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Click here to subscribeBUCHANAN, GEORGE. Opera Omnia. Ad optimorum codicum fidem summo studio recognita & castigata: Nunc primum in unum collecta . . . Curante Thoma Ruddimanno, A. M. Edinburgh, apud Robert Freebairn, 1715. First Edition thus. 2 vols. in one. Large folio, modern qtr. tan pigskin. Engraved frontispiece. Contains a full bibliography.
CALMET, AUGUSTIN. An Historical, Critical, Geographical, Chronological, and Etymological Dictionary of the Holy Bible. Translated from the French by Samuel D'Oyly and John Colson. 3 vols., 1732. Folio, cont. calf gilt (some wear, joints cracked). Booklabel of R. Riviere, Bath. Bookplate of John Brymer and his bookstamp on title margins. Engraved frontis. in Vol. 1 and 164 engraved plates and maps, many double page (one torn in Vol. 2).(3)
HOLY BIBLE, The. Containing The Old Testament and the New. Printed by Tho. Buck and Roger Daniel, Printers to the University of Cambridge (N.T. title 1638). Bound with incomplete Book of Common Prayer and Metrical Psalms, 1638 at end. Folio, old black morocco gilt (rubbed). Engraved titles to Old and New Testaments (cut round and mounted). Herbert 520. Bound with numerous engraved plates of Biblical subjects (O.T. title, as illustrated, and 210 plates; N.T. title and 107 plates) by or after Crispin de Pas, M de Vos, Visscher, Hemskerck, G. & P. de Jode, A. Collaert, H. Muller, Joannes Breugel, T. Galle, A. Weirix and others (approx. 8 torn, 3 slightly defective, some cut round and mounted; in the text approx. 7pp. defective, other pages torn, some corners torn away). Sold not subject to return.
HOLY BIBLE, The. Containing the Books of the Old & New Testament. John Hayes, Cambridge, 1674. Folio, later reversed calf, red morocco label on spine. Engraved general title (somewhat defective, laid down and repaired). Herbert 717. Sold with The Holy Bible . . . Illustrated with More Than Nine Hundred Highly Finished Engravings. Cassell Petter and Galpin, n.d. (mid 19th c.). 4to., cont. black morocco gilt.(2)
IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY. The Shakespeare Fabrications. A collection of printed books; typescripts for an unpublished work by George Hilder Libbis (1863-1948), folders of research material, many with numerous inserts, engraved portraits and plates, extracts from periodicals etc.; typescript copies of Samuel Ireland's journals; index of persons connected with the fabrications etc. The printed books by W. H. Ireland include:. Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments . . ., 1796. Orig. boards (old reback). Folding frontispiece. Rhapsodies, 1803. 6 copies, 4 of them with eng. portrait. Various bindings. Effusions of Love from Chatelar to Mary, Queen of Scotland, 1808 (spine repaired). Engraved frontispiece. The Fisher Boy, 1808. Orig. boards (spine repaired). Engraved title. Scribbleomania, 1815. Cont. half black stained calf. Extra illustrated with engraved portraits etc. The Sailor Boy, 1815. Second Edition. Orig. boards (old reback). Engraved frontispiece. Signature of J(ane) Ireland on flyleaf. A Week at Harrogate: A Poem. Third Edition, Knaresborough, 1818. Orig. printed boards uncut. Engraved plates. France for the Last Seven Years, 1822. Cont. half calf. Shaksperiana. Catalogue of all the Books, Pamphlets &c. Relating to Shakspeare. Printed for John Wilson, 1827. Half blue morocco gilt. Public and Private Life of . . . Mrs. Jordan, n.d. (c.1832). Orig. cloth. Extra Illustrated with portraits and annotations. Sale catalogues. Catalogue of the . . . Library of . . . John Dent . . . Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans. March 29th 1827. Bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer. Cont. half calf. With buyers' names and prices. Includes the sale of the original Shakespeare forgeries as lot 1273. Catalogue of . . . Prints & Drawings . . . also The Works of William Hogarth. The Property of H. P. Standly. Christie & Manson. April 14th 1845 etc. Cont. half calf gilt. Engraved portrait frontis. Partially interleaved with blanks and prices. . Ireland, Samuel. Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth. 2 vols., 1794-99. 4to., cont. calf gilt (joints cracked). Engraved plates. Staunton, H. Memorials of Shakespeare. Day & Co. (1864). Folio, orig. cloth gilt. Two portraits and facsimiles. With other books, including works by other authors, all with references or relevance to the Irelands. The majority with labels on upper covers. 8vo. or 12mo. unless otherwise stated.
