Persian Gulf. Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1901-1902, Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1902, 118pp., some light browning and occ. scattered spotting, orig. qtr. cloth with printed title to upper board, slightly marked & rubbed, slim folio, together with Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1902-1903, Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1903, 57pp., some light browning and small worm holes to upper outer corners, orig. qtr. cloth with printed title to upper board, slightly worn and dampstained, slim folio, with Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1903-1904, Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1904, 66pp., some browning and sewing broken, orig. printed upper wrapper, slim folio, with Persian Gulf Gazetteer. Part I., Historical and Political Materials, Precis of Koweit Affairs, 1896-1904, [G. C. Press, Simla, 1904], 112pp., ink library stamp of Govt. of India Foreign Office to title and final leaf, some light browning, orig. qtr. cloth with printed title to upper board, upper board with ink library stamps of Govt. of India Foreign Office and British Embassy Bagdad and also paper label “Deputy Secretary’s Copy Calcutta and Simla”, cover attachment weak and some wear, slim folio, plus Ingrams (W.H.), Chronology & Genealogies of Zanzibar Rulers, printed by the Government Printer, Zanzibar, 1926, folding pedigrees, orig. qtr. cloth with printed title to upper board, slim folio. The Persian Gulf Reports include trade reports for the Pesian Gulf, Maskat, Mohammerah, Bunder Abbas and Bahrein. (5)
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Sladen (Douglas and Lorimer, Norma). More Queer Things About Japan, 1st ed., 1904, coloured frontispiece, four double-page coloured plates, b & w illustrations, one or two light spots, t.e.g., contemporary wrapper, cloth wraparound case lettered in gilt, bone clasps, slightly rubbed, 8vo, inscribed in pencil by the author to his wife, together with Queer Things About Sicily, 1st ed., 1905, half-tone plates, a few light spots, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, chipped and torn d.j., 8vo, inscribed by the author to his wife, plus Segesta, Selinunte, and West of Sicily, 1903, half-tone illustrations, original cloth, torn glassine d.j., 4to, similarly inscribed, with others by Duglas Sladen including Lester the Loyalist, original manuscript draft, The Moon in the Fourteenth Night. Being the Private Life of an Unmarried Diplomat in Persia During the Revolution, 1910, Edward the Black Prince. An Epic Drama, 1886 (bound with Australian Lyrics, 1883), and Carthage and Tunis. The Old and New Gates of the Orient, 2 vols., 1906, most inscribed by the author to his wife (22)
Brayley (Edward Wedlake). A Topographical History of Surrey, Revised by Edward Walford, 4 vols. in two, c. 1870, additional engraved titles, steel-engraved plates, coloured maps, a few light spots, a.e.g., contemporary red morocco gilt, rebacked retaining original spines, a little rubbed, 4to, together with A Topographical History of Surrey, by Edward Wedlake Brayley, 5 vols., 1841, numerous engraved plates, plans and illustrations, a few spots, contemporary haf calf, vol. V spine defective, most boards detached, rubbed, 8vo, with other Surrey interest including James Ogilvy’s A Pilgrimage in Surrey, 2 vols., 1914 and John Aubrey’s Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, 5 vols., 1975 (16)
Britton (John & Brayley, Edward Wedlake). Devonshire Illustrated in a Series of Views, bound with Cornwall Illustrated in a Series of Views, 2 vols in one, pub. Fisher Son & Co. 1829 & 1840, engraved county map frontis. with orig. hand colouring and dec. eng. title to each volume, 138 uncoloured engraved views on india, on sixty-nine sheets (complete as lists), occ. light spotting throughout, book plate of Urquhart to front paste down, upper hinge weak, spine partially detached, contemp. half calf with gilt dec. spine, 4to (1)
Dearn (Thomas Downes Wilmot). An Historical Topographical and Descriptive Account of the Weald of Kent, 1st ed., Cranbrook, Kent, 1814, eight sepia aquatint plts. (inc. frontis.) and single-page etched map, few minor short closed-tears to text, some browning and light dust soiling etc., edges untrimmed, 20th c. qtr. sheep gilt, 8vo. Abbey Scenery 175. (1)
Lewis (Samuel). [A Topographical Dictionary of England, c. 1840], folding eng. map of England & Wales, folding eng. map of London and forty-three b & w engraved maps several folding, some light spotting and toning throughout, occ. closed tears to folding maps, text block detached, hinges broken, near contemp cloth, crudely rebacked with later manuscriopt label to upper board, 4to. Sold as a collection of maps not subject to return. (1)
