* Maynard (Robert Ashwin, 1888-1966). Harbour Scene, 1927, woodcut, numbered '1/35', signed and dated, print size 15.5 x 21.5 cm (6 x 8 1/4 ins), framed and glazed (34 x 38.5 cm), together withBenenson (Leslie, 1941-). Bookplates, 1980-82, woodcut, all signed and dated, all artist's proofs, three numbered '15/15', various sizes from 9 x 6 cm (3 1/2 x 2 3/8 ins) to 11 x 11 cm(4 1/4 x 4 1/4 ins), all mounted together, framed and glazed (40 x 48 cm), and various etchings and aquatints from the University College Reading, School of Art, all limited edition 7/50, presented in a grey folio with a contents page (7 out of 12 present), comprising: The Castle Wall, & The Explorer by Cyril C. Pearce, The Minaret, & Street in Cairo by Joshua Evans, Villeneuve, Avignon by Harold J Yates, Bookplate by Gerald Cobb and Soap Bubbles by Ellen O'N. Gibbons, folioQTY: (3)
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* Sugai (Kumi, 1919-1969). Nathaniel Tarn, October: The Silence, Milan, 1970, the complete portfolio published in an edition of 106 copies, containing two colour lithographs by Kumi Sugaï, each signed and numbered '50/106' in pencil, sheet size 38 x 28.5 cm (15 x 11 1/4 ins), one leaf of text signed by the author Nathaniel Tarn, all loosely contained in original wrappers with matching card chemise and slipcase, a few marks and a little faded to spine, folio (40.5 x 30.3 cm)QTY: (1)
Rubiyat of Omar Khayam, illustrated by Willy Pogany, Harrap & Co Ltd, 1946 edition; Butterflies by David Burnett, illustrated by Rosemary Roberts, Celtic Cross Press, 1999; The Collected Poems of Sidney Keyes, Routledge, 1946 reprinted edition; Bird Poems, by John Clare, illustrated by Thomas Bewick, Folio Society 1980
A mixed lot of postage stamps and ephemera, to include Royal Mail presentation packs/mint stamps, covers, a folio of postage stamps from the reigns of Queen Victoria through to Queen Elizabeth II, some later 20th Century postcards and loose stamps in tins and cigarette cards including sets of Players Aviary and Cage Birds and Poultry. (qty)
Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, later Duchess of Sutherland (1765-1839)"A Monastery by a River"Attributed and titled to the mount;watercolour,19.5 x 26.5cms, in frame.together with a British Museum photograph inscribed on the reverse "Drawn by the Countess of Sutherland-- Ex Thomas Girtin folio, Featherstone Castle."and manuscript letter on House of Lords notepaper, dated 1969, providing a family provenance and a reference to a folio of Girtin works from Featherstone Castle.NB The Duchess of Sutherland was said to have been a most able pupil of Thomas Girtin and was also his patron.Provenance: select items removed from Carrycoats Hall, Northumberland.
Dame Elisabeth Jean Frink CH DBE RA(1930-1993)Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", illustrated by Frink over a set of 19 aquatint prints, introduction and translation by Nevill Coghill, published by Leslie Waddington Prints Ltd, 1972,unbound large folio,original printer's proof copy,volume 65.5 x 45.5cms.
Drummond (James), Old Edinburgh, limited edition no. 307/500, royal folio, quarter morocco, illus. from the author’s original drawings, G. Waterston, Sons & Stewart, 1879; Edinburgh in the Olden Time, limited edition no. 232/350, royal folio, cloth, lithographs by MacFarlane and Erskine, Thomas George Stevenson, 1880. (2)
Small (John Williams) Old Stirling Measured and Drawn for the Stone, folio, cloth, illus., limited edition of 400 numbered copies, R. S. Shearer & Son, Stirling, 1987; and Fairbairn (Thomas) Relics of Ancient Architecture and other Picturesque Scenes in Glasgow, folio, quarter morocco, illus., David Bryce & Son, Glasgow, 1885.
Camden (William) b. 1597- d. 1623, a manuscript album, gilt armorial calf, folio-bound, containing hand-drawn and coloured illustrations of the heraldic arms of the nobility of England from the Norman Conquest to the 17th Century, inscribed on the inside cover "The Arms of The Duke's, Earls and Barrons or Lords of England with the time of their first Creation and Decents since the Conquest Collected by Clarencieux Herald of Arms, about 1606". N.B. William Camden the English antiquarian, topographer and herald best known as the Author of Britannia and the Annales or History of Queen Elizabeth's Reign was appointed by the College of Arms as Clarenceux King of Arms in 1597; this lot sold to include a watercolour and a pencil sketch both depicting a country house presumably associated with the album.
