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Click here to subscribeBooks. 5 shelves of general stock, including Beresford, Memorials of Staffordshire, 1909, green cloth gilt, 8vo, further topography and antiquarianism, regional British archaeological journals, mid-20th c vintage pictorial dustjackets, seven Folio Society volumes, Old Master paintings, Giles annuals, Shakespeare, Reilly's Wedgwood in two volumes, etc.
Books. 16 shelves of general stock, including Rider Haggard, Allan's Wife, first edition, 1889, original cloth, 8vo, six Folio Society volumes, Crane's Baby's Opera, London: Frederick Warne and Co., n.d., further children's books and annuals, Pevsners and other architecture, Oscar Wilde, Smith's Naturalist's Cabinet, volume VI only, 1807, some plates, defective contemporary quarter-calf binding, hardback 20th c fiction, Robert Graves first edition, etc.
Collection of Holbein Prints, 1877, [Windsor Collection], 2 volumes, folio, morocco backed boards/see illustration CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection
Ewart (John) A Treatise on Agricultural Buildings, 1851, folio, plates (19), original cloth, printed label on upper cover, additional folding plate loosely inserted CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection
Ackermann, The Funeral Procession of Arthur Duke of Wellington, 1852, , oblong Svo, hand coloured folding panorama, original decorative red cloth gilt boards, in later morocco backed slipcase; [with] The Order Proceeding in the Public Funeral of...Wellington. 1852, 16pp., folio, original printed wrappers; [with] Regulations to be observed...[1852], folio 4pp/see illustration CONDITION REPORT: In quarter red leather and black cloth slipcase, gilt tooled. Sunned red leather to spine and upper corners, some scuffs and marks to slipcase.Book cover with slightly bumped corners, back hinge with minor fraying. Original fabric tie missing. Watermark to top right back cover. Fold over wrapper cracked to the interior as pictured. Interior good with minor scattered foxing throughout, some slight tears to the folds. Some fold marks. Some 'shadows' of coaches verso have created discolourations to pages verso. Wellington funerary carriage present and fold up extension of page in good condition. All over a well preserved and neat copy
Dean (G A) A Series of Selected Designs for Country Residencies ...1867, ., folio, plates, original grey wash drawing loosely inserted, original cloth, spotted, lacks plate 14 CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection
Denton (J Bailey) The Farm Homesteads of England, 1st eds. 1864, folio, plates, calf CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection
Loudon (J C) Observations on Laying Out Farms in the Scotch Style, 1812, folio, 37 (of 38) plates and plans, many large folding, some hand-coloured, contemporary half calf re-backed and re-cornered/see illustration CONDITION REPORT: I have inspected the volume and the plates are in fact all present. The plates of the Cleveland Horses were not counted in the original assessment but are in fact present in the volume.
Frohawk, Natural History of British Butterflies, 1914, 2 volumes, folio, original blue cloth CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection
John Guille Millais - British Diving Ducks, two Vols, 72 colour, collotype or photogravure plates, 1913 first edition, numbered 183 from an edition of 450, good quality half calf rebinding with marbled boards, folio 40 x 31cmBinding in good order, contents also in generally excellent condition but with occasional slight time stains
John Guille Millais - Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches; Illustrating the Habits, Modes of Capture, Stages of Plumage, and the Hybrids and Varieties which occur amongst them, 1st edition, London: Henry Sotheran, 1892, 16 colour lithographic plates, good half calf rebinding with marbled boards, folio, 40 x 31cmBinding is in good order, contents generally good but with light spotting, marks (see images)
John Guille Millais - The Natural History of British Game Birds, Longmans, Green & Co., 1909, numbered 162 from a limited edition of 550, thirty-six plates after Millais and Archibald Thorburn (eighteen colour, seventeen photogravure and one other), folio, 40 x 31cm, good modern half calf rebinding with marbled boardsBinding in good condition, contents generally very good condition
William Beebe - 'A monograph of the pheasants', published by Witherby & Co, London 1918, first edition, numbered 450 of 600 copies, four vols, red cloth boards, folio, 41 x 31cmBindings in good condition, just very minor marks and staining to cloth. Contents overall very good, very occasional foxing
Richard Schodde and Ian J. Mason, Nocturnal Birds of Australia, limited edition, signed and numbered by authors and illustrator, 542/750, illustrated by Jeremy Boot, Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1980, and Martin Thompson - The West Australian Bird Folio, numbered 569 from an edition of 1000, both folio, (2)
Francesco Nardelli - The Rhinoceros A Monograph ltd ed. one of 300 copies signed by the artist and `conceiver` 20 tipped-in colour plates and illustrations by Matthew Hillier, original cloth, Basilisk Press 1988, elephant folio, 63 x 49cmVery slightly misshapen at edges of cover (see images) otherwise ok, contents in good original condition
J. G. Millais, Rhododendrons and the Various Hybrids, Longmans Green & Co, 1917, Limited Edition numbered 420/550, with colour illustrations by Beatrice Parsons, Thorburn, etc, and second series of the same, 1924, numbered 424/550, both folio, in maroon cloth gilt, the first sympathetically rebound. (2)
Arthur Grove & Arthur Disbrowe Cotton - A Supplement to Elwes' Monograph of the Genus Lilium, Illustrated by Lilian Snelling, parts 1-7, 1933-1940, large folio 57 x 39cm, together with W. B. Turrill - A Supplement to Elwes' Monograph of the Genus Lilium..., Illustrated by Margaret Stones, Parts 8 & 9, London: Royal Horticultural Society, 1962, one of 40 with hand-coloured plates. (2)
