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Click here to subscribeCommisioners for Making Roads & Bridges in the Highlands of Scotland. Second Report. Folio. Mod. brds. 1805; also W. C. McIntosh, The Resources of the Sea ... the Affects of Trawling & of the Closure of Certain Areas of the Scottish Shores, frontis, illus. & fldg. tables, orig. blue cloth gilt, 1899 & The Edinburgh Medical & Surgical Journal for 1806, half calf. (3).
"From the Library of William Morris, Kelmscott House". BOOTH G. (Trans). The Historical Library of Diodorus The Sicilian. 3 eng. maps incl. double page map of Sicily. Occasional page repairs & two leaves apparently in old facsimile, browning & foxing. Folio. Old calf brds. neatly rebacked. 1700. Bears the book label of William Morris, the bookplate of Buxton Foreman & the card of Tchine Pomm.
THE LADYS, a Journal of the Court, Fashion & Society. 3 vols. from vol. 1, no. 1. Col. fashion plates, other plates, illus. & adverts. Folio. Half calf, some rubbing. March to December, 1872. Condition Report. Volume 1 March/June 7 platesVolume 2 July/September 5 platesVolume 3 October/ December 4 platesTotal 16.
A FOLIO OF LATE VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURAL PLANS, relating to 28 Kensington Court, London, the property of Louis Montagu, Esq (2nd Baron Swaythling 1869-1927), the plans detailing before and after alterations, comprising of eight of each before and after, signed and dated WM Flockhart Architect, 180 New Bond St, London W, 1899, two plans mounted to each card
A FOLIO OF ETCHINGS, PRINTS, PENCIL SKETCHES AND OTHER PICTURES, mostly 19th Century, some earlier pieces, includes after Rembrandt Christ and The Woman of Samaria amongst ruins, probably a 19th Century impression, approximately 12.5cm x 11cm, numbered 13 in ink bottom right, Alphonse Legros a Breton etching, a number of pencil sketch studies of church/cathedral interiors, approximately 23 items (parcel)
HRH THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE VISITING BOOK, 2 vols, tall narrow folio. First volume lists her visitors in Florence, Naples and Rome 1840-41. Second volume lists visitors to her home in Kew from 1855-73. Including a wide variety of the nobility and gentry: Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston; The Maharaja Duleep Singh; Earl of Onslow and Lady Onslow; Duke of Devonshire; Countess of Newburgh; Lord John Russell; Duke and Duchess of Northumberland etc., Half black morocco (2)Footnote: The Duchess of Cambridge these books relate to is Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa (1797-1889), who married the Duke of Cambridge in 1818.
Wakan Meiga-sen, A Gallery of Japanese and Chinese paintings, large folio, Tokyo, Kokka Publishing Company, 1908, 100 Select Japanese and Chinese Paintings Reproduced in Colour Woodblock and Collotype]. Folio (17 x 12 in), one hundred plates (72 in black and white collotype and 28 tipped in colour woodblock prints), gold and green brocade silk over boards string tied, original clasped chitsu case,
Large leather bound Book of Common Prayer dated 1822 (binding a/f), ' Elaine Tennyson Dore ' with plates by H. Baker, leather bound volume ' Les Saints Evangelis Volume I and II ' and the Portable Folio Family Bible, commentaries of Scott and Henry by the Reverend John Eadie, dated 1861 (a/f)
FLINT, William Russell:The Lisping Goddess. A Figurehead Fantasy. Privately printed for the author by the Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester, 1968; Limited edn. No. 72 of 275 copies, Signed by author. Folio, Bound by Mansell in ¼ morocco and canvas, with gold devices of the author’s design, Plus slipcase. VG+ / Fine copy.