Sclater (Philip Lutley) (Editor), Nitzsch's, Pterylography (Translated from the German), folio, original boards, published for the Ray Society, 1867; Latham (J.), Index Ornithologicus, two vols., 4to, marbled boards, 1790; Montagu (Colonel G.) and Rennie (James), Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds, 8vo, cloth, illus., 1831; and Newton (Alfred), A Dictionary of Birds, 8vo, cloth, illus., 1893-96. (5)
A Bible in English, containing the Old and New Testaments together with the Apocrypha, folio, sheep, illus. with engraving, published by Nicholas Boden, Birmingham, 1771 ; the inside front cover, and prelimiary pages inscribed with family genealogical listings; sold together with a painted miniature portrait and 19th-century carte de visite, and ambrotype family portrait photographs.
Folio of Japanese Aviation Art Work by Vice Admiral Takeo Hori, consisting of 40 coloured prints of the artwork by Vice Admiral Takeo Hori, mounted onto card mounts with Japanese writing to the edge. All housed in a board folder with bone pegs. The artwork mounts measure 39 x 29 cms approx. Good overall condition.
Palestine. Conder (Lieuts. C. R. & Kitchener H. H.), Map of Western Palestine from Surveys Conducted for the Committee of the Palestine Explorations Fund..., Reduced from the One Inch Map..., Shewing the Natural Drainage together with the Vertical Sections of the Country, Stanford's Geographical Establishment, 1884, engraved map, printed in colours on 6 (complete) sheets, lacking boards, oblong folio, overall size 495 x 615 mm, together with Map of Western Palestine Surveys Conducted for the Committee of the Palestine Explorations Fund..., Reduced from the One Inch Map..., Stanford's Geographical Establishment, 1881, engraved map, printed in colours on 6 (complete) sheets, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight spotting, each sheet approximately 505 x 420 mm, contained in a contemporary cloth slipcaseQTY: (2)
Folio Society. The Complete Plays, 8 volumes, by William Shakespeare, 4th printing, 2000The Works of Jane Austen, 7 volumes, 6th impression, 1989The Complete Novels, 7 volumes, by Charlotte, Emily & Anne Bronte, 7th printing, 1997Sword of Honour, 3 volumes, by Evelyn Waugh, 2nd printing, 1993The Complete Novels, 7 volumes, by George Eliot, 1999, together with 28 further Folio Society publications, all literature sets, all original cloth in slipcases, 8voQTY: (60)
* Secret Writing. Table of cypher substitutes issued by Sir Charles Hedges (1650-1714), Secretary of State for the Northern Department, [to Edmund Poley (1655-1714), diplomat, in preparation for his embassy to the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg], 2 November 1703, manuscript list in the hand of Edmund Poley on laid paper bifolium with watermarks of hunting horn with ‘WR’ and ‘GTM’ motifs, the first sheet containing cypher substitutes (two columns on recto, single column to verso), numbered 2-139, 150, 200, 300, 350, 500, 1000, 1500, 1501-1504, representing persons and classes of persons, places, subjects and phrases, categories including 50 Secretary of State, 55 King of Denmark, 65 The Queen [Anne], 91 House of Commons, 123 Judges, 15 Holland, 28 The Army, 134 Very well, 135 Very ill, 136 Dangerous, 1503 Ill consequence, 1504 Great consequence, etc., integral blank leaf endorsed [by Edmund Poley], ‘A Private Cypher between me and the secretary of state Sir Charles Hedges; given me by him the 2nd November 1703’, partially browned with some tears to fold intersections affecting a few letters without loss of sense, folio (310 x 235 mm), together with 2 contemporary clerical copies of letters from Sophia, Electress of Hanover (1630-1714), Hannover, 14 July 1705 & Herenhausen, 9 September 1705, in Latin and French respectively, 2pp. each, both endorsed on blank integral leaf as 'Mr [Edmund] Poley's Recredentialls from the Electrice of Hanover', folio & 4to, plus a contemporary clerical copy in German, giving tables and lists with numbers of Allied army soldiers killed or wounded at the Battle of Blenheim, 13 August 1704, on two facing pages of a bifolium, docketed in French, folioQTY: (4)NOTE:Sir Charles Hedges served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department, the overseas duties of which covered The Empire, Holland, Scandinavia, Poland and Russia, between May 1702 and May 1704.The list is arranged as a decyphering key so anyone using it to encypher has to remember the location of the desired name. A convenient encyphering arrangement (e.g. names in alphabetical order) was labour-intensive to compile and (with two copies of essentially the same information in circulation) no doubt discouraged on security grounds.The list omits the ordinary cypher elements which would be essential in any workable system: equivalents for single letters, syllables, and longer words. It is possible that members of the Northern Department may have shared the same repertoire of basic equivalents. If so, this document may most likely to have been by way of an up-to-date supplement compiled as circumstances required.This cypher was evidently constructed to accommodate the political