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Lot 1002
Edwin Fletcher (1857 - 1945), busy harbour scene, oil on canvas, signed, 51cm x 76cm, framedCanvas has been lined with a few very minor spots of overpainting only visible under UV light, paint all stable, some very light craquelure in the sky, generally good clean condition, frame also good
![Erotica.- [Nogaret (François-Félix)] L'Arétin Français, 2 parts in 1, half-title, engraved frontispiece and 18 plates, tissue](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/410b610c-164b-4fd1-be8b-b171010c7296/1c26ddef-3b56-48ad-b5d1-b1710111087d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 189
Erotica.- [Nogaret (François-Félix)] L'Arétin Français, 2 parts in 1, half-title, engraved frontispiece and 18 plates, tissue-guards, all plates and many text leaves reinforced at inner- or fore-margins, very lightly browned, some light soiling or staining, later half calf, some wear to corners, joints and spine ends rubbed, 12mo, a Londres, 1803.
Lot 161
Thackeray (William Makepeace) Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, first edition, first issue with the suppressed woodcut of Marquis of Steyne on p.336 and "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on p.453, etched frontispiece, additional vignette title-page, and 38 plates, wood-engraved vignettes throughout, lacking initial advertisement f., light marginal toning to plates and endpapers, some light offsetting, a few small marginal stains, attractive contemporary burgundy morocco with triple gilt fillet border by Zaehnsdorf, spine lettered and ruled in gilt compartments, inner dentelles richly gilt with flower motif, t.e.g., very slight rubbing to lower edge and upper joint, Bradbury & Evans, 1848; and 9 others, 8vo (10)*** The first issue of Thackeray's iconic novel, in exquisite gilt binding by Zaehnsdorf.
Lot 201
Art reference.- Russian Water-colour in the Collection of the Hermitage, Leningrad, full-page colour illustrations, text in Russian and English, original boards, light bumping to spine ends, original card slip-case, little soiled and worn, Moscow, 1988 § Alauzen (André M.) La Peinture en Provence du XIVe siècle à nos jours, full-page colour illustrations, margins very slightly toned, original cloth, spine ends and corners little bumped, dust-jacket, slightly toned, a few small chips and short tears to extremities, Marseille, 1962; and others, art reference, v.s. (c.35)
Lot 262
India.- Laurie & Whittle (publishers) A New Map of the Jaghir Lands, on the Coast of Coromandel, The Territory Belonging To The East India Company Round Madras From An Actual Survey In The Possession Of The Company, detailed map of the coastal region of India centred on Madras and Fort St. George (Chennai), extending north to Erikans Lake (Pulicat Lake) and south to Cheeyer Tank and Allumparva (Cheyyur) engraving with some outline hand-colouring, on laid paper with large watermark of Strasbourg lily, sheet 730 x 540 mm (28 3/4 x 21 1/4 in), central horizontal fold as issued, some light offsetting, minor surface dirt, unframed, 1794.
Lot 41
Drinking.- Temperance.- British Temperance League. The Greatest of all murderers. Great open-air meeting in favour of Sunday closing of public-houses...Sunday, June 19th, 1892, at the corner of Foster Road...Heeley, handbill, large wood-engraved vignette of a gentleman confronting drinkers outside a pub called The Vulture, folds, little spotting or light staining, lightly browned, 189 x 123mm., Sheffield, Parker Bros., 1892. *** Unrecorded.
Lot 24
Sherry.- Vizetelly (Henry) Facts About Sherry, gleaned in the Vineyards and Bodegas of the Jerez, Seville, Moguer, & Montilla Districts during the Autumn of 1875, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and 15 plates, wood-engraved illustrations, 6 advertisement ff. for various wines and spirits, lightly browned, original colour pictorial wrappers bound in, the upper wrapper depicting a worker testing the vintage, advertisements verso, upper wrapper with very small remains of a label, obscuring one letter, rubbed and marked, modern light brown morocco-backed buckram, spine gilt and with double burgundy morocco labels, a very good copy, [Gabler G40310; Simon Vinaria p.117], 8vo, Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1876. *** Provenance: 'M.Winton' (contemporary ink signature to verso of upper wrapper); Cooks Books. T&M McKirdy (small label to lower margin of inner lower wrapper).
![Shakespeare (William) The Tragedies [&] The Comedies [&] The Histories and Poems, 3 vol., damp-staining and light mot](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/410b610c-164b-4fd1-be8b-b171010c7296/ec73e115-4fb0-4e45-81f2-b1710110f470/468x382.jpg)
Lot 113
Malebranche (Nicolas) His Treatise Concerning the Search after Truth, 2 vol. in 1, second edition, translated by T. Taylor, a few tears to front free endpapers, pp.193-196 bound at end as often, light scattered spotting, lower hinge cracked and weak, contemporary panelled calf, triple gilt fillet, rather rubbed, some portions of loss to covers, lacking backstrip, folio, printed by W. Bowyer, for Thomas Bennet, T. Leigh and W. Midwinter, 1700.
Lot 114
Judaica.- Josephus (Flavius) The Works of Flavius Josephus: Translated into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange, first edition, additional engraved title and 2 plates, 4 folding maps, one rather browned, bookplate, the odd spot, some light offsetting, first and last leaves reinforced at hinges, contemporary calf, rebacked, extremities a little rubbed, endpapers renewed, folio, Richard Sare, 1702.
