Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | Auction 21 June 2023

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LYELL, CHARLES

PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY

Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth’s Surface, by Reference to Causes now in Operation. London: John Murray, 1832-32-33. 3 volumes, 8vo (21.3 x 13cm), xvi 586, xii 330, [iii]-xxxi [1] 398 109 [1], later calf, volume 1 with engraved frontispiece, plate and folding map, volume 2 with hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and hand-coloured folding map, volume 3 with hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, 4 engraved plates of shells, and hand-coloured map of south-east England, bound without half-titles, volume 1 plates spotted and offset, volume 2 sig. M with light staining in gutter, spotting to map and adjacent leaves, volume 3 shell plates spotted, map offset, short closed marginal tear in text-leaf K5, bookplates of Thomas Swanwick

M.D. (c.1790-1859) to each volume (reimposed), his ownership inscription to versos of volume 1-2 title-pages, bookplate of Henry and Carol Faul to volume 3 [Cf. PMM 344; Ward & Carozzi 1408] (3)

Note: Second edition of volume one, first editions of volumes two and three; volume one was first published in 1830. Lyell’s revolutionary work is considered the foundational statement of what came to be known as the ‘uniformitarian’ school of geology, which in attributing geological phenomena to immutable laws challenged the prevailing ‘catrastrophist’ view which assumed the literal truth of the biblical narrative and found explanations in supernatural interventions, such as the great flood. The second volume concerned the organic realm and paved the way for Darwin in rejecting Lamarck’s theory of the incessant mutability of species, ‘arguing instead that they were real stable entities, and that they appeared and became extinct in a piecemeal manner in time and space’ (ODNB).

£700-1,000

2

PLAYFAIR, JOHN

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HUTTONIAN THEORY OF THE EARTH

Edinburgh: Cadell and Davies, 1802. First edition, 8vo (20.5 x 12.5cm), xx 528 pp., modern dark red crushed morocco, toning, faint dampstaining to first signature including title-page (with concomitant small tear to fore margin of title), signatures D and 2I spotted, pencil annotation to p. 177, a few trivial marks elsewhere [Norman 1717; Ward & Carozzi 1797] (1)

Note: Playfair’s classic work was a major defence and revision of his friend James Hutton’s Theory of the Earth, which was published in 1795 and proposed for the first time that geological phenomena were to be explained by immutable laws rather than supernatural intervention. Playfair ‘analysed, modified, and defended the ideas of his close friend Hutton, whose publications suffered from prolixity and obscurity. In lucid prose Playfair supported the timelessness in Hutton’s theory, argued that geologists should concern themselves with proximate and not final causes, asserted that natural and divine philosophy were separate but not incompatible activities, coined new terms such as “geological cycle” and “igneous origin”, and reported his own work on unconformities of strata, which he regarded as “the most striking monuments of the high antiquity and great revolutions of the globe”’ (ODNB).

£1,000-1,500

DARWIN, CHARLES

JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE GEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES VISITED BY H. M.

S. BEAGLE

under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 8vo, [5] viii-xiv 629 pp., original vertical-ribbed purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers decoratively stamped in blind, half-title, 2 engraved folding maps (‘The Southern Portion of South America’ and ‘Keeling Islands’), wood-engraved illustrations in text, publisher’s 16 pp. catalogue dated August 1839 bound in at rear, additional slip tipped to final page of catalogue advertising further titles by Darwin. Cloth unevenly sunned, nicks to spine ends, very small tear to middle compartment and small ink-mark to foot, a few bumps to extremities, front inner hinge cracked, spotting to early leaves, first map slightly offset, second map spotted and with closed handling tear extending into frame only. Housed in a custom green quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery [Freeman 11 binding variant b] (1)

Note: First edition, first separate issue and the second overall, of Darwin’s first published book. It originally appeared as the third volume of The Narrative of the Voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle early the same year; the present issue uses the same sheets but has a cancel title-page and the volume-title (pp. [v-vi]) is discarded. Copies are also found in blue cloth; occasionally the two maps are loose in an end-pocket rather than inserted into the text.

Provenance: ’Thomas Mainwaring Bulkeley Owen, the gift of his father, Nov 15th 1839’ (inscription to front free endpaper); Christie’s, Valuable Books and Manuscripts, 14th November 2007, lot 90.

£4,000-6,000

4

[CHARLES DARWIN - RICHARD OWEN]

THE PALAEONTOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

Anniversary Dinner Menu, 17th April 1874, with dishes named after famous palaeontologists, Richard Owen and Charles Darwin’s names appearing, amongst many others, on the tree trunk, 39.5 x 26cm, lithographed, central fold; and a lithographed cartoon by E.C. Rye of a Palaeontographical Society dinner (presided over by Richard Owen), 22 x 25cm, one fold (2)

£300-400

5

CARSON, RACHEL L.

UNDER THE SEA-WIND

A Naturalist’s Picture of Ocean Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941. First edition, first printing, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, 8 plates by Howard Frech, dust jacket, spine very slightly faded, dust jacket with a few shallow nicks and chips to extremities, mottling to rear panel and along extremities in places, spotting to verso (3)

Note: The author’s first book, rare in commerce. The lot sold with copies of The Edge of the Sea (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955) and Silent Spring (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962), both first editions, first printings, original cloth bindings, with the dust jackets (The Silent Spring price-clipped).

£300-500

6

ORNITHOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY

COLLECTION OF WORKS

Maxwell, Sir Herbert. Memories of the Months. First [-Seventh] Series. London: Edward Arnold, 1900-22. First editions (except volume 1: third edition), 7 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, numerous plates (mainly photogravures), volumes 1-6 each with a tipped-in autograph letter signed from Maxwell to J. Logan Mack (Edinburgh solicitor and author of The Border Land: From the Solway Firth to the North Sea, 1926), volume 7 inscribed by Maxwell, Mack’s bookplate to each volume, volume 3 halftitle repaired, bindings slightly rubbed and marked;

Scott, Sir Peter. Wild Chorus. London: Country Life, 1938. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 1,250 copies signed by the author, 4to, original blue cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 24 mounted colour plates, numerous halftone plates;

Seebohm, Henry. Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds. Edited (after the Author’s Death) by R. Bowdler Sharpe. Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1896. 8vo, original red cloth, 60 chromolithographic plates, binding slightly marked, plates spotted, rear inner hinge cracked; Armour, G. Denholm. Thoughts on Hunting. In a Series of Familiar Letters by Peter Beckford. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1910. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 350 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original brown pigskin gilt, 25 tipped-in colour plates, spine sunned and rubbed and with loss to head; and 5 others similar (16)

£200-300

7

MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE

THE MAMMALS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. 3 volumes, folio, out of series copy of 1025, photogravure, chromolithograph and half-tone plates, original blue cloth gilt, a little light foxing (3)

£300-400

8

HAMILTON, ALEXANDER

A TREATISE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF FEMALE COMPLAINTS

and of Children in Early Infancy. Edinburgh: for Peter Hill, 1792. First edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, vellum tips, small section of loss to head of spine, boards rubbed, contemporary ownership inscriptions to front board and title-page, monogram book-label and tape residue to front free endpaper, title-page slightly finger-marked and with small tear to gutter [ESTC T117281];

Chambers, Robert. Ancient Sea-Margins, as Memorials of Changes in the Relative Level of Sea and Land. Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1848. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, device of the Northern Lighthouse Board gilt to covers, tinted lithographic frontispiece of a view from the links at St Andrews (mounted), folding map of Lochaber (backed on linen), half-title discarded;

and others (these not collated): James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, A New Edition, London: A Strahan, 1790 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt); George Buchanan, Poemata quae exstant, Amsterdam, 1687 (16mo, contemporary calf, engraved title-page, joints cracked); Samuel Johnson, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 1860 (contemporary half calf); Numb. 15, Minutes of the Proceedings in Parliament Monday 4. November 1706, Edinburgh: heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1706 (single bifolium); and two part-sets of Scott (23)

Note: A Treatise of the Management of Female Complaints is nominally a revised edition of the author’s A Treatise of Midwifery, first published in 1781, but in practice so extensively updated as to constitute a new work: ‘In correcting it for a third edition ... he perceived that many improvements might be made, which would render it more extensively useful than formerly; but he found that these could not be introduced without altering completely the form and style of the book’ (preface, p. vi).

£300-500

SWITZER, STEPHEN

THE PRACTICAL KITCHEN GARDINER or, a new system of directions for his employment in the melonry, kitchen-garden, and potagery, in the several seasons of the year. London: Tho. Woodward, 1727. First edition, 8vo, 3 folding plates, contemporary calf, some minor worming to lower margins of a few leaves, bookplate [ESTC T60865] (1)

£400-600

GOULD, JOHN A MONOGRAPH OF THE ODONTOPHORINAE OR PARTRIDGES OF AMERICA

London: Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor. Published by the Author, 1850. First edition, large folio, 548 x 357mm, 32 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates by Gould and Henry Constantine Richter, printed by Hullmandel and Walton, list of subscribers, modern dark green crushed morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., some light spotting to title and a few preliminary leaves, a few minor spots to plates (1)

Note: Gould’s first monograph on game birds, dedicated to Charles Lucien Bonaparte, the author of American Ornithology, 1825, in which Gould considerably enlarged the number of recorded species of the American partridge family. In the preface Gould says that he was drawn to the undertaking “by the sight of the beautiful Callipepla Californica, presented to the Zoological Society of London by Captain Beechey, in 1830.”

As with most of his major works, Partridges was originally published in parts (in 1844, 1846, and 1850; with ten plates in each of the first two parts and twelve plates in the third), and was offered on a subscription basis. Upon completion in 1850, a general title-page, preface, introduction, list of plates, and list of subscribers (headed by the Queen) were printed to accompany the plates and descriptive text. Anker 176; Fine Bird Books, p.78; Nissen IVB 376; Sauer 13; Wood p. 365; Zimmer p.257.

A very good copy, the plates generally very clean and with bright handcolouring.

£8,000-10,000

PENNANT, THOMAS INDIAN ZOOLOGY

London: H. Hughs for R. T. Faulder, 1790. Second edition, 4to, engraved title and 16 uncoloured plates, bookplate of Cranstoun of Corehouse, contemporary tree calf, slightly spotted, title more so, joints split, head of spine worn (1)

£300-400

12

SOUTH AMERICAN BOTANICAL ALBUM INCLUDING SEVERAL FERNS

21 botanical specimens, many labelled in manuscript, laid into an album 43.5 x 30cm, 18th century red half morocco gilt (1)

£300-400

CLARK, JOHN HEAVISIDE [VIEWS IN SCOTLAND, DRAWN ON THE SPOT BY I. CLARK]

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1824. 27 [of 35] handcoloured aquatints, not bound, comprising Inverary, Ayr, Peebles, Rothesay, Forfar, Hamilton, Jedburgh, Lanark, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Peterhead, Port Glasgow, Dundee, Paisley, Aberdeen, Dunkeld, Gretna Green, Greenock, Linlithgow, Stirling, Falkirk, Saint Andrews, Cupar, Cromarty, Inverness, Glasgow, Perth, all trimmed to neatline and mounted [at an early date, probably in the 2nd quarter of the 19th century (i.e. 1825-50)] on thick card with single black pen rule border and each one captioned neatly in capitals in ink, [Abbey, Scenery, 489, noting that the book appeared in several parts and that publication probably ceased before a general title was issued], engravings c. 348 x 556mm; boards 480 x 680mm (27)

Note: A very large collection of Clark’s hand-coloured magnificent and large aquatint views of Scotland showing Scotland in the early years of the Industrial Revolution, some cities largely unchanged for centuries and others, such as Port Glasgow, in the throes of gigantic industrial change and population movement. A few of the prints were framed at some point and have therefore become a little discoloured but the majority are in a fresh condition with vibrant colour.

£4,000-6,000 14

DANIELL, WILLIAM A LARGE COLLECTION OF PRINTS

Taken from: A Voyage Round Great Britain... London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown..., originally published in 1822, these possibly from a later reissue or restrike, comprising 199 hand-coloured or hand-tinted plates and 76 uncoloured (275 in total), all depicting Scotland, two mounted, the remaining unmounted and unframed (275)

£1,000-1,500 15

GORDON, ALEXANDER ITINERARIUM SEPTENTRIONALE

or, a Journey thro’ most of the Counties of Scotland, and those in the North of England London: printed for the author, 1726. First edition, large-paper copy, folio (45.5 x 28.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, [19] 12-188 [6] pp., engraved folding map, 66 engraved plates (several double-page), a little wear to binding, small paper flaw to margin of plate 4 [ESTC T133129: 12 copies worldwide] (1)

Note: ’Itinerarium septentrionale (1726) is Gordon’s lasting memorial in which he not only enshrined the antiquities of Roman Scotland and traced the route of Agricola’s campaign but also ensured his own immortality in the fiction of Walter Scott. Gordon’s folio is the book which Mr Jonathan Oldbuck, the antiquary in Scott’s novel of that name, unwraps in the Queensferry diligence and which proves his vade-mecum in his studies of the subjects Gordon had made his own’ (Iain Gordon Brown in ODNB).

£300-500

MURRAY, SIR ALEXANDER

THE TRUE INTEREST OF GREAT BRITAIN, IRELAND AND OUR PLANTATIONS

or a Proposal for making such an Union between Great Britain and Ireland, and all our Plantations, as that already made betwixt Scotland and England ... And a New Method of Husbandry by Greater and Lesser Canals ... With Proposals for Removing the Hurtful Parts of the Heretable Courts and Jurisdictions.

[Part 2:] A Letter and Remonstrance, etc. To the Right Honourable Philip Lord Hardwicke [and others] ... In Relation to a Petition, and some Proposals which he addressed last Sessions to both Houses of Parliament. Wherein the Miserable State of Scotland, from the Slavish Dependance of the People on a Few Families, and the Great Danger thence arising to Great Britain, are considered. With a New Method of improving all the Different Products of our Lands and Waters, and paying off the National Debts.

[Part 3:] An Apology to the Reader.

London: Printed for the Author, 1740. 3 parts in 1 volume, folio (37.4 x 22.5cm), contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, vellum tips, viii 52 [2] 20 8 pp., 13 engraved plates and maps (all but one folding; 2 hand-coloured), all edges untrimmed, a few short closed tears to central intersection of map folds, two more extensive closed tears in ‘The Map of the Baronry of Stobbo’ and ‘The Canal Explain’d’, similar closed tear along

intersection of folds in ‘A Display of the Coasting Lines of Six Several Maps of North Britain’, Minto bookplate to paste-down endpaper[ESTC T102909; Kress 4515 and 4514 for parts 1 and 2] (1)

Note: ESTC traces 8 copies in UK libraries

Sir Alexander Murray was a Scottish politician, landholder in Ardnamurchan in the Scottish Highlands, and erstwhile Jacobite who was imprisoned for his support of ‘The Old Pretender’.

An important work of British imperial history, The True Interest of Great Britain was largely ignored at the time of its publication, with arguments such as Murray’s not being considered by Parliament until the 1760s, with growing ‘concerns’ regarding America. Murray’s proposition was significant in two ways: firstly, he considered Ireland’s relationship to Britain, an unusual concept in contemporaneous literature. Secondly, he advocated for the acceptance of colonial citizens into British organised society, with physical representation at Westminster. According to Murray, this should be conducted on the same basis as the Union of Parliaments between Scotland and England. Barbara C. Murison writes: “Murray’s vision of empire was of an organization which must give the colonies greater influence at its centre,” where “...all Foreigners were to receive ‘a suitable measure’ of the Iura Civitatis Britannicae...’” Murray thus considered the British Empire and its citizens in a different light to many of his contemporaries, foreshadowing some later Enlightenment thinking.

Literature: Murison, Barbara C. Roads Not Taken: Alternative Views of the Empire, pp.18-35, [in] Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, May 2018, vo. 38, No. 1 £5,000-7,000

ORKNEY

COLLECTION OF RARE COURT OF SESSION RULINGS, [EDINBURGH], 18TH CENTURY

all disbound, 4to or folio, not in ESTC unless otherwise stated, comprising:

1. Information for Robert Earl of Morton against James Dunbar, and William Brown and Andrew Ross his Assignes, 22nd January 1718. 25 pp., browning to rear, final leaf near-detached (‘The Earl of Orkney and Lordship of Zetland ... were ... given in Wadset to William Earl of Morton ... And its pretended that in 1647 the said Earl gave an Heretable Security to Sir Andrew Dick for the Sum of 100274 Merks ...’);

2. Information for James Earl of Morton, Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, Andrew Ross Stewart-depute of Orkney [etc.] against Sir James Stewart of Burray, and Robert Sinclair Son to Alexander Sinclair of Sixpeny, Pursuers, 29 February 1740. 20 pp. (‘The Pannels are accused of an unlawful Convocation of the Lieges in Arms, and of invading Sir James Stewart’s Property, and unlawfully carrying off his Servant ...’) [ESTC N17130: two copies in libraries worldwide, BL and UCLA];

3. Answers for James Earl of Morton, and Mr Andrew Ross his Chamberlaine, to the Petition of Thomas Traill of Westove [and others], 3rd June 1745. 31 pp., (‘For some Years last past, these six Petitioners, as well as a seventh Gentleman, Sir James Stewart of Burray, have been backward and irregular in their payments’);

4. Answers for James Earl of Morton, Pursuer; to the Petition of John Trail of Westove, and others, Defenders, 31st May 1750.16 pp., folding table at rear (‘Accompt of the Difference betwixt the Prices libelled, and the highest Prices proved’), (‘If the Interlocutor shall not be adhered to ... it will be an Example of the most pernicious Consequence upon the Pursuer and his Estate in that remote Country ...’);

5. Answers for James Earl of Morton, Defender, to the Additional Petition of Alexander Earl of Galloway, James Traill of Hobister, and others, Udalmen of Orkney, 15th June 1752. 3 pp., splits along folds, soiled;

6. The Petition of Alexander Earl of Galloway ... and others, Heritors and Udalers of the Islands of Orkney, 3rd January 1750. 28 pp., (‘The family of Morton has been in Use of demanding and exacting the Skat which they claim Right to ... whereby the Heritors in those Islands are subjected to a double Land-tax’) [ESTC T60810: one copy worldwide, BL];

7. Information for John Trail of Westness, Pursuer, against James Fea of Clestran, Defender, 22nd July 1751. 28 pp.;

8. Information for James Fea of Clestron, Defender; against John Trail of Westness, Pursuer, 4th December 1751. 17 pp., contemporary annotation to final page;

9. Answers for the Lairds of Gairsey and Breakness. To the Memorial

dispersed in Name of the Lairds of Burray and Eagleshaw, concerning the Election for the Stewart-ry of Orknay, c.1700. [4] pp., (‘The Jesuits impose upon the World, by making a shew of the greatest Sincerity, when they intend to be the most disingenuous, which is very exactly imitated by this Memorial’);

10. Information for John Sinclair, Son to Robert Sinclair of Quendale Suspender, against Mr William Maxwell Minister of Rutherglen Charger, 10th June 1751. 4 pp., contemporary annotation at foot;

11. Information for Mr William Maxwell late Minister of the Gospel of the united Parishes of Dunrossness, Sandwick, Cummingsburgh, and Fair Island, in Zetland, now Minister of the Gospel at Rutherglen, Charger; against John Sinclair younger of Quendale, Suspender, 13th June 1751.

4 pp., (‘Mr Maxwell’s Distress during these seven Years was such as very few Ministers of the Church of Scotland could have struggled with ... His whole Stipend was payable by Quendale ... But ... this was a Debt which that Gentleman did not willingly chuse to pay’);

12. Memorial and Abstract of the Proof. Mr John Ballantyne, Minister of the Gospel of the united Parishes of South Ronaldsay and Burray, Pursuer, against Sir James Stuart of Burray, Defender, 5th June 1744.

2 copies, 4 pp., short splits to folds (‘Mr Ballantyne ... was deprived ... by the said Defender’s violently and oppressively debarring him from his Right to the Glebe and Pertinents in the Island of Burray ... the grass thereof eaten up by the Cattle of the said Sir James Stuart’).

Together with a group of similar Orkney items, including:

a) A True Copy of Sir Alex. Brand’s Accompt of Charge and Discharge of the Rents of Orkney and Zetland, 1798 [i.e. 1708]; A True Copy of Sir Alex. Brand’s Suspension, laid before the Lords of Treasury and Exchequer in Scotland, and his Account of Charge and Discharge, 1708; Accompt Sir Alexander Brand, of uncontroverted Articles, whereby the Decreet of Exchequer is satisfied and payed, and a great Ballance due to him, [no date]; Attestation by the Gentlemen and Ministers of Orkney of Alex. Brand’s Great Service he did ther for His Majestie and Government, during the Tyme he was Steuart, Justificar, and Leasee therof, [no date]. 4 items, folio, 2 pp., 2 pp., 1 p., 2 pp., side-stitched together;

b) Autograph letter from Hugh Moare of Boardhouse, Birsay, to P. Neill of Edinburgh, 25 July 1812, concerning George Lowe (1747-1795), Orcadian scholar, with a transcript ‘Description of the Tusk’ from Low’s manuscripts;

c) 4 albumen print photographs of Orkney-related deeds;

d) 19th- and early-20th century printed ephemera including: The Memorial of the Reverend Francis Liddell contra the Ministers of Kirkwall Messers. Yule & Stalker. Kirkwall?, 1804. 4 pp., unbound; To Orkney by David Vedder, Music by R. Semple, Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1880. 4 pp., unbound; approx. 7 others similar; and numerous Orkney-related newspaper cuttings (Quantity)

£400-600

ROBERTS, DAVID, AND OTHERS

COLLECTION OF VIEWS FROM HARDING & LAWSON’S SCOTLAND DELINEATED 51 hand-coloured lithographs, 42 of which are mounted on card, and 9 of which are unmounted with imprint details below image, from J.D. Harding & J.P. Lawson’s Scotland Delineated, 1847-54

mounted plates comprise [Abbey Scenery 493 plate numbers given in square brackets]: View of Edinburgh from the Castle [2]; Queen Mary’s Bedchamber [4]; West Bow [7]; High Street from the Head of West Bow [9]; Trinity College Church [12]; Greyfriars the Old Churchyard [13]; Moray House [14]; Edinburgh from Craigleith Quarry [15]; Edinburgh from the Mound [16]; The Back of Old Leith Pier [20]; Edinburgh from the Firth of Forth [21]; Roslin Castle [24]; “Prentice Pillar”, Roslin Chapel [26]; Crichton Castle [27]; Borthwick Castle [28]; Linlithgow Palace [29]; The Bass Rock [34]; Dryburgh Abbey [37]; Melrose Abbey, from the East [40]; Newark Castle [42]; Scenery on the River Nith [43]; Gilnockie Tower [45]; Dunure Castle [48]; Ailsa Craig [49]; Dumbarton, Dumbartonshire [51]; View of Lochlomond, from the South [52]; Kilchurn Castle [53]; Fingal’s Cave [56]; Glasgow (St Mungo’s) Cathedral - Exterior [58]; Glasgow (St Mungo’s) Cathedral - Interior [59]; Castle Campbell [60]; Grand Entrance (Gateway) to Falkland Palace [61]; Falkland Palace [62]; View from the summit of Goatfell [65]; Dunblane Cathedral [68]; Loch Katrine [73]; The Doune [75]; Glammis Castle [78]; Cora Linn, Falls of the Clyde [80]; Dunderawe Castle [83]; Lock Eck [86]; View of the Coast of Sleat, Isle of Skye [90]

unmounted plates comprise [Abbey Scenery 493 plate numbers given in square brackets]: Foot of the West Bow [8]; Pinkie House [23]; Dryburgh Abbey [37]; Caerlaverock Castle [44]; The Marquis of Breadalbanes Deer Forest [67]; Glen Falloch [69]; Fall of the Tummel [71]; Loch Achray [74]; Loch Leven, from Ballachulish [84] foxing affecting mounts and several of the images to varying degrees (51)

£3,000-4,000

ROBSON, GEORGE FENNELL SCENERY OF THE GRAMPIAN MOUNTAINS

London: Printed by S. Gosnell [and] published by the Author..., 1814. Folio, 41 engraved plates, folding map, contemporary half over boards, rebacked, a little foxing in places, a small marginal wormhole to first few leaves and plates (1)

Inscribed to J. Alston, from the Duchess of Atholl, 12th August 1814.

Note: An uncoloured copy of the work.

£500-700 20

SCOTLAND

INCLUDING NORTH, CHARLES MCINTYRE

Leabhar Comunn nain Fior Ghaël. The Book of the Club of True Highlanders. A record of the dress, arms, customs, arts and sciences of the Highlanders. London, [1881]. 2 volumes, folio, bound in gilt embossed tartan with tartan swatches to endpapers;

Martin, M. A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland. London: A. Bell, 1716. Second edition, 8vo, folding map (some tape repairs to reverse), folding plate, contemporary panelled calf, bookplate;

Sherlock, William. A Preservative against Popery... London: William Rogers, 1688. Fifth edition, small 4to, with the ownership inscription ‘T. Carlyle 1833’ [presumably Thomas Carlyle], 17th century panelled black morocco gilt, bookplate, small hole to F2 slightly affecting text, some marginal dampstaining, joints split (4)

£400-600

21

SINCLAIR, JOHN

THE STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND

Edinburgh: William Creech, 1791-1798. volumes 1-20 only (of 21), 8vo, contemporary tree calf, Pitfiranne bookplates, a few spine labels lacking or chipped;

Sibbald, J. Chronicle of Scottish Poetry. Edinburgh, 1802. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf with green and brown morocco gilt labels to spines (24)

£300-500

SLEZER, JOHN THEATRUM SCOTIAE

Containing the Prospects of His Majesty’s Castles and Palaces, Together with those of the Most Considerable Towns and Colleges; the Ruins of many ancient Abbeys, Churches, Monasteries and Convents. London: D. Browne, J. Senex [&c.], 1718. Folio, title printed in red and black with engraved arms, 12pp. text, folding engraved panorama of Edinburgh (with two tears), and 59 (of 60) double-page etched and engraved plates, late 18th century panelled calf, bookplate of the Glasgow Arts Club, plates 6-7, 13, 16, 17, 43, 56 & 57 cut round and mounted; lacking plate 55 but with 2 different plates [Paisley, & E. side of Bass Rock] numbered 57, a few plates slightly discoloured, binding worn, upper board detached (1)

Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

£800-1,200

BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY COLLECTION OF WORKS

Pennant, Thomas. Some Account of London. The Fifth Edition, with Considerable Editions. London: J. Faulder [and others], 1813. Large 8vo, late-20th-century half calf, edges untrimmed, half-title, engraved additional title-page, folding bird’s-eye view of London, 13 engraved plates, map browned, plates variably spotted, some spotting elsewhere; Idem. A Tour in Scotland; MDCCLXIX. Third Edition. Warrington: W. Eyres, 1774. 4to, contemporary mottled calf, front board detached, engraved plates (many folding);

Idem. A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides; MDCCLXXII. [... Part II]. Chester: John Monk, 1774, [Part II:] London: Benj. White, 1776. 2 volumes, 4to, non-uniform bindings, volume 1 in 20th-century half calf, volume 2 in contemporary calf rebacked and refurbished (all edges gilt), numerous engraved plates (many folding);

Keltie, John S. A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans, and Highland Regiments. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1875. 2 volumes, large 8vo, 20th-century green quarter morocco, numerous plates including chromolithographic tartan patterns and steel-engraved portraits and views;

Gilpin, William. Observations relating chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, made in the Year 1772, on several Parts of England; particularly the Mountains, and Lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland. London: R. Blamire, 1792. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, aquatint plates, contemporary signatures (‘Gilpin’; not established if autograph) to title-pages), spotting;

Macpherson, James. Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem. London: T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1762. Second edition, 4to, 19th-century half calf, worn, front joint split, spotting; and one further work, the lot not fully collated and sold as seen (11) £200-300

24 GREECE

FIVE WORKS

Chandler, Richard. Travels in Greece, or an Account of a Tour made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1776. First edition, 4to, 4, [xiv], [2 - errata], 304; 7 engraved maps and plans, 2 folding, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, folding map torn without loss, head of spine slightly rubbed;

Fellows, Charles. An Account of Discoveries in Lycia, being a Journal kept during a Second Excursion in Asia Minor. London: J. Murray, 1841. First edition, 8vo, lithographed frontispiece, 2 maps and 36 lithograph or etched plates (including 2 folding, 1 double-page, 1 hand-coloured & the unlisted plate at p.367), lacking boards;

Thiersch, Friedrich Wilhelm von. De l’état actuel de la Grèce et des moyens d’arriver à sa restauration. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1833. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, contemporary quarter calf, spine gilt, some light spotting [Blackmer 1652];

Hellenic Journal. Plates from the Hellenic Journal 1921-1936. 4to, specially bound volume of all the plates from the Hellenic Journal of 1921-1936 depicting Greek marble statues, heads, reliefs, vases, bronze statuettes, pottery cups, alabaster bowls, bronze sculptures &c., numerous plates, some coloured, fine blue morocco gilt, spine gilt; Mahaffy, J.P. Greek pictures. 1890. 4to, plates, illustrations, original cloth, lightly rubbed (5)

Note: Thiersch. An important work by one of the most important Bavarian philhellenes who in 1831 went to Greece as an unofficial agent of the Bavarian court to promote the nomination of Otho as King of the Hellenes.

£600-800

GREECE

THREE WORKS

Aligny, Théodore. Views of the most celebrated Sites of Ancient Greece drawn from nature and etched by Théodore Aligny. Athens: Commercial Bank of Greece, 1971. Large folio (70 x 49cm), 10 plates, loose as issued, with text, in grey card folder lettered in black;

Bröndsted, Peter Oluf. The Bronzes of Siris. London: The Society of Dilettanti, 1836. Folio, 6 plates, 2 vignettes [title and colophon], original cloth-backed boards, lacking backstrip, boards detached, some spotting;

[Mazier de Heaume, Hippolyte] Voyage d’un Jeune Grec à Paris. Paris: F. Louis, 1824. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, lithographed frontispiece, half-titles, contemporary calf, spines gilt, some spotting (4)

Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL. £300-500

NETHERLANDS; GERMANY; RHINELAND

ADMIRANDORUM QUADRUPLEX SPECTACULUM

delectum, pictum, et aeri in cisum, per Johannem van Call. Amsterdam: Pieter Schenk, c.1700. Oblong 4to, 19th-century half calf, engraved throughout, with allegorical title-page, 64 plates (views of Amsterdam, The Hague, Het Loo palace, and the Rhineland), 4 calligraphic part-titles, dedication leaf, and mezzotint portrait of Frederick Duke of Saxony, lacking 7 plates (71 called for) and register leaf, part-titles, dedication leaf and portrait all bound out of order, title-page repaired verso, light foxing and a few other marks to margins, binding rubbed. Together with: [Denmark] [Album of maps and views of Denmark mainly by Jonas Haas] 1760s. 4to (19 x 19cm), contemporary Dutch floral boards, contents comprise: 1) Generalem et prorius novam Siaelandiae tabulam geographicam, folding map of Zaeland, opening to 55 x 45cm; 2) Den

Kongel. Residentz Stad Kiobenhafn ... 1764, folding plan of Copenhagen, approx. 55 x 40cm, a few small holes at folds; 3) Folding panorama of Copenhagen, 1764; 4) Folding plan of Frederiksberg; 5) Folding view of Frederiksberg slotsgaard; 6) Costume plate; 7-13) Further views of buildings and cities including Sophienberg palace, Fredensborg, etc. (2) £400-600 27

ROSSINI, LUIGI

LE ANTICHITA DEI CONTORNI DI ROMA.

Rome, 1826, oblong folio, 44 engraved plates only (of 72), 19th century half morocco, many plates somewhat dampstained, 5 plates trimmed or frayed with slight loss of image, 4 others trimmed to within neatline, 3 loose, one slightly frayed and discoloured at fold, one with short tear in lower margin, 2 with margins extended, a couple with small repairs, also lacking the engraved title-page, 8pp. of printed preliminaries including the printed title and the list of plates, binding worn and scraped (1)

Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

£3,000-5,000 28

RUSSIA - CRIMEA - SIMPSON, WILLIAM

SEAT OF WAR IN THE EAST

London: Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., 1855. First edition, folio, Series 1 and 2 bound in one volume, pictorial lithographed titles and 79 tinted plates with tissue guards, contemporary green half morocco, the contents sprung, bookplate of Brother Edward Macbean, rubbed, upper joint split at base (1)

Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

£500-700

SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA THREE WORKS, FINELY BOUND

Prescott, William H. History of the Conquest of Mexico. London: R. Bentley, 1843. 3 volumes, 8vo, plates, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, brown and green morocco lettering pieces;

Helps, Arthur. The Spanish Conquest in America. London: J.W. Parker, 1855. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary brown morocco, gilt coat of arms at head of spines;

Scott, S.P. History of the Moorish Empire in Europe. Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott, 1904, 3 volumes, 8vo, red half morocco by Hatchards, spines gilt, t.e.g., armorial bookplate of S.C. Lister of Swinton Park (10)

£300-500 30

[AMERICAN REVOLUTION] MÉMOIRES DE PAUL JONES

Où il expose ses principaux services, et rappelle ce qui lui est arrivé de plus remarquable pendant le cours de la révolution américaine, particulièrement en Europe, écrits par lui-même en anglais, et traduits sous ses yeux par le citoyen André. Paris: Chez Louis, Libraire, rue Saint-Severin, 1798. First edition, 12mo (14.4 x 8.3cm) original blue boards, half-title, engraved frontispiece, ink inscription to front pastedown, tear to half-title, stain upper-right of frontispiece (not affecting illustration), intermittent foxing throughout, lower corners of N7-8 missing, boards rubbed, upper board detached, loss to spine (1)

£300-400

31

BURTON, SIR RICHARD FRANCIS

THE CITY OF THE SAINTS AND ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS TO CALIFORNIA

London: Longman, Green [&c.], 1861. First edition, 8vo, half-title, frontispiece, 3 maps on 1 folding sheet, 8 plates and plans (1 folding), text illustrations, contemporary green half morocco, spine gilt, 19th century bookplate of Thomas William Beaves [Sabin 9497] (1)

Note: Edward in his excellent biography of Richard Burton noted “the book is a a rare account by an experienced traveller who was alert to every detail, to language, to the nuances of a dynamic developing nation that showed high civilization on its eastern coast and progressive barbarism as one travelled westward. Here are emigrants, soldiers, desperadoes, wanderers, frontier women, Indian tribes, government officials, rascals and saints, the inevitable pretty girls (white and Indian alike). Social conditions, perceptions about democracy, advice to the army about dealing with the aborigines (the Indians were like a sort of Bedawin to Burton), lists of routes and way stops, the legal system and frontier justice, analyses of raw materials and alkaline waters, the sources of rivers, the weather, soil conditions - it is mid century America in five hundred pages and appendixes and rarely dull”.

£300-500

32 GAGE, THOMAS

A NEW SURVEY OF THE WEST-INDIES, BEING A JOURNAL

of Three thousand and Three hundred Miles within the main Land of America, by Tho. Gage, the only Protestant that was ever known to have travel’d those Parts. Setting forth his voyage from Spain to S. John de Ulhua, and thence of Xalapa, Tlaxcalla, the City of Angels, and Mexico: With a Description of that great City... Likewise His Journey thence through Guaxaca, Chiapa, Guatemala, Vera Paz, &c. with his abode XII years about Guatemala, His wonderful Conversion and Calling to his Native Country: With his Return through Nicaragua and Costa Rica, to Nicoya, Panama, Porto bello, Cartagena and Havana... with a Grammar, or some few Rudiments of the Indian Tongue, called Poconchi or Pocoman. London: By M. Clark for J. Nicolson and T. Newborough, 1699. Fourth edition, 8vo, [A4, B1 - II7], very erratic pagination but complete, folding map (‘A New Mapp of the Empire of Mexico’), contemporary calf, corners neatly repaired, neatly rebacked, armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick (1) Note: A classic account of 17th century Mexico and the West Indies. Gage lived for many years as a Dominican friar in Antigua, Guatemala. He later became the chaplain to English forces stationed in Jamaica. First published in 1648 under the title The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land, this fourth edition is enlarged and includes a fine early map of Mexico and the West Indies engraved by Francis Lamb. The publication of this work “caused a remarkable sensation. His account of the wealth and defenceless condition of the Spanish possessions in South America excited the cupidity of the English, and it is said that Gage himself laid before Cromwell the first regular plan for mastering the Spanish territories in the New World... He was appointed chaplain to General Venables’s expedition, which sailed under Venables and Penn for Hispaniola... The fleet failed at Hispaniola, but took Jamaica, where Gage died in 1656” (DNB). The text describes Catholic missions in Mexico, and contains many ethnographic observations, including a grammar of the Pokonchi language.

Provenance: John Rushout, 1st Baron Northwick (1738-1800), M.P. for Evesham £800-1,200

HUNTER, JOHN D.

MEMOIRS OF A CAPTIVITY AMONG THE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA

from Childhood to the Age of Nineteen. With anecdotes descriptive of their manners and customs. To which is added, some account of the soil, climate and vegetable productions of the territory Westward of the Mississippi. A New edition, with portrait. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees [&c.], 1823. 8vo, lithographed portrait frontispiece, 4pp. advertisements at beginning, engraved bookplate of Sir William Middleton Bart., of Shrubland Park, original boards, uncut, paper label to spine (1) Note: The third edition was published in 1824 so this ‘new edition’ would appear to be the second edition. This copy contains the rare lithographed frontispiece by C.R. Leslie printed by Hullmandel, which was not present in the copy examined for the Wagner-Camp entry, or in the Library of Congress copy. Wagner-Camp notes that “Hunter’s autobiography includes his story of a journey across the mountains to the Pacific Ocean, `on the south side of the Chok-a-li-lum (Columbia River)’.” Wagner doubted the veracity of this account, although he accepted Hunter’s description of life among the Kansas and Osage Indians as authentic. He claimed to have been abducted at an early age by Kickapoo Indians, but escaped to white settlements to get an education. He visited London where he was lionised in 1823-34 and then returned to America where he was murdered by Cherokees.

£200-300

LEWIS, MERIWETHER AND WILLIAM CLARK

ORIGINAL JOURNALS OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 1804-1806

Edited, with Introduction, Notes, and Index, by Reuben Gold Thwaites. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904-5. 8 volumes, 8vo, recent maroon gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, text volumes (1-7) with 44 plates and maps in total including frontispieces, atlas volume (8) with 54 maps, all folding, several on multiple sheets (nos. 38 and 39 on one sheet), title-pages with ink- and blindstamps of Harvard College Library dated 27th December 1916 and pencilled inscriptions ‘Gift of William Farnsworth’ (‘Withdrawn Dec. 1994 to Gifts and Exchange Division’ according to laid-in catalogue note), volume 5 with closed tear to frontispiece, maps in atlas volume on thin paper, several consequently with splits along folds (e.g. 13, 15, 32.1, 35, 39), frequent tape reinforcement along folds (e.g. 2, 14, 30, 52-3), map 4 with closed tear. Together with 3 others (not collated: Olin D. Wheeler, The Trail of Lewis and Clark 1804-1904, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904, 2 volumes, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, plates; Sir Walter Scott, The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827, 3 volumes, 8vo, uncut in original boards, rebacked retaining old labels; and one similar) (15)

£300-500

MEXICO - CLAVIGERO, FRANCESCO SAVERIO THE HISTORY OF MEXICO

Collected from Spanish and Mexican Historians, from Manuscripts and Ancient Paintings of the Indians ... translated from the original Italian. London: J. Johnson, 1807. Second edition, 2 volumes, 4to, [xxxiv], 440, [441-444 ‘Posterity of King Motezuma’], 441-476]; [iv], 463; folding map, 25 engraved plates, genealogy at p.240 vol. 1, contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked, red and green morocco lettering pieces, spine gilt (2)

Note: Second English edition of this comprehensive account of Mexico, its peoples and its natural history, emphasising the importance and value of pre-Hispanic cultures. Clavijero (or Clavigero) was a Mexican Jesuit who came to Italy after the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish territory. He had access to many Aztec manuscripts before leaving Mexico which he made considerable use of for his text. As with Las Casas, he also viewed the Spanish conquest as full of atrocities carried out by the Conquistadores. He also distinguished between the different native peoples of the New World, unlike many of his contemporaries. The success of this work was shown by its translation into other languages (English in 1787, Spanish in 1826) and its regular republication.

This copy has additional pages in volume 1, p.441-444, entitled Posterity of King Motezuma, not known to Sabin or Palau.

£300-500

WASHINGTON, GEORGE OFFICIAL LETTERS TO THE HONORABLE AMERICAN CONGRESS

London: G. and G. Robinson, 1795. 2 volumes, 8vo, the half title reading: American State Papers, being a collection of the original and authentic documents relative to the war between the United States and Great Britain, contemporary calf, upper cover of volume 1 detached, stamps of the Museum of French Art, New York, with bookplate declaring the work to be the gift of the Hon. McDonigall Hawkes, gift inscription to William J. Forbes dated January 1809 (2)

£300-500

37

[BROWN, R. N. RUDMOSE, ROBERT COCKBURN MOSSMAN AND J. H. HARVEY PIRIE]

THE VOYAGE OF THE “SCOTIA”

Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in Arctic Seas. By Three of the Staff. First edition, 8vo, original grey pictorial cloth, purple endpapers, top edge gilt, 58 photographic plates including frontispiece, 3 maps (2 folding), decoration and lettering on spine rubbed away as usual, tips bumped, text-block toned, a few leaves spotted, pp. 41-44 clumsily opened, short closed tear to large folding map at rear [Rosove 50.A1.b] (1)

Note: Inscribed by the expedition leader to the then prime minister on the half-title, the inscription reading ‘The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, P.C., M.P., with compliments from Wm. S. Bruce, Edinburgh, 1910’. Rosove cites a copy inscribed by Bruce to Churchill at Edinburgh in the same year, in the same variant binding with purple endpapers.

£700-1,000

38

CHERRY-GARRARD, APSLEY

THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD

Antarctic 1910-1913. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lxiv 300 [4], viii 301-585 [1], original linen-backed blue paper boards, printed paper spinelabels, edges untrimmed, half-titles, 58 plates including colour frontispieces (with tissue-guards) and 10 folding panoramas, 5 maps (4 folding), duplicate spine-label to each volume (tipped to front free endpaper in volume 1, loose in volume 2), retaining binder’s blank at rear of volume 2, pencilled ownership inscriptions to half-title of volume 1 and front free endpaper of volume 2, a few marks to covers, spotting to edges, occasionally encroaching on margins, light browning to free endpapers, shallow chip to fore margin of plate facing volume 1 p. 32, map ‘From New Zealand to the South Pole’ facing volume 1 p. lxiv loose, light spotting to last few leaves of volume 2 [Rosove 71.A1] (2)

Note: ’Cherry-Garrard’s book has often been referred to as the finest polar book ever written. Scott’s diary left many facets of the expedition and the experiences of its men untold: it was Cherry-Garrard who pulled the entire story of the main party together. He was uniquely suited to do so. He was a member of the main party for the expedition’s entire duration, had access to unpublished sources, and was the only member of the Winter Journey to survive the expedition. Most of all, he had the sensibilities and extraordinary literary genius necessary to cope with the complex and tragic subject of the Polar Journey ... The book CherryGarrard left behind is a monument immortalizing the expedition in the annals of Antarctic exploration and geographic exploration in general’ (Rosove).

£1,500-2,000

CHERRY-GARRARD, APSLEY

THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD

Antarctic 1910-1913. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, titles gilt to spines and front boards, pp. lxiv 300 [4], viii 301-585 [1] pp., 58 plates including colour frontispieces (with tissue-guards) and 10 folding panoramas, 5 maps (4 folding), spines very slightly faded and nicked, small mark to spine of volume 2, volume 1 front board sprung, free endpapers browned, half-titles spotted, a few spots elsewhere, 3 folding panoramas (facing volume 1 pp. 184 and 294 and volume 2 p. 352) sometime incorrectly folded and consequently slightly proud with concomitant nicks and rumpling along fore edges, closed tear in volume 1 pp. 247/8 just extending into text [Rosove 71.A2] (2)

Note: Rosove describes this issue in blue cloth as ‘significantly scarcer’ than that in blue-grey paper boards with linen spines. ‘Cherry-Garrard’s book has often been referred to as the finest polar book ever written. Scott’s diary left many facets of the expedition and the experiences of its men untold: it was Cherry-Garrard who pulled the entire story of the main party together. He was uniquely suited to do so. He was a member of the main party for the expedition’s entire duration, had access to unpublished sources, and was the only member of the Winter Journey to survive the expedition. Most of all, he had the sensibilities and extraordinary literary genius necessary to cope with the complex and tragic subject of the Polar Journey ... The book Cherry-Garrard left behind is a monument immortalizing the expedition in the annals of Antarctic exploration and geographic exploration in general’ (ibid.).

£1,000-1,500

40

MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER

VOYAGES FROM MONTREAL, ON THE RIVER ST. LAURENCE, THROUGH THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; in the Years 1789 and 1793. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Fur Trade of that Country. London: for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1801. First edition, 4to (25.6 x 20.5cm), [4] viii cxxxii 412 [2] pp., recent tree calf to style, smooth spine gilt in compartments, decorative gilt border to covers, marbled endpapers, edges dyed yellow, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps, errata leaf, toning, intermittent stains and blemishes to text, maps backed on linen, each with short closed handling tears to inner folds and map of North America with longer tear to foot (all closed up), final map (‘Track ... to the Pacific Ocean in 1793’) with a few spots, quire d spotted, small spillburns in o4, G3 and 3E4, r2 (final leaf of preface) chipped along fore edge, B1 (first leaf of main text) repaired and slightly shorter in fore margin (possibly supplied from another copy) [Howes M-133; Sabin 43414] (1)

Note: Mackenzie’s two journeys, undertaken from Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca on behalf of the fur-trading North West Company, added considerably to the geographical knowledge of the north-west Canadian interior. The first resolved the ‘major misunderstanding’ (ODNB) that what became known as the Mackenzie River led due west to the Pacific, rather than north to the Arctic Ocean; his second was ‘the first journey across North America north of Mexico’ (idem).

£1,000-1,500

PEARY, ROBERT E. THE NORTH POLE

With an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. First edition, deluxe issue, out-of-series copy from the edition of 500, signed by Robert E. Peary and R. A. Bartlett, 4to, later tan half calf, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 4 photogravure plates including frontispiece, 112 tipped-in photographic plates, limitation leaf spotted and marked, tide-mark to index leaves;

Ross, John. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. London: A. W. Webster, 1835. First edition, 4to, contemporary half roan (spine and front board detached), 31 plates and maps (engraved, lithographic or mezzotint, several hand-coloured or printed in colours, one folding), errata leaf, engraved plates spotted, tear to folding map, sigs. 3Z and 4A transposed [Abbey Travel 636; Nissen ZBI 3481; Sabin 73381];

Franklin, John. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22. London: John Murray, 1824. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, modern quarter cloth, 4 folding maps, Board of Trade ink-stamps to title-pages; Cook, James. An Abridgment of Captain Cook’s First and Second Voyages. London: G. Kearsley, 1788. Sixth edition, 12mo, modern cloth, iii 1-430 pp. (apparently 448 pp. called for but text ends on p. 429, the remaining leaves presumably advertisements), 8 engraved plates (some trimmed along fore edge);

Scoresby, William. Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. First edition, 8vo, modern cloth, 2 engraved folding maps, 6 engraved plates (2 folding), damp-staining (diminishing towards centre of volume), half-title discarded, marginal extensions to title-page, pp. v/6 and final leaf, maps and folding plates laid on linen, first map with extensive closed tear and pertaining section consequently lifting from linen, short closed tear to second map; and 10 others (these not collated), including: Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations ... in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1856 (first edition, 2 volumes, original cloth); M. A. Healy, Report on the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1885, 1887 (first edition, 4to, original cloth); Francis McClintock, The Voyage of the ‘Fox’ in Arctic Seas, 1859 (first edition, contemporary half calf, lacking folding map); and similar (18)

£300-500

ROSS, JOHN

NARRATIVE OF A SECOND VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE

and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. London: A. W. Webster, 1835. 2 volumes, 4to (31.5 x 24.5cm), 20th-century blue half calf, nautical motifs gilt to spines, [6] xxxiv 740, xii 120 cxliv cii [2] pp., 50 plates and charts (steel-engraved, lithographic or mezzotint, many hand-coloured), folding map, several plates with tissueguards, errata leaf to the main volume discarded, steel-engraved plates variably spotted and offset, occasional spotting to lithographic plates (mainly around edges), repaired closed tear to folding map, Appendix volume largely unopened [Abbey Travel 636; Nissen ZBI 3481; Sabin 73381] (2)

Note: An attractive, wide-margined copy, complete with the Appendix volume, which was issued as an optional extra. The plates depict ethnographic and natural history subjects and views. ‘The results of the voyage, remarkable for the length of time spent in the ice, were the survey of the Boothia peninsula, of a great part of King William Land, and of the Gulf of Boothia; the presumptive determination that the sought-for passage did not lie in that direction; and the discovery of the magnetic pole by James Clark Ross. In 1834 Ross was knighted; the geographical societies of London and Paris awarded him their gold medals, and on 24th December 1834 he was nominated a CB’ (ODNB).

£500-800

SHACKLETON, ERNEST H. SOUTH

London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original black cloth lettered and decorated in silver, all plates and maps as called for (including colour frontispiece, panorama of South Georgia between pp. 208-9, folding map to rear), errata slip and Mudie’s Select Library notice tipped to p. 1, rubbed, tips bumped and showing through, front pastedown and free endpaper renewed, textblock browned as usual, faint spotting to plates, corresponding darker spotting to adjacent text-leaves, folding map with closed tear to stub and a few nicks along edges not affecting image [Rosove 308.A1] (1)

£800-1,200

44 POLAR EXPLORATION COLLECTION OF WORKS

Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First trade edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver and gilt, top edges gilt, photogravure frontispieces, 3 folding maps and sheet containing 2 folding panoramas loose in endpocket as issued, errata slip to volume 2, spines sunned, tips bumped, volume 1 spine rolled, volume 2 with small repair to title-page, ‘Route ... of the Southern Journey Party’ map with short split to foot of central fold and a few small holes to intersections [Rosove 305.B1];

Idem. South. The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, second impression, 8vo, original black cloth lettered and decorated in silver, all plates as called for, lacking unlisted folding map, mottling to covers, short section of wear to front joint, front inner hinge cracked between initial blank and half-title with webbing visible [Rosove 308.A2];

Scott, Robert F. The Voyage of the ‘Discovery’. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered and

decorated in gilt, photogravure frontispieces, 182 plates (of which 13 in colour, the rest nearly all photographic, of which 5 double-page), 5 maps (of which 2 folding in end-pockets), extremities rubbed, nicks to spine-ends, corners bumped (a few showing through), half-titles spotted, folding maps with Mudie’s Select Library labels verso and variably split along folds [Rosove 262.A1: ‘3,000 copies said to have been printed’];

Nansen, Fridtjof. The First Crossing of Greenland. Translated from the Norwegian. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth blocked in silver, 12 plates including frontispieces, 5 maps, spines sunned and rolled, light fraying to head and foot, tips bumped, map facing volume 1 p. 1 tape-repaired verso; Idem. In Northern Mists. Arctic Exploration in Early Times. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, later library cloth, tipped-in colour plates, markings of Keighley public libraries;

Nordenskiöld, A. E. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe ... Translated by Alexander Leslie. London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, 5 engraved portraits, 10 folding lithographic maps, bindings rubbed and marked, volume 1 spine rolled, inner hinges cracked, a few short closed handling tears to maps, a few other marks;

Abruzzi, Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, duke of the. On the “Polar Star” in the Arctic Sea. Translated by William Le Queux. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1903. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, 16 plates, 2 folding panoramas, 5 maps, contemporary ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers;

Charcot, Jean. The Voyage of the ‘Why Not?’ in the Antarctic. The Journal of the Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910. English Version by Philip Walsh. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1911]. First edition, 4to, original cloth, all plates as called for, cloth cockled; Payer, Julius. New Lands with the Arctic Circle. Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship “Tegetthoff” in the Years 1872-1874. Translated from the German, with the Author’s Approbation. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877. First US edition, 8vo, original cloth, tinted lithographic frontispieces, folding map, cloth mottled, wear to extremities, inner hinges cracked;

Peary, Robert E. The North Pole. Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1910. Second edition, 4to, original cloth, all plates as called for, damp-staining to covers;

and one other (Scott, Scott’s Last Expedition, 1913, first edition, first impression, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, incomplete, lacking at least plate facing p. 393 in volume 1) (18)

£400-600

POLAR EXPLORATION COLLECTION OF WORKS

Evans, Edward. South with Scott. London: W. Collins son & Co. Ltd., 1922. First edition, fifth impression, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed by Evans ’To Mr & Mrs H. D. C. Jones with nicest thoughts from the author, 1923’ on the front free endpaper, 3 maps (of 4: lacking ‘Track Chart’), cloth cockled and mottled, spotting to outer leaves [Rosove 117.A5];

Borchgrevink, C. E. First on the Antarctic Continent. Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1901. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps, endpapers renewed [Rosove 45.A1.b: ‘Presumably a secondary binding, and considerably scarcer’];

Mikkelsen, Ejnar. Conquering the Arctic Ice. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, frontispiece, folding map, 2 further maps and numerous illustrations in the text, binding rubbed and marked, labels and markings of Mudie’s Select Library to front cover and endpapers, rear inner hinge cracked; Worsley, Frank. Under Sail in the Frozen North. London: Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo, original light blue cloth (probably a secondary binding: usually in dark blue), 32 photographic plates (many with blue tint), folding map;

Hurley, Frank. Argonauts of the South. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1925. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all plates and maps as called for, mottling to lower fore corners of boards [Rosove 178.A1]; and approx. 40 others (these not collated), including: Richard E. Byrd, Discovery, New York, 1935 (first edition, original cloth); Robert E. Peary, Nearest the Pole, London, 1907 (first UK edition, original cloth, spine defective); Fridtjof Nansen, Farthest North, London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897 (first edition, 2 volumes, volume 1 in contemporary half morocco, volume 2 in original cloth); Herbert Ponting, The Great White South, 1930 (original cloth); Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World, 1952 (‘one volume edition’, 1952, original cloth, ex-library); Vilhjalmur Stefansson, The Friendly Arctic, New York, 1921 (first edition, original cloth); F. Spencer Chapman, Northern Lights: the Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition 1930-31, 1934 (original cloth); Hugh Robert Mill, The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton, 1923 (first edition, original cloth); Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, The First Flight across the Polar Sea, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1927] (first edition, original cloth), and similar (c. 50)

£300-500

ABYSSINIA [ETHIOPIA] PARKYNS, MANSFIELD

Life in Abyssinia: being notes collected during Three Years’ Residence and Travels in that Country. London: John Murray, 1853. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 18 plates, folding map, 13 text illustrations, mottled calf, spines gilt, red and black morocco lettering pieces, signatures to endpaper of Reginald Huth, 20th April 1910 (2)

Note: A fine copy.

