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Click here to subscribeSALE (GEORGE, translator) THE KORAN, COMMONLY CALLED THE ALCORAN OF MOHAMMED, FIRST EDITION of Sale's translation, title in red & black, folding map, short tear, 4 plates, 3 folding, a little very light browning, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, covers detached, 4to, C. Ackers for J. Wilcox, 1734.
SOLIS Y RIBADENEYRA (ANTONIO DE) The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, translated by Thomas Townsend and revised by Nathaniel Hooke, 2 vol., third edition, folding engraved portrait frontispiece, 6 plates and 2 maps, all folding, some light soiling and spotting, 2 plates torn at fold (no loss), ex-library copy with small ink stamp at foot of titles, modern marbled boards, leather labels, [Sabin 86489], 1753 ~ Puig Casauranc (Jose M.) Atlas General del District Federal [de la Cuidad de Mexico], vol.2 only, colour maps, many folding, plates, 2 maps loose, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and spotted, spine torn, Mexico, 1930 ~ XXXV Congresso Internacional de Americanistas, Mexico, 1962, vol. 1 & 3 only, maps, plates and illustrations, original printed wrappers, Mexico, 1964 ~ Harper (Henry H.) A Journey in Southeastern Mexico, limited edition, foxed, original vellum-backed boards, uncut, rubbed, Boston, privately printed at the De Vinne Press, 1910, v.s. (6).
JOSEPHS (FLAVIUS) THE WORKS..., 2 vol., additional engraved title, engraved plates and maps, some folding, contemporary reversed calf, rubbed, joints cracked, for Fielding & Walker, 1777 ~ Rollin (Charles) The Ancient History..., 10 vol., ninth edition, frontispiece portrait, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, 1795 ~ Stevenson (Robert Louis) Will o' the Mill, decorative title, frontispiece portrait, decorations, original limp reversed calf, rubbed, Aurora, 1901; and a small quantity of others, mostly Literature, v.s. (sm.qty).
VOLNEY (CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS, Comte de) THE RUINS: OR A SURVEY OF THE REVOLUTIONS OF EMPIRES, engraved frontispiece, 2 folding plates, modern binder's buckram, Printed for J.Johnson, 1792 ~ Fox (Charles James) A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, stipple-engraved portrait, slight foxing, 19th century half morocco, worn, 1808 ~ Malham (Rev. John) The Grand National History of England, Civil and Ecclesiastical, 1 vol.in 2, engraved illustrations, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, remains of original backstrips laid down, 1816 ~ Ratzel (Friedrich) The History of Mankind, 3 vol., colour plates, maps, text illustrations, modern binder's buckram, 1896 ~ Guizot (F.P.G.) The History of France, 8 vol., folding colour map, plates, text illustrations, 20th century morocco-backed boards, 1872 ~ Jameson (Mrs. Anna) Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of Charles the Second, 2 vol., engraved portraits, modern binder's buckram, 1838, ex-library copies with bookplate and stamps; and a large quantity of others, History, Biography, Engraved Portraits, v.s. (lge. qty.).
THOMSON (JAMES) THE SEASONS, WITH HIS LIFE AND A COMPLETE INDEX AND GLOSSARY, engraved portrait frontispiece, 4 plates, printers vignette on title, head-pieces, small tear to upper edge of b3, original boards, soiled, spine edges peeling, 1795 ~ Rowley (Thomas) and Others. Poems, Supposed to have Been Written at Bristol, engraved title, armorial bookplate, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rubbed, extremities worn revealing boards, edges of spine cracked, Cambridge, 1794, 8vo (2).
Junius, pseudonym. [Letters], 2 vol., engraved frontispieces, plates and illustrations by John Bewick, slight foxing, later half morocco over marbled boards, rubbed at edges and extremities, spine gilt, for Vernor and Hood, T. Bentley, 1801 ~ Collection. Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw, engraved title vignette, ownership label, original morocco, gilt, spine rubbed, slightly faded, 1820; and another, 12mo & 8vo (4).
WALPOLE (HORATIO, Lord) THE WORKS, 8 vol., including the Letters to Montague & Cole (vol.VI), Memoires of George II (vol.VII-VIII), engraved frontispiece, printer's vignette on titles, plates, some folding, bookplate, contemporary diced calf, gilt rule, rebacked, corners expertly repaired, for G.G and J. Robinson and J. Edwards, 1798(1805)-1822.
Strype (John) Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, 4 vol. in 7, new edition, vol. I part I upper joint split, 1824; and 10 others, Strype's Lives, some engraved plates, slight foxing and offsetting ex-library copy with ink stamps, uniformly bound in 19th century calf, gilt spines, slightly rubbed, 8vo, v.d. (17).
