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Click here to subscribePogany (Willy, illust.). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, pub. George Harrap & Co., 1910, twenty tipped-in col. plts., num. tinted and b&w illusts., decorations, etc., some occn. light marginal foxing, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. gilt-dec. green cloth, rubbed and some marks, some wear to edges, with lower outer corners badly bumped, folio (1)
Weedon (L.L. & Fletcher, Evelyn, & others). The Model Menagerie, with Natural History Stories, pub. Ernest Nister, c.1890s, six col. pop-up illusts. (all in working order, one parrot detached, three cage bars broken), b & w illusts., hinges split, orig. cloth-backed col. pictorial boards, sl. rubbed and marked on lower cover, oblong folio (1)
A folio of watercolours, By or attributed to William James Muller, Samuel Prout, John Le Marchant (2), Luke Clennell, Lawrence Burd, James Duffield Harding, M. E. Edridge and William Bennett including views of the vale of Conway, Brambach on the Rhine, Ross Castle, Killarney, a landscape after Poussin, Sargone France, a Jetty near London Bridge, Coastal scenes, a still life with jugs and baskets, a study of robins and otherstwo signed, three titled (one verso) and two dated, thirteen, ten watercolour over pencil, two pen and ink and watercolour, one pen and ink and grey wash, various sizes (13)
BEZAE (THEODORE) Jesu Christi D. N. Novum testamentum, sive Movum foedus., 2 parts, woodcut device on title-page, text in three columns - Greek, Beszae's Latin and the Vulgate, woodcut head and tailpieces, 525pp. in first part, 488pp. in second part, blank leaf, browning, dampstained, some small worm holes to a few leaves, contemporary annotations in an English hand in margins, 17th century Bezae bibliography written in manuscript on front free endpaper, contemporary calf, worn, folio, Geneva, 1582. This edition was Bezae's [or "Beze"] revised text based on the discovery of the important Codex Bezae, (Codex D), a manuscript of the Gospels and Acts probably written in the 5th century. Bezae personally owned this codex and presented it to Cambridge University in 1581.
Aimon, of Fleury De Regum procerumquae Francorum origine gestis, title within fine woodcut border, woodcut initials, title very lightly soiled, folio, Paris: I. Parvus and Ascensius, 1514; Saxo Grammaticus. Danorum Regum heroumque historie stilo elegantiae, first edition, title printed in red with woodcut vignette within fine woodcut border printed in red and black, woodcut initials, with final blank B8, tear in a2 repaired without loss, folio, Paris, J.B. Ascensius, 1514; Iordanes. De Rebus Gothorum. Paul Diaconus Foroiuliensis de Gestis Langorbardorum, title within fine woodcut border, woodcut initials and woodcut colophon at end, with blank D6, sidenotes shaved or cut close, folio, Augsburg, Johannes Miller, 1515. 3 works in one volume, seventeenth-century blindstamped calf, rebacked, spine gilt, corners repaired, all three works with slightly wormed, mostly single wormholes, third work somewhat more so Provenance: Bookplate of W. Askew Note: Aimon: Adams A399. Saxo Grammaticus: Adams Jordanes: Adams
Chambers, Ephraim Cyclopaedia: or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.. with the Supplement and Modern Improvements by Mr Abraham Rees, 5 volumes including plate volume, engraved frontispiece in volume 1 and 146 engraved plates (several folding), 6 leaves of Specimens of Printing Types (2 folding) bound into plate volume, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, folio, London, 1779-86, neatly rebacked, new endpapers
Clayton, B Costumes of the First or Grenadier Regiment of Guards from 1660, 12 hand-coloured lithographed plates after B. Clayton, original cloth, large oblong folio, London, Ackermann & Co., 1854, 3 plates with short marginal tear, first plate somewhat spotted, binding worn and soiled Provenance: Bookplate of Sir Claude Alexander of Ballochmyle Note: Rare
Digges, Sir Dudley The Compleat Ambassador: or Two Treaties of the Intended Marriage of Qu. Elizabeth... comprised in Letters of Sir Francis Walsingham [and] Lord Burleigh, first edition, engraved frontisiece, title printed in red and black, contemporary calf, folio, London, G. Bedell and T. Collins, 1655, title and a few leaves slightly dust-soiled, rebacked, new endpapers Provenance: Bookplate of W. Askew Note: Wing D1453.
