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Saxton (Christopher & Hole WIlliam), Eboracensis comitatus pars Occidentalis vulgo West Riding, Eboracensis comitatus pars Septentrionalis vulgo North Riding [and] Eboracensis comitatus..., pars Orientalis vulgo East Riding [1607 - 1637], together three uncoloured engraved maps, some spotting to margins of the East Riding, some fraying to margins of the North Riding, various sizes, Latin text on verso of North Riding The North Riding is the first edition of 1607, the East Riding is from the 1610 edition and the West Riding is from the 1637 edition. (3)
Speed (John), The West Ridinge of Yorkshyre with the most famous and fayre Citie Yorke described, published C.Dicey & Co., circa 1770, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of York, slight creasing, 385 x 505 mm, no text on verso Dicey produced the last edition of John Speed's maps almost 160 years after they were first published. The maps were chronically out of date and didn't sell making this an uncommon edition. (1)
*Carnarvonshire. Speed (John), Caerarvon both Shyre and Shire-towne with the ancient Citie Bangor described, 1st edition, published John Sudbury & George Humble, [1611], hand coloured engraved map, inset town plans of Carnarvon and Bangor, small hole in lower margin, 380 x 510 English text on verso, mounted, framed and glazed A good example of the first edition. (1)
Hall (Sidney & Hughes William). General Atlas of the World..., published Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black, 1856, title page a little spotted, seventy engraved maps (including eighteen double page), all with contemporary outline colouring, occasional marginal closed tears and a little dust soiling, front first blank torn, two additional maps of Cronstadt and Crimea used to create the front pastedown and front endpaper, all edges gilt, upper board detached, rear board near detached, lacking spine, rubbed, worn and frayed, folio Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (1)
Goa. Van Linschoten (Jan Huygen), Ailhae Cidade de Goa Metropolitana da Indiae partes Orientais que esta en 15 Graos da Banda do Norte, circa 1598, uncoloured engraved city plan, orientated to the south, 'ribbon' cartouche, upper horizontal margin trimmed with slight loss, old folds, 380 x 430 mm, together with Merian (Matthaus), Grundriss von Goa, circa 1695, uncoloured engraved plan, old folds, slight water staining to margins, 215 x 355 mm The first described item is the reduced version of Van Linschoten's map by Theodore de Bry. (2)
Holy Land. Jerusalem and the Holy Land (so titled to cover), seven hand-coloured and tinted lithograph views and costume plates, circa 1855, comprising views by William Simpson: Jerusalem from the North West; Bethlehem and Rachel's Tomb; First View of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives coming from Bethany; Hebron and Machpelah, plus three costume plates bound in later olive morocco, some fading and mottled stains, oblong folio (1)
*Australia. Sydney from North Shore, 1875, panorama photograph of Sydney by Charles Bayliss (1850-1897) and Bernard Otto Holtermann (1838-1885), consisting of five albumen prints conjoined and mounted on linen-backed paper mount, image heavily faded, creased, chipped and split with complete loss of approximately 6 cm strip between first and second albumen print to the left of the panorama, Holter[mann] printed in the image lower centre, locations and points of interest in contemporary purple ink to upper and lower mount, mount soiled and browned, together with a black & white collotype six-part panorama of Sydney Harbour by Exchange Studios, circa 1920, from an original photograph taken from North Sydney, printed credit in the negative and captioned to lower margin, some soiling and a few small stains, long split to centre fold, linen-backed, 170 x 22 cm Bayliss, originally from Suffolk, produced this wet-plate panorama in 1875 from the 27-metre-high tower of Holtermann's home in Lavender Bay. Using a large-format camera with a 100-inch telefoto lens the view was captured on two single negatives, each measuring 90 x 150 cm and were the largest photographs taken by the collodion process. The example owned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales measures 22 x 141 cm. Sold with all faults not subject to return. (2)
Knolles (Richard). The Generall Historie of the Turkes from the first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Othoman Familie with all the notable expeditions of the Christian Princes against them..., 2nd edition, printed by Adam Islip, 1610, engraved title (relined), numerous engraved illustrations to text, lacks A1 (blank) and A6 (final leaf of introduction), a few short closed tears (some repaired), occasional damp staining, mainly to blank margins, 6A5 with frayed fore-edge, 6C1 with some early ink amendments (offsetting), endpapers renewed, 19th-century half calf, rubbed and rebacked, folio (1)