MARCHANT, JOHN. An Exposition on the books of the New Testament, Extracted from The Writings of the Best Authors . . ., Printed for the Author, 1743. Folio, cont. calf (rather worn). Engraved portrait frontispiece, two folding maps (one with two short tears), and 12 plates after Rubens and others (two frayed and detached). With another volume.(2)
TRIAL. Goodere, Samuel. The Trials of Samuel Goodere Esq; Matthew Mahony and Charles White for the Murder of Sir John Dineley Goodere, Bart. . . . At the Sessions of the Peace . . . in . . . Bristol. London: Printed for A. Millar . . ., 1741. First Edition, folio, recent green buckram (library stamp on modern blank before title). Sir Samuel Goodere, captain of the ship 'Ruby', arranged for the murder of his brother aboard the ship, but he was apprehended with his companions before he could put to sea, tried and executed. Without the initial advert. leaf, as with most recorded copies.
COMBER, THOMAS. A Companion to the Temple. Fourth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. 2 vols., Printed for Robert Clavelle, Samuel Roycroft . . ., 1701-02. Folio, cont. calf, spines gilt (not uniform, spines chipped). - BURNET, GILBERT, Bp. An Exposition of the XXXIX Articles of the Church of England. Fourth Edition Corrected, 1737. Folio, cont. calf (worn, old reback). Each volume with bookplate of William Hart Coleridge (1780-1849), Bishop of Barbadoes. See also lot 1441, which was found loosely inserted into the Burnet volume.(3)
DUPIN, LOUIS ELLIES. A New History of Ecclesiastical Writers (A New Ecclesiastical History), Vols. 1-13 bound in 6, 1692-1706. Additional engraved title in Vol. 1; A NEW ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, Vol. 1 only (ex 2), Oxford, 1725; A COMPLEAT HISTORY OF THE CANON AND WRITERS OF THE BOOKS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT. 2 vols. in one, 1699-1700. Together 8 vols., folio, cont. calf (old rebacks, some wear, one cover detached). Wing D2643 and 2640.(8)
AMERICA. A.L.S. from Joseph King to his parents in Yorkshire, from Jefferson, Ohio, 1809. 3pp., folio, with integral address panel and indistinct franking. Concerning his purchase of "between 3 & 400 acres of land in the neighbourhood of Jefferson with 2 town lotts in the town which we have cleared and are going to build upon and when John calculates to begin the Hatting business next winter the prospect being considerably flattering". with other news about the weather, the price of land and wheat etc. (some damages). - Long A.L.S. from J. I. C. Ireland to his sister in Gloucestershire, from Catskill Mountain House, August 14th, n.y. (late 1820s). 4pp., 4to., but also written across. After the oppressive heat of New York, he writes, "If I wished to add a new curse to Dr. Flors' catalogue in Tristram Shandy it should run thus 'may you spend next August in New York' and (if he were a consumptive shivering sort of person) 'the following January' ". He describes the journey up the Hudson river, the scenery, the story of Major Andre, and the social life at the hotel, with observations on American women, "if you sit one down at the piano she sings till she is hoarse . . .". with manuscript transcription.(2)
AMERICA, TRANSPORTATION. Manuscript document, one page, small folio, 4th December 1767 relating to the transportation of 194 persons from gaols in London and the home counties to the colonies or plantations in America, authorising payment at a cost of £5 a head. Signed by Lord North, Pryse Campbell and C. Jenkinson. With witness signatures on reverse (some browning, two small holes, probably originally part of a longer document).
