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Click here to subscribeCombe Ancient Terracottas in British Museum large paper copy half-title engraved title vignette and 40 plates 2 double-page some foxing to plates heavier to last 3 contemporary half calf gilt spine in compartments rubbed and scuffed 1810; and a copy of the ordinary edition folio & 4to(2) ***Most of the collection was assembled by Charles Towneley which together with his marbles was bought by Parliament for the British Museum in 1805. .
Woodall (John) [The surgeons mate 1639 Discouering faithfully & plainly ye method and order of ye surgeons chest ye vses of the instruments the vertues and operations of ye medicines w[i]th ye exact cures of wounds made by gun-shott...] second edition engraved portrait of Charles I on horseback and 4 plates 1 folding folding letterpress table woodcut illustration lacking title portrait laid down on preceeding endpaper and with ink writing showing through from verso repaired tear to folding plate no loss 2 plates trimmed to within platemark 3O4 torn at foot with loss stained a few tears within text but with no loss ?later mottled calf spine in compartments later ink label to spine foot of spine worn rubbed [GM 2144; Krivatsy 13141; STC 25963] folio [Rob: Young [J. Legate? and E. Purslowe] for Nicholas Bourne] [1639]. ***The second edition but the first to include all of Wodall`s works. The author was surgeon-general to the East India Company. He was one of the first doctors to realise the importance of citrus fruits as a preventative measure against scurvy. Provenance: John Bull of Yalding Kent with the cost of the book above (17th century ink inscriptions to front free endpaper); Charles Broster (2 17th century ink inscriptions). .
Alexander Recreations with the Muses 1637 title within ornate architectural border woodcut initials early ink inscriptions `William Earle of Sterline` to rear endpaper lacking portrait frontispiece (as often) title frayed and torn with loss some staining and spotting contemporary calf large gilt arms of Charles I as King of Scotland to covers worn [STC 347] small folio Thomas Harper 1637.
Newman-A Large & Complete Concordance... title and first few pages laid down half of last index page missing contemporary calf later spine 1643 § Craddock (Samuel) The Harmony of the Four Evangelists and their Text Methodiz`d... incorrect pagination deleted and corrected in manuscript rear endpapers annotated contemporary calf later spine 1668; and another religion folio(3)
Taylor.XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove 2 parts in 1 first edition title with engraved device and ruled in red contemporary name crossed out at head and a little soiled and creased old cloth-backed boards worn [Wing T405 & T296] by R.N. for Richard Royston 1651 § Fosbrooke (T.D.) British Monachism; or Manners and Customs of the Monks and Nuns of England frontispiece soiled old boards uncut worn covers and spine detached 1817; and 2 others Taylor sermons folio & 4to(4)
Church of England.- The Address 1p. extensively torn and creased with some loss of text folds browned c. 295 x 365mm. [Wing L2085] Tho. Newcomb 14th June 1653 § Church of England.- The Address of the Lords... and Commons to the King... for Maintaining the Church of England 2pp. a few tears mostly to edges fold slightly creased and soiled a few small holes in margins [Wing E1188] folio Edward Jones for James Partridge Mathew Gillyflower and Samuel Heyrick 1689; and 2 others v.s. v.d.(3)
Pufendorf (Samuel) Of the Law of Nature first edition in English title browned bookplate contemporary panelled calf worn hinges cracked Oxford L. Lichfield 1703 § Ewald (Alexander Charles) The Right. Hon. Benjamin Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield K.G. and his Times 2 vol. plates contemporary polished calf gilt rubbed 1881-1882 § Josephus (Flavius) The Complete Works... translated by William Whiston engraved frontispiece additional title plates colour maps tears to pp.809-812 some soiling later half calf new endpapers n.d.; folio & 4to
Sidney (Sir Philip) Arcadia Moderniz`d by Mrs. Stanley woodcut device on title engraved decorations ink stamp on title recto of last f. with further perforation stamp on title title dust-soiled with late 18th century ownership inscription staining affecting margins toward end contemporary calf worn covers detached folio 1725.
