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Printed Books & Maps The Gasson Opera Collection Part I 17 SEPTEMBER 2014

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Lot 434.

A full-length portrait by Henri Grevedon dated 1829, showing Maria Malibran in the title role of Rossini's Semiramide (premiered 3 February 1823, at La Fenice)

Front Cover: Lot 445 • Back cover: Lot 565

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TRAVEL, ATLASES & TOPOGRAPHY MAPS, PRINTS & ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS THE ANTHONY GASSON OPERA COLLECTION PART I Wednesday 17 September 2014 Lots 1-684 commencing at 10am

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John James Audubon. The Birds of America, 7 volumes, first octavo edition, New York, 1840[-44] Estimate ÂŁ20,000-30,000 (8th October)

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Thursday 9 October

China & The East: Photographs, Watercolours & Prints Vintage Photography Fine Art & Antiques

Wednesday 12 November

Printed Books, Maps & Documents Sir Winston Churchill Signed Books The Anthony Gasson Opera Collection Part II

Thursday 13-Friday 14 November

Historic Aviation, Maritime & Transport Memorabilia Arms & Armour, Medals & Militaria Stamps & Coins

Wednesday 17 December

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Thursday 18 December

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CONTENTS Travel, Atlases & Exploration British Topography

1-60 61-116

Natural History

117-130

Maps

131-240

Decorative Prints & Original Art

241-271

Periodicals

272-274

Antiquarian

275-344

Cohen Philosophy Library Science & Medicine

345 346-373

The Anthony Gasson Opera Collection Part I : Opera & Music History Paintings & Prints Sculptures, Bronzes & Medals Autographs & Photographs

374-416 417-459 460-477 478-539

Music from Other Vendors

540-545

Art Reference

546-565

Book Furniture

566-570

General

571-598

Cartons

599-618

Quantity

619-684

'Description of the Buddhist idea of Hades', original watercolour (detail), 42 x 33 cm (16.5 x 13 ins).

From an important album of approx. 200 Chinese photographs, watercolours and printed Chinese ephemera, c. 1860s/1870s. Compiled and captioned by Herbert Elgar Hobson (1844-1922), Staff interpreter to General "Chinese" Gordon during the Taiping Rebellion, and Commissioner of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs.

Estimate ÂŁ10,000-15,000 (Sale 9 October)

TRAVEL, ATLASES & EXPLORATION To commence at 10am

Lot 1

1 African Hunting Reprint Series. 12 vols., Books of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, 1980-1995, folding maps and half-tone illustrations, t.e.g., original animal hide, spines with red labels, slipcases, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo A full set of facsimile reprints commencing with R. Gordon Cumming’s A Hunter’s Life in South Africa, 2 vols., 1850, and others by William Finaughty, William Charles Baldwin, Frederick Selous, Arthur Neumann, Arnold Hodson, C.H. Stigand, William Cornwallis Harris, Denis Lyell, James Sutherland and Owen Letcher.

(12) £200-300

2 Allom (Thomas, illust.). Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, First and Second Series, c. 1840, two additional engraved titles, two engraved maps (one folding), 93 (of 94) engraved plates only (lacking the Great Bazaar plate in first part), some spotting, contemporary half calf, lower cover detached, some wear, 4to (1)

Lot 3

£150-200

3 [Anderson, George William. A New Authentic and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World... Containing an Authentic, Entertaining, Full and Complete History of Captain Cook’s First, Second, Third and Last Voyages..., c. 1784], lacking all text before p.15, 149 engraved plates only (of c. 155, lacking portrait of Cook, World map and others), some tears and losses, soiling and stains, disbound, folio Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return.

(1)

4 Baldwin (Captain J.H.). Tha Large and Small Game of Bengal and the North-Western Provinces of India, 1st ed., pub. Henry S. King & Co, 1876, addn. half title, twenty-two wood engs. (complete as list), upper hinge cracked, pubs, green cloth gilt, worn at extrems., 8vo

£300-400

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5

£100-150

5 Beaver (Captain Philip). African Memoranda, relative to an Attempt to Establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the year 1792, with a brief notice of the Neighbouring Tribes, Soil Productions, etc., and some Observations on the Facility of Colonizing that part of Africa with a View to Cultivation... but more Particularly as the means of Gradually Abolishing African Slavery, printed for C. & R. Baldwin, 1805, large folding map, linen backed, with contemporary outline colour, two engraved plates, some spotting throughout, ex libris bookplate to front pastedown, hinges repaired, contemporary diced calf, rebacked, 4to (1)

ÂŁ300-500

6

Lot 6 6 Bellin (Jacques Nicolas). Le Pilote des Iles Britanniques, Publié D’Après les Ordes du Contre-Amiral Decrès, Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies, Par le Dépôt Général de la Marine, 1754 - 1804, title and contents, thirty-two (complete as list) uncoloured engraved sea charts, mostly double page, slight offsetting, contemp. marbled calf gilt, skillfully re-backed, worn and rubbed, large folio (1)

£2000-3000

7 Blondeel (Valentyn Jan). Beschryving der Stad Ugrecht, behelzende derzelver opkomst, en voorrnaamste lotgevallen, Utrecht, Hermanus Besseling, 1757, additional engraved title by J. C. Philips, two folding eng. maps, two folding eng. plts. by R. Blokhuyse (one with printed overlay), add. leaf of manuscript text, dated 1829 inserted between pages 380 and 381, bound with a printed description of an early church painting by L. J. F. Janssen, dated 1846, bound at rear, contemporary half calf, gilt dec. spine, rubbed, 8vo (1)

£70-100

Lot 7 7

9 Brown (Edward). A Brief Account of Some Travels in Divers Parts of Europe ... through a Great Part of Germany, and the LowCountries ... with some Observations on the Gold, Silver, Copper, Quick-Silver Mines, and the Baths and Mineral Waters in those Parts ..., 2nd ed., with many additions, 1685, fourteen engraved plates only (of 16), including some folding, numerous engraved illustrations to text, advert leaf at rear, ink stamp to title, dedication leaf excised at head and repaired, two single-page plates trimmed or frayed & lined to verso and few other plates repaired with occasional minor loss, some repairs mostly to margins of first and last few leaves, occoasional light damp-soiling & fraying to lower margins & outer corners, first & last few leaves loose, contemporary marbled calf, joints cracked and upper board near detached, slight wear to extremities, folio (1)

10 Buchon (Jean Alexandre). Atlas Géographique, Statistique, Historique et Chronologique des Deux Amériques et des Isles Adjacentes....., pub. Paris, 1825, printed title, fifty one engraved maps, all with printed descriptive text and contemp. hand colouring and two engraved charts, contemp. half calf, upper board near detached, lacking spine, folio

8 Brown (Edward). An Account of Several Travels Through a great part of Germany in Four Journeys... Wherein the Mines, Baths, and other Curiosities of those Parts are Treated of, printed for Benjamin Tooke, 1677, five (of six) copper eng. plts. (inc. 3 folding), pubs. list to verso of final leaf, modern qtr. morocco, small 4to Wing B5109.

(1)

£150-200

(1)

£150-200

Lot 10

8

£2000-3000

Lot 12

11 Burton (Richard F.). The Jew, the Gypsey and El Islam, Edited with a Preface and Brief Notes by W.H. Wilkins, 1st ed., 1898, engraved portrait frontispiece, occasional spotting mostly to first & last leaves, Haileybury College bookplate, t.e.g., original cloth gilt, repaired at head & foot of spine and with remnants of library labels at foot of spine, joints and extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California, 2nd ed., 1862, eight wood engraved plates (including frontispiece), folding eng. map and plan, browning to pastedowns, t.e.g., early 20th c. red half calf by Bayntun of Bath, gilt decorated spine, lower board near detached, 8vo, plus Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory, vol. 5 only, Burton Club for Private Circulation, [between 1905 and 1920?], b & w frontispiece, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original cloth, 8vo (3)

£200-300

12 Carter (Howard and Mace, A.C.). The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen.

Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1923-33, half-tone illustrations, scattered light spots, original brown cloth gilt, small light stain to vol. II upper cover, edges a little rubbed, 8vo

14 Compte (Louis le). Memoirs and Observations Topographical, Physical, Mathematical, Mechanical, Natural, Civil and Ecclesiastical made in a late Journey through the Empire of China... translated from the Paris ed., and illustrated, 1697, engraved portrait frontispiece, three further plates (including two folding), one folding table, advert page to verso of final leaf, modern rebinding in half calf, 8vo

Presentation copy, inscribed in pencil to volume I frontispiece verso: “Howard Carter, in remembrance of many happy days, March 1929”.

(3) £1000-1500

13 Churchman (John). The Magnetic Atlas, or Variation Charts of the Whole Terraqueous Globe: Comprising a System of the Variation and Dip of the Needle by which the Observations being Truly Made, The Longitude may be Ascertained, 4th. ed., 1804, title page and preface, three folding charts and maps, appendix at rear, slight spotting, end papers torn with slight loss, contemp. boards with later paper reback, boards a little stained, slight wear at extrems., contained in purpose made modern blue qtr. morocco gilt book box, 4to (1)

(1)

£150-200

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£300-500

17 Cruchley (G.F., publisher). Cruchley’s General Atlas, for the use of Schools and Private Tuition..., 1849, calligraphic title, thirty-one (complete as list) engraved double page engraved maps with contemp. hand colouring, slight dust soiling and staining, ownership signature to f.e.p., rear endpaper with repaired closed tear, hinges re-enforced, pubs. printed boards with contemp. ownership signature to upper board, crude later re-back, repaired corners, folio (1)

£200-300

15 Crawfurd (John). Journal of an Embassy from the GovernorGeneral of India to the Court of Ava in the year 1827... with an appendix containing a description of fossil remains by Professor Buckland and Mr Clift, 1st edition, 1829, large folding engraved map (some offsetting), four (of five) aquatint plates (2 handcoloured, 2 tinted), lacking half-title and frontispiece of the white elephant, one engraved plan (offset to text), five lithographed plates of fossils bound at rear, wood-engraved illustrations in the text, some occasional spotting to text and plates, remains of library labels to front endpapers, contemporary quarter calf, worn, broken on spine and covers detached, 4to Abbey, Travel 405.

(1)

£200-300

16 [Crowe, George]. From Portsmouth to Peking via Ladysmith with a Naval Brigade, 1st ed., Hong Kong, 1901, b & w maps, marginal tear and loss to title, final leaves reinforced at gutter, endpapers renewed, original boards with cloth reback, some stains and edgewear, 8vo (1)

£100-150

18 David (Francois Anne & Pierre Sylvain Marechal). Antiquites D’Herculanum, 8 vols., Paris, 1780-89, additional engraved titles at front of plates dated 1781, 633 engraved sheets, scattered light spotting and marginal waterstains, inkstamps to titles, contemporary calf, a little rubbed and scuffed, 4to (8)

£600-800

19 East India Company. The College of Fort William in Bengal, 1st ed., T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1805, 240 pp., a few spots, library label to title verso and at front, later half calf, a little rubbed, 4to (1)

Lot 17

10

£100-150

Lot 20 20 Faden (William, publisher). [General Atlas, c.1816,] inserted b & w litho. portrait of Princess Alexandria of Denmark, lacking title, fifty-nine (58 called for in contents list), engraved folding maps with contemp. outline colouring, some offsetting, hemispheral maps trimmed to neat line, occ. spotting, f.e.p.s, contents list and first map detached, contemp. half morocco, upper board detached, spine partially lacking, worn and frayed, folio

21 Flinders (Matthew). A Voyage to Terra Australis, 3 vols., including Atlas, Facsimile Edition, Netley, South Australian Government Printer, 1989, b & w plates, Atlas vol. with eighteen b & w charts and coastal views, and ten b & w plates of plants, uniformly bound in half blue morocco gilt, large 4to & atlas folio, all contained in original pubs. felt-lined box with perspex lid, slightly rubbed, 74 x 56cm (29 x 22ins)

The atlas has maps dating from 1794 - 1816. The collation shows an additional map of France and the map of Switzerland has been replaced with a French edition of the same map.

(1) ÂŁ2000-3000

Limited edition 395/500.

(3)

11

ÂŁ100-200

Lot 23 22 Gall & Inglis (publishers). The Edinburgh Imperial Atlas, Ancient and Modern, Revised and Corrected to the Present Time, from the Best Authorities, pub. Edinburgh, c.1850, calligraphic title, forty-five (of 47) litho. maps with contemp. colouring, lacking ‘France in Departments’ and ‘Germany including Prussia’, mostly double-page, slight marginal finger soiling, slight staining, occ. juvenile pencil drawings on verso of a few maps, rear blank torn with loss, slight staining and spotting to endpapers, contemp. half morocco gilt, worn and frayed, sidings stained, folio Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

(1)

£100-200

23 Gilling (W.). A New General Atlas of the World with the Latest Discoveries and New Continental Alterations, c.1815 calligraphic title page, contents list a little frayed at foredge, thirty-eight (complete) engraved maps with contemp. hand colouring (including one double page), slight marginal finger soiling, later endpapers, contemp. half morocco gilt with label to upper siding, boards recovered in modern cloth, slim folio (1)

£500-800

24 Guthrie (William). A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar; and Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World..., 12th ed., printed for Charles Dilly, 1790, folding double hemisphere map frontispiece, twenty three further plates and maps (mostly folding), some offsetting, light spotting and a little foxing, contemporary marbled calf, rebacked and recornered, thick 8vo (1)

£100-200

25 Hakluyt Society, 104 vols., mostly from Series 2, including Further English Voyages to Spanish America, Drake’s Last Voyage, Newfoundland Discovered, The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck, numerous b&w illusts. and charts, orig. cloth, mostly in d.j.s, (good condition, some slightly rubbed), 8vo/4to (104)

£200-300

Lot 26

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Lot 28 26 Heierli (Julie). Die Schweizer Trachten vom XVII-XIX Jahrhundert nach Originalien, Zurich, Brunner & Hauser, 1897-98, thirty-six chromophotogravure plates of Swiss costume (complete),

by R. Ganz of Zurich, under the direction of Julie Heierli, contemporary binder’s ticket of Gebruder Hug & Co., Zurich, to recto of final leaf, marbled endpapers, contemporary brown half morocco gilt, rubbed and some marks, large folio (65 x 47.5cm, 25.5 x 18.75ins) (1)

28 Heylyn (Peter). Cosmography in Four Books. Containing the Chorography and History of the Whole World: And all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and the Isles thereof, 1703, additional engraved title, title printed in red and black, five double-page engraved maps (Twin-hemisphere, Europe, Asia, Africa and America, with California shown as an Island), frontis. with marginal repair, one or two small holes in text, occasional waterstains and light soiling, previous owner signatures and inksplashes to title, armorial bookplates, contemporary panelled calf, spine defective, some wear, folio

£150-200

27 Heyerdahl (Thor). The Kon-Tiki Expedition, 1950; American Indians in the Pacific, 1952; The Ra Expeditions, 2nd impression, 1971; Fatu-Hiva, 1974; The Tigris Expedition, 1980, 1st UK eds., colour and b & w maps and illustrations, original cloth, d.j.s, a few price-clipped with one or two chips and tears, 8vo, together with Wilfred Thesiger’s Visions of a Nomad, 1987 reprint, signed by the photographer, and Great Norwegian Expeditions, by Thor Heyerdahl, Soren Richter and HJ. Riiser-Larsen, c. 1950 (7)

(1)

£500-800

29 Hillary (Edmund). High Adventure, 1st ed., 1955, colour frontis., b & w illustrations, some light spotting, top margin of front endpaper excised, original blue cloth, price-clipped d.j., 8vo, signed by the author as “Ed Hillary” to title, together with The Ascent of Everest, by John Hunt, 1st ed., 1953, colour and b & w illustrations, one or two spots, small bookseller stamp to front endpaper, original blue cloth, d.j., spine a little toned and rubbed with small nicks at ends, 8vo, signed “Ed Hillary” to title, plus Because it is There, by George Lowe, 1st ed., 1959, illustrations, some light spotting, contemporary presentation inscription, original blue cloth, light mottled stains to spine, d.j., spine a little faded, 8vo, signed by Hillary to title, with three others signed by Hillary: Two Generations.

Edmund and Peter Hillary, 1984, View From the Summit, 1999 and Pat Booth’s Edmund Hillary. The Life of a Legend, 1993

£150-200

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13

£200-300

Lot 30 30 Hoffman (Johann). Prospect des ganzen Erd-Kreisses, in Fünff absonderlichen Carten, Namentlich Europa, Asia, Africa und.

America. Samt einer ausführlichen Beschreibung derselben Länder, Provinzien, Königreiche, Herrschafften, Fürstenthümer, und Inseln, wie auch Städte, Vestungen und Schlösser, 2nd. ed., pub.

Nuremberg, 1689, title page with two ink library stamps and slight insect damage, five large engraved folding maps of Europe, Asia, Africa and North & South America by Vogel and Hipschmann, slight browning to old folds, slight worming, slight browning to text, later endpapers with old label to front pastedown, later marbled boards, folio (1)

32 Jessup (Henry Harris). Fifty-Three Years in Syria, 2 vols., 1st ed., New York, 1910, portrait frontispieces, half-tone illustrations, original red cloth, spines a little faded, 8vo, together with The Harem, by N.M. Penzer, 1st ed., 1936, b & w plates and plans, a few folding, some light spotting, original cloth, d.j., a few repairs to verso, 8vo, inscribed by the author, plus Stories of the Holy Fathers,

by Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge, 1st ed., OUP, 1934, original blue cloth (spine faded), d.j., a few light spots, 8vo, with others related including Societe Asiatique. Voyages d’Ibn Batoutah, par C. Defremery et le Dr. B.R. Sanguinetti, 4 vols., mixed eds., 18771914, Charles Ryan & John Sandes’ Under the Red Crescent: Adventures of an English Surgeon with the Turkish Army at Plevna and Erzeroum 1877-1878, 1897, Gustave Schlumberger’s Le Seige la Prise et le Sac de Constantinople par les Turcs en 1453, 1914, Harry Lukach’s The Fringe of the East, 1913 and Francis YeatsBrown’s Golden Horn, 1932

£2000-3000

31 Ives (Edward). A Voyage from England to India, in the Year MDCCLIV and an Historical Narrative of the Squadron and Army in India, Under the Command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the Years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a Correspondence between the Admiral and the Nabob Serajah Dowlah. Interspersed with some Interesting Passages Relating to the Manners, Customs, &c. of Several Nations in Indostan. Also, a Journey from Persia to England, by an Unusual Route..., 1773, lacking both folding eng. maps, thirteen eng. plts. including one folding, title laid down, some overall browning, folding plate with substantial loss (repaired), several leaves of text at centre and rear of volume with similar repaired losses, modern half calf, 4to, together volumes IV and X only of The World Displayed, Dublin, 1815 Sold with faults not subject to return.

(3)

(46)

£150-200

33 Johnston (Alexander Keith). Atlas to Alison’s History of Europe, with a Concise Vocabulary of Military and Marine Terms, new ed., 1850, engraved frontis., 108 engraved maps with outline colour, a few light spots, bookplate, contemporary calf, a little rubbed and scuffed, oblong 4to (1)

£100-150

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£150-200

Lot 35

34 Kennan (George). Siberia and the Exile System, two volumes, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1891, black and white portrait frontispieces, further black and white illustrations, a little toning to initial and final leaves, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original decorative cloth, slightly stained and a little rubbed, spine darkened, 8vo, together with Simpson (James Young), SideLights on Siberia, Some Account of the Great Siberian Railroad, the Prisons and Exile System, Edinbugh: Blackwood and Sons, 1898, black and white frontispiece, some occasional spotting, original pictoral green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus, Wallace (Donald MacKenzie), Russia, two volumes, Cassell & Co., 1905, portrait frontispiece, folding colour lithograph map, original cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo (5)

35 Korean Atlas. Untitled manuscript atlas, mid 19th century, thirteen double page manuscript maps in black ink and wash colour, each map laid down on thicker contemp. paper, some dust soiling and staining, manuscript title to rear siding, contemp. paper wrappers, rubbed and worn, overall size 330 x 170mm Decorative Korean manuscript atlas following the usual tradition of such atlases: The World, Japan , Ryukyu Islands, China, and the nine provinces of Korea.The world map, the Chonhado (all under heaven), follows a pattern set before 1400 in either China or Korea. Most of the 143 names that appear on this world map come from the oldest Chinese source-books on geography, the so-called Shanhai-jing (c. 200 BC), so the original is probably Chinese.

The Chonhado in fact reflects the text of the Shanhai-jing, just as the Renaissance Ptolemaic maps reflect Ptolomaeus’ text, and actually is the only remaining reflection of these books. The Chonhado shows China in the middle, surounded by ocean; the other countries are in the second circle and again, another ocean surrounds them.The other maps of China, Japan, and Korea also have their origins in 1471 or before. The China map illustrates the Ming division of provinces (13) and capitals (2) and, indicated with the small white circles, the nine islands, marked by Yu as he drained China after the floods.

(1) £2000-3000

£200-300

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36 Labillardiere (Jacques Julien Houten de). Voyage in Search of La Perouse. Performed by Order of the Constituent Assembly, During the Years 1791, 1792, 1793 and 1794, Translated from the French, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1800, 44 engraved plates only (of 46, lacking chart and vol. I frontis. plate), a few close-trimmed affecting imprint, one or two tears and repairs, occasional light soiling and offsetting, bookplates, modern half calf, spines with blue labels, 8vo Ferguson 309; Sabin 38421. Account of the search for La Perouse, which disappeared in the Australasia region in 1788, by Labillardiere, a French botanist who collected and described some of the flora of the continent.

(2) £200-300

40 Marryat (Frank S.). Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with Drawings of Costume and Senery, pub. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1st ed., 1848, addn. dec. half title, twenty-one litho. plts. including frontis. (complete as list), numerous wood engs. throughout, hinges repaired, contemp. ownership signature to f.e.p., book plate of Thurland Castle, pubs. red cloth gilt, re-backed but retaining original spine, slight loss to spine, worn and a little staining to sidings, 8vo 37 Leguat (Francois). A New Voyage to the East-Indies...

Containing their Adventures in two Desart Islands, 2 parts in one, 1st English ed., 1708, engraved frontis., title printed in red and black, 31 engraved maps and plates (of 32, lacking most of large folding map), one or two tears and repairs, some light soiling and waterstains, hinges reinforced, coontemporary calf, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Anson (George), A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV... Compiled... by Richard Walter, 4th ed., 1748, two folding engraved charts (of three, lacking chart of the Track of the Centurion), one repaired to verso, the other closetrimmed at lower margin, previous owner inscription crossed through on title, some light soiling, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 8vo (2)

(1)

£300-500

£300-400

38 Mackinnon (M.P. and Shadbolt, Sydney). The South African Campaign, 1879, 1st ed., pub. Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1880, addn. half title, sixty-one portraits and two folding maps, later endpapers, a.e.g., later qtr. vellum, rubbed and worn at extrems, 4to (1)

41 Mitchell (W.F.). The Royal Navy in a Series of Illustrations, vol.

1 (of two), pub. Portsmouth, Griffin & Co., 1872, title page spotted, twenty-four col. litho. plts. (complete as list), some foxing throughout but largely confined to text, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, worn at extrems., 4to

£150-200

39 Mariolopoulos (E.G. & A.N. Livathinos). Observatoire National D’Athenes. Atlas Climatique de la Grece, Athens, 1935, 118 colour maps on 68 sheets, a few short marginal tears, presentation inscription to Sir Napier Shaw from E.G. Mariolopoulos, 25 October 1935, to title, loose as issued in original cloth-backed boards, a few spots, lacking most ties, oblong folio (1)

(1)

£100-150

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£150-200

42 Moll (Herman). Atlas Geographus: Or, a Complete System of Geography, Ancient and Modern. Containing what is of most use in Bleau, Varenius, Cellarius, Cluverius, Baudrand, Brietius, Sanson &c. With the Discoveries and Improvements of the best Modern Authors to this Time......, done from the Latest Observations by Herman Moll, Geographer; and many other Cuts by the best Artists, 5 vols. pub. John Nott, 1711 - 1717, folding eng frontis. and printed titles with blind stamp, title pages with additional ink library stamps and later ownership signature, verso of titles with later ink manuscript collation, ninetyone uncoloured engraved maps (including ninety folding) and thirteen folding b & w engraved pts., all with library blind stamps, some browning and spotting throughout, pp.

47 vol. 5 torn with slight loss and crudely repaired, hinges weak, contemp. blind stamped panelled calf, slight wear to extrems., 4to (5)

ÂŁ700-1000

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43 Mount (Richard & Page, Thomas, publisher). The English Pilot. The Fourth Book. Describing The West-India Navigation from Hudson’s Bay to the River Amazones Particularly Delineating the Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Rivers, Bays, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water and Anchorage with all the Islands therein; as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico and the Rest of the Carribbee and Bahama Islands, Also a new description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina &c......., 1784, title page and page of explanation both with a contemp. dated (1789) ownership signature, twenty-five uncoloured engraved charts (including six double page and fourteen folding), numerous wood engraved horizon profiles to text throughout, some offsetting, one map (New England) with contemp. manuscript on verso listing the longitude and latitude of various places on the east coast of New England ‘as observed by Captain Holland’, contemp. sheep, skillfully rebacked, repaired at corners and extrems., folio The English Pilot was published in five separate volumes. Volume four can be considered the first English sea atlas of the Americas. Although volume four was first published in 1678, the Mount & Page edition of 1784 contains several new and important charts. ‘A Draught of South Carolina and Georgia’ by Andrew Hughes was added in 1778 and the frontispiece of ‘A New and Correct Chart of the Western and Southern Oceans’ by Edmund Halley is one of the landmark maps in English cartography. The ‘Chart of New York Harbour’ and ‘A Map of the Coast of New England’ appear for the first time in this edition. The hand writing on the verso of the map of New England and the ownership signatures on the title and pp.B appear to be by the same hand. His observations are those of a professional seaman - his name appears to be Pearse - and he has added an annotation to the map stating, ‘By a good Observation, the 6th April 1789 I find the South part of the Isle Sable Bank to be Lattde 42o 49m N. NB Sounded directly after Observing with 155 Fathom no Ground’. One can safely deduce that the atlas travelled with Pearse on a voyage accross the Atlantic Ocean to North America, making its survival in almost original condition, all the more remarkable.

(1) £15000-20000

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44 New Zealand Alpine Journal. Vol. I, no. I, 1892 - vol 27, 1974, 61 issues, a complete run, folding maps, illustrations, occasional light toning, original printed wrappers, a few spots and some staple rust, 8vo

48 Ruttledge (Hugh). Everest: The Unfinished Adventure, 1st ed., 1937, two folding maps, numerous illustrations, presentation inscription, original blue cloth, spine ends a trifle rubbed, 8vo, together with The Ascent of Nanda Devi, by H.W. Tilman, with a foreword by Dr. T.G. Longstaff, 1st ed., CUP, 1937, folding map, halftone illustrations, light toning, original blue cloth, spine a little rubbed and darkened, 8vo, plus The Epic of Mount Everest, by Sir Francis Younghusband, 1st ed., 1926, b & w illustrations, pubs. list at end, scattered spotting, original cloth, some mottled dampstains, 8vo, with a presentation inscription from Colonel E.L. Strutt, support climber, with four others related including H.W. Tilman’s Mount Everest 1938, 1948 and China to Chitral, 1951

Rare complete run to 1974, the Journal not published between May 1896 and March 1921.

(61) £400-600

45 Philby (H. St. J.B.). The Background of Islam. Being a Sketch of Arabian History in Pre-Islamic Times, Whitehead Morris, Alexandria, 1947, contemporary previous owner inscription, small library copy label to front pastedown, original cloth-backed printed boards, light edgewear, 8vo Limited edition, 311/500 signed by the author.

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£150-200

49 Scheffer (John). The History of Lapland: Containing a Geographical Description, and a Natural History of that Country; with an Account of the Inhabitants ..., 1704, additional folding engraved title (browned, some marginal fraying and short closed tears), folding engraved map, three enraved plates (one folding and numerous full page engraved illustrations, hole at foot of B1, contemporary blind panelled sheep, rebacked and corners repaired, 8vo

46 Picturesque Europe, 5 vols., pub. Cassell, c. 1880, numerous engraved plates, including titles, and wood engraved illusts., some light spotting, contemp. uniform gilt dec. green half morocco, large 8vo (5)

£100-150

£100-150

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£100-150

50 Smith (D. Murray). Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores from the Earliest Times to the Expedition of 1875-76, Edinburgh, 1877, portrait frontispiece, two charts (including one folding), twenty-six plates, occasional light spotting, folding chart torn with crude repair, a.e.g., endpapers renewed, morocco, gilt blocked, gilt dulled to upper board, rebacked preserving original giltdecorated spine, and recornered, large 4to (1)

51 Spallanzani (Lazzaro). Travels in the Two Sicilies, and some parts of the Apennines, Translated from the Original Italian..., 4 vols., 1798, eleven folding engraved plates, contemporary signature to lower margin of vol. 1 title , occasional spotting, general toning, browning mostly to first & last leaves, 20th c. half cloth, 8vo

47 Raffles (Sir Thomas Stamford). The History of Java, 2 vols., Black, Parbury, and Allen, 1817, half-title and b & w frontispiece to both volumes, ten contemporary hand-coloured aquatints, fiftythree b & w engraved plates, large engraved folding map with contemporary outline colour, two folding letterpress tables, discreet library stamps to recto of all plates, modern quarter morocco gilt, 4to Abbey travel 554; Tooley 392.

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£100-150

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£1000-1500

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£200-300

52 Stanhope (John Spencer). Topographical Sketches of Megalopolis, Tanagra, Aulis, and Eretria, Leeds, 1831, four plates, Bradford public library stamps to the verso of each plate, marginal staining, original stiff cloth, spine missing, slim folio (1)

54 The Argonaut Press. Temple (Sir Richard Carnac), The World Encompased, 1926, original quarter vellum, 8vo, together with Williamson (James A.), The Voyages of the Cabots, and the English Discovery of North America Under Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1929, folding b & w frontipiece, illustrated with further maps, original quarter vellum, 8vo, plus Dampier (William), Voyages and Discoveries, 1931, original contrasting cloth, 8vo, plus other similar titles including Raleigh’s Last Voyage, 1932, The Discoverie of the large and bewtiful Empire of Guiana, 1928, The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, 1933, The Most Noble and Famous Travels of Marco Polo, 1929, and The Voyages of Christopher Columbus, 1930, majority original quarter vellum (others original contrasting cloth), all 8vo, light soiling

£200-300

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£200-300

55 Time-Life Books. Classics of Exploration, 19 works in 20 vols., 1980’s, maps and illustrations, a.e.g., original faux morocco, 8vo Facsimile reprints of famous accounts by Livingstone, Stanley, Burton, Layard, Whymper, Wallace, Speke, Browne, Oliphant, Shackleton and others.

(20) £200-300

56 Tott (Francois de, Baron). Memoirs of Baron de Tott.

Containing the State of the Turkish Empire and the Crimea, During the Late War with Russia, with Numerous Annecdotes, Facts and Observations on the Manners and Customs of the Turks and Tartars, Translated from the French, 3 vols. including Appendix, 1785-86, scattered light spotting and marginal toning, bookplates, contemporary calf (Appendix in tree calf), a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Memoires du Comte de Bonneval, 2 vols. in one, London, 1737, occasional marginalia and library inkstamps, first title with marginal waterstain, later calf, 8vo, with three others related including Memoires du Comte de Bonneval, 2 vols., new ed., 1806 (8)

£100-150

57 Weld (Isaac, junior). Travels Through the States of North America, and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, During the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1799, large folding engraved map with outline colour, 15 folding engraved plates, plans and maps, some light spotting and offsetting, library stamps and labels at front, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 8vo Sabin 102541.

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£150-200

58 Wilson (William Rae). Travels in the Holy Land, Egypt, etc., 2 vols., 3rd ed., 1831, thirteen uncoloured aquatint plates, some spotting, contemporary half calf gilt, joints cracked, upper board of vol. 1 loose and lacking upper panel to spine, rubbed, 8vo, together with Kelman (John), The Holy Land, pub. Adam & Charles Black, 1902, numerous colour plates, including few leaves & plates detached, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original cloth gilt, dust soiled, 4to, (limited Deluxe edition 346/500), with Jackson (T.G.), Dalmatia, The Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado, 3 vols., Oxford, 1887, folding map, b & w plates and illustrations, few hinges splitting, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original cloth gilt, spines faded and marked, frayed at head and foot, 8vo, plus three others

53 Tavernier (Jean Baptiste). Beschreibung der sechs Reisen welche Johan Baptista Tavernier, Ritter und Freyherr von Aubonne, in Türkey, Persien und Indien, innerhalb viertzig Jahren, durch alle Wege, die man nach diesen Ländern nehmen kan, verrichtet..., 5 parts in one, 1st German edition, Geneva: J. H. Widerhold, 1681, gothic letter text printed in double-column, general title printed in red & black with woodcut vignette, three further titlepages with woodcut vignettes, lacking the additional engraved title, and portrait at front of volume, twenty engraved plates (including a double-page map of Japan and single-page map of the coast of Tunquin), final plate printed to verso of fourth title-page, occasional woodcut illustrations to text, contemporary full vellum, some minor marks and discolouration, folio

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The section of gold and silver work in Part Two is bound after the contents, and before the main body of the text.

(1) £400-600

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£150-200

59 Wright (Thomas). The Universal Pronouncing Dictionary and General Expositor of the English Language, vols. 1 - 20 (of 24), pub.

J & F Tallis, c.1855, dec. title to vol. 1, forty-one uncoloured engraved plts. and seventy-nine (of 80), engraved maps by J.Rapkin, all with contemp. outline colouring and decorated with b & w eng. vignettes, occ. slight staining and spotting, pubs. green cloth gilt, spines faded, 4to Sold as a collection of maps and engravings, not subject to return.

(20) ÂŁ700-1000

60 Wyld (James, publisher). A New General Atlas of Modern Geography, Consisting of a Complete Collection of Maps of the Four Quarters of the Globe......, c.1845, title page and contents list printed in green and black, fifty-two maps on fifty-eight sheets (fifty double page and folding), all with contemp. outline colouring, and three engraved b & w tables, plus an additional uncalled for litho. map of the Ottoman Dominions (dated 1877), occ. slight offsetting, title contents and first two maps detached, occ. marginal fraying, contemp. half sheep, morocco gilt label to upper board, upper board detached, spine lacking, worn and frayed, folio (1)

Lot 59

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ÂŁ2000-3000

BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY 63 Baker (Ernest A.). Moors, Crags & Caves of the High Peak and the Neighbourhood, Manchester: Heywood, [1903], b & w illustration frontispiece, two folding maps, presentation inscription to initial blank, signed 1907, occasional spotting throughout, crushed green morocco gilt, slightly rubbed and spine browned, 8vo, together with The Netherworld of Mendip, Explorations in the Great Caverns of Somerset, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Elswhere, Clifton: Baker, 1907, b & w illustrations throughout, presentation inscription signed by the author to initial blank, some spotting, matching green morocco, plus, Dawkins (W. Boyd), Cave Hunting, Researches of the Evidence of Caves Respecting the Early Inhabitants of Europe, Macmillian and Co., 1874, colour frontispiece, some toning and spotting, original decorative cloth, slightly stained and rubbed, 8vo (3)

£100-150

64 Barclay (Rev. James). A Complete and Universal Dictionary of the English Language...., New Edition, c.1848, portrait frontis. of Queen Victoria, addn. dec. half title, forty-eight uncoloured engraved county maps and town plans by Thomas Moule, one map (Suffolk) with short closed tear, plus twenty engraved overseas maps by W.Hughes, most with contemp. outline colouring and twelve engraved plates, occ. browning, contemp. calf, boards detached, spine frayed, worn and scuffed, 4to, with another edition of 1815 containing twenty overseas engraved maps (including two folding) all with contemp. hand colouring, contemp. manuscript ‘family tree’ on rear end paper and pastedown, Ex Libris blind stamp to f.e.p., contemp. calf, rebacked but retaining original gilt dec. spine, 4to

61 Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher). The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter’s Westminster, its Antiquities and Monuments, 2 vols., 1812, half titles, engraved plan of Westminster Abbey, additional hand-coloured title, engraved portrait of William Vincent, list of subscribers, hand-coloured plate to vol. I, 79 fine handcoloured aquatint plates to vol. II, some occasional light spotting and offsetting to text, presentation inscription to vol. I, a.e.g., later navy straight-grained morocco gilt by Ooverly & Sons, 4to

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£300-500

65 Bartlett (W.H. & Beattie, William). The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain, 2 vols., 1842, additional engraved titles, 123 engraved plates, scattered spotting, a.e.g., contemporary burgundy morocco gilt, spines a little rubbed and faded, 4to, together with The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain: Illustrated by Topographical, HIstorical, and Critical Notices..., Kent, Virtue, c. 1828, additional engraved title, folding map (with closed tears), 62 engraved sheets, each with two views, some spotting, front hinge broken, a.e.g., contemporary morocco gilt, torn at head of spine, some edge wear, 4to, plus vols. 2 & 3 only of Thomas Allen’s A New and Complete History of the County of York, 1831

Abbey Scenery 213. According to Abbey the additional title plate ‘Aymer de Valance’(in volume I) signed A. Pugin (as here) indicates a second or later issue than when signed F. Mackenzie.

(1) £400-600

62 Aubrey (John). Aubrey’s Collections for Wilts, (Edited by Sir T. Phillipps), parts 1 & 2, 1821 & 1838, few woodcut illustrations, edges untrimmed, contemporary half morocco gilt, 4to, together with Bowles (W.L., and Nichols, John Gough), Annals and Antiquities of Lacock Abbey, in the County of Wilts... including Notices of the Monasteries of Bradenstoke, Hinton, and Farley, 1835, twelve engraved plates and plans, engraved illustrations to text, pedigrees (some folding), t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, later half morocco, rubbed, 8vo, with Scrope (G. Poulett), History of the Manor and Ancient Barony of Castle Combe, in the County of Wilts, 1852, chromo frontispiece, one chromo & two lithograph plates, few wood engraved illustrations to text, bound without map (as usual), presentation copy inscribed to title page ‘Charles Stanton Esq. with the best regards of the author’, ex-lib. with label to verso of frontispiece & ink stamp to front endpaper, modern buckram, 4to, and Smith (James), Wilton and its Associations, Salisbury, 1851, wood-engraved illustrations to text by W.F. Tiffin, edges untrimmed, recent boards, small 8vo

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£200-300

66 Bartlett (W.H. & Beattie, William). The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain, 2 vols., G. Virtue, 1842, additional engraved titles, 124 engraved views, Berwick Lighthouse view in vol. I detached, a.e.g., recent red half morocco, spines with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, 4to (2)

The title of the second part of the first volume in the lot is entitled, “An Essay Towards the Description of the North Division of Wiltshire..., Typis MedioMontanis [Middle Hill], 1838,”.

(4) £150-200

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£200-300

67 Brayley (Edward Wedlake). A Topographical History of Surrey..., The Geological Section, by Gideon Mantell, 5 vols., 1850, 127 engraved & litho plates (including one double-page), folding hand-coloured plan & single-page geological plan, numerous wood engraved illustrations, scattered spotting, volume 1 containing a two leaf manuscript presentation dated November 1934 from the inhabitants of Ripley, Oakham & Wisley to Walter Colbornebook on the occasion of his retirement from the Postmastership of Ripley after 45 years service, bookplates of Rupert Sackville Gwynne & also of J. Oliver of Send Court, Surrey to front endpapers, a.e.g., contemporary brown full gilt decorated morocco, 4to (5)

£200-300

68 Britton (John). Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities.

Illustrated by a Series of Engravings of Antient Buildings, Street Scenery etc. With Historical and Descriptive Accounts of each Subject, 1830, 60 engraved plates, occasional light spotting and offsetting, a.e.g., recent brown half morocco, 4to (1)

£150-200

69 Britton (John). A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Wilts; Containing an Account of its Towns, Seats..., Public Edifices, Scenery, and Residences of the Nobility, Gentry, &c, 1 vol. in three, 1813, continuous pagination throughout, with cancel title to each volume dated 1813, extra-illustrated with four engraved maps (by Badeslade & Toms, 1742, A. Osborne, [1748], Thomas Kitchen & G. Walpole, including 2 double-page), 163 plates (mostly 19th c., including 18 double-page) and twenty-nine handcoloured armorials mounted on 25 leaves, majority of plates neatly window mounted, upper pastedowns bookplates removed, t.e.g., late 19th/early 20th c. half morocco, gilt dec. spines, joints and extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo

70 Camden (William). Britannia, or a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland..., 3 vols., Payne and Son and Robinson, 1789, engraved portrait frontispiece, ninety-five b&w copper-plates (including six doublepage and four folding), fifty-eight maps by J. Cary (mostly folding with four double-page and six single-page), spotting and offsetting throughout, 19th century diced calf gilt, rebacked retaining earlier labels, little wear and scuffing, folio (3)

The Preface in volume one is dated 1814. The text forms the Wiltshire portion of ‘The Beauties of England & Wales’ volume 15 which was published in 1814.

(3) £150-250

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£700-1000

Lot 71

Lot 72

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71 Camden (William). Britannia: Or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent; From the Earliest Antiquity, Translated from the Edition Published by the Author in MDCVII. Enlarged by the Latest Discoveries by Richard Gough, vols. III & IV only, 2nd ed., 1806, 19 hand-coloured folding engraved maps by John Cary, one or two close-trimmed, four uncoloured maps, 60 engraved plates, some offsetting and light scattered spotting, bookplates, contemporary panelled and blindstamped calf gilt, one spine label chipped, a little rubbed with some fading, folio

75 Clarke (Edward Daniel). A Tour Through the South of England, Wales and part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791, Minerva Press for R. Edwards, 1793, half-title bound after letterpress title, eleven colour washed engraved plates, 19th century calf gilt, rebacked, 8vo, together with Evans (Thomas), Cambrian Itinerary or Welsh Tourist..., 1801, engraved folding map, linen repair to verso, toning throughout, later endpapers, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, 8vo

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76 Clutterbuck (Robert). The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, 3 vols., 1815-27, seven engraved maps and plans (including one folding), forty-six (of 47) engraved plates (including three hand-coloured), spotting throughout, especially to plates, occasional pencil marginalia, contemporary diced calf gilt, boards detached, rubbed and slightly fraying, folio

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£500-800

72 Camden (William). Britannia: Or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent; From the Earliest Antiquity, ed. Richard Gough, 3 vols., 1789, engraved portrait frontis. to vol. I, 59 engraved maps by John Cary, most folding, 96 engraved plates, some offsetting to maps and plates, a few close-trimmed, scattered spotting and some light waterstains, bookplates, contemporary calf, vols. I & II upper covers detached, a little rubbed and stained, folio (3)

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£150-200

£150-200

£600-800

73 Carew (Richard, of Antonie). The Survey of Cornwall and a Epistle Concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue, printed for Law and Hewett, 1769, ownership inscriptions to title, additional manuscript leaf pasted in behind title, further manuscript notes to final blank, occasional staining, endpapers renewed, ex libris bookplate of Captain W. Hext to front pastedown, contemporary calf, repaired, corners a little bumped, 4to, together with Britton (J. and E. W. Brayley), Views of Devon and Cornwall, Devonshire Illustrated in a Series of Views, from original drawings by Thomas Allom, W. H. Bartlett &c., 2 vols. bound in one, Fisher and Son, 1832, engraved vignette title to each part, two single-page uncoloured engraved maps, 138 engraved views (two to a page), occasional spotting, endpapers renewed, half morocco gilt, morocco label to upper board, worn, folio, plus Laws of the Stannaries of Cornwall, Made at a Convocation or Parliament of Tinners, at Truro, Sept. 13, Anno 27 Geo. II, Printed by Order of the Convocation, [1753], ownership inscription to front free endpaper, ex libris bookplate of Captain W. Hext to front pastedown, later speckled calf, joints cracked, 8vo (3)

£200-300

74 Catcott (George Symes). A Descriptive Account of a Descent made into Penpark-Hole, in the Parish of Westbury-Upon-Trim, in the County of Gloucester, in the Year 1775, now first published: to which is added, a copper-plate engraving of that remarkable cavern.

Also, the narratives of Captains Sturmey and Collins, containing their descriptions of the same, in the years 1669 and 1682, Bristol, 1792, eng. plan frontis. (with light old oval ink stamp to top margin), eng. explanation leaf facing frontis., lacking half-title and final leaf of text, some dust-soiling, edges untrimmed, stitched as issued (partly broken and leaves loose), slim 8vo, together with Hardy (William), The Miner’s Guide: or, Compleat Miner..., Sheffield: Francis Lister, 1748, ten woodcut diagrammatic plates, some dampstaining and worming, modern boards with original board paper laid down, 8vo, with Mantell (Gideon), A Descriptive Catalogue of the Objects of Geology, Natural History, and Antiquity, (Chiefly Discovered in Sussex,) in the Museum, Attached to the Sussex Scientific and Literary Institution, at Brighton, 6th ed., 1836, 44pp., title torn with loss at head & foot and repaired, dampstaining, spotting & dust-soiling mostly to first & last leaves, stitched as issued, 8vo (3)

77 Cole (George & Roper, John). The British Atlas; Comprising a Complete Set of County Maps of England and Wales; with a General Map of Navigable Rivers and Canals and Plans of Cities and Principal Towns, 1810, title page and contents list, fifty-eight maps with contemp. outline colouring and twenty-one uncoloured engraved town plans (complete as lists), each with tissue guard, slight marginal dust and finger soiling, near contemp. blind stamped calf, rebacked but retaining original spine, rubbed and worn, 4to Chubb CCCXXXIX. (1)

£150-250

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£700-1000

80 Dorset and Devon. Manuscript account of Illustrations of the Coasts of Dorset and Devon, c. 1820s 185 numbered leaves, additional letterpress title, contents leaf, index at end, written in a neat hand, numerous engraved views, a few colour, some waterstains and soiling, endpapers renewed, contemporary green half calf, a little rubbed, wear to one spine label, oblong folio The tour commences at St. Adhelm’s Head in Dorset, going on to Lulworth, Weymouth, Portland, Lyme Regis, Sidmouth, Torbay, Plymouth, Devonport, Exeter, Ilminster, Salisbury (including a later inserted albumen print of Salisbury Cross, dated 1853), Stonehenge before returning to London.

(1) £300-400

81 Gastineau (Henry). Wales Illustrated, in a Series of Views, Comprising the Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Castles, Seats of the Nobility & Gentry, Antiquities, &c, [North Wales], 1830, bound with South Wales Illustrated, in a Series of Views..., n.d., c.1830, eng. title to each, 224 eng. plts. on 112 sheets, some spotting, contemporary half calf, gilt and blind decorated spine, rubbed to spine and extremities, 4to, together with Lewis (Samuel), A Topographical Dictionary of Wales..., 2 vols. in one, 1833, thirteen engraved maps (including one folding), occasional scattered spotting and offsetting, contemporary marbled half sheep, large 4to, with Virtue (George, pub.), The Tourist in Wales: a Series of Views of Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Castles, Antiquities, &c. with Historical and Topographical Notices, n.d., c.1850, additional engraved title and forty-eight engraved plates, some spotting, marginal finger soiling and dampstaining, contemporary half calf, worn, 8vo, plus Tillotson (John), Picturesque Scenery in Wales, n.d., c.1850, thirty-eight engraved plates including frontispiece, occasional spotting, a.e.g., original gilt decorated cloth, slightly rubbed and extremities frayed, 4to

78 Devon. A Brief Account of the Earthquake, the Solemn Event Which Occurred Near Axmouth, Devonshire, on the 25th December, 1839, James Nisbett, 1840, 12pp., two faint horizontal folds throughout, modern marbled wrappers, with printed paper label on front cover, slim 8vo Rare: only the British Library copy listed on COPAC. The Great Landslip of 1839, as the event at Axmouth on Christmas Day became known, was the first major landslip to be recorded scientifically and the area it created is known today as the ‘Undercliff’. With coastguard reports of flashes of fire and the stench of sulphur fumes, it was thought at first that there had been an earthquake. The massive movement of earth left a chasm filled with grotesque peaks and pinnacles extending for three quarters of a mile, with new cliff faces over 150 feet high. As news of the phenomenon spread, thousands of sightseers, scientists, and geologists arrived to view what seemed to be one of the wonders of the world. A dance called the ‘Landslips Quadrille’ was sold in London and numerous engravings of the scene were made. Queen Victoria sailed to Axmouth in her yacht to view the remarkable scene for herself. Many saw the event as a warning from God, as indeed did the writer of this pamphlet; he quotes from a friend residing in the vicinity of Axmouth who describes the events leading up to the creation of a “monstrous ravine”, calling the incident “the remarkable visitation of the Most High God of this land by an earthquake”.

(1) £200-300

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82 Hearne (Thomas & Byrne, William). Antiquities of Great Britain, Illustrated in Views of Monasteries, Castles and Churches, now Existing, 1st. ed., vol 1 (of two), 1786, addn. dec. half title & title page with ink library stamp, list of subscribers, fifty (complete as list) uncoloured engraved views, descriptive text in English & French, slight marginal dust and finger soiling, occ. ink library stamps throughout, upper hinge weak, near contemp. qtr. sheep gilt, boards worn and rubbed, oblong folio

79 Directories. The Post Office London Trades’ Directory, 1880, numerous adverts at rear, upper hinge broken, original cloth gilt, frayed and some wear, 8vo, together with The Post Office Directory of Birmingham, with its Suburbs, 1879, lacking map, few leaves detached and frayed, original cloth, covers loose and spine torn with loss, 8vo, with Jakeman & Carver’s Directory and Gazetteer of Herefordshire, 1914, folding map loosely inserted, original cloth, faded and rubbed, 8vo, plus Recording Britain, 4 vols., OUP, 1946-49, b & w plates, original cloth, spines slightly faded, 4to, plus The Picture Collector’s Manual..., by James Hobbes, 2 vols., 1849, original cloth, spines faded, 8vo (9)

£200-300

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£100-150

83 Herbert (William). Antiquities of the Inns of Court and Chancery: Containing Historical and Descriptive Sketches Relative to their Original Foundation, Customs, Ceremonies, Buildings, Government, with a Concise History of the English Law, 1804, 24 engraved plates, some light toning and spotting, contemporary full calf gilt, a little rubbed, 4to Provenance: Longleat House Library, gilt armorial stamped to covers and pencil note.

(1) £100-150

£70-100

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86 Hutchins (John). The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset: Compiled from the Best and Most Ancient Historians, Inquisitiones post Mortem, and other Valuable Records, and MSS. in the Public Offices, and Libraries, and in Private Hands, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1774, folding engraved map, 57 engraved plates and plans, folding pedigrees and illustrations, list of subscribers to vol. I, scattered light spots and ink splashes, light marginal water stain at end of vol. I, modern brown buckram, light mottled dampstains, folio, together with Eton College, by Christopher Hussey, 1923, limited edition of 1000 (3)

£250-300

87 Ingram (James). Memorials of Oxford, 3 vols., Oxford, 1837, titles with engraved vignettes, single page plan of Oxford, numerous steel-engraved plates by John Le Keux, a few light spots, a.e.g., contemporary calf, rebacked, some waterstains to covers, 4to (3)

£150-200

84 Hoare (Sir Richard Colt). The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales, A.D. MCLXXXVIII, by Giraldus de Barri..., 2 vols., 1806, folding hand-col. engraved map, fifty-nine engraved plates, maps & plans, including frontispiece to each, (including three single-page maps & one hand-col. double-page), together with five additional engraved plates bound in at rear of vol. 2, occasional offsetting, spotting and toning, a.e.g., with gauffered edges, book label of Viscount Mersey, Bignor Park to upper pastedowns, contemporary dark blue full morocco, elaborate gilt and blind decoration, upper compartment of each spine with gilt monogram & coronet of George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (17571839), large 4to A handsome set. George Capell was the eldest son of William Anne Capell, 4th Earl of Essex, and Francis, daughter and coheir of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, K.B.. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. On succeeding his father in 1799 he inherited the Cassiobury Estate, Hertfordshire. He took the additional name of Coningsby on inheriting Hampton Court, Herefordshire and the other estates of his grandmother in 1781. He was elected Member of Parliament for Westminster 1779 & 1780; for Lostwithiel 1781-1784; for Okehampton 1785-1790; and for Radnor 17941799, and was Recorder and High Steward of Leominster and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Hereford. In 1786 he married Sarah, daughter of Henry Bazett of St Helena, and widow of Edward Stephenson. He was long separated from her, and when she died 1838, he remarried in the same year, Catherine, daughter of Edward Stephens, of Leadwell, in Oxfordshire. She was a professional singer and actress. The library of Sarah Capel Coningsby, Countess of Essex, his first wife, was sold by Mr Ramy, 14 Regent Street on the 13 June 1838. George Capell was succeeded by his nephew Arthur Algernon in 1839.

