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Click here to subscribeMap Reference . A collection of modern map history & reference, including A History of Cartography 2500 years of maps and mapmakers, by R.V. Tooley, 1st U.K. edition, 1969, The Exploration of North America 1630-1776, by W.P. Cumming et al, 1974, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, some duplicate volumes, G/VG, 8vo/folio (Qty: 4 shelves)
Ashworth Underwood (E. [editor]) . Science Medicine and History...,essays in honour of Charles Singer, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1953, Oxford, black & white illustrations, minor marginal toning, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, covers lightly toned & rubbed to head, 8vo, together with Hogg (Jabez) , The Microscope: it's history, construction, and application:..., 6th edition, circa 1867, 8 colour plates & numerous black & white illustrations, some spotting, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, and Knott (Cargill Gilston) , Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait, 1st edition, 1911, Cambridge University Press, 5 monochrome portraits, bookplate to front pastedown some marginal toning & spotting, original blue cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, plus other 19th century & modern science, engineering & industry reference, including Maps and Sections to accompany the report of the Royal Coal Commission, 1871, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (Qty: 5 shelves )
Shakespeare (William) . The First Folio of Shakespeare, The Norton Facsimile, edited by Charlie Hinman, 1968, 352 monochrome facsimile pages, original green cloth in slipcase, folio, together with Walker (Thomas A.) , The Severn Tunnel: its construction and difficulties 1872-1887, 2nd edition, 1890, 40 monochrome illustrations, minor spotting & toning, original illustrated blue cloth, 'ring' mark to the front cover, spine light faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Bentley, Jr. (G.E.) , Blake Books, annotated catalogues of William Blake's writings, 1st edition, 1977, Oxford, black & white portrait frontispiece, original cloth in price clipped dust jacket, spine lightly rubbed to head, 8vo, plus other early 20th century & modern bibliography reference & related, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG (Qty: 4 shelves)
Rice (Anne) . Interview With The Vampire, 1st U.K. edition, 1976, minor toning & spotting to the text block, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, together with Snow (C.P.) , The Light And The Dark, 1947, Time Of Hope, 1949, The Masters, 1951, The New Men, 1954, Homecomings, 1956, TheConscience Of The Rich, 1958, The Affair, 1960, Corridors Of Power, 1964, The Sleep Of Reason, 1968, Last Things, 1970, all 1st editions, all original cloth in dust jackets, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other modern fist editions, fiction & miscellaneous reference, including Cormac McCarthy, Robert Ludlum, all original cloth, mostly in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (Qty: 6 shelves & a carton)
Lang (Andrew) . The Green Fairy Book, 4th edition, 1895, black & white illustrations, some light toning & marks, original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed & marked, 8vo, together with Berkeley (George) , Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of Tar Water,..., new edition, 1747, printed for W. Innys & C. Hitch, contemporary inscription to the title page, modern marbled endpapers, minor toning, modern gilt decorated full calf, minor rubbing to boards & spine, 8vo, plus Cuala Press. From a Dark Lantern: a Journal by Arland Ussher, edited and arranged by Roger Nyle Parisious, Dublin, 1978, original holland-backed printed boards, slim 8vo, (limited edition, 147/350 copies), and Folio Society, The Blue Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang, 2003, Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, illustrated by William Blake, 1998, plus 16 further volumes, 8vo/folio, and other modern literature including, W.B. Yeats, Hugh Lofting, mostly original cloth, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folio (Qty: 3 shelves)