[Reports of the Lords & Commons] including: Naval Reports Committee of Secrecy Parliamentary Papers Votes Ordinances etc. some browning various calf and leather bindings some worn or defective many with covers detached; 18th-19th centuries; and a quantity of others Acts relating to taxation finance law etc. a manuscript petition by the Earl of Queensberry relating to a peerage case 1812 folio; sold not subject to return(qty)
Dallaway Science of Heraldry in England 2 parts in 1 engraved title with aquatint vignette 27 engraved plates 8 hand-coloured engraved illustrations tissue guards occasional light spotting or offsetting contemporary calf-backed marbled boards spine chipped and rubbed upper joint split but holding firm boards scuffed with some loss of marbled paper Gloucester R.Raikes for T.Cadell 1793; and 1 vol. only (of 2) of Bigland`s Genealogical Collections relative to the County of Gloucester with a number of engraved plates and views 4to & folio(2)
Illustrated London News 23 vol. and a number of loose parts engraved titles plates and illustrations occasional light foxing rubbed and marked various bindings some half calf over marbled boards cloth worn and rubbed some defective 1845-1947; and another folio; sold not subject to return(24 +crate)
Archer Charles Dickens: a Gossip 1894 6 vol. 18 photogravure plates illustrations tissue guards original cloth-backed boards soiled and rubbed [?1894] § Waring (J.B. editor) Examples of Weaving and Embroidery: Essays by Owen Jones and M Digby Wyatt chromolithographed plates original cloth boards detached lacking spine worn some damp-staining [n.d.] § Wilkinson (Joseph) Architectural Remains...Thetford First Part 6 engraved plates foxed original wrappers restored at spine contemporary signature to front of wrapper enclosed in cloth folder 1821 folio (3)
Tristan (Jean) Commentaires Historiques Contenans contenans l`Histoire Generale des Empereurs Imperatrices Caesars et Tyrans de L`Empire Romain 3 vol. portrait and 3 folding plates only pencil markings to vol.2 vol.1 & 3 contemporary calf vol.1 rebacked vol. 2 later calf folio Paris 1644; sold not subject to return
9 scrap albums various subjects including biblical historical narrative scenes continental views children`s interest Punch cartoons and costume figures engravings mezzotints v.s. most albums with prints mounted at edges onto album leaves some loose various bindings some missing boards worn folio et infra [19th century].(9)
Verona Press. Rhyme Sheets Nos.1-6 title and 6 sheets each with colour illustration by Marc Chagall Frans Masereel Aristide Maillol G. de Chirico Raoul Dufy & others loose as issued in original patterned-paper wrappers paper label on upper cover spine a little rubbed tall narrow folio Verona 1938.
Adams (H.G. editor) Favorite Song Birds 12 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Edward Gilks preliminaries soiled and with marginal tears and repairs (slight loss to pagination on contents leaf) contemporary tree calf with the original part wrappers bound in at end rubbed upper joint repaired for the proprietors 1851 § Prichard (James Cowles) The Natural History of Man third edition half-title engraved plates 46 of which hand-coloured without the folio maps as usual illustrations light foxing and soiling some plates a little stained contemporary half calf spine gilt rubbed and faded 1848 8vo(2) ***Scarce with the original wrappers..
Culpeper English Physitian 1652 engraved portrait frontispiece lacking 1 f. (pp.203-204) large repaired tear to p.87 within text but with no loss preliminaries frayed browned some spotting or staining pp.213-214 and 215-216 misbound 20th century calf rubbed [Wing C7501] small folio Peter Cole 1652.
