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Click here to subscribeCORNWALLSAXTON (CHRISTOPHER) Cornwall... Corrected & Many Additions in the Roads... by P. Lea, double-page hand-coloured engraved map, inset view of Launceston surmounted by Royal arms, ships, sea-monsters and ducal arms, good margins, old paper strengthening on verso of fold [Quixley 16], 368 x 488mm., [P. Lea, c.1694]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
CORNWALLSAXTON (CHRISTOPHER) Cornwall... Corrected & Many Additions as the Roads &c by P. Lea, double-page hand-coloured engraved map, with inset view of Launceston surmounted by royal arms, ships, sea-monsters and ducal arms, 368 x 483mm., Sold by Geo. Willdey, [c.1732]; SAXTON (CHRISOPHER) AND WILLIAM KIP. Cornwall olim pars Danmoniorum, hand-coloured engraved map, inset view of Launceston, without text on verso, one small rust hole in blank sea area, 305 x 395mm., [1637]--[BLAEU (JOANNES)] Cornubia sive Cornwallia, double-page hand-coloured engraved map, Dutch text on verso, a few spots, good margins, 390 x 500mm., [Amsterdam, c.1646] (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
COVENS (JEAN) AND CORNEILLE MORTIERNouvel atlas, très exact et fort commode pour toutes sortes de personnes, engraved pictorial title-page, engraved contents leaf (with hand-coloured border), letterpress introduction in French and German, one plate depicting globes, 99 hand-coloured engraved maps (numbered 3-100, with 46b, c and d), globe plate cut to size and remounted, plate 100 plate laid down, final leaf of German introduction torn with some losses, nineteenth century half morocco gilt, rubbed [Koeman II, Covens & Mortier 13], oblong folio (245 x 358mm.), Amsterdam, Covens & Mortier, [1735]--SEUTTER (ALBERT CHARLES) Atlas tres-exact des Pas Bas Catholiques, our des X Provinces de l'Allemagne Inferieure, engraved pictorial title, 24 hand-coloured engraved map sheets (including additional decorative title cartouche 'Les provinces des Pais Bas Autrichiens...', title cut to size and laid down (with a few small losses) on upper wrapper, early wrappers, upper cover detached, small oblong folio (221 x 305mm.), Augsburg, A.C. Seutter, 1758--MONIN (CHARLES V.) AND A.R. FREMIN. Atlas universel des cinq parties du monde, 37 hand-coloured engraved maps (that of Belgium bound as first map in following next mentioned atlas), 1836; Petit atlas de la Belgique, 9 engraved maps (of 10, lacking general map of Belgium, the publisher using the map from the previous atlas in its place), 1836, 2 works bound in vol., contemporary morocco-backed boards, gilt morocco lettering label on each cover, small oblong folio (250 x 320mm.), [Paris], Binen (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
LONDONGREENWOOD (CHARLES AND JOHN) Map of London, from an Actual Survey Made in the Years 1824, 1825 & 1826, large hand-coloured map engraved by James and Josiah Neele after the Greenwoods, inset view of St Paul's lower right, inset view of Westminster Abbey lower left, dissected and laid on linen [Howgego 309 (1)], approximately 1265 x 1855mm., Greenwood, Pringle, & Co., 21 August, 1827; Map of the County Palatine of Chester, from an Actual Survey Made in the Year 1819, engraved map, dissected and laid on linen (4 sheets) [Rodger 49], approximately 1200 x 1550mm., W. Fowler & C. Greenwood, 15 June, 1819; Map of the County of Stafford, from Actual Survey made in the Years 1819 & 1820, engraved map, dissected and laid on linen (2 sheets) [Rodger 434], approximately 1520 x 1120mm., C. Greenwood, 1 June 1820, all soiled, a few sections loose (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
LONDONGUALDO PRIORATO (GABRIEL) Londra. Incendio della Gran Città di Londra Metropoli del Regno d'Inghilterra Succaesso adi 21 di Settembre 1666. Quale in 4 giorni fu abbrucciata la piu gran pares con danno inestimabile, hand-coloured engraved map on 2 sheets (joined), 280 x 915mm., [?Vienna, c.1675]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
MOLL (HERMAN)A Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of the Counties of England and Wales, &c. with the Great Roads and Principal Cross-Roads, &c. Shewing the Computed Miles from Town to Town, 50 hand-coloured engraved maps (2 folding, others double-page), all with engraved decorative borders, one folding map split at fold, light dampstaining at fore-margin of some plates (mostly to margins), contemporary calf, worn and scuffed [Chubb CLXII], 4to (235 x 190mm.), Tho. Bowles and J. Bowles, 1739This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
[OGILBY (JOHN)Britannia, Volume the First: or, an Illustration of the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales: By a Geographical and Historical Description of the Principal Roads Thereof], 90 double-page engraved road maps (of 100), old ink numeral in upper corner in each map, lacks all text, contemporary vellum, small loss to spine [cf. ESTC R483348; Chubb CI], folio (405 x 270mm.), for the Author, 1675This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
