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Click here to subscribePhotographs 'Rome and Sicily, 1911', a collection of 45 large photographs of Rome (22), Tivoli (2), Sicili (6) and North Africa (15), 43 mounted in a large oblong folio half Morocco album, with gilt title to upper board and two loosely inserted. Most Italian photographs have integral titles, the North African include some with titles (Timgad in Algeria) and others with blindstamps (A. Bougault or Leanert et Landrock, Tunis, )
Clarke (J. Stirling) The Habit and the Horse; A Treatise on Female Equitation, 1857, quarto, nine plates including six tinted, original cloth (lacking front free endpaper, some foxing, cloth and pastedowns stained); Hailstone (S.H. Lilla), Designs for Lace Making, 1870, folio, forty plates, original cloth gilt (foxing, cloth faded and rubbed); with one other (3)
The Times Newspaper London, 1797-1816, folio (folded horizontally), pp. [4], 33 issues including 16 numbers for January to December 1797; one issue only for 1798, 1803, 1811, 1812, 1816; two each for 1805, 1809 and 1813; six numbers for 1815. Red duty stamps 23rd December 1797 onwards, the usual soiling and staining, tatty extremities, no significant loss (33)
PALLADIO (A.) The Four Books of Architecture … Translated … by Isaac Ware, 4 vols in 2, folio, 1 red/black printed t.p. (fronting vol. 3) 4 engr. pictorial titles, 195 engr. plates, text illus., old half-calf, (worn), London, Isaac Ware, n.d.; POSSO (A.) Rules … of Perspective, fo., engr. by Sturt, lacking a plate, calf (covers off), L.1707; and another architectural work, defective (4)
[CHIAROSCURO PRINTS], a bound collection, large folio, of 18th century prints by J. Basire, W. Rylands, S. Watts et alia, printed in bistre, lemon, etc, many chiaroscuro, after the Old Masters (incl. Da Vinci, Rafael, Correggio, Michelangelo, Rembrandt and others), early 20th century cloth (1)
[CHARLES I] Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty, 8vo, red/black printed title, folding engr. frontis., 1 plate, separate title for the ''Apophithegmata'', contemp. black calf (rebacked), l., 1649; [CHARLES I] A Large Declaration concerning the Late Tumults …, folio, engraved portrait frontis., license leaf at end, contemp. calf with Garter Arms (worn, covers off), L., 1639 (2)
STOW (John) Annales, or, A Generall Chronicle of England, folio, wood-engr. title frame, old calf (covers off, marginal repairs), L., 1631; GUTHRIE (W.) General History of England, 3 vols bound in 6, folio, calf, L., 1744-51; and a large quantity of histories, biographies and related, folio et infra (5 boxes)
CHAMBERS (E.) & REES (A.) Cyclopaedia: or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 4 vols, folio, engr. frontis., reversed calf (very worn), L., 1779-83; MORERI (L.) Le Grand Dictionaire Historique, 2 vols bound as 4, calf, Lyon, 1781; [TREVOUX], Dictionnaire Universal … vulgairement appelé Dictionaire de Trévoux …, 8 vols, folio, fine mottled calf gilt, Paris, 1771 (16)
TERTULLIAN, Opera, folio, (lacking pp. 193-204, worm holes in early part of text), ms. marginalia, large woodcut at p. 446, 20th century half-morocco, Basel, 1539; and a defective copy of JUVENAL'S Satyras … comm. Joannis Britannici, folio, Basel, Froben, 1551, ex lib. Rob. Dyer & Charles Roberts (2, w.a.f.)
FARNABY (Thomas) Index Rhetoricus et Oratorius, 12mo, calf (cover off), L., 1659; MILTON (John) Joannis Miltoni Opera Omnia Latina, folio, title, pp. 363 (1), panel calf (worn), Amsterdam, 1698; SENAULT (J.-F.) Man Become Guilty, 4to, engr. frontis., calf (worn), L., 1650; and 4 other vols (7)
SPOTSWOOD (J.) History of the Church of Scotland, folio, portrait frontis., covers blindstamped with rose and lozenge devices (spine and clasps gone), L., 1645; ANDREWES (Lancelot) XCVI. Sermons, folio, calf (v. worn), 2nd Edn., L., 1631; BROWN (F.) Letters of the Renowned Father Paul, 8vo, portrait frontis., calf, L., 1693; and 15 others, folio et infra (18)
Abu l-?asan 'Ali ibn Abi l-Rijal, commonly known as HALY, Albohazen Haly Filii Abenragel, Scriptoris Arabici … folio, 13 ff, 1f. blank, pp.586, 1f. colophon. blindstamped calf over oak boards (v. worn). Basle, 1571; early owner names and inscriptions: ''Liber Roberti Langton ex dono Thome Pilkington'', also ''Robert Booth''.
