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Lot 104
Rapin de Thoyras (Paul). Histoire d'Angleterre, contenant ce qui s'est passé depuis l'Invasion de Jules Cesar, jusqu'à la Conquete des Normans [l'avenement de George I a la couronne. Contenant les dix dernieres Annees du Regne d'Anne], volumes 1-12 only (of 13), The Hague: Alexandre de Rogissart, 1724-35, half-titles, titles with engraved vignette, frontispiece to volume 1, seven folding engraved maps, 2 portrait plates, numerous tables and genealogies (some folding), engraved head & tailpieces, some light toning and spotting, armorial bookplate to upper pastedowns of volumes 1-10, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines (volumes 11 & 12 spine decoration near matching to other volumes), upper joint of volume 6 repaired, slight wear to head & foot of spines, slightly rubbed, 4toQty: (12)
Lot 106
Reid (Thomas). Essays on the Active Powers of Man, 1st edition, Edinburgh: John Bell; London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1788, [7], 493, [2] pp., half-title present, early ownership signature A. Leslie to upper blank margin of title, light damp staining mostly to lower outer corners, some light dust-soiling and occasional scattered spotting, adhesive smudge to front pastedown, top edge gilt, 20th century red half morocco, gilt panelled and decorated spine, light wear to lower outer corner of upper board, red cloth sides slightly scuffed, 4toQty: (1)NOTESESTC T109117. Thomas Reid (1710-1796) succeeded Adam Smith in the chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh in 1764, and his later admirers included Dugald Stewart and Schopenhauer. This is his second major work, following Essays on Intellectual Powers of Man, and likewise derived from his lectures.
Lot 108
Revenue & customs. An Act for continuing of the excise till the five and twentieth day of December, One thousand six hundred and sixty, London: Printed by John Bill & Christopher Barker, 1660, bound with An Act for preventing frauds, and regulating abuses in His Majesties Customs, London: Printed by John Bill & Christopher Barker, 1662, bound with An Act for establishing an additional revenue upon His Majesty; His heirs and successors, for the better support of his and their crown and dignity, London: Printed by John Bill & Christopher Barker, 1662, bound with An additional Act for the better ordering and collecting the Duty of Excise, and preventing the abuses therein, London: Printed by John Bill & Christopher Barker, 1663, bound with An additional Act for the better ordering and collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-Money, London: Printed by John Bill & Christopher Barker, 1663, together five Acts of Parliament, some toning, damp staining and spotting, light dust-soiling, modern calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco title label to spine, slim folio, together with: Fox (Charles James), Fox and Pitt's speeches in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, June 8, 1784. These speeches (which are an abridgement of all the arguments of both parties, upon (the business of the Westminster scrutiny, and contain the accusation of government by the former, and the defence of it by the latter leader ) are preceded by a brief impartial detail of the progress and proceedings in this affair..., London: J. Debrett, 1784, scattered spotting, contemporary half calf, rebacked, 8vo, [Nugent, Robert Craggs, 1st earl], Farther considerations upon a reduction of the land-tax: together with a state of the annual supplies of the sinking-fund, and of the national debt, at various future periods, and in various suppositions, London: R. Griffiths, 1751, half-title, light toning and occasional light spotting, modern cloth-backed marbled boards, 8vo, [Kington, John Barnett], Thirty letters on the trade of Bristol, the causes of its decline and means of its revival; by A. Burgess [i.e. J. B. Kington]..., Bristol: John Wright, 1834, folding table, bound with Ibid., City and port of Bristol: letters, essays, tracts and other documents, illustrative of the municipal history of Bristol and of the trade of its port..., Bristol: W. Browne, M. Bingham, J. Wright, et al., 1836, bound with ten other similar Bristol related pamphlets, modern half calf, maroon morocco title label to spine, 8vo, and seven othersQty: (11)
Lot 110
Scott (Sir Walter), Scott's Waverley Novels, 48 volumes, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1854-55, engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title to each volume, few initial leaves loosening to volume 9, all edges gilt, together with: Ibid., Scott's Miscellaneous Prose Works, 28 volumes, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black [& Robert Cadell], 1848-53, engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title to each volume, all edges gilt, Ibid., The Poetical Works, 12 volumes, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1851, engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title to each volume, all edges gilt, uniform contemporary light brown calf, elaborate gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, front boards of volumes 3, 6 and 8 of Poetical Works detached, volume 30 of Waverley Novels with slight stain to upper outer corner or upper board (staining continuing through to fore-edge of initial leaves), some light wear at head & foot of spines and to extremities, all 8voQty: (88)
![[Scott, Walter]. [Works], 32 volumes, Edinburgh & London, 1819-1827, comprising: Novels and Tales of The Author of Waverl](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/264540c1-8006-41b4-8705-ad3600d78abc/0a2d6e8c-b273-45f3-acdd-ad48011111e7/468x382.jpg)
Lot 111
[Scott, Walter]. [Works], 32 volumes, Edinburgh & London, 1819-1827, comprising: Novels and Tales of The Author of Waverley, 12 volumes, 1819; Historical romances of the author of Waverley, 6 volumes, 1822; Novels and romances of the author of Waverley, 7 volumes, 1824; Tales and romances of the author of Waverley, 7 volumes, 1827, engraved vignette title to each volume (spotted), some (generally light) spotting, mainly at front & rear and to margins, uniform near contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed with a little wear in places, one volume with dint to top edge of front cover, a few spine labels with chips of minor losses (one with larger detached fragment loosely inserted in book), 8vo, together with: Johnson (Samuel), A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 volumes, London: T. Tegg and Son [et al], 1837, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1 (a trifle spotted), volume 1 front hinge cracked after p.2, contemporary diced calf gilt, rubbed with some stains and marks, 4toQty: (34)
Lot 112
Segur (Phillippe Paul de). History of the Expedition to Russia, undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon, in the year 1812, 2 volumes in 1, 2nd edition, 1825, 7 portrait and plates, folding map, occasional light soiling, a few small repairs, presentation inscription, contemporary half calf, upper joint cracked, edges rubbed, 8vo, together with Goldsmith (Lewis). The Secret History of the Cabinet of Bonaparte, 4th edition, 1810, some light spotting, contemporary half calf, spine repaired and a little wormed, 8vo, plus others related including P.M. Laurent de l'Ardeche's Histoire de l'Empereur Napoleon, Paris, 1840, William Hazlitt's The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1852, The History of Napoleon, edited by R.H. Horne, 2 volumes, 1840, and The Napoleon Gallery; or, illustrations of the Life and Times of the Emperor of France, 1837Qty: (12)
![[Wilson, John, Catholic priest]. The Key of Paradise, Opening the Gate to External Salvation. The last edition much corrected](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/264540c1-8006-41b4-8705-ad3600d78abc/78bc6087-50d8-4a0d-afb6-ad36010d9faa/468x382.jpg)
Lot 121
[Wilson, John, Catholic priest]. The Key of Paradise, Opening the Gate to External Salvation. The last edition much corrected, St. Omers: [s.n.], 1675, [24], 460pp., title in red & black with Jesuit woodcut device (torn to lower margin with loss of final digit of publication date, repaired to verso), quire A¹² printed in red and black, divisional title page on N7r, "Devout and godly petitions, commonly called The Jesus Psalter", bears imprint: Anno Dom. 1673, worm holes to lower blank margins of A2 & A3, few leaves including title close trimmed at head, damp staining mostly at front of volume, light dust-soiling throughout, late 18th/early 19th century decorative endpapers, later 18th/early 19th century sheep, insect damage to lower joint, head of spine worn, 18mo gathered in 12s and 6s (10.9 x 6.7 cm), contained in 18th/19th century card slipcaseQty: (1)NOTESESTC R10544; Wing K384. Only five UK locations found (British Library; Oxford University Bodleian Library & Corpus Christi College; Downside Abbey and Lambeth Palace Library).
