C Smith, 'A New Map of England and Wales, comprehending the whole of the Turnpike roads with the great rivers and navigable canals'. Originally printed 1804 second edition corrected to 1808 (58x47cm approx), together with Thomas Kitchen, a 'New Map of Shropshire'(25.5x20.5cm approx). And a strip road map of Ludlow and Shrewsbury in the Deanery of Chester pages 145 and 146 double sided (19x12cm approx). Together with Thomas Kitchen, 'Africa', original uncoloured map engraved by G Terry for John Harrison, dated 1787. 34x39cm approx. Framed. Together with a 19th century map of Sweden and Norway engraved by S Hall. 25x19cm approx. Framed and glazed. (5) (B.P. 21% + VAT)
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Greenwood (Christopher & John), Atlas of the Counties of England [and Wales], from Actual Surveys made from the Years 1817 to 1833, Published by the Proprietors, Engraved by J. & C. Walker, Published April 1st, 1834, engraved double-page title with hand-coloured general map, 46 double-page hand-coloured maps, a good copy with fresh colouring, typical off-setting to a few, occasionally more pronounced, the final sheet (i.e. South West Wales) decidedly toned too, the folding flaps of Lancashire and Lincolnshire each with a minor tear, Middlesex and Warwickshire with more pronounced stable gutter tears to the lower portion and never exceeding 8cm in length, original publisher's calf over marbled boards, now split and disbound, rubbed and some chipped losses, upper-cover with gilt-lettered black morocco label, elephant folio (64 x 42cm)
Derbyshire. Lipscomb (George), A Description of Matlock-Bath; with an Attempt to Explain the Causes of the Heat, and of the Petrifying Quality of the Springs: to which is added, Some Account of Chatsworth and Kedleston, and the Mineral Waters of Quarndon and Kedleston, sole edition, Birmingham: Printed by the Executors of T.A. Pearson, and Sold by Knott and Lloyd; et al., 1802, dedication leaf to the Duke of Devonshire, viii, 142pp, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed and with minor chips, split but holding, 8vo, another two works on topography, both provincial imprints, [Watts (Susanna)], A Walk through Leciester, second edition, Leciester: Printed by and for T. Combe, et al., 1820, engraved folding map, repaired, later papered boards, 12mo, & Ely Cathedral, n.d., split, original publisher's cloth boards?, 8vo, (3)
Abolitionism and Quakers. Buxton (Thomas Fowell), The African Slave and and its Remedy, signed and inscribed presentation copy from the author, London: John Murray, 1840, pp: 14 (prospectus and subscribers' list), 582, [2] (colophon leaf), folding map frontispiece (Central Africa) drawn and engraved by C. Walker, original publisher's cloth, upper-joint split but holding, sunned spine and some minor wear, uncut, 8vo Provenance: James Pearson from T Fowell Buxton, Nov:r 5th 1840; author's presentation inscription to verso of ffep.
An early 19th c album of 29 maps, plans/charts and diagrams, dated 1805, engraved for Walker's Geography by W. Darton Jun:r, including a world map of the two hemispheres (all of Australia showing as New Holland), the Zodiac, An Historical Chart (with contemporary hand-colouring), the West Indies, the Northern and Southern parts of Russia, Poland, Hindoostan, or India, the Solar System with figures practicing astronomy, etc., two-page and folding, engravings laid on linen, one or two, contemporary roan over boards, rubbed and worn, 8vo
Johnson (Samuel), A Dictionary of the English Language [...], eleventh edition, Edinburgh: Printed for Thos. Brown, R. Ross, and J. Symington, 1797, double-column, late 20th c brown quarter-morocco over marbled boards, 8vo, [Scotland] Boswell (James), The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, third edition, London: Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1786, folding map, contemporary mottled calf gilt, worn, split and rubbed, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, another copy, the sixth edition, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813, portrait frontispiece, contemporary diced calf gilt, rebacked, repaired inner-gutters, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, Johnson (Samuel) & Duppa (Richard, editor), A Diary of a Journey into North Wales, in the Year 1774, London: Robert Jennings, 1816, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, Johnson's Rambler, two-volume set, London: F.C. and C. Rivington, et al., 1820, engraved frontispieces and additional title-pages, contemporary calf over marbled boards, split and worn, but holding, 12mo, (6)