Robertson (William) . The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V, new edition, 4 volumes, 1777, printed for W. Strahan, 4 black & white frontispieces, minor marginal toning, some cracked gutters, uniform contemporary gilt decorated mottled calf, boards & spines slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with Urquhart (WM. Pollard) , Life And Times of Francesco Sforza Duke of Milan, 2 volumes, 1852, colour frontispiece to volume 1, some light spotting & marginal toning, uniform gilt decorated full calf, spines lightly faded, boards lightly marked, 8vo, and Dugdale (William) , The Baronage of England,..., 3volumes (bound in 1), 1675-76, title page trimmed & laid to later paper with period inscription, water marks to foot & toning throughout, various repairs to rear, pp.425 to rear board of volume 3 partial detached, rebound retaining contemporary gilt decorated full calf spine & boards, rubbed to head & foot, folio, plus other mostly 19th century literature & history reference, all gilt decorated leather bindings, condition is good/very good, 8vo/folio (Qty: 3 shelves)NOTES66 volumes
Dufour ( Auguste-Henri , Duvotenay , Thunot & Thiers , Adolphe ). Atlas de l'histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, Paris, 1859 , 66 black & white maps, some light spotting, contemporary gilt decorated half calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed, folio, together with Pétrarque (François) , Mémoires pour la vie de François Pétrarque, 3 volumes, 1714-17, Amsterdam, black & white engraved title pages, bookplates to front pastedowns, some light toning & minor offsetting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated mottled calf, boards & spines lightly rubbed, 4to, and other mostly 19th century French language history, literature & reference, including Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres, 8 volumes, by J.C. Brunet, 1860-80, all leather bindings condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio (Qty: 3 shelves)NOTES55 volumes
Heather (William). Untitled Composite Atlas of fourteen Sea Charts of the British coastline, 1793 - 1805, fourteen uncoloured folding and double page engraved charts, many with insets, with a double page engraved plate of Maritime flags with bright contemporary hand colouring at rear, bookplate of William Heather 'Chart and Map -Seller, The Navigation Warehouse, 157 Leadenhall Street' to front pastedown, contemporary half calf, over marbled boards, bumped and worn, large slim folio (Qty: 1)NOTESRare. No extant copies found. The charts consist of:- 1. Large untitled map of the British Isles orientated to the West, 780 x 1800 mm, published 1793. 2. Chart of the Downs and Margate Roads, 635 x 795 mm, published 1797, 3. Chart of Spithead, 635 x 785 mm, published 1797, 4. Chart of Plymouth Sound, A New Chart of the Race of Portland & A New Chart of the Entrances to Falmouth & Helford (three charts of one sheet), 645 x 800 mm, published 1798, 5. Heather's New & Improved Chart of the Isles of Scilly, 650 x 795 mm, published 1803, 6. Chart of the English Channel, 795 x 1880 mm, published 1805, 7. Chart of the Bristol Channel, 640 x 920 mm, published 1803, 8. A New and Correct Chart of St. George's Channel, 795 x 1850 mm, published 1804, 9. New and Improved Chart of the Hebrides or Lewis islands and Adjacent Coast of Scotland, 790 x 1250 mm, published 1804, 10. Heather;s New and Improved Chart of the Orkney Isles, 645 x 930 mm, published 1804, 11.New Improved Chart of the North Sea or the German Ocean, 950 x 1275 mm, published 1801, 12. Chart of the East Coast of England and Scotland from The Humber to Aberdeen, 645 x 785 mm, published 1798. 13. Chart of the East Coast of England, 645 x 785 mm, published 1802, 14. Chart of the Entrances to the River Thames, 640 x 790 mm, published 1801. William Heather occupied the premises on the bookplate from 1793 - 1812
A folio of 19th century and later oil paintings to include H Hurst 'The Pass on the Stelvio Tyrol', an Elizabethan figural scene by J Proudlove and Henry Rollett (Br, Ex 1886-1916); a pair of figural landscapes depicting workers toiling in the fields with a backdrop of a cathedral to one and an observatory to the other, 49 x 76cm, unframed (13).
Burgess (Anthony). The Age of the Grand Tour. London, 1967. Oblong folio, publisher's cloth, dust wrapper; Wood (John). Town Atlas Of Northumberland & Durham, re-published limited 233/400 copies in 1991, published by Frank Graham, Newcastle on Tyne; and Blake (William). Illustrations to the Bible. A Catalogue compiled by Geoffrey Keynes, Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1957 (3)
WELIN DAVIT & ENGINEERING COMPANY second edition, 174 plates and plans, eight folding, original cloth gilt, oblong, folio, London, 1914Footnote: Illustrating all-known davits up until 1914, the company renamed Welin Lambie, still possesses a near monopoly, even furnishing NASA with various pieces of equipment.
