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Lot 91
Six items of Mauchlineware with printed scenes, comprising: a card box, 'Herne Hill' and 'Herne Church'; a birthday text-book, 'KIng Street, South Shields'; an egg shaped spool box, 'Steamboat Landing, Block Island, RI' (Rhode Island); a thimble case with silver plated thimble, 'Ramsey from New Pier'; a brooch 'Taymouth Castle; a double stamp box ' St Andrew's Rock, The Spindle'Condition report: Generally in good condition, some surface marks and scratches, brooch slightly faded
Lot 691
Various stamps, collectable stamp sets, etc., A Royal Wedding Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer stamp album, various First Day cover stamps, etc., and a further album of GB stamps Victorian and later, to include a penny black, various penny reds, two 2d blues, purple backs, various other GB stamps, late 19thC and early 20thC and later, various other collectors stamps, etc. (a quantity)
![[Bulliard, Pierre]. Aviceptologie françoise, ou traité général de toutes les ruses dont on peut se servir pour prendre les oi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/097ee6b6-2081-432a-b7f6-ac6000a6c3d8/d74eceb3-6498-4c11-b516-ac60011756f5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 107
[Bulliard, Pierre]. Aviceptologie françoise, ou traité général de toutes les ruses dont on peut se servir pour prendre les oiseaux qui se trouvent en France, 1st edition, Paris: Didot, le jeune, 1778, half-title, engraved frontispiece, 34 engraved plates, ink-stamp ('C. Bourdeau fils') to foot of half-title, dated on title-page corrected in manuscript, bookplates (Schwerdt and William Truscott), edges dyed red, contemporary French cat's-paw calf, gilt spine, 12mo (16.5 x 9.2 cm), together with: [Turgot, Etienne François]. Mémoire instructif sur la manière de rassembler, de préparer, de conserver, et d'envoyer les diverses curiosités d'histoire naturelle, 1st edition, Lyon: Jean Marie Bruyset, 1758, half-title, 25 engraved folding plates, half-title spotted, light browning, edges dyed red, contemporary French cat's-paw calf, gilt spine, 8vo (19.6 x 11.4 cm), Lovell (Robert). Pambotanologia [graece], sive Enchiridion botanicum, or a Compleat Herball, 2nd edition ('with many additions'), Oxford: by W. H. for Ric. Davis, 1665, with longitudinal half-title not mentioned in ESTC, closed tear into text of N10, early sheep, rebacked, spine partially cracked, defective at head, 12mo (15.2 x 8.5 cm), and 1 other (Culpeper, School of Physick, 1659, lacking frontispiece, text not collated)Qty: (4)NOTESProvenance (Bulliard): Carl Franz George Richard Schwerdt (1862-1939), author of Hunting, Hawking Shooting, Illustrated in a Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, with his bookplate. ESTC R24436 (Lovell); Harting 179 (Bulliard: 'contains some useful suggestions for capturing hawks'); Freeman 2321 (Lovell); Schwerdt I p. 89 (Bulliard: 'A good book on the subject with appparently original plates'); Wing L3244 (Lovell).
Lot 253
Spanish Poetry. A collection of 57 Spanish poetry, theology and other texts, bound in 3 volumes, 1634-1806, including Silva Compuesta por Don Phelipe de Albornoz Cauallero del Abito de Santiago. En alabanca del Real Monasterio de la Oliua, Zaragoca: Por Lucas Sanchez, 1634, 27 pp; Poetica Version al Psalmo L. Con notas Latinas, y Castellanas, Madrid, 1656, 6 pp., A La Muerte de la Augusta Reyna N. Senora dona Isabel de Borbon, Madrid, 1645, 18 pp., Dialogo Metrico. Parma Gozosa, que ofrece a los reales pies de la Reyna Ntra. Senora por mano del Excmo. Senor Marques Scoti, su autor Don Juan de Madrid, Madrid, 1745, 35 pp., El Combate Naval del 21 de Octubre por Don Jose de Fuentes, Madrid, 1805, 23 pp., a few woodcut and engraved illustrations, one or two texts incomplete, a few leaves torn with some loss of text, occasional spotting, soiling and insect damage, each volume with manuscript list at front, small ownership stamp of W.B. Chorley, 19th century bookseller ticket, 19th century calf calf, spines titled 'Poesias Varias', spines rubbed with some fading, thick 8voQty: (3)
Lot 249
[Robinson, John]. An Account of Sueden: Together with an Extract of the History of that Kingdom, London: Tim. Goodwin, 1694, half-title present, occasional light toning, contemporary speckled calf, joints cracked, 8vo, together with: Egmont (John Perceval, Earl of), Faction Detected, by the Evidence of Facts. Containing an Impartial view of Parties at Home, and Affairs Abroad, 2nd edition, London: J. Roberts, 1743, half-title present, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, 8vo, Sheppard (William), The Touch-Stone of Common Assurances: or, a plain and familiar Treatise, opening the Learning of the Common Assurances, or Conveyances of the Kingdom, 6th edition, revised and corrected, with notes and additional references, by Edward Hilliard, London: printed by A. Strahan & W. Woodfall, for E. & R. Brooke, W. Clark & R. Pheney, 1791, half-title present, ink stamp to front free endpaper, text block edges painted with words 'Chester Circuit Library', contemporary sheep, contrasting morocco labels to spine, lightly scuffed, 8vo Graydon (William), Reflections on the State of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, 2nd edition, London: James Ridgway, 1825, blind stamp to title of Lansdowne House, contemporary cloth, old paper labels to upper board, joints split, spine ends frayed, 8vo, and other 18th and 19th century pamphlets etc., many relating to political current affairs of the timeQty: (30)
Lot 10
McCormick (Robert). Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1884, pp. xx, 432; xii, 412, [16], with 66 plates and maps (including 3 portraits, 5 linen-backed folding panoramas, 5 maps of which 1 folding and not listed ['Track Chart of the East Coast of the Wellington Channel'], and 29 other plates, these all tinted lithographs; and 24 wood-engraved plates), half-title and 16 pp. publisher's advertisements to volume 2, ex-Shoreditch Public Libraries with ink-stamps (cancelled), 20th-century quarter morocco library binding, 8vo (24.5 x 15.5 cm), together with: Amedeo (Luigi). On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1903, 16 engraved plates, 5 lithographic maps (of which 2 linen-backed and folding, in end-pocket), 2 folding panoramas (one repaired), publisher's blind stamp ('With the publisher's compliments') to volume 1 half-title, ex-St Pancras Public Libraries with perforation stamps to title-pages and other markings, 20th-century quarter morocco library binding, 4to (23.8 x 18.8 cm), Kane (Elisha Kent). Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856, engraved vignette-titles, frontispieces, 2 maps (1 folding), folding isothermal chart, 18 engraved plates, spotting, original cloth, wear to headcaps, adhesive labels to spines, 8vo, and 17 others, polar exploration (Heroic Age), not collated, mainly ex-library, including John Brown, The North-West Passage, 2nd edition, 1860; Alexander Armstrong, A Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-West Passage, 1857; Frederick G. Jackson, A Thousand Days in the Arctic, 2 volumes, 1899; R. E. Peary, Nearest the Pole, London, 1907; Roald Amundsen, "The North West Passage", 2 volumes London, 1908; and similarQty: (25)NOTESArctic Bibliography 10582 (McCormick), 8373 (Kane).