FLINT, William Russell:1. Breakfast in Perigord. Charles Skilton, 1968. Limited edn. No. 50 of 525 copies, Signed by author. 4to. designed and produced by W R Flint; ¼ morocco and canvas, teg; VG;2. One Hundred and Eleven Poems by Robert Herrick. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1955, Limited edn. No. 445 of 550 copies, bound in cream parchment, with blue cloth boards and slipcase; light wear to slipcase; o/w VG+;3. Drawings By Sir William Russell Flint. Collins, 1950, 1st. edn. Folio; original blue cloth; chip to head and tail of spine; o/w G+. (3)
1. STANFORD, Edward (Publisher); Toronto Lithographing Co. (Engraved & printed by): Canada: Nine linen backed folding coloured Maps: British Columbia; Manitoba; Mackenzie; Ontario; Newfoundland; Quebec; Ungava; Yukon; and The United States. Each in 6 sections, except for the US which is in 10 sections and 5 smaller ones. Dates: 1902-1906 (where available). All the maps are very good; and housed in the original full leather box, (which is worn and torn); 2. Bartholomew, John: The Royal Atlas of England and Wales. G. Newnes, nd, c1890. Folio; frontis general map and 69 double-page colour maps and plans; and ppxii, 72. Cont. half leather; rubbed; o/w G+; 3. Butler, S: An Atlas of Antient Geography. Longman, green, 1864, new edn. With 24 double-page colour maps and index. Cont. half leather (price: 12/-); covers rubbed; couple of the maps loose; o/w G+ (3)
A LARGE ELEPHANT FOLIO VOLUME with over 50, C18 and C19 engravings and prints, including: William Hogarth: Harlot's Progress. Complete set of 6 engravings; Silvester Pomarede: 2 engravings dated 1748 and 1750, and one other; Amand-Durand after Van Dyck: Jean de Wael: (1st state); John Boydell (Engraver): William II of Nassau, 1781; William Wynne Ryland: Patience oval design, after Kauffman, 1777 (printed in red ink); E L (Edward Lutterell): A good number of mezzotints, signed: E L; Johannes Lingelbach; John Overton (2); Vanity Fair (2); Plus: Frank Emanuel: Audley End; Etc. Full leather volume; covers worn and almost detached.
HOGARTH, William: The Works of William Hogarth, from the Original Plates restored by James Heath; with the addition of many subjects not before collected: to which are prefixed, a biographical essay on the genius and productions of Hogarth, and explanations of the subjects of the plates, by John Nichols. Baldwin & Craddock, no date, c1821, with 116 sheets of plates, including two portraits. Elephant Folio (61 X 46 Cms.). Cont. half morocco and all edges gilt. Covers worn and hinges cracked; the first portrait cut down in size and re-laid onto later sheet; Title page torn and repaired and two other plates strengthened at edges; the suppressed plates not present; SOLD AS A COLLECTION OF PLATES, not subject to return.
1. Illustrated London News. Volume 25 (July-December, 1854). 1st. edn. Fully illustrated. Folio, half leather; covers worn; folding plate torn on fold and repaired; looks complete;2. Illustrated London News. Volume 26 (January-June, 1855). 1st. edn. Fully illustrated. Folio, tape backed cloth; lacking pp113-120 and 343-346, and possibly others? covers worn;3. The Illustrated Times Weekly, Vol. 1, June to Dec. 1855 (Crimean War). Folio, illustrated; covers detached. All three volumes sold A/F not subject to return (3)
DE WIT, Frederick; Danckerts; & others: Composite Atlas, with 69 Double page Maps (one large folding); with over 42 by De Wit. Amsterdam, no date, circa late 17/early 18 century. Including: AMERICA (showing California as an Island); Europe; Africa; Austria; Italy; Bavaria; Brandenburg; Bremer; SPAIN; Hungary & Greece; PALESTINE; Germany; Persia; Poland; Portugal; New Zealand; Australia; INDIA; ETC. Folio (50 X 32 Cms.); the maps of Asia, Europe; Africa; & Palestine are partially hand coloured; Many of the maps with tear to fold; some with tear to margin (with small loss); few edges frayed; several maps strengthened; some creasing and soiling. SOLD AS A COLLECTION OF MAPS, NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN
1. Defoe Daniel: A Tour Thro' London, About the Year, 1725; edited & annotated by Sir Mayson M. Beeton & E. Beresford Chancellor, illustrated with maps. B. T. Batsford, 1929, limited edition of 350 copies of which 300 for sale. This copy inscribed 'To Captain the Right Hon. E. A. Fitzroy M. P. speaker of the House of Commons, with kind regards, from Mayson M. Beeton, Feb, 1930'. Folio, mottled cloth and leather labels; teg.; little rubbed; o/w VG; 2. Knickerbocker, D: History of New York. Sharpe, 1821, new edn. later half leather; G; 3. O'Brien, Frank: The Story Of The Sun. NY, Appleton, 1928, new edn. inscribed & Signed by W T Dewart (editor of the Sun); ill. three-quarter morocco with W. T. Dewart in gilt to upper cover, teg. VG; PLUS: Lax: Life & death on 10 West, 1984; Nicholls: Remarques Sur Les Avantages et Les Desavantages De La France et De La Gr. Bretagne, Leyde, 1754; Nouvelle histoire poétique, Paris, 1751; & Daily Mail: News in our time, 1896-1946. All 4 works leather bound (7)
MARTIN, R. Montgomery (editor): Tallis's Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial and Statistical. John Tallis and Company, no date, c1851 (inscribed 1854). Engraved title page with vignette, and decorative border, an extra double-page plan of Liverpool, 2 plates of comparative views, Plus 79 maps of the 80 listed (lacking one map: Gibraltar, Malta.., doesn’t look like it was ever bound in), all hand-coloured in outline and with vignettes. Folio, (38 x 28 cm). Cont. half leather; covers worn and detached, manuscript numbering to verso of maps and top corners; o/w the maps are very clean
SALE CATALOGUE: 1. Nineteen Days’ Sale at Stowe, Near Buckingham. The Freehold of the Historic Mansion & Estate [followed by]: The Contents of the Mansion including the Supremely Valuable Collection of Heirloom Pictures, Tapestries and Historic Furniture, starting July 4th 1921. Jackson, Stops, Northampton, 1921, 1st edn. Folio, original paper covered boards, 232 pages plus 4 coloured plans (3 folding), a location map and 58 plates (possibly of 60?); the only other copy we located has 56 plates? Covers rubbed, spine cut and hinges cracked; few pencil prices in margins;2. Sparrow, W Shaw: In The Open Country - The Work of Lucy E Kemp-Welch. 1905, 1st folio, 21 tipped-in colour plates; covers worn; plus 2 others, two illustrated by Lionel Edwards. (4)
AUDSLEY, George Ashdown and James Lord Bowe:Keramic Art of Japan. Liverpool, printed for the subscribers by the authors and London, Henry Southeran, 1875, whereas the preface is dated 1879, presumably a reflection of the amount of time that it took to bring this magnificent work into print. Two volumes, folio. half-titles. Title-pages printed in red and black. 67 plates, many coloured. Original highly gilt decorative full Morocco, little rubbed, scuffed and soiled.
ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN:A Collection Including: Kate Greenaway: Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats, 1855, 1st; G+; Birthday Book For Children, nd, c1880, with 12 colour plates plus numerous ill. G+; Under the Window, nd, c1880; Randolph Caldecott: Graphic Pictures, 1883, 1st, oblong folio, original pictorial boards; G+; A Sketch-Book, nd, c1883; G+; Caldecott's Picture Books, some single as issued and a few bound together; most with the one shilling price on covers, and most worn and some with loose pages; plus: American scenes for Tarry-at-home travellers, nd, inscribed 1825; title-page and folding map are missing. All 84 illustrations are present; few illustrations coloured-in. (qty.)