PATERSON (DANIEL)Paterson's British Itinerary. Being a New and Accurate Delineation and Description of the Direct and Principal Cross Roads of Great Britain, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved hand-coloured double-page engraved frontispiece, engraved title-pages, dedication leaf and 358 strip maps on 180 engraved pages, contemporary green morocco, gilt-tooled Greek key pattern border ons sides, g.e., FINE COPY, Carington Bowles, 1785--GOSTLING (WILLIAM) A Walk In and About the City of Canterbury, second edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, folding engraved plan of the city with a facing printed folding 'key' plate, 22 engraved plates and maps (2 folding), some light off-setting, straight-grained red morocco gilt by Kalthoeber (with his ticket), gilt corner-pieces, g.e., gilt bookplate of George Harwood, Canterbury, Simmons and Kirkby, 1777--HUTTON (WILLIAM) A History of Birmingham... Third Edition, With Considerable Improvements, folding engraved map as frontispiece, 16 engraved plates (one folding), contemporary calf, gilt morocco spine label, slightly rubbed, Birmingham, Thomas Pearson, 1795, 8vo (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
FUSSELL (L.)A Journey Round the Coast of Kent, folding engraved map, extra-illustrated with a total of 16 engraved plates (some mounted), later cloth, Baldwin, 1818--BOWEN (EMANUEL) An Accurate Map of the County of Kent Divided into its Lathes, folding engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, dissected and laid on later linen, slipcase, 530 x 710mm., J. & C. Bowles and Sayer, [c.1750]--IRELAND (W.H.) England's Topographer, or a New and Complete History of the County of Kent, 4 vol., engraved title to volume 1, folding engraved map and numerous plates, occasional foxing, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, G. Virtue, 1828-1830--SOMNER (WILLIAM) The Antiquities of Canterbury. Or a Survey of that Ancient Citie, with the Suburbs, woodcut arms on verso of title, folding map and 2 plates (one repaired), some dampstaining, small hole in title just affecting imprint, last leaf repaired, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC S121902], 4to, J[ohn] L[egat] for Richard Thrale, 1640--KILBURNE (RICHARD) A Topographie, or Survey of the County of Kent, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait, A3 and much of 3H2 supplied in manuscript facsimile, one or two marginal tears and repairs, ownership signatures of John Austen and Arthur Hussey (1847), later calf gilt, rebacked [ESTC R11347], Thomas Mabb for Henry Atkinson, 1659, 8vo unless otherwise stated; and a quantity of others on Kent, and occasionally Sussex (quantity)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
[GOLDSMITH (OLIVER)]The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq., Extracted Principally from his Original Papers, FIRST EDITION, C6 a cancel as usual, engraved portrait, some soiling and browning, contemporary sheep, covers detached [Rothschild 1022], J. Newbery & W. Frederick, Bath, 1762--FORSTER (T.F.) Flora Tonbrigensis: or, a Catalogue of Plants Growning Wild.., 3 hand-coloured plates, captions pasted below (one cropped), nineteenth century half calf, J. & A. Arch and J. Sprange, 1816--JENNER (EDWARD) A Flora of Tunbridge Wells, 2 copies, each with 2 hand-coloured plates and list of subscribers, the second copy interleaved with blanks as issued, publisher's brown and green cloth respectively, Tunbridge Wells, J. Colbran, [c.1845]--CAREY (GEORGE SAVILLE) The Balnea: or, an Impartial Description of All the Popular Watering Places in England, second edition, contemporary red half morocco gilt, rubbed, W. West, 1799--POWELL (ROBERT HUTCHINSON) A Medical Topography of Tunbridge Wells, folding map, 2 plates, publisher's cloth, Tunbridge Wells, John Colbran, 1846--SCUDAMORE (CHARLES) A Chemical and Medical Report of the Properties of the Mineral Waters of Buxton, Matlock, Tunbridge Wells..., later boards, for the author, 1820, 8vo; and 8 others on Spa Towns, Mineral Waters etc. (15)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
MAPSMap of Tunbridge Wells, in the County of Kent, with the improvements, on the Calverley Estate, hand-coloured engraved folding map, 4 uncoloured vignettes, dissected into 16 sections and mounted on linen, original gilt-titled slipcase, 555 x 640mm., J. Henshall, 1838--LOWER (JOSEPH RICHARD) Colbran's Visitors' Map of Tunbridge wells, hand-coloured lithographed map in 18 sections, mounted on linen, folding into publisher's cloth with printed label, 500 x 620mm., J. Colbran, n.d.--DAVIES (B.B.) Map of the Environs of London, hand-coloured engraved map, dissected into 36 sections and laid on linen, folding into publisher's cloth, 785 x 1100mm., Edward Stanford, 1859--CARY (JOHN) Six sheet Map of England and Wales with Part of Scotland, large hand-coloured engraved folding map on three sheets, dissected into 72 sections and mounted on linen, publisher's slipcase with printed label, each sheet 465 x 1040mm., G & J Cary, 1833--Reduced Ordnance Survey Around Tunbridge Wells, large hand-coloured engraved map, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into publisher's cloth with red morocco label, 905 x 1300mm., Birmingham, George Richmond, [c.1860]; and 17 others, mostly folding maps by Colbran, Sprange, Wyld and others (22)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
