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Lot 164
WWI fine series of eight whole plate size photographs taken in WWI showing scenes in the trenches, an attack on a village, a tank advancing over the top, a German trench with dead soldiers etc. This photographs each bear the ‘Crown Copyright’ stamp showing that they were taken by an official photographer, clearly, from the quality of the images, a professional. Together with a small group of WWI/military related ephemera. Note: miscellaneous lot not subject to return.
Lot 17
Baxter & Rintoul. The Birds of Scotland 2 vol. Edinburgh 1953 § Muirhead (George) The Birds of Berwickshire 2 vol. old library stamp at foot of titles Edinburgh 1889-95 § Blackburn (Mrs. Hugh) Birds from Moidart presentation copy from the author plates after drawings by the author Edinburgh 1895 § Bruce (George) The Land Birds in and around St. Andrews Dundee 1895 plates and illustrations original cloth the last two pictorial and a little rubbed the first with dust-jacket; and c.70 others birds of Scotland many pamphlets including some by Baxter and Rintoul 8vo & 4to(c.75)
Lot 90
Knowles (C. Laura) The swallow`s tour title 12 double openings of verse facing full page illustration the 13th with a dead swallow facing “The End” coloured by hand throughout versos blank original blue cloth gilt g.e. neatly recased folio blind stamp on title of Cundall & Fleming photographic publishers 168 New Bond St. [c. 1870]. ***Unrecorded and perhaps unique; not in World Cat or Copac. Brown has C&F in New Bond St. 1866-71..
Lot 91
Latham (John) A general synopsis of birds Supplement; Index Ornithologicus together 10 vol. 8 hand-coloured vignette titles 141 (of 142) hand-coloured plates bound without pl.133 (the Abyssinian plant cutter) few clean tears several minor holes few plates loose original boards uncut somewhat worn but sound from the library of Thomas Ignatius Forster (1789-1860 naturalist) with his stamp dated 1838 (incorporating his favourite dog Shargs) on titles and some notes in vol.4 (see below) 4to 1781-90. ***Forster is best known for his pamphlet on the swallow which went through 6 editions 1808-17. He has extra-illustrated the swallow section(Vol.4 pp. 560-88) with 6 figures of the birds printed in the margins in black(and in one case at the top of plate 56 in red) and there are a few ms. notes by him. A substantial group of Forster books were sold by Sothebys 13/4/89( this Latham was lot 83) and the catalogue remarks on Shargs “This remarkable poodle was distinguished by his intelligence and fidelity as well as his taste for wine tea and coffee”.
Lot 142
Ramsay(E.P.)List of all the Australian Birds map Howard Saunders` copy with his annotations original cloth-backed printed wrappers (with a simpler title) Sydney 1878 § Buller (W. L.) Manual of the Birds of New Zealand tinted lithographed plates unobtrusive library stamp on title a bright copy in original cloth Wellington 1882; and 17 others birds of Australasia v.s.(19)
Lot 280
Garner (R) Natural History of...Stafford 2 vol. including supplement engraved or lithographed plates supplement (with marginal nibbling) in original wrappers 1844-1860 § Calvert (R.) Notes on the Geology & Natural History of the County of Durham ownership stamp on title Bishop Auckland 1884 § Sainter (J. D.) The Jottings of some Geological... Rambles round Macclesfield inscribed by the author on head of title Macclesfield 1878 § Stansfield (A.) and John Nowell. Flora of Todmorden [?Manchester] [1911] § McNicoll (D. H.) Handbook for Southport... hand-coloured frontispiece 1859 plates and illustrations the first three with folding colour maps some spotting or soiling original cloth rubbed some spines faded the third recased; and c.20 others similar 8vo(c.25)
Lot 281
Mosley & Brown-Natural History of Tutbury together with the Fauna and Flora of the District Surrounding Tutbury and Burton-on-Trent 9 lithographed plates 6 chromolithographed (some finished by hand) addenda leaf at end old embossed library stamp on title original cloth a little rubbed recased new endpapers 8vo 1863.
