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Lot 526
A quantity of parts and spares including starter dogs, 1500-1622 cc bottom pulleys, A40 Somerset wheel hub bearing cap, A50/60 wheel hub bearing caps, Somerset vent control pipe, A50/55 window metal trims, top to A40 steering rocker shaft, A40 Somerset pedal rubbers, chrome trim for van/pickup bonnet, 1500 and 1622 cc engine heater unions, A40/50/55 gear link pivot brackets, engine oil pump planking plates, engine bottom pulleys.
Lot 59
Beautiful pieces featuring a floral design with gilt accents. Coalport backstamps. The saucers measure 5.75"dia. The cups measure approximately 4.25"L x 3.25"W x 2.25"H. The small plates measure approximately 8"dia. Dimensions: See DescriptionManufacturer: CoalportCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.
Lot 107
Four 1930s Lalique 'Pouilly' opalescent glass dishes, three with green stain, one with remains of green stain, the base is marked with 'R. LALIQUE' acid stamp, model number 3082, designed in circa 1932. 18.8cm diameter x 1.8cm height. (4)Condition: Two plates with stronger green stain, one plate with faded green stain and the fourth plate with remains of green stain. Each plate with at least two chips to inside or outside of rim.Packing & Shipping Let us take the hassle of sorting out packing and shipping from you. Mark Hill Auctions is delighted to be able offer the buyer an in-house packing and shipping service for this lot. We use UPS for shipping and all packages are sent with a minimum of a tracked service. We do not use any other service such as Royal Mail.Please see below for cost estimates, including packing: UK (Guaranteed Price): £16.51 USA (Estimated Price): £37.00 EU (Estimated Price): £22.00 R.O.W. (Estimated Price): £42.50All above quoted packing and shipping prices will have VAT added at 20%. Unless otherwise indicated above, these are estimates only but we aim to be as accurate as possible. To request packing and shipping, please wait for your invoice to arrive by email and click on the ‘Request Postage’ button on your invoice, or contact us by email requesting packing and shipping for your lot(s). The actual packing and shipping cost will then be added to your invoice and your invoice will be resent to you for payment.IMPORTANT When you request your lot(s) to be packed and shipped, you understand and agree that you are committing to pay for packing and shipping because, in order for us to give you an accurate cost, we need to pack the lot(s) to ascertain the final weight and size. By doing that, we have already incurred cost by spending time and using materials to pack your lot(s). Therefore this charge must be paid, even if you later decide to collect your lot.INSURANCE The above quotes do not include insurance. If you require insurance, please request this when you request your lots to be packed and shipped. We can only know the cost of insurance after the hammer falls as it is only then that we will know the value to be insured.MULTIPLE PURCHASES The estimates above are for this lot only. If you buy multiple lots from this auction, they can be combined where possible into one or more packages - size, shape and weight permitting. For these packages containing multiple lots, you will receive a discount of 17.5% of the total of the applicable quotes listed for those lots.Please note that this packing and shipping service is undertaken entirely at the buyer’s risk. Whilst we take the utmost care to pack items as well as we can, we cannot be held responsible for any damage to, or loss of, items packed and sent to you. By paying for our in-house packing and shipping service, the buyer agrees that any items are sent entirely at their own risk and that no compensation can be offered for any loss or damage. Lots must be paid for in full before they will be released.
Lot 146
Malton (Thomas) A Compleat Treatise on Perspective in Theory and Practice..., 4 parts in 1, engraved frontispiece (chipped at inner-margin), 46 engraved plates, of which 43 folding, a few with overslips or flaps to form 3-D geometrical figures, all linen-backed, Index bound at end (final f. frayed), title with short tear not affecting text, laid down and loose, dedication f. window-mounted and silked to verso partially obscuring text, 4A silked repair within text, plate 26 inner-edge repaired, some plates slightly frayed at fore-edge or with tears into image, some with loss, generally small (see plates 15, 22, 34, 37), a few ink corrections or annotations, offsetting, some foxing and soiling, some light browning, ex-library copy with bookplate, small ink-stamp to title, modern library cloth, folio, for the Author, 1776; sold not subject to return. *** A guide for painters and artists, first published the year previously in 1775.
Lot 196
Scotland.- Logan (James) and R. R. McIan. The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, Illustrated by Appropriate Figures, 2 vol., first edition, 2 chromolithographed armorial frontispieces, 72 hand-coloured lithographed plates after McIan, tissue-guards, one plate working loose in vol.1, a few small tears to margins, foxing to few leaves in vol.1, occasional light surface soiling, ex-library copies with bookplate, ink-stamp to titles, vol. 2 upper hinge broken, original green morocco-backed decorative cloth, gilt, library stickers to foot of spines, some wear to spine ends and joints, a little rubbed, joints split at ends, g.e., [Abbey Life 426], folio, Ackermann and Co., 1845-47.
