ZURLAUBEN (BEAT FIDEL ANTOINE) AND JEAN-BENJAMIN DE LABORDETableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, littéraires, de la Suisse, 2 vol. bound in 4 (including 'Table analytique' by E. A. Quétant), half-titles in 2 volumes, engraved frontispiece after J. Moreau le Jeune, engraved additional pictorial title, engraved vignette of authors, 7 double-page engraved maps, 244 engraved plate sheets (of which 112 with 2 views, one folding, 10 with more 4 to 8 images), tissue guards, some toning to text in the third volume but generally very clean, contemporary polished calf, spines in 7 compartments within raised bands with red and green gilt morocco lettering labels, some abrasions to sides of fourth volume [cf. Cohen De Ricci 1075-1076; cf. Longchamp 3362], folio (500 x 328mm.), Paris, Clousier [-Lamy], 1780-1786Footnotes:Fine set, in an attractive binding, of one of the most celebrated and lavishly illustrated eighteenth-century works devoted to Switzerland, with views of the mountains, glaciers, major cities and sites.Provenance: Henry Goulburn (1784-1856), bookplate. Entering the Houses of Parliament in 1808, by 1810 he was an under-secretary at the Home Office, and in 1812 under-secretary for war and colonies, and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1828; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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POWNALL (THOMAS)A Topographical Description of Such Parts of North America as are Contained in the (Annexed) Map of the Middle British Colonies in North America, FIRST EDITION, large folding hand-coloured engraved map of the 'Middle British Colonies in North America. First Published by Mr. Lewis Evans, and since corrected and improved, as also extended, with the addition of New England, and bordering parts of Canada; from actual surveys ... by T. Pownall... March 25th 1776' on 2 sheets joined (510 x 845mm.), a few tears at blank gutter margin, light stain in lower margin of title-page, edges untrimmed with some corners rolled, contemporary blue wrappers, lacks spine, upper cover creased at edges with later paper label [ESTC T97733; Howes P543; Sabin 64835], folio (440 x 275mm.), J. Almon, 1776Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF POWNALL'S IMPORTANT MAP OF AMERICA, complete with the original descriptive text. The map makes revisions to Lewis Evans's map and analysis of 1755, providing new details including New England and bordering parts of Canada, and the addition of the route of Christopher Gist's 1750-1751 trek through Kentucky, West Virginia, and Ohio. As well as Gist's journey, those of explorations by Captain Harry Gordon (1766), Captain Anthony Von Schaik (1756), Captain Humphrey Hobbs (1756), and Lewis Evans (1743) are described in the text.Provenance: Sold on behalf of a descendant of Thomas Pownall.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
EDY (JOHN WILLIAM), AND JOHN AND JOSIAH BOYDELLBoydell's Picturesque Scenery of Norway; with the Principle Towns from the Naze, by the Route of Christiania, to the Magnificent Pass of the Swinesund; from Original Drawings Made on the Spot, and Engraved by John William Edy. With Remarks and Observations Made in a Tour Through the Country, 2 vol., half-titles, 80 hand-coloured aquatint plates by and after Edy, some spotting to text in volume 1, watermarks dated between 1807-1817, later red half morocco gilt [Abbey Travel 254; Tooley 103], folio (470 x 325mm.), Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1820Footnotes:'The most important English colour plate book on Norway' (Tooley). John Edy toured Norway in the summer of 1800, travelling from Oslo to Trondheim, Morebjene and Bergen.Provenance: W.H. Foster, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
COLLECTION of book illustrations (woodcuts & engravings), formed for the most part by incomplete volumes of books by Ripa (iconography), Cats & Luyken (emblems), and many illustrations from picture bibles, and other sources. 17th-18th c. Together hundreds of plates, full-page or in text, divided over 12 bindings/binders. From folio to 8°. For the greater part loose, partly also in bindings, including a modern ring binder. - Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
FOLIO SOCIETY -- CONRAD, J. Nostromo. A tale of the seaboard. 1984. Ocl. In slipcase. -- SIR GAWAIN and the Green Knight. 1983. Ocl. In slipcase. -- H. MELVILLE. Typee. 1974. Ocl. -- H. FIELDING. Tom Jones. 1959. Ocl. -- Added: Th. PAINE. Rights of man. The Limited Eds. Club, 1961. Fol. Ocl. In slipcase. -- And 11 o. by Folio Soc. (16).
