Fine bindings:Wheatley, Henry B (ed) "The Diary of Samuel Pepys ...", G Bell & Sons 1916, 8 vols, full calf, marbled ep, gilt rules, dentels, pastedown titles and raised bands to backstripStevenson, Robert Louis"Works ... the Tusitala edition", publ William Heinemann 1924, full blue leather with gilt decorations and titles to backstrip, 1 vol in poor condition, 10 vols Kipling, Rudyard"Works ...", Macmillan & Co, The Macmillan's Pocket Kipling, full red leather, gilt pictorial front board, gilt titles, 11 vols, some in poor repair and other volumesCrane, Walter "The Babies Bouquet", George Routledge, colour plates, musical scores, front board detaching, the whole separating, pictorial boards stained and damaged "The Baby's Opera", George Routledge & Sons, full page ills, musical text, the whole binding loose and boards rubbed (37) Condition ReportAdditional images attached
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XII: Machine-made Coins of Charles II, Pattern ‘Reddite’ Crown, 1663, by T. Simon, in pewter, laureate bust right, signed simon in script below, carolvs ii dei gra, rev. mag bri fr et hib rex, crowned cruciform shields, conjoined Cs in angles, Order of the Garter in centre, edge inscribed reddite qvæ cæsaris cæsari & ct post, followed by clouds with sun emerging, 21.46g/331.6gr/12h (Lessen, BNJ 2005, pl. 7, 5 and 8, this coin; L & S 7A; ESC 432 [74]). A few light obverse surface marks, otherwise about extremely fine, excessively rare £10,000-£15,000 --- Provenance: S.S. Spiller Collection; N. Asherson Collection, Spink Auction 6, 10 October 1979, lot 169 [from Spink May 1956]; SNC November 1997 (5616); L.M. LaRivière Collection, Spink Auction 166, 12 November 2003, lot 24. That the production of the new coinage by the Roettiers was well under way by early 1663 (NS) is clear from the following entry in Samuel Pepys’ diary for 9 March 1662/3: ‘There dined with us today Mr. Slingsby of the Mint, who showed us all the new pieces, both gold and silver (examples of them all), that are made for the King by Blondeaus way, and compared them with those made for Oliver – the pictures of the latter made by Symons, and of the King by one Rotyr, a German, I think, that dined with us also. He extolls these of Rotyrs above the others; and endeed, I think they are the better, because the sweeter of the two; but upon my word, those of the Protectors are more like in my mind then the King's - but both very well worth seeing. The Crownes of Cromwell's are now sold it seems for 25s and 30s. a-piece.’ (BNJ 2005, p.95, footnote 23)
Pozzo (Andrea). Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to Delineate in Perspective all Designs relating to Architecture, after a new manner ... by that great master thereof, Andrea Pozzo ... Engraven in 105 ample folio plates, and adorn'd with 200 initial letters to the explanatory discourses: printed from copper-plates ... by John Sturt. Done into English from the original printed at Rome 1693 in Lat. and Ital. by Mr. John James of Greenwich, London: Printed for J. Senex and R. Gosling, W. Innys, J. Osborn and T. Longman , circa 1725, engraved frontispiece & engraved general title (both neatly repaired to blank margins, general title with contemporary signature Geo. Pepys to upper blank margin), with additional engraved title 'Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum' present, 102 engraved plates (including two plates numbered 53, A & B, plus a duplicate of plate 100 bound at rear), engraved ornamental initials to leaves of text, short closed tear to lower blank margin of plate 39, lacking final leaf of index at rear, occasional minor dampstains to lower corners, light toning and spotting, modern professional half calf, marbled sides, folio (39.1 x 25 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESHarris 704; Fowler 252 note. The second English Edition of the most important book on perspective of the late baroque period. It is a translation by John James of the 1693 Roman edition, Part I, but without the folding plate of the ceiling of St. Ignatius Church, which first appeared in the 1702 Roman edition of Part I. The descriptive text, printed on both sides of the leaves is in Latin and English, in italic and roman type respectively. The plates are reversed from those of the Italian edition and pl. LIIIA is the "Figura Ultima" and LIIIB is pl. LIII of the 1702 edition. This edition is ornamented with 200 initials engraved by John Sturt.
