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Click here to subscribeCOOK, Capt. JAMES. The Journals...on His Voyages of Discovery. 4 vols., with portfolio of Charts & Views. and The Life. Edited by J.C. Beaglehole, together 6 vols., Cambridge, Hakluyt Society, 1968-74. 8vo. and folio, orig. cloth, d.ws. Coloured frontispieces, portraits, views, maps and facsimiles of documents. (6)
GARRAN, Hon. ANDREW, ed. Picturesque Atlas of Australasia. Vol 1 only (ex 3). 1886. Folio, recent half brown goatskin. Portrait (repaired and mounted), 2 coloured maps only (New South Wales and Victoria), plates and text illustrations (p. 135/6 defective, text ends on p. 286). Sold not subject to return.
[VENICE.] Cinque Savi Alla Mercanzia, e Consoli de Mercanti Infrascritti. 10 Oct. 1749. Stampata per li Figliuoli del qu: Z. Antonio Pinelli Stampatori Ducali. Printed broadside, folio, 387 x 340 mm. Proclamation, based on the original statute of 1706, from the Venetian equivalent of the Board of Trade, concerned with the reformation of insurance policies, especially with regard to those for maritime commerce.
MAWE, THOMAS and JOHN ABERCROMBIE. Every Man His own Gardener. 12th Edition, 1788. 12mo., cont. sheep (broken). Engraved frontis. - NICOL, WALTER. The Villa Garden Directory... Or Monthly Index of Work. Edinburgh 1814. 16mo., modern half green stained calf gilt. - JOHNSON, C. PIERPOINT and JOHN E. SOWERBY. British Wild Flowers....To which is now Added A Supplement..., 1882. 8vo., orig. cloth gilt (rather worn, old reback). Hand coloured plates. - LLOYD, EDWARD, pub. The Gardener, Florist, and Agriculturist. Nos. 1-26. April - October 1847. Folio, cont. half sheep (spine and corners worn). Text illustrations. With 30 others, mostly on gardening. (34)
ARETAEUS of Cappodocia. De Causis et Signis Acutorum, et Diuturnorum Morborum Libri Quatuor. Ed. Herman Boerhaave. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] Jansson Vander Aa, 1735. Folio, cont. calf (rebacked).Title printed in red and black, Privilege leaf and 4 inserted leaves after p. 136. (some minor spotting, and minute worming to upper blank margins).
CAESAR, CAIUS JULIUS. Commentarii. Milan, Phillippus Lavagna, 1478. Folio, old vellum, bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, Lakelands, Cork. 151 leaves (lacking fol. 132 blank), 42 lines, rubricated throughout. 5 line inscription in Latin on final leaf, reading in translation, "This book was bought by Lord Henry (H)eddet(r) the 27th Abbot of the church of the Blessed Mary for (?) the chapel of All the Saints in the year of our lord 1480. [space] This book belongs to the church of the Blessed Mary and (?) the chapel of All the Saints of the Cistercian Order and Diocese of Tournai in Flanders". The cathedral in Tournai is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, so it is assumed this is the church meant. Hain 4216; Proctor 5861; British Library catalogue IB. 26152. With pencil note on verso of lower cover "Collated & perfect for B. Quaritch, WR Knox Jan 10/68".
RAPIN de THOYRAS, PAUL. The History of England. Trans. N. Tindal, Second Edition, 2 vols., 1732-33. Folio, cont. reversed calf (worn). Four folding engraved maps (one with short tear), 9 genealogical tables (one torn), title of vol 1 loose, title of vol 2 torn, (stained at beginning of vol 1 and 2, lacks portrait frontispieces). Sold not subject to return. (2)
TACITUS, PUBLIUS CORNELIUS. The Annales...The Description of Germanie. Arn. Hatfield, for Bonham and John Norton, 1598. STC 23644: The Ende of Nero and Beginning of Galba...The Life of Agricola, Second Edition, Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and John Norton, 1598. STC 23643. - JERMIN, MICHAEL. A Commentary Upon the Whole Booke of Ecclesiastes..., for John Clark, 1639. STC 14550. (lacks Cc3 & 4). Bound together, folio, old half calf (some leaves stained at end of 2nd title).