Lot 194
Dulac (Edmund).- Andersen (Hans Christian) Stories from..., tipped-in colour frontispiece and 27 plates by Dulac, frontispiece with captioned tissue-guard (slightly creased), near contemporary ink gift inscriptions to front free endpaper, occasional light spotting, spine a touch faded, some faint spotting to spine and upper cover fore-edge, spine ends and corners little rubbed, 1911 § Housman (Laurence) Stories from The Arabian Nights, tipped-in colour frontispiece and 49 plates by Dulac, captioned tissue-guards, minor bumping to spine ends and corners, dust-jacket, mounted colour illustration to upper panel, a few small chips and repairs to verso, including small chip to head of upper panel, affecting a couple letters but no loss, a few tiny nicks to extremities, browned, some tiny spotting, still very good, n.d., original decorative cloth, gilt, Hodder & Stoughton; and 5 others, of which 2 illustrated by Dulac, 4to & 8vo (7)
Lot 241
England.- Shaw (Rev. P.J., editor) An Old York Church, All Hallows in North Street, one of 500 copies, list of subscribers, title with decorative chromolithographed border, plates and illustrations by Mabel Leaf and E. Ridsdale Tate, some colour, ex-library copy with stamp to front endpaper, York, 1908 § Brindley (W.) & W. Samuel Weatherley. Ancient Sepulchral Monuments, trace of stamp to foot of title, 1887 § Kahn (Moritz) The Design & Construction of Industrial Buildings, original cloth-backed boards, 1917, all with plates, some light foxing, the first two original cloth, a little rubbed; and 2 others including an odd volume of Picturesque Beauties of England & Wales with numerous engraved plates (mostly Yorkshire), v.s. (5)
Lot 147
Military Law.- Wellesley (Arthur, Duke of Wellington).- Principles (The) of War... as Developed in a Series of General Orders..., first edition, light foxing and occasional marginal soiling, bookplate removed, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed, 1815 § Burn (Richard) A Digest of the Militia Laws, first edition, foxing, ex-library copy with perforated stamp to title, modern cloth, S.Richardson & C.Lintot, 1760 § Napier (Maj.-Gen. Charles J.) Remarks on Military Law and the Punishment of Flogging, first edition, a few leaves torn and creased at lower margin, ex-library copy with label, contemporary half calf, rebacked and recornered, 1837, 8vo (3) *** Although the first is not written or edited by Wellington himself, this clearly draws largely from an analysis of his recorded Orders in the second Peninsular campaign between 1809 and 1814. The hundreds of Orders provide a remarkable record of war management in the early 19th century. The editor's dedication to Wellington ("the Illustrious Hero") is dated June 27, 1815, a mere nine days after Waterloo.
Lot 164
Meredith (George) Rhoda Fleming. A Story, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, occasional spotting or light browning, bound in tan half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spines with five raised bands, marbled endpapers, vol. 3 with a few light spots, little rubbed in places, t.e.g., [Sadleir 1702], 8vo, Tinsley Brothers, 1865. *** The first edition rare, with infrequent appearances at auction.
Lot 247
London.- Newcourt (Richard), After. An Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs Thereof..., plan of London and the Thames from Westminster to Stepney, showing individual buildings along the streets, numerous ships on the river, two inset architectural elevations of Westminster Abbey and St. Pauls, several coats-of-arms, numbered key, genealogical table, etc., by George Jarman after the original plan, 8 engraved map sheets joined to form one large plan, total approx. 1040 x 1920 mm (41 x 75 1/2), dissected and mounted on linen, some light off-setting, minor surface dirt, folding into contemporary [?original] gilt and embossed purple boards, upper and lower cover decorated with armorial devices, rubbed and scuffed, 4to, [Howgego 12, derivative b], Edward Stanford, 1863
Lot 246
London.- Langley (Edward, & Belch, William) Langley and Belch's New Map of London, first edition, map of London with 24 uncoloured engraved vignettes of London landmarks set within the horizontal margins, engraving with vibrant hand-colouring, sheet 537 x 785 mm (21 1/8 x 30 7/8 in), dissected and mounted on linen, minor surface dirt, some light offsetting, folding into marbled slipcase with publisher's orange printed label to upper cover, worn, [Howgego 256 (1)], 8vo, 1812
Lot 100
Histoire de Huon de Bordeaux. pair de France, duc de Guïenne, contenant ses faits & actions héroïques, mise en deux livres aussi beaux & divertissants que jamais on ait lu, contemporary ink ownership name to title, bookplate of James Smith of Jordanhill to pastedown, some paper flaws or light staining spots to margins, upper edge trimmed, late 18th century calf, rubbed and stained, 8vo, Lyon, for Claude Chastelard, 1626.
Lot 154
Economics.- Mill (John Stuart) Principles of Political Economy, 2 vol., third edition, publisher's advertisements at end, ink ownership names to pastedowns and front free endpapers, a few instances of ink underlining or passage-marking, margins slightly toned, some very light spotting to first and last few leaves, vol. 1 gutter cracked at points with a few gatherings working loose, hinges cracked, vol. 1 upper hinge very weak but holding, original cloth, printed paper spine labels (chipped), some chips and fraying to spine ends and joints, rubbed, vol. 1 backstrip splitting at joints but holding firm, 1852; and others, economics and similar, 8vo (8) *** An important edition, revised by Mill and heavily influenced by his wife Harriet.
