Suppression of the slave trade & Iceland.- Malcolm (George John, Rear-Admiral, 1830-84) [Journal of suppression of the slave trade and a voyage to Iceland], autograph manuscript, in English and German, 141pp. excluding blanks, reverse entries, original roan-backed boards, rubbed, corners bumped, tear at head of spine, folio, 11th April 1879 - 8th November 1881.⁂ Suppression of the slave trade. "To the Governor of Sawakin [port in north eastern Sudan on the Red Sea] the slaves which were landed from the Sambook Alone are to be made free & disposed of according to the terms the convention of the 4th August 1877... . I wish you to give the slaves free papers... ." After Malcolm retired from active service in 1873, he entered the Turkish services as Pasha and was employed at Constantinople as Director General of the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Judge of the Slave Courts.Iceland. "Start on 21 July for Thingwalla - Lunch at Seljadal 50 feet high palajerite cliffs. Then the 12 miles over the horrid tuffa lava of Mossfiels - plover & curlew - a splendid view of the lake near Skalabreeka."
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Ovid. Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, mythologiz'd, and represented in figures. An essay to the translation of Virgil's Æneis, translated by George Sandys, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 14 (of 15) plates, 18th century ms. copy of Pope's Sandys's Ghost: or a proper new ballad on the new Ovid's Metamorphosis to front free endpaper, writing exercises and scribbles to endpapers and occasionally on text ff., tear to printed title without loss of text, little fraying to preliminaries, some staining and spotting, contemporary calf, worn, [STC 18966], folio, Oxford, by Iohn Lichfield [and William Stansby], 1632. sold not subject to return. ⁂ Provenance: 18th century ink signatures of Thomas and Matthew Slack, including inscription to title 'Tho. Slack, the gift of Mr. Robinson, Whitehaven, 1750'.
NO RESERVE Stonehenge.- Webb (John) A vindication of Stone-Heng restored: in which the orders and rules of architecture observed by the ancient Romans, are discussed. Together with the customs and manners of several nations of the world in matters of building of greatest antiquity, first edition, title in red and black, engraved illustrations, lacking initial imprimatur f. and errata, some water-staining to lower margins, occasional spotting, disbound, [Wing 1203], small folio, printed by R. Davenport for Tho. Bassett, 1665. sold not subject to return. ⁂ A refutation of Walter Charleton's Chorea gigantum (London, 1663), in which he claims that Stonehenge was built by Druids and not by the Romans as maintained by Inigo Jones in his Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain Restored (London, 1655).
NO RESERVE Economics.- Herr (Gottfried) Vermehrtes Arithmetisches Hand-Buch, Gothic letter, title printed in red and black within a decorative woodcut border, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, tables printed in red and black, lacking engraved additional title, ink stamp to title verso, occasional worming, contemporary blindstamped panelled calf with a hatched design to inner panel, ties defective, worming to covers, spine ends chipped, [Tomash & Williams H123; VD17 14:634793S], folio, Breslau, Gottfried Gründer For The Author, 1653.⁂ First edition of this rare merchants' manual, including compound interest tables.Provenance: Breslau Centralbibliothek (cancelled ink library stamp).