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[Warner, Richard, attrib.]. Collections for the History of Hampshire, and the Bishopric of Winchester: Including the Isles of Wight, Jersey, Guernsey and Sarke, by D.Y., 5 vols. (all published) in four, [1795], folding engraved map, 66 engraved and aquatinted plates and portraits, including two hand-coloured, one or two plates loose, p.31 repaired vol. II, a couple of plates with marginal repairs, erratic pagination and signatures, occasional light spotting and neat annotation, bookplate, contemporary diced calf, rebacked, a little rubbed and scuffed, 4to. One of 25 copies. (4)
Greville (Robert Kaye). Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, or Coloured Figures and Desriptions of Cryptogamic Plants, Belonging Chiefly to the Order Fungi; and Intended to Serve as a Continuation of English Botany, 6 vols., Edinburgh, 1823-28, 360 hand-col. engs., scattered light foxing, a.e.g., contemp. green half morocco, rubbed, gilt dec. spines slightly faded, 8vo (6)
Hill (John). A General Natural History: Or, New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, of the Different Parts of the World..., 3 vols., 1748-52, half titles, folding letterpress table (minor tear), 56 engraved plates (complete), occasional light spotting and browning, modern half calf, slightly rubbed, folio. Freeman 1672; Nissen 1939. (3)
Scott (John). The Sportsman’s Album, Comprising a Series of Highly-Finished Engravings Illustrative of British Field Sports. From Original Paintings by Stubbs, Gilpin. Reinagle, Marshall, and Cooper, c. 1888, half title, additional title (from 1820 edition), 40 b & w plates, a few light spots, t.e.g., original boards, rubbed and discoloured, folio, together with The Life of a Sportsman, by Numrod, 1901, 36 hand-coloured engraved plates, one or two light spots, t.e.g., original cloth, spine a little rubbed and faded, 8vo (2)
* Indian School. A pair of Indian miniature watercolours, 19th c., opaque watercolour and gold on paper, depicting mounted warriors, one with a prince, the other attacking a fort, both within border and four column Nasta”liq script, a few light spots, largest image 15.5 x 18cm, framed and glazed (2)
* Johnson (Amy, 1903-41). Autograph letter signed “Amy Johnson”, St. David’s Hotel, Harlech, North Wales, 22nd August 1930, to Mrs. Glass on hotel letterhead, “I believe Mother has written to you, but I felt I should like myself to thank you for the great interest you & your two daughters have taken in my flight. For the sweet letters & lovely gifts you have all sent for me, especially for the wonderful roses which arrived looking very fresh. Appreciation like yours means a lot to me because I know it comes from a genuine interest. I should love to meet you all & hope to someday. In the meantime please take newspaper stories with a large grain of salt - from what I can see, they talk some awful rot & grossly exaggerate”, some light spotting, one page, 8vo. Amy Johnson had recently achieved worldwide recognition when she became the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia. Flying her “Jason” she left Croydon on the 5th May and landed in Darwin, Australia on the 24th May. Mrs. Glass’s two daughters, Mabel and Sheila, both became aviators in the 1930s, becoming known as the “Middlesex Flying Sisters”. (1)
* Sedgwick (Adam, 1785-1873). Three autograph letters signed “A. Sedgwick”, Cambridge, 1867-68, two addressed to Dean and one to Augusta, written on his 83rd birthday, “I first saw the light on the 22nd of March 1785 - it was a day of howling tempest & driving snow ... & the surgeon who attended my mama very nearly lost his life while forcing his way through the snowdrifts”, the first two letters referring to Christianity, the Chapter, and a visit to Norwich, a total of 9 pp., some album adhesion marks and one small tear to upper margin of a letter to Dean with loss affecting three lines of second page, all 8vo, plus a carte de visite albumen print of Sedgwick by Ernest Edwards, old adhesion remains to verso. While an influence on the young Charles Darwin in his early study of geology, Sedgwick remained an outspoken of Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection. (4)