Lot 188
Mountaineering.- Hunt (John) The Ascent of Everest, 40th Anniversary Edition, one of 500 copies signed by ten surviving members of the 1953 British Everest Expedition, ink ownership inscription of James S. Milledge to endpaper, maps and plates, original blue half morocco, slip-case, 8vo, 1993.*** Signatures including John Hunt, Charles Evans, Griffith Pugh, George Band, Alfred Gregory, George Lowe, Michael Westmacott, Charles Wylie, Michael Ward and Edmund Hillary. James S. Milledge (1930-2022), mountaineer and researcher, known as "the father of mountain medicine".
Lot 165
Middle East.- Wood (Robert) The Ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria, first edition, 47 engraved plates & plans, of which 11 double-page or folding (these linen-backed or with linen repairs to folds to verso), engraved illustration of inscription, plate 2 with few short tears into image repaired, plates 3 & 4 trimmed slightly within image (these often bound as one large folding plate), some other folding plates trimmed within platemark but not affecting image, some small marginal repairs, some damp-staining to head, generally very light, some soiling and light browning, scattered spotting, ex-library copy with bookplate and small ink-stamp to title and plates, 19th century half morocco, extremities worn, joints splitting at ends, folio, 1757.
Lot 184
India.- Richardson (David Lester, editor) The Bengal Annual. A Literary Keepsake for M.DCCCXXX, engraved additional pictorial title and 6 plates, all on India paper, p.214 with an 1865 pencil ownership inscription at head, pagination of pp.345-346 (1 leaf) neatly excised, leaving a small hole, spotting and staining, lightly browned, original black morocco-backed boards, spine gilt, spine ends and corners worn, soiled and rubbed, 8vo, Calcutta, Samuel Smith and Co., Hare Street, 1830. *** Rare first volume of this Calcutta published periodical. Richardson (1801-1865) was an officer of the East India Company, writer, poet, editor, and professor of English at Hindu College, where he inspired pioneering Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt.
Lot 147
Ware (Isaac) The Plans, Elevations, and Sections; Chimney-Pieces, and Cielings of Houghton in Norfolk, first edition, engraved title and dedication leaf, 5ff. letterpress with ink prices, double-page geometrical plan and 27 plates/plans numbered 1-35 mounted on stubs, 8 double-page, also with engraved bookplate of the Earl of Orford and illustrated slip "Published by I.Ware" on pastedown, occasional foxing and soiling, a few plates shaved, contemporary half sheep over marbled boards, rubbed, corners worn, folio, [Harris 912; Millar II 88; cf.Berlin Kat. 2332, 1735 edition], Sold by C.Fourdrinier [&c.], 1760.*** Another copy, sold by Bloomsbury in 2011, had the same Orford bookplate and Ware slip; this copy also with later bookplate of Thomas Weld-Blundell. A manuscript note on front blank reads "The prices of the paintings as marked in this catalogue is taken from the European Magazine for February 1782 which observes that these prices was paid to the Earl of Orford by the Empress Catherine of Russia, exactly as they stand in this book, and that the Editor was favor'd with the account by Alderman Boydell."
Lot 132
Lake District.- Fielding (Theodore Henry) and J. Walton. A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, large paper copy [one of 100 copies], half-title, hand-coloured aquatint title-vignette and 48 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, scattered spotting to text, the odd spot and some light finger-soiling to plate margins, attractive 19th century green half morocco, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, corners a little bumped, t.e.g., [Abbey, Scenery 192; Tooley 219], 4to, R. Ackermann, 1821.
![World.- [Costumes of the Various Countries], 7 vol., comprising: Mason (George Henry, Maj.) The Costume of China, 60 hand-col](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/faa88d8f-18d0-4846-9b2e-b2600106b594/19253452-bd34-4d67-813f-b26001091145/468x382.jpg)
Lot 176
World.- [Costumes of the Various Countries], 7 vol., comprising: Mason (George Henry, Maj.) The Costume of China, 60 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates, 1800 [but later]; [?Mason (George Henry, Maj.)] The Punishments of China, 22 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates, 2 cropped just within image, 1801 [but later]; [Dalvimart (Octavien)] The Costume of Turkey, hand-coloured stipple-engraved title vignette and 59 plates only (of 60, lacking plate 49), 1802 [but later]; Costume (The) of the Russian Empire, 73 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates, 1803 [but later]; De Moleville (Bertrand) The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria, 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 1804 [but later]; Pyne (William Henry) The Costume of Great Britain, half-title, hand-coloured aquatint title vignette and 60 plates, frontispiece working loose, 1808 [but later]; [Dalvimart (Octavien)] The Military Costume of Turkey, half-title, hand-coloured engraved portrait frontispiece, hand-coloured aquatint additional vignette title and 29 plates, T. M'Lean, 1818, several with text in French and English, offsetting, very occasional spotting, occasional soiling or light staining, some very slight browning to text leaves, ex-library copies with bookplate, small ink-stamp to titles, attractively bound in uniform maroon straight-grain morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, small library label to foot of spines, rubbing and some wear to joints and extremities, g.e., all but the last for William Miller, folio. *** An attractive series of costume books. All but the last with watermarks dating them later than the printed title.