TUNBRIDGE WELLS GUIDESCLIFFORD (JOHN) The Tunbridge Wells Guide, 6 plates, disbound, 1817; idem, another edition, 12 plates, lacks map, [1825?]; idem, 'fourth edition, 1826', folding map, 12 plates; idem, 'fourth edition', folding map, 15 plates, with loosely inserted bill and receipt on printed letterhead, signed by Clifford, [1827?]; idem, 'fifth edition', folding map, 5 plates, [c.1832]; idem, another edition, folding map, 6 plates, 1834; idem, 'seventh edition', folding plan, 6 plates, 1837; Clifford's Descriptive Guide for Tunbridge Wells, 'eighth edition', 2 folding maps, folding plan, 11 plates, 1843, various bindings, 12mo; together with 7 other guide books by Clifford, 7 by Colbran, 10 by Pelton, and a quantity of other guides, books on the local flora and history, views of Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding area etc., nineteenth and twentieth centuries; sold as a collection (quantity)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
JEHANNOT (GUILAUME)Voyage de Constantinople, pour le rachapt des captifs, FIRST EDITION, folding engraved map of Troy, contemporary French dark green morocco gilt, covers with wide elaborately tooled border enclosing central Royal arms of Louis XV, spine tooled within 6 compartments, one lettered 'Voyage de Constant', g.e., gilt and polychrome patterned endpapers of flowers and birds [Atabey 617, lacking map; Blackmer 871, lacking map; Weber 508], 8vo, Paris, La V. Delormel, and René Josse, 1732This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
COOK (JAMES) AND JAMES KINGA Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the Years 1776, 1778, 1779, and 1780, 4 vol., half-titles in volumes 2-4 (as called for), list of subscribers, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume 1, one engraved folding map, 49 engraved plates (2 folding, one misbound), contemporary calf, red and green gilt morocco spine labels, rubbed with a few small scuff marks [Forbes 70], 8vo, John Fielding, 1785-1786--SODERSTRÖM (JAN) A. Sparrman's Ethnographical Collection from James Cook's 2nd Expedition (1772-1775), 34 plates, later cloth, 4to, Stockholm, Aktiebolaget Thule, 1939--MURRAY-OLIVER (ANTHONY, editor) Captain Cook's Artists in the Pacific 1769-1779, limited to 2000 numbered copies, 130 plates (some colour), publisher's half morocco, slipcase, oblong folio, New Zealand, Avon Fine Prints Ltd, 1969 (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
COOPER (THOMAS)Some Information Respecting America, folding engraved map of 'the Middle States of America', upper joint weakened [Goldsmiths 15910; Sabin 16615], Dublin, P. Wogan, 1794--MIRABEAU (GABRIEL-HONORÉ DE RIQUETTI, Comte de) Considerations on the Order of Cincinnatus... as Also a Letter from the Late M. Turgot, Comptroller of the Finances in France, to Dr. Price, on the Constitution of America, [Sabin 49394], J. Johnson, 1785, contemporary half calf, joints slightly weakened--[JOHNSON (SAMUEL)] Political Tracts. Containing, The False Alarm. Falkland's Islands.... And, Taxation and Tyranny, half-title, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, Dublin, W. Whitestone, 1777--HOYLE (EDMOND) A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist... Sixth Edition, WITH AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE of authentication on verso of title, 1746; A Short Treatise on the Game of Quadrille, 1745; A Short Treatise on the Game of Piquet, 1745; A Short Treatise on the Game of Back-Gammon, 1745, 4 vol. bound in 1, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, T. Osborne--An Abstract of the Act... for Granting His Majesty Certain Duties upon Glass Wares, Stone and Earthen Bottles..., modern boards [ESTC R478777], Charles Bill, 1695, 8vo; and a mixed edition of 'The London-Spy' (7)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
[FRERE (WILLIAM OR HENRY)]A Short History of Barbados, from its First Discovery and Settlement, to the End of the Year 1767, FIRST EDITION, J. Dodsley, 1768--RICHARD (JOHN) A Tour from London to Petersburgh, and Thence to Moscow, engraved frontispiece and additional pictorial engraved title, lacks printed title, [Dublin, M. Wilson, 1781]--[COCHIN (CHARLES NICOLAS)] Observations Upon the Antiquities of the Town of Herculaneum, 42 engraved plates, 1753; Idem, second edition 'with additions', lacking plates, 1756, 2 works bound in 1 vol., D. Wilson and T. Durham--CHANDLER (RICHARD) Travels in Asia Minor, half-title, Dublin, R. Marchbank, 1775; Travels in Greece... Made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti, Dublin, Price, Whitestone, 1776, spines of last 2 fire scorched, dried--WADDINGTON (GEORGE) A Visit to Greece, in 1823 and 1824, second edition, folding engraved map, split at head of joints, John Murray, 1825, contemporary calf, some rubbing, 8vo; and 5 others, travel (11)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
