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Click here to subscribeSibson (Francis) Medical Anatomy, or, Illustrations of the Relative Position and Movements of the Internal Organs, 1st ed., 1869, twenty-one hand-col. litho. plts., erased circular ink lib. stamps to title & prelims., some damp staining, modern dark green half morocco gilt, large folio Garrison-Morton 422. (1)
Arne (Thomas Augustine) The Agreeable Musical Choice, an Entire New Collection of English Songs, Number V, printed for I. Walsh [1753], engraved title, eng. dedication leaf, 21 pp. of engraved music, numbered 2-22, some marks and marginal soiling, one leaf with margin partially torn away, not affecting engraved area, disbound without covers, together with Boyce (William), Lyra Britannica. A Collection of English Songs, Number IV, printed for I. Walsh, [1754], engraved title, eng. dedication leaf, 19 pp. of engraved music, numbered 49-67, some fraying to edges and marginal soiling, disbound without covers, slim folio, together with Thesaurus Musicus, A Collection of two, three, and four Part Songs, several of them never before printed, to which are added some choice dialogues ... viz. Dr. Croft, H. Purcell, Eccles, Dr. Blow ..., vol. 2 only, printed for R. Bremner, n.d., c. 1760s, eng. title, eng. contents leaf, and 79 pp. engraved music, numbered 2-80, a little rubbed and title with some soiling, disbound without covers, slim folio, and Arne (Thomas), Comus; A Masque ..., printed for Harrison & Co., n.d., c. 1780s, 18 pp. engraved music, including title, some marks, later plain wrappers, frayed and worn to edges, oblong folio Smith & Humphries 95 & 242 for the first two items. (4)
Boyce (William) Lyra Britannica. A Collection of English Songs and Cantatas for the Voice, Harpsichord, and Violin, printed for Harrison & Co., no. 18, Patternosta Row, 70 pp. of eng. music, including title, and contents to verso of final leaf, bound with Howard dr. The Musical Companion; a Collection of English Songs, for the Voice, Harpsichord and Violin, printed for Harrison & Co., c. 1780s, 57 pp. of engraved music, including eng. title and contents list to final leaf, pubs. plt. nos. 125-128 to foot of each page, bound with Arme (Thomas), Cymon and Iphigenia; A Cantata, for the Voice, Harpsichord, and Violin, printed for Harrison & Co., c. 1780s, 8 pp. eng. music, including title, pubs. plt. no. 128 to foot of each leaf, all bound in contemp. calf-backed marbled boards, gilt dec. red morocco label to upper cover, somewhat worn to spine and edges, oblong folio, together with four other 19th c. albums of engraved music, three hand-col. sheet music covers, and one other defective album of songs (6)
Boyce (William) Cathedral Music: being a collection of in score of the most valuable and useful compositions for that service by the several English Masters, of the last two hundred years, 3 vols., 1st ed., printed for the Editor, 1760, 1768 & 1773, eng. title to each vol., list of subscribers, eng. music throughout, some pencil and other markings, some soiling and minor spotting to prelims., margins, etc., second vol. with some damp marking to lower outer corner throughout, with paper repairs to prelims. (with loss of a few words), minor soiling and staining to extreme lower outer corner of third vol., not affecting text, 19th c. reverse full calf, with gilt morocco armorial of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster to centre of upper cover of each vol., recased, outer corners renewed, scuffed and some wear (mostly to first vol.), folio (3)
