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Click here to subscribe[DEFOE, DANIEL]THE LIFE AND STRANGE SURPRIZING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE London: John Stockdale, 1790. 2 volumes, 8vo, 2 frontispieces, 12 engraved plates and a portrait of Defoe, 19th century purple calf gilt, some fading to covers and spine, a few pages with small corner repairs, bookplate in one volume (2)
DICKENS, CHARLESTHREE FIRST EDITIONS Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, 35 engraved plates, original blue upper wrapper for part two bound in, contemporary half calf, bookplate, a little light dampstaining, many plates darkened; [Idem] Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. First edition bound from parts, 8vo, frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, 38 engraved plates, contemporary green half calf gilt, a little foxing and darkening throughout; [Idem] Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. First edition, two volumes bound in one, 8vo, 2 frontispieces and 38 plates, quarter green calf gilt, slightly rubbed, a little light foxing (3)
DICKENS, CHARLESTWO FIRST EDITIONS Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First edition bound from parts, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, 38 engraved plates, contemporary half calf gilt, some foxing; [Idem] David Copperfield. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850. First edition in book form, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, 38 engraved plates, contemporary red half calf, rubbed, a little foxing, a couple of small tears to page edges (3)
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, REPRINTS, INCLUDING PERRET, JACQUESDES FORTIFICATIONS ET ARTIFICES, ARCHITECTURE ET PERSPECTIVE Unterscheidheim: Verlag Walter Uhl, 1971. Folio, publisher's buckram, a facsimile of the Paris edition of 1601; Serlio, Sebastiano Tutte l'opere d'archittettura et prospetiva. Ovideo: Colegio Oficial de Aparejadores y Arquitectos Tecnicos de Asturias, 1986. Folio, publisher's cloth, dust wrapper, a facsimile reproduction of the edition of Venice, 1600, no 864, with the book plates of John and Michael Bury; Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus De architectura: Nachdruck der kommentierten ersten italienschen Ausgabe von Cesare Cesariano (Como, 1521); with an introduction by Carol Herselle Krinsky. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1969. Folio, publisher's cloth, facsimile reprint, with the book plates of John and Michael Bury; Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus I dieci libri dell'architettura tradotti e commentate da Daniele Barbaro 1567. Con un saggio di Manfredo Tafuri e uno studio di Manuela Morresi. Milan: Edizioni il Polifio, 1987. Folio, publisher's paper boards, dust wrappers, facsimile reproduction of the edition of Venice, 1567, one of 700 copies; Philandrier, Guillaume Les annotations sur le De Architectura de Vitruve livres I a IV: introduction, traduction et commentaire par Frederique Lemerle. Paris: Picard, 2000. 4to., publisher's printed wrappers, includes a facsimile reproduction of the Lyon edition of 1552; Amico, Bernardino Trattato delle piante et imagini de i sacri edificii di Terrasanta. Plans of the sacred edifices of the Holy Land. Jerusalem: Franciscan Press, 1953. 4to., publisher's printed wrappers, facsimile of the edition of Rome, 1609 with a translation from the Italian by Fr. Theophilus Bellorini OFM and Fr. Eugene Hoade OFM, with a preface and notes by Fr Bellarmino Bagatti OFM; The Casale Pilgrim: a sixteenth-century illustrated guide to the Holy Places reproduced in facsimile, with introduction, translation and notes by Cecil Roth. London: Soncino Press, 1929. 4to., publisher's vellum, edges uncut, no 580 of 580 copies signed by Cecil Roth, with the book plate of John Bury and 14 others (21)Provenance: From the Library of the Late John Bernard Bury
