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Lot 566
Doves Press.- English Bible (The), containing the Old Testament & the New Translated out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty King James the First, 5 vol., one of 500 copies, original limp vellum, tiny hole to spine vol. 3, expertly restored and now barely perceptible, folio, Hammersmith, Doves Press, 1903-05.⁂ An excellent copy of the only folio printed by Cobden-Sanderson and the magnus opus of the Doves Press, described by Stanley Morison as representing "the finest achievement of modern English printing". Four Centuries of Fine Printing.
Lot 58
Fryer (John) A New Account of East-India and Persia, first edition, half-title with engraved portrait on verso, title printed in red and black, 7 engraved plates and maps, 3 folding, and one full-page engraved map in text with printed slip pasted below, engraved or woodcut illustrations, plan of Fort St.George loose, some light browning, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed and scuffed, rebacked preserving old spine with red morocco label, corners repaired, [Wing F2257], folio, R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri. Chiswell, 1698.⁂ In 1672 Fryer embarked on a 10-year tour to India, Goa, the Arab Gulf and Persia, before returning to England. The work includes a detailed account of Surat and Muscat and mentions pirates in the Gulf, and the natural history of the region.
Lot 69
Herbert (Sir Thomas) A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, begunne Anno 1626. Into Afrique and the greater Asia..., first edition, lacking initial blank but with additional engraved pictorial title 'A Description of the Persian Monarchy...' by William Marshall and final colophon leaf, woodcut decorations and initials, engraved maps and illustrations in text, tears to B3, M2, Ee2 & 3 repaired (mostly marginal), later manuscript note to margin of Ff1 by mention of Madoc ap Owen first discovering America, bookplate of D.G.Mackenzie, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, new morocco label, corners repaired, new endpapers, note re repairs by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in 1965 to rear pastedown, [STC 13190; Sabin 31471], folio, by William Stansby and Jacob Bloome, 1634.⁂ Including extensive information on the Persian empire and an illustration of a dodo on p.212. One of two variant imprints.
Lot 78
La Loubère (Simon de) A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam, 2 vol. in 1, first English edition, title in red and black, 2 engraved maps and 9 plates, occasional browning, slight worming to upper margin of final few leaves, later calf, gilt, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, new red roan labels, rubbed, corners repaired, [Wing L201], folio, by F[rancis] L[each] for Tho. Horne...Francis Saunders...and Tho. Bennet, 1693.⁂ A good copy of La Loubère's important account of his voyage to Siam (now Thailand), notable for its publication of the 'Siamese method' of constructing magic squares, and for one of the earliest accounts of a parachute.
Lot 3
Allman, George James, Folio Edition of Fresh Water Polyzoa, 1886, Allman, George James, Folio Edition of ' A Monograph of the Fresh Water Polyzoa including all the known species both British and foreign..., printed for the Ray Society, London 1886' half calf with marbled endpapers, with 11 hand-coloured plates, light foxing to pages and plates, wear to edges of spine and corners. - Microscopes & Microscopy
Lot 1256
Jurisprudentia Publica Universalis2° Folio. Franz Schmier (1679-1728). Salzburg, 1722. Ex Jure Tum Naturali, Tum Divino Positivo, Nec Non Jure Gentium Nova Et Scientifia Methodo Derivata, Et Juris Publici Facta. In geprägtem Schweinsledereinband mit Metallschließen. Nicht kollationiert.Anmerkung: Ein gleiches Exemplar in München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2 Ph.pr. 38. (1300911) (13)
Lot 175
