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Click here to subscribe"Holmes (R.R.). Specimens of Royal, Fine and Historical Bookbinding, Selected from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, Printed in Facsimile by W. Griggs, 1893, 152 chromo. plts., chromo. dec. borders to title and prelims., t.e.g., orig. cloth, elaborately blocked in gilt, black, and blue, spine faded, and sl. rubbed at ends, gutta-percha perished and binding becoming detached, folio (1)"
"Louis Philip Joseph (Duke d'Orleans). Description des principales Pierres Gravees du Cabinet de S.A.S. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans, Premier Prints du Sang, 2 vols., Paris, Chez M. l'Abbe de la Chau & M. l'Abbe Le Blond, 1780-84, num. small engs. with tissue guards, contemp. half calf, recently rebacked, folio (2)"
"Ardizzone (Edward). Lucy Brown and Mr. Grimes, Oxford UP, [1937], col. illusts., hinges cracked, orig. pict. boards, some wear, esp. to spine and joints, folio, together with Preston (Chloe), The Peek-A-Boo Japs, reprint ed., Oxford UP, n.d., c.1920, twelve col. plts., half-title and title frayed and detached, front free endpaper torn with loss, a few other tears etc., orig. pict boards, some wear, lacking backstrip, 4to (2)"
"Grabhorn Press. A Leaf from the 1611 King James Bible with "" The Noblest Monument of English Prose"" by John Livingston Lowes & ""Printing of the King James Bible"" by Louis I. Newman, printed for the Book Club of California by the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1937, printed in red & black, original single leaf from the 1611 King James Bible (Apocrypha, viii.48 to ix.1) bound into volume, orig. qtr. cloth, paper label to spine, slim folio. Limited edition of 300 copies printed. (1)"
"Pogany (Willy, illust.). Tannhäuser. A Dramatic Poem by Richard Wagner, 1911, printed on grey paper, tipped-in col. plts. and numerous illusts. to text, prize bookplate, orig. dec. cloth gilt, tall 8vo, together with Mitford (Mary Russell, ed.), Findens' Tableaux: the Iris of Prose, Poetry, and Art, for 1840, illust. by W. and E. Finden, from Paintings by J. Browne, [1839], twelve hand col. eng. plts., incl. addn. title-page, hinges split, orig. gilt dec. morocco, rebacked and recornered, part of orig. spine laid down, folio, plus Harris (John, pub.), The County Album; Containing Four Hundred Topographical Hieroglyphics, Indicative of the Products, Staple Commodities, Manufactures, and Objects of Interest, in England and Wales, 1829, woodcuts on letterpress, 24-pp. pubs. cat. at rear, orig. qtr. roan, extrems. a little rubbed, 12mo in 6's, plus seven other children's and illustrated (10)"
"Jane's Fighting Ships, 1929, num. b & w illusts. from photos., ads. both front and rear, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed (inner joints cracked), oblong folio, together with Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I, foreword by Captain John Moore, RN, 1990, num. b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, with others of naval interest, incl. a quantity of Naval Review, c. 1970s (2 cartons)"
"Miscellaneous books, including modern literature and first editions (V. S. Naipaul, William Golding, Anthony Burgess, David Storey, Len Deighton, etc.), many in d.j.s, 8vo, plus a 48 volume set of Scott's Waverley Novels, c. 1829-30, in original cloth, and a few other folio vols., including Old Garden Roses by Sitwell & Russell, pub. Ariel Press (2 cartons)"
"[Burton, Robert]. The Anatomy of Melancholy [3rd ed., 1628] lacks title and all before p.1, upper corner of p.23/24 torn with loss (now supplied in old manuscript facsimile) contemp. calf upper cover det. folio, together with Suckling (John), The Works of Sr John Suckling, continuing all his Poems, Plays, Letters, etc., published by his Friends (from his own copies) to Perpetuate his Memory, 1676, general title and ten divisional titles, final leaf repaired, without loss, contemp. calf, minor wear to extrems., 8vo, with other misc. antiquarian, etc., mostly leather -bound (3 shelves)"