RAINE (JAMES) Saint Cuthbert: With an Account of the State in Which his Remains were Found upon the Opening of his Tomb in Durham Cathedral, in the Year MDCCCXXVII, Durham, 1828 ~ Bingham (Rev. Joseph) Origines Ecclesiasticae; or, the Antiquities of the Christian Church, 9 vol., modern binder's cloth, London and Oxford, 1840 ~ Andrews (William, editor) Bygone Church Life in Scotland, illustrations, 1899 ~ Fraser (Brother Alexander) An Account of the Proceedings at the Festival of the Society of Freemasons, at Their Hall... 1813, folding engraved frontispiece, 3 plates, 1813 ~ Oliver (Rev. George) Institutes of Masonic Jurisprudence, 1859, first mentioned 20th century half morocco, rest modern binder's cloth, ex-library copies with bookplate and occasional blind-stamps; and c.43 others, Theology, Church History, Freemasonry, 4to & 8vo (c.56).
DICKENS (CHARLES) MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, 3 vol., illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne, frontispieces, illustrations, slight thumb markings to fore-edges, original ribbed, embossed cloth, gilt, faded, extremities worn, spine ends chipped, 1840-41; Our Mutual Friend, 2 vol., illustrations by Marcus Stone, slight foxing to plates, original embossed cloth, spine gilt, corners bruised, extremities frayed, spine ends chipped, 1865, FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM, 8vo & 4to (5).
DICKENS (CHARLES) THE CHIMES: A GOBLIN STORY, initial advertisement leaf, 1845; The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home, 1846; The Battle of Life, fourth impression, 1846, FIRST EDITIONS, engraved frontispieces, additional titles, plates and illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Clarkson Stanfield and others, slightly browned, original gilt pictorial cloth, slightly soiled, corners bumped, rebacked with the original spines laid down, g.e.; and 3 others, 8vo (6).
DICKENS (CHARLES) DOMBEY AND SON, FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL 20/19 PARTS, 40 etched plates by Hablot K.Browne, part 4 lacks pp.115-126, part 5 lacks pp.133-140, part 2 lacks Rowland Bradshaw/Raby Rattler advertisement but with duplicate Bentick & Pelham's advertisement, part 5 with errata slip, part 11 lacks Letts [&c.] slip, part 12 with ?variant Kaye's advertisement from that called for in Hatton & Cleaver, part 15 with publisher's slip, part 16 lacks all advertisements apart from 4pp. John Kendrick advertisements, part 18 lacks Dombey & Son Advertisements, part 19/20 lacks all advertisements apart from Goldsmith slip, parts 4, 5, 8, 13, 14, 15 & 17 lack all internal advertisements, original printed wrappers, rubbed, 3 covers missing, another detached, [Hatton & Cleaver pp.227], 1846-48; and 7 duplicate parts of Dombey & Son, including another copy of part 11 with the Letts [&c.] slip present, 8vo; sold not subject to return.
DICKENS (CHARLES) LITTLE DORRIT, illustrations by H.K Browne, some foxing to plates, more marked on frontispiece and title, 1857; another copy, bound from the original 19/20 parts, lacking advertisements, errata slip on p.480 present, one front and one rear wrapper only bound in, plates spotted, 1857; Our Mutual Friend, 2 vol., in one, illustrations by Marcus Stone, explanatory slip on p.1 present, 1865; The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, illustrations by Phiz, plates, 1844; The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, illustrations by Phiz and R. Seymour, later calf, gilt, 1837, FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM, some plates spotted, contemporary half calf, rubbed at extremities, 8vo (5).
JAENISCH (C.F. DE) JAENISCH'S CHESS PRECEPTOR: A NEW ANALYSIS OF THE OPENINGS OF GAMES, 1847 ~ Pardon (George Frederick), "Captain Rawdon Crawley". Cricket, Its Theory and Practice, text illustrations, n.d. [c.1866] ~ Hutchinson (Horace G.) The Book of Golf and Golfers, plates, 1899 ~ Beldam (George W.) and P.A.Vaile. Great Lawn Tennis Players: Their Methods Illustrated, plates, 1905, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copies with occasional blind-stamps; and 22 others, Sports and Pastimes, v.s. (26).
