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Click here to subscribe1960’s BOAC Britannia Turbo Prop Airliner Large Display Model Aircraft.A rare large example produced by the Herald D & E.C. Limited of London. The plastic constructed aircraft bears BOAC livery and complete with stand bearing BOAC and name of aircraft. The aircraft is contained in the original transit cardboard box. This retains an address label for Shell Petroleum Company Kingsway. VGC Wingspan 24 inches.
WW2 Royal Canadian Air Force Small Escape and Evasion Tunic Button CompassA rare original WW2 issue example appertaining to be an ordinary pocket size brass tunic button, embossed with a crown and eagle, with “RCAF”. When the base section is unscrewed opens to reveal a concealed miniature compass. GC.
The Beatles autographs - Twist and Shout, hand signed Candie Gardens programme and other Pop Memorabilia - Guernsey Interest, a collection of rare pop memorabilia collected by Ivan Robert of 'The Roberts Brothers', the well-known Guernsey vocal duet, including a full set of The Beatles' autographs, signed in black pen on a facsimile photo pasted down in a concert programme, 'Baron Pontin, Presents, THE TOP "POP" SHOW, AT CANDIE GARDENS'; together with two related newspaper clippings, the first from the Guernsey Evening Press and Star, Weekender, dated Saturday, 13th February 1988, the headline, 'Robert Brothers take a trip down memory lane', the second from the Weekender, dated Saturday, 8th August 1998, titled '"Beatlemania" Roberts Brothers were on the bill'; plus other autographed memorabilia including a Candie Gardens programme signed by Gerry and the Pacemakers; and autographed Candie Gardens programme by Billy 'J' Kramer; a black and white postcard of Ivan and Bonny, The Robert Brothers, signed on reverse by 'The Dakotas'; a 'Freddie and the Dreamers' concert poster, Candie Auditorium, together with a Freddie and the Dreamers autographed pocket card handkerchief; a signed souvenir card from 'Musical Marie'; an autographed 'Elkie Brooks' photograph; and a 'Barron-Knights' card. * Provenance: Ivan Robert of 'The Robert Brothers'. ** The Beatles concerts were shown at 7pm and 9.15pm on Thursday 8th August, 1963 at the Auditorium Candie Gardens. The Roberts Brothers were one of the support acts on the day. Ivan and his brother 'Bonny' Roberts met The Beatles back stage and both passed around the programme and a black pen for them to sign. Ivan recalls that they signed the two programmes standing up and with nothing to lean on, whilst surrounded by a large crowd of fans, making the signing very difficult. 'Bonny's' programme was sold at auction approx. eleven years ago, realising a hammer price of £3800.
BRITISH BANKNOTES - STATES OF GUERNSEY - an extremely rare & scarce consecutive run of five one pound banknotes dated 1918, extremely rare consecutive run of five (5) The States of Guernsey one pound banknotes, dated 15th October 1918, (one hundred years old), serial numbers D/G 2826-2827-2828-2829-2830, brown & orange, view of Castle Cornet/St Peter Port, top centre, signed Hocart, blue guilloche to reverse, (GN23) 1914-1921, printed by Perkins, Bacon & Co, each banknote measuring 4½ x 8.6in. (11.4 x 21.3cm.), extremely good, about UNC, light central fold to each banknote, uneven cut as expected, (note 2826 with six tiny pen marks to blue guilloche on reverse, 2830 with corner creases, dark stain to upper guilloche on reverse showing through to observe, tear and nibble to upper left on border). (5) * Information taken from 'Currencies of the Anglo-Norman Isles' by McCammon, Pub 1984, as of publication, only two known examples 3.4.1914 & 1.9.1916.
A exceptionally rare William IV period scrapbook - Guernsey Channel Island interest, the album title page with owner's name to the top 'Adelaide Maria Collings', with exquisitely painted vase with flowers to the centre, with address beneath 'Colborne Place, Guernsey, 1835', the inner pages with various prayers, stories, dedications, pasted down Christmas cards, pasted down crests, autographs (some local), prints and watercolours etc., a lovely and fascinating insight to middle class island life in the 19th century.
*Caddy (Lieut. John Herbert). [Scenery of the Windward & Leeward Islands], Ackermann & Co., 1837, twelve aquatint views by J. Harris, Newton Fielding, William Westall and C. Hunt, all with contemporary hand colouring, after Lieutenant Caddy, without all text, four engravings trimmed to image with slight loss to image, disbound, each approximately 250 x 320 mm Abbey Travel 692. Sabin 9824. A complete suite of these rare and highly attractive Caribbean views, including scenes on the islands of St. Kitts, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, and Dominica. (12)
Andrews (W.S.). Illustrations of the West Indies, Description of the Islands in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Florida, volume II only, Day & Son, [1861], title and 80 pages of text, 22 tinted lithographed plates, mostly after Thomas Dutton, including two double-page, one plate detached, first few leaves of text a little chipped to fore-edges, some light spotting and one or two small repairs to letterpress, one or two plates with minor loss to outer blank corners, presentation inscription to front endpaper 'Sarah Gilford from her brother Jacob, April 3rd 1868', all edges gilt, original blindstamped brown cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, a few light stains, oblong folio Sabin 1517. The second volume of Andrews' rare views of the West Indies (volume one containing only 8 uncoloured lithographic profiles of islands, aside from text). Only 3 copies have appeared at auction since 1981 (two of which were sold by Dominic Winter in 2012 and 2013). The author was a captain in the Royal Navy. (1)
