[Sandys, George]. A Relation of a Journey begun An Dom. 1610. Foure Bookes Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italy, and Islands Adjoyning, 3rd edition, London: Ro. Allot, 1627, engraved title within architectural border & folding map (with repaired central fold), engraved prospect plate only (torn with half plate lacking, also without plate intended to fill blank area on D4 verso, as often), numerous engraved illustrations throughout, manuscript to final leaf of text, final blank deficient, some marks and dust-soiling, 19th century half calf, joints cracked, small folio, (STC 21728), together with Carne (John), Letters from the East: Written during a recent tour through Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, The Holy Land, Syria, and Greece, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1826, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece to volume 1, ownership signature to upper blank margin of title, contemporary calf, some loss to volume number labels, rubbed, 8vo, plus Virginian, The American Wanderer, Through Various Parts of Europe, in a Series of Letters to a Lady, (Interspersed with a Variety of interesting Anecdotes) by a Virginian, London: J. Robson, 1783, front free endpaper loose, contemporary marbled calf, loss to title label on spine, joints cracked, 8vo (4)
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Gregynog Press. Agnes Miller Parker Wood Engravings, 2 volumes, published by Gwasg Gregynog, Tregynon, Newtown, Powys, 1996 & 1997, forty-four wood engraved plates printed on Japon from the original blocks, fore-edge & lower edge untrimmed, original quarter cloth, decorative printed paper sidings to boards, slim folio, each contained in original slipcases Limited edition 79/200. The first volume reprints the engravings from The Fables of Esope and the second those from XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales, originally published by the Gregynog Press in 1931 and 1933. (2)
Meggendorfer (Lothar). Zum Zeitvertreib, fr brave Knaben & M„dchen, Ein Ziehbilderbuch, 5th edition, Munich, circa 1890, eight hand-coloured plates, each with one or more movable figures, operated by levers, in good working order, some marks from rusting pins, some short closed tears, mostly repaired, butterfly net in scene four neatly replaced with facsimile, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, a little soiled, edges and front joint worn, folio, together with Nah und Fern. Ein Tierbilderbuch zum Ziehen, Munich: Braun & Schneider, circa 1887, eight hand-coloured plates portraying various animals and birds, each with one or more movable parts, operated by levers, all with handling tears (mostly repaired), elephant handlers left arm missing and some smaller parts replaced with facsimiles (for example swans' heads, arms), all functioning except for the parrot, some marks and soiling, ink ownership inscription to front pastedown 'Sacheverel Edward Wilmot Sitwell from Aunt Maud: Sepr. 1st 1887', spine adhesive failing, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rather soiled and rubbed, edges showing, folio, plus Percy H. Muir, Children's Books of Yesterday, National Book League exhibition catalogue [May 1946], original printed wrappers, 8vo Provenance: From the library of Percy H. Muir. Both Meggendorfer books were exhibited in May 1946 at the National Book League's first exhibition after the Second World War. Percy H. Muir arranged this exhibition and prepared the catalogue in which these two items are listed: nos. 808 and 809. (3)
Nonesuch Press. In Memoriam, by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Nonesuch Press, 1933, gold arabesque vignette to title, gold endpapers, top edge gilt, original vellum, slipcase (slightly rubbed), folio, limited edition, 118/125 specially bound copies (from a total edition of 2000), with a loose signed Christmas greetings inscription by Francis Meynell on folded headed paper, together with Selected Poems of Coleridge, Nonesuch Press, 1935, some spotting to endpapers, original orange vellum, slipcase, folio, limited edition, 4/500, plus The Book-Bag, by W. Somerset Maugham, Lungarno Series No. 9, G. Orioli, Florence, 1932, portrait frontispiece (signed in blue ink at foot by Maugham), one or two spots, original cloth-backed boards, some fading and stains, small 4to, limited edition, 293/725, with others including Somerset de Chair's The Silver Crescent, Golden Cockerel Press, 1943, limited edition, 121/500 (with a loose 2 page autograph letter to Major Black, R.A.M.C., October 1941, thanking him for treating his wounded leg), Miscellaneous Poems, by Jonathan Swift, Golden Cockerel Press, 1928, limited edition, 15/375, William Golding. A Bibliography by R.A. Gekoski & P.A. Grogan, 1994, limited signed edition, 69/100, Iona and Peter Opie's I Saw Esau, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, 1992, limited signed edition, 212/300 and Giovanni Boccaccio's Amorous Fiammetta, Mandrake Press, 1929, limited edition, 448/550 (18)
