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Click here to subscribeEdmondson, Joseph. A Complete Body of Heraldry, 2 volumes, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 24 engraved plates, some spotting and browning, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and repaired, bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library, occasional blindstamps, folio, London: printed for the Author, 1780
Vanity Fair. A Weekly Show of Political, Social & Literary Wares, volumes 3, 5, and 31, chromo-lithographed caricatures after Spy, Ape and others, some light spotting, original cloth gilt or half morocco, distressed, folio, London: Vanity Fair Office, 1870-1884, sold as a periodical, not subject to return (3)
Holbein, Hans. Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, in the Collection of His Majesty, for the Portraits of Illustrious Persons of the Court of Henry VIII, first edition, 84 engraved portraits after F. Bartolozzi on 83 leaves, 23 mounted, many on pink paper, the portraits of Holbein and his wife with imprint cropped, last few portraits waterstained, original publisher's limp boards, spine defective, folio, London: John Chamberlaine, 1792
Camden, William. Britannia: or, A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 3 volumes, first Gough edition, 153 engraved maps and plates, some folding, a few misfolded, some browning and soiling, contemporary calf, boards detached, one lacking, bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library, folio, London: John Nichols, 1789
Snape, Andrew. The Anatomy of an Horse. Containing An Exact and full Description of the Frame, Situation and Connexion of all his Parts (with their Actions and uses) exprest in Forty nine Copper-plates, 2 parts in one volume, engraved portrait frontispiece, 49 engraved plates, some spotting and light browning, a few leaves with minor staining in gutter, contemporary panelled calf, boards loose, folio, London: M. Flesher, 1687
Butler, Captain H. South African Sketches: Illustrative of the Wild Life of a Hunter on the Frontier of the Cape Colony, first edition, additional pictorial title, 30 lithographed views and vignettes, including 15 hand-coloured, tissue guards, modern half calf, folio, London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1841
Howell, James. Londinopolis; An Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, first edition, title laid-down, lacking plate and portrait, browned and spotted, a few leaves with margins shaved, modern cloth, bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library, folio, London: J. Streater, 1657; Widmore, Richard. An History of the Church of St. peter, Westminster, first edition, modern cloth, bookplate of Bath Municipal Reference Library, blindstamped, 4to, London: Jos. Fox and C. Tovey, 1751 (2)
Schottus, Franciscus. Italy, in Its Original Glory, Ruine and Revival, Being an Exact Survey of the Whole Geography, and History of that Famous Country; With the Adjacent Islands of Sicily Malta, &c.... translated out of the Originals, for General Satisfaction by Edmund Warcupp, first edition in English, 2 double-page plates, lacks engraved additional title, rust-mark on Pp, final leaves affected by damp, contemporary calf, spine chipped, joints cracked, bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library, folio, London: S. Griffin, 1660 [Wing S891]
Stevenson, Thomas George. Edinburgh in the Olden Time, Displayed in a Series of Sixty-Three Original Views, one of 350 copies only, this copy ex-series, 63 plates, some spotting, tissue guards, original morocco-backed cloth boards, slightly worn, top edge gilt, bookplate of Bath Reference Library, folio, Edinburgh: Thomas George Stevenson, 1880
Roberts, David. Picturesque Sketches in Spain, taken during the years 1832 and 1833, first edition, tinted lithographed title, dedication leaf, 25 tinted lithographed plates, one loose with margins torn, some soiling to edges of leaves, spotted, tissue guards, original morocco-backed cloth boards, folio, London: Hodgson and Graves, 1837
Nordenskiold, A.E. Facsimile-Atlas, double-page maps, original half morocco, rubbed, folio, Stockholm, 1889; English County Maps in the Collection of the Royal Geographical Society, 2 parts, plates, loose, contemporary cloth folders, v.s., London: Royal Geographical Society, 1932; and one other, similar (4)