ALLESTREE, RICHARD. The Works. Oxford 1684. Folio, 18th c. red morocco gilt, with wide floral borders and central ornaments, a.e.g., (upper joint cracking). Title with engraved vignette (title laid down and with cropped upper margin), frontispiece (laid down and shaved at outer edge). Signature of Dorothea Feilder on title. Sold as a binding, not subject to return.
BIBLIA, Das Ist Die Gantze Heilige Schrift..., 2 vols., Tubingen, J.G. and C.G. Cotta, 1730. Folio, cont. red and brown painted vellum gilt, over wooden boards, with elaborate all over decoration, metal clasps (lower backstrip of vol 1 defective, slight wear and discolouration). Titles printed in red and black, Engraved additional titles, frontispieces, 62 plates, plan of Jerusalem, and maps of The Holy Lane and Mediterranean. (2)
COOKERY. 18th c. manuscript cookery book. Folio, orig. vellum (covers soiled). inscribed "Mary Stockdale 1721" on first blank. Written in ink in several neat hands. Approx. 56 pp. and blanks. Recipes include: puddings; wines, "To make mead that drinks like sack"; cakes, "Excellent small cakes much esteemed by ye King"; "How to pickle a pigg"; "To sauce a Turkey like sturgeon or Brawn my Ld. Cornwallis"; "Sully Bubbs", several preserves, "To make sausages". etc.
WESTONBIRT HOUSE, TETBURY. Manuscript Inventory of the Household Furniture, Ornamental Articles, Plate, Linen, China, and Glass, Books...the property of the late Robert Stayner Holford, Esq. taken on the premises April 1892 and Valued for Probate. Holland & Sons, London. 347 pp., bound in folio volume, half maroon morocco gilt (rubbed). The Library is listed on 6pp. totalling £620. The entire contents at £23,636 18s.
BRADSHAW, P.V., 'The Art of the Illustrator', a series issued by The Press Art School, London, of folio folders with text and illustrations - H.E. Bateman, Louise Wright, Dudley Hardy, F.H. Townsend, Harry Roundtree, Frank Reynolds, Cyrus Cuneo, Heath Robinson, Russell Flint, C.E. Brock, Partridge (20)
English school. A series of twelve fine original watercolours illustrating 'The Shipwreck' by William Falconer, c.1820-30, twelve unsigned watercolours, each approx. 125 x 165 mm, mounted on card, with four-line manuscript extract from the poem pasted to leaf preceeding each illustration, a.e.g., yellow chalk-glazed endpapers, contemp. gilt decorated full maroon morocco (by Hering, 9 Newman St.), a few minor spots to margins at front and rear, sl. rubbed to extrems., folio The watercolours appear to be copies or versions of some of the well known published illustrations to Falconer's famous poem, by Nicholas Pocock, Robert Dodd and others. The watercolour style is somewhat similar to the work of Samuel Owen (1768-1857). (1)
*Italian School. A collection of twenty-six early 17th c. uncoloured engravings of figures in ancient costume, numbered 1-26, including hunting and battle scenes, mostly approx. 260 x 160 mm (except for larger plates measuring approx. 255 x 315 mm), mounted in large oblong folio old paper album (1)
*Chagall (Marc). Derriere le Miroir, no. 182, Décembre 1969, double-page colour lithograph, colour and b&w illusts., orig. wrappers with col. litho. designed by Chagall to upper wrapper, slim folio, together with Giacometti (Alberto), Derriere le Miroir, no. 127, Mai 1961, fourteen orig. b&w lithos. after Giacometti, including two double-page illusts., orig. printed wrappers with designs to covers after Giacometti, slim folio, plus ten Maeght Editeur catalogues for 1957-66, all slim folio (12)
*Hayter (Stanley William, illust.). Samuel Beckett, Still, Milan, 1974, three colour etchings by S.W. Hayter, each signed and numbered, facsimile and printed text on hand-made paper, loosely cont. in orig. printed wrappers with matching chemise and slipcase, folio Limited edition 48/133, this being one of 30 copies with an additional suite of signed etchings, printed in monochrome, bound in. Black & Moorhead, 259-261. (1)