(2) £300-400

88 [Jones, Owen, Williams, Edward, & Pughe, William Owen, edit.]. The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, Collected out of Ancient Manuscripts, 3 vols., 1801-07, occasional minor scattered spotting, a.e.g., gilt decorated purple morocco by C. Smith, gilt armorial of Henry Pelham Fiennes-Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastleunder-Lyme (1785-1851) to centre of each board, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton was the son of Thomas, 3rd Duke of Newcastle, and Anna Maria Stanhope, youngest daughter of William, 2nd Earl of Harrington. He succeeded his father as 4th Duke of Newcastle in 1795, when he was only ten years old. Educated at Eton, he founded the Newcastle Prize at Eton in 1829. He married Georgiana Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Miller Mundy Esq. of Shipley in Derbyshire in 1807. A rigid conservative and an unpopular landlord, a mob burned down his house of Nottingham Castle in 1831. He added largely to the library formed by his grandfather, Henry, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, many of the finest books and manuscripts coming from his purchase of the library of Thomas Johnes of Hafod, the translator of Froissart. The library was finally sold in 1937 and 1938, though a number of the books and manuscripts had already been dispersed. This volume with pencil note to volume 1 indicating the volume was from the Clumber Collection. Clumber Park was once the country estate of the Dukes of Newcastle.

(3) £200-300

85 Hunter (Joseph). Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York, with Historical and Descriptive Notices of the Parishes of Ecclesfield, Hansworth, Treeton, and Whiston, and of the Chapelry of Bradford, Lackington, Huges, Harding, Mavor, and Jones , 1819, engraved portrait frontispiece, eight engraved full-page plates, five half-page plates incorporated into text, occasional marginalia (mostly pencil), light spotting to plates, small tear to frontispiece and title page, repaired to verso, small hole to leaf 2Q, repaired, later half calf, upper board slightly scuffed, folio (1)

£70-100

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Lot 90 89 Lewis (Samuel). [A Topographical Dictionary of England, Atlas only c. 1840], folding general map, folding plan of London, 43 engraved county maps, a few folding, some spotting and light offsetting, contemporary cloth, spine defective, some fading, 4to (1)

£100-150

Lot 92

90 London. Leigh (Samuel, pubs.), The Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond, Exhibiting every Object on both Banks of the River, with a Concise Description of the most Remarkable Places and a General View of London, [1825], two folding aquatint panoramas by M.Clark, both with contemp. hand colouring, ‘A View of London from the Adelphi’ 195 x 1670mm and ‘ View of the Banks of the Thames from Westminster Bridge to Richmond’ 205 x 18000mm, the second panorama showing the view on both banks of the Thames and with a calligraphic title at either end of image, both panoramas contained in ‘envelope style’ wallets with contemp. printed labels to upper covers, lacking text (as usual), the whole bound in contemp. boards with pubs. dec. printed label to upper board, skillfilly rebacked, with replaced linen ties, slight wear to extrems., oblong folio, binding dimensions, 240 x 350mm, contained in early 20th century, cloth gilt book box Abbey Life 494.

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£1500-2000

91 Mackenzie (E.). A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne, including the Borough of Gateshead, 2 vols. in one (paginated as one), Newcastle, 1827, eng. frontis., 6pp list of subscribers, fourteen eng. plts., correct as list, some spotting, recent qtr. calf gilt, 4to (1)

£70-100

92 Maitland (William). The History of London from its Foundation to the Present Time..., 2 vols., Osborne and Shipton, 1756, ninetyfive plates (including four folding), twenty-three maps (including eight folding), light spotting and some offsetting throughout, contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked but firm, morocco label renewed, folio (2)

£400-600

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93 Malkin (Benjamin Heath). The Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography, of South Wales, from Materials Collected During Two Excursions in the Year 1803, 1st ed., 1804, twelve hand-coloured soft ground etched plates (including frontispiece), folding handcoloured engraved map, occasional scattered spotting, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spine, joints cracked and some wear, 4to (1)

96 Nattes (John Claude). Scotia Depicta; or, the Antiquities, Castles, Public Buildings, Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Seats, Cities, Towns and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland, Illustrated in a Series of Finished Etchings by James Fittler... from accurate Drawings made on the spot by John Claude Nattes, 1819, additional engraved title, 48 engraved plates, each with descriptive text, engraved vignette at end, some light spotting and offsetting, hinges reinforced, contemporary red morocco-backed boards, spine rubbed with wear at ends, a few stains, folio

£200-300

94 Meyrick (Samuel Rush). The History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan..., pub. Brecon, 1907, b & w plates and folding pedigree, some browning, edges untrimmed, original cloth backed boards, slight wear, large 4to, together with Horsfall-Turner (E.R.), Walks and Wanderings in County Cardigan, printed for the author, Bingley, Yorkshire, [1902], b & w plates and illustrations, original cloth gilt, frayed to extremities, 4to, with Evans (George Eyre), Cardiganshire: A Personal Survey of some of its Antiquities..., Aberystwyth, 1903, b & w plates, edges untrimmed, original cloth backed boards, 8vo, and Evans (J.T.), The Church Plate of Cardiganshire..., pub. Stow-on-the-Wold, 1914, b & w plates, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original cloth gilt, lightly dust-soiled, 4to, plus other Welsh topography, including Giraldus Cambrensis Itinerary Through Wales, Edited by Brynley F. Roberts, Gregynog Press, 1989, wood engraved illustrations, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original quarter morocco, slim folio, contained in slipcase (limited edition 232/280 (11)

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97 Newell (Rev. R.H.). Letters on the Scenery of Wales; Including a Series of Subjects for the Pencil, with their Stations Determined on a General Principle: and Instructions to Pedestrian Tourists, 1821, half-title, wood engraved vignette title, ten tinted aquatint plates., edges untrimmed, original cloth, spine torn & frayed, 8vo, together with Bingley (Rev. William), North Wales, Delineated from Two Excursions..., 2nd ed., 1814, engraved frontispiece and folding engraved map hand-coloured in outline, 16pp. publisher’s adverts at rear, edges untrimmed, modern half morocco gilt, 8vo, with Skrine (Henry), Two Successive Tours throughout the Whole of Wales, with Several of the Adjacent English Counties..., 2nd ed., 1812, folding hand-coloured engraved map frontispiece, edges untrimmed, modern boards, 8vo, and Warner (Rev. Richard), A Walk through Wales, in August 1797, 3rd ed., Bath & London, 1799, tinted aquatint frontispiece, few plans to letterpress, edges untrimmed, original boards, 8vo, and Aikin (Arthur), Journal of a Tour through North Wales and Part of Shropshire; with Observations in Mineralogy, and other Branches of Natural History, 1797, folding engraved plate at rear, edges untrimmed, original boards with frayed cloth spine strip, 8vo, plus three other Wales related

£150-250

95 Meyrick (Sir Samuel Rush). Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches, 2 vols., Llandovery: Welsh Manuscript Society, 1846, lithograph frontispiece to each (one tinted), title printed in red and black, numerous wood engraved blank shields to text, original cloth gilt, spine slightly faded, folio, together with Beaufort (Henry), The Account of the Official Progress of His Grace Henry the First Duke of Beaufort (Lord President of the Council in Wales, and Lord Warden of the Marches) Through Wales in 1684, pub.

1888, photo-litho facsimile manuscript throughout, edges untrimmed, original cloth gilt, frayed at head & foot of spine, 4to, plus Owen (George), The Taylors Cussion by George Owen, Lord of Kemeys (Circa 1552-1613)..., with a short Biography of the Author, by Emily M. Pritchard, 2 vols. in one, pub. 1906, photo-litho facsimile manuscript throughout, edges untrimmed, original cloth gilt, extremities slightly frayed, folio (4)

£200-300

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£200-300

98 Palmer (Charles John). The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth with Gorleston and Southtown, 3 vols., Great Yarmouth: George Nall, 1872-5, 121 plates, some loss to gutter margins due to damp affecting volume two pp.57-81 no loss of sense, endpapers renewed, half morocco gilt, a little worn, 4to, together with, A Booke of the Foundacion and Antiquitye of the Towne of Great Yermouthe, Great Yarmouth: Charles John Palmer, 1847, four plates, some spotting and dampstaining throughout, original cloth, worn and upper board detatched, 8vo (4)

£100-150

99 [Pennant, Thomas]. A Tour in Scotland, and a Voyage to the Hebrides; MDCCLXXII, Chester, 1774; A Tour in Scotland.

MDCCLXXII. Part II, London, 1776; A Tour to Scotland; MDCCLXIX, 3rd ed., Warrington, 1774, titles with engraved vignettes, numerous engraved maps and plates, some folding (one plate torn with loss in the third edition), occasional light waterstains and spotting, original boards, spines defective, some wear, 4to

£300-400

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£100-150

100 Pennant (Thomas). The Journey from Chester to London, 1782, engraved title, twenty-two engraved plates (including one folding), occasional light spotting, armorial bookplate of Sir John Trollope to upper pastedown, hinges split and some wear, contemporary gilt decorated marbled calf, joints cracked and slight wear, 4to, together with Rose (Thomas), Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, 2 vols., 1833, additional engraved title to vol. 1, 215 engraved views on 110 plates, occasional spotting, a.e.g., contemporary gilt decorated morocco, extremities slightly rubbed, 4to, with White (Francis), History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Cheshire, Comprising a General Survey of the County, with Separate Historical & Topographical Descriptions..., 1860, bound without map, occasional spotting, contemporary half sheep, joints & extremities rubbed, 8vo

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£150-250

101 Pevsner (Nikolaus). The Buildings of England, 35 vols., Yale University Press, 2002, original cloth in d.j.s, very good condition, mostly as new, 8vo, together with The Buildings of Scotland, 7 vols., 1990-, original cloth in d.j.s, very good condition, 8vo, plus The Buildings of Wales, 4 vols., 2003-, original cloth in d.j.s, very good condition, mostly as new, plus The Buildings of Ireland (North West Ulster), 2003, original cloth in d.j.

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£200-300

102 Pugh (Edward). Cambria Depicta: a Tour through North Wales, Illustrated with Picturesque Views, by a Native Artist, 1816, seventy-one hand-coloured aquatint plates (including frontispiece), repaired closed tear to title, some offsetting and occasional spotting, t.e.g., early 20th c. half morocco by Morrell, upper joints slightly cracked, extremities rubbed, large 4to Tooley 386.

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Lot 103 104 Sleigh (John). A History of the Ancient Parish of Leek, in Staffordshire; including Horton, Cheddleton, and Ipstones, 2nd ed., Bemrose & Sons, [1883], engraved portrait frontispiece, numerous litho plates. (including some chromos), folding pedigrees, occasional spotting, original dec. cloth, rebacked with spine relaid, some dustsoiling, large 4to, (limited subscribers edition no. 330, signed by the publishers), together with Cooke (JJohn H.), Bibliotheca Cestriensis, or a Biographical Account of Books, Maps, Plates, and other Printed Matter, Relating to, Printed or Published in, or Written

by Authors Resident in the County of Chester..., pub. Mackie & Co. Ltd., Warrington, Northwich & Winsford, 1904, b & w portrait frontispieces and plates, front blank inscribed by the author to his nephew John Kemp on the occasion of his marriage, t.e.g., original half morocco gilt, head & foot of spine worn, large 4to, (limited edition of 250 copies printed), with [Leigh, Edward, edit.], Ballads & Legends of Cheshire, 1867, engraved frontispiece & title, original cloth gilt, spine faded, 4to, plus six others topography related

£300-400

103 Shaw (Rev. Stebbing). The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, Compiled from the Manuscripts of Huntbach, Loxdale, Bishop Lyttelton and other Collections of Dr. Wilkes, The Rev. T.Feilde &c. &c....., 2 vols., 1798-1801, folding eng. county map, title page and list of subscribers, eighty-one engraved and aquatint plates (some folding), folding engraved plan of the town of Wolverhampton, engraved illustrations to text, occasional toning to text leaves, armorial bookplate of the Hawley family of Leybourne Grange, Kent to upper pastedowns, a.e.g., contemporary gilt decorated red morocco by H. Stamper, folio Upcott pp.1176-1185. Large Paper copy.

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£500-800

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£150-200

Lot 105

105 Smeaton (John, Civil Engineer). A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with Stone: To which is Subjoined, an Appendix, giving some Account of the Lighthouse on the Spurn Point, Built upon a Sand, 1st ed., 1791, title with engraved vignette and early ink armorial stamp and manuscript monogram, twenty-three engraved plates, maps and plans, advertisement slip inserted at p.v, some toning & spotting mostly to leaves of text, edges untrimmed, early 20th c. antique style gilt panelled calf, elaborate gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, large folio

106 Smith (John Thomas). Antiquities of Westminster; The Old Palace; St. Stephen’s Chapel, (now the House of Commons), 1807, 37 engraved plates and plans only (lacking Buildings on the South Side of New Palace Yard plate), some hand-coloured, extraillustrated with over 50 additional engraved plates, plans and views, occasional waterstains and light soiling, a.e.g., contemporary calf, previous owner name of Honourable Jeffery Amherst stamped in gilt to upper cover, rebacked, a little rubbed and stained, 4to Abbey Scenery 210.

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Completed in 1759, the lighthouse was in use until 1877, the upper section was dismantled and reassembled at Plymouth Hoe. Smeaton’s first project establishing his reputation as one of the eighteenth century’s foremost engineers.

(1) £700-1000

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£150-200

Lot 107 107 Thomson (John & Co., pub.). The Atlas of Scotland Containing Maps of each County, on a Scale so large as to Exhibit the Features of the Country and Places of Importance....., Accompanied with a Memoir of the Geography of Scotland, View of the Comparative Length of the Rivers, Heights of the Mountains and a Consulting Index to Facilitate the Finding out of Places &c., pub. Edinburgh, 1832, engraved frontis. of an ‘index’ map, title page and dedication with short closed tear and slight staining, two large folding engraved plates of the comparative heights of the mountains and the lengths of the rivers in Scotland, both with bright contemp. hand colouring, twenty-nine (complete as list) engraved maps on thirty-eight sheets (some sheets conjoined), all with contemp. outline colouring, some staining and offsetting, occ. closed marginal tears, addn. duplicate map of Linlithgowshire loosely inserted, last few leaves of index at rear creased and a little frayed, contemp. half calf, boards detached, worn and frayed, folio Chubb. Scotland 32.

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108 Tickell (John). The History of the Town and County of Kingston upon Hull, from its Foundation in the Reign of Edward the First to the Present Time, with a Description of Part of the Adjacent Country, 1st ed., Hull, 1796, folding engraved frontis., engraved title, 17 engraved plates, one or two folding and torn without loss, some spotting and soiling, contemporary calf, covers detached, some wear, 4to, together with The History of Cleveland, in the North Riding of the County of York; Comprehending an Historical and Descriptive View of the Ancient and Present State of Each Parish within the Wapontake of Langbargh..., by the Rev. John Graves, Carlisle, 1808, engraved frontis., additional title, folding map with outline colour, eight engraved plates, some spotting and toning, bookplate, contemporary calf, covers detached, rubbed, 4to, with four others including John Throsby’s Select Views in Leicestershire, 2 vols., 1789-90 (including the Supplementary vol.), The Rev. Newcome’s The History of the Ancient and Royal Foundation, called the Abbey of St. Alban, in the County of Hertford, 1793 and Griffith’s History of Cheltenham and its Vicinity, 3rd ed., Oxford, 1838

£1000-1500

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£200-300

111 The Victoria History of the Counties of England. A History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, 6 vols. including Index, 19001914, A History of the County of Sussex, vols. 1-5 [pt. 1-3], vols. 7, 9, index (duplicated), 11 vols. in total, 1973-1984, numerous b & w illusts., some light spotting, all uniform orig. gilt-dec. red cloth, Sussex vol. 5, parts 1-3 and indexes in d.j.s, slight fading to spines, folio, together with Stone (Percy Goddard), The Architectural Antiquities of the Isle of Wight, From the XIth to the XVIIth Centuries Inclusive, Part II - The West Medine, 1891, numerous b & w illusts. incl. frontis., some light toning and spotting, frontis. partdetached, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, spine worn at head and foot with some loss, folio, plus approx. 25 other Sussex and Hampshire related, including The Church Plate of Hampshire, The History of Hampshire, divs. 1-7, some ex-libris, 8vo/folio (approx. 45)

£100-150

109 Tighe (Robert Richard). A Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Lincoln......, present State and Direction of the Roads Intersecting the Parks and Grounds of Windsor Castle and on the Thoroughfares of the Town of Windsor with Suggestions for their Improvement...., c.1845, title page with contemp. manuscript signature of Thomas Tighe, six col. litho. maps and plans, one plate detached which appears to be from another copy, pubs. cloth gilt, faded and a little worn, slim folio (1)

£100-150

110 Turner (Thomas). Narrative of a Journey, Associated with a Fly, from Gloucester to Aberystwith, and from Aberystwith through North Wales, July 31st to September 8th 1837, pub. 1840, twelve engraved plates including portrait frontispiece, scattered spotting, verso of front free endpaper inscribed by the author, upper hinge cracked, original cloth gilt, spine slightly faded, 8vo, together with Hucks (Joseph), A Pedestrian Tour through North Wales, in a Series of Letters, 1795, occasional annotations to margins, contemporary marbled calf, gilt decorated spine, joints cracked and extremities rubbed, 12mo, with Warner (Richard), A Walk through Wales, in August 1797, pub. Bath, 1798, and A Second Walk through Wales, in August and September 1798, pub. Bath, 1799, together 2 volumes, sepia aquatint frontispiece to each, contemporary ownership to titles, wood engraved maps to text, some staining and spotting, contemporary uniform half calf gilt, red morocco title labels to spines, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo, with Westwood (J.O.), Lapidarium Walliae: The Early Inscribed and Sculptured Stones of Wales, pub. Oxford, 1876-79, 101 lithograph plates, few wood engravings to text, contemporary dark green half calf, gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, extremities rubbed, 4to, plus Malkin (Benjamin Heath), The Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography, of South Wales, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1807, engraved frontispiece to each, modern cloth, 8vo, plus three other 18th-19th c. Welsh topography related (10)

112 Walker (J. & C., publisher). To Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria and to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, This British Atlas Comprising Separate Maps of every County in England, each Riding in Yorkshire and North & South Wales, Showing the Roads, Railways, Canals, Parks, Boundaries of Boroughs &c......, pub. James Wyld, 1877, double page calligraphic title with slight offsetting, five double pages of statistical tables, forty-nine engraved maps with contemp. hand colouring, map of Ireland appears to have been excised and laid on contemp. paper before binding, book plate of Sir John Wolfe Barry, contemp. half sheep gilt, with morocco gilt title label to upper siding, rubbed and worn, folio

£200-300

This edition not in Chubb.

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£300-500

113 Watts (W.). The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, in a Collection of the Most Interesting and Picturesque Views, Boydell, 1779-[86], eighty-four engraved plates, some damp-staining, light spotting and offsetting throughout, endpapers and initial blanks renewed, contemporary straight grained morocco gilt, worn, oblong 4to (1)

£200-300

114 Wigstead (Henry). Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales in the Year 1797....., with Plates from Rowlandson, Pugh, Howitt &c. (Aquatinted by J.Hill), pub. W.Wigstead, 1800, engraved title (slightly cropped to fore-edge), twenty-two uncoloured aquatint plates with errata leaf at rear, bound without half-title and letterpress title, fore-edge margin of D3 strengthened, occasional spotting, offsetting to text, near contemporary half morocco gilt, joints rubbed, 8vo Abbey Scenery no.516.

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115 Wood (John). Choir Gaure, Vulgarly Called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, Described, Restored, and Explained..., 1st ed., Oxford, 1747, engraved portrait frontispiece and five folding engraved plans (complete), faint ink stamp to verso of title, modern panelled calf, 8vo Upcott, pp.1322-23.

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£200-300

£200-300

116 Wyndham (Henry Penruddocke). A Tour Through Monmouthshire and Wales, Made in the Months of June, and July, 1774, and in the Months of June, July, and August, 1777, 2nd ed., pub. Salisbury, 1781, half title, sixteen engraved plates (including frontispiece), gutter margin of title strengthened, occasional toning and few ink marks, contemporary half calf, joints cracked and slight wear, 4to, together with Batty (Robert), Welsh Scenery, from Drawings, 1825, half-title, thirty-five engraved plates, spotting throughout, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, contemporary green half morocco gilt, rubbed, large 8vo, with Grose (Francis), The Antiquities of England and Wales, vol. 7 only (Wales), new ed.,, 1797, engraved frontispiece, title, seventy plates. and folding handcol. map, engraved maps to text, some spotting and toning throughout, contemporary diced calf, gilt decorated spine, joints slighty cracked, 4to (3)

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£200-300

NATURAL HISTORY 117 Bradley (Richard). New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical, in Three Parts... To which is Added, that Scarce and Valuable Tracts Intitled Herefordshire-Orchards, 4th ed., 1724, titles printed in red and black, eleven engraved plates (nine folding), some light spotting and toning, armorial bookplate of Patrick Hulme, Lord High Chancellor of Scotland, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, 8vo, together with An Account of the Mode of Draining Land, According to the System Practised by Mr. Joseph Elkington, 4th ed., 1814, folding engraved frontis., 18 folding engraved plates, scattered spotting and offsetting, original boards, previous owner signature to upper cover, joints splitting, spine chipped, 8vo, plus Practical Observations on the British Grasses Best Adapted to the Laying Down, or Improving of Meadows and Pastures: To which is Added, an Enumeration of the British Grasses, by William Curtis, 2nd ed., 1790, six engraved plates, a little light soiling, bookplate, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed and faded, 8vo, with others related including A Description and History of Vegetable Substances Used in the Arts and in Domestic Economy, 3 vols., 1829-33, The Journal of a Naturalist, 4th ed., 1838 and Thomas Mawe & John Abercrombie’s Every Man his Own Gardener. The Complete Gardener, 1848

119 [Duke, J. & Robinson J. publisher]. [The Compleat Florist, 2nd edition, 1795], lacking title and prelims. forty-three (of 100) engraved plts. with contemp. hand colouring, most with a contemp. manuscript title below image, one plt. with repaired closed tear and frayed foredge, slight dust soiling and spotting, largely confined to margins, later endpapers, 19th century boards with pubs. printed label to upper board, slim 4to

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121 Kerr (David Ord). The Kingfisher and Bee-Eaters of Southern Africa. The Sappi Selection, pub. Southern African Nature Foundation, n.d., c. 1985, twelve fine col. plts. after watercolour drawings by David Ord Kerr, each signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, with printed text by Richard Brooke, all loosely contained in orig. solander case with slipcase, atlas 4to

Nissen 554. The label on the front siding states ‘The English Flower Garden.

A Series of forty-four prints of the most beautiful Garden Flowers...’. The prints are from ‘The Compleat Florist’ but have had all the text excised and just the image has been printed on to dated laid Whatman paper. The date (1794) is one year before the 2nd edition was printed.

(1) £200-300

120 Jerrard (Paul & Son, pubs.). The Night Flyers, c.1860, decorative gilt litho title and presentation leaf with contemporary inscription, ten litho plates and decorative illustrations to text, all with bright contemporary hand colouring, gilt printed advertisement leaf at rear, slight toning and minor dust-soiling to margins, a.e.g., contemporary gilt decorated dark green calf by Hayday & Co., joints and extremities slightly rubbed, large slim 8vo (1)

£200-300

118 Dixie (Ethel). Wild Flowers of the Cape of Good Hope, from the Original Water-Colours by Ethel Dixie, with full Descriptions by Professor R.H. Compton, and a Foreword by John Paris, Janda Press, Cape Town, 1953, four colour collotype plates, loose as issued in original cloth-backed portfolio, one or two stains, folio Limited edition, 807/1000.

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One of 250 copies.

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£100-150

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£300-400

£100-150

122 Lhuyd (Edward). Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia. Sive Lapidum aliorumque Fossilium Britannicorum singulari figura insignium, quotquot hactenus velipse invenit vel ab amicis accepit..., pub. Oxford, 1760, twenty-five folding etched plates and few etched illustrations to text, Linnean Society cancelled ink stamp to lower margin of title, some offsetting and occasional spotting, later endpapers with bookplates and ink stamp, nineteenth century half calf, lacking title label to spine, upper board detached, extremities rubbed, 8vo (1)

124 Long (James). The Book of the Pig: Its Selection, Breeding, Feeding, and Management, Upcott Gil, 1886, black and white engraved frontispiece, fourteen black and white plates, ownership inscription to initial blank, pictoral cloth, slightly rubbed, 4to (1)

125 Lytton (The Hon. Mrs Neville). Toy Dogs and Their Ancestors....., pub. D.Appleton and Company, New York, 1911, addn. half title, numerous col. and b & w illusts. throughout, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, pubs. green gilt cloth, slight wear to extrems., large 8vo

£200-300

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123 Linden (Diederick Wessel). L’Illustration Horticole revue Mensuelle des Serres et des Jardins, a broken run, 1873, 1882 - 86 & 1896, 113 parts (including a duplicate run of 1882), numerous chromolitho. plts, pubs. printed paper wrappers, 8vo (113)

£100-150

£100-150

126 Morris (Beverley R.). British Game Birds and Wildfowl, 1st ed., Groombridge and Sons, 1855, title page, sixty hand-coloured engraved plates, one or two small holes to blank foredge margin of a few pages, very slight spoting, a.e.g., contemporary half red morocco with gilt stamped vignette replicating frontispiece, some slight shelf wear to spine and a little fraying to corners, 4to

£200-300

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£300-500

127 Seebohm (Henry). A History of British Birds with Coloured Illustrations of their Eggs, 4 vols., 1883-5, sixty-eight colour plates, some light dust-staining throughout, contemporary half morocco, 8vo (4)

130 Waterton (Charles, naturalist). A collection of books and ephemera by and relating to Charles Waterton (1782-1865), naturalist, traveller and conservationist, including Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824, with Original Intructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds, &c. for Cabinets of Natural History, 3rd ed., 1836, engraved portrait frontis., previous owner signature to title, a few spots, original cloth, spine a little rubbed and faded, 8vo, plus Essays on Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology, First, Second and Third Series, mixed eds., 1858-62, engraved frontis. to each, pubs. lists at end, small bookplates, original blindstamped cloth, one or two small splits to joints, spines a little faded, 8vo, with other books including Charles Waterton: His Home, Habits and Handiwork, by Richard Hobson, 2nd ed., 1867, Natural History Essays, ed. Norman Moore, c.

1870 and Philip Gosse’s The Squire of Walton Hall, 1940, plus a 1 pp. autograph letter from Waterton to a Mr R Colyar, dated November 10, 1859, not recommending importing Civetta Owls from Rome, “living ones can always be purchased in the markets of Paris and Brussels.

Those which I formerly bought from Rome were a failure upon the whole. Of all the books containing natural history, I recommend to your constant perusal, White’s delightful history of Selborne. This will form your style:- and Montague’s Ornithological dictionary will afford you most excellent matter for that style”, and some articles, posters, pamphlets, correspondence etc

£100-150

128 Smith (Thomas). The Naturalist’s Cabinet, 6 vols, Cundee, 1806-7, engraved frontispieces and half titles (some with contemporary colour), numerous other engraved plates, some spotting and light toning throughout, contemporary tree calf, gilt decorated spines, black morocco labels, 8vo, together with Rhind (William), A History of the Vegetable Kingdom, Embracing the Physiology of Plants with their Uses to Man..., Blackie and Son, 1865, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved half title, approximately fifty steel-engraved plates (many with contemporary colour), numerous other b & w illustrations, 20th century half calf gilt, thick 8vo, plus Goldsmith (Oliver), A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 2 vols., Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1854, engraved portrait frontispiece, coloured engraved half title, folding map, numerous plates (many with contemporary colour), occasional light spotting, 20th century blind stamped half calf with contrasting labels, 8vo, plus Walsingham (Lord and Sir Ralph PayneGallwey), Shooting, Field and Covert, and Moor and Marsh (from The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes), 6th ed., 2 vols., Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901, b & w frontispiece, numerous b & w illustrations throughout, contemporary half leather, plus James Greenwood, Wild Sports of the World, Peter Beckford, Thoughts upon Hunting, and two other natural history titles (15)

Charles Waterton was born at Walton Hall, Wakefield, Yorkshire and whilst taking charge of his uncle’s estates in British Guiana he described his explorations in Wanderings in South America, first published in 1825. The book inspired the young Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace (Charles Darwin was taught taxidermy by a freed slave, John Edmonstone, who in turn was taught taxidermy by Waterton in British Guiana). He bought back curare, a powerful muscle relaxant (now used in modern anaesthesia), created the world’s first nature reserve at Walton Hall and was an early enviromental campaigner, sucessfully removing the nearby soapworks, as he proved in court that chemicals from the works had polluted the lake and trees on the estate. (small carton) £200-300

£200-300

129 Stonham (Charles). The Birds of the British Islands, parts 1 12 & 14 - 18 (only of 20), 1906 - 11, numerous b & w gravure plts. after L.M.Medland, some spotting throughout, pubs. printed paper wrappers, some covers, torn and detached, 4to Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

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£100-150

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MAPS All lots unframed unless otherwise stated

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Lot 134 131 Africa. Moll (Herman), To the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Peterborow and Monmouth &c. This Map of Africa according to ye Newest and most Exact Observations....., c.1720, hand coloured engraved map, inset views of the Cape of Good Hope, Jamestown, St. Helena and Cape Coast Castle in Guinea, large ornate cartouche, old folds strengthened on verso, 585 x 960mm (1)

133* Africa. De L’Isle (Guillaume), Carte D’Afrique dressée pour l’usage de Roy, pub. Paris, 1722, engraved map with sparse contemp. outline colouring, 495 x 630mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with, Delamarche (Charles Francois),Carte de L’Afrique, 1845, engraved map with sparse contemp. outline colouring, with inset map of Egypt and the Red Sea, some staining, 285 x 435mm, mounted, framed and glazed

£200-300

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132 Africa. Mercator (Gerard) Africa Ex Magna Orbis Terre Descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris Desumpta Studio & Industria G.M. Junioris, c.1609, hand colored engraved map, large ornate strapwork cartouche, some marginal staining and dust soiling, one marginal closed tear not affecting image, 385 x 475mm, French text on verso

£100-150

134 Antilles. Bregante (F.), Mar de las Antillas. Carta que Comprende parte de Las Islas de Stto. Domingo, Jamaica, Cuba, Lucayas y Gran Banco de Bahama....., pub. Madrid, 1856, uncoloured engraved sea chart, very slight staining, 915 x 600mm

R.V.Tooley. Collector’s Guide to the Maps of the African Continent. pp.74 & 75, plt. no. 55.

(1) £400-600

Published by the ‘Direccion de Hidrografia’.

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£200-300

135 Argentina. Peuser (J.), Mapa de los Ferrocarriles de la República Argentina..., 1922, large colour litho. map, sectionalised and laid on linen, twenty-two inset town plans, 2810 x 1535mm, pubs. cloth gilt boards, somewhat worn and stained, spine a little frayed A very large and uncommon map which clearly shows Argentina’s extensive railway network.

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£500-800

136 Atlantic Ocean. Colom (Jacob), Pascaerte van Brazil en Nieu Nederlandt van Cuorvo en Flores tot de Barbados....., pub.

Amsterdam, c.1660, engraved hand coloured sea chart, orientated to the east, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, trimmed to neat line with slight loss, 540 x 645mm Shows the North American coast from Newfoundland down to Brazil and across to the Azores and the Cape Verde islands.

(1) £150-200

137 Bahamas. Noguera (J.), Carta del Gran Banco de Bahama Parte de la Isla de Cuba y Costa de la Florida, pub. Madrid, 1866, uncoloured engraved sea chart, with the blind stamp of the ‘Direccion de Hidrografia’, 925 x 605mm (1)

£700-1000

138 Bartholomew (John). The Imperial Map of England & Wales According to the Ordnance Survey, with the Latest Additions; Shewing Clearly every Feature of the Country, Railays and their Stations, Roads, Canals, Rivers, Gentlemen’s Seats &c. &c. on a Scale of 4 Miles to an Inch, c.1860, double page litho. title and seventeen double page col. litho. maps (complete), one sheet with slight creasing and repaired marginal closed tears, some toning to index sheets, later endpapers, modern cloth with contemp. morocco gilt label to upper siding, slim folio

Lot 136

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£70-100

139 Berkshire. Speed (John), Barkshire Described, pub. John Sudbury & George Humble, c.1627, uncoloured engraved map, large engraved view of Windsor Castle, trimmed to plate mark with thread margins, collector’s ink stamp to verso with slight showthrough, 385 x 505mm, no text on verso, together with Hollar (Wenceslaus),A New Map of Barkshire with all the Hundreds, Parkes and other Places thereunto belonging, pub. John Overton, c.1715, uncoloured engraved map, panoramic view of Windsor Castle, trimmed to neat line, collector’s ink stamp on verso with some showthrough, 365 x 495mm (2)

Lot 137

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£150-200

Lot 140

Lot 142

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140 Bermuda. Shurtleff (Elizabeth & McMillan Helen), A Map of the Bermuda Islands, pub. The Tudor Press, Boston, 1930, colour litho. map with decorative piscatorial borders, extensive descriptive text to verso, slight dust and finger soiling to margins, 610 x 870mm A highly decorative map very much in the 20th century ‘humorous pictorial style’, reminiscent of MacDonald Gill.

(1) £400-600

141 Borneo. Dalrymple (Alexander), A Mar (sic) of part of Borneo and the Sooloo Archipelago: Laid down chiefly from Observations made in 1761, 2, 3 and 4, c.1775, uncoloured chart, some staining to central fold, 480 x 630mm, together with, To His Majesty George the Third, King of Great Britain &c. This Chart of Felicia and Plan of the Island Balambangan is humbly presented, 1770, uncoloured engraved chart, central fold stained, 490 x 630mm, with, The Sooloo Archipelago, laid down chiefly from Observations in 1761, 1762, 1763 & 1764, pub. 1771, uncoloured sea chart, inset maps of Sooloo Road and Toolyan Bay, slight staining to central fold, 480 x 620mm (3)

Lot 144

£80-120

142* British Isles. Jansson (Jan), Britannia prout divisa suit temporibus Anglo-Saxonum praesertim durante illorum Heptarchia, c.1650, hand coloured engraved map, the vertical margins decorated with fourteen historical vignettes, strapwork cartouche, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, occ. marginal closed tears, 425 x 535mm, Latin text on verso, mounted, framed and double glazed (1)

£700-1000

145 British Isles. Desgranges, La carte des Royaumes d’Angleterre d’Escosse et d’Irlande dedieé a sa Majeste Britannique....., pub. paris, 1701, hand coloured engraved map by Roussel, inset maps of the English Channel and the Faroes, Orkneys and Shetland Islands, large ornate cartouche and mileage scale, 450 x 570mm R.W.Shirley. Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650 - 1750. Desgranges 1 state 6. A separately published map, designed to support the claim of the Catholic monarch James II. Louis XIV had declared war on England in support of James, hoping to destroy the Anglo Dutch alliance that had brought William of Orange to the English throne. The supporting portraits by the cartouche are of James II, his wife Mary of Modena and their young son James, often called the ‘Young Pretender’. Very little is known about Desgranges, not even his Christian name or his birth and death dates. This is the last state (the first appeared in 1689, the year Louis declared war) with Desgranges name erased and repalced by Abbé Michel Baudrand.

(1) £300-500

143 British Isles. Blaeu (Johannes), Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae Tabula, c.1650, hand coloured engraved map, inset map of the Orkney Islands, strapwork cartouche, mileage scale and compass rose, very slight overall toning, 390 x 505mm, no text on verso R.W.Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477 - 1650, no.423 (later state).

(1) £200-300

144 British Isles. Speed (John), The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland, 1st ed, pub. J.Sudbury and G.Humble, c.1611, hand coloured engraved map, inset panoramas of London & Edinburgh, inset map of the Orkney Islands, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, compass rose, trimmed to neat line and re-margined, slight mount staining, 380 x 505mm, English text on verso R.W.Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477 - 1650. no.316.

(1) £300-500

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146 British Isles. Visscher (Nicolas), Magnae Britanniae Tabula Angliam, Scotiam et Hiberniam, pub. Amsterdam, c.1670, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, toned overall, 450 x 530mm, together with De Lisle (Guillaume), Les Isles Britanniques ou sont le Royaumes D’Angleterre...., pub. Covens & Mortier, Amsterdam, c.1720, engraved map with contemp. outline colouring, large decorative b & w cartouche, 480 x 580mm, plus, Tallis (John),The British Isles [and] England and Wales, c.1855, together two engraved maps with contemp. outline colouring, each map decorated with b & w vignettes, each approx. 345 x 255mm, together with three further maps by Munster, De Fer and Edwards, various sizes and condition (7)

148 Cardiganshire. Speed (John), Cardigan Shire Described with the due forme of the Shiretown as it was surveyed by J.S. Anno 1610, 1st ed., pub. John Sudbury & George Humble, c.1611, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Cardigan, large strapwork cartouche, mileage scale and compass rose, central fold strengthened on verso, slight worming affecting image, 390 x 515mm, English text on verso, mounted, together with, Caermarden Both Shyre and Towne described, pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c,1676, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Carmarthen, strapwork cartouche, mileage scale and compass rose, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso, mounted (2)

£150-200

£120-180

149 Cassini de Thury (Cesar Francois ). Carte de France divisee en XXXI Gouvernements Militaires, et en ses Provinces..., Paris: R. J. Julien, 1751, engraved advertisment, general map of France, title and twenty-three engraved maps, all double-page, mostly handcoloured in outline, plus three double-page engraved index leaves, plus engraved title ‘Plans et Descriptiones des Principales Places de Guerre’, engraved index entitled ‘Atlas Topographique’, incorporating general map, and sixteen engraved plates with plans and descriptions of all the town fortifications, all double-page, dampstained at front, particularly affecting first six plates (with some fraying to the advertisement, without loss), some marks and minor stains elswhere, modern antique-style mottled calf gilt, folio (1)

£150-200

147* British Isles. Munster (Sebastian), Engellandt mit dem Anstossenden Reich Schottlandt so vor Zeiten Albion und Britannia haben Geheissen, [1588 or later], hand coloured woodcut map, published in the ‘Cosmographia’ by Sebastian Petri, orientated to the west, 325 x 365mm, mounted, framed and double glazed, German text on verso R W Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the Britiah Isles. no.148.

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£150-200

150 Cheshire. Swire (W. & Hutchings W.F.), A Map of the County Palatine of Chester, Divided into Hundreds and Parishes from an Accurate Survey made in the Years 1828 and 1829, pub. Henry Teesdale, 1830, large engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic cartouche, b & w engraved vignette of Chester Cathedral, table of explanation and compass rose, slight staining, marbled endpapers, 970 x 1320mm, contained in contemp. burgundy morocco gilt book box, rubbed and worn at extrems.

B.Kentish. A Catalogue of County Atlases of England and Wales 1607 - 1864 and large scale maps. 2012, Item 59.

(1) £200-300

151 China Seas. China Sea, Gulf of Siam, originally published 1859, later edition of 1932, uncoloured Admiralty sea chart, lighthouses highlighted in yellow, 1080 x 670mm It is relatively uncommon to find maps and charts of Thailand.

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Lot 148

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£400-600

Lot 155

152 China. Coronelli (Vincenzo), Nanking et Honan Provincie della China..., pub. Venice, c.1690, uncoloured engraved map, slight staining, some worming affecting image, 450 x 610mm

154 China. Coronelli (Vicenzo Maria), Xantung e Peking Provincie della China...., c.1690, uncoloured engraved map, slight staining, some worming affecting image, 455 x 610mm

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£200-300

155 Cornwall. Speed (John), Cornwall, pub. John Sudbury & George Humble, c.1627, uncoloured engraved map, inset view of Launceston, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, two margins frayed and strengthened on verso, central fold partially strengthened on verso, 385 x 510mm, English text on verso

153 China. Coronelli (Vincenzo), Iunan, Queichev e Quangs Provincie della China...., pub. Venice, c.1690, uncoloured engraved map, slight staining, some worming affecting image, 455 x 610mm (1)

£300-500

£200-300

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£700-1000

Lot 158

156 Coronelli (Vincenzo Maria). Idea Dell’ Universo, pub. Venice, c.1690, uncoloured engraved astrological and astronomical chart on two conjoined sheets, worn and torn with slight loss, skillfully repaired and restored on verso, 780 x 530mm (1)

£200-300

157 Cumberland & Westmorland. Speed (John), Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described with many Memorable Antiquities Therein found Observed, [and] The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne Described with the Armes of such Nobles as have bene Earles of either of them, pub Roger Rea, c.1662, two uncoloured engraved maps, both with inset town plans, both trimmed to neat line, ink ownership stamp on verso with slight showthrough, 385 x 505mm, no text on verso (2)

160 Drayton (Michael). Surrey & Sussex, c.1612, hand coloured engraved map, illustrated with nymphs, water sprites and allegorical representations of forests and major cities and towns, slight overall toning, central fold partially strengthened on verso, slight marginal worming, 260 x 335mm, mounted

£150-200

158 Derbyshire. Saxton (Christopher & Lea Philip), An Exact map of Darbieshire, Corrected and Amended with Additions by P.Lea, c.1693, engraved map with contemp. outline colouring, inset town plan of Derby, three engraved vignettes, strapwork cartouche, trimmed to neat line and laid on contemp. paper, 400 x 495mm

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161 Dudley (Robert). Carta sesta Generale del Europa, pub.

Florence, c.1650, uncoloured engraved chart by Antonio Lucini of the east coast of England & Scotland, stretching from Harwich up to the Orkney Islands, sight browning, old fold strengthened on verso, 485 x 345mm

Although the map is unchanged, the legend within the cartouche is a variant and we can find no record of this state.

(1) £200-300

From the Dell’Arcano del Mare...,’ (1)

159 Dorset. Speed (John), Dorsetshyre with the Shyre-towne Dorchester described as also the Armes of such families as have bene honored with the Titles thereof since the Normans Conquest to this present, Anno 1662, pub. Christopher Browne, [1686], hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Dorchester, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, trimmed to neat line and remargined, 383 x 505mm, mounted, together with, Blaeu (Johannes), Comitatus Dorcestria sive Dorsettia vulgo Anglice Dorset Shire, c.1660, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, some overall toning, 385 x 505mm, French text on verso (2)

£100-150

£200-300

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£100-200

Lot 162

162 Ecuador & The Galapagos Islands. Villavicencio (Manuel), Carta Corographica de la Republica del Ecuador...., pub. F.Mayer & Co., New York, 1858, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, inset map of the Galapagos Islands, slight marginal fraying, 765 x 1040mm Rare separately published map of Ecuador, probably the first large format map of this part of South America.

(1) £2000-3000

163 England & Wales. Lewis (Samuel), A Map of England & Wales Divided into Counties, Parliamentary Divisions and Dioceses, Shewing the Principal Roads, Railways, Rivers & Canals and the Seats of the Gentry and Nobility....., pub. S.Lewis & Co., 1840, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, in four parts (as published), inset map of the Scilly Isles, calligraphic cartouche, compass rose, table of explanation and large b & w eng. vignette of the Post Office in London, slight offsetting, each sheet approx. 1050 x 850mm, each section bound in contemp. gilt dec. morocco, slight rubbing to extrems., together with Stanford (Edward),Stanford’s Library Map of England & Wales Constructed on the Basis of The Ordnance Survey & The Census......, c.1875, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, in four parts (as published), some staining, dust and finger soiling, each section approx. 940 x 805mm, marbled endpapers, contained in worn and frayed contemp. book box lacking lid and base (5)

164 Europe. Dosseray (Giovanni), Nuova Carta Dell’ Europa Politica E Commerciale, pub. Lucca, 1893, large col. litho. map, army uniforms of sixteen European countries decorate the vertical margins, panorama of Italian regiments to the upper margin, inset map of the Nile Delta, old folds, some wear to folds causing slight loss, repaired on verso, slight creasing, occ. repaired marginal closed tears, 760 x 1025mm, together with, Victoires et Conquêtes de la Religion Catholique, pub. Paris, c.1870, litho. map with contemp. hand colouring, inset maps of Africa, Asia, North and South America, 515 x 680mm

£150-200

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£150-200

165 Florida. Riudavets (Jose Maria), America Septentrional. Costa Este. Hoja II. Florida y Georgia des de Cabo Cañaveral hasta Savannah segun los trabajos mas recientes de los Estados Unidos, pub. Madrid, 1867, engraved Spanish sea chart of Florida from Cape Canaveral to Savannah, with the lighthouses marked in colour, one crease affecting image, blindstamp of the Spanish Hydrographers department, 600 x 455mm (1)

£300-500

166 Florida. Bryant (Tomas), Seno Mejicano. Carta de la Costa occidental de la Florida y parte de la Isla de Cuba, pub. Direccion de Hydrografia, Madrid, 1866, uncoloured engraved sea chart, lighthouses highlighted with watercolour, blind stamp of the Spanish hydrographic department, 980 x 630mm (1)

£500-800

Lot 165

167 Florida. Riudavtes (Jose Maria), America Septentrional Costa Este Hoja I. Florida con los Canales de Bahama y Providencia, pub.

Direccion de Hidrografia, Madrid, 1867, uncoloured engraved sea chart, lighthouses highlighted in watercolour, blind stamp of the Spanish hydrographic department, 615 x 970mm Detailed chart of southern Florida, the Keys and northern Cuba.

(1) £400-600

168 France. Moll (Herman), A New and Exact Map of France, Divided into its Provinces and Acquisitions...., pub. P.Overton, T.Bowles & John King, c.1710, engraved map with contemp. outline colouring, large b & w cartouche, inset panels list the principal towns and cities, old folds strengthened on verso, occ. closed repaired tears, lower margin trimmed and replaced with later paper, 610 x 980mm (1)

Lot 166

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£100-200

Lot 170

169 France. Jaillot (Alexis Hubert), Le Gouvernement General de Provence Divisé en ses Vigueries et terres Adjacentes....., pub.

Paris, c.1692, engraved map with contemp. outline colouring, after N.Sanson, title repeated above map, ornate b & w cartouche and mileage scale, slight staining and occ. short closed tears to margins, not affecting image, slight creasing, 575 x 850mm, together with, De Fer (Nicolas),Le Bois de Boulogne, pub. Paris, 1705, uncoloured engraved map, slight staining, a few small holes affecting image, 240 x 335mm (2)

£100-150

170 France. Nolin (Jean Baptiste), Le Canal Royal de Languedoc pour la Jonction de L’Ocean et de la Mer Mediterrane....., pub.

Paris, 1697, large uncoloured engraved map on three conjoined sheets, the map surrounded by fifty-three vignettes, inset maps and plans of aspects of the canal’s construction and fifty-nine coats of arms, occ. marginal repaired closed tears, one affecting image, slight creasing, 600 x 1445mm A monumental map of one of the great civil engineering projects of the 17th century. The Canal du Midi was designed to connect the Mediterranean to the Atlantic and took twenty years to complete.

(1) £300-500

171 Geological Maps. Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Somerset, pub. Ordnance Survey, 1817 - 31, together three engraved maps with contemp. hand colouring showing geological strata, numbered 19, 35 and 43, each map sectionalised and laid on linen, each with the blind stamp of the Geological Survey Department in the upper margin, each map approx. 640 x 770mm, contained in contemp. sheep book box with contrasting morocco label to spine, a little rubbed and worn The three maps run from Hereford in the North following the course of the Rivers Wye and Severn as they run south through Monmouth and Gloucester; down to Bristol, following the Seven estuary and on to the Somerset levels.

(1) £200-300

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173 Germany. Moll (Herman), A New & Exact Map of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lunenburg and ye rest of ye Kings Dominions in Germany, very much Inproved by ye kind Assistance of severall Curious Gentlemen, natives of those Countries, c.1720, large engraved map with contemp. hand outline colouring on two conjoined sheets (as published), inset maps of the North Sea and the Duchy of Saxon Lauwenburg, very large b & w martial cartouche, old folds, partially strengthened on verso, occ. repaired marginal closed tears, 615 x 1015mm (1)

£100-150

174 Gloucestershire. Taylor (Isaac), To the Subscribers in General and more Particularly to those Noblemen and Gentlemen who Honoured me with their Assistance in the Survey; This Map of the County of Gloucester is Humbly Dedicated by their Obedient & most Humble Servant...., 2nd. ed., pub. W.Faden, 1800, engraved map with bright contemp. hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, on two sheets, five inset vignettes of prominent buildings and castles, large b & w cartouche and table of explanation, pubs. printed labels to verso, each sheet approx. 670 x 1210mm, contemp. waxed card chemise, contemp. speckled calf book box with contrasting morocco gilt label to spine, a little rubbed and worn

172 Geological Maps. Lowry (J.W., eng.), Geological Survey of Great Britain, Horizontal Sections, map nos. 12 - 17, c.1845, together six engraved geological profile maps with contemp. hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, each map with the blind stamp of the ‘Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, each approx. 630 x 830mm, contained in contemp. calf book box with contrasting morocco gilt label to spine, a little rubbed and worn

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The geological profiles relate to Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Monmouthshire, Wiltshire and Somerset.

(1) £300-500

Lot 174

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£800-1200

Lot 175

175 Hawaii. Edwards (Parker), The Dole Map of the Hawaiian Islands U.S.A. Being a Descriptive Portrayal of the History, Transportation, Industries and Geography of the Territory of Hawaii, U.S.A., pub. Hawaiian Pinapple Co. Ltd, 1937, colour lithographic map, slight marginal spotting and creasing, occ. marginal closed tears, 450 x 905mm A highly decorative map, produced for advertising and promotional purposes during the islands territorial period.

(1) £150-200

176 Herefordshire. Saxton (Christopher & Lea Philip), The County of Hereford resurveyed & enlarged, Anno 1665, c.1690, uncoloured engraved map, inset town plan of Hereford, old folds, slight creasing, marginal repaired closed tears, slight dust soiling, laid on later paper, 380 x 505mm (1)

£100-150

178 India. Dury (Andrew), A Map of the Provinces of Delhi, Agrah, Oude and Ellahabad, Comprehending the Countries lying between Delhi and the Bengal-Provinces, surveyed by Major James Rennell, Surveyor General to the Honourable East-India Company and Published by the Order of the Court of Directors of the said Company, pub. Laurie & Whittle, 1794, engraved map with contemp. outline colouring, on four conjoined sheets, laid on later linen, overall size 1075 x 1075mm (1)

177 Hong Kong. The War Office (pubs.), Hong Kong and the New Territories, 1946, colour photo-litho map, silk mounted and laid on paper, small hole in margin, 740 x 1000mm, supported on wooden battens (1)

£150-200

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£200-300

Lot 182 179 India. Mercator (Gerard & Hondius Henricus), India Orientalis, c.1613, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, slight worming largely confined to lower margin, repaired on recto, 360 x 495mm, Latin text on verso, mounted (1)

£300-500

180 Ireland. Camden (William, pubs.), Hiberniae Ireland Anglis Yvrndon Britannis Erin incolis......, c.1610, uncoloured engraved map by G.Hole, orientated to the west, strapwork cartouche and compass rose, 270 x 340mm, with 145 pps. of descriptive text, disbound Originally published in William Camden’s ‘Britannia..’.

