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Click here to subscribe[Folio Society] Empires of Early Latin America: The Incas, The Maya and The Aztecs, a 3 volume set bound in gilt decorated cloth in slipcase and Empires of The Ancient Near East: The Babylonians, The Hittites, The Egyptians and The Persians, a 4 volume set bound in gilt decorated cloth in slipcase (7)
Kenneth Grahame The Wind In The Willows Illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk, published Folio Society 2005 first edition with colour illustrations many full-page and black & white drawings, bound in gilt and black decorated cloth with an inlaid illustration, in slipcase and a copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, published Folio Society, in gilt illustrated cloth binding and slipcase (2)
Sporting Sketches (Horses) by G. Finch Mason published W.P. Spalding and W. Kent (c1880) oblong folio illustrated throughout in cloth backed pictorial boards, Cross Country With Hounds by F.A. Stewart, published Collins 1936 with 12 plates in colour and sketches in original cloth boards, with (Game Board) The Steeple Chase a folding board comprising an oval numbered circuit with colour pictorial design (c1880) with gilt vignette (3)
[Maps] The Harmsworth Universal Atlas and Gazetteer with 500 Maps and Diagrams in Colour, with commercial statistics and gazetteer index of 105,000 names, published The Amalgamated Press (c.1910) folio bound in recent half leather with raised bands, gilt decorated panel devices and lettering on spine
A General System of Horsemanship In All It’s Branches by William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle, taken from a copy first published in 1743 which had been kindly loaned by His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester, published Nottingham Court Press 1980 limited to 500 numbered copies sold in aid of The Save The Children Fund signed by the Duke of Beaufort illustrated folio bound in full leather with raised bands and gilt lettered title label
The Birds of Edward Lear A Selection of the 12 finest bird plates of the Artist, Edited and introduced by Adrian Thorpe, published The Ariel Press 1975 limited edition (copy 176) comprising 12 full-page colour plates with page of descriptive text, bound in cloth boards with leather label, in original colour illustrated dust-wrapper & slipcase (worn) Folio
The Natural History of Animals - Class Mammalia - Animals which Suckle Their Young; in Words and Pictures by Carl Vogt and Friedrich Specht, Translated by George G. Chisholm published Blackie (1887) in 2 folio volumes with 40 full-page plates and other illustrations, bound in half morocco with raised bands and gilt titles (2)
The Compleat Gard'ner; or Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen-Gardens with Divers Reflections on Several Parts of Husbandry by the Famous Monsieur (Jean) De La Quintinye, to which is added His Treatise of Orange-Trees, with the Raising of Melons, omitted in the French Editions, Made English by John Evelyn, Illustrated with Copper Plates, printed for Metthew Gillyflower 1693 first edition (Folio), title printed in red & black and with 11 engraved plates (lacking front portrait), leather bound with title label
The First Folio of Shakespeare, based on folios in the Folger Shakespeare Library Collection prepared by Charlton Hinman, second edition with a new introduction by Peter W.M. Blayney, published according to the True Original Copies in facsimile by W.W. Norton 1996, bound in leather backed illustrated cloth, raised bands and gilt titles & devices, housed in gilt lettered slipcase
Antiquarian and Miscellaneous Books - M'Gregor-Robertson (J.), The Household Physician [...], Illustrated by About 400 Figures in the Text and a Series of Engraved Plates, London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1890, relaid contemporary half-calf over cloth, large 8vo; various 18th century law reports and legal works, various imprints, contemporary calf bindings, 8vo; Folio Society; large Times Atlas; Lancashire Folk Lore; A.L.Rowse; Bibles; leather binding; qty, (2 boxes)
Antiquarian and Later Books - a 19th century child's atlas of engraved world maps, incomplete, defective part-leather binding, folio, (1), (faults); Williamson (Henry), The Patriot's Progress: Being the Vicissitudes of Pte. John Bullock, first edition, London: Geoffrey Bles, illustrated with linocuts by William Kermode (1895-1959), h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); other Henry Williamson titles, various, (7); Dickens (Charles), Sketches by "Boz" [...], London: Chapman and Hall, 1877, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Rudyard Kipling, various titles in contemporary Macmillan red leather gilt bindings as issued, (6); another, similar, blue, (1); Optics, a collection of 19th century and later didactic magic lantern slides, various, including some scientific, (qty); etc
The Cecil Aldin Book with contributions by P.G. Wodehouse and others with plates & drawings, 1932 first edition cloth with printed labels, The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame, Enid Blyton The Mountain of Adventure 1949 in dust-wrapper, Biggles in The Cruise of The Condor by Capt. W.E. Johns in dust-wrapper, My Family by Gerald Durrell 1956 with The Wit of Oscar Wilde and Pick of Punch Folio Society (7)