[Bowyer, Robert] An Impartial Historical Narrative of those Momentous Events which have taken place in this Country during the period from the year 1816 to 1823, first edition, 7 plates, 2 hand-coloured, lacking frontispiece, somewhat browned, original publisher's boards, worn, loose, bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library, folio, London: Thomas Bensley, 1823 [Tooley, 99]
Bacon, Sir Francis. The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, title with decorative wood-cut border, B2 with 'Souldier' on line 12, O3 with contemporary manuscript correction on line 7, some spotting, contemporary calf, head of spine chipped, joints slightly cracked, rubbed, bookplate of Coker Court, folio, London: Printed by W. Stansby for Matthew Lownes, 1622 [STC 1159]
Miller, Philip. The Gardener's Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower-Garden, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 4 plates, one shaved, some spotting, a few leaves with superficial soiling, contemporary calf, worn, folio, London: For the Author, 1731
Garran, Andrew. The Picturesque Atlas of Australia, 42 original parts bound in 3 volumes, wood-engraved illustrations, some spotting, modern buckram, original wrappers bound in, bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library, folio, Sydney and Melbourne: Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co. Limited, [c.1888]
Pinelli, Bartholomeo. Raccolta di cinquanta costumi pittoreschi incisi all acqua forte..., 50 engraved plates, some light soiling, engraved title severely cropped and laid down, clipped signature of Boyd Alexander on front free endpaper, contemporary full morocco gilt, extremities rubbed, landscape folio, Roma: Lorenzo Larrazi, 1809 Lieutenant Boyd Alexander (16 January 1873 - 2 April 1910) was an British Army Officer, explorer and ornithologist.
[Priestley, Dr. Joseph], 1733 - 1804, theologian, chemist, discoverer of oxygen] A collection of 10 A.Ls.S. and a draft will, 1748 - 89, relating to the extended family of Dr. Joseph Priestley, comprising five A.Ls.S. from Edward Hitchin (dissenting minister), from London, to Mr. Joseph or Mrs. Ann Priestley at Fieldhead, West Riding of Yorkshire, mostly on religion and family matters, including the death of a brother without making a will, and expenses relating to the same; but one mentioning their more famous relative, "Religion I believe is very low at Cow-Lane, at Mill-Hill it is in my view infidelity disguised. I view the learned Priestley as a Xn Deist. I told him so at my own house - His pride is likely to burst him…" With five others similar. Approx. 25pp. folio, some with integral address panels. Dr. Priestley was minister of Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds (one of the oldest and most respected Dissenting congregations in England) between 1767 and 1773. (11)
Heads English and Foreign. Collected by Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, Countess of Pomfret, 1730, 100 engraved portraits, mounted to size and illuminated with gilt border, each with a manuscript biography opposite, enclosed in a decorative border, named, with a ms. index leaf and title, contemporary full morocco, tooled elaborately gilt, the initials 'H.P.' centre, all edges gilt, neatly rebacked, folio, c.1730 An early manuscript note reads, 'This book, collected and illuminated by the granddaughter of the cruel Judge Jefferies, who was nearly killed by the mob at Taunton and died in Marlboro' Wilts, was bought by Blayney Martin of Ashfield Lodge, Bury St. Edmunds at the sale of Thomas, Lord Shelburne.'
Moore, Thomas. The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland... edited by John Lindley, first edition, 51 nature-printed plates by Henry Bradbury, tissue guards, some spotting, contemporary green full morocco gilt, head of spine chipped, extremities rubbed, all edges gilt, bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library, folio, Bradbury and Evans, 1855
KENT-Hasted, Edward. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, 4 volumes, first edition, 60 engraved plates, 40 engraved maps and plans, many folding, one hand-coloured in outline, somewhat spotted, contemporary half calf, worn, boards detached, folio, Canterbury: Printed for the Author, 1778-1790, sold w.a.f.