Parkyns spent over three years in Abyssinia, which he described in his travel book Life in Abysssinia : being notes collected during three years’ residence and travels in that country. The first edition of the book was published in two volumes by the English publisher John Murray in 1853. It was dedicated to Lord Palmerston, and made many references to and comments on the famous Scottish traveller James Bruce, who had travelled to Abyssinia between the years 1768 and 1773. For the second edition, published in 1868, the author wrote a completely new introduction dealing with recent Abyssinian history and methods of government at the time of the Abyssinian expedition commanded by Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala. In short, Parkyns described the political changes which had occurred after he left the country. He was hoping to offer the Victorian reader “a tolerably accurate idea of Abyssinia and Abyssinians”. The book consists of 41 chapters which are divided into two volumes. Each of them covers different subjects, including travel, manners and customs. The first volume describes the journey from the coast to the capital and Parkyns’s visit to the northern provinces, encounters with others, learning local languages and gaining new experiences. The second volume describes Abyssinian manners and customs, natural history and Parkyns’s route from Adoua to Abou Kharraz on the Blue Nile. In total there are 33 illustrations after Parkyns’s own watercolours. A map at the end of the books shows a part of Abyssinia and Nubia to illustrate Parkyns’s journeys. In the introduction to his book Parkyns stated that it was neither a scientific work nor an entertaining one, but a faithful account of what he witnessed and experienced during his time in Abyssinia. Parkyns was particularly interested in learning about Abyssinian customs and its natural history. He took careful observations on native birds that he had never seen before. He believed that by identifying with the natives he could attain the best results, so on leaving Massawa he decided to eschew European comforts and throughout his time in Abyssinia he wore only Abyssinian clothes, walked barefoot, had an Abyssinian hairstyle, and ate whatever was offered to him. He gave detailed descriptions of, amongst other things, Abyssinian manners and customs, habits, personal appearance, births and marriages, deaths and funerals, religion and superstitions.

Provenance: Reginald Huth (1853-1926), Collector of Coins and Medals, son of Charles Frederick Huth, art collector.

£300-400

BURTON, SIR RICHARD FRANCIS A MISSION TO GELELE, KING OF DAHOME

With notices of the so called ‘Amazons’, the grand customs, the yearly customs, the human sacrifices, the present state of the Slave Trade, and the Negro’s place in nature. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, wood-engraved frontispiece in each volume, contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt (2)

£300-500

CHAPMAN, ABEL COLLECTION OF WORKS

On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa with Studies in Bird-Life. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, 2 photogravure plates including frontispiece, 32 halftone plates, 4 pp. advertisements to rear, inscribed to ‘The skipper, from the author’ on the front free endpaper, rubbing to extremities, split to head of front joint, spotting to endpapers [Czech Africa p. 59]; Savage Sudan. Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, map frontispiece, 29 halftone plates from photographs, cloth slightly rubbed and marked [Czech Africa pp. 59-60];

First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling. London: Horace Cox, 1896. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all plates as called for (several folding), occasional spotting to text; Wild Spain (España Agreste). London: Gurney and Jackson, 1893. First edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper (‘Abel Chapman, nest off Crowhall Moor, June 23, 1927’), original cloth (recased), folding map, all plates as called for;

Unexplored Spain. London: Edward Arnold, 1910. First edition, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, all plates as called for, spine slightly rubbed. Together with 12 others (these not collated), including: Abel Chapman, The Borders and Beyond, 1924, Retrospect, 1928, Wild Norway, 1897, Memories, 1930 (all first editions, original cloth), and Bird-Life of the Borders, 1907 (second edition, original cloth); Frederick Courtenay Selous, Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa, 1893, A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa, 1893, Sport and Travel East and West, 1900 (first, third and first editions, all in original cloth); J. G. Millais, The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, 1904 (first edition, one of 1,025 copies, 3 volumes, large 4to, original cloth, plates, cloth mottled, wear to spines), The Wildfowler in Scotland, 1901 (first edition, 4to, original half japon,

mottled), Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, 1918 (first edition, original cloth, ex Aberdovey Literary Institute), Wanderings and Memoires, 1919 (first edition, original cloth) (19)

Note: ’[Chapman’s] African adventures culminated in On Safari (1908) and Savage Sudan (1921) - the first natural history book about this area - which were entertaining and vivid accounts of east Africa and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan’ (ODNB).

£400-600

49 CHURCHILL, WINSTON S. THE RIVER WAR

An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. First edition, first impression, one of 2,000 copies printed, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, all plates and maps as called for, cloth rubbed, mottled and faded, spines strengthened, variable spotting to contents, contemporary ownership inscriptions to half-titles [Cohen A2 (a)] (2)

£500-800

50 HARRIS, WILLIAM CORNWALLIS

NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION INTO SOUTHERN AFRICA DURING THE YEARS 1836, AND 1837

Bombay: American Mission Press, 1838. First edition, 8vo in halfsheets (20.4 x 12.5cm), modern crushed morocco gilt, xviii 406 pp., 4 lithographic plates including frontispiece, lithographic folding map, extra-illustrated with 24 hand-coloured lithographic plates from the third or later edition of the present work, bound in at rear, toning, stab-holes visible in gutter from original binding, a few old stains (1)

Note: First edition, rare. A second edition was printed in London the following year, with the title The Wild Sports of Southern Africa; a third edition was published in 1841, also using the amended title but incorporating a suite of 24 hand-coloured lithographic plates.

Provenance: Admiral Sir Thomas Hastings (1786-1870), British naval officer, with his ownership inscription (‘Sir Thos. Hastings, R. Naval College’) to the half-title.

£500-800

51 SALT, HENRY

TWENTY FOUR VIEWS TAKEN IN ST. HELENA, THE CAPE, INDIA, CEYLON, ABYSSINIA AND EGYPT

London: William Miller, 1809. Atlas folio (73 x 52cm), contemporary half russia, gilt black morocco label to front board, pictorial hand-coloured aquatint title-page, 22 hand-coloured aquatint plates (of 24: lacking ‘Calcutta’ and ‘Poonah’), all on thick wove paper, J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermarks (all dated 1830 where visible, except ‘A View near the Roode Sand Pass’, 1834), contemporary protective paper guards bound in between plates. Lacking the title-page, bound without the text as usual (Tooley: ‘The text is not important and the work is usually to be found without it’), leather on spine worn away with fragments laid in, front board near-detached, wear to corners, spotting to endpapers, front free endpaper torn, occasional light spotting, variable light finger-soiling to plate margins, no guard between title-page and ‘Sandy Bay Valley’ plate (bound before title-page) and both consequently slightly marked, ‘Mosque at Lucknow’ with spots above skyline, ‘A View within the Fort of Monghyr’, ‘View of Grand Cairo’ and ‘Pagodas at Trinchicunum’ each with a few spots or marks above skyline, ‘Vale of Calaat’ with superficial paper disruption along top edge of platemark [Abbey Travel 515; Tooley 440] (1)

Note: A near-complete set of Salt’s spectacular aquatints in very good condition. Henry Salt (1780-1827) accompanied George Annesley, Viscount Valentia on an eastern tour beginning in 1802. ‘He visited India, Ceylon, and the Red Sea, and in 1805 was sent by Valentia on a mission into Abyssinia, to the ras of Tigré, whose affection and respect he gained, and with whom he left one of his party, Nathaniel Pearce. The return to England in 1806 was made by way of Egypt, where he first met the pasha, Mehmet Ali’ (ODNB).

£4,000-6,000

[SIERRA LEONE] WINTERBOTTOM, THOMAS

AN ACCOUNT OF THE NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF SIERRA LEONE

London: Printed by C. Whittingham, sold by John Hatchard, 1803. First edition, 2 volumes, [with the scarce vol. 2 which was partly suppressed], 8vo, [xv], 362, [xxii]; [iv], 283, [xi]; folding map, folding chart and 6 engraved plates (2 folding), contemporary tree calf, embossed coat-of-arms with motto “Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense” on covers, neatly rebacked, spine gilts, red and green morocco lettering pieces, corners neatly repaired (2) Note: Winterbottom was appointed physician to Sierra Leone in 1792 where he resided for seven years. In his youth he was a strong supporter of the abolition of the slave trade and afterwards advocated emancipation. The present work is the main source of his reputation as a clinical observer. It contains his classic description of sleeping sickness, trypanosomiasis, amongst local Africans.

The work is one of the earliest English books to describe sleeping sickness (pages 29-31). Dr Winterbottom noticed that slave dealers would not buy slaves whose neck glands showed signs of enlargement. Volume two deals entirely with the diseases prevalent in Sierra Leone especially dysentery and malaria. It also contains detailed information on venereal disease, childbirth, abortion, male and female circumcision etc. which led to the second volume being suppressed in some circles.

£1,500-2,000

53

[SOUTH AFRICA] LE VAILLANT, FRANÇOIS

VOYAGE DE MONSIER LE VAILLANT DANS L’INTÉRIEUR DE L’AFRIQUE

par le cap de Bonne-Espérance dans les années 1788, 81, 82, 83, 84 & 85. Paris: Leroy, 1790. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece and 11 plates [including the rare suppressed Hottentott plate (plate no. 7 at p.346, vol. 2), 2 folding;

Second Voyage dans l’intérieur de l’Afrique par le cap de BonneEspérance, dans les années 1783, 84 et 85. Paris: H.J. Jansen, l’an 3 de La République. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, 22 engraved plates (5 folding) and large folding map, errata leaf in each volume; together 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, green morocco lettering pieces, gilt edges (5)

Note: A very fine set of first editions of both Le Vaillant’s travels in South Africa.

Le Vaillant’s work (comprising both voyages) “was attacked when published, and some of the incidents were declared to be either exaggerated or altogether invented. It is, however, interesting as an account of South Africa at a time when comparatively little was known regarding its natural history and the Dutch settlers” (Cox I, p.389).

The first work is dedicated to “Monsieur Boers, Fiscal Indépendent” who befriended Le Vaillant after he had lost all his possessions in the ship Middleburg which was blown up by British forces as an act of war. Mr Boers, with Captain Robert Jacob Gordon, Commander of the troops at the Cape, assisted Le Vaillant to prepare for his journeys into the interior. His first journey took him to Hottentot Holland, Swellendam, Mossel Bay, the Knysna country, Algoa Bay, Fish River, the Karroo and back to Saldanha Bay. The second voyage, dedicated to “Citoyen Varon”, took him across Namaqualand, Damaraland, parts of Bechuanaland and the Kalahari.

£800-1,200

SOUTH AFRICA

TWO TRAVEL ALBUMS, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Album 1: beginning on a cruise onboard the Union Castle Line, SS “Gaul”, December 1903 - February 1904, sailing to South Africa past Capo Verde, the album containing manuscript menus, 2 laid-in watercolours of Capo Verde, 6 watercolours of the South African coast including Table Bay, several South African ink sketches, various laid-in South African postcards, several watercolours of South African landscapes including three watercolours of plantations in the Drakenburg Mountains, many pressed botanical specimens, several photographs mostly depicting tourists but also with three showing a Zulu wedding with the wedding party, bridesmaids and the bride and groom, several botanical watercolours, documentation from travel on to Lourenço Marques (Maputo), Mozambique, and Tanganyika with several watercolours, botanical illustrations and photographs, some documentation from the return cruise on the RPD “Herzog” of the Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie, with a watercolour painting of Bab-el-Mandeb, album 26.5 x 36.5cm, disbound

Album 2: beginning on a cruise onboard the Deutsche Ost-AfrikaLinie, RPD “Tabora”, December 1913-April 1914, sailing to South Africa from Marseille via Corsica, Naples and Port Said, Aden and Somaliland (Somalia), with many watercolours of views seen on the journey, alongside paintings of life onboard ship (such as the Christmas ball), the ship arriving in Kenya on Christmas Eve 1914 and including four watercolours of Mombasa, the journey continues to Tanganyika with watercolours of a local house and a baobab tree, with several botanical specimens before moving onto Zanzibar and Mozambique, before arriving in South Africa in February 1914. The South African section of the album comprises 30 watercolours (including Drakensberg Mountains, Mooi River Falls, views in Kamberg, Karkloof Falls, a local hut, scenes in Johannesburg and Pretoria and Table Mountain), several original photographs (mainly of tourists but some images of horsemanship), and a collection of pressed botanical specimens. The return journey leads through Namibia (five watercolours) and the Canary Islands. A typed travelogue of the journey to South Africa is loosely inserted. (2)

Provenance: A cabin ticket for Miss Smythe and Miss M. Boyle is pasted to the initial leaf of the second album. One or two watercolours are signed ‘Boyle’, while a loosely inserted letter is signed Effay Smythe.

£800-1,200

COLLECTION OF WORKS

Palgrave, William Gifford. Narrative of a Year’s Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-1863). London: Macmillan and Co., 1865. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, half-titles, 5 folding lithographic maps and plans, advertisement leaf to rear of each volume, bindings rubbed and marked, evidence of removal of labels from front boards, volume 1 front inner hinge tender, map of Arabia facing p. 1 with 8cm closed handling tear to inside fold and shallow chipping along fore edges [Macro 1731 for the first edition]

Thomas, Bertram. Alarms and Excursions in Arabia. London:

George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1931. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all photographic plates as called for, maps in text, spine faded, fraying to foot of spine, spotting to text-leaves [Macro 2182];

Young, Sir Hubert. The Independent Arab. London: John Murray, 1933. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 3 folding maps, dust jacket (spine panel darkened and chipped);

Philby, Harry St John Bridger. The Empty Quarter. London: Constable & Company, 1933. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, folding plan, 2 folding plates, 32 halftone photographic plates, pp. 19/20 creased, a few spots to text [Macro 1781]

Meinertzhagen, Richard. Birds of Arabia. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1954. First edition, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, 5 halftone photographic plates numbered 1-9, 19 colour plates, dust jacket priceclipped, nicked and slightly dust-soiled; and 12 others (these not collated), including: Bertram Thomas, Arabia Felix, 1932 (first edition, second impression, original cloth); idem, The Arabs, 1937 (first edition, original cloth); G. Wyman Bury, Arabia Infelix, 1915 (first edition, original cloth); Harold Ingrams, Arabia and the Isles, 1942 (first edition, original cloth); D. van der Meulen, Aden to the Hadhramaut, 1947 (first edition, original cloth, dust jacket); Wilfred Thesiger, Desert Borderlands of Oman [extracted from The Geographical Journal], 1950 (later card wrappers); Richard Meinertzhagen, Pirates and Predators, 1959 (first edition, original cloth, dust jacket); Charles M. Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta, New York, 1923 (2 volumes, original cloth); and 4 similar (19)

Note: Palgrave’s work is of special importance for the history of the modern Gulf states as well as what is now Saudi Arabia. In the second volume chapter 14 covers Bahrain and Qatar, while chapter 16, headed ‘The Coasts of Oman’, covers Sharjah and elsewhere.

£300-500

‘ARABIAN NIGHTS’

AL-JUZ’ AL-AWWAL MIN KITAB ALF LAYLAH WA-LAYLAH

[Arabic title, i.e. The Thousand and One Nights and a Night, first part].

Cairo: Matba’ah al-taqqadum al-’ilmiyah [Scientific Progress Press], 1325 AH [1907 CE]. Small 4to (19.4 x 13cm), contemporary half sheep, 528 pp., printed with Arabic types, loss to spine, text-leaves browned, paper slips with ownership inscriptions of Captain H. E. Short, Indian Medical Service, pasted to title-page not obscuring text. Together with a lithographic Buddhist text possibly in Mongolian, approx. 175 ff., loose between wooden covers, 18 x 56cm, occasional illustrations and borders printed in pink, title-page with pencilled transliteration and translation of title (‘ ...Herein is told the tale of Gasar ga-an, master of the ten directions’) (2)

Note: A new edition of the Bulaq edition of 1834/5, the first printed in the Arab world and now extremely rare. The first volume ends with the 162nd night; apparently four volumes were published.

£200-300

57

BURTON, SIR RICHARD FRANCIS

PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO EL-MEDINAH AND MECCAH

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855-56. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, half-title in volume 3, errata leaf in volume 1, 8 tinted lithographed plates, 5 chromolithographed plates, 1 wood-engraved plate, 2 folding maps, and 2 plans (1 folding), fine red straight-grained morocco gilt with gilt device of Robert Tyndall Hamilton Bruce (1847-1899), spines gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, green silk endpapers with gilt device of R.T.H. Bruce, gilt edges, some light dampstaining to about 5 plates (3)

Note: A very finely bound set of the first edition of Sir Richard Burton’s most famous exploit.

Provenance: Robert Tyndall Hamilton Bruce (1847-1899), Scottish businessman.

£3,000-4,000

58

IRAQ

MEMOIR ON THE RUINS OF BABYLON by William Beaumont Selby, Commander, Indian Navy, and Surveyor in Mesopotamia. [Series title at head:] Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government. No. LI.–New Series. Bombay: printed for government at the Education Society’s Press, Byculla, 1859. First edition, 8 pp. text (single unsigned gathering, stitched as issued), 2 hand-coloured lithographic folding plans, ‘Sheet I’ dimensions 130 x 59 cm, with 2 inset views, ‘Sheet II’ dimensions 59 x 67cm, housed in original blue-green cloth chemise with printed label to front. Wear and worming to chemise, Foreign Office Library bookplate and pocket to inside cover, text with a few small wormtracks, damp-staining and partial browning to title-page, manuscript shelfmark numbers to p. 3, both plans toned, ‘Sheet I’ with a few small worm-tracks, a few punctures along one transverse fold, strip of adhesive-related light browning along join of two sections, Sheet II’ with a few minute worm-tracks, small tear at one intersection (1)

Note: No other copy traced in auction records. £300-500

59 ISLAM, EASTERN CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM

GROUP OF WORKS

Grant, Asahel. The Nestorians; or, the Lost Tribes: containing Evidence of their Identity; an Account of their Manners, Customs, and Ceremonies; together with Sketches of Travel in Ancient Assyria, Armenia, Media, and Mesopotamia. London: John Murray, 1841. First UK edition, 8vo, original quarter cloth, folding lithographic map as frontispiece, spine rolled, minor loss to paper at one corner of front board, light spotting to map and endpapers;

Moore, George. The Lost Tribes and the Saxons of the East and of the West, with New Views of Buddhism, and Translations of Rock-Records in India. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, viii [2] 423 pp., half-title, 14 lithographic plates (one folding), occasional Hebrew text, 24 pp. advertisements, white marking to foot of spine, cloth splitting on joints, section of front free endpaper excised, variable spotting to plates; and 6 others (not collated): 2 books in Armenian, probably printed in Istanbul, 1877 and 1892; Washington Irving, The Life of Mahomet and his Successors, London: John Murray, 1850, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, spines sunned and rolled, worn at ends; Torah Elohim Sefer Shemot [title in Hebrew, i.e. Book of Exodus], Vilnius, 1899, 8vo, spine perished; and similar (10)

£200-300

MIDDLE EAST COLLECTION OF WORKS

Eleftériadès, Eleuthère. Les chemins de fer en Syrie et au Liban. Beirut: Imprimerie catholique, 1944. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to ‘A son Excellence Monsieur Béchara El-Khoury, Président de la République Libanaise, hommage respectueux de l’auteur, Beyrouth, le 17 juin 1944, Eletfériadès’ on the initial blank, 4to (23.5 x 16cm), contemporary half morocco, 7 halftone photographic plates (printed on both sides and numbered 1-14), folding table, 2 maps on one folding plate at rear, 9 graphs in text, original paper covers and spine bound in, plates spotted;

Marchebeus, Jean-Baptiste. Voyage de Paris à Constantinople par bateau à vapeur. Paris: Artus Bertrand, Amiot, l’auteur, 1839. First edition, tall 8vo (25 x 15.5cm), contemporary quarter morocco, halftitle, 24 engraved plates, engraved folding map, bookplate of Archives et temps modernes, their ink-stamp to title-page, spotting [Blackmer 1075];

Ruete, Emily (née Salimah bint Sa’id), Princess of Oman and Zanzibar. Mémoires d’une princesse Arabe. Traduit de l’allemand par L. Lindsay. Paris: Dujarric, 1905. First edition in French, 8vo (18.2 x 11cm), contemporary blue quarter morocco, [6] 330 pp., original wrappers bound in, spine rubbed, contents browned, half-title and title-page loose and slightly chipped;

Laurier, Jean-Philippe. Observations sur les Pyramides. Cairo: Imprimerie de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1960. First edition, inscribed on the half-title ‘A Monsieur Guy Abela, en souvenir de son passage à ma maison de Sakkarah, le 5-3-67 et en cordial hommage, J. P. Laurier’, 4to (28 x 19.8cm), contemporary quarter morocco, 13 plates, original wrappers bound in, spine rubbed, staining to half-title; Guyard, Stanislas. Un grand maître des assassins au temps de Saladin. Extrait du Journal asiatique. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1877. 8vo (22 x 13.4cm), contemporary blue half morocco by the bindery of the Imprimerie Catholique, Beirut, text in French and Arabic, spotting; ‘Arfa al-Dawlah Mirza Riza Khan Danesh (1846-1937). Perles d’Orient. Paris: Dujarric et Cie, 1905. Second edition, tall 8vo (24 x 15cm), original cloth, rebacked in morocco, endpapers renewed, 129 [3] pp., half-title, 4 halftone photographic plates, text-leaves browned; Musil, Alois. The Manners and Customs of the Rwala Bedouins. New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. First edition, large 8vo (24.5 x 16.5cm), contemporary orange full morocco gilt, photographic portrait

frontispiece, photographic illustrations in the text, joints and extremities rubbed, spotting to rear board and edges, pp. 450-600 with occasional abrasions and repairs (pp. 532-3 marginally abraded, marginal repairs to pp. 557/8 and 559/60, 580/1 abraded with partial loss of text, similar abrasions and staining to pp. 588-600, pp. 589/90 repaired, etc.) (7)

Note: Bechara El Khoury (1890-1964) was the first president of the newly independent Republic of Lebanon, serving from 1943 until his resignation in 1952; Library Hub traces two copies of Les chemins de fer en Syrie et au Liban in UK libraries (British Library and Oxford). Marchebeus’s work is an account of ‘the first organised steamer cruise in the Mediterranean ... [which] visited Sicily, Malta, the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor and the Archipelago’ (Blackmer). Emily Ruete’s work was first published in German in 1888; it has been described as the first published autobiography by an Arab or African woman. ‘Arfah al-Dawlah, known as ‘Danesh’, was a Persian diplomatist of the late Qajar period. Perles d’Orient is a collection of poems and memoirs. Library Hub traces one copy only in UK libraries (Cambridge), and two of the first edition, printed at Constantinople the previous year.

Provenance: Guy Abela (1929-2015), Lebanese poet and bibliophile, with his gilt stamp to foot of spines and ownership inscriptions to various preliminary leaves.

£700-1,000

61

MIDDLE EAST AND ARABIA FOUR WORKS

Tamisier, Maurice. Voyage en Arabie. Séjour dans le Hedjad. Campagne d’Assir. Paris: Louis Desessart, 1840. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (20.8 x 12.8cm), [4] 399, [4] 402 pp., contemporary quarter sheep, half-titles, engraved folding map of the Hijaz, spines worn, spine of volume 1 with loss and repair, large section of leather on spine of volume 2 detached (now laid in), contents spotted [Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2163];

[Firmin-Didot, Ambroise]. Notes d’un voyage fait dans le Levant en 1816 et 1817. Paris: Firmin Didot, [1826]. First edition, 8vo (20 x 11.8cm), [8] 403 pp., contemporary quarter calf, marbled sides and endpapers, joints cracked, top compartment of spine reattached, spotting to outer leaves and to margins [Blackmer 485; Cobham-Jeffery p. 67];

Buckingham, James Silk. Travels in Palestine, through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead ... including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala, in the Decapolis. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition, 4to (29 x 22cm), xxv [3] 553 pp., uncut in original boards, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map, 6 plans, plate of inscriptions, wood-engraved vignette chapter-headings, 4 advertisement leaves of different dimensions tipped to recto of frontispiece, contemporary bookplate of William Foster to front pastedown, front board detached, rear board reattached, spotting to map and plans, map loose;

Lucas, Paul. Voyage au Levant. Nouvelle edition revue et corrigée. Paris: Nicolas Simart, 1714. 8vo (15.6 x 9cm), [24] 244 [2] 245-499 [3] pp., 10 engraved plates including natural history subjects and a view of Isfahan, engraved folding map of the Nile, loss to head of spine, light browning, folding map with adhesive staining from attempted tape-repair to closed tear (5)

Note: Maurice Tamisier served as secretary to the medical officer of the expeditionary force sent by Muhammad Ali Pasha of Egypt to pacify the Hijaz in 1833-4. His work contains extensive accounts of Jeddah and Taif. Ambroise Firmin-Didot visited Greece, Constantinople and environs, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, modern-day Lebanon, Cyprus and Rhodes. According to Blackmer ‘only a few copies’ of his work were printed; a projected second part never appeared. Paul Lucas’s Voyage au Levant was first published in 1704.

Provenance: Guy Abela (1929-2015), Lebanese poet and bibliophile (gilt stamps to foot of spines; ownership inscriptions to half-titles or initial blanks).

£700-1,000

OTTOMAN EMPIRE - PENZER, N. M.

4 VOLUMES

The Harem. An Account of the Institution as it existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans. London: G. Harrap, 1936. First edition, 4to, blue morocco gilt by Henry R. Nevill, 3 autograph letters loosely inserted from the binder in part discussing the binding, geometric pattern on both covers, g.e.; Ibn Battuta. The Travels, edited by Sir Hamilton Gibb. The Hakluyt Society, 1958-62, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dustwrappers;

Varthema, Ludovico di. The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, In Persia, India and Ethiopia. The Hakluyt Society, 1963. 8vo, translated by J.W. Jones, edited by G.P. Badger, folding map, original blue cloth gilt (4)

£300-400

63

[ROUSSEAU, JEAN-BAPTISTE-LOUIS-JACQUES]

DESCRIPTION DU PACHALIK DE BAGDAD

suivie d’une notice historique sur les Wahabis, et de quelques autres pièces relatives à l’histoire et à la littérature de l’Orient. Paris: Treuttel et Würtz, 1809. First edition, 8vo (20.8 x 12.4cm), vii [1] 261 pp., contemporary red quarter morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled covers and endpapers, vellum tips, half-title, spotting and browning, bookplates to front pastedown (one partly effaced), tidemark to head of gutter of first few leaves [Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1962] (1)

Note: The account of the Wahhabis and their origin in what is now Saudi Arabia occupies pp. 125-182, and is followed by a ‘Notice sur les Yézidis’ and a section titled ‘Poésies persanes’. The work was edited by Silvestre de Sacy.

Provenance: Guy Abela (1929-2015), Lebanese poet and bibliophile (gilt-stamp to foot of spine; ownership inscription dated Beirut, 1967 to half-title).

£700-1,000

64

STUART, JAMES AND NICHOLAS REVETT

THE ANTIQUITIES OF ATHENS

measured and delineated. London: Priestley and Weale, 1825-27. New edition, 4 volumes, folio, 191 engraved plates, errata leaf in volume 3, corrigenda slip in volume 4, contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt, blindstamp of the Glasgow Arts Club Library to title-pages, plates in volume 4 somewhat dampstained, plates in volumes 2 & 3 slightly dampstained in margins, some spotting, substantial spotting to volume 3, without the 2 engraved portraits of Stuart and Revett, rubbed, bookplates removed from endpapers (4)

Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

£1,000-1,500

65

HEATH, LEOPOLD (1817-1907)

”HONG KONG &C.

as seen from the Anchorage. Drawn by Lieut. L.G. Heath of HMS Iris 1846. London: Published according to Act of Parliament at the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty May 4th 1847.” Restrikes (probably 20th century). Three engraved views (each approx. 16 x 70.2cm) with locations identified, in a single modern blue/grey card mount (1)

£300-400

66

INDONESIA

VIEW OF THE ISLAND OF BANDA-NEIRA

... Captured by a Force landed from a Squadron under the Command of Captain Cole, in the Morning of the 9th August 1810. Engrav’d from a Sketch taken by Captain Cole from the Island of Great Banda. London: Wm. Daniell, & Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1811. Hand-coloured aquatint on wove paper, 40 x 54cm, toned, a few small marks, verso with remnants of mount along edges (1)

Note: Rare, two other copies traced in modern auction records, the last in 2004.

£800-1,200

67 JAPAN

THE PORT AND HARBOUR OF YOKOHAMA [COVER-TITLE]

[Yokohama: Municipal Harbour Bureau, c.1927].

First edition, 8vo, original buff card wrappers, contents stitched with silk thread either side of central staple, [2] 3 39 [2] pp., 4 folding photographic panoramas, 5 folding maps (one in colour), inscribed ‘With the compliment [sic] of Mr C. Ariyoshi, Mayor of Yokohama. To Mr. B. G. Baigent’ on front free endpaper, covers spotted and dust-soiled, small split to foot of spine, short closed handling tear to colour map, minor rust-staining to gutter of final leaf. Together with an official photograph album of the funeral procession of Emperor Yoshihito, 1926, oblong 4to album, black silk mourning binding, 16 matte gelatin silver print photographs on rectos and versos of stiff card mounts, title-page in Japanese, contents leaf in English, captions in Japanese, lacking a few tissue-guards (2)

Note: No copies of the Yokohama item traced in UK libraries; five copies traced world-wide. An expanded edition (with 52 pp.) appeared c.1928.

£200-300

68 WADDELL, L. A.

THE BUDDHISM OF TIBET OR LAMAISM

with its mystic cults, symbolism and mythology, and its relation to Indian Buddhism. London: W.H. Allen, 1895. First edition, 8vo, 7 plates, text illustrations, original pictorial cloth gilt (1)

£300-400

69

ARAGO, JACQUES

SOUVENIRS D’UN AVEUGLE

Voyage autour du monde. Troisième edition, ouvrage enrichi de soixante dessins coloriés, de Notes scientifiques, et des Portraits de MM. J. Arago et F. Arago. Paris: Gayet et Lebrun, 1840. Third edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, 2 uncoloured engraved portraits and 59 (of 60) hand-coloured lithographed plates, half-titles, contemporary maroon half morocco, spines gilt, a few plates browned or with some offsetting, sporadic spotting to text (4)

Note: Only a few copies of this coloured series were issued. The plates consist of views of Hawaii (15), Brazil (5), Cape of Good Hope (3), Australia (12), Timor (3), New Zealand &c.. A beautifully illustrated edition of Arago’s account of the voyage of l’Uranie to Australia and the Pacific, under the command of Louis Freycinet (1817-1820). The voyage was organized by the French government to make scientific observations on geography, magnetism and meteorology. Arago was the official artist to the expedition.

£600-900

70

COOK, CAPT. JAMES

THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK

edited by J.C. Beaglehole. Cambridge University Press for The Hakluyt Society, 1955-74. 5 volumes 8vo, and folio “Charts & Views” volume, plates, maps, & charts, original blue cloth, dustwrappers, chart volume in blue cloth with tie and original printed paper wrap-around, with Addenda and Corrigenda to Volume I, 1968, 3 copies, 8vo, original wrappers; and Cook and the Russians, an addendum to the Hakluyt Society’s edition of the Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1973, 8vo, original wrappers; and 2 copies of the Prospectus of the work (7)

£200-300

71

PRÉVOST, L’ABBÉ ANTON FRANÇOIS

HISTOIRE GÉNÉRALE DES VOYAGES

ou Nouvelle Collection de toutes les relations de voyages. The Hague: Pierre de Hondt, 1749-62. Volumes 1-16 and 18. [of 25], 4to, engraved portrait and approximately 515 engraved maps and plates, many folding, titles printed in red and black, contemporary half calf, spines gilt (17)

Note: A very clean crisp set. The Trinity College Cambridge copy comprises 19 volumes and is catalogued with the the note ‘Published in 25 vols?’; the British Museum copy comprises 25 volumes, while the the University of Strathclyde copy comprises 25 volumes, with the note ‘Vols. 19-25 are published Amsterdam, E van Harrevelt et D.J. Changuion’.

£3,000-4,000

72

MANDEVILLE, SIR JOHN

THE VOIAGE AND TRAVAILE OF SIR JOHN MAUNDEVILE, KT. Which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem, and of Marvayles of Inde, with other Islands and Countries. London: J. Wooman, D. Lyon & C. Davis, 1725. 8vo, [xvi], [viii], 384, [vii]; title page printed in red and black, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, upper board detached, slight wear to upper corners (1)

Note: Fine 18th-century English edition of the classic, though partly fictional, 14th-century account of the voyages of Sir John Mandeville through Turkey, Egypt, Ethiopia, Syria, Persia, Arabia, India and the East Indies, published from a 15th-century manuscript in the Cottonian Library. Printed by William Bowyer whose records show a print run of just 350 copies. ESTC T100822.

£400-600

73

MOUNTAINEERING AND FISHING 10 VOLUMES

Sinigaglia, Leone. Climbing Reminiscences of the Dolomites. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 8vo, frontispiece, folding map, 38 plates, contemporary green morocco gilt, gilt doublures over red printed silk endpapers, a little rubbing;

Whymper, Edward. Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. London: John Murray, 1892. 2 volumes (including Supplementary Appendix), 8vo, frontispiece, single-page map, 2 folding maps including one in rear pocket, 19 plates, folding plan of Quito, with 14 additional plates in the Supplementary volume, original green cloth gilt, bookplates, some dampstaining to supplementary volume;

Ball John. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859-1852. Third edition of volume 1, 2 volumes,

8vo, contemporary red half morocco gilt, upper cover of volume 1 detached, bookplates of Archibald Rogers;

James, David. That Frozen Land. London: The Falcon Press, 1949. 8vo, original red cloth gilt;

Whymper, Edward. Chamonix, and the Range of Mont Blanc. London: John Murray, 1896. 8vo, original red cloth gilt;

Haskett Smith, W.P. Climbing in the British Isles. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. 12mo, original red cloth gilt;

Wilson, Claude. Mountaineering. London: George Bell & Sons, 1893. 12mo, original green cloth;

Barrow, John. An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa... London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1801. Volume 1 only, contemporary diced calf, rebacked retaining portions of original spine, repairs to hinges, repair to title-page, bookplates, lacking maps (10)

£400-600

74

TRAVEL AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

9 WORKS

Malinowski, Bronislaw. The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia. London, 1929. First edition, 8vo, 96 plates, original white linen-backed blue cloth, lettered in gilt;

Knox, Robert. An Historical Relation of Ceylon. Glasgow: J. Maclehose, 1911. 8vo, one of 100 copies printed on hand-made paper, plates, folding map, original vellum-backed red cloth gilt, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut; Ashley-Montagu, M.F. Coming into Being among the Australian Aborigines. London: G. Routledge, 1937, First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth;

Elwin, Verrier. The Muria and their Ghotul. Bombay, Geoffrey Cumberlege, O.U.P. [Indian Branch], 1947, 8vo, plates, maps, original red cloth uncut;

Elwin, Verrier. The Baiga. London: J. Murray, 1939. First edition, 8vo, plates, original maroon cloth, dustwrapper repaired;

Elgood, Cyril. A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate. Cambridge: University Press, 1951, 8vo, plates, original green cloth; Madariaga, Salvador de. Christopher Columbus. London, 1939. 8vo, plates, maps, original green pictorial cloth gilt;

Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro. History of the Incas... and the Execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru. Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1907-08. 2 parts: 1 volume in original cloth, and Supplement in original blue wrappers (in original envelope, repaired) (9)

£300-400

SHAYKH MUHAMMAD AMIR OF KARRAYA OR STUDIO (FL. C. 1830-50)

THE BALFOUR ALBUM

26 watercolours on wove paper, each approx. 27 x 21cm (all portrait format except numbers 9, 12 and 25, landscape; numbers 8, 10, 18 and 24 with J. Whatman Turkey Mills watermarks visible), cornermounted to varicoloured paper leaves in contemporary green half morocco album, contemporary manuscript titles in ink to foot, many additionally with contemporary English translations of the title in pencil to lower left (given below in round brackets where applicable; supplied titles in square brackets), all annotated lower right ‘Shekh Mahomed Ameer, Calcutta at Karyah’, ‘S. Mohammed Ameer Painter, situated at Kurrya’ or similar (except ‘A teacher of Hindostanee’, in the same style but not annotated). Contents comprise:

1. Assabardar (Mace bearer)

2. Sotaburdar (Mace bearer)

3. Hooka burdar

4. Serkar (Native clerk)

5. Dewan (A landed proprietor)

6. (A teacher of Hindostanee)

7. Barber

8. Chouruburdar [Fly-whisk wallah]

9. Palankeen

10. Matoy walla (Sweet meat seller)

11. Burkundaz (Watchman)

12. Hindoostany Carriage

13. Dorcah (Dog keeper)

14. Maytur[?] (House sweeper)

15. B. Woman [Bengali water carrier]

16. Estruwallah [Iron wallah]

17. Dancing girl

18. Grass cutter

19. Abdawr (Wine cooler & table servant)

20. Coachman

21. Ayah (Ladies attendant)

22. Serdawr Bearer (Body attendant & house servant)

23. Hurkarah (Letter carrier or message bearer)

24. Khansamah (Head table attendant)

25. Karachee (Native carriage)

26. Bheshtee (Water carrier).

With a similar watercolour bound between numbers 22 and 23, titled Hindoostanee Lady, signed ‘Zayn al-Abidin musawwir [painter]’, 19 x 15.5cm, Qajar-style, heightened with gum arabic (1)

Note: A major collection of watercolours by one of the leading practitioners of ‘Company School’ painting for European patrons in 19th-century India. The only sets of any comparable extent which we can identify are a group in the British Library comprising 17 pictures of servants, castes, and tradesmen (Add. Or. 171-187), and the famous Holroyd album, produced for Calcutta merchant Thomas Holroyd, given by him to the Oriental Club in 1839, sold by them in 1961 and now dispersed.

Acknowledged as ‘by far the most talented and original’ of all Calcutta painters specialising in work for the British (Archer, 1972), Shaykh Muhammad enjoyed an enthusiastic following among the city’s colonial elite in the second quarter of the 19th century. In 1844 the traveller Fanny Parkes purchased a set of paintings evidently similar to the present album, publishing versions of the serkar, burkundaz and the Bengali water carrier in her 1850 travel memoir, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque.

In 2019-20 Shaykh Muhammad’s work featured in the Forgotten Masters exhibition of Company School paintings at the Wallace Collection, London, at which six of his paintings were shown. William Dalrymple, historian of British India and curator of the exhibition, paid tribute to his inimitable fusion of European and Indian techniques:

‘The Shaykh was equally at home painting a Palladian house or thoroughbred horse, a group of dhobis or a pair of dogs. His single figures are sometimes shown in the Mughal tradition, in profile … but when he wished to, the Shaykh could paint in a more European style than any of his rivals, with low horizons and expanses of blank white space that no Mughal artist would have allowed. He had completely mastered perspective, foreshortening and shading, giving his work a realism and naturalism unique among Indian artists of his generation. Yet while in anatomical accuracy his horse portraits can stand comparison even with Stubbs, there is still

an indefinable Indian warmth about his work, a Mughal application of the heart as well as the head’.

Unlike his contemporary in Vellore, Yellapah, Shaykh Muhammad is not known to have produced a self-portrait, and little is known of his life or background. His paintings, however, have provoked speculation on his potentially ambivalent attitude towards to his patrons, who are either omitted entirely or, if they are present, are shown with their faces artfully concealed. One such painting, his depiction of a palanquin with a partially visible British passenger, is found in the present album (item 9). If this figure is indeed Thomas Holroyd, as stated in the Forgotten Masters catalogue, Shaykh Muhammad apparently had no reservations about reproducing the likeness for other customers.

Provenance: By family repute acquired by Edward Green Balfour (1813-1889), surgeon and naturalist in India; thence by descent. Balfour travelled to India in 1834 as an assistant surgeon in the Madras medical service, and ended his career as surgeon-general in the presidency. An acknowledged polymath, he wrote on subjects including Indian languages and literature and forestry in addition to medicine. His most influential work in his own day was his Enyclopaedia of India and Southern Asia, published at Madras in 1857. Today he is also remembered for his pioneering ecological writings, which explored what he believed to be the ‘direct relationship between deforestation, climatic change, and environmental degradation’ (ODNB).

Literature: Mildred Archer, Company Drawings in the India Office Library (1972), p. 76, cf. catalogue numbers 59-61.

idem, Company Paintings: Indian Paintings of the British Period (1992), cat. nos. 80-82.

William Dalrymple, ed., Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company (2019), pp. 17 and 122-131, cat. nos. 66-71.

£15,000-20,000

INDIAN COMPANY SCHOOL PAINTINGS ON MICA AND PAPER

52 paintings on mica, comprising: 18 loosely inserted into a blue morocco gilt album (snake charming, funeral procession, Hindu marriage procession, tiger hunting, Rajah going to hunt, mallakhamb scene and others), 28 loose paintings (dancing girl and band, ploughing scene, market scene, school scene, rural funeral procession, religious processions, mallakhamb, birds) and 6 paintings loosely taped onto paper (man with shisha pipe, sati (suttee) scene, a scribe, a servant, a tailor, a gardener), the largest measuring 20 x 15cm and the smallest 7 x 11cm;

9 loose paintings on paper (mother and child, dancing woman, butler, man with dead birds, ayah with child, hunter, woman with basket, scribe at desk, barber) (Quantity)

£1,200-1,800

77

INDIA - SANSKRIT PRINTING

HITOPADESA, OR SALUTARY INSTRUCTION. IN THE ORIGINAL SANSCRIT

[Part 2:] Dasa Cumara Charita, abridged by Apayya]. [Part 3:] Three Satacas, or Centuries of Verses, by Bhartri Hari. Serampore: [Serampore Mission Press], 1804 [Sanskrit title-page dated 1803]. 4to (20.5 x 19cm), modern cloth, xv [1] 160 [3], [5] 4-22 [2], [5] 26-111 [5] pp., title-page, part-titles, errata leaves and introduction (pp. xv) in English, remaining text in Sanskrit, spotting to front and rear, first part second errata leaf laid down, ink annotations in Sanskrit to p. 101, a few pencilled annotations elsewhere (1) Note: Editio princeps, and the first book in Sanskrit printed with Devanagari types, perhaps one of 100 copies, no other copy traced in auction records.

A collection of animal fables believed to date from the 12th century CE or earlier, the Hitopadesa was derived partly from the Panchatantra, which was translated into Arabic via Persian to become the fable cycle Kalila wa-Dimna. The Serampore Baptist Mission and its associated press were founded in 1800 by missionary and translator William Carey (1761-1834), who had established himself in Danish-controlled Serampore in response to the ban on missionary activity in the territory of the East India Company. In 1801 he was appointed professor of Sanskrit, Marathi and Bengali at the Company’s Fort William College, at whose behest he prepared this edition of the Hitopadesa from six manuscript copies. The introduction is by the pioneering Sanskritist Henry Thomas Colebrooke (17651837). A Bengali edition was published by the Press in 1801.

Literature: Johanes Hertel (ed.), The Panchatantra (Harvard, 1908), p. xxii; Rosane & Ludo Rocher, The Making of Western Indology: Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company (2014) p. 73.

Provenance: East India Company library (ink-stamps to title-page, first page of the second part, and terminal errata leaf of the third part).

£1,500-2,000

78

INDIA - MALALAYAM PRINTING

COMPENDIOSA LEGIS EXPLANATIO OMNIBUS CHRISTIANIS SCITU NECESSARIA MALABARICO IDIOMATE

[Title in Malayalam at head:] Nasranikal okkakkum ariyentunna samksepavedarttham]. Rome: [no printer], 1772. 8vo, contemporary boards, signatures pi1 A-R8 S2, Malayalam types throughout (except for title-page, partly in Latin), wood-engraved vignette to title-page and first page of text, decorative borders throughout (1)

Note: First edition of the first book printed entirely in Malayalam, a catechism by Clemente Peani (1731-1782), missionary for the Propaganda Fide in Kerala. He also produced a Malayalam alphabet (Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum), printed in the same year, but only partly in Malayalam.

£300-500

[EAST INDIES SAILING DIRECTORY]

A NEW DIRECTORY FOR THE EAST-INDIES

containing I. The First Discoveries made in the East Indies by European Voyages and Travellers. II. The Origin, Construction and Application of Nautical and Hydrographical Charts. III. The Natural Causes ... of the Constant and Variable Winds ... throughout the East-India Oceans and Seas. IV. A Description of the Sea Coasts, Islands Rocks ... etc. in the Oriental Navigation. V. Directions for navigating in the East-India Seas ... VI. Directions for sailing to and from the East-Indies ... The whole being a Work originally begun upon the Plan of the Oriental Neptune, augmented and improved by Mr. William Herbert, Mr. Willm Nichelson, and Others; and now methodised, corrected, and further enlarged, by Samuel Dunn. London: Henry Gregory, 1780. Fifth edition, 4to (28.7 x 20.8cm), contemporary sailcloth stitched over boards, xxxvi 544 pp., engraved plate facing p. 341, engraved headpiece, without frontispiece noted in other copies, with detailed contemporary annotations to pp. 377, 378, 379, 381, 394, 397, 409, 520, 521 (in chapters ‘Directions for Sailing toward the China Seas’ and ‘Directions for Returning from the China Seas’), in at least two different hands (signed J. Rossiter and S. Cooper), old ink-stamp (‘S. E. Howell’) to head of title-page, ownership inscription to front free endpaper and initial blank, toning, spotting to titlepage, plate and adjacent text-leaves, scattered light spotting and soiling elsewhere [ESTC T146275] (1)

Note: An engrossing artefact of late 18th-century trade and maritime exploration in the East Indies, containing annotations demonstrating first-hand knowledge of the waters around Java and Sumatra, and retaining an early makeshift covering of crudely stitched sailcloth, in a good state of preservation. Le Neptune orientale, the basis of the work, was first published in 1745; Herbert’s New Directory for the East Indies first appeared in 1758. This fifth edition is considerably expanded from all preceding iterations, which all had 144 pages, suggesting that only limited changes if any had been made previously. All editions are rare in libraries and in commerce.

£800-1,200 80

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ALQABNAMAH

[Title at head:] List showing the Names, Titles and Modes of Address of the More Important Sovereigns, Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, etc., having Relations with the Indian Government. Corrected up to the 5th October 1935. New Delhi: printed by the manager, Government of India Press, 1935. Folio, original printed blue paper boards, rebacked and recornered, [4] iii [2] 2-118 pp., updated throughout in manuscript (red and black inks) and with tipped-in printed slips, printed insert tipped to p. 108, covers marked, title-page, pp. 21/2 and 117/18 heavily washed and reinserted, uniform browning to other text-leaves, small abrasion to first page of index from adhesion to facing page, pencilled shelfmark to verso of title-page, Government of India ink-stamp to verso of final blank (1)

Note: Marked ‘confidential’, this is the only edition of the work we have traced, and in institutional terms is present in one other copy, at the British Library (shelfmark IOR/R/15/1/734), with no copies traced in auction records.

The work covers the protocols of addressing the ruling princes and chiefs of India, in addition to the rulers of independent states, including Tibet, Nepal and Siam, ‘miscellaneous states’, including Zanzibar, Muhammerah (modern Iran), Indore, Arcot and Bombay, and protectorate rulers. This last group includes the sultan of Muscat and Oman, the rulers of various sultanates in modern-day Yemen, and the shaykhs of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and of each the Trucial States, that is, Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Ra’s al-Khaymah, Sharjah and Umm al-Quwain.

Each ruler is listed under seven headings: Name of state or place of residences; Name and address in English; Commencement and conclusion of letter in English and colour of crest; Highest British authority by whom hitherto addressed; Name and address in Persian or Arabic; No. of Guns [for salutes]; Remarks. The profuse additions to this copy (in the form of printed slips and manuscript annotations) both record rulers’ deaths and the identities of the successors, and illustrate changes in the status of rulers while still living: the shaykhs of Bahrain and Kuwait are both noted as being promoted from the title of Excellency to Highness, while the raja of even a minor Indian state, Talcher, is recorded as receiving the new title of Raja Bahadur ‘as a personal distinction’.

£2,000-3,000

ROBSON, FRANCIS

THE LIFE OF HYDER ALLY

with an Account of his Usurpation of the Kingdom of Mysore, and other Contiguous Provinces. To which is annexed, a Genuine Narrative of the Sufferings of the British Prisoners of War, taken by his Son, Tippoo Saib. London: S. Hooper, 1786. First edition, 8vo (20.9 x 12cm), contemporary marbled calf, rebacked with original gilt spine laid down, signed by the author at end of preface (p. vi), moderate browning, near-contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, effaced ownership inscription to initial blank bleeding through onto title-page, a few other marks [ESTC T100166: 8 copies in UK libraries];

Kirkpatrick, William (editor). Select Letters of Tippoo Sultan to Various Public Functionaries. London: for Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; and for John Booth, 1811. First edition, 4to (26.4 x 20cm), later black half sheep (probably a native binding), 2 plates of engraved Persian manuscript facsimile, browning, worming towards front and rear, stitching split between signatures b and c, signatures a and b consequently tipped to front free endpaper with concomitant paper disruption in gutter;

Salmond, James. A Review of the Origin, Progress, and Result of the Decisive War with the Late Tippoo Sultaun, in Mysore, London, 1800. Second edition, 8vo (21.5 x 12.5cm), contemporary half sheep, frontispiece of Tipu’s tiger lacking, folding leaf of Persian manuscript facsimile (sig. 4C), folding letterpress table (sig. 5E), leather detached from spine (fragments laid in), spotting and browning to contents [ESTC T133172: 5 copies in UK libraries] (3)

Note: No other copies of Robson’s work traced in auction records; Kirkpatrick’s work is rare in commerce. There was a quarto edition of Salmond’s work published in the same year and presumed to have priority over this octavo edition.

£300-500

82

INDIA - MEGHALAYA

REPORT ON SUCCESSIONS TO SIEMSHIPS IN THE KHASI STATES

by Captain D. Herbert, Indian Army, Deputy Commissioner, Khasi and Jaintia Hills. Shillong: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1903. Folio (32.5 x 19cm), original printed boards, rebacked and recornered, [2] iv 127 pp., 8 folding genealogical tables (counted in pagination), covers marked, wear to fore edges of boards, variable browning, title-page and final leaf heavily washed, title-page also with small hole not affecting text, small stipple of worming to foot of gutter throughout, marginal repair to pp. 1/2, closed tear in pp. 11/12 (1)

Note: First edition, specified ‘confidential’ on the title-page, perhaps one of 100 copies according to the printer’s slug on the final page, no other copy traced in libraries or in commerce (such records as do exist appearing to pertain to a 1991 facsimile reprint published by the government of Meghalaya’s directorate of arts and culture). In Khasi culture, eligibility to hold the office of siem (ruler) is passed down by matrilineal descent, though the office-holder is male. The power of the siem is not absolute, with authority dispersed among various ministers, clan chiefs, elders and other figures, and in the case of Khyrim state a high priestess (ka siem-sad).

£1,500-2,000

83

GRANDPRÉ, LOUIS MARIA JOSEPH, COMTE DE

A VOYAGE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AND TO BENGAL undertaken in the years 1789 and 1790; containing an Account of the Seychelles Islands and Trincomale; the Character and Arts of the People of India; with some remarkable religious rites of the inhabitants of Bengal. To which is added, A Voyage in the Red Sea; including a Description of Mocha, and of the trade of the Arabs of Yemen. Translated from the French.

London: G. and J. Robinson, 1803. First English edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 6 engraved plates (2 folding), half-titles, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, green morocco lettering pieces, armorial bookplates of Jonathan Pytts Esq. (2)

Note: A fine copy of the first English edition.

Provenance: The Pytts family owned large estates in Worcestershire and Herefordshire. During the seventeenth century, members of the family sat for various Herefordshire constituencies. Jonathan Pytts inherited a large fortune from his maternal grandfather, Admiral Jonathan Collett who died in 1742. He succeeded his brother Edmund to the Kyre estate in 1781, became Sheriff in 1783, and died without issue in 1807.

