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REPORTS FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO ENQUIRE INTO THE STATE OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE KINGDOM, 1801/1809, 2 full-page plans, 5 folding plans, second report with 13 facsimilies of manuscripts, spotted, and uniformly bound in three quarter leather, an 1819 edition with appendix, with multiple fold-out plates, etc., some off-setting, ex Office of Woods Library, with stamps. folio. (3)
PUBLIC ACTS-GEORGE III (spine titles)-ANNO REGNI. GEORGII III, Regis Magna..., 79 vols. of bound acts (numbered 1 to 59, some in 2 parts), John Baskett and others, London 1760-1819, recent tan library cloth or cont. three quarter leather, cont. bindings distressed, ex Office of Woods Library, with stamps, large 4to. (79) #500-7001403. LIBER MUNERUM PUBLICORUM HIBERNIAE; OR THE ESTABLISHMENTS OF IRELAND, 2 vols., parts 1 to 7, 1824, later half leather, ext. rubbed, ex: Library Office of Woods, with stamps, folio.
CATALOGUE OF MAPS, PRINTS, DRAWINGS, ETC. FORMING...PRESENTED BY HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE THE FOURTH..., London 1829, later three quarter leather and; A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, Hansard 1802, and A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts..., 1819, both later three quarter leather, all ex Library Office of Woods, with stamps, etc., folio. (3)
REPORT(S) OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S WOODS, FORESTS & LAND REVENUES..., 27 various reports bound in 11 vols., 1812-1860, 38 plans/maps (36 folding), most with hand-colouring, some contents laid on large paper, near cont. three quarter grained red leather, ex. Office of Woods Library, with stamps. folio. (11)
REPORT(S) OF THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED...CONDITION OF THE WOODS, FORESTS, & LAND REVENUES OF THE CROWN, 2 vols. containing reports 1 to 17, 1787 to 1793, with 2 fold-out plates of Gabriel Snodgrass' iron knees for 74 gun ship and 38 gun frigate, later three quarter red leather, ex. Office of Woods Library, with stamps, etc., folio. (2)
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS...STATE AND CONDITION...WOODS, FORESTS & LAND REVENUES OF THE CROWN, 1 vol. containing reports 1 to 17, 1787 to 1793, report 11 with 2 fold-out plates with plans of Gabriel Snodgrass' iron knees for 74 gun ship and 38 gun frigate, cont. three quarter leather, off-setting, bindings poor, folio.
FIRST REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S WOODS, FORESTS & LAND REVENUES..., 1812, 3 fold-out hand-coloured plans (2 after John Nash), later three quarter cloth, some off-setting, folio. together with 25 other various reports bound in 10 vols., with hand-coloured fold-out plans, various cloth bindings, folios and large 4to., and 6 other vols. of bound reports, ex. Office of Woods Library, with stamps, etc. (17)
HYDE, Ralph-The Regent's Park Colosseum or "Without Hyperbole..., Ackerman, London 1982, numbered 73/200, signed by the author, hand-coloured plates, full green morocco and suede lined clamshell case, folio, and a quantity of glossy brochures for Crown Estates property for lease, one bound by Zaehnsdorf.
MONTFAUCON, D Bernardi de-Bibliotheca Coisliniana..., Paris 1715, one plate, restored cont. calf, damp staining throughout, title, etc., restored, spine replaced, etc., folio and The Lives of the Ancient Philosophers, London 1702, engraved folding frontis. 7 further plates, restored three quarter leather, part of text removed, spine replaced, other faults. 8vo. (2)
Boyer (A.). LE DICTIONNAIRE ROYAL, FRANCOIS-ANGLOIS, ET ANGLOIS-FRANCOIS, Londres 1764, quarto, calf (C. Thackthwaite, Norwood Green, bookplate). #25-35. 412. Baldwyn (George Augustus). A NEW, ROYAL, AUTHENTIC, COMPLETE, AND UNIVERSAL SYSTEM OF GEOGRAPHY, Illustrated with a frontispiece, 70 plates, 6 maps and 11 folding maps, Alex. Hogg, London, no date, folio, calf (worn, front cover detached).
