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Click here to subscribeKatia Schmitt, Hugo de St Morand, Michel Lacoste, Eric Gaudin, Michel Dubre, Eric Schlumberger, Centenaire de la Statue de la Liberte, six compositions of The Statue of Liberty, colour lithographs, all signed and numbered, Published Mourlot 1986, five 73cm x 52cm, one 52cm x 73cm, (6), together with the original folio.
FURNITURE DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, NINE BOOKS comprising Newlands, James. The carpenter and joiner's assistant, 1860; Rowe, Eleanor, editor. Studies from the museums: wood carvings, folio 1 only, with 18 plates; Ross, Frederick. The ruined abbeys of Britain, [1892?], volume 1 only; Chancellor, Alfred Ernest. Examples of old furniture English and foreign, 1898; Small, John William. Scottish woodwork of the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries…, [1898?]; Tanner, Henry. English interior woodwork of the xvi, xvii & xviiith centuries, 1902; MacQuoid, Percy. A history of English furniture: the age of walnut, 1905; and 2 others, sold not subject to return Provenance: Auchtertool House, Fife
TRAVEL, NAVIGATION, ETC: 1. Ross, John: Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage. L, Webster, 1835, 1st edn, 4to., complete including all maps, charts and plates including three coloured. Half leather. CONDITION: Worn & scuffed; occasional foxing; the large chart & pp 243/246 loose; 2. White, W: History, Gazetteer and Directory of Suffolk. Sheffield, 1844, 1st edn. CONDITION: lacking the map and few pages taped on; 3. Walton, I: The Complete Angler. Major, 1824, 2nd. edn half leather. CONDITION: worn; 4. Hogarth, W: Complete works. London printing and publishing, no date, c.1880; folio, full leather. CONDITION: aeg. covers worn; o/w G; 5. Dore, G (ill): Thomas Hood. E. Moxon, 1870. Folio, full leather gilt, aeg. CONDITION: Covers scuffed; o/w G+; 6. Plus four other works
French Interest: Les Celtes Depuis Les Temps Les Plus Anciens...Etude Historique by H. D'Arbois De Jubainville. (French language history of the Celts). Paris: Albert Fontemoing, Editeur, 1904. First edition. Rebound in half-leather and cloth-covered boards with attractive spine. Pp. 219. And Description Historique De L'Eglise Cathedrale be Notre-Dame D'Amiens by A.P.M. Gilbert. Amiens: Caron-Vitet, 1833. First edition. Illustrated with engraved plates (blindstamped). Pp. 378. Kwan-Ko-Dzu-Setsu - Notice Historique et Descriptive sur les Art et Industries Japonais by Ninagawa Noritané. (French text). Yokohama, Tokio: Editeurs Mess. H. Ahrens, 1876-1878. Five folio volumes bounds as one. Lacking lithograph plates. Extensively inscribed in pencil by a previous owner. (3)
Grant Francis; Old English Drinking Glasses, folio, published by Herbert Jenkins, London 1926; W A Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass, first limited edition 159/300, 2 vols, 4to, published by The Medici Society, London 1929; Arnold Fleming; Scottish and Jacobite Glass, 4to, published by Jackson, Son & Co, Glasgow 1938; together with two further books, catalogues and Glass Circle periodicals on drinking glasses. (28)
Apuleius; The Golden Ass, translated by William Adlington, first limited edition 205/220 Chiswick Press, folio, red cloth, most pages uncut, with slip case, published by George Bell & Son, London 1904; Memoirs of the Life of Catherine Phillips, first edition, 8vo, full calf, published by James Phillips and Son, London 1797; Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock Of The Bushveld, first edition, 8vo, green cloth, published by Longmans, Green and Co, London 1907; and King Albert's Book, 4to, cream cloth, published by The Daily Telegraph 1914. (4)
Autograph Letter signed to his uncle Alvan Converse, 1½pp (Coleman K., of Franklin, New York State, fl. 1830s) Autograph Letter signed to his uncle Alvan Converse, 1½pp. with conjugate blank, folio, Franklin, 8th May 1831, describing life in Franklin, "Franklin is a smart town, it has two villages Carthage, and the other is Franklinmills is a large gristmill, a large sawmill . Their [sic] is four large stores in this village, Taverns and a number of macanicks ", tears along folds, browned ; and c. 20 pieces relating to the Converse family of New York, v.s., v.d. (c. 20 pieces).