Lot 122
Winwood (Ralph). Memorials of affairs of state in the reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I, collected (chiefly) from the original papers..., by Edmund Sawyer..., 3 volumes, London: Printed by W.B. for T. Ward, 1725, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, upper pastedowns with armorial bookplate of Lord Viscount Lymington, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked, light wear to head & foot of spines, folioQty: (3)
![Giovio (Paolo). Dialogo dell' imprese militari et amorose…, Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1574, 280, [14] pp., Rouillé’s woodcut d](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/264540c1-8006-41b4-8705-ad3600d78abc/12a36f10-729a-4158-9abb-ad36010da1bf/468x382.jpg)
Lot 125
Giovio (Paolo). Dialogo dell' imprese militari et amorose…, Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1574, 280, [14] pp., Rouillé’s woodcut device to title (an eagle perched on a pedestal, wings outspread, flanked by two snakes), oval woodcut portrait of Giovio to title verso, several large initial capitals, 102 oval woodcut emblems, lacks final blank, title dust-soiled and professional paper strip repair beneath imprint, scattered light browning, armorial bookplates of Wrest Park and John L. Nevinson, all edges gilt, 19th-century blind-stamped red morocco, gilt-titled spine with five raised bands, a little rubbed, 8vo (173 x 113mm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: John Lea Nevinson (1904-1986); Donald King (1920-1998) & Monique King (1922-2020). Not in Adams; Landwehr 345. Giovio’s dialogue was the first treatise on devices, originally published without illustrations in Rome in 1555. Rouillé issued the first illustrated edition in 1559.
Lot 126
Martin (Cornelius). Les genealogies et anciennes descentes des Forestiers et Comtes de Flandre, avec brieves descriptions de leurs vies et gestes…, edited by Petrus Baltazar, 1st edition, Antwerp: Andre Bax for Pierre Baltazar, circa 1580, [6], 119, [3] pp., engraved title, 40 engraved portraits, numbered 1-7 and 1-33, three other full-page plates, woodcut coats-of-arms in text, closed tear to lower margin of M1, bound with: Barlandus (Hadrianus). Hollandiae comitum historia et icones…,2 parts in one, 1st edition, Leiden: Christopher Plantin, 1584, [8], 127, 31 pp.,printer’s device to both titles, 34 full-length portrait plates by Ph. Galle after Wilhelm Thibaut, scattered minor soiling to both works, light old damp-stain to foremargin of final leaves, ink ownership inscription of ‘Guglielmi Regemortr’ri 1675’ to front free endpaper and bookplate of John L. Nevinson to pastedown facing, contemporary calf with gilt centre-pieces, old neat gilt-decorated calf reback to match, slightly rubbed, folio (30.5 x 19.5cm)NOTESProvenance: John Lea Nevinson (1904-1986); Donald King (1920-1998) & Monique King (1922-2020). Adams M717 & B211. The Barlandus work is the first illustrated edition of the Low Countries and one of the first humanist histories of any European country. It was printed in an edition of 400 copies and was the first work published by Plantin's Leiden establishment, although it was at least partly printed in Antwerp. Of the 36 portraits published by the artist in 1578 only 34 have been used for this edition of 1584 (nos. 1-27 & 29-35).
![Nicolay (Nicolas de, sieur d’Arfeville). Le navigationi et viaggi fatti nella Turchia [translated by François Flory], Venice:](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/264540c1-8006-41b4-8705-ad3600d78abc/33ecd4a6-ec31-4ae1-917b-ad36010da34a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 127
Nicolay (Nicolas de, sieur d’Arfeville). Le navigationi et viaggi fatti nella Turchia [translated by François Flory], Venice: Francesco Ziletti, 1580, woodcut device on title, 67 full-page engraved illustrations, woodcut initials, mis-paginated at pages 50 and 143-144 as issued, some see-through from plate impressions, light scattered spotting and old damp-staining, occasionally trimmed close to engraving borders at lower margins or foremargins, lacks final blank M8, bookplate of John L. Nevinson, modern vellum with leather spine label, folio (30 x 19cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: John Lea Nevinson (1904-1986); Donald King (1920-1998) & Monique King (1922-2020). Adams, N253; Blackmer 1196; Colas II, 220. Nicolay accompanied Gabriel d'Aramont, French diplomat and ambassador, on a mission to Constantinople in 1551. While there he wrote this account and sketched his remarkable figures of Ottomans, Arabs, Armenians and islanders in costume. The engravings are close copies of those made for the 1567 Lyon edition of the French text, with seven additional images made for this Ziletti edition.
Lot 13
Jacob (William). Travels in the South of Spain, in letters written A.D. 1809 and 1810, 1st edition, London: J. Johnson and W. Miller, 1811, folding plan of Cadiz (with aquatint panorama below), and 12 uncoloured aquatint plates, occasional minor spotting and light offsetting from the plates to facing leaf, mottled edges, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Matthew White, Viscount Ridley 2nd Baron Wensleydale to front pastedown, with small shelf mark below label, contemporary gilt-decorated diced full calf, some light marks and hairline split to head of upper joint, 4toQty: (1)NOTESAbbey, Travel 145; Palau VII, 122598. William Jacob (1762-1851), English merchant, ship owner and parliamentarian. Arriving at Cadiz on a diplomatic mission in September 1809, he stayed in Andalusia for 6 months, during which time he wrote the present work. The illustrations include views and buildings in Seville, Malaga, Granada including the Alhambra, and Gibraltar.
![Pluvinel (Antoine de). L’Instruction du Roy, en l'exercice de monter a cheval, Paris: Macé Ruette, 1629, [8], 253 pp., text i](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/264540c1-8006-41b4-8705-ad3600d78abc/32f9a4c0-cb93-4253-b90e-ad36010da5c9/468x382.jpg)
Lot 130
Pluvinel (Antoine de). L’Instruction du Roy, en l'exercice de monter a cheval, Paris: Macé Ruette, 1629, [8], 253 pp., text in French and German, 3 (of 4) engraved portraits, 55 (of 58) double-page engraved plates by C. de Passe (1-27, 31-56, 2B and one unnumbered), lacks additional double-page engraved title and 2(?) preliminary leaves including portraitof Roger Duc de Bellegarde with plates list to verso, scattered light browning or old damp-staining but generally clean, small brown stain to plate 9, closed tear paper repair to left margin of plate 22 and two closed tears to lower margin of plate 40, bookplates of Earl of Roden (with shelf label) and JohnL. Nevinson, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, slightly rubbed and soiled, folio (35.5 x 24.5cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: John Lea Nevinson (1904-1986); Donald King (1920-1998) & Monique King (1922-2020). Collation: [A]4 A-3R2 3S1.
Lot 132
Laroon (Marcellus, the Elder). The Cryes of the City of London, drawne after the life, printed and sold by Henry Overton, [1711?], 73 (of 74) copper-engraved plates by Pierce Tempest after Marcellus Laroon, including 2 engraved titles (plates 1 & 37), each plate with captions in English, French and Italian, lacks plate 61 [New River Water], professional paper repair to lower outer corner of first title not affecting image or text, closed tear to lower margin of plate 20, pinhead hole to lower area of plate 44,a little spotting and scattered light browning, bookplate of John L. Nevinson, 18th-century diced calf gilt with gilt arms of James Harris, Ist Earl of Malmesbury (1746-1820) to both covers, upper joint cracked but firm, slightly rubbed at extremities, folio (31.5 x 19.5cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: John Lea Nevinson (1904-1986); Donald King (1920-1998) & Monique King (1922-2020). Colas 1793; Lipperheide 1019. First issued circa 1688, this undated Overton edition, published 1711 or perhaps later, has numbers added to the lower outer corners of each plate.
Lot 133
Montfaucon (Bernard de). Les Monumens de la Monarchie Francoise, 5 volumes, Paris: Julien-Michel Gandouin & Pierre-Francois Giffart, 1729-33, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, half-titles to volumes 2-5, titles in red & black, 306 engraved plates (including 114 double-page & one folding), engraved headpieces, one double-page plate in volume 4 with small hole to image, occasional offsetting, light browning and light scattered spotting, marbled endpapers with bookplate of John L. Nevinson to upper pastedowns, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels (few labels lacking, joints cracked, upper board of volume 1 detached, extremities worn, folioQty: (5)NOTESProvenance: John Lea Nevinson (1904-1986); Donald King (1920-1998) & Monique King (1922-2020). Brunet, III, 1862; Lipperheide Fa 12. The plates illustrate historical scenes of after paintings, portraits, ceremonies, costumes, monuments, illuminated manuscripts, jewellery and silverware, etc. In particular, there is the integral representation of the tapestry of Bayeux.
