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Bodoni: Amaduzzi (G. C.) 1791
Bodoni press
Amaduzzi (G. C.) Iohannis Christophori
Amadutii epistola ad Iohannem Baptistam
Bodonium qua emendatur et suppletur commentarium de Anacreontis genere ejusque bibliotheca, First Bodoni edition, leather label of Cortlandt F. Bishop to front pastedown, lot 99 in the sale of his library in 1938, also the bookplate of Charles Edmund Merrill Jr. pasted over with label of Royal College of Art library, RCA blind stamp to title page, marbled endpapers and edges, contemporary half morocco over papercovered boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, rubbed with loss at head of spine, small 4to, Typis Bodonianis, Parma, 1791.
£100-150
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Eusebius Caesarienis. Historia ecclesiastica. Mantua. 1479
Eusebius Caesarienis
Historia ecclesiastica (translated by Rufinus Aquileiensis).
Forth edition, 172 leaves, 34 lines, Roman letter, initials supplied in red and blue, later butg not modern vellum, red morocco lettering-piece, a few small wormholes in first few leaves, red and blue initials,(blue faded), occasional small repairs in margins, slight worming in inner margin of last few leaves at stitching, armorial bookplate to front paste-down of Amadeo Svajer, folio (295 x 200mm.), Mantua: Johannes Schallus, [not before 15] July 1479
Svajer was an eighteenth-century German intellectual and antiquary who formed an important collection of books and manuscripts
*** The last of about seven books known to be printed by Schallus at Mantua, dated between 1475 and 1479. His dedication to Federico Gonzaga, duke of Mantua, is dated 15 July 1479
Svajer was an eighteenth-century German intellectual and antiquary who formed an important collection of books and manuscripts
£2,500-3,500
Facciolati,. Totius Latinitatis Lexicon & others 1827 (10)
Facciolati, Jacopo & Egidio Forcellini, Giuseppe Furlanetto
Totius Latinitatis Lexicon
4 vol.,. third edition, frontispiece, marbled vellum, leather lettering la-bles, gilt, Florence, 1827 § Aleksandrov (A.) Anglo-Russian Dictionary, original cloth worn, library stamp of ZSL. Hebrew Publishing Co. New York [1925]; together with 5 other language dictionaries. V.s. (10)
£200-300
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Fête publique [Marriage of Louis, Dauphin of France], 1747
[Marriage of Louis, Dauphin of France]
Fête publique donnée par la ville de Paris a l'occasion du Mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin Le 13 Fevrier MDCCXLVII, title within decorative border, frontispiece, frontispiece description plate, further decorative title, 11 text plates, 7 folding plates, spotting, second folding plate with significant browning, contemporary signature ‘Philippe’ to front free endpaper verso, contemporary crushed morocco, gilt-tooled with fleurs-de-lis, lettering label to spine, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, some restoration at head and foot of spine and to two corners, some cracking to lower joint, some staining to upper board, a.e.g., housed in later marbled slipcase, large folio (63 x 49cm), 1747.
***Depicting the celebrations and procession for the marriage of the Dauphin, son of Louis XV, to Princess Marie-Josèphe of Saxony.
£800-1,200
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History: Pausanias & Gerbel, 1550
History: Pausanias & Gerbel
Pausanias & Loescher (Abraham) translator, Pausaniae de tota Graecia libri decem : quibus non solum vrbium situs, locorumq[ue] interualla accurate est complexus…, woodcut initials, Arion printer's device on final page, [OCLC 165828980]; bound with: Gerbel (Nicolaus) Nicolai Gerbelij Phorcensis, pro declaratione picturae sive descriptionis Graeciae Sophiani libri septem…, in-text diagrams, [OCLC 220737364], folio, Basileae : Per Ioannem Oporinum, 1550; inscription to title page partially removed, near-contemporary ink annotations in Latin throughout, cancelling, contemporary calf with figural panel, later rebacking and further repairs, worn, later endpapers, upper board and titlepage of Pausanias detached; [with] Pausanias & Clavier (M.) translator, Description de la Grece. Traduction nouvelle avec le texte grec collationne sur les manuscrits de la bibliotheque du Roi, 6 vols., half-titles, supplement bound at rear of final vol., dual text in Greek and French, intermittent spotting and browning, contemporary half sheep, gilt morocco labels to spines, cracking and loss to spines, 8vo, J.-M. Eberhart, 1814 - 23 (7)
£400-600
Leaf from a Book of Hours
Leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, manuscript on vellum
France or Low Countries, second half of the fifteenth century
Single leaf, with single column of 14 lines of text, 4-line initial with flower against gold, red rubrics, border of acanthus leaves and other foliage, verso with 14 undecorated lines, sheet 100 x 75mm.
£200-300
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Leaf from a Book of Hours, Leaf from a Book of Hours, vellum. Flanders. [c. 15th.]
Leaf from a Book of Hours with a cockerel, attributed to the circle of William Vrelant, in Latin, manuscript on vellum
Flanders (Bruges), second half of the fifteenth century
Single leaf, with single column of 15 lines of text, pale red rubrics, one-line initials in blue or gold with penwork, 2-line initials in gold on coloured grounds, text enclosed by gold bars on three sides, full border of acanthus leaves and other foliage in gold and black in grisaille style, enclosing a cockerel, and with blue-tipped three petalled flowers on inner side, seventeenth- or eighteenth-century ‘103’ at upper corner, 93 by 69mm.
Other leaves from this handsome Book of Hours appeared in Pirages catalogue 70 (2013), nos. 457-8, and 72 (2017), nos. 24, 25 and 26, where the illumination is attributed to the circle of the celebrated artist William Vrelant. He was one of the most prolific and commercially successful illuminators working in Bruges during the third quarter of the 1400s.
£150-200
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Leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Paris, on vellum. Central France, c.1460
Leaf from a Book of Hours, most probably for the Use of Paris, with a decorated border, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum
Central France, c.1460
Single leaf, with single column of 15 lines of a French lettre bâtarde, rubrics in blue, one-line initials in gold on blue and pink grounds edged with white penwork, 2-line initials in these colours on burnished gold grounds and enclosing tiny sprays of coloured foliage, linefillers in same colours arranged around gold ovals, each side with a decorated border of a thin gold bar, gilt-edged coloured acanthus leaves and other hairline foliage ending in coloured seedpods and flowerheads, small pieces of tape at head of verse from last mounting, else excellent condition, 213 by 154mm.
Another leaf from this manuscript appeared in Sotheby’s, 10 December 1996, lot 8 (Calendar leaf for June). The style here is that characterised by Eberhard König as the ‘Orléans Painter’, and is closely related to a manuscript known as the Hours of Marguerite of Orléans (now Paris, BnF., latin 1156B). It is limited to a small cluster of manuscripts more commonly associated with north western France, and produced for the use of Angers and locations in Brittany.
£200-300
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Miscellany: Baudoin [Jean] [Aesop's Fables] Les fables D'Esope Phrygien Miscellany
Baudoin [Jean] [Aesop's Fables] Les fables D'Esope Phrygien, engraved frontispiece, trimmed to plate at foredge, numerous in-text engravings, advertisement to final page, occasional minor staining, rear free endpaper loose, contemporary sheep gilt, rubbed with loss to extremities, upper board cracked vertically, 12mo, Amsterdam, D'Estienne Roger, 1701; Barclay (Robert) An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People called Quakers, eighth edition in English, Presentation copy from the author’s grandson David Barclay, inscribed on title page to ‘John Searle’ and dated 1794, errata leaf at front and 16pp. tables at rear, some spotting, marbled endpapers, contemporary marbled calf, rebacked preserving gilt spine with morocco lettering label, circular stain to upper board and some damage to corner, large 4to, John Baskerville, 1765; Plaw (John) Ferme Ornée; or Rural Improvements, second edition, 38 aquatint plates, most with tissue guards, 4pp. catalogue for I. & J. Taylor's Architectural Library bound in at end (folding), E1 coming loose and with loss in margin, some spotting throughout, contemporary marbled boards, later cloth spine, 1796; and others similar, blind stamps of the Royal College of Art library to the title pages and further labels / stickers to endpapers and bindings, v.s. (11)
£200-300
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Palladio (Andrea) & Leoni (Giacomo) The Architecture of A. Palladio, second book, 1715 Palladio (Andrea) & Leoni (Giacomo)
The Architecture of A. Palladio, second book, First English edition, second book only (of four), 61 engraved plates, English translation and plates followed by the original Italian text and a French translation, each with separate title page and pagination, minor spotting, Royal college of Art blindstamp to first title page and label to front pastedown, contemporary Cambridge panel style calf, spine gilt-tooled and lettered, rebacked preserving spine, some cracking, rubbed, folio, Printed by John Watts, for the Author, 1715
£200-300
Philip II. Important series of 29 Letters signed. Madrid 1559-61
Philip II
Important series of 29 Letters signed ‘yo el Rey’, including one Autograph subscription by Philip II to his Ambassador in France, Thomas Perrenot de Chantonnay, brother of Cardinal Granville and a further one to Don Don Anotonio de Toledo,
74 leaves, 2 partially in cipher, to include address leaves and seals, folio, Flushing Laredo, Valladolid, Toledo, Madrid, 22 August 1559 to 14 April 1561
*** A portion of these letters show the eagerness of the King that his point of view should be the more superior than that of his mother-in-law
Catherine de Medici who had become de facto ruler of France after the death of Francis II in 1560 and his brother Charles IX was only ten years old.
The question of the English succession was of prime importance during this period. Mary Queen of Scots was claiming Elizabeth's throne, and French troops had been sent to Scotland in her support. The official Spanish policy was that the two sides should seek a peaceful settlement, but these letters show that Philip was not keen to remain on the sidelines. One of Philip's letters
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to Chantonnay includes an account of conversation which the Duke of Alba had with the Bishop of Limoges (the French ambassador to Spain), in the course of which Alba had suggested that the King of France's claims to the tide and arms of England were exaggerated, and that he should take care to put loyal subjects into positions of influence in Scotland and not rebels, and had warned him that he would send troops into England at his peril ...As well as this the Duke said...that as I had gathered that the King his master was making great military preparations, much greater than he had hitherto been told on my behalf that he could send to Scotland without making the neighbours uneasy, I wanted to warn him for my part...that if by chance he was thinking of undertaking a diversion in England or in any of the islands of that Kingdom, he should be in no doubt that I could by no means allow or assist him to set foot in any of those places, for the reasons that he has been told so many times... [24 June 1560; translation]
Later the same year the warnings become even stronger; Chantonnay is instructed to deny all rumours that Philip himself is planning to send troops to England and to warn the King of the consequences of sending a French force without Philip's consent.
The other main preoccupation at this time was the Council of Trent, which had been set in train by Philip's father Charles V. Philip and Pope Pius IV were cooperating during 1560-62 for the reconvening of the Council, and Philip remarks in one letter that the Pope is very much opposed to the idea of a French National Council and has asked him to try and dissuade the King of France from pursuing the plan. He is very concerned at the religious unrest in France, but endeavours to counter all the French attempts to oppose the reconvening of the Council at Trent, and suggest that the pardon extended to heretics in France in 1561 must have been done against the Queen Mother's wishes ...you must work on the King, the Queen, the Cardinal of Lorraine and Monsieur de Guise both to facilitate the opening of the General Council and to prevent the National Council, for this must be the purpose and the principal aim which we have in this matter, to repair the damage done to the kingdom, because as for things in Germany, unless God really takes the matter in hand, there is reason to fear, since the Protestants are so obstinate and wayward, that no kind of Council, conducted in the customary
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way practised by the Church, illuminated by the Holy Spirit, will satisfy them... [4 November 1560; translation]
The earlier letters also contain references to the arrival of Elizabeth of Valois in Spain and their forthcoming wedding, which is to be celebrated in Guadalajara, to the fever of his son Don Carlos, and intriguingly, to Count Egmont, later to be executed by the Spaniards ("...to the letter you sent me from Count Egmont I am replying with this one; you will give it to him if he should be there, and if not you will forward it to Flanders...").
£6,000-8,000
Sudorius (Nicolaus) [Nicolas Le Sueur] translator, Olympia Pindari Latino carmine reddita, 1576
Sudorius (Nicolaus) [Nicolas Le Sueur] translator, Olympia Pindari Latino carmine reddita, second edition of the translation first published in 1575?, Ex libris ‘Petri Trois Medici Physici’ to title page, 36ff., staining to upper third of B1-E1, some spotting, Ex officina F. Morelli, Lutetiae [Paris], 1576 [bound with] Pythia Pindari, 50 ff., 1576; near-contemporary stuff wrappers, some loss to marbled paper covers at spine extremities, ms title label to spine, sm. 4to; [with] Chrysostom (John) & Hoeschel (David) De Sacerdotio libri vi. Graeci & Latini, Aa2, Aa7, Ff4-5 & Ii4-5 lacking, some staining throughout, contemporary vellum, AUGUSTAE V. : E typographeio M. Mangeri, 1599 (2)
£200-300 13
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Xenophon. Xenophontis, philosophi et imperatoris clarissimi, 1625
Xenophon.
Xenophontis, philosophi et imperatoris clarissimi, quae exstant opera, in duos tomos divisa ... opera Ioannis Leunclavii Amelburni, 2 vols. in 1, second Leunclavius edition, Estienne woodcut printer’s device to title, double-column text in Greek & Latin, vol. 2 with half-title, early ink annotations (numbering), some browning, library label to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, blind-stamped armorial to both boards, gilt morocco lettering label to spine, splitting to spine with loss at head, folio, Paris: Typis Regiis, apud Societatum Graecarum Editionum (excudebat Antonius Stephanus), 1625
Provenance: Signature of Dutch classicist ‘Jani Broukhusii’ (Joan van Broekhuizen) to title page. Signature of David Papillon to front free endpaper.
£200-300
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Abdullah Yusuf Ali The Holy Qur-an: 1938 Inscribed Abdullah Yusuf Ali
The Holy Qur-an: 1938. Inscribed 2 vol., third edition, inscribed to Mr (E.C.) Marchant Principle of Daly College, Indore, by Mohammad Sabir Quli Khan, 1946,, original faux leather binding, worn and dusty, royal 8vo., [1938]
*** This copy inscribed in both volumes, ‘To you, Our honourable Principle Mr Marchant, who have always been a source of inspiration to you most obedient pupil. Mohammad Sabir Qui Khan of Mohammad Garth State 13/3/1946’. Marchant was principal from 1930 – 1946. This is together with an Als on Royal headed paper 10pp (5 leaves) with an original Gazal (poem) in ink by Mohammad Sabir Qui Khan who was the last ruler of the State before its intergratation into independent India within original envelope.
Together with;-
Couchman. Road Map of India, folding, laid-on linen, original covers, 1936; City of Bombay, folding map on paper with LIst of Municiple Roads with Name of Ward, original cloth backed boards, Joshi & Co Map Company, n.d. [190709?]
£300-400
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Bengali. Holy Bible in Bengalee, 1832
The Holy Bible, together with The New Testament Translated from the Original Tongues into the Bengalee Language by the Serampore Missionaries, 2 vol. in one, title pages in English and the Bengali language, inscription and date to first title-page ‘Leechman 1832 Novr. 24th, Serampore, annotation in pencil to last page, ‘Sept. 8th. 1832’, a photograph of the period [1860] laid-in of a cleric ?, contemporary calf, rebacked in cloth, leather lettering label, thick 8vo., Serampore, 1832
***John Leechman [1803-1874] a Baptist missionary and educator working in Serampore, India, from 1832 – 1837. He was the successor to William Carey the translator of this bible.
£200-300
Bible [English] The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments…, 1715 Bible [English]
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments…,
King James’ version, with the Geneva notes, Old and New Testament title pages, architectural title page dated 1679 (from Herbert 743) inserted before Old Testament, its edges strengthened, not including Moxon’s maps, A4 with repaired tear, bound with 160pp. Apocrypha with separate title-leaf, B2 with large tear, [Herbert 936], folio, [Amsterdam?], 1715; also bound with: The Whole Book of Psalms (1715) by Sternhold and Hopkins, at rear, 54pp., [1]; and a Book of Common Prayer (1715?), at front, lacking title page and all before A2; contemporary panelled calf, rebacked preserving gilt-lettered spine, some cracking to spine.
£400-600
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Diurnale monasticum [1572]
Diurnale monasticum
[Diurnale monasticum secundum rubricam Romanam, et secundum ritum consuetudinemque fratrum monasterii s s. Udalrici et afre augustensis ordinis sancti Benedicti.]
Lacking title-page and final blank,printed in red and black, woodcut initials in red, index tabs to pages, early annotations to front and rear endpapers, manuscript list of Abbots also at rear naming 30 from Theodoricus to Christophorus of the Imperial abbey of Donauworth from 1601, contemporary blind tooled calf over wooden boards, later reback, leather lettering label, worn, lacking straps and clasps, 8vo., [(Augsburg: Valentin Schonig, 13 December 1572)]
**** Provenance. Benedictine monastery of the Holy Cross, Donauworth, list of abbots on final blank and notes on inside front cover and in calendar, [their library acquired by]; the princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein, armorial ink stamp on a2; Ampleforth Abbey library, ink stamp on front flyleaf.
£400-600
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Forlong (James) Student's Synchronological Chart of the Religions of the World, Presentation copy, 1883
Forlong (James)
A Student's Synchronological Chart of the Religions of the World, Presentation copy, inscribed by the author upper left and dated 1900, large folding colour chart, lithograph in colour, backed onto linen, printed "Explanatory Note to Chart of Rivers of Life" mounted on verso of one panel, published to accompany the monumental 2 volume work 'Rivers of Life', 240 x 67 cm, housed in the original gilt-lettered cloth slipcase, some discolouration and staining, lithographed by Scott & Ferguson, Edinburgh, 1883
£150-200 19
Middle East: Beausobre (Isaac de) Histoire Critique de Manichée et du Manicheisme
Middle East
Beausobre (Isaac de)
Histoire Critique de Manichée et du Manicheisme, 2 vols., First edition, title of vol.1 in red & black with engraved vignette of Sheldonian Theatre, vol.2 with woodcut device, 2 engraved head-pieces by B.Picart, woodcut initials and ornaments, some spotting, browning, marginal water staining, short tear in margin of 4S3, contemporary calf with triple gilt fillet, spines with morocco lettering labels, some staining, minor repairs to heads of spines, 4to, Amsterdam, J. Frederic Bernard, 1734 & 39 *** "It may be called a work of genius, because Beausobre integrates into his research all the various threads and weaves them creatively and convincingly into a new approach for the study of syncretistic religious phenomena” - Guy G. Stroumsa, IsaacdeBeausobreRevisited.
£300-400
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Religion: Eachard (John) and others Religion
Eachard (John)
The grounds & occasions of the contempt of the clergy and religion enquired into. In a letter written to R.L., First edition, bookplate of the South Library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle to front pastedown, and blindstamp to title, lacking front blank and rear free endpaper, spotting, 5pp. adverts at rear, [ESTC R17191], early sheep, W. Godbid for N. Brooke, 1670; Hooker (Richard) The Works, title in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved additional title, bookplate of the South Library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle to front pastedown, and blindstamp to frontispiece / titles, [ESTC T70803], contemporary Cambridge-style calf, spine gilttooled with morocco lettering label, some loss to extremities and cracking to spine, for John Walthoe et al., 1723; Americana: Luther (Martin) translator, Der Psalter des Königs und Propheten Davids, some spotting and damp staining throughout, ink stamp of Daniel Smoker (possibly 1789-1871) to each endpaper, contemporary sheep, lacking clasps, Lancaster (Pennsylvania), Johann Bar [John Bear], 1834; and another similar (4)
£300-400
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Roman Missal, 1737
Roman Missal
Missale Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti
Concilii Tridentini restitutum…, printed in red and black, numerous engravings, leaves strengthened for the addition of cloth tabs, 19th century leaves and extracts interleaved and bound at rear, also manuscript index, occasional repaired tears or damage, 19th century calf gilt, worn, folio, Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1737; with 11 leather bindings, 8vo (12) £100-150
[Raleigh (Sir Walter)] The History of the World, 1617
[Raleigh (Sir Walter)]
The History of the World,
second edition, engraved title laid down and pasted to recto of ‘The Minde of the Front’ leaf, blank leaf at end of Book II, lacking colophon and final blank, later 36pp. 'The Life Of Sir Walter Raleigh bound after the preface, 8 folding maps and plates, some staining, some splitting to folds or repaired short tears, one map with some loss to corner affecting image, one map with edges crudely strengthened and restored, text block and plates trimmed, occasional annotations in contemporary hand, occasional loss and tears in margins of text, [Sabin 67560], later 17th century panelled calf, rebacked and corners restored, William Stansby for Walter Burre, [1617]
***“[Dr. Brushfield] states that some copies of the earlier editions have inserted a reprint of this "Life" in 36 pages in double columns…” (Sabin). £400-600
Hastings. Debates...Inscribed and Trial Ticket, 1797 & 1795
Hastings (Warren)
Debates in the House of Lords on the Evidence Delivered in the Trial of Warren Hastings..., 1797
Presentation copy from Warren Hastings to his god-daughter, Mrs Marian Barton, Daylesford House, 5 July 1807 signed on half title, three corrections to the printed text in Warren Hastings' hand, full contemporary straight grained morocco, gilt, silk endpapers, a.e.g., slightly rubbed, bookplates of Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bt., A.Edward Newton and Arthur A.Houghton, and a further Als from a Devereux C. Johnson to Aughton laid-in, 1797, together with an Admissions Ticket to the 109th day of Warren Hastings's trial; uncancelled, thus presumably unused tipped into purpose bound album with a portrait of Hastings, half blue morocco, lettered on spine, bookplates of A.Edward Newton and Arthur A.Houghton , 25 April 1795, lge & sm. 4to. (2)
Warren Hastings's trial for corruption and cruelty in his Indian administration lasted for 145 days. He was acquitted, but the case cost him £70,000 and ruined him financially. The East India Company granted him a pension and he lived for the rest of his life at Daylesford, Gloucestershire.
£800-1,200
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Heraldry: Guillim (John) A Display of Heraldrie, 1611
Heraldry
Guillim (John) A Display of Heraldrie: Manifesting a more easie accesse to the knowledge thereof then hath beene hitherto published…,
second issue with 1611 to title page (first issued 1610), title within architectural woodcut border, numerous woodcut armorials, lacking front flyleaf, large stain to the majority of leaves, 5 leaves with large tear, further short tears and repairs in margin, two leaves with significant loss, Cambridge panel style binding, some surface loss to boards and at head of spine, bookplates of Francis Canning and Paul Howard Dorchy to front pastedown, small folio, William Hall for Raphe Mab, 1611; with a copy of the fourth edition and a defective later edition; also with: Douglas (Robert) The Peerage of Scotland, contemporary signatures of William Farquharson and one other to title page, 10 plates at rear, stained, lacking spine, 1764 (4) £250-350
History: Guys (Pierre-Augustin) and others History
Guys (Pierre-Augustin)
Voyage Litteraire de la Grece, 2 vols., third edition, revised, uniformly bound without the plates in two volumes instead of the usual four, front flyleaf signed by Lady Anne Rawdon (1753 - 1813), free endpapers removed, contemporary calf, rubbed with cracking and some loss to spines, Paris, Chez la Veuve Duchesne, 1783; Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson, 4 vols., ninth edition, half-titles, one folding plate of signatures, some spotting, no portrait, extensive dedication to flyleaf: ‘Charles William Bardswell. From his affectionate Godmamma [Mary Roscoe]’, dated 1840, Bardswell bookplate to front pastedowns, contemporary calf gilt, morocco lettering labels to spines, rubbing to extremities and some discolouration, T. Cadell et al., 1822; Linguet (Simon-Nicolas Henri) Memoires sur la Bastille, et sur la detention de M. Linguet, ecrits par lui-meme., [ESTC T113645], Linguet’s work caused a sensation, which perhaps explains the 14 editions of 1783 listed by the ESTC, contemporary quarter calf, cracking and minor loss to spine, ‘l'Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury’, Snowhill, 1733; v.s., with others similar (12) £200-300
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Handel (George Frideric) Messiah, First issue, 1767
Handel (George Frideric)
Messiah. An Oratorio in Score as it was originally perform'd,
First edition of the full score, First issue, with the rest signs for the omitted Bass vocal part on p. 180 provided in ms, and page 19 of the appendix with fewer figurines in the Organo part bars 6-10, Smith’s second issue title page? (disputed by Fuld), signature of W. Cole to front pastedown, verso of title with gift inscription from Charles Nalson Cole (1723–1804) to his brother W. [William] Cole dated 1767, and extensive ms note, list of subscribers, all pages engraved, title page dated in ink at foot, ms bookplate in Greek at head, ms price following list of subscribers, some spotting and browning throughout, contemporary reversed calf, some cracking to spine and loss to extremities, loss to morocco lettering label, folio, Messrs. Randall & Abell, 1767
[Fuld pp. 265-266; cf Smith (Handel) nos 1/2]
£1,000-1,500
Congreve. A Treatise...Rocket System, 1827 Congreve (William)
A Treatise on the General Principles, Powers, and Facility of Application of the Congreve Rocket System, as compared with Artillery, First edition, 7 of 12 folding plain aquatint plates only(lacking the first 4 and plate 10), contemporary boards, gilt, lacking front endpaper and list of plates with title of plate 10 cut out and reattached, worn, 4to., Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827 [Sold not subject to return]
The Congreve rocket was developed in 1804, and was directly influenced by Indian rockets. It was used heavily by the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.