"Talbot-Booth (E.C.). Merchant Ships, 1949-1950, num. b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth in d.j., square 4to, together with Brassey's World Aircraft & Systems Directory, 1996-97, num. b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, and others of military interest, mostly WWII, incl. biographies, many in d.j.s (6 shelves)"
"Orlan (Pierre Mac). Vlaminck, trans. J.B. Sidgwick, pub. Andre Sauret/Universe Books, Monte Carlo & New York, 1958, port. frontis., double-page col. litho. and forty col. plts., orig. boards with cellophane d.j. and slipcase (limited edition 1907/2000), folio, together with Barker (Cicely Mary and Linnell, Olive), Autumn Songs with Music, from 'Flower Fairies of the Autumn', n.d., c. 1930s, twelve tipped-in col. plts., orig. linen-backed boards in frayed d.j., small 4to, with other misc. art ref., etc. (3 shelves)"
"Lodge (George Edward). Unpublished Bird Paintings, Text by C.A. Fleming, 1983, numerous col. reprods., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, together with Bannerman (David Armitage), The Birds of West and Equatorial Africa, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1953, numerous col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in torn d.j.s., 8vo, with other ornithology (3 shelves)"
"Lightfoote (John). The Harmony of the Foure Evangelists: Among Themselves, and with the Old Testament. The First Part: From the Beginning of the Gospels to the Baptisme of Our Saviour, 1644, title within typographic border, errata leaf at end, some light enbrowning, contemp. sheep, rubbed, small 4to, together with Verde (Francisco), Tyroainium, ac Universi Juris Civilis Instructio... , 2 vols. in 1, Venice, 1711, half-title present, woodcut device to each title, lower corners of final four or five leaves repaired, with some minor loss of letters, contemp. quarter calf, worn, folio, with other misc. antiquarian, mostly 18th and 19th c., incl. odd vols. (3 shelves)"
"Atkinson (George Francklin). The Campaign in India, 1857-58. From Drawings made during the Eventful Period of the Great Mutiny, by George Francklin Atkinson, Captain, Bengal Engineers, Illustrating the Military Operations before Delhi and its Neighbourhood, pub. Day & Son, Jan 1st, 1859, twenty-six tinted lithos. on twenty leaves, incl. title (correct as list), marginal dampstains throughout, a few minor repairs, orig. gilt dec. cloth, dampstained and marked, recent leather backstrip, recent solander case, folio (1)"
"Atkinson (George Francklin). ""Curry & Rice,"" on Forty Plates; or, the Ingredients of Social Life at ""Our Station"" in India, 2nd ed., [1859], forty tinted litho. plts. incl. addn. title (complete), a few plts. browned and frayed at edges, contemp. ms. signature at head of title-page, scattered light foxing, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth by Digby Wyatt, soiled and sl. worn, with fraying to spine ends and lower joint, small folio (1)"
"Benoist (Felix). La Normandie Illustree Monuments, Sites et Costumes de la Seine-Inferieure, de l'Eure, du Calvados, de l'Orne et de la Manche, 2 vols., Nantes, 1852, five tinted litho. titles, one map, 150 tinted litho. views and costume plates only (of 152), light foxing to margins, a.e.g., contemp. gilt dec. buckram, volume one with loss to spine and covers detached, folio (2)"
"Cunningham (C.D. & Abney, Captain W. de. W.). The Pioneers of the Alps, 1st ed., 1887, num. photogravure ports. and other illusts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed (skilfully restored at head and foot of spine), 4to, (Neate C156, 'Biographical Sketches of the Great Early Alpine guides, illustrated with Abney's superb portraits'), together with Baud-Bovy (Daniel), A Travers Les Alpes, pub. Neuchatel & Geneve, 1899, num. b & w illusts. from photos., t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, contemp. crimson morocco gilt, slim folio (2)"