Y A GEORGE III ROSEWOOD SIDE CABINETATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1800With partridge wood, tulipwood and satinwood banding, the fabric pleated doors enclosing adjustable shelves91cm high, 102cm wide, 34.5cm deepThis superbly well made side cabinet is very similar to a rosewood side cabinet supplied by Gillows in 1801 to Luke Dillon, 2nd Lord Cronbrook for Cronbrook, Co, Galway, Illustrated in Frances Collard, Regency Furniture, London, 1985, p.83. A Gillows design from 1803 shows a rosewood side cabinet with pleated silk lined doors, closely related banding to the top and columns, and described as having '..white strings let in to each column'. (Estimate Sketch Books folio no.1715). Condition Report: There are some marks, scratches and abrasions consistent with age and use.Some sun fading so that the left side and other areas are slightly darker in colour.Overall the side cabinet is clean with some small replacements to, for example, line inlay and veneers.The lock is original, but lacking the metal section on the adjacent door in which to engage. There is a key that is probably a replacement, which turns the lock.The interior is painted to simulate rosewood with two adjustable shelves.The back is stained pine of panelled construction.Please see the additional photographs as a visual reference of condition. Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 377
Y A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD DAVENPORTATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1825With a pen drawer, slide and side drawers 90.5cm high, 50cm wide, 57cm deepA drawing by Gillows for this design of davenport, dated 1819, is held in the Westminster City Archives (ref: 344/100 folio 3003)Condition Report: Marks, knocks, scratches and abrasions commensurate with age and use. Some old splits and chips. The tooled leather inset surface is possibly original and bears the expected wear and losses. One small ivory handle to interior drawers is loose. Some knocks to pierced gallery. No keys present, all locks are open. One drawer with lock plate lacking. Section of moulding at the top of one turned corner section is detached but present. The sliding top is slightly 'sticky' when moved. Please refer to additional images for visual reference to condition. Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 441
A REGENCY MAHOGANY ADJUSTABLE FOLIO STAND CIRCA 1820 Bearing an inset label for 'FARTHING & THORNHILL, 42 CORNHILL' 101.5m high, the base 75cm wide, 61cm deep overallProvenance: Dr & Mrs P.G. WakelyA near identical example of this folio stand was sold Christie's, Important English Furniture, 30th November 2000, Lot 255 (£8,225). Condition Report: There are some marks, scratches and abrasions consistent with age and use.Overall the piece is cleaned, the finish fine, dark and matt. There are some restorations including some filler and repairs to some corners of the folio rest, to the hinge area of a turned stretchers, some later screws to the brass cappings on the feet etc and elsewhere, making the folio stand in good useable condition.Please refer to the additional images for a visual reference of condition. Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 221
The Folio Society, 'Dante's Inferno', by William Blake, together with a Dante Purgatorio by Salvador Dali, and Dante Paradiso by Giovani Di Paolo. All in original slip cases and with leather back silk boards. (3) (B.P. 21% + VAT)Light mould marks to spines of two volumes, books appear hardly opened and good. Sleeve have minor scuffs in places.
Lot 686
The Ordnance Survey: an Atlas of England & Wales, lge. ob. 4to, cloth, illus. with 1/4"-1 mile, linen-backed maps printed in colour, 1922; O'Donoghue (Yolande) and Harley (J.D.) The Old Series Ordnance Survey Maps of England & Wales, 3 vols, folio, cloth, illus. with facsimile maps, 1975, with d.ws; and a reproduction of John Ogilby's Britannia, ob. folio, cloth, illus. 1939.
Lot 713
Hair (T.H.) Views of the Collieries in the Counties of Northumberland & Durham, folio, cloth, illus., facsimile edition by Davis Books 1987, 2 copies; Hedley (W. Percy) Northumberland Families, Vol. 2, lge. 4to, cloth, illus. with genealogical tables, Newcastle 1970, with d.w.; The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore & Legend, 4 vols. in printed cloth, and 1 vol. in paper covers; and Richardson (M.A.) The Local Historian's Table Book: Legendary & Historical, 8 vols, 8vo, half-calf and marbled boards, illus., Newcastle 1841-1846; and three pamphlets on local history.