JAPANKAEMPFER (ENGELBERT) The History of Japan, Giving an Account of the Ancient and Present State and Government of That Empire, 2 vol. bound in 1, FIRST EDITION, second issue, engraved additional title in volume 1 (dated 1727), titles in red and black, letterpress list of subscribers, 45 engraved plates and maps (including large map of Japan, mostly double-page or folding, one shaved just touching image), short tear repaired to title of second appendix, light dampstaining to first half, calf antique [Cordier, Japonica 414-415], folio (347 x 225mm.), [Thomas Woodward and Charles Davis], 1727[-1728]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
KENT - TOPOGRAPHY AND NATURAL HISTORYBOYS (WILLIAM) Testacea minuta rariora... A Collection of the Minute and Rare Shells, lately Discovered in the Sand of the Sea Shore near Sandwich, FIRST EDITION, 3 engraved plates of shells 'accurately drawn, as magnified with the microscope, by Geo. Walker,... at Faversham', contemporary calf, red morocco spine label, scuffed [Nissen ZBI 524], 4to, J. March, for J. White [and others], [1784]--PACKE (CHRISTOPHER) Ankographia [in Greek] sive Convallium descriptio... Explanation of a New Philosophica-Chorographical Chart of East Kent, FIRST EDITION, without the map (as usual), light spotting, modern half cloth over marbled boards, 4to, Canterbury, J. Abree, for the Author, 1743--The Kentish Traveller's Companion, in a Descriptive View of Towns... Situated in or Near the Road from London to Margate, Dover and Canterbury, second edition, 3 folding engraved maps (2 frayed with minor losses at fore-edge), contemporary calf, spine gilt, 8vo, Canterbury, Simmonds and Kirkby, 1789 (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
RAY (JOHN)A Collection of Curious Travels & Voyages... to which are added, three catalogues of such trees, shrubs, and herbs grow in the Levant, 2 vol. in one (including third part), FIRST EDITION, imprimatur leaf, half-title to volume 2, gilt morocco spine label [ESTC R17904; Blackmer 1397; Hunt I, 390; Keynes 93; Röhricht 758], S. Smith and B. Walford, 1693--PETIS DE LA CROIX (FRANCOIS) The History of Genghizcan the Great, First Emperor of the Antient Moguls and Tartars, translated by P. Aubin, one folding engraved map, J. Darby, 1722, contemporary calf, rubbed, 8vo; and 2 others (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
IRELANDSMITH (CHARLES) The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 13 engraved maps and plates (most folding, including panoramic prospects of the City of Cork, Kinsale, and Youghal, and large general map), letterpress list of subscribers and directions to binder, contemporary polished calf, spines gilt-tooled within raised bands, slightly worn at foot of spine on volume 1 but a FINE COPY, preserved in a purpose-made morocco-backed box, 8vo, Dublin, A. Reilly for the Author, 1750This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
RUSSIASWINTON (ANDREW) Travels into Norway, Denmark, and Russia. In the Years 1788, 1789, 1790, and 1791, Dublin, W. Jones, 1792--CHANTREAU (PIERRE NICOLAS) Philosophical, Political, and Literary Travels in Russia, During the Years 1788 & 1789. Translated from the French, 2 vol., one folding engraved map, 3 engraved plates, Perth, R. Morison, 1794--KOTZEBUE (AUGUSTUS VON) The Most Remarkable Year in the Life of Augustus Von Kotzebue; Containing an Account of His Exile into Siberia... Written by Himself, 3 vol., translated by Benjamin Beresford, engraved frontispieces, contemporary half calf, joints rubbed, loss to head of one spine Richard Phillips, 1802--PUGH (JOHN) Remarkable Occurences in the Life of Jonas Hanway, Esq. Comprehending an Abstract of His Travels in Russia, and Persia... Second Edition, folding engraved map of the Caspian Sea, upper joint slightly weakened, for the Author, by J. Davies, 1788--BENYOWSKY (MAURICE AUGUGUSTE, Comte de) Memoirs and Travels... Consisting of His Military Operations in Poland, His Exile in Kamchatka, His Escape and Voyage from that Peninsula through the Northern Pacific Ocean..., 2 vol., small tear to one spine label, Dublin, P. Wogan, 1790, unless otherwise stated contemporary calf, slightly rubbed, 8vo (9)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
LONDON, SOCIAL HISTORY AND COOKERYTwo volumes of social history, comprising: (i) Journal of a visit to London, kept, seemingly, by an English lady resident in France on her first visit to London, describing the voyage over from Le Havre by steam ship ('...listened to the rumbling of the Paddle wheels which shook us in my bed, and could almost fancy I was going in a railway...') in October 1849, lodging at 3 Gloucester Place, Camden Town; providing a series of sharply observed vignettes of the city: of its traffic ('...The Omnibusses... went much faster and were much better horsed than the french ones. The roads also macademized or paved with wood... We saw a lady driving with great spirit a little low pony-chaise, a little tiger sat behind her. Mr Benner told us it was a very common sight, at which we were not a little astonished. We saw a velocipede also going in the streets, to the great annoyance of omnibusses and other vehicles...'), local costume ('...even