Watney, Vernon James: The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry. Oxford, John Johnson,1928, 1st. edn. 4 Volumes, Folio, with a Frontis to each volume and continuous pagination: ppxcii, 1-218; 219-530; 531-849; (i)note, (i)blank, 851-1060. Signed full morocco by Clarendon Press, Oxford, teg. Vol. 1 with damp stain to bottom corner of front cover and middle of back cover Plus light damp stain to last few pages; o/w VG+ (4)
1. Copinger, W A: History and Records of the Smith Carington Family: Cheshire, Warwickshire, Essex, Leicestershire. H Sotheran, 1907, 1st. edn. Small Folio; 697pp, with 2 folding Maps and all Plates and illustrations present. Half vellum (not new). VG; 2. Memorials of the Duttons of Dutton in Cheshire. H Sotheran, 1901, 1st. edn. All Plates and folding Pedigrees present. Original gilt pictorial cloth, teg. Spine little faded; o/w VG; 3. Croston, J: County Families of Lancashire and Cheshire. J. Heywood, 1887, 1st. edn. 4to. Complete with all Plates and illustrations. Original gilt pictorial cloth, rebacked preserving the original spine; VG; 4. Walford, E: County Families of The United Kingdom. Chatto and Windus, 1883; 23rd. annual publication. PP23(adverts), 1224, 30(adverts). Original gilt pictorial cloth; damp stain to top of covers and adjacent pages; spine detached; 5. Shaw, R C: Records of a Lancashire Family from xii to xx century. Preston, Guardian Press, 1940, 1st. dw; 6. Walsh, V H: pedigree of the late Henry Hawarden-Gillibrand-Fazakerley. Exeter, nd, reprinted from the Genealogist; original cloth gilt. (6)
1. Kimber, E & R. Johnson: The Baronetage of England; in 3 Volumes. for G. Woodfall etc, 1771. PPxii, 39 Plates, 530, (i)Errata; vii, (i)blank, 540, (iv)publishers catalogue; vii, (i)blank, 485, + Index, + Errata leaf + (iv)Adverts. Cont. full leather; covers worn and some detached;2. Return of Owners of Land 1873, in Two volumes. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1875, 1st. edn. Folio; Each County is paginated separately. Volume one runs from A to M, (excluding London) and volume 2 from N to Z and includes all of the Welsh Counties, It covers the owners of land in England and Wales and the estimated extent of the commons and waste lands. Half leather; little rubbed; o/w VG. (5)
1. Johnson (Charles) & Jenkinson (Hilary): English Court Hand A.D. 1066 to 1500. Illustrated Chiefly from the Public Records. TWO Volumes. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1915, 1st. edns. Text volume 8vo. and Plate volume Elephant Folio. Both bound in the original covers; G+/VG; 2. Jenkinson (Hilary): The Later Court Hands in England from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century. Two Vols. Cambridge University Press, 1927, 1st. edns. Dw & slipcase. Folio; Slipcase with a couple of chips; o/w VG; 3. Kempe, A J(edit): The Loseley Manuscripts. Murray, 1836, 1st. edn. with 4 plates plus ill. Original cloth; worn and spine cut; o/w G+; 4. Moulton, H R: Palaeography Genealogy and Topography; Catalogue complete with index. ( Three parts in one volume). Richmond, Surrey, (1930). With plates and ill. 4to. Leather backed boards; spine chipped; o/w VG; Plus 3 others: Denholm-Young- Handwriting in England and Wales. Cardiff, 1964; Grieve, H E P- Examples of English Handwriting 1150-1750. 1959; & Dawson, G..- Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650. 1968. (8)
PERATE, André: Georges Hoentschel. Collections Georges Hoentschel acquired by M J Pierpont Morgan and offered to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, four volumes Only of five. Paris, Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1908. Folio, loose in folders; publisher’s copies; Occasional light foxing; o/w VG. (4)
GUILLIM, John: A Display of Heraldry.. 5th. edn. much enlarged; to Which is Added a Treatise of Honour Military and Civil, According to the Laws and Customs of England, by Captain John Logan. S. Roycroft, 1679 & 1677. Both works fully illustrated with portraits and numerous coats of arms (many coloured by hand); small folio; c19 full morocco; Defective copy with a number of pages and individual coats of arms cut out in both works. Sold not subject to return.
