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Click here to subscribeKerr (John) History of Curling, Scotland's ain Game, and Fifty Years of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, first edition, frontispiece, title-vignette, plates, 2 coloured, illustrations, morocco-backed pictorial boards, repaired, rebacked, preserving most of original backstrip, library stamp on upper cover, 8vo, Edinburgh, 1890.
Maskelyne (John Nevil) 'Sharps and Flats': A Complete Revelation of the Secrets of Cheating at Games of Chance and Skill, first edition, 24pp. publisher's catalogue at end, 1894 ~ Roterberg (A.) New Era Card Tricks, 1897, illustrations, some spotting or soiling, original cloth, rubbed and faded, 8vo (2).
Scrope (William) Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed, first edition, lithographed frontispiece, additional vignette title & 11 plates, all but 1 coloured or tinted, tissue guards, vignettes, margin of frontispiece with small repairs, some light foxing on plates, later half calf, original pictorial cloth gilt covers preserved at end, 8vo, 1843.
Suffolk & Berkshire (Earl of) and others. Racing and Steeple- Chasing, large-paper copy, number 109 of 250 copies, title printed in red and black, illustrations, very light foxing to first and last few ff., bookplate of Sir Alfred Sherlock Gooch, original half morocco, gilt, gilt arms to upper cover, extremities slightly rubbed, lightly soiled, spine a little faded, small 4to, 1886. *** Part of the Badminton Library.
Smyth (Prof. C. Piazzi) Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, first edition, half-title, mounted actual photograph as frontispiece, chromolithographed map and 17 lithographed plates, 3 double-page, lightly foxed, broken and loose, original cloth, gilt, rubbed, 1864 ~ Carter (Howard) and A.C.Mace. The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, vol. 1 & 2 only (of 3), vol.1 third impression, vol.2 first edition, half-titles, plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1927, 8vo (3).
Bilibin (Ivan) The Tale of Tsarevich Ivan, the Fire Bird and Grey Wolf, 8 chromolithograph illustrations in colour, silver and gold, 3 full page, Russian text, original pictorial wrappers, slightly tanned, 4to, St. Petersburg, State Printers, 1901. *** The first volume in Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin's (1876-1942) large picture book series.
Munari (Bruno) Jamais Contents, first French edition, Paris, Editions de la Paix, 1946; The Birthday Present, first edition in English, inner hinges cracked, small tear to head of spine, New York, 1959, colour illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly spotted, tanned, 4to (2).
Gibbings (Robert) Over the Reefs, 1948; Till I End My Song, ink inscription to front free endpaper, 1957; Coming Down the Seine, 1953; Trumpets From Montparnesse, 1955; Sweet Cork of Thee, 1951 ~ Kirkus (A. Mary) Robert Gibbings, A Bibliography, 1962, original cloth, gilt, first, second and sixth mentioned with dust-jackets, first and sixth slightly rubbed and chipped, second rubbed, chipped and spine faded; and 5 others, Robert Gibbings, 8vo (11).
Leighton (Clare) Sometime Never, illustrations by the author, original cloth, dust-jacket, torn at edges, spine ends chipped, tanned, 1939; and another copy, no dust-jacket, 1939 ~ Bates (H.E.) Through the Woods, 1936; Down the River, 1937, wood engraved illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker, original cloth, rubbed, spines faded ~ Holme (Constance) The Trumpet in the Dust, first illustrated edition with 6 woodcuts by Clare Leighton, ownership inscription on front endpaper, dust-jacket, 1934; and another copy ~ Symington (Elsie) By Light of the Sun, signed by the author, woodcut illustrations by Clare Leighton, original buckram, gilt, dust-jacket, slightly tanned at spine and edge, New york, 1941; and 5 others illustrated by Clare Leighton, 8vo (14).
