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Click here to subscribeA selection of volumes, Yarnell, William. A History of British Birds. London: John Van Voorst. 1856. Three volumes. Third edition. Octavo. Half morocco. Illustrated with wood-engravings. And, Chisholm, George G. The Natural History of Animals. London: Blackie & Son. Two Volumes, 1887. Folio. Half morocco
FOLIO OF ETCHINGS BY THOMAS STEPHEN including a depiction of a Glasgow shipping scene by Stephen, signed in pencil, mounted, framed and under glass; together with other etchings including later printings from the 70s and 90s, some unframed, some prints also from the same plate, together with a few other etchings by Geyer, etc
A FOLIO OF MID 20TH CENTURY BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, the majority North Italian towns and their inhabitants, many of these photographs have associated certificates of merit presented by Wallace Heaton Limited in conjunction with The Photographic Ma gazine, all unmounted, 30cm x 38cm largest
DE BRUNHOFF (Jean): 'Babar at Home', Methuen, 1939: second English edition: 'Babar's Friend Zephir': 1939, first edition: 'The Story of Babar the Little Elephant..', 1937, third edition: 'Babar and Father Christmas', London, 1940, first edition: all folio, original cloth backed publisher's boards in G-VG condition: together with 19 other volumes, chiefly natural history and other illustrated books. (23)
LOWER (Mark, editor): 'A Survey of the Coast of Sussex made in 1587, with a view to its defence against foreign invasion, and especially against the Spanish Armada...' Lewes, W E Baxter, 1870. Oblong folio, original pub. blue cloth gilt, rebacked: together with the facsimile of the Sussex County Domesday book pub. Lewes 1886 and 6 other vols in folio, British topography (8)
LOWER (Mark Antony): 'The Worthies of Sussex...' printed for subscribers only, Lewes, 1865. Folio, recent quarter calf gilt, VG. Together with: FULLER (Thomas): 'The History of the Worthies of England...' London, 1811. 2 vols. Folio, period calf gilt boards, recently rebacked, minor wear and rubbing, else VG. (3)
GARDINER (Samuel Rawson): 'Oliver Cromwell...' Goupil & Co, 1899. Folio, recent half calf, a little rubbed. Presentation copy from a limited edition, inscribed from the author to Lionel Cust and with additional letter of presentation from the publishers tipped-in: together with 2 other volumes, including The Scolar Press reprint of 'Aesop's Fables' pub. 1976, No.348 of 500 copies. (3)
PSALMS OF DAVID, ANNOTATED: 'The Psalter or Psalms of David, after the translation of the Great Bible, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches...' London, Charles Bill et al, 1686. Folio, recent quarter calf, interleaved with blanks and with copious annotations in two early hands throughout, for sale with all faults and not subject to return. (1)
CARTE DE VISITE ALBUM: a later 19thc carte de visite album containing approx 55 cartes de visite and cabinet cards, 4to album, elaborately gilt tooled card covers with metal closure and gilt edges, together with a second album of pasted in scraps and prints and oblong folio publication 'Pictures of Life & Character', by John Leach. (3)
CHINA, PHOTOGRAPHY: a black lacquered album of far eastern origin, oblong folio, worn inlaid mother of pearl detail to upper cover, containing approx 44 photographic images of China, early 20th century to include a few postcards, most images of roughly equivalent size, subjects including Hankow fire: war damage: execution scene: a Shanghai opium den etc, creasing and sunning to some images, all loosely string mounted to album leaves, album worn and with spine deficient. (An album)
RAILWAYS: COACHING STOCK PLANS: a volume of printed plans for Great Northern Railway carriage stock, January 1909, together with a similar volume of plans for LNER carriage stock dated 1923, both oblong folio, bindings worn or defective, for sale with all faults and not subject to return. (2)