*Richards (Ceri, illust.). Vernon Watkins, Elegiac Sonnet, Milan, 1970, two colour lithographs, each signed, dated and numbered, facsimile and printed text, signed by the author, loose in orig. wrappers, with matching chemise and slipcase, folio Limited edition 21/130, with an extra suite of the lithographs, in large format, on Japon nacré, each signed, dated and numbered in pencil, cont. in orig. cloth-backed portfolio. Sanesi 63-64. (1)
Brunhoff (Jean de). Babar's Travels, 1st UK ed., Methuen, 1935, colour illusts., contemp. owners inscription to title, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, sl. rubbed and marked, together with first UK editions of Babar the King and Picnic at Barbar's in similar condition, folio (3)
Detmold (Edward J.). Twenty-Four Nature Pictures, [1919], twenty-four mounted col. plts. with captioned tissue-guards, mount margins sl. spotted or browned, all loosely contained as issued in orig. half cloth portfolio, protective card flaps worn and detached and one deficient, one cloth tie present, large folio Signed ltd ed. of first proofs, 204/500. (1)
Griffith (Marie Norton). Hello! Hello! Bostock, Grand Album of Talking Animals, pub. Browne & Browne, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, n.d., late 19th c., six full-page col. litho plts. with moving parts operated by tab to lower margins, most pages torn and worn mainly to lower margins, first & last pages browned, inner joints cracked, orig. chromo dec. boards with cloth spine strip, some surface soiling, folio (1)
Guinness Booklets. A group of ten titles, all 1st eds., 1934-58, colour and b&w illusts., orig. colour pictorial wrappers, scattered minor spotting and soiling, slim 8vo Titles are: The Guinness Legends and Other Verses, 1934; Songs of Our Grandfathers (illust. Rex Whistler), 1936; Prodigies and Prodigals, 1939; A Guinness Sport Folio, 1950; Album Victorianum, 1951 (slim 4to); Untopical Songs, 1953; What Will They Think of Next?, 1954; Can This Be Beeton?, 1956; Happy New Lear, 1957, and Hobby Horses, 1958. (10)
Sinclair (J.R.). Sir Golly de Wogg, No.I Nursery Portrait Gallery, c.1900, orig. artwork in mock-up bookform (never published), ten orig. mounted gouache illusts., each initialled J.R.S., of golliwogs indulging in a variety of sports (e.g. cricket, golf, polo, tennis, punting, flying, hunting, fishing), with ms. text in Sinclair's hand, embellished with pen and ink sketches by him, some sl. fraying to fore-edges (not affecting images), orig. pictorial wrappers, with orig. gouache illust. to upper cover, short split in spine, folio A unique and amusing item, with Sinclair's gollies vibrantly drawn. (1)
Wain (Louis). With Louis Wain to Fairyland, Described by Nora Chesson, pub. Raphael Tuck & Sons, [1904], illustrated title, twelve full-page chromolitho illusts., numerous illusts. to text, pages detached, browned and some frayed to edges, orig. chromo illustrated boards with cloth spine strip, board edges rubbed, slim folio (1)
Colchester School of Art. King Coel, A Magazine of the North East Essex Technical College and School of Art, vol. 1, no. 1, Colchester, Easter 1936, b&w illusts. to text, fifteen orig. colour and b&w tipped-in illusts. by J. G. Bensusan-Butt, H. W. Collins, J. Earee and F. Robinson (including colour lithographs, wood engravings, lino cut, etc.), patterned endpapers, orig. stiff card covers, a little rubbed and small split to foot of spine, folio Limited edition of 14 copies, this being no. 3 signed by Barry Hart and Henry Sykes, the designer and senior printing instructor. (1)
Golden Cockerel Press. The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ, According to the Authorised Version of King James I, with Decorations by Eric Gill, Golden Cockerel Press, 1931, printed throughout on vellum, woodcut illusts., initials, and decorations by Eric Gill, a.e.g., orig. full cream pigskin by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, some light markings and finger-soiling, raised bands between gilt single fillets, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, cockerel device in fifth, covers with gilt fillet border, upper cover tooled in gilt with a central scalloped pointed oval containing a naked figure, to a design by Gill, metal clasps, folio Chanticleer 78; Gill 285(a). One of only twelve copies on vellum, this numbered 8 (of a total number of 500 copies). One of the greatest English illustrated books of the twentieth century, and the crowning achievement of both Eric Gill and the Golden Cockerel Press. (1)
