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Click here to subscribeA collection of bespoke bound books, mainly by the Folio Society and many printed at St Edmundsbury Press, to include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tanglewood Tales, with colour plate illustrations by Edmund Dulac, Nikolai Gogol, Collected Stories with colour plates, The Maltese Falcon and Middle March, a set of John Buchan, a set of Thomas Hardy, Daphne du Maurier etc
A Folio of European Sketches by Samuel Prout, In a Gilt Buckram Cover, The Portfolio Consists of 67 Prints. Size 14.5 Inches by 10 Inches, Featuring Various European Cities - Venice, Rome, Lyon, Dresden etc. Published by Sprague and Son of Harding Street, Fetter Lane, London. E.C. Late 19th Century.
LATE 16TH CENTURY POLITICAL INTEREST LETTER signed by Sir Richard Warde (died 1578) and Sir Roger Wilbraham (1553 - 1616), it appears to be a letter discussing the promises and terms connected to an argeement or argument over the property of an 'R.C' and 'R.V' which these two men where either witness too or facilitaing; together with another later letter, probably 19th century, which discusses the position of bishops to affect the morality of the people in their diocese and to stay true to the path of their faith rather than furthering thier own causes, possibly a daft to be used as a surmon or speech, these two letters are loose inside a half morocco leather folio that originally contained a group of Civil War Broadsides, a label to the inside cover shows the folio and it's original contents were sold at Sothebys, July 9th 1923 Lot 151 for five pounds, ex libris Fairfax of Cameron label to inside cover, also with a dealer's receipt dated 1915 from Maggs Brothers, 109 Strand, London, for a list of civil war period documents, some may have made up the broadsides later contained within the folio, folio 39.5cm long Note: Sir Richard Warde was an English politician and Royal Official. In 1571, during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, he was elected the Member of Parliament for Berkshire, due to the support of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys. He was also MP for Windsor a number of times, as well as being Cofferer of the Royal Household and Clerk of the Green Cloth. Sir Roger Wilbraham was a prominent English lawyer who served as Solicitor-General for Ireland under Elizabeth I and held positions at court under James I, including Master of Requests and surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries. He bought an estate at Dorfold in the parish of Acton (later his son built Dorfold Hall on the site which still stands today) near his birthplace of Nantwich.
THE COSTUME OF THE CLANS by authors John Sobieski Stolberg Stuart and Charles Edward Stuart, published in Edinburgh by John Menzies, 1845, large folio, engraved title and 36 plates (29 coloured), contemporary half morocco, rubbed, bumped and soiled, internal very slight damp-staining, soiling and foxing, edition of 500, 59cm high
John Chapman and Peter Andre,Map of the County of Essex From an Actual Survey Taken in 1772 and 1773,With 25 maps dated 1777, 1st edn. large folio, loose in a folder. A couple torn; title page torn with small loss; couple of maps with browning, the rest are very clean. Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return
ARCHITECTURE:1. Bridgens, R: The Antiquities of Sefton Church. 1835; pp4 leaves, and plates 3-20 only(?);2. Shaw, Richard Norman: Architectural Sketches from the Continent. Published by For the Proprietors, London (1872). Folio. Original cloth, rebacked with leather spine. Occasional foxing; o/w G;3. Nesfield, W Eden: Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture Chiefly Selected from Examples of the 12th and 13th Centuries in France and Italy. Day & Son, London, 1862. Folio. Original cloth, rebacked with leather spine; VG;4. A Description of the Antiquities and Curiosities in Wilton-House. L, E Easton, 1786, new edn.; with plates. Original cloth; worn (4)
