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Click here to subscribeEWENNY POTTERY PIG, green glazed, loin inscribed 'Y Mochyn Bach', signed base, 17cms long together with a Ewenny Pottery set of six green glazed coffee cups and saucers, and rare Ynysmeudwy Pottery nursery plate, transfer decorated with 'The Pig Race', within floral moulded border and mustard rim, 13cms diam (14)Comments: pottery pig extensively restored.
Baddam, [Benjamin]. Memoirs of the Royal Society, Vol. III only, scarce, illustrated with 14 engraved plates, 9 of which are folding, London: G. Smith, 1739. Octavo, full contemporary calf, pp. [iii], 4-516, [iv]. Internally very good, some light handling marks & contemporary owner inscription on title, slight loss to one of the margins of plate 7 but not affecting engraved area, binding worn but intact. Together with Elliot's Medical Pocket-Book, Dublin: Gilbert & Hodges, 1801, bearing owner inscriptions of John Browne, M.D., the text interspersed with blank leaves for manuscript notes in a contemporary hand, worn, sold with all faults (2)
[Birac; Lamont; Valière]. The New Art of War, London; E. Midwinter, 1726. Octavo, pp. [xii], 296, [iv], five engraved plates (one folding), nothing before title, four leaves with section torn/detached but would piece back with archival tape, folding plate with some tears, binding worn, rebacked
A collection of antique prints comprising: The North East Prospect of Richmond in the County of York, etching by Samuel & Nathaniel Buck, dated 1749, two sheets conjoined, heavy laid/chain-lined paper, some toning and slight staining at right margin; The North Riding of Yorkshire, hand-coloured copper engraved map by Robert Morden [1695 or later], varnished laid paper mounted on board; Yorkshire, engraved map by John Seller with accompanying text; cattle beneath a tree, etching by Leopold Lowenstam (1842-1898); two hand-coloured aquatints of ships on the Thames, 1805; Doctor Syntax Entertained at College, an etched plate by Thomas Rowlandson, various sizes (7)
Dickens, Charles. Bentley’s Miscellany [containing the first appearance of Oliver Twist, serialised for the first time here in volumes 1-5], in nine volumes, London: Richard Bentley, 1837-41. Octavo, half-calf with morocco title labels lettered in gilt. Oliver Twist, Or The Parish Boys Progress, illustrated with plates by George Cruikshank, including the final plate, 'Rose and Maylie'. These volumes also contain Jack Sheppard & Guy Fawkes, by W. Harrison Ainsworth, as well as other contributions by Charles Dickens. A good example, slight loss to the label of first volume, some discolouration to the plates (9)Provenance: Kathleen Mary Tillotson (1906-2001), British academic and literary critic, notably an editor of the letters of Charles Dickens. Later purchased by our vendor from Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers, London
Discovery of Tasmania & New Zealand. Valentyn, Francois. A scarce map of Australia, New Zealand and part of Southeast Asia, showing the track of Abel Tasman's epic first voyage to Australia in 1642-43, which was the first European expedition to make contact with Tasmania and New Zealand. Hand-coloured copper engraving on two conjoined sheets of laid/chain-lined paper bearing manufacturer's Lily of Strasbourg watermark, 31.1cm by 47.5cm (plate-mark). Very well-preserved, clean & bright. [Dordrecht: Braam & Linden, 1726]
[The Football Association]. 'The Inaugural Match Played by the Members of the Association in Battersea Park.' An account of the first ever match played by members of the Football Association at Battersea Park, 2 January 1864 [pre-dating what is currently recorded as being the first match played under Football Association rules on 9 January 1864], including a list of the XIII rules, and a printed diagram of the pitch. 'A game of football was played in Battersea Park on Saturday, January 2nd, at which I should have liked to have seen all the readers of the "Boys' Journal" present. This, however, not being possible, I shall endeavour to provide them with the best substitute I can by describing the capital game upon the true principles of football, which I saw played there. The players were the members of the Association founded for establishing football rules; and therefore, the game played was regulated by the laws which were printed in my last article [p.53 in this book]...This was the inaugural match, played by the rules of the Association...The following diagram represents the ground and position of the players at the commencement, and at different stages of the game. It also makes clear the intricate points in the play. Any boy who studies it carefully will perfectly understand football, and, indeed, be fit for a captain among his fellows.' Describing and listing the XIII rules, the author makes clear the split from rugby, 'The original rules IX and X have been, I am very glad