Baybridge Canal, Sussex. A pair of broadsides relating to the canal construction and later closure, 1825 & 1875 respectively, the first entitled 'Baybridge Canal. To Riverdiggers, Excavators, Bricklayers, and others. Notice is hereby given, that the Baybridge Canal Company will receive tenders for excavating the canal, and for building 2 locks thereon, with bridges, tumble bays, and sluices..., tenders to be delivered at Burrells' Arms Inn... the 16th of September... Arthur Mant, Clerk to the Company, Storrington, 8th September, 1825', light spotting, folio (33 x 21 cm), and the second entitled 'Baybridge Canal, in the Parishes of West Grinstead and Ashurst, Sussex. Notice is hereby given that ... the above canal will be closed for traffic from and after the 1st day of September, 1875..., Geo. French Mant, Clerk to the Company of Proprietors of the Baybridge Canal, Storrington, 26th July, 1875, with old folds, folio (43 x 34.5 cm), together with:Act of Parliament, An Act for making and maintaining a navigable cut or canal from the river Adur, at or near Binesbridge in the parish of West Grinsted in the county of Sussex, to Baybridge in the said parish, 22d June, 1825, 80pp., ownership inscription at head of first leaf of Sir Charles Burrell, Knepp Castle, Sussex, side-stiched as issued, folio, plus a bill regarding the closure of the canal in 1875 and few other related ephemeral itemsQTY: (approx. 10)
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Medema (Steven G. & Warren J. Samuels). Historians of Economics and Economic Thought..., 1st edition, London: Routledge, 2001, some pencil annotations, original boards, front boards slight marked, 8vo, together with;Cannan (Edwin), The Economic Outlook, 4 volumes, reprint edition, London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1997, original uniform red cloth, 8vo, plus other modern miscellaneous literature & reference books, including publications by the Universities of Chicago, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves )
Glasgow, 28th September 1839 - 18th September 1841. Book published under the superintendence of the Universal Suffrage Central Committee for Scotland. Printed by W & W Miller, 90 Bell Street, 1841. Issue nos. 1 - 104, folio, 436pp, full leather boards with gilt lettered spine, boards edges are bruised and rubbed, stained and water damaged. Foxing and staining throughout.
Ɵ A GROUP OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. 21 vol. mixed editions, mostly 4to. and folio, original cloth, gilt. comprises: GILBERT, Sir John. The Library Shakspeare. (circa1890). 4to, complete, 9 vol., original decorative gilt green cloth, all edges gilt, with Notes, Critical and Explanatory by Samuel Neil; HUGHES, William. Philips' Select Atlas of Modern Geography. New and Enlarged edition, 1885; FISHER, Thomas. Collections Historical, Genealogical and Topographical, for Bedfordshire. 1812-1836; The Art Journal. 1850, vol. XII; LYSONS, Rev. Daniel. Magna Britannia. 1813, vol. 1, part 1, containing Bedfordshire; FINN, Frank and HINTON, Martin A.C. Hutchinson's Animals of All Countries (circa. 1900). 2 vol; MORRIS, Rev. F.O. [Editor]. A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain. (circa 1880). six vol. (Qty. 21).Condition Report: boards rubbed and worn, extremities scuffed and worn, gilt faded to some volumes, Lysons' Magna Britannia with defective spine, mostly clean bright plates and illustrations.Condition Report Disclaimer
A George III mahogany metamorphic folio table,early 19th century, the leather inset top lifting to reveal two fold-out ladder sections, raised on square tapering reeded legs, terminating in castors,112cm wide62cm deep65cm highProvenance: The Gordon Gridley Collection, London.Leather cracked and faded, action opens and functions as it should, appears to have been historically repaired with a section of replacement timber visible from one end, casters tarnished and knocked, solid structural condition.