£700-1,000

HARKNESS, HENRY

A DESCRIPTION OF A SINGULAR ABORIGINAL RACE INHABITING THE SUMMIT OF THE NEILGHERRY HILLS

or Blue Mountains of Coimbatoor, in the Southern Peninsula of India. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1832. First edition, 8vo (24.7 x 15cm), contemporary half calf, rebacked, vi [2] 175 pp., 4 lithographic plates including frontispiece, wear to corners, plates spotted, occasional spotting and a few marks to text [not in Abbey];

Marshall, William E. A Phrenologist amongst the Todas, or the Study of a Primitive Tribe in South India. History, Character, Customs, Religion, Infanticide, Polyandry, Language. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth lettered in gilt and ruled in black (apparently one of several variant bindings), rebacked with original spine laid down, xx 271 pp., 18 autotype plates of which 14 from photographs, autotype map, illustrations in text, tips bumped and worn, first signature near detached;

King, W. Ross. The Aboriginal Tribes of the Nilgiri Hills. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 2 tinted lithographic frontispieces (‘Toda Woman’ and ‘Toda Man’), one further plate, gutta percha perished and text-block detached from binding, ink-stamps and pencil markings of the Clinton Hall Association, New York to pastedowns and title-page, scraps of paper adhering to front pastedown and free endpaper causing small hole in latter (3) £300-500

85

MOORCROFT, WILLIAM AND GEORGE TREBECK

TRAVELS IN THE HIMALAYAN PROVINCES OF HINDUSTAN AND THE PANJAB

in Ladakh and Kashmir; in Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz, and Bokhara. Prepared for the Press, from Original Journals and Correspondence, by Horace Hayman Wilson. London: John Murray, 1841. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (20.3 x 12.5cm), near-contemporary black half sheep, lithographic frontispieces, folding map, 12 pp. advertisements, contemporary ownership inscription to titlepages, volume 1 lacking leaf a8 (preface pp. xv/xvi), marginal repair to foot of p. liii, folding map with splits and repairs;

Little, Archibald. Across Yunnan: a Journey of Surprises including an Account of the Remarkable French Railway Line now completed to Yunnan-fu.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1910. First edition in book form, 8vo, original red cloth, 12 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece, folding map, ex-Manchester Public Free Libraries with call number gilt to spine, plate to front pastedown, ink-stamp to verso of titlepage, and blind stamps to plates and text;

Seebohm, Henry. The Birds of the Japanese Empire. London: R. H. Porter, 1890. Large 8vo, original brown cloth, map frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations in text, Bolton Libraries inkstamps and withdrawal stamps to initial blank, title-page and final page of text (4)

£300-400

86

SRI LANKA [CEYLON] FORBES, MAJOR JONATHAN

Eleven Years in Ceylon. Comprising Sketches of the Field Sports and Natural History of that Colony, and an Account of its History and Antiquities. London: Richard Bentley, 1840. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 6 engraved plates, some text illustrations, half-title in volume 1, maroon straight-grained morocco gilt by Riviere & Sons, spines gilt, gilt edges (2)

Provenance: ”Noel Huth, from his father, 4 January 1903”, inscription on free endpapers; armorial bookplate of Percival Huth on verso of title-page of volume 2; bookplate inscribed “Noel Huth, 4th January 1903, to Reginald Huth”.

£300-400

FERGUSSON, JAMES

TREE AND SERPENT WORSHIP

or, Illustrations of Mythology and Art in India in the First and Fourth Centuries after Christ. From the Sculptures of the Buddhist Topes at Sanchi and Amravati ... Second Edition, revised, corrected, and in great part re-written. London: India Museum, 1873. 4to (33 x 24cm), original red half morocco gilt, xvi 274 pp., lithographic frontispiece, 101 plates numbered 1-100 (including 10A), albumen print photographs or lithographs, photographs mounted as issued (often one on each side of a single leaf, numbered in all cases as separate plates), publisher’s postscript slip, joints cracked with front board remaining attached only via new endpapers, frontispiece, title-page and first leaf of text strengthened in gutter, dust-soiling and a few spots to top edges of mounts, numerical ink-stamp to margin of p. 33, mount for photographic plates 95 and 96 creased across upper fore corner [Gernsheim 419];

Malcolm, John. Malcolm’s History of Persia (Modern) edited and adapted to the Persian Translation of Mirza Hairat, with Notes and Dissertations by Lieut.-Colonel M. H. Court, 15th Bengal Cavalry. Lahore: printed at the “Civil and Military Gazette” Press, Lahore, 1888. Folio (32.5 x 20cm), modern half leather, [2] ix [3] 290, title-page slightly nicked and marked and with small annotation to upper inner corner, light marginal soiling elsewhere, last 2 leaves slightly nicked and with damp-staining to corners;

Kaye, G. R (editor). The Bakhshali Manuscript. A Study in Medieval Mathematics.

Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch [volume 2, Delhi: Manager of Publications], 1927-33. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue quarter morocco, photogravure plate (spotted), 47 ?collotype plates, volume 2 spine rubbed (4) Note: James Fergusson travelled to India after leaving school, and within ten years as an indigo planter in Bengal had made a sufficient fortune to dedicate himself to the study of art and architecture. Sanchi, near Bhopal in modern-day Madhya Pradesh, is the oldest Buddhist sanctuary in existence, dating from the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. The stupa at Amaravati, in what is now Andhra Pradesh, was founded around 200 BC. Fergusson’s account was first published in 1868. The photographs are by W. H. Griggs and James S. Waterhouse; Waterhouse eventually became surveyor-general to the Monumental Photographic Survey of India. The Civil and Military Gazette, publishers of this edition of Malcolm’s Persia, was where Rudyard Kipling began his professional life in India, joining as a sub-editor in 1882.

£500-800

88

INDIA - BENGAL PRESIDENCY COLLECTION OF CALCUTTA IMPRINTS

Directions for Revenue Officers in the North-Western Provinces of the Bengal Presidency ... New Edition. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1858. 4to, later cloth, [4] 566 [2] pp., 4 lithographic folding maps (2 hand-coloured), 6 folding letterpress tables (counted in pagination and register), uniform moderate browning (stronger to title-page), very small worm-track to upper fore corner of initial leaves;

The Journals of Major James Rennell, First Surveyor-General of India. Written for the Information of the Governors of Bengal during his Surveys of the Ganges and Brahamputra Rivers 1764 to 1767. Edited by T. H. D. La Touche. Calcutta: printed at the Baptist Mission Press, and published by the Asiatic Society, 1910. 4to, later cloth, portrait frontispiece, folding plate of manuscript facsimile (torn along fold), folding map of Bengal and Bihar to rear, uniform moderate browning; and 4 others (these not collated): The Bengal Directory and General Register for the Year 1832, Calcutta: Samuel Smith and Co., Bengal Hurkaru Press, c. 1832 (8vo, contemporary red half sheep, folding map with short closed tear, lacking pp. 173/4; The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842, Vol. I, Calcutta: William Rushton an[d] Co., c.1842 (8vo, contemporary half roan by the Government Press, Allahabad, 3 folding maps and folding diagram, first folding map (frontispiece) torn, binding worn, browning; The Bengal Almanac for 1848 ... compiled and arranged by Samuel Smith and Co., Calcutta, 1848 (8vo, contemporary boards, red sheep backstrip, binding worn and worn, rear inner hinge gone); Selections from the Revenue Records of the North-West Provinces 1818-1820, Calcutta: Military Orphan Press, 1866 (8vo, original cloth, binding defective) (6) Note: Library Hub traces two copies for the Directions for Revenue Officers (NLS and Cambridge).

£300-500

INDIA - BHOPAL TWO BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES OF PERSIAN POETS

Ali Hasan Khan ibn Muhammad Siddiq Hasan. Subh-i Gulshan [‘The Morning RoseGarden’]. Bhopal: Matba’ Fayd, 1295 AH [1878 CE];

Muhammad Muzaffar Husayn Saba. Ruz-i Rawshan [‘Bright Daylight’]. Bhopal: Matba’ Shahjahani, 1296 AH [1878/9 CE].

Both 8vo, side-stitched in uniform contemporary red half leather bindings, manuscript paper spine-labels, marbled sides, decorative title-pages, text in Persian, lithographed throughout, Subh-i Gulshan 646 14 pp., pp. 351/2 and 349/50 transposed, light marginal worming to front and rear, lower fore corner of rear board detached (still present), Ruz-i Rawshan 868 17 pp., page numbers 173-4 used twice (text not duplicated), pp. 207/8 and 204/5 transposed, marginal worming to outer leaves, rear inner hinge split, front inner hinge starting (2)

Note: First editions of these two biographical dictionaries of contemporary and historical Persian-language poets, commissioned by the Bhopal court, ‘the last princely court in South Asia to fully invest itself in the production of tadhkiras of Persian poets’ (Schwartz p. 122). The growth of the tadhkira genre in India in the 18th and 19th centuries has been linked to the decline of the Mughal empire, the rise in Persian prestige, and the dispersal of Delhi elites to regional centres after the sack of the city in 1739. By the late 19th century, however, Persian was itself becoming marginalised by the rise of Urdu as a literary language. Persian tadhkiras produced by other courts, such as Arcot, focused on local poets, whereas the Bhopal offerings sought to be comprehensive. The author of Subh-i Gulshan has been identified as a son of Siddiq Hasan Khan (1832-1890), leading Islamic scholar and, via his second marriage, consort of Shahjahan, Begum of Bhopal. See further: Kevin J. Schwartz, ‘A Transregional Persianate Library: the Production and Circulation of Tadhkiras of Persian Poets in the 18th and 19th Centuries’, International Journal of Middle East Studies 52 (2020), 109-135.

£200-300

90

WHEELER, STEPHEN

HISTORY OF THE DELHI CORONATION DURBAR

held on the first of January 1903 to celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VII Emperor of India. London: John Murray, 1904, 4to, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 48 plates (20 photogravure), 5 maps and plans (2 folding), inscribed on front endpaper ‘W.C. Macpherson, C.S.I., from his grateful friend, A.H. L. F., 12th Nov. 1904’, original red decorative cloth gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, binding slightly marked (1)

Provenance: William Charles Macpherson, 4th of Blairgowrie (1855-1936), Indian Civil Service, Justice of the Peace, member of the Bengal Legislative Council between 1902 and 1911, appointed Companion, Order of the Star of India (C.S.I.) in 1903, member of the Board of Revenue of Calcutta between 1906 and 1911.

£300-400

91

INDIAN LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING

TARIKH-I DARBAR-I TAJ PUSHI [‘HISTORY OF THE CORONATION DURBAR’]

Lucknow: Nawal Kishore, c.1904. 4to, recent red leather binding with original gilt cloth sides laid down, 4 12 596 pp., 2 lithographic title-pages printed in red and green, 48 halftone photographic plates, mainly portraits of maharajas (also including portraits of Edward VII, Curzon, the Duke of the Kent and their families, and durbar scenes), text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, cloth rubbed and mottled text-leaves toned, ink-stamps of one C. L. Agrawal to blanks and to margins of pp. 262 and 326 (1)

Note: Rare fully illustrated Urdu translation of Stephen Wheeler’s History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar (1904), no other copy traced in libraries in or in commerce. The Nawal Kishore Press, founded at Lucknow in 1858 by Hindu entrepreneur Nawal Kishore (1836-1895), ‘grew into the largest Indian-owned printing and publishing firm in South Asia. Supported by colonial patronage, the firm published an estimated 5,000 titles in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sanskrit and Hindi during Nawal Kishore’s lifetime, while it also served as an intellectual hub for scholars, poets and literati. As one observer noted: “No other press in India was fortunate to have such a large number of huffaz, scholars, historians, writers and poets as were gathered simultaneously at this press”’ (Ulrike Stark, ‘Calligraphic Masterpiece, Mass-Produced Scripture: Early Qur’an Printing in Colonial India’, in Reese, ed., Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition, 2002, p. 158).

£300-500

92

DELHI

HISTORY OF DELHI THE IMPERIAL CITY

A Most Comprehensive Account of the History and Archaeology of Delhi (with Numerous Illustrations). By Bashir-ud-Din Ahmad ... Volume I. History, 1450 B. C. to 1919 A. D. [Volume II: Archaeology. Volume III. Archaeology (Continued)]. [Urdu title:] Waqi’at-i dar al-hukumat Dihli. Delhi: I. M. P. H., 1919. 3 volumes, large 8vo (26 x 16cm), contemporary cloth (volume 1 rebacked), text in Urdu (with occasional English and Hindi), lithographed throughout (except English title-pages, letterpress), 153 plates (nearly all lithographic; 4 halftone), several folding, volume 1 lacking at least pp. 1-8, Urdu titlepage remargined and laid down, marginal tears to pp. 9-34, pp. 35/6 repaired, pp. 600-640 with large worm-track in text, loss to pp. 985-110, holes in a couple of plates, retaining original rear wrappers. volume 2 spine misnumbered, title-pages damp-stained, small repair to pp. 1/2, pp. 679/80 torn, tears to plates facing pp. 10, 41 and 221, retaining original rear wrapper, volume 3 with closed tear to Urdu title-page, original wrappers previously tipped in (now detached). Together with duplicates of volumes 2 and 3 (5)

Note: First edition thus, one of 1,000 copies, no other copies traced in auction records. The work is largely an Urdu translation of the Archaeological Survey of India’s List of Muhammadan and Hindu Monuments in Delhi Zail (1915-1922), the standard work on the subject, but provides additional maps and information on local traditions. Bashir-udDin Ahmad is described on the title-pages as ‘first talukdar (collector and district magistrate) ret[ired], H. E. H. the Nizam’s government, author of the histories of Vijayanagar and Bijapur, Iqbal Dulhan, Husn-e-Muashrat, Islah-e-Maishat, etc., etc., and translator of Dr. Stall’s Self and Sex series’.

£300-500

INDIA - NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCE SET OF AGRA IMPRINTS, 19TH CENTURY

1) Report on Indigenous Education and Vernacular Schools, in Agra, Aligarh, Bareli, Etawah, Farrukhabad, Mainpuri, Mathura, Shahjahanpur, for 1850-51. By Henry Steward Reid, Visitor General of Schools, N. W. P. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1852-3-4. First editions, 3 works in one volume, 8vo, contemporary yellow cloth, [4] 220, [2] 122, [2] 176 pp, blind stamp of the Schlagintweit library to title-page;

2) Report on Ajmeer and Mairwara, illustrating the Settlement of the Land Revenue and the Revenue Administration of those Districts, up to ... 1853. By Lieut.-Colonel C. G. Dixon, Commissioner, Ajmeer and Mairwara. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1853. First edition, 4to, later cloth, [2] 199 pp., uniform moderate browning, colour pencil markings to title-page, closed tear in Q4, worming to endpapers now affecting text-block;

3) Translation of a Proceeding regarding the Settlement of a Village, according to the System pursued in the North Western Provinces of the Presidency of Bengal. Compiled and published under the Orders of the Hon’ble the Lieutenant Governor, N. W. P. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1847. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half leather (worn), [2] iii 244 pp., 3 hand-coloured lithographic plans, 4 lithographic genealogical tables, 4 letterpress tables, all folding, shelfmark label of Pandut Sundar Lal, High Court, Allahabad to front pastedown, governmental ink-stamp to titlepage and final page, a few old repairs to plates, one genealogical table with 10cm closed tear, moderate browning, a few small worm-tracks towards rear, rear inner hinge partly cracked;

4) Selections from the Records of Government, North Western Provinces [volume 1]. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1855. Second edition, 8vo, later cloth, vii 1-76 107-222 [1] pp., hand-coloured double-page lithographic plate (‘Half elevation, half section and plan of Burdashtkhaneh in the Cawnpoor District’), 3 further lithographic plates (collation not established), cloth mottled, title-page browned and tipped in, variable damp-staining to pp. 107-130;

5) The New Code of Civil Procedure. Act No. 10 of 1877. Agra: Elahi Press, c.1877. 8vo, recent red cloth, text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, in 8 parts (separately paginated), browned throughout, contents leaf and title-page chipped, final leaf tape-repaired in gutter, part 2 possibly lacking section-title (but collation not established as no other copy traced) (5)

Note: Among the invaluable information provided by Henry Steward Reid’s educational reports are lists of the textbooks printed each year by the government of the North-West Province, including details of their authors, content and print runs. Library Hub cites three locations only: LSE (1852-3), Oxford (1852), and SOAS (year not stated). Library cataloguing notes a map for Dixon’s work, but none is present in the copy held by the University of Oxford and we have not been able to inspect another copy; it is possible that the map is from C. G. Dixon’s Sketch of Mairwara (1850), with which the British Library (India Office Records) copy is bound, and that the description for this particular copy has been generally applied. One institutional copy traced for the Translation of a Proceeding regarding the Settlement of a Village, at the British Library, catalogued as having nine plates (it is unclear whether these include the folding tables).

£300-500

INDIA - PUNJAB, OUDH (AWADH) & OTHER REGIONS GROUP OF OFFICIAL REPORTS, 19TH CENTURY

1) Report on the Administration of the Punjab and its Dependencies for 1891-2 [1892-3; 1893-4]. Lahore: Punjab Government Press, 1893-4. 3 volumes, folio, original clothbacked printed boards, each with folding hand-coloured diagram showing agricultural produce, reports for 1892-3 and 1893-4 each with large folding lithographic colour map in front packet (‘Skeleton Map of the Punjab and Surrounding Countries in 1874 ... With Corrections and Additions to Railways and Canals up to September 1892’), absent in report for 1891-2, ink-stamps of the Hygienische Institute der Koeniglichen Universitaet (withdrawn), 1891-2 and 1892-3 spines variably defective;

2) Report on the Working of Municipalities in the Punjab during the Year 1891-2 [and:] 1893-4. Lahore: Punjab Government Press, 1892 & 1895. 2 volumes, folio, original cloth-backed printed wrappers, similar library markings;

3) Brief View of the Caste System of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh ... by John C. Nesfield. Allahabad: NorthWestern Provinces and Oudh Government Press, 1885. Folio, contemporary half cloth, 132 pp., 4 lithographic plates from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal inserted (3 folding), browning, title-leaf and pp. i-iv (contents) loose, title-leaf chipped at foot, marked in red pencil, with marginal worming and with government copyright notice pasted in upper margin, pp. i/ii with extensive closed tear, light worming to last few leaves, final leaf with closed tear, shelfmark label of Pandid Sundar Lal, Advocate, High Court, North-West Province to front pastedown;

4) Oude: Papers relating to. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. London: Harrison and Sons, 1856. Folio, later cloth, 311 pp., original front wrapper bound in, browning, title-page loose and chipped, pencilled marginalia;

5) Notes on the Land Revenue Policy of the Government of India as established by the Resolution dated the 16th January 1902 by the Hon’ble Rai Nihal Chand Bahadur, Landlord of Muzaffarnagar. Mussoorie: “Mussoorie Times” Press, 1903. Folio, contemporary half cloth, 53 pp., shelfmark labels of Pandit Sundar Lal (see above) mounted to title-page and front pastedown, front inner hinge split;

6) [Record of the enquiry of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Committee for the United Provinces]. Lucknow: [various printers], 1928-9. 13 parts in 2 volumes, folio, contemporary cloth, the parts comprising unnumbered summary at front (titled ‘Report ...’ with printed statement ‘For private circulation of members only’ to retained front wrapper) and 12 numbered parts (concerning Garwhal, Faizabad, Benares, etc.), text in English and Hindi, each part with original front and rear wrappers bound in, 2 related bills bound in at rear, inner hinges splitting, part 6 title-page torn;

7) [Volume of House of Commons reports on India], 1850s-70s. 22 works in 1 volume, folio, later cloth, contents concerning currency, vaccination, irrigation, legal reform, Indian Civil Service entry, a petition to recall Lord Canning post-Mutiny, the resignation of Peregrine Maitland as commander-in-chief, Madras, etc. (full list of contents available on request), front inner hinge gone.

Full collations not established, the lot sold as seen (11)

Note: No other copy of Notes on the Land Revenue Policy of the Government of India traced.

£700-1,000

INDIA

COLLECTION OF RARE INDIAN IMPRINTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, 19TH-20TH CENTURY

1) Suburban Villas, Market Gardens, and Residential Farms in Kathiawar. By Major H. L. Nutt, Bombay Political Department. Bombay: Education Society’s Press, Byculla, 1883. 8vo, recent Indian quarter cloth 27 [18] pp., 4 folding lithographic plans hand-coloured in outline (closed handling tears to inner folds, old attempted repair to first plan), 9 full-page hand-coloured lithographic plans in text, original front wrapper bound in, browning, inkstamps of Bombay People’s Free Reading Room & Library to versos of plates, related pencil markings and possible deaccession ink-stamp with date (1940) to title-page;

2) Infantry Field Exercise, 1874. Translated into Hindustani, by Moonshee Sheikh Mahomed Roshun, 3rd Native Infantry; assisted by the Officers of the Regiment. Meerut: printed at the “Mutbahgyan-Sagur Press,” by Pundit Hurdeo Sahoy, 1876. 8vo, recent cloth, 308 pp., printed in Hindi, lithographed throughout, diagrams in text, title-page heavily marked and repaired;

3) No. 9. The History of India. The Hindu and Mahomedan Periods. By the Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone. Translated and published into Urdu by the Scientific Society. Aligarh: printed at the secretary Syud Ahmud’s Private Press, 1866. 8vo, recent red quarter leather, 472 pp., printed with Urdu types, browning, unclear whether text complete at end, title-page torn and repaired, further repairs to about p. 30, small worm-track through most of text;

4) Directions for Revenue Officers in the Punjab ... by D. G. Barkley. Lahore: Central Jail Press, 1875. 8vo, later cloth, folding table (backed on linen), titleleaf detached and heavily marked from attempted repair, most of index (pp. iii-xiv) detached, browning, a few small worm-tracks;

5) Report on the Working of the Hardwar Improvement Advisory Committee appointed to advise the Municipal Board of Hardwar Union, Hardwar. Lucknow: Newul [Nawal] Kishore Press, 1928. Large 8vo, contemporary red half cloth, 18 pp., original wrappers bound in, 3 large folding lithographic colour plans (variable paper-disruption and tears along folds but all intact);

6) Guide Book for Investors in Government Securities. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1919. 8co, contemporary half cloth, 71 ix pp., colour pencil markings to title-page, letter tipped to front of index;

7) [United Provinces]. The Tenth United Provinces Conference ... 1916. Address of the President, C. Y. Chintamani. Allahabad: Leader Press, 1916. 8vo, contemporary quarter cloth reusing original wrappers, 49 pp., inscribed ‘To the hon. Dr Sundar Lal ... with respectful regards of C. Y. Chintamani’ on front wrapper, 5 similar pamphlets bound in at rear, all Allahabad-related;

8) Annual Account of the Estate of the Late Lala Gaya Pershad of Cawnpore for the year 1913.1914, ending 30th September 1914. Audited by Messrs Lovelock and Lewes, Chartered Accountants of Calcutta: Cawnpore: Christ Church Mission Press, 1915. 8vo, contemporary quarter cloth, 21 pp., wear to spine, faint longitudinal crease to contents, original wrappers bound in;

9) The Historic State Trial of the Ali Brothers and Five Others. Karachi: R. V. Thadani, 1921. Large 8vo, original red cloth decorated in black, photographic frontispiece, inner hinges cracked.

The lot sold as seen owing to the absence of known collations (9)

Note: No other copies traced for items 1 (Suburban Villas ... in Kathiawar), 2 (Infantry Field Exercise), 5 (Report on ... Hardwar), 7 (Tenth United Provinces Conference), or 8 (Annual Account); Harvard may hold a copy of item 3 (History of India); Library Hub traced one copy only for item 4 (Directions for Revenue Officers), at the British Library. The Aligarh Scientific Society (see item 3) was founded by the great Indian reformer Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) in the 1860s with the aim of publishing vernacular translations of English texts.

£500-800

INDIAN LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING

GROUP OF WORKS ON SCIENCE AND MEDICINE all in Urdu, lithographed throughout, comprising: Kuhne, Louis. Sayins af fayshal iksprishin [Title in English, transliterated into Urdu, i.e. The Science of Facial Expression]. Meerut: Swami Press, 1925. 6 177 pp. only (lacking at least one leaf at rear and rear wrapper, the final page cited by index being p. 179), text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, 20 plates (counted in pagination), of which one folding, stitching fragile and contents working loose, front wrapper and text-leaves browned, plate at pp. 145/6 with closed tear, folding plate bound in upside-down;

?Rockwell, G. W. Frinuluji ... musannifuhu Miknesh Sahib ki Urdu tarjuma [Phrenology, translated into Urdu by Miknesh Sahib]. Lahore: Munshi Mahbub ‘Alim, 1895. 8vo, contemporary blue half cloth, marbled sides, 184 pp., lithographic illustrations in the text including a portrait of Franz Josef Gall, putative head shapes, cranial conditions (e.g. hydrocephaly), original wrappers bound in, browning, light worming not affecting legibility, bound with 3 other Urdu texts at rear including a trade catalogue of clocks and watches, in English and Urdu, illustrated, 28 pp.);

Ram, Beli. Diseases of the Heart and Lungs, in Urdu, by Beli Ram, L. M. S., Assistant Surgeon, in Charge of the Kasur Dispensary. Lahore: Empress Press, 1882. First edition (stated on title-page), 8vo, recent boards, 400 [4] pp., title-pages in English and Urdu, text mainly in Urdu, illustrations in text (occasionally hand-coloured), paper browned and friable, title-pages spotted and slightly chipped, pp. 121-4 misprinted (leaves numbered 123/2 121/4, pp. 123/2 chipped with loss of text, pp. 121/4 repaired), minor paper disruption to pp. 213/14, pp. 325-8 crudely repaired, closed tear to head of last few leaves; [Medicine]. Tibb shihabi manzum Hindi [i.e. Shifa’ al-marad by Shihab al-Din al-Nagawri, 14th-century Persian physician, on the treatment of illnesses, translated into Urdu verse]. Daftar Hikmat Hindi. Mumbai: Matba’ Haydari, 1300 AH [1883 CE]. 8vo, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, 64 pp. in 2 parts, text-block detached from binding, browning, light marginal worming, bound with a similar text at rear, Mufid al-ajsam ma’hu fawa’id ‘ajabiya, 1883 CE (4)

Note: Louis Kuhne (1835-1901) was a German naturopath known for his advocacy of vegetarianism and hydropathy; The Science of Facial Expression appears to have been first published in 1917.

£300-500

INDIA

GROUP OF RARE INDIAN IMPRINTS, 19TH-20TH CENTURY

1) Hindu Anatomy, Physiology, Therapeutics, History of Medicine and Practice of Physic. By Kaviraj Russick Lal Gupta. Calcutta: S. C. Addy, 1892. First edition, 8vo, contemporary orange cloth, [4] 209 pp., front inner hinge partly cracked, uniform moderate browning, coloured pencil markings to title-page, closed tear in pp. 87/8, pp. 141/2 transposed;

2) The Betal Punchabinsati, translated into English by Adalut Khan, a College Moonshee. Calcutta: I. C. Bose & Co., 1864. [Bound with:] A Tale from the Sakuntala of Kalidasa by Iswara Chandra Vidyasagara. Calcutta: Sanskrit Press, 1862. 2 works in 1 volume, first and sixth editions, 8vo, modern wrappers, [2] ii 143, 4 102 pp., second work in Sanskrit, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page;

3) Ex-King Edward’s Diary of the Ten Eventful Days by Khwaja Hasan Nizami. English Translation by M. Fazl-i-Hamid. Delhi: Munadi Publishing Co., 1937. First edition, 8vo, original printed wrappers, [6] 116 pp., photographic portrait of Nizami, errata leaf at rear, gift inscription to title-page, wrappers sunned and slightly marked, chipped at spine-ends, section of loss to rear wrapper, contents moderately browned, portrait and following text-leaf spotted;

4) Bhut Nibandh: An Essay, Descriptive of the Demonology and Other Popular Superstitions of Guzerat. Being the Prize Essay of the Guzerat Vernacular Society for the Year 1849. By Dalpatram Daya. Translated by Alexander Kinloch Forbes, Secretary to the Society. Bombay: “Bombay Gazette” Press, c.1849. First edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled wrappers, cloth backstrip (repaired at foot), xv 95 pp., illustrations in text, variable browning and damp-staining, light marginal worming, prelims (including title-page) strengthened in cutter with clear tape, title-page with small circular mark, pp. xi-xiv loose at foot, bookplates (with Zoroastrian maxim ‘Humata Hukhta Hvarshta’ but owner’s name effaced)

5) [Urdu title:] Maqasid-i ‘ulum. A Treatise on the Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science. By Lord Brougham, Translated into Urdu by Syed Mohomed Meer. A Native of Lucknow. Calcutta: printed for the Calcutta School-Book Society, at the Baptist Mission Press, 1841. 8vo, contemporary cloth, paper backstrip, 139 pp., printed with Urdu types, wear to binding, contents browned, pp. 29-32 working loose (5)

Note: No copies of Hindu Anatomy or Ex-King-Edward’s Diary traced in UK libraries; the latter is a satirical work purporting to be the journal of the former Edward VIII, and was written in Urdu by Sufi poet Khwaja Hasan Nizami, who despite knowing no English, claims in the preface to ‘understand the language of Ex-King Edward’s heart and mind’. Library Hub cites one institutional copy only for each of Betal Punchabinsati (University of Manchester) and the Urdu translation of Lord Brougham’s work (British Library).

£400-600

INDIA

GROUP OF RARE PAMPHLETS, INDIAN IMPRINTS, BRITISH AND NATIVE PRESSES, 19TH CENTURY

1) The Rajasthanic Naya Prubundh. A Code of Penalties adopted by Certain Native States in the Province of Kattywar. Rajkot: printed at the Kattywar Agency Gazette Press by D. Sealy, 1864. Folio, 20 pp., stitched, title-pages in English and Gujarati, remainder of text in Gujarati, light damp-staining and soiling to outer leaves, faint transverse central crease where previously folded, slightly nicked along fore-edges, short closed tear to Gujarati title-page;

2) Jeypore Exhibition, 1883 [cover-title]. Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press Company, Limited, 1883. Folio, original wrappers, 64 pp., 2 folding plans, restitched, wrappers and last few textleaves chipped;

3) Philology of Upper Indian Dialects by Pandit Guruprasad, Head Pandit, Oriental College, Lahore, published under the Auspices of the Punjab University. [Lahore:] Anjumani Punjab Press, 1885. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 63 pp., folding tables, apparently in Punjabi (Gurmukhi script), lithographed throughout, wrappers slightly chipped;

4) [?Compendium of legal rulings or specimen legal texts issued by the court of Madho Singh II, Maharajadhiraja of Jaipur], Jaipur: Raj Press, 1893. Folio, 111 pp., lithographed throughout, Urdu and Hindi text in double column, minor loss to lower fore corners of first few leaves, occasional soiling);

and a chromolithographic portrait on card of Henry Hardinge as governor-general of India, [Bombay:] Ravi Varma Press, c.1900, 35 x 25cm, small chip to one corner (5)

Note: No other copy of any of these items traced. The main contributor to the account of the 1893 Jeypore Exhibition is Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard; there are also a few entries by his wife and Rudyard’s mother Alice.

£300-500

99 INDIA GROUP OF RARE INDIAN IMPRINTS

1) Report on the Territories Conquered from the Paishwa. Submitted to the Supreme Government of British India, by the Hon’ble Mountstuart Elphinstone, Commissioner. Bombay: Bombay Government Press, 1838. Second edition, 8vo, later red cloth, [2] 82 li pp., colour pencil marks to title-page, ink-stamp of the government library, Agra, to p. 1, moderate browning, scattered dark spots;

2) England and India: being Impressions of Persons and Things, English and Indian and Brief Notes of Visits to France, Switzerland, Italy, and Ceylon. By Lala Baijnath of the N.-W. P. Judicial Service. Bombay: Jehangir B. Karani & Co., Ltd., 1893. First edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, contemporary yellow cloth, [2] 4 234 pp., errata leaf and advertisement leaf at rear, worming, stitching split between pp. 152 and 153, closed marginal tears in pp. 69/70 and 163/4;

3) A Memoir of the Late Raja Partab Singh of Tajpur, in the District of Bijnor, North-West Provinces. Calcutta: Erasmus Jones, “Cambrian” Press, 1879. First edition, 12mo, original clothcovered card wrappers with skiver label to front cover, [4] 20 pp., mounted albumen portrait photograph as frontispiece;

4) A Revised and Enlarged Account of the Bobbili Zemindari, compiled by ... Sir Venkata Swetachalapati Ranga Row Bahadur ... Maha-Rajah of Bobbili. Madras: Addison & Co., 1900. 8vo, original cloth, [4] 185 pp., folding table, inscribed to ‘Sir Henry Bliss K.C.I.E. with the compliments of the Maharajah of Bobbili 18/6/1902 London’ on the initial blank, spine and edges of covers sunned, loss to spine-ends; Together with 2 others (The Jeypore Guide by Thomas Holbein Hendley, Surgeon, Bengal Medical Service, Jeypore [Jaipur]: “Raj” Press, 1876, first edition 12mo, lacking frontispiece and map, with 17 other lithographic plates, 3 copies on Library Hub, worming; and The Panjab as a Sovereign State (1799-1839), Thesis approved for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London, by Gulshan Lall Chopra. Lahore: Uttar Chand Kapur & Sons, 1928, lacking maps) (5)

Note: Two copies of the Report on Territories Conquered from the Paishwa traced in UK libraries (BL and Oxford); the work was first published at Calcutta in 1821. A Memoir of the Late Raja Partab Singh of Tajpur is otherwise untraced. Library Hub cites three copies of the Bobbili Zemindari (BL, Oxford, SOAS).

£400-600

INDIAN LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING

VOLUME OF TREATISES ON ARABIC GRAMMAR

Lucknow or Kanpur: Nawal Kishore, 1870s. 4 works in one volume, tall 8vo (27 x 17cm), contemporary red sheep with marbled paper onlays to sides, each work with decorative floral title-page, edges dyed yellow, ownership inscription dated 1294 AH to front free endpaper, worming to spine, loss to marbled paper on rear board. Titles comprise:

1) Risalat-i Lamiyah wa-Fusul-i Akbari wa-Guhar-i Manzum [‘The Epistle on the letter “L”, The Chapters of Akbar, and the Versified Jewel’], [no date, c.1875]. In 3 parts, [1] 8, 94, 14 pp., in Persian, very light worming to upper fore corners, very small worm-hole in text never affecting legibility;

2) Shafiyah [by Ibn al-Hajib, active c.1200-1250 CE], 1291 AH [1874/5 CE]. 184 pp., main text in Arabic;

3) Kafiyah [by Ibn al-Hajib], 1875 CE [dated in colophon]. 110 pp., main text in Arabic;

4) Sharh Kafiyah Manzum [‘Explanation of the Kafiyah, in verse’], 1872 CE. 50 pp., in Persian, decorative floral title-page, browning to title-page, variable worming to margins, small repair to foot of last 3 leaves, final leaf tipped to endpaper with consequent paper disruption to gutter, and with additional repair to top edge (1)

Note: The Nawal Kishore Press, founded at Lucknow in 1858 by Hindu entrepreneur Nawal Kishore (1836-1895), ‘grew into the largest Indianowned printing and publishing firm in South Asia. Supported by colonial patronage, the firm published an estimated 5,000 titles in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sanskrit and Hindi during Nawal Kishore’s lifetime, while it also served as an intellectual hub for scholars, poets and literati. As one observer noted: “No other press in India was fortunate to have such a large number of huffaz, scholars, historians, writers and poets as were gathered simultaneously at this press”’ (Ulrike Stark, ‘Calligraphic Masterpiece, Mass-Produced Scripture: Early Qur’an Printing in Colonial India’, in Reese, ed., Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition, 2002, p. 158).

£300-400

101

INDIAN LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING

URDU POETRY

all 8vo and in contemporary half leather bindings unless otherwise stated, all with marbled paper sides, title-pages with decorative floral borders, variable browning, works comprising:

1) Ilahi Baksh Sha’iq. Gulzar-i manzum [‘A Rose Garden of Poetry’]. Kanpur: Matba’ Nizami, 1294 AH [1877 CE]. 146 pp., floral borders throughout, original card wrappers printed in orange bound in, wear to foot of spine, marginal worming, text-block remaining attached to binding by one cord only;

2) Nazir Akbarabadi (1735-1800). Muntakhab [‘Selected Poems’]. [?Hyderabad:] Matba’ Haydari, c.1900. Contemporary half cloth, 220 pp., worming, textblock near-detached from binding;

3) Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273). Bagh-i Iram [‘Garden of Iram’, an Urdu translation from the Persian of selected works]. Mumbai: Matba’ Fath AlKarim, c.1880. 130 pp., worming, stitching split, held by one cord;

4) Mirza Muhammad Rafi’ Sauda (1713-1781). Kulliyat [‘Collected Poems’]. Lucknow: Matba’ Munshi Nawal Kishore, c.1880. 4to, 488 pp., title-page and final leaf repaired, lacking pp. 41-4;

5) Samelband of three works]. i) Sadiq ‘Ali Shah. Diwan. Mumbai: Matba’ Fath al-Karim Biradiran [brothers], Qadi Ibrahim Sahib, 1297 AH [1879/80 CE]. 68 pp; ii) Ghalib (1797-1868). Diwan. Lucknow: Matba’ Munshi Nawal Kishore, 1879. 1-2 103 3-4 pp.; iii) Abad Lakhnavi (1813-1845). Baharistan-i Sukhan [‘The Spring Garden of Language’], Lucknow: Matba’ Munshi Nawal Kishore, 1881. 1-2 230 3-4 pp., worm track in text towards rear;

and one other similar (Shaykh Isma’il, Jami’ al-Karamat Hasanayn[?], Mumbai: Muhammadi Press, 1886, religious poetry, 83 pp., text-block loose in binding, original wrappers bound in, marginal loss to rear wrapper) (6)

Note: Sadiq ‘Ali Shah is described in the colophon as a Sufi master, and another lithographic edition of his Diwan was published at Kanpur by the Matba’ Majidi, but little else about him is discoverable.

£300-500

INDIAN LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING COLLECTION OF WORKS IN PERSIAN

8vo or large 8vo, lithographed throughout and with decorative title-pages, titles comprising:

1) Nur al-Din Muhammad Zuhuri (d.1615/16). Mina Bazar. [Lucknow]: Nawal Kishore, 1274 AH [1867/8 CE]. [Bound with:] Aurangzeb (1618-1707), Mughal Emperor. Ruqa’at-i Alamgiri [‘Letters of Alamgir’]. [Lucknow]: Nawal Kishore, 1281 AH [1864/5 AH]. [And:] Mian Jan. Dustur al-Arqam. [Calcutta?]: Government Press, 1859. In Urdu, containing specimens of petitions and official documents, one of 2,000 copies. 3 works in 1 volume, contemporary red sheep with marbled paper sides, 44, 46 and 47 pp., a few small worm-tracks;

2) Ni’mat Khan ‘Ali (d.1709-10). Waqa’i’ [‘Events’]. [Lucknow]: Nawal Kishore, 1884, contemporary half cloth, 1-2 154 3-4 pp., light largely marginal worming to outer leaves, repair to lower fore corners of last two leaves;

3) Sa’di Shirazi (1210-1291/2). Bustan. Delhi: Matba’ Mujtaba, 1329 AH [i.e. 1911]. Large 8vo, contemporary half sheep, 288 pp., separately published fragment (‘Farhang-i Bustan’) bound in at rear, ink-stamp (Haji Sayed Abdur Rahim Khanga) and Urdu ownership inscription to initial blank, light marginal worming;

4) Idem. Tayyibat. Lucknow: Nawal Kishore, 1902. Large 8vo, contemporary red leather, rebacked and relined, 258 [2] pp., covers flecked with white marks, stain to last few leaves;

5) Idem. Gulistan. Mumbai: Matba’ Safadri, 1888. Contemporary half calf, 252 pp., text-block detached from binding (5)

Note: Nur al-Din Muhammad Zuhuri, of Persian origin, was a poet at the court of the Ibrahim ‘Adil Shah II, ruler of Bijapur in modern-day Karnataka; Mina Bazar is a description of the bazaar which his patron built there. Ni’mat Khan ‘Ali’s work (Waqa’i’) is a satirical account of Aurangzeb’s siege of Hyderabad in 1687.

£400-600

103

INDIAN LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING SHRIMAD BHAGWAT GITA BI’L-TASAWIR [BHAGAVAD GITA, IN URDU, ILLUSTRATED]

... mu’allifuhu [edited by] Rai Bahadur Pandit Janki Nath Sahib.

Mathura: Ram Narayan Press, 1930. 8vo, original pink paper wrappers bound in, text in Urdu and Sanskrit, lithographed throughout, 4, 1-178 195-344 pp. (not established if text continuous despite gap in pagination), 16 folding hand-coloured lithographic plates tipped to margins, folding table tipped to endpaper, pp. 211/12 with closed tear, damp-staining from p. 337 to end. Together with 4 others (not collated), illustrated lithographic editions in Urdu, printed by Nawal Kishore (Lucknow), comprising: Shrimad Bhagwat Tarjumah [i.e. ‘Bhagavad, translated’], c.1900, 2 editions, both folio, 690 and 688 pp., bindings defective, second copy with crude taperepairs to title-page and final leaf; Mahabharata Manzum [‘The Mahabharata, in verse’], 4to, recent leatherette, 296 pp., loss to outer leaves; Sayyid Fakhr al-Din Husayn Sukhan Dehlavi (Indian Urdu-language poet and writer, ?1839-1900), Sarush-i Sukhan [‘The Voice from Heaven’], 1296 AH [1879 CE], 4to, 124 pp., spine incorrectly lettered (5)

Note: Mathura, where the lead item in this lot was printed, is believed to be the birthplace of Lord Krishna.

£300-500

104

PRATAP NARAYAN SINGH, MAHARAJA OF AYODHYA (1855-1906)

RASKUSUMAKAR, OR A BOOK ON RHETORIC

Allahabad: printed at the “Indian Press”, 1894. First edition, 4to, original red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, [2] 10 6 23 [1] 191 [1] 40 6 2 5 9 pp., text in Hindi within decorative pictorial border, title-page in Hindi and English with decorative floral border, 41 halftone plates from photographic portraits or Indian miniature paintings including portrait frontispiece, presentation plate from the author to Norwich Public Library to front pastedown, shelfmark in white ink to spine, spine faded, corners of boards bumped, withdrawal stamp to front free endpaper, titlepage wit closed tear to head extending into border, and small section at lower inner corner detached but present (1)

Note: Rare in commerce. Library records call for 38 or 40 plates; the latter count may exclude the frontispiece.

£300-500

105

SHAH JAHAN BEGUM, NAWAB BEGUM OF BHOPAL (1838-1901)

TAHDHIB AL-NISWAN WA-TARBIYAH ALINSAN

[Arabic title, i.e. ‘The refinement of women and the education of mankind’]. Bhopal: Matba’ al-Sadiqi al-Ka’in, 1302 AH [1884/5 CE]. 8vo (24.8 x 16.5cm), contemporary half cloth, marbled sides, 7 491 pp., text in Urdu with occasional Qur’anic quotations in Arabic, lithographed throughout, browning, variable marginal worming, pp. 47/48 and 49/50 torn, pp. 381/2 dog-eared with paper consequently thinning along crease (1)

Note: First or early edition of the third Nawab Begum of Bhopal’s advice manual for women, a work ‘wholly unprecedented in Urdu publishing’ (Metcalf, 2011); secondary literature variously cites original publication dates of 1883/4, possibly a miscalculation of the range covered in the Gregorian calendar by the Islamic year 1302, and the evidently incorrect 1889; no other copy traced in commerce or in readily visible library catalogues.

Bhopal was unique among the princely states of British India for being ruled by a dynasty of four successive women. Shah Jahan Begum’s work covers all aspects of a woman’s life, including medical advice, correct ritual practice, fitness

and exercise (notably horsemanship), and even sexual activity. Remarkably, she ‘asserted a woman’s right to carnal pleasure using her own experiences as illustration. Specifically, she explained how she had not felt sexually fulfilled by her first husband, the much older and already married Baqi Muhammad Khan, with a consequence that her whole youth had been lost in “suffering and sadness” ... After his death, however, things improved dramatically thanks to her controversial remarriage in 1871 to her personal secretary, Siddiq Hasan Khan. The pleasure resulting from this sexual coupling led her to assert that she had never been so happy’ (Lambert Hurley, 2014).

Literature: Barbara Metcalf, ‘Islam and Power in Colonial India: The Making and Unmaking of a Muslim Princess’, The American Historical Review, vol. 116, no. 1, 2011, pp. 1-30.

Lambert-Hurley, ‘To Write of the Conjugal Act: Intimacy and Sexuality in Muslim Women’s Autobiographical Writing in South Asia’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 23, no. 2, 2014, pp. 155–81.

£400-600

106 [INDIAN CONVICT AUTOBIOGRAPHY] MUHAMMAD JAFFER THANESARI (1838-1905)

TAWARIKH-I ‘AJIB [‘WONDERFUL STORIES’]

[Place illegible:] Temple Press, 1307 AH [1889/90 CE]. 8vo (24.5 x 15cm), recent half leather, in Urdu (except testimonials in English to verso of title-page), lithographed throughout, [2] 100 pp., map of Port Blair in text (p. 66), browning, tissue-repairs to title-page, worming to head and foot of last few leaves similarly repaired, light marginal worming;

Mawlawi Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Aghlab Muhani. Nayrang-i Afghan [‘The Charm of the Afghans’]. Lucknow: Matba’ Sham Oudh, 1904. First edition, 8vo (24 x 14cm), recent half leather, in Urdu, lithographed throughout, [2] 4 8 64 344 5 pp., 2 albumenprint photographic portraits of Abd al-Rahman Khan and Habibullah Khan mounted to leaf after title-page, variable browning, corner of pp. 23/4 detached, closed tear in pp. 225/6; Mawlawi Abu Muhammad ‘Abd al-Haqq. History of Palestine. [Urdu title:] Tarikh Bayt al-Muqaddas. Delhi: Mujtabai Press, 1891. 8vo (23.2 x 14cm), recent half leather, in Urdu, lithographed throughout, [2] 40 pp., 3 plates, marginal repair to title-page, small closed tear in final plate (3)

Note: Muhammad Jaffer Thanesari was a Wahhabi Muslim activist arrested in 1863 for conspiring to smuggle funds to anti-British mujahideen in Afghanistan. From 1866 to 1883 he was a prisoner at the Port Blair penal colony in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Tawarikh-i ‘Ajib, an account of his time in prison, is also known under the title Kala Pani. Printed on the verso of the title-page is a testimonial in English from Richard Carnac Temple as cantonment magistrate, Ambala: ‘I have known Muhammad Jafir to 10 years, first as a munshi at Port Blair and then as an employe [sic] here under me, whatever may have been his shortcoming in days gone by he seems to have profited by this severe punishment that overtook him and has been as long as I have known him a quiet, inoffensive man [...]’. A date in the colophon suggests that the work may have first been printed in 1887. The second work, Nayrang-i Afghan, appears to be a history of Afghanistan; the author’s other works according to a note on the title-page include works on Russia (Kitab-i Rus) and the Islamic schools of law (Haqa’iq-i Madhahib).

£400-600

107 MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER HISTORY OF THE RELATIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT WITH THE HILL TRIBES OF THE NORTH-EAST FRONTIER OF BENGAL Calcutta: Home Department Press, 1884. First edition, 8vo, folding map, original cloth, hinges broken, spine torn/rubbed, upper board soiled (1)

Note: ’From 1866 to 1873 I had immediate charge of the Political correspondence of the Bengal Government. In 1869... I wrote... a “Memorandum on the North-East Frontier of Bengal”. Since Pemberton’s Report in 1835, no general survey had been taken of the political relations of the Government with the hill tribes of Assam, Cachar and Chittagong, and my ‘Memorandum’ proved to be extremely useful. I [planned] a work which while treating exhaustively of all the frontier tribes in that quarter, in respect of their relations to the Government, their manners, customs and ethnological affinities, would at the same time serve as a permanent hand-book for the Government and its local officers...” (Preface) Chapters are devoted to Bhutan, the extraBhutan Bhutias, The Akas-Hazari-Khawas and Kapachors; The Duplha Tribes, The Abors and Miris, The Mishmis, The Khampti Clans of Sadiya, The Singphos of Sadiya, The Moamariahs of Muttuck, The Naga Tribes- The Patkoi Nagas, The Seebsaugor Nagas, The Angami Nagas, North Cachar, Manipur, The Mikirs and Rengma Nagas, The Khasi and Jaintia Hills, The Garos, Hill Tipperah, The Lushai or Kookie Tribes, and Chittagong Frontier Tribes.

£200-300

108

STEIN, SIR AUREL TWO WORKS

On Alexander’s Track to the Indus. Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India. London: Macmillan & Co., 1929. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, plates, 2 coloured folding maps at end, original red-brown cloth, with embossed gilt medallion on front cover, t.e.g.; On Central-Asian Tracks. London: Macmillan & Co., 1935. First edition, 8vo, plates, some coloured, folding map, original red-brown cloth with embossed gilt medallion on front cover, dustwrapper strengthened on verso, price-clipped and with a couple of tears repaired (2)

Note: Very good copies. Inspired by Sven Hedin, Stein took part in several expeditions in Central Asia, gathering numerous artifacts and antiquities. The British Library’s Stein collection of Chinese, Tibetan and Tangut manuscripts, Prakrit wooden tablets, and documents in Khotanese, Uighur, Sogdian and Eastern Turkic is the result of his travels. Loosely inserted is a New Year card from Rt. Hon. Leo Amery, Secretary of State for India and Burma 1940-45.

£400-600

109

INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS VOLUME OF PAMPHLETS

8vo, later cloth, variable browning, contents comprise:

1) Audi Alteram Partem, being Two Letters on Certain Aspects of the Indian National Congress Movement [by Sir Auckland Colvin and Allan Octavian Hume]. [Calcutta]: Calcutta Central Press Co., Ld., 1888. [2] 66 pp., decorative title-page, closely trimmed in fore margins, text occasionally just shaved, title-page with ink-stamp of Baldev Ram Dave, pleader, Allahahad, and coloured pencil markings;

2) The Indian National Congress. An Open Letter to the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava and Earl of Ava, by Eardley Norton, Madras. [No place], 1888. 24 pp., a few small worm-holes;

3) Indian National Congress: Ninth Annual Session. Presidential Address by Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji, M. P. Delivered at Lahore on the 27th December, 1893. London: British Committee of the Indian National Congress, [1894]. 43 pp.;

4) The People’s Cause: A Speech. By Allan Hume. Ayr: [no printer], September 11th, 1890. 16 pp.,

5) The Mutiny and the Congress. By an Old Bengalee. A Friend to the Great National Cause. Serampore: Serampore Printing House, 1891. 10 pp., original red paper wrappers bound in (title on front wrapper), front wrapper with loss to upper fore corner;

6) Home Rule Series No. 1. Congress Speeches on Self-Government. Madras: for the Editorial Board of the All-India Self-Government Propaganda Fund by Annie Besant at the Vasanta Press, 1916. [2] 22 pp.;

7) Indian National Congress. Speeches delivered at a Luncheon given in honour of Sir W. Wedderburn, Bart. ... at the National Liberal Club, London. London: Indian Political Agency, 1889. 45 pp., worming, closely trimmed in fore margins;

8) An Open Letter to the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava and Earl of Ava on the Indian National Congress. By Eardley Norton, Madras. London: Indian Political Agency, 1889. [2] iv 37 pp.;

9) The Indian National Congress: Session at Allahabad, December, 1888. Impressions of Two English Visitors. London: Indian Political Agency, 1889. 34 pp., tear in pp. 3/4, final leaf closely trimmed with text shaved;

10) Open Letters to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, K.C.S.I., by the Son of an Old Follower of His [Lala Lajpat Rai]. Reprinted from the Tribu[n]e. Lahore: Tribune Press, Anarkali, 1888. 23 pp., retaining original front wrapper containing title (1)

Note: Hume’s speech, The People’s Cause, is referenced in secondary literature but no copy located in library catalogues; we find no record of The Mutiny and the Congress (item 5); Lala Lajpat Rai’s Open Letters to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan appears to be represented in one copy in UK libraries, at the British Library. £300-400

WREDE, KONRAD (1865-1947) STREIFZÜGE DURCH CEYLONS WUNDERWELT

Jahreswende 1893-1894. Hanover: [privately printed], 1939. First edition, number 18 of an unspecified limitation, inscribed by the author to Frau Martha Loewe on the limitation page, 4to, original quarter cloth, mimeographed typescript, [1] 43 [3] leaves, 11 gelatin silver print photographs on 8 stiff card mounts with typescript captions (6 of them 20 x 15.5cm, the others smaller), plain paper dust jacket; Colebrooke, H. T. Miscellaneous Essays. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1837. 2 volumes, 8vo, later quarter cloth, 7 folding lithographic plates (facsimiles of ancient Indian documents and inscriptions), folding letterpress table, bookplate of Pandit Sundar Lal, advocate, high court, Allahabad, worming, plates browned, plate 1 torn along stub; Hasegawa, Denziro. Travel to India with Leica, Tokyo: Meguro Shoten, 1939 (first edition, 4to, original yellow hessian lettered in brown, 213 pp., text in Japanese and English, 192 halftone photographs (on pp. 1-124), folding map, spine rubbed); and 4 others: E. F. Burton, Reminiscences of Sport in India, London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1885 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary quarter cloth, spine rolled, lending library label to front board, 8 lithographic plates, pp. 207/8 and 289/90 loose, a few blemishes and marks); J. D. Rees, H.R.H. The Duke of Clarence and Avondale in Southern India, with a Narrative of Elephant-Catching in Mysore by G. P. Sanderson, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1891 (4to, recent red cloth, top edge gilt, xvi 213 pp., 5 autotype photographic portrait plates including frontispiece, 24 photogravure plates, folding map, text-leaves partly unopened, browning, worming (stronger towards front of volume, reducing towards middle), plate facing p. 74 chipped along fore edge, text-leaf I1 with closed marginal tears); Wibraham Egerton, An Illustrated Handbook of Indian Arms ... exhibited at the India Museum, London: William H. Allen & Co., 1880 (first edition, 4to, later cloth, folding map, 15 lithographic plates of which 2 in colours and several folding, original front wrapper bound in, lacking final leaf of index, spotting, tape repairs to half-title and index); and Sir John Malcolm, The Life of Robert, Lord Clive, London: John Murray, 1836 (first edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, modern cloth, engraved portrait frontispiece and folding map, ex-library, not collated) (10)

Note: Konrad Wrede was a German army officer, collector and arts patron. No copies of Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt traced in libraries. WorldCat cites three copies only of Hasegawa’s work in libraries world-wide, with none in the United Kingdom.