Lot 266
Polar.- Ross (Sir John) Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, vol.1 only (lacks appendix vol.), 5 maps and plans (including 1 large folding in pocket at rear), 16 engraved plates, 6 lithographs and 3 hand-coloured mezzotints, tipped-in presentation sheet to front pastedown, marginal repairs to frontispiece, some light damp-staining, light foxing, offsetting of text onto one or two plates, modern half calf, very slight rubbing to extremities, 4to, A.W. Webster, 1835.
Lot 45
Tree plantations.- Langley (Batty) A Sure Method of Improving Estates, by Plantations of Oak, Elm, Ash, Beech, and Other Timber-trees, Coppice-Woods, &c., first edition, issue with pp.viii-xx incorrectly numbered, title printed in red and black, engraved folding plate, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, plate light browned, occasional spotting, but generally crisp and clean internally, contemporary calf, gilt, spine in compartments, lacking label, upper cover detached, spine ends little worn, corners worn, rubbed and marked, [Fussell I, p.27; Goldsmiths' 6587; Henrey 929; Hunt 473], 8vo, Printed for Francis Clay & Daniel Browne, 1728. *** First edition of Langley's work on the economical planting and raising of different trees for timber, thereby avoiding inevitable deforestation. Langley (1696-1751) was an English landscape gardener and architect. Provenance: Lord John Somers (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown).
![[Dickens (Charles)] "Boz". Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, vol. 1 & 3 only (of 3), first edition, mixed issue, h](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/410b610c-164b-4fd1-be8b-b171010c7296/59248115-1dc5-4378-a461-b171011056cc/468x382.jpg)
Lot 156
[Dickens (Charles)] "Boz". Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, vol. 1 & 3 only (of 3), first edition, mixed issue, half-titles, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end vol. 1, 17 etched plates by George Cruikshank, extra-illustrated with 17 plates by Cruikshank, the same but hand-coloured and tipped-in opposite those called for, vol. 1 frontispiece with marginal water-stain and loose, a few other plates working loose, plates with the usual foxing, the odd spot to text but generally clean, original reddish brown fine-diaper cloth, spines lightly sunned, a few light stains, rubbing to extremities, [Eckel pp.59-60; Smith I, 4] 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1838. *** Something of a bibliographical curiosity, with "Boz" on titles and 'Rose Maylie and Oliver' plate but vol. 3 with "pier" and "pedestal" on p.164 and a half-title substituted for the preliminary Bentley ads.
Lot 65
Guarini (Battista) Il Pastor Fido, Tragicomedia Pastorale, title within ornate woodcut architectural border, woodcut initials, engraved portrait and 6 engraved whole-page illustrations, light offsetting, 1602, bound with Compendio della Poesia Tragicomica, woodcut device to title, 1601, together 2 in 1, occasional scattered foxing, later calf ornately gilt, with central device to covers within ornately tooled borders, spine gilt with red morocco label, later ties, 8vo, Venice, Gio. Battista Ciotti.*** Provenance: Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry (1778-1820) [later pencil note to pastedown].
![Joseph Ritson's copy.- [Gavin (Antonio)] A Short History of the Monastic Orders... by Gabriel d'Emillianne, first edition, in](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/410b610c-164b-4fd1-be8b-b171010c7296/555d37f6-a66f-4b20-b6fc-b171010f9d3d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 112
Joseph Ritson's copy.- [Gavin (Antonio)] A Short History of the Monastic Orders... by Gabriel d'Emillianne, first edition, initial imprimatur f., occasional light browning, pencil marks and 2 or 3 words to margins, Joseph Ritson's copy with his ink ownership inscription to front pastedown, ink monogram to title verso, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, rubbed, [Wing G394], 8vo, S. Roycroft. for Rob. Clavell, 1693.*** Joseph Ritson (1752-1803) antiquary and early vegetarianism activist.
![Macquoid (Percy) A History of English Furniture [The Age of Oak; Walnut; Mahogany; Satinwood], 4 vol., first edition, chromol](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/410b610c-164b-4fd1-be8b-b171010c7296/5b869059-cfa5-437e-9245-b17101116009/468x382.jpg)
Lot 204
Macquoid (Percy) A History of English Furniture [The Age of Oak; Walnut; Mahogany; Satinwood], 4 vol., first edition, chromolithographed plates with captioned tissue-guards, illustrations, contemporary ink ownership names to pastedowns, some tissue-guards a little frayed at edges (one loose to vol. 1), occasional light soiling, gutter cracked at points, endpapers spotted and lightly browned, hinges cracked, a couple weak but holding, original buckram, gilt, spines sunned with ends a little frayed, rubbed, t.e.g., others uncut, folio, 1904-08.
Lot 254
Asia.- Putnam Weale (B.L.) The Re-Shaping of the Far East, 2 vol., some pp. unopened, 1905; The Truce in the East and Its Aftermath, 1907; The Coming Struggle in Eastern Asia, 1908; An Indiscreet Chronicle from the Pacific, reprint, 1923; Why China Saw Red, 1926; The Vanished Empire, 1926, all but one first editions, some from the library of Peter Hopkirk with his book-label, light toning or occasional foxing, original cloth, lightly sunned to spines, light rubbing to extremities, 8vo (7) *** Bertram Lenox Simpson (1877–1930) was a British author who wrote about China under the pen name "B. L. Putnam Weale" (or sometimes simply "Putnam Weale"). Lenox Simpson was the son of Clare Lenox-Simpson, who had been in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service since 1861.
