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Click here to subscribe[HISTORY] Polano, Pietro Soave. The History of the Council of Trent, translated into English by Nathaneal Brent, whereunto is added The Life of the Learned Author and The History of the Inquisition, by Macock, Mearne, Martyn and Herringman, London, 1676, full leather (upper cover lacking leather covering and with loss to upper corner), title page printed in red and black, small folio (some fore-edge wear to pages at either end).
[MISCELLANEOUS]. LAW A Complete Collection of State-Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanours, 11 Ric II (1388) - 16 George III (1777), fourth edition, eleven volumes, for Bathurst et al., London, 1776-81, full leather, folio (some covers detached; most volumes lacking spine labels).
Six large 19th century and earlier monochrome engravings including ‘The Vendramin Family’ after Titian, 40 x 57cm, ‘The Blind Hermit’ after Thomas Stothard, ‘A Midnight Modern Conversation’ after Hogarth, etc, housed in large part marbled folio (af).Additional InformationFolio heavily worn, cover loose, tears, scratches etc throughout, one of the images with small surface tear, others with creasing, marks, discolouration etc, tears to mounts.
A group of three Oriental late 19th / early 20th Century wood block prints to include a Japanese Meji period wood block print on paper by Shibata Zeshin depicting three travellers caught in the wind, another Japanese woodblock print depicting a bird in flight (signed to the corner), and a Chinese watercolour on paper depicting a cockerel and a hen. Held loose within a cardboard port folio.
Ten folio albums, each containing an extensive collection of black and white and colour photographs, copy photographs and various newspaper and magazine cuttings of Hollywood's greatest stars and English movie and stage stars from the 1920s to present day, to include Shirley Temple, Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Gene Simmons, Elizabeth Taylor, etc.
Ten folio albums, each containing an extensive collection of black and white and colour photographs, copy photographs and various newspaper and magazine cuttings of Hollywood's greatest stars and English movie and stage stars from the 1920s to present day, to include Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall, David Niven, Audrey Hepburn, etc.
Ten folio albums, each containing an extensive collection of black and white and colour photographs, copy photographs and various newspaper and magazine cuttings of Hollywood's greatest stars and English movie and stage stars from the 1920s to present day, to include Natalie Wood, Robert Stack, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, etc.
Ten folio albums, each containing an extensive collection of black and white and colour photographs, copy photographs and various newspaper and magazine cuttings of Hollywood's greatest stars and English movie and stage stars from the 1920s to present day, to include Robert Redford, Spencer Tracy, Lee Marvin, etc.
Ian Fleming, James Bond; seven books to include On Her 'Majesty's Secret Service', first edition, eighth impression, three Book Club editions comprising 'The Spy Who Loved Me', 'Thunderball', 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', James Bond in John Gardner's 'Scorpius', printed by Guild Publishing, 1988, also 'I Survived' by Godfrey Lias and 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' by Siegfried Sassoon, Folio society 1974 (7). CONDITION REPORT 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' has a homemade replacement cover, Tipex over some blue pen, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer has a pencil notes and comments to the frontispiece in pencil and also corrections and comments to the margins on the pages, this may suggest that this was a proof readers copy.
