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Lot 10
Dieulefils (Pierre). Indo-Chine Pittoresque & Monumentale, Ruines d'Angkor, Cambodge, Hanoi: Dieulefils, Photo Publisher, [1907], printed dedication leaf, printed title page and preface leaf, introduction (in France, English, and German), list of plates, and 67 plates (numbered 1-67), consisting of a single colour plate of King Sisowath presiding at a feast at Angkor-Wat (after Lorant Heilbronn), and 66 heliogravure plates after photographs, each with printed description in French, English and German on the tissue-guard, some light soiling to outer margins, patterned endpapers, original publisher’s brown half morocco, with upper cover lettered in gilt, rubbed and some marks and light soiling, oblong folio (textblock measures 27.5 x 38 cm), together with De Beylié (General L.). Les Ruines d'Angkor, Notice illustrée de 16 gravures, Paris: Ernest Leroux, Editeur, 1909, monochrome illustrations, including some after photographs, original printed wrappers, rubbed and somewhat soiled, some fraying to spine and outer edges, slim 4toQty: (2)Footnote: Unusual publication on the ruins of Angkor-Wat in Cambodia, from a series of three albums by Dieulefils entitled L'indochine Pittoresque et Monumentale, the others relating to Annam and Tonkin, and Siagon and Cochinchina. Dieulefils opened a photographic studio in Hanoi in 1889, and became the most famous photographer of this region. 500 copies printed, including 200 numbered copies on Holland paper.
Lot 13
Findley (Alexander George). A Directory for the navigation of the Indian Ocean, with descriptions of its Coasts, Islands, etc., from the Cape of Good Hope to the Strait of Sunda and Western Australia, including also the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; the winds, monsoons, and currents, and the passages from Europe to its various Ports, 3rd edition, London: Richard Holmes Laurie, 1876, 16 lithographed maps, mostly folding or double-page, occasional light spotting, map facing page 151 (Passages over the Indian Ocean) torn without loss to upper edge, final map (Colombo) bound facing page 920 (not page 928 as listed), upper inner hinge partly cracked, original blind-stamped maroon cloth gilt, rubbed and frayed with some wear to joints and head and foot of spine and outer corners, thick 4toQty: (1)Footnote: A substantial work on navigation, covering the Arabian peninsula, and the Indian Ocean from the Cape of Good Hope to Australia. This third edition incorporates according to the note appended to the preface 'much new information... gained by Government survey of the coasts of the Cape Colony and Natal, also of Zanzibar Island, the Gulf of Suez and the Mekran Coasts... The Western Coast of India is described from the Directions for the West Coast of India drawn up by the surveyor, Commander Taylor, in the year 1866'
Lot 14
Grey (John Henry). China. A History of the laws, manners, and customs of the people, edited by William Gow Gregor, 1st edition, two volumes, London: McMillan & Co., 1878, 140 monochrome illustrations, four leaves to second volume with minor damage to blank fore-edge (caused by the careless cutting of the uncut pages), upper inner hinge to first volume neatly re-strengthened, top edge gilt, original blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed, bookplate of Shrubland Hall, and booksellers ticket of Kelly & Co., Yokohama to front pastedown of each volume, 8vo, together with Gundry (R. S.). China Present and Past, Foreign intercourse, progress and resources, the missionary question, etc., 1st edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1895, partly uncut, folding coloured map at rear, original light brown cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed and some minor marks, 8vo, plus United States Commissioners in China. The Executive Documents, printed by order of the Senate of the United States, Second Session, Thirty-Fifth Congress, 1858-'59, and Special Session of the Senate of 1859, 2 volumes, Washington: William A. Harris, 1859, 1424 pages of main text, matching contemporary calf, rubbed and some wear to joints of the second volume, each volume titled to spine labels Senate Documents, volumes 8 & 9, 8voQty: (5)
Lot 15
Brown (Robert Neal Rudmose, R.C. Mossman, and J.H. Harvey Pirie). The Voyage of the "Scotia" - Being a Record of a Voyage of Exploration in Antarctic Seas. By Three of the Staff, 1st edition, London: William Blackwood, 1906, inscribed at head of title to George Lockhart Ross 'from his ever affecte. old friends "The Trio" , Christmas 1906', half-title, 59 plates after photographs, 3 maps (including 2 folding), some light spotting, original publisher's pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, white lettering and blocking to spine no longer visible (as often), extremities very slightly rubbed, 8voQty: (1)Footnote: Rosove 50. A scarce presentation copy from all three authors ("the trio"), most likely inscribed to George Lockhart Ross in Mossman's hand. The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition was immensely successful within the scientific sphere, establishing the first meteorological base in the Antarctic as well as discovering important biological and geological specimens.
Lot 171
Yorkshire. Speed (John), The West Ridinge of Yorkshyre with the most famous and fayre Citie Yorke describe, Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676], hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plan of York, central fold strengthened on verso, the whole backed with archival tissue, 385 x 515 mm, English text on verso, mounted, together with Jansson (Jan). Ducatus Eboracensis pars Orientalis. The East Riding of Yorke Shire, Amsterdam, circa 1660, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, some overall spotting and light toning, 385 x 505 mm, French text on verso, mountedQty: (2)
Lot 19
Hawkesworth (John) Cook (James). An Account of the Voyages undertaken by Order of His Present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, 2nd edition, 3 volumes, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773, 52 engraved plates (42 folding, many loosely tipped in & bound out of sequence), including the folding map of the Straits of Magellan, occasional spotting, some leaves toned, light offsetting, rear leaves of volume 3 heavily damp-stained, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked (volume 3 with original spine), both boards to volume 3 detached, boards rubbed, spine to volume 3 worn with loss (including lacking title & volume labels), extremities worn, 4to together with circa 30 loose plates from Cook's first voyage (plates from 1st or 2nd edition?)Qty: (circa 30)Footnote: Hill p.139. Sabin 30934. A second edition of Cook's first voyage to the South Pacific, edited by John Hawkesworth. The Straits of Magellan map was not included in the first edition. Volume one documents the voyages of Byron, Wallis and Carteret. Important expeditions with groundbreaking discoveries, Wallis discovered Tahiti and Carteret identified Pitcairn Island among other atolls. The subsequent two volumes document Cook's Endeavour expedition, in which charted "5000 miles on coastline under great difficulties" (Hill p.139). He was the first to circumnavigate New Zealand and discovered and charted New South Wales. Sold not subject to return.
Lot 2
Biggs (Thomas, Hope, Theodore C & Fergusson, James). Architecture at Ahmedabad, The Capital of Goozerat, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1866, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, 2 maps, 120 albumen prints, occasional spotting, light dust-soiling, first 3 leaves stuck down at gutter, text block separated from backstrip, bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown, one plate loosely tipped-in, one plate reinserted on stub, original publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, lacking head and tail caps, joints cracked, some wear to extremities, 4toQty: (1)Footnote: Gernsheim 332. An early and important photographic record extensively documenting the architecture of Ahmedabad, some of which no longer exists. The photographer, Thomas Biggs, was the official photographer to the Government of India, the first to hold the position.