BRAZILIAN SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHIC CO., CIRCA 1884 Engineers’ Paying Out Log , from March 10 th to 31 st , signed by Clark, Forde and Taylor, engineers, manuscript 27 leaves and a blank, each leaf contains printed ‘Remarks’, the name of the ship (S.S. Scotia) and other printed data, written in a fine legible hand, original black roan, title in gilt on front cover including ‘Madeira–St. Vincent Cable (duplicate) 1884, oblong folio 13 7/8 x 15in. (35 x 38cm.), 1884; together with AZORES CABLE , Engineers' Paying Out Log , August 13-September 3 1893, signed by Clark, Forde and Taylor, manuscript 20 leaves, layout as above, the ship (S.S. Seine ), written in a fine legible hand, original black roan, title in gilt on front cover, ( head of title defective ) -- 13 1/8 x 15 5/8in (33.5 x 39.5cm.), 1893 (2)
“Art du Paumier Raquetier et de la Paume” by Francois Alexandre Pierre de Garsault, Diderot and Denis & Jean le Rond d'Alembert,9 French 18th century engraved plates “Paumier”, extracted from Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire Rasisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Mettieres 1767, plus two additional pages of text, illustrating the skills of the Real Tennis equipment maker, presented in a modern folio (45 by 31cm), Excellent condition
Tennis: Paumier, Encyclopedie de Diderot and d'Alembent, circa 1771a folio with nine engraved plates of real tennis interest labelled Paulmerie with two pages of explanatory text, in contemporary hardcover with leather spine and corners, wear to spine and corners of hardcover, foxing to pages
Davila, Enrico Caterino. Histoire des Guerres Civiles de France [History of the Civil Wars of France], in two volumes, Paris: P. Rocolet, 1657, red & black title page with woodcut illustration of galleon, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, and other engraved & woodcut capitals and vignettes within text. Folio, contemporary calf, raised bands, oxblood title label present on second volume, gilt crests to upper boards, ink stencil to opening blank leaf of each volume for John Kerrich, Geldestone Hall. Contents generally good and bright, occasional wear (title page detached); bindings worn with loss to leather (2)
Invitation to the Official Coronation Ceremony of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, printed on cream card with some manuscript annotations [Iran (probably Tehran, before 4 Aban 1346 (26 October 1967)] folding card now in two sheets, printed in colour with gilt highlights, recipient’s name copied in elegant naskh, perfectly matching the printed invitation, small stain to edge of main invitation, otherwise clean and crisp condition, each folio c. 320 by 220 mm.; in modern card mount, framed and glazed Although the Shah was inaugurated in 1941 the coronation did not take place until 1967, reportedly because the Shah insisted that he would not take the crown until he had restored Iran to greatness. The ceremony was a lavish event in Golestan Palace, Tehran, and during the proceedings the Shah also crowned his third wife, Farah Diba, as the Shahbanu (Queen Consort) of Iran.
“Sa Majestie Mozzafer-Ed-Din Shah de Perse”, commemorative print by Pellerin & co. for Imagerie d'Epinal, chromolithograph on paper, probably issued as a supplement to local newspaper [Paris or Epinal, c. 1900] single folio, depicting the Shah seated and front-facing, framed within an elaborate border adorned with the Qajar and French flags, colourful flowers and the Qajar seal, closed tear along old fold, extremities a little darkened, c. 390 by 290 mm.; in modern card mount, framed and glazed
“Sa Majestie Mozzafer-Ed-Din Shah de Perse”, commemorative print by Pellerin & co. for Imagerie d'Epinal, chromolithograph on paper, probably issued as a supplement to local newspaper [Paris or Epinal, c.1900] single folio, depicting the Shah seating and front-facing, framed within an elaborate border adorned with the Qajar and French flags, colourful flowers and the Qajar seal, closed tear along old fold, extremities a little darkened, a few chips to outer edges with slight loss, apparently pasted to old board, c. 390 by 290 mm.; in elaborate and fine gilt wooden frame, under glass
Northamptonshire, Ashby St. Ledgers Manor.- Senhouse family.- Visitors book, containing thousands of signatures, c. 365pp., most pp. interleaved with blotting paper, most signatures in ink, some in pencil, 1 leaf partly torn away, a few other ff. with tears, some ff. excised, some blotting paper torn and removed, slightly browned throughout, original reversed calf, title lettered direct on upper cover, worn, some ink stains, corners worn, folio, 1886-1903.? "This chamber is the memorable spot/Where was conceived Guy Fawkes' papal plot/ But, thanks to Providence, his vile design/Could not our Christian basis undermine. Joseph B. Cooke Loughborough April 26/[18] 90."Signatures, including: George N[athaniel] Curzon "Lord Curzon" and numerous members of the Curzons of Kedlestone Hall (Curzon and Senhouse families were related), Lady Knightley (1842-1913), churchwoman and woman's activist, W.E. Gladstone (Hawarden Castle), Sir Claud Russell (of Balliol College, diplomat, ambassador to Portugal, 1871-1959), Brig.-Gen. Hon. Anthony Morton Henley (1873-1925), Sir Redvers Buller (army officer, 1839-1908), "The Duke & Duchess of Warwick" (Daisy Warwick, society hostess, 1861-1938, ?in a Senhouse hand), Sir Henry Howard (diplomat at St. Petersburg and first British envoy to the Vatican in over 300 years, 1843-1921).
