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Click here to subscribeA rare and unusually large George III brass curfew, circa 1800Of half-round hood form, with rolled rim and large single-curved strap handle held in place by copper rivets, 58cm wide, 46cm high, 27cm deep.Provenance:Benjamin F. Edwards III & Christopher Bangs CollectionsSee the Victoria & Albert Museum Collection, London, for comparable examples, (n. M.5-1940 & 94-1891).
A rare Elizabeth I pewter figural spoon, circa 1560-80Having a fig-shaped bowl with wrigglework scroll-decoration, a short and flattened stem, the rare terminal cast as a human figure, namely a standing lady, with facial features and hair rolls, hands resting on hips, wearing a gown with cross-hatched decoration, length 11.9cmLiterature: See G. Egan ‘Playthings From The Past’ (1996) for three comparable flat human figures, one of which is a spoon terminal, fig. 9
A rare 16th century pewter broad-rimmed dish or large saucer, English, circa 1550The plain rim with under-edge rounded moulding, bossed centre and gentle booge, owners’ pentagram to rim, diameter 19.5cm, rim 3.6cm, (37%)Provenance: Sandy Law Collection. Sold Phillips, Chester, 25 September 1997, Lot 229
A rare Louis XIV/XV brass and glass photophore, French, circa 1700-25 With original glass ‘bucket’-shaped storm shade, flared octagonal and knopped stem, on a dished octagonal base, engraved with panels of latticework, birds and foliage, traces of silvering, height 32.5cm, shade diameter 14cm, base diameter 16.5cm For similar paired examples see Christie's, New York, Jayne Wrightsman Collection, 14 October 2020,Lot 2, acquired from Mallets, London ($25,000) and The Hubert de Givenchy Collection, Christie's Paris, 17 June 2022, Lot 171 (€60,480). Literature: F.J.B Watson, 'The Wrightsman Collection: Furniture, Gilt Bronzes, Carpets' (1966), p. 345 fig 176 A, B.
A rare and fine Charles II brass cluster-stem socket candlestick, circa 1680The cast square stem formed as eight conjoined columns, topped with internal scalloped rim, and bound by three ridged bands, the hollow ‘drip-tray’ with downswept upper and lower edges, screwed to a square base with circular depression and similar downswept rim, traces of silvering, height 20cm, base width 12.6cmLiterature:For an identical candlestick see Schiffer, ‘The Brass Book’ (1978), p.180, fig. A (I). And for comparable examples see: C. Bangs, ‘The Lear Collection’ (1995), p. 346-7, pl. 137 & 138 & pp154-5; R. Gentle & R. Feild, ‘Domestic Metalwork 1640-1820’ (1998), pp. 126-7, figs. 20-22 and E. Koldeweij, ‘The English Candlestick 1425-1925’ (2010), p. 82, no.48. See Christie’s, London, The Lear Collection, 1998’, Lot 182 (£6900)
An early and rare 17th century brass-handled iron Ell rule, circa 1600-20,With four engraved calibrations on one side below the letter 'H' and five on the reverse below the letter 'B', the handle cast as a figure with peaked hat and hands resting on hips, 79cm longProvenance:The Christopher Bangs Collection
A Rare William III portrait firing glass, circa 1785-1805 The ovoid bowl on a short plain stem and thick firing foot, the bowl engraved with a wreathed portrait of William III to sinister within the inscription 'The Immortal Memory', the reverse with an Irish harp with 'Maid of Erin', four pillars surmounted by a royal crown flanked on opposing sides by a vine stem bearing a cluster of grapes with a leaf and tendrils, 11.5cm high Provenance: Edward V. Phillips Collection Scratches to foot. Please note this is only a brief overview report, for a full condition report please send a request via the-saleroom.com
A rare and good Elizabeth I carved oak and polychrome-decorated panel, circa 1560Designed with a large coat of arms, against a strapwork decorated ground, Latin inscription to base reads ' Oliver Brigges Armiger and Anna his wife, daughter of Humphrey Coningsby Armiger de.', height 42cm, width 22.7cmArmiger refers to a person entitled to heraldic arms. Oliver Brigges was born in 1535, possibly in Westmoreland, and married Anne Coningsby (date unknown). He died c. 1598, at Ernestrey Park, near Ludlow. Humphrey Coningsby (d.1535) was a Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire, and was knighted by Henry VII in 1509 . He was present at the coronation of Anne Boleyn.Provenance: Doughton Manor, Gloucestershire