India. The Bengal Directory and General Register for the Year 1832. [With] A General Index to Names [...], Calcutta: Compiled, Printed and Published by the Proprietors Samuel Smith and Co., Bengal Hurkaru Press, Hare-Street, Tank-Square, [1832], half-title, one leaf (i.e. pages 173-4) supplied in loosely-inserted photocopy, folding lithograph Map of India, Including the Burman Empire, And the Southern Coast of China, somewhat creased and with marginal tear, some leaves with browned and with occasional minor marginal creases, contemporary red quarter-morocco over marbled boards, pastedown with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription, 8vo, Selections from the Revenue Records of the North-West Provinces, 1818-1820, Calcutta: Printed at The Military Orphan Press, 1866, ex-University of Southern California copy, blank leaves defective, with their stamps and bookplates, original publisher's cloth boards, but disbound, 4to, [&] [The Raj] Directions for Revenue Officers in the Punjab, Lahore: Printed at The Central Jail Press, 1875, defective title-page, it and the following two leaves detached, rear gutter split, just holding, folding table laid on linen, marginal notation, marginal worm trail but with no loss of sense, contemporary ownership inscription: J ?Finlay/Amritsar/5/8/76, later blue cloth, 4to, (3)
Liverpool. Enfield (William), An Essay Towards the History of Liverpool [...], first edition, Warrington: s.n., 1773, vi, [6] (subscribers), 116, 3 folding charts and maps, comprising Peter Perez Burdett's chart of Liverpool harbour, William Yates's and George Perry's map of the city and its environs, and 'The Diagram or Series of Great Triangles by which the most eminent places in the Map of the Environs of Leverpool (sic) were projected', all of the charts and maps with various degrees of repairs, 9 full-page plates, one with marginal loss not affecting within the plate-mark, another with a discreet repair to verso, the contents mostly good, some very occasional toned portions, later 19th c cloth, repaired gilt-lettered spine, folio (33.5 x 21cm), [&] Map of the Environs of Liverpool, n.d. [c. 1890], hand-coloured lithograph, numbered 98 within the sheet, 34 x 51cm, (2)
John Speed (1551/52-1629) - The Isle of Man, double-page map, letterpress to verso, s.l., dated 1610 within the plate, engraving, contemporaneous hand-colouring, 42 x 54cm, and The Lands (sic), i.e. Holy Island and The Farne Islands, Northumberland, and the Channel Islands, Gurnsey and Jersey, double-page map, letter-press to verso, s.l., dated 1610 within the plate, engraving, the colouring probably a little later, 39.6 x 52.6cm, (2)
Local Interest. Thoroton (Robert) & Throsby (John), Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: Republished, with Large Additions. And Embellished with Picturesque and Select Views of Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, Towns, Village Churches and Ruins, three-volume set, London: Sold by B. and J. White, 1797, volume I with portrait frontispiece, volume III with a folding county map, further engraved plates, some folding, including tables of county grandees' coats of arms, repaired contemporary quarter-russia over marbled boards, some wear, 4to, (3)
Dix (Thomas), A Treatise on Land-Surveying, fourth edition, London: Printed by Weed and Rider, et al., 1819, folding bird's eye engraved map frontispiece, with contemporary hand-colouring, in-text diagrams, publisher's advert, original boards, worn but holding, uncut, contemporary ownership inscription: J.H. Franklin, Solihull School, October 26th 1819, conforming later inscription: Radford, Dec 22nd 1819, 8vo, & Hull (Edward), The Coal-Fields of Great Britain, With Map and Illustrations, second edition, London: Edward Stanford, 1861, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, (2)
Travel. Younghusband (Sir Francis, KCSI, KCIE), Wonders of the Himalaya, signed presentation copy from the author to the Officers Mess of the King's Dragoon Guards, first edition, London: John Murray, 1924, foxed in places, original publisher's cloth, rebacked, some further wear, the King's Dragoon Guards library stamp and numbering, 8vo, idem., Among the Celestials. A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas to India [...], first edition thus, London: John Murray, 1898, plates and folding map, original publisher's pictorial cloth, recto pastedown and ffep with neat prize inscription and associated labels and tipped-in ephemera, 8vo, two further non-travel Younghusband first editions, including Vital Religion, 1940, cloth only, 8vo, (4)
Folio Society. Martin (George R.R.) & Burton (Jonathan, illustrator), A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, two-volume set, first edition thus, first impressions, 2019, colour plates, issued with a bound map of The Known World, original metallic cloth, pictorial upper-covers, dark-stained top-edges, worn slipcase en suite, (3)
Italian Grand Tour. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - Veduta della vasta Fontana di Trevi anticamente detta l'Acqua Vergine, later 20th c impression of the 1751 original, blind-stamped lower-right margin, etching, 41 x 55.5cm, Giovanni Battista Falda (1643-1678) - Fontana su la piazza della Madonna dei Monti, Roma: published by Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi, n.d. [1665-1691], etching, 22 x 29cm, [&] [Mantua] Jean de Beaurain (1696-1771) - Plan de la ville de Mantoue [...], map, Paris: s.n., n.d. [c. 1735-40], copperplate engraving, 47 x 57.5cm, (3) Unexamined out of frames. Piranesi good, the other two mixed, but OK-good.