NO RESERVE Gray (Thomas) Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, half-title, engraved title vignette, 6 plates, vignettes and historiated initials, occasional spotting or finger-marking, contemporary calf, rather worn, but holding firm, [Hazen 42], J. Dodsley, 1766; and another, Ghosts, defective, folio & 8vo (2)
NO RESERVE Military.- Hubault (Gustave) Atlas pour servir a l'Histoire Militaire de la France..., Emmanuel Grouchy's copy with his signature on upper cover, 12 engraved maps, some double-page, half-title, original cloth-backed printed boards, rubbed, ink signatures and inscriptions on upper cover, folio, Paris, n.d., [?1859] § Hutchinson (Col. H. D.) The Campaign in Tirah 1897-1898, portrait frontispiece detached, plates, occasional light spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, extremities creased and bumped, 1898 § Nicolas (Paul Harris) Historical Record of the Royal Marine Forces, 2 vol., vignette title, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, some spotting, original boards, uncut, spine faded, extremities bumped and creased, 1845; and 79 others, military history, v.s. (83)
NO RESERVE Eton (Peter, BBC radio and television producer, 1918-1980) Collection of 45 drawings and cartoons, including portraits and many cartoons relating to the BBC, with others published in Ariel, Sound Wave Illustrated and others similar, pen and inks, pencil, some with watercolour wash, on various papers and artists' board, many signed and dated with annotations by the artist, various sizes, unframed, [circa 1933-1955]; together with 9 magazines featuring illustrations by Eton, and 9 related photographs, all unframed, presented in modern cloth drop-back box, folio, [circa 1933-1955]
Manuscript facsimile.- Francois I. Der Rosenroman für Francois I, facsimile reprint, number 47 of 50 specially-bound copies in velvet with decorative gold-plated bosses, coloured and gilt facsimile manuscript leaves, Austria; and an accompanying commentary volume, together housed in slip-case (a little marked), 1993, folio
Egyptology.- Leemans (Dr. Conradus) Monumens Égyptiens du Musée D'Antiquités des Pays-Bas à Leide, 2 parts in 1 vol., plate vols., 93 lithographed plates, 3 folding, some hand-coloured, 15 chromolithographed plates, 8 tables, tissue-guards, occasional faint spotting, occasional faint, marginal water-staining, modern half-morocco preserving contemporary gilt backstrip, folio, 1839-45.
Birds.- Delacour (Jean) The Waterfowl of the World, 4 vol., first edition, frontispieces and colour plates by Peter Scott, illustrations, bookplates, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jackets, slight chipping to corners and extremities, some small tears, small loss to spine extremities (vol. 1), 1954-64 § Meinertzhagen (Colonel R.) Birds of Arabia, first edition, colour plates, illustrations, large folding map in pocket at end, occasional very faint spotting, bookplate, previous owner's ink inscription, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, Edinburgh & London, 1954; and a 1966 edition of 'The Original Water-Colour Paintings of John James Audubon for the Birds of America', 8vo & folio (6)
NO RESERVE Penther (Johann Friedrich) Praxis geometriae, worinnen nicht nur alle bey dem Feld-Messen vorkommende Fälle, mit Stäben, dem Astrolabio, der Boussole, und der Mensul, in Ausmessung eintzeler Linien, Flächen und gantzer Revier, engraved frontispiece, title with short marginal repair, Augsburg, Jeremiah Wolff, 1755 bound with Zugabe Zur Praxi Geometriæ, Augsburg, Heirs of Jeremiah Wolff & Johann Michael Probst, 1754, together 2 works in 1 vol., Gothic letter, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, 39 engraved folding plates, contemporary calf, strengthened and repaired, [Tomash & Williams P38 & 39], folio.⁂ The first is the major German work on geometry and surveying of its day, the second is a continuation of the same, the two were seemingly often sold together.
NO RESERVE Sundials.- Guerrino (Tommaso) Tavole gnomoniche Per disegnare in diversi modi gli Orologj Solari Sopra Piani Orizontali, E Verticali, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, one folding woodcut plate, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, one with printed extension (p.28), one leaf blank apart from volvelle (p.33), a few corrections made by use of printed overlays, occasional light marginal soiling, ink notes in an early hand to front free endpaper, floral paper pastedowns, contemporary vellum, Latin motto to upper cover, repairs to spine ends, modern label to spine, [Riccardi i, 638; Tomash & Williams G98], folio, Milan, Pietro Agnelli, 1762.⁂ Guerrino's treatise on sundials, with extensive astronomical tables.Provenance: Teodoro Arrighi (inscription on title-page).