Lot 175
Voyages.- Cook (Capt. James) A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, 4 vol. including Atlas, first edition, text with 24 engraved maps and plates, some folding, vol. 3 with folding letterpress table but lacking advertisement f. at end, vol. 3 first map with some fraying to inner-edge, few very short tears to text and one or two plates, sometimes repaired, few plates cropped, offsetting, generally light, some light browning and spotting, Atlas with 2 maps and 61 engraved plates, 2 maps folding/double-page (one with very short tear at fold without loss), 2 plates trimmed and laid down with ink-stamp within image, one with repaired tear within image but no loss, some light surface soiling, mainly marginal, some marginal damp-staining towards end, scattered foxing and browning, ex-library copies with bookplate, small ink-stamp to titles and first map of Atlas verso, modern morocco-backed cloth (different to text and Atlas), light surface marking to vol. 3, [Mitchell Library Cook 1543; Sabin 16250], 4to & folio, W. and A. Strahan, 1784. *** The first edition of the official account of Cook’s third and final voyage, in which he made what he considered his most important discovery - the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands - and where he was killed in a skirmish. He also charted the Pacific coast from Northern California to the Bering Strait. The voyage was continued by Charles Clerke after Cook's death, and later by John Gore after Clerke's death. The third volume is authored by Captain James King, who served on the voyage.
Lot 123
Whistler (Rex) Engravings...for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Introduction by Anthony Rota, out-of series copy (not for sale) from an edition limited to 100 copies on hand-made paper, this one of 26 unnumbered copies with one of the original copper plates, engraved title-vignette and 25 engraved sheets comprising 12 plates, 5 maps, 4 head- & 4 tail-pieces by Rex Whistler, the 12 plates hand-coloured, loose as issued, with copper plate in recessed panel inside rear board and printer's original paper wrapping featuring the engraving mounted inside front board (soiled), together in original half viridian morocco drop-back box, slight discolouration to spine, large 4to, Harrison's for H.M. Fletcher, 1970.*** Whistler's illustrated version of Swift's Gulliver's Travels was his magnum opus, first published by the Cresset Press in 1930 with 195 copies on hand-made paper and 10 on vellum, and one of the most magnificent English illustrated books of the 20th century. It was apparently inspired by Richard Bentley's Designs for Six Poems by Mr T.Gray of 1753 and Whistler drew the illustrations within elaborate rococo frames, each one different, many reflecting his love of Baroque architecture. He spent months on the detailed pen and ink drawings; according to his brother Laurence he sat up all night drawing one wheatsheaf. The original copper plates were bought by bookseller H.M.Fletcher who issued this suite of the illustrations in 1970.The copper plate is for for the map displaying "The Kingdoms of Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg and Japan".
Lot 170
Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle..., 3 vol. in 4 including Appendix to vol. 2, first edition, 9 folding engraved maps by J. Gardner and J. & C. Walker, all linen-backed and bound in, 47 etched plates after P. King, A. Earle, C. Martens, R. Fitzroy and others, lacking half-titles and vol. 3 title, without advertisements at end of Appendix, vol. 1 frontispiece very small mark within image and working loose at foot, vol. 1 p.xv repaired tears affecting few words, occasional short tears to map edges or folds with fractional loss, few plates with minor spotting or light marginal staining, plates with some light browning and offsetting, some surface soiling, ex-library copies with bookplate, pencil shelfmarks and ink-stamp to titles, ink-stamp(s) to maps and plates, modern blue half morocco, [Freeman 10; Hill 607; Norman 584; Sabin 37826], 8vo, Henry Colburn, 1839. *** Darwin's first published work and his most-widely read, the account of the voyage that would lead to his publishing On the Origin of Species. The first volume contains Capt. Philip Parker King's account of the expedition in the Adventure, which surveyed the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. The second (and its Appendix) describes the Beagle's second voyage under Capt. Fitzroy to South America, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and other islands and countries. “The five years of the voyage were the most important event in Darwin's intellectual life and in the history of biological science. Darwin sailed with no formal scientific training. He returned a hard-headed man of science...The experiences of his five years... and what they led to, built up into a process of epoch-making importance in the history of thought” (DSB).
![Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) [The World Crisis Series], 3 vol., comprising The World Crisis 1911-1918, "Abridged and Revis](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/faa88d8f-18d0-4846-9b2e-b2600106b594/03ff4e52-932b-41a2-99ff-b260010830a7/468x382.jpg)
Lot 91
Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) [The World Crisis Series], 3 vol., comprising The World Crisis 1911-1918, "Abridged and Revised Edition"; The Aftermath being a sequel to The World Crisis, fore-edge slightly spotted; The Unknown War: The Eastern Front 1914-1917, half-titles, folding maps and plates, light occasional spotting, modern crimson half morocco, spines gilt with lion motif, double black morocco spine labels, an attractive set, Macmillan, 8vo, 1941.