Lot 103
Adamson (Charles Murray). Some More Scraps about Birds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: J. Bell & Co., 1880-81, vignette title, 4 autotype engravings, numerous lithograph illustrations from sketches by the author, some spotting, mainly at front and rear and to fore-edges, hinges cracked after endpapers, contemporary green half calf, rubbed, spine darkened, corners showing, 8vo, (limited edition, one of 120 copies), together with: Some More Illustrations of Wild Birds, London: Gurney & Jackson, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mawson, Swan, & Morgan, 1887, vignette title, 24 photo-lithograph illustrations from pen and ink sketches by the author, small wormtrail to gutter of front endpapers, with single wormhole to gutter throughout, contemporary cream half sheep, somewhat soiled and rubbed, with some scuffing to edges, printed paper label to front cover, oblong 8vo, (limited edition, one of 200 copies), plus: Berners (Dame Juliana), A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle: being a facsimile reproduction of the first book on the subject of fishing printed in England by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster in 1496, with an introduction by Rev. M. G. Watkins, London: Elliot Stock, 1880, half-title, woodcut illustration of fisherman as headpiece, woodcut illustrations of fishing hooks and other implements in text, title lightly spotted, some spotting and toning to endpapers, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, soiled, darkened spine with small loss to front joint centrally, slim 4to, with: Phillips (Henry), The True Enjoyment of Angling, subscriber's copy, London: William Stevens, 1843, engraved portrait frontispiece (spotted), title with ink monogramme stamp, subscribers list, pictorial bookplate 'Arvid Eriksson', front hinge cracked, contemporary cloth, rebacked, gilt-lettering to front cover, a little fading and marks, somewear to extremities, 8vo, (limited edition, one of 100 copies), and 14 others travel and natural history, including: Journal of Travels, Twenty Thousand Miles, by sea and land, over Europe, Asia and Africa, by G. E. Winants, 1872; Journal of Travels Around the World, by the same author, 1877; Another Book of Scraps, by Charles Murray Adamson, 1882Qty: (18)
Lot 35
Bailey (George). Six Etchings of Ye Antient Commandery by George Bailey (of Derby), Worcester, Littlebury & Company, The Worcester Press, At Ye Antient Commandery, circa 1890, 6 etched plates on pale cream wove paper, loose as issued in original wrappers, printed in red and black to upper wrapper, spotted and some wear and minor loss to edges, detached along spine, slim folio, together with a collection of 59 19th century mostly steel engraved and wood-engraved views of Eton College, its buildings, and surrounding countryside, carefully mounted on 22 large card sheets, each with oval ink stamp to lower corner 'Manley Sims Eton Collection', overall sheet size 555 x 410 mm (22 x 16 ins), plus John Bartholomew, The Imperial Map of England & Wales, according to the Ordnance Survey, with the latest additions; shewing clearly every feature of the country, railways and their stations, roads, canals, rivers, gentlemen's seats &c., on the scale of 4-miles to an inch, circa 1860-70, contemporary, half morocco, worn with spine deficient and upper cover detached, atlas folioQty: (24)
Lot 67
Gladstone (Hugh S.). The Birds of Dumfriesshire, 1st edition, London: Witherby & Co., 1910, half-title, 24 halftone plates, folding map, top edge gilt, modern red half morocco, 8vo (21.2 x 14 cm), number 1 of 350 copies only, together with: Gray (Robert). [Sammelband of 20 ornithological papers and obituaries], c.1880, mainly offprints, possibly compiled by the author, and including The Great Auk (Alca Impennis), Edinburgh: printed by Neill & Co., 1880 (17 pp., 2 photolithographic plates), The Birds of Arran: Glasgow: Bell and Bain, 1872 (27 pp.), manuscript title-page (dated 1883) and contents leaf, top edge gilt, contemporary red half morocco, 8vo (21.6 x 13.5 cm), ibid. The Birds of the West of Scotland including the Outer Hebrides, 1st edition, Glasgow: Thomas Murray & Son, 1871, half-title, 15 tinted lithographic plates including frontispiece, Bodleian Library stamp (cancelled) to title-page and p. 7, contemporary half calf, 8vo (21.4 x 13.2 cm) Macgillivray (William). The Natural History of Dee Side and Braemar. Edited by Edwin Lankester, 1st edition, London: printed for private circulation, 1855, wood-engraved frontispiece and 5 plate, 2 folding maps, without dedication leaf, all edges gilt, contemporary red full morocco, 8vo (21.4 x 12.8 cm), Edmonston (Arthur). Observations on the Nature and Extent of the Cod Fishery, carried on off the Coasts of the Zetland and Orkney Islands, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for William Laing, 1820, pp. 38 [2], title-page browned, modern quarter leather, 8vo (21 x 21.5 cm) and 13 others, Scottish natural history, 19th and early-20th century, leather-bound, 8voQty: (18)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Mullens & Swann pp. 233 (Gladstone), 251 (Gray, Birds of the West of Scotland), 371-2 (MacGillivray); Wood pp. 360 (Gladstone), 368 (Gray, Birds of the West of Scotland), 446 (MacGillivray). MacGillivray's work was completed shortly before his death, after which the manuscript was purchased by Queen Victoria and 'printed at her command' (Wood).