Lot 211
Betancourt (Philip P., Vassos Karageorghis & others). Meletemata. Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as he enters his 65th year (Aegaeum 20), 3 volumes, Universite de Liege/University of Texas, 1999, colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth, dustwrappers, 4to, together with 9 others in the Aegaeum series: Thanatos. Les Coutumes Funeraires en Egee a l'Age du Bronze, edites par Robert Laffineur (Aegaeum 1), 1987 (in wrappers), New Light on Gournia, by Vasso Fotou (Aegaeum 9), 1993 (in wrappers), The Minoan Roundel, by Erik Hallager, (Aegaeum 14), 2 volumes, 1996 (in wrappers), and Aegaeum 17-18, 23 & 30-31, 1998-2009, mostly 4toQty: (12)
Lot 224
Burton-Brown (Theodore). Studies in third millennium history, 1st ed., 1946, few illustrations to text, occasional light scattered spotting, contemporary cloth, 8vo, together with: Excavations in Azarbaijan, 1948, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1951, monochrome plates and illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, ring mark and spotting to dust jacket, large 8vo, Early Mediterranean Migrations, an essay in archaeological interpretation, 2nd impression, Manchester: University Press, 1961, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, Third Millenium Diffusion, volume I of Diffusion of Ideas, 1st edition, Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Holywell Press Ltd. for T. Burton-Brown, [1971], monochrome plates, original cloth in dust jacket (with a duplicate of the same title, 550 copies printed), Second Millennium Archaeology, 1st edition, Woodstock, Oxfordshire: T. Burton-Brown, 1978, front free endpaper inscribed by the author, original boards in dust jacket, 8vo, Diffusion of Ideas volume III Westward Migration, 1st edition, Woodstock, Oxfordshire: T. Burton-Brown, 1983, original boards in dust jacket, 8vo, and two others by Theodore Burton-Brown, Barlekin, 1981, and On early sculpture,1984Qty: (9)
Lot 227
Chandler (Richard). Travels in Greece: Or an Account of a Tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti, 1st edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1776, 7 engraved maps and plans, a few folding, some offsetting and light spotting, armorial bookplate of William Constable F.R.S & F.A.S. (1721-1791), of Burton Constable, Yorkshire, art collector, antiquarian and naturalist, all edges red, contemporary tan calf gilt, spine a little rubbed and faded, 4toQty: (1)Footnote: Blackmer 319. Not in Atabey. "Chandler's account of Greece is rather hurried compared to his account of Asia Minor. However, the account of Athens is very important; it was the most detailed that had yet appeared, and Chandler also made the first public announcement of the discovery of the temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae. This information was given to him at the lazaretto at Zakynthos by Joachim Bocher, the French architect who had discovered it." (Blackmer).
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Lot 231
Corpus der Minoischen und Mykenischen Siegel. By Friedrich Matz, Hagen Biesantz [and others], 12 volumes, 1964-2002, comprising: Band I; Band II Teil 1, 2, 5, 6, & 8 (1 & 2); Band V Teil 1 & 2; Band VII; Beiheft 1 & 3, numerous monochrome illustrations, some folding maps or plans, original gilt-lettered cloth, occasional light fading, 4toQty: (12)
Lot 233
Davis (Theodore M.). Theodore M. Davis' Excavations: Biran el Molok, 4 volumes:The Tomb of Thoutmosis IV, 1904; The Tomb of Hatshopsitu, 1906; The Tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou, 1907; The Tomb of Queen Tiyi, 1910, chromolithograph and half-tone illustrations, Tomb of Hatshopsitu frontispiece detaching, some light spotting, The Tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou with cut and pasted inscription "A. Gauthier, Novembre 1908" to front endpaper (Henri Gauthier, 1877-1950, French Egyptologist), ownership inscriptions of MSF Hood, 1960, contemporary red half morocco, joints and edges a little rubbed, 4toQty: (4)Footnote: Theodore M. Davis (1838-1915) was an American lawyer who sponsored important excavations in the Valley of the Kings from 1902-1914, conducted by Howard Carter, Gaston Maspero, Edward Ayrton, E. Howard Jones and others, discovering some 30 tombs, but after failing in his quest to find an intact royal tomb (he was only two metres away from discovering the entrance to KV62, Tutankhamun's tomb) the concession for excavations there passed on to Lord Carnavon in 1915.
Lot 234
Dawkins (R.M., editor). The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta, London: Macmillan and Co., 1929, The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, supplementary paper no.5, numerous illustrations and plates (few colour), folding charts and plans (scarce light spotting), original cloth, a trifle rubbed, dust jacket, worn with loss, 4to, together with Sanders (Jan Motyka, editor), Philolakon: Lakonian Studies in honour of Hector Catling, London: British School at Athens, 1992, illustrations, original pictorial boards, 4to, plus Woodward (A.M., & Hobling, M.B.), Excavations at Sparta, 1924-1925, reprinted from the Annual of the British School at Athens no.XXVI, 1923-1925 [cover title], some illustrations and folding plans, final text leaf spotted, original cloth-backed printed boards, dust-soiled and rubbed with a little wear to extremities, 4to, and two others relatedQty: (5)
Lot 239
Evans (Arthur). The Palace of Minos. A comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos, 4 volumes in 6, plus Index volume, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1921-36, numerous plates, plans and illustrations, many colour and folding, folding plans contained in rear pockets of volumes II part II-volume IV part II (folding plan A in volume II part II rear pocket reinforced to verso), a few minor spots to a few folding plates, previous owner signature of M.S.F. Hood, press cuttings pasted to volume I front endpaper, top edge gilt, original blue cloth gilt, volume I joints split, spine ends rubbed, some light edge wear, large 8voQty: (7)Footnote: A full set including the Index volume, often not found of Evans' exhaustive excavation and restoration of the ruins at Knossos.The index is a reprint of the 1936 original.
