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Lot 309
Joseph Wolff. Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843–1845, fourth edition, half-title, lithographed frontispiece portrait, contemporary tree calf, bookplate of Reginald Wright, 8vo, London: John Parker, 1846 PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed on half-title, 'Mrs Joseph Farrell Wright... from Joseph Wolff, June 14, 1847.'. *CR Early leaves with light spotting, spine faded.
Lot 396
George Lillie Craik. The Pictorial History of England: Being a History of the People as Well as a History of the Kingdom, 8 volumes, engraved title page, numerous engraved illustrations in text, contemporary full calf, gilt, 4to, London: Charles Knight & Co, 1837. *CR ocassional light spotting, extremities scuffed.
Lot 369
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations, first one-volume edition, half-title, frontispiece, title with vignette illustration, contemporary blue calf gilt by Hayday, 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1862 Footnote: Only 50 of these special deluxe bindings by Hayday are known to exist. *CR occasional light spotting, joints cracked, extremities rubbed.
Lot 40
James Elmes and Thomas Shepherd. Metropolitan Improvements, engraved title, 78 engraved plates inlcuding plan of Regent's Park, contemporary half morocco, 4to, London: Jones and Co., 1829; Edward Mogg. Paterson's Roads, sixteenth edition, engraved map frontispiece, contemporary calf, 8vo, London: Longmans, et al., 1822 (2). *CR (i) Spotted, lightly stained boards rebacked preserving original spine, rubbed (ii) light worming to margin of early leaves, not affecting text or image, rubbed.
Lot 4
Thomas Noble. Practical Perspective Exemplified on Landscapes, second edition, hand-coloured frontispiece and 12 tinted aquatint plates, one coloured, publisher's original boards, folio, London: Edward Orme, 1809. *CR Light soiling, particularly to fore-edge, boards with extremities worn, a little shaken, spine chipped with loss.
Lot 391
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, with a preface by George Saintsbury, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, original pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, 8vo, London: George Allen, 1894; George Eliot. Scenes of Clerical Life, with illustrations by Hugh Thomson, original publishers pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, 8vo, London: Macmillan and Company Limited, 1906; Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The School for Scandal and The Rivals, with introduction by Augustine Birrell, illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan, original publishers pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, 8vo, London: Macmillan and Company Limited, 1896; Mary Russell Mitford. Our Village, with an introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, original publishers pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, 8vo, London: Macmillan and Company, 1893; Mrs. Gaskell. Cranford, with an introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, original publishers pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, 8vo, London: Macmillan and Company, 1907 (5). *CR Scenes of a Clerical Life with cloth starting to separate at hinge. Some volumes with contemporary inscriptions to front end papers. All with occasional light spotting particularly to front end papers and corners lightly bumped.
Lot 287
Eliza Acton. Modern Cookery, for Private Families, new edition, 8 plates, wood-engravings in text, contemporary half morocco, 8vo, London: Longman, Green et al., 1860; A Lady. The Jewish Manual; or, Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Cookery, original publishers blind stamped cloth, 8vo, London: T. & W. Boone, 1846 (2). *CR (i) occasional light spotting, hinges split, extremities scuffed, corners bumped (ii) ownership inscriptions to front endpaper, occasional light spotting, title page torn, hinges cracked, spine chipped.
Lot 112
William Martin Leake. Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor, with Comparative Remarks on the Ancient and Modern Geography of that Country, first edition, 3 engraved maps, one folding, 2 single-page, engraved plate, contemporary half calf, rebacked, 8vo, London: John Murray, 1824. *CR light browning and offsetting.
Lot 437
Giovanni Villani. Storie di Giovanni, Matteo e Filippo Villani In questa nuova edizione confrontate col celebre codice manoscritto del signor Abate Gio Battista Recanatii, 2 volumes, half-title to volume 1, volume 1 title printed in red and black, contemporary full calf, gilt, 4to, Milan: [publisher not identified], 1729. *CR contemporary ink annotations, occasional light spotting, hinges cracked, extremities worn.