Lot 60
Carr (Sir John). Caledonian Sketches, or a Tour through Scotland in 1807, 1st edition, London: for Mathews and Leigh, 1809, 12 aquatint plates including folding frontispiece, all with later hand-colouring, blind stamp of Maidstone Museum and Public Libraries to title-page, spotting and offsetting to text-leaves adjacent to plates, final page (p. 542, with advertisement) overlaid with translucent paper, contemporary green morocco gilt, rebacked to style, 4to (26.4 x 19.5 cm), together with: Reid (John T.). Art Rambles in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 1st edition, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1878, 40 wood-engraved plates and numerous vignettes by Dalziel Brothers, inscribed 'Mrs Dodd, with kind regards from Dalziel Brothers, Christmas 1877' on initial blank, bookplate of Charles Robert Bignold (1892-1970), gilt edges, near-contemporary dark green crushed morocco gilt by Ramage, 4to (24.2 x 17.2 cm), Graham (Robert C.). The Carved Stones of Islay, 1st edition, Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1895, half-title, etched additional title, map, 32 plates with captioned tissue-guards (nearly all photogravures), top edges gilt, others untrimmed, original quarter cloth, a little pale mottling to sides, 4to, [Mudie, Robert]. A Historical Account of His Majesty's Visit to Scotland, 4th edition, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1822, 4 engraved folding plates backed on linen, one other folding plate, plates variably toned and spotted, first plate unevenly folded, gilt gauffered edges, contemporary maroon morocco gilt, arms of the city of Edinburgh to sides, 8vo (21.4 x 12.5 cm), and 7 similar, Scottish history and related, 19th and early-20th century, all finely bound, including Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and Kenneth Cloud, Songs of the Hebrides, volumes 1-2, 1909-17 (half-title, 3 halftone plates, collation unknown, contemporary dark blue morocco gilt for Maclehose, 4to)Qty: (12)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Abbey Scenery 488 (Carr).
Lot 444
Scotland. Blaeu (Johannes & Pont Timothy), Lidalia vel Lidisdalia Regio, Lidisdall, Amsterdam, circa 1654, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, large decorative cartouche and mileage scale, slight creasing, small blind stamp to lower right corner, 415 x 530 mm, Latin text on verso, mounted, together with Praefectura Kircubriensis quae Gallovidiae Maxime Orientalis pars est. The Steuartrie of Kircubright, The most Easterlie part of Galloway, Amsterdam, [1654 - 62], engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, large decorative cartouche, 425 x 545 mm, no text on verso, mounted, with Fife pars Occidentalis, The West part of Fife, Amsterdam, circa 1654, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, two repaired marginal closed tears, just affecting printed image, 420 x 540 mm, Dutch text on verso, plus Mercia vulgo vice comitatus Bervicensis, The Merce or Shirrefdome of Berwick, Amsterdam, Circa 1654, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, one very small hole repaired on verso, 385 x 505 mm, Latin text on versoQty: (4)
Lot 498
* Maguire (Helena J.). Five studies of hanging dead game: Widgeon & Partridges, Capercartzie & Pigeons, Hare and French Partridges, Wild duck [and] Black cock & Ptarmigan, Raphael Tuck & Sons, circa 1880, together five chromolithographs, each with an old dealers stamp to verso, occasional marginal closed tears, each 620 x 310 mmQty: (5)
Lot 225
Horne (Henry). Essays concerning Iron and Steel: The First, containing Observations on American Stand-Iron: The Second, Observations, founded on Experiments, on Common Iron-Ore, with the Method of reducing it first into Pig or Sow-Metal, and then into Bar-Iron; on the sort of iron proper to be converted into good steel ..., 1st edition, London: T.C. Cadell, 1773, [2],223pp., lacking A2, title with short closed tear to inner margin and leaf reattached, staining to inner blank margin of B1, short closed tear also to inner margin of gathering B, contemporary marbled sheep, blind decoration to spine, joints cracked, light wear to extremities, 12mo, together with: Cobbett (William), Cottage Economy: containing information relative to the brewing of Beer, making of Bread, keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry and Rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family, Stereotype edition, London: C. Clement, 1822, contemporary signature 'Wm. Postlethwaite' at head of title, edges untrimmed, original boards, rebacked, 12mo, Rennie (Robert), Essays on the Natural History and Origin of Peat Moss, Edinburgh: printed by George Ramsay & Co. for the author, 1810, edges untrimmed, ink stamp to both pastedowns, original boards, joints split, 8vo, Candolle (Augustin Pyramus de & Sprengel, K.), Elements of the Philosophy of Plants: containing the Principles of Scientific Botany ... translated from the German, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T. Cadell, 1821, eight engraved plates, some dampstaining and spotting, edges untrimmed, original cloth, rebacked, 8vo, plus three others including The Book of Household Management, by Isabella Beeton, New edition, London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1869(?), lacking frontispiece, contemporary half morocco, extremities worn, 8voQty: (7)NOTES(Horne) - Sabin 33031; Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 10981; Higgs, Bibliography of Economics 1751-1775, 5669. An important work on the development of metallurgy in England, and the origins of the refining of iron into steel, or crucible steel, with an account of the author's experiments with iron ore from America, generally known as Virginia black sand.
