Louis Captain Corelli's Mandolin. London: Secker & Warburg, 1994. First edition, ninth impression, 8vo, dust-jacket price-clipped, inscribed 'to John' and signed by the author; Heller, Joseph Catch-22. London: Vintage, 1994. 8vo, paperback, signed and inscribed by the author; Walker, Alice The Colour Purple. London: The Women's Press, 1992. 8vo, paperback, signed by the author; Bryson, Bill Notes from a Big Country. London: Doubleday, 1998. First edition in book form, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped, signed and inscribed by the author; Barnes, Julian England, England. London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped, signed by the author; Levy, Andrea Small Island. London: Review, 2004. First edition, second impression, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped, signed and inscribed by the author; Ratushinskaya, Irina Fictions and Lies, a novel. London: John Murray, 1999. First UK edition, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped, signed and inscribed by the author; and a collection of others, including one unsigned work (83)
One 17th century & five early 18th century works by Defoe & others, comprising:Defoe, Daniel, probable author. Memoirs of Count Tariff, &c. London: Printed for John Morphew, 1713. [Bound after:] The Honour and Prerogative of the Queen's Majesty vindicated and defended against the unexampled Insolence of the Author of the Guardian: in a Letter from a country Whig to Mr. Steele. London: for John Morphew, 1713. [bound with:] Passive Obedience establish'd; and Resistance confuted: by proving that the late, but too soon reviv'd Position, of affirming the supreme Power to be originally in the People, and in Kings but in Trust, and therefore accountable to the People... By a Gentleman of the City of Norwich. London: Printed, and are to be sold by J. Morphew, H. Clemens and F. Oliver in Norwich. 1713. [bound with:] Berkeley, John Memoirs of Sir John Berkley, containing an Account of his Negotiation with Lieutenant General Cromwel … for restoring King Charles the First to the Exercise of the Government of England. London: Printed by J. Darby for A. Baldwin, 1699. [bound with:] Mun, Thomas England's Treasure by foreign Trade; or, the Balance of our foreign trade is the Rule of our Treasure … London, Printed: and sold by J. Morphew, 1713. [bound with:] The Art of Lying and Rebelling, taught by the Whigs, in an infamous Libel, entitled the Judgment of whole Kingdoms and Nations, &c. Or, a Detection of many notorious Falsehoods and palpable Forgeries contain'd in that vile Pamphlet. London, Printed: and sold by J. Morphew, 1713; 6 works in one volume, First editions apart from Mun, contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered by hand, library stamp of D.F. Pozzolini, paper generally somewhat browned, a little occasional soiling
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Poetry, a collection of 20 booksGibson, Wilfrid Solway Ford. London: Faber and Faber, [1944]. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped; Lewis, C. Day Collected Poems. London: Jonathan Cape, with the Hogarth press, 1954. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped; De la Mare, Walter Peacock Pie. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., [n.d.] 8vo, illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, original green cloth gilt; [Idem] The Burning-glass. London: Faber & Faber, 1946. Third impression, 8vo, original green cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped; Lawrence, D.H. Pansies. London: Martin Secker, [1929]. 8vo, original quarter cloth over patterned boards; Chesterton, G.K. The Ballad of St. Barbara... London: Cecil Palmer, 1922. First edition, 8vo, original quarter cloth over patterned boards; Barker, George Calamiterror. London: Faber and Faber, [n.d.] First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped; [Idem] News of the World. London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1950. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped; Roberts, Michael London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped; and 11 others
Spark, Muriel, 8 First and 1 Second editions, comprisingThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1961. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped, some dampstaining; [Idem] Memento Mori. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1959. Second edition, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped, a little wear and chipping to jacket; [Idem] The Bachelors. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1960. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped, some dampstaining, some rubbing to jacket; [Idem] The Ballad of Peckham Rye. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1960. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped, some dampstaining, some rubbing to jacket; [Idem] The Girls of Slender Means. London: Macmillan, 1963. First edition, dust-jacket not price-clipped; [Idem] The Public Image. London: Macmillan, 1968. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped, a little rubbing and discolouration; [Idem] The Driver's Seat. London: Macmillan, 1970. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped, some dampstaining; [Idem] The Hothouse by the East River. London: Macmillan, 1973. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket not price-clipped; [Idem] The Takeover. London: Macmillan, 1976. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped, dust-jacket stuck to free-endpaper (9)
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[DOES NOT CONTAIN THE ALASDAIR GRAY ITEMS PICTURED]Twentieth Century Scottish Literature, over 200 volumes, including Soutar, William Gleanings by an Undergraduate. Paisley, [1923], signed by the author on title, original boards, slightly discoloured; Goodsir Smith, Sydney So late into the Night 1952. Press copy with letter from the publisher inserted, original wrappers discoloured and slightly worn; Goodsir Smith, Sydney Under the Eildon Tree. 1948. 4to, quarter cloth, bookplate of Naomi Mitchison, boards somewhat marked; MacColla, Fionn Scottish Noel. [1958], title signed by author, pictorial dustwrapper; Garioch, Robert Chuckies on the Cairn. Chalmers Press, 1949. First edition, dustwrapper; MacCaig, Norman Riding Lights. 1955. First edition, signed by the author on half-title, small loss to back of dustwrapper; The Sinai Sort. 1957, dustwrapper; MacCaig, Norman A Man in My Position. 1969, original cloth; MacGregor, S. The Myrtle and Ivy. 1967, First edition, presentation copy from the author, dustwrapper; McIlvanney, William The Longships in Harbour. 1970, First edition, dustwrapper spine discoloured; Bruce, George The Collected Poems. 1971, 8vo, presentation copy from the author to Henry Tomlinson, dustwrapper; Cunninghame Graham, R.B. Bibi. 1929, 8vo, number 98 of 250 copies signed by the author, quarter cloth, dustwrapper; Munro, Neil The Daft Days. 1907, First edition, A.L.S. from the author glued to front endpaper; Welsh, Irvine & K. Williamson. A Visitor's Guide to Edinburgh. 1995, 8vo, 4 copies, original wrappers; Tranter, Nigel Cable from Kabul..1968, dustwrapper slightly marked; Morgan, Edwin Beowulf. Hand and Flower Press, 1952; Morgan, Edwin Thirteen Ways of Looking at Rillie. Enitharmon Press, 2006. Number 43 of 95 copies signed by the author, original marbled wrappers, uncut; Cunninghame Graham, R.B. El Rodeo. 1925. 4to, original cloth; and a quantity of others, many first editions, by William Soutar, Neil M. Gunn, Norman MacCaig, Sorley Maclean, Pete Morgan, Edwin Muir, Nigel Tranter, Sydney Goodsir Smith, &c.