SAVOY HOTEL, LONDON: an archive of material accumulated by Gustave Sigelke, or 'The Great Gustave', manager of the Savoy Hotel through the first few decades of the 20th century: to include a variety of related photographs and ephemera: a large folio scrap album containing letters and telegrams on personal and business matters: another scrapbook of related news cuttings, together with five books relating to the Savoy Hotel to include a 1950s edition of The Savoy Cocktail Book. (A carton)
Lizars’ Edinburgh Geographical General Atlas:Edinburgh, W H Lizars, nd, c.1842; with 68 double-page hand coloured maps, numbered 1 to 31 and 33 to 69 (no map 32 as correct). Folio; this volume includes the two important maps: The United States and Mexico, both showing Texas as The Republic of Texas. Covers worn and detached; light damp staining to folds of many maps; two maps little frayed at edges; o/w G (sold as a collection of plates not subject to return)
The next thirteen lots are from the library of the Rothenstein family: William, John, Michael, etc.ANTIQUARIAN:1. Milton, John: Le Paradis Perdu. English and French edn., in two folio volumes. Paris: Defer de Maisonneuve, 1792, 1st edn. thus, with twelve engravings printed in colour by Bonnefoy. Contemporary full mottled calf, aeg; PPviii; 391; 377. With only 11 of the 12 plates (lacking one). Covers scuffed and the odd small stain; o/w G+;2. Milton, John: Paradise Lost. The second edn., with notes of various authors, by Thomas Newton. In two volumes. J and R Tonson and S Draper, 1750, with frontis portrait plus 12 plates. Contemporary full leather. Covers worn and detached; the odd small tear (without loss); o/w G+;3. Somervile, W: The Chase. 1804 (another title-page is dated 1802). Contemporary full leather. Worn; o/w G;4. Coleridge, S T: Letters, Conversations and Recollections. Two volumes. Moxon, 1836, 1st edn. Original cloth; ex-libra. Covers worn, hinge
ILLUSTRATED, ETC.:1. Montorgueil, G; Job (illustrator): Three works in one volume (France Son Histoire, La Cantiniere France Son Histoire and Les Trois Couleurs). Paris, nd, folio, original decorative cloth, teg. Fully illustrated in colour. Covers little worn;2. Kipling, R; W Heath Robinson (illustrator): A Song of the English. Hodder & Stoughton, nd; with 30 tipped-in colour plates. Covers damp stained; one page frayed at edges; o/w G;3. The Times War Graves. Nd, c.1929. inscribed: from Sir Charles McLaren (Baron Aberconway) to his Grandson, Bodnant, March, 1929. Covers faded; o/w VG;4. Plus five others, including: The Story of Barbar; Darrow: You are Sitting on my Eyelashes; Peter Arno’s Circus; Steinberg’s Art of Living (all 1st edns.) (8)
PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART:1. Avedon, Richard; Capote, Truman: Observations. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959, 1st edn. Folio, original boards and slipcase. Slipcase worn and torn with small loss; inscription to front endpaper: To Michael and Sam;2. Marchand, Y; Romain Meffre: The Ruins of Detroit. Steidl, Germany, 2010, 1st edn. Original pictorial cloth. Fine;3. Masereel, F: Six Woodcuts from the Idea. Redstone Press, nd, 1st edn. Folio; loose in a folder as issued. VG;4. Mortimer, R: Captivity: Twenty-four Drawings by Fred Uhlman. Cape, 1946, 1st edn. Dw; VG;5. Plus two others: David Hockney’s Blue Guitar, 1977, 1st dw; and Marcel Jean’s History of Surrealist Art, 1960, 1st dw. Both VG (6)
SIGNED ART AND ILLUSTRATED:1. Prasse, Leona E: Lyonel Feininger; a Definitive Catalogue of His Graphic Work. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972, 1st edn., dw. Signed twice and inscribed to Michael. Dw worn and torn; o/w VG;2. Hudson, Stephen; John Nash (illustrator): Celeste. Blackamore Press, 1930, numbered limited edn., 209/700; with a long inscription to Billy, signed S, Feb 4, 32. G+;3. Bawden, Edward, two works: Richards, J M: Edward Bawden. Penguin, 1946, 1st wrappers. Inscribed to Michael, from Edward. VG; Plus: Edward Bawden, War Artist. 1st edn.; VG;4. Paul Klee. Milan, Hyperion press, nd; title page inscribed: with best wishes to Michael, from Eric (Eric Gill), Christmas, 1956. Folio, original wrappers, little worn; o/w VG;5. Piper, John: Murray’s Buckinghamshire Architectural Guide. Inscribed copy to Michael Rothenstein, with best wishes from John Piper, July 1948. 1st dw torn;6. Hassall, Christopher: Four 1st edns. All inscribed and signed to Rothenstein