Geographical Handbook Series 1941 66 vol. maps and plates Naval Intelligence Division 1941-5 § Mansergh (Nicholas editor) The Transfer of Power 1942-7 13 vol. including duplicate of vol.12 1970 ex-library copies original cloth the first cocked the second with worn dust-jackets 8vo & folio(79)
An early 20th century postcard album. including 8 Pacific Mail SS CO `On Board` colour printed postcards sent from various locations including Hong Kong dated 1904-06 with topographical scenes including New York and Colorado greetings cards and others each c.90 x 140mm a few leaves loose in cloth album worn small folio
Lewis- A Topographical Dictionary of England 4 vol. fifth edition slightly foxed original blind-stamped cloth gilt spines worn 1845; Atlas to the Topographical Dictionaries of England and Wales folding plan of London and 54 maps some also folding original blind-stamped cloth gilt spine rubbed 1849 § Lysons (Daniel) An Historical Account...County of Middlesex illustrations foxing throughout contemporary half calf rubbed bookplate 1800; The Environs of London vol.1 only (of 2) second edition illustrations foxed contemporary diced calf rebacked 1810 § Ortelius (Abraham) Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Antwerp 1570 facsimile reprint double page maps original cloth slip-case bookplate Amsterdam 1964; and another similar 4to & folio(9)
Dugdale-The Antiquities of Warwickshire first edition engraved portrait frontispiece title in red and black 5 double-page engraved maps 8 engraved plates and 8 (of 10) plates and plans engraved illustrations portrait and title laid down 1st map with small area of worming at fold marginal water-staining to head of Barichway Hundred text f. 5A2 with repaired tear some staining or soiling contemporary calf sympathetically rebacked recornered [Wing D2479] folio Thomas Warren 1656.
Handel ([George Frederick]) Messiah an Oratorio i first edition fourth issue engraved frontispiece portrait title and musical notation printed list of subscribers and index ink initials and numerals on recto of portrait further ms. part-numbers to head of occasional sheets portrait with narrow stain ascending 7cm. from foot some finger-marking and other marginal soiling throughout contemporary upper cover present only folio Randall & Abell [1769]. ***An extremely scarce issue of the first edition of Handel`s epic drama of human redemption. Early issues are almost as hard to find as they are to identify correctly with a minefield of issue points that require verifying. This copy has been identified as the fourth issue due to the variance in part to the honorifics applied to some of the subscribers listed (a list which does include one Samuel Johnson here though identifed as Mr rather than Dr so possibly not the lexicographer); further indicators include The Singers at Osset instead of Osset and Perkins organist of Findon instead of Finedon. There is also an additional centralised pagination on some ff. taken from the 1769 issue of A Fourth Set of Favourite Bass Songs and different ornamentation on the printed pages..
Martin (Charles) and others. Illustrations including two pochoir plates by Martin numbered 124/1000 three large coloured plates by Ro Keezer depicting nineteenth-century fashion reproductions of three posters by Ludwig Kainer plates and illustrations by Edouard Halouze Benito George Barbier R. Brunel and others and a programme for Mistinguet with illustration by Charles Gesmer seventeen framed and glazed 4to and folio(31)
Craig (Edward Gordon) Eleven portraits extracted from “Henry Irving. Ellen Terry. A Book of Portraits” 1899 framed and glazed; nineteen illustrations and bookplates by Craig and six others by Joseph Crawhall and others extracted from “The Page” five framed and glazed the remainder in card mounts folio(30)
* Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle, 2nd January to 31st December 1848 bound as 1, some old damp staining throughout and ink lib. stamp to upper outer corner of first leaf of each issue, together with a volume for 1853, some browning, fraying and tears with loss, not all issues present, loose in later bindings, worn and second vol. with crude tape repairs, large folio. Sold with all faults, not subject to return (2)
Vanity Fair Album. The Vanity Fair Album: A Show of Sovereigns, Statesmen, Judges and Men of the Day with Biographical and Critical Notices by Jehu Junior, vol. V, 1873, b & w advertisements on prelims, title printed in red & black, fifty-two (complete) chromlithographic caricatures with printed biographies, occ. spotting to last few images, gutta percha perished, contents shaken and loose, a.e.g., orig. green cloth gilt, stained and rubbed at extrems., folio (1)