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£150-200

181 Isle of Wight. Menageot (Augustin), To the Honble. Brigadier Guise, This Geometrical plan of ye Camp in ye Isle of Wight, is most Humbly Dedicated by his most Humble & most Obedt. Servts., A.Menageot & Chrisr. Seton, March 16th. 1741, uncoloured engraved plan with large ornate military cartouche, 355 x 465mm Ashley Baynton Williams. British Broadsheet Maps and Battle Plans.

Catalogue 2008, item 27.

(1) £80-120

Lot 183 184 Key West. Bryant (Tomas), Plano del Puerto de Cayo Hueso y sus Immediaciones en al Arrecife de la Florida, pub. Direccion de Hydrografia, Madrid, 1863, uncoloured sea chart of Key West on the Florida Keys, inset map of Fort Zachary Taylor (on the western end of the island), lighthouses highlighted with watercolour, blind stamp of the Spanish hydrographic department, 590 x 950mm

182 Istanbul. Braun (Georg & Hogenberg Franz), Byzantium Nunc Constantinopolis, pub. Cologne, c.1600, hand coloured engraved map, twelve portrait medallions in the lower foreground, 330 x 480mm, French text on verso The second state with the last roundel now completed with a portrait of Murad III. The Bosphorus and the Golden Horn are shown crowded with both Turkish galleys and European galleons. In the centre a mounted Turkish Sultan is supported by his Janissaries armed with bows and swords.

(1) £500-800

Uncommon Spanish chart of Key West and the surrounding islands. It is based on an earlier survey which was conducted by the U.S. Navy in 1849.

(1) £1500-2000

185 Lancashire. Hennet (George), A Map of the County Palatine of Lancaster Divided into Hundreds and Parishes from an Accurate Survey made in the Years 1828 and 1829, pub. Henry Teesdale 1830, large map with contemp. hand colouring, engraved by James Bingley, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic cartouche, b & w vignette of the New Custom House Liverpool, table of explanation, and compass rose, slight staining, 1600 x 1120, marbled endpapers, contained in contemp. red morocco gilt book box

183 Japan. Mercator (Gerard & Hondius Henricus), Japonia, c.1613, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, large strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, slight wear to central fold, stengthened on verso, slight overall toning, 345 x 450mm, French text on verso, mounted (1)

£200-300

B.Kentish. A Catalogue of County Atlases of England and Wales 1607 - 1864 and large scale maps. 2012. Item 68.

(1) £200-300

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188 Maps. A good mixed collection of British county maps, 17th 19th century, including Jansson (Jan),Comitatis Cantabrigiensis vernacule Cambridge Shire, c.1650, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, ornate cartouche and mileage scale, some creasing, 415 x 515mm, together with, Speed (John),Wilshire, pub. John Sudbury & George Humble, c.1627, hand coloured engraved map, inset plan of Salisbury and an engraved vignette of Stonehenge, trimmed to neat line and laid on later card, 385 x 520mm, with, Jansson (Jan),Buckingamiae comitatus cum Bedfordiensi; vulgo Buckingamshire and Bedfordshire, c.1650, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, some oxidisation to watercolour causing some cracking and splitting to image, backed with archival tissue on verso, slight staining and dust soiling, 410 x 510mm, Latin text on verso, plus six hand coloured engraved county maps by Richard Blome, two hand coloured engraved maps

by Robert Morden, four hand coloured engraved maps by Thomas Moule, and a map of the British islands by Mercator, with another twelve maps, including examples by Kitchin/Jefferys, Hermannides, Beer, Dawson, Lewis, Laurie & Whitle, Kitchin and Reuben Ramble, plus two maps of Ireland by Mercator and Cloppenburgh, various sizes and condition

186 Manuscript map. Merrier (Capt. L. R.E.), Whitchurch Parish, Oxfordshire, north of the River Thames, 1875, partially printed map with watercolour and manuscript, sectionalised and laid on linen, tipped on letter signed by the Justices from Oxfordshire and Berkshire explaining the establishement of the boundary between Oxfordshire and Berkshire, signed and dated by the surveyor to lower right, slight creasing and dust soiling, marbled endpapers, 1215 x 955mm, contained in contemp. black morocco gilt slip case A fascinating cartographic document with its attached letter showing how Whitchurch was mapped - after agreement between the Justices of both counties - on the boundary between Berkshire and Oxfordshire.

(1) £600-900

(approx.30)

189 Maps. A mixed collection of eleven maps, 17th & 18th century, including maps of Asia, Egypt, North America, Africa & North Africa, Middle East, Sandwich Islands, Greece and Persia, with examples by Sanson, Blaeu, Jansson, Van den Keere, Bayly, Homann and De Vaugondy, all approx. 420 x 520mm, several with hand colouring, with six framed and glazed, various condition

187 Maps & prints. A mixed collection of approx. forty maps and engravings, 17th - 20th century, including maps and sea charts by Morden, Levasseur, Braun & Hogenberg, Hulsius, Bachiene, Smith and Arrowsmith, with a title page from a French edition of Braun & Hogenberg’s city atlas, plus a large map printed on silk of England

by Christopher Browne, with engravings and etchings including examples by Cruikshank and Gillray, and two partial atlases, various sizes and condition (approx.40)

£300-500

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£200-300

190 Maps. A mixed collection of approx. sixty-five maps, 17th 19th century, engraved maps, several with contemp. hand colouring, including examples by Ogilby, Weller, Morden, De Wit, Speed, Homann, Mercator, Blaeu, Van den Keere, Jansson, Munster, D’Anville and De Vaugondy, several maps damaged or with some loss, various sizes and condition

£200-300

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£200-300

Lot 193 191 Mexico. Ortelius (Abraham), Hispaniae Novae Sivae Magnae Recens et vera Descriptio, [1579 or later], engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, large strapwork cartouche, 350 x 505mm, Latin text on verso, mounted, together with Homann (Johann Baptist, Heirs of,)Tabula Americae Specialis Geographica Regni Peru Brasiliae Terrae Firmae & Reg. Amazonum...., pub.

Nuremberg, c.1748, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, 485 x 570mm, mounted

193 Netherlands. Visscher (Nicolas), Ducatus Geldriae nec non Comitatus Zutphaniae cum adjacentibus Regionibus denuo recogniti......, pub. Amsterdam, c.1640, hand coloured engraved ‘carte a figures’ map, with costumed figures to the vertical margins and city views along the horizontal margins, trimmed to neat line, some marginal fraying causing slight loss, replaced in facsimile, repaired on verso, 470 x 560mm, together with, Ducatus Holsatiae Summa Diligentia Accurataq censura Noviter Editus....., pub.

Amsterdam, c.1640, hand coloured engraved ‘carte a figures’ map, two inset maps, costumed figures to vertical margins and oval city views along the horizontal margins, trimmed to neat line, some marginal fraying causing loss, replaced in facsimile, repaired on verso. margins extended, 445 x 550mm, with another seventeen 17th century engraved maps of European regions in France, Poland, Germany and Scandanavia, including examples by Jansson, Blaeu and Visscher, occ. duplicates, all with some fraying and wear with varying degress of loss to image, various sizes and conditon

The first described item. Marcel van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps, no.13.

(2) £150-200

192 Morden (Robert). A collection of thirteen maps, [1695 or later], uncoloured engraved maps, some dust and finger soiling, occ, marginal closed tears, three maps torn and split along central fold (Hampshire, Staffordshire and Nottinghamshire), occ. slight staining, various sizes and condition The maps comprise of:- Hampshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Durham,. Westmorland, Northumberland, Cornwall, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Worcestershire, Devonshire, Norfolk and Kent.

(13) £300-500

Sold as a collection, not subject to return.

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£300-500

Lot 195 194 Norfolk and Suffolk. Speed (John), Norfolk, a Countie Florishing & Populous Described and Devided with the Armes of such Noble Familes as have Borne the Titles Therof [and] Suffolke described and divided into Hundreds, The Situation of the Fayre Towne Ipswich shewed with the Armes of the most Noble Families that have bene Dukes or Earles both of that Countie as also of Clare, pub. Roger Rea, c.1662, two uncoloured engraved maps, both with inset town plans, both trimmed to plate mark with thread margins, ink ownership stamp on verso with some showthrough, each approx. 375 x 490mm, no text on verso (2)

197 Northumberland & Durham. Blaeu (Johannes), Comitatus Northumbria Vernacule Northumberland [and] Episcopatus Dunelmensis vulgo The Bishoprike of Durham, pub. Amsterdam, c.1648, two engraved maps with contemp. hand colouring, each approx. 415 x 500mm, with French and Spanish text on verso respectively (2)

198 Nottinghamshire. Speed (John), The Countie of Nottingham described, The Shire Townes situation and the Earls thereof observed, pub. John Sudbury & George Humble, [1616], hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Nottingham, large strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, slight fraying to margins, repaired on verso, 380 x 510mm, Latin text on verso, mounted, together with Blaeu (Johannes),Comitatus Nottinghamiensis, Nottingham Shire, pub. Amsterdam, c.1648, engraved map with bright contemp. hand colouring, ornate cartouche and mileage scale, 385 x 500mm, French text on verso, mounted, with, Jansson (Jan), Comitatus Nottinghamiensis sive Nottinghamshire, c.1650, engraved map with faded contemp. hand colouring (possibly as a result of cleaning), 385 x 485mm, Latin text on verso, mounted

£150-200

195 North America. Norie (J.W.), A New Chart of the Western Coast of North America from the Gulf of Nicoya to the Gulf of California, Drawn Chiefly from the late Spanish Surveys, 1852, ‘blue-backed’ uncoloured engraved chart, inset maps of the Gulf of California, Guaymas, Mazatlan, Port San Blas, The Port of Acapulco, Palizada Road and A Plan of Realejo, some creasing and occ. closed tears affecting image, some dust soiling and staining, 665 x 965mm (1)

£300-500

196 Northamptonshire. Blaeu (Johannes), Comitatus Northantonensis Vernacule Northanton Shire, c.1658, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, large decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 415 x 505mm, French text on verso, together with Morden (Robert),Northamptonshire [1695 or later], hand coloured engraved map, 360 x 420mm, mounted (2)

£100-150

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£100-150

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£100-150

200 Ogilby (John). The Road from Exeter to Truroe in com. Corn., The Continuation of ye extended Road from Barnstable to Truro [and] The Continuation of the Road from London to the Lands-End, c.1676, together three hand coloured engraved strip road maps, each with a decorative strapwork cartouche, the last map described, trimmed with slight loss to margins, each approx. 355 x 450mm (3)

£150-200

201* Ogilby (John). The Road from London to Buckingham Continued to Banbury in Com. Oxon., c.1676, hand coloured engraved strip road map, ornate cartouche, slight staining, 340 x 445mm, mounted, framed and glazed (1)

202 Ogilby (John). The Road from Nottingham to Grimsby in the Count. of Lincolne, The Continuation of ye Road from London to Aberistwith Plate ye Second Comencing at Islip, The Road from London to Flambourough Head in Com. Ebor., The Continuation of the Road from London to Flambrugh Com. Ebor. [and] The Continuation of the Road from London to Barwick Beginning at Stilton and extending to Tuxford, c.1676, together five uncoloured engraved strip road maps, each approx. 330 x 450mm

199 Ogilby (John). The Continuation of the Road from London to Bristol [and] The Road from Bristol to Weymouth com. Dorset, c.1676, two hand coloured engraved strip road maps, each with a decorative strapwork cartouche, each approx. 335 x 445mm (2)

£100-150

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£100-150

£200-300

203 Oxford. Loggan (David), Hortus Botanicus. The Phisick Garden in Oxon, c.1675, uncoloured engraving, several marginal repaired tears, some fraying to margins with occ. slight loss, repaired on verso, 415 x 505mm Published in ‘Oxonia Illustrata’.

(1)

Lot 201 57

£70-100

204 Pacific Ocean. Ortelius (Abraham), Maris Pacifici (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) cum Regionibus Circumiacentibus Insulisque in Codem Passim Sparsis, Novisima Descriptio, [1595], hand coloured engraved map, 345 x 500mm, Latin text on verso The first printed map focused on the Pacific Ocean, decorated with a large vignette depiction of Ferdinand Magellan’s ship, The Victoria. Marcel van den Broecke. Ortelius Atlas Maps, no.12. Philip Burden. The Mapping of America, no.74.

(1) ÂŁ2500-3000

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207 Puerto Rico. Churruca (Cosme Damian de Churruca y Elorza), Plano Geometrico del Puerto Capital de la Isla de Puerto Rico Levantado en 1794 Por D. Cosme De Churucca Capitain de Nacio de la Rl. Armada....., 1794 [but later impression], uncoloured engraved chart of the harbour of San Juan, blind stamp of the Spanish Hydrographic Department, 455 x 605mm

205 Panama. Bregante (S.), Mar de las Antillas Hoya V. Carta del Golfo de Nicaragua con la Isla de Jamaica y Parte de la Cuba, pub.

Direccion de Hydrografia, Madrid, 1868, uncoloured engraved sea chart, lighthouses highlighted in watercolour, blind stamp of the Spanish Hydrography department, 960 x 630mm (1)

£300-500

An important chart of San Juan, based upon a detailed study of the harbour by the Spanish Navy’s hydrographical engineers, under the command of Churruca. The chart includes general notes on the harbour, a key identifying major landmarks, an extensive note on the various shoals identified on the map, and sailing instructions for entering the harbour. The importance of this chart is underlined by the fact that it was copied by both the Depot de la Marine, William Faden and the British Hydrographical Office. Churruca had an illustrious career as an officer in the Spanish navy. Serving with distinction at the seige of Gibralter and in the Spanish colonies in the Americas. He was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar after being struck by a cannon ball.

(1) £400-600

206 Portugal. Ortelius (Abraham), Portugalliae que olim Lusitania, novissima & exactissima descriptio, [1584], engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, orientated to the west, slight staining, a little dust soiling to margins, Latin text on verso, mounted Marcel van den Broecke. Ortelius Atlas Maps. no.26.

(1)

£150-200

208 Puerto Rico. Moreno (Miguel), Carta Particular Esférica y Corográfica de la Isla de Puerto Rico...., pub. Madrid, 1842, uncoloured engraved sea chart, inset map of la Mona, slight offsetting, blind stamp of the ‘Direccion de Hidrografia’, 610 x 910mm (1)

£300-500

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209 Puerto Rico. Carta Esferica de la Isla de Puerto-Rico, pub.

Direccion de Hidrografia, Madrid, 1848, uncoloured engraved chart, slight staining, blind stamp of the Spanish hydrographic department, 610 x 910mm (1)

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£300-500

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210 Russia & Asia. Senex (John), Moscovy Corrected from ye Observations communicated to the Royal Society of London and Paris, 1712, engraved map on two conjoined sheets (as published), contemp. outline colouring, old folds, 960 x 640mm, together with, Asia Corrected from the Observations communicated to the Royal Society at London and the Royal Academy at Paris, c.1712, hand coloured engraved map, old folds, torn with some loss and replaced in facsimile, margins extended, 665 x 965mm (2)

£150-200

211 Russia. Moll (Herman), To his Most Serene and August Majesty Peter Alexovitz, Absolute Lord of Russia &c. This Map of Moscovy, Poland, Little Tartary and ye Black Sea &c. is most Humbly Dedicated..., pub. J & T Bowles, P.Overton & J.King, c.1730, large engraved map with contemp. outline colouring, inset maps of the Northern part of European Russia and the lower course of the Volga in the vicinity of Asov, slight creasing, occ. short splits to old folds, 620 x 975mm (1)

£300-500

Lot 215

212 Saxton (Christopher, Hole, William & Kip). A collection of sixteen engraved maps, c.1637, sixteen uncoloured engraved maps, various sizes and condition The maps comprise of:- Cumberland, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Durham, Derbyshire, North Riding of Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Worcestershire, Saxon England, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Lincolnshire, Northumberland and Herefordshire.

(16) £300-500

213 Scotland. Homann (Johann Baptist), Magnae Britanniae Pars Septentrionalis Regnum Scotiae..., pub. Nuremberg, c.1720, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, ornate b & w cartouche and mileage scale, slight staining to one margin not affecting image, 575 x 485mm (1)

£150-200

214* Scotland. Blaeu (Johannes & Pont Timothy), Uistus Insula vulgo Uiist cum aliis minoribus ec Aebudarum Numero ei ad meridiem adjacentibus, pub. Amsterdam, c.1654, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, inset map of Barra and its adjacent islands, large decoartive cartouche, 460 x 590mm, mounted, framed and double glazed, French text on verso, together with, Collins (Capt.

Greenville),To the Honble. the Magistrates of the Citty of Aberdeene....., c.1700, uncoloured engraved sea chart, inset maps of Aberdeen and Montrose, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, 445 x 560mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with, Dartmouth. To the Right Honorable George, Lord Dartmouth....., Dedicated and Presented

by G.Collins, c.1700, hand coloured engraved sea chart, inset map of Tarr Bay, ornate cartouche and mileage scale, three inset horizon profiles, some overall toning, 455 x 575mm, mounted, framed and glazed (3)

£150-200

215* Scotland. Johnston (W. & A.K. pubs.), The Heart of Scotland, Gleneagles, c.1930, large lithographic map, inset map of the British Isles showing the extent of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, old folds, slight staining, 800 x 1010mm, framed and glazed (1)

217 South America. Moll (Herman), A New and Exact Map of the Coast, Countries and Islands within ye Limits of ye South Sea Company from ye River Aranoca to Terra del Fuego and from thence through ye South Sea to ye North Part of California &c....., c.1730, hand coloured engraved map, three large inset maps of Baldivia harbour, The Bay of Guiaquil and the Island of Chiloe and nine smaller inset maps, insular California, old folds, strengthened on verso, long closed tear affecting image, repaired on verso, 660 x 495mm

£70-100

216 Sea charts. Laurie (Robert & Whittle James), A New Chart of the Gulf or Bay of Bengal with Part of the Indian Ocean, as far as the Line, 1797, uncoloured engraved chart, inset maps of the River Sirian, the River Perseen and a chart of the Isle of St. Mathew, 610 x 650mm, together with, Page (Thomas & Mount Richard),A New and Correct Chart of the Channel between England & France....., c.1730, uncoloured engraved chart, inset maps of Plymouth Sound and the Isle of Wight, old folds, occ. short closed repaired tears, some dust soiling, slight staining, 635 x 1005mm (2)

(1)

£100-150

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£100-150

218 South America. Mercator (Gerard & Hondius Henricus), America Meridionalis, c.1610, engraved map with bright contemp. hand colouring, inset view of Cuzco, large ornate strapwork cartouche, slight worming affecting image, 365 x 500mm, French text on verso

219 South Atlantic Ocean. Jansson (Jan), Mar Di Aethiopia vulgo Oceanus Aethiopicus, c.1660, engraved map with contemp. outline colouring, ornate cartouche and mileage scale, compass rose and numeous rhumb lines, slight creasing, slight staining, 440 x 550mm

A highly decorative map with Tierra del Fuego joined on to the southern continent.

(1) £200-300

Published in Jansson’s ‘Atlas Maritimus’.

(1)

£200-300

220 South Pole. Mawson (Douglas), British Antarctic Expedition, 1907, Route and Surveys of the South Magnetic Polar Party 1908 09, From Triangulation and Traverses, pub. William Heinemann, c.1909, chromolithograph, laid on later card, 500 x 350mm Detailed map showing the route taken by Shackleton’s British Antarctic Expedition of 1908 to early 1909. The map also includes the routes of the Erebus Party and the Western Party. Douglas Mawson (1882-1958) was an Australian geologist and explorer. The Australian Dictionary of National Biography gives a detailed account of his time with Shackleton in Antarctica:In November 1907 (Sir) Ernest Shackleton, leader of the British Antarctic Expedition, visited Adelaide on his way south. Mawson approached him with a view to making the round trip to Antarctica on the Nimrod. His idea was to see an existing continental ice-cap and to become acquainted with glaciation and its geological consequences. This interested him because in his South Australian studies he was ‘face-to-face with a great accumulation of glacial sediments of Precambrian age, the greatest thing of the kind recorded anywhere in the world’. After consulting with David, who had agreed to join the expedition, Shackleton telegraphed: ‘You are appointed Physicist for the duration of the expedition’. Mawson accepted, and so began his long association with the Antarctic.Although he recognized that Shackleton’s prime aim of reaching the South Pole was considered essential to financing the expedition, he would have liked more opportunity offered to the scientists. Nevertheless, the scientists’ achievements proved to be considerable and Mawson had good opportunities for glaciological and geological investigations. In March 1908 Mawson was one of the first party, led by David, to climb Mount Erebus.

Next summer David (leader), A. F. Mackay and Mawson were the first to reach the vicinity of the South Magnetic Pole, manhauling their sledges 1260 miles. Mawson was responsible for the magnetic observations and the excellent cartographic work. The return was difficult because of exhaustion and shortage of food. David, aged 50, suffered badly and at his request Mawson assumed leadership. The journey almost ended in disaster: having reached their main depot two days late and hearing a rocket distress signal fired from the Nimrod, Mawson, while rushing towards the ship, fell into a crevasse. Help from the ship was required for his rescue.Shackleton’s confidence in Mawson may be gauged from his instructions: should his own expedition to the South Pole not return in time, Mawson was to lead a search party. David said in public tribute: “Mawson was the real leader who was the soul of our expedition to the Magnetic Pole. We really have in him an Australian Nansen, of infinite resourse, splendid physique, astonishing indifference to frost”.

(1) £200-300

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222 Surrey. Greenwood (c. & J.), Map of the County of Surrey from an Actual Survey, made in the years 1822 & 1823, pub. Greenwood & Co., 1829, large engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, b & w engraved vignette of Lambeth Palace, compass rose, table of explanation and list of the Hundreds, slight dust soiling, occ. marginal closed tears not affecting image, 570 x 690mm, together with, Cary (John),A Map of Surry from the Best Authorities, pub.

John Stockdale, 1805, engraved map with contemp. outline colouring, 405 x 490mm, with, Blaeu (Johannes),Suthsexia vernacule Sussex, c.1650, hand coloured engraved map, 380 x 525mm, Latin text on verso, plus Cary (John),A Map of Sussex from the best Authorities, pub. John Stockdale, 1805, hand coloured engraved map, old folds, 360 x 510mm (4)

£150-200

223 Sussex & Kent. Speed (John), Sussex Described and divided into Rapes with the Situation of Chichester the cheife citie thereof and the Armes of such Nobles as have bene dignified with the title of Earles since the conquest and other accidents therein observed, pub. Roger Rea, c.1662, engraved map with sparse outline colouring, inset town plan of Chichester, ‘open book’ cartouche, trimmed to neat line with slight loss to strapwork margin, ink ownership stamp to verso with slight showthrough, 380 x 495mm, together with, Kent with her Cities and Earles Described and observed, pub. George Humble, c.1627, uncoloured engraved map, inset town plans of Canterbury and Rochester, trimmed to neat line with slight loss to strapwork margins, sparse near contemp. manuscript annotation to map, ink ownership stamp to verso with slight showthrough, 380 x 500mm (2)

£200-300

221 St. Lucia. Norie (John William), The Island of St. Lucia, 1827, uncoloured engraved map, inset maps of Port Carenage and Gros Islet Bay, circular cartouche, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, slight dust soiling, ‘blue-backed’, 660 x 475mm (1)

£300-500

224 Sussex. Speed (John), Sussex Described and Divided into Rapes with the Situation of Chichester the cheife citie thereof and the Armes of such Nobles as have bene dignified with the title of Earles since the conquest and other accidents therein obserbved, pub. George Humble, c.1627, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Chichester, slight ink staining, slight mount staining, two near contemp. manuscript initials to image, occ. marginal repaired closed tears, central fold partially strengthened on verso, 390 x 510mm, English text on verso (1)

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£300-500

227 Venezuela. Bregante (S.), Mar de las Antillas Hoja IV. Carta de la Costa de Tierra Firme é Islas Adyacentes comprendida Entre la Osla Margarita y Punta Caribana....., pub. Direccion de Hydrografia, Madrid, 1866, uncoloured engraved sea chart of the Venezuelan coastline from St Margarita to the Gulf of Uruba in Columbia and showing the islands of Tortuga and Curacao, lighthouses highlighted in watercolour, blindstamp of the Spanish hydrographic survey department, 630 x 960mm (1)

£200-300

228 Venezuela. 2a Hoja que Comprehende la parte de Costa de Tierra Firme é Islas Adyacentes, pub. Direccion Hidrografica de Madrid, 1866, uncoloured engraved chart showing the Caribbean coast of Venezuela including Caracas, Curaçao and Aruba, lighthouses highlighted with watercolour, slight creasing, blind stamp of the Spanish Hydrographic Department, slight offsetting, 625 x 955mm (1)

225 United States. Map of the United States of America. The Free States and Territories are coloured Yellow; Slave States Blue; the Red lines show the States in favour of the Union and the Green lines those for Secession, pub. Robert Hughes, Grocer, Tea and Provision Dealer, Bread and Biscuit Baker, No.5 Mostyn Streey, Llandudno, c.1861, colour printed wood engraved map, with advertising print below image, slight creasing, old folds, overall size 280 x 220mm

£400-600

229 Wales. Mercator (Gerard, Jansson Jan & Lhuyd Humphrey), Cambriae Typus Auctore, Humfredo Lhuydo Denbigiense Cambrobritanno, c.1660, uncoloured engraved map, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, 355 x 490mm, mounted

An extraordinary and somewhat incongruous juxtapositioning of a map of the United States of America at the commencement of the American Civil War and an advertisment for a Llandudno grocer. Unsurprisingly, we can find no record of this map.

(1) £200-300

John Booth. Antique Maps of Wales. no.5.

(1)

£100-150

230 Wales. Ogilby (John), The Road from Priestaine in Com. Radnor to Carmarthen, c.1676, uncoloured engraved strip road map, with page of descriptive text, 320 x 455mm, mounted, together with, Speed (John),The Countie of Radnor Described and the Shyretownes sittuatione, pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Radnor, strapwork cartouche, mileage scale and compass rose, central fold strengthened on verso, occ. marginal closed tears, slight overall toning, 390 x 515mm, English text on verso, with, Blaeu (Johannes),Comitatus Brechiniae, Breknoke, c.1658, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, 380 x 510mm, French text on verso, mounted, plus, Morden (Robert),A New and Correct Map of North Wales, c.1722, hand coloured engraved map, 365 x 430mm, mounted

226 US Virgin Islands. Carta Esférica de Parte de las Islas Virgenes desde la Culebra a la Tortola, pub. Direccion de Hidrografia de Madrid, 1859, uncoloured engraved chart, lighthouses highlighted in watercolour, slight offsetting, 620 x 965mm A Spanish edition of an English chart of the Virgin Islands, centred on St Thomas, with Culebra to the West and Tortola in the East. In the 1860s the U.S. government was considering buying the Danish Virgin Islands for $7.5 million, but failed to get popular support. In 1917, justifying the purchase as defence against German attacks in the West Indies, the U.S. bought the Islands for $25 million in gold.

(1) £600-800

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£150-200

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231 Wiltshire. Andrews (John & Dury Andrew), A Topographical Map of Wiltshire, on a Scale of 2 Inches to a Mile from an Actual Survey by John Andrews & Andrew Dury, 1st. ed., 1773, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, on eighteen sheets (complete), each sheet laid on later linen, slight creasing and dust soiling, trimmed to neat lines, the sheet showing the cartouche has had the image trimmed and excised and re-laid on contemp. matching paper, each sheet approx. 460 x 635mm, contained in modern purpose made blue cloth gilt portfolio B.Kentish. Large Scale Maps of England and Wales, 1705 - 1832. Item no.62.

(1) ÂŁ500-800

232* Winter (Wilhelm). Joannes Baptista Homann, SAC. CAES. REGQ. CATH. MAJ. Geographus nec non Regiae Scientiarum Societatis Berolinensis Membrum, c.1740, uncoloured engraved portrait on laid after Joannes Krenckel, 390 x 280mm J.B.Homann was one of the most influential and prolific cartographers of the 18th century.

(1) ÂŁ100-150

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234 World. Ortelius (Abraham & Galle Philippe), Typus Orbis Terrarum, c.1588, hand coloured engraved miniature map of the world on an ovoid projection, 80 x 110mm, French text on verso, together with, Cluver (Philip),Orbis Terrarum Typus, pub.

Amsterdam, c.1676, hand coloured engraved map of the world on a hemispheral projection, insular California, ink ownership stamp in lower margin, 150 x 260mm, plus, Ortelius (Abraham & Vrients Jan Baptist),Globus Terrestris 1600, c.1713, hand coloured engraved miniature map of the world on a hemispheral projection, repaired marginal closed tear not affecting image, 120 x 150mm

233 World. Rosaccio (Giuseppe), Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio, pub. Venice, c.1599, uncoloured engraved hemispheral map of the world, 190 x 260mm, Latin text on verso, together with, Porcacchi (Tommaso),Discorso Intorno Alla Carta da Navigare, pub. Venice, c.1572, uncoloured engraved map of the world on a Mercator projection, numerous rhumb lines, 110 x 145mm, Italian text surrounding and on verso of map, plus Mercator (Gerard & Magini Giovanni),Universi Orbis Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium, pub. Venice, c.1596, uncoloured engraved map of the world on a Mercator projection, 135 x 175mm, Italian text below and on verso of map,

The first described item. R.W.Shirley. The Mapping of the World, no.161.

Item two. Shirely no. 407. Item three. Shirley no. 231, but later issue by Lasor a Varea of Padua.

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Item one. A later version of Girolamo Ruscelli’s map of 1561. R.W.Shirley.

The Mapping of the World, no. 217. Item two. Shirley. no.128. Item three.

Shirley. no. 196.

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235 World. Babin (Céleste), Mappemonde Projetée sur l’Horizon d’Angers, Nantes, 1839, manuscript world map projected on the horizon of Angers, black and brown ink with sparse outline colouring, oval watercolour vignette of Beaupréau (near Nantes), Capt. Cook’s voyages clearly marked, toned overall, 570 x 750mm An unusually large and well drawn manuscript map. Céleste Babin was a pupil at the Institute de Mlle le Bailleul in Nantes.

(1) £200-300

236 World. Schedel (Hartmann), De Sanctificatione Septime Diei, pub. Nuremberg, [1493], woodcut with sparse contemp. hand colouring, published in ‘The Nuremberg Chronicle’, with large woodcut illustration on verso, also with contemp. hand colouring, Latin text above images, some fraying with loss to margins and slight damage to image, repaired, overall size 380 x 240mm The image shows God enthroned surrounded by a court of angels, with a description of the creation of the earth. The seventh day (on the recto) shows an earth-centred diagram with the signs of the zodiac and large windheads in the corner. The sixth day (on the verso) shows God fashioning Adam from clay, surrounded by a variety of beasts.

(1) £150-200

Lot 236

Lot 237

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237 World. Jaillot (Alexis Hubert), Mappe-Monde GeoHydrographique, ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre et Aquatique en Deux Plans Hemispheres......., pub. Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, c.1700, large engraved hemispheral map of the world after an earlier map by Alexis Hubert Jaillot, on two conjoined sheets (as published), contemp. outline colouring, ten further terrestrial and celestial circular projections, two uncoloured decorative cartouches, old folds, slight toning and offsetting, 580 x 980mm R.W.Shirley. The Mapping of the World. no.621. State 1.

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239 World. Fullarton (Archibald), British Empire Throughout the World, Exhibited in One View, c.1860, colour litho. map on a Mercator projection with panoramic vignettes of the peoples and costumes of the British Empire and two tables listing British possessions around the world, slght spotting to margins, 440 x 540mm, together with, Vuillemin (Alexandre),Nouveau Planisphere indiquant les Grandes Divisions Physiques et Politiques de la Terre...., pub. Paris, 1854, large engraved map on a Mercator projection, contemp. outline colouring, six b & w vignettes show scenes of fishing, whaling and exploration, two panoramas show the relative heights of mountains and another showing the locations of the world’s races, 670 x 870mm, plus, Tallis (John),Eastern Hemisphere [and] Western Hemisphere, c.1855, together a pair of coloured engraved hemispheral projections, trimmed with loss to legend at base, each approx. 255 x 345mm and, Swanston (G.H.),The World in Hemispheres with Comparative Views of the Heights of the Principal Mountains and Basins of the Principal Rivers on the Globe, pub. A.Fullarton, c.1860, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, nine inset maps of rivers, large vignette of mountains, 425 x 535mm, with one other similar

£800-1200

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£200-300

238 World. Bellin (Jacques Nicolas), Carte des Variations de la Boussole et des Vents Généraux que l’on Trouve dans les Mers les plus Frequentées, pub. Paris, 1765 [but later Italian edition of c.1797], hand coloured engraved map of the world on a Mercator projection, large ornate cartouche, old folds, 555 x 860mm, together with Essay d’une Carte Réduite Contenant Les Parties Connuees du Globe Terrestre..., pub. Paris, 1748 [but later state], hand coloured engraved map of the world on a Mercator projection, ornate cartouche, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, old folds, ownership stamp on verso with slight showthrough, 515 x 710mm (2)

£300-500

240 Yucatan & Honduras. Mar de las Antillas Hoja VI. Carta del Golfo de Honduras con parte de Yucatan y de la Isla de Cuba, pub.

Direccion de Hidrografia, Madrid, 1868, uncoloured engraved chart, lighthouses highlighted with watercolour, blind stamp of the Spanish hydrographic department, slight offsetting, 950 x 620mm Lot 239

A detailed Spanish chart of the channel between Yucatan and Cuba, south of the Mosquito coast of Honduras. Belize is marked Honduras Inglesa.

(1) £400-600

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DECORATIVE PRINTS & ORIGINAL ART All lots unframed unless otherwise stated

241* Architectural engravings. Pastorini (B., Blyth B., Vivares T. & others), Six engraved Architectural Prospects and Elevations, c.1780, six large uncoloured engravings of architectural elevations, details, prospects and interior fittings and fireplaces, slight spotting, each approx. 600 x 430mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with, Hollar (Wenceslaus),Three engravings, c.1665, three uncoloured engravings of natural history subjects, including images of flowers, wild boar, a Mastiff and a Leopard, each approx.

170 x 275mm, mounted, framed and glazed (9)

245* Edinburgh. Royal Review of Scottish Volunteers, Queen’s Park, Edinburgh, 25th August 1881, pub. McFarlane & Erskine, Edinburgh, c.1882, large colour printed lithograph, slight browning to margins, 600 x 950mm, framed and glazed (1)

246* English school. Two allegorical watercolours, after John Edwards (1768-1795), c.1790, together a pair of oval watercolours after J.Edwards, showing an aristocratic and a rural couple in a bucolic setting, slight toning, each inscribed in ink to lower edge ‘publish’d as the Act directs Dec. 25th 1783. J.Edwards inv. et fecit’, each 32 x 26cms (12.5 x 10 inches), contemporary gilt gesso frames (slightly chipped), glazed

£150-200

242* British topographical views. A collection of approx. 1000 prints, mostly 19th century, engravings and lithographs, including views in Oxford, London, Kent, Berkshire, Bedforshire and Buckinghamshire, including examples by Le Keux, Dugdale, ‘Oxford Almanac’, Sarjent and Nash, occ. duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.1000)

£150-200

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£100-200

£150-200

243 Brooke (L. Leslie, illust.). The “A.L.” Scenes in Other Lands... A New Series of Illustrations for Geographical Teaching, for Composition and Conversation Lessons, and for Decorative Purposes, Leeds: E.J. Arnold & Son, c.1910, six (of nine) large linen-backed lithographed plates (lacking Canada, Holland and France), first plate with slight surface loss, some fraying and staining to margins, original linenbacked covers (worn), with title printed on front cover, held at top edge with wooden baton for hanging, 90 x 67cm (35.5 x 26.5ins) Scarce. With plates relating to Japan, India, Greenland and Lapland, Russia and Siberia, Switzerland and China. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

(1) £70-100

244 Doyle (John, pseud. “H.B.”). Political Sketches &c. by HB, 6 vols., 1829 - 34, six albums containing 363 uncoloured lithographic caricatures, each with a title and index which is cut and trimmed and laid on contemp. paper, occ. cartoons replaced in facsimile, occ. spotting and staining, contemp. half morocco gilt, with morocco gilt labels to upper sidings, a little stained and worn, oblong 4to (6)

247* English School. A village church with pigs grazing, late 18th century watercolour, with traces of pencil, and pen & ink, 20.5 x 29.5cm (8 x 11.5ins), framed and glazed (1)

£70-100

248* London. Sharland (Edward, 1884-1967), Bits of Old London, three b&w etchings on paper, larger 37 x 28.5cm (14.5 x 11ins) image size, framed and glazed, together with eleven other topographical etchings, including St. Aubins, Jersey, Nell Gwyn’s House, Drury Lane, Old Houses in Holborne, and Exeter Cathedral, all framed and glazed

£120-180

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£150-200

249* Florence. Sgrilli (Bernado), Vue de la Fameuse Cathedrale de Florence. A View of the Famous Cathedral of Florence, c.1780, uncoloured engraving after Giuseppe Zocchi, some fraying and staining, repaired closed tears affecting image, 450 x 670mm (1)

Lot 245

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£50-80

250* Glass picture. An exact Representation of the Depositing the Body of her late Majesty Queen Caroline in the Family Vault at Brunswick, Augt 24, 1821..., W.B. Walker, c.1821, hand-coloured mezzotint-under-glass, showing a church interior with Queen Caroline’s coffin under an elaborate canopy, female attendants, guards, and clergy, printed caption below image, sl. loss to upper right corner, image size 23.5 x 35cm (9.25 x 13.75ins), framed, together with The Happy Sportsman, W.B. Walker, c.1810, handcoloured mezzotint-under-glass, interior scene with a gentleman home from hunting swinging a small child in the air, watched by a seated lady, printed caption below image, piece missing from righthand edge, image size 22 x 35.5cm (8.75 x 14ins), framed, plus The Stag at Bay, published John Fairburn, Sep. 15th 1794, hand-coloured mezzotint-under-glass, of a hunting scene with dogs and mounted horsemen, some surface damage, printed caption to lower margin below image, image size 24 x 35cm (9.5 x 13.75ins), framed, plus St. John, published I. Hinton, Dec. 13, 1800, hand-coloured mezzotint-under-glass, printed caption to lower margin below image, image size 20.5 x 17.5cm (8 x 7ins), framed, plus another similar of St. Mark, cracked, plus two other glass pictures, The Flight into Egypt, and Adoration of the Shepherds, both damaged, latter with loss, plus a late 18th century embroidery picture of two milk maids, minutely worked in fine black thread on silk, worn, verre eglomise mount, framed, and a late 18th century watercolour in relief of a green Turaco on a branch, framed and glazed (9)

Lot 252

£200-300

251* Greece. Choisul-Gouffier (Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de), twelve lithographs from ‘Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece’, pub.

Brussels. c.1824, twelve uncoloured lithographs, together with a title page and an architectural plan from the same work, each approx. 235 x 360mm (14)

253* Hollar (Wenceslas). A True Relation of Capt. Kempthorn’s Engagement in the Mary-Rose with Seven Algier Men of War, c.1670, uncoloured engraving originally published in John Ogilby’s Africa...., four columns of letterpress below image, slight overall toning, 360 x 400mm

£200-300

252* Halifax. Stott Bros. (Lithographers), Hall End Halifax [and] Top of Crown Street, Hall End, Halifax, pub. J.R.Smith, 1888, pair of tinted lithographs after J.R.Smith, each approx. 380 x 410mm, mounted, framed and glazed (2)

A depiction and description of the naval engagement between the MaryRose and six Algerian pirate ships. The Mary-Rose was escorting three British merchant ships and had the British ambassador Henry Howard on board. The action allowed the merchantmen to escape and to continue to Cadiz and thence to England. Fortuitously, Hollar was also on board as he was returning to England after spending time in Tangiers and was able to produce this eye-witness account.

(1) £100-150

£100-150

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Lot 254 254 London. Evans (Charles, pubs.), The Grand Panorama of London from the Thames. This Remarkable Engraving, Twelve Feet in Length....., is presented without charge to the Subscribers of The Pictorial Times, c.1845, uncoloured wood engraved panorama, folded ‘concertina style’ on seven conjoined sheets, 150 x 3750mm, contemp. marbled boards with pubs. label to upper board, contained in modern custom-made book box, book plate of Cliff Parfit to upper inside board (1)

£150-200

258 Molinari (A.L.). The Scrap Book or Pencillings by the Way. A Collection of Amusing Sketches, parts 1 - 7, pub. Charles Tilt, c.1850, twenty-eight lithographs, bound in seven parts, eight lithos. with contemp. hand colouring, each part with pubs. stitched printed paper wrappers, occ. slight spotting, one plt. with closed repaired tear, upper wrapper on part one backed with archival tissue, oblong 4to, contained in modern cloth book box, book plate of Anthony David Estill 255* London. Dagaty, Views of London No.1. Entrance of Piccadilly or Hyde Park Corner Turnpike with a View of St. Georges Hospital [and] Views of London No.2. Entrance of St. Georges Road or the Obelisk Turnpike with a View of the Royal Circus, pub. R. Ackermann, [1797] and 1809, a pair of aquatints with contemp. hand colouring, the first described print, trimmed to plate mark and re-margined, each approx. 355 x 440mm

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£200-300

Uncommon. These two plates are from a series of six engravings called the ‘Views of London’ They show the main highways into London, each one controlled by a turnpike. Very little is known about Dagaty (he is not listed in Ian Mackenzie’s ‘British Prints. Dictionary and Price Guide’). Indeed for this series, the final four plates were executed by Thomas Rowlandson. It is possible that he was Edouard Gautier d’Agoty, a French painter, print maker and engraver.

(2) £500-800

256* Middle East & Palestine. A mixed collection of approx. fifty engravings, 18th century, uncoloured engravings of Israel, Libya, Egypt, Syria and the Holy-Land, including some folding, various sizes and condition (approx.50)

£150-200

257* Mitchell (W.F.). A collection of twenty-three marine lithographs, [1890 - 93], colour chromolithographs, originally published in Low’s ‘Her Majesty’s Navy’, each approx. 185 x 235mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with another six similar lithographs, various sizes and condition, all framed and glazed, plus other various photographs and prints (50)

Lot 259

£100-150

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Lot 260 259* Needlepoint picture. “The Prodigal Son”, late 19th century, showing a young man kneeling in front of a bearded man in a turban raising his hands in blessing, 42 x 40cm (16.5 x 15.75ins), gilt moulded frame, glazed (1)

264 Posters. The Paper Mill/The Young Man of the Period/The Annual Seaside Holiday, How is it Done?, c. 1890s, together three posters with banner heading, a large hand-coloured woodcut illustration and verse footer, all printed by Samuel Reeves in the style of 19th-century broadsides, each approx. 63 x 51cm, a little soiling and edge fraying, together with two 19th-century banner headline broadsides and two 20th-century newspaper billboard posters

£70-100

260* New York. Sulman (T.), New York from Bergen Hill: Hoboken, 1876, uncoloured wood engraved panorama, laid on linen, old folds, 520 x 1160mm

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265* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection of approx. 620 prints & engravings, mostly 19th century, including sporting, marine & miltary, portraits and British & foreign topography, various sizes and condition

An impressive prospect of New York City, centered on Manhattan. Central Park can be seen to the left of the image. Engraved by R.Loudan, and published ten years before the Statue of Liberty was completed and seven years before the Brooklyn Bridge opened.

(1) £500-800

(approx.620)

261 Ongania (Umberto, 19th century). Rialto Bridge, watercolour on paper, signed lower right, 11 x 18.5cm (4.25 x 7.25ins) image size, framed and glazed (1)

£70-100

(approx.600)

£150-200

267* Prints & Maps. A large mixed collection of approximately 150 prints, engravings and maps, mostly 19th and early 20th century, comprising birds, natural history, sporting, historical, British and foreign, topography, military, various sizes and conditions, some framed and glazed, together with seventeen scrap albums, containing prints, original watercolours, advertisements, newspaper cuttings and photographs, various sizes and conditions

£100-150

263* Portraits. Vertue (George), Magnates et Heroes Sangvine Regali Scotiae et Angliar Prognati...., c.1750, uncoloured engraving of mourners at the tomb of Henry Darnley (Consort to Mary Queen of Scots) with the infant James I of England in the foreground, laid on later paper, some creasing and cracking, several marginal closed tears, 430 x 560mm, together with, Filius sic Magni est Jacobi haec filia Magni Henrici Soboles dic musi qualis erit, 1742, uncoloured engraved portrait of Charles I and Queen Henriette Maria, trimmed to image, 410 x 555mm, with, Fredericus II Rex Bohemiae, c. 1620, uncoloured engraving of the coronation of Frederick V and Elizabeth as King and Queen of Bohemia, trimmed to image, 400 x 460mm, with three others similar, various sizes and condition (6)

£150-200

266* Prints & engravings. A collection of approx. 600 prints, lithographs and engravings, mostly 19th century, including British & foreign topography, mezzotint portraits, genre, architecture, religion, photographs, historical and genre, various sizes and condition

262 Pemberton-Longman (Joanna, 20th c.). The Footpath, acrylic on canvas, initialed lower right, gallery labels to verso, 46 x 61cm (18 x 24ins), framed (1)

£100-150

(approx. 170)

£120-180

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£150-200

270* Belgian Animal Tarot. A deck of animal tarot cards, Brussels, Belgium: Jean-Baptiste Galler [or successor?], c.1800, seventyeight woodblock cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of fourteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and four full-length court cards, plus twenty-two trump cards, comprising twenty animal trumps (one with small nick in left-hand edge) and Fool card (bearing double-ended Roman numerals I-XXI), and musician card (unnumbered), a few cards with light waterstaining, versos with blue hexagonal sunburst pattern, square corners, 108 x 56mm (4.25 x 5.5ins), together withTrapolla, A deck of trapolla cards, Prague, Czechoslovakia: E.M. Klogner, c.1880s, thirty-six litho. cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of nine (Italian suits), each with ace, pip cards 2, 7-10 (with indices) and three double-faced court cards, versos with black geometrical pattern, square corners, 106 x 56mm (4.25 x 2.25ins), plus Austrian Tarot, A deck of tarot cards, Vienna, Austria: Josef Glanz, late 19th c., fifty-four litho. cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which fifteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, French suits, comprising pip cards hearts and diamonds 1-4 (ace of hearts with maker’s circular ink stamps), spades and clubs 7-10, sixteen double-ended court cards, plus Fool card, and twenty-one full-length trump cards numbered IXXI, a few faint marks, pink pictorial versos with the face of a girl amongst roses (double-ended), rounded corners, 105 x 57mm (4.25 x 2.25ins), together with the original card box with mounted card on one side and pull-off lid, rubbed

268* Rattray (James). Ko-I-Staun Foot Soldiery in Summer Costume, Actively employed among the Rocks, from The Costumes of the Various Tribes, Portraits of Ladies of Rank, Celebrated Princes and Chiefs, Views of the Principal Fortresses and Cities, and Interior of the Cities and Temples in Afghaunistaun, pub. Hering & Remington, 1848, hand-coloured lithograph by R. Carrick, image size 37 x 27cm (14.5 x 10.75ins), mounted, framed and glazed, together with a pen, ink, and watercolour copy of the same, 26 x 19cm (10.25 x 7.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed, plus a hand-coloured aquatint by H. Martens, entitled Nizam’s Army, Camel Gunner, in Full Dress, from Ackermann’s Costumes of the Indian Army, image size 30 x 22.5cm (11.75 x 9ins), mounted, framed and glazed (3)

From the collection of the late Jaime Ortiz-Patino.

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£300-500

271* Welsh topographical views. A mixed collection of approx.

1200 prints, mostly 19th century, uncoloured engravings, including examples by Dugdale, Gastineau, Tombleson, Allom and Grieg, occ. duplicates, mostly small format (approx.1200)

£150-200

£200-300

PERIODICALS 272 The Mariner’s Mirror. The Quarterly Journal of the Society for Nautical Research, vols. 1-88, [1911]-2002, vols. 1-11, 13-14 & 16 are Kraus reprints, vols. 17-18 & 25-88 bound in pairs, b & w illusts., various bindings but mostly orig. publisher’s cloth, together with vols. 89-99, 2003, as orig. issues, lacking four issues only, plus four Index vols. (vols. 1-90), all 8vo (approx. 100)

£100-150

273 Naval Review. Produced by the Naval Society, vols. 1-98, 1913-2010, a complete run, b & w plts. and illusts., contemporary and later non-uniform cloth gilt (vols. 94-98 orig. issues), plus Index (1913-1976) and 7 odd issues from vols. 99-101 Most volumes are bound singly, though some volumes are bound in pairs, and any later volumes retain original wrappers. (approx. 100) £100-150

274 Trial of the Major War Criminals, before the International Military Tribunal, 32 vols., 1-19, 21-22, 25-26, 28, 32-35, 37-39, plus 35 duplicates, published at Nuremberg, Germany, 1947, orig. pictorial blue cloth, together with The Publications of the Selden Society, a broken run of 34 vols., 1972-1998, including duplicates, London, The Selden Society, 1970s, orig. blue gilt cloth

269* Searle (Ronald, 1920-2011). Onwards and Upwards, 1976, colour offset lithograph on wove paper, signed, titled and dated in pencil, numbered 38/99, 66 x 50cm (26 x 19.5ins) sheet size, framed and glazed (1)

(101 vols.)

£200-300

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£150-200

ANTIQUARIAN

275 Austen (Jane). Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion.

By the Author of “Pride and Prejudice,” “Mansfield-Park,” &c. With a Biographical Notice of the Author, 4 vols., 1st ed., John Murray, 1818, half-titles present, terminal blanks in volume 4 discarded (P7 and P8), generally toned, untrimmed, recent burgundy quarter morocco gilt, 8vo, housed together in matching cloth slipcase, with gilt lettered morocco spine label Gilson A9; Keynes 9.

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£2000-3000

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278 Bible [English]. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly translated out of the originall Tongues..., Appointed to be read in Churches, London: John Field, 1658, engraved general title depicting Moses and Aaron, and a view over London (slightly cropped at head & foot), New Testament title present (juvenile manuscript to verso, with some show-through, lined to verso), bound with The Psalms of David in Meeter..., Edinburgh: printed by A.A. for James Miller, 1670, ink stain to title (lined to verso), F4 torn to lower outer corner without text loss, close-trimmed at head & foot occasionally affecting some running titles and signatures, light dust-soiling, later inscriptions to front endpaper including the signature of the Canadian missionary and cleric Joachim Allard (1838-1917), a.e.g., contemporary gilt panelled and decorated morocco with initials W.B. to boards, 24mo

276 Beeton (Mrs. Isabella). The Book of Household Management....., 1st ed, pub. S.O.Beeton, 1861, addn. dec. half title, col. wood engraved frontis., twelve chromolitho. plts. (complete), numerous wood engraved vignettes to text throughout, pps. 875 - 878 trimmed along for-edge with slight loss to text, contemp. half calf gilt, boards detached (including last leaf and rear endpaper), spine chipped with slight loss at head, worn, 8vo (1)

Herbert 664. This is the Bible called ‘spurious’ in the British Museum Catalogue; though Fry and Lenox call it ‘genuine.’ It is more correctly printed than Herbert numbers 662 and 663, yet it has some of the same mistakes, e.g. Jer. ii. 26, chief for thief. Headline Hh 2b, Jesaiah.