Lot 727
Bewick (Thomas) A Specimen Album of Wood-Cuts, folio, half-morocco, illus., various artists, n.d.; and Stephens (S.G.) Notes On A Collection of Drawings and Wood-Cuts, by Thomas Bewick, Exhibited 1880, 4to, gilt-calf, illus. with original wood engravings, published by The Fine Art Society, 1881.
Lot 688
Grey (The Hon. & Rev. Francis Richard) (b.1813-d.1890) Voyage of the Abbess of S. Hilda from Whitby to Holy Island (from Marmion canto II 1 & 8), a collection of 13 small grisaille wash drawings illustrating the verses of Sir Walter Scott, with manuscript text and title page, all contained in an oblong folio, gilt-morocco binding, the preliminary page bearing an inscription in pencil "While the Patient Sketch Ever harder" and "Given me by Lady Georgina Grey, 1890".
Lot 3169
FACCIOLATI, Jacapo. Totius Latinitatis Lexicon Consilio et Cura. Padua: John Manfré, 1771. 4 vols., folio (373 x 250mm.) Title in red and black, engraved initials and headpieces. (Toning, occasional wave and creasing to the text-block, browning.) Mid-19th century green half morocco over green buckram-covered boards, gilt lettering to spines (rubbing to all extremities, tear to cloth of lower cover of volume 4, some fading). Note: a significant work of scholarship in which Facciolati's pupil, Egido Forcellini, played a significant part. It was said that if Latin were to die as a language then it could be reconstituted from these four volumes (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3150
[PICKETT, William. Twenty-Four Plates divided into ninety-six specimens of cottages, wind-mills, turnpikes… intended to facilitate the improvement of the student, and to aid the practitioner, in landscape composition. London: T. Clay, 1812.] Oblong folio (293 x 465mm.) 24 plates with tissue-guards. (Some browning and light marginal spotting to all plates, browning to tissue-guards, lacking title and dedication leaf.) Contemporary red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, later red morocco lettering piece to the upper cover (rubbing to extremities).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3185
GRUEBER, Herbert. Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Death of George II. London: British Museum, 1911. 4 vols. [of 6, plate vols. only], folio (403 x 279mm.) 183 plates. (Toning, first 10 plates reproduced in facsimile.) Original blue cloth (unevenly browned, light rubbing) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
![GAMBADO, Geoffrey. [Henry William BUNBURY.] An Academy for Grown Horsemen; containing the Completest Instructions for Walking](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/808f7bd6-fdcb-44d9-bbae-ae5c00cb26f3/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3086
GAMBADO, Geoffrey. [Henry William BUNBURY.] An Academy for Grown Horsemen; containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling. London: W. Baynes, 1808. Third edition, 4to (309 x 245mm.) In 2 parts, with separate title for 'Annals of Horsemanship', 29 hand-coloured plates. (Toning, stamps to all plate margins, blanks replaced.) Early 20th century red straight-grain morocco, raised bands to spine with elaborate foliate gilt to five compartments, covers with gilt borders of trailing foliate, g.e. (marks to covers, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Worthing Library (bookplate to front pastedown, stamps to plate margins). - And a further two volumes related to early 19th century art (Edward Edwards' 'Anecdotes of Painters', 1808, 4to, and six leaves from George Cruikshank's 'Scraps and Sketches' [of 24], 1828, oblong folio) (3).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
![ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Liber Amoris. [n.d. circa 1900.] 13pp., manuscript, small folio (209 x 138mm.) Vellum paper, title in](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/6676973e-cbc1-4ab7-a3a5-ae5c00caa3b2/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3014
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Liber Amoris. [n.d. circa 1900.] 13pp., manuscript, small folio (209 x 138mm.) Vellum paper, title in red with a vignette of red and gold, decorative initial with gold lettering, elaborate varicoloured depiction of Jesus with decorative and landscape background and gold lettering, calligraphic manuscript in blue of religious excerpts with gold initials. (Leaves loose, toning.) Contemporary decorative cloth-covered boards (unstitched, slight fading).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3089