Observations on the abolition of Corporal punishment in Mysore [docket title] Observations on the abolition of Corporal punishment in Mysore [docket title], manuscript fair copy, 18pp., folds, slightly browned, folio, 5th September 1835. "To The Secretary to the Commissioner, for the Government of the Territories of the Rajah of Mysore I am led to conclude, from the unanimous testimony of the Public Officers that the entire abolition of this punishment, has been attended with consequences otherwise than beneficial to moral improvement . Punishment nose to be cut off one to be hung, and the hand of the other to be cut off ."
edited by Desiderius Erasmus, vol.1 only , text in Greek edited by Desiderius Erasmus, vol.1 only (of 2), text in Greek, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, later ink marginalia, title laid down and with loss to corners (not affecting text), some light foxing and water-staining, occasional spotting, 17th century calf, rebacked in early 20th century purple calf, corners worn, rubbed, [Adams A1731], folio, Basel, Michael Isingrinius, 1539.
Latin. Biblia Sacra, title within engraved architectural border Latin. Biblia Sacra, title within engraved architectural border, 3 folding engraved maps, thses with short splits at folds, text lightly browned throughout, occasional spotting, contemporary vellum, lacking backstrip, cover detaching, [Not in D ], folio, Frankfurt, M.D.C.XIIX [?1618]. sold not subject to return.
Opera Omnia, 2 parts in 1, general title in red and black Opera Omnia, 2 parts in 1, general title in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait of Suarez, double column, 3B8 and 2L4 at end blanks, second part Q5 slight worming to end, extensively foxed and browned, 19th century ink inscription on front free endpaper and ink inscription of the Jesuit College at Bailleul at head of title, ex-library copy with ink stamps, hinges a little weak, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, rubbed, corners and edges repaired, brass clasps, rebacked in later morocco, Mainz, Hermann Mylius Birkmann and Balthasar Lipp, 1621; and another, Xenophon, 1596, folio (2).
Rossini (Gioachino) - Tancredi, Opera Seria, ; Zelima, Opera Seria; Armida, Opera Seria in tre Atti, 3 vol., engraved throughout, occasional spotting, contemporary half diced calf, gilt, êrl of Milltown' on front covers, rubbed, ends of spines and corners worn, folio, Paris, Pacini, (c. 1830).
and Jean Liebault]. Maison Rustique, or the Countrey Farme (Charles) and Jean Liebault]. Maison Rustique, or the Countrey Farme, translated by Richard Surflet, edited and augmented by Gervase Markham, third edition in English, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, woodcut decorative initials and head-pieces, lacks initial and final blanks, title and some text with smaller margins ?from another copy, title torn, numerous tears and 3R3 most of f. torn away, some water-staining mostly in margins, foxed and browned, disbound, [STC 10549; Goldsmiths' 451; Kress 353], by Adam Islip for John Bull, 1616; and another, folio; sold not subject to return (2). First mentioned first edition edited by Markham. As well as discussing the principles of farming and the layout and surveying of farms it includes chapters on herbs, vegetables, bread, distillation, wines, cider, hunting and falconry.
[Millin (Aubin Louis)] - Medallic History of Napoleon. A Collection of all the Medals, Coins, and Jettons, Relating to his Actions and Reign from the Year 1796 to 1815, 60 plates, foxed, contemporary calf, joints splitting, Rodwell and Martin, 1819 § Colquhoun (P.) A Treatise on the Wealth, Power, and Resources of the Britiah Empire, author's signed presentation copy. foxed, contemporary half calf, boards detached, Joseph Mawman, 1815, plus 14 other vol., 4to and folio, (16)
Catalogue of the Library at Chatsworth , 4 vol ( Duke of ) Catalogue of the Library at Chatsworth , 4 vol., number 4 of 50 large paper copies, this presented to Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, armorial device on titles, wood-engraved vignettes on mounted india paper, partly unopened, a little light staining affecting lower margin of some ff. in vol.I, otherwise internally very good, original green cloth, some rubbing and minor marking, occasional edge wear with vol.IV worn with splits at lower joint, uncut, folio , 1879.