Lot 80
Low (George). A Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Shetland. Containing Hints relative to their Ancient, Modern and Natural History collected in 1774, 1st edition, Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1879, half-title, 2 plates including frontispiece, folding map (with closed tear at intersection of folds), contemporary purple half calf gilt, 8vo (21.7 x 13.6 cm), together with: Dennison (Walter Traill). The Orcadian Sketch-Book, being Traits of Old Orkney Life written partly in the Orkney Dialect, 1st edition, Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1880, gilt edges, contemporary blue morocco gilt, 8vo (18.4 x 11.9 cm), Malcolm (John). Poems, Tales and Sketches, 1st edition, Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, [1878?], half-title, top edge gilt, contemporary half calf gilt, 8vo (18.2 x 11.8 cm), Webster (David). The History of the Kirkwall United Presbyterian Congregation, 1st edition, Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1910, half-title, 21 halftone plates, browning to text-leaves adjacent to plates, contemporary green half calf, uneven fading to covers, 8vo (21.6 x 13.3 cm), Vedder (David). Orcadian Sketches; Legendary and Lyrical Pieces, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Tait, 1832, half-title (with ink-stamp), untrimmed, original cloth, rebacked and relined, 8vo (18.5 x 11 cm), and 3 others, including James Athearn Jones, Conirdan: or, the St. Kildians. A Moral Tale, 1st edition, 1817 (half-title discarded, spotting and soiling, I6-7 torn with loss), a sammelband of papers and extracts on Orkney and Shetland (bookplate of W. Balfour Stewart, manuscript index, 20th-century half morocco gilt, spine-title 'Orkney and Shetland Antiquities', 4to), and Walter Scott, The Pirate, 3 volumes, 1822 (lacking at least volume 1 title-page)Qty: (10)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Freeman 2324 (Low); Mullens & Swann p. 362 (Low).
![[Morgan, Thomas, attrib.]. Leycesters Common-Wealth: Conceived, spoken and published with most earnest protestation of all du](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/097ee6b6-2081-432a-b7f6-ac6000a6c3d8/3f3e9513-4c44-4d63-8616-ac6001179da8/468x382.jpg)
Lot 293
[Morgan, Thomas, attrib.]. Leycesters Common-Wealth: Conceived, spoken and published with most earnest protestation of all dutifull good will and affection towards this Realm ..., 1641, bound with Leycesters Ghost, 1641, blank facing title with tipped-in engraved portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester by W. Marshall, a few minor spots, preliminary blank with ink manuscript notes and extract from a sale catalogue with 'Maggs 1958' added in pencil, armorial bookplate 'Kennet of the Dene' with ink manuscript 'Wayland emit MCMXLIV' to top margin, 19th century calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, decorative gilt roll to turn-ins, somewhat rubbed, front joint cracked, small 4to, together with: Jefferies (Richard), Bevis, the Story of a Boy, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882, half-title to volume 1 (as issued), some toning, scarce light spotting, each volume with armorial bookplate 'Kennet of the Dene', front free endpapers repaired with chips, that to volume 1 with embossed W.H. Smith library stamp, volume 1 rear free endpaper detached, hinges cracked, original green pictorial cloth, extremities a trifle worn, spines darkened, some marks and stains, 8vo, plus: Trollope (Anthony), He Knew He Was Right, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Strahan and Company, 1869, black & white plates and illustrations by Marcus Stone, half-titles, some minor spotting (mainly at front and rear), stitching strained, hinges cracked, original blind-stamped green cloth, worn, 8vo, with: Carroll (Lewis), Sylvie and Bruno [and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded], 2 volumes, 1st editions, London: Macmillan and Co., 1889 [1893], black & white frontispieces and illustrations, all edges gilt, original red cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed with some minor marks, darkened spines with some fraying to ends (Concluded chipped at head), 8voQty: (8)NOTESFirst item: ESTC R200977. Second item: Sadleir 1305. Third item: Wolff 6780. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded: first edition first issue, with error in table of contents (chapter 8 incorrectly listed at page 110).
Lot 214
Elton (Richard). The Compleat Body of the Art Military ... Divided into Three Books. The First, containing the Postures of the Pike and Musket ... The Second, comprehending twelve Exercises ... The Third, setting forth the drawing up and exercising of Regiments after the manner of Private Companies ... Illustrated with Varitiet of Fugres of Battail, very Profitable and Delightfull for all Noble and Heroick Spirits, in a fuller manner then hath been heretofore published, London: Robert Leybourn, 1650, signatures pi2 §4 +6 A-2B4 2D2, pp. [24] 192 [4], initial licence leaf (pi1), engraved portrait frontispiece by John Droeshout, 5 plates (including double-page woodcut diagram, double-page typographic plate, and 3 folding typographic plates with woodcut embellishments, of which one made up of 3 sheets and opening to 70 cm), woodcut headpieces and initials, typographic and woodcut diagrams throughout the text, moderate browning, damp-stain to foot of licence leaf and frontispiece and to lower outer corner of title-page and subsequent text-leaf, title-page also with small red pencil-mark, E2-3 more heavily browned, faint shallow tide-mark to head of gutter in second half of volume, side-note on p. 141 shaved, U4 trimmed closely to diagram recto (p. 151), Y1 with section reattached (text disrupted but remaining legible), old ink-stain to p. 165, a few other marks, top edge gilt, early-20th-century red-brown half calf for Hatchards, slightly rubbed and marked, front joint cracking at head and foot, folio in 4s (27.2 x 17 cm), together with 1 similar work (Sir James Turner, Pallas Armata: Military Essayes of the Ancient Grecian, Roman, and Modern Art of War, 1st edition, 1683, damp-staining, without advertisement leaf, last 2 leaves and binding defective)Qty: (2)NOTESProvenance (Elton): Cavalry Club (bookplate; ink-stamp to front free endpaper). Elton: ESTC R24314; Wing E653. First edition, rare: ESTC traces four copies in UK libraries, and eight copies in the USA. The initial licence leaf is also catalogued separately by ESTC under the number R227338 (one copy traced). Elton's work superseded William Barriffe's Militarie Discipline (1635) as the most popular military training manual in English, and it was an important reference work for English colonists in North America (see Hope, A Scientific Way of War: Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought, chapter 1).