Britten (Benjamin) Albert Herring, a Comic Opera in three Acts, pub. Hawkes & Son, c. 1948, printed vocal score, signed in ink to title by John Piper, Benjamin Britten, Eric Crozier, Peter Pears, Joan Cross and Nancy Evans, orig. printed wrappers, with design to upper cover by John Piper, rubbed and some wear, some chips to upper joint and elsewhere, upper cover near-det., folio The autographs were obtained by the vendor while working as a programme seller at the Aldeburgh Festival. (1)
Callcott (John Wall) A collection of five Glees ... for two trebles and bass, and Green Thorn of the Hill of Ghosts for Counter Tenor, two Tenors & Bass, printed for the author, March 25th 1801, 27 pp. of eng. music, with single-page advert. to verso of final leaf, 'Catalogue of Music Composed by J. W. Callcott, Mus. Doc. Oson. Organist St. Paul's Covent Garden, and the Asylum Chapel, printed for the author August 1 1800', bound with ten other separately printed songs and glees by J. W. Callcott, c. late 1790s/early 1800s, plus eight other similar glees (How Calm the Evening, by Reginald Spofforth, c. 1795, Twangdillo, by Mr. Hook, late 1790s, Maria, by Samuel Webbe, Goddess of the Chearful Smile, by Samuel Webbe, The Castle Spectre, by Michael Kelly, Archer's Glee, & Fairy Glee for Voices, both by R. J. S. Stevens, both signed in ink to foot of first leaf, all 1790s), and Hellendall (Peter), Two Glees for Four Voices with Full Accompanyments in Score, composed and mostly humbly dedicated to the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Sandwich, Cambridge, printed & sold by the author & son opposite Peterhouse College [c. 1785], eng. title, 2 pp., list of subscribers (with two additional names inserted in contemp. manuscript), and 22 pp. engraved music (numbered 2-23), occn. minor marks and sl. soiling, contemp. calf-backed marbled boards, soiled and somewhat worn, upper joint partly broken, oblong folio Peter Hellendall (1721-99) was appointed Organist of Peterhouse College, Cambridge, in 1777, and is one of the great names in Dutch music. The organ scholarship at Peterhouse is now named the Hellendall Fund in his honour. (1)
Purcell (Henry) Orpheus Britannicus. A Collection of all the Choicest Songs, for One, Two, and Three Voices, compos'd by Mr. Henry Purcell. Together, with such Symphonies for Violins or Flutes, as were by him design'd for any of them: and a Through-Bass to each Song. Figur'd for the Organ, Harpsichord, or Theorbo-Lute, 3rd ed. with large additions, printed by William Pearson, 1721, title printed in red and black, with ownership inscription of William Tytler, dated 1750, at head (small closed tear repaired to top margin), dedication leaf, and 6 pp. prelims., containing The Publisher to the Reader, verses, and table and advertisement (this 3rd leaf bound in after dedication leaf), woodcut initials, a.e.g., contemp. speckled bull calf, gilt dec. spine, rebacked with orig. spine laid down, some marks and darkening to spine and adjacent portion of upper cover, folio Ownership inscription to front blank 'Dorothy Howard, from her Father, 1908.' and 'Given to Barbara Calvocoressi. 1956'. British Union-Catalogue of Early Music, vol. II, p. 859 (six locations) (1)
Handel (George Frederic) Hercules, an Oratorio in Score composed in the year 1744, 248 pp. of engraved music, including title and list of contents to verso of final leaf, some minor soiling to margins, endpapers soiled, contemp. half calf, worn with covers det., together with [Six Anthems], In Score, Composed at Cannons, For His Grace The Duke of Chandos Between the Years 1718 & 1720, n.d., c. 1790, together six anthems bound in one, (the list of the titles are My Song shall be alway, As Pants the Hart, The Lord is my light, In the Lord put I my trust, Oh Praise the Lord with one Consent & Oh praise the Lord ye Angels), engraved music throughout, including title and list of contents at end of each anthem, contemp. half calf, rubbed and somewhat worn, covers det., folio, together