Lot 284
Step (Edward) Shell Life [1901]; Shell Life new edition 1927 § Animal Life: Studies in Colour no. 2-9 only (of 9) [no copy on Copac or World Cat. but perhaps not considered as a book for copyright purposes] [c.1920] plates the third colour all the publisher`s file copies with Warne`s property room stamp the first two original cloth with worn dust-jackets the last in worn original wrappers; and c.45 others Wayside and Woodland series v.s.(c.55)
Lot 294
Bewick (Thomas) History of British Birds 2 vol. vol.I second thick royal edition vol.II first thick royal edition wood-engraved title vignettes and illustrations by Thomas Bewick with vignette on p.285 previously inked but now rendered relatively visible bookplate of the Rev.Edward B.Ramsay on front pastedowns small contemporary ownership stamp on titles contemporary calf rebacked [Roscoe 15a-e & 17a-d] 8vo Newcastle 1797[=1798]-1804. ***Edward Bannerman Ramsay (1793-1872) Scottish Episcopal dean of Edinburgh and author of Reminiscences of a Scottish Episcopal Ministry published posthumously in 1892..
Lot 358
Lorek (C. G.) Flora Prussica... third edition 241 partly hand-coloured lithographed plates portion (?signature) cut-away from title (rather crudely repaired) title and text foxed plates lightly browned with occasional spotting embossed stamp of Schloss Gerdauen East Prussia Mackenzie-HSNY copy with bookplate on front free endpaper contemporary half roan rubbed rebacked preserving old spine [Nissen 1231] 8vo Konigsberg 1848.
Lot 409
Bohadsch.De quibusdam animalibus marinis title with woodcut vignette engraved head-piece to dedication and 12 folding plates woodcut head- & tail-pieces and decorations browned old ink library stamp on title and book-label on front pastedown contemporary calf gilt spine gilt rubbed corners a little worn 4to Dresden 1761.
Lot 459
Schwart Calabria Liparian sgd.pres. copy 1862 first English edition presentation copy from the author 8pp. advertisements at end title spotted and with blind-stamp of Giannalisa Feltrinelli occasional spotting elsewhere original cloth gilt spine ends repaired 8vo 1862. ***The presentation inscription reads `L.Blondel de la part de l`Auteur`..
Lot 477
Williams Travels in Italy Greece Ionian Islands 2 vol. first edition 20 engraved plates by Lizars after drawings by the author errata f. at end blind-stamp of Giannalisa Feltrinelli contemporary green calf vol.2 rebacked preserving original backstrip spines faded covers water-stained [Pine-Coffin 816/10; Legrand & Pernot 983] 8vo Edinburgh 1820. ***The author was also known as `Grecian Williams` following a succesful exhibition of watercolours of Greece in Edinburgh in 1822. .
Lot 515
Mosso (Angelo) The Palaces of Crete... bookplates on front paste-down and free endpaper later red morocco gilt extremities a little rubbed 1907; The Dawn of Mediterranean Civilisation ex-library copy with ink stamps library cloth 1910 § Manatt (J. Irving) Aegean Days embossed stamp on title some foxing original cloth gilt 1913 § Major (Ralph H.) Hippocrates and the Isle of Cos errata slip at end presentation copy from the author inscribed on front free endpaper modern cloth-backed boards Kansas n.d. § Howe (Dr. S. G.) The Cretan Refugees and their American Helpers original printed wrappers torn with loss upper wrapper detached Boston 1868 plates and illustrations the last with frontispiece map; and c.30 others Greece and the Ionian Islands v.s.(c.35)
Lot 547
Camacho (J.F.) Madeira an album views of Funchal coastal and inland landscapes portraits and figure studies and 2 Portuguese subjects 47 albumen prints twenty c.170 x 215mm. or the reverse twenty seven carte de visites on single sides of card mounts several with Camocho`s ink stamp verso titled in ink on versos contemporary morocco-backed cloth gilt title and border on upper cover oblong 4to c.1870s.