£300-400
Andrews (John) Andrews's Accurate Map of the Country, Twenty-Five Miles Round London, 1807
Andrews (John)
Andrews's Accurate Map of the Country, Twenty-Five Miles Round London, describing from an Actual Survey all the Gentlemen’s Seats, Turnpike and Cross Roads, Towns, Villages, Cottages &c., engraving with hand-colouring, dissected and mounted on linen, [cf. Howgego 160; London Archives k1282242], minor spotting, 100 x 136 cm, framed & glazed, John Stockdale, 1807
£200-300
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Bowles (Carington) Bowles's New Pocket Plan of the Cities of London & Westminster
Bowles (Carington)
Bowles's New Pocket Plan of the Cities of London & Westminster, with the Borough of Southwark: Comprehending the New Buildings and other Alterations to the Year 1792, handcolouring, significantly discoloured, dissected and mounted on linen, [cf. Howgego 158, variant state], 47 x 93 cm, framed & glazed, 1792
£200-300
Camden (William) Britannia, 1772
Camden (William)
Britannia: Or, a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the Adjacent Islands... translated into English, with additions and improvements, by Edmund Gibson,
2 volumes, fourth edition, frontispiece portrait, titles printed in red and black, 51 double-page engraved maps by Robert Morden, 9 plates of coins, numerous further plates and illustrations in text, including one full page, some minor offsetting to plates, offsetting of red ink to frontispiece, tear in margin of 6E of vol. 2, 'British ex-service' ink library stamps to endpapers, contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt-tooled with floral design and thistles, morocco lettering labels, worn with some loss to extremities, upper board and endpaper of vol. 1 detached, bookplate of Paul Howard Dorchy to front pastedowns, [Chubb CXVII], folio, W. Boyer et al., London, 1772 (2)
£600-800
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Gardner (W. R.) engraver, Map of the Country Twelve Miles Round London
Gardner (W. R.) engraver
Map of the Country Twelve Miles Round London, with hand-colouring, dissected and mounted on linen, surface dirt and light offsetting and browning, 74 x 87 cm, [Howgego 288 (2)], framed & glazed, published by Charles Smith, 1823.
£200-300
Gloucestershire: Saxton (Christopher) Glocestriae sive Claudiocestriae Comitat Gloucestershire Saxton (Christopher), Glocestriae sive Claudiocestriae Comitat (Claudy Caesaris Nomine ad huc Celebrat) Verus Tipus atq Effigies. No. Dni. 1577, hand-coloured engraving, large strapwork cartouche surmounted by the royal crest, with the coat of arms of Thomas Seckford, significant browning and staining, trimmed at foot, surface mark on right-hand side, circa 1579; with another Saxton map of Worcestershire, published in John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, Sudbury & Humble, 1620s; and Africa…, by Mr. Kitchen, from Millar’s New Complete and Universal System of Geography (3)
£300-400
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London &c. Actually Survey'd..., on 12 sheets, London Topographical Society, 1904
London &c. Actually Survey'd..., This survey was begun by Mr. Ogilby, and finished & humbly dedicated by Wm. Morgan..., A prospect of London and Westminster taken at several stations to the southward thereof, by Robt. Morden & Phil. Lea, monumental photolithographic map on 12 sheets, facsimile of the rare original of 1682, with numerous inset prospects, illustrations, tables and diagrams, slight toning, only minor chipping to edges of sheet 1 and a short tear in the margins of sheet 7, overall c. 150 x 238 cm (individual sheets 56 x 77 or 56 x 39 cm),
London Topographical Society, 1904 (12)
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Maps: Briet (Philippe) & Speed (John) Maps
Briet (Philippe) Roma Gentium Domina [Roman Empire], hand-coloured in outline, engraved by H. le Roy, inset map on on the birthplace of the empire, stain in margin to upper corners, some minor worm holing, sheet 45 x 60cm, printed by Michel van Lochom, 1667; Speed (John) Montgomery Shire, hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Montgomery, English text verso, browned, some worm holing and short tears in margin, John Sudbury & George Humble, 1610 [1627], with another Speed map of Cardiganshire; Saxton (Christopher) & Kip (William) Cornwall olim pars Danmoniorum, large inset vignette of Launceston Castle, spotting, trimmed on 3 edges with creasing and a short tear, [1637]; v.s., and 2 others (6)
£200-300
Ruga (Pietro) Pianta della citt di Roma, 1843
Ruga (Pietro)
Pianta della citt di Roma con la indicazione di tutte le antich e nuovi abbellimenti, backed onto linen in sections, 16 inset views, key to the 14 neighborhoods, some staining and spotting, a few sections with loss to corner, accompanied by the original slipcase with label of the Circulation Library and English Reading Rooms, French ms inscription at foot, loss at lower right, 113 x 75 cm, published by Venanzio Monaldini, at the Piazza di Spagna, Rome, 1843
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Spain: Jansson (Jan) Hispaniae Veteris
Descriptio
Spain
Jansson (Jan)
Hispaniae Veteris Descriptio, hand-coloured engraving, engraved by Abraham Goos, inset of Cadiz, French text edition, plate 375 x 495mm, Amsterdam, c. 1640
£100-200
Cavers. Assam: The Language of Tea, photographs, 1990-95 Cavers (Colin) Photographer.
Assam: The Language of Tea
A series of 7 mounted original monochrome photographs, titled signed and dated by the photographer on verso in pencil, approx. 3 – 150 x 230mm. & 4 – 180 x 180mm., housed within solander box, Assam, 1990 – 95
£150-200
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Photography. Darjeeling: relating to the Ging Tea Estate [1880]
Photography. Frith (Francis) and others.-
Darjeeling: An album of photos relating to the Ging Tea Estate
collection of 72 albumen prints, most captioned under image, many of the album leaves with watercolour decorations of ornithological and flyfishing motifs, contemporary half morocco, worn and rubbed, lacking spine, to include several views around the Ging Tea Estate, the Darjeeling Railway (3); Tibet Mission Camp, 1886; Darjeeling Club and Cricket Ground; several views of the Teesta and Rangeet Rivers; Frith's Series views of Calcutta (4); a street in Galle; Colombo Harbour; 10 of European interest. [1880] § Johnston & Hoffmann. The Tea Industry, 54 photographs to show the growth, cultivation and preparation of Tea, cloth album, Calcutta, [1916], v.s. (2)
Provenance: First mentioned, Bonhams London, India in Photographs: The Collection of Kanwardip Gujral, 9 April 2008, lot 167
£1,000-1,500
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Photography. India, 4 Albums [1888 - 1895]
Photography – India [Steel Jnr (John)]
Reminiscence of Voyage on the S.S. City of Venice
Visit to Calcutta
Photographic diary of the Arrival in Calcutta of the Marquis of Lans-downne as the new Viceroy of India, 1888
2 vols., collection of 124 prints to include images of views on the voyage, views of Calcutta, Pigsticking, anchored shipping – Tea clippers, The Colabarrie Gymkhaana, The Looksan Tea Estate, Darjeeling and many more, photographs taken by John Steel Jnr with an inscription in the second volume to his sister ‘'To Miss Steel/ 20 Blythswood Square/ Glasgow/ From her affectionate brother/ John Steel Junior/ Calcutta March 1889’, a typescript of other photographs inserted but image not present in these albums, half leather worn at extremities, spine lacking from one album, [1888 – 1890] § Bombay Calcutta Jubbulpore, collec-tion of 99 photographic images of views, buildings, Tea merchants and labourers, half leather album, worn, December, 1898 § Furneaux (J.H.)
Glimpses of India, A Grand Photographic History of the Land of Antiq-uity, the vast Empire of the East, With 500 superbly reproduced Camera-Views of her Cities, Temples, Towers, Public Buildings, Fortifica-tions, Tombs, Mosques, Palaces, Waterfalls, Natural Wonders, and Pic-tures of the Various Types of her People, first edition, c. 500 images, publisher’s padded leather, gilt, joints broken, worn, 1895, oblong 4to., (4)
£400-600
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Tea Merchants & Grocers invoices & receipts. C. 18th & c.19th.
Tea Merchants & Grocers. Invoices & Receipts,
A collection of c18th and early c. 19th examples of invoices and receipts with engraved headings and shop signs of the Companies to include Wilson & Thornhill at the 3 Loaves; Daniel Twining at the Golden Lion; Hugh James at the Black-moor’s Head to name but a few, various sizes, (80)
£400-600
Tea. Lavedan. Tratado de los Usos... Tabaco, Cafe, Te y Chocolate, Madrid 1796 Lavedan (Antonio)
Tratado de los Usos, Abusos, Propriedades y Virtudes del Tabaco, Cafe, Te y Chocolate [Treatise on the Uses, Abuses, Properties and Virtues of Tobacco, Coffee, Tea and Chocolate].
contemporary specked calf, black leather lettering labels (possibly later), trace of original blue wrapper to title-page, bookplate to front paste-down, 8vo.,Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1796
£200-300
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Tea. Pechlin. Theophilus Bibaculus sive de potu theae dialogus, 1684 Pechlin (Johann Nicolaus).
Theophilus Bibaculus sive de potu theae dialogus.
First edition, early manuscript marginalia throughout, modern marbled paper boards, bookplate of the Marcus Crahan collection to front paste-down, [Wellcome IV, 325], 4to., Frankfurt: Johann Sebastian Riechel, 1684
£800-1,200
Tea. Photographic Views of the Soorispore Tea Company Gardens 1864
Tea
Photographic Views of the Soorispore Tea Company Gardens, Cachar.
Report and collection of photographs presented to the Shareholders of the Sooripore Tea Company Limited.
16pp report, 9 photographs (I framed) as per list for the shareholders pasted to front paste-down, 16 other photographs, views and labourers including 3 of Tea Clippers, slight wear to extremities, within original cloth portfolio covers, lettered in gilt, 4to, Cachar, 1864
£600-800
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Tea. Travers...upon the subject ot Tea Duties. 1740
Travers (John)
A Letter to the Editor of the Courier Newspaper upon the subject ot Tea Duties and a copy of a letter from Sir Geo. T. Staunton, second edition, 2 works in one, inscribed at head of title from the author to Sir George Staunton, Effingham Wilson, 1834 bound with China. Supposed abstract of the Report of the General Missionary Society, in 1870, disbound. [Thomas Ward, 1870],
£100-150
Tea: Hancock (Thomas) of Boston. [Mass.] Letter to...re shipping. 1740
Tea
Hancock (Thomas) of Boston, [Mass.] Merchant Letter to Mr Thomas Hancock of Boston, endorsed 'per Capt Perkins QDC' and carried on the Learen, together with a shipment of saltwater damaged tea being returned, London July, 1740
*** Thomas Hancock was the uncle and benefactor of founding father John Hancock (1736-1793).
£200-300
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Tuke Correspondence [Tea, Coffee & Cocoa] etc. 1732-1852
Tuke Family Correspondence.
Over five hundred letters chiefly by James Hack Tuke, and partners William Murray Tuke and John Casson, of the Quaker firm of Tuke and Company, founded in York in 1725. The majority addressed to James's brother William who on 6 September 1849 had opened a branch in London, the letters covering the period from 29 September 1849 to 23 October 1852. The present correspondence demonstrates the nature of commercial life and of fluctuating markets in a period which witnessed considerable change in this trade, particularly following the breaking of the East India Company's tea monopoly in 1834 With two folio volumes containing printed circulars sent out by the firm between 1782 and 1873 giving descriptions of teas and coffees available, posters advertising their cocoa, wrappers from their products, price lists, and notices of cargoes of tea and coffee on board the East India Company's ships with whom the Tukes traded. [1732- 1852] v.s. 3 card solander boxes.
***The factory of Tuke’s tea, coffee and cocoa in York was sold in 1862 to it’s then manager Henry Rowntree who expanded his business into what is now Rowntree Mackintosh Confectionery.
£1,000-1,500
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Fraser (James Baillie) Twelve plates from 'Views in the Himala Mountains' Fraser (James Baillie)
Twelve plates from 'Views in the Himala Mountains', hand-coloured aquatints, engraved by Robert Havell & son, on thick wove paper with watermarks including ‘J Whatman Turkey Mill 1827’ and ‘HS & S’, with margins, plates c. 52 x 67 cm, [Abbey Travel 498], some staining, mount staining and spotting, one slipped in mount, published by Rodwell & Martin, 1820 (12)
Views include: Country to the Northward from Nowagurh Teeba; Temple of Mangneee; Jumnotree the Source of the River Jumna; Village & Castle of Bumpta; House of Rana of Cote Gooroo; The Town of Rampore; View of the Country from Urshalun Teeba; Gungotree the Holy Shrine of Mahadeo; Assemblage of Ghoorkas; The Ridge and Fort of Jytock; Fort of Raeengurh; The Village of Jushul.
***Some of the most famous images of sublime mountain scenery ever produced, James Baillie Fraser’s prints record his pioneering journey through the Himalayas in 1815. From a Scottish family, he worked as a merchant in India and studied painting under George Chinnery. He travelled with his brother William, a Commissioner of the Delhi Territory who was assassinated in 1835
£6,000-8,000
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Daniell (Thomas) Part of the Palace in the Fort of Allahabad, 1795
Daniell (Thomas)
Part of the Palace in the Fort of Allahabad, plate no.8 from ‘Oriental Scenery. Twenty Four Views In Hindoostan’, depicting the Rani-ka-Mahal or Queen's pavilion, hand-coloured aquatint, on wove paper, no watermark, some browning and minor spotting, splitting along platemark to upper and lower edge with repairs verso, sheet 54 x 70cm, [Abbey Travel 420], published for Thomas Daniell by Robert Bowyer, The Historic Gallery, 1795.
***After studying at the Royal Academy Schools, Thomas Daniell spent eight years touring India with his nephew William (1786-94).
£1,000-1,500
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D'Oyly (Sir Charles) Views of Calcutta and its Environs. [1848]
D'Oyly (Sir Charles) Views of Calcutta and its Environs 27 tinted lithograph images on 25 plates, lacking title-page, together with the original publisher’s binding stamped in gilt, worn at extremities, all plates disbound and framed, [Abbey, Travel 497; Tooley 187], folio, [1848]
1- Government House from St. Andrews Library; 2 - View near the circular road; 3 - Garden Reach; 4 - Custom House Wharf; 5 - Town and Port of Calcutta; 7 - Church, Entrance to the Dhurumtolla; 8 - Mosque at Borranypore; 9Banyan Tree10 - Office of the Sudder Board of Revenue from Kyd Street; 11 - General View of Calcutta from the Entrance to the Water Gate of Fort William; 12 - View in Clive Street; 13 - View in the village of Sheebpore; 14 - Calcutta from the Old Course; 15 - St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta; 16 - Menagerie at Baruckpore; Entrance to Baruckpore Park; 17 - View in the Serampore Road; 18 - The Bishops College; The Mahommedan College; 19 - Suspension Bridge at Alipore over Tolly's Nulla; 20 - Statue of the Marquis of Hastings in Tank Square; 21View of part of Chowringhee; 22 - Hindoo Mut in the Chitpore Bazaar; 23 – Esplanade; 24Hindoo Temple near the Strand Road; 25Chowrihchee Road from No. XI Esplanade; 26Procession of the Churruckpooja, folding double plate, unframed.
£4,000-6,000 50
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Becher. India and Afghanistan. Mss Journal. [1878-79]
Becher, (Major General A.C.)
India and Afghanistan
Journal of A C Becher, serving on the North West Frontier during the 2nd Afghan war. Initial 24pp are a summary of his first 20 years, including his initial years when he returned from India with his parents.
65pp. journal starting in India in May 1878 on his arrival back as a Commissioned Officer with the Royal Scots, this includes an account of his voyage to India on board HMS Seraps, his arrival and service in the Peshawar district, reports of occasional skirmishes with Afridi tribesman and frequent hunting trips, accounts of regimental life, problems with diarrhoea, description of a public execution and references to his friendship with the young Frederick Lugard, later Baron Lugard, the distinguished colonial administrator and author. Some unrelated pages were removed before the diary was written but the text is consecutive, original parchment, Becher’s name in manuscript to lower cover, brass lock lacking key, forced from upper cover, 8vo., [1878-79]
£200-300
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Capper. Account of the First Anglo-Maratha War... 1774-81
Capper, (Colonel James)
Account of the First Anglo-Maratha War, addressed to Lord North;
copy manuscript, in a scribal hand but signed and dated by the author, labelled "Duplicate",31 numbered bifolia, 122 pages, 4to, Lisbon, 26 November 1781; together with 16 letters signed by Capper, to Lord Clarendon, on Indian affairs, including the progress of the Anglo-Maratha War and his disputes with the East India Company, some creasing, various sizes, Madras, Fort St George, and other locations, 1774-81. (2 folders)
*** Provenance: From the Collection of the Earls of Clarendon, removed from Holywell House, Hampshire, the home of the Villiers family, Earls of Clarendon; Sold Sotheby's London, 13 December 2016, lot 21
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Coote (General Sir Eyre) Collection Als. Coote (General Sir Eyre)
Collection of letters.-
John Purling (marked "Duplicate") Referring to the dangerous political situation just before the outbreak of the Mysore War, ("...It is most certain, that the Marathas have united all their jarring Interests, and even formed an Alliance with Hyder Ally for the purpose of annoying us...") and criticising Warren Hastings, 12 pages, folio, Lucknow, 29 January 1780; John Thomas Batt [lawyer]on his legal affairs, 2 Als., 4 pages, 4to, Wrest Park and Lucknow, 11 December 1775 and 15 November 1782; [with:] Lady Coote to Batt. 10 Als., (including one duplicate) on personal, legal and financial matters, 52 pages, 27 February 1780 to 24 October 1791; William Banton, under sentence of death, Als. to Lady Coote, imploring her to sign a petition for clemency, Newgate, January 1785; 2 Als., Purling forwarding Batt letters by Coote, and three further items; 12 of the letters retaining address wrappers or 11 July 1785 - to Lady Coote, widow of General Sir Eyre Coote from John Tait - regarding the payment of a bill from a Doctor Anderson 12 April [1783] - from John Purling to the Lawyer John Thomas Batt - discusses a letter Purling has from Sir Eyre Coote dated 28 August 1782, v.s. (19)
£1,800-2,200
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Evatt, M.D. “Death-march” through the Khyber Pass...1878-79
Evatt, M.D. (Surgeon-Major G.J.H.Evatt)
Personal Recollections of the Afghan Campaigns of 1878-79-80. The “Death-march” through the Khyber Pass in the Afghan campaign 1878-79 ... Reprinted from ... “Journal of the United Service Institution of India,” 1890, 74pp., original grey printed wrappers, contemporary inscription to upper wrapper, lower wrapper with mailing address and 2 contemporary cancelled Afghan stamps dated 1892, 8vo., Thacker, Spink and Co. Calcutta, 1891
£150-200
Gandhi, Chaplin. Signatures. India in Bondage Gandhi (Mahatma), Chaplin (Charles) Sutherland, (Jabez T.)
India in Bondage: Her Right to Freedom and a Place Among the Great Nations, First edition, dated and signed by Gandhi, Chaplin and Mira Bell 22.9.31, on verso of frontispiece, original red decorated cloth, spine faded, 8vo., New York, 1929
***A note included in the lot by the vendor explains the unlikely juxtaposition of the signatures. At the time of the All-India Conference in 1931 Charlie Chaplin visited London and expressed a wish to meet Gandhi. A secret meeting (the inspiration for the film 'Modern Times') took place at the East End home of Dr C. L. Katial. W. Stuart Masters a journalist, was 'tipped-off' by Katial and obtained the autographs at that time. With typewritten greeting card 'With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year from Doctor Katial.'
Provenance: Phillips London, 24 October 1985
£3,000-4,000
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Gandhi. Signed & Dated. Barber. Transvaal Gold. 1904
Gandhi (Mahatma)
Barber (Samuel Hilton)
Transvaal Gold Law,
First edition, signed and dated ‘M.K.Gandhi. 17/11/04 with his Attorney business stamp to the front free endpaper, original cloth, gilt, 8vo., T. Maskew Miller, Cape Town, [1904],
*** Chapter IV, paragraph 133 states: "No coloured person may be a license holder, or in any way connected with the working of the diggings, but shall be allowed only as a workman in the service of whites."
In this copy from Gandhi's attorney's office, a number of such discriminatory laws are highlighted in pencil, presumably by Gandhi. He led the Indian community in South Africa against racial discrimination and, in 1894, had set up the first non-white South African political association.
£800-1,200 56
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Gandhi. 'Young India' journal. original issues, 1921-22
Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), Queshi, Mohandas Karamchand, Shuaid Young India,
25 issues of the journal 'Young India', [Vol. III, 33, 35, 39, 41-43 (x2), 45, 46, 48, 49 (x2)-52, Vol. IV, 1 -5, 7-9, 13 & 15 inclusive, browned and very fragile chipped with some loss, spines splitting, within later folder, Ahmedabad, August 1921 – April 1922
*** Founded by Gandhi in 1919, the paper campaigned for passive resistance, HinduMoslem unity, the emancipation of the Indian peasant and the abolition of untouchability. Under his editorship, it played a crucial role in transforming the Indian National Congress from an urban middle class pressure group into a mass organisation based on the Indian peasantry. On 10th March 1922 Gandhi was arrested for the first time on a charge of sedition and sentenced to 6 years imprisonment. The final two issues, which report his imprisonment, are edited by Shuaid Queshi.
£800-1,200
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Hastings. Als to (George) Bogle, [1775]
Hastings (Warren)
Autograph letter signed 2 pp., I am with the heartiest Affection, Dear Bogle Yrs. W. Hastings', to [George] Bogle, giving his unqualified approval of Bogle's conduct as envoy of the East India Company to the Techu Lama of Tibet and of the outcome of Bogle's recently completed mission, stating that his clear intention in sending Bogle to Tibet was to achieve 'an open Communication of Trade between Tibbett & Bengal' and that his previous desire to obtain permission to establish English residents in Tibet had been abandoned, 'Whatever I might have thought of this Point, I am now better pleased w. having failed in it', thanking Bogle for sending him his journal 'which the world must have. Its merit shall not be lost where I can make it known', endorsement on integral leaf 'Warren Hastings Calcutta 10 July 1775 Rec & Ans', 4to.,
£800-1,200 58
Hastings. Als to L.Mclean. 1770
Hastings (Warren)
Als to L. McLean, 8pp., discussing his plan.'for ye Incorporation of ye disciplined Forces of ye N[abo]b of Ouid with our own Brigades' . Explains in some detail the sequence of events leading to the current inordinate power of the Nabob of Ouid, following his acquittal of murder after 'a Farce of a Trial', 'ignorant and improvident as the Nabob is, he cannot fail to see his irretrievable Ruin in his Separation from this Govt. ...I myself am afraid of moving a Step in any Affair of Importance while my own Lot remains thus suspended...' 8vo., Fort William, 11 June 1777
£800-1,200
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Hastings...gratulatory letter signed by 178 officers.. Bengal Army
Hastings (Warren)
The engrossed gratulatory letter addressed to Warren Hastings and signed by 178 officers of the Bengal Army written on the occasion of his acquittal, vellum scroll, 48” x 24” [122 x 61cm.], 1795
Transcript.-
Warren Hastings Esq r
Sir,
The Officers of the Bengal Army bearing in their remembrance the Wisdom Moderation and Justice of your Administration in India, feel very heartfelt Satisfaction in congratulating you on your late honorable Acquittal, by the Peers of Great Britain, from Charges brought against you by the House of Commons, and supported by Men of the first Abilities in the Nation.
