We found 297887 price guide item(s) matching your search
There are 297887 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe- List
- Grid
-
297887 item(s)/page
Lot 100
Berry (R. J.). The Natural History of Orkney, 1st edition, 2nd state, Collins, 1985, ink-stamp to front free endpaper, original light green boards, spine creased, dust jacket with concomitant crease and toning, 8vo, together with: Simms (Eric), British Warblers, 1st edition, 2nd state, Collins, 1985, original light green boards, dust jacket price-clipped, spine slightly faded, partial toning to flaps, 8voThe two rarest books in the New Naturalist series, numbers 70 and 71 respectively.(Qty: 2)
Lot 101
Bewick (Thomas). A History of British Birds, 2 volumes..., and a supplement, with additional figures, 2 volumes (Land Birds/Water Birds), Newcastle, Edward Walker, for T. Bewick and E. Charnley, 1821, numerous wood engraved illustrations by Thomas Bewick, occasional marks to margins, leaf Z2 in volume 1 with closed tear archivally repaired without loss, wide margins, partly untrimmed, contemporary diced half calf, later rebacks (endpapers replaced, with bookplates removed), large 8vo, together with A General History of Quadrupeds, 3rd edition, Newcastle upon Tyne, printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. Bewick, 1792, numerous wood engraved illustrations by Thomas Bewick, some scattered spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary polished full calf gilt, rubbed and a little wear to joints and head and foot of spine, with upper cover detached, contemporary bookplate of W. Combes to front pastedown, a wide-margined copy, 8vo, plus Boyd (Julia, editor), Bewick Gleanings: Being impressions from copperplates and wood bocks, engraved in the Bewick Workshop, remaining in the possession of the family..., to which are added, lives of Thos. Bewick and his pupils, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Andrew Reid, 1886, numerous wood engraved illustrations, top edge gilt, original publisher's crushed dark green half morocco, rubbed and some marks and light discolouration, contemporary bookplate of Rousdon, Devon to front pastedown, small 4to, limited Small Paper edition numbered 96 (possibly from an edition of 250), signed by Julia Boyd, and other Bewick related works, including Fables, by Walter Brown, with cuts by Thomas Bewick, S. Grosvenor, 1884, Iain Bain, The Watercolours and Drawings of Thomas Bewick and His Workshop Apprentices, 2 volumes, 1989, Memoir of Thomas Bewick Written By Himself 1822-1828, with an introduction by Selwyn Image, 1924, Bewick to Dovaston, Letters 1824-1828, edited by Gordon Williams, 1968, and another copy of Bewick's General History of Quadrupeds, 5th edition, 1807 (somewhat worn with upper cover missing), all 8vo/small 4to (Qty: 10)
Lot 102
Chalmers (Patrick R.) Birds Ashore and A-Foreshore, 1935, colour and monochrome illustrations by Winifred Austen, some light spotting, bookplate and inscription, top edge gilt, original half morocco, spine rubbed and faded, 4to, limited edition 49/150 signed by author and artist, together with Berkshire Vale. Poems by Wilfred Howse-Nurse, Blackwell, Oxford, 1927, illustrations by Cecil Aldin, original boards, a little bowed, folio, plus The Country Scene in Poems by John Masefield, 1937, colour illustrations by Edward Seago, bookplate, original cloth, light stain to upper cover, 4to, with others illustrated by Cecil Aldin, Philip Rickman, G.D. Armour etc (Qty: 11)
Lot 107
Grimble (Augustus). Shooting and Salmon Fishing, Hints and Recollections, 1st edition, 1892, & Highland Sport, illustrated by Archibald Thorburn, 1894, 18 & 10 uncoloured plates respectively, scattered light spotting, both original parchment-backed boards, rubbed and some soiling and pale discolouration, 4to, together with Wise (John R.). The New Forest, Its History and Its Scenery, Artist's Edition, with 12 Etchings by Heywood Sumner, 1st edition, Henry Sotheran, 1883, 12 etched plates by Heywood Sumner, 63 wood engraved illustrations to text by W. J. Linton after Walter Crane, 2 maps, all on india paper, a few minor marks, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original quarter green morocco over wood-effect boards, rubbed and some wear to joints and corners, large 8vo (Large Paper copy), limited edition 313/350, plus White (Gilbert) , The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, with the Naturalist's Calendar; and miscellaneous observations, extracted from his papers, new edition, with notes by Edward Turner Bennett and others, circa 1837, contemporary presentation ownership inscription to front blank 'Tom & Elizth Bolitho from their affecate Brother & Sister Pascoe & Elizabeth July 10th 1838', marbled edges and endpapers, contemporary gilt-decorated green full calf, rubbed and a little scuffed, spine and outer edges somewhat discoloured, 8vo, and Bewick (Thomas), A History of British Birds..., and a supplement, with additional figures, 2 volumes, Newcastle, 1821, numerous wood engraved illustrations to text, contemporary half calf, rubbed and scuffed, spine labels missing, 8vo (Qty: 6)