Buss coachmen conductors, lamplighters, sweepers etc wore the dress coat & silk hat... '), speculative building ('...We passed through new quarters with rows of charming houses called places or terraces, got up in the newest fashion & called villas or cottages, they however were not yet inhabited... Each of these new streets you would take for a main street in any town, so wide, so long & so clean are they. We had a distant view of the Model Prison & a Gas-factory. I saw four velocipedes going up Park-Street one after the other...'), railways and canals ('...We saw some constructions of viaducts for the Railway and a canal and basin along which several coal-barges, drawn by horses were slowly proceeding...'), shops ('...I saw some very nice cook-shops also supplied with every kind of rich & solid eatables also some very fine wedding-cakes & thick mock turtle soup in large basins. The fishmongers' shops looked very inviting as did the large opened lobsters that lay on the marble, displaying a solid mass of white meat...'), pauper funerals, brightly-lit arcades and shops, a blind man demonstrating braille, sandwich men ('...You will often see a man having a board back and front... walking patiently and monotonously backwards and forwards in the front of a house; sometimes, several men follow one after another with the same affiches...'), shopping expeditions to Oxford Street and environs, the Map Cave ('...16 or 18 views well worth seeing...'), the Soho Bazaar, and Christmas Day in the workhouse ('...On Christmas Day we went to the Workhouse of our Parish (St Pancras) where we saw portions distributed to the inmates (1320) men women and children. We were all offered by the Matron a portly blooming woman in a black silk dress, and attendants large pieces of excellent Plum pudding which was taken from the rest of the Plum puddings that were smoking around on large tables... finally to the Upper Room where about 50 little children from 1 to 6 years old were assembled , some around a very large table in the middle, some using benches as tables and sitting on little low footstools, others again on the ground around a warm blazing fire. A good discipline prevailed among this little Troop who looked healthy and had little ruddy fat cheeks; they seemed much better than the men and women who were very pale and haggard...'), c.34 pages, kept in a pocket account-book, first leaves loose, marbled paper wrappers, torn, 8vo, London, 5 October 1849 to 1 January 1850(ii) Recipe book, largely culinary with some medicinal, kept in several early 19th century hands, one employing phonetic spelling ('...A Costerd Pudden/ for a half pint basen a Quasrter of a pint of milk a lettel nutmeg sinimon an shouger an make it boal a lettel...'), many attributed, c.80 pages, in a contemporary green vellum clasped notebook, 8vo, 1818-1847 where datedThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSIONThe Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, with 'hee' reading in Ruth III, 15, engraved general title within pictorial border (signed 'Jaspar Isac fecit'), NT title within wide heart-shaped woodcut border, corner of 8 leaves of Apocrypha rounded touching rule border, and touching side-note on 2 leaves [ESTC S101951; Herbert 313], Robert Barker, 1612; The Booke of Common Prayer, title printed in red and black within woodcut border [ESTC S123078], Robert Barker, 1613; [SPEED (JOHN)] The Genealogies, woodcut ornaments on title, double-page map of Canaan [cf. ESTC S101955, differing only in spelling of 'Casdosh' with 'C' not 'K' on title verso), [J. Beale, 1611 or 1612]; The Booke of Psalmes, lacks final 3 leaves [ESTC S115639], Companie of Stationers, 1612, 4 works bound in 1 vol., modern calf, red morocco gilt lettering spine label, g.e., 4to (222 x 160mm.)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, FIRST EDITION, issue with 'The right of Translation is reserved' at foot of title, advertisements including 'Burke's... Peerage... for 1860' on endpapers, typed letter from Christie's inserted at rear confirming that the book was sold in 1997 by a direct descendant of Richard Monckton Milnes, publisher's pebbled cloth [Bishop & Goldie 4], Harrison, [1860]--GALTON (FRANCIS) Hereditary Genius. An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences, FIRST EDITION, 2 folding tables, bookplate of Robert, second baron Houghton, Marquis of Crewe (same provenance as above), 2 folding tables, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, Macmillan, 1869--MARTINEAU (HARRIET) England and Her Soldiers, FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHOR'S COPY, SIGNED on the half-title, and with a loosely inserted autograph letter from Sidney Herbert ('I was only lately aware of your intercourse with Miss Nightingale on the subject of military Sanitary Reform... As regards the book England and her Soldiers I will do all I can to promote its circulation and perusal... Indeed it is a book for authorities rather than the men'), 3 folding mortality diagrams (one coloured, spotted), publisher's decorative cloth gilt, Smith, Elder 1859--HUNTER (WILLIAM WILSON) Rulers of India. The Earl of Mayo, PRESENTATION COPY FROM FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, inscribed on front free endpaper 'Urith on her wedding day_to leave for India/ With Aunt Florence's love and fervent good wishes/ Florence Nightingale, London Feb. 16/99', folding map, portrait, publisher's cloth, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1892, 8vo (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
