The Map Collector, numbers 1 - 74 (complete), December 1977 - Spring 1996, numerous colour and black & white illustrations throughout, all with original publisher's printed wrappers, with the 3 (of 5) printed indices, and numerous loose supplements and inserts, slim 4to, contained in 4 purpose-made magazine filesQty: (77)
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Nansen (Fridtjof). "Farthest North". Being a Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen, with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram, 2 volumes, London, George Newnes, 1898, folding map, monochrome illustrations, all edges gilt, original pictorial cloth blocked in gold and silver, in bright condition, 8voQty: (2)NOTESEx libris Constance Mary Butler, with her bookplate to front pastedown of each volume, and her inscription in purple ink to verso of front endpaper 'Constance Butler, Christiania, July 19th 1906'. Lady Constance Mary Butler (1879-1949), an Anglo-Irish noblewoman, yachtswoman and socialite, was a strong supporter of the Irish republican cause, who acted as President of the Irish Prisoner's Family Welfare Fund.
Newton (Charles). A collection of 31 plates from A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae ..., London: Day & Son, [1862], 31 mostly tinted lithographed plates only, mostly antiquities and statues, with some half-page views, and including several uncoloured lithographed plans, from the total of 97 plates issued between 1862-1863, comprising plates: II, VI, VIII, IX, X, XII, XIV, XV, XXX, XXXII, XXXIV, XXXV, XXXVI, XXXVIII, XLIV, XLVI, XLVII, XLIX, LIV, LV, LVI, LVII, LIX, LX, LXXIV, LXXV, LXXVIII, LXXIX, LXXX, and LXXXIV, some marginal water-staining, light scattered spotting, most plates with several closed edge-tears and fraying, sheet size 55.5 x 37cm, with tinted lithograph title in similar condition, all loosely contained in original publisher's cloth gilt, heavy soiled and worn, large folio, together with: De Vaugondy (Robert), Asia Minor in suas partes seu provincias divisa, 1736, engraved map on two sheets, with outline hand-colouring, some fraying and minor staining to outer blank margins, sheet size 55 x 81cmQty: (2)NOTESAtabey 868; Blackmer 1192. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
Ogilby (John). Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia and Billedulgerid... Collected and translated from the most authentick authors..., 1st edition, London: Thomas Johnson, 1670, title printed in red and black, 8 single page engraved plates only (lacking the frontispiece, general map and 43 double-page maps and plates), engraved illustrations in text, printed tables, final two leaves torn with loss of text, a few leaves detached, some frayed and insect predated fore margins, a few marginal wormtracks, some light soiling, contemporary boards, lacking all leather except remnant to spine only, worn, folioQty: (1)NOTESMendelssohn 3, p. 571; Wing O1631. Sold with all faults, not subject to return.
Thunberg (Charles Peter). Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia, 4 volumes, 3rd edition, London: printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1795, 11 black & white engraved plates, some light toning & spotting, contemporary uniform gilt decorated mottled calf, spines rubbed, 8vo, together with; Andersson (Charles John), Lake Ngami; or Explorations and Discoveries, during four years' wanderings in the wilds of South Western Africa, 1st edition, London; Hurts and Blackett, 1856, monochrome illustrations, some spotting & toning throughout, rebound retaining publishers original gilt decorated brown cloth, repaired loss to head & foot of the spine, boards slightly faded & rubbed, 8vo, plus Colliard (François), On The Threshold of Central Africa..., 1st edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1897, black & white illustrations, lacking map to the rear, contemporary previous owner inscription plus later stamps to the front endpaper, front & rear gutters cracked, some light spotting & toning, publishers original gilt decorated brown cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other late 19th & early 20th-century Africa travel reference, mostly original cloth, some rebound 8voQty: (30)
[Southey, Robert]. A Summary of the Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington, from the period of his first achievements in India, to his invasion of France, and the decisive Battle of Waterloo, June 18, 1815. Taken from the Quarterly Review. Dublin: printed for George Mullens, 1816, folding hand-coloured engraved map (with short closed tear and minor offsetting), a little minor spotting front and rear, all edges gilt, contemporary green blindstamped morocco gilt, joints and edges very slightly rubbed, small 4toQty: (1)NOTESLarge paper copy in handsome contemporary binding.