CATTERMOLE (Rev. RICHARD) THE GREAT CIVIL WAR OF THE TIMES OF CHARLES I AND CROMWELL, additional engraved vignette title and 28 steel-engraved plates, n.d. [c.1850] ~ Tyrrell (Henry) The History of the War with Russia, 3 vol., steel-engraved plates, n.d. [c.1860] ~ Maurice (Maj.-Gen. Sir F.), W.J.Long and A.Sonnenschein, translators and editors. The Franco-German War 1870-71, plates, text illustrations, n.d. [c.1875], occasional slight foxing and soiling, third mentioned modern binder's cloth, rest 20th century morocco-backed cloth, ex-library copies with bookplate and blind-stamp on plates; and a small quantity of others, Military, v.s. (sm. qty.).
HOWITT (MARY) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE QUEENS OF GREAT BRITAIN, plates, modern binder's cloth, 1851 ~ Illustrated London News. Her Majesty's Glorious Jubilee 1897, chromolithograph plates, ownership signature on title, original morocco gilt, g.e., covers slightly worn, n.d. [1897] ~ Times (The) The Life of Queen Victoria, photogravure plates, modern half morocco, 1901 ~ British Colour Council (The) British Traditional Colours. Souvenir in connection with the Coronation of His Majesty King George VI and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, mounted cloth specimens, modern binder's buckram, 1937, ex-library copies with bookplate and occasional stamps; and a small quantity of others, Royalty and Newspapers, v.s. (sm. qty.).
COMBE (WILLIAM) THE TOUR[S] OF DOCTOR SYNTAX in Search of [1] the Picturesque; [2] Consolation; [3] a Wife, 3 vol., 9th edition, illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson, engraved titles, hand-coloured plates, finger marking to fore-edges, later mottled calf, gilt spine, double morocco labels, 8vo, 1855.
TROLLOPE (ANTHONY) THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, plates and illustrations by George H. Thomas, tissue guards, original cloth, soiled, spine titles and cover vignette blocked in gilt, rebacked retaining original spines, extremities worn, 1867; Doctor Thorne, first American edition, foxed, original embossed cloth, faded, worn at extremities, spine faded, New York, 1858, 8vo (2).
STOWE (HARRIET BEECHER) RELIGIOUS POEMS, water-stained, Boston, 1867; Oldtown Folks, 3 vol., with the Duchess of Sutherland's Preface to the English edition, modern half calf over marbled boards, 1869; Lady Baron Vindicated, bookplate, Boston, 1870; Betty's Bright Idea, frontispiece, New York, 1876, FIRST EDITIONS, original cloth, if not otherwise stated, extremities slightly rubbed ~ Wortley (Lady Emmeline, editor) Keepsake (The) for MDCCCXXXV, [1835]; ... for MDCCCXXXVII, first appearance of THE REVENUE by Mary Shelley, [1837], engraved plates, tissue guards, original silk, worn at edges and extremities, g.e. 8vo (8).
TROLLOPE (ANTHONY) Phineas Redux, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, 24 plates by Frank Holl, margins a little foxed, original blue cloth, a little stained, edges rubbed, vol. 1 backstrip half detached, 1874 ~ Sandars (Lady Virginia) The Heiress of Haredale. A Novel, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half titles with advertisement, original green cloth, slightly rubbed & shaken, 1886, 8vo (5).
TROLLOPE (ANTHONY) THE WAY WE LIVE NOW, 2 vol., [Sadleir 44], 1875; The Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 vol., original cloth, soiled, [Sadleir 26], 1867; Orley Farm, 2 vol., plates by J.E. Millais, [Sadleir 13], 1862; Hunting Sketches, [Sadleir 21], 1865, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, plates, original embossed cloth, gilt, rubbed, faded, extremities slightly frayed, corners bruised; and a small quantity, Trollope, 8vo (small qty).
Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with Notes and a Memoir by F.A. Guizot, 5 vol., illustrated edition, portrait frontispiece, engraved title, plates, maps, some folding, tissue guards, ownership inscription on front endpapers, original embossed cloth, gilt, soiled, spine ends creased, spine ends of vol.I and V chipped, 4to, G. Virtue, [c.1880].
LEWIS (SINCLAIR) BABBITT, slight foxing, original cloth, spine faded, spine ends creased, 1922 ~ Kipling (Rudyard) The Bushwood Boy, colour plates by F.H. Townsend, original cloth, gilt, soiled, spine ends chipped, 1907 ~ Dobson (Austin) The Story of Rosina and Other Verses, Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, plates, illustrations, contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, 1895 ~ Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth) The Prose Works, frontispiece, engraved title, bookplate, original embossed cloth worn at extremities, spine faded,1857, FIRST EDITIONS; and 12 others, Literature, 8vo (16).