to say, omitted, because they were opposed to the true principles of football. How should it be natural or right to seize the ball and carry it, and to wilfully go up to a playfellow and kick at his legs with either the toe or the heel of such boots as are worn in winter?' The Boys' Journal: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Adventure, and Amusement, Vol. II, London: Henry Vickers, [1863-64], bearing owner inscription of 'William Hotham, York 1863', and a small ownership plate for the same. Octavo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, pp. [vi], 448 [plus Agency and Correspondence sections], illustrated with numerous wood-engravings, internally very well-preserved, clean & bright, covers discoloured & worn. The football sections appear on pp. 51-54 & 144-146
Langford (Thomas) Plain and Full Instructions to Raise all sorts of Fruit-Trees that Prosper in England, second edition, 2 engraved plates, 1 with key opposite, 6pp. advertisements, worming to lower margin, plate 2 with small section of outer margin torn away, lightly browned, a few spots, British Museum duplicate stamp to verso of title, Royal Agricultural Society of England bookplate to front pastedown, 20th century half calf, upper cover detached, rubbed, [Henrey 216; Wing L389], 8vo, Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St.Paul's Church-Yard, 1696. ⁂ John Evelyn praises this work in a one-page letter printed after the 'To the Reader', in which he states that he knows 'of nothing extant which exceeds it'. The second edition adds for the first time a section headed 'Of Greens and green-houses in general' and 'A Catalogue of Choice Fruits...greens and blossoming shrubs: to be had at Brompton Park, near Kensington'. Includes the making of cider, perry and liquors.
Africa.- Ludolf (Hiob) A New History of Ethiopia, being a Full and Accurate Description of the Kingdom of Abessinia, first English edition, 8 engraved plates, of which 7 folding, one bound upside down, engraved ethtiopic alphabet plate, folding letterpress table, H1 & 2Z2 with short marginal tear, 2Y3 with small hole affecting odd letter, spotting, previous owner's ink marking to title, bookplates, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, [WingL3468], folio, for Samuel Smith, 1682.⁂ Provenance: engraved bookplate of Walter Charles James. Bookplate of Lawrence Strangman, and bookplate of David Crampton Winfield (1929-2013).
Stanley (Thomas) The History of Philosophy, 2 vol. in 1, 17 engraved plates, ?lacking final f. to part 6 (?3q2), 1 plate with two small holes, some ff. browned, [Wing S5237; Wing S5238aA], for Humphrey Moseley, 1655-56; The History of Philosophy, the Third and Last Volume, 5 engraved plates, some minor finger soiling at margins, [Wing S5238A], for Humphrey Moseley, 1660; The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy, [Wing S5240], for Thomas Dring, 1662, together 3 vol., each with engraved portrait frontispiece, titles with woodcut devices, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, uniformly bound in contemporary calf with red morocco labels to spines, a few small tears to joints and spine ends, corners a little rubbed, folio (3) ⁂ Provenance: William Trumbull [bookplates]
Mathematics.- Brown (John) The Practical Gauger, Arithmetical and Instrumental, first edition, one folding engraved plate only (of 3), lower edge trimmed slightly affecting date and ruled border on title and a few other catchwords in text, light foxing, 18th century marbled boards, rubbed, [Wing B5042aA], 12mo, Printed by J.D. for John Brown and Rob. Morden, 1678.⁂ Extremely rare with no copy recorded at auction and ESTC citing BL and Bodleian copies only
Perfection of Military Discipline (The) After the Newest Method, As Practised In England and Ireland, first edition, folding engraved frontispiece and one folding plate, a few leaves trimmed close, occasionally touching pagination, contemporary sheep, foot of spine repaired, new spine label, rubbed, [Wing P1532], 8vo, Printed for Nicholas Boddington, 1690.⁂ Rare. ESTC locates 7 copies only. RBH gives the last auction appearance of this edition as 1967.Provenance: Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley (bookplate and ink name to inner margin of title and to head of preface).
Mining.- Browne (Edward) An Account of Several Travels Through the great part of Germany, first edition, 5 engraved plates only (of 6), title, following leaf and one plate with marginal repairs, some worming, mostly marginal but occasionally slightly affecting text or plates, contemporary sheep, rebacked, rubbed and scuffed, [Wing B5109; Kress S1447], 4to, Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1677.⁂ Edward Browne (1644-1708) was the son of Sir Thomas Browne, author of Religio Medici, and was also a physician but travelled extensively throughout Europe.Provenance: J.W. Knightley (ink inscription on title).
