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Click here to subscribeWarwickshire Portraits, collected by John Astley, Coventry, 1876. An album of 119 engraved and mezzotint portraits of county worthies, including William Dugdale, William Shakespeare, Thomas White Miles, Samuel Pomfret, Joseph Addison, John Ryland, and others, mostly mounted, contemporary half calf, worn, folio
Weever, John. Ancient Funerall Monuments with in the United Monarchie of Great Britaine..., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved additional title, very occasional rust-marks, Fff3 with ink-stain, nineteenth century polished calf, rubbed, early bookplate of Sir John Leveson Gower, folio, London: Thomas Harper, 1631 [STC 25223]
Wood, Anthony. Athenae Oxoniensis. An Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the Most ancient and famous University of Oxford, 2 volumes bound in one, first edition, light spotting and browning, some leaves with early marginal notations, lacks final blank, contemporary panelled calf, extremities worn, joints cracked, folio, London: Thomas Bennet, 1691-2
Alken, Henry. The Art and Practice of Etching, First Edition, 1849. 8vo., orig. cloth gilt. Frontispiece and 8 plates - Flaxman, John, illus. The Odyssey… Iliad of Homer, 2 vols., 1805. Oblong folio, cont. half calf gilt (worn, upper covers detached). Outline engraved plates. Bookplates of Capt. John Henry Howard, RN, Rushett, and additional label "Given by Harriet Black. From the Library at No. 9 Russell Square…July 1890" (3)
Dugdale, William. Monasticon Anglicanum, 3 volumes, engraved additional title, engraved plates, a few double-page, some browning and spotting, late nineteenth century half calf, worn, boards detached, folio, Savoy: Thomas Newcomb, 1655-1673; Stevens, John. The History of the Antient Abbeys, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches, 2 volumes, engraved plates, many folding, light browning and staining, particularly to the lower margins, contemporary calf, worn, boards detached, folio, London: Thomas Taylor et al., 1722; and 7 others, similar, folio and 8vo (12) sold w.a.f.
Ebers, G. Egypt: Descriptive, Historical and Picturesque, 2 volumes, half-titles, plates, illustrations, some spotting, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, volume one with boards detached, spine defective, folio, London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, [n.d.]; Budge, E. Wallis. A History of Egypt, 8 volumes, plates, some folding, original cloth, spines slightly chipped at heads, 8vo, London: Kegan Paul, 1902; and 24 others, Egypt, v.s. (34), sold w.a.f.
Stephens, George. Handbook of the Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, half-title, illustrations, spotted, original cloth gilt, head of spine chipped, folio, London: Williams and Norgate, 1884; Miln, James. Excavations at Carnac, half-title, plates, many folding, spotted, original cloth gilt, 4to, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1881; and 3 others, similar, v.s. (5)
Tanner, Thomas. Notitia Monastica; or, An Account of all the Abbies, Priories, and Houses of Friers, formerly in England and Wales, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 engraved plates of arms, some spotting, frontispiece offset to title, contemporary etched calf, ex-library copy, without stamps, neatly rebacked, folio, Cambridge: University Press, 1787
Bacon, Sir Francis. Sylva Sylvarum, or A Natural History in Ten Centuries, fifth edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved additional title, title torn, soiled and repaired, occasional rust-marks, not affecting text, contemporary panelled calf, worn, upper cover detached, folio, London: John Havilland for William Lee, 1639 [STC 1173]
Defoe, Daniel. The Life and strange surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, number 394 of 534 copies, colour pochoir illustrations after E. McKnight Kauffer, original buckram, untrimmed, 4to, London: Haslewood Books, 1929; De La Mare, Walter. The Traveller, 4 coloured lithographs by John Piper, original cloth, uncut, 8vo, London: Faber and Faber, 1946; Trevelyan, Julian. A Place, A State, number 174 of 200 copies, signed, plates, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, folio, London: Enitharmon Press, 1974and 2 others (5)