Lily (George), Britanniae insulae quae nunc Angliae et Scotiae regna continet cum Bibernia adiacente nova descriptio, Rome, 1558, uncoloured engraved map with the Sebastiano de Re da Chioggia imprint, orientated to the west with Ireland in the north, two panels with Latin text describe Ireland and Britain with a third containing the title, borders trimmed with new margins added, 400 x 550 mm R. W. Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477 - 1650, 63. This map is a close copy of the first separately printed map of the whole of the British Isles produced twelve years earlier by George Lily. Its overall scale is reduced by about a third from the 1546 state. The outline of England and Wales is based on a map of 1540 by Sebastian Munster. Many more place names and distinct topographical features are included. Ireland is still largely shapeless but Scotland is depicted with remarkable accuracy. This precise geographical depiction of Scotland is possible because Lily was able to consult a map of Scotland drawn by John Elden and presented to Henry VIII in 1538. Elden is known to have been in Rome in 1538. It is also possible that Lily had access to Hector Boece's Scotorium Historiae and a map thought to have been made by Alexander Lindsay while accompanying James V of Scotland of a tour of the kingdom. A striking feature of this map is that it uses distinctive and conventional signs to show county capitals and towns and the status of archepiscopal and episcopal sees. Oddly neither Oxford, Gloucester or Peterborough are marked as an episcopal see even though they were made so between 1541 and 1542. Shirley speculates that this omission could suggest that a pre 1541 map was used as a source, but could also betray the author's reluctance to acknowledge the newly created sees in light of the recent conflict between Rome and the English Crown. A rare map in remarkably good condition. (1)
Moll (Herman). A New Description of England and Wales with the adjacent Islands. Wherein are contained diverse useful observations and discoveries in respect to natural history, antiquities, customs, honours, privileges &c..., 1st. edition, printed for H. Moll by T. Bowles, C. Rivington and J. Bowles, 1724, title page printed in red and black, frontispiece of an historical double page engraved map of England & Wales, preface, list of the counties of England & Wales, double page map of England & Wales and 48 uncoloured engraved maps (including four folding), occasional slight staining, map of Cornwall with marginal closed tear, index bound at rear, near contemporary armorial bookplate and ownership signature to front pastedown, contemporary speckled panelled calf, re-backed, bumped at extremities, folio Chubb CLX. Hodson 173. A fine copy of the first issue of the first edition without the plate numbers to the maps. Only half a dozen examples of this rare edition are known to exist, probably because a lack of advertising contributed to its commercial failure or possibly because it was in direct competition with a new edition of William Camden's 'Britannia' with a re-set text and fine large maps by Robert Morden re-issued in 1722. Paradoxically much of Moll's atlas was based on the maps of Robert Morden, a fact he acknowledged in his preface, but he claimed - not without some justification - to have corrected many errors in Camden's text. (1)
Dickinson (John). A new and correct map of the south part of the County of York by actual survey, shewing the true situation of the several towns, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats; the course of the rivers and rivulets, present roads, Roman ways, castles, ancient abbeys & priorys, parks, woods, hills, lakes, collieries and other minerals. Taken at the cost of the most Honble. Thomas Marquess of Rockingham..., 1750, large scale uncoloured map on two unconjoined sheets engraved by Richard Parr, large strapwork and floral cartouche, compass rose, table of towns and villages, additional cartouche containing an explanation of the map, two long repaired tears on right hand margin and one on the left hand margin, slight creasing and spotting, some fraying to margins, overall size 840 x 1230 mm Eden, Dictionary of Land Surveyors, page 84. Worms and Baynton-Williams, British Map Engravers, page 514 (but map not listed). Imago Mundi 19 (1965) page 56 - 67. Rare. We can find only one institutional copy (British Library). The production of the map was financed by Charles Watson-Wentworth, Second Marquis of Rockingham (1730 -1782), who stipulated that the map was to be reserved "For the Marquis's use and not to be sold" (see J. B. Harley 'The re-mapping of England 1750 - 1800). This would explain the map's rarity as it was never commercially available. (1)
*Panoramas at Leicester Square. A collection of 36 plans and descriptions of the various panoramas exhibited at the Panorama, Leicester Square and the Panorama, Strand, London, 1803-40, comprising 21 wood folding wood engraved plans accompanied by descriptive text, 14 folding wood engraved plans without text, and one engraved plan of the Battle of Waterloo, partly hand-coloured, engraved by James Wyld after William Siborne, with accompanying descriptive text entitled Guide to the Model of the Battle of Waterloo, the folding plans various sizes (50 x 38 cm, 19.5 x 15 ins and smaller), a few waterstained or with minor soiling (generally in good condition), all disbound without covers, loose A rare collection of wood engraved plans and descriptions of the various panoramas exhibited to the public by Robert Barker, subsequently his son Henry Aston Barker, and later John and Robert Burford, mainly at the Leicester Square Panorama. First established in Leicester Square in 1793, Robert Barker's purpose built panorama rotunda exhibited 360 degree panoramas painted by the proprietors, with the exception in this present collection of the panorama of St. Petersburg, painted by John Thomas Serres (1759-1825), and the panorama of the Battle of Navarin, painted by John Wilson (1774-1855) and Joseph Cartwright (1789-1829). The folded single-sheet plans comprise: View of Paris. and, in the upper circle, the superb view of Constantinople, for a short time, 1803, Two views of Paris, 1803, Weymouth/Lord Nelson's glorious victory, gained over the French and Spanish fleets, off Trafalgar, circa 1805, Battle of Trafalgar, circa 1805 [watermarked 1802], View of Gibraltar and Bay, 1808, View of Flushing, during the siege, 1810, Grand View of La Valetta, the capital of Malta, circa 1810, View of Messina, in Sicily, circa 1810, View of the Grand Harbour of Malta, 1812, Representation of the Battle of Paris, 1815, Explanation of the view of Dover, circa 1816, View of the city of St Petersburg, 1819, Explanation of the view of Lausanne and Lake of Geneva, circa 1819, and St. Petersburg, painted by Mr. Serres, Royal Panorama, Lyceum, Strand. Plans with accompanying descriptive text comprise: A Short Dscription of Badajoz, 1813, Description of the View of the Battle of Vittoria, 1814, A Short Description of the Island of Elba, 1815, Description of a View of the Grand Harbour of Malta, and the City of La Valetta, 1839, Description of a View of the City and Bay of Dublin... painted by Robert Burford from drawings taken by himself in 1836, Description of a View of Rome painted by Robert Burford from drawings taken by himself in 1837, published 1839, Description of the Field of Battle... near Waterloo, 1816, Description of the View of Venice, 1819, Description of the View of Naples, 1821, Description of a View of the Ruins of the City of Pompeii, 1824, Description of a Second View of the Ruins of Pompeii, 1824, Description of a View of the City of Edinburgh, 1825, Description of a View of the City and Bay of Genoa, 1828, Description of a View of the City of Florence, 1831, Description of a View of the City of Milan, 1832, Description of a View of the Siege of Antwerp, 1833, Description of a View of the Great Temple of Karnak and the surrounding city of Thebes, painted by Robert Burford from drawings taken by Mr F. Catherwood, architect, in 1833, Description of a View of the City of Jerusalem, 1835, Description of a View of Isola Bella, the Lago Maggiore, and the surrounding country, painted by Robert Burford from drawings taken by himself in 1835, and A Description of the View of Berlin exhibiting in Barker's Panorama, Strand, 1814, and Guide to the Model of the Battle of Waterloo, circa 1815 (with partly hand-coloured engraved plan by James Wyld after W. Siborne). (26)