Medicine.- Stubbe (Henry) The Miraculous Conformist: or An account of severall marvailous cures performed by the stroaking of the hands of Mr Valentine Greatarick, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, title with hole to blank portion under 7th line of text (touching letters), both title and frontispiece trimmed to ruled borders and laid down to sheets, woodcut head-pieces, extra-illustrated with an engraved plate at end, trimmed and laid down to sheet, ink inscription to front endpaper, ?lacking final blank (F4), light damp-staining to lower corners, nineteenth century half calf, upper cover nearly detached, rubbed, [Wing S6062], 4to, Oxford, H. Hall, 1666.⁂ This work by Stubbe is the first scientific account by a doctor, of the apparent healing gift of Valentine Greatrakes, a former county magistrate of Ireland, who was famed for "stroking" scrofula, ague and other diseases.
Leybourn (William) The Art of Dialling, first edition, folding engraved plate, engraved illustration, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams, lacks engraved portrait frontispiece, title a little toned, some light foxing and minor staining to lower margin, modern calf, [Wing L1900; Tomash & Williams L89], 4to, Printed by S.G. and B.G. for Benjamin Tooke and Thomas Sawbridge, 1669.⁂ This issue has "dialling," in line 2 of title, and the imprint date 1669; another issue has "dialling:" and is undated.
Hoddesdon (John) Tho. Mori Vita & Exitus: or, the History of Sr. Thomas More, sometime Lord High Chancellor of England, first edition, title in red and black within single ruled border, engraved plate and later engraved portrait, engraved portraits of More and Henry VIII both defective and laid down bound in at beginning, lacking final blank, first leaves loose, D2 with repaired tear and marginal defects repaired slightly affecting text, ink annotations, some water-staining and soiling, later half calf, [Wing H2296][, 8vo, Printed by E. Cotes, for George Eversden, 1652.⁂ Provenance: Mary Rithon? (ink inscription on A5 verso); John Bridges (ink inscription on A2 recto).
(ARBUTHNOT JOHN). Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights & Measures Explain'd & Exemplify'd in Several Dissertations. Rubricated title. 34 tables & diags. in 18 eng. plates. Quarto. Rebacked calf. Bookplate of Parker of Browsholme. 1727. The final double page plate on foreign coinage was apparently written by Sir Isaac Newton when Master of The Royal Mint.Condition:Some edge & extreme marginal damp staining but a very useful copy.
COWLEY ABRAHAM. The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed and Those which he Design`d for the Press. Eng. port. frontis. & plate. General title & 6 titles to the parts. Concludes with The Third Part ... Being his Six Books of Plants. Folio. Rebacked calf. Ownership signatures of A. D. Boteler & Eliz. Cotton. 1684, the Third Part, 1689.
TYRWHITT R. ST. J. A Handbook of Pictorial Art ... With a Chapter on Perspective by A. Macdonald. Mounted chromolitho plates (foxing to these), mounted photograph plate & other plates & illus. Embossed brown morocco with "V.R." crest in gilt, red edges. Oxford, 1868; also The Comic History of Rome with hand col. & other plates & illus. by John Leech, rubbed half green morocco, n.d. (2).
LANDT REV. G. A Description of the Feroe Islands Containing An Account of Their Situation, Climate & Productions. Fldg. eng. map, fldg. eng. plate & another plate (old lib. stamps to each of these). Rebound half calf, marbled edges. 1810; also A Spring & Summer in Lapland by an Old Bushman (Wheelwright), orig. cloth, fading & internal spotting, 1864. (2).
AIKIN J. A Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles Round Manchester. Eng. frontis, title vignette, fldg. & other maps, plates & illus., as called for. Thick quarto. Old rubbed calf, rebacked. John Stockdale, n.d. but Preface dated 1795.Condition: Mixed internal condition with sporadic foxing & spotting, fairly heavy in places. Some maps & plans torn, some tape repairs.Two large folding maps as called for in plate list.- A topographical plan of Manchester & Salford- Large street plan (with a tear at bottom).
