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Husbandry - [Harte, Walter]Essays on Husbandry. London: for W. Frederick, 1764. First edition, 8vo, 5 engraved plates, woodcuts in text, contemporary calf, lacks front free endpaper, slightly rubbed at head and base of spine; Wilkinson, George.Experiments and Observations on the Cortex Salicis Latifoliæ: or broadleaved willow bark; interspersed with general observations and remarks on the different species of the Cinchona, &c. General history and progressive introduction of the Salix latifolia, with a variety of experiments. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Printed for the Author by Edw. Walker, [1803]. First edition, 8vo, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece by Bewick after Assiotti, modern boards, cloth folding box, plate slightly frayed at edges, offset onto title, text uniformly slightly browned and a few scattered spots, pp. xi-xiv misbound (2)
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New Naturalist MonographNeal, Ernest. The Badger. London: Collins, 1962. Second edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket not price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Buxton, John. The Redstart. London: Collins, 1950. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Stuart, Smith. The Yellow Wagtail. London: Collins, 1950. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Tinbergen, Niko. The Herring Gull's World. London: Collins, 1976. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Shorten, Monica. Squirrels. London: Collins, 1954. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket not price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Thompson, Harry V. and Alastair N. Worden. The Rabbit. London: Collins, 1956. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket not price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Jones, J. W. The Salmon. London: Collins, 1972. Fourth impression. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Summers-Smith, J. D. The House Sparrow. London: Collins, 1963. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Murton, R. K. The Wood Pidgeon. London: Collins, 1965. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Frost, W. E. & M. E. Brown. The Trout. London: Collins, 1972. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper; Mellanby, Kenneth. The Mole. London: Collins, 1974. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket price clipped, ownership stamp to free endpaper (11)
Purton, ThomasA Botanical Description of British Plants in the Midland Counties, particularly of those in the neighbourhood of Alcester. Stratford-upon-Avon, J. Ward, 1817- [London: for the author, 1821]. First edition, 3 volumes in 4, [the Appendix comprising volume 3 part 1 and volume 3 part 2], 8vo, 38 hand-coloured plates, half-titles, contemporary half calf, a trifle rubbed
Royale, J. ForbesIllustrations of the Botany and other Branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the Flora of Cashmere. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1839. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to., [plate and text volume], ground plan of Botanic Garden bound as frontispiece and 100 lithographed plates (all but 3 hand-coloured), lacking the frontispiece called for: View of the Himalaya Mountains, 6 plates with neat cut and folding slip at outer margin (to prevent image being trimmed by binder), text volume contemporary green half morocco gilt, plate volume full contemporary green morocco gilt, one or two slight spots, plates clean, corners rubbedNote: An attractive set. The plates are curiously numbered, there being plates numbered 63a, 75a and 78a but no plate numbered 76, 79 or 100.
Bolton, RobertInstructions for a Right Comforting Afflicted Consciences. London: F. Kyngston for Thomas Weaver, 1631. First edition, small 4to. in eights, woodcut printer's device on title, contemporary mottled calf, blind tooled corner ornaments, very slight damp-staining in the upper margins, initial blank discarded, top compartment of spine defective, upper joint splitting, inscription on title-page 'Christo Duce, R.C.' , 17th century signature of T. Browne on flyleaf, 20th century note of acquisition by Reginald Chas. Tudor Hutchins, [ESTC S106257]
Book of Common Prayer, 1637-36The Booke of Common Prayer... for the Use of the Church of Scotland. Edinburgh: Robert Young, 1637, [2nd part: The Psalter. Edinburgh: Robert Young, 1636]. Folio, 2 parts in one volume, title printed in red and black within typographic border, black letter, woodcut initials, The Psalter ending on KK6 [KK6 without the catchword "Certaine"], 2 leaves (? from another edition) "Certaine godly prayers" loosely inserted, first 7 leaves repaired with corners renewed, some soiling and spotting, P1 torn without loss, P2 and P7 with slight marginal loss; (bound with The Psalmes of King David, translated by King James. London: Printed by Thomas Harper, 1636, [2], 147); modern period-style calf, brown morocco label, bookplate of Sir Archibald Dunbar of Northfield, Bart., loosely inserted, with early signatures of Isobell King, William King, Agnes King, Jean King, James King, Goreff King, Barbara Cumming and others, a few headlines slightly trimmed
Cartier-Bresson, HenriThe Decisive Moment. New York: Simon and Schuster in Collaboration with Editions Verse of Paris, 1952. First edition, 4to, French edition with laid in captions booklet in English, original boards with cover designed by Henri Matisse, no dust-jacket, joints slightly split, spine slightly discoloured
