NO RESERVE Private Presses & Typography.- c.30 pieces of ephemera and other printed matter, comprising a 'Gutenberg Keepsake' with replica f. of the Mazarin Bible, 'A Bodoni Keepsake' (offered only to members of The American Institute of Graphic Arts) with type set by Morris Fuller Benton, both with tipped-in facsimile portrait, both printed by John Henry Nash and issued by The Zellerbach Paper Company, The Lakeside Press' Abraham Lincoln tribute 'Man for the Ages', prospectuses, respectively, for Graf-Verlag's facsimile edition of The Book of Kells, for The Shakespeare Head Press' edition of The Whole Works of Homer (this with sample engraving by John Farleigh), and for The Lakeside Galleries' exhibition 'Five Centuries of the Printed Bible' (the last with specially-printed wood engraving by Bernard Brussel-Smith), a publications list dated 1906 for Daniel Edwards Kennedy's The Queen's Shop of Chestnut Hill, galley proofs for his publications The Rat-Trap Man and Golf in Sapphira's Days, also several duplicated advertising pieces, prospectus for Morison's John Fell: The University Press and the 'Fell' Types, and a broadside carrying Eisenhower's 'Don't Join the Book Burners', some browning, soiling, and foxing, a few nicks and creases, 4to & folio, 1907-53.
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NO RESERVE Insects.- Merian (Maria Sibylla) Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, limited edition numbered 7 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)
Medals & decorations.- Naval.- Milford Haven (Marquess of) British Naval Medals: Commemorative Medals, Naval Rewards, War Medals, Naval Tokens, Portrait Medallions, Life-Saving Medals, Engraved Pieces, &c., &c., title in red and black, numerous illustrations within text, errata slip, contemporary buckram, leather gilt label to spine, stained and rubbed, folio, John Murray, 1919.⁂ A scarce work. This corresponds to being one of 25 copies, signed by the author, however we are lacking the justification leaf.
NO RESERVE Scrap albums.- Three folio scrap albums with over 75 original drawings and prints, including landscapes, botanical and foliage studies, British topography, portraits and figure studies, Italian views and caricatures, with several attributed to 'Sir Thomas Slingsby of Scriven', presumably the 9th Baronet, several other pencil drawings executed in the manner of George Chinnery, watercolours, pencil, pen and ink, engravings, all neatly tipped onto album leaves, various sizes, occasional handling creases, surface dirt and browning, two oblong folio, one folio, all worn with spines loose or missing, [19th century] (3)
NO RESERVE Foulis Press.- Virgilius Maro (Publius) Bucolica Georgica et Aeneis, 2 vol. bound as 1, half-titles, list of subscriber's bound at end, bookplate, ink signature to front free endpaper paper verso, vol. 1 lacking final blank, contemporary diced calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, gilt, a little rubbed, g.e., folio, Glasgow, Foulis Press, 1778.
![NO RESERVE Russian Communism & The Balkans.- Ferri (Enrico) Socialism and Positivism: Darwin-Spencer-Marx [Cyrillic], Šid](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9ed714ba-ffd4-48f0-9431-aa5700c2085c/43457ed0-544b-42ea-a7d0-aa5700ed88a2/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Russian Communism & The Balkans.- Ferri (Enrico) Socialism and Positivism: Darwin-Spencer-Marx [Cyrillic], Šid, Peoples Truth Press, 1921 § Lassalle (Ferdinand) On the Sushtin Charter [Cyrillic], Belgrade, Serbian Social Democratic Press, 1907 § Popovich (Moma) Kosta Abrashevich [Cyrillic], Belgrade, 1940 § Khopich (Branko) Notes of a Partisan [Cyrillic], Zagreb, Enlightenment Press, 1945 § Volkov (E.Z.) Christo Botev [Cyrillic], Moscow & Petrograd, 1923, first editions, some plates or illustrations, ink ownership inscriptions, faint even browning, most ff. desiccated, contents separating, original printed wrappers, some with loss; and both a volume by Bocho Ilyev and a broadside titled 'Regulations for the Conference of the Soviet Peoples Commissars of the Republic of Turkestan', the latter with loss, 8vo & folio (7)
Essex.- Thomas Beryll bargain and sale of land called Rokwell in Essex to John Collyn, manuscript in Tudor English, folds, browned, stained at tail not affecting text, remains of red wax seal with paper seal impression, hand and flower watermark, folio, July 1554; and 6 other documents, 2 Essex, v.s., v.d. (7).