Iris Murdoch An Unofficial Rose 1962 first edition in dust-wrapper, The Bell 1958 in dust-wrapper, Daphne Du Maurier Frenchman's Creek 1941 in dust-wrapper, Ernest Hemingway For Whom The Bell Tolls 1940, Zane Grey Riders of The Purple Sage, The Shapes by J.B. Priestley, Project Mars, The Mystery of the Seven Cafés, Anthem for Doomed Youth Poets of The Great War Folio Society (9)
[Folio Society] British Myths And Legends comprising 3 volumes in gilt illustrated bindings & slipcase with Robert Graves The Greek Myths in 2 volumes in colour pictorial boards & slipcase, The Rise & Fall of Athens by Plutarch, Marcus Aurelius with engravings by Simon Brett, Helen Waddell's Songs of The Wandering Scholars with wood-engravings by Joan Freeman and Plato's The Trial & Execution of Socrates with drawings by Michael Ayrton (9)
Y A Regency rosewood folio stand, circa 1820, the hinged slatted uprights, with crossed ratcheted stands, and square section tapering trestle uprights, united by turned stretchers, on turned bun feet and castors, 111cm high, 69cm wide, 72cm deepCondition Report: Marks, knocks, scratches, abrasions consistent with age and use,Polished, there is some loss to the polished surface to one side of the supports The action holding securely in both the 'up' position and when angled down Chips and losses to the base of the upright supports to the base the mouldings here are largely missing, some chips and losses around extremities such as the feet,Some old splits and cracks and splits,the platform is 9.5cm wide when the folio arms are in the upright position Condition Report Disclaimer
FREDERICK CHAPMAN: 'ARCHITECTURA NAVALIS MERCATORIA...' Stockholm [no publisher], 1768, First Edition, engraved throughout, double page pictorial title by Arre, double-page dedication and 62 double-page plates, bound in a good copy of 19thC half roan, slightly worn, oblong folio -- 23¾ x 18¼in. (60.5 x 46.5cm.); together with War Vessels, circa 1770 , assumed to be Chapman, 50 engraved plates of various sizes depicting naval diagrams (numbered I-XXVI), four signed F. Ringheim and one each by E. Henning and K.R ., many folding, contemporary half calf ( some wear ) -- 20½ x 31½in. (52 x 80cm.) (2)Condition report: title rather clumsily repaired at fore-margin, some insignificant spotting, mostly in the margins, title and dedication leaf distinctly shorter than the rest; wear to spine and covers, first plate creased, scattered mild foxed throughout.
Circa 1980s Louis Vuitton Photograph Album, mounted with LV monogrammed canvas leather, with internal plastic pockets, 11.5cm by 15cm; A Similar Louis Vuitton Folio Photograph Album, mounted in LV monogrammed canvas leather, brown silk taffeta lining and internal plastic pockets, 14.5cm by 20cm (2)
NO RESERVE Peck (Francis) Desiderata Curiosa: or, a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces..., 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved portrait, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, lists of subscribers, engraved head-pieces, initials and 9 plates, with mezzotint portrait of the author by Faber after Highmore trimmed and mounted as frontispiece to vol.2, small stain to first portrait, occasional soiling, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine, corners repaired, folio, 1732-35.
Pope (Alexander) Of the use of riches, an epistle to the Right Honorable Allen Lord Bathurst, first edition, with 'yon' in line 13, p. 13, erratum at the foot of p. 20, spotted and stained, stitched into contemporary Dutch floral wrappers, rebacked, chipped and torn, [Foxon 923], folio, printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1732 [1733].
Virgilius Maro (Publius) Georgica...Hexaglotta, text in Spanish, German, English, Italian and French, presentation copy from the English translator inscribed "For the Library of the Royal Institution from William Sotheby...1833" on half title with accompanying A.L.s. from the printer tipped in, occasional spotting, ink "withdrawn" stamp to front pastedown, hinges cracked, later half roan, uncut, rubbed, a little worn at edges, folio, William Nicol, 1827.
Music.- A fourth collection of the most celebrated English songs which are now in vogue: properly adapted for the guittar and voice, by John Rutherford; Giordani (?Tommaso) The Favourite Airs in the Critic...at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, by Longman and Broderip, n.d., together 2 works in 1, some foxing and browning, first title soiled, short tear to second title, contemporary manuscript notes to original front free endpaper, modern boards, preserving original calf spine, folio, c.1775.
Egyptology.- Capart (Jean) Documents pour servir a l'Etude de l'Art Egyptien, 2 vol., one of 612 copies, 200 plates, 3 colour, one folding, Hans Mardersteig's copy with his book-label to front pastedowns, original half morocco, vol.1 over original patterned-paper boards, vol.2 over blue cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, spines rubbed and faded, vol.1 with short split to joint, folio, Paris, printed at the Officina Bodoni of Verona for Les Éditions du Pégase, 1927-31.⁂ Rare in the deluxe binding.