GOGH, V. v. The Sketchbooks. A facsimile of the Artist's Sketchbooks in the Collection of the Van Gogh Museum. Commentary by M. Vellekoop & R. Suijver. London/Amst., Folio Society/Van Gogh Museum, 2013. 4 well produced facsimiles of sketchbooks along w. 14 loose leaves and a commentary booklet, stored tog. in ocl. clamshell box. Fol-obl. NOTE: In very good condition. Limited to 1,000 copies, of which this is n° 169.
FACSIMILE EDITIONS -- TRACTATUS DE HERBIS. British Library Egerton MS 747. Lond., Folio Society, 2002. 2 vols. 109 lvs. Fol. Green mor. w. red onlays, raised bands, gilt lettering, all edges gilt. In custom clamshell box. (As new). NOTE: Includes a commentary volume by M. Collins. Lim. ed. of 1000 copies; our copy n° 222.
Atelier de Girolamo Francesco Mazzola, dit le Parmesan (Parma 1503-1540 Casal Maggiore)Femme étendant son bras droit vers un autelsanguine, rehauts de blanc sur papier, contrecolléred chalk, heightened with white on paper, laid downdans un cadre doré ancien; in a gilt frame 10 x 7.2cm (3 15/16 x 2 13/16in).Footnotes:Provenance:Modesto Ignazio Bonaventura Luigi Genevosio (Turin 1719- 1795) (L.545)Charles-Joseph-Bartélémy Giraud (Pernes, Vaucluse 1802-1881) (L.1143)Private Collection, FranceA similar drawing in silverpoint, after Parmigianino, is now at the ENSBA of Paris (EBA 228). The present drawing, and the one in the ENSBA, are related to an etching of the same subject executed by Master F. P., discovered in the Mariette album, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Mariette Album, folio 42, lower right, 27.78.2(112))For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Hall (Mr. & Mrs. S.C.) Ireland: Scenery, Character, etc., 3 vols. Sm. folio Lond. 1841-43. First Edn., engd. frontis, decor. titles, engd. plts. & engd. maps, cont. mor.; also Archdall (Mervyn) Monasticon Hibernicum; or An History of the Abbies, Priories and other Religious Houses in Ireland. Lg. 4to Lond. 1786. First Edn., list of subscribers, lg. fold. map of Ireland, & 18 plts. of varied religious, orig. tree calf, joints broken. (4) Provenance: Donal O'Donovan, Irish Times Journalist.
De Rudder after A. Soltykoff, Une rue de Lahore, Mars 1842, from Voyages dans L'Inde Auguste Bry, Paris, 1850lithograph on paper, no. 20 from the elephant folio edition, title in lower border 495 x 667 mm. (to platemark); 618 x 866 mm. (sheet)Footnotes:See the note to lot 175.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Y A REGENCY ROSEWOOD FOLIO STAND CIRCA 1820 92cm high, 135cm wide, 87cm deep Condition Report: Marks, knocks, scratches and abrasions commensurate with age and use. Some old chips, splits, losses and repairs The leather top with a higher concentration of losses, marks, splits and scratches; in places revealing the underlying construction of the top. Key is present and operates the lock Some fading and discolouration to the timber in places Some minor evidence of old worm, some vacant holes and some holes filled with filler to disguise. Overall of solid, stable structure Please see all the additional images which form part of the condition report for this lot.Condition Report Disclaimer
A LOG BOOK FOR THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY SHIP EARL SPENCER, CIRCA 1803-1804moored at Blackwall, then Gravesend, Portsmouth and thence to Bengal, 25 April 1803-7 February 1804 with a month stop at Rio de Janeiro (18 September-16 October) for repairs and supplies, 110 pp. Most of the entries are standard for this type of log: weather, cleaning the ship, washing clothes, making gaskets and sails, the log finishes abruptly on Thursday 7 February 1804 with Earl Spencer still at sea, numerous blank pages at the end, contemporary reverse calf (slight damage to spine), folio -- 14¾ x 9 in. (37.5 x 23 cm.)Earl Spencer was a 644-ton ship built in Perry's Yard, Blackwall for James Duncan, and launched in 1795. Plying a steady trade to the Coromandel Coast and Bengal, in 1811 she was chartered by the British government and used to transport convicts to Botany Bay, her final fate is unrecorded.