preoccupations of the autumn of 1703: the question of the succession [86] to the English throne following the death of William III in 1702, when Princess Sophia of Brunswick-Lüneburg [1000] became the immediate heir; and the campaign of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough [93] against the French army in Germany [300]. In September 1703 the government in London ordered three of Marlborough's regiments to be detached from his army [28] to prepare for service in Portugal [16].The name of the career diplomat Edmund Poley (1655-1714) appears flatteringly near the top of the list at number 8. Out of favour for nearly ten years, he had previous experience in Sweden and the German states and was recalled in August 1703 to be envoy to Brunswick-Lüneburg. On 11 August he was issued with his credentials and received his instructions on 17 August, so there was no need for a cypher with his name on it any earlier than that. He is not known to have been in Hanover until 17 December 1703 (dates in D. B. Horn’s list of British diplomats). Horn’s list contains no other envoy who fits the bill, most of them having already been in post in 1702 or sent out earlier in 1703. When a Secretary of State gave an envoy a personal cypher it was an intimate gesture of trust usually delivered immediately before departure. Even on 2 November Poley would have had plenty of time to get to Hanover and report back in mid-December.Other examples of Poley’s hand can be found among the archive of William Blathwayt (1650-1717), Secretary at War, see Yale University, Beinecke Library OSB MSS 2, Series 1; Box 6 Folder 142, Edmund Poley to William Blathwayt, 11 June 1693.
Camden (William). Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English: with large Additions and Improvements. published by Edmund Gibson of Queens College in Oxford..., London: Printed by F. Collins for A. Swale and A. & J. Churchill, 1695, engraved portrait frontispiece, 49 (of 50) uncoloured engraved double-page maps (including three folding Kent, Hertfordshire & Norfolk, bound without map 50 'The Smaller Islands in the British Ocean'), 8 plates of coins and one full-page engraving of antiquities, few woodcut illustrations and two engraved illustrations (Stonehenge & Rollright stones), without final leaf at rear of Index, light damp stain mostly to foot of gutter margins of some leaves at front of volume, occasional toning and minor spotting to few leaves, endpapers renewed, contemporary panelled speckled calf, modern rebacked with black calf title label, board corners repaired, light wear to boards, folio (38.8 x 23.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Chubb CXIII.
Khader (Aïcha Ben Abed-Ben, editor). Image in Stone, Tunisua in Mosaic, 1st edition, Tunisia: Ars Latina, 2003, numerous colour illustrations, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, together with:Welch (Evelyn S.), Art and Authority in Renaissance Milan, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, plusBecker (Lawrence & Christine Kondoleon), The Arts of Antioch..., 1st edition, Worcester (Massachusetts): Worcester Art Museum, 2005, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed, large 8vo, and other Italian & Renaissance art reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folio QTY: (3 shelves )
Read (Charles Hercules, and Ormonde Maddock Dalton). Antiquities from The City of Benin and from other parts of West Africa, 1st edition, London: Sold at The British Museum, 1899, 32 black and white plates after photographs, further black and white illustrations to text (some after photographs), endpapers toned, some gatherings neatly strengthened to gutter, original cloth-backed paper boards, rubbed and spotted, folio (50 x 38 cm)QTY: (1)
Ogilby (John). The Relation of His Majestie’s Entertainment Passing through the City of London, to His Coronation: with a Description of the Triumphal Arches, and Solemnity, 1st edition, London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft, for Rich. Marriott, in St Dunstan’s Church-Yard in Fleet-Street, 1661, [6], 35, [1] pp., leaf A1 bears a license to print with early manuscript to verso, leaf *a1 (a dedication to the Lord Mayor) present (bound without L1 list of names of the committee for arrangements appointed by the Common Council), lower outer corner of E1 torn away with loss of to last letter of catchword, early manuscript to verso of final leaf, light dust-soiling to fist and last leaves, old plain wrappers, small slim folio (27 x 18 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC R235404; Wing O181.In this edition the heading on B1r is "ENTERTAINMENTS" and there is a six-line woodcut initial; the description on B1v begins with "MUNDAY"; G1r has a five-line woodcut initial; and on K1r "CAVAL CADE" is spelt with a hyphen following the "L". The first and the second edition were each issued in two states: 1) with or 2) without leaves *a1 (a dedication to the Lord Mayor) and L1 (beginning with a list of names of the committee for arrangements appointed by the Common Council). The version appears to be the first edition, state 1 with *a1 present but bound without L1.
