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Click here to subscribeOKUBI-E - PORTRÄTS IM JAPANISCHEN FARBHOLZSCHNITT. Herkunft: Rose Hempel - Belser Verlag Stuttgart. Datierung: 1988. Meister/Entwerfer: Nr. 143 von 980 Exemplaren. Technik: Vielfarbendruck. Beschreibung: 13 Original- Reproduktionen klassischer Holzschnitte aus Japan. In original Mappe mit Beitext. Groß-Folio. Maße: Blattmaß: 38x28cm. Provenienz:Privatsammlung Rheinland. Asiatische KunstErläuterungen zum Katalog
Stubbs, George, "The Anatomy of the Horse including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands", folio, written and illustrated 1766, printed by J.Purser for the author, containing twenty-one plates, the folio 61cm wide, 51cm high
° ° Hasted, Edward - Maps companion to The History and Topographical survey of the County of Kent, folio, half calf, some fore-edges trimmed, 1778-99. Sold not subject to return.***CONDITION REPORT***PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° [Mavor, William Fordyce] - Martyn, William Frederick] - A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display of Animated Nature, 2 vols. in one, folio, calf, with 100 (TO BE VERIFIED) hand-coloured engraved plates, lacking title, front board and early leaves detached, Harrison, London, 1785***CONDITION REPORT***PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° LINCOLNSHIRE: Wild, Charles - An Illustration of the Architecture and Sculpture of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln. plan and 15 other plates, subscribers list; newly rebound cloth and printed label, gauffered edges, folio. published by the Author, 1819***CONDITION REPORT***new e/ps., clean title and text, plan foxed, other plates with foxing, etc. mostly confined to margins (3), iii, 38pp.PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° KENT: The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain: illustrated by topographical, historical, and critical notes....Kent. pictorial engraved and printed titles, folded map and 64 plates; bound with: (The Same) - Essex volume (by Thomas Wright). pictorial engraved and printed titles, folded map and 52 plates, near contemp. red half morocco and marbled boards, marbled edges and e/ps., folio. 1834***CONDITION REPORT***Kent - engr. title soiled and on some other plts., with others clean; this vol. undated; Essex - some foxing, but plts. mostly clean, but text offsetting; nb. engr. titles as 'Virtues Picturesque Beauties....'; almost all plts. with 2 illus.PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° KENT, TUNBRIDGE WELLS: Amsinck, Paul - Tunbridge Wells, and Neighbourhood, illustrated by a series of etchings, and historical descriptions..... 31 plates and 12 text engravings, subscribers list, half title, original paper boards and printed label, later cloth spine, uncut, folio. 1810***CONDITION REPORT***Leather spine label, staining most plt. margins - but surfaces and text mostly good; 1899 ownership on p/down. (12), 184pp. the plts. were engraved by Letitia Byrne (after the author)PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° Johnson, Samuel - A Dictionary of the English Language ... To which are prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar ... 5th edition, 2 vols. titles in red and black; contemp. tree calf, rebacked with panelled spines, preserving the original red and green gilt morocco labels, tall folio***CONDITION REPORT***new e/ps.; intermittent light damp (?) spotting, although leaves mostly crisp; v.1 only sl. marks on title and v.2 inoffensive light stain at edges, v.1 lower margin sm. wormholes, small tracks 12U2-12Z2; v2 - marked spotting upper margin 23E (V), some crease marks at end 30U-31E, markedly final 3 leaves, rh. top. corner crease 24H1; nil after e/ps. before titles / after text, both vols; few scratch marks both vols., vol.1 some cover wear and calf renewals on lower; overall a good and attractive set, complete with the prelims vol.1; d-col. printing.PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° KENT: Ramsgate Harbour and Sandwich Haven - 4 Acts of Parliament bound together; 1747, 1761, 1797 and 1810. old morocco, sm.8vo.; Keate, George - Sketches from Nature...in a Journey to Margate... to which is now added, Memoirs of the Life of the Author. 5th edition. pictorial vignette title, 2 plates and text engravings, newly rebound gilt lettered cloth, 12mo.1802; An Act to enable the Pier Wardens of the Town of Margat (sic)...more effectually to recover the ancient and accustomary Droits, for the support and Maintenance of the said Pier. (?1722); bound with: an Act for repairing or rebuilding the Pier adjoining to the Harbour of Broadstairs, in the Isle of Thanet...; later binder's cloth, folio. (?1792); Martin, Capt. Kenneth Beacham - Oral Traditions of the Cinque Ports and their Localities...original printed wrappers. 