Diary of a Voyage on R.M.S. Osterley, 1915-1916beginning Sunday September 26th 1915 leaving London and finishing Saturday April 29th 1916, travelling via many ports, including Naples, Port Said, Colombo, Wellington, Sydney and Brisbane, 175 manuscript pages written in pen and pencil, 22.5 x 17.5cm in a cloth bound notebookNote: The RMS Osterley was operated by the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd for the UK - Australia route. During the First World War, it was used as an Australian troopship. However, passengers also seem to have been on board, including the writer of this journal. We do not learn the diarist's name, however she seems to be travelling with a 'Beth' and a 'Ruby'. The journal is entitled 'SS Brontes', possibly implying that three sisters are travelling together. Four small news-sheets entitled The "Osterley Keystone", aimed at the troops on board the ship, accompany the diary.
Beeton, Mrs IsabellaThe Book of Household Management. London: S.O. Beeton, 1861. First edition, 8vo, additional colour printed title, 12 coloured plates, illustrations, endpaper inscribed A. Rowntree from her affect. Brother Thomas. Nov. 26th 1863, lacks frontispiece (seemingly never bound in), contemporary half morocco, some spots and stains, a few short marginal tears, plate at p.514 repaired without loss, slightly worn
Miscellaneous books including Bell, J.M., editorGrahame, K. The Wind in the Willows. 1909. Fourth edition, frontispiece, original pictorial cloth gilt, some spotting, pp.41-44 carelessly opened; Mudie, Robert The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands. Chippendale, Sheraton and Hepplewhite Furniture Designs. 1900. 4to, original cloth, somewhat rubbed and soiled; 1835. Volume 2 only, hand-coloured engraved plates, original cloth, spine split; Long, James The Book of the Pig. 1886, plates, original cloth, rubbed; Barker, Cicely Mary The Book of the Flower Fairies. [N.d.], coloured plates, original pictorial green cloth gilt; Daily Words and Doctrinal Texts of the Brethren's Congregation, for the year 1785. 1784, 12mo, contemporary quarter calf, waterstained, couple of tears; Leslie, P. D. A Philosophical Inquiry into the Cause of Animal Heat. 1778, contemporary half calf, worn, cover detached; [Dodgson, C.L.] The Hunting of the Snark. 1899, original pictorial cloth gilt; Barber Barber's Picturesque Illustrations of the Isle of Wight. [c.1840], engraved title, map, 40 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, marginal dampstain, worn; Hazlitt, William Lectures on the English Comic Writers. 1819, contemporary calf; Hazlitt, William Characters of Shakespear's Plays. 1818, Second edition, contemporary calf, upper cover detached; Herriot, J. It shouldn't happen to a vet. 1972. First edition, dust-jacket; Francis, G.W. An Analysis of the British Ferns and their Allies. 1855, engraved title and plates, original green cloth, binding slightly marked; Victorian Scrap Album, large number of chromolithograph postcards, cut outs, Christmas and New Year cards, 4 Louis Wain cards (75 x 110mm.); Weaver, Lawrence Small Country Houses of To-Day. [N.d., 1922, 1925], 3 volumes, 4to, original cloth, one hinge broken; and others (quantity)
Jardine, Sir William, and Prideaux John SelbyIllustrations of Ornithology. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, London: Longman, Rees, &c., [1826-35]. First edition, volumes 1-3, 4to (296 x 218mm.), engraved titles, 149 engraved plates, IN TWO STATES, HAND-COLOURED AND UNCOLOURED, tissue guards, fine 20th century green morocco gilt binding incorporating bird motifs and shield with initials HAJ and crossed swords, full pigskin endpapers incorporating the pictorial Ex Libris of Henry Arthur Johnstone 1899, t.e.g.Provenance: The Library of a Country House.Note: A Very Finely Bound Copy, with plates in two states. A note at the end of vol. 3 states "Note to the Binder. By mistake there are 5 duplicate numbers in the Volume, viz 106*, 107*, 108*, 109*, 110*; and Numbers 137 * and 138* are omitted." In this copy the 5 duplicate numbers have not been bound in. Fine Bird Books, p 108; Nissen, IVB 472 . A fourth volume was issued later in 1842.
