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Click here to subscribeA 1930's Lalique perfume bottle of squat dump form. The body decorated with a relief moulded design of scrolled overlapped thorns with repeat pattern to the stopper, the design picked out with a rust red stain. The bottle marked R Lalique and carrying an original paper label to the base marked "Bazar Colon", measures 4" tall.
Johnson (Walter R.) Comparison of Experiments on American and Foreign Building Stones to determine their Relative Strength and Durability, first edition, 20pp. offprint from 'The American Journal of Science and Arts', vol.XI, Second Series, January 1851, slight browning at edges, ex-Franklin Institute Library copy with ink number at head of title and label, modern wrappers, preserved in cloth folder, 8vo, New Haven, 1850.
Royal Society. The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged ... by Charles Hutton, George Shaw, Richard Pearson, 19 vol. including 1 of plates, 266 plates, little spotting and marking, contemporary diced calf, some rubbing, 3 covers loose, some other hinges weak, 4 vols rebacked, 4to, C. & R. Baldwin, 1809.
Venn (Capt. Thomas) and others. Military and Maritine Discipline in Three Books. Book I. Military Observations ... Book II. An Exact Method of Military Architecture ... Book III. The Compleat Gunner ... (-The Doctrine of Projects applyed to Gunnery), 4 parts in 1 vol., 2 engraved frontispieces, additional engraved title, 13 plates and 2 full-page illustrations, many folding, printed title in red and black, engravings, woodcuts & diagrams in text, paper flaw in Qq2 (hole where flap folded back and overprinted causing loss of a few letters to 4 lines), engraved title shaved at outer edge, lightly soiled and browned, very slight marginal worming to one or two leaves, contemporary mottled calf, rather worn, [Not in Bib. Mech. Cat.; Wing V192], folio, E. Tyler & R. Holt, (pt. 2 S. Simmons), for R. Pawlet, T. Passinger & B. Hurlock, 1672.
Dinsdale (N.V.) The Old Clockmakers of Yorkshire, Clapham (Yorkshire), 1946 ~ Bellchambers (J.K.) Somerset Clockmakers, [Wadhurst], 1968 ~ Loomes (Brian) Westmorland Clocks and Clockmakers, Newton Abbot and London, 1974 ~ Dowler (Graham) Gloucestershire Clock and Watch Makers, Chichester, 1984 ~ Beney (David R.) Beaminster Clocks, Beaminster, 1996, first, second and third mentioned in original wrappers, third and fourth in original boards, dust-jackets; and 10 others, English Clocks and Clockmaking, 8vo (15).
Charles I (King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-49) Grant to Elizabeth Pennyngton of "those lands and possessions of Henry Pennyngton his Ma[jesty]s ward and child and next heir of Anthony Pennyngton", D.s. "R. Naunton", manuscript on vellum, folds, remains of Privy Seal appended, 320 x 610mm., 5th March 1632.
Charles I (King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-49). Delivered to the right hono:ble the Lord Conway one of his Mats Principall Secretary of State, and Endimion Porter Esquire (by his Mats commandment) by me Spencer Lord Compton M[aste]r of his Mats Roabes, these parcells of Jewels hereafter follow whith apperteyance to his Maty, D.s. "Spe: Compton", manuscript, 20 lines, docket on verso: "Lord Compton for delivery of the Jewells", laid down on card, 4 tears where opened slightly affecting four lines of text at right hand margin, slightly stained, folds, 283 x 370mm., Hampton Court, 8th November 1625.
Donaldson (Stephen R.) Gilden-Fire, number 30 of 270 copies signed by the author, illustrations by Stephen E.Fabian, publisher's bibliographical leaf loosely inserted, original cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, San Francisco &c., Underwood-Miller, 1981. *** An extension to Donaldson's popular Thomas Covenant Chronicles.
Jeffers (Le Roy) The Call of the Mountains, coloured frontispiece, 1923 ~ Cox (James R. editor) Classics in the Literature of Mountaineering and Mountain Travel from the Francis P. Farquhar Collection of Mountaineering Literature, limited edition, Los Angeles, 1980 ~ Larden (Walter) Recollections of an Old Mountaineer, 1910 ~ Raeburn (Harold) Mountaineering Art, 1920 ~ Spencer (Sydney, editor) Mountaineering, the Lonsdale Library, [1934]first editions, plates, maps, original cloth, rubbed, spine titles gilt, spines slightly faded; and a small quantity of others, Mountaineering, 8vo (small qty).
[Laneham (Robert)] A Letter: whearin Part of the Entertainment untoo the Queenz Majesty at Killingworth Castl in Warwick Sheer, in this Soomerz Progrest 1575, iz signified, later calf-backed cloth, Warwick, J. Sharp, 1784 ~ Somers (John, Lord) The Argument of the Lord Keeper Sommers, on his giving Judgement in the Bankers Case: ... June 23 1696, later calf-backed boards, The Savoy, E. & R. Nutt and R. Gosling, 1733, 4to (2). *** The first reprint of a contemporary account of the entertainment of Elizabeth I at Kenilworth Castle, originally published in 1575.
Stevenson (Robert Louis) More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter, first edition, autographed cheque of R. L. Stevenson, signed, tipped in, armorial bookplate, inner hinges weak, original cloth, bubbling slightly, soiled, corners bruised, spine faded, resedue of plate on front cover, in modern half morocco slip-case, 8vo, 1885.
-. Mayer (Luigi) An Egyptian Bey; A Mamaluke Exercising, and 14 other plates from Views in Egypt, original hand-coloured aquatints, each c.445 x 270mm., or c.300 x 390mm., one watermarked 1794, some others 1801, occasional light surface dirt and slight browning, one duplicate, this plate, only, with a vertical fold and trimmed within the platemark, but well outside the image and title, R. Bowyer, 1802 (16).
-. Reilly (John Lushington) His Majesty's Public Entry into the City of Dublin on 17th August, 1821; His Majesty's Embarkation at Kingstown on the 3rd September, 1821, a pair depicting King George IV processing through a triumphal arch in Sackville Street, and waving to the crowds on his departure from Dun Laoghaire (Kingstown), original hand-coloured aquatints by R. Havell & Son, after paintings by J. Haverty from sketches made by Reilly, each c.460 x 665mm., both with Reilly's monogram ink-stamp, lower left, the first with repaired tears into the image, backed with tissue, slight uneven browning, the second with a few marginal splits, slight surface dirt, the verso, only, with residual wood staining, London and Dublin, 1823. (2).
-. Rowlandson (Thomas) Vaux-Hall, engraving by R. Pollard, aquatinted by F. Jukes, 500 x 750mm., unexamined outside frame, with hand-colouring, trimmed within plate mark, but outside image, some creasing before printing, a repaired tear, other minor defects at edges, framed and glazed, [J.R. Smith, 1785] *** The singer in the orchestra is Mrs. Weichsel, and visible among the crowds are the Prince of Wales and his mistress Mrs. Robinson, with her husband, as well as Dr. Johnson, Boswell, Oliver Goldsmith and many other well-known figures of the day.
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