1832. (4)***CONDITION REPORT***Ramsgate - some spotting but reasonable, upper joint weak; nos. 1 and 2 reprinted 1791 and 1795; Keate - new e/ps., some stains at end, mostly clean, neat archive paper repair to title at gutter and last leaf; Margat - gen. (sessional) titles present, mostly black letter; pp. 79-87 and 1937-1976PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° Thoyras, Rapin de and Tindell, Nicholas (translator) - The History of England, vols 3 and 4 (part 2) only, with folding plates, Knapton, London, 1744-47; White, Kennet - A Complete History of England with the Lives of all the Kings and Queens, 2nd edition, 3 vols, folio, calf, London, 1719 and The Book of Common Prayer and the Administration of the Sacraments…According to the use of the Church of England, folio, calf, front board detached, Thomas Baskett, London, 1754 (6) All sold with all faults, not subject to return.***CONDITION REPORT***PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° WORCS: Card, Rev. Henry - A Dissertation of the Antiquities of the Priory of Great Malvern ... lithographed frontis and text engravings; pictorial printed boards (rebacked leather), 4to. 1834; Booker, Rev. Luke - A Descriptive and Historical Account of Dudley Castle, and its surrounding scenery ... title with pictorial vignette, folded lithographed frontis., 2 folded plans and 7 plates (2 d-page); old half calf and marbled boards. Dudley, 1825; Wild, Charles - An Illustration of the Architecture and Sculpture of the Cathedral Church of Worcester ... plan and 11 plates, newly rebound cloth, gauffered edges, folio, 1823: Chambers, John - A General History of Worcester ... 3 plates, half title; original paper boards and printed label, 12mo. Worcester, 1819 (4)***CONDITION REPORT***Card - bds. marked, new e/ps., some margin and other text stains. (3). 54pp and advt. leaf; Booker - leather worn, upper bd. present but detached, e/ps/. browned, foxing on port and frontis. (III)-X., 144 and advt. leaf (lacks half title); Wild - some inside foxing, new e/ps.; Chambers - joints cracked and spine worn, spotted inside and 'used'. VIII, 412ppPLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° Merian, Matthew - Iconum Biblicarum. Praecipuas Sacrae Scripturae....engraved pictorial and printed titles and 233 plates; newly rebound mottled calf, blind ruled upper cover and panelled spine, oblong folio. Strasburg, 1629-30***CONDITION REPORT***New e/ps., the general printed title (1630) is noted as Pars III, the engraved title (nd.) as Pars II, the NT. engraved title (no printed,1629). OT. has 156 plts., NT. 77 plts., each mounted within ruled border with Biblical ref. at head; no letterpress save the printed title; old relevant ms. note tipped on back p/downPLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° Barber B. Aquila - The Art of Frank O. Salisbury....Limited Edition (of 250 numbered copies, signed by the artist). num. plates (some coloured) and other illus; publisher's gilt lettered vellum with gilt top, in slipcase, folio, Leigh-on-Sea,: F. Lewis, 1936***CONDITION REPORT***Sl. e/p. spotting, o/w. v. good; armorial bkplt. of a subscriber (Frank Galsworthy) and with a relevant tns. to him from the publisher loosely inserted; copy no. 2 - with an additional inscription to the recipient by the artistPLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° WILTS: Everard, James (Lord Arundell) and Hoare, Sir Richard Colt - The History of Modern Wiltshire. Hundred of Dunworth and Vale of Noddre. d-page map, 15 portraits and plates, text engravings; original printed boards, uncut, folio, 1829: Bowles, Charles - Modern Wiltshire. Hundred of Chalke. 7 pedigrees (5 folded - 1 as pp.69 & 70); old cloth-backed marbled boards with printed labels, fore-edge uncut. Shaftesbury, printed for the Author, (1830) (2)***CONDITION REPORT***Spine missing, bds. with corner wear and few stains, plts. with marked soiling (through mostly margins), text clean. XII, 240pp.; Bowles - sl. spine wear at head, inner hinges weak. 372pp., bklabel of St Mary's Convent, Shaftesbury.PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° (Bickham, George - The Musical Entertainer). vol. 1 (only, of 2), without title and prelims. 99 (ex.100) engraved leaves of songs (words and music) with pictorial and decorative vignette at head of each; rebound 19th cent. gilt lettered cloth (and later rebacked), marbled e/ps., folio (1737)***CONDITION REPORT***Lacks plt. no. 98, some sl. soiling and other marks here and there, but gen. cleanPLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° Beattie, William (editor) - The Danube, its history, scenery, and topography ... engraved pictorial and printed titles, map, 78 steel-engraved plates (after W.H. Bartlett) and num. engraved text illus.; contemp. green half morocco and marbled boards, gilt-panelled spine, ge. and marbled e/ps., folio. 1844***CONDITION REPORT***Engraved title heavily soiled, most plts. foxed (mostly marginal), some heavily; printed title, map and most of text clean. viii, 236pp. old arml. bkplt. of Hugh Daniel HarperPLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° Somner, William, - The Antiquities of Canterbury in Two Parts, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged by Nicolas Battely (bound as one) folio, calf, with 18 engraved plates, consisting of a frontis panorama of Canterbury, a folding map/plan of Canterbury, 4 folding plates and 12 (of 14) plates. The front inner board and fly leaves inscribed, in a contemporary hand ‘’Charles Knowles his book 1703’’, and noting that the book cost ‘’by Subscription seventeen shilling and four pence’’, the text occasionally annotated, R. Knaplock, London, 1703. Sold not subject to return.