British Topography. A large collection of modern British topography reference, including The Place-Names of Rutland, by Barrie Cox, 1st edition, English Place-Name Society, 1994, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plus 7 further volumes of English Place-Name Society publications, A Glastonbury Miscellany of the Fifteenth Century, A. G. Rigg, Oxford: University Press, 1968, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, Men & Armour for Gloucestershire in 1608, reprint, Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1980, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, limited edition 91/400, & others similar, all original cloth, mostly in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves )
Smith (John Thomas). Antiquities of Westminster; The Old Palace; St. Stephen's Chapel, 1st edition, extra-illustrated, London: T. Bensley, 1807, 38 plates (engraved or aquatint, 1 lithograph), with an additional 62 plates bound-in (some hand-coloured), all edges gilt, contemporary blindstamped calf, rebacked, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed and marked, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Abbey, Scenery 210.The plate at p.48 is possibly the earliest lithograph in an English book.
Bridget (Saint, of Sweden). Memoriale effigiatum librorum prophetiarum sev visionum B. Brigidae alias Birgittae vidvae stirpis regiae de regno suetiae ad excitandum conservandumque puram devotionum in cordibus humilium Christianorum, Romae in aedibus eiusdem Sancte Brigittae, ante impressionem maioris voluminis revelationum, anno 1556, 2 parts in 1, Rome: Franciscum Mediolanensem de Ferrariis, 1556-57, woodcut portrait to title, woodcut illustrations at front (a few full-page), woodcut initials, copious underlining and annotations in old ink in Latin, ink stamp at foot of title of St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, N.Y, endpapers renewed, final leaf crudely strengthened (preserving woodcut and text to verso), some scattered spotting ( a few leaves with light marginal damp-stains), a few leaves frayed, contemporary decorative wooden boards, 20th-century reback, rubbed, lacking clasps, folio (30 x 19.5 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Adams B2835.
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[Vickers, Vincent Cartwright]. The Google Book, Written and Illustrated by V.C.V., 1st edition, London: J. & E. Bumpus, [1913], 34 mounted colour plates (including frontispiece), signed by the artist to limitation page, marginal toning and a few scattered finger marks, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original white cloth-backed boards, lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine, heavily rubbed and soiled, small surface paper loss to lower board, folio (32 x 26 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Limited edition, 48 of 100 copies signed by the author. Scarce, we can only trace four copies appearing at auction. In this work Vickers pioneered the use of the word 'Google' well before its later notoriety.
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Tacitus (Publius Cornelius). The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie [and] The End of Nero and Begining of Galba, 2 parts in one, 3rd edition, London: Arnold Hatfield for John Norton, 1604 [1605], front blank bound between preliminary leaves and A1, woodcut initials, engraved plan illustration to second part (close-trimmed to fore-edge), 1605 imprint from colophon, occasional early underlining, couple of worm holes to lower blank margins of first half of text block, early owner signature Cornelius Suffeild(?) and 19th-century armorial bookplate of Joseph S. Shepard to front free endpaper, light damp stain to last few leaves and rear free endpaper, early text leaf to pastedowns, contemporary calf Oxford binding, blind-stamped with rolls used by Nicholas Smith and afterwards by Richard Billingsley (the latter probably being the binder of this volume), later green morocco title label to spine, joints rubbed, foot of lower joint with small strengthening repair, without ties, folioQTY: (1)NOTE: ESTC S117624; STC 23645.A good example of an Oxford binding. “Oxford binders developed a habit for two-way hatching patterns [on the board edges], finishing a row of diagonal hatching with a few rows running horizontally, or diagonally the other way; this can be a useful rule of thumb for recognising Oxford work between about 1580 and 1650, …” – David Pearson, English Bookbinding Styles, 1450-1800 (London: British Library, 2005), p. 113. “One very distinctive feature of nearly all Oxford bindings executed between 1580 and 1620, and of a certain number between the latter date and about 1670, is the ‘hatching’ at the head and tail of the back. This consists of diagonal lines, …” — Strickland Gibson, Early Oxford Bindings (Oxford: Bibliographical Society, 1903), p. 41.