Evelyn, John Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees... second edition much Inlarged, 3 parts in one volume, engraved title vignette, engraved illustrations in text, publication leaf before title, errata leaf at end, contemporary calf, folio, J. Martyn and C. Allestry, 1670, damp-stained, binding worn, spine broken, upper cover virtually detached; Boutcher, William A Treatise on Forest-Trees, first edition, list of subscribers, contemporary calf, 4to, Edinburgh, 1775 (2) Provenance: Evelyn: Bookplate of H. Askew; Boutcher: Bookplate of Charles Watson of Saughton and inscribed by Watson at head of title. Note: A subscriber's copy. James Watson of Saughton is listed in the list of subscribers.
Frankau, Julia Eighteenth Century Colour Prints, limited to 200 copies, coloured plates, original cloth, folio, 1900, slightly rubbed; Garner, T. and A. Stratton. The Domestic Architecture of England during theTudor Period, parts 1-3, plates and text loose as issued in portfolios, folio, 1908-11, some marginal damp-staining to plates, portfolios damp-stained and worn (4)
Harrington, James The Oceana of James Harrington; and His Other Works, with an Account of his Life by John Toland, engraved portrait and 1 plate, contemporary half calf, uncut, folio, Dublin, J. Smith and W. Bruce, 1738, binding worn Provenance: Signatures of Al. Dunlop and John Hamilton on title
Hughes-Stanton, Blair, illustrator. Ecclesiastes or the Preacher, number 233 of 247 copies on Batchelor hand made paper, printed in Golden Cockerel Fount designed by Eric Gill, wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, original vellum-backed orange cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1934, binding lightly soiled Provenance: David Rogers, from the executors of H. Donald Hope, inscripton on endpaper
Imhoff, J.W Historia Italiae et Hispaniae genealogica, engraved frontispiece, half-title, Nuremburg, J. Hoffman, 1701; Stemma Regium Lusitanicum, Amsterdam, Z. Chatelain, 1708; Genealogiae viginti illustrium in Italia familiarum in tres classes, engraved portrait, Amsterdam, fratrum Chatelain, 1710, 3 works in 2 volumes, titles printed in red and black, engraved illustrations, contemporary calf (not uniform), occasional damp-staining or light spotting, second volume worn, folio (3) Provenance: Bookplates of H. Askew
Institute of Army Education [British Military Uniforms 1642-1858], 49 colour printed plates, some by Alan M. Gladwell, mounted on guards, no title or text, modern red half morocco lettered in gilt on spine, large folio, London, Institute of Army Education, London, [no date]; sold as a collection of plates not subject to return
Lewis, John The History of Great Britain... and of the Kings of Scotland to Eugene V, to which is added, The Breviary of Britayne... by Humfrey Lhuyd, first edition, 2 parts in one volume, engraved head-pieces and initials, title printed in red and black, brown half morocco, spine gilt, folio, F. Gyles, Woodman and Lyon, C. Davis, 1729
Maitland, William The History and Survey of London from its Foundation to the Present Time, 2 volumes, third edition, 20 engraved maps (8 folding) and 120 engraved plates (4 folding), engraved head-pieces, contemporary calf, spines gilt, folio, London, T. Osborne, 1760, lacks 7 maps and plates, neatly rebacked Provenance: Bookplates of W. Askew Note: The title-page calls for 123 copper plates but the list of plates at the end of volume 2 calls for 147 plates. Bound at the end of volume 1 is the text only of a copy of English Architecture: or the Public Buildings of London and Westminster, London, T. Osborne, [c.1760]
Marsigli, Luigi Fernando, conte L'etat militaire de l'empire Ottoman, 2 volumes in one, titles printed in red and black, French and Italian title-pages, parallel text in Italian and French, folding tables, 2 folding maps and 44 numbered plates and illustrations (some in the text), late nineteenth century brown half morocco, spine gilt, folio, The Hague and Amsterdam, 1732, first title with patches of damp-staining and repaired in lower and upper margin, a few margins lightly damp-stained Provenance: Bookplate of W. Agnew