***CONDITION REPORT***PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° Culpeper, Nicholas - Culpeper's Complete Herbal ... To Which are now first annexed his English Physician Enlarged ... forming a complete Family Dispensatory ... portrait frontis and 40 hand-coloured plates; contemp. gilt calf, panelled spine and red label, marbled e/ps., sm. folio. 1814; Smith, Worthington G. - Mushroom and Toadstools: how to distinguish easily the differences between edible and poisonous fungi. title vignette; original pictorial wrappers, sm.8vo. Robert Hardwicke,1875; accompanied with the 2 folded sheets of hand-coloured lithographed illus., and all contained in (?) original cloth slipcase (2)***CONDITION REPORT***Culpeper- frontis and title lt. browned, text reasonable with few intermittent marks, etc. plts likewise VI, 398 (4)pp.; Smith - wrappers lwr. edge frayed, sheets open to approx. 74 x 52cms (59 illus in all)PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° KENT: Acts of Parliament, for the Government and Regulation of the Poor in the Town and Parish of Maidstone.... original printed wrappers, folio. Maidstone, 1828; The Poll for electing Two Burgesses, for.... Maidstone... (Parliamentary) July 1826... old marbled wrappers, cr.8vo. Maidstone, 1826; The Poll for Electing Two Burgesses, for the Borough of Maidstone...(Parliamentary) February 1835....old wrappers. Maidstone, 1835; Borough of Maidstone. Register of Electors. original printed wrappers, (Maidstone, 1834); Baverstock, J.H. - Some Account of Maidstone...including the Parliamentary Report on the Boundary of the Borough... To which are added Genealogical Tables of the Bosville Family... 2 plates; binder's old cloth backed leather, preserving original wrappers, 4to. 1832. (5)***CONDITION REPORT***Acts - wrappers marked and with sm. corner tear, gen. good, wrapps. title used, printed within dec. border. 12,4pp.; Poll (1826) - good; Electors - some marginal ink marks, good. (34)pp.; Baverstock- roughly rebacked, wrapps. stained and frayed, ms. notes front blank, old armorial bkplt, and later pictorial (Edw. S. Gowers), stains around frontis. 24pp. nb. Smith notes only 100 copies printedPLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
QUR’AN SECTION IN ‘EASTERN’ KUFIC SCRIPT PERSIA, 11TH-12TH CENTURY 44 folios, comprising Sura II, al-Baqara, vv. 178-181, vv. 213-220, vv. 222-226, vv. 231-240, vv. 245-247, vv. 253-254, vv. 256-279, vv. 282-286; Sura III, Al ‘Imran, vv. 5-15, vv. 19-33, vv. 44-49, vv. 52-55, vv. 61-79, vv. 82-91, vv. 97-100, vv. 125-130, vv. 135-145, vv.173-178, vv. 183-189;Arabic manuscript on buff paper, with 7ll of black Eastern Kufic script with red diacritics, interlinear translations in Persian script, verses separated by gold and red dotted florets, further text divisions marked by gold and polychrome marginal medallions and further drop-shaped oblong cartouchesDimensions:30.8 x 22 cmProvenance:Provenance: Private collection of a notable Ottoman family in London.The collection is from a notable Ottoman land-owning family, that married over generations into the Sultans’ court. Some were judges, civil servants and vizirs in the Damascus vilayet, as well as members of parliament to the Sublime Porte.Note: Note: The style of script of this Qur’an section epitomises the transitional period from the early kufic style into the more angular and more accentuated regional styles called ‘eastern’ and ‘western’. The crossed and perfectly symmetrical lam-alif is a characteristic of the eastern kufic. Another interesting feature of this Qur’an is the structure of the thick, buff paper, whose chain lines and laid lines are clearly visible. A single folio from the same Qur’an (Sura II, al-Baqara, v.146-150) previously in the collection of Adrienne Minassian, New York, 1955, was sold Sotheby’s, London, Stuart Cary Welch Collection Part II, 6 April 2011, lot 13.
Collection of prints and engravings, including a pair of engravings after Marie Louise A.Boizot (1744-1800) "Madame La Duchesse de Gramont", unframed, 34cm x 37cm (excluding mount), a signed etching depicting the Palazzo da Mosta, Venice, a watercolour river landscape, signed C Lytton and dated 1901, a folio containing prints of contemporary Chinese paintings and a carved wooden picture frame, circa 1900 (6)
YATES, REV. RICHARD. 'History and Antiquities of the Abbey of St. Edmunds Bury', London, Nichols, 1843. Second Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Cloth Backed Boards.. Good+ / No Jacket. The second and best edition with the addition of a further 14 plates to total 29. Containing part 2 also 'An Illustration of the Monastic History and Antiquities of the Town and Abbey of St. Edmunds Bury.' Collates thus; xxx, 256pp, 49pp, [1], 85pp [1], 8, [2], pp. Frontis and a further 28 plates. Uncut edges. Original paper covered drab boards, cloth spine. Spine roughly overlaid with strengthening tape. Original morocco spine label in place. Boards rubbed at edges and slty scratched and marked. Relevant press cuttings pasted to front endpapers. Inner end paper joints cracked but sound.Occas.slt foxing to margin of some plates. Armorial Bookplate of Cecil George Foljambe and signature of Claude Palfrey dated 1946.
