LY O N & T U R N B U L L Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Photographs
375 FC237/15 Big game hunting - Foreign Field Sports Foreign Field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, with a supplement of New South Wales. London: Edward Orme, [n.d., text and plates watermarked 1823]. 4to, 110 hand-coloured aquatint plates [dated 1813 in plate imprints], plates within wash borders, contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e., spine emblematically tooled in compartments, some offsetting onto text, occasional light dust-soiling, rubbed, [Abbey, Travel, 1 (note, undated edition)]
379 FC269/23 Boyer, Abel The draughts of the most remarkable fortified towns of Europe... with a geographical description of the said places... to which is prefix’d an introduction to military architecture, or fortification... London: Isaac Cleave and John Hartley, 1701. First edition, 4to, 41 plates (of 44 lacks plates 26, 36 and 44), contemporary panelled calf, bookplate, rubbed, spine and corners a little chipped, text block detaching from cover in places, hinges weak, some spotting [ESTC T112446]
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire £1,000-1,500
Provenance: Property of the Trustees of Lord Gretton £600-900
376 FD323/17 Billings, Robert William The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. Edinburgh: published by the author, [1848-1852]. 4to, 4 volumes, 240 plates, contemporary calf gilt, lower board of volume 1 and upper board of volume 4 detached, head of spines a little chipped, slight foxing; Morris, F.O. A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. London: William Mackenzie, [ca. 1870] 4to, 6 volumes, colour plates, volumes 1-4 in green half morocco and volumes 5-6 in original publisher’s red cloth gilt, spines of volumes 1-4 a little faded, boards and corners slightly rubbed (10) £250-300
380 FC269/55 Brannon, George Vectis scenery...the Isle of Wight. Isle of Wight: published by the artist, 1844. Folio, engraved title, 36 engraved plates, folding map, contemporary half calf, bookplate, spine a little rubbed and soiled, some fading to covers, occasional light spotting; Poole, Edwin The illustrated history and biography of Brecknockshire... Brecknock: published by the author, 1886. 4to, frontispiece, 14 engraved plates, contemporary green half morocco, bookplate, spine a little rubbed (2)
377 FD323/13 Blakiston, Thomas W. Five months on the Yang-Tsze. London: J. Murray, 1862. Plates, 2 folding maps, half calf, 1 plate torn in half, spotted, rubbed; Fleming, G. Travels on horseback in Mantchu Tartary. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1863. 8vo, frontispiece, folding map, illustrations, half calf, spotting, rubbed, spine faded; and 2 others (4) £300-400 378 FE510/3 Bowdich, Edward Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo... London: George B. Whittaker, 1825. First edition, 4to, 4 hand-coloured lithographed plates (including frontispiece) and 18 plain lithographs, later green half morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., some fading and very slight rubbing to spine, frontispiece neatly repaired, spotting, frontispiece coming loose [Abbey Travel I 190]; Dillon, Frank Sketches in the island of Madeira. Porto: 1986. Facsimile of 1850 edition, limited to 200 copies, folio, 13 colour plates, modern brown half calf, slipcase (2) £400-500
Provenance: Property of the Trustees of Lord Gretton £200-300 381 FC269/56 Buckler, John Chessell Views of the cathedral churches of England and Wales. London: John Nichols and Son, 1822. Folio, large paper copy, 32 engraved plates, contemporary calf, bookplate, spine faded, a little rubbed, some light foxing and dust-soiling, mainly marginal; Stephens, George Handbook of the old-northern runic monuments of Scandinavia and England. Edinburgh: Williams and Northgate, 1884. Folio, one folding plate, contemporary cloth gilt, bookplate, a little rubbed (2) Provenance: Property of the Trustees of Lord Gretton £200-300 382 FD320/3 Burton, Richard F. Wit and wisdom from West Africa... London: Tinsley Brothers, 1865. First edition, 8vo, red half calf, spine gilt, t.e.g., slight fading and rubbing to spine and corners, light spotting to endpapers, page edges a little dust-soiled, some pages uncut Note: Burton’s work contains over two thousand proverbs and sayings of various West African peoples from 1865, accompanied by literal English translations and an explanation of what many of the metaphors relate to. Burton seeks to show the richness of West African languages and writes that the proverbs which exist: “...may go a long way to refuting the old-fashioned doctrine of an essential inequality of Negroes with the rest of mankind, which now and then shows itself, not only in America, but also in Europe...” [preface, xvi] £300-500
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