PUGIN, AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMOREDESIGNS FOR IRON & BRASS WORK... London: Ackermann & Co., [1836]. 4to, engraved title and 26 engraved plates, contemporary half calf with the label of the Birmingham Society of Arts and Government School of Design to the upper cover, some spotting; Goldsmiths Designs for Gold & Silversmiths. London: Ackermann & Co., 1836. 4to, engraved title, 27 engraved plates, contemporary half calf with the label of the Birmingham Society of Arts and Government School of Design to the upper cover, some spotting; Fresnoy, C.A. du - John Dryden, translator The Art of Painting. London: Henry Lintot, 1750. 8vo, frontispiece, contemporary calf rebacked [ESTC T122964] (3)
RICHARDSON, CHARLES JAMESSTUDIES OF ORNAMENTAL DESIGN Large folio, lithographed decorative title, text within bistre, sepia and gold lithographed borders, frontispiece and 16 lithographed plates (9 coloured), contemporary green half morocco, spine gilt, 2 (different) lithographed dedication leaves, a few light spots
SHAW, HENRYTHE DECORATIVE ARTS ECCLESIASTISTICAL AND CIVIL OF THE MIDDLE AGES London: William Pickering, 1851. Folio, 41 chromolithographed and lithographed plates, contemporary panelled red morocco gilt, bookplates of Thomas Bowater Vernon and David Graham, gauffered edges, scattered spotting, slightly rubbed
11 MISCELLANEOUS VOLUMES, COMPRISINGSELECTIONS FROM THE COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE LADIES COMMITTEE London: printed for the Society. June 1806. No. 2 (only), [iv], pp.88; The Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. The Twenty-Eighth Report. London, Dec. 1806. [iv], pp. 141-176, 101-132; The Twenty-Ninth Report. London, Nov. 1807, [iv], 177-210, 133-170; The Thirtieth Report. Dec. 1807, [iv], [viii], 211-241, 171-234, [vi - index]; The Thirty Second Report. 1811, [viii], 65-114;37-76; Bernard, Thomas The New School. London: for the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor. Dec. 1809, [viii], 111, [iii]; contemporary quarter calf, rubbed, upper board detached; Lawrence, T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1935. 4to, plates, maps, original buckram gilt, spine lightly faded, owner's name to front free endpaper; Vischer, Hanns Across the Sahara from Tripoli to Bornu. 1910. 8vo, plates, folding map, (plate misplaced at p.8) original cloth, upper hinge weak; Muhlhauser, G.H.P. The Cruise of the Amaryllis. 1924. First edition, 8vo, plates, original cloth; Francke, A.H. A History of Western Tibet. S.W. Partridge, [1907], original pictorial cloth; 8vo, plates, maps; Gibb, H.A.R. & J.H. Kramers Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden, 1933. 8vo, original cloth; Thesiger, W. The Marsh Arabs. 1964. First edition, dust-jacket a bit frayed; Richards, V. Portrait of T.E. Lawrence. 1936, original cloth; Banks, M. Rakaposhi. 1959. First edition, dustwrapper; West, Rebecca Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. 1946, 2 volumes, original cloth sold not subject to return (11)
SUFFOLK ARCHITECTURE - DAVY, HENRYA SERIES OF ETCHINGS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES OF SUFFOLK Southwold: Published by the Author, 1827. Folio, One of 50 "Super Royal Folio" copies, original upper wrapper for part 2 with manuscript name of John Britton Esq. bound in at beginning, list of subscribers, 71 engraved plates; with, bound in at end, the title, index and list of subscribers only to "A Set of Etchings illustrative of Beccles Church" (Norwich, 1818), late 19th century half morocco, worn, hinges splittingNote: The advertisement on the printed wrapper that is bound into this volumes notes this as the "Super Royal Folio" edition, of which "Fifty copies will be printed on super royal folio paper, to correspond with the Etchings of Beccles Church".