Parkman (Francis). Francis Parkman's Works, 10 volumes (of 12), New Library Edition, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1899, black & white maps & illustrations, some light marginal toning, publishers uniform original gilt decorated green cloth, spines lightly rubbed to head & foot, plus 2 volumes from the 1874 6th edition, 8vo, together with; Braybrooke (Richard), Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., 4 volumes, Swan Sonnenschein, 1906, bookplates to front pastedowns, some toning throughout, publishers original gilt decorated cloth, spines lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Bowswell (James), The Life of Samuel Johnson, 2 volumes, George Bayntun, 1925, black & white illustrations, some minor marginal toning, publishers uniform original gilt decorated red cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed & marked, 4to, plus other 19th & early 20th century literature & reference, including The Thousand and One Nights,..., 2 volumes, by Edward William Lane, Charles Knight and Co., 1839, all original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (6 shelves)
Approx. 45 various Everyman Library books, including Diary of Samuel Pepys vol. 1 and 2, History of Napoleon Bonaparte, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1-3, Capital by Karl Marx vol. 1 and 2, Catherine de Medici, etc. IMPORTANT: Online viewing and bidding only. Collection by appointment via our website or arrange with Mailboxes Etc couriers ONLY. Restrictions apply to ensure social distancing.
A quantity of various history and biography books, including Winston Churchill The Second World War Vol. 1-5, Francis Hacketts Henry the VIII, the Poetical and Prose Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Francis Bacon Essays, Arthur Bryant’s Samuel Pepys, etc. IMPORTANT: Online viewing and bidding only. Collection by appointment via our website or arrange with Mailboxes Etc couriers ONLY. Restrictions apply to ensure social distancing.
Miscellaneous - Literature, Folio Society, Austen (Jane), Novels, seven-volume set, London: 1975, contemporary grey cloth over papered boards, slipcased, 8vo, (7); The Poetry of Robert Burns, four-volume set, London: The Caxton Publishing Co., 1896, colour plates, contemporary pictorial green cloth gilt, 8vo, (4); Beeton (Mrs. Isabella), The Book of Household Management [....], London: Ward, Lock and Co., [n.d., 1880?], colour frontispiece, b/w in-text illustrations, advert, 20th century institutional red cloth, 12mo, (1); The Diary of Samuel Pepys, various imprints, (13); Wainwright and rambling, various; Latin and the Classics; etc., [42]
NO RESERVE Bookbinding.- Nixon (Howard M.) Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge, vol.VI: Bindings, Woodbridge, 1984; English Restoration Bookbindings: Samuel Mearne and his contemporaries, 1974 § Needham (Paul) Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings 400-1600, New York & London, 1979 § McDonnell (Joseph) & Patrick Healy. Gold-Tooled Bookbindings commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century, Leixlip, 1987 § Bearman (F.A.) & others. Fine and Historic Bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, 1992 § Foot (Mirjam M., editor) Eloquent Witnesses: Bookbindings and their History, London & New Castle, De., 1904, illustrations, some colour, original cloth, all but the second with dust-jackets; and c.15 others on bookbinding of the British Isles including Maggs catalogues 1075 & 1212, 4to & 8vo (c.20)
Caspar Netscher (Heidelberg 1639-1684 The Hague)Portrait of a gentleman scientist, probably Constantijn Huygens, half-length, standing beside a group of miscroscopes signed and dated 'CNetscher.Fec. 1680' (lower left, CN in ligature)oil on canvas48.6 x 39.2cm (19 1/8 x 15 7/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceSale, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Palm Beach (Florida), 29 September, 2016, lot 9 (as Caspar Netscher of an unknown man), whence acquired by the current ownerThe composition of this important record of the 17th century Scientific Revolution can be related closely to another portrait by Caspar Netscher in the Musée du Louvre, which includes a similar group of microscopes on a stone plinth. The Louvre portrait is believed to depict Nicolaas Hartsoeker (1656-1725), who is best known for publishing the design for a simple screw-barrel microscope in 1694. He was fascinated by microscopes and visited Antoni van Leeuwenhoek at