Cary (John). Cary's Traveller's Companion or a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales; shewing the immediate Route to every Market and Borough Town throughout the Kingdom..., London: John Cary, 1806, calligraphic title, advertisement and contents leaf, 43 engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, (complete, including folding map of Yorkshire), dedication leaf & advert leaf for 3rd edition of Cary's New Itinerary detached, some light toning & offsetting, disbound 8voQty: (1)
Atkinson (Thomas William). Oriental and Western Siberia. A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and part of Central Asia, 1st edition, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1858, 20 chromolithograph and tinted lithograph plates, folding map at end (toned with reinforcements to verso), occasional light spotting, previous owner inscription of Charles Cotesworth, 1858 at head of title, endpapers renewed, original cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, lower corners worn, a little rubbed with a few stains, 8voQty: (1)
Donaldson (M. E. M.). Further Wanderings - Mainly in Argyll, 1st edition, Paisley: Alexander Gardner, circa 1933, inscribed by the author 'To my old friend "Eagerheart" (May Wilkinson)...', numerous monochrome illustrations, some light toning & spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly toned & rubbed with minor tears & loss to head & foot, 8vo, includes a sepia photograph laid to card & inscribed on the back by the author, Ibid., Wanderings In The Western Highlands, 3rd edition, Paisley: Alexander Gardner, circa 1930, signed by the author to the title page, numerous monochrome illustrations some minor toning & spotting, publishers original cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed with some loss to head & foot, 8vo, Ibid., Islesmen of Bride..., 1st edition, Paisley: Alexander Gardner, circa 1928, extra leaf inscribed by the author & laid down to the front endpaper, some minor spotting original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, together with: Jakobsen (Jakob), An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: David Nutt,1928, monochrome portrait frontispiece to volume 1, some light toning & spotting, original cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly toned & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus Grieve (Symington), The Book of Colonsay and Oronsay, 2 volumes, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1923, volume 2 inscribed hy the author to head of the half-title, folding map to the front of volume 1, monochrome illustrations, some light spotting & toning, original uniform cloth in dust jackets, spines toned & rubbed with slight loss, 8vo, and other early 20th-century Scotland reference, all original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo/4toQty: (16)
Gifford (Thomas). An Historical Description of the Zetland Island, 1st edition, London: J. Nichols, 1786, folding engraved map (with light offsetting), bound without the half title ('Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. XXXVII'), recent half calf, morocco label to spine, 4to, together with a modern facsimile copy of the same workQty: (2)NOTESESTC T84178. Forms volume 5, part 7 of Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica (1780-90).
Lysons (Daniel). Topographical and Historical Account of Devonshire, 2 volumes, London: T. Cadell, [1822], engraved folding map (browned, spotted & damp stained), numerous engraved plates (some folding), scattered spotting, browning and damp staining, bookplate of John Robert Mowbray to upper pastedown, late 19th century half calf, rubbed and some wear, 4to, together with two volumes of Lysons' Magna Britannia, volume 1, part 2 - Berkshire, and volume 5 - Derbyshire, London: T. Cadell, 1813 & 1817, both with folding county map and numerous engraved plates (some folding), some spotting, occasional damp staining and browning, Berkshire volume in contemporary red cloth, joints and head & foot of spine torn and worn, Derbyshire volume in contemporary half morocco, large 4to, together with Victoria County Histories, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, 5 volumes, 1900-12, with index volume for Hampshire & Isle of Wight, 1914, and Sussex, volume 9 only, 1937, each in original red cloth, some joints split and extremities frayed, folioQty: (11)
Philip (George & Son publishers). Philip's Atlas of the Counties of England, circa 1886, title and contents list, general map of England and Wales and 48 (complete as list) double-page colour lithographic maps, very slight spotting, last three maps with slight creasing, index bound at rear, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco gilt, slight staining to boards, re-backed but retaining original spine, rubbed and worn at extremities, folioQty: (1)