FROUDE (JAMES ANTHONY) The Cat's Pilgrimage, lithograph frontispiece, vignette title and 5 plates, some ff. working loose, hinges splitting, original pictorial boards, rubbed and soiled, lacks spine, Edinburgh, 1870 ~ Lewin (F.G.) An ABC Book for Good Boys & Girls, original holland-backed pictorial boards, Bristol & London, n.d. ~ Robinson (W. Heath) Peter Quip. In Search of a Friend, title and front endpapers with pencil scribbling, some pp. foxed, binding loose, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, lacks spine, n.d. ~ Horrabin (J.F.) Japhet and Co. (including Happy) of The Ark, Ararat Avenue, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, n.d. ~ Black (Dorothy) The Magic Egg, illustrations by Charles Folkard, prize bookplate on front free endpaper, A. & C. Black, 1922, plates, some colour; and 17 others, Children's, v.s. (22).
[Russell (Mary Annette Beauchamp), "Bellina von Hutton".] The April Baby's Book of Tunes, FIRST EDITION, chromolithographed plates by Kate Greenaway, broken and loose, lacking spine, 1900 ~ Crane (Walter) The Baby's Bouquet, original cloth-backed decorative boards, n.d. ~ Farrow (G.E.) Baker Minor and the Dragon, 1902 ~ Leech (John) Pictures of Life and Character, 3 vol., n.d., illustrations, some colour, some spotting, original pictorial cloth, some gilt, rubbed; and 8 others, mostly children's and illustrated, 4to & 8vo; sold not subject to return (14).
BOYDELL (JOHN) ILLUSTRATIONS OF HOLY WRIT, 100 engravings by Boydell after Isaac Taylor on india paper and mounted, tissue guards, 1820 ~ Lytton (Lord Edward George Bulwer) The Pilgrims of the Rhine, steel-engraved vignette title and 25 steel-engraved plates to The Pilgrims of the Rhine, occasional slight foxing, 1834 ~ Sermon on the Mount (The) Illuminated by W.G.Audsley, Illustrated by Charles Rolt, Chromolithographed by W.R.Tymms, 2 titles and 25 illuminated ff. of text printed in chromolithographed and gilt, n.d. [c.1850] ~ Doyle (James E.) A Chronicle of England B.C.55-A.D.1485, colour text illustrations by the author, 1864 ~ Hood (Thomas) [Poems], 9 steel-engraved plates by Gustave Dore, slight soiling, 1870 ~ Bell (Charles Dent) The Four Seasons at the Lakes [Poems], chromolithograph pictorial borders throughout by Blanche de Montmorency Conyers Morrell, n.d. [1878], modern binder's buckram, ex-library copies with bookplate and blind-stamps; and c.74 others, Illustrated, v.s. (c.70).
Hogarth (William) The Works, 2 vol., portrait frontispiece, engraved plates, slight markings to edges, armorial bookplate, contemporary calf, gilt, extremities and edges worn, 1833 ~ Neale (John Mason) Good King Wenceslas, with an introduction by William Morris, illustrations by Arthur J. Gaskin, ink inscription, original boards, soiled, extremities worn, spine damaged, Cornish Brothers, 1895 ~ Cox (David) Young Artist's Companion, plates vol. only, 13 hand-coloured lithographs, 52 plates, original half morocco over marbled boards, rubbed, soiled, extremities and edges worn, 1825; and 9 others, Illustrated, v.s. (12).
Shoberl (Frederic) The World in Miniature: Myria and Dalmatia, 2 vol., hand-coloured plates, vol.II lacking frontispiece, inner hinge cracked, original boards, spines damaged, [1821]; Russia, 3 vol. only (of 4), [c.1823]; Persia, 2 vol. only (of 3), [c.1820]; Africa, 3 vol. only (of 4), [c.1821]; Turkey, 3 vol. only (of 6), [c.1822]; Hindoostan, 3 vol. only (of 6), 2 copies of vol.I, 1820, hand-coloured plates, original boards, some spines damaged, extremities worn, covers rubbed, 12mo; sold not subject to return (17).
WRIGHT (GEORGE NEWENHAM) THE GALLERY OF ENGRAVINGS, 3 vol., 65 engraved plates, contemporary half roan, g.e., n.d. ~ Salaman (Malcolm C.) Modern Woodcuts and Lithographs, illustrations, 1919 ~ Benezit (Emmanuel) Dictionnaire des Peintres [&c.], 8 vol., plates, 1948-55; and 15 others, Art Reference &c., v.s. (30).
Dante Alighieri. The New Life, translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, decorations and colour illustrations by Evelyn Paul, modern bookplate on verso of front free endpaper, original antique style morocco, rubbed at edges, [1915] ~ France (Anatole) L'Ile des Pingouins..., plates and illustrations by Georges Villa, original wrappers, Paris, 1922; and 11 others, Children's & Illustrated, v.s. (13).