FOLIO SOCIETY: BYRON, Robert; “The Road To Oxiana”, 2000;“The Hound of the Baskervilles”, illus. Edward Bowden, 198; COOLIDGE, Susan; What Katy Did”, illus. Deana Staffo, 2011; FITZGERALD, F. Scott; “The Great Gatsby”, illus. Charles Raymond, 1968;HOUSMAN, A. E., “A Shropshire Lad”, illus. Agnes Miller Parker, 2014, slip-case; ISHERWOOD, Christopher; “Goodbye To Berlin”, illus. George Grosz, 1975; “Mr Norris Changes Trains”, illus. Beryl Cook, 1990; HUXLEY, Aldous, “Brave New World”, illus. Leonard Rosoman, 1971; ORWELL, George; “Animal Farm”, illus. Quentin Blake, 1984; REMARQUE, Erich Maria; “All Quiet on The Western Front”, illus. Charles Keeping, 1966; WAUGH, Evelyn; “Brideshead Revisited”, illus. Leonard Rosoman, 1995; WILDE, Oscar: “A Picture of Dorian Gray”, illus. Emma Chichester Clark, 2009. (12).
FOLIO SOCIETY: BALZAC, Honore de “Droll Stories”, illus. Mervyn Peake, 1961; BERLIOZ, Hector “A Life of Love & Music”, 1987; BETJEMAN, John “Selected Poems”, illus. Peter Bailey, 2004; GODDEN, Rumer “The Greengage Summer”, illus. Aafke Brouwer, 2000; james, Henry “The Wings of the Dove”, illus. Philip Bannister, 2005; “The Europeans”, illus. Robin Jacques, 1982; MELVILLE, Herman “Typee” intro. Robert Gibbings, illus. Jacques Boulaire, 1950; PARKMAN, Francis “The Oregon Trail”, 1973; RUNYON, Damon “Dream Street”, illus. David Eccles, 1989; STRACHLEY, Lytton “Eminent Victorians”, 1967; THOMAS, Dylan “Under Milk Wood”, illus. Ceri Richards, 1972; & WOOLF, Virginia “To The Lighthouse”, illus. Maryclare Foa, 1988. (12).
FOLIO SOCIETY: ALDINGTON, John (trans); “Cyrano de Bergerac’s Voyages to the Moon & the Sun”, illus. Quentin Blake, 1991; BELOC, Hilaire; “Cautionary Tales & Other Verses”, illus. Posy Simmonds, 1997; COCTEAU, Jean; “Les Enfants Terribles”, illus. by Cocteau, 1976; DAUDET, ALPHONSE; “Tartarin of Tarascon”, illus. M. Lin-Desportes, 1968; DIDEROT, Denis; “The Nun” illus.Charles Mozley, 1972; FOURNIER, Henri Alain; “Le Grand Meaulnes”, illus. Ian Ribbons, 1979; DUMAS, Alexandre the younger; “Le Dame Aux Camelias”, illus. Jennifer Campbell, 1975; PROUST, Marcel; “Remembrance of Things Poast, Volume One”, illus. Philippe Jullian, 1981; MAUPASSANT, Guy de; “Short Stories”, illus. Nigel Mambourne, 1959; VOLTAIRE, m. DE; “Candida, or the Optimist”, illus. Kenneth Hobson, 1948; ZOLA, Émile; “Thérése Raquin”, illus. Janos Kass, 1969; & “Nana”, illus. Vertés; 1961.
FOLIO SOCIETY: BACON, Francis “Essays or Councils Civil & Moral”, illus. Harry Brockway, 2002; BEOWULF, trans. K. Crossley-Holland, illus. Virgil Burnett, 1973; ERASMUS of ROTTERDAM, trans. Betty Raddice, 1974; FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, Felipe (ed.): “A History of England 1945-2000”, 2001; CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, K. (ed.) “Folk Tales of the British Isles”, illus. Hannah Firmin, 1985; GRAVES, Robert “The Golden Fleece”, illus. Grahame Baker, 2003; GEOFFREY of MONMOUTH “The History of the Kings of Britain”, trans. Lewis Thorpe, 1969; THE CHEVALIER OF JOHNSTONE: “A Memoir of the Forty-Five”, 1958; MORE, Thomas: “Utopia”, trans. Paul Turner, illus. Edward Bawden, 1972; POPE, Alexander; “The Rape of the Lock”, illus. Peter Forster, 1989; PHELPS, Gilbert; “A Short History of English Literature”, 1962; Scott, W. S. (trans): “The Trial of Joan of Arc”, 2nd. Imp., 1968. (12).