![Strutt (Joseph). A Complete View of the Inhabitants of England, 3 volumes, London: Benjamin White [& Walter Shropshire],](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/264540c1-8006-41b4-8705-ad3600d78abc/202a3f81-7e97-4624-b952-ad36010daa1b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 136
Strutt (Joseph). A Complete View of the Inhabitants of England, 3 volumes, London: Benjamin White [& Walter Shropshire], 1775-76, 158 sepia engraved plates, occasional spotting, together with: Ibid., The Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England ... from Edward the Confessor to Henry the Eighth, new edition, to which is now added a supplement, London: Benjamin & John White, 1793, 72 sepia engraved plates, occasional spotting, Ibid., A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, from the establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time, 2 volumes, London: J. Nichols for J. Edwards, R.Edwards, B. & J. White, et al., 1796-99, sepia engraved frontispiece to both volumes, 142 sepia engraved plates only of 153 (numbered 1-93 & 95-143), some offsetting and occasional spotting, Ibid., The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles..., London: T. Bensley for J. White, 1801, sepia engraved frontispieces and 39 plates, scattered spotting and light toning, contemporary uniform light brown calf (faintly diced), gilt decorated spines and ruled borders to boards, joints rubbed and few lightly cracked, 4toQty: (7)NOTESProvenance: John Lea Nevinson (1904-1986); Donald King (1920-1998) & Monique King (1922-2020).
![Pyne (William Henry). The Costume of Great Britain, William Miller, 1808, [plate 18 watermarked 1817], half-title, hand-colou](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/264540c1-8006-41b4-8705-ad3600d78abc/3743862f-ca35-4c6b-943e-ad36010dab68/468x382.jpg)
Lot 138
Pyne (William Henry). The Costume of Great Britain, William Miller, 1808, [plate 18 watermarked 1817], half-title, hand-coloured vignette to title, 60 hand-coloured aquatint plates with partially coloured backgrounds, occasional offsetting to accompanying text leaves (some light browning), bookplate of John L. Nevinson, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt-decorated blue straight-grained morocco, a little rubbed, folio (36.5 x 26cm)NOTESProvenance: John Lea Nevinson (1904-1986); Donald King (1920-1998) & Monique King (1922-2020). Abbey, Life 430; Tooley 388.
Lot 139
Auction advertisement flyer. To be Sold at Auction in this Town, by Messrs. Horner, and Co. this day, at the Sign of the Kings Arms in Halsted..., circa 1800, single leaf printed to one side, location of sale written in brown ink, light dust-soiling, few marks and old folds, 12.3 x 19.2 cmQty: (1)NOTESThe advertisement flyer states, "The remainder of a quantity of goods sent to the fair by a person under misfortunes, what is left is to be absolutely sold as above, without the least reserve, to the highest bidders, consisting as follows; good beaver, felt and other hats, sundry silver handle and other knives and forks, plated buckles on copper, and sundry metal ditto, yard-wide, 7-8ths, 3-4ths, and other Irishes, Dutch, Irish, Gulicks and other Hollands, table cloths of different breadths and qualities, counterpanes, carpets, bedticks, blankets, worsted breeches pieces, black velvets and velverets, quilted petticoats, variety of muslins, muslin neckloths, variety of silk and other handkerchiefs, great choice of worsted and other stockings; a neat common stage cart and harness, a stout bay mare, upwards of 15 hands high, 5 years old..., Catalogues to be had at the Place of Sale. The goods are all lotted in small lots for the better accommodation of house-keepers. This will be an excellent opportunity for any persons that chuse [sic] to become purchasers".
![Jesuits. Lettres e?difiantes et curieuses e?crites des missions e?trange?res, [edited by Yves Querbeuf], Nouvelle e?dition, o](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/264540c1-8006-41b4-8705-ad3600d78abc/9f8a0334-6a9b-4171-9f35-ad36010d6c65/468x382.jpg)
Lot 14
Jesuits. Lettres e?difiantes et curieuses e?crites des missions e?trange?res, [edited by Yves Querbeuf], Nouvelle e?dition, orne?e de cinquante belles gravures, 14 volumes, Lyon: J. Vernarel, libraire, E?t. Cabin ..., 1819, 22 folding engraved maps (including Kino's map of California in volume 5), 27 engraved plates & plans (including 15 folding), one folding diagrammatic table, closed tear to single leaf in volume 2 (pp.213/214), some browning & scattered spotting, occasional light damp stains (mostly to volume 7), ex-library with ink stamps to endpapers, early 20th century cloth by Speakman of Liverpool, slight fading to spines, 8voQty: (14)
![Broadside. The last dying speech and confession of Mary Cook, aged 20, who was excuted [sic] at Abbingdon, Berkshire, on Thur](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/264540c1-8006-41b4-8705-ad3600d78abc/fe16a6bf-7c1f-4e4d-8b2b-ad36010dad78/468x382.jpg)
Lot 142
Broadside. The last dying speech and confession of Mary Cook, aged 20, who was excuted [sic] at Abbingdon, Berkshire, on Thursday last, August 5, for the murder of her own father..., reprinted by Fowler, Melton Mowbray, circa 1800, single-sheet broadside, woodcut illustration depicting the execution, stain to upper margin, some light toning and minor dust-soiling, 38 x 16 cm, framed & glazedQty: (1)NOTESScarce. No location found. The broadside provides a detailed narrative of the events leading up to and after the execution, "Giving a particular account of her applying to her father to give his consent for her to marry a young man with whom she was deeply in love, and on her father's refusal she formed the horrid resolution of murdering him... At our late Assizes came on a very singular trial, that of a young woman for the murder of her own father. It appeared she kept company with a young man at Pershore Mill, where they both resided; he was by trade a wood turner, and she a farmer's daughter. They were very fond of each other, and the day was appointed for their marriage, and the wedding ring was bought. She thought it her duty to acquaint her father with her intentions; but instead of finding him agreeable to her wishes, he was quite the reverse, and declared that if she did marry him she would never have a shilling of his money... The night of the horrid deed, she took care to mix his liquor stronger than usual, to make him sleep sounder, and when he had retired to bed ... and gone to sleep, she entered the room, and with a shape knife nearly separated his head from his body... The next morning she alarmed the neighbours, saying the house was robbed and her father murdered... The following day the daughter was found to vary in her accounts which she gave respecting her father going to bed, to one she would say he was drunk, and to another he was sober. One of the neighbours having occasion to go into the daughter's bedroom, found a handkerchief in the corner of the room very bloody; this being mentioned, and the different accounts she had given of her father, caused a suspicion to arise that she was not wholly innocent of the murder, when she was taken into custody, and she confessed the above facts. She was accordingly brought to trial... The judge immediately pronounced sentence of death upon her, to be executed, and her body to be given to the surgeons for dissection... She had received a good education by the liberality of an uncle, by the mother's side. Her mother died about two years ago, at which time she was called home to take care of her father's house. The following letter was found in her bosom after her execution, which shews how sincerely she was attached to the object of her wishes. Copy of a letter to her sweetheart. Dear James, The sad hour is near at hand when I must suffer (and justly suffer) for a crime which I have committed by loving you. I hope God will forgive me my offences. Had my father given consent to our union, we should have been happy, but by his refusal he has met his death by my hands, and brought myself to an untimely death. God bless you and may you be happy. Mary Cooke."