Reference. A mixed collection of eighteen map reference books and facsimile atlases, 20th century, including Ogilby (John), Britannia volume the first..., 1675, facsimile edition, published Osprey, 1971, 100 double page strip road maps, publisher's cloth gilt, folio, together with facsimile atlases of 'Britannia Depicta' and Taylor & Skinners 'Survey of the Roads of North Britain or Scotland', with Shirley (Rodney W.), Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477 - 1650, revised edition 1991, [and] Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650 - 1750, published 1988, two volumes, each with numerous illustrations, dust jackets, publisher's cloth gilt, 4to, plus Manasek (F.J.), Collecting Old Maps, published Terra Nova press, 1998, numerous black and white illustrations throughout, dust jacket, publisher's cloth gilt, 4to, and Booth (John), Antique Maps of Wales, 2nd edition, 1978, numerous black and white illustrations throughout, dust jacket, publisher's cloth gilt, 4to, with Skelton (R.A.), County Atlases of the British Isles, 1579 - 1850, revised edition 1978, numerous black and white illustrations throughout, dust jacket, publisher's cloth gilt, 4to, with others similar (18)
Surrey. Speed (John), Surrey described and divided into hundreds, 1st edition, published John Sudbury & George Humble, circa 1611, engraved map with near contemporary hand colouring, inset views of Richmond and Nonsuch palaces, slight staining, occasional marginal repaired closed tears not affecting image, 390 x 515 mm, English text on verso A scarce combination of the first edition and early hand colouring. (1)
Petrie (William Flinders, 1853-1942). Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri. First Series IVth to XIIth Dynasty, 2nd edition, 1899, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, publisher's catalogue at rear, signed by author to title 'Wm. Flinders Petrie', adhesion marks to front pastedown, original cloth gilt, rubbed and slight corner wear, 8vo, together with Douglas (Robert), God and Greater Britain: The British Race from the Twentieth Century BC to the Twentieth Century AD, 1st edition, [1902], presentation inscription to Flinders Petrie from Mrs E.J. Chapman dated 1912 to front free endpaper, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled and a little frayed at extremities, 8vo, plus an autograph letter signed from Mrs Louisa S. Cornish to Professor Flinders Petrie, 7th July, circa 1906, concerning the writing of the ancient Israelites, some spotting, 4 pp., 8vo (3)
*Fraser (James Baillie). Assemblage of Hillmen, Bheem ke Udar, Crossing the Touse [and] View of the Country from Urshalun Teeba, published Messrs. Rodwell and Martin, 1820, togther four aquatints by R.Havell & son, contemporary hand colouring, trimmed to image on three margins, each approximately 440 x 580 mm, mounted, framed and glazed Abbey Travel 498. Four plates from 'Views in the Himala Mountains'. James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856) was a Scottish traveller and artist, who, following the end of the war with Nepal in 1815 travelled with his brother William to the Himalayas, spending two months exploring the region. They became the first Europeans to reach the sources of the Jumna and Ganges rivers. Tutored by the artist George Chinnery, Fraser was encouraged by William Havell to publish his sketches upon his return to Calcutta. Fraser's account of his travels was separately published as 'Journal of a Tour through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges'. (4)
Santa Maria (Giuseppe di). Prima Speditione all' Indie Orientali, 1st edition, Rome, 1666, half title, folding engraved map at end, lacking signatures U1-4 (pages 153-160), occasional light browning, contemporary limp vellum, some soiling, small 4to Account of the first Carmelite voyage to the Malabar Coast of south west India, in an attempt to reconvert the Christians there who had seceded from the Church of Rome in 1653. Provides an interesting account of the customs of the Malabar people. (1)
Society of Dilettanti. The Unedited Antiquities of Attica; Comprising the Architectural Remains of Eleusis, Rhamnus, Sunium, and Thoricus, 1817, half title, list of members of the Society, 78 engraved maps, plates and plans, final text leaf and rear endpaper repaired, some offsetting and a little mainly marginal spotting, library stamps to title, labels at front, hinges reinforced, modern half morocco, upper cover gilt stamped with The Royal Institute of British Architects crest, shelf label adhered with clear tape to foot of spine, folio, together with Allason (Thomas), Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Pola, in Istria, 1819, half title, 10 engraved plates, illustrations, marginal library blindstamps, ink stamps to title and dedication, a little light spotting and soiling, labels at front, near contemporary half calf, a little rubbed and scuffed, shelf number to spine, folio First work Blackmer 1659. (2)