"De Moleville (Antoine Francois Bertrand). The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria, trans. R.C. Dallas, 1804, fifty hand-col. aqua. plts. (some watermarked 'Turkey Mills, J. Whatman, 1817'), text in English and French, some offsetting, a.e.g., contemp. gilt panelled crimson morocco, rubbed and a little worn at extrems., folio Abbey, Travel, 71. (1)"
"Hamilton (William Richard). Remarks on Several Parts of Turkey. Part 1, Aegyptiaca, or Some Account of the Antient and Modern State of Egypt, As Obtained in the Years 1801 & 1802, Atlas only, 1809, no title or letterpress, engraved map and twenty-four etchings by J. Powell incl. twelve double-page plts. and one folding, occ. light scattered spotting and a few short marginal tears, orig. boards, worn with covers detached, folio Blackmer 780. Hamilton's most important work. The plates, etchings by J.Powell, are after drawings by Charles Hayes. (1)"
"Johnston (Alexander Keith). The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography... 1872, forty-eight double-page maps, hand- col. in outline, some with water-staining and foxing to blank margins (mostly affecting lower margins), 'Africa' with short tear in lower margin, just clipping border, stitching sometime renewed, hinges split, front hinge repaired with fabric tape, pubs. 4-leaf ad. tipped-in to front free endpaper, a.e.g., orig. pubs. half morocco gilt, loose at spine, heavily rubbed, covers marked and stained, folio (1)"
"Usher (James). The Annals of the World. Deduced from thew Origin of Time, Continued to the Beginning of the Emperour..., 1658, eng. port. frontis. and addn. eng. title, general title printed in red & black, recent endpapers, contemp. calf, gilt dec. armorial to upper & lower boards, modern reback, folio. Wing U149. (1)"
"Australia. An album of thirty-eight mounted albumen prints, c. 1880s, many images by H. King or J. P., including Hawkesbury River, the Great Zigzag, the Fairy Dell, the Weeping Rock, Govett's Leap, Bush scenery, the Grand Columns in the Imperial Caves, Genolan, New South Wales, etc., most images identified in the negative, approx. 20 x 15 cm, with neat gothic and italic script captions on mounts beneath, the note at the front and first photograph indicate that this is volume five of a series compiled by W. M. Dingwall and C. A. Perkin, backstrip worn and covers deficient, oblong folio (1)"
"Friths's Series. Two albums containing approx. 120 albumen print views, c. 1870s, mostly window-mounted with negative number and title captions beneath in ink, largely Wales and Scotland, the views in one album marked imperial size, approx. 19 x 29 cm, the images in the second album largely 16 x 26 cm or similar sizes, some addn. engs., etc., tipped-in, some spotting, orig. cloth with 'Frith's photo. pictures', gilt embossed to upper covers, some wear, folio. Possibly a salesman's sample book. (2)"
"Gurney Family. Four albums, late 19th and early 20th c., comprising photos, autographs, a few prints, etc., some relating to the Gurney family, incl. and albumen print port. of Daniel Gurney (1791-1880, banker and antiquary), plus photos of his home at Ructon Hall, various photos of later family members and paintings of Quaker ancestors, plus photos relating to the Hamond Family and Wootton, with a manuscript family tree of the latter, one album relating mainly to D.W. Gurney and his time at Eton and in the army, incl. group portraits, printed programmes, etc., two albums sl. soiled and dampstained, several images and leaves det., three albums contemp. morocco and one half morocco, the latter broken and worn, all oblong folio (4)"
"India. An album of approx. forty mounted gelatin silver prints including images of forts, gardens, hillside views, river scenes, temples, etc., mostly faded, approx. 22 x 27 cm, and similar sizes, album mounts heavily spotted, contemp. half morocco, upper cover det., and broken on spine, oblong folio (1)"
