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Lot 145
The Mansions of England in the Olden Time by Joseph Nash, published T.M. Lean 1839 – 1849 comprising the First, Third and Fourth Series, with each series containing an engraved title page and 25 full-page lithographed plates & guards, bound together in a half leather Elephant folio volume with decorative gilt engraved title on upper cover and gilt spine (lacking one plate in first series)
Lot 130
ALBERT GOS - A FOLIO OF TWELVE LOOSE ENGRAVINGS OF SWITZERLAND, inscription "Souvenir de votre ??. Camille Gos 1903, together with Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 'Landscape' with original etchings and many illustrations from pictures and drawings, Seeley & Co. 1885 together with 'Sketches By The Facsimile Society Vol. II 1869' (3)
Lot 259
Talwin Morris (1865-1911), A collection of Art Nouveau Bindings, circa 1900 folio/4to - Quantity (22)The World of Today, 1906, complete 6 vols; William Ewart Gladstone and his contemporaries, 1898, complete 4 vols.; Thompson's Gardener's Assistant, 1884, complete 6 vols; King Edward VII His Life & Reign, 1910, complete 6 vols
Lot 1009
Antiquarian. Anderson, George William - A NEW, AUTHENTIC, AND COMPLETE COLLECTION OF VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD, UNDERTAKEN AND PERFORMED BY ROYAL AUTHORITY. CONTAINING A NEW, AUTHENTIC, ENTERTAINING, INSTRUCTIVE, FULL AND COMPLETE HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF CAPTAIN COOK'S FIRST, SECOND, THIRD AND LAST VOYAGES. London: Printed for Alex Hogg. Presumed 1784, tail edge of title has been cropped, however the preface confirms this is the first single volume edition. Collated complete. Folio. iv, 656pp plus list of subscribers. PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE AND 156 PLATES AND MAPS. Original calf, well worn, would require some restoration/repair. (1)
Lot 120
C. 1660 Japanese shinto tanto by Sukesada with scabbard. Tanto Sukasada bound brown grip with round fudu Menuki pierced onate tsuba. 32 cm long, straight blade shows a very good hamon pattern to edge, with harimoni Buddhist carvings. Blade has been Japanese polished, being in superb/fine condition. Wooden scabbard shows fine lacquered features, showing unique ‘shell’ finish, with insert Kasashi, retaining cotton-bound belt. A very good maker of swords, Sukesada 2 is shown to tang – Bishu Osafune Ju/Yokoyama Kozuke (No Daijo Fujiwarra Suke Sada). Comes with full folio of photos and research. Overall measures 54cm.
Lot 189
Charles Knight's Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, 1847, illustrated with 4000 wood engravings, volumes one and two in the same volume, published London Printing Co, folio, including Mammalia and Birds, with Reptiles, Fishes, Molluscs and Insects, newly rebound with marbled boards and a green leather spine.
Lot 137
Caxton (William).- Higden (Ranulphus) Polychronicon, single f. from Liber Tercius, f. CXLVIII, 40 lines, rubricated in red, ink annotations in an early hand with ink marks touching text to verso, window mounted, framed and glazed, small folio, [Westminster, William Caxton, after 2nd July 1482].
![Scotland.- Mure [Muir] (Sir John) Order to Jas. Loch Treasurer to pay Two Hundred Marks for the repair of North Berwick Harbo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/301ad9da-51ab-4cd1-ae03-aaa30115c199/142d700a-e1fd-4925-b04e-aad400bff8f1/468x382.jpg)
Lot 180
Greece.- Athens.- Stuart (James) and Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens, Measured and Delineated, 4 vol., new edition, half-titles, engraved frontispiece portraits of the author, 187 (of 191) engraved plates, maps and plans, some spotting and water-staining, original cloth-backed boards, worn, folio, 1825-1830. sold not subject to return.