The Holkham Bible Picture Book, second edition, plates (W.O., editor ) The Holkham Bible Picture Book, second edition, plates (most double-page, 1 colour), original half red niger morocco, covers slightly soiled, edges slightly rubbed, gilt spine, edges uncut, folio, The Dropmore Press, 1954.
Deighton (Len) - The Ipcress File, second impression, edges spotted, jacket browned at head, spine ends and corners a little chipped with small tape repairds to verso, creasing to rear flap, 1962; Horse Under Water, crossword endpapers, jacket with very light browning and creasing to head, 1963; Funeral in Berlin, 1964; Billion Dollar Brain, jacket a little rubbed and scratched, 1966; An Expensive Place to Die, 'Transit Docket' loosely inserted, jacket spine faded, 1967, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, generally excellent copies ; and c.55 others by the same, including the JFK assasination wallett, 8vo & folio (c.60)
Fowles (John) - The Collector, Boston, 1963; The Aristos, Boston, 1964; The Magus, jacket spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1965; The French Lieutenant's Woman, [2 copies], jacket spine light browned, 1969; [Another copy], Boston, 1969, first or first American editions, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, a little rubbed at head and foot, generally near-fine otherwise ; and 24 others by the same, 8vo & oblong folio (30)
Hughes (Ted).- - New Library: The People's Network, decorative colour chapter headings by hand printed by Alan Kitching, original stiff decoative wrappers by Kitching, spiral-bound, folio, 1997. Likely one of only roughly 50 copies, it contains the first appearance of Hear it Again by Ted Hughes , as well as excellent hand-printed designs by Alan Kitching of the Typography Workshop. Produced by a committee of the Library and Information Commission to argue for the introduction of the internet into public libraries.
[King (Stephen)] "Richard Bachman". - Rage, light browning to outer margin, lightly rubbed at extremities, 1983 § King (Stephen) Firestarter, jacket with light creasing to head and foot, 1980; Cujo, jacket spine lightly faded, New York, 1981; Christine, New York, 1983, Pet Semetary, signed presentation inscription from the author dated 1984 to endpaper, jacket spine slightly faded, a little creased at head, New York, 1983 ; My Pretty Pony, slip-case, [New York, 1989], first or first English editions, all but the first in original boards, all but first or last with dust-jackets ; and 35 others by the same, 8vo & folio (41)
Upton (Bertha & Florence K.) - The Golliwogg in War!, title and another ff. detached with some resultant fraying , n.d. [c.1899]; The Golliwogg's "Auto-go-Cart", contemporary gift inscription, otherwise internally very good, covers badly rubbed with superficial loss , n.d. [1901]; The Golliwogg's Air-Ship, front fly-leaf detached, rear fly-leaf missing, one illustration torn with loss to inner margin, hinges pulled, covers marked , n.d. [c.1902]; The Golliwogg's Fox-Hunt, overall internally very good, covers slightly marked and scratched but overall a very good copy , n.d. [c.1905]; The Golliwogg's Desert-Island, hinges pulling and contents working loose from stitching, front fly-leaf torn , n.d. [stamped 1906]; Golliwogg in the African Jungle, one f. torn at corner, otherwise internally very good, 1909, colour illustrations, all with some minor marking to margins and occasional small closed tear, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and scratched, some edge wear ; and 4 others in the series, defective or badly worn, oblong folio (10)
Sauvageot (Claude) - L'Art Pour Tous, 8 colour printed plates, some spotting and upper hinge cracked, original cloth backed decorative boards, a little soiled and extremities worn, Paris, 1870 § Ruskin (John) Studies in Both Arts, 10 photogravure plates, neat inscription on half title, original cloth, a few small marks, 1895, folio (2)
Leicestershire.- Burton (William) - The Description of Leicester Shire Containing Matters of Antiquitye, Historye, Armorye, and Genealogy, portrait frontispiece, engraved title, folding map, annotations to end papers and text, some marginal repairs, later half morocco, John White, 1622 § Hill (John Harwood) The History of Market Harborough, plates, foxed, contemporary half morocco and decorated boards, rubbed, For the Subscribers, Leicester, 1875, 4to and folio (2)