IRELAND. CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. Volume of "Autographs for Civil and Religious Liberty", containing 296 printed forms signed and completed in manuscript, subscribing sums of money towards defraying the expenses of the meeting in Dublin on 29th January 1829 to promote the cause of civil and religious freedom. Folio, later half green morocco gilt. Tipped on to a blank leaf is the printed description of the volume when it was offered for sale, c.1880, by W. B. Kelly's Old Book Establishment (Dublin). "Important collection of Autographs and Memoranda of Two Hundred and Ninety Six Peers, Baronets, Members of Parliament, and Political Notorieties connected with the great Protestant Meeting for Catholic Emancipation, in the Rotunda, in 1829 . . . These 296 Letters are the replies of the various Noblemen and Gentlemen, with their Addresses, sent by post to the Secretary (of the Committee of the Protestant Declaration), and the amount they subscribed . . .". The autographs include Hamilton Rowan, Michael O'Loghlen, Lords Bangor, Dunraven, Gormanstown, Gosford, Westmeath and others; commoners and landed gentry, including the O'Connells, Ponsonbys, La Touches and others.
WALTER GEIKIE, RSA (1795-1837) FOLIO OF 24 DRAWINGS OF SCOTTISH CHARACTERS, PORTRAITS AND FIGURE STUDIES Some initialled or bearing signature, mainly pencil, some pen and ink, one shaped watercolour, various sizes; with 23 assorted drawings and watercolours by WILLIAM GEIKIE; and five imitative drawings, probably copied by William from Walter's etchings, all unframed (a lot) ++ Mixed condition; many worn or with damp stains
Bacon, G. W., New Large-Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs, London, G. W. Bacon & Co., 1906, folio (350 x 275mm.), half title, title printed in red and black, 80 double-page colour maps, contemporary half red calf, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With a copy of 'Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer' (London, n.d.).
Munroe, David Hoadley, The Grand National 1839-1931, London, William Heinemann, 1931, 4o (270 x 180mm.), two parts in one volume, half title, colour frontispiece, title vignette, 24 plates, and a folding colour plan of the National course at end, contemporary decorative cloth backed spine, title label pasted down onto spine. Rancher, & Lionel Edwards (illustrator), Forrard-On!, London, Country Life, 1930, small folio (315 x 245mm.), half title, 16 plates by Edwards, original cloth backed spine, front cover and spine lettered in gilt. With Lionel Edwards 'Famous Foxhunters' (London, 1932).
Nevill, Ralph, Old English Sporting Books, London, The Studio, 1924, folio (315 x 250mm.), half title, title printed in red and black, 107 plates, original red cloth gilt, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, No.783 of 1500 limited edition copies. With Walter Shaw Sparrow's 'A Book of Sporting Painters' (London, 1931), Cuming's 'A Fox-Hunting Anthology' (London, 1928), & 'Nimrod's Hunting Tours' (London, 1926).
Chalmers, Patrick R., Birds Ashore And A-Foreshore, London, Collins, 1935, folio (320 x 260mm.), half title, title vignette, 16 colour plates and illustrations by Winfred Austen, original half green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g., No. 16 of 150 limited edition copies signed by the author and illustrator.
A Victorian Scrap Album belonging to a Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck(?), ca. 19th century, folio (365 x 220mm.), botanical & marine water-colours, mostly pasted in, prints, poems, and portraits also pasted in, a few loose at end, contemporary half black morocco. With three 18/19th manuscript albums in various hands, bound in vellum, 4o, covering theological, astronomical and military areas.
Bartholomew, J. G., The XXth Century Citizen's Atlas of the World, London, George Newnes Limited, ca. 1910, folio (360 x 250mm.), colour frontispiece of national flags, plans, and maps, many double-page, original half red calf, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With a number of Baedeker guides, and folding linen backed maps and plans including 'Italiae Antiquae'.
Photograph Album covering late 19th century California, Oblong folio (310 x 410mm.), ca. 1890(?), ca. 60 photographs, covering views of San Francisco, Native Americans, and other areas of California such as Yellowstone National Park, contemporary half black morocco, t.e.g., armorial bookplate of Baronis de Braye. With two other photograph albums, one covering Italian views, the other Leiden.