Lot 155
Australia.- White (John) Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, first edition, list of subscribers, list of plates, 62 hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 65), engraved title slightly trimmed and with vignette excised and repaired with paper, plate from another work bound in as frontispiece, one plate with ink correction to caption, one plate with a couple ink stains, a few repaired tears into text or plates, causing small loss of text (see A1-3), occasional light offsetting and light browning, occasional spotting, some staining and soiling, ex-library copy with bookplate, ink-stamp to title and plates, nineteenth-century half cloth, chipping to spine label, library sticker to foot of spine, joints split, rubbed, [Nissen ZBI 4390] 4to, for Debrett, 1790.
Lot 74
Solis (Antonio de) The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, first edition in English, translated by Thomas Townsend, engraved portrait frontispiece of Cortez, 6 folding engraved plates and 2 maps (1 folding), generally clean and crisp, contemporary blind-stamped calf, a little scuffed and with 2 patches of leather worn on lower cover and spine, corners rubbed, folio, Printed for T. Woodward, J. Hooke and J. Peele, 1724.
Lot 194
Britain.- Camden (William) Britannia: or, A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent..., 3 vol., edited and enlarged by Richard Gough, first Gough edition, engraved portrait frontispiece (laid down), 149 engraved maps and plates only (of 153), many folding, folding pedigree, ?lacking one preliminary f. to vol. 1, vol. 1 title with small loss to fore-margin repaired, vol. 3 title with following f. laid down to verso, vol. 1 penultimate f. & vol. 2 final f. laid down, very occasional marginal ink annotations, few maps trimmed into scale, several with folds or fore-edge reinforced with paper to verso, some tears and repairs to text and maps/plates, generally marginal but occasionally affecting text or image, occasional staining, particularly to vol. 2 near start, some browning and foxing, ex-library copy with small ink-stamp to titles, 19th century half morocco, gilt insignia of Leeds Library to upper covers, worn, some covers detached, folio, John Nichols, 1789; sold not subject to return.
Lot 190
Russia.- Harding (Edward) Costume of the Russian Empire, additional hand-coloured engraved title and 72 hand-coloured plates, letterpress titles and text in English and French, one plate with short marginal tear, scattered faint spotting, contemporary straight grain morocco, gilt, g.e., slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Abbey Travel 246], 4to, 1811.
![Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll".- Bowles (Thomas Gibson) The Log of the 'Nereid', first edition, Lewis Carroll's](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/faa88d8f-18d0-4846-9b2e-b2600106b594/ffe7faf8-c176-4e96-997a-b26001082167/468x382.jpg)
Lot 85
Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll".- Bowles (Thomas Gibson) The Log of the 'Nereid', first edition, Lewis Carroll's copy with presentation inscription "To the Revd C.L. Dodgson with the kind regards of the Author Nov 1890" on title, frontispiece and 12 plates and illustrations by Lockhart Bogle, half-title, TLs from the author tipped-in, new endpapers, modern calf-backed boards, edges uncut, 8vo, 1889. *** TLs from the author on the outcome of the Great War: "6 March 1917... . Convinced as I am, and supported as I am by the similar convictions of the Kaiser now announced in acts, that the decision of this war can only be reached at sea, I feel it a duty to insist upon that truth, and upon the removal of all persons and things as yet unaware of it." - Bowles.
Lot 168
Polar.- Ross (Captain Royal Navy John) A Voyage of Discovery, Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, 2 vol. (plates bound separately), first edition 25 aquatint or engraved plates, some folding, some with hand-colouring, 7 maps and charts, of which 6 folding, lacking errata slip, Appendix pp. 9-16 misbound at start, dedication f. laid down, title and one plate trimmed and window-mounted, some plates and maps linen-backed, some tears and repairs to text and plates, mostly marginal but occasionally into text or image, some light browning, some staining and soiling, ex-library copy with bookplate, ink-stamp to title and plates, modern cloth, library stickers to spines and upper covers, corners rubbed, [Abbey Travel 634, Sabin 73376], 4to, John Murray, 1819, bound with The Supplement the Second Voyage.
Lot 103
Nesbit (E.) The Railway Children, second edition, frontispiece, illustrated title-page and nineteen other plates by C.E. Brock, 10pp. publisher's advertisements at end, some corner creasing, occasional light foxing, original pictorial cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped and frayed, light rubbing, t.e.g., dust-jacket, spine and margins of lower panel sunned, spine ends and corners chipped, lower panel with two patches of surface tearing and light tide-mark, 1 or 2 short nicks to head, light creasing to head and foot, rubbing to extremities, 8vo, Wells Gardener, Darton & Co., 1906.*** Exceptionally rare in the dust-jacket, we can trace only one example of the first edition, and none of the second, at auction in the last 40 years.