£300-500

QUANTITY OF WORKS, INCLUDING INDIAN IMPRINTS

Firminger, Rev. W.K., editor. Bengal Past and Present. Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society;

Volumes:

I. No. 1, July-December 1907, 4to, blue half morocco; II. No. 1 and 2, January-December 1908, 2 volumes, blue half morocco; III. No. 1 and 2 (Serial No. 7-8), January-June 1909, 2 copies; IV. (Serial No. 9), July-December 1909, 2 copies; VIII. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 15-16), January-June 1914; IX. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No 17-18), July-December 1914; X. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 19-20), JanuaryJune 1915; XI. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 21-22), July-December 1915; XII. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 23-24), April-June 1916; XIII. Part 2 (Serial No. 26), October-December 1916; XIV. Part 2 (Serial No. 28), April-June 1917; Grierson, George A. Bihar Peasant Life, being a Discursive Catalogue of the Surroundings of the People of that Province. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1885. 8vo, map, lithographed plates, contemporary half calf, binding (only) lightly wormed; Mukerji, Nitya Gopal. Hand-book of Indian Agriculture. Calcutta, 1901. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy inscribed by the author, illustrations, contemporary half calf; M’Cann, Hugh W. Report on the Dyes and Tans of Bengal. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1883. 8vo, original brown cloth; Anderson, J.D. A Collection of Kachari Folk-Tales and Ryhmes. Shillong: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1895. 8vo, original cloth-backed blue boards, slightly rubbed; Hume, Allan. List of the Birds of India, Reference Edition, corrected to 1st March 1879. Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press Co., 1879. 8vo, title from upper board, original cloth-backed boards; Bengal Camp Guide. Coronation Durbar at Delhi. Notes and Information for the use of the Guests of his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. Small 4to, photographic plates, 7 folding plans in pocket at end, original blue cloth gilt; Hunter, William Wilson. North-Eastern Frontier. Political Dissertation prefixed to a Comparative Dictionary of the Languages of India and High Asia. Calcutta: Bengal Printing Company Limited, 1869, 8vo, original wrappers slightly stained and small hole without loss, spine worn; RARE; Sastri, Pandit Sivanath. Remtanu Lahiri, Brahman and Reformer, a History of the Renaissance in Bengal. London: Sonnenschein; Calcutta: S.K. Lahiri, 1907, presentation copy to the Honble. W.C. Macpherson Esq. from S.K. Lahiri, plates, original cloth; Bradley-Birt, F.B. Chota Nagpore, a little known province of the Empire. 1903. 8vo, presentation copy from the author, plates, folding map, original red cloth gilt, slightly marked; Pennell, T.L. Amongst the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier. 1909. 8vo, plates, spine faded; Russell, William Howard. My Diary in India, in the year 1858-9. 1860. 2 volumes, 8vo, plates, original cloth, a little dampstaining or spotting, rubbed, hinges weak; Crawford, Arthur. Our Troubles in Poona and the Deccan. 1897, 8vo, original cloth; Foster, William. The English Factories in India 1618-1621 [1622-23], Oxford, 1906-08, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece, original blue cloth gilt, t.e.g.; Neve, Major Arthur. The Tourist’s Guide to Kashmir, Ladakh, Khardo, &c, Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette, 1918. 8vo, 11th edition, folding maps, original cloth-backed boards; Ronaldshay, Earl of. Lands of the Thunderbolt. Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan. 1923. 8vo, plates, original cloth; Beveridge, Henry. A Comprehensive History of India. 1842, 3 volumes, large 8vo, plates, illustrations, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed; Fraser, Sir Andrew H.L. Among Indian Rajahs and Ryots. London, 1911, 8vo, plates, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly faded; Carstairs, R. The Little World of an Indian District Officer. 1912, 8vo, original cloth; Hoernle, A.F.R. A History of India. Cuttack: Orissa Mission Press, 1909. 8vo, original cloth; O’Malley, L.S.S. Bengal District Gazetteers. Saran. Calcutta: The Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1908. 8vo, original blue cloth; Thornton, Thomas Henry. General Sir Richard Meade and the Feudatory States of Central and Southern India. London, 1898, original cloth; Case, Mrs. Day by Day at Lucknow. A Journal of the Siege. London, 1858. 8vo, original cloth; Fay, Mrs Eliza. The Original Letters from India. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co, 1908. 8vo, original cloth; Younghusband, Sir Francis. Kashmir. A. & C. Black, 1917, original pictorial cloth; Penny, F.E. Southern India, painted by Lady Lawley. A & C. Black, 1914, original pictorial cloth; Shakespear, John. Dictionary of Hindustani & English. London, 1849, 4to, contemporary half calf, lacks title page, margins of dedication leaf repaired; Roberts of Kandahar, Lord. Forty-one Years in India. 1902, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; [Rousseau, Samuel]. A Dictionary of Words used in the East Indies... the leading word of each article being printed in a New Nustaleek type, to which is added, Mohammedan Law & Bengal Revenue Terms. London: for James Asperne, 1805. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, corners neatly repaired, extensively annotated; Smith, R. Bosworth. Life of Lord Lawrence. 1883, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, worn; Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: J. Murray, 1857. First edition, 2 folding maps (1 in pocket at end, on linen), folding tinted lithograph frontispiece, engraved portrait plate, 2 tinted lithographs, 20 wood-engraved plates, 1 folding plan, original brown cloth, neatly recased, hinges strengthened, bookplate of George Armistead; and a quantity of later, India-related volumes; sold as a collection not subject to return (c.40)

£300-500

ATLASES & MAPS

112

BLAEU, JOANNES

[THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM: VOLUME V] - SCOTIA, QUAE EST EUROPAE LIBER XII [SCOTLAND & IRELAND]

Amsterdam: Joannes Blaeu, 1662. Folio, title-page hand-coloured and heightened in gilt, hand-coloured vignette to volume title-page, 49 handcoloured Scottish maps and 6 hand-coloured maps of Ireland, original vellum gilt neatly repaired along lower edges, some light marginal dampstaining, predominantly to lower margins, some minor worming to lower margins and a few neat repairs, again to lower margins, some browning to endpapers, presented in custom archival box (1)

Note: This atlas comprises volume five of the six-volume Dutch text edition of Blaeu’s Theatrum. Each volume of the work was published separately between 1635 and 1655, in several languages. In its era, the Theatrum was considered to be the most comprehensive and accurate atlas produced, with volume 5 being regarded to this day first atlas of Scotland, using many maps developed by the cartographer, Pont. 49 of the maps are of Scotland and 6 depict Ireland.

”The publication in 1654 of Volume V of Blaeu’s Atlas novus was the result of over 70 years of cartographic, chorographic, and editorial activity, by a dispersed network of people in Scotland and the Low Countries. Through their combined efforts, dogged by war, poverty, copyright restrictions, and only intermittent official support, ‘Scotland became one of the best mapped countries in the world’ (Stone, 1989)” (C. Fleet: Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654, NLS).

£5,000-7,000

JAMIESON, ALEXANDER A CELESTIAL ATLAS

comprising a Systematic Display of the Heavens in a Series of Thirty Maps. Illustrated by Scientific Descriptions of their Contents, and accompanied by Catalogues of the Stars and Astronomical Exercises. London: G. & W. B. Whittaker, 1822. Oblong 4to (28.6 x 23.4cm), original black half morocco gilt, marbled sides, engraved label to front board, 64 pp., engraved title-page and dedication leaf, 30 engraved maps (all but one with original hand-colour), errata slip to rear, contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown, paper lifting along fore edge of front board, light offsetting (1)

Note: Alexander Jamieson was a Scottish-born schoolmaster, writer of educational books and sometime actuary. In the preface he explains that his Celestial Atlas is an attempt to revive the work of Flamsteed and acknowledges a debt to Johann Bode’s Vorstellung der Gestirne (1782), itself an edition of Flamsteed’s Atlas Coelestis. The work proved highly popular, going to a second edition later the same year and inspiring the set of astronomical playing cards Urania’s Mirror, which appeared in 1825.

£700-1,000

114

HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTISTE - OTTOMAN EMPIRE TURKEY AND ARABIA

Imperium Turcicum in Europa, Asia, et Africa Regiones. Nuremburg, c. 1720, 48.5 x 56cm, hand-coloured engraved map, framed and glazed (1)

Note: Fine map of the Ottoman empire with good contemporary handcolouring.

£300-400

115

WIT, FREDERICK DE AFRICA

Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula denuvo correcté revisa, double page engraved map, 487 x 573mm, Amsterdam [after 1685], slightly browned (1)

Note: First published in Amsterdam in 1670. There were at least 6 states, the 4th state printed in 1685 did not have the privilege, present under the caption in this copy, so this would be the 5th or 6th state published after 1685.

£300-400

116

FIFE AND ST ANDREWS

TWO MAPS

Duncan, J. [surveyor] Skeleton Plan of the St. Andrews District of Fife-Shire, with delineation of the turnpike and statute labour roads. Edinburgh: Forrester & Nichol, 1833, 53.5 x 64cm, rare: no copies traced, the University of Dundee archives list a photograph of a copy belonging to Dr John Berry of Tayport, mounted on linen, varnished, a few cracks and small sections missing; Fraser, James, after Greenwood & Fowler. Map of the Counties of Fife and Kinross. Edinburgh: W. and A.K. Johnston, after 1841, 124.5 x 94cm, mounted on linen, varnished, a few cracks and small sections missing (2)

£300-500

117

SPEED, JOHN

BRITAIN, AS IT WAS DIVIDED IN THE TYME OF THE ENGLISHE SAXONS...

London: John Sudbury & George Humble, 1616, with Latin text to reverse, 38.5 x 50.5cm, later hand-colouring (1)

£1,200-1,800

118

SPEED, JOHN CAMBRIDGSHIRE

described with the devision of the hundreds, the Townes situation, with the Armes of the Colleges of that famous Universiti[e]. And also the Armes of all such Princes and noble men as have heertofore borne the honorable tytles and dignities of the Earldome of Cambridg[e]. London: Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, 1610 [i.e 1676]. Hand-coloured engraved map (40.5 x 53.5cm), English text verso, inset town plan, vignettes of scholars, royal arms upper right, frieze of coats of arms along three sides enclosed within scrolling guilloche border, somewhat browned and spotted, old repair to lower margin and to foot of central fold verso, glazed both sides and framed [Chubb 27] (1)

£400-600

119

POST OFFICE

LONDON. 1853. DRAWN AND ENGRAVED EXPRESSLY FOR THE POST OFFICE DIRECTORY

engraved folding map, 41.5 x 69.5cm. [Bound in as issued:] Post Office London Directory, 1853. Comprising, amongst Other Information, Official Directory; Street Directory; Commercial Directory; Trades’ Directory; Law Directory; Court Directory; Parliamentary Directory; Postal Directory; City Directory; Conveyance Directory; Banking Directory ... The Fifty-Fourth Annual Publication. London: Frederic Kelly, 1853. 4to, original red cloth gilt, 2106 [2] pp., some wear to extremities of binding (1)

£200-300

120

FLORIDA

PLAN DE L’ÎLE D’AMELIA À LA CÔTE DE LA FLORIDE ORIENTALE

Tiré de la carte de la Georgie et de la Caroline Méeridionale de De Brahm et assujeti pour le Port d’Amelia au plan de Jacob Blamey.

[Paris:] Dépôt Général des Cartes, Plans et Journaux de la Marine 1779.

[On sheet with:] Plan de la barre et de l’entrée de la Riviere de Nassau rédigé d’après la carte du Cap. W. Fuller.

[And:] Plan de la barre et du port d’Amelia à la côte de la Floride orientale, levé, en Janvier 1775, par Jacob Blamey.

[And:] Vue de l’entrée de la Riviere de St. Mary. Tiréee de la carte de W. Fuller.

Engraved map on laid paper, platemark 61 x 47cm, sheet size 68 x 51cm, a few closed marginal tears tape-repaired verso (1)

Note: Published as part of Neptune Americo-Septentrionale (177880), a maritime atlas produced for the use of the French navy in the American War of Independence.

£300-500

121

KINNEIR, JOHN MACDONALD

MAP OF THE COUNTRIES LYING BETWEEN THE EUPHRATES AND INDUS

on the East and West, and the Oxus and Terek and Indian Ocean on the North and South. Inscribed to Brigadier General Sir John Malcolm, Knight. London: A. Arrowsmith, 1813. Engraved folding map on 16 sheets, sectionalised and laid on linen, opening to 96 x 128cm, a few very small nicks and losses along edges, dust-soiling and pencil markings to left-hand side, right-hand side with two closed transverse tears (with attempted repair verso) and a few old stains to two sections, small surface-abrasion near foot touching text ‘Rasool Khyma’, another similar blemish below (1)

Note: Published to accompany Kinneir’s Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire, the map is focused on modern-day Iran, and also covers parts of the Caucasus, Central Asia, modern Pakistan and the Arabian side of the Persian Gulf, where named locations include Sharjah (‘Shurga’), Umm al-Quwain (‘Murgaveen’) and Ra’s al-Khaymah (‘Rasool Khyma’), all in the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. A lithographic version was printed later, in 1856.

£1,000-1,500

122

PORTOLAN CHART

CARTE PARTICULIERES DE LA MER MEDITERANNÉE

[sic]. Faict A Marseille par Bremond, 1663. Manuscript portolan chart in pen and ink and watercolour heightened in gold, on single sheet of vellum (54 x 78.5cm), showing the Mediterranean from Portugal in the west to the Levantine seaboard in the east, names of coastal settlements written perpendicular to coastline, rivers and deltas also included, 13 compass roses each with projecting rhumb lines, several with flourishes incorporating mascarons and foliate decoration, decorative title cartouche lower left with allegorical figures either side, decorative unnumbered scale bar lower right, captions ‘Europa’ and ‘Grecia’ within strapwork cartouches (the latter incorporating mascaron), inset view of Marseilles upper left, Habsburg coat of arms within Spanish landmass, vignette of a man-of-war in the Atlantic (adjacent to the straits of Gibraltar), vignettes of Islamic rulers in turbans and robes within the landmasses of Africa, Turkey and Egypt, those for Turkey and Egypt each with adjacent vignette of fanciful coat of arms incorporating crescent surmounted by a crown, vignette of Jerusalem cityscape and the three crosses of Calvary at a right angle to right-hand border, Red Sea picked out in red, broad red and green border around all sides (1)

Note: The Bremond family were a dynasty of cartographers active in Marseille in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The family member responsible for this example is likely to be Estienne: the Huntington Library holds a portolan chart of the Aegean Sea which bears the signature ‘Facit a Marseille par Estienne Bremond, 1655’ (mssHM 31); the University of Cambridge holds a similar chart, depicting the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, signed only with the initials ‘E B’ but now attributed to Estienne and dated to c.1650 (Maps.Ms.Plans.697); it is thought to be the only portolan in their collections. One notable feature of the present example is that that the place-names are in large part not in the forms standard to any one major language and in some cases appear to show an Occitan influence, such as Gibarta for Gibraltar, Antibou for Antibes, and Nisa for Nice. A descendant of Bremond, Laurent, published in the 1720s a collection of charts Recueil de plusieurs plans des ports et rades de la mer Mediterranée, describing himself on the title-page as ‘Hydrographe du Roy et de la Ville’.

Provenance: Paxton House, Berwickshire, Scotland.

£15,000-20,000

MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF SEA VOYAGE INDIA, CEYLON, MALTA AND SCOTLAND

91 manuscript pp. written in pencil, c. 25 initial leaves detailing a sea voyage from India to the UK, passing Ceylon, Malta and Gibraltar before returning to Scotland, the remaining leaves comprising an account of daily life, dated February to August 1844, maroon morocco gilt notebook, 18.5 x 11.5cm (1)

£200-300

124 FERDOWSI (940-1019/25 CE)

SHAHNAMEH, IRAN OR CENTRAL ASIA, 1503 CE

17th Jumada al-Thani 909 AH.

Persian manuscript on burnished and sized paper, approx. 462 leaves, 31 x 21cm, main text in black ink, nasta’liq script, 25 lines to the page, in 4 columns, each column separately ruled in gilt, all enclosed by single outer frame in blue, headings in red, blue or gold ink, ta’liq script, catchwords throughout, f. [1] verso with polychromatic floral roundel incorporating title (‘Kitab-i Shahnameh’) in white thuluth, 2 similar headpieces to f. [1] recto and f. [7] recto (with text in eastern Kufic and thuluth respectively), 32 miniatures in gouache heightened with gold (possibly Indian, 19th century, in a 16th-century Persian style), all approx. 16 x 9cm.

Binding: later shagreen, rebacked, covers decorated in blind red leather doublures.

Condition: f. [1] repaired, with small hole in roundel and later Persian ownership inscriptions (one dated 1257, i.e 1841/2 CE), extensive marginal repairs from f. 400 to end, occasionally affecting text, these final 60 or leaves also browned, closed tear in penultimate leaf, final leaf laid down, one leaf extensive repaired tear through miniature, occasional repairs elsewhere (chiefly marginal extensions), customary finger-soiling to margins, a few old stains, attempted erasure of faces in several miniatures, one miniature with small section detached but present, ff. [17-18], [40-41] and [147-8] catchwords not continuous, a few other catchwords cropped, missing or concealed by repair (1)

Note: An imposing manuscript copy of the Persian national epic, of a notably early and auspicious date, completed two years after the foundation of the Safavid dynasty by Shah Isma’il I in 1501, which re-established Persia as an independent political entity for the first time since the Arab conquest. Shah Isma’il sought to model his rule on the representation of Persian kingship found in the Shahnameh, and had the work recited to his troops before battle during the ensuing war against the ruling Aq Qoyunlu tribal confederacy.

‘Isma’il’s vision of the state was neither purely messianic nor juristic; it was primarily based on the Persian model of kingship ... In the tradition of the Timurid rulers of Iran and the Turkmen dynasties before him, he was an avid connoisseur of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh and other Persian poetic narratives, which helped him portray himself as the heir to the Persian tradition of kingship. He patronized the production of great, illustrated copies of these works ... Fascinated by Persian national legends, Isma’il named three of his four sons after legendary heroes of the Shahnameh ... And Isma’il had good incentive to envision himself as a Shahnameh: perhaps a Kaykhosrow, the prototype of the great Persian king who vanquished the Turanic king Afrasiyab’ (Amanat, Iran: A Modern History, 2017, p. 61).

£2,000-3,000

[EGYPTOLOGY] - CARTER, HOWARD ALS RELATING TO AN ALABASTER COPY OF TUTANKHAMEN’S LOTUS CUP

dated April 1930, addressed to Miss Buckingham: Dear Miss Buckingham, I wrote[?] to you before that I have not the slightest objection to you making a copy of the lotus cup; and the Authorities of the Cairo Museum have no objection. I would therefore advise you to show them this letter.

With regards to taking photos of the cup, this is again a matter for the Cairo Authorities to consider as it[?] them having to secure the cup[?]

Believe me, Yours[?]

Howard Carter

on two sides of one leaf, 21 x 13.5cm, with counter signatures of Gunn and Lacau;

[With] ALS from Charlotte Merrill, on behalf of Miss Buckingham, addressed to Mr Gunn, Keeper of the Museum of Antiquities, Cairo, dated February 24, 1830, relating to the alabaster copy of the cup: When I told Miss Buckingham that Mr. Engelback[sic.] said it was possible to secure the exact alabaster used in the original cup but that it involved a six hour camel trip, she said that she would like naturally to have that used..., written on both sides of three leaves, each 18.5 x 14.5cm;

[With] A typed letter from the Director General of the Cairo Museum, conveying an earlier letter of Miss Buckingham’s to Howard Carter

[With] A glass lantern slide showing the ‘The King’s Wishing Cup’ (the lotus chalice) (5)

Note: It is unusual to find a lengthy, signed letter from Howard Carter. These letters relate to his favourite item from king Tutankhamen’s tomb, the Lotus Cup. £2,500-3,500

126

[EGYPTOLOGY] - CARTER, HOWARD THREE LETTERS WRITTEN TO HOWARD CARTER, WITH HIS SIGNATURE

1) Addressed 22nd March 1929, typed letter in French from H. de Bildt of the Royal Swedish Legion in Egypt, thanking Carter for his permission to make an alabaster copy of the King’s Wishing Cup but explaining that there is no craftsperson able to undertake the work, before discussing the possibility of taking a mould of the cup, with a signed autograph note by Howard Carter to the lower margin reading “Thank you for your ? & I am in agreement with the above, Howard Carter, 22nd March 1929”, 21.5 x 27cm;

2) Addressed 19th November 1929, typed letter in French from Gaultier, Inspector General of the Service des Antiquités, requesting two series of enlarged photographs of the antiquities of Tutankhamun’s tomb, with a signed autograph note by Howard Carter in blue pencil to the lower margin expressing that he has “no objection to this demand”, 16.7 x 20.7cm;

3) Addressed 14th March 1931, typed letter in French from Gaultier, Inspector General of the Service des Antiquités, requesting permission for secondaryschool teacher, Mr James Silverman, to reproduce some photographs of Tutankhamun’s tomb onto glass slides, with Howard Carter’s signature to the lower margin dated 21st March 1921 and ‘No Objection’, 16.7 x 20.7cm;

[WITH] 3 hand-coloured lantern slides, depicting The King’s Jewellery Box, The King’s Diadem, ‘King Tut. in his tomb in the outer coffin’ (7)

Note: The ‘King’s Wishing Cup’ was Howard Carter’s name for the lotus, or alabaster, chalice from the tomb of Tutankhamun. It was one of the first discoveries made upon entering the tomb. LOT AMENDMENT: Please note that this no longer contains the ‘The King’s Wishing Cup’ (the lotus chalice) glass lantern slide shown in the photographs.

£2,000-2,500

[EGYPTOLOGY] - A COLLECTION OF LETTERS REGARDING THE TOMB OF TUTANKHAMUN

SIGNED P. LACAU, C.C. EDGAR, AND OTHERS

C.65 letters, the majority relating to photography reproduction permissions of the objects found in Tutankhamun’s tomb, with a few requesting permission to create reproductions of objects, many of the letters are rebuttals to these requests from C.C. Edgar, signed by him;

21 letters and documents, signed P. Lacau, A. Gaulthier and others, regarding permission to visit the pyramids, predominantly relating to visits by representatives of the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine;

The New York Times. Sunday, February 25, 1923, 8pp. photogravure picture section with the photographs of Tutankhamun’s tomb to the front page (Quantity)

Note: Campbell Cowan Edgar was a Scottish archaeologist and Egyptologist, keeper and secretarygeneral of the Cairo Museum from 1925-1927. Many of the letters here are either addressed to Edgar, requesting permission to reproduce photographs of the artefacts from King Tutankhamun’s tomb. Unfortunately for the senders, Edgar is obliged to refuse these requests, explaining that only Howard Carter could grant permission (lot 127 contains several letters to Carter with his signature granting permission for photographic reproduction).

The photography rights for the photographs of the opening of the tomb in fact belonged to the New York Times. In November 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon opened the tomb but neglected to organise for a photographer to be present. Upon realising their oversight, they quickly ‘borrowed’ Harry Burton, staff photographer for the New York Metropolitan Museum Expedition, who was working nearby. Thus, the iconic photographs of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb were taken to the United States of America and first appeared in the New York Times, as can be seen here.

£1,000-1,500

128 [EGYPTOLOGY] - THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM EGYPT EXPEDITIONS

A SMALL ARCHIVE

Comprising documents dating from c.1919-c.1930 relating to The University of Pennsylvania expeditions to Egypt, particularly to Meidum, including: A letter to the Director General of the Department of Antiquities, Cairo Museum from the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania for permission to undertake an excavation at Medun [Meidum], April 11th 1929; Goods receipts and export declaration “2 boxes of antiquities, no commercial value”; Letters relating to antiquities purchased for the museum and their shipping, many signed by Clarence Stanley Fisher; A letter dated 20th March 1922 signed Clarence S. Fisher relating to the payment of excavation dues; A letter 6th March 1924, from Fisher: “Dear Quibell, I am enclosing checque [sic.] for the amount of Seventy-six piastres in payment of expenses in connection with our last shipment of antiquities. / We are all rather eagerly awaiting the outcome of the Tut fiasco, and my departure will be delayed some-what on that account. / Have had a fine time at home, and am in the best of health. Really getting fat, strange to relate. Our new building will be ready in a few weeks and I have also to make plans for the installation of our collections in it before I settle down to digging again...”; The University of Pennsylvania Museum - letters referring to excavations at Meidum, signed Alan Rowe, mainly relating to expedition licensing; An incomplete, corrected copy of an Egypt exhibition briefing; A document authorising excavations;

35 photographs of Egyptian artefacts

13 cards with transcriptions of text found on Ancient Egyptian artefacts, in hieroglyphics and hieratic scripts (Quantity)

£600-800

129

[EGYPTOLOGY] - CARTER, HOWARD

AUTOGRAPH NOTE, SIGNED

reading “Three cases of negatives and three cases of notes removed from laboratory No15, March 17th 1937, Howard Carter”, thought to be referring to negatives of Tutankhamun’s tomb, written in pencil, 17.5 x 11cm (1)

£400-600

130

[EGYPTOLOGY] - MEMPHIS PALACE

MANUSCRIPT PLAN OF MEMPHIS PALACE BALCONY POSSIBLY BY ALAN GARDINER ink on linen paper in black with hieroglyphs added in blue ink, 56 x 44cm, a few small splits, one repaired with tape to reverse, initialled ‘A.G.’ to lower right corner (1)

£400-600

131

WILBERFORCE, WILLIAM (1759-1833)

LETTER SIGNED ON THE SLAVE TRADE, HIGHWOOD HILL, MIDDLESEX, 7TH JUNE 1830 single bifolium of gilt-edged wove paper (watermark ‘Whatman 1828’), 22.4 x 18cm, written on 3 sides, addressed to George Paton Esqr, signed ‘W Wilberforce’, folded, docketed verso probably by the recipient (1)

Note: An outstanding unpublished letter in which Wilberforce reveals with marked clarity his pessimistic view of the prospects of abolition, with the Abolition of Slavery Act still several years distant, while casting doubt on his correspondent’s intention to deploy an unnamed ‘black preacher’ in aid of the cause, before offering a more positive assessment of the situation in Mauritius:

‘I entirely concur with you in judgment that we can effect the deliverance of the slaves only by applying to the good principles and feelings of the people in general. I scarcely however dare be as sanguine as you appear to be either as to the facility of producing a general popular movement for the purpose intended ... sufficient to counteract the powerful interest of the West Indians [plantation owners] in both Houses of Parliament, combined with the disinclination of our cause which government has but too plainly manifested ... The expediency of the measure you support, of bringing over the black preacher, must entirely depend on his personal qualifications, of which I know nothing ... I will make some inquiries on this head, though I own I see many great difficulties and weighty objections to it.

‘The slave trade at the Mauritius of which you speak, has been at length proved to have been carried on through the connivance I fear of the government of that island: but I am assured that government intends to take the cause which justice and humanity prescribe in the matter, to have an inquiry instituted, and to restore to their liberty, all who have been so unjustly and cruelly deprived of it. I must do our government the justice to declare that I firmly believe they had no knowledge whatever of the slave trade’s existence in the Mauritius.’

Provenance: Private collection, Scotland.

£500-800

132

[CHIPPENDALE, THOMAS]

LETTER SENT ON BEHALF OF CHIPPENDALE, HAIG & CO TO SIR ROWLAND WINN

2 Grey Fryars [sic], Newgate Street, London, 23rd December 1772, single bifolium, written on one side only (with address on verso of conjugate blank), reading ‘Sir, Another bill given by you to Thomas Chippendale for £200 being in my hands I take the liberty of acquainting you that it falls due on the 4th January next, in order that you may give timely directions for its being paid on the day it becomes due, you will be kind enough to acquaint me whether I shall apply for payment for this as I did for the other bill at your bankers in Pall Mall. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most humble serv[an]t, for H. J. Fergusson [sic], Jno Fergusson’ (1)

Note: Henry Ferguson, executor of Chippendale’s first partner James Rannie (d.1766), entered into partnership with Chippendale in 1771 in a deal in which he and bookkeeper David Haig each acquired a third share in the troubled firm, thereafter known as Chippendale, Haig & Co. Sir Rowland Winn, of Nostell Priory, near Pontefract, Yorkshire, was one of Chippendale’s most important patrons: ‘The furniture made for Nostell Priory and for Sir Rowland Winn’s London house is impressively documented by letters, bills, estimates, memoranda, receipts, and drawings which serve to illustrate how the firm programmed a major commission. Whether there was a special connection between Chippendale and his client on account of their being fellow Yorkshiremen is not proven. The tenor of their correspondence is, on the one hand, that of an impatient and frustrated client, railing against Chippendale’s dilatoriness, often threatening to withdraw his custom with dire consequences to his reputation. Chippendale, on the other hand, seemed almost permanently desperate for payment and yet always remained obsequious’ (ODNB).

£200-300

GAINSBOROUGH, THOMAS (1727-1788) AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED

Addressed to his ‘Sister Dupont’ (Sarah), dated 29th September 1783, 2pp, 18.5 x 22.5 and 18.5 x 20cm The letter refers to Gainsborough’s brother, John, known to the family as ‘Scheming Jack’ due to his unreliable nature and constant failed attempts at moneymaking schemes [“Gainsborough - A Portrait”, Hamilton, 2017]. Gainsborough asks his sister to be the caretaker of half a crown per week for their brother: “I promised John when he did me the honor of a visit in Town, to allow him half a Crown a week; which with what his good Cousin Gainsbro: allow him, and sister Gibbon, I hope will (if applied properly to his own use) render the remainder of his old age tolerably comfortable; for Villainously old he is indeed grown – I have herewith sent you 3 Guineas, with which I beg the favor of you to supply him for half a year...” A post-script gives news of Gainsborough’s wife and beloved daughter visiting family in Bath; split along the fold of one sheet, some slight foxing and a light dampstain to upper corner (1)

Note: A highly unusual letter signed by Thomas Gainsborough, giving a touching insight into his family life.

£2,500-3,500

134

LUSUS ETON

1753

LATIN SCHOOL EXERCISE BOOK FROM ETON COLLEGE

Manuscript exercise book, vellum bound with the manuscript title: “Lusus Eton 1753” to the upper cover, comprising 3pp. contents followed by 77 manuscript pp. containing Latin poems and occasional prose, each with the name of an Eton College fellow, master or assistant master in the upper left, the masters include Lyne, Mr North, Arden, Reade, Reepe?, Burton, Ekins Majr., Ch. Berkley, Freind, Hervey, Cook, Evans, Edwards, Loddington, Olnsley, Sumner etc., many of the pieces of writing have not been traced elsewhere

£300-500

135

DIARIES, 19TH CENTURY INCLUDING TWO SCOTTISH WORKS

1) Sophia Leonora Clough Taylor. Journal in Scotland, 1866: beginning July 25th, detailing a journey heading up from York to the west coast of Scotland (Loch Broom) and a family holiday in the area, comprising 66 manuscript pages (including several amusing ink sketches), and several other small sketches laid-in, album 12 x 18cm;

2) Scottish Journal. Beginning September 1866, Inverary, 236 manuscript pages, 10 x 16cm;

3) ? Matilda Harrison. Beginning October 27th 1855, diary based around Kirkham, York, 232 manuscript pages, 12 x 18cm (3)

£300-500

EMINENT GEORGIANS AND VICTORIANS

THE PAGE FAMILY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM containing approx. 300 autograph letters signed, signed documents and sentiments, and clipped signatures.

Complete autograph letters signed (all 1 p. unless otherwise stated) include:

Richard Wagner (1813-1883), composer, Lucerne, 1868, to Mr Matthieu, in German, concerning the payment of a bill or debt, signed ‘Rich. Wagner’, partially browned;

Henry James (1843-1916), novelist, 13 De Vere Mansions, London, undated, to Mrs Stevenson, recommending American dentists, 4 pp. (final page pasted down);

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865), novelist, to Miss Hall, accepting an invitation, 2 pp.;

Josef Ludwig von Armansberg (1787-1853), Bavarian statesman and regent of Greece, 1852, in German;

Joseph Lister (1827-1912), pioneer of antiseptic surgery, 1883, accepting an invitation;

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Skerryvore, 1886, presenting his autograph;

William Thompson, 1st Baron Kelvin (18241907), mathematician and physicist, Roxburgh Hotel, Edinburgh, 1892, to Miss Fuller, fondly recalling meetings with her relatives (the letter annotated in pencil ‘My uncle Frederick Fuller’), 3 pp.;

Sir Francis Chantrey (1781-1841), sculptor, 1836, concerning his proposed design for a monument to Colonel Page;

William Ellis (1794-1872), missionary in Hawaii, Polynesia and Madagascar, 1839, 3 pp.;

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), poet, 1871, presenting his autograph;

Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844), prime minister 1801-4, York House, 1825, in the third person, thanking Colonel Page for his pamphlet on the poor laws;

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903), prime minister, signed ‘Cranborne’, 2 pp.,

Lord John Russell (1792-1878), prime minister, 2 pp.;

Lady Elizabeth Craven (née Berkeley), margravine of BrandenburgAnsbach-Bayreuth (1750-1828), travel writer and society hostess, Florence, 28 September 1785, to Mrs Page, an impromptu letter of condolence on the death of her husband, signed ‘E Craven’, 3 pp.;

Robert Moffat (1795-1883), missionary in Africa, 1871, 3 pp.; and others including: John Tyndall, physicist and discoverer of the greenhouse effect), to Mr Jones, on his (Tyndall’s) marriage; John Everett Millais (artist); A. H. Sayce (Assyriologist); Dawson Turner (botanist and antiquary); Agnes Weston (Royal Navy philanthropist), 3 letters; Edmund Gosse (man of letters); Constance F. Gordon Cumming (traveller); Lord Carnarvon, politician (2 letters, to Colonel Page); Marquess of Lansdowne, politician; Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle, chancellor of the exchequer; Cardinal Vaughan; Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, and similar.

Documents signed: Queen Victoria (1819-1901), manuscript document appointing George Fuller professor of civil engineering, Queen’s College, Belfast, 1873, signed ‘Victoria R’ at head; Lord Castlereagh, printed passport issued to Colonel Page, 1814, signed by Castlereagh as foreign secretary, docketed ‘Seen at the British Embassy, to go to England by order of H.E. The Duke of Wellington’.

Clipped signatures: George III; William IV; George Canning; Robert Peel; Cardinal Newman; William Holman Hunt; Sir Samuel W. Baker; E. F. Benson; Napier of Magdala; and similar.

Clipped sentiments, fragments of letters, and other items, signed: Charles Dickens (autograph envelope addressed to George Walter Thornbury, biographer of J. M. W. Turner, 1870); John Ruskin; Andrew Lang; Florence Nightingale; Thomas Carlyle; Coventry Patmore; and similar.

4to album, decorative cloth, spine defective, endpapers and a few initial leaves loose, related newspaper cuttings and photographs also pasted in, manuscript captions throughout (1)

Provenance: ‘This album was compiled largely from documents left by Colonel Page, by my aunt, Miss Eliza Fuller, born 1822, who resided for many years at 14 Belmont, Bath, where she died on 31st Oct 1904, aged 82’ (manuscript note to front free endpaper). The letter from Viscount Sidmouth allows Colonel Page to be identified as the Frederick Page of Goldwell Park, Speen, Berkshire, who served as a deputy lieutenant for Berkshire and wrote the 1822 work The Principle of the English Poor Laws.

£2,500-3,500

SCOTLAND

COLLECTION OF DEEDS AND DOCUMENTS, 16TH-18TH CENTURY

including document signed by Sir John Skene (c.1540-1617), jurist and author of Regiam Majestatem, 13th July 1588[?], concerning John Auchterlony of the county of Forfar, in English, on paper with pot watermark, signed ‘Joannes Skene’ at foot, 41 x 30cm, a few holes along one fold;

Charter signed by George Keith, 8th Earl Marischal (?-1694), royalist army officer, 1690, confirming John Thomson, merchant of Peterhead, and his wife Griselda Mylne in their possession of lands, in Latin, on vellum, 25 x 65cm;

Charter signed by James Law (c.1560-1632), archbishop of Glasgow, 1632, in Latin, on vellum, retaining red wax seal, 29 x 55cm; and approx. 40 others, on paper or vellum, including documents mentioning Patrick, Lord Gray of Forfar, 1575 (on paper), John Leslye of Boquhane, 1593 (on paper), the sheriffdom of Lanark, 1633 (on vellum), and similar (Quantity)

Note: A xylographic version of John Skene’s signature is printed in the 1597 edition of The Lawes and Actes of Parliament, maid be King James the First, and his Successours Kinges of Scotland (STC 22626) on leaf 2G3. The career of George Keith, 8th Earl Marischal is summarised by Aberdeenshire Museums Service: ‘He succeeded to the title at the death of his brother in 1661. In his younger years he served in the French army and rose to the rank of colonel. He returned to Scotland when the civil war broke out, but does not appear to have taken any active part on either side until the army of the “Engagement” was raised to rescue Charles I from the Republican party. He commanded a regiment of foot in that mismanaged enterprise, and fought at the battle of Preston (August 17th, 1648). Three years later he had the command of three regiments at the battle of Worcester, where he displayed the hereditary bravery of his house, but was overpowered by numbers and taken prisoner. He appears to have lived quietly on his estates during the reigns of Charles II and his brother, James VII. He took no active part on either side at the Revolution. “Earl Marshall,” wrote Claverhouse to Melfort, “is at Edinburgh, but does not meddle.” He died in 1694’ (catalogue description for the rental book of George Keith, 8th Earl Marischal, GB 3298 P3417).

£300-500

138

MANUSCRIPT THEOLOGICAL NOTEBOOK 17TH CENTURY

8vo, pp. 1-69 and 101-[117], (pages 70-100 blank), comprising prayers and other notes for a Church of England divine, including ‘An Ejaculation before I begin Prayrs.’, ‘Preparation for the Holy Sacrement’, ‘At Coming to serve God in publick’, ‘Gods method of Saving a Sinner (pract Cat. p. 89) turn’d into a Pray[e]r’; Some Practicall Notes of ye H. Sacram[en]t out of J. Tayl[o]r’s H. Living’, ‘Blessings of ye H. Sacram[en]t’, ‘Obligations of Comeing to ye Sacram[en]t’, ‘Considerations to moove to Seriousnesse’, ‘Especially lett not frequent Pray[e]r bee wanting on ye Satday Evening & Sunday morning, I maue use such a Forme as this: A Pray[e]r before ye Communion’; ‘As I am every morning first waking to thinke on God, so most particularly on ye morning of that Day, to use Divine Ejaculations, on wch. I am to receave ye Son of Righteousness into my Soul. Particularly on that Morning, 1) To consider afresh How I am with Due Devotion behave my self at ye Lords Table, 2) To sett apart something to bee offered, 3) To enquire a fresh into my Heart, & Labour after a Due Disposition, 4) to adde ye fore-mentioned Pray[e]r to my usually Private Pray[e]rs, & what else by Present needs may suggest , for Ye Assistance of Gods H. Spt. & a due frame of mind in ye’ participation of ther. H. Mysteries. To w[hi]ch may bee added, reading over ye Comunion Service before Church-time & the Story of ye Passion’; with Prayers to be said immediately before Communion, ‘Att ye receiving ye Bread’, ‘Whilst I am feeding’, ‘At taking ye Cup’, ‘After Receiving’, ‘After Sacrement’, with numerous alternative prayers, p.65, 101 and [116] with reference to Dr Barrow [Isaac Barrow, 1630-77, theologian and mathematician], p. 4 and 64 to Jeremy Taylor [Church of England, cleric, (1613-1677), author of numerous liturgical works including The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living], p. 102 ‘out of Hales, Good Steward, p.437’ [Sir Matthew Hale 1607-1676, author of The Great Audit with the Account of the Good Steward]; contemporary black panelled morocco gilt, g.e., rubbed (1) £1,000-1,500

139

GRACE DARLING - THOMASIN DARLING

GRACE DARLING: HER TRUE STORY

From Unpublished Papers in Possession of her Family. Hamilton: Adams, [1880].

8vo, author’s presentation copy inscribed to D.H. Atkinson (Bamburgh, 1880), annotated and with passages marked by Thomasin Darling, frontispiece portrait, 2 locks of Grace’s hair loose in an envelope tipped-in, a sample of her, and her father William’s, handwriting, and woodbury-types of the houses in which Grace was born and died tipped-in, several items of related ephemera loosely inserted, publisher’s morocco gilt (1)

Note: In 1880 Thomasin, having received her newly-published book, sends this copy to the co-author, Daniel Atkinson, with her own markings or added comments. The book is marked in the margins in pencil many times, to emphasise a passage or to add brief notes. Along with the above inscription it is clear that the annotations are written by Thomas Darling herself.

Forty years later, how this hair and the book came together is unclear. It may have been acquired many years earlier and simply attached to this unique book for posterity. Or it is possible that Thomasin had kept some locks of hair to be gifted to special people such as Daniel Atkinson and it was sent to him along with the personally annotated book as a gesture and as a keepsake.

Inside the book cover is pasted a small envelope. Written in ink on the flap of the envelope is ‘Lock of Grace Darling’s hair’. Inside, contained in a piece of folded paper, is a small lock of hair bound with a piece of black cotton. The slip of paper reads “Longstone Light. Jan 7th 1839”, written in Grace Darling’s own hand.

Also inside the envelope with the lock of hair is a small piece of notepaper that reads: ‘An old naval Captain whom I met said to me - ‘I am well acquainted with all the incidents of Grace Darling’s history, and there is no exaggeration in this little book which is written according to fact” (Rev. A.O. Medd, to Miss Sarah Atkinson). Rev. Arthur O. Medd M.A. was the vicar of St. Aidan’s Church, Bamburgh, in 1842 at the time of Grace Darling’s death. He officiated at her funeral. This slip of paper, written 40 years later, supports the story as told by Thomasin.

£600-800

140

JOHNSON, LYNDON B., PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA COLLECTION OF MATERIAL

including invitation to the Inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson as President of the United States of America, 20th January 1965, framed and glazed; Typed letter from W. Marvin Watson, Special Assistant to the President, on The White House headed paper, to Mr Claude E. Hooton, enclosing a copy of a photograph ‘of the first Presidential family portrait with their grandchild. It comes to you with the President’s gratitude for your friendship’, 8th Sept. 1967, with large coloured photograph 25 x 20cm;

Folding card from Ethel and Bob Kennedy, showing images of Michael, Kerry and Courtney, David, Bobby, Kathleen and Joe, undated; Johnson, Lyndon B. The Arthur K. Salomon Lecture. America Tomorrow: Will we hang together or hang separately ? New York, 1971. 8vo, original blue cloth, with enclosed note from the Office of Lyndon B. Johnson, offering ‘this little booklet for your library’, and visiting card of ‘Mr Lyndon Baines Johnson’ (1)

£200-300

141

VICTORIA, QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND EMPRESS OF INDIA (1819-1901)

DOCUMENT SIGNED, 28TH JUNE 1875

commissioning Frank Paton lieutenant in the 1st Forfarshire Rifle Corps, lithographic document on linen, 30 x 40cm, completed in manuscript, signed ‘Victoria R’ upper left, countersigned by Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy (later 1st Earl of Cranbrook) as secretary of state for war, wafer seal, folded, pinholes to corners, recto with a few faint spots and marks, verso with spotting and soiling to panel outermost when folded. Together with Frank Paton’s commission as sub-lieutenant in the same unit, 3rd June 1874, signed by Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904) as commander-in-chief (‘George’), countersigned by Gathorne-Hardy (2)

£200-300

142

PRINCE ALBERT, DUKE OF YORK (KING GEORGE VI) & LADY ELIZABETH BOWES-LYON (QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER)

WEDDING CAKE AND EPHEMERA

Remnants of royal wedding cake from the marriage of Prince Albert, Duke of York [later King George VI] and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon [later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother] on 26th April 1923, housed in the original box (7 x 10.5cm) with the couple’s AE cipher, Buckingham Palace, 26th April 1923, lacking lower edge of lid;

Two carriage tickets to admit Colonel and Mrs Colin Neish to the marriage of His Royal Highness the Duke of York, K.C., with The Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey, along with a card giving carriage directions and a printed note of the dress code for the wedding, all contained in the original addressed envelope;

Bowes-Lyon, Cecilia, Countess of Strathmore. A collection of over 30 letters from Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, mother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, addressed to Mrs (Alice) Neish, on various personal matters, several mentioning Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, including: 24th January 1923: [on the engagement of the Duke of York and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]

“...She is now very happy & after a long period of uncertainty, (as she has ?? for over 3 years) but love prevailed & they are both radiant.”;

9th August 1926: [Baby Elizabeth - the future Queen Elizabeth II - comes to visit aged 3 months] “Your lovely little book arrived safely this morning, & I shall give it to Elizabeth as soon as she arrives on Wednesday. They are all, I hope, arriving in a body, Elizabeth & the Duke, the baby, 2 horses, a Valet, maid, detective & Chauffeur!!...”; (35)

£400-600

143 ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (1926-2022) `& PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH (1921-2021)

AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURES, 27TH JUNE 1966

‘Elizabeth R’ and ‘Philip’, on a single leaf in a 4to black leatherette album with the arms of the city of Glasgow gilt to front cover, the album otherwise blank, the date inscribed on the signed leaf in an unidentified hand, slipcase (1)

Provenance: Signed for William G. Beaton, director of Glasgow Educational Television Service, Bath Street, Glasgow, during an official engagement; thence by descent.

£500-800

EDWARD VIII & WALLIS

SIMPSON

THE DAVID STORRIER

COLLECTION

SIMPSON, WALLIS, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR (1896-1986) & EDWARD, DUKE OF WINDSOR (1894-1972)

THREE LETTERS

Simpson, Wallis. ALS addressed ‘Dear Storrier’, “It has made such a difference having you come here and I want to thank you for all you have done for us both. Faithfully yours / Wallis Simpson”, 19 x 15cm;

Edward, Duke of Windsor [King Edward VIII]. ALS addressed ‘Dear Storrier’, “Mrs Simpson has just sent me the enclosed. It reads to me madder than the others but you must send it in and have it investigated... Yours sincerely, Edward”, dated 2nd April 1937, 21 x 17.5cm, with original unfranked envelope;

Edward, Duke of Windsor. TLS addressed ‘Dear Storrier’, thanking David Storrier for news, discussing health matters and writing, “With constant appreciation of your loyal and devoted services and Her Royal Highness and my best wishes, Sincerely Yours’. / Edward”, dated 13th September 1966, 26 x 18.5cm (3)

Provenance: From the collection of David Storrier, Close Protection Officer to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

£400-600 145

SIMPSON, WALLIS, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR (1896-1986) & EDWARD, DUKE OF WINDSOR (1894-1972)

ROYAL MEMORABILIA

Coins and medals: Edward VIII coronation medal; British West Africa one penny dated 1936; a cameograph ‘coin’ bearing Edward’s profile; a few other old British coins;

Stamps: Stamp book with EviiiR monogram containing three red 1d stamps bearing the portrait of Edward VIII and six green halfpenny stamps bearing the portrait of Edward VIII with inverted watermarks; 20th century world stamp album;

Sitwell, Osbert. Rat Week, typed poem on 2 leaves, each 20 x 25cm, the uncensored version mentioning the ‘rats’ by name;

Edward VIII Prince of Wales Aluminium Ashtray: produced by R.W. Coan with a relief image of Edward smoking in military uniform and the text: “Our Prince of Sports”, presented at a dinner in 1922 attended by The Prince of Wales by the President of the aluminium foundry, Robert W. Coan;

Royal train post bag: Stencilled with “No 6 ROYAL TRAIN”; Passenger plan for the Royal train and Pilot train, 50 x 19.5cm, with possible date of 13/2/34 on the reverse in pencil, passenger allocation marked in ink on printed plan

H.M. King Edward VIII: Printed glass coronation beaker, with the text “12th May Coronation 1937” and a portrait of the King, 11cm tall; accompanied by two metal beakers commemorating the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, a printed glass beaker with the portraits of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (also with the 12th May coronation date) and a small coffee cup commemorating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (Quantity)

Provenance: From the collection of David Storrier, Close Protection Officer to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

£300-400

146

KING GEORGE V & QUEEN MARY OF TECK PHOTOGRAPHS

Queen Mary of Teck. Photograph, framed and glazed, signed Mary R. 1948 to the mount, 20 x 27cm including mount;

King George V. Photograph by Vandyck inscribed in an unknown hand to the mount: “In remembrance of King George V 1936”, framed and glazed, 20 x 27cm including mount;

Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester. Photograph by Dorothy Williams signed Henry 1948 to the image, framed and glazed, 16 x 20cm (3)

Provenance: From the collection of David Storrier, Close Protection Officer to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

£300-400

GEORGE VI, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND (1895-1952) & ELIZABETH (1900-2002), QUEEN CONSORT

A PAIR OF SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS

each framed and mounted, signed ‘George R. 1948’ and ‘Elizabeth R. 1948’ to mounts, respectively, each 15 x 11cm, imprinted Dorothy Wilding to negatives (2)

Provenance: From the collection of David Storrier, Close Protection Officer to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

£400-600

147A

HONOURS AND DECORATIONS

PRESENTED TO DAVID STORRIER, CPO TO THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WINDSOR

MBE: presented to David Storrier, in original case, with certificate signed by Queen Mary, dated 1944;

Royal Victorian Medal (Silver): presented to David Storrier, in original case, with certificate signed Elizabeth R., dated 1946;

Silver Jubilee Medal: For the jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary, with accompanying letter dated 6th May 1935, presented to David Storrier;

Coronation Medal: For the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, with accompanying letter dated 12th May 1937, presented to David Storrier;

Korpsabzeichen der Österreichischen Bundesgendarmerie

[Corps-badge for the Austrian federal police]: presented to David Storrier by district inspector for Schloss-Enzefeld, Hans Mathiasch;

Policia de la Capital Federal: Italian police badge, presented to David Storrier;

Masonic Regalia: David Storrier’s masonic apron, gloves and rosettes in original green leather case, embossed ‘Bro. David Storrier, Skelmersdale Lodge, No. 1658’;

The Royal Masonic Institution for Girls: Honorary badge dated 1927, with Masonic pin, and certificate presented to David Storrier in recognition for his services rendered as Steward when a large sum of money was raised;

Eastern Command School of Instruction: Silver medal (Quantity)

From the collection of David Storrier, Close Protection Officer to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

Note: David Storrier was a highly decorated officer, his proudest achievement being the Royal Victorian Medal. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge, being inducted into the Lodge in the same ceremony as Edward, Prince of Wales.

£400-600

148

SIMPSON, WALLIS, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR (1896-1986) & EDWARD, DUKE OF WINDSOR (1894-1972)

COGNAC BOTTLE [EMPTY] FROM THE COUPLE’S WEDDING

Boutelleau & Co., Cognac, 25 ans, private stock, empty bottle (with hole in cork) from the wedding of Edward and Wallis, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, on the 3rd June 1937 (1)

Provenance: From the collection of David Storrier, Close Protection Officer to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

£600-800

149

SIMPSON, WALLIS, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR (1896-1986) & EDWARD, DUKE OF WINDSOR (1894-1972)

GIFT TAGS AND CHRISTMAS CARDS

Four gift tags signed ‘Edward P.’, one envelope signed ‘Edward’, dated 1936, a gift tag signed ‘Mrs Simpson’ and a Christmas note signed ‘Edward P.’, all addressed to David Storrier and gently laid-down to a sheet of paper; Eight Christmas cards with the printed greetings of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, including one in original US franked envelope sent on the ship “Queen Elizabeth” (Quantity)

Provenance: From the collection of David Storrier, Close Protection Officer to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

£300-400

ROYAL CAR PENNANTS

EDWARD, DUKE OF WINDSOR (1896-1986)

two royal car pennants each displaying the three lions motif from the car of Edward and Wallis, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, c.1930s-40s, each 23 x 15cm, slightly moth damaged (2)

Provenance: From the collection of David Storrier, Close Protection Officer to the Duke and Duchess of

£300-400

DAVID STORRIER

A COLLECTION OF GIFTS FROM THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WINDSOR, EDWARD & WALLIS

With Queen Victoria’s monogram to the handle and ‘John Tate[‘]s’, from Balmoral by repute; Silver Cigarette Case. By Albert Cohen & Charles Soloman, hallmarked Chester, early-mid 20th century, engraved decoration and monogram of David Storrier;

Hairbrushes. Two ovoid stiff-bristled hairbrushes with engraved white metal backs in original leather case;

Colibri Ambassadeur safety razor set. In original box, with card wrapper, lacking one razor head;

G.B.S. Safety Razor. Model de luxe, in original boxes with D.S. initials; and another razor (Schick repeating), and a razor sharpening strap; Cigarette Lighter Cases. 7 lighter cases, including one of engraved silver marked Birmingham, and another with the D.S. initials;

Grand National Silk Scarf. Commemorating winners from 1837-1927, with a small horseshoe tie-pin;

and several other items, comprising a cork screw topped with a used golf ball, golf tees, a pocket watch, a seal, three small leather cases and a leather document wallet (Quantity)

Provenance: From the collection of David Storrier, Close Protection Officer to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

£300-500

152

GEORGE, DUKE OF KENT (1892-1942)

SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

Signed, ‘George 1932’, depicting the Prince in military uniform, 15 x 20cm, in blue Morocco gilt frame with small embossed coat of arms (‘G’ surrounded by honi soit qui mal y pense motto and topped with a crown) (1)

Provenance: From the collection of David Storrier, Close Protection Officer to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

Note: Prince George, Duke of Kent, was the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary. He was killed in an air accident in 1942.

