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Click here to subscribeBacon, Sir Francis. Sylva Sylvarum, or A Natural History in Ten Centuries, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved additional title, B4 with large paper flaw, affecting text, occasional spotting and rust-marks, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, spine rubbed, bookplate of Coker Court, folio, London: W. Lee, 1629 [STC 1170]
Alps. A late nineteenth century album containing 34 mounted photographs and 8 watercolours of the alps and surrounding area, the photographs including those by Charnaux freres & Cie, Ph. Jullien, et al., mostly of Mont Blanc and Lausanne, 255mm x 192mm and smaller, the watercolours titled 'Glacier des Bossons', Geneva', 'Chillon' and 'Chamonix', 175mm x 122mm, full morocco, extremities bumped, all edges gilt, oblong folio
Paris, Matthew. Monarchi Albanensis Angli Historia Major, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, occasional rust-marks, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn, upper board detached, bookplate of Elwin Millard, folio, London: A. Mearne, 1684; and 2 others, English history, folio (3)
Jones, Owen and Jules Goury. Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Alhambra, 2 volumes, first edition, frontispiece, additional chromo-lithographed titles, 101 plates, including 2 hand-coloured plates and 70 chromo-lithographed, rather spotted, a few leaves loose with margins frayed, contemporary half morocco, worn, boards detached, folio, London: Owen Jones, 1842-1845
Camden, William. Britannia: or, A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland... enlarged with the latest discoveries by Richard Gough, 4 volumes, second edition, 104 engraved plates, 40 [of 57] engraved maps only, a few leaves loose, rather spotted, modern half morocco, library stamps to title, folio, London: John Stockdale, 1806, sold w.a.f.
Russell Flint, Sir William. Breakfast in Perigord, number 197 of 525 copies, signed by the artist, illustrations, original quarter morocco, top edge gilt, folio, London: Charles Skilton, 1968; Judith, number 386 of 875 copies, tipped-in coloured plates, original boards, dust-jacket, chipped and scuffed at extremities, 4to, London: Haymarket Press, 1928 (2)
Submarine Warfare, c.1916. Two photographs albums documenting the naval career of M.W. Bailward, from early days at Osborne and Dartmouth, c.1907, to the conflicts of WWI, including a photographs of various submarines undergoing trials, B3 (at Burnt Island), S2 (at Gairloch), G13 (at Scapa Flow), G14 (at Stokes Bay), salving a German UC5 in 1916, and various WWI battles at sea, including the explosion on board HMS Jutland, May 31st, 1916, mounted, many captioned, contemporary half morocco, worn, folio
Malton, Thomas. A Compleat Treatise on Perspective, in Theory and Practice, second edition, engraved frontispiece, 48 engraved plates, 45 folding, 5 with overlays, all intact, plate XL soiled along fold and torn, light spotting, contemporary calf, rubbed, upper joint split, bookplate of Edwin Bell, folio, London: Printed for the Author, 1778
Gray, Thomas. Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, engraved title vignette, 11 engraved head- and tail-pieces and 6 full-page engraved plates, light browning, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked preserving original spine, bookplate of Sir John Trollope, folio, London: J. Dodsley, 1775
Grose, Francis. The Antiquities of England and Wales, 3 volumes, volumes 1-3 [of 4] only, first edition, LARGE PAPER, 3 engraved frontispieces and titles, 7 full-page engraved plates and 302 engraved illustrations in text, contemporary speckled calf, spines rubbed, folio, London: S. Hooper, 1773-1775
Rushworth, John. The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, signed 'William Legge 1690' and on the title 'Dartmouth', occasional light browning, modern calf-backed boards, folio, London: John Wright, 1680 [Wing R2333] PROVENANCE: William Legge (1672-1750), 2nd Earl of Dartmouth.