NO RESERVE Vega (Georg, Freiherr von) Thesaurus Logarithmorum Completus, ex Arithmetica Logarithmica, et ex Trigonometria Artificiali Adriani Vlacci collectus... [parallel title in German] Vollstaandige Sammlung grosserer logarithmisch-trigonometrischer Tafeln, nach Adrian Vlack's arithmetica logarithmica und trigonometria artificialis verbessert, first edition, tables, errata with manuscript notes and additional small slip pasted in, lacking un-numbered leaf after errata, occasional spotting and browning, modern vellum-backed boards, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Tomash & Williams V7; VD18 1474418X], Leipzig, Weidmann, 1794; Logarithmisch-trigonometrisches Handbuch, first editions, parallel titles in Latin and German, tables, errata at end, occasional foxing or browning, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed, later endpapers, [Tomash & Williams V5; VD18 1024705X], Leipzig, Weidmann, 1793, folio & 8vo (2)⁂ Both of these works would prove enormously popular, each running into hundreds of editions.
![NO RESERVE Zucchetta (Giovanni Battista) Prima Parte della Arimmetica, part 1 [all published], first edition, title with eng](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b115c030-8bc2-41da-8556-abba00b2e11b/242401cc-4ffa-42bd-b32f-abba00b4c6e5/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Zucchetta (Giovanni Battista) Prima Parte della Arimmetica, part 1 [all published], first edition, title with engraved architectural border and portrait of the author, engraved portrait of the dedicatee Christopher Papa of Nuremberg to *2, contemporary printed corrections slip mounted on contents f. 2*3, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, occasional scattered foxing, occasional marginal dampstaining, seventeenth-century vellum, a little browned, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Adams Z195; Edit16 30423; Smith, Rara Arithmetica pp.425-426; Riccardi I I, 674 'rarissimo'); Tomash & Williams Z13], folio, Brescia, Vicenzo Sabbio, 1660.⁂ Zuchetta was a mathematician from Genoa. The preface lists some 98 arguments for the need of arithmetic in all classes of society. As well as general arithmetic it includes mercantile arithmetic, especially currency exchange.
Italy.- Smith (John) Select Views in Italy, 2 vol., engraved dedication to Queen Charlotte, 72 engraved plates by J. Emes, W. Byrne and others after Smith, lacking map, vol. 1 title misbound at end of vol. 2 , occasional spotting and offsetting, bookplate of Sir John Stuart Forbes, contemporary half calf, extremities rubbed, oblong folio, T. Chapman for John Smith, William Byrne and John Emes, 1792-96.
NO RESERVE Japan.- Philipp Franz von Siebold's Ukiyo-e Collection, 3 vol., full-page and folding colour plates, original cloth,housed in original red-cloth clamshell boxes, each vol. in original cardboard packaging, label to upper, rubbed, folio, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1978.⁂ From the collection preserved in the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden.
Napoleonic Wars.- Vernet (Carle) Campagnes des Francais sous le Consulat & l'Empire, title printed in red and black, frontispiece and 58 engraved plates, some foxing towards beginning and end, original cloth, lettered in gilt, skilfully rebacked, retaining original backstrip, g.e., folio, Paris, [1860].
Manuscript facsimile.- Binding.- Epistolary of Frederick the Wise, facsimile reprint, coloured and gilt manuscript facsimile leaves, original velvet with decorative metalwork and shields, coloured illustration of Saint Paul laid under glass, metal bosses to lower cover, cornerpiece to upper cover slightly loose, lacking lower clasp, folio, Leipzig, 1989.