Beerbohm (Max). Cartoons, "The Second Childhood of John Bull", Swift & Co., [1911], fifteen col. plts., each with accompanying leaf of text, entire contents loose (as issued) in orig. cloth-backed portfolio, some wear, lacking ties, large folio, together with A Book of Caricatures, Methuen, 1907, col. frontis. and twenty-three b&w plts. with captioned tissue guards, occasional spotting, t.e.g., orig. cloth in gilt in remains of d.j., corners sl. bumped, folio, and The Poets' Corner, Heinemann, 1904, col. plts., orig. printed wrappers, sl. spotted, chipped at edges, folio (3)
Burroughs (William S.). Ghost of Chance, Illustrated by George Condo, pub. NY, The Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991, tipped-in col. plts., orig. cloth with morocco gilt label to spine, slipcase, folio Limited edition of 160 copies, each signed by the author and artist. (1)
Brees (S.C.). Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand, 1st ed., 1847, fine addn. uncol. aqua title, sixty-two uncol. aqua views on twenty-two leaves, (incl. one double-page), two large folding eng. maps at rear, recent good quality half morocco, gilt dec. spine with raised bands and contrasting label, slim folio Rare. (1)
Butler (Captain H.). South African Sketches: Illustrative of the Wildlife of a Hunter on the Frontier of the Cape Colony, 1st ed., Ackermann, 1841, uncol. frontis. and fifteen hand-col. litho. plts. with uncol. litho. line drawings above or below the main image, some minor scattered spotting, t.e.g., later good quality green half morocco gilt, slim folio Abbey, Travel 336. (1)
Ewald (Mrs.). Jerusalem and The Holy Land. Being a collection of lithographic views and native costumes, from drawings taken on the spot, 1857, twelve tinted litho. plts. of views and costumes, by William Simpson After Mrs. Ewald, including four printed in colour lithos., some minor foxing to margins, orig. gilt-decorated blue cloth, a little rubbed and some minor marks (generally in good condition), slim oblong folio Blackmer 561. (1)
Lewis (John Frederick). Lewis's Sketches of Spain & Spanish Character, made During his Tour in that Country, in the Years 1833-4, Drawn on Stone from his Original Sketches Entirely by Himself, [1836], tinted litho title and twenty-five tinted litho plts. (correct as lists), few minor marks mostly to plt. versos, modern half calf gilt, tall folio (1)
Robert de Vaugondy (Gilles & Didier). Atlas Universel, pub. Delamarche, c.1793, engraved title, 95 double page maps only (of 111), all with orig. outline hand colouring, minor scattered spotting, approx. 15 maps with clean splits to foot of central fold, some marginal dampstaining, contemp. calf-backed boards, somewhat worn with fraying to extrems., folio Lacking the following maps: Orbis Vetus, Terre-Sainte, Mappemonde, Europe, Routes d'Angleterre, Routes d'Allemagne, Routes d'Espagne & Portugal, Espagne & Portugal, Italie, Turquie d'Europe, Asie, Turquie d'Asie, Indes Orientales, Afrique, Egypte Ancienne & Moderne, Judee. (1)
Robinson (Commander Chas N., editor). Celebrities of the Army, pub. George Newnes, 1900, seventy-two col. ports., a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, a little rubbed, slim folio, together with Crookshank (Lieut.-Col. C. de W.), Prints of British Military Operations. A Catalogue Raisonne, with Historical Descriptions covering the Period from the Norman Conquest to the Campaign of Abyssinia, 1921, col. and b & w illusts., num. pencil marks to margins, recent half cloth retaining orig. spine and orig. printed label to upper cover, 4to, and seven others (9)
Rodriguez (Etienne Alexander). The Hindoo Castes. The History of the Braminical Castes, Containing a Minute Description of the Origin, Ceremonies, Idolatry, Manners, Customs, &c. of the Forty-two Sects of Bramins of the British Indian Empire..., vol. 1 (all published), 1846, twelve hand-col. litho plts., some browning & spotting, contemp. half morocco gilt, extrems. slightly rubbed, slim folio (1)