‡Dame Elisabeth Frink RA (1930-1993)Bookplates for The Iliad by Homer, translated by E.V. Rieu for the Folio SocietySet of 15, all lithographs, published by Curwen Press, 1975Each 24 x 15cm (15)Provenance:Sally Hunter Fine Art, British design and illustration, November 2008Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, 9th December 2015, Lot 127++Generally good condition
ϒA George IV rosewood folio stand, circa 1825, the hinged slatted uprights, with crossed ratcheted stands, above turned supports and outswept square section legs, united by turned stretchers, on turned and roundel moulded feet terminating in brass castors, 109cm high, 74cm wide, 87cm deep Provenance: Private Collection, Scotland ϒ Indicates that this lot may be subject to CITES regulations when exported. Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
Facsimile edition of The Queen Mary Atlas - reproduced from Cotton MS Additional Manuscript 5415A in the British Library ..., printed at Cambridge University Press supplied by John Purcell. The binding by Smith Settle of Otley is in full grain aniline finish calf leather, blocked with a design by David Eccles, copy no.258 of 1,000 copies for members of the Folio Society, complete with brochure, etc, elephant folio within its original slip case, with a commentary by Peter Barker
Kracheninnikow, M"Voyage en Siberie, Contenant la Description du Kamtchatka ...", vol 2 only, published Paris 1768, incl. 17 engraved plates, three river maps, some staining, foxing and offsetting throughout, marbled ep, full leather, rebacked, contemporary leather laid down, raised bands and title pastedown to backstrip, folio
Barnard, Frederick"Charles Dickens, a Gossip about his Life, Works and Characters", 6 vols, with 18 full page character sketches (reproduced in photogravure) and other illustrations by well-known artists, Cassell & Co Company Limited, 6 elephant folio vols with card covers, vignette of Gadshill Place on front boards,Copping Harold ' Character Sketches from Dickens' Raphael Tuck & sons Ltd., frontis portrait with tissue guard loose, colour plates with tissue guards, blue cloth with blind stamped decoration and portrait with gilt titles to front board and gilt titles to back strip, teg, some foxing on edges and tissue guards. (7)
The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, March 1900, August 1900, bound copies, numerous ills from sporting events, political events, theatrical events, numerous advertisements, images for the Transvaal War, large elephant folio, boards very rubbed and damaged Taplin, William "The Gentleman's Stable Directory; or modern system of farriery ...", printed for G Kearsley 1789, frontis portrait, extensive information on equine management, full leather, backstrip loss and very bumped and rubbed, with handwritten notes regarding training and riding horses (3)
1930 World Cup Report and Memorabilia Catalogue,a certificated limited edition published in 2000 by World Cup Collections, Montevideo, Uruguay, this numbered 1,897/3,000, comprising a reproduction of the 1930 Official Report "Album Primer Campeonato Mundial De Football", and a 1930 World Cup Memorabilia catalogue, in a folio case with COA
'Circumnavigation of the Globe' Edinburgh Cabinet Library New Edition, and 'Cooks Voyages, A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook' with an account of his life by A Kippis, published London Scott Webster & Geary 1842, 'Narrative of Captain James Cooks Voyages Round the World' published by William Millner Halifax London 1838, and a small folio of 'The Life and Voyages of Captain Cook' circa early 19th C with original engravings, some damage (4)
GRIGSON, GEOFFREY Thornton's Temple of Flora with Bibliographical Notes by Handasyde Buchanan and Botanical Notes by William T. Stearn, a special edition no.160 of 250, on hand-made paper with plates printed in collotype, signed by all three contrib utors, Collins, London 1951, half calf folio
Voyages.- Harris (John) Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Or, A Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels, [edited by John Campbell], 2 vol., second edition, licence leaf, titles in red and black, 22 engraved maps (15 double-page and/or folding) and 39 portraits, plates and plans, some light foxing or browning, a few stains, vol.1 with small tear to 6A2, stain to plate of Chinese prostitute and tear to foot of map of Africa at fold, vol.2 with a few plates/maps slightly shaved at edges (map of North Pole also a little damp-stained at upper edge), plate of Siberia/Skamansky waterfall soiled and frayed at edge with slight loss to lower outer corner, contemporary blind-stamped reversed calf, rather worn and scuffed, joints broken and frayed, [Hill 775; Sabin 30483], folio, T.Woodward [& others], 1744-48.⁂ The second and best edition of this important collection of voyages including Emmanuel Bowen's map of Georgia and the first English map of New Holland (Australia). "This is the revised and enlarged version of the 1705 first edition ...[This] edition, especially prized for its maps, has been called the most complete by several authorities. Particularly valuable is the inclusion of Tasman's original map and two short articles printed on the map ...". HillAs well as important accounts of voyages the plates include a view of Macao, plans of Canton and Peking, the Pharos at Alexandria, Cortes and Moctezuma, Bering's expedition, whaling and a portrait of Sir Francis Drake.