Local Interest. Thoroton (Robert, Doctor of Physick (sic)), The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire [...], Beautified with Maps, Prospects, and Portraictures (sic), first edition, London: Printed by Robert White, for Henry Mortlock, at the Sign of the Phœnix in St. Paul's Church-yard, and the White-Hart in Westminster-Hall, 1677, double-column, pp: [vii], 507, [1] (blank), 8 (The Index of Armes (sic)), [36] (indexes), repaired black and red title-page, pages 201-204 supplied in early 19th c pen-and-ink facsimile, double-page county map and 10 double-page plates only, of which 3 have been repaired, 3 full-page plates, occasional, light worm trails in places, mostly marginal, occasionally within text, but with no loss of sense, a couple of leaves soiled, rebacked and recornered calf gilt of c1800, contemporary red-stained edges, marbled endpapers, folio (35.6 x 24cm), [Wing T1063] Provenance: James Thorpe, armorial bookplate to recto pastedown, recto blank with MS ownership inscription: James Thorpe, 1842.
India. [Sri Lanka] Map of Ceylon, London: Edward Stanford, October 2nd, 1882, steel engraving, contemporary hand-coloured delineation, 20 paper sheets laid on linen, 68 x 55.5cm, folding into contemporary cloth boards, advertising pastedowns, India: Pictorial and Descriptive, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1888, frontispiece, full-page plates and in-text illustrations, original publisher's cloth, folio (30.5 x 23cm), Trevelyan (George Otto, MP), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, two-volume set, first edition, London: Longmans, et al., 1876, original publisher's cloth, uncut, book label: F.M. D'Alquen Esq., 8 Montpelier Terrace, Brighton, Candler's Youth and the East, first edition, 1924, original cloth, 8vo, Fleming's News from Tartary, 1937, cloth, 8vo, Forbes-Mitchell's Great Mutiny, 1895, 8vo, etc., (9)
Leicestershire. A Survey of Sundry Lands within the Lordship of Eaton in the County of Leicester, the Property of Charles Morley of Nottingham, Gent, 1770, map, hand-scrivened and delineated in pen-and-ink on parchment, A Scale of Four Chains to an Inch surmounted by a surveyor's compass, bird's-eye view naively 'illuminated' with a polychrome red-brink farm house, a windmill, a church, trees, etc., lettered field names and acreages, titled Chippendale C-scroll vignette, black-ruled borders, some later pencil annotation, 46.5 x 58.5cm Condition evidenced by images.