HERTFORDSHIRE:Cussans, John Edwin: History of Hertfordshire, containing an account of the descents of the various Manors; pedigrees of families connected with the County; antiquities, local customs, etc.,In three volumes. L, Chatto & Windus, 1870-1881, folio, with tinted plates. Contemporary half leather. One plate torn in half (without loss); index page loose; o/w G+ (3)
1. DICKENS, Charles: A Christmas Carol. A Facsimile of the original manuscript. No date, ca 1910. bound in plain wrappers;2. An account of the controversy between Reginald Lord Grey of Ruthyn and Sir Edward Hastings, in the Court of Chivalry, in the reign of King Henry IV. College of Arms for Jacob Baron Hastings, 30-10-1841, for private distribution; 4to. plain boards and with ink additions in margins;3. Plus: folio folding sheets (2)
BAGSTER, Samuel:The English Hexapla Exhibiting the Six Important English Translations of the New Testament Scriptures,Wiclif [1380], Tyndale [1534], Cranmer [1539], Genevan [1557], Anglo-Rhemish [1582], Authorised [1611], and the Original Greek Text after Scholz S Bagster, 1841, 1st edn. thus. Large 4to./Folio, c20 half leather with new endpapers. VG
EGYPTOLOGY, ETC:1. De Garis Davies, Norman: The Rock Tombs of El Amarna. In six volumes. The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1903-1908, 1st edns. I: The Tomb of Meryra. viii, 56, (2)pp., 42 plates (partly double-page). II: The Tombs of Panehesy and Meryra II. viii, 48, (4)pp., 47 plates (partly double-page). III: The Tombs of Huya and Ahmes. With an appendix on the Greek graffiti by Seymour de Ricci. x, (2), 41, (3)pp., 40 plates (partly double-page). IV: Tombs of Penthu, Mahu, and others; viii, 36, (2)pp., 45 plates (partly double-page). V: Smaller Tombs and Boundary Stelae. vi, (2), 37, (3)pp., 45 plates (1 colour; partly double-page). VI: Tombs of Parennefer, Tutu, and Aÿ. (6), 44, (2)pp., 44 plates (partly double-page). Small folio; publisher's quarter cloth. Volume three with light red stain to front cover; o/w G+;2. Yahya, Eid Al (Editor): Travellers in Arabia: British Explorers in Saudi Arabia. Stacey International, 2006, 1st edn. dw. Inscribed and signed to Michael Ri
BINDING AND GENERAL ANTIQUARIAN:1. Beaver, A: Memorials of Old Chelsea. Stock, 1892, 1st edn. 4to. Leather spine torn, with loss;2. Browne & Seltman: Pictorial History of the Queen's College … Cambridge, 1448-1948. Cambridge,1951, limited edn. of 750. Plates and illustrations. Folio, half leather. VG;3. Mawe, J: The Linnaean System of Conchology. Longman .., 1823. Hand coloured frontis plus 36 plates. Full leather. Worn and hinges cracked;4. Plus nine others (12)
PORTLOCK, W H and ANDERSON, George William:A New, Complete and Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels to all Parts of the World,Including the whole of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages; etc. L, printed for Alex Hogg, nd, c.1794 (frontis dated). Folio; PP836 (lacking subscribers’ list?). With frontis, folding map, 24 other maps on 18 pages; plus 103 views on 80 pages. Very good half leather binding over marbled boards and new endpapers. Some pages professionally repaired (including frontis); the odd small stain and tear; o/w VG
WALPOOLE, G A:The New British Traveller; Or A Complete Modern Universal Display of Great-Britain and Ireland,L, Alex Hogg, nd, c.1784 (frontis dated). Folio; PP520 (lacking the subscribers’ list); with frontis and 112 maps and plates (45 maps on 23 pages; and 156 views on 90 pages). Contemporary full leather. Covers worn and hinges cracked; frontis, title page and next few pages frayed at edges; occasional browning and the odd small stain and tear; o/w G