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[Mostyn John Armstrong]: 'The History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk', 1781, vols 3-7, comprising vol 3 Hundreds of North & South Erpingham, Eynsford, 10 engraved plates including Wolterton Hall, Barningham Hall, Cromer, Felbrigg Hall, Hanworth Hall, Gunton Hall, Baconsthorpe Hall, Heydon Hall folding plate after a drawing by Humphry Repton, etc; vol 4 Hundreds of East & West Flegg, Forehoe, 5 engraved plates including Great Yarmouth, Wymondham Abbey, Cossey Hall, Easton Lodge etc; vol 5 Freebridge Lynn, Freebridge Marshland and Gallow, folding map of fens + 7 engraved plates including Houghton Hall, Castle-Acre Castle, Castle-Acre Monastery, Rising Castle, Lynn Regis (King's Lynn), Middleton Castle, portrait of Robert Walpole etc; vol 6 North & South Greenhoe, Grimshoe & Guiltcross, 6 engraved plates including Binham Priory, Walsingham Abbey, South view Walsingham Abbey, portrait Sir Henry Spelman, Holham Hall folding plate North & South elevation, Hillborowe Park House etc; vol 7 Happing, Henstead, Holt, Humbleyard and Loddon, engraved plates Bixley Hall, Venta Icenorum, Melton Constable Hall, Ditchingham Hall, uniform contemporary calf gilt (very worn); together with Edward Preston Willins: 'Some of the Old Halls and Manor Houses in the County of Norfolk', 1890, limited edition (numbered 140), 50 plates, folio, original cloth gilt; plus Charles Green: 'The History, Antiquities, & Geology, of Bacton, in Norfolk', Norwich, Josiah Fletcher, 1842, etched frontis of Bromholme Priory, double page geological plate, double page engraved plate of skeletal remains + 1 other engraved plate of skeleton, contemporary cloth worn; plus catalogues of contents sale of "The Hall, Shipdham, Norfolk, 1921", and "West Mill, Horringer Road, Bury St Edmunds, 1945", each original cloth backed covers (9)
(Crimean War, Illustrated London News), two bound volumes of 'The Illustrated London News', comprising a composite bound volume with issues dating from April 7th-September 29th 1855, much Crimean War content and illustrations, several full page engraved illustrations, including funeral of Lord Raglan before Sebastopol and Kazatch Bay; double page engraving 'The Fall of Sebastopol - capture of the Malakoff Tower), plus many other Crimean War engraved illustrations etc; other content/illustrations including Napoleon; sailing of the Baltic Fleet; double page engraving of fireworks at Versailles; eruption of Vesuvius, etc, folio, original publisher's pictorial cloth gilt (very worn); together with I.L.N. volume 28, January-June 1856, large engraved folding map of the Crimea and adjacent coasts (approx. 57x80cm), and verso engraved illustration 'The Allied Commanders in Crimea', large closed tear, some wear at folds etc; plus much other content Crimean War and Crimean War peace celebrations, engraved ills. including fireworks in Victoria Park, illuminations at the National Gallery and The Strand, fireworks in Phoenix Park, Dublin etc; other content/ills. including Falkland Islands; Nassau, Bahamas; Santhal Insurrection; Valparaiso & Santiago Railway, etc, folio, old cloth very worn, large piece of backstrip detached (2)
(China, Franco-Prussian War), 'The Illustrated London News', two bound volumes, comprising January-June 1861, volume 38, profusely illustrated with black & white engravings, some double page, many full page, engravings/content including China, Chinese New Year, Treaty of Peking after Second Opium War, engraved ills of domestic life in China and Chinese New Year, arrival of Chinese indemnity money, etc etc; plus other content/engravings slavery in America, American civil war, American railway; relief of Lucknow; great fire Southwark; full page engraving the Vigia, Madeira; Omnibus accident Dublin, etc etc, lacks coloured engravings as often; together with July-December 1870, volume 57, profusely illustrated with black & white engravings, some double page, many full page, engravings/content including full page engraving I-chang gorge, upper Yangtze, China; double page engraving queen's garden party, Windsor; much content/ills. Franco-Prussian War incl double page engravings Battle of sedan and Surrender of Metz; other content/ills Sri Lanka/Ceylon including Kandy; great fire of Constantinople; exhibition building, Sydney NSW; all England croquet club at Wimbledon, etc etc, each folio, original publisher's pictorial cloth gilt (2)
(Chicago great fire, Franco-Prussian war), 'The Illustrated London News', two bound volumes, comprising January-June 1871, volume 58, profusely illustrated with black & white engravings, some double page, many full page, much Franco-Prussian war content and engravings; other content/ills. including full page illustration of Danube iron gate; entry of Viceroy of India into Jeypore; fire at Fort Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand; etc etc, folio, original publisher's pictorial cloth gilt; July-December 1871, volume 59, 3 large folding coloured plates (each with closed tears a/f), profusely illustrated with black & white engravings, some double page, many full page, much Franco-Prussian war content and engravings; other content/ills. including Chicago, incl. full page engraving 'The Great Fire at Chicago: Bird's Eye View of the City', plan of Chicago and other great fire of Chicago content/ills.; gun cotton explosion at Stowmarket; full page engravings of forest fires in America; siege operations at Chatham dockyards; scene of the murder of Bishop Patteson, Santa Cruz, Pacific ocean, etc etc, folio, contemporary half calf gilt, top board detached (but present) (2)