Lot 143
* Buckley (Cecil W., 1830-1872). British Royal Navy Captain, Victoria Cross winner for his actions on board HMS Miranda in the Crimea on 29th May 1855. A rare illustrated Autograph Letter Signed, 'C W Buckley', off Lisbon, 7-10 January 1847, to his mother, Buckley sends news of his journey from Malta to Gibraltar and informs her that they shall soon be at anchor with the rest of the fleet under Admiral Parker, explaining that Christmas Day was spent at sea ('we were upon salt provisions as all our fresh stores had been long exhausted, however we had as jolly a one as the circumstances would permit, being in a heavy gale at the time, and the ship strained by our heavy guns leaking like a sieve') and continuing to remark 'You will think me very expensive writing on gilt edged paper, but this is only a borrowed sheet as I am out of writing paper. At Gibraltar one of my mess mates, a midshipman whose leave was stopped in consequence of his having run into debt took it into his head to run away from us, and about six months ago a Clerk cut his lucky at Smyrna. These circumstances will add very much to the bad name which the ship already has. You have no idea what a dreadful name she has on this station. A person belonging to her is quite looked upon with compassion by people in other ships, and we believe the reason that we are now joining the Admiral is that a Court of Enquiry may be held on the Captain on account of the great number of punishments which have taken place in her', Buckley also describes the ship as being a splendid corvette and fast sailer, and continues with news that their Captain is to be tried by a Court Martial rather than the Court of Enquiry he supposed, further briefly referring to some skirmishes, his view of Lisbon from the river, a sighting of several Portuguese Men of War and, in concluding the letter, his hopes that his Captain will be acquitted ('From what I hear there is not much against him; the greater part of the blame rests on the last 1st Lieutenant who left six months ago'), to the head of the first page Buckley has drawn a fine pen and ink sketch of HMS Amazon at sea, a few neat splits at the edges of folds and some light age wear, 3 pages (the final page cross-written), 4toQty: (1)NOTESBuckley was the first winner of the Victoria Cross to be actually gazetted.
Lot 15
La Expedicion Malaspina. La Expedicion Malaspina 1789-1794, 9 volumes in 10, Madrid: Lunwerg Editores, 1987-1999, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, some minor spotting & toning, publishers uniform original cloth in dust jackets, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, together with; La Expedicion Malaspina en Los Mare Americanos del Sur, la Colleccion Bauza 1789-194 por Bonifacio Del Carril, facsimile edition, Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, 1961, 25 colour & monochrome plates (duplicated to 50), Ex-Libris Kenn Back book plate to front pastedown, some light toning, loosely bound in publishers original half calf boards in slipcase, folioQty: (11)NOTESEx libris Eric Kenneth Prentice Back (1942-), meteorologist for the British Antarctic Survey, and descendant of the Arctic explorer Captain George Back. He served as base commander at Halley, Faraday, Rothera, and Station T (on Adelaide Island), over a twenty year period from 1963.
Lot 152
* Edward Jenner (1749-1823). Pioneer of smallpox vaccination and the father of immunology. An important unpublished Autograph Letter Signed, 'Edw[ar]d Jenner]', Bond Street, [London], 15 April 1802, to the Yorkshire physician Dr [John Glover] Loy, about vaccination and equination, being an enthusiastic and triumphant response to a pamphlet by Dr Loy [dedicated to Jenner] proving Jenner's own early assertions about the equine origin of cowpox, '… I know of no Production on the Vaccine subject which has afforded me more satisfaction, since it was first brought before the Public, than yours. It contains the Experimentum Crucis & has effectually put a stop to the sneers of those little minded Persons who think everything impossible which does not come within the narrow sphere of their own comprehension. I regret that your confirmation of the Fact I had adduced, is not more generally known. You will be surprised to hear that this day before a Committee of the House of Commons, Dr [George] Pearson exalted at having refuted my preposterous supposition respecting the origin of the Cowpox. This circumstance alone will, I trust, induce you to send some of your pamphlets to London where they have a long time been loudly call’d for and I hope too that you will fully advertise it in the London Papers. …', concluding the letter with indirect reference to true and spurious horsepox, 3 pages with further text written horizontally at head and foot of page 4 (inside folds of address panel), some age wear to folds, small contemporary light blue-green stain to one fold intersection in lower part of letter, with very slight acidic loss to paper but barely touching letters and with no loss of sense and away from signature, indistinct circular postmark and seal remains, address and outer panels soiled, 4to, together with a half-length oval albumen print portrait of Dr Loy as an elderly man, 1850s, 9 x 7 cm, passe-partout mount within decorative oval wooden wall frame, inscribed 'Dr Loy' in an old hand to backing paper, overall 27 x 23 cmQty: (2)NOTESFrom the family of Dr John Glover Loy (1774-1865) by direct descent. An important unpublished letter concerning the work of Dr Loy which proved Jenner's view that the origins of cowpox was a disease of horses known as 'grease' (horsepox), and supported the role of horsepox in the prevention of smallpox. W.R. LeFanu, A Bio-Bibliography of Edward Jenner 1749-1823 lists only 3 letters from Loy to Jenner, 26 December 1802 and two undated letters from 1803. See John G. Loy, An Account of Some Experiments on the Origin of Cow-Pox, Whitby, 1801. Dedicated 'To Edward Jenner, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., etc.'. 13 October 1801. [LeFanu, p. 151] José Esparza, Livia Schrick, Clarissa R. Damaso & Andreas Nitsche, 'Equination (inoculation of horsepox): 'An early alternative to vaccination (inoculation of cowpox) and the potential role of horsepox virus in the origin of the smallpox vaccine', Vaccine, 35:52, 19 December 2017, pp. 7222-7230: 'A little-known fact is that Edward Jenner himself considered that the preventative against smallpox which is present in cowpox lesions, in fact derived from a disease of horses known as “grease” (horsepox). Early in the 19th century, European physicians conducted experiments that seemed to confirm the hypothesis that horsepox could protect against smallpox. Because of the relative rarity of cases of spontaneous cowpox, matter obtained from either cowpox or horsepox was interchangeably used in the protection against smallpox. Congruent with the use of the word vaccination, the inoculation from the horse (Lat. equus) was referred to as “equination”.' (p. 7223). 'The first independent evidence in support of a horsepox role in the prevention of smallpox was published in 1801 by John Glover Loy, a Yorkshire physician. Loy described several cases of people who became infected while treating horses suffering from grease or of individuals inoculated with horse matter that had been passaged in cows. Loy reported that the lesions produced had exactly the appearance of genuine cowpox, and in many cases the individuals were shown to be protected from variolation. A most important observation made by Loy was that “two kinds of Grease exist, differing from each other in the power of giving disease to the human or brute animal”, an observation that mirrors Jenner’s description of “true” and of “spurious” cowpox, which could explain the lack of success of some earlier investigators who attempted to equinate. The work of Loy was not in total agreement with Jenner’s original hypothesis which required that the horse matter was first modified by a passage in the cow before it could fully function as a preventative of smallpox. Nevertheless, Jenner considered that Loy’s work “decisively proves (his) early assertions” about the horse origin of vaccinia, although Jenner never again adopted the horsepox theory in his publications. Additional confirmation of the horsepox hypothesis was provided by Luigi Sacco, an Italian physician responsible for the early introduction and widespread use of vaccination in Northern Italy. In a letter from Sacco to Jenner, dated 25 March 1803, he explains that after reading the book by John Loy, he was encouraged to continue his own experiments to try to obtain the vaccine from horses with grease.' (pp. 7224-5).
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La Perouse (Jean-Francois Galaup, comte de). The Voyage of La Perouse Round the World, in the Years 1783, 1786, 1787, and 1788, 2 volumes, London: John Stockdale, 1798, engraved portrait frontispiece and 50 engraved maps and plates, one folding map with reinforcement to verso, one or two imprints partly shaved, some offsetting and light spotting, light water stain to volume II frontispiece, contemporary mottled calf, modern calf rebacks, a little rubbed, 8voQty: (2)NOTESFerguson 269; Hill 974; Howes L93; Sabin 38963. One of two English editions published in the same year. The other edition, published by J. Johnson in 3 volumes with less plates, is supposed to have slightly preceded this John Stockdale edition. La Perouse was commissioned by King Louis XVI to expand on Cook's discoveries in the Pacific. "The narrative of the enterprising but ill-fated Perouse, is full of interest in all portions, but his relations of the peculiarities he observed in the natives of the north-west coast of North America, are especially valuable. The mysterious fate of this distinguished navigator has never been satisfactorily cleared up. The above account was transmitted from Botany Bay, after leaving this place the expedition was never heard of again." (Sabin).