Lot 240
Evans (Arthur J.). The Mycenaean Tree and Pillar Cult and its Mediterranean relations with illustrations from recent Cretan finds, 1st edition, London: Macmillan & Co.,1901, single colour plate, monochrome illustrations, original maroon cloth gilt, contemporary inscription to front endpaper 'C. E. M. Fry from his Father, Feby. 2nd 1902', large 8vo, together with The Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos, I. The Cemetery of Zafer Papoura, II. The Royal Tomb of Isopata, London: B. Quaritch, 1906, monochrome plates and illustrations, original pale red cloth gilt, a little rubbed and faded to spine and outer edges, 4to, plus The Shaft Graves and Bee-Hive Tombs of Mycenae and their interrelation, 1st edition, London: Macmillan & Co., 1929, monochrome plates and illustrations, author's manuscript presentation inscription to 'Mrs P. de Jong with kind regards from Arthur Evans, June 15the 1929', to front pastedown, original maroon cloth gilt, large 8vo, and others by and relating to Arthur Evans, including Mycenaean Cyprus as Illustrated in the British Museum Excavations, 1900, Essai de Classification des Epoques de la Civilisation Minoenne, edition revisée, B. Quaritch, 1906 (original printed wrappers), The Earlier Religion of Greece in the Light of Cretan Discoveries, 1931 (with author's presentation copy to R. W. Macan dated Christmas 1931), A Handbook to the Palace of Minos at Knossos, by J. D. S. Pendlebury, with a foreword by Sir Arthur Evans, 1933 (with dustwrapper, and inscribed to front endpaper 'Piet de Jong from HWP & J. D. S. P[endlebury], Knossos, April 1933'), Essays in Aegean Archaeology, presented to Sir Arthur Evans in honour of his 75th birthday, editied by S. Casson, Oxford, 1927, and six offprints from the Journal of Hellenic Studies by E. A. Gardner, A. M. Woodward, H. G. G. Payne (Archaeology in Greece, 1892, 1893-1894, 1924-25, 1925-26, 1928-29 & 1931-32), stitched as issued, the first volume with some wear, slim 8voQty: (14)
Lot 25
Leiden. Les Delices de Leide, Une des ce?le?bres villes de l'Europe, qui contiennent une description exacte de son antiquite?, de ses divers aggrandissemens, de son academie, de ses manufactures, de ses curiosite?s, & ge?ne?ralement de tout ce qu'il y a de plus digne a? voir, Leiden: Pierre Vander Aa, 1712, folding additional engraved decorative title, letterpress title in red & black, folding engraved dedication and 29 plates, maps and plans (28 folding), folding map of Leiden torn along central fold and strengthened with adhesive tape to verso, occasional marks and light dust-soiling, endpapers renewed, near contemporary half calf marbled boards with modern buckram reback spine and skiver labels, 8vo, together with: Savoyen (Eugen von), Der Maila?ndische Feldzug, in welchem neben dem kurz-gefassten Leben des tapfern Prinzens Eugenii von Savojen vermittelst dreyer Absa?tze gewiesen werden ..., Frankfurt & Leipzig: Bey Christoph Riegel, 1702, engraved portrait frontispiece, title cropped to imprint at foot and with two holes at foot, early ownership signature to verso and remnants of label adhesion, 24 engraved folding plans (many folds strengthened with adhesive tape to verso), four engraved portrait plates, some offsetting and dust-soiling, early red wax armorial seal and ownership to upper pastedown, contemporary vellum, without silk ties to upper board, green silk ties to lower board present and worn, covers slightly rubbed and dust-soiled, 12mo, Bettinelli (Giuseppe, publisher), Protogiornale per l'anno bissestile MDCCLXXVI ad uso della serenissima dominante Città di Venezia ... decenio secondo N. II, 2 parts in one, Venice: Giuseppe Bettinelli, 1720, engraved frontispiece, decorative floral pastepaper pastedowns, contemporary mottled sheep, slim 8voQty: (3)
Lot 270
Pashley (Robert). Travels in Crete, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Cambridge & London, 1837, 10 lithograph plates, folding map, folding leaf of inscriptions, illustrations, occasional light spotting, stitching breaking in volume II, front hinge broken, previous owner ink stamp to pastedowns, original cloth gilt, spines faded with tears and splits along joints, 8voQty: (2)Footnote: Blackmer 1263. "First edition of this important work... Pashley spent most of 1834 in Crete, exploring it in detail. He was accompanied by Antonio Schranz, a member of the Maltese family of artists, who did the drawings... Pasley and Schranz visited practically every village, monasteries, ancient sites, etc. and have produced a detailed account of the island." (Blackmer).
Lot 283
Society of Dilettanti. Antiquities of Ionia, 5 volumes: 1821, 1797, 1840, 1881 & 1915, volume I, 1821, second revised and expanded edition, volumes II-V 1st editions, titles with engraved vignettes for volumes I & II & IV-V (detached in volumes I-II), 255 engraved plates, maps and plans, engraved head-and-tail pieces, occasional mainly light spotting and water stains, volume III hinges broken, textblock detached, original boards (volume IV in contemporary morocco-backed boards), volume II chipped with losses at head of spine, volume I torn at foot, a little rubbed with light stains, folio (58 x 41 cm)Qty: (5)Footnote: Blackmer 1566; RIBA 3123. Volume I was originally published in 1769, the second revised edition, present here, was published in 1821 with eight extra plates; volumes V, 1915, is the supplement to volume III, the engravings of which were produced between 1820-1840 but the long delay in producing volume III resulted in its eventual publication after a set of proofs was given to the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1912. The Ionian Antiquities are considered to be the Society of Dilettanti's greatest contribution to archaeology. The work, originally published over 146 years is based on two missions: "The two Ionian Missions - that of Richard Chandler, Nicholas Revett and William Pars, 1764-66, and of William Gell, John Gandy and Francis Bedford in 1812-13, were a major undertaking for what was a society of amateurs, however wealthy they might be as a collective body. The decision to undertake two such missions shows an amazing dedication to the aims of archaeology in what many believed to be merely an assembly of frivolous club men. The materials collected on these missions were truly impressive, especially when one considers the difficult conditions under which the men worked." (Blackmer).
Lot 284
Spratt (Thomas Abel Brimage). Travels and Researches in Crete, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John van Voorst, 1865, folding tinted lithograph panorama of Candia, 13 tinted lithograph plates, 3 other plates, 2 folding hand-coloured plates, lithograph illustrations on india paper in text, 2 advertisements leaves, publisher's catalogue at end of volume II, occasional light offsetting and marginal toning, volume II stitching broken resulting in textblock being split in two, volume I hinges tender, original terracotta cloth gilt, volume I upper cover detached, lower joint splitting, edges rubbed, 8voQty: (2)Footnote: Blackmer 1590. "Spratt, already known as the author of Travels in Lycia, 1847, became director of the Mediterranean Survey in 1851, and at that time began the survey of Crete. This work was interrupted by the Crimean War and was not finished until c. 1860. The results of the survey were published as Sailing Directions for the Island of Candia, 1861, while Spratt's archaeological and ethnographical interests spurred him on to produce the important Travels in Crete which contains an extremely detailed account of the island including an appendix describing the Cretan dialect as compared to Modern Greek, by Viscount Strangford. The interesting plates are by J. Schranz (either Joseph or Giovanni) after sketches by Spratt." (Blackmer).
Lot 29
Marryat (Frank S.). Borneo and the Indian Archipelago. With drawings of costume and scenery, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848, colour lithograph frontispiece, additional title, and 20 tinted and coloured lithographed plates, illustrations, stitching breaking, a few leaves detaching, some light spotting, original red cloth gilt, spine a little darkened, lower joint splitting, tears and chips at ends, large 8voQty: (1)Footnote: Abbey, Travel 549; Hill p. 1088.