The Energy and Severity with which you have been for so many years prosecuted, the Magnanimity and Fortitude you have shewn during your Trial, and in declining to Solicit support, even when all the Power and Abilities of your Native Country seemed combined against you, place you in a point of View the most envied, the most honorable; for your Enemies have raised a Monument to your Fame, on which the Justice of our Country hath recorded the Integrity of your Mind and the Propriety, and Necessity of your public Conduct. May the Gratitude of the Community you have so long, so ably, and so faithfully served, be as conspicuous as your Merits and Disinterestedness have been publickly evinced. May your Sovereign, by conferring Honors upon you, prove the value he has for such a Subject, and by doing so, encrease the Approbation and Attachment of a free and generous People. With us, and with the Natives of this Country, your Name must ever be revered, and, with Clive's. be handed down with Honor, Respect, and Admiration to the latest posterity. We have the honor to be, with the greatest Respect and Esteem, Sir,
Your most Obedient & most humble Servants the 1st of October 1795
£1,200-1,500
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Imperial India Comp. Share Certificate No 4285 1723
Imperial India Company Share Certificate No 4285
In Dutch, issued to Pierre Garnier Certificate number 4285 in the 'Keyserlyche Indische Compagnie' in receipt of 250 guilders, signed by members of the company, the treasurer JB Cogels, Pietro Proli and others, watermarked laid paper with a handsome engraving of the Hapsburg crest, 320 x 200mm., 30th September 1723
£100-150
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Indian Mutiny - Collection of Correspondence [1857 - 1863]
The Indian Mutiny: Collection of 56 letters from Matthew John Harpley to his family from Allahabad, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Calcutta etc, 9 August 1857-17 April 1859, together with a collection of 42 letters and other documents relating to the Mutiny 8 October 1855- 25 March 1863. Matthew Harpley, a Veterinary Surgeon serving with E Troop, the Royal Horse Artillery, covers his entire service in India, the first letter being written on board ship off Queenstown, Ireland, the last in Calcutta on the eve of his return. His letters, provide, an informative and broadranging account of the campaigns of the succeeding year, chiefly on Oudh, and in particular of the advance on and siege of Lucknow. His accounts of the frequent skirmishes are vigorously told, a reflection of the vengeful mood of the time. Although particularly concerned with the military actions of the final stages of the Mutiny, Harpley's letters also provide a broader picture of the India of the Mutiny, where the destruction visited by both sides - Harpley describes on one expedition 'firing the villages as we passed through doing as much mischief as possible' - contrasts in other areas with the placidity of the peasants working the fields. The remainder of the collection includes two letters and a copy of a letter by Jardy Robinson to his mother, Cawnpore and Bulandshahr, 4 May 1857 - 20 October 1857, the copied letter being a dramatic description of a never-completed journey to Meerut on 11 May, the very morning after the mutiny there which is regarded as the first incident of the broader uprising. These collection of correspondence by Harpley and others describes many incidence during his time in India including vivid accounts of military operations, etc., some slight wear, one with rodant damage and loss to text, all contained within acetate sleeves and solander box, [1857 -1863]
***Provenance: Christie's London, 23 November 1998 (6055), lot 149 [See for full itemised description]
£2,500-3,500
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Indian Mutiny - Correspondence of Lt. Watson [1857-58]
Indian Mutiny. Watson (Lieutenant T.J.)
Collection of correspondence of Lieutenant Watson regarding the Indian Mutiny
A correspondence to and from Lt. Watson with the 46th Native Infantry and later the 1st Bengal Fusiliers, the contents concerning the beginning of the mutiny, the capture of Delhi, the relief of Lucknow and operations in the Oudh. The correspondence is arranged as a study of the collapse and re-establishment of postal services during the Mutiny. Lt. Watson was postmaster (and Provost Marshal) of the Oudh Field Force and later commanded a detachment of Hodson's Horse, many incorresp[ondence with his mother, together with.- Newspaper clippings.' Lahore Chronicle Extra, 1 February 1858'Telegraph communication has been restored with Calcutta via Futyghur.; Overland Mail'cPages – 'Incidents in the life of General George Campbell, C.B. Royal Horse Artillery'd - Pages'Extract from The Homeward Mail, 10th May 1882.; General George Campbell's - Newspaper clipping - 'Supplement to the Lahore Chronicle', 6 January 1858 - mentions Indian mutinyNewspaper clipping ; 'Supplement to the Lahore Chronicle Extra', 4 January 1858 - mentions Indian mutiny – newspaper clipping'Supplement to the Delhi Gazette', Agra, 3 March 1858; Newspaper page - 'The Lahore Chronicle', 30 January 1858, inscribed 'Lucknow'- Newspaper page – 'The Delhi Gazette Extraordinary', Lahore, 24 June 1857handwriting to the rear.
Als & Newspaper clipping together c. 80 items. [1857 – 1858 and 1882
Fuller details are available on request of Als'.
£1,000-1,500
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Indian Mutiny. Becher (Col. A.M.) Als'. 1857
[Col. (later Major General Sir) Arthur Mitford Becher,]
The Indian MutinyLetters from various Officers etc., to Mrs Frances Becher regarding the siege to Delhi, 12 Als to include reporting on the wounding of her husband 20-22 June 1857, one a postal entire addressed to Mrs Becher at Kussowitie, the remainder without covers; includes description of the incident in which Col. Becher was shot in the arm, dated 1-18 June 1857; 2-20 June 1857; 3-20 June 1857; 4-20 June 1857; 520 June 1857; 6-20 June 1857; 7-21 June 1857; 8-21 June 1857; 9-21 June 1857; 10-21 June 1857; 11-21 ; June 1857 12-22 June 1857, v.s. (12)
£600-800
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Indian Mutiny. Dodgson. Als' Lucknow 26th.Sept. 1857
Indian Mutiny Dodgson, Capt. D.C.
Letters concerning the incident at Alambagh, Lucknow 26th.Sept. 1857.
These letters provide an important insight into one of the outstanding episodes of the Indian Mutiny. They were contained within an envelope (present) bearing an explanatory autograph initialed note by Major General A. C. Becher, son of Col. Arthur Becher. Also include in the envelope was a contemporary sketch map and 3 pp. eye-witness account of the Battle of Ferozshur (Firozshah) 21-22 December 1845, written by Col. Arthur Becher during the Sikh War.
A406.1 - 10 October 1857, Lucknow - Copy of a letter from Colonel R. Napier to Captain D. C. Dodgson. § A406.2 - 14 January 1858 - Letter from Andrew Becher's fellow officer, Captain D. C. Dodgson, written to Colonel Arthur Becher, Andrew's brother. § A406.3 - 15 January 1858, Lucknow - letter from Dodgson's fellow officer, John Brown to D. C. Dodgson (includes copy of a letter dated 14 October 1857 to Colonel Napier). § A406.4 - 15 January 1858 - letter from Lieutenant J. Hudson, 64th Regiment. § A406.5 - Autograph manuscript x 2 - possibly eyewitness accounts or letters. § A406.6 - Envelope - inscribed 'Letters & descriptive of the wounding, subsequent gallant conduct & death on 6th October 1857 of my uncle Captain Andrew Becher. A.C.B [Major General A.C. Becher, son of Colonel Arthur Becher] Also memo & map, descriptive of the Battle of Ferozeshur - by my father A.C.B. § A406.7Contemporary sketch map and 3pp eye-witness account of the Battle of Ferozeshur (Firozsha) 21-22 December 1845, written by Colonel Arthur Becher during the Sikh Ware.
*** Three Privates were awarded the Victoria Cross, having remained in a house surrounded by rebel sepoys in order to protect the wounded Captain Andrew Becher and others. Privates James Hollowell, Peter McManus and John Ryan were all awarded the V.C. for their heroism. Andrew Becher, wounded when leading men of the 90th Regiment in a charge against the rebels, was rescued but died 10 days later.
All Als, contained and numbered as above with archival sleeves. v.s. (8)
£1,200-1,500
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Indian Mutiny. Evans Als' & Mackenzie Acct. 1857
Indian Mutiny. Evans, (John) Soldier.
Correspondence 3 x Als 7th & 18th October 1857
Als’ from 'Camp at Akberabad' and 'Moveable Column on march from Agra to Minepore' .
#A409.1 - Als - 7 October 1857 from Camp at Akberabad - John Evans to his father - Details of a skirmish in the streets of 'Boolunshur' with diagram of the charge made by the writer's cavalry troop § #A409.2 – Als. - 18 October 1857 from Moveable Column on march from Agra to Minepore - John Evans to Henry. § #A409.3Soldier's concession rate envelope (worn), November 1857 addressed to Mrs Thomas Woods, Lancashire, England from India - ex Ahmednuggur HQ London '2' charge, one envelope present. Together with Mackenzie (Capt. D.C.,) Account of the outbreak at Bareilly on 31st May 1857
Mss. 2 ll. (4pp), a vivid account of the outbreak of rebellion in the N. W. Provinces , v.s. (4)
£400-600 66
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Indian Mutiny. Map of Delhi and Als. [1857]
Indian Mutiny
Map of Delhi and an autograph letter, annotations in blue ink regarding the Indian Mutiny together with Elliott (A.) Als 4 folding pages, with regards to the Mutiny, 17 December 1857
£600-800 67
Indian Mutiny. Westamacott. Ails' x 8. [1857-61]
Indian Mutiny
Westmacott (G.R.)
Als’ G. R. Westmacott to his aunt regarding the Indian Mutiny 8 Als’ from G. R. Westmacott, a young officer serving at Mhow, to his aunt in London, written just before and during the early stages of the Indian Mutiny, giving a vivid account of the outbreak in his garrison (letter of 6 July 1857) and describing operations up to the taking of Sanoda (when he was serving with the 2nd Brigade India Field Force) by Sir Hugh Rose early in 1858, with two later letters (1861) Envelopes or address panels most from Mhow Fort, one from Camp Sanoda,.- 14 February to 3 February 1858, two short letters 1861 § Letters #A404.1 - 3 [February] 1857 - ? § #A404.2 - 14 February 1857 § #A404.3 - 24 March 1857 § #A404.4 - 22 May 1857 § #A404.5 - 6 July 1857 § #A404.6 - 29 October 1857 § #A404.7 - 9 December 1857 § #A404.8 - 3 February 1858 § #A404.9 - [October] 1861 § Envelopes (earliest readable mark noted)A404.10 - 24 March 1857 § #A404.11 - 22 May 1857 § #A404.12 - 5 July 1857 § #A404.13 - 30 September 1857 § #A404.14 - 8 October 1857 - contains cut-out stamp § #A404.15 - 29 October 1857 § #A404.16 - 9 December 1857 § #A404.17 - 3 February 1858 § #A404.18 - November 1861 [1857 – 1861] Approx.. 75pp. v.s.
£400-600
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Nehru. 6 Als. [1948 - 1957]
Nehru (Jawaharlal)
Six letters from Jawaharlal Nehru to Lord Pethick-Lawrence 5 on headed paper as Prime Minister of India expressing interest in his forthcoming book on Gandhi; signed in ink by Nehru, between Jult 1948 – May 1957; exerts.- 'for over 30 years I was with him and I could never fully understand or fathom him...obviously vast numbers of people in India who revered and followed Ganhiji had little...appreciation of him or his teachings. And yet It think it is true to say that instinctively they did appreciate the basic thing for which he stood...he represented something deep down in the Indian spirit...', discussing the demand for the withdrawal of India from the Commonwealth, '...the situation is a dangerous one...' and urging Lord Pethick-Lawrence not to worry about him, '...it is not so much a matter of physical health as mental health. It becomes difficult sometimes to face calmly and with equanimity many of the things that happen in India or elsewhere...' v.s (7)
£1,200-1,500
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Smythe. Als on Everest to Christy Lecture Agency 1933
Smythe, (Francis Sydney)
Autograph letter to the Christy Lecture Agency regarding Everest Expedition of 1933
2pp., Autograph letter signed by F. S. Smythe, in faint pencil, to the Christy Lecture Agency who sponsored the expedition to Everest, reporting in vivid detail on why they failed to reach the summit (Shipton collapsed and Smythe tried to go on alone under terrible conditions). headed stationery of the Expedition, Base Camp, foolscape, 24 June 1933
£200-300
Tipoo Sultaun. Negotiations with the French, Calcutta, 1799
Tipoo Sultaun
Official documents relative to the negotiations carried on by Tipoo Sultaun, with the French Nation and other foreign states, for purposes hostile to the British Nation; to which is added Proceedings of a Jacobin Club, formed at Seringapatam, by the French Soldiers in the corps commanded by M. Dompart, translated by N.B. Edmonstone and G.G. Keble.
First edition, text inEnglish and French, with a contemporary manuscript annotation on contents leaf '...Transmitted by the Persian Translator by order of the Governor General in Council', correction with annotation in lower margin on p.xvii, rebound in later full morocco with original contemporary mottled calf sides laid-down over covers, red leather letter label, small bookplates to front paste-down, 4to., Calcutta: the Honourable Company's Press, 1799
£1,500-1,800
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Boeck. Himalaya Album. Bilder aus den indischen Alpen. [1894] Boeck (Kurt)
Himalaya Album. Bilder aus den indischen Alpen.
first edition, 16pp. text, 20 photogravure plates, contemporary note in pencil below each image in German, original folding pictorial portfolio gilt, upper left and lower right title slightly torn, portfolio a little rubbed, Baden-Baden: Friedrich Spies, [1894]
£400-600
Holmes. Three Pathan Portraits, [1915] Holmes, (Randloph Bezzant) Photographer
Three Pathan Portraits,,
platinum prints, one portrait of an elderly Pathan man, image/sheet size 280 x 22o.,mm. signed, numbered and captioned in the negative, laiddown on card; a Pathan woman, image/sheet size 260 x 215 mm, signed, titled 'Pathan Woman NWFP India' and numbered 124 in the negative, with RB Holmes' Peshawar copyright stamp to verso; and 'The Tribal Man', image 280 x 210mm., numbered 125 and signed in the negative, RB Holmes' Peshawar copyright stamp to verso. [c. 1915] (3)
£300-400
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Howard-Bury. Vintage Photos. Everest x 8 [1921]
Howard-Bury, D.S.O, (Lieutenant-Colonel C.K.) Vintage photographs from the First Assault on Everest.
Group 1
Everest Expedition Team (photographers) No. 1 - Pethang-Tse 56 x 43 cm. No. 2 - Everest Snow Peaks 56 x 43.3 cm. No. 14 - North-East of Mount Everest and Chang La from Lhakpa La 44.5 x 54.5 cm.Three carbon prints, each with Copyright Mt. Everest Committee stamped in margin, titled and numbered in pencil on verso In his diary entry for September 19, 1921, Howard-Bury wrote "A couple of hundred feet below the camp was a big white glacier which descended from the Lhakpa La. The day was gloriously fine, and we obtained magnificent views of Mount Everest".
Group 2
Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury and others (photographers) No. 3 - Chomolhari from the South 56 x 43.2 cm. No. 5 - Makalu and Chomolönzo 44.3 x 54.5 cm. No. 8 - Makalu from 21,500 foot peak on ridge south of Kamachu 47 x 57.6 cm. Three carbon prints, each with Copyright Mt. Everest Committee stamped in margin, titled and numbered in pencil on verso
Diary note May 31, 1921, "I thought it would be a good thing to try and get some photos of Chomolhari, so taking a couple of ponies I started off with camera and rifle...I rode through a delightful valley full of dwarf rhododendron and various little primulas, until I reached...17,500 feet whence I had a lovely view of Chomolhari and over the sunny peaks of Bhutan..."
Group 3
Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury (photographer) No. 11 - The Abbot of Shekar Chöte 58.5 x 45.8 cm.Carbon print, with Copyright Mt. Everest Committee stamped in margin, titled and numbered in pencil on verso Diary entry for June 17, 1921 "We went in to see the Head Lama, an old man of 72 who had lived 66 years in this
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monastery. He had only one tooth left in his mouth but for all that he had a very pleasant smile...The other monks induced him to have his photograph taken and beautiful robes and brocades were brought out for the occasion. He was absolutely like a child, very bashful, yet longing to be taken."
Group 4
Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury (photographer) No. 10 - The Dzongpen of Kharta and his wife
44.5 x 54.5Carbon print, with Copyright Mt. Everest Committee stamped in margin, titled and numbered in pencil on verso Diary entry July 31, 1921, "After lunch I took a photo of the Jongpen and his young wife who had a very elaborate head dress of coral and pearls with masses of false hair on either side of her head. It was rather becoming."
Collection of 8 images.
£1,200-1,500
India - Order of the Black Heart [1891 - 1931] India – Simla Order of the Black Heart
A group portrait of members of the Order at Simla, gelatin silver print, mounted on an album leaf back to back, sitters captioned in manuscript on the mount, Order's motto and crest pasted to mount, 210 x 280mm., 1930; together with a similar group portrait dated 1931, together with a booklet regarding the Order's final London reunion, ephemera relating to the Order. v.s. (sm qty)
*** A newspaper clipping inserted into a letter on the Order's headed note paper (to "Brother Drake" from the "Prelate") states: "It was in 1891 that 25 bachelors with that famous epicure Col. Newnham-Davies (the Dwarf of Blood) at their head founded the Order, restricted to Benedicts and "those not living in open matrimony.
£250-350
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Johnston & Hoffman. 'Souvenir of the Royal Visit to Calcutta',
Johnston & Hoffman
'Souvenir of the Royal Visit to Calcutta',
Presentation album of twelve photographs, platinum prints, various sizes mounted one-perpage with printed titles and photographers' credits on mounts, printed title page .... presented by Maharaj-Kumar Sir Prodyot Coomar Tagore, Tagore Castle, Calcutta, January 1906, signed and inscribed in ink W. Coldstream Esqr B.A. With my best Compliments. Prodyot C. Tagore, a small cutting from The Times applied below inscription, dark maroon leather, titled in gilt on spine, a.e.g., mounts foxed, binding worn, portion of spine lacking, oblong 4to., Calcutta, January 1906
£800-1,200
76
Photograph of the Dhaka College Cricket Team - 1896
Photography – India – Cricket
Photograph of the Dhaka College Cricket Team,
Captioned in ink 'Dacca College Cricket Team 1896' (lower centre)
Annotation to verso, 'Kandian Lady. Ceylon.'16.5 x 21.5 cm. – unframed, 1896
Provenance
Bonhams London, India in Photographs: the Collection of Kanwardip Gujral, 9 April 2008
£150-200
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Photographic. Afghanistan - Military [1878-80]
Photographic albumen prints, Afghanistan – North West Fontier
54 views relating to the Second Afghan War, : forts, valleys, encampments, passes, military exercises, regimental groups (formal and informal, including the 9th Gurkha Rifles, Royal Horse Artillery, several medical corps), images approx.sizes 205 x 370 & 130 x 270mm. [1878 –1880] (54)
£3,000-4,000
Photography. Jamini Roy at work, [1942] Jamini Roy at work, two black and white photographs, each showing the artist at work on a painting of a cow, each framed in a clip frame, Calcutta, circa 1942, (negligible wear) - images 200 x 250 mm., 180 x 125mm, 130 x 85mm., Calcutta, 1942
***Photographs taken by Anthony Denny, Provenance: Christie's London, Islamic and Oriental Works of Art, 14 October 1999, £800-1,200
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Lin-Le [Augustus F. Lindley] Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh; The History Of The Ti- Ping Revolution, 1866 Lin-Le [Augustus F. Lindley] Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh; The History Of The Ti- Ping Revolution, Including A Narrative Of The Author's Personal Adventures, 2 vols. in 1, First edition, 20 plates only, lacking map of China to vol. 2, spotting to endpapers and some to plates, later half calf gilt, large 8vo, Day & Son, 1866 From the collection of a gentleman who lived in Shanghai and Hong Kong between the late 19th century and 1925; thence by descent.
£100-150
Odell (Noel) [1890-1938] Archive of Als' and Property Odell (Noel E.) [1890 – 1938] Archive Everest Expeditions. 1924 and 1938
Three awards made to Professor Noel Odell, in recognition of his achievements in exploration in general and on Mount Everest and Nanda Devi in particular. He was the last to see Mallory and Irvine alive during the 1924 assault on Everest, twice climbing to 27,000ft. in his efforts to find them; he made the first ascent of the Nanda Devi (25,640ft) with Bill Tilman in 1936 and returned to Everest again in 1938
The Livingstone Gold Medal awarded by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, 1944, diameter 63mm., silver-gilt, weight 121gms., edge inscribed TO MAJOR N.E.ODELL, F.R.G.S., FOR SERVICES TO EXPLORATION IN SPITSBERGEN, CANADA, LABRADOR, GREENLAND, NANDI DEVI & MOUNT
EVEREST lettered Fiat Lux on a ribband above, signed Maccillivray, in fitted A.Kirkwood & Son case. Extremely fine § A silver plaquette awarded to Odell by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, [n.d.], 75 x 53mm., edge stamped SILVER 1925, the obverse engraved Noel E. Odell, lettered (top left) Den.11.Juli 1897 (lower right) Till .minne.af.Anfrées Strinbergs.o.Fraenkels
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Nordpolsfärd Af Svenska.Sällskapet för.Antropologi och.Geografi.1905, signed E.[rik] Lindberg, in fitted J.R.Gaunt & Son case. Extremely fine. Lindberg's best known commission was for the Nobel Prize medallions § Bronze medal awarded to Odell by the University of Helsinki, [1959], diameter 70mm. ["Presented by the Chancellor of the Univy., Prof Edwin Linkomier, former Prime Minister of Finland"].
Correspondence to Noel E. Odell from members of the 1936 Everest Expedition and others associated with the project
A collection of autograph letters signed, letters signed and autograph postcards signed to Noel E. Odell from members of the 1936 Everest Expedition and others associated with the project, including Eric Shipton, Hugh Ruttledge (3), Lord Conway of Allington (4), T.G. Longstaff (4), Francis Younghusband, E.J. Norton (2) and H.E.G. Tyndale, 1935-1936, together approximately 25 pages, various sizes, in autograph, and 4 pages, 4to, in typescript.Together with: A collection of further correspondence concerning the expedition, and notes and drafts in Odell's hand, 28 pages, various sizes, in Odell's autograph, the total approximately 122 pages, various sizes.SWAINE (photographers). Photograph of the Annual Board Meeting of the Alpine Club, 1929, 6.1/8 x 14.3/8in. (15.7 x 41.3cm), mounted on card. [1935-36]
A group of items which belonged to Noel E. Odell
Preliminary Map showing original surveys made by Mt. Everest Detachment 1921. [?London: 1922]. Lithographed map printed in colours, 75 x 112cm. (clean tears and some soiling). This map, of the Himalayas and Tibet, is the first to show the results of the pioneering R.G.S. survey team led by Colonel Howard-Bury. In his report to the society he wrote that "The expedition accomplished what it set out to do. All the approaches to Mount Everest from the north, north-west and east were carefully reconnoitred, and a possible route to the top was found via the north-east ridge... Some 13,000 square miles of new country was surveyed and mapped." The expedition reached a height of 23,000ft. and produced maps of such accuracy that they are still in use today.
A gilt metal altimeter by A. & N C. S.L., 36mm. diameter, silvered dial calibrated from 23,000 to 31,000ft., with the hand indicating 27,000ft, fitted red morocco case (Box 1 - Everest)Odell twice
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reached 27,000ft. whilst searching for Irvine and Mallory during the 1924 expedition. § A brass pocket sextant by Wilson London, 1916, length 106mm., in leather case with shoulder-strap, ink inscription on lid NE. Odell § A brass Watkin's Clinometer by J. Hicks of 2 Hatton Garden , London, 72mm. diameter, engraved on base John B. Corry, in fitted leather case with tooled initials N.E.O. § a 1 page typed letter, signed, from Sydney Spencer of the Everest committee, signed, to Odell, dated 7 Dec. 1924, concerning the purchasing of 'personal kit' § a Christmas card for 1924 with a climber on an ice-slope on the front and a reproduction of a watercolour view of Everest by Norton on the inside, unused § 7 modern 8 x 10inch photographs printed from negatives made on the 1924 expedition § 2 cigarette cards from Player's Mount Everest series (Box 2 - Everest)§ 3 sets of Mount Everest Expedition Postcards, 6 cards per series in three original envelopes, unused § Enlarged modern facsimiles of Odell's diary covering the period of his search for Mallory and Irving)
A collection of Tibetan artefacts assembled by Noel E Odell in the course of the 1924 Everest expedition
A collection of Tibetan artefacts assembled by Noel E. Odell in the course of the 1924 expedition, consisting of.- a clay plaque (with hand-written note reading 'Clay Plaque with Buddha found in mani wall with shrines near Chala, east of Shekar, Tibet'); a clay tribute (with hand-written note reading 'Clay 'Tribute' found in a shrine with Buddhas, near Omalubg, on south side of Pang La, Tibet'); a small collection of Tibetan silver and copper coins (13 coins, and a small brown envelope);a Tibetan banknote and explanatory leaflet (leaflet details currency value, and an envelope with hand-writing 'Tibetan Bank Note/ 50 trankav = Rs.1.14); a phial of Tibetan pills (with a note inside the phial with hand-writing reading 'Tibetan Pills from the Abbot of Rongbuk'; two packets of dried Himalayan flowers, dated 1924 (one packet with hand-writing 'Himalayan Spring Flowers (11.000 -13.000 ft.) 1924' and the other 'Himalayan Edelweiss (white)/ "Incarville Younghusbandii" (after Sir Francis Younghusband) (pink flower) (1924)', there are two loose white flowers;7-and a folded leaf of Tibetan paper (with pencil writing reading 'Tibetan Paper/ manufactured at Shoktn [?], Rongshar Valley' (7)
Provenance: Sold at Christies 1997 & 1999 £4,000-6,000
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Photography. Country Dancers. 'Tibetans'. [c.1890's]
Harrington & Company
Country Dancers. 'Tibetans'; 'The Witch of Gloom' & 2 others, albumen prints, two titled in pencil and photographer's ink credit stamp on verso Harrington & Company, matted, images c. 210 x 285mm. landscape or portrait, Darjeeling, [c. 1890’s]
£800-1,200
Tibetan. A Gold Damascened Iron Pen Case Tibet.