with Corelli (Arcangelo), The Score of the Twelve Concertos compos'd by Arcangelo Corelli, for two Violins and a Violoncello, with two Violins more, a Tenor, and Thorough Bass for Ripieno Parts, ed. Dr. Pepusch, vol. II only, printed for & sold by I. Walsh ... at the Harp & Hoboy in Catherine Street in The Strand, n.d., c. 1750s, eng. title, and 171 pp. of engraved music, contemp. half calf, joints partly cracked and some wear to extrems., folio, and other mostly early 19th c. folio volumes of engraved music, including Rode's Celebrated Air in G, with Variations for the Violin & Piano Forte, pub. R. Cocks & Co., n.d., c. 1810, The Beauties of Handel, by Joseph Corfe, vol. I only, printed & sold for the author by Preston, n.d., c. 1780s, etc. (13)
[Playford, Henry]. Harmonia Sacra: or, Divine Hymns and Dialogues, With a Thorow-bass for the Theorbo-Lute, Bass-Viol, Harpsichord, or Organ ..., The Second Book, printed by Edward Jones, for Henry Playford, 1693, title printed in red and black (light waterstain to top margin, and small portion torn away with loss to top margin only, small closed tear to lower margin), 4 pp. dedication, verses and table, and 74 pp. of printed music, woodcut initials, occn. light browning, minor marginal stain, early 19th c. marbled wrappers, rubbed and some wear to head and foot of spine and extrems., slim folio The first book was published in 1688. The work was partly edited by Henry Purcell. (1)
The Strad, A Monthly Journal for Professionals and Amateurs of all Stringed Instruments Played with the Bow, approx. 200 orig. issues, a broken run, 1976-2003, b&w illusts., ads. etc., all orig. printed wrappers, mainly slim folio, together with The Opera Quarterly, 25 orig. issues, a broken run, Summer 1983-Autumn 1991, plus 13 orig. issues of Early Music, 1973-89, and 38 orig. programmes for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, a broken run, 1956-98, all orig. printed wrappers, folio, generally VG (3 cartons)
Bradshaw (Percy V.) The Art of the Illustrator, 20 orig. parts (complete), 1917, each part contains six col. and b & w plts., mounted on grey paper, each with associated text booklet, all contained in orig. grey wrappers, folio The artists comprise: H.M. Bateman, C.E. Brock, Cyrus Cuneo, W. Russell Flint, Dudley Hardy, W. Hatherell, F. Matania, Bernard Partridge, Spencer Pryse, Frank Reynolds, Warwick Reynolds, W. Heath Robinson, Harry Rountree, Balliol Salmon, C.A. Shepperson, E.J. Sullivan, Bert Thomas, F.H. Townsend, Lawson Wood and Louise Wright. (20)
English School (early 20th century) The three-masted merchantman ‘Zeelandia’ anchored offshore Watercolour Inscribed indistinctly verso with title 27cm x 36.5cm Unframed Four Japanese woodblock prints from a series, and a folio containing a larger quantity of prints and drawings, various sizes, all unframed The ‘Zeelandia’ was built in 1869 for Shaw, Saville & Albion's regular service to New Zealand and made the run in an excellent 84 days on hermaiden voyage. Reduced to a barque in 1882 as an economy measure, she was sold to Swedish owners in 1903. Later renamed “Kaleva”, she was last recorded in use as a barge in Canada in 1919.
Tipping, H. Avray. English Homes Period III - Volume 1, Late Tudor and Early Stuart 1558 - 1649, London 1922. Linen backed cloth, illustrated, folio plus Niven, W. Illustrations of Old Warwickshire Houses, privately printed, London 1878. Cloth, copper etched plates, 4to plus others related. (9)
Billings, Robert William. The Geometric Tracery of Brancepeth Church in the County of Durham, London 1845. Rubbed half morocco, foxed, plates, folio plus Archaelogical Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England. Diocese of Oxford, Oxford 1850.Worn half morocco, foxed, 8vo plus others related.