The Christopher Dyment Collection: HEDIN, Sven: Southern Tibet. Discoveries in Former Times compared with my own Researches in 1906 - 1908 (9 text volumes + 3 map volumes - complete set. Delhi, B. R. Publishing Corporation, 1991-92. Folio, original cloth; little rubbed. (12) "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
25 various Documents, flyers, Receipts, Etc. mainly 18th. century; including: Sun-Fire-Office July 6th. 1775, proposals; 2pp, folio with vignette heading & 2pp of manuscript calculations; The Patriot, a tragedy.. from the Italian of Astasio. Dublin, 1785. 67pp disbound; [Morris, E]: The Adventurers; a farce in two acts. C Dilly, 1790. 38pp discount; The Apparition, a poem. Hills, 1710. 24pp discount, title-page stained & detached; Bank of True Love, Feb 14, 1847: valentine cheque. Etc. (Qty)
Ralegh (Walter): The History of the World, in Five Books, Whereunto is added in this Edition, The Life and Tryal of the Author. L, For T Basset, etc. 1687, first edition thus. PP:Frontis Portrait, extra engraved title page, title page, xxxii, (xxiv)Contents, Life of Raleigh Title page(for G Dawes & R Tonson, 1687), 41, (i)blank, 1-813, (i)blank, (xliv)Tables, etc. Plus 8 Folding Maps. Folio, cont. full speckled calf, with later spine & new endpapers; as in most copies, “The Mind of the Front" leaf not bound in.Condition report: Old repairs to a few pages
Chancellor, Frederic: The Ancient Sepulchral Monuments of Essex - a record of interesting tombs in Essex churches and some account of the persons and families connected with them. Printed for the author by C.F. Kell, 1890. With a list of subscribers and all 157 plates present. Plus: a 2 page autograph letter, signed from the author, Signed & dated Chelmsford, Oct 15, 1890. Folio, original cloth rebacked preserving the original. Foredge of title page & a couple of others repaired
FOLIO SOCIETY/LAWRENCE, T. E: 1- Crusader Castles (2 Copies). 2010, 1st. & 2013, slipcases, Fine; 2- seven pillars of Wisdom. 2000, slipcase; Fine; 2- seven pillars of Wisdom. 2000, slipcase; Fine; 3- seven pillars of Wisdom. 2000, slipcase; Fine; 4- Runciman, Steven: A History of the Crusades, 3 vols. 1994, 1st. thus. slipcase; Fine; (5)
ILLUSTRATED: 1- Audubon’s Birds of America, The National Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio. NY, 1990, dw and slipcase; fine; 2- The Literary and Pictorial Souvenir. nd, c1850. with 11 plates; 3- Park & Navana: The Human Form. John Hassall Correspondence Art School, nd, 1st. edn. with 15 tipped-in photographic reproductions of women and men in the nude. 4to, Original illustrated string-bound wrappers, VG; 4- Young Ladies’ Journal. Vol. 62, 1903, supplementary volume, 4to. colour plates & ill. half leather; Plus 5 others. (9)
CRAFTS: Root, E R: The ABC of Bee Culture. Ohio, 1905. fully illustrated; Practical view of amendments needful in the existing Weights & Measures of the UK. Glasgow Argus office, 1833. PP: 30, (ii)rear wrapper. with wax seal, postal stamp etc. last page and endpaper contain an autograph letter. Plus: a later pamphlet on Weights & Measures. Shand, A I: Shooting. Dent, 1902; Johnson: Lure of Freemasonry. 1936, 1st.; Railway Magazine, Vol. 29, 1911; Winter: World Chess Championship, 1951. 1st. dw. Harris: The Paglesham Oyster: containing tales of Fact, Fiction and Romance, music, poetry, charades, riddles, enigmas, etc, Essex, 1870, subscribers copy, ill. Roland: Quelque Genealogies Annotees, 2 vols. OUP, Oxford, 1936 & 1941. Folio, original cloth, Plus 12 others. (21)
Foxe's Book of Martyrs, 1583: FOXE, JOHN: Actes and Monuments of Matters most Speciall and Memorable, Happenyng in the Church, with an Universall History of the same, in 2 volumes. London: John Daye, 1583, Fourth edition of “Foxe's Book of Martyrs” (as it was later known), and the last to be published in his lifetime. Folio, Almost all in black letter and in two columns; with numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text, BUT the three woodcut plates not present; also LACKING BOTH TITLE-PAGES, BUT COLOPHON IS PRESENT IN VOL.1. PP: (lacking all before the Kalender), (vi), (xxiii). (i)b, 1-261, 261, 264, 264, 265-305, 307-373, 373-376, 380, 367, 388,383, 381-794 (including colophon). {(vi0, (xxiii), (i)b, a1-y6, Aa1-Yy6, AA1-YY7} Text complete in vol.1; Vol.2- (lacking prelims) 799-1096, (lacking pages 1097-1108), 1109-1221, 1223-2154, Plus only xvi pages of the Table & no colophon. {lacking AAa1; AAa2-AAa6 (with repair and some loss), BBb1-CCC6, (Lacking DDD1-6), EEE1-SSSs6, TTTt2-FFFF4(end), Plus Table-(Only 8 leaves present). C19 full calf, rebacked; rubbed, worn and chipped. P807 torn with loss to 8 lines of the inner column; p1300 corner loss affecting two words in the margin; p1510 loss to bottom part affecting one illustration & text; 2115 small loss to bottom corner, only affecting few works; And the last 144 pages with repair to margins. SOLD NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN. (2)
BINDING/MISSAL: Missale Romanum ex decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum B. Pii V. Pontificis maximi, Jussu editum Clementis VIII. & Urbani VIII. Venetiis, sumptibus Pauli Balleonii, 1709. Folio, Printed in red and black, with vignette title, five full page illustrations, plus numerous illustrated letters. PP: (xiv), (xiv), 1-428, Lxxx. Contemporary full leather with elaborate gilt tooling to covers and spine. Rebacked, preserving the original spine and new endpapers. Covers rubbed and corners cut; few scattered wax stains; p157 torn and repaired (without loss).