DAVIS, CHARLES H: 'The Egyptian Book of the Dead.' Putnam's, 1894. Folio. Covers partly, lightly damp speckled. Inner front board bit wormed, with single worm hole to gutter of first 4 leaves of prelims.Signature on end paper. This is the first Davis edition with 187pp and 99 plates. Covers partly, lightly damp speckled. Inner front board bit wormed, with single worm hole to gutter of first 4 leaves of prelims.Signature on end paper. This is the first Davis edition.This copy is NOT the usual Ex Library one. The 99 plates are from originals from the Louvre and Turin Papyri. A second having been issued in the following year. Very scarce
Folio Society, 55+ assorted volumes, including Raymond Chandler 'The Complete Novels', 7 volume set in slipcase; W.B. Yeats 'Collected Poems'; Muriel Spark 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'; Evelyn Waugh 'Sccop'; Lewis Carroll 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' & 'Through the Looking-Glass', 2 volumes in slipcase; E.F. Benson 'The Mapp & Lucia Novels', 6 volume set in slipcase; Machiavelli 'The Prince'; plus others Richard Burton, Robert Byron 'The Road to Oxiana', Paul Auster, Arthur Conan Doyle, Josephine Tey, Folio Press poetry volumes etc. (55+)
Gustave Doré (illustrated); Alfred Tennyson, 2 titles: 'Vivien. Illustrated by Gustave Dore.', L, Moxon, 1868. Folio. 9 engraved plates, with tissue guards. Original cloth gilt, spine snagged at ends; 'Elaine. Illustrations by Gustave Dore.', Moxon, 1867. Folio. 9 engraved plates, with guards. Original cloth gilt, slightly worn, spine ends snagged. (2)
(Typography, Printing), Ruari & Antonia McLean: 'Benjamin Fawcett Engraver and Colour Printer', Scolar Press, 1988, limited edition, (43/750), but one of only 25 copies signed by the author and specially bound with 3 original Fawcett plates in rear pocket, original deluxe crushed half green morocco gilt over marbled paper covered boards, top edge gilt, dust wrapper; P.J. Croft: 'Autograph Poetry in the English Language: Facsimiles of Original Manuscripts from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century', L, Cassell, 1973, 1st edition, limited edition, (1373/1500), numbered, 2 volumes, folio, orig. quarter cloth gilt, dust wrappers, orig. slipcase; Friedrich Friedl et al: 'Typography - when who how', Konemann, 1998, thick 4to, original cloth, dust wrapper (4)
Thomas Stackhouse: 'A New History of the Holy Bible, from the Beginning of the World, to the Establishment of Christianity', London, Stephen Austen, 1742, 2nd edition, 2 volumes, 35 engraved plates/maps/plans (some folding) and head & tail pieces etc, folio, rebound quarter calf gilt, inset morocco gilt title panels to front covers and matching morocco gilt panels to rear covers, replenished marbled end papers and pastedowns; Flavius Josephus: 'The whole and genuine and complete works of Flavius Josephus, the learned and authentic Jewish historian and celebrated warrior...by Thomas Bradshaw', L, Alex Hogg, [1792], numerous copper engraved plates/maps throughout, vi,795,[1]pp, thick 4to, rebound full calf gilt (3)
Folio Society, 45+ assorted volumes, including Mary Shelley 'Frankenstein'; Arthur Conan Doyle 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'; Raymond Chandler 'Trouble is My Business'; Robert Graves 'I, Claudius'; Daphne du Maurier 'Don't Look Now'; Agatha Christie 'Miss Marple Stories'; Ray BRadbury 'Fahrenheit 451'; Laurie Lee 'Cider With Rosie'; plus others H.G. Wells, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas More, Douglas Adams 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', M.R. James, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Nancy Mitford, Charles Maturin, etc. (45+)
Nine books on magic, card and coin techniques, ventriloquism, camouflage etc, including Anthony Norman: 'Basic Card Technique: A text-book for the Student of Card Magic', London, Max Andrews, 1948, 1st edition, limited edition, one of 600 copies, this copy unnumbered/out of series, tipped in port. frontis, illustrations throughout, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Bert Douglas: 'Club Magic', London, Bagshawe, 1930, b/w ills. throughout, original boards, dust wrapper; Jasper Maskelyne: 'Magic - Top Secret', L, Stanley Paul, [1949], 1st edition, frontis + numerous ills. from photos as called for, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper (with part losses head & foot of spine); Arthur Prince: 'The Whole Art of Ventriloquism', L, Will Goldston Ltd, [nd], c.1921, 2nd edition, port frontis, orig. cloth; Victor Farelli: 'Convincing Coin Magic', 1946, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt; Douglas Craggs: 'A.B.C. of Ventriloquism. A Complete guide to the Art of Voice-Throwing, Lip Control, Doll Manipulation and Ventriloquial Presentation.', L, Arcas, [1944], 1st edition, 51pp, port. frontis + ills. in text, folio, orig. printed wraps; plus 3 other booklets, of which 2 by Victor Farelli (9)
A 19th Century trade catalogue for Maison R. Garnier 'Aperçu des principaux modèles de la maison R. Garnier', Paris, c.1880, 52 double page fine lithographic plates depicting various figures illustrating models of handles, locks, bolts, knobs, artistic handles for fixtures, folio, original quarter black leather gilt over matching blindstamped black cloth
August Demmin; G. Arosa & Cie (ill.): 'Histoire de la Céramique en Planches Phototypiques Inaltérables', Paris, Renouard, c.1875, portfolio of text and plates, a/f, contents loose, 60 photographic plates in total, sold as a series of plates only, folio, contemporary red cloth gilt worn; together with a 1935 furniture trade catalogue for Levitan, of Paris & Lille, illustrations throughout, oblong large quarto, orig. boards gilt (worn) (2)
