Boccaccio (Giovanni) - The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation, [The Decameron], 2 vol. in 1, vol.1 second edition in English, vol. 2 first edition in English, woodcut titles and illustrations, vol.1 lacks initial blank, vol.2 several leaves of The Table at beginning misbound, a couple of burn-holes in text with slight loss, one marginal tear, some water-staining at end, old calf, rebacked, rubbed and repaired, spine labeled "First English edition", [Pforzheimer 72 and 71; STC 3173 and 3172], folio, by Isaac Jaggard, 1625-20 .
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Ovid. - Metamorphosis. Englished, Mythologiz'd and Represented in Figures by G[oerge] S[andys], engraved additional pictorial title, portrait and 15 plates, foxed, some staining, 20th century red half morocco, spine faded, spotted, [STC 18968], a scarce edition, folio, printed by J[ohn] L[egat] for Andrew Hebb, 1640.
Plot (Robert) - The Natural History of Oxford-shire..., first edition , imprimatur leaf, engraved title-vignette, large folding engraved map with border of coats-of-arms, 16 engraved plates, with errata leaf and final blank, a little browned, map foxed and soiled with short tear, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, [Wing P2585; Nissen 3192], folio, Oxford, at the Theater, [1677].
White Star Line - 'The Ismay Testimonial Plate, Presentation to the Managers, September 16th 1885', [no publication date], 'The Service of Plate presented to Thomas Henry Ismay by the Shareholders of the White Star Line .... Designed to illustrate the Progress of the Art of Navigation from the earliest times to the Present Day, its Means and Objects', folio, 19 mounted photograph plates, this copy presented to Mr Alexander Bruce, with inscribed bookplate. Note: The recipient may well be the father of W.J. Willett Bruce, who for many years occupied chief and superintendent Engineering positions for the company.
Illustration of Peterborough Cathedral, seven engravings from drawings by R.D. Harraden, Cambridge, obl. folio, original printed covers, Cambridge, 1831; Jones' Views of the Seats, Mansions, Castles, Etc., In England, Wales, Scotland & Ireland, 2 vols, folio, original printed paper covers, 1829; Henry Boswell's Elegant Picturesque Views Of The Antiquities Of England & Wales, folio, original printed paper covers; and sundry unframed engravings. (5)
Atkinson (J.) Incidents Of British Bravery During The Late Campaigns On The Continent, No. 2, lithographs in original folio paper covs., published by R. Ackermann, 1817; A Description of the Colosseum As Re-Opened in MDCCCXLV and Panorama of London, illus. by Dobbs, Bailey & Co., London, 1845; and London Before The Great Fire, a series of engravings, folio, original printed paper covs., published by Boydell & Co., Cheapside, London 1818. (3)
MacLauchlan (Henry) The Roman Wall... From original Surveys made by Direction of the Duke of Northumberland, 1857; bound with: The Watling Street, plates, [n.d.], 2 works in one vol, folio, plates, outlined in colour, inscribed to the R.H. Earl Grosvenor, M.P.; Memoir written during a Survey of the Roman Wall, 1858: bound with: Memoir written during a Survey of the Watling Street, from the Tees to the Scotch Border, 1852, 2 works in 1 vol, 8vo, inscribed to Edward Hawkins, 24 November 1858; Eastern Branch of the Watling Street... From a Survey, folio, plates, outlined in colour, 1864; Memoir written during a Survey of Eastern Branch of the Watling Street, 8vo, 1864, inscribed to the R.H. Spencer Walpole, M.P., December 1865, together 6 parts in 4 vols, uniform green half morocco, bookplate of John Vessey Gregory. A fine complete set, presentation copies from the Duke of Northumberland.
A vintage pine chest of squared form bearing the label G Insall to the interior containing a contemporary hard wood multi-divisional paper tidy, a vintage leather folio with locking clasp and multi-divisional interior, a printed tin together with a further Victorian pine chest containing a quantity of large timber bun feet, a vintage iron bladed hatchet, a small panelled multi-sectional painting on oval ground depicting a lady playing a harp in 17th century dress, a box of rectangular form containing a wax doll (AF), etc
After Thomas Sydney Cooper (1803-1902) - Folio of nineteen lithographs - "Groups of cattle, from nature, after T.S. Cooper", each approximately 11ins x 16ins, printed and published by G. Rowney & Co, Oxford Street, London between October 1881 and September 1882, together with six sepia studies, printed and published by G. Rowney, August 1884, and various other loose lithographs
GOOD COLLECTION OF FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS including Hugh Sebag-Montefiore 'Enigma' 2005, 'The Best of the Marx Brothers' 2007, 'The Twelve Caesars' 2006, John Ruskin 'The Stones of Venice' 2001, 'Shakespeare's Life and World' 2004, Alexander Thayer 'Life of Beethoven' 2001 and Chiari Frugoni 'Inventions of the Middle Ages' 2007, all with slip cases, viewing recommended
GOOD COLLECTION OF FOLIO SOCIETY NOVELS AND STORIES including Nathaniel Hawthorne 'Tanglewood Tales' 2002 and 'A Wonder Book for Boys & Girls' 2008 (two volumes), W.B.Yeats 'Irish Fairy and Folk Tales' 2007, Raymond Chandler 'Trouble is my Business' 2006, 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination' by Edgar Allan Poe 1999, Roald Dahl 'Complete Tales of the Unexpected' 2001, Muriel Spark 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' 1998, 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon - Old Tales from the North' 2000 and Robert Graves 'Count Belisarius' 2010, all with slip cases, viewing recommended
Two early 20th Century postcard albums containing assorted topographical postcards, together with various Christmas and Birthday postcards, a folio of assorted franked stamps on addressed envelopes, to include the 1966 World Cup stamped "England Winners", a 1922 edition of The Golden Book for Boys and a box of assorted commemorative and other china
"The Imperial Map of England and Wales according to The Ordnance Survey with the latest additions showing clearly every feature of the country, railways and their stations, roads, canals", on the scale of 4 miles:1 inch, by John Bartholomew, FRGS, published by A Fullarton & Co. London and Edinburgh, folio size, cloth board bound with tooled and gilded leather spine CONDITION REPORTS Exterior very damaged and mouldy and warped. Pages have some wear, dirt yellowing, and some foxing and stains. Map plates appear to be complete. The atlas is not dated. Size is approx 56 x 40cm when closed.