Lot 138
* Darwin (Charles Robert, 1809-1882). A series of 16 autograph letters signed, all but one Down, Bromley, Kent, 9 December 1857 to 16 November 1866, all addressed to John Higgins, all in acknowledgement and thanks for rent money collected and placed to his account (at the Union Bank), one letter written from Ilkley Wells House, Yorkshire, (4 December 1859), one letter signed 'Charles Darwin', (22 June 1860), the others all signed 'Ch. Darwin' or 'Ch. R. Darwin', eight letters on Down printed letterhead, one letter two pages (1 June 1862) and the remainder all one page including last incomplete letter (16 November 1866) with final page present only, together with five further letters signed from Charles Darwin, 21 November 1865 to 27 May 1869, all in his wife Emma's hand and signed either 'Ch. Darwin' or 'Ch. R. Darwin', all similarly to John Higgins in acknowledgement and thanks for payments placed to his account at Union Bank, two on Down printed letterhead, one letter two pages (14 May 1866), the others one page, a few slight creases and marginal splits, two letters (31 May & 1 December 1864) slightly dust-soiled and more heavily creased with small blank paper loss to lower right corners, final letter (27 May 1869) heavily spotted, all signed by Charles Darwin across affixed one penny duty stamp at foot of letters, except the first autograph letter (9 December 1857) signed across duty stamp at head of letter and again below sentiment at foot of letter, all 8vo (one autograph letter oblong 8vo), together with two invoices for timber made out to John Higgins of Alford , [Lincolnshire], from Bennetts , Wilkinson & Stephenson, dated at Grimsby, 17 February 1858 & 21 June 1861, both one page, 4to, plus a manuscript letter receipt addressed to John Higgins of Alford , June 1855, for money received by Sir J. Goodricke Bart., one page, 8voJohn Higgins (1795/6-1872) had acted as Charles Darwin's land agent from 1845, when Robert Waring Darwin (Charles Darwin's father) bought, on Charles Darwin's behalf, a farm in Beesby, near Claythorpe and Alford in Lincolnshire. Higgins managed the farm and collected the rent for Charles Darwin. Higgins lived at Alford Manor House, Alford, Lincolnshire. He also acted as agent for Darwin's sister Susan and their father Robert. The first letter is typical of the content of all these letters: 'My dear Sir, I beg leave to acknowledge & thank you for £248: 2 s : 1 d , placed to my account at the Union Bank'. All the letters bar the two 2-page letters are docketed by or on behalf of Higgins to blank versos, the longest autograph letter (1 June 1862) reads: 'I beg leave to acknowledge the sum of £240: 7 s :9 d to be placed to my account at Union Bank on June 7th; being half year rent since Lady's Day. I am much obliged to you for informing me that you will call at my Brother, 6 Queen Anne St. on Friday about 12 o'clock, for I shall be particularly glad to have the pleasure of seeing you; & unless I am too unwell to travel, I will certainly be there on purpose at the hour'. The following letter (21 November 1862) reads: 'I beg leave to acknowledge & thank you for £245: 18 s : 0 d being half a year's rent, placed to my account at the Union Bank. Your account of the Tomline estate gives me some regret; but I hope I have done the best for my children. I am very glad to see that you use your own hand again in writing, as this shows you must be better'. A short letter dated for December 1863 excuses his handwriting: 'I am ill so pray excuse writing'. The following letter of 31 May 1864 adds after the standard thanks for payment: 'I am much obliged for your kind enquiries: I have had a very long illness, but I am now recovering & shall soon regain my former moderate state of health'; and in the following letter (1 December 1864) Darwin says that he is sorry to hear that Higgins is still suffering from his painful illness. Three of the letters written in Emma's hand also contain snippets of news other than acknowledgement of receipt of payments. The first, 14 May 1866: 'I had not heard that you had suffered so much from the cattle plague in Lincolnshire & am very much obliged to you for giving me information on the subject. I am extremely sorry to hear of the great loss which my sister's tenant & your son have suffered'; 23 May 1867: 'I am glad to hear that the cottages are so nearly finished'; 16 November 1868: 'I am much obliged for your note which gives so good an account of Mr Hardy's management of the farm'. Francis Hardy was the tenant of Charles Darwin's Beesby Farm. The one letter not sent from Darwin's home at Down in Kent was written from Ilkley Wells House, Ilkley, Yorkshire on 4 December 1859, just ten days after the publication of his book On the Origin of Species. Charles Darwin went to Yorkshire for two months to work on the proofs of his book and see it through to publication, visiting Ilkley Wells House for hydropathic treatment, while staying with his family at the nearby North View House (now Hillside Court). Lincolnshire Archives hold thirty-five letters from Darwin to Higgins, also largely concerning Darwin's farm rents and dated variously 15 March 1845 to 21 June 1860. See the online Darwin Correspondence Project for full details.(Qty: 24)
