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Click here to subscribeThoresby (Ralph). Ducatus Leodiensis, or the Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes, 1st ed., 1715, eng. port. frontis. by George Vertue, folding eng. map, eng. Prospect of Leedes and ten other uncol. eng. plts., incl. some folding, list of subscribers, occasional browning or light spotting, contemp. calf boards with recent calf gilt reback, folio (1)
Cumbria. Greenwood (C & J), Map of the County of Cumberland, Feb. 24th, 1830, engraved map, hand coloured in outline with calligraphic title and vignette of Carlisle Cathedral, some surface damage to lower portion, approx. 615 x 690 mm, together with Morden (Robert), Cumberland, [1695 or 1722], hand coloured engraved map, some light marks, approx. 365 x 420 mm, and other maps of Cumberland incl. Moule, etc., mounted (5)
English county maps. Morden (Robert), Bedford Shire, and Nottingham Shire, [1695 or 1722], together two hand coloured engraved maps, some light spotting, approx. 320 x 400 mm, and Cary (John), A Map of Derbyshire from the Best Authorities and A Map of Nottinghamshire from the Best Authorities, 1805, two hand coloured eng. maps, each approx. 530 x 350 mm, plus other Britsih maps incl. two Morden's of Rutland, Keith Johnstone, SDUK, Moule, etc., mostly mounted, a few framed (27)
Wiltshire. Andrews (John & Dury, Andrew), A Topographical Map of Wiltshire, on a Scale of 2 Inches to a Mile, from an Actual Survey, 1773, folding engraved map on six sheets, each sheet sectionalised onto linen, hand coloured in outline, inset list of subscribers, uncol. engraved dedication cartouche, some light toning, the whole approx. 1910 x 2820 mm, contained in contemp. tree-calf map-box (rubbed to extrems.) (1)
Light (Henry). Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Libanon, and Cyprus, in the Year 1814, Rodwell and Martin, 1818, folding panorama frontis. of Jerusalem (some spotting and wear to folds), map, eighteen plts. incl. one folding chart, lacking half-title and 2K4 (p.255-56), contemp. calf boards, recent reback, boards worn, 4to Blackmer 1018. (1)
Monin (V.). Atlas Classique de la Géographie Ancienne, du Moyen Age, et Moderne, nouvelle ed., Paris, [1840], forty eng. maps, etc., incl. many double-page, mostly with some outline colouring, one or two folding, lacks map p.6 (France en departements), a few minor marks, light waterstain to fore-margins of prelims., contemp. calf-backed boards, heavily rubbed and some wear, folio (1)
Wright (G.N. & L.F.A. Buckingham). Belgium, The Rhine, Italy, Greece, and the Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean, 2 vols., c.1840, eng. frontis. & addn. eng. titles to each vol., 148 steel eng. plts. only (of 149), occ. light spotting, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco, gilt dec. spines (faded), extrems. rubbed, 4to (2)
Cartes-de-visite albums. Historical Album, c. 1880s, eighteen chromo-illuminated leaves, some soiling and light browning throughout, a.e.g., orig. padded morocco gilt with brass clasp, together with two similar, one untitled with thirteen chromo leaves depicting military scenes, the other plain, both orig. padded morocco with brass clasps, a little rubbed and frayed at spine ends, all 4to (3)
Barclay (Rev. James). A Complete and Universal Dictionary of the English Language, new ed., c.1840s, eng. frontis. and vignette title, map of England & Wales and forty-six uncol. county and regional maps by Thomas Moule, two town plans of London and Oxford, one plt. of mountains, some plates close-trimmed as usual, occ. light foxing, contemp black half calf, wear to extrems., thick 4to (1)
Coaten (Arthur W., ed.). British Hunting, A Complete History of the National Sport of Great Britain and Ireland from Earliest Records, Sampson Low, [1910], port. frontis. and twenty-two photogravure plts., complete as list, illusts. from photos. to text, light spotting to tissue guards, a.e.g., contemp. two-tone crimson morocco with gilt hound to upper cover and gilt dec. to spine, upper joint sl. worn and cracked at head, folio Limited edition 194/500. Single volume edition. (1)