Angelus (a Sancto Francisco). The Rule of Penance of the Seraphicall Father S. Francis..., 2 vols., Dovay: by the widdow of Marke Wyon, 1644, addn. eng. title to each, vol. 1 in near contemp. vellum and vol. 2 in contemp. sheep with wear to spine, 12mo, together with A Manuell of the Arch. Confraternitie of the Cord of the Passion, Instituted in the Seraphicall Order of S. Francis..., 2nd ed., Doway, Baltazar Bellere, 1654, contemp. calf, upper joint split and spine worn with slight loss of leather at head & foot, 12mo, with Bonaventure (Saint, Cardinal), The Life of the most Holy father S. Francis Written, and in one booke compiled, by that famous and learned man S. Bonauenture a Freer Minor, Cardinall of the holy Roman Church Bishop of Alba, and the Seraphicall Doctor of the Church. Now lately translated into our English tongue..., Doway: Martin Bogard, 1635, lacks front free endpaper, rear free endpaper laid down to final leaf of text, contemp. vellum with yapp fore-edges, lacks ties, some dustsoiling and marks, 16mo, with [Breviary selections], The Generall Rubriques of the Breviarie, put into English..., At S. Omers: by Iohn Heigham with permission of Superiors., Anno 1617, 272pp., two folding tables, some light dampstaining, sewing partly broken, contemp. vellum with yapp fore-edges, dust soiled and slight wear, 16mo in 8s, plus seven other similar 17th-18th c. theology related. Provenance: Woodchester Priory Library. (12)
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Bible [English]. The Bible that is, The Holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, [1612], eng. general title (close-trimmed) and letterpress New Testament title present, New Testament title dated 1611 and colophon dated 1612, full-page woodcut illust. of Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden, woodcut illusts. to text, with ÒsheÓ reading in Ruth III, 15, bound with the Genealogies by John Speed, with woodcut illust. of Adam & Eve, woodcut genealogies (with few paper repairs mostly to margins) and double-page map (with short closed-tear to central fold at foot), bound with an incomplete Book of Common Prayer at front and incomplete Book of Psalms at rear (both with old paper repairs), some light dust-soiling and occ. dampstaining throughout, old family genealogies to endpapers, 18th c. blind panelled reversed calf, joints slightly cracked and minor wear to extrems., folio. Geneva-Tomson-Junius version, see Herbert 312, with ÒsheÓ reading in Ruth III, 15. (1)
Binding. Collectarium Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum. Authoritate Apostolica approbatum, et reverendissimi patris Fr. Thomae Ripoll ejusdem ordinis generalis magistri jussu editum, Rome, Hieronymi Mainardi, 1744, eng. frontis. by Cyrus Perrus, text printed in red and black throughout, with occ. musical notation, woodcut initials, early calligraphic manuscript annotations to front blank, frontis. with light marginal waterstain, contemp. elaborately gilt-dec. black full morocco, with brass clasps, rubbed and some minor wear to edges, 4to (1)
Dalrymple (John). A Essay Towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain, 4th ed., 1759, title and dedication with light marginal browning, contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, 8vo, together with The Compleat English Copyholder, 2 vols., 1735, 2pp. publisher’s list at end of vol. II, occasional light soiling, 20th c. brown calf, slightly rubbed, 8vo, with three others: Every Man his Own Lawyer, 4th ed., 1750, Richard Barnard Fisher’s A Practical Treatise on Copyhold Tenure, With the Methods of Holding Courts-Leet, Court-Baron and Other Courts, 1803 and George Jacob Holyoake’s The History of the Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England, 1851 (6)
Encausse (Gerald, pseud. Papus). La Cabbale, Tradition Secrete de L”Occident, 3rd ed., pub. Lumen, Anvers, [1900], folding frontispiece after Kircher, a few frayed foredges and light spots, contemporary cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed, large 8vo, limited edition, 42/100 initialed by the author, together with Levi (Eliphas), Les Mysteres de la Kabbale, ou L”Harmonie Occulte des Deux Testaments, pub. Nourry, Paris, 1920, illustrations, some light spots, original wrapper bound in at end, t.e.g., contemporary green half morocco, edges slightly rubbed, large 8vo (2)
Rampegollis (Antonius de). Figure Biblie ... post omnes impressiones ubique terrarum excussas: novissime collatis omnibus exemplaribus: que haberi potuerunt: affatim recognite: cunctisque mendis & erroribus: quibus undique scatebant: expurgate, Venice, Cesare Arrivabene, 9 April, 1519, twenty-four unnumbered preliminary leaves, 263 leaves numbered in roman numerals, one small woodcut illust. to first leaf of main text and numerous woodcut initials throughout, printer’s woodcut device to verso of final leaf, a little soiling to title, and frayed with minor loss to extreme fore-edge (with paper restrengthening), light waterstains to margins at front and rear of vol., worm track to blank inner margin to central portion of text, generally not affecting text, 18th century mottled calf, gilt-dec. spine, rubbed and a little wear, small 8vo. Not in Adams. (1)