Vanity Fair. A Weekly Show of Political, Social & Literary Wares, series 4-7, 9 and 14, chromo-lithographed caricatures after Spy, Ape and others, some light spotting, original cloth gilt, distressed, folio, London: Vanity Fair Office, 1872-1875, sold as a periodical, not subject to return (6)
Millar, George Henry. The New and Universal System of Geography: being a Complete Modern History and Description of the Whole World, engraved frontispiece, 93 engraved plates, 28 engraved maps and plans, 12 folding, some rather creased, browned, title inscribed by previous owner, offset, contemporary calf, worn, boards detached, bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library, blindstamped throughout, folio, London: Alex Hogg, [c.1783]
Plot, Robert. The Natural History of Stafford-Shire, first edition, engraved title vignette, folding engraved map, rebacked, 37 engraved plates, mostly double-page, a few laid-down, some spotting, nineteenth century calf, boards detached, lacks spine, worn, folio, Oxford: At the Theater, 1686
Vanity Fair. A Weekly Show of Political, Social & Literary Wares, series 6, 22 and 31, chromo-lithographed caricatures after Spy, Ape and others, some light spotting, original cloth gilt, distressed, folio, London: Vanity Fair Office, 1874-1899, sold as a periodical, not subject to return (3)
Nieuhoff, Jan. An Embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, or Emperor of China, second edition, engraved additional title, double-page engraved map, 18 engraved plates, one double-page, 93 engraved vignettes, Fff2 and Iiiii torn and crudely repaired, folio, London: Printed by the Author, 1673; bound with, Montanus, Arnoldus. Atlas Chinensis: Being a Second Part of a Relation of Remarkable Passages in two Embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the... Emperor of China and East-Tartary, translated by John Ogilby, first edition in English, 38 engraved plates, including 28 double-page and 4 folding, 57 engraved vignettes, the maps lacking, rust hole in O4, slightly affecting text, folio, London: Tho. Johnson, 1671, [Wing M2484], contemporary calf, worn, boards detached, bookplate of Bath Public Reference Library, occasional blindstamps throughout
[Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, First Duke; and Mary Anne Jervis]. Album, oblong folio, 19th c. brown morocco gilt (worn, covers detached). Inscribed on flyleaf "Almeria Surtees Paris June 18th 1842". Mostly tipped in. The principal contents: ALsS., including eight from the Duke of Wellington (signed Wellington) to Mrs. Dyce Sombre at the Clarendon Hotel, mostly 1p each, 1843 - 49, mainly relating to concert programmes, and one about a candidate for a military commission; the same to Lord St. Vincent (father of Mary Anne Jervis), 27th June 1839 concerning the Jamaica Act, "We cannot…leave the colony without a legislature"; and another invitation; Sir Edwin Landseer, four, with two envelopes to Mrs. Forester, 1865 - 69, concerning invitations; Edward Bulwer Lytton, Lord Lytton, six, with three envelopes, three of them in the third person, 1865 - 72; Napoleon III to Gen. Forester in French, 1870 (with draft of the General's original letter), thanking for his commiserations [following the Franco-Prussian war and his subsequent exile], 1p; Benjamin Disraeli to General Forester, Hughendon, 25th September 1866 regarding a position for his nephew, 4pp. With others including Henry Graves, Caroline Norton etc., and royalty: including the Prince of Teck; Princess Mary Adelaide; the Duke of Cambridge, and Augusta Duchess of Cambridge, to General or Mrs. Forester. Mostly 8vo. With printed invitations to the same, including five from the Lord Chamberlain to a Ball and Evening Parties at Buckingham Palace, 1866 - 77; with one in ms. 1865; three Musical Programmes, 1866 - 73 of concerts at Buckingham Palace; programme of "Siroe" Opera Eroica…La Musica di Marianna Jervis, 24 June 1831; and approx. 16 other invitations including a Soiree Dramatique at Orleans House, Twickenham, 20 July 1867, for the Duc d'Aumales, and three at the Tuilleries, Paris, "par l'Ordre de l'Empereur". The album also includes 18 hand coloured prints, views of Italy, Swiss and Italian costumes, and approx. 58 uncoloured engraved views, of Europe, mainly Paris and Switzerland, and the British Isles, various sizes; one large watercolour of a horse drawn carriage, and two drawings of a church and a castle. Mary Anne Jervis (1812 - 93), described as an accomplished singer, dancer, and composer, married David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre in September 1840. Of Anglo Indian descent and heir to the immensely wealthy Begam Sumroo, he was elected M.P. for Sudbury in 1841 but deposed the following year after objections from the loser. He accused his wife of adultery with various men; she then had him certified insane; he escaped to Europe, and finally died in 1851 days before a court case could be heard, when he had hoped to reverse the judgement. Mary Anne married General George Cecil Weld-Forester (1807 - 86), in 1862, who succeeded as 3rd Baron Forester in 1874.