CUNARD (NANCY, editor)Negro Anthology... 1931-1933, FIRST EDITION, folding map printed in red and blue, numerous photographic illustrations throughout, corner of second front free endpaper cut away, publisher's brown cloth lettered in red on upper cover, and with map of 'The Black Belt of America' on lower cover, 4to, Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 1934This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)The Lord of the Rings, FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, folding map printed in red and black in each volume, occasional light spotting (mostly to endpapers), publisher's red cloth, dust-jackets (unclipped, some fading to spines, 'Fellowship' with single spot on upper cover, corners slightly frayed; 'Return' with black smudge partly obscuring publisher's name on spine; 'Two Towers' spine (extending onto sides) crudely repaired with tape with old tears and some loss of text, front hinge split and repaired), 8vo, George Allen and Unwin, 1954-1955This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., second edition, first issue of 'Two Towers' and 'Return', second impression of 'The Fellowship', SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on slips pasted onto front free endpaper of each volume, folding map printed in red and black in each volume, 9-line ownership inscription on front free endpaper of the third volume, publisher's red cloth, dust-jackets (frayed at edges, piece torn away from spine of 'Fellowship'), 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, 1966This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
HARRIS (JOHN)Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca: or, a Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispieces, 9 folding or double-page engraved maps (including 2 World, and Continents), 20 engraved plates (of 22), list of subscribers, without final blank in volume 2, frontispiece in volume 1 defective, that in volume 2 laid down, World map toned, other with small area of repair, short marginal repairs to two other maps, modern panelled calf, gilt morocco spine label, folio (397 x 237mm.), Thomas Bennet, John Nicholson, and Daniel Midwinter, 1705This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
LE BRUYN (CORNELIUS)A Voyage to the Levant: or, Travels in the Principal Parts of Asia Minor, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of the author, folding engraved map, 96 engraved plates (many folding on several sheets joined, or double-page, some with more than one subject), numerous engraved illustrations in text, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, covers detached [Atabey 160; Cobham-Jeffery p.7; Lipperheide 546], small folio (339 x 215mm.), Jacob Tonson, and Thomas Bennet, 1702This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
AMERICA - SOUTHERN STATESLLOYD (JAMES T.) Lloyd's Map Of The Southern States Showing all the Railroads, their Stations & Distances, Also The Counties, Towns, Villages, Harbors, Rivers And Forts. Compiled from the latest Government and other reliable Sources, large lithographed map, contemporary hand-colouring, printed text on verso, a few small holes at old folds (mostly blank areas in Florida and sea, but a few touching image), laminated [Stephenson 14.25; Modelski 138], approximately 950 x 1300mm., New York, J.T. Lloyd, 1861This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
CHINAORTELIUS (ABRAHAM) Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis, double-page hand-coloured engraved map, decorative title cartouche, decoated with animals, ships, and Tartar encampments, Latin text on verso, wide margins, some oxidization (strengthened on verso with old paper obscuring some text), 365 x 470mm., [Antwerp], 1584 [but c.1592]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
CORNWALLSPEED (JOHN) Cornwall, inset view of Launceston, coats of arms with 2 allegorical figures, ships and sea-monsters, Latin text on verso, a few creases, 380 x 505mm., John Sudbury and George Humble, [1616]--JANSSONIUS (JAN) Cornubia sive Cornwallia, decorative cartouches and coats of arms, Dutch text on verso, 385 x 510mm., [Amsterdam, c.1646]--[MERCATOR (GERARD)] Cornubia, Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, French text on verso, 380 x 475mm., [Amsterdam, c.1610], double-page hand-coloured engraved maps; and a map of Cornwall by Morden (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