A Gold Damascened Iron Pen Case
18th century finely carved in openwork with auspicious shou characters amid leafy scrolls, the reverse with incised floral meanders highlighted in gold 36.8 cm. long, Tibet, c.18th.
£1,000-1,500
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Ogawa [Kazumasa] Scenes in Nikko and Vicinity [with] Costumes & Customs in Japan Ogawa [Kazumasa]
Scenes in Nikko and Vicinity [with] Costumes & Customs in Japan, 2 vols., each with 12 collotype plates, and captioned tissue guards, some spotting, various paper labels and stickers of the Royal College of Art Library to wrappers, original decorative printed card wrappers, cord ties, staining, splitting, some loss and tape repairs along spines, folio, Kelly and Walsh, 1895 (3)
£200-300
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Photographs. Japan. Laquered Album. [c.1885] Photographs. [Japan].
50 mounted tinted photos of Japanese people and scenes in a lacquered photo album, original lacquered covers, leather spine, gilt, some tissues torn or missing, a near fine copy,original padded card box, [c. 1885]
£150-200
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Heyder (H. M.) Captain, ‘War Diary 1919’ [Turkey and Georgia]
Heyder (H. M.) Captain, Northumberland Fusilliers
‘War Diary 1919’ [Turkey and Georgia]
A typewritten account, 98 pp., and archive, including: War Office letters marked ‘secret’; Military intelligence report regarding ‘robberies and murders in Tiflis’ [Tblisi]; British Military Traffic railway orders, Tiflis; telegrams regarding: disputes between British and Georgian soldiers, ‘the English do not give water to our troops’, and Bolshevik literature distributed to troops ‘by women employed and paid by the Bolshevik Commissars attempts are being made to bring out a Bolshevik pamphlet in Hindustani’; enemy troop summaries for the Caucasus; photographs of Istanbul, Dardanelles; 'note on the city of Baku’; related ephemera; and a small quanitity of maps: Constantinople & surrounding country, War office map, lithograph, revised to 1909; Tiflis, ‘G. S. I. Transcaucasia Tiflis no. 9’, 1919; Tiflis, ‘Adv. G. H., Q. Britforce’ map, annotated with a manuscript key to military sites, 1918; Russian map of Tblisi, 1913; all in card folder, 36 x 24 cm.
£200-300
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Mirkhand, Books 3 and 4, Rawzat As-Safa, Iran, 18th century
Mirkhand
Books 3 and 4, Rawzat As-Safa Fi Sirat Al Anbia Wa'l Moluk Wa'l Khulafa (The Garden of Purity in the Histories of the Prohets, and Kings and Caliphs), Iran, 18th century
Persian manuscript on 18th century laid European armorial (possibly Strasbourg bend) watermarked paper, 209 ff., each folio with 31ll. of black nasta’ liqscript, the opening folio of each section profusely worked in opaque polychrome pigments, sub-heads and underlining of significant phrases in red, containing 12 miniatures in opaque polychromes illustrating the text, within gold, black, and blue rules, catchwords, colophon notes dated 1282 (1865), and 8 Muharram 1338 (3 October 1919) and reference to Shiraz as place of purchase, in morocco binding, the text panel 30.3cm x 18.3, the folio 41.8cm x 27.5cm.
***Considered by many scholars the greatest history in Persian of the Islamic world, the seven volumes, completed in 1497, explore the origins of Islam, early Islamic history, and history of Iran. The eighth volume is a geographical index. Under the patronage of Mir Ali Shir Navai (d. 1501), minister of the Timurid ruler Sultan Husayn Bayqara (r.1469-1506), the scholarly historian Mirkhand (1433-1498) referenced scores of Arabic and Persian histories, creating a work that became the basis for many subsequent histories.
£600-800
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Saadi (1210-1291) Folio from book 2, Bustan (The Orchard, completed 1257), with four miniatures
Saadi (1210-1291) Poetry folio from book 2, Bustan (The Orchard, completed 1257), with four miniatures, mostly Iran, 18th and 19th century Persian manuscript on Italian laid paper, watermarked Bellando, 16ll. to the page, in black nasta’liq script, headings in red, the central panel in two columns of hemistiches, the marginal hemistiches in diagonals, in black and gold rules, catchword, the text panel 19.8cm x 9.6cm, the folio 28.8cm x 17.5cm; with: An Indian miniature folio in opaque polychromes and metallic highlights, depicting a feasting encampment, the painting recent on repurposed older paper with unrelated Urdu script above and below, in gold-coloured mount, framed and glazed, the text panel 22cm x 14cm, 36.2cm x 26.5cm including frame; A pair of miniatures numbered 2 and 3 Persian, in opaque polychromes on paper from a late 18th century provincial Persian manuscript, one depicting an enthroned king in a floral setting, attended by courtiers and a tar player by a stream, framed and glazed, the panel 20cm x 11cm, 27.2cm x 16.7cm including frame, the other depicting debating scholars by a garden pavilion, the panel 19.7cm x 10.5cm, 24.3cm x 15cm including frame; and: A 19th century revivalist miniature of a young Safavid prince attended by riding companions, in conversation with a sage kneeling in a floral landscape, mounted and glazed, the folio 19.5cm x 16.7cm, 25.7cm x 20cm, including frame; and a Japanese woodblock print, marked Kiyonaga, later printing (6)
£300-400
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Travel & Natural History. sm. qty. Trinkler (Emil)
Through the Heart of Afghanistan, First edition, illustrated, maps, 1928 § Hedin (Sven) Riddles of the Gobi Desert, first edition, illustrations, map, 1933 § Campbell (Dugald) Wanderings in Central Africa, first edition, map, 1929, all in library bindings and stamped, worn together with others similar and a small quantity of natural history, v.s (qty)
£150-200
Travel: Curzon Jun. (Hon. Robert) Visits to Monasteries in the Levant Travel
Curzon Jun. (Hon. Robert)
Visits to Monasteries in the Levant, First edition, engraved frontispiece, vignette title and 15 plates (1 folding), tissue guards, spotting to title and intermittently to plates, some staining, bookplate of Thomas Henry Farrer to front pastedown, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbing to extremities, John Murray, 1849; with another copy lacking the folding plan; Armenia: A Year at Erzeroom, and on the Frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, First edition, 5 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, engraved map, 4 pp. advertisements at rear, heavy spotting to frontispiece and title page, publisher’s gilt-stamped cloth, rebacked preserving spine, some cracking internally, 8vo, John Murray, 1854; with a third edition of the same title; 8vo (4)
£200-300
Travel: Walsh (Robert) Narrative of a Journey from Constantinople to England Travel
Walsh (Robert) Narrative of a Journey from Constantinople to England, First edition, [scarce, this edition not in Blackmer or Atabey], ink signature ‘S. Hey’ to title page, 2 folding lithographic maps and 8 plates (one folding), title and front free endpaper detached, maps pasted to both endpapers and with staining, offsetting to title, occasional further staining and spotting, 19th century cloth, gilt morocco lettering label to spine, fading and marking, some splitting to spine, Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, 1828; Backhouse (E.) & Bland (J. O. P.) Annals & Memoirs of the Court of Peking (From the 16th to the 20th Century), First edition, 25 photographic plates including folding panorama, errata slip, occasional spotting and browning, publisher’s gilt-stamped cloth, minor subbing to extremities, William Heinemann, 1914; and one other similar, v.s. (3)
£200-300
Le Vaillant. Voyage dans l'Interieur de l'Afrique 1790, [1795-96]
Le Vaillant (François)
Voyage dans l'Interieur de l'Afrique, par Le Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Paris: Chez Leroy, 1790. --Second Voyage dans l'Interieur de l'Afrique. 4 vol. bound in 3, first edition, first voyage, 2 vol in 1, 12 engraved plates, with the plate of the "Hottentot" woman facing p. 371 (supressed in later editions). Paris: Chez Leroy, 1790; Second Voyage, 2 vol., 22 en-graved plates, Paris: Chez H.J. Jansen, [1795/96], contemporary russia, rebacked in calf, worn, foxed throughout, 4to., (3)
£300-400
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Slavery in South Africa. Collection of Letters. 1827 - 31
Slavery in South Africa.
A collection of letters and documents.
A large and important archive from the Offices for the Enregisterment or Protection of Slaves at Cape Town, as well as at Grahamstown, Graaff Reinet, Simons Town, Stellenbosch, Swellendam and Uitenhage, between 1816 and 1838. Slavery was abolished in South Africaand throughout the British Empire - on 1 January 1834, following the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act. To include documents registering the ownership of slaves, fines for the late registerement of slaves, documents raising mortgages against slaves, documents relating to the manumission, punishment, crimes and mistreatment of slaves, and documents relating to the abolition of slavery and the compensation of slave owners. As follows.-
i) Various letters and documents including letter signed, by a slave named Rachel promising to keep the peace or forfeit 10 pounds, 1833; customs certificate, certifying that a slave had arrived on the Brig "Venus" from Mauritius, 1825; birth certificates of children born to slaves [3]; a number of letters concerning the purchase, sale or transfer of ownership of slaves; a number of address-panels mainly to Major G.J. Rogers, Protector of Slaves at Cape Town; together c.44 items, 4to and folio, Cape Town, 1818-1834
ii) Letters signed, to Major Rogers, Inspector for the Enregisterment of Slaves, headed ‘Colonial Secretary’s Office’, ‘on His Majesty’s Service’ or ‘Secretary’s Office’, with other related correspondence and address wrappers, 14 items, mainly 4to, 1816-1825
iii) Address wrappers, from the Colonial Secretary’s office, 19 pages, 4to, no date
iv) Certificates signed, from the Office for the Enregisterment of Slaves, registering adult slaves [2], infants born to slave women [13]; with letters concerning fines issued for failing to register slaves within the specified period since
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their purchase, together 21 items, 4to and folio, Cape Town, 1816-1834
v) Certificates signed, from the Office for the Enregisterment of Slaves, registering slaves, 10 items, mainly folio, Cape Town, 1818-1825
vi) Documents signed, from the Office for the Enregisterment of Slaves, concerning the raising of mortgages against slaves [4]; with letters signed, concerning the cancellation of mortgages, to-gether 7 items, 4to and folio, 1822 -1834
vii) Certificate signed, from the Office for the Enregisterment of Slaves, listing 19 slaves belonging to Miss Clara Gous; letter signed, from the Insolvent Estates Chamber, listing 11 slaves they have sold; list detailing 40 slaves with their name, age, place of birth, owner, dates of seizure and sale, auction price and purchaser, 3 documents, 1822, folio, 1817-1822
viii) Letters and documents detailing the manumission of slaves, including a certificate signed, with wax seal of the Protector of Slaves Office, stating that a female slave named Charlotte bought her own freedom and that of her child when sold at auction, 1831; letter signed, from the Hospi-tal for Infirm Government Slaves, listing four slaves who wish to be freed, with details of three others that were given freedom papers but who wish to remain government slaves, 1828; letter granting freedom of three slaves upon their master’s death; with other similar letters and docu-ments, together 7 items, mainly folio, 1824-1831
ix) A series concerning a slave, Rachel, claiming her freedom under the laws of the British Government as she was brought to the colony by a British naval vessel and sold by the Admiral-ty, including letter signed from the Police Office detailing her case, 1826; a copy of her original 1807 sale notice, describing the auction of 150 slaves from the Coast of Guinea who were part of the cargo of the American ship
“Ann”, which was captured by the British navy and brought into Cape Town, with the slaves sold on orders of the British admiralty; with other related documents discussing Rachel and 5 other slaves, together 9 items, folio, 1807-1826
x) Detailing crimes and punishments of slaves, including signed, from Cape Town Prison, concerning the slaves Thomas, Africa and Daniel that had been executed because they had authored an anonymous placard which was “wickedly malicious” and cast the character of His Excellency the Governor in a negative light, May-June 1824; report signed, detailing an account of the slave November wounding another
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slave boy; letter signed from a slave, Laurie, pleading his innocence to a charge of robbery, 1832; with other letters including one addressed to the Protector of Slaves, 7 pages, mainly folio, Cape Town, 1824-32
xi) On the punishment of slaves, including three forms detailing a punish-ment of 20 stripes with a thin piece of rein for neglect of duty or for illtreating other slave chil-dren; statements signed, swearing that the signatory has not inflicted punishment upon their slaves; letter signed, by a doctor stating they have examined a slave and no marks of punishment were found, with other related letters and documents, together 18 items, folio and 4to, 1827-1831
£800-1,200
Miscellany: Edwards (Bryan) The History, Civil And Commercial, Of The British Colonies In The West Indies, 1807
Edwards (Bryan)
The History, Civil And Commercial, Of The British Colonies In The West Indies,
3 vols., fourth edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 9 engraved plates only (of 10), 11 folding maps, some spotting and staining, a few with tears along folds or at joint, modern half leather, rubbed and with loss to spine, for John Stockdale, 1807; with miscellaneous other volumes of Natural History, English Literature, v.s. (13)
£150-250
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Mountford. Nomads of the Australian Desert, Adelaide, 1976
Mountford (Charles P.)
Nomads of the Australian Desert, First edition, coloured plates, one folding, and numerous illustrations and text maps; , original cloth, dust-jacket, with original announcement slip laid-in stating how this book could be used, lge 8vo, Adelaide, 1976
£200-300
Berlin, Leipzig & Breslau
The City of Berlin, Leipzig & Breslau, three hand-coloured engravings, titles also in French, Frost & Reed Gallery labels to the verso, framed & glazed, overall 49 x 64cm, Leipzig and Berlin views with later imprint of Laurie & Whittle, [1794 - 1812] (3)
£200-300
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Spain: Travel and history, including Peninsular War
Spain: Travel and history, including Peninsular War
A collection of 11 volumes, including:
Jacob (William) Travels in the South of Spain, in letters written A.D. 1809 and 1810, First edition, folding plan of Cadiz (with aquatint panorama below), and 12 uncoloured aquatint plates, lacking half-title, a few short tears or loss in margin, spotting and browning, although plates less affected, modern bookplate to front pastedown, signature of Revd. J. R. Hughes to verso of front free endpaper, contemporary cloth with gilt morocco lettering label to spine, fading, some loss to head and foot of spine, [Abbey Travel 145], J. Johnson and Co. & W. Miller., 1811; Moore (James) A Narrative of the Campaign Of The British Army in Spain…, First edition, stipple portrait frontispiece, aquatint plate, two folding maps, some spotting, contemporary bookplate of George Moore to front pastedown, contemporary half calf, worn with upper board detached, for Joseph Johnson, 1809; [Fane (John, Lord Burghersh)] Memoir of the Early Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington, in Portugal and Spain, First edition, half-title, spotting throughout, publisher’s paper-covered boards with printed label to spine, browned and rubbed, some loss at foot of spine, ink inscription to upper board, John Murray, 1820; Doblado (Don Leucadio) [Joseph Blanco White], Letters from Spain, First edition, no half-title, contemporary signature to title page, some heavy spotting throughout, contemporary half calf, worn, upper board detached, Henry Colburn & Co, 1822; with others similar, v.s. (11)
£400-600
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[Percy] Rose Castle original water colours [1829]
[Percy (M. J.) artist] Rose Castle.
Collection of 11 original watercolour of the castle and surrounding views some with local figures, all in sepia and a few highlighted in colour, 3 signed and two titled by the artist M.J.Percy, the last a double-page image of the castle titled on the verso ‘Rose Castle as it was in 1829’, images land-scape & portrait, approx.. 360 x 265 mm., the last c. 720 x 265mm., original landscape watercolour album, half morocco over marbled boards, worn, [1829]
***Rose Castle was the residence of the Bishops of Carlisle. Bishop Hugh Percy served there [1827-56]. He made changes to the castle in the re-gency gothic style using the architect Thomas Rickman.
£400-600
Dugdale (Thomas) Curiosities of Great Britain
Dugdale (Thomas)
Curiosities of Great Britain. England & Wales
Delineated, 10 vols., each vol. with a frontispiece and engraved title page, 57 double-paged maps (only), 234 plates, offsetting and spotting throughout, later inscription to front free endpaper of vol. 1, original publisher’s cloth gilt, discoloured, L. Tallis, n.d.
£150-200
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HMSO Royal Commission on London Traffic. HMSO Royal Commission on London Traffic. Vol.6. pt.1 only, 55 maps folded and laid-down on cloth as issued, to-gether with diagrams and index, title-page and boards loose, lacking spine, HMSO, 1906 § Metropolitan Borough of Stepney. Renumbering & Renaming Orders 1900 – 1908, 28 maps of changed and renumnbered streets, mounted on stubs with notes of minutes pertaining to the changes, original ledger, worn, lacking spine, Borough Engineers Dept., sm. folio, (2)
£150-200
Jefferys (Thomas) A Profile of the River Thames, 1771
Jefferys (Thomas)
A Profile of the River Thames from Boulters Lock to Mortlake Surveyed by Order of the City of London in 1770 by James Brindley Engineer, hand-coloured engraved profile on three conjoined sheets, from Brindley’s ‘Official Report to the Committee of the Common-Council of the City of London, of his Survey…’, spotting and offsetting, sheet overall 31 x 215 cm, with 1p. letterpress description, within later quarter morocco boards, spine gilt-lettered, rubbed, 1771.
£200-300
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The Thames: Tombleson and others
The Thames
Fearnside (W. G.) Eighty Picturesque Views on the Thames and Medway, Black and Armstrong, [Tombleson’s Thames], additional decorative engraved title, folding engraved pictorial linear map on two sheets conjoined, 79 plates (including frontispiece), no dedication, browning and staining throughout, pp. 59 trimmed and creased, reattached, early-20th century inscription and birthday card to front endpaper, publisher’s blind-stamped and gilt-lettered cloth, a.e.g., rebacked preserving cloth, extremities rubbed, Black and Armstrong, c. 1850; Ireland (Samuel) Picturesque Views on the River Thames, from its Source in Gloucestershire to the Nore: with observations…, 2 vols., First edition, half-titles, additional decorative titles, 2 maps and 52 sepia aquatint plates, intermittent staining and spotting, offsetting from plates, errata leaves, 1p. advert for ‘Picturesque Beauties of the River Medway’ at rear of vol. 2, [Abbey, Scenery 430], modern half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, T. & G. Egerton, 1792; v.s., with Pierce Egan’s ‘Pilgrims of the Thames’ and a disbound George II act for a bridge (5)
£300-400
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The Thames: topography and literature
The Thames
A collection of topography and literature, including:
Jerome (Jerome K.) Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog), First edition, with publisher’s address ‘Quay Street’, Bristol, Rodgers & Read’s third state with the heading of front endpaper as ‘II Quay Street, Bristol’, further adverts at rear, in-text illustrations, intermittent staining, 4 central quires slightly loose, original printed cloth gilt, discoloured and rubbed, J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889; Way (Thomas R.) The Thames From Chelsea to the Nore. Drawn in Lithography by Thomas R. Way and with Descriptive Text by Walter G. Bell, Limited edition, number 126 of 310 copies initialled TRW by the artist, 30 lithographs, browning to free endpapers, some spotting, original cloth gilt, t.e.g., John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907; Haslehurst (Ernest W.) illustrator & Jerrold (Walter) The Silvery Thames, Edition de Luxe, Number 39 of 200 copies, signed by both, 60 tipped-in coloured plates, pictorial endpapers, half vellum gilt, cracking to upper joint, oblong folio, Alf Cooke, 1906; v.s., with others similar (8)
£200-300
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Topography and History
Topography and History
Morris (F. O., Revd.) editor, A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland with Descriptive and Historical Letterpress, 6 vols., lacking supplement volume (as often), each with chromolithographic frontispiece and vignette title page, 240 plates, some spotting and offsetting, William Mackenzie, [1880]; Payn (James) The Lakes in Sunshine, First edition, 13 albumen prints, J. Garnett, Windermere, 1867; with an 1871 edition; Pyne (J. B.) Lake scenery of England, lithographic title and 24 plates by T. Picken, original decorative cloth gilt, some splitting and loss at foot of spine, Day & son, 1859; with two similar history series’, all in the publisher's decorative cloth gilt, 4to (16)
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Butler (Arthur G.) Foreign Finches in Captivity, Butler (Arthur G.)
Foreign Finches in Captivity, first edition, 60 hand-coloured lithographed plates after F.W. Frohawk, contemporary half morocco, rebacked and new corners in cloth, new end-papers, original front wrappers boundin at end, small ZSL stamp to front endpaper, title-page and wrappers, internally good, [Nissen IVB 169], 4to, 1894-96
£400-600
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Crawshay (Richard)The Birds of Tierra del Fuego, 1907
Crawshay (Richard)
The Birds of Tierra del Fuego, first edition, number 51 of 300 copies, woodengraved dedication, 21 hand-coloured lithographed plates of birds, 23 photogravure views, colour map at end, modern brown buckram library binding for the ZSL with their stamp to front endpaper and title-page, t.e.g, [Nissen IVB 212; Wood, p.305; Zimmer, p.151], 4to, Bernard Quaritch, 1907
£300-400
Daniell: Interesting Selections from Animated Nature with Illustrated Scenery, Daniell (William)
Interesting Selections from Animated Nature with Illustrated Scenery, 2 vols, 120 engraved plates and descriptive text, half morocco, vol. I worn with boards detached, vol.II, rebacked, ink stamps of the ZLS to endpapers and title-pages, plates spotted in margins, sm. folio, For T. Cadell and W. Davis, [1807- 1812]
£400-600
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Emerson. Wild Life on a Tidal Water, 1/500, 1890
Emerson (P.H.)
Wild Life on a Tidal Water, The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew , Number 149 of 500 copies, illustrated with 30 photo-etchings [ plates 1 & 30 supplied in facsimile and the first also lacking the tissue, ] by P.H.Emerson and T.F.Goodall, and folding plan of Breydon Water, original tissue guards, rebacked in quarter navy morocco over original decorated cloth, new endpapers, 4to, 1890
£200-300
Furber (Robert) after & Bowles (John) Five plates from ‘Flora, or a curious collection', 1749
Furber (Robert) after & Bowles (John)
Five plates from ‘Flora, or a curious collection of ye most Beautiful Flowers as they appear in their greatest perfection each Month of the Year’ (January, March, April, July and November), engravings with contemporary hand colouring, on laid, with a key to the flowers at foot, a new version by John Bowles of Furber's ‘Twelve Months of Flowers’ after designs by Peter Casteels, some discolouration around colouring, April with restored areas around margins and lower border provided in facsimile, plates 35 x 24.5 cm, sheets trimmed to c. 35.5 x 25 cm, for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, [1749] (5)
Purchased by the vendor from Asprey.
£1,000-1,500
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Lear. Illustrations of Birds drawn for John Gould. Folio Soc. 2012
Lear (Edward)
Illustrations of Birds drawn for John Gould, one of 780 copies signed by David Attenborough, colour plates, original dark blue morocco, gilt, by Smith Settle, original cloth drop-back box, folio, Folio Society, 2012
£600-800
Low (David) The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands. 1842
Low (David)
The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands.
two volumes bound in one, first edition, halftitles, 56 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Fairland after W. Nicholson, from paintings by W. Shiels, including sections on the horse (8 plates), the ox (22 plates), the sheep (21 plates), the goat (unillustrated), and the pig (5 plates). contemporary half morocco, red leather lettering label, spine faded, joints tender, library stamps of ZSL to endpapers, and first half-title and lower margin of title-page, folio, 1842
*** David Low was professor of agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, and commissioned the artist William Shiels to paint portraits of the animal subjects from which the lithographed plates were made.