Lot 122
Royal Navy.- Letter-book from HMS Royal William, manuscript, 177pp. excluding blanks, extensively damp-stained, some ff. working loose, browned, original panelled reversed calf, worn, head and tail of spine chipped, folio, 1812.⁂ Correspondence in answer to orders issued. "Royal William 23 March 1812. Sir/ The men named in the Margin being all Danish subjects having applied to me to be sent to Prison rather than serve in the Royal Navy... ."
Lot 17
NO RESERVE Monet (Claude).- Wildenstein (Daniel) Claude Monet: Biographie et Catalogue Raisonné, vol.2-4 only (of 5: Peintures 1882-1926, lacking vol.1 1840-81 and supplement), [limited edition], illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets, slightly rubbed and frayed at edges, folio, Lausanne & Paris, 1979-85.
Lot 127
NO RESERVE Cluny Abbey.- Saint Odilo of Cluny, fifth Abbot of Cluny, c. 962-1049).- Jotsaldus (Cluniac monk) The Life of St Odilo Abbot of Cluny. By Lotsaldus or Jotsaldus Monk, manuscript, 85pp., slightly browned, original roan-backed boards, slightly rubbed, folio, n.d. [c. 1850].⁂ An unpublished translation of Jotsaldus's Life of St Odilo.
Lot 117
Browsholme Hall, near Clitheroe, Lancashire.- [Account Book relating to the Parker family of Browsholme Hall & Inventory of Browshole Hall], manuscript in several hands, 39pp. excluding blanks, further 9pp. loosely inserted, together 48pp., ruled in red, 2ff. with small tear, slightly browned, 11 linen labels of various rooms in Browsholme Hall loosely inserted, original vellum, soiled, lettered direct on upper cover "The Posting Book 1760 to 1761", worn, spine torn with some loss, ledger folio, 21st March 1778 - 25th November 1790 [& c. 1830s].⁂ A full inventory of an English country house. Rooms including: "Large Drawing Room"; "Engavings"; "Furniture Blue Room"; "Oak Drawing Room" etc.
Lot 83
Plato. Opera, translated by Marsilio Ficino and edited by Simon Grynaeus, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut historiated initials, 2 small paper repairs to title, water-stained at foot, some foxing and staining, lightly browned, 17th century panelled calf, spine in compartments, upper joint split, but holding, rather worn, [not in Adams; VD 16 P 3279], a scarce work, folio, Basel, [Froben], 1551.
Lot 192
NO RESERVE Spanish Moors.- Viardot (Louis) Essai sur l'Histoire des Arabes et des Mores d'Espagne, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 4pp. advertisements, some spotting and foxing, contemporary boards, spine gilt and with black morocco labels, rubbed, Paris, 1833; and a bound vol. of c.30 hand-coloured engraved costume plates by Grasset de Saint Sauveur, 8vo & folio (3)
Lot 79
Arnobius, of Sicca. Disputationum adversus gentes libri octo, Roman type, initial spaces with guide-letters, &2 bound after a4 as often, occasional spotting or light foxing, engraved armorial bookplate of William Morehead, 17th century calf, arms of Signet Library to covers, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [Adams A1994; EDIT 16 CNCE 3083], folio, Rome, Francesco Priscianese, 1542.⁂ A well-margined first edition of this work composed in response to Diocletian's persecution of the Christians. It is one of very few books from this Roman press.
Lot 177
Europe.- Breval (John Durant) Remarks on Several Parts of Europe: Relating chiefly to the History, Antiquities and Geography of those Countries, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved frontispieces, double-page engraved map, 43 plates, 12 folding or double-page, subscriber's list, one or two short marginal tears, occasional faint off-setting, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked with the original spine laid down, a little rubbed, folio, Bernard Lintot, 1726.
