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Military History. A large collection of 19th-century & modern military reference & related, including The Invasion of The Crimea:..., 7 volumes by A. W. Kinglake, 6th edition, Edinburgh: Willuam Blackwood and Sons, 1885, contemporary uniform gilt decorated half calf, 8vo, Competition for Cadetships in the Royal Navy, June 1886, regulations, examination papers, and table of marks, London: H.M.S.O., 1886, publishers original gilt decorated blue morocco, 8vo, The Army List, for January, 1825, rebound in modern full morocco, 8vo, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperbacks, 8vo/4toQty: (6 shelves )
Gilbert (C.S.) An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, 2 volumes bound in 3, London: Ackermann, 1817-20, 2 engraved vignette titles, engraved dedication plate, double-page chart, 51 plates, 25 coats of arms, folding table, 2 plates in volume 3 not called for, spotted (volume 3 especially so), hinges cracked, final blank of volume 3 torn & creased, 4to, together with: Griffith (Samuel Young). Griffith's New Historical Description of Cheltenham, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826, numerous plates (except Montpelier Baths p.44 as usual), 2 folding maps, includes the 23 trade plates, bookplates to front pastedown & front free endpaper, occasional spotting & offsetting, near-contemporary half morocco, boards toned, backstrip seperating from text block, joints rubbed, 4toQty: (4)
Walpole (Horace). A Description of the Works of the Ingenious Delineator and Engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, disposed into classes of different sorts; with some account of his life, London: for the Editor [G. Vertue], 1745, title with engraved portrait, addition of editor's name written in ink to imprint, early manuscript markings and entries to text and interspersed with additional leaves of manuscript notes, ownership name J. Barnard to title and few other leaves, some light toning and few marks, front blank repaired to margins and with manuscript note 'Robt. P. Roupell. Mr Barnards copy - with his mss notes and additions. His signatures on title and p.61, and also on the page following the dedication, and contains the descriptive table', modern blind & gilt panelled calf, gilt decorated spine, 4to, together with: Auction catalogue, The Collection of rare prints & illustrated works, removed from Strawberry Hill for sale in London. A Catalogue of the extensive and most valuable collection of engraved portraits... numerous manuscripts and books applying to the fine arts, &c. ... as originally collected by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford; which will be sold by auction, by Mr. George Robins, at his great rooms in Covent Garden, on Monday, the 13th day of June, 1842, and nine following days (Sunday exempted)..., [1842], contemporary manuscript entry against each lot detailing name of purchaser and price realised, late 19th / early 20th century marbled endpapers with manuscript note to verso of front free endpaper 'This catalogue was given to me by Mr Schulze, who had it from Mr Morgan, who had it from Smith of Lisle Street, the famous printseller, & friend of Beckford of Fonthill. I had it bound by Mr Bain of the Haymarket', top edge gilt, late 19th / early 20th century half calf, marbled sides, slim 4to, Walpole (Horace), A Catalogue of Engravers, who have been born, or resided in England; digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the MSS. of Mr. George Vertue..., London: J. Dodsley, 1782, occasional spotting, modern half calf, 8vo, Britton (John), Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures belonging to the most honourable the Marquis of Stafford, in the Gallery of Cleveland House..., London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, & for the author, 1808, engraved frontispiece and plan, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at rear (remargined), modern half calf, 8vo, and two others, British Galleries of Painting and Sculpture... by C.M. Westmacott, 1824; and South Kensington Museum, Dyce Collection, a catalogue of the paintings, miniatures, drawings..., bequeathed by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, 1874Qty: (6)
* Mount Everest, 1953. A scarce printed luncheon menu for an event given by Smiths English Clocks Ltd, in honour of members of the British Mount Everest Expedition 1953, at the Savoy Hotel, [London], Tuesday, 20 October 1953, menu centrefold signed by 28 people in various pens or pencil, signers including 10 of the Everest participants, 3 cricketers and various members of the watch and jewellery trade, identified names (top to bottom and then left to right) are Edmund Hillary, J.W. Isaac, G. Spencer Jones, Neville Duke, Mike Lithgow, Mike Westmacott, C.W. Proctor, Trevor Bailey, George Lowe, Tom Stobart, Tom Bourdillon, Charles Wylie (this and one other unidentified autograph very faint), Len Hutton, Ivan Tarratt, Michael Ward, R. Gordon Smith, H.B. Buchland, Ron Smith, George Band, W. Valentine Ball, John Hunt, Wilfred Noyce, the outer covers somewhat soiled and with various additional pencil markings when prepared as the hidden side for framing and display, 19 x 23cm (unfolded), together with a press print photograph of the occasion showing Hillary at the table with four other guests, 15 x 20cmQty: (2)NOTESProvenance: The family of the jeweller Ivan Tarratt whose autograph appears at the bottom of the left page. Both Smiths and Rolex gave watches to the Expedition members hoping that their watches would make it to the summit and gain massive publicity and sales as a result. Both companies claimed that their watches had reached the summit but it is now held that Hillary had a Smiths watch when they planted the flag and that no Rolex was at the top that day.
[Defoe, Daniel]. The Storm: Or, A Collection of the Most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters which happen'd in the late dreadful tempest, both by sea and land, printed for G. Sawbridge, 1704 [but 1713], [16], 272 pages, folding table, 1st edition title page dated 1704 cut down and relined with some paper loss to inner margin and one long closed tear repair, clear tape strengthening to upper margin of second leaf and a few small worm hole repairs to lower outer corners of final few leaves affecting a few letters of text, some old damp staining and browning throughout, modern half calf over marbled boards, 8voQty: (1)NOTESApparently a second edition of this work with 16 pages of preliminary leaves and several page misnumberings, but otherwise a reissue with a new title: A Collection of the Most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters....
Rackham (Arthur). The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, London: Macmillan, 1917, frontispiece, 22 illustrations (15 coloured), front hinge cracked, original pictorial cloth, some spotting to text block, rubbing to boards, gilt to spine faded, 8vo together with: Barrie (J.M). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London: Hodder & Staughton, early edition, c.1914, occasional spotting (mostly marginal), original green pictorial cloth, spine slightly faded, spotting to text block, 8vo Stevenson (Robert Louis). Treasure Island, London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927, numerous plates (some coloured), small sticker to front pastedown, spotting to endpapers, original publisher's red binding, spine faded, boards rubbed, rear board & spine stained, 8vo with 10 other early 20th century illustrated children's books, all in original publisher's bindingsQty: (13)
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