Matrix: A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles, Numbers 1-20, all first editions, limited editions, mounted specimen leaves, plates, illustrations, many colour, some folding, original wrappers or boards, dust-jackets, Andoversford and Risbury, 1981-2000; and 2 others, Private Press, 4to & oblong 4to
Brown (Samuel) Lectures on the Atomic Theory and Essays Scientific and Literary, 2 vol., bookplate, contemporary half calf, double morocco labels, 1858 ~ Rutherford (Ernest) Radioactive Substances and Their Radiation, neat ownership stamp on front pastedown, original cloth, Cambridge, 1913 ~ Fleming ( Professor Sir Alexander, general editor) Penicillin, Its Practical Application, original cloth, spine faded, 1946, first editions, and 5 others, Medicine and Science, 8vo (9).
Hudson (W.H.) Birds of La Plata, 2 vol., one of 1500 copies, colour plates by H. Gronvold, 1920; Far Away and Long Ago, light offsetting to title, 1918; A Traveller in Little Things, light foxing, 1921; A Little Boy Lost, ink inscription, 1905; Birds in Town & Village, worn dust-jacket loosely inserted, 1919, first editions, original cloth; and 14 others, most W.H. Hudson, 8vo (25).
Livingston (Philip A.) and Franklin H. West, editors. Hybrids and Hybridizers. Rhododendrons and Azaleas for Eastern North America, Pennsylvania, 1978 ~ Cox (Peter) The Larger Species of Rhododendron, 1979 ~ Berrisford (Judith) Rhododendrons and Azaleas, 1973 ~ Woodcock (H. Drysdale) and J. Coutts. Lilies, their Culture and Management, 1935, plates, some colour, original cloth, first to third mentioned dust-jackets, second mentioned ownership signature; and c.100 others, Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Lilies, Miscellaneous, 4to & 8vo (c.104).
Adams (C.Warren) A Spring in the Canterbury Settlement, first edition, 5 engraved plates, 4 folding, one slightly water-stained, occasional slight spotting, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 1853 ~ Campbell (Archibald Jones) Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, 2 vol., plates, some chromolithographed, occasional foxing, modern half morocco over marbled boards, Sheffield, Printed for the Author, 1901, 8vo (3).
Martineau (Harriet) Retrospect of Western Travel, 2 vol., first American edition, foxing, original cloth and printed paper labels, ringmark on 1 upper cover, the other slightly creased, (Sabin 44940), London and New York, 1838 ~ Irving (Washington) Chronicle of the Conquest of Grenada, 2 vol., vol.I first few ff. marginally stained, bookplate, contemporary morocco, spines gilt with morocco labels, 1829 ~ Dibdin (Thomas Frognall) A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Second Edition, 3 vol., plates, contemporary calf, later labels, spines slightly rubbed, 1829 ~ Mandeville ( Sir John) The Voiage and Travaile. Introduction, Additional Notes, and Glossary, frontispiece, text illustrations, modern half calf, spine gilt, 1839, 8vo (8).
Stone (William L.) Life of Joseph Brant-Thayendanegea: including the Border Wars of the American Revolution..., 2 vol., first edition, engraved frontispieces, additional titles, 5 plates (1 folding) and a folding map, slight spotting, bookplate of the Earl of Caledon on front pastedown, contemporary half calf, gilt spines, spines faded, 8vo, New York, 1838.
Whymper (Edward) Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 2 vol. including Supplementary Appendix, first edition, plates and illustrations, folding map in pocket at end of vol.1, foxing to endpapers of vol.2, original pictorial cloth, gilt, very slightly rubbed, small tear to upper joint and gilt spine-lettering dulled vol.2, 4to, 1892-91.
Forbes (James D.) Travels through the Alps, edited by W.A.B.Coolidge, portrait frontispiece loose, 3 folding maps, 2 in pocket at end, illustrations, hinges weak, original cloth, head of spine nicked, ( (Neate F45), A. & C. Black, 1900 ~ Caulfield (Vivian) Ski-ing Turns, first edition, 8 instruction cards in pocket at end, all partially browned, some ink and pencil annotations, underlining and sketches of ski-ing figures to text, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly faded, lower cover cockled, (Fedden 10), 1922; and 2 others, similar, 8vo (4).