Heylyn, Peter. Cosmographie in foure Books. Contayning the Chorographies & Historie of the whole World and all the Principall Kingdomes, Provinces, Seas and Isles Thereof, 4 parts in one volume, sixth edition, engraved additional title, title printed in red and black, 2 [of 4] double-page engraved maps, shaved with slight loss, occasional spotting and rust-marks, contemporary calf, spine chipped with loss, bookplate of Coker Court, folio, London: A.C. for P. Chetwind and A. Seile, 1682 [Wing H1696] Lacking maps of Europe and America.
Fontaine, Nicolas, Sieur de Royaumont. The History of the Old and New Testament, third impression, 260 engraved plates, 258 printed recto-verso, 5 folding engraved maps, browned, spotted, a few leaves with tears, frontispiece torm with loss, loose, contemporary diced calf, rubbed, folio, London: Robert Blome, 1705, sold not subject to return
Charles I, King of England. A Large Declaration concerning the Late Tumults in Scotland..., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, imprimatur leaf at end, EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED by a contemporary owner with references, notes and decorative marginalia, eighteenth century half calf, bookplate of Coker Court, folio, London: Robert Young, 1639 [STC 21906]
Philips, Katherine. Poems By the most deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips The matchless Orinda, 2 parts in one volume, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, occasional browning and spotting, Ccc with paper flaw, not affecting text, lacks final blank, title partly torn along gutter, contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked, some surface loss, bookplate of Coker Court, folio, London: H. Herringman, 1667 [Wing P2033] The title is inscribed, 'Rach. Helyar. her Book gift of Anne Proctor.' Rachel Helyar, nee Wyndham (d.1678) was the wife of William Helyar (1621-1697), Sheriff of Somerset.
Burnet, Gilbert. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 3 volumes including supplement, mixed edition, volume one with Xx4 defective, occasional spotting, worming to margins and light staining, contemporary calf and half calf, worn, folio, London: Richard Chiswell and A. Millar, 1679-1683 and 1753
La Calprenede, Gautier de Coste. Cassandra. The Fam'd Romance. The Whole Work in Five Parts. And Elegantly rendered into English by Sr. Ch. Cottrell, additional engraved title, cropped and laid down with some loss to image, minor spotting and staining, 'To the Reader' leaf torn with loss to margin, nineteenth century half calf, joints cracked, bookplate of Coker Court, folio, London: A. Moseley, 1667 [Wing L109]
Nalson, John. A True Copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice, for the Tryal of K. Charles I, first edition, engraved frontispiece, portrait and plate of the Court, advertisement leaf at end, T1 partly loose, some spotting, contemporary mottled calf, extremities slightly rubbed, bookplate of Coker Court, folio, London: H.C. for Thomas Dring, 1684 [Wing N116]
Jones, Inigo. The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-Heng on Salisbury Plain, first edition, 7 wood-engraved double-page plates, 3 folding, one with upper margin cropped, shaving image, lacking portrait frontispiece, A1-D4 stained, contemporary reverse calf, repaired and rebacked, corners worn, folio, London: James Flesher for Daniel Pakeman, 1655 [Wing J954]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The British Neptune; or, Naval, Military, and Fashionable Advertiser, Number 466, 2pp., folded sheet, company of stationers stamp, ANNOTATED BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, the upper margin further inscribed by an unknown hand, 'With Mr Valpy's Compts.', folio, Sunday, September 15, 1811 This issue of the British Neptune carries a review of The Curse of Kehama, by Robert Southey. Verso there is an article titled 'Further Advances on the Price of Bread' to which Coleridge has provided a critical response, noting after his own calculations, 'I do not imagine how the Baker could have less profit than he has, when we consider in how small a way Bakers trade in general, & how many there are & must be for the convenience of the Customers as well as the small capital required to set up.'
Ormerod, George. The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 3 volumes, second edition, 3 engraved portrait frontispieces, 3 maps, 2 coloured, 58 engraved plates, spotted, a few leaves affected by damp with some loss, publisher's cloth-backed boards, folio, London: George Routledge, 1882
Shakespeare, William. The Dramatic Works... revised by George Steevens, 9 volumes, first edition, half-titles, 96 engraved plates, tissue guards, spotting and browning, particularly adjacent to plates, contemporary full morocco, tooled elaborately gilt, all edges gilt, occasional scuff marks, bookplate of Charles Augustus Wild, folio, London: John and Josiah Boydell, 1802 A FINE COPY.
