Thornhill, R. B. The Shooting Directory London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804. First edition, second issue (with 2E4-2F2, pp. 215-220, cancelled), 4to, modern half leather, half-title discarded, 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 2 engraved plates (one folding), 3 folding tables, contemporary manuscript annotations to initial blank containing 'Extracts from General George Hanger's ... treatise on sporting, 1814', marginal repair to 2B2 [Chute 532; Schwerdt II pp. 258-9];Grose, Francis. Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army from the Conquest to the Present Time. A New Edition with Material Additions and Improvements. London: T. Egerton, 1801. 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary russia, rebacked, volume 2 in 2 parts, engraved title-page to each part, 139 engraved plates (of 141: lacking plates 28-9 in second part, 'A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons');Idem. A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons. London: S. Hooper, 1786. 4to, contemporary boards, rebacked and recornered in sheep, engraved frontispiece, title-page and 48 plates (plate 49, mentioned in text, apparently never issued), spotting and browning;[Magné de Marolles, Gervais-François]. An Essay on Shooting. London: T. Cadell, 1791. Second edition in English, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, half-title, bookplate, a very good copy [ESTC T64643];Bland, Humphrey. A Treatise of Military Discipline ... The Eighth Edition, revised, corrected, and altered to the Present Practice of the Army. London: R. Baldwin [and others], 1759. 8vo, 20th-century half roan, 7 engraved folding plates, imprimatur leaf, ownership inscription of D. Dundas, identified in a laid-in note as General Sir David Dundas (1735-1820), author of The Principles of Military Movement [ESTC T122214];Montagu, George. The Sportsman's Directory: or, Tractate on Gunpowder, founded on a Series of Experiments, 1792. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf, worn, lacking frontispiece [ESTC T33010: 4 copies world-wide];and 3 others including Guillaume Le Blond, A Treatise of Artillery, 1746, first edition in English, 15 engraved plates, lacking final 3 text-leaves and advertisement leaf, and John Muller, A Treatise of Artillery, 1780, third edition (these not collated)
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![[Early Bombay printing] Harris, William Cornwallis Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa during the Years 1836 and](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/bc80e8b7-d26a-42a0-aa0c-b06900ce413d/e9cc4f78-b49a-458c-b1a8-b07300ca6e1f/468x382.jpg)
[Early Bombay printing] Harris, William Cornwallis Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa during the Years 1836 and 1837 Bombay: American Mission Press, 1838. First edition, 8vo in half-sheets (20.4 x 12.5cm), modern crushed morocco gilt, xviii 406 pp., 4 lithographic plates including frontispiece, lithographic folding map, extra-illustrated with 24 hand-coloured lithographic plates from the third or later edition of the present work, bound in at rear, toning, stab-holes visible in gutter from original binding, a few old stains Note: Note: First edition, rare. A second edition was printed in London the following year, with the title The Wild Sports of Southern Africa; a third edition was published in 1841, also using the amended title but incorporating a suite of 24 hand-coloured lithographic plates.Provenance: Admiral Sir Thomas Hastings (1786-1870), British naval officer, with his ownership inscription ('Sir Thos. Hastings, R. Naval College') to the half-title.
![India Group of rare Indian imprints [Reily, E. J.]. A Year of my Life in India. Calcutta: Thos. S. Smith, 1888. First editio](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/bc80e8b7-d26a-42a0-aa0c-b06900ce413d/7b676b78-a5f1-4ce4-9b4c-b07300ca9244/468x382.jpg)
India Group of rare Indian imprints [Reily, E. J.]. A Year of my Life in India. Calcutta: Thos. S. Smith, 1888. First edition, small 8vo, later cloth with front cover from original cloth binding laid down, [4] iv [2] 216 pp., 13 lithographic plates (13 listed; one plate, 'An Early Start', not found facing p. 202 as listed, possibly being the one unlisted plate facing dedication leaf), inscribed 'for Elise, Anson, Patrick & Robert, given to mother for them by the authoress Mrs Neily' on the front free endpaper;[Parsi author]. Travels in Persia. From 2nd April 1878, up to 22nd May 1880. By Kavasji Dinshawji Kiash. Bombay, 1882. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, crudely rebacked, 500 pp., preliminary text and part of title in English, remaining text in Gujarati, 30 lithographic plates (collation not established);Nash, George. The French Prisoners, a History. Calcutta: William Rushton, 1843. First edition, 12mo, contemporary calf, loss to spine-ends, closed tear from C1 to D1;Hart-Davies, T. L Sind Ballads. Translated from the Sindi. Bombay: Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1881. First edition, square 8vo, original cloth, 46 pp., slightly worn, ownership inscription to title-page;Manucha, Kaccoo Mal, Rai Bahadur (Chairman, Municipal Board, Fyzaband-cum-Ajodhya, Oudh). The Hindu Home-Life. Lucknow: London Printing Press, 1890. First edition, 8vo, contemporary Indian half cloth, [7] vi-ix 109 pp., errata leaf at rear, ink stamp of Pandit Sundar Lal, High Court, Allahabad to title-page, browning and worming;Government of India. Manual for the Guidance of Native States in Rajputana and Central India for the Control and Reclamation of Criminal Tribes. Calcutta: office of the superintendent of government printing, 1896. Folio, original cloth-backed printed boards, 23 pp., text in English, Hindi and Urdu, covers damp-stained, wear to spine, contents browned;Government of the United Provinces. The Excise Opium Manual, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Allahabad: W. C. Abel, 1914. 4to, original green cloth, marked;Idem. Rules for the Management and Discipline of Prisoners in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Allahahd: reprinted by F. Luker, Supdt., Government Press, 1915. Large 8vo, original black cloth, inner hinges cracked, browning, light damp-staining to outer leaves;[Pamphlets]. Volume of pamphlets, comprising: 1) A Consideration of the Position of Women in Primitive Society from the Standpoint of Marriage. By S. S. Mehta, [Bombay: Anthropological Society of Bombay], 1915, offprint; 2) The Proposed Proclamation Pillar and Minto Park at Allahabad, Allahabad: Leader Press, 1910; 3) All Intoxicants should be avoided. The Twelvth [sic] Annual Report on Total Abstinance [sic] and appeal to those interested in the Public Welfare ... by Pl. Ram Sharan Raturie Sharma, Dehra Dun: Shri Swami Press, 1919; 4) Kalidasa and Shakespeare: a Parallel by D. A. Narasimham, lecturer in English, govt. college, Kumbakonam, 1921; 5) The Present Situation or an Appeal to my Moderate Friends ... by Prof. Ruchi Ram Sahni, Lahore: Tribute Press, 1922;Devi, Sushila. Reminiscence of English Life. A Lecture delivered in Quetta under the kind patronage of J. R. Carnah ... Superintendant [sic] of Education, Baluchistan. Lahore: Panjabee Press, c.1910. 8vo, original cloth-backed wrappers, 26 pp., some worming;Chari, M. Viraraghava. The Mysore Representative Assembly and the Indian National Congress. A Dialogue. Madras: National Press, 1891. 8vo, 28 pp., disbound;and 2 othersNote: Note: No other copy traced for A Year of My Life in India; much of the work concerns Burdwan (now Bardhaman), West Bengal, other places visited including Calcutta, Jaipur, Barrackpore, and Baraset. Library Hub cites the British Library copy only for Hart-Davies's work, and the BL and Cambridge copies only for Nash's.