Lot 295
Woolley (C. Leonard). Ur Excavations, Volume II, The Royal Cemetery (Text/Plates) & Volume V, The Ziggurat and its Surroundings, British Museum/University of Pennsylvania, 1934-36, numerous colour and half-tone illustrations, several folding, occasional light spotting, previous owner signature of M.S.F. Hood, original cloth-backed boards, Royal Cemetery volumes with small tear and hole to spines, volume V with small signature in initials and small stains, 4to, together with T. Eric Peet's The Great Tomb-Robberies of the Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty, 2 volumes (text/plates), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1930, 8vo & folio, and M.E.L. Mallowan's Nimrud and its Remains, 2 volumes plus atlas, 1966 contained in original slipcaseQty: (8)
Lot 296
Xanthoudides (Stephanos). The Vaulted Tombs of Mesara. An account of some early cemeteries of Southern Crete, London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 1924, 62 monochrome plates, some soot marks to fore-edge, sewing weak in places, original cloth-backed boards, browned and marked, 4to, together with: Schäfer (Jörg), Amnisos nach den archäologischen, historischen und epigraphischen zeugnissen des altertums und der neuzeit, 2 volumes (text & plates), Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1995, monochrome plates, folding plans, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, Warren (Peter), Myrtos, an early Bronze Age settlement in Crete, 1st edition, [London]: Thames & Hudson, 1972, monochrome plates, original cloth in slightly torn dust jacket, 4to, Sakellarakis (Yannis & Sapounda-Sakellaraki (Efi), Archanes, Minoan Crete in a new light, 2 volumes, [Athens]: Ammos Publications: Eleni Nakou Foundation, 1997, colour & monochrome illustrations, original printed wrappers, contained together in original slipcase, 4to, Hall (Edith H.), Excavations in Eastern Crete Sphoungaras, University of Pennsylvania, The Anthropological Publications, volume 3 nos. 2 & 3 in one, Philadelphia: University Museum, 1912-14, and Seager (Richard B.), volume 7, no.1, Philadelphia: University Museum, 1916, monochrome plates and illustrations, contemporary cloth-backed boards and full cloth, 4to, plus ten others relatedQty: (18)
Lot 298
Zervos (Christian). L'Art de la Crete Neolithique et Minoenne, Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 1956, numerous plates, some colour, front hinge cracked, original cloth, somewhat dust-soiled, some wear to extremities, folio, together with: L'Art des Cyclades ..., Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 1957, numerous plates, few colour, original cloth, some spotting, dust jacket, worn with loss, folio, plus Sakellarakis (Yannis, & Sapouna-Sakellaraki, Efi), Archanes: Minoan Crete in a New Light, 2 volumes, [Athens]: Ammos Publications, 1997, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, original wrappers, slightly rubbed, minor surface abrasion to volume 2 rear cover near fore-edge, 4toQty: (4)
Lot 299
Barry (Edward). Observations historical, critical, and medical, on the wines of the ancients. And the analogy between them and the modern wines, with general obsevations on the principles and qualities of water, and in particular on those of Bath, 1st edition, London: T. Cadell, 1775, engraved frontispiece (bound between pages 160 & 161, A4 & Y1, inline with binder's instructions), title with engraved vignettes (with library ink stamp), faint ink stamp to final leaf, occasional minor spotting to few leaves, bookplate to upper pastedown with motto 'sub Robore virtus' (possibly that of Frederick William Cosens 1819-1889), modern 18th century style half calf with marbled sides, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, 4to, together with: Oliver (William), A Practical Essay on the use and abuse of warm bathing in gouty cases, by William Oliver, M.D. F.R.S. of Bath, 2nd edition, with additions, Bath: printed by T. Boddely for James Leake & Wm. Frederick, 1753, half-title slightly torn to upper inner blank corner with few repairs, light dust-soiling to first & last leaves, bookplate of John Kent Spender to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, late 19th century half morocco, joints and extremities slighlty rubbed, 8voQty: (2)
Lot 300
Becon (Thomas). The flower of godlye praiers, verie necessarye to be vsed of the faithfull Christians in these our dayes for the sauegarde, health and comfort of all degrees and estates / newly made by Thomas Becon, Imprinted at London over Aldersgate beneth S. Martins by John Day, 1561, woodcut border to title with portrait to verso (border to rector trimmed), black letter text, decorative woodcut initials, woodcut illustration to verso of final leaf, lacking 18 leaves (fol. 81-98), C1 torn with slight loss to lower outer corner, occasional marginalia and marks, bound with at front a defective copy of The pomaunder of prayer, newly made by Thomas Becon, 1561, initial six leaves with diminishing large hole to centre (repaired), woodcut border throughout, woodcut illustration to verso of final leaf, some soiling and marks, mid 19th century calf with blind decoration, rubbed, 8vo (STC 1720.5 & 1746), together with: Gentillet (Innocent), An apology or defence for the Christians of Frau[n]ce which are of the eua[n]gelicall or reformed religion, for the satisfiing of such as wil not live in peace and concord with them. Whereby the purenes of the same religion in the chiefe poyntes that are in variance, is euidently shewed, not onely by the holy scriptures, and by reason: but also by the Popes owne canons. Written to the king of Nauarre and translated out of french into English by Sir Iherom Bowes Knight, London: Printed by John Day, 1579, black letter text, lacking A1 (initial blank?), title torn with loss of text, following 11 leaves repaired to outer blank corners, final four leaves repaired to outer blank corners, some dust-soiling, early 20th century dark green morocco by W. E. Bramhall, upper joint rubbed, slight fading, small 8vo (STC 11742), Worthington (John), The great duty of self-resignation to the divine will, London: printed by A.C. for Walter Kettilby, 1675, dust-soiling and spotting, contemporary calf, rubbed, and light wear, 8vo, Goodwin (Thomas), A Discourse of the punishment of sin in hell; demonstrating the wrath of God to be the immediate cause thereof..., London: Jonathan Robinson, 1680, early ownership signature at head of title struck through, initial two leaves detached, some dust-soiling and few marks, contemporary calf, upper board detached, worn, 8vo, and other late 16th century-early 18th century antiquarian, some defective & incompleteQty: (11)
Lot 301
Bion (Nicolas). The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments, translated from the French... by Edmund Stone, 1st edition in English, London: printed by H.W. for John Senex, 1723, title printed in red and black, 26 folding engraved plates, plates a little toned, a few leaves towards end browned, bound with A Supplement to the English Translation of Mr Bion's Construction and use of Mathematical Instruments, by Edmund Stone, London: printed for J. Richardson, 1758: continuous register, 4 folding engraved plates, some light spotting, hinges reinforced, armorial bookplate ofJoseph Townsend, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked with gilt-decorated spine, a few marks, folioQty: (1)Footnote: ESTC T162523.
Lot 302
Birmingham and the Midlands. Bernecker (C.). The Birmingham Ready Calculator, Shewing in Twenty Tables, the Sums Necessary, from One Shilling to Fifty Pounds, to Produce Real Profits, Birmingham: Pearson & Rollason, 1778, 140pp, ownership sticker to front free endpaper, front hinge cracked, contemporary half calf, front joint cracked, binding worn, 8vo, together with: Birmingham Improvement Act, May 23rd 1828, 104pp, some leaves toned, light spotting to preliminaries & final leaves, modern half calf, 4to, with Wrightson's Triennial Directory of Birmingham, Including an Alphabetical List of of the Inhabitants of the Town, Birmingham: R Wrightson, 1823, numerous plates (some folding), spotting, ownership sticker to front free endpaper, original boards, rebacked, extremities worn, boards marked & faded, 8vo, together with 5 others on Birmingham and the MidlandsQty: (8)
Lot 303
Boerhaave (Hermann). Oratio de Commendando Studio Hippocratico habita cum publicum institutiones medicas praelegendi munus in Academia Lugdunp-Batava inchoaret, editio tertia, Leiden: Joh. Arnold Langerak, 1721, title with woodcut device, 36 pp., bound with Oratio Habita in Auditorio Magno XXIV. Septembris A. MCCII. editio tertia, Leiden: H. Teering, 1730, title with woodcur device,46 pp., 4 pp Catalogus Librorum at end, bound with Oratio qua Repurgatae Medicinae facilis asseritur simplicitas, editio altera, Leiden: Joh. Arnold Langerak, 1721, title with woodcut device, 32 pp., bound with 11 other works by Boerhaave, Pieter Burman the Elder and Christianus Benjamin Vierthaler, 1715-38, including Boerhaave's Sermo Academicus de Comparando certi in physics, 1715, Sermo Academicus de Chemia suos errores expurgante, 1718, Oratio Acaddemica de vita et orbitu viri clarissimi Bernhardi Albini, 1721, Sermo Academicus , quem habut, quum, honesta missione impetrata, botanicam et chemicam, 1729, Sermo Academicus de honore medici, servitute, 1731, Opuscula Omnia, quae hactenus in lucem prodierunt, 1738, and Dissertatio Medica Inauguralis de Variolis... D. Petri Burmanni, 1731, occasional light spotting, a few leaves with damp stains towards end, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine relaid, a little rubbed and scuffed, 4toQty: (1)
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Bonneville (C. de). Les Reveries ou Memoires sur l'Art de la Guerre de Maurice Comte de Saxe, Duc de Courlande et de Semigalle, Marechal-General des arme'es de S.M.T.C. &c.&c.&c., dedies a messieurs les officiers-generaux, The Hague: Pierre Gosse, 1756, title in red & black with engraved armorial, few engraved head & tailpieces, 40 engraved plates (including 22 folding), occasional light scattered spotting and toning, sewing a little weak in places and and few leaves slightly frayed to margins, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine lacking title label (vertical splits to spine), boards detached, worn, folioQty: (1)
Lot 307
De Villemert (Bourdier). The Friend of Women, translated from the French by Alexander Morrice, London: H.D. Symonds, 1803, leaves with light marginal toning, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, front free endpaper replaced, original paper boards, rebacked, extremities rubbed and worn, boards marked and occasional light staining, 8voQty: (1)Footnote: A first edition of Morrice's translation, it was followed by an American edition published in 1803. Scarce, we cannot trace a copy appearing at auction. Copac lists three copies held institutionally (two at Cambridge University, one at The National Library of Scotland). Worldcat only lists one (British Library).