° ° The Self-Interpreting Bible, with an evangelical commentary, by the late Revd. John Brown.....2 vols. (in one). portrait frontispieces, engraved pictorial title (general title) and printed title (NT), num. plates; earlier 19th century blind-ruled and gilt lettered black morocco, ge., folio, London: R. Evans, 1814 and Thomas Kelly, 1820
° ° Hale, Kathleen - Orlando ... Buys a Farm. First edition, Country Life & NY., Transatlantic Arts, 1942; (Same Author) - Orlando ... A Camping Holiday. Country Life & NY., Charles Scribner's Sons, reprinted 1942; Orlando ... A Trip Abroad. Country Life, reprinted 1942; all in same pictorial wrappers format, & with coloured illus. throughout; sold together with: Hale, Kathleen - "Henrietta", the Faithful Hen. First edition. coloured pictorial title and illus; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, patterned e/ps., oblong 4to. Transatlantic Arts, 1943; De Brunhoff, Laurent - Picnic at Barbar's. First edition. coloured pictorial title and illus.; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, folio. 1950 (5)
A folio of various engraved maps, coloured in outline, including the County of Somerset; the County of Wilts, both by Emanuel Bowen, Thomas Telford’s London to Morpeth Mail Road Index Map, 1827, on 18 sheets, sundry 18th century receipts, relating to the Sun Fire Office, the Phoenix Assurance Company and others, together with various pamphletsand indentures.
Sealed commission (in Dutch) issued by the States-General of the United Netherlands to Henry Crofts, knight, as a captain in the regiment commanded by Henry de Vere, eighteenth earl of Oxford; The Hague, 28 August 1624 Registered folio 336 [of a now lost register, to which however an index survives: Netherlands National Archives 1.01.19]Endorsed: registered by the Council of State of the United Provinces in the presence of Maurits Huygens, 2 September 1624Red wax seal, the counterseal of the United Provinces, showing a hand issuing from the clouds holding a sheaf of arrows, banded with the inscription CONCORDIA; legend: * SIGILLVM ORDINVM BELGII ADVERSVMInk on parchment, 23 x 49cmsFollowing a treaty between the United Provinces of the Netherlands and the English Crown of June 1624, 6,000 English troops, divided into 12 companies, were sent to assist the Dutch in their rebellion against the forces of Spain. On 27 August the States-General of the United Provinces commissioned four English noblemen as colonels of the four regiments into which the force was divided (Netherlands National Archives 1.01.02 12270 folio 388): Robert Bertie, first earl of Lindsey (1582–1642), Henry de Vere, eighteenth earl of Oxford (1593–1625), Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton (1573–1624) and Robert Devereux, third earl of Essex (1591–1646).By late August all four regiments were in The Hague, where they joined up with 4,000 Dutch troops. Their task was to relieve the siege of Breda, in which they failed, with the loss of many of the recruits and of the Earl of Southampton.The English captain to whom the commission was granted is almost certainly the Sir Henry Crofts (c1590-1667) of Little Saxham in Suffolk, who in February of 1624 had been elected MP for Eye in Suffolk. In 1607 he had attended a military academy at Angers (History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629.Maurits Huygens (1595-1642) was appointed secretary of the Council of State on 9 January 1624 (Netherlands National Archives 1.01.02 12270 folio 380); his portrait, painted by Rembrandt in 1632, is at the Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
BOOKS, three boxes containing approximately eighty-three miscellaneous titles, mostly relating to Travel and History of Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, England and the Aegean with works by Arthur Bryant, Edward Hutton, Lovett F. Edwards, Brian Adis, Archibald Lyall, Anthony Rhodes, etc, together with seventeen titles published by The Folio Society with works by Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain, Sir John Barrow, Noel Coward, G.M Trevelyan and others (3 boxes)
The Punishments of China, Illustrated By Twenty-Two Engravings: With Explanations In English and French, London: Printed For William Miller, Albemarle Street, By S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street. 1808. With five raised bands, a gilt title and gilt devices on the spine, tooled in gilt with blindstamped covers, blank endpapers, and there are two title pages: one in English and the other in French, and the French title follows the English title. The French title is Les Punitions De Chinois, Representes En Vingt-Deux Gravures: Avec Des Explications En Anglais Et En Francais, there are 22 hand-colored stipple-engraved plates, and all the edges are gilt, in a full red straight-grained morocco. The first edition was issued in 1801, followed by a second edition in 1804, and this edition was published in 1808. The text is based on the experiences of George Henry Mason (1770 - 1851), a British army officer who traveled to Canton in 1789, making drawings of the costumes and customs of the region, including these rather disturbing images of torture and execution in China. Canton was one of only two cities in China that outsiders could visit, and he became an author of two influential works, The Costume of China and The Punishments of China. This folio measures 14 1/4 x 10 5/8 in. wide, with exquisite covers, the plates and binding are tight and secure, with just a hint of occasional spots. A rare look at customs and punishments outside this country, with spell-binding plates that make you think about the way people were punished years ago for petty, and sometimes serious, crimes.
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