![Agriculture.- [Arbuthnot (John)] An Inquiry into the Connection between the present price of Provisions, and the size of Farm](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/410b610c-164b-4fd1-be8b-b171010c7296/25e8d56d-620b-4710-b8d4-b171010e5ef7/468x382.jpg)
Lot 32
Agriculture.- [Arbuthnot (John)] An Inquiry into the Connection between the present price of Provisions, and the size of Farms. With remarks on Population...By a Farmer, first edition, with half-title and final blank, light foxing, modern boards, [Not in Goldsmiths, Kress or Perkins], T.Cadell, 1773 § [Lewis (John)] Uniting and Monopolizing Farms, plainly proved disadvantageous to the Land-owners, and highly prejudicial to the Public, first edition, modern cloth-backed marbled boards, M.Hingeston, 1767 § Pennington (W.) Reflections on the various Advantages resulting from the Draining, Inclosing, and Allotting of Large Commons and Common Fields, first edition, title and final advertisement leaf soiled, library buckram, [Goldsmiths' 10525; Perkins 1323], Benjamin White, 1769 § Wright (Thomas) A Short Address to the Public on the Monopoly of Small Farms..., only edition, half-title, modern cloth, [Goldsmiths' 16266; Not in Perkins], for the author, 1795 § Large Farms, recommended in a National View. A Reply to Mr. Wright's Address...on the Monopoly of Small Farms, first edition, half-title, modern cloth, [Goldsmiths' 16649; cf.Perkins 1955 note], James Scatcherd, 1796, all ex-library copies, the second with old Dutch ink stamp to title, the rest ex-Rothamsted Agricultural library with stamp to front pastedown or upper cover; and 6 others on the size of farms and inclosure of common or waste land, 8vo & 4to (11)
![S[mith] (E[liza]) The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplished Gentlewoman’s companion: being a Collection of upwards of Five Hun](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/410b610c-164b-4fd1-be8b-b171010c7296/e72a7472-0bfe-48d4-ad72-b171010e3b76/468x382.jpg)
Lot 25
S[mith] (E[liza]) The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplished Gentlewoman’s companion: being a Collection of upwards of Five Hundred of the most approved Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials..., second edition, 6 folding engraved bills of fare, advertisement f. at end, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, contemporary ink manuscript medical recipes to endpapers and a8v, index misbound after sig. A (before start of main text), title with neat narrow repair verso to outer margin, T1&2 small hole at start of final line of text, with loss of a few letters, but no loss of sense, occasional marginal worming, some spotting or light staining, lightly browned, new endpapers, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments and with burgundy leather label, corners repaired, [Bitting, p.438 (note); Maclean pp.133-135; Oxford p.60 (note); cf. Simon BG 1392 & 1393; Cagle 996 & 997; & Vicaire 794], 8vo, Printed for J. Pemberton, at the Golden Buck, over-against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-Street, 1728. *** Scarce edition at auction. Despite her popularity little is known of the author, apart from her prefatory statement that she had been employed for upwards of thirty years in fashionable and noble families. The 1742 Virginia edition was the first cookery book published in America.Provenance: ‘Phebe Haton, her Book, July ye 2nd. Anno Domini 1730’ (ink signatures to title and A2r).
Lot 260
Hannibal's Crossing.- Whitaker (John) The Course of Hannibal Over the Alps Ascertained, 2 vol., some light spotting, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, spines lightly faded, housed in cloth slip-case, John Stockdale, 1794 § De Luc (J.A.) Histoire du Passage des Alpes par Annibal, one folding map, contemporary ink inscription to title head, some light browning mostly to margins, contemporary vellum, red morocco spine label, some light patches of soiling along upper edge, Geneva and Paris, J.J. Paschoud, 1818 § [Wickham (H.L.) and J.A. Cramer]. A Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal Over the Alps, folding map frontispiece, 3 plates, some light foxing affecting plates, offsetting, contemporary calf, green morocco spine label, joints slightly rubbed, Oxford, printed by W. Baxter for J. Parker; and G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1820, first editions, bookplates, spines gilt in compartments; and 9 others, Hannibal, 8vo (13)
Lot 139
Burke (Edmund) The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, 8 vol., first edition, half-titles in vol.4-8, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper of vol.1, light foxing to first and last few leaves of vol.7-8, occasional spotting in vol.8, otherwise text remarkably clean, endpapers marginally browned, contemporary calf, gilt-ruled, spines gilt in compartments, morocco spine labels, most with joints cracked, some covers becoming loose, rubbed, spine ends bumped and chipped, spines lightly faded, 4to, J. Dodsley [and F.C. and J. Rivington], 1792-1827.