"India. An album of forty-eight late albumen prints of Simla and surrounding hill stations, 1890s, photographers names include Bourne (1), S. H. Dagg (12), and H. Schulze & Co. (2), photographs mounted and the majority neatly identified on mounts in large gothic script, images approx. 22 x 27 cm, and some smaller, lacks covers and a few leaves detached, oblong folio (1)"
"India. A group of four good albumen print views in Kashmir, including two by W. Baker, c. 1870s, approx. 30 x 25 cm, and similar, together with eight further good albumen prints of Simla and over the Himalayas, two on album leaves, the remainder loose, together with a part album of albumen prints including seven views of Neen Tal by Sache and a portrait of the Governor Colvin, mostly approx. 30 x 25 cm, ink captions on mounts beneath, disbound, folio (13)"
"India. An album of approx. fifty-five gelatin silver prints, 1890s, including views of Murree, Peshawar, Karachi, Traders, etc., approx. 30 x 25 cm, and similar sizes, some fading, and see-through from glue adhesion, some leaves det., orig. cloth, oblong folio, together with a contemporary album including views of Simla, Ahallabad, Agra, plus group portraits of European and ethnic groups, four mounted, some heavy spotting, album leaves detached, orig. dec. cloth, worn, 4to (2)"
"Italy. An album of approx. seventy amateur and professional b & w photos. covering Italy and the Italian lakes, dated 1907, mostly approx. 17 x 12 cm and smaller, English ink captions, contemp. half morocco, worn and upper cover detached, oblong folio, together with a larger album containing approx. fifty leaves with mounted albumen prints of Italian views and treasures, many album leaves excised, orig. half morocco gilt, rubbed, folio (2)"
"South Africa. An album and collection of loose album leaves comprising approx. fifty albumen prints, late 19th c., including views of Capetown, Wynberg, and the album mainly relating to Von Brand's Mining Commission at Steynsdorf in Transvaal, showing mine scenes, portraits, and views, images approx. 20 x 15 cm, and smaller, album mounts heavily spotted, contemp. half morocco, rubbed, oblong folio (-)"
"Switzerland. Photograph album, 1907, including approx. 145 b & w photographs of landscapes, groups and sports, views incl. Montreux, Strasbourg, Interlaken, Chamonix, Zermatt, Rhone-Gletscher, Matterhorn, all captioned and mounted, image size typically 80 x 110 mm, contemp. cloth gilt, rubbed to extrems., folio (1)"
"Camden (William). Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, 2nd Gough edition, 1806, port. frontis., 40 engraved maps only by John Cary, mostly folding, lacking Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Berkshire, Surrey, Sussex, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Cumberland & Jersey, num. other historical maps and engravings of antiquities, some leaves frayed and detached, minor scattered spotting, contemp. calf, worn with covers detached, folio. Ex-library copy with most maps bearing an inoffensive oval blindstamp. (4)"
"Hearne (Thomas & Byrne, William). Antiquities of Great Britain, Illustrated in Views of Monasteries, Castles, and Churches, Now Existing, 2 vols., 1807, additional eng. title to vol. 1, eighty-three uncol. copperplate engs. (correct as list), text in English and French, some minor scattered spotting, a.e.g., contemp. gilt panelled navy straight- grained morocco, a little rubbed at extrems., oblong folio. A handsome set. (2)"
"Hoare (Sir Richard Colt). The History of Modern Wiltshire. Hundred of Branch and Dole, 1825, eng. map & ten eng. plts. (correct as list), occ. minor spotting, orig. printed wrappers, folio, together with The History of Modern Wiltshire. Hundreds of Everley, Ambresbury, and Underditch, 1826, double-page eng. map, fifteen eng. plts. and plans, occ. minor spotting, orig. printed wrappers, folio, with The History of Modern Wiltshire, Hundred of Chalk, 1833, port. frontis., hand-col. double-page eng. map, three eng. plts., some spotting and staining orig. printed wrappers, folio (3)"