Dix (John Adams). AComplete Atlas of the English Counties, divided into their respective hundreds &c. On which are carefully marked the whole of the turnpike and parish roads, the situation of towns, villages, parks, gentemen's seats, churches, chapels, navigable canals and rivers and every object tending to illustrate the History and Antiquities of England..., commenced by the late Thomas Dix of North Walsingham; carried on and completed by William Darton, published William Darton, 1822, double page title, dedication and contents list, thirty-nine double page engraved maps and three folding (Yorkshire, North & South Wales), all with bright contemporary hand colouring, each map with an uncoloured vignette and a circular cartouche, some maps strengthened on recto at base of central fold, contemporary marbled boards with later half calf gilt binding, bumped, folio Chubb CCCLXXXVII. A rare atlas in fine contemporary colour. The maps carry a variety of dates between July 1816 and February 1821. Darton/Dix maps are sometimes found cut and dissected and it is probable that they were first sold individually in this state. (1)
Early German News Pamphlet. Newe zeytung des erschrocklichen grossen Wassers, so sich auff den fnfften tag Novembris im Niderland erhaben und was es fr schaden gethon hat, &c., [Augsburg: Philipp Ulhart], 1530, single gathering of 2 unsigned leaves (second leaf verso blank), large initial ('N') outlined in red ink, staining and marginal repairs to first leaf, modern library cloth, page dimensions 20.5 x 14.5 cm VD 16 N746. Rare early German news pamphlet reporting disastrous flooding in the Netherlands in November 1530, printed by Philipp Ulhart, a supporter of the Reformation (he published a similar newsletter the same year which included an additional account of flooding in Rome). Three copies in libraries (Augsburg, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and Berlin). Provenance: with a corrected galley proof of a journal article by W. E. A. Axon (1846-1919) for The Antiquary, titled 'An Early German News-pamphlet' and describing the pamphlet as 'now in my possession but formerly in the famous library of Dr. Georg Kloss, of Frankfort-am-Main'. (1)
English Civil War. A Perfect and True Relation of the Great and Bloudy Skirmish fought before the City of Worcester, upon Friday, Septemb. 23. 1642, [by William Bowen], 1st edition, Jo. Thomas, 3 October 1642, 8 pages, woodcut initial, bound with W.B., A True Relation of a Great Victory obtained by the Parliaments Forces against the Cavaliers neere Chester ... as it was sent in a Letter from one that was in the Fight to M. James Waters ... 1st edition, printed by E. P., 27 November 1643, 8 pp., woodcut title vignette and initial, text in black letter, and [?Brereton, Sir William], A True Relation of two Great Victories obtained of the Enemy: the one by Sr William Brereton in Cheshire, the other by Sir John Meldrum in Lancashire, 1st edition, for Thomas Underhill, 1644, 8 pp., woodcut initial, early 20th-century cloth, mottled, 4to (18.2 x 13.6 cm) Provenance: Thomas Wentworth Falconer (1858-1906), with his neat armorial inkstamp to titles, bookplate and ownership inscription. Wing B3868, B237, T3074. Three rare Civil War pamphlets (ESTC traces four, six and eight copies respectively). The third pamphlet is attributed to Sir William Brereton himself but is signed 'N. N.' (1)
Lull (Ramon). De secretis naturae sie quinta essentia libri duo. His accesserunt, Alberti Magni... De mineralibus & rebus metallicis libri quinq[ue], [edited by Walther Ryff], 1st edition, Strasbourg, Balthasar Beck, 1541, [4] + 183 + [4] leaves, with 8 woodcut illustrations to text of chemical apparatus (one of which is full-page), without blank leaf at end, title relined and with slight loss of blank fore-edge and foot of inner margin, early two-tone blind-decorated French full calf, with gilt coat-of-arms of an unidentifid French bishop to upper cover, 8vo Provenance: Alfred Scott Gatty (1847-1918), with gift inscription to him dated 1882 to front blank, when he was Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms In Ordinary, and with his bookplate to front pastedown. B. E. J. Pagel (1930-2007), astrophysicist, with his handwritten label tipped-in to verso of front endpaper. Duveen 369. Wellcome 3897. Ferguson II, 54. Thorndike II, 862-873 & 517-592. Adams L1703. Rare first edition of Strasbourg physician Walther Herman Ryff's presentation of alchemical tracts. The attribution to Lull of De Secretis Naturae is disputed (generally now accepted as pseudo-Lull) but it was a standard work in early modern alchemy. With it is published Albertus Magnus' De Mineralibus & Rebus Metallicis, on metals and minerals with essays on stones, gold and silver, the assaying of metals, their colours, on nitre, salt, lead and other substances and their properties. The tract by Albertus Magnus belongs to the authentic writings of this author. Thorndike devotes much space to a thorough analysis of this remarkable work and points out the stress laid by Albertus on personal investigation and experiment.Lull's metaphysics worked a revolution in the history of philosophy. He invented an "art of finding truth" which centuries later stimulated Leibnitz' dream of a universal algebra, and the development of modern scientific method. (1)