Alberti (Giuseppe Antonio). La Pirotechnia o sia trattato dei fuochi d”artificio, Venice, Giovanni Battista Recurti, 1749, viii + 128 pp., plus errata leaf at end, twenty-one folding eng. copper plates, some light foxing to first and last few leaves, near-contemp. limp card wrappers, some marks and light soiling, 4to. Berlin Catalogue 3304. Not in Cicognara, or Honeyman. Ex-libris Sebastiano Canterzani (1734-1819) the Bolognese mathematician, with his bookplate to front pastedown. (1)
Buttner (David Sigismund). Rudera Diluvii Testes, i.e. Zeichen und Zeugen der Sundfluth, in Ansehung des itzigen Zustandes unserer Erd-und Wasser-Kugel ..., Leipzig, Johann Friedrich Braunen, 1710, eng. allegorical frontis. (close-trimmed to fore-margin, slightly touching image), title printed in red and black, folding etched view of Querfurt, thirty-three etched plates at rear, including many folding, one or two close-trimmed to fore-margin, and with light waterstain, minor browning, old blindstamped owner’s coat of arms to frontis., title and first two leaves of prelims., contemp. speckled calf, gilt dec. spine, rubbed and joints sl. cracked, small 4to. An important early work on Palaeontology. (1)
Coronelli (Vincenzo Maria). Epitome Cosmografica, o Compendiosa Introduttione All” Astronomia, Geografia, & Idrografia, per l”uso, Dilucidatione, e Fabbrica Delle Sfere, Globi, Planisferj, Astrolabj, e Tavole Geografiche..., Colonia [Venice]: Andrea Poletti, 1693, addn. eng. title, thirty-two eng. plts., diags. & maps only (of 37, inc. 30 double-page and 2 folding), one double-page plt. with 2 volvelles (each with 3 moving parts), one double-page plt. detached and map of Spain with two holes & closed-tear, folding plt. with closed-tear to fold, ink library stamp to verso of title and final leaf, few minor marks and some light dampstaining, initial 40pp. with worming at foot of inner margins, sewing slightly weak mostly at front and rear, slight fraying to fore-edge margins, upper inner hinge split, contemp. limp vellum, worn and with loss at head & foot of spine, 4to. Bookplate of Bibliotheque du Prince W.C. Czartoryski. Riccardi I/1, 374. (1)
Dalton (John). A New System of Chemical Philosophy, Parts I & II only, 1st eds., Manchester, 1808-10, eight eng. plts., some occ. light browning, and dust soiling, folding litho. table “Atomic Symbols by John Dalton Explanatory of a Lecture Given by Him to the Members of the Manchester Mechanics Institution 19th October 1835” tipped-in as frontis. to Part I, old ownership name of Geo. Miller to front free endpaper of Part I, ex lib with ink name stamp to title verso and at foot of final page of each (plus two stamps to additional table verso), partly uncut, modern limp cloth gilt with library labels to endpapers, 8vo. The third part of Dalton’s classic work on the atomic theory of matter was published as volume II in 1827. PMM 261; Dibner 44; Grolier 22. (2)
Maffei (Giovanni Camillo). Scala Naturale, overo Fantasia Dolcissima, intorno alle cose occulte, e. desiderate nella Filosofia, Venice, Giovanno Varisco, 1564, title with printer’s woodcut device, and full-page woodcut portrait of the author to verso, several woodcut initials, one woodcut illust. to text, some marks and light staining to title, occ. marginal marks elsewhere, old limp vellum, some wear, 8vo. First edition of Maffei’s cosmological treatise, in which the world is envisaged as a series of fourteen concentric spheres with man at the centre. In the illustration, the author is shown giving instruction on the ascent through the stages, to the work’s dedicatee, Giovanni di Capua, Count of Altavilla. (1)
Nores (Giasone de). Sphera di lason Denores Raccolta da Nobilissimi Scrittori, et con novo ordine sommamente facilitata..., Discorso del medesimo intorno alla Geografia, 2 parts in one, Padova: Paolo Meietti, 1589, printer’s woodcut device to title and final leaf of each part, some light dampstaining and spotting mostly to initial leaves, sewing slightly weak, contemp. limp vellum, few marks and lacking ties, slim 4to (1)
Blossfeldt (Karl). Art Forms in Nature. Examples from the Plant World Photographed Direct from Nature, With an Introduction by Karl Nierendorf, pub. Zwemmer, 1929, 120 b & w photographic plates, one loose, light spots to endpapers, original green cloth gilt, small split to upper joint, spine a little faded, 4to, together with Anna Atkins” Sun Gardens. Victoran Photograms, pub. Aperture, New York, 1985 (2)