£300-400

153

PRINCESS MARINA OF GREECE AND DENMARK AND PRINCE GEORGE, DUKE OF KENT BOXED SLICE OF WEDDING CAKE

From the wedding of Prince George and Princess Marina of Kent, 29th November 1934, in its original white presentation box with the initials ‘MG’ ‘Buckingham Palace 29th November 1934’, wrapped in packaging addressed to Miss Storrier of Kirriemuir, Angus with the stamp of the Lord Steward M.H. Buckingham Palace (1)

Provenance: From the collection of David Storrier, Close Protection Officer to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, this slice of cake would either have belonged to Storrier or been given to him as a gift by the Duke, for him to send onto his family

Note: With its silver pillars, the wedding cake of the Duke and Duchess of Kent in November 1934 was one of the most extravagant royal wedding cakes, standing nine feet high.

£400-600

154

CARL HIESS, VIENNA

EDWARD, DUKE OF WINDSOR - HIS CIGARETTE CASE of rectangular form, 9.5 x 7.5cm, with the couple’s ‘WE’ crown-topped monogram to the upper lid, in original red leather box (1)

Provenance: From the collection of David Storrier, Close Protection Officer to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Given as a gift by Edward, Duke of Windsor, to Storrier in recognition of his service. With the ‘WE’ monogram of Edward and Wallis Simpson.

£3,000-5,000

HILL, DAVID OCTAVIUS AND ROBERT ADAMSON

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF ROBERT BRYSON, C.1843-8

salted paper print from a calotype negative, 20 x 14.9cm, mounted, framed and glazed, manuscript provenance note dated 1887 pasted to backboard (1)

Note: Robert Bryson FRSE (1778-1852) held the royal warrant for clockmaking in Scotland, and worked from premises at 66 Princes Street, Edinburgh, adjacent to Alexander Hill, brother and business partner of D. O. Hill.

Provenance: 1) Presented by Robert Bryson to Isabella Begg (née Burns, 1771-1858), sister of Robert Burns, the poet (her portrait taken by Hill and Adamson);

2) By descent to Agnes (1800-1883; married name Brown) and Isabella Begg (1806-1886), daughters of Isabella Begg;

3) Presented on the death of Isabella Begg to David Dunlop, solicitor, Ayr, executor;

4) Presented by Dunlop to Robert Adam (fl. 1870s-80s), city chamberlain, Edinburgh, c.1887;

5) With Lockharts, solicitors, Ayr.

Literature: Sarah Stevenson, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson: Catalogue of their Calotypes taken between 1843 and 1847 in the Collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1981, p. 46 (version ‘a’)

Colin Ford, An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1976, p. 357.

Cf. David Bruce, Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes, 1973, pp. 180-1 for another version.

£1,000-1,500

156

BRYANS, WILLIAM

ANTIQUITIES OF CHESHIRE, IN PHOTOGRAPH

With Short Descriptive Notes: to which are added Views of Several Ancient Buildings in Shropshire and North Wales. Chesters: Hugh Roberts, 1858. First edition, 4to (37 x 27cm), original half morocco, rebacked, purple cloth sides, [9] 55 pp., 25 mounted albumen print photographs, some stripping and wear to backstrip and corners, variable spotting to mounts and text-leaves, silvering along edges of ‘Birth-place of Bishop Wilson’ (plate no. 8), very short closed tear to mount of ‘Waberton Church’ (no. 9), ‘Tarvin Church’ (no. 17) with a few spots within photograph, hint of silvering to ‘South Doorway, Edstaston Church’ (no. 25), withdrawn from Chester Reference Library with their plate to front pastedown, withdrawal stamp to initial blank, ink-stamp to title-page, and further small ink-stamps to pp. 3 and 55 [Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, 83]. Together with: Charles Leigh, The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire. with an Account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. Antiquities in those Parts, Oxford: for the Author, 1700, first edition, folio, 20th-century half morocco, 24 engraved plates, folding map hand-coloured in outline, lacking portrait frontispiece, ex-Chester Reference Library with associated markings, damp-staining towards rear, text not collated (2)

£300-400

157 §

ALFRED G. BUCKHAM (1879/80-1956)

EDINBURGH, C.1920

gelatin silver print photograph, 45.8 x 38.5cm, showing an aerial view of Edinburgh from the north-west, looking towards Salisbury Crags and Arthur’s Seat with Edinburgh Castle in the foreground, mounted, framed and glazed, signed and titled by the photographer in pencil on the mount (‘Edinburgh, Alfred G. Buckham Capt., late RAF’), oxidisation along edges (1)

Note: Alfred Buckham served as head of aerial reconnaissance for the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War and subsequently as an officer in the RAF. Despite being invalided out of the RAF after several near-fatal crashes that left him permanently disabled, he went on to achieve renown as a photographer specialising in aerial views ‘of such poetic sweep and majesty that ... they remain singular achievements in the art of aerial image making’ (American Photographer, August 1989).

£500-800

INDIA, ADEN AND EUROPE

FOUR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS

including 4 photographs of St. Petersburg, 5 of Aden, 12 of India, mostly by Burke (Kaibar Pass, 18th Bengal Lancers, 36th Sikhs, Delhi, Darjeeling), and c. 40 of France, 57 of Italy with captions in the negative; 53 of the U.K., 6 of Norway, 8 of the Alps, the photographs mainly loosely inserted at corners into album ‘slits’; oblong folio, cloth, worn, 2 covers detached, one lacking spine, photographs from 21 x 29 cm. to 15 x 10cm; late 19th century (4)

£600-900

159

SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE

QUANTITY OF PHOTOGRAPHS

San Francisco earthquake photographs, 15 panoramic photographs, 30 x 8cm, with typed captions on the back, some light fading, one with loss of upper right corner (Quantity)

£300-500

160

WORLD PHOTOGRAPHS

QUANTITY

including 3 of Africa, including 2 of Boer War, war dead at Spion’s Kop, Natal, 1900, 14 x 19cm, mounted on card; 1 of 2 Company A.C.T. on Waimate Plain, New Zealand, 1880, on 2 sheets mounted on paper, split at centre; Spain & Gibraltar, 13, unmounted; Tangiers, 2, unmounted, 21.5 x 28cm; Egypt, 3, Sphinx and Pyramid by Beato and Dumas, 16 x 21cm and 26 x 36cm, mounted on card; Japan, 2 stereoscopic cards, one of Japanese Ambassadors by Caldesi & Co, one of musicians inscribed “Koomikichi & Koomanaski”; China, 2, unmounted, 21 x 28cm; Malta, 2, including large panorama, 93 x 19cm, unmounted; San Francisco, 5 by Taber Photo, unmounted; Japan, 16 albumen prints of landscape and people, all but 2 18 x 23cm; Rabindranath Tagore, 2 silver prints by Photo Arshar Baghdad, 16 x 21cm, unmounted; Canada including Illicillewact River & railway bridges, 18 x 24cm, unmounted; Scotland, 51 loose albumen prints, many by J.V. or G.W. Wilson; and several others, including some, ornithological (Quantity)

£400-600

161

LEHNDORFF, VERY AND DAVID WILLS VERUSCHKA

New York: Assouline, 2008. Elephant folio, photographic plates, including several tipped-in, original solander box with photograph to lid, small chip to lower edges, one plate slightly damaged with adhesion onto opposite leaf (1)

£400-500

162

DAVID BAILEY (1938-) BOX OF PIN-UPS

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, [1965]. 36 halftone photographic prints, 36.7 x 31.7cm, each with text on verso by Francis Wyndham, loose as issued in printed card case, retaining original packing material (loose sheet of manila paper and two squares of cardboard ink-stamped ‘packing piece / to be thrown away’), Susan Murray print toned, with closed tear to one edge and rumpling to upper corners, two further prints (Paul Waller and one of Lennon and McCartney) with abrasions to verso from adhesive tape, box somewhat marked and worn, spine relaid, a few splits and old tape-repairs (1)

Note: An iconic survey of the movers and shakers of the Swinging Sixties, including portraits of Michael Caine, Lennon and McCartney, Jean Shrimpton, Terence Stamp, Lord Snowdon, Vidal Sassoon, Cecil Beaton, David Hockney, Rudolf Nureyev, and, controversially, the Kray Brothers.

£3,000-5,000

ORIGINAL ARTWORK

163 §

PETER ARNO (1904-1968)

‘I REFUSE MADAM! IT’S TOO HOT TO PULL DOWN THE SHADES!’ grey wash and black crayon with traces of pencil, signed at foot in white bodycolour, mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 39 x 31cm, calligraphic caption in black ink to mount, old gallery label on backboard (1)

Note: Peter Arno began drawing for the New Yorker a few months after its foundation in 1925, and went on to produce almost 100 covers and countless cartoons, his style becoming emblematic of the magazine’s sophisticated brand of humour. He was remembered in the title of a 2016 biography as ‘The New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist’.

£500-800

164 §

RONALD SEARLE CBE RDI (1920-2011)

LEASING: 1

pen and ink, watercolour and bodycolour on paper, signed lower right, mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 57 x 30cm, verso with ink annotations possibly by the artist (‘Leasing: 1, 1981, Pen & watercolour, 48 [sic] x 30.5cm, for a Lloyds Bank brochure’), the artist’s ink-stamps and mounted auction tickets, printed label on backboard (1)

Provenance: Christie’s South Kensington, British and Continental Watercolours, Drawings and Illustrations, 14th June 2001, lot 219

£700-1,000

ART & ARCHITECTURE

POMPEII & HERCULANEUM

MOSAICS AND PAINTINGS, AN ALBUM OF PAINTED COPIES

Mid-19th century, comprising 48 watercolour and egg tempera paintings each laid down onto an album leaf, including a scene of an animal sacrifice and serpents from a larium, cupids at work and play and a cat and quail mosaic from the House of the Faun (with the caption ‘Mosaico Museo Borbonico’, the name of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples until 1861), and three albumen prints at the rear of the album, album 38 x 28.5cm, 19th century green half morocco with manuscript paper label to spine (1)

Note: About one in the afternoon, my mother pointed out a cloud with an odd size and appearance that had just formed. From that distance it was not clear from which mountain the cloud was rising, although it was found afterwards to be Vesuvius. The cloud could best be described as more like an umbrella pine than any other tree, because it rose high up in a kind of trunk and then divided into branches. I imagine that this was because it was thrust up by the initial blast until its power weakened and it was left unsupported and spread out sideways under its own weight. Sometimes it looked light coloured, sometimes it looked mottled and dirty with the earth and ash it had carried up. [Pliny the Younger VI:16]

Pliny the Younger’s accounts of the eruption of Vesuvius reflect the terror encountered by the residents of Pompeii, Herculaneum and the surrounding villages in the Autumn of 79AD. The towns were, in fact, never named in Pliny’s texts, and their exact location was unknown until 1709, when a worker building a well hit several artefacts from the town of Herculaneum. Excavations began and continued throughout the 18th century. Following minor discoveries in 1592 and 1689, excavations at Pompeii were underway from the mid-18th century. Vesuvius became an almostmandatory stopping point on the Grand Tour, and the excavations added fuel to the mounting interest in the Classical world in the 18th century, inspiring the Neo-Classical movement.

The present album dates from the mid-late 19th century (the final painting is captioned Mosaico Museo Borbonico, existing in this form from 1816-1861) and is likely to be a product of the Grand Tour. The paintings are finely made and have not been disturbed since they were placed into the album. It is possible that they were purchased as ready-made paintings for the tourist market, or that they were painted by a finely skilled tourist themself.

£2,000-3,000

166

[DUSART, CORNELIS (1660-1704) AND JACOB GOLE (1660-1724)]

LES HÉROS DE LA LIGUE

ou la procession monacale. Conduitte par Louis XIV, pour la conversions des Protestans de son royaume. Paris [Amsterdam?]: Pere Peters, 1691. 4to (22.5 x 16.5cm), contemporary vellum, engraved arms of the dukes of Queensberry gilt to boards, engraved title-page, 20 mezzotint roundel caricatures (of 24), engraved leaf of text (‘Sonnet’), bookplate of John Erskine Esqr, Advocate, boards sprung and marked, variable spotting and soiling to contents, contemporary inscription to head of title-page, closed marginal tear to ‘Le roy de France’ plate, ‘Le père Petres’ with repaired closed tear to gutter just extending into platemark (1)

Note: Rare collection of grotesque caricatures of figures implicated in the repression of French Protestants after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Each portrait is accompanied by a satirical quatrain. Sold as a collection of prints.

£200-300

167

DIDEROT, DENIS AND JEAN BAPTISTE LE ROND D’ALEMBERT [VERRERIE] - FROM DIDEROT’S ENCYCLOPÉDIE

section concerning glass-making, comprising 10pp., taken from Diderot’s Encyclopédie, 1751-1766, folio, with 58 engraved plates (many folding), later paper wrappers (1)

£300-400

168

[CHANDLER RICHARD, NICHOLAS REVETT AND WILLIAM PARS]

IONIAN ANTIQUITIES

London: T. Spilsbury and W. Haskell, 1769 -1797. 2 volumes in one, large folio, 96 plates (33 plates in volume 1 and 63 plates in volume 2), calf gilt, a little light internal soiling in places [ESTC T104763 / ESTC T104764] (1)

£600-800

169

PALLADIO, ANDREA - GIOCOMO LEONI, EDITOR

THE ARCHITECTURE OF A. PALLADIO, IN FOUR BOOKS

London: John Watts, 1715. 3 volumes (of 4), bound in 2, frontispiece, portrait, all plates and illustrations present, near-uniform contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked, second volume with bookplate of Sir George Nugent and signature of R. Hesketh (2)

£800-1,200

170

PALLADIO, ANDREA

LE FABBRICHE E I DISEGNI DI ANDREA

PALLADIO

raccolti ed illustrati da Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, opera divisa in quattro tomi.

Vicenza: Giovanni Rossi, 1786-87, Second edition, 3 volumes, folio, text volumes 1-4 bound in two volumes, plate volumes 3-4 only bound in one volume, titles with engraved vignette, 106 plates on 104 sheets [plates 32/33 and 35/36 in vol. 3 each on one sheet], contemporary half calf, a few plates with small marginal stain, slightly rubbed (3)

£700-1,000

171

STUART, JAMES

THE ANTIQUITIES OF ATHENS

London: printed by John Haberkorn, 1762-1794. 3 volumes (of 5, without the 1816 and 1830 volumes), large folios, volume 1 without the list of subscribers, 230 (of 231) plates and maps (lacking plate 29 in section 1 of volume 2), contemporary half calf with some neat repairs, slightly rubbed [ESTC T22194] (3)

£4,000-6,000

172

OTTLEY, WILLIAM YOUNG

THE ITALIAN SCHOOL OF DESIGN

London: Taylor and Hessey, 1823. Large folio, 71 plates, contemporary green half morocco gilt with red morocco gilt label to spine, Glasgow Art Club library stamps to most plates, joints a little worn (1)

Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

£300-400

173

HOLBEIN, HANS

PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES OF THE COURT OF HENRY VIII

engraved in imitation of the original drawings. London: William Bulmer, 1828, small folio, portrait of Holbein and his wife, and 82 engraved plates on white and pink paper, list of portraits, contemporary red half morocco, g.e., accompanying text description lacking for some plates, rubbed, bookplate of the Glasgow Art Club (1)

Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

£300-400

NORFOLK - COTMAN, JOHN SELL

5 WORKS IN ONE VOLUME

Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, a Series of Etchings. London: H.G. Bohn, 1838. Folio, additional etched title, etched dedication, 60 etched plates, bound with Specimens of Norman and Gothic Remains in the County of Norfolk, a Second Series of Etchings. London: H.G. Bohn, 1838. Folio, 50 etched plates; bound with Specimens of Castellated and Ecclesiastical Remains in the County of Norfolk, a Third Series of Etchings. London: H.G. Bohn, 1838, Folio, 50 etched plates; Specimens of Architectural Remains in the Counties of York, Cambridge, Suffolk, Lincoln, Essex and North Wales. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1838. Folio, 30 etched plates, bound with Liber Studiorum; a Series of Sketches and Studies... forming the Fifth Series of Etchings. London: H. G. Bohn, 1838. Folio, 48 etched plates; 5 works in 2 volumes, contemporary green half morocco, blindstamp of Glasgow Art Club Library to title-pages, rubbed; a clean set (2)

Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

£600-800

175

PERROT, GEORGES AND CHARLES CHIPIEZ

6 WORKS IN 10 VOLUMES

History of Art in Sardinia, Judaea, Syria, and Asia

Minor. 1890, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth;

History of Art in Phoenicia and its Dependencies. London, 1885, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth;

History of Art in Primitive Greece, Mycenian Art. London, 1894, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth;

History of Art in Phrygia, Lydia, Caria and Lycia. London, 1892, 8vo, original pictorial cloth;

History of Art in Persia. 1892, 8vo, original pictorial cloth;

History of Art in Ancient Egypt. London, 1883, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth; all with plates and illustrations, all with blindstamp on titles and bookplates of the Glasgow Art Club (10)

Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

£300-400

176

COLOUR THEORY - HAY, DAVID RAMSAY

A NOMENCLATURE OF COLOURS, HUES, TINTS, AND SHADES, applicable to the Arts and Natural Sciences; to Manufactures. Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1845. First edition, 8vo, 40 coloured plates, 8pp. advertisements at end, original brown cloth, a few light spots, some early pencil marginalia, lacks spine, upper board detached (1)

Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

£800-1,000

RAWLINSON, ROBERT C.E. DESIGNS FOR FACTORY, FURNACE AND OTHER TALL CHIMNEY SHAFTS

Holborn: Kell Brothers, [1858], First and only edition, presentation copy “To Sir John William Ramsden, Bart, M.P., with the author’s profound respects. Robert Rawlinson, London, 1868”, large folio, 565 x 350mm, lithographed pictorial title and 24 lithographed plates, of which 21 are tinted, lithographed half-page illustration on page 3, lithographed dedication and 9pp. text, tissue guards, original brown cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover, neatly rebacked, slipcase, title-page somewhat spotted and with slight loss of blank upper corner, light scattered spotting to plates (1)

Note: First and only edition. A handsome folio of tinted lithographic plates of designs for tall chimney shafts, ventilating towers, elevated water tanks, waterworks, engine and boiler houses, bath and washhouses, a clock tower, factory chimneys, ventilating shaft for a baronial residence, ditto for a country mansion, a view of the Worthing Waterworks, et. These towers are conceived as works of architecture and are a perfect window into the obsession the Victorians had with historical eclecticism and historical styles, e.g. Italianate, Greek, Roman, Romanesque, Gothic, Castellated, Turreted Venetian, etc. NUC locates 6 copies.

£1,500-2,000

178

ARCHITECTURE FOLIOS

ART AND LITERATURE

Gillespie, James. Details of Scottish Domestic Architecture, A Series of Selected Examples From the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, of Stonework, Woodwork, Furniture, Plasterwork, & Metalwork. One hundred and twentyfour plates of measured drawings, and six plates of collotype reproductions of photographs. Edinburgh: The Edinburgh Architectural Association, 1922. Folio, beige cloth boards with gilt lettering. Provenance: Herbert Louis Honeyman FRIBA (1885-1956);

Washington Browne, George. Pugin Studentship Drawings being a selection from Sketches, Measured Drawings, and Details of Domestic and Ecclesiastical Buildings in England and Scotland... Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1878. Copy no. 33 of 200, folio, original red buckram cloth slightly faded with gilt lettering to spine and gilt embossed insignia on front board, 75 black and white plates, owner inscriptions to free endpaper. Provenance: Andrew Kerr Tasker FRIBA, President of the Northern Architectural Association (early 20th century);

Small, John William. Scottish Woodwork of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Measured and Drawn for the Stone. Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1878. Copy no. 221 of 500, folio, 100 black and white plates, original yellow cloth cockled, red lettering, boards bumped, pencil inscription to free endpaper;

Latham, Charles. In English Homes. The Internal Character, Furniture and Adornments of Some of the Most Notable Houses of England Historically Depicted from Photographs. London: Country Life, 1904 and 1907. 2 volumes, folio, black and white photographic illustrations throughout, blue cloth binding with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering, g.e.

[Adam, Robert and James] The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam. Complete Edition. London: John Tiranti & Co., Architectural Publishers, 1931. Folio, grey paper boards with cloth to spine, black stamped lettering, dustjacket nibbled at edges and dust-stained;

Dickens, Charles and George Cruikshank [illustrator]. The Adventures of Oliver Twist or The Parish Boy’s Progress. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1895. One of 500 copies, 4to, original illustrative printed boards, brown quarter morocco, gilt lettering to spine, 26 colour plates with tissue guards, edges and corners bumped;

Dickens, Charles, Cattermole, George [illustrator] and Hablot Browne [illustrator]. Master Humphrey’s Clock. 3 volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. First edition in book form, 8vo, contemporary black half morocco with marbled boards, gilt lettering, black and white illustrated text, boards worn with some loss to spines;

Hogarth, William, Hanny, James [introductory essay], Trusler, Rev. J. and E.F. Roberts [descriptive letterpress]. The Works of William Hogarth in a Series of One Hundred and Fifty Superb Engravings on Steel, from the Original Pictures. 2 volumes. London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, n.d. [c.1880]. 4to, original maroon half morocco boards, raised bands, blind stamps and gilt lettering to spine, g.e. (12)

£200-300

CHINESE PORCELAIN - MORGAN, J. PIERPONT CATALOGUE OF THE MORGAN COLLECTION OF CHINESE PORCELAIN

New York: Privately Printed, 1904-11. 2 volumes, 8vo, edition limited to 250 copies, presentation copy with John Pierpont Morgan’s leather book label, inscribed “Sir Guy Laking, with kind regards, J. Pierpont Morgan, Library, Oct. 22nd 1906”, 158 coloured plates, contemporary green morocco gilt, watered silk and green morocco endpapers, spines gilt, t.e.g., others uncut (2)

Note: A very fine copy of the edition limited to 250 copies, privately printed by order of J. Pierpont Morgan.

Provenance: J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier, banker and benefactor, notable collector of books, pictures, paintings, clocks, gemstones & other art objects. His son, J. P. Morgan Jr., made the Pierpont Morgan Library a public institution in 1924 as a memorial to a his father.

Guy Francis Laking (1875-1919), English art historian and author, first keeper of the London Museum, an authority of arms and armour.

£2,000-3,000

180

TUER, ANDREW W.

LONDON CRIES: WITH SIX CHARMING CHILDREN

London: Field & Tuer, ye Leadenhalle Presse, [1883]. 4to, signed large paper edition, 6 stipple engravings in two states, handcoloured woodcuts, original half cloth with paper label to upper cover, all leaves detached (1)

£150-200

181

[BLAKE, WILLIAM AND OTHERS]

THE CENTURY GUILD HOBBY HORSE

London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1886-1887. 3 volumes, 4to, original white quarter cloth over printed blue boards, volume 1 with 4 single-page plates plus one folding plate by William Blake (split in half); volume 2 with 12 plates; volume 3 with 10 plates and 2 leaves of music; some slight dust-soiling and chipping to covers (3)

Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

£500-700

182

NICHOLSON, WILLIAM - RUDYARD KIPLING

ALMANAC OF TWELVE SPORTS

London: William Heinemann, 1898. 4to, 12 illustrations by Nicholson, original pictorial boards with cloth spine, slight darkening to boards and a little internal browning and offsetting, some slight rubbing to September ‘shooting’ print (1)

Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

£300-400

183

GILL, ERIC WOOD-ENGRAVINGS

Being a selection of Eric Gill’s engravings on wood. Ditchling: St. Dominic’s Press, 1924. First edition, 4to, number 7 of 150 copies, original cream buckram, uncut, with manuscript addition ‘No. 5’ inserted between words ‘first’ and (Virgin and Child) on title (1)

£500-700

IMPRESSIONISM

GROUP OF CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS AND OTHER REFERENCE WORKS

1) Manet

i) Denis Rouart et Daniel Wildenstein de l’Institut. Edouard Manet. Catalogue raisonné. Lausanne: Bibliothèque des arts, 1975. 2 volumes, folio, original cloth, dust jackets;

ii) Edouard Manet. Graphic Works. A Definitive Catalogue Raisonné. Jean C. Harris. New York: Collectors Editions, 1970. 4to, original cloth;

2) Degas

i) Paul-André Lemoisne. Degas et son œuvre. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1984. 5 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Degas’s works;

ii) The Notebooks of Edgar Degas. A Catalogue of the Thirty-Eight Notebooks in the Bibliothèque Nationale and Other Collections. Theodore Roeff. Newly revised edition. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1985. 2 volumes, 4to, original pictorial boards;

iii) Vente atelier Edgar Degas 1918 - Vente I +

II. Degas’s Atelier at Auction 1918 - Sales I + II. [And:] Vente atelier Edgar Degas 1919 - Ventes

III + IV. Degas’s Atelier at Auction 1919 - Sales

III - IV. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original red boards, printed and glassine dust jackets;

iv) Degas. The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes. Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin. London: Thames and Hudson, 1986. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;

3) Pissarro

i) Wildenstein Institute. Pissarro. Critical Catalogue of Paintings. Milan: Skir/Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005. First edition, 3 volumes, 4to, original cloth, dust jackets, pictorial slipcase;

ii) Camille Pissarro. L’œuvre gravé et lithographié ... catalogue raisonné. Loys Delteil. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1999. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;

iii) Ludovic Rodo Pissarro et Lionelle Venturi. Camille Pissarro. Son art - son œuvre. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, dust jackets;

4) Monet

i) Daniel Wildenstein de l’Institut. Claude Monet. Catalogue raisonné. Lausanne: Bibliothéque des arts [-Wildenstein Institute], 1979-99. Volumes 2-5 of 5, 4to, original cloth, volumes 2-4 with dust jackets and slipcases;

ii) Daniel Wildenstein. Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism [volumes 2-4: Catalogue raisonné]. Cologne: Taschen/Wildenstein, 1996. 4 volumes, 4to, original cloth, slipcase, retaining

original cardboard packing case with handle;

5) Renoir

i) Renoir. Guy-Patrice et Michel Dauberville. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles. Paris: Editions Bernheimjeune, 2007-2010. Volumes 1-3 (of 5), 4to, original cloth, dust jackets;

ii) Pierre-Auguste Renoir. L’œuvre gravé et lithographié ... Catalogue raisonné. Loys Delteil. Edited by Alan Hyman. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1999. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket (small nick to rear panel);

iii) Renoir. Watercolors and Pastels. Selected with an Introduction and Commentaries by François Daulte. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1959. 4to, original quarter cloth, 24 colour plates, acetate dust jacket;

6) Others

i) Marie Berhaut. Gustave Caillebotte. Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée avec le concours de Sophie Pietrie. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, slipcase;

ii) Alain Clairet, Delphine Montalant, Yves Rouart. Berthe Morisot 1841-1895. Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint. Montolivet: CERAnrs éditions, 1997. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;

iii) François Daulte. Alfred Sisley. Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint. Lausanne: Editions Durand-Ruel, 1959. One of 1,200 copies, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket (slightly chipped and toned) (30)

Note: Facsimile reprint of the first edition of Lemoisne’s definitive catalogue raisonné, originally published in four volumes in 1946-9; the Supplement (volume 5), by Philippe Brame and Theodore and Arlene Reff, is published here for the first time.

£500-800

185

POST-IMPRESSIONISM

GROUP OF CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS AND OTHER REFERENCE WORKS

1) Seurat

i) C. M. de Hauke. Seurat et son œuvre. Paris: Gründ, 1961. First edition, one of 550 copies, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth lettered in black, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, printed on papier Arches filigrané, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Seurat’s works, volume 1 with indentations to spine and front board and damp-staining to rear board, acetate dust jackets;

ii) Les Dessins de Georges Seurat (1859-1891). Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1928. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, 151 plates tipped to 128 numbered mounts, index leaf to each volume, [16] pp. text including title-page in volume 1, all

loose as issued in buckram portfolio, portfolios spotted, toning along edges of mounts;

2) Cézanne

i) The Drawings of Paul Cézanne. A Catalogue Raisonné by Adrien Chappuis. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1973. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original boards, slipcase;

ii) The Paintings of Paul Cézanne. A Catalogue Raisonné. John Rewald in Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayune Warman. London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. First UK edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, slipcase;

iii) Paul Cézanne. The Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné by John Rewald. A New York Graphic Society Book. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. First edition, 4to, original cloth, slipcase;

iv) Lionelle Venturi. Cézanne: son art - son œuvre. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original boards, dust jackets (with a few nicks);

3) Gauguin

i) Gauguin par Georges Wildenstein. I. Catalogue [all published]. Paris: Les BeauxArts, 1964. First edition, one of 3,000 copies, this copy ‘imprimé spécialement pour M. Paul Mellon’, 4to, original red boards decorated in gilt, dust jacket, tipped-in colour frontispiece, label removed from front pastedown, pencil note to preliminary page;

ii) Gauguin. A Savage in the Making. Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings (1873-1888). Milan: Skira/Wildenstein Institute, 2002. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original yellow cloth, dust jackets, slipcase;

iii) Gauguin by John Rewald, Paris: Hyperion Press, 1938, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;

4) Van Gogh

i) Vincent Van Gogh, The Letters, The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition, edited by Leon Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker, London: Thames & Hudson, 2009, 6 volumes, original boards, dust jackets, slipcase, complete with CD-ROM in pocket mounted to rear pastedown of volume 6;

ii) Jan Hulsker. The New Complete Van Gogh Paintings, Drawings Sketches. Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Vincent Van Gogh. Amsterdam: J. M. Meulenhoff, 1996. Folio, original boards, dust jacket;

and 2 others (Jean Bouin-Luce, Denise Bazetoux. Maximilen Luce. Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint. Paris: Editions JBL, 1986. 2 volumes, folio, original cloth, dust jackets (small tear to rear panel of volume 2 jacket; and one on Seurat) (17)

£500-800

186

DORTU, M. G.

TOULOUSE-LAUTREC ET SON ŒUVRE

New York: Collectors Editions, 1971. First edition, one of 1450 copies, 6 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth lettered in black, patterned endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, printed on vélin similiforme filigrané, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Toulouse-Lautrec’s works, acetate dust jackets (volume 1 with chip to rear panel);

Lanthemann, J. Modigliani 1884-1920. Catalogue raisonné. Barcelona: Graficas Condal, 1970. First edition, one of 2,500 copies, 4to, original green leatherette; Schulman, Michel. Frédéic Bazille 1841-1870. Catalogue raisonné. Paris: Editions de l’Amateur, 1995. First edition, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket; Salomon, Antoine, & Guy Cogeval. Vuillard. The Inexhaustible Glance. Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. Milan: Skira/Wildenstein Institute, 2003. First edition, 3 volumes, 4to, original cloth, dust jackets, slipcase; and approx. 12 others, mainly catalogues raisonnés, including Constable, Turner, Picasso, Velazquez, Goya, etc. (c. 27)

£300-500

187

VIOLINS - HOLLOWAY, JANE AND JENNIFER WATKINS, EDITORS

GIUSEPPE GUARNERI DEL GESÙ

London: Peter Biddulph, 1998. 2 volumes, folio, number 57 of 500 copies, black half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, black cloth sides with embossed violin design, g.e., folding black cloth box, in the original cardboard packaging (2)

£250-350

POTTERY & PORCELAIN: THE LIBRARY OF A COLLECTOR

BRITISH POTTERY AND PORCELAIN A LARGE COLLECTION

Tapp, William H. Jefferyes Hamett O’Neale, 1734-1801. London: University of London Press, Ltd., 1938. 8vo, original blue cloth; James Connell & Sons. Old English Porcelain. Glasgow, [c.1920?] 4to, original cloth gilt;

John, W.D. William Billingsley (1758-1828). His outstanding achievements as an artist and porcelain maker. Newport: The Ceramic Book Company, 1968. Folio, original orange cloth gilt; Hodgson, Mrs Willoughby. Old English China. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1913. Folio, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Mackenna, F. Severne. 18th Century English Porcelain. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1970. 4to, original green cloth gilt, signed by the author; Tilley, Frank. Teapots and Tea. Newport: The Ceramic Book Company, 1957. Folio, original red cloth gilt;

Sotheby & Co. The Parkinson Collection catalogue of Highly Important English Porcelain, 29th March - 11th October 1966, three volumes, 8vo, original boards;

Hurlbutt, Frank. Bow Porcelain. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1926. Folio, original red cloth gilt;

John, W. D. Old English Lustre Pottery. Newport: R.H. Johns Ltd., 1951. Folio, original green cloth gilt; and 63 others (74)

Provenance: From the library of a collector

£400-600

189

CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF DR ATWOOD THORNE, TYPED

RECORD OF A COLLECTION OF LUSTRE POTTERY

comprising 46 hand-painted illustrations and 361 typed leaves of records of a collection held by Mr Thorne, 5 Gordon Place, Gordon Square, London, dated 1927, contained in a Moore’s loose leaf binder (2)

Provenance: From the library of a collector

Atwood Thorne was the author of Pink Lustre Pottery, a handbook for collectors, 1926, a copy of which is also included in this lot. These typed notes with their original coloured notes represent Thorne’s own collection.

£300-500

190

CERAMICS PERIODICALS

INCLUDING THE ENGLISH CERAMIC CIRCLE

The English Ceramic Circle, 1927-1948. English Pottery and Porcelain, commemorative catalogue of an Exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum May 5th-June 20th 1948. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., 1949. Original cloth;

The English Ceramic Circle. Transactions, comprising: Volume 3, parts 1-5; Volume 4, parts 1-3; and Volumes 7-21, 1968-2010, in 41 parts, original wrappers;

Northern Ceramic Society. Journal, comprising: Volumes4-17 (19802000) and 19-23 (2002-2007) and 26-28 (2010-2012), original wrappers;

and a collection of Jonathan Horne and Simon Spero catalogues in original wrappers (Quantity)

Provenance: From the library of a collector

£300-400

CHEETHAM, A.

HAND-COMPILED CERAMICS COLLECTION CATALOGUE IN 8 VOLUMES

each volume 25.5 x 21cm in original buff wrappers with typed labels to upper covers listing contents, dating from the 1940s, the volumes comprising:

1) Chelsea & Bow

2) Bristol, Coalport, Davenport, Liverpool, Lowestoft, Langton Hall, Longport, Minton, Nantgraw, Newhall, Pinxton

3) Rockingham, Salopian (Caughley), Spode, Staffordshire, Swansea

4) Whieldon, Martin Ware

5) Chelsea Derby, Derby, Worcester

6) Chinese, Japanese

7) Astbury, Black Ware, Castleford, Doulton, Delft, Elers Ware, Fulham, Leeds, Lustre, Miscellaneous, Pratt Ware, Ralph Wood, Ruskin Pottery, Salt Glaze, Wilson Ware, Wedgwood

8) Berlin, Continental (various), Dresden, Hochst, Jacob Petit, Paris, Sevres, Tourney

With manuscript descriptions of each item and a large quantity of original photographs tipped-in with photo corners (8)

Provenance: From the library of a collector

Note: A meticulously compiled catalogue in 8 volumes by the collector, Albert Cheetham. Cheetham’s collection was sold by Sotheby’s in 1945, following his death.

£500-700

192 HASLEM, JOHN

A CATALOGUE OF CHINA, CHIEFLY DERBY, OF ENAMELS AND OTHER PAINTINGS...

Derby: R. Keene, printer, 1879. First edition, 8vo, 5 photographic plates (one detached), with an article relating to ‘the Haslem gift’ laid in over several pages at the rear, contemporary green quarter Morocco gilt, this copy has been seen on temporary loan to the V&A and to the Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Company Ltd. for their Painters and the Derby China Works exhibition, bookplates; [Idem] Another copy, in original wrappers, inscribed to E.M. Kidd Esq., with J. Haslem’s kind regards, spine lacking; Haslem, John. The Old Derby China Factory. London: George Bell and Sons, 1876. 8vo, original purple cloth gilt (3)

Provenance: From the library of a collector

£300-400

193

JOSIAH WEDGWOOD - T. GATTY

CATALOGUE OF A LOAN COLLECTION OF THE WORKS OF JOSIAH WEDGWOOD

Liverpool: Liverpool Art Club, 1879. 4to, 15 photographic plates, modern red half leather, some very minor spotting (1)

Provenance: From the library of a collector

£400-600

PATTERN BOOK - QUEEN’S PORCELAIN, FLORENCE WORKS, STOKE-ON-TRENT DESIGNS FOR CUPS AND SAUCERS

Porcelain pattern book containing c.238 patterns, mostly for cups and saucers, first half of the 20th century, many designs hand-coloured with manuscript notes, others using transfer printed designs, the final items to be included are designs and transfers for porcelain celebrating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, red half calf with ‘PATTERN BOOK’ in gilt lettering to upper cover, 31.5 x 26cm, some rubbing to covers, slight internal dust-soiling, some transfer prints a little rubbed (1)

Provenance: From the library of a collector

Note: The Florence Works of Taylor & Kent were based in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, from around 1876-1988. They (and the subsequent Churchill Group) were manufacturers of Queen’s Porcelain - a cream-coloured style of earthenware - until the mid-1990s. It is notable that this pattern book of Queen’s Ware also included designs for porcelain for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, dating the final leaves of the album to 1953.

£400-600

195

POTTERY THE HISTORY OF CERAMICS

Solon, L.M. The Art of the Old English Potter. London: Bemrose and Sons, 1883. Folio, additional engraved title and 50 engraved plates, original yellow printed cloth, some foxing;

Shaw, Simeon. History of the Staffordshire Potteries... Hanley, 1829. 12mo, contemporary calf, several annotations in blue biro;

White, William. History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Staffordshire... Sheffield: Printed for the author at the Independent Office, 1851. 8vo, contemporary calf;

Shaw, Simeon. The Chemistry of the Several Natural and Artificial Heterogeneous Compounds, used in the manufacturing of Porcelain, Glass, and Pottery. London: printed for the author by W. Lewis and Son, 1837. 8vo, one of 250 copies, quarter calf neatly rebacked, a couple of leaves loose, some dampstaining;

Blacker, J.F. Nineteenth-Century English

Ceramic Art. London: Stanley Paul & Co., [n.d.]. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; Jewitt, Llewellynn. The Ceramic Art of Great Britain. London: Virtue and Co., 1878. 2 volumes, 8vo, original red cloth gilt (7)

Provenance: From the library of a collector

£300-400

POTTERY, MAINLY ENGLISH

INCLUDING ENGLISH DELFTWARE, RALPH WOOD AND MEDIEVAL POTTERY

Lipski, Louis L. Dated English Delftware. Tin-glazed earthenware 16001800. London: Sotheby Publications, 1984. 4to, number 440 of 1000 copies, original blue cloth, dust-jacket;

Sotheby’s. The Lipski Collection of English and Irish Delftware, 10th March 1981 - 6th December 1983, four auction catalogues in original wrappers;

Faulkner, Frank. Ralph Wood Pottery, George Stoner Collection. London: 1910. 50 copies only, original vellum gilt;

Partridge, Frank. Ralph Wood Pottery. London: [1929?] Original blue cloth gilt;

Andrade, Cyril. Old English Pottery. Astbury Figures. London: 1924. One of 500, original red cloth gilt;

Burton, William. A History and Description of English Earthenware and Stoneware. London: Cassell and Company, 1904. 8vo, out-of-series copy of 1450, original cloth;

Rackham, Bernard - Herbert Read. English Pottery. London: Ernest Benn, Limited, 1924. 4to, original grey cloth gilt;

Price, R.K., Captain. Astbury, Whieldon, and Ralph Wood Figures, and Toby Jugs. London: John Lane, 1922. 4to, one of 500 copies, original cloth gilt;

Earle, Cyril, Major. The Earle Collection of early Staffordshire Pottery. London: A. Brown and Sons, [1915?] 4to, original red cloth gilt; Smith, R.H. Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art Loan Collection of English Pottery. Edinburgh: Neill and Company, 1889. 8vo, brown cloth gilt, pp.15-end only, title-page repaired with some loss;

Freeth, Frank. Old English Pottery. London: Morgan, Thompson and Jamieson, 1896. 4to, one of 100 copies, original blue cloth gilt, some foxing;

Hobson, R.L. Catalogue of the collection of English Pottery in the department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum. London, 1903. 4to, blue cloth gilt;

Hodgkin, John Eliot and Edith. Examples of Early English Pottery... London, 1891. 4to, original cloth;

Austin, John C. British Delft at Williamsburg. Williamsburg: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1994. 4to, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Ray, Anthony. English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection Ashmolean Museum Oxford. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1968. 8vo, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket price-clipped;

Downman, Edward Andrews. Blue Dash Chargers. London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1919. 8vo, original boards; and 9 others (28)

Provenance: From the library of a collector

£400-500

197

REGIONAL POTTERY

AND

PORCELAIN

LIVERPOOL, CHELSEA, BRISTOL, LEEDS, POOLE, SWANSEA, &C. Entwistle, P. Sept-Centenary Anniversary, Liverpool, 1907. Catalogue of Liverpool Pottery & Porcelain, exhibited at the Historical Exhibition. Liverpool: Lee and Nightingale, printers, 1907. 8vo, extra-illustrated with 55 photographs, contemporary green morocco gilt;

Bryant, G.E. The Chelsea Porcelain Toys. London & Boston: The Medici Society, 1925. Folio, number 92 of 650 copies, original blue cloth gilt;

Mackenna, F. Severne. Chelsea Porcelain. The Gold Anchor wares.

Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1952. Number 313 of 500 copies signed by the author, original yellow cloth gilt, dust-jacket;

[Idem] Another copy, 1951, 121/500, unsigned, without jacket;

Hurlbutt, Frank. Chelsea China. London: University Press of Liverpool / Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., 1937. 8vo, edition de luxe, original blue cloth gilt;

King, William. Chelsea Porcelain. London: Benn Brothers, Limited, 1922. Original cloth gilt, dust-jacket;

Hurlbutt, Frank. Bristol Porcelain. London: The Medici Society, 1928. Original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket;

Kidson, Joseph R. and Frank. Historical Notices of the Leeds Old Pottery. Leeds: J.R. Kidson, 1892. 4to, number 157 of 250 copies, original brown cloth gilt;

Watney, Bernard M. Liverpool Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century. Shepton Beauchamp: Richard Dennis, 1997. 4to, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket;

Hillis, Maurice. Liverpool Porcelain, 1756-1804. [n.p., n.d.] 2011. 4to, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket;

Towner, Donald. The Leeds Pottery. London: Cory, Adams & Mackay Ltd., 1963. 8vo, original cloth gilt, dust-jacket;

Haggar, Reginald and Elizabeth Adams. Mason Porcelain and Ironstone 1796-1853. London: Faber and Faber, 1977. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket;

Spelman, W.W.R. Lowestoft China. London: Jarrold & Sons, 1905. 8vo, out-of-series copy of 500, original blue cloth;

Bemrose, William. Longton Hall Porcelain. London: Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., 1906. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt;

Hayward, Leslie - Paul Atterbury, editor. Poole Pottery. Somerset: Richard Dennis, 1995. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket;

John, W.D. Swansea Porcelain. Newport: The Ceramic Book Company, 1958. Folio, original blue cloth gilt;

[Idem] The Nantgraw Porcelain Album. Newport: The Ceramic Book Company, 1975. Folio, original red morocco gilt;

[Idem] Nantgraw Porcelain. Newport: R.H. Johns Ltd., 1948. Folio, original red leather gilt; and 17 others (35)

Provenance: From the library of a collector

£500-700

198

STAFFORDSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE POTTERIES A COLLECTION OF WORKS

Godden, Geoffrey. Staffordshire Porcelain. London: Granada, 1983. Original cloth gilt, dust-jacket;

Schkolne, Myrna. People. Passions, Pastimes and Pleasures. Staffordshire Figures, 1810-1835. Winston Salem: Hot Lane Press, 2006. Original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket;

Falkner, Frank. The Wood Family of Burselm. London: Chapman & Hall Limited, 1912. Original red cloth gilt;

Read, Herbert. Staffordshire Pottery Figures. London: Duckworth, 1929. Original blue cloth gilt;

Hayden, Arthur. Spode and his Successors. London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1925. Original blue cloth git with vase motif, dust-jacket;

Jones, Alyn Giles. Catalogue of the Minton Manuscripts. Bangor, 1971-73. Folio, 2 volumes of photocopied work, with a gift inscription from the compiler to Geoffrey Godden, blue cloth gilt;

Furnival, William James. Leadless Decorative Tiles, Faience, and Mosaic, comprising notes and excerpts on the history, manufacture & use of ornamental flooring tiles...

Stone: W.J. Furnival, 1904. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt;

Twitchett, John. Derby

Porcelain, 1748-1848, an illustrated guide. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 2002. Original blue cloth gilt, dustjacket;

Mountford, Arnold R.

The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-Glazed Stoneware. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1971. 8vo, original orange cloth gilt, dust-jacket; and 34 others (45)

Provenance: From the library of a collector

£300-400

199

WEDGWOOD, JOSIAH

INCLUDING METEYARD, ELIZA

Wedgwood and his Works. London: George Bell and Sons, 1873-79. Folio, 3 volumes (including Memorials of Wedgwood and Choice Examples of Wedgwood Art) original red cloth gilt, a little damage to cloth along spine to one volume; Williamson, George C. The Imperial Russian Dinner Service. London: George Bell and Sons, 1909. 4to, original quarter Japanese vellum; Sanderson, Arthur. A Catalogue of a Collection of Plaques, Medallions, Vases, Figures, &c... Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1901. 4to, original cloth gilt; Reilly, Robin. Wedgwood. London: Macmillan, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth gilt in slipcase;

[Idem] & George Savage. Wedgwood, the Portrait Medallions. London: Barrie & Jenkins Ltd., 1973. 4to, original blue cloth gilt , dust-jacket;

[Idem] The Dictionary of Wedgwood. Woodbridge: The Antique Collectors’ Club, 1980. 4to, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket;

Mankowitz, Wolf. Wedgwood. London: Spring Books, 1953. 4to, half calf; and 6 others (16)

Provenance: From the library of a collector

£300-400

WEDGWOOD, JOSIAH A CATALOGUE OF CAMEOS

Busts, intaglios, small statues, and medals, bas-reliefs... London: Cadel, 1777. Fourth edition, 8vo, later quarter calf (1)

Provenance: From the library of a collector

Note: This scarce catalogue is the fourth edition and is considerably larger than the first of 1773 and includes references to Wedgwood’s recently perfected “fine white artificial jasper, of exquisite beauty and delicacy; proper for cameos and bas-reliefs”

The introductory text for each section includes much valuable commentary concerning details of ongoing improvements in manufacturing methods and the development of Wedgwood’s business activities, stylistic influences and patrons.

£250-350

201

WORCESTER POTTERY A COLLECTION, INCLUDING BINNS

Binns, R.W. A Century of Potting in the City of Worcester...

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1877. Second edition, 4to, one of ten large paper copies with 12 additional photographs, contemporary panelled red Morocco gilt;

[Idem] Another copy, 8vo;

Hobson, R.L. Worcester Porcelain. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1910. Folio, original cloth gilt, gift inscription to endpapers;

Marshall, H. Rissik. Coloured Worcester Porcelain. Newport: Ceramic Book Company, 1954. 4to, original blue cloth gilt; Spero, Simon. Worcester Porcelain, the Klepser Collection.

London: Lund Humphries / The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket;

Sandon, John. The Ewers-Tyne Collection of Worcester Porcelain at Cheekwood. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 2008. Original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket;

Hobson, R.L. Catalogue of the Frank Lloyd Collection of Worcester Porcelain... London: Bernard Quaritch, 1923. 8vo, original quarter cloth;

Mackenna, F. Severne. Worcester Porcelain. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1950. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket;

Stieglitz, Marcel H. The Stieglitz

Collection of Dr. Wall Worcester Porcelain, 1947 exhibition catalogue, original red wrappers;

Catalogue of the Kelpser Collection of Worcester Porcelain..., 1955 exhibition catalogue, original yellow wrappers; and 13 others (23)

Provenance: From the library of a collector

£500-600

SPORTING

202

ROLAND, GEORGE

A TREATISE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE ART OF FENCING

Edinburgh: Archd. Constable and Company..., 1823. First edition, 8vo, half-title, 12 plates, contemporary black calf gilt with bull’s head motif to covers, bookplate of Kirwan J. Fernie and ownership inscription to half-title verso (1)

£400-600

203

GOLF

COLLECTION OF RARE BIOGRAPHIES, MANUALS AND CLUB HISTORIES

Tulloch, W. W. The Life of Tom Morris, with Glimpses of St Andrews and its Golfing Celebrities. London: T. Werner Laurie, c.1908. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, 25 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece (listed as 27, with 2 plates each containing 2 images), spine rolled, binding slightly rubbed, contemporary ownership inscription to initial blank, occasional spotting to text-block;

Idem. The Life of Tom Morris. London: Ellesborough Press, 1982. Facsimile edition, one of 100 copies signed by J. H. Neill, captain, Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, 1981-2, 8vo, original green morocco, all edges gilt, slipcase, spine sunned, section of discolouration to upper inner corner of front board;

Forgan, Robert. The Golfer’s Manual, including History and Rules of the Game, with Hints to Beginners. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. (Limited), c.1907. Presumed seventh edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 8 halftone photographic plates (including a portrait of ‘Old

Tom Morris’ as frontispiece), 4 pp. advertisements to rear, with the ‘Rules of Golf’ section dated 1904, and notice of James Anderson’s record round on St Andrew’s Links in 1906 to verso of contents page;

Dow, James Gordon. The Crail Golfing Society 1786-1936. Being the History of an Eighteenth-Century Golf Club in the East Neuk of Fife. Edinburgh: published at the office of Golf Monthly, 1936. First edition, one of 250 copies only, 8vo, original two-tone cloth, 7 halftone photographic plates, pale mottling to covers, blind stamp (Broadleys, Crail, Fife) to title-page;

[Knight, William Angus, editor]. On the Links. Being Golfing Stories by Various Hands. With Shakespeare on Golf. By a Novice. Also, Two Rhymes on Golf by Andrew Lang. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889. First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, 8 pp. advertisements, custom case;

Flint, Violet. A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper’s Round with the Deil on the Links of St Andrews. St Andrews: W. C. Henderson & Co, 1897. Third edition, 4to, later cloth, 8 plates, text spotted;

and 12 others, including: J. B. Salmond, The Story of the R. & A., 1956 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, torn dust jacket, inscribed by the author on the title-page, signed by various R & A members on the front free endpaper including Ferguson Morton, Baron Morton of Henryton, Charles MacAndrew, Baron Macandrew, and similar); The Book of St Andrews Links, Ellesborough Press, 1984 (facsimile edition, one of 200 copies signed by golfer J. Stewart Lawson, 8vo, original green morocco, spine sunned, slipcase); Robert Forgan, The Golfer’s Manual, c.1980 (facsimile edition of the 1897 edition, 8vo, original cloth); Andra Kirkaldy, Fifty Years of Golf: My Memories, 1921 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth); Andrew Lang & others, A Batch of Golfing Papers, c.1892 (original cloth, ex library); Violet Flint, A Golfing Idyll, 1978 (facsimile edition, of 150 copies); 2 others editions of Lang’s work; and similar (18)

£600-800

VARDON, HARRY

HOW TO PLAY GOLF

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1912. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original red cloth, half-title, 25 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece, frontispiece with tissue-guard, small nick to head of spine, covers very slightly bowed and with a few pale marks, pen-trial to front free endpaper, half-title browned and with contemporary ownership inscription at head (1)

£200-300

205

SPORTING BOOKS

INCLUDING HOWITT, SAMUEL

The British Sportsman. London: Edward Orme, 1812. 4to, additional engraved title frontispiece and 71 engraved plates, later half morocco, a little light marginal dampstaining;

Bromley-Davenport, W. Sport. London: Chapman and Hall, limited, 1885. 4to, copy number 209 of 250 deluxe copies, contemporary red morocco gilt, bookplate; Bewick, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Edward Walker, 1807. Fifth edition, 8vo, later morocco gilt, bookplate;

Speedy, Tom. The Natural History of Sport in Scotland, with rod and gun. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1920. 8vo, original green cloth gilt, bookplate;

Reynardson, C.T.S. Birch. Sports & Anecdotes of Bygone Days. London: Chapman & Hall, limited, 1887. 8vo, colour lithographed frontispiece, title-page and 5 plates, original red cloth gilt, bookplate, paste-down endpaper torn; St John, Charles. The Wild Sports and Natural History of the Scottish Highlands. London: Hamilton, Adams & Co. / Glasgow: Thomas D. Morison, 1888. Popular edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, bookplate; and two others: Litchfield. History of Furniture, 1907; Larwood. The History of Signboards, 1868 (8)

£350-450

206

SPORTING BOOKS

FOUR WORKS

Scrope, William. Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed. London: John Murray, 1843. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, additional title-page and 10 (of 11) coloured lithographs only, contemporary red half morocco gilt, upper cover detached;

Millais, J.G. Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1894. Second edition, 8vo, frontispiece, plates and illustrations in text, original pictorial cloth;

St. John, Charles. Natural History & Sport in Moray. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1882. 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary half calf, some offsetting from tissue guards; Rollo, W. Keith. The Art of Fly Fishing. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, [1931]. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth, ownership signatures and blindstamp to endpapers (4)

£200-300

BINDINGS & LIBRARY SETS

AUSTEN, JANE

THE NOVELS

The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R. W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. 5 volumes, 8vo (19.2 x 13cm), contemporary half morocco by Ramage, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, facsimiles of first-edition title-pages, 44 halftone plates mainly from Regency-era prints, spines sunned to tan, scuffs to spine of volume 1 and to raised bands of volume 4, a few pale markings to morocco (5)

£300-500

208

AUSTEN, JANE

[THE NOVELS, ‘PEACOCK SERIES’]

Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1898 [Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, 1897]. 5 volumes, 8vo, original decorative red cloth gilt designed by A. A. Turbayne, all edges gilt, frontispieces and full-pages illustrations by Hugh Thomson and C. E. Brock, spines sunned, uneven sunning to covers, light fraying to spine-ends, spotting and soiling to endpapers, Sense and Sensibility half-title browned from laid-in newspaper cutting, pp. 127/8 repaired, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion half-title spotted and browned in grid pattern (5)

Note: Macmillan’s Illustrated Standard Novels edition, deluxe issue, in the ‘cloth elegant’ bindings designed by A. A. Turbayne and with yellow endpapers bearing a peacock design, and consequently known as the ‘Peacock series’. The edition was also bound in red cloth with a plainer blind-stamped design. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma are third impressions, Mansfield Park is a second impression, and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion is a first.