Balfour (Ronald, illust.). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Constable, 1920, thirty-eight colour and black & white tipped-in plates, letterpress illustrations, endpapers browned and spotted, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, original green cloth, lightly dust-soiled, spine and upper cover gilt lettered, folio Limited edition, 2/100 copies, signed by Ronald Balfour. (1)
Wraxall (Nathaniel William). A Tour Through Some of the Northern Parts of Europe..., 2nd edition, 1775, black and white folding map frontispiece, some minor marks, contemporary full calf, boards slightly marked, spine rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with Blane (William), Cynegetica, or Essays on Sporting: consisting of Observations on Hare Hunting..., new edition, 1788, black and white engraved frontispiece and half title, wax stains to fore-edge from front endpaper to C2, some other light marks, front board partially detached, contemporary boards, covers marked, spine cracked with some loss, 8vo, and Marvell (Andrew), The Works..., volumes 1 & 2, 1726, black and white portrait frontispiece to volume 1, some light spotting and offsetting, bookplates to front endpapers, uniform contemporary full calf, boards partially detached and rubbed, spines rubbed with minor loss, small 8vo, plus other 17th-19th century literature, including Le Cabinet Des Fées, ou collection choisie, by A. Genéve, volumes 1-41, 1785-89, later uniform gilt decorated green half morocco, 8vo, mostly leather bindings, some foreign language and odd volumes, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)
Gregynog Press. The Romantics in Wales An Anthology, Edited by Glyn Tegai Hughes, published by Gwasg Gregynog, Tregynon, Newtown, Powys, 2009, wood engraved frontispiece and fifteen illustrations by Hilary Paynter (including 9 full-page), fore-edge & lower edge untrimmed, original quarter morocco by John Sewell with printed cloth sidings to a design by Hilary Paynter, folio, contained in original slipcase, (limited edition 42/150), together with The Texture of the Universe, Selected Writings by Henry and Thomas Vaughan, Edited by Glyn Pursglove, published by Gwasg Gregynog, Newtown, Powis, 2010, wood engraved frontispiece and illustrations by Hilary Paynter, original quarter morocco, tall 8vo, contained in original slipcase, (limited edition 14/90) (2)
Thorvaldsen (Bertel). Der Einzug Alexander des Grossen in Babylon. Marmorfries von B. Thorwaldsen. Nach Zeichnungen von F. Overbeck, in Kupfer Gestochen von S. Amsler, new edition, Leipzig, 1870, half-title, twenty-two engraved plates (including frontispiece), tissue guards, spotting throughout, 20th century bookplate of Ida Schoeller by Hans Kohlschein (1879-1948) to upper pastedown, original cloth backed boards with chromolithograph ornamental title to upper cover, light dampstain and som ewear to extremities, oblong folio (1)
Gascoyne (David). A Short Survey of Surrealism, Enitharmon Press, 2000, signed by the author to the limitation page, original red cloth with inlaid black and white illustration, 8vo, (limited edition 30/50), together with Sitwell (Sacheverell), Valse Des Fleurs, A Day in St. Petersburg and a Ball at the Winter Palace in 1868, limited edition, The Fairfax Press, 1980, 1 black and white illustration, colour endpapers, original blue quarter cloth in slipcase, 8vo, plus Levy (Silvano), Desmond Morris, Analytical Catalogue Raisonné, 1st edition, 2001, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original red cloth in dust jacket, 4to, plus other modern art and illustration reference and related, including Henry Moore, Sculpture & Drawing, volumes 1-3, mixed editions, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 cartons)
Pottle (Frederick A.). Boswell's London Journal 1702-1763, 1950, Boswell in Holland 1763-1764, 1952, Boswell on the Grand Tour 1764, 1765-1766, volumes 1 & 2, 1953-55, Boswell in Search for a Wife 1766-1769, 1957, Boswell for the Defence, 1960, Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson 1773, 1963, Boswell: The Ominous Years 1774-76, 1963, all first editions, all original cloth in dust jackets, spines slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with Clark (George, editor), The Oxford History of England, 17 volumes, circa 1980, all original blue cloth in dust jackets, some covers slightly rubbed, and other modern historical and biographical reference, all original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