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Melton (Edward). Engelsch Edelmans, Zeldzaame en Gedenkwaardige Zee-en Land-Reizen; door Egypten, West-Indien, Perzien, Turkyen, Oost-Indien, en d'aangrenzende gewesten... Aangevangen in den jaare 1660. en geeindigd in den jaare 1677..., 1st edition, Amsterdam: Jan ten Hoorn, 1681, additional engraved title, 19 engraved plates including 5 folding by Jan Luiken and Jacob Harrewijn, p.391 with part of lower margin torn away, one or two closed tears and a few light water stains, previous owner signature of D.L. Cumming to front endpaper, eighteenth-century mottled calf, spine with red label and gilt decoration in compartments, small chip at head of spine, corners rubbed, small 4toQty: (1)Footnote: Sabin 47472. "A compilation of accounts from various sources, attributed to Godofridus van Broekhuizen, a professional translator... Edward Melton is considered to be either a pseudonym or fictitious. The part relating to Egypt was identified as a translation of Johann Michael Wansleben's 'Nouvelle relation en forme de journal, d'un voyage fait en Egypte' (Paris, 1677). The part relating to New Netherland is an abridgement of Adraen van der Donck's 'Beschrijvinge van Nieuw-Nederlant' (Amsterdam, 1655), with the introduction to that part being taken from Arnoldos Montanus's 'De nieuw en onbekende weereld' (Amsterdam, 1671). The account of the West Indies is in part taken from Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin's 'Die Americaensche zee-rooveres' (Amsterdam, 1678)." (British Library). "His travels in the West Indies relate partly to the buccaneers. The chapter on New Netherland is made up from Van der Donck and A. Montanus. All the natural productions of the country are described, and the names given in the Indian dialect of Guyana, with occasional observations on the pronunciation of the words...Several of the plates are by the celebrated Jan Luiken and are among his best productions; one of them is a view of the Cohoes Falls in the Mowhawk river." (Sabin).
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* Du Choul (Guillaume). Discours de la religion des anciens Romains, de la castramentation & discipline militaire d'iceux, des bains & antiques exercitations Grecques & Romaines..., 2 parts in one, Lyon: Guillaume Rouille, 1567, printer's woodcut device to title and armorial to verso, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout, occasional light damp stains and scattered spotting, late 17th century calf, rebacked preserving original spine with gilt embossed crest, later morocco title label and with date in gilt at foot, 4toQty: (1)Footnote: Adams D1025.
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John Chrysostom (Saint). D. Ioan. Chrysostomi in sanctum Iesu Christi Euangelium secundu Matthaeum commentarii..., Paris: Mathurinum Dupuys, 1547, early 17th century ownership to title and final leaf, light damp staining to initial leaves, running titles at head slightly close-trimmed, bound with Johannes (Chrysostomus), Passio Domini nostri Iesu Christi secundum Matthaeum in decem Homilias divisa, Parisiis Dupuys 1547, printer's woodcut device to title, with early signature to title and final leaf, some damp staining and loss of print to part of two leaves, contemporary mottled vellum, 8vo, together with: Beaugue? (Jean de), L'histoire de la guerre d'Escosse, traitant comme le royaume fut assailly, & en gra?d' partie occupe? par les Anglois..., Paris: Vincent Sertenas, 1556, fore-margin of title slightly torn (light soiling), decorative initials (two crudely inked over), fore-margin of final leaf of text and final blank with burn damage (not affecting text), toning, occasional marks and light dust-soiling, 18th century calf, joints cracked and extremities rubbed, 8vo, Corrozet (Gilles), Le thresor des histoires de France. Reduit par tiltres, en forme de lieux communs, Paris: Jean Corrozet, 1638, printer's woodcut device to title, light dust-soiling and scattered spotting, contemporary limp vellum, covers loosening, 8vo, Garet (Jean), De sanctorum inuocatione liber: in quo orthodoxorum partrum testimonijs asseritur, Ghent: Gislenus Manilius, 1570, decorative border to title with woodcut armorial to verso, printer's woodcut device to verso of final leaf, title and following leaf trimmed to upper blank margin, light dust-soiling, contemporary limp vellum, fore-edge of upper cover trimmed, without ties, old sewn repair to lower cover, light dust-soiling, 8vo, and four other 17th & 18th century antiquarianQty: (8)
Lot 316
Harris (John). Remarks of some late papers, relating to the universal deluge: and to the natural history of the Earth, London: R. Wilkin, 1697, occasional light dust-soiling, contemporary blind panelled calf, joints cracked, spine lacking title label and with small area of leather loss, 8vo, together with: [Wilson, John], The Cheats. A comedy: written in the year, M.DC.LXII, 3rd edition, London: printed by James Rawlins for John Wright, Moses Pitt, Thomas Sawbridge & Gabriel Collins, 1684, [8], 64pp., some browning and scattered spotting, 20th century wrappers, slim 4toQty: (2)
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Hooker (Richard). Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: Will. Stansby [for Matthew Lowndes, 1611], engraved architectural title by William Hole, Book 5 title within woodcut border, without final blank, occasional light spotting and soiling, a few small wormholes and tracks to margins, hinges breaking, ownership signature of D.L. Cumming, later mottled calf gilt, manuscript label at head of spine, upper joint splitting, some worming to lower covers, folio (ESTC S119096), together with Bacon (Francis). The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry the Seventh, London: printed by I.H. and R.Y., 1629, engraved title within woodcut border (with small hole,close-trimmed and shaved at foot), small ink stamp to final leaf verso, occasional light toning and soiling, D.L. Cumming signature, later cloth with old label to spine, spine toned, folio (ESTC S106900, a re-issue of the 1628 2nd edition with cancel title), plus Herbert of Cherbury (Lord Edward). The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth, 1st edition, London: printed by E.G. for Thomas Whitaker, 1649, engraved portrait frontispiece by T. Cecill, title printed in red and black, a few small annotations, small additional armorial outline to title, old inscription of D.L. Spencer? to frontispiece verso, & Parsons and Son London Library to front pastedown, D.L. Cumming signature, endpapers renewed, later panelled calf, rebacked, a little rubbed with some wear to lower corners, folio (ESTC 15909), with two others: Sir Robert Cotton's An Exact Abridgement of the Records in the Tower of London... revised... by William Prynne, 1657, and Sir Paul Rycaut's The Lives of the Popes, from the time of Our Savious Jesus Christ, to the reign of Sextus IV, 1688 (lacking portrait frontispiece)Qty: (5)
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Moore (Lieutenant Joseph & Captain Frederick Marryat). Eighteen Views taken at & near Rangoon, [1825], engraved allegorical title-dedication leaf by R. W. Smart after Thomas Stothard, aquatint leaf listing the major subscribers, with large vignette by J. Bromley after Thomas Stothard (both leaves with some spotting), six pages lithographed list of subscribers in England and India, 18 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates after Joseph Moore, numbered 1-18, and five additional plates (1-5) from Views in the Birman Empire [1826], a few marginal marks and light spotting to last few plates (generally in very good condition), paper watermarked J Whatman 1825 and 1826, light water stain to upper blank margin of some plates, generally not affecting engraved area, remains of engraved library label of the East India College Library to front pastedown, contemporary half dark green morocco gilt, rubbed, folio (text block measures 48 x 35cm)Qty: (1)Footnote: Abbey, Travel 404; Tooley 334. Plate 16 is present in its first state, with 'adjacent' in the printed caption.
