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Click here to subscribeNO RESERVE Periodicals.- A group of Russian, Armenian and Ukranian periodicals, 20 vol., including Russia's Voice, The New Day, and The People's Will, plain illustrations, bookplates to pastedown, later cloth, rubbed at spine ends, large folio, c.1939-1944⁂ A pertinent piece of history, spanning the height of second World War. Headlines include the discussion of Churchill's Mediterranean offensive; Stalin's strategy's and Mussolini's surrender.
NO RESERVE Scotland, Selkirkshire.- Tweedaile and Lauderdaile And the Sheriffdomme of ye Forrest... Sibbald's Atlas Scoticus..., manuscript, together 68pp. excluding blanks, only written in left or right hand half of the pages, on white and blue paper, central folds, new endpapers, bookplate of Lord Napier on front pastedown, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, red and gilt morocco label on spine: "M.S. Accounts of Selkirkshire", folio, [early 19th century].
Laurence (John) A New System of Agriculture. Being a Complete Body of Husbandry and Gardening, engraved frontispiece and 2 plates, woodcut head-pieces, list of subscribers, the odd tape repair to inner margin, including to title, some light soiling or staining, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, worn at corners, scratched and rubbed, joints split at head, endpapers renewed, [Henrey 946], folio, Dublin, Printed by and for J. Hyde [and others], 1727.⁂ A scarce edition.
Morland (George) Sketches, title with vignette, and 40 soft-ground etchings by Baldrey, Vivares, and others, on various wove papers, many with Whatman watermarks dated '1794', each album leaf approx. 410 x 550 mm (16 1/4 x 21 1/2 in), some slightly smaller, title and front free endpaper with severe creases, splits, tears and small losses, scattered repairs throughout, mainly to edges, surface dirt and spotting, marbled boards, very worn, oblong folio, probably published by Thomson & Simpson, [circa 1790-1800].⁂ Scarce, composite album comprising sketches by Morland produced in the 1790s. Appearing to include earlier prints from the John Harris edition, as well as later republications.
Birds.- Millais (John Guille) The Natural History of British Game Birds, first edition, number 164 of 550 copies, 18 colour plates after Millais and Archibald Thorburn, 18 other plates, all but one photogravure, tissue guards, small spot to title, original buckram-backed cloth, t.e.g., spine faded, [Nissen IVB 636], folio, 1909.
Albermarle (George Monck, first Duke of, army officer and naval officer, instrumental in the Restoration of Charles II, 1608-70) Warrant signed "Albermarle" & others to pay thirty thousand pounds to the Earl of Anglesey, "for the most necessary supply and strengthening of that Kingdome [Ireland] agt the Dutch..., manuscript, 1p., split along central food repaired, hole at tail not affecting text, folds, slightly creased and soiled, browned, folio, Whitehall, Trea[su]ry Chamb[er]s, 6th August 1667.⁂ Arthur Annesley, first earl of Anglesey (1614-86), politician.
Paxton (Joseph).- An Album of ephemera relating to the Paxton family, pasted onto c.184 leaves excluding blanks, mostly newspaper clippings relating to the family or current affairs, many with manuscript title or date in ink, other ephemera including a hand-coloured engraved view of the Great Exhibition, a menu for a Crystal Palace fête hosted by Sir Joseph Paxton in July 1858, 2 ink drawings of "Baron Adolph de Rothschilds House Geneva" signed G.H. Stokes Archt. and dated 1858, a calling note from Lord Carlisle, and a pencil drawing titled "Mr Paxton's House Chatsworth Derbyshire", occasional light spotting or soiling, contemporary half morocco, worn at corners, rubbed, folio, c.1851-85.⁂ A loosely inserted note identifies the album as belonging to Lady Paxton, the wife of Sir Joseph Paxton, continued by her daughter Victoria after her death. The two ink views of Château de Pregny, known as the Rothschild Castle, are signed by the architect George Henry Stokes, son-in-law of Joseph Paxton. The two men collaborated on the design for the château and its gardens in 1858, the same year of the drawings. Paxton and Stokes had previously designed Mentmore Towers for the Rothschild family in 1852-54.
Wales, Radnorshire.- Williams family.- Genealogical History and Pedegree of the families of Williams - Stevens - Clarke & Marsh - collected and arranged by N.D. Williams, manuscript, title and 4pp., unbound, folio, 1829; and a small collection of manuscript pedigrees, genealogical notes etc., relating to the Williams family, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).