Trade catalogues Collection of trade catalogues, mainly Scottish, 19th and 20th century Shanks & Co, Barrhead. Illustrated Catalogue of Sanitary Appliances, 1899. Folio, original green cloth gilt (rubbed), 476 pp., colour and monochrome illustrations throughout;Lion Foundry Company, Kirkintilloch. Illustrated Catalogue of Cast Iron Manufactures. Volume I. Sixth Edition, c.1910. Folio, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, 336 pp., spine faded, small stain to front cover;Young & Marten, Stratford. Illustrated General Catalogue, c.1880. Volume 1 only (of 2), 4to, original maroon cloth gilt, 432 pp., chromolithographic decorative title-page heightened in gilt, chromolithographic plates depicting chimney-pieces, designs for tiles, kitchen ranges, etc., many heightened in gum arabic, tears to a couple of plates (f. 83 and a final leaf, a colour chart), section excised from initial text-leaf;Walter Macfarlane & Co., Glasgow. Illustrated Catalogue of Macfarlane's Castings. Seventh Edition, c.1900. 2 volumes, folio and 4to, original green cloth lettered in gilt;J. R. Howie, Hurlford, Kilmarnock. Catalogue of Drainage Materials, Chimney Pots, Cattle Troughs, Ridge Tiles, etc. [cover-title], c1933. 4to, original red cloth over flexible boards, 46 pp.;Glenfield & Kennedy, Kilmarnock. Illustrated, Descriptive, and Prices Catalogue (Abridged) of Water Works Appliances. Sixth Edition, 1906. 4to, original green cloth, 100 pp.;William Newman & Sons, Birmingham. Illustrated Catalogue of Brassfoundry and Patented Specialities in Door Springs, Fanlight and Skylight Openers, etc., 1925. 8vo, original green cloth;Woodworkers (Glasgow) Ltd. Scottish Woodworker, 1933. Folio, original cloth-backed lithographic wrappers, mimeographed typescript with lithographic illustrations;William McGeoch & Co. Ltd., Glasgow. Architectural and Builders Ironmongery, 1966. 4to, original blue cloth gilt;and approx. 30 others, including some 20 trade catalogues (mainly in wrappers) and 10 related items
Dickson, H. R. P. Kuwait and her Neighbours London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1956. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, photographic colour frontispiece, 15 halftone photographic plates, folding genealogical table, illustrations and maps in the text, 3 further genealogical tables, 1 plate and 4 maps all folding and loose in end-pocket as issued, dust jacket price-clipped, slightly dust-soiled on rear panel and with a few nicks and chips
British India (modern Pakistan) Monograph on Swat State, 1933 by Major W. R. Hay, C.I.E., Political Agent, Dir, Swat and Chitral. Simla: Government of India Press, 1934. 8vo, original cloth-backed printed boards, [4] 36 pp., folding lithographic sketch map loose in end-pocket as issued, text-leaves wire-stitched, stitching corroded, title-page, final leaf and conjugate blanks detached, textblock loose in binding, binding worn and marked, ink-stamps and markings of the library of the economic adviser to the government of India, bookplate removed from initial blank, short tear to end-pocket (map unaffected)Note: Note: Marked 'confidential' on the front board, and very rare: the printer's slug at the end of the text suggests that 100 copies were printed. One institutional copy traced, at the British Library; no copies in auction records.
Chapbooks Volume of Scottish chapbooks, early 19th century 10 works in 1 volume, c.1900 red half sheep with marbled sides, each work 8 pp., approx. 14.5 x 8.5cm, and with woodcut vignette to title-page unless otherwise stated, titles comprising:1. The Sweet Barley Mow; or, Ragged and True. To which are added, All in the Taste. Since He's Gone, Farewel he. Clean Paternal Seat. Wap your Wealth Together. Glasgow: J. & M. Robertson, 1802. Pp. 3/4 and 5/6 respectively shaved and closely trimmed at foot;2. The Jolly Sailor: or, the Lady of Greenwich. To which is added, Pretty Peggy's Love to Sailor Jack. The Sailor's Widow's Lament for his Death on Board the Trial. Merry May the Maid Be. When Late I Wander'd. [Glasgow: J. & M. Robertson, 1803]. Title-page torn at lower inner corner costing imprint and part of vignette recto and some text verso;3. Tam Glen. Young Dunois. Merrily Oh! The Soldier's Dream. Go where Glory waits thee. Glasgow: for the booksellers, 1823. Spotting;4. Betsey Baker. To which are added, Who's Master, or, A Fight for the Breeches. York Youre Wanted. And Emigrants Farewell. Glasgow: J. Neil, 1829;5. The Corn Laws, a New Song; to which is added, the Land of the Thistle. Glasgow: R. Hutchison, c.1820. Upper margins excessively trimmed costing page numbers but not main text, ink inscriptions to title-page;6. The King's Muster, to which is added, Nae Luck about the House, and up in the Morning Early, and Bauldy Baird. Glasgow: R. Hutchison, 1823;7. Chevy-Chace. An Ancient Ballad [drop-head title]. Glasgow: Brash & Reid, c.1796-8. No title vignette;8. The Murderit Mynstrell. To which are added, Mary, The Maid of the Inn, and the Comical Story of Thrummy Cap. Glasgow: for the booksellers, c.1840. 21 pp.;9. Sair sair was my heart; to which are added, The hero's orphant Girls. The lass o' Ballochmyle. Allister M'Allister. The Highland Plaid. Edinburgh: for the booksellers, c.1820;10. Fair Margaret's Misfortunes; To which are added, A Cogie of Ale. The weary pund o' Tow. Song in Rosina. Edinburgh: for the booksellers, c.1820.Together with another volume of pamphlets (approx. 35 in total) including: 1) Memoir of Miss Elizabeth Davidson, of Kensington Gravel Pits, who died March 6, 1813, aged Fourteen Years and Six Months, by the Rev. John Clunie, 1813, 48 pp.; 2) A Kind Word for Poor Irishmen, Dublin: C. Bentham, 1822, 8 pp., woodcut title-vignette; 3) Memoir of John Coups, Dublin: M. Goodwin, c.1820, 8 pp., 4) The Good Minister, Dublin, C. Bentham, 1823, 12 pp., woodcut title-vignette; 5) An Authentic Account of the Conversion and Experience of a Negro, Edinburgh: Religion Tract Society, 1821, 4 pp., woodcut headpieces; 6) The Comet Explained and Improved, Edinburgh: R. T. S., c.1811; and numerous others similar
Shakespeare, William The Fourth Folio, 1685 [Mr William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, never before Printed in Folio... The Fourth Edition. London: printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685.] Folio in sixes, lacking portrait, title-page, all comedies and "Pericles and six other plays added by the publisher", comprising plays: King John (lacking pp.1-2, i.e. Bb1); Henry IV; Henry V; Henry VI; Richard III; Henry VIII; Troilius & Cressida; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; Romeo & Juliet; Timon of Athens; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Hamlet; King Lear; Othello; Anthony & Cleopatra (lacking pp.146-156, i.e. quire Mmm); and Cymbeline (up to p.188 - i.e. Qqq4 - only); this copy collates: 3-328; 145, 157-188 [ESTC R24524 offers a complete collation for the work as: [12], 96, 99-160, 163-254, 243 [i.e. 253]-272, [2], 328, 303, [1] p. : port. (engraving)], contemporary calf spine over later marbled boards, some edge-wear and slight soiling to initial leaves, a few small tears to text with little or no significant loss to text, Ss5 torn with loss to text of around 1/8 of the leaf, some occasional internal staining, small, neat ownership signature to front free-endpaperNote: Note: The final 17th century collection of Shakespeare’s works to be published, the “Fourth Folio” can also be considered the most comprehensive and widely obtainable edition, although copies are still unusual. The publishers added Pericles and a further six plays to Shakespeare's works for both the third and fourth folios. However, having been published in London between 1663 and 1664, a large amount of the stock of the third folio was lost to the Great Fire of London in 1666. The additional plays comprised: Pericles, The London Prodigal; Thomas Lord Cromwell; The History of Sir John Oldcastle; The Puritan; A Yorkshire Tragedy; The Tragedy of Lochrine. Only Pericles has since been found to have been (partly) written by Shakespeare (all seven of these works are missing from this copy.)
![Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia [Volume 1:] A Selection from the Historical Inscription](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/bc80e8b7-d26a-42a0-aa0c-b06900ce413d/c291ea91-073d-4cf2-9e2c-b07300ca9299/468x382.jpg)
Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia [Volume 1:] A Selection from the Historical Inscriptions of Chaldaea, Assyria, and Babylonia; [Volume 2:] A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria; [Volume 3:] A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria; [Volume 5:] A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria and Babylonia. London: lithographed by R. E. Bowler [volume 5: J. Jankowsky], 1861-66-70-84. Volumes 1-3 and 5 (of 5), large folio (53 x 53cm), non-uniform library bindings (half leather and cloth, each volume with preliminary text and 70 lithographic plates, ex Leeds Public Libraries with plates to front pastedowns (ink-stamped 'duplicate -sold') and blind stamps, toning, a few marks and short tears, volume 3 bound without series-title, volume 5 with repair to pp. 3/4, plates 36-8 misbound, closed tear in plate 57.Together with 3 other works: Austen Henry Layard, Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Character, from Assyrian Monuments. London: printed by Harrison and Son, sold at the British Museum, 1851 (large folio, 53 x 33cm, later quarter morocco, 6 pp., 98 lithographic plates, blind stamps of Leeds Public Libraries); A. H. Sayce, Aramaic Papyri Discovered at Assuan, London: Alexander Moring, 1906, folio, 27 photographic plates, text and plates loose as issued in original portfolio (front board near detached); and a 1909 edition of volume 5 of Rawlinson's work)
Joubert, Felix Catalogue of the Collection of European Arms and Armour formed at Greenock by R. L. Scott Glasgow: [printed for private circulation by] David Robertson & Co., 1924. First edition, one of 100 copies only, signed in the introduction by R. L. Scott, 3 volumes, large folio (45.8 x 31cm), original half vellum, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 107 tinted photogravure plates, bookplates (Michael Moad), vellum slightly soiled, volume 1 covers lightly scuffed, volumes 1 and 3 endpapers creased;The Almain Armourer's Album. Selections from an Original MS in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. With Introduction and Notes by Viscount Dillon. London: W. Griggs, 1905. Large folio (49 x 32cm), original full japon gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers, 34 chromolithographic plates (2 folding), photographic plate, pale mottling to spine and rear board, spotting to blanksNote: Note: R. L. Scott (1871-1939) was chairman of his family's successful shipbuilding firm in Greenock from 1915 until his death, overseeing its production of cruisers, destroyers and submarines for the Royal Navy during the Great War the rearmament period. After his death his collection of armour was bequeathed to Glasgow Museums. 'The Almain Armourers' Album, a book of armour designs, is one of the V&A's great Elizabethan treasures. The book was produced in the Royal Armoury at Greenwich, London, between 1557 and 1587, and charts some of the most spectacular armour ever made. It is known as the Almain Armourers’ Album after the German armourers employed by Henry VIII from the early 16th century' (V&A).
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit First edition, first impression, one of 1500 copies, 8vo, original green cloth, titles and decoration to spine and covers in blue, top edge dyed green, map endpapers printed in red and black, frontispiece ('The Hill: Hobbiton across the Water'), plate ('Mirkwood'), spine rolled, small area of cockling to head of front board, corners very slightly bumped, lower fore corner of rear board with cloth worn away, a few light finger-marks to margins [Hammond A3a]Note: Provenance: With the ownership inscription 'Betty Jean Orton, Xmas 1937' to the initial blank: this is the daughter of Harold Orton (1898-1975), English dialectologist and lexicographer remembered for his monumental Survey of English Dialects (1962-72).
![Daniel, William B. Rural Sports London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme [volume 4, supplement, B. & R. Crosby & Co.]](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/bc80e8b7-d26a-42a0-aa0c-b06900ce413d/452e2ec5-8b56-4f19-8e26-b07300caad1e/468x382.jpg)
Daniel, William B. Rural Sports London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme [volume 4, supplement, B. & R. Crosby & Co.], 1812-13. 4 volumes, 8vo (24.8 x 15cm), early-20th-century red crushed morocco gilt by Bickers & Son, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, engraved title-page to each volume, 73 engraved plates (several folding), bookplates of Sir William A. H. Bass, Bart, and J. C. Shorrock of Barnes Lodge, Kings Langley, variable browning to plates
Bindings A large collection of bound literature Spenser, Edmund. Spenser's Faerie Queene. A new edition... London: J. and R. Tonson, 1758. 2 volumes, 4to, later quarter calf with red Morocco gilt labels to spines; Goldsmith, Oliver. An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. London: J. Nourse, 1774. 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf; Pope, Alexander. Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, by several Hands... London: Bernard Lintot, 1722. Fourth edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, contemporary panelled calf; Eliot, George [Mary Ann Evans]. Romola. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. First edition in book form, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary green half calf, some rubbing, without adverts; The Spectator. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, [n.d.] 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf;Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones. Edinburgh: W. Darling, 1780. 3 volumes, 12mo, contemporary calf neatly rebacked with modern spines; Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: F.J. du Roveray, 1802. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary diced calf rebacked with modern spine, volume 1 title page with section cut from the top; Cross, J.W. George Eliot's Life... New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half morocco gilt;Beccaria, Cesare. An Essay on Crimes and Punishments... London: F. Newbery, 1769. Second edition, 8vo, quarter calf;L'Art D'Aimer... London, 1759. 8vo, hand-coloured title-page, contemporary calf gilt;Drummond, William. The History of Scotland, From the Year 1423, to the Year 1542. Glasgow: R. Urie, 1749. 8vo, contemporary calf;Thackeray, W.M. The Virginians. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary straight-grained half morocco gilt;Mrs. Sherwood. History of the Fairchild Family. London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1819. 12mo, contemporary calf, rubbed;The Gentleman's Library, containing Rules for Conduct in all Parts of Life. London: E.P. Meare, 1715. 12mo, contemporary calf;Segneri, Paolo, Padre. Opere. Venice: Baglioni, 1773. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary vellum;and 102 others, mostly leather bound, sold not subject to return
McIan, Robert Ronald Collection of plates from The Clans of the Scottish Highlands London: Ackermann & Co., [1845-7, or Willis and Sotheran, 1857]. 50 hand-coloured lithographs after R. R. McIan by L. Dickinson and others, approx. 36 x 26cm, on thick wove paper, heightened in gum arabic, one lithograph (Macquarrie) with sewing holes through right-hand margin. Titles comprise: Cumin; Rose; Graham; Grant; Forbes; Fraser; Macdonald of the Isles; Mac Intosh; Chisholm; Mac Nab; Campbell of Argyle; Mac Millan; Menzies; Mac Innes; Mac Phee; Robertson; Colquhon [sic]; Mac Nicol; Logan; Davidson; Ross; Sinclair; Buchanan; Mac Nachtan; Lamond; Macfarlan; Mac Arthur; Mac Laurin; Mac Ivor; Mac Donald of Keppach; Mackenzie; Cameron; Mac Bain; Ferguson; Murray; Drummond; Macgillivray; Macdonnel of Glengarry; Mac Rae; Mac Intire; Macpherson; Mac Coll; Ulrich; Mackinnon; Stewart; Macalister; Matheson; Macquarrie; Gordon; MacgregorNote: Note: McIan's Clans of the Scottish Highlands, with text by James Logan, was first published by Ackermann in 1845-7 to commemorate the centenary of the Jacobite Rebellion. The work was subsequently reissued by Willis & Sotheran ten years later.