Waite (Arthur Edward). The Book of Black Magic, and of Pacts Including the Rites and Mysteries of Goetic, Theurgy, Sorcery, and Infernal Necromancy, pub. George Redway, 1898, frontispiece (loose), nine plates, one loose with marginal fraying, illustrations, scattered light spotting, t.e.g., original black buckram, rubbed and faded, 4to (1)
Forester (C.S.). Lieutenant Hornblower, 1st ed., 1952, original cloth, a little faded, laminated d.j., a little rubbed and chipped, 8vo, together with Hornblower in the West Indies, 1st ed., 1958, a few light spots, original cloth, rubbed and chipped, repairs to verso, 8vo, plus The Way Through the Woods, by Colin Dexter, 1st ed., 1992, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, with othes by Frederick Forsyth, Robert Goddard, Donna Leon, Robert Harris etc., a few signed (3 shelves)
Gardner (John). Cold, 1st ed., 1996, light marginal toning, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, together with McCourt (Frank), Angela’s Ashes, 1st ed., 1996, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, signed by the author, plus Ali (Monica), Brick Lane, 1st ed., 2003, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, inscribed by the author, with others, some signed, including Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish and Other Poems, 1972, inscribed to Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Prize Lecture, 1972, signed by the author, Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans, 2000, inscribed to Hartley Moorhouse, and Alexander Kent’s Sloop of War, 1972, etc. (3 shelves)
* Godwin (Fay, born 1931). Two gelatin silver prints, c. 1970s, one of a dewy spiders web, the second of river water rushing over rocks, the first with a few light creases, both with Godwin’s copyright wetstamp (3 Rochester Terrace) to verso, plus ten other silver prints press prints printed c. 1970s, with images by Fulvio Roiter, Tazio Secchiaroli, Jerome Ducrot, Charlotte March and others, plus eight press stills including seven modern prints of Hitchcock films, all 20 x 25cm or the reverse (20)
* Korda (Alberto, 1928-2001). Fidel Castro at a press conference, early 1960s, vintage gelatin silver print, Castro with a peaked military cap with his left hand touching his sunglasses and standing with other men behind microphones with the legend “CMBF-TV”, a few minor marks and light crease to lower left corner, Korda Studios ink stamp to verso, 20 x 25cm (1)
Chapbooks. A Pious Warning Against Ingratitude, Worse than the Sin of Witchcraft; shewing how a Blackmoor Maid, to revenge a Box on the Ear her Lady gave her, contrived a lying Report of her, which proved the entire Ruin of a worthy Family..., n.p., c.1780, 8pp., single uncut folded sheet, untrimmed, 160 x 104mm (6.25 x 4ins), together with The Drunkard Reclaimed; or, the Wise Reproof. Together with the Unhappy Consequences of Persisting in a Course of Drunkenness, Illustrated by Example..., Penrith, printed by J. Allison, early 19th c., 24pp., title-page and final page dusty, untrimmed, folded as issued, 170 x 98mm (6.75 x 4ins), plus A Dreadful Example for Wicked Husband; or, the Virtuous Wife in Distress. Being a true Relation of one Mr Gordon near the Town of Inverary..., [Edinburgh?], Enter”d according to Order, c.1800, 8pp., last two leaves lightly damp-stained, untrimmed, folded as issued, 165 x 105mm (6.5 x 4ins), plus A Dreadful Warning Piece to all Young Men. Wherein is a full and true Account of one Mr. John Bremon, of the City of Bristol, and County of Somerset, Son to Mr. Henry Bremon, Cheesemonger in the said town, who at the age of 15 Years, was sent to Magdalen College, in Oxford, to study Divinity, but falling into bad Company, was expelled, to the inexpressible grief of his Parents..., n.p., early 19th c., 8pp., woodcut on title-page, title and final page dusty, some light damp-staining, untrimmed edges creased, folded as issued, 185 x 120mm (7.25 x 4.75ins) (4)
