Bahr (Abel William). Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China. Being Description and Illustrations of Articles selected from an Exhibition held in Shanghai, November, 1908, London: Cassell and Company, 1911, frontispiece and 120 plates, including 12 colour, a little light spotting and toning to text, top edge gilt, original green cloth gilt (a few small bumps to edges), dust jacket, a few tears and repairs, large 8vo, together with Laufer (Berthold). Archaic Chinese Jades Collected in China by A.W. Bahr, now in the Field Museum of Natural History Chicago, New York: Privately printed for A.W. Bahr, 1927, 35 colour and monochrome plates, light spotting at gutter front and rear, original cloth-backed boards, spine faded, a few stains to covers, small 4to, plus Siren (Osvald). Early Chinese Paintings from A.W. Bahr Collection, London: Chiswick Press, 1938, 27 tipped-in plates, a few colour, lacking front endpaper and most of half title sheet (excepting text at top), top edge gilt, original black cloth gilt, slight rippling at foot of upper cover, folio, limited edition 374/750Qty: (3)
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Dore (Gustave). The Dore Gallery: containing two hundred and fifty beautiful engravings, selected from the Dore? Bible, Milton, and Dantes Inferno [and others]. With a memoir of Dore, critical essay, and descriptive letterpress by Edmund Ollier, one volume in two, London, Paris & New York: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [1870], engraved frontispiece and plates, occasional light spotting, all edges gilt, moire silk doublure endpapers with gilt dentelles, light wear to morocco hinges, contemporary red morocco, elaborate gilt decoration, contrasting morocco labels to spines, gilt armorial with motto 'Firma Durant' to centre of each board, extremities rubbed, folioQty: (2)
The British Printer . 3 volumes, London, 1888- 1890, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations and advertisements, some light toning, volumes 1 & 2 in contemporary gilt decorated half calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed, volume 3 rebound in modern brown half calf retaining contemporary spine label, 4to, includes a handwritten letter of provenance 'These three volumes of The British Printer originally belonged to William Collins...apprenticed as compositor to W. P . Griffith in the year 1872...', together with; Steer (Vincent) , Printing Design and Layout..., Virtue & Co. Ltd., 1951, numerous black & white illustrations, minor marginal toning, publishers original black leatherette, boards & spine very lightly rubbed, large 4to, and Updike (Daniel Berkeley) , Printing Types, their history, forms, and use, A study in Survivals, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1937, numerous black & white facsimiles, minor marginal toning, publishers uniform original blue cloth, spines slightly faded & rubbed, 8vo, plus other modern typography & printing reference & related, including catalogues & examples, a cast-iron 'MONOTYPE' stamp, some original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks and leaflets, 8vo/4toQty: (3 cartons)
Jekyll (Gertrude) . Wood and Garden..., 4th impression, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899, numerous monochrome illustrations, bookplate to front endpaper some minor spotting throughout, publishers original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine slightly faded, 8vo, together with; Chapman (Abel) , On Safari, big-game hunting in British East Africa, Edward Arnold, 1908, numerous black & white illustrations, some minor toning, publishers original decorated black cloth, front boards slightly marked, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Seebohm (Henry) , History of British Birds, with coloured illustrations of their Eggs, 4 volumes, R. H. Porter, 1883, 68 colour plates, some light toning & spotting, top edges gilt, uniform contemporary gilt decorated green half morocco bound by Wilson, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Arnold (E. C.) , British Waders illustrated in water-colour, 1st edition, Cambridge University Press, 1924, 51 colour plates with tissue guards, bookplate to front pastedown, some minor margin, toning, publishers original gilt decorated red cloth, spine faded & rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, and other 19th century & modern natural history reference, including British Sporting Birds, by F. B. Kirkman & Horace G. Hutchinson, T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1924, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (3 shelves & a carton)