A rare Elizabeth I/James I oak joint stool, West Country, circa 1600-20Having a double-reeded top, flat run-moulded rails with bicuspid-shaped, scroll-carved and punch-decorated lower edge, the inverted-baluster turned legs with leafy S-scroll-carved blocks, joined all round by cable-carved stretchers, height 53.5cm, width 49cm, depth 29.5cmProvenance: Doughton Manor, Gloucestershire
A rare pair of Charles I oak joint stools, circa 1630-40Each top with single-reeded long edges and square ends, with lunette-carved rails and rising-baluster over squat-ball turned legs joined by plain stretchers all round, on turned feet, the end stretchers, unusually for an English joint stool of this period are slightly inset, height 58.5cm, width 49.5cm, depth 29.5cm, (2)Provenance: Doughton Manor, Gloucestershire
An impressive Victorian oak tally stick, dated 1853With incised calibrations and small punched motifs, inscribed ‘Barth Comben Reeve 1853’, and with stamped initials to ends, 310cm longBartholomew Comben (1801-1873) was a seaman, foreman and publican on the Island of Portland, Dorset. He was a local officer, or Reeve, of the Portland Court Leet, a Manorial Court. This Lot can be referred to as a rare 'Portland Reeve Staff'. The Reeve Staff was a method of reckoning tenant rents to 'The King, as Lord of the Manor', an ancient custom which still prevails in Portland, although there is now in use a 'Reeve Book'. During the 19th century the majority of tenants were illiterate, hence the use of a Reeve Staff. On the long square stick are numerous incised marks, symbolising the five ancient hamlets of the Island, and beneath these long and short notches representing the rent to be paid by each tenant according to a log book. Individual amounts were separated by small dots or triangular cuts. The staff varies in length and design from year to year, according to division of rent and the number of tenants. Provenance:The Christopher Bangs Collection
An Impressive and rare Elizabeth I joined oak standing livery cupboard, circa 1600Having a rectangular plank top, above a leafy-strapwork carved frieze with fluted corbels, and two deep panelled cupboard doors with intricate carved strapwork, flanking a deep pyramidal carved arch enclosing a flowering urn, all spaced by leafy-carved pilasters of waisted outline, raised on stop-fluted columnar front supports, united by a boarded base and triple-panelled rear, leafy S-scroll base rail, the sides of the cupboard with conforming carving, 137cm wide, 58cm deep, 135cm high
A rare George II brass revolving plate warmer and stand, circa 1750Having four long finial-topped spokes, on a revolving X-form carrier, and a stand of three downswept legs terminating in flat pad feet with circular support, 29cm wide, 55.5cm Provenance:The Christopher Bangs Collection Literature: For a comparable exampled see R. Gentle and R, Feild 'Domestic Metalwork 1640-1820' (1998), p. 289. fig. 1, dated to circa 1740. It is noted plate warmers 'are rarely found in brass, usually made of iron. Plates were stacked in the centre and the upper section revolves'. See also P. N. & H. Schiffer, 'The Brass Book' (1978), p. 380, fig. d.
A rare pair of Charles II steel and enamelled fire tools, circa 1670To include a pair of tongs and fish-tail shovel, each with an impressive brass ball finial, their design repeated to the lower stem, and set with red, blue and possibly white emamel within a foliate and bird design, shovel 73cm long, tongs 76.5cm longProvenance:With Robin Martin, Notting Hill, London. The Christopher Bangs Collection
A William & Mary oak gateleg table, with rare pendants, circa 1690The rectangular drop-leaf top, above one end frieze drawer, the end aprons centred by a turned pendant, on baluster-turned legs joined all round by plain stretchers, turned feet, 61cm wide, 29cm deep with leaves closed, 65cm deep with leaves extended, 71.5cm high
A rare wrought iron 'campaign' standing brazier, circa 1700Having an iron ring inset with a pierced brazier pan, the ring fitted with three swivelling pointed plate catches, and a further pair of iron ring handles, on three divergent supports topped by pad-shaped plate rests, on a discoid stem and three downswept and incurved legs terminating in penny feet, the stems threaded ends secured at top and bottom by a scroll-ended nut, 75cm highProvenance:The Danny Robinson & Christopher Bangs CollectionLiterature:For a comparable brazier, with brass ball feet and brass knops to the stem, attributed to England circa 1680-1700, see R. Gentle & R. Feild, 'Domestic Metalware 1640-1820' (1998), p. 351, fig. 1.