Foster (Birket). Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, 1855, printed in red with steel-engraved vignettes throughout, heavy spotting, all edges gilt, original blind-stamped cloth gilt, spine a little faded, together with Ballingall (William, illustrator), Scenes of Scottish History, Edinburgh, 1874, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, pages with decorative borders throughout, some spotting, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated cloth, a little rubbed, both small folio, plus Foster (Birket), Beauties of English Landscape, 1874, wood-engraved illustrations throughout, some spotting, occasionally heavy, all edges gilt, original gilt and black pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, 4to, plus other similar illustrated books including 3 Pen & Pencil series (11)
Kipling (Arthur L. & King, Hugh L.). Head-Dress Badges of the British Army, 1st edition, 1972, numerous black and white illustrations, original blue cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed with minor loss to foot, 4to, together with May (W.E. et al), Badges and Insignia of the British Armed Services, 1st edition, 1974, numerous black and white illustrations, original red cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly rubbed to head, 4to, plus Robert Ogilby Trust, Index to British Military Costume Prints, 1500-1914, 1st edition, 1972, colour frontispiece plus black and white illustrations, original red cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed with minor loss at head, 8vo, plus other modern military history and reference, including publications by Arms & Armour Press, Putnam, Sutton, Blandford, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
Hale (Kathleen). Orlando The Marmalade Cat: A Camping Holiday, 1st edition, Country Life, [1938], colour lithograph illustrations, pawprint endpapers, original pictorial boards, rubbed and minor wear to spine and extremities, some marks to rear cover, together with Orlando The Marmalade Cat, A Trip Abroad, 1st edition, Country Life, 1939, colour lithograph illustrations throughout, pawprint endpapers, original colour pictorial boards, a little rubbed and minor wear to extreme corners only (generally a very good copy), plus Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) Keeps A Dog, 1st edition, Country Life, [1949], colour lithograph illustrations, pawprint endpapers, original colour pictorial boards in very good condition, with matching dust wrapper, and Orlando (The Marmalade Cat), A Seaside Holiday, 1st edition, Country Life, 1952, colour lithograph illustrations throughout, pawprint endpapers, original colour pictorial boards with cloth backstrip, in matching dust wrapper, a little rubbed and one or two light creases and short closed tears (generally a very good copy), plus other Orlando books, including paperbound editions of Orlando Buys a Farm, 1942, His Silver Wedding, 1944, Orlando Becomes a Doctor, 1944 (2 copies), a 1946 reprint of Orlando, His Silver Wedding, and a later reprint of Orlando, A Seaside Holiday, all folio (10)
Libron (F. & Clouzot, H.). Le Corset dans l'art et les moeurs du XIIIe au XXe siècle, Paris, 1933, numerous photogravure and photolithograph plates, including some printed in colour, several printed facsimiles, original printed wrappers with glassine dust wrapper, minor fraying to extremities, with an additional double suite of the illustrations loose, all contained in original publisher's card chemise, some wear to joints at head and foot of spine with consequent repairs, and matching slipcase, rubbed and some minor wear, large folio Limited edition of 880 copies, this being number 19 of 25 copies on Van Gelder paper accompanied with the double suite of the illustrations. With signed presentation inscription in ink to justification leaf from the author F. Libron to C.D. Stephenson. (1)
Pear Tree Press. Frescoes from Buried Temples. A Portfolio of Drawings by James Guthrie with Poems by Gordon Bottomley, Pear Tree Press, 1928, colour printed half title and colophon, woodcut title printed in turquoise and black, intaglio and woodcut illustrations and calligraphic text after Helen Hinckley, many in colours, a few tipped-in, two double-page plates, loose as issued in original wraparound pictorial colour wrapper, depicting Adam and Eve and the serpent, a little browned and frayed, edges and tear and hole to upper wrapper neatly repaired, contained in modern foldover box, folio Limited edition, 17/55 signed by poet and artist. James Guthrie's most ambitious production at the Pear Tree Press, designed and printed entirely by himself. Colin Franklin describes the work 'as among the three or four monumental achievements of private presses in the twentieth century; and by its originality of concept and content, the highest'. (1)