Chapbooks. The Adventures of Philip Quarll, the English Hermit; who was Discovered by Mr. Dorrington on an Uninhabited Island, where he had lived Upwards of Fifty Years, printed by and for Hodson and Co., [1823], hand-col. folding frontis. (dated 1823), 24pp., title-page soiled and marginal browning throughout, some corner-creasing, one leaf with horizontal closed tear, orig. printed wrappers, spine split and frayed, slim 8vo, together with The History of the King and the Cobbler... [drop-title], Stirling, printed by M. Randall, early 19th c., 24pp., uncut single folded sheet, untrimmed, 175 x 105mm (7 x 4ins), plus Amusements for Good Children [cover-title], E. Billing, c.1840, 10pp., woodcuts throughout, orig. printed wrappers, lightly dust-soiled and foxed, edges a little frayed, 123 x 95mm (5 x 3.75ins), plus The Enchanted Fish, or the Fairy of the Coral Islands [drop-title], March, 12 Webber Street, c.1860, pp.[8], four full-page letterpress engs., light damp-staining to upper blank margin, orig. hand-col. pictorial wrappers (dusty), 138 x 82mm (5.5 x 3.25ins), plus seven others similar, incl. The History of Lawrence Lazy and a defective copy of The History and Adventures of Little Henry, 5th ed., 1811, with three cut-out figures only (of seven, and lacking head and hats), orig. printed wrappers in worn printed slipcase (11)
![Martin (G., pub.). The Comic Numerator [drop-title], c.1810, 12ff., hand-col. copper eng. to each leaf, with verse below, som](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2795515/924-20106510467_468x382.jpg)
Martin (G., pub.). The Comic Numerator [drop-title], c.1810, 12ff., hand-col. copper eng. to each leaf, with verse below, some light offsetting, a couple of leaves with small stain to upper blank margin, orig. grey wrappers, hand-col. printed label to upper cover, ads. to rear cover, 106 x 100mm (4.25 x 4ins) Rare. Not in Osborne or Gumuchian. Only one copy located (Morgan Library). (1)
Mother Hubbard. A Sequel to The Comic Adventures, of Old Mother Hubbard, and Her Dog, by another Hand, 1st ed., J. Harris, 1806, 14ff., eng. throughout, frontis. and eleven engs. with verse above, some light spotting and marks, title-page with tip of lower blank corner torn away, one leaf with a line of text scratched out and supplied in early ms., recent marbled wrappers, title-page reproduced in facsimile and mounted on upper cover, 121 x 101mm (4.75 x 4ins) Scarce. Moon 562(1) - “no copy has been seen in the original covers”; Osborne, p.684 - “the original covers are wanting”. (1)
Stevenson (Robert Louis). Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1st ed., 2nd issue, pub. Longmans, Green, 1886, single leaf advert. at end, scattered light spotting, contemporary pencilinscription to front endpaper, original salmon cloth, spine darkened with short tear at head, a little rubbed and stained, 8vo (1)
Verne (Jules). Dr. Ox’s Experiment, and Other Stories, 1st U.K. ed., 1874, plates and illustrations, plate at p.165 with sellotape reinforcement, lacking endpapers, some light spotting and paperclip marks, a.e.g., original green pictorial cloth gilt, chips at spine ends, rubbed, slight lean, 8vo, together with Wells (H.G.), The First Men in the Moon, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1901, twelve b & w plates, lacking front endpaper, p.41 with green scribbling, occasional light soiling, previous owner stamp, original dark blue cloth gilt, small splits to joints, rubbed, 8vo (2)
* Rebus puzzle cards. A set of twenty playing cards, English, c.1800, together twenty hand-col. eng. cards only, each illustrating a proverb with the use of pictures, words, and letters, each numbered in top left-hand corner, occn. light dust-soiling and foxing, plain blue versos, approx. 90 x 58mm (3.5 x 2.25ins). An extremely rare set of puzzle cards surviving in remarkably good condition. Numbered 1-10, 12-14, 16-21 and 23. Illustrating such maxims as: “Handsome is that handsome does”, “When one door shuts another opens”, “He that has no head needs no hat”, “One bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”, “Pride goes before the fall”. (1)
Andersen (Hans Christian). The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen with upwards of Four Hundred Illustrations by Helen Stratton, 14 parts, George Newnes Ltd., 1899, numerous letterpress illusts., some full-page, occn. light foxing, stitching broken in places with some leaves loose, orig. printed wrappers, some minor edge-fraying and marginal dust-soiling, slim 4to (14)
Dulac (Edmund, illust.). The Golden Cockerel, From the Tale by Alexander Pushkin, pub. Limited Editions Club, New York, [1950], coloured illustrations, scattered light spots, original red cloth, upper cover with brass cockerel, torn glassine wrapper, slipcase, some fading, folio. Limited edition, one of 15 initialled presentation copies signed by the artist. (1)