McIan, Robert Ronald Collection of plates from The Clans of the Scottish Highlands London: Ackermann & Co., [1845-7, or Willis and Sotheran, 1857]. 37 hand-coloured lithographs after R. R. McIan by L. Dickinson and others, approx. 36 x 26cm, on thick wove paper, heightened in gum arabic, all tipped along top edges into card window-mounts, most plates with sewing-holes along right-hand edges (concealed by mounts), several with imprints shaved, a couple (e.g. Mac Gregor) with small paint-splashes (presumably printing-shop accidents), a few (e.g. Mac Intosh, Clanranald, Macdonald of Glenco) spotted. Plates comprise: Macdonnel of Glengarry; Macgillivray; Menzies; Colquhoun; Cumin; Clan Donchadh, of Mar; Shaw; Mac Aulay; Mac Nab; Mac Coll; Campbell of Argyle; Mac Rae; Mac Donald of Keppach; Mac Nicol; Mac Intyre; Mac Nachtan; Macalister; Graham; Mac Laurin; Mac Millan; Mac Phee; Mac Lennan; Ferguson; Urquhart; Macduff; Macdonald of the Isles; Mac Innes; Mac Dugal; MacGregor; Stewart; Mac Intosh; Davidson; Mac Ivor; Clanranald; Munro; Grant; Macdonald of Glenco [Abbey Life 426]Note: Note: McIan's Clans of the Scottish Highlands, with text by James Logan, was first published by Ackermann in 1845-7 to commemorate the centenary of the Jacobite Rebellion. The work was subsequently reissued by Willis & Sotheran ten years later.
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom (1926-2022) and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021) Autograph signatures, 27th June 1966 'Elizabeth R' and 'Philip', on a single leaf in a 4to black leatherette album with the arms of the city of Glasgow gilt to front cover, the album otherwise blank, the date inscribed on the signed leaf in an unidentified hand, slipcaseNote: Provenance: Signed for William G. Beaton, director of Glasgow Educational Television Service, Bath Street, Glasgow, during an official engagement; thence by descent.
Travel and topography Collection of works, 18th and 19th century Parboni, Achille. Nuova raccolta della principali vedute antiche, e moderne dell'alma citta di Roma et sue vicinanze. Rome: Giacomo Antonelli, 1824. Oblong 8vo, contemporary half morocco, engraved title-page, 99 engraved plates, spotting to front and rear;Parnell, Richard. The Natural History of the Fishes of the Firth of Forth and Tributaries. Private Copy. Edinburgh: Neill and Company, 1838. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed for 'John Stark Esr, with the compliments of the author' on the title-page, 8vo, original purple cloth, 28 etched plates numbered 18-44 (including 33 bis);Sale, Lady Florentia. A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-2. London: John Murray, 1843. First edition, large 12mo, contemporary calf, 2 lithographic maps (one folding), binding rubbed, old Kelso United Library plate to front pastedown, related inscription to title-page, folding map with loss of one section, laid down, and with splitting along one fold, various chips and tears to text-leaves;Douglas, Francis. A General Description of the East Coast of Scotland from Edinburgh to Cullen. Paisley: printed for the author, 1782. 12mo, 19th-century green half calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, front inner hinge cracked, head of title-page repaired;Pyne, James Baker. Lake Scenery of England. London: Day & Son, c.1860. 4to, original purple cloth gilt, 25 tinted lithographic plates including vignette title-page, gutta percha perishing;and 8 others (these not collated): John Leighton, Scenes in Scotland, 1831, contemporary green calf, engraved plates; G. R. Gleig, The Campaigns of the British Army, Fourth Edition [bound with:] Sale's Brigade in Afghanistan, New Edition, 1836-61, 2 works in 1 volume, contemporary half calf; James Jackson Jarvis, Parisian Sights and French Principles, 1853, contemporary half calf; Alphonse de Lamartine, Visit to the Holy Land, c.1840, 2 volumes, contemporary half calf by William Muir of Hamilton, engraved plates; J. Goldsmith, Geography on a Popular Plan ... Sixth Edition, 1811, contemporary tree sheep, engraved maps and plates (many folding); J. F. Campbell, Popular Tales of the West Highlands, 1860, 4 volumes, contemporary red half morocco gilt; Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, 1854, contemporary marbled half calf; Oliver & Boyd's New Edinburgh Almanac, 1848, contemporary red roan gilt
Ornithology Large collection of works from the library of Dr I. D. Pennie Bannerman, David Armitage. Birds of the Atlantic Islands. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1963-8. First edition, 4 volumes, 4to, original cloth, numerous colour plates, dust jackets, with 3 autograph letters signed from Bannerman to Dr I. D. Pennie, a press photograph of Bannerman and Pennie, and a carbon typescript of Pennie's review of the work, all laid in, the letters concerning the publication and Pennie's review of the work, Scottish Ornithologists' Club committee matters, etc., fading to blue dye on top edges of textblocks, volume 1 dust jacket repaired, volume 4 dust jacket with abrasion to spine-panel;Harvie-Brown, J. A. Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe. Norway, 1871. Archangel, 1872. Petchora, 1875. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original red cloth, plates and maps, with 2 autograph letters signed from J. A. Harvie-Brown to one Mr Parkin (evidently the oologist Thomas Parkin, 1845-1932, the letters concerning zoological specimens, ornithology libraries e.g. 'Mullens must have a finely "grangerized" library ...', etc.), and an autograph letter signed from Edward R. Alston (1845-1881), Scottish zoologist, all laid in;Mullens, W. H., & H. Kirke Swann. A Bibliography of British Ornithology, from the Earliest Times to 1912. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1917. First edition, 8vo, contemporary green crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, top edge gilt, with an autograph letter signed from W. H. Mullens laid in ('I have discovered several small points of interest since the Bibliography was published and these shall be forwarded to you in due course ...'), spine sunned;Mullens, W. H., H. Kirke Swann, & F. C. R. Jourdain. A Geographical Bibliography of British Ornithology. London: Witherby & Co., 1919-20. First edition, 6 original parts as issued, 8vo, original wrappers, largely unopened, together with the supplement volume, 1923, 8vo, original wrappers;Baxter, Evelyn V., & Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul. The Birds of Scotland. Their History, Distribution, and Migration. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, plates, with 2 autograph letters signed to Dr I. D. Pennie, one from Rintoul (dated 1951, 'We are most grateful to you for all the notes you have us from Tongue & shall look forward to hearing from Golspie where we hope you will be very happy', additionally signed by Baxter), one from Baxter (dated 1953, thanking Pennie for his condolences on the death of Rintoul);Barrett-Hamilton, Gerald E. H. A History of British Mammals. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1910. First edition, 3 volumes, large 8vo, later half morocco by Edmond & Spark of Aberdeen, plates;[Peregrine Books]. Bird Life in the Far North. E. S. Steward F.R.C.S. M.B.O.U. (1873-1954). Leeds: privately printed by J. Whitaker, 1994. One of 100 copies only, 8vo, original boards;Hancock, John. A Catalogue of the Birds of Northumberland and Durham. London: Williams and Norgate, 1874. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 14 photogravure plates;Macpherson, H. A. A Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland including Cumberland and Westmorland with Lancashire north of the Sands. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1892. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, plates, spine faded;Gätke, Heinrich. Heligoland as an Ornithological Observatory. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1895. First edition in English, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt;Meinertzhagen, Richard. Pirates and Predators. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1959. First edition, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, plates;and some 30 others similarNote: Provenance: From the library of Dr Ian Durance Pennie (1916-2002), Scottish physician and ornithologist. Pennie was co-founder and vice-president of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club, and contributed numerous articles to journals including the Scottish Naturalist, British Birds and the SOC's own Scottish Birds. He spent most of his career in Sutherland, serving as the Sutherland correspondent for the SOC's annual Scottish bird report, and was remembered in his obituary as a 'major contributor to Scottish ornithology' (Scottish Birds, 2002, pp. 57-8).
World War II; RAF and WAAF; D-Day Eisenhower's order of the day for 6th June 1944, signed by RAF and WAAF officers printed document (23.1 x 15.3cm), with insignia of the Allied Expeditionary Force to head and Dwight D. Eisenhower's printed signature at foot. With 13 autograph signatures in ink, 10 with postnominal air force ranks, including: B. Hughes (assistant section officer); G. [?K.] Gilson (squadron leader); A. E. McAlden (section officer); W. [?H.] Frost (rank illegible); W. R. Skinner (flying officer); J. D. McMillan (flying officer); and others. Old folds Note: Note: A. E. McAlden is recorded in The Air Force List (October 1944) as a section officer (gazetted 1st July 1942) in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Administrative & Special Duties Branch; the List also contains candidates for the authors of several of remaining signatures including: B. Hughes, gazetted section officer 1st January 1943, WAAF, 'G' Branch (column 7917, p. 936); G. K. Gilson, gazetted flight lieutenant 25th August 1942, general duties branch (navigators) (column 1102c, p. 387); and W. H. J. Frost, gazetted flying officer 13th January 1943, A. & S. D. branch (column 3661, p. 664). One J. D. Macmillan, 487 Squadron, RNZAF is shown in a photograph held by the Auckland Museum.Provenance: By family repute from Hugh Crosby (16th March 1907-May 1987), uncle of the vendor, believed to have served at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire (home of the 'Dambusters', 617 Squadron).
Bible; French; Marot-Bèze version La Bible, qui est toute la sainte escriture du vieil et du nouveau Testament London: imprimé par R. Everingham, et se vend chez R. Benteley [sic], et J. Hindmarsh, 1687. 8vo (15 x 8cm), contemporary red goatskin gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved architectonic additional title-page, contemporary ownership inscription to initial blank, closely trimmed along top edge occasionally cropping headlines, engraved title-page spotted, closed tears in OT 3G3 and NT F1, small tear in NT I6 costing a few letters [ESTC R40756];Testi, Fulvio. Delle poesie liriche. Modena: Giulian Cassiani, 1645. 16mo, contemporary red goatskin gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, [12], 175 [1], 166 pp., engraved portrait, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, bookplates (Robert Shafto Esqr. of Benwell; William Adair Esqr.)
Oriental languages Manuscript commonplace book of R. M. Binning, c.1870 4to (19.4 x 15cm), contemporary straight-grain black roan album, rebacked, retaining brass class and catch, signed 'R. M. Binning' on one leaf, contents include:1) 12 Qajar School gouache roundels of the signs of the Zodiac, each approx. 3.5cm in diameter, clipped retaining Persian captions and mounted, together with a similar large sun emblem in gouache heightened in gilt, 11 x 11cm;2) 3 Persian calligraphic panels in nastal'iq script, 13 x 8cm, 17.5 x 13cm, and 17 x 11 cm (at intervals through the album);3) Notes on languages including Hebrew, Kaithi, Avestan, Telugu, Runic, Anglo-Saxon, Sanskrit, Arabic, etc., concerning alphabets, numerals and grammar, in the form of manuscript notes and extracts from printed books or pamphlets, variously mounted direct on album leaves or tipped to stubs;4) Transcripts of Bible verses in English, with Persian translations, approx. 260 pp.;5) Transcripts of Qur'anic verses and other maxims in Arabic, with English translations, 16 pp.;6) 2 Qajar School gouache portraits, depicting a seated warrior and a man smoking a hookah, both approx. 15 x 10cm;7) Transcripts of Persian poetry, including from Sa'di's Gulistan and Bustan, with English translations, approx. 70 pp., including approx. 14 clippings or whole leaves from decorative Persian manuscripts, mounted;8) Transcripts of proverbs in Urdu, Hindi, French, Latin, Arabic and Persian, with English translations, approx. 50 pp.;9) Various mounted chromolithographs, engravings, and albumen-print photographs (from life and from paintings)Note: Note: Robert Blair Munro Binning (1814-1891) was employed by the Madras Civil Service from 1833 until retiring on health grounds in 1861, having held positions including sub-collector of Arcot and magistrate of Chittoor district. He was the author of A Grammar, with a Selection of Dialogues and Familiar Phrases, and a Short Vocabulary in Modern Arabic (1849), and A Journal of Two Years' Travel in Persia, Ceylon, etc. (London, 1857). He was a prolific collector of oriental manuscripts, most of which, including an important 14th-century copy of Biruni's 'Chronology of Ancient Nations', he donated to what is now the University of Edinburgh, where a selection of his notebooks and papers is today also held. His manuscript dictionary of the Deccani language appeared for sale in the US in 2012.