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Sherwood, Neely, and Jones [publisher] . The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette; A Magazine Entirely appropriated to Sporting Subjects and Fancy Pursuits;..., volumes 1-5, 8-10, 1822-26, numerous hand coloured & black & white illustrations, some light toning & spotting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated half calf, boards & spines rubbed, spines partially detached to volumes 3 & 9, spines lacking to volumes 4 & 5, 8vo, together with; Tunnicliffe (C. F.) , Shorelands Summer Diary, 1st edition, Collins, 1952, 16 colour plates & numerous black & white illustrations, minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed & torn with some loss, large 4to, and Morris (F. O.) , A History of British Butterflies, 10th edition, George Routledge and Sons, 1908, 79 hand coloured plates, some light spotting throughout, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other late 19th & early 20th century natural history & sporting reference, including British Birds, 4 volumes, by A. Thorburn, Longmans, Green and Co., 1917, Notes on Tulip Species, by W. R. Dykes, 1st edition, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1930, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (3 shelves)
Scott (Walter) . Waverley Novels, 12 volumes, Houlston & Stoneman, 1842, black & white illustrations, slight toning & marks, all edges gilt, uniform contemporary gilt decorated red half morocco, boards & spines slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with; Russell (William) , The History of Modern Europe: with an account of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire;..., new edition, 4 volumes, 1850, bookplates to front pastedowns , period inscriptions to head of title pages, some spotting & toning throughout, uniform contemporary gilt decorated full calf, boards & spines slightly rubbed, 8vo, and Wood (J. G.) , Out Of Doors: a selection of original articles on practical natural history, Longman, Green, and Co., 1874, 11 black & white illustrations, period inscription to front endpaper, some light spotting & toning, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other 19th century literature & reference, all gilt decorated leather bindings, overall condition is generally good, 8voQty: (3 shelves )NOTES47 volumes
Milne (A. A.) . The House At Pooh Corrner, 1st edition, Methuen & Co., 1928, black & white illustrations by E. H. Shepard, some light toning, loss to foot of pp.1, top edge gilt, original gilt decorated red cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, covers marked with significant tears & loss, 8vo, plus another copy, 5th & cheaper edition, 1934, When We Were Very Young, 9th edition, Methuen & Co., 1925, black & white illustrations by E. H. Shepard, some minor marks & toning, publishers original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine slightly rubbed to head & foot, minor marks to front & rear boards, 8vo, together with; Kipling (Rudyard) , The Jungle Book, reprint edition, 1897, black & white illustrations, period inscription to front endpaper, The Second Jungle Book, 1st edition, 1895, black & white illustrations, blind stamp to front endpaper, Soldier Tales, reprint edition, 1896, black & white illustrations, period inscription to front endpaper, some light spotting & toning in all volumes, top edges gilt, publishers original gilt decorated blue cloth, spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, and Carroll (Lewis) , Th Hunting Of The Snark, an Agony in Eight fits, reprint edition, Macmillan and Co., 1910, 9 illustrations by Henry Holiday, later inscription to front endpaper, some minor toning, publishers original gilt decorated red cloth, boards & spine slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other late 19th century & modern juvenile, illustrated & miscellaneous literature, including Andrew Lang, Beatrix Potter, Ronald Searle, John le Carré, Damon Runyon, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (6 shelves & a carton)
Lucas (C.) . An Essay on Waters. In Three Parts, 3 volumes, printed for A. Millar, 1756, 1 black & white folding plate, period inscription to volume 1 front pastedown, some light toning & spotting, volumes 1 & 2 in uniform contemporary vellum, loss to spine of volume 1, boards & spines rubbed, volume 3 pages un-trimmed & bound in modern grey boards, 8vo, together with; Kirby (William & William Spence) , An Introduction to Entomology: or Elements of the Natural History of Insects:, 4 volumes, 2nd edition, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816, 30 hand-coloured & black & white plates, bookplates to front pastedowns, some light toning, offsetting & spotting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated full calf, boards slightly rubbed, spines rubbed with minor loss, 8vo, and Horticultural Society [publisher] , The Journal of the Horticultural Society, 4 volumes bound in 2, 1846-49, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, bookplate to volume 1 front endpaper, some spotting & minor toning, uniform contemporary gilt decorated half calf, boards & spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other mostly 19th century natural history & horticultural reference, including Sporting Novels, 6 volumes, by R. S. Surtees, Bradbury, Agnew & Co., circa 1860, uniform gilt decorated red half calf bound by Henry Young & Sons, 8vo, some leather bindings, some original cloth, overall condition is good/very good, 8voQty: (2 shelves )NOTES43 volumes