Weever, John. Ancient Fvnerall Monvments within the Vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, and the Islands adiacent, with the dissolued Monasteries therein contained, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved additional title, lightly browned, a few leaves soiled or with rust-marks, rust-holes on B2, Ff2, Gg4 and Xx1 with minor loss of text, contemporary speckled calf, rubbed, neatly rebacked, folio, London: Thomas Harper, 1631 [STC 25223]
Cornwall. Collins family of Truthan, and Newton Ferrers, landowners, principally Edward Collins (1782 - 1855), his sons Edward (1833 - 1870), and Sir Digby (1838 - 1916). A collection of items including pocket books, morocco with flaps, with brief daily entries; 2 loose lithographic views of Truthan and Newton Ferrers; a quantity of correspondence on estate and family matters 19th c.,, including ALS from Lord Falmouth on the Reform Bill, 1831; printed items relating to Eton College, 1844 - 53; framed photographic portrait in morocco case and spectacle case with initials EC; appointment of Digby Collins to be Sheriff of Cornwall, 7th Feb. 1887, one folded sheet on vellum; Maclean, John. A Brief Account of the Families of Browne and Collins of Bodmin and Trewardale Reprinted from The History of the Deanery of Trigg Manor, n.d. With memorial album to Lt. Gerald Thurston Cole Collins, RN who was killed at the Battle Jutland while serving on HMS Tipperary, June 1916. Folio, full black morocco gilt. Photographic portrait, press cuttings etc., with an envelope of correspondence to Thurston Collins, father of Lt. Collins, whose other son Percival, was also killed in action the same year, and printed Memorial Register, Part III, 1916 (a lot) Thurston Collins inherited Newton Ferrers from his cousin Sir Digby. Violet Collins, daughter of Thurston, married Cdr. Robert John Howard (see lot XXX)
Howard family, Earls of Carlisle. Howard, Henry. Indication of Memorials, Monuments, Paintings, and Engravings of Persons of the Howard Family…, P.P. Corby Castle Dec 10th 1834. Folio, orig. cloth backed boards (upper cover detached, spine defective). Lithographic plates including some apparently extra illustrations pasted to blank leaves. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to the Rev. Thomas Ramshay. Ms. notes in the margins - Carlisle, George William Frederick, 7th Earl. Two Lectures, on the Poetry of Pope and of his own Travels in America. Leeds 1850. 4to., orig. blue printed wraps. Presentation copy from the Author. With large cloth folio containing engraved portrait of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk by Houbraken after More and plate of the Howard coat-of-arms. With 4 other related vols. (7)
King, E. Augusta. A personal album documenting her time in India, including more than 60 mounted photographs of Indian subjects, most by Samuel Bourne, c.1875-80, many captioned, various illustrated letters, envelopes and valentines, a large pen and ink drawing titled 'View from the window of Preston House, Hants', signed 'E.A.K. 1870', with further photographs of British homes, contemporary half morocco, oblong folio, c.1880
Victoria, Queen. Document signed, completed in ms. granting a Free Pardon to William Tate, a prisoner at Stafford gaol, on a charge of larceny, 24th July 1866. 2pp., folio, folded. With envelope stating that this was "Given to me Eliza Howard by Major Fulford the Governor". -- York, Princess Mary, Duchess of. ALS, York Cottage, Sandringham, July 21st 1893, 2 & a half pp., 8vo., to Lady Stanhope thanking the people of Kent for their wedding present of a "beautiful row of pearls". With envelope addressed to Mrs. Howard, and printed poem: [W., H.S.] The Death of the Prince Consort. 4pp., 8vo. W. Dearden and Son Printers, Nottingham. (3)
Brinkley, Captain F. Japan, Described and Illustrated by the Japanese..., volumes 1-4 and 9-12 [of 12], one of 750 hand-numbered copies, Edition de Luxe, numerous hand-coloured mounted albumen prints, tissue guards, slightly affected by damp, original Japanese style pictorial boards, silk cords, folio, Boston: J.B. Millet Company, 1897
Mullock, Dorothy. Seven Wood-Cuts of Nijinsky, the Russian Danseur, 7 tipped-in hand-coloured plates, original wrappers, chipped, upper cover soiled, lightly stained, folio, West Kensington: Sapphire Press, [c.1913] This rare folio appears to have been printed at the Kensington studio of Welsh-born artist, Dorothy Mullock. There is no copy recorded in the British Library.