Herbarium. Alpen Flora, 2 volumes, c. 1900, a collection of dried plant specimens mounted on the rectos of approximately 250 numbered leaves (some leaves blank), with neat ink captions throughout, generally well preserved and seemingly complete, neat manuscript indexes on rectos of ruled leaves at front of each volume, ownership inscription of Arthur P. Baines, Adel, Leeds, to front free endpaper and initialled note on the collection by Baines dated 20 November 1906 tipped in before index at front of volume 1, contemporary morocco-backed cloth gilt with folding protective cloth flaps to edges, joints cracked, spine of volume 1 browned, rubbed and a little chipped at edges, folio (360 x 230 mm)QTY: (2)NOTE:According to the note this collection was mounted by Arthur P[aine] Baines, noting that he is 'greatly indebted to Sir William Gowers and Mr R. Benson Jowitt for their generosity in supplying me with excellent specimens, many of which were gathered by the latter gentleman to bear his initials and the locality from whence they were taken by him'.Robert Benson Jowitt (1839-1914) was a life governor of Yorkshire College and part of the Robert Jowitt wool merchants' enterprise. Arthur Paine Baines (1848-1918) who assembled the collection was his brother-in-law, having married Jowitt's sister Florence in 1889. Sir William Gowers is presumably the great British neurologist (1845-1915) who lived and worked in London and had wide interests including language, mathematics and botany.Please note that export and import rules may apply to this lot.
Staunton (George). [An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, atlas volume only], 1st edition, [London: W. Bulmer for G. Nicol, 1797], 44 engraved plates, maps and plans, including a folding general map, several of the maps and plans double-page, armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart to front pastedown, spotting (mostly marginal however occasional affecting image), some maps neatly restrengthened to gutter, contemporary half calf gilt, green morocco title label, upper cover near-detached, some wear and light marks, folio (57 x 40 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Cordier Sinica 2381-3; Western Travellers in China 545 (text volumes only).A good wide-margined copy. Aside from the detailed maps and plans, the plates mainly comprise vivid genre scenes and views after William Alexander.
Folio Society. The Compleat Angler, by Izaak Walton, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 2000 The Collected Stories of Nikolai Gogol, translated by Constance Garnett, 2009 The Mandarins, by Simon de Beauvoir, 2008Confucius, The Analects, by Lun Yü, 2008A Treasury of Mark Twain, 8th printing 2007William Russell, Special Correspondent of The Times, 1995, together with 98 further volumes of Folio Society publications, all original cloth in slipcases, & 17 further volumes without slicpases, G/VGQTY: (121)
Blackie (W. G.). The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the World..., 2 volumes, Blackie & Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh & Dublin, 1884, printed title, 10 chromolithographic costume plates and 67 (complete as lists) colour lithographic maps, occasional spotting, marbled endpapers, contemporary half morocco gilt, worn at extremities, folio, together with Barclay (Rev. James). A Complete and Universal Dictionary of the English language, A New Edition, George Virtue, 1848 (dated on preface), frontispiece of the signing of the Magna Carta, additional decorative portrait half-title of Queen Victoria, 22 engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring and 37 uncoloured engraved plates, some staining and occasional spotting throughout, contemporary half morocco, skillfully re-backed retaining the original spine, 4to, with Malte-Brun (Conrad). Précis de Géorraphie Universelle..., Paris, 1852, additional half-title, numerous engraved plates, maps and charts, three maps and charts with contemporary outline colouring, contemporary morocco gilt, 8vo QTY: (4)
Parliament. A large collection of 19th & 20th-century Parliamentary reference, including (Parliamentary Rolls) Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et petitiones et placita in Parliamento tempore Edwardi R.I. etc, 1832, vols I-6, plus Index (Royal Commission). 6 folio sized volumes, plus Index well bound in modern maroon cloth with gilt blocking to the spines. New endpapers. Some occasional toning and spotting but generally very clean. Vol VI has a small hole to the body of the title page. Members of Parliament : return to two orders of the Honorable the House of Commons, dated 4 May 1876 and 9 March 1877. Pt.1 Parliaments of England, 1213-1702 & Index to Pt II, Parliaments of Great Britain, 1705-1796; UK 1801-1885; Scotland 1357-1707; Ireland 1559-1800. 2 vols. Vol I is a working copy in the original black cloth; both boards are detached and the spine covering is cracked to one edge. The text block is sound. The Index to part II is in later tan coloured buckram cloth with new endpapers. The pages if this volumes are quite toned. Ancient laws and institutes of England comprising laws enacted under the Anglo-Saxon kings from AEthelbirht to Cnut, also Monumenta ecclesiastica anglicana. 1840 (Public Records Office). Original boards. The front board is partly cracked along the hinge. The rear board is detached. Internally clean. The History of Parliament, 9 vols (HMSO/Cambridge). A further selection of books on parliament and parliamentarians. Approximately 90 volumesQTY: (6 shelves)
Plot (Robert). The Natural History of Oxfordshire, being an Essay toward the Natural History of England, Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1677, imprimatur leaf, engraved illustration to title, folding engraved county map, 16 engraved plates, occasional toning, light damp stain mostly to lower margins, later endpapers with armorial bookplate of George Bowden to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, morocco reback with earlier title label relaid, corners repaired, board edges worn, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Upcott p.1069.