Lot 320
Ireland (William Henry). The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1st edition, 4 volumes, London: John Cumberland, 1823-28, engraved vignettes to titles, 27 folding aquatint plates (all but 3 hand-coloured) by George Cruikshank, armorial bookplates of Francis Frederick Fox to front pastedowns, light marginal spotting & toning, hinges tender, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid on (some marginal loss), spines lettered in gilt, boards with gilt borders, marbled edges, boards lightly marked and rubbed, extremities worn, 8voQty: (4)
Lot 322
Jones (John). The Bathes of Bathes Ayde: wonderfull and most excellent, agaynst very many sicknesses, approved by authoritie, confirmed by reason, and dayly tryed by experience: with the antiquitie, commoditie, propertie, knowledge, use, aphorismes, diet, medicine, and other thinges therto be considered and observed. Compendiously compiled by Iohn Iones phisition. Anno salutis. 1572. At Asple Hall besydes Notting[h]am, 1st edition, London: [by Thomas East] for William Jones, 13. Maij. [1572], [8], 35 [i.e. 34], [4] leaves, decorative border to title, numeral '13' of imprint date inked out, ink spot to lower outer blank margin corner, woodcut printer's device to verso, black letter text, without two folding tables (provided in photocopy, folded & loosely inserted), leaf 34 misnumbered 35, K3 contains an address from the author and errata, printer’s name from colophon (K4), light damp staining to upper blank margins of few leaves, early 20th century sheep, morocco title label to spine, joints cracked, spine worn at head & foot, scuffed, slim 4to (18 x 12.5cm)Qty: (1)Footnote: STC (2nd ed.), 14724a.3; Wellcome 3475. This work was also issued as part 4 of the issue of "A briefe, excellent, and profitable discourse, of the naturall beginning of all growing and living things, heate, generation, effects of the spirits, government, use and abuse of phisicke, preservation, &c." (the expanded reissue, STC 14725). Jones was a Welsh physician who frequented the baths at Buxton and Bath. His patrons, Henry Herbert, earl of Pembroke and George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, are the dedicatees of these two works.
Lot 323
Manuscript land survey. A book with numbers referring to the particulars of the several maps of the manors Melbury and Fontmell, together with the hamlets of Hartgrove and West Orchard, all in the County of Dorset, shewing the quantuty of each separate parcel of land and also the several farms, lands, and tenements collected as now in the holding of each respective tenant within the said manors and hamlets the Estates of the Right Honble. Henry Lord Arundell, Baron of Wardour and Count of the Sacred Roman Empire, survey'd and valued in the year 1774 by G. Ingman, fine pen & ink calligraphic title within decorative border, 336 pages of detailed records written in very neat hand within red ruled tables, occasional 19th century pencil additions, some light browning and mottling at gutter, 19th century dark green half sheep, extremities rubbed, 4toQty: (1)Footnote: The volume includes particulars of the Manor of Melbury Abbas, also particulars of the parish of Fontmell Magna, the hamlet of Hartgrove and West Orchard, each with an alphabetical abstract of the several farms, lands and tenements in the manor.Note: This lot is subject to the Manorial Documents Rules 1959, 1963 and 1967, administered by The Historical Manuscripts Commission at The National Archives on behalf of the Master of the Rolls. Accordingly, the purchasers of the documents lie under an obligation to notify the Secretary of the Commission of their acquisition and to provide details of where they will be kept. They may in no circumstances be removed from England and Wales without the prior consent of the Master of the Rolls.
Lot 324
Manuscript Poetry. A commonplace book of manuscript poetry (mostly unpublished) possibly by Rev. William Archibald Armstrong of Pengelly Lodge, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, FSA., 5th September 1829 - 26th October 1836, approximately 370 pages, poems initialed WAA, written in a neat hand, poems include 'An argument on humility to Melba Beevor'; 'A valentine 14 February 34 to Miss M. Beevor', & 'lines addressed to my wife on leaving home and during my absence receiving the melancholy intelligence of the death of our beloved son Augustus in Annacan on the 5 of Novr. 1830 aged 20', mostly unpublished (a few were sent in & appeared in the Gentlemans Magazine), few blank leaves, bearing watermark dated 1833, colour wash borders, slightly browned, all edges gilt, original cloth, morocco title label to spine, joints splitting, light rubbing, small 4to, together with a manuscript notebook containing text of 104 hymns, dated 1798, original wrappers, small 8vo; commonplace notebook containing a miscellany of poems, notes and letters by a Edward William Cole(?), (Bermondsey?), 1813-18, original limp sheep, small 8vo, manuscript volume containing 15 Non Conformist sermons preached by a variety of preachers, written in one hand (by J.F. Pinniger) in Wiltshire, 1837-8, contemporary half sheep, lacking spine, 8vo, plus four othersQty: (8)Footnote: William Archibald Armstrong (1770-1837) was born in St Marylebone, Middlesex, the son of Edmund Armstrong and Frances Armstrong. William Archibald Armstrong married Charlotte Eleanor Mary Hussell and they had 10 children. The Armstrong family originated from CAstle GArry in Ireland. William Archibald Armstrong's poetry is of a personal nature, mentioning his devotion to Melba Beevor, daughter of MAjor General Beevor, Royal Artillery, Ramsgate. The volume includes passages relating to the death of his son Augustus of fever in India, and the death of his daughter, Avarilla Aphra, wife of Artemidorus Cromwell Russell (1803-30), a descendant of Oliver Cromwell.