Knip, Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline and Temminck, Coenraad JacobLes Pigeons. Paris: Mme Knip & Bellizard, Dufour & Cie., Typographie de Firmin Didot, [1838-43]. Second edition of volume 1, First edition of volume 2, large folio (533 x 348mm.), 2 volumes, [4], 135, 128, 30, [3]; [4], 114, [2]; half-titles, 147 plates printed in colours and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret , tissue guards, contemporary green quarter morocco, spines gilt, lightly rubbed, some plates with slight offsetting, discolouration or light spottingProvenance: Pencil note on rear endpaper "Complete, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, GHB"; The Library of a Country House.Note: A tall complete copy of Knip's masterpiece, with the very rare second volume published in 1838-43, volume II "SAID TO BE PROBABLY THE RAREST ITEM IN THE WHOLE OF ORNITHOLOGICAL LITERATURE" (Wood), containing "AMONG THE FINEST OF ALL BIRD PLATES" (Fine Bird Books). This work contains 2 of the very rare plates "avant lettres" not referred to in the standard bibliographies. Publication of the work had commenced in parts in 1808 under the longer title Histoire naturelle générale des Pigeons but rivalry between the artist, Antoinette Knip (née Courcelles) and the author of the text, Coenraad Temminck, led Madame Knip at the publication of the 9th (of 15) parts to appropriate the work to herself, issuing the work under the revised title Les Pigeons, par Madame Knip, née Pauline de Coucelles, with Temminck's role relegated beneath to "Le text par C.J. Temminck". However the copy she sent Temminck did not have the altered title so by the time the work came out and he saw the altered title it was too late. This publishing history explains the hiatus betwwen p. 13 of the Discours and the first leaf of text, describing plate 1, being numbered as [p.23]. Pauline Knip had powerful friends at court, being a close friend of Marie Louise, husband of Napoleon Bonaparte, and Temminck found it impossible to get justice, his only recourse being to republish the text in 3 octavo volumes in 1813-1815.Antoinette Pauline Knip was an exceptional ornithological artist and in 1805 had provided the beautiful plates for Desmaret's Histoire naturelle des tangaras, des manakins, et des todiers. One of the more famous prints in Les Pigeons is of the Mauritius blue pigeon, now extinct. A copy of this work, quite possibly Temminck's own copy, with the text originally envisaged by Temminck, and with 5 original unsigned watercolours, most probably by Knip, and with additional hand-colouring to the perches, was sold at Christie's, 28 November 2001, lot 58, (£30,000). [Fine Bird Books 86; Nissen IVB 511; Zimmer 356]
Lesson, René Primevere - A Collection of Four Ornithological Works, Uniformly bound.Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1829-30]; 46, 223, 86 plates, all printed in colour and finished by hand (including 48 bis);Histoire Naturelle des Colibris, suivie d'un Supplément a l'histoire naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1830-32]; 10, 192, [4], 66 hand-coloured engraved plates (including 12bis & 13 bis); Les Trochilidées, ou les Colibris et les Oiseaux-Mouches. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1832-33]; [4], [iv], 43, 168, [3], 66 hand-coloured engraved plates; Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des Épimaques. Paris: A. Bertrand, [1830], 8, 34, [2], 248; 40 hand-coloured plates (including 11 bis, 25 bis & 25 ter)Uniform contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, with the ticket of "Upham and Beet, 146 New Bond St., London", red and blue morocco lettering pieces, scattered spotting to plates and text, 4 volumes, 8vo, (228 x 137mm.)Provenance:The Library of a Country House.Note First editions, together 4 volumes, a very attractive set.René Primevere Lesson, French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist and herpetologist, was born at Rochefort in 1794. During the Napolonic wars he served in the French navy and in 1822-1825 served as pharmacist and botanist on Duperrey's round-the-world voyage of La Coquille, in the course of which he collected natural history specimens with his fellow surgeon Prosper Garnot and officer Dumont d'Urville. During his visits to the Moluccas and New Guinea, Lesson became the first naturalist to see birds of paradise in the wild. On his return to France he spent seven years preparing the vertebrate zoological section of the official account of the expedition, Voyage autour du monde entrepris par ordre du Gouvernement sur la corvette La Coquille (1826 to 1839). During this time he also compiled the monographs on hummingbirds and birds of paradise offered for sale here, as well as describing many new species of amphibians and reptiles. The beautiful hand-coloured engravings were made from paintings by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, Bénvalet, Bessa, Oudart and Mme. Lesson.
Levaillant, FrançoisHistoire Naturelle d'une Partie d'Oiseaux Nouveaux et Rares de l'Amérique et des Indes. Paris: J.E. Gabriel Dufour & Amsterdam, 1801 [-02]. First edition, Volume 1 (all published), large 4to (352 x258mm.), [4], 4, 152; half-title, 49 fine plates printed in colour and finished by hand, contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt, uncut, short split at head and base of upper joint, short split at head of lower joint, a little light spotting to some platesProvenance:The Library of a Country House.Note: First edition. Originally published in eight parts, Levaillant's Histoire Naturelle d'une Partie d'Oiseaux Nouveaux et Rares de l'Amérique et des Indes was available in three states: folio, with both coloured and uncoloured plates; large quarto, as here, with coloured plates only; and quarto, with uncoloured plates only. The fine portraits are of birds from the Bucerotidae and the Cotingidae families that Levaillant did not include in his earlier work “Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d’Afrique” (1799-1802). "These plates were printed by Langlois, who did almost all the colour-printing for Levaillant .... French colour-printing of this period ... has never been surpassed" (Fine Bird Books). François Levaillant (1753-1824) was born in Paramaribo, the capital of Dutch Guiana, the son of the French consul. He was sent by Jacob Temminck to South Africa where he collected and sent back over 2000 bird skins, which were studied by Jacob's son, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, and housed in the collection of the Natural History Museum at Leiden. On his return to Paris Levaillant published two best-selling accounts of his voyages in South Africa and the present work, followed by the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique (1796–1808, 6 vols.) with drawings by Jacques Barraband, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis (1801–06), Histoire naturelle des cotingas et des todiers (1804) and Histoire naturelle des calaos (1804). Levaillant was opposed to the systematic nomenclature introduced by Carl Linnaeus and only gave French names to the species that he discovered. When the birds were later given binomial names by other naturalists, quite a few were named after him including Levaillant's barbet (Trachyphonus vaillantii), Levaillant's cisticola, Levaillant's cuckoo, Levaillant's parrot, Levaillant's tchagra and Levaillant's woodpecker (Picus vaillantii). "Levaillant was, until exceeded by Gould (and until now only by him), the producer of the most comprehensive series of works on exotic birds” (Fine Bird Books, p. 118). Ayer/Zimmer 392; Fine Bird Books 90; Nissen, IVB 557
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Meyer, Henry LeonardIllustrations of British Birds. London: Longman & Co., [1835-41], First edition, 1st or 3rd issue, 4 volumes, 4to (380 x 270mm.), lithographed throughout, titles, 313 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates (as called for in the "Contents" leaf of each volume), original green ribbed cloth, uncut, spines lettered in gilt, bookplates, occasionally a little light spottingProvenance: The Library of a Country House.Note: “One of our most valuable illustrated works on ornithology” (Mullens and Swann). As originally issued with 313 plates. A slightly later issue was produced with an additional 5 plates of eggs. This set has a list of Contents in each volume calling respectively for 78, 73, 80, & 82 plates, (total: 313). The present set has the first issues of the title-pages (no full stop after Longman & Co). Hale describes the complex publication history of the work, locating 44 copies of this edition, many of which had varying numbers of plates due to the haphazard manner in which the work was published and Meyer's constant desire to improve the illustrations. W.G. Hale, The Meyers' Illustrations of British Birds (London, 2007). Nissen IVB 627; Fine Bird Books, p.93.; Mullens and Swann, p.398.