Military Peace Celebrations, 1919. Victory March through London, 19th July, Orders by Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig, folio, London, H.M.S.O., [1919], together with 60 original photographs of the victory march by Daily Sketch and L.R.A. Photo of Fleet Street, mounted on card, recto only, c. 19 x 14cm., with typed captioned index of the photographs loosely inserted, brown half morocco, spine gilt
Montfaucon, Bernard de A Collection of Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of France, 2 volumes, engraved frontispiece to volume 1 and 304 engraved plates, some double-page, contemporary calf, spines gilt, folio, London, W. Innys, J. and P. Knapton, 1750, wormhole in lower margin of first few signatures of volume 1, neatly rebacked, slightly rubbed Provenance: Bookplates of W. Askew
Procopius of Caesarea The History of the Warres of the Emperour Justinian in eight books... Englished by Henry Holcroft, additional engraved title, printed title in red and black, contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt, small folio, for H. Mosleley, 1653, small wormhole from Nn1 to end Provenance: Bookplates of Sir Thomas Littleton and W. Askew Note: Wing P3640. Sir Thomas Littleton was speaker of the House of Commons 1698-1700 and Treasurer of the Navy 1700-1710.
St. John the Divine The Revelation of Saint John the Divine, number 132 of 250 copies, 28 wood-engravings and title-page by Blair Hughes-Stanton, printed in maroon and black with handset Bembo and Perpetua type on heavy Japan vellum, original maroon morocco lettered in black on cover, slipcase, folio, [Newton], The Gregynog Press, 1932, spine very slightly rubbed
Shakespeare, William The Works of Shakespeare. The text of the First Folio with Quarto variants, edited by Herbert Farjeon, 7 volumes, number 1337 of 1600 copies, tan Niger morocco by A. W. Bain, spines gilt, t.e.g., 8vo, Nonesuch Press, 1929-33, light damp marks to sides, spines very slightly darkened
Simkin, Richard [?Types of the British Army], 4 volumes, 138 (of 177) chromolithograph plates mounted verso and recto on thick card mounted on guards, no title or text, green half morocco, folio, [no place, c.1888], bindings rubbed Note: It is most likely that these plates are from Simkin's Types of the British Army, published in London between 1888 and 1900, with a few of the oblong folio plates coming from his work Life in the Army published in 1889.
Smith, Charles Hamilton Selections of the Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, engraved dedication, 60 hand-coloured plates engraved by R. and D. Havell, J. Merigot and J. Hill after C.H. Smith, list of subscribers, contemporary red straight-grained morocco, panelled in gilt on sides, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, folio, London: W. Bulmer for Messrs. Colnaghi, 1814, frontispiece slightly offset onto title, extremities very slightly rubbed Note: A fine copy. Tooley 455.
Tanner, Thomas Notitia Monastica: or, an Account of all the Abbies, Priories, and Houses of Friers, Heretofore in England and Wales, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 engraved plates, contemporary calf, spine gilt, folio, London, W. Bowyer, 1744, very neatly rebacked, one corner repaired Provenance: Bookplate of W. Askew
Thoroton, Robert The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, first edition, 8 plates of coats-of-arms, 1 folding map, 16 engraved plates (13 folding), numerous engraved illustrations in text, many by Wenceslaus Hollar after Richard Hall, title printed in red and black, contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt, folio, London, for Henry Mortlock, 1677, one plate cropped, ?lacking license leaf, very neatly rebacked, slightly rubbed Provenance: Bookplate of W. Askew
Tipping, Henry Avray English Homes. Period III, volume I, Late Tudor and Early Stuart, second edition, 1929; Period IV, volumes 1, Late Stuart, second impression, 1929; Period IV, volume 1, The Work of Sir John Vanbrugh and His School, first edition, 1928, illustrations, original blue cloth gilt, folio (3)
Vergilius Maro, Publius Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis, ex editione Petri Burmanni, 2 volumes, half-titles, list of subscribers at end, with final blank in both volumes, contemporary tree calf, gilt rolled border on sides, spines gilt, folio, Glasgow, Andrew Foulis, 1778, title of volume 2 torn without loss, tear from paper flaw in lower margin of [A1] of volume 1 Note: A fine copy. Gaskell 639.