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Lang (Andrew, editor). The Animal Story Book, with numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1896, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, including many full-page, some light scattered spotting, modern presentation inscription to half-title, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, very slightly rubbed to extremities (generally in good or very good condition), 8vo, together with: Reade (Charles). The Cloister & The Hearth, A Tale of the Middle Ages, illustrated by Gordon Browne, circa 1912, colour plates, top edge gilt, original gilt-decorated pictorial cloth, a few marks, 4to, plus: Crane (Walter, illustrator). Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne, London: Osgood McIlvaine & Co., 1892, colour plates, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, and a little wear to head and foot of spine, 8vo, and other children's illustrated books, including Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1910, Claire de Lune and Other Troubadour Romances, pictured by Evelyn Paul, London: George G. Harrup, 1913, Quality Street, A Comedy in Four Acts by J.M. Barrie, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1910, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, Marie de Bosguerard, Nos Enfants, Ce qu'ils sont souvent, Ce qu'ils devraient etre, Paris, circa 1870s, The Horkey, a ballad by Robert Bloomfield, with illustrations by George Cruikshank, Macmillan & Co., 1882, etc., all late Victorian/early 20th century, original decorated cloth or boards, 4to/8voQty: (23)
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Lawrence (T. E.). T.E. Lawrence to his Biographer Robert Graves, [and] T.E. Lawrence to his Biographer Liddell Hart, 2 volumes, limited edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1938, 2 black & white frontispieces, limitation pages signed by Liddell Hart & Robert Graves, top edges gilt, publishers original cloth in slipcase, spines slightly faded, 8vo, 175/1000 The Letters of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, edited by David Garnett, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1938, black & white folding map & illustrations, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper, minor spotting to the text block, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed, 8vo, The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers, 1st edition, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1954, numerous monochrome illustrations, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper some light toning & marks, some light spotting to the top edge, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, spine lightly toned, 8vo, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph, 1st trade edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1935, numerous monochrome illustrations, some minor toning, publishers original gilt decorated brown cloth, spine slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, together with approximately 20 further modern volumes of T. E. Lawrence reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, 8voQty: (approximately 25)
Lot 187
Lees-Milne (James). The Age Of Adam, 1st edition, London: B. T. Batsford, 1947, ex-libris bookplate to the front pastedown, black & white illustrations, minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed with some loss to head & foot, 8vo, Baroque In Italy, 1st edition, London: B. T. Batsford, 1959, black & white illustrations, minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed with some loss to head & foot, 8vo, Another Self, 1st edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970, black & white wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, previous owner inscription to the half-title, original cloth in dust jacket, cover light rubbed & toned, 8vo, together with 34 further volumes by James Lees-Milne, including Ancestral Voices, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1975, Diaries, 11 volumes, mixed editions, 1977-2005, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, 13 paperback edition, 8voQty: (37)
Lot 194
Dodsley (Robert). The Oeconomy of Human Life, translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an Ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered. In a letter from an English Gentleman now residing in China to the Earl of E**, London: Printed by T. Rickaby, for E. Harding, 1798, engraved portrait frontispiece, stipple engraved vignette illustrations throughout, front free endpaper excised, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated borders to boards, black morocco title label, upper joint and head & foot of spine worn, 12mo, together with: Ibid., The King and the Miller of Mansfield. A Dramatick Tale, London: Printed for the Author, 1737, light dust-soiling and scattered spotting, later vellum, slim 8vo in 4s, Arden (Thomas), The lamentable and true tragedie of M. Arden, of Feversham, in Kent, who was most wickedlye murdered, by the means of his disloyall and wanton wyfe, who for the love she bare to one mosbie, hyred two desperat ruffins, Blackwill and Shagbag, to kill him. Wherin is shewed, The great malice and discimulation of a wicked woman, the unsatiable desire of filthie lust, and the shamefull end of all murderers. With a preface; in which some reasons are offered, in favour of its being the earliest dramatic work of Shakespear now remaining..., London: Printed for Edward White, dwelling at the lyttle North Dore of Paule's Church, at the Sign of the Gun. 1592. And re-printed verbatim by J. & J. March, for Stephen Doorne, 1770, title in red & black repaired to gutter and fore-edge margins, dust-soiling and spotting mostly to few & last leaves, light damp stains, all edges gilt, 19th century dark green half morocco, slim 8vo, and other miscellaneous antiquarian and later reference, including The Complete Works of Lord Byron, Paris: A. & W. Galignani, 1831, a defective copy of Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists, London: R. & J. Dodsley, 1761 and The History of the town of Newark, by William Dickinson, Newark: M. Hage, 1816, etc.Qty: (a small carton)
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Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, conteyning Old Testament and the New, facsimile edition of 1611 King James Bible, Cleveland, Ohio: The World Publishing Company; London: George Rainbird Limited, [1965], facsimile decorative title and text, contemporary gilt panelled sheep, upper board detached and lower board split, extremities rubbed, folio (limited edition of 1500 copies), together with: De Sancto Caro (Hugo), Sacrorum bibliorum vulgatae editionis concordantiae, auctore Hugone cardinali ... ad recognitionem iussu Sixti V. pont. max. Bibliis adhibitam recensitae atque emendatae: primùm à Francisco Luca theologo et decano Audomaropolitan, Lyon: Antonii Iullieron, 1664, half-title, title-page in red & black with engraved vignette device, 19th century annotation to verso of final leaf, light toning and some scattered spotting, few light damp stains towards rear of volume, 20th century brown half morocco, 4to, plus other 19th century English Bibles etc.Qty: (a carton)
Lot 196
Bell (Malcolm). Edward Burne-Jones, a record and review, limited edition, London: George Bell & Sons, 1892, numerous black & white plates & illustrations, the entire volume is disbound, some light toning, top edges gilt, publishers original white cloth, boards & spine slightly toned & rubbed, large 8vo, 283/390, together with other art & sporting reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8voQty: (3 cartons)
Lot 199
Goldsmith (Oliver). A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 2 volumes in 6 divisions, London: Blackie & Son, 1876, additional colour-printed engraved title to volumes 1 & 2, colour printed and uncoloured engraved plates (few detached), occasional spotting, original pictorial cloth, light wear at head & foot of spines, 8vo, together with: Brunhoff (Jean de), Babar en Famille, [Paris]: Hachette, 1938, colour printed illustrations and pictorial endpapers, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, folio, Hansi, L'Alsace heureuse, la grande pitie? du pays d'Alsace et son grand bonheur, raconte?s aux petits enfants, [Paris]: H. Floury, [1920], colour lithograph title and illustrations, few tears to margins (mostly closed tears), occasional toning and marks, pictorial endpapers (lacking front free endpaper), original pictorial cloth, transparent sticky-back plastic to spine and 5cm over boards, folio, and other miscellaneous books including children's books & annuals, general literature, some works in FrenchQty: (4 cartons)
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Bellasis (George Hutchins). Views in Saint Helena, London: John Tyler, 1815, subscribers list, 6 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by Robert Havell after George Bellasis, slight vertical crease to verso of plates, light offsetting to text, previous owner label at front, one original paper label from original wrappers loosely inserted, later red morocco-backed boards, a little rubbed with some fading and stains, oblong folio, sheet size 31 x 46.5 cmQty: (1)NOTESAbbey Travel 309; Tooley 87. Bellasis' fine series of aquatint views of Saint Helena, dedicated to the Duke of Wellington, and issued shortly after Napoleon's arrival on St. Helena, thus making it (according to the dedication) "at this time an object of interest to the whole world". The six views are: St. Helena Taken from the Sea; The Roads, St. Helena; Scene Taken from the Castle Terrace; Plantation House, the Country Residence of the Governor; The Friar Rock in Friars Valley; The Column Lot, Fairy Land, Sandy Bay.