NO RESERVE Iraq.- Government of 'Iraq. Maps of 'Iraq with Notes for Visitors, revised and enlarged edition, frontispiece, 9 folding colour maps of roads, ancient sites etc., some frayed at edges, map of Baghdad split into two at one fold, old ink stamp and pencil Arabic inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, rubbed, lower cover stained, spine nibbled at foot, preserved in modern rexine slip-case, 1929 § Gadd (C.J.) History and Monuments of Ur, second impression, plates, lightly browned, original cloth, slightly rubbed, 1929, folio & 8vo (2)
Dorset.- Hutchins (John) The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, 2 vol., first edition, list of subscribers, large folding engraved map, 58 engraved plates and plans including the unlisted views of Dorchester and Woolcombe Hall, many folding or double-page, 10 folding pedigrees and folding letterpress leaf of first page of Domesday Book, engraved illustrations, with additional engraved portrait of the author by Collimore after Bestland tipped in at beginning of vol.1 (slightly water-stained and frayed at edges, reinforced), also with large folding aquatint of 'South East View of Shaftsbury' by Pollard & Jukes after Samuel Marsh Oram mounted on stub at beginning of vol.2 (a little soiled, frayed and trimmed at foot affecting imprint, laid down), contemporary ink signature of W.L.Bowles at head of title to vol.1 and to final leaf, a few leaves creased, some light browning but generally clean, occasional marginal soiling or water-staining, plate of Critchill House in vol.2 with tear to fold slightly affecting image, contemporary half diced russia, uncut, rubbed, some wear to corners and foot of spines, folio, W. Bowyer and J. Nicholls, 1774.
NO RESERVE Furniture.- Macquoid (Percy) A History of English Furniture [The Age of Oak; Walnut; Mahogany; Satinwood], 4 vol., first edition, plates, some colour, illustrations, captioned paper guards, occasional spotting, original buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, spines faded, folio, 1904-1908.
Trade Catalogue.- Chubb & Son. Chubb's Patent Locks, 10pp. broadsheet dated in red at head, with smaller price list tipped to edge of first sheet and another internally, a little soiled, folds with slight wear causing short tears to last couple of sheets, 1872 § John Tann's Patent "Reliance" Fire & Burglar-Resisting Safes. List No.1, 6pp. broadsheet, folds, tears to folds, mainly final sheet, [1860s] § Withers & Co. (Samuel) Bankers' Safe and Lock Engineers, 23pp., West Bromwich, [c.1895] § Ratner Safe Company, Limited. Ratner Twelve-Corner-Bent Steel Safes. Fire, Fall & Thief Resisting, 62pp., 1903 § Price Ltd. (George) George Price's New Double Patent 20th Century Bent-Steel Side-Locking Safes, 72pp., [c.1902] § Chatwood Safe Co. Ltd. The Modern Burglar and the Story of Treasure, 48pp., slight damage to some pages from adhesion, Bolton, [c.1930], illustrations, the last four original printed wrappers, most a little rubbed and soiled; and a 1905 catalogue for Chubb's, folio & 4to (7)⁂ John Tann took over the family strongbox-making firm in 1845 and developed the fire proof safe. The final sheet of his catalogue features the firm's "Bankers' Bullion Vaults" with an illustration of a room with an inner bullion vault made for a bank in Mexico. George Price's catalogue contains details and photographs of fires where their safes had survived with contents intact after withstanding intense heat and falling several stories.
Trade Catalogue.- Defries & Sons (J.), Illuminators, Decorators and Contractors. Fetes, Garden Parties, Royal Visits & Attainment of Majorities, 20pp., illustrations of chandeliers and mirrors, testimonials, slight foxing, stitched and pasted into decorative chromolithographed wrappers printed in pink and green and heightened with gold (becoming loose), very lightly soiled, slight vertical crease from folding, small folio, [c.1885].⁂ Jonas Defries & Sons was founded in 1803 and located in Houndsditch from 1856 to the early 20th century. It concentrated on large scale lighting, especially chandeliers & candelabra, and mirrors, supplying a huge prismatic mirror to the Sultan of Turkey for his palace in Constantinople and exhibiting at the London World's Fair of 1862. The firm had attained a Royal Warrant by 1869. The testimonials included in the brochure refer to supplying illuminations for the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales, various royal visits and the tour of India by the Prince of Wales. Indeed the Indian market became a prime focus for the firm, its large and ostentatious products appealing to the wealthy rulers there.