A rare William & Mary elm chest of drawers, circa 1690 The top principally formed from one well-figured board, atop four long twin-mitre moulded drawers, twin-panelled sides, on extended stile supports, height 92.5cm, width 101.5cm, depth 52cm The majority of late 17th century English geometric-moulded chest of drawers are made in oak, with walnut and fruitwood examples found to a lesser degree, however, rarely have elm chest of drawers from this period survived.
A rare Charles II walnut carved hornbook, circa 1670 Of paddle-form, decorated to the rear with a cherub in flight, holding a hornbook in their right hand, against a punched ground, stylized-leaf carving o upper handle, the reverse with narrow leather straps designed to hold vellum/paper with teaching script, upon which a thin mica/horn protective cover would be fixed, height 22.5cm, width 25.3cm, depth 1cm For a hornbook designed with King Charles II, see the British Museum collection, London (no. 0A9184)
A rare James I bovine shoehorn, dated 1613With charming naïve incised linear carving, to include a knot-pattern and stylized floral bouquet, below the date ‘1613’, a small pierced hanging hole to narrow end, length 24.5cm. widest point 5.5cmA shoehorn by the recorded maker, Robert Mindum, again dated 1613, sold in these rooms, 14 October 2021, for £7,400.
A rare 16th century brass alms dish, Nuremberg, circa 1500-1550Centred by a profile of a ‘Roman Emperor’ and sixteen plain gadroons, encircled by a band of Gothic script , the rim with two bands of punched decoration, rolled rim, diameter 42.5cmSmall hole and splits to rim. Rubbing to decoration. Some surface rust. Please note this is only a brief overview report, for a full condition report please send a request via the-saleroom.com
A magnificent, rare and large Charles I bronze mortar, dated 1638, by the John Palmar (or Palmer) Foundry, Gloucestershire (fl. c.1621) and Canterbury (fl.1636-1656)Inscribed beneath the rim ‘JOHN PALMAR MADE MEE FOR MARGRET BALDOCKE 1638’, the words and the date spaced by vacant lozenge stops, along with highly stylised flowers and a portcullis, the waist with a brand cast band of alternating roses and flowers admits foliage centred by a portcullis, with two cord mouldings above the waist and four below, 32cm diameter, 24cm highProvenance:In 1887, J.C.L. Stahlschmidt, author of 'The Church Bells of Kent', notes this mortar was then in a grocer's shop Canterbury, and thought to be a bell with 'its crown stable having been chipped or filled off'.Former Arthur G. Hemming, Robert Spalding, Roger Rosewell & Christopher Bangs Collections.Illustrated: A. G. Hemming, 'Dated English Bell-Metal Mortars', Connoisseur, March 1929, No.VIIIP. Hornsby, 'Collecting Antique Copper & Brass' (1989), p. 14, fig. 5.M. Finlay, 'English Decorated Mortars & their Makers' (2010), p.49, fig.58.Margaret Baldocke, was born Margaret Bruxbie, c.1612, the daughter of John Bruxbie, tailor, of All Saint's Canterbury. Margaret married at least three times. Her second marriage, in 1633, was to Robert Baldocke, who had been apprenticed in 1628 to Walter Southwell, a surgeon, apothecary and Mayor of Canterbury in 1634. Robert Baldocke died the year this mortar was made (1638) and it is highly likely Margaret took over their business, as many early modern women are known to have done, and commissioned this mortar for her personal use. Mortars cast solely with a women's full name are rare. Conventionally, a women's name appears alongside and following her husband's. Michael Finlay's 'Checklist of English Dated Mortars 1308-1979', (Finlay. 'Decorated Mortars', pp. 169-198) includes over four-hundred dated mortars known to the author in 2010, and only three mortars - including this example - are inscribed with only a women's name.John Palmar started his career in Gloucester, but was established in Canterbury by 1638. Whilst a posnet by him is recorded, as well as a number of skillets, only one other mortar by him is presently known, and was made in 1621 during his time in Gloucester. This is the only serving mortar cast by him at Canterbury. See ibid., pp. 49-50.
A rare George III paktong chamberstick, circa 1770-90 With broad detachable sconce, moulded socket atop a waisted and slotted stem to hold a snuffer, the circular dished pan engraved with a crest device of five halberds, and with pseudo hallmarks, curving carry handle, height 9.8cm, diameter 14.6cm Literature: See Keith Pinn, ‘Paktong - The Chinese Alloy in Europe 1680-1820’ (1999), p. 98, pl.57 & p. 107, p. 72-74, for comparable examplesDents and rubbing to pan.Please note this is only a brief overview report, for a full condition report please send a request via the-saleroom.com
Vary rare Tri-ang Minic 1:1200 scale Commando Ship HMS Albion, grey ship with paper deck and mast, no number to base, in a yellow HMS Albion box, condition: good few minor chips, paper deck, lifted in three places, box good little dirt5y and red print to ends faded. Only 1,000 of these un-numbered model were issued and given to HMS Albion crew members under the command of Capt. Adams.