Lot 169
Howard (Philip). The Scriptural History of the Earth and of Mankind, compared with the Cosmogonies, Chronoglies, and original Traditions of Ancient Nations; an Abstract and Review of Several Modern Systems; with an Attempt to Explain Philosophically, the Mosaical Account of the Creation and Deluge, and to deduce from this last event the causes of the actual structure of the Earth, in a series of letters, with notes and illustrations, 1st edition, R. Faulder, 1797, half-title and errata leaf present, armorial bookplate of Le Gendre Pierce Starkie to upper pastedown, contemporary tree calf, elaborate gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, gilt decorated borders to boards, 4to (Qty: 1)
![[Kendall, Frederick]. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Minerals, and Fossil Organic Remains of Scarborough and the Vicinity, in](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a55e7a67-fc3e-49b2-89c2-aa1f0109b0e2/586524c4-3961-4197-9863-aa1f012ba91d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 171
[Kendall, Frederick]. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Minerals, and Fossil Organic Remains of Scarborough and the Vicinity, including the line of Coast from Hornsea to Mulgrave, and Extending into the Interior as far as Malton, 1st edition, Scarborough: T. Coultas, 1816, half-title discarded, additional engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, six engraved plates (five hand-coloured and one folding), subscribers list & corrigenda leaf present, occasional light offsetting and spotting, armorial bookplate of Syston Park and monogram label to upper pastedown, contemporary straight grain calf by R. Storr of Grantham (ticket to lower pastedown), gilt decorated spine with green morocco title label, gilt border decoration to boards, 8vo (Qty: 1)
Lot 174
Lhuyd (Edward). Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia sive Lapidum aliorumq; Fossilium Britannicorum singulari figura insignium..., London: ex officina M.C. and Leipzig: Joh. Ludw. Gleditsch & Weidmann, circa 1699, 17 folding engraved plates (toned), three with closed repaired tears, one with small hole at head (associated with paper flaw), title with two early ink ownership names (one dated 1714), title verso with list of subscribers, gathering A with minor worm damage at gutter, some light spotting, bound with Woodward (John) , Naturalis Historia Telluris Illustrata & Aucta..., 1st edition, R. Wilkin..., 1714, 3 parts in one, woodcut initials and decorations, variable spotting, 18th century half vellum, spine with manuscript title, worn with some marks, 8vo, together with Emery (Frank) , Edward Lhuyd F.R.S. 1660-1709, Cardiff: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1971, black & white illustrations, original printed wrappers, 8vo (Qty: 2)
Lot 189
Pryce (William, of Redruth). Mineralogia Cornubiensis; A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining: Containing the Theory and Natural History of Strata, Fissures, and Lodes, with the Methods of Discovering and Working of Tin, Copper, and Lead Mines... , 1st edition, 1778, engraved portrait frontispiece (small dampstain to fore-margin), seven engraved plates (including 3 folding), two folding letterpress tables, list of subscribers, title with early ink signature 'K. Murchison', plates lightly offset, one plate with dampstain to fore-margin, one folding plate (toned) with short closed handling tear, most of text block with dampstain at foot of gutter, final two text leaves spotted, endpapers renewed, front pastedown with bookplate of R. J. Murchison, front free endpaper with ink signature 'L. R. Wager 1945', early 20th century cloth, rubbed, spine with gilt lettering-piece, headcap with short splits at sides, folioSir Roderick Impey Murchison was an eminent geologist and geographer . The elder son of Kenneth Murchison and his wife, Barbara, Murchison published numerous scientific papers and volumes, including The Silurian System in 1839. At various times he held the positions of chair of the British Association (now the British Science Association), and president of the Royal Geological Society, later becoming director-general of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. Lawrence Rickard Wager was a geologist and explorer, one of the finest geological thinkers of his generation, and his influence upon his science was deep and lasting.(Qty: 1)
Lot 205