![Council of Trent.- Dilucida Explicato, veraque demonstratio, ob quas causas, Illustres Electores et Principe, [VD16 E 4633] n](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/410b610c-164b-4fd1-be8b-b171010c7296/9fe97833-0e68-4499-86e6-b171010edabf/468x382.jpg)
Lot 63
Council of Trent.- Dilucida Explicato, veraque demonstratio, ob quas causas, Illustres Electores et Principe, [VD16 E 4633] n.p., 1564 bound with Briton (Claude) De vera Ecclesiae Constituendae ratione, ad patres in Concilio Tridentino liber, [VD16 B 8341], [Koln, Maternus Cholinus], 1564 and [Cassander (Georgius)] De sacra communione christiani populi in utraque panis & vini specie, [VD16 C 1402], [Cologne, Cervicornus, Gottfried the Younger], 1564, together 3 works in one vol., ink inscriptions to foot of title, woodcut initials, some light browning, bookplate of The Law Society to front free endpaper and of Captain J. G. Michiels to front pastedown, contemporary calf, covers detached, 8vo.*** A good group of humanist tracts relating to the Council of Trent.
Lot 261
India.- Bombay.- The Parsee Punch, one issue, 8pp., etched illustrations, folds, upper blank corner of title sheet torn away, 3 holes to inner margin of final sheet, little spotting or light staining, rare, large 4to, [Bombay], [Apyakhtiar Press], [?c.1860]. *** The only illustrated comic weekly newspaper in the Bombay Presidency, which satirised the relationship between public culture and colonialism.
Lot 155
Economics.- Keynes (John Maynard) The End of Laissez-Faire, second impression, original cloth-backed boards, light staining, dust-jacket, slightly frayed at upper edge, Hogarth Press, 1926 § Edgeworth (F.Y.) Papers relating to Political Economy, 3 vol., boards a little damp-stained at edges, 1925 § Taussig (F.W.) International Trade, New York, 1927 § Macmillan (Harold) The Middle Way, 1938 § Crosland (C.A.R.) The Future of Socialism, 1956, all but the first first editions, original cloth, the last two with dust-jackets, a little rubbed and frayed; and a quantity of others, economics, politics etc., some pamphlets, 8vo & 4to (5 boxes)
Lot 163
Braddon (Mary Elizabeth) Aurora Floyd, sixth edition, half-title, front free endpaper with embossed stamp of John Field Bookseller, occasional cracking at gutter, some light spotting and toning, hinges tender but holding, original cloth, spine gilt, a few faint marks, corners bumped with some wear, spine ends rubbed and a touch frayed, little rubbed elsewhere, Tinsley Brothers, 1863; Lady Audley's Secret, 3 vol. in 1, eighth edition revised, half-title, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end, contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, half-title lightly browned, else generally clean, gutter very occasionally cracked, upper hinge broken, lower weak but holding, original cloth, rubbed, Tinsley Bros., 1862; and 2 vol. only (of 3) of the fifth edition of Aurora Floyd, 8vo (4)
Lot 72
Grotius (Hugo) Le Droit de la Guerre et de la Paix, 2 vol., translated by Jean Barbeyrac, engraved portrait frontispiece, titles in red and black with engraved vignette, some foxing and light browning, contemporary French mottled calf, spines gilt but slightly wormed, rubbed, Basel, Emanuel Tourneisen, 1768; and 9 others, French, v.s. (11)
Lot 133
Lyric and language.- Collection of Songs (A), chiefly such as are eminent for poetical merit; among which are many originals, and others that were never printed before in a song-book, a couple of spots to title, light marginal browning, book label and some label removal marks to front pastedown, contemporary calf-backed boards with modern printed paper, T. Longman, 1782 § Jones (William) The Jubilee Memorial of the Religious Tract Society:... 1799-1849, bookplate, some occasional spotting, original cloth, slightly rubbed, spine slightly faded, neatly repaired with new front free endpaper, The Religious Tract Society, 1850 § Donaldson (John William) Varronianus: a critical and historical introduction to the ethnography of Italy and to the philological study of the Latin language, second edition, tipped-in A.L.s from Donaldson at "Bury St. Edmunds, 7th Dec. 1852" to "My dear Stirling", publisher's inscription "from the Author" above, folding colour map, original cloth, slightly rubbed, John W. Parker and Son, 1852; and c.30 others, most relating to language, v.s. (c.30)
Lot 256
China.- Teichman (Eric) Affairs of China, illustrations, light spotting to first and last few leaves, original cloth, strips of toning to covers, spine toned, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, 1938 § Bland (J.O.P.) Recent Events and Present Policies in China, plates, 2 folding maps, bookplate, light occasional spotting, original cloth, slightly soiled, 1912, § Andrew (G. Findlay) The Crescent in North-West China, 7 plates, ink ownership stamp to front free endpaper, original cloth, spine ends lightly bumped, [1921] § Audemard (L.) Les Jonques Chinoises, vol. I-VI (of X), illustrations, some pencil annotations in French and Mandarin, otherwise internally clean, original printed wrappers, light marginal browning, Rotterdam, 1957-65 first editions, spines lightly sunned; and 9 others China, 8vo & 4to (18)
![[Pope (Alexander)] The Dunciad, Variorum. With the Prolegomena of Scriblerus, engraved vignette on title, title toned with so](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/410b610c-164b-4fd1-be8b-b171010c7296/3265b236-c2f2-44ba-bf20-b171010fcd09/468x382.jpg)
Lot 124
[Pope (Alexander)] The Dunciad, Variorum. With the Prolegomena of Scriblerus, engraved vignette on title, title toned with some paper repairs, lightly trimmed on fore-edge slightly affecting title, one or two neat paper repairs throughout and occasional patch of light damp-staining, front free endpaper torn away, bookplate, 19th century half calf, rubbed, [Rothschild 1597], 8vo, for A. Dob, 1729.*** The first complete edition of the first three books of The Dunciad. The Dunciad appeared in four different versions between 1728 and 1743. This copy without the final unsigned Addenda leaf.