NOLLI, Giovanni Battista: NUOVA PIANTA DI ROMA DATA IL LUCE DA GIAMBATTISTA NOLLI 1748. [ROMA]. Roma, 1748. Folio, PP: 2 double page plans dated 1748 & 1773, followed by engraved title page, engraved "Avviso al lettore", an index on 8 engraved sheets, followed by: the Map of Rome on 12 double-page sheets including vignettes of allegorical figures after Stefano Pozzi together with Rome's monuments, and the dedication to Pope Benedetto XIV on the base of a column, the map set in an elaborate rococo border. This was the first modern map of Rome based on scientific principles. Cont. leather backed boards, rubbed and torn. Text & Maps clean. {The finest of the eighteenth-century plans of Rome and the first plan of the city based upon geodetic principles. With Rocque's plan of London and Bretez's plan of Paris, Nolli's plan ranks as one of the greatest eighteenth-century plans of any European city}. {{The double pages measure: 73 x 49cms. and the actual image on each of the 12 double page plans measure: 68 x 43cms. each}}.
BLOMEFIELD, Francis: (History of Norfolk)- An essay Towards a Topographical History of Norfolk, 5 volumes Plus Supplement. Fersfield and Lynn: W. Whittingham & R. Baldwin, 1739-1775, first edition. With 34 of 36 plates (as usual). HORACE WALPOLE'S COPY, with his armorial bookplate. Folio, cont. full leather gilt and later spines with gilt decoration and labels; PLUS: Hussey, C (intro.): The supplement to Blomefield’s Norfolk. Ingleby, 1929, numbered Limited edition, L4to. cloth and leather label. (6)
1- [Resta, Sebastiano]: The True Effigies of the Most Eminent Painters and other Famous Artists that have Flourished in Europe. For D Browne, no date c1694. small folio, PP: Engraved title page, two engraved pages Plus 121 engraved portraits of well known painters, including Van Eyck, Brugel, Rubens, Van Dyck, etc., accompanied by short biographies of each. Engravers include Theodore Galle (who is responsible for the first 22 portraits, after works by Jan Wierix and Hieronymus Cock), Joannes Meyssens, Wenceslas Hollar, and Pieter de Jode, among others. Please note: there is no other text, Cont. full leather, rubbed. Inscription to title dated 1748; 2- Nelson, William: Concerning Game of hunting, Hawking.. For E Richardson, 1762, 6th. edn. PP: xvii, (i), 255, xxvii (index), viii (Appendix). Cont. full calf, rubbed. Plus a defective theology book. (3)
Erasmus, Desiderius (Edit): Adagia, id est: proverbiorum, parœmiarum et parabolarum omnium, quæ apud Græcos, Latinos, Hebræos, Arabas. Francofurti: Johannis Pressii, 1643. Title page printed in red and black, with vignette (bottom margin torn with loss, just touching the vignette). Folio, PP: (x), 776, (158)Index. Later leather backed boards; rubbed and lacking most of the marbled paper; damp staining to the last few pages of the index; the odd small tear; the title and following two pages creased. Collated, text complete.