The Narrative of Mr. John Smith ... Containing a further Discovery of the late Horrid and Popish-Plot, London, printed & sold by Robert Boulter, 1679, tall folio (345 x 215mm.), original paper wrappers. Lists of the Officers and their Deputies, belonging to the Several Courts in Westminster-Hall ... with the list, accounts, and tables of fees claimed by them: which were presented to the House of Commons, London, for Richard Williamson, 1731, tall folio (335 x 205mm.), original paper wrappers. The Speech of Henry-Sacheverell ... upon his Impeachment at the Bar of the House of Lords, London, [n.p.], 1710, title vignette, original paper wrappers. With a quantity of pamphlets relating mainly to the Church, trials, House of Commons, and Lords, and matters of state.
Curzon of Kedleston, The Marquis, British Government in India The Story of the Viceroys and Government Houses, London, Cassell and Company Ltd, 1925, large 8o (280 x 215mm.), two volumes, half titles, two engraved portrait frontispieces, plans, some folding, original blue cloth gilt. Curzon of Kedleston, The Marquis, Bodiam Castle Sussex, London, Jonathan Cape, 1926, 4o (285 x 225mm.), half title, photographic frontispiece, plates, plans, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With other works relating to the Curzon family, including two folio scrapbooks of newspaper clippings.
Wright, G. N., Ireland Illustrated, London, H. Fisher, Son, and Jackson, 1831, small folio (270 x 200mm.), engraved additional title, and 84 plates after G. Petrie, R. H. A. Bartlett, & T. M. Baynes, later presentation inscription on front free endpaper, contemporary half calf, front cover lettered in gilt.
Mannering, Eva, Mr. Gould's Tropical Birds, London, The Ariel Press, 1955, folio (405 x 290mm.), title printed in green and black, 24 colour plates, original decorative paper wrapper. Urquhart, Beryl Leslie, The Camellia, Plaw Hatch Hall, Sharpthorne, Sussex, The Leslie Urquhart Press, 1960, folio (465 x 310mm.), volume II only, title with printers vignette, 16 colour plates, and a loosely inserted plate, original cloth and decorative dust-jacket.
Cox, David (1783-1859), A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours: from the First Rudiments to the Finished Picture: with Examples in Outline, Effect, and Colouring, London, for S. and J. Fuller by J. Taylor, 1814, Oblong folio (280 x 430mm.), 33 aquatint and soft ground etchings, 6 sepia aquatints, and 16 hand coloured aquatint plates, title with obvious repair, contemporary half calf by Banting of Chelsea, front cover lettered in gilt, green morocco lettering piece, armorial bookplate of T. Villiers Lister. First edition, second issue with Haymuling plate.
Thomson, David Croal, The Barbizon School of Painters Corot, Rousseau, Diaz, Millet, Daubigny, London, Chapman and Hall, 1890, folio (355 x 260mm.), facsimile frontispiece from an etching by Chauvel after Corot 'La Saulaie', plates and illustrations, original cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, t.e.g., No. 266 of 280 limited edition copies.
Young, John, A Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Pictures of the late John Julius Angerstein, London, by W. Nicol, for John Young, & Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1823, small folio (300 x 235mm.), text in French and English, 2 half titles, and 2 titles, 42 plates after etchings by R. W. Sievier, later half calf, spine lettered in gilt.
Harding, J. D., Lessons on Trees, London, David Bogue, 1852, small folio (370 x 260mm.), title vignette, and 30 lithographed plates after the author, occasional marginal water-staining, contemporary cloth, front cover lettered in gilt. With Iola A. Williams first edition with dust-jacket 'Early English Watercolours' (London, 1952).
Cortesao, Armando, History of Portuguese Cartography, Lisbon, Junta de Invstigacoes Do Ultramar, 1969, folio (305 x 215mm.), volume I only (of ?), half title, coloured frontispiece, illustrations, presentation inscription from the author to Julian Huxley on half title, original red cloth, spin lettered in gilt.