the age of sixteen and in 1678 he travelled to Paris as an assistant to Christiaan Huygens. Between 1684 and 1698 he lived there with his wife and sold lenses and microscopes.Since it is dated 1680 when Hartsoeker would have been only 24, it is suggested the artist must have used the composition of the present painting as the model for the Louvre portrait, and the obvious candidate for the present sitter would be either Nicolaas Hartsoeker's mentor in the design of microscopes, Christiaan Huygens (1629-95), or Christiaan's elder brother and collaborator, Constantijn Huygens (1628-1697). Christiaan had been earlier portrayed by Netscher in 1671 (Haags Historisch Museum, The Hague, on loan to the Boerhaave Museum, Leiden); but a drawing believed to be a self-portrait of Constantijn Huygens the Younger, which has been dated to 1685, shows a closer resemblance to the present portrait. Caspar Netscher was known to have also painted these two brothers' father, Constantijn Huygens the Elder and it would have been likely that he would have painted a portrait of his elder son, as well as that of his younger son, Christiaan. The Huygens family were part of an artistic circle: Constantijn Senior was a friend of Rembrandt and he had also had his portrait painted by Caspar Netscher, as well as by Jan Lievens, Michiel van Mierevelt, Thomas de Keyser and Adriaen Hanneman; while the younger Constantijn Huygens was a keen draughtsman himself and as a connoisseur of the arts served William III (to whom he followed his father in the role of private secretary) in setting up the gallery in Kensington Palace. A Dutch physicist, mathematician, astronomer and inventor, Christiaan Huygens is widely regarded as the most important scientist between Galileo and Isaac Newton. In physics, Huygens made ground-breaking contributions in optics and mechanics, while as an astronomer he is chiefly known for his studies of the rings of Saturn and the discovery of its moon, Titan. While Constantijn was also a diplomat and diarist who has been compared to his English contemporary, Samuel Pepys, he was known mostly for his work on scientific instruments. From the 1650s he assisted his brother in the construction of lenses and between 1683 and 1687 the two brothers continued to make larger and longer focal length telescopes, culminating in very large tubeless aerial telescopes. Constantijn presented a 19 cm diameter, 37.5 m long focal length aerial telescope objective to the Royal Society in 1690 that still bears his signature. Although dubbed the 'Galileo Microscope', the large microscope to the left with a brass body and scrolled legs was the late 17th century instrument that replaced Zacharias Janssen's original 16th century compound microscope and other subsequent microscopes. To the right of this instrument is shown an elegant silver device which appears to be based on the simple microscope designed by Christiaan Huygens, which would have operated in a manner similar to the innovative microscope invented by Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek, by placing the high-powered lens next to the eye. Christiaan sketched several designs for such a simple microscope in his notebooks and in letters to his brother in the course of the year 1678. Christiaan and Constantijn were remarkably close in their collaboration, personally grinding their lenses together and, as a mark of how ahead of their time they were they were even known to have discussed the possibility of extra-terrestrial life while at the telescope. An inferior version of the present composition, 48.5 x 39.5 cm., attributed to Constantine Netscher, is in the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHARLES IILetter signed and subscribed ('Bonus frater consanguineus et amicus/ Carolus R'), to his nephew Charles II of Spain, recalling the British ambassador in Madrid, Sir William Godolphin ('...which legateship it has seemed good to us to terminate and recall his person to ourselves...'), and assuring him that he will be replaced with another suitable ambassador straightaway ('...may the said minister fulfil the function of our legate and do with trustworthiness and industry all such things as have been able especially to conduct to the establishing of greater firmness and permanence of the friendship between us...'), 1 page, in Latin, with integral address leaf, remains of paper seal, light dust-staining, some small repaired tears, address leaf trimmed at lower edge, folio (340 x 