* American Revolution. A group of six autograph letters relating to trade, social and political issues in North Carolina and America, 1773 to 1783, three letters from Thomas Ogden and one each from his brothers Titus and Isaac, all written to their parents James and Mary in Manchester, England, the content of the letters concerning trading and personal news, the first letter dated 31st January 1773 from both Thomas and Titus but in Thomas’s hand, in part, ‘I’m now here about 3 weeks and must confess I never in the whole course of my life met with such genteel treatment. I am one of the family [?] I eat, spend my evenings and sleep with the best in ye house which I assure you is very respectable in this place she is a widow lady and has a ship, a brigg, and a sloop in her employment besides keeping a pretty good store, my brother boards at a very good house in company with several [?] and members of the assembly and I assure you he is considered in a respectable light. We have made acquaintance with some of the best people in town and I daresay we shall find our advantage in it. Titus comes and is as free in our house as in his own. Drinks tea with us every afternoon and Mrs Smith and her daughter are fond of his company. Board here is not so cheap as we expected ... I have already become the widow’s privy counsellor in her mercantile affairs and I am not in want of money ...’, continuing with details of local trade and some specific information, the second letter from Thomas recommending Thomas Emery who carries the letter and saying he is of good character to do business with, the third letter from Titus (20th January 1774), telling of his general good fortune and how he and Mr Emery get on so well, ‘In summer season there is no business done here, and the barrelled pork being pretty low now he told me if I should like he would purchase a cargo and I should take the consignment to the West Indies towards May next which I readily accepted at the same time I told him ... we have since jointly purchased a negro sold here at [?] for 5 worth £50 which we intend bartering for pork and don’t fear turning to good advantage ...’, the fourth letter making reference to the Boston Tea Party, ‘Your wise words (?) at home have struck a sort of terror amongst our Northwood’s neighbours it is in some measure what they deserved. I believe as far as I am capable of judging all the Southwood provinces blame them much for drowning the tea. She say they ought to have not suffered it to be landed til it became the King’s property then in course she would not have sent any more when they found that they ... people here seem much divided, the great part of ye Americans are for supporting the Bostonians but the English, Scotch & Irish talk much against it saying they shall be ready at any time to support the liberty of the subjects and ye Bostonians but not til ye have paid for the tea and made proper reparation ... as far as I can learn & see of the Bostonians I think them a restless fanatical sort of people and we shall never be at rest til their formal government is attained. I believe most people here think a King’s government the best and surest both for King and subjects. It is really ridiculous for a community to choose both their own representation and the King’s counsel ...’, the fith letter from Thomas (1st August 1776), relating that the letter will be conveyed by means of his friend John Mackay on his way to Bordeux in France, ‘This is one of the roundabout ways people are obliged to take who want to get home to England from America by reason of the late act of parliament which totally excludes us from every port in the British Dominions as well as condemning all battles from America found on the high seas by any of his Majesty’s ships of war. The present troubles have been carried out with such rancour on both sides that I should get no opportunity of writing you since last October ... since all importation from Great Britain has been stopped Titus and myself have been almost wholly employed in buying and selling upon the spot and as we had a good assortment when trade was stopped we cleared a good deal upon the advance. Everything is extremely dear & scarce with us and is daily becoming more and more so ...’, the letters all somewhat fragile and browned with tears and occ. loss of text, a total of twelve pages