Nicholson, William. London Types, 12 colour-printed woodblock plates, some browning, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly shaken, extremities chipped, folio, London: William Heinemann, 1898; An Almanac of twelve Sports, 12 colour-printed woodblock plates, some browning, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, extremities chipped, folio, London: William Heinemann, 1898 (2)
Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare's The Tragedie of Cymbeline, one of 100 copies on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper from an edition of 556, this copy ex-series, signed by Harley Granville-Barker and Albert Rutherston, 29 line blocks and 5 coloured collotypes, contemporary brown full morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, top edge gilt, rubbed, folio, London: Ernest Benn, 1923
Troubridge, Laura, illustrator. Little Thumb. A Fairy Story by Hans Andersen, plates, original cloth-backed boards, shaken, oblong folio, London: W. A. Mansell, [n.d.]; Outcault, R.F. Buster Brown and His Resolutions, coloured illustrations, cloth-backed pictorial boards, oblong folio, London: W. and R. Chambers, [n.d.]; Buster Brown's Latest Frolics, cloth-backed pictorial boards, oblong folio, London: W. and R. Chambers, [n.d.]; and 14 others, children's books, v.s. (17)
Naval.- Lediard (Thomas) The Naval History of England, 2 vol., first edition, lacking engraved portrait, with engraved head-piece and initial, a little browned at beginnings and ends, occasional soiling to upper margins, a few minor marginal tears, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with red and black labels, rubbed and scuffed, joints split, spine ends and corners worn, folio, for John Wilcox...and Olive Payne, 1735.
Australia.- An Act to provide, until the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four for the Government of His Majesty's Settlements in Western Australia, wood-engraved arms at head, 1829 bound with a group of acts from 5th March to 24th June, 1826, including suppression of assemblies in Ireland, prisons in Scotland, and the butter trade in Ireland, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf, spine gilt and with double black leather labels, rubbed, folio,
NO RESERVE Folio Society.- Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, frontispiece and plates by Leonard Rosoman, original silvered boards, 1971 § Brontë (Emily) Wuthering Heights, frontispiece and plates by Charles Keeping, 1964 § Brontë (Charlotte) Jane Eyre, frontispiece and plates by Anthony Colbert, 1965, both original morocco-backed boards, rubbed § Flecker (James Elroy) Hassan, frontispiece and plates by Peter Bucknell, original silked boards, 1966 § Twain (Mark) Life on the Mississippi, frontispiece and illustrations, original cloth, 2006, slip-cases, last pictorial, all rubbed or a little worn; and 42 others, Literature, 8vo (47)
Plinius Secundus (Gaius) The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, the naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus, 2 vol. in 1, titles with first word xylographic and with large woodcut printer's devices, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, contemporary ink marginal markings, lacking initial and final blanks and the 'advertisement' to the reader f. at end, first title ink stained at head, some staining ot spotting elsewhere, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [STC 20030a], folio, Printed by Adam Islip, and are to be sold by Iohn Grismond, in Ivy-lane at the signe of the Gun, 1635-1634.
Slavery.- An Act to enable the South Sea Company, with the licence and consent of the East India Company, to take in Negroes within their limits of trade, and to deliver the same at Buenos Ayres, title with woodcut arms, water-stained, printed by John Baskett; and Thomas Norris, assignee to George Hills, 1727 bound with a group of other acts, including importing salt into Pennsylvania, and for raising money upon the estates of directors of the South Sea Company, including Edward Gibbon, water-stained, some marginal worming, modern half morocco, folio ⁂ As part of the Assiento with Spain following the |T|reaty of Utrecht the British had the exclusive right to provide the Spanish colonies in the Americas with 4800 slaves per year. This particular act grants the South Sea Company the right to take slaves from the island of Madagascar to Buenos Aires.