Morland (Samuel). The Description and Use of Two Arithmetick Instruments, together with a short treatise and demonstrating the ordinary operations of arithmetic, as likewise, a perpetual almanack, and several useful tables, 1st edition, Printed, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt, 1673, engraved portrait frontispiece, six engraved plates printed to versos of A2-7 and four folding engraved plates pasted to the blank verso of A8 and B1-3, Perpetuall Almanack plate bound before 2A1 and a folding table bound between G2 and G3, lacks cancels F8 and G8 (as usual), also lacks G[1] (text leaf beginning 'The diameter of any circle being given') and 2A8, old damp-staining and fraying with occasional short closed tears, largely affecting outer margins, all sympathetically restored with archival tissue, the damage being largely confined to the extremities of the frontispiece, first signature and last two leaves, some slight loss of borders of frontispiece, both titles (A1-2) and plate 1 (A2v), and a little loss of legibility to final two lines of final leaf, red dye splashes to A3v and A4r, contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine, small 8vo (140 x 88mm) ESTC R30529; Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyperspace 9; Wing M2777. First edition of 'the first book on a calculator written in English, and the first separate work on the subject after Napier's Rabdologiae (1617). There was little else in English on calculating machines until Babbage. The work may also be considered the first comprehensive book in computer literature, as Pascal published nothing about his own machine except an eighteen-page pamphlet, now of the utmost rarity. The first of the "arithmetic instruments" was Morland's adding machine - a modification of Pascal's calculator The second instrument was his multiplier [which ] operated on the same principle as Napier's bones' (Hook & Norman). This rare book is bibliographically complex with no two copies seeming to be the same. This is the second issue, the first having the first six plates printed on slips of paper pasted on the versos of leaves A2-7. This second issue also only calls for 8 leaves in second signature A, rather than 11. All copies of both issues lack G8 (usually described as a cancel) and most copies lack F8 (another cancel, blank with a numerical calculation to verso). This copy also lacks G1 and 2A8, the Perpetuall Almanack plate possibly accounting for the latter leaf. The second signature A is sometimes missing entirely or only partially present and bound after F (as here) or after G. Other anomalies do exist. Collation: [portrait], A-F8 (-F8), [Perpetuall Almanack plate], G2-7 [folding table bound between G2 and G3], 2A7 B8 *8. (1)
Balbi (Giovanni Francesco). Trac[tatus] de prescriptionibus. Tractatus secundus et perutilis profunde subtilisque ac quotidiane materie omnis prescriptionis: tam ciuilis quam canonice: qui de prescriptionibus inscribitur. Editus per preclarum iuris vtriusque doc. dominum Ioannem Franciscum Balbum de Avilliana ... Cui pro materie complemento annectitur repetitio solennis et peculiaris. l. Celsus ff. de vsuca. per eundem edita. Superadditis vbique opportunis: multisque alijs additionibus et apostil. vna cum dictis Hostiensis in sum. de prescri. et vsuca. et cum summarijs et repertorio recenter additis, Lyon: Benoit Bonyn, [Jacques Giunta], 1542 (title dated 1544), [24]+ccviii leaves, title printed in red and black within ormanental woodcut border, double column, woodcut initials, printer's woodcut device to final leaf verso, 2c8 blank, some browning and old heavy dampstaining throughout, archival tissue repair to final leaf without loss of text, old brown ink inscription to title-page lower margin, recent antique-style calf gilt, 8vo (180 x 120mm) This edition not in Adams. OCLC 5 copies (of all editions between 1511 and 1582). Rare. A collection of treatises on the Roman law of prescription, in which a right or liability, usually in relation to property, is created or dissolved over a certain period of time. (1)
Aesop. Aesop's Fables, with his life: in English, French, and Latin, newly translated, illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures, to this edition are likewise added, thirty one new figures representing his life by Francis Barlow, printed by R. Newcombe, for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1703, additional etched title, engraved coat of arms for William Earle of Devonshire (closed tear repair to verso), 32 full-page plates by Thomas Dudley (the first unnumbered and placed as frontispiece, torn with large loss to lower left corner, now supplied with good photocopy repair), 110 half-page copper plates, plate impressions for fables LXX and LXXI transposed, correct impressions additionally tipped in as overlays (the first with paper repair and image loss to upper left corner), some heavy browning (especially to early leaves) and spotting throughout, occasional inkstains, splashes and other soiling and marks, a few closed tear repairs, old ink doodles of figures and horses to frontispiece recto, bookplate of Christopher Rowe, contemporary boards with period-style calf gilt reback, rubbed, folio (320 x 200 mm) Wing A695. A rare complete copy of this third edition, a reissue of the 1666 and 1687 edition sheets, with a cancelled title leaf. This copy, unlike most others, has the sheets for folios [2]R1-2 with the requisite copper plate impressions. It also includes the additional engraved title-page, often missing, and the scarce plate 17, often removed because of concern for the nude women depicted. The engraved English version of the text is by Aphra Behn. (1)
Wilde (Oscar). Newdigate Prize Poem. Ravenna, Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878, 1st edition, Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton & Sons, 1878, 16 pp., original blue-grey printed wrappers retained and bound in with 32 blank leaves at rear of which seven pages contain contemporary ink manuscript quotations from literature and the bible, top edge gilt, contemporary vellum lettered and ruled in gilt with bee motif to upper cover, stationer's ticket of Myers & Co. to front pastedown, covers slightly rubbed, marked and bowed, 8vo Mason 301. Oscar Wilde's first separate publication, inspired by a visit to Ravenna in 1877. Rare. (1)
*Carolina. A manuscript legal document or warrant issued by the Court of Pleas at Charlestown, Carolina, 8th September 1688, manuscript document written in brown ink in a clerical hand on laid paper (with watermark of a posthorn within crown and shield, with 4 and W below), 20 lines of text, signed at foot by Barnard Schenckingh, High Sheriffe and Chiefe Judge of the Court, with red wax seal to left margin, creased where previously folded and some minor soiling, one or two short closed tears to margins without loss, overall size 34.5 x 46 cm (13.5 x 18.1 ins) Provenance: Sold Sotheby's, New Bond Street, London, 7th December 1976, lot 374, where purchased by Desmond Burgess; thence by descent. A manuscript commission from the Court of Common Pleas instructing William Dunlopp, Robert Gibbes and James Witter, at the Court of Pleas at Charlestown, heard on 8th September 1688, authorising auditors to be appointed to provide accounts of expenses undertaken by Peter Horne and William Dewis, witnessed by William Earle, of Craven Pallatine. A rare manuscript commission appointing auditors to draw up accounts between the two parties Peter Horne and William Dewis witnessed by the Governor of the Province William Earle of Craven and signed by the Officer of the Province Barnard Schenckingh on behalf of King James II of England. (1)