Sir John Gilbert RA PRWS (1817-1897) A small folio of unframed drawings and four small wood engravings (the latter on a sheet inscribed ‘My first attempt at wood engraving’) all figure studies and illustrations, together with a few by a separate hand (‘G.G.’) each sheet 23 x 19cm (9 x 7 Iin) one double sheet, 11 sheets in all
DURHAM. Gibside and the Blakiston family. Memorandum book March 1683/4 to 1704, about 270pp folio (including some blanks). Records receipts and disbursements relating to Gibside and the family, the first years carefully written with detailed entries, later years less so. Also included is a record of various agreements relating to land and occasionally of family events. Many payments are made to Lady Blakiston and sister Blakiston and there is much household and personal expenditure, visits to Durham, Newcastle and London etc. “(August 1703) I return to this place from Streatham... please find my dear wife was this day .... at 4.15 in the afternoon delivered of a daughter” “given my girl for use of the house etc 16-0-0”. “given to the poor at Whickham 0-2-6” “spent at Durham sessions 1-2-6” “pd Mr Hardiman, Taylor... for five yards of fine cloth for my new suit 4-12-6” “pd ye cook by my wife in part for wages due 3-0-0” “pd Mr Hornsey, gliser, in full for glising, Gibside House 1-16-0” and many hundred similar entries. A few items loosely inserted. Vellum covers, some pages loose in binding, some dustmarking and dogearing; but completely legible.
TOPOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE A folio of assorted subjects, principally European, to include Caen, Avignon, Brussels, Genoa, Rome, a booklet of sixteen etchings by Aliprandi after Chilone, etc., various media, some with hand colouring, also a few maps and two coloured aquatints by Gurk after Hochle of "Ein Frachtwagen" and "Kais. Konigl. Einwagen" (coach and carriage subjects, c.1820); other miscellaneous prints ++ Satisfactory; some with wear or handling marks
MISCELLANEOUS A large folio of assorted prints, to include portraiture and other subjects after Beechey, Richmond, Fellowes, Geddes, Vernet, Richter, Greuze etc. in various media, also Vasari Society facsimiles of Old Master Drawings with accompanying text; sundry other items ++ Mostly satisfactory; some damp damage
OLD MASTERS A folio, to comprise subjects by Gazalis after Magnasco, Collaert after Stradanus, Bonenfant after Titian, Quilley after De Vlieger, subjects after Pinelli, Reni, Raphael, Fra Angelico, Callot, Mortimer, Kauffmannn, Del Sarto etc; and fifteen wood engravings by the Dalziel brothers after Giotto (Arundel Society, 1853) ++ Many in good condition; some prints with wear/damage
ATTRIBUTED TO ROBERT WINCHESTER FRASER (1848-1906) RIVER LANDSCAPES WITH A DISTANT CHURCH Two, watercolour vignettes, mounted as one, unframed Each 11.5 x 16cm.; with a small folio of watercolours by other hands, to include four views of Rotherfield Park, Hampshire, circa 1855; and three further watercolours of the same period (a lot) ++ Images in generally good condition; support sheets foxed and grubby
FREDERICK JOHN WIDGERY (1861-1942) EXMOUTH BAR, MORNING Signed, also signed, inscribed and dated Sept 1925 verso, watercolour 18 x 23cm.; with a watercolour and pencil drawing of a church interior by the same hand, 22 x 17cm. (2) Provenance: From a large folio of the artist's work (probably the property of a family member), recently dispersed. The following three lots are from the same source. ++ Each with a little foxing
A large mahogany twin pedestal partners desk, 20th century, in the George II style, designed in the manner of Thomas Chippendale, the moulded eared rectangular top, inset with three gilt tooled leather writing surfaces, each side with a moulded arched frieze drawer above a central kneehole, flanked on each side by a cupboard door with two lions' head and harebell carved scrolled demi-columns, flanking an oval harebell chain moulded panel, enclosing four drawers each to one side, one drawer and folio divisions to the other, the sides similarly decorated, above shaped acanthus carved apron and hairy paw feet, 203cm wide, 81cm high, 127cm deep. Provenance; Property of The Drambuie Liqueur Company.