(Mountaineering, Climbing), a collection of 34 titles, including Thomas F. Hornbein: 'Everest: The West Ridge', George Allen, 1966, 1st edition, glossy colour photographic illustrations throughout, folio, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Chris Bonington: 'A Celebration of World Mountaineering: Great Climbs', 1995 reprint, signed by Bonington to half title, orig. cloth, d/w; Chris Bonington: 'Everest: The Unclimbed Ridge', 1983, 1st edition, pice of card signed by Bonington in blue ink loosely inserted, orig. cloth, d/w; Chris Bonington: 'The Everest Years: A Climbers Life', 1986, 1st edition, Chris Bonington Typed Letter Signed loosely inserted, orig. cloth, d/w; P. Nasmyth: 'Georgia. In the Mountains of Poetry', 1998, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; plus others Eiger, Mont Blanc, Canada, Annapurna, Everest, Nanga Parbat, Frank S. Smythe, Joe Simpson signed proof 'The Water People' etc (34)
(Golden Cockerel Press, Private Press, Illustrated), a collection of seven assorted titles, comprising Patrick Miller; Clifford Webb (illustrated): 'Ana The Runner, a Treatise for Princes & Generals, attributed to Prince Mahmoud Abdul', London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937, 1st edition, "Unlimited Edition", printed by Christopher and Anthony Sandford and Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press, 6 full page wood engravings by Clifford Webb as called for, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt; V.G. Calderon; Clifford Webb (ill.): 'The White Llama being la Vengeanza del Condor', L, Golden Cockerel Press, 1938, 1st edition, "Unlimited Edition", full page wood engraved frontis + 7 half page wood engraved ills. by Webb as called for, original pictorial printed wraps by Clifford Webb; A. Mary Kirkus: 'Robert Gibbings: A Bibliography', L, Dent, 1962, 1st edition, limited edition (975), 18 illustrations as called for (comprising port. frontis, plan of the Golden Cockerel Press, facsimile of Gibbings's handwriting + 15 Gibbings wood engraved illustrations/decorations/devices), orig. quarter cloth gilt, dust wrapper; James Thomson: 'The Seasons', L, Nonesuch, 1927, limited edition (198/1500), numbered, 5 copper engraved plates & title page vignette as called for, watercoloured through stencils by the Curwen Press, 4to, orig. marbled cloth, leather gilt title label to spine; John Milton & Henry Lawes: 'The Mask of Comus', L, Nonesuch, 1937, limited edition (268/950), numbered, 5 colour plates (including frontis) and colour title vignette printed from the linoleum cuts of the artist M.R.H.Farrar by the Curwen press as called for, ex library (small number unobtrusive marks at front, else leaves clean/vgc, no other lib markings), folio, orig. blindstamped paper covered boards gilt (slightly worn); Rockwell Kent: 'Salamina', NY, Harcourt, 1935, 1st US edition, frontis + 22 ills. by Rockwell Kent as called for, original cloth silvered; 'Cruikshank's Water-Colours - Introduced by Joseph Grego', A & C Black, 1903, 1st edition, numerous colour & b/w plates as called for, orig. decorative cloth gilt (7)
(Holy Bible, Bishops' Bible, "Treacle Bible"), a Holy Bible, 1575, a/f, lacks general title page, separate wood engraved title page with decorative borders for New Testament 'The Newe Testament of our Sauiour Iesus Christ.', 1575 printed date at top, 'God Saue the Queene.' at foot, lacking some leaves at front and first several leaves present a/f with closed tears, chips, small part losses, imprint near front of Richard Jugge at end of Collects, Pentateuch/first five books of Old Testament ff1-102; wood engraved decorative separate title page "The seconde part of the Bible conteining these bookes following... [Joshua - Job]', dated 1575 at top, ff1-151; blank leaf with some manuscript 19th Century family history; wood engraved decorative title page "The thirde parte of the Bible, conteining these Bookes... [Psalter - Malachi]', dated 1575 at top, ff1-156, (lacking leaf?), ff2-103 (ends Machabees); New Testament title page, ff2-136,[2], "Imprinted at London in the yere of our redemption MDLXXV and finished the XXIIII day of Nouember. God saue the Queene.'; seprate wood engraved title page "The whole booke of Psalmes, collected into English Meter by Thomas Sternhold, J. Hopkins and others...Imprinted at London by Iohn Day...1575", wood engraved decorative border, ff.iv, pp.9-200, a/f, sold with all faults not subject to return, small folio (approx. 29x20cm), contemporary calf boards (detached but present, very worn), metal corners and central metal lozenges to boards, later calf backstrip. The Bishops’ Bible is often referred to as the “Treacle Bible” because of its translation of Jeremiah 8:22, “Is there not tryacle at Gilead?” (also Jere. 46:11 Ezek. 27:27). The word “treacle” was used in early English vocabulary to refer to a “cure-all” or to “molasses.” It had been used previously in Beck’s revision of the Thomas Matthew Bible in 1549. The King James Bible translated the verse, “Is there no balm in Gilead?”
(WWII, Allied Forces Western Europe), 'The Administrative History of The Operations of 21 Army Group on the Continent of Europe, 6 June 1944 - 8 May 1945', Germany [place unknown], 21st Army Group, November 1945, stated on title page "This document is RESTRICTED addressees are personally responsible for its security". A scarce administrative work concerning all matters of importance for the combined US, British & Canadian forces of 21st Army Group from 6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945, including D-Day and the ensuing battle for Normandy during Operation Overlord, through Belgium & Holland including Operation Market Garden, to their final assualt on Western Germany in the Rhine and Ruhr and eventual victory after the German capitulation on Luneberg Heath followed by unconditional surrenders at Rheims and Berlin, iv,151,[8]pp, 24 folding plates (many coloured) at rear as called for, comprising diagrams, maps, graphs etc of landing beaches, Mulberry harbours, development of ports, advance base depots, medical units, P.O.L. construction (oil plan) and various other supplies etc, content of text covering a vast array of matters administrative, logistical etc, folio, original grey cloth lettered in silver (bumped/worn), ownership signature of Harry Henry (1916-2008), market research pioneer and influential figure in publishing and marketing. During WWII Henry was called up in 1940, training in the ranks of the Royal Artillery, he was