£1,500-1,800
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Milne-Edwards, (Henri & Alphonse) Recherches pour servir l'histoire naturelle des mammifères comprenant...1868
Milne-Edwards, (Henri & Alphonse)
Recherches pour servir l'histoire naturelle des mammifères comprenant ... des observations sur l'hippopotame de Liberia et des études sur la faune de la Chine et du Tibet oriental. First edition, 2 volumes: text and atlas, text volume with one engraved plate, atlas with 105 lithographed plates, 55 chromolithographed, others tinted, the first 8 plates affected by damp to upper l/h corner, other plates also affected by damp to same corner but not affecting images, text also affected by damp, later half morocco for the ZSL with their stamp to spines, front endpaper and title-pages, 4to. Paris: G. Masson, 1868-1874
£400-600
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Natural History & Science Natural History & Science
A collection of 38 volumes, including:
Hibberd (Shirley) editor, The Floral World and Garden Guide, 6 vols., 1875 - 1880, 75 coloured plates, some spotting and staining, 1880 volume with cracking to spine internally, original giltdecorated cloth, a.e.g., rubbed, Groombridge and Sons; Sibly (Ebenezer), Carl Linnaeus, et al., An Universal System of Natural History including the Natural History of Man, the OrangOutang..., 7 vols. only (2, 4, 6, 7, 9-11), 202 engraved plates, spotting and some staining throughout, contemporary half calf gilt, rebacked, final two vols. with loss to spines, for the Proprietor, 1794-1806; Darwin (Charles) The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, second edition, thirty-first thousand, spotting to endpapers and half-title, original giltlettered cloth, splitting and fraying to spine extremities, John Murray, 1894; Ricord (Philippe) Traité complet des maladies vénériennes. Clinique iconographique de l'Hôpital des vénériens…, First edition, published in installments from 1842 to 1851, additional pictorial title, 66 chromolithographic plates, no portrait, significant browning and some staining throughout, modern cloth, Paris, Just Rouvier, 1851; blind stamps of the Royal College of Art library to each title page, labels and stickers to endpapers, v.s., with others similar (38)
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Ornithology: Jolley (A. E.)
Ornithology
Jolley (A. E.)
Four albums of ornithological research: ‘Rathlin Island, 1946’; Wexford & Saltee Islands, 1947’; ‘Minsmere, Suffolk, 1949’; and another; ms and typewritten reports, and various ephemera including ms maps, RSPB correspondence, drawings, silver gelatin photographs, samples; various bindings; also with: Finn (Frank) & Robinson (E. Kay) Birds of Our Country, 2 vols., First edition, numerous colour plates, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original blind-stamped and gilt cloth, Hutchinson & Co., 1922-1923 (6)
***A. E. Jolley was Secretary of the Ornithological Society for Leicestershire and Rutland.
£250-350
Roberts: Birds of S.Africa, Ltd ed. 1940
Roberts (Dr. Austin)
The Birds of South Africa, Subscribers’ Edition, number 115 of 125 copies signed by the author, artist and Hon. Sec. and Trustee, S.Africa Bird Book Fund (John Voelcker), illustrated by Norman C.K.Lighton, original half brick red morocco, gilt, t.e.g., inscription to front free endpaper, with contemporary manuscript dust-jacket lettered to front cover and spine with original watercolours initialled and dated ‘H.S.H. 1944’, to spine and upper and lower covers, tall 8vo., 1940
*** Provenance and Inscription: The handwritten inscription is "To Alice Duncan with love from Nora & John Martin. August 1940 Alice Duncan was Lady Alice Duncan, wife of Sir Patrick Duncan (1870–1943), who served as GovernorGeneral of the Union of South Africa from 1937 to 1943. Sir Patrick was a key figure in South African politics, having been a close ally of General Jan Smuts and involved in the country's unification.
£600-800
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Sclater and Oldfield. Book of Antelopes, 4 vol. 1894-1900
Sclater (Philip Lutley) and Oldfield (Thomas)
The Book of Antelopes, 4 vol., first edition, 100 hand-coloured lithograph plates by and after J. Smit & M.Wolf, textillustrations, original cloth, gilt, with antelope on front covers, very slight rubbing and soiling, 4to, R.H. Porter, 1894-1900
£2,000-3,000
Sets: Bannerman (David Armitage) The Birds of The British Isles, and others. Sets
Bannerman (David Armitage) The Birds of The British Isles, 12 vols., First editions, illustrated by George E. Lodge, original cloth gilt and dust jackets with pictorial onlay, Oliver & Boyd, 1953 - 63; with 5 further volumes on natural history and sporting; also with The Oxford History of England, 16 vols., mixed edition; and Dickens (Charles) Works, ‘Popular edition’, 20 vols., Chapman & Hall, 1907; v.s. (53)
£200-300 117
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Shaw (George) & Nodder (Frederick P.) The Naturalist's Miscellany, 24 vols., 1789 - 1813 Shaw (George) & Nodder (Frederick P.)
The Naturalist's Miscellany: or Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately from Nature,
24 vols. bound in 12, 1064 engraved plates, all but a few hand-coloured or printed in colour, some folding, various watermarks, engraved dedication in vol. 1, Shaw’s tomb plate in vol. 24, each vol. with titles in Latin and English (lacking in vol. 22), general titles in vol. 1, general index at rear, vol. 24 without individual index, titles of vols. 1 - 3 with contemporary ink signatures, plate 203 with annotation, plates and text generally clean although some vols. with more browning / spotting or offsetting from text, text block trimmed with occasional loss to plate numbers and plate 993 with slight cropping to bottom edge of image, vol. 23 with stitch-holes to fore-edge, blindstamp of the Royal College of Art one every other title page, each vol. with presentation label from the Textile Council to the RCA to front pastedown, library cloth, 8vo, Nodder & Co., 1789 - 1813 (12)
***Issued in 287 monthly parts over almost 24 years, the work focuses particularly on ornithology. Shaw was the first to describe a number of animals in a scholarly manner, although for others he relied solely on second hand descriptions, whilst a few animals seem not to have existed at all.
[Fine Bird Books, p.42; Nissen IVB 869; Wood p.565.]
£4,000-6,000
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Strickland, The Dodo and its Kindred, 1848 Strickland (Hugh Edwin, & Alexander Gordon Melville).
The Dodo and its Kindred; 1848 or the History, Affinities, and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and Other Extinct Birds of the Islands Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Bourbon, First edition, half-title, 12 pp. advertisements, 17 lithographic or anastatic plates including frontispiece (2 hand-coloured, 2 tinted; 1 of folding), frontispiece plate cracked at lower edge with ZSL stamp to lower r/h corner not affecting image, ZSl stanp to lower margin of colour plate opp. p.30, and to corner of folding plate, some other stamps scattered within volume none affecting images or text, but to title-page, tissueguards, errata slip tipped to plate 5, original pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked, t.e.g., worn and rubbed at extremities, [Fine Bird Books, p.145, Wood p. 585], 4to., Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1848
£600-800
Thomson (James) Arcana Naturae, 1859 Thomson (James) Arcana Naturae, Vol. 1, all published, engraved title, 13 plates after F. Nicolet, 3 highlighted with colour, slightly spotted, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, hinges starting at extremities, bookplate to The Zoological Society of London to front pastedown, Paris, 1859 § Frohawki (F.W.) Natural History of British Butterflies,first edition, 60 colour plates, original cloth, library stamp of ZSL reverse of all plates, title pages, and endpapers, not affecting images, [1914] § Burmeister (Hermann) The Organisation of Trilobites, 6 engraved plates, slightly foxed, original cloth backed boards, lacking spine, The Ray Society, 1846, folio, (4)
£300-400
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Westwood (John Obadiah) Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis..., 1874
Westwood (John Obadiah)
Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis..., first edition, 40 engraved or lithographed plates, 14 hand-coloured publisher’s leather backed cloth, gilt, t.e.g., rubbed, spine ends worn, rubbed, book block split before plates, small ZSL stamp to front endpaper and title-page, [Nissen ZBI 4382], 4to, Oxford, 1874.
£250-350
Wolf (Joseph) The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, and others (4) Wolf (Joseph)
The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, first edition, 20 engraved plates by J.W & Edward Whymper, original green gilt decorated cloth, upper joint split, a.e.g., ink library stamps of ZSL to front endpapers and title-page, 1874 § Thornburn (A.) British Mammals, 2 vol., 50 plates in colour, sketches in test, red buckram, stamp of ZSL to spine, half-title, title-page, verso of frontispiece and front endpaper, 1920 § Millais (John Guille) British Deer and their Horns, first edition, frontispiece, 10 plates, tissue-guards, illustrations, many full-page, tan buckram library binding for the ZSL with their stamp to endpaper, verso of half title, 1897, folio, (4)
£400-600
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Unrecorded broadside: The Miraculous Lamb [c.1700]
Unrecorded broadside
The Miraculous Lamb, broadside with woodcut image, browning along central fold, some loss affecting text at foot, sheet 35 x 22cm, n.d. [c.1700]
“The Miraculous Lamb, That was Yean’d by an Ewe, belonging to Mr William Henson, of Oundle [...] it had one Head, three Ears, eight Legs, and two Bodies joined together, as you see in the PICTURE, and which is the more Surprizing, was, it’s being both Male and Female”.
£100-200
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Godfridus. The knowledge of things unknown [1711] Godfridus.
The knowledge of things unknown [1711] shewing the effects of the planets and other astronomical constellations…….Together with the husband-man's practice: ... With the shepherd's prognostication for the weather, and Pythagoras his wheel of fortune.
Woodcut frontispiece, woodcut illustrations, last few leaves worn at edg-es with small lose of text, and lacking last 2pp., early ownership inscrip-tion to verso of frontispiece, H. Rhodes [1711] § Tryon (Thomas) A trea-tise of dreams & visions second edition, lacking title-page [supplied as a photocopy], contemporary calf, worn, lacking part of spine boards de-tached, T.Seale, 1695. sm.8vo. [Sold not subject to return]
£300-400
Halsall (Edward) ‘Practical Geometry’, manuscript workbook
Halsall (Edward)
‘Practical Geometry’, manuscript workbook, with numerous technical diagrams, calculations, tables, etc., ink and occasionally coloured in wash, 424pp., some soiling, near-contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, gilt morocco label to upper board: ‘Edward Halsall 1825’, rubbed, text block trimmed and split at centre, 4to.
*** Sections include: Mensuration of solids, of the Regular Bodies, of Cylindric Rings, Conic Sections, of the Weight and Dimensions of Balls and Shells, of Bricklayers Work, of Masons Work, of Glaziers work, of Specific Gravity.
£100-200 125
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Science. Large collection of offprints. 2 boxes. Science
A large collection of offprints and separatelypublished articles, including numerous presentation copies inscribed by the authors: Strutt (R. J.) On the Conductivity of Gases Under the Becquerel Rays, inscribed by the author, from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, original printed wrappers, 1901, with another inscribed by Strutt; Andrade (Edward) The Presentation of Scientific Information, offprint, inscribed to professor Herbert Dingle, 1948; Loria (Gino) Le Matematiche nell’Estremo Oriente, extract, inscribed by the author, original printed wrappers, Rome, 1917; with two further articles inscribed to English mathematician E. H. Neville, 1930s; Schunck (Edward) On Indigo-Blue from Polygonum Tinctorium and other Plants, inscribed to A. Gamgee, from Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, 1879; Tufts (F. L.) The New Flicker Photometry, inscribed, from Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, original printed wrappers, 1897; Hartley (Walter Noel) On the Action of Heat on Coloured Liquids, inscribed, 1875; Tanner (R. C. H.) Mathematics begins with Inequality, inscribed, reprinted from the Mathematical Gazette, 1961; Darwin (G. H.) Ellipsoidal Harmonic Analysis, 1901; v.s., with others similar (2 boxes)
£200-300
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Victorian workbook 1841
Victorian workbook
A child’s school workbook, belonging to an Edward Billington (1826 - 91) of Woodplumpton, mathematics and engineering, with numerous coloured diagrams in ink and wash, 76pp., some staining and soiling, original marbled stiff wrappers, both panels detached, 24 x 20 cm, dated 1841
£90-120
c.18th. Manuscript ‘Recipe Book – Anne Forester, 1766’
c.18th. Manuscript ‘Recipe Book – Anne Forester, 1766’
‘inscribed to front pastedown, a collection of recipes to make Dutch blancmange, mince pyes, Everlasting sillabubs plumb cakes and others and to also to include a recipe for disorders of the lungs and to cure the spitting of blood [TB], contemporary calf over marbled boards, lacking spine, old clear tape to front joint, sm. 4to., 1766
£150-200
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Cookery. Raffald. The Experienced English Housekeeper 1794 (6)
Raffald (Elizabeth)
The Experienced English Housekeeper Eleventh edition, frontispiece, 3 engraved folding plates, later polished calf, 1794; Another copy modern reprint of the eighth edition, 1970 § Hammond (Elizabeth) Modern Domestic Cookery, [first ed.] engraved plates, modern quarter calf, 1816 § Cochrane (james) The Modern Receipt Book, [first edition?] engraved title-page, repaired, frontispiece, modern grey boards, paper label, uncut as issued, lightly soiled in places,1824 § Eaton (Mary)The Cook and Housekeeper, first edi-tion, frontispiece, engraved title-page dated 1822, engravings, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, original spine laid-down, 1823 § Cobbett (Anne) The English Housekeeper: or, Manuel of Domestic Management, first edition, frontispiece trimmed to image borders and laid-down, full leather, blind tooled, Pub. Anne Cobbett, [c. 1835], v.s. [6]
£200-300
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Bindings: Perrot (Georges), Chipiez (Charles) 7 works in 12 vols.
Bindings:
Perrot (Georges), Chipiez (Charles)
7 works in 12 vols., including: A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, 2 vols., 14 plates on 13 sheets, including coloured and folding, 1883; Chaldaea & Assyria, 2 vols., 14 plates, 1884; Phoenicia and its Dependencies, 2 vols., 10 plates, 1885; Sardinia, Judaea, Syria and Asia Minor, 2 vols., 8 plates, 1890; Persia, 12 plates, 1892; Phrygia, Lydia, Caria, and Lycia, 1892; Primitive Greece, 2 vols., 21 plates, 1894; translated by Walter Armstrong or I. Gonino, intermittent heavy spotting, uniformly bound in half morocco gilt, t.e.g., rubbed and some scuffing to boards, Chapman and Hall; Ranke (Leopold) The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
Translated from the German by Sarah Austin., First English edition, ink signature ‘Eleanor Campbell 1867’ to each title page, contemporary straight-grain morocco, gilt-stamped mitre design to boards, a.e.g., some rubbing to extremities, 8vo, John Murray, 1840; also with: Jennings Landscape Annual (1830 & 1836) and a quantity similar, the majority with blind stamps of the Royal College of Art library to the title page and further labels / stickers to endpapers and bindings, v.s. (40) £300-400
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France (Anatole)....Fine bindings (5) France (Anatole)
La Rotisserie de la Reine Pedauque, Limited edition, one of 750 copies on Rives paper, colour illustrations by Guy de Montabel, each with an uncoloured version, elaborate full morocco gilt by Bianchi of Nice, original paper spine bound at rear, 4to, Paris, Simon Kra, 1925; with another similar: Memoires du Cardinal Dubois, 4 vols., one of 1000 copies, full morocco gilt (5)
£100-150
History: bindings (20) History: bindings
Skelton (John) Mary Stuart, second edition, one of 500 copies on fine paper, numerous plates including frontispiece, some offsetting, full morocco gilt, rubbed to extremities, Goupil & Co., 1898; with Charles I, First edition, half morocco by Bickers & Son., spine gilt and stamped armorial to upper board, some staining and rubbing, 1898; with another similar: Airy (Osmund) Charles II, worn, 1901; with 4 later volumes on the same period and: Hume (David) & Smollet (Tobias) The History of England, 13 vols., new edition, two portrait frontispieces, half-titles, offsetting to title pages from frontispieces, further intermittent spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving gilttooled spines with morocco lettering labels, for T. Cadell et al., 1823, v.s. (20)
£200-300
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Bronte (Anne, Charlotte & Emily) Works, 7 vols., 1879-82
Bronte (Anne, Charlotte & Emily) Works, 7 volumes (including The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell), ‘new edition’, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall with a halftitle, contemporary half calf, spines gilt-tooled with morocco lettering labels, rubbing and some loss to extremities, Jane Eyre with area of loss to bottom edge of upper board, the ‘Life’ with later paper gift label to lower board, 8vo., Smith, Elder, & Co., 1879-82 (7)
£100-150
Carroll. Doublets, 1879 & Alice 2 vol. 1872
Carroll (Lewis)
Doublets. A Word-Puzzle, First edition, original red cloth lettered in gilt, blind-stamped, lightly soiled, front endpaper becoming detached with booksellers description attached, 1879; Alice in Wonderland, together with Through the Looking Glass, later editions, full red morocco, gilt, t.e.g., 1872, 8vo. (3)
£300-400
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Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales...Modernis'd by several Hands, 1741 Chaucer (Geoffrey)
The Canterbury Tales...Modernis'd by several Hands,
3 vol., lacking portrait (as usual), contemporary polished calf, full gilt decorated spines, red and green leather lettering labels, joints to vol. 1 cracked, other joints tender, bookplate removed from all vols., vol. I, paper fault to B3 not affecting text; vol.II, corners lacking to H2 & H3, 8vo, Publish'd by Mr. Ogle, 1741
£200-300
Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities, 1st ed book form, 1859
Dickens (Charles)
A Tale of Two Cities, first edition in book form, later issue, frontispiece, additional title and 14 plates by Hablot K. Brown, p.134 line 12 with "affetcionately" and p.238 line 14 with triple end quotes, p.213 is numbered correctly, contemporary half calf, red and green leather lettering labels, gilt, internally clean, [Smith 1, 13], 8vo., 1859
£400-600
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Dickens: "Phiz" Original Drawings to Little Dorrit. 1857
Dickens (Charles) “Phiz” . Browne (Hablot Knight)
Little Dorrit
Original drawings as first issued in monthly parts, to include 36 preliminary studies and an alternative of one which was not executed, a
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total of 42 drawings, five are signed copies by “Phiz” to make up the whole set, mounted within 4 vols., full black straight grained morocco by Riviere, gilt, a.e.g., bookplate of Count Alain de Suzannet to front paste-down in each volume, card slipcases, slightly rubbed at extremities, Als (dated 15 May 1878) from the artist to an unidentified collector stating that 'the sketches which you have are the originals from which I executed my etchings for "Little Dorrit"; together with Dickens, (Charles) Little Dorrit. First edition, bound from the original parts, illustrated by ‘Phiz’, contemporary dark blue polished calf gilt, upper and lower wrappers from original parts bound at end, upper cover detached, lower joint tender and cracking, 1857, 4to., & 8vo., (5)
*** Majority in pencil and wash or ink, pencil and wash as follows.-
i) The design for the upper wrapper, pencil, penand-ink, signed and lettered by 'Phiz', 202 x 133mm
ii) The frontispiece, pencil and wash, captioned by 'Phiz', 164 x 108mm
iii) The vignette title, pen, ink, pencil and wash, lettered by 'Phiz', 169 x 109mm
iv) 'The Birds in the Cage', pen, ink and charcoal, arched top, with a faint vertical crease and a few spots, 90 x 126mm
v) 'Under the Microscope', pencil, 140 x 105mm
vi) 'Mr. Flintwich Mediates as a Friend of the Family', pencil and wash, faint vertical fold at centre, titled and numbered by 'Phiz', 102 x 127mm
vii) 'The Room with the Portrait', pencil, wash, pen, ink and charcoal, slightly spotted, faint vertical fold at centre, arched top, titled by 'Phiz', 90 x 126mm
viii) 'Little Mother', pencil with orange chalk, titled by 'Phiz', 173 x 112mm
ix) 'Making Off', pencil, pen-and-ink and charcoal, arched top, stain to right side, titled by Phiz, 89 x 157mm
x) 'Mr. F.'s Aunt is conducted into retirement', pen, ink and charcoal, with touches of orange chalk, 110 x 138mm,
xi) 'Little Dorrit's Party', charcoal, arched top, titled by 'Phiz', 161 x 101mm
xii) 'Mr. and Mrs. Flintwinch', pencil and wash, faint fold at the centre, titled by 'Phiz', 108 x 127mm
xiii) 'The Ferry', pencil and orange chalk, with touches of coloured washes, titled by 'Phiz', 95 x 164mm
xiv) 'The Brothers', pencil and wash, signed, inscribed on the mount: 'not the original drawing
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but a copy made by H.K.B. from his etching', 113 x 170mm,
xv) 'Miss. Dorrit and Little Dorrit', charcoal with touches of orange chalk, titled by Phiz, 119 x 185mm
xvi) 'Visitors at the Works', pen, ink, pencil and charcoal, with touches of orange chalk, arched top, titled by 'Phiz', 95 x 161mm
xvii) 'The Story of the Princess', pencil with touches of orange chalk, faint creasing, titled by 'Phiz', 136 x 108mm,
xviii) 'Five and Twenty', pencil and wash, signed, inscribed on mount: 'not the original drawing but a copy made by H.K.B. from his etching', 108 x 176mm
xix) 'Floating Away', charcoal and wash, 93 x 175mm,
xx) 'Mr. Flintwinch has a Mild Attack of Irritability', charcoal and wash, titled by 'Phiz', 173 x 129mm
xxi) An alternative, unused version of the preceding subject, pencil and charcoal, horizontal crease at top, small tear, 144 x 93mm
xxii) 'The Pensioner - Entertainment', pencil and wash, small stain, titled by 'Phiz': 'the Pensioner's Entertainment', 125 by 169mm
xxiii) 'Society expresses its views on a question of Marriage', pencil and wash, with touches of orange chalk, arched at top and bottom, 142 x 118mm
xxiv) 'The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan', pencil and wash, with touches of orange chalk, 112 x 206mm
xxv) 'The Travellers', pencil and wash, with touches of orange chalk, signed by 'Phiz', 112 x 176mm
xxvi) 'The family dignity is affronted', pencil and wash, signed by 'Phiz', inscribed on mount: 'not the original drawing but a copy made by H.K.B. from his etching', 115 x 179mm
xxvii) 'Instinct Stronger than Training', pencil, wash and orange chalk, 112 x 177mm
xxviii) 'Mr. Sparkler under a Reverse of Circumstances', pencil and wash, 111 x 175mm
xxix) 'Rigour of Mr. F.'s Aunt', pencil, with touches of orange chalk, small stain, 109 by 170mm
xxx) 'Mr. Flintwinch receives the embrace of friendship', pencil, with touches of orange chalk, 112 x 154mm
xxxi) 'The Patriotic Conference', pencil and wash, 109 x 166mm
xxxii) 'Mr. Baptist is Supposed to have Seen Something', pencil and wash, 105 x 150mm
xxxiii) 'Missing and Dreaming', pencil and wash,
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captioned in ink by the artist, 109 x 171mm xxxiv) 'Reception of an Old Friend', pencil and wash, with touches of orange chalk, captioned in ink by the artist, minor stains towards bottom, 163 x 109mm
xxxv) 'An Unexpected After Dinner Speech', pencil and wash, 108 x 178mm
xxxvi) 'The Night', pencil and wash, 164 x 104mm
xxxvii) 'Flora's tour of inspection', pencil and wash on blue paper, 158 x 114mm
xxxviii) 'Mr. Merdle a borrower', pencil and wash, signed, inscribed on mount: 'not the original drawing but a copy made by H.K.B. from his etching', 109 by 174mm
xxxix) 'At Mr. John Chivery's Tea-Table', pencil and wash, signed, inscribed on mount: 'not the original drawing but a copy made by H.K.B. from his etching', 141 x 109mm
xl) 'In the Old Room', pencil and charcoal, 114 x 169mm
xli) 'Damocles', charcoal and pencil, captioned by the artist, minor staining, 167 x 98mm, xlii) 'The Third Volume of the registers', pencil and wash, captioned by the artist, 106 x 169mm
Provenance: Comte Alain de Suzannet (bookplate) -- by descent to the Comtesse de Suzannet and sold Sotheby's London, 22-23 November 1971, lot 186, where bought for £4400; Sotheby’s London, 6 June 1976, sold for £7000; Sotheby's London, 27 September 1988, lot 128, sold for £28,600 £25,000-35,000
Dickinson: A large archive related to the British poet, broadcaster and playwright Dickinson (Patrick)
A large archive related to the British poet, broadcaster and playwright Patrick Dickinson, including: various poems; numerous autograph letters and postcards to his mistress and ‘Muse’ Sarah Hamilton, many including poems and covering various topics ("I woke very early this morning & thought of you, asleep, so near.