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* Royal Navy. Manuscript list of Royal Navy ships, 1705, single sheet, written to one side in a neat hand in four tabled columns, listing the names of all the 279 ships in the Royal Navy in 1705, listed under the rating (one to six) and with the weight of each ship, number of crew and guns, listings total each class along with other types of ships (i.e. fire ships, hulks, hospital ships etc.), docketed in French to verso 'a leste des fregattes d'Anletterre et des ... pour l'anne 1705', folded, some early waterstains, folio (34 x 43 cm), together with: Charles II Royal Navy finances, Single sheet document signed John Shales, from the recently appointed Inspector of Excise Revenue to Charles II's First Minister, the Earl of Danby, on the issue of delayed returns into the financial state of the Navy, [London] 2nd December 1674, single sheet written in secretary hand signed by Shales, giving reference to Samuel Pepys "the charge of the Navy continues its progression to a degree far beyond the establishment which your Loxx. (Lordships) has design'd to consult Mr Pepys in & put a stopp to", addressed & docketed, folded for delivery with evidence of seal wax, folio, Royal Navy Board, A collection of five manuscript documents signed by Sir Cloudsley Shovell & others, issued to the store keeper at their Majesties Yard at Woolwich regarding supplies etc., 1693-1700, written in secretary hand, few torn, small folio, William III Army, A manuscript listing the cost of running the Army during the reign of William III, [London] November 7th 1700, 3 pages of neatly written tables comprising 92 entries listing regiments such as the Horse Guards, Light Horse, Dragoons, Langstone's Regiment of Foot, and other regiments and personal companies such as the Hanovers, and the French Reformed Officers of the Rhine etc., integral 4th page docketed, some toning, folded, folio, plus other documents, including a report on testing an instrument to assist artillery, c.1825, etc.Qty: (13)
Lot 332
Prince Charles Edward Stuart. A Full Collection of all the Proclamations and Orders published by the Authority of Charles Prince of Wales, Regent of Scotland, England, France and Ireland, and Dominions thereunto belonging. Since His arrival in Edinburgh the 17th day of September, till the 15th of October, 1745, 2 parts in one, Glasgow, 1745-46, first title and following leaf with small marginal repairs, a little minor spotting and soiling, later morocco-backed boards, slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with [Ramsay, Allan]. The Vision Compylit in Latin be a most lernit clerk, in time of our hairship and oppression, anno 1300, and translait in 1524, [Edinburgh], 1748, 15 pp., bound with [Hawley, Henry] A Few Passages shewing the sentiments of the Prince of Hesse, and General Hawley..., London, 1746, 21 pp., bound with four other Jacobite related pamphlets including The Tears of Scotland, circa 1746, 4 pp., An Account of the Behaviour of William, late Earl of Kilmarnock and Arthur, late Lord Balmerino, 1746, 8 pp., shaved affecting some text, swome spotting and light soiling overall, all bound in later half morocco, spine rubbed, 8vo, plus four others: Andrew Stuart's Genealogical History of the Stewarts, 1798 (upper cover detached), Memoirs Touching the Revolution in Scotland, MDCLXXXVII-MdCXC. by Colin Earl of Balcarres, Edinburgh: Printed for the Bannatyne Club, 1841 (with a presentation inscription from Lord Lindsay to title), Kenneth Macleay's Highlanders of Scotland, circa 1872 and Purchasers' Catalogue of the valuable contents of Culloden House, which were sold by auction by Messrs A. Fraser & Co., Inverness, Wednesday, 21st July 1897Qty: (6)
Lot 335
Sandford (Francis). A Genealogical History of the Kings of England, and Monarchs of Great Britain, from the Conquest, Anno 1066 to the year 1677, 1st edition, London: Thomas Newcomb, 1677, title printed in red and black, 5 double-page engraved plates, numerous illustrations, many full-page by Wenceslaus Hollar, Francis Barlow and Richard Gaywood, errata leaf at end, occasional light spotting and a few small annotations, contemporary ownership signature of P. Campbell at head of title, all edges gilt, later tan morocco gilt, joints and edges a little rubbed, folioQty: (1)Footnote: ESTC R8565; Wing S651.
Lot 336
Tacite (Cornelius P). Cornelii Taciti equitis Romani Annalium ab excessu Augusti sicut ipse vocat, sive Historiae Augustae, qui vulgo receptus titulus est, libri sedecim qui supersunt, partim haud oscitanter perlecti, partim nempe posteriores ad exemplar manuscriptum recogniti magna fide nec minore iudicio per Beatum Rhenanum… Basil: Officina Frobeniana, 1544, woodcut device to title, woodcut illustrations to text, marginal damp-staining to some leaves, light marginal spotting, contemporary inscription to title, hinges cracked, later sprinkled calf, lacking head & tail caps, joints cracked, boards worn, extremities rubbed (with some loss to spine extremities), 4to bound with Cvrtii Historiographi Lvcvlentissimi de Rebvs Gestis Alexandri Magni Regis Macedonvm Opvs, Ita Demvm Emendatvm Atqve, Basil: Frobeniana, 1545, with woodcut plate to verso of title, light marginal spottingQty: (1)Footnote: Scarce; only two copies traced at auction.
Lot 337
Tacitus (Cornelius P). Cornelii Taciti equitis Romani Annalium ab excessu Augusti sicut ipse vocat, sive Historiae Augustae, qui vulgo receptus titulus est, libri sedecim qui supersunt, partim haud oscitanter perlecti, partim nempe posteriores ad exemplar manuscriptum recogniti magna fide nec minore iudicio per Beatum Rhenanum… Basel: Froben, 1544, later ownership inscription to front free endpaper, annotation & sketch to title, woodcut illustrations to text, early annotation to final text leaf, sporadic spotting, later calf, worn, 4to, together with: Cailliere (Jacques de). Histoire du Mareschal de Matignon, gouverneur et lieutenant général pour le Roy en Guyenne, Paris: Augustin Courbe, 1661, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette to title, engraved plate, folding chart, occasional light spotting, later ownership inscription to front free endpaper, notations to front pastedown, bound with: Reflexions Militaires, Politiques, et Morales, Paris: Augustin Courbe, 1661, light spotting, rear blank torn with loss, later sprinkled calf, lacking most of spine (sewing exposed), boards marked & rubbed with loss to extremities, 4toQty: (2)
Lot 34
Napier (W.F.P.) The Conquest of Scinde, with some introductory passages in the life of Major-General Sir Charles Napier, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: T. & W. Boone, 1845, 6 folding maps, advertisements front and rear, some light spotting and toning, previous owner inscription at head of titles, original cloth, joints splitting, chips and tears at spine ends, 8vo, together with Marshall (William E.) A Phrenologist amongst the Todas or the Study of a Primitive Tribe in South India, history, character, customs, religion, infanticide, polyandry, language, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1873, autotype maps and illustrations, advertisements at end, previous owner inscriptions, front hinge broken, original cloth gilt, rebacked, original spine relaid, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Low (Charles Rathbone). History of the Indian Navy (1613-1863), 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1877, a little light toning, previous owner inscription, original cloth, rebacked, original spines relaid, repaired hole to volume I lower cover, some edge wear, 8vo, with others India related including The Port of Calcutta and 'The Port of Mutlah', considered in connection by a Railway or a Ship Canal, by a Member of the Mutlah Association, Calcutta, 1858, A True Translation - Akhwansaffa Excepted of the Second Edition of the Hindoostanee Selections which is published by authority... Madras, 1856, A Companion to the Punchatuntram, comprising explanations and meanings of the most difficult words in the book both in Tamil and in English..., by Y. Amirthanayagam, 2nd edition, Madras, 1876, History of the Fortress of Gwalior, by Shrimant Balwant Row Bhayasaheb Scindia, Bombay, 1892, and A Full Report of the Proceedings of the Meeting in Honor of the Memory of the late Nawab Bahadur Abdool Luteef, Calcutta, 1893Qty: (16)