BURLINGTON, C:The Modern Universal British Traveller: England, Wales, Scotland and The Neighbouring Islands,L, J Cooke, nd, c.1780. Folio; PP836 and index. With frontis, double page map, folding map plus 103 full page plates. Contemporary full leather. Covers worn and detached; frontis, title page and next few pages loose and little frayed; occasional browning and the odd small stain and tear; o/w G
HOGARTH, William:The Works,From the original plates restored by James Heath; to which are prefixed a biographical essay ... and explanations ... of the plates by John Nichols; J Nichols and Son for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1822. Seems substantially complete with all the major plates present; two portraits plus 114 sheets of plates (suppressed plates not present). Large folio, half morocco gilt; covers rubbed; o/w G+ (sold as a collection of plates)
BLAKE, William:1. Water Colour Designs For The Poems Of Thomas Gray. Folio, Trianon Press, 1972 (518 copies printed). Incomplete copy, lacking: title page, half title (and limitation number), plate 4 from Ode to Adversity; plate 3 from The Fatal Sisters; and plates 1 and 12 from the Elegy;2. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Folio, Trianon Press, (1974, 390 copies). Complete with 21 plates. In the original buff wrapper (2)
1. ROBINSON, P F: History of Hatfield House. For author, Arch, 1833. Complete with engraved dedication leaf, vignette, seven plates, and two plans. Folio, half leather. Rebacked; occasional foxing;2. Great Northern Railway Distance Map, 1897. Large folding linen backed map in original leather covers. G+ (2)
LABACCO, Antonio (1495-1570):Libro... Appartenente a l’Architettura nel Qual si Figurano Alcune Notabili Antiquita di Roma,[Rome, 1568 or later]; page 4 is dated 1568. Folio (42 x 29cm). Engraved title-page, 29 engraved plates (5 double page), plus one leaf of letterpress text regarding the ports; PP: title-page, 2-36; the engraved title page repaired and all the inner margins of the others have been strengthened (not recent); bound with: Villamena, Francesco: Alcune opere d'architettura di Iacomo Barozzio da Vignola : racolte et poste in luce da Francesco Villamena. Rome, 1617. Folio, title page followed by six plates only of ? (2 double page); A/F. Cloth backed marbled boards. Sold not subject to return
1. HEARNE, T: Antiquities of Great-Britain, Illustrated in Views of Monasteries, Castles, and Churches. Volume one (of two). Printed by J Phillips, 1786, 1st edn. Oblong folio, extra engraved title page and all plates present. Front cover detached; occasional foxing and a few marginal damp stains; o/w G;2. ROBINSON, P F: Designs for Ornamental Villas. Bohn, 1836, 4to. Plans and plates; half leather. Foxing (some heavy); title page browned and chipped (2)
AMUCHASTEGUI, Axel (illustrator); SITWELL, S and ANDRADE, C:Some Birds and Mammals of South America,The Tryon Gallery, 1966, numbered limited edn. 231/300; this copy being one of the 250 quarter bound in morocco with hand marbled paper boards. Folio, protective glassine wrapper and slipcase. Fine, with the original shipping box
ILLUSTRATED:1. Jerrold, Blanchard: Life of Gustave Dore. 1891, cloth;2. Tennyson; Dore (illustrator). Elaine. Paris, Hachette, 1867; folio. Original red cloth gilt; occasional foxing;3. Millais: J E: Illustrations: A Collection of Drawings on Wood. Strahan, 1866, 1st edn. 4to. original cloth gilt, aeg. VG;4. Plus: two others (5)
ATLASES:1. Butler, Samuel: A General Atlas of Ancient and Modern Geography. Longman, nd, c.1850, with 45 coloured maps. Original publishers half calf. VG;2. Le Sage: Atlas Historical, Genealogical, Chronological and Geographical. Henry Berthoud, 1818. Folio, ex libra but with no stamps. 39 ink numbered double pages and coloured maps. Few stains;3. Stielers Hand-Atlas. Incomplete;4. Meyer’s Hand-Atlas. 1869, 4to. with 100 coloured maps;5. Andriveau-Goujon: Atlas. Paris, 1843, large 4to. 30 coloured maps, including a duplicate of France;6. Lavoisne’s Genealogical, Historical, and Chronological Atlas. Barfield, 1807; folio. Worn (6)
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