Lot 55
Rembrandt.- Rovinsky (Dimitry) L'Oeuvre Grave de Rembrandt, Reproduction des Planches Originales dans tous leurs Etats successifs, 4 vol., including text vol. in modern blue cloth, 4to, with 1001 phototype reproductions of Rembrandt's etchings, and their varied states, with original paper wrappers, torn and split, the phototypes laid on card as issued, presented in blue cloth portfolio boxes, rubbed and worn, folio, 1890; together with supplementary vol. L'Oeuvre gravé des Élèves de Rembrandt, text and an additional 478 reproductions of works by the school of Rembrandt, phototypes laid on card as issued, presented in blue cloth portfolio boxes, rubbed and worn, folio, 1894; and with Suppplément à l'édition de Mr. D. Rovinski: L'Oeuvre Gravé de Rembrandt, with 94 phototypes, modern blue cloth, 1914.
Lot 165
Dorset.- Hinton St. Mary, near Sturminster... Estate... Hinton Manor House... 150 Acres of capital Land... Sold by Auction, by Mr. W.H. Hewitt, 7pp., large hand-coloured folding lithographed map of Hinton loosely inserted, folio, 1852; and 8 other sale particulars of properties in Dorset, folio (9).
Lot 205
NO RESERVE Insects.- Merian (Maria Sibylla) Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, limited edition numbered 12 of 990, colour plates, original green morocco, 1980 § Rücker (Elisabeth) & William T. Stern, Maria Sibylla Merian in Surinam: Commentary to the Facsimile edition of Metamorphosis ..., colour frontispiece, plates, some colour, illustrations, original half morocco, 1982; folio (2)
Lot 81
Christopher Columbus.- Giovio (Paolo) Elogia Virorium Bellica Virtute Illustrium Veris Imaginibus Supposita, title with woodcut Medici device, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, 2pp. ms. index in an early hand at end, occasional small areas of staining and spotting, final f. with some ceasing, late 17th / early 18th century calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, covers with triple gilt filet borders, joints splitting, corners worn, rubbed, [Adams G639; Mortimer, Italian, 213; European Americana 551 / 23], a wide-margined copy, folio, Florence, Laurentius Torrentinus, 1551.⁂ Handsomely printed first edition of this collection of biographies of the subjects of portraits in the author's private collection. Of particular note was that of Christopher Columbus; the only known authentic likeness of the discoverer of the New World, with his biography on pp.171-174.
![NO RESERVE Monet (Claude).- Wildenstein (Daniel) Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism [including Catalogue Raisonné], 4 vol.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/301ad9da-51ab-4cd1-ae03-aaa30115c199/41edcee3-6e18-43c7-9af0-aad400bfd807/468x382.jpg)
Lot 146
War of the Spanish Succession.- A Short State of the War and the Peace, The Fourth Edition, with Additions, drophead title, 6pp., edges creased and torn, last f. tear repaired, browned, unbound, [ESTC lists 5 copies only; not in BL], folio, [London, 1715].⁂ Drawn up by Erasmus Lewis under the Earl of Oxford's direction.
Lot 135
NO RESERVE Oxford Estate Agents.- Buckell & Ballard.- 7 account books, manuscripts, numerous pp., slightly browned, a few ff. foxed, original cloth and original leather-backed or half-leather, rubbed, folio et infra, 1928, 1930-31, 1934-36.⁂ Sir Robert Buckell (1841-1925), Mayor of Oxford 1885-86, 1890-91, 1896-97, 1904, 1916-17, and 1918-19; auctioneer, surveyor, and valuer, In the early years of the 20th century, Buckell went into partnership to form the Buckell & Ballard estate agency that survived into the twenty-first century.
Lot 150
Theatre playbills.- 7 printed playbills of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and the National Theatre, including performances of The Knight of Snowdoun... Mr. C. Kemble... Harlequin & Asmodeus... Mr. Grimaldi... Harlequin Gulliver, the Flying Island etc., some trimmed at head or foot, some corners repaired, folds, some slight creasing, folio, [London], 1805-18; and another (8 pieces).