"Hutchins (John). The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset: Compiled from the Best and Most Ancient Historians, Inquisitiones Post Mortem, and Other Valuable Records and MSS. in the Public Offices, and Libraries, and in Public Hands. With a Copy of Domesday Book..., 2 vols., 1st ed., 1774, large folding eng. county map (with closed tears repaired with adhesive tape), fifty-five eng. plts., maps and plans, incl. many folding (of 59), illusts. to text, illusts. to text, pedigrees, list of subscribers, title to vol. 1 creased, few plts. and plans with repaired closed tears, contemp. half calf gilt, rebacked with orig. morocco labels to spine, folio, together with a loosely inserted autographed letter signed from the author to Dr (William) Stukeley, refering to a barrow near Higher Stirthill Farm in the parish of Burton Bradstock and also Aubrey's Monumenta Brittannica and also with an ALS from John Nichols, publisher & editor to Thomas Bartlett. Armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Carr Glynn to upper pastedown of vol. 1. Upcott pp. 174-80. (2)"
"Nash (Thomas). Collections for the History of Worcestershire, 2 vols. (including supplement), 2nd ed. with additions, 1799, eng. vignette title to each vol., two eng. maps (inc. 1 folding, torn to folds), seventy-three eng. plts. and two eng. dedication leaves, numerous eng. illusts. to text and numerous pedigrees, closed tear to leaf e2 of vol. 1, slight offsetting and spotting, contemp. calf, old reback with gilt dec. spines, some wear, rubbed & scuffed, folio (2)"
"Senex (John). Les Routes d'Ogilby par l'Angleterre..., The Roads through England, or, Ogilby's Survey revised, improved and reduced ..., Paris, Le Rouge, 1759, 101 eng. strip road maps, printed back to back, title in French and English, text in French, contemp. limp sheep saddle binding, folded, small oblong folio, contained in modern purpose-made baize-lined qtr. calf bookbox, gilt dec. spine with morocco labels. An unusual French edition of Senex's 'Actual Survey' of 1719, with the details on the maps rewritten in French, in the original format and binding. See Chubb 140. (1)"
"Westall (William). View of the Caves near Ingleton Gordale Scar, and Malham Cove, in Yorkshire, 1818, twelve uncol. aqua. plts., plus printed title and three leaves of text, old water stains, loosely contained in orig. linen- backed printed wrappers, soiled and worn, slim folio. Abbey, Scenery, 191. (1)"
"Audubon (John James). The Birds of America, A Selection of Plates Facsimile, Leipzig & London, Edition Leipzig/The Ariel Press, 1972-73, forty fine col. reprods., orig. publishers half-cloth with printed boards, double elephant folio. Limited ed. 584/1000, signed by the Director, Ariel Press. (400d)"
"Dodoens (Rembert). A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes: wherin is contayned the whole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of Herbes and Plantes: their divers & sundry kindes: their straunge Figures, Fashions, and Shapes: their Names, Natures, Operations and Vertues, trans. Henry Lyte, 1st English ed., Gerard Dewes, 1578, lacks blank leaf before title, woodcut title with large woodcut coat of arms of Henry Lyte to verso, num. woodcut illusts. to text, four leaves of text (Nm 1-4) with tears to fore-margins, affecting text, several leaves missing towards end, and remaining leaves with some repairs and a few defects, 18th c. hand-written index to prelims. at front, contemp. mottled calf, with gilt coat of arms of the Earl Stanhope to centre of each cover, rebacked, upper cover det., folio. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1)"
"Evelyn (John). The Compleat Gard'ner; or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen-Gradens; with Divers Reflections on Several Parts of Husbandry. In Six Books. By the Famous Monsr. De La Quintinye, Chief Director of all the Gardens of the French-King. To which is Added His Treatise of Orange- Trees, with the Raising of Melons, Omitted in the French Editions. Made English by John Evelyn..., 1st ed., 1693, title printed in red & black, ten eng. plts. inc. some folding, lacks port. frontis., occ. minor spotting, contemp. panelled calf, old reback with relaid gilt dec. spine, corners repaired, folio. Wing L-431. (1)"