Humphreys (H. Noel). The Genera of British Moths, 2 volumes in 1, London: Paul Jerrard & Son, circa 1860, 62 colour plates, some minor toning, reinforced front & rear gutters, edges gilt, rebound retaining publishers original gilt decorated red cloth, spine faded with some loss to head & foot, large 8vo, together with; Sladen (F. W. L.) The Humble-Bee, its life-history and how to domesticate it..., 1st edition, London: Macmillan & Co, 1912, 34 black & white illustrations plus 6 monochrome plates, later inscription & ink stamp plus loss to head of the front endpaper, minor marginal toning, top edge gilt, publishers original gilt decorated brown cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus Patterson (Robert Lloyd), The Birds, Fishes, & Cetacea of Belfast Lough, 2nd edition, London: David Bogue, 1881, monochrome map frontispiece, period inscription to the half-title, ex-library bookplate to the front pastedown, some light spotting & toning, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other 19th & early 20th-century 'picture cloth natural history reference, including Charles Dixon, Oliver G. Pike, C. A. Johns, Frank Buckland, all in original gilt decorated cloth, overall condition is good/very good, 8vo 60 volumesQty: (3 shelves )
Fisher (A. K.) .The Hawks and Owls of the United States in their relation to agriculture [U. S. Department of Agriculture... bulletin no. 3], Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893, 26 colour plates with tissue guards, bookplate to front pastedown, some marginal toning throughout, publishers, original brown cloth, spine slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with; Cave (Francis O. & James D. Macdonald), Birds of The Sudan, their Identification and distribution, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1955, 12 colour plates plus numerous black & white illustrations & folding map to the rear, period inscription to the front endpaper, typed letter on 'British Museum' headed notepaper dated 17th May, 1955 to Col. G. Goodwin by & signed J. D. Macdonald, some light spotting, publishers original blue cloth, boards & spines slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus Gosse (Philip Henry), The Birds of Jamaica, 1st edition, London: John van Voorst, 1847, period inscription to the front endpaper, bookplate to front endpaper, ink stamp to the title page, some marginal toning, original embossed green cloth, spine lightly faded & rubbed, 8vo, and other late 19th & early 20th-century ornithology reference, including Birds of the Eurasian Tundra [Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History volume 6, number 3], by Theodore Pleske, 1st edition, Boston: printed for the Society, April 1928, large 4to, mostly in original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves)
Borlase (William). The Natural History of Cornwall..., new edition, London: E & W Books, 1970, monochrome illustrations & folding map, some light spotting to the text-block, top edge gilt, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, folio, limited edition if 350 copies, together with; Henrey (Blanche), Britush Botanical Horticultural Literature before 1800, London: Oxford University Press, 1975, colour & monochrome illustrations, publishers original uniform blue cloth in slipcase, 8vo, plus Taubert (Sigfred), Bibliopola, 2 volumes, London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1966, numerous monochrome illustrations, publishers original uniform cloth in slipcase, large 8vo, and other modern bibliography reference & related, including publications by Edinburgh University Press, Yale, Oxford, Minerva, Witherby, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (4 shelves)
Thorburn (Archibald). British Birds, 4 volumes, limited edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1925, numerous colour plates, bookplates to the front pastedowns, some light spotting, top edges gilt, publishers original uniform gilt decorated red cloth, 8vo, 70/205 copies, together with; Swainson (Charles), The Folk Lore and Provincial Names of British Birds, London: Folk Lore Society, 1886, pencil annotations to the front endpaper, some light spotting, publishers original gilt decorated red cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Chapman (Abel), Bird-Life of the Borders on Moorland and Sea..., 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1907, colour folding map, monochrome illustrations, bookplate to front pastedown offset to the front endpaper, some light toning, top edge gilt, publishers original green cloth, boards & spine slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other 19th & early 20th-century British ornithology reference, including a 2 volume sammelband of 'Ornithology and other Pamphlets ', circa 1900, 8vo, mostly original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves )
Rolt (Richard). Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable John Lindesay, Earl of Craufurd and Lindesay, London: printed for Henry Köpp, 1753, black & white engraved portrait frontispiece, vignette to head of d3, folding map to pp.160, minor worming to the foot of margins from the front endpaper to pp.252, some light spotting & toning, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, hinges cracked, boards & spine rubbed with minor loss, 4to, together with other 18th & 19th-century literature & reference including 4 manuscripts of declarations by ships' masters about troubled sea passages, circa 1830, mostly leather bindings, overall condition is fair/very good, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves )
Woods (George). An Account of the Past and Present State of the Isle of Man;..., London: printed for Robert Baldwin, 1811, colour map frontispiece, period inscription to the title page, modern endpapers, some spotting & toning, modern half calf, 8vo, together with; Leader (Robert Eadon), History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire in the county of York, 2 volumes, Sheffield: printed by Pawson & Brailsford, 1905, later inscription to the foot of volume 1 front pastedown, black & white illustrations & facsimiles, bookplates to the front pastedowns, minor marginal toning, top edges gilt, publishers original uniform quarter vellum to gilt decorated green cloth boards, spines lightly rubbed & marked, folio, plus Geike (Archibald), The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1897, 7 maps & numerous monochrome illustrations, period pencil inscriptions to the front endpapers, bookplates to the front pastedowns, some light toning & spotting, publishers original uniform green cloth, spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, and other 19th & early 20th-century U. K. topography reference, including Accurate Description and History of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St. Peter, York,..., 2nd edition, York: printed by A. Ward, 1783, 8vo, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (3 shelves )
Campbell (John Gregorson). Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland, 1st edition, Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1900, period inscription to the front endpaper, Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland, 1st edition, Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1902, some light toning, both in publishers original blue cloth, boards & spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with; Beveridge (Erskine), Coll and Tiree, their prehistoric forts and ecclesiastical antiquities, limited edition, Edinburgh: T. And A. Constable, 1903, 255/300 copies, North Uist, its Archaeology and Topography, limited edition, Edinburgh: William Brown, 1911, bookplates to the front endpapers, 212/315 copies, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light toning, both in publishers original gilt decorated blue quarter morocco, spines slightly faded & rubbed, 4to, plus Skene (William F.), The Highlanders of Scotland, 1st edition, Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1902, black & white illustrations & map, some light toning, publishers original green cloth, spine slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other late 19th & early 20th-century Scottish history & reference, mostly original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves )
Stirling (William Macgregor). History of Stirlingshire, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, Stirling: Andrew Bean, 1817, folding engraved map frontispiece to volume 1 with contemporary hand-colouring, two engraved plates and two folding tables, some offsetting and spotting, bookplate of John Sheepshanks to upper pastedowns date 1852, mid 19th century calf by Riviere, elaborate gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, 8vo, together with: Graham (Patrick), Sketches of Perthshire, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Peter Hill and John Ballantyne & Co., 1812, folding engraved map frontispiece with contemporary hand-colouring (short closed tear to right-hand), engraved vignette to title, occasional light damp stains, Duchally House bookplate to upper pastedown, later 19th century half calf with maroon morocco title label to spine, upper joint cracked at head, extremities rubbed, 8vo, Pope (Alexander, translator), The Iliad [& Odyssey] of Homer, 4 volumes in one, Berwick: Printed by H. Richardson, 1807, light damp staining throughout, upper pastedown with prize award bookplate to Alexander Monteath dated 1813, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt decorated spine, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo, Lawson (John Parker), An Enlarged Gazetteer of Scotland..., Edinburgh: Edinburgh Printing and Publishing Co., 1841, folding engraved map frontispiece, 8 engraved plates and maps (including 2 folding), contemporary half sheep, rubbed and scuffed, large 12mo in 6sQty: (5)