Victorian scrapbook featuring numerous mounted greetings cards (including Christmas and New Year), die-cut and mounted chromolithographic illustrations (including birds and other animals), printed topographical views, pencil drawings of buildings, two loosely-inserted photographic group portraits. To include a page of Kate Greenaway illustrations published by Leighton Bros ('St. Valentine's Day'). Oblong folio lettered in gilt ('Children's Scrap Book'), purple cloth, chromolitho illustration of cats to upper board, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, 'Ethel Mary Hine, from her dear Papa, Sept. 4th 1875'
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works of our Ancient, Learned, & Excellent English Poet, Jeffrey Chaucer, London: 1687. Folio, full calf, sympathetically rebacked, featuring engraved pictorial frontispiece depicting portrait of Chaucer, engraved coat-of-arms page, and advertisement page at end. Contents generally sound with intermittent wear and crude paper repairs, mostly confined to the bottom of the pages but worse to the introductory pages; title and frontispiece laid on paper
Hutchins, John. The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Westminster: John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, 1861-1872, in 15 parts, illustrated with numerous engraved plates depicting architectural and topographical views, plus further illustrations of heraldic crests and antiquities within the text. Folio, publisher's paper covers. Contents good, clean, bright; paper covers generally good but some bindings loose (15)
Piper, John. Brighton Aquatints, first edition, London: Duckworth, 1939, printed at the Curwen Press. Complete with all 12 aquatint etchings, the corresponding descriptions on blue paper. Oblong folio, publisher's quarter-cloth with marbled boards and paper title label, bearing bookplate for Philip Hall, with gift inscription to the same dated 1946. Contents good, clean and bright; the aquatint plates rich impressions and very well-preserved; some light scratches/scuffs and general discolouration to boards; some very pale spotting to opening leaves
Travel / Topography. Collection of three books: Paris in Pen and Picture, by John N. Raphael, Paris: Brentano's, no date, oblong folio, publisher's gilt cloth, marbled endpapers; Barcelona a la Vista, Fotografias de la Capital, Barcelona: Antonio Lopez, no date, oblong folio, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth; Lake Scenery of England, by J. B. Pyne, London: Day & Son, no date, illustrated with lithographic plates, publisher's gilt cloth (3)
Lewis, James. Original Designs in Architecture, Book I, first edition, London: Printed for the Author, 1780, text in English and Italian, complete with 22 plates as called for, title page, two-page Subscriber list, Preface, four-page Introduction, seven-page Explanation of the Plates. Folio, contents sound with general discolouration and wear to some page edges, full contemporary calf (very worn as found)
Mid-19th century scrapbook featuring watercolour illustrations of birds and flowers (including several well-preserved examples on delicate Chinese rice paper with protective tissue-guards), engraved portraits, topographical views, clippings taken from Valentines. Morocco ownership label lettered in gilt to front pastedown, H. Theodosia Keele (and the initials, H.T.K., in a watercolour pictorial design on rice paper). Folio, half-calf with marbled boards. Contents clean and bright, vibrant colours. Early Victorian botanical / ornithological interest. Together with an album of 19th-century newspaper clippings (2)
English Civil War period manuscript survey relating to Kenilworth, Warwickshire, dated 12 August 1650, signed by the Surveyor General, William Webb. The document refers to Henry Carey, Earl of Monmouth, and 'the late King Charles'. 'A Survey of Certaine houses and land belonging to the late dissolved Monastry'. Folio, 16 pages, laid/chain-lined paper bearing manufacturer's watermark, bound with vellum cord at the top
Harris, John. Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, first edition of the second volume, London: Daniel Brown et al., 1710, red & black title page, seven engraved plates (six folding), plus numerous smaller illustrations within the text, 12 pages of subscribers. Folio, full contemporary panelled calf with raised bands, armorial bookplate to front pastedown for Thomas Wallis, M.D., plus ownership inscription for the same on front free endpaper (Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1717). Contents generally very good and bright, occasional pale spotting; binding tight and solid, some wear to calf, lacking title label. Together with another edition of the second volume, published 1736 for J. Walthoe et al., with engraved frontispiece portrait; folio, full contemporary calf with oxblood morocco title label (2)NB: Lexicon Technicum is considered the first alphabetical encyclopedia written in English