Lot 280
W. J. Bean. Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 3 volumes, second edition, numerous illustrations, original publishers cloth, gilt, 8vo, London: John Murray, 1916. *CR contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, occasional light spotting, hinges cracked, corners bumped.
Lot 115
Dr Fridtjof Nansen. The Norwegian Polar Expedition 1893-96, or Farthest North, 2 Vols, first edition, illustrated with one chromolithograph after Nansen, numerous further black and white full page and in-text illustrations, contemporary boards, gilt, 8vo, London: George Newnes Ltd, 1898. *CR light spotting, folding map loose and with tear to left corner, extremities lightly rubbed.
Lot 242
John Henry Leech. The Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea, 3 volumes, 43 colour plates, colour folding map, further scenic plates, contemporary half morocco, gilt, bookplate of Sir Charles Cayzer Bart, 4to, London: R. H. Porter, 1892-4. *CR ownership inscription to front endpaper, occasional light spotting and browning, extremities slightly bumped and faded.
Lot 145
John Howison. Sketches of Upper Canada, Domestic, Local, and Characteristic, second edition, half-title, presentation copy, inscribed 'Miss James, from the Author's father', 2pp. of publisher's advertisements at end, modern period half calf, 8vo, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1822. *CR Light spotting.
Lot 418
Réne-Auber de Vertot. Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem, appellez depuis les chevalliers de Rhodes. et aujourd'hui les chevalliers de Malte, 4 volumes, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 70 engraved portraits, 6 engraved maps or plans, mostly folding, contemporary mottled calf, bookplate of Merthyr Guest, 4to, Paris: Rollin, Quillau and Desaint, 1726. *CR Some spotting and light watermarks, hinges cracked, extremities worn, volume 4 with foot of spine chipped.
Lot 6
Horace Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting in England, collected by the late George Vertue, 5 volumes, contemporary full calf, gilt, bookplates of Lord Campbell of Eskan and Edward Francis Colston, 8vo, London: J. Dodsley, 1782. *CR light spotting, contemporary ownership inscriptions, some volumes with spine chipped, extremities scuffed.
Lot 261
Charles Darwin. The Origin of Species, half-title and title, photographic portrait frontispiece, illustrated by photographs, original publishers blue cloth, gilt, 8vo, Ward, Lock, & Co, Limited, 1901; The Descent of Man, half-title and title, second edition, with wood-cut illustrations, original publishers green cloth, gilt, 8vo, London: John Murray, 1888 (2). *CR (i) light spotting, boards lightly soiled, spine frayed, corners lightly bumped (ii) light spotting, hinge split showing string, boards lightly soiled and chipped, corners bumped.
Lot 415
Hamon L'Estrange. The Reign of King Charles: An History, first edition, modern full calf, 4to, London: Edward Dod, 1655. *CR Title-page cropped and laid-down, frontispiece supplied in facsimile, P2-3 with loss to fore-edge, not affecting text, A1-2 repaired, light staining and browning throughout.
Lot 28
Stella Ross-Craig. Drawings of British Plants, 8 Volumes, Parts I-III, Parts IV-VI, Parts VII-IX, Parts X-XIII, Parts XIV-XVIII, Parts XIX-XXIII, Parts XXIV-XXVII, Parts XXVIII-XXXI, and Index, numerous illustrations throughout, original publishers cloth, gilt, 8vo, London: George Bell & Sons Ltd, 1948-74. *CR occasional light age toning, corners lightly bumped, protective wrappers torn with loss.
Lot 288
A Guide to Modern Cookery, photographic frontispiece, gift inscription 'Mrs Grant from Mrs Neville Chamberlain Chequers February 1938' to front free endpaper, original publishers cloth, gilt, 8vo, London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1937. *CR occasional light spotting, spine lightly torn and frayed, corners bumped.