India - Mumbai - Johnson, William, William Henderson, A.A. Jacob, and other photographers - Early Photography of India[Photographs of Western India. c.1855-1862]. 126 albumen prints (only), including 31 with printed caption cut round and mounted below photograph: Surat. English Burial Ground; Tomb of the Moola of the Boras, Surat; Dutch Tombs, Surat; The Gosayins; Ruins in the Citadel of Bijapur; Acbar's Tomb, Agra; A Group of Persians; Temples at Mutlagherry, near Ellichpoor, Northern Berar; Falls of Mutlagherry, near Ellichpoor; Parwari Women; Birds-Eye View of the Church Gate and Esplanade, from the Bank of Bombay; Bombay Green, from the Town Hall; No.4 Christ Church, Byculla. Bombay; No.6 The Cotton Ground, Colaba, Bombay; Group of Pinjaras or Cotton-Carders; No.7 The Cathedral, Bombay; Bombay. No 8 View from the South - East Frontage of the Town Hall; Bombay No. 9 A Wee Bit of the Castle; Bombay No.10 Hindu Shrine near the Railway station, Byculla; Bombay No.11 Panoramic View of the Fort from Colaba; Bombay No. 12 Back Bay, from Malabar Hill; Bombay No.13 A Bit of Malabar Hill; Bombay. No. 14 Temples at Walakeshwar; Bombay No. 15 Malabar Point; No. 6 Comfortable Gosavis; Elephanta. The Brahmanical Cave-Temple. No 1 - The Entrance; No. 2 Specimens of the Pillars; No. 3 Entrance to the Northern Aisle; Entrance to one of the smaller excavations at Elora; Portion of the Monolithic Temple of Kailas at Elora; No. 10 Huzur Pattewalas; these largely 195 x 230mm.; no printed title, only a few cut down parts of the original printed caption leaves pasted in; and 95 photographs without printed captions, albumen prints, varying sizes, some captioned in pencil, some faded, green half morocco album, wornNote: The set of William Johnson's Photographs of Western India, c. 1855-62 in the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist Univeristy, appear to be extremely rare. The SMU set is described as "Large three volume set with gold embossed lettering entitled Photographs of Western India. Volume 1 contains views of men, women and children of various sects, professions and workers; some are composite photographs. Volumes II and III include views and panoramas, of cities and towns, many in Mumbai (Bombay), temples, churches, boats, ships, harbours, rivers, railroads, palace ruins, caves and forts. Each photograph is numbered underneath in pencil. Many have the negative number visible on the print having been scratched in the negative. Some images possibly in collaboration with or by William Henderson, Charles Scott, Henry Hinton, Narayan Darjee, George R. Ballinger, H.D. Rae, A.Z. [Albert Zorn] and Capt. Allan N. Scott. Ex libris of British diplomat and Governor of Bombay, Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere" William Johnson worked as a clerk from 1848 until 1851 in Bombay [Mumbai] and was promoted to Assistant in the General Department in Girgaum, Bombay, where he worked until 1860-61. Although primarily a civil servant he practiced photography extensively, establishing a Photographic Studio in Grant Road, where he produced daguerrotypes and later albumen prints from wet plate collodion negatives. Johnson was one of the founding members of the Bombay Photographc Society in 1854 and served as the society's Joint Secretary, as well as co-editor of its Journal. For a brief period in 1856-58 Johnson partnered with William Henderson to create photographs of the Indian Amateur's Photographic Album, which was published by the Bomaby Photographic Society and ran for a total of 36 issues between 1856 and 1858.Some of Johnson's photographs for the Indian Amateur's Photographic Album were reused in Photographs of Western India, and a few years after the Indian Amateur's Photographic Album ceased publication, a number of photographs from it reappeared in Johnson's publication The Oriental Races and Tribes, Residents and Visitors of Bombay: a Series of Photographs with letter-press Descriptions[1863-66], the first two volumes of which comprised 51 mounted photographic prints. This work is considered the first ethnologic writing on India published with photographs. Interestingly, and helpfully, the present album has a few cropped part leaves loosely inserted, which give the title, number, name of photographer, type of negative, and description of the subject. For instance "Bombay. No. 5 Jooma Musjid. From a Collodion Negative, by H. Hinton, Esq. of Hornby Row Academy" This photograph is number 95 in volume 2 of Photographs of Western India in the copy (3 volumes, 290 albumen prints) belonging to the British diplomat and Governor of Bombay, Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, now in the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/smu/00237/smu-00237.html ). Another cutting from the same work is headed "From a Collodion Negative, by A.A. Jacob, Esq., C.E." and is inserted correctly at the photograph of "Dutch Tombs, Surat". This photograph does not appear to be in the Frere copy . A third cutting of text (not inserted at the right place) is headed "Bombay. No. 16. A Second View of the Walkeshwar Temples. Photographed by Johnson and Henderson" This probably correlates to no. 122 in the Frere/DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University album "Walkeshaw, Bombay - Munguldass Temple [Johnson, William, Henderson, William] [attributed]." Not all the photographs in the present album are from Photographs of Western India.