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Alderson (E. A. H.). With The Mounted Infantry and the Mashonaland Field Force 1896, 1st edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1898, 10 monochrome illustrations, minor marginal toning, publishers original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with; Spurgin (Karl B.), On Active Service with the Northumberland and Durham Yeomen, Under Lord Methuen (South Africa, 1900-1901.), London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., circa 1902, 15 monochrome illustrations, bookplate to front pastedown, some light spotting & toning, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, and Williams (Basil), Record of the Cape Mounted Riflemen, 1st edition, London: Sir Joseph Causton & Sons, 1909, 11 colour illustrations plus colour folding map, some spotting throughout, publishers original gilt decorated black cloth, boards & spine rubbed, rear hinge cracked & spine partially detached, 8vo, plus other late 19th-century & modern Boer War reference & related, including South Africa Field Force Casualty List 1899-1902, Essex: Oaklands Books, 1972, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves)
Lot 204
Newlands (James). The Carpenter And Joiners Assistant..., Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1869, 111 black & white plates plus numerous in-text illustrations, period inscription to front endpaper & verso of the title-page, water damage to foot of front endpaper paper through to plate 1, toning & spotting throughout, pp.291 laid down & strengthened with some minor loss to foot, cracked gutters, contemporary gilt decorated full calf boards & spine rubbed with some minor loss to head & foot, large 8vo, together with; Dugdale (William), Warwickshire; being a Concise Topographical Description of the different Towns and Villages in the County of Warwick, Coventry: printed by John Aston, 1817, 8 black &white engraved plates plus a colour county map, bookplate to front pastedown some light marginal toning, later gilt decorated calf spine retaining contemporary gilt decorated boards, boards lightly marked & rubbed, 8vo, and other 19th & 20th-century miscellaneous history reference, including The Modern Carpenter Joiner and Cabinet-Maker, 8 volumes, by G. Lister Sutcliffe, London: Gresham Publishing, 1903, publishers original uniform green cloth designed by Talyn Morris, large 8vo, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (6 shelves)
Lot 209
Green (Graham). It's A Battlefield, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1934, later endpapers, sone light toning throughout, rebound retaining publishers original boards & spine, spine faded with some loss, 8vo, together with; Fleming (Ian), You Only Live Twice, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper, publishers original gilt decorated black cloth, 8vo, and other modern 1st editions & fiction, including J. G. Ballard, Julian Barnes, David Lodge, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8voQty: (5 shelves)
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Lyall (Robert ). The Character of the Russians, and a Detailed History of Moscow, 1st edition, London: T. Cadell, 1823, 13 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, 9 uncoloured engraved plates and plans, 1 uncoloured aquatint, large folding engraved plan of Moscow, some offsetting and light spotting, armorial stamp of Algernon Peckover (1803-1893, banker and member of the Quaker Peckover family from Wisbech), modern brown half morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, 4toQty: (1)NOTESAbbey Travel 227. Contains fine aquatint views of the Kremlin by Edward Finden, including a folding panorama 'General view of the Kremle" in bright condition. Robert Lyall (1789-1831) was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who had studied medicine in St. Petersburg, and the work includes a catalogue of plants found in the Moscow area, an essay on Russian architecture and an account of the 1812 Fire of Moscow during the occupation by Napoleon.
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Major (Thomas). The Ruins of Paestum, otherwise Posidonia, in Magna Graecia, 1st edition, London: published by T. Major, printed by James Dixwell, 1768, printed title, dedication leaf with engraved vignette at head, list of subscribers, engraved head-pieces, and 25 full-page copper engraved views and plans of the early Greek temples, light waterstain to lower outer corners towards rear of volume, some minor marks to margins, ownership signature of the Irish archaeologist Hodder Michael Westropp (1820-1885) to front blank, marbled endpapers, contemporary half calf, joints cracked with some wear, large folio (sheet size 51.5 x 34 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Hodder Michael Westropp (1820-1885), Irish archaeologist, who published the first handbook of archaeology in 1867, and who introduced the term Mesolithic in his volume of essays on Pre-historic Phases, issued in 1872. Fowler 157. Harris 539. Blackmer 1065. Berlin Catalogue 1894. Following Robert Wood's Palmyra (1753) and Baalbek (1757), and the first volume of Stuart and Revett's Antiquities of Athens (1762), Major's careful archaeological account of the early Greek temples at Paestum in southern Italy is another important landmark in the 18th century neo-classical revival.
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Loftie (W. J. [editor]). Orient Line Guide, chapters for travellers by sea and by land, 5th edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, 1894, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations & folding maps, black & white advertisements to the front & rear, gutters cracked, some light toning & minor marks, publishers original gilt decorated blue cloth, boards & spine rubbed, spine partially detached, 8vo, together with other 19th century & modern naval & travel reference & related, including The Naval & Military Almanack for 1841, London: A. H. Baily & Co., mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves )
Lot 221
Van Os (Henk et al). Netherlandish art, 1400-1800, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Amsterdam: Waanders Publishers, 2000-06, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, large 4to, together with; Köhler (Neeltje), Painting in Haarlem 1500-1850, The collection of the Frans Hals Museum, 1st edition, Haarlem: Ludion, 2006, numerous monochrome illustrations, light water damage to the head of pp.505 through to the rear endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, and Bindman (David & Henry Louus Gates), The Image of the Black in Western Art, 3 volumes, new edition, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2010, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, large 4to, plus MacLaren (Neil), The Dutch School, 1600-1900, 2 volumes, revised edition, London: National Gallery Publications, 1991, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets & slipcase, spines lightly marked, 8vo, and other Dutch & European old masters & art reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves)
Lot 224
Wise (S. F.). Canadian Airmen and the First World War, 3 volumes, mixed editions, Toronto: University Press, 1981-94, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light spotting to the text-block, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, spines lightly faded, 8vo, together with; Bowman (W. Martin), Bomber Command: Reflections of War... , 5 volumes, 1st editions, Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2011-13, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, and Bruce (J. M), British Aeroplanes 1914-1918, 1st edition, London: Putnam, 1957, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, cover slightly rubbed & toned with small tears to the head & foot of the front cover, large tear to the rear cover with small tear to the foot, large 8vo, plus other modern aviation reference & related, including publications by Putnam, H.M.S.O., Grub Street, Jane's, Ian Allen, Oxford, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (6 shelves )
Lot 225
Riccio (Gennaro). Le Monte delle Antiche Famiglie Di Roma fine All'Imperadore Augusto..., Napoli: Stamperia e Cartiera del Fibreno, 1836, 71 black & white plates, cracked front gutters, some light spotting throughout, contemporary gilt decorated quarter morocco, boards & spine rubbed, 4to, together with; Audubon (James), The Imperial Collection of Audubon Animals, the Quadrupeds of North America, Feltham: Country Life Books, 1968, numerous colour illustrations, contemporary red three-quarter morocco, boards & spine rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, and Dalton (O. M.), Catalogue of The Engraved Gems of the Post-Classical Periods...in the British Museum, 1st edition, London: Trustees of The British Museum, 1915, black & white illustrations, publishers original red cloth, large 4to, plus other late 19th century & modern history & art reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperback catalogues, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves )
Lot 226
Conan Doyle (Arthur). The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1914-1918, 6 volumes, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916-19, colour & monochrome maps, some light toning, publishers uniform original blue cloth, boards & spines slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, The Great Boer War, 3rd impression, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1900, monochrome maps, some minor marginal toning, publishers original blue cloth, spine & boards slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with other late 19th & early 20th-century fiction, including H. Rider Haggard, H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennet, all original cloth, some gilt decorated, some dust jackets, V/VG, 8voQty: (3 shelves)