Watson ( White ). A Delineation of the Strata of Derbyshire , Forming the Surface from Bolsover in the East to Buxton in the West, by a Plate, Designed from a Tablet, Composed of the Specimens of each Stratum within the Above Line, with an Explanatory Account of the same; Toge the r with a Description of the Fossils found in the se Strata ; and also of the Nature and Quality of the Respective Soils, 1st edition, Sheffield: Printed by W. Todd, 1811 , folding engraved frontispiece of a section of the strata in Derbyshire from Esat to West (offset to title), one engraved plate, page 71/72 cropped to fore-edge blank margin, list of names of different strata and two leaves of index provided in facsimile, some browning and show through, rear free endpaper replaced, original printed boards, rebacked, slim 4to, together with Aikin (Arthur) , Journal of a Tour through Wales and Part of Shropshire; with Observations in Mineralogy, and other Branches of Natural History, 1797, folding engraved frontispiece with light dampstain at head, edges untrimmed, modern half calf, 8vo, with Hurtley (Thomas) , A Concise Account of some Natural Curiosities, in the Environs of Malham, in Craven, Yorkshire, 1786, half-title present, two folding engraved plates, modern brown half morocco gilt, 8vo, plus Adam (W.) , First Lessons in Geology; with a Special Article on the Toadstones of Derbyshire..., Derby: J. & C. Mozley, 1857, folding engraved frontispiece and two folding plates, slight browning, armorial bookplate of the Bateman family of Middleton Hall, Derbyshire to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, morocco title label to spine, joints rubbed, 12mo in 6s (Qty: 4)
Lot 209
Young (Rev. George). A Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast: Describing the Strata and Fossils occurring between the Humber and the Tees, from the German Ocean to the Plain of York, 2nd edition, Whitby: Printed at the Office of R. Kirby, 1828, engraved frontispiece,double-page engraved geological map and strata section (both hand-coloured), 17 lithograph plates (complete as list, all with contemporary hand-colouring and one double-page), subscribers' list & errata present at rear, title browned and spotted and with ink stamp and author inscription to verso, some other occasional spotting and of fsetting, ink library stamp and numbers to verso of title, modern half calf gilt, 4toLarge paper copy. Author's presentation inscription to verso of title 'Secession Church Student Library from the Author, Whitby, Septr. 4, 1844.'(Qty: 1)
![British Isles. De Belleforest (Francis & Ruscelli Girolamo), [1575], uncoloured woodblock, 185 x 255 mm, French text on verso](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a55e7a67-fc3e-49b2-89c2-aa1f0109b0e2/87f6a0bb-d228-44b1-bee7-aa1f012bccce/468x382.jpg)
Lot 252
British Isles. De Belleforest (Francis & Ruscelli Girolamo), [1575], uncoloured woodblock, 185 x 255 mm, French text on verso, together with, Ruscelli (Girolamo), Anglia et Hibernia nova, [1561], uncoloured woodblock map, 190 x 260 mm. Italian text on verso, with, Munster (Seastian), Das under Buch von den Britannischen Inseln, [1628], uncoloured woodblock map, 250 x 170 mm, German text on verso, plus, Munster (Sebastian), Das under Buch Anglia, [1588], uncoloured woodblock map, map size 80 x 135 mm, with German text below and on verso of mapThe first map described :- R. W. Shirley, Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 112. Munster's 'Cosmographia' was translated into French and published in Paris by Francois de Belleforest. The maps have a striking similarity to earlier Ruscelli maps but were recut with subtle differences.(Qty: 4)
Lot 287
* Somerset & Dorset. Bowen (Emanuel), An Improved Map of the County of Somerset divided into its hundreds..., C. Bowles, R. Wilkinson & R. James, [and] An Accurate Map of Dorsetshire divided into its hundreds..., published J. & T. Bowles, J. Tinney and Robt. Sayer, circa 1765, together two large engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, the map of Somerset with an inset town plan of Bath, slight spotting, each approximately 540 x 700 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazedOriginally published in 'The Large English Atlas'.(Qty: 2)
![World. Andreas (Lambert), Typus Orbis Terrarum, Cologne [1596 - 1612], uncoloured engraved map on Mercator's projection, slig](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a55e7a67-fc3e-49b2-89c2-aa1f0109b0e2/522b9ea7-0bf0-4507-aad2-aa1f012becc5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 303
Ackermann R. (publisher). A collection of approximately 210 engravings, originally published in the 'Microcosm of London', [1808 - 1810], aquatints by Stadler, Sunderland, Bluck and Hill, all with contemporary hand colouring, numerous duplicates, each approximately 250 x 300 mmThe prints comprise:- Royal Cock Pit (2), Dining Hall Asylum (6), Astley's Amphitheatre, Board Room of the Admiralty (2), Horse Armoury (6), Greenwich Hospital The Painted Hall (5), Tattersall's (2), Temple Church (4), Trinity House (4), Vauxhall Garden (4), St. Stephen's Walbrook (4), Watch House (5), St Margaret's Westminster (3), St Martins in the Fields (4), St Paul's Cathedral (2), Surrey Institution (5), Drawing Room St James's (3), St Luke's Hospital (6), Quakers Meeting (6), Pantheon Masquerade (3), Philanthropic Society (4), Lottery Drawing Coopers Hall (8), Westminster Abbey, Westminster Hall (2), Whitehall (5), Workhouse St James's Parish (5), Session House Clerkenwell (6), Common Council Chamber Guildhall (5), Water Engine Cold-Bath-Fields Prison (5), The Hall and Stair case British Museum (4), Guildhall (5), Fleet Prison (4), Foundling Hospital The Chapel (6), Debating Society (4), The Hall Carlton House (5), The Roman Catholic Chapel (4), Pass-Room Bridewell (5), The Hall Blue Coat School (6), Bartholomew Fair (8), Magdalen Chapel (5), Newgate Chapel (5), Egyptian Hall Mansion House (5), Lambeth Palace (5), Leaden Hall Market (7), Hospital Middlesex (5), Kings Bench Prison (4), King's Mews Charing Cross (5), Heralds College The Hall (4).(Qty: approx. 210)