Cruikshank (George).- Collier (John) Tim Bobbin's Lancashire Dialect; and Poems, 6 etched plates, 4 by George Cruikshank and 2 by Robert Cruikshank, some foxing and offsetting, endpapers browned, contemporary half calf, worn, joints cracked, upper cover faded, 1828 § Paris (Dr J.A.) Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest...,3 vol., illustrations by Cruikshank, bookplates to pastedown, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 1831, and 4 others, illustrated by Cruikshank, oblong folio & 8vo (8)
Music.- [Arne (Thomas, composer and musical performer, 1710-78)] The Airs With all the Simphonies on the Compleat Overture in the Comic Opera of Love in a Village Correctly Transposed for the German Flute or Violin, manuscript music, title and 14pp., original wrappers, manuscript title on upper cover, extensively foxed and browned, unbound, folio, [c. 1780].
Early Photography.- Photogenic Drawings.- Taylor (Silas Badger, merchant, of Islington, 1809-98) Autograph Letter signed to his brother Alfred Swaine Taylor, 3pp., folio, New York, 24th April 1839, responding to his brother's letter on photogenic drawings, "By the arrival of the Great Western... I got your kind letter... enclosing for me some drawings sketches &c - executed by the marvellous aid of light alone - Some accounts of this mysterious process had already reached us...", folds.⁂ "Taylor was... a pioneer of photography and devised improvements in the fixing and printing processes used by William Henry Fox Talbot. He described his methods in his On the Art of Photogenic Drawing (1840)." - Oxford DNB.
Plutarch. Parallela en Biois Hellenon kai Romaion [graece], collation: α4 a-z6 A-Z6 Aa-Pp6 Qq4, lacking Qq4 (colophon leaf), third edition in Greek, title in Greek and Latin with woodcut printer's device, text in Greek, woodcut initials, various ink inscriptions to title (some contemporary, some in Greek but later), several Greek ink annotations and marginalia in various hands, water- and damp-staining, some leaves frayed at edges and reinforced, 19th century cloth, rubbed, spine faded, [Adams P1611; VD 16 P 3756], folio in 6s, Basel, [A.Cratander & J Bebel], 1533; and 2 vol. Plutarch of 1620, folio; sold not subject to return (3)
Plotinus. De rebus philosophicis Libri LIII. in enneades sex distributi, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut historiated initials, lacking H2-5, sig. Ee misbound, title with part of imprint excised and repaired, and mounted on stub, occasional spotting, lightly browned, 19th century half calf, spine gilt and with red morocco label, rubbed, folio, Solingen, Johannes Soter, 1540.⁂ Rare Solingen edition of the works of this Neoplatonist philosopher.
Jonson (Ben) [The Workes], vol. 2 only (of 3), The Sad Shepherd misbound after Horace, of the Art of Poetrie, English Grammar comprising pp. 117-132 only, 2ff. of Mortimer his Fall only, occasional damp-staining, a few gatherings loose or becoming so, contemporary calf, spine worn, rubbed, folio, [1641]; sold not subject to return. ⁂ Sadly defective, includes complete copies of The Divell is an Asse, The Magnetick Lady (with A Tale of a Tub and the Sad Shepherd) and A Masque Presented in the House of the Right Honourable Lord Haye.
A COLLECTION OF BRITISH AND WORLD BANKNOTES, to include a white £5 note, 1944, E77 069152, a white £10 note, 1938, L/102 04572, a white £20 note, 1937, 54/M 20723, assorted further Bank of England notes, and assorted Euro notes, contained in a folio (qty) Please note that the white £10 note and the white £20 note may be Bernhard forgeries
Various books, Folio Society in slip cases, Zola (Emile Nanna) Paper Wrapper, Sherman (William T) From Atlanta To The Sea, various others, Adventures of Sherlock Homes, The Golden Ass, A Short History of English Literature, Hogarth's England, others similar, a Horse Training 1940 Sporting Chronicle.
A collection of Folio Society publications comprising a three volume edition of 'The King's Piece', 'The King's War' and 'The Trial of Charles I', a copy of 'The Thirty Years' War', 'Eminent Victorians' 'The Normans' by David C Douglas, 'The Diary of a Country Parson', 'The Great Plague', 'Essays of Francis Bacon', 'One Hundred Greatest Paintings', 'The Rise and the Fall of the House of Medici', 'The Sonnets of Michaelangelo' (12).
Folio Copy Of Dante's Inferno, Title ‘L’INFERNO, DI DANTE ALIGHIERI COLLE FIGURE DI G. DORE’ published by Parigi,Libreria Di L. Hachette E C Via Pierre-Sarrazin, 14, 1861, folio, bound in red leather, gilt lettering and decoration on boards and spine with gilt borders, marbled end papers, red leather presentation with gold lettering ‘Presented to W. Williams Esquire by the Members of the Wandsworth Music Class and other Friends of the L & S Institution 23rd December 1862’, frontis of Dante Alighieri, 75 other b/w plates with tissue guards, light foxing, ex libris stamp on front endpaper, some scuffing to leather, some foxing, rare
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