Lot 174
Municipal Corporations.- City of Birmingham. Public Parks and Pleasure Grounds. Their Cost, Areas, and Maintenance; Bye-Laws and Regulations..., first edition, 14 folding lithographed plans with outlines in green, original cloth, upper cover slightly marked, [Birmingham], 1892 § Roots (George) The Charters of the Town of Kingston upon Thames..., first edition, half-title, list of subscribers, old ink inscription to head of title, faint trace of stamp to final leaf, modern half calf, T.Cadell, Jun. & W.Davies, 1797 § Hill (Sir Richard) Hard Measure, or a Real Statement of Facts, in a Letter to the Burgesses, and Freemen Burgesses of the Town of Shrewsbury..., second edition, light stain to title, a little foxing, modern boards, [Goldsmiths' 16862], J.Stockdale, [1795] § Corporation Annual (The); or, Recollections (not random) of the first Reformed Town Council, of the Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, first edition, with satirised individuals identified in pencil at head of page, title soiled and with small sticker at head, contemporary half calf, rubbed, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1836; and 3 others on the corporations of Hull, Warwick, and Great Torrington in Devon, 8vo (7)
![Wine.- Simon (André L.) Notes on the late J. Pierpont Morgan's Cellar book 1906, [one of 200 copies], lightly browned, origin](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/410b610c-164b-4fd1-be8b-b171010c7296/184084da-7a05-47f0-8be2-b171010e4d2a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 29
Wine.- Simon (André L.) Notes on the late J. Pierpont Morgan's Cellar book 1906, [one of 200 copies], lightly browned, original grey printed wrappers, some spotting and light soiling, [Gabler G37120 'rare'], Privately printed for the author at the Curwen Press, 1944; and Simon's limited edition of Table Manners for Boys, 1958, 8vo (2) *** Rare. André L. Simon (1877-1970) wine merchant, writer, gourmet, book collector, and bibliographer. The wine writer Hugh Johnson described him as 'the charismatic leader of the English wine trade for almost all of the first half of the 20th century, and the grand old man of literate connoisseurship for a further 20 years'.
Lot 146
Owen (Robert) A New View of Society: or, Essays on the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice, Parts 3 & 4 bound in 1 vol., first editions, very occasional light spotting or soiling, traces of library stamps to foot and verso of first title, later half morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt, t.e.g., a little rubbed, spine ends neatly repaired, [Goldsmiths' 20854; Kress B6195; PMM 271], 8vo, [for private circulation], 1814. *** "The Birth of Socialism" (PMM). These are the privately-printed third and fourth parts of Robert Owen's groundbreaking New View of Society which was issued in four parts from 1813-14; parts 3 & 4 being first published in 1816. Owen lays down the principles which had guided his 'Lanark Experiment' in which he had greatly improved the living and working conditions of the workers at his New Lanark cotton mills. Owen's central thesis was that man's character was made not by him but by circumstances beyond his control and that the formation of upright responsible citizens would result from individuals being placed under proper physical, moral and social influences from the earliest age.The third part is dedicated "To the Proprietors of the Principal Mill Establishments for Spinning and Weaving in Great Britain and Ireland" and Owen asks them to join what he clearly thought was a crusade for better working conditions for industrial workers. The fourth part is dedicated more traditionally to the Prince Regent. Owen points out that "the true origin of that misery may be traced to the ignorance of those who have formerly ruled, and of those whom they governed".
Lot 93
Commonplace Books.- Four Victorian Commonplace Books, containing colour plates, pencil sketches, elaborate decorative cards, pressed flora, newspaper extracts, manuscript poems, short stories and monographs, manuscript notes on horticulture, etc., very occasional light spotting, one with bookplate, one or two leaves loose, most in contemporary burgundy morocco, decorated in gilt or blind, spines richly gilt or blind-stamped, g.e., paper label remnants to one, slightly rubbed, another in contemporary vellum, upper cover slightly soiled, lower cover stained, 4to, [mid-nineteenth century].
