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Click here to subscribeA late Victorian photograph album of European and British topographical views, predominantly Switzerland, France, and Belgium, some noted English churches and their interiors, occasionally annotated in ink MS, contemporary black morocco binding, tooled in gilt and blind, moiré endpapers, large oblong folio (31cm x 44cm), [1]
Australasia, The State of Tasmania, Australia - a late Victorian photograph album, illustrated with 71 mixed size sepia photographs, each mounted to card leaves and annotated with named-view topography in MS. pencil, including Government House - New Norfolk, the River Derwent of the same, Fern Scenery, Silver Falls - Fern Free Gully, Government House from Rosny, Township of Kingston - Browns River, Part of Hobart Town from Castray Esplanade, Mount Wellington & Holbrook Place, Franklin Square, further urban architecture, ports and ships, mountain and other natural scenery, ferns, etc., very infrequent personages within the plates, contemporary decorative cloth over bevelled boards (disbound), oblong folio (39.5cm x 27.5cm), [1]Provenance: 'From J. Noel White/To H.H. Perkins Esqr/In grateful recognition of his unvarying/courtesy, & many acts of kindness in the past/Hobart 1.1.80' [?Sidney Hobart-Hampden-Mercer, 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire (1860-193), styled Lord Hobart from 1875 to 1885].
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ENGLAND AND WALES,a folio of finely hand coloured geological maps (no. 2 missing), engraved at the Ordnance Survey office, Southampton, variously dated mid-to-late-19th century, all bearing W.H. Milnes printer and stationer, Wakefield stamp, linen backed, each leaf 42cm x 58cmThe sheets are bound into a large folio, the exterior is quite heavily worn and scuffed; the stated scale is ‘Scale of one inch to a Statute Mile’.Page/Map 1 is annotated as ‘Sheet 98 N. E. (New Series Sheet 39)’ but obviously numbered ‘1’ in the top right corner, a Page/Map 2 is missing and resumes at Page/Map 3, annotated as ‘Sheet 98 S. E. (New Series Sheet 49)’, the latest date listed on this map is 1892 relating to certain revisions.The Pages/Maps then proceed numerically according to the numbers printed in bold in the upper right corners #3-30Preceding Page/Map 1 is a partial map of Thirsk and Malton (this torn and discoloured) so a total of 30 maps, 29 (missing Page/Map 2 as stated) are hand coloured geological maps in a numerical series according to the numbers in the upper right.Some example latest listed dates are Page/Map 5 1879, 10 1858, 18 1887, 20 no listed dates, 25 1885, 30 1875.There are marks to the borders of the maps and the leaves as well as some staining, mostly to the backs or ledges of the sheets but occasionally affecting the maps as well as general browning to varying degrees.Additional images illustrating general condition available
THE TEMPLE OF FLORA, OR GARDEN OF THE BOTANIST, POET, PAINTER, AND PHILOSOPHER,Picturesque Botanical Plates, Illustrative of the Sexual System of Carolus Von Linnaeus, facsimile edition, pub. Folio Society, green cloth boards, in slip case (2 vols. including commentary), together with Flora Magnifica by Jones (P.), pub. by the Tryon Gallery London, limited edition no. 8/506, signed by author (3 vols. across 2 slip cases in total)
THE SURINAM ALBUM ISSUED BY THE FOLIO SOCIETY,numbered 202/1000, folio of 91 tipped in facsimilie prints from the Maria Sibylla Merian Collection in the British Museum with the exclusive introduction by Julie Harvey of the Entomology Library at the Natural History Museum, Londonquarter bound in Nigerian goat skin leather and pictorial boards, with original paperwork and certificate, in outer sleeve.
Bronte (Charlotte, Emily & Anne). The Complete Novels, illustrated with wood engravings, 7 vols, gilt tooled green cloth, with slip case, published by The Folio Society 1991, Gaskell (Elizabeth), Sylvia's Lovers, Wives and Daughters, North and South, Mary Barton, 4 vols, with slip cases, published by The Folio Society 2002 - 2005.
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