Monck (George, 1st Duke of Albemarle, 1608-1670). Document signed, Coldstream, January 1659/60, a permit of passport for Alex. Monk of Mains and attendants 'to passe about his occasions in Scotland, and to repasse without molestation...', written in a clerical hand on paper and completed in manuscript with signature of George Monck lower right, wax seal top left, heavily spotted and dampstained, frayed on folds, 1 page, folio (29 x 19.5 cm) (1)
La Fontaine, Jean de. Fables choisies […] Nouvelle édition gravée en taille-douce […] Dédiées aux Enfans de France. Parigi, a spese dell’autore, 1765-75. In 8° (198 x 125 mm); LXXI, [1], 100; VI, 102; IV, 95, [1]; [6], 134; [4], 103; [4], 115, [1] pagine. Antiporta, frontespizi incise, 243 tavole incise, 243 vignette et 226 culs-de-lampe, il tutto inciso da Fessard su disegno di Bardin, Bidault, Caresme, Desrais, Hoüel, Kobell, Le Prince, Loutherbourg, Meyer e Monnet, il testo completamente inciso da Montulay e Drouët. Legatura coeva in marocchino color testa di moro con triplice bordura in oro ai piatti, fregi e titolo in oro al dorso, labbri e tagli dorati, unghiatura à dentelles, segnalibri in seta, contropiatti marmorizzati. Bellissimo esemplare fresco e marginoso in affascinante legatura di questa prima ed unica edizione completamente incisa, considerata la più bella edizione illustrata di La Fontaine del Settecento dopo quella in folio di Oudry. Cohen-de Ricci 551. (6 volumi) 500
[Milano]. Campo, Antonio. Cremona fedelissima citta, et nobilissima colonia de Romani. Milano, Giovanni Battista Bidelli e Filippo Ghisolfi, 1645 (1642). In 4° (255 x 200 mm); 2 parti in 1 volume; [8], 228 [i.e. 224]; 32, [24] pagine. Frontespizio inciso da Blanc, ritratto dell’autore sul recto della carta †4 entro medaglione e cornice floreale, carta ripiegata di Cremona, pianta del territorio ripiegata in data del 1583, e 6 incisioni su 4 tavole ripiegate con il Carroccio, il Duomo di Cremona, il Torrazzo, la pianta del Battisterio, 9 medaglioni con ritratti incisi su rame con una in xilografia sulla p. 72, e 24 medaglioni con i ritratti dei duchi e duchesse in rame nel testo (abile restauro ad uno strappo alla tavola del Torrazzo, piccoli difetti.) Legatura coeva in pergamena con titolo in oro su tassello al dorso, tagli a spruzzo rosso. Ex libris del marchese Carlo Ermes Visconti (1834-1911). Seconda edizione con importante provenienza della celebre opera, con le incisioni di Agostino Carracci che si basano in sostanza sui ritratti nella collezione di Paolo Giovio. Il medaglione di Filippo II sulla p. 24 nella variante con cappello. Pregliasco, catalogo 77: “ricercata quasi come la prima in-folio”. 800
Dolmen Press: Holinshed's Irish Chronicle, ed. by Liam Miller & Eileen Power. Folio D. (Dolmen Press) 1979. Lim. Edn. 850 Copies, illus. thro-out, cloth & d.w.; O'Grady (Des) The Gododdin, folio Dolmen Editions 1977. Illus. by Louis le Brocquy, cloth; Hogan (W.J.) Out of Season, folio Galway 1978. Illus. by Geo. Campbell, cloth & d.w. (3)
With Large Original PhotographsIrish Architecture: Hill (Arthur) Monograph of Cormacs' Chapel Cashel, lg. folio Cork 1874. Sold Edn., decor. title, list of subscribers, 2 original full page photos, full page litho plt. & 12 full page diagrams, & 1 other small plt., in full vellum binding. V. good. Rare. (1)
Banking: Nolan (Rev. Dom P.) A Monetary History of Ireland, Part I, Ancient Ireland, sm. 8vo L. 1926. First Edn. hf. title, orig. cloth; O'Kelly (Eoin) The Old Private Banks and Bankers of Munster, 8vo Cork Uni. Press 1959. First Edn., folio table & illus., cloth & orig. d.w. Both good. Scarce. (2)
With Attractive Coloured PlatesWalsh (Wendy) A Lifetime in Painting A Memoir from Notes made by Author and in Conversation with Nick Wilkinson, Lg. 4to D. 2007. First Edn., cloth & d.w.; also Thomas Ryan Dublin and Thereabouts, oblong folio (Gandon) 2011, First, illus. thro-out, pict. d.w. (2)
Aringhi (Paul) Roma Subterranea Novissima, in qua Post Antonium Bosium Antesignanum, Jo Severanum Congreg. Oratorii Presbyterum, Et celebres alias Scriptores ... Lg. Folio 2 vols. in one, Paris 1659. Add engd. title & one hf. title. Lg. fold. map, wd. cut illus. thro.-out text, 62 full page engd. illus. 45 hf. page engd. illus. (2 leaves pp 91/92, & pp 93/94 lacking, & possibly one plt. at page one), uncut, orig. plain boards. (1)* Preface signed by Fr. Luke Wadding.