Lot 28
India. Griffin (Lepel). Famous Monuments of Central India. Illustrated by a series of eighty-nine photographs in permanent autotype, 1st edition, The Autotype Company & Henry Sotheran & Co., [1886], 89 full-page autotypes, 23 x 28 cm and similar, each with tissue-guard with numbered printed caption, a few tissue-guards a little frayed or soiled at edges, slightly finger-soiled and ink library stamps to verso, library labels to (later) front free endpaper, 20th-century leather-backed cloth with gilt accession number at foot of spine, rubbed, oblong folio (Qty: 1)
Lot 285
India. A souvenir of the Shannon River Show, held in March 1902, in connection with Lady Northcote's fancy fête in aid of the Lady Dufferin fund, published under the patronage of h.E. for Her Excellency Lady Northcote by the Indian Textile Journal Company, Limited, Bombay, [1902], 24 pp. with numerous photographs by Bourne & Shepherd reproduced as red-brown and black and white colotypes, a little spotting and soiling, original printed wrappers with cloth spine tie, some damp stains and marginal fraying, a little splitting and wear to spine, slim oblong folio (22 x 28 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThe show was held in Bombay in the vast grounds opposite the High Super Court, visible in one of the photographs. Among the major attractions were a canal with tunnels and boats named Shannon River. There was also a monorail, mandolin band, elephant rides, food stalls (including one for Hindus) and much else to be found at a typical British fete. It appears from the photographs and the text that numerous Parsis and Gujratis were also involved in the organisation and running of the show. Lady Northcote was the wife of the then Bombay Chief and Governor. The Lady Dufferin Fund had been set up in aid of the women of India by the Vicereine in the 1880s. A rare survival of an important Bombary charity event, reproducing photographs of the leading photographers Bourne and Shepherd.
Lot 10
Scotland and North Wales . An album of 42 mounted photographs, c. 1880, albumen prints, including 14 views of the Orkney and Shetland Islands, mostly by George Washington Wilson with initials, negative numbers and captions in the negative, mostly 13.5 x 20.5cm and similar sizes, mounted back to back on stiff card leaves plus two paper leaves loosely inserted, inner hinges cracked, contemporary half morocco, spine worn, oblong folio (Qty: 1)
![India. [Photographic biographies of Indian rulers], c.1880, 2 parts in 1 volume, approximate pagination [6] 7-96 pp., 3-40 73](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6e81e3ae-22b0-49bc-93b7-aacd0108d8fe/e30007ac-5809-4f8d-8875-aace0112b122/468x382.jpg)
Lot 29
India. [Photographic biographies of Indian rulers], c.1880, 2 parts in 1 volume, approximate pagination [6] 7-96 pp., 3-40 73-6 41-72 [77]-144 147-246 251-4, lithographic Urdu text without hand-coloured oval cartouches, 74 albumen print portrait photographs (9 x 5 cm) mounted to card leaves with Urdu captions (either in manuscript or on mounted lithographic slips), mounts on stubs throughout, 1 similar portrait (uncaptioned but evidently from the same series) laid in, both parts lacking the title-page and apparently the first leaf of text, one card mount (Moinuddin Mohammed Farrukhsiyar) with caption but lacking photograph, part 1 text-leaves and mounts brittle and browned, fore margins chipped and extensively consolidated with tissue-paper, similar repairs to a few leaves extending into text, a few card mounts detached or detaching from stubs (Babur, Humayun, Jahangir/Akbar, the latter both mounted either side of the same sheet), part 2 with water-damage to pp. 133-44 and 3 intervening plates, stabilised with tissue-paper, the repair just touching one corner of 2 photographs (Nawabs of Juagadh and Balasinor), the third (Maharaja of Travancore) repaired with loss, 1 other photograph (Nawab of Palanpur) with extensive loss and attempted repair, card mounts in part 2 otherwise only with variable and generally minor water-staining to fore margins (lower outer corners sometimes discreetly consolidated with tissue), contemporary red morocco binding with broad roll-tool borders gilt, rebacked with red fabric, folio (29.5 x 19 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: From the collection of photo-historian Brij Sharma. An apparently near-complete copy of an extremely rare Indian publication. We trace a fragment containing six photographic portraits and their associated biographies only, catalogued as being part of a larger work titled Muraqqa' Jahan Numa ('World-Mirror Album') by Munshi Bulaqi Das, printed at Delhi's Mayur Press circa 1880. The first part contains 25 albumen prints from miniatures of Mughal rulers and their antecedents, from Timur to Bahadur Shah Zafar. The second part concerns the rulers of the Princely States and associated potentates including the sultans of Muscat and Zanzibar. It contains 50 albumen prints (including the loose, uncaptioned image), of which 39 are from life, and consequently provides original likenesses of numerous princes not otherwise well-represented in the photographic record. The quality of the paper and the adverse climate of the Subcontinent appear to have assured the work's rarity in any condition. A full list list of the figures depicted is available on request.