Southwell: The Universal Family Bible: or Christian's Divine Library, Containing the sacred text of the Old and New Testament with the Apocrypha at Large. Cooke, nd, [1773]. The Old Testament in two volumes, with the title page of vol. 2 only (lacking title for vol. 1), followed by the New Testament, etc. with its own title. Folio, with upwards of 100 copper plates (including 3 maps & plans) and 2pp list of subscribers. Cont full leather, rubbed; one page towards end torn without loss; few plates strengthened at margin; inner hinges splitting. sold A/F
1- Camden, William: The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, Late Queen of England…. M. Flesher, 1688, 4th. Edn. with a frontis. 4to. PP: (xxvi), 11-661, (I)b, (xl)Table. Leather backed boards ex-reference library, NO STAMPS; 2- Tytler, Sarah: The Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen, 2 vols. bound in 1. Virtue, no date, c1885. Cont. full morocco with elaborate gilt tooling, raised bands, inner dentelles and aeg. Rubbed and hinges cracked, but holding well; 3- Pollard, A F: Henry VIII, Goupil & Co., 1902, Limited edn. #866/1150. Folio, 3/4 morocco, Ex-Libra with the normal stamps. Covers rubbed, foxing. (3)
Birds of Paradise, by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, 'The Plates', Folio Society Limited Edition, 2011, no. 346/1000, green cloth and slip case, From the 1897 edition: Monograph of the Paradiseidae and Ptilonorhynchidae by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, with a forward by David Attenborough. Edition of 79 coloured plates, gilded top edge plus a ribbon marker, with 79 superb coloured plates 56 x 38cm, 245 x 160mm, 10kg approx.Condition report: Unused condition
Roberts, David (2010) ‘The Holy Land’ and ‘Egypt and Nubia’, Folio Society Limited Edition, no. 12 of 1000, bound in red canvas cloth with slipcases, printed silkscreen in black and gold. (approx. 8kg per book) gilded top edges, ribbon marker. 247 lithographs in The first ever large-scale reproduction. approx. 8kg per book. Each 53 x 37cm (2)Condition report: Unused condition
MEXICO/PHOTOGRAPHY/PRINTS, ETC: [1897-1901] Photograph album of Mexico by CB Waite (Charles Betts Waite) and Winford Scott, and others, with 84 views, etc. some of streets. 3 with dates:1901-02, Oblong folio, rubbed; A LARGE NUMBER OF PRINTS, including: TURNER, J M W, Rivers of England- Only few plates present from 4 numbers; Plus: A few books with plates, including Flaxman: Iliad of Homer, 1805, A/F, Etc. (Qty)
Keough, Pat and Rosemarie: ANTARCTICA: (Explorer Series, Volume I). Nahanni Productions, Salt Spring Island. 2002-7. Limited edition, No. 12 of 950 plus 50 proof copies, Signed by both Pat & Rosemarie, Also signed by Queen Noor of Jordan. 336 pages, introductory text, map, and 330 full-colour photographs and 15 duotones. Oblong folio, full grey blindstamped morocco; housed in custom-made clamshell box, stand and base. A FINE COPY. NOTE: (Pat and Rosemarie Keough were awarded the "Nature Photographer of the Year" and "World's Best Photography Book" by the International Photography Awards Committee. Antarctica also won the Benjamin Franklin Award).
ARCHITECTURE: 1- Colling, J K: Details of Gothic Architecture, 2 volumes. Batsford, nd, (1856, preface dated) Folio; 2- Pugin, A. W: Gothic Furniture in the Style of the 15th Century. Ackermann, 1835. 4to. Title page plus 24 plates. Boards rubbed; foxing; 3- Brandon, R & J A: Open Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages. 1849, 4to. original cloth gilt; 4- Small & Woodbridge: 4 titles: Architectural Turned woodwork; English Brickwork Details 1450-1750; Mouldings of the Wren & Georgian Periods; & English Wrought Ironwork Mediaeval and Early Renaissance; 5- Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, 4 volumes. 1916-1923, 4to. Full calf gilt; Plus 6 others. (18)
HOMER: Homeri Opera graeco latina, quae quidem nunc extant, omnia. Hoc est: Ilias, Odyssea, Batracho Myomachia, et Hymmi, praeterea Homeri ex Plutarcho, cum Latina item interpretazione. Basil, Nicolaum Brylingerum, 1561, First edition of the Latin translation of S»bastien Castellion (1515-1563). Folio, PP: (xx), 1-292, 1-317. Cont. full vellum over boards with blindstamped decoration; little grubby and with few worm holes; light damp staining mainly to the margins; few worm holes in the last 50 pages; few ink notes in margins.