NATURAL HISTORY:1. Gould, John: Monograph of the Pittidae. Hill House, Melbourne, 1988. Facsimile edn. of the British Museum copy, limited to 500 copies, this being no.115. Elephant folio; original cloth and packaging. Fine;2. Audubon, J J: Birds of America. Reprint. Fine in dw;3. Buller’s Birds of New Zealand. 1967, with dw and slipcase; ex-library copy with usual stamps;4. Plus eleven others (14)
WALKER, John and Charles:Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas: Containing Separate Maps of Every County in England and the Three Ridings of Yorkshire,With 42 hand-coloured double-page maps; showing roads, railways, canals, parks, etc. L, J & C Walder, nd, c.1860. Folio, half leather. Covers worn and hinges cracked; one map with a tear to fold; light foxing/browning to fold of first few maps; o/w VG
HERTFORDSHIRE:1. Salmon, Nathaniel: History of Hertfordshire: Describing the County, and its Monuments. London: no publisher, 1728, 1st edn. Folio, pp:title page, (ii) subscribers’ list, (iv) dedication, 369; with a folding map. Contemporary full leather with 19th century spine and the bookplate of A Acland. Occasional foxing and browning; o/w VG;2. Hertfordshire: Extracted from Cox's Magna Britannia. c.1720, with a folding map and pp965-1042. Leather backed marbled boards. Occasional foxing; o/w VG;3. Inventory Of The Historical Monuments In Hertfordshire. HMSO, 1910, 1st 4to. Folding map and plates. Occasional foxing; o/w VG;4. Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of: Middlesex; Essex; and Hertford. Three volumes in one. C Cooke, nd, c.1820. With three folding maps. Half leather. Covers little worn and chipped; o/w G+;5. Britton, J and Brayley, E W: Beauties of England, Volume VII, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire. With 19 plates. Full lea
HERTFORDSHIRE:1. Clutterbuck, R: History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford. Three volumes. L, Chatto & Windus, 1815-27, 1st edn. large folio, with folding map and plans, plates (some hand coloured). Half leather; A Acland’s bookplate. Spine of two volumes scuffed (with small loss); o/w VG+;2. Cussans, J E: History of Hertfordshire. Eight volumes in three. Volume 1: 1870-1873 (with 3 title pages); volume 2: 1874-1878 (with 3 title pages); and volume 3: 1879-1889 (with 2 title pages. With a colour folding map, colour lithograph plates and portraits. Contemporary half, scuffed; occasional foxing; o/w G+;3. The Victoria History of the County of Hertford. Five volumes (including index volume). Constable, 1902-1914, 1st edns. (subscribers' edition). Folio, folding maps and plates (some coloured). Half leather. Little scuffed; o/w G+ (11)
HERTFORDSHIRE:1. Chauncy, Sir Henry: The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire. London: for Ben Griffin and others, 1700. 1st edn. (one of only c.500 copies). Title printed in red and black; folio, pp601, (ii) advert, and index. With frontis portrait, folding map, and 43 plates (mostly double page or folding). Contemporary full leather, gilt (states: all plates present). Occasional foxing; o/w G+/VG;2. Gerish, W B: Sir Henry Chauncy. L, Waterloo & sons, 1907. 1st edn. Large paper, limited to 50 copies, this no.26. Original covers. Spine chipped with loss; o/w VG (2)
SIMPSON, William:1. The Autobiography Of William Simpson, R I (Crimean Simpson) edited by George Eyre-Todd. L, Fisher Unwin, 1903, 1st edn.; ppxv, 351, and plates. Inscribed ‘presented to H R Boyle by A P Hewitt, daughter of the author, 3 December 1934’. Original boards, spine cut, with loss; o/w G+;2. Glasgow in the ‘Forties’. Glasgow, Morison Brothers, 1899, limited edn., # 469/500, signed by publisher. Folio, original cloth, gilt and teg. Covers little soiled and worn; o/w G+;3. Plus two books on Glasgow (4)
RUSSELL FLINT, Sir William (1880 - 1969): Signed copies, etc.:1. In Pursuit: An Autobiograpy. 1970, limited edn. no.952 of 1050 copies signed by the author’s son Francis. Folio, original leather backed boards and slipcase. Fine;2. Breakfast in Perigord. L, Privately printed for the author by C Skilton, 1968, signed limited edn. #122/525. Folio, original leather backed boards and slipcase. Fine;3. Pictures From The Artist's Studio. Royal Academy of Arts 1962, 1st edn. Signed by author. Original cloth and plastic wrapper. Light foxing to covers; o/w fine;4. Shadows in Arcady. C Skilton, 1965, signed limited edn. #479/500. Original covers and slipcase. Fine;5. Two Signed hand-written letters by Russell Flint (with envelope);6. Plus two other letters from Arthur Rank and Nicholas Garland;7. Plus two other Russell Flint books (7)