Barcsay, Jeno, Anatomy for the Artist, London, Black Cat, 1986, folio (320 x 240mm.), half title, 142 anatomical plates, original grey cloth, spine and front cover lettered in red, and decorative dust-jacket. With 13 other anatomical works including John Liggett's 'The Human Face' (London, 1974).
Campbell, Colin, William Nicholson The Graphic Work, London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1992, folio (265 x 210mm.), half title, lithographic reproduction frontispiece of a hand-coloured wood-cut, illustrations, many full-page, brown cloth, and decorative dust-jacket. Hockney, David, By David Hockney, London, Thames and Hudson, 1976, folio (260 x 210mm.), half title, over 400 illustrations, 60 in colour, original green cloth gilt, and decorative dust-jacket. With a quantity of other works including a number of 'Walker's Quarterly'.
Serullaz, Maurice, Rosaline Bacou & others, Drawings in the Louvre, London, Cassell, 1968, large 4o (290 x 210mm.), three volumes, half titles, illustrations, many full-page, original cloth, and decorative dust-jacket. Jaffe, Michael, The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings - Bolognese and Emilian Schools, London, Phaidon Press Limited, 1994, folio (290 x 245mm.), half title, title vignette, plates and illustrations, original black cloth, and decorative dust-jacket. With a quantity of other works on old master and fine drawings.
Barbier, Jean Paul, & Douglas Newton, Islands and Ancestors Indigenous Styles of South East Asia, New York & Geneva, Prestel, 1988, folio (300 x 225mm.), half title, photographic frontispiece, plates, and illustrations, original tan cloth, and decorative dust-jacket. Bushell, S. W., Oriental Ceramic Art, London, Frederick Muller, 1986, folio (335 x 225mm.), half titles, colour plates, illustrations, original grey cloth, and decorative dust-jacket. With a number of other works on the Orient.
Spencer, Charles, Leon Bakst, London, Academy Editions, 1973, folio (305 x 225mm.), half title, photographic frontispiece portrait of Bakst, illustrations, many in colour and full-page, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, original red cloth, and decorative dust-jacket. With a number of other works concerning stage craft, design and acting technique
Monkhouse, Cosmo, The Earlier English Water-Colour Painters, London, Seeley and Co., 1890, folio (355 x 255mm.), half title, text within black ruled border, engraved frontispiece of Rouen by Frank Short, after R. P. Benington, 13 plates, illustrations, few leaves loose, contemporary calf backed spine, front cover blind stamped in gilt with Boat at It's Mooring, No. 86 of 100 large paper limited editions containing etched illustration plates.
Richards, I. G., Lessons on Landscape in Sketches from Nature, London, Rodwell Martin, 1823, Oblong folio (420 x 300mm.), 13 hand-coloured aquatint plates by John Laporte, original decorative wrappers by T. Griffiths, covers bound in reverse. With a Walker's Quarterly catalogue by Basil S. Long 'John Laporte, Landscape Painter and Etcher' (London, 1922).
Gilhespy, F. Brayshaw, Derby Porcelain, London, Spring Books, 1965, folio (280 x 215mm.), half title, colour photographic frontispiece, plates, illustrations, original boards, and dust-jacket. Rice, Dennis G., Derby Porcelain The Golden Years 1750-1770, London & New York, David & Charles, 1983, folio (280 x 195mm.), half title, plates, and illustrations, original boards, and dust-jacket. With a quantity of ceramic reference works.
Hardie, Martin, Water-Colour Painting In Britain, London, B. T. Batsford, 1969-1971, folio (295 x 220mm.), three volumes, half titles, 3 colour frontispieces, plates, & illustrations, original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, and dust-jacket. With ca. 17 other works on pictures, many of these on British watercolours.
Pickford, Ian (editor), Jackson's Silver & Gold Marks, London, Antiques Collectors Club, 1996, folio (270 x 205mm.), half title, tables & illustrations, original grey cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, dust-jacket. Sweeney, Tony, Catalogue Raisonne Irish Stuart Silver, Dublin, by Eamonn de Burca for Edmund Burke, 1995, folio (315 x 205mm.), half title, illustrations many full-page, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket. With ca.19 other Silver and Goldsmith reference works.
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