AUDSLEY, George Ashdown: The Art of Organ-Building: A comprehensive historical, theoretical and practical treatise on the tonal appointment and mechanical construction of concert-room, church, and chamber organs. In two volumes. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1905, 1st. edn. Deluxe limited to 250 numbered sets signed by Audsley, this being set #78. Frontis. to the first volume, plates & illustrations. Folio, original vellum backed boards, teg; Vellum grubby; chipped at ends of spine, with some loss; corners bumped and chipped; o/w G (2)
1. Ferreira, Alexandre Rodrigues: Viagem Filosofica pelas capitanias do Grao Para, Rio Negro, Mato Grosso e Cuiaba 1783-1792. Facsimile edition, 2 vols. Rio de Janeiro, Livraria Kosmos, 1971. Folio, with loose topographical and natural history plates as issued (some in colour) and a slipcase to each volume. Slipcases a little worn; Some foxing to preliminary sheets; o/w VG;2. Ptolemy, C: Geographia. Facsimile edition. West of England Press, 1973. Folio, maroon cloth boards; covers mottled; AND APPEARS TO BE MISSING THE TITLE PAGE OF THE PRELIMINARY, THE ACTUAL WORK IS COMPLETE. (3)
1. Southwell, Henry: The Universal Family Bible.. (Old & New Testament); with upward of 100 plates. J. Cooke, nd, c1782. Folio, with 101 Plates & Maps; Cont. full leather, later spine; few tears(without loss);2. Book of Common Prayer, R. Ware, nd(1722), the engraved title and first 3 leaves repaired; Bound with: Old Testament, John Baskett, 1723; 3 folding maps; Bound with: New Testament, John Baskett, 1723; 3 folding maps; Bound with: Concordance, D. Leach, for R. Ware, 1726 (Not Complete); maps torn on folds; Original full panelled calf, with new spine & endpapers;3. A Latin Bible, Lacking all before “Primus Liber Moschis..”; PP1-777, 517, 320(only?). C20 half leather & new endpapers; A/F (3)
1. Sandys, George(trasl): Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz'd and Represented in Figures. Oxford, John Lichfield, 1632. Folio, Facsimile Frontis, engraved title, title & one plate(lacking the other plates); preliminary leaves repaired; 1-549, (i) Errata; folio, recent half leather; pages repaired and bleached; A/F; 2. Dryden, John(trasl): The Life of St. Francis Xavier, J. Tonson, 1688, 1st.?(p266 instead of 267), Facsimile title, first dedication page repaired(loss to margin, text not affected); PP(x), (viii)to Reader, 1-768, last page repaired, with loss); lacking map?; C20 three-quarter calf, marbled boards & new endpapers; light damp staining to few pages;3. Errington, A: Catechistical Discourses in.., Paris, 1654; facsimile title; lacking all before last page of Dedication; PP(xxii), 1-726, (xiv)table; last two leaves repaired(with loss); cont. full calf; new spine & endpapers (3)
SPEED, John: The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans… G Humble, 1632, 3rd. edn. With full page and other illustrations. Folio, frontis and extra engraved title lacking, & supplied in Facsimile; PPtitle page (repaired), (xxvii), (i) blank, 1237, (v), (78 of 80) second index. Solid C20 half leather binding
1. Salmon (Mr.): A New Abridgement and Critical Review of the State Trials, 1 volume bound in 2, with 2 titles. Dublin, J. Leathley, etc. 1741, 2nd. edn. Folio, PP522; 523-918. Solid C20 half leather binding; G+/VG; 2. Malham, John: The Grand National History of England civil and ecclesiastical, from the earliest period of genuine record to the year 1816. T. Kelly, 1816. With a map Plus 34 plates. Folio, PPvi, 1114, xxii(appendix), (viii)Index. Solid C20 half leather binding; foxing & browning and the odd small tear (3)