3 BOOKS, COMPRISING DARWIN, BERNARD & ELINORTHE TALE OF MR TOOTLEOO Nonesuch Press, [n.d. but 1925]. Oblong 8vo, 22 coloured plates, fawn & red embossed boards; Sluiter, Willy Per Stoomvaart my Nederland naar Java. Amsterdam, n.d.; oblong 4to, plates, original green cloth; Luddecke, R. Afrika in 6 Blattern. Gotha, n.d.; small folio, coloured folding map, original black cloth, spine worn (3)
4 VOLUMES, INCLUDINGGRISWOLD, R.W. The Republican Court, or American Society in the Days of Washington. New York: D. Appleton, 1859. 4to, 25 engraved plates, contemporary brown morocco, ornately gilt, g.e.; Polo, Marco The Most Noble and Famous Travels of Marco Polo...edited by John Frampton. London: The Argonaut Press, 1929. 4to, number 483 of 1050 copies, original vellum-backed yellow buckram, binding slightly soiled; Seccombe, T.S. The Story of Prince Hildebrand and the Princess Ida. London: De La Rue, [188p], First edition, 4to, presentation copy from the author to Sir T. L. Seccombe, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine a little rubbed; [Robert Steavenson - Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh] - Martyn, Thomas Thirty eight Plates with explanations intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables. London: B. White, 1788. 8vo, 38 hand-coloured plates, contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt, rubbed, upper cover detached, ownership inscription on title and armorial bookplate of Robert Steavenson, M.D. (4)
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS6 WORKS INCLUDING MACKENZIE, FREDERICK The architectural antiquities of the collegiate chapel of St. Stephen, Westminster. London: J. Weale, 1844. Large folio, lithographed frontispiece and 18 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked and recornered, some spotting; Iozzi, O. Vetri cimiteriali. Rome, 1900. Folio, plates, wrappers detached; [Grunewalde] Le retable d'Isenheim, par Chistiran Zervos.1936. Folio, within original folder; Yacovleff [Jacovleff] - Mille, Pierre Feli et M'Bala. Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1938. 8vo, illustrated by Yacovleff, quarter cloth over printed boards, some soiling and rubbing; [Laujon, Pierre] Les a Propos de la Folie. [Paris?:] J.M. Moreau, 1776. 8vo, volume 3 only; Doré, Gustave Cassell's Doré Gallery. Cassell & Co., [c.1880], 4to, illustrations, modern tan half morocco; sold not subject to return (6)
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS, 19 VOLUMESINCLUDING TANSILLO, LUIGI La Balia Pometto. Vercelli: Il Panialis, 1767. 4to, original quarter calf, dampstained; Donne, John X Sermons. Nonesuch Press, 1923, folio, number 563 of 725 copies, original quarter cloth, boards a bit soiled; Ellis, George, editor Specimens of the Early English Poets. London: printed for Edwards, 1790. 8vo, extra-illustrated with 55 engraved portraits, inlaid to size, green morocco gilt, bookplate of Barlbrough Hall, g.e., slightly rubbed; Shepherd, Thomas H. Modern Athens! Displayed in a Series of Views. London: Jones & Co., 1829. 4to, additional title and 88 plates, each with 2 views, original cloth, a little spotting, rebacked retaining original spine; [Coats, Andrew] From the Cottage to the Castle. [Perth, c. 1894], 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed, contemporary maroon morocco gilt, seemingly the author's own copy as initials AC on upper cover, rebacked retaining spine, g.e.; Harrison, Joseph The Floricultural Cabinet. 1835-36, 2 volumes, engraved titles and 27 hand-coloured plates, contemporary green half calf gilt; Smith, John Old Scottish Clockmakers from 1453 to 1850, 1921, original cloth; Moreton, C.O. Old Carnations and Pinks. 1955. Folio, number 10 of 100 copies signed by author and artist, 8 colour plates by Rory McEwen, maroon half morocco, t.e.g.; and 11 others (19)
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS, INCLUDINGLAWRENCE, T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 1935. 4to, original buckram gilt, t.e.g.; Barker, C.M. A Flower Fairy Alphabet. [n.d.], 12mo, original boards, lacks spine; Pratt, Anne Wild Flowers. SPCK., 2 volumes, 12mo, coloured plates, original cloth; Laing, A. Lindores Abbey and its Burgh of Newburgh. Edinburgh, 1886. 4to, contemporary quarter morocco gilt; Conolly, M.F. Fifiana. Glasgow, 1869. 4to, plates, original cloth, faded; Cunningham, A.S. The Golf Clubs round Largo Bay. Leven, 1909, 8vo, original wrappers; Dalrymple, W. Golfer's Guide to the GAME and Greens of Scotland. 1894, 8vo, original cloth; Jackson, D. Golf Songs and Recitations. Leven, 1895, 8vo, lacks covers; Kingsley, C. The Water-Babies. [c.1930], 4to, plates by George Soper, original cloth; Hoffman, H. Sturwwelpeter. G. Routledge & Sons, [n.d.]. 4to, original quarter cloth; Gordon, T.C. David Allan of Alloa 1744-1796, the Scottish Hogarth. 1951. 4to, presentation copy inscribed by the author, with TLS signed by the author; Trollope, A. Christmas Day at Kirby Cottage. [n.d.], 8vo, original wrappers by Joan Hassall; and 2 others (15)