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When I wake tomorrow I shall be in London. I always think of you before I sleep & when I wake & send my love for the next day & night. I always shall", 18 March 1962; "My dear darling, | I wonder when I first wrote to you, & if I started “Dear Sarah”? It must have been to Bedford Avenue. I used to come, usually with a bottle of sherry . . . The shop’s gone now. I must have written you thousands of letters since. Here’s the last - for 1982! No, this isn’t going to be a chronicle of time past, though I remember a lot of it, starting with a beautiful girl on the doorstep - a poem I havent written (yet) | I have never thanked you enough for your sweetness & scrupulousness. Being “in love” & “loving” can be different, or be together. With me, they are together. Sheila’s always known so, & you have always been so generous & sweet & I know she loves you, too. So, thank you. | You have made a wonderful added dimension to my life. When I truly believed you had dismissed me (at the bus stop 1/2 way down Park Lane) I was more utterly miserable than if you’d been dead. To have you come back is a miracle - & I say selfishly given to me poems better than ever I could have written without you. Bless & thank you for that too", 30 December 1982; "When I was a little boy, one was taught of history, & particularly of Kings, who “died of a surfeit” e.g. King John died of a “sufeit of lampreys” - I expect he drank too much & choked. I only say this because I might (but wont) die of a “surfeit of poems” (not mine) but I find this impracticle “sedentary trade” is something I cant do for more than hours-at-atime", 15 March 1988; "I am reading Tom Wolfe’s “A Bonfire of the Vanities.” If New Yorkers, of whatever class, have this two word foul mouthedness I’m glad Im too old to even want to go to U.S.A. Its good though, & full of Swiftian satire. I dont recommend you read it - it may be the talk of London; if you do, you’ll find your eyes glaze at the adjectives & it’s a fascinating story of a people so foreign & yet speaking almost the same language", 23 May 1988; on his grandchildren "My one sadness in extinction is that I will never see these grow up: Sarah or Tom (by the way the new one is to be called Adam.) I might, if my faculties hold, have another five or so years of darling you, & so Charlotte & Erica by proxy. There is only one way to die, for loving people to die, & that is simultaneously - not by accident & not likely. But, come, no Autumn Morbidity! I do hope I’ll see you soon", 19 September 1989; "The implications of a Gulf War are so ghastly. One wakes: what is the thick black writing cloud? &
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one can do nothing, as ever, save contemplate the human races. The generality of “the human race” was never true. There are, & always have been, more evil than good people. | I cling on to thinking of my loving friends. I could not love an evil person. And foremost of those I love is Sarah Emmeline" 24 August 1990; etc); letters to Hamilton from Dickinson’s wife the poet Sheila Shannon (mostlysigned ‘Sheila’, some signed ‘S’ and one ‘Sheil’, written in a guarded and seemingly-affectionate tone throughout. On 21 March 1992 "This is not the moment to ask you to do anything extra - especially sorting out papers which may still be at Regents Park - but the problem is this. It’s a nice problem really. John Bell, who used to work with the O.U.P. & is now long retired & has been a dear friend of ours for many years, has a hand press which is his pride & joy, & he produces, for friends, small books every now & again. He wants to do a little volume of Patric’s unpublished poems - about 30 or so & has asked me if I can provide them. Unfortunately - owing to my horrid eye trouble & the fact that P. did not keep MSS books but usually left poems in faint pencil on scraps of paper, it’s going to be difficult for me to find 30 finished poems, good enough to publishwithout a lot of delay. But when P. had finished a poem to his satisfaction he wd. ask me to go acrosss to the Library to take 2 or 3 copies - one of which he usually marked to send to you. Stupidly, I didn’t take an extra copy for myselfthinking the originals would be here & we would have time to collect them, & when we had enough, to try to get a new book published. We never did."; on 12 September 1997 she writes of a female critic "I cant believe she’s ever written a poem or loved a poet or lived with one . . ." ); a carbon of a closely-written long letter from Sarah Hamilton to Patrick, the content gushing but not betraying any sign of a romantic involvement, 5 May 1961; an holograph ‘Introduction’ to an anthology of poems (apparently unpublished) A "rather long preamble to explain - or excuse?my choice’. 2pp, foolscap 8vo, sixty-five closely written lines of text, signed at end, "Patric Dickinson"; an autograph pencil response, apparently to a book of poems inspired by Elizabeth Smart, unsigned., n.d.; an unpublished typed playscript "The Golden Touch/ A Love Story", n.d. [1959]; an early draft of Dickinson's 1965 memoir "The Good Minute", with significant variations; miscellaneous material, including a wallet containing twelve photographs (eight of them of Dickisnon), letters and postcards from various individuals (including
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Piers Plowright and Ursula Vaughan-Williams), drafts, programmes, newspaper cuttings and photocopies; and typescripts of an original play and a few of Dickinson’s BBC radio scripts, v.s. 1962-2000s (large quantity)
£400-600
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Early cinema: Tyacke George (W.) Playing to Pictures, c. 1910 Early cinema
Tyacke George (W.)
Playing to Pictures: A Guide for Pianists and Conductors of Motion Picture Theatres, First edition, scarce, endpapers with advertisements, some offsetting, Royal College of Art library blindstamp to title page and sticker to front free endpaper, original cloth, discoloured, The Kinematograph Weekly, c. 1910; with another: ‘Klaxon’ [Bower (Graham John)], Songs of the Submarine, ink signature to front free endpaper, original cloth gilt, fading, Mcbride, Nast & co., 1917; v.s. (2)
£100-150
139
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English literature: miscellaneous
English literature: miscellaneous
A large collection of volumes, the majority 20thcentury fiction, including:
Novello (Ivor) I Lived with You, Party, Symphony in Two Flats, intro by Edward Marsh, soiling and spotting, Methuen, 1932; Galsworthy (John) Loyalties, Duckworth, 1922; Masefield (John) Dead Ned, William Heinemann, 1938; Mackail (Denis) David's Day, Hodder and Stoughton, 1932; Keyes (Frances Parkinson) The Ambassadress, 1938; First editions in publisher’s cloth; with numerous other mixed editions, the majority in original cloth, v.s. (10 boxes)
Provenance: Sotheby’s, Chatsworth: The Attic Sale, 5th October 2010, lot 860.
£300-400 140
Gentleman and Lady’s Key to Polite Literature; or a Compendious dictionary of Fabulous History ...
Gentleman and Lady’s Key to Polite Literature; or a Compendious dictionary of Fabulous History ...
Intended for the Assistance of those who would understand Mythology, Poetry, Painting, Statuary, and Theatrical Entertainments, and particularly adapted to the use of Latin and French Schools, engraved frontispiece by Le Pautre, engraved title-page, contemporary speckled calf,lower joint almost detached, upper joint cracked, rubbed at extremities, early ownership inscription to front paste-down, leather label, 12mo in 6's [Roscoe J 145(5). Osborne p. 10], Printed for T. Carnan, 1783, £100-150
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James (Charles W.) Als to. (qty)
James (Charles W.)
Collection letters.-
Numbered on archival sleeves as follows.- 3 - 18 August 1918 - Florence Hardy (on behalf of Thomas Hardy, 'he says that 'Bloody Warrior' is the name applied, in Dorset, to dark red wallflowers), autograph letter, signed to C.W.James + 1 envelope § 4 - c.1912/13 - John Singer Sargent - Four letters (3 to C.W.James & 1 letter of introduction in French, 1913) + 1 envelope addressed to C. W. James. § 5 - 10 April 1900 - Aga Khan, autograph letter, signed, to C.W.James. § 6 - 5 June 1912 - Percy Grainger, autograph letter, signed, to C.W.James § 7 - 1 June 1900 - Henry J. Wood, autograph letter, signed, to C.W.James § 8a - 30 July 1900 - Lord Curzon, autograph letter, signed, to C.W.James § 8b - 24 June 1911Lord Curzon, autograph letter, signed, to C.W.James § 8c - 3 January 1916 - Lord Curzon, autograph letter, signed, to C.W.James § 9 - 19 August 1924 - Earl Beatty, autograph letter, signed, to C.W.James + 1 envelope § 102 other letters and 1 envelope, v.s. (qty)
£400-600
142
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Jane Austen interest: Fischer (Frederick Augustus) Travels in Spain in 1797 and 1798
Jane Austen interest
Fischer (Frederick Augustus)
Travels in Spain in 1797 and 1798, First English edition, contemporary Alton Book Club printed lending label to front pastedown, with a list of members, 3pp. publisher’s adverts, original paper-covered boards, title in ms to spine, some loss to spine, staining, T. N. Longman and O. Rees, London, 1802.
*** Jane Austen joined the Alton Book Society circa 1812
‘The Society was founded in 1799 by a group of clergymen and gentlemen of Alton and the surrounding area. By 1806 there were twentyfive members who included Sir Thomas Miller, Thomas Coulthard (Edward Austen’s tenant at Chawton House), the Revd E. White, Mr Clement, Colonel Jervoise, Mr Lee and the Revd J. R. Papillon, rector of Chawton. In 1811 other members whose names are familiar from Jane Austen’s letters were Mr Vincent, Mr Trimmer, Mr Digweed (Harry Digweed, formerly of Steventon but now of Alton), Mr Baverstock and Stephen Terry.’ - Jane Austen Society Report, 1994, ‘The Alton Book Society’ by Robin Vick
On Sunday 24th January 1813, Jane wrote: ‘We are quite run over with books. She [Jane’s mother] has got Sir John Carr's "Travels in Spain," and I am reading a Society octavo.’
£150-200
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Johnson (Samuel) Works, & Walpole Works bindings. (20)
Johnson (Samuel) Works,
Together 11 vols., contemporary half calf, red leather lettering labels, gilt decorated spines, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, Oxford, 1825 § Walpole (Horace) The Letters, edited by Peter Cunningham, with steel engravings, 9 vols, half polished calf, panelled spines, red and green leather lettering labels, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, Edinburgh, 1906 8vo. (20)
£200-300
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Manuscript Masonic Ledgers. Manuscript Masonic Ledgers. Proposition and Making Book together with the Minute Book, 1833 – 182; Minutes of the Rutland Lodge, Scarboro’, 1833 – 1841, manuscript throughout of members and fees, etc. § Commonplace Book, manuscript throughout, original half leather, rubbed, bookplate of Yeats Brown, n.d. [c.19]. v.s. (3)
£100-150
145
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Pamphlets [c.17th.] Charles 1 etc. (4)
Pamphlets [c. 17th]
[Charles 1]
Eik n h pist , or, The faithfull pourtraicture of a loyall subject : in vindication of Eik n basilik , otherwise intituled, The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie, in his solitudes & sufferings. First and only edition, 96pp., lacking engraved frontispiece, disbound, [Wing E314], 1649 § Rushworth (John) A particular charge or impeachment in the name of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax….., 16pp, possibly annotations in sypher to title, worn at extremities, George Whittington, 1617 § [Parker (Henry)] Some few observations upon his Majesties late answer to the declaration or remonstance of the Lords and Commons of the 19 of May, 1642, 8pp, small tear with lost to first page, [1642] § [Hammond (James)] Love Elegies. Written in the Year 1732 Fifth edition, 31pp., disbound, G. Hawkins, 1762, v.s. (4)
£200-300 146
Paris. Monachi Albanensis, 1640 & others
Paris (Matthew)
Monachi Albanensis Angli, Historia Major, engraved portrait frontispiece by T. Cecill, lightly foxed and slightly af-fected by red speckling from the edge when originally bound, title in red and black, occasional spotting and affected by the same speckling, , 4B4 tear to upper margin no loss, , [STC (2nd. ed.), 19210], Richard Hodgkinson, 1640, bound with Vitae Duorum Offarum sive Offanorum last leaf errata, browned and spotted worn at edge, Milo Flesher, 1639, con-temporary calf, joints with old repaired, spine cracked vertically, red leather lettering label, slightly spung, rubbed at extremities, later endpa-pers, bookplate of Howard Pease to front paste down, [STC (2nd. ed.), 19210], Richard Hodgkinson, 1640 § Cotton (Sir Robert) An Exact Abridgement of the Records in the Tower of London, From the Reign of King Edward the Second, unto King Richard the third….., contemporary full polished calf, red leather lettering label gilt spine, covers detached, armorial bookplate of Lord Derby to front paste-down, William Leake, 1657 § The Reports of the Reverend and Learned Judge, the Right Honorable Sr. Henry Hobart, Knight and Baronet, Lord Chief Justice, third edition, lacking frontispiece, reversed calf, London, 1671 § Hutchinson (Lucy) Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle and Town, first edition, engraved portrait, list of subscribers, 4 engraved plates including aquatint of Nottingham Castle, folding pedigree, title-page browned, contemporary tree calf, red leather lettering label, rubbed, 1806. § Berers (Dame Juliana) The Boke of Saint Albans Containing treatise on Hawking, Hunting and Cote Armour, facsimile ed., original publisher’s blind-stamped binding, spine darkened, rubbed, 1881; and 3 others incunig Abbey: Scenery of Great Great Bitain and Ireland 1770 – 1860 reprint, 1972, v.s. (8) £400-600
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Plays: A collection of 11 titles Plays
A collection of 11 titles, including: Ramsay (Allan) The Gentle Shepherd, A Scots Pastoral Comedy, lacking final blank?, final three leaves detached, [ESTC N32598], A. Millar, 1763; Reynolds (Frederick) How to Grow Rich: A Comedy, contemporary ink signature to title page, worm trailing, T. N. Longman, 1793; Hoadly (Dr. Benjamin) The Suspicious Husband, some spotting, [ESTC T48987], 1776; with others similar, mixed editions, all with blind stamp of the Royal College of Art to title page and further paper labels pasted in, all lacking boards, v.s. (11)
£100-200
Thackeray (W.M.) Als., together with Vanity Fair 1st., ed Thackeray (W. M.)
Als., from W. M. Thackeray to Lady Pollock, 1pp., undated.
36, Onslow Square. S.W. Tuesday.
My dear Lady Pollock
This is really addressed to the Chief Barron, but is he on circuit? does it matter much whether he gets the information or not? No indeed. In a hundred years the business with have settled itself quite comfortably, and as well without a letter as with one.
This is only to say that in obedience to his orders I went to Devonshire house: but I thought the meeting was at 3 o’clock and not 2(The CB did not mentionthe hour in his note) – I went at 3 then, and everyone was gone, and I drove away, not very much disappointedexcept that I hadn’t done what he would have liked me to do. How good it was of you to come to the play. Weren’t you very glad when it was over? I know someone who was, but you can guess his name. It is that of yours & & & & &
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Vanity Fair,
First edition, first issue points present, with the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on page 336, with "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on page 453, and the rustic heading on page one, but lacking all adverts, engraved frontispiece, engraved title, 38 steel-engraved plates, further illustrations in-text, foxing throughout as is often usual, contemporary half calf, gilt, slightly rubbed, bookplate of Lady Pollock to front pastedown and newspaper cutting to front endpaper, Als in envelope laid-in, 8vo., 1848 [and]
Sidney Hunt (George) Thackeray [portrait], etching and mezzotint printed in colour, signed in pencil, after Samuel Laurence, one of 500 artist's proofs, chine colle, browned, n.d. (3)
£200-300
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The Works of John Ruskin, Library Edition, 39 volumes, 1903-12
Cook (E.T.) & Wedderburn (Alexander) editors
The Works of John Ruskin, Library Edition, 39 volumes, Limited edition of 2,062 copies, frontispiece and numerous plates, untrimmed, Royal College of Art blindstamp to title pages, publisher’s gilt-stamped cloth, some fading or staining, some rubbing to extremities, labels and stickers of the RCA library to endpapers, 8vo, George Allen, 1903-12 (39)
*** "The apogee of Ruskin's immediate influence was marked by the decision to publish a monumental Library Edition of his complete works in thirty-nine volumes, edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, which appeared between 1903 and 1912. Although biographically reticent and presenting a liberal version of Ruskin, this became the foundation for future Ruskin scholarship" (ODNB).
£300-400
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Typography and illustration collection
Typography and illustration
A collection including:
Burger (Konrad) Monumenta Germaniae et Italiae typographica. Deutsche und italienische Inkunabeln in getreuen Nachbildungen, 12 parts in 6, 300 facsimile plates, plate nos. 51, 101 and 152 with Victoria & Albert museum ink stamp, all with Board of Education blind stamp, some browning, library gilt-lettered half morocco, worn, final part original wrappers bound at rear, folio, Berlin, Reichsdruckerei, 1892-1913; Jones (Owen) One Thousand And One Initial Letters, 28 plates including letters, leaf of numbers and title page, spotting and some staining throughout, D and E with tears affecting image, further short tears, tissue guards, National Art Library ink stamps throughout, library labels to endpapers, original half vellum, spine with gilt lettering label, rubbed and soiled, folio, Day & Son, 1864; Sitwell (Sacheverell), Buchanan (Handasyde) & Fisher (James) Fine Bird Books 1700-1900, Number 153 of 295 copies signed by the three authors and printed on Pannekoek mould-made paper, 16 colour plates (1 folding), original half red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, no slipcase, folio, Collins & Van Nostrand, London & New York, 1953; Stornajolo (Cosimo) I ritratti e le gesta dei Duchi d'Urbino nelle miniature dei codici VaticanoUrbinati, letterpress and 25 facsimile plates loose as issued within original gilt-lettered cloth folder, with ties, 53 x 37cm, Milan, Ulrico Hoepli, 1914; also with: Morison (Stanley) Modern Fine Printing, one of 650 copies, original half cloth, splitting to spine, folio, 1925; v.s., all ex-library copies, with labels, stickers and shelfmarks etc. (30)
£300-400
152
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[Lewis (C.S.)] Clive Hamilton. Dymer. 1st ed. 1926
[Lewis (C.S.)] Clive Hamilton Dymer, first edition, original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and vignette in black to upper cover, spine slightly toned with a loss of colour, 8vo. 1926 ***C.S.Lewis's very scarce second book, published under a pseudonym, completed after graduating from Oxford . An epic poem written with in-fluences from Milton & Spencer.
£800-1,200
Christie (Agatha) 17 titles.
Christie (Agatha)
Hickory Dickory Dock, First edition, some offsetting to endpapers and spotting to text block edges, original cloth, pictorial dust jacket, fading to spine, spotting and staining, minor loss to foredge, Collins, 1955; 4.50 From Paddington, First UK edition, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped, some loss at head of spine and tear at foot, further short tear to rear panel, Collins, 1957; A Caribbean Mystery, First edition, ink ownership signature to front free endpaper, some spotting, original cloth, pictorial dust jacket, spine browned, some staining and 5 cm tear to front panel, Collins, 1964; 8vo, with 14 further Agatha Christie first editions, one duplicate, mixed condition (17)
[Cooper & Pike pp. 82-9]
£300-400
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Christie (Agatha) 5 titles.
Christie (Agatha)
A Murder Is Announced, First UK edition, original cloth, small area of fading at head of spine, pictorial dust jacket, some creasing, chipping and short tears to extremities, 1950; The Labours of Hercules, First edition, original cloth, some fading along top edge, small ink mark to front free endpaper, no dust jacket, The Crime Club, 1947; Dead Man’s Folly, First UK edition, offsetting to endpapers, some spotting, dust jacket, loss at head and foot of spine, spotting, The Crime Club, 1947; with a first edition of They Came to Baghdad and a fourth impression of Murder is Easy; 8vo (5)
[Cooper & Pike pp. 82-9]
£250-350 154
Christie (Agatha) 5 titles.
Christie (Agatha)
Death Comes as the End, First edition, original cloth, pictorial dust jacket, loss to lower quart of spine and corresponding fading to cloth, stain to lower panel, The Crime Club, 1945; The Hound of Death & Other Stories, First edition, original cloth, fading and discolouration, dust jacket, loss at head and foot of spine, 3 further short tears and soiling, Odhams Press, 1933; Sparkling Cyanide, First edition, original cloth, fraying at head of spine and to extremities, no dust jacket, The Crime Club, 1945; with a first edition of Parker Pyne Investigates and a fourth impression of The Big Four; 8vo (5)
[Cooper & Pike pp. 82-9]
£200-300
156
157
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Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Rapp and Whiting, 1969
Dick (Philip K.)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, first edition, first printing, original green cloth, original dust-wrapper designed by Lawrence Edwards, unclipped and with no fading to spine, slightest hint of wear to extremities, a fine copy, 8vo., Rapp and Whiting, 1969
£800-1,200
Dozois (editor) The Book of Swords, lettered copy PC of 26 and another (2)
Dozois (Gardner) ed.
The Book of Swords, lettered copy PC of 26 of a total of 300 limited copies, signed by all the contributors, original cloth, dust-jacket and slipcase, a fine copy, Subterranean Press, Burton, MI, 2018; The Book of Magic, lettered copy PC of 26 of a total of 300 limited copies, signed by all the contribu-tors, original cloth, dust-jacket and slipcase, a fine copy, Subterranean Press, Burton, MI, 2019, 8v0., (2) £200-300
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Fisher (Steve) Murder of the Pigboat Skipper, NY 1937
Fisher (Steve)
Murder of the Pigboat Skipper,
First edition, original light green cloth, soiled at foot of spine, lettered in black, original dustjacket, front flap detached, portions of upper panel and spine lacking probably caused by vermin, A Clue Club Mystery, Hillman-Curl, Inc. New York, 1937; Republished as ‘Murder on the S-23’ in 1938 § [Clemens (Samuel)] Twain Mark. Life on the Misssissippi, first edition later issue with advertisements at rear dated October, 1884, orig-inal red decorated cloth, a good clean tight copy, [BAL 3410], London, 1883, 8vo., (2)
£180-220
158
Fleming (Ian)
Fleming (Ian)
Goldfinger, First Issue, Second State, [Gilbert A7a (1.2)], original cloth gilt, browning and some staining, pictorial dust jacket, some creasing and surface wear to extremities, 1959; Diamonds are Forever, First Impression, small loss to title page upper right, endpapers and text block edges with spotting and some staining, ink signature of J. C. Joicey to front free endpaper, original silverstamped cloth, a little bowed, facsimile dust jacket, 1956; From Russia, With Love, First Impression, pp. 13 - 17 stained, original silverstamped cloth, rebacked, new endpapers with joints strengthened internally, facsimile dust jacket, 1957; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, First Impression, First Issue, front free endpaper with square in felt-tip pen to corner, pictorial dust jacket, price cancelled in ink, 1966; 8vo (4)
£300-400
160
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Forster: A Passage to India, 1925 & 5 others
Forster (E.M.)
A Passage to India, First edition, first edition, 3pp. publisher's advertisements at end, fox-ing to peripheral pages and rear adverts, original cloth, corners and spine ends a little rubbed and bumped, 1924 § Plath (Sylvia) The Bell Jar, original black cloth, dustjacket, stamp and signatiure removed from front endpapers, library stamp to rear paste-down, a good copy, Faber & Faber, 1966 § Amis (Kingsley) The James Bond Dossier, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, small mark to front endpaper, 1965; Take a Girl like You, 1960; My Enemy’s Enemy, 1962; one Fate Englishman, first editions, original boards, dust jackets, slightly soiled, otherwise good, 8vo. (6)
£150-200
Frank (Anne) Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Frank (Anne)
Diary of a Young Girl, first English edition, photographic frontispiece, original green cloth, gilt, original pictorial dustjacket, slightly chipped at head and tail of spine, slightly split at folds, a very good unsophisticated copy, 8vo., Costellation, 1952
£800-1,200
Gaiman & Pratchet. Good Omens, 1st ed. Insc. 1990
Gaiman (Neil) & Terry Pratchet Good Omens. The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter. Witch. First American edition, inscribed by both authors to half-title ‘To Lavie Burn this Book Terry Patchet, Apply Holy Match Here, Neil Gaiman’, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket as issued, a fine copy, Work-man Publishing,8vo., New York, 1990
£200-300
Heaney (Seamus) and others
Heaney (Seamus)
Beowulf: A New Translation, Signed, First edition, Signed by the author on the title page, pictorial dust jacket, 1999; Golding (William) Pincher Martin, First edition, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, dust jacket price-clipped, rubbed and discoloured, 1956; with others similar, including a set of Proust’s InSearchofLostTime (1970s), also with two later editions of titles by Byron and Tennyson (22)
£150-200
164
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le Carre (John) le Carre (John)
The Karla Trilogy (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; Smiley’s People), First editions, original cloth and pictorial dust jackets, Tinker Tailor price-clipped and with small stain to text block at foot of spine, small surface loss to spine, 1974-79; with a duplicate of the final vol.; The Naive and Sentimental Lover, First edition, ink ownership signature to front free endpaper, original cloth gilt, dust jacket, 1971; The Pigeon Tunnel, third printing, signed by the author on the title page, pictorial dust jacket, short tear, 2016; with 3 others by Le Carre (9)
£200-300
le Carre (John) The Spy Who Came in From the Cold le Carre (John)
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, First edition, pp. 28-33 with staining, original giltlettered cloth, some spotting to text block edges, dust jacket, some rubbing to extremities, soiling, 8vo, Gollancz, 1963
[Cooper & Pike p. 324]
£300-400
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Miscellany. Castle Dor, signed by du Maurier and others (53)
Miscellany
Du Maurier (Daphne) & Quiller-Couch (Arthur) Castle Dor, signed by du Maurier in blue ink to the title page, browning and spotting, paper clip rust mark to rear of front panel, staining to lower fore edge affecting numerous pages at rear, Avon paperback edition, 1974; with: Blyton (Enid) Five Get Into Trouble, First edition, publisher's cloth, dust jacket illustrated by Eileen Soper, some loss at head and foot of spine, creasing, further minor chip to lower edge, Hodder & Stoughton, 1949; Five Go To Billycock Hill, First Edition, tape residue and spotting to endpapers and half-title, dust jacket with some loss to extremities and creasing, 1957; with first editions of: Secret Seven Mystery [and] Five on Kirrin Island Again (no dust jacket); also with: Potter (Beatrix) The Original Peter Rabbit Books, 23 vols., ‘The original and authorized edition’, 1985; and 25 mixed editions of Beatrix Potter, mixed condition, v.s. (53)
£200-300 166
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Powell (Anthony) A Dance to the Music of Time Powell (Anthony)
A Dance to the Music of Time, 12 volumes, first five volumes in the series later printings: A Question of Upbringing (1974); A Buyer's Market (1967); The Acceptance World (1968)l At Lady Molly's (1964); Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1969); the remaining seven titles first printings: The Kindly Ones (1962); The Valley of Bones (1964); The Soldier's Art (1966); The Military Philosophers (1968); Books Do Furnish a Room (1971); Temporary Kings (1973); Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975); each with original pictorial dust jackets, At Lady Molly’s price-clipped, two vols. overlaid with price-sticker, 8vo (12)
£200-300
Ashendene Press.-Todhunter....Ye Sette of Odd Volumes..., [1896]
Ashendene Press.Todhunter (John)
Ye Minutes of Ye CLXXVIIth Meeting of Ye Sette of Odd Volumes..., number 75 of 154 copies, presentation copy from the author inscribed on half-title, ‘Edie from Father March 1st 1896’, original wrappers printed in red, uncut, edges a little frayed, worn at foot, cover slightly foxed, [Hornby III], small 8vo, privately printed for Ye Sette by ye hand of their well-beloved Brother ye Chapman, not to be had of any of ye tribe of booksellers, [1896].