Lot 376
Lady Willoughby. So Much of the Diary of Lady Willoughby as relates to her Domestic History..., engraved. armorial frontispiece, fine dark morocco gilt, all edges gilt. marbled endpapers, 8vo, London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1844. *CR light spotting, extremities very lightly bumped.
Lot 183
Peter Leonard. Records of a Voyage to the Western Coast of Africa...for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, first edition, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on fly-leaf, 'To Admiral Inglefield, as a small token of respect, by the Author, ' 4pp table at end, original publishers cloth, gilt, 8vo, Edinburgh: William Tait, 1833 Footnote: Leonard served as a ships surgeon during the early 1830s on HMS Dryad preventing the slave trade. Leonard's work contains a list of vessels engaged in the slave trade captured by the Dryad and her tenders. *CR occasional light spotting, spine defective, front board detached.
Lot 117
Roald Amundsen. The North West Passage, 2 Volumes, first American edition, half-titles, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 2 folding charts, with a postcard of the Amundsen's sloop, the Gjoa, entering San Francisco harbour tipped in and SIGNED BY ROALD AMUNDSEN, original cloth gilt, 8vo, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1908. *CR occasional light spotting, extremities rubbed.
Lot 426
Charles Reginald Aston R.I. (1832-1908). Flowers of Westfield, hand painted illuminated title page, twelve further hand painted floral manuscript pages, contemporary full walnut boards with decorative brass clasps, 4to, n.d. Note: Charles Reginald Aston R.I. (1832-1908) was the third son of Mr John Aston of Westfield, Edgbaston, and Rowington Hall, Worcestershire; his mother was a niece of Sir Thomas Lawrence. He studied architecture for three years in London, but at the end of that time abandoned it for landscape painting. He spent many years in sketching in Wales, Scotland, and Cornwall; but it was in Italy that his talent found its widest scope. For many years a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours. He frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1862 and 1878. *CR light occasional spotting.
Lot 172
Julius Ibbetson. A Picturesque Guide to Bath, Bristol Hot-Wells, the River Avon, and Adjacent Country, first edition, 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates, nineteenth century calf with the arms of the Duke of Newcastle, 4to, London: Hookham and Carpenter, 1793. *CR Very occasional light spotting, calf rebacked by George Bayntun, extremities lightly rubbed.
Lot 155
William Robertson. The History of Scotland, 3 volumes, sixteenth edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, 8vo, London: Printed by A. Strahan for T. Caddell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802; Mrs Bray. A Description of the Part of Devonshire Bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy, 3 volumes, numerous illustrations in text, half calf over marbled boards, rebacked, 8vo, London: John Murray 1836; Rev. Richard Warner. A Walk Through Wales in August 1797, aquatint frontispiece of Tintern Abbey by Alken and a vignette title page, bound with A Second Walk Through Wales in September 1798, half title and title page, aquatint of Bwa Maen, numerous b/w maps of routes, contemporary grained cloth, 8vo, Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1799 (7). *CR (i) occasional light spotting, volume one with damp stain to upper margin of frontispiece, extremities scuffed (ii) occasional spotting, hinges cracked, extremities scuffed (iii) mixed condition.
Lot 311
Edward Wix. Six Months of a Newfoundland Missionary's Journal from February to August 1835, first edition, armorial bookplate pastedown, contemporary half calf and cloth by J. Bayley, large 12mo, London: Elder and Co, 1836. *CR Light foxing, ownership inscription to front endpaper, extremities rubbed.
Lot 80
Frank Brangwyn and Eden Phillpotts. The Girl and the Faun, half-title, number 176 of 350 copies, signed by the author, artist and publisher, 4 tipped-in coloured plates, tissue guards, decorated borders, original vellum-backed boards, top edge gilt, others uncut, 4to, London: Cecil Palmer, 1916. *CR Light spotting, vellum slightly soiled.