with integral address leaves, and panels, mostly folio, together with an earlier autograph letter from Thomas Savage, Galata [Istanbul], 19 April 1704, to Lockwood, Chadwicke & Pheasant, concerning trading of goods and accounts, 2 pp., docketed, folio, plus ten other documents including five 17th-century receipts and similar, plus a small quantity of late 19th and 20th centuary genealogical information on the Ogden family, the whole loosely contained in a contemp. musty vellum ledger, rubbed and soiled, folio. Titus and Thomas Ogden were merchants in North Carolina. Titus later became a Paymaster to the Troops and of Indian annuities, and in 1791 he was one of the signatories of the Holston Treaty with the Cherokee. (a folder)
* Hertfordshire - Stagenhoe Park. A photograph album relating to William B. Hawkins’s family and Stagenhoe Park at St. Paul’s Walden, early 20th c., a total of seventy-five pages, mostly with four photos to a page, plus some postcards, etc., the majority with ink captions, mostly family, friends and views, a few of cricket matches, some postcards including holiday destinations, spotting to mounts, contemp. morocco with gilt monogram to upper cover, spine deficient and covers detached, oblong folio, together with an unrelated cartes-de-visite album, c. 1870s, containing a total of fifty window-mounted portraits of unidentified men and women including a few military types in uniform, some spotting to mounts, contemp. embossed morocco with gilt clasps, rubbed, 8vo (2)
* Lincolnshire - Crime. A manuscript ledger of records of crimes in the borough of Louth, Lincolnshire, 1909-1920, with tabulated headings for date and hour when property was stolen or missed, date and hour when information given to the police, particulars, estimated value, steps taken, estimate value of property recovered and remarks, items stolen include three fleeces of wool, silver watch and chain, a stilton cheese, a pair of mens boots, a dead rabbit, bicycles, a purse, plus other related thefts and misdemeanours, written in a neat hand, contemp. half morocco gilt, some wear, folio (1)
Scrap album. A scrap album of approx. sixty leaves, c. 1830, containing a varied selection of approx. twenty watercolours and drawings and over 100 engs. including lithographs and aquatints, subjects include views, portraits, humour, etc., occ. spotting, contemp. half morocco gilt over marbled boards, rubbed, folio (1)
Seven Years War. Relacion de la Toma de la Habana por los Ingleses, 1762, together with Relacion de la Presa de la Sultana llamada la Nueva, que mandaba Hali Contrarmiraglio del Gr. Snr, hecha por el Comr. de Chambrey Tente. Gnl de la Relign. y Comte. de su Ciquadra de Vaseles, [1762?], two contemp. manuscripts in the same holograph and on the same paper stock, the first with title and 9 pp., the second 4 pp. including title, both browned, the first stitched and both without wrappers, 4to, together with Genealogia del Princiapato di Europe, c. 1720, 330 ff. written in a neat hand throughout with some slightly later additions and amendments, occ. browning or soiling, Phillipps MS 5747 pencil note at foot of first leaf, the number repeated on the armorial bookplate of Lord North to front pastedown, rough trimmed, contemp. half vellum over marbled boards, Phillipps number at foot of spine, rubbed and soiled, 4to, plus two further Spanish manuscripts, one an unidentified volume on natural history, geography and theology, 19th c. (?) over 100 leaves in a neat hand, some damp staining, contemp. boards, soiled and worn, pencil note at front of the volume indicating that it was bought at the sale of the Baydon Library, February 1896, the final dampstained manuscript being a collection of papers and legal documents relating to the De Li Pina family and possessions in Gibraltar, Seville, Granada and Toledo, 17th c., damp stained and worn with some loss, loosely contained in contemp. limp vellum, rubbed and soiled, folio (4)
Trade catalogues. A pair of scrap pattern books, 1870s/80s, approx. 100 and 60 leaves respectively, with chromolithographed plts. illustrating scrap designs, the former with images to rectos only, the latter with images to rectos and versos, each scrap design with small mounted label bearing numbers in contemp. ms., some leaves with one large design to a page, others with numerous small designs to a page, incl. animals, children, costume, views, flowers, fruit, cherubs, caricatures, oriental, armorials, gilt ornaments, etc., some leaves partially excised, and some with surface abrasion, both vols. generally lightly dust-soiled and toned, some leaves loose and frayed, disbound, folio. Two highly decorative and unusual items. (2)