(1) £300-500

£300-500

277 Belidor (Bernard Forest de). Le Bombardier Francois ou Nouvelle Methode de Jetter les Bombes avec Precision, Amsterdam: Au depens de la Compagnie, 1734, frontispiece lacking, title printed in red & black, eight folding engraved plates, contemporary half sheep, joints cracked, lower board loose with insect damage to leather, worn, 4to (1)

£150-200

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280 Bible [English]. [The Bible, that is, The Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. With most profitable Annotations upon all hard places, and other things of great importance..., London: Imprinted

by Robert Barker, 1602], New Testament title present within decorative woodcut border, lacking general title & prelims., Apocrypha present, black letter text throughout, bound with Two Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances, or large and ample Tables Alphabeticall..., Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1602, close-trimmed throughout volume with some light cropping at head & foot, occasional light dampstaining and dust-soiling, late 18th/early 19th c. calf, lower board detached and upper joint cracked, slight loss at head & foot of spine, worn, 4to

279 Bible [English]. The Second Part of the Holy Bible, Containing these Books, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes... With the Books of the Apocrypha. And the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 2 parts in one, John Field, Cambridge, 1659-60, first title with engraved armorial at foot, text in double column and ruled in red throughout, T3-4 in NT with burnhole affecting text, some light soiling, armorial bookplate, contemporary calf, joints splitting, a little rubbed and scuffed, folio Herbert 668.

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£300-500

Herbert 269.

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£300-400

281 Binding. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments..., Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, London: printed by G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1848, some toning throughout, a.e.g., with gaufferd edges, contemporary papier-maché binding with floral tracery design incorporating figure of Christ to centre of each board, hinges broken and covers detached, slight loss to spine, small 8vo (1)

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£100-150

283 Bindings. Sadoleti (Jacob), Episcopi Carpentoracti, S.R.E. Cardinalis, Epistolarum libri sexdecim..., Lugduni : Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1554, defective, title page torn with loss, crudely repaired to verso, blind tooled vellum, stamped to upper board 1565, slightly worn, 8vo, together with [Cicero (Marcus Tullius), De Natura, 1541], defective, lacking title page, ex libris with usual stamps, blind tooled vellum, stamped to upper board 1558, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo

282 Binding. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments..., Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David..., London: printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1708, red-ruled throughout, one leaf of tables with small piece excised, leaves L3 & L4 adhered together with L4 slightly torn, lacking all after U3 at rear (Forms of Prayer to be used at Sea etc.), leaves dampstained, cockled and browned throughout, gutter margin of title and front hinges strengthened, contemporary inscription to front free blank endpaper “Dorothea Harrison, In Fenchurch Street now Guild Hall. Eliz Harrison”, 19th c. bookplate of Benjamin Harrison to upper pastedown and with paper slip tipped on inscribed “Lady Harrison’s prayer book”, upper hinge broken and covers near detached, contemporary tortoise-shell with engraved floral design to boards, silver board edge strips, hinges and clasp (one clasp lacking), silver roundel to centre of each board with engraved monogram initials G.S.R., upper edge strip and portion of turtle shell lacking to lower board, some wear, 8vo

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£150-200

284 Bindings. Bignold (Robert), Five Generations of the Bignold Family 1761-1947, and their connection with the Norwich Union, 1st ed., Batsford, 1948, portrait frontispiece, dedication from author to title, b & w illustrations throughout, ex libris blindstamp to first initial blank, a.e.g., blue morocco gilt, gilt decorated turn-ins, spine slightly sunned, 8vo, together with Roget (Peter Mark), Animal and Vegetable Physiology Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, 3rd ed., 2 vols., Pickering, 1840, ex libris blindstamp to initial blank, ownership inscription to front-free endpaper verso, contemporary calf gilt, contrasting spine labels and gilt decorated spine, 8vo, plus Scott (Sir Walter), Poetical Works, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1857, engraved half title, ex libris blindstamp to initial blank, presentation bookplate of King’s College London to front pastedown, a.e.g., blind stamped brown morocco with gilt armorial, gilt decorated spine, 8vo, plus Campbell (Thomas), The Poetical Works, Nelson and Sons, 1870, engraved frontispiece, ex libris blindstamp to initial blank, presentation bookplate of Wesley College to front pastedown, gilt decorated green calf by Loxley Brothers, 8vo, plus other fine bindings, mainly 8vo

Subject to CITES regulations when exporting outside of the Europen Union.

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285 Biondi (Francis). An History of the Civill Warres of England, Betweene the two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke... Englished by the Right Honeourable Henry Earle of Monmouth, 2 vols., 1641, additional engraved title, woodcut initials and printers’ devices throughout, calf, rubbed and greying, spine of volume one partially missing, 8vo, together with Godwyn (Francis), The History of the Reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary, 1676, engraved portrait frontispiece (repaired to verso), some fingersoiling throughout, later cloth, slightly rubbed, faded and fraying, 8vo, plus Young (Edward), Les nuits d’Young, traduites de l’Anglois par M. le Tourneur, new edition, 4 vols., Paris, 1770, additional half titles, ex libris John Thomson, tree calf gilt, some rubbing and fraying, 8vo, plus other titles, mostly 18th century, mainly leather bindings, including a Latin New Testament, published Brussels: Henrici Fricx, [1704] (29)

£200-300

288 Bryant (Jacob). A New System, or an Analysis of Ancient Mythology, Wherein an Attempt is made to divest Tradition of Fable, and to reduce the Truth to its Original Purity..., 3 vols., Payne, Elmsly, White and Walter, 1774-6, half titles (vols. two and three only), twenty-eight plates (over twenty-seven leaves), three maps (including two folding), some spotting and offsetting throughout, modern half morocco, 4to (3)

286 Boyle (Robert). Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects. Whereto is Premis’d a Discourse About such Kind of Thoughts, 2 parts in one, 1st ed., 1665, Imprimatur leaf, engraved portrait frontis. of Robert Boyle, title printed in red and black, erratic pagination, occasional light spotting and stains, later diced calf, joints splitting, a little rubbed, 8vo

289 Burke (Edmund). Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to have been sent to a Gentleman in Paris, 1st ed., 1790, a few spots and light marginal waterstains, previous owner signature to title, contemporary calf-backed boards, loss at foot of spine, covers waterstained, 8vo, together with A General History of the Stage; (More Particularly the Irish Theatre) from its Origin in Greece down to the Present Time...

Collected and Digested by W.R. Chetwood, 1st Irish ed., Dublin, 1749, engraved portrait frontis., occasional light soiling, later calf, a little stained, 8vo, plus The Life of John Milton, by Charles Symmons, 2nd ed., 1810, half title, portrait frontis., folding facsimile letter, a few minor spots, a.e.g., contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, edges a little rubbed, 8vo, with others including Souvenirs de Londres en 1814 et 1816, Paris, 1817, Ambulator: Or, a Pocket Companion in a Tour Round London, 8th ed., 1796, James Cook’s A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, vols. I, III & IV only, 1784 (defective) and London and Paris, or Comparative Sketches, by the Marquis de Vermont and Sir Charles Darnley, 1823

Fulton 64; Westwood & Satchell pp. 40-41; Wing B4005. Largely written whilst on holiday at Stalbridge in Dorset, Boyle reflects upon many subjects including angling (‘Upon Fishing with a counterfeit Fly’ and ‘Upon Catching Store of Fish at a Baited Place’), ‘Upon the Sports being interrupted by Rainy-weather’ and ‘Upon the Eating of Oysters’, “Boyle’s discursive style made him the object of playful satire, and Swift confesses that the present work was the inspiration of his ‘Occasional Meditations on a Broomstick’, and it is usually stated that Reflection III of Section VI on ‘The Eating of Oysters’ (p. 194) gave birth to Gulliver’s Travels.” (Fulton).

(1) £400-600

287 Brook (Robert). Some New Cases of the Years and time of King Hen. 8. Edw. 6. and Qu: Mary; Written out of the Great pp.[30],166,137-168,209-295,[1], early Abridgement..., 1651, inscription to title “Brook’s copy” and also signed Tho. Reeve, lacking A1 (blank?) and front free endpaper, browning and spotting and few paper repairs to margins, Armorial bookplate with motto ‘Erectus non elatus’ to upper pastedown, contemporary sheep, extremities worn, small 8vo, with Finch (Henry), Law, or a Discourse thereof, in Four Books, Written in French..., and done into English..., 1661, lacking A1 (blank?), worming to lower margins of some leaves, dust-soiling and browning, free endpapers replaced, contemporary sheep, rebacked with gilt decorated spine relaid, lacking title label, small 8vo (2)

£200-300

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290 Bynaeus (Anthony). De morte Jesu Christi, liber primus, Amsterdam: Gerardus Borstius, 1691, title page in red and black with printers device, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, spine repaired, 4to, together with Stillingfleet (Edward), Origines Sacrae, or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Christian Faith, as to the Truth and Divine Authority of the Scriptures, printed for Henry Mortlock, 1662, title page in red and black, near contemporary ownership isncription to title, page of manuscript to final blank, endpapers renewed, later calf, upper joint cracked, 4to, plus Charron (Pierre), Of Wisdome Three Bookes, translated by Samson Lennard, printed for Luke Fawne, 1658, engraved title page, contemporary ownership inscription to title and notations in ink to initial blank, occasional staining and initial leaves slightly chipped, endpapers renewed, contemporary sheep, rebacked and corners repaired, 4to (3)

294 Civil War. His Majesties Answer to the XIX Propositions of Both Houses of Parliament, 1642, [1],30pp., light spotting, late 19th c. green half morocco, extremities rubbed, slim 4to, together with An Ordinance for Establishing an High Court of Justice, Tuesday June 13, 1654, Ordered by his Highness the Lord Protector, and His Council..., 1654, pp.385-389, bound with An Ordinance for the Better Regulating and limiting the Jurisdiction of the High Court of Chancery, Tuesday August 22, 1654, Ordered by his Highness the Lord Protector, and His Council..., 1654, pp.495-531, 20th c. quarter calf gilt, spine faded, small slim folio (2)

295 Comyn (Robert Buckley). A Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant. To which is added an Appendix of Precedents, 2 vols., 2nd ed., enlarged and corrected by George Chilton, 1830, contemporary calf, red morocco title label to spine, rubbed, 8vo, together with Gifford (John), The Complete English Lawyer; or, Every Man his own Lawyer: Containing a Summary of the Constitution of England; its Laws and Statutes..., 2 vols., 9th ed., 1824, engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. 1, contemporary marbled calf, gilt decorated spines, 8vo, with Deacon (Edward E.), A Practical Treatise on the Game Law, as Amended by the New Act of the 1 & 2 W.4.c.32, with an Appendix of Statutes and Precedents Relating to Game, 1831, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, red morocco title label to spine, upper joint slightly cracked, rubbed, 8vo

£150-200

291 Canning (George). Poems by George Canning of the Middle Temple, London: printed for the author, 1767, half-title, contemporary signature W. Cavendish to title, bound with A Translation of Ant-Lucretius, by George Canning, London: printed for the author, 1766, dedication signed by the author, minor scattered spotting, contemporary calf, joints cracked, 4to (1)

£150-200

292 Church of Scotland. The Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechism, first agreed upon by the assembly of divines at Westminster, and now approved by the general assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, to be a part of uniformity in religion between the Kirks of Christ in the three Kingdoms ..., Edinburgh, 1689, general title and three-part titles within ornamental typographical woodcut borders, continuous pagination, a little spotting and soiling, slight worming to lower inner margins of first two signatures touching letterpress, near-contemporary ownership inscriptions of Margaret Adamson at front and rear, hinges near broken and contents partly sprung, contemporary calf, rubbed and a little wear, 12mo, loosely contained in contemporary chemise, somewhat worn and fastening deficient Wing C5774.

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296 Comyns (Sir John). A Digest of the Laws of England, 6 vols., Knapton, Longman and Horsfield 1762-1776, engraved portrait frontispiece, some toning and spotting, contemporary calf, joints cracked but firm, rubbed and a little fraying, morocco labels to spine, some lacking, folio (6)

£100-150

£100-150

293 Civil War. The Character of the Parliament, Commonly Called, the Rump, &c. Begun November 23 in the year 1640, with a short Account of some of their Proceedings, 1721, contemporary annotation to final leaf, bound with at front An Essay Towards Attaining a True Idea of the Character and Reign of K. Charles the First, and the Causes of the Civil War..., [by Micaiah Towgood], 1748, annotation to title, lacking half-title, bound with at rear, A Memorable New-Year’s Gift, The Ist of January, 1648-9. To the Rump Parliament, the General, and Officers of the Army..., 2nd ed., 1727, lacking half-title, few repairs to margins, bound with three others related, some soiling throughout, modern mock leather, 8vo, together with An Inquiry into the Share, which Charles I had in the Transactions of the Earl of Glarmorgan, Afterwards Marquis of Worcester, for bringing over a Body of Irish Rebels to assist that King, in the Years 1645 and 1646..., 2nd ed., 1756, some dustsoiling and spotting, modern mock leather, 8vo, with Noble (Mark), Memoirs of the Protectoral-House of Cromwell..., 2 vols., 2nd ed., with improvements, Birmingham, 1737, engraved portrait frontispiece, seven engraved plates (some folding, one detcahed) and two folding pedigrees, contemporary annotations, scattered spotting and occasional light worming, edges untrimmed, contemporary half calf gilt, joints cracked and slight wear, 8vo, plus others related (10)

£200-300

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297 Cosway-style binding. The Duke of Reichstadt (Napoleon II), a Biography Compiled from New Sources of Information, by Edward de Wertheimer, with Numerous Illustrations, John Lane, 1906, half-title, plates, including frontispiece and folding plate, a.e.g., red silk free endpapers, hinges neatly repaired, front pastedown with inset oval watercolour miniature on ivorine of Napoleon II as a curly-haired child, recessed into a scarlet morocco onlaid panel, with gilt lattice design incorporating onlaid blue lozenges above and below, contemporary dark blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for J.W. Robinson (signed on rear turn-in), neatly rebacked preserving original spine, raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and third compartments, remainder with varying gilt tool in centre, on a semé dot ground, flanked by leaf sprays, date lettered direct at foot, covers with border of fleuron and floral roll between fillets, and zig-zag and dot roll, incorporating bee tool at each corner, upper cover with gilt title and foliate inner panel with eagle and military trophy, gilt double fillets on edges, 8vo (1)

£200-300

298 [Crasset, Jean]. The History of the Church of Japan. Written Originally in French, by Monsieur L’Abbe de T. and now Translated into English. By N.N. [i.e. George Webb], 2 vols. in one, 1705-1707, title-page to first volume with various contemporary ink ownership names and erasures, some toning and marginal staining, volume 1 with small burn hole in Zzz4 with loss of a few letters, contemporary sheep, worn, with loss of leather to sidings (giving the appearance of quarter sheep), 4to (1)

£300-500

299 [Cromwell, Oliver]. Cromwelliana. A Chronological Detail of Events in which Oliver Cromwell was Engaged; from the Year 1642 to his Death 1658: with a Continuation of other Transactions, to the Restoration, Westminster: Machell Stace, 1810, title printed in red & black, occasional spotting, edges untrimmed, 20th c. quarter calf, folio, together with Henfrey (Henry William), Numismata Cromwelliana: or, the Medallic History of Oliver Cromwell, Illustrated by his Coins, Medals, and Seals, 1877, title printed in red & black, eight b & w autotype plates, occasional scattered spotting, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, extremities rubbed, 4to, with Hutchinson (Lucy), Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle and Town..., 1806, engraved portrait frontispiece and four plates, some browning and spotting, contemporary marbled calf gilt, gilt crest to centre of each board, upper board near detached, 4to, plus others related including Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and of his sons, Richard and Henry..., by Oliver Cromwell, a Descendant of the Family, 1820, and Oliver Cromwell, by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, pub. Goupil & Co., 1899 (8)

300 [Dickens, Charles]. Samuel Brandram’s copy of The Poor Traveller: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: and Mrs. Gamp, by Charles Dickens, Bradbury & Evans, 1858, numerous contemporary ink and pencil annotations and some loosely inserted manuscript leaves in Samuel Brandram’s hand, stitching broken, original printed green wrappers, lacking spine and rear cover, upper cover inscribed ‘Brandram’, slim 8vo An interesting association copy, which belonged to Samuel Brandram (18241892), an English barrister known for his later career as a professional reciter. The first page of each story lists locations and dates where Brandram read that particular work (mostly the outer fringes of London, between 1862 and 1871), and the text itself is littered with excisions, additions and alterations. Brandram used to perform at Justice Talfourd’s house in Russell Square, and here he met Charles Dickens. Apparently Dickens was so impressed by Charles’s rendering of the great novelist’s work that he praised Brandram as a man who interpreted his novels better than he could interpret them himself.

(1) £150-200

301 Dickens (Charles). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 1st ed., later issue, 1837, etched additional title, 42 etched plates by H.K. Browne and R. Seymour, some scattered light spotting, hinges tender, contemporary half calf, upper joint splitting, spine and edges a little rubbed, 8vo, together with The Personal History of David Copperfield, 1st ed., 1850, additional etched title, 39 etched plates by H.K. Browne, some light spotting, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Dombey and Son, 1st ed., 1848, half title, etched frontis., additional title and 38 plates

by H.K. Browne, a few light spots, a.e.g., later tan straight-grained morocco by Bayntun, spine with contrasting labels and gilt decoration, slight fading, with two others by Dickens: Our Mutual Friend, 2 vols., in one, 1865 and Sketches by Boz, new ed., 1839

£200-300

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302 Diodati (John). Pious and Learned Annotations Upon the Holy Bible: Plainly Expounding the most Difficult Places thereof..., 3rd ed., 1651, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional engraved title, lacking final blank, some spotting, browning and dust-soiling to margins, 19th c. cloth, hinged endpapers, contemporary calf, old reback and corner repairs, joints cracked, worn, folio, together with defective copy of A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament..., by Alexander Cruden, 1824

304 Fore-edge painting. A Survey of the Holy Land: its Geography, History, and Destiny..., by J.T. Bannister, 5th thousand ed., Bath & London, [1843], engraved frontispiece and plates (one folding), two folding engraved maps (one with closed-tear to fold), toning & occasional spotting, a.e.g., recent fore-edge painting of the High Street, Marlborough (by Steven St. Clair Smallwood, unsigned), contemporary calf, joints and extremities rubbed, 8vo

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305 Fore-edge paintings. The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, pub. Macmillan and Co., 1907, engraved portrait frontispiece, a.e.g., recent fore-edge painting depicting a moated British castle (by Steven St. Clair Smallwood, unsigned), contemporary half calf, 8vo, together with Bibliotheque Litteraire de la Jeunesse, Corneille Oeuvres Choisies, edition epuree, Paris, c.1870, b & w frontispiece and plates, occasional spotting, a.e.g., recent fore-edge painting depicting a castellated building and town houses beside a river (by Steven St. Clair Smallwood, unsigned), contemporary pale red straight grain calf, gilt decorated spine, 8vo

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£150-250

303 Fore-edge painting. The Lansdowne Poets, The Poetical Works of Longfellow, including Recent Poems, pub. Frederick Warne and Co., [1879], portrait frontispiece and b & w plates, a.e.g., recent fore-edge painting of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, from the NorthEast, executed by Steven St. Clair Smallwood and dated September 2004, contemporary blind decorated red morocco, 8vo, together with Painting Popularly Explaned..., by Thomas John Gullick, & John Timbs, 1859, wood edngraved frontispiece, a.e.g., recent fore-edge painting of a country house & figures within landscape, contemporary blind decorated morocco, 8vo (2)

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307 Gibbon (Edward). Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire, with Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself, Illustrated from his Letters, with Occasional Notes and Narrative, by John Lord Sheffield, in two volumes, printed for Strahan, Cadell, and Davies, 1796, portrait frontispiece, some spotting throughout, near contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco labels, 4to, together with Herbert (H.), The Ecclesiastical History of M. L’Abbe Fleury, 5 vols., printed for James Crockatt, 1727, title pages and some initial leaves defective, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, joints cracked but sound, 4to, plus Dugdale (William), Origines Jurididciales or Historical Memorials of the English Laws..., 2nd ed., printed for Abel Roper, 1671, five engraved portraits, title in red and black (slightly chipped to edges), original speckled calf, worn, joints cracked, spine degraded, folio, plus other antiqurian, mostly folio, worn (18)

£200-300

308 Graham (James, 1st Marquis of Montrose ). De Rebus Auspiciis Serenissimi et Potentissimi Caroli..., [The Hague], 1647, 248 pp., some leaves close trimmed, bound with The History of the Kings Majesties Affaires in Scotland..., 1649, engraved portrait frontispiece of the earl of Montrose, few spots, blank leaves annotated front and rear, armorial bookplate and bookseller label to front paste-down, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, 8vo (1)

309 Grote (George). History of Greece, mixed eds., 12 vols., John Murray, 1850-56, nineteen folding maps (many with contemporary outline colour), 20th century half calf gilt, with contrasting morocco labels, 8vo

306 [Gand, Ludovici]. Parallelum Olivae, nec non Olivarii Serenissimi, Celsissimi, Potentissimiqué Angliae, Scotiae, Hyberniaeq dei Gratia Protectoris etc. Studio et Expensis D. Ludovici de Gand domini de Brachey, et de Romecour, London: ex Typographia, 1656, engraved title, engraved plate and two portraits to text by William Faithorne, worming to lower blank margins, occasional spotting, a.e.g., early 19th c. calf gilt, upper board near detached, small folio Armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick.

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310 Guillim (John). A Display of Heraldry, the Sixth Edition, Improv[e]d with Large Additions...To which is added A Treatise of Honour Military and Civil..., printed for Bonwicke, Wilkin and others, 1724, title in red and black, sixty-four engraved plates (including seventeen portraits), numerous woodblock illustrations of arms and printers’ devices, contemporary blind tooled calf, joints cracked, some wear and slight fraying, folio

314 Illuminated Leaf. Horae Beatae Marie Virginis ad Usum Romanum, Paris: Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, 1510, fullpage woodcut engraving on vellum, hand coloured and heightened in gilt, printed to verso with fifteen lines of text in woodcut engraved borders, 7 x 4.5ins (18 x 11.5cm) aperture size, glazed and framed

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315 Illuminated Manuscript Leaves. Missal, two leaves, Spain, 17th century, two leaves on vellum, decorative borders in gouache and gilt, three decorative initials, miniature portrait depicting Love/Charity, slightly creased, a little dust-soiled, 40 x 29cm (15.75 x 11.5ins) sheet size

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£200-300

311 Hesiod. [Hesiodou Erga kai Hemerai], Hesiodi Opera & Dies, cum Interpretatione Latina & Scholiis, utrisq; ad planiorem explicationem accommodatis. Autore Mathia Garbitio Illyrico, Graecae linguae & Moralis philosophiae in Academia Tubingensi Professore, Basel: Joannem Oporinum, [1559], first line of title transliterated from Greek and with manuscript annotation, occasional light spotting and dust-soiling, later endpapers, contemporary calf, loss at head & foot of spine and minor wear to extremities, 8vo, together with Alvares (Manuel), Emmanuelis Alvari e Societate Iesu Grammatica, sive, Institutionum linguae Latinae, 4 parts in one, Antwerp: Jacobum Meursium, 1665, [16621666], woodcut device to each title, general title with early inscription, bound with De Arte Rhetorica Libri Tres ex Aristotele, Cicerone, et Quintiliano praecipue deprompti Auctore Cypriano Soarez Sacerdote Societatis Jesu, Antwerp: Jacobum Meursium, 1663, woodcut device to title, light dust-soiling at front & rear, contemporary calf, worn with loss at head & foot of spine, lacking title label, 8vo, with Coelemann (Peter), Opus Prosodicum Graecum Novum, in quo syllabarum Graecarum positione, Diphthongis, & Vocabulis longis carentium, Quantitates ex Orthodoxis Patribus, Philosophis, Historicis, Oratoribus & Poetis Graecis..., Frankfurt: Jonae Rosae, 1651, woodcut illustration to title, worming to leaves at rear of volume, dust-soiled, contemporary sheep, worn, 8vo, plus one other incomplete 18th c. antiquarian volume See Adams H480 for first title.

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£100-150

317 Kitchin (John). Le Court Leete & Court Baron ... 2 parts in one, new corrected edition, pub. Richard Tottell, 1592, black letter text, anonymous ‘Retorna breurum’ with separate dated title page, foliation and register are continuous, some browning and spotting to first and last leaves, minor marginal chipping to title and upper outer corners of first few leaves not affecting text, some old ink underscoring and marginalia, close trimmed at upper margin shaving running heads in second half of volume, old sheep, rebound with remains of covers and spines relaid, rubbed, 8vo STC 15021.

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£300-500

318 Laborde (Jean Benjamin de). Description Generale et Particuliere de la France, 2 vols. only (of 12), Paris, 1781-84, half titles, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, endpapers repaired, hinges reinforced, a little light toning, bookplates, contemporary mottled calf, edges rubbed, folio (2)

£150-200

319 [Lamb, Charles]. The New Year’s Feast on his Coming of Age, 1st ed., J. Harris and Son, 1824, 24pp., twelve hand-coloured wood-engraved half-page illustrations on six leaves with versos blank, without the advert leaf for Harris’s Cabinet of Amusement at end, spotting and finger-soiling throughout, old tape repairs to inner margins, orig. printed wrappers with internal tape repair to spine and new endpapers, heavily rubbed and soiled with some creasing and wear to extremities, slim 12mo

£100-150

Moon 576; Osborne II, p. 653 (lacks covers). The poem is described in the preface as “a versification of a prose composition [by Charles Lamb] which appeared in the London Magazine, for January 1823”. Rare.

(1) £150-200

313 Hume (David). The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688, 8 vols., new ed., 1773, half titles, engraved portrait frontis. to vol. I, a few spots, bookplates, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with red and green labels, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Historical Memoirs of My Own Time..., by Sir N. William Wraxall, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1815, engraved portrait frontis. to vol. I, a few light spots, previous owner signature, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt decorated with red and green labels, joints a little cracked, 8vo, with others leatherbound including Thomas Randolph’s A View of our Blessed Saviour’s Ministry, 2 vols., 1784, James Hervey’s Meditations and Contemplations, 1807 and Oliver Goldsmith’s The History of Greece, 1825 (21)

£200-300

316 Keppel (Augustus). An Authentic and Impartial Copy of the Trial of the Hon. Augustus Keppel, Admiral of the Blue, Held at Portsmouth on the 7th of January, 1779, and Continued by Several Adjournments to the 11th Day of February, 1779. Taken in Short Hand, by a Person who Attended During the Whole Trial. And Printed by the Desire of a Society of Gentlemen, 1st ed., Portsmouth, 1779, 415 pp., scattered spotting, armorial bookplate, contemporary half calf, edges lightly rubbed, 8vo

312 Holles (Denzil). Memoirs of Denzil Lord Holles, Baron of Ifield in Sussex, from the Year 1641, to 1648, pub. 1699, engraved portrait frontispiece, torn to lower outer corner with slight loss to plate mark, near contemporary calf, joints slightly cracked and slight wear, 8vo, together with Fairfax (Thomas), Short Memorials of Thomas Lord Fairfax, Written by Himself, 1699, half-title, 9pp. publisher’s adverts at rear, with inscription note to front pastedown “E libris Granville Sharp 1758. This Thos. Lord Fairfax was an intimate friend of Mr. Thomas Sharp of Bradford (my Great Grandfather) and made his house the Head Quarters at Bradford.

He also offered Mr. Sharp a Command in the army, which was not accepted by Mr. Sharp, on occot. of the earnest entreaties of Mrs. Sharp that he shd. decline the Service”, hinges strengthened, contemporary calf, rebacked, small 8vo (2)

£150-200

320 Leech (John, illust.). The Comic History of England, by Gilbert Abbott A’Beckett, c. 1880, 20 hand-coloured etched plates, a.e.g., later panelled calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf, spine with red and green labels, 8vo, together with The Comic History of Rome, c.

1880, hand-coloured etched plates, uniformly bound as above, 8vo, plus The Comic History of England, 1847-48, The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, 4th ed., c. 1820 and another Comic History of Rome, c. 1870 (6)

£200-300

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321 [Lennox, Charlotte]. The Memoirs of the Countess of Berci, Taken from the French by the Author of the Female Quixote, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1756, lacks half-titles or initial blanks and final blank(?) from rear of volume 2, some spotting, contemporary armorial bookplates to front pastedowns, contemporary calf, giltdecorated spines, rubbed and a little wear to extremities, 12mo, together with other 18th and 19th century books, mostly leatherbound, including later editions by Walter Scott, John Galt, and Samuel Richardson

324 May (Thomas). The History of the Parliament of England: which began November the third, MDCXL, with a Short and Necessary View of some Precedent Yeares, Written by Thomas May Esquire, Secretary for the Parliament, 3 parts in one, 1st ed., 1647, imprimatur leaf, title printed in red and black with engraved rose and crown device, later endpapers, contemporary calf, old reback strengthened to upper joint, some wear to extremities, folio, together with Charles I, A Large Declaration Concerning the Late Tumults in Scotland, from their First Originalls: Together with a Particular Deduction of the Seditious Practices of the prime Leaders of the Covenanters: Collected Out of Their Owne soule Acts and Writings..., 1639, lacking engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary speckled calf, joints slightly cracked, frayed at head & foot of spine, small folio

Adapted by author, poet and Samuel Johnson associate, Charlotte Lennox, from the ‘Histoire trage-comique de nostre temps, sous les noms de Lysandre et de Caliste’ of Vital d’Audiguier, Sieur de la Menor. See Norbert Schure, ed., ‘Charlotte Lennox: Correspondence and Miscellaneous Documents’ (2012), pp. 70-72. Uncommon.

(31) £150-200

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322 Maldonatus (Joannes). Commentarii in Quattuor Evangelistas, 2 parts in one, Venice, 1597, titles printed in red and black with large engraved devices, (first title torn without loss at gutter), text mostly in double column, occasional spotting and waterstains, previous owner inscriptions to title, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, rubbed and stained, folio (1)

325 McCulloch (J.R.). The Principles of Political Economy: With a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Science, 2nd ed., 1830, recent blue half morocco, gilt dec. spine with raised bands, 8vo (1)

£150-200

326 Milton (John). Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books, 8th ed., and Paradise Regain’d, A Poem in Four Books, to which is added Samson Agonistes and Poems upon Several Occasions, New Edition, 3 vols., Beecroft, Strahan, Rivington, et al, 1775-7, engraved portrait frontispieces, fifteen further engraved plates, a little light spotting and some offsetting throughout, contemporary marbled calf, gilt decorated spine, some wear, joints cracked but mostly holding (upper-board of volume three detached), 4to

£150-200

323 Maxwell (W.H.). Life of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, 1st ed., 1839-41, half titles, additional engraved titles, engraved maps and plates, a few spots, bookplates, later red half morocco by Nelson, spines a little darkened, 8vo, together with Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte..., ed. R.W. Phipps, 3 vols., new & revised ed., 1885, engraved portraits, prize label to vol. I, a.e.g., contemporary full green morocco gilt, spines a little faded, 8vo, plus The Life of Nelson. The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain, by Captain A.T. Mahan, 2nd ed., 1899, portrait frontis., folding maps, illustrations, t.e.g., contemporary blue half calf, spine faded, 8vo, with others leatherbound including Philip Doddridge’s The Life of the Hon. Colonel Gardiner, Who was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, c. 1814, The Life of General Gordon, 1884 and Henry Barth’s Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa, Minerva Library of Famous Books, 1890 (19)

£250-350

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327 Miniature Book. London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1718, printed for the Company of Stationers, [1717], two leaves bound upside-down (January and February), lacking the leaf for July (and a folding frontispiece?), generally toned, marbled endpapers (lacking rear free endpaper), original brown morocco, with gilt strapwork design (rubbed), some wear with loss (mostly to spine ends), 56 x 28mm An extremely rare early ‘London Almanack’. According to Bondy the earliest ‘London Almanack’ is dated 1690 and held by the British Library; the earliest seen by Bondy was dated 1713 (see p.39).

(1) £80-120

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328 Misopappas (Philanax). Rawleigh Redivivus or the Life & Death of the Right Honourable Anthony Late Early of Shaftsbury, printed for Thomas Malthus, 1683, engraved portrait frontispiece, ink ownership inscription to title, front-free endpaper clipped, contemporary blind stamped, panelled speckled calf, a little rubbed, some loss to spine, 8vo, together with [Allestree (Richard)], The Lively Oracles Given to us, or The Christian Birth-Right and Duty, in the Custody and use of Holy Scripture, Oxford: At the Theater, 1678, ownership inscription to title, few small tears and spotting, final blank torn out, contemporary calf, slightly worn, corners bumped, 8vo, plus Thackeray (William Makepeace), The Adventures of Philip..., in three volumes, Smith, Elder and Co., 1862, contemporary half morocco, 8vo, plus The Letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, two volumes, contemporary calf, 8vo, plus Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth, four volumes bound as two, half calf, 8vo (9)

£100-150

329 North (Roger). Examen: or, An Enquiry into the Credit and Veracity of a Pretended Complete History; shewing the Perverse and Wicked Design of it, and the Many Falsities and Abuses of Truth contained in it...., 1st ed., printed for Fletcher Gyles, 1740, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by Vertue after Lely (slightly toned and offset to title), endpapers foxed, armorial bookplate of Arthur Henry Davenport (mounted over earlier bookplate), with shelfmark in manuscript above, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed and marked, joints cracked and slight loss at head of spine, 4to, together with Boyer (A.), Le Dictionnaire Royal Francois-Anglois et Anglois-Francois..., Nouvelle Edition..., 1748, folding engraved portrait frontispiece (with short handling tear), title-page printed in red and black (browned), printed in triple column, floral endpapers, front hinge splitting in places, red edges, 19th century vellum, with earlier gilt lettered morocco label to spine, 4to, plus Aquinas (Thomas, Saint), Summa Theologica S. Thomae Aquinatis... in qua Ecclesiae Catholicae Doctrina Universa... in Tres Partes ab Auctore suo Distributa..., 2 parts in one, Lyon, 1740, half-title present, titlepage printed in red and black and with woodcut publisher’s device, printed in double-column, foxed, some minor worming to foremargins (sometimes clipping text), contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, soiled, spine darkened and frayed at ends, folio in 6s, plus eleven other 19th and early 20th century folio volumes (14)

333 Punch. An embossed silver-plated and leather magazine cover, after Richard Doyle, late 19th/early 20th century, silver-plated upper cover with Doyle’s famous design in relief, showing Mr. Punch surrounded by cavorting fairy folk with a rusticated title, within a border of irises, roan rear cover and spine (latter worn with loss), red moire silk pastedowns, 4to (29 x 22.5cm/11.5 x 8.75ins) Richard Doyle (1824-1883) joined the staff of ‘Punch’ in 1843, and in 1844 he produced this front cover design. This now-familiar image, with its teeming mass of fairies and elves milling around Mr. Punch and his dog, established the magazine’s emphasis on irreverent mockery, and was used as its signature image until the middle of the twentieth century.

(1) £100-150

334 Raleigh (Sir Walter). Judicious and Select Essays and Observations upon the First Invention of Shipping. Invasive War. The Navy Royal and Sea-Service. With his Apologie for his Voyage to Guiana, 4 parts in one, 2nd ed., 1667, engraved portrait frontis., lacking three part titles and some preliminaries, a few minor spots, later sprinkled calf gilt, jponts and edges a little rubbed, 8vo

£200-300

330 Paris (Matthew). Flores Historiarum per Matthaeum Westmonasteriensem collecti..., Frankfurt, 1601, woodcut device to title and last leaf verso, woodcut headpiece and initial, some light soiling and spotting, previous owner signatures to title, contemporary vellum over boards, manuscript title to spine, a little soiled and bowed, folio (1)

Wing R171. Contains early appearances of ‘Tobaccho’ and ‘Tobacco’ on pages 24 and 34 in the final part.

(1) £100-150

335 Raleigh (Sir Walter). The History of the World, 4th ed., H. Lownes, G. Lathum & R. Young, 1628, additional engraved title, dated 1614, ‘The Minde of the Front’ present, engraved portrait to title, six double-page engraved maps, two double-page engraved battle plans, title page torn without loss repaired to verso, title and some plates close-trimmed without loss, endpapers renewed, 18th century marbled calf, recently rebacked with gilt decorated spine, corners replaced and board edges repaired, folio

£150-200

331 Pole (Reginald). Libri Duo... Primus Liber de Concilio agit: alter, de Reformatione Angliae... [ed. P. Manutius], 1562, bound with De Divinis, Apostolicis, atque Ecclesiasticis Traditionibus... by Martin Perez Ayala, Colone, 1560, a few light spots, previous owner inscriptions to first title, later vellum, 8vo First work Adams P1749.

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336 Raleigh (Sir Walter). The History of the World, in Five Books, 1687, additional engraved title, engraved portrait, six engraved maps and plans only (of eight), a few tears, repairs and frayed foredges, some light soiling and waterstains, later half calf, a little rubbed and scuffed, folio

332 Price (Richard). A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals, Particularly Those Respecting the Origin of our Ideas of Virtue..., 3rd ed., 1787, 20th c. full morocco, gilt label to spine, 8vo (1)

£300-500

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337 Ritchie (Leitch). Scott and Scotland, Longman and others, 1835, engraved frontispiece, engraved half title, numerous b & w plates throughout, (three copies), together with Reynolds (Frederic Mansel ed.), The Keepsake, Hurst, Chance and Co., 1830, engraved portrait frontispiece, further b & w plates throughout, half morocco, slight wear to spine, plus a similar copy for the year 1836, plus Heath’s Book of Beauty, 2 vols. (broken run), Longman and others, 1833-37, b & w plates, roan gilt, plus others similar, all 8vo (17)

340 Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene... with an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions... To which are now added, a new Life of the Author, and also a Glossary, 3 vols., 1751, 32 double-page engraved plates after William Kent, a few minor spots, bookplates, contemporary sprinkled calf, a little rubbed with small scuff marks, 4to (3)

£200-300

£150-200

338 Seward (Anna). Llangollen Vale, with other Poems, 1st ed., G.Sael, 1796, 48pp., half-title inscribed ‘from the author’ and with addition inscription ‘This is a presentation copy from Miss Seward to George Romney & was purchased by me at the Romney sale at Christies May 1894’, aquatint vignette to title, some browning to first & last leaves, edges untrimmed, 20th c. boards, slightly marked and worn, slim 4to, together with Yorke (Philip), The Royal Tribes of Wales, by Philip Yorke, Esq. of Erthig, Wrexham: printed by John Painter, 1799, twelve engraved plates, front blank inscribed by the author, occasional spotting and few marks, contemporary half calf, upper joint cracked and slight wear to extremities, 4to (2)

£150-200

339 Sparrow (Anthony). A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances and Constitutions Ecclesiastical; with other Publick Records of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Times of K. Edward VI, Q. Elizabeth, K. James & K. Charles. Published to Vindicate the Church of England, and to Promote Uniformity and Peace in the same, 1671, engraved frontis. of the arms of the Bishops of England, each part title within ornamental border, two folding tables, a little light soiling, previous owner signatures, contemporary calf, rebacked, square 4to, together with The Dunciad. With Notes Variorum, and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus, [by Alexander Pope], 2nd ed., 1729, engraved frontis. of an ass and owl, title printed in red and black, errata leaf at end, a few light spots, contemporary inscription, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, 8vo, plus The Truth and Excellence of the Christian Religion Asserted, against Jews, Infidels and Hereticks. In Sixteen Sermons, Preached at the Lecture, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; for the Years 1701, 1702, by George Stanhope, 1702, some spotting and light toning, armorial bookplate of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816, Irish playwright, poet and MP), contemporary sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked, square 4to, with others including Saverio Canale’s Vita di S. Isidoro Agricoltore, 1756, John Gay’s Fables, 2 vols. (5th & 2nd eds.), 1737-42, John Milton’s Paradise Lost/Regained, 4 vols., 7th & 1st Newton eds., 1766-70 and Titi Lucretii Cari de Rerum Natura Libri Sex, Baskerville Press, 1773 (20)

341 [Swift, Jonathan]. Gulliver’s Travels, four parts in one volume, printed for B[enjamin] Tabart, 1809, three hand coloured engraved plates and separate title to each part, advert leaf at rear, a little browning, contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, some wear, 12mo Osborne (1805 edition) notes that the text was probably rewritten by the editor, William Godwin.

(1) £200-300

342 Thackeray (William Makepeace). Works, 12 vols., 1873, wood-engraved frontis. to each, a few light spots, contemporary red half morocco, edges a little rubbed, 8vo, together with English Men of Letters, ed. John Morley, 17 vols., 1879-1884, scattered light spotting, contemporary tan half calf by Mudie, spines with raised bands, brown label and gilt decoration, 8vo (29)

£300-400

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COHEN PHILOSOPHY LIBRARY 345 Cohen (Laurence Jonathan, 1923-2006). The Complete Philosophy Library of L. Jonathan Cohen, Fellow of Queen's College Oxford from 1957 to 1990, President of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (1957-91) and of the International Council of Scientific Unions (1993-96), Fellow of the British Academy from 1973, the collection comprises approx.

2,500 items including signed and presentation copies, papers and correspondence, mostly 20th c., all in very good to excellent condition Cohen's philosophic interests centred on language, epistemology and logic, and his library includes approx. 200 books, pamphlets, offprints and extracts of his own works. A full and detailed catalogue of the complete collection is available as a PDF or in printed format. The catalogue comes with a biographical introduction by Jonathan Adler.

Cohen's own books include The Principles of World Citizenship (1954), Diversity of Meaning (1962), The Probable and the Provable (1977), and An Essay on Belief and Acceptance (1992).

Authors represented in Cohen's main library are works by Jonathan Adler, Evandro Agazzi, Ronald J. Allen, J. L. Austin, A. J. Afer, Didrik Batens, Jonathan Bennett, Max Black, Joseph M. Bochenski, Margaret A. Boden, Radu J. Bogdan, Bernard Bolzano, George Boole, Bernard Bosenquet, Franz Brantano, C. D. Broad, Mario Bunge, Edmund Burke, J. B. Bury, Rudolf Carnap, Nancy Cartwright, Ernst Cassirer, Hector-Neri Castaneda, Roderick M. Chisholm, Noam Chomsky, Paul M. Churchland, Austen Clark, Morris Cohen, R. J. Collingwood, Lorraine J. Daston, Donald Davidson, Daniel C. Dennett, Michael Dummett, Ronald Dworkin, Hillel J. Einhorn, Olof Ekelof, Brian Ellis, Pasquale Engel, Jerry A. Fodor, Gottlob Frege, Gerd Gigerenzer, Paul Gochet, Nelson Goodman, Dale Gottlieb, A. T. Grigorian, Ian Hacking, Vinit Haksar, Stuart Hampshire, R. M. Hare, R. Harre, Jonathan Harrison, H. L. A. Hart, Mary Hesse, Jaakko Hintikka, Henry Hiz, Ted Honderich, Paul Horwich, Asa Kascher, Gerrold J. Katz, William Kneale, Stephan Korner, Imre Lakatos, Peter Le Marque, Isaac Levi, J. L. Mackie, Paul E. Meehl, D. H. Mellor, David Miller, Thomas Nagel, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Leszek Nowak, John Passmore, David Pears, Karl R. Popper, W. V. Quine, Nicholas Rescher, Bertrand Russell, Wesley C. Salmon, Geoffrey Sampson, Italo Scardovi, David A. Schum, Wilfrid Sellars, Pieter Seuren, J. J. C. Smart, Yuvale Steinitz, Stephen P. Stitch, P. F. Strawson, Patrick Suppes, Richard Swinburn, Peter Tillers, Peter Urbach, G. H. Von Wright, Ludwig Wittgenstein, etc. (approx. 2,500) £7000-10000

343 Theresa of Avila (Saint). Avisos Espirituales de Santa Theresa de Jesus, Comentados por el Padre Alonso de Andrade de la Compania de Jesus, Part I only, Barcelona, En Casa de Cormellas, por Tomas Loriente, [1646], xxiv + 528pp., title with woodcut vignette, browning to several leaves towards front of volume, fraying to initial leaves, occasional minor marks, contemp. limp vellum with title handwritten in ink to spine, rubbed, covered detached, 8vo Rare. The first part of a two-part work, this volume containing all the commentaries and the first 34 (of 69) of St. Theresa’s Avisos or Admonitions. Not in NUC or OCLC catalogue (as stated in a letter from the Houghton Library at Harvard, dated January 19, 2000, to a previous owner of the volume, included with this lot).

(1) £400-600

344 Verney (Frances Parthenope). Memoirs of the Verney Family during the Civil War, Compiled from the Letters and Illustrated by Portraits at Claydon House, 2 vols., 1892, b & w plates and illustrations (folding plate & pedigree with repaired closed tears), t.e.g., 20th c. half calf by Bayntun Riviere, Bath, gilt decorated spines, 8vo, together with Godwin (William), History of the Commonwealth of England, from its Commencement, to the Restoration of Charles the Second, 4 vols., 1824-28, contemporary half calf gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo, with Prendergast (John P.), The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, 2nd ed., enlarged, 1870, folding colour lithograph frontispiece and three folding colour lithograph maps, contemporary green half calf, gilt decorated spine, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other English Civil War & late 17th century history related etc., mostly 19th c. publications (approx. 40)

£250-350

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SCIENCE & MEDICINE 346 Bridgewater Treatises. On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation, 9 works in 13 vols., 1833-38, half titles, lithographed plates and wood-engraved illustrations, a few spots, contemporary uniform prize-binding tree calf, spines with red labels and gilt decoration, vol. IX, 2nd ed. in contemporary non uniform calf, a little rubbed, 8vo

353 Fourcroy (Antoine-Francois de). A General System of Chemical Knowledge; and its Application to the Phenomena of Nature and Art, Translated by William Nicholson, 11 vols. in 10, 1804, lacking Atlas of Synoptic Tables (as often), a few spots, contemporary uniform half calf, spines with red labels and gilt decoration, a few covers detached, 8vo, together with Chymie Experimentale et Raisonnee, by Antoine Baume, 3 vols., 1st ed., Paris, 1773, half titles, engraved portrait frontis. to vol. I, titles with allegorical vignettes, 12 folding engraved plates, some light spotting and marginal waterstains, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, plus Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, in a Course of Lectures for the Board of Agriculture, by Sir Humphrey Davy, 2nd ed., 1814, 10 folding engraved plates, a few spots, contemporary calf, loss at foot of spine, upper joint splitting, 8vo, with others on chemistry including William Nicholson’s A Dictionary of Practical and Theoretical Chemistry..., 1808, Joseph Priestley’s Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, vol. I only (of 3), 2nd ed., 1775, Michael Faraday’s Chemical Manipulation Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry, 3rd ed., 1842 and others by Jean-Baptiste Dumas, J. Jacob Berzelius, Caspar Neumann etc

The authors are Thomas Chalmers, John Kidd, William Whewell, Sir Charles Bell, Peter Mark Roget, William Buckland, William Kirby, William Prout and Charles Babbage.

(13) £200-300

347 Brownrigg (William). The Art of Making Common Salt, as now Practised in most parts of the World; with Several Improvements Proposed in that Art, for the use of the British Dominions, 1st ed., 1748, half-title, six folding engraved plates, errata leaf at rear, ink number stamp to lower margin of C3, some dampstaining, contemporary speckled calf, joints cracked and slight wear to extremities, 8vo Kress 4887.

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348 Curie (Pierre). Oeuvres de Pierre Curie, 1st ed., Paris, 1908, heliogravure portrait frontispiece, two half-tone plates, a few creases and light spots, stamp to half title, original upper wrapper bound-in contemporary half calf, 8vo (1)

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354 Glisson (Francis). Anatomia hepatis, cui praemittuntur quaedam ad rem anatomicam universe spectantia. Et ad calcem operis subjiciuntur nonnulla de lymphae-ductibus nuper repertis, Amsterdam: Johann Ravestein, 1659, printer’s vign. woodcut device to title (faint lib. stamp), two folding en. plts., lacks additional eng. title, late 19th-c. lib. cloth, a few nicks to spine ends, 12mo (125 x 75mm)

£70-100

349 Darwin (Charles). The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 3rd thousand, 1885, few wood engraved illustrations to text, 32pp. publishers adverts at rear, contemporary ownership to title, original green cloth, joints rubbed & slightly frayed at head, 8vo, together with A Naturalist’s Voyage, Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Beagle’ Round the World..., reprinted, 1889, portrait frontispiece, wood engraved illustrations, one leaf torn & repaired with adhesive tape, original green cloth gilt, joints frayed, 8vo, with Darwin (Francis, edit.), The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an Autobiographical Chapter, 3 vols., 2nd ed., 1887, wood engraved portrait frontispieces, original cloth, spines slightly faded, 8vo, plus three other Darwin related (8)

First published in 1654 (GM 972) this is the second Latin edition of this classic work on the liver. Osler 2759; Waller 3583; Cushing G289.

(1) £150-200

355 Hales (Stephen). Philosophical Experiments: Containing Useful and Necessary Instructions for such as Undertake Long Voyages at Sea. Shewing how Sea-Water may be made Fresh and Wholesome... How Biscuit, Corn &c may be Preserved from the Weevel, Maggots and other Insects. And Flesh Preserv’d in Hot Climates, by Salting Animals whole..., 1st ed., 1739, half title, engraved plate, bookseller catalogue at end, a few minor spots front and rear, contemporary panelled calf, edges a little rubbed, 8vo

£150-200

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350 Darwin (Erasmus). Zoonomia; or, the Laws of Organic Life, 4 vols., 3rd ed., corrected, 1801, eleven plates including six handcoloured, occasional toning, contemporary speckled calf gilt, with morocco title labels, 8vo, together with Miln (Robert), A Course of Physico-Theological Lectures upon the State of the World, from the Creation to the Deluge, Carlisle: printed by J. Milliken, 1786, title excised to upper margin, spotting and browning, contemporary marbled sheep, joints cracked, some wear to extremities, 8vo (5)

£200-300

356 Hillary (William). An Inquiry into the Contents and Medicinal Virtues of Lincomb Spaw Water, near Bath, 1742, 72pp., engraved frontispiece, text-block detached, 20th c. half pigskin, upper joint cracked and covers stained, 8vo, together with Guidott (Thomas), A Collection of Treatises Relating to the City and Waters of Bath..., To which is added, Thermae Redivivae; or, The City of Bath described, &c. by Henry Chapman, 1725, four engraved plates (including one folding), early inscription to final leaf, lacking rear free endpaper, contemporary calf, joints cracked and some wear, 8vo

£150-200

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351 Dirac (P. A. M.). Quantised Singularities in the Electronic Field, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.

CXXXIII, October, 1931, plates and illustrations, one or two light spots, contemporary half calf, lightly rubbed and scuffed, 8vo

£200-300

357 Lee (Edwin). Cheltenham and its Resources: Mineral Waters, Climate, etc., Considered Chiefly in a Sanative Point of View..., being the Essay for which the Prize Offered by the Town Committee was Awarded..., 1851, wood engraved illustrations, advertisements at front & rear, original green cloth gilt, spine slightly faded, 8vo, together with Scudamore (Sir Charles), The Analysis and Medical Properties of the Tepid Springs of Buxton: with Cases and Observations, 3rd ed., 1839, original cloth, paper label to upper board, joints and spine slightly torn, slim 8vo, with Granville (A.B.), The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-Bathing Places, 3 vols., 1841, wood engraved frontispieces, plates and illustrations, folding engraved map on silk, occasional spotting, original cloth gilt, extremities slightly frayed, 8vo, plus eight others

First publication of Dirac’s new theoretical sub-atomic particles, the antielectron, the anti-proton and the magnetic monopole.