AGRICULTURE, NATURAL HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY13 BOOKS The Scots Farmer... Edinburgh: William Auld, 1773-4. 2 volumes, 8vo, two folding plates (one torn with a hole), later half calf gilt [ESTC T90070]; Bingley, W. Memoirs of British Quadrupeds. London: Darton and Harvey, 1809. 8vo, contemporary embossed calf, lacking several plates, bookplate; Smellie, William Account of the Institution and Progress of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland. Edinburgh: William Creech, 1782. 4to, engraved vignette to title-page, errata leaf at rear, original blue publisher's boards, upper cover detached; Buttress, F.A. Agricultural Periodicals of the British Isles, 1681-1900... Cambridge, 1950. 8vo, original wrappers; Terry, Seth Sprague First Editions of Books Famous in English Literature... the Library Collected by the Late Seth Sprague Terry... American Art Association, 1935. 8vo, original boards; Cockerell, Douglas Bookbinding, and the Care of Books... London: John Hogg, 1901. 8vo, original boards; Andrew Jameson, 1916-1934. Edinburgh: Douglas & Foulis, 1935. 8vo, original green cloth gilt; and 5 others (13)
BAKER, E.C. STUART6 BOOKS, COMPRISING The Indian Ducks and Their Allies. Bombay: the Bombay Natural History Society, 1908. 8vo, 30 chromolithographed plates, contemporary green half morocco, spine a little faded, slight rubbing, a little foxing; [Idem] Indian Pigeons and Doves. London: Witherby & Co., 1913. 8vo, frontispiece and 26 colour plates, contemporary half morocco, bookplate, some foxing; [Idem] The Game-Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. London: John Bale, 1921-1930. 3 volumes, 8vo, 60 colour plates, 18 monochrome plates and 2 maps, contemporary green half morocco gilt (volume 3 in cloth), bookplate; [Idem] The Game Birds of the Indian Empire, parts 1-22, taken from Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 1927-1935. 8vo, 22 colour plates, all parts bound as one in contemporary blue half morocco gilt, some rubbing (6)
BRADLEY, RICHARDA PHILOSOPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE WORKS OF NATURE... London: W. Mears, 1721. First edition, 4to, 28 plates, modern half calf gilt, pp.171-174 replaced in facsimile, closed tear to pp.155-156, one plate partly coloured and another detached, some slight soiling and occasional small tears
CURTIS, WILLIAMTHE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE; OR, FLOWER-GARDEN DISPLAYED In which the most Ornamental Foreign Plants, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in their natural colours. London: Stephen Couchman for W. Curtis, 1793-1801 [but plates actually dated 1786-1801]. First edition, first issue, volumes 1-15, 8vo, 567 finely hand-coloured engraved plates, and 1 plain plate, contemporary mottled calf, gilt line border round sides, gilt tooled spines, double black lettering labels, sprinkled edges, armorial bookplates of Ralph RiddellNote: The Botanical Magazine is "the oldest current scientific periodical of its kind with coloured illustrations in the world... in the beauty of production and high standard of its contributions it can claim a unique place" (Patrick Synge. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (1948), p.73)Sydenham Edwards did most of the original drawings, engraved by Sansom, for the early volumes of the magazine. All of the illustrations were drawn from the living plant and "coloured as near to nature, as the imperfections of colouring will admit." Dunthorne calls the Curtis "a delightful work pictorially, never excelled as a periodical, most carefully coloured and a source of lasting interest and information." (p.190).The colouring of the plates in this set of the highest quality. The colourist took enormous pains to highlight each flower with subtle shades of colour rather than allow the engraving to designate tone and depth.Though the title-pages date from 1793-1801, the plates are dated from March 1786. According to Stafleu the first edition is determined by the date of the plates: "The plates in the early volumes are dated. These dates can usually be accepted as the dates of publication." (Stafleu. Taxonomic Literature, p.92-93. Hunt 689; Nissen BBI 2350; Dunthorne 99; Henry III, 472; Sitwell. Great Flower Books, 83-84; Blung 184-189) A very clean finely bound set.