Lot 230
Boxing.- Rowlandson (Thomas) Rural Sports. A Milling Match, 'Took Place at Thisselton Gap in the County of Rutland Septr 28.1811. betwixt Cribb and Molineaux on a 25 foot Stage and was the second Public contest between these two Pugilists. It lasted 19 Minutes and 10 Seconds and was decicive (sic) in favour of Cribb', etching with original bright hand-colouring, on wove paper with watermark date '1810', platemark 250 x 350 mm (9 7/8 x 13 3/4 in), sheet 270 x 440 mm (10 5/8 x 17 1/4 in), faint old folds to the left and right margin, pin holes from stitch binding in the upper edge, rough edges with nicks, notably to the lower edge, some toning and light surface dirt, would benefit from a light clean, unframed, [BM Satires 11786], Thomas Tegg, 1811
Lot 198
Adams (Ansel) Yosemite and the Range of Light, dust-jacket, a couple of corners very lightly creased, otherwise a near-fine copy, Boston, 1979 § May (Brian) and Elena Vidal. A Village Lost and Found, together with accompanying stereoscope, both housed in pictorial slipcase, 2009 § Beckham (David) David Beckham, 240 of 500 copies, headline, 2013, first editions, signed by the authors, photographic illustrations, original cloth; and 5 others, photography, 4to and folio (8)
Lot 258
Europe.- General Collection of Voyages and Discoveries, made by the Portuguese and the Spaniards, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (A), 3 engraved plates (only, of 4), one duplicated, 4 folding maps (only, of 5), small ink inscriptions to front free endpaper and head of half title, occasional light spotting, a couple of short tears to upper corners, some light toning to upper margins, hinges cracked and weak, covers slightly rubbed, spine ends bumped, joints splitting, W. Richardson, J. Bew, et al, 1789 § Glas (George) The History of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands, lacking maps, some light scattered spotting, a few leaves lightly browned, extremities very slightly rubbed, spine ends lightly bumped, strip of fading to lower cover, R. and J. Dodsley, and T. Durham, 1764, first editions, contemporary calf, morocco spine labels, spines lightly sunned, 4to (2)
Lot 165
Yates (Edmund) Kissing the Rod. A Novel, 3 vol., first edition, half-title to vol. 1 (all called for), lacking advertisements, occasional light toning or soiling, a few small and faint stains to vol. 1 half-title and title, light water-staining to some endpapers, bound in vellum by Riviere, gilt, upper covers with "AV From YC" in gilt, the former monogram surmounted by coronet, some light spotting, some soiling and staining, vol. 1 joints split at ends, g.e., [Wolff 7342], Tinsley Brothers, 1866 § Wood (Mrs. Henry) Orville College. A Story, 2 vol. in 1, first edition in book form, half-titles, lacking preliminary advertisement leaf and final blank leaf to each vol., occasional very light spotting or soiling, ink-stamp "E.M.Trafford" to rear free endpaper, later half morocco, some wear to extremities, rubbed, [Sadleir 3353], Tinsley Brothers, 1867; and 2 others, 8vo (6)
![New Towns.- [Kyle (David D.) & Henry Kerl.] Outline of a Proposed Plan for Building New Towns at Windsor and Eton; in order t](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/410b610c-164b-4fd1-be8b-b171010c7296/8c6bd99d-ad56-4867-b0af-b171011162df/468x382.jpg)
Lot 205
New Towns.- [Kyle (David D.) & Henry Kerl.] Outline of a Proposed Plan for Building New Towns at Windsor and Eton; in order to completely improve the Castle and Parks, only edition, 2 folding lithographed plans with partial hand-colouring, offsetting, one with pin-holes to corners and small adhesion affecting a couple of letters and tiny part of plan, short tear to fold, some light marginal soiling, original cloth, rubbed, slight cockling to lower cover, rebacked, for Private Circulation Only, 1847. *** Rare proposal for the redevelopment of Windsor and Eton as new towns, designed on a grid system, together with realignment of the Royal Parks and incorporating a railway tunnel of about one mile under the Park and a new railway terminus in Windsor New Town. The coloured plans show "before and after" lay-outs.Library Hub records only 2 copies ( V & A and Eton College); not in the British Library.
Lot 138
Methodists.- M. (J.) An Elegiac Poem on the Death of the late Eminent and Reverend John Wesley, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, light soiling to title and final ff., disbound, Nottingham, for the Author, 1791 § Miscellaneous Poems and Hymns, published for the benefit of the Methodist Sunday School, in Nottingham, previous owner's ink signature to title, occasional pencil annotations, title with small tape repair to head, many ff. strengthened at gutter, ex-library with usual labels, modern endpapers, modern morocco-backed boards, Nottingham, 1793 § An Elegy, on the death of Mr. Alexander Kilham, faint spotting, ex-library with shelfmark to title verso, disbound, 1799; 8vo (3).
Lot 200
Art reference.- Lodder (Christina) Russian Constructivism, illustrations, some in colour, original cloth, dust-jacket, small stain to head of lower panel to verso (also affecting lower cover), some creasing and light toning to extremities, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1983 § Barnett (Vivian Endicott) Das bunte Leben Wassily Kandinsky im Lenbachhaus, colour illustrations, some full-page, very slight toning to margins, original pictorial wrappers, spine ends and corners rubbed, Dumont, 1995 § Pevsner (Alexei) Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner, illustrations in black and white, some full-page, original printed wrappers, dust-soiling, spine slightly toned, Amsterdam, Augustin & Schoonman, 1964; and others art reference, most relating to Russian art, v.s. (c.20)
Lot 179
Russell (Bertrand) What I Believe, browning to endpapers, original boards with mounted paper label to upper cover and spine, spine head chipped, other extremities lightly rubbed, dust-jacket, some light surface soiling, spine toned and little chipped at ends, short tear to foot of upper panel repaired (no loss), a few other small nicks or tears to joints and edges, some splitting to joints, 1925; Power. A New Social Analysis, browning to endpapers, faint spotting to first few leaves, original cloth, dust-jacket with an alternative printed design for this work on the verso, slightly toned, spine head chipped and frayed, flap joints with some chipping to ends, 1938, first editions; and 8 others by the same, including the fourth impression of the first mentioned (1928), 8vo & small 4to (7)
Lot 239
Britain.- Double Fore-edge Painting.- Watts (William) The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry in England and Scotland, being a Collection of the Most Interesting and Picturesque Views, half-title, ?lacking engraved title but with all 84 engraved plates by William Watts after Sandby, Nates, Dalby &c., occasional spotting to plates, some light offsetting, handsome contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco with decorative roll-border in gilt and blind, spine gilt in compartments, g.e with double fore-edge painting beneath the gilt, a little rubbed at edges, [cf. Millard, Britain 89, earlier edition], 4to, Howlett & Brimmer, [water-marked 1820 & 1822]. *** The fore-edge paintings depict: I. Glamis Castle in Scotland (the ancestral home of the late Queen Mother) II. Windsor Castle & Eton with the River Thames in the foreground.