A GROUP OF JEWELLERY WITH FULL AND SOVEREIGN COINS: AN EDWARDIAN GOLD HALF-SOVEREIGN RING, DATED 1909, the mount with rubbed gold hallmarks,A PAIR OF 'HALF-SOVEREGIN' GOLD EARRINGS, formed as two individual coins, dated 1905 and 1911, each contained within gold bezel and earring backs;A VICTORIAN FULL SOVEREIGN GOLD PENDANT, London 1879, mounted in a pierced bezel (hallmarked .375) with elongated suspension ring;A GOLD FULL SOVEREIGN BROOCH, dated 1912, London mint, mounted on a 9ct bar with pin and safety chain;AN EDWARDIAN GOLD HALF-SOVEREIGN PENDANT ON CHAIN, dated 1907, contained within a squared pieced mount (hallmarked .375), on a fine chainTotal gross weight approx. 54.4gCondition Report: Normal signs of wear, overall in good conditionCoins tested for gold - Gold plate not detectedTotal gross weight approx. 54.4g
EDWARD MEYRICK GOULBURN AND HENRY SYMONDS: THE ANCIENT SCULPTURES IN THE ROOF OF NORWICH CATHEDRAL.. TO WHICH IS ADDED A HISTORY OF THE SEE OF NORWICH FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTRIES BY EDWARD MEYRICK GOULBURN AND EDWARD HAILSTONES, London, The Autotype Fine Art Company, Norwich, Henry W Stacy, 1876, folio, original calf back decorative cloth gilt, all edges gilt, armorial book plate of Josiah Bavasseur plus MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES: THE SCULPTURE BOSSES IN THE ROOF OF THE BAUCHUN CHAPEL OF OUR LADY OF PITY IN NORWICH CATHEDRAL, Norwich, 1908, first edition, folio, original cloth backed boards plus MARTIAL ROSE & JULIA HEDGECOE: STORIES IN STONE THE MEDIEVIL ROOF CARVINGS OF NORWICH CATHEDRAL, London, Herbert Press, 1997, first edition, 4to, original pictorial wraps (3)
EDWARD MEYRICK GOULBURN AND HENRY SYMONDS: THE ANCIENT SCULPTURES IN THE ROOF OF NORWICH CATHEDRAL.. TO WHICH IS ADDED A HISTORY OF THE SEE OF NORWICH FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTRIES BY EDWARD MEYRICK GOULBURN AND EDWARD HAILSTONES, London, The Autotype Fine Art Company, Norwich, Henry W Stacy, 1876, folio, original calf back decorative cloth gilt, all edges gilt, armorial book plate of Josiah Bavasseur
FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD AND CHARLES PARKIN: AN ESSAY TOWARDS A TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK, Fersfield & Lynn, W Whittingham & R Baldwin, 1739-75, first edition, 5 vols, lacks port frontis in vol 1, all other plates including some folding collated complete, some additional items including an engraved folding plate (trimmed) of Scole Inn, circa 1825 in vol 1 page 748, 3 pen and ink drawings on two leaves of Quidenham captioned in French in vol 1 pages 2-8 and 230, folio, old calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments, black morocco gilt spine labels (vol 3 lacking part of part of vol label), all edges gilt by initial H Stamper, vols 1 and 4 top boards detached, vol 5 both boards detached (5)
EDWARD CLODD: TOM TIT TOT AN ESSAY ON SAVAGE PHILOSOPHY FOLK-TALES, London, Duckworth, 1898 first edition, original cloth plus EDMUND KERCHEVERS CHAMBERS: THE ENGLISH FOLK-PLAY, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1935 first edition, three page autograph letter signed from the the author dated 3 Dec 1902 along with some relevant ephemera loosely inserted, original cloth plus BASIL HALL CHAMBERLAIN: AINO FOLK-TALES, The Folk-Law Society, 1888, first edition, privately printed, original wraps detached and chipped plus EDWIN SIDNEY HARTLAND: THE SCIENCE OF FAIRYTALES AN ENQUIRY INTO FAIRY MYTHOLOGY, London, Walter Scott, 1891 first edition, armorial book plate and signature of Arther Allen Gomme (1882-1955) plus GEORGE LOURENCE GOMME: FOLK LAW AS AN HISTORICAL SCIENCE, London, Methuen, 1908 first edition, original cloth gilt plus RICHARD M DAWSON: THE BRITISH FOLKLORISTS A HISTORY, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968 first edition, original cloth d/w plus REGINALD JOHN ELLIOTT TIDDY: THE MUMMERS' PLAY, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1923 first edition, original cloth printed paper spine label (7)
FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON: LONDON LYRICS, London, C Whittingham, Chiswick Press, 1881, privately printed, large paper, engraved frontis by Ranolph Caldecott, engraved plate "Little Dinky" by Kate Greenaway opposite page 102, both on india paper, part unopened, original buckram gilt worn, split at spine, book plate of Bibliotheca Lindesiana on front paste down, schuster 1d