Lot 204
Gardens.- van Laar (Gijsbert) Magazijn van Tuin-Sieraden; of Verzameling van Modellen van Aanleg en Sieraad..., title with hand-coloured engraved vignette, 190 hand-coloured engraved plates, occasional light foxing or staining to margins, later boards, a couple of small stains to covers, 4to, Zalt-Bommel, Johannes Noman en Zoon, [?1802]. *** A charming Dutch work on garden design, depicting an extremely wide range of subjects, from temples to hovels and their contrasting ornaments, mostly deriving from the anglo-chinois style.
![Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first editions, comprising The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, ownership n](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/faa88d8f-18d0-4846-9b2e-b2600106b594/9483e7fb-138d-49d3-90c7-b26001083c62/468x382.jpg)
Lot 98
Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first editions, comprising The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, ownership name in red crayon on front free endpaper, original cloth, strips of fading along all edges, spine damp-stained, jacket joints splitting but reinforced with tape verso on spine joints, portions of loss to upper edge, corners, and spine tail, rather sunned along edges to upper panel, 1950; Prince Caspian, bookseller's sticker on front free endpaper, cloth a little spotted, spine head faded, jacket with nicks and tears to edges, surface marking to panels, 1951; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, cloth re-backed with original spine expertly laid down, spine faded, light discolouration to covers, jacket repaired and restored with expert retouches, 1952; The Silver Chair, endpapers browned, cloth with patches of fading to extremities, jacket torn down upper panel and held together with paper verso, splitting down flap joints and reinforced with tape verso, other tears across spine, portions of loss to spine ends and upper edges, other nicks and tears to edges, foxing and browning, 1953; The Horse and His Boy, ownership name on slightly toned front free endpaper, some damp-staining to first and last few pages, cloth soiled, jacket repaired and restored with extensive but neat retouching, edges creased with the odd nick, 1954; The Magician's Nephew, 2" split up spine joint, spine ends and extremities a little rubbed but sharp overall, flaps spotted, 1955; The Last Battle, spotting, cloth spine ends a little faded, jacket spotted, spine head reinforced with tape verso, joints rubbed, 1956, plates, illustrations and maps by Pauline Baynes, including colour where called for, occasional scattered spotting, original boards, dust-jackets, some toning to spines, 8vo. *** A scarce complete set of C. S. Lewis' classic children series.
Lot 185
India.- Watson (John Forbes) The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India, first edition, 12 plates, of which 9 mounted composite albumen prints (8 hand-coloured), 2 lithographed and one chromolithographed, ink library stamps to title and plates, light finger-soiling to title, creasing and tear to endpaper, library stamps and labels to front free endpaper and pastedown, 20th century roan-backed cloth, folio, Printed for the India Office, by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1866.
Lot 209
Insects.- Donovan (Edward) The Natural History of British Insects; explaining them in their several states, 4 vol. only (of 16), mixed edition, 576 engraved plates, most hand-coloured, index of vol. 1-16 bound at end of vol. 4, some plates slightly trimmed at edges, a few pencil annotations, a few tears to margins and minor repairs, occasional light offsetting and browning, occasional foxing and spotting, heavy to some leaves, some damp- and other staining, sometimes to plates, ex-library copies with bookplates, ink-stamps to titles and all plates, vol. 4 upper hinge broken, vol. 2 contemporary black half morocco, other vol. contemporary dark green half morocco, library stickers to spine ends and upper covers, vol. 1 & 3 contents loose within binding, 2 vol. with upper covers becoming detached, rubbed and worn, [Nissen ZBI 1142] 8vo, for the Author, and for F. and C. Rivington, 1793-[1813]; sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. *** Seemingly, a composite set with titles to vol. 1-4 only, but with the full suite of 576 plates found in all 16 vol. The plates are bound out of order.
Lot 157
Central Asia.- Stein (Sir Marc Aurel) Serindia. Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China, 5 vol. (including plate vol. & box of maps), first edition, half-titles, text vol. with plates containing multiple photographic illustrations, plate vol. with 176 plates, some colour, few folding, box of maps with contents f., general map with printed glacine overlay (small ink-stamps to glacine), index map and maps numbered 1-94, occasional soiling, light browning to endpapers, ex-library copies with bookplate, small ink-stamp to plates (text vol. to plate lower margins, plate vol. and maps to verso), original cloth, maps loose as issued in original matching cloth box, library sticker to foot of upper covers, plate vol. spine foot bumped and corners rubbed, few very faint stains and some light surface soiling, slight rubbing to extremities, 4to, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1921. *** Landmark work and one of the most important texts on Central Asia, covering Stein's explorations and his archaeological discoveries on his three expeditions between 1900 and 1915.