Temminck, Coenraad Jacob and le Baron Guillaume Michel Jérome Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse.Nouveau Recueil de Planches Coloriées d'Oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon. Paris: F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg: Même Maison; Amsterdam: Legras Imbert et Comp. [1820]- 1838-[1839]. First edition, 5 volumes, large 4to (353 x 260mm.), half-titles, 597 (of 600) finely hand-coloured engraved plates after Nicolas Hüet and Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, & others, (2 double-page, 3 folding), contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt, top edges gilt, some light spotting and some light offsetting, lightly rubbedProvenance:The Library of a Country House.Note: 'UN DES LIVRES LES PLUS BEAUX ET DES PLUS IMPORTANTS QUE L'ON AIT SUR L'ORNITHOLOGIE' (Brunet), complete with Cuvier's rare 'Prospectus'.This fine treatise, with its remarkable coloured plates, was intended as a supplement to Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux (1770-1786). This is a particularly large example of the quarto issue of this massive work, originally published in 102 parts over almost two decades from August 1820 to January 1839. Temminck supplied most of the text, while the key contribution of Baron Laugier de Chartrouse lay in providing specimens for the plates from his collection. Published in both folio and quarto formats, uniform with Buffon's work, the work is found with the text and plates bound either in systematic order, like the present copy, following Buffon's species and plates (as described in the 'Table Méthodique' at the beginning of volume 1), or in order of publication. Temminck, director of the Museum at Leiden, is regarded as one of the foremost ornithologists of his time. Jean-Gabriel Prêtre (1768 – 1849) was a Swiss-French natural history painter who illustrated birds, mammals and reptiles in a large number of books. He was an outstanding ornithological artist and worked first for Empress Josephine's zoo, and then for the Natural History Museum in Paris. He drew the natural history specimens collected on a number of important French geographical and exploratory expeditions including Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe, Freycinet's Voyage autour du Monde, Laplace's Voyage autour du monde and others. Early in his career Prêtre worked closely with Temminck who paid him the compliment of naming the red-spectacled parrot after him (Phaethornis pretrei). A prolific artist, he also illustrated Palisot's Flore d'Oware et de Benin, Tussac's Flore des Antilles, the Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles published between 1816 and 1830, and the ornithological works of Lesson, Temminck and Vieillot. The plates are superbly hand-coloured. Anker 503; Fine Bird Books, 1990, p. 147; Nissen IVB 932.
Birds of Paradise - Sharpe, R. BowdlerMonograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae, or Bower-Birds. London: H. Sotheran, 1891-98. First edition, folio, 8 parts in 2 volumes, folio ( 540 x 358mm.), 79 hand-coloured lithographic plates heightened with gum arabic by W. Hart after Hart, J. Gould, and J.G. Keulemans, printed by Mintern Brothers, photographic and engraved illustrations, green panelled morocco gilt, spine gilt, g.e., occasional very slight spotting of the text, one or two plates very slightly spotted (2)Note: "First and only edition of a splendid monograph." (Wood), with magnificent plates in a handsome green morocco binding. Sharpe appealed for subscribers for a monograph on 'the Avifauna of Paupasia' in the preface to Gould's Birds of New Guinea which he brought to completion in 1888, following Gould's death in 1881.Some of the plates are printed from the stones used in the Birds of New Guinea but, as Sharpe's preface states, 'a great number of the species are here figured for the first time'. Although Elliot had published his Birds of Paradise in 1873, many species were still undiscovered, and Bowdler Sharpe's monograph, with double the number of plates, brought the tale of exploration of New Guinea up to the turn of the century, and omitted no more than two or three of the very latest finds. As such it is a much more valuable work than D.G. Elliot's. BM(NH) IV, p. 1910; Fine Bird Books p. 142; Nissen IVB 865; Whittell p. 663; Wood p. 565; Zimmer pp. 581-2 (erroneously calling for 72 text leaves in vols I and II, rather than 48 and 52 respectively). (2)
Darwin, CharlesInsectivorous Plants. London: John Murray, 1875. First edition, 8vo, later half calf gilt, endpapes renewed, lacking an initial leaf (half-title); Aveling, Edward B. The Student's Darwin. London: Freethought Publishing Company, 1881. 8vo, original green cloth gilt, ownership signature; Huxley, Thomas Henry Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews. New York: D. Appleton, 1883. 8vo, original red cloth, stamp of the Church of Scotland Divinity Students' Residence; Butler, Samuel Evolution, Old and New. London: A.C. Field, 1911. 8vo, original cloth (4)
Herbal - Fuchs, LeonhardDe Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes. Lyon: Balthazar Arnoullet, 1549. Second edition, 8vo, [32 with [bb8] blank, 851; title with woodcut device, woodcut portrait on title verso, 510 small woodcuts in text by Clement Bussy, later [?18th century] boards, lacks 6 leaves of index at end, binding rubbed, [USTC 79176 recording 3 copies in U.K., 2 copies in U.S.A. & 11 copies in continental Europe; Hunt, 61; Nissen 667]Note: This is the first impression of these small woodcuts and the portrait of Fuchs by Clement Bussy; the first edition, in folio, was published in Basel in 1542.
MacGillivray, WilliamThe Edinburgh Journal of Natural History, and of the Physical Sciences. Edinburgh: for the Proprietor, 1835-40. First edition, 2 volumes in 7 original parts, (all published), complete with 130 hand-coloured engraved plates (as listed in the "Index to the Illustrations of Part A [-G]" pasted onto the front endpapers of each part), tissue guards, original cloth-backed printed boards, uncut, the boards somewhat spottedNote: In each volume, there is a printed list "Index to the Illustrations of Part A [-G]" pasted onto the front paste-down endpaper. All 130 plates listed are present in this set. However engraved plate no 74 in part C ("Merops") is incorrectly listed as plate 94. There are 18 plates in parts A, B, and D-F, 20 plates in parts A and C.