Burd (Van Akin [editor]). The Ruskin Family Letters..., 2 volumes, 1st edition London: Cornell University Press, black & white map endpapers, publishers original red cloth in slipcase, spines lightly faded, 8vo, together with; Bryson (John [editor]), Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Jane Morris, their correspondence, 1st edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976, black & white illustrations, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, spine slightly faded, 8vo, plus other John Ruskin & the Pre-Raphaelite circle biography & reference, including publications by Oxford, Yale, Cambridge, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (5 shelves)
[Walford, Thomas]. The Scientific Tourist Through Ireland, in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of Antiquity, Art, Science & the Picturesque, by an Irish Gentleman, London: for John Booth, [1818], engraved vignette title with small surface loss at foot (affecting date), 7 engravings with aquatint, including frontispiece, two engraved folding maps, letterpress with scarce minor spots or marks, and 3 blank lower outer corners creased with short tears, contemporary quarter cloth, rubbed and faded, a little wear to extremities, 12mo, together with: Cunningham (Allan), The Poems, Letters, and Land of Robert Burns: illustrated by W.H. Bartlett, T. Allom, and other artists, 2 volumes, London: George Virtue, [1840], additional vignette title to each volume, 88 (of 89) engraved plates, including frontispieces, spotting, volume 1 with pictorial bookplate of Jacobus Bromley (with early ink manuscript shelfmark), contemporary green half calf gilt, faded and rubbed with some scuffing, some wear to extremities, 3 joints cracked, 4to, Smith (William), A New and Compendious History, of the County of Warwick, Birmingham: W. Emans, 1830, additional vignette title edge-frayed with minor damp stain to fore-edge, (lacking letterpress title), engraved frontispiece, 58 (of 60) engraved plates (including map), spotting, 1 plate with closed marginal tear just touching plate border, and facing text leaf with long closed tear, pp.3-8 extensively repaired, numbered label to front pastedown, hinges strengthened with black cloth, all edges gilt, contemporary black calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, rebacked with original spine relaid (rubbed), a little rubbed with some light scratches and marks, corners showing, 4to, and three others: A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Berks, by John Britton and E.W. Brayley, [1815?]; Jennings' Landscape Annual or Tourist in Spain for 1837, Biscay and the Castile's; British Military Prints, by Ralph Neville, 1909Qty: (7)
Jacques Rigaud (French 1680-1754) A View of the Bason of Latona Hand-coloured engraving 23.8 x 46.5cm; 9¼ x 18¼in Together with Paul Angier (French 1725-c.1757) after Jacques Rigaud; L'Abreuvoir au Front du Palais de Marli; hand-coloured engraving; 23.8 x 46.2cm; 9¼ x 18¼in; Davies (act. 1837) after Giuseppe Longhi (1766-1831), Portrait of Napoleon; engraving; 45 x 37cm; 17¾ x 14½in; and Map of the Island of Elba and a view of Porto Ferrajo; coloured engraving and aquatint; 35.8 x 24cm; 14 x 9½in (4)
A group of steam railway related ephemera, to include the map of London and South Western railway system, Ireland and Mainland connection poster, views on the Manchester and Leeds railway, The David Weston steam collection calendar for 1978, historic railway posters 1998 calendar and the Historic Railway Museum 1997 calendar, and various other scroll railway posters and maps. (a quantity)
Lincolnshire interest ephemera, a Lincolnshire map, History of The County of Lincoln leather bound book, with various map inserts, a Kings England Lincolnshire first printed 1949, and a Doomsday book relating to Lincolnshire and Rutlandshire, by Charles Gowen Smith, with gilt applied detailing and binding. (4)
[MAPS etc.] 6 French collectible cards (each 110 x 70 mm) depicting Australian views and customs, c.1900; 19 French collectible country cards (each 85 x 115 mm), each with a miniature map, illustration of indigenous peoples and local produce; & 4 British Museum postcards depicting early maps (Q)
[MAPS - LONDON] Stanford's folding map of the Port of London; Bodega, 1879 calendar with map of central London; Kelly's Post Office Directory Map of London, in 4 sheets; Map of Hampstead; E. Weller's reproduction of Senex's New Map of London, 1720; large colour map of Central Bus Routes, c. 1960 (6)
[TRAVEL etc.] Souvenir de G nes, bound booklet with 20 photogravure images of Genoa;advertising board, an eagle sending hats around the globe; Souvenir of Malta: 32 photographic views, folding into board covers, c.1930; Tourist Planta de Lisboa: Guidebook to Lisbon (1924) with two fold-out maps; Stanford's folding map of Massif de Gavarnie (1932) (5)
W Faden's folding Map of Suffolk, 1787, slipcase; Bennet's Map & Guide to the Thames; C.W.S. descriptive booklet (140 x 210 mm, 32pp) featuring many pictorial maps; The Royal Primrose Atlas of the British Empire, 1935; [GAME] playing board for airship roll and move game, with reproduction rules and playing pieces (5)
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