GARDENING AND PLANTS4 WORKS, INCLUDING LOUDON, J.C. An Encyclopaedia of Gardening. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822. First edition, 8vo, original publisher's boards with green paper spine and publisher's label to spine; Hogg, Thomas A Concise and Practical Treatise on the Growth and Culture of the Carnation... London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., [n.d.] Fifth edition, 8vo, 6 hand-coloured plates, publisher's catalogue at rear, green cloth with publisher's label to spine; Thonger, Charles The Book of Garden Furniture. London: John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1903. 8vo, original cloth in the Arts & Crafts style by Edmund Hort New, bookplate of Laura K. Wangenheim; Culpeper, Nicholas The Complete Herbal. Birmingham: The Kynoch Press, 1953. 8vo, original red half morocco (4)
GREENE, WILLIAM THOMASPARROTS IN CAPTIVITY London: George Bell and Sons, 1884-1887. 3 volumes, 8vo, 81 coloured plates, original green cloth with gilt parrot motifs to upper covers, light dampstaining to volume 3, some occasional light offsetting and slight browning to some leaves, volume 2 frontispiece loose, neat previous ownership stamps
HUMPHREYS, HENRY NOELTHE GENERA AND SPECIES OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES London: Paul Jerrard and Son, [n.d. but 1859] Small 4to, hand-coloured additional title-page and 32 hand-coloured plates, original burgundy cloth gilt, school-prize label to free-endpaper, occasional foxing and a little darkening to some leaves
ART & ARCHITECTURE, 8 VOLUMESINCLUDING CECI, CARLO Piccoli Bronzi del Real Museo Nazionale... Naples, [n.d.] Oblong folio, frontispiece, 13 colour plates, original wrappers, worn; Shaw, Henry The Hand Book of Mediaeval Alphabets and Devices. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1853. 8vo, 36 plates, original blue cloth stained, plates loose; Wharton, Edith & Maxfield Parrish, illustrator Italian Villas and their Gardens. New York: The Century Co., 1905. 8vo, original pictorial green cloth gilt, bookplate; Viollet-le-Duc, E. L'Art Russe. Paris: A. Morel & Cie, 1877. 8vo, frontispiece and 31 plates, contemporary green quarter morocco with gold tooling and red onlays to spine, foxing; Pugin, A. Welby Details of Ancient Timber Houses of the 15th & 16th Centuries... [London:] Ackermann & Co., 1836. Small 4to, original cloth with paper label to cover, 21 plates, covers detached, foxed; and 2 further works by Pugin; Watts, Mrs. George Frederick The Word in the Pattern. London: The Astolat Press, 1905. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth; sold not subject to return (8)
WYATT, SIR MATTHEW DIGBYSPECIMENS OF ORNAMENTAL ART WORKMANSHIP IN GOLD, SILVER, IRON, Brass and Bronze from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Centuries. London: Day & Son, 1852. Large folio, frontispiece and 49 tinted and hand-coloured lithographed plates, original blindstamped and decorative salmon coloured cloth, title somewhat spotted, scattered lighter spotting to some plates, spine recased, upper joint rubbed, hinges neatly strengthened
MEYER, HENRY LEONARDILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH BIRDS London: Longman & Co., [n.d., 1835-1841] First edition, 4 volumes, folio, 320 hand-coloured plates, including egg plates, modern half calf gilt with red morocco gilt labels and bird motifs to spines, some light foxing (4)Note: Whilst no full-stop features following the publishers Longman & Co on the title-page, as would be in-keeping with the first issue of the work, this copy of Meyer's British Birds also features 320 plates, as are commonly found in the second issue.