Lot 229
Hinsley (F. H.). British Intelligence in the Second World War, 7 volumes including the Abridged Edition, mixed editions, London: HMSO, 1986-94, numerous monochrome maps, all original cloth in dust jackets, some light rubbing to the foot if volume 3 part 2, 8vo, together with; West (Nigel, editor), The Guy Liddell Diaries, 2 volumes, 1st editions, Abingdon: Routledge, 2005, original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, and Aldrich (Richard J.), Intelligence and the War Against Japan, Britain, America and the politics of Secret Service, 1st edition, Cambridge: University Press, 2000, signed by the author to the title page, black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plus other modern espionage & military intelligence reference & related, including Alan Turing, his work and impact, edited by S. Barry Cooper & Jan Van Leeuwen, 1st edition, Waltham: Elsevier, 2013, large 4to, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (6 shelves )
Lot 243
Ardizzone (Edward). Diary of a War Artist, 1st edition, London: The Bodley Head, 1974, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, spine lightly faded, 8vo, The Little Bookroom, by Elanor Farjeon, 1st edition, Oxford: University Press, 1955, black & white illustrations, minor marginal toning, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed with some loss to the head of the spine & rear cover, 8vo, Showmen and Suckers, by Maurice Gorham, 1st edition, London: Percival Marshall, 1951, black & white illustrations, minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, sone loss to the head of the spine, 8vo, Open The Door, stories collected & arranged, by Margery Fisher, 1st edition, Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1965, black & white illustrations, bound-in cloth bookmark, some minor spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, together with; Forester (C. S.), Hornblower and the Atropos, 2nd impression before publication, London: Michael Joseph, 1953, some minor toning, original cloth in dust jacket designed by Val Biro, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Newman (David), The Forgotten Path, 1st edition, London: Robert Hale, 1965, black & white illustrations plus a map, period inscription to the front endpaper, original cloth in dust jacket designed by Val Biro, spine light rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other modern literature illustrated by Edward Ardizzone & dust jackets illustrated by Val Biro, including 'Portrait Of..' English counties series, 12 volumes, circa 1960s, 8vo, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8voQty: (3 shelves)
Lot 249
Milne (A. A.). When We Were Very Young, 2nd edition, London: Methuen & Co., December 1924, black & white illustrations by E. H. Shepard, some minor loss to the front pastedown, some minor spotting & toning, top edges gilt, publishers original gilt decorated blue cloth boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus a duplicate copy, 4th edition, December 1924, 8vo Winnie-The-Pooh, 5th edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1927, black & white illustrations by E. H. Shepard, map endpapers previous owner inscription to the half-title and showing through to the verso, some minor toning & spotting, top edges gilt, original gilt decorated green cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly toned & rubbed with minor tears to the head, 8vo, together with; Edwards (Amelia B.), A Thousand Miles Up The Nile, 2nd edition, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1891, numerous black & white illustrations, repair to the front pastedown, front & rear gutters cracked, some light toning, contemporary gilt decorated tree calf bound by Bickers & Son, spine rubbed with minor loss, hinges cracked, 8vo, and Edgar (Morton), The Great Pyramid its spiritual symbolism, 1st edition, Glasgow: Bone & Hulley, 1924, colour frontispiece plus monochrome illustrations, some minor spotting to the text-block, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other late 19th & 20th-century illustrated literature, including Stories Revived, volumes 1 & 3 only, by Henry James, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1885, 8vo, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4toQty: (6 shelves )
Lot 250
Dickens (Charles). Bleak House, London: Bradbury Evans, 1853, black & white illustrations by H. K. Browne, previous owner ink stamp to head of the front endpaper & half-title, some toning throughout, tear to foot of pp.123, cracked gutters, spine & rear board partially detached, contemporary gilt decorated green half morocco, boards & spine rubbed, 8vo, together with; The Badminton Library, Big Game Shooting, 2 volumes, by CLIVE Phillipps-Wolley, London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1894, monochrome illustrations, some light toning, publishers original decorated cloth, spines slightly rubbed & faded, 8vo, Clerk (Thomas), The Works of William Hogarth,..., 2 volumes, London: printed for R. Scholey, 1810, black & white engraved plates, repair to the front pastedowns, bookshop label to the head of volume 1 front endpaper, some toning & spotting throughout, contemporary uniform gilt decorated full calf, boards & spine rubbed, 8vo, plus other late 19th & early 20th-century illustrated literature & reference, including The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, limited edition of 1000 copies, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1906, large 8vo, mostly leather bindings, some original cloth, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo (49 volumes)Qty: (3 shelves )
Lot 278
England & Wales. Geological Map of England and Wales (with all the Railways), by Roderick Impey Murchison, 5th edition, 1864, folding engraved map by J. & C. Walker, with original hand-colouring, sectionalised on linen, light dust-soiling & toning, slight spotting, contained within original green cloth covers, 153 x 100mm, map dimensions approx. 385 x 320mmQty: (1)
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Bickham (George). The British Monarchy: Or, a New Chorographical Description of all the Dominions Subject to the King of Great Britain. Comprehending the British Isles, The American Colonies, the Electoral States, the African & Indian Settlements..., 2nd edition, published according to Act of Parliament, October 1st, 1748, engraved allegorical frontispiece after Gravelot, engraved title, list of subscribers, 5 engraved maps (one folding, British Isles maps partly hand-coloured), 190 numbered engraved leaves printed to rectos (leaves numbered to 161 & 164-190), folding hand-coloured table, numerous engraved vignettes, the second part 'A Short Description of the American Colonies' dated 1747, some light toning and spotting, a couple of small marginal tears, frontispiece reinforced at gutter to verso, modern russet morocco gilt, folioQty: (1)NOTESESTC T88514; Sabin 52222.
Lot 32
Stanley (H.M.) In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Sampson Low, 1890, 3 folding maps (one torn without loss), illustrations, scattered spotting and light offsetting, contemporary presentation inscription, top edge gilt, original green half morocco by Griffith Farran & Co., with Stanley signature stamped in gilt to upper covers, spines faded to brown, some mottling to covers, a little rubbed and scuffed, 8voQty: (2)NOTESSubscribers edition.
Lot 37
Allom (Thomas & others, illustrators). Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, Illustrated ..., with Descriptions by T. Rose, 2 volumes, London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, & P. Jackson, 1832, 214 (of 215) engraved views (including additional title) on 109 leaves, without 'General View of Windermere Lake' as usual (possibly not issued), most with tissue guards, some toning, occasional spots, letterpress title (bound in volume 2) somewhat rubbed in places, each front pastedown with armorial bookplate 'Edward Wyndham', contemporary black half morocco gilt, rubbed and a trifle marked, 1st volume with short split at foot of front joint, volume 2 front cover nearly detached, 4to, together with: Westall (William, and Moule, Thomas), Great Britain Illustrated, London: Charles Tilt, 1830, additional engraved title, 118 engraved views on 59 leaves, spotted and toned, contemporary maroon half morocco, rubbed with some wear to extremities, spine and top edges of boards sunned, 4to, plus: Pyne (William Henry & others), Lancashire Illustrated, in a series of views ..., from original drawings by S. Austin, Harwood, Pyne ..., 1st edition, London: Henry Fisher, Son & Peter Jackson, 1829 [i.e. 1831], additional engraved title only (lacking letterpress title), 80 (of 104) engraved plates on 40 leaves, some spotting, a few plates with (generally light) dampstaining, front hinge cracked, near contemporary mottled green calf gilt, rubbed with some wear or skinning to extremities, faded spine with gilt crest at foot, joints cracking, 4to, with one other similar: Views [cover title], a bound compilation of 92 engraved plates (on 52 leaves) and letterpress descriptions, taken from 'Metropolitan Improvements', 'Great Britain Illustrated', 'The National Gallery', and 'Paris and its Environs'Qty: (5)
Lot 38