Lot 517
* Payne (Charles Johnson, 'Snaffles'). 'West of Gib and North across the Bay' (R. K.), "Blimey! What a life!" circa 1940, colour photolithograph, uncoloured remarque of a destroyer in heavy seas, crossed snaffle bit blind stamp, signed in pencil by the artist to lower left, overall size490 nx 685 mm, framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESA bright clean example.
Lot 375
Austen & Co. (publishers). A Safety Guide for those contemplating a trip on the Sea of Matrimony, Chicago, 1906, a used postcard (with a 1908 post stamp) containing a photolithographic folding allegorical map, presented in folding boards with a tongue and slit fastening, slight soiling to upper boards, 215 x 275 mm, together with Matrimonial postcards. Four used postcards of maps relating to marriage, early 20th century, including Knight Bros. (publishers). Chart of Betrothal Bay shewing the Male Route to Churchdoor, tinted lithographic postcard in the form of an allegorical map of the route to marriage, 90 x 140 mm, together with Nister (Edward). Love's Empire, chromolithographic American postcard in the form of an allegorical island of love in the shape of a heart, 90 x 140 mm, with another copy, plus Heine (Heinrich). Geographische Liebes Rathsel, photolithographic German postcard in the form of an allegorical map of the journey to marriage, 90 x 140 mmQty: (5)
Lot 514
* Payne (Charles Johnson Payne, Snaffles). 1915 - 16. That far, far-away echo, circa 1917, colour photolithograph tipped on to contemporary paper (as published) with an uncoloured remarque of a horse with its head over a stable door, crossed snaffle bit blind stamp and signed by the artist in pencil to lower right, slight cockling, overall size 370 x 500 mm, framed and glazedQty: (1)
Lot 46
Marshall (William). The Rural Economy of the West of England: including Devonshire; and parts of Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Cornwall. Together with Minutes in Practice, 2 volumes, London: G. Nicol, G.G. and J. Robinson, and J. Debrett, 1796, folding engraved map frontispiece to volume 1 with offsetting and spotting to title. contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines, light cracking to joints, 8vo, together with: Nott (John), Of the Hotwell Waters, near Bristol, 3rd edition, Bristol: printed by Emery and Adams, [1793], ink stamp to title and first leaf of text, final leaf torn to upper and lower blank corners and repaired, light dust-soiling and occasional spotting, ink stamp to front free blank, early 19th century calf, title in gilt to spine and upper board, slight wear to extremities, slim 8vo, [Incledon, Henry], Donations of Peter Blundell, [Founder] and other Benefactors to the Free Grammar School at Tiverton, Exeter: E. Grigg, [1792], two engraved plates, one folding pedigree, numerous annotations, tipped in letter to front pastedown from Benjamin Incledon dated 25 Oct 1793 and inscriptions to front free endpaper including that of Benjamin Incledon to John Rolle 1793, contemporary panelled calf with blind rollwork decoration, rebacked, recent red morocco title label to spine, 8vo, Roper (Ida M.), The Monumental Effigies of Gloucestershire and Bristol, Privately printed for the Author, Gloucester: Henry Osborne, 1931, monochrome frontispiece and plates, top edge gilt, contemporary dark blue half morocco, thick 8vo (limited edition 9/100, signed by the author)Qty: (5)
Lot 298
Wylly (Colonel H.C.). XVth (The King's) Hussars, 1759 to 1913, 1st edition, London: Caxton Publishing Company, 1914, 31 colour and black & white plates, 3 maps (one folding with short split to fold), some spotting to text, top edge gilt, original black morocco gilt, a trifle rubbed with some wear to extremities, joints strengthened, spine somewhat faded and marked, large 8vo, (limited edition, one of 250 copies), together with: Barrett (C. R. B., editor), The 85th King's Light Infantry ..., by "One of Them", 1st edition, London: Spottiswoode & Co., 1913, colour frontispiece and 41 colour and black & white plates, numerous monochrome letterpress illustrations and maps, some spotting (mainly to edges and at rear), original black half morocco gilt, rubbed with a little wear to extremities, spine somewhat faded, 4to, plus: Wheater (W., compiler), Historial Record of the Seventh or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, Leeds: Printed for Private Circulation, 1875, title with ink manuscript presentation inscription (to 'Kildare Street CLub') at head, 2 leaves at front with blind embossed stamp 'Kildare Street Club' to upper corner, first few leaves spotted, original embossed blue cloth gilt, rubbed and worn with some stains, folio, and a defective copy of The Historical Records of the Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers... by Walter Temple Willcox, 1908Qty: (4)
Lot 469
* Blanchard (Auguste). The Derby Day, E. Gambart & Co. March 2nd 1863, uncoloured engraving on India wove after William Powell Frith, proof before title but after letters, blind stamp of the Printsellers Association to lower right corner below image, large margins, some dust soiling to margins but not affecting image, 610 x 1190 mm, framed and glazedQty: (1)
Lot 6
Elphinstone (Mountstuart). Report on the Territories, conquered from the Paishwa. Submitted to the Supreme Government of British India, 1st edition, Calcutta: printed at the Government Gazette Press, by A. G. Balfour, 1821, variable spotting and toning (generally light), contemporary ink-stamp and inscriptions of the Ahmednuggur Court of Adawlat to title-page, related inscriptions (accesion number) to margins of pp. 101, 112 and lxx, stain to centre of first few leaves including title-page, recent quarter morocco, 4to (25.8 x 19.2 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESSix institutional copies traced, all in the United Kingdom.
