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Click here to subscribeFLINT, Sir WILLIAM RUSSELL, illus. The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang. Medici Society, 1924. No. 34 of 530 copies. 4to., orig. cloth, t.e.g., other edges uncut (slightly soiled). Colour plates; Drawings. No. 165 of 500 copies, singed by the artist, 1950. Folio, orig. cloth backed boards, slipcase (slipcase broken and soiled). Plates. (2)
[DUNKERLEY, WILLIAM ARTHUR] The Book of Sark, 1908. No. 103 of 500 copies, signed by author as John Oxenham, and artist William A. Toplis. Folio, orig. vellum gilt t.e.g. (lacks ties), in orig. defective board slipcase. Map and 21 tipped in colour plates, (one plate mount with defective corner, a few creases to text leaves).
HUNTER, JOSEPH. Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York, A New and Enlarged Edition by the Rev. Alfred Gatty, 1869. Folio, later half black morocco gilt. Plates and text illustrations (frontispiece loosening and with stained margin, 2 plates with strengthened margins).
HUTCHINS, JOHN. The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. Third Edition, Corrected, Augmented and Improved by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson. 4 vols., Westminster 1861 - 70. Folio, half red morocco gilt, t.e.g. Engraved plates, and plans. Pedigrees (lacks county map, occasional spotting). (4)
BANKES, Rev. THOMAS and others. A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography Antient and Modern. Printed for J. Cooke, n.d. Folio, modern half calf by Symington of York. 23 engraved maps, many of them folding and 89 plates (lacks frontispiece, one map and one plate torn, spotting and browning). See illustration.
SOLVYNS, FRANCOIS BALTASAR. A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings. Descriptive of The Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos. Calcutta 1799. Large folio, cont. calf (some wear, fragments of ties). 250 hand coloured etched plates, in 12 sections, including 11 double page views, 239 of them mounted within double ruled borders, with printed numbers and captions. Ms. captions on blanks facing plates, longer ms. descriptions to 1st Section (slight damage to No. 3 in Section 2, and a few other minor holes nicks or tears repaired by mounting). With slip loosely inserted inscribed, "From Sir Robert Chambers`s Collection". Sir Robert Chambers (1737 - 1803). Served in India from 1774, becoming Chief Justice of Bengal, 1791 - 99. See illustration.
ANDREWS, JOHN and ANDREW DRURY. A Topographical Map of Wiltshire, 1773. Folio, cont. half black morocco (leather slightly frayed, stain to upper board). Index map (creased) and 18 double page engraved maps, partly hand coloured in outline, the dedication cartouche after G.B. Cipriani, with portrait of the same loosely inserted. See illustration.
FASSAM, THOMAS. An Herbarium for the Fair. Hand & Flower Press 1949. No. 18 of 260 copies, 4to., orig. half brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Etchings by Betty Shaw-Lawrence. -- ROBERT, NICHOLAS. Diverses Fleurs..., Scolar Press, 1975. No. 42 of 500 copies. Small folio, orig. cloth gilt. Engraved plates. (2)
GROENLAND, J. Atlas D`Histoire Naturelle Vegetaux. Nouvelle Edition, Esslingen, n.d. Small folio, orig. pictorial cloth backed boards (upper joint split, backstrip worn). 53 chromolithographic plates -- MORRIS, Rev. F.O. Book of Natural History, 1852. 8vo., cont. half green stained calf with bookplate affixed to upper cover. 160 hand coloured plates. With 3 other volumes. (5)
MAWSON, THOMAS H. The Art & Craft of Garden Making. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1901. 4to., orig. cloth gilt (soiled). -- SANDERS, WILLIAM BLISS. Half-Timbered Houses and Carved Oak Furniture of the 16th & 17th Centuries. Bernard Quaritch 1894. Folio, cont. half brown morocco gilt (worn). Both illustrated. (2)
GUILLIM, JOHN. A Display of Heraldrie. Fourth Edition, 1660. Folio, cont. calf (lacks backstrip, title defective and laid down, prelims. cut round and remargined, pp. 107 and 108 supplied in ms.,L11 defective). Numerous woodcuts, many of the shields hand coloured. Sold not subject to return.
STEIER, SYLVESTER. Historia Genealogiae Domini Nostri..., Frankfurt, Nicolai Bassaei, 1594. Folio, old boards (spine repaired). Woodcut title and illustrations (C4 torn, lacks N4, a few wormholes). Some contemporary annotations including name on title "Sum Johannis Bocktadii". Sold not subject to return.
CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England..., Oxford 1702 - 04. 3 vols., folio, cont. panelled calf (rebacked and repaired). Engraved portrait frontispieces, vignettes on titles. Half titles. Bookplate of John Ward of Capesthorne [Cheshire] and the Inner Temple, and signatures of a later owner. ESTC N9847. (3)
BELCHER, JOHN and MERVYN E. MACARTNEY. Later Renaissance Architecture in England. 2 vols., 1901. Folio, cont. half red morocco gilt (inner joints strengthened, some leaves loose in both vols.). Plates and text illustrations. Bookplate of A. Pitt-Rivers and his signature on titles dated 1902. (2)
GOTCH, J. ALFRED. Architecture of the Renaissance in England. 2 vols., 1894. Large folio, cont. half brown morocco gilt, t.e.g. (vol 1 gutta percha perished, loose in binding, both vols. rubbed). Plates and text illustrations (some spotting to margins). Bookplates of A. Pitt-Rivers, and his signature on title of vol 2. (2)
JONES, INIGO. The Designs...Publish`d by William Kent, With some Additional Designs. 2 vols. in one, 1727. Folio, cont. calf (old reback, rather worn). Titles with portraits (lacks allegorical frontispiece), 97 plates, numbered to 136 (final plate with hole in blank outer margin). Bookplates of Lord Shelburne and A. Pitt-Rivers. See illustration.