Stanley (Arthur Pehrhyn) . Sinai and Palestine in connection with their history, new edition, John Murray, 1889, 7 colour maps & 5 black & white woodcut illustrations, period inscription to the front endpaper, some light spotting, contemporary gilt decorated tree calf bound by Riviere & Son, hinges cracked, spine rubbed with minor loss to head & foot, 8vo, together with; Smedley (Frank E.) , Lewis Arundle, Virtue & Co., 1867, black & white illustrations by "Phiz" , some toning & light spotting, front guttering cracked, contemporary gilt decorated red half morocco bound byJaggard & Co., spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, and other miscellaneous mostly 19th century literature & reference, all leather bindings, some French language, some odd volumes, overall condition is fair/good, 8voQty: (6 shelves)
Murray (H.) . The British Schools of Art: A selection of examples engraved in line by eminent artists, 2 volumes, James S. Virtue, circa 1869, numerous black & white engraved plates, some light toning & spotting throughout, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated red half morocco, boards & spines slightly rubbed, folio, together with; Drummond (William) , A Cypress Grove, The Hawthornden Press, Edinburgh, 1919, tipped in black & white portrait frontispiece, uncut pages, some very minor marginal toning, publishers original cloth spine to boards, lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other late 19th early 20th century miscellaneous literature & art reference, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, overall condition is generally fair/good, 8vo/folioQty: (6 Shelves)
Ainger (A.C.) . Eton in Prose & Verse, an anthology, Hodder And Stoughton, circa 1925, 30 tipped-in colour plates with tissue guards, bookplate to front pastedown, some toning & light spotting, publishers original gilt decorated cloth, boards & spine heavily marked & slightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, together with; Davenport Adams (W. H.) , Windsor Castle and the Water-Way Thither, Marcus Ward & Co., 1880, 12 colour plates & 74 black & white illustrations, bookplate to front pastedown, guttering partially cracked, some light spotting throughout, all edges gilt, publishers original gilt decorated red cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 4to, and other late 19th century & modern U.K. topography reference & related, including publications by Pevsner/Penguin, Ward Lock & Co's Illustrated Guide Books, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (6 shelves)
Stanley (Arthur Penrhyn) . Sinai And Palestine in connection with their history, new edition, John Murray, 1866, 7 colour maps & 5 black & white woodcut illustrations, minor marginal toning, publishers original plum cloth, boards & spine faded & rubbed, hinges cracked, 8vo, together with; Sparrow (Gerald) , Not Wisely But Too Well, 1st edition, George G. Harap & Co. Ltd, 1961, black & white map to pp.24, some minor toning, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated blue half morocco bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine slightly faded, 8vo, and St. John (Robert) , Through Malan's Africa, 1st edition, Victor Gollancz, 1954, some light spotting throughout, original cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed with loss, 8vo, plus other early 20th century & modern travel reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves )
Segneri (Paolo) . Il Cristiano Istruito Nella fua Legge. Ragionamenti Morali, 3 parts (bound in 1), printed by Giuseppe Bortoli, Venice, 1745, period inscriptions to the endpapers, front & rear pastedowns torn, some light spotting & toning throughout, contemporary full vellum, period inscriptions to the front board, boards & spine toned & slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with; Antoine (Paulo Gabriele) , Theologia Moralis Universa,..., 2 volumes, printed by Fratrum Borsi, Parma, 1762, period inscriptions to the foot of both title pages, spotting & toning throughout, some water damage throughout volume 2, uniform contemporary full vellum, boards & spines slightly toned & marked, 4to, and O'Meara (Barry E.) , Napoleon In Exile; or, A Voice from St. Helena..., 2 volumes, printed for W. Simpkin & R. Marshall, 1822, 2 black & white frontispieces, period inscriptions to front endpapers, some offsetting & minor toning, uniform contemporary gilt decorated full calf, volume 1 front board partially detached, boards & spines rubbed, 8vo, plus other 18th & 19th century literature & reference, including The Baronetage of England,or the History of the English Baronets,..., 5 volumes, by William Betham, printed by Burrell and Bransby, Ipswich, 1801, mostly leather bindings, some odd volumes, overall condition is generally good, 8vo/4toQty: (6 shelves)NOTESApproximately 160 volumes
Anglo (Sydney) . The Great Tournament Roll of Westminster, a collotype reproduction of the manuscript, 2 volumes, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1968, 23 colour & monochrome plates with tissue guards, bookplates of 'The Reverend Dr. G. B. Westwood, MA' to the front endpapers, original cloth in price-clipped dust jackets in slipcase, spines lightly marked to foot, 8vo/oblong 4to, together with; Grazebrook (H. Sydney) , The Heraldry of Worcestershire;..., 2 volumes, John Russell Smith, 1873, monochrome half-title in volume 1, later inscriptions to head of the title-pages, bookplates to front endpapers, some light spotting & toning, publishers uniform original gilt decorated blue cloth, volume 2 front board & spine partially detached, spines slightly faded & rubbed, 4to, and Burke (John) , A Genealogical and Heraldic History of The Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland..., 4 volumes, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1977, 4 black & white frontispieces plus shield illustrations, bookplates of 'The Reverend Dr. G. B. Westwood, MA' to the front endpapers, publishers original green cloth, 8vo, plus other modern genealogy & heraldry reference & related, including The Ancestor, A Quarterly Review..., volumes 1-12, Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1902-1905, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves)
