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Click here to subscribeLocke (John) The Works, 3 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, book plates, some foxing and spotting, endpapers a little browned, contemporary calf, rather rubbed, joints of vol.2 splitting, folio,1751 (3)⁂This edition is the first to include The Life of the Author and a Collection of Several of His Pieces.
Shakespeare (William) Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, [edited by Edward Capell], 10 vol., upper margin to first two leaves of vol. 1 repaired, 19th century red morocco, gilt, g.e., very slightly rubbed but a handsome set overall, 8vo, for J. & R.Tonson, 1767.⁂The first edition edited by Capell, the first person to work up a wholly new edition from all the quarto & folio editions (Johnson had largely followed Pope's edition, who in turn had utilised Rowe's edition derived from the fourth folio). Despite such scholarly and noble ambitions, Johnson said of Capell's preface "if the man would have come to me, I would have endeavoured to endow his purposes with words; for as it is, he doth gabble monstrously."
Krautterbuch..., Mit vleiß übersehen, und mit der kräutter zunamen... gemehret und gebessert durch M. Sebizium.., Sampt angehenckten Speißkammer. Straßburg: Wilhelm Christian Glaser, 1630, folio, engraved title loose and damaged, latter leaves rather creased, damaged and loose, engraved plants and trees within the text, old staining and browning, damaged original boards; Sold not subject to return
Musaeum Regalis Societatis or a Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities belonging to the Royal Society…; Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. London: W Rawlins 1681, folio, portrait frontispiece, 31 engraved plates, detached front board. Provenance: Tittenhanger Library, near St Albans (contemporary inscription to front paste-down)
The Historie of the World, Translated into English by Philemon Holland. London: Adam Islip, 1601, folio, 2 vols. in one, vol. I title and first leaf missing, vol. II with woodcut title (soiled) bound at the front, vol. I missing P3-4, and R5-6, first and last leaves rather soiled and worn in places, later binding with detached boards. Sold not subject to return.
De Confessione Amantis. London: Thomas Berthelette 1554, small folio, Chatsworth Library bookplate, Black Letter, title within woodcut border, few worm holes affecting first 25 leaves, title and last leaf slightly foxed and stained, other sporadic staining, last leaf with small tear to lower margin without loss, in 18th century calf boards with later reback
The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, Gathered by John Gerarde of London, Master in Chirurgerie, Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson. 2nd edition, London: Adam Islipp, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers 1633, folio, engraved title page with small tear/loss to gutter, and slight water stain at head / mainly top margin which continues sporadically throughout the volume, one leaf torn with slight loss of text, lacking initial and final blanks, some light soiling or staining, contemporary panel calf, rebacked preserving damaged spine strip
A Relation of a Journey begun An. Dom. 1610 Foure Bookes.., 4th edition, London: Andrew Crooke 1637, small folio, engraved title (laid down), double page map (repaired), lacking the folding view, with engravings in the text, lacking final blank, slightly cropped at head in places, early 19th century calf gilt
The Gardener's Dictionary, in two vols., 4th/2nd edition, London 1743/1740, folio, engraved frontispiece (loose) and 3 plates to vol. I, 7 plates including 3 folding to vol. II, worn calf; BENTHAM (J) The History ... of Cathedral of Ely, first edition 1771, folio, folding plates, detached boards (3)
After RAPHAEL. Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti...in Vaticani Palatii Xystis. Rome, c. 1675, oblong folio (c.344 x 460 mm), engraved title and dedication leaf, 52 plates featuring scenes from the Old and New Testaments, lettered with Latin text and numbered in bottom right corner, one leaf corner torn away with loss to plate, variable creasing and staining, later half calf rubbed
The New British Traveller, c.1790, folio, lacking title page, first leaves cut down, folding general map, 3 others folding and 18 pages of smaller maps, numerous views of country houses and scenery, incomplete at end; GUTHRIE (W) A New Geographical, Historical.. Grammar, 21st edition, 1812, 8vo, 9 maps only, poor condition; also - Gazetteer of Scotland, 8vo; two vols of Winkles Cathedrals, and few others with plates. Sold not subject to return.
My Life and Times, first edition 1963, with envelope containing a signed letter and birthday ephemera. GIBBINGS (Robert) Till I End My Song, first edition 1957; LANCASTER (Osbert) Here of all places, first edition, 1959; SILLITOE (Alan) The Death of William Posters, first edition, 1965; BUFFUM (Gould) The Gold Rush, Folio Society 1959; ALLEN (Cecil J) Titled Trains of Great Britain, first edition 1946; POTTER (Stephen) The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship, 1947 (7)
A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, Edinburgh c.1830, large folio, plate volume only, engraved title and 100 (of 101) hand coloured plates (lacking pl. at p.30), several plates previously removed, pinned, browned and now remounted on guards, one or two loose, title foxed, original colth worn. Sold not subject to return.