Lot 339
Railways. Her Majesty passing a Triumphal Arch on Her trip to Scotland on the Great Northern Railway, circa 1850, lithograph with original hand colouring, image 192 x 265 mm, sheet 212 x 277 mm, together with a tinted lithograph of 'The Royal Train, near Windsor, c.1845' (so captioned to window mount), original hand colouring, circular image 155 mm diameter, mounted, framed & glazed, Parker Gallery label to back board, together with: Reid (Andrew, publisher), Reid's Monthly Time Table and Advertiser, of the York, Newcastle, & Berwick Railway, nos. 1 & 2, April & May, 1849, Newcastle upon Tyne: Andrew Reid, [1849], original printed wrappers, stitched as issued, 16mo, Great Western Railway, Experimental Trip of the "Great Western" New Locomotive Passenger Engine, made on the 13th June, 1846. Extracted from the Morning Herald of the 15th June, London: printed by W. Snell, [1846], title wrapper with blind stamp and manuscript calculations, hole to centre of initial two leaves slightly affecting text, some dampstains and marks, stitched as issued, slim 8vo, and other railway related pamphlets and ephemera, including a number of monochrome photographs of railway locomotives, model locomotive, steamships, traction engines etc. 1920s-60s, together with 2 cartons of The Railway Magazine, 1920s-80s,Qty: (3 cartons)
Lot 327
Churchill (Winston S.). Lord Randolph Churchill, 2 volumes, 1st edition, later issue, Macmillan & Co., 1906, some colour and monochrome plates, occasional light spotting, original red cloth gilt, a little frayed to head of spines, spines lightly faded, and with circular gilt stamp of The Times 1785 to foot of spine of each volume, 8vo, together with: The Great War, 3 volumes, George Newnes Limited, circa 1920, top edge gilt, original publisher's half maroon calf, gilt decorated spines, lightly rubbed, large 8vo, plus: Gilbert (Martin). The Churchill War Papers, 3 volumes, 1st editions, Heinemann, 1993-2000, original maroon cloth gilt in dust wrappers, third volume with presentation inscription by the author Martin Gilbert to title, dated London, 8th December 2000, thick 8vo, VG, and Churchill (Randolph S. & Gilbert, Martin). Winston S. Churchill, 5 volumes, 1st edition, Heinemann, 1966-76, & Companion Volumes I-III in 7 volumes, all original maroon cloth gilt in dust wrappers, thick 8vo, and others by and about Winston Churchill, mostly original cloth, many in dust wrappers, mainly 8vo (approximately 175 volumes)Qty: (6 shelves)
Lot 366
McParland (Edward). Public Architecture in Ireland 1680-1760, 1st edition, Yale University Press, 2001, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, together with; Evans (Joan), Monastic Architecture in France, from the Renaissance to the Revolution, 1st edition, Cambridge University Press, 1964, numerous black & white illustrations, minor toning & spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed with minor loss to head, 8vo, and Porphyrios (Demetri), Porphyrios Associates, the Allure of the Classical, 1st edition, Rizzoli, 2016, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, includes a handwritten letter on headed notepaper by the author to 'Kenneth', plus other modern architecture & decor reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves & a carton)NOTESFrom the library of Gavin Stamp, architectural historian and critic.
Lot 369
E. and J. L. Milner. The Churches, Castles, and Ancient Halls of North Lancashire, volume 1, Lancaster, 1880, 29 black & white illustrations, some light spotting throughout, all edges gilt, publishers original gilt decorated blue full calf, boards & spine rubbed, front hinges cracked to head, 8vo, together with; Bogg (Edmund), Two Thousand Miles of Wandering in the Border Country, Lakeland and Ribblesdale, Edmund Bogg, Leeds, 1898, numerous black & white illustrations, blind stamp to front endpaper, some minor marginal toning, later red morocco spine retaining original red cloth boards, lightly rubbed to head & foot, 4to, and Parkinson (Richard), The Old Church Clock, 5th edition, Abel Heywood & Son, Manchester, 1880, 24 black & white illustrations, frontispiece lacking tissue guard, some light toning & marks, later endpapers, rebound in modern gilt decorated half calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed,4to, plus other 19th & 20th century north of England history, topography & reference, including The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, 5 volumes, by Edward Baines, new enlarged edition, John Heywood, 1888, Manchester, some leather binding, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperbacks, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves)
Lot 528
* Sporting etchings. Slocombe (Frederick), Salmon fishing, The Fine Art Society, March 1st, 1889, uncoloured etching on vellum, remarque to the lower right of a creel, gaff and brown trout, signed by the artist in pencil to lower left, slight marginal dust soiling, 415 x 595 mm, together with Whymper (Charles). Duck shooting, The Fine Art Society, Feby. 1st. 1886, uncoloured etching on faux-vellum, remarque to the lower right of a duck feather, signed by the artist in pencil to lower left, some marginal dust soiling and slight staining but not affecting image, 400 x 570 mm, mounted, with Kirk (Alex H.). The Angler, circa 1948, etching on wove, signed in pencil by the artist to the lower left, slight mount staining, 355 x 255 mm, plus Wilkinson (Henry). Trout Fishing, circa 1980, dry-point etching, printed in colours and finished by hand, limited edition 11/75, signed in pencil by the artist to lower left, 230 x 330 mm, and Birket Foster (Miles). Mother and Children in a Country Lane, The Fine Art Society, Feby. 2nd, 1891, uncoloured etching on faux-vellum, Print Sellers Association blind stamp to lower left and signed in pencil by the artist below image to lower left, slight marginal dust soiling, 565 x 400 mm, with another 6 etchings of portraits, sporting and genre subjects, various sizes and conditionQty: (11)