Lot 120
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Peter Rabbit, deluxe edition, 27 colour plates and plain title vignette by the author, colour pictorial double-page endpapers (Linder's Fig.6 & 7), ownership inscription on front pastedown corner, upper hinge cracked in places and fragile with few tears, one or two finger-staining marks but clean overall, original brown cloth with gilt decorations and lettering, with small pictorial onlay of Peter Rabbit, g.e., extremities very slightly rubbed, [c.f. Linder p.422 note], 16mo, Warne, n.d., [c.1910].
Lot 203
Fish.- Albin (Eleazar) The History of Esculent Fish, first edition, half-title, 18 fine hand-coloured engraved plates, some offsetting and spotting, most plates trimmed within plate-mark, front free endpaper detached, contemporary half calf, rebacked, rubbed, [Westwood & Satchell p.3], 4to, Printed for Edward Jeffery [&c.], 1794.*** Also includes An Essay on the Breeding of Fish, and the Construction of Fish-Ponds by Hon. Roger North. Quite scarce at auction, the last coloured copy sold in 2011.
Lot 83
*** Please note the description of this lot has changed *** Grey (Charles) Biography of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort, first edition, signed presentation inscription from Queen Victoria "To Major General Francis Seymour. In recollection of his beloved Mother from the dear Prince's devoted & sorrowing widow Victoria RI, April 25. 1867" to front free endpaper, engraved portrait frontispiece and 19 mounted photographic plates, tissue-guards, gutter broken with some text leaves and a few plates loose, including front free endpapers, half-title and frontispiece, pp.14-15 browned, a few leaves slightly frayed at edges, occasional light soiling (heavier to a few plates), some spotting to endpapers, original cloth, gilt, spine slightly mottled and with short tear to head, spine ends, corners and upper joint quite worn, lightly rubbed elsewhere, upper joint split at foot, 8vo, Printed for private circulation by Smith, Elder and Co., 1866.
Lot 216
Hutton (James) Theory of the Earth with Proofs and Illustration, 2 vol., first edition, 6 folding engraved plates (finely silked and laid down), vol. 1 half-title bound after title, vol. 1 title and half-title silked to verso, vol. 2 half-title laid down, trimmed once into plate number at fore-edge, plate 4 slightly frayed at fore-margin, a couple tears to plates with very small loss, occasional staining, some light spotting, ex-library copies with ink-stamp to titles, modern half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, cloth slip-cases, [Norman 541], 8vo, Edinburgh, William Creech, 1795. *** James Hutton's Theory of the Earth was pivotal in the development of geology as a science. Although, initially to be printed into 4 parts, Hutton passed away before finishing.
Lot 130
Earlom (Richard, engraver) A Collection of Prints after the Sketches and Drawings of the late celebrated Giovanni Battista Cipriani, stipple engraved portrait frontispiece and title, 49 aquatint or stipple engraved plates, occasional faint marginal spotting, occasional faint marginal water-staining, new endpapers, modern antique style half-calf, morocco label to upper cover, richly gilt spine, [Abbey Life 199], folio, John & Josiah Boydell, 1789. *** "The first book in England in which aquatint is to be found as a method of rendering wash drawings, with plate in imitation of ink and chalk drawings." (Abbey)
Lot 195
London.- Thomson (John) and Adolphe Smith. Street Life in London with Permanent Photographic Illustrations Taken from Life Expressly for this Publication, 37 fine woodburytypes mounted on 36 leaves, ruled and captioned in red, some with tissue-guards, without preface f. (not always present), title lightly toned and with repair to gutter, few repairs to text leaves, p.87 affecting text but no loss, occasional small staining and some light soiling, few plates loose, ex-library copy with bookplate and small ink-stamp to title, original pictorial green cloth, gilt, rebacked with original backstrip laid down, small library sticker to spine foot, some wear to corners, some light rubbing, mainly to extremities, modern cloth slip-case with library sticker, g.e., Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, [1877-78]. *** A pioneering work for its use of photography as social documentation. The types represented include street doctors, cabmen, shoe-blacks, locksmiths, pedlars &c. The work was first issued in 12 monthly parts, then in book form in maroon and variant green bindings.
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Lot 174
Voyages.- Cook (Capt. James) [First Voyage].- Parkinson (Sydney) A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's Ship, the Endeavour, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece laid down, engraved map of New Zealand and 25 plates only (of 26, lacking plate 10), with errata f. but lacking final blank, occasional early ink correction or annotation, plate 1 short tear into image repaired, N3 tear into text with repair affecting few letters, some other short marginal tears to text and plates and few repairs (see K3), spotting, mainly to Sig. X, some offsetting, soiling and some staining, lightly browned, ex-library copy with bookplate, small ink-stamp to title and verso of plates, 19th century half morocco, library sticker to upper cover and spine foot, rubbed, 4to, for Stanfield & Parkinson, 1773.