Dickens (Charles) Der Weihnachtsabend, number 209 of 500 copies, 12 tipped-in colour plates, illustrations, by Arthur Rackham, original vellum-backed pictorial cloth, gilt, Zurich & Leipzig, 1917 ~ Sheridan (Richard Brinsley) Die Lasterschule, number 571 of 1000 copies, 25 tipped-in colour plates, illustrations, by Hugh Thomson, occasional light foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, Stuttgart & Berlin, n.d. ~ Maeterlinck (Maurice) Der Blaue Vogel, 12 colour plates by E. v. Medem, some foxing, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, Berlin, 1920, 4to & 8vo (3).
Gray (Thomas) An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, chromolithographed plates, captioned tissue guards, some foxing, original decorated cloth, gilt, slightly faded, 1869 ~ Segrelles (Jose, illustrator) Las Mil y Una Noches, colour plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, Barcelona, 1932 ~ Saint-Pierre (Bernardin) Paul et Virginie, illustrations by Maurice Leloir, plates, illustrations, some foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, extremities slightly frayed, Paris, 1888 ~ Disney, (Walt) Mickey Mouse Annual, colour frontispiece, illustrations, later cloth, original pictorial wrappers tipped in, 1948, 4to (4).
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS. The Thoughts of the Emperor..., number 188 of 500 copies, translated by George Long, 12 tipped-in colour plates by William Russell Flint, all but frontispiece with captioned tissue-guards, bookplate, original cloth-backed boards, marked, additional title labels for spine and upper cover tipped-in, Riccardi Press, for the Medici Society, 1909; and 2 others, Private Press, 4to (3).
AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES) The Original Water-Color Paintings...for the Birds of America, 2 vol., New York, 1966 ~ Petrie (W.M.Flinders) The Hawara Portfolio: Paintings of the Roman Age, 1913 ~ Muntz (Eugene) Leonardo da Vinci, 2 vol., London & New York, 1898 ~ Thomas (Hylton) The Drawings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, New York, 1954 ~ Tolnay (Charles de) Hieronymus Bosch, 1966, most signed by Stephen Longstreet on title, plates and illustrations, original cloth, the first with slip-case, the last two with dust-jackets, all rubbed; and 4 others, art, 4to & 8vo (11).
GILLRAY (JAMES) THE WORKS OF JAMES GILLRAY, from the Original Plates, with the addition of many subjects not before collected, engraved portrait frontispiece and 559 etched plates only on 144 leaves (of 585 on 152), some with aquatint, some double-page, printed on both sides of sheets, portrait a weak impression, some spotting and soiling, damp-stained affecting final plate but otherwise mostly marginal, contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, rubbed, loose in binding, large folio, Bohn, [c.1849]; sold not subject to return.
GREGO (JOSEPH) ROWLANDSON THE CARICATURIST, 2 vol., signature of Stephen Longstreet at head of title and with magazine article by him on Rowlandson tipped in at beginning of vol.1, original morocco-backed cloth, spines gilt, vol.1 torn and defective at foot, 1880 ~ Binyon (Laurence) The Engraved Designs of William Blake, original cloth-backed boards, 1926 ~ Mondor (Prof.) and Jean Adhemar. Les Gens de Medecine dans l'oeuvre de Daumier, original cloth, dust-jacket, Paris, 1966 ~ Hollander (Eugen) Die Karikatur und Satire in der Medizin, original cloth, faded, Stuttgart, 1921 ~ Fuchs (Eduard) Die Karikatur der europaischen Volker, 2 vol., original morocco-backed cloth, Berlin, 1904, all signed by Stephen Longstreet on title, plates and illustrations, additional illustrations tipped in, rubbed; and 18 others on illustration and caricature, 4to (25).
HOGARTH (WILLIAM) THE WORKS OF WILLIAM HOGARTH, from the Original Plates restored by James Heath, 156 etched and engraved plates on 116 sheets including 2 portraits, title torn, plates soiled and water-stained, mostly marginal, contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, worn, covers detached, large folio, Baldwin and Cradock, [c.1822]; sold not subject to return.
PICASSO.- JANIS (HARRIET AND SIDNEY) PICASSO: THE RECENT YEARS 1939-1946, SIGNED BY PICASSO TWICE, in pencil on title and red crayon on front free endpaper, also signed by Stephen Longstreet at head of title, plates and illustrations, many colour, original cloth, dust-jacket rubbed and frayed, crudely reinforced at head and foot of spine, 4to, Garden City, 1946.
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