Ghika (Nikos Hadjikyriakos, 1906-1994). India, Athens, 1959, the complete portfolio containing 12 photolithographed plates after ink drawings by Ghika, and 12-page accompanying printed booklet (translated by Patrick Leigh Fermor), signed by the artist to colophon and inscribed to 'Pierre Rouve en signe D'amitié', all loosely containing in original publisher's card portfolio, rubbed and some wear, folio (43.5 x 33.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Limited edition 31/400.
Dunham (Dowes). The Royal Cemeteries of Kush, 5 volumes, 1st edition, Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1950-63, black and white illustrations and maps throughout (some folding, some after photographs), volume 2 and 4 with Wellcome Historical Medical Museum stamp to front pastedown, original brown cloth gilt (volume 3 cloth-backed paper covered boards, some wear to spine extremities), printed light blue dust jackets (volume 3 publisher's? plain drown dust jacket, chipped with small loss to extremities), volume 1 spine browned and frayed with some loss to head, head of spine with closed tear to volume 2, 4to (volume 3 folio, 61 x 48 cm)QTY: (5)NOTE:Exceedingly scarce complete in five volumes in dust jackets. We are only able to trace one comparable set in auction records.The titles of the volumes are: El Kurru, Nuri, Decorated Chapels of the Meroitic Pyramids at Meroë and Barkal, Royal Tombs at Meroë and Barkal, The West and South Cemeteries at Meroë.
Parkinson (John). Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent: Containing therein a more ample and exact History and declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants that are in other authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare, and strange plants from all the parts of the world..., Distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property, with the chiefe notes of Dr. Lobel, Dr. Bonham, and others inserted therein. Collected by the many yeares travaile, industry, and experience in this subject, by John Parkinson apothecary of London, and the Kings Herbarist..., London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640, initial blank and additional engraved title not present, letterpress title with several manuscript inscriptions 'A good edition of a curious work, invaluable as the plates are all coloured by some private hand well worth 3-3-0', with partially inked out inscription 'Michel Pierre, ce 26/16 October 1689 pore 03 pièce moins 3 lint(?)', and 'Job Lousley's Book Hampstead Norris Berks 1854', woodcut botanical illustrations throughout with near-contemporary hand-colouring, decorative initials, headpieces, chapter line breaks also with near-contemporary hand-colouring, lower outer corner of N4 with short closed tear and slight printing fault (not affecting meaning of text), closed tear to L5 partially repaired, 2X5 & 2X6 damp stained, short closed tear at foot of 4B6 and repaired closed tear to 5P4, first leaf of 'The Table of the English Names' (7H1) at rear of volume frayed to edges, errata leaf present at rear, occasional light dust-soiling to margins, slight marginal damp staining to few leaves, late 20th-century endpapers with 18th-century armorial bookplate of Henri-Joseph Rega (1690-1754) relaid to front pastedown, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked preserving morocco title label, board corners neatly repaired, folio (33.4 x 23 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC S121875; STC 19302.Henri-Joseph Rega (1690–1754) was a professor of medicine and rector of Leuven University, in the Habsburg Netherlands, where he established a botanical garden, laboratories for chemistry and physics, and an anatomical theatre, as well as adding a new wing to the University Hall (originally Leuven's medieval cloth hall).Job Lousley (1790-1855) was born in South Moreton, Berkshire and lived in Blewbury and Hampstead Norris, near Newbury. He was an avid book collector and published widely on agricultural, botanical and historical matters relating to Berkshire.