Politics and History. [Miège (Guy)], The Present State of Great-Britain and Ireland, third edition, London: Printed for J.H. for J. Nicholson, et al., 1716, engraved portrait frontispiece, black-ruled general and divisional titles, folding map, [issued with] The Present State Of His Majesty's Dominions in Germany, dated 1715, folding map and table, contemporary panelled calf, chipped, later label, 8vo, Chamberlayne (Edward), Angliæ Notitia; or the Present State of England, eighth edition, In the Savoy: Printed by T.N. for J. Martyn, Printers to the Royal Society, et al., 1674, engraved title-page, divisional titles black-ruled, engraved title and A1-4 of the first part repaired, otherwise unexamined, the second part defective with only nine repaired preliminary leaves, late 19th/early 20th c half-morocco over cloth by G. & J. Greening of Bradford, their ticket, 12mo, [Campbell (John)], The Present State of Europe, third edition, London: Thomas Longman, and Charles Hitch, et al., 1752, contemporary calf, later label, 8vo, Jacob's Complete Court-Keeper, fifth edition, 1752, facsimile title-page, 20th c calf, 8vo, Almanach Royal, Paris: Veuve d'Houry, 1738, 20th c brown morocco, the spine preserving traces of original binding, 8vo, [&] Debrett's Royal Kalendar, n.d. [c. 1790], defective, engraved plates of coats of arms and further heraldry, rebacked calf, 8vo, (6)
Yorkshire. Jan Janssonius/Jan Jansson (1588-1664) - four double-page county maps, mixed dates, but all 17th c, engravings, contemporary or slightly later hand-colouring, the largest 50 x 59.5cm, mounted, and Britannia prout divisa suit temporibus Anglo-Saxonum, præsertim durante illorum Heptarchia, double-page map, the mount dated 1646, engraving, slightly later hand-colouring, 45.5 x 56.5cm, mounted, (5) Mixed condition, but OK-good.
Americana, Quakers. Some Account of the Conduct of the Religious Society of Friends Towards the Indian Tribes in the Settlement of the Colonies of East and West Jersey and Pennsylvania: with a Brief Narrative of their Labours for the Civilization and Christian Instruction of the Indians, from the time of their settlement in America, to the year 1843. Published by the Aborigines' Committee of The Meeting for Sufferings, first edition, London: Edward Marsh, 1844, pp: [iv], x, 11-247, most gatherings unopened, map frontispiece (Aboriginal America, East of the Mississippi) and folding map (A Map of North America, denoting the boundaries of the Yearly Meeting of Friends and the locations of the various Indian Tribes), lithographed by H. Clark after James Bowden, hand-coloured &/or delineated in watercolour, the folding map with a stable marginal tear, original publisher's brown cloth, split upper-joint, chipped spine, 8vo Provenance: John Massey from his affectionate Father, 6th March 1844; ffep with contemporary ink MS presentation inscription. Probably descendants of a John Massey, noted 18th c Lincolnshire Quaker, appointed by the Meetings for Sufferings to manage the Ackworth school 'intended for the education of children of Friends who were not "in affluent circumstances" ' (Burtt, Quakerism in Lincolnshire, 1989, pages 70-72).
Bindings, 'Miniature' Books. [Bible, New Testament] Novum Testamentum [...], Polymicrian edition, Londini: Sumptibus Samuelis Bagster, 1829, polyglot half-title engraved by C. Cobley, printed in NT Greek, double-column, 1 full-page map of the Holy Land and 1 two-page map of the Mediterranean, finely bound in original green morocco, outlined in blind, gilt-lettered and dated spine, all edges gilt, green endpapers, ffep with contemporaneous ink MS presentation inscription dated 1830, 48mo in eights (9.2 x 6.9cm), [&] [Breviary] Uffizio della B.V. Maria de' Morti, della S. Croce, e dello Spirito Santo; i Salmi Penintenziali, e Graduali. Le Orazioni per la Confessione, e Comunione, e per ascoltare la Santa Messa. Roma: Nella Stamperia della Ved. Cannetti a Pasquino No. 4, 1824, engravedm frontispiece, contemporary green morocco gilt, Neoclassical spine, all edges gilt, polychrome endpapers, 32mo in eights (10.2 x 6.7cm), (2) Provenance: 2nd: The Venerable Richard Lane Freer (1804-1863), Archdeacon of Hereford (1852-1863). His books were incorporated in the Dowdeswells' library at Pull Court, Worcestershire. R. Lane Freer/Rome May 1828, presumably bought on a 'Grand Tour'; ffep with ink MS ownership inscription.