Lot 342
Venner (Tobias). Via Recta ad Vitam Longam. Or, A Treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthfull life, is clearly demonstrated and punctually applyed to every age and constitution of body. The fourth impression, amplified with many profitable additions. By Tob. Venner Doctor of Physick in Bathe. Whereunto is annexed a very necessary and compendious treatise of the famous baths of Bathe; with a censure of the medicinal faculties of the water of St. Vincent’s Rocks near the city of Bristol. As also an accurate treatise concerning tobacco by the same author, London: printed [by T.R.] for Abel Roper, 1660, without portrait frontispiece, general title with closed tear, cropped to upper ruled border and lined to verso, dedication leaf A2 mis-signed A3 with shorter all round margins (probably supplied from another copy), A3 slightly shorter at fore-edge and restored to upper inner corner affecting last couple of letters to four lines on verso, quire C trimmed shorter at foot, occasional early marginalia, light dust-soiling, toning and few minor marks, ownership signature of bookseller W.M. Fletcher to verso of front free endpaper, late 19th century green half morocco, slightly rubbed, 4toQty: (1)Footnote: ESTC R203873; Wing V196; Thomason, E.1036[1]. The fourth edition of the work, published in the year of the author's death at the age of 83. "A briefe and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume tobacco", originally published in 1621, and "The baths of Bathe" (1628) each have a separate title page dated 1660. Venner was a Somerset physician and his treatise on tobacco deplores its recreational use, but recommends it as a means of improving digestion and countering the malign effects of cold, misty weather and contagious air. Venner had a seasonal practice in Bath from as early as 1613; he was the first to write exclusively about the city's spa. His medical advice is generally traditional, discussing how the six "non-naturals" (environment, diet, sleep, exercise, excretion and the passions of the mind) affect the balance of the four humours, though he advocates bran to prevent constipation, and regular cleaning of the teeth to prevent tooth decay and bad breath. He also cautions against using lead pipes for drinking water.
Lot 348
Control Magazine. Issues 2, 3, 4, 5, edited by Stephen Willats, 1966-69, numerous monochrome illustrations, original wrappers, no.2 rubbed and marked to covers, light marking and spotting to covers of other issues, 4to, together with American Fabrics. Issues 55, 60, 62, 112, 96, 114, 95, 48, 36, and 50, 1961-78, original pictorial paper wrappers, extremities bumped and worn (with occasional loss), folioQty: (14)
Lot 349
Fletcher (William Younger). Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1896, chromolithograph plates, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original cloth, frayed and worn to joints and extremities, some fading, folio (limited edition 325/500), together with: Bayley (Harold), A new light on the Renaissance displayed in contemporary emblems, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1909, illustrations to text, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary vellum with yapp fore-edges, gilt-blocked emblem to spine and upper cover, spine mottled, large 8vo, Blackburn (Henry), The Art of Illustration, London: W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd., 1894, monochrome frontispiece, plates and illustrations, original two-tone cloth, extremities rubbed, 8vo, McDonnell (Joseph) & Healy (Patrick), Studies in the History of Irish Bookbinding: I. Gold-tooled bookbinding commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the eighteenth century, 1st edition, Kildare, Ireland: Irish Georgian Society, 1987, colour & monochrome plates, original cloth in dust-jacket, folio, McLean (Ruari), Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Paper, 1st edition, London: Gordon Fraser, 1983, colour & monochrome plates and illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, in glassine dust jacket, large slim 8vo, plus others by Ruari McLean, including Victorian book design and colour printing, 1967; Victorian publishers' book-bindings in cloth and leather, 1974; and Joseph Cundall, a Victorian publisher, 1976, together with four other book & bibliography relatedQty: (12)
Lot 35
Neale (Frederick Arthur). Narrative of a Residence at the Capital of the Kingdom of Siam; with a description of the manners, customs and laws of the modern Siamese, 1st edition, London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852, wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title with vignette, map, illustrations, advertisements at end, frontispiece, additional title and one plate detached, a little light spotting, previous owner signature, hinges broken, textblock detached, original blindstamped cloth gilt, spine faded, light dust soiling to margins, 8vo, together with Thomas Witlam Atkinson's Oriental and Western Siberia, 1858 (defective, lacking several text leaves at end, although all 20 lithographed plates and the map are present), original green cloth gilt, some stains and wear, thick 8voQty: (2)
Lot 350
Great Exhibition. Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue, 3 volumes, London: Spicer Brothers, 1851, numerous illustrations, a few colour and folding, advertisements at end of volume I, occasional light spotting, original ticket for entry to the Exhibition on 13th & 14th October 1851 issued to M. Digby Wyatt loosely inserted in volume I, all edges gilt, original blue blindstamped cloth, upper covers blocked in gilt, spines a little darkened, small splits to lower joint of volume II, 4to, together with Reports of the Juries on the subjects in the thirty classes into which the exhibition was divided, 1852, presentation copy to J. Dise Esq. with the compliments of Messrs. G. Clowes, October 1852, uniformly bound, plus 2 others: The Illustrated Exhibitor, a tribute to the world's industrial jubilee; comprising sketches, by pen and pencil of the principal objects in the Great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations 1851, [1851], and The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the Industry of all Nations 1851, large 4toQty: (6)Footnote: A Supplemental volume (not present here) was issued in 1851 and contained the Reports of the Royal Commissioners and Appendices.
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Gruner (Lewis). Specimens of Ornamental Art, selected from the best models of the classical epochs, Atlas volume only, London: Thomas M'Lean, 1850, 80 plates including 49 chromolithograph and 7 tinted lithographs, title and dedication laid down, library stamp at foot of each plate, some tears, repairs, marginal fraying and occasional spotting and light soiling, modern faux morocco, atlas folio, 640 x 515 mmQty: (1)
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Herbert (Henry, publisher). The Buyers' Guide to the Manufacturing Towns and Manufacturers of Great Britain, 1873, numerous advertisements, endpapers renewed, original half calf gilt, rebacked, some wear to corners, 4to, together with Scott (W. B.).The Ornamentist, or Artisan's Manual in the Various Branches of Ornamental Art, London, Dublin & Edinburgh, 1845, numerous lithograph illustrations, occasional light spotting and stains, contemporary half morocco, rubbed with losses to spine, 4to, plus Cassell's Illustrated Exhibitor... with letter-press descriptions of all the principal objects in the International Exhibition of 1862, 1862, numerous monochrome illustrations, presentation inscription, all edges gilt, original decorative cloth gilt, spine faded, 4to, with 3 others: The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition 1862, The Illustrated Catalogue of the Paris International Exhibition 1878, and The Art Journal. The Paris Exhibition 1900, 1901Qty: (6)Footnote: The Ornamentist, or Artisan's manual in the various branches of ornamental art: being a series of designs selected from the works of Dietterlin, Berain, Blondell, Meisonier, Le Pautre, Zahn, Boetticher, and the best French and German ornamentalists; with an introductory essay on ornamental art by W.B. Scott, of the Government School of Design, Newcastle.
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