Lot 315
* Cricket. Ireland's Royal Brighton Gardens, published C & R Sicklemore, Brighton, circa 1820, aquatint by George Hunt after H. Jones with contemporary hand colouring, shows a cricket match in progress, 185 x 305 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with, Teignmouth, The Den, published H. Besley, Exeter, circa 1860, hand coloured engraving, some spotting, 115 x 195 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with, Seymour (Robert), Out! So don't fatigue yourself, I beg sir?, circa 1830, hand coloured etching, slight staining, 175 x 120 mm, mounted, framed and glazed , plus, A Long Stop, circa 1850, hand coloured lithograph, repaired closed tears, some surface abrasion, 180 x 260 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with another five prints all relating to cricket and one to boxing, all framed and glazed, various sizes and condition (Qty: 10)
![[Kinglake, Alexander William]. Eothen, or Traces of Travel, brought home from the East, 1st edition, John Ollivier, 1844, hal](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a55e7a67-fc3e-49b2-89c2-aa1f0109b0e2/2e8d3b20-e1ec-4f7e-87ca-aa1f012b6795/468x382.jpg)
Lot 33
[Kinglake, Alexander William]. Eothen, or Traces of Travel, brought home from the East, 1st edition, John Ollivier, 1844, half-title, folding hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, one other hand-coloured lithographic plate (with tissue-guard), toning, occasional spotting, frontispiece linen-backed, title-page with small marginal tissue-repair and faded presentation inscription 'W. L. Birkbeck, with the author's kind regards', armorial bookplate to front pastedown (Lionel Phillips, motto 'veritas vincet'), top edge gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary red crushed half morocco by Root & Son, gilt spine, a few minor scuffs, 8vo (22 x 13.5 cm), together with: Markham (Clements R.) A History of the Abyssinian Expedition, 1st edition, Macmillan and Co., 1869, half-title, 4 folding maps (repaired closed tears), plan, modern tan half calf, 8vo (21.6 x 13.5 cm), Cobbold (Robert Henry). Pictures of the Chinese, drawn by Themselves, 1st edition, John Murray, 1860, 2-colour engraved frontispiece, 34 single-colour lithographic plates numbered 1-30, text illustrations, Westminster School prize plate dated 1860 tipped to initial blank, contemporary tan calf gilt, 8vo (18 x 12 cm), Chapman (Abel, & Walter J. Buck). Unexplored Spain, 1st edition, Edward Arnold, 1910 , 32 plates including frontispiece, bookplate of William Wordie of Glasgow (1884-1952), top edge gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary green crushed half morocco, large 8vo (25 x 17.1 cm), and [Stieler, Karl], The Rhine from its Source to the Sea, translated from the German by G. C. T. Bartley, new and revised edition, J. S. Virtue and Company, Limited, 1888, half-title, wood-engravings in text, contemporary prize-binding of red full calf by Relfe Brothers, large 8voKinglake: Abbey Travel 362; Blackmer 911; Atabey 635 for the French translation. Cobbold: Cordier Sinica 90. Kinglake's work, a description of an eighteen-month journey through the Ottoman Empire, is considered 'a classic of travel literature'. The recipient of this copy was English legal scholar William Lloyd Birkbeck (1806-1888).(Qty: 5)
Lot 355
* Vanity Fair Sportsmen. A collection of 21 caricatures, late 19th & early 20th century, lithographs of golfers, fox hunters, rowers, boxers, fencers, automobile and aviation enthusiasts, runners [and] tennis players, including two examples published in 'The World', occasional duplicates, occasional spotting, each approximately 345 x 200 mmContains:- Hoylake (2 copies), R. H. Forster, Benjie, Alfred Curnick, Ducker, Hard Hitter, ...his pen is mightier than his sword, Claudie Grahame-White, E. G. Williams, President C. U. B. C., The champion of champions, O. U. A. C., Thrice Champion, Oxford Athetics, Automobile, Santos Dumont, Arthur Coventry, Pembroke, Tarka, Crumbo and somewhat incongruously Lieut-Gen. Sir R. S. Baden Powell.(Qty: 21)
Lot 368
* Caricatures. A mixed collection of twenty-two cartoons and caricatures, mostly 19th century, engraved, etched and lithographic caricatures, including examples by R. & I. Cruikshank, Bretherton, Hunt, Gillray, Bellange, Beerbohm, Rowlandson (later impressions), Williams [and] Farrier (publisher), various sizes and condition (Qty: 22)
Lot 385