THE TIMES ATLAS OF THE WORLD - 'Mid-Century Edition', edited by John Bartholomew, London 1955-59, five volumes, folio, cloth; THE TIMES ATLAS OF THE WORLD - 'Comprehensive Edition', London 1994, folio, cloth, dust-wrapper; THE COLUMBIA LIPPINCOTT GAZETTEER OF THE WORLD, edited by Leon E. Seltzer, New York 1962, quarto, cloth; PHILIPS' MERCANTILE MARINE ATLAS, no date, folio; together with another volume. (8)
Carne (John). Syria, The Holy Land & Asia Minor Illustrated, 3 vols. in 1, Fisher, c.1840, addn. eng. vign. title to each part, two single-page maps, 117 steel eng. plts., lacking eng. port. frontis. to first vol. and text leaves D1-E2 in vol. 3, occn. spotting, contemp. half calf gilt, sl. rubbed, folio (1)
Gaultier (Abbe). A Complete Course of Geography, by Means of Instructive Games, invented by the Abbé Gaultier, 3rd ed., corrected, improved, and divided into two parts, 1799, fourteen double-page eng. maps, incl. eight with outline hand-colouring, plus one eng. table, some foxing, mostly to text, stitching partially broken, and one map becoming loose, free endpaper creased, contemp. marbled boards, detached, spine repaired with fabric tape, corners worn, slim folio (1)
Wagner (Arthur L. & Kelley, J.D. Jerrold). The United States Army and Navy, their Histories, from the Era of the Revolution to the Close of the Spanish-American War..., The Werner Company, Akron, Ohio, 1899, forty only (of 43) chromo. plts., with captioned tissue guards (a few creased), a.e.g., orig. pictorial bevel-edged cloth gilt, spine ends and corners sl. frayed, oblong folio (1)
*Boston. The Great Meeting Boston Common July 15, 1930, Conducted by the Massachussetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission for the Commonwealth, Massacussetts Bay Colony Tercentenary 1630-1930 [so titled on upper cover], an album of seventy mounted b & w photos depicting the people and various ceremonies, approx. 20 x 25 cm, no captions or index, orig. cloth with ownership or presentation gilt name of the historian Right Hon. Herbert A.L. Fisher, rubbed and damp-marked, together with an unrelated photo album of Norway, both oblong folio (2)
Brinkley (Frank). Japan, Described and Illustrated by the Japanese, illust. K. Ogawa & K. Tanamura, vols. 2-10 (of 10), [1897-8], nine colour flower colotypes, twenty-seven hand-col. albumen print photos, b&w illusts. to text, orig. patterned cloth with paper labels to upper covers, soiled and somewhat worn, folio Yedo edition limited to 1000 copies, the full title details and limitation number combined to the missing volume one. (9)
Cartes-de-visite albums. A group of good Victorian empty albums, including one large American album with folding leaves, window-mounts all encaptioned, though cards removed, contemp. diced morocco with two large gilt clasps and gilt monogram to both covers, folio, two with floral decorated thick leaves and one with army illustrated chromo. leaves, orig. morocco/calf, sl. rubbed, all with clasps in working order, 4to (6)
China & Hong Kong. A group of four good photo albums, 1884-1912, compiled by George Bertram Worby, Tobacco Merchant for British American Tobacco, comprising over 650 mostly gelatin silver print images of various sizes including approx. 65 large images of approx. 20 x 25 cm and similar sizes, the albums arranged roughly chronologically and including personal, informal amateur photos as well as good quality private and commercial photos relating to a wide variety of places covered by Worby in his job including Hong Kong, Canton, Shekwan, Foochow, Macao, Kowloon, Pekin, Amoy, Formosa, Eng Chun, Kulangsu, etc., etc., a wide variety of subjects including natives and colleagues, street scenes, harbour and rivers scenes, monasteries and missionaries, the devastation caused by a typhoon (27th-28th July 1908) including the SS Ying King disaster, tobacco canvassing, advertising and selling gangs, execution of pirates in Canton, tea picking etc., pagodas and temples, one album with fifty larger images showing Foochow and vicinity including images relating to the Battle of Foochow in 1884 against the French, with War Junks, Chinese Gunboats including the Yang Wo before the battle and sunken remains left by the French, Formosan group portraits, three panoramas, etc., a few images captioned in the negatives, all pasted in and neatly captioned and identified in ink and mostly dated on mounts throughout, one leaf broken not affecting images, contemp. half morocco/orig. cloth, rubbed, oblong folio A remarkable social history photo archive of early 20th-century China and Hong Kong. Included with this lot is an original 1915 passport and a Chinese broadise passport (1919) for the owner/compiler of these albums, George Bertram Worby, born in Liverpool in 1883 and buried in Streatham Cemetery in 1924. The British American Tobacco Company (BAT) was established in 1902 combining The American Tobacco Company and the Imperial Tobacco Company headed by W H Wills, both of which had been competing for foreign markets, especially China. BAT opened its first factory in the Pudong district of Shanghai in the same year. George Worby and colleagues would have been responsible for cigarette advertising, shipping and collecting monies. See illustration on rear cover of this catalogue. (6)