***This copy was inscribed to the daughter of John Todhunter, wife of Sir Ambose Heal. According to Vyvyan Holland this is the rare Opusculum no. 42 of the Sette of Odd Volumes, being the third book printed at the Ashendene Press.
£300-400
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Camden Town Group: Paintings and Drawings by Harold Gilman and Charles Ginner in the Collection of Edward Le Bas Camden Town Group
Paintings and Drawings by Harold Gilman and Charles Ginner in the Collection of Edward Le Bas,
Limited edition number 10 of 105 copies, comprising title leaf with limitation verso and 36 mounted colour prints, title leaf with some offsetting and spotting, loose as issued in original half morocco solander box with the uniformly-bound 4to text volume slotted inside the lid, Royal College of Art label to front pastedown of text volume, white shelf number to spine of box, box soiled with some rubbing to extremities, folio (54 x 43 cm), Fairfax Hall, 1965
£150-200
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Douglas: Nine Poems, Ltd ed. 1926
Douglas (Lord Alfred)
Nine Poems, first edition, number 18 of 50 copies, signed presentation inscription from the author ‘For Ambrose Heal with the cordial regards of A.J.A. Symonds’ together with Als from Symons to Heal on The First Edition Club head paper dated April 21st 1926, original Curwen Press patterned paper boards, extremities a little darkened, privately printed, 1926 § Symons (A.J.A.) Emin. The Governor of Equatoria, number 14 of 300 copies, inscribed 'For Ambrose Heal one of the best readers from AJA Symons one of the best writers handwriters?’ original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, together with the original prospectus, printed at the Curwen Press, The Fleuron, 1928 § Fleg (Edmond) The Wall of Weeping, translated by Humbert Wolfe, limited edition signed by the author and translator, original cloth, dust-jacket, bookplate of the Selzer Book Collection and Als., London & New York, 1929 § Meynell (Francis) Poems & Pieces 1911 to 1961, one of 750 copies, small slip laid-in ‘With greetings from Francis Meynell, original cloth, dust-jacket, Nonesuch Press, 1961, v.s. (4) £300-400
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G.D. Directions for Writing .....1933
G.D.
Directions for Writing Now reprinted from the sole surviving copy published in London, A.D. 1656,
One of one hundred copies, editors preface signed by S.M. (Stanley Morison), original Morocco backed marbled boards, paper label to upper boards, gilt, bookplate of Ambrose Heal to front paste-down, Printed by W. Lewis at the University Press for friends in the Printing and Publishing Trades, Christmas 1933 § Bruce Rogers. Durer (Albrecht) The Construction of Roman Letters, 1/350 copies, original boards, paper label, pencil inscription to Ambrose Heal to fron endpaper, Cambridge, 1924 § Morison (Stanley, editor) The Calligraphic Models of Ludovico degli Arrighi surnamed Vicentino, one of 300 copies, original vellum-backed boards, uncut,bookplate of Ambrose Heal, Paris, privately printed by the Officina Bodoni at Montagnola di Lugano for Frederic Warne, 1926 § Morison (Stanley) A Newly Discovered Treatise on Classic Letter Design Printed at Parma by Damianus Moyllus circa 1480, one of 350 copies, original vellum backed boards, Paris, At the Sign of the Pegasus, 1927; and 3 others similar, v.s. (7)
£400-600
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Printing: De la More Press
Printing:
De la More Press: Shakespeare's Ovid Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses, Number 229 of 350 copies, engraved frontispiece featuring vignette of the King's Library, facsimile of the William Seres original title-page from 1567, occasional spotting and soiling, offsetting to endpapers, bookplate of Colin Stanley Crosse to front free endpaper, original quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, paper label to spine, soiled, rubbed to extremities, 1904; Fell (John) Specimens of Books printed at Oxford with the Types given to the University by John Fell, one of 550 copies, numerous specimens in type-facsimile (many hand-tipped, in red & black, or double page), some browning, offsetting to endpapers, original gilt-stamped cloth, Clarendon Press, 1925; Dewald (E. T.) The Illustrations of the Utrecht Psalter, First edition, 144 facsimile plates, original gilt-stamped cloth, Princeton University, 1932; and a quantity similar, the majority with blind stamps of the Royal College of Art library to the title page and further labels / stickers to endpapers and bindings, v.s. (22)
£100-200
Beardsley .- Jonson (Ben) Volpone: or The Foxe 1/1000 1898
Beardsley (Aubrey).-
Jonson (Ben) Volpone: or The Foxe number 362 of 1000 copies, frontispiece, 5 picto-rial initials and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley, bookplate removed carefully from front paste-down, original decorated cloth, gilt, uncut, slightly rubbed, Leonard Smithers, 1898 § Anthony (Gordon) Ballet Camera Studies, first edition, 96 tipped-in photographic plates, original cloth, spine slightly darkened, 1937 § Early English Romances, illustrat-ed by Harold Nelson, original parchment, Edinburgh, 1904, 4to., (3)
£100-150
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Briggs (Raymond) The Snowman, First Edition
The Snowman, First Edition, hardback, 4to, 1978; together with: Fungus and the Bogeyman, First Edition, 1977; an 'Autographed Edition' First Day Cover signed by Briggs in blue ink, postmarked 6 November 2001, and a brief autograph note from Briggs to the vendor (4)
£150-200
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Dulac (Edmund) Illustrator - Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne) The Novels
Dulac (Edmund) Illustrator - Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)
The Novels, 10 vol., colour plates throughout, original decorated cloth, t.e.g., other edges uncut as issued, 1905 § Milne (A.A.) When We Were Very Young, 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th editions, 1924; Winnie the Pooh, 3rd edition, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, first ed. 1928, The Christopher Robin Story Book, first ed. 1929; original cloth gilt,, some contemporary ownership annotations. 8vo., (14)
£250-350
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Franklin (Dr. B.) The Art of Making Money Plenty in Every Man's Pocket., 1817
Franklin (Dr. Benjamin)
The Art of Making Money Plenty in Every Man's Pocket., pictorial title and 7 pages engraved throughout with many words replaced by small illustrations in hieroglyphic form, slight browning and handling, original printed wrappers, lacking stitches, early ownership signature to title-page dated Oct. 1862, Darton, Harvey and Darton, and W. Alexander, York, 1817 § [Arbuthnot (John)] Lewis Baboon turned Honest and John Bull Politician. Being the Fourth Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit, first edition, 37pp, title-page and last leaf detached, no covers or spine, [ESTC T38599], Printed for John Morphew, 1712, 16mo., & sm. 8vo. (2)
£600-800
Helle (André) L’Arche De Noé, Paris [1925] first edition, illustrated throughout, original decorated cloth backed boards, worn at corners and edges, 4to., Paris: Granier Freres, [1925].
£80-120
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§ Kay (Pamela) Artist/Illustrator The Burning Barge, Kay (Pamela) Artist/Illustrator
The Burning Barge, original pen and wash watercolour from 'The Railway Children', p. 111, signed by the artist lower left, 13" x 10", 330 x 265mm., [1989] together with, 'Asking for Some Garden' fom 'The Secret Garden, p.95, original pen and wash watercolour, signed by the artist lower right, 13" x 7", 330 x 180mm., [1991], both mounted framed and glazed, gallery and 'copyright labels' on verso of backboards. (2)
£600-800
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Milne (A.A.) Winnie-the-Pooh, First edition & others. (6) Milne (A.A.)
Winnie-the-Pooh, First edition, illustrated by E. H. Shepard, staining to p. 105, some further small stains towards rear, small hole in margin of p.147, endpapers browned, original green cloth gilt, some surface marking to extremities and spine, some staining to lower board, pictorial dust jacket, loss at head and foot of spine affecting title, some further rubbing and soiling, 1926; Now We Are Six, First edition, offsetting to half-title, original cloth gilt, slight discolouration at head of spine, pictorial dust jacket, some loss at head of spine, short tear to rear panel, some further browning, spotting and rubbing, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, First edition, offsetting to endpaper and half-title, contemporary signature to verso of front free endpaper, original cloth gilt, some fading, second state dust jacket with When We Were Very Young in the ‘189th thousand’, loss at head and foot of spine and one short tear, soiled and rubbed, 1928; 8vo, with a second and a third edition of Winnie the Pooh, without dust jackets, and a sixteenth edition of Now We Are Six (6)
£600-800
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Potter (Beatrix) Seven first editions
Potter (Beatrix)
Seven first editions, including:
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, with "muffatees" to p.15, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 plates, pictorial endpapers, bookplate to centre of front pastedown, original grey boards with mounted colour illustration, slight surface loss to upper board, [Quinby 6], 16mo, Frederick Warne, 1904; The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, first or second impression, one short tear, p.27 with surface loss in margin, bookplate to front pastedown and bookseller’s ticket to rear, original green boards with mounted colour illustration, lacking spine, [Quinby 8], 1905; The Tailor Of Gloucester, numerous leaves stuck together due to damp, with resultant damage, tears and surface loss, ‘Isobel Lumb, Christmas 1903’ to front free endpaper, bookplate and bookseller’s ticket to pastedown, original maroon boards with mounted colour illustration, some loss at foot of spine, 1903; The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher, original red boards with mounted colour illustration, cracking to spine and loss at head, discolouration, 1906; The Tale Of Tom Kitten, bookplate to front pastedown and bookseller’s ticket to rear, original green boards with mounted colour illustration, some cracking to spine and loss at head of spine, 1907; The Pie and the Patty-Pan, bookplate to front free endpaper, some spotting to endpapers, half-title and final leaf, original brown boards with pictorial onlay, 1905; with The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, loss to spine (7)
£600-800
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Rackham (Arthur) artist/illustrator. Aesop's Fables, Ltd Ed. 1912 one of 1450 copies signed by the artist, black and white plates and illustrations, captioned tissue-guards, original white buckram, gilt, t.e.g., binding soiled, front endpapers with signs of poorly removed bookplates and signatures, 1912; Evans (C.S.) Cinderella, first trade edition, original decorated boards, colour frontispiece and illustrations throughout in silhouette by Rackham, rubbed at extremities, 1919, 4to. (2)
£200-300
Shepard (Ernest Howard) Graham, the artist's son
Shepard (Ernest Howard)
Graham, the artist's son, pencil drawing, 14 x 9 cm, c. 1914
The artist's estate.
Mrs Wharton Shober, December, 1988
Christie’s, ‘Children's Books, Original Illustrations and Vintage Film Posters’, 10 Dec 2009
Exhibited:
London, Sally Hunter Fine Art Limited, Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976), December, 1988, no. 127
£300-400
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A large collection of amateur sketchbooks, scrapbooks, autograph books, friendship books, cards, etc
A large quantity of c.19th and c.20th amateur sketchbooks, autograph books, friendship books, greetings cards etc, to include:
• a handwritten and illustrated history of early Brighton, 1952-53 (100pp approx, 195mm 225mm) [1]
• sketchbooks of architectural illustrations, Edwardian, (28pp approx, 245mm x 335 mm)[2],
• a rolled Edwardian architectural floor plan / section of a typical small terraced house (390mm x 460mm)
• a book of drawn and clipped satirical political sketches and notes, c.1920 - 1935 (yy pp, xxmm x xxmm)
• anatomical and figural sketchbooks [2]
• a book of clipped Victorian and Edwardian ephemera (40pp approx, 340mm x 255mm)
• a visitors’ book from a guesthouse in Folkestone (Kent, 1923-1936) with handembroidered covers (100pp approx, 235mm x 180mm)
• a small group of American scrap books sketchbooks and ephemera albums [5]
• Christmas, Birthday, Valentine’s, Thanksgiving, remembrance cards mostly mid C.20th, American [c.150 qty], British [c150], a few Scandinavian [c.40]
• Autograph books and ‘friendship books’ between friends and neighbours, many with good amateur illustrations included, of many sizes and paginations [c.40 qty]
• Sketch books by amateur artists, in ink and watercolour etc, often annotated, of many sizes and paginations [c. 30 qty]
• A other similar,Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; large quantity (Qty)
£400-600
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Benedictus (Edouard) Nouvelles Variations: Soixante-Quinze Motifs Décoratifs en Vingt Planches
Benedictus (Edouard)
Nouvelles Variations: Soixante-Quinze Motifs Décoratifs en Vingt Planches,
20 pochoir colour plates, some highlighted with gold or silver, by Jean Saudé, some minor loss and fraying in margins, title leaf browned and with Royal College of Art library blindtsamp at foot, 49 x 38 cm, loose as issued in original cloth-backed boards with ties, pochoir onlay to upper board, rubbed and soiled, label of Colour Design and Style Centre library to front pastedown, folio, Paris, Editions Albert Levy, [1929].
£300-400
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Fashion: La Belle Assemblée. A collection of 67 volumes, [1810 - 1840]
Fashion: La Belle Assemblée
A collection of 67 volumes, including:
La Belle Assemblée or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine Addressed Particularly to the Ladies, First series, vols. 6 & 7 only (1809); New series, vols. 1-12, 16, 27, 31 (1810-27), with duplicates of these vols.;
also with: La Belle Assemblée, or Court and Fashionable Magazine, monthly, vols. 7-8 (1828); New Monthly Belle Assemblée, vols. 4, 6, 8-11, 20-45, 47-48 (1836-57) with one duplicate; Weekly Belle Assemblée, vols. 4-7 (1833-35); The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée, vol. 2 (1832); The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic, vols. 1, 3-4, 6-7 (1837-40);
1013 engraved plates, the majority handcoloured, blind stamp of the Royal College of Art to title pages and labels to endpapers, some spotting and staining throughout, mixed bindings and condition, mixed bindings, the majority in contemporary leather, 8vo, for John Bell (67) [sold as a periodical, not subject to return] £600-800
Film brochures. A collection of 54. Film brochures
A collection of 54, including:
Spartacus (1960); A Man For All Seasons (1966); My Fair Lady (1964); The Lion in Winter (1968); Cabaret (1972); Ben Hur (1959); Mutiny on the Bounty (1962); El Cid (1961); Othello (1965); Lawrence of Arabia (1962); Becket (1964); King of Kings (1961); and others similar, numerous duplicates, mixed condition with occasional inscriptions or loose covers; with three Radio Fun annuals, 1949-51; Film Fun annual 1950; and 2 others (60) £150-200
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Gormley (Antony) illustrator, Origo 3, [1970]
Gormley (Antony) illustrator
Origo 3,
only edition, cover depicting Leda and the Swan and illustrations by Antony Gormley, further illustrations by Marta Lombard, John Fullerton, Peter Freeman and Paul-René Sieveking (editor), discolouration to upper quarter of covers and some splitting along spine, ‘July ‘70’ written in red ink to upper edge, rust marks from staples, [Miller & Price, 'British Poetry Magazines', 329], tall 8vo (35 x 14 cm), Cambridge Black Cross, [1970]
***Produced while Gormley was a student at Cambridge, the illustrations for Origo 3 are his earliest published work. They bear little resemblance to the later work for which he is famous.
£200-300
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Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
A briefcase containing various ephemera relating to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Amnesty International, and other causes, including: a Dorman Smith TrafiLamp labelled ‘Greenham’; various stickers; a ticket for the 1988 Human Rights Now! Concert at Wembley stadium; 20 leaflets and booklets on issues relating to nuclear weapons or other political issues, such as ‘Meet Mr. Bomb: Official UK Government Parody’, 1970s & 80s.
£100-150
Hogarth (William) The Works, Bohn Hogarth (William)
The Works . . . from the original plates restored by James Heath, engraved portrait frontispiece (detached) and 115 plates, suppressed "Before" and "After" plates loosely inserted, title page with large tear at foot, frontispiece and suppressed plates trimmed and stained, some spotting and soiling throughout, contemporary half red morocco, gilt, upper board and endpapers detached, rear pocket detached, elephant folio, Baldwin and Craddock, [Henry G. Bohn], c.1850
£400-600
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Jessie M King, Dorothy CP Ward and other Designed book covers and illustrations etc Jessie Marion King (1875-1949) five books with covers designed by Jessie M King: The Lover of Gardens (compilation); The Poems of Lindsay Gordon; Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam; Aucassin & Nicolette, from the series 'The Friendship Booklets (c.1908-1910) plus The Grey City of the North - Edinburgh / a book of drawings (c.1910-1912) all published by TN Foulis, all with paper covers, some with ownership markings and pencil manuscript notes to inside front covers, together with Christabel (Samuel Tayor Coleridge) published by Foulis c.19051912, soft cover, plus two other small books
Together with a handmade book of c.18th and c.19th British Samplers, entitled "Sample Boom and initialled LFW; 190mm x 230mm, cloth cover over card, with seven pages of embroidery / needlework plus a laid in sampler dated 1848 and another miniature sampler.
Together with to sketch albums of costumes, 180mm x 250mm (spiral bound, card covers) and 250mm x 310mm book bound with paper cover, named in pencil on the cover "Dorothy CP Ward", (artist, 1909 - 1995), containing annotated pencil and colour wash sketches of English and foreign costumes variously from the c.17th to the c.20th [qty]
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Milward Nichols (H.) Comic sketch book
Milward Nichols (H.)
A comic sketch book presenting ‘The Strange Adventures of Young Lillian and Old Bert’, ink and wash on paper, presented to Lillian Warmington, with a second book of similarly playful and satirical scenes cut out from their correspondence over a number of years, and ms letters, 24 x 19 cm, reversed calf binding with gilt monogram onlay, 1910s - 30s (2)
*** Lillian Warmington was a cellist who married viola soloist Lionel Tertis.
£100-150
Tenniel. Als' x 4 1878 -1891
Tenniel (John)
A collection of 4 Als with regards to various engagements.-
Saturday. May 11 1878 to Dear Crowe, asking for a ticket to Willis’s and to thanking for the invitation to dine with him.. etc. 1pp.
April 8 1882. to My dear Green. Apologises not being able to attend the “Smoking Party” on the 13th. 1pp.
May 2 1891. To My dear Furniss. Apologising not being able to join Furniss and his wife to witness his ‘triumph’ as suffering with a severe cold and will not be able to join the “Cavalcade” to Richmond. 2pp.
May 16. 1891. My dear Furniss. Thanks for tickets and expressing his admiration of Furniss’ image of the House of Commons. 1pp.
***Harry Furniss was an artist and caricaturist who also illustrated books for Lewis Carroll as did Tenniel.
£200-300
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Animation. Pink Panther [1975] Pink Panther “Coming Home”, Original animation cell and production drawing, 200 x 280mm., & 150 x 280mm., matted framed and glazed, [c. 1975]
£100-150
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Hassall. The White Cate Poster. [ 1904] Hassall (John) Artist & illustrator. The White Cat, Lithographic poster ofr a Dury Lane Pantomime, c. 500 x 800mm., [c. 1904]
*** This Hassall design is belived to be the last pantomime poster for the Dury Lane Theatre as it closed for several years at the end of that season.
£200-300
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Mevin (Bill) Illustrator. Original storyboards. Amazing Adventures of Morph (28) Mevin (Bill) Illustrator. Original storyboards by illustrator Bill Mevin, comprising twenty- six for 'The Amazing Adventures of Morph', black ink and pen vignettes and cuttings mounted on board, and two of Parsley the Lion for 'Playland', pen and gouache on boards; some pencil annotations, handling wear to board margins (28)
£400-600
Worsley. Wind in the Willows, original art. 1970 Worsley (John) Illustrator [Wind in the Willows] ‘Oh What a Squealing and Screeching filled the air as the Four Fearless Friends went into Battle…’ The Battle for Toad Hall. Original pencil and watercolour, for the television programme ‘Wind in the Willows’ made by Anglia Television, together with 25 colour slides for the programme, 375 x 955mm., signed by the artist lower right, 1970.