Political philosophy and economics Collection of works Hume, David. Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding. The Second Edition. With Additions and Corrections. London: A. Millar, 1750. 12mo, 20th-century half calf, variable spotting [ESTC T4986];Addison, Joseph. The Free-Holder, or Political Essays. London: for D. Midwinter; and J. Tonson, 1716. 12mo, contemporary sprinkled calf, half-title [ESTC T40194];Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nation ... A New Edition, corrected throughout and greatly enlarged. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, and William Tait, 1839. 8vo, modern quarter calf, engraved portrait frontispiece;Locke, John. An Essay concerning Human Understanding. The Tenth Edition, with Large Additions. London: Edward Symon, 1731. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, engraved portrait frontispiece [ESTC T63936];and 4 others including John Locke, A Collection of Several Pieces, never before printed, London: for J. Bettenham for R. Frankcklin, 1720 (8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, lacking plate), and George Berkeley, Alicphron, 1732 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, volume 1 with corner of title-page torn away)
Irish Gaelic printing The Catechism, or Christian Doctrine by way of Question and Answer [Irish title: An teagasg Críosduidhe]. Paris: James Guerin, 1742. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tree sheep (lacking front board), liv 513 pp., parallel text and title-pages in Irish and English, small ink-stain to foot of title-pages, damp-staining to quires R, S and X [ESTC T97298];Mignan, Robert. Travels in Chaldaea, including a Journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah, and Babylon, performed on Foot in 1827. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1829. First edition, 8vo, xvi 333 [3] pp., advertisement leaf, contemporary purple diced calf gilt, 2 folding maps, 7 aquatint plates [Atabey 908];Hartshorne, Anna C. Japan and her People. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1902. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, 50 photographic plates, folding map, bookplates;and 5 othersNote: Note: This Irish catechism, written by the Roman Catholic priest Andrew Donlevy (1680-1746), is 'the most complete formal text in Irish for [its] period and draws on the author's spoken Irish' (ODNB).
Elton, Lady Mary (née Stewart, 1773-1849) Panoramic Views of Edinburgh [Edinburgh: William Fairborn, and R. Ackermann, London], c.1823. 4 hand-coloured lithographs on india paper by William Westall after Stewart and printed by C. Hullmandel, each comprising a view of Edinburgh from Calton Hill respectively looking north, south, east and west, separately mounted, framed and glazed, print dimensions approx. 25 x 60.5cm, original lithographic dedication or title leaf mounted to backboard of 'View from the door of Nelson's Monument on the Calton Hill, Looking to the East', printsellers' labels (Doig, Wilson, & Wheatley and John Mathieson & Co.) [Abbey Scenery 500]Note: Note: The artist Mary Stewart had in 1822 published a similar suite of four views of Edinburgh from Blackford Hill. She is named as Miss Mary Stewart on the plates but by the time of publication had married the Reverend Sir Abraham Elton, 5th Baronet, of Clevedon Court in Somerset, and is named as Mary Elton on the dedication leaf. These views capture Edinburgh at the time of the famous visit of George IV in 1822, with the royal squadron anchored in the Firth of Forth and artillery emplacements on Calton Hill and Salisbury Crags. The imprint is supplied from information provided on the original wrappers (not present here).
Field sports Collection of works, 18th and 19th century Page, Thomas. The Art of Shooting Flying: familiarly explain'd by way of Dialogue. Containing Directions for the Choice of Guns for Various Occasions [...]. Norwich: printed by J. Crouse, and sold by the author, 1766. First edition, 8vo, modern quarter calf, spotting, B4 repaired [Chute 493; ESTC T201535; Schwerdt II p. 58];Hawker, Peter. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting. London: Longman [et al.], 1824. Third edition ('considerably enlarged and improved'), tall 8vo, modern full morocco, top edge gilt, half-title, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 5 engraved plates (one hand-coloured), [Schwerdt I p. 235: the 'most complete edition'];Daniel, William Barker. Rural Sports. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, 1812. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf decorated in gilt and blind, engraved title-page to each volume, 68 engraved plates (several folding), title-pages spotted, bookplates, front board of volume 2 detached;[Clement, Lewis]. Shooting and Fishing Trips in England, France, Alsace, Belgium, Holland, and Bavaria. London: Chapman and Hall, 1876. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary green half morocco by J. Larkins, thematic motifs gilt to spines, spines faded, spotting to blanks and half-titles;[Sportsman's Dictionary]. The Sportsman's Dictionary: or, the Country Gentleman's Companion, in all Rural Recreations: with full and particular Instructions for Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Setting, Fishing, Racing, Riding, Cocking. London: J. Osborn, 1744. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, 25 engraved plates (of 26: lacking frontispiece), unnumbered plate facing quire Z torn, plates 9 and 22 repaired [ESTC N23268];Thornhill, R. B. The Shooting Directory. London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804. First edition, first issue (retaining 2E4-2F2, i.e. pp. 215-220), 4to, contemporary half calf rebacked, 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 1 engraved plate (of 2), 3 folding tables, half-title discarded, text spotted and browned, closed tear in 2Z2 [Schwerdt II pp. 258-9];and 2 othersNote: Note: The Art of Shooting Flying by Norwich watch and gun maker Thomas Page is 'the first book in prose solely on shooting ... Very rare' (Chute); ESTC cites three copies only in libraries world-wide: Oxford, Library of Congress, and Yale.
Scotland Large collection of works on topography and local history Wilson, Daniel. Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time. Edinburgh: Thomas C. Jack, c.1840. 2 volumes, 4to, original green cloth gilt, folding map frontispiece, numerous engraved plates;St John, Charles. A Tour in Sutherlandshire, with Extracts from the Field-Books of a Sportsman and Naturalist. London: John Murray, 1849. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, 10 engraved plates, wear to spine-ends, tissue-guard for frontispiece of volume 1 removed;Mackenzie, Colin. Storm and Sunshine of a Soldier's Life. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1884. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, engraved portrait frontispiece (pencil-marking to tissue-guard), rubbing to extremities, half-title inscribed in pencil 'Emma A. P. Dawson, from Mrs Colin Mackenzie, 1884', albumen print mounted to verso;Craig, R. S., & Adam Laing. The Hawick Tradition of 1514. Hawick: W. & J. Kennedy, 1898. First edition, 4to, original red cloth, frontispiece, folding map to rear, damp-stain to front board and concomitant bleeding of dye into margins of prelims;Batten, Edmund Chisholm. The Charters of the Priory of Beauly. [Edinburgh]: for the Grampian Club, 1877. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;Penney, John. A Topographical and Historical Account of Linlithgowshire. Edinburgh: Stevenson, 1832. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, engraved additional title-page (dated 1831);Edwards-Moss, John E. A Season in Sutherland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, bookplate of Charles Thomas-Stanford (1858-1932);Sharpe, J. Selkirk: its Church, its School, and its Presbytery. Selkirk: James Lewis, c.1914. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 4 halftone photographic plates;Mackay, Donald. Memories of our Parish (Parish of Reay, Caithness). Dingwall: Ross-shire Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd., 1925. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 2 plates, presentation inscription from the author;Horne, John. Summer Days in Cattiland. Wick: office of the "John O'Groat Journal", c.1910. First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards;MacCormick, John. An t-Eilean Muileach. The Island of Mull. Its History, Scenes and Legends. Glasgow: Alex. Maclaren & Sons, 1923. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;Evans, A. H. A Fauna of the Tweed Area. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1911. First edition, 8vo, plates, bookplates;Tait, E. S. Reid (editor). The Statistical Account of Shetland 1791-1799 ... by Sir John Sinclair. Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1925. 4to, original cloth;Metcalfe, William M. A History of the County of Renfrew from the Earliest Times. Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1905. 4to, original quarter vellum, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, folding map (detached, spotted);Anderson, Joseph (editor). The Orkneying Saga. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1873. 8vo, original cloth, lithographic frontispiece, plates;and approx. 40 others including Edinburgh and provincial Scottish imprints