Dogs.- Edwards (Sydenham Teast) Cynographia Britannica, number 2 of 50 copies of this facsimile edition, 2 vol., including a separate cloth portfolio of 12 colour plates, facsimile edition bound in original half morocco, gilt, both in original cloth drop-back box, this with spine and upper edges faded, Leeds, Peregrine Books, 1992; and another Dogs, folio (2)
Wales.- Giraldus Cambrensis. The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales A.D. MCLXXXVIII, translated and edited by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2 vol., first edition in English, half-titles, 54 engraved plates and plans only (of 55, lacking first plate of Menevia, St. David's at beginning of vol.2), 5 engraved maps, 3 hand-coloured, 2 folding (one large at end of vol.2 with short tear at edge), foxing to some plates, C3 in vol.1 with short tear to outer margin (repaired), ex-library copy with blind stamps to plates and some leaves of text, modern half calf, 1806 § Gough (Richard) Human Nature Displayed in the History of Myddle, [edited by Sir Thomas Phillipps], title and note by editor printed on thinner paper, lightly browned at end, pink Middle Hill boards, uncut, rubbed, lacking spine, folio, privately printed, 1834, 4to & folio (3)
Australia.- A group of 12 acts relating to Australia, including An Act to empower His Majesty to erect South Australia into a British Province or Provinces, and to provide for the Colonization and Government thereof (15th August 1834), wood-engraved arms, disbound, 1834, also, Tasmanian railways, agriculture, and Van Diemen's land; and a 1910 map of the Queensland gold fields, folio (13)
Good (John Mason) Pantologia. A new Cyclopedia, 12 vol., c.360 engraved plates, of which c.180 hand-coloured (mostly natural history subjects), engraved double-page map, offsetting, occasional spotting or staining, contemporary tree calf, joints splitting, but holding, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed,1813; and 7 others, Encyclopaedias or Dictionaries, 8vo & folio (19)
Cresset Press.- [Bacon (Sir Francis)] The Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Lord Verulam Viscount St Alban, number 107 of 250 copies, printed in red & black, titles and initials by Joscelyne Gaskin, press's device on colophon, light soiling to half-title, occasional foxing, original vellum, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, a little yellowed and spotted, covers slightly splayed, folio, printed by the Shakespeare Head Press for the Cresset Press, 1928.
Emblemata.- Wither (George) A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne: quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine: and disposed into lotteries, 4 parts in 1, initial 'Preposition to this frontispiece' f., engraved additional pictorial title, portrait of the author and 200 circular emblems after Crispijn van de Passe the elder, lacking final f. with 2 woodcut dials, supplied in facsimile, initial f. with large tear and laid down, a few tears and margins repaired, the odd repaired tear within text, some ff. closely trimmed at head or foot, affecting the odd signature or running title, some spotting or staining, attractive panelled olive crushed morocco, gilt, covers with arabesque centre-pieces, spine in compartments, g.e., [STC 25900d; Freeman pp.140-147], small folio, Printed by A.M. for Henry Taunton, 1635-1634.
Birds.- Reichenow (Anton) Vogelbilder aus fernen Zonen. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der Papageien, 33 chromolithographed plates by Gustav Müntel, finished by hand, 5 plates torn (1 in margin and crudely repaired with tape), 4ff. of text torn, 15 plates with manuscript captions, some foxing and browning, ink inscriptions on front free endpaper, original decorated cloth, worn, rebacked in cloth, [Fine Bird Books p. 133; Nissen IVB 767], folio, Kassel, 1878-83.
Edwards (Agustin) Cuchicheos de un Abuelo: Aventuras de Juan Esparraguito o el Nino Casi Legumbre ..., number 91 of 100 copies, inscribed by author, 22 pochoir prints, illustrations, original paper wrappers, pictorial dust-jacket, spine partially lacking, upper pictorial wrapper, detached, water-staining, chipping and loss to edges, together with two sets of proof plates, one coloured, one un-coloured, occasional faint marginal water-staining, occasional chipping to edges, loosely contained in original portfolio, broken binding, a little rubbed and faded, housed in a modern clam-shell box, folio, Paris, 1930.⁂ Inscribed to a preliminary blank by Agustin Edwards: 'To Tess d'Erlanger with much love from Donnie and Sonia's Grandpa, The Author. London June 1936.'