Maps. Armstrong, Captain, & Son. A New Map of Ayrshire, comprehending Kyle, Cunningham & Carrick. The Scale one Inch to a Mile, 2 copies of the engraved map, each on six sheets, engraved by S. Pyle, hand-coloured in outline, 1775; Fleming, P. Plan of that part of the Town of Saltcoats and adjoining Lands of Town-head the property of Lord Montgomerie, engraved plan on two sheets joined, hand-coloured in outline, Glasgow, [no date], some soiling and staining; Nicholson, Peter Plan of the Town of Ardrossan proposed to be built on the Property of the right honourable the Earl of Eglinton, engraved map laid down on linen, Glasgow, J. Lumsden, [no date], slightly soiled; and a broadsheet "Proposals for Publishing, by Subscription, a Map of Airshire, from an actual survey" listing five subscribers including Mr Hamilton of Sundrum; and a folio of 1st edition Ordnance Survey maps of the Parish of Coylton (qty) Provenance: Mr Hamilton of Sundrum, name on list of subscribers for Ainslie's map of Airshire
Maps. A bound folio volume of thirty nine naval charts tracing the passage from London to the Canton River, engraved on paper, generally additions to 1823,4, over bound in stitched sailcloth, with an index in John Hamilton II's hand; Ticken, W A Historical Chart of the Annals of England, 1810; and another of the Reign of George III, 1809; Heather, W. Outline Chart intended for their Use to pick off a ship's Track, new edition 1820 revised and corrected by J.W. Norie, with additions to 1824,5, & 6, engraved map laid down on linen; De l'Isle, Guillaume Carte de la Hongrie, engraved map hand-coloured in outline, Paris, chez l'Auteur, 1703; Fairburn, John, publisher Scene of Action on the German, French, Swiss and Italian Frontiers, engraved map hand-coloured in outline, 1799; Rennell, J. The Marches of the British Armies in the Peninsula of India during the Campaigns of 1790 and 1791, engraved map laid down on linen, 1792; Knox, J A Commercial Map of Scotland, 1784, engraved map laid down on linen; and 3 other maps of Europe with defects (qty) Provenance: Sundrum Castle, Ayrshire
'Worcester at Work' compiled printed and published by 'The Worcester Daily Times'. 1903. Folio Edition. Together with a pamphlet entitled 'British Industries' reprinted from; 'The British Trade Journal' Feb 1st 1881, Worcestershire by J S Leatherbarrow, Published by B T Batsford Ltd, London.1974. 1st Edition. In original dust jacket, and 'Bartholomew's Pocket Atlas and Guide to Birmingham'. Published by John Bartholomew and son Ltd. Edinburgh 1952. (4)
'Mr Punches Victorian Era' an illustrated chronicle of fifty years of the reign of Her Majesty the Queen. From the contemporary pages of Punch with a prologue (1837-41) Three volumes. Published by Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, London. 1887. Blue cloth covers with gilt detail. Together with the folio copy of 'The Illustrated London News Record of The Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901. 'The Life and Accession of King Edward VII and The Life of Queen Alexandra'. With Fourteen India Proof and Other Photographs' Published by The Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd, London. And five mounted pages from the Illustrated London News dated Saturday 26th 1901(9 Approx)
A mixed selection of 18th century and later prints including 'The South East View of Raby Castle in Bishoprick of Durham 1728', 'Advertisement from the Sketch 1896 for Hind's Hair Curlers', 'Mary The Catholick 1834', 'A scene from Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition' by A Forester, together with a folio of costumes and scenery of Afghaunistaun by James Rattray Esq. (lacking plates) (13 Approx)
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