£300-500

209

GALSWORTHY, JOHN

THE

NOVELS, TALES, AND PLAYS

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926-1929. Devon edition, 22 volumes, 8vo, red half morocco gilt, some joints a little cracked (22)

£400-600

210

HUGO, VICTOR [WORKS]

comprising: Notre-Dame de Paris, 2 volumes, 1888; Toilers of the Sea, 2 volumes, 1888; The Man who Laughs, 2 volumes, 1888; Ninety-three, 1888; Les Misérables, 5 volumes, 1889; Bug-Jargal, to which are added Claude Gueux and The Last Days of a Condemned, 1898; Hans of Iceland, 1898; all Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, in English translation, contemporary half calf with gilt morocco labels to spines, bookplates of the American businessman, sportsman and philanthropist, William Douglas Sloane (14)

£400-600

211

KIPLING, RUDYARD THE WORKS

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913-1919. The Bombay Edition, one of 1050 copies, volume 1 (Plain Tales from the Hills) signed by Kipling, 25 volumes, contemporary red calf gilt, black gilt morocco labels to spines, a little rubbing to bindings, covers detached on volumes 21-24, upper cover to volume 10 reattached, volume 15 neatly rebacked, retaining original spine (25)

The Bombay edition was initially produced in 1913 with 20 volumes, growing to a final run of 31 volumes by 1938 as Kipling continued to write. This set runs to 1919 and comprises 25 volumes. Volumes 21-25 were limited to 500 copies only.

£1,000-1,500

212

MOLIERE, JEAN-BAPTISTE P. THE WORKS

Paris: Barrie Frères, [n.d.] Comédie Française edition on Japan vellum, number 180 of 250 copies, 12 volumes, 4to, illustrations by Louis and Maurice Leloir, Jacques Leman and Edmond Hedouin, including 28 hand-coloured plates and numerous others, red morocco gilt, spines banded with decorative floral motifs, covers panelled with central “RLS” cipher to upper covers, red morocco gilt doublures over red silk endpapers, bookplates of Lucy Burwell Alan Fowlkes, some slight rubbing and minor chipping to edges and spine ends, a few joints very tender (12)

£300-500

213

SCOTT, SIR WALTER

THE WAVERLEY NOVELS

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1871. Centenary Edition, 25 volumes, 8vo (18.3 x 11.7cm), contemporary blue half calf by Zaehnsdorf, spines decorated in gilt and with twin red and olivine morocco labels, marbled sides, endpapers and edges, half-titles, steel-engraved frontispieces and numerous plates after Sir David Wilkie, J. M. W. Turner, David Roberts and others, wood-engraved vignettes to title-pages, ownership ink-stamps to half-titles. Together with a set of the Jorrocks novels by R. S. Surtees, c.1875, 5 volumes, large 8vo, contemporary red half morocco, hunting motifs gilt to spines, hand-coloured etched plates, housed in a contemporary walnut box (25 volumes and 1 box)

£400-600

214

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM THE WORKS

London: H. Woodfall..., 1767. 8 volumes, 12mo, portrait, 35 plates, cotemporary calf, joints worn, rubbed (8)

£300-400

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM

THE PLAYS

London: John Scott, 1805. 9 volumes, 12mo, contemporary tree calf gilt, volume 1 lacking a flyleaf with a small section trimmed from head of title-page, ownership inscription of C.M. Hollis of Portsmouth in an old hand, joints a little worn (9)

£300-500

216

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM

THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE

London: George Kearsley, 1806. 14 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece, 74 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, bookplates of Sherman Reese Hoyt (14)

£300-400

217

PICKERING, WILLIAM (PUBLISHER)

SET OF FINELY BOUND MINIATURE ‘DIAMOND CLASSICS’

11 works, 64mo (7.9 x 4.5cm), later dark red calf gilt, all edges gilt, housed in custom red velvet-lined leather case with button catch, each with engraved frontispiece and additional title-page (except Novum Testamentum, frontispiece only, Iliad and Odyssey, with frontispiece to Iliad only, and Terence and Horace, with neither), letterpress titlepages with wood-engraved vignettes, variable generally light spotting to blanks and outer leaves, titles comprise:

Cicero, De Officis, De Senectute et De Amicitia, 1821; Virgil, [Aeneid], 1821; Dante, La Divina Commedia, 1822; Torquato Tasso, La Gerusalemme Liberata, 1822, corner of front cover bumped; Petrarch, Le Rime, 1822, a couple of abrasions to front cover; Terence, [Opera], 1823; Horace, [Opera], 1824; Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius, [Opera], 1824, frontispiece and additional title-page Novum Testamentum Graecum, 1828, frontispiece shaved along fore edge, with half-title; Homer, Ilias [and:] Odysseia [both in Greek], 1831 (1)

£300-500

218

AUSTRALIAN BINDING

THE HOLY BIBLE ... WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GUSTAVE DORÉ

London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c.1880. 2 volumes, large 4to (36 x 27.5cm), contemporary purple morocco gilt over thick bevelled boards by William Detmold of Melbourne (his stamp gilt to rear boards), cruciform red morocco onlays to spine compartments, onlaid red morocco strapwork frames to boards, guilloche roll gilt to turn-ins, all edges gilt, numerous wood-engraved plates, scuffs to joints and extremities. Together with 2 other items (Thomas Scott, Commentary on the Bible, edited by Professor Symington, Glasgow: William Mackenzie, c.1860, 3 volumes, 4to, contemporary purple calf gilt, numerous steel-engraved plates, a little surface wear to spine; and a miniature glass-fronted wooden bookcase containing a set of Religious Tract Society and related books, c.1850, 30 in total, 12mo, the RTS books in uniform contemporary quarter roan and numbered 1-25 on spines (number 10 duplicated; without numbers 19 and 21-23), titles including The Careful Nursemaid: Hints on the Management of Children, Annals of the Poor by the Rev. Leigh Richmond (with engraved frontispiece and additional title-page) biographies of Hannah Meek, John Newton, and John Howard, and similar (6)

Note: William Detmold (1827-1884) was born in Hesse, Germany, and emigrated to Australia in the 1850s, establishing himself in Melbourne as a highly successful bookbinder.

£300-400

219

ANTIQUARIAN COLLECTION OF BINDINGS

Shakespeare, William. The Works. Imperial Edition. Edited by Charles Knight. London: Virtue & Co., Limited, [1873-6]. 2 volumes bound in 3, large 4to (37 x 27cm), contemporary green morocco gilt over heavy bevelled boards, gilt gauffered edges incorporating a Greek-key roll, broad turn-ins richly gilt, 46 steel-engraved plates including frontispieces and additional vignette title-pages, tissue-guards, rubbing to joints and extremities, light discolouration to boards, volume 3 front joint cracked at foot; Kay, John. A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings.

Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, Carver & Gilder, 1837. 2 volumes, 4to, volume 1 pp. 277/8 torn without loss, 358 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, morocco labels, rubbed, one cover detached;

and 13 others (these not collated), mostly leather-bound, including: James Gairdner (editor), The Paston Letters A.D. 1422-1509. London: Chatto & Windus, 1904 (6 volumes, 4to (21.5 x 15.5cm), contemporary crushed dark green half morocco, gilt spines, marbled boards, coat of arms incorporating three cockle shells dexter and entwined serpents sinister gilt to front boards, top edges gilt, title-pages in red and black); [Joseph Hewlett], Peter Priggins, the College Scout. Edited by Theodore Hook. With Illustrations by Phiz, London: Henry Colburn, 1841 (3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary green half calf, gilt spines, etched plates, rubbed, plates spotted); P. Hately Waddell, Life and Works of Robert Burns, Glasgow, 1867 (4to, contemporary half calf, hand-coloured frontispiece); Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Poetical and Dramatic Works, 1844 (8vo, contemporary maroon morocco with arabesque decoration gilt to sides); Reginald Heber, The Poetical Works, 1845 (8vo, contemporary straight-grain blue morocco gilt); Lord Guthrie, Robert Louis Stevenson: Some Personal Recollections, 1920 (first edition, one of 500 copies, 8vo, original cloth); Robert Burns, The Works, Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1877-8 (6 volumes, 8vo, original orange cloth gilt, engraved plates) (approx. 30)

£200-300

SETS OF BINDINGS COMPRISING

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London, 1791. 12 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, slightly worn;

Prescott, William Hickling. The Works. Philadelphia, 1874-1878, 15 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, spines gilt;

Fielding, Andrew. The Works. London, 1785. 10 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, rebacked;

Pepys, Samuel. Diary and Correspondence. London, 1854, 6 volumes, 8vo, plates, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, spines gilt, one board detached;

Motley, John L. History of the United Netherlands, 1870, 4 vol.; The Rise of the Dutch Republic. 1871, 3 vol.; The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, 1874, 2 vol; Correspondence. 1889, 2 vol., contemporary half calf, spines gilt;

[Addison, Joseph, Sir Richard Steele et al.] The Spectator. London: Printed by H. Hughes, 1789; 8 volumes, 8vo, engraved title vignettes, contemporary calf rubbed, one volume rebacked, a few joints splitting; Scott, Sir Walter. Novels and Tales. Edinburgh, 1819, 12 volumes, 8vo, engraved title pages, contemporary green morocco gilt, g.e., spines faded;

Mitford, William. The History of Greece. London, 1829. 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary diced calf, spines gilt; sold as a collection of bindings not subject to return (75)

£500-700

221

FETTES COLLEGE PRIZE BINDINGS

COLLECTION OF WORKS, LITERATURE AND CLASSICS

23 works in 24 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, spines gilt, Fettes College gilt arms to upper covers, one volume repaired, comprising:

Hume Brown. The History of Scotland. 1900; Shakespeare, W. The Works, c. 1900; Browning, Robert. The Poetical Works. 1903, 2 volumes; Aeschylus. Tragoediae. c.1900; Monro, D.. Homeri opera et reliquaie. 1896; Milton, John. The poetical works. 1899; Homer. The Iliad and Odyssey, c.1900; Wordsworth, W. The Poetical Works, c. 1900; Wordsworth, W. The Poetical Works. 1895; Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution. 1900; Carlyle, Thomas. Sartor Resartus. Heroes, Hero-Worship, c.1900;

Tennyson, Lord. The Works. 1900; Sophocles. The text of the seven plays. 1897; Bartlett, J.V. The Apostolic Age. 1900; Beet, J.A. A Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians. 1888;

Rainy, Robert. The Ancient Catholic Church. 1902; Salmon, G. A Historical Introduction to the Study of the Books of the New Testament. 1899;

Alighieri, D. The Divine Comedy. 1886; Green, J.R. A Short History of the English People. 1902;

Bury, J.B. A History of Greece. 1900; Bruce, A.B. Apologetics, c.1900;

Virgil. Opera, c. 1900;

Davidson, A.B. The Theology of the Old Testament. 1904 (24)

£300-500

222

A GROUP OF LEATHER-BOUND 19TH CENTURY BOOKS

58 VOLUMES

Elton, J. Frederic. Travels and Researches among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern & Central Africa. London: John Murray, 1879. 8vo, frontispiece, portrait, 3 maps, 12 plates (including 1 folding plate), contemporary calf;

Kingsman, A. Over Volcanoes... London: Henry S. King & Co., 1872. 8vo, contemporary school prize calf binding;

Burns, Robert. The Works... London: T. Cadell, 1813. 5 volumes (including the Reliques of Robert Burns), 8vo, portrait, contemporary calf, joints split;

Verne, Jules. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. London: Griffith and Farran, 1876. 8vo, contemporary calf; and another copy;

Prescott, William H. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain. London: George Routledge and Sons, [n.d.] 8vo, portrait, contemporary school prize calf binding;

Milton, John. The Poetical Works of John Milton. London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co., [n.d.] 8vo, portrait, 7 plates, contemporary calf;

Anderson, William. Sketches of the History and Present State of The Russian Empire. London: Gale, Curtis and Fenner, 1815. 8vo, contemporary calf;

Tandon, Moquin. The World of the Sea. London: Cassell, Petter, and Gilpin, [n.d.] 8vo, contemporary school prize calf binding;

MacDonald, George. The Vicar’s Daughter. Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1872. 8vo, contemporary red half morocco; with 13 other uniform volumes: Ouida. Strathmore; Linton. Under Which Lord; Mathers. Comin’ Thro’ the Rye; Ouida. Chandos; Black. A Prince of Thule; Broughton. Doctor Cupid; MacDonald. David Elginbrod; Deland. John Ward, Preacher; Oliphant. The Story of Valentine; Craik. A Legacy; Black. Strange Adventure of a House Boat; Gray. the Silence of Dean Maitland; Oliphant. A Country Gentleman and his Family; Byron, George Gordon, Lord. The Works. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., [n.d.] 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary green half morocco; and 29 others (including one volume with a ‘secret hiding place’ cut into all leaves, sold not subject to return (58)

£300-500

223

DICKENS, CHARLES WORKS

London: Merrill and Baker, n.d. Beaux-Arts edition, [n.d., c.1900], number 252 of 500 sets, 29 (of 30) volumes, 8vo, with 29 coloured frontispieces, contemporary red morocco gilt, some rubbing and chipping to bindings, many covers detached (29)

£300-400

ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS IN EVANGELIUM LUCAE

PARAPHRASIS

Basel: Froben, 1540. 8vo (15 x 10.5cm), 17th or 18th-century speckled sheep ruled in blind, edges sprinkled red, printer’s woodcut device to title-page and verso of final leaf, binding rubbed in places, short crack to foot of front joint, early ink inscription to head of title, a few early ink underlinings and marginalia [Adams E761] (1)

Note: Erasmus’s paraphrase of the Gospel of Luke was first printed in 1523, also by Froben. The dedication is to Henry VIII.

Provenance: From the library of the earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, with bookplate to front pastedown and blind stamp to title-page and following leaf as usual.

£200-300

225

BIBLE; ENGLISH; AUTHORISED

THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT

[Amsterdam?: no printer], 1672. Folio in sixes (37.2 x 22cm), 19th-century ‘divinity’ calf over heavy bevelled boards, spine and covers blind-tooled overall with geometric panelling and floral devices, marbled endpapers, all edges dyed red, [26] 710 248 pp., engraved additional title-page, binding scuffed, engraved title-page soiled and laid down, text with variable light soiling (old finger-marks, ink-splashes and oil-stains), OT with small holes in A2 and S6, NT n4 with repaired closed tear [Darlow & Moule 556; ESTC R30791, tracing 10 copies world-wide; Wing B2285] (1)

Note: This rare edition combines the text of the Authorised version with the notes of the Geneva version.

£400-600

226 BIBLE; ENGLISH; GENEVA VERSION

THE BIBLE, THAT IS, THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

Imprinted at London [i.e. Amsterdam]: Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1599. 4to, General title with woodcut, woodcuts in the text, New Testament title within wide woodcut border, 18th century tree calf, bound without Apocrypha (as often), General title with loss of fore-margin and slightly soiled, preliminary leaf listing Books frayed with loss, A1-2 frayed both with loss of a word of running title, small corner of Q3 and FF1 torn away with loss of a few words, LL4-6 all with loss of approximately half a leaf, final 2 leaves frayed with loss of a few words, some light staining, more pronounced at end, rubbed (1)

Note: Geneva version; with Thomson’s NT, but with Junius’ Revelation. The section containing the Apocrypha, though included in the list of books, was apparently omitted from all except a few copies. These Bibles were printed probably for English use in the Low Countries. There are many editions bearing this date, which while agreeing closely are yet distinct (some possibly published as late as 1640). No doubt a certain number of copies were originally issued in a mixed state. The nominal date, 1599, for most editions is probably untrue in almost every case; they were apparently published at different times in Amsterdam and Dort and adopted by Barker.

This edition with Esther i, 1: seven I and twenty provinces. ”Easily distinguishable from the other editions; since every page is surrounded, and the columns are separated, by black lines”. Herbert 254.

Provenance: Dr Lorimer, Dr John G. Lorimer, Robert Lorimer, W.L. Lorimer 1921, R.L.C. Lorimer 1967.

£300-500

227 BIBLE; POLYGLOT BIBLIA SACRA POLYGLOTTA

edited by Samuel Lee. London: S. Bagster, 1831. Large folio, text in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, contemporary maroon morocco gilt, metal clasps, gilt edges, large morocco gilt presentation label to front endpaper “Presented to the Revd. John G. Lorimer, as a tribute of gratitude & esteem from the young ladies who have attended his Congregational Classes, Glasgow, 8th Feb. 1836”, upper joint splitting;

The Holy Bible. Edinburgh: Mark and Charles Kerr, 1793. 4to, contemporary calf, sewn into a black morocco wrap-around ‘chemise’, with pencilled note “Pulpit Bible belonging to the Rev. Dr. Campbell - used by him in St. Giles. Given me by her Aunt, Mrs Kerr, 1899. D.C. died 1828. Mrs Kerr died Nov. 1901” (2)

£300-400

MEARNE, SAMUEL (1624-1683), BINDER THE WORKS OF THE REVEREND AND LEARNED DIVINE, THOMAS JACKSON, D.D.

Sometime President of Corpus Christi College in Oxon; such as were, and such as never before were printed. London: Andrew Clark [and others], 1683. 3 volumes, folio (32 x 20cm), contemporary red goatskin by Samuel Mearne, binder to Charles II, gilt ciphers of Charles II to spine compartments and to corners of boards, all edges gilt, errata leaf to rear of each volume, [50] 1043 [3], [6] 1-791 794-1104 [p. 1104 misnumbered 1196] [2], [2] 1-280 285-899 [5] 901-980 [22] pp., variable wear to extremities of bindings, rubbing and a few scuffs to covers, light marginal browning, a few quires spotted or browned, spill-burn to in volume 1 4H4 [ESTC R24401] (3)

Provenance: William Willis MA (18th-century armorial bookplates to versos of title-pages).

£500-800

229 BINDINGS

SET OF BIBLES AND BOOKS OF COMMON PRAYER IN FINE MOROCCO ‘SUNBURST’ BINDINGS

1) The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New. London: Charles Bill, 1706. Folio (31.5 x 20cm), near-contemporary red morocco, spine compartments and covers richly gilt with flower devices, flanged drawer-handle motifs, angels, doves and urns, covers with central sunburst motifs comprising concentric light and dark green morocco onlays within gilt corona, all edges gilt, extra-illustrated with numerous engraved plates, a few light scores to front cover, lacking 3G3-4 (part of Daniel), 3I3-4 (Obadiah to Micah IV), 3S3-4 (part of Apocrypha), 4B3-5 (Matthew), all supplied in early manuscript, also lacking engraved additional title-page and New Testament letterpress title-page, manuscript genealogy (Smith family, St Martin’s parish, Ludgate) to initial blanks, front free endpaper excised, old spotting and staining, occasional repairs, one plate (Jepthahs Vow) torn with partial loss of text [ESTC T89302];

2) The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. Oxford: Thomas Baskett, 1747. 4to (26 x 19cm), contemporary green morocco, rebacked with gilt spine, covers each with decorative gilt frame enclosing central onlaid red morocco sunburst motif incorporating Christogram and angel-heads, all edges gilt, extra-illustrated with numerous engraved plates and maps from The Historical Part of the Holy Bible ... in above Two Hundred Historys

Curiously Engrav’d by J. Cole from Designs of ye best Masters (London: Richard Ware, c.1725), the engraved title-page to the work also bound in, several of the plates folding, BCP bound in at front (Oxford: Thomas Baskett, 1747), this extra-illustrated with engraved additional title-page by John Sturt (with imprint of Richard Ware and possibly issued as part of the Two Hundred Historys set), bookplate of J. F. Thomas-Peter, covers refurbished, occasional offsetting and spotting to text-leaves adjacent to plates [Darlow & Moule 1078; ESTC T184184; see ESTC T130293 for The History Part of the Holy Bible, tracing 10 separately bound copies world-wide];

3) [The Holy Bible ... Oxford: printed by the University Printer, 1731]. 4to (23.8 x 18cm), contemporary red morocco, rebacked with gilt spine, broad gilt border to covers enclosing central green morocco sunburst motifs incorporating Christogram and angel-head devices, lacking general title-page (New Testament title-page with imprint London: assigns of His Majesty’s printer, and Henry Hills deceased), extra-illustrated with numerous engraved plates from The Historical Part of the Holy Bible (see above), BCP (Oxford: John Baskett, 1728) bound in at front, itself extra-illustrated with same engraved additional title-page as above and an engraved portrait of George II, contemporary ownership inscriptions of Elizabeth Hamnett and others to initial blanks, covers refurbished, endpapers renewed, text slightly browned, occasional spotting, leaf Q4 repaired [ESTC T81355]

4) The Book of Common Prayer. London: Thomas Baskett, 1741. 4to (23.4 x 18cm), contemporary green morocco gilt, onlaid red and green morocco sunburst motifs to covers incorporating Christogram, Psalms bound in at rear, binding slightly rubbed, gilt faded from edges of text-leaves, tips bumped, spotting and browning, small tear in M4, [ESTC T167430];

5) The Book of Common Prayer. Cambridge: John Archdeacon, 1768. 12mo (15 x 8.2cm), contemporary green morocco gilt, onlaid red and green morocco sunburst motifs to covers, one metal clasp (of two), extraillustrated with suites of engraved plates by John Sturt (The Liturgy of the Church of England Adorn’d with 55 Historical Cuts, London: Richard Ware, no date) including portrait frontispiece of George II and additional title-page, Psalms bound in at rear, rubbing to spine and extremities [ESTC T87229] (5)

£600-800

BINDINGS

THE HOLY BIBLE [AND:] THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

London: George E. Eyre and Andrew [BCP: William] Spottiswoode, c.1847. 2 works, 12mo (13.6 x 8cm), contemporary relievo-style bindings of embossed black papier-mâché, each cover showing Christ standing with right hand raised in blessing against intricate background of gothic tracery, foliate scrolls and flowers, edges gilt gauffered to flower-and-diamond pattern, comb-marbled endpapers, Bible signatures A-2X12 BCP A-X12 Z6, BCP with an edition of the Psalms bound in at rear (dated 1847, sigs. A-C12 D6), both works neatly rebacked with original spines laid down, a few hairline cracks and small areas of loss to bindings, Bible with damp-staining to lower fore corners of prelims, title-page with restored paper-loss in gutter costing a few letters of text, BCP with occasional light spotting and staining, sigs. I7-8 partially stuck together (2)

Note: An identical binding is found on a copy of the Book of Common Prayer held by the British Library and accessible via their online database of bookbindings (shelfmark C72a7 1).

£300-400 231

TILLOTSON, JOHN

[COLLECTED SERMONS, FINELY BOUND]

Published from the Originals, by Ralph Barker, D.D., Chaplain to his Grace. London: Richard Chiswell, 1700-4. 14 volumes, 8vo (18.4 x 11cm), contemporary red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume, a few volumes with half-title printed on recto of frontispiece, early ownership inscriptions (Selina Skipwith, dated 1785, and U. Cartwright) to initial blanks, bookplates of Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Pembroke College, Oxford, occasional spotting, volume 10 frontispiece offset, volume 13 with wear to head of spine, volume 14 sunned or perhaps bound in non-uniform orange morocco but with the same tooling (14)

Note: John Tillotson was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694. This collected edition of his sermons does not contain a series-title or have its own entry on ESTC, but statements on the title-pages indicate that it was issued as a discreet set complete in fourteen volumes.

£300-500

232

HILARE KNIGHT, NÉE BARLOW, LATER COUNTESS NELSON AND DUCHESS OF BRONTË (D.1857), HER COPIES

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER [AND:] PROPER LESSONS TO BE READ AT MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER

Oxford: University Press, 1834. 2 works, 48mo (10.5 x 5.8cm), contemporary blue velvet, brass coping, clasps and catches, brass escutcheons to covers, engraved with titles (‘Prayer’ and ‘Lessons’) on front and with owner’s name ‘Hilare’ and two coronets (earl and duke) on rear, all edges gilt, blue moiré silk doublures, ink inscriptions ‘Easter Day, April 19th 1835’ on titlepages, housed in a contemporary dual-compartment morocco slipcase with flap (2)

Note: Hilare Knight was the daughter of Admiral Sir Robert Barlow. She was first married to a cousin, Captain George Ulric Barlow, in 1817. He died in 1824 and in 1829 she married the much older and recently widowed Reverend William Nelson (1757-1835), brother of Horatio, upon whose death in 1805 he (William) had been created first earl Nelson (Horatio himself having only ever been a viscount) as well as inheriting the Sicilian dukedom of Brontë. After William’s death, Hilare, now styled the dowager Countess Nelson, married George Thomas Knight (1795-1867), nephew of Jane Austen, being the son of Austen’s brother Edward Knight, and in his day a noted cricketer. Hilare was profiled in the May 1836 issue of The Court Magazine. A silver teapot which belonged to William Nelson showing both his earl’s and ducal coronets is held by the Royal Museums Greenwich (catalogue number PLT0098).

£300-400

HOUSMAN, CATHERINE

THREE LETTERS TO A FRIEND

London: A. J. Valpy, 1833. First edition, 8vo, contemporary red morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 155 2 pp., 8 plates (7 engraved of which 2 hand-coloured; one aquatint), slips tipped to plates facing pp. 78 and 80 and to p. 90, rubbing to joints and extremities;

Rhind, William Graeme. The Creation, illustrated by Six Engravings on Steel. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1844. Second edition (same year as the first), small 4to, original cloth, xviii 399 pp., engraved frontispiece, 6 mezzotint plates depicting the stages of creation, tissue-guards, front free endpaper removed, damp-staining to binding, frontispiece and plates 5-6, old library stamp (Rake Lane Lending Library) to title-page; Anderson, J. W. The Manner pointed out in which the Common Prayer was read in Private by the late Mr. Garrick, for the Instruction of a Young Clergyman: from whose Manuscript Notes this Pamphlet is composed. London: J. Plymsell, 1797. First edition, 8vo, contemporary diced tan calf, short crack to head of front joint, spotting, half-title discarded [ESTC T171474: 9 copies in UK libraries];

[Derbyshire Dissenters]. Forms of Prayer, for the Use of a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters in Belper. Belper: S. Mason, 1823. First edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled sheep, 106 pp., wear to head of spine, crack to foot of rear joint;

[Hawks, Francis]. A Narrative of Events Connected with the Rise and Progress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1836. First edition, 8vo, near-contemporary tan half calf gilt, 286 [2] 332 pp., gift inscription to T. G. B. Estcourt (1775-1853), member of parliament for the University of Oxford, to binder’s blank, Estcourt family bookplate, half-title discarded, part 1 leaf G4 repaired; Charke, Charlotte. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, (Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq;). Containing ... Her Adventures in Mens Cloaths ... Her turning Pastry Cook, etc. in Wales. London: W. Reeve; A. Dodd; E. Cook, 1755. Second edition, 12mo, contemporary half sheep, engraved portrait frontispiece, half-title, covers and frontispiece detached [ESTC T68298: 2 copies in UK libraries]; and 3 others (not collated, including Thomas Newton, Dissertations on the Prophecies, 1804, 2 volumes contemporary Brasenose College Oxford prize-bindings; and Lockwood, The Western Pioneers, 1881, original cloth) (10)

Note: Library Hub traces four copies only for Mrs Housman’s work, a defence of the Biblical account of creation in the form of a response to two works by Scottish churchman Alexander Keith which adopted an accommodating view of Newtonian physics and recent advances in geology. Two copies traced for the Belper Forms of Prayer (Oxford and Manchester).

£300-500

234

MURET, PIERRE RITES OF FUNERAL ANCIENT AND MODERN in use through the known world.... to which is added a Vindication of Christianity against Paganism. All translated into English by P. Lorraine. London: for R. Royston, 1683. First English edition, 8vo, [xii], 308; [xvi], 126, [ii]; contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, red morocco lettering piece, [ESTC R28843; Sabin S1443] (1)

Note: The seventh and eighth chapters are devoted to the description of the funerals of the Americans and West Indian Islanders. The work is dedicated to the diarist, Samuel Pepys. Rare. Muret’s original edition was published in Paris in 1679.

£600-900

235

OCCULT - GEOMANCY

LA GEOMANCE DU SEIGNEUR CHRISTOPHE DE CATTAN GENTILHOMME GENEVOYS

Livre non moins plaisant et recreatif, que d’ingenieuse invention, pour scavoir toutes choses, presentes, passées et à advenir. Avec la Roüe de Pythagoras. Le tout corrigé, et mis en lumiere par Gabriel du Preau. Paris: Jean Corozzet, 1558. First edition, 4to (22.6 x 15.5cm), c.1900 half vellum, woodcut device to title-page, woodcut initials, astrological diagrams, diagram of the wheel of Pythagoras and geomantic tables in text, moderate spotting and soiling (chiefly to outer leaves), initial two quires and final quire (a-2 and 2Y) slightly chipped along edges, old ink-staining in top margins of early leaves (quires a-C; intermittent thereafter; stronger to leaf e4 and causing some paper corrosion), a2-3 misbound after quire e, e1 tipped in, small spillburn in 2X4 [Adams C1128, with variant imprint] (1)

Note: One of the most comprehensive and widely cited works on geomancy, or divination by sand, an occult science with origins in the Arab world. An English edition appeared in 1591.

£500-800

WESLEY, CHARLES

HYMNS AND SACRED POEMS

Bristol: E. Farley, 1755. Second edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked and restored, 332 [11], 336 [11] pp., titlepages lightly browned along edges and with indeterminate early ink inscriptions, small ink-stain to fore margins of early leaves in volume 1 (including title-page), ink-stamps (B. B. Bennett, Trinity College, Cambridge) to front free endpapers [ESTC T31329] (2)

Note: The first edition appeared in 1749. Charles Wesley had the work published in order to prove his financial viability to the family of Sarah Gwynne, whom he married in the April of that year.

£400-600

237

THEOLOGICAL WORKS

A COLLECTION OF 8 VOLUMES

Calvin, Jean. Institutionis Christianae

Religionis a Ioanne Calvino conscriptae.

London: Thomas Vautroller, 1584. 8vo, [32], 373, [35], woodcut on title, 18th century quarter calf, title dust-soiled, trimmed a little close at head and occasional running title shaved, occasional light dampstaining, final leaf holed with loss of 1 word, binding worn; [An abridgement, by Edmund Bunny, of Institutio Christianae religionis], [ESTC S118602];

[Bible, Latin.] Novum Testamentum...

interprete Theodore Beza. Cambridge: Ioannis Field, 1666. 12mo, engraved title, contemporary calf, spine gilt, g.e., title trimmed at foot with very slight loss, early inscription

‘Ex Libris Ioa. Simpson’ on front endpaper and colophon leaf, corner of L11-12 singed with minimal loss, a few running titles just shaved, [*** This edition not recorded on ESTC or Wing, which records a 1676 edition (Wing B2788)];

[Bible, Latin.] Biblia Sacra sive Testamentum

Vetu. Ab. Im. Tremellio et Fr. Iunio ex Hebraeo Latinè redditum, et Testamentum Novum, à Theod. Beza è Graeco in Latin versum.

Amsterdam: apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1648. 12mo, engraved title, contemporary vellum, yapp edges;

Ames, William. Medulla Theologica.

Amsterdam: apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1641. 12mo, engraved title, contemporary vellum, extensive early annotations and underlinings, with early inscription of ‘G. Saldemus’ on annotated blank leaf before title; also with inscription of Peter Rae 1743 (possibly Peter Rae 1671-1748);

Erasmus, Desiderius. Colloquia nunc emendiatora cum omnium Notis. Amsterdam: apud R. & G. Wetstenios. [between 1700 and 1727], 16mo, engraved title, contemporary calf, rubbed, lacks clasp;

Erasmus, Desiderius. Colloquia familiaria. [? Rotterdam, R. Leers, c.1690], 16mo, engraved title, contemporary vellum, bookplate and signature of Thomas Walpole, 1744; He Kaine Diatheke. Novum Testamentum, edited by Johan Leusden, Amsterdam: ex officina Wetsteniana, 1701. 16mo, engraved frontispiece hand-coloured, shaved, with short tear, 1 folding map, contemporary calf, clasp, title somewhat dust-soiled, occasional spotting, rubbed; Witsius, Hermann. De Oeconomia foederum dei cum hominibus libri quatuor. Editio quarta. Herborn: J. N. Andreae, 1712. 4to, title printed in red and black, contemporary calf, spine gilt, early inscription of David Stevenson on title and front endpaper, and inscriptions of Dr Lorimer, J.G. Lorimer D.D., Robert Lorimer and W.L. Lorimer on endpaper (8)

£400-600

238

SCOTTISH THEOLOGY

GROUP OF 17TH-CENTURY WORKS

Baillie, Robert. An Historicall Vindication of the Government of the Church of Scotland. London: S. Gellibrand, 1646. 4to, [16], 79, [1]; 56, 18th century calf, [ESTC R201008], small repair to foot of title;

Gillespie, George. A Dispute against the English-Popish Ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland. [Edinburgh]: Printed in the year of our Lord, 1660. 4to, 96, 99-186, 185-272, 279-285, p. 184, 285-316, 319-366, early 19th-century calf, [ESTC R7982], upper joint split;

[Anon.] A Proper Project for Scotland. To Startle Fools, and Frighten Knaves... [Edinburgh] Printed in a Land where SELF’s Cry’d up, and ZEAL’s cry’d down, 1699. 4to, pp. 77, [3]; 4to, 19th century half morocco, title darkened, [ESTC R219180], rubbed;

Paterson, John. Tandem Bona Causa Triumphat. or Scotlands Late misery bevailed, and the Honour and Loyalty of this Ancient Kingdom, asserted in a Sermon. Edinburgh: Society of Stationers, 1661. 4to, [5], 21, later quarter morocco, [ESTC R30086], title laid down, rubbed;

[Curate, Jacob] The Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence. London: Randal Taylor, 1692. 4to, [iii], 116, 19th century half calf, [ESTC R10498], title laid down, some loss to head of spine; [Strachan, William] Some Remarks upon a late Pamphlet, entituled an Answer to the Scots Presbyterian Eloquence. London: J. Hindmarsh, 1694. 4to, [xviii], 88, modern quarter morocco, some spotting, [ESTC R1954], rubbed (6)

£300-500

SERMONS AND THEOLOGY STERNE, LAWRENCE

The Sermons of Mr Yorick. London: W. Strahan [&c.], 1777776, 6 volumes, 12mo, engraved portrait, contemporary calf, rubbed;

[Curate, Jacob.] The Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence... second edition. London: R. Taylor, 1693. 4to, 19th century tooled calf, [ESTC R4863];

Keith, Rev. Robert. An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops down to the year 1688. Edinburgh, 1824. 8vo, frontispiece, brown half morocco;

Renwick, James. An Informatory Vindication of Poor, Wasted, Misrepresented, Remnant of the Suffering, Anti-Popish, AntiPrelatick, Anti-Erastian, Anti-Sectarian, True Presbyterian Church of Christ in Scotland. [? Edinburgh], Anno MDCCVII. 8vo, 232,[24],233-278p. [ESTC T184567], bound with: Eschol Grapes, or Some of the Ancient Boundaries and Covenanted March Stones, set up by Kirk and State, in the Days when they Acted for the Lord. [?Edinburgh]: Printed in the year MDCCVIII, [ESTC N9286]; bound with The National Covenant, or the Confession of Faith of the Kirk of Scotland. [Edinburgh ?] Re-printed in the year. [?1660], 8vo, 40pp., [ESTC R231460]; 3 works in one volume, contemporary calf, some dampstaining; Renwick, Rev. James. A Choice Collection of very valuable Prefaces, Lectures, and Sermons. Glasgow: J. Bryce, 1776. 8vo, contemporary calf, rather dust-soiled; [Forbes, Duncan]. Memoirs of the Life of the late Right Honourable Duncan Forbes Esq. of Culloden. London: for the author, 1748, 8vo, half calf, [ESTC T67757], slightly rubbed; Burnet, Gilbert. A Sermon preached in the Chappel of St. James’s before his Highness the Prince of Orange. London: R. Chiswell, 1689. 4to, quarter morocco, [[ESTC R25955], rubbed; Guthrie, James. A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Sermons. Edinburgh: R. Menzies, 1814. 12mo, contemporary half cloth; Hickes, George. Devotions in the Antient Ways of Offices. London, 1717. 8vo, frontispiece, contemporary calf, corners worn (14)

£300-500

240

WHITEHEAD, ALFRED NORTH [GRAEME HALDANE]

8 VOLUMES

The Concept of Nature. Cambridge, 1920. First editions, 2 copies, one inscribed in pencil ‘Haldane’, one inscribed ‘T.N.G. Haldane July 1920’ with 10pp. manuscript essay, possibly by T.N.G. Haldane, “Dr. Whitehead’s Concept of Nature” loosely inserted;

An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge. Cambridge, 1919. 2 copies, First editions, original cloth; The Principle of Relativity with applications to Physical Science. Cambridge, 1922. First edition, original cloth; Science and the Modern World. Cambridge, 1926. 2 copies, First editions, original cloth, one with occasional light marginal pencil scoring, other with bookplate of Humphry Davy Rolleston, Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge; Eddington, A.S. Stars and Atoms. Oxford, 1927. First edition, inscribed ‘T.G.N. Haldane’ in pencil on front endpaper (8)

£300-400

[ALMON, JOHN]

A NEW MILITARY DICTIONARY or, the Field of War. Containing a Particular and Circumstantial Account of the most Remarkable Battles, Sieges, Bombardments, and Expeditions, whether by Sea or Land. Such as related to Great Britain and her Dependencies ... By a Military Gentleman. London: J. Cooke, 1760. Folio (36.2 x 22.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, signatures A-5R2, unpaginated, engraved frontispiece, 39 engraved portraits, maps, plans and views, bookplates of William Thornton (?1840), British army officer, reimposed to pastedowns, plates variably offset, frontispiece spotted [ESTC T110923: 5 copies in UK libraries] (1)

Note: Published at the height of the Seven Years’ War, the work contains views of Fort Niagara and the city of Montreal, and maps of Canada (including part of New England and New York) and Quebec (showing the disposition of Wolfe’s forces during the 1759 siege of Quebec).

£300-500

242

CHURCHILL, WINSTON

THE COLLECTED ESSAYS OF SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

London: Library of Imperial History, [foreword dated 1976]. Centenary edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, original blue quarter morocco gilt (4)

£400-600

243

CHURCHILL, WINSTON S. THE SECOND WORLD WAR

London: The Educational Book Company Ltd, [1955]. ‘Chartwell’ edition, deluxe issue, 6 volumes, large 8vo, original blue quarter morocco, blue cloth sides, top edges dyed blue, numerous plates and maps, spines faded and rubbed (6)

Note: The Chartwell edition was also issued in a standard binding of red cloth.

£200-300

244

GRIFFITHS, CAPTAIN ANSELM JOHN

IMPRESSMENT FULLY CONSIDERED, WITH A VIEW TO ITS GRADUAL ABOLITION

London: J.W. Norie, 1826. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf (1)

£300-400

245 [KING CHARLES’S CORONATION] OGILBY, JOHN

The Kings Coronation: Being an Exact Account of the Cavalcade, with a Description of the Triumphal Arches and Speeches prepared by the City of London for his late Majesty Charles the Second, in his Passage from the Tower to Whitehall. Also the Narrative of his Majesties Coronation, with his magnificent proceeding and Feast in Westminster-Hall, April the 23th... published by William Morgan his Majesties Cosmographer. London: Printed by Ben. Griffin, to be sold by Christopher Wilkinson, 1685. Folio, [ii], 18, modern calf with gilt lozenge to covers, lettered in gilt on spine, g.e., letter ‘s’ of ‘Also’, on title page worn, lacks the license leaf at end, very small scrape to lower board; [ESTC R4915] (1)

£400-600

MACPHERSON, SIR WILLIAM GRANT AND OTHER MEDICAL SERVICES SURGERY OF THE WAR

London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1922. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, 23 colour plates, numerous illustrations in the text (wood-engraved and from photographs), occasional marginalia and underlining in pencil and ink, unopened in places (2)

Note: Scarce in commerce; the printer’s slug to the foot of each contents page indicates that there were 1,000 copies of the first volume and 1,500 of the second. The work was published as part of the History of the Great War Based on Official Documents series.

£200-300

247

MARINE ENGINEERING - RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT THE MODERN SYSTEM OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE

London: Day and Son, [1865], First edition, large folio, 3 volumes in 5, the text bound in 2 volumes; folding frontispiece in volume 1 and 168 engraved plates [numbered 1-79, 80-123, 124-165, and 4*, ?26* and 119*], many folding or double-page, (some very large), red half calf retaining original black cloth boards, the five volumes housed in a specially made wooden cabinet, a few plates slightly dampstained, plate 100 dampstained and with tear not affecting image, title of volume 1 creased, slightly soiled and laid down (5)

Note: John Scott Russell (1808–1882) was a Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder. In 1834, while conducting experiments to determine the most efficient design for canal boats, he discovered a phenomenon that he described as the wave of translation. In fluid dynamics the wave is now called Russell’s solitary wave. The wave of translation, or solitary wave, gave birth to the modern study of solitons, and developed the wave-line system of ship construction.

His work is an extensive guide of nineteenth-century naval architecture of iron steamships with 168 plates that include detailed plans for a variety of ocean and river steamers, monitors, and warships. Notably, a foldout lithograph of The Great Eastern, the largest vessel of its era, built by the author, J. S. Russell. The construction and saga of the Great Eastern was chronicled in James Dugan’s The Great Iron Ship.

”...this work naturally divides itself into three great parts, each of which may be said to form an independent treatise. The First Part [Naval architecture] will be devoted to the purely scientific branch of the profession—that which may be called pure naval architecture. In this part the scientific principles which must regulate the construction of the perfect design of a ship will be laid down with such exactness, as to enable the student of naval architecture to frame a design, which shall exactly fulfil the intended purpose...The Second Part of the work [Ship-building] will form a treatise requiring, perhaps, less science than the foregoing, but no less skill, thought, and knowledge...The Third Part of the work [Marine engineering] passes from the consideration of the mere ship, or sailing vessel, driven by the wind, to the self-acting and self-moving steam-ship.”Russell. Marine Engineering. Introduction, p.xxxvi

£1,200-1,800

248

KAY, JOHN

A SERIES OF ORIGINAL PORTRAITS AND CARICATURE ETCHINGS

Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1838, 2 volumes, 4to, 329 engraved plates, contemporary calf gilt, red and green morocco lettering pieces, one board detached, head of volume 2 slightly rubbed, small stamp on titles and free endpapers and bookplates of The Glasgow Art Club (2)

From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

£300-400

[SHORTHAND] BRIGHT, TIMOTHY CHARACTERIE AN ARTE OF SHORTE, SWIFTE, AND SECRETE WRITING BY CHARACTER

Invented by Timothe Bright, Doctor of Phisike. Imprinted at London by I. Windet, the assigne of Tim. Bright. ‘1588’

[Ulverstone: W. Holmes, 1888]. Small 8vo, contemporary calf, “This reprint is limited to 100 copies” [statement on verso of advertisement leaf], red morocco lettering piece, spine gilt (1) Note: Timothy Bright was the inventor of modern shorthand. He narrowly escaped the St Bartholomew’s massacre in France by taking refuge in Francis Walsingham’s house. The work is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth who, on 26th July 1588, granted him the exclusive privilege of printing books of this nature for fifteen years. Eight copies of Bright’s Characterie (1588) are known to be in existence, but only four of them are complete. JISC records 3 copies of the 1888 reprint in the U.K.

£300-500

250

[JACOBITE INTEREST]

ASCANIUS, OR THE YOUNG ADVENTURER

Manuscript copy after the edition: London: Printed for G. Smith, [n.d.] After 1746, 70 manuscript pp., in marbled paper wrappers, 20.5 x 16.5cm;

[Idem] Ascanius; or the young adventurer... London: G. Smith, [n.d.] 8vo, 18th or 19th century red half morocco gilt, some dust-soiling [ESTC T22533];

[Stuart, James Edward] Memoires du Chevalier de St. George...

Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1713. 12mo, portrait, title-page in red and black, contemporary vellum, a little marginal dampstaining;

[Mar, Robert Cochrane, Earl of] A Detection of the falsehood, abuse, and misrepresentations in the late libel, intitled, the life of Sir Robert Cochran, Prime Minister in Scotland, to James the third. London: T. Cooper, 1735. 8vo, modern wrappers [ESTC T31733];

[Earbery, Matthias] An historical account of the advantages that have accrued to England by the succession in the illustrious House of Hanover. London: 1722. Parts 1 & 2, 8vo, disbound; A cabinet council; Or secret history of Lewis XIV... London: H. Woodgate and S. Brooke, 1757. 12mo, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, some browning, early ownership stencil [ESTC T127892];

Colvil, Samuel. The Whigs supplication; Or, the Scots hudibras. A mock poem. St Andrews: James Morison, 1796. 12mo, engraved title-page, plates, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC T140221]; Forbes, J. MacBeth. Jacobite gleanings. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, 1903. 8vo, red cloth gilt, some dampstaining to title-page (8)

£300-500

251

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS ENGRAVED PORTRAIT BY THE WIERIX BROTHERS, 16TH CENTURY

Bust-length portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, 26.5 x 35cm, trimmed, not laid-down (1)

An unusual portrait engraving of Mary, Queen of Scots, attributed to the Flemish Wierix family. Another copy can be found in the Royal Collections.

£300-500

SCOTLAND - PARLIAMENT - PROCEEDINGS [ACT OF UNION] MINUTS [SIC] OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT

Edinburgh: Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1706-1707, Minuts [sic] numbers 1-89, most comprising one leaf, some two, the following Minuts with a folded sheet showing the voting records of the members of Parliament (15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 28, 29, 33, 34, 42, 43, 44, 46,47, 48,52, 55, 56, 57, 60, 62, 65, 68, 82), contemporary half calf, occasional light staining or spotting, rubbed, joints splitting (1)

Note: The proposal for the Union of Scotland and England was first debated by the Lords Commissioners during the first half of 1706; their discussions focussed in detail on customs and excise, the legal systems, shipping and the succession to the crown. Once the commissioners had agreed the terms of the treaty, it was the turn of the Scottish Parliament to examine it. The minutes of the proceedings in Parliament from the autumn of 1706 provide an insight into what the politicians were saying. The minutes also state who voted for and against each article. When the draft Treaty of Union was made public in October 1706, there were riots on the streets of Scottish towns and cities. In Edinburgh a ‘villanous and outragious mobb’ threatened and insulted judges and Members of the Scottish Parliament. The authorities issued a proclamation offering a reward for the capture of the rioters. In November a proclamation was issued ‘against all tumultuary and irregular meetings and convocations of the leidges’. In Glasgow, Dumfries and Lanark people were ‘insolently burning the Articles of Treaty betwixt our two Kingdoms’. Sheriffs, baillies and magistrates were authorised to take whatever action necessary to quench the riots. On 12th December 1706, Parliament ordered that a pamphlet entitled ‘Queries to the Presbyterian noblemen, barons, burgesses, ministers who are for the schem of an Incorporating Union’ be burnt by the hand of the common hangman, at the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh.

The Scottish Parliament received countless protests against the Union. Yet the authorities issued another proclamation in late December 1706 forbidding ‘unwarrantable and seditious convocations and meetings’. Some of the protestors may have been appeased by an Act for securing the Protestant religion and Presbyterian church government. This, along with the Act of Union, was passed in January 1707.

The Scottish Parliament adjourned on 25th March 1707. The proclamation dissolving the Parliament was published on 28th April and the new Parliament of Great Britain sat for the first time in Westminster on 1st May. The Scottish Parliament did not meet again until 12th May 1999.

The Treaty of Union consisted of 25 articles. Most of them dealt with economic matters, but they also discussed new flags, the great seal and coinage for the United Kingdom of Great Britain. More importantly, the succession to the crown was agreed. The Protestant Hanoverian line of succession was confirmed, Papists’ (Catholics or Jacobites) were excluded from inheriting the crown, Scotland retained her own legal and education systems and customs and excise charges were to be the same in both parts of the kingdom, though Scotland would receive a different treatment for a number of commodities.

An important article concerned a cash payment, called the Equivalent, to Scotland: nearly £400,000 was used to compensate Scotland for sharing the responsibility for England’s national debt of £18 million.

From October 1706 until January 1707, the Scottish Parliament met to discuss and to vote on each article in turn. The Court (government) Party won the votes. The printed minutes of the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament report briefly on its proceedings during the last months of its existence. The most passionate speech against the Union was delivered by John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven, on 2nd November. He begged for an end to ‘misunderstandings and fatal divisions’. Belhaven and other nobles such as the Marquis of Annandale and the Duke of Atholl vehemently voiced strong protests in Parliament against the Act, but they were in a minority among their peers. The barons and the burghs were far more evenly divided between those for and those against the Union.

Finally on 16th January, the Act ratifying the treaty was passed by 110 votes to 69; the nobility formed the largest pro-Union group. The Scottish Parliament continued to sit until 25th March 1707. The Queen’s Commissioner in Scotland, the Duke of Queensberry, ended its proceedings. Minute number 60 records the approval of the Act of Union, and the accompanying folded sheet records the list of Approvers - those voting for the Act - and ‘Noes’ - those voting against.

Bound with Her Majesty’s most Gracious Letter to the Parliament of Scotland. Edinburgh: A. Anderson, 1706, folio, 8pp.

£500-800

253

SCOTTISH HISTORY - MAITLAND CLUB AND SPALDING CLUB PUBLICATIONS

Maitland Club. Macgrigor, Alexander, editor. Reports on the State of Certain Parishes in Scotland. Edinburgh, Maitland Club, 1835. 4to, presentation copy from McGrigor to Hugh Tenant, original quarter cloth, uncut;

Maitland Club. Babell; a Satirical Poem on the Proceedings of the General Assembly in the year MCDXCII. Edinburgh, 1830. 4to, olive half morocco, uncut, slightly rubbed;

Maitland Club. The Works of George Dalgarno of Aberdeen. Edinburgh, 1834. 4to, contemporary brown half morocco, uncut, lightly rubbed;

Maitland Club. Hamilton, William. Descriptions of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew. Glasgow, 1831. 4to, engraved plates, contemporary brown half morocco, uncut, slightly rubbed;

Maitland Club. Winzet, Niniane. Certaine Tractatis for Reformatioun of Doctryne and Maneris in Scotland. Edinburgh, 1835. 4to, contemporary brown half morocco, uncut; Maitland Club. Scalacronica: by Sir Thomas Gray of Heton, Knight. A Chronicle of England and Scotland. Edinburgh, 1836. 4to, original boards, uncut, rebacked;

Abbotsford Club. Ecclesiastical Records. Selections from the Minutes of the Presbyteries of St. Andrews and Cupar. Edinburgh: Abbotsford Club, 1837. 4to, frontispiece, contemporary brown half morocco, uncut, slightly rubbed;

The Spalding Club. The Miscellany. Aberdeen: for the Club, 1841-53, 5 volumes, 4to, original cloth;

The Spalding Club. Stuart, John. The Book of Deer. Edinburgh, 1869. 4to, lithographed plates, original cloth, slightly spotted;

The New Spalding Club. Records of the Scots Colleges at Douai, Rome, Madrid, Valladolid and Ratisbon. Aberdeen, 1906, 4to, volume 1 (Registers of Students), number 306 of 500 copies, original cloth, uncut (14)

£300-400

254

SCOTTISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE

11 VOLUMES

including:

Boece, Hector. The History and Chronicles of Scotland... translated by John Bellenden. Edinburgh: W. & C. Tait, 1821, 2 volumes, 4to, gilt coat of arms with motto ‘Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense’ on sides, rebacked, corners slightly rubbed;

The Bruce and Wallace; published from two ancient manuscripts. Edinburgh: Manners and Miller [&c.],. 1820, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary green half morocco, uncut, slightly rubbed, upper hinge of volume 1 split; Ramsay, Allan. The Ever Green being a Collection of Scots Poems, wrote by the Ingenious before 1600. Edinburgh: A. Donaldson, 1761. 2 volumes, 12mo, inscription on endpapers “Dr Ramsay”, contemporary calf, rubbed;

Stewart, Duncan. A Short, Historical and Genealogical Account of the Royal Family of Scotland. Edinburgh: W. Sands [&c.], 1739. 4to, contemporary calf, a few stains and spots, lacking the genealogical table; rebacked, rubbed;

[Anonymous] Summary of the History, Principles, and Testimony of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Scotland. Paisley: S. Young, 1821, 8vo, contemporary half calf, rubbed, upper cover detached;

Lauder, William, editor. Poetarum Scotorum

Musae Sacrae. Edinburgh: T. & W. Ruddiman, 1739. 8vo, 2 parts in one volume, contemporary sheep, rubbed, [ESTC T125388], lacking frontispiece;

Church of Scotland. A Collection of Confessions of Faith, Catechisms, Directories, Books of Discipline &c. of Publick Authority in the Church of Scotland. Edinburgh: James Watson, 1719. Volume 1 only, contemporary calf, worn; Mackay, Robert. Songs and Poems, in the Gaelic Language. Inverness: K. Douglas, 1829. 8vo, contemporary cloth, title slightly torn in inner margin, binding a little soiled (11)

£300-500

SCOTTISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE

8 VOLUMES

[Defoe, Daniel] The History of the Union. Edinburgh: Heirs of Andrew Anderson, 1709. First edition, folio, woodcut coat of arms on title, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed; Lindesay, Robert. The History of Scotland from 21st February 1436 to March 1565. Edinburgh: Baskett and Company, 1728. Folio, inscribed at head of dedication ‘Capt. C. Mitchell, R.N., Bought by Mrs Geddes at the Sale of Capt. Mitchell’s books’, list of subscribers, contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked, corners repaired, a few leaves at end wormed in upper margin, foot of title neatly repaired; Pitcairn, Robert. Criminal Trials in Scotland from [1488] to [1624], embracing the entire reigns of James IV and V, Mary Queen of Scots, and James VI. Edinburgh: W. Tait, 1833. 4to, 3 volumes in 4 (volume 1 being in 2 parts), engraved plates, including facsimiles, original cloth, one hinge broken;

Forbes, Duncan. Culloden Papers, comprising an extensive and interesting correspondence from the year 1625 to 1748. London, 1815. 4to, additional engraved title, engraved plates, contemporary half calf, some spotting, rebacked, corners rubbed, armorial bookplate of Gerald James Cuthbert 1910; Campbell, Lord Archibald. Records of Argyll. Legends, Traditions and Recollections of Argyllshire Highlanders. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1885. Large paper copy, number 367, plates, original maroon cloth gilt, uncut (8)

Note: Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials comprises a massive compilation of early criminal cases from the Scottish courts, including the notice of “Remission to John Thowless, in Brechin, for the slaughter of Alexander Meill, committed ‘on suddentie,’ by the stroke of a ‘golf-club.’”