Pursey, J. - Last General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotlandphotogravure, 42 x 89cm, commemorating the last General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, signed J. Pursey, Edinburgh, No.55a to the print, framed and glazed, along with a scroll produced by Pursey, listing each sitter by nameNote: J. Pursey's photography studio was based at 135 Princes Street, Edinburgh. It would appear that many of the portraits in this photograph, particularly those of the men in the main body of the Church, were taken in Pursey's studio and then placed into the image from which the photogravure was made. Pursey styles himself an 'artistic photographer'. Pursey's method seems to reflect the technique employed by David Octavius Hill in 1843, when he decided to create a painting commemorating the first General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland. Lionel Gossman writes: "In preparation for this work, he [Hill] and Adamson took many photos of individuals and groups which he planned to represent in it; indeed, Hill's canvas is often considered the first work of art to ever have been painted with the help of photographic images, even if, ironically, the photographs are still admired while the painting, finally completed 22 years later, is not." [Gossman. Thomas Annan of Glasgow, 2015, p.28]
Sark - Dunkerley, William Arthur - John OxenhamThe Book of Sark. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. First edition, folio, number 100 of 500 copies signed by the artist and author, plates by William A. Toplis, 21 coloured mounted plates, contemporary vellum gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, slight crease to 5 plates, slipcase very worn
Martin, MartinA Late Voyage to St. Kilda… London: D. Brown, 1698. First edition, 8vo, half-title, map, plate, later calf gilt with red morocco gilt label to spine, J. Robertson bookplate, blindstamp of the Library of Malcolm Stewart, Hoy and signature of Alan Stevenson to half-title, closed tear to half-title, pp.113-116 slightly torn with some minor loss to text, plate trimmed slightly affecting engraving, hinges splitting, a little soiling throughout, covers rubbed
Bateson, W.Mendel's Principles of Heredity, a defence. Cambridge: University Press, 1902. First edition, 8vo, portrait, original blue cloth gilt, lacking front free-endpaper, ownership signature to half-titleNote: Unlike the later edition, this edition does not seem to include plates, and several copies in libraries correspond to this. However, a couple of copies recorded on ABPC do record 3 portraits and 6 colour plates. This copy has only one portrait and no plates.
Cruikshank, WilliamThe Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body. London, 1786. First edition, 2 plates (of 3; lacks plate 1), contemporary calf, heavily dampstained at end, worn, one cover detached; Winslow, Jacques-Benigne An Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body. London: J. & F. Rivington, 1776. Fifth edition, 2 vols. in one, 4to., 4 folding engraved plates, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn; Winslow, Jacques-Benigne Exposition Anatomique de la Structure du Corps Humain. Paris: G. Desprez & J. Desessart, 1732. First edition, 4to., 4 folding plates, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, head of spine rubbed (3)
![[Electricity] - Cavallo, TiberiusThe Elements of Natural or Experimental Philosophy. London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1803. Fir](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/c3d4d289-d278-4b78-9bb4-bb65256f55a5/468x382.jpg)
[Electricity] - Cavallo, TiberiusThe Elements of Natural or Experimental Philosophy. London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1803. First edition, 5 volumes (including plate volume), 8vo, inscription on verso of volume 1 title: "To William Young, Student of Logic, this Premium, given by the City of Edinburgh, was adjudged by David Ritchie, Professor Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh, 6th April, 1811", 29 double-page engraved plates mounted on guards, contemporary calf gilt, gilt arms to coversNote: Italian physicist and moral philosopher, he invented Cavallo's multiplier, a device used for the amplification of small electric charges, making them observable and measurable in an electroscope. He also worked on refrigeration.
![[Tucker, Abraham]Vocal Sounds by Edward Search, Esq. London: Printed by T. Jones, and sold by T. Payne, 1773, First edition,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/6640d6e4-6d42-487e-91e0-ac093c8b2329/468x382.jpg)
[Tucker, Abraham]Vocal Sounds by Edward Search, Esq. London: Printed by T. Jones, and sold by T. Payne, 1773, First edition, small 8vo, pp. [i], ii, 148, nineteenth-century half maroon morocco by E. Riley & Son, [ESTC T150278, 4 locations]Note: 'A highly technical and rather eccentric text devoted to the relationship between sounds and letters'. (ODNB).
Brenchley, Julius L.Jottings during the Cruise of H.M.S. Curaçoa among the South Sea Islands in 1865. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1873. First edition, "Presented by the Publishers" blindstamp to title margin, 8vo, folding double-page chromolithograph frontispiece, 50 lithograph plates (all but 9 in colour), 1 chromolithograph & 8 wood-engraved plates & folding map, partly hand-coloured in outline, original green pictorial cloth, small gilt stamp of C.L.A. on upper cover, head of spine worn, joints repaired
Burton, Sir Richard FrancisUltima Thule: or, a Summer in Iceland. London: William P. Nimmo, 1875. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 11 plates, 2 folding maps, brushed calf gilt, red gilt printed endpapers, all edges gilt, original cloth covers bound in (2)Provenance: The horse and thistle binding with the motto: "Ride Thro Be Trew" matches bindings belonging to Robert Tyndall Hamilton Bruce (1847-1899). Bruce was a Glaswegian businessman, patron of the arts and golfer. In 1903, many items from his estate were sold by Christie's.