Henry VII Year Books. [Anni Regis Henrici Septimi. Quibus accesserunt annus primus et secundus de noua et valde bona collatione. Ac etiam, annus decimus, undecimus, decimus tertius, decimus sextus, et vigesimus, nunquam ante hac ‘diti. Anno Domini 1555, Richard Tottell, 1555], [i.e. 1563?], law reports from 1-16, 20 and 21 Henry VII, separate paginations with continuous register, black letter, woodcut initials, lacks title-page, occasional contemporary and later ink marginalia and underscoring, peppered wormholes (mostly at front and rear), a few mostly marginal closed tears, some light old damp-staining, 23 lines of manuscript verse quotations [from William Bullein's Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence] in brown ink in an unidentified contemporary hand to first front free endpaper recto (watermark of hand with a flower on laid paper), contemporary blind-stamped calf over boards, with central lattice panel of diamonds within a rolled border of repeated motifs of female heads within roundels and floral decoration, ownership monogram blind stamp of 'F.B.' to centre of both covers, remains of one brass clasp only, some rubbing and wear with scattered worm holes, neatly rebacked with remains of spine relaid, folio (280 x 190mm) Provenance: An unidentified 16th century English collector, here quoting from William Bullein's Dialogue against the Fever. Beale R408; STC 9223.5. The Year Books are the earliest law reports of England, forming a continuous series from 1268 to 1535, and covering the reigns of King Edward I to Henry VIII. Richard Tottel produced the majority of sixteenth-century printed Year Books, a great many being published between the years 1556 and 1572. William Bullein (c. 1515-1576), physician, published his last and most popular work, A Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence, in 1564. 'This work saw him move away from the overwhelmingly medical concerns of his previous writing, and extend his use of dialogue beyond the didactic to a more lively style in which he mixed medicine, morality, and entertainment. Like the authors of many plague tracts, Bullein takes the epidemic as his starting point for a broad criticism of the sins of society, attacking engrossing and enclosure in the countryside and the sudden charity of the afflicted, and parodying hypocritical and atheistic physicians and apothecaries, and the desperation of usurious merchants when faced by death.' (Oxford DNB). The manuscript verses begin: 'How the cardinal came of nought / and his prelacie sold and bought / And where such prelate be, springe of love degree, / And spirituall dignitee / farewell begninitee, / farewell simplicitee, farewell humanitee, farewell good charitee'. The final two lines are: 'but or thei enter if they have lerned nought / afterward is vertue the least of theyr thought'. The quotations are taken from one long speech by the character Crispinus who recounting his visit to Parnassus, repeats some verses he heard spoken by a number of famous poets from the previous two hundred years. The four poets 'quoted' here are John Skelton (an attack on Cardinal Wolsey), Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate and Bartley. The small variations in wording between the early editions suggests that this, if not copied from a manuscript, was transcribed from the first edition of 1564, rather than the later editions of 1573 or 1578: See Mark W. Bullen & A.H. Bullen (editors), A Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence by William Bullein, from the Edition of 1578, Collated with the Earlier Editions of 1564 and 1573, Trbner, 1888, pages 16-18. All editions are rare and only three copies of the first edition are located: two imperfect copies at the British Library and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and a possibly unique complete copy at the Huntington Library, California. That copy, used by the editors of the (fourth) 1888 edition had been part of the Britwell/Heber Collection, acquired by Huntington from the Britwell Court library sale in 1919. (1)
Bainbridge (George C.). The Fly Fisher's Guide, Illustrated by Coloured Plates, Representing upwards of Forty of the most useful Flies, accurately copied from nature, 1st edition, large paper issue, Liverpool, printed for the author by G.F. Harris's widow and brothers, 1816, viii, 150, [4]pp., eight hand-coloured engraved plates, occasional spotting or browning, horizontal closed tear repair to penultimate leaf not affecting text, uncut, ink presentation inscription to front free endpaper, 'To Charles Rogers Esq[ui]re, from his sincere friend, the author', pastedowns and endpapers sometime renewed, contemporary red quarter morocco over boards, morocco spine label, rubbed, some markings and edge wear, 4to (265 x 210mm) Westwood & Satchell, page 21: 'Twelve copies of the first edition were in 4to, coloured with greater care, and published at two guineas'. This is one of the earliest books to include colour plates of tied flies and considered as the source book for Ronalds' Fly-Fisher's Entomology (1836). It follows George Scotcher's very rare Fly-Fisher's Legacy (Chepstow, 1800) as only the second angling book with hand-coloured engravings of natural flies. These comprise illustrations of forty natural flies suitable for trout and salmon fishing, the latter being the first coloured figures of salmon flies'. (1)
Liverpool F.C Crown Paints Sponsor Ball. Exceptionally rare sponsor ball with original printed autographs of the Liverpool F.C 1983/84 treble winning team. Unlikely many of these still exist today. Superb condition presented in deluxe display case with mirror back and engraved plaque to front.
A rare late 18th or early 19th century North African camel saddle, formed of iron-clad wood, with two basal rails and three arched supports each retained by punched brass brackets, the principal surfaces decorated with shaped brass and iron plaques 133cm (52in) Saddles of similar form were used by Napoleon's Dromadaire (camel) regiment in the Egyptian campaign of 1798. Another example is preserved in the Army Museum, Paris.