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni:Decameron,In two volumes. Oxford, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1934-35, limited edn. of 325 copies, this being no.68. Small folio, ppxv, 318, (i); xvi, 268. Illustrated with wood-engravings, including beautifully executed borders to the title-pages, taken from the 1492 Venetian edition. Original full leather, gilt. Spines slightly rubbed and faded; o/w VG set (2)
MURDER TRIAL 1699:The Tryal of Spencer Cowper, Esq; John Marson, Ellis Stevens, and William Rogers, gent upon an Indictment for the Murder of Mrs Sarah Stout, a Quaker,Before Mr Baron Hatsell, at Hertford Assizes, 18 July 1699; of which they were acquitted. With the opinions of the eminent physicians and chirurgeons on both sides concerning drowned bodies, delivered in the tryal. And the several letters produced in court. London Isaac Cleave; Matt. Wotton; John Bullord, 1699. Folio, 46pp (the last page misnumbered 22); bound with: The Hertford Letter: Containing Several Brief Observations on a Late Printed Tryal, Concerning the Murder of Mrs Sarah Stout. L, booksellers of London & Westminster, 1699. 16pp; bound with: Reply to the Hertford letter. L, booksellers of London & Westminster, 1699. 8pp. Cloth backed boards. Light browning; o/w G+
KENT:1. Hasted, Edward: The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Canterbury, W Bristow, 1797, 2nd edn. Twelve volumes with plates and illustrations, 8vo;2. Plus the Atlas volume, folio with 35 double page maps. The 12 volumes are bound in near contemporary full tree calf; covers little worn; occasional foxing and browning; the atlas volume is bound in full tree calf, rebacked with new spine; o/w VG;3. Plus two parts taken from the 1st edn. 1778-1799; folio, both with the text and maps: (a) Hundred of Chatham & Gillingham; (b) Hundred of Maidstone. Both bound in wrappers and VG (15)
ATLASES:1. Black's General Atlas of the World. L, for A&C Black, 1882. Coloured maps, folio, half leather. Worn; one map loose;2. Bacon's Popular Atlas of The World. 1901, with coloured maps; 4to. original pictorial cloth. Worn;3. Bacon’s Large-scale Atlas of London and Suburbs. No date, c.1901, new enlarged and improved edition; folio, original cloth. Spine detached and few maps with tears at folds (without loss);4. Bartholomew: Royal Atlas of England and Wales. Newnes, nd, early 1900. Worn; AF;5. Another copy as above;6. Encyclopaedia Britannica Volume 34: Maps. 1903, 10th edn. 4to. Covers worn (6)
FINE BINDING:The Imperial Family Bible, Containing The Old and New Testaments,Blackie and Son, 1858, illustrated with numerous engraved plates by J Martin, Leitch, Poussin, etc. Folio, contemporary full morocco by G Haggis with gilt decoration, gilt inner dentelles and aeg. Covers lightly rubbed; o/w VG
LAW:1. Coke, E: The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. W Rawlins, 1703. Folio, two plates and a folding table; pp88, 494, and table, etc. early 20th century; full leather; with new endpapers; ink notes in margin; occasional foxing; o/w G+;2. Perkins, J: Treating of the Laws of England. Savoy, Linton, 1757. Full leather, rebacked with new spine;3. Burn, R: The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer. In five volumes. Strahan, 1810, full leather, worn and cracked;4. Legal Almanac, 1846. Cloth; soiled (8)
DICTIONAIRIES:1. Johnson, Samuel: Dictionary of the English Language. In two volumes. L, Rivington, 1785, 6th edn. 4to. full leather. Worn; o/w G;2. Scheller, I J G: Lexicon Totius Latinitatis, A Dictionary of the Latin Language. Oxford, University Press, 1835, 1st.? folio, leather backed boards. VG+;3. Soothill & Lewis: Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms. Kegan Paul, 1937, 1st. edn. 4to. original cloth. VG;4. Armstrong, R A: Gaelic Dictionary in two parts. For James Duncan, 1825, 1st edn. pp xvi(including subscribers’ list), lxx, 1030; 4to. half leather. Worn; o/w VG;5. Liddell & Scott: Greek - English Lexicon. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1890, pp1774;6. Turner, R L: Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language. L, Kegan, Paul, 1931, 1st edn. 4to. Original cloth; VG;7. Williams, S W: Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language. Shanghai, American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1903. 4to. pp1254; half leather. Lacking the spine; couple of pag
BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY:1. Thoresby, Ralph: Ducatus Leodiensis : or the Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes. Leeds, B Dewhirst, 1816, 2nd edn. Folio, ppxvii, 261, tp, 123, 159, 12 (index etc.); complete with all the plates. Unbound copy with endpapers frayed and torn; o/w G+;2. Drake, H H (editor): Hasted's History of Kent, Part I, The Hundred of Blackheath. Mitchell And Hughes, 1886. Folio, complete with all the maps (one hand coloured), plans, etc. Cloth backed boards, little worn and one portrait loose; o/w VG;3. Lewis, Samuel: Topographical Dictionary of Wales. Two volumes (without the atlas). S Lewis, 1840, 2nd edn. 4to. Recased with new spine; foxing; o/w G;4. Ingram, J: Memorials of Oxford. Volume one only. 1843; with plates. A/F;5. Burke: General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland. 1843, revised edn.6. Plus three others (9)
LATIN AND GREEK, ETC:1. Marci Tullii Ciceronis: Opera, quae supersunt, omnia. Four parts in two volumes. Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1724. Folio, two extra engraved title and two portraits; pp34, 52, 849; 1051, 104(index). Contemporary full leather. Light damp stain to top margin of few pages and small worm holes to last few pages of the index in volume 2; o/w VG;2. Tacitus, Caius Cornelius: Opera quae exstant. Two volumes. Trajecti Batavorum [Utrecht], Apud Jacobum a Poolsum, et Johannem Visch, 1721. 4to. Frontis, pp756, 578, and large index. Contemporary full leather. Worn and hinges cracked; light damp stain to few pages; o/w G;3. Novi Testamenti Dictionum Sylloge Grecco-Latina. Joh Jacobi Bodmeri, Tiguri, 1659. pp217, and index, etc. Contemporary full vellum. Worn and stained; occasional foxing and browning;4. Petrarch: Le Rime di Francescopetarca, illustrate di note da varj comentatori scelte ed abbreviate da Romualdo Zotti. Three volumes. L, Bulmer, 1811, with f
CHINESE, ETC:Large number of books, mainly in Chinese or relating to China, including:1. Stanford, E: Complete Atlas of China. L, China Inland Mission, 1917, 2nd edn. Folio, 22 colour maps (many double page); original cloth, gilt. Covers little grubby; o/w VG;2. Karlgren, B: Grammata Serica. Gothenburg, 1940, 4to. leather backed boards; VG;3. Shadick, H E; Wu, Hsin-min: Structural Analysis of Literary Chinese. Cornell University, 1950, preliminary edn. 4to. original spiral binding. VG;4. Stevenson, J: Translation of the Sanhita of the Sama Veda. Oriental Translation Fund London, 1842, original cloth; little worn;5. Plus a large number of mainly Chinese books from the library of J E S Driver, some with his name and notes (qty)
BUECHNER, Thomas S:Norman Rockwell (artist and illustrator),New York, Harry N Abrams, 1970, deluxe folio, leather bound limited edn. of 1100 copies signed by the author and the illustrator; a signed collotype was included with each book. As usual, this copy is lacking the collotype; most of them were taken out and framed. Full padded blue leather and with a slipcase. VG+/Fine
C PLINII CAECILII SECUNDI:Nouocomens, Epistolarum Lib. X. Ejusdem Panegyricus Traiano dictus,Paris, Veneunt Iodoco Badio & Ioanni Roigny (Josse Bade, Jean de Roigny), 1533. Folio, PP: engraved title-page, (xvi)including tp and index, ccxxxi(leaves) with colophon to last page. Contemporary full calf. Note: A beautifully printed edition of Pliny the Younger’s letters, edited by Badius, and followed at the end by the Panegyricus Traiano. It is the only Badius edn. and it follows earlier edns. with the commentaries of Giovanni Maria Cataneo. It is adorned with many ornamental woodcut initials including numerous large ones. Rebacked with original spine; light damp stain to inner margin of the preliminary pages; sporadic ink underlining; o/w G
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