![Physics.- Einstein (Albert) Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption [and] Das Prinzip von der Erhaltung der Schwer](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/410b610c-164b-4fd1-be8b-b171010c7296/2938928f-4ea3-471b-aa44-b171010ec473/468x382.jpg)
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Physics.- Einstein (Albert) Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption [and] Das Prinzip von der Erhaltung der Schwerpunktsbewegung und die Trägheit der Energie, in Annalen der Physik, fourth series, vol.20, pp.199-206 and 627-633, ink stamps of German Navy to general half-title, contemporary rexine-backed boards, paper title label to head of spine, rubbed and scuffed, Leipzig, Barth, 1906; and vol.35 of the same, with 2 further articles by Einstein, 8vo (2) *** Important papers on light, radiation and heat.
Lot 144
Southey (Robert) The Life of Nelson, 2 vol., first edition, first issue with p.258 in vol.2 incorrectly numbered, half-title to vol.2 only, frontispieces, advertisements at end, light offsetting to titles, very light foxing, contemporary half morocco, corners bumped, a little rubbed, [Cowie 139], 8vo, 1813.
Lot 120
City of London.- Advice to the Livery-Men of London: shewing that it is for their Interest and Honour, to chuse Merchants in Trade, for their Representatives in Parliament..., only edition, with final advertisement leaf (not called for in ESTC), light staining, slight loss to lower inner margin of title and advertisement leaf (repaired not affecting text), modern cloth, spine slightly faded, [Not in Goldsmiths' or Kress], for A.Baldwin, 1713 § [Corporation of London. Court of Common Council]. Addresses presented...to the King..., [1778]; Addresses, Remonstrances, and Petitions; commencing the 24th of June, 1769..., [1778] bound with Petition (A) of the Freeholders of the County of Middlesex, presented to His Majesty, the 24th of May, 1769, together 3 works in 1 vol. (as often, the last mentioned bound second), first editions, bookplate removed from front pastedown, contemporary sprinkled calf, a little rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine preserving old red morocco label, Henry Fenwick; and another on the livery, 8vo (3) *** The first is rare, with ESTC listing only 4 UK copies (2 BL, Longleat, Bodleian) and one in America (John Hopkins). The second volume concerns the Court of Common Council, the effective governing body of the City of London. The first two items listed include several references to the American colonies while the last relates to John Wilkes who was imprisoned for libel and barred from taking up his seat as a Member of Parliament. The radical Wilkes strongly supported the cause of the colonies against the Crown. The Lord Mayor of London, William Beckford, father of the author and art-collector, supported Wilkes and the rights of the City of London, accusing the King of interfering in the results of the election.
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Anchovies.- Young (Thomas) The Epicure: or, A treatise on The Essence of Anchovies, The Age and Quality Of Foreign Wines, British Wines and Brandy...making Cyder and Perry, first edition, woodcut plan of orchard at p.68, lacking K3&4 (supplied in good facsimile), occasional spotting, lightly browned, modern light brown morocco-backed marbled boards by John Gardner of Borough Green, small black morocco label to spine, [Gabler G43350; Simon Vinaria p.253], Printed by B. McMillan, 1815; and a defective George Read on cookery, confectionery, and pickling, [1854], 8vo & 12mo (2) *** Rare, with only one copy recorded by Library Hub and WorldCat (National Library Wales). The title tells us that Young was 'The inventor of the essence of anchovies'.
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Sala (George Augustus) The Seven Sons of Mammon: A Story, 3 vol., first edition, half-title to vol. 1 (all called for), lacking advertisements, bookplate of James B. Pond, margins very slightly toned, the odd spot or light finger-soiling, bound in green half morocco over marbled boards by J. Larkins, spines sunned, wear to corners, rubbed, mainly to spines and extremities, t.e.g., [Wolff 6130], Tinsley Brothers, 1862. *** Rare.
Lot 145
Blake (William).- Blair (Robert) The Grave, a Poem, engraved portrait frontispiece of William Blake by Louis Schiavonetti after T. Phillips, engraved additional pictorial title and 11 plates by Schiavonetti after Blake, portrait frontispiece lightly browned, light spotting throughout affecting one or two plates, loose as issued within original blind-stamped cloth portfolio, spine a little rubbed and scuffed at ends, lacking ties, [Bentley 435E], folio, R. Ackermann, 1813 [?1870]. *** "When Gilchrist's Life of William Blake (1863) made the artist's name familiar again, a deposit of prints left over from 1813 came to light, probably in Ackerman's storehouse. Somebody (possibly John Camden Hotten) reissued the books [...] no new title pages, no dates or places indicated; but the bindings are in mid-Victorian style, and could not have been made in the first half-century" A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake By Samuel Foster Damon.
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