SHAKESPEARE, William:The Dramatic Works,Revised by George Steevens; nine volumes (complete). W Bulmer and Co., Shakspeare Printing Office, for John and Josiah Boydell, George and W Nicol, 1802, 1st edn. thus. Illustrated with 97 plates of 100? (We have not been able to find a copy with 100 plates, most copies have 95 to 96 plates). Pagination separate for each play; plates dated: 1791-1803. Folio, contemporary full leather gilt, aeg; Covers little rubbed; front endpapers of a couple of volumes creased and damp stained; some offsetting; the odd small tear and stain; inner hinges beginning to crack; o/w G+ (9)
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ATLASES:1. Lewis, Samuel: Topographical Dictionary of England (Atlas volume only). With Map of England, plan of London. Plus: 43 county maps, all hand-coloured in outline and some folding. 4to., original cloth; VG;2. Johnston, A K: The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography. William Blackwood, 1874, new edn. 48 fine double-page maps coloured in outline (including 8 of The Americas.) Folio, half leather; binding loose;3. Butler, S: An Atlas of Modern Geography. Longman, Rees, nd, c.1850’s. With 23 double-page maps, hand-coloured in outline. Half leather; front cover detached; a number of maps with tears to folds (and repairs) (3)
BIRCH, Thomas: Engraved by Mr Houbraken and Mr Vertue:The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain,Printed for Paul and John Knapton, 1743 - 52, 1st edns. two volumes in one, folio, pptitle, contents, list of subscribers, 160; title, 56. Engraved vignettes to titles by Grignion after Gravelot, 108 engraved portrait ovals by Vertue and Houbraken each within an emblematic border. The plates are almost all dated: 1737-1750. Contemporary full leather, rubbed and hinges cracked; light offsetting and foxing. On the whole a very good copy with clean plate (some of the plates include those of: Henry the Eighth, Chaucer, Pope, Shakespeare, etc.)
RUSSEL, W A:A New and Authentic History of England, from the most remote period of genuine historical evidence, to the present important crisis,Printed for J Cooke at Shakespeare's-Head, 1777. Illustrated with 3 maps and 98 plates. Folio, pp(iv)title-page and preface, 872, (iv) subscribers’ list, etc. Contemporary full reverse calf; covers detached; one map a little frayed at edges; the odd small stain; o/w G+
ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DECORATION:1. Fleury, Gaston: Nouveaux Hotels particuliers a Paris. Paris, Massin, Librairie Générale de l'Architecture at des Arts Décoratifs, nd, (1926); plates; folio. Loose as issued in original cloth-backed decorated boards; G+;2. Janneau, G: Meubles Nouveaux. Editions D'art Charles Moreau, Paris, nd, c.1920’s; plates; folio. Loose as issued in original cloth-backed decorated boards; little worn;3. Clouzot, H: Le Style Moderne dans la Decoration Interieure. Paris, Massin, nd, c.1920’s; plates; folio. Loose as issued in original cloth-backed decorated boards; little worn;4. La Décoration intérieure en France: Intérieurs exécutés dans le gout moderne. Paris, Massin, nd, ca1920’s; plates; folio. Loose as issued in original cloth-backed decorated boards; little worn;5. La Décoration intérieure en France: Facades et plans D'apres les types les plus moderne. Paris, Massin, nd, c.1920’s; plates; folio. Loose as issued in original cloth-back
PUGIN, A Welby:Four works bound in one volume:1. Details of Ancient Timber Houses of the 15th and 16th Centuries. Engraved title (lettered in colour) and 21 plates; Ackermann, 1836;2. Gothic Furniture of the 15th Century. Engraved title and 24 plates; Ackermann, 1835;3. Designs for Gold and Silversmiths. Engraved title (lettered in red) and 27 plates, Ackermann, 1836;4. Designs for Iron and Brass Work. Engraved title and 26 plates only? (of 27)?; Ackermann, 1836. The total number of etched plates, including title-pages, is 102. All plates printed on rectos only and with tissue guards. 10pp publisher's catalogue of J Britton, dated 1837, and small broadside advertisement for another of Pugin's works bound in at rear. Folio, contemporary half leather over marbled boards, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Covers rubbed; foxing and the odd small stain; o/w G+
Critical Edition of the Vulgate:Without the divisions into verses introduced in 1550. No title page or colophon; 94 leaves, possibly c.1534 or later (leaf 94 is missing, but supplied in manuscript hand). Folio, full leather, rubbed; leaves 92 & 93 torn at top with small loss; and, as stated above, the last leaf (94) is supplied in manuscript hand. A/F