CORNWALL[MORDEN (ROBERT)] Cornwall X, engraved playing card with map of Cornwall, representing the ten of diamonds, the diamond in red, 95 x 60mm., [c.1676]--[DRAYTON (MICHAEL) Cornwall, from the Poly-Olbion], hand-coloured engraved map, allegorical figures, ships and sea-monsters in the sea, 250 x 326mm., [Michael Drayton, 1612]--OGILBY (JOHN) The Continuation of Ye Extended Road from Barnstable to Truro, engraved strip road map, partly hand-coloured, 355 x 450mm., [c.1675; and a collection of 27 other mostly eighteenth and nineteenth century maps of Cornwall, 3 views of Cornwall, and 7 other county maps (40)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Silmarillion (1977, in dj, folding map, ink inscription on flyleaf); Unfinished Tales (1980, in dj, folding map); The Book of Lost Tales (1983, 2nd imp, in dj); The Treason of Isengard (1989, in dj); the Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun (2009, in dj). With Shippey, The Road to Middle-Earth (1982, in dj) and Helms, Randel, Tolkien and the Silmarils (1981, in dj). [7]
Marshall, William. The Rural Economy of the Midland Counties. G. Nicol, 1790. 8vo (2 vols). contemporary half calf over marbled boards; folding plan. idem The Rural Economy of Gloucestershire. G. Nicol, 1796. 8vo (2 vols). Leather-backed boards, spines detaching; lacking map. Second ed. Bailey, John. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Durham. Richard Phillips, 1810. 8vo, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, upper board detached but present; folding hand-coloured frontis. map, 7 plates (6 folding). [5]
British Inland Waterways A collection of works on and relating to the inland waterways of Britain. These include on uses and problems of canals, novels and stories like William Black's Strange Adventures of a House-Boat (1893) and even canoeing in William Bliss' 1934 guide to the same. These twenty-two works include important sources such as De Salis' Bradshaw's Canals (1904, possibly later map at rear), George Westall's Inland Cruising (1908), pleasant reflections, such as Austin Neal's Canals, Cruises and Contentment, adventuresome yarns like Emma Smith's Maidens' Trip (1948), intriguing ephemeral items such as Shirley Ginger's Simple Steps to Roses and Castles and Ken Keay's Canal Colours and even books on crossing Ireland and Europe. [22]
Bell, I.T.W. Lambert's Map of the River Tyne Between Hedwin Streams, above Newcastle on Tyne, and the place called Spar Hawke in the Sea. Newcastle: M & M.W. Lambert, [c.1860]. Folding map, dissected and laid down on linen, hand-coloured, with later pencil annotations, to fold between leather boards (upper board detached and clasp lost). The map shows ''Docks, Towns, Villages, Manufactories, Colleries & Coal Staiths''. It has been dated via annotations which records that Mitchell's Iron Shop only started in 1852 and Jarrow Dock was commenced in 1853 and opened in 1859.
Cook, Capt. James Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World...Including Capt. Furneaux's Journal Of His Proceedings during the Separation of the Ships With a Narrative of Commodore Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole. and An Abridgement of Foster's Introduction to his History of Northern Discoveries on the progress of navigation. To which is added, Governor Phillip's Voyage to Botany-Bay; With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island. Newcastle: Printed by M. Brown at the Bible, in the Flesh-Market, 1790. 8vo (3 vols of 4 (of 2 bound in 4). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards; pp. I: i-xxvi, 27-564; II: 565-692 [end of First Voyage], [693-694], 695-1004 [Second Voyage], [1005], 1006-1022 [Rules for preserving the health of seamen]; IV: 499-779 [Third Voyage], [780-2], 783-863 [North Pole], [864]-870 [Foster's Shipbuilding], [871-2], 873-953 [Governor Phillip], [954]-796 [(i.e. 976 [2 (Directions to Binder)), Animals]; I: port. frontis., map (torn with loss of folding half), 6 plates; II: one plate (of 3); IV: 15 plates (Death of Cook folding). Later, seemingly rare, provincial edition. This edition appears to have been issued first in parts (as there are various signatures in parts at foot of some pages). The additional material was added to draw in the reading public. Forbes, Hawaiian Nat. Bib. Vol. I, 190. ESTC N26645
[Ellis, George] Memoir of a Map of the Countries comprehended between the Black Sea and the Caspian; with an account of the Caucasian Nations and Vocabularies of their Languages. Printed for J. Edwards, 1788. 4to, reversed calf, upper board loose but still attached, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers; pp. 80; large folding map by S.J. Neele, hand-coloured in outline (tear to inner margin entering plate but not affecting image). An uncommon work, generally attributed to George Ellis (based on a note with the BL copy). Ellis produced this cultural, historical, linguistic and topographical account after two years in Russia with the British Legation. Lowndes (1834), p.659Binding worn, with leather scratched and rubbed, upper board loose but attached, a little foxing to pre- and post-lims, text pages generally clean, though a few with dusty marking to lower margin, map with tear to inner margin entering plate but not affecting text, some marking to upper margin, thin band of toning around edges, slight foxing to map, but a very good copy of an uncommon work.