Canada - Prince Edward Island - Johnstone, WalterTravels in Prince Edward Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence, North-America, in the year 1820-21. Undertaken with a design to establish Sabbath Schools. Edinburgh: for David Brown, 1823. First edition, 12mo, [pp. xi , 12-132], folding engraved map, bound with Johnstone, Walter A Series of Letters, descriptive of Prince Edward Island, in the Gulph of St. Laurence. Dumfries: for the Author, 1822. 12mo, pp. iii, 4-72; 19th century blue pebble dash cloth, lettered in gilt
China - Giles, Herbert AllenA Chinese-English Dictionary. London: B. Quaritch; Shanghai, HongKong, &c., 1892. 4to., contemporary black half morocco, title with slight loss of blank lower margin and laid down, rubbed; Sommarström, Bo. Archaeological Researches in the Edsen-Gol Region Inner Mongolia. Stockholm, 1956. 2 volumes, 4to., presentation copy to Dr. John A. Pope, illustrations, original wrappers, small marks to half-titles, uncut; Pott, P.H. Introduction to the Tibetan Collection of the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1951. 8vo, plates, original wrappers; Roosevelt, Theodore and Kermit. Trailing the Giant Panda. New York: Scribner's, 1929. First edition, 8vo, colour frontispiece, 42 photographs, large folding map, original blue pictorial cloth, bookplate carefully removed (5)
Durham - Hutchinson, WilliamThe History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham. Newcastle: S. Hodgson & Robinsons, 1785-94. First edition, 3 volumes, 4to., engraved titles, 52 engraved plates and 10 folding pedigrees, engraved illustrations in text, contemporary calf, gilt arms on sides, bookplates of Sir Walter Wyndham Burrell of West Grinstead Park, occasional spotting, a few small waterstains or light mark, slightly rubbed
Greece and the Mediterannean, & others, a large collection, including Douglas, NormanThree of them. 1930. First edition, dustwrapper, signed on title by author, dustwrapper slightly frayed; Graves, Robert Claudius the God. 1934, frayed dustwrapper; Byron, Robert The Station. 1949; Smyth, E. A Three-Legged Tour in Greece. 1927; Powell, D. An Affair of the Heart. 1957, dust-jacket; Byron, Robert First Russia then Tibet. 1933. First edition, original cloth; Byron, R. Europe in the Looking-Glass. 1926, original cloth, binding discoloured; Fleming, P. Bayonets to Lhasa. 1961, dustwrapper; Yeats, W.B. The Tower. 1928 (reprinted March 1928), original pictorial cloth gilt; and a small collection of other volumes; and c. 70 others, Greece & Mediterannean, & miscellaneous, most hardback, late 20th century
India - Fayrer, Sir J. - Printed for Private CirculationNotes of the Visits to India of their Royal Highnesses the Price of Wales and Duke of Edinburgh 1870 - 1875-6. London: Printed for Private Circulation only, 1878. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy to A Young Herries from the author, original pictorial red cloth gilt, slightly rubbed at head and base of spine, split to upper joint, [Rare: only 9 copies recorded on COPAC]
Lawrence, T.E.Seven Pillars of Wisdom. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. First trade edition, large 8vo, portrait, original brown cloth gilt, dust-jacket torn with loss; [Idem] Revolt in the Desert. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket with some chipping and tears, price-clipped; [Idem] & David Garnett The Letters of T.E. Lawrence. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, ownership signature to free-endpaper (3)
Lawson, John ParkerScotland Delineated in a Series of Views by J.M.W. Turner, Clarkson Stanfield, R.A., David Roberts R.A. [etc] Drawn in lithography by J.D. Harding... With historical, antiquarian and descriptive letterpress by J.P. Lawson. Edinburgh: Alexander Crichton, 1847-54. First editions in book form, 2 volumes, large folio (630 x 460mm.), half-title to volume 1, 90 tinted lithographed plates with tissue guards, rebound in black cloth with marbled paper from the sides of the original binding trimmed and laid on and with some panels from original binding laid on spines, some foxing on about a third of the plates, varying from light to heavier, but mainly in the marginsNote:As Abbey notes, the list of plates calls for 91 but plate 4 was never issued as it was a duplication of plate 3, thus making 90 the complete complement. Originally issued in parts. Abbey, Scenery, 493
Moryson, FynesAn Itinerary Written by Fynes Moryson Gent. First in the Latine tongue, and then translated by him into English: Containing his Ten Yeeres Travell through the Twelve Domjnions of Germany, Bohmerland, Switzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. London: John Beale, 1617. Folio, contemporary embossed calf, lacking initial leaf (blank save the signature mark), lacking final leaf (also blank), a few small holes, slightly affecting text, and a few tears, a few words occasionally scribbled out, a little soiling and occasional light dampstaining, upper cover and first leaf detached, some rubbing and chipping to spine and covers
North Durham - Raine, JamesThe History and Antiquities of North Durham. London: John Bowyer Nichols, 1852. First edition, large folio (483 x 295mm.), engraved portrait, map, 9 plates, & 2 genealogical tables, illustrations in text, contemporary maroon morocco, g.e., some spotting to the plates, head and foot of spine worn, split at head of upper joint