J LUSSENBURG "Country Path", oil on panel, fabric label to back, together with one other by the same hand, together with assorted prints and a folio CONDITION REPORTS The two Lussenburg pictures - some wear and scuffs and dirt, frames separating, sizes approx 22.5 x 32cm, and 34 x 27cm. Street scene has wear dirt and discolouration, and image size is approx 9.5 x 15.5cm. All other items with various wear, damage and losses.
TWO FOLIOS FROM TWO DISPERSED MANUSCRIPTS India, 16th/17th century comprising an illuminated folio from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, Bijapur, c.1610, 25 lines to the page written in four columns of elegant nasta'liq in black ink, heading written in thuluth script in red on a gold ground, inner margins ruled in gold, outer borders of coloured paper; and an illuminated folio from a manuscript of Persian poetry, on gold-sprinkled paper, text written horizontally and diagonally in elegant nasta'liq script in black ink, illuminated corner pieces in colours and gold 200 x 120mm, 183 x 113mm (2) The page from Firdausi's Shahnama (Book of Kings) is from the same dispersed manuscript as four illuminated folios in the current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700: Opulence and Fantasy, which runs until 26th July 2015. The inventory numbers of the folios in the museum collection are: 1982.476.3, 1985.404.1, 1983.354.1, 1985.405.1
A FOLIO FROM A JAIN SUTRA Gujarat, Western India, 15th century gouache and ink on paper, of horizontal form, the two columns comprising on the left, thirteen lines of devanagari script, with extra lines of annotation and significant words in red, the right column with two illustrations, the reverse similarly inscribed with text only 107 x 255mm approx.
Thaumaturgus Opticus, first edition, engraved title and 42 engraved plates Thaumaturgus Opticus, first edition, engraved title and 42 engraved plates, half-title, slightly foxed and browned, ink signatures of Bertherand at head and tail of engraved title, new endpapers, later half calf, rubbed, old label on spine, folio, Paris, Langlois, 1646. Niceron was an artist and a Minim friar, with an interest in perspective and optics.
Houses of Parliament. - Report of the Royal Commission on the Blind, the Deaf and Dumb, &c., 4 vol. in 2 (vol.3 bound separately), folding tables, plates of embossed alphabets for the blind, modern cloth, 1889 § Fay (E.A., editor ) Histories of American Schools for the Deaf 1817-1893, 3 vol.., plates and illustrations, some folding, original cloth, Washington, D.C., 1893 § Bébian (A.) Éloge de Charles-Michel de L'Épée, Fondateur de l'Institution des Sourds-Muets, half-title, lithographed portrait, marginal water-staining, original wrappers, uncut, upper cover with ink inscription (partly torn away), Paris, 1819 § Arnold (Thomas) Education for Deaf-Mutes, 2 vol. in 1, calligraphic ink inscription on front free endpaper, plates, contemporary calf, lower cover detached, 1888 § Huxley (Aldous) The Art of Seeing, first edition , original cloth, dust-jacket (soiled and defective), 1943, all but the first rubbed or worn ; and 3 others concerning the blind and deaf, folio & 8vo (11)
Swaysland (Walter) - Familiar Wild Birds, 4 vol., 160 colour plates, tissue guards, vignettes, by Thorburn & others, advertisements at end of each vol., some scattered spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, g.e., spines a little darkened, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1883-[89]; and 6 others, birds, 8vo & folio (10)
and Commander E.A. Porcher . History of the Recent Discoveries at Cyrene ( Captain R.) and Commander E.A. Porcher . History of the Recent Discoveries at Cyrene, made during an Expedition to the Cyrenaica in 1860-61, first edition , half-title, errata slip, 23 tinted & 1 chromolithograph views including frontispiece, 14 lithograph maps and plans,, 1 of which chromolithograph, 13 mounted photographs only (of 16, lacking nos. 61, 62 & 72), 10 plates of inscriptions, text-illustrations, paper slightly brittle and occasionally chipped at edges, small marginal tear at pp. 89/90, text lightly browned, little marginal staining, especially to photographs and inscription plates, modern blue half morocco, g.e., folio, Day & Son, 1864. Cyrene was an ancient Greek colony in present-day Libya.
Chinese watercolours.- - Album of 12 watercolours of the parable of the Prodigall Son, pen & ink and watercolour on paper, each leaf mounted in an album, limp cloth, upper cover stained, each 360 x 220mm., folio, [late 19th century]. A handsomely executed series of watercolours interpreting the Christian parable in a "Chinoiserie" style (the son gambles and smokes opium before his return home).
Nieuhoff (Jan) - An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China.... , second edition, translated by John Ogilby, title printed in red and black, additional engraved title, double page engraved map of China and 17 engraved plates (1 double page), numerous engraved vignettes, lacking 8 leaves text (sig Rr and others at end), closed tear to title repaired, closed tears to additional title, 3 plates and some leaves of text, upper margin of sig Ss2 repaired affecting engraved vignettes, some browning and staining, bookplate to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, lacking lower cover and most of backstrip, worn, folio, by the author in White-Friers, 1673; sold not subject to return.
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