£300-400
Movie Poster: Rudolph Valentino in L’Amant
Eternel (Le Fils du Cheik)
Movie Poster
Rudolph Valentino in L’Amant Eternel (Le Fils du Cheik), colour photomontage of Valentino holding Vilma Banky against a desert background, printed on paper, laid-down on archival linen, image c. 79.5 x 59.5cm., Paris, Bedos, [1930]
£100-150
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Detective Comics, two issues, no. 105 (Nov. 1945) & no. 110 (Apr. 1946)
Detective Comics, two issues, no. 105 (Nov. 1945) & no. 110 (Apr. 1946), cover artists Jack Burnley and Win Mortimer, ink stamps to covers including ‘XX 1958’, 105 with some loss at foot of spine, some browning and staining, DC Comics (2)
£150-250
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20th century art: Matta (Roberto) and others 20th century art
A collection of 14 volumes, including:
Matta (Roberto) Matta, Limited edition, number 47 of 100 copies with an additional signed etching, from a total edition of 300, and 11 further offset lithograph plates, on bifolia with printed captions, each print with blindstamp of the Royal College of Art library in margin, loose as issued in cloth portfolio, soiled, Milan, Alexandre Iolas, 1975; Ozenfant (Amédée) Tour de Grèce, 16pp. text booklet, inscribed by the author to Helene Beauclerk on front cover, 31 plates only (of 32), text with library RCA library label to front cover, housed in library box, table of plates pasted down, Éditions M. I. E. U. X. Exclusivité Hachette, 1938; Ehrenzweig (Anton) text, William Johnstone, signed by Johnstone on the front free endpaper, original cloth, splitting and minor loss to extremities of spine, folio, Central School of Arts and Crafts, [1959]; also with: Ross (Johnny) The Biggin Hill Frescoes, one of 100 signed copies, 1975; v.s., all exlibrary copies, with labels, stickers and shelfmarks etc. (14)
£200-300
Ackroyd (Norman) A Hebridean Notebook . Ackroyd (Norman)
A Hebridean Notebook, First edition, signed to half title, Royal Academy, 2015; The Stratton Street Series, First edition, inscribed and dated to title page, 2003; original cloth with pictorial dust jacket; with two further signed or inscribed sets of postcards, including ‘Recent Landscapes’, 2002 (4)
£100-150
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Art reference.A large collection of c. 100 volumes
Art reference
A large collection of c. 100 volumes, including:
Crowe (J. A.) & Cavalcaselle (G. B.) Titian: His Life and Times, 2 vols., First edition, signed by the artist James Clark Hook R. A. and dated 1877 to both title pages, 19 plates including frontispieces, original gilt-lettered cloth, spines faded, cracking to joints internally, John Murray, 1877; Calvert (Samuel) A Memoir of Edward Calvert Artist, No. 146 of 350 signed copies, numerous plates including frontispiece, staining to lower corner throughout, original cloth gilt, loss to spine, 1893; Hefner-Alteneck (Dr J. H. von) Deutsche Goldschmiede-Werke, 30 chromolithographic plates, library blind and ink stamps to plates, library binding, Frankfurt, 1890; Popham (A. E.) Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, 3 vols. (text and plates), original cloth, folio, Yale University Press, 1971; and a large quantity similar, the majority with blind stamps of the Royal College of Art library to the title page and further labels / stickers to endpapers and bindings, v.s. (c.100)
£400-600
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Art: Illustrated monographs and facsimiles
Art: Illustrated monographs and facsimiles
A large collection, including:
Fry (Roger) introduction, Living Painters. Duncan Grant, First edition, 24 plates, this was planned as the first in a series but no further issues were published, original cloth-backed paper boards designed by Grant, discoloured and stained, some fraying to spine, ink call number to front pastedown, [Woolmer 31], 4to, Hogarth Press, 1923; Kahn (Gustave) editor, Les Dessins de Georges Seurat (1859-1891), 2 vols., 127 leaves of tipped-in plates only (lacking plate 128), mounts browned and chipped, loose as issued with letterpress in original cloth portfolios, with paper labels and cotton ties, spines splitting, library labels of the Royal College of Art to endpapers, in library box, folio, Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, 1928; Steinlen (Théophile Alexandre) Des Chats. Images sans paroles, 26 gillotage plates, all leaves professionally laid with Japanese tissue conservation paper, bookplate and signature of Muriel Goscombe John to front endpapers, original pictorial paper-covered boards, browned and rubbed, rebacked, Ernest Flammarion, 1898; Hamerton (Philip Gilbert) Landscape, First edition, 50 plates, tears affecting one plate and pp. 349 - 352, original quarter leather gilt, rubbed, Seeley & Co., 1885; v.s., all ex-library copies, with labels, stickers and shelfmarks etc. (37)
£200-300
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Art: miscellaneous collection. Art
A collection including:
Twenty-Six Drawings by Antoine Watteau, reproduced from the original works, the property of Miss James, recently exhibited in the Bethnal Green branch of the South Kensington Museum, plates and two letterpress leaves, chipping to corners, V & A ink stamp to title leaf, browning, loose as issued within original gilt-lettered cloth folder, folio, Arundel Society, 1878; Schuette (Marie) Gestickte Bildteppiche und Decken des Mittelalters, 2 vols., titles in sanguine and black, 114 double-paged plates, some in colour, original gilt-lettered cloth, slight splitting to head of spine of vol. 1, Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1927; Cicognara (L.) Storia della scultura dal suo risorgimento in Italia fino al secolo di Canova, per servire di continuazione alle opere di Winckelmann e di D'Agincourt, plate volume only, second edition enlarged, lacking frontispiece and one engraved plate (of 185), spotting throughout, later library half morocco, worn, Giachetti, 1823; with a copy of the second volume of the first edition, including 90 engraved plates, 1816; de Montfaucon (Bernard) Antiquity Explained, and Represented in Sculptures, vols. 4 and 5 only, first English edition, bound in one, 46 and 52 engraved plates, some folding, some trimmed, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving morocco gilt lettering labels, J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1722; also with: Dore (Gustave) The Legend of the Wandering Jew. A Series of Twelve Designs, library cloth, [1866]; Rembrandt Bible, folder of facsimiles (1953); Stubbs (George) Anatomy of the Horse, original quarter cloth gilt, 1938; v.s., all ex-library copies, with labels, stickers and shelfmarks etc. (26) £200-300
Decorative arts, A large collection, including: Kumsch (Emil) Decorative arts
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A large collection, including: Kumsch (Emil) Three titles, including: Konigliches Kunstgewerbe-Museum zu Dresden. Stoffmuster des XVI-XVIII Jahrhunderts, 4 volumes, 200 photographic plates by C. Graff on printed card mounts, soiled, plate 41 with repaired tear to mount, 88 with tear to mount and chipping, vol. 3 & 4 cockled, library gilt-lettered half morocco, worn with loss and detached boards, folio, Dresden, Stengel & Markert, 1888-95; with: LeinenDamastmuster des XVII und XVIII Jahrhunderts, 25 plates, 1891 [and] Muster Orientalischer Gewebe und Druckstoffe, 40 plates, 1893; national art library blind stamp to mounts, RCA library blind stamp to titles; Hefner-Alteneck (Jacob Heinrich von) Trachten, Kunstwerke und Gerathschaften vom fruhen Mittelalter bis Ende des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, volumes 1-5 only (of 10), 360 engraved plates printed in colour, many heightened with gilt and silver, some soiling, each with blindstamp of the National Art Library to upper edge, later half leather, worn, preserving original printed wrapper front panels, 4to, Frankfurt, Heinrich Keller, 1879-1884; Rossteuscher (A.) & Schaefer (C.) Ornamentale Glasmalereien des Mittelalters und der Renaissance [Ornamental stained glass of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance], third edition?, 45 chromolithographic plates, some browning and short tears in margins, contemporary half leather gilt, worn with loss to extremities, block detached internally, large folio (46 x 60 cm), Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, 1888; Eggert (Franz Xaver) Die Glasgemälde der neuerbauten Mariahilf-Kirche in der Vorstadt au zu München…, frontispiece, letterpress title on dark blue paper, dedication, and 19 folding plates, strengthened with linen, spotting and some staining throughout, contemporary gilt-lettered half morocco, worn and stained, Munich, [Fr. Gyperu & R. Risch], c. 1845; Fischbach (Friedrich) Die wichtigsten Webe-Ornamente bis zum 19. Jahrhundert [The Most Important Textile Ornaments], 5 volumes, 260 mounted colour plates, numerous plates detaching with loss to corners, library cloth, Wiesbaden, Selbst Verlag, 1901; v.s., all ex-library copies, with labels, stickers and shelfmarks etc. (58) £400-600
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Piankoff (Alexandre) editor, Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations, Bollingen Series XL Piankoff (Alexandre) editor,
Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations, Bollingen Series XL, 1 - 5 (of 6), including: Vol. I, The Tomb of Ramesses VI, Texts and Plates (196 plates); Vol. II, The Shrines of Tut-AnkhAmon; Vol. III, Mythological Papyri, Texts and Plates (30 folding plates); Vol. IV, The Litany of Re; Vol. V, The Pyramid of Unas; blind stamps of the Royal College of Art library to title pages and labels to endpapers, original quarter cloth boards or boxes, some soiling, no slipcases, vols. 4 & 5 with printed dust jackets, chipping and loss, large 4to, Princeton University Press, 1954-68; with a duplicate; and: Khaldun (Ibn) The Muqaddimah: an introduction to history, 3 vols., Bollingen Series XLIII, First edition, translated by Franz Rosenthal, folding chart in pocket at rear of vol. 3, original printed dust jackets, some soiling and chipping, 1958; also with: Ur Excavations, 2 vols. (plates and text), original printed boards, Publications of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum..., 1934; a small group of other books on world art (20) £150-200
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Racinet (Auguste) Le Costume Historique
Racinet (Auguste)
Le Costume Historique,
6 volumes, First edition, folio issue, half-titles, 500 plates as called for, 300 of which are chromolithographic and heightened with gold and silver, intermittent soiling and spotting, blind stamps of the Royal College of Art Library to title pages and paper labels to endpapers, contemporary gilt-panelled morocco, extremities rubbed with some loss to foot of spine of vol. 6, surface marking, folio, Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1888
£300-400
Sylvester (David) editor, Rene Magritte. Catalogue raisonné
Sylvester (David) editor,
Rene Magritte. Catalogue raisonné, 6 vols., including vol. of newly discovered works, First edition, original cloth with pictorial dust jackets, slipcase present for vol. 4 only, large 4to, Antwerp, Menil Foundation, 1992 - 2012 (6)
£250-350 207
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The Art Journal. A collection of 29 volumes, The Art Journal
A collection of 29 volumes, including:
Art Union Monthly, Chapman & Hall, 1848; (renamed) Art Journal, George Virtue, 1849; New series: 1852-63; 1867-68; 1873-79; 188687; with 4 duplicates; decorative titles, numerous engraved plates throughout, further illustrations in text, blind stamps of the Royal College of Art to titles, further library labels to endpapers, mixed bindings, the majority in contemporary leather gilt, mixed condition with some boards and endpapers detached or spines lacking, large 4to, (29) [not subject to return]
£600-800 208
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Architecture, A collection including: Horn (Walter) & Born (Ernest) The Plan of St. Gal Architecture
A collection including:
Horn (Walter) & Born (Ernest) The Plan of St. Gall: A Study of the Architecture & Economy of, & Life in a Paradigmatic Carolingian Monastery, 3 volumes, Number 49 of 150 deluxe copies, signed by the authors on inserted leaf, foreword by Wolfgang Braunfels, numerous architectural plans and views, some folding, folding facsimile plan in loosely-inserted envelope, Royal College of Art inkstamp to title pages and labels / stickers to endpapers and spine, original pigskin-backed linen, spines lettered in gilt, some splitting to head of spine of vol. 1, matching linen slipcase, soiled, folio, University of California, 1979; Alt-Christliche Baudenkmale von Constantinopel vom V. bis XII. Jahrhundert., Limited edition facsimile of the 1855 original, one of 1000 copies, 2001; Braun (Georg) & Hogenberg (Frans) Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 3 volumes, facsimile edition with an introduction by R. A. Skelton, numerous prints, including folding, publisher's cloth gilt with pictorial dust jackets, library stickers at foot of spines, folio, Cleveland and New York, The World Publishing Company, 1964; Raschdorff (Otto) & Haupt (Albrecht) Palast-Architektur von Oberitalien und Toscana vom XIII. Bis XVII. Jahrhundert, 4 volumes, sold as a collection of plates, housed in library boxes, 1902-22; Reinhardt (Roberto) Palazzi Dell'Italia Settentrionale e Della Toscana Dal XV al XVII Secolo. Genova., 100 numbered plates, some folding, some browned, Ernst Wasmuth, original cloth-backed printed portfolio with ties, spine later, n.d.; also with: Birch (George H.) London Churches of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries…, library cloth, Batsford, 1896; The map of the world on Mercator's projection by Jodocus Hondius, lacking sheet 6, Royal Geographical Society, 1927; v.s., all ex-library copies, with labels, stickers and shelfmarks etc. (25)
£200-300
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Architecture, including: Burges (William) Architecture
A large collection, including:
Burges (William) Architectural Drawings, 75 lithographic plates, each with ink stamp of the Edinburgh Architectural Association to one corner, occasionally affecting image, some soiling, printed for subscribers, original half morocco gilt, extremities worn, folio, William Clowes and Sons, 1870; Ongania (Ferdinando) Streets and Canals in Venice. Calli e canali in Venezia, First edition in English, printed in red and black, additional pictorial title in Italian, 98 photogravure plates only (lacking plates 3 and 19), chipping and occasional loss in margin, plate 100 with tear into image and loss in margin, title soiled, loose in modern library box, folio, Venice, Ongania, 1893; Lessing (Otto) Die Bau-Ornamente Berlin’s herausgegeben von Otto Lessing Bildhauer, 100 collotype plates (on 99), Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art ink stamp to title and verso of each plate, contemporary Edinburgh Museum half morocco binding, worn with lower board detached, folio, Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, 1878; Wallot (Paul) Das Reichstags-Gebäude in Berlin., portrait and 54 plates in various media, some double-paged, some coloured, 5 plates with large stain, publisher’s decorative cloth, worn, rebacked, royal folio, Leipzig, Cosmos, Leipzig, [18971913]; v.s., all ex-library copies, with labels, stickers and shelfmarks etc. (53)
£300-400
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Butler (A.S.G.) The Lutyens Memorial: The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens Butler (A.S.G.)
The Lutyens Memorial: The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 3 volumes, photographic frontispieces, numerous plates, original green cloth gilt, surface marking and some staining / white spotting, shelfmarks to spines, no dust jackets, Royal College of Art library blind stamp to title page and label to front pastedowns, ink note on purchase in 1951, folio, Country Life Limited, 1950.
£150-200
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Ceramics: Limited editions and bibliography Ceramics: Limited editions and bibliography A collection of c. 110 limited editions, reference books and catalogues, including: Tatlock (R. R.), Hobson (R. L.) & Macquoid (Percy), A Record of the Collections in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight. Formed by the First Viscount Leverhulme, 3 volumes (English Painting; Chinese Porcelain & Wedgwood Pottery; English Furniture, Tapestry, & Needlework), Limited edition of 350 copies, numerous plates, original cloth gilt, no dust jackets, Batsford, 1928; Shaw (Simeon) History of the Staffordshire Potteries; and the Rise and Progress of the Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain; with Reference to Genuine Specimens, and Notice of Eminent Potters, First edition, no half-title, 5H torn in margin, some spotting to fore edge, original cloth-backed paper-covered boards, loss to printed label and cracking / loss to spine, housed in modern cloth box with gilt label to spine: ‘A. J. B. Kiddell’s copy’, Hanley, for the author, 1829; Catalogue of the Pottery & Porcelain in the Collection of L. M. Solon, Limited edition, inscribed in ink to front free endpaper: ‘To my son Paul, L. Solon’, the endpaper browned and with some loss, numerous plates, spotting, original cloth, Messrs Charles Butters & Sons, 1912; Lo (K. S.) et al., The Art of the Yixing Potter. The K. S. Lo Collection, complimentary copy ink stamp and inscription to Dame Margaret Booth on front free endpaper, Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware, original cloth and pictorial dust jacket, 1990; with others similar, v.s. (c. 110) £300-400
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Decorative arts, including: Waring (J. B.)
Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture at the International Exhibition Decorative arts
A large collection, including:
Waring (J. B.) Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 3 volumes, text in English and French, additional chromolithographed titles and 301 plates by W. R. Tymms, Albert Warren and G. Macculloch, tissue guards, some spotting throughout and occasional staining, vols. 2 & 3 with majority of block / leaves detached from gutta-percha, plates 43 - 45 strengthened in margin, original gilt-blocked morocco in Grolier style, worn, folio, Day & Son, 1863; Wyatt (Matthew Digby)
Specimens of Ornamental Art Workmanship in Gold, Silver, Iron, Brass and Bronze from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Centuries, First edition, 50 chromolithographic plates (some heightened in gold or silver), ink inscription to head of title page: ‘purchased for the Library of the Architectural Association May 1888’, offsetting and minor loss to title page, title and some plates laid down, plate 5 with repaired tear, some spotting and browning throughout, each plate with blind stamp to upper edge, library cloth, folio, Day & Son, 1852; Jacquemin (Raphael) Iconographie Générale et Méthodique du Costume du IVe au XIXe Siècle, First edition, 193 plates only (of 200), soiled, folio, Paris, "L'Auteur," [1863-69]; Racinet (Auguste) Le Costume Historique, volumes 2-6 only, incomplete, sold as a collection of plates, Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1888; Warrington (William)
The History of Stained Glass, chromolithographed additional title, dedication and 25 plates, spotting and browning, several trimmed or chipped with some loss, by the author, 1848; also with: Meusnier (Georges) La Joaillerie Francaise En 1900, 32 Heliotype plates, V & A ink stamps, library binding, Paris, 1901; v.s., all ex-library copies, with labels, stickers and shelfmarks etc. (17)
£300-400
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Dufrene (Maurice) Ensembles Mobiliers. Exposition Internationale de 1937, volumes 1 - 5 Dufrene (Maurice)
Ensembles Mobiliers. Exposition Internationale de 1937,
volumes 1 - 5, vol. 1 with 32 collotype plates, vols. 2 - 5 with 48 plates each, blind stamp of the Royal College of Art library to titles and occasionally to plates, some chipping and browning, loose as issued with text in clothbacked printed boards with ties, paper labels to front pastedowns and further stickers to boards, some rubbing and soiling, vol. 3 lacking spine, folio, Editions d’Art Charles Moreau, 1937 - 43 (5)
£300-400
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French architecture. Collection. French architecture
A collection including:
Rouyer (Eugene) Les appartements prives de S.M. l'imperatrice au palais de Tuileries, decores par M.F. Lefuel, architecte de S.M. l'Empereur, additional title and 20 engraved chine-colle plates, spotting, contemporary cloth, spine perished, folio, Paris, Librairie polytechnique de J. Baudry, 1867; Marrast (J.) Marrast MCMXXV Jardins, 8 pp. title booklet, 50 plates only (lacking plates 5, 7, 27, 54), loose as issued in original cloth-backed boards with decorative label, ties perished, protective box, Paris, Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, 1926; Lacroux (J.) Construction en briques. La Brique ordinaire au point de vue décoratif... texte par C. Détain, First series, text and 75 chromolithographed plates, browning and staining throughout, some strengthening in margins, loose as issued, in later library portfolio, folio, Paris, Ducher, 1878; Viollet-LeDuc (Eugène Emmanuel) Compositions et dessins de Viollet-le-Duc publiés sous le patronage du Comité de l'Oeuvre du Maitre, Edition de Luxe No. 241, subscriber’s copy for architect M. Honore Boyer, portrait frontispiece and 100 plates, some double-paged, planet 7071 split along central fold, spotting and some staining throughout, later half cloth over original printed boards with ties, Paris, Librairie Centrale d’Architecture, 1884; also with: D'Espouy (Hector) Fragments d’Architecture du Moyen Age…, Ch. Massin, 99 plates only, lacking plate 78, loose in library folder, n.d.; v.s., all ex-library copies, with labels, stickers and shelfmarks etc. (14)
£300-400
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Modernism: Encyclopédie des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes au XXe siècle Modernism
A large collection of volumes, including:
Encyclopédie des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes au XXe siècle. 12 volumes bound in 9, 856 plates only (of 864), some in colour, on Arches paper, (Vol. 2 lacking plate 88; Vol. 3 lacking plates 66-69; Vol. 4 lacking plates 63-64; Vol. 9 lacking plate 50), half imitation vellum, title in gilt across spines, soiled, some splitting to spines and internally, call number labels to spines, decorative gilt endpapers, label of the Royal College of Art library to verso of front free endpaper and blind stamp to title page, 4to, Paris, Imprimerie nationale, Office central d'éditions et de librairie, 1925; also with: Meynell (Wilfrid) The Modern School of Art, 4 vols., 36 plates, original decorative cloth gilt, n.d. [188688]; The Principles and Practice of Modern House-Construction, 6 vols., 27 plates and numerous in-text illustrations, original decorative cloth, 1898; Histoire de la Locomotion Terrestre (1936); v.s., and a large quantity of others similar, including a small quantity on automobiles and technology, the majority with blind stamps of the Royal College of Art library to the title page and further labels / stickers to endpapers and bindings (104)
***The encyclopedia is compiled from the catalogue section of the "Rapport Generale" of the 1925 exhibition, originally published in wrappers in 18 volumes. Various editions of 7 to 12 volumes were issued, depending on the original parts that were still available.
£400-600
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Süe (Louis) & Marie (Andre) 1921 Architectures
Süe (Louis) & Marie (Andre)
1921 Architectures: recueil publié sous la direction de Louis Süe & André Mare; comprenant un dialogue de Paul Valery et la présentation d'ouvrages d'architecture, décoration intérieure, peinture, sculpture et gravure…, Limited edition, number 391 of 500 copies, 148 pp. with numerous art deco plates in various media, Royal College of Art library blindstamp to title page and label to verso of front wrapper panel, original printed card wrappers, some soiling and surface marking, and fraying to spine extremities, folio, Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1921
***Illustrations by artists including: Jacques Villon, Paul Vera, Roger de la Fresnaye, Marie Laurencin, Jean-Emile Laboureur, Dunoyer de Segonzac, and others.
£200-300
Newton (Helmut) Sumo Newton (Helmut) Sumo edited by June Newton, limited edition signed by Helmut Newton, photographic illustrations, some colour, original pictorial cloth, dust-jacket, with metal book stand designed by Philippe Starck, as new in the original shipping box, large folio, Cologne, Taschen, 1999
£2,500-3,500
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Driberg (Tom) Photographic portraits, Driberg’s own collection
Driberg (Tom)
Photographic portraits, Driberg’s own collection; four prints by Maurice Beck, two by Blechman, two by Lenare, all signed, and one unsigned by Converse Studios; studio stamps verso, housed in gilt photographic album of Lenare of Hanover Square, n.d.; also with a collection of press prints and correspondence relating to Driberg’s home at Bradwell Lodge.
***Thomas Driberg, Baron Bradwell (1905 –1976) served as a Labour Member of Parliament and wrote the ‘William Hickey’ society column, one of the first modern ‘gossip columns’. Following his death, allegations were published about his involvement with both MI5 and the KGB.
£100-200
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A collection of 22 comic sketches, [c. 19th] Anon.,
A collection of 22 comic sketches, ink on paper, cut from an album, from various sources including after George Cruikshank and contemporary books such as Outofthehurlyburly, with various epigrams and calculations, late-19th century (22)
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Biasion (Renzo) La Bicocca Degli Arcimboldi
Biasion (Renzo)
La Bicocca Degli Arcimboldi, etching, signed in pencil lower right, plate 21 x 30cm, published by Pirelli, within original Pirelli printed folder, n.d.
£150-200
Bowyer (Robert) View from Mont St. Jean of The Battle of Waterloo
Bowyer (Robert)
View from Mont St. Jean of The Battle of Waterloo…, hand-coloured aquatint, from ‘An illustrated record of important events in the annals of Europe, during the Years 1812, 1813, 1814, & 1815’, strengthening to central fold, some spotting and discolouration, framed & glazed, overall 54 x 76cm, 1816
£100-150
Currier & Ives, Woodcock Shooting [and] Partridge Shooting, after Frances Flora Bond Palmer
Currier & Ives, Woodcock Shooting [and] Partridge Shooting, hand-coloured lithographs, after Frances Flora Bond Palmer, [Conningham 6774 & 4719?], some browning and spotting, labels of the The Old Print Shop NY verso, overall 64 x 78 cm, New York, 1852 & 1865
£300-400
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Miscellany: Favorsky (Vladimir Andreevich) & ‘Pic’ [Ion Cristian Popescu]
Miscellany
Favorsky (Vladimir Andreevich) Three woodcut illustrations to the works of Prosper Mérimée, including ‘Colomba’, ‘Dushi Chistilitsa’ (The soul of the cleaner), and ‘A gentleman entering a carriage’, each signed by the artist in pencil, some browning, two c. 15 x 10 cm, groupmounted, n.d. [with] ‘Pic’ [Ion Cristian Popescu]
Entablature, oil on board, 15 x 23 cm, The Reid Gallery label verso, n.d. (2)
£150-200
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Prints & drawings: miscellaneous
Prints & drawings: miscellaneous
A large quantity of prints, drawings and watercolours, including: Carracci (Annibale) after & Pond (Arthur) Monks in a garden, from the series 'Prints in Imitation of Drawings', etching and woodcut, trimmed with loss to upper right corner, soiling, laid down, [1734]; Carracci (Ludovico) after & Giovannini (Giacomo Maria) St. Benedict Fleeing from the Unchaste Women, etching, trimmed, edges strengthened, [Bartsch XIX.426.27]; Rubens (Peter Paul) after, Double Mariage de Constance Chlore et de Maximien Galere
Cesars, engraved by N. Tardieu, trimmed at foot, browned, 1745; Romney (George) after, Abraham Newland Esq.r, mezzotint, engraved by J. Grozer, trimmed, some loss and short tears to edges, stain at foot, laid down, 1795; Anon., A pair of topographical watercolours, on thick wove card, late-19th century; Tommy Make Room for Your Uncle, music sheet, chromolithographic wrapper, written and composed by T.S. Lonsdale, sung by W.B. Fair, spine splitting, c.1900; v.s., with numerous others similar (2 boxes)
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Whaite (Gillian) 'Flowers in…', series of 11 etchings, watercolours.
Whaite (Gillian)
'Flowers in…', series of 11 etchings, with watercolour, representing months of the year, signed and titled in pencil at foot, plates c. 60 x 45 cm, framed & glazed (11) ***Gillian Whaite (1934-2012) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal Academy Schools. An exhibition of her work, along with that of her father H. Clarence Whaite (1895-1978), was held at the South London Art Gallery in 1979
£300-400
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Robinson (Charles). Original watercolours (2) Robinson (Charles) watercolourist and book illustrator. ‘Untitled’
A couple in ‘Regency’ dress walking through an abstract cloudy back-ground, original pencil and watercolour drawing, signed by the artist lower left, image 250 x 350m., matted framed and glazed, n.d.; Girl with basket, abstract cloudy background, original pencil and watercolour drawing, 180 x 280mm., matted framed and glazed, n.d. [c. 1920] (2)
£350-450
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Perrault (Charles) A Treatise of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture, 1708
Perrault (Charles)
A Treatise of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture, trans. John James, first edition in English, engraved frontispiece, vignette title, dedication, list of subscribers, 7 plates (numbered I-VI, one unnumbered with 2 engravings) and illustrations in text, numerous charming engraved head- & tail-pieces and initials by John Sturt, with errata & 3pp. advertisements, contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, heavily worn with the small round bookplate of ‘John Corbould Engraver’ to front paste-down, contemporary signatures of ‘Edward Corbould’ and C.F. Corbould Ellis’ to front free endpaper, signs of water-staining at corners and edges in places, some other soiling and dusty, L1torn with loss to lower l/h corner at gutter, small loss to plate at lower margin not affecting engraving, Bb2 torn with loss at corner, an honest copy, [Fowler 248; Harris 700], folio, Benjamin Motte, sold by John Sturt, 1708
£300-400
Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), plates X and XV
Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)
Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), plates X and XV: ‘A vast gallery, with round arches and a group of prisoners’ and ‘Round arches springing from a square column, ornamented with the heads of giants with rings in their mouths’, etchings on laid paper, both Hind’s second state of three, trimmed to plate, some chipping to edges with minor loss, to image, further creasing and both with tear to lower edge, browned, sheet 42 x 56 cm, 1761 (2)
£600-800