commissioned in 1941, and served as a regimental officer in various anti-aircraft batteries until 1943, when he transferred to the newly formed statistical branch of the Army as a Staff Officer. He was eventually posted to the Headquarters staff of Montgomery's 21st Army Group, playing a part in the preparations for the invasion of Europe and in subsequent operations in France, Belgium and Germany; together with another scarce and restricted official Second World War publication compiled by Brigadier A.B. McPherson: 'The Second World War 1939-1945 Army. Discipline', [London], The War Office, 1950, title page states "RESTRICTED. The informationgiven in this document is not to be communicated, either directly or indirectly, to the Press or to any person not authorized to receive it", vii,128,[1]pp, compiled by the Army Council covering all matters of Discipline 1939-1945 including influences affecting discipline and special conditions affecting trrops in Eastern theatres of war; The Army Act, lesser offences and minor punishments, Court-Martial; Crime in War-Time; Absence and Desertion; Penal Units; The Corps of Military Police, etc, original red cloth lettered in black (2)
(Fleece Press, Private Press), three titles, comprising Tirzah Garwood: 'Long Live Great Bardfield & love to you all, her Autobiography, 1908-43, edited and with biographical notes on the period 1943-51, by Anne Ullmann', Upper Denby, The Fleece Press, 2012, limited edition of 550 copies (475 for sale), colour & b/w ills. throughout, folio, original quarter cloth, printed title label to spine, decorative paper covered boards (near fine), reproduced Tirzah Garwood bookplate to front pastedown, m/s note at head of FFEP "* Display copy, not for sale*"; Edward Ardizzone; Malcolm Yorke: 'To War With Paper and Brush. Captain Edward Ardizzone, Official War Artist', Upper Denby, The Fleece Press, 2007, limited edition, (700), profusely illustrated in colour and black & white throughout, 169pp, oblong 4to, original cloth, printed title label to spine, orig. prospectus loosely inserted, orig. slipcase; 'Dearest Joana. A selection of Joan Hassall's lifetime letters and art. Edited by Brian North Lee. With an introduction by John Dreyfus.', The Fleece Press, 2000, 2 volumes, limited edition, one of a total edition of 300 copies, this one of 240 copies on Zerkall paper, quarter bound in cloth, printed title labels to spines, marbled paper covered boards, over 60 engravings, all but three printed from the wood, and around 60 line drawings and colour plates either tipped-in or printed as inserted sections, mostly full-page, orig. prospectus loosely inserted at front of volume 1, all housed in original slipcase (4)
'The Field, The Farm, The Garden, The Country Gentleman’s Newspaper', London, The Field Office, bound volume No.LXVII, No's. 1723-1748, January 2 to June 26, 1886, xi,864pp, folio, contemporary half calf gilt (very worn). Scarce Victorian periodical, much sporting content including angling, athletics, hunting, cricket, lawn tennis, football, rowing, shooting, turf, yachting etc etc, engraved illustrations in text throughout
(Wood Lea Press, Private Press), Jeremy Greenwood, 2 titles : 'The Graphic Work of Edward Wadsworth', Woodbridge, The Wood Lea Press, 2002, limited edition, one of 450 copies, profusely illustrated throughout as called for, folio, original black and white decorative boards based on a Wadsworth design, prospectus and errata slip loosely inserted, original slipcase, 'Omega Cuts', Woodbridge, The Wood Lea Press, 1998, limited edition, one of 450 copies, profusely illustrated throughout as called for, several ills. tipped in/folding, ills. after Henri Gaudier Brzeska, Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, E. McKnight Kauffer, Edward Wadsworth and other artists associated with the Omega workshops and the Hogarth Press, folio, original cloth, prospectus loosely inserted, original slipcase (2)
Folio Society, 35+ assorted volumes, including 'Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales', illustrated W. Heath Robinson; Margaret Atwood 'The Handmaid's Tale'; Virginia Woolf 'To the Lighthouse'; Shakespeare 'The Complete Plays', 8 volume set in two slipcases; plus others Dylan Thomas, Charles Dickens, 'Crime Stories from The Strand' etc (35+)
Folio Society, 50 assorted volumes, including W. Somerset Maugham 'Collected Short Stories', 4 volume set in slipcase; Marcel Proust 'In Search of Lost Time', 6 volume set in 2 slipcases, plus 'Remembrance of Things Past' in 3 volumes; 'The Oxford Classical Dictionary', 1999, 3rd edition, limited edition (132/1000), Wassa goat skin & moire silk binding, slipcase; plus others 'The Silk Road', 'A History of Chinese Civilization', 2 volumes in slipcase, Robert Byron 'The Road to Oxiana', Freya Stark 'The Southern Gates of Arabia', Kenneth Graham, P.G. Wodehouse, Lewis Carroll, Folio Press poetry volumes etc. (50)
Francis Blomefield and Charles Parkin: 'An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk...', Fersfield and Lynn, 1739-1775, first edition, four volumes (of five, lacks volume 5), numerous engraved plates/plans/folding genealogical tables + numerous engravings in the text, folio, contemporary reverse calf gilt worn, some boards detached but present, ownership signatures at front of each volume "John Beevor M.D.", inkstamps "J. Beevor 1770" & "J. Beevor 1768", pencil inscription on front pastedown volume I "From the library of Lord North august 1885", old manuscript pen & ink indexes/lists of religious houses at end of each volume, a few m/s annotations to margins of text (4)