Lot 109
Great Britain. A group of five private photograph albums of a family's summer seaside holidays in Whitby and Runswick Bay, North Yorkshire, 1928-30 & 1936-37, a total of approximately 500 good amateur snapshots of postcard size and smaller, mounted singly and as multiples to rectos and versos of five neatly composed annual albums with careful ink captions and minor pen decorations to mounts, the large family often photographed in groups and in deliberate line formations on the sandy beaches, all with neat presentation dedication inscriptions from the Golders Green family present to their companion Biddy Craven, inscribed at front of each album, mixed bindings, a little rubbed, oblong small folio (Qty: 5)
Lot 44
Thomson (John). Illustrations of China and its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, with Letterpress Descriptions of the Places and People Represented, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Sampson Low, Marston Low, and Searle, 1873-74, 96 plates of photographic illustrations, interleaved with descriptive letterpress text and guards, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated maroon cloth, slight wear to spine ends and corners, a few small nicks to joints, volume 1 partly split and frayed along both joints, folio (470 x 345mm) (Qty: 4)NOTESWestern Travellers in China 91: 'John Thomson (1837-1921) was the first known photographer to document the people and landscape of China for publication and dissemination to the Western world. Between 1868 and 1872 he travelled over 6,500 kilometres with his compass and camera and equipment, dark room and chemicals capturing all aspects of Chinese life. The photographs in these four volumes show the many sides of China: sweeping landscapes, royalty and ruling classes, merchants and economic activity, everyday life, and the faces of men, women and children. In a time when knowledge was derived from observation and classification it should seem odd that Thomson desired a recognition not from the quality of his photographs, but from his contributions to general knowledge'. 'My design in the accompanying work is to present a series of pictures of China and its people, such as shall convey an accurate impression of the country I traversed as well as the arts, usages, and manners which prevail in different provinces of the Empire. With this intention I made the camera a constant companion of my wandering, and to it I am indebted for the faithful representation of the scenes I visited and the types of races I came into contact' (Introduction).
Lot 130
Coronation of Haile Selassie I. Emperor of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa , 2 November 1930, a personal photographically-illustrated scrap album of the occasion compiled by Major E.O. Springfield, a member of the delegation sent to accompany the Duke of Gloucester at the coronation, containing a total of 32 gelatin silver print photographs, 35 leaves of news cuttings and related, a manuscript pass, menu, seat ticket and seating plan, three ambassadorial letters, an invitation card to the ceremony and one for the dinner, plus an 11-page typescript account of the occasion as recalled by Springfield, Springfield's ownership signature and address, 'The Palace, Khartoum, Sudan' to front pastedown, original cloth-backed boards with lithographically-printed title to upper cover, some rubbing and soiling, slight edge and joint wear and a little loss of cloth to top and bottom of lower joint, folio (38 x 31cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: From the great-nephew of E.O. Springfield. The first photograph in the album shows the Duke of Gloucester and the rest of the British delegation standing on the steps of the British Legation in Addis Ababa. Captain Springfield was comptroller to the Governor General of Sudan and is seen second from the left in the second row from the back. Standing next to him on his left in a top hat is the young explorer Wilfred Thesiger, who had been given a personal invitation to the coronation by Haile Selassie. This photograph measures 19 x 24cm, the majority of other photographs being postcard-size and similar of western and African officials in respective ceremonial dress. However there are further larger images including one of African chiefs demonstrating a machine gun.