NARES, EDWARD, THE REVERENDTHE HOLY BIBLE EMBELLISHED BY THE MOST EMINENT BRITISH ARTISTS London: T. Cadell, 1824. 4 volumes, including the Apocrypha, large square folio, 76 plates and numerous in-text engravings, contemporary maroon morocco gilt, neatly rebacked, bookplates of Percy Arden, occasional slight marginal worming
CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET - VIRGINIA WOOLF & ROGER FEY, EDITORSVICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS MEN AND FAIR WOMEN London: the Hogarth Press, 1926. 4to, number 212 of 450 numbered copies, frontispiece, 24 plates, original quarter Japanese vellum gilt over pink paper-covered boards, bookplate of Helen Brunner and another small inscription to paste-down endpaper, slight rubbing to covers, hinges weak [Woolmer 86]
SCOTTISH PAMPHLETS, A COLLECTIONOF 10 ITEMS, COMPRISING 1) [Voght, Caspar] Account of the Management of the Poor in Hamburgh, since the year 1788. Edinburgh, 1795. 8vo, [2],61,[1]p. , [ESTC: 23 copies]2) The Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. The First Report. London: T. Becket, 1797. 8vo, [2],xv,[3],46,6p., [ESTC: 10 copies in UK, 6 in USA, 2 in Australia]3) [Lowe, Alexander]. Account of the Drilled Turnip Husbandry of Berwickshire. 8vo, 16pp., [ESTC: L & NLS]4) Howlett, John. Dispersion of the Gloomy Apprehensions of late repeatedly suggested, from the Decline of our Corn-Trade. London: W. Richardson, 1797. 8vo, 4, 52pp., with half-title, [ESTC: 7 copies in UK, 2 in USA]5) Importance of the Brewery Stated. Edinburgh: P. Hill & T.N. Longman, 1798. 8vo, [2],74,10,18p., [ESTC: 2 copies in UK, 3 in USA]6) Number XXVIII. Parish of Peterhead... by the Rev. Dr Moir. pp. 541-630, extracted from periodical.7) epertory of Arts and Manufactures. Number L. [Dec. 12, 1797], 8vo, 24pp., 1 plate, [extract from]8) An Important Crisis, in the Callico and Muslin Manufactory in Great Britain, explained. [London, 9th April, 1788, dated at end] 8vo, 28pp., drop-head title, [ESTC: 7 copies in UK, 4 in N. America]9) Letter from Bailies Dalrymple, Smith and Hall, to the Lord Provost at Peterhead. [Edinburgh, 1 August 1798], 8vo, 24pp., drophead title, [ESTC: 3 copies in UK, 1 in N. America]10) [?Wood, J.] Elements of Perspective. [n.p., n.d.] 8vo, 64pp., 6 folding plates, [possibly ESTC T113885, incomplete]; 10 items in one volume, contemporary quarter calf, vellum tips, red morocco label "Miscellanies" , numbered "273" in gilt on spine, bookplate of Sir William Forbes Bart. of Pitsligo; and a volume of later articles [c. 1806-15], extracted from magazines, 8vo, contemporary half calf (2)
COMBE, WILLIAM [THOMAS ROWLANDSON]THE DANCE OF LIFE, A POEM London: R. Ackermann, 1817. First edition, 8vo, hand-coloured frontispiece, additional coloured engraved title-page, 24 hand-coloured plates, advert leaf, contemporary half calf with renewed banded gilt spine, a little spotting to first 37 pages, one plate with some soiling [Abbey, Life, 264]
HAND & FLOWER PRESS - FASSAM, THOMASAN HERBARIUM FOR THE FAIR London: Hand & Flower Press, 1949. 4to, number 124 of 260 copies printed by the Ditchling Press and signed by the author, etched title and 20 plates etched and signed by Betty Shaw-Lawrence, brown half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., uncut, boards slightly marked
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, A COLLECTIONINCLUDING RACKHAM, ARTHUR Grimm's Fairy Tales. London, 1909. 4to, 40 coloured mounted plates, original red pictorial cloth, rubbed; Jerrold, Walter The Big Book of Fables. 1912, 4to, illustrations by Charles Robinson, original red pictorial cloth gilt, spine faded; Wagner, R. Parsifal. 1912. 4to, illustrated by Willy Pogany, original grey pictorial cloth gilt, binding slightly skewed; Harrison, Florence Christina Rossetti Poems. Blackie & Son, plates, original white pictorial cloth gilt, t.e.g.; Glasgow Contemporaries at the Dawn of the XXth Century. Glasgow, c.1900. 4to, original pictorial vellum gilt; Kingsley, Charles The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales. London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, 1912. 4to, plates by W. Russell Flint, original vellum gilt, ties, t.e.g., slipcase; and 10 others, miscellaneous (16)