Plutarch. The lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes, compared together by that graue learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea, first edition of this translation, translated by James Amyot and Thomas North, woodcut medallion portraits within decorative cartouches, head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, lacking initial blank, title and final 2 ff., provided in facsimile, F3 and 3T3 supplied from other copies, 2C3&4 outer margin frayed, affecting printed side-notes, water-stained, a few marginal repairs, later calf, rebacked, corners repaired, marked, [STC 20066; Pforzheimer 801], folio, Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautroullier and Iohn VVight, 1579.⁂ This translation '. . .forms the major source for the plots of Shakespeare's classical plays as well as suggestions for numerous passages in the non-Roman ones. . .some hints of A midsummer night's dream are clearly derived from the Life of Theseus' (Pforzheimer).
[Randolph (Thomas)] Aristippus, or The iouiall philosopher: demonstratiuelie proouing, that quartes, pintes, and pottles, are sometimes necessary authours in a scholers library. Presented in a priuate shew. To which is added, the conceited pedlar, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking final 3 ff. (the last blank), supplied from a later edition, title frayed at foot with partial loss of date and laid down, F1 torn and repaired at upper corner with loss of text, soiled, modern half calf, spine gilt, [STC 20686.5], Printed by Thomas Harper, for Iohn Marriot, and are to be sold by Richard Mynne, at his shop in Little Britayne, at the signe of Saint Paul, 1630 § Greville (Fulke, Baron Brooke) Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes..., first edition, text beginning at p.23 as usual where poem was suppressed, lacking initial and final blanks, woodcut head-pieces and initials, library stamps, some browning, occasional staining, spotting, library cloth, [Hayward 68; Pforzheimer 437; STC 12361], folio, E.P[urslow] for Henry Seyle, 1633; and 2 others, 17th century poetry, v.s. (4)
Chambers (Ephraim) Cyclopaedia: Or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 2 vol., titles in red and black, large engraved folding frontispiece, 20 engraved plates, some folding, folding letterpress table of type specimens, 1 folding plate with splits at folds, occasional creasing and spotting, contemporary calf, joints split, rather worn, but holding, ink ownership inscriptions of Katherine Blount, dated 1738, bookplates of Desmond Morris, folio, For D. Midwinter [and others], 1738.
Maps.- Trade.- Savary des Brulons (Jacques) Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, translated by Malachy Postlethwayt, 2 vol. in 4, first edition in English , engraved allegorical frontispiece, titles printed in red & black and with engraved vignette, 24 folding engraved maps, engraved folding tables, lacking a few text ff., 'Asia plate .4' foxed, elsewhere occasional spotting, a few small stains, contemporary half calf, rather worn, but holding firm, folio, for John & Paul Knapton, 1751-1755. sold not subject to return.
Edward VII. Oratio... [Oration to Albert Edward Prince of Wales by Edward Earl of Derby Chancellor of the University of Oxford], signed presentation copy from Edward Prince of Wales with his ink inscription on front free endpaper, bookplate on verso of upper wrapper, original wrappers, slightly creased and discoloured, housed in a cloth portfolio, folio, [Oxford], [1863].