[Atlas] Moll (Herman, Geographer), A Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales, &c. With The Great Roads and Principal Cross-Roads, &c. [...], first edition, London: Sold by H. Moll over-against Devereux Court in the Strand, Tho. Bowles, et al., 1724, double-page letterpress title, 50 engraved maps, of which 2 are folding maps of Roman Britain and England & Wales with the Channel Islands, and 48 double-page county and regional maps, the latter with antiquarian borders of antiquities and coins, some bound out of sequence and transposed, title-page with pencilled scribbles, the first quarter or so of the atlas with a gnawed upper-right margin, with paper loss but not affecting any map or marginal vignette, and growing fainter throughout, additionally the Sussex leaf is repaired, Herefordshire margin chipped with loss, yet not affecting map, Yorkshire repaired and its margin defective, as well as the following maps, the West, East and North Ridings of Yorkshire and then much less apparent come The County Palatine of Durham, Westmorland margin stained, some chips and uneven margins in places throughout, contemporary speckled calf, outlined in gilt, disbound, the boards chipped, scuffed and rubbed, 4to
Scotland. Martin (Martin, Gent.), A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland. The Second Edition, very much Corrected. London: Printed for A. Bell, et al., 1716, black-ruled title-page, folding map repaired, lower-marginal worm trail until signature A, though not affecting text, contemporary panelled calf, worn and bumped, but sturdy, upper-cover split, 8vo, [The Covenant] [Walker (Patrick)], Some Remarkable Passages of the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden, Late Minister of the Gospel of Glenluce in Galloway. [...] To which is added, A Second Part. Containing, Thirty new additional Passages [...], Glasgow: Printed and Sold by J. and M. Robertson, 1794, 56pp, inner worm trail, touching and affecting text, but without loss of sense, contemporary parchment wrapper, 12mo, [&] Lockhart (John Gibson), The Life of Robert Burns, two-volume set, copy no. 306/500, Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, Limited, 1914, ex-library copies, but OK, contemporary vellum over cloth, sympathetically rebacked, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, (4)
Local Interest. Auctioneers: Messrs. T. Neale & Son, Nottingham. Wollaton Park, Particulars and Condition of Sale, 3rd & 4th November, 1925, [16]pp, b/w plate of the house, large format map of the freehold estate by T. Wallis Gordon, 81 x 209.5cm, folding Plans 1-3 loosely-inserted in recto sleeve, original wrappers, folio (34.5 x 21cm), with Auctioneers: Messrs. Thurgood, Martin & Eve, London. Part III: Portions of the Estates of The Right Honourable Lord Middleton. The Wollaton Estate, 2 parts, 23rd & 24th March, 1925, split, folding Plans 7-10 loosely-inserted in recto sleeve, original wrappers, tatty and soiled, fragmentary recto cover, folio (41 x 25cm), Auctioneers: Hallam, Brackett & Co., Nos. 7-13 Long Row, Nottingham, including the famous Black Boy Hotel and four shops, 25th January, 1961, folding plan, original wrappers, upper-cover with tipped-on b/w illustration, oblong 4to, a b/w photograph of Hucknall Road/Perry Road, n.d. [c. 1930], 22.5 x 29.5cm, mounted, etc
Miscellaneous GB. Robert Morden (c.1650-1703) - The North, East and West Ridings of Yorkshire; three maps, s.l., s.n., n.d. [1695], double-page engravings, 39.2 x 45.7cm, twenty-three county maps, mid-late 18th c, some by Bowen, engraved for the Universal Magazine, mixed sizes, Kitchin's most Accurate Map of the Roads of England and Wales, [London]: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, n.d. [c.1765-1770], engraving, 47.5 x 37.5cm, another, similar, defective, etc., (30)
Bibles, Theology & Thought. [KJV, 1611] The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha, fourteen-volume set, Boston: R.H. Hinkley Company, 1900, plates, original publisher's cloth boards, printed paper spine labels, top-edges gilt, others uncut, 8vo, [Binding] The Holy Bible, London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, for The Trinitarian Bible Society, n.d. [c.1850], map frontispiece, black-ruled double-column, loosely-inserted family genealogy, contemporary brown morocco over bevelled boards, blocked in blind, all edges gilt, Trinitarian Bible Society Derby Depot ticket, 8vo, Old Testament: Hebrew and English, Berlin: Printed for The British and Foreign Bible Society, 1903, double-column, contemporary black morocco, all edges gilt, 8vo, [Apocrypha] The Apocryphal New Testament, second edition thus, London: William Hone, 1821, original publisher's boards, advert prelims, uncut, 8vo, Dick's Christian Philosopher, two volumes, Glasgow: William Collins, n.d. [c. 1850], original cloth, uncut, 8vo, three works by Bertrand Russell, including his History of Western Philosophy, dj, hb, 8vo, 1833 Baptist Repository, quarter-calf, split and rubbed, 8vo, 1837 Protestant Journal, cloth, 8vo, Luther, Scotland in Early Christian Times, 1881, cloth, 8vo, etc., mixed bindings and sizes, (30)