[ATLAS] THOMSON (John) A New General Atlas consisting of a Series of Geographical Designs …, large folio, large folding plate ''Mountain Elevations'', 74 numbered double-page or folding hand-coloured engraved plates, including one on four sheets, (creasing to hemisphere plates, one or two tears), half calf (worn), Edinburgh, 1817
[ATLAS] CHAUCHARD (Captain) A General Map of the Empire of Germany, Holland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the Grisons, Italy, Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia, elephant folio, engr. dedication, 25 single or double-page numbered maps, stub-mounted, original boards/half calf (rubbed), London, Stockdale, 1800 (i.e. without the reference volume)
[ATLAS] WYLD (J.) & HEWITT (N.R., engraver): A General Atlas …, folio, frontispiece (Table of mountains), engr. title-page, engr. table of rivers, 44 numbered hand-col'd maps, hand-col'd text vignettes, half calf (covers off), printed label, Edinburgh, Printed for John Thomson, n.d. (ca. 1820)
MUNSTER (S.) - Cosmographia - ''Sei Libri della Comografia Universale'', folio, pictorial title with portrait verso, 11 ff., 9 double-page woodcut maps (incl. world hemisphere, but with marginal repairs), pp. 1237 (1) [lacking pp. 89-92, 101-104, 169-72, 179-1282, 207-211, 215-218, 389-392, 449-52, 497/8, 503-6, and etc., etc.], irregular register and pagination, profuse woodcut illus. [Of the other double-page maps, only Constantinople present], contemp. blindrolled calf (repaired), Basel, Pietro, [1558] (with all faults)
Christie's Dresses from the Collection of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1997, folio auction catalogue, hardback with dust wrapper, biddng slip and bidding form loosely inserted; Sotheby's, Damien Hirst, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, 2008, five volume auction catalogue, softback, in original slipcase; Christie's, The Nanking Cargo, Chinese Export Porcelain and Gold, 1986, auction catalogue, price list enclosed, hardback; with three others (6)
Trefousse & Co. Dressing, Dyeing & Manufacture of Gloves..., nd., English and French texts mounted India paper plates, oblong 4to., morocco-backed cloth (joints starting, spine head pulled); Mayer (F.A.), F.A. Mayer's Universum der Bekleidungs - Wissenschaft fur Herrenschneider, 1878, Dresden, folio, thirty-two (of thirty-three) double page plates, cloth-backed boards (2)
Brannon (George) Vectis Scenery, Being a Series of Original and Select Views Exhibiting the Picturesque Beauties .... in the Isle of Wight, 1827, Brannon, oblong quarto, hand-coloured map, 41 engraved plates, 5 additional mounted plates, half calf, re-backed; Hearne (Thomas), Antiquities of Great-Britain, Illustrated in Views of Monasteries, Castles and Churches, Now Existing, 1786, T. Hearne and W. Byrne, Volume 1 (of 2), oblong folio, engraved frontis/title, fifty-one engraved plates, half calf (worn, upper board and preliminaries detached); with two others (4)
Teal (Jonat'n) A Survey Book and Valuation of all and every the Messuages, Buildings, Lands, Tenements, Tithes and Hereditaments, in the Township of Hunton in the Parishes of Hornby and Patrick Brompton in the North Riding of the County of York ..., 1810, folio, manuscript, worn reversed calf binding
Nash (Joseph) The Mansions of England in the Olden Time, 1869-72, Henry Sotheran, large folio, text volume with four plate volumes, 106 hand-coloured litho plates mounted on 104 card leaves (including titles), all edges gilt, half Morocco (bindings worn, front hinge of plate volume 1 split, library labels to front endpapers, shelf refs. to lower spines, no stamps found internally) (5)
[Charpentier, Henri]. [Recueil des Costumes de la Bretagne et des autre contr‚es de la France..., Nantes: Charpentier, 1829-1831], sixty (of 120) hand-coloured lithographed plates, bound without the title-page, intermittent toning and spotting, first plate with short tear in upper blank margin (paper repaired on verso), three plates with small crude circular repair to blank upper corner, sheet size 33 x 24.5cm (13 x 9.75ins), all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, hinges split, contemporary half calf with gilt decorated spine, rubbed and some wear to extremities (slight loss to spine ends, joints partly split, and corners showing), large folio Apparently the earliest work to focus on the costume of Brittany; complete copies are extremely rare, and even collections of plates such as these seldom come on the market. The Charpentiers were Bretons who settled in Nantes, and produced a series of works using the new technique of lithography which had been introduced to Nantes in 1821. These lively and beautifully coloured plates, with their landscape back-drops, include depictions of the extraordinary headdresses of Caudebec and other regions, the bizarre stilt-walking shepherds of Landes, the pretty water and milk carriers of Rochefort, the cloth-making maidens of Louviers, and the pipe-smoking young men of Cornouaille and Lesneven. (1)