FOLIO SOCIETY: BRILLAT-SAVERIN, Jean Anthene; “The Physiology of Taste”, 2008; DAVIS, Elizabeth; “A Book of Mediterranean Food”, illus. Sophie MacCarthy, 2005; DE QUINCEY, Thomas; “The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”, illus. Blair Hughes-Stanton, 1948; DICKENS, Charles; “Christmas Books”, illus. Charles Keeping, 1988; DUMAS, Alexandre; “Dumas on Food (Selections from Le Grand Dictionaire de Cuisine), 1978; FLECKER, James Elroy; “Hassan”, illus. Peter Buckland, 1966; FISHER,
FOLIO SOCIETY: BACON, Francis “The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh”, 1971; BANERJI, Bibhutibhushan “Panther Panchali”, illus. Janet Archer, 1971; BEARD, Mary “Pompeii”, 2013; CELLINI, Benvenuto, Autobiography, trans. Geo. Bull, 1966; BURNEY, Charles “Music, Men & Manners in France & Italy, 1770; ed. Edmund Poole, 1969; GRAVES, Robert; “I, Claudius”, ill. Neil Packer, 1994; MARO, Publius Vergilius; “The Georgies”, trans. K.R. Mackenzie, illus. Nigel Lambourne, 1969; NORWICH, John Julius “A History of Venice”, 2007; PILKINGTON, J.G. (trans.) “St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Confessions”, illus. Simon Brett, 1993; SHAKESPEARE, Wm. “Julius Ceasar”, illus. “Motley” (Margaret Harris), 1962; SMOLLETT, Tobias “Travels Through France & Italy”, 1979; & VASARI, Giorgio “The Life of Micharlangelo Buonarroti”, trans. Geo. Bull, 1971. (12).
FOLIO SOCIETY: ASHFORD, Daisy “The Young Visiters”, illus. Diana Brough, 1956; BLAKE, William “Songs of Innocence & of Experience”, 1992; BROOKE, Rupert “Poems”, illus. Buckland-Wright, 1948; BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett “Sonnets From the Portuguese”, illus. Reynolds Stone, 1962; COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor “Poems”, 1963; DELAFIELD, E.M. “Diary of a Provincial Lady”, illus. Nicholas Bentley, 1979; ELIOT, T.S. “Four Quarters”, 1968; FITZGERALD, Edward “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khyam”, illus. Virgil Burnett, 1970; GRIMMELSHAUSEN, Johann van “Mother Courage”, illus. Fritz Wegner, 1965; HOPKINS, Gerard Manley “Poems”, 1974; HOUSMAN, A.E. “A Shropshire Lad”, illus. Patrick Procktor, 1986; HUGHES, Anne “Her Boke”, illus. Tony Evora, 1981; JAMES, Henry “Washington Square”, illus. Lynton Lamb, 1963; LAWRENCE, D.H. “Etruscan Places”, 1972; MICHAELANGELO “Sonnets2, intro. by Michael Ayrton, 1961; MARVEL, Andrew “Poems”, 1964; SHELLEY, Percy Byshe “Poems”, illus. Buckland-Wright, 1973; STEVENON Robert Louis “The Beach of Falesa”, illus. Clarke Hutton, 1960 re-print; SIDNEY, Sir Philip “Astrophel & Stella” 1959; & WILDE, Oscar “Salome”, illus. Frank Martin, 1957. (20).
FOLIO SOCIETY: AUBREY, John: “Brief Lives”, illus. Richard Barber, 1975; DEFOE, Daniel; “A Journal of the Plague Year”, illus. Peter Pendry, 1960; DUNCAN-JONES, Katherine (compiler); “Shakespeare’s Life & World”, 2004; DONALDSON, Gordon (ed.); “The Memoirs of Sir James Melville of Halhill”, 1969; DUFFY, Eamon; “Saints & Sinners”, 2009; GLOVER, Robert, & MILLE, Thomas: “The Kings of England”, 1995; GORE, John (ed); “The Creevey Papers”, 1970; HUDSON, Roger (ed); “The Grand Tour”, 1592-1796”, 1993; peacock, Thomas Love; “Crotchet Castle”, illus. Peter Reddick, 1964; SMILES, Samuel; “The Lives of Geroge &Robert Stephenson”, 1975; EDWARDS, Francis (ed); “The Gunpowder Plot-The Narrative of Oswald Tesimond (alias Greenway), 1973; & MYNORS, R. A. B. (trans & ed); “The Deeds of The English Kings-William of Malmesbury”, 2014, (12).