Guida dei Vraggiatori in Italia..., new edition, engraved title, bookplate of James Grove Wood, Castle Grove on front pastedown, contemporary calf-backed boards, Florence, 1824 ~ Baedeker (K., editor) Palestine and Syria, Leipzig and London, 1876; Belgium and Holland, seventh edition, Leipzig and London, 1884 ~ Wyld (James) Map of the Ottoman Empire, The Black Sea and the Frontiers of Russia and Persia, folding hand-coloured lithographed map, n.d. ~ Handbook (A) for Travellers on the Continent, thirteenth edition, original morocco, rubbed, 1860, folding maps, all but the first and last original cloth; and 14 others, guides, 8vo (19).
Livingstone (David) Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa..., first edition, second issue, folding chromolithographed frontispiece, engraved portrait, 2 tinted lithographed plates and 41 wood-engraved plates and illustrations, 2 folding engraved maps with routes in red, 1 in pocket at end, original cloth, rebacked preserving most of original spine and recased, new endpapers, 1857 ~ Carey (M.L.M.) Four Months in a Dahabeeh; or, Narrative of a Winter's Cruise on the Nile, half-title, 6 chromolithographed plates, advertisement leaf at end, original cloth, gilt, 1863, both foxed and rubbed, 8vo (2).
A Set of Eleven Wilkinson Toby Jugs of Allied War Leaders 1915-1919, designed by Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925) and issued during and immediately after the First World War, comprising: Rt Hon. David Lloyd George (1915), holding a shell inscribed 'Shell Out'; Admiral Jellicoe (1915), holding a jug inscribed 'Hell Fire Jack'; Lord French (1915), clutching a foaming jug inscribed 'French Pour les Francais'; Field-Marshall Sir Douglas Haig (1917), seated on a Mark IV Tank; Admiral Beatty (1917), holding a shell inscribed 'Dread Nought'; President Woodrow Wilson (1918), wearing an Indian chief's headdress; Marshall Foch (1918), with foaming champagne bottle; General Botha (1918), with jug captioned 'Loyalty'; Earl Kitchener (1915), with jug inscribed 'Bitter for Kaiser'; Field Marshall Joffre (1918), with a 75mm shell cantingly inscribed 'Ce que j'offre'; King George V (1919), seated with a globe in his lap; all with facsimile Carruthers Gould signature and Soane & Smith backstamp, 24.2cm to 31cm.
A Belleek First Period Porcelain Figural Trumpet Vase, modelled as an almost nude infant grasping an enormous gaping fish which forms the vase, upon circular fluted plinth applied with fruiting swags and upon three leaf sheathed knurled feet, printed hound, tower and harp in black, and "Belleek", also impressed "Co. Fermanagh Belleek", 21cm (cracks around infant's feet and fish's tail, partly restored)
Vos (Martin de) Histoire D'Abraham, 6 detailed and dramatic scenes from Genesis after de Vos, by Gerard de Jode, from Abram setting out into Canaan with Sarai and Lot, to Rebecca revealing herself as the wife for Isaac, and including the angel of the Lord appearing to Abraham in the moment of sacrifice, engravings, each c.200 x 263mm., slight browning, 3 sheets with losses to bottom right corners, outside platemarks, neatly repaired, first plate with slight surface abrasions at bottom corner border, a few small stains, occasionally within engraved surfaces, later roan backed marbled boards, worn, (Antwerp), c.1570.
Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) Veduta interna della Villa di Mecanate, etching, 475 x 625mm., marginal defects, one repaired tear into image, along central crease, first Paris edition, (H.73 II), early 19th century ~ Troyen (J.) (Christ disputing with the doctors), after Spaniolet, engraving, 210 x 300mm., marginal browning, some handling creases, c.1770 ~ Bourlier (M.A.) Study of a Head for the Picture of Christ Giving Sight to the Blind, after Richter, stipple-engraving, 570 x 425mm., trimmed within the platemark, surface dirt, one large repaired tear, other marginal defects, published by the artist, 1813 ~ Bowyer (R. publisher) Ceremony of Te Deum by the Allied Armies on the Square of Louis XV. at Paris, original hand-coloured aquatint, 340 x 585mm., central fold, surface dust, marginal tears, other minor defects, 1815 (4).