Lot 128
John Cary. Traveller's Companion or a Delineation of the Turnpike, Roads of England and Wales, 43 maps with outline hand-colouring, modern half morocco, gilt, London: 1791; John Aikin. England Described: or, the Traveller's Companion, first edition, modern calf-backed cloth, London: R. Atkinson,1788; John Mackey. A Journey Through England in Familiar Letters..., modern calf with gilt border, London: J. Hooke, 1722; and 3 others, similar, relating to travel, v.s. (6). *CR (i) map of Yorkshire reinforced along fold joint, light toning (ii) some browning and water staining, heavier towards the end (iii) light browning and spotting, heavier to first few pages, title with contemporary ink ownership name, title corners repaired (iiii) mixed condition.
Lot 8
Eric Ravilious. Submarine Dream: Lithographs and Letters, edited by Brian Webb with an introduction by Peyton Skipwith, limited edition copy of 225, signed by Professor Eileen Hogan, morocco-backed colour-patterned boards with paper label, oblong 4to. The Camberwell Press, 1996. *CR some light scuffs to edges and boards.
Lot 425
Various Authors. The London Magazine, 5 volumes, to include various articles on Elia (Charles Lamb), the English Opium Eater, and Poems by Hartley Coleridge, contemporary half calf, gilt, 8vo, London: Taylor and Hessey, 1821-23. *CR occasional light spotting, hinges cracked, rebacked preserving original spines, extremities scuffed.
Lot 477
Mervyn Peake and Maurice Collis. Quest for Sita. Of Hanuman and the Divine Vultures Jatayus and Sampati, one of 500 copies, illustrations by Mervyn Peake, original buckram, top edge gilt, others uncut, 4to,London: Faber and Faber, 1946. *CR Very light signs of age, owners name inside front cover, a nice copy.
Lot 435
Jacobo Masenio. Ars Nova Argutiarum Eruditae Et Honestae Recreationis, engraved vignette title printed in black, contemporary full vellum, 12mo, Coloniae Agrippine: Joannis Antonii Kinchii, 1687; A La Royne Marguerite. Les Propos D'Epictete, engraved vignette title printed in black, contemporary full vellum, 8vo, Paris: Jean de Heuqueuille, n.d. (2). *CR (i) some browning, spotting and worming particularly to front free endpaper, vellum soiled (ii) some light browning, hinge split, vellum soiled.
Lot 168
W. J. Pringle. Melrose Abbey, In Twelve Photographic Views, first edition, 13 mounted photographs, including title vignette, contemporary half morocco, all edges gilt, 4to, London: Marion and Co., 1870; Elijah Aldis. Carvings and Sculptures of Worcester Cathedral, first edition, 69 mounted albumen photographs, original cloth gilt, 4to, London: Bemrose, 1873 (2). *CR (i) spotted, boards with extremities rubbed (ii) occasional light soiling, boards rebacked preserving original spine.
Lot 203
Sir Winston Churchill. A Speech by The Prime Minister in the House of Commons, August 20th, 1940, first edition, original grey-blue printed wrappers, 8vo, London: The Baynard Press, 1940. *CR scorch mark/ browning to front cover transferring to interior pages at a decreasing intensity, light creasing to covers.
Lot 444
Oscar Wilde. De Profundis: The Complete Text, with an introduction by Vyvan Holland, number 151 of 195 copies signed by the editor, contemporary binding by G. A. Cramp & Sons Ltd, 8vo, London: The Collector's Book Club, 1949; John Rewald. The Ordeal of Paul Cezanne, number 15 of 100 copies, portrait frontispiece, further b/w plates and illustrations in text, contemporary red morocco, 8vo, London: The Collector's Book Club, 1950; J. M. Scott. Vineyards of France: Paintings and drawings by Keith Baynes, number 14 of 50 copies signed by the artist, coloured frontispiece, further plates throughout, contemporary red morocco, 8vo, London: The Collector's Book Club, 1950; and two others, similar (5). *CR occasional light spotting and browning particularly to title page and endpapers, extremities slightly bumped and faded.
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