Fisquet (Honore Jean Pierre). Grand Atlas D‚partemental de la France de l'Alg‚rie et des Colonies, 2 volumes, published Paris: A. Le Vasseur, [1878], additional half title, 105 (of 106, lacks map of France), engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, publisher's quarter morocco gilt with ornate gilt cloth sidings, a little worn, bumped and rubbed at extremities, oblong folio (2)
London. Newton (William), London in the Olden Time, being a Topographical and Historical Memoir of London, Westminster and Southwark, accompanying a Pictorial Map of the City and its Suburbs as they existed in the Reign of Henry VIII, before the Dissolution of Monasteries, published Bell and Daldy, 1855, large folding map, sectionalised and laid on linen, contemporary outline colouring, elaborate strapwork borders, map size 1040 x 1400 mm, bound with 120 pages of descriptive text, contemporary cloth gilt boards, faded and worn, folio (1)
New Forest. Faden (William), A Plan of His Majesty's Forest, called The New Forest in the county of Southampton, laid down from surveys taken by Thos. Richardson, Wm. King and Abm. and Wm. Driver, by order of the Commissioners of the Land Revenue appointed by an Act of Parliament passed in the 26th year of King George, 1789, a large scale map on ten engraved sheets, nine with bright contemporary hand colouring, incorporating a large uncoloured decorative cartouche, an index map, a list of the officers and wardens of the New Forest, a list of the Bailwicks and Walks in the forest, compass rose and table of explanation, large margins, very slight staining, each sheet approximately 575 x 580 mm, retaining contemporary endpapers, modern half calf gilt on marbled boards, slim upright folio A rare map of the New Forest whose accuracy ensured that it was in continual use in several editions up until the late 19th century. We can find only one other copy of this, the first edition, appearing in auction in the last twenty years. (1)
Pontoppidan (Erich). The Natural History of Norway, 2 parts in one, 1755, large folding engraved map, 27 engraved plates only (of 28, lacking plate 13 in part one), small hole in first title affecting a few letters), some offsetting and light spotting, bookplates, hinges reinforced, contemporary panelled calf, lower cover detached, some wear, folio, together with Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, by William Coxe, 5 volumes, 5th edition, 1802, engraved maps, plates and tables, some light offsetting and spotting, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked and repaired, 8vo, plus Joseph Planta's The History of the Helvetic Cofederacy, 2 volumes 1800 (8)
S.D.U.K. Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 2 volumes, Chapman and Hall, 1844, title pages with ownership stamp, 160 engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, some folding, a comparison plate of the principal rivers of the world, fifty-one town plans and six 'star charts', (complete as lists), with an additional decorative double page engraved map, 'Manchester and its environs' by J. Rapkin, originally published by John Tallis, loosely inserted, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, boards detached on volume 1, hinges and joints cracked and weak on volume 2, spines partially detached and partially lacking, contemporary half morocco gilt, worn and frayed at extremities, folio (2)
Sharpe (John, publisher). [Sharpe's Corresponding Atlas], Chapman & Hall, circa 1850, lacking title and preliminaries, fifty-three maps (only), erratic pagination, some dust and finger soiling, marginal fraying, a few maps strengthened on verso, map of La Plata with small hole affecting image, map of eastern Brazil stained, additional lithographic map of the Siege of Sevastopol tipped in at front of atlas, hinges and joints weak, contemporary half morocco gilt, heavily worn and frayed, folio Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (1)
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