POPE GREGORY I:Sancti Gregorii Papae I, Cognomento Magni, Opera Omnia : ad Manuscriptos Codices Romanos, Gallicanos, Anglicanos Emendata, Aucta, and Illustrata Notis,Volumes 2, 3 and 4 only of four. Paris, Sumptibus Claudii Rigaud, 1705, 1st edns., text in Latin and Greek, folio, near contemporary full leather; covers rubbed; book plate of bishop’s mitre and initials to front pastedowns (3)
ANTIQUARIAN AND BINDING:A large quantity including,1. Acts and Monuments of Matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. Volume 1 only of 3. Company of Stationers, 1684, portrait, plates and illustrations. Folio, contemporary full calf; covers and frontis detached. 2. Furneaux, J H: Glimpses Of India. Philadelphia, nd, c.1880, 25th. Thousand; 3. Redgap: The Faces In The Fire. Willoughby, nd, c.1846, 1st edn. with hand-coloured plates (same format as Dickens’ Christmas Books); original gilt pictorial cloth. 4. Plus: 21 other mainly leather bindings (24)
ANDERSON, George William (Assisted by a principal officer who sailed in the Resolution Sloop; etc.):A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World,Containing an authentic, entertaining, full and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages. Alex Hogg, 1784; folio; iv, 656pp. With 124 plates and 28 charts only (152 of 158). Contemporary full leather; covers worn; hinges cracked; missing most of the folding chart, a few plates and charts torn with loss; damp damage to margins. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return
Northamptonshire Interest: Frederick William Bull, A sketch of the History of the Town of Kettering, Kettering and London 1891 with a pasted in letter from the author, cloth defective; Reports of the Commissioners for Enquiring Concerning Charities so far as Relates to the County of Northampton, half calf bound compilation; Rev Henry Isham Longden, The Visitation of the County of Northampton in the year 1681, London 1935; cloth, a Board of Education Booklet, Administrative County of Northampton Endowed Charities 1906; Desborough Primary School Register 1898; bound book of cuttings, Glimpses of Kettering; Stuart Moore, Doomsday Book, the portion relating to Northamptonshire, 1863, a loose folio; Architectural Illustrations and Description of Kettering Church; Alfred Gotch, A Complete Account, illustrated by measured drawings of the Buildings erected in Northamptonshire by Sir Thomas Treasham, Northampton and London 1883; Desborough Urban District Council, Treasurers Account Book 1934; and other books of local interest. (a collection).
Maps: John Chapman & Peter Andre; A Map of the County of Essex from an actual survey taken in MDCCLXXII: LXXIII and MDCCLXXIV, published August 1833 by Chalk, Meggy & Chalk, Chelmsford, folio size, with twenty-six double page sheets including engraved frontispiece, key map and list of subscribers, in red leather binding with tooled gilt title to the spine CONDITION REPORT Original cloth binding is deteriorated, corners scuffed and bent, tears in binding on spine. Contents have been rebound within new end papers, a degree of foxing and time-staining throughout. Pages and images largely intact with a few slight tears to edges
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) EIGHT IRISH WRITERS [1981] collotype lithographs; (8); (no. 12 from the 'Hors de Commerce' edition of 25); unframed, in the original linen folio case inscribed [To Francis Stuart, 'with deep admiration and best wishes', Louis le Brocquy, XI 1981] on title page; numbered in red on editions page; each signed and numbered in pencil in the lower margin 13¾ x 11in. (34.93 x 27.94cm) A series of eight portraits depicting Yeats, Synge, Joyce, Beckett, Kinsella, Montague, Heaney and Stuart, accompanied by a poem by each respective author, a biographical note by Andrew Carpenter, and a preface by the late Seamus Heaney. The eight charcoal drawings were printed by collotype lithography at the Imprimerie Arte, Adrien Maeght, Paris, where the text was also printed. Presented in the original linen cased portfolio box made in Dublin by John F. Newman and Sons Ltd.Francis Stewart (1902-2000), whose portrait is included and to whom the artist pesonally inscribed this lot, was an Irish writer who spent much of the war years, 1939-1945, in Germany. His first wife was Iseult Gonne, Maud Gonne MacBride's daughter. He was elected a Saoi of Aosdána in 1996. He published over 30 works between 1923 and 1996. One hundred and twenty-five copies of this portfolio were produced. Those numbered H. C. (hors de commerce) 1-25 were for museum, library and private circulation. P
ETUDES DE MARINE POSITIVE, Dessinee et Gravees a L'Eau-Forte Par L. MOREL-FATIO; PUBLIEES Par RAPILLY, Quai des Grands Augustins, 55bis, Paris. Original folio containing a set of maritime prints, mid 19th Century, complete with 44 plates (numbered Pl.1 - Pl. 43) including the front. Complete set of images available upon request.