Jalland (G.H.). The Sporting Adventures of Mr. Popple, [1899], full page chromo. plts., inner hinges splitting, orig. printed boards, crudely rebacked, oblong folio, together with Vinton & Co. (pub.), Types of Shire Horses. Selected from the "Live Stock Journal" Collection, 1894, wood engraved vignette illustrations, some light spotting, inner hinges cracked, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed to extrems., oblong folio, and Mason (C.Finch), Sporting Sketches, [1879], twenty-five full page litho. illusts., some light toning, later endpapers, contemp. morocco-backed boards, oblong folio, plus Caldecott (Randolph), Last "Graphic" Pictures, 1888, chromo. illusts., orig. cloth-backed printed boards, rubbed and marked, oblong folio, plus others including two volumes of John Leech's Pictures of Life & Character (7)
Einstein (Albert, 1879-1955). Lithographic portrait of Einstein's head in profile by H[ermann] S[truck], c. 1920, artist's printed initials and star of David monogram, signed in pencil by Einstein lower right 'Albert Einstein 1923', light water stain to lower right corner touching autograph, approx. 220 x 190 mm, mounted (1)
Kingsley (Charles, 1819-1875). Autograph Letter Signed, ('C Kingsley'), Eversley, 20 March 1854 , to an unnamed correspondent, regretting that since he is in the 'mid-agonies of packing' any attempt to find Lord Shaftesbury's speech will be hopeless as previous attempts to find it, he also enclosed a letter to the medical Officer of the Bangor Union concerning Bangor, the adjacent villages and mountains asking that it be sent on to him, 4 pages, light foxing, trace of former mounting, 12mo (1)
Oxford Law Degree. A Vellum Diploma in Latin declaring Sir Richard Hopkins as a Doctor of Civil Law, 2nd July 1731, wafer seal, light soiling Richard Hopkins (c. 1676-1736), Knighted 1722, Turkey Merchant; associated with the Cutlers Company, later the Fishmongers; Alderman 1724-36; Sheriff 1723-24; M.P. London 1724-27. (1)
Scrap album. A late Victorian scrap album having thirty-two thick card leaves containing numerous chromo. scraps, including a full-page view of the interior of the House of Lords, another of the House of Commons, two full-page military scenes (one with a few light surface scratches), and a full-page scene of school children writing and reading, plus num. figures of royalty and military interest, characters from Dickens, several horse-drawn carriages and carts (incl. Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Royal Mail, Parcels Post, Water Cart, Coal Merchant, Fresh Milk, etc.) and num. animals, flowers, etc., orig. half morocco, rubbed and a little worn, folio (1)
Antoninus (Augustus). Iter Britanniarum..., ed. Thomas Gale, 1709, folding map and two eng. plts., some eng. illusts. to text, contemp. speckled calf, lower joint cracked and upper cover det., 4to, together with Lampadius (Jacob), Tractatus de constitutione imperii Romano-Germanici, Leyden, 1634, eng. title, final two leaves blank, some pencil marks, old claf gilt, worn, 16mo, plus Lucretius Carus (Titus), De Rerum Natura Libros Sex, Interpretatione et Notis illustravit Thomas Creech, Editio Altera, 1717, title printed in red and black, light brwoning throughout, contemp. vellum, soiled, 8vo, plus five other antiquarian, all but one (Palutus, 1721) incomplete or odd vols. (8)
Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New, printed by Robert Barker...and by the Assignes of John Bill, 1634, separate woodcut heart-shaped titles to OT and NT (both dated 1634), OT preceeded by 40 pp. of genealogies with double-page map of the Holy Land engraved by John Speed, some light dampstaining and marks, trimmed to outer-margin occasionally affecting printed marginal annotations, some fraying to first few leaves of genealogies, inner hinges split, 19th century half calf, heavily rubbed, 4to Herbert 490. (1)