Roxburghe Club.- Warner (Sir George F., editor) The Benedictional of Saint Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester 963-984, reproduced in facsimile from the Manuscript in the library of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, half-title, chromolithographed frontispiece, heightened in gilt, endpapers water-stained, original half morocco, spine gilt, small piece of leather missing from head of spine, just touching the odd letter of title, but with no real loss, corners worn, rubbed, Oxford, Privately printed for Presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club, 1910; and Queen Mary's Psalter, edited by the same, folio & 4to (2)
Japan.- Ogawa (Kazumasa) The Hakone District, text by James Murdoch, 17 collotype plates, tissue-guards, 1 colour map, ex-library with usual ink-stamps, no title as usual, original decorative paper wrappers, string ties, a little rubbed, slight chipping to corners and extremities, housed in a dropback box, rubbed and worn, corners beginning to split, folio, Tokyo, [1892].
Medieval manuscripts facsimiles.- Martirologio de Usuard, one of 987 copies, facsimile of Inv. MD 273 in the Museo d'Art in Girona, original red leather, gilt, without original box, Barcelona, M. Moleiro, 1997 § Heures de Turin-Milan, 2 vol., one of 980 copies, facsimile of Inv. No. 47 in the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, Torino, original dark green velvet, Luzern, Faksimile Verlag, 1994; and the Folio Society Luttrell Psalter, without commentary volume and box, v.s. (4)
Silk Lace Samples.- Album of over 1000 silk lace samples in various colours but largely white and black, mounted on blue paper with gold ruled border, many with identifying stickers with numbers, many some maker's name, some loose or creased, some missing, several blank leaves at end, original cloth upper cover with gilt lettering "Black Silk Laces", lacking spine and lower cover, broken and some leaves loose, folio, ?Calais, [c.1860s].⁂ A superb album. Many of the little stickers identify the makers as coming from St.Pierre-les-Calais, which became a major lace producing centre during the 19th century after English workers from Nottingham smuggled lace-making machines into what was then the village of St. Pierre and settled there. Many of the names are indeed English (eg Jane Maxton, J. Smith) and the cover lettering confirms its likely English origin within the French town.
Blake, William.- A disbound scrap album with over 400 prints, including six engraved by William Blake (1757-1820), the Blake's are from Mary Wollstonecraft's 'Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations', originally published in 1791, the present plates are trimmed and tipped onto album leaves, together with 7 small 19th century maps and a large collection of various portraits, small vignettes, architectural sites of interest and genre prints, engravings, etchings, lithographs, chromolithographs, various sizes, the majority under 100 mm. x 100 mm. (4 x 4 in), some larger, tipped onto blue paper album leaves, many trimmed and with some loss, scattered spotting and surface dirt throughout, largely disbound, lacking boards and spine, folio,
Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales, translated by Neville Coghill, 8 vol. in 4, one of 1000 copies signed by the artist, lithographed plates and illustrations by Charles Mozley printed in different colours, loose as issued in original pictorial wrappers, 2 vol. each in 4 original cloth-backed board portfolios with ties, together in original publisher's packaging, large folio, 1985-86.⁂ Comprising: Prologue and The Wife of Bath's Tale; The Miller's and The Reeve's Tale; The Merchant's Tale and The Shipman's Tale; The Summoner's Tale and The Clerk's Tale. Actually one of only about 250 sets, the rest were damaged or destroyed during long-term storage in an old barn.
Jones (Owen) The Psalms of David Illuminated, chromolithographed titles and double-page dedication, 50 thick card chromolithographed leaves illuminated in gold and colours, tissue-guards, occasional faint marginal soiling, cracked hinges, original relievo leather, upper cover embossed with 'The Victoria Psalter', rubbed and worn, small loss to spine foot, folio, [1861].
Pogany (Willy).- Wagner (Richard) Tannhäuser: a dramatic poem, number 5 of 525 copies signed by Pogany, translated by T. W. Rolleston, 16 tipped-in plates and illustrations by Pogany, original decorative calf, upper cover becoming loose, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, folio, 1911.
London.- Dugdale (Sir William) The History of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, second edition, engraved frontispiece, 12 engraved plates (10 folding), 30 full-page engraved illustrations by Wenceslaus Hollar, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, repairs to plates, foxed, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, by George James, for Jonah Bowyer, 1716; and another on the antiquities of Exeter, 1681, folio & 8vo (2)
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