JONES, OWEN. The Grammar of Ornament. Day & Son, 1856. Large folio, cont. half brown morocco gilt, with decorative panel on upper cover, a.e.g. (some wear to spine and corners). 100 chromolithographic plates, text illustrations (some spotting to text, plates clean). Bookplate of A. Pitt-Rivers. See illustration.
DORSET. A collection of works, including: Criswick, J. A Walk Round Dorchester..., Dorchester 1820. Orig. boards (worn). Folding engraved map -- Warne, Charles. Ancient Dorset. Bournemouth 1872. Subscriber`s copy, that of Lieut-General Pitt-Rivers, with bookplate. Folio, orig. cloth (spine defective). 17 plates (lacks map) -- Watson, E.W. Ashmore Co. Dorset A History of the Parish..., Gloucester, 1890. Presentation copy from the author to Lt. Gen. Pitt-Rivers (upper cover stained) -- Nightingale, J.E. The Church Plate of the County of Dorset. Salisbury 1889. Half green morocco (rubbed). With 13 others. Mostly 8vo., various bindings. (17)
SMALL, J.W. Scottish Market Crosses, Stirling 1900. No. 179 of 500 copies. Folio, orig. cloth gilt (faded). Plates. Bookplate of A. Pitt-Rivers. -- SPECIMENS OF ANCIENT CHURCH PLATE: SEPULCHRAL CROSSES; etc., J.H. Parker, Oxford & others, 1845. 4to., orig. calf gilt (rubbed). Plates (spotted). (2)
STUKELEY, WILLIAM. Stonehenge..., 1740; bound with Abury..., Printed for the Author 1743. Folio, cont. half calf gilt (rebacked, corners worn). Portrait and 75 plates, some folding (some spotting, and browning at centrefold of folding plates). Bookplate of Lieut-General Fox Pitt-Rivers and an earlier defaced example. See illustration.
STUKELEY, WILLIAM. Itinerarium Curiosum. vol 1 Second Edition, vol 2 First Edition, 1776. Folio, cont. calf gilt a.e.g. (rebacked, 2 defects to upper cover of vol 2 and lower corners worn). Engraved frontispiece, portrait and 205 plates and maps, some folding. Bookplates of Thomas Walker (prob. late 18th c.) and Lieut-General Fox Pitt-Rivers. (2) See illustration.
COOK, JAMES, JOHN HAWKESWORTH and JAMES KING. Set of three voyages, First Editions of first and second, Second Edition of third. Together 8 vols., 4to., and atlas folio, 1773 - 77 - 85. First voyage: 3 vols., old calf (slight wear), early issue without Directions for placing the cuts & errata. 52 charts and plates (Straights of Magellan chart torn, short tear to one plate in vol 2 not affecting image, blank corner torn away from final leaf in vol 3, pp. 772 & 776 with abrasion resulting in loss of a few letters); Second Voyage: 2 vols., cont. calf, portrait and 63 charts and plates (general chart torn and spotted in vol 1, one chart in vol 2 with small tear at fold); Third voyage: 3 vols. text, cont. calf, uniform with 2nd voyage, 24 charts and plates (lacks plate at p.5 in vol 2, occasional spotting and offsetting), atlas in cont. half calf (slight wear), containing 62 charts and plates including the death of Cook. All vols. rebacked and except for atlas with bookplates of Lord Rivers. Holmes 4, 23 & 46. (9) See illustration.
CLARENDON, EDWARD HUDE, Earl of. The Life...Written by Himself. Oxford 1759. Engraved vignette on title and portrait frontispiece (offset onto title). With vols 1 & 2 (ex 3) of The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Oxford 1702 - 04. Folio, uniform cont. panelled calf gilt (rebacked) -- EVELYN, JOHN. Memoirs ed, William Bray. 2 vols., 4to., cont. calf (joints cracked, lower cover of vol 1 detached spine of vol 1 torn). Engraved portraits and plates. (5)
GIBB, WILLIAM. The royal House of Stuart, 1890. Cont. half brown morocco gilt, a.e.g. (upper cover soiled). 40 chromolithographic plates -- BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB. Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1889. Orig. cloth (bit soiled, head and tail of spine worn). Plates. Both folio. With 3 other volumes. (5)
ALBUM. Edwardian house parties, with signatures, photographs, postcards, dance cards, illustrations etc., including views of Northrepps Hall, Norwich; East Knoyle House (now demolished); Cole Orton Hall, Ashby-de-la-Zouch; Hovingham Hall; Drayton Manor, Tamworth. Also winter sports in Engelberg, Switzerland, with photo. of Rudyard Kipling in the snow. Oblong folio, orig. maroon morocco gilt (worn). c. 1910 - 12. With another volume. (2)
TESTIMONIAL. An Address to G.H. Bateson Wright from the Chinese Masters and Pupils Past and Present, Queen`s College 30.IV. 1900 Hong Kong. 4 leaves ms. on silk, (creased) folio, in orig. velvet binding with metal central boss and cornerpieces, in similar box. With a further testimonial to the same from Victoria College (? Hong Kong also), 1890. Folio, cont, black leather. (2)
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