(Marc Chagall, Joan Miro), 'Verve. An Artistic and Literary Quarterly', Volume 1, No.3, Paris, June 1938, 4 coloured lithograph plates by Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Rattner & Paul Klee, plus 8 full page coloured lithograph ills. on 6 plates 'The Indian Pantheon', depicting Vishnu, Demons of Ceylon etc, plus coloured plates by Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard etc, plus numerous other plates including heliogravure photographs etc as called for, folio, original pictorial colour wraps by Pierre Bonnard
Guillaume Hoffman; F. Kellerhoven: 'Les Arts et Industrie: recueil de dessins relatifs a` l'art de la de´coration chez tous les peuples et aux plus belles e´poques de leur civilisation', Paris, Gide et J. Gaudry, 1853, 1st series, pp(6),3,2,2,3, many colour and other plates by Kellerhoven, list of plates calls for 36 colour and 42 uncoloured, this copy appears to lack plates VIII & XXXVI of the colour plates, 42 listed uncoloured plates all present but some in fact coloured, folio, old half calf gilt (very worn); together with portfolio of plates for Armstrong's "Turner", Agnew & Scribners, plus Bernard Smith: 'Sketches Abroad', 1876, 32 plates as called for, folio, orig. quarter cloth (3)
A large folio volume containing 250+ mainly 18th Century engraved heraldic bookplates, various sizes, some full page and bound in, others smaller and mounted to leaves, some hand coloured, a few 17th Century and probably also a small number early 19th Century, folio, olf hald calf (worn), armorial bookplate to front pastedown of George Henry Sutherland
Plutarch: 'The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea...', London, Richard Field, 1612[-1610], 2 parts in 1 volume, 1244,[31]pp, wood engraved headpiece portraits within ornamental borders throughout, title page close trimmed and laid down on a later blank leaf, 2 preliminary leaves and first leaf of text provided in facsimile (A3,A4 & pp1/2), final leaf of table [pp31] with wood engraved colophon and laid down on blue paper (not recent), separate printed title page for 'The lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the elder, and of Octauius Cæsar Augustus', with imprint Richard Field, 1610, continuous pagination, pp1244 with wood engraved colophon and manuscript inscription beneath "Henry Marsham Serjeant in the Western Battalion of the Norfolk Militia Inlisted in the year 1759", folio, full calf (circa 18th/19th Century). A scarce edition of Plutarch's important work, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD, a biography of famous Greeks and Romans
(Charles Dickens) Thomas Archer. Charles Dickens. A Gossip about his Life, Works, and Characters. With Eighteen Full-Page Character Sketches ... by Frederick Barnard. Cassell, c. 1894. Large folio. Photogravure plates, text illustrations. Original half morocco; spine rubbed and snagged; (with) Charles Dickens. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With Forty-Three Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. 1837. Plates complete, with usual discolouration. Original cloth worn; spine defective. Contents shaken. First edition in book form.(with); ditto. Bleak House. 1853. & Little Dorrit. 1857. Both firsts in book form, in contemporary calf. Both lacking one plate (4)
(Captain Cook's Voyages, Age of Discovery, Pacific Ocean), William George Anderson: 'A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, undertaken and performed by Royal Authority. Containing an Authentic, Entertaining, Full, and Complete History of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, Undertaken by Order of his present Majesty, for making New Discoveries in Geography, Navigation, Astronomy, &c. in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres &c.', London, Alex Hogg, [1784], a/f, title page trimmed, some part losses, and laid down on card, Preface leaf (iii/iv), close trimmed and with professional repairs, but all printed text present, these housed loose at front together with large part of original front blank leaf, this with contemporary ownership signatures, folding general chart with large part loss and professional repairs, not including the defective general chart at front, 153 engraved plates, maps and charts present, including the 'Death of Cook' plate present, collations call for 156 or 157 plates/maps/charts in total, so lacking entirely only 2 or 3 plates, of the 153 plates present, plate 47 with large closed tear; plate 49 trimmed/part loss at lower margin (just affecting text of caption, not affecting image); plate 60 large part loss; plate 127 very large part loss; plates 152 & 153 marginal repairs/marginal professional restoration, lacking leaves at end from pp647-655, last leaf present (p645/646), loose, part loss at foot affecting text, some repairs/restoration, final few leaves bound in with some marginal professional repairs/restoration, folio, rebound modern cloth. Beddie 18 (cf. 17 & 19); Hill (1974) p. 5. 'An important compilation of English voyages richly illustrated with 157 engraved maps and plates. Anderson sometimes gives the original accounts, others are edited or abridged versions, and frequently additional materials, from other sources, are added to give scope and depth ot the narratives' (Hill). The plates include new engravings from the famous portraits and views by William Hodges and other artists which illustrate Cook's three voyages. The other voyages collected are those of Byron, Anson, Carteret, Wallis, Mulgrave, and Drake.