THE OXFORD CLASSICAL DICTIONARY, Folio Society edition, number 18 of 100 copies, publ. 1999, Oxford University Press, bound in gilt-tooled Wassa goatskin with jade-green moire silk sides; OXFORD DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS, Oxford University Press 1968, tooled calf; BREWER’S DICTIONARY OF PHRASE & FABLE, Centenery edn., Cassell 1977, tooled calf; CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY, 5th edn., & DICTIONARY OF MODERN ENGLISH USAGE, 2nd edn., both 1966, Uniformly bound in calf with gilt-lettered spines.
FOLIO SOCIETY: ALDINGTON, Richard (trans.) “THE DECAMERON of Giovanni Boccaccio”, illus. Buckland-Wright, 1954; BULL, George (trans.) “The Pilgrim – The Journeys of Pietro Della Valle”, 1989; CHAUCER, Geoffrey “Troilus & Crseyde”, ed. Walter W. Skeat, illus. Peter Brookes, 1990; “The Canterbury Tales”, trans. Nevill Coghill, illus. Edna Whyte, 1974; DANTE, “The Divine Comedy”, trans. Kenneth Mackenzie, illus. John Flaxman, 1979; HAKLUYT, Richard “The Tudor Venturers”, ed. John Hampden, 1970; HEANEY, Seamus “Beowulf – A Verse Translation”, illus. Becca Thorne, 2010; HOMER “The Iliad”, trans. E.V. Rieu, illus. Elizabeth Frink, 1975; ORIGO, Iris “The Merchant of Prato”, 1984; PLATO “Symposium”, trans. Tom Griffith, illus. Tom Phillips, 1991; RADICE, Betty (trans.) “Pliny – A Self Portrait in Letters”, 1978; & USHERWOOD, Stephen “The Great Enterprise – The History of the Spanish Armada”, 1978. (12).
FOLIO SOCIETY: APULEIUS, Lucius “The Golden Ass”, trans. Robert Graves, illus. Michael Ayrton, 1960; CARCOPINO, Jerome “Daily Life In Ancient Rome”, 2004; FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, Filipe “Colombus On Himself”, 1992; HERODITUS “The Struggle For Greece”, trans. K. Cavander, illus. Raymond Hawthorn, 1959; HOMER “The Odyssey”, trans. E.V. Rieu, illus. Elizabeth Frink, 1974; LANE-FOX, Robin “The Classical World”, 2013; LAXDAELA “Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson, illus. Peter Pendry, 1975; PETRONIUS, “Satyrica”, trans. F. Raphael, illus. Neil Packer, 2003; PLUTARCH “The Rise & Fall of Athens”, illus. Raymond Hawthorn, 1967; SUETONIUS, Gaius “The Twelve Ceasars”, trans. R. Graves, illus. Raymond Hawthorn, 1964; TREVELYAN, Raleigh “The Shadow of Vesuvius”, 1976; VERMES, Geza (trans.) “The Dead Sea Scrolls”, 2000. (12).
FOLIO SOCIETY: “The Blue Fairy Book”, ed. Andrew Land, illus. Charles van Sandwyck, 2003; BARRIE, J.M. “Peter Pan”, ill. Paula Rego, 1992; CARROL, Lewis “The Hunting of the Snark”, illus. Quentin Blake, 1976; “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland”, illus. John Tenniel, 1961; CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, K. (trans.) “The Exeter Riddle Book”, illus. Virgil Burnett, 1978; FRANK, Anne “The Diary of a Young Girl”, ed. Otto Frank & Mirjam Pressler, 2005; LE FANU, J. Sheridan “Uncle Silas”, illus. Charles W. Stewart, 1988; GIBBONS, Stella “Cold Comfort Farm”, illus. Quentin Blake, 1977; KIPLING, Rudyard “Twenty-One Tales”, illus. Ian Ribbons, 1972; NESBIT, E. “The Railway Children”, illus. Inga Moore, 1999; STEVENSON, Robert Louis “Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes”, illus. Edward Ardizzone, 1967; & TWAIN, Mark “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, illus. Harry Brockway, 1993. (12).
Bremer Presse.- Grossmann (Rudolf) Ritter Gluck, number 65 of 65 portfolios, with an original pen & ink drawing and 18 signed hand-coloured woodcuts after Grossmann, all on Japon with blind-stamp to lower right corner and tipped into paper mounts, loose as issued in original cloth-backed board portfolio, numbered label to upper cover, worn and stained, one flap detached, folio, [Munich], Marées-Gesellschaft, [1920].⁂ Issued both separately and as part of the Bremer Presse special edition of E.T.A.Hoffmann's Ritter Gluck. The original drawing is for one of the woodcuts which mostly depict musicians.