*Devon - Parlby Family. A nineteenth-century family photo album, comprising family pictures, views and army and shipping scenes, including thirteen images relating to automa-manoeuvres [on Salisbury Plain] in August 1873, two good large images of the Barbican and the Abbey Vaults in Plymouth by M. J. Cox, Reading Group scenes for Emily Parlby and William Hole of Parke, Bovey Tracey, three shipping photos and one showing the crew of HMS Narcissus, four further military photos, UK and overseas topography, one to five images pasted onto front and backs of thirty-three album leaves, some captioned in ink or pencil, a few other photos loosely inserted at rear, contemp. diced morocco, rubbed and joints cracked, folio, together with a portfolio of unrelated later photos and an album of window-mounted b&w family snapshots William Robert Hole (1831-1903) was a Justice of the Peace. He married Emily Laetitia Parlby in Manaton, Devon, in April 1875. They had one son, William Gerald Hole, born in 1881, who also lived in Parke, Bovey Tracey, Devon. (3)
*Early English Albums. A group of four distressed albums of albumen prints, c. 1860s and later, the first album containing approx. fifty leaves with mounted mostly small format photos relating to Hampshire, Dorset interest, including a family from Odiham, family names mentioned including Croft, Coles and Turner, and including images of ships, street scenes, convicts at work in Portland, etc., many leaves det., the second album containing approx. thirty pages of mounted albumen prints from the 1860s, many portraits and family groups relating to the Gurney family, the third album with approx. thirty leaves of mounted albumen prints, mostly small format images of buildings and views in the north of England and Scotland, contents det., the final album with albumen prints and gelatin silver prints, many faded and in very poor condition, various bindings, worn, 4to/folio (4)
[Frith, Francis, and others]. The National Magazine, vols. 11, 12 & 13, 1862-3, eighteen mounted albumen prints by Francis Frith and others, mostly supplied by Frith & Hayward, Reigate, incl. a photograph of 'New Westminster Bridge and House of Lords' by Frith, plus a few other wood engs., all orig. blind stamped cloth gilt, somewhat worn at head and foot of spines, small folio Gernsheim 628 & 629. The photographs are titled New Westminster Bridge & House of Lords, Ripon Minster from the Skell, The Keep at Raglan Castle, The Unbroken Circle of the Royal Family in 1857, A Fine Spring Morning, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, The International Exhibition Building (East Front), Balmoral, A Landscape in Surrey - Earlswood, The Pavillion at Brighton, Tintern Abbey (West Front), Trafalgar Square, St. Paul's from The Thames, The British Museum, Osborne House, Somerset House (River Front), Deodara Planted by the Queen at Windsor, Leaving Home. (3)
*Italy. Two photograph albums, late 19th century, each comprising thirty thick card leaves with eighty-three mounted albumen prints, showing buildings and views, a few captioned in the negative and some identified in pencil on the mounts, approx. 20 x 25 cm and similar, some fading and spotting throughout, bookplates of Captain Ivor Hughes of Coleshill, Warwickshire to front pastedown of each, a.e.g., orig. black morocco gilt, both titled Italy 1885 to upper covers, rubbed, oblong folio (2)
*London. Metropolitan Board of Works, January 1875 [so titled on upper cover], eleven mounted albumen prints with arched tops of Northumberland House and neighbourhood previous to the laying out of The Embankment, approx. 22 x 29 cm and similar, printed captions on mounts beneath, five leaves of maps incl. one double-page, all linen-backed, contemp. half morocco, worn, large oblong folio (1)
Coaching Days of England, Containing an Account of Whatever was most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance and Curiosity in the Time of the Coaches of England, Comprehending the Years 1750 until 1850. Together with an Historical Commentary by Anthony Burgess, pub. Paul Elek, London, 1966, full-page col. plts. and num. b & w illusts. to text, dec. endpapers, orig. cloth in d.j., orig. cardboard packaging, oblong folio (1)
Leighton (John M.). The Lakes of Scotland: A Series of Views, 1st ed., pub. Joseph Swan, Glasgow, 1834, fifty-two eng. plts., incl. addn. vign. title, correct as list, subscribers list at rear, label partially removed from front pastedown, contemp. dark blue half morocco gilt, some sl. rubbing, folio (1)
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