Byron (Lord George Gordon Noel). The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems, 1st ed., 1816, without half-title and ads. at rear, recent qtr. cloth with gilt morocco label to spine, slim 8vo, together with Campbell (Thomas). Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale, and other Poems, 1st ed., 1809, errata slip bound in, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, modern three-qtr. brown crushed morocco (by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath), 4to, plus Bayly (Thomas Haynes), Weeds of Witchery, pub. Ackermann, 1837, b&w etched plts. (probably by George Cruikshank), some light spotting, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, large slim 8vo, and other mostly 19th c. literature, including Miscellaneous Poems by John Byrom, 2 vols., 1773 (title and preface to first vol. supplied in photographic facsimile), Poems by the Rev. George Crabbe, 1st ed., 1807, Poems, by George Townsend of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1810, Realities and Reflections, a Series of Original Tales, Founded on Facts, by Ann Catherine Holbrook, 4th ed. enlarged, Thame, c. 1835, etc., mainly 8vo (22)
Ceneau (Robert). De Vera Mensurarum Po[n]derúmque Ratione Opus de Integro Instauratu[m], Paris: Ioannem Roigny, 1547, two blanks and folding table at rear (two sm. wormholes not affecting text), some light browning and odl dampstaining at upper margin to early leaves, contemp. limp vellum, some wear to spine, 8vo Adams C1254. (1)
Copinger (Walter Arthur). The Bible and its Transmission being an Historical and Bibliographical View of the Hebrew and Greek Texts, and the Greek and other Versions of the Bible (both MS. and Printed) Prior to the Reformation, 1897, b & w plts., first two leaves detached, some light spotting, original 4 pp. prospectus loosely inserted, t.e.g. remainder rough-trimmed, inner hinges splitting, orig. qtr. vellum gilt, sl. rubbed and soiled, folio Limited numbered edition 150/200. This copy ex-libris Society of the Sacred Mission with bookplate to pastedown. (1)
Dickens (Charles). Little Dorrit, 20 parts in 19, 1st ed., 1855-57, forty etched plts. incl. frontis. and addn. title, foxed, five parts with water-staining to plts., all ads. present as called for by Hatton & Cleaver, orig. printed blue wrappers (rear wrapper of final part has had the wrapper from a part 2 substituted), some careful repairs to spines, and a little light soiling, contained in a gilt lettered cloth solander box, 8vo (19)
Dickens (Charles). American Notes for General Circulation, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1st issue, 1842, with second contents page of vol. 1 misnumbered 'p.xvi', half-titles present, single ad. leaf to front of vol. 1, 6pp. of pubs. ads. to rear of vol. 2, occ. v. light spotting, ms. ownership names on front free endpapers, 'Dickens Fellowship' ink stamp to rear free endpaper, front and rear hinges split vols. 1 and 2 respectively, rough-trimmed, orig. blindstamped brown cloth, spines faded, with sl. wear to lower joints and head and foot, 8vo Smith 3. (2)
Schedel (Hartmann). Two leaves from 'Liber Chronicarum', folios 46 and 289, pub. Nurembourg, 12 July, 1493, single column, double-sided, three pages with half page woodcut views, the other with woodcuts of royalty, some light dampstaining but generally in very good condition, each leaf approx. 403 x 287 mm From the 'Anglia' section. The views purport to be of English towns. (2)
Walpole (Horace). The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford, 5 vols., Robinson, 1798, eng. plts., occasional spotting, later cloth, 4to, together with Memoires of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George the Second, 2 vols., Murray, 1822, eng. plts., light spotting, contemp. full gilt dec. calf, sl. rubbed, 4to and six others, antiquarian (13)
Zimmerman (Matthaeus). Carmina Matthaei Zimmermani, Arnstatensis, Thuringi, Poetae Caesarii..., liber quintus, Jena: Johann Weidner, 1611, general title and four other book titles, all with woodcut borders and two with woodcut vigns., four parts with full-p. woodcut armorial, one woodcut to text, some light browning throughout, two marginal wormholes to first and last few leaves, only slightly affecting title border, contemp. vellum, soiled, 8vo No other copies of this work have been located. (1)