Golden Cockerel Press Collection of limited editions A Frutefull Pleasaunt, and Wittie Worke, of the Best State of a Publique Weale, and the Newe Yle, called Utopia ... by ... Syr Thomas More, 1929. One of 500 copies, this copy signed by the printer Robert Gibbings, 4to, original blue-green cloth, wood-engraved ornaments by Eric Gill, spine sunned [Chanticleer 65; Evan Gill 336];The Phaedo of Plato. Translated into English by William [sic] Jowett, 1930. One of 500 copies, 4to, original blue-green cloth, wood-engraved ornaments by Eric Gill printed in red, retaining the rare original title-page with translator's name uncorrected to Benjamin Jowett, related publisher's notice ('In order to rectify this mistake a new title page is being printed worthwith ...') laid in, spine sunned [Chanticleer 69; Evan Gill 343];The Lives of Gallant Ladies, by Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur and Abbot of Brantome ... With Woodcuts by Robert Gibbings, privately printed for subscribers only, 1924. One of 625 copies, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue quarter cloth, signed by Gibbings on the title-page of volume 1, spotting to endpapers, limitation slip discarded [Chanticleer 18];Pasiphae. A Poem by A. C. Swinburne, 1950. One of 500 copies, this copy signed by the illustrator, 8vo, original two-tone cloth, engraved plates by John Buckland-Wright;The Ninety-First Psalm. With Wood-Engravings by Dorothea Braby, 1944. One of 350 copies, 4to, original cream cloth, bookplate of Maurice Buxton Forman (1872-1957), literary editor and forger;A Journey from this World to the Next, by Henry Fielding, 1930. One of 500 copies, 8vo, original buff cloth, 6 engraved plates by Denis Tegetmeier [Chanticleer 73];Grimms' Other Tales. A New Selection by Wilhelm Hansen, 1956. One of 500 copies, original purple cloth;The Will to Function. A Philosophical Study by Charles Meek, printed at the Golden cockerel Press for the author, and published by him at the Mansion House, Bisley, Glos, 1929. One of 300 copies, 8vo, original red cloth, inscribed by the author on the initial blank;The Tenbury Letters, 1942. One of 300 copies, 8vo, original red cloth;Microcosmographie or a Piece of the World Discovered in Essayes and Characters by John Earle, 1928. One of 400 copies, 4to, original red cloth;The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home by Charles Dickens and seven posthumous illustrations by Hugh Thomson, printed for members of the Limited Editions Club, 1933. One of 1500 copies, 4to, original yellow cloth, 6 colour plates;Pertelote. A Sequel to Chanticleer, 1943. 8vo, original clothNote: Provenance: Property of an English collector.
[Godwin, William] The History of England for the Use of Schools and Young Persons. By Edward Baldwin. London: Thomas Hodgkins, 1806. First edition, 12mo, with a4 ["New Books for Children"], engraved frontispiece and 7 plates, contemporary sheep, with ink inscription scored through on front free endpaper and small date stamp to verso of frontispiece, lacks 1 plate, worn, hinges split, lacking free endpapersNote: Note: Rare. No copy of the 1806 edition traced in the BL catalogue.Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.
Wilson, Francesca Rambles in Northern India With Incidents and Descriptions of Many Scenes of the Mutiny, including Agra, Delhi, Lucknow, Cawnpore, Allahabad, etc. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1876. 4to, original green cloth, rebacked and relined with original spine laid down, [8] 86 [2] pp., 12 carbon-print photographs (mounted within lithographic borders as issued), all edges gilt, covers slightly marked, Newcastle University deaccession ink-stamps to half-title, title-page, final page and versos of plates, one plate (Cashmere Gate, Delhi) guard loose, light spotting to a couple of mountsNote: Note: Rare in commerce, eight copies traced in British and Irish libraries. Notable photographs include the tomb of Ranjit Singh (last ruler of the Sikh empire) at Lahore and the Golden Temple at Amritsar.