(1) £200-300

352 Ellis (George Viner & G.H. Ford). [Illustrations of Dissections in a Series of Original Coloured Plates the Size of Life ...], c.1868, fifty-eight colour lithographs after Ford’s drawings, some light spotting, contents shaken, contemporary half morocco, worn and fraying, large folio Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

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358 Maclise (Joseph). Surgical Anatomy, 1st US ed., Philadelphia, 1851, 68 hand-coloured lithographed plates, some toning and spotting, last few leaves with marginal waterstains, contemporary calf, a little rubbed and scuffed, 4to (1)

361 Newton (Isaac). The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended.

To which is Prefix’d, a Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great, 1st edition, 1728, thick paper issue, engraved vignette and initial to second leaf, three folding engraved plates, spotting throughout, some marginal browning from turn-ins to first and last leaves, engraved armorial bookplate of Nicholas Aylward Vigors [1785-1840, F.L.S., F.R.S., Irish zoologist and politician] to front pastedown, with manuscript note above by the subsequent owner Mr Vowell indicating it was purchased for two shillings from Vigor’s sale on 7th May 1841, contemporary panelled calf, some corner wear, good quality antique-style reback, 4to

£150-200

359 Maclise (Joseph). Surgical Anatomy, 2nd ed., 1856, 52 lithographed plates, most with hand-colouring, a few detaching with closed tears and light waterstains, some light spotting and soiling, hinges reinforced, contemporary half morocco, St. George’s Hospital prize label to upper cover, some edge wear and stains, folio (1)

Babson 214. First edition of Newton’s attempt to employ astronomical principles to verify the chronology of ancient history. Published posthumously a year after his death, this was Newton’s last published work.

(1) £200-300

£200-300

360 Mawe (John). Instructions for the Management of the BlowPipe, Chemical Tests, &c. Intended to Accompany Familiar Lessons on Mineralogy, Arranged to Assist the Learner, 1st ed., 1820, half title, hand-coloured engraved frontis. (light offsetting to title), contemporary previous owner inscription to front endpaper, contemporary diced calf gilt, a little rubbed, 12mo, together with A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Blowpipe, by John Griffin, 1st ed., Glasgow, 1827, letterpress title with engraved vignette, five engraved plates, light toning, previous owner inscription, recent moire cloth, 8vo (2)

362 Owen (Edward). Observations on the Earths, Rocks, Stones and Minerals, for some Miles about Bristol, and on the Nature of the Hot-Well, and the Virtues of its Water, 1754, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black, two engraved plates, some light dust-soiling, contemporary calf, joints cracked and lower board near detached, worn, 12mo (1)

£100-150

£200-300

363 Pasteur (Louis). Etudes sur la biere ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent procede pour la rendre inalterable avec une Theorie nouvelle de la germentation, first edition, Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876, half-title, twelve engraved plates, further black and white illustrations to text, pages mostly uncut, original orange printed wrappers, slight rubbed, 8vo (1)

£150-200

364 Peacock (John). Observations upon the Composition and uses of the Water, at the New Sulphur Baths, at Dinsdale near Darlington, in the County of Durham, Newcastle: printed for the author by E. Walker, [1805], 79pp., front blank inscribed by the author to J.G. Lambton[?], to whom the volume is dedicated, red morocco hinges, a.e.g., contemporary gilt decorated diced red morocco, joints and extremities rubbed, 8vo, together with Linden (Diederick Wessel), A Treatise on the Three Medicinal Mineral Waters at Llandrindod, in Radnorshire, South Wales with some Remarks on Mineral and Fossel Mixtures, in their Native Veins and Beds; at least as far as respects their Influence on Water, 1756, title in red and black, slight dampstaining to last few leaves, 20th c. qtr. cloth (over earlier binding), 8vo, with Duchanoy (Claude-Francois), Essais sur l’art d’imiter les eaux Minerales..., Paris, 1780, one engraved plate, contemporary sheep, rubbed and some wear, 12mo, plus Bainbrigge (William Henry), The Droitwich Salt Springs their Medicinal Action and Curative Properties, pub. Worcester & London, 1873, folding table, front blank inscribed ‘from the author’, a.e.g., contemporary gilt decorated blue morocco, slightly rubbed and marked, slim 8vo, plus Freeman (Henry William), The Thermal Baths of Bath, Their History, Literature, Medical and Surgical Uses and Effects, pub. London & Bath, 1888, folding maps & plans, b & w plates, t.e.g., original green cloth gilt, 8vo (5)

£150-250

365 Pearson (George). Observations and Experiments for investigating the Chymical History of the Tepid Springs of Buxton; together with an Account of some Newly-discovered, or little known Properties of Substances relating to several Branches of Chymistry, and Animal and Vegetable Life; To which are prefixed, a Chronological Relation of the Use of Buxton Water from the Earliest Records to the Present Time, Sketches of a History of the Atmosphere of the Peake, and of the External Form and Integral Structure of the Mountainous Regions of Derbyshire: intended for the Improvement of Natural Science and the Art of Physic., 2 vols. in one, 1st ed., 1784, modern half calf gilt with morocco title label, 8vo

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367 Pott (Percivall, 1744-88). The Chirurgical Works of Percivall Pott, F.R.S. and Surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 2 vols., 1st Dublin ed., pub. James Williams, 1778, eleven eng. plts., inc. some folding, title to each vol. with upper outer corner torn away with some loss, some minor marks to extreme margins, contemp. calf, some wear, modern reback, 8vo (2)

£150-200

368 Rutherford (Ernest). Radio-Activity, 1st ed., Cambridge University Press, 1904, half-title, b & w diagrams throughout, ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper and half-title, a little toning, original green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and bumped to corners, 8vo (1)

£100-150

369 Rutty (John). A Methodical Synopsis of Mineral Waters, both Cold and Not, of Great-Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, and Italy, and several other Parts of the World..., 1767, title in red & black (with ink stamp), spotting and browning throughout, 20th c. half calf, 4to, together with Short (Thomas), The Natural, Experimental, and Medicinal History of the Mineral Waters of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire, Particularly those of Scarborough..., 1734, half-title, four engraved plates (including 3 folding), hinges cracked, contemporary calf, rebacked, board corners worn, 4to (2)

£200-300

370 Sherley (Thomas). A Philosophical Essay: declaring the probable Causes, whence Stones are produced in the Greater World, 1st edition, 1672, woodcut head-pieces and initials, 3pp. advertisements at rear, some spotting and old dampstaining to foremargins throughout, modern boards, rubbed and soiled, 8vo Wing S3523.

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371 Velschius (Georg Hieronymous). Exercitatio de vena Medinensi, ad mentem Ebnsinae sive de dracunculis veterum, specimen exhibens novae versionis ex Arabico... de vermiculuis capillaribus infantium, Augsberg: Impensis Theophili Goebelii, 1674, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, thirteen engraved plates, ocassional browning, mariginal tear and offsetting, worming with slight loss of text affecting few leaves, near contemporary vellum, later repair to spine and upper board at hinge, later spine label, 4to

366 Piccolomini (Alessandro). Editione Tertia della Sfera del Mondo, divisa in libri quattro... di nuouo ricorretta, et ampliata, Delle Stelle Fisse libro uno con le sue figure et con le sue tauole..., 2 parts in one volume, Venice: Bartholomeo Cesano, 1553, woodcut vignettes of spheres to both titles, italic letter, woodcut diagrams and historiated initials, 47 woodcut star maps (misnumbered 48), small hole to star map XXXIII/XXXIV with loss of one star to first map, old ownership ink inscription and library stamp of Biblioteca Giovannini to first title, lower margin with some loss of imprint ‘[In] Vinegia / [M]DLIII’ and now relaid, upper outer corner repaired, some browning and soiling to first few leaves and old dampstaining to lower outer corners of first part (and less so to second part), brown stain affecting leaves F5/6 of first part without loss of legibility, a little insect damage to upper margins of leaves Q1-3 and lower outer corners of following and final three leaves (Q4-6) repaired, all with slight loss to letterpress, recent half calf gilt over marbled boards, 4to in 8s (205 x 145mm) Collation: 58ff, A-G8, H2; 122, [4]ff, A-P8, Q6.

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£200-300

The earliest work giving an account of skin diseases caused by parasites.

(1) £300-400

372 Vigier (Jean). La grande chirurgie des tumeurs, en laquelle, selon les anciens Grecs, Latins, Arabes & modernes approuuez, Lyon: Pierre Compagnon & Robert, 1670, occasional woodcut printers device, some manuscript annotations, few water stains and a little offsetting, 18th century sheep, gilt decorated spine, a little rubbed, 8vo (1)

£100-150

373 Watson (James Dewey & Crick, Francis Harry Compton).

‘Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids. A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid’, and ‘Genetical Implications of the Structure of Dioxyribonucleic Acid’, pp. 737-38 and 964-67 in Nature, vol. 171, 1953, contemp. lib. buckram, sl. soiled, lge. thick 8vo

£500-800

Garrison Morton 752.1. Watson and Crick shared the Nobel Prize with M.F.H. Wilkins for the molecular structure of DNA. The first article is followed by two related articles by Wilkins, Stokes, Wilson, Gosling and Rosalind Franklin.

(1) £300-500

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THE ANTHONY GASSON OPERA COLLECTION PART I: Anthony Gasson, an optometrist from Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, first fell in love with opera when, aged 13 in 1946, he heard the Italian tenor Gigli sing in a radio broadcast for the first time. “It was then I started to love the sound of the human voice, and I have been hooked ever since”, he said.

The first opera he saw was Verdi’s Tosca at the Stoll Theatre in London in 1953, but more important was his first visit to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 1958 when he saw Visconti’s production of Don Carlo, regarded as one of the greatest productions at Covent Garden in living memory.

From that time onwards he attended hundreds of operas, notably at Covent Garden and Glyndebourne and additional became an opera memorabilia collector with an insatiable appetite.

By the time Anthony died in 2012 he had assembled one of the finest opera collections in private hands. The archive of some 50000 items features every facet of opera memorabilia. The collection’s arc spans from books through paintings and prints, bronzes, sculptures and medals, through autograph letters, photographs (often signed), programmes, playbills, tickets, and figurines.

Anthony Gasson and his widow Susan, who is now selling the collection, were well-known opera devotees who included conductors, singers, and artists in their social circle. It is through these connections and those of specialist music dealers and auction houses worldwide that Anthony was able to so fastidiously assemble such a coherent and all- encompassing museum of operatic treasures.

A small quantity of letters, pictures and ephemera have been acquired by the British Library and the Victoria & Albert Museum, but now Dominic Winter is delighted to offer the first part of this unique collection with further parts anticipated for 12 November 2014 and 29 January 2015.

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OPERA & MUSIC HISTORY 374 Arne (Thomas Augustine 1710-78). Songs in the Masque of Alfred, printed for J. Walsh, [1751], engraved plates, some duststaining to initial and final leaves, 20th century marbled paper covered boards, folio First performed on 1 August 1740 at the Prince of Wales’ country home, with libretto by D. Mallet and J. Thomson, and featuring “Rule Britania”.

(1) £100-150

375 Arne (Thomas Augustine 1710-78). Love in a Village, a Comic Opera as it is Perform’d at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden, first edition, printed for I. Walsh, [1763], engraved title page, 62pp engraved score with text, textblock only, a little dust-staining throughout, oblong folio First performed at Covent Garden in December 1762 with the theatre’s manager Mr Beard as Hawthorne.

(1) £100-150

376 Barrington (Daines). Miscellanies, printed by J. Nichols, 1781, folding pedigree chart, five tables, two maps (one folding), engraved portrait, 19th century half calf, joints cracked but firm, 4to Includes an important early account and engraved portrait of the then relatively unknown Mozart.

(1) £300-500

377 Beethoven (Ludwig van). Fidelio Oper in zwei Aufzugen nach dem franzosischen bearbeitet von F. Treitschke, Clavierauszug, Bonn: bei N. Simrock, [1815], title, ownership inscription, 159pp. printed score, later quarter cloth, oblong folio Kinsky p.184.

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£100-150

378 Boden (James). Memoirs of The Life of Jonathan Kemble to The Stage, 2 volumes, Longman, 1825, b & w frontispiece, near contemporary calf gilt, 8vo, together with Young (M. J.), Memoirs of Mrs Crouch, including a retrospect of the stage during the years she performed, 2 volumes, printed for James Asperne, 1806, black and white frontispiece, tree calf, joints cracked, 12mo, plus Kelly (Michael), Reminiscences of Michael Kelly, of the Kings Theatre and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, including a period of nearly half a century, 2 volumes, Henry Colburn, 1826, black and white portrait frontispiece, quarter calf, gilt decorated spine, a little rubbed, 8vo (6)

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379 Bombet (L.A.C.). The Life of Haydn in a Series of Letters Written at Vienna, followed by a Life of Mozart, John Murray, 1817, some dust staining and offsetting throughout, later half morocco, slightly scuffed, 8vo, together with A Dictionary of Musicians from the Earliest Stages to the Present Time, 2 vols., 2nd ed., printed for Sainsbury & Co., 1827, some offsetting throughout, later qtr. marble paper, 8vo, plus Edwards (Sutherland), History of the Opera from Its Origin in Italy to the Present Time, 2 vols., W. H. Allen & Co., 1842, orig. cloth gilt, a little stained and rubbed, 8vo, plus Hogarth (George), Memoirs of the Musical Drama, 2 vols., Richard Bentley, 1838, portrait frontispieces, endpapers renewed, original cloth, spine ends repaired, 8vo, plus D’Arblay (Madame), Memoirs of Dr. Burney Arranged from His Own Manuscripts from Family Papers and From Personal Recollections by His Daughter, 2 vols., Edward M...., 1832, occ. spotting, half calf, some shelf wear, 8vo, plus other biography and opera memoir (17)

380 Britten (Benjamin, 1913-1976). Peter Grimes, an Opera in three Acts and a Prologue derived from the poem of George Crabbe, Words by Montagu Slater, Op. 33, Boosey & Hawkes, [1945], a little spotting to initial pages, numbered 14 of an unknown edition, presented to Mrs Frank Bridge, signed by the composer to first initial blank, morocco-backed iullustrated boards, a little rubbed, 4to, together with two Sadler’s Wells programs, including one for the first performance of Peter Grimes 7 June 1945, Peter Grimes was first performed at Sadler’s Wells, London on 7 June 1945.

It was the first of Britten’s operas to be a critical and popular success, and surprised both audiences and critics alike with its originality. Thought by many to be Britten’s operatic masterpiece, it has long been seen as a turning point in the history of British opera. Frank Bridge (1879-1941) met his wife Ethel at the Royal College of Music. He discovered the eleven-year old Britten and gave him the technical foundation on which to base his creativity.

Britten’s affection for his teacher is well documented.

(3) £700-1000

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385* Busts. Four bisque porcelain busts of composers by KPM, 19th century, including Auber, Donizetti, Rubinstein, and Halevy, impressed mark to back, captioned, Halevy slight chip to bottom of bust, 20cm (8ins) high and similar, together with a continental bisque bust of Meyerbeer, unsigned, slight chip to base, 23cm (9ins) high, plus a similar bust of Weber, impressed serial number to base, small area of restoration to base, 29cm (11.5ins) high

381 Britten (Benjamin, 1913-1976). Gloriana, an Opera in Three Acts, by William Plomer, music by Benjamin Britten (Opus 53), vocal score by Imogen Holst, Boosey & Hawkes, 1953, signed to limitation at rear by Benjamin Britten in blue ink and William Plomer in purple ink, correspondence from Anthony Gasson to HM The Queen with secretarial reply on Balmoral Castle headed paper loosely inserted, top edge gilt, original vellum gilt with publishers slipcase, folio Limited signed edition, 44/100 (1)

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£300-400

382 Britten (Benjamin, 1913-1976). Death in Venice, an Opera in Two Acts, Op. 88, Faber Music, 1979, bilingual full score in English and German, signed by the composer ‘with best wishes, Benjamin Britten’ on Red House, Aldeburgh letterhead, tipped on to front free endpaper, original cloth, folio (1)

£100-150

383 Burney (Charles). A General History of Music from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period, to which is prefixed a Dissertation on the Music of the Ancients, 4 vols., 1786-89, engraved frontispieces, illustrated with musical notations and other plates, later quarter calf, 4to (4)

£200-300

384 Busby (Thomas). Concert Room and Orchestra Anecdotes With Music and Musicians Ancient and Modern, 3 vols., printed for Clementi, 1825, folding b&w frontispieces, occasional spotting, marginal tear, pencil marginalia, contemporary calf, worn, one with upper board detached, one rebacked, together with Chorley (Henry), Music and Manners in France and Germany, A Series of Travelling Sketches, 3 vols., Longman, et al, 1841, half morocco, slighly rubbed, 8vo, plus Lumley (Benjamin), Reminiscences of the Opera, Hirst and Blackett, 1864, colour portrait frontispiece, colour plate of Madame Pasta, half calf, slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Bell’s British Theatre, Operas, printed for John Bell, 1777, Queens of Song by Clayton, 2 volumes, Smith Elder & Co., 1863, (lacking plates), a similar copy of Reminiscences of the Opera, (uncoloured plates), plus other opera memoir (15)

386 Clayton (Thomas, 1673-1725). Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus. An Opera, after the Italian Manner as it is Perform’d at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by Her Majesty’s Servants, first edition, printed for Jacob Tonson, 1705, texblock only, occasional spotting and offsetting, ownership ink stamp to title page verso, contained within marbled paper envelope box, 4to The first full length opera in the Italian style to be performed in England.

Thomas Clayton was appointed to the King’s Musick in July 1689; he spent some period of time in Italy at the turn of the century, and on his return produced Arsinoe, with a libretto translated (probably by Motteux) from an Italian text by Stanzani. A contemporary critic condemned the music, but it enjoyed considerable success and paved the way for the introduction of Italian opera to England.

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389 Gay (John). Achilles. An Opera. As it is Perform’d at the TheatreRoyal in Covent-Garden ... With the Musick Prefix’d to each Song, pub. J. Watts, 1733, half-title, two leaves of adverts at rear, browned throughout, t.e.g., early 20th c. maroon half morocco gilt, slim 8vo, together with Achilles. An Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatres Royal in Drury Lane and Covent Garden, 1779, engraved portrait frontispiece, bound with two leaves from ‘Joshua, A Sacred Drama’, trimmed to running title, later wrappers, slim 8vo, plus [Bickerstaff, Isaac], The Maid of the Mill. A Comic Opera. As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. The Music Compiled, and the Words Written by the Author of Love in a village, pub. London, 1765, contemporary signature to upper margin of title, bound with The Lying Valet. A Comedy, In Two Acts, As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane..., by D. Garrick, 7th ed., 1769, bound with one other, some dust-soiling throughout, 19th century cloth, slim 8vo (3)

£100-150

390 [Genest John]. Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, 10 vols., Bath: Carrington, 1832, occasional light spotting, original blind stamped cloth, sunned to spine, joints cracked and fragile, 8vo Lowe, Arnot and Robinson, 849: “This, the only complete history of the stage since the Restoration, was the work of a Bath clergyman, who must have devoted his life to it. No words can do adequate justice to the honest and thorough nature of the work; and its value cannot be overestimated.”

(10) £300-500

387 Clayton (Ellen Creathorne). Queens of Song, Being Memoirs of some of the most Celebrated Female Vocalists... to which is added a Chronological List of All the Operas that have been Performed in Europe, 2 vols., Smith, Elder and Co., 1873, engraved portrait frontispieces, four further engraved portraits, a.e.g., later half calf over cloth, gilt decorated spines, 8vo (2)

£100-150

391 Gildon (Charles). The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the Late Eminent Tragedian, Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit, are Distinctly Consider[e]d..., printed for Robert Gosling, 1710, engraved portrait frontispiece, slight toning to initial leaves, near contemporary blind tooled calf, neatly rebacked, endpapers and paste-downs replaced with near contemporary laid paper, 8vo

388 Crosse (John). An Account of the Grand Musical Festival, held in September 1823 in the Cathedral Church of York; for the benefit of the York County Hospital, and the General Infirmaries at Leeds, Hull, and Sheffield: to which is prefixed, a sketch of the rise and progress of Musical Festivals in Great Britain, York, 1825, four hand-coloured aquatint plates, one folding lithographic plan for a new concert room, list of patrons, conductors, vocalists, chorus and instrumentalists at front, single-page of corrections at rear, with advert for the second Yorkshire Grand Musical Festival to verso, some light spotting to preliminaries untrimmed, modern quarter red calf gilt, 4to

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£150-200

392 The Harmonicon, A Journal of Music, September 1823 - June 1830, together 4 volumes, some titles lacking, ten engraved plates, occasional spotting, final leaves of volume for 1828 torn and with some soiling to fore-edge margins, one volume in contemporary half morocco, gilt decorated spine, two volumes in modern half morocco and other in modern cloth, 4to The Harmonicon was the most important English musical journal published in this period, with extensive reports from correspondents in Europe, and translations from the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung and other publications.

(4) £100-150

An important contemporary history of the huge concerts held in York Cathedral in 1823, as well as a general history of music festivals in Great Britain from the period of Handel to the period of this publication.

(1) £150-200

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393 [Jenny Lind, 1820-87]. Smart (B. H.), Walker’s Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, 7th ed., Longman and others, 1865, ownership autograph signature ‘Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt’ to front free endpaper, upper hinge repaired, calf, stamped with Lind monogram to upper board, wornn, contained within purpose-made book box, thick 8vo, together with Rosenberg (C. G.), Jenny Lind in America, New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1851, occasional light spotting and a littel offsetting, a.e.g., gilt decorated morocco, joints worn and corners slightly bumped, 8vo, plus Mitchell & Son pub., Lindiana, An Interesting Narrative of the Life of Jenny Lind, 1847, engraved portrait frontispiece, a.e.g., original limp cloth, fraying to spine, small 8vo (3)

396 Holmes (Edward). The Life of Mozart, Chapman & Hall, 1845, original cloth, faded to spine, contents shaken but firm, two copies, 8vo, together with Osborne (Charles), The Complete Operas of Mozart, A Critical Guide, Gollancz, 1978, portrait frontispiece, presentation inscription from the author to Anthony Gasson, original cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Glover (Jane), Mozart’s Women; His Family, His Friends, His Music, Macmillan, 2005, original cloth in d.j., 8vo, and Landon (H. C. Robbins, ed.), The Mozart Compendium, A Guide to Mozart’s Life and Music, Thames & Hudson, 1991, portrait frontispiece, b & w illustrations, original cloth in d.j., 4to, plus other titles relating to Mozart, Lorenzo de Ponte, and Beethoven, mostly 20th century, mainly original cloth in d.j.

£100-150

(2 shelves)

£150-200

397 Verdi (Giuseppe). Otello, Dramma lirico in quattro atti versi di arrigo boito, Milan: Tito di Gio, [1887], decorated half title, portrait frontispiece, title page in red and black, contemporary ownership inscription to title, printed score, some toning to page extremeties, original cloth gilt, some fading to spine, worn, contained within purpose made book box, morocco label, folio, together with Toye (Francis), Giuseppe Verdi, His Life and Works, Heinemann, 1931, portrait frontispiece, b & w illustrations, including facsimile letter, original cloth gilt, 8vo, plus Schoelcher (Victor), The Life of Handel, Trubner & Co., 1857, original cloth, slightly faded to spine, 8vo, and Edwards (H. Sutherland), The Life of Rossini, in one volume, Hirst and Blackett, 1869, portrait frontispiece, some spotting, original cloth, 8vo, plus other works, mostly 19th century on Italian composers, including Rossini, Verdi, Puccini and others, including some scores, mostly original cloth (1 shelf)

398 Budden (Julian). The Operas of Verdi, 3 vols., Cassell, 1980, original cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, together with Godefroy (Vincent), The Dramatic Genius of Verdi, Studies of Selected Operas, 2 vols., Gollancz, 1978, original cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, plus Allitt (John Stewart), Donizetti, In Light of Romanticism and the Teaching of Johann Simon Mayr, Shaftesbury: Element, 1991, portrait frontispiece, b & w illustrations, original cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus other referenc works relating to composers including Verdi, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Puccini, mostly original cloth in d.j.s

394 Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus). Aria. In diesen Heil’gen Beyum Clavier aus der Opera die Zauberflöte, 1st ed., 1st issue, [Vienna: Musiklisches Magazin, November 1791], 4 pp., engraved, disbound, a little dust soiling, small expert repair to spine, oblong folio, loosely contained in a purpose-made quarter cloth portfolio One of the first three excerpts from Die Zauberflöte to be published in the composer’s lifetime, advertised in the Wiener Zeitung on 26 November 1791, shortly before the composer’s death on 5 December. The first issue has no through pagination, and the first line of text is different from other sources. K620/15; Hirsch IV, p. 79 no. 15; RISM M4890, listing just one copy.

(1) £300-500

(2 shelves)

£150-200

399 Morini (Mario). Pietro Mascagni, 2 vols., Milan: Casa Musicale Sonzogno di Piero Ostali, 1964, original cloth gilt, 4to, together with Simpson (J. Palgrave), Karl Maria von Weber, The Life of an Artist, from the German of his son, Baron Max Maria von Weber, 2 vols., Chapman and Hall, 1865, portrait frontispiece, original cloth, some wear and slightly faded, 8vo, plus Edwards (F. G.), The History of Mendelssohn’s Oratorio Elijah, with an introduction by Sir George Grove, Novello and Company, 1896, portrait frontispiece, presentation inscription to front free endpaper verso, ‘To Sir Alexander Mackenzie from the author with best wishes January 1909’, original cloth, 8vo, plus other works relating to composers including Liszt, Bizet, Berlioz, etc., mostly original cloth, 8vo

395 Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus). il Dissoluto Punito osia il Don Giovanni, dramma giocoso in due Atti posto in Musica da Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ridotto per il Pianoforte da A. E. Muller, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Hartel, [1810], engraved title in Italian, title in German, ownership inscription to engraved title, manuscript index loosely inserted, 182 pp. printed score, damp staining, contents a little shaken, half roan, heavily rubbed, spine deficient, upper board detatched, oblong 8vo (1)

£150-200

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400 Osborne (Charles). The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti and Belini, Methuen, 1994, original cloth in d.j., 8vo, together with Burton (Humphrey), Leonard Bernstein, Faber and Faber, 1994, b & w frontispiece, b & w illustrations throughout, original cloth in d.j., plus White (Eric Walter), Benjamin Britten, His Life and Operas, Faber and Faber, 1970, b & w illustrations throughout, original cloth in d.j., plus other reference works relating to composers including Dvorak, Liszt, Berlioz, Britten, Mahler, mostly original cloth in d.j.s, mainly 8vo

405 Ellis (S. M.). The Life of Michael Kelly, Musician, Actor and Bonviveur, 1762 to 1826, Gollancz, 1930, b&w portrait frontispiece, orig. cloth, sl. worn, 8vo, together with Mackenzie (Alexander Campbell), A Musician’s Narrative, Castle & Co., 1927, orig. cloth, 8vo, plus Armstrong (William), The Romantic World of Music, Allen & Unwin, 1923, b&w portrait frontispiece, orig. cloth, 8vo, plus Henscagl (George), Musings and Memoirs of a Musician, MacMillan & Co., 1918, b&w portrait frontispiece, orig. cloth, 8vo, and other music memoir, mostly orig. cloth, mainly 8vo

(3 shelves)

(2 shelves)

£200-300

401 Wyndham (Henry Saxe). The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre from 1732 to 1897, in 2 volumes, Chatto and Windus, 1906, engraved portrait frontispiece, further b & w plates, original cloth, 8vo, together with Shaw (Bernard), Music in London 1890-94, 3 vols., Constable and Co., 1956, original cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, plus Scholes (Percy A.), The Mirror of Music 1844 to 1944, A Century of Musical Life in Britain, as Reflected in the Pages of the Musical Times, 2 vols., Novello and Company, 1946, later sheep gilt, 8vo, plus other reference works relating to the London Theatres and Covent Garden, some 19th century (3 shelves)

406 Caruso (Enrico, Jnr., and Andrew Farkas). Enrico Caruso, My Father and My Family, Portland: Amadeus Press, 1990, b & w illustrations throughout, original cloth in d.j., 8vo, together with Henstock (Michael), Fernando de Lucia, Son of Naples, Duckworth, 1990, original cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Redomski (James), Manuel Garcia, 1775 to 1832, Chronicle of the Life of a Bel Canto Tenor at the Dawn of Romanticism, Oxford University Press, 2000, original cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Borovsky (Victor), Chaliapin, A Critical Biography, Hamish Hamilton, 1988, original cloth in d.j., thick 8vo, plus other titles on male singers, especially Caruso, mainly 20th century, original cloth in d.j.s, mostly 8vo

£300-500

(3 shelves)

402 Malibran (Maria). Memoirs of Madame Malibran by the Countess de Merlin and other intimate friends, 2 vols., Henry Colburn, 1844, engraved portrait frontispiece, light toning throughout, later quater. cloth, together with Wagnalls (Mabel), Stars of the Opera, Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1899, t.e.g., original decorative cloth, slightly soiled, plus Cooke (James Francis), Great Singers on the Art of Singing, Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists, Philadelphia: Theo Presser, 1921, nearcontemporary ownership inscription to front pastedown, original cloth gilt, 8vo, plus other titles, mostly 19th century, relating to female singers, especially Maria Malibran, mostly original cloth, mainly 8vo (2 shelves)

(2 shelves)

£150-200

408 Schultz (Gladys Denny). Jenny Lind, A Swedish Nightingale, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1962, b & w portrait frontispiece, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, together with Galatopoulos (Stelios), Maria Callas, Sacred Monster, 4th State, 1999, b & w portrait frontispiece, numerous b & w illustrations throughout, original cloth in d.j., 4to, plus Matheopoulos (Helena), Diva, Great Sopranos and Mezzos Discuss their Art, Gollancz, 1991, numerous b & w illustrations throughout, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus other titles relating to female singers, especially Maria Callas, Jenny Lind, and Joan Sutherland, mostly original cloth in d.j.s, mainly 8vo

£150-200

(3 shelves)

£150-200

409 Arruga (Lorenzo). La Scala, Milan: Electa Editrice, [1975], numerous illustrations throughout, some colour, original cloth, 4to, together with Kralik (Heinrich), The Vienna Opera, Methuen, 1963, numerous illustrations throughout, some colour, original cloth gilt, folio, plus Dupecatz (Charles), Histoire de la Opera du Paris 18751980, Paris: L.A.P., 1984, original simulated leather in d.j., 8vo, plus other reference works on European opera especially La Scala, mostly 20th century, mainly 4to

£150-200

404 Wagner (Richard). My Life, in two volumes, Constable and Company, 1911, engraved portrait frontispiece, t.e.g., half calf, some wear, 8vo, together with Del Mar (Norman), Richard Strauss, A Critical Commentary on His Life and Works, 3 vols., Barry and Rockliff, 1962, portrait frontispieces, original cloth in d.j.s, slight shelf wear, 8vo, plus Brown (David), Tchaikovsky, A Biographical and Critical Study, volume one, Gollancz, 1986, original cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus other titles relating to German composers, especially Wagner, Strauss and Mahler, some 19th century, original cloth (3 shelves)

£150-200

407 Reeves (J. Sims). My Jubilee or Fifty Years of Artistic Life, London Music Publishing Company, b&w portrait frontispiece, decorative cloth, sl. faded to spine, 8vo, together with Kuag (Wilhelm), My Musical Recollections, Bentley & Son, 1896, b&w portrait frontispiece, orig. cloth, 8vo, plus Jeune (Mary, Lady St. Helier), Memoirs of Fifty Years, Arnold, 1910, b&w portrait frontispiece, orig. cloth, 8vo, and other music memoir and biography, mainly orig. cloth, mostly 8vo

403 Sonneck (O. G.). Early Opera in America, New York: Benjamin Blon, 1963, original cloth in d.j., clipped, some shelf wear, together with Peltz (Mary Ellis & Robert Lawrence), The Metropolitan Opera Guide, the Standard Reporatory of the Metropolitan Opera Association, New York: The Metropolitan Opera Guild 1939, original cloth, some fading to spine, 8vo, plus Dizikes (John), Opera in America, A Cultural History, Newhaven: Yale University Press, 1993, contemporary presentation inscription to half title ‘For Father Leonardus Coutor with respectful best wishes’ from the author, original cloth in d.j., large 8vo, plus other titles relating to world opera especially the Metropolitan and American opera, mostly original cloth in d.j.s, some folio, mainly 8vo (2 shelves)

£150-200

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410 Christiansen (Rupert). The Grand Obsession, an Anthology of Opera, Collins, 1988, original cloth in d.j., 8vo, together with Sutcliffe (Tom), The Faber Book of Opera, Faber and Faber, 2000, presentation inscription from the author to Anthony and Susan Gasson on dedication page, original cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Bourne (Joyce), Who’s Who in Opera, a guide to opera characters, Oxford University Press, 1998, original cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Csampai (Attila), Callas: Images of a Legend, New York: Stewart Tabori and Chang, numerous illustrations taken from photographs, original cloth in d.j., folio, plus other titles relating to general opera reference including opera houses, famous singers, especially Pavarotti, Maria Callas, etc., mainly 20th century original cloth in d.j.s (3 shelves)

416 The History of the Theatres of London Containing an Annual Register of all the New and Revived Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, Farces, Pantomimes etc. that have been Performed at the Theatres Royal in London from the Year 1771 to 1795, 2 volumes (bound as one), Martin and Bain, 1796, a little offsetting throughout, later half calf, together with The Thespian Dictionary or Dramatic Biography of the Eighteenth Century, Hurst, 1802, later half calf, earlier morocco label relaid to spine, small 8vo in 4s, plus Bunn (Alfred), The Stage Both Before and Behind the Curtain, 3 volumes, Bentley, 1840, occasional spotting and staining throughout, quarter cloth, 8vo, plus other titles relating to London theatres in the eighteenth and nineteenth century (12)

411 Newman (Ernest). Opera Nights and More Opera Nights, Putnum et al, 1943-54, b&w portrait frontispieces, original cloth, some fading to one volume, 8vo, together with [Cox, Reverend John Edward], Musical Recollections of the Last Half Century, 2 vols., Tinsley Brothers, 1972, original cloth gilt, 8vo, plus Henderson (W. J.), Some Forerunners of Italian Opera, New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1911, 2 pp. pubs. adverts. to rear, original cloth gilt, 8vo, plus similiar titles on musical memoirs, biography, etc., mostly 19th century, original cloth gilt, 8vo (2 shelves)

£150-200

£150-200

PAINTINGS & PRINTS

£150-200

412 Sachs (Harvey). The Letters of Arturo Toscanini, Faber and Faber, 2002, original cloth in d.j., 8vo, together with Boult (Adrian Cedric), My Own Trumpet, Hamish Hamilton, 1973, some b&w illustrations, original cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Hall (Peter), Power Play, The Life and Times of Peter Hall, Hodder and Stoughton, 1995, original cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus other titles relating to music interest especially conductors and autobiographies, mostly original cloth in d.j.s (3 shelves)

£150-200

413 Rossini (Giacchino). il Barbiere di Siviglia Opera Buffa in due Atti del signor Gioachino Rossini, ridotta per il Piano Forte, Paris: Janet et Cotelle, [c.1820], title page, 253 pp. printed score, some light toning and a little offsetting throughout, original cloth gilt, rebacked, slightly rubbed, folio (1)

£200-300

414 Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle). Memoirs of Rossini, by the Author of the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, printed for Hookham, 1824, engraved portrait frontispiece, little foxing to to initial leaves, ex libris label John Waldie, contemporary blind stamped calf, gilt, some rubbing and fading, 8vo (1)

£100-150

417* Billington (Elizabeth, 1765/8-1818). A fine miniature portrait of the singer Mrs Elizabeth Billington, Swiss School, circa 1815, enamel on porcelain, unsigned, two fleabite chips to edge, later gilt-metal frame, paper label stuck to verso, 27 x 25mm

415 Theatre plans. The Plan of the Boxes at the King’s Theatre, Haymarket, with an Alphabetical List of the Subscribers, for the Season 1803, are most respectfully submitted to the Nobility and Gentry, By their most humble, dutiful and obedient Servant, William Lee..., printed by D.N. Shury, [1803], additional engraved title-page, five plans, one becoming detached, some minor staining and corner fraying to first few leaves, final two leaves of subscribers torn with loss, contemporary armorial bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary sheep, worn, rebacked and recornered, 12mo in 6s, together with Her Majesty’s Theatre. A List of the Subscribers for the Season 1839. P.F. Laporte, Esq. Manager, 1839, double-page frontispiece plan, a.e.g., original patterned wrappers, contained in original matching slipcase, slightly browned and rubbed, with gilt lettered paper label on front, 93 x 60mm (3.5 x 2.5ins) (2)

Mrs Billington first appeared as a singer in Oxford aged 14, having already had a career as a pianist. After marrying James Billington, she moved to Dublin and began working as an opera singer, taking appointments at Covent Garden on her return to England. In 1794 she travelled to Italy where arrival coincided with the erruption of Vesuvius, causing the Neapolitans to attribute the latter as a result of the former. Back in England, Drury Lane and Covent Garden were both desperate to secure the prima donna, and she eventually agreed to sing for both houses, alternating between the two.

Cartoonists of the day relished in her beauty and fuller stature, as well as her reputation for amorous conquests. She retired to Venice with her second husband and sadly died the following year. Besides cartoons, portraits are uncommon. Reynolds depicted her as St. Cecilia, and two other miniatures are known: one by Pope, the other by Cosway.

(1) £700-1000

£100-150

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418* Caruso (Enrico, 1873-1921). Caricature of the composer Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), pencil on recto of a small pale blue envelope, signed in pencil by Caruso, with old ink inscription (circa 1930-50s) to verso ‘Caricature of Leoncavallo by Enrico Caruso. (Given to me in N. Y. by S...[illegible]’, some light soiling, 13 x 8.5cm (5 x 3.5ins) (1)

£150-200

419* Caruso (Enrico, 1873-1921). A large caricature self-portrait, 1914, pen and brown ink on paper, signed and dated London 1914, inscribed ‘To Dikkino’, 30 x 24cm (11.75 x 9.5ins), with additional inscription on pale brown paper ‘Per Mister Dick’ separately mounted below, framed An unusually fine and large-scale self-caricature by Caruso, given to the famous baritone Riccardo Stracciari during Caruso’s last season of performances at Covent Garden.

(1) £400-600

Lot 418

420* Catalani (Angelica, 1780-1849). A full length portrait of Angelica Catalani, 1812, fine uncoloured stipple-engraving by Anthony Cardon after Clara Maria Pope (1750-1838), published by C. M. Pope and Colnaghi, initialled by the artist in ink to lower left corner, 47.5 x 33.5cm (18.75 x 13.25ins) mount aperture, periodstyle black and gilt frame, glazed Only one other copy of this engraved portrait of the famous Italian opera singer Angelica Catalani (1780-1849) (National Portrait Gallery).

(1) £100-150

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Lot 421

421* Cinti-Damoreau (Laure, 1801-1863). A rare lifetime portrait of the singer holding the score to Rossini’s Le Domino Noir, c.1830, oil on canvas, some flaking and a few historic repairs to verso, 83 x 67cm (33 x 26.5ins), framed Cinti-Damoreau was a French soprano particularly associated with Rossini, and he wrote a number of roles especially for her, including Le Domino Noir. The notebooks in which she recorded her embellishments are kept in the Lilly Library, Indiana University.

(1) ÂŁ700-1000

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423* Gounod (Charles, 1818-1893). Portrait of the composer Gounod, by Guillaume Dubufe (1853-1909), published by Goupil & Co., Paris, 1902, fine photogravure finished and gilt by hand, signed by the artist to lower margin, with full margins, in clean condition, 55 x 73cm (22 x 29ins), framed and glazed (1)

£150-200

422* Delius (Frederick, 1862-1934). A profile portrait sketch of the composer Frederick Delius, believed to be taken from life, by the cellist Francis Peracchio, c.1929, pencil on verso of a London hotel restaurant menu, captioned Delius but unsigned, pin hole to upper edge, 26.5 x 21cm (10.5 x 8.25ins) A note in the hand of Anthony Gasson accompanies the drawing giving details; Francis Peracchio was the nephew of the recorded artist G. Peracchio and was himself a cellist, playing at the Carlton Hotel, Berkeley Hotel and at the BBC. He sketched regulars at the restaurants including Toscanini, and was the subject of many favourable comments. Delius suffered the effects of syphilis and by this time was blind and had poor mobility if not paralysis. He was reliant on his amanuesis Eric Fenby, as well as the financial support of Thomas Beecham.

(1) £200-300

424* Duparc (Elisabeth, circa 1720-1778). Signa. Lisabetta Du Parc detta La Francesina, 1737, fine uncoloured mezzotint, halflength portrait on laid paper by John Faber the Younger after George Knapton, published by John Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square, 1737, plate size 328 x 226mm (12.9 x 8.9ins), sheet size 355 x 248mm (14 x 9.75ins) The French soprano Elisabeth Duparc, known as La Francesina, appeared regularly in performances of the oratorios and operas of Handel in London, including the title role in the premiere of Semele.

(1) £100-150

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426* La Fenice, Venice. Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venezia, dedicato al ... esimia Carolina Ungher, [Venice, 1838], hand-coloured lithograph by Giovanni Barozzi after Giovanni Pividor, printed caption to lower mount, 29 x 34cm (11.5 x 13.5ins), framed and glazed Teatro La Fenice in Venice is one of the most famous theatres in Europe. In December 1836 the theatre was destroyed by fire, but quickly rebuilt with its doors opening once more on 26 December 1837. Among the many world premiers staged at la Fenice have been Rigoletto, La Traviata, Simon Boccanegra, The Rake’s Progress and The Turn of the Screw.

(1) £200-300

425* Fawley (Charlotte, 20th century). “Dame Joan Sutherland, ‘Anna Boleyn’, Covent Garden”, 1988, pen & ink sketch on paper of two figures, signed, dated, and titled in pencil to lower margin, sheet size 42 x 29.5cm (16.5 x 11.5ins), together with four others similar by Fawley, comprising a pen & ink sketch on paper titled ‘Three Studies of Ricarelli, Rehearsal Gala Concert’, and three watercolours on paper, two depicting scenes from The Marriage of Figaro, Glyndebourne (one showing Felicity Palmer), 1990, and the other titled ‘Der Rosenkavalier, The Royal Opera House’, 1989 (5)

£100-150

427* Grassini (Giuseppina, 1773-1850). Giuseppina Grassini, in the character of Zaira, after a portrait by Madame Lebrun, published

by Colnaghi & Co., London, 1806, uncoloured mezzotint, by Samuel William Reynolds (1773-1835), light spotting mainly confined to margins, central horizontal crease, 55 x 40cm (22 x 16ins), framed and glazed Grassini was a celebrated Italian contralto and singing teacher. At different times, she was mistress to both Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington.

(1) £70-100

428* Grisi (Giulia, 1811-1869). A group of seven lithographs depicting Giulia Grisi, Luigi Lablache and Antonio Tamburini in operatic costume, after drawings by A. E. Chalon [from Recollections of the Italian Opera, published 1836], together seven uncoloured lithographs on india paper, published by J. Mitchell and Rittner & Goupil, January 1 1836, 35 x 26cm (14 x 10ins) and slightly smaller, each individually framed and glazed The subjects include Guilia Grisi as Anna Bolena, Desdemona and Norma, Lablache as Faliero, Giovanni Rubini as Arturo, Tamburini as Riccardo, and Guilia Grisi and Lablache as Elvira and Sir Georgio (all in I Puritani). With original title page double framed and glazed to the last named image.

(7) £200-300

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429* Farinelli (Carlo Broschi, 1707-1782). A half-length portrait of the famous castrato Farinelli, 1735, mezzotint half-length portrait

by Alexander van Haecken after Charles Lucy, depicting Farinelli (real name Carlo Broschi) within a fictive oval frame, with the music for Handel’s Artaxerxes resting on a ledge in front, several short marginal tears and corner creases, margins trimmed, sheet size 360 x 360mm (14.2 x 10.25ins) (1)

ÂŁ100-150

430* Handel (George Frideric, 1685-1759). A head and shoulders portrait after Thomas Hudson (1701-1779), oil on panel, probably late 18th or early 19th century, 24 x 19cm (9.5 x 7.5ins), old gilt frame with title and artist label attributing the portrait to Thomas Hudson to lower edge, David Messum gallery label to frame verso Provenance: Purchased by Anthony Gasson from David Messum Gallery in 1983. Hudson is known to have made two portraits of Handel - one in about 1748 and one in 1756 [now in the National Portrait Gallery, London], commissioned by Jennens, and similar to this example. A small wholelength sketch for the Jennens portrait is in the Royal Collection and copies after the same painting are now in the Fitzwilliam and at the National Gallery.

(1) ÂŁ1000-1500

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431* Kelly (Michael, 1762-1826). A half-length portrait of Michael Kelly, shown sitting in typical Regency costume holding a musical score, after a painting by James Lonsdale (1777-1839) engraved by C. Turner, published by Sams, June 1 1825, mezzotint engraving, 33 x 22cm (13 x 9ins), framed and glazed, together with Braham (John, 1774-1856), A half-length portrait of the singer John Braham, after a drawing by J. G. Wood, engraved by A. Cardon, published by John Thompson, March 25 1807, stipple engraving, lightly toned, 35 x 24cm (14 x 9.5ins), framed and glazed Michael Kelly was famous both as a singer and for an eventful personal life; he maintained an affair with Anna Maria Crouch, who was also having an affair with George, Prince of Wales, despite being married to a naval officer.

Kelly had the honour of singing at the last night of the Old Drury Lane theatre before it was demolished. In his retirement from singing he ran a wine shop.

(2) £100-150

432* Lind (Jenny, 1820-87). A three-quarter length portrait of the singer Jenny Lind, published by John Mitchell, February 16 1847, hand-coloured lithograph on india paper, by R. J. Lane, printed by M. & N. Hanhart, 34.5 x 25cm (13.5 x 10ins), framed and glazed, together with a full length uncoloured Baxter print portrait, published November 15 1850, 18 x 13cm (7 x 5ins), framed and glazed, an original oval pen and ink head and shoulders sketch, 11 x 9cm (4.5 x 3.5ins), framed and glazed, and a reproduction of a watercolour of Lind at the piano, framed and glazed (3)

£100-150

Lot 431

433* Liszt (Franz, 1811-1886). A humorous cartoon of Sir Julius Benedict and Franz Liszt embracing and sobbing, by Charles Lyall, circa 1860s, pen and black ink on paper, signed lower right, 17 x 10cm (7 x 4ins) aperture size, framed and glazed Julius Benedict was a German born composer and conductor who spent much of his career in England. He conducted the first apperance of Jenny Lind in an oratorio and went on to act as accompanist for her tour of America.

(1) £70-100

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Lot 434

434* Malibran (Maria, 1808-1836). A full-length portrait by Henri Grevedon (1776-1860), showing Malibran in the title role of Rossini’s Semiramide (premiered 3 February 1823, La Fenice, Venice), 1829, pen, ink, and watercolour, with traces of pencil, initialled ‘H.G.’ and dated lower left, faintly inscribed ‘Malibran’ in pencil lower right, 15 x 11cm (6 x 4.25ins), gilt moulded and ebonised frame, glazed, engraved to lower edge ‘Mme Malibran Garcia’ Malibran was known for her stormy personality and dramatic intensity, becoming a legendary figure following her death aged 28 in a riding accident. Contemporary accounts of her voice describe its range, power and flexibility as extraordinary. She was idolized in London where she debuted as Rosina and then left for New York with her father's opera company - bringing the first performances of Italian opera to American audiences. She created Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" and a mezzo version of "I Puritani" prepared for her by Bellini. She excelled in Rossini's operas.

(1) £2000-3000

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437* Malibran (Maria, 1808-1836). Portrait of Maria Malibran, by F. Spagnoli, pub. Bologna, circa 1830s, uncoloured lithograph, light spotting, mainly to margins, slightly creased, 41 x 30cm (16 x 12ins), framed and glazed, together with Malibran as Desdemona, by Charles Turner, uncoloured mezzotint as Decaisne, a little creased, 36 x 26cm (14 x 10ins), framed and glazed, plus two other prints of female singers including a stipple engraving of Miss Stephens, and a 20th century reprint of Madame Caradori Allan (4)

£100-150

435* Malibran (Maria, 1808-1836). A group of three sheets of pen and ink sketches depicting performers in rehearsal, caricatures etc, pen and brown ink on wove paper, the larger sheet showing one male and four female figures in costume, sheet size 21.5 x 32.2cm (8.5 x 12.75ins), the two smaller sheets depicting the profile head of a male performer in pencil, and a group of caricature heads in brown ink, sheet size 20.5 x 17.5cm (8 x 6.8ins) and slightly smaller, each sheet signed ‘Mme Malibran’ (not in the singer’s hand) As the Comtesse de Merlin recounts in her 1838 memoir of the singer, Malibran would often pass the time during rehearsals either drawing sketches and caricatures or jotting down songs.

(3) £300-500

438* Melba (Dame Nellie, 1861-1931). Head-and-shoulders portrait, late 19th century, fine pencil drawing of Nellie Melba wearing a bonnet, pencil on paper with traces of bodycolour, 26.5 x 18.5cm (10.5 x 7.25ins), framed and glazed with calligraphic pen and ink caption to lower mount

436* Malibran (Maria, 1808-1836). Farmhouse, possibly near Milan, 1835, pencil on paper, signed M. F. Garcia Malibran and dated 1835 to lower left, discreet closed tear approximately half a centimetre long, not affecting image, 21 x 28cm (8 x 11ins) (1)

(1)

£200-300

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£150-200

439* Meyerbeer (Giacomo, 1791-1864). A head and shoulders portrait of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer by Paul Delaroche (17971856), c.1836, fine black chalk on brown paper, heightened with white and pale red chalk, 21.5 x 18cm (8.5 x 7ins), antique-style moulded gilt frame, glazed Jacob Liebmann Beer, better known as Giacomo Meyerbeer, was a Jewish German-born composer who worked in France and is famous for blending French, Italian and German styles in a refinement of the French Grand Opera tradition. A close friend of the composer, Paul Delaroche also provided the costume designs for Meyerbeer’s opera Les Huguenots (premiered 29 February 1836).

(1) ÂŁ1500-2000

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440* Braham (John, 1774-1856). A rare head and shoulders portrait of the singer John Braham, early 19th century, oval watercolour on ivory (with left-hand edge continued onto card), 11 x 8cm (4.25 x 3.25ins), gilt frame, glazed Braham was orphaned at an early age and, like many Jewish poor in the 19th century, made a living selling pencils on the streets. He was heard singing at the Great Synagogue, London by Michael Lioni who fostered the young talent. After marrying into the aristocracy and singing Mendelssohn’s second symphony under the composers baton, he undertook a tour of America and obtained an international reputation as the leading tenor of his age.