Usher, James Ward. An Art Collector's Treasures, limited edition of 300, London: Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1916. Folio, full crushed morocco lettered in gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, illustrated throughout with vibrant colour plates, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed. Contents good and bright, some light spotting; light dampstaining to rear endleaves; binding very good, tight and solid, some light scuffing and wear to extremities. Together with Buckingham Palace, by Clifford Smith, London: Country Life Limited, 1931, folio, cloth (2)
Collection of books, including illustrated works, comprising: Salammbo, illustrated by Edward Bawden, Cambridge: University Press, 1960, limited edition signed by the artist and numbered 1097/1500, hardback with slipcase; The Adventures of Pinocchio, C. Collodi, illustrated by Attilio Mussino, New York: Macmillan, 1926, rebound; My Dolly's Home, Doris Davey, London: Arts and General Publishers, no date, worn boards; Sambo and Susanna, illustrated by Ethel Parkinson, London: Blackie & Son, no date, pictorial boards; Michel Strogoff, Jules Verne, illustrated by Ferat and Barbant, Paris: J. Hetzel, no date, gilt cloth; Le Capitaine Renaud, Alfred de Vigny, Poitiers: Societe Francaise, no date, gilt cloth; Manners and Customs of ye Englysne, illustrated by Richard Doyle, London: Bradbury & Evans, no date, worn boards; copper-engraved architectural/topographical views from Boswell's Antiquities, with accompanying text pages relating to the views, including Isle of Wight, Northumberland, Sussex, Surrey, Isle of Man, Yorkshire, Hereford, Norfolk, and others, list of subscribers and directions to binder at rear, no title page, folio, contemporary half-calf. Condition varied, as found (8)
Bindings. Collection of large leather-bound books, quarto and folio, comprising: The British Cyclopaedia of Literature, History, Geography, by Charles F. Partington, complete in three volumes, London: Orr & Smith, 1836, half-calf with marbled boards; The Queen, eight volumes, 1890s, large folio, uniformly bound in half-calf with contrasting red & black morocco title labels lettered in gilt; The Quiver, 17 volumes (4-19; 23), 1868-1888, uniformly bound in half-calf with marbled boards; Punch, 25 volumes, most uniformly bound in half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, 1910s/20s (53)
Sanderson, William. A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles, London: Humphrey Moseley, 1658. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Charles I, engraved portrait of the author, woodcut capitals and headers. Small folio, full contemporary calf. Contents generally good and clean, some very pale spotting; contemporary owner inscriptions for George Langlands; occasional neat contemporary owner annotations to margins; a few old paper repairs at the bottom of opening pages; calf binding worn but solid
George Formby (1904-1961). George's personal scrapbook recording his tour of Australia in 1947. Including numerous personal photographs (many unrecorded), press cuttings and advertisements. Annotated in pencil throughout. A note relating to a food parcel, Geelong, signed in blue ink by George and Beryl (autographs). Folio, quarter-cloth with red paper-covered boards, with pasted advertisement for Starry Way to upper boardProvenance: Purchased at Bonhams, Lot 142, 29 June 2011, The Bill Logan Collection; some of the pages bearing ownership stamps for William Logan, 133 Brampton Road, Carlisle
Cyril Ornadel (1924-2011), British conductor, songwriter and composer. Archive of sheet music comprising approximately 100 original manuscript scores (in pencil and ink) on Chappell paper, most signed and dated by Ornadel (autograph scores), together with numerous corresponding photostat copies and typewritten lyrics. Arranged by date and housed in four Boosey & Hawkes folio library bags (1957-1960; 1961-1964; 1966; 1970-1972), together with a separate packet of material relating to Cinderella (1966). Scores include Tilla Dilla; Panama; Hull; Eel Pie Island; City Street; Only the Heart Can Tell; Tu; The World Outside My Window; Caroline; C'est La Vie; Boy Meets Girl; Don't Cry My Heart; Nuclear Queen; Piccolo; Someone is Watching; The Eggheads; Man in the Moon; Ashkelon; Those Eyes; When the Whole World was Dancing; It Takes All Kinds of People, and many others. Lyrics by Norman Newell, David Croft, George Carden, Jimmy Grafton, James Godfrey, Don Marchand, Mike Fletcher, Gil King, David West, Benny Hill, Edward Heyman, Leslie Bricusse, Jackie Rae, Peter Callander. At least one example stamped 'Cyril Ornadel, Musicians Union A.C.C.S.'. To include typewritten lyrics on Jackie Rae headed paper, 'Make the Circus Come to Town', featuring the note, 'again I thought this we might show Streisand'. Musical Theatre Interest
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