Gardens.- Evelyn (John).- Quintinye (Jean de la) The Compleat Gard'ner: or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit Gardens and Kitchen-Gardens...to which is added His Treatise of Orange-Trees, with the Raising of Melons, translated by John Evelyn, first English edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 11 engraved plates, of which 2 double-page, charming engraved vignettes, a few small engraved or woodcut illustrations within text, some light foxing or staining, 20th century calf-backed marbled boards, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, [Henrey 218; Hunt 388; Keynes 103; Wing L431], folio, Printed for Matthew Gillyflower...and James Partridge, 1693.⁂ The author was director of the fruit and kitchen gardens of the French royal households from 1670 to 1688. Includes a section on Orange-Trees and Melons, not found in the French editions..
World.- Porcacchi (Tommaso) L'Isole piu famose del Mondo, fourth edition, engraved architectural title, 48 engraved maps by Girolamo Porro in text, woodcut ornaments and initials, lacking N3 & 4 (pp.149-152), title with a few small ink annotations and small strip of paper pasted over at foot of panel with title, browning in parts, some water-staining to lower margin, small paper flaw hole to O3, contemporary vellum, a little rubbed, lower cover stained, folio, Venice, Heirs of Simon Galignani, 1604.⁂ Atlas of the islands of the world, with several of the New World including Temistitan (Mexico), Hispaniola, Cuba and Jamaica. It was originally published in 1572 with 30 maps, expanded to 47 in 1576; this fourth edition is the first to include the final map of Istria.
Anatomy.- Audran (Gérard) Les Proportions du Corps Humain, title, 2 preliminary leaves and final privilege leaf, 30 etched plates by Audran, old ink signature at head of title, some spotting and soiling, mostly to text but affecting a few images, broken and loose and slightly frayed at edges, plates 29 & 30 torn at lower margin, old marbled wrappers (detached), worn and frayed, folio, Paris, Audran, 1683.⁂ Audran used famous antique statues as his models including Laocöon, the Farnese Hercules, Venus de'Medici, Apollo Belvedere, Dying Gaul etc.
Butterflies & Moths.- Wilkes (Benjamin) Bowles's New Collection of English Moths and Butterflies, second edition, engraved throughout comprising title with hand-coloured pictorial border of caterpillars and 12 hand-coloured plates, trimmed to plate-mark at fore-edge, lightly browned, some spotting, later half red morocco, rubbed and a little stained, rebacked, corners worn, [Nissen ZBI 4411], folio, Carington Bowles, [after 1764].⁂ Fine hand-coloured decorative plates with the butterflies and moths arranged symmetrically forming kaleidoscopic patterns.
Caricatures.- An album of caricatures 1810-1840, comprising 79 social, political and royal satires, of which 19 coloured plates include 'A Private Address' by William Heath, showing George IV astride the globe, gesticulating at the face of Queen Caroline as the sun, [BM Satires 13896], 1820; the others mostly on fashion, including 'The Dandy Lion', by Isaac Robert Cruikshank, depicting Lord Petersham, [BM 13029], 1818, 'The Prices', by Hunt after Egerton, [BM 14903], 'Kangkook, by William Staden Blake after Dighton, [BM 13357A], 'Morning, Noon, Night', by George Cruikshank, 'A Young Poodle', by Heath, a group of 4 by James Jenkins, possibly after Jean Baptiste Isabey, the pictorial broadside on Queen Caroline, 'The Eloquent and Humorous Speech of H. Marsh Esq.', and others not in BM Satires; also 60 uncoloured caricatures, of which several napoleonic and regency scenes by Charles Williams, including 'A New Cure for Jackobinism', [BM 11549], and 'Throwing the Stocking', this on the eve of the Charlotte of Brunswick's marriage to the Prince Regent, [BM 12764], many post-1830 on political subjects, including several of the Duke of Wellington, Ireland, corn laws and other subjects, also 13 on the young Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, engravings, aquatints and lithographs, 19 with original hand-colouring, v.s., mounted at corners over unrelated text leaves, a few corners detached, occasional slight spotting or surface dirt, contemporary morocco-backed cloth, soiled and rubbed, oblong folio, 1810-1840..
Jones (Owen) Examples of Chinese Ornament, first edition, 100 fine chromolithograph plates (including additional title), printed title in red and black, ink number in upper corner of many plates, a few short tears, all leaves loose, covers and part of spine intact, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, folio, 1867.⁂ Fine series of highly decorative plates.