GEORGE MACDONALD: 5 Titles: THE HISTORY OF GUTTA-PERCHA WILLIE, Ill Arthur Hughes, London, Blackie, [1887] new edition, 32pp adverts at end, lacks blanks, original pictorial cloth gilt, UNSPOKEN SERMONS THIRD SERIES, London, Longmans Green, 1889 first edition, the authors copy with his signature on half title and his decorative book plate on front paste down, 2pp adverts at front, 16pp adverts dated January 1889 at end, original cloth spine gilt lettered, THE POETICAL WORKS, London, Chattow & Windas, 1893 first edition, 2 vols, original cloth worn, spines gilt lettered, ANNALS OF A QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD, London, Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, 1893 new edition, inscription on ffep, original cloth gilt, spine dulled, A DISH OF ORTS..., London, George Newnes, 1905 original cloth gilt soiled (6)
ROBERT MURDOCH MCDONALD: LONELY AS A CLOUD, New York, 1938 first edition, litho title, 15 (of 16) litho plates including one coloured, signed and captioned in pencil, loose as issued, lacking plate 2 "The Mystical Invasion of the World", signed and inscribed on inner front board, folio, original cloth backed boards worn and soiled
JO VAN AMMERS-KULLER: THE HOUSE OF TABELINCK, London, Jonathan Cape, 1939, first edition, original cloth d/w, (some browning to edges and small part losses), plus JOYCE CARY: THE AFTICAN WITCH, London, Victor Gollancz, 1936 first edition, original cloth d/w, (Colonial ? issue and part losses) plus THOMAS MANN: STORIES OF THREE DECADES, London, Martin Secker & Warburg, 1937 first edition, small inscription on ffep, original cloth d/w (part losses and repairs) plus G B STERN: MOSAIC, London, Chapman & Hall, 1930 first edition, book plate on the front paste down, original cloth d/w, vgc (4)
VIRGIL: P VIRGILLI MARONIS OPERA CUM INTEGRIS AND EMENDATIORIBUS COMMENTARIIS SERVII PHILAGRYRII PIERII..., Amsterdam, Jacobi Wetstenii, 1746, 4 vols, engraved vignette titles printed in red and black, engraved frontis, double page map (navigation of Aeneas) 1 plate, half titles, vols 3 and 4 partly unopened, 4to, old parchment backed marble boards (4)
SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL: 2 Titles: ARMS AND THE COVENANT, London, George G Harrap, 1938 first edition, original cloth, spine gilt lettered, book plate of John William Oldfield, SECRET SESSION SPEECHES, Ed Charles Eade, London, Cassell & Co, 1946 first edition, original cloth d/w (some foxing and very minor losses( (2)
MEARY JAMES THURAIRAJH TANBIMUTTU (Ed): POETRY LONDON/APPLE MAGAZINE, London 1979, vol 1 numbers 1 and 2, first editions, number 2 with record in pocket at end, 4to original pictorial wraps plus THEATER OF ALL POSSIBILITIES, London, Editions Poetry London, 1980 first edition, 4to, original pictorial wraps, book plate of John Amfanwy Piper, plus PATRICK KAVANAGH: LOUGH DERG, London, Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1978 first edition, 4to, original cloth d/w, vgc plus EZRA POUND: CANTO C X, trans Pierre Alien [Paris] L'Herne, 1967 first edition in English and French, unopened, folio original wraps, plus DAVID RAIKES: THE POEMS OF DAVID RAIKES, intro Charles Wrinch, Eynsham Oxford, Fantasy Press 1954 first edition, signed and inscribed by Charles Wrinch, original cloth plus THOMAS HARDY: YULETIDE IN A YOUNGER WORLD, ill Albert Rutherton, London, Faber & Faber [1927] first edition, ariel poes number 1 original wraps plus JEFF NUTTALL: THE CASE OF ISABEL AND THE BLEEDING FOETUS, London, Turret Books 1967 (500) (400), original cloth d/w, plus IAIN HAMILTON: EMBARKATION FOR CYTHERA, intro Sir John Betjaman, London, Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1974 (50) signed and inscribed "One of the Few Remaining ....the Publishers Gave Me", original cloth d/w (9)
SIR JOHN DALRYMPLE: MEMOIRS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND FROM THE DISSOLUTION OF THE LAST PARLIAMENT OF CHARLES II UNTIL THE SEA-BATTLE OF LA HOGUE, London, printed for W Strahan and T Cadell, Edinburgh, A Kincaid and J Bell and J Balfour, 1771-73, second edition, 2 vols, 4to, contemporary calf worn, top boards detached, rear boards loose, armorial book plate of Lord Grey de Wilton (2)
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