PIM (F W) The Sinn Fein Rising, 1916, booklet, 20pp.; Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook, Easter 1916 [1917 Issue], paper wrapper; The Sinn Féin Revolt Illustrated, Hely's Ltd, Dublin, oblong folio, pp38, profusely illustrated, paper wrapper; political handbill 'The English Murderer at Work', single sheet, c.1919, 19 x 13cm; DALTON (Ed.) The Spark, vol. II, nos 34 and 49; GRATTAN (Henry) An Answer to a Pamphlet entitled the Speech of the Earl of Clare, on the Subject of a Legislative Union... , 3rd edition, 1800, 8vo pamphlet, corner creased and soiled; (7)
The Grammar of Ornament, London: Day & Son, folio, 335 x 230mm, no date, colour plates as required, some typical foxing and age staining, original cloth gilt, inner hinges repaired; SECCOMBE. Army & Navy Drolleries, first and second editions, no date, small 4to, colour illustrations, some leaves loose, covers worn; HERRING (Ben) Illus. Hunting, Steeple-Chasing and Racing Scenes, London: James Peddie [no date], small 4to, steel engraved plates, cloth gilt, rebacked (4)
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, 2 vols in 4, London: H Herman 1883, folio, specially illustrated with fine watercolour drawings, portraits and prints (some colourted), original theatre playbills, engraved music, an autograph lettter signed by Dickens dated 1849 on house furnishing for his brother, a letter by James Tokeley, 1814, another by H. Brown; all bound into the corresponding parts of the 1833 8vo edition text, all mounted. Bound by Tout in full morocco gilt, fine (4)
George Finch Mason (1850-1915) Mr Jorrocks.., watercolour, inscribed and signed, 25 x 35cm; JALLAND (G H) The Sporting Adventures of Mr Popple, c.1909, pictorial boards; ARMOUR (G D) three vols. hunting, red cloth; WOLF (J) Life and Habits of Wild Animals, 1874, folio, plates by Whymper, cloth gilt; BEWICK (T) Life and Works, by D Croal Thomson, 1882, folio, no. 31 of 75 copies, cloth; MOORE (David) Concise Notices of British Grasses, 3rd edition, 1851, folio, mounted specimens, boards; etc
Collection of Eton related works, including: The History of Eton College, Ackermann 1816, 4to, coloured aquatint frontispiece and 9 plates as called for, uncut, later bound; Eton College Chronicle, 2 vols. 1906-11, folio; BENSON (A C) Fasti Etonenses, 1899, morocco; MAXWELL LYTE. History, 1911, morocco; 8 others later (16)
The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ, Folio Society, 2007, one of 2750 numbered copies, a facsimile of the Robert Gibbings Golden Cockerel edition, illustrations by Eric Gill, original pictorial black morocco gilt, by G. Lachenmaier, gilt edges, with accompanying slim volume, in original cloth drop-back box
The Romance of the Road, first edition London 1928, folio, illustrations, folding plan of London in pocket at front, a good copy in recent half red morocco; FELTON (William) Felton's Carriages, 1962, oblong folio, illustrated by Alan Osbahr, no. 9/250 specially bound copies, signed, full tan morocco, slip case. SHONE (A B) A Century and a Half of Amateur Driving, Part I, one of 500 copies, 1955, 4to, illustrated, this copy belonged to Air Marshall A T Harris, with his note at p109, morocco backed boards. Provenance: Henry Sotheran Ltd.; five others, 8vo, coaches (8)
The Book of the Queen's Doll's House;.. Doll's House Library, 2 vols, Methuen 1924, one of 1500 copies, small 4to, uncut, cloth backed boards, a little toned; HICHENS (Robert) Egypt and its Monuments, London 1908. small 4to, uncut, plates, decorative cloth; VUILLIER (G) La Danse, Hachette 1898, folio, illustrated, original straight grained blue morocco gilt; Le Sport International, 1929-30, folio, text in English, French and German, copy no. 120, photogravure portrait plates, calf (some splits) (5)
painting and engraving, quantity including Bryan's Dictionary, 1920; ARMSTRONG (W) Sir Joshua Reynolds, Heinemann 1900, folio, photogravure plates, half morocco by Bumpus; Gainsborough and his place in English Art, 1898, folio, foxing; others on Degas, Lord Leighton, Ambrose McEvoy, Van Dyck, etc
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