Rare English porcelain tea bowl and saucer circa 1800, together with a similar coffee cup possibly Newhall or linked to the factory, (similar to examples found with unusual printed lion mark to base) decorated with an oriental landscape (3) The saucer measures 13cm diameter See Geoffrey Godden 'English Blue and White Porcelain pg. 391 - 395, as well as Northern Ceramic Society Journal volume 6 1987 'Lion of Lane End?' by Roger Pomfret, and Northern Ceramic Society Journal 12 1995 'The Lion Mark Revisited' by Roger Pomfret for further information on this unusual class of porcelain. Also see Lot 162 from our 18th February 2016 Fine Art Sale for a similar example bearing the lion mark. For a condition report on this lot visit www.peterwilson.co.uk
A rare early 18th century English Delft blue and white drug or extract jar, probably Lambeth, the cylindrical body inscribed 'Ex: Melemp', within a decorative cartouche with winged cherubs, 10.5cm (4.25in) high; another similar inscribed 'P. Hysteric'' (2) Provenance: Purchased from Tilley & Co, 2 Symons Street, London for £200 in 1966
A rare pair of Mason's 'Japan Fence' pattern two handled pedestal salts, circa 1815, with shouldered ovoid bodies and flat rims, raised on spreading circular bases with winged grotesque mask handles, 11cm (4.25in) diameter; a Masons 'School House' pattern pastille burner, circa 1813, raised on lion paw feet and canted squared base, 11cm (4.25in) high (3)
A rare Talavera faience blue and white pharmacy jar, circa 1625, the globular body inscribed 'N.R. Mo P.P or F. Martin de la Vera. Gral. de la Order / G. Mirrhae, painted with coat of arms for the monastery of Escorial and supported by trees and animals, 19cm (7.5in) high Provenance: Purchased from Newman & Newman, 156 Brompton Road, London for £40 in 1957 Other Notes: Martin de la Vera was the fifteenth Prior of El Escorial Monastery from 1621-1627. Built in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama, north of Madrid, the Royal site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial was founded by Philip II in 1563 as a votive monument and pantheon to the Spanish monarchs from the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V onwards. It is now a Unesco World Heritage site. In the 1620s, Phillip III appointed the architect Giovanni Battista Crescenzi to design the Panteon de los Reyes. De la Vera was Prior during its construction but was accused by the master stonemasons of diverting funds away from the royal crypt. He left the monastery in 1627. A few years later, de la Vera published the book, Instrucción de Eclesiásticos (Madrid, 1630), in which he deals with the works in the Pantheon and their significance. He went on to be an influential figure. His portrait of 1634 hangs in the Escorial.
Scottish Geology Milne [Home], David Memoir on the Lothian and Mid-Lothian Coalfields. William Blackwood and Sons., Edinburgh, and T. Cadell, Strand, London, 1839. 4to, cloth; 4 folding tables, 2 folding, hand-coloured plates of sections, 1 folding hand-coloured map, illus. and tables to text. Milne Home, David The Estuary of the Forth and Adjoining Districts Viewed Geologically. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1871. 8vo, cloth; folding, hand-coloured map frontis. Milne Home was a Scottish advocate, geologist and meteorologist. He founded the Scottish Meteorological Society, was president of the Edinburgh Geological Society, and coined the word seismometer. Ramsay, Andrew Crombie The Geology of the Island of Arran. Glasgow: Richard Griffin & Company and Thomas Tegg, London, 1841. 8vo, cloth; hand-coloured map frontis, 1 hand-coloured plate of sections, numerous illus. to text. First ed. A rare and detailed work. With 8 other works of Scottish geological interest including: Bell, Among the Rocks Around Glasgow, gift inscription to the Edinburgh Geological Society from co-founder Ralph Richardson; and MacLaren, Geology of Fife and the Lothians, sometime rebound in full calf gilt; also works by Hugh Miller. [11]
Mercator, G.; Jansson, J. Gallicia Legio, et Asturias de Oviedo. Amsterdam, [c.1628]. Sometime hand-coloured. From the Atlas Minor, a 'pocket-sized' version of the larger Mercator Atlases, it was nonetheless larger than other pocket atlases of the time, allowing for greater detail. This can be seen in the number of topographical features on the map. Mercator/Jansson Eboracum, Lincolnia, Derbia, Staffordia, Notinghamia, Lecestria, Rutlandia, et Norfolcia. [c.1650]. Sometime hand-coloured. From the Atlas Minor, with unusual monument distance scale. Mercator/Jansson Insula Zeilan, olim Taprobana, nunc Incolis Tenarisim. [c.1650]. Sometime hand-coloured. A rare map of Sri Lanka added to the Atlas Minor for Jansson's German 1648 edition. It only appeared in two editions. Highly detailed, marking villages, mines and spice plantations. Hondius, J.; Purchas, S. Ceilan Insula. London, [n.d. but likely 1625]. Sometime hand-coloured. This version of the Mercator Atlas Minor map was published in Samuel Purchas' His Pilgrimes, a seminal 17th century collection of voyages first published in 1625. Purchas drew on manuscripts collected by Hakluyt to create the largest book ever published in England. The first edition contained nearly 90 maps, some of which were completed by Jocodus Hondius. Hondius (Joost de Hondt) reprinted Mercator's Atlas after his death adding 36 maps. Hondius released the Atlas under Mercator's name, aiding his sales and boosting Mercator's reputation posthumously. After 1633 his son-in-law, Johannes Janssonius, was listed as co-publisher.
Smith, Rev. Thomas The Wonders of Nature and Art. Printed for J. Walker, 44, Paternoster-Row et al, 1803-4. 12mo (12 vols). Full contemporary calfs, spine with contrasting morocco lettering pieces gilt roll-tooled board edges; 35 engravings (3 in each vol. except xii). A fascinating and rare early travel series derived from numerous sources and illuminating aspects of natural history, topography and local culture around the world. The series begins in Britain and ends with the Antipodes taking in experiments with salamanders (v), criminal justice in the Congo (viii) and the Constitution of the United States (x).Boards scuffed and rubbed, II lettering piece lacking section, very slight foxing, staining, creasing etc internally, but generally a very good example of an attractive set.
Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Written by Himself. Dublin: Webb and Chapman, Gt. Brunswick-Street, 1845. 8vo, org. blue cloth, boards panelled in blind, yellow endpapers. First Irish edition, published in the same year as the American first and before the first UK edition in 1846, making this effectively the second edition of the book. Douglass contributed a new preface in which he explained his purpose in coming to the UK - part of which was to avoid - in the aftermath of the publication of the book in the US - being restored to his previous owner (as the Constitution made him liable to be). Douglass had come to Dublin in 1845 and met with the Committee of the Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society who issued a recommendation on his behalf to all abolitionists. A hugely significant, and scarce, piece of Americana by a statesman, reformer, and slave,Spine faded, some shelf wear to edges of boards, slightly cocked, a little marked and dusty inside but a very good copy of a rare book.