Vanity Fair. A Weekly Show of Political, Social & Literary Wares, volumes 1-5, 303 chromo-lithographed caricatures only after Spy, Ape and others, some light spotting, original cloth gilt, extremities rubbed, folio, London: Vanity Fair Office, 1868-1873, sold as a periodical, not subject to return (5)
JOURDAIN (M) and F. LENYGON. English Decoration and Furniture of the Early Renaissance 1500-1650; English Decoration and Furniture of the Later 18th century 1760-1820; Decoration in England from 1640-1760; Furniture in England from 1660-1760; four volumes, Batsford 1924, original cloth gilt; MACQUOID (P) A History of English Furniture, four volumes, London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1904-08, folio, plates, some fading to cloth covers; two others (10)
CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, MID 19th CENTURYA coastal settlement with shipping off-shorewatercolour on paper laid on card, unframed, 8 x 14 in 20.4 x 35.6cm); together with a folio containing a miscellaneous selection of unframed drawings, watercolours by or attributed to Henry Alken, H. Carr, F. Marston and various other hands (qty)
A COLLECTION OF 19th CENTURY PORTRAIT SILHOUETTESby various artists, some bearing added signatures and dates, including O. Bullen,W S. Hubbard, G. Barham; F. Colville, R. Abbott, P. Davis and others, together with other caricature prints and ephemera, all unframed, contained in a modern album; together with another folio containing miscellaneous silhouettes, watercolours and prints (qty)
MARJORIE HILDA WHITE (fl early 20th Century)Queen of the Forestsigned and dated 'Marjorie Hilda Whyte 1911' (lower left)pen, ink and watercolour, unframed11 1/4 x 8 1/2 in (28.6 x 21.6cm)Sold with a folio of unframed pencil sketches, watercolours and prints, variously signed, by or after Marjorie Hilda White, Jo White, Evershed, and others (qty)
AFTER GEORGE STUBBS (1724-1806)'Mask, a horse aged 20', colour mezzotint by G.T. Stubbsoriginally published by J. Harris, Sweet Alley & No.8 Broad Street, London9 1/2 x 13 1/2 in (24.2 x 34.4cm)Sold with a folio of unframed prints, principally Classical and religious subjects by or after Correggio, F. Albani, C. Marrata, R. Savery, A. Carracci and others; together with various British 18th-19th Century prints (qty)
JAMES WATHEN (1751-1828)'Original Drawings on the River Wye' - a collection of sketches, mounted in an early 19th century album, folio size, with leather spine, lacking some pages, the front page annotated in ink 'sketches on the river Wye....from Montgomeryshire thro Radnorshire, Breconshire, Herefordshire, & Monmouthshire'the 139 wash and watercolour sketches laid down on album leaves, each sketch circa 6 1/2 x 10 in or smaller, all dateable from c. 1794-1814, many inscribed on the supporting album leaves: subjects include 'View of Tintern Abbey; View of Monmouth; View of Rotherwas House, Nr Bodenham; View from Castle Green near Hereford; View of Belmont from above Clehanger Village; View of Bredwardine Bridge & Church; View of the Hay Town; Castle & Bridge over the river Wye; and View below Builth, looking up the Wye to Builth Bridge'James Wathen, the son of a glover from Hereford, was a self-taught artist. A keen walker and traveller, he produced a large number of topographical sketches which were reproduced in various publications such as Middleman's Views (1788) and Angus's Seats (1787)In his' Dictionary of British Landscape Painters' (1952), Col M.H. Grant describes Wathen 'as a painter interesting from a curious personality rather than from his exiguous art. Collector, Antiquarian, World Traveller, Good Fellow, and last, and worst, a Landscape Painter'.The writer John Britton wrote a memoir of Wathen in his autobiography (1852). In that book Britton wrote that Wathen ''was sought and respected by nearly every artist and author who made Hereford a resting place on their journeys..''