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Click here to subscribeFloyd, Dale E. The World Bibliography of Armed Land Conflict from Waterloo to World War I. 2 volumes 4to., 1979; Jane's Weapons systems 1982-83. Small folio, 1983; El-Adroos, Syed Ali. The Hashemite Arab Army 1908-1979. An Appreciation and Analysis of Military Operations. Amman, 1980. Together with a collection of books relating to the art of war in general, including some odd volumes of Fortescue's History of the British Army.
This and the following 7 lots, from the same private source, may contain the fin-de-siecle book stamp of Gregory & Co., Regent St., / & Bruton St.BACHELIN-DEFLORENNE (M.), Lá Décoration Polychrome ... Cent Planches en Couleurs Or et Argent, folio, 100 chromo-plates, original stub mounting, half cloth/marbled boards, Paris, n.d.
BACON (Sir Francis), Sylva Sylvarum: Or, A Natural History, folio, engr. title-page, printed title, 7 ff., pp. 218, 10 ff., 1 f. (His Lordship's Usual Receipt for the Gout ...), 1 f., title (New Atlantis), 1 f. To the Reader (bound in wrong place), pp. 36; 1 f. title (Hist. Natural and Experimental of Life and Death ...), 3 ff., pp. 64, modern 1/2 calf, early signatures of Robert & George Shafto, L., 1651 (1).
FLAXMAN (J.), The Theogony Works & Days & The Days of Hesiod, obl. folio, engraved title & 36 (of 37) plates, engraved by William BLAKE, original boards with printed label, L., 1817; FLAXMAN, Odyssey, engr. title, 34 plates, 1805; FLAXMAN, [Iliad], lacks title, 39 plates, n.d. (as a collection of plates).
STOW (John) Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 2 vols, folio, 70 engraved plates (incl. double-page and folding), text: 2 ff., pp. xl, 308, 208, 285, (1); 120, 459 (153-5 bis), (1), 93 (1), Appendix 1f., pp. 143 (1), 26, 13 ff. index, contemporary-style tree calf (i..e. rebound 19th c. ?), a.e.g. (some occasional foxing), L., 1720 (2).
SCRAP BOOK, a fine, large folio scrap book, mainly 1st half 19th century, but including earlier (and later) material, incl. LE PRINCE (J.B.) Premiere Suite de Cris ... de Petersbourg et de Moscou, title and 3 plates, trimmed, dated 1765; 10 trimmed hand-col'd aquatints of Buenos Ayres after Vidal; numerous other prints, scraps, chromos, etc., 1 or 2 original drawings, etc., full burgundy morocco with label on upr. cvr., (1).
SCRAP BOOK. A fine large folio, half morocco, scrap book, with a multitude of pictorial material, scraps, prints, original work, etc., including 2 fine watercolours of "The Isle of Portland," (ca. 1830), one bearing signature 'Somere,' [?]; a fine hand-colured lithograph of "Beeswing, the Property of Mr Orde, Winner of the Gold Cup ... at Ascot, June 1842, by Dean & Co., after J. Rogers Senr.; 2 other, varnished, horse lithos; 11 sand pictures of the Isle of Wight, etc., etc. (1).
[ISLINGTON]. An Act to Authorise the granting of Building Leases of the Settled Estate of Dame Jane St. John MILDMAY in the Parish of St. Mary Islington ..., folio, pp. 52, stitched as issued, L., 1827; and a large quantity of VELLUM deeds, mortgages & documents, incl. estate plans, maps etc.; in a japanned tin document trunk (Q).
GUILLIM (J.), A Display of Heraldry, folio, red & black printed title, 6 ff., pp. 317, (I), 1 f. (text illus.), engraved frontispiece, title, pp. 3-159 (I), 1 f., pp. 161-181 (I), 7 ff. 'Table' 74 ff. plates (incl. some double-sided), late 19th/early 20th C. contemp. style half calf, 5th edn., L., 1679.
USHER (James), A Body of Divinity, or the Summe and Substance of Christian Religion, folio, title, to the Christian Reader [A3], 2 ff. 'The Connexion', 2 ff. 'The Heads', pp. 3-451 (I), 6 ff. 'Table', part-title ('Immanuel'), pp. 24, 1 f. adverts, reversed half calf (worn), 6th edition, L., 1670.
[ANON]. The Modern Whig Dictator : or, the Exultation: A Satyr, folio, title, 1 f. Preface, pp. 4 (only), London, 1702 stitched with SINGLE (Jack) i.e. WARD (Ned or Edward), None but Fools Marry: or, A Vindication of the Bachelor's Estimate ..., folio, pp. 12, London, Printed for A. Dodd, 1730 (2, w.a.f.)
A Victorian mahogany partner's pedestal desk, the green leather inset top with a greek key and gilt border to a moulded edge above three frieze drawers each side and three drawers to each pedestal, fitted brass ring handles, the reverse with panelled doors enclosing a shelf and folio divisions, the plinth on later raised blocks and castors, 32.5in (82.5in) h, 72in (183cm) w, 44.75in (113.6cm) d.
A FLOOR-STANDING HMV OAK-CASED GRAMOPHONE, the hinged lid with printed logo beneath, the front with "traceried" speaker, a record cabinet beneath, on four slightly splayed square section legs, 45cm x 43cm x 86.5cm high, (12.7in x 17in x 34in), sold with SIX FOLIOS OF HMV 45 RPM RECORDS, each folio with logo to cover (Qty)
Crombie, Charles, THE RULES OF GOLF ILLUSTRATED, (an advertising vehicle for Perrier water) comprising a selection of chrmo-lithographic prints illustrating the rules of golf, bound in apparently random order, including only Plates 1(g), 1(i), 1(j), 3,4,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,12(v), 13,14,16,18,23,31,and 32 (numbered in Roman numerals), 20 plates in all, in publisher's green cloth, landscape folio
A 19TH-CENTURY GREY WASH VIEW OF BORROWDALE with figures and a mule to the foreground, inscribed "45b Borodale" lower right, 19cm x 25.5cm, (7.5in x 10in), in wash-lined card mount with handwritten verse ("Borrowdale/Do you love splendor (sic), look for it in the brilliant tints of sunrise....") in a single card mount and later gilt frame under glass ***This watercolour is one of the so-called "Nonsuch Turners", a folio believed to have been the work of J.M.W.Turner, sold at auction years ago.
A SMALL PRIVATELY CONSIGNED SINGLE-OWNER COLLECTION OF WATERCOLOURS by Anthony Van Dyke Copley Fielding, John Varley I, et al, from a larger folio, with provenance to the Fielding family. The label to the folio reads "Work by the Fielding family & their friends. A number by Varley under whom they studied. Came to me [father-in-law of the current owner] from a member of the Fielding family". Anthony Van Dyke Copley Fielding, (1787-1855) "THE PASSING SHOWER", watercolour, signed lower left, 28cm x 39.5cm, (11in x 15.5in), in entitled and named card mount, and gilt frame under glass
A FOLIO OF FIFTEEN BRITISH MODERN ARTIST ENGRAVINGS all signed and No. 31 of 50 including Tony O'Malley, Bryan Pearce, John Wells, Bryan Ingham, Denis Mitchell, Brian O'Casey, Bryan Illsley, Ray Conn, Alexander Mackenzie, Roy Walker, Portway, Paul Mount, Bob Gossley, Guy Worsdell and Stanifort.
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