Lot 96
Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge. An Account of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, From its commencement, in 1709. In which is included, the present state of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland with regard to Religion, 1st edition, Edinburgh: A. Murray and J. Cochrane, 1774, engraved title-page, modern marbled quarter calf, 4to (24.9 x 19.4 cm), together with: Barry (George). The History of the Orkney Islands, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for the author by D. Willison, 1805, 11 engraved plates including frontispiece, folding map, retaining final leaf with directions to the binder and publisher's advertisement, plates and map spotted and offset, ink-stamp to title-page, short closed tear to inner fold of map, modern half calf, 4to (26.6 x 19.7 cm), Low (George). Fauna Orcadensis: or, the Natural History of the Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, or Orkney and Shetland. From a Manuscript in the possession of Wm. Elford Leach, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable and Company [and others], 1813, half-title, moderate browning, edges untrimmed, modern quarter calf, 4to (26.5 x 20.4 cm), and 3 others, including 2 other copies of Low, Fauna Orcadensis, both 1st editions, 1813 (one in c.1900 green half morocco by J. Leighton, with bookplate of J. Griffith Dearden of Walcot Hall, Stamford; the other in c.1900 blue half morocco, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, damp-stained)Qty: (6)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS ESTC T82929 (SSPCK); Freeman 206 (Barry), 2323 (Low); Mullens & Swann pp. 43-4 (Barry), 361-2 (Low). Chapter two of the first item (pp. 13-19) discusses the Society's activities in North America.
Lot 198
American Stamp Act. Correct Copies of the Two Protests against the Bill to Repeal the American Stamp Act, of Last Session. With lists of the Speakers and Voters, Paris [i.e. London]: chez J. W. imprimeur, Rue de Colombier Fauxbourg St. Germain, à L'hotel de Saxe, 1766, 24 pp., title with manuscript 'No. 5' to upper outer blank corner and '6' to lower left blank corner, disbound 8vo (Adams 66-27; Sabin 16839), together with: Ibid., A List of the Minority in the House of Commons, who Voted against the Bill to Repeal the American Stamp Act, Paris [i.e. London]: chez J. W. imprimeur, Rue de Colombier Fauxbourg St. Germain, à L'hotel de Saxe, 1766, 8 pp., title with manuscript 'No. 6' to upper outer blank corner, disbound 8vo (Adams 66-26; Sabin 41453), [Knox, William], The Present State of the Nation: Particularly with respect to its Trade, Finances, &c. &c. Addressed to the King and both Houses of Parliament, 1st edition, London: J. Almon, 1768, [3-5],6-100 pp., without half-title(?), manuscript 'No. 10' to upper outer blank corner and '10' to lower left blank corner of title, disbound 8vo, Wilkes (John), A Letter to His Grace the Duke of Grafton, First Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury, 2nd edition, London: J. Almon, 1767, 35, [3] pp., manuscript 'No. 9' & erased initials to upper outer blank corner and '9' to lower left blank corner of title, disbound 8vo, Draper (William), Colonel Draper's Answer, to the Spanish Arguments, claiming the Galeon, and refusing Payment of the Ransom Bills, for preserving Manila from Pillage and Destruction: in a Letter addressed to the Earl of Halifax, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Southern Department, London: J. Dodsley, 1764, [3-5],6-43 pp., without half-title(?), manuscript 'No. 11' to upper outer blank corner of title, gutter margin of final leaf torn, disbound 8vo,Qty: (5)
Lot 85
Martin (Martin). A Late Voyage to St. Kilda, the Remotest of all the Hebrides, or Western Isles of Scotland, 1st edition, London: for D. Brown, and T. Goodwin, 1698, half-title, engraved folding map, engraved folding plate (depicting a fulmar and an 'assilag', or storm petrel), advertisement leaf, browning, variable damp-staining in gutter, more extensive in last two quires (K-L), contemporary ownership inscription contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, 8vo (17.9 x 11 cm), together with: ibid. A Voyage to St. Kilda, 3rd edition ('corrected'), London: for R. Griffith, 1749, bound with: Mallet (David). Amyntor and Theodora: or, the Hermit. A New Edition. Corrected by the author, London: for Paul Vaillant, 1748, 2 works in 1 volume, toning, occasional spotting, Martin title-page with small hole from removal of ownership inscription, 19th-century half calf, partial fading to front cover, 8vo (19.2 x 11 cm), Mackenzie (J. B., editor). Episode in the Life of the Rev. Neil Mackenzie at St. Kilda from 1829 to 1843. Edited by his son, minister at Kenmore, 1st edition, [Aberfeldy]: privately printed, 1911, 57 pp., original wrappers bound in, inscribed on front wrapper 'To Miss Marcus with Mr Mackenzie's compliments & best wishes, 1911', blind stamp of Malcolm Stewart, laird of Hoy to title-page, modern quarter calf, 8vo (24 x 14.8 cm), and 6 others, all St Kilda-related, including another 1st edition of Martin, A Late Voyage to St. Kilda (lacking half-title, but retaining map, plate and advertisement leaf, spotting and browning; contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, recornered and relined)Qty: (9)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS ESTC R12939 (Martin, first edition), T152363 (Martin, third edition); Foxon M49 (Mallet); Wing M847 (Martin, first edition).