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Fife Collection of works Fraser, Sir William. Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1888. First edition, one of 100 copies (according to other records), 3 volumes, 4to, original red quarter morocco gilt by C. S. Smith of Edinburgh, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, decorative title-pages, 33 colour lithographic plates reproducing original charters, letters and other documents, wood-engraved illustrations of seals and signatures in text, volume 1 with presentation plate to front pastedown, largely effaced but name of recipient William Blackwood Esq. (presumably the famous publisher) visible, volumes 2-3 with bookplates of William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale, spines rubbed, peripheral mottling to covers, volume 2 with split to foot of spine;Idem. Illustrations of the Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1888. 2 copies, 4to, both in original red cloth gilt, containing duplicates of the title-pages, colour plates and other illustrations from the Memorials, one copy with bookplate of Innes of Learney to front pastedown and later colour print mounted to front free endpaper, the other with bookplate of Francis James Grant, Rothesay Herald and Lyon Clerk, second copy with wear to spine-ends mottling to covers;Idem. The Melvilles, Earls of Melville, and the Leslies, Earls of Leven. Edinburgh: [colophon:] by T. and A. Constable, at the Edinburgh University Press, 1890. First edition, one of 150 copies, 3 volumes, 4to, original red cloth gilt, rebacked in red morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 41 plates including photogravures or lithographs from portrait paintings (many on india paper, mounted) and colour lithographic facsimiles of historical documents, printed presentation plate addressed in manuscript to Archibald Stirling of Keir to front pastedown of volume 1;Idem. Introductions and Illustrations in the Melvilles, Earls of Melville and the Leslies, Earls of Leven. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1890. 2 copies, 4to, both in original red cloth gilt, plates, one copy inscribed by William Fraser to David Chalmers of Redhall (1820-1899), Scottish industrialist, with a letter from Fraser to Chalmers in original envelope mounted to endpaper, and Chalmers's bookplate;Patrick, John (1831-1923). Photographic Views of the Fife Coast, c.1870. 8vo, original green cloth, 13 albumen-print photographs (10.7 x 18cm), on card mounts backed onto continuous sheet of linen folded in leporello format, printed border and captions to mounts, contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown, modern bookplate to rear, light soiling to mounts, ties detached or gone;Fife Tales by Photo. Part I. Contents. I. The Mother's Fault. II. The Gowks. III. The Minstrel. With a Calotype [sic] of Macduff's Castle. Leven: John Patrick, 1861. 12mo, 74 pp., original glazed yellow printed wrappers, albumen-print photographic frontispiece, wrappers chipped and soiled, attempted adhesive-repair to spine, closed tear in index leaf, occasional soiling to contents;Limekilns. Its Antiquities and Church Landowners, Harbours, Ships, Shipmasters and Shipments, and Passagium Reginae. Compiled under the Instructions of the Right Honourable the Lord Wavertree of Delamere. Edinburgh: for private circulations, 1929. First edition, one of 215 copies, large folio, original cloth, 20 plates, front free endpaper excised, pen-marks to endpapers, mark to foot of p. 88;Watson, Charles Brodie Boog. Alexander Cowan of Moray House and Valleyfield (Founder of A. Cowan & Sons), his Kinsfolk and Connections. Perth: D. Leslie (Watson & Annandale), privately printed, 1915. Folio, original cloth, halftone photographic frontispiece from a painting, 2 double-page plates, without genealogical tables listed in contents, inscribed by the author, together with a separate issue of the final part ('Some Notes on Moray House'), folio, original cloth, with plates as in the preceding work, inscribed by the author;Mackay, Aeneas J. G. A History of Fife and Kinross. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1896. First edition, large-paper issue, one of 100 copies, 4to, original black cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, folding map, bookplates (R. Y. Pickering, dated 1895, and the Barons Glenconner);and 4 others including William Gifford of Joppa, An Ancient Seaport on the Shores of the Forth, Dunfermline: Journal Printing Works, 1914Note: Note: John Patrick was originally a baker in his native Buckhaven before becoming a commercial photographer, working first in Kirkcaldy and subsequently Edinburgh; his famous images include a portrait of Thomas Carlyle taken during Carlyle's visit to Kirkcaldy in 1874. No other copy of Fife Tales by Photo traced.
Meyrick, Samuel Rush A General Inquiry into Antient Armour As it existed in Europe, but particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II. [Together with:] Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection of Llewelyn Meyrick, at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire; after the Drawings, and with the Descriptions of Dr. Meyrick, by Joseph Skelton. London: printed by G. Schulze, for Robert Jennings [-for J. Skelton], 1824-30. 5 volumes, folio (38 x 27cm), contemporary red crushed half morocco gilt by Howell of Liverpool, top edges gilt, half-title and etched additional title-page to each volume, A General Inquiry (volumes 1-3) with 10 etched plates, 70 hand-coloured aquatint plates with tissue-guards, numerous hand-coloured historiated initials heighted in gold or silver, errata leaf with directions to the binder on verso, bookplates (Messenger family), etched plates offset, a few aquatint plates offset through tissue-guards, volume 2 quire Y with repaired closed tears in margins, Engraved Illustrations (volumes 4-5) with 2 etched frontispieces, engraved portrait, 150 etched plates, bookplates (R. J. Wiginton and Bramley B. Kent), plates generally spotted, plate 138 repaired in margin
Antiquarian literature Collection of works Daniel, William B. Rural Sports. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. 3 volumes, 4to, contemporary diced calf gilt, engraved frontispieces, 70 plates, a little wear to bindings, plates variably spotted and offset;Kay, John. A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings. With Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes. Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1842. 2 volumes, 8vo, numerous engraved plates;Hume, David. The History of England ... A New Edition, Corrected. Dublin: printed for the United Company of Booksellers, 1775. 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled tan sheep, red and green morocco labels, slightly rubbed;Calderwood, David. The True History of the Church of Scotland, from the Beginning of the Reformation, unto the End of the Reigne of King James VI. [Netherlands?: no publisher], 1688. First edition, folio, 19th-century half calf, spine defective at head, bound without index (8 pp.) [ESTC R16833];Macpherson, James. The History of Great Britain, from the Restoration to the Accession of the House of Hannover. London: W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1776. 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary calf, lacking portrait, section excised from each title-page;Spottiswood, John. The History of the Church of Scotland. London: for R. Royston, 1655. First edition, folio, 20th-century half calf, lacking portrait;and 3 others including another copy of Calderwood, the lot sold as seen