Signed Limited EditionDe Gennaro (Gaetano) Pastels and Paintings, lg. folio d. (Three Candles) 1945. No. 16 of Lim. De Luxe Edn. of 100 Copies, Reserved for Cav. Domenico Antonio Cofolla, Signed, cold. & othre plts., hf. mor.; Rakoczi (B.), Hall (Ken) & Scott (Patrick) Three Painters, folio D. (Three Candles) 1944, plts., boards & d.w. (2)
Napoleon: Choix de Gravures a L'Eau Forte, d'apres Les Peintures Originales et Les Marbres de La Gallerie de Lucien Bonaparte, Folio L. 1812, 142 (complete) engd. full page plts., a.e.g., cont. full str. grained crimson mor. blind & gilt tooled, spine gilt in panels with Napoleonic motif. (1)
In fine Binding, possibly by George MullenBindings: Flaxman (J.) The Iliad .. Odyssey of Homer, engraved from the Compositions of John Flaxman, R.A. Sculptor, 2 vols. in one, lg. oblong folio L. 1805, 73 plts.; also Compositions from .. Hesiod, and Compositions from The Tragedies of Aeschylus, 2 works in one vol., lg. oblong folio L. 1817 - 1831, 73 engd. plts., marble ends, both a.e.g., matching full cont. mor. with gilt & blind filet borders, & blind decor., roll borders outside a large tooled gilt border of shamrocks, acorns & foliage, spine in panels, decor. gilt bands. Good. As a binding, w.a.f. (2)
Double Page Engraved Platesde Scheyb (F. Christ.)ed. Peutingeriana Tabula Itineraria, quae In Augusta Bibliotheca Vindolbonesi nunc Servatur Adcurate Excripta. Lg. Atlas folio Vienna 1753. Hf. title, title with engd. vignette & engraved heads & tails, 12 lg. dble. page maps / charts, L.S. on title, XIV, 69, XII pp., later hf. calf. (1)
[Winton] James, Bishop of, The Works of the Most High and Mightie Prince, Prince James By the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine..., Folio L. (Rob. Barker) 1616. First Edn., add. engd. title, engd. port. frontis (both rebacked, engd. hd. & tails, text with ruled borders, later full calf. (1)
Fine Early PrintingSigonii (Caroli) Historiarum de Occidentali Imperio Libri XX, Ad. Illustriss et Excell D. Iacobum Boncompagnum Vineolae Marchionem, & Generalem S.R.E. Gubernatorum. Folio Frankfurt (Andreae Wecheli) 1593. Wd. cut device on title, some damp stains, cont. full vellum, v. good. 'Ex Libris Jacobi Butler.' (1)
Three Candles: Rivers (Elizabeth) Ireland - The Aran Islands, Six Reproductions from wood Engravings, folio D. (Victor Waddington Galleries) n.d., 6 illus., in orig. portfolio; Walsh Studios, Dublin Eight Reproduction by Two Irish Artists George Campbell, R.H.A., and Arthur Armstrong, folio D. n.d. 8 lg. illus. in portfolio. Both Scarce. (2)
Spectacular Early Coloured View of The North West PassageCresswell (Samuel Gurney) A Series of Eight Sketches in Colour; together with a Coloured Map of the Route; by Lieut. S.G. Cresswell, of the Voyages of the H.M.S. Investigator, Capt. M'Clure, during the Discovery of the North West Passage. Lg. atlas folio London (Day & Son) July 25, 1854. Sole Edition, title incorporating Dedit, 4pp, 8 full page chromo plts. and one full page chart, all leaves & plts. re-mounted on linen, orig. red cloth, gilt professionally rebacked, a few stains. An extremely fine copy with v. clean plates. (1)Reference: Abbey Travel 644; Sabin 17490.
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