(1) £1500-2000

441* Malibran (Maria, 1808-1836). A head and shoulders oval portrait of the singer Maria Malibran shown from behind looking over her shoulder, loosely dressed, circa 1830, pen and brown ink with additional pencil shading on paper, 11 x 8.5cm (4.25 x 3.25ins), contemporary moulded ebonised frame with gilded inner border, glazed (1)

£300-500

Lot 440

442* Pavarotti (Luciano, 1935-2007). Pavarotti in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci by Frank J. Archer (1912-1995), 1986, bodycolour on paper, signed and dated lower right, London gallery label to verso, 38 x 38cm (15 x 15ins), framed and glazed (1)

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£300-500

443* Puccini - Costume Designs. A collection of costume designs for a performance of Tosca at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1939, ten pencil and watercolour designs, some with a single figure study, others with several images to a page, all with manuscript annotations, sheet size 30 x 24cm (11.75 x 9.5ins) and smaller, together with two tracings related The production starred Beniamino Gigli, Gina Cigna and Mario Basiola.

(12) ÂŁ100-150

444* Reeves (James Sims, 1821-1900). A full-length portrait by Charles Lyall, circa 1870s/80s, early 20th century, watercolour, heightened with bodycolour on paper, signed lower right, 33.5 x 23cm (13 x 9ins) (1)

ÂŁ100-150

445* Rossini (Gioachino, 1792-1868). A portrait from life of the composer Rossini, circa 1828, fine and rare half-length life-size portrait, oil on canvas, depicting the composer seated at a damask covered table, holding a quill pen and with manuscript music beside him, relined by Francis Leedham (probably mid-19th century), with his blind stamp to verso of stretcher, 87 x 75cm (34.25 x 29.5ins), modern antique-style ebonised wood frame, with printed labels to verso of the Historical Portraits gallery, 31 Dover Street, London, inscribed with the number 2137 Provenance: Purchased by Anthony Gasson from Phillip Mould Historical Portraits, London, circa 2000.

An important and rare unattributed portrait of Rossini in his mid-thirties, around the time of the composition of his most famous opera William Tell. In this portrait the composer appears just a little older than he does in the famous head and shoulders portrait with cap of 1820 in the collection of the International Museum and Library of Music, Bologna. The Museum also holds an oil portrait of Rossini by Pietro Bettelli from 1818. The pose in our portrait is similar to the photograph of Rossini by Leopold Ernest Mayer & Pierre-Louis Pierson, c. 1855.

Francis Leedham (1794-1870) was a picture cleaner and liner active by 1831 from his premises on Little Edward Street, London. He was particularly productive for the art collector and antiquarian Lord Northwick, and later the National Gallery where he relined at least fifteen Turners.

(1) ÂŁ15,000-20,000

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446* Royal Opera House. Royal Opera House Covent Garden, by Andrew Ingamells (1956-),1993, aquatint on paper, signed and dated in pencil lower right, 41 x 55cm (16 x 21.5ins), framed and glazed, limited edition 44/150, together with Le Theatre de l’Opera, Paris, by the same artist, 1994, signed and dated in pencil lower right, 46 x 64cm (18 x 25ins), framed and glazed, limited edition 9/150, plus a coloured etching of Teatro Regio, Parma, by Ferrari Fabrizio, 2000, limited edition 6/55, 29 x 39cm (11.5 x 15.5ins) (3)

£100-150

Lot 448

447* Sontag (Henriette, 1806-1854). A papier-mache trinket box, with portrait of Henriette Sontag, inscribed to lower edge ‘Melle Sontag’, mid-19th century, hand-finished decoration to lid, 9cm (3.5in) diameter Henriette Sontag, one of the outstanding German coloratura sopranos of the 1820s and 30s onwards was born in Coblenz, and studied at the Prague Conservatory. She created the leading role in Weber’s Euryanthe in Vienna in 1823, and was the soprano soloist in the 1824 premiere of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and Missa Solemnis, followed by triumphant debuts in Berlin (1825), Paris (1826), and London (1828).

(1) £100-150

448* Sontag (Henriette, 1806-1854). A head and shoulders portrait attributed to John Hayter (1806-1854), circa 1833, watercolour on paper, typed note to verso giving identification of the subject, and additionally attributed in pencil to Hayter in the hand of Anthony Gasson, oval, 18 x 14cm (7 x 5.5ins), framed and glazed (1)

£150-200

449* Sontag (Henriette, 1806-1854). A contemporary half-length portrait of the singer Henriette Sontag, circa 1830, fine pen and ink with monochrome wash on laid paper, after the engraving by Franz Xaver Stober (1795-1858) published in 1827, inscribed below image ‘Fraulein H. Sontag’, laid down on modern backing paper, image size 21 x 17cm (8.25 x 6.75ins), sheet size 26.5 x 20cm (10.5 x 8ins) (1)

£100-150

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Lot 451

450* Strauss (Richard, 1864-1949). Full-length caricature portrait of Richard Strauss conducting, by Edmund Xavier Kapp (18901978), monochrome pen and ink and watercolour and chalk on paper, 33 x 23.5cm (13 x 9.5ins), framed and glazed Provenance: The Artist’s Estate; Chris Beetles (label to verso).

(1)

£300-500

451* Strauss (Johann, 1825-1899). A portrait of the composer Johann Strauss by Jakob Groh (1855-1917), uncoloured etching, signed by the artist in pencil, 46 x 33cm (18 x 13ins), together with a photogravure portrait of the composer, signed KIB, published by Franz Hanfstaengl, Munich, 36 x 26cm (14 x 10ins), mounted (2)

£100-150

452* Stravinsky (Igor, 1882-1971). Head and shoulders portrait by Arbit Blatas (1908-1999), 1953, pencil and sepia watercolour on white paper sketch showing the composer in profile, signed, titled and dated in pencil to lower margin, 32.5 x 27cm (12.75 x 10.5ins), framed and glazed (1)

£300-500

453* Sutherland (Joan, 1926-2010). Joan Sutherland in the role of Giulietta in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffman, by Robert Eddie, c.1974, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘85 lower left, 61 x 46cm (24 x 18ins), framed Provenance: Collection of Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge, Sotheby’s, February 1995, lot 280. Anthony Gasson’s copy of the catalogue from the Sotheby’s sale, signed by Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge, is included with the lot. Sutherland performed this role in the 1974 Australian production, with costumes designed by Jose Varona.

(2) £700-1000

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454* Verdi (Giuseppe, 1813-1901). Portrait of the composer Verdi by an unidentified artist, late 19th century, watercolour in sepia, black and body colour on off-white paper, head and shoulders portrait of Verdi as an older man wearing a hat, indistinct monogram lower right, 24 x 18cm (9.5 x 7ins), mounted with inset title caption, green baize surround and old decorative gilt frame, glazed The printed title caption inset in the lower mount identifies the artist as Johann Heindrich Ramberg 1763-1840. This is incorrect for the portrait depicts the composer in older age, c. 1880.

(1) £300-500

455* Spontini (Gaspare, 1774-1851). Portait of Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini by Antoine Paul Vincent (active circa 1806-circa 1895), 1810, fine circular profile portrait in black pencil and gouache on paper, signed and dated to lower left, verre eglamisé with lyre motif, in contemporary moulded gilt frame, gallery labels for David Messum and F. B. Daniell & Son to verso Provenance: Purchased by Anthony Gasson from David Messum in 1983.

Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851) was an Italian composer of melodramatic operas, who settled in Berlin from 1820 to 1842 where he became musical director to the Court of Berlin.

(1) £500-800

Lot 454

456* Wagner. Wotan and the Valkyries, Die Walkure, Act III, by A. C. Michael (active 1903-1916), 1906, grisaille watercolour on Winsor & Newton board, heightened with bodycolour, signed and dated lower right, 34 x 54cm (13.5 x 21ins) A.C. Michael worked as an illustrator for The Morning Star, and other London papers. It is likely this sketch was taken from one of three performances of Die Walkure given at Covent Garden in May 1906.

(1) £200-300

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457* Wagner. Three Covent Opera Posters by Ingrid Rosell (1928), promoting the centenary of the first performance of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at Bayreuth in 1876, two with dedication inscriptions from the artist to Anthony Gasson, slight creases but overall very good, 76 x 51cm (30 x 20ins) and similar (3)

458* Ward (James). Mrs Billington as Saint Cecilia, after a portrait

by Joshua Reynolds, published Messrs. Ward and Co., 1803 [or later], mezzotint with contemporary colour, trimmed to image on three margins, a little scattered spotting, 19th century gallery label to verso, framed and glazed, 65 x 41cm (25.5 x 16ins)

£100-150

Copies of this print are held at the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

(1) £100-150

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Lot 459

459* Yvon (Adolphe, 1817-1893). Portrait of the soprano Anna de la Grange de Stankowitch (1825-1905), fine oval coloured pastel portrait on paper, signed and dated 1874 centre left, 52 x 42cm (20.5 x 16.5ins), goodquality later 19th or early 20th century French gilt moulded frame by R. Thellier, 119 Rue de la Pompe, Paris Provenance: Purchased by Anthony Gasson at auction in France in the 1990s. The French coloratura soprano Anna de la Grange, one of the most famous opera singers of the 19th century was a protĂŠge of Rossini and Meyerbeer, and was the singer to play the role of Violetta in the American premier of La Traviata in New York in 1856. Adolphe Yvon (1817-1893) studied under Delaroche, and is famous for his scenes of military history as well as portraits.

(1) ÂŁ800-1200

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SCULPTURES, BRONZES & MEDALS

463* Composers. Three bronze commemorative medals of the composers Haydn, Strauss and Wagner, by A. Hartig, early 20th century, shallow-medium relief portraits, signed to truncation or flan edge, captioned, 75mm diameter and similar, all very fine (3)

464* Covent Garden Medal. A rare bronze medal commemorating the laying of the foundation of Covent Garden Theatre by George, Prince of Wales, by Peter Rouw (1771-1852), 1808, bronze relief medal, the obverse with a profile bust of the Prince of Wales in high relief, signed Rouw to truncation, cast separetely and pinned to flan, the reverse with inscription GEORGIUS. PRINCEPS. WALLIARUM. THEATRI. REGIIS. INSTAURANDI. AUSPICIIS. IN. HORTIS. BENEDICTINIS. LONDINI. FUNDAMENTA. SUA. MANU. LOCAVIT., 91mm diameter, very fine

460* Caruso (Enrico). Bronze bust of Enrico Caruso, modelled from life by Gianni Viafora (circa 1875-1930), 1921, brown patinated bronze, cast by Cellini Bronze Works, New York, signed and dated 1921 to base, height 19cm (7.5ins) Gianni Viafora (circa 1875 -1930) was a well-known illustrator, caricaturist and sculptor who settled in New York in 1901. A collection of his cartoons entitled Caricature was published by Brentano’s Austria, 1919.

(1) £300-500

BHM 638; Eimer 990. Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Joseph Farington R.A. (1747-1841). Latterly in the collection of Alec Clunes (19121970), actor and theatre manager. A contemporary hand-written note on circular paper in brown ink providing details of the history of the medal and it’s ownership accompanies this medal. It is believed that eighteen medals were struck from the die, which was then broken, one being laid under the foundation stone, seven given to the Prince of Wales, and one each to the King, the Queen, the Duke of Northumberland, Sir Thomas Lawrence R.A., Richard Payne Knight, the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and Robert Smirke, the architect. According to the hand-written note, this copy was given by Smirke to his close friend Joseph Farington R.A. (1) £300-500

461* Composers. A bronze commemoration medal of Gustav Mahler by Alfred Rothberger, [1905], obverse; portrait bust in low relief, cast caption GUSTAV MAHLER, signed to flan edge, reverse; art nouveau decoration, MEINE ZEIT WIRD NOCH KOMMEN, 49mm diameter, very fine, in fitted case, together with four other bronze medals and plaques celebrating the composers Liszt, Donizetti, Gounod and Nicholai, signed by Focht, Beran, Placht, Caque respectively, some dated, 70mm diameter and smaller For Mahler medal see Niggl 1236.

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£100-150

462* Composers. Eight bronze commemorative plaques of the composers and conductors Furtwangler, Strauss, Mayr, Puccini, Walter, Haydn and Weingartner, early 20th century, all with portrait busts in low relief, cast captions, signed Tautenhayn (3), Hartig (2), Swartz, Telos, and Rienauer, some dated, 74mm diameter and smaller (8)

£100-150

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465* Pasta (Giuditta, 1797-1865). A bronze medal profile portrait of Giuditta Angiola Maria Costanza Pasta (1797-1865), by PierreJean David d’Angers (1789-1856), 1828, bronze medal relief portrait in profile, the sitter facing right, with her hair tied up, inscribed Giuditta Pasta di Milano to border, signed bellow truncation, David and dated 1828, 116mm diameter, set within a period wooden frame and circular gilt surround, with label of Alphonse Giroux, Rue du Coq S. Honore No 7 à Paris to verso, contained in original silklined green morocco case (somewhat faded and a little wear to edges)

467* Lind (Jenny, 1820-87). A Parian bust of Jenny Lind, after a sculpture by Joseph Durham, reduced by Cheverton, Copeland, 1847, unglazed ceramic bust, signed and dated to back, transfer mark to base, raised on circular socle, height 21cm (8.5ins)

A fine portrait medal of the Italian soprano Giuditta Pasta (1797-1865), from the series of portrait medals by Pierre-Jean David d’Angers entitled Galérie des Contemporains. Pasta is considered one of the greatest 19th century opera divas of the 19th century, not dissimilar to Maria Callas in the 20th century. She made her first appearance in Milan in 1815, and performed in numerous roles in operas by Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini (many of which were created for her) to great acclaim. After hearing her in the role of Telemachus in Cimarosa’s Penelope, William Hazlitt wrote ‘There is a natural eloquence about her singing which we felt, and therefore understand ... her voice is good, her action is good; she has a handsome face, and very handsome legs’.

(1) £200-300

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468* Lind (Jenny, 1820-87). A bronze commemorative medal of Jenny Lind, by C. C. Quarnstrom, late 19th century, obverse:relief portrait bust with cast caption, signed to flan edge, reverse: MINNESGARD/AF TONKONSTENS VANNER/I STOCKHOLM, decorative border of lyres interspersed with wreaths containing Lind’s operatic roles, shallow relief design of four classical figures around a pedastal, one of the figures is inscribing ‘3 DEC. 1847/D. 12 APRIL.1848’, 77mm diameter, fine/very fine, together with a group of Lind memorabilia, including a paper-mache trinket box, decorated with a half length portrait of Lind, a porcelain figure, probably continental, showing Lind with flowers at her feet, a pressed glass bottle and pin dish each with head and shoulder portrais impressed, and a Baxter print of a full length portrait, framed and glazed

466* Fodor (Josephine, 1789-1870 & Luigi Lablache, 1794-1858).

A pair of silver commemorative medals celebrating Josephine Fodor and Luigi Lablache, by Josef Daniel Boehm, 1825, obverse: portrait bust and cast captions, signed to truncation, reverse: Fodor NATURA AN ARTE PRAESTANTIOR INCERTUM OPTIME CONSOCIATIS, Lablache ACTIONE ROSCIO IOPAE CANTU COMPARANDUS UTRAQUE LAURU CONSERTA AMBOBUS MAIOR, both 42mm diameter, some tarnish but very fine, contained together within pale blue velvet lined fitted box Niggl 645, 1032; Forrer I.203-4.

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£150-200

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469* Albert Carre Medal. A bronze plaque celebrating Albert Carrre (1852-1928), French theatre director, actor and librettist, early 20th century, cast portrait in low relief, captioned and signed C. Aim lower left, 67 x 78mm, very fine (1)

£70-100

470* Franz Schubert Medals. A bronze commemorative medal celebrating Franz Schubert (1797-1828), by Hartig, early 20th century, portrait bust in shallow relief, cast caption FRANZ SCHUBERT 1828 - 1928, signed to truncation, 75mm diameter, very fine, together with a similar medal 39mm diameter (2)

£70-100

471* Giuseppe Verdi Medals. A group of five medals of the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), 20th century, three in bronze, two in white metal, all with portrait busts in low relief, signed Donzelli, Gujjuzzo, Kounitzky, some dated, 84mm and smaller (5)

£100-150

472* Mendelssohn (Ludwig, 1809-1847). A Parian bust of the composer Mendelssohn, by Robinson and Leadbeater, late 19th century, unglazed ceramic bust, captioned to front, raised on circular socle, stamped R&L to back, height 24cm (9.5ins)

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£100-150

473* Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791). A bronze of the young Mozart tuning a violin by Paul Dubois (1829-1905), late 19th century, bronze, dark brown patina, titled ‘MOZART’ and signed ‘P. Dubois’ to base, height approx. 63cm (25ins) (1)

£2000-3000

474* Terpischore. A bronze plaque by Huguenin, Paris, c.1920, patinated bronze sculpture in shallow relief, cast signature and deposee mark to left edge, mounted on original wooden square plaque with carved edges and bronze studs, mount a little scuffed, 34 x 34cm (13.5 x 13.5ins) overall dimensions (1)

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£150-200

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476* Wagner (Richard, 1813-1883). A Parian ware bust of Wagner, Robinson and Leadbeater, late 19th century, captioned to front, raised on circular socle, stamped R&L to back, 25.5cm (10ins) high (1)

£100-150

477* Wagner (Richard). Four commemorative plaques celebrating the composers Wagner (2), Ludwig van Beethoven, and the conductor Hans Richter, early 20th century, two bronze and two white metal portrait busts in low relief, one signed Frass, 160mm diameter and similar (4)

£100-150

AUTOGRAPHS & PHOTOGRAPHS

475* Verdi (Giuseppe). A bronze plaque by Huguenin, Paris, c.1920, patinated bronze sculpture in shallow relief, cast signature and deposee mark, mounted on original wooden plaque with carved edges and bronze studs, 34.5 x 34.5cm (13.5 x 13.5ins) overall dimensions (1)

£200-300

478* Alagna (Roberto & Gheorgiu, Angela). A group of nine photographs of the tenor and soprano opera stars in Verdi’s La Traviata, Covent Garden Piazza, 8 July 1996, vintage gelatin silver prints by Catherine Ashmore, including six photographs of the pair together including one signed by both in gold (Alagna) and silver (Gheorgiu), plus three individual portraits from the same performance, one of Gheorgiu (signed in silver) and two of Alagna (one signed in gold), all 25.5 x 10cm (10 x 8ins) or the reverse, printed cast and credit details to versos The Romanian soprano Angela Gheorgiu met French-born tenor Roberto Alagna in 1992 while appearing with him in La Boheme at Covent Garden.

Their relationship deepened during Solti’s production of La Traviata, and they married in 1996 following a very public romance.

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480* Baker (Janet, born 1933). A good group of six signed large vintage gelain silver prints by Ronald Gunn, appearing in ‘Les Troyens’ with Scottish Opera, 3 May 1969, all signed by Baker, one in black ballpoint pen and five in silver marker, photographer’s credit stamp to verso of each, 36.5 x 25.5cm (14.5 x 10ins), and one the reverse Widely admired for her dramatic intensity, it was perhaps best represented in her famous portrayal as Dido, the tragic heroine of Berlioz’s Magnum Opus, ‘Les Troyens’, conducted by Alexander Gibson.

(6) £200-300

479* Auber (Daniel Francoise, 1782-1871). Autograph letter signed ‘Auber’, Conversatoire National de Musique, Paris, 31 January 1849, in French, to the director of an opera house noting that the Conservatoire students will be performing ‘La Pie Voleuse’ [Rossini’s ‘Thieving Magpie’] next Sunday, and Auber asked to borrow a few accessories which are only to be found in the stores of his theatre, such as the magpie and its cage, and noting that his predecessor, in similar circumstances, was kind enough to offer this service to the Conservatoire, etc., one page on printed letterhead, light uniform toning, 8vo, together with Milhaud (Darius, 1892-1974), autograph letter signed, ‘Milhaud’, n.d., in French, telling that his about to depart on the 5th October and asking if the unnamed recipient would telephone him in early November, light uniform toning, and slight marginal split without loss, one page, 4to, plus a lithographic portrait of Auber after Paul Delaroche (3)

£100-150

481* Bayreuth Festival - Parsifal. A group of twenty-one albumen print cabinet cards from performances of Parsifal, 1890s, including eight photographs from the studio of W. Hoffert, the majority of others by Hans Brand (some imprints and cards trimmed), all showing two or more figures from various productions Actors identified include Van Dyck, Amalie Materna and Gurnemans.

(21) £300-500

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482* Bayreuth Festival - Parsifal. A group of twenty-nine albumen print cabinet cards of female performers from of Parsifal, c. 1880s/1890s, all depicting individual singers including Therese Malter, Amalie Materna, Marian Brandt, Lilli Lehmann, and others, eleven photographs from the studio of W. Hoffert, the majority mainly Hans Brand (many imprints trimmed at lower mount) (29)

£400-600

483* Bayreuth Festival - Parsifal. A group of twenty-nine album print cabinet cards of male performers in Parsifal, c. 1880s/1890s, including eight photographs from the studio of W. Hoffert, the remainder mostly Hans Brand (several imprints trimmed at lower mount), singers include Karl Scheidemantel, Liebke Klipe(?), Van Dyck and others (29)

£400-600

Lot 482

484 Broadside. Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, broadside promoting performances of Marriage of Figaro, Fidelio and Euryanthe, staring Madame Malibran, Madame Vestris, Madame Schroeder Devrient and Madame de Meric, and by special desire of Her Majesty, the Magic Flute, printed by S. G. Fairbrother, June 1833, slightly marginal chipping and a little tonning to lower edge, 34 x 21cm (13.5 x 8ins), framed and glazed (1)

£150-200

485 Broadsides. A collection of thirteen broadsides mainly promoting the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, but also the Lyceum, featuring performances of Acis and Galatea, Beggers Opera, Bohemian Girl, Matilda, Sappho and The Syren, sung by Madame Grissi, Mr Braham, Tambourini, Lablache and others, c.1835-48, some spread over two sheets, a few marginal tears but mostly in good condition, 51 x 50cm (19.5 x 20ins) and smaller (13)

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£300-500

486* Buckingham Palace. A group of thirteen souvenier printed concert programmes for gala performances given at Buckingham Palace, June-July, 1890-1899, featuring performances by Nelly Melba, Madame Calve, Edouard de Reszke, Madame Albani, Edward Lloyd, Madamoiselle, Zelie de Lussan and others, mostly printed by Ortner & Houle, six printed in purple with blindembossed floral border decoration and with royal coat of arms in gilt and colours, remainder printed in blue with border decoration in gold, 23 x 18.5cm (9 x 7ins)

490* Caruso (Enrico, 1873-1921). Autograph letter signed, ‘Enrico Caruso’, Hotel Knickerbocker, New York, 18 December 1914, to the New Zealand-born Australian-raised operatic soprano Frances Alda (1879-1952), in Italian, saying that he has received the letter from Bubina in which he asked about the record of the duet from Carmen, and answering that it is in the possession of Signor Child, two pages with integral blank pages (pp. 2 & 3), 8vo, together with the original stamped and postmarked enveloped adddressed in Caruso’s holograph

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Alda had frequent onstage singing partnerships at the New York Metropolitan Opera with Caruso. The duet from Bizet’s Carmen referred to may well be one of their own duets.

(1) £200-300

£200-300

487* Buckingham Palace. A group of ten printed souvenier programmes for gala concerts given at Buckingham Palace, JuneJuly 1880-1887, featuring performances by Edward Lloyd, Christine Nilsson, Ella Russell, Barton McGuckin, Pauline Lucca and others, printed in purple on Ortner & Houle paper with blind-embossed floral borders and royal coat of arms in gilt and colours, 23 x 19cm (9 x 7.5ins) (10)

£200-300

488* Buckingham Palace. A group of six souvenier programmers for gala concerts given at Buckingham palace, and one for Marlborough House, 1865-1879, featuring performances by Adelina Patti, Ilma de Murska, Christine Nilsson, Charles Halle, Sims Reeves, and others, three printed in blue ink on Ortner & Houle paper with blind embossed floral borders with royal coat of arms in gilt and colours, one similar printed in purple, one printed in purple on card with gilt decorated scalloped edge, and another printed similarly with blind embossed scalloped edge, another printed in grey with embossed royal coat of arms in red, manuscript seating arrangement to verso, larger 25 x 20cm (10 x 8ins) (7)

£200-300

491* Costa (Michael, 1808-1884). Ebony baton with presentation inscription in Italian, which translated reads: ‘This that will make time flow faster or slower, will become a magic wand in your hands’, blue cotton tassel, 42cm long (16.5ins)

489* Carpentier (Gustave, 1860-1956). Autograph postcard signed, ‘G Carpentier’, stamp postmarked Etretat, 5 December 1918, to Madame Chatelin, a brief note, ‘Mercredi: Pigalle, replies cours de M. E. Schwartz’, with two further marginal notes, one concerning the reimbursement of 5 francs from those not going to Clermont, written to message side of postcard with black and white view of Etretat, stamp and postmark to left margin of image

This was the last baton used by Sir Michael Costa, who gave his last concert in 1883. As director and conductor of the Royal Italian Opera at the King’s Theatre from 1831 to 1866, and at Covent Garden from 1846 to 1868, Costa gave the first performances of most of the great Italian and French operas of the period, including those of Verdi and Rossini. His introduction of the baton for conducting imposed a greater authority and discipline than formerly demanded, and his skillful technique gained him the reputation as leading opera maestro of the world of his day. Together with a colour photograph from the occasion of the unveiling of a plaque to Sir Michael Costa at his home at 59 Eccleston Square, Pimlico, London. Shown in the photograph is Antonio Pappano holding the baton as loaned by Anthony and Sussan Gasson for the occasion.

(2) £200-300

Carpentier wrote very little music after 1913 but was very active during world war one in helping to bring aid to wounded soldiers.

(1) £70-100

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492* Covent Garden Opera. A substantial and informative archive of 146 autograph letters addressed to Martin Cawood, secretary of the English Opera Company Ltd., and other members of the Covent Garden management, 1858-1865, including both personal and official letters from many notable correspondents, the majority on original album mounts and many with Cawood’s annotations, identifying writers and often establishing the years of otherwise undated items, mostly between one and four pages, 8vo

Macfarren (offering a new work). A splendid letter from H.F. Chorley reports in detail on negotiations with Pauline Viardot, giving her views on the roles she wishes to play, and his own on both her and other singers. Among the forty or so others in this category are letters from Gardoni, Harrison, Lemmens-Sherington and her husband, Parepa-Rosa (2, one asking for a prompter, ‘and also I should like not to have to talk on the stage, and if it is absolutely necessary... make it as short as possible’); Henry Phillips (3), Louisa Pyne (4), Sims Reeves (2), Santley (2) and Mary Anne Paton. Of particular interest is the information these letters contain on the earnings of the singers: Louisa Pyne leads with a demand for seventy pounds for three performances a week, followed closely by Sherington; Perepa-Rosa asks forty pounds. Henry Phillips, once probably the highest-paid English bass of his time, hesitantly suggests ten pounds a week, while Clara Denvil, pantomime artiste, accepts ‘with great pleasure’ an offer of three pounds.

The remaining letters are mostly of a more domestic nature, e.g. requests and thanks for tickets or other favours, invitations &c. More well-known names occur, but even the most obscure correspondent is identifiable, forming a unique and contemporary commentary on the productions and performers of the Covent Garden English Opera. (an archive) £700-1000

A rare and coherent collection that adds considerably to the knowledge of a little-known chapter in the history of opera at Covent Garden. The first group of twenty-five letters refers to the setting up and business transactions of the new company, including offers of patronage, committee meetings, etc.

A large number of letters are from composers and singers, offering their works or their services, arranging appointments, and negotiating terms and conditions. Two letters from the musical director Alfred Mellon discuss his contract and ‘estimates for Band & Chorus’, while one letter from a scenepainter thanks the directors for engaging him. The better-known names include Loder, Hallé (2), Wallace (2), Piatti, Molique, Benedict (3 letters about his own works and their reception, including a request for a claque to boost the applause); Barnett (a long letter about an unknown opera), and

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494* Covent Garden. Programme of the Gala Performance by Command of His Majesty the King in Honour of the Visit of Their Majesties the King and Queen of Denmark, Tuesday, June 11, 1907, printed silk programme, with decorative colour border, listing performances by Mlle. Destinn,mme. Melba, and Signor Caruso, amongst others, 33 x 24cm (13 x 9.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed, together with Programme of the Gala Performance by Command of His Majesty the King in Honour of the Visit of His Majesty the King of Spain, Thursday, June 8, 1905, printed card programme, with decorative colour border, 35.5 x 26.5cm (14 x 10.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed (2)

493 [Royal Opera House.] Royal Italian Opera Prospectuses, 1866 to 1887 [so title on upper cover], comprising seventeen prospectuses of the twenty-two for this period, lacking those for 1869, 1879, 1884-1886, and containing additional prospectuses of Her Majesty’s Opera, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1875, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Haymarket, 1878 and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, First Grand German Opera Season, all with original wrappers retained, (1866 Royal Italian Opera lacks upper wrapper), additionally containing printed folding flyers for Short Series of Operatic Performances at Royal Italian Opera in 1869, 1870, 1871 (linen-backed), 1878, plus one other for the Haymarket in 1878, all edges gilt, contemporary burgundy morocco, edge wear, good quality morocco gilt reback, 8vo

£100-150

495* Covent Garden. In Celebration of The Centenary of The Royal Opera House and in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, A Gala Performance on Tuesady 10th June 1958, fringed nylon satin programme designed by Peter Hatch, printed in pink and black within a blue border, with the Royal Arms at head drawn by Rex Whistler, 57 x 29.5cm (22.5 x 11.5ins)

Provenance: Neil Forsyth, Royal Opera, Covent Garden (ownership inscription to front pastedown); Herman Klein, musical critic and vocal teacher of singing (posthumous note in another hand to front free endpaper); Major A. Cornwell-Clyne (cinematographer, typed letter signed, 5 January 1960, presenting the volume to Herbert Menges, composer and conductor). Notable among these prospectuses of the major stars of the day are the first performances in England of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger and Tristan und Isolde, both noted in H. Franke’s & B. Pollini’s First Grand Opera Season, May and June 1882, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, under the conducting of Hans Richter. The Royal Italian Opera became the Royal Opera House in 1892, the year that its convention of performing all operas in Italian, regardless of the original libretto, was dropped. In that season Mahler presented the debut of Wagner’s Ring Cycle.

(1) £200-300

Featuring performances by Maria Callas (‘I Puritani’), Joan Sutherland, Margot Fonteyn, Nadia Nerina, Rafael Kubelik and others.

(1) £150-200

496* Covent Garden. A collection of four silk programmes for Gala Performances, 1903-1908, fringed printed silk, all with decorative colour border, occasional minor marks, one spotted, approximately 41 x 32cm (16.25 x 12.5ins) Featuring performances by Mlle. Destinn, Mme. Melba, Signor Caruso, Mme. Tetrazzini, and others.

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497* Covent Garden. State Visit to the Opera, Tuesday, July 2nd, 1889, By Command of Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen, in Honour of His Majesty The Shah, K.G., fringed silk, printed in blue, 45.5 x 29.5cm (18 x 11.5ins)

500* Donizetti (Gaetano, 1797-1848). Autograph letter signed, ‘Gaeton Donizetti’, 11th December [1839], in French, to an unidentified male singer, translating roughly as, ‘You told me that you were permitted to drink cordials. I take this opportunity to present you with a basket of twenty-five bottles. I trust that you will find them good and to your satisfaction. They should help you reinvigorate your chest cavity from the fatigue caused by the rehearsals at the Marly [of ‘Les Martyrs’, first performed in Paris on 10th April 1840], some paper toning and a few professional paper repairs not affecting text, one page, 8vo

Featuring performances by Madame Melba, Madame Albani, and others.

(1) £150-200

498* Covent Garden. A group of seven printed posters promoting the Italian opera season at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in Autumn 1907, including performances of Rigoletto, Gli Ugonotti, La Traviata, Madama Butterfly, Giojelli Della Madonna and Aida sung by Luisa Tetrazzini, John McCormack, Emmy Destinn, Dante Zucchi, A. L. Berat and others, all printed in green and black, lightly creased where previously folded, most with some marginal fraying and loss, generally not affecting text, 76 x 51cm (30 x 20ins)

Donizetti had written the three-act tragic opera ‘Poliuto’ in 1838. Close to the time for rehearsals to begin, King Ferdinand II refused to allow the martyrdom of a Christian saint (St. Polyeuctus) to be seen on stage and forbade the production. Donizetti, angered by the censorship, left for Paris to produce the opera as ‘Les Martyrs’. The French text was prepared by Eugene Scribe, the leading role of Poliuto and possibly recipient of the letter, was taken by the tenor Carlo Baucardé.

(1) £700-1000

Includes the debut performance of Luisa Tetrazzini as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata at Covent Garden June 13 1907.

(7) £200-300

499* Delibes (Leo, 1836-1891). Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Leo Delibes’, Paris, Saturday 12 November [1887], to an unnamed theatre director concerning the visit to Paris of M. Warnots, ‘pour voir avec moi la partition de Lakme et nous entendre sur les mouvements. Je suis tres sensible a cette demarche, qui me prouve, de votre part et de la sienne, un grand desir de faire executer l’ouvrage dans le sentiment et les intentions de l’auteur, ce qui est une chance de plus pour le succes’, proposing train times and rendez-vous places, remembering fondly Mme Verheyden, 4 pages on black-edged mourning paper, 8vo

501* Elgar (Edward, 1857-1934). Incomplete autograph letter signed, ‘Edward Elgar’, n.d., the final page thanking the correspondent for telling him and sending kind regards, one page, 8vo, together with German (Edward, 1862-1936), autograph letter signed, ‘Edward German’, The Laurels, Whitchurch, Salop, 16 August 1895, to Harrie, thanking her (?) for sending the collars and cuffs, continuing ‘I am now settling down to work on my Symphony, but I shall have to get back to my diggings before I shall do anything very alarming at it, telling that he has heard from Fred and that he will get the photos developed, with a postcript asking for his nightshirt to be sent on, some soiling, 3 pp., 8vo

Delibes’ three-act opera Lakmé was first performed on 14 April 1883 by the Opéra Comique at the Salle Favart in Paris.

(1) £150-200

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503* Flagstad (Kirsten, 1895-1962). Autograph letter signed, ‘Kirsten Flagstad not Hagstad’, n.d., to Henry G. Porter, in English, apologising for the broken photograph of herself, ‘If I should take care of all the photos I am sending to people who is asking for it, send them with cardboards I could have nothing else to do. I try to do my best, but I have the feeling that I have no thanks for it, only requests.

I am writing to you in this way because I did not like the schoolmaster tone in your letter. Of course it is not amusing to get a photo disturbed because I have been careless. I would like to know where you can get my photos, I did not know that you could buy them. If you could only know how artists feel about all letters asking for photos and autographs you would never ask for anything more’, and with pointed signature correcting the misspelling of her surname, 3 pp., small 8vo A wonderful and forthright letter from the Norwegian soprano on the subject of ungracious celebrity autograph hunters.

(1) £100-150

504* Gheorghiu (Angela, 1965-). A Royal Opera House poster for the 2004 performance of Faust, colour reproduction poster, showing Gheorghiu as Marguerite and Roberto Alagna as Faust, signed in gold by both artists, together with a similar poster from the same production, featuring Roberto Alagna, signed by him, 75 x 51cm (30 x 20ins) (2)

£100-150

502* Ferrier (Kathleen, 1912-1953). Signed vintage photograph by James Abresch, New York, c. 1950, gelatin silver print, head-andshoulders portrait showing Ferrier with full smile, signed presentation inscription in green ink to upper right light area of image, ‘For Uncle George and Auntie Maud - that ‘golden’ pair, with all my love, Kathleen’, photographer’s credit in the negative and wetstamp to verso, a few small marginal marks, 25 x 20cm (10 x 8ins) The great and short-lived English contralto Kathleen Ferrier sang for the first time in New York in 1948, to great acclaim, and then began tours of America and elsewhere during the following few years. Her uncle George was the youngest brother of her father William. A nice specimen of an uncommon autograph.

(1) £200-300

505* Gigli (Beniamino, 1880-1957). Signed photo of the Italian tenor as Don Alvaro in ‘Forza del Destino’ at La Scala, Milan, captioned in the negative to lower margin, signed and dated 1947 in blue ink across lower part of image, 15 x 10cm (6 x 4ins), together with a black and white picture postcard from Gigli to his wife postmarked 26 January 1917, picture postcard of Turin, written to his wife Constanza, with brief greetings but no signature, a little soiled and marked, plus a group of sixteen further gelatin silver print photographs featuring Gigli, mostly 1940s/1950s, majority press prints with credit details to verso, approx. 20 x 25cm and similar sizes

Lot 503

The great tenor whose voice, first heard by Anthony Gasson in a 1946 radio broadcast, sparked his lifelong passion of opera (18) £150-200

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506 Glyndebourne Festival Opera. A collection of festival programmes, many covers specially commissioned by leading artists, 1952-2003, some duplicates, mostly uniformly bound into modern green albums, folio (a carton)

£100-150

508* Malibran (Maria, 1808-1836). Autograph letter signed, ‘M.F. Malibran’, 27 July 1829, to Madame de Boutelles in Paris, in French, translating as, ‘My dear little lady, I am quite sure that you are not expecting to receive a little package from me or a scrap of letter, but that’s the way I am. I come when least expected, or rather when I am not expected at all - and so, here I am! I come to say a few words to you before my departure for Brussels next Sunday. I plan to stay there two weeks, so if you want to write to me there I shall be at the Hotel Bellevue. I hope to recover from all my fatigue and regain by degrees the health which I lost as a result of an illness caused by my sorrow. Farewell, my little pussycat, I embrace you most tenderly and wish you a good arrival, health and prosperity. Best regards to your kind husband, and with friendly greetings, M.F. Malibran’, 4 pp. including integral address leaf with small seal tear, 8vo (1)

£300-500

507* Gounod (Charles, 1818-1893). Autograph letter signed, ‘Ch. Gounod’, 6 July 1880, to an unnamed friend, recommending to his benevolent interest Madame Roqueblave who has been at the Opera [Paris] for seventeen years and in the principal amphitheatre for four, telling that she speaks English very well, two pages with integral blank, 8vo, together with a photogravure portrait of the late composer by EW Savory (2)

£150-200

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510* Malibran (Maria, 1808-1836). Autograph letter signed ‘Mariquita’, Naples, 16 December 1833, to Mrs Merlin, in French, apologising for the long silence since she last wrote but saying she never lost the memory of an affectionate friend and compatriot like herself, noting that she has often had occasion to speak of Mrs Merlin and her charming get togethers and the little suppers after the concerts, telling that Mr Hope, Mr Dentici and Mr Falconnet are here and that they have spoken of the countess Merlin with real pleasure, looking forward to returning to Paris and finding her there as beautiful and as brilliant as in the past, saying there isn’t much news to give, that everyone in Naples complains and there is nothing to amuse oneself there outside of the theatre, telling that she sees very little of society in Naples, that people are not very sociable and rather stiff, telling that the royal family is often present obliging gentlemen to wear uniforms, which bores them, telling that the Queen Mother is an angel of goodness as is the Prince of Salerno and that these are the only members of the royal family who are truly loved, without flattery, by me the first. Malibran continues by saying that she has been asked to play the role of the Pirate and asking what Mrs Merlin thinks, mentioning an opera composed for her by Paccini, also telling that she is rehearsing Bellini’s Li Capuletti, etc., later noting, ‘They say that I provoke fanaticism. I haven’t noticed it much, because the court came each time and the public can only applaud when the court gives the signal. All this is so far from Paris. But I musn’t dwell upon that; for I am replaced and forgotten. So I must live upon memories, and put a snuffer on the rest’, concluding with thanks and embraces for Mrs Merlin and Terence, 4 pp. including integral address leaf, small seal tear, 8vo

509* Malibran (Maria, 1808-1836). An intimate autograph letter, signed ‘Maria’, 23 March 1830, in French, slightly flirtatious in tone, Malibran opens her letter with ‘A cheval, a cheval!’ and playfully reassures him that the two escorts that she has been seen out walking with cannot take his place in her affections, thanking him for the roses he sent her, ‘It was so nice of you to have thought of my birthday tomorrow. What memory, what pretty roses, what a nice gift’, arranging to meet him the next day that she may thank him properly, and begging him to wait in case she is late, explaining that she has been unable to sleep and has risen at four in the morning to write to him still wearing some of the makeup she wore earlier in the evening, 3 pp., 8vo Ernest Legouve (1807-1903) first met Malibran in Paris in 1828, was one of her closest friends, and an earlier biographer. April Fitzylon in her biography of Malibran suggests that the French author was ‘more than a little in love with her and although there is no evidence that she reciprocated his feelings she did confide in him, and wrote him some very intimate letters’. However, this letter clearly shows that she was encouraging his affections.

(1) £700-1000

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£500-800

511* Massenet (Jules, 1842-1912). Autograph musical quotation signed ‘Massenet’ and inscribed to Eduan(?) Dworzak, Paris, 3 July 1899, one bar from the first Act of his opera Cendrillon, ink on card, 9 x 11.5cm Cendrillon (Cinderella) gave its premiere in Paris on 24 May 1899.

(1) £200-300

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513* Massenet (Jules, 1842-1912). Autograph letter signed, 20 June, no place and no year, in French, and to an unidentified recipient, thanking him for the newspaper, letter and poetry, ‘Merci de tout coeur pour tout!’, suggesting that the poem suits a call scene with a male voice, assuring him he won’t forget this, and with a marginal reference to Jongleur [de Notre-Dame, 1902], boldly signed, 3 pp., 8vo (1)

£200-300

512* Massenet (Jules, 1842-1912). Autograph letter signed ‘J. Massenet’, Paris, 14 October, [1884], to E[rnest] Reyer, written in French on verso of pre-printed and perforated telegram form, telling Reyer that he is arriving in Brussels where Stoumon and Calabresi are awaiting him and knowing that the reprise of ‘Sigurd [first performance, Brussels, 1884]’ will be a great success, sending his kind regards to Reyer and also to Madame Caron and his beautiful widow, one page, address panel in Massenet’s holograph to verso, a few minor marks and slight tear to right margin, not affecting text, small 8vo Ernest Reyer (1823-1909) was a French composer whose most famous work was Sigurd. Rose Caron (1857-1930) the French operatic soprano created the role of Brunehild at its premiers in Brussels and also in Paris in 1885.

(1) £200-300

514* Melba (Nellie, 1859-1931). Signed cabinet card by Walery, albumen print laid on card with photographer’s printed details beneath and to card verso, Melba shown half-length in profile, signed and dated by the artist, ‘Nellie Melba, 1897’ across upper margin, 17 x 11cm (6.75 x 4.25ins) Australian-born sorpano, and one of the most consummate technicians of her era, she ruled Covent Garden on stage and off.

(1) £150-200

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515* Meyerbeer (Giacomo, 1791-1864). Autograph letter signed, ‘Meyerbeer’, [Paris, 1835?], to Emil Deschamps, in French, addressing him as his dear and famous friend, sending him an image of his work of which he is sending the original and hoping that Deschamps will be able to decipher is scrawl, saying that [Cornelie] Farcon is waiting even more impatiently that [Adolphe] Nourrit for Deschamps’ corrections in order to be able to learn it by heart, continuing to say that it will be necessary to change the expressions about the struggle ..., sending greetings from his mother and himself, two pages with integral blank leaf and address panel, remains of wax seal, 8vo, together with a related autograph letter signed from E[ugene] Scribe to Monsieur Schlessinger, no place, no date, [probably Paris, 1835], in French, telling that his composers always make him a present of their scores composed to his words, but that Meyerbeer has not yet given me ‘Les Huguenots’ (which I would like to have this morning ...), one page with integral address leaf on Scribe’s personal stationery embossed with his initials, some browning, and old marginal adhesion marks, fore-margin partly torn away, not affecting text, 8vo, plus a phorogravure portrait of the composer by EW Savory The letters refers to Meyerbeer’s opera ‘Les Huguenots’, one of the most popular examples on the style of grand opera. Composed in five acts with a libretto by Eugene Scribe and Emil Deschamps, it premiered in Paris in 1836.

Emil de Saint-Amand Deschamps (1791-1871) was a French poet who also collaborated with Hector Berlioz.

(3) £200-300

516* Meyerbeer (Giacomo, 1791-1864). Autograph letter signed, ‘Giacomo Meyerbeer’, Berlin, 12 July 1840, to Franz Tesca in Magduburg in German, telling that through their common friend concert master [Adolf? Muller], that he is already informed about how enthusiastic and eager Tesca is in leading his club and how much he has done to preserve and develop the arts in Magduburg, saying that he is flattered to receive the offer but is unable to follow this up due to other demands, hoping to visit Magduburg again next year, one page with integral blank leaf and address panel with Berlin postmark, some spotting and minor marks, 4to

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£200-300

517* Meyerbeer (Giacomo, 1791-1864). Autograph letter signed, ‘Meyerbeer’, n.d., to Gilbert Duprez, in French, saying that the intendant of the Theatre Royal of Munich is staying until Monday in order to have the pleasure of hearing him sing in ‘Le Lac des Fees’ [opera by Auber, first performed 1 April 1839], and inviting his illustrious tenor to come to dinner with them, one page on Meyerbeer’s personal stationery with embossed initials, integral address leaf with remains of wax seals, 8vo Gilbert Duprez (1806-1896) replaced Nourrit as leading tenor at the Opera, Paris, 1837-49.

(1) £200-300

518* Nadar (Felix, 1820-1910). A group of four cabinet card photo portraits of mezzo-sopranos, c. 1900, including Lucy Arbel as Queen Amahelli (Massenet, Bacchus), Jane Margyl in an unidentified role, one of Alphonsine Richard as Fides in ‘Le Prophete’, plus one other identified as Richard but possibly Madame Peschard, all with photographer’s credit stamps and details to front and back, each approx. 16.5 x 11cm (4)

£100-150

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519* Nilsson (Christine, 1843-1921). Autograph letter signed, 7 Kensington Court, Kensington Palace, W, n.d., in full, ‘Dear Sir, Of course I intend to sing Schubert’s song in G mineur as it is written!

Sincerely yours, Christine Nilsson’, one page on letterhead printed in blue and gilt, 8vo, mounted with a cabinet card photograph of Nilsson, c. 1870, showing the Swedish operatic soprano full length in costume and wearing a small crown, the whole framed and glazed, overall 35 x 42cm (14 x 16.5ins), together with three further autograph letters signed, one dated 2nd August 1869, all to unidentified recipients, two in French and one in English, signed, Christine Nilsson, C. Nilsson-Rouzaud and Christine NilssonRouzaud, a total of 6 pp., 8vo (4)

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£100-150

520* Offenbach (Jacques, 1819-1880). Autograph letter signed, ‘Jacques Offenbach’, 6 October 1874, to Madame de Caux(?) saying that his wife and children will be at her representation on Sunday, hoping there are lodgings in the vicinity and sending his regards to Monsieur de Caux, two pages with integral blank, on Theatre de la Gaity letterhead, 8vo (1)

£200-300

521* Programme. A souvenier printed programme on silk, and a souvenier Book of Words for the visit of the German Emporer & Empress to the Royal Italian Opera, 8 July 1891, featuring performances by Nelly Melba, Giulia Ravogli, Edouard de Reszke, Jean de Reszke and others, silk programme printed in blue by London Stereoscopic Company, 55 x 30cm (20 x 12ins), book of works including a number of black and white portraits taken from photographs, 8pp of adverts, original printed paper wrappers, some rubbing a slightly chipped to lower edge, 4to (2)

523* Puccini (Giacomo, 1858-1924). Vintage signed postcard, c.

1905, head and shoulders real photo postcard, signed and dated vertically downwards either side of his face, ‘Giacomo Puccini, Torre del Lago, 3.1.09’, adhesion marks to verso affecting imprint details to left margin, addressed in Puccini’s holograh to ‘Mr Herbert Hugh Harvey, 41 Hugh A., Belgrave Road, London, S.W.’, without message, stamp or postmark, verso somewhat toned, 135 x 85mm This card was signed by Puccini at a time of great tension, and operatic high drama, in the household he shared with his common-law wife Elvira.

On 1st January the jealous Elvira had wrongly accused their maid Dora Manfredi of having an affair with the maestro. Further insults were publicly made and tragically the entirely innocent and virgin Dora committed suicide on 23 January.

(1) £400-600

£100-150

522 Programme. Souvenir printed programme on silk and printed study score for the state performance at the Royal Opera Covent Garden in honour of the marriage of the Duke of York and the Princess May of Teck, 4 July 1893, featuring performances by Nelly Melba, Edoard de Reszke, Lucile Hill and others, programme printed in sepia by Walery, 54 x 35cm (21 x 14ins), study score with final blank torn out, all edges gilt, silk with gilt decoration, slightly rubbed, contents shaken, small 4to (2)

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524* Puccini (Giacomo, 1858-1924). A long and fine autograph letter initialled ‘G.P.’, letterhead of Grand Hotel des Thermes, Bagni di Lucca, 15 July 1909, to his close friend Sybil [Seligman], in Italian and largely unpublished, written just over a week after Elvira, his wife, was sentenced to imprisonment and damages resulting from her part in the Dora Affair, ‘Nothing has yet been resolved. Elvira is still in Milan, where Tonio [their son] is ill. At the moment I am getting the judgement withdrawn by paying a large amount of money, but without Elvira knowing; I am not sure whether she would want it, since she may have some idea about defending herself by an appeal ... I am on my own here, and my days are thoroughly gloomy. There is nobody here. I cannot work; I shall try today, as a piano arrived yesterday... . Elvira and I are not writing anymore ... ‘, Puccini has asked Elvira what she needs for Fosca [Elvira’s daughter by her first marriage], Puccini noting he will give a reasonable sum, but she is demanding a large cheque without providing any accounts and Puccini suspects that part of the sum is to be handed over to the Leonardis, feeling that she fears any implication that she has been giving them money over the past years, (something that she has always denied), 4 pp., 8vo Puccini’s letters to Sybil Seligman constitute one of the best first-hand sources of information on the man Puccini. The two met in 1904 and formed a friendship that ‘began as a passionate love affair and ... developed into one of the few genuine friendships which Puccini was able to form; it lasted to his death’ (Mosco Carner, ‘Puccini’ (1958), p. 140).

(1) £700-1000

525* Rossini (Gioacchino, 1792-1868). Autograph letter signed, ‘G. Rossini’, Paris, 10 September 1843, to his lawyer Filippo Santocanale in Palermo, informing his lawyer that he has received his letter, asking for a copy of the contract to be sent to him in Paris, telling that he will be leaving Paris for a few days, sending regards to Madame Santocanale, etc., a few spots, one page with address-leaf to verso, 4to (1)

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526 Rossini (Gioachino). Printed funeral invitation, Paris, [1868], inviting the unnamed recipient to be part of the convoy, service and burial of Gioacchino-Antonio Rossini at the Church of the Trinity on Saturday 21 November, asking to meet at the church at 11:30am, printed with no manuscript insertions, black-edged mourning paper with integral blank, small split and a little dust-soiling, 4to Rossini died on 13 November 1868 and was buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, near Cherubini, Chopin and Bellini. In 1887 his body was handed over to the city of Florence for reburial in Santa Croce, with a procession of more than 6,000 mourners including four military bands, and a chorus of 300.