12" TERRESTRIAL GLOBEADDISON, J[OHN] A New Edition of D. Adam's Terrestrial Globe, Correctly laid down according to the best Observations & Latest Discoveries with the Tracks of all the Circumnavigators up to Oct. 1st 1818, by J. Addison, Geographer London. Made & Sold by J. Addison & Co., no 9 Skinners Street Snow Hill, [c.1820], hand-coloured engraved globe, supported in graduated engraved brass meridian ring with hour circle, fitting in horizon ring with calendrical scales, on associated stand, minor professional restoration by Stephen Sanders (see footnote)Note: John Addison Globe maker to George IV was active from 1800 - 1830. He was granted Royal appointment in 1820 and was trading as Addison and Co after 1815. Addison produced terrestrial and celestial globes in many sizes from 3" through to the magnificent 36" "Terraqueous Globe." A rare example of this globe was manufactured and published by G and J Cary in 1840 and was sold at Sotheby's in 2009 for £200,000. The same Addison globe was later manufactured by Malby and further by Wyld.This 12" table globe was published in 1818 by Addison. The Globe presents the circumnavigations of significant explorers including all 3 voyages of Captain Cook the voyages of Captain Vancouver and Butler's track to China. The cartographical detail is stunning for a globe of this size.The Globe is named as a new edition of D. Adams's terrestrial globe. Dudley Adams was the last of three generations in a family of instrument makers based in London. The firm produced high quality globes and instruments from 1735 until 1817 when, due to mismanagement, they were forced into bankruptcy. Dudley Adams sold his stock including plates and unfinished globes in that year. It is unclear whether Addison had bought any of the plates from the sale of Adams stock, but certainly seemed to want to exploit a gap in the market of globe production. The globe is constructed of a plaster and gesso shell laid with 12 beautifully engraved and printed paper gores which are hand coloured and laid down. The horizon papers also engraved showing degrees and compass points, the Gregorian calendar, zodiac and an unusual addition of significant Saint's days. Restoration WorkThe globe has been carefully cleaned to remove the occluded perished varnish and reveal the stunning map. The paper has been sized and re-varnished with shellac to protect the map. There is some damage to the surface in Asia which has been repaired.The stand has been restored and cleaned with some small repairs to the damage on the horizon circle. The brass springs are later but the rest of the metal work is original and has been gently cleaned and lacquered to protect the surface. The Restoration Work was undertaken by Stephen Sanders. www. globerestoration.co.uk
TWO 19TH CENTURY EMBOSSED AND STAMPED BINDINGSCOMPRISING ALLOM, T. Forty-Six Views of Tyrolese Scenery... London: Black and Armstrong, [n.d.] 4to, folding map, engraved plates, original embossed leather gilt, neatly rebacked, bookplate, a little foxing; Cats, Jacob & Robert Farlie Moral Emblems. London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860. 4to, original decorative stamped morocco by Bosworth & Harrison (2)
4 SCIENCE VOLUMES, INCLUDING L'ACADÉMIE FRANÇOISELE GRAND DICTIONNAIRE DE L'ACADÉMIE FRANÇOISE [DES ARTS ET SCIENCES] Amsterdam: Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1696. Second edition, Folio, 4 volumes in 2 books, contemporary half morocco with gilt tooling to spine, ownership bookplate; Goring, C.R. & A. Prichard Microscopic Illustrations. London: Whittaker, Treacher, 1830. 8vo, 5 plates, 3 hand-coloured, original boards, uncut, spine chipped, corners edgeworn, hinge repaired, some light spotting throughout, rubbed; Van Heurck, Henri The Microscope. London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1893. English edition, large 8vo, original morocco gilt panelled cover, frontispiece and plate, edgeworn, hinge split, slight discolouration to edges (4)
ACCUM, FRIEDRICH CHRISTIANA PRACTICAL TREATISE ON GAS-LIGHT, EXHIBITING A SUMMARY DESCRIPTION of the Apparatus and Machinery best calculated for illuminating Streets, Houses and Manufactories with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas. London: for R. Ackermann, 1815. First edition, 8vo, [ii], iii, [v], [i],186; 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates (2 folding), modern calf, red morocco labels, uncut, slightly spotted
ADAMS, JOHN; BOWDOIN, JAMES; HANCOCK, JAMES MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Boston: Adams and Nourse, 1785. First edition, 4to, volume 1, parts 1-3, 4to, 6 folding plates, original publisher's drab boards and paper spine, spotting & offsetting to spines (as often), [Sabin 1034] Note: First edition of the first volume of the Memoirs, one of the United States's most important and influential intellectual societies.