Rowlandson (Thomas). Rowlandson's Caricature Etchings illustrating Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, published E. Jackson 1786 but later edition, circa 1860, twenty (complete) uncoloured etchings, some marginal finger and dust soiling, contained in a contemporary blind stamped cloth gilt portfolio with title to upper board, lacking silk ties, slight wear to extremities, slim folio, together with Beerbohm (Max). Cartoons. "The Second Childhood of John Bull", published Stephen Swift & Co. Ltd., 1911, fifteen (complete) coloured plates, linen backed chemise, contemporary quarter cloth portfolio, remains of linen ties, some scuffing to boards, slight wear to extremities, slim folio, with, Leech (John) . John Leech's Etchings..., 2 volumes, published Thomas Tegg, circa 1860, numerous uncoloured etchings, both volumes partially disbound with gutta percha perished and contents broken and loose, 4to, plus, Scanlan (R. R.). My book of curs, published Ackermann & Co., March 1840, nine uncoloured lithographic anthropomorphic caricatures of dogs, some water staining, publisher's printed paper wrappers, frayed and torn, lacking rear wrapper, slim upright 4to, and, Cruikshank (George). Phrenological Illustrations, 1828, decorative title and six uncoloured etched caricatures, tipped in advertisement, slight spotting, publisher's printed paper wrappers, frayed, worn and dust soiled, slim oblong 4to, with Illustrations of Time, published 1827 [and] Scraps and Sketches, published 1828, two volumes containing numerous uncoloured etched caricatures, both volumes with publisher's printed paper wrappers, some wear and staining, oblong 4to, with another volume similarSold not subject to return.(Qty: 9)
Lot 407
Garey (Samuel). Great Brittans little Calendar: or, Triple Diarie, in remembrance of three daies. Divided into three treatises. 1. Britanniae vota: or God save the King: for the 24. day of March, the day of his Maiesties happy proclamation. 2. Caesaris Hostes: or, the Tragedy of Traytors: for the fift of August: the day of the bloudy Gowries Treason, and of his Highnes blessed preseruation. 3. Amphitheatrum Scelerum: or, the Transcendent of Treason: the day of a most admirable deliverance of our King ... from that most horrible and hellish proiect of the Gun-Powder Treason Nouemb. 5. Whereunto is annexed a short disswasive from poperie. By Samuel Garey, preacher of Gods Word at Wynfarthing in Norff., London: John Beale for Henry Fetherstone, 1618, title dust-soiled and marked, some marginal fraying and tears, without final blank at rear, disbound 4to (STC 11597), together with [Balcanquhall, Walter] , A L arge D eclaration concerning the L ate T umults in Scotland, from their first originalls: together with a Particular Deduction of the seditious Practices of the prime Leaders of the Covenanters: Collected out of their owne foule Acts and Writings: by which it doth plainly appeare, that Religion was onely pretended by those Leaders, but nothing lesse intended by them. By the King, London: Printed by Robert Young, His Majesties Printer for Scotland, 1639, without engraved portrait frontispiece, final colophon leaf present, slight dampstaining, small disbound folio, with Palmer (Herbert) , The Necessity and Encouragement, of Utmost Venturing for the Churches Help: together with the Sin, Folly, and Mischief of Self-Idolizing..., all set forth in a Sermon, Preached to the Honorable House of Commons, on the day of the Monethly solemn Fast, 28. June, 1643, London: John Bellamie, 1643, title frayed to margins and lined to verso with archival tissue, bound with Reyner (William) , Babylons R uining-Earthquake and the Restauration of Zion. Delivered in a Sermon before the honourable house of Commons at Margarets Westminster, at their publique Fast, August 28. 1644 . By William Reyner pastor of the Church of Christ, at Egham in Surrey, and a member of the Assembly of Divines, London: T.B. for Samuel Enderby, 1644, without preliminary order to print leaf before title, slight cropping to running titles, bound with Tesdale ( Christopher) , Hierusalem: or A Vision of Peace. In a Sermon Preached at Margarets in Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons at their Monethly Fast, Aug. 28. 1644. By Christopher Tesdale, Pastor at Husborn Tarrant, in the County of Southampton, and a member of the Assembly of Divines, London : R. Cotes, for Phil. Stephens, 1644, some toning and dust soiling, disbound 4to, plus two other similar late 17th century pamphlets, both disbound 4to (Qty: 5)
Lot 417
Penkethman (John). Artachthos or A New Booke declaring the Assise or Weight of Bread not onely by Troy weight, according to the Law, but by Avoirdupois weight the common weight of England at what price soever, not exceeding Five pound the Quarter of wheate, shall be sold in the Market and conteining Divers Orders and Articles made and set forth by the Right honourable the Lords and others of his Majesties most honourable privie Councell, for the making and assising of all sorts of bread lawfull and vendible, within this Realme, as also for the reforming of sundry disorders and abuses committed thereinwhereunto is prefixed a briefe and plaine Introduction to the Art of Numeration ... And lastly hereunto is added. A true relation or Collection of the most remarkeable Dearths and Famines which have happened in England since the comming in of William the Conquerour, as