NO RESERVE Vesalius (Andreas) De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, facsimile edition, illustrations and tables, one folding, original decorative calf, gilt, folio, Brussels, 1970⁂ A fine facsimile copy of the 1543 edition of Vesalius' great anatomical work, described as "a complete anatomical and physiological study of every part of the human body".
Architecture.- Mackintosh (Charles Rennie) Hermann Muthesius and Roger Billcliffe, Haus eines Kunstfreundes, second edition, from an edition limited to 1,000 copies, supplied in facsimile, plates and plans, with decorative title, in colour, loose as issued, original cloth backed portfolio, with printed onlay to upper cover, ribbons, folio, Glasgow, The Fraser Press, 1991 § Weinreb (B.) A Catalogue of Books and Drawings, numbers 1-25, plus annotated index volume by Paul Breman, numerous illustrations, some sporadic pencil annotations, all with original wrappers, bound together in 3 vol., lightly faded modern cloth, 8vo, 1961-[1969] (5)
NO RESERVE Religious notes.- [Commonplace book of religious notes], manuscript in Latin and English, in several hands, extracts including Thomas Tully (College Head and religious controversialist, 1620-76) "Enchiridion Praecipuorum Theologice Capitum... Auct. T. Tullio", manuscript in Latin and English, in several hands, 137pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, later endpapers, pencil signature of Edith V. Dent on front pastedown, original vellum, yellowed and rubbed, rebacked in later reversed calf, HW Schroer and Pro Patria watermarks, folio, [18th century].
Birds.- Keulemans (Tony) & Jan Coldewey. Feathers to Brush: The Victorian Bird Artist John Gerrard Keulemans 1842-1912, number 143 of 500 copies signed by the authors, original half morocco, privately printed, Epse & Melbourne, 1982 § Sitwell (Sacheverell), Handasyde Buchanan and James Fisher. Fine Bird Books 1700-1900, [one of 295 copies but lacking colophon leaf signed by the authors], some spotting, original half red morocco, spine faded, slip-case (rubbed), London & New York, 1953 § Fleming (C.A.) George Edward Lodge Unpublished Bird Paintings, 1983 § John Gould's Hummingbirds, 1990, plates and illustrations, many colour, the last two original cloth or boards with dust-jackets; and 12 others on bird artists, folio & 4to (16)
Evelyn (John) Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions...To which is annexed Pamona; Or, An Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in relation to Cider, second edition, initial order-to-print leaf, engraved arms to title, woodcut initials, engraved illustrations, one full-page, with final errata leaf, André L. Simon's copy with his "ALS" engraved bookplate, small worming to inner and lower margins, some light damp-staining, the odd patch of soiling, later half calf, rubbed with loss to spine ends, upper cover detached, lower joint cracked, g.e., [Henrey 133; Keynes 41; Wing E3517], for Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, 1670; with others natural history, including an interleaved copy of Withering's Botanical Arrangement of Vegetables, folio & 8vo (7)
Antiquarian Books - De Grandmaison (Aubin-Louis Millin), Peintures de Vases Antiques, vulgairement appelés étrusques, two-volume set bound as one, first edition, Paris: Didot l’ainé, 1808 [-1810], pp: engraved title-page (laid on linen), [iv], xx, 124, 70 engraved plates (of 72, lacking nos. 59 & 61; 34 repaired); [ii], 146, 76 engraved plates (of 78, lacking nos. 29, 65 & 66, though 64 duplicated; 49 repaired, 78 laid on linen), some soiled and foxed margins throughout, marginal damp-staining affecting some quires, most points of condition not affecting within the platemark of the engravings, 20th century calf over blue boards, red-speckled edges, elephant folio (59cm x 46.5cm), [Blackmer 1129], [1]Dedicated to the Empress Joséphine, this work describes and reproduces Ancient Greek vases and Classical antiquities from the collections of Malmaison, the Imperial Library, and the Sèvres factory, as well as pieces from the Duke of Dalmatia, Galitzine and other French collections.
DART Rev Mr J., The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury and the Once adjoining Monastery, An Account, A Survey, The Lives of the Archbishops, Priors and an Appendix, pub London, printed and sold by J. Cole, J. Hoddle, J. Smith and A. Johnson, pub 1726, engraved plates, folio, contemporary calf; (1)
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