Lot 564
Hutchinson (Edward) The Victoria Nyanza first edition from the library of Sir Henry Morton Stanley with later bookplate 2 folding maps 1 in pocket at end original pictorial cloth gilt slightly cockled and frayed 1876 § Johnston (James) Reality versus Romance in South Central Africa engraved photogravure portrait frontispiece plates and a folding map at end library stamp to verso of frontispiece occasional underlining of a few words in blue pencil a few repairs to folds of map modern half morocco [Czech p.87] 1893 8vo(2)
Lot 636
Heaps (F.J.R.) The North-West Frontier an album including views of Quetta (7) Baluchistan the Sharpur Tombs in Kohat Kohat Pass the gun-makers of Darra Adam Khel testing firearms and studies of Pathan Pashtun and Afridi tribesmen with a smaller group of views of Agra and Delhi 50 brown-toned gelatin silver prints each 150 x 200mm. or the reverse the majority with Heaps` ink copyright stamp verso some with ink caption slips tipped in a few loose contemporary boards edges split oblong 4to c.1930. ***Includes good portrait and figure groups by an accomplished if little-known photographer. Two studies of figures with falcon hawks are captioned “Exhibited at Paris Salon of Photography 1931”..
Lot 645
Vernon of Bombay. The Viceregal Visit to Jodhpur an album commemorating the visit of Sir Charles Hardinge 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst Viceroy of India 1910-1916 including a fine studio portrait of the young Maharaja Sumer Singh formal group portraits with the Viceroy Lady Hardinge and Sir Pratap Singh views of the Palace Mehrangarh Fort troop reviews the inauguration of Powlett Nobles Elgin Rajput School by Hardinge (8 February 1914) and two panoramas a 3-part view of the city and a large 2-part crowded scene outside the city c.84 silver gelatin prints various sizes up to 280 x 365mm. tissues with photographers` blind stamp mounted on both sides of card leaves some of the smaller subjects overlapping original red morocco covers elaborately gilt with title and arms of the Marwar Durbar photographers` ticket on endpapers gilt edges oblong folio (375 x 490 x 90mm.) 1914. ***A rare and substantial album in particularly good condition..
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Lot 659
Forbin (Louis) Voyage dans le Levant first edition [one of only 325 copies] half-title title-vignette 80 plates comprising 2 engraved 8 aquatint and 70 lithographed plates after Lecomte Deseynes Castellan Carle and Horace Vernet Fragonard Thiénon Legros Isabey and others occasional light spotting old ink library stamp to half-title and title (largely erased) and to most plate versos modern red half morocco over marbled boards [Atabey 447; Blackmer 614; Weber 70; Colas 1089] folio Paris Imprimerie Royale 1819. ***The scarce first edition with text and plates together of which Brunet states that only 325 copies were printed. One of the first important French books to use lithography on a grand scale and the standard of production is equal to that of Napoleon`s Description de l`Égypte. Most of the plates illustrate views in Egypt and Syria including the famous view of Drovetti French consul in Egypt measuring a giant head. In 1816 Forbin replaced Denon as Director of Museums and in 1817 he undertook a year-long voyage to the Levant having been authorised to purchase antiquities for the Louvre. He travelled to Milos where his son-in-law had negotiated the purchase of the recently discovered Venus de Milo and from there to Athens Constantinople Asia Minor Syria and Palestine. From Jaffa he travelled overland to Egypt and visited Alexandria..
Lot 665
Blunt. Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates 2 vol. first edition half-titles wood-engraved plates folding colour map folding pedigree of Arabian thoroughbreds 32pp. advertisements at end of vol.2 publisher`s presentation embossed stamp to title vol.1 hinges weak original pictorial cloth gilt spines a little discoloured and spine ends slightly rubbed 8vo 1879.
Lot 702
Murdoch. From Edinburgh to the Antarctic first edition illustrations some full-page 3 maps (1 folding at end) 32pp. advertisements at end some light foxing half-title with wording in ink also original pictorial cloth stamped in silver gilt armorial stamp to upper cover else a fine copy [Taurus 12; Spence 825] 8vo 1894. ***An important whaling expedition to the Weddell Sea the first of its kind since 1843..
Lot 791
Darton`s New Miniature Atlas 56 h`col.maps engraved title index and 56 hand-coloured maps (London England & Wales Scotland Ireland and 52 county maps) engraved advertisement leaf at end occasional light soiling and offsetting old ink stamp at foot of title contemporary half calf spine gilt rubbed corners rather worn 12mo [1820].
Lot 501
Large and interesting electric pendulum, within a mahogany glazed case stamped U. C. S. W. R238, 82" high*The exact purpose of this pendulum is not known, but it may well have been set up to give regular electrical pulses for timing purposes. The stamp on the case refers to University College of South Wales, the forerunner of the University of Cardiff and is thought to date from 1925. Please ask for any further technical details which can be supplied.*
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