(China, Tung Hing [and others?]), 'Photographic Views of Foochow and Vicinity', a large oblong folio album (330 x 480mm), containing 44 mounted collodion print and albumen silver print photographs circa 1870-1893, (each approx. size 216 x 297mm), of Foochow and environs [present day Fuzhou, Fujian province, SE China], images mounted recto and verso on card leaves within a printed red border, all neatly captioned in ink beneath on the mount in English, original black morocco-backed black cloth boards, (spine rubbed, covers worn, some card leaves with chips/marginal part losses, retailed by the "Foochow Printing Press, established 1864", with their small printed label on upper pastedown, gilt title to front cover "Photographic Views of Foochow & Vicinity.", the images circa 1870-1893, some attributed to Tung Hing, including Mandarin Grave at Foochow (captioned "The Grave itself"); Woo-She-Shan (captioned "A piece of the City wall."); On the Road to Kushan, Foo Chow (captioned "On the Road to the Monastery."); The Fish Pond, Kushan (captioned "The Fish pond"), etc. Some of the photographs in the album extremely similar to known images by Tung Hing, such as view of exterior staircase and stone wall covered in Chinese inscriptions, in area surrounded by trees, and view of Yuen Foo monastery. The photographers Lai Afong and John Thomson photographed other very similar views in and around Foochow during the period. The list of the photograph captions as follows: 1. General view of Foochow; 2. Foochow City; 3. The White Pagoda; 4. Foochow [over rooftops, River Min visible]; 5. Foochow [through trees over rooftops, River Min with boats visible]; 6. Foochow [similar last]; 7. Foochow [large residential houses]; 8. The Bridge over the River [boats in foreground, mountains in background]; 9. The Bridge over the River; 10. River scene near Foochow; 11. Fire near Foochow City; 12. Entrance to a Chinese club house; 13. A piece of the City wall [Woo-She-Shan]; 14. The Entrance to a mandarin's grave; 15. The Grave itself; 16. An interior at the Temple of Meditation near Foochow; 17. An interior at the Temple of Meditation near Foochow [slightly differing image]; 18. An interior at the Temple of Meditation near Foochow [slightly differing image]; 19. The Buddha "Yii Lye" at the Temple of Meditation; 20. The mountain and Monastery of Kushan; 21. On the Road to the Monastery; 22. The entrance to the Monastery; 23. The Fish pond; 24. A Temple; 25. Some Steps at the Monastery; 26. The entrance to the Yuen Fu Monastery; 27. The Monastery itself; 28. Scenery near Foochow [river scene with mountainous background]; 29. Scenery near Foochow; 30. Scenery near Foochow; 31. Scenery near Foochow; 32. The water temple [Jinshan Temple, River Min]; 33. Stone pillars and water pots near the North Gate of the City, arranged in the order of the Constellation Ursa Major'; 34. The hills where the tea grows near Foochow; 35. On the road to Pakling; 36. Our House-boat sailing; 37. Our House-boat Pulling; 38. Pole junk, loading; 39. Pole junk loaded and ready for Sea; 40. River scene. Bamboo Creek; 41. Dragon Boat; 42. Telegraph House, Sharp Peak; 43. Heroic Group at Sharp Peak; 44. Snow scene Foochow January 16th 1893 (The Foochow Club).A rare late 19th Century album of 44 photographs of Foochow (Fuzhou) and vicinity.Provenance: This album has been in the possession of members of the same family since its creation in the late nineteenth century. It is offered for sale by the executor of the great grand-daughter of Lucy Kate Pemberton of Calcutta, the wife of the first owner. Pemberton was Lucy’s maiden name and she came of a notable Anglo—Indian family. Lucy married first William Lloyd Howell, an indigo planter in Indian in 1870. Their second child, Nina Lucy Constance was born in Calcutta in October 1872, some four months after her father’s death. Lucy subsequently married a merchant engaged in the tea trade by the name of Philips. The family moved from India to Foochow in 1878 where they remained until 1905. In 1882 Nina was sent to England to continue her education at St John’s School, Preston near Brighton, a school at which she was very happy. Photographic evidence indicates that she returned to Foochow when her education was completed before returning to England and marrying Frederick John Rentzsch, a gentlemen of independent means. They lived at Southwich, near Shoreham, Sussex. A son, Frederick Valentine Cobley, was born in 1903. Val, as he was known, subsequently changed his surname name to Reach in 1940. The late owner was Val’s only child. Val predeceased his mother Nina in 1950 so the album passed from Lucy Philips to her daughter Nina and on her death in the mid 1950s to the later owner, Nina’s grand-daughter. Reference to the ‘junk’ house boat, the scenery around Foochow and the European community at Foochow, the subject of some of the photographs, are referred to in a brief memoir written by Nina for the late owner, circa 1946.
Elisabeth Frink: 'Aesop's Fables. Illustrated by Elisabeth Frink.', London, Curwen Press for R.A. McAlpine & Waddington Prints, 1968, number 127 of 250 copies only, signed by Frink on the half-title page, four original lithographs at the rear. In this copy the lithographs have not been individually signed, 47 illustrations (some coloured), these being Frink's first book illustrations, oblong folio, bound by Mansell in original orange and honey coloured morocco, upper cover with elaborate tooling and lettering in gilt, green marbled end papers, uncut
BAYLEY, F.W.N.. The New Tale of a Tub: An Adventure in Verse. With Illustrations, Designed By Lieutenant J.S. Cotton. Lithographed By Aubry.. ill. J.S. Cotton. London: Colnaghi and Puckle., 1841. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Cloth. Good+ / No Jacket. Publisher's blind stamped, plain green cloth, gilt lettered, quite heavily worn at edges and corners. 2 short tears to leaves repaired. Very slt occas. soiling to margins some leaves. Text of 16pp. The scarce folio original edition, containing 7 fine litho. full page plates to illustrate the humourous verse. The subject being the efforts of 2 drunken Europeans to put a tiger into a barrel. With a contemporary inscription Catherine Gurney to Samuel Gurney Cresswell. Catherine Gurney OBE (1848-1930) was a British activist in the temperance movement, and is remembered for her work in establishing police convalescent homes, orphanages and schools, including St George's House, in Harrogate, and a member of the prominent Quaker banking family the Gurneys of Norfolk, many members of the family also being involved in social reform