. Watthen had (Britton, op cit) ''the nack(sic) of making sketches of all remarkable scenes and buildings and believing that a few hieroglypliic (sic) traces would serve to delineate all such places and objects and that perspective horizontal and perpendicular lines, were unnecessary restraints on the free use of pencil...his buildings were always shewn (sic) in sloping forms, and of such sketches he accumulated a countless number'In 1811 Wathen travelled to India, China, via the Cape of Good Hope with Captain Prendergast. In 1812 he visited St. Helena. In 1814 he published his work from that voyage in a 'Journal of a Voyage to India and China'Wathen died at Hereford in 1828.
A FOLIOcontaining a selection of drawings and watercolours, circa 1870, mounted on loose album leaves depicting Continental landscapes: subjects include; At Biarritz; Place de Lens; Chambery; Opposite Chillon; At the Bastel; Port Vieux; Biarritz; The Pyrenees from Pau; and Tivoli; contained within a folder which is inscribed on cover 'T. Dobson del' (qty)
ENGLISH SCHOOL,1842'A View taken over the Cobb looking Eastwards, Lyme' (Regis)with pencil inscription on the reverse as title, and date Nov 30th 1842, pencil and sepia wash, unframed, 9 x 15 1/2 in (22.8 x 39.4cm)Sold with a folio containing drawings and watercolours by various hands, variously dateable from circa 1800-1860, principally English landscape subjects, including 'A river landscape near Beddgelet by a follower of Alexander Cozens; An extensive river landscape with cattle by a follower of Anthony Van Dyke Copley Fielding; and A Battlefield Subject attributed to Sir James Stuart (qty)
‡HAROLD DEARDEN (1888-1962)Caribbean Family in Trafalgar Squareoil sketch on canvas, unframed, unstretched, 14 x 13 1/2 in;and Figures on a Railway Station, oil sketch on canvas, unframed, unstretched12 1/2 x 14 1/2 intogether with a collection of 23 other unframed sketches, in varying media: subjects include 'Cattle on a hill-top'; A Ploughman and Horses'; 'Ploughing'; and 'In the Fields'; a folio of unframed watercolours; and a small selection of framed pictures by the artist in varying media:subjects include 'A Horse watering; 'A Morning Ride'; 'Farm-Workers'; 'The Shepherd'; and 'Cattle Grazing '(qty)Provenance; The Artist's family, by descent Harold Dearden studied at the Rochdale School of Art under H. Barrett Carpenter from 1905-1910, then at the Royal College of Art, London under Gerald Moira. He was head of the Swindon Art School for over 30 years
SAMUEL & NATHANIEL BUCK (fl. mid 18th century)Prospect of the City of Herefordcopper plate engraving, hand coloured, 12 1/4 x 33 in; together with a folio containing a miscellaneous selection of unframed prints and maps; a photograph of the wood sailing ship 'Parramatta' by P. Stabler, Sunderland; and two watercolour designs for Victorian stained glass windows at Whitwick Church, and the East Window of St. John the Baptist Chapel, Worcester Cathedral (qty)
ATTRIBUTED TO THE REV JAMES BOURNE (1773-1854)A Child on a Path near a Cottage, a river beyond, said to be at Northfleet,grey wash, unframed10 1/4 x 14 1/2 in (26.1 x 36.8cm); together with a folio of assorted unframed watercolours and oil sketches, including some landscapes of Indian interest (qty)
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