Nine volumes on mapping, cartography and exploration, including V.Virga: 'Cartographia. Mapping Civilizations', 2008; McNally: 'Atlas of Columbus and the Great Discoveries', 1990; A & M Baynton-Williams: 'New Worlds. Maps from the Age of Discovery', Quercus, 2006, 1st edition; Putman: 'Early Sea Charts', 1983, etc etc, all folio/elephant folio/oblong folio, all in dust wrappers (9)
(Athens, 18th Century Neo Classical Revival), James Stuart & Nicholas Revett: 'The Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated', London, John Haberkorn, 1762, 1st edition, volume 1, a/f copy, all leaves with loss top right corner (mainly marginal and not generally not affecting text or engraved image of leaves of lates), 71 engraved plates, including double page engraved view of Athens from Mount Anchesmus (a/f, marginal losses, some closed tears and repairs, waterstaining) and other engraved views, plans, sculptures etc, some by James Basire (some plates with closed tears, some marginal part losses etc), plus vignette title page and vignette head and tail pieces. Elephant folio, old quarter calf (boards worn), later rebacked, new pastedowns/EPs. James "Athenian" Stuart and Nicholas Revett's monumental Antiquities of Athens was the first accurate survey of ancient Greek architecture. Based on precise measured drawings done at the sites of ancient ruins between 1751 and 1754, these books fueled the Greek Revival movement that dominated British, European, and American architecture and design for over a century.
A Victorian photograph album containing approximately 130 albumen print and other mounted photographs circa 1881, topgraphical and architectural views of Richmond, Surrey; Lincoln; Isle of Wight; South & North Wales; Devon; Bournemouth etc, all photos with neat contemporary pen & ink captions and headings to card leaves, neat and elaborate pen & ink ownership name "Marian M Clarke. 1881" to first card leaf, folio, contemporary gilt ruled black morocco (slightly scuffed/worn), all edges gilt
Fashion. Le Goût Parisien: Journal de Modes Trimestriel, three volumes, fourth, fifth and sixth years (only), adverts at end bound in, chromo title and whole and double page illustrations with further illustrations in the text, original pictorial cloth with holly design, folio, Paris: M Dubosclard, Spring 1891, Autumn 1892 and Spring 1893
H. Harvey Wood "Poems And Fables Of Robert Henryson" 1st Edition published by Oliver & Boyd 1933, D. H. Lawrence "Mornings In Mexico" 1st Edition published by Martin Secker 1927, Lawrence Binyon "The Sirens & The Idols" published by Macmillan & Co Ltd 1925, H. Rider Haggard "Colonel Quaritch" Published by Longmans Green & Co 1907, Walter Frere "A Devotional Book Of John Evelyn Of Wotton" 1sr Edition published by John Murray 1936, George Bull "The Prince" 2nd Impression published by the Folio Society 1972, Rudyard Kipling "Barrack-Room Ballads" published by Methuen & Co Ltd, A. A. Thompson "The Burns We Love" 2nd Printing X2 published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd, Henry Tennyson Folkard "Painters And Painting" published by James Starr 1904 (11)
Antiquarian. Bankes, Thomas; Blake, Edward Warren; & Cook Alexander - System of Universal Geography Antient and Modern: &c. London: J. Cooke. No date, circa late 18th century. Thick Folio. 990pp. Appears complete with 22 maps (12 folding, 10 single page) and 88 plates. Most of the folding maps are worn with tears and creases, the plates and single page maps are in better condition. Practically disbound with detached boards and exposed cords. A 'good' copy only. (1)
Jeff KOONS. New York, 2007. Taschen. Textes : Katy Siegel, Ingrid Sischy, Eckhard Scheider. In-folio, cartonnage illustré de l'éditeur. Reliure toilée ornée d'un motif de homard contrecollé, emboîtage toilé rouge estampé du titre en lettre argentée. Édition collector limitée à 1.500 exemplaires, numérotés et signés par Jeff Koons, exemplaire n°0872. Dans son carton d'emballage d'origine.
Paul Jones: 'Flora Magnifica', Selected and Painted by the Artist, Text by Wilfred Blunt, Foreword by Professor E. G. Waterhouse, published The Tryon Gallery 1976, limited edition 81/506 signed by the artist, additional half title, sixteen colour plates, each with tissue guard, top edge gilt, publisher's half vellum gilt, slim tall folio, contained in cloth slipcase, 54 by 38 by 2.5cm overall.
Mdahoma, Sauda; A is for Addis Ababa : Ethiopia through the alphabet, illustrated by Sari Nordberg, published by KenFin, Kenya, 2002, together with Chobi Mela V ‘Freedom’2009, photography publication to coincide with the International Festival of Photography in Bangladesh and Folio Society; Wonders of the World, Theodore K. Rabb, Jonathan Glancey, Simon Goldhill, Richard Barber, published 2006. (3)
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