Wilkie (David). Sketches in Turkey, Syria & Egypt, 1840 & 1841. Drawn on Stone by Joseph Nash, pub. Graves & Warmsley, 1843, tinted litho. title (with small ink stamp to lower margin), dedication leaf, and twenty-five tinted litho. plts., printed by Hullmandel, a few plts. with closed tears & slight fraying to margins, one plt. with ink stamp to fore-edge margin, contents loose (gutta-percha perished), orig. red half morocco, spine & extrems. rubbed & worn, lacking portion of leather at head & foot of spine, folio Wilkie travelled in the Levant in 1840 in order to collect material for a series of biblical pictures. He died on the return journey in 1841. Abbey 379; Blackmer 1796; Atabey 1334. (1)
*British Topography. Two photo. albums, late 19th-century, one relating to the Budd family of Leatherhead in Surrey, comprising some albumen print views plus photos. of dogs and horses, approx. fifty pages in total, contemp. half morocco, crudely rebacked, some wear, folio, the other with approx. thirty albumen print views and church interiors in southern England, contemp. morocco, foot of spine damaged, 4to (2)
*Burma. An album of approx. 100 gelatin silver prints showing official events during the first two months after gaining independence of 4th January 1948, incl. views of the hoisting of the Burmese flag and lowering of the British flag, exchange of ratification of Anglo-Burmese treaty, the President's luncheon party for the foreign envoys attending independence celebrations, presentation of an Austin to the Prime Minister by the Hon. Arthur Henderson, cocktail party at the British Embassy gardens, the laying of the foundation stone of the independence Memorial, Governor and President taking the salute, a British Embassy party, plus views of the British Embassy house at Belmont, all neatly arranged with titles in white throughout, contemp. cloth, oblong folio This album appears to have been compiled by the British Ambassador's wife Elizabeth, who arrived with her husband James in Rangoon in November 1947. (1)
*China. An album of 119 (of 120) gelatin silver prints, early 20th century, incl. images of the Temple of Heaven, the Throne Hall in the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, Winter Palace, the Great Wall of China, Drum Tower street life, monuments and temples, etc., each approx. 6.5 x 11 cm, typed titles to verso, corner-mounted with printed and numbered captions beneath, contemp. cloth with tied spine, oblong narrow folio (1)
*China. An album of black and white snapshots of China, 1st January 1927 to May 1928 (so titled and dated on upper cover), comprising approx. thirty-five gelatin silver prints, incl. pictures of HMS Argus in Shanghai, view of Bund, Shanghai, Nanking Road, racecourse, Nanking Road at night, a photograph of the Pride of Detroit (on its round-the-world flight), a biplane taking off in the Whang Poo, flying over Shanhai, a Chinese wedding band and a Chinese funeral, weighing rice, Wu Sung Fort, HMS Hawkins and an aerial view of Port Edward, some slight creasing, etc., mostly corner-mounted (some with adhesive hinges), all identified in white lettering, contemp. stiff wrappers, worn, oblong small folio (1)
*Egypt, Malta, Holy Land. An album of 117 mounted albumen prints on fifty-three leaves, upper cover titled 'Mildred. Yachting 1885-6', including views in Algeria and Egypt, including views of Arabs, merchants, pyramids, one signed in the negative Sebah, plus images of Jerusalem including a three-part panoramic view of the city and Jews at the Wailing Wall, Jaffa, a view of the party in front of Thomas Cook's Depot, Suez Canal, Malta (including two folding three-part panoramas), Sicily, and the Bay of Naples, all neatly identified in ink copperplate, contemp. black full morocco gilt by Marion & Co., sl. rubbed, oblong folio It is not clear whether the name Mildred on the upper cover refers to the owner/compiler or a yacht so named. (1)
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