220mm.), Whitehall, 16 November 1678Footnotes:'THE ESTABLISHING OF GREATER FIRMNESS AND PERMANENCE OF THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN US': CHARLES II RECALLS HIS CONTROVERSIAL AMBASSADOR FROM THE SPANISH COURT.A successful and trusted career diplomat, described by Samuel Pepys as 'a very pretty and able person, a man of very fine parts and of infinite zeal' (Timothy Venning, ODNB), Sir William Godolphin had been appointed ambassador to Spain in 1671 but soon became the subject of suspicion back in England for his alleged Catholic sympathies. Although he officially denied it, he had converted to Catholicism after a serious illness soon after his arrival in Spain and openly employed Catholics in his household. The situation came to a head in September 1678 when Titus Oates accused Godolphin of being a popish agent and Charles II was forced by the Commons to send this order to recall him to face charges. Godolphin, however, sensibly refused to return to England at a time when thirty-five other persons accused by Oates of conspiracy were executed, and remained in Madrid until his death in 1696.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Montlhéry - The Story of the Paris Autodrome by William Boddy, 170pp, 1960 1st edition; French Vintage Cars by John Bolster, 204pp, 1964 1st edition; All Out, a novel by Mark Pepys, (6th Earl of Cottenham) 1932 1st edition; The Salmson Story by Chris Draper; Wolseley by St.John Nixon; and many other good titles. (31)
FIVE BOXES OF MOSTLY FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS, Pepys Diary, Lord of the Flies, a History of England, Doomsday book, Byzantium, On the Road, Farenheit 451, various History and 20th Century novels, approximately seventy five in total including box sets Condition Report Generally they seem in good condition. The London Spy is foxed and the red leather on the spine is coming loose. The slip cases are a bit dusty and to the top edge of the pages of those not in slips but there is a very slight musty smell to the books when smelt out of the slips. No cigarette odour.
Mixed collection of books, 18th- to 20th-century, to include The Comic Almanack for 1848, illustrated by George Cruikshank, London: David Bogue, 1848, in later blank paper covers; Cinderella...Prepared for the Use of Schools from the Blue Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang, London: Longmans, 1904, pictorial cloth; Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, by Nimrod, London: Methuen, 1915, red cloth; Samuel Pepys: Citizen and Clothworker, printed by Stephen Austin & Sons, Hertford, 1897, paper covers; Itinerarium Antonini Augusti, by Parthey & Pinder, Berolini: Nicolai, 1848, gilt cloth; Alexander Turnbull Library, Bulletin No. 2: Zimmermann's Account of the Third Voyage of Captain Cook, by Tewsley & Andersen, Wellington: Skinner, 1926, paper covers bound in buckram; Reports of Cases, by Charles Durnford and Edward Hyde East, London: His Majesty's Law-Printers, two folio volumes in full contemporary calf, 1787 and 1796, and others. Condition varied, as found. In three cartons (3)
A collection of hardback books to include The Diary of Samuel Pepys, six volumes, Bickers and Son 1879, London, The Curiosities of Literature, 4th edition, two volumes, bearing an inscription dated 1797, Hume's History of England, eight volumes, Cadell, London, 1789, Smollett's Continuation of Hume's History of England, five volumes, Cadell, London, 1790 (21)
A packet of 1950's-60's football ephemera including "The Legible Soccar Diary", 1959, 1960 and 1962, each with coloured illustrations of notable players of the day, plus set of Tiger trade cards "50 Star Footballers of 1963", complete set of 50, plus Pepys "International Football Whist", deck of 44 cards circa 1947 plus rule booklet, 11 cards each for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
![Vane (Sir Henry).- [Sikes (George)] The Life and Death of Sir Henry Vane, Kt, first edition, final errata f., [Sabin 80993; S](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9b1d4b63-7075-4a87-90a4-ac5d00aa8621/c4f99172-4e82-4353-828b-ac5d011b84e5/468x382.jpg)