Foxe, John Ecclesiasticall History, conteyning the Actes and Monumentes of Martyrs...Printed by John Daye, dwelling ouer Aldgate, 1576. 4to (2 vols bound as one). Full reverse calf, boards with broad blind roll-tooled borders, spine decorated in blind, all edges red; pp. 14-1306 (lacking title and 1-13), 1315-1332, 1337-1774, 1777-1976, 1981-1984, 1987-8, 1991-2, 1997-2000, 2003-2010, 2012-2020 (5V.iv loose but present, lacking rest of Index); floriated initials, woodcut plate, later mounted, title-page for Vol. II, lacking title for Vol. I., numerous woodcuts to text throughout. Although The Acts and Monuments of Foxe has been a critical text in shaping Protestant identity, the idea of it as a single text - the much later coined (and frequently abridged) ''Book of Martyrs'' - misses the complexity of its publication history. None of the four editions produced during Foxe's lifetime (of which this was the third) was the same as any other. Foxe continually adapted his work to answer the criticisms of his Catholic opponents. It is important to remember that Foxe produced his first pre-Acts martyrologies amongst the Marian persecutions. What had been an academic exercise in martyrology suddenly and violently became a part of his lived experience. Astoundingly for the day - and given his intense opposition to Catholicism - Foxe did not simply oppose Catholic executions, but utterly opposed the death penalty for any religious dissent. His book was not merely an anti-Catholic tract, it fundamentally opposed the concept of religiously inspired killing. It was perhaps inevitable that his first two treatises (mostly focusing on the Lollards) would form the basis of a larger text, tearing into the recent persecutions and aiming to show that the Catholic church was a conspiracy to destroy English national identity along with its religion. The book - backed by worthies like Sir William Cecil and Foxe's former pupil, the Duke of Norfolk - thus became part of the new Elizabethan paradigm: that the Church of England was a continuation of the true Church of Christ not a modern innovation. It is telling to note Foxe's close, if uneasy, links to Matthew Parker (one of the architects of the Thirty-Nine Articles) and critically his library, which led to the Archbishop being presented with a copy of the work. Foxe published the first version of his ecclesiastical history in 1563, drawing on documents, registers, letters, and other primary sources to support his thesis. He might more properly be described as a compiler, rather than an author, were it not that his voice comes through so powerfully in the contextualisation and presentation of others' information through the form of the text (especially its use of typography). The book was not merely successful, it fostered strong emotional reactions on both sides of the debate and the revision work began almost immediately. The second edition, the first major revision, was published in 1570. This was no mere reprint. Foxe significantly enlarged the scope of the first edition, taking the history back to the 11th century. He also responded personally to the Catholic criticisms, including newly discovered information and sources. This copy was part of the third edition (less heavily revised than the 1570 edition) which was printed on cheaper paper to attempt to meet rising demand for a cheap edition - hence the expected toning. Foxe would produce one final revision of the book in 1583, resisting calls for abridgement. He died in 1587, plans for another revision already underway. The book of deaths had become his life. This edition was surveyed by the British Academy for their effort to reproduce the best and most complete text from the various editions produced during Foxe's lifetime (this number F76028). Professor David Loades wrote (in the Jan-July 2000 British Academy Review) that ''none of the surviving original copies of the sixteenth century editions [are] full and perfect. All those traced and inspected have defects - pages missing or severely damaged, illustrations removed, and so on.'' (p.25). At the point when the Academy surveyed this copy, they had traced 30 copies, of which 15 were in the UK - this one the only private library copy. This copy is thus a scarce survival - strange given the immense popularity of the work - and a rare chance to own a typographically fascinating, early edition of an ideological battleground in the formation of English national identity. Binding rubbed and scuffed but still tight, edges closely shaved with some loss to marginalia, some marking, staining, creasing etc throughout, some pages toned, occasional marginal loss nevertheless a very good copy of a scarce work.
Ford, Simon Hesychia Christianou, or, A Christian's Acquiescence in all the Products of Divine Providence: opened in a sermon, preached at Cottesbrook in Northampton-Shire, April the 16, 1664, at the interment of the Right Honourable, and eminently pious lady, the Lady Elizabeth Langham, wife to Sir James Langham Kt.. London : printed by R.D. for John Baker at the Peacock in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1665. 8vo, full contemporary calf; engraved armorial frontis. Perhaps mostly notable today as the first publication of Bathsua Makin's elegy upon Lady Langham. Makin, known as the most learned woman in England, served as tutor to Lady Langham, as well as to the children of Charles I. She has been described as a proto-feminist but although she was staunchly supportive of educational equality for women, she did not similarly seek political equality. However the efforts of educational campaigners legitimised later political ones.Binding showing signs of age, small 1807 owner's ink inscription to ffep, small loss to bottom corner title, small marginal loss to foot of P1, a little foxing and spotting internally but a bright copy of a rare work.
[Wedderburn (Alexander), first Earl of Rosslyn] The Argument of Alexander Wedderburn, Esq; His Majesty's Solicitor General, in the Cause of Lord Pomfret against Smith; which was tried at the bar of the Court of King's-Bench, Westminster... November 1772, by a Special Jury of the County of York...1773, [York?], privately printed, 4to; vi including title and Advertisement plus pp. 49, in later three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, t.e.g. Boards and joints a little rubbed, upper hinge a little tender, light scattered marginal foxing to text. Self-promotion for Wedderburn (seemingly at the expense of the defendant Smith), posing as champion of the individual against powerful interests. Wedderburn became Lord Chancellor in 1793. The case, concerning disputed ownership claims to a lead mine in Swaledale by George Fermor, Earl of Pomfret, was tried first at York, in 1770. A rare tract
De Diemerbroeck (Isbrand) and Salmon (William) trans. The Anatomy of Human Bodies. London, printed for Edward Brewster, 1689. 4to, sometime rebound in full leather, retaining elements of the original binding; 16 striking copper-engraved plates after drawings of medical dissections (some with varying loss or repair), occasional marginalia. First English translation (preceeded by the Dutch first edition of 1672 (in Latin).The translation was by William Salmon, a noted 17th century English medical historian. Isbrandus De [van] Diemerbroeck was a respected Dutch physician who worked in Nijmegen during the Black Death epidemic. His experience with, and knowledge of, such diseases can be seen in the carefully recorded case histories which make up one section of the book. The majority though is a highly-detailed anatomical study, most interesting today as a historical record of 17th century medical knowledge. The book is part of a theological natural history, seeking after the seat of ''the most Noble Functions of the Soul''. It can be hard in an era of scientific enquiry and advanced medical studies to understand the twin constraints of religious objection and Ancient worship which so hampered the early study of anatomy. Whilst Vesalius' pioneering work was over one hundred years behind De Diemerbroeck, the direct study of the human body remained controversial and difficult. His introduction to this important work argues vehemently in favour of such study, appealing to authority and precedent to overcome Galenic objection and pre-empting the Church by equating anatomical work to a witness of the ''skill and workmanship of the Divine hand in building a Tabernacle for the Soul of Man.'' This is not a theological treatise however. The author's stated purpose is the improvement of medicine. The preface compares the need for anatomy to the architect who ''must know all the Parts of the House'' if they are to repair one which is ''decay'd''. He argues further that you cannot treat disease (his own especial study) without knowing ''what Part a Disease does primarily affect''. He also notes the important role medicine plays elsewhere in society, reminding the reader that ''only men skill'd in Anatomy can give true Judgement upon a Wound'' - of critical importance in criminal proceedings. This is not a recitation of learned authority; this is a deliberate positioning of personal study of anatomy at the heart of best medical practice. Plates 2, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 and 16 torn with varying loss, generally small, 3, 12, and 13 torn but repaired, some foxing, staining etc internally but a very good copy of a rare work.