WWII - Belsen. A contemporary account by a ‘British padre’ and his experiences of encountering Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, two and a half leaves of cyclostyled sheets from a typewritten original, ‘I don’t know whether I ought to write this. Something seems to tell me that many may say it is a flight of my imagination; others may say that at least there is a semblance of truth in what I write, but that I have laid on the colours much too thickly. But for all that, I feel it ought to be done. Numbers of other people have done it. But it will do no harm for hundreds more to do the same. This is so ghastly a story that the whole world should know about it’, describing the beautiful scenery around the camp which served to hide the hideous doings which occurred in the camps hidden behind the undulating hills and vast pine forest. The unidentified author gives statistical and first-hand details of what he saw and knows of the life in the camps, the starvation, the appalling sanitary conditions, plus the improvements, the SS men and women and their Commandant Josef Kramer, printed to rectos and stapled at upper corner, together with thirteen leaves from an official printed report on Belsen concentration camp, pp. 399-411, marked ‘Appendix “O” to Chapter 7’, printed to rectos only with b & w illusts. from photos on five leaves plus one diagrammatic map of the camp, a little browned and brittled at margins, all foolscap folio. Although the author does not identify himself it may well be the Reverend T.J. Stretch from the Holy Trinity Church, Aberyswyth, who was attached as padre to the formation concerning the Bergen-Belsen Camp. (16)
Babington (Gervase). Works, 1637, copper-engraved portrait frontispiece, eleven titles, a few small burnholes and inkspots, scattered light spotting, 18th c. panelled calf, rebacked and repaired, brass clasps, rubbed, folio, together with The Secret History of the Most Renowned Q. Elizabeth and the E. of Essex, 1725 (2)
[Benfield, Paul]. Trial of an Action for Thirty Seven Thousand Pounds, Brought by Paul Benfield, Esq; against Samuel Petrie, Esq; upon a Charge of Bribery. Tried at Salisbury, the 12th of March 1782, before Sir Richard Perryn.., . taken in Short-Hand by W. Williamson, to which is added, a Letter from Mr. Petrie, to the Committee of the House of Commons, who tried and determined the Merits of his Petition, against the last Return for the Borough of Cricklade, 1782, four folding leaves of text at rear, slight dampstaining, modern half calf, 8vo, together with Sacheverell (Henry), The Speech of Henry Sacheverell, D.D. Upon his Impeachment at the Bar of the House of Lords, in Westminster Hall, March 7, 1709/10, pub. 1710, 10pp., stitched as issued, folio, with A List of the Lords, who Protested against some Proceedings, in Relation to the Case of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, in the House of Peers; with their Lordships Reasons for Entring their Protestations, 1710, 15pp., modern qtr. morocco, slim 8vo (3)
Bible [Latin]. Testamenti Veteris Biblia Sacra, sive, Libri Canonici priscae Judaeorum Ecclesiae a Geo traditi, Latini recens ex Hebraeo facti, brevibusque Scholiis illustrati ab Immanuele Tremellio & Francisco Junio ..., Impensis Guliel. N[ewcomb], 1593/92, woodcut general title (with printed initials NH within the image at top, and printed date 1574 at bottom, dedication leaf with lower blank outer corner torn away, not affecting text, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, occ. woodcut initials, five part-titles, including NT, some minor waterstains to top margins at front of vol. and to outer portion of leaves towards end of vol. (generally in clean condition with good margins), bookplate of Sir Henry D. Le Marchant, Bart. (of Chobham Place, Surrey), to front pastedown, 20th c. full calf, a little rubbed and minor wear to extrems., folio. Darlow & Moule 6185 (with variant general title, giving the publisher as Newcomb, instead of George Bishop, Ralph Newbery and Robert Barker). An early reprint of Tremellius and Junius’ version of the Bible, with the addition of Beza’s translation of the New Testament, first published in its revised form at Geneva in 1590 (see Darlow & Moule 6182). With early ownership inscription to title of William Le Marchant de l’Hyvreuse Guernsey. (1)
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