Camden, William. Annales or, The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth, Late queen of England, third edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved title, both with some loss to lower margin, the frontispiece with loss to image, C2-C3 with rust-hole, slightly affecting text, V, Ff4 and Eee4 torn, Bb6 verso with ink stains, occasional spotting throughout, contemporary calf, lightly worn, joints cracked, folio, London: Benjamin Fisher, 1635 [Wing C5070]
Wheler, George. A Journey into Greece... In Company of Dr. Spon of Lyons, first edition, 7 engraved illustrations on 5 sheets, the first shaved at foot, folding engraved map, engraved illustrations throughout, Dd4 with rust-hole to margin, Yy3 with rust-hole, slightly affecting text, a few later leaves with evidence of minor worming to gutter, occasional light browning, contemporary calf, rebacked, bookplate of Elwin Millard, folio, London: William Cademan, Robert Kettlewell and Awnsham Churchill, 1682 [Wing W1607] The first attempt at a systematic topographical description of Greece.
Bulleid, Arthur and Harold St. George Gray. The Glastonbury Lake Village, 2 volumes, first edition, plates, volume one with spine cracked and frayed along upper hinge, top edge gilt, 4to, Taunton: Glastonbury Antiquarian Society, 1911-1917; Paul, Roland Wilmot. An Account of Some of the Incised and Sepulchral Slabs of North-West Somerset, plates, modern cloth, folio, London: Provost & Co., 1882; Jewers, Arthur J. Wells Cathedral, first edition, plates, original cloth, 4to, London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1892, all ex-library copies with usual markings (4)
Vergilius Maro, Publius. The Works... Translated into English Verse by Mr Dryden, first edition, engraved frontispiece, laid down with some loss of image, 98 [of 100] engraved plates, one with fore-edge shaved, another with loss due to paper blemish, a few leaves with margins torn, browned, contemporary calf, joints cracked, bookplate of Coker Court, folio, London: Jacob Tonson, 1697 [Wing V616]
Heylyn, Peter. Cosmographie in foure Books. Contayning the Chorographies & Historie of the whole World and all the Principall Kingdomes, Provinces, Seas and Isles Thereof, 4 parts in one volume, fifth edition, engraved additional title, title printed in red and black, 3 [of 4] double-page engraved maps, shaved with slight loss, occasional spotting and rust-marks, Aa3-Aa4 with paper fold flaw, contemporary calf, spine chipped with loss, bookplate of Coker Court, folio, London: A.C. for P. Chetwind and A. Seile, 1677 [Wing H1695] Lacking the map of Europe.
Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is. With All Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognosticks, and Severall Cures of It, second edition, h3-h4 loose, S2 verso ink stained, A1-I1 with minor worming, occasionally affecting text, contemporary ink annotations to title, late eighteenth century calf, rubbed, bookplate of Coker Court, folio, Oxford: John Litchfield and James Short, 1624 [STC 4160]
Bird, Charles. Historic Bristol, number 23 of 104 copies, 6 original etchings by Charles Bird, signed and numbered by the artist, loose in original portfolio, as issued, pictorial cloth-backed boards, stained, lacks ties, folio, Bristol: Frost and Reed, 1896; Picturesque Old Bristol, 52 etchings in 26 original parts, loose, pictorial covers, folio, Bristol: Frost and Reed, 1886 (27)
Charles I, King of England. Basilika. The Works of King Charles The Martyr, second edition, engraved additional title, engraved coat of arms, 3 folding engraved plates, occasional browning and spotting, contemporary calf, extremities worn, joints cracked, folio, London: Richard Chiswell, 1687 [Wing C2076]
Webb, John. A Vindication of Stone-Heng Restored: In which the Orders and Rules of Architecture Observed by the Ancient Romans, are discussed..., first edition, licence leaf, signed recto 'Ri. Sackville' engraved illustrations in text, occasional rust-marks, title and first signature working loose, contemporary calf, worn, bookplate of Salisbury Museum Library, folio, London: R. Davenport, 1665 [Wing W1203] It seems likely the signature is that of Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset (1622-1677).