also the rising and falling of the price of wheate and other Graine, with the severall occasions thereof, 1st edition, London: Printed by E[dward] G[riffine] and R. B[ishop], 1638, [82]pp., additional engraved title page engraved signed "Will: Marshall. sc: 1638", with imprint: London. Printed by R· Bishop & Edward Griffine, & are to be sold at ye stationers shops, or at ye chamber of Iohn Penkethman (ye composer) in Simonds Inn in Chancerie lane (close trimmed at head & fore-edge, and frayed to margins), letterpress title present, organization of quire A uncertain and lacking one leaf (A1? "The names of the Lords and others of his Majesties most honourable privie Councell" & "The explanation of the frontispice") and also lacking L3 & L4 (final errata leaf & one other leaf of text), later blank facing B1, short repaired closed tear to blank fore-margin of B4, initioal five leaves & final leaf guarded at gutter margin, even toning and some dampstaining throughout, occasional dust-soiling and some margins frayed, old limp vellum, spotted, slim 4toSTC 19598. Scarce. Only three examples of this edition have appeared at auction since the early 1980s.(Qty: 1)
Lot 423
Russel (Richard). A Dissertation on the Use of Sea-Water in the Diseases of the Glands... , as also an Account of the Nature, Properties, and Uses of all Remarkable Mineral Waters in Great Britain, by an Eminent Physician, Fourth edition, revised and corrected, W. Owen, 1760, engraved frontispiece and two engraved illustrations on one plate, advert leaf at rear, contemporary ownership inscription of J.S. Cane to front endpaper, contemporary calf gilt, a little rubbed, together with Oliver (William) , A Practical Dissertation on Bath Waters... , to which is added, a Relation of a very Extraordinary Sleeper near Bath, A. Bell, 1707, contemporary polished calf gilt, slight loss at head and foot of spine, corners rubbed, plus Randolph (George) , An Inquiry into the Medicinal Virtues of Bristol-Water: and the Indications of Cure which it Answers, R. Baldwin, 1750, old ownership signatures to front pastedown, contemporary calf, some edge and corner wear, calf reback, plus Jameson (Thomas) , A Treatise on Cheltenham Waters and Biliary Diseases, Third edition, Cheltenham & London, 1814, folding engraved map frontispiece, contemporary half calf gilt, cracked on joints, some edge wear, all 8vo (Qty: 4)
Lot 424
Simpson (William). Hydrologia Chymica: Or, the Clinical Anatomy of the Scarborough, and other Spaws in York-Shire... , 1st edition, Richard Chiswel, 1669, two folding engraved plates, some spotting and browning throughout, old ink inscriptions and flourishes to title, contemporary ownership inscription to front flyleaf and old manuscript notes to rear flyleaf, recent antique-style calf gilt, together with Allen (Benjamin) , The Natural History of the Chalybeat and Purging Waters of England, with their Particular Essays and Uses... , S. Smith & B. Walford, 1699, some browning throughout, old ink ownership name of R. Benson to title-page, contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked, plus Oliver (William) , A Practical Dissertation on Bath Waters... , to which is added, a Relation of a very Extraordinary Sleeper near Bath, A. Bell, 1707, a little spotting, armorial bookplate (torn) of William Wrightson of Cusworth, Yorkshire, contemporary panelled calf, some edge wear and cracked on joints, 8vo, plus Russel (Richard) , A Dissertation on the Use of Sea-Water in the Diseases of the Glands... , third edition, revised and corrected, to which is added, a Commentary on Sea-Water, translated from the Latin of J. Speed, W. Owen, 1755, engraved frontispiece, two engraved illustrations on one plate, some old ink marginalia, possibly by Gilbert East of the Middle Temple, whose signature appears on the front pastedown, some spotting, several light institutional ink stamps, contemporary calf, some edge and corner wear, rebacked, all 8vo (Qty: 4)
![Rowlandson (Thomas, illustrator). The English Dance of Death [and:] The Dance of Life, 2 works in 3 volumes, 1st editions, R.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a55e7a67-fc3e-49b2-89c2-aa1f0109b0e2/4495f744-d496-404e-816b-aa1f012c4165/468x382.jpg)
Lot 456
Rowlandson (Thomas, illustrator). The English Dance of Death [and:] The Dance of Life, 2 works in 3 volumes, 1st editions, R. Ackermann, 1815-17, 100 hand-coloured aquatint plates including frontispieces and vignette title-pages, intermittent light spotting to plates, a few plates offset, repaired marginal tears to Dance of Death volume 2 plate facing p. 166 and text leaf 2K2, moderate spotting to text-leaves in The Dance of Life, endpapers renewed all edges gilt, near-contemporary green morocco, expertly rebacked to style, gilt panels to spines and boards, extremities rubbed in places, 8vo (22.6 x 13.6 cm)Abbey Life 263-4; Prideaux pp. 138 & 306-7; Tooley 411 & 410. Tooley considered The English Dance of Death 'indispensable to any Rowlandson collection, one of the essential pivots of any colour plate library, being one of the main works of Rowlandson'. Provenance: acquired from E. Joseph & Son in June 1992 (annotated cataloguing slips laid in).(Qty: 3)