Blomefield (Francis). An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, 11 volumes, 2nd edition, London: William Miller, 1805-10, half-titles, mezzotint portrait frontispiece to volume 1, four folding engraved maps & plans (city plan of Norwich linen-backed), 31 engraved plates (including 4 folding),15 pedigrees (including 8 folding, one with closed tear to fold and another linen-backed), two folding tables (all plates, maps/plans & pedigrees as Upcott), few engraved illustrations to text, list of subscribers present, occasional marginal notes and drawings to few leaves, some browning, damp-soiling and spotting, bookplates of Charles George Milnes Gaskell and Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence to front endpapers, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, late 19th/early 20th century uniform half vellum gilt by Riviere & son, green morocco title labels to spines, few volumes with light wear to boards (mostly fore-edges), large 4to (approximately 31 x 24 cm)Qty: (11)
Lot 42
Chamberlain (Henry). A New and Compleat History of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent; from the earliest accounts, to the year 1770, London: J. Cooke, [1770], engraved frontispiece and 64 plates, folding plan of London, folding engraved map of twenty miles around London (torn with loss), repaired closed tears to frontispiece, title and few other plates etc., some other short closed tears mostly to plate margins, occasional light dust-soiling and spotting, contemporary reversed calf, red morocco title label to spine, joints split at head & foot, some wear to extremities, folio, together with: Bentham (James), The History and Antiquities of the Conventual and Cathedral Church of Ely, from the Foundation of the Monastery, A.D. 673, to the Year 1771, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition, Cambridge: Printed at the University Press by J. Bentham, 1771, engraved folding frontispiece, 47 engraved views & plans on 45 plates (7 folding; plates 48-50 engraved on a single folding sheet), front blank with early 19th century manuscript note, later pencil note 'Heber - Phillipps copy', 20th century bookplate of Katharine Hely-Hutchinson of Chippenham Lodge, Ely, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine and morocco title label (worn with loss), joints split, rubbed and worn, 4to, and other miscellaneous books including Cary's New Itinerary, 11th edition, 1828 and A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, edited by William Smith, 1842Qty: (8)
Lot 43
Dearn (Thomas Downes Wilmot). Historical, Topographical and Descriptive Account of the Weald of Kent, Cranbrook: S. Reader, 1814, eight uncoloured aquatint plates (including frontispiece), etched map, occasional marks, spotting and light offsetting, edges untrimmed, modern gilt decorated calf, contrasting morocco & calf labels to spine, 8vo, together with: Blomefield (Francis), The History of the City and County of Norwich, Containing it's Original Rise, and Increase..., a Description of the Streets, Walls, River, remarkable Houses, and other things..., Fersfield: Printed at Fersfield, 1741, title in red & black, 5 engraved plates only (of 8, one with repaired closed tear), engraved illustration to text, list of subscribers, short worm trails to few leaves at rear of volume, rear free endpaper detached, contemporary blind panelled calf gilt, joints cracked and some wear to extremities, folio (Upcott p.945-47), Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, Nos. 27-41, in one volume, London: J. Nichols, 1783-87, numerous etched & engraved plates (some folding), bound with Pegge (Samuel), Annales Eliae de Trickingham..., London: Ex Officina Nicholsiana, 1789, edges untrimmed, contemporary half calf gilt, 4to, and one other defective volumeQty: (4)NOTESESTC T226404 and Upcott, p. 945-7. Three UK institutional locations found (Birmingham University Library, Cambridge University Special collections & Norwich Cathedral). This is a self-contained volume on Norwich, being Volume 2 of the first edition of Blomefield's work on Norfolk 'A Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, 1739'. The number of plates within this work appears to vary from 5, 6 or 8. Upcott calls for eight plates, with this copy lacking the city plan and also the monument of Bishop Hall in Heigham Church.
Lot 45
Finden (E. & W.). The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain, illustrated by views taken on the spot, 2 volumes, London: George Virtue, c.1841, 144 engraved plates, after Bartlett, Harding and Creswick, including frontispiece and additional titles (complete as list), 4pp. publisher's advertisements at rear of 1st volume, some spotting, volume I with intermittent dampstain to upper blank margins (affecting head of additional title), all edges gilt, original blind-stamped cloth, rubbed and lightly marked, some wear to extremities, spines a little cocked, 1st volume front cover stained at head, gilt-decorations to spines and front covers, 4to, together with: Virtue (George, publisher), The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain - Kent, London, c.1831, engraved frontispiece, additional title, and 128 engraved plates on 64 leaves, folding engraved map (lightly offset), generally spotted and lightly toned, minor dampstaining to gutters of first few leaves, frontspiece and additional title a trifle edge-frayed, frontispiece edge-chipped with closed edge tears, one plate leaf edge-frayed and with long closed tear (repaired on verso), endpapers renewed, original maroon half morocco, with printed title and vignette to front board, rebacked, worn, 4to, plus: Morris (F. O.), A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, 4 volumes, c.1880, additional decorative titles, numerous chromolithographed plates, letterpress toned with light spotting (lightly affecting some plate margins), three plates (with accompanying text leaf) detached, all edges gilt, publisher's decorative cloth gilt, rubbed with some wear to extremities, a few minor marks, 4to, and three others similarQty: (10)
Lot 49
Ingram (James). Memorials of Oxford, 3 volumes, Oxford: John Henry Parker & London: Charles Tilt, 1837, large paper copy, vignette titles, 100 engraved plates (spotted), one uncoloured engraved map, numerous wood-engravings to text, plates in volume I with minor dampstain at head of gutters, each front pastedown with bookplate removed, all edges gilt, contemporary half maroon marocco gilt, rubbed with a little wear to extremities, spines with small circular label removed, volume I front cover nearly detached and light dampstain to rear joint, 4to, together with: [Skelton, J., publisher], [Skelton's Engraved Illustrations of the Antiquities of Oxfordshire, Oxford: for J. Skelton, 1823], large paper copy, bound from the parts, printed front wrapper from part XII bound in at front, lacking title and frontispiece, 47 (of 49) engraved plates, one uncoloured engraved map, numerous engraved vignettes in letterpress, subscriber's list, plates spotted (mainly affecting blank margins), contemporary half black morocco gilt, rubbed with some wear to extremities, front cover stained, folioQty: (4)
Lot 50
Leighton (Clare). The Farmer's Year. A Calendar of English Husbandry, 1st edition, London: Collins, 1933, 12 wood-engraved plates, one or two minor spots, contemporary presentation inscription, original green cloth gilt, some fading to extremities, dust jacket, a few closed tears and light stains, oblong folioQty: (1)NOTESThe first book Clare Leighton wrote, engraved and designed. She had written that the experience of making the work had given her 'a delicious sense of complete oneness'.
Lot 54
Pountney (W. J.). Old Bristol Potteries..., 1st edition, Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., 1920, signed & inscribed by the author to the half-title, colour frontispiece, 55 black & white plates plus folding map to the rear, some light spotting to the endpapers & text block, publishers original red cloth, spine slightly faded with minor rubbing, 8vo, together with; Bristol Records Society, a broken run of 31 volumes, volume 15 - 50 (1949-99), some minor toning, all in the publishers original boards with cloth spines, 8vo, and The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, a broken run of 19 volumes, volume 10 - 137 (1998- 2019), all in the publishers original cloth in dust jackets/wrappers, 8vo, plus other Bristol reference, including 5 volumes by John Latimer, 8voQty: (58)
Lot 6
Borthwick (John David). Three Years in California, 1st edition, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1857, 8 tinted lithograph plates, light offsetting to title and text, prize label, contemporary calf gilt, joints cracking, a little rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESHowes B622; Sabin 6436. Classic account of the California Gold Rush by Borthwick, a visiting Scotsman, who spent three years observing life in the mining camps from 1851.
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* Britton & Rey (lithographers). San Francisco & Bay, as seen from the Clifton House, & Clifton House, Saucelito, Marin Co., California, circa 1880, uncoloured lithographic panorama of San Francisco Bay, and View of Clifton House, Saucelito, printed on a single sheet of wove paper, published by Moore & De Pue, San Francisco, trimmed to image, and laid down on old card, some light spotting and surface marks, sheet size 335 x 408 mm (13.2 x 16 ins), together with: Hancock (Robert, 1730-1817). The Waterfall of Niagara, 1794, copper engraving with old hand-colouring on wove paper, published 12th May, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, some marks and surface soiling, some discolouration to sky area, trimmed to plate margins on left and right edges, plate size 260 x 400 mm (10.25 x 15.75 ins), sheet size 287 x 400 mm (11.3 x 15.75 ins) hinge-mounted on card, plus: Smillie (James, 1807-1885). American Harvesting, & Dover Plains, 1851, 2 engraved views on pale cream wove paper, after Jasper F. Cropsey, and A.P. Durand, published by the American Art Union, 1851, some light surface soiling, plate size 275 x 375 mm (10.8 x 14.75 ins), sheet size 360 x 460 mm (14.2 x 18.1 ins)Qty: (4)
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