Roxburghe Club.- James (Montague Rhodes, editor) The Bestiary, being a reproduction in full of the manuscript Ii. 4.26 in the University Library, Cambridge, plates, original morocco-backed cloth, spine gilt, rubbed at extremities, a few marks, t.e.g., Oxford, Printed for the Roxburghe Club by John Johnson at the University Press, 1928 § Baillie-Grohman (William A. & F., editors) The Master of Game, by Edward, second Duke of York, the oldest English book on hunting, one of 600 copies, colour frontispiece, plates, captioned tissue guards, some spotting, original pictorial reversed calf, gilt, upper joint just starting, rubbed, 1904; and an Alecto Domesday Book for Wiltshire, 4to & folio (3)
NO RESERVE Italy.- Middleton (John Izard) [Grecian Remains in Italy], title, 16 pp. of text, and eleven plates only (of 25), etchings and aquatints, printed in colour and finished by hand, each sheet approx. 465 x 330 mm. (18 1/4 x 13 in), some occasional spotting, surface dirt, handling creases, disbound, all loose in early boards, lacking spine, folio, [1812].
NO RESERVE Royal Society of Arts.- Copy Letter-Book, 749pp., manuscript on India paper, separate index of c. 25pp. of correspondents loosely inserted, browned, original half calf, extensively rubbed, joints splitting, spine worn, folio, 1881-82.⁂ Correspondents include: Secretary of the Botanic Gardens; Francis Galton; Editor of Photographic News; William Morris (inviting him to take the chair on a lecture on stained glass) etc.
[Arbuthnot (John)] Gnothi seauton. Know Your Self. A Poem, [Foxon, A290], for J.Tonson, 1734 § [Martin (Thomas)] "A Gentleman". Captain John Peddie: An Heroic Poem, [Foxon, M118], for the author, 1741 § Arms and the Man. A New Ballad, [Foxon, A292], for L.Raymond, 1746 § The Sequel of Arms and the Man: A New Historical Ballad, [Foxon, S202], for W.Webb, 1746 § Discontent the Universal Misery..., [Foxon, D324], for T.Cooper, 1734 § [Powney (Richard)] Templum Harmoniae. Carmen Epicum, half-title, [Foxon, P1016], Charles Bathurst, 1745, first editions, titles with woodcut devices, most woodcut decorations throughout, some soiling and browning, last original wrappers, others disbound, 4to & folio (6)⁂The first the only separately published poem ascribed with certainty to Arbuthnot.
Nonesuch Press.- [Burton (Robert)], "Democritus Junior". The Anatomy of Melancholy, 2 vol., number 373 of 750 copies, portrait, decorative titles and illustrations by E.McKnight Kauffer, original vellum-backed patterned-paper boards, vol.2 spine marked and creased at foot, uncut, small folio, 1925.
Turning.- Plumier (Charles) L'Art de Tourner..., first edition, engraved additional title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, Privilege leaf misbound after Preface, engraved head-pieces and 71 plates only (of 72, lacking plate 66), one folding, plate 65 shorter and loose (supplied from another copy), also lacking pp.155-158 of text, title lightly soiled, some browning and marginal water-staining, staining to a few plates, one with marginal tear, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt, spine gilt with red morocco label, rubbed, joints split, spine a little worn at head, [Berlin Kat. 1246], folio, Lyons, Jean Certe, 1701; sold not subject to return⁂ The first book on turning.
NO RESERVE Folio Society.- Edwards (Francis, editor) The Gunpowder Plot..., frontispiece, plates, and illustrations, original cloth, stamped in red and black, spine a little faded, 1973 § Scott's Last Expedition, frontispiece, plates, and illustrations, tape burn to pastedowns and free endpapers, original cloth, stamped in gilt and silver, 1964 § Lockyer (Roger, editor) The History of the Great Rebellion..., frontispiece, plates, and illustrations, original cloth, elaborately gilt, 1967 § Williamson (G.A.) & Philip Ziegler, editors. Procopius: The Secret History, plates and illustrations, most colour, original cloth, 1990 § Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire..., 8 vol., frontispieces and plates, original faux vellum, 1998, slip-cases, rubbed or worn, last stained and marked; and 53 others, History, 8vo & 4to (67)
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