British Army in India and Afghanistan Vetch, Maj. George The Gong: or, Reminiscences in India. Edinburgh: James Hogg, 1852. 8vo, org. blind decorated cloth; 4 plates. Hobday, Maj. E.A.P. Sketches on Service during the Indian Frontier Campaigns of 1897. 8vo, org. cloth; 71 plates after drawings and photographs. First ed. Army HQ India The Third Afghan War 1919 Official Account. Calcutta:Govt. of India Central Publications Branch.1925. 8vo, org. boards; lacking first map, all others as called for, w.a.f. Turner, W. A Soldier's Guide to India. Karachi: the Educational Publishing Company, 1942. 12mo, org. wrappers; b/w photo illus. With three others. [7]
Sale, Lady Florentia A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan 1841-2. John Murray, 1843. 12mo, blue half calf; folding map, plan. First ed. A huge popular success, this book by ''the Grenadier in Petticoats'', laid bare the terrible failures of organisation and discipline surrounding the British retreat from Kabul, laying the blame squarely at General Elphinstone's feet. She spent some time in captivity after the fall and the book describes the experiences of the hostages, as well as the events which led to their taking. With Eyre, Lieut. Vincent The Military Operations at Cabul...With a Journal of Imprisonment in Affghanistan. John Murray, 1843. 8vo, half blue calf; folding map. Fourth ed. Another account of the events of the fall of Cabul from an eye-witness and subsequent prisoner.Sale with some wear to board edges, spine faded, upper joint cracking, but binding still tight, tear to folding map entering image, fold on right margin slightly affecting text, some marginal toning, occasional foxing but a very good copy. Eyre leather cracking but boards tight, internally ome creasing, toning and dusty marking but generally very good.
Buck, Edward J. Simla Past and Present. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, & Co., 1904. 8vo, org. green decorative cloth; folding map, 51 plates as called for. First edition. A rare account of the British Raj's favourite summer retreat. Hardinge of Penshurst, Lord On Hill and Plain. John Murray, 1933. 8vo, org. cloth in dj; 16 photographic plates as called for; provenance: authorial gift inscription on ffep. First ed. With The British in India, a pamphlet published in conjunction with the opening of the British in India Museum in Colne, 1971, pp.38, 9 b/w illus after photos. [3]
Younghusband, Capt. F.E. The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894. John Murray, 1896. 8vo, green cloth; 18 plates, 4 folding maps (one loose in rear pocket). First ed. idem India and Tibet. John Murray, 1910. 8vo (in 2 vols). Cloth-backed boards; 26 plates, 2 coloured maps folded to throw clear. First ed. idem; Molyneux, Maj. E. (illus.) Kashmir. A & C Black, 1911. 8vo, org. decorative cloth; 70 colour plates, map and loosely inserted advert for Menpes India. Reprint. With The Queen's Commission (1891, 2nd ed.); Wonders of the Himalaya (1924, 1st ed.); and The Light of Experience (1927, 1st ed.) [7]
Catlin, George Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. Published by the Author at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 1841. 8vo, half calf over marbled boards, spines with contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, marbled endpapers and edges; I: errata slip, b/w plates after Catlin's sketches numbered 3-114 [no 2 + 23, but with 100 1/2, 113+114 present], with add. unnumbered frontis., map, and three plates between pp.148-54; II: numbered plates 115-312 [lacking 137, 142, 149, 159, 246, 247, 271, 272], unnumbered map and chart. First ed., first issue of I (with 'Frederick' on p.104), second ed. (from title-page) of II. A hugely important first-hand account of the lives of Native American tribes with a wealth of anthropological and cultural information as well as detailed and exciting pictures.
The Holy Bible [KJV] KJV bound before Sternhold and Hopkins. KJV: Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1628 [Lacking OT title, dated from NT]; Sternhold: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1629. 8vo, full contemporary paneled calf; unpaginated, signed: A8 [lacking A1 and 8], A8-3R8 [lacking B7, N8, 2S3+6, 3D2]; Sternhold: A8-F8 [lacking D8 and G1-end (?G8)]. Herbert 411 [but no Geanealogies and map]
Various RAF related and other ephemera items, etc. a quantity of maps, limited edition helicopter print, Salisbury Plain, Larkhill and West Down plan map, 114cm W, various other pictures, Her Majesty's Command framed certificate, helicopter photographic prints and other pictures, etc. relating to helicopter flights, various other photographs of helicopters, aeroplanes, etc. (a quantity)
FACTORY/MANCHESTER MEMORABILIA. Collection of Manchester/Factory memorabilia to include: 1978 'Spherical Objects' cover only, a ticket for a New Order at The Ritz, a page bearing signatures to one side by Shaun Ryder and to verso by Bez, letters on Hacienda and 'Factory Too' stationary relating to a proposed exhibition of Manchester memorabilia, a roll of the Peter Saville designed Manchester gift wrap (sealed), a New Order poster, a Manchester music map, a FAC 305 cassette.
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