R.B. [Crouch, Nathaniel]. Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, & Wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland...Printed by John Richardson for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry, near Cheapside, 1684. 12mo, half calf over marbled boards, morocco lettering piece, spine lettered directly in gilt to bottom compartment and blind tooling to 3 compartments, all edges red; engraved half title facing title, 4 plates (one missing lower half). Second edition enlarged. A rare collection of historical oddities by English printer and bookseller Nathaniel Crouch - whose pseudonym alluded to Robert or Richard Burton. According to a contemporary, he ''melted down the best of our English Histories into Twelve-Penny Books'' and became a ''Celebrated Author'', popularising history for the ''middling sort''. [Gerbier, Sir Balthazar]. The None-Such Charles His Character...Printed by RI, and are to be sold by John Collins, in Little Brittaine, 1651. 8vo, quarter leather over boards, sometime rebacked; engraved frontis., title, [4 (To the Reader)], 196, [18 (Contents)]. This work was ''Published by Authority'' to discourse on ''the late King's first publicke Motions running thouough his fatall race, and continuing to his dismall end.'' R.B. showing signs of use, leather marked and scuffed, owner's ink inscription to ffep and notes to blanks, ink marks verso of title, some spotting, marking, creasing throughout, edges of a couple of pages a touch shaved from binding, but generally a very good, internally clean copy of a scarce work. Gerbier likewise with signs of age, leather cracked off boards, some marking and creasing internally but again a very good, internally clean copy.
Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath. William Heinemann Ltd., 1939. Org. cloth in unclipped dj priced 8s. 6d., pink endpapers, small bookseller's paper ticket to lower pastedown. First UK ed.Slight shelf wear to jacket edges, with a little creasing to head and foot of spine, very slight loss to upper panel of dj where it meets the head, flaps a little creased with toning at flap edges, foxing to flaps and endpapers, slight foxing to edges, more so on fore edges, occasionally becoming marginal internally, a little foxing to upper edges of prelims and first few pages but a very good copy, generally clean internally, of a rare book.
Gill, Eric (illus) The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ. Folio Society, 2007. Folio (2 vols). Gospels facsimile in full black morocco, upper board blocked in gilt after Gill's design for the living creatures of the Evangelists in a blind-blocked frame, spine lettered directly in gilt, all edges gilt, black marker; Commentary in buckram-backed boards with paper title label on upper board; both in black clamshell box. Limited edition numbered 2740/2750. A deluxe reprint of the legendary Golden Cockerel edition of 1931. The Gospels are widely considered one of the most beautiful books printed in the twentieth century, rivalling the Kelmscott Chaucer and the Doves Bible. They were perhaps the Press' finest production - as well as one of the most successful private press books of the century. One of the contributing factors to the beauty of the book is the holistic design. Robert Gibbings, owner of the Press, would write in the Book Collector (Summer 1953) that he ''would send [Gill] the proofs and on these he would build his designs, fitting his figures to the spaces determined by the type and allowing his fancy to spread into any quarter that offered itself''. That Gill designed images, typeface and layout ensured a rarely-equalled unity of conception. The Commentary comprises John Dreyfus' essay on 'Eric Gill and the Golden Cockerel Type' and Robert Gibbings' 'Memories of Eric Gill' reproduced from The Book Collector. An excellent facsimile of a rare masterpiece.
Miniature Book The Mite. E.A. Robinson, 1891. Org. cloth, upper board decorated in gilt; pp. 26; 6 full page illus (seemingly lacking pp. 15-16). 2nd ed. (according to title-page) in the same year as the first. The Mite was produced as the smallest book in the world printed from moveable type. It held this distinction until 1897, when Galileo a Madama Cristina de Lorena was published by the Salmin Brothers in Padua. It remains an impressive, and rare, example of the art of typography and the 19th century drive to push the boundaries of what was possible with technology.Boards faded and dented, a little dusty internally, lacking pp. 15-16, but still a delightful example from the history of miniature books.
Moore, Nicholas (text), Freud, Lucien (illus.) The Glass Tower. Poetry London/Nicholson & Watson, 1944. Original cloth-backed decorative-paper covered boards; various plates and illus. to text, some coloured; with loosely inserted advertisement for the work. First ed. A very rare poetry title by Nicholas Moore with lithographs and drawings by Lucian Freud. This is the first book ever illustrated by Lucian Freud.Spine faded, lower board a touch dusty, very slight marking to publication page but a very good, internally clean, copy.
Photography - a rare and interesting E.& L. Bloch, Paris Physiographe Stereo spy / detective camera. This camera resembles a pair of binoculars incorporating the deceptive viewfinder in one eyepiece which shoots at right angles, the other is used as a handle to slide out the plate magazine which is hidden in the second half; E. Krauss, Paris, Tessar-Zeiss f6.3 62 mm lenses; Takes 45x107mm plates; Leather case c.1920.
Botany - Flora and Sylva: A Monthly Review for Lovers of Garden, Woodland, Tree or Flower; New and Rare Plants, Trees, Shrubs, and Fruits; the Garden Beautiful, Home Woods, and Home Landscape, Edited by, and Printed and Published for, W. Robinson [...], three-volume set, London 1903 - 1905, full-page chromolithographic plates, monochrome line engravings and vignettes throughout, contemporary quarter green-stained calf and buckram boards, gilt lettered spines, The John Innes Horticultural Institution Library stamps, small folios, [3]
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