BABBAGE, CHARLES - THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETYMEMOIRS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON [later the Royal Astronomical Society]. London: Published by Baldwin, Cradock... [and later other publishers], 1822 - 1847. 4to, volumes 1-16 only, including Charles Babbage's A note respecting the application of machinery to the calculation of astronomical tables and Observations on the application of machinery to the computation of mathematical tables in volume 1, part 11, On a new Zenith Micrometer in volume 2 and Notice respecting some errors common to many tables of logarithms in volume 3; other contributions include Report on the pendulum experiments made by the late Captain Henry Foster... in volume 7 & The catalogues of Ptolemy, Ulugh Beigh, Tycho Brahe, Halley, Hevelius, deduced from the best authorities... by Francis Baily, Esq. President of the Society in volume 13; engraved plates throughout, later quarter morocco library bindings, two cancelled stamps/bookplates to each paste-down endpaper, some foxing (16)
HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRYPHYSIOGRAPHY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF NATURE London: Macmillan & Co., 1877. First edition, 8vo, 3 double-page folding maps, 2 folding colour plates, autograph envelope to Sir John Skelton, signed by Huxley tacked to flyleaf, contemporary green quarter morocco gilt
BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY AND SPORT, 5 VOLUMES, COMPRISINGPENNANT, THOMAS The Journey to Snowdon. London: H. Hughes, 1781. First edition (first part only), engraved title and plates, contemporary diced calf, bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson-Eden; Warner, Richard A Walk through some of the Western Counties of England. Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1800. First edition, 8vo, half-title, 2 sepia aquatint plates, original blue boards, uncut, rebacked; [Apperley, C.J.] The Life of a Sportsman. G. Routledge, [n.d.], hand-coloured title & 34 hand-coloured plates, red half morocco by Hatchards, t.e.g., spine lightly faded; Kipling, R. Kim. 1951. 8vo, modern green morocco; Somerville, William Hobbinol, Field Sports, and the Bowling Green. London: W. Bulmer for R. Ackermann, 1813. 4to, 15 wood-engraved vignettes by Nesbit & Thurston, contemporary half calf, slightly worn (5)
EGAN, PIERCEBOXIANA; OR, SKETCHES OF ANTIENT & MODERN PUGILISM London: G. Smeeton, July 1812. 8vo, volume 1 only, frontispiece, engraved title, 20 plates (including 4 folding plates), original quarter cloth over boards, ownership inscriptions to free-endpaper, some spotting and browning throughout, one plate with tears, a couple of small holes to text and plates only slightly affecting text, spine chipped, a little soiling to covers
EGAN, PIERCESPORTING ANECDOTES London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825. 8vo, frontispiece and 5 plates (3 hand-coloured), later half morocco gilt, one folding plate repaired, a little dampstaining; [Idem] Book of Sports and Mirror of Life. London: T.T. and J. Tegg, 1832. 8vo, original cloth, some foxing, covers a little soiled and rubbed (2)
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