Mogg (Edward) . Paterson's Roads; being an entirely original and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales,..., printed for Longman, Rees, et al... 1832, 9 black & white folding maps, frontispiece folding map rebound with some marginal loss, some light offsetting & spotting throughout, later endpapers, later brown half morocco, boards & spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with; Swinburne (T. R.) . A Holiday In The Happy Valley, with pen and pencil, 1st edition, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1907, 24 coloured illustrations, period inscription to the front pastedown, some minor marginal toning, publishers original illustrated red cloth, spine slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Lloyd (George) , Egypt Since Cromer, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Macmillan and Co., 1933-34, period inscriptions & ex-library stamps to the front endpapers, some minor toning, publishers uniform original blue cloth, boards & spines slightly rubbed & marked, 8vo, plus Cescinsky (Herbert & Ernest R. Gribble) , Early English Furniture & Woodwork, 2 volumes, The Waverley Book Company Ltd., 1922, 2 colour frontispieces & numerous black & white illustrations, volume 1 front endpapers & volume 2 spine partially detached, some marginal toning, publishers uniform original brown cloth, boards & spines rubbed, folio, and other 19th century & modern miscellaneous literature, art reference & reference, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, overall condition is fair/good, 8vo/folio includes a large black & white engraved print 'The Beaconsfield Cabinet'Qty: (6 shelves & a carton)
Bowen (Emanuel, et al.). The Maps and Charts to the Modern Part of the Universal History, London: T. Osborne, A. Millar, J. Rivington, B. Law & Co., T. Longman, C. Ware & S. Bladon, 1786, 39 engraved folding maps by E. Bowen & T. Kitchin etc. (including twin-hemisphere world, Africa and America), occasional light toning and minor spotting, front free endpaper detached and frayed, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine (rubbed) and contrasting morocco labels (volume number label torn with loss), centre of each board with blind embossed armorial of William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot (1728-1798) of Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire, joints cracked and some wear, folioQty: (1)NOTESThis is the atlas volume for the Universal History set, numbered volume 17 to the spine.
* 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)NB: Condition Report: There is a small closed tear to right centre of the main image (on the shoreline), without loss, and minor erasure of paper surface to extreme upper left corner.
Le Bruyn (Cornelius). Voyage au Levant, c'est-à-dire, dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure, dans les isles de Chio, Rhodes, & Chypre &c., De meme que dans les plus considerables villes d'Egypte, Syrie, & Terre Sainte, [and Voyages de Corneille le Bruyn par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales], 5 volumes, 1st collected edition, Paris: Jean-Baptiste-Claude Bauche, 1725, 2 works in one, titles printed in red & black, with early ink ownership inscription at head, each title and page 1 with contemporary ink booksellers stamp?, 4 maps (correct as list, including 3 folding), 80 engraved plates (of 85), including 10 folding, several plates partly detached, and 4 detached (1 with small loss affecting upper right corner of plate, 1 a trifle edge-frayed), some sections protruding (not fully caught-up in sewing), some light spotting and occasional marks or stains (mainly to text), volume 4: title & single-page map detached, with some edge-fraying and creasing (title with tear at gutter); some worming to gutter pp.113-136; 2 plates with a small loss centrally; 1 folding plate with crayon on blank verso (affecting facing page), uniform contemporary calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines (most defective), somewhat worn, 4toQty: (5)NOTESAtabey 161; Blackmer 225 (second French edition). The first collected edition of the travels of Cornelius Le Bruyn, a Dutch painter who travelled to the Levant between 1678-1693. The publication of his voyages, accompanied by plates taken from his own drawings, was a success and he followed this by undertaking another journey, this time to Russia, Persia and the East Indies. In addition to landscapes and scenes of cities, Le Bruyn drew depictions of the costumes, animals and fruits he saw on his travels.