CRANE, WALTER: Large collection, c58 Books, etc., All Illustrated by WALTER CRANE (1845-1915), including:Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona; With 8 Dallastype plates by Duncan C. Dallas. J.M. Dent, 1894, Limited edition, #191 OF 650 COPIES SIGNED BY CRANE AND DALLAS. Folio, contents loose as issued in original gilt-stamped cloth solander box, mild blistering and rubbing; mounts foxed, sometimes affects plates; Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare's Tempest. With 8 Dallastype plates by Duncan C. Dallas. J.M. Dent, 1893, Limited edition, #375 OF 650 COPIES SIGNED BY CRANE AND DALLAS. Folio, contents loose as issued in original gilt-stamped cloth solander box, mild blistering and rubbing; mounts foxed, sometimes affects plates; Triplets- comprising: Baby's Opera, Baby's Bouquet and Baby's Own Aesop. Routledge, 1899, Limited edition, #294 OF 500 COPIES. Vellum backed boards (grubby), some foxing;SPENSER'S FAERIE QUEENE: edited by Thomas J. Wise, in 6 volumes. George Allen, 1895-97, Limited edition of 1000 copies on handmade paper printed by Charles Whittingham of the Chiswick Press. 88 full- page woodcut illustrations (one double-page), 132 head and tailpieces, & numerous woodcut initials. Cont. full suede; dry, chipped and covers detached; light browning to paper edges and a hint of foxing; on the whole, internally clean; Walter Crane's New Toy Book Routledge, no date (inscription dated 1872), 1st. edn. Original pictorial covers; worn & chipped;Spencer’s The Shepheard's Calendar. 1898, 1st. edn. Original pictorial cloth; rubbed; Oscar WILDE: The Happy Prince. 1910, 7th. impr. Spine little darkened; A Book of Christmas Verse. 1895, 1st. edn. Spine little darkened;Queen Summer.. 1891, 1st. edn. lower board rubbed & cut;The New Forest. 1863, 1st. edn. gilt pictorial cloth; cut to side of spine; double-page map with tear to fold; The Song of Sixpence picture Book. Routledge, nd, 1st? Covers little worn;Ideals in Art. 1905, 1st. Spine & part of covers faded; Don Quixote,(2 copies). 1900, 1st? inner hinges cracked; India Impressions. 1907, 1st. edn. Covers worn; The Hind in the Wood. Nd, (1910), 1st. wrappers worn & torn; ETC. (qty.)
NORDEN, FREDERIK LUDWIG: (1708-1742): Travels in Egypt and Nubia. Translated from the original and enlarged with observationsby Dr. Peter Templeman,London: For Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers, 1757, first English edition, 2 volumes bound in 1, folio (474 x 289mm.), complete with: 2 engraved frontispieces (including one portrait) plus 162 engraved plates, maps and plans on 160 sheets (plates numbered 1-159, with 2 plates having 2 numbers plus an extra 3, not numbered: making up the 162 plates on 160 sheets), engraved head - and tail - pieces and initials. Near cont. calf, rebacked in the last 50 years with new spine; lacking the marbled endpapers; light foxing; one plate with damp stain to bottom margin (well away from image); few small margin tears; on the whole a very good copy. Note: (Norden, a Captain in the Danish Navy, made a journey in 1737-1738 through Egypt as far south as Sudan at the request of King Christian VI of Denmark. He ‘was the first European to penetrate as far as Derr in Nubia and to publish descriptions of any Nubian temples. This important work was the earliest attempt at an elaborate description of Egypt, and its plates are the most significant previous to those by Denon’ (Blackmer)).
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