£500-600

FALCONER, WILLIAM

REMARKS ON THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE Situation, Nature of Country, Population, Nature of Food, and Way of Life, on the Disposition and Temper, Manners and Behaviour, Intellects, Laws and Customs, Form of Government, and Religion, of Mankind. London: C. Dilly 1781. First edition, 4to (28 x 22.5cm), xvi 552 [28] pp., uncut in original boards, expertly rebacked to style, spotting to covers and endpapers, occasionally to text, stain to lower margin of p. 163, short closed tear in Z4, [ESTC T60417; Goldsmiths’-Kress 12116; Norman 755] (1)

Note: An unsung forerunner of 19th-century historical materialism, the work was awarded the Fothergill gold medal by the Medical Society of London in 1796. Falconer was an Edinburgh-trained physician ‘most famous for his research into the Bath waters and their impact on chronic conditions ... In investigating the efficacy of the spa, William Falconer made an important contribution to later Georgian medical quantification, which contests the view that clinical statistics only emerged at the Paris hospitals after the French Revolution’ (ODNB).

£300-500

257

CAESAR, JULIUS

THE COMMENTARIES

Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse concerning the Roman Art of War. By William Duncan. Illustrated with Cuts. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and R. Dodsley, 1753. Folio (43 x 26cm), civ 335 [20] pp., modern panelled calf to style, richly gilt spine, marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled red, 79 engraved plates including frontispiece (plates ‘3’ and ‘4’ in fact one plate), most double-page and 3 (nos. 41, 75 and 78) also folding, 6 folding maps, frontispiece offset onto title-page, title-page additionally somewhat marked, signatures 2A-2B with short closed tear to head, plate 41 (buffalo) with repairs and short closed tears along bottom edge, plate 59 (folding map of Italy) with small repair, plate 75 (elephant) with small tear to intersection of folds and short closed tear to foot [ESTC T136453] (1)

Note: First Duncan edition. William Duncan (1717-1760) was professor of philosopher at Marischal College, Aberdeen. The plates, many by Cornelis Huyberts, include depictions of Picts, Britons, and ‘Germans’, battles including the famous ‘Battle with the Elephants’ scene, military formations and encampments, aerial city views, and a suite of nine plates after Mantegna’s Triumphs of Caesar

Remaining in print well into the 19th century, Duncan’s translation was influential the 18th-century revival of interest in Britain’s Celtic past and helped inspire his pupil James Macpherson in his creation of Ossian, the mythical Scottish bard. Publishing the work a few years after 1745 Jacobite rebellion, Duncan was evidently concerned to present Caesar as a model of leadership, advising his dedicatee the future George III: ‘It is likewise well known, that in dangerous domestic seditions ... nothing tends more to confirm the well-affected in their duty, and to check the machinations of the factious, than when a king every was qualified to command, appears in person at the head of his troops’.

£2,000-3,000

FERGUSON, ADAM

AN ESSAY ON THE HISTORY OF CIVIL SOCIETY

Edinburgh: for A. Millar and T. Caddel [sic], 1767. First edition, 4to (25.6 x 20cm), contemporary mottled calf, joints cracking but firm, occasional light spotting, chiefly to margins, 3A3-4 untrimmed at upper fore corners [ESTC T76205; Goldsmiths’ 10264] (1)

Note: An attractive copy of Ferguson’s masterpiece, a major Scottish Enlightenment text which proved hugely influential among contemporary British and continental European readers alike. Ferguson’s analysis of the problems facing advanced commercial societies ‘touched a chord in its British readers because it offered a detailed, colourful, non-deterministic historical account of the way nations advance morally and materially towards the state of commerce, refinement, and liberty associated with eighteenth-century Britain ... Ferguson rejected the legalistic accounts of the rise of states in terms of social contracts, and cast doubt on the simplistic economic and moral evolutionism associated with theories of natural law. Instead, he followed Montesquieu by acknowledging a great variety of factors, climatic and geographic, as well as cultural and moral, affecting the rise and fortunes of polities in Europe and beyond ... The Essay made its author famous throughout Europe. It was hailed by men of letters as diverse as James Boswell, Baron d’Holbach, and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. Of special significance was the Essay’s impact on the early attempts at creating the disciplines of social sciences by Ferguson’s contemporaries’ (ODNB).

Provenance: From the library of the ducs de Luynes at the château de Dampierre (bookplate and shelfmark label to front pastedown).

£1,000-1,500

259

HUME, DAVID POLITICAL DISCOURSES

Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1752. First edition, 8vo, [iv], 304, [vi], [ii (advertisement leaf)], errata to contents leaf verso, contemporary calf, gilt crown in compartments, Earl of Rosebery’s bookplate superimposed upon another, ‘PLC Lorimer’ in ink in small letters on front endpaper, a trifle rubbed (1)

Note: Considered the foundation of classical monetary economics, seven of the twelve discourses being on economics.

£2,000-3,000

260

HUME, DAVID DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION

London [no publisher], 1779. Second edition, 8vo, half-title, 264pp., original boards, uncut, binding worn, spine split, boards a bit scraped and stained (1)

£300-400

HUME, DAVID FOUR DISSERTATIONS

I. The natural history of religion. II. Of the passions. III. Of tragedy. IV. Of the standard of taste. London: A. Millar, 1757. First edition, 8vo, half-title with advertisements verso, title with woodcut ornament, with dedication a1-4, C12 and D1 cancels, without K5-K8 (as Rothschild), p.9 first word ‘lative’, p.131 first word ‘lancing’, contemporary armorial bookplate of David Scott of Nether Benholm, a trifle rubbed (1) Note: Originally the collection was to include the first three essays and ‘Of Suicide’ and ‘Of the Immortality of the Soul’. The last two proved controversial to readers of proof copies and were replaced by ‘Of the Standard of Taste’ for the published edition.

£700-1,000 262

HUTCHESON, FRANCIS

A SYSTEM OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY in three books. Published from the Original Manuscripts, by his Son Francis Hutcheson. To which is prefixed some Account of the Life, Writing, and Character of the Author, by William Leechman. Glasgow: printed and sold by R. and A. Foulis, 1755. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to (26.2 x 20cm), [12] xlviii 358, [4] 380, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with corners restored and endpapers renewed, bindings scuffed, spotting to title-pages, volume 1 sigs. K and 2U-2X and volume 2 sigs. C and 3B, volume 1 front free endpaper partly detached and with two ownership inscriptions (probably 19th century), occasional ink underlining, custom slipcase [ESTC T99472; Gaskell 297; Goldsmiths’ 8995] (2)

Note: Hutcheson was the second professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow, succeeding Gershom Carmichael and holding the position from 1730 until his death in 1746; his successor but one was Adam Smith, followed by Thomas Reid. Published after his death, A System of Moral Philosophy is ‘the most voluminous of Hutcheson’s writings; it is also the most ambitious in scope. It contains his most comprehensive account of human nature, the supreme good and greatest happiness, divine providence, natural rights, and civil government. His design in the System appears to have been to delineate a theodicy, in which God or providence is shown to have made provision for the happiness of the human race’ (ODNB).

£1,000-1,500

REID, THOMAS

ESSAYS ON THE ACTIVE POWERS OF MAN

Edinburgh: for John Bell, 1788. First edition, 4to (26 x 20.5cm), contemporary tan calf, red morocco label, edges sprinkled red, half-title, advertisement leaf, bookplate (Seton of Ekolsund), spine darkened, slight loss to head, a few quires spotted [ESTC T109117] (1)

Note: Thomas Reid was appointed professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow in 1764, succeeding Adam Smith, who had resigned to accompany the duke of Buccleuch on his continental tour. One of two major works Reid published in his retirement, the other being his Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785), the Essays on the Active Powers of Man ‘combined a defence of the concept of human free will with an attack on aspects of Hume’s theory of morals. Together, the two Essays shaped the teaching of moral philosophy in Britain and America well into the nineteenth century, partly thanks to the influence of his disciple Dugald Stewart, but also because they provided the basis for a systematic account of the faculties of the mind which was both well suited to the practicalities of pedagogy and consistent with most variants of protestant theology’ (ODNB).

£500-800

264

SMITH, ADAM

THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS

... To which is added, a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages. London: A. Strahan [and others], 1797. Eighth edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (20.6 x 12.5cm), xvi 488, viii 462 pp., contemporary tree calf, rebacked retaining original spines, edges dyed yellow, half-title to each volume, advertisement leaf to rear of volume 2 (mentioning works by Dugald Stewart, Adam Ferguson, David Hume and others), armorial bookplates (J. P. Hamilton; J. J. Reynolds), volume 1 F4 and X2 torn in lower margin and lower fore corner respectively (without loss of text) [ESTC T96681; Goldsmiths’ 17213];

Idem. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. With a Life of the Author. Also, a View of the Doctrine of Smith, compared with that of the French Economists; with a Method of Facilitating the Study of his Works; from the French of M. Garnier. London: William Baynes, 1812. 3 volumes, 8vo (20.9 x 13cm), [2] lxxi [1] 360, vi 512 [2], [8] 448 [50] pp., 20th-century half calf gilt, half-titles, contemporary ownership inscriptions to title-pages, volume 3 Q3-4 repaired, spotting to index [Goldsmiths’ 20437] (5)

£500-800

265 SMITH, ADAM

THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS

London: W. Strahan, J. & F. Rivington, [&c.], 1771. Fifth edition, 8vo, [viii], 478, [ii - advertisements], 2 pp. advertisements at rear, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, red morocco lettering piece, some light spotting, occasional minor stain, hinges strengthened (1)

£500-800

SCOTTISH LITERATURE

[CHETHAM LIBRARY] BUCHANAN, GEORGE FRANCISCANUS & FRATRES

Quibus accessere varia eiusdem & aliorum Poemata quorum & titulos & nomina XVI indicabit pagina. Basle: Thomas Guarinus, [1568], First edition, 8vo, [xvi], 319; 176; 143; some use of Hebrew type, late 18th century vellum, spine gilt with Greek key pattern, armorial bookplate of Rev. John Stirton M.V.C. D.D. (1)

Note: First edition of a 3-part collection of Neo-Latin verse. The previously published works by Buchanan in the first part comprise the satires on monasticism Franciscanus and Fratres fraterrimi; the biblical tragedy Jephthes; and translations of the Medea and Alcestis of Euripides. The second part contains poems by Adrien Turnebe, Michel de l’Hopital, and Jean Dorat; the third consists of Karel Utenhove’’s Astragalus.

On the front endpaper, facing the gift inscription, are listed 6 Italian authors, 3 French authors and 1 Scottish author [Buchanan], followed by the quip:

”Here 1 Scot, 3 French 6 Italians run

3 equal 6, but 9 are beat by 1” and

”3 French, with 6 Italian Poets shine

1 single Scot eclipseth all the nine.”

Provenance: Presentation inscription gifting volume to “Jos. Brereton, 17 March 1773 from my good friend Mr Thyer, the late Learned Librarian of Manchester”. Robert Thyer (1709–1781), 18th-century British writer and literary editor, best known as Chetham’s Librarian.

£500-700

267

BURNS, ROBERT POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT

Edinburgh: for the author, 1787. First Edinburgh edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xlviii, 9-368, engraved frontispiece portrait, list of subscribers, modern period-style panelled calf, red morocco lettering piece, some light dust-soiling, p. xlvii with small strip torn from blank fore margin, closed tear to p. 159 and 317, a few short closed marginal tears (1)

£700-1,000

268 BURNS, ROBERT

POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT

Edinburgh: printed for author, and sold by William Creech, 1787. 8vo (21 x 12.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, half-title, without the portrait, bookplate of H. M. Brower and printed catalogue description mounted to front pastedown, craquelure and score-marks to bindings, general light soiling to contents, A2-3 chipped along edges and therefore slightly shorter, closed tear in lower margins of quires F-G and Y, similar tear in Q2 extending into text, T1 signaturemark punched through, 2S4 with repaired closed tear to head, housed in a custom brown linen slipcase and chemise [ESTC T91547; cf. Rothschild 556] (1)

Note: First Edinburgh edition, the second overall, second issue, with the correct reading of ‘stinking’ in ‘To a Haggis’ on p. 263. According to Rothschild 3,000 copies were printed.

£300-500

269

MCGONAGALL, SIR WILLIAM TOPAZ

MCGONAGALL’S ODE TO THE KING. [AND:] BONNIE MONTROSE. A NEW POEM

Edinburgh: [printed for the author], 1902. Broadside, 31.5 x 24cm, printed on one side only in two columns each containing one poem, royal arms to head, signed by the author ‘Sir Wm Topaz McGonagall, Poet’, folded, chipped and marked, introductory paragraph to ‘Ode ot the King’ lightly scored through in pencil, sheet nearly separated along transverse central fold (1)

Note: Very rare broadside containing two poems by the infamous Scottish poetaster, dated July 1902, a few months before his death, in September. No other copies traced in libraries or in commerce.

£200-300

MCGONAGALL, SIR WILLIAM TOPAZ THE CLEPINGTON CATASTROPHE

Dundee: [printed for the author], 1884. Broadside, 27.6 x 21.5cm, printed on recto only, text in double column, decorative border, crown device at head, spotting and dust-soiling, a few nicks and chips along edges, strengthened upper left verso (1)

Note: Very rare early broadside poem by the infamous Scottish poetaster, published while he was still resident in his native Dundee, before he fled first to Perth and then Edinburgh to escape ‘relentless persecution by local audiences’ (ODNB). No other copies traced in libraries or in commerce.

£300-500

271

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS KIDNAPPED [AND:] CATRIONA

London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1886-93. 2 works, 8vo, 20th-century crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun-Riviere (blue and green respectively), gilt edges, half-title to each work, Kidnapped with folding map frontispiece and 17 pp. advertisements to rear, Catriona with list of author’s works to front and 18 pp. advertisements to rear, both with original cloth covers and spine bound in at rear, Kidnapped with a few light spots to lower margins and repaired closed tear to final leaf of advertisements (2)

Note: First editions; Kidnapped is a first issue, with ‘business’ for ‘pleasure’ at p. 40 line 10, ‘nine o’clock’ for ‘twelve o’clock’ at p. 64 line 1, ‘Long Islands’ for ‘Long Island’ at p. 101 lines 9-10, and pressmarks 5G.4.86 & 5B.4.86 in the advertisements.

£300-500

272

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. First UK edition, 8vo (17.2 x 10.2cm), 20th-century red quarter morocco, marbled sides, top edge dyed red, [6] 141 pp., without half-title or advertisements, spotting towards front and rear, pp. 35/6 dog-eared. Together with a copy of Kidnapped (first edition, 1886, original cloth, spine sunned, rolled and frayed, label removed from front board, folding map, ‘business’ at p. 40 l. 11, advertisements dated ‘5G 7-86’) (2)

£300-500

273

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES

Illustrated by Charles Robinson. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896. First illustrated edition (second overall) 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, with the dust jacket, 16 pp. publisher’s catalogue to rear dated 1895, dust jacket with a few chips to extremities, spine-panel toned, front flap largely torn away, browning to endpapers (1)

Note: A notably early example of the dust jacket. A Child’s Garden of Verses was first published in 1885.

Provenance: Margaret De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar (1878-1959), Scottish designer and member of the ‘Glasgow Girls’, with her selfdesigned bookplate (see further Lyon & Turnbull, Design Since 1860, 19 April 2023, lot 253).

£200-300

LIBERTINISM

RECORDS OF THE MOST ANCIENT AND PUISSANT ORDER OF THE BEGGAR’S BENISON AND MERRYLAND, ANSTRUTHER

[Bound with:] Supplement to the Historical Portion of the “Records of the ... Beggar’s Benison ... being an Account of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Society, together with Excerpts from the Toasts, Recitations, Stories, Bon-Mots, Speeches, and Songs delivered thereat. Anstruther [i.e. London]: printed for private distribution only [by J. Lewis, Wardour Street], 1892. 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo (20.7 x 13cm), near-contemporary red crushed morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, [10] 30 [2], 91 [3] pp., half-title, 9 photographic plates showing the society’s paraphernalia, pamphlet (Notes on “The Records of the Beggar’s Benison Society ...”, 1892, 16 pp.) tipped to front pastedown, 2 additional photographs of society paraphernalia tipped to front free endpaper and rear pastedown, bookplates, faint spots to covers, a few spots and marks to contents.

Together with an original Beggar’s Benison diploma of membership, 1759, granted by Robert Lumsden of Invergelly, admitting Ralph Teesdale, Captain, Royal Marines as member of the Edinburgh branch, manuscript on vellum, 16.8 x 31cm, signed by Walter Ferguson, recorder of the Edinburgh branch of the Beggar’s Benison, folded, retaining original pink ribbon, remains of red wax seal (2)

Note: First edition, one of 250 copies only. The Beggar’s Benison, a gentlemen’s sex club, was founded in Anstruther, Fife, in 1732 and is believed to have continued until the 1830s. The group’s recorded practices include a phallocentric initiation rite, ritualised onanism, inspections of nude female models, and sexualised toasts and readings. The present work is the principal source for the group’s activities and contains photographs of its paraphernalia including drinking goblets, medallions and its notorious ‘testing platter’, all decorated with priapic motifs. No other copy traced in auction records, apart from an incomplete copy offered Hodgson’s, London, in 1965, lacking three plates. £1,000-1,500

275

BROWN, GEORGE MACKAY A COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPT AND TYPED

MATERIAL

1) Sanatorium 1941. 20pp. manuscript account of Brown’s tuberculosis diagnosis until his assessment for fitness to fight in the Second World War (which he was to fail), dated 25/7/8- and initialled ‘GMB’;

2) Acrostic poem entitled: Brian Murray: 13th March 1994, manuscript, initialled GMB and inscribed ‘A HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIAN from George’; and another, undated;

3) Acrostic poem entitled: Elisa Murray: 22nd January 1992, manuscript, inscribed ‘Happy birthday, Elisa, Love, George’; and another, dated 1995;

4) 2 typed copies of ‘A Silver Calendar (to Nora), 1977;

5) 2 handmade printed Christmas cards, inscribed from George Mackay Brown;

6) 2 drafts of a letter written ‘To second year pupils, Sacred Heart Academy, Girvan, Ayrshire’, 2nd August 1988, each signed George Mackay Brown (Quantity)

£1,000-1,500

BROWN, GEORGE MACKAY

BOOKS FROM HIS LIBRARY

A collection of books from the library of George Mackay Brown, with his sticker or signature, and several inscribed to him as gifts, including: Orkney Short Stories. With an introduction by George Mackay Brown. The Orkney Press, 1983. 8vo, dust-jacket, with George Mackay Brown’s sticker; Douglas, Sheila. The King o The Black Art. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987. 8vo, inscribed to George Mackay Brown; Gupta, Ashis. Dying Traditions. South Godstone: Spantech Publishers Pvt Ltd, 1992. 8vo, signed and inscribed; Skea, Bessie. Melons and Icicles. A book of Orkney Memories. Kirkwall: W. R. Mackintosh, 1963. 8vo, signed to George, original wrappers; Finlay, Ian Hamilton. The Dancers Inherit the Party. A Migrant Pamphlet, Autumn, 1960. 8vo, inscribed: from Ian H. Finlay to George Brown, June 2nd. ‘61, original wrappers;

[Idem] - Zeljko Kujundzic. 6 Small Songs in 3’s. Wild Hawthorn Press, 1966. Oblong 8vo, inscribed ‘love from Ian’, original wrappers; and 123 others (129)

£300-500

277

BROWN, GEORGE MACKAY

A COLLECTION SIGNED OR ANNOTATED WORKS

An Orkney Tapestry. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1969. 8vo, proof copy with jacket signed by George Mackay Brown, with pencil corrections and notes in his hand; Poems, new and selected. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1971. 8vo, inscribed: “To Derrick & Susie, from George, Christmas 1973”, original brown cloth, dust-jacket;

Greenvoe. London: The Hogarth Press, 1972. 8vo, signed and dated by George Mackay Brown to title-page, original purple cloth, spine lacking; and the 1989 ‘Scotnotes’ on Greenvoe, inscribed by George Mackay Brown; Andrina, and other stories. London: Chatto & Windus, the Hogarth Press, 1983. 8vo, inscribed: “To John, from George, 17th February 1983”, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket;

The Golden Bird. Two Orkney Stories. London: John Murray, 1987. 8vo, signed by George Mackay Brown on the title-page, original white cloth gilt, dust-jacket;

Beloit Fiction Journal, Volume 5, Number 1, Scottish writers, feat. Betty Corrigall by George Mackay Brown, inscribed: to Brian Murray, great five-setter & errand boy and poster of letters, from GMB, Stromness, Orkney, 17th July 1990, and signed by George Mackay Brown on the story itself, 8vo, original wrappers;

Babel IX, feat., Homily by George Mackay Brown, 1990. 8vo, inscribed “to Brian from George, 27th November 1995”, with an additional signature to contents leaf, original wrappers;

Rockpools and Daffodils, an Orcadian Diary 1979-1991. Edinburgh: Gordon Wright Publishing, 1992. 8vo, signed and dated by George Mackay Brown to title-page;

Winter Tales. London: John Murray, 1995. 8vo, inscribed: “To Brian, good proof-vender, good cataloguer of books & manuscripts, from George, 27th July 1994, Stromness”, original blue cloth, dust-jacket;

A Calendar of Love. London: Flamingo, 1996. 8vo, paperback, signed and inscribed by George Mackay Brown; For the Islands I Sing. London: John Murray, 1998. 8vo, proof copy of the paperback edition with manuscript notes and corrections by George Mackay Brown (12)

£500-600

278

SMITH, ALEXANDER MCCALL AUTOGRAPH POEM SIGNED

Poem on Love. “What we lose, we think we lose forever...” 11 lines, signed by the author, on cream card printed at head ‘Alexander McCall Smith’, in cream envelope (1)

Note: Donated by the author to a charity auction in 2009.

£400-600

WILD HAWTHORN PRESS - IAN HAMILTON FINLAY CONCRETE POEMS, FOUR POSTERS

Finlay, Ian Hamilton. Poster Poem [Le Circus!!], 1974, 57 x 44cm; Kriwet, Ferdinand. [Untitled], 44.5 x 57cm; Furnival, John. [Polar...Bearson...], 1965, 55.5 x 44.5cm; Mon, Franz. Epitaph fuer Konrad Bayer, 1964, 57.5 x 44.5cm (4)

£300-400

280

FINLAY, IAN HAMILTON (1925-2006) AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF LETTERS, SENT TO WILMA PATERSON

Over 50 letters, dating from the 1970s to 1990s, many typed and several handwritten, all signed; many small items of ephemera, such as small Christmas cards, including: ‘National Flags Series, Arcadia’, referred to in one of the letters, with a hand-drawn skull and crossbones to the reverse; 1990 Little Sparta Christmas Card [potatocut robin/linocut garden fork/ wood-engraved tree] contained in small manilla envelope printed ‘A Valentine’; Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book, 1986, with image of a pear; ‘Larder’, a small book of words on orange and green;

Finlay, Ian Hamilton. Wildwachsende Blumen… Staedtische Galerie in Lenbachhaus, 1993. Small 12mo, original brown cloth (Quantity)

Note: Ian Hamilton Finlay’s complex and wide-ranging practice resists categorisation. He became the leading proponent of ‘concrete poetry’, employing words and poetic forms for visual effect. Finlay’s writing was thus his art, and this took another turn when he applied his poetic-artistic theory to gardening, creating Little Sparta at his home in Stonypath, South Lanarkshire, from the md-1960s onwards. Ian Hamilton Finlay’s vision of art encompassed the meeting of poetry, visual art, gardening and sculpture, and his relationship with The Establishment was far from straightforward. He famously once wrote: “If I hear the words Arts Council, I reach for my water pistol”, however his deviation from recognised artistic norms has meant that his output can be described as one of the most significant contributions to Scottish art of the 20th century. As a conceptual artist, he often devised projects, rather than making them himself, and employed collaborators to bring his ideas to life.

The archive presented here is candid and highly personal, written by Ian Hamilton Finlay to one of his collaborators, Wilma Patterson. The collection documents a close and lasting friendship between the pair, displaying Hamilton Finlay’s slightly cantankerous, yet caring, nature. Several of these letters are addressed to Paterson in her capacity as a musician: Hamilton Finlay hoped to create a film entitled ‘Fifies and Zulus’, with Paterson’s collaboration, in addition to a potential suite of ‘national anthems’ to accompany his ‘national flags’ series. Alongside providing a record of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s work with Wilma Paterson, the archive reveals much about Hamilton Finlay’s passions, insecurities and moods. Writing in 1990, Hamilton Finlay declares:

I am about to be in the middle of my big Berlin project, which will be wonderful if it is realised, but nowadays I get into gloomy moods in which I think, Well, how super this could be, but of course I wont [sic.] live to see it realised….. and in another, undated, letter: Do you ever feel you are a genius? I do, quite often. Other times I think I am just hopeless.

Ian Hamilton Finlay’s letters often have a humorous, sardonic tone, which can be seen here. He does not shy away from selfcongratulation, often ironically, writing in 1974 (regarding his ‘National Flags’ series of postcards):

The wit (of course) consists in my (inspired) realisation that the skull in the Poussin painting has exactly the weight/force of the skull in the Pirate Flag…

Other notes reference some of his well-known works, such as this bizarre occurrence relating to his Diana and Actaeon on 1st December 1992:

My missing monument to Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, which was stolen from a tree in Munster in 1987, has been found! (Did I tell you this?) It was in the garden of a lady who thought herself on very good terms with the Transcendental and supposed that my plaque arrived in her garden as a message to her from The Beyond.

£7,000-10,000

PORNOGRAPHIC NOVEL - CIRCLE OF OSCAR WILDE TELENY, OR THE REVERSE OF THE MEDAL

A Physiological Romance for Today. Cosmopoli [probably Paris: Renaudie], 1906. 2 volumes in one, square 8vo (17.2 x 13cm), contemporary half japon, [4] 148, [4] 178 pp., title-pages printed in red and black, half-titles with limitation statements verso, endpapers renewed, wear to extremities, contents toned, title-pages and early leaves of each volume browned, volume 1 with repaired closed tears to margins of title-page and p. 20/21 and 21/22, pp. 129/30 with repaired tear through text, volume 2 title-page with ink-stamp ‘London 1922’ verso, pp. 31/2 with slight marginal loss, pp. 65 with repaired tear through text [Peter Mendes, Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 18001930, 87-B] (1)

Note: Second edition, one of 200 copies, extremely rare, with no other copy traced in auction records, and one copy traced in institutions, at the British Library.

First published in 1893 by Leonard Smithers, Teleny was the first novel in English ‘in which the main story was concerned with homosexuality at its fullest extent [that is, in sexually explicit terms] ... The author, or authors, of Teleny were alone in their day in England in attempting to record the special atmosphere of homosexual intrigue and the emotions of men involved in … a liaison’ (Reade, Sexual Heretics: Male Homosexuality in English Literature from 1850 to 1900, 1970, pp. 49-50).

Charles Hirsch, owner of the Librairie Parisienne in London, recalled in his introduction to a French translation published in the 1930s that the manuscript was originally deposited at his shop by Oscar Wilde sometime in 1890. Wilde left instructions that the sealed parcel be held until requested by one of his friends, presenting his calling card. The process was repeated several times, with the parcel retrieved and returned by different callers before finally being returned to Wilde. The extent of Wilde’s personal contribution to the text has been debated, but the work is now thought to be the work of a number of authors in his circle, composing the text in the roundrobin tradition (see Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, 2000 pp. 34-6).

£2,000-3,000

282

WILDE, OSCAR SALOME

A Tragedy in One Act. Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde. Pictures by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Elkin Mathews, 1894. First edition in English and first illustrated by Beardsley, one of 500 copies, small 4to, original blue cloth, rebacked, 10 line-block plates including frontispiece, pictorial title-page, 16 pp. publisher’s catalogue to rear, covers faded, wear and fraying to fore edges of covers, tips bumped, contents toned [Mason 350]. Together with:

De Profundis. London: Methuen and Co., 1905. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, publisher’s catalogue to rear, bookplate (Asa Lingard), spotting to endpapers and outer leaves [Mason 388];

The Picture of Dorian Gray. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1905. 8vo, original grey-green cloth, [Mason 332];

An Ideal Husband. A Play. London: Methuen and Co., 1908. One of 1,000 copies, 4to, original cream cloth gilt, others untrimmed, spotting to endpapers, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper [Mason 429];

The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C. 3. 3. [Oscar Wilde]. London: Leonard Smithers, 1899 [or later]. Unauthorised edition following the seventh edition, 8vo, original cloth;

and 9 others, including 8 by Wilde, and Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean, London: Medici Society, 1913 (one of 1,000 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards) (16)

£500-800

SASSOON, SIEGFRIED THREE WORKS

The War Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original red cloth, paper labels to spine and front board, edges untrimmed, dust jacket, spine slightly rolled, section of sunning to head of spine (with corresponding section of loss to dust jacket), small water stain to top edge of text-block, a few spots internally, dust jacket spine discoloured, price scored through in ink, short closed tear to foot of front panel;

Counter-Attack and Other Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1918. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author ‘Eileen Power, from Siegfried Sassoon, Jan. 1919’ on the half-title, 8vo, original card wrappers, spine crudely tape-repaired, errata supplied in pencil; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. London: Faber & Faber Limited 1930. First edition, one of 750 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original blue cloth, spine and head of front board sunned (3)

Note: The recipient of this copy of CounterAttack is likely to be the noted economic and medieval historian Eileen Power (1889-1940). It may have been her involvement in peace movements after the war which brought her into contact with Sassoon.

£500-800

284

HUXLEY, ALDOUS BRAVE NEW WORLD

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue cloth, top edge dyed blue, dust jacket, spine rolled, a few spots to edges of text-block, dust jacket chipped with partial loss of text on spine (1)

£700-1,000

285

HUXLEY, ALDOUS BRAVE NEW WORLD

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, shelf-lean, hinges split, erased ownership stamp to paste-down endpaper and first page of text; Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition, 8vo, slight chipping to dust-jacket spine, some occasional light internal marks, previous ownership stamp (2)

£300-400

WAUGH, EVELYN (19031996)

THREE FIRST EDITIONS FROM THE LIBRARY OF HIS LOVER JOYCE GILL

Decline and Fall, an Illustrated Novelette; Black Mischief; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 192832-57.

3 works, first editions, first impressions, 8vo, original cloth, Pinfold with dust jacket, Decline and Fall and Black Mischief each with ownership inscription ‘Joyce Gill, 10 Pitt St, W8’ and Pinfold with gift inscription ‘Joyce, for her birthday, with love from Louis, 1957’ to front free endpaper.

Decline and Fall: spine rolled, fraying to spine-ends, Mudie’s Select Library label to front cover, tips bumped, textblock toned, abrasion to front pastedown, cut-out magazine portrait of Waugh pasted to half-title, half-title spotted, small marginal hole to pp. 31-4, small closed to pp. 93/4, old adhesive repair to rear inner hinge, a few other marks. Black Mischief spine rolled, rear joint split, light spotting to front. Pinfold: spine rolled, light spotting to outer leaves, dust jacket spotted and chipped.

Together with a collection of Evelyn Waugh first editions from the library of Joyce’s son (Dominic Gill): Basil Seal Rides Again, 1963, 2 copies, respectively one of 1,000 for the USA and 750 for the UK and rest of the world, both signed by the author, UK issue spine sunned; Scoop, 1938, 2 copies, spines sunned, one spine also marked; Black Mischief, 1932, spine sunned and rolled, spotting to outer leaves; Put Out More Flags, 1942 (with dust jacket); and 9 others (Remote People; Love Among the Ruins, 2 copies, with dust jackets; Men at Arms; Put Out More Flags; Remote People; Labels; A Tourist in Africa, with dust jacket; Waugh in Abyssinia, rebound, ex-library; and Helena, first US edition) (18)

Note: Joyce Gill (née Fagan) was a long-standing friend of Waugh’s with whom he had a passionate affair during the unhappy period of the drawn-out annulment of his first marriage to Evelyn Gardner (‘She-Evelyn’).

A sometime music-hall performer, and later secretary and assistant to the author Clifford Bax, Joyce was introduced to Evelyn by his brother Alec at the Cave of Harmony nightclub, Fitzrovia, around Christmas 1923. She was enchanted by his stories of Oxford life, and once term restarted she was invited to a party hosted by Evelyn in Oxford, successfully dressing as a man in order to evade the attentions of the university proctors. From that point they maintained a flirtatious if casual friendship. In 1928, following Joyce’s marriage to American businessman Donald Gill and Evelyn’s to Gardner, the Waughs lived in Joyce’s flat on Canonbury Square — their first marital home.

Though the full nature of Joyce and Evelyn’s relationship remains obscure, a letter written to Evelyn by Joyce in 1938 after his second marriage and excerpted in Selina Hastings’s 1994 biography is evidence of a powerful and enduring connection. According to Hastings, ‘Joyce was lively, attractive, intelligent, and fun. Half Irish and a couple of years older, she could hardly have been more different from Evelyn in taste and temperament: very musical, a committed socialist, an agnostic briskly dismissive of religion, she was unconventional even by the standards of the bohemian world in which she moved … Whatever happened between Evelyn and Joyce must have come to a head during the summer of 1935, for shortly before his departure for Abyssinia Evelyn asked Joyce to leave her husband and go with him. The probability is that although deeply in love with Laura, Evelyn was overwhelmed by the depressing likelihood that he would never be able to marry her. On the point of going abroad for an indefinite period, in a state of heightened emotional and physical responsiveness, the temptation of an affair with Joyce was irresistible ... It was, she later told one of her daughters-in-law, the most painful decision of her life: the affair was a passionate one, the prospect of adventure extremely tempting; but she loved her husband, by whom she now had two little boys, and so decided against running off with Waugh’ (Evelyn Waugh, pp. 328-9).

The ‘Louis’ who inscribed this copy of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold for Joyce was the man of letters Louis Wilkinson (1881-1966), best known under his pseudonym Louis Marlow, and remembered as a champion of Oscar Wilde and for his association with the Powys brothers and Aleister Crowley.

Provenance: By direct descent from Joyce Gill (first three items).

£500-800

287 §

WAUGH, EVELYN (1903-1966)

‘IMPIETA’, 1925

woodcut, showing a bacchante carried by Bacchus and a faun, signed and dated by Waugh lower right, title lower right, both in pencil, mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 8 x 10.5cm (1)

Note: A rare survival from the young Waugh’s brief period as an aspiring artist, dating from the year after he left Oxford with a disappointing third-class degree in history, and three years before he published his first book, a study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. One other copy traced, at the Harry Ransom Center (accession number 94.14.6), where catalogued as a ‘Nude man and satyr carrying man’s body with chalice in hand’.

Provenance: Presented by Waugh to Joyce Gill (née Fagan), a long-standing friend with whom he had a passionate affair during the unhappy period of the drawn-out annulment of his first marriage to Evelyn Gardner (see lot 284); thence by descent.

£500-800

288

WAUGH, EVELYN (1903-1966)

THE TRAGICAL DEATH OF MR WILL. HUSKISSON SEPT. MDCCCXXX, 1924 print after Waugh’s drawing (published in The Golden Hind, Vol. 2 No. 8, July 1924), on wove paper with Joynson’s Parchment watermark, inscribed by Waugh ‘Joyce from Evelyn’ lower right in brown ink, spotting and repairs, mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 25 x 33cm (1)

Note: Inscribed by Evelyn Waugh for Joyce Gill (née Fagan), a long-standing friend with whom he had a passionate affair during the unhappy period of the drawn-out annulment of his first marriage to Evelyn Gardner. (See lot 284.)

Provenance: By direct descent from Joyce Gill.

£500-800

289

PASTERNAK, BORIS DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

Milan: Feltrinelli, November 1957. First authorised trade edition in Russian, original pale green boards, dustwrapper slightly stained and worn with some loss, upper fold in flap detached (1)

Note: Feltrinelli published the first true edition, an Italian translation, in 1957. He secured the copyright but later learned that in order for the title to be included under Pasternak’s Nobel Prize consideration, it had to be published in the Russian language no later than August 1958. The CIA and MI6 both had a hand in publications of the Russian language edition, with designs to circulate it among Soviet visitors of the Brussels World Fair, as part of a wider effort to get banned literature into Eastern bloc countries. This resulted in several pirated editions before Feltrinelli issued his ‘official’ Russian language edition (as seen here) in 1958, with a line securing his copyright through the precedence of his Italian version, doubly securing his position as publisher of a Nobel Prize candidate. Vennard, How the CIA Secretly Published Dr. Zhivago, 2014. Feltrinelli also published the first edition of this celebrated novel, a manuscript version of which had been smuggled out of the USSR, in Italian in 1957. Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958.

£300-500

290

POWELL, ANTHONY [A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME]

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1951-1975. 13 volumes (including an additional volume of Books do Furnish a Room), first editions (one third impression), 2 volumes signed by Powell, all with dust-jackets, the set comprising: A Question of Upbringing, 1951, dust-jacket slightly toned and edge-worn, with Book Society Recommendation label; A Buyer’s Market, 1952, third impression, some tears and chips to dust-jacket, dust-jacket lacking head of spine; The Acceptance World, 1955, dust-jacket slightly bumped; At Lady Molly’s, 1957, a little rubbing and edge-wear to dust-jacket; Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant, 1960, slight dust-soiling to dust-jacket; The Kindly Ones, 1962, signed by Anthony Powell to title-page, inscribed to Alfred Manley(?) on the front-free endpaper; The Valley of Bones, 1964; The Soldier’s Art, 1966, dust-jacket price-clipped; The Military Philosophers, 1968, signed by Anthony Powell to title-page, inscribed to Michael Norwood on the front-free endpaper; Books do Furnish a Room, 1971; another copy, 1971; Temporary Kings, 1973; Hearing Secret Harmonies, 1975 (13)

£800-1,200

TOLKIEN, J. R. R. (1892-1973)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS, SIGNED BY TOLKIEN IN EACH VOLUME

The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin, 196765-65. Mixed editions, 3 volumes, 8vo, original red cloth, with second edition dust jackets (in grey, with ‘Revised Edition’ on front panels and ‘Second Edition’ on front flaps), 3 folding maps in red and black, top edges dyed red. Some wear, chipping and soiling to dust jackets, light spotting to edges of textblocks (4)

Note: With J. R. R. Tolkien’s autograph signature to the title-page of each volume. The Fellowship of the Ring is a second edition, second impression (cf. Hammond A5 e. i); The Two Towers and The Return of the King are first editions, eleventh impressions. The dust jackets are all those of the second edition. The trilogy was first published in 1954-5 and the second edition, for which the text of each volume was partly reset and revised, was published in 1966.

Provenance: Signed by Tolkien for K. A. M. Abbott, royalties accountant at George Allen & Unwin; thence by descent. The lot sold with a copy of The Silmarillion (1977), first edition, first impression, signed by Christopher Tolkien, and with a typed letter signed from Christopher Tolkien to Abbott.

£8,000-12,000

292

WOOLF, VIRGINIA

10 WORKS

The Years. London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket by Vanessa Bell, some chipping and slight loss to jacket, hinges split;

Flush. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First American edition, 8vo, original brown cloth, without dust-jacket;

Roger Fry, a biography. London: The Hogarth press, 1940. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, a little loss and tearing to dust-jacket; Between the Acts. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941. First American edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, without dust-jacket;

The Death of the Moth. London: The Hogarth Press, 1942. Second edition, 8vo, some chipping and slight loss to dust-jacket;

The Moment, and other essays. London: The Hogarth Press, 1947. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, some slight loss to dust-jacket spine;

The Captain’s Death Bed. London: The Hogarth Press, 1950. ‘Uniform edition’, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket price-clipped; A Writer’s Diary. London: The Hogarth Press, 1953. First edition, 8vo, original orange cloth, dust-jacket only very slightly chipped; The Waves. London: The Hogarth Press, 1955. Eighth impression, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, some minor chipping to dust-jacket; Granite & Rainbow. London: The Hogarth Press, 1958. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, torn dust-jacket with some loss (10) £500-700

293

MODERN LITERATURE INCLUDING FRASER, GEORGE MACDONALD

Fraser, George MacDonald. Flashman. London, 1976. Fifth edition, dust-jacket price-clipped; Royal Flash. London, 1970. First edition; The General Danced at Dawn. London, 1970. First edition; Flash for Freedom! London, 1971. First edition; Flashman at the Charge. London, 1973. First edition; Flashman in the Great Game. London, 1975. First edition; Flashman’s Lady. London, 1977. First edition, dustjacket price-clipped; Flashman and the Redskins. London, 1982. First edition; Flashman and the Dragon. London, 1985. First edition; Flashman and the Mountain of Light. London, 1990. First edition, neat gift inscription; and 7 other, later, books by George MacDonald Fraser; Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat’s Cradle. London: Victor Gollancz, 1965. 8vo, original cloth, some soiling to dust-jacket; Lewis, Wyndham. The Apes of God. London: Nash & Grayson, [n.d.] 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket in several pieces with loss; Forster, E.M. Abinger Harvest. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1936. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket with some loss; [Idem] Two Cheers for Democracy. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1951. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket price-clipped (22) £400-600

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER UNCLE REMUS, HIS SONGS AND SAYINGS

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First edition, first state, with “presumptive” in the last line of p.9 and 8pp. of undated adverts not mentioning this title, original green cloth gilt with gilt Brer Rabbit motif to upper cover, gift inscription Note: Joel Chandler Harris gathered this collection of stories whilst speaking with enslaved people on a plantation in Georgia in the 1880s. Believing that it was important to record these tales, he wrote them down, with the fictional narrator, ‘Uncle Remus’. The work has become an important written source of African American storytelling traditions. However, the book (and the film that it would later inspire, Song of the South), portray the life of enslaved people as somewhat idyllic, as opposed to the harsh and brutal reality, alongside perpetuating stereotypes of African American people. Thus, the work is simultaneously an important and beautifully bound, but problematic book.

£800-1,000

295

KIPLING, RUDYARD THE JUNGLE BOOK

London: Macmillan, 1894. First edition, 2nd printing [“First edition May 1894, reprinted June 1894”], plates, ownership inscription of Marion Isabel Durand July 1894 on blank leaf before half-title, original blue cloth gilt, g.e., hinges splitting, somewhat rubbed and soiled;

The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan, 1895, first edition, plates, ownership inscription “Maria Durand, Xmas ‘95” on recto of blank leaf before half-title, original blue cloth gilt, g.e., hinges slightly split, somewhat rubbed and soiled (2)

£300-400

296 KIPLING, RUDYARD COLLECTION OF WORKS

Just So Stories for Little Children. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. First edition, 4to, original pictorial cloth, inscribed by Henry Shackleton (father of Ernest H. Shackleton) to his daughter (and Ernest’s sister) ‘Eleanor Hope Shackleton, from Daddy, Dec. 8, 1902’, with the Shackleton family bookplate on front pastedown, binding worn and sunned, inner hinges cracked, occasional pencil markings;

The Five Nations. London: Methuen and Co., 1903. First edition, signed by Kipling on the title-page, 8vo, original red cloth, bookplate (Mildred Chelsea), rear inner hinge partially cracked;

The Second Jungle Book. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. First edition, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, small damp-stain and erased pencil inscription to head of title-page, spotting towards rear; Traffics and Discoveries. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. First edition, 8vo, later half morocco by Delrue, a little damp-staining to fore edge and front pastedown; and 13 others including first editions in the original cloth of Kim, Captains Courageous, Soldier Tales, etc. (18)

£300-400

297

POTTER, BEATRIX THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES

London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911. First edition, 12mo, original dark green boards with mouse motif to upper cover, neatly rebacked with silver lettered spine, lacking one plate at p.17, endpapers rubbed, some soiling [Quinby 20 / endpapers matching plate X]; editions of The Tailor of Gloucester, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle & The Tale of Two Bad Mice dating to 1910 or later [endpapers matching plate X]; a 1952 edition of The Fairy Caravan (5)

£150-200

RACKHAM, ARTHUR COLLECTION OF WORKS

The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne. London: William Heinemann, 1918. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 765 copies signed by the artist, 4to, recent cream quarter vellum in imitation of the original binding, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 9 tipped-in colour plates, toning to text-leaves, a few spots, limitation leaf (with half-title recto) slightly browned and with show-through from signature, faint tide-mark to top edge of a few leaves;

The Ring of the Niblung. A Trilogy with a Prelude by Richard Wagner. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. [Volume 1:] The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie. [Volume 2:] Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods. London: William Heinemann, 1910-11. 2 volumes, first trade issues, (Rhinegold and Valkyrie a second impression), 4to, original tan pictorial, cloth gilt, 34 and 30 colour plates, Rhinegold with spotting to outer leaves, Siegfried cloth sunned, gift inscription to initial blank;

The Sleeping Beauty. Told by C. S. Evans. London: William Heinemann, c.1920. 4to, original pictorial boards, dust jacket (spine sunned, repriced), tipped in colour plate; Irish Fairy Tales. By James Stephens. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1920. First trade edition, 4to, original green cloth gilt, 16 colour plates;

English Fairy Tales. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1918. First trade edition, 4to, original red cloth, 16 colour plates, spine faded and rolled, front inner hinge cracked; The Ingoldsby Legends. London: William Heinemann, 1909. 4to original blue cloth gilt, 24 colour plates;

Grimm’s Fairy Tales. London: William Heinemann Ltd, c.1909. 4to, original red cloth gilt, 40 colour plates, variable spotting to text; and 12 other books illustrated by Rackham, including The Wind in the Willows, Gulliver’s Travels, Tales from Shakespeare, English Fairy Tales, Aesop’s Fables, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, together with 3 mounted Rackham prints and 2 Rackham calendars (one with slip for January torn away) (25)

£300-500

299 MILNE, A. A.

WINNIE-THE-POOH [AND:] THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER

London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1926-8. First editions, first impressions, deluxe issues, 8vo, original green leather over flexible boards, pictorial decoration to spines and front covers in gilt, all edges gilt, endpapers and illustrations in the text by E. H. Shepard, light rubbing to spines at head and foot, Winnie-the-Pooh spine slightly sunned (2)

£400-600

300

MILNE, A. A.

[THE POOH BOOKS:]

When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927-26-27-28. 4 works, 8vo, original varicoloured pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, pictorial endpapers and illustrations throughout the text all by E. H. Shepard, WWWVY and THAPC with the dust jackets, WWWVY spine rolled, dust jacket slightly dust-soiled and with fraying to head of spine, WTP spine slightly rolled, light rubbing to extremities, a few faint scuffs and small marks to rear board, customary browning to endpapers, closed tear in pp. 77/8, a few small marks to margins of text, NWAS with light rubbing to extremities, a few internal blemishes and marks, THAPC dust jacket with slight softening and loss to spine-ends, short close tear to foot of rear panel, a few faint marks, covers marked, upper fore corner of front cover bumped, customary browning to free endpapers, inner hinges slightly tender, pp. 5/6 with closed tear in gutter, a few leaves dog-eared, a few other blemishes and marks (4)

Note: First editions of Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six, and The House at Pooh Corner When We Were Very Young is a fifteenth edition; the work first appeared in 1924.

£300-500

301

ROWLING, J. K.

HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE

London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, first impression, paperback issue, one of 5,150 copies, 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 223 pp., wrappers slightly bumped at corners and with incipient lifting of laminate along fore edges, front wrapper faintly creased and with small strip of loss to laminate, gift inscription to verso of front wrapper, text-block toned as usual, hint of discolouration to lower fore corners of early leaves, very faint mark to p. 163 [Errington A1 (aa)] (1)

Note: With all the requisite points: copyright page with numberline from 10 to 1, author named as Joanne Rowling, and ‘Thomas Taylor1997’ printed without a space, ‘1 wand’ duplicated on p. 53, and the misprint ‘Philosphers’ Stone’ on rear wrapper.

£3,000-5,000

302

ROWLING, J. K.

HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE

London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, fourth impression (numberline reading 10 9 8 7 6 5 4), signed by J.K. Rowling on title-page, 8vo, original illustrated boards, dust-jacket not priceclipped, sellotape repair to p.147 with no loss to text, dust-jacket with some edgewear and a little chipping to spine ends, dust-jacket spine slightly faded, neat child’s ownership signature to front freeendpaper (1)

Provenance: Signed for the vendor by J.K. Rowling Glasgow City Hall in the year 2000, at a book release for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

£2,000-3,000

303

ROWLING, J. K.

HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE

London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, first impression, paperback issue, one of 5,150 copies, 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, extensive loss of the laminate, spine faded and with slight loss, lower cover with some image loss, some slight creasing and wear at extremities, no inscriptions, toning to text-block as usual, slight spotting to edges occasionally just encroaching on margins [Errington, A1(aa)] (1)

Note: With all the requisite points: copyright page with numberline from 10 to 1, author named as Joanne Rowling, and ‘Thomas Taylor1997’ printed without a space, ‘1 wand’ duplicated on p. 53, and the misprint ‘Philosphers’ Stone’ on rear wrapper.

£2,000-3,000

304

ROWLING, J. K.

THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE

London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, twentieth impression (numberline reading ‘20’ on title verso), paperback issue, inscribed by the author ‘to Adam, with best wishes, J K Rowling’ on the dedication page in black ink, 8vo, original pictorial wrappers with Smarties Gold Award Winner label to upper cover, spine sunned, self-adhesive bookseller’s label (James Thin, Edinburgh) to front cover, textblock toned as usual (1)

Provenance: Inscribed for the vendor at a book signing in Edinburgh c.1998.

£500-800

305

ROWLING, J. K.

HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS

London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, sixth impression, hardback, inscribed by the author ‘to Laura - with best wishes - and I like the necklace!

J K Rowling’, 8vo, original pictorial boards, dust jacket (spine-panel sunned), textblock slightly toned (1)

Provenance: Inscribed for the vendor at a book signing in Edinburgh c.1998; according to her recollection the necklace was made of candy.

£300-500

306

ROWLING, J. K.

HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS

London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, first impression, hardback, signed by J. K. Rowling on the dedication page, 8vo, original pictorial boards, spine rolled, wear to spine-ends, a few very small dents to head of front board, tips bumped, marking to endpapers, ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, text-block toned, occasional finger-soiling and a few other marks, pp. 67/8 and 145/6 with handling tears at foot of gutter not affecting text [Errington A2(a)] (1)

£1,000-1,500

307

ROWLING, J. K.

THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

London: Bloomsbury, 2003. First edition, 8vo, signed by J.K. Rowling on the half-title, original boards, dust-jacket spine faded (1)

£800-1,200

308

CHILDREN’S AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

LARGE COLLECTION OF WORKS

Whistler, Rex (illustrator). Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Rex Whistler. London: Cobden Sanderson Ltd, 1935. First edition, deluxe issue, signed by the artist on the half-title, 8vo, original cream buckram richly gilt, all edges gilt, wood-engravings throughout;

Carroll, Lewis. Sylvia and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, wood-engraved frontispiece and text illustrations by Harry Furniss, all edges gilt, spine sunned, a few marks to covers; Dulac, Edmund (illustrator). Stories from Hans Andersen. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. 4to, original green pictorial cloth gilt, 28 colour plates;

Idem. Edmund Dulac’s Fairy Book. London: Hodder & Stoughton, c.1916. 4to, original decorative green cloth gilt, 16 tipped-in colour plates, spine sunned and faded; Idem. The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1912. 4to, original decorative green cloth gilt, 28 colour plates, mark to front board; Idem. Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1918. 4to, original cream pictorial cloth, 14 colours plates, inner hinges repaired; Idem. The Masque of Comus. The Poem by John Milton. Cambridge: printed for members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1954. One of 1,500 copies, 8vo, original quarter japon, colour plates, slipcase; Marie, Queen of Romania. The Story of Naughty Kildeen. Illustrated by Job [i.e. Count Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Breville]. Tours: A. Mame and Sons, c.1922. Folio, original orange pictorial cloth, colour illustrations throughout, covers sprung, spotting to endpapers; Milne, A. A. Now We Are Six. With Illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, spine rolled, browning to half-title and final blank;

Eliot, T. S. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Nicolas Bentley drew the Pictures. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. First illustrated edition, first impression, 8vo, original white pictorial cloth, contemporary ownership inscription, dust jacket repaired, a few nicks and chips;

Le Mair, H. Willebeek (illustrator). A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1931. First edition, oblong 4to, original quarter cloth, 12 colour plates; and approx. 50 others, including others illustrated by Dulac, E. H. Shepard, Willebeek Le Mair, and similar (approx. 60) £500-800

ANTIQUARIAN LITERATURE

MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN INSTITUTIONES GRAMMATICAE IN HEBRAEAM LINGUAM

[Hebrew title at head: Melekheth ha-Diqduq]. [Basel]: Froben, 1524. First edition, [288 pp.], printer’s woodcut device to title and final page, text in Hebrew, Latin (roman types) and Greek, musical notation in text, title-page dust-soiled and with early ownership inscription, old staining to a8 v. and b1 r., final page stained and with early ink annotations, a few marks and early ink annotations elsewhere [Adams M1932; VD16 M 6685].

[Bound with 2 other works:]

Ceporinus, Jakob. Compendium grammaticae graecae, iam de integro ab ipso authore et castigatum et locupletatum. Hesiodi georgicon ... Epigrammata. Basel: Valentin Curio, 1522. First edition, 175 [1] pp, allegorical woodcut border to title-page, printer’s woodcut device to verso of colophon leaf, text in Greek and Latin (Latin in italic types), early ink annotations including ownership inscription ‘George Hudson is the right owner of this book’, title-page dust-soiled and with shallow chipping to foot, variable tide-mark to foot of gutter, [VD16 ZV 15528; not in Adams, the earliest edition there listed being Zurich, 1539];

Luscinius, Ottmar. Progymnasmata graecae literaturae. Strassburg: Johannes Knobloch, 1523. [28] 87 [30] pp., woodcut border to title-page, printer’s woodcut device to final page, ownership inscription ‘Ego libro Joannis Harryse Scoti 12th Octobrii anno 1561’ to verso of title-page, occasional early annotations and underlining, title-page dust-soiling, a few stains elsewhere [Adams L1731; VD16 N 32]. 3 works in 1 volume, 8vo (15.9 x 10.5cm), 19thcentury half calf, rebacked with most of original spine laid down, contents toned (1)

Note: First and only edition of an early work by Sebastian Münster, the preeminent Hebraist of 16th-century Europe, rare in commerce; his earliest verified publication is his Epitome Hebraicae grammaticae, printed in 1520, also by Froben. This appears to be the first edition of Ceporinus’s work; the first part (Compendium) was also published separately by Curio in the same year. The design of the title-page has been attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger. Luscinius’s work first appeared in 1517.

£500-800 310

FROISSART, JEAN HISTOIRE ET CHRONIQUE MEMORABLE...

Paris: L’Olivier de Pierre l’Huillier, 1574. Folio in sixes, contemporary calf gilt with later spine, nn5-6 not present but text appears continuous, a little ink staining to final few leaves, some light soiling and very slight marginal dampstaining to title-page, bookplate of W. Priestly, Lightcliffe and early ownership inscription to title-page [USTC 7557] (1)

£500-700

CLASSICAL AUTHORS 16 VOLUMES

Polydor Vergil. De rerum inventoribus libri octo. Basle: per Thomas Guarinum [publisher from Colophon], 1570. 16mo, woodcut device on title, and leaf with Guérin’s device following colophon, contemporary embossed calf, title with small excision at top corner, title slightly dust-soiled, some light dampstaining, binding worn;

Aristotle. De Mundo Aristotelis Lib. I, Philonis Lib II, Gulielmo Budaeo interprete. Paris [Widow of C. Neobar or J. Bogardus], 1541. 16mo, 54 leaves, [ii - blank], edited by Guillaume Budé, printer’s device on titlepage, [Adams A1800], early inscription at head of title ‘Fa dono Ill. & erud. divi d.d. Gaillardi genuensis 1646’; bound with Aristotle. Aristotelous kai Philonos per kosmou [Greek]. Paris: Conrad Néobar, 1540 [the date on the title page is wrongly printed M.D.L.X (altered by hand in present copy). 16mo, 60 leaves, 18th century calf, slightly rubbed;

Virgil. P. Virgilius Maro Iam emendatior. Amsterdam: Apud Ioannem Iansonium, 1650. 16mo, engraved title page, bound in a piece of old liturgical vellum;

Hippocrates. Aphorismi Hippocratis accurante Theodoro Janssonio ab Almeloveen. Amsterdam: apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1685. 16mo, additional title with engraved portrait vignette, contemporary calf, rubbed;

Curtius Rufus, Quintus. Historiarum libri de vita et expeditione Alexandri Magni. Utrecht: ex officina Gisbert Zylii, 1666. 12mo, engraved title laid down, woodcut(s) in text, contemporary vellum, early inscription on endpaper ‘ex libris Caroli Nisbet 13th Januarii 1753’ and later inscriptions of Lorimers,

Curtius Rufus, Quintus. Historiarum libri accuratissime editi. Amsterdam: ex officina

Elzeviriana, 1670. 16mo, engraved title, contemporary sheep, a little light dust-soiling, rubbed;

Justinus, Marcus Junianus. Justinus ex Marci Zverii Boxhornii, nova recensione. Amsterdam: apud Ioan. Ianssonium, 1660. 12mo, engraved title, contemporary vellum, a few light marginal stains, inscription by members of Lorimer family to endpaper;

Herodotus. He Tou Herodotus Halikarnasseos Historia: Herodoti Halicarnassensis Historia, ex editione Jacobi Gronovii. Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis, 1761. 9 volumes, 12mo, Greek text, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, red morocco lettering pieces, early inscription ‘? Rose Price’ to free endpapers, small stamp ‘E. Maltby’ to free endpapers (16)

£500-700

312

VELLUM BINDINGS

INCLUDING BRANCACCIO, FRA LELIO

I Carichi Militari. Antwerp: Joachim Trognaesius, 1610. 4to, 5 double-page plates, contemporary vellum with gilt coat of arms to covers, yapp edges, a little internal dampstaining [USTC 1003548, listing 14 known copies];

Guicciardini, Francesco & Francesco Sansovino. La Historia D’Italia. Geneva: Jacob Stoer, 1621. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, ‘Wakefield’ in rubbed gilt to upper covers [USTC 6702333];

Barclay, John. Argenis. Amsterdam: Elizaeus Weyerstraten, 1664. 12mo; [bound with] [Idem] Satyricon. Amsterdam: Elizaeus Weyerstraten, 1664. 12mo; both with engraved title-pages, in contemporary vellum with ‘Wakefield’ in rubbed gilt lettering to upper cover, early ownership inscription of Andrew Scott to final free-endpaper; [Gombaud, Antoine.] Les Oeuvres de Monsieur le Chevalier de Méré. Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1692. 2 volumes bound together, 12mo, 2 engraved frontispieces, contemporary vellum, a little internal soiling (5)

£300-400

313

BLACKMORE, RICHARD

PRINCE ARTHUR AN HEROICK POEM. IN TEN BOOKS

London: Awnsham and John Churchill, 1695. 4to, contemporary calf with the name ‘Wakefield’ in gilt lettering to upper cover, some rubbing and peeling to covers [ESTC R23259] (1)

£250-350

RETZ, CARDINAL MÉMOIRES

Amsterdam: J.F. Bernard, 1731, 4 volumes, 12mo, engraved frontispiece; with Joli, Guy. Memoires. Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard, 1718. 3 volumes, 12mo, together 7 volumes, contemporary green morocco by Derome le Jeune with his ticket in vol. 1 of Metz’s ‘Memoires’, g.e., spines darkened, slightly rubbed, some boards somewhat spotted, [Spines tooled as Memoires de Retz, vol. 1-7];

Sevigné, M de R.C., marquise de. Lettres. Rouen: P. Machuel, 1780. 9 volumes, 12mo, half calf, spotting, worn (16)

£300-500

315

LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE; JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY FABLES CHOISIES, MISES EN VERS PAR J. DE LA FONTAINE

Paris: Desaint & Saillant [and] Durand, 1755-1759. 4 volumes, large paper copy, folio, engraved allegorical frontispiece, portrait, 275 engraved plates, Le Singe et le Léopard in its second state, contemporary calf, sensitively rebacked retaining early spines, bookplates of the Bibliothèque de Champy, a little light foxing, occasional marginal dampstaining and occasional spotting in places, one cover with some dampstaining, neat repair to p.61 of volume

1 (4)

Note: Jean de la Fontaine’s collected ‘Fables’, first issued between 1668 and 1694, are considered to be a classic of French literature. This collection, a large paper issue in four volumes with illustrations by Oudry, is widely regarded as the pinnacle of 18th century French printing.

Jean-Baptiste Oudry illustrated de la Fontaine’s Fables as a personal and non-commercial project. However, twenty years after their completion, Montenault purchased the works and commissioned Charles-Nicolas Cochin to engrave them. By all accounts, Cochin vastly improved Oudry’s drawings of the figures in the work, however the depictions of the animals suffered. Nonetheless, this finished work is considered to be amongst the most ambitious and successful illustrated works ever to have been produced in France.

£10,000-15,000

316

ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE; AND OTHER WORKS

16 VOLUMES

Encyclopédie Méthodique. Tessier, l’abbé. Agriculture. Paris: Panckoucke, & Liège: Plomteux, 1787-1821. 7 volumes, 4to; Encyclopédie Méthodique. Forets et Bois. Paris: Panckoucke, 1791, volume 1 (2 parts) only;

Encyclopédie Méthodique. Art aratoire et du Jardinage. Paris: H. Agasse, an V de la République [1802]. 2 volumes, 4to and folio, 56 engraved plates;

Dictionnaire Encyclopedique des Amusemens des Science. Mathématiques et Physiques. Paris: Panckoucke, 1792; all contemporary mottled calf, morocco lettering pieces;

Deguignes, Joseph. Histoire générale des Huns, des Turcs, des Mogols et autres Tartares Occidentaux. Paris: Desaint & Saillant, 1756-57, 4 volumes in 5 (vol. 1 part 1 and vol. 1 part 2 being separate volumes), 4to, contemporary calf, worn (16)

£300-500

CERVANTES Y SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL

THE HISTORY OF THE MOST INGENIOUS KNIGHT DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA

Formerly made English by Thomas Shelton; now revis’d, corrected, and partly new translated from the Original. By Captain John Stevens ... In Two Volumes [And:] A Continuation of the Comical History of the most Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha. By the Licentiate Alonzo Fernandez de Avellaneda. Being a Third Volume; never before printed in English ... Translated by Captain John Stevens. London: for R. Chiswell [and others], [A Continuation:] for Jeffrey Wale; and John Senex, 1700 & 1705. 2 works in 3 volumes, 8vo (18.2 x 11.2cm), c.1800 calf, rebacked with original spines laid down, edges sprinkled blue, History with 34 engraved plates including frontispieces, Continuation with 13 engraved plates (no count provided by ESTC), moderately browned, closely trimmed along top edges, a few headlines and page-numbers shaved [ESTC R29188 & T89686] (3)

Note: First edition of this rare English translation of Don Quixote, and the first edition in English of the spurious continuation by the pseudonymous Alonson Fernandez de Avellaneda. John Stevens (c.1662-1726) was a London-born translator, antiquary and Jacobite army officer of probable Spanish origin. ESTC traces nine copies world-wide for The History; no other first edition set (with or without the continuation) is traced in auction records.

£400-600

318

FERNANDEZ DE AVELLANEDA, ALONSO

THE LIFE AND EXPLOITS OF THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN, DON QUIXOTE, DE LA MANCHA

Containing his Fourth Sally, and the Fifth Part of his Adventures ... With Illustrations and Corrections by the Licentiate Don Isidro Perales y Torres. And now first translated from the Spanish. Swaffham: D. Sudbury, 1805. 3 volumes, 12mo (17.5 x 10cm), contemporary calf, rebacked retaining most of original spines, edges sprinkled red, [2] 4 xliv 340, [2] 4 286, [2] 4 233 pp., covers rubbed, occasional spotting to contents, later ink inscriptions of one Edmund Esdaile (see below) to front endpapers or blanks (3)

Note: First and only edition, presentation copy of this rare translation of the unauthorised and pseudonymous continuation of Don Quixote, inscribed ‘From the translator to Mrs Esdaile by Brigg Fountaine Esqr’ on the title-page of the first volume. Brigg Fountaine alias Price, of Swaffham, Norfolk, died in 1825; little else about him is known. Library Hub traces three copies only in UK and Irish libraries. Avellaneda’s work was first published in Spanish in 1614; an English translation first appeared in 1705.

£300-400

319

ROWE, MRS. ELIZABETH SINGER FRIENDSHIP IN DEATH

London: J. Thompson, 1762. 12mo, contemporary calf, joints a little rubbed, lacking frontispiece [ESTC N68600]; Montgomerie, Alexander. The Poetical Works... Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754. 8vo, contemporary calf, joints split, lacking advert leaf [ESTC T91199] (2)

£300-400

ANTIQUARIAN LITERATURE COLLECTION OF WORKS, 18TH CENTURY

Warton, Thomas. Poems on Several Occasions. London: R. Manby and H. S. Cox, 1748. [Bound with:] Richer, Henri. The Life of Maecenas ... Translated by R. Schomberg. London: for A. Millar, 1748. 2 works in one volume, both first editions, 8vo, contemporary sheep, slightly worn, very small worm-track to lower margins in second half of volume, staining to Warton pp. 181-5 [ESTC T125430 & T120687: 10 copies traced world-wide for the second work];

Bishop, Samuel. Feriae poeticae: sive carmina anglicana elegiaci plerumque argumenti Latine reddita. London: printed by D. Leach, to be sold by J. Newbery and J. Walter, 1766. 4to, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, 18thcentury ownership inscription of original subscriber Henry Case, later Henry Case-Morewood (c.1747-1825), of Christ’s College, Cambridge, clergyman [ESTC T76163: 7 copies in UK libraries];

Duhamel du Monceau, Henri-Louis. A Practical Treatise of Husbandry ... The Second Edition, corrected and improved. London: for C. Hitch [and others], 1762. 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, title-page in red and black, 6 engraved plates (of which 4 folding), folding letterpress table, bookplate of Bryan Cooke of Owston (17561821), member of parliament for Malton, Yorkshire, title-page with ownership inscription of his wife Frances Puleston (1765-1818), local philanthropist (her portrait painted by George Romney, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), front joint cracked but holding, rear joint cracked at foot, tips worn, uniform moderate browning, spotting to endpapers and outer leaves [ESTC T82192]; Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. A New Edition, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, by Ralph Church, M. A. Late Student of Christ Church, Oxon. London: William Faden, 1758-9. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, smooth spines gilt-ruled in compartments, errata leaf to each volume, list of subscribers in volume 4, wear to spine-ends, joints variably cracked but firm [ESTC T135123]; and 2 others (Cowel, A Law Dictionary, 1708, folio, covers detached, and Journal of the House of Lords for 1818, large folio) (9)

Note: The list of subscribers to Warton’s work mentions a ‘Mr Johnson’, believed to be Samuel Johnson (see Eddy & Fleeman 66), and contemporaries including William Blackstone.

£200-300

321

18TH CENTURY WORKS

DU TILLIOT, JEAN BAPTISTE LUCOTTE

Mémoires pour servir a l’histoire de la Fête des Foux qui se faisoit autrefois dans plusieurs églises. Lausanne & Geneva: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1741. First edition, 4to, title printed in red and black, 12 engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, red morocco label;

Boswell, James. An Account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island. London: E. and C. Dilly, 1768. Second edition, 8vo, folding engraved map, neatly rebacked, black morocco label, corners neatly repaired;

Johnson, Samuel. The Idler. London: T. Davies, J. Newbery and T. Payne, 1767. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, spines gilt, dampstained at beginning of volume 1, rubbed;

Johnson, Samuel. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Dublin: J. Williams, 1775. 8vo, contemporary calf, rubbed, spine split;

Hume, David. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects... a new edition. London: T. Cadell, C. Elliott, T. Kay, 1788-93. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, head of title of volume 2 excised, rubbed, upper joint volume 2 split and slightly loose;

Pope, Alexander. Essays and Epistles and Odes. Edinburgh: Yair, & Fleming, and L. Hunter, 1754. 12mo, original boards, uncut, inscription of Robert Lorimer 1793 and William Laughton Lorimer 1902 on title, spine worn, upper board and first gathering loose (8)

£500-700

DICKENS, CHARLES HARD TIMES

For these Times. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth (primary binding with price in gilt to foot of spine), spine faded and rolled, wear to head and foot of spine and to section of rear joint, faint mottling to sides, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, leaf B1 (section-title ‘Book the First’, verso blank) excised [Smith I 11];

Ibid. Pictures from Italy. London: published for the author by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, a little wear and a few pale marks to binding, front inner hinge gone, soiling to lower fore corners of quires H-K [Smith II 7]; Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, top edge gilt, 40 etched plates including frontispiece and additional vignette title-page, binding rubbed, variable spotting to plates and adjacent text-leaves, closed tear in leaves U7-X1, closed tear to foot of plate facing p. 327, marginal tear to 2P4 (3)

£300-400

323

SIGOURNEY, MRS L. H. POETRY FOR SEAMEN

Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1845. 8vo, sidestitched in original buff card wrappers, viii 63 pp., spine partly perished, covers cockled and marked, spotting to contents, date added by hand to title-page (1)

Note: First and only edition, presentation copy, inscribed ‘Dr Demetrius Stamatiadis, from his friend, the author, Hartford, Sept 27th 1845’ on the front cover; a total of 1,000 copies were printed, and apparently bought up by a local benefactor for free distribution to sailors (Haight, Mrs. Sigourney: The Sweet Singer of Hartford, 1930, p. 177). Sigourney was ‘one of the first American women to succeed at a literary career’ (Ency. Brit.). One other copy traced at auction (New York, 2006), restitched and lacking the half-title.

£300-500

324

SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT RAMBLES IN GERMANY AND ITALY

in 1840, 1842 and 1843. London: E. Moxon, 1844. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, half-titles, half brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g., spines gilt, neat signature on front endpapers ‘J. Shelley Rolls”, spines lightly faded (2)

Note: Rambles in Germany and Italy was Mary Shelley’s last fulllength work. It is based on letters written during two journeys she made with Percy Florence and several of his friends in 1840 and 1842-1843. Like her first book, History of a Six Weeks’ Tour, Rambles is more than a simple travel memoir. It blends Romantic values, female emancipation and political advocacy, and includes Mary’s comments on war, national manners, historical perspectives, and political observations.

Provenance: Sir John Courtown Edward Shelley-Rolls, 6th Bt. (1871-1961), whose grandfather was John Shelley (1806-66), younger brother of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).

£500-700

325

ANTIQUARIAN COLLECTION OF WORKS

Scott, Sir Walter. The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland... London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814. 2 volumes, folio, large plate copies, 91 plates, 2 frontispieces and 2 engraved titles, original half Morocco, spines perished;

Chambers, David. Histoire Abbregee de Tous les Roys de France, Angleterre et Escosse... Paris: Jean Feurier, 1579. 8vo, contemporary vellum, worming affecting text, dampstaining;

Arabian Nights. Arabian Nights Entertainments... London: C. Elliot, 1781-1792. Sixteenth edition, 8 volumes, 12mo, contemporary calf;

Fouquet, [Marie.] Recueil des Remedes Faciles et Domestiques. Paris: Jean Geoffroy Nion, 1712. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf;

Tristan, Jean. Commentaires Historiques ... Paris: Denys Moreau, 1644. 2 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, joints split;

Scot, John. The Staggering State of the Scots Statesmen, for one hundred years ... Edinburgh: Wal. Ruddiman and Company, 1754. 12mo, later half morocco;

M. de Fontenelle. Oeuvres Diverses... Amsterdam:

Etienne Roger, 1716. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf;

Monsieur Baron. L’Art Heraldique, contenant La manière d’apprendre facilement le Blason... Paris: Charles Osmont, 1687. 8vo, engraved title, 31 plates, contemporary calf; and 10 others, comprising: Robertson’s History of Scotland, 1791, volume ii only; Fables de la Fontaine, 1799, 2 volumes; Pater’s Marius the Epicurean, 1885, volume ii only; The Post-Angel, defective; The Wonderful Magazine, no.25; The History of John, Duke of Marlborough, 1754; Memoires de Mr. L.C.D.R., 1681; La Vie du General Monk, 1712; Forbes, A Full View of the Public Transactions in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth..., 1740, volume 1 only (30)

£300-500

326

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

8 VOLUMES

Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Complete in one volume. Edinburgh: P. Brown & T. & W. Nelson, 1826. 8vo, Prize inscription on title verso, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked retaining original spine; Bewick, Thomas. A History of British Birds. Newcastle: for T. Bewick, 1809. 2 volumes in one, 8vo, numerous wood engravings, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, rubbed; Bewick, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds. Newcastle upon Tyne: for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby and T. Bewick, 1800. Fourth edition, 8vo, numerous wood engravings, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked, spine gilt, corners rubbed;

Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: J. Murray, 1857. First edition, 8vo, folding engraved frontispiece, plates, 1 folding map, lacking folding map of Dr Livingstone’s Route, original brown cloth, rubbed, plate at p.332 torn without loss;

Yeats, W.B. Poems. London: T. Usher Unwin, 1908. 8vo, original pictorial blue cloth gilt designed by Althea Gyles, uncut;

Doughty, Charles M. Travels in Arabia Deserta. London, 1936, 2 volumes, 4to, plates, original brown buckram, ‘Eric Malcolm Fraser Collection’ stamp to titles and endpapers;

Ramsay, Allan. The Gentle Shepherd. Edinburgh: A. Mackay, 1807. 12mo, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, ownership inscriptions on front endpaper, rubbed (8)

£400-500

327

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS

9 VOLUMES

Burnet, Gilbert. Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. London: T. Ward, 1724. 2 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, rubbed;

Sibbald, Sir Robert. The History, Ancient and Modern of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross.

Cupar-Fife, 1803. 8vo, 4 engraved plates, contemporary calf;

Ure, David. The History of Rutherglen and EastKilbride. Glasgow, 1793. 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary calf, rubbed;

Yeats, T.P. Institutions of Entomology, being a translation of Linnaeus’s Ordines et Genera Insectorum. London, 1773. 8vo, contemporary half calf; and 4 others, miscellaneous (9)

£300-400

328

FRENCH LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

31 VOLUMES

Phipps, R.W., editor. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1885. 6 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red half morocco with gilt bee and crown motifs to spines, bookplates of Nettie McKee Graham; Moliere [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]. The Works. London: John Watts, 1739. 10 volumes, 12mo, later half calf gilt;

Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet]. Works.

London: Fielding and Walker, 1779-1781. 15 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, some chipping and rubbing to bindings (31)

£300-400

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(iv) For jewellery sales, all Estimates are based on the information in any gemmological report or, if no gemmological report is available, You should assume that the gemstones may have been treated or enhanced.

(b) Clocks & Watches: All Lots are sold “as seen”, and the absence of any reference to the condition of a clock or watch does not imply the Lot is in good condition and without defects, repairs or restorations. Most clocks and watches will have been repaired during their normal lifetime and may now incorporate additional/newer parts. Furthermore, we make no representation or warranty that any clock or watch is in working order. As clocks and watches often contain fine and complex mechanisms, Buyers should be aware that a general service, change of battery or further repair work, for which the Buyer is solely responsible, may be necessary. Buyers should also be aware that we cannot guarantee a watch will remain waterproof if the back is removed. Buyers should be aware that the importing watches such as Rolex, Frank Muller and Corum into the United States is highly restricted. These watches cannot be shipped to the USA and only imported personally. Clocks may be sold without pendulums, weights or keys.

(c) Alcohol: may only be sold to persons aged of 18 years and over. By registering to bid, You affirm that You are at least that age. All collections must be signed for by a person over the age of 18. We Reserve the right to ask for ID from the person collecting. Buyers of alcohol must make appropriate allowances for natural variations of ullages, conditions of corks and wine. We can provide no guarantees as to how the alcohol may have been stored. There is always a risk of cork failure and allowance by the Buyer must be made. Alcohol is sold “as is” and quality of the alcohol is entirely at the risk of the Buyer and no warranties are given.

(d) Books-Collation: If on collation any named item in the sale Catalogue proves defective, in text or illustration the Buyer may reject the Lot provided he returns it within 21 days of the sale stating the defect in writing. This, however, shall not apply in the case of unnamed items, periodicals, autographed letters, music M.M.S., maps, drawings nor in respect of damage to bindings, stains, foxing, marginal worm holes or other defects not affecting the completeness of the text nor in respect of Defects mentioned in the Catalogue, or at the time of sale, nor in respect of Lots sold for less than £300.

(e) Electrical Goods: are sold as “works of art” only and if bought for use must be checked over for compliance with safety regulations by a qualified electrician first. Use of such goods is entirely at the risk of the Buyer and no warranties as to safety of the goods are given.

(f) Upholstered items: are sold as “works of art” only and if bought for use must be checked over for compliance with safety regulations (items manufactured prior to 1950 are exempt from any regulations). Use of such goods is entirely at the risk of the Buyer and no warranties as to safety of the goods are given. We provide no guarantee as to the originality of any wood/material contained within the item.

B. REGISTERING TO BID

1. NEW BIDDERS

(a) If this is Your first time bidding at Lyon & Turnbull or You are a returning Bidder who has not bought anything from us within the last two years You must register at least 48 hours before an auction to give us enough time to process and approve Your registration. We may, at our discretion, decline to permit You to register as a Bidder. You will be asked for the following:

(i) Individuals: Photo identification (driving licence, national identity card or passport) and, if not shown on the ID document, proof of Your current address (for example, a current utility bill or bank statement)

(ii) Corporate clients: Your Certificate of Incorporation or equivalent document(s) showing Your name and registered address together with documentary proof of directors and beneficial owners, and;

(iii) Trusts, partnerships, offshore companies and other business structures please contact us directly in advance to discuss requirements.

(b) We may also ask You to provide a financial reference and/or a deposit to allow You to bid. For help, please contact our Finance Department on +44(0)131 557 8844.

2. RETURNING BIDDERS

We may at our discretion ask You for current identification as described in paragraph B.1.(a) above, a finance

reference or a deposit as a condition of allowing You to bid. If You have not bought anything from us in the last two years, or if You want to spend more than on previous occasions, please contact our Finance Department on +44(0)131 557 8844.

3. FAILURE TO PROVIDE THE RIGHT DOCUMENTS

If in our opinion You do not satisfy our Bidder identification and registration procedures including, but not limited to, completing any anti-money laundering and/or anti-terrorism financing checks we may require to our satisfaction, we may refuse to register You to bid, and if You make a successful bid, we may cancel the contract between You and the Seller.

4. BIDDING ON BEHALF OF ANOTHER PERSON

(a) As an authorised Bidder: If You are bidding on behalf of another person, that person will need to complete the registration requirements above before You can bid, and supply a signed letter authorising You to bid for him/ her.

(b) As agent for an undisclosed principal: If You are bidding as an agent for an undisclosed principle (the ultimate Buyer(s)) You accept personal liability to pay the Purchase Price and all other sums due, unless it has been agreed in writing with us before commencement of the auction that the Bidder is acting as an agent on behalf of a named third party acceptable to us and we will seek payment from the named third party.

5. BIDDING IN PERSON

If You wish to bid in the saleroom You must register for a numbered bidding paddle before You begin bidding. Please ensure You bring photo identification with You to allow us to verify Your registration.

6. BIDDING SERVICES

The bidding services described below are a free service offered as a convenience to our clients and we are not responsible for any error (human or otherwise), omission or breakdown in providing these services.

(a) Phone bids

Your request for this service must be made no later than 12 hours prior to the auction. We will accept bids by telephone for Lots only if our staff are available to take the bids. If You need to bid in a language other than English You should arrange this Well before the auction. We do not accept liability for failure to do so or for errors and omissions in connections.

(b) Internet Bids

For certain auctions we will accept bids over the internet. For more information please visit our Website. We will use reasonable efforts to carry out online bids and do not accept liability for equipment failure, inability to access the internet or software malfunctions related to execution of online bids/ live

bidding.

(c) Written Bids

While prospective Buyers are strongly advised to attend the auction and are always responsible for any decision to bid for a particular Lot and shall be assumed to have carefully inspected and satisfied themselves as to its condition we shall, if so instructed, clearly and in writing execute bids on their behalf. Neither the Auctioneer nor our employees nor agents shall be responsible for any failure to do so. Where two or more commission bids at the same level are recorded we Reserve the right in our absolute discretion to prefer the first bid so made. Bids must be expressed in the currency of the saleroom. The Auctioneer will take reasonable steps to carry out written bids at the lowest possible price, taking into account the Reserve. If You make a written bid on a Lot which does not have a Reserve and there is no higher bid than Yours, we will bid on Your behalf at around 50% of the lower Estimate or, if lower, the amount of Your bid.

C. DURING THE SALE

1. ADMISSION TO OUR AUCTIONS

We shall have the right at our discretion, to refuse admission to our premises or attendance at our auctions by any person. We may refuse admission at any time before, during or after the auction.

2. RESERVES

Unless indicated by an insert symbol (∆), all Lots in this Catalogue are offered subject to a Reserve. A Reserve is the confidential Hammer Price established between us and the Seller. The Reserve is generally set at a percentage of the low Estimate and will not exceed the low Estimate for the Lot.

3. AUCTIONEER’S DISCRETION

The maker of the highest bid accepted by the Auctioneer conducting the sale shall be the Buyer and any dispute shall be settled at the Auctioneer’s absolute discretion. The Auctioneer may move the bidding backwards of forwards in any way he or she may decide or change the order of the Lots. The Auctioneer may also; refuse any bid, withdraw any Lot, divide any Lot or combine any two or more Lots, reopen or continuing bidding even after the hammer has fallen.

4. BIDDING

The Auctioneer accepts bids from:

(a) Bidders in the saleroom;

(b) Telephone Bidders, and internet Bidders through Lyon & Turnbull Live or any other online bidding platform we have chosen to list on and;

(c) Written bids (also known as absentee bids or commission bids) left with us by a Bidder before the auction.

5. BIDDING INCREMENTS

Bidding increments shall be at the Auctioneer’s sole discretion.

6. CURRENCY CONVERTER

The saleroom video screens and bidding platforms may show bids in some other major currencies as Well as sterling. Any conversion is for guidance only and we cannot be bound be any rate of exchange used. We are not responsible for any error (human or otherwise) omission or breakdown in providing these services.

7. SUCCESSFUL BIDS

Unless the Auctioneer decides to use their discretion as set out above, when the Auctioneer’s hammer falls, we have accepted the last bid. This means a contract for sale has been formed between the Seller and the successful Bidder. We will issue an invoice only to the registered Bidder who made the successful bid. While we send out invoices by post/or email after the auction, we do not accept responsibility for telling You whether or not Your bid was successful. If You have bid by written bid, You should contact us by telephone or in person as soon as possible after the auction to get details of the outcome of our bid to avoid having to pay unnecessary storage charges.

8. RELEVANT LEGISLATION

You agree that when bidding in any of our sales that You will strictly comply with all relevant legislation including local laws and regulations in force at the time of the sale for the relevant saleroom location.

D. THE BUYER’S PREMIUM, TAXES AND ARTIST’S RESALE ROYALTY

1. THE PURCHASE PRICE

For each Lot purchased a Buyer’s Premium of 26% of the Hammer Price of each Lot up to and including £20,000, plus 25% from £20,001 to £500,000, plus 20% from £500,001 thereafter. VAT at the appropriate rate is charged on the Buyer’s Premium. No VAT is payable on the Hammer Price or premium for printed books or unframed maps bought at auction. Live online bidding may be subject to an additional premium (level dependent on the live bidding service provider chosen). This additional premium is subject to VAT at the appropriate rate as above.

2. VALUE ADDED TAX

Value Added Tax is charged at the appropriate rate prevailing by law at the date of sale and is payable by Buyers of relevant Lots.

(a) Lots affixed with (†): Value Added Tax on the Hammer Price is imposed by law on all items affixed with a dagger

(†). This imposition of VAT maybe because the Seller is registered for VAT within the European Union and is not operating under a Margin Scheme.

(b) Lots affixed with (*): A reduced rate of Value Added Tax on the Hammer Price of 5% is payable. This indicates that a Lot has been imported from outwit the European Union. This reduced rate is applicable to Antique

items.

(c) Lots affixed with [Ω]: Standard rate of Value Added Tax on the Hammer Price and premium is payable. This applies to items that have been imported from outwit the European Union and do not fall within the reduced rate category outlined above.

3. ARTIST’S RESALE ROYALTY (DROIT DE SUITE)

This symbol § indicates works which may be subject to the Droit de Suite or Artist’s Resale Right, which took effect in the United Kingdom on 14th February 2006. We are required to collect a royalty payment for all qualifying works of art. Under new legislation which came into effect on 1st January 2012 this applies to living artists and artists who have died in the last 70 years. This royalty will be charged to the Buyer on the Hammer Price and in addition to the Buyer’s Premium. It will not apply to works where the Hammer Price is less than €1,000 (euros). The charge for works of art sold at and above €1,000 (euros) and below €50,000 (euros) is 4%. For items selling above €50,000 (euros), charges are calculated on a sliding scale. All royalty charges are paid to the Design and Artists Copyright Society (‘DACS’) and no handling costs or additional fees are retained by the Auctioneer. Resale royalties are not subject to VAT. Please note that the royalty payment is calculated on the rate of exchange at the European Central Bank on the date of the sale. More information on Droit de Suite is available at www.dacs.org.uk.

E. WARRANTIES

1. SELLER’S WARRANTIES

For each Lot, the Seller gives a warranty that the Seller;

(a) Is the owner of the Lot or a joint owner of the Lot acting with the permission of the other co-owners, or if the Sellers is not the owner of or a joint owner of the Lot, has the permission of the owner to sell the Lot, or the right to do so in law, and;

(b) Had the right to transfer ownership of the Lot to the Buyer without any restrictions or claims by anyone else. If either other above warranties are incorrect, the Seller shall not have to pay more than the Purchase Price (as defined in the glossary) paid by You to us. The Seller will not be responsible to You for any reason for loss of profits or business, expected savings, loss of opportunity or interest, costs, damages, other damages or expense. The Seller gives no warranty in relation to any Lot other than as set out above and, as far as the Seller is allowed by law, all warranties from the Seller to You, and all obligations upon the Seller which may be added to this agreement by law, are excluded.

2. AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEE

We guarantee that the authorship, period, or origin (collectively,

“Authorship”) of each Lot in this Catalogue is as stated in the BOLD or CAPITALISED type heading in the Catalogue description of the Lot, as amended by oral or written saleroom notes or announcements. We make no warranties whatsoever, whether express or implied, with respect to any material in the Catalogue other than that appearing in the Bold or Capitalised heading and subject to the exclusions below.

In the event we, in our reasonable opinion, deem that the conditions of the authenticity guarantee have been satisfied, it shall refund to the original purchaser of the Lot the Hammer Price and applicable Buyer’s Premium paid for the Lot by the original purchaser. This Guarantee does not apply if:

(a) The Catalogue description was in accordance with the opinion(s) of generally accepted scholar(s) and expert(s) at the date of the sale, or the Catalogue description indicated that there was a conflict of such opinions; or

(b) the only method of establishing that the Authorship was not as described in the Bold or Capitalised heading at the date of the sale would have been by means or processes not then generally available or accepted; unreasonably expensive or impractical to use; or likely (in our reasonable opinion) to have caused damage to the Lot or likely to have caused loss of value to the Lot; or

(c) There has been no material loss in value of the Lot from its value had it been in accordance with its description in the Bold or Capitalised type heading. This Guarantee is provided for a period of one year from the date of the relevant auction, is solely for the benefit of the original purchaser of the Lot at the auction and may not be transferred to any third party. To be able to claim under this Authenticity Guarantee, the original purchaser of the Lot must:

(a) notify us in writing within one month of receiving any information that causes the original purchaser of record to dispute the accuracy of the Bold or Capitalised type heading, specifying the Lot number, date of the auction at which it was purchased and the reasons for such dispute; and

(b) return the Lot to our registered office in the same condition as at the date of sale to the original purchaser of record and be able to transfer good title to the Lot, free from any third party claims arising after the date of such sale.

We have discretion to waive any of the above requirements. We may require the original purchaser of the Lot to obtain, at the original purchaser of Lot’s cost, the reports of two independent and recognised experts in the field. The reports must be mutually acceptable to us and the original purchaser of the Lot. We shall not be bound by any reports produced by the original purchaser of the Lot, and Reserves the

right to seek additional expert advice at its own expense. It is specifically understood and agreed that the rescission of a sale and the refund of the original Purchase Price paid (the successful Hammer Price, plus the Buyer’s Premium) is exclusive and in lieu of any other remedy which might otherwise be available as a matter of law. Lyon & Turnbull and the Seller shall not be liable for any incidental or consequential damages incurred or claimed, including without limitation, loss of profits or interest.

3. YOUR WARRANTIES

(a) You warrant that the funds used for settlement are not connected with any criminal activities, including tax evasion and You are neither; under investigation, have been charged with or convicted of money laundering, terrorist activities or other crimes.

(b) Where You are bidding on behalf of another person You warrant that:

(i) You have conducted appropriate customer due diligence on the ultimate Buyer(s) of the Lot(s) in accordance with all relevant anti-money laundering legislation, consent to us relying on this due diligence, and You will retain for a period of not less than five years the documentation evidencing the due diligence. You will make such documentation promptly available for immediate inspection by a third party auditor upon our written request to do so;

(ii) The arrangements between You and the ultimate Buyer(s) in relation to the Lot or otherwise do not, in whole or in part, facilitate tax crimes, and;

(iii) You do not know, and have no reason to suspect that the funds used for settlement are connected with the proceeds of any criminal activity, including tax evasion, or that the ultimate Buyer(s) are under investigation or have been charged with or convicted of money-laundering, terrorist activities, or other crimes.

F. PAYMENT

1. MAKING PAYMENT

(a) Within 7 days of a Lot being sold You will pay to us the Total Amount Due in cash or by such other method as is agreed by us. We accept cash, bank transfer (details on request), debit cards and Visa or MasterCard credit cards. Please note that we do not accept cash payments over £5,000 per Buyer per year.

(b) Any payments by You to us can be applied by us towards any sums owing by You to us howsoever incurred and without agreement by You or Your agent, whether express or implied.

(c) We will only accept payment from the registered Bidder. Once issued, we cannot change the Buyer’s name on an invoice or re-issue the invoice in a different name.

(d) The ownership of any Lots purchased shall not pass to You until You have made payment in full to us

of the Total Amount Due. The risk in and the responsibility for the Lot will transfer to You from whichever is the earlier of the following:

(i) When You collect the Lot; or

(ii) At the end of the 30th day following the date of the auction, or, if earlier, the date the Lot is taken into care by a third party unless we have agreed otherwise with You in writing.

(e) You shall at Your own risk and expense take away any Lots that You have purchased and paid for not later than 7 working days following the day of the auction or upon the clearance of any cheque used for payment whichever is later. We can provide You with a list of shippers. However, we will not be responsible for the acts or omissions of carriers or packers whether or not recommended by us.

(f) No purchase can be claimed or removed until it has been paid for.

(g) It is the Buyer’s responsibility to ascertain collection procedures, particularly if the sale is not being held at our main sale room and the potential storage charges for Lots not collected by the appropriate time.

2. IN THE EVENT OF NONPAYMENT

If any Lot is not paid for in full and taken away in accordance with these Conditions or if there is any other breach of these Conditions, we, as agent for the Sellers and on their behalf, shall at our absolute discretion and without prejudice to any other rights we may have, be entitled to exercise one or more of the following rights and remedies:

(a) To proceed against You for damages for breach of contract;

(b) To rescind the contract for sale of that Lot and/or any other Lots sold by us to You;

(c) To resell the Lot(s) (by auction or private treaty) in which case You shall be responsible for any resulting deficiency in the Total Amount Due (after crediting any part payment and adding any resale costs).

(d) To remove, store and insure the Lot in the case of storage, either at our premises or elsewhere and to recover from You all costs incurred in respect thereof;

(e) To charge interest at a rate of 5% a year above the Bank of Scotland base rate from time to time on all sums outstanding for more than 7 working days after the sale;

(f) To retain that or any other Lot sold to You until You pay the Total Amount Due;

(g) To reject or ignore bids from You or Your agent at future auctions or to impose conditions before any such bids shall be accepted;

(h) To apply any proceeds of sale of other Lots due or which become due to You towards the settlement of the Total Amount Due by You and to exercise a lien over any of Your

property in our possession for any purpose until the debt due is satisfied. You will be deemed to have granted such security to us and we may retain such property as collateral security for Your obligations to us; we may decide to sell Your property in any way we think appropriate. We will use the proceeds of the sale against any amounts You owe us and we will pay any amount left from that sale to You. If there is a shortfall, You must pay us the balance; and

(i) Take any other action we see necessary or appropriate.

G. COLLECTION & STORAGE

(1) It is the Buyer’s responsibility to ascertain collection procedures, particularly if the sale is not being held at our main sale room and the potential storage charges for Lots not collected by the appropriate time. Information on collection is set out in the Catalogue and our Website

(2) Unless agreed otherwise, You must collect purchased Lots within seven days from the auction. Please note the Lots will only be released upon full payment being received.

(3) If You do not collect any Lot within seven days following the auction we can, at our discretion;

(i) Charge You storage costs at the rates set out on our Website.

(ii) Move the Lot to another location or an affiliate or third party and charge You transport and administration costs for doing so and You will be subject to the third party storage terms and pay for their fees and costs.

(iii) Sell the Lot in any way we think reasonable.

H. TRANSPORT & SHIPPING

1. TRANSPORT AND SHIPPING

We will include transport and shipping information with each invoice sent to You as well as displayed on our Website. You must make all transport and shipping arrangements.

2. EXPORT OF GOODS

Buyers intending to export goods should ascertain;

(a) Whether an export licence is required; and

(b) Whether there is any specific prohibition on importing goods of that character, e.g. items that may contain prohibited materials such as ivory or rhino horn. It is the Buyer’s sole responsibility to obtain any relevant export or import licence. The denial of any licence or any delay in obtaining licences shall neither justify the recession of any sale not any delay in making full payment for the Lot.

3. CITES: ENDANGERED PLANTS AND ANIMALS LEGISLATION

Please be aware that all Lots marked with the symbol Y may be subject to CITES regulations when exporting these items outside the EU. These regulations may be found at http:// www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/imports-

exports/cites

We accept no liability for any Lots which may be subject to CITES but have not be identified as such.

I. OUR LIABILITY TO YOU

(a) We give no warranty in relation to any statement made, or information give, by us, our representatives or employees about any Lot other than as set out in the authenticity warranty and as far as we are allowed by law, all warranties and other terms which may be added to this agreement by law are exclude. The Seller’s warranties contained in paragraph E.1 are their own and we do not have a liability in relation to those warranties.

(b) (i) We are not responsible to You for any reason whether for breaking this agreement or any other matter relating to Your purchase of, or bid for, any Lot other than in the event of fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation by us other than as expressly set out in these conditions of sale; or

(ii) We do not give any representation, warranty or guarantee or assume any liability for a kind in respect of any Lot with regard to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, description, size, quality, condition, attribution, authenticity, rarity, importance, medium, provenance, exhibition history, literature or historical relevance, except as required by local law, any warranty of any kind is excluded by this paragraph.

(c) in particular, please be aware that our written and telephone bidding services, Lyon & Turnbull Live, Condition Reports, currency converter and saleroom video screens are free services and we are not responsible for any error (human or otherwise) omission or breakdown in these services.

(d) We have no responsibility to any person other than a Buyer in connection with the purchase of any Lot

(e) If in spite of the terms of this paragraph we are found to be liable to You for any reason, we shall not have to pay more than the Purchase Price paid by You to us. We will not be responsible for any reason for loss of profits, business, loss of opportunity or value, expected savings or interest, costs damages or expenses.

J. OTHER TERMS

1. OUR ABILITY TO CANCEL

In addition to the other rights of cancellation contained in this agreement, we can cancel the sale of a Lot if;

(i) Any of our warranties are not correct, as set out in paragraph E3,

(ii) We reasonably believe that completing the transaction is or may be unlawful; or

(iii) We reasonably believe that the sale places us or the Seller under any liability to anyone else or may damage our reputation.

2. RECORDINGS

We may videotape and record proceedings at any auction. We will keep any personal information confidential, except to the extent disclosure is required by law if You do not wish to be videotaped, You may make arrangements to bit by telephone or a written bid or bid on Lyon & Turnbull Live instead. Unless we agree otherwise in writing, You may not videotape or record proceedings at any auction.

3. COPYRIGHT

We own the copyright in respect of all images, illustrations and written material produced by or for us relating to a Lot. (Including Catalogue entries unless otherwise noted in the Catalogue) You cannot use them without our prior written permission. We do not offer any guarantee that You will gain any copyright or other reproductions to the Lot.

4. ENFORCING THIS AGREEMENT

If a court finds that any part of this agreement is not valid or is illegal or impossible to enforce, that part of the agreement will be treated as deleted and the rest of this agreement will remain in force.

5. TRANSFERRING YOUR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

You may not grant a security over or transfer Your rights of responsibilities under these terms on the contract of sale with the Buyer unless we have given our written permission. This agreement will be binding on Your successors or estate and anyone who takes over Your rights and responsibilities.

6. REPORTING ON WWW.LYONANDTURNBULL.COM

Details of all Lots sold by us, including Catalogue disruptions and prices, may be reported on www.lyonandturnbull. com. Sales totals are Hammer Price plus Buyer’s Premium and do not reflect any additional fees that may have been incurred. We regret we cannot agree to requests to remove these details from our Website.

7. SALE BY PRIVATE TREATY

(a) The same Conditions of Sale (Buyers) shall apply to sales by private treaty.

(b) Private treaty sales made under these Conditions are deemed to be sales by auction and subject to our agreed charges for Sellers and Buyers.

(c) We undertake to inform the Seller of any offers it receives in relation to an item prior to any Proposed Sale, excluding the normal method of commission bids.

(d) For the purposes of a private treaty sale, if a Lot is sold in any other currency than Sterling, the exchange rate is to be taken on the date of sale.

8. THIRD PARTY LIABILITY

All members of the public on our premises are there at their own

risk and must note the lay-out of the premises, safety and security arrangements. Accordingly, neither the Auctioneer nor our employees or agents shall incur liability for death or personal injury or similarly for the safety of the property of persons visiting prior to, during or after a sale.

9. DATA PROTECTION

Where we obtain any personal information about You, we shall use it in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy (subject to any additional specific consent(s) You may have given at the time Your information was disclosed). A copy of our Privacy Policy can be found on our Website www. lyonandturnbull.com or requested from Client Services, 33 Broughton Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3RR or by email from data enquiries@lyonandturnbull. com.

10. FORCE MAJEURE

We shall be under no liability if they shall be unable to carry out any provision of the Contract of Sale for any reason beyond their control including (without limiting the foregoing) an act of God, legislation, war, fire, flood, drought, failure of power supply, lock-out, strike or other action taken by employees in contemplation or furtherance of a dispute or owing to any inability to procure materials required for the performance of the contract.

11. LAW AND JURISDICTION

(a) Governing Law: These Conditions of Sale and all aspects of all matters, transactions or disputes to which they relate or apply shall be governed by, and interpreted in accordance with, Scots law

(b) Jurisdiction: The Buyer agrees that the Courts of Scotland are to have exclusive jurisdiction to settle all disputes arising in connection with all aspects of all matters or transactions to which these Conditions of Sale relate or apply.

K. DEFINITIONS & GLOSSARY

The following words and phrases used have (unless the context otherwise requires) the meaning to given to them below. The go Glossary is to assist You to understand words and phrases which have a specific legal meaning which You may not be familiar with.

1. DEFINITIONS

“Auctioneer” Lyon & Turnbull Ltd

(Registered in Scotland No: 191166

| Registered address: 33 Broughton Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3RR) or it’s authorised representative conducting the sale, as appropriate;

“Bidder” a person who has completed a Bidding Form

“Bidding Form” our Bidding

Registration Form our Absentee Bidding Form or our Telephone Bidding Form.

“Buyer” the person to whom a Lot is knocked down by the Auctioneer. The Buyer is also referred to by the words

“You” and “Your”

“Buyer’s Premium” the sum calculated on the Hammer Price at the rates stated in Catalogue.

“Catalogue” the Catalogue relating to the relevant Sale, including any representation on our Website

“Condition Report” the report on the physical condition of a Lot provided to a Bidder or potential Bidder by us on behalf of the Seller.

“Estimate” a statement of our opinion of the range within the hammer is likely to fall.

“Hammer Price” the level of bidding reached (at or above any Reserve) when the Auctioneer brings down the hammer;

“High Cumulative Value of Lot” several Lots with a total lower Estimate value of £30,000 or above;

“High Value Lot” a Lot with a lower Estimate of £30,000 or above;

“Lot” each Item offered for sale by Lyon & Turnbull;

“Purchase Price” is the aggregate of Hammer Price and any applicable Buyer’s Premium, VAT on the Hammer Price (where applicable), VAT on the Buyer’s Premium and any other applicable expenses;

“Reserve” the lowest price below which an item cannot be sold whether at auction or by private treaty;

“Sale” the auction sale at which a Lot is to be offered for sale by us.

“Seller” the person who offers the Lot for Sale. We act as agent for the Seller.

“Total Amount Due” the Hammer Price in respect of the Lot sold together with any premium, Value Added Tax or other taxes chargeable and any additional charges payable by a defaulting Buyer under these Conditions;

“VAT” value added tax at the prevailing rate at the date of the sale in the United Kingdom.

“Website” Lyon & Turnbull’s Website at www.lyonandturnbull.com

2. GLOSSARY

The following have specific legal meaning which You may not be familiar with. The following glossary is intended to give You an understanding of those expressions but is not intended to restrict their legal meanings:

“Artist’s Resale Right” the right of the creator of a work of art to receive a payment on Sales of that work subsequent to

“Knocked Down” when a Lot is sold to a Bidder, indicated by the fall of the hammer at the Sale.

“Lien” a right for the person who has possession of the Lot to retain possession of it.

“Risk” the possibility that a Lot may be lost, damaged, destroyed, stolen, or deteriorate in condition or value.

“Title” the legal and equitable right to the ownership of a Lot.

GUIDE

BIDDING & PAYMENT REGISTRATION

All potential buyers must register prior to placing a bid. Registration information may be submitted in person at our registration desk, by email, or on our website. Please note that first-time bidders, and those returning after an extended period, will be asked to supply the following documents in order to facilitate registration:

1 – Government issued photo ID (Passport/Driving licence)

2 – Proof of address (utility bill/bank statement).

We may, at our option, also ask you to provide a bank reference and/or deposit.

By registering for the sale, the buyer acknowledges that he or she has read, understood and accepted our Conditions of Sale.

BIDDING IN THE SALEROOM

At the Sale Registered bidders will be assigned a bidder number and given a paddle for use at the sale. Once the first bid has been placed, the auctioneer asks for higher bids in increments determined by the auctioneer. To place your bid, simply raise your paddle until the auctioneer acknowledges you. Please ensure that the auctioneer repeats your bidder number correctly when confirming the sale. If there is any doubt at this stage as to the hammer price or buyer it must be brought to the auctioneer’s attention immediately. All lots will be invoiced to the name and address given on your registration form, which is non-transferable.

BIDDING OUTSIDE THE SALEROOM BY PHONE

A limited number of telephone lines are available for bidding by phone through a Lyon & Turnbull representative. Phone lines must be reserved in advance. All bid requests must be received an hour before the sale. All telephone bids must be confirmed in writing, listing the relevant lots and appropriate number to be called. We recommend that a covering bid is also left in the event that we are unable to make the call. We cannot guarantee that lines will be available, or that we will be able to call you on the day, but will endeavour to undertake such bids to the best of our abilities. This service is available entirely at our discretion and at the bidder’s risk.

IN WRITING

Bid forms are available at the sale and/ or the back of the catalogue. These should be submitted in person, by post, or by fax as soon as possible prior to the sale and we will bid on your behalf up to the limit indicated. In the event of receiving two identical bids the first one received will take precedence All bids must be received an hour before the sale. This service is provided entirely at the bidder’s risk.

ON THE INTERNET

- ABSENTEE BIDDING

Leave a bid online through our website, call us on 0131 557 8844 or email info@lyonandturnbull.com

- BID LIVE ONLINE

Bid live online, for free, with Lyon & Turnbull Live. Just click the button from the auction calendar, sale page or any lot page online to register.

PAYMENT

Our accounts teams will continue to be available to process payments and answer queries. We will be able to accept online payments through our website and bank transfer. On-site payment facilities are available by appointment.

Payment is due within seven (7) days of the sale. Lots purchased will not be released until full payment has been received. Payment may be made by the following methods:

BANK TRANSFER

Account details are included on any invoices we issue or upon request from our accounts department.

ONLINE CREDIT OR DEBIT CARD PAYMENTS

We no longer accept card payments by phone. Please use our online payment service (provided by Opayo).

You will find a link to this service in any email invoice issued or you can visit the payments section of our website.

CASH

No cash payments will be accepted for this auction.

COLLECTION OF PURCHASED LOTS

Please refer to page 2 of this catalogue.