Vane (Sir Henry).- [Sikes (George)] The Life and Death of Sir Henry Vane, Kt, first edition, final errata f., [Sabin 80993; STC S6323C], 1662 bound with Vane (Henry) Two Treatises: viz. I. An Epistle General; II. Face of the Times, first collected edition, small chip to lower corner of title, [Wing V80], 1662 and The Tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., first edition, rust-hole to G1 affecting 1 or 2 letters of text, P8 lower corner torn away, touching text, [Sabin 98500; Wing T2216], 1662, together 3 works in 1 vol., foxing and browning, contemporary calf, rebacked, covers detached, small 4to.⁂ Three works by or about Henry Vane (1613-62), parliamentarian who helped draw up the Solemn League and Covenant with the Scots and one-time governor of Massachusetts. Following the Restoration he continued to espouse his anti-monarchist views and was executed at Tower Hill. Pepys was present and recorded the execution in his diaries.
Pozzo (Andrea). Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to Delineate in Perspective all Designs relating to Architecture, after a new manner ... by that great master thereof, Andrea Pozzo ... Engraven in 105 ample folio plates, and adorn'd with 200 initial letters to the explanatory discourses: printed from copper-plates ... by John Sturt. Done into English from the original printed at Rome 1693 in Lat. and Ital. by Mr. John James of Greenwich, London: Printed for J. Senex and R. Gosling, W. Innys, J. Osborn and T. Longman , circa 1725, engraved frontispiece & engraved general title (both neatly repaired to blank margins, general title with contemporary signature Geo. Pepys to upper blank margin), with additional engraved title 'Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum' present, 102 engraved plates (including two plates numbered 53, A & B, plus a duplicate of plate 100 bound at rear), engraved ornamental initials to leaves of text, short closed tear to lower blank margin of plate 39, occasional minor dampstains to lower corners, light toning and spotting, modern professional half calf, marbled sides, folio (39.1 x 25 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESHarris 704; Fowler 252 note. The second English Edition of the most important book on perspective of the late baroque period. It is a translation by John James of the 1693 Roman edition, Part I, but without the folding plate of the ceiling of St. Ignatius Church, which first appeared in the 1702 Roman edition of Part I. The descriptive text, printed on both sides of the leaves is in Latin and English, in italic and roman type respectively. The plates are reversed from those of the Italian edition and pl. LIIIA is the "Figura Ultima" and LIIIB is pl. LIII of the 1702 edition. This edition is ornamented with 200 initials engraved by John Sturt.
![[Pepys, Samuel]. Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, for Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688, 1st ed](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/097ee6b6-2081-432a-b7f6-ac6000a6c3d8/cf54c6f0-0d90-43e8-8bae-ac60011792bf/468x382.jpg)
[Pepys, Samuel]. Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, for Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688, 1st edition, 1st issue, [London]: Printed Anno MDCXC [1690], engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by R. White after G. Kneller, title printed in red and black, folding letterpress table, occasional manuscript corrections and neat underlining, shoulder note on p. 120 (with manuscript correction) shaved, small tear and marginal toning to endpapers, bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale (fifth Earl Lonsdale, 1857-1944), manuscript shelf number, contemporary mottled calf, old repairs to joints (now cracked), neat repairs to corners, 8voQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Bernard Quaritch pencilled collation note to rear pastedown. ESTC R13464; Pforzheimer 793 (for the regular edition); Wing P1449. The first issue, intended for presentation, with 'Printed Anno MDCXC' to title; the issue for public circulation has the imprint 'for Ben. Griffin, and are to be sold by Sam. Keble, 1690'; there was also a large-paper issue, without the imprint. The present copy has the usual manuscript corrections to pages 11, 33, 39, 40, 42, 57, 70, 90, 92 and 103, which if not by Pepys himself were likely carried out under his direciton. Pepys was appointed Clerk to the Acts of the Navy in 1660, under the influence of his cousin Edward Montagu, later 1st Earl of Sandwich, and later became secretary to the Admiralty in 1673, instituting important naval reforms. 'This is the diarist's only acknowledged publication. Upon this he lavished a great deal of thought and care. It represents a side of Pepys's life which is apt to be ignored' (Pforzheimer).