Miscellaneous. Shakespeare (William) & Malone (Edmond, editor), The Plays, volume I only, first edition thus, London Printed by H. Baldwin, et al., 1790, original boards, uncut, 8vo, further Shakespeare, [Crime] Illustrated Life, Career, and Trial of William Palmer, of Rugeley, London: Ward and Lock, 1856, cloth, split and worn, 8vo, Wilson (James Grant, editor), The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, four volumes, London: Blackie & Son, n.d. [1876], double-column, engraved portrait plates, original publisher's cloth over bevelled boards, all edges gilt, 8vo, Sadlier (Michael, translator), Pétain-Laval Conspiracy, first English edition, second impression, London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1942, original wrappers, 8vo, Hand-book to The English Lakes, sixth edition, Kendal: T. Atkinson, 1851, folding map, original green wrappers, 8vo, further topography, six volumes by or about Winston Churchill, Murray's English Reader, seventh edition, York, 1807, sheep, 12mo, further primers and didactics, The Chemist & Druggist, volume II, 1861, 8vo, Rickman's Gothic Architecture, seventh edition, 1881, cloth, 8vo, Smedley's Spiritual Manifestations, 1900, 8vo, Dickens's Pickwick Papers, 1847, three-quarter calf over marbled boards, 8vo, Crimean War, British Colonies, Milton, boxing, Derbyshire interest, bindings, etc., mixed sizes, (approx. 35)
Binding. [Latin Vulgate Bible] Biblia Sacra [...], Tornaci Nerviorum [Tournai]: typis Societatis Sancti Joannis Evangelistae, Descleïe, Lefebvre et Socioru, 1881, red-ruled double-column, medieval style title-page, lacking map frontispiece, yet apparently never bound-in, finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in contemporary black morocco gilt over boards, signed dentelle, the panelled covers rolled and tooled in gilt and blind, the corners enclosing oak leaves and acorns, the six-compartment spine with raised bands conforming, lettered in the second and dated in the sixth compartments, the spine with a few very small rubbed portions, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and dentelles, marbled endpapers, 8vo (26 x 18cm) Sold as a binding and as such not liable to reutrn.
Americana. Herrera (Antonio de) & Stevens (Captain John, translator), The General History of the Vase Continent and Islands of America, Commonly call'd, The West-Indies, volume VI only (but complete in itself), first edition thus, London: Printed for Jer. Batley at the Dove in Pater-noster-row, 1726, red and black title-page, 1 folding plate (The People of Florida Sacrificing their first Born to the Sun), defective final publisher's catalogue leaf, disbound, 8vo, [Genealogy] Early Maltby, with Some Roades (sic) History and that of the Maulsby Family in America, signed presentation copy from the author, sole edition, Baltimore: Ella K. Barnard, 1909, full-page and folding plates and pedigrees, split, original blue cloth, 8vo, Taylor (Rev. Isaac), Scenes in America, second edition, London: J. Harris and Son, 1822, half-title, folding map frontispiece, plates, lacking ffep, original publisher's red roan gilt over pictorial papered boards, 12mo, [Slavery] Stowe (Harriet Beecher), The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, London: Clarke, Beeton, and Co., n.d., original publisher's cloth, uncut, 8vo, Conrad Aiken first edition, etc., (7)
Hydrotherapy and Topography. The Original Bath Guide, considerably Enlarged and Improved; Forming an indispensable Pocket Companion [...], [with] An Essay on the Efficacy of the Bath Waters [....], Bath: Printed by and for Meyler and Son, adjoining the Great Pump-Room, et al., 1816, engraved folding frontispiece, city plan and map, two or three of the latter leaves tatty, one holed with loss of five or so words either side of the leaf, contemporary calf, scuffed and worn, rebacked, 8vo Provenance: Nightingale, recto pastedown with MS pencil ownership inscription; almost certainly a member of the Derbyshire Nightingale family, the present vendor previously purchased this volume in Derbyshire.