Thorburn (Archibald). British Birds, 5 volumes (including supplement), 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1915-16, half-titles, 82 full-page colour plates (2 in supplement), title printed in red and black, tissue-guards toned, original red cloth gilt (supplement in brown paper wrappers), spines faded, lightly rubbed, 4to, together with:Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1923, half-title, 30 full-page colour plates, red ink-staining to rear pastedown and endpaper, modern red half calf gilt, base of lower cover and spine stained, folio, plusBritish Mammals, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1923, half-titles, 50 full-page colour plates, vignette titles, titles printed in red and black, modern bookplates of Charles 12th Earl of Carlisle, a few light spots (a few water spots to title of volume 2), original red cloth, spines faded, lightly rubbed, 4to, with Thorburn's A Naturalist's Sketch Book (1919) and The Gun At Home and Abroad, British Game Birds and Wildfowl (1912)QTY: (10)
Palestine. Conder (Lieutenants C. R. & Kitchener H. H.), Map of Western Palestine in 26 Sheets, from Surveys Conducted for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund..., During the Years 1872 - 1877 Ordnance Survey Office, 1880, key map and 26 coloured zincographic maps (complete), slight spotting, lacking boards, large oblong folio sheet size 495 x 620 mmQTY: (1)
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Pouncy (John). Dorsetshire Photographically Illustrated, Parts 1-4 in 2, [all published], 1st edition, London and Dorchester, [1857], lithographed title, 79 tinted photolithographed views including one double-page, some heavy spotting and old dampstaining affecting plates throughout, some marginal splits to text leaves and lower blank outer corner of first leaf of Introduction torn with loss, modern buckram with original gilt-titled cloth covers relaid, oblong folioQTY: (2)NOTE:The first book illustrated by photolithography, where photographs were transferred onto lithographic stones which were then enhanced with figures, animals and other details by drawing. A further two parts were proposed but never issued. 'As far as we know Pouncy's rare book was not only the first but remained the only attempt in book form to reproduce photographic views from nature by photolithography', Gernsheim, History of Photography, p. 546. 'Pouncy's important work was a transitional stage between drawing and unretouched photography in book illustration', McLean, Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, p. 128.
Weever (John). Ancient Funerall Monuments within the united Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands adiacent, with the dissolued Monasteries therein contained..., 1st edition, London: Thomas Harper, 1631, engraved portrait frontispiece with early manuscript annotation at foot (lined to verso), additional engraved title with early/mid 20th-century library ink stamp to verso, some toning and occasional spotting, upper pastedown with 19th-century bookplate bearing initials J. M. and later ink stamp, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and corners repaired, folio (STC 25223), together with:Stirling (William Alexander, Earl of), Recreations with the Muses, London: Printed by Tho. Harper, 1637, title within decorative woodcut border with ink obscured early signature of Roger Gibson, (frayed to margins with slight loss, dust-soiled and marked, lined to verso), I5 with short closed tear at foot, leaf T3 with hole and slight text loss, final leaf of text strengthened to fore-margin, without initial and final blanks (A1 & 2E8), damp staining to margins, some worming mostly to margins, later endpapers with bookplate of Paulin Martin of Abingdon to upper pastedown, hinges split, contemporary calf, rebacked, board corners worn, folio (Pforzheimer, 5; STC 347),Luis (de Granada), Quartus Tomus Concionum de Tempore, quae post festum sacratissimi Corporis Christi, usque ad initium Dominici Aduentus in Ecclesia habentur, Antwerp: ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1581, printer's woodcut device to title (with ink smudge over old indistinct signature), some damp staining at foot mostly at front and rear of volume, contemporary limp vellum with yapp fore-edges, lacking ties, 8vo QTY: (3)
Pierce (Michael, et al). ...So Few, A Folio Dedicated to all who Fought and Won the Battle of Britain 10th July - 31st October 1940, The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, 1990, 25 profile portraits of R.A.F. pilots in silhouette, signed in pencil by each of the 25 Battle of Britain fighter pilots, with photographs and biographies of each, all edges gilt, original blue goatskin (by Hartnoll Bookbinders of Bodmin), upper cover with onlaid embroidered RAF insignia, lettered in gold to upper cover and spine, preserved in original silk-lined solander box (with original packaging), with prospectus loosely inserted, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:161 of 401 copies, signed by six authors and artists.The fighter pilots commemorated in this volume are :Wing Commander P.P.C Barthropp; Wing Commander R.P. Beaumont; Squadron Leader G.H. Bennions; Air Vice-Marshal H.A.C. Bird-Wilson; Air Commodore P.M. Brothers; Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling; Group Captain W.D. David; Air Commodore A.C. Deere; Squadron Leader B.H. Drobinski; Flight Lieutenant J.H. Duart; Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris; Group Captain T.P. Gleave; Wing Commander N.P.W. Hancock; Squadron Leader C. Haw; Commander R.C. Hay; Group Captain C.B.F. Kingcome; Colonel Henry Gaston Lafont; Air Commodore A.R.D. MacDonell; Squadron Leader M.J. Mansfeld; Wing Commander A.G. Page; Wing Commander P.L. Parrott; Group Captain D.F.B. Sheen; Wing Commander F.M. Smith; Wing Commander J.E. Storrar; Wing Commander G.C. Unwin.