China. [Twelve plates from A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern, London: Thomas Jefferys, 1757-72], 12 hand-coloured engravings on laid paper in 6 card mounts, all depicting Chinese costume, light toning, 'A Chinese Mandarin in a Winter Dress' and 'Summer Habit of a Chinese Mandarin in 1700' spotted, a few other marks, mount apertures 24.5 x 18.6 cm, and 1 other (Rudolf Payer-Thurn, Chinesische Miniaturen. Erste Folge [only], Leipzig: Thyrsos, 1924, title-leaf, leaf of text, 12 chromolithographic plates, each separately mounted and loose in portfolio, ex library with related markings to portfolio and title-leaf, folio)Qty: (7)
Chinese Export School. Album of court-scene pith paintings, second half of the 19th century, 12 miniatures in watercolour and bodycolour on pith paper (24.6 x 16.5 cm) each mounted on separate paper sheet within blue silk ribbon border, second miniature spotted, third with loss of ribbon along fore edge and related chipping affecting floor detail, light disruption to corners of other images affecting floor detail in a few, contemporary Chinese binding of patterned red silk over boards, green fabric ties, silk largely worn away on spine, folio (29.6 x 21.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Julia Parker Wightman (1909-1994), American bibliophile (gilt bookplate).
Chinese Export School. Album of pith paintings depicting trades and professions, Canton: Wing Tai Hing, second half of the 19th century, 12 miniatures in watercolour and bodycolour on pith paper (20 x 31.6 cm) each on separate paper mount within blue paper border, printed caption in English to foot of each mount, 'Tea-box painters' chipped along edges and held loosely under border, 'Paper lantern painters' lifting and slightly chipped along fore edge and with short closed tear to lower inner corner, 'Black-Smiths' with minor chipping in image, 'Tailors' with small tear to lower outer corner, 'Shoe makers' border lifting, a few other areas of light disruption to pith paper not affecting painted images, a few marks, printed trade-label ('Wing Tai Hing, Rice-Paper-Picture Shop, in Wai Yuen Yik Street, Canton') to front pastedown, contemporary Chinese binding of patterned red silk binding over boards, silk with substantial fraying and loss, oblong folio (25 x 36 cm), housed in a contemporary Chinese blue silk portfolio with hand-painted decoration to front cover incorporating roses, fruit, golden pheasant and butterflyQty: (1)NOTESThe paintings are captioned: Tea-box painters; Paper lantern painters; Jet-stone bangle grinders; Black-Smiths; Painters and Carpenters; Mat-makers; Bamboo-chair makers; Lacquer-box makers; Tailors; Shoe-Makers; Druggists and Doctors; Tin-Smiths.
Forster (Johann Reinhold). History of the Voyages and Discoveries made in the North. Translated from the German, Dublin: for Luke White and Pat. Byrne, 1786, engraved folding map of the Arctic, light browning, small hole in 2F8, Sparrman (Andreas). A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and round the World: but chiefy into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the Year 1772, to 1776. Translated from the Swedish Original, 2 volumes, Dublin: White, Cash, and Byrne, 1785, pp. xxxvi 395, xi 382, 10 engraved plates including frontispiece (of which 2 folding; mainly zoological), engraved folding map, Cook (James). A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere ... in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1782, volumes 2-3 of 3, Dublin: H. Chamberlaine [and others], 1784, large engraved folding map ('Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia', opening to 40 x 65 cm), 2 folding letterpress tables (collation for these 2 volumes only not established), all with dyed green edges, uniformly bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, morocco labels and nonce volume numbers (5-10) to spines, one label on Forster slightly chipped, 8vo (20.5 x 12 cm)Qty: (5)NOTESBeddie 1276 (Sparrman), 1546 (Cook); ESTC N737 (Forster: six UK copies), T129107 (Sparrman: five UK copies), N21787 (Cook); Sabin 25138 (Forster: 'A learned account of the various expeditions for discovering the North-West and North-East Passages'), 16250 (Cook). First Dublin editions, each printed in the same year as the London editions.