The Christopher Dyment Collection: CHINA/STEIN, Aurel: 1- Andrews, Fred H: Descriptive catalogue of antiquities : recovered by Sir Aurel Stein … Delhi, Manager of Publications, 1935. 4to. 445pp, folding map & 3 ill. cloth backed printed paper boards; little rubbed; G+; 2- STEIN, A: Ancient Khotan Detailed Report Of Archaeological Explorations in Chinese Turkestan. 2 vols. in 1 (text & plates). NY, 1975. Folio, large folding map. G+; 3- Sir Aurel Stein's Limes report, 2 vols. 1985. 4to. original printed card covers; VG; Plus 3 others. (7) "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
HUMBOLDT, A VON & BONPLAND, A: Beobachtungen aus der Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie, gesammelt auf einer Reise nach den Tropen-Ländern des neuen Kontinents, in den Jahren 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 und 1804. Tübingen, Cotta, 1806. Folio, PP: x, 212, + 14 Plates (3 in full colour & 2 partly coloured). Cont. marbled boards and leather label. Covers little rubbed; small hole to top of last plate and repaired (away from the image). Good and clean copy.
Vaughan, W. E: Autobiographica with a gossip on the art of printing in colours. Privately printed, N.P., 1900, First edition, one of a few copies printed by Vaughan's son in memory of his father. Folio, PP:32+ 5 chromolithograph plates +(i)Postscript. Original publisher's half brown morocco with cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine & top edge gilt. VG
Three early sales brochures for Darracq and Leon Bollee cars,comprising a Leon Bollee brochure for 1901, pale blue covers, illustrated with details for various models, French text, 8vo, a 1904 Darracq Touring Cars brochure, for the American market Philadelphia Branch, olive outer folio covers, containing pages detailing models, small 4to, and an Advertisement Supplement to the Autocar for Darracq Cars, dated November 17th 1906, a fold-out advertisement for the Olympia Show, with 1906 race successes and models for the 1907 range, offered together with two photographic reprints of a vis-a-vis model, and photocopies of related articles. (10)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Leaf from a fine Abbasid Qur'an, in Arabic, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Abbasid Mesopotamia, likely first half of the ninth century] single leaf, containing the text from Surah Ghafir (The Forgiver), 40:41-42, single column, 5 lines bold early kufic script in black, highly stylised script with notable elongation to the letters, dots and vocalisation marks in bold gold dots, one larger rosette marking the divide between the two verses present, a small area of corrosion to one letter along final line of verso, else a few small scuffs, edges a little darkened, overall very attractive condition, 150 by 225 mm.; in modern card mount The notably bold and stylised nature of this script is intended to reflect the unadorned written word. The lack of diacritics and vocalisation marked by gold dots are described as uncommon by F. Déroche in discussion about a very similar leaf (see The Abbasid Tradition, 1992, no. 22, p. 70). Another folio from the same Qur'an is in Topkapi Palace Library, Istanbul (Ms EH.30).
Ɵ Jean Chardin, Voyages du Chevalier Chardin en Persen et autres lieux de l'Orient, printed in French, edition nouvelle by Le Normant [Paris, 1811] 11 volumes, including the Atlas volume, complete, comprising 10 volumes (in 8vo), with half-titles, bound in contemporary morocco-backed boards, excellent condition, and the Atlas volume (folio) with half-title, engraved portrait, large folding engraved map, 10 folding engraved plans and 71 engraved plates (on 63 sheets), final two plates a little darkened, else very clean and crisp condition, marbled paper doublures, later morocco-backed boards, good condition A fine and beautifully illustrated set of Chardin's travel and voyages through Persia and the Orient, including trips to Kashan, Isfahan and Qom.
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