Lot 156
Central Asia.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart) An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, 1 vol. bound in 2, first edition, engraved map in outline hand-colouring, 13 aquatint plates only (of 14), all but one hand-coloured (lacking frontispiece), all with small ink library stamp, errata leaf at end, some foxing and soiling, occasional staining, upper margin of 3Q2 torn away, large folding engraved map linen-backed and bound in separate vol., modern half morocco, map in modern matching morocco-backed cloth, [Abbey Travel 504; Tooley 209; Yakushi E63], 4to, 1815.*** Elphinstone's account of his Mission to the Court of Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk, King of Kabul, the first full description of Afghanistan and it's people. Elphinstone was appointed British ambassador to the Afghan court in 1808.
Lot 226
Mathematics.- Newton (Sir Isaac).- Desaguliers (John Theophilus) A Course of Experimental Philosophy, 2 vol., first edition, lists of subscribers, vol.2 with engraved title-vignette, 78 folding engraved plates, clean and crisp copy, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, 4to, Printed for John Senex [&c.], 1734-44.*** The author was an experimental assistant to Isaac Newton and later popularized Newtonian theories and their practical applications in public lectures. "Newton, late Sir Isaac Kt." appears in the list of subscribers despite having died in 1727.
Lot 169
Sri Lanka.- Knox (Robert) An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in the East-Indies..., first edition, double-page engraved map (little frayed at edges, trimmed with loss to scale at foot), 15 engraved plates, lacking advertisement f. at end, without the portrait (as usual), licence f. bound after title, I1 & plate at D4v with very small hole, some tears and repairs to text and plates, mostly marginal but occasionally into platemark or image without notable loss (see plates at D4v, F4, M4 & Q2v), trimmed at head occasionally affecting headline, some underlining/passage-marking in later red pencil, some spotting, some soiling and staining, ex-library copy with bookplate, ink-stamp to title and plates, later library cloth, small sticker to spine foot, little rubbed, backstrip peeled away from upper joint, [Wing K742], small folio, Richard Chiswell, 1681. *** The first account of Sri Lanka in English, and one of the sources for Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. While sailing for Persia in 1658, Knox's ship lost its mast in a storm and was forced to put ashore on Ceylon. Knox, along with his elder brother and crew, was captured by King Rajasinha II of Kandy and refused permission to leave the kingdom. Knox and a companion eventually escaped after 19 years of captivity and fled to a Dutch fort in the north of the island.
Lot 145
Lorrain (Claude) Liber Veritatis; or A Collection of Prints, after the Original Designs of Claude le Lorrain, 3 vol., portraits, 300 etched and mezzotint plates by Richard Earlom, with tissue-guards, printed in bistre, all ff. mounted on linen stubs, creasing to plate 133, vol. 3 plate numbers a few times supplied in pencil, a few small tears, occasional light surface soiling, but overall very good, ex-library copies with ink-stamp to titles, modern cloth, old morocco labels laid down to spines, a few minor marks to covers, g.e., [Abbey Life 200], folio, by Messrs. Boydell and Co., [1777-1819].*** "A landmark in the history of the reproduction of master drawings" (Abbey).
Lot 207
Botany.- Hooker (Sir William Jackson) Exotic Flora, 2 vol. only (of 3), first edition, 173 hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 233), of which c.47 double-page or folding, lacking half-titles and title and preliminaries to vol. 2, plates sometimes trimmed, affecting caption or with occasional slight loss of image, some light offsetting and minor soiling, ex-library copies with bookplate, small ink-stamp to title, few shelfmarks or ink-stamps to text leaves, some faint cockling where library ink-stamp removed to verso of plates, modern green half morocco, library label to upper covers, ink-stamp to lower-edge, t.e.g., [Nissen BBI 920], 8vo, Edinburgh, 1823[-27]. *** The second volume incorporates some plates from the lacking third volume. The plates present are numbers 1-172, and the additional plate 163*.
Lot 217
Newton (Sir Isaac) Opera quae exstant omnia, 5 vol., edited by Samuel Horsley, half-titles to all but vol. 4, 2 folding engraved tables, 32 engraved plates and plans, of which 3 folding, woodcut diagrams, vol. 1 with blank leaves 3D2 & 4C1, vol. 1 & 4 with corrigenda leaves at end, lacking blank Y4 to vol. 3 and final blank to vol. 5, half-titles/vol. 4 title guarded, very occasional spotting or light browning, occasional light soiling, water-staining to head, mainly to vol. 1 and 5 and very occasionally elsewhere, ex-library copies with small ink-stamp to titles, modern half cloth, library sticker to foot of upper covers, [Babson 8], 4to, J. Nichols, 1779-85. *** First and only collected edition of Newton's works. "This edition is by no means complete…but it is a very full collection of original texts issued in book form. It is the first to contain his important Geometria Analytica. Additions include Newton’s only printed chemical paper De Natura Acidum, a number of his letters, and, for the first time, the original text of the unfinished Methodus Fluxionum" (Babson). Copies are recorded with a portrait, not here present and likely not called for in this edition.