Camden, William. Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, revised... by Edmund Gibson, 2 volumes, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 51 engraved maps, 9 engraved plates of coins and antiquities, a few shaved with slight loss, light staining to early leaves in volume one, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, folio, London: Mary Matthews for Awnsham Churchill, 1722
Murray, C. Fairfax. Catalogue of the Pictures belonging to His Grace the Duke of Portland, at Welbeck Abbey, and in London, number 73 of 250 copies, plates, tissue guards, publisher's morocco-backed cloth boards, top edge gilt, others uncut, folio, London: Chiswick Press, 1894; Webber, Byron. James Orrock, R.I. Painter, Connoisseur, Collector, 2 volumes, number 417 of 500 copies, plates, spotted, original cloth gilt, spines darkened, folio, London: Chatto and Windus, 1903; and one other, 4to (4)
[Jenkins, James] The Martial Achievements of Great Britain, later issue, hand-coloured frontispiece, title vignette and dedication, 51 hand-coloured aquatint plates, watermarked 'T. Edmonds 1831', tissue guards, without 2pp. list of subscribers, some light browning and soiling, modern half calf, untrimmed, folio, London: James Jenkins, [1814-15] [Tooley 281] [Abbey, Life 365]
Froissart (Jean) Histoire et Chronique Memorable de Mesire Iehan Froissart, 4 vol. in 2, titles with woodcut printer's devices to first 2 vol., the third vol. with device laid on to title, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, vol.3 & 4 vol. numbers partially erased from title, lacking b5 in vol.1, v2&5 in vol. 3 (with a duplicate of v3), and *1 in vol.4, vol.1 title with 2 holes (affecting part of 1 letter) and laid down, preliminaries with wormhole within text, and q3 repaired within text, without loss, vol.2 *2-A6 wormed within text, with loss, diminishing in severity as proceeds, all vol. trimmed at head and outer margins, affecting some headlines and side-notes, occasional spotting and staining, modern half calf, spines gilt, [Adams F1067], folio, Paris, Jean Ruelle, 1574. sold not subject to return.
Architecture. Greece.- Penrose (Francis Cranmer) An Investigation of the Principles of Athenian Architecture, engraved frontispiece and 36 plates, 5 mounted chromolithographed plates, a few short repaired tears, some staining to text, occasional spotting, 20th century half calf, [Blackmer 1283], folio, published by the Society of the Dilettanti, 1851.
Architecture.- Alberti (Leon Battista) The Architecture... Painting... and of Statuary, translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli, and into English by James Leoni, engraved frontispiece and 75 plates by Picart, a few folding, occasional minor worming to lower margin, some spotting and staining, contemporary mottled caf, rebacked, preserving majority of gilt spine in compartments, rubbed, [Harris 15], folio, Edward Owen, 1755.
Crawhall (Joseph) Reynard Ye Foxe: A Set of Ten Drawings Representing Scenes from the Fable, 10 mounted coloured lithographed plates with printed captions, mounts a little browned and chipped at edges, title and contents, occasional spotting, short tear to title, pencil annotations to contents, loose in linen portfolio as issued, lacking ties, rubbed and worn, a little browned, folio, W. B. Paterson, [1896].
NO RESERVE Architecture.- Fréart (Roland) A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern, in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, 2 parts in 1, second edition, title with engraved ornament, full-page engraved illustrations, contemporary ink marginalia and scribbles, lacking half-title and final f., title loose and with ink stamp verso, stained, contemporary panelled calf, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, [Harris 232], folio, printed for D. Brown, 1707-1706⁂ The second part is An Account of Architects and Architecture by John Evelyn.