![Medical - a 19th century surgeon's amputation saw, by W Pepys, [London], 25cm blade, applied 'pipe-back' spine, shaped and pi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0502a1f8-5efd-4ab7-8a81-ac4d00ef7203/6b8e1a81-ccdd-4ee0-9218-ac5d00d4bc69/468x382.jpg)
CORYAT (T) Crudities, in 3 vols, London 1776, 8vo, calf with good reback; The Spirit of the British Essayists, in 4 vols., 2nd edition 1813, 8vo, calf gilt; MACAULAY (T B) Critical and Historical Essays, in 3 vols. 1843, 8vo, calf with new labels; BEETON (Isabella) Book of Household Management, 1898, thick 8vo, colour plates; another edition, no date, 8vo, cloth gilt c.1880; also - Pepys' Diary (Bell edition reprints), various modern works on Virginia Woolf, Folio Society etc (quantity)
Circle of Johann Kerseboom (active circa 1680-circa 1708 London)Portrait of a violinist, three-quarter-length, with a score for Lane's Maggot oil on canvas99 x 106.2cm (39 x 41 13/16in).Footnotes:Lane's Maggott was an English country dance tune that was first mentioned by Samuel Pepys and was first published in Henry Playford's Dancing Master in 1695.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SAMUEL PEPYS: DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE, ed Richard Lord Braybrooke, London, Henry Colburn, 1848-49, 3rd edition, considerably enlarged, 5 vols, vol 1 engraved port Pepys trimmed and remounted on leaf preceding preface, facsimile plate as list, extra illustrated with an engraved port of Elizabeth Pepys and a folding plan (splits at folds) as frontispieces, quantity of pencil annotations, original blind stamped cloth gilt worn, vol 5 with rubber stamp of Brighton Athenaeum, vol 1 old bookseller's label on front paste down "...contains numerous pencil notes in each volume by Peter Cunningham..." (5)
Collection of Enid Blyton jigsaw puzzles in original boxes including BeStime Famous Five 'no.42 Five on Kirren Island', 'no.55 Five go Riding' and 'no.56 Five round a Camp Fire', plus 'no44. Five at the Airfield' (unboxed) and 'no.31 Five at the Circus' (incomplete). Enid Blyton 'The Famous Five Party Game for Girls and Boys' What's Wrong? - Pepys Party Games in original box, Enid Blyton's Noddy wooden jig saw puzzle 'Noddy and Big-Ears Go Fishing' 1967, Enid Blyton Little Noddy big piece jigsaw 'no.3 Noddy and The Wooden Soldier'. (8) Together with four card games in original boxes; 'The Famous Five Adventures Card Game' 1978 Pepys Series, 'Find Out!' The Enid Blyton Mystery Game' Pepys Series, 'The Famous Five Card Game' with original rules insert, and Noddy Snap Cards 1955. (4)(12 items)Please note: Puzzles have not been put together and checked, and we cannot guarantee that all pieces are there. '
Samuel Pepys. A collection of 21 works relating to Samuel Pepys, originally in the library of Frederick Cleary (1905-1984), former treasurer of the Samuel Pepys Club, all 8vo, all half calf in various colours, consisting:- Occasional Papers Read by Members at Meetings of the Samuel Pepys Club, 2 vols, 1917- Lucas - Dubreton, J - Samuel Pepys, 1925- Powley, Edward B - The English Navy in the Revolution 1688, signed, 1928- Evelyn and Pepys on Engraving, 1915- Barber, Richards - Samuel Pepys, Esq; 1970- Bridge, Frederick, Sir - Samuel Pepys Lovers of Musique, 1903- Drinkwater, John - Pepys His Life and Character, 1930 (2 copies)- Mendelsohn, Oscar A. - Drinking with Pepys, 1963- Bryant, Arthur - Samuel