[Transgenderism] - [Dods, Mary Diana] Tales of the Wild and the Wonderful London: Hurst, Robinson, & Co., 1825. First edition, 8vo, lacks half-title, early ownership inscription of William Charles Forrest at head of title, contemporary half calf, rebacked, corners worn, a few spots and occasional small stainNote: Note: Rare. First fictional work by a highly regarded friend of the Shelleys. Group of five 'tales of diablerie' including The Prediction, The Yellow Dwarf and The Lord of the Maelstrom. For many years considered the work of George Borrow. See Wolff 601 disputing the attribution to Dods: 'One thing is not disputed: the rarity of the book. Alden [in Book Collector 1959] refers to "four copies of the Tales now known." This is, at least a fifth', noted Wolff in 1981 of his own copy.Mary Diana Dodds, Mary Shelley's friend, who changed her sex, adopting the pseudonyms of David Lyndsay and Walter Sholto Douglas.Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.
Athens Sculpture Vauthier and Lacour Monuments de Sculpture antiques et modernes, publiés par Vauthier et Lacour. Édition augmentée de 16 planches et textes supplémentaires, comprenant entre autres les Caryatides du temple de Pandrose et plusieurs fragments de la frise du monument de Lysicarte à Athènes, les frontons du Panthéon français... Paris: Librairie d'Architecture de Bance ainé, 1839. Folio (54 x 33cm), [2], 20; 88 engraved plates, contemporary green half morocco, marbled sides, head and base of spine rubbed, joints slightly rubbed [not in Blackmer; rare]Note: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.
[Cerfberr, Samson] 'Manzour-Effendi, Ibrahim' Mémoires sur la Grèce et l'Albanie pendant le gouvernement d'Ali-Pacha. Paris: J.-N. Barba, 1835. Second edition, 8vo, [iv], lxvi, xxxix, 415; lithographed portrait frontispiece, half-title, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, some spottingNote: Note: Rare. No copy of this edition recorded on ABPC. After the peace of Amiens in 1803 Cerfberr went to Constantinople and took service under Sultan Selim III as a colonel in the New Army, whereupon he adopted the name Ibrahim Mansur Effendi, converted to Islam and married a Turkish woman. In 1809 he returned to France after the revolt of the Janissaries; in 1813 he offered his services to Caimacam of Bosnia and afterwards to Ali Pasha.Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.
[Fuller, John] Narrative of a Tour through some parts of the Turkish Empire Not Published. London: printed by Richard Taylor, 1829. First edition, 8vo, [vi], 560, presentation copy inscribed 'To W. H. Hyett Esq. from the Author', large folding map, hand-coloured in outline, contemporary half calf, rebacked, map neatly strengthened at fold on verso, spotting chiefly to the mapNote: Note: A rare work. The author visited Corfu, the Morea, Athens, Smyrna, Turkey including Constantinople, the Archipelago, Egypt, Palestine, present day Syria, Cyprus, Rhodes and Zante.Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.
Howe, James The Breeds of our Different Domestic Animals Engraved from Portraits painted from Life. Part First, Horses. [Part Second, Cattle ... Part Third, Specimens of the Scots Farm-Horse, of Sheep and Cattle]. Edinburgh: Ballantyne and Company, 1829-29-31. First edition, 3 parts (all published), oblong folio (57 x 45.5cm), original wrappers, part 1 with lithographic title-page, 2 pp. introduction, 4 engraved plates each with leaf of descriptive text, part 2 with letterpress title-page, 2 pp. introduction, 4 engraved plates each with leaf of descriptive text, part 3 with letterpress title-page, 4 pp. introduction, 4 (of 5) engraved plates, each with leaf of descriptive text, housed in 20th-century portfolio, variable spotting throughout (chiefly to wrappers and margins), offsetting, part 1 outer leaves and plates nicked along edges, part 2 front wrapper torn with loss, damp-stain and concomitant paper loss to lower corners, 'Ayrshire Bull' text-leaf torn with loss, 'Ayrshire Cows' plate with small hole to foot, part 3 final plate ('Young Clydesdale') lacking (text-leaf extant), front wrapper torn, rear wrapper absent, final 2 extant plates stained;Le Couteulx, Gustave. Vacherie nationale du Pin Orne. Animaux de la race courte corne améliorée, dite race de Durham, dessinés d'après nature suivant les ordres de Monsieur le MInistre de l'Agriculture et du Commerce. [Paris: no publisher, 1848]. First edition, oblong 4to (27.2 x 36cm), contemporary half calf, 13 lithographic plates (collation not established), 3 lithographic text-leaves, no title-leaf but original front wrapper (with ink stamps of the Royal Agricultural Society) bound in, spotting, front inner hinge gone, spine reinforced with tape;Baudement, Emile. Les races bovines au concours universel agricole de Paris en 1856. Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1857. First edition, oblong folio, contemporary morocco, rebacked, 5 engraved colour maps, 87 heliogravure plates from photographs by Nadar and others, all mounted as issued, ink-stamps of the Royal Agricultural Society to title-page, occasional spotting;Parsons, Gilbert H. Notable Modern Shorthorns. Alsager, Cheshire: Harold Simms, 1906. First edition, one of 100 copies signed by the author, oblong 4to, original red cloth, rebacked, 37 photogravure plates, spotting, a few tissue-guards torn away;and 2 others (Lefebvre-Ste-Mairie, De la race bovine courte corne améliorée dite race de Durham, 1849, and a copy of John Watson Ravenshear's unpublished English translation of the same, word-processed, cloth-bound, with dust jacket)Note: Note: Howe's work, produced for the Highland Society of Scotland, is rare, with Library Hub tracing two copies only in UK institutions, the British Library and the V&A, and no other copy appearing at auction since 1970. WorldCat traces six copies of Le Couteulx's work, none in the UK.Provenance: The Library of the late John Watson Ravenshear, with his bookplates.