Autograph albums. A group of 3 small autograph albums, late 19th and early 20th century, the first containing autographs of actors and singers from Covent Garden, Drury Lane, etc., 1913-28, approximately 25 leaves, mostly written to rectos only, early leaves detached, the second containing several hundred cut autographs, quotations, inscriptions, original drawings, etc., circa 1907-10, partly broken and leaves coming loose, the third and smallest album containing autographs of Maurice Miles, Edgar Knight, Rafael Kublik, 1938 (in pencil), Carl Rosa, John Stainer, Gideon Fagan, Fernando de Lucia, Charles Grove, Reginald Stead and a few others, a total of approximately 8 leaves plus blanks, many leaves detached, all contemporary padded morocco/cloth, rubbed and a little wear to extremities, oblong 8vo (3)
Cabinet-Maker's Notebook. An album of pen and pencil sketches, circa 1830, 35 pp. with some blanks, paper watermarked 1811, including drawings or armchairs, chimney pieces, grates, day beds, occasional tables, torcheres, sofas, chifonnieres, pedestal tables, wine coolers, etc., with several designs for greenhouses and carriages, many of the drawings measured and showing constructional details, some offsetting to first three leaves from adhesive used for old cuttings pasted to first leaf recto, contemporary green stained vellum, rubbed and a little wear to spine, 4to (235 x 188) A few designs are annotated Eastnor Castle (Herefordshire, designed by Sir Robert Smirke, 1812-20) and Watermouth Castle (near Ilfracombe, Devon, the interior altered by George Wightwick, circa 1845). (1)
*Ethiopian Magic Scroll. A vellum scroll of three stitched membranes, probably late 19th century, handwritten in Ge'ez script in red and black, double column, two miniatures, the first of two angel protectors, the second of two talismans, marginal browning without loss of legibility, 176 x 11 cm (1)
*[Grand Tour]. Autograph letter signed from the merchants Wills and Leigh, Naples, 18 October 1768, to Sir George Pocock of Charles Street, Berkeley Square, London, (altered to Twickenham), informing him that in a month or so a ship will sail to London with 'such things of yours as may be ready, hoping all Fabris's will be finished and part of Ricciandelli's' but sickness prevented them from working, some of D'Hancarvilles works will be ready but not Morghens, other information including that Mr and Mrs [William] Hamilton are in the country and that Captain French has arrived from Newfoundland and sends his respects, minor worm tracks, 2 pp. with integral address leaf, 4to, together with an autograph letter signed from Thomas Palmer Ball, Antwerp, 14 September & Lille, 17 September 1788, to his mother giving details of his travels, '...there is a very large river to this town [Antwerp] but no trade or shipping', and later from Brussels, '...it's the fashion in this country for dogs to draw goods about, yesterday we met nine abreast drawing a great barrel', heavy spotting and dust-soiling on folds, 2 pp., 8vo, plus a manuscript agreement in Italian, between Antonio Rosso and Signori Waylen, 26 April 1836, for conveyance of Mr Waylen and his companions from Rome to Florence, and the provision of food and lodging for 'trente scudi', a little age toning, 1 page, oblong 8vo The first letter, recording the Grand Tour and the acquisition of pictures and antiques, makes reference to the artists Pietro Fabris (fl. circa 1756-1804), the view painter employed by Sir William Hamilton, and Gabrielle Ricciardelli (fl. 1743-1768), landscape and marine painter. (3)
Music Manuscripts. A manuscript book compiled by Thomas Pike, 1789, 276pp. of musical notation and lyrics for twenty-eight hymns and anthems, written in a neat hand, with contents leaves at both front and rear, titles include: 'Anthem taken out of the 106th Psalm by Mr. Henry Purcell'; 'A Christmas Ode'; and 'The 4th hym taken from the 96th Psalm by Jackson', offsetting throughout, a few spots mainly to first and last leaves, contemporary reversed calf, rubbed, spine with some loss and fraying at both ends, front cover with central red morocco label, gilt-decorated and lettered, 4to, together with a similar book, comprising 96 pages of musical notation and lyrics for various pieces, including: 'The Sylph'; The New Highland Laddie'; 'The Hungarian Waltz'; 'Weber's Celebrated March'; and 'Rule Britannia', offsetting throughout, front pastedown with ink inscription 'Mary Pyke February 10th 1821', contemporary calf, front joint cracked, spine deficient, 4to (2)