Pepys The Saviour of the Navy, 1949 and another copy, 1953- Bradford, Gamaliel - Samuel Pepys, 1924- Wilson, John Harold - The Private Life of Mr Pepys, 1960- Lubbock, Percy - Samuel Pepys [circa 1932]- Tickner, F.W. (editor) - A Shorter Pepys, nd- Morshed, O F (editor) - Everybody's Pepys, illustrated by Ernest Shepard, 1963- Bryant, Arthur - Samuel Pepys - The Years of Peril, 1935- Bryant, Arthur - Samuel Pepys - The Man in the Making, 1933- Abernethy, Cecil - Mr Pepys of Seething Lane, 1957- Howarth, R.G. (editor) - Letters and Second Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1932together with a framed late 17th century four page pamphlet - "A Hue and Cry after P. and H. and Plain Truth" - printed some years after the diary days, accusing Pepys and Will Hewer of dishonourable financial gain
BARNES WALLIS - VARIOUS BOOKS BELONGNG TO HIM AND HIS WIFE WITH HIS NAME OR INITIALS IN, to include pocket sized David Copperfield with inscription "To Barnes & his Mrs from Bill & His with the very best of luck", 'Samuel pepys The Saviour of the Navy' with inscription "M. F. B. FROM HER DEVOTED B. N. W. 1950-51", 'The Bronte Story' with inscription "M. F. W. from B. N. W. 23 April 1953, 'Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers' "B. N. Wallis 26th Sept 1953 With love from Mary & Harry" etc. (10)
BOOKS ON HISTORICAL FIGURES BELONGING TO THE STOPES-ROE ESTATE SOME WITH FAMILY INSCRIPTIONS to include Winston Churchill - 'Marlborough His Life and Times' two volumes reprints 1947 with dustjackets, inscription reads "Mary with love from Daddy, Christmas 1947", Hester W. Chapman - 'Mary II Queen of England' 1953 with inscription "Mary Eyre Stopes-Roe From her very - loving five- year husband 27.7.53", J. E. Neale - 'The Elizabethan House of Commons' 1949 with inscription "A Friday offering to the sweetest and most generous wife Mary Eyre Stopes-Roe 7 Oct 49" three volumes of The Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell and Claire Tomalin - 'Samuel Pepys The Unequalled Self' 2002 signed by the author (12)
Ussher (James). Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates, 1st edition, Dublin: ex officina Typographica Societatis Bibliopolarum, 1639, decorative woodcut on title and signature 'Pepys' at head, early ownership inscription to front free endpaper 'Liber Ed: Welchman Lapworthiensis', manuscript notes to rear free endpaper, contemporary calf, vertical crack to middle of spine, head of spine torn with slight loss, light wear to joints, 4toQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller; 2) By descent. ESTC S119082; STC 24548a. Quires 3B and 3M appeared in two settings: 3B1r catchword is (1) "sa" as in this copy, or (2) "evagari"; 3M1r line 1 begins (1) "ranarum" as in this copy, or (2) "ranar?". Leaf 6R4 is cancelled. Includes an undated letter from Dr Richard Luckett, Pepys Librarian & Keeper of the Old Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, to John Lawson discussing the signature 'Pepys' to the tiltle page. The view taken was that the signature was unfortunately not characteristic of the diarist & and naval administrator Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) and that the shelf marks had no Pepysian significance. In his view and that of the Assistant Librarian Robert Latham the binding was also not 'remotely like anything he had done'.
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