Lot 48
Piacenza (Francesco). L'Egeo redivivo, o' sia chorographia dell' archipelago ... con la breve descrittione ... della Grecia, Morea, o'Peloponnese, di Candia, e Cipri, 1st edition, Modena: Soliani heirs, 1688, additional engraved title page, engraved portrait, 4 engraved maps bound as plates (3 folding, including the map of Cyprus), 59 full-page engraved maps in the text, light marginal spotting, a few other marks (including a stain along fold of folding Crete map), repaired closed tear to engraved title, map at p.146 faintly printed, map at p. 452 printed upside-down, old repairs to lower outer corners of front free endpaper and signatures A4-8, B5 and C8, repaired marginal worm-tracks in F6 and quires P-R and 2C-D, signatures M3-4 transposed, Trevisani bookplate to letterpress title verso, 18th-century vellum, slightly marked, 4to in 8s (21.2 x 15.5 cm)Blackmer 1305; Cobham-Jeffery p.50. First and only edition, rare, especially in this condition with all maps present. Copac traces six copies in UK libraries. 'This work was probably inspired by the Venetian conquests in Greece in the 1680s. It includes a very thorough and systematic description of the Aegean Islands, Crete, [and] Cyprus, and brief descriptions of Roumeli and the Peloponnesus ... The four separate maps are of the Aegean, the Peloponnesus, Crete and Cyprus' (Blackmer).(Qty: 1)
Lot 54
Quinn (Edward). An Historical Atlas in a Series of Maps of the World as known at different periods..., 2nd edition, printed for R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1836, printed title and preface, additional half title, twenty-one (complete) folding engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, book plate of Nath. Cholmley Esq., contemporary half calf with printed label to upper board, lacking spine, upper board and preliminaries detached, worn and frayed, 4to, together with, Moll (Herman). Geographia Classica: The Geography of the Ancients so far describ'd as it is contain'd in the Greek and Latin Classics in Twenty-nine Maps of the Old World..., 4th edition, printed for Christopher Brown, 1723, title printed in red & black, twenty-eight (only of twenty-nine) uncoloured engraved maps, lacking 'Places in the Old and New Testament', slight staining and spotting, front free endpaper with several near contemporary annotations, rear endpaper torn with loss, book plate of Mr. George Carre Advocat, hinges cracked and weak, contemporary sheep, worn and rubbed, slim 8voSold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.(Qty: 2)
Lot 65
Tucker (Alfred R.) Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edward Arnold, 1908, photogravure portrait frontispiece to volume 1, colour frontispiece to volume 2, 59 plates, folding map, volume 1 frontispiece loosening at head, spotting to endpapers, preliminaries and edges (occasionally encroaching on margins), original blue cloth gilt, 8vo, together with: Woon (Harry Vernon), Twenty-Five Years' Soldiering in South Africa. A Personal Narrative, 1st edition, Andrew Melrose, 1909, engraved portrait frontispiece (toned, marginal spotting and damp-staining, 18 plates, folding map (short closed marginal tear), top edge gilt, original dark green cloth gilt, a few marks, headcap nicked, 8vo, Lloyd (Albert Bushnell), In Dwarf Land and Cannibal Country. A Record of Travel and Discovery in Central Africa, 1st edition, T. Fisher Unwin, 1899, photogravure portrait frontispiece, numerous full-page photographic illustrations in text, 3 maps (2 folding), top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original red pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo, and 6 others, African travel, original cloth, 8voCzech (Africa) p. 169 (Lloyd); Mendelssohn II p. 637 (Woon).(Qty: 10)
Lot 234
(x) Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Major R. J. Lowry. Remount Dept.), good very fine. Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Lot 240
Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (36119 Pte. R. Ray. 6th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:), unofficial rivets between state and date, very fine. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Lot 258
(x) 1914 Star (Major R. S. Hutchison. A.P.D.), good very fine. Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers. SRN: C.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919.Robert Schlesinger Hutchison was born in Colombo, Ceylon on 1 June 1869. He was first commissioned in the North Staffordshire Regiment in December 1888. Having also been ‘mentioned’ on 22 September 1915 – this 1914 Star was claimed by the recipient. Having died in Singapore on 14 September 1921, no other Great War awards were claimed.
Lot 268
1914-15 Star (8644 Pte. T. Hardy. Manch: R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (11761 Pte. E. Brown. Manch. R.; 260093 Cpl. E. Fairhurst. Bord. R.; PS-5709 Cpl. F. Stott R. Fus.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (James. Robertson.), very fine (5). Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Loading...-
297887 item(s)/page