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Parry, Edward and others [Voyages, abridged] Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions. London: Richard Phillips, [n.d.] 8vo, folding map, 3 plates; [bound with] Prior, James. Narrative of a Voyage in the Indian Seas... London: Richard Phillips, [n.d.] 8vo, folding map, map, 2 plates; [bound with] Dupin, Charles. Narratives of Two Excursions to the Ports of England, Scotland, and Ireland, in 1816, 1817, and 1818. London: Richard Phillips, [n.d.] 8vo, hand-coloured plate, folding map; [bound with] Chateauvieux, Frederick Lillin de. Travels in Italy... London: Richard Phillips, [n.d.] 8vo, 2 plates including one folding aquatint; [bound with] Forbin, Count. Travels in Greece, Turkey and the Holy Land, in 1817-18. London: Richard Phillips, [n.d.] 8vo, 6 plates; [bound with] Analyses of New Works of Voyages and Travels, published during the last Six Months in Great Britain. London: Richard Phillips, [n.d.] 8vo;[volume 2:] de Forbin, Count. Travels in Egypt. London: Richard Phillips, [n.d.] 8vo, folding aquatint plate and 6 others; [bound with] McKeevor, Thomas. A Voyage to Hudson's Bay, during the Summer of 1812. London: Richard Phillips, 1819. 8vo; [bound with] Freminville, Chevalier de la Poix de. Voyage to the North Pole. London: Richard Phillips, 1819. 8vo, 8 plates; [bound with] Queene, J.S. Narrative of thirty-four years Slavery and Travels in Africa. London: Richard Phillips, 1819. 8vo, frontispiece; [bound with] May, R. de. Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Hendrick Portenger... London: Richard Phillips, 1819. 8vo; [bound with] Travels of M. Burckhardt in Egypt and Nubia. London: Richard Phillips, 1819. 8vo; [bound with] Prior, James. Voyage along the Eastern Coast of Africa to Mozambique, Johanna, and Quiloa; to St Helena... London: Richard Phillips, 1819. 8vo, plate, 2 folding maps; [bound with] Cordova, Admiral Don A. A Voyage of Discovery to the Strait of Magellan. London: Richard Phillips, 1819. 8vo, portrait, folding map; [bound with] Waller, John Augustine. A Voyage in the West Indies... London: Richard Phillips, 1820. 8vo, 6 plates, map; 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, bindings worn, bookplates of Klingelheofer
Arms and armour Group of private and institutional collection catalogues Dean, Bashford. The Collection of Arms and Armor of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant 1843-1909. [New York:] printed privately, 1914. First edition, one of 300 copies, 4to, original vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, etched portrait frontispiece, 53 photographic plates (mounted, numbered 1-51, including 9a and 19a), covers slightly dust-soiled and sprung, a little wear to tips, bookplate (Michael Moad) and ownership inscription;Idem. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue of European Daggers including the Ellis, de Dino, Riggs, and Reubell Collections. New York: [printed in Paris for the Metropolitan Museum of Art], 1929. First edition, one of 900 copies, 4to, later tan half sheep, 85 photographic plates, most with laid-in tissue guards;Idem. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue of Court Swords and Hunting Swords including the Ellis, de Dino, Riggs, and Reubell Collections. New York: [printed in Paris for the Metropolitan Museum of Art], 1929. First edition, one of 900 copies, 4to, later tan half sheep, tinted photographic frontispiece, 101 photographic plates, most with laid-in tissue guards;Brett, Edwin J. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Origin and Development of Arms and Amour. To which are appended 133 Plates specially drawn from the Author's Collection at Oaklands, St Peter's, Thanet, and Burleigh House, London. London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Company (Limited), 1894. First edition, large 4to, contemporary red crushed full morocco gilt for Henry Arthur Johnstone, his monogram within armorial lozenge gilt to front board, tan pigskin doublures, incorporating Johstone's naval ex-libris device dated 1899 in blind, 133 plates, bookplates;Laking, Guy Francis. The Armour of Windsor Castle. European Section. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Company, 1904. First edition, 4to, original quarter pigskin, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 40 mounted photographic plates with tissue-guards, binding slightly rubbed and marked;Gibb, William. Naval and Military Trophies and Personal Relics of British Heroes. A Series of Water Colour Drawings. The Descriptive Notes by Richard R. Holmes. London: John C. Nimmo, 1896. First edition, large 4to, original red pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, 36 chromolithographic plates;Drummond, James. Ancient Scottish Weapons. With Introduction and Descriptive Notes by Joseph Anderson. Edinburgh: George Waterston & Sons, 1881. First edition, one of 500 copies, large, original quarter morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, 50 chromolithographic plates (of 54: lacking plates 15-18), endpapers renewed, blind stamps of the Royal United Services Institution to heads of plates
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An assorted collection of antique and later silver and white metal jewellery. The lot to include 925 silver, hallmarks, AF jewellery fragments, chain necklaces, etched hinged bangle bracelet - Birmingham 1884, R W Hewett & Co (Reginald Walter Hewett), carved cameo ring, opal composite brooch, forstner Canadian etched brooch, pair of drop earrings, ingot, enamel badge, Lizzie name pin - Birmingham 1893, J.C&Co, Mizpah ivy leaf - Chester 1886, box chain, AF enamelled butterfly pendant necklace - Chester 1913, C.H - Charles Horner, purple paste stone bar brooch, garnet five stone ring and paste stone brooch pin. All marked as or test as silver. Total weight approx 122.6g. Largest measures approx 50cm.
A hallmarked 9ct white gold, peridot and diamond ring. The ring having a round cut double prong set vibrant green stone flanked by a round cut diamond to each shoulder on tapered shank. Hallmark illegible, tests indicate 9ct gold. Total weight approx 2.1g. Approx size R. Head measures approx 8.5mm.
A hallmarked 9ct yellow gold, iolite and diamond ring. The ring having a rounded rectangular cut purple stone flanked by an accent diamond to each knife edge shoulders and tapering shank. Hallmarked for Birmingham 2007. Principle stone measures approx 10x8x5.5mm. Total weight approx 2.7g. Approx size R.
A hallmarked 18ct gold and diamond cluster ring. The ring having a circular head set with seven round cut diamonds to form a floral pattern head on pinched cathedral style shoulders and tapered shank. Hallmarked for London. Evidence of repair or resizing. Total weight approx 3.1g. Approx size R.
A hallmarked 9ct yellow gold amethyst and diamond triple cluster ring. The ring having three graduated oval cut amethyst each encompassed by a halo of accent diamonds to pierced scrolling setting and tapered shank. Hallmarked for Birmingham 2007. Principle stone measures approx 8x6x3.7mm. Total weight approx 3.4g. Approx size R.
An antique hallmarked 9ct gold wristwatch. The watch having a circular dial with black Arabic numeral indies and blued hands to the serpentine edged case and black strap. Hallmarked with import mark for Glasgow 1922, makers marks for D&R - Ducommun & Ries. Total weight approx 9.2g. Case including crown measures approx 5.3cm. Not ticking at time of cataloguing.
A hallmarked 9ct gold cross pendant and chain necklace. The cross having engine patterning throughout, hallmarked for Birmingham 1947, makers marks for R. M. Co - Rodenic Manufacturing Co. On a 9ct marked fine cable link chain united by a spring ring clasp. Total weight approx 2.5g. Chain measures approx 40cm.
An assorted collection of 925 silver and purple stone set rings. The lot to include amethyst, cubic zirconia, enamel, floral, flowers, textured metal, zebra animal print effect, solitaire, single stone, dress rings, cluster, crossover, cabochon, pink stones, faceted stones and more. All marked 925. Total weight approx 66.7g. Approx sizes P.5 - R.
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