New Zealand Maori Rugby Team. An autograph team sheet for the team touring New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, France, England, Wales and Canada, 1926-27, signed on board the ship carrying them to Canada, 10 January 1927, a total of 29 signatures and 1 set of initials 'S.J.', including autographs of the Captain M.P. Barclay, Vice Captain R. Bell and manager H. Harris, signed in three slightly uneven rows on a sheet of light blue paper and pasted into an autograph album of the period, containing unidentified autographs and watercolours on 10 further pages, a further 14 autographs of Japanese naval officers signed and identified on HIMS Katori letterhead, 4 pp., 8vo, loosely inserted, contemporary decorative synthetic boards, oblong 8vo Now called the Maori All Blacks, they began playing in 1888 as the New Zealand Natives, recording their first national win against Ireland (13-4) later that year in Dublin. They were the first team to wear the famous black jersey and the side was originally conceived as an all-Maori selection. The team has beaten many international sides, including the British and Irish Lions, England and Ireland. (1)
Scrap albums. A group of 5 various notebooks and albums relating to the Botfield family of Decker Hill, Shifnal, Shropshire, including a manuscript journal of a summer's holiday undertaken by Rev. William Bishton Garnett Botfield and others to Germany, Switzerland and Savoy in 1880, 92 pp. written neatly to album leaf rectos from the original logbooks, contemporary half roan, small 4to, together with one of the original logbooks for the holiday written in pencil, 76 leaves, oblong 12mo, plus a scrap album with photographs, autographs and drawings relating to Aston Hall Auxiliary Hospital, Shropshire, compiled at the end of the First World War, a total of approximately 50 leaves, contemporary padded morocco, spine deficient, plus a botanical notebook compiled by Miss M.E. Howard in 1839, containing pen and ink and watercolour diagrams of plant parts, and an inventory of property at Decker Hill, belonging to the late William Botfield, 1851 (5)
Heraldic Manuscript. A Roll of Arms, copied by Thomas Digby, 1640, brown ink on laid paper, the shields arranged in two rows of five on each page, the majority with family name neatly written in cell above each shield, a total of 13 leaves, the first page with the ownership name of the copyist 'Tho: Digby, 1640' in upper margin, the penultimate and last identified coat of arms being that of three "Luces" (Pike) for Thomas Lucy's family of Charlecote Park near Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, the second leaf neatly rehinged, the ninth leaf with conjugate stub between folios 6 & 7, a little dust-soiling throughout, uncut edges, modern quarter morocco and marbled boards with vellum tips [by Douglas Cockerell & Son, 1979], title label lettered in gilt 'Lucy Roll: Copy of Thos Digby 1640', oblong 8vo (155 x 210 mm) Provenance: Major Anthony R. Tavener. (1)
Heraldic Manuscript. The Visitation of Westmorland, 1575, and Visitation of Cumberland, 1615, manuscript, circa 1635, containing about 80 pen and ink coats of arms on 23 folios, some soiling and old stains to inner margins of early leaves affecting text and images but without loss of legibility, followed by 8 leaves containing approximately 200 coats of arms of Kentish families and compiled at a similar date, some spotting and soiling, a few scattered pencil marks, Thomas Phillipps ownership numbers at foot of first leaf with later ownership motif 'E17' at centre, book ticket of Bretherton and large armorial bookplate of W. Harry Rylands to front pastedown, 19th-century half calf and cloth, rubbed and a little chipped at head of spine, folio (330 x 208 mm) Provenance: Phillipps MS. 26645; Sotheby's, 23 June 1952, lot 116 (bought by Walford for E. [Edward Elmhirst]); Major Anthony R. Tavener (purchased from Stanley Crow, 1975). (1)
Heraldry Manuscript. Collection of Names and Description of the Arms of Different Families of various English Counties, in the Autograph of Samuel Todde, late 16th century, 100 numbered leaves with 9 unnumbered leaves alphabetical index at front, bookplates of the Shirley Library at Ettington Park and later bookplate of Edward Elmhirst to front pastedown, manuscript note about the work and its provenance by Elmhirst pasted to rear pastedown and his monogrammed elm leaf library number E2 to margin of first page, contemporary limp vellum, some soiling and wear, folio, purpose-made quarter morocco gilt slipcase by Zaehnsdorf Provenance: Reverend Dr Wellesley; Shirley Library at Ettington Park; Edward Elmhirst; Major Anthony R. Tavener. (1)
Heraldry manuscripts. The Manner and Creation of Hereaulds and Pursuivants, together with the Oaths Administered, the Orders to be Observed and the Grants of Privileges made by them by various Kings and Queens of England, 4 to XVII Century, written in an 18th-century hand to rectos of 33 leaves, some soiling and spotting, tear with loss to lower margin of first leaf, Phillipps MSS18521 provenance to upper margin of first leaf, later boards with modern calf reback, folio, together with a neatly-written account of Monmouth's, Extracts from Parish Registers, etc., Parish of Bardwell, Suffolk, compiled in February 1852 by G.E. Adams [later G.E. Cokayne, the genealogist and Clarenceux King of Arms], 46 pp. including a few pen and ink illustrations, contemporary sewn marbled wrappers, rubbed on spine, small 4to, a scrap album containing 19th and 20th-century watercolour, pen and ink and pencil coats of arms, and 2 related lithographically printed books, various sizes Provenance: Major Anthony R. Tavener. (6)