Local Interest. [Cox (Thomas)], Nottinghamshire, [from Magna Britannia et Hibernia], [In the Savoy: Eliz. Nutt, 1720], double-column, engraved folding county map, engraved distance table, 207pp, ffep and blank preliminaries loosening/loose, contemporary calf, split, recto pastedown with contemporaneous 18th c ink manuscript contents, 4to Provenance: George Cresswell Bond (1863-1939), of Lenton Hall, Nottingham; armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.
Travel. Patterson (Lieut.-Col. J.H., DSO), In the Grip of the Nyika: Further Adventures in British East Africa, first edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909, full-page plates and maps, ex school library copy, only pastedown and prelims with their labels and/or stamps, original publisher's blue cloth, pictorial gilt, spine with slight shelf numbering, 8vo, Anson (George, Esq. (Late Lord Anson)) & Walter (Richard, Chaplain of the Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition, compiler), A Voyage Round the World, two-volume set bound as one, Edinburgh: Printed by Alex. Chapman and Co, 1796, defective world map frontispiece, foxed, contemporary sheep over boards, rubbed, chipped and split, crudely repaired with tacked-on sellotape, 12mo, Guiana, Clare Leighton the illustrator, etc., (5)
Local Interest. Christopher Greenwood (1786-1855) and John Greenwood (fl.1821-1840) - Map of the County of Nottingham, From an Actual Survey made in the years 1821 & 1825 [...], London: Greenwood, Pringle & Co., 1826, engraving over 20 sheets, laid on linen, 142 x 107.5cm, later retailer's boards, their ticket: J. & H. Bell Ltd, Nottingham, [&] James Basire FSA after John Badder and Henry Peat - A New Plan of the Town of Nottingham, [1744], engraving, defective, trimmed with loss, repaired, scuffed and browned, 38 x 55cm, (2) Provenance: 1st: Frederic Arthur Wadsworth (1871-1943), Nottingham solicitor, antiquarian, historian and book collector; the later Badder's & Peat's plan unexamined out of mount, but catalogued as defective. The Greenwoods' county map with some browned staining, principally to verso and not affecting the map. Condition evidenced by images.
A 19th c lady's commonplace book, Agnes Robina McGeorge, n.d. [c. 1830], approx. [200]ff of manuscript extracts from belles-lettres, sermons and contemporary periodicals, mostly prose, but with some verse, contemporary sheep over board, blind-ruled, split, disbound and now chipped, 8vo, & a map, Betts's Tour through Europe. London: John Betts, n.d. [c. 1840], hand-coloured engraving over 24 sheets, laid on linen, 63 x 69cm, original publisher's cloth boards, from which now disbound, 8vo, (2)
Royal Navy. [Travel] Hall (Commander W.H., RN) & Bernard (W.D.), Narrative of the Voyages and Services of The Nemesis from 1840 to 1843, and of the Combined Naval and Military Operations in China: Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of Hong-Kong, and Remarks on the Characters & Habits of the Chinese, second edition, London: Henry Colburn, 1844, illustrated with 4 plates, in-text woodcuts, and 4 folding maps of mixed sizes, Track Chart, England to China with a stable tear at fold, East Coast of China map with a slightly larger stable tear, Canton River map neatly repaired, some foxing in places, including the plates and maps, contemporary quarter-calf gilt over green cloth boards by Hetherington of Uxbridge, signed, rubbed, joints split, marbled endpapers, 8vo, Bullen (Frank T., FRGS), The Way They Have In The Navy [...], first edition, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1899, original publisher's pictorial cloth, 8vo, [&] Burgoyne (Alan H., editor), The Navy League Annual, First Year, 1907-8, [&] Second Year, 1908-9, two volumes, the first part inscribed by the editor, London, October, 1907 & 1908, original publisher's pictorial red cloth gilt, rounded corners, all edges gilt, 8vo, (4) Provenance: 1st: Richard Benyon Croft (1843-1912), of Fanhams Hall, Ware, Hertfordshire, sometime High Sheriff, Deputy Lieutenant and JP for the aforementioned county; his large armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.
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