India. Three privately printed journals, 1914-31, comprising: 1. Houstoun-Boswall (Phoebe). My Diary. A Trip to the East, [Frome & London]: printed for private circulation [by Butler & Tanner Ltd], 1931, xii 243 pp., 30 gelatin silver print photographs (on 18 card mounts), inscribed by the author 'My first effort in print but not the last we hope. To Nini with much love, Christmas 1931, Phoebe' on front free endpaper, rear inner hinge cracked but holding, original cloth, spine faded, 8vo, 2. Roberts (Sir James R.). More Wanderings in India [cover-title], Gwalior: for private circulation, Alijah Darbar Press, c.1931, 131 pp., light spotting, original printed wrappers (a few chips), 4to, 3. [Ricketts, George Henry Mildmay]. Extracts from the Diary of a Bengal Civilian in 1857-59. And Further Notes of Services and Experiences in Bengal, the Punjab and the United Provinces, [no place]: for private circulation only, [1914], 114 pp., inscribed 'A. W. Cruickshank late B.C.S. [i.e. Bengal Civil Service], from George H M Ricketts, a general practitioner also in B.C.S.' on front free endpaper, with laid-in autograph letter signed from Ricketts to Crucikshank dated 7 March 1914 and presenting the work (4 pp.), original cloth, 8voQty: (3)NOTESLibrary Hub cites three copies only of Ricketts's work; the first two works are otherwise untraced. The first concerns a journey to Ceylon, Burma and India and was written by the author, the daughter of Sir George Reginald Houstoun-Boswall, 4th Baronet (a Great War casualty), at the age of fourteen; the photographs include elephants, locals including tea-plantation workers and the maharaja of Dholpur, and views. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James R. Roberts was an officer in the Indian Medical Service.
Jones (Henry). The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1700 to the Year 1720) Abridg'd and Dispos'd under General Heads, volume V only, 1721, 29 folding engraved plates and table, including the folding engraved map 'A Passage by Land to California Discover'd by ye Rev. Fath. Eusebius Francis Kino, Jesuit between ye Years 1698 & 1701', occasional light spotting and toning, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed with some worming to upper joint and covers, 4toQty: (1)NOTESContains Eusebio Francisco Kino's map of California, first drawn in 1702, the first map to show California as a peninsula and not an island, as had previously been supposed. "A Jesuit, Father Eusebio Kino, was the first European to cross from the mainland to the peninsula of California, and to point out the fallacy of the island theory. His map, compiled in 1698, was printed in 1705. This map, however, was not generally accepted: in fact it provoked a fairly strong reaction. Herman Moll in 1711 wrote indignantly that California was undoubtedly an island. 'Why,' he said, 'I have had in my office mariners who have sailed round it.' Finally in 1746 Father Consag sailed completely round the Gulf of California and at last settled the vexed question..." (Tooley, The Mapping of America , p. 111).
* Machell (Thomas, 1824-1862). Two autograph letters signed, 1850 & 1851, both written to Mrs John Ditmas, from Rooderpore Factory, Bongong: the first dated November 12th 1850, apologising for tardiness in writing, reminiscing that it was 2 years to the day since the writer was staying with Mrs Ditmas on his birthday, mentioning the enduring of trials, disappointments, and being "neglected and almost insulted by those at whose hands I had a right to expect at least courtesy", before detailing a change of fortune whereby "I am again an Indigo planter and have just been given the charge of six factories", going on to paint a picture in words of the remote terrain of plains, swamps, howling jackals, native huts, rice and indigo crops, with details such as a grim looking old alligator eyeing up the local children, and describing in detail the lonely life of the "much abused Planter" and his numerous responsibilities and yearnings for home, first page with border of vignettes in brown ink, depicting various sights pertaining to the writer's travels, including a tiger, a whale, elephants, a view of Tenerife, a large sailing ship in the Bay of Bengal, stormy seas at The Cape of Good Hope, etc., mostly captioned beneath, e.g. '"Adieu my native Land"', 'Land ho! Maderia', 'Round the Cape', etc., written in black ink to all 4 sides of a bifolium, several folds, with address 'Minster Yard, York, England' on final page, accompanied by various indistinct ink postal stamps, first leaf splitting slightly at one fold, second leaf with several small holes, and subsequent loss of a number of letters, leaf size 24.8 x 20cm, the second undated, but with ink postal stamp 'Bongong' dated 1 Decr 1851 in manuscript, and reference made to the letter again being written on 12th November, the writer's birthday, followed by childhood memories of "the young Machells" visiting the "little Miss Ditmases", and their antics in the nursery, e.g. hanging "their playfellows dolls out of the window", going on to write of the onerous duties of supervising a mixed race of "Mohammedans and Hindus" - "exercising an almost patriarchal sway over them I find myself in the position of Father Priest and Physician", and describing the widely varied nature and attitudes of his fellow Planters, first page headed with a pen, ink, & wash sketch of a large 2-storey thatched building with verandahs, beside a tree, written in brown ink to most of the 4 sides of a bifolium, with oval blindstamp 'Rolland Frères Fabr. Bordeaux', several folds, with address on final page as above, and ink postal stamps, including Calcutta and York, some small splits in folds, leaf size 26.6 x 21.2cmQty: (2)NOTESProvenance: Mrs Mary Ann Ditmas (born circa 1802), wife of John Ditmas; passed to her daughter Georgiana Townesend née Ditmas, wife of George Fyler Townesend; and thence by descent. These two interesting letters give a fascinating insight into the period explorer Thomas Machell spent as manager of the Rooderpore indigo estate in India in the middle of the 19th century. The British Library holds a collection of letters, many of them illustrated, written by Machell to his father over the course of his eventful lifetime of travel. These "Talking Papers" as Machell called them, totalling almost 3000 pages, describe such exploits as: witnessing the first Opium War in Hong Kong; a narrow escape from the wrath of a Polynesian cannibal whose daughter he had seduced on the Marquesas Islands; presiding over coffee plantations; travels with Muslim merchants; and managing bullock trains transporting goods across Central India. In these two letters to an old family friend, as well as describing details of the surrounding terrain and his occupation, the explorer writes sensitively about the indigenous people amongst whom he works, and wistfully of the people back home. Mrs Ditmas had two daughters who never married, Mary Henrietta and Fanny, both of whom lived with her all their lives as did her servant Mrs Radcliffe. All three are mentioned by Machell in his letters, and he seems to make especial mention of Fanny in particular. Thomas Machell would no doubt be delighted that these two letters have come to light; he had aspirations to be a travel writer, and had planned to write a book on indigo as well an autobiographical novel. Presciently, in 1851 he wrote: "…mayhap the words carelessly written at Rooderpore factory will be lighted upon in some musty library in the twentieth century". (Jenny Balfour-Paul, Deeper Than Indigo: Tracing Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer , 2015)
Carl Brennir (1850-1920), Lingering light near Kempsey, Worcestershire, signed lower left, oil on canvas, 51 x 76cm Carl Brennir was a Nottingham born landscape artist. He was elected to the Nottingham Society of Artists in 1908 and exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Artists and Manchester City Art Gallery during his career
Nine Supertramp vinyl albums, 'Indelibly Stamped', AMLH 64306, 'Breakfast in America', AMLK 63708, 'Paris Live Double Album', AMLM 66702, 'Crisis? What Crisis?', AMLH 68347, 'Free as a Bird', A & M Records 1987, 'Live '88', AMA 3923, 'The Autobiography of Supertramp', 'Famous Last Words', AMLK 63732 and 'Even in the Quietest Moments', PSP-4634, two Electric Light Orchestra vinyl LPs, 'A New World Record', UAG 30017 and The Doors 'The Best of The Doors', EKT21 (13).
Pink Floyd 'Dark Side of the Moon' original UK pressing with sky blue triangle on label, with two posters and two stickers by Permanent. CONDITION REPORT One sticker has a crease, but stickers and posters are largely excellent. Matrix A-2 B-2. Spindle wear suggests vinyl is very good plus and the vinyl surface looks near excellent. Outer sleeve is very good with some rubbing at corners and there is a small mark in the yellow ray of light on the front of the sleeve. Original poly lined black inner is very good plus and it also has Pink Floyd 'Dark Side of the Moon' sticker. In addition, rear of sleeve has long line rubbing mark near the bottom.
An Enfield No7 blade bayonet with metal scabbard, overall length 33cm and an Enfield No4 spike bayonet in metal scabbard, overall length 27cm (2). CONDITION REPORT Both show signs of use throughout with rubbing to the finish of the scabbards and light corrosion/surface pitting showing through. Enfield No.7 stamped under hilt 97Mk1/ two numbers or letters not decipherable, numbers stamped to hilt not very clear, possibly M/13. Spike bayonet; possibly SK and PS +Co??
A Bank of England June 27th 1950 'White Fiver', Percival Spencer Beale Cashier, R88 094369. CONDITION REPORT The note has been stored flat but has a right corner crease, a horizontal middle crease, a central middle crease and two vertical creases 1cm apart to the left hand side, possibly eight tiny holes when held to the light, more likely through wear than pin holes, of good clean appearance.
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