Charles II period binding. The Whole Duty of Man, Laid down In a Plain and Familiar Way for the Use of All, but especially the Meanest Reader. Divided into XVII. Chapters... with Private Devotions For several Occasions, [by Richard Allestree], printed by R. Norton for Robert Pawlett, 1680, additional engraved title, engraved frontispiece bearing the royal arms of Charles II, occasional marks, first and last few leaves with dampstaining to head and foremargin, frontispiece and title each with short closed tear and small loss to foremargin, I12 with closed tear, U6 with small excision to foremargin, affecting a few letters on verso, front flyleaf (defective) with early ink ownership names of Ann Butler and 'Martha Eyre Her Book 1729' to verso, all edges gilt, contemporary elaborately gilt-decorated red morocco, incorporating coloured infills to design, some wear to extremities, spine with raised bands, tools include drawer handle, four-petalled flower, and tulip, gilt roll on edges, 12mo, unrelated autograph letter signed from the bookbinder Sidney Cockerell loosely inserted Provenance: From the library of Howard M. Nixon. The tools used are typical of the period, similar tools being used by the Queen's Binders and others. (1)
Continental binding. Officia Propria Sanctorum..., new edition, Bonn: H.T. Jansen, 1695, scattered spotting, mainly affecting first and last few leaves, lacks initial leaf (blank?), all edges gilt, contemporary elaborately gilt-decorated red morocco, spine with partial paper label to head, slight rubbing to extremities, rear joint with tiny hole at each end, spine with gilt-decorated raised bands and panels, covers with central lozenge surrounded by leafy sprays and other tools, within a multi-tooled border, gilt-rolled edges, small 8vo Provenance: From the library of Howard M. Nixon. (1)
Continental binding. L. Ann‘us Florus. Cl. Salmasius, addidit Lucium Ampelium, E cod. MS. nunquam antehac editum, Leiden: Elsevier, 1638, engraved title, engraved head- and tail-pieces, including the 'black siren' at the head of the dedicatory epistle, title with small ink inscription 'W. Bateman Hague 1716' at head, contemporary vellum with yapp fore-edges and remnants of green silk ties, spine with manuscript title at head, covers with gilt armorial stamp to centre, front cover with faint early manuscript shelfmark to head, a couple of marks, contained in a marbled slipcase, 12mo, together with Patrick (Simon), The Christian Sacrifice, A Treatise Shewing the Necessity, End and Manner of Receiving the Holy Communion..., in four parts, 3rd edition, printed for R. Royston, 1675, engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title relaid (both loose), three-quarter page engraving in text, A2 with loss at head, all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco gilt, extremities rubbed and spine faded, spine with gilt decorated raised bands and panels, covers with decorative gilt panel design and central gilt armorial stamp of Anne Bayning, Viscountess Bayning of Foxley (1619-1678), Provenance: From the library of Howard M. Nixon. First item: Willems 467. (2)
Agricola (Georgius). De re Metallica Libri XII. Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinae, ac Omnia Denique ad Metallicam Spectantia, non Modo Luculentissime Describuntur, sed et per Effigies... Adjunctis Latinis, Germanicisque Appellationibus, ita ob Oculos Ponuntur, ut Clarius Tradi non Possint. Ejusdem de Animantibus Subterraneis Liber... Cum Indicibus Diversis, Quicquid in Opera Tractatum est, Pulchre Demonstrantibus, Basle, 1621, woodcut illustration to title and numerous woodcut illustrations throughout by Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, some full-page, one folding, some mainly light spotting and browning, light marginal water stains at front and end, modern blindstamped calf, folio Brunet, I, p.113; PMM 79. Refer to Honeyman catalogue, part 1, lot 32. First published in 1556, "'On Metals', is the first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times." (PMM). (1)
Berkeley (George). A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge..., to which are added Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous..., 1st collected edition, printed for Jacob Tonson, 1734, separate title to part 2, occasional light spotting, 20th century panelled mottled calf, red morocco title label, 8vo First collected edition, and second edition of the Treatise (1st edition 1710); third edition of the Dialogues (1st edition 1713). (1)
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