Orkney & Shetland - Neill, PatrickA Tour through some of the Islands of Orkney and Shetland... Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1806. First edition, 8vo, later half calf, bookplate and cancelled library stamp to endpaper, neat marginal tear to p.145 with no loss to text; Peterkin, Alexander Rentals of the Ancient Earldom and Bishoprick of Orkney. Edinburgh, 1820. 8vo; [Idem] Notes on Orkney and Zetland. Edinburgh: Macredie, Skelly, and Company, 1822. 8vo, volume 1 (all published), frontispiece, plate; uniformly bound in contemporary calf gilt with black morocco gilt labels to spines, bookplates of John M. Slater, some spotting (3)
Scottish Travel & Literature, 6 worksDibdin, Thomas Frognall A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour of the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland. London: James Bohn, 1838. 2 volumes, 8vo, original boards, some splitting and repair to covers; Campbell, Alexander The Grampians Desolate: a poem. Edinburgh: Vernor and Hood, 1804. 4to, modern quarter calf; Creech, William Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces... Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1815. 8vo, later half morocco; Mawman, J. An Excursion to the Highlands of Scotland and the English Lakes... London: J. Mawman, 1805. 8vo, later half calf; Gilpin, William Observations Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty... London: R. Blamrie, 1789. 2 volumes, 8vo, modern quarter calf; Lettice, I. Letters on a Tour through various parts of Scotland... London: T. Cadell, 1794. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked; sold not subject to return (8)
![Sinclair, Sir JohnThe Statistical Account of Scotland. Edinburgh: W. Creech, [&c.], 1791-99. First edition, 21 volumes, 8vo,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a47fc324-3170-425b-8d46-a86c010236c1/c968a51d-8b14-4194-ba28-30db9dd8212d/468x382.jpg)
Sinclair, Sir JohnThe Statistical Account of Scotland. Edinburgh: W. Creech, [&c.], 1791-99. First edition, 21 volumes, 8vo, engraved plates, original blue cloth, uncut, paper label on spines, ownership inscription at head of titles "Sir P. Murray Threipland Bart", spines slightly faded; sold not subject to return
Travel, a collection including Murray, Rev. A. W.Forty Years' Mission Work in Polynesia and New Guinea, from 1835 to 1875. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1876. First edition, 8vo, original cloth; Hodder, Edwin Cities of the World... London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882. 3 volumes, 4to, contemporary half morocco; Shoberl, Fredric Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events which Occurred in and near Leipzig. London: printed for R. Ackerman, 1814. Fifth edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf; Vaugelas, M. Lagier de Soixante Vues Des Plus Beaux Palais... Paris, n. d. 8vo, contemporary half calf; Historical Account of the Cistercian Abbey of Salley... London: J. Russell Smith, 1853. 8vo, original cloth; Turner, J. M. W. The Seine and the Loire. London: H. Virtue & Co., 1895. 4to, quarter morocco retaining rebacked spine; Lang, Andrew Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes. London: Seeley, Jackson..., 1880. 4to, original cloth; and 14 others; sold not subject to return (23)
White, J. ClaudeSikhim & Bhutan. Twenty-one years on the North-East Frontier 1887-1908. London: E. Arnold, 1909. First edition, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, folding map, 40 plates, original pictorial green cloth gilt, spine faded, extremities worn, NLS de-accession stamp & label to front endpapers
Yorkshire and County of DurhamYorkshire and County of Durham, a further collection to include: Fletcher, J.S. Pictureque history of Yorkshire. London: Blackwood,1901. 6 volumes, 4to., illustrations, publisher's red cloth, a.e.g; Hargrove, E. The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate and its mineral waters. York: Blanchard, 1789. 4th edition, small 8vo., frontispiece, folding map hand coloured in outline, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rubbed; The Scarborough guide. Scarborough: Thomas Coultas, 1815. Small 8vo., folding plan as frontispiece, folding map, woodcut plates and illustrations, original printed paper boards; Leyland, John. The Yorkshire coast and the Cleveland Hills and Dales. London: Seeley, 1892. 8vo., frontispiece, plates, publishers cloth; An history of Leeds, compiled from various authors to which is added An history of Kirstall Abbey. Leeds: [no printer, no date, c. 1797?]. Small 8vo., folding map as frontispiece, engraved plate of Kirstall Abbey, contemporary half calf, marbled boards (ESTC T61871); [Croft, John]. Scrapeana: fugitive miscellany; or, a medley of choice bons mots, repartees, &c. to which is added a large collection of Yorkshire anecdotes, York: Blanchard, 1792. Second edition (in fact a reissue of the first edition), 8vo., 19th century half calf, cloth boards; Robson, Thomas. Birds of the Derwent Valley. Consett: Dent, 1896. 8vo., woodcut illustrations, contemporary cloth; Blackett, Walter, Sir. Memoirs … with a pedigree of the Calverleys, of Calverley in Yorkshire, and the Blacketts of Newcastle upon Tyne and Northumberland. Newcastle: Hodgson, 1819. 