Nasmyth (James and Carpenter, James). The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, 2nd ed., 1874, twenty-six plts. incl. Woodburytypes, many b & w illusts., some light scattered spotting, lib. label to pastedown, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, a little frayed at extremities, white lib. number at foot of spine, 4to (1)
(Railway ephemera) A quantity: including Parliamentary plans for Yorkshire Dales Railway Skipton to Grassington (1897); Longridge & Hellifield Light Railway (1917); Fleetwood Preston & West Riding Junction Railway (1866); Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Extension to Settle (1861); Clitheroe & West Riding Junction Railway (1864); Barnoldswick & Gisburn Light Railway (1912): a Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide (1864): Grinling's The History of the Great Railway (1898): a few locomotive postcards: five LNER publicity booklets: Tomlinson's The North Eastern Railway (1915, orig card binding much worn): a ring-binder containing handbills/notices etc. The Parliamentary plans tend to be ragged/torn at the outer extremities
(Mt Everest Expedition 1924) A pictorial advertising postcard with Capt Noel's facsimile signature, with the Mount Everest Expedition 'stamp' bearing the Rongbuk Glacier Base Camp cancellation. Some light creasing evident. It was on this expedition that Mallory and Irvine were lost during their attempt to reach the summit
A fine gilt brass 18 light two tier chandelier, the reeded and scrolling branches with sprays of foliage, baluster turned and reeded stem lined with cut glass lyrups crowned by acanthus, the simulated candleholder electric light fittings hung with lustres and pear shape drops. Second half 20th century.
Spender (Stephen). Poems, 1st ed., Faber, 1933, signed by the author on title, light spotting, orig. cloth in sl. rubbed and chipped d.j., 8vo, together with Auden (W.H.) and Christopher Isherwood, On the Frontier, 1st ed., Faber, 1938, with a copy of the programme for Rupert Doone's production at the Globe Theatre loosely inserted, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Auden (W.H.), The Orators, 1932; Look, Stranger!, 1936; New Year Letter, 1941, all 1st eds., pub. Faber, all orig. cloth, second and third vols. in rubbed and chipped d.j.s, 8vo (5)
Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954; The Two Towers, 1954; The Return of the King, 1955, all 1st eds., pub. Allen & Unwin, folding map to each, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, sl. wear at foot of spine of first vol. (minor wear at head also), some minor light marking to d.j.s, 8vo (3)
Prout (Samuel) . Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc., as Applicable to Landscape Painting, New Edition, 1876, tinted litho. plts., some minor scattered spotting, orig. blind stamped cloth gilt, rubbed and a little marked, slim folio, together with Hardy (Thomas), The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall and Tintagel in Lyonnesse, 1st ed., 1923, two b & w illusts., orig. gilt dec. cloth, slightly rubbed, small 4to, plus other misc. books incl. illustrated and juvenile works, art and architecture reference, approx. 45 King Penguins series (incl. Egyptian Paintings), etc. (3 shelves)
Wells (H.G.). The Sea Lady, A Tissue of Moonshine, 1st ed., 1st issue, Methuen, 1902, 40pp. ads. at rear dated July 1902, orig. red cloth gilt, spine faded, 8vo, together with The Food of the Gods, 1st ed., Macmillan, 1904, ads. at rear dated 20.7.04, hinges weak, orig. green cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, 8vo, plus When the Sleeper Wakes, 1st ed., Harper, 1899, frontis. and two plts., correct as list, hinges repaired, orig. red cloth gilt, rubbed and sl. faded, 8vo, and Floor Games, 1911; Little Wars, 1913, both 1st eds., pub. Frank Palmer, plts. and illusts. to each, light spotting, both orig. cloth gilt with pictorial inlay to upper cover, 4to, together with a lge. qty. of others by or about Wells etc. (3 shelves)
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