Folio Society, 40+ assorted volumes, including Agatha Christie 'Hercule Poirot Stories' 3 volume set in slipcase, '4.50 From Paddington' & 'The Mystery of the Blue Train', 2 volumes in slipcase; Patricia Highsmith Ripley trilogy 'The Talented Mr Ripley; Ripley Under Ground; Ripley's Game', 3 volumes in slipcase; 'The Best of Roald Dahl Illustrated by Quentin Blake', 6 volumes in slipcase; 'Grimm's Fairy Tales', illustrated by Arthur Rackham; plus others Josephine Tey, P.G. Wodehouse, Stella Gibbons, Arthur Conan Doyle 'Sherlock Holmes Complete Stories' 4 volumes in slipcase, Christopher Hibbert, Susan Cooper etc (40+)
Folio Society, 30+ assorted volumes, including Evelyn Waugh 'Sword of Honour' trilogy, 3 volume set in slipcase; Albert Einstein 'Relativity'; James M. Cain 'The Postman Always Rings Twice; Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World'; plus others Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway etc (30+)
(Japan, Photography), a late 19th Century Meiji period Japanese photograph album, containing 50 mounted hand coloured albumen print photographs c.1890, Kusakabe Kimbei studio or similar, some studio Shin-e-Do, Kobe, images include lady on Jinrikishia; girls playing on Samisen, Fuye, Taiko and Tsuzumi; mode of eating; playing Go draughts; Kendo fencing; pilgrims; coolie with rain coat; vegetable market stalls; basket seller; Japanese palanquin (norimono); rice planting, rice transporting, other agricultural scenes; plus various topographical views and architectural views including temples etc, including Kobe, Nara, Osaka castle, Kyoto, Fujiyama, Lake Hakone, Yokohama Grand Hotel & Theatre Street, Iris gardens etc Tokyo, Takaboko Nagasaki & Oura at Nagasaki, etc etc, each image tissue guarded, each approx size 21x27cm, mounted on thick card leaves, captioned in the image, oblong folio, original leather backed pictorial lacquer boards gilt (VGC), housed in contemporary padded lined floral decorative cloth solander box, assumed to be the original as issued and a very scarce survivor
A collection of fourteen Suffolk interest items, including John Kirby: 'A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Suffolk.', Woodbridge, J. Munro, 1829, 522pp., large folding county map hand coloured in outline + 4 engraved plates as called for, handsomely rebound full calf gilt, oxblood morocco gilt title label; 'The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England. Part VII Suffolk', Oxford, Parker, 1855, 27 engraved plates as called for, old half calf gilt; JJ Raven: 'The History of Suffolk', 1895, original cloth, rebacked green calf; a six inch to one mile engraved folding map of Heveningham Hall and environs, circa late 19th/early 20th Century, dissected and backed onto linen, approx 48 x 58cm, folding into covers with printed Sifton Praed & Co label; a 19th Century scrap album containing good quantity of mounted views of Sudbury & Environs, after Henry Bridgman, Gainsborough, O. Raymond, each approx. 7 x 12cm, plus others Rock & Co mounted views Sudbury, Bury St Edmund, Somerleyton Hall, Long Melford etc, 10 x 18cm, plus large number of other mounted 19th Century engravings including assorted topo. views, portraits notable persons, etc etc, folio, old half calf very worn, engraved cover of a 19th Century view album mounted to upper board "Views of Sudbury"; plus 9 others Suffolk (14)
T.E. LAWRENCE (contributor); PIRIE-GORDON, H.: 'A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.... July 1917 to October 1918..', Cairo: Government Press, 1919. Quarto. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Printer Wrapper. Good+ / No Jacket. Original printed paper covers , slty marked and rubbed at lower edge and slight damage to final map. Contains two reports written by T. E. Lawrence, "Sherifian Co-Operation in September" and "Story of the Arab Movement", in which he details the Ashraf contribution to the War effort and narrates his own involvement in a third-person report, the first published account of the Arab campaign. Collates thus: [6], 113, [1pp]. and with 56 coloured maps. Collates thus- Portrait frontis, [vi, 113, [1], [ 56]pp. 56 maps with text as forementioned on facing leaves. Moderate crayon marks at foot of p. 13, slight tear to surface of map 56 measuring 0.75 x 0.75 cms
Folio Society, 35 assorted volumes, including Virginia Woolf 'A Room of One's Own'; John Steinbeck 'The Grapes of Wrath'; Josephine Tey 'The Franchise Affair' & 'The Daughter of Time'; plus others Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell 'Animal Farm', Patrick Suskind 'Perfume', Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood etc. (35)
Folio Society, 34 assorted volumes, including 'Grimm's Fairy Tales', illustrated Arthur Rackham; P.G. Wodehouse 'Jeeves & Wooster' set of 6 volumes in slipcase; Arthur Conan Doyle 'Sherlock Holmes Complete Stories' 5 volumes in slipcase; Rudyard Kipling 'The Jungle Book' & 'The Second Jungle Book', 2 volumes; plus others Paula Rego, Kenneth Grahame 'The Wind in the Willows', 'Captain Cook's Voyages', Henry Morton Stanley, Richard Burton, others foreign travel, exploration, history etc. (34)
(Classics), 'The Cambridge Ancient History', Cambridge University Press, 2007, complete set of 12 volumes in 14, uniform original cloth gilt, dust wrappers; Edward Gibbon: 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', 8 volume set housed in two slipcases; Folio Society 5 volumes Ancient Greece & Rome, 2006, comprising 'Livy: The Early History of Rome', 'Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War', 'Herodotus: 'The Histories', 'Tacitus: The Annals of Imperial Rome', 'Julius Caesar: The Gallic and Civil Wars', uniform original cloth gilt (27)
WALKER, JOHN. An Attempt Towards the Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England... In the Late Times of the Grand Rebellion. . London: J.Nicholson, 1714. First Edition. Containing parts 1 and 2. The projected part 3 was never published. Part 1. [iv], li, [xvii], -204pp. Part 2. 436pp, folio, contemporary, blind stamped, mid brown panelled calf, probably as bound by the publisher
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