Insects.- Moffet (Thomas) Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum, first edition, title with superb woodcut of a skep bee-hive surrounded by other insects, woodcut of skep repeated at end of preliminaries, numerous woodcut illustrations in text, light browning, a few rust-spots, engraved Hopetoun bookplate, contemporary calf, rather rubbed and scuffed, joints split at foot, [British Bee Books 25; Nissen ZBI 2852; STC 17993a], folio, Thomas Cotes...[and] William Hope, 1634.⁂ An excellent copy of the first book on insects published in England, and in a contemporary binding. Moffet was educated at Cambridge and Basel, where he obtained a degree in medicine, travelled widely in Europe before establishing a practice in Ipswich and London and serving as physician to Queen Elizabeth's forces in Normandy in 1591. The first edition has three variant imprints.It used to be said that the author's daughter, Patience, who was raised surrounded by insects and spiders, was the origin of Miss Muffet in the nursery rhyme, but this is now regarded as unlikely.
Tenniel (Sir John) and Thomas Barrett. The ever-so-many Nights Tales - not Arabian, Containing Most Graphic Illustrations of Beauty, Sentiment, Song, The Drama, History & all that sort of thing, title with several vignettes, and 60 humorous scenes, most signed 5/12ths [Thomas Barrett], 2 monogrammed by Tenniel, also including 3 mock seals on card discs, charcoal, coloured chalks and pastel, most on pale grey wove paper mounted on dark grey album leaves, a few, including title, direct on leaves, most with title captions inscribed in body white, half-morocco album, little worn, preserved in later morocco-backed box, with gilt-lettered morocco label to upper panel 'The Book of Beauty by Sir John Tenniel & Mr T. Barrett', folio, [c.1844]. ⁂ Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914) dined regularly at the home of his friends, Mr and Mrs Thomas Barrett, where they would amuse themselves by creating these drawings. They are all three represented by one of the mock seals, that of Tenniel is inscribed 'Sigillum Johannis X.I.L - AD 1844'. Thomas Barrett signed himself '5/12ths' as an affectionate reference to his wife being his better half.
Ebenezer Press.- Birtwhistle (John) The Vision of Wat Tyler, Etchings & Calligraphy by Graham Clarke, Artist's Proof copy signed by the author, from an edition limited to only 75, 33 etched plates by Clarke on 16 sheets, each tipped in between folding pages of calligraphic text by Clarke, each sheet signed in pencil by the artist, explanatory text pamphlet & prospectus loosely inserted, loose as issued in original reversed calf folder, preserved in original hessian wrapping with leather ties, folio, Boughton Monchelsea, Ebenezer Press, 1972.
![Kelmscott Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) [The Canterbury Tales], cancelled proof bifolium comprising pp.1-2 and 15-16, printed in](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9e4f9f33-b24b-4ad2-ac71-aa4200fef8e1/2e267284-589e-42ff-b249-aa42010d9f32/468x382.jpg)
Kelmscott Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) [The Canterbury Tales], cancelled proof bifolium comprising pp.1-2 and 15-16, printed in Chaucer type, both leaves with a woodcut illustration by Burne-Jones, woodcut initials (one large, five small and seven very small), and 2 fine decorative woodcut borders, versos with side-notes printed in red, some light foxing, mostly marginal, [cf Peterson A40], folio, Kelmscott Press, 1893.⁂ Very rare proof of one of the most famous pages in printing history, with variations in the typesetting from the final version . One of only a few copies printed which were subsequently given to Morris's friends, making it one of the rarest of Kelmscott items. The first column of text contains 7 lines; in the published version the seventh line appears at the head of the second column and the final line "The chambres and the stables weren wyde" has been moved to the following page. The first illustration famously depicts Chaucer in a garden holding a book and pen, Morris himself drew the plants in the garden. The second illustration is from 'The Knight's Tale'.
Ravilious (Eric).- Shakespeare (William) Twelfth Night or, What You Will, number 97 of 275 copies, wood-engraved title-vignette, borders, illustrations and decorations by Eric Ravilious printed in brown or grey, original half morocco over pictorial cloth, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, a few scuffs to boards, light staining to spine, [Chanticleer 82], small folio, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1932.⁂ "Eric Ravilious is discovered to be a clever decorator". Chanticleer.
Shahn (Ben) Hallelujah...Illustrating the One-Hundred-and-Fiftieth Psalm from the Old Testament..., one of 250 copies, 24 lithographs by Ben Shahn, each consisting of illustration with facing calligraphic Hebrew text printed in ochre and black, faint offsetting, original cloth, inlaid black morocco label with title in gilt in English and in Hebrew on front and rear covers respectively, uncut, original cloth drop-back box with black morocco label with gilt Hebrew title inlaid on lid, list of illustrations mounted on inside of box (browned), large square folio, New York, Kennedy Graphics, 1970.
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