Lot 97
Fenton (Roger, 1819-1869). Photographic Art Treasures; or, Nature and Art Illustrated by Art and Nature, Part I, published by the Patent Photo-Galvano-Graphic Company, November 1856, containing four photo-galvanographs, each with printed title and letterpress credits on india paper, each image approximately 21.5 x 18cm, sheet size 56 x 38cm, loosely contained as issued in original printed wrappers with pictorial vignette to upper cover, minor dust-soiling and small neat repair at foot of spine, large slim folio (Qty: 1)NOTESPart I contains images of York Minster, Cedars, Monmouthshire, Raglan Castle (The Porch) and Raglan Castle (The Watergate). A second part was issued with four further photo-galvanographs, of which two more were by Roger Fenton. Roger Fenton was named partner and photographer of the company, the patent inventor being Paul Pretsch. These are considered the first serious commercial attempts to print directly from a photo-sensitised plate using the photo-chemical process. Rare. No copies have been traced on Library Hub Discover, but a copy of Part I is held by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Print Room).
Lot 55
China & Japan. A large scrap album containing photographs and prints including China and Japan interest, late 19th and early 20th century, a total of 24 photographs, 15 pencil drawings, sketches and watercolours, and 50 prints and items of printed ephemera, the largest photograph (22 x 29 cm) being a toned gelatin silver print, circa 1910, showing a Peking merchant seated in his business reception area with banners and drapes, flowers and chairs, plus five further gelatin silver print cabinet cards and a larger group portrait, studio names on mounts being Sze-Uen-Ming, Shanghai (2), Ho Kom Tong, Hong Kong (2), and Tse Chin Loh, two detached and one showing an unidentified building, 12 hand-tinted Japanese albumen prints, late 19th century, 20.5 x 26.5 cm, the remaining seven photographs including a Ceylon palm tree scene and a young woman by Skeen, circa 1880s, the whole collection mounted to rectos and versos of 30 stiff card leaves, contemporary half morocco, soiling and wear, large folio (53 x 38 cm) (Qty: 1)
Lot 43
China & India. A scrap album with photographs relating to the Dods family in the Far East, c. 1860-1880s, including a total of approximately 30 albumen prints (c.1860s), various sizes but mostly smaller format, subjects include group portraits, P&O Steamer Benares at the Wharf, Hong Kong, 'Loo Chung Qwong, Viceroy of The Kwangs', circa 1862 (by Milton Miller, 188 x 145 mm), Summer evening at the Tai Ping Hong Konam, 1862, several of the Dods family, plus Chinese women, Canton mandarins and other figures, a few small photographs in Calcutta, plus various cuttings and other ephemera, some loosely inserted, outer margins damp-frayed with some occasional loss, contemporary half leather, rubbed and soiled, folio, (37 x 29 cm), together with a sketchbook of G. Dods dated at Canton 1862-64, comprising a total of approximately 30 mostly pencil and a few watercolour sketches of Chinese and maritime subjects, etc., contemporary half roan, rubbed, oblong small folio (17 x 23 cm), plus a slightly later partially completed family scrap book with rough sketches, poems and inserted ephemera, contemporary cloth, soiled and worn, 4to, plus an untitled contemporary lithographically book of Chinese subjects for art students, original stitched wrappers, slightly soiled and frayed, oblong slim folio (Qty: 4)NOTESProvenance: see lot 38.
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