Railways.- Bourne (John C.) and John Britton. Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway, 2 maps on 1 sheet, illustrated title, and 34 plates on 29 leaves, tinted lithographs, some spotting and surface dirt, title with repaired tear, small corner loss and damp-stains to margins, only, first plate loose and inserted, with marginal defects not affecting the image, original half morocco, ribbed cloth boards, worn, upper board blind-stamped, spine chipped, (Abbey Life 398), folio (550 x 370mm.), the author and Ackermann & Co., 1839.
L'Imagerie d'Epinal. Le Chemin de Fer, celebrating the invention of steam locomotion as one of the great marvels of the century, woodcut, lithographically transferred, hand-coloured by stencil, 390 x 565mm., on laid paper, a few handling creases, folds in the margins, slight damp-staining, faint spotting and browning, (Bibliotheque Nationale Cat. 1145), Epinal, Pellerin, first issued 1838, a later issue.
Richter (Henry) Illustrations of the Works of Henry Richter, First Series, illustrated title in pen lithography, "written on stone by J.Netherclift", with text leaf of narrative descriptions of each subject signed by "Timothy Whackumwell, Schoolmaster", and 4 chalk lithographs by Richter, printed by Rowney & Forster, images average 300 x 280mm., sheets 630 x 480mm., generally good condition, a few short tears and small losses at edges of wide margins, loose with stitch holes at left edge, R.Ackermann for the Author, 1822. *** Apparently all published; the British Museum has these plates only. The four lithographs are of details from Richter's painting A Picture of Youth, or The School in an Uproar, illustrated on the title.
Turner (J.M.W. R.A.) Liber Studiorum, 42 published plates only, of 71, including Mont St. Gothard, Penbury Mill, London from Greenwich, Junction of Severn and Wye, and Source of the Arveron, by C. Turner, W. Say, R. Dunkarton, and others, including 8 of the 11 plates engraved by J.M.W. Turner himself, etchings with mezzotint and aquatint, printed in a range of sepia and brown inks, each c.208 x 290mm., various states including at least two first states, most second or third states, some intermediate states not conforming to Finberg, includes many very good, richly inked, impressions, Dunstanborough Castle with the collector's signature, in ink, of Mary Constance Clarke (Lugt 449), and a collector's ink stamp (?of Charles Stokes) (c.f. Lugt 2758), Juvenile Tricks with the collector's violet ink stamp of James Reiss (Lugt 1522), and Hind Head Hill with the dealer's ink stamp of C.W. Dowdeswell, 36 Chancery Lane (Lugt 690), all stamps and the signature on versos, six bearing the Turner sale blind-stamp, two with a small hole within the image, one with a short tear into the title area, not affecting lettering, several with spotting, surface dirt, light damp-staining and other minor, mostly marginal, defects, most hinged into mounts, a few mounted at corners, one laid down, one duplicate, most published by the artist, a few by Charles Turner, 1807-1819; with 4 related prints including Procris and Cephalus by Thomas Lupton, outline etching, printed with plate tone, c.1863, and The Deluge, unpublished, the printing plate bought by Colnaghi in the Turner sale, mezzotint, printed in sepia, on laid india paper, later 19th century ~ Short (Sir Frank, R.A., P.R.E.) 5 plates after the Liber Studiorum, including 2 images previously unpublished by Turner, mezzotints, printed in bistre, from 210 x 270mm. to 225 x 300mm., all signed in pencil, lower right, all hinged into mounts, occasional spotting, R. Dunthorne (the unpublished plates by the engraver), 1886-1902 (51).