Anne (Queen).- The Coronation of Queen Anne.- The Form of the Proceeding to the Royal Coronation of Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Anne, The XXIII Day of this Instant April, 1702, large bifolium, soiling and creasing, a very little faint foxing, splitting to fold with some repair, transverse horizontal fold, edges uncut, preserved in custom-made portfolio and slip-case, folio, by Edward Jones, 1702.
Tiraqueau (André) Commentarius in l[ibrum] si unquam c[ommentarius] de revo[candis] donat[ionibus], title in large woodcut architectural border, woodcut oval portrait of the author, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lower margin of title repaired, water-stained at head, some marginal worming, affecting a hew headlines, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, stained, folio, Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1559.
George IV.- Summons to Thomas James Viscount Bulkeley to attend the Coronation, D.s. "George R", manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank, folds, slightly browned, folio, Carlton House, 27th June 1820; and 5 other pieces relating to the Coronation of George IV, including: a document signed by George IV excusing the Earl of Arran from attending the coronation; a document signed by Sir George Nayler, v.s., v.d. (6 pieces).
India.- Mecham (Clifford Henry) Sketches & Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow. From Drawings Made during the Siege, first edition, tinted lithographed title with vignette and 16 plates only (of 17), spotting and damp-staining, margins frayed, loose in original cloth, spine defective, covers loose, folio, 1858; sold not subject to return. ⁂ Rare.
Greece.- Wheler (George) A Journey into Greece, first edition., 7 engraved plates (4 of coins, 3 smaller), numerous illustrations in text, lacking folding map, some spotting, occasional foxing, lightly browned, 19thc entury polished calf, gilt, joints split, but holding, corners worn, rubbed, [Atabey 1328; Blackmer 1786; Wing W1607], Printed for William Cademan, 1682; and 2 others, Greece, folio & 8vo (3)
Bible, Greek.- Novum testamentum graecum, e. Codice Ms. Alexandrino, qui Londini in Bibliotheca Musei Britannici asservatur, descriptum a Carolo Godofredo Woide, half-title, list of subscribers, engraved plate, facsimile text in Alexandrian Greek type cut by Joseph Jackson, short tear to inner margin of title, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners and edges worn, rubbed and scuffed, a wide-margined copy, folio, John Nichols, 1786.
Cromwell (Oliver).- Humble Petition and Advice (The), presented unto His Highness the Lord Protector, mainly black letter, small rust hole to A2, occasional browning, disbound, [Wing E1566A], sm. folio, Henry Hills and John Field, 1657.⁂ In 'The Humble Petition and Advice ...' Parliament offered the Crown to Oliver Cromwell in an attempt to establish a more traditional form of government and limit the powers of the Protector. Cromwell declined, and this document, dated 26 June 1657, sets down what later became England's last written constitution.
George III.- Coronation of George III.- Hill (Richard) Autograph Letter signed to "Madam", 4pp., folio, Leicester, 17th October 1761, "... in regard to the King's conduct and behaviour, which was beyond anything I ever heard of, when he was to receive the sacrament he ask'd the Archbishop if this Rubrick did not order the Crown sh.d be taken off, the Arch. Bishop answered, no; The King said he thought it was an admission, took his Crown off and plac'd it upon the Communion Table", folds, browned, housed in a modern morocco-backed slipcase, by James Macdonald & Co., New York.
Inwood (Henry William) The Erechtheion at Athens, first edition, 34 lithograph plates, some double-page, one folding, some foxing and marginal browning, contemporary green half morocco, gilt, rubbed, covers stained, folio, 1831.⁂ Inwood was the architect of St. Pancras Church on Euston Road in London, partly modelled on the Erechtheion and one of the most important Greek Revival buildings.
Pigna (Giovanni Battista) Historia de Principi di Este, first edition, title with large hand-coloured woodcut device incorporating the arms of various branches of the family, woodcut historiated initials, errata f. at end, K1 mounted on a stub, colophon f. foxed, occasional staining, contemporary limp vellum, creased and stained, [Adams P1204; EDIT 16 CNCE 38347], folio, Ferrara, Francesco Rossi, 1570.
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