Marshall (John, editor). Mohenjo-Daro and The Indus Civilization, being an official account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-daro carried out by the Government of India between the years 1922 and 1927, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Arthur Probsthain, 1931, 164 plates (including folding plans, illustrations after photographs), 2 folding maps to rear pocket of volume 1 (plus an additional large folding map of the region from unrelated work), further smaller illustrations in-text, bookplate of W and P.J. Kupfer to front pastedowns, plate V neatly repaired to upper margin, original publisher's pictorial brown buckram gilt, a few light marks, folioQTY: (3)NOTE:An excellent set of this pioneering work on Mohenjo-Daro (meaning 'Valley of the Dead Men'), the largest settlement of the Indus Valley Civilisation. Located in Sindh, Pakistan, it is one of the earliest known large cities, founded in the 26th century BCE. Marshall's 'announcement in 1924 that he had there found a new civilization of the third millennium marked an epoch in modern discovery; the so-called Indus valley civilization is now recognized as the most extensive civilization of the preclassical world' (ODNB). His 'mass excavation of large areas at Mohenjo-daro . published in 1931, showed a great city, dating from before and after 2000 BC, planned and drained on a vast scale and in a regimented fashion, with wide thoroughfares and closely built houses and workshops. Detail was lost; but, like Schliemann before him, Marshall got to the heart of the matter and gave what was needed first in the current state of knowledge, namely the general shape, the sketch, of a hitherto unknown civilization. He was a pioneer of a high order' (Ibid).
Postle (Martin, editor). Johan Zoffany RA, Society Observed, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011, colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, together with:Albinson (A. Cassandra et al, editors), Thomas Lawrence, Regency Power & Brilliance, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011, colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plusMeyer (Jonathan), Great Exhibitions, London - New York - Paris - Philadelphia, 1851-1900, 1st edition, Suffolk: 2006, colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, 4to, and other British art reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (3 shelves )
Hooke (Robert). Micrographia Restaurata: Or, the Copper-Plates of Dr. Hooke's Wonderful Discoveries by the Microscope, Reprinted and fully Explained: Whereby the most valuable particulars in that celebrated author's Micrographia are brought together in a narrow compass; and intermixed, occasionally, with many entertaining and instructive discoveries and observations in Natural History, London: John Bowles, 1745, title with oval ink and blind library stamp and strengthened to gutter margin, 33 engraved plates (including 3 folding), plates 8, 10, 15 & 16 with oval blind stamp at head, some offsetting, toning and spotting, without final blank, edges of few folds to plates discreetly strengthened to verso, modern calf gilt, slim folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Keynes, Hooke, 10. Norman 1092 & PMM 147 (first edition)The second edition of the most important book in the history of micrography which was originally published in 1655, "... not only the first book devoted entirely to microscopical observations, but also the first to pair its descriptions with profuse and detailed illustrations ... his famous and dramatic portraits of the flea and louse, a frightening eighteen inches long, are hardly less startling today than they must have been to Hooke's contemporaries" (Norman 1092).
Folio Society. Paradise Lost, a Poem in Twelve Books, by John Milton, 2003, illustrations by William Blake, original green quarter morocco in slipcase, folioRudyard Kipling, Selected Poems, [The Folio Poets], edited by Andrew Lycett, 2004, original red quarter morocco in slipcase, large 8voWilliam Wordsworth, Selected Poems, [The Folio Poets], edited by Nicholas Roe, 2002, original brown quarter morocco in slipcase, large 8voAeneid, by Virgil, translated by John Dryden, 1993, original green quarter morocco in slipcase, 8voA History of Rome..., by Theodor Mommsen, 2006, original gilt decorated brown quarter morocco in slipcase, 8vo, together with 17 further volumes of Folio Society publications, some 'as new' in original plastic wrap, all original cloth in slipcases, 8vo, plus 9 similarQTY: (31)
Carey (H. C & Lea I.). A Complete Historical, Chronological and Geographical American Atlas, being a Guide to the History of North and South America and the West Indies Exhibiting an Accurate Account of the Discovery, Settlement and progress of their various Kingdoms, States, Provinces &c. together with the Wars, Celebrated Battles and Remarkable Events to the Year 1822, 1st edition, Philadelphia, 1822, letterpress title, advertisement and contents list, the contents list with a small ink stain, 54 (complete as list) numbered double-page engraved map sheets, charts and letterpress tables, contemporary wash colouring, the appendix to the map of Hispaniola torn with a small area of loss to the lower margin, but not affecting the printed image, endpapers toned and creased, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine, bumped and rubbed at extremities, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:The contents include 46 double-page maps, 2 comparison plates of mountains and rivers, with the remainder being single and double-page tables. The contemporary binding and the contents are in unusually fine unmarked condition.
Pope (Arthur Upham, and Phyllis Ackermann). A Survey of Persian Art, 6 volumes, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1938-39, 1482 plates (195 coloured, mostly photographic), hinges reinforced, original blue buckram gilt, backstrips slightly faded, volume V cocked, folioQTY: (6)NOTE:A comprehensive, landmark work on Persian art, overseen by a pioneer in the field.
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