Heath (William) Cost of A Waterloo Medal; A Trifling Misunderstanding or a Military Tea Party, with Traveling in France by George Cruickshank, etchings, each c.255 x 355mm., with hand-colouring, unexamined out of frames, slight surface dirt and one marginal damp stain, framed and glazed, first published early 19th century, but later issues, mid 19th century (3).
Vanity Fair, 2 vol., Thirty-First and Thirty-Second Series, each containing a folding frontispiece, of the Dreyfus Trial and a Group of Generals (including Baden-Powell and Lord Kitchener), respectively, and 51 caricature portraits by Spy, and others, including President McKinley of the United States, jockeys and oarsmen, the polo playing Maharajah of Patiala, Comte de Dion astride a motor tricycle, Paderewski, Winston Churchill and others, 104 chromolithographs in all, the folding plates each c.360 x 455mm., the single portraits each c.360 x 200mm., generally in good condition, occasional minor spotting, publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth, rubbed, one with a damp-stain to the upper board, folio, 1899-1900 (2).
Stern (Bernard) Reflective Lady I; Paper Doll I, monochrome aquatints, the former printed in sepia, the latter in black, 345 x 270mm. and 400 x 285mm., respectively, both signed in pencil, lower right, the first numbered 7/30, the second an artist's proof; (Seated Musician), 4 artist's proofs and 5 numbered impressions from an edition of 30, monochrome aquatints, 400 x 285mm., all signed in pencil, lower right; with 2 Head studies, monochrome aquatints, 300 x 245mm. and 345 x 270mm., respectively both signed in pencil, lower right, both numbered from editions of 30, one with another impression from the edition (14).
Piringer (Benedict) Vue de Lyon et de l'Avenue de cette Ville par le Fauborg St. Clair, panorama after Wery, tinted aquatint, 520 x 780mm., uniform browning, slight spotting, a few tears into platemark, not affecting engraved surface, one repaired tear across top right corner, a few slight creases, Lyon, Vigezzy, c.1810 ~ Louis Breton, 1re Vue de la Ville de Saintes, prise en face de la Place de Bel-Air; Ve Vue de la Ville de Saintes, prise en face du Seminaire, after Thiberge tinted lithographs, each c. 377 x 680mm., laid down, first view with slight scratch into image, second view with slight marginal damp-stain and surface dirt, c.1830; with a small group of other French views, including Avignon, Nîmes and l'Ile de la Cite, and one view of Saint Denis, Reunion, lithographs and one aquatint, various sizes and conditions, 19th century (17).
Low Countries.- Jansson (Jan) Groninga Dominium; Typus Frisiae Orientalis, 2 engraved maps, with original hand-colouring, both c.386 x 498mm., unexamined out of frames, first map with minor damp-stain to right side and a few spots, second map, only, with minor crease and short marginal split along central fold, slight browning, framed and glazed, Amsterdam, c.1650.
Carne (John) Syria, The Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c., 3 vol. in 1, 3 vignette titles, 2 engraved maps and 117 views including Rhodes, Tripoli and Alexandria, each c.170 x 210mm., occasional slight spotting, first title with ink inscription, contemporary morocco-backed cloth, gilt title panel to upper boards, rubbed, 4to, Fisher, Son & Co., 1836-8.
Ordnance Survey. Sheets 4,16 and 17, covering parts of the South Coast from Folkestone to Bridport, 3 engraved maps, 380 x 590mm. to 485 x 790mm., dissected and linen-backed, railway lines added in colour, first issued 1811-16, these from electrotypes of 1867-72, contemporary cloth slipcase with label of James Wyld; and 4 other Ordnance Survey sheets including parts of Essex, Cambridgeshire, Rutland and Warwickshire (5).
Crane (Walter) The First of May, a Fairy Masque, number 261 of 300 copies, signed by the artist, 57 proof plates printed on india paper and mounted, slight soiling at extremities of mounts, loosely contained as issued in original cloth portfolio, colour illustration on upper side, silk ties, oblong folio, 1881.
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