8vo., engraved frontispieces, plate, armorial illustrations, contemporary calf, red leather lettering piece; Phillips, John. The rivers, mountains, and sea-coast of Yorkshire. London: John Murray, 1853. 8vo., frontispiece, plates, publisher's cloth, rebacked; Purey-Cust, A. P., the Very Rev. Picturesque Old York. Leeds: Jackson, 1909. 4to., frontispiece, plates, publisher's parchment over bevelled boards, t.e.g., others uncut, one of an hundred copies; Album of 14 mounted photographs of Knaresborough [bound with] The legend of Saint Robert the Hermit. Knaresborough: Hamman, 1873. Small 8vo., contemporary tan morocco with raised panels, gilt metal clasps, a.e.g.; A New Guide to Scarborough. Scarborough: Story, 1844., Small 8vo., engraved frontispiece, engraved plates, illustrations, contemporary cloth; Tweddell, G.M. Rhymes and sketches to illustrate the Cleveland dialect. Stokesley: Tweddell,1875. Small 8vo., publisher's cloth; The Tyneside Songster: humorous and descriptive songs in the Newcastle dialect. Newcastle: Dean, 1889, Small 8vo., publisher's cloth; a quantity
Barry, GeorgeThe History of the Orkney Islands. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1805. First edition, 4to, frontispiece, folding map, 10 plates, advertisement leaf, contemporary tree calf with red morocco gilt label and gilt tooling to spine, bookplates of Kimbolton Castle and J. Robertson, a little offsetting, hinges and joints splitting, rubbing to spine
Thorburn, ArchibaldGame Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1923. First edition, folio, 30 plates, red half morocco with brown morocco gilt labels to spine, spine banded in 6 compartments with 4 gilt bird motifs, bookplate of J. Robertson, a little foxing to half-title, upper cover very slightly faded
TravelWilson, James A Voyage round the Coasts of Scotland and the Isles. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1842. 2 volumes, 8vo, modern green cloth, bookplates; Macky, John A Journey through Scotland...being the third volume which compleats Great Britain. London: J. Pemberton, 1723. 8vo, modern half morocco, bookplate; [Gifford, Thomas] Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, no. XXXVII, contains Mr. Gifford's Historical Description of Zetland. London: J. Nichols, 1786. 4to, map, modern half calf, several ownership stamps, bookplate; Brand, John A Brief Description of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland-Firth & Caithness. Edinburgh: William Brown, 1883. 8vo, 1/157 copies, original cloth; Miscellanea Antiqua: Containing First the Life and Death of King James the Vth. of Scotland [including The Navigation of King James V. round Scotland...] London: W. Taylor, 1710. 8vo, later calf, rebacked, bookplate; Low, George A Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Schetland. Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1879. 8vo, original cloth; Goodrich-Freer, A. Outer Isles. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1904. 8vo, original red cloth, bookplate; Lord Teignmouth Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland and the Isle of Man. London: John W. Parker, 1836. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, bookplates; Ferguson, Malcolm An Autumn Tour through Orcadia and the North of Scotland. Glasgow, 1869. 8vo, original blue cloth; Ker's Naval Log A folio photocopy of the log, 1778-1782, including visits to Shetland and Orkney in 1778, modern black morocco gilt; and 24 others, sold not subject to return (36)
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Brown, George MackayThe Storm and Other Poems. [Kirkwall:] The Orkney Press, 1954. First edition, 8vo, signed and inscribed to Brian Murray from George Mackay Brown to the endpaper, with an unpublished acrostic poem spelling 'Brian Murray', inscription dated 1982, original printed wrappers, some soiling and rubbing, text block detached
Brown, George Mackay - A collection of Scottish and Irish Poetry and LiteratureMuir, Edwin Edwin Muir Selected Prose. London: John Murray, 1987. Uncorrected proof copy on A4 sheets; Crichton Smith, Iain From Bourgeois Land. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1969. First edition, 8vo, some wear to dust-jacket; [Idem] Selected Poems. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1970. 8vo, some wear to dust-jacket; [Idem] The Last Summer. Glasgow: Richard Drew, 1986. 8vo, paperback, inscribed by the author; Heaney, Seamus Door into the Dark. London: Faber and Faber, 1969. First edition, 8vodust-jacket, gift inscription not from the author; [Idem] Hailstones. Dublin: Galley Books, 1984. 8vo, inscribed by the author to George Mackay Brown, original blue wrappers; [Idem] From the Republic of Conscience. Dublin: Amnesty International, 1985. 8vo, signed and inscribed from the author to George Mackay Brown; 'MacDiarmid, Hugh' [Christopher Murray Grieve] Hugh MacDiarmid, a festschrift. Edinburgh: K.D. Duval, 1962. 8vo, ownership signature of George Mackay Brown, dust-jacket slightly worn; [Idem] Selected Lyrics. Verona: Officina Bodoni, August 1977. 8vo, out-of-series copy, original quarter vellum, bookplate of George Mackay Brown; Conn, Stewart Thunder in the Air. Preston: Akros Publications, 1967. 8vo, inscribed to George Mackay Brown, original wrappers, a little soiling; and 84 others (94)