Lot 464
* Aldin (Cecil, 1870 - 1935). Nine prints from the 'Old Coaching Inns' series, The Angel at Henley-on-Thames (2), The Talbot at Ripley, The Pickwickians nearing Rochester (2), The White Hart at Hook (3) & The Bull at Dartford, circa 1910, 9 colour photolithographs, each signed and numbered in pencil by the artist to lower left, some duplicates, each approximately 215 x 325 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Good Morning Mrs Flanagan [and] Good Morning Squire Brown, Lawrence & Jellicoe, circa 1910, pair of chromolithographs, slight spotting, each 275 x 400 mm, uniformly framed and glazed in contemporary stained wooden frames, with [News of the Victory - The Anchor Inn, Liphook], Eyre & Spottiswoode, circa 1910, photolithograph, finished in watercolour, proof before title, FATG blind stamp and signed in pencil by the artist to lower left, very slight spotting, 335 x 455 mm, framed and glazedQty: (12)
Lot 115
New Naturalists. An extensive run, mainly 1st editions, London: Collins, 1945-2012, comprising Bernhard & Loe's numbers 3B, 6BA, 6BB, 28A, 39A, 42B, 54A, 60A, 61A, 63-65A, 66B, 67A, 68A, 82A, 82B, 84A, 86-91A, 93-96A, 97A[?], 98A, 99-112A[?], 114-119A[?], i.e. numbers 3, 42 and 66 reprints, 97 and 99-119 unopened in original shrinkwrap (printings consequently unknown), all volumes in original green cloth with dust jackets, a little fraying to spines of 28-42, 58-67 jackets all with Duraseal covering as issued (except 66, reprint: none issued), Duraseal removed from 68, 6BB (Highlands and Islands, second edition) with book-label and blind-stamp of Malcolm Stewart, laird of Hoy (and pale mottling to cloth), 28 with bookplate (Peter Tate), 39 with collector's ink-stamp (Bruce Campbell), 6BA with dust jacket supplied from second edition and with publisher's overprice sticket (6BB-AP1), 28, 42 and 63 dust jackets price-clipped, 86 and 87 each with small sticker on jacket front flap not covering price, 8voQty: (50)NOTESProvenance: David R. Wilson (1926-2020), bookseller and secretary of the British Trust for Ornithology.
Lot 222
Harding (Silvester). The Biographical Mirrour, or, Connoiseur's Repertory; comprizing a series of ancient and modern English portraits of eminent ... persons ... engraved from original pictures or drawings, 3 volumes, London: E. and S. Harding, 1795-1810?, text by Francis Godolphin Waldron, volume 1 with additional title, numerous engraved portraits, variable spotting and offsetting, hinges strengthened, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, spines rubbed, boards worn, 4to, together with: Glasse (Hannah), The Complete Confectioner; or the Whole Art of Confectionary made Plain and Easy ..., first edition, second issue, London: J. Cooke, c. 1765, Glasse's facsimile signature on pp.iv and 1, 16 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear (1st two leaves close-trimmed at foot affecting text), lightly toned throughout, front free endpaper deficient, each pastedown with an early ink manuscript ownership inscription, contemporary sheep, worn, boards detached, 8vo, plus: Encyclopedie Methodique, Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique des Trois Regnes de la Nature, [Insectes], 2 volumes, [Paris: Agasse, 1797], 18th part, half-title, lacking title, but with title for 19th part, 267 (of 268) engraved plates (plate 268 deficient), rectos of title and plates 131, 132 & 267 each with circular ink ex-libris stamp, 1 plate in volume 2 partially coloured with light, neat red crayon, 6 plates with some small & neat red crayon underlining, both volumes with intermittent pale dampstaining to margins at head and fore-edge, somewhat affecting a few plates, hinges cracked, 19th century quarter morocco, somewhat rubbed, corners showing, 4to, with 16 other titles including: The Pleasures of Hope in two parts, by Thomas Campbell, 2nd edition, 1800; Tratado Elemental de Botanica Teorico-Practico, by Antonio Blanco, 2 volumes in 1, 1834; The Silver Swan, a fairy tale, by Madame de Chatelain, 1847Qty: (27)NOTESGlasse: Cagle 708; Maclean pp.61-62. The second issue of the first edition of circa 1760, with J. Cooke imprint. Encyclopedia Methodique: Nissen ZBI 4621.
Lot 189
Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch, 1819-1891)La route à Pantinstudio stamp (lower left); inscribed 'Pantin' (lower centre) pencil 28 x 39.4cm (11 x 15 1/2in).Footnotes:ProvenanceAnon. sale, Hotel des Ventes de Senlis SARL, Paris, 16 December 2012, lot 176. Private collection, UK. Purchased from the above sale. ExhibitedParis, Galerie Guy Stein, Peintures, aquarelles, dessins et eaux-fortes de Jongkind, 1936, no. 156. Brussells, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Jongkind, 29 December 1948 - 16 January 1949, no. 46.The Hague, Musée municipal de La Haye, J. B. Jongkind, 3 July - 5 September 1948 and Amsterdam, Musée municipal d'Amsterdam, 8 October - 15 November 1948, no. 83.Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1819-1891, 1949, no. 54.This work is registered in the archives of the Comité Jongkind, Paris-La Haye, reference G01840.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 217
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)Tête de femme with the artist's studio stamp 'JC*' (lower right)crayon on paper20.8 x 13.4cm (8 3/16 x 5 1/4in).Footnotes:The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Annie Guédras.ProvenanceThe Estate of Edouard Dermit.Private collection, Washington. With Victor Arwas Gallery, London.Private collection, London.Thence by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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