(1) £100-150

527* Saint-Saens (Camille, 1835-1921). Autograph letter signed, ‘C. Saint-Saens’, no date, (envelope postmarked Paris, 3 October, 1893), to the composer Gabrial Fauré telling Fauré that he will probably get a visit from a young man called [René] Thorel, the son of a childhood friend telling that the boy is determined to make music and that his father has decided to leave him the liberty to do so, and hoping that Fauré might take him under his wing, 3 pp., 8vo, together with the original envelope (1)

£200-300

529* Scotti (Antonio, 1866-1936). Large vintage photogravure portrait of the barotone as Scarpia, oval image on white card with old water stain tide-mark to lower area not affecting image, attractively and boldly signed and inscribed by the artist across lower area of image, ‘To Miss Roberts, A. Scotti, London 1914’, image size 33 x 23cm (13 x 9ins), together with a second signed photograph of Scotti from the studio of Giulio Rossi, Milan, gelatin silver print, head-and-shoulders portrait of the barotone in a suit and sporting an operatic moustache, signed presentation inscription from Scotti diagonally across lower part of image, for Muriel Fernand, London 1903, 20.5 x 13cm (8 x 5ins), flush-mounted on card with photographer’s studio credit at foot, a little spotting

528* Sanderson (Sibyl, 1865-1904). Albumen print cabinet card of Sanderson as ‘Esclarmond’ in Massenet’s opera of that name, signed and inscribed by Sanderson and dated 15 May 1887 [date of the premiere], together with a second signed cabinet card of Sanderson by Reutlinger, dated August 1893, plus four further signed cabinet cards of American sopranos and mezzo-sopranos, Fanny Moody Manners, Eleonora de Cisneros, Olive Fremstad and Clara Kellogg (photo by Sarony, 1871, facsimile signature of Kellogg to lower mount) (6)

£200-300

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531* Sullivan (Arthur, 1842-1900). Autograph letter signed, ‘Arthur S. Sullivan’, 8 Albert Mansions, SW, 4 September 1873, to Mr Ryan excusing for not having replied earlier owing to having only just returned from the Festival at Birmingham, ‘Regarding your article merely as a piece of literary work, to me it read most admirable as it was. What it might have been with all the emmendations you speak I cannot say, but I think it could hardly be improved. [Edward] Dicey told me last that although it was a musical notice he had read it! and he spoke very highly of it. It is hardly becoming of me to say what I feel with regard to its lauditory tones, but you will not, I hope, mind my expressing the great gratification I felt that you should appreciate my work so highly and express that appreciation such warm tones and with so much kindly feeling’, a little dust-soiling, 4 pp., 8vo, together with an original Vanity Fair colour lithograph of Sullivan by Ape, 1874, plus accompanying letterpress leaf Sullivan’s oratorio ‘The Light of the World’ was first performed at the Birmingham Festival on 27 August 1873.

(2) £150-200

532* Sutherland (Joan, 1926-2010). Royal Opera House Poster for 1978 production of Anna Bolena, dedication in silver by Joan Sutherland to Anthony Gasson, also signed by Kim Begley, 76 x 51cm (30 x 20ins), together with A Pair of Reg Wilson proof photographs of Joan Sutherland from the same performance, 38 x 28cm (15 x 11ins), framed and glazed, plus A sketch of Sutherland performing as Anna Bolena by John Priscoe, signed, titled and dated lower right, 39 x 29cm (15.5 x 11.5ins) framed and glazed

530 Stravinsky (Igor, 1882-1971). Signed programme from Stravinsky’s performance at the piano, VIII Concerto Sinfonico dell’Orchestra del Teatro al La Scala, [Milan], direttore Ermanno Scherchen, 17 June 1926, signed on the third page in fountain pen ‘I Stravinsky’ beneath reproduction of a caricature portrait of the composer by Picasso from 1917, a little toning and old damp staining to upper inner margins, orig. printed wrappers, a little dust soiled and split along head and foot of spine, 8vo (1)

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£150-200

£200-300

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533* Tauber (Richard, 1891-1948). Fine studio photographic portrait, circa 1930, sepia-toned platinum print, showing the Austrian tenor half length in a suit and wearing a monocle, 23 x 16.5cm (9 x 6.5ins), embossed name and pencil signature of the photographer A. H. Schein of Vienna to lower mount, tipped onto a larger original studio mount, signed and inscribed by Tauber in blue ink for Hannen Swaffer with German inscription and dated at London 1931, little minor soiling and creasing to mount edges, together with two further vintage gelatin silver print photos of Tauber, one with his dachsund and taken by Welsh in Chelsea circa 1942, the second with his wife and pencil dated 1937 to verso, both a little scratched and soiled Frederick Charles Hannen Swaffer (1879-1962) was a British journalist and drama critic.

(3) £200-300

535* Tetrazzini (Luisa, 1871-1940). Fine full-length portrait in costume by Terkelson & Henry, San Francisco, California, c. 1912, carbon print of thin card, signed presentation inscription from the singer to Signora Moore to lower part of image and mount, dated at London, 2 July 1912, photographer’s credit details in the negative, image size 23.5 x 17cm (9.25 x 6.75ins) (1)

536* Tippett (Michael, 1905-1998). Autograph letter signed, ‘Michael Tippett’, Whitegates Cottage, Oxted, Surrey, 7th May 1946, to Mr [John] Ward thanking him for his letter and hoping to meet him in town to talk about it, telling that he is tied up with a ‘V remarkable performance’ at Morley Lodge, saying that even should they meet ‘I can’t make any promises for because, as you will see when they meet, I am at several disadvantages in the matter of such sort of music! but if you don’t mind the sparing the time to discuss, I would welcome a talk’, two pages on printed letterhead, 8vo, together with an enlarged lithographic facsimile of a rough draft sketch from ‘New Year’, signed by Michael Tippett across lower blank staves, one pae, 54 x 42cm, plus the original letter concerning the draft sketch sent to Anthony Gasson by Nicholas Wright on Sir Michael Tippett headed paper, dated 4 January 1990

534* Tetrazzini (Luisa, 1871-1940). A magnificent large full-length portrait of the Italian soprano in the lead role as Lakmé [opera by Leo Delibes], 1909, carbon print photograph with caption and copyright details of the studio E.F. Foley of New York to lower margin, a few surface cracks and chips with loss to three corners, 65.5 x 48.5cm (25.5 x 19ins) (1)

£150-200

£200-300

Tippett organised at Morley the first British performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers, adding his own organ Preludio for the occasion.

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538* Wagner (Richard, 1813-1883). Autograph letter signed, ‘Richard Wagner’, Dresden, 14 April 1848, to Herr Hiebendahl, asking him for a loan of one thousand thalers, translated in part as, ‘recently just for fun and in joke, I mentioned that I needed to borrow one thousand thalers at five percent interest over two years, but after we spoke I realised that this should have been said seriously for I need the money fairly quickly. As usual I have been lethargic in leaving money matters until the last minute. I have a substantial and genuine need for a thousand thalers for a business project - and I have serious intentions of getting it. No doubt you have this small amount available for disposal now - or later this week perhaps - for you are a capatalist! The quicker this is available the better, really, because it’s very important indeed. Is it then possible for what I am asking? Please let me know straight away.

My advocate Peymann will arrange everything necessary for your security. Perhaps it wouldn’t be too bad if I were to arrange for you to receive the interest - say four times a year?’. Wagner’s embossed monogram upper left, one page with integral address leaf, postally unused, seal tear, somewhat toned, a few marginal paper repairs and pages two and three laid onto linen, 8vo Rudolf Hiebendahl (1817-1890) was oboist in Dresden from 1837 to 1883. It was for Hiebendahl that Wagner wrote the English horn solo at the beginning of Act I Scene 3 of Tannhauser. ‘Hiebendahl was apparantly among the first, during the uprisings of 1849, to warn Wagner of the risk of openly identifying himself with his assistant conductor, August Rockel, and with the other Revolutionaries then manning the barricades. Earlier, in 1844, and more important to our study, Hiebendahl, along with the actor Hans Kriete and Wagner’s affluent family doctor, Anton Pusinelli, had lent money to Wagner to support publication, by C. F. Meser in Dresden, of Rienzi, Der fliegende Hollander, and Tanhauser. Meser (and thus Wagner) made little profit from those scores - Wagner thought him incompetent - and his creditors, whom he made his partners in business deals with Meser remained unpaid for a good long time. The threads of this story cannot be unravelled here, but it suffices to say that, having waited patiently for some time, for which Wagner was genuinely grateful, Hiebendahl, a price in 1855 for Wagner’s appointment as conductor of the Philharmonic Society in London, let Wagner know that he should now pay the debt he had incurred some 11 years earlier. In a letter to the oboist - the conversational greeting is “Aber, liebster Hiebendahl” - Wagner attempts amicably to disabuse him of the notion that he, Wagner, was now possessed of great means’, (Schwerpunkt Wagner und das Konische, pp. 86-87).

(1) £3000-4000

537* Verdi (Giuseppe, 1813-1901). Autograph letter signed, ‘G. Verdi’, no date, envelope postmarked Busseto, 23 October 1887, to his friend the engineer and architect Giuseppe De Amicis [18231910], asking him to forward a letter to Professor Caselli and mentioning the death of his wife’s parrot Lorito, one page, 8vo, together with the original stamped and postmarked envelope, somewhat spotted A portrait of the pet parrot and a bust of it are still to be seen in the Verdi museum that forms part of the Villa Pallavicino, Busseto. For more about Verdi, De Amicis and the parrot see Thomas Russell Ybarra, ‘Verdi: Miracle Man of Opera’ (1955), p. 161.

(1) £1500-2000

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MUSIC FROM OTHER VENDORS 540 Handel (George Frideric). Messiah. An Oratorio: as it is Perform’d at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, Set to Musick by Mr. Handel, Printed for J. Watts, 1757, 16pp. libretto only (the words selected from the Bible by Charles Jennens), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, some spotting and marginal fraying, final leaf browned and worn on centre-fold, upper inner corner split and crudely stitched with a little loss to lettering of two words to recto, but without loss of sense, bound with [Glynn, Robert], The Day of Judgent: A Poetical Essay, 2nd edition, Printed by J. Bentham, Cambridge, 1757, 16pp., some spotting and soiling, final leaf dustsoiled and browned with some loss to upper inner corner affecting first three lines of recto and verso, contemporary upper wrapper only present and near detached with printed broadside (‘Psalms and Anthems to be Sung at the Anniversary Meeting of the Charity Children, at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, on Thursday, May 30, 1805’) pasted to front pastedown, slim 4to The first edition of Messiah libretto was printed by Watts for the first London performance in 1749; later printings by Watts appearing in [1750] and 17571759.

(1) £100-150

539* [Wagner]. An autograph letter signed from Walter Bache concerning the first London performance of an opera by Wagner (‘The Flying Dutchman’), 58 Great Russell Street, London, [23 July 1870], to Miss Agnes Wedd thanking her for the kind note, referring to the Franco-Prussian war and then continuing about the opera, ‘The Fliegender Hollander was a great success on Saturday inspite of a very indifferent performance. Arditty was more often wrong than right as regards tempo and took most of the recitatives in a wearingly slow manner. The mens’ chorus was disgraceful, and one of the greatest pieces in the whole opera had to be left out owning to their inefficiency. Scenery and decorations were shameful - the phantom ship was just like a canal boat - no pantomime could exist for a week with such scenery. The stringed part of the orchestra was very good wherever Arditty gave them a right tempo. Santley and De Murska knew their parts thoroughly and were most praiseworthy. Foli sang all the bluff sailor’s music as if he were in Exeter Hall - the other singers wretched - and not one of the principal singers was an actor - which in a highly dramatic opera is rather a drawback. Inspite of all this and an empty house, the power of the music made itself felt. Whenever right tempo was taken the convincing effect was irresistable. The overture (very long) was at once encored; and there was vigorous applause at every opportunity. I don’t consider the opera perfect as a whole - in fact there is much for which I don’t care - but everyone with two ears must acknowledge it as the work of a most a powerful genius - even though that genius was then in a comparatively undeveloped and chryasilis state’, apologising for his long discourse and wishing that she could go that night for the last performance, 4 pp., 8vo, together with original stamped and postmarked envelope, plus a cabinet card photograph (not from life) of Wagner, published by Bruckmann’s Collection The opera was composed in 1843 and twenty-seven years later had its first performance in London, in an Italian version by Salvatore Marchesi. Charles Santley and Allan Foli were the only British principals.

(1) £150-200

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541 Handel (George Frideric, 1685-1759). Handel’s Sixty Overtures from All His Operas and Oratorios set for the Harpsicord or Organ ..., printed for I. Walsh, 1st ed., n.d., c. 1755, engraved throughout, contemporary ink inscription at head of title, ‘Sold by Whatley at his music shop, Cirencester’, bound with Handel’s Overtures Eleventh (this word supplied in manuscript) Collection set for the Harpsichord or Organ ..., printed for I. Walsh, 1st ed., [1758], pp. 255-277 (to be continuous with the previous publication), pp. 204-205 split at lower margin vertically into text with lower margin repair and no loss, a little spotting and soiling, part-folding eng. portrait of Handel by I. Houbraken supplied as a frontispiece from another work, contemporary calf-backed boards with red leather title label to upper cover, spine def. and covers detached, soiling and wear, 4to W. C. Smith, Handel, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Early Editions, Instrumental Music - Miscellaneous, Nos. 25 & 26. Of the first publication Smith states ‘From the plates of the ten collections. No copy traced, but the titlepage is with NLS.BH.265’. The Eleventh Collection contains the overtures in ‘Time and Truth’, ‘Jephtha’ and Coronation Anthem (‘Zadock The Priest’).

Provenance: George Whatley (1728-1799), Organist at Cirencester Parish Church. His son, George Jr., also became organist in 1785 and was involved with Three Choirs Festival. George Jr.’s younger brother David married twice, his second wife being Henrietta Ambrose (1766-1852), great-grandmother of the composer (and one-time Cotswold organist) Gustav Holst.

(1) £400-600

543 Music and Theatre, etc. A personal autograph album of over 100 leaves compiled mostly late 19th and early 20th c., over 100 leaves crammed with autographs, quotations, a few sketches, etc., many written straight in to the album and many cut signatures etc. tipped in, over 500 autographs in total including some presumed to be friends and acquaintances, notable autographs include Enrico Caruso (pen and ink self-caricature signed and dated London 1905), Leo Tolstoy, A. Conan Doyle, T. Carlyle, G. Bernard Shaw, Lillie Langtry, Francois Poulenc, Arthur Bliss, Eric Coates, G.K. Chesterton, Randolph Churchill, Louis Wain, Sarah Bernhardt, Admiral Beatty, Ellen Terry, Thomas Beecham, Clara Butt, Paul Robeson, Adrian Boult, George Grossmith, various members of the Vanbrugh, Terry and Terriss theatrical dynasties, Nellie Melba, Ivor Novello, plus one page with the autographs of four composers signed directly into the book, Edward German, Edward Elgar, R. Vaughan Williams and Herbert Howells, a few items loose, a.e.g., original burgundy morocco gilt, 8vo

542 Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus). Il Disolutto Punito osia Il Don Giovanni, Ridotto per il Pianoforto, Hamburg, Giovanni Augusto Bohme, c., 1809, engraved title page and 212 pp of engraved music, contemp. calf-backed marbled boards with morocco gilt title label to upper cover, heavily rubbed, oblong folio.

RISM M4509 (1)

£200-300

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£300-500

Lot 545

544 [Opera in South Africa]. To the Lovers and Patrons of Music who have heartily welcomed the Hrst-Leffler Company to Cape Town, Saul Solomon & Co. Printers, [Cape Town, 1868], printed letter of thanks to the Cape Town Public for their support, composed by Henry Harper, Manager of the Hirst-Leffler Company, The Commercial Exchange, Cape Town, Wednesday Evening, 9th September 1868, printed within embossed decorative border with integral blank, light fold marks, 265 x 210mm Henry Harper, Miss Annette Hirst and Mrs J.H. Leffler from the Royal Opera House, London performed six concerts of opera selections in the Commercial Exchange and the Mutual Hall, Cape Town from 5th August to 9th September 1868. They also performed in Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth. They were not the first to perform opera in South Africa, but the first opera company to do so, and for an entire season.

(1) £70-100

545 [Playford (John). The Musical Companion: In Two Books: The First Book Containing Catches and Rounds for Three Voyces: The Second Book Containing Dialogues, Glees, Ayres and Songs for Two, Three and Four Voyces, 1673], wood-engraved initials, first part lacking all before B2, second part lacking last three leaves of music and advert. leaf, a few tears and frayed edges, some soiling and stains, old boards, some wear, oblong 4to Early song book with some parts printed upside down so the person opposite could see them. An additional sheet, ‘The Musical Companion’, is inserted after p.56 and an additional four-page section after p.112. ESTC R203765.

(1) £700-1000

Lot 544

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ART REFERENCE

Lot 550 546 Archivo Espanol de Arte y Arqueologia, ed. M. Gomez-Marino & E. Tormo y Monzo, vols. 1-56, Madrid, 1925-83, an unbroken run of 83 vols., b&w illusts. from photos throughout, together with Index vol. (De Arte, I-XXV, 1925-52) & vol. 57 (De Arte, 1984), vols. 1-13 & 14-57 plus Index (De Arte) contemporary qtr. or full vellum gilt, vols.

14-56 (De Arqueologia) contemporary blue qtr. morocco gilt (vols. 2753 bound in 2s or 3s), minor rubbing and soiling, 4to

549 Bainbridge (Henry Charles). Peter Carl Fabergè, Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court, His Life and Work, Spring Books, 1968, b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, VG, together with Godden (Geoffrey A.), Minton Pottery & Porcelain of the First Period 1793-1850, 1st ed., Herbert Jenkins, 1968, col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, VG, and Bradley (H.G.), Ceramics of Derbyshire 1750-1975, 2nd ed., 1978, b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., plus others relating to pottery and porcelain, mostly orig. cloth, some in d.j.s, including 18 vols. of The Ceramic Society, mid 20th c., G/VG

From 1940 (vol. 14) this periodical split into two companion periodicals for art and archaeology.

(85) £200-400

(approx. 45)

547 Art. The Art-Journal, 5 vols., 1850-70 (broken run), issues 1850. 1863, 1865, 1867, 1870, numerous b & w illustrations throughout, occasional spotting, 1850 half calf, very worn, other four half morocco, some shelf wear, folio (5)

£100-150

550* Blondel (Jean-Francois). A folio of French architectural engravings, pub. Mariette, c.1670s, twenty-seven large copper engraved plates on twenty-four sheets by Blondel and M. Hardouin after designs by Mansart and Chevotet, including the Louvre and Versailles, mostly folding or double-page, one or two closed marginal tears, light minor soiling, armorial bookplate of Lord Foley, contemporary mottled calf, some wear, folio

£150-200

548 Ashbee (C.R.). Craftsmanship in Competitive Industry, being a Record of the Workshops of the Guild of Handicraft, and some Deductions from their Twenty-One Years’ Experience, pub. Essex House Press, 1st edition, [London & Chipping Camden, 1908], full-page b & w illustrations, original cloth-backed boards with printed paper label to spine, rubbed and covers partly browned, some edge wear, 8vo

Plates include various elevations of the Louvre, l'Eglise du College des Quatre Nations, Chasteau de Clagny du Coste de Paris, the Orangerie at Versailles and others.

(1) £1000-1500

A substantial and important book, referred to repeatedly in Alan Crawford’s ‘C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist’ (1985).

(1) £150-200

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Lot 553

551 Campbell (Lorne). The Fifteenth Century Netherlandish Schools, reprinted ed., pub. National Gallery Publications, London, 1999, numerous col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, together with Wedmore (Frederick), Turner & Ruskin. An Exposition of the Work of Turner from the Writings of Ruskin, 2 vols., pub. George Allen, London, 1900, ninety-one plts., orig. cloth gilt, folio, plus Shaw (Thurstan), Igbo-Ukwu. An Account of Archaeological Discoveries in Eastern Nigeria, 2 vols., pub.

Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1970, numerous col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, plus other Old Master art reference, mostly hardback publications in orig. cloth and d.j., 4to/folio, G/VG (54)

£150-200

552 Cottingham (Lewis Nockalls). [The Smith and Founder’s Director: Containing a Series of Designs and Patterns for Ornamental Iron and Brasswork, 2nd ed., 1824], 83 linen-backed engraved plates of designs, plate 59 not issued, some spotting, soiling and repairs, lacking title, Preface leaf repaired, contemporary half calf, lacking spine, upper cover detached, rubbed, 4toSold as a collection of plates not subject to return.

(1)

£100-150

553 Graevius (Johann Georg). Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum, vols. I-IV only (of 12), 1st ed., Leiden, 1694-97, additional engraved title, to each, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, 11 engraved maps, some folding, 89 engraved plates and plans, some double-page, occasional light spotting and browning, library inkstamps to foot of titles (two removed with small holes), contemporary calf, spines with raised bands and gilt decoration, rubbed with some wear at ends, joints splitting, folio Brunet II, 1689.

(4)

Lot 556

£600-800

144

554 Hirst (Damien (1965-)). I Want To Spend The Rest Of My Life Everywhere, With Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now, 1st edition, pub. Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1997, numerous colour illustrations, folding plates, pop-ups, glassine overlays, moveable parts, etc., original cloth, large 4to (1)

£100-150

555 Jacob (S. S.). Jeypore Portfolio of Architectural Details, 4 parts bound in 2 vols., Quaritch, 1890, part one lacking title page, numerous b&w plates throughout, a.e.g., later purple sheep gilt, folio (2)

£100-150

556 Manuscript. Embroidery pattern book, c.1819, 68ff., each leaf with hand-drawn designs in pen & ink on recto only, some full-page large designs, but mostly repeated patterns for borders, mainly floral and foliate, but incorporating some other motifs, watermarked ‘J. Green 1819’, some light toning and corner-creasing, sheet size 30 x 25.5cm (11.75 x 10ins), stitching broken and page block loose in original roan-backed paste-paper card covers, worn, large 4to, together with another similar, in the same hand, watermarked ‘J. Green 1817’, lightly toned and some minor creasing and edge-fraying, sheet size 22.5 x 19cm (9 x 7.5ins), stitching strained, orig. half sheep, rubbed and edge-worn, 4to (2)

£200-300

557 Mercati (Michele). De gli obelischi di Roma, Rome: Domenica Basa, 1589, engraved title, woodcut initials and printers’ devices, insect damage to initial leaves, some offsetting, ex libris principis Burghesi label to endpaper, near contemporary limp vellum, some rubbing and fraying (1)

562 [Taylor, John]. The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits, being a Series of Engravings of the most Eminent Persons now Living or Lately Deceased, in Great Britain and Ireland, from Drawings Accurately made from Life, or from the most Approved Original Pictures, Accompanied by Short Biographical Notices, 2 vols., 1822, 150 engraved portrait plates, occasional spotting (mostly light), a.e.g., contemporary red half morocco, elaborate gilt decorated spine, extremities slightly worn, folio

£200-300

558 Pilkington (Rev. M.). The Gentleman’s and Connoisseur’s Dictionary of Painters, A New Edition, pub. W. and C. Spilsbury, 1798, full brown gilt-dec. calf, 4to (1)

£100-150

Large Paper Copy. Armorial bookplate of Lord Northwick.

(2)

559 Piper (John, illust.). India Love Poems, Paradine, 1977, half title, colour frontispiece, seventeen further full page colour photolithograph plates, untrimmed, quarter morocco with slipcase, folio (1)

563 Testino (Mario). Visionaire Chic, Visionaire Publishing, 1997, no. 2619 of a limited edition of 5000, numerous col. plts. and fabric samples, orig. cloth with slipcase, 4to, VG, together with Sultan (Larry), Pictures from Home, 1st ed., 1992, 110 illusts. incluidng ninety plts. in full colour, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, VG, and Adams (Ansel), The Mural Project. Selected and with an Introduction by Peter Wright & John Armor, Reverie Press, 1st ed., 1989, 109 b & w plts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, VG, plus other art and photography reference, including Visionaire, Gold, Beams Anniversary Issue, 1996, and Visionaire, No. 19, Beauty

£200-400

560 Sieff (Jeanloup). 40 Years of Photography, pub. Evergreen, 1996, numerous b & w photographs, orig. cloth in d.j., folio, together with Bourély (France), Hidden Beauty, Microworlds Revealed, pub. Abrams, 2002, 137 photographs, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, plus Carver (Antonia, ed., ), Blink. 100 Photographers, 010 Curators, 010 Writers, 1st ed., pub. Phaidon Press London, 2002, numerous colour and b & w photographs, orig. cloth in d.j., oblong 4to, plus other photography reference, mostly hardback in orig. cloth & d.j., 4to/8vo, G/VG (approx. 60)

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£150-200

564 Wilber (Donald N.). The Architecture of Islamic Iran, The Il Kahnid Period, Princeton University Press, 1955, numerous b&w illustrations throughout, original cloth in d.j. (worn), 4to, together with Berghe (L. Vanden), Archaeologie de l’Iran Ancien, Leiden: Brill, 1959, b&w frontispiece taken from photograph, numerous further b&w illustrations throughout, original cloth in d.j., 4to, plus Fisher (W. B. ed.), The Cambridge History of Iran, vols. 1 and 5, Cambridge University Press, 1968, original cloth in d.j., thick 8vo, plus other titles on Persian art and archaeology including A. J. Arberry’s Classical Persian Literature, Lockhart’s Famous cities of Iran, Pope’s Persian Art, and Richard Fry’s The Heritage of Persia, mostly original cloth, some with d.j.s

£100-150

561 Survey of India. Technical Art Series of Illustrations of Indian Architectural Decorative Work..., 2 vols., Calcutta: Survey of India, 1887-1900, numerous b&w plates, modern half leather, 4to (2)

£200-300

£100-150

(30)

145

£150-200

565* Wren (Sir Christopher). Synopsis Aedificiorum Publicorum Dni. Christophori Wren Equitis Aur. Architecti Regii: A Catalogue of the Churches of the City of London; Royal Palaces; Hospitals; and Publick Edifices; Built by Sr. Christopher Wren Kt. Surveyor General of the Royal-Works, during Fifty Years: viz. from 1668, to 1718, Printed for Sam. Harding in St. Martin's Lane, Dan. Browne near Temple-Bar, & Wm. Bathoe in Church Lane near St. Martin's Church in the Strand. [1749?], fourteen engraved plates & plans of 15 (numbered 1-14 and dated 1723-1726, including title, elevations & plans of St. Paul’s Cathedral, The Monument, Whitehall Palace and St. Mary le Bow Steeple), bound with fourteen additional engraved plates and plans, comprising four double-page plates of Inigo Jones’ Whitehall Palace by D.M. Muller, pub.

1748-1749, two single-page plates of Horse & Foot Guards at Whitehall by William Kent, engraved by J. Vardy, pub. 1752, single-page plan & three plates of St. Pauls pub. 1746-1747 (including one double-page), single-page plates of St. Stephen’s Church Walbrook & Temple Church engraved by Thomas Boydell, pub. 1750, elevation and ground plan plates of St. Giles by the architect Henry Flitcroft engraved by P. Fourdrinier with the architect’s signature ‘H. Flitcroft’ to verso of each, title and free endpaper detached, occasional light dust-soiling and scattered spotting, late 19th century half morocco gilt, boards detached, loss at head of spine, worn, large folio (67 x 53cm) Harris (Eileen), British Architectural Books and Writers, 1556-1765, pub. 1991, page.503. On the death of Sir Christopher Wren in 1723, his son Christopher began preparing for publication a commemorative volume entitled ‘A Specimen of the Works in Architecture of Sir Christopher Wren’. By 1729 at the latest, fifteen large copper plates had been engraved, nine of which were by Henry Hulsbergh (d.1729), of which three were from drawings by Hawksmoor, the remainder by B. Cole, Simon Gribelin, Jacob Schijnvoet and Johann Vanderbank. Proposals for publishing by subscription were drawn up at a price of one guinea. However publication did not come about until after the death of Christopher , jun., in 1747. The large copper plates that were in his possession passed with the rest of his property to his younger son, Stephen, by whom they were sold. The plates were acquired by the booksellers Samuel Harding, Daniel Browne and William Bathoe, who added their imprint and printed the plates, not as originally intended as a book with a loose title-page, but as a collection of engravings, numbered Tab. 1 to 15. They were frequently split up and as a consequence complete volumes are very uncommon.

The architect Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769) is credited for a number of major commissions which include St. Giles in the Fields London, Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire and garden temples at Stourhead, Wiltshire. He is also attributed for the design of the State gallery at Stowe, Buckinghamshire.

Only one UK institutional location found of the complete suite of engravings numbered 1 to 15 (Royal Academy of Arts). This volume therefore forms an unusually near complete collection of early engravings from this work.

(1) £2000-3000

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Lot 566

LIBRARY FURNITURE

GENERAL

566* Diorama. “The Gentleman’s Library”, early 20th century, miniature display depicting a gentleman seated by the fire, with circular library table, terrestial globe, pair of bookcases, folding screen, mantelpiece clock, paintings, and ornaments, contained in rectangular wooden glazed case, 36.5 x 63 x 34cm (14.5 x 5 x 13.5ins)

571 Barter (C.). Alone Among the Zulus, by a Plain Woman, The Narrative of a Journey Through the Zulu Country, South Africa, c. four b&w engravings incl. frontis, together with 1866, Recollections of a Visit to British Kaffrarian, c. 1866, three b&w engravings incl. frontis., light toning throughout, ex libris stamps to front endpapers, both vols. in uniform orig. gilt dec. cloth binding, spines rubbed, slight loss to hinges, 8vo, and Slatin (Rudolph C. Pasha), Fire and Sword in the Sudan, A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes, 1879-1895, translated by Major F. R. Wingate, 3rd ed., 1896, numerous b&w illusts. missing map at rear, ex libris stamp to front endpaper, toned and stained throughout, orig. gilt dec. red cloth, front and rear boards, toned and marked, spine worn at head and foot, hinges torn, 8vo, and thirty-one other Zulu war and Africa reference, including Life of General Gordon, 1885, Shaka Zulu by E. A. Ritter, 3rd imp., 1955, South Africa and the Transvaal War by Louis Creswick, 1900, some ex libris, many in d.j.s, 8vo

(1)

£700-1000

567* A pine six-tier Globe Wernicke bookcase, with six glazed doors and manufacturer’s stamps, 195cm high x 85cm wide x 28cm deep (1)

£100-150

568* Ditto (1)

£100-150

569* Ditto (1)

£100-150

(34)

570* Ditto (1)

£150-200

572 Blake (Peter, illust.). Alice Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll, D3 Editions, 2004, eight tipped-in colour plates, original blue cloth, upper cover with inset colour illustration, glassine wrapper, 4to

£100-150

Limited edition, 224/500 numbered and signed by the artist.

(1)

147

£100-150

573 Collins (Wilkie). The Works of Wilkie Collins, thirty volumes, New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, [1890], twelve black and white illustrations, occasional crease or pencil mark, original cloth, gilt decorated spine, very light shelf wear, occasional stain, few with repairs to spine ends, 8vo in 16s

579 Folio Society publications, 171 vols., c. 1950-2000, mostly history, literature and biography, including Anthony Trollope, all orig. cloth, mostly in slipcases, some duplicates, 4to/8vo, G/VG

(30)

580 Folio Society. 100 volumes, 1960s-2000s, including The Arabian Nights by E. J. Detmold, 1999, together with Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, 2004, and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1998, plus others by Anthony Trollope, George Orwell, etc., all orig. cloth contained in slipcases, G/VG

(171)

£100-150

(100 vols)

£200-300

£200-300

581 Giles. Daily Express and Sunday Express Cartoons, nos. 1-47, 1946-1993, no. 2 facsimile copy, additional facsimile copies of nos.

4 & 5, two copies of no. 8, b & w illustrations throughout, occasional light soiling, a few price-clipped with presentation inscriptions, original pictorial wrappers, loss to third series spine, some occasional edgewear and one or two closed tears, oblong 4to (51)

582 Grey (Lieut.-General The Hon. C.). The Early Years of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort, Compiled under the Direction of the Queen, 1869, engraved portrait frontis. of Prince Albert, bookplates, original green cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to half title by Princess Helena Augusta Victoria (1846-1923, third daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert), together with Count Luckner, the Sea Devil, by Lowell Thomas, 1st US ed., 1927, illustrations, map endpapers, original cloth, spine faded, some light stains, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “To the famous Cecil B. de Mille in appreciation for the wonderful afternoon at his studio. In cordial memory, Count Felix Luckner, Long Beach, ix.28.29”, with Cecil B. de Mille’s Library bookplate, plus Reginald Horsley’s Hunted Through Fiji or ‘Twixt Convict and Cannibal, c. 1897

574 Domesday. The Millenium Edition of Great Domesday Book, 6 vols., Alecto Historical Editions, 2000, comprising two facsimile volumes bound in embossed calf replicating the 12th century Winton Domesday, each contained in a grey suede bag with ties, two translation volumes, and an index volume, all in qtr. linen, and a set of maps in a matching solander box, folio As new and still contained in the publisher’s cardboard packaging.

(6) £400-600

575 Dore (Gustave, illust.). The Vision of Hell, by Dante Alighieri, and Paradise Lost, by John Milton, Cassell Petterr & Galpin, numerous b&w plates throughout, original cloth, worn with some fading, folio (2)

(3)

£100-150

(31)

£100-150

£200-250

(118)

578 Folio Society publications, 80 vols., including The Blue Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, 2003, The Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1996, The Essential Darwin

by Charles Darwin, 4 vols., 1990, plus others similar, all orig. cloth in orig. slipcases, 4to/8vo, VG (80)

£100-150

584 The Law Journal Reports, 91 vols., a broken run, 1840-41, 1845, 1870-71, 1876-79, 1914-40, all contemp. half calf binding, many rubbed with some loss to spines, 8vo, together with Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, 27 vols., a broken run, 1844-45, 1849-50, 1852-55, 1857-67, 1870-71, 1874-76, 1879, all contemp. half calf binding, many rubbed with some loss to spines, 8vo, 118 vols. in total

577 Folio Society publications, 79 vols., including Doctor Thorne

by Anthony Trollope, 1996, plus 20 others by Anthony Trollope including Phineas Finn, The Golden Lion of Granpére, The Eustace Diamonds, plus On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, 2006, plus others similar, all orig. cloth in orig. slipcases, 4to/8vo, VG (79)

£100-150

583 Jane’s Fighting Ships, 25 vols., a broken run, all 1st eds., 1939-51, 1955-57, 1970-72, 1987-93, 1997-98, b&w illusts. and adverts throughout, all in orig. blue cloth, some in d.j.s, some wear and fading to spines of earlier vols., oblong folio/folio, together with six other modern Jane’s vols., including Merchant Ships and All The World’s Aircraft, folio

576 Ffinch (Michael). Donald Maxwell, 1st ed., Maxwell Estate, 1995, colour and b & w illustrations throughout, t.e.g., orig. blue rexine gilt in slipcase, 4to Limited edition, 12/100, signed by the author.

(1)

£200-300

£200-250

148

£100-150

585 Lawrence (T.E.). Revolt in the Desert, Large Paper Edition, 1927, port. frontis., col. and b&w illusts., folding map at rear, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. qtr. morocco gilt, rubbed and a little faded, 4to Limited edition, 13/315.

(1)

£300-400

586 Mandela (Nelson). A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles, OUP, 1996, original blue morocco, slipcase, 4to Limited edition, 66/100 signed by Nelson Mandela.

(1)

£500-800

587 Milne (A.A.). The House at Pooh Corner, 1st ed., Methuen, 1928, numerous illustrations by E.H. Shepard, contemporary ownership name on half-title, pictorial endpapers, free endpapers browned, front free endpaper with bookseller’s oval embossed stamp to upper outer corner, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, original salmon cloth, spine and margins faded, some light soiling, 8vo, together with a 5th edition of Winnie-the-Pooh, and a 13th edition of When We Were Very Young, both in original cloth in bright condition, plus copies of Now Were Are Sixty, and Now We Are Sixty (and a Bit), by Christopher Matthew (5)

£100-150

588 Nicholson (William). An Almanac of Twelve Sports, with words by Rudyard Kipling twelve full-colour woodblock illustrations, original cloth-backed pictoral boards, some wear to binding, hinges broken, folio ()

£200-300

Lot 585 589 Nicholson (William). London Types with quatorzains by W. E. Henley, New York, 1898, twelve full-colour woodblock illustrations, advertisement leaf at rear, original cloth-backed pictoral boards, slight wear to extreme cover edges, and some fading to upper cover, hinges slightly cracked, contained within slipcase, folio (1)

£100-150

590 Seago (Edward, illust.). The Country Scene, by John Masefield, Collins, 1937, tipped-in col. plts. with captioned tissue guards, t.e.g., remainder uncut, orig. green quarter morocco gilt over buckram, spine browned, some minor marks, 4to Limited edition, 9/50, signed by both author and artist.

(1)

£150-200

591 Sharpe (Tom). Riotous Assembly, 1st ed., 1971, one or two light spots, original blue cloth, d.j., spine a little faded, a couple of nicks, 8vo, together with Indecent Exposure, 1st ed., 1973, original cloth, d.j., one or two closed tears, 8vo, plus Changing Places, by David Lodge, 1st ed., 1975, previous owner signature, original peach cloth, d.j., spine faded with light stains, 8vo, with others including J.P.D. Donleavy’s The Ginger Man, 1st UK ed., 1956 (exlibris), Patrick O’ Brian’s The Unknown Shore, 1959, Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, 1st UK ed., 1958, and P.G. Wodehouse’s Spring Fever, 1948 and French Leave, 1955 (20)

Lot 586

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£200-300

592 Stothard (Thomas). Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man Illustrated, Bromley, 1799, stipple-engraved title and 7 plates by William Bromley after Thomas Stothard, each printed in colours by Collins and finished by hand, 1 uncoloured engraved plate of text

by Collins, some slight toning, later half morocco over cloth, a little rubbed, original blue paper wrappers retained, folio (1)

£200-300

593 Thatcher (Margaret). Statecraft. Strategies for a Changing World, 1st ed., 2nd impression, 2002, colour illustrations, light toning, original cloth, d.j., 8vo Signed by the author to title.

(1)

£70-100

594 Trade catalogues. Hudson & Son, Samples of Gummed Tapes Paper and Cloth for use with the “Empire” Sealing Machines, pub.

Birmingham, c.1900, twenty-four tipped in samples, in tri-folding col. printed pubs. card, 255 x 110mm, together with Chicago Eye Shield Company (pubs.),Driving, Shooting and Protection Spectacles and Goggles, 15th. ed., pub. Chicago, c.1900,numerous b & w illusts. throughout, pubs. printed wrappers, 160 x 85mm, with, Samuel Smith & Sons. Behive Foundry Smethwick, (pubs.),Combined Open & Close-Fire Cooking Ranges, c.1900, numerous b & w illusts. of stoves and ranges throughout, pubs. red and black printed wrappers, 250 x 190mm, plus, Godfrey Phillips Ltd. (pubs.),Price List of Tobaccos Cigars and Cigarettes (Wholesale & Retail), c.1910, price lists printed in red & black, pubs. printed wrappers, with near contemp. red crayon signature to upper wrapper, 225 x 145mm, with another twelve trade and reference catalogues, various sizes and condition, plus, Heming (W.T.),The Needle Region and its Resources, pub. Redditch, 1877, folding eng. panorama of Redditch, numerous b & w illusts. throughout, hinges broken and text block detached, pubs. cloth gilt, slim 8vo, and Tomlinson (Charles),Illustrations of Useful Arts and Manufactures, pub. S.P.C.K. [1859], addn. dec. half title, numerous b & w illusts. throughout, contemp. ink annotations to f.e.p., pubs. limp cloth gilt, a little worn at extrems., spine faded, large 8vo, with three others similar (23)

595 Twain (Mark). Life on the Mississippi, first edition, second impression, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883, engraved frontispiece, numerous b & w illustrations, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original decorated cloth, gilt, slightly bumped to corners, overall good condition, 8vo (1)

£150-200

596 Wodehouse (P.G.). Full Moon, [1947]; Spring Fever, [1948]; Uncle Dynamite, [1948]; Jeeves in the Offing (3rd variant issue), 1960; Ice in the Bedroom (2nd issue), 1961; Service With a Smile, 1962; Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, 1963, 1st eds., one or two spots, original cloth, a couple of spines faded at foot, d.j.s, Uncle Dynamite and Ice in the Bedroom price-clipped, Spring Fever repaired to verso, one or two small chips and tears, 8vo (7)

£100-150

150

£150-200

597 Wodehouse (P.G.). The Clicking of Cuthbert, 1922; Meet Mr. Mulliner, 1927; Money for Nothing, 1928; Very Good, Jeeves!, 1930; If I Were You, 1931; Heavy Weather, 1933; Lord Emsworth and Others (variant issue), 1937; The Code of the Woosters (variant issue), 1938, 1st eds., scattered light spotting and one or two closed tears, Meet Mr. Mulliner front endpaper excised, contemporary previous owner inscription to Very Good, Jeeves! and Heavy Weather, original cloth, Money For Nothing and Very Good Jeeves spines faded, a little rubbed with light stains, 8vo, with Thank You Jeeves, 2nd printing, c 1935, My Man Jeeves, and The Prince and Betty, 1920’s reissues, The Prince and Betty inscribed: “To David from Plum, P.G. Wodehouse, June 5, 1962” (David Jasen, Wodehouse biographer) (11)

604 Cooke (George Alexander). Topographical and Statistical Description of the Principality of Wales, 2 parts in one (North & South Wales), n.d., c.1800, folding engraved map frontispieces, contemporary half sheep, rubbed, 12mo, together with Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of Northumberland, n.d., c.1810, bound with Topographical and Statistical Description of the Principality of Wales Part 1, North Wales, n.d., c.1800, and Topographical and Statistical Description of South Wales, n.d., c. 1830, folding engraved map frontispieces (final map hand-coloured), three engraved plates, slightl spotting and offsetting, contemporary half calf, joints cracked and slight wear, 12mo, with Leigh & Son (Publishers), Leigh’s Guide to Wales & Monmouthshire..., 3rd ed., 1835, aquatint frontispiece, upper hinge cracked and endpapers darkened, original cloth, aquatint pictorial panel to upper board, worn, 8vo, plus other 19th/early 20th c. travel guides of Wales, including Black’s Picturesque Guides & Gossiping Guides etc., few defective

£150-200

598 Wodehouse (P.G.). Mulliner Omnibus, 1st ed., 1935, portrait frontis., a few spots, original green cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Frozen Assets, 1st ed., 1964, a few light spots, original red cloth, d.j., 8vo, plus Do Butler’s Burgle Banks?, 1st ed., 1968, bookplate, original green cloth, d.j., light toning, 8vo, together with a quantity of others by or on Wodehouse, some later printings and editions including Barmy in Wonderland, 1952, Pigs Have Wings, 1952, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, 1954 and Something Fishy, 1957 (all 1st eds. without jackets), A Pelican at Blandings, 1969, Much Obliged, Jeeves, 1971 and Sir Agravaine, 1984 (1st eds. with jackets), The Head of Kay’s, 1922, The Pothunters, 1924 (both reprints, The Man With Two Left Feet, 1939, 16th ed., 1939 (in most of d.j.), Big Money, 8th printing, d.j., c. 1950’s (72)

(a carton)

605* Games. Reime Dich, Luxus Papier Fabrik Berlin, c.1880s, six chromolithographed card illustrations, 20 x 25cm (8 x 9.75ins), each with eight cut-out squares revealing a picture, and forty-six (of 48) cardboard squares to fit into the cut-outs, 4 x 4cm (1.5 x 1.5ins), each with part of an illustration on one side and text on the other, contained in the original cardboard box (sl. broken in places), with manufacturer’s printed mark to pictorial lid, together with a quantity of other games and pastimes, mostly 20th century, including Escalado, A Motor Tour, Thunderbirds, Bulls and Bears, Jaques’ Table Croquet, The Game of Bible Lotto, etc., various sizes and condition

£300-400

(2 cartons)

CARTONS

(3 cartons)

£100-200

£150-200

(2 cartons)

601 Besant (Sir Walter). London City, Adam and Charles Black, 1910, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, G, together with PopeHennessy (James), London Fabric, illustrated from paintings, drawings, prints and photographs, Batsford, 2nd ed., 1941, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, and Yee (Chiang), The Silent Traveller in London, Country Life, 1st ed., 1939, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus other London related (2 cartons)

£100-150

608 The Journal of Hellenic Studies, vols. 1-108, mainly 1st eds., c. 1880-1998, many b&w illusts., contemp. cloth, some later vols. unbound, mostly 4to (inc. a few 8vo), ex. libris, generall G/VG (6 cartons)

£150-200

609 Michalowski (Kazimirez). colour plates and b & w illusts., original cloth gilt in d.j., thick 4to, contained in original slipcase, together with Moore (N. Hudson), Old Glass, European and American, New ed., New York, 1935, b & w plates, original cloth in slightly frayed d.j., 8vo, in original slipcase, plus other miscellaneous books including art reference and history

£100-150

602 Churchill (Winston S.). The Second World War, 6 vols., Cassell & Co., 1st eds., 1948-54, orig. cloth in d.j.s, G, together with Eade (Charles), War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, 6 vols., Cassell, 1940s, orig. cloth in d.j.s, G, plus other similar Winston Churchill related (2 cartons)

£100-150

607 Hewitt (Graily). The Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of Women, including the Diagnosis of Pregnancy, 1st ed., 1863, orig. green cloth, minor loss to front hinge, spine rubbed, front cover partially detatched, 8vo, together with Hodge (Hugh L.), On Diseases Peculiar to Women, including Displacements of the Uterus, 2nd ed., 1868, b&w illusts., orig. green cloth, loss to spine and hinges, 8vo, and Radford (Thomas), Cases of Laceration of the Uterus, with Remarks, 1867, four illusts., orig. cloth, slight loss to head and foot of spine, 8vo, all ex-libris ‘Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland’, all light toning and library stamps throughout, plus other 19th c./20th c. biology reference, many hardbacks, some in d.j.s, 8vo

600 Auction Catalogues. A collection of approx. 300 Christie’s and Sotheby’s specialist art auction catalogues, c. 2000-2010, including Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art, Christie’s London, post-war and contemporary, plus other modern art related, VG (8 cartons)

£100-200

606 Garden History, The Journal of the Garden History Society, a broken run, approx. 200 vols., c. 1970s-2000, many b&w illusts., orig. paper covers, mostly 4to, generally G/VG

599 The Art Journal. Catalogue of the Great Exhibition, London: Published for the Proprietors, by George Virtue [Bradbury & Evans Printers], numerous black and white illustrations, half morocco binding with gilt, 4to, together with Encyclopédie du Meuble, 2 vols., ed. Bajot, pub. C. Schmid, Paris, c. 1900, numerous black and white plates, original cloth, folio, plus other mixed antiquarian folios, many defective (6 cartons)

£100-150

(2 cartons)

£100-150

603 No lot 151

£70-100

610 Miscellaneous books. including, The Old Road, by Hilaire Belloc, 1904, b & w plates, scattered spotting, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original cloth gilt, large 8vo, Men at Arms, A Novel by Evelyn Waugh, 1st ed., 1952, original cloth in frayed price-clipped d.j., 8vo, Survey of London edited by F.H.W. Sheppard, vol. 37 only, (Northern Kensington), pub. 1973, b & w plates and illustrations, original cloth in d.j., 4to, plus other topography, history & art reference etc. including a mid 19th century collection of sheet music with decorative lithograph titles pages, bound together in contemporary half calf, lacking spine, somewhat worn and covers detached, 4to (a carton)

616 White (Gilbert). The Natural History of Selborne..., new edition, 2 vols., 1822, additional half titles, engraved frontispieces (one hand coloured), two further b&w plates, light spotting throughout, calf gilt, lacking spine labels, some rubbing and fraying, 8vo, together with [North (Christopher)], The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1823, later blind tooled calf, plus The Astrologer, Compendium of Astrology, Geomancy, and Occult Philosophy, sixth ed., 1825, b & w wood engraved plates throughout, untrimmed, original boards, rubbed and worn on spine (with surface loss), upper cover detached, 8vo, plus other misc. 19th and 20th century interest books, including Coningsby by B. Disraeli, 3 vols., 1844, A Compendium of the Veterinary Art by James White, c.1810, Harrod’s Royal Despatch of Great Britain and Ireland, 1901, Stark’s History and Guide to Barbados, c.1893, Elder Conklin and other stories by Frank Harris, 2nd ed., 1895 (author inscribed)

£100-150

611 Nevill (Ralph). Old French Line Engravings, pub. Halton & Truscott, 1924, numerous b&w plates, orig. cloth, 4to, together with Catleugh (Jon), Tiles, William de Morgan, 1st ed., pub. Trefoil Books, 1983, numerous colour and b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, plus Griffin (Leonard), Clarice Cliff, The Art of Bizarre, 1st ed., pub. Pavilion , 1999, numerous colour and b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, plus other art and crafts reference, 4to/8vo (2 cartons)

(a carton)

617 Williamson (E.). Les Meubles D’Art du Mobilier National, 2 vols., Paris, c. 1900, 100 heliogravure plates (plate 51 partly excised), some light waterstaining throughout, t.e.g., contemporary navy half morocco, joints and edges rubbed and scuffed, folio, together with Molinier (E.), Le Mobilier Royal Francais aux XVII et XVIII Siecles, vol. II only (of 2), c. 1900-1902, plus Willis (Robert & Clark, John Willis). The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge, and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton, 3 vols., CUP, 1886, b & w illustrations, a few minor spots, library stamps to titles, library labels, original cloth-backed boards, spines darkened with a few chips and tears, 8vo, and Woodfall (William). An Impartial Report of the Debates that occur in the Two Houses of Parliament, 19 vols., a broken run, 1794-1800, scattered spotting, contemporary uniform half calf, rubbed, 8vo, and The Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons vol. IX, 1783 & vol. XVII, 1802, plus others various, including Voltaire, La Pucelle, 2 vols., Lutetian Society, 1899 (limited edition of 500 copies), Picturesque America, vol. 1 only, n.d., c. 1870s, and an almost complete run of original issues of The Connoisseur, nos. 1-387, 1901-1933, all in original wrappers, 4to

£100-150

612 Roswag (C.). Les Metaux Precieux, Consideres au Point de vue Economique, Paris, 1865, numerous b&w and colour illustrations, and folding tables, some light spotting, modern tan quarter morocco, 8vo, together with Struder (B.), Index der Petrographie und Stratigraphie der Schweiz und ihrer Umgebungen, Bern, 1872, bound with extra pamphlets and b&w and col. plts., some light spotting, contemp. boards rebound with maroon cloth, 8vo, plus De France (CH), Extraction Du Cuivre, De l’Argent Et De L’or Por la Voie Humide, Paris, 1897, numerous b&w illusts., and plates, orig. gilt dec. cloth, 8vo, plus other late 19th c./20th c. geology reference, mostly hardback, some in d.j.s, 8vo (2 cartons)

£100-150

613 Rubetti (Guido). Un’arma per la vittoria la pubblicita nei prestiti italiani di guerra, Milan, 1918, tipped in illustrations, some shelf wear, together with Illustrated London News, Record of the Glorious Reign on Queen Victoria..., numerous illustrations, original covers, plus a quantity of late 19th/ early 20th century newspapers and periodicals (2)

(13 cartons)

(2 cartons)

£100-150

615 Turner (J.M.W., et al.). The Gallery of Modern British Artists, 1834, eng. frontis. and addn. eng. title, numerous eng. plts., occasional scattered spotting, contemp. half calf, gilt-dec. spine, boards detached, worn, 4to, together with Flint (Sir William Russell), Drawings, 1st ed., 1950, orig. gilt-dec. blue cloth, numerous monochrome plts., wear to top and bottom of the spine, rubbed boards, large 8vo, and Poole (Monica), The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh, Gresham Books, 1985, frontis. in red and black, b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, plus other art reference (3 cartons)

£150-200

618 The Yellow Book, an illustrated quarterly, 13 vols., vols. 1-13, Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1890s, numerous b&w plts., orig. pictorial cloth, 8vo, together with Coote (Charles, LL.O), The History of England, From the Earliest Dawn of Record, to the Peace of MDCCLXXXIII, 10 vols., London, 1790s, some light occasional spotting, contemp. half calf, gilt, a little wear, 8vo, plus other titles including decorative cloth and other bindings, mostly historical interest

£100-150

614 Saint-Exupery (Antoine De). Le Petit Prince, Reynal & Hitchcock, 6th printing, New York, 1943, numerous colour illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, together with King (Marian), Kees, pub.