Greenaway (Kate, illust.). A Day in a Child’s Life, 1st ed., Routledge, [1881], col. illusts. throughout, green endpapers and edges, orig. cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, with sunflower design, board edges sl. rubbed and corners showing, 4to (Schuster & Engen 66[1a]), together with Marigold Garden, 1st ed., Routledge, [1885], col. illusts. throughout, occn. light foxing, black endpapers, red edges, orig. brown cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, board edges rubbed in places and corners showing, 4to (Schuster & Engen 135[1b]), plus A Apple Pie, 1st ed., Routledge, [1886], col. illusts. throughout, one leaf with 5.5Ó closed tear (repaired with adhesive tape on verso), dark blue endpapers, red edges, orig. red cloth-backed pictorial boards, somewhat soiled and rubbed, spine faded and with short worm track in upper joint (one small hole penetrating to other side of board), oblong 4to (Schuster & Engen 1[1a]), plus Warne editions of Little Ann and Other Poems and The Queen of the Pirate Isle (5)
Milne (A.A.). The Christopher Robin Story Book, 1st ed., 1929, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, one or two light spots, previous owner signature, original blue cloth gilt, 8vo, together with Teddy Bear and Other Songs from ÒWhen We Were Very YoungÓ, 1926, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, a few minor spots, original cloth-backed boards, 4to, with three others including W. Heath Robinson’s Railway Ribaldry, 1935 (5)
Neilson (Harry B., illustrator). The Fox’s Frolic, Or a Day With the Topsy Turvey Hunt, by Sir Francis Burnand, pub. Collins, c. 1910, 24 coloured illustrations (including title), light spots to endpapers, previous owner signature, original pictorial cloth-backed boards, edges slightly rubbed, oblong folio (1)
Outhwaite (Ida Rentoul, illust.). Fuzzy, Wuzzy and Buzzy (No. 5 from the Willie Winkie Zoo series), 1st ed., pub. Whitcombe & Tombs, [1918], six b & w plates, illustrations, endpapers a little browned, original wrapper, upper cover with coloured illustration, a little rubbed with light creases, 8vo, together with Bush Songs of Australia For Young and Old, Imperial ed., 336, pub. Allan, Melbourne, [1934], b & w illustrations by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, a few light spots, previous owner signature, strengthened at front and rear, original red pictorial wrapper, a little rubbed with one or two minor tears, oblong folio (2)
Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Warne, c.1910-18, half-title, full-page col. illusts., orig. dark brown boards, lettered in white, with rectangular pictorial panel to upper cover, panel sl. creased to upper right-hand corner, but a bright copy, 16mo, together with The Tale of Flopsy Bunnies, Warne, c.1910-18, half-title, full-page col. illusts., frontis. with early ms. ownership name on reverse, orig. light brown boards, lettered in white, with pictorial panel to upper cover, spine faded, 16mo, plus The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, Warne, c.1911-18, half-title (with early ms. ownership name), full-page col. illusts., one text leaf with small nick in blank fore-edge, orig. tan boards, lettered in white, with pictorial panel to upper over, spine faded, 16mo, plus The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, Warne, c.1910-18, half-title, full-page col. illusts., pp.32/33 with small stain at blank gutter with consequent hole in p.33, pp.33/34 with small area of surface loss to upper outer corner as a result of being at some time adhered together, orig. green cloth, lettered in white, with circular pictorial panel to upper cover, spine and upper cover faded, 16mo, plus The Tale of Mr. Tod, Warne, c.1912-18, half-title, fifteen col. plts., letterpress illusts., orig. grey boards, lettered in green, with rectangular pictorial panel to upper cover, a few light marks, spine faded, 16mo, plus a later ed. of Tom Kitten in d.j. All but Mr. Tod and Tom Kitten with endpapers as shown in Linder, figures 6 and 7 (i.e. pastedowns with no cat, and with bee added to top right-hand corner; and free endpapers with no cat, and with the Flopsy Bunnies appearing for the first time). An attractive little collection of early editions in very good condition. (6)
Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Gulliver’s Travels, into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Jonathan Swift, 1909, 13 tipped-in coloured plates, minor light spotting, endpapers a little stained, t.e.g., original cream buckram gilt, cloth ties, a little discoloured, 4to. Limited edition, 348/750 signed by the artist. (1)
Rackham (Arthur, illust.). A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, 1908, 40 tipped-in coloured plates, illustrations, scattered light spotting, endpapers renewed, original cloth gilt, rubbed, somke stains, 4to, together with The Ingoldsby Legends, Mirth & Marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby Esq., 1909, 24 tipped-in coloured plates, 12 tinted plates, illustrations, a few light spots, original blue cloth gilt, joints and edges rubbed, 4to (2)
Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Undine, by De La Motte Fouque, Adapted From the German by W.L. Courtney, 1909, 15 tipped-in coloured plates, endpapers with light brown patches, presentationinscription, original cloth gilt, spine and edges rubbed, d.j., losses to spine, rubbed and chipped, 4to (1)
Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Siegfried and The Twilight of the Gods, by Richard Wagner, 1911, 30 tipped-in col. plts., captioned tissue guards, some light off-setting and foxing to text, free endpapers browned, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. vellum, covers lightly mottled and v. sl. bowed, ties renewed, 4to. Limited edition, 887/1150 copies, signed by Rackham. Riall, p.109. (1)
Rupert Bear. The New Adventures of Rupert, by Alfred Bestall, 1st ed., pub. Daily Express, 1936, duotone illusts. to text, colouring pages untouched,inscription in “belongs to” box, occ. spotting and minor marks, orig. red pict. cloth,some light fading to spine and edges, and minor spotting, overall VG, 4to. The first ever Rupert Annual. (1)
Sitwell (Sir George, and Piper, John). On the Making of Gardens, pub. Dropmore Press, 1949, six coloured lithographed plates by John Piper, scattered light spotting, t.e.g., original green morocco gilt, slightly rubbed with one or two stains, 8vo. Limited edition, 90/100 signed by Osbert Sitwell and John Piper. (1)
The Speaking Picture Book, Imitating the Cries of Animals. An Amusement for the Little Ones” Eyes and Ears, n.p., c.1890, eight full-page chromo. illusts., with related poems, occn. light finger-soiling and spotting, one or two short edge-tears, each page with corresponding “pull” to activate a sound effect (all working), each pull with turned ivory finial (one lacking), final thick card leaf detached from bookform box revealing mechanism, orig. pictorial cloth, lightly rubbed and dust-soiled, lower cover damp-stained, corners showing, oblong 4to. The sounds produced are that of the cock, the donkey, the goat, ducks, the cat, sheep, the cow and the horse. Unusually with all the voices working. Haining calls this “the pi?ce de rŽsistance of any collection of moveables” and adds that very few complete and fine copies have ‘survived youthful hands.” (Haining, Moveable Books, pp.136/7) (1)
Burroughs (Edgar Rice). Tarzan and the Forbidden City, 1st ed., Tarzana, California, 1938, coloured frontispiece, four b & w plates, a few light spots, original cloth, spine a little rubbed and faded, price-clipped d.j., 8vo, together with Tarzan’s Quest, 1st U.K. ed., 1938, one or two light spots, original cloth, a little rubbed, price-clipped d.j., repairs to verso, 8vo, plus Tarzan the Magnificent, 1st U.K. ed., 1940, original cloth, d.j., spine ends strengthened to verso, 8vo, with eighteen other Tarzan titles, including Tarzan at the Earth’s Core, 1st U.K. ed., 1938, mostly reprints (26)
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Disney (Walt). Mountaineering Mickey, pub. Collins, [1937], duotone & b&w illusts. throughout, light crayon marks to a few leaves, occ. spotting, orig. col. pict. boards, slight rubbing to extrems., 4to, together with Mickey’s Hawaiian Holiday, pub. Dean, [1942], duotone & b&w illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. boards, slight rubbing to extrems., 4to, plus Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Circus, pub. Birn Brothers, [1936], four col. plts., a few small tears neatly repaired with tape to verso., duotone and b&w illusts. throughout, orig. col. pict. boards, spine chipped at base, spine with glue repair to rear joint, slightly rubbed, 4to plus eighteen other similar period Disney books, incl. Walt Disney’s Snow White Annual, Mickey Mouse in Pigmy Land, Mickey Mouse and Pluto the Pup, etc. (21)
Henty (G.A.). The Cat of Bubastes, 1889; The Dash for Khartoum, 1892; On the Irrawaddy, 1897; With Cochrane the Dauntless, 1897; In the Irish Brigade, 1901; To Herat and Cabul, 1902; With Roberts to Pretoria, 1902; With the Allies to Pekin, 1904, 1st eds., b & w illustrations, scattered light spots, a few bookplates or previous ownerinscriptions, original cloth, edges slighly rubbed, 8vo, generally bright condition, with other first editions including In Greek Waters, 1896, Under Wellington’s Command, 1899, With Frederick the Great, 1898, With Moore at Corunna, 1898 and Both Sides the Border, 1899, a few reprints and Peter Newbolt’s G.A. Henty 1832-1902, 1996 (22)
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