Brown, George Mackay - books from his library, a large collection, includingWaugh, Evelyn Scott-King's Modern Europe. London: Chapman & Hall, 1947. 8vo, with ownership sticker and signature of George Mackay Brown, some wear, including to dust-jacket; Hemingway, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea. London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. First UK edition, 8vo, dust-jacket with some wear but not price-clipped; Yeats, W.B. The Celtic Twilight. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1883. First edition, second state binding, 8vo, original green cloth gilt; and a large quantity of others, many of which include George Mackay Brown's signature, address sticker, or both, several works include notes on criticism and annotations by Brown (quantity)
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Brown, George Mackay - Eliot, T.S.Burnt Norton. London: Faber and Faber, [n.d.] 8vo, original blue card wrappers; [Idem] East Coker. London: Faber and Faber, [n.d.] 8vo, original orange card wrappers, some wear and foxing; [Idem] Points of View. London: Faber and Faber, 1941. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; [Idem] The Cocktail Party. London: Faber and Faber, 1950. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket spotted and torn, ownership signature of George Mackay Brown; Stephenson, E.M. T.S. Eliot and the Lay Reader. London: The Fortune Press, 1946. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth, ownership signature of George Mackay Brown with a mss. note reading: "Atrociouis writing on almost every page..."; and 16 others, sold not subject to return (21)
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Brown, George Mackay: 56 works, including 20 signed or inscribed by the authorA Voyage of Saint Brandon. [N.p., n.d.] Uncorrected radio script, inscribed to Brian Murray from George Mackay Brown, dated Stromness 7/8/90; [Idem] Loaves and Fishes. London: Hogarth Press, 1959. First edition, 8vo, signed; [Idem] Poems, New and Selected. London: the Hogarth Press, 1971. First edition, 8vo, inscribed to John Broom, signed; [Idem] Greenvoe. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1972]. First American edition, 8vo, signed to title-page, inscribed to Brian and Eliza; [Idem] The Hooded Fisherman. Kulgin D. Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1985. 8vo, signed to title-page, inscribed to Brian and Eliza on the final leaf; [Idem] Christmas Stories. Oxford: The Perpetua Press, 1985. 4to, signed to final leaf, inscribed to Brian and Eliza; [Idem] In the Margins of a Shakespeare. Llandogo: The Old Stile Press, 1991. Oblong 4to, proof copy? with various annotated remarks and suggestions; [Idem] - Bryce Wilson - Keith Allardyce Sea Haven. Kirkwall: the Orkney Press, 1991. 4to, signed by George Mackay Brown and inscribed to Brian Murray within a manuscript poem to the title-page; [Idem] Brodgar Poems... Oxford: The Perpetua Press, 1992. 4to, signed and inscribed to Brian Murray; and a collection of others (55)
Brown, George Mackay: manuscript essays and notes on Gerard Manley HopkinsA collection of work undertaken by George Mackay Brown examining the writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins, comprising: Gerald [sic] Manley Hopkins: Two Landscape Poems, a 10pp. manuscript essay signed George M. Brown 1964, each leaf 25.5 x 20.5cm; Hopkins and his Metric, a 12pp. manuscript essay signed George M. Brown 1964, each leaf 25.5 x 20.5cm; Notes on the Bugler's First Communion, 7 manuscript pp. on 4 leaves each 33 x 20.5cm signed GMB March-April 1964 in pencil; Gerard Manley Hopkins and His Public, 12 manuscript pp. on 6 leaves each 33 x 20.5cm signed George M Brown December 1963-January 1964; The Windhover, 11 manuscript pp. on 6 leaves each 33 x 20.5cm signed George M Brown March 1964 in another ink; Gerard Manley Hopkins: Two Night Poems, 8 manuscript pp. on 4 leaves each 33 x 20.5cm, in blue and black ink, signed George M Brown November 1963; The Two Mary Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 10 manuscript pp. on 10 leaves each 25.5 x 20.5cm, signed G M Brown October 1963; Notes on "The Wreck of the Deutschland", 17 manuscript pp. on 20 leaves each 33 x 20.5cm, signed G M Brown Feb 1963; Notes on the Dark Sonnets of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 12 manuscript pp. on 12 leaves each 25.5 x 20.5cm, signed George M Brown; The 'Henry Purcell' Sonnet of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 10 manuscript pages each 20.5 x 25 cm, signed George M Brown 3 December 1962; Gerard Manley Hopkins's People, 16 manuscript pages each 20.5 x 25 cm, signed George M Brown November 1962; AND three student notebooks containing notes in George Mackay Brown's hand regarding Hopkins; and 23 other pages of notesProvenance: Gifted to Brian M. Murray by George Mackay Brown in 1994.Note: Following his graduation from the Univeristy of Edinburgh in 1960, George Mackay Brown pursued a course of post-graduate research into Gerard Manley Hopkins. This lot contains several of George Mackay Brown's essays on Hopkins, many with pencil notes, possibly added by his supervisor.