Lot 211
Seaweed.- Turner (Dawson) Fuci; or, Colored Figures and Descriptions of the Plants Referred by Botanists to the Genus Fucus, vol. 1 & 2 only (of 4), first edition, 134 engraved plates by Ellen Hutchins after W. J. Hooker, printed in colour and finished by hand, a few folding, text in Latin & English, very occasional spotting to text, some soiling, mostly to margins, some light offsetting and very slight marginal toning, ex-library copies with bookplate, small ink-stamp to titles and plates, 19th century green half morocco, rebacked and recornered, slightly rubbed, [Nissen BBI 2011], 4to, J. M'Creery, 1808-09.
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Lot 160
Japan.- Kaempfer (Englebert) Historia Imperii Japonici [The History of Japan], 2 vol., translated by J. Scheuchzer, additional engraved Latin title dated 1727 (slightly trimmed), titles in red and black, 45 engraved maps and plates, most folding, plate 21 with some small loss and laid down, some plates slightly trimmed, some tears and repairs, mostly to margins but sometimes affecting image or with small loss, some browning to margins, some foxing and soiling, ex-library copies with bookplates, ink-stamp to titles, modern brown half calf, folio, for the publisher, 1728.
Lot 187
India.- Williamson (Capt. Thomas) and Samuel Howett. Oriental Field Sports; being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the Wild Sports of the East, "second edition", paper repair to pp.273-6 fore-margin, offsetting, occasional foxing, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, bookplates of Henry Thomas Partridge and Lord Farnham to front pastedown and endpaper, 19th century straight-grain navy morocco, gilt, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, retaining original gilt backstrip, hinges repaired, g.e., [cf. Abbey, Travel 427], 4to, H. R. Young, [plates watermarked 1825]
Lot 199
Thames.- Boydell (John & Josiah) An History of the River Thames, 2 vol., first edition, 2 printed titles to each vol., vol.1 with printed dedications to George III and the Earl of Orford, 2 folding engraved maps, 76 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Stadler after Farington, 3 folding, engraved plate of head of 'Father Thames' bound within vol.1 not as frontispiece, some offsetting and oxidisation to plates, some foxing, mostly to text, occasionally heavy, one leaf in vol.2 with repaired tear affecting text, one title and dedication leaf in vol.1 detached, contemporary diced russia, gilt, rebacked, corners bit worn, [Abbey Scenery 432], folio, 1794-96.
Lot 52
Cranmer (Thomas, Archbishop) An Aunswere by the Reverend Father in God Thomas Archbyshop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitane, unto a craftie and Sophisticall cauillation, deuised by Stephen Gardiner Doctour of Law, late Byshop of Winchester ..., second edition, black letter, one wood engraved plate only (of 2), woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, woodcut illustration to imprimatur at end, early ink inscription to title, occasional very neat red ink markings, occasional faint pencil marginal markings, ex-Nottingham Mechanics' Institute with bookplate obscured by modern endpapers, faint abrasion mark to front free endpaper where label removed, later calf, rebacked and recornered retaining original backstrip and calf, gilt shelfmark to spine foot, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, folio, by John Daye, 1580. *** Stephen Gardiner (1483-1555) was the Bishop of Winchester, and served as Mary Tudor's Lord Chancellor during the persecution of the Protestants. Cranmer's Aunswere, part of a controversy between Cranmer and Gardiner on the sacrament of communion, was first published by Wolfe in 1551. This copy bound with one of the two plates called for, both of which are often lacking.
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Lot 92
Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) [War Speeches], 7 vol., comprising Into Battle, 1941; The Unrelenting Struggle, 1942; The End of the Beginning, 1943; Onwards to Victory, 1944; The Dawn of Liberation, 1945; Victory, 1946; Secret Session Speeches, 1946, first editions, half-titles, plates, light occasional foxing, modern crimson red half morocco over marbled boards, spines gilt with lion motif, double black morocco spine labels, 8vo.
Lot 144
Hamilton (Sir William) Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases Mostly of Pure Greek Workmanship..., 3 vol. only (of 4, as usual), first edition, engraved frontispiece to vol. 1, 195 engraved plates on 192 sheets, errata f. at end vol. 1, engraved titles and parallel text in English and French, vol. 1 2E1 with marginal tears and paper repair, vol. 3 plate 9 trimmed within image, few other plates trimmed into border, vol. 2 titles and plates numbered in early ink manuscript, occasional damp-staining or very light spotting, some surface soiling and light browning, ex-library copies with small ink-stamp to lower margin English titles, later half calf, small library sticker to foot of spines, corners worn, rubbed, [Blackmer 778], folio, Naples, Wm. Tischbein, 1791-95. *** A lavishly illustrated work recording Hamilton's second collection, particularly valuable because the ship transporting it to England sank off the Isles of Scilly, losing one third of the collection. An undated supplementary fourth volume was published later, containing plates but no text, but is rarely found with the set. Sets of varying numbers of previously unpublished proof impressions continued to circulate in the 19th century, sometimes referred to as a ‘fifth volume'.
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