ROCQUE, JOHN An Exact Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, The Borough of Southwark, with The Country near Ten Miles round; Begun in 1741, finished in 1745, and publish`d in 1746, according to Act of Parliament By John Rocque Land Surveyor; Engraved by RICHARD PARR, and Printed by W> PRATT; Sold by the Proprietor John Rocque, next the Duke of Grafton's Head, in Hyde Park Road, the Bottom of Piccadilly, and at the Print Shops in London and Westminster, Price Two Guineas in Sheets; then in Latin and French; A List of the Subscribers of This Work, Index of the Towns, Villages etc Compiled Within This Survey;Folio, bound engraved map on 16 double page sheets, emblematic group in cartouche at upper border surmounted by arms of the City of London, dedication to The Right Honourable Richard Boyle Earl of Burlington & Cork Viscount Dungarvon , a few very minor marginal nicks and tears to a couple of sheets, light variable browning and offsetting, minor water staining to lower corners sheets 7 & 8, slight damage to corners of folio cover; Rocque's famous map includes several of the new features he introduced to English cartography. The hilly ground behind the Royal Hospital [Greenwich, sheet II] ... shows to dramatic effect in his technique of hachure, while most of his land-use symbols are included -- marsh, market garden, orchard, ploughland, park and common' (Glanville). Glanville 28; Howgego 94 (2). Full set of images available upon request.
Four Robert Taylor Signed Bomber Command Prints. Commemorative Folio of 4 Robert Taylor Bomber Command Prints. Issued in the early 1980s, each prints overall size is 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Print 1 Hampden signed by Flt Lt Freddie Ball DFC AE - 44/49 Sqd - Air Gunner on Hampdens. Print 2 Lancaster signed by Sqd Ldr Frank Leatherdale DFC - 115/7 Sqd - Navigator on Lancasters. Print 3 Stirling signed by W/O Joe Musgrove - 214 Sqd - WOP/AG on Stirlings. Print 4 Halifax signed by W/O Frank Mannion - 10 Sqd - Mid Upper Gunner on Halifax's. Print 4 has also been signed by Robert Taylor Good condition. All items come with a Certificate of Authenticity and can be shipped worldwide.
William Lionel Wyllie RA, RBA, RI, RE, NEAC (1851-1931) Fellucas on the Nile, signed in pencil, a black and white etching, together with two further examples by the same artist depicting warships at sea and beached rowing boats beside a pier, another example by Harold Wyllie of a clipper ship off the coast and an empty folio relating to Wyllie etchings (5) 16cm by 37.5cm, 16cm by 30cm & 52cm by 38cm respectively
^Lewin (William) The Birds of Great Britain with Their Eggs Accurately Figured, 1789 - 1794, London, small folio (approx. 30cm by 22.5cm); 24 ink-ruled mounted bodycolour drawings of birds and eggs including six removed and framed separately in modern gilt. Original marbled boards and tissues, spine decayed and contents partially disbound. Various pencil annotations (by the artist?) to versos. XXVIII Brown Owl, XXV Short-Eared Owl, XX Sparrow-Hawk, XXIX Little Owl, XXVII Tawny Owl and ''Great Shrike'' are framed. In total 9 birds of prey (7)
Dickens (Charles) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club and The Personal History of David Copperfield, both illustrated by Frank Reynolds, n.d. London, Westminster Press Ltd. original red cloth boards, dust wrappers Alken (Henry) illust. A Panorama of the Process of Human Life Fashionably Displayed Illustrating Shakespeare's Ages...1948, London, The Falcon Press, folio, red cloth spine, with card slipcase Sheridan (Richard Brinsley) The School for Scandal, illust. Hugh Thomson, n.d. London, Hodder & Stoughton, green cloth boards; togethr with five other illustrated volumes (9)
LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY (1887-1976); a set of three signed limited edition coloured prints "The Lowrys", portraits of the artist's mother, signed in pencil, his father, signed in pen, and a self portrait, signed in pen, all 95/300, all 35.5 x 26cm, all framed and glazed including certificate, also a bronze medallion of Lowry from an original model by Leo Solomon, also 95/300, with certificate, diameter of medallion 13cm, and the original folio in which the prints were contained (6). (D) CONDITION REPORT: This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk.Colours remain strong and overall good condition.
A quantity of ephemera including 1950s Folies Bergère folio and programmes, a programme from Tabarin Club, souvenir pullout illustrations and pictures of Paris, a photographic album of a visit to Paris and Brussels, June 1950, plus guides for arithmetic, spelling, shorthand, etc, and albums containing Wills's cigarette cards and Carreras' cards, etc.
ORMEROD, GEORGE; The History of The County Palatine and City of Chester in three volumes, second edition revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby of Lincoln's Inn and Barrister at Law and printed by George Routledge & Sons of London in 1882, illustrated with steel engravings including a portrait of George Ormerod, a coloured map of Cheshire and other inset illustrations, folio size in board bindings (af). CONDITION REPORT: The spines of the three volumes are in various states of repair with some spine missing, covers detached but present. Pages are foxed, the edges are worn.
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