SCRAP ALBUM. – An album containing numerous mounted ‘scraps’ and prints. [N.p.: n.d. but compiled circa 1890.] Folio (310 x 240mm.) The album containing numerous mounted prints, many hand-coloured, including lithographs, engravings and chromolithographs. (Some soiling, browning and glue stains.) Contemporary half-morocco (worn, spine replaced in cloth now also worn).
PHOTOGRAPHS. – An album containing numerous albumen-print photographs of Britain and Europe. [N.p.: n.d. but circa 1880.] Oblong folio (263 x 352mm.) 96 albumen print photographs including a folding panoramic view in four sections of ‘Malta Harbour’, stamped ‘H. Agius, photographer, Malta’ verso, (many loose, all topographical views. (Some fading and light browning.) Contemporary half-morocco (worn).
WILKINSON, Robert (publisher). Wilkinson’s Atlas Classica. London: [n.d. but 1798-1808.] Folio (348 x 280mm.) Engraved decorative title, 45 hand-coloured engraved maps (7 folding) and 7 hand-coloured engraved charts (1 folding) only. (Some spotting to first few leaves, occasional light browning.) Nineteenth century half-calf (scuffed and rubbed, spine slightly chipped). (See illustrations)
CARRACCI, Annibale (1560-1609). Vita di San Diego Dipinta nella Cappela di S. Giacomo de Spagnuoli in Roma. Rome: [?1646]. Engraved throughout, title and 19 plates by Simone Guillain, mounted on 13 leaves, folio (438 x 288mm.) (Title and plates cut close to plate mark.) Eighteenth century marbled paper wrappers (covers soiled). (See illustrations)
COBURN, Alvin Langdon. London… with an Introduction by Hilaire Belloc. London & New York: [n.d. but circa 1909.] Folio (410 x 304mm.) 20 tipped-in plates after Coburn. (Occasional light spotting to text.) Original green morocco-backed boards (head and foot of spine slightly chipped and scuffed), dust-jacket (dust-jacket with slightly tattered edges). Provenance: George Harry Milsted (bookplate). – And a 4pp. folio advert for H.G. Wells’ The Door in the Wall (1911), illustrated by Coburn with a single plate (2). (See illustrations on front cover & inside pages)
CALVERT, Samuel. A Memoir of Edward Calvert artist by his third son. London: 1893. Limited edition of 350 copies, this number 7 signed by the author, folio (372 x 270mm.) Portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 34 plates on 30 leaves after Edward Calvert. (Some light spotting, browning and marginal staining.) Original brown cloth, t.e.g. (somewhat scuffed, spine darkened and soiled). Provenance: George Harry Milsted (bookplate). (See illustrations)
HOOKE, Robert. Micrographia Restaurata: or, the Copper-plates of Dr Hooke’s Wonderful Discoveries by the Microscope, reprinted and fully explained. London: printed for and sold by John Bowles, R. Dodsley & John Cuff, 1745. Folio (376 x 237mm.) 33 engraved plates (3 folding). (Some spotting.) Old calf-backed boards (worn, hinges splitting, extremities bumped and soiled). (See illustrations)
GUIDI, Tommaso dei, called Masaccio (1401-1422). Le appresso sei storie appartengono alla celebre Capella dell’ estinta famiglia Brancacci nella nuova Chiesa del Carmine di Firenze… Tommaso Piroli incisore. [N.p. but ?Rome or Florence: n.d. but circa 1771-1775.] Oblong folio (370 x 460mm.) Engraved title, 6 engraved plates by Tommaso Piroli, after Masaccio. (Title page with small marginal tear, some light browning or spotting, slight dampstaining to first few leaves.) Near contemporary paper wrappers (torn with loss, edges slightly tattered). Note: The engravings depict pictures by Masaccio formerly in the Church of the Carmelites at Florence. (See illustrations)
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