NO RESERVE Hoffmeister (Adolf) Podoby, first edition, half-title, title-page and list of plates, 35 lithographed plates only (of 36, lacking plate Tichá práce), most in colours, ?lacking limitation leaf, some very slight toning to margins, loose as issued, remains of original wrappers, broken with loss, original slip-case with printed red label to upper cover, some wear to extremities, folio, Prague, S.V.U. Mánes, 1934; sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.⁂ Rare. Includes the plate "Popravil Karel Radek Jamesa Joycea?" [Karel Radek executed James Joyce].
Jaeckel (Willi).- Epistel St.Pauli an der Römer (Die), one of 140 copies, this copy for Lazaurs Goldschmidt with his bookplate, 6 etched plates by Willi Jaeckel, each signed in pencil, mounted on stubs, original green morocco, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, spine a little rubbed and faded, board slip-case (rubbed), folio, Berlin, 1922.
Seguin (L.G.) Rural England..., number 114 of 600 de luxe copies on hand-made paper with proofs of illustrations on japanese paper, mounted wood-engraved frontispiece, plates and illustrations by the Dalziel Bros. after J.G.Millais, J.W.North, Helen Allingham, G.J.Pinwell, Arthur Hughes and others, tissue guards, some foxing, mostly to guards or margins, original vellum-backed boards with red & blue ornamental onlays decorated in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, especially corners, folio, [1885].
Spain.- Adam (Victor) Combat du taureau. Douze sujets dessines d'apres nature, without title or text (as issued), 12 hand-coloured lithograph plates by Adam, heightened with gum Arabic, captions in French and Spanish, tearing, spotting and staining to some plate margins, not affecting image, contemporary half morocco, spine and extremities rubbed, covers scuffed, [Palau 2598, not in Bobins], folio, Paris, chez Bulla et chez Aumont, [n.d. but c.1830].⁂ A scarce complete series from the hand-coloured issue of this spectacular work, one of the three greatest graphic descriptions of the bullfight.
NO RESERVE Cooper (W.Heaton) Mountain Painter, an Autobiography, number 4 of 50 specially-bound copies signed by the author, original brown morocco, gilt, designed by Joan Rix Tebbutt, g.e., slip-case, 1984 § Sackville-West (Vita) The Garden, number 21 of 200 copies signed by the artist, illustrations by Owen Legg, original two-tone brown and green morocco, gilt, Tonbridge, Woodcraft Press, 1989 § Grandes Heures de Jean Duc de Berry (Les), colour illustrations, spotted, original cloth, slip-case (split to joint), 1971; and 2 others, 4to & folio (5)
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NO RESERVE Folio Society.- Austen (Jane) [Works], 7 vol., wood-engravings by Joan Hassall, original cloth-backed boards, spines sunned, 1957-63 § Brontë (Emily) Wuthering Heights, illustrations by Charles Keeping, original morocco-backed boards, 1964 § Thackeray (William Makepeace) Vanity Fair, drawings by Robin Jacques, original satin-covered boards, spine faded, 1963 § Bronte (Charlotte) Jane Eyre, lithographs by Anthony Colbert, original morocco-backed boards, 1965 § Tolstoy (Leo) War and Peace, 2 vol. translated by Rosemary Edmonds, drawings by Feliks Topolski, original morocco, 1971, slip-cases, some light marks but generally in excellent condition, Folio Society & c.115 others, all but 2 vol. Folio Society, these a 2 vol. set of The Original Water-Colour Paintings by John James Audubon for the Birds of America, Michael Joseph and the Connoisseur, 1966, v.s. (c.120)
Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works, facsimile reprint of the Kelmscott Chaucer of 1896, title, decorations and illustrations after William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, original decorated tan cloth, gilt, slip-case, Folio Society, 2008 § Shakespeare (William) The Norton Facsimile: The First Folio of Shakespeare, facsimile reprint (second edition), original rexine-backed pictorial cloth, spine gilt, slip-case, New York & London, 1996, folio (2)
Dobree (Philip) and Adrian Self, editors, Blank Page, 5 vol. only (of 6; lacking vol. 5), from and edition of 150, richly illustrated throughout in various media, many tipped-in, some signed, original paper-covered boards, a little scuffed and dust-soiled in places, vol. 1 lightly sunned at head, vol. 3 with a couple of small tears to spine, folio, B4 Publishing, 1988-91
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