COX, David. A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours: from the first Rudiments to the Finished Picture. London: for S. and J. Fuller, 1814. First edition, second issue, oblong folio (290 x 466mm.) Title, dedication, advertisement, 54 plates, comprising 23 soft-ground etchings, 16 uncoloured aquatints and 15 hand-coloured aquatint. (Toning, browning to some margins, occasional minor soiling, lacking 1 soft-ground etching and 1 hand-coloured aquatint plate.) Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, brown morocco lettering piece to the upper cover (rubbing to all extremities).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3064
HAUTE-COUTURE. Revue Mensuelle Illustrée, des Arts Décoratifs appliqueés à la Femme. Paris: Goupil & Cie., 1904-1907. 4 vols., nos.37-86, folio (347 x 260mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations and advertisements, original wrappers bound-in. (Mild toning.) Mid-20th century brown half cloth over paper-covered boards (some damp-staining to spine of volume 5, occasional mark to cloth) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3045
MANUSCRIPT. [A presentation gift to an employee of the Southern Division of the London and North Western Railway Company. N.p.:] 1909.Small folio (250 x 193mm.) Varicoloured hand-painted dedication leaf to 'H.A. Walker', hand-written address with elaborate hand-painted border, 25 leaves of names and job-titles of employees in manuscript of the Southern Division of the London and North Western Railway Company. (Mild toning.) Contemporary black morocco bound by Kelly & Sons, company device in gilt on upper cover surrounded by elaborate foliate and floral design with red, green and tan morocco inlays, gilt to spine, elaborate gilt turn-ins, moiré silk endpapers, g.e. (small marks to lower cover).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3167
CROKER, Temple Henry. The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. In Which the Whole Circle of Human Learning is Explained. London: for the Authors, 1764. Vol. 1 (only), folio (357 x 219mm.) Engraved allegorical frontispiece, 54 engraved plates. (Toning, minor spotting to margins, tear to plate 19 and leaf 7I.) Contemporary calf (lacking the lettering pieces, heavily rubbed). - And a further three volumes (including 'A List of All the Officers of the Army', 1780, 4to) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3176
NATTES, John Claude. Scotia Depicta: or, the Antiquities, Castles, Public Buildings, Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats, Cities, Towns, and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland. London: H.R. Young, 1819. Large paper copy, folio (421 x 266mm.) 49 copper-engraved plates each with descriptive text leaf, engraved vignette to rear. (Light to moderate marginal spotting to most plates, seven plates to rear with marginal damp-staining, offsetting to text leaf.) Contemporary straight-grain morocco, gilt and blind-stamped rectangles to cover, elaborate gilt to spine, g.e. (upper cover nearly detached, heavily rubbed extremities).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3188
HILL, George Francis. A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance Before Cellini. Firenze: Studio per Edizioni Scelte, 1984. 2 vols., reprint, folio (329 x 235mm.) 201 plates. (Toning.) Dark blue cloth-backed paper-covered boards, dust-jackets (minor rubbing to extremities). Note: a reprint of the 1930 first edition (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
![MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written chronicle of 16th,17th and 18th century English history. N.p.: circa 1830.] 372pp., folio (373 x](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c4955ea-466f-4e7c-9a82-ae5800e37c13/d8e81ef4-67f7-4fd3-aad4-ae5c00cbcba5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3170
MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written chronicle of 16th,17th and 18th century English history. N.p.: circa 1830.] 372pp., folio (373 x 235mm.) Written in a single legible hand, 76pp. to rear of rent and tithe charges for landowners in the Lincolnshire area. (Toning.) Contemporary reversed calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rubbing to extremities, scuffed).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3179
FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. London: The Folio Society, 2008. Facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer, folio (413 x 293mm.) Afterword by William S. Peterson, including publisher's prospectus. (Mild toning.) Original russet cloth, decorative gilt, slipcase (a few marks and fading to spine panel).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
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