"Stubbs (George). The Anatomy of the Horse..., 1938, b & w plts. (inc. double-page), occ. scattered spotting, orig. qtr. cloth, folio, together with M'Alpine (D.), The Botanical Atlas, A Guide to the Practical Study of Plants Containing Representatives of the Leading Forms of Plant Life, 2 vols. in 1 (phanerogams & Cryptogams), 1883, numerous col. litho plts. and diags., contemp. half calf, lacks lower portion of spine, joints & extrems. worn, folio (2)"
"Brown (Thomas). Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths, 2 parts in 1, 3rd ed., corrected & enlarged, 1658, annotations and small ink stamp to title, slight yellowing and occ. spotting, contemp. calf, rebacked, boards rubbed, folio. Second title dated 1659. (1)"
"[Osler, William]. Science Gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, ed. M.C. Cooke (and later by Dr. J.E. Taylor), 1865-70, 1873-75, 1877, 1878, 1880-83 & 1887-90, together 19 vols., num. wood engs., orig. gilt dec. cloth, some a little frayed to head and foot of spine, small folio. Osler's first appearance in print, his contribution entitled 'Christmas and the Microscope is to be found on p. 44 in volume five (1869). (19)"
"Parkinson (John). Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. or, An Herball of a Large Extent. Containing Therein a More Ample and Exact History and Declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants that are in other Authors..., Collected by the Many Yeares Travaile, Industry and Experience in this Subject by John Parkinson Apothecary of London, and the King's Herbarist, printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640, lacks eng. title, printed title and all before B1, lacks all after 6T4, first and last gatherings detached, torn & frayed, numerous woodcut botanical illusts. to text, some soiling and light staining mostly at front & rear of volume, few old adhesive tape repairs, 18th c. bookplate of John Bradley of Sandwich and signature of L.R. Wager 1963 to upper pastedown, contemp. calf, lower board detached, upper joint split and extrems. worn, folio. Lawrence Rickard Wager (1904-1965), geologist and explorer. STC 19302; Nissen 1490. Sold with all faults,not subject to return. (1)"
"Vanity Fair cartoons. Eighteen orig. Vanity Fair caricatures by Spy, Ape, Nemo and others, 1882-84 , comprising 'The Baby'; 'Australian Cricket'; 'English Cricket'; 'The Champion of champions'; Gladys, Countess of Lonsdale; 'Doggie'; The Marchioness of Tweeddale'; 'The Lord Mayor'; 'modern strategy'; 'Parliamentry police'; The Princess Royal; 'a liberal Peer'; 'my august master'; 'Restored'; H.I.M. the Empress of Austria; 'New York Herald';The Lady Florence Dixie; The Duc D'Aumale (no caption, but ms. note on verso), several with accompanying text leaf, one with embossed circular library stamp, occ. minor dust soiling to margins, folio (18)"
"Watercolour albums. Two albums containing seventy anonymous watercolour views, 1880s/90s, almost all views titled and dated, subjects incl. Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Man, Italy, Scotland, Devon, Ireland, Bath and Bradford on Avon, sizes vary but typically approx. 230 x 290 mm, mostly mounted into two worn half morocco albums, oblong folio (2)"
"Illustrated London News, vol.28, Jan-June, 1856, vols.38-47, 1861-1865, vols.50-57, 1867-1870, vol.60, Jan- June, 1872, vols.64-67, 1874-1875 & vol.68, Jan-June 1876, numerous wood engs., some folding (incl. Panorama of London in vol.38 and Panorama of Liverpool in vol.46) contemp. uniform half-calf gilt with contrasting labels, some rubbed and a little damp stained, contents generally clean and fresh, folio (25)"
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