Brown, George Mackay: Orkney manuscripts50 leaves of notes, dated 1946-1948, each c.16 x 10cm and torn from a notebook or notebooks, in George Mackay Brown's hand, containing thoughts on literature and life, including a first or early draft of the poem Further than Hoy, with several deviations from the published 1954 version and incorporating a verse Further than Faith; Ships in the Ice, comprising 14 pp. on 14 leaves, mostly 17.5 x 13.5cm, of unpublished? manuscript telling the story of Franklin's Arctic expedition from the point of view of an Inuit man named Malik, signed George Mackay Brown 21 May 1973 [note: the posthumously published Northern Lights also contains a section with the same title, but different text]; The Old Women 1 page of notes for a poem involving whaling, unsigned [note: these are not notes for Brown's published poem The Old Women]; The Storm Watchers 10pp. (on 10 leaves) manuscript with corrections, each leaf 25 x 20cm, signed George Mackay Brown October 1962 (with date crossed through), published in A Calendar of Love; The Jomsvikings 12pp. (on 12 leaves) unpublished? manuscript, signed G.M.B., each leaf 25 x 12cm, some repairs, first leaf split into two; "The Tower at the Edge of the World" 3pp. (on 3 leaves) manuscript on lined notepaper, each leaf 20 x 13cm, comprising notes for a Radio Orkney book review, signed GMB 25/9/1961; Advice to Tourists at the West Shore: 13 March 1995 unpublished acrostic poem in two stanzas of five, then six, lines spelling the name 'Brian Murray', signed GMB 20.ii.95, written as a birthday present, 16 x 23cm; and two other items: a manuscript letter from George Mackay Brown to Brian Murray and notes by George Mackay Brown regarding an orkney prose anthology
4 large maps on rollers, comprising:Philips' Comparative Series of Large School Maps, England and Wales. 157 x 196cm., no date; Philips' Comparative Large School-room Map of Scotland, Physical., 1/375,000, 173 x 144cm.; W. & A.K. Johnstons' Effective Class Room Atlas of Asia - Relief & Communications. 87 x 108cm.; and Covens, J. and C. Mortier. Theatre de la Guerre en Austriche, Baviere, Souabe, le Tirol et les pays aux environs. Amsterdam, [1715], 97 x 108cm., slight wear at centre where joined; all 4 mounted on linen and wooden rollers, first 3 with slight wear or minor defectsProvenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust
English school (early 19th century), Sir John Barrington, Bart., Sir John Barrington, Swainston, I:W, Jane Blatchford. Sept. 1809, married Philip Williams, QC. Recorder of Winchester etc, three portrait silhouettes, the first reverse painted on glass, the remaining on card, the first 10cm x 6.8cm, the second 6.2cm, x 4.8cm, oval, the third 6.5cm x 5cm, oval, in various frames (3) Probably Sir John Barrington, 9th Baronet (1752-1818) who was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1780 to 1796.
Pulsar, P3 Time Computer, a rare 14 carat gold LED wristwatch, no. 134522, circa 1973, quartz movement, LED display, screw down back, case, dial and movement signed , on a Pulsar brown leather strap, accompanied by a Pulsar box, width 41mm The P3 was the first digital watch released with the ability to display the date. It was made available in stainless steel, 14 carat gold filled and solid gold. The gold versions were only made available by special order.
Four antique brooches, the first a Victorian amethyst brooch, circa 1860, the oval cut amethyst within a gold floral setting, 2.4cm long; a mid 19th century micro mosaic brooch, circa 1850, the blue panel inset with a micro mosaic of a pair of birds, one nesting, the other on a branch, in a polished gold setting, 2.4cm long; an early 19th century garnet and seed pearl cluster brooch, circa 1810, with a central hairwork panel; an early 20th century gold brooch/pendant, the heart shaped panel with seed pearl accented foliate spray, with green stone accent, stamped 9ct; together with late 20th century citrine and cultured pearl cluster brooch
A Burmese silver small bowl and a circular box and cover, the first with script marks, the second with Spanish import marks dated 1897, sponsor's mark of G. Parra, the first chased with a broad band of figures in various poses divided by trees, with foliate bands above and below, peacock signature beneath, 9cm (3 1/2in) high, 15cm (5 3/4in) diameter; the second with an elephant rider finial to the domed cover chased with deities in roundels, similarly chased to the swollen body, a foliate chased skirt and on four paw feet, 12cm (4 3/4in) high, 606g (19.5 oz) gross
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