Maund, BenjaminThe Botanic Garden; consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants. London: Simpkin & Marshall [or Baldwin & Cradock, 1825-36. First edition, volumes 1-6 [parts 1-12] (of 13 volumes) & Addenda, 4to, 9 additional engraved titles, 145 hand-coloured engraved plates (24 plates in volumes 1-5, 25 in volume 6), tissue guards, index leaf to Part XI (in vol.6) loose and slightly frayed, contemporary green half calf, a little spotting to engraved titles, the plates clean, bindings somewhat rubbed, new black lettering pieces; Harrison, Joseph The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine. London: Whittaker & Co., 1840-41. Volume 8-9 bound in one volume, 8vo, engraved title to volume 8, 28 hand-coloured plates, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, a few plates with slight spotting or offsettingNote: The Botanic Garden itself should comprise engraved titles and 312 coloured plates, usually bound in 13 volumes. It is sometimes found bound with The Fruitest, The Floral Register & the Auctarium, which comprises an additional 72 coloured plates.
Millais, J.G.The Natural History of British Surface-Feeding Ducks. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1902. First edition, large paper copy, number 230 of 600 copies, 4to, 41 coloured plates, 6 photogravures, uncoloured plates, original cloth, dampstain to upper margin affecting some plates, binding somewhat rubbed and soiled
New Naturalist books, 10, comprising Boyd, J. Morton & I.L.The Hebrides. London: Collins, 1990. First edition, 8vo, number76 of the New Naturalist series, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket not price-clipped, some very slight offsetting onto title-page and map; and 9 other books from the 'New Naturalist' series: Britain's Structure and Scenery, 1947, second edition (4); Wild Flowers, 1954 (5); Natural History in the Highlands & Islands, 1947 (6); Insect Natural History, 1947 (8); The Sea Shore, 1949 (12), dust-jacket price-clipped and attached to covers by plastic coating; The Art of Botanical Illustration, 1950 (14), bookplate; Life in Lakes & Rivers, 1951 (15); Mountain Flowers, 1956 (33), dust-jacket creased along joint; Fossils, 1960 (42); all with dust-jackets not price-clipped unless stated (10)
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Ornithology - [Wild Bird Protection Act] - The Farne Islands, a large archive, comprisingDocument of agreement of Dean and Chapter Office Durham to sell the Farne Islands to Ven. Archdeacon Thorp in 1853 for £404; Grant of the Reversion of Monk House & the Farne Islands from the Dean & Chapter of Durham to the Venerable Charles Thorp, 1861, with hand-drawn map; Lease of Inner Farne Islands, from J.F. Thorp to Mr John Ralph Carr-Ellison, 1881, on vellum; Indenture between Archdeacon Thorp and The Corporation of the Trinity House, of hereditaments and rights of way in the Great Farne Island, 1861, with hand-coloured plan; Lease of the Outer Farne Islands by Mrs J.F. Thorp to Mr John Ralph Carr-Ellison, on vellum, 3 Dec. 1881; Farne Island Association Notebook of Meetings of the Association to take the Farne Islands on lease for 6 years ending 1887, hand-coloured plan tipped in (torn without loss); Large quantity of Ephemeral Printed information of The Farne Islands Association, c. 1880-31; Original manuscript draft of the Rules, 1881, Notebooks, Account books, Lists of Members, Byelaws, Rules, Receipts & Expenditures, Manuscript notes & letters, Printed and typed reports, including information on the breeding season of young Arctic and Common Terns, Sandwich Terns, Eider Ducks, Puffins, Guillemots, Roeseate Terns, Razor Bills, Cormorants & Common Gulls; Architect's drawing of Prior Castell's Tower, Inner Farne Island, 1949; Northumberland Count Monument. 4pp typescript report on the Farne IslandsAdamson, Charles Murray Studies of Birds, Newcastle, 1881, oblong 8vo, inscribed "H.A. Poynter Esq, with the Donor's kind regards", lithographed plates (2 annotated in pencil), original pictorial wrappers; Quantity of correspondence from members of the Thorp family relating to the Farne Islands, including their transfer to the National Trust, c. 1925, including letters from Viscount Grey of Fallodon; Hand drawn plan relating to proposed improvements to the Inner Farne Lighthouse, a quantity of lithographed maps and plans of the Islands (many duplicates); [Wild Birds Protection Act] Motions & correspondence made to extend the period in which wild birds may not be killed as prohibited by the Wild Birds Protection Act of 1880; Correspondence, & reports of Indictments of people caught stealing eggs "Unless some steps are speedily taken to prevent it the interesting breeding station of the Eider Duck, the Sandwich Tern and of various other species of shore breeding birds at present existing on the Farne Islands is in great danger of being annihilated... I at once obtained permission to place a watcher on the Islands & I hope was instrumental in stopping the egging to a great extent as well as in bringing about the prosecution which later on followed the wholesale infringement of the provisions of the Wild Birds Protection Act" (Hugh Barclay, Colney Hall, Norwich, 1887); "The birds are taken by fishermen in thick, foggy weather, and very often at midnight..." (24/10.1887), report stating "I have often had more trouble in the day time with ornithologists and naturalists to prevent them from taking eggs than ever I had with fishermen... this last breeding season, up to 16th June, I could safely say there would not be less than 50,000 eggs taken from the Islands", extensive correspondence with members of the Farne Island Association, some relating to ornithology Morres, Rev. Arthur P. Amongst the Birds on the Farne Islands. Salisbury, [1896], 8vo, original wrappers dust-soiled; c. 200-300 items in all, some a little dusty, in a 19th century wooden chestFootnote: A large collection of material, manuscript and printed, relating to the Farne Islands, and the Farne Island Association, which was set up in 1880 by ornithologists and naturalists to protect the eggs and birds of the Farne Islands.The Farne Islands are first recorded in 651, when they became home to Saint Aidan, followed by Saint Cuthbert who died there in 687. Among other acts, Saint Cuthbert introduced special laws in 676 protecting the eider duck, and other seabirds nesting on the islands; these are thought to be the earliest bird protection laws anywhere in the world. St. Cuthbert befriended the nesting birds and eider ducks which to this day are still known locally as ‘St. Cuthbert’s chicks'.Following the dissolution of the monastic cell on the islands, the islands became the property of the Dean and Chapter of Durham Cathedral, who leased them to various tenants. In 1861 the islands were sold to Charles Thorp, who was at the time Archdeacon of Durham. In 1894 the Outer Farne Islands were bought by the industrialist William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, and in 1926 the Inner and Outer Farne Islands were purchased for The National Trust by public subscription.A total of 290 bird species have been recorded on the Farnes including, in the 1760s, an example of the now extinct great auk. The Farnes are home to more than 20 different bird species, including Puffins, Eider Ducks, Guillemots, Razorbills, and four species of Tern. The noise is deafening with up to 150,000 birds crammed onto the Islands at the height of the breeding season. Inner Farne is the largest of the Farne Islands and during the Summer it becomes home to many thousands of nesting seabirds. Arctic terns are a familiar visitor, flitting between the North and South Poles, and stopping off in the Farne Islands during the Summer. There is also a large colony of about 3,000 grey seals, the largest meat eating mammal in the UK.Provenance: Via the Thorp family, owners of the Farne Islands in the late 19th century.