Harper and Brothers, 1930, numerous colour illusts. by Elizabeth Enright, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus other children’s related, mostly mid 20th century, many orig. cloth in d.j.s (3 cartons)

£150-200

£100-150

152

£200-300

QUANTITY 619 Gibbon (Edward). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 8 vols., new ed., 1823, engraved portrait frontis. to vol. I, four folding engraved maps (one repaired to verso), some light spotting and offsetting, hinges reinforced, bookplates, contemporary tree calf, vol. VII covers detached, others rebacked, 8vo, together with The Works of George Berkeley, 3 vols., 1820, folding engraved frontis. to vol. I (close-trimmed), folding plate, a few spots, previous owner signatures, contemporary half calf, some spine labels detached, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Almanach Imperial pour l’Annee MDCCCXIII, scattered spotting, previous owner inscription, bookplate, a.e.g., contemporary red straightgrained morocco gilt, spine a little rubbed and faded, 8vo, with others leatherbound including Henry Forster Burder’s A Sermon Delivered at Hoxton Chapel on Thursday August 15, 1811, on Occasion on the Death of the Rev. Thomas Spencer..., 2nd ed., 1811, Lectures on the Essentials of Religion, 1825 and the Scripture Character of God, 1822 (6 shelves)

623 Cahen (Claude). La Syrie du Nord a l’Epoque des Croisades et la principauté franque d’Antioche, Paris, 1940, modern blue morocco gilt, together with Dussaud (René), Topographie Historique de la Syrie Antique et Médiévale, Paris, pub. Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1927, and Gaudefizoy-Demombynes, La Syrie a l’Epoque des Mamelookes d’Aprés les Auteurs Arabes, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1923, all in uniform modern blue full morocco gilt, plus other Crusader, Middle East and Medieval History, mostly English-language scholarly publications, some printed in French, all 20th century, mostly 8vo, G/VG (6 shelves)

624 India. The Law Relating to India, and The Far East India Company, with Notes on an Appendix, 5th ed., pub. Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1855, recent quarter calf, 4to, together with Rathby (John), The Statutes Relating to the Admiralty, Navy, Shipping, and Navigation of the United Kingdom, from 9 Hn. III to 3 Geo. IV, inclusive, pub. George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1823, contemp. reversed calf with brass clasp, upper hinge weak, some foxing, 4to, plus Hume (David), Decisions of the Court of Session 1781-1822 in the Form of a Dictionary, Collected by David Hume, pub. William Blackwood & Sons, 1839, recent cloth, margins a little dust soiled and discoloured, 4to, plus other law, politics and economic reference, leather or cloth bound, folio, 4to & 8vo

£300-400

620 Hayter (Sir George). Original Etchings by Sir George Hayter, printed for James Rimell & Son, 1879, forty-six b&w etchings, incl. title page and frontis., light spotting to prelims., boards rubbed and marked, contemp. green half morocco gilt, large 4to, together with Herdman (William Gawin), Pictorial Relics of Ancient Liverpool, accompanied with descriptions of the antique buildings, etc., [Second Series], Subscriber’s Copy, published by the author, 1857, forty-eight b&w plts., some light scattered spotting, a.e.g., contemporary green half morocco gilt, gilt decorated spine, rubbed, folio, plus The Cabinet of Genius, containing Frontispieces and Characters Adapted to the Most Popular Poems, &c, 1787, numerous uncoloured stippled engravings, mostly printed in sepia, some light spotting and soiling, mainly to margins, modern half calf gilt, small 4to, plus other similar antiquarian, mostly late 18th and 19th century, including Naval Chronicle, 1808, 1810 & 1811, The National Shakespeare, illustrated by Sir J. Noel Paton, 3 vols., pub.

William Mackenzie, c. 1870s, all leather-bound, various sizes (3 shelves)

(6 shelves)

£200-300

(3 shelves)

£200-300

626 Huisman (Philippe & Dortu, M. G.). Lautrec by Lautrec, trans. Corinne Bellow, reprinted Chartwell Books, n.d., circa 1980s, numerous colour and b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, together with Langemeyer (Gerhard & others), Bild als Waffe, Mittel und Motive der Karikatur in Funf Jahrhunderten, Munich, 1985, numerous colour and b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, plus Browse (Lillian), Degas Dancers, 1st ed., pub. Faber and Faber, 1949, numerous b&w illusts., plus twelve in colour, orig. cloth, 4to, plus other art reference including some printed in German, 4to/8vo

£300-400

(3 shelves)

622 Pepys (Samuel). The Diary of Samuel Pepys, edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews, 11 vols., Bell & Hyman Limited, reprinted 1979-1983, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j.s, 8vo, G/VG, together with Scholem (Gershom), Sabbatai Sevi, The Mystical Messiah 1626-1676, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st UK ed., 1973, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j.s, 8vo, plus other history and related, including The Oxford History of England, 12 vols., mostly orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, G (6 shelves)

£300-500

625 Boswell (James). An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, 2nd ed., 1768, folding eng. map frontis., eng. vignette to title, slight offsetting to title, occ. minor spotting and slight browning to margins of last two leaves, contemp. calf, boards detached and lacks title label to spine, rubbed and worn, 8vo, together with Jenkins (Alexander), The History and Description of the City of Exeter, and its Environs, Ancient and Modern Civil and Ecclesiastical, Exeter, 1806, ten maps and plts., slight offsetting, contemp. calf gilt, front cover det., rubbed and worn, 8vo, and Carus (Titus Lucretus), His Six Books of Epicurean Philosophy, Done into English Verse with Notes, 3rd ed., 1683, browning to margins throughout, contemp. calf gilt, rubbed and worn, title label to spine detached, plus other antiquarian interest, various, mostly 18th & 19th century, mostly leather-bound, including some large format

621 Smedley (Frank E.) Harry Coverdale’s Courtship, and All That Came of It, Virtue, Hall and Virtue, c. 1855, engraved frontis., additional title and plates by H.K. Browne, title with repaired tear, a few spots, bookplate, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, complete in one volume, 1860, portrait frontis., spotting front and rear, bookplate, contemporary green half calf, lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Last Words and Dying Testimonies of the Scots Worthies..., Glasgow, 1846, engraved portraits, some light spotting, previous owner signature, bookplate, contemporary calf, 8vo, with others leatherbound including Poems by Samuel Rogers, 2 vols., 1842, Thomas Huxley’s Critiques and Addresses, 1873, W. Davenport Adams’ Dictionary of English Literature, c. 1888 and Arthur Norway’s Highways and Byways in Yorkshire, 1899 (3 shelves)

£150-200

£150-200

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£100-150

627 Babington (Charles Cardale). Manual of British Botany, Containing the Flowering Plants and Ferns, arranged according to the Natural Orders, 6th ed., pub. John Van Voorst, 1867, contemporary half morocco, rubbed and slight wear, 8vo, together with Baines (Thomas), Lancashire and Cheshire, Past & Present, 4 vols., pub. William Mackenzie, c. 1870s, b&w engraved plates, occasional scattered spotting, a.e.g., orig. uniform gilt-decorated cloth, rubbed and frayed to extremeties, 4to, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian, mostly leather-bound, including nine vols. of Country Life, 1908-1945, etc.

(3 shelves)

632 Ball (Johnson). William Caslon 1693-1766, 1st ed., Roundwood Press, 1973, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, together with Gatty (Charles T.), Mary Davies and The Manor of Ebury, 2 vols., pub. Cassell & Co., 1921, eight plates and thirty-one other illustrations, orig. cloth, 8vo, plus Plumptre (E. H.), The Commedia and Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri, 2 vols., pub. Isbister, 1886, orig. cloth, 8vo, and other history, biography and literature reference, including Keith Feiling, A History of the Tory Party 1640-1714, reprinted 1970, Smollett, Roderick Random, 2 vols., Shakespeare Head Press, 1925, John Fleming, Robert Adam and His Circle, reprinted 1962, etc., 4to/8vo, G/VG

£150-200

(3 shelves)

628 Gentles (Ian). The New Model Army in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1645-1653, 1st ed., pub. Blackwells, 1992, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., spine lightly faded, together with other history interest, mainly modern publications, mostly orig. cloth in d.j.s, including English Civil War, Napoleonic Boer War, World War II, etc., mainly 8vo (6 shelves)

633 Ellis (Andrew & Johnson, Andy). Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in the Imperial War Museum, 1st ed., pub. Public Catalogue Foundation, 2006, numerous colour and b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., large 4to, together with Clouston (K. Warren), The Chippendale Period in English Furniture, pub. Edward Arnold, 1897, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth, 4to, plus Lorenz (Günter & Others), Autowerke, Hatje Cantz, 2000, 120 colour and b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., large 4to, and Hasler (Charles), The Royal Arms, 1st ed., pub. Jupiter Books, 1980, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., large 4to, and other art reference, 4to/8vo, G/VG

£100-150

629 Beurdeley (Michel). Chinese Trade Porcelain, 1st ed., pub.

Charles E. Tuttle, 1962, numerous colour and b&w illusts. and plates, orig. cloth in d.j., and slipcase, 4to, together with Baroni (Constantino, & Others), Leonardo Da Vinci, 2 vols., 1st ed., pub.

Leisure Arts, 1964, numerous colour and b&w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth in d.j.s, with slipcase, folio, plus Parker (K. T.), The Drawings of Antonio Canaletto in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, pub. Phaidon Press, 1948, numerous b&w plts., orig. cloth in slightly torn d.j., 4to, plus other art, literature and history reference, all orig. cloth, mostly in d.js., 4to/8vo, G/VG (6 shelves)

(3 shelves)

£100-150

(6 shelves)

£300-500

635 Brown (Jonathan) & Elliott (John H.). A Palace for a King, The Buen Retiro and The Court of Philip IV, Yale University Press, 2003, numerous colour illustrations throughout, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, together with Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922), His Art and His Influence, 1st ed., Spanierman Gallery, 1999, numerous colour illustrations throughout, orig. cloth in d.j., large 4to, and Gassier (Pierre), Goya, Life and Work, Evergreen, 1994, numerous colour illustrations throughout, orig. cloth in d.j., large 4to, plus other art reference titles, mostly in orig. cloth and d.j.s (3 shelves + a carton)

£150-200

636 Railways. A Passion for Trains, The Railroad Photograph of Richrad Steinheimer, with text by Jeff Brouws, pub. Norton & Company, 1st ed., 2004, numerous colour illustrations, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, together with World of Steam by Grey Triplett, Koyusha, 1st ed., numerous colour illustrations, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, and British Railways Engineering, 1948-80, by John Johnson and Robert A. Long, Mechanical Engineering Publications, 1982, numerous b&w illustrations, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus other railway related, mostly orig. cloth in d.j.s

£150-200

631 Salmi (Mario & Tolnay, Charles & others). The Complete Work of Michelangelo, pub. Reynal and Company, n.d., c. 1979, 1040 illusts., with thirty-two plates in full colour, orig. cloth in d.j., large folio, together with Baroni (Constantino & Calvi, Ignazio & Others), Leonardo da Vinci, 2 vols., pub. Leisure Arts, 1964, numerous colour and b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j.s, and slipcase, large folio, plus Strieder (Peter), Dürer, 1st ed., pub.

Mercatorfonds, 1982, numerous colour and b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., and slipcase, folio, and other art reference, including Cecil Gould, Leonardo, The Artist and the Non-Artist, 1975, Lawrence and Dighton, French Line Engravings of the Late Eighteenth Century, 1910, etc., folio/4to/8vo, G/VG (3 shelves)

£150-200

634 Macaulay (Thomas Babington). The History of England, From the Accession of James the Second, 5 vols., 10th ed., 18541861, gilt-dec. calf, all 8vo, together with Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 3 vols., 10th ed., 1860, plus other mostly 19th-c. books, mostly leather-bound, including a few in cloth, 4to/8vo

630 Hazen (Allen T.). A Catalogue of Horace Walpole’s Library, 3 vols., 1st ed., Oxford University Press, 1969, all in orig. cloth with d.j.s, 4to, together with Ross (Sir David), Aristotle de Anima, 1st ed., Oxford Press, 1961, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Keefe (H. J.), A Century in Print, The Story of Hazell’s 1839-1939, pub. Hazell Watson & Viney, 1939, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, and other bibliography reference, including Pollard and Redgrave, Short-title Catalogue of English Books 1475-1640, 2 vols., 1976-86, Brian Northlee, British Bookplates, A Pictorial History, 1979, Honeyman Collection, 7 vols., 1978-81, Charles Ramsden, French Bookbinders 1789-1848, & Bookbinders of the United Kingdom Outside London, 1780-1840, etc., mostly orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to/8vo, G/VG (3 shelves)

£100-150

(3 shelves & a carton)

£150-200

154

£150-200

637 Holt (P. M.). The Cambridge History of Islam, 2 vols., Cambridge, 1970, orig. cloth in d.j.s., 8vo, together with Evens (Helen C.), The Glory of Byzantium, Art and Culture of the Middle Bysantine Eru A.D. 843-1261, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997, numerous col. illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, and Drochan (Jean-Emmanel B.), Histoire illustrée des pélerinages Francais de la Trés Sainte Vierge, Libraire Plon, 1890s, numerous b&w maps and illusts., orig. pictorial cloth, worn to head and foot of spine, 4to, plus other similar history related, mostly modern orig. cloth in d.j.s, G (3 shelves)

642 Johnsen (Bent). Skandinaviens Orkideer, Orchids of Schandinavia, 1st ed., 1997, numerous b & w and col. plts. and illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, together with Burleigh (Thomas D.), Birds of Idaho, 1st ed., U.S., 1971, numerous b & w and col. photo plts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, and Mason (Hilda), Western Cape Sandveld Flowers, 1st ed., Cape Town, 1971, numerous b & w and col. plts. and illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., large 8vo, plus other horticultural and natural history reference, many in d.j.s, 8vo/folio, G/VG (6 shelves)

643 Hakluyt Society, 27 vols., incl. The English New England Voyages, 1602-1608, The Purchas Handbook, vols. 1-11, Missions to the Niger, vols. I-IV, The Iceland Journal of Henry Holland, 1810, The Journal of Rochfort Maguire, 1852-4, vols. 1-11, all 1st eds., 1960s90s, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, some rubbed to edges and some slight loss to spines, all 8vo, together with Jane’s Fighting Ships, 8 vols., a broken run, 1944-1971, folio, and other naval/nautical reference, many in d.j.s, 8vo/folio, G/VG

638 Parliamentary Papers (Transportation). Report from the Select Committee on Transportation Ordered by the House of Commons, to be printed, 10 July 1812, ex libris Birmingham Law Society with stamp to title page, repeated elsewhere, worming to outer margin of first fifteen pages, not affecting text, recent cloth, folio, together with Eighth Report by the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, Scotland, Edinburgh, 1838, orig. blue wrapper, 4to, and Report from the Select Committee on Public Monies, 21st July 1856, orig. blue wrapper, 4to, plus other similar law related, statutes, etc., mostly 18th and 19th century, mainly leather-bound, folio, 4to & 8vo (3 shelves & a carton)

(6 shelves)

£200-300

(7 shelves & a carton)

(7 shelves & 2 cartons)

£150-200

646 Van Gogh (Vincent). The Complete Letters, 3 vols., reprinted 1988, numerous b&w illusts., all orig. dark blue cloth in slipcase, 8vo, together with Ruskin (John), Lectures on Art, delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870, 2nd ed., 1875, orig. gilt dec. purple cloth, 8vo, and Poesch (Jessie), The Art of the Old South, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture & The Products of Craftsmen 1560-1860, reprinted., 1989, 392 colour and b&w plts., orig. cloth in d.j., spine slightly rubbed and faded, large 4to, plus other Old Master and pre-20th century art reference and related, many in d.j.s, 4to/folio, G/VG

£300-500

(6 shelves & a carton)

£150-200

647 Szirmai (Z.). Law in Eastern Europe, a series of publications issued by the Documentation Office for East European Law University of Leyden, 20 vols., a broken run, A. W. Sijthoft, Leyden, 1950s-1970s, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, together with Jennings (Sir Ivor), Party Politics, 3 vols., 1st eds., Cambridge, 1960s, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, plus other law related, including many Oxford and Cambridge publications, mostly orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, G

£150-200

641 Hake (A. Egmont). The Story of Chinese Garden, 2 vols., 1st eds., 1884-85, numerous b & w and col. plts. and folding maps, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, slight wear to edges, spine faded with slight wear to head and foot, vol. 2 includes inscription by the author to title page, 8vo, together with Hozier (H.M.), The Franco-Prussian War: Its Causes, Incidents and Consequences, 2 vols., later ed., numerous b & w steel plt. portraits, spotting throughout, contemp. gilt-dec. calf, some rubbing to edges and spine, large 4to, and other 20th-c. military and related, many in d.j.s, 4to/folio, G/VG (6 shelves)

£150-200

645 Paperbacks. Literature, history, biographies, art reference and guides, all modern publications, including Penguin, Pan, Harper, Phoenix, etc., generally VG (approx. 600)

640 Stillman (Damie). Decorative Work of Robert Adam, 1st ed., 1973, numerous b & w photo illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., spine and top edges faded, 8vo, together with Corredor-Matheos (José), Subirachs, 1st ed., 1975, numerous b & w and col. photo plts., orig. cloth in d.j., rubbing to edges and slight tear to upper cover, 8vo, and Day (Lewis F.), Ornament and its Application, 1st ed., 1904, numerous b & w plts. and illusts., orig. gilt-dec. blue cloth, slight wear to edges, 8vo, plus other 20th-c. art and sculpture reference, many in d.j.s, 8vo/folio, G/VG (6 shelves & a carton)

£150-200

644 Penguin paperbacks, a large collection of approx. 860 paperbacks, including crime, fiction, biography, mixed condition, mostly F/G

639 Spotiswoode (John). An Introduction to the Knowledge of the Stile of Writs, Simple and Compound, made use of in Scotland, 5th ed., Edinburgh, 1765, contemp. calf, rubbed head and foot of spine snagged, lacking spine label, 12mo, together with Home (Henry, Lord Kames), Select Decisions of the Court of Session, from 1752-1768, Edinburgh, 1780, contemp. calf, 4to, and Serres (Claude), Les Institutions du Droit Francois, Suivant l’ordre de celle de Justinien, accommodées a jurisprudence moderne, et aux ordonnances, 1st ed., Paris, 1753, contemp. full calf, rubbed and some marks, 4to, plus other similar law related, mostly leatherbound, various sizes (3 shelves & a carton)

£100-150

£150-200

(6 shelves)

£100-150

648 Aviation and related, mostly 20th century, hardback publications, including Putnum, Airlife, Arms and Armour, pub. mostly in d.j.s, G/VG (6 shelves & 3 cartons)

£150-200

155

£100-150

649 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Siegfried & The Twilight of The Gods, by Richard Wagner, 1st ed., 1911, thirty colour illusts., including frontis., light spotting throughout, not affecting illustrations, orig. gilt dec. cloth, spine, front & rear boards slightly rubbed, white mark on spine, large 8vo, together with Dickens (Charles), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, with illustrations by Phiz, 1st ed., 1839, eng. frontis., thirty-nine b&w plts., some heavy spotting throughout, some pages det. with some wear and loss, contemp. gilt dec. half calf, front and rear boards damaged with some loss, spine semi-detached and worn at head and foot, 8vo, and The Self Instructor, or, Young Man’s Best Companion..., Stereotype ed., 1812, ten b&w woodcuts, lacks frontis., light spotting and wear throughout, gilt dec. half calf, front and rear boards scuffed, spine rubbed, 8vo, plus other juvenile literature, picture cloth and illustrated books, incl. Rudyard Kipling, John Buchan, Mark Twain, W. W. Jacobs, 8vo/large 8vo (6 shelves)

653 Ball (Warwick). The Monuments of Afghanistan, History, Archaeology and Architecture, 1st ed., pub. I. B. Tauris, 2008, numerous colour and b&w illusts., mostly after photos, orig. blue cloth in d.j., 4to, VG, together with Williams (Harry), Ceylon, Pearl of the East, 7th imp., 1965, numerous b&w plates after photos, illusts., etc., orig. cloth gilt in sl. frayed d.j., 8vo, plus Fleming (Ian), Thrilling Cities, 1st ed., 1963, b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j., and Morris (James), Cities, 1st ed., pub. Faber & Faber, 1963, b&w plates after photos, orig. cloth in d.j., a little rubbed, 8vo, plus other European and near East travel, history, etc., guide books, including Companion Guide series, Augustus Hare, Walks in Rome, 2 vols., Roloff Beny, etc., mostly orig. cloth in d.j.s, mainly 8vo (including some 4to), G/VG (approx. 175) (6 shelves)

654 Mee (Arthur). The King’s England series, 40 vols., mixed eds., pub. Hodder & Stoughton, 1930s-60s, numerous b&w plates after photos, all orig. red cloth, a little rubbed and some spines faded, 9 vols. in d.j.s, 8vo, together with other British Topography and related, including Britain in Pictures series, Companion Guide series, several Batsford publications, etc.

£200-300

650 Mathews (D.L.). The Fatal Amateur, 1st ed., 1960, orig. cloth in d.j., some light spotting, d.j., rubbed to edges with some loss, 8vo, together with Marric (J.J.), Gideon’s Risk, 1st ed., 1960, orig. cloth in d.j., slight rubbing to edges and hinge of d.j., 8vo, and Morton (Anthony), Versus the Baron, 1st ed., 1940, orig. cloth in d.j., rubbing to edges and hinge of d.j., slight loss to spine, 8vo, plus other 1940s-60s crime fiction and thrillers incl. John Creasey, James Hadley Chase, Leslie Charteris, Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, some in d.j.s, 8vo, F/VG (6 shelves & a carton)

(6 shelves)

£200-300

(6 shelves)

£100-150

656 Williams (H. Noel). The Women Bonapartes, The Mother and Three Sisters of Napoleon I, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1908, b&w plts., orig. gilt-decorated green cloth, very sl. rubbed, 8vo, together with Nicholas & Alexandra, The Last Imperial Family of Tsarist Russia, 1st ed., pub. Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1998, numerous colour plates and illusts. after photos, etc., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., 4to, VG, plus other similar biographies and history, including Martin Gilbert, Churchill, A Life, 1991, Antony Wynn, Persia in the Great Game, Sir Percy Sykes, Explorer, Consul, Soldier, Spy, 1st ed., 2001, Daily Telegraph Book of Naval Obituaries, Military Obituaries, Book 2 & Airmen’s Obituaries, Book 2, together 3 vols., pub. Grub Street, 2004-07, etc., all modern pubs., all orig. cloth in d.j.s, mainly 8vo, VG

£200-300

652 Lowe (E. J.). Our Native Ferns, or A History of the British Species and their Varieties, 2 vols., pub. Groombridge and Sons, 1867, numerous coloured plates and woodcut illusts., orig. cloth, 8vo, together with Bewick (Thomas), A General History of Quadrupeds, 6th ed., pub. Newcastle upon Tyne, 1811, numerous wood engravings, rebound half calf, 8vo, plus Morris (F. O.), A History of British Butterflies, 5th ed., pub. George Bell & Sons, seventy-two coloured plates, orig. cloth, 8vo, plus other natural history reference including several New Naturalist series, mostly cloth bound, some in d.j.s, 8vo/4to (6 shelves)

£100-150

655 Lord (Peter). The Visual Culture of Wales: Medieval Vision, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2003, numerous col. illusts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, VG, together with Nadelhoffer (Hans), Cartier, Jewellers Extraordinary, pub. Thames & Hudson, reprinted 1985, colour and b&w illusts., orig. maroon cloth gilt in d.j., 4to, VG, plus Zollner (Frank), Leonardo da Vinci, The Complete Paintings and Drawings, 2 vols., pub. Taschen, 2011, numerous colour plates and illusts., orig. printed wrappers, with matching slipcase, 4to, VG, and other art, architecture and antiques reference, mainly modern publications, many in d.j.s, 4to/8vo, G/VG

651 Murchison (Roderick Impey). Siluria. The History of the Oldest Fossiliferous Rocks and Their Foundations, with a brief sketch of the distributions of gold over the Earth, 3rd ed., 1859, col. frontis., numerous b&w illusts. and plts., light spotting throughout, orig. gilt dec. cloth, spine faded and rubbed, 8vo, together with De La Beche (Henry T.), Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset, pub. H.M.S.O., 1839, col. folding map frontis., numerous b&w illusts., ex-libris stamp to title page and front endpaper ‘Office of Commissioners of Railways’, some light spotting, orig. cloth binding, spine faded and rubbed, 8vo, and Rutter (John), Delineations of the North Western Division of the County of Somerset and of its Antediluvian Bone Caverns, 1st ed., 1829, numerous b&w illusts. and plts., ex-libris stamps to front endpaper and half title, ‘Incorporated Law Society’, contemp. green half morocco, rubbed spine, large 8vo, plus other 19th c./20th c. geology reference, some in d.j.s, 8vo/folio (6 shelves & 2 cartons)

£150-200

(6 shelves)

£100-150

657 Michaud (Roland & Sabrina, and Barry, Michael). Colour and Symbolism in Islamic Architecture, Eight Centuries of the TileMaker’s Art, 1st English ed., pub. Thames and Hudson, 1996, numerous colour plts. and illustrations, orig. blue cloth in d.j., large square 4to, VG, together with Ferrier (R. W. ed.), The Arts of Persia, 1st ed., Yale University Press, 1989, numerous colour and b&w plts. and illusts., orig. black cloth gilt in d.j., 4to, VG, plus Beny (Roloff), Persia, Bridge of Turquoise, Thames & Hudson, 1975, numerous colour and b&w plates, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, and other art and architecture reference, mainly Europe, near East, medieval, etc., all modern publications, mostly in d.j.s, mainly 4to (approx. 175)

£200-300

(6 shelves)

156

£150-200

658 Soyer (Alexis). The Modern Housewife or Menagere, comprising nearly one thousand receipts for the economic and judicious preparation of every meal of the day ..., 13th thou., 1850, orig. blindstamped green cloth gilt, rubbed and frayed with some wear, 8vo, together with Miller (Lee), Wrens in Camera, 1st ed., 1945, b&w plts. after photos, orig. blue cloth, rubbed, small slim 4to, plus Liechtenstein (Princess Marie), Holland House, 2 vols., pub. Macmillan, 1874, numerous b&w illusts., orig. gilt-decorated blue cloth, 8vo, and other literature, history, gardening, cookery, etc., including Francatelli’s Cook’s Guide, 43rd thou, 1877, Raymond Oliver, The French at Table, pub. Wine and Food Society, 1967, John Arlott, The Oxford Companion to Sports & Games, 1975, etc., mostly 20th century publications, many in d.j.s, mainly 8vo (6 shelves)

664 Morison (Samuel Eliot & Commager, Henry Steele). The Growth of the American Republic, 2 vols., revised and enlarge edition, pub. Oxford, 1937, numerous maps and plates, orig. cloth, 8vo, together with Brandenburg (Erich), From Bismark to the World War, A History of German Foreign Policy, 1870-1914, 2nd ed., pub. Oxford, 1933, orig. cloth, 8vo, plus other hardback Oxford publications and similar publications, 8vo, G/VG (6 shelves)

665 Wouk (Herman). The ‘Caine’ Mutiny, 1st ed., Jonathan Cape, 1951, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, together with Forester (C. S.), Hornblower and The Atropos, 1st ed., pub. Michael Joseph, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Forester (C. S.), The Sky and The Forest, 1st ed., pub. Michael Joseph, 1948, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus other literature reference, mostly hardback in d.j.s, 8vo, G/VG

£100-150

659 Crowell (Pers). Cavalcade of American Horses, Bonanza Books, 1951, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, together with Bone (James), The London Perambulator, Jonathan Cape, 2nd ed., 1925, orig. cloth, 4to, and The New Naturalist, Wild Flowers, Bloomsbury, 1989, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus other sporting, natural history, and travel related, mostly 20th century (6 shelves & a carton)

£100-150

(6 shelves)

£150-200

666 Modern Literature, including Bernard Cornwell, Allan Mallinson, Dudley Pope, Patrick O’Brien, Thomas Mann, Pat Barker, and many others, all 8vo, G/VG (6 shelves)

£100-150

£100-150

667 Army Records Society, 18 vols., pub. The Bodley Head, 19852001, orig. cloth in d.j.s., 8vo, together with other history and military reference, all hardback, mostly in d.j.s, 8vo, G/VG

660 Burke (Edmund). The Writings & Speeches of Edmund Burke, 12 vols., ed. Beaconsfield, pub. Little, Brown & Co., 1901, numerous b&w plates, orig. cloth, 8vo, together with Lawrence (T. E.), Seven Pillars of Wisdom, pub. Jonathan Cape, 1935, numerous maps and b&w illusts., orig. cloth, 8vo, plus Von Ruville (Albert), William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 3 vols., pub. Heinemann Press, 1907, numerous b&w plates, orig. cloth, 8vo, and other biography reference, mostly hardback in d.j.s, 8vo, G/VG

668 Navy Records Society, 16 vols., 1912-1998, including The Navy Miscellany, The Somerville Papers, British Naval Documents 1204-1960, orig. cloth, 8vo, plus other history and biography reference, all hardback, in orig. cloth, some in d.j.s, 8vo, G/VG

(6 shelves)

(6 shelves + 2 cartons)

(6 shelves)

£100-150

661 Boswell (James). Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France 1765-1766, ed. Frank Brady & Frederick A. Pottle, Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell,1955, illustrations, t.e.g, original vellum-backed boards, glassine wrapper, 8vo, edition de luxe, 44/400, together with Boswell in Search of a Wife 17661769, Yale Editions, 1957, folding plan, illustrations, t.e.g., original vellum-backed boards, worming to spine label, glassine wrapper, 8vo, edition de luxe, 41/400, plus two other Yale Editions of Boswell, Jules Janin’s La Bretagne, c. 1860, Georges Duplessis’ Histoire de la Gravure, 1880, Charles Yriarte’s Venice, 1880 (lacking front endpaper), Charles Dickens’ Dombey and Son, 1st ed., 1848, and others leatherbound including Alfred Tennyson’s The Princess, 6th ed., 1854, bound by Hayday (3 shelves)

(6 shelves)

£150-200

670 Antiquarian Literature, mainly 18th c./19th c. leather and cloth bound literature, including Waverley, Swinburne, Lytton, Dumas (cloth set), some odd vols., mixed condition, 8vo (6 shelves)

£100-150

£200-300

671 Framjee (Dosabhoy). Travels in Great Britain, Bombay, 1801, preface in English, text in Hindi, b&w portrait frontis. of Queen Victoria, twenty-eight steel eng. plates, including many views, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. blue cloth, rubbed and minor fraying to extreme corners, 4to, author’s presentation copy, inscribed at head of title ‘With the author’s best respects’, and signature of Mrs Cormanston to verso of front endpaper, dated 1861, together with McLaren (Ian), Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, Hodder & Stoughton, numerous etchings, orig. cloth, 8vo, plus other Victorian cloth, 8vo, mostly G

£100-150

663 Rackham (Arthur). The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie, Doubleday Page & Co., 1910, numerous colour plates, orig. cloth, 8vo, together with Folio Society publications, 29 vols., 1960s-1990s, including Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, mostly in orig. cloth with slipcases, plus other literature reference, hardback and paperback, some in d.j.s, 4to/8vo, G/VG (6 shelves)

£100-150

669 British Hunts and Huntsmen, 3 vols. (of 4), 1st ed., pub. The Biographical Press, 1908, numerous b&w illusts. and engravings, half red morocco, rubbed and slightly torn spines, folio, together with Jones (Thomas Rymer), Book of Birds, from the text of Dr. Brehm, 4 vols., pub. Cassell, numerous b&w engravings and coloured plates, half calf, all 8vo, plus other leather bindings including many odd volumes, 8vo/4to

662 Aviation. A collection of modern aviation books, including Putnam, Jane’s, Airlife, American Armour Press, Ian Allen publications, mostly hardback, many in d.j.s, 8vo/folio, together with a large collection of modern model aviation magazines (3 shelves & 4 cartons)

£100-150

(3 shelves)

£100-150

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£150-200

672 Sank (Henry Hawkes). The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle’s Letter, pub. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1902, orig. cloth, 8vo, together with Sidney (Philip), A History of the Gunpowder Plot, The Conspiracy and Its Agents, pub. The Religious Tract Society, 1904, sixteen facsimile illusts. from old prints, orig. cloth, 8vo, plus other British history, including History of England, 6 vols., by Leopold von Ranke, The Age of Charles I by David Matthew and others similar, all orig. cloth, mostly in d.j.s, 8vo, G/VG (3 shelves)

677 Boyle (Robert). Some Considerations Touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures, Extracted from several parts of a Discourse, concerning divers Particulars belonging to the Bible, 4th ed., 1675, three b & w wood-engraved decorative initials (A2, ‘To the Reader’, page 1), lacks port. frontis., light spotting throughout, loss to rear endpaper, contemp. decorated calf binding, front and rear boards rubbed with slight loss to edges, spine rubbed with loss to head and foot, 8vo, together with Cocker (Edward), Cocker’s Decimal Arithmetick, Wherein is Shewed the Nature and Use of Decimal Fractions in the Usual Rules of Arithmetick, and the Mensuration of Plains and Solids, 5th ed., 1720, b & w wood-engraved diagrams to text, some spotting and marks throughout, some loss to front endpaper, previous owner’s inscription to rear endpaper, contemp. calf binding, front and rear boards worn with slight loss, spine worn and hinges split, 8vo, and The Tradesman’s Director, or The London and Country Shopkeeper’s Useful Companion, Containing such instructions as will enable the shopkeeper to carry on his Business with more Ease and greater Exactness than is usually done, printed for W. Owens, 1756, an additional page, numbered 45* & 46* has been inserted between p. 44 & 45, imprint excised at foot of title with loss of publication date, missing front and rear endpapers, some pages toned and spotting throughout, modern quarter calf binding, slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian incl. science, chemistry, philosophy, literature, 4to/8vo

£100-150

673 Motley (John Lothrop). The Rise of the Dutch Republic, A History, 3 vols., pub. Harper & Brothers, 1856, orig. cloth, 8vo, together with Livingstone (David), Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, pub. John Murray, 1857, numerous b&w plates, orig. cloth, 8vo, plus Beazley (E. Raymond), Voyages and Travels: mainly during the 10th and 17th Centuries, 2 vols., pub.

Archibald Constable and Co., 1903, orig. cloth, 8vo, and other travel and history reference, orig. cloth, some in d.j.s, 4to/8vo, G (6 shelves)

£100-150

674 Frazer (J. G.). The Golden Bough, 13 vols., incl. Bibliography and General Index, 3rd ed., 1911-1915, part 1 with b&w frontis., light spotting throughout, orig. uniform gilt dec. green cloth, spines worn with some loss, 8vo, together with Huxley (Leonard), Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, 2 vols., 1st ed., New York, 1901, thirteen b&w illusts., incl. two frontis., vol. 1 slightly disbound, orig. gilt dec. cloth, spines rubbed at head and foot, 8vo, and Wilson (Philip Whitwell, ed.), The Greville Diary, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1927, eighteen b&w portraits, incl. two frontis., orig. green cloth in d.j.s, spines faded with some wear and slight loss to head and foot, boards rubbed, 8vo, plus other 19th c./20th c. literature and biography, some leather bound, 8vo (6 shelves)

(3 shelves)

678 Doyle (J. A.). The English in America, 3 vols., pub. Longmans, Green and Co., 1887, half red morocco, 8vo, together with Ashburnham (John), A Narrative By, Of His Attendance on King Charles The First from Oxford to the Scotch Army, and from Hampton Court to the Isle of Wight, 2 vols., 1st ed., pub. Payne and Foss, 1830, full calf, 8vo, plus Swift (Jonathan), The Works Of, 19 vols., 2nd eds., pub. Edinburgh, 1824, uniform binding except for vols. 9, 10, 12, 17, 18, 19, which have been rebacked, all 8vo, plus other 19th century leather and cloth, all 8vo

£100-150

675 Millais (J. G.). The Natural History of British Game Birds, Longmans, Green & Co., 1909, numerous b&w plates and illustrations, orig. cloth, folio, together with Hughes-Parry (J.), A Salmon Fisherman’s Notebook, A Fishing Fantasy, 2nd ed., Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Daglish (Eric Fitch), Fly Fishing, pub. J. M. Dent & Sons, 1931, numerous wood engravings, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, and other fishing reference, orig. cloth, mostly in d.j.s, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves)

(3 shelves)

£150-200

679 Lawrence (T.E.). The Mint, 1st ed., 1955, orig. blue cloth in d.j., front and rear boards damp stained, d.j. stained with slight tear to spine, 4to, together with Forester (C.S.), Lieutenant Hornblower, 1st ed., 1952, light spotting to fore-edge, orig. cloth in price-clipped d.j., light rubbing to hinges, 8vo, and Wodehouse (P.G.), Carry On, Jeeves, 1st ed., 1925, light spotting throughout, orig. green pictorial cloth, spine faded and rubbed, 8vo, plus Barrie (J.M.), Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1926, sixteen col. illusts. (incl. frontis.) with tissue guards, light spotting throughout, orig. gilt-dec. red cloth, spine faded, small 4to, together with other modern first and early editions, including John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, Richard Adams, Roald Dahl, Gerald Durrell, Captain W.E. Johns, Enid Blyton, all hardback publications, many in d.j.s, 4to/8vo, G/VG

£100-150

676 Harrison (G. B.). Shakespeare at Work, 1592-1603, pub.

George Routledge & Sons, 1933, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, together with Dent (Alan), Bernard Shaw and Mrs Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence, 1st ed., pub. Victor Gollancz, 1952, orig. cloth in d.j, 8vo, plus Hotson (Leslie), Shakespeare’s Wooden O, 1st ed., pub. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, and other literature reference, mostly hardback publications, orig. cloth, mostly in d.j.s, 4to/8to, G/VG (6 shelves)

£200-300

(6 shelves)

£100-150

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£200-300

680 Hakluyt Society. The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and The Situations Thereof, 2 vols., 1853-54, Notes Upon Russia: Being a Translation of the Earliest Account of that Country, entitled Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii, 2 vols., 1815-52, uniform contemp. calf, some wear and loss to spine and boards, 8vo, together with Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Poets, Philosophers, Statesmen, Divines, Painters, Architects, Physicians, and Lawyers, Since the Revival of Art, with their Biographies, 3 vols., 1853, 168 eng. portraits, minor marginal spotting throughout, uniform contemp. red half morocco, rubbed, 4to, and Cowley (Abraham), Works, 3 vols., 11th ed., 1710-11, numerous b & w eng. plts. including frontis., light spotting throughout, later calf binding, 8vo, plus other 18th/19th-c. literature and related, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)

683 Foxe (John). The New and Complete Book of Martyrs; or, an Universal History of Martyrdom... ed. Paul Wright, Alex Hogg. c.

1780, 58 engraved plates, a few hand-coloured, a few marginal repairs, occasional spotting and soiling, contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, folio, together with Brown’s SelfInterpreting Family Bible, by Rev. John Brown, c. 1860, numerous colour plates, a few spots, hinges reinforced, a.e.g., original full black morocco, brass clasps, 4to, plus Poems and Letters by Thomas Gray, Chiswick Press, 1874, oval albumen print mounted illustrations, a few spots, prize presentation inscription, a.e.g., contemporary calf, a little rubbed and scuffed, 4to, plus others leatherbound etc. including Thomas Moore’s Life of Lord Byron, 1851, James Grant’s British Battles, 4 vols., c. 1880 and The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892

£200-300

(3 shelves)

681 Walton (Izaak). The Compleat Walton, The Nonsuch Press, limited edition 1250/1600, 1929, numerous b & w illusts. incl. frontis portrait, contemp. gilt-dec. morocco, slight fading to spine, 8vo, together with Shadwell (Thomas), Epsom-Wells. A Comedy.

Acted at the Duke’s Theatre, Printed for R. Wellington at the Dolphin and Crown the West end of St. Paul’s-Church-Yard, 1704, some damp staining throughout, pages toned, modern marbled boards, 4to, and Robertson (J.), An Essay on the Nature of the English Verse, with Directions for Reading Poetry, 1st ed., 1799, some light spotting and intermittent damp staining, contemp. calf binding, 8vo, plus other 19th/early 20th-c. literature, many pocket eds., including Thackeray, Galsworthy, Scott, Pepys, small 8vo/8vo (3 shelves)

684 Motley (John Lothrop). The Works of John Lothrop Motley, 9 vols., 1904, photogravure portraits, a few spots, t.e.g., contemporary green half morocco by Sotheran, spines with raised bands and gilt decoration (faded to brown), 8vo, together with Italy.

A Poem by Samuel Rogers, 1830, b & w illustrations, some spotting and marginal waterstain, a.e.g., contemporary full burgundy morocco gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus True Stories from English History, by Oscar Browning, 1886, map and woodengraved illustrations, contemporary full red calf gilt by Relfe Brothers, 8vo, with others leatherbound including Thomas Babington Macaulay’s Lays of Ancient Rome, 1847 and The Plays of William Shakespeare, 1849

£100-150

(3 shelves)

682 Keynes (Geoffrey). Bibliotheca Bibliographici, A Catalogue of the Library formed by Geoffrey Keynes, The Trianon Press, 1964, forty-five b & w plts., contemp. gilt-dec. cloth, large 8vo, together with Abbey (J.R.), Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, from The Library of J.R. Abbey, Reprint ed., 1972, numerous b & w plts. including col. frontis., orig. cloth in d.j., front and rear covers marked, spine marked with slight tear at head, large 4to, and Jones (Herschel V.), Adventures in Americana 14921897, 2 vols., Americanan Collection of Herschel V. Jones, 3 vols. in total, all 1st eds., New York, 1964, numerous b & w plts., uniform orig. brown cloth, large 8vo, plus other bibliographical and library reference, including Longham, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown’s Catalogue of Old Books 1816-1817, Martin’s Catalogue of Privately Printed Books, Catalogue Rice Library 1870, and auction catalogues of private library sales, including J.R. Abbey, The Huth Library, S.R. Christie-Miller Library, 8vo/large 8vo (6 shelves)

£300-400

£200-300

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£300-400

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Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 5UQ 01285 860006 / firstname or info@dominicwinter.co.uk

www.dominicwinter.co.uk

Conditions of Sale and Business 1. The Seller warrants to the Auctioneer and the buyer that he is the true owner or is properly authorised to sell the property by the true owner and is able to transfer good and marketable title to the property free from any third party claims.

2. (a) The highest bidder to be the buyer. If during the auction the Auctioneer considers that a dispute has arisen he has absolute authority to settle it or re-offer the lot. The Auctioneer may at his sole discretion determine the advance of bidding or refuse a bid, divide any lot, combine any two or more lots or withdraw any lot without prior notice. (b) Where goods are bought at auction by a buyer who has entered into an agreement with another or others that the other or others (or some of them) shall abstain from bidding for the goods and the buyer or other party or one of the other parties is a dealer (as defined in the Auction Biddings Agreement Act 1927) the buyer warrants that the goods are bought bona fide on joint account.

3. The buyer shall pay the price at which a lot is knocked down by the Auctioneer to the buyer (“the hammer price”) together with a premium of 19.5% of the hammer price. Where the lot is marked by an asterisk the premium will be subject to VAT at 23.40% which under the Auctioneer’s Margin Scheme will form part of the buyer’s premium on our invoice and will not be separately identified (the premium added to the hammer price will hereafter collectively be referred to as “the total sum due”). By making any bid the buyer acknowledges that his attention has been drawn to the fact that on the sale of any lot the Auctioneer will receive from the seller commission at its usual rates in addition to the said premium of 19.5% and assents to the Auctioneer receiving the said commission.

4. (a) The buyer shall forthwith upon the purchase give in his name and permanent address and pay to the Auctioneer immediately after the conclusion of the auction the total sum due. (b) The buyer may be required to pay down during the course of the sale the whole or any part of the total sum due, and if he fails to do so after such request the lot or lots may at the Auctioneer's absolute discretion be put up again and resold immediately. (c) The buyer shall at his own expense take away any lot or lots purchased no later than five working days after the auction day. (d) The Auctioneer may at his own discretion agree credit terms with a buyer and extend the time limits for collection in special cases but otherwise payment shall be deemed to have been made only after the Auctioneer has received cash or a sterling banker’s draft or the buyer's cheque has been cleared.

5. (a) If the buyer fails to pay for or take away any lot or lots pursuant to clause 4 or breaches any other condition of that clause the Auctioneer as agent for the seller shall be entitled after consultation with the seller to exercise one or other of the following rights: (i) Rescind the sale of that or any other lots sold to the buyer who defaults and re-sell the lot or lots whereupon the defaulting buyer shall pay to the Auctioneer any shortfall between the proceeds of that sale after deduction of costs of re-sale and the total sum due. Any surplus shall belong to the seller. (ii) Proceed for damages for breach of contract. (b) Without prejudice to the Auctioneer's rights hereunder if any lots or lots are not collected within five days or such longer period as the Auctioneer may have agreed otherwise, the Auctioneer may charge the buyer a storage charge of £1.00 + VAT at the current rate per lot per day. (c) Ownership of the lot purchased shall not pass to the buyer until he has paid to the Auctioneer the total sum due.

6. (a) The seller shall be entitled to place a reserve on any lot and the Auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the seller for any lot on which a reserve has been placed. A seller may not bid on any lot on which a reserve has been placed. (b) Where any lot fails to sell, the Auctioneer shall notify the seller accordingly. The seller shall make arrangements either to re-offer the lot for sale or to collect the lot and may be asked to pay a commission not exceeding 50% of the selling commission and any special expenses incurred in cataloguing the lot. (c) If such arrangements are not made within seven days of the notification the Auctioneer is empowered to sell the lot by auction or by private treaty at not less than the reserve price and to receive from the seller the normal selling commission and special expenses.

7. Any representation or statement by the Auctioneer in any catalogue, brochure or advertisement of forthcoming sales as to authorship, attribution, genuineness, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or estimated selling price is a statement of opinion only. Every person interested should exercise and rely on his own judgement as to such matters and neither the Auctioneer nor his servants or agents are responsible for the correctness of such opinions. No warranty whatsoever is given by the Auctioneer or the seller in respect of any lot and any express or implied warranties are hereby excluded.

8. (a) Notwithstanding any other terms of these conditions, if within fourteen days of the sale the Auctioneer has received from the buyer of any lot notice in writing that in his view the lot is a deliberate forgery and within fourteen days after such notification the buyer returns the same to the Auctioneer in the same condition as at the time of the sale and satisfies the Auctioneer that considered in the light of the entry in the catalogue the lot is a deliberate forgery then the sale of the lot will be rescinded and the purchase price of the same refunded. "A deliberate forgery" means a lot made with intention to deceive. (b) A buyer's claim under this condition shall be limited to any amount paid to the Auctioneer for the lot and for the purpose of this condition the buyer shall be the person to whom the original invoice was made out by the Auctioneer.

9. Lots may be removed during the sale after full settlement in accordance with 4(d) hereof.

10. All goods delivered to the Auctioneer's premises will be deemed to be delivered for sale by auction unless otherwise stated in writing and will be catalogued and sold at the Auctioneer's discretion and accepted by the Auctioneer subject to all these conditions. In the case of miscellaneous books, the Auctioneer reserves the right to extract and dispose of books that, in the opinion of the Auctioneer at his absolute discretion, have no saleable value and, therefore, might detract from the saleability of the rest of the lot and the Auctioneer shall incur no liability to the seller, in respect of the books disposed of. By delivering the goods to the Auctioneer for inclusion in his auction sales each seller acknowledges that he/she accepts and agrees to all the conditions.

11. (a) Unless otherwise instructed in writing all goods on the Auctioneer's premises and in their custody will be held insured against the risks of fire, burglary, water damage and accidental breakage or damage.

The value of the goods so covered will be the hammer price, or in the case of unsold lots the best bid, or in the case of loss or damage prior to the sale that which the specialised staff of the Auctioneer shall in their absolute discretion estimate to be the auction value of such goods. (b) The Auctioneer shall not be responsible for damage to or the loss, theft, or destruction of any goods not so insured because of the owner’s written instructions.

12. The Auctioneer shall remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller thirty days after the day of the auction provided that the Auctioneer has received the total sum due from the buyer. In all other cases the Auctioneer will remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller within seven days of the receipt by the Auctioneer of the total sum due. The Auctioneer will not be deemed to have received the total sum due until after any cheque delivered by the buyer has been cleared. In the event of the Auctioneer exercising his right to rescind the sale his obligation to the seller hereunder lapses.

13. In the case of the seller withdrawing instructions to the Auctioneer to sell any lot or lots, the Auctioneer may charge a fee of 12.5% of the Auctioneer's middle estimate of the auction price of the lot withdrawn together with Value Added Tax thereon and any expenses incurred in respect of the lot or lots.

14. The Auctioneer’s current standard notices and information (i.e. Collation and Amendments) will apply to any contract with the Auctioneer as if incorporated herein.

15. These conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English Law.

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DOMINIC WINTER SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS Saleroom and Offices: Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQ Tel: 01285 860006 Fax: 01285 862461

COMMISSION SLIP Please Bid on my behalf at the sale on 17 September 2014 up to the amount shown.

I acknowledge that I will be required to pay a buyer's premium at the current rate.

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Postage can be arranged for most purchases. For UK and European customers we use DPD (formerly Parceline) or Royal Mail: a separate charge is added to the invoice (minimum ÂŁ15) and parcels are despatched as soon as possible after payment has been received. All framed and glazed items and all lots for overseas customers outside Europe will be sent to Mail Boxes Etc. (tel: Swindon 01793 525009) or R.F. Shipping (tel: London 0845 873 6240). Both of these companies will quote and invoice separately. Please note: DWBA invoices must be paid before consignments are handed to third party shipping companies.

The nearest train station to the saleroom is Kemble (BR) which is on the London (Paddington) to Worcester Shrub Hill line. Train journey times from London are on average 90 minutes whether direct or with one change, and run at about one per hour from early until late. Several of the trains in each direction are direct and about half the services require a brief change at Swindon. Customers are advised to check train times and book as early as possible for the best range of ticket services and discounts.

National Rail Enquiries:

08457 484950

Telephone advance train ticket booking:

08457 000125 (First Great Western)

Online train timetables and online ticket bookings:

www.nationalrail.co.uk

Taxis from Kemble Station (5 miles/10 minutes) Brian's Cabs Cirencester Radio Cars Cirencester Taxis

01285 655299 / 07980 579947 01285 650850 01285 642767

Taxis from Swindon Station (12 miles/25minutes) V-Cars

01793 701701

Cirencester Visitor Information Centre

+44 (0)1285 654180 cirencestervic@cotswold.gov.uk

Catalogue Produced by Jamm Design – 020 7424 7830 info@jammdesign.co.uk

Photography by Ben Cavanna – 07968 342013 bencavanna@gmail.com

FINE ART, ANTIQUES & PHOTOGRAPHY INCLUDING CHINA & THE EAST Thursday 9th October 2014

Antony Troncet (1879-1939).

Seated female nude, pastel on canvas, signed lower left, 81 x 60cm (32 x 23.5ins), framed and glazed.

Estimate: ÂŁ2,000-3,000

Further entries invited, please contact: Nathan Winter (Fine Art) Chris Albury (Photography) Henry Meadows (Antiques) Matthew Farren (Oriental)