Suffolk.- [Cromwell (T.K.)] - Excursions in the County of Suffolk, 2 vol., folding map, folding plan, 2 extra engraved titles, 96 plates, re-cased in contemporary calf with later spines, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 § Farren (R.) The Granta and the Cam, from Byron's Pool to Ely, 36 etched plates, re-cased in contemporary half morocco, Macmillan & Co., Cambridge, 1880, 8vo and folio (3)
-. Driberg (J.J.S.) - Report on the Administration of the Excise Department in Assam for the Year 1889/90, Assam Secretariat Press, Shillong, 1890; Report on the Jail Administration of the Province of Assam for the Year 1889, Shillong, 1890, plus 4 related vol., contemporary half morocco, folio (6)
Comte de ) Voyage Pittoresque dans l'Empire Ottoman, atlas vol Comte de ) Voyage Pittoresque dans l'Empire Ottoman , atlas vol. only (without the four octavo vol.), 2 parts in one, second edition, part-titles with engraved vignettes, engraved portrait, 2 engraved maps only (of 4), 14 unnumbered plates of engraved head-pieces, 288 engraved plates (only, of 290, lacking plates 18 & 70 in second part) on 170 sheets, first part title badly creased, damp-staining, browning and foxing affecting most plates to varying degree, a few old repairs, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards with vellum corner-tips, rubbed, spine worn and defective, [ Atabey 242; this edition not in Blackmer], folio, Paris, J. P. Aillaud, 1842. French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and an avid traveler and lover of antiquities, Choiseul-Gouffier first published his impressions of Greece and the Ottoman Empire as Voyage Pittoresque en Grece in 1782. In 1842, the work was posthumously republished as Voyage pittoresque dans l'Empire Ottoman . This second edition quite rare, with only the Atabey copy (selling for £14,000 in 2002) and one other in the auction records.
Born (Ignaz Edler Von) - Testacea Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis..., engraved vignette title and numerous head- and tail-pieces, 18 folding engraved plates of shells by Schtz or J. Adam after Fr. Fuxeder, 36 illustrations of shells, all engraved by Schtz, C. Conti and others, light dampstaining, ink ownership inscription and bookplate of Katherine H. van Winkle Palmer to front free endpaper and front pastedown respetively, later half calf, red morocco label to spine, joints cracked and extremities worn, [Nissen ZBI 470], folio, Vienna, J.P. Kraus, 1780. One of the most handsome of all conchological works. The work was commissioned by Empress Marie-Therese in order to record and codify her natural history collection in Vienna. In 1778 Born published a descriptive catalogue of the collection; the present work, published two years later is on a much larger scale than the first work and included the fine coloured plates. The collection has remained in Vienna and is now in the Natural History Museum.
Histoire N aturelles , one of 199 copies, illustrations by Hans Erni (George Louis le Clerc, Comte de ) Histoire N aturelles , one of 199 copies, illustrations by Hans Erni, small blind-stamp to foot of title, loose as issued in original decorative wrappers, card chemise and slip-case, a little rubbed at extremities, folio, Lausanne, 1954.
Morris (William) - The Story of Cupid and Psyche, with illustrations designed by Edward Burne-Jones, mostly engraved by William Morris, 2 vol., number 253 of 270 copies, illustrations, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, morocco gilt labels to spines, cloth slip-case, small folio, London & Cambridge, Clover Hill Editions, printed at the Rampant Lions Press , 1974.
Derivationes, fragment only of a single leaf, in Latin ( Bishop of Ferrara ) Derivationes, fragment only of a single leaf, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, 64 lines, written in black ink in a small gothic book hand, initials in red, holed and creased, c. 275 x 90 mm., Italy , [fourteenth century] § Bible, Latin, with glosses, 2 ff. only , double column, with marginal and interlinear glosses, initials and paragraph marks in red, marginal tears, stained, folio, Strassburg, Adolf Rusch for Anton Koberger , not later than 1480, with others, mauscript or printed, in a folder (10 pieces).
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