Sweet, RobertThe Florist's Guide, and Cultivator's Directory; Containing Coloured Figures of the Choicest Flowers, Cultivated by Florists, including Ranunculus, Carnations, Picotees, Pinks, Roses, Georginas, Polyanthus, Auriculas, Hyacinths & Tulips. London: James Ridgway, 1827-32. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (230 x 146mm.), 200 hand-coloured engraved plates J. Watts after Edwin Dalton Smith, contemporary green half morocco, marbled sides, spines lettered in gilt, a fine setNote: Robert Sweet (1783–1835) was a prominent English botanist, horticulturist and ornithologist.Born at Cockington near Torquay, Devonshire, England in 1783, Sweet worked as a gardener from the age of sixteen, and became foreman or partner in a series of nurseries close to London at Stockwell, Fulham and Chelsea. In 1812 he joined Colvills, the famous Chelsea nursery, and was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society. By 1818 he was publishing horticultural and botanical works.He published a number of beautifully illustrated works on plants cultivatd in British gardens and hothouses. The fine plates were mainly drawn by Edwin Dalton Smith (1800–1883), a botanical artist, who was attached to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. His works include Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis(1818), Geraniaceae (five volumes) (1820–30), Cistineae, Sweet's Hortus Britannicus (1826–27), Flora Australasica (1827–28) and British Botany (with H. Weddell) (1831). He died at Chelsea, London in January 1835. Aside from a little light offsetting from some plates to facing text, a tiny light dampstain to the extreme lower corner of a few leaves, and a very few light spots this is an exceptionally clean fresh copy with fine bright colouring.
Switzerland, Botany - Candolle, Augustin Pyramus dePlantes Rares du Jardin de Genève. Geneva: Librairie de J. Barbezat & Comp., 1829. First edition, 4to, 4 parts in one volume, folio (360 x 273 mm.), [vi], 92, [i]; half-title, 24 stipple-engraved plates, all printed in colours and some finished by hand, after Heyland (21), Mlle. Car. Chuit (2) and Anspach (1) by Heyland (7), Millenet (11), Anspach (4), Bovet (1) and Bouvier (1), printed by Tattegrain, original printed boards (371 x 290mm.), uncut, rebacked with cloth, boards a little dust-soiled and scuffed at foot, internally mostly very cleanNote: FIRST EDITION, second "consolidated" issue, with the title dated 1829, otherwise identical to the first issue. This rare work was originally published in four fascicules between 1825 and 1826 or 1827.The present rare work was published a few years after the Swiss botanist Candolle settled in Geneva where he became director of the ‘Jardin Botanique’. Candolle's main focus was botany but he also contributed to related fields such as phytogeography, agronomy, paleontology, medical botany, and economic botany.Candolle proposed a "natural" method of plant classification as opposed to the artificial Linnaean method, a classification system which he outlined first in his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (Elementary Theory of Botany, 1813), the principle of which was taxa do not fall along a linear scale; they are discrete, not continuous. This work also introduced the concept of "taxonomy". His theory of "Nature's war" - of plant species fighting each other for space and existence - influenced Charles Darwin and was one of the considerations that influenced Darwin's theory of natural selection.The present work describes a number of rare plants of Geneva's famous botanical garden which was founded by Candolle himself in 1817. The remarkably fine stipple-engravings are all beautifully printed in colour and some are finished by hand. Great Flower Books, p.53; Nissen BBI 327; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1000.
Bale, JohnThe Image of both Churches, after the most wonderfull and heavenly Revelation of Sainct John the Evangelist, contayning a very fruitfull exposition or Paraphrase upon the same. Printed at London by Thomas East. [c.1852], 3 volumes in one, 8vo, first title within typographic border, woodcuts in the text, contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, rebacked in 18th century red morocco gilt, some worming to last 10 pages slightly affecting text, lacks one leaf: P8 of part 2, one upper corner worn, [ESTC S100582, 12 copies in U.K., 5 in U.S.A.]
Church of Scotland - The Protestation of the General Assemblie of the Church of Scotlandand of the Noblemen, Barons, Gentlemen, Borrowes, Ministers and Cmoons, Subscribers of the Covenant, lately renewed, made in the high Kirk, and at the Mercate Crosse of Glasgow, the 28, and 29. of November 1638. Glasgow: George Anderson, 1638. 4to, [16pp.] [ESTC S116929. Variant: quire A wrongly printed with the outer forme of STC 22047.5; first word on A2v is "of"], woodcut on title, disbound
Church of Scotland, 18 items, comprising Salwey, ArthurHalting Stigmatiz'd in a Sermon Preached to the Honorable House of Commons. London: C. Meredith, 1644. [8], 21, [3]p., 4to, first and last leaf blanks, disbound, slight dust-soiling, [ESTC R17704]; Bridges, Walter Ioabs Counsell, and King Davids Seasonable Hearing it. London: A. Cooke, 1643. 4to, [8], 23, 4to, soiled, disbound, some headlines trimmed, [ESTC R204247]; A True Copy of the whole printed Acts of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland. Printed in the Year 1682. [2], 485, [13], old calf, lacks lower board, one board detached; A Letter containing an Humble and Serious Advice to some in Scotland. [Edinburgh] printed [Tyler], 1661. 4to, 15pp. [however ESTC R222051 calling for [2], 14pp.], page 15 repaired with loss to one letter; bound with To His Grace His Majestie's high Commissioner and the High Court of Parliament, the humble Address of the Synod of Aberdeen. [Aberdeen, 1661, from final leaf], [4]p., 4to, drophead title, [ESTC R425293], a few words trimmed, cloth-backed boards; C[umming], A[lexander] A Sermon Preached upon Christmas Day. Edinburgh: A. Symson, 1705, 4to, [4], 52, [ESTC T192316], disbound, slight marginal staining; [Anonymous] The Restoration of Episcopacy in Scotland. London, Printed in the Year 1705. 4to, 8pp., disbound, one word & some page numerals trimmed; [Anonymous] The Mystery of Magistracy unvailed [sic]. Edinburgh: Heirs and Successors of Andrew ANderson, 1708. 4to, 51. [1], disbound, [ESTC T102220], 2 short sellotape strengthening; Simson, John] A True and Authentick Copy of Mr John Simsons Letters to Mr Robert Rowen. [Edinburgh: printed by John Moncur, 1716]. 4to, drop-head title, [ESTC T176500], disbound; Campbell, Daniel Man's Chief End and Rule. Edinburgh: J. Moncur, 1719. 2 parts in one vol., 8vo, contemporary calf, [ESTC T172630]; Gibbon, Thomas The Religious Observance of the Sabbath. London, 1749. 8vo, disbound; Haldan, Bernard The Foundations of Religion and Morality. A Sermon Preached in the Tron Church of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Hamilton &c., 1756. 8vo, [4], 31, [1], disbound; Fordyce, James The Delusive and Persecuting Spirit of Popery. Glasgow, 1758. 8vo, disbound; Dow, John The Trial of the Rev. Niel Douglas... for Sedition. Edinburgh, 1817. 8vo, frontispiece portrait, cloth; A Second edition of the Debate in the Shop about Imparity among Pastors. [Edinburgh ?, 1703]. 4to, 15, [1], disbound, [ESTC T95635]; [Cromaty, George Mackenzie, Earl of] A Few Brief and Modest Reflexions perswading a Just Indulgence to be Granted to the Episcopal Clergy and People in Scotland. [Edinburgh], 1703, 4to, 7, [1]p., disbound, [ESTC T79929]; Cullen, Francis Grant, Lord AN Essay for Pace, by Union in Judgement; about Church-Government in Scotland. Edinburgh: Heirs of Andrew Anderson, 1703. 4to, 21, [1]p., disbound, imprint cropped, [ESTC T79907]; [Church of Scotland] The Protestation of the Generall Assembly of the Kirke of Scotland. Edinburgh: J. Bryson, 1639. 4to, cloth; Willison, John A Letter from a Parochial Bishop to a Prelatical Gentleman in Scotland. Edinburgh, 1714. 8vo, [6], 146, quarter morocco, last 2 pages in pen facsimile
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[Drop head title:] Heaven's Judgement on Gamesters, Drunkards, and Seekers of Revenge.Being a true account of one Mr. John Gibbs near the city of Bristol. Licens'd and enter'd according to Order, [c. 1790]. 12mo, pp.8, blindstamp of Nottingham Public Library on first leaf, first leaf trimmed in fore-margin but without loss, edges slightly frayed with minor loss to corners, disbound, [cf. ESTC T205503]; [Family. Religious Life.] An Essay on the Happiness and Advantages of a Well-ordered Family. London: F. and C. Rivington, 1794. First edition, small 8vo, disbound, slight spotting, a few small stains, [ESTC T61164, recording 4 copies in UK and 2 in N. America] (2)
Rackham, Arthur - Wagner, RichardThe Ring of the Niblung. London: W. Heinemann, 1911. First Rackham edition, number 379 of 1150 copies signed by the artist, 30 plates by Rackham, original pictorial vellum, t.e.g., others uncut, some spotting, binding slightly soiled, lacks tiesProvenance: The Library of a Country House.
Watson, James and Francis Crick, collection of 8 items, comprisingFirst Day Cover Stamps "Secret of Life" 2003, stamped "Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge", the envelope signed by Francis Crick; Huxley, Julian Memories. G. Allen & Unwin, 1970, first edition, signed "Francis Crick" on half-title, dust-jacket; Official Press Photo of Crick and Watson receiving Nobel Prize in 1962; Crick, Francis What Mad Pursuit. New York, Basic Books, 1988. First edition, dust-jacket; Of Molecules and Men. University of Washington Press, 1966. First edition, dust-jacket slightly worn, price clipped, owner's name tippexed out on endpaper; Crick, F. Life Itself, its origin and nature. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981, First edition, dust-jacket; Crick, F. The Astonishing Hypothesis. Simon & Schuster, 1994, First edition, dust-jacket; Olby, R. The Path to the Double Helix. University of Washington Press, 1974, dust-jacket (8)
Kerr, JohnThe Golf-Book of East Lothian. Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1896. First edition, 4to, number 113 of 500 copies, signed by the author, original green cloth gilt; McDowall, William Chronicles of Lincluden. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1886. 4to, contemporary half morocco; Gibson, John C. Lands and Lairds of Larbert and Dunipace Parishes. Glasgow: Hugh Hopkins, 1908. 8vo, original cloth (3)
Surtees, R.S., 7 Sporting Novels, Riviere bindings, comprisingMr Facey Romford's Hounds. 1865, First edition, 24 hand-coloured plates, calf gilt by Riviere, some spotting; Handley Cross. 1854, 17 hand-coloured engraved plates; Ask Mamma. 1858, 13 hand-coloured engraved plates; Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour. 1853; Hillingdon Hall. 1888, 12 hand-coloured plates; Hawbuck Grange. London: Longman &c., [c.1847], 8 etched plates by Phiz; Plain or Ringlets?. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1860. First edition, additional hand-coloured engraved title & 12 hand-coloured plates by Leech, all late 19th century calf gilt by Riviere, spines gilt, g.e., slight dampstain to a few outer fore-margins (7)
Boswell, JamesThe Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson... London: Charles Dilly, 1785. First edition, second state with the 'preparing for press' line appearing below the errata, portrait, contemporary calf, joints split [ESTC T53594]; [Johnson, Samuel] A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. London: A. Strahan, 1785. 'New edition', 8vo, contemporary calf rebacked [ESTC T83970] (2)
Debes, Lucas JacobsonFaeroae, & Faeroa Reserata: that is a Description of the Islands & Inhabitants of Foeroe... London: William Iles, 1676. First edition in English, 12mo, folding map, folding plate in facsimile, woodcut, 19th or 20th century morocco by Grieve of Edinburgh, a little rubbing to covers
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Highlands, a collection, includingSpence, Elizabeth Letters from the North Highlands during the Summer 1816. 1817, 8vo, brown half morocco gilt; Burns, Robert Historical Dissertations on the Law and Practice of Great Britain, and particularly of Scotland, with Regard to the Poor. Paisley, 1819. 8vo, modern quarter calf gilt; Lauder, Sir Thomas D. Ac Account of the Great Floods of August 1829. First edition, presentation copy from the author to C.E.L.C. Stuart, 2 folding maps and 63 (of 65) plates (lacks plate 26/27), modern half calf gilt; Smith, C.L. Excursions through the Highlands and Isles of Scotland. 1837. 8vo, plates, contemporary calf, library stamps, rebacked; Sinclair, Catherine Scotland and the Scotch. 1840, original cloth rebacked, new endpapers; [Banks & Co., publishers] Scenery in the Western Highlands on the Route from Oban to Iona, Staffa & Glencoe. Edinburgh, [c.1840] Oblong 8vo, numerous engraved plates, original green cloth gilt; [Bruce, James] Letters on the Present Condition of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. 1847, presentation copy from the author, modern cloth; Maclean, John Historical and Traditional Sketches of Highland Families, and of the Highlands. Dingwall, 1848, 12mo, original cloth; Somers, Robert Letters from the Highlands, or the Famine of 1847. 1848, 8vo, original cloth; Conway, James Letters from the Highlands. 1859. 8vo, contemporary half calf; Grierson, Thomas Autumnal Rambles among the Scottish Mountains. Edinburgh, 1850. 8vo, original cloth; Taylor, William Fragments of the Early History of Tain. 1865, 8vo, original cloth; Gregory, Donald The History of the Western Highlands. 1881, 8vo, quarter calf; Sellar, Thomas The Sutherland Evictions of 1814. 1883, original cloth; Fergusson, R.M. Rambles in the Far North. 1884, 8vo, original cloth, new endpapers, rubbed; Blackie, J.S. The Scottish Highlanders and the Land Laws. 1885, 8vo, presentation copy from the author, original cloth; Mackeay, Kenneth Highlanders of Scotland. 4to, half calf, worn; Macpherson, Alexander Glimpses of Church and Social Life in the Highlands in Olden Times. 1893. 4to, original cloth; Campbell, J.F. Popular Tales of the West Highlands orally collected. 1890-93. 4 volumes, 8vo, original cloth gilt; and c.62 others (including vol. 1-10 of the Transactions of the Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club, 1880-1925)
Iceland - 2 works, comprising Troil, Uno vonLetters on Iceland. London, 1780. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece bound at p.257, folding map, contemporary calf, worn, joints split; Du Chaillu, P.B. The Land of the Midnight Sun. 1899. 8vo, folding map, illustrations, contemporary green calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece, slightly spotted (2)
![Loch, JamesAn Account of the Improvements on the Estates of the Marquess of Stafford. London: Longman [&c.], 1820. First edit](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c32cd2c-9739-409c-b0e7-a8ef00d40838/0257387a-7c06-44d2-b3e3-8da4d6e8f592/468x382.jpg)
Macleod, NormanMountain Loch and Glen illustrating "Our Life in the Highlands". London: Bell & Daldy, 1869. First edition, large folio, 16 mounted photographic plates, original green morocco-backed inlaid wood with rampant lion shield on upper cover, first plate loose, with marginal tear and slight corner loss, head of spine rubbed
McClintock, Francis LeopoldThe Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas. A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin. London: John Murray, 1859. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 13 plates, additional tipped-in copy of telegram from Franklin, original blue cloth gilt, bookplate; Kane, Elisha Kent The Far North... Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, [n.d.] 8vo, 19th century calf; Wright, Noel Quest for Franklin. Heinemann: London, 1959. 8vo; Parry, Ann Parry of the Arctic. London: Chatto & Windus, 1963. 8vo (4)
Shaw, LachlanThe History of the Province of Moray... Elgin: J. Grant, 1827. 4to, folding map (some tears and repairs) hand-coloured in outline, 14 hand-coloured plates, contemporary calf, rebacked, some tears and repairs to map, early gift inscription and small section cut from title-page; and a copy of the first edition, 1775, in contemporary morocco gilt (2)
Barrie, J.M. - Arthur Rackham, illustratorPeter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. First edition, small 4to, 50 colour plates, original red cloth gilt, a little rubbing to covers with slight splitting to cloth at joints, title-page repaired to lower right corner, some foxing and dust-marks
Gibbs, JamesA Book of Architecture, containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments. London: 1728. First edition, large folio, [4], 28; 150 engraved plates, occasional dampstaining, mostly marginal, 19th century half calf, marbled sides, worn, covers detached, bookplate of Lenygon & Co. Ltd, 31 Old Burlington Street, London W.
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