Navarino Rare German pamphlet Darstellung ber Seeschlacht von Navarin under der unmittelbar vorhergegangenen Begebenheiten. Karlsruhe: C. F. Mueller, 1828. Second edition, 8vo, [43pp.], engraved plan frontispiece and 3 folding lithographed plates, red library stamp on verso of title of ?Queen Frederika, ?contemporary boards made from a map of SE EuropeNote: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.
Plumley, [Matilda], Miss Days and Nights in the East From the original notes of a recent traveller through Egypt, Arabia-Petra, Syria, Turkey and Greece. London: T. C. Newby, 1845. First edition, 8vo, [xi], 287; half-title, original dark green embossed clothNote: Note: Rare. No copy in the Atabey Collection; no copy recorded on American Book Prices Current.Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.
Poullet, Sieur Nouvelles relations du Levant qui contiennent diverses remarques fort curieuses non encore observées touchant la Religion, Les Moeurs & la Politique de plusieurs Peuples. Avec une exacte description de l'Asie Mineure ou Natolie, des deux Armenies, du Courdistan, du Diarbek & autres Provinces Mediterranées de l'Asie, du Royaume de Perse. Paris: Louis Billaine, 1688. 2 volumes, 12mo, [xxxvii], 454; [xxxii], 624, [xxiv]; folding map, folding plan (of Constantinople) and 11 engraved plates (the plates in volume 2 trimmed to neatline before the work was bound, with no loss to images), contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt, bookplate of the Most Hon. John Marques of Tweeddale, half-title in volume 1, two single wormholes in lower margin of volume 2 affecting a few signatures, head and base of spines a little rubbedNote: Note: Very rare. The work is not recorded in Atabey, Blackmer or Contominas and does not appear on ABPC as having been sold at auction in the last 35 years (except for 1 copy of the first 1667 edition at Sotheby's, 2010, lacking the 2 maps, for £1700 hammer). It describes a journey east by way of Ragusa, Bosna (presumably Sarajevo), Belgrade, Sofia, Mount Athos, Lemnos, Adrianople (Edirne) and finally Constantinople, commenting on the manners, customs and characteristics of particularly the Turks, but also the Greeks and Armenians. There are additional chapters on Turkish religion, government and warfare, ending with a history of Dutch and English commerce in the Levant.A second volume appeared in the following year describing his journey further eastwards. Pinkerton, in his General Collection of... Voyages and Travels (1814), describes it as a "scarce work [which] contains a very good account for the time it was published".The first edition, in one volume, was published in 1667.Provenance:From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.
[Glasse, Hannah] The Art of Cookery, made Plain and Easy ... By a Lady London: printed for the author, 1747. Second edition, 8vo (18.4 x 11.5cm), 19th-century dark red half calf, [2] iv [28] 330 pp., binding rubbed, light even browning, title-page more heavily browned, slightly soiled and with small hole costing a few letters, newspaper cutting mounted on rear blank offset onto final page [ESTC T69536; Maclean p. 59